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"Yep, the search was definitely measured and calm. Not an ounce of ""frantic"" anywhere other than the inevitable over-excitement of the media outlets in reporting it.","They're really reaching for some alarming headlines, I doubt the search was overly frantic. It's the Australian outback, there aren't a whole lot of people out there who would happen upon it.",1
"At what point does Israel consider that the consequences of their continued, brutal occupation of a region is not worth the damage to their international reputation?","The geopolitical reality, whether you like it or not, is that advocating for a carte blanche Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank is asking for thousands of dead on both sides, and asking for the conflict to yet again erupt into something more akin to a regional war than a military occupation with intermittent flair-ups.",1
Germany needs to act like a true leader in the Western world and do what is necessary to secure Europe from armed invasions and annexations.,"It's not a fair play. Not only is Germany refusing to send THEIR tanks, but they are prohibiting other countries (Poland) from sending Polish tanks.",0
"What country exists that isn’t corrupt? The US committed genocide against its indigenous population, enslaved people of color, placed Japanese Americans into internment camps, currently funds Israeli Genocide in Palestine, is currently bombing Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan, funded the extermination of over one MILLION CIVILIANS in Indonesia alone during their anticommunist efforts in the 60’s, targeted and assassinated civil rights leaders and activists such as Martin Luther King jr, Malcolm X, and Chairman Fred Hampton during the FBI’s CointelPro operations, recruited Nazi leaders after WWII with Operation Paperclip, funded the Mujahideen terrorist organization while working to destabilize the middle east, destabilized multiple countries in South America in conjunction with the Contras, and has held Cuba under embargo for decades. Is Cuba really that much worse than the US? Cuba has a higher literacy rate, more doctors per capita, and far less wealth disparity. They aren’t some cartoonishly evil country, they’re a tiny developing island nation which made massive strides under communism despite opposition from the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world.","Edit: the US introduced Metering for Cuban immigrants in 2017, which essentially ended the old “Wet foot/Dry Foot” Policy, and then further limited Cuban immigration with the Migrant Protection Protocols, and then all but completely ended Cuban immigration with Title 42. While there have been attempts to end Title 42, it is still currently in place. Meanwhile, Cubans are able to leave Cuba however they cannot pass the US Embargo into America via legal means and thus must instead either travel via Mexico or other means. The US is the country blocking direct legal routes, currently.",0
"There are four ways for wars to end: truce, balance of power, elimination of the core issue, and convergence of values.",Elimination of the cause is when for whatever reason the thing they were fighting about goes away. An example is the end of American conflict with North Vietnam when the North conquered the South in 1975. After that what did the US have to argue with Vietnam about?,0
Thats a funny way to say the Trump administration mismanaged and lied about the pandemic that led to hundreds of thousands who died needlessy because of lies Trump spread and the GOP that fell in line.,"Commandeering the CDC, sidelining scientists and experts in the field like Fauci, as well as appointing his stupid son-in-law as the COVID czar are just a few examples of how Trump criminally mismanaged the pandemic. In fact, he spent his entire time in office after the outbreak in abject denial that COVID was a serious threat. And even after a million+ deaths and millions more left with the debilitating effects of long COVID, the MAGA faithful continue to deny the hellscape we HCWs endured as “not that bad”.",1
There's nothing genius hackerbrain about it. It's just plain criminal and anyone with a few ECTS of programming can do it.,"Consider this: Russian ""hackers"" steal passwords, troll social media and send the occasional ransomware.",0
"I hope so. And then what, if Trump is still around four years later it’s gonna be a nightmare if they try again. I want someone further left, and I’m hoping it’s not Biden and it’s not Trump but someone else we’re not talking about! Idk who though.","I guess. But in the US, the Trump signs are often in front of a shack or run down house. Do you think those people know who Nikki Haley is? Or have any affinity for Pence? Trump told everyone Pence is disloyal.",1
If he wasn't a supporter of Trump they would have been getting weapons they needed all along instead of him using blackmail of Ukraine (see first impeachment).,"I agree to support Ukraine with tanks, but when you're actively helping Trump, who was impeached the first time for blackmailing Ukraine by withholding weapons...",0
"They started immigrating in larger numbers in the 1800’s with with the full consent of the rulers of the land, which was the Ottomans.","Jews immigrated to Palestine in increasing numbers in the 1900's, without the consent of the people living there. Some of the European Jews had a colonization mindset.",1
"""hmm he votes different from party line 11% of the time, so why don't we exchange him for a corrupt ultraMAGA GOP senator?"".","I don't get Manchin criticism, he's from one the most conservative states in the whole country and people are think.",0
Unfortunately it does not have be 51 as of now the senate is 50 blue and 48 red only because there 2 people that are not democratic or republican and they have already said there going vote blue and in my opinion if you not democratic or republican you should not have say when it comes to tie breakers.,It's all good let them control it for 2 more years by the time there next seat comes up and people are tired 5 to 7 dollars a gallon gas after 4 years red will take everything house senate and president and also not every senate and house was even up for reelection and red still took seats away from democrats. What you think going happen when those senate and house seats are up in 2 years really think the democrats are not going lose more seats.,0
"Look into it. It's really interesting. Medication companies are realizing that a lot of their medications don't work any better than placebos (and sometimes worse than placebos), so its cheaper to use placebos. There are also placebo surgeries.","It's not really the placebo effect. If you have a kidney stone and receive morphine, it going to have an effect whether you believe or not. Don't ask how I know (.",1
"I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please if you have any questions or concerns.",I really do not think this is an issue. Or why it is even getting any coverage at all. These documents are from when Biden was VP. What is any relevance here? And Who cares?,1
"For a Democrat to become speaker, they'd need to get votes from Republicans. I don't see AOC getting to dictate who becomes speaker; it's more likely to be somebody like Valadao or Newhouse.","Alaska, California, Louisiana, and Washinon don't do partisan primaries for federal office. You'd have to find Republicans in moderate districts from those states.",0
331M/576k = 575 representatives to be distributed based on approximate population counts . There are only 435 reps in the house.,"But it's also not equal still. Senate has the static rule of 2 senators per state, but the House is way off.",0
"Bibi accepting extremists into his coalition to avoid corruption charges, Abbas likely dying of old age soon without any successor, and Hamas increasingly having a presence in the West Bank. Good fucking luck, Blinken.","Yep. Unfortunately it seems like a demographic issue as well. Current Israeli adults have predominantly lost trust in Palestinian leadership due to the intifadas plus the growing share of Haredim as a % of population. Will require some buffer time until (hopefully) the voter base has replenished with people who have not experienced intifadas. Similarly, Palestinian youth are increasingly affiliating themselves with Islamist groups (Hamas, PIJ, etc.) rather than secular groups. While I have plenty of criticism for the PLO/PA, at the very least they are ideologically able to make compromises and less tied up in religious absolutism.",0
"But that doesn't account for the fact there are many districts that, either through gerrymandering or just normal demographics/district drawing, that are heavily Republican.","That's why I said running unopposed, or where the Democrat doesn't really stand much chance of winning.",0
"And since he is a Republican in a crucial otherwise Democrat district, nothing will happen to him for 2 years.","Democrats tried to be more “inclusive” in their latest redistricting this year, and also majorly dropped the ball.",1
"To me, pro-life is a higher standard than anti-choice, and requires that the politician be concerned about policies that actually help people conceive, carry, and support children, physically and economically. Universal pre-k, universal healthcare, paid family leave... all of these policies are pro-life, but not necessarily anti-choice.","They are not pro life, pro life would be against the death penalty, for universal health care, for feeding and housing the poor, for workers getting a living wage. They are anti-abortion or anti-choice period.",1
"Well, um.. yeah. It’s the job of judges and the judicial branch to imprison people. You make referrals because you want to bring attention to the jailers with who you think should be locked up and why. Just because something is more symbolic than 100% action doesn’t mean it’s useless. Not to mention all of the documents they’ll transfer to DoJ that none of us know about, and politicians are always going to do political stuff.","The only thing the congressional referral is going to accomplish is to weaken the DoJ case, and to make any charges appear political.",1
"Naturally, I asked—with obvious skepticism—if she had ever seen this murder room. “No, it’s a secret.” Now, she was a high-ranking administrator/nurse there, so I asked her if she at least knew where it was given her rank. “No, it’s a secret.” Had she ever seen them carrying babies around the halls who mysteriously disappear? Of course not.","idk. They've been talking about how democrats cheat in elections for as long as I've been alive. Usually it's pointing to one off cases of dead people voting or people voting twice that are quickly proven false under scrutiny (i.e. two people happen to have the same name) and claiming that it represents a broader pattern. The main difference lately has been that instead of just claiming they were cheated, they try to do an insurrection and just install their guy.",1
"But again, I haven't seen any examples of someone unable to get the healthcare they need simply because they refused to get vaccinated, with the exception of organ transplant. I'm not as familiar with other countries, but in the US the doctor and US organ donation system is making the call on who is at the top of the organ recipient list, not the insurance companies. Organ recipients are required to adopt lifestyle changes and get vaccinations to ensure the lowest risk/highest success rates to get to the front of the line for the next available, compatible organ. All that is completely independent of if they've paid their fair share in insurance premiums. Even with the best private insurance money can buy, you still won't get a healthy organ to swap for your dying one if you're not willing to put in the effort to allow for the best-possible outcome for that organ. That sourcing part of the procedure has nothing to do with private vs socialized medicine, as a quick search online seems to indicate most countries handle that portion similarly.",". High level takewaway: ""Government-sponsored plans, like Canada’s, are frequently publicly-portrayed as limiting choice. However, there is clear evidence that for Canada’s health care system, less choice in insurance coverage (although guaranteed), has not resulted in less choice of hospitals, physicians, and diagnostic testing and treatments compared to the U.S. In fact, there is arguably more."".",0
We had a year and a half of zero covid while your lot were dying in droves. During this time most of the population was vaccinated. Then Omicron arrived and no one can contain Omicron so our borders were opened and we all started getting covid.,No we are not. You may not have noticed but we have a ton of covid already which is why it won't make much difference especially since the tests are not reliable.,0
I’ll join you in the armchair psychology. I wonder if he gets a kick knowing that she’ll read his crap because he knows everything he says at this stage will be spread across every news site in existence? What a man.,"He really is. I had no idea until he purchased Twitter, honestly. I had always thought of him as a planetary activist based on nothing more than owning Tesla. How informed I’ve become in the last 6 or 7 months. Wanting an EV myself, I would never purchase a Tesla.",1
"Because it’s effecting white teenage girls, it sure didn’t matter in the 90’s when Pearl Jam tried to take them on because it mainly effected white guys.","“Mainly effected white guys” are you arguing that most fans of Pearl Jam were female, or did you just ignore the part that would make your comment irrelevant?",0
"The problem is not retreating, it's retreating competently. It wasn't a total debacle. This means they are still very much capable of being organised, and if they can retreat swiftly, then they can probably do the same in offensive too. Would it be efficient? Not necessarily. Would it be deadly? Absolutely. And Ukraine cannot afford to lose as many people as Russia can, unfortunately.",Don't destroying these Russian units means that they will continue destroying Ukrainian cities and killing Ukrainian soldiers.,1
I learned recently South Korea has post natal centers where about 75% of women will go to recover because no non birthing paren leave means that you’ve basically got to take care of yourself after giving birth. It’s usually out of pocket for them too which is unusual contrasted with the rest of their birth experience/expenses.,"Could this be due to women seeing men as poor/non viable caregivers? Or because it’s considered a poor career decision for men to take the leave? Or cultural norms that mean women don’t want to be a burden to their partners, etc? Not trying to be a jerk but I know SK isn’t the warmest place to be a woman so I wonder if these aren’t part of the equation for them.",0
"Indeed they were hiring seasonal workers, they said so and it was not a surprise to me. What I found disingenuous was firing outsourced employees with the pretense of low productivity from the employee. There simply was not enough demand.","You are right. Some co-workers felt that could lead to a steady job and Amazon pretended they needed us for a bit longer than they actually did, just to keep the workers invested in their job.",0
"This is a case of non NATO country fending off Russia, if Russia invaded Poland that would be the full deployment of NATO forces.","If these pro-russia / anti-nato right-wing leaders get elected and Russia wins in Ukraine, there is a possibility of Russia attacking EU or Nato nation in the future.",1
"Cool, so I assume that you would be willing to address the fact that the Keystone Pipeline 2017 spill happened while both houses of legislature and the executive office were held by Republicans and they had even less to say than in the spills that I mentioned before.","Wait, where is this coming from? Are you suggesting that the US is responsible for the bombing of the Nord stream 2 pipeline?",0
"He IS ""insane"" in the sense that his sociopathy and narcicism are so far out of balance that he consistantly makes decisions that not only break societal norms, but routinely put him in danger.","Well, unfortunately for all of us who will be cleaning up the remnants of the damage his post-factual scorched earth brand of fascist hate-fueled plutocracy caused for decades.",0
"So while we spend a lot of money on our military, whether or not we send our old stuff to Ukraine doesn't free up that money. We were going to spend it either way.","Much of what we're sending is stuff that was going to ""expire"" soon. Ammunition has a limited shelf life, for example. We were going to buy new ammo anyways. By sending it to Ukraine, we're actually getting more ""value"" out of it than if we destroyed it (value in terms of stopping Putin from running roughshod over Eastern Europe).",0
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"Edit: If the folks downvoting would like to explain why it’s whataboutism to talk about France in a thread about France, I’m all ears.","Not that I really believe France did this, but that’s just not the right word. Whataboutism would be something like “France tried to kill this guy, so it’s hypocritical to criticize Russia for assassinating people.”.",0
"I don't think we should be taking the word of law enforcement as some perpetual good as if ""known to law enforcement"" actually MEANS anything. Plenty of people are subjected to them having done no wrong.","From that day on I was personally ""known to law enforcement"" as a sixteen year-old who hadn't broken any laws and pulled over regularly as a ""check-in"" because they were pissed their corrupt buddy had to face consequences for his actions.",0
"the upside of Hungary doing this again and again and again might be that Hungary sets a great example to other possible wannabe about the likely unappealing consequences resulting from becoming ""Hungary no 2"" right now in Europe.","of course it would be better if Hungary played ball but anyone in Europe wanting to switch to ""the Hungary way"" right now has front-row seats to watching the impressive spectacle of possible negative consequences that such a choice probably brings...",0
Its funny because if you go to the USMC reddit there is a thread of actual Marines saying this guy is an ass clown and deserves to stay where he is.,"Yep, and you have to take into account that Marines are assholes by nature. It’s a requirement and it is screened for at MEPS. So to be discharged on bad conduct means you have to be a whole other level of asshole. Not the usual “ha, this asshole is hilarious. I should buy him a drink,” but “holy shit what is wrong with this asshole?”.",1
"They define a 'drag performance' as basically dressing in opposite gender clothing, so what this means is trans people just trying to live their lives can't, you know, go anywhere kids might be present.","Since to these people assigned sex is all that exists, they implicitly see trans people as full time drag performers. The legislation to ban drag is just a guise for banning trans people.",1
Who cares who does it more or less? That’s just feeding your own inability to accept your heroes might be flawed. Corruption is corruption and it should never be as common place as it is now.,Not likely as the right currently see corruption as simply the price to pay for minority rule. They value power more than the rule of law.,1
"Lula wasn't perfect in his first two mandates. Regarding environment, deforestation was low but it still happened so they had every right to complain. Now we are in different times, not only Bolsonaro was way worse, but also Lula is showing to be even more open to address environmental issues.","I mean, while deforestation wasn't as big back when Lula first took office (in 2003) his first term saw drastic decrease in deforestation, which held for his second term and his sucessor's (Rousseff).",1
"It is a problem as old as time - the Dems are going to argue about the best way to help people and the GOP are going to scream ""NO!"" about literally anything the Dems propose.","The Dems are then forced to get even more support, dragging things out, and adding more time for the party to split and special interests to do their dark work.",0
"It's an inappropriate form of housing for the majority of homeless people. Asylum is a solution, but not a one-size-fits-all solution. It can exist alongside housing programs.","Housing is the most important factor. Forced treatment would help, but most homeless people aren't mentally ill enough for asylum.",0
MBS wasn't a head of state during Biden's campaign and therefore had no immunity at the time. MBS was appointed Prime Minister in 2022 which then made him head of state which has the international privilege of immunity to legal action.,"MBS has immunity for two reasons: he is the head of government & he is the Crown Prince. Even if he were not PM, he would still have diplomatic immunity as Crown Prince, just like Prince William of the UK also has immunity.",1
"If you think Putin isn't in an absolute state of panic over how he's going to wrap this up without getting tried for war crimes or admitting defeat, you haven't been paying attention.",We don't have to be the ones to remove or kill him. But there aren't many ways where this war ends with Putin still in power. And I think he knows that. I think he knows that his oligarchs are recognizing how much he fucked up.,0
Except for when Cubans get a debit card and housing from the US government as soon as they set foot in this country. Socialism for me and not for thee.,They only understand socialism in their own terms. This is their problem. The Republican party will exploit this fact and they will continue to support the Republican party of so-called conservatives.,1
I guess it's seen as kind of an extreme cost cutting situation to pay no rent on all of your headquarters. That's the sort of stuff you would do if you were about to go bankrupt. It's like... an emergency cost cutting measure. But it doesn't actually save you any money because you're going to have to pay legal fees fighting it and you will be imposed fines for non-payment.,That amount of money is about 8x the operating cost of Twitter. If he really infused $7B into Twitter he could have run it at a loss for 8 years. But it really doesn't look like that. It kinda looks like he's starving out the company of capital.,0
I think is under appreciated of how much shit we in Ukraine are dealing with. Russia fails on the battlefield and bombs our peaceful cities in an attempt to leave us in the cold and in the dark.,"Paradoxically, even with this large aid packets we are not given tanks or long-range artillery in the fears of escalation. I would argue that wiping out russian military capacity will end this war. And no more aid will be needed.",0
"That and if the Democratic Party were actually concerned about ""playing into the hands of the GOP"" through a split with anyone to their Left, they would function very differently.","I just have to ask though, how is the Democratic Party shown itself as anything separate from neoliberal capitalism? Both parties ultimately serve the interests of capital above all else. That’s why we see corporate profits skyrocket during social unrest, pandemics, and other crises. If aligning yourself as a socialist means upholding capitalism through the Democratic Party, how is it any different?",1
Liberal Christians have multiple countries to choose (eg the Scandinavian nations). Liberal Buddhists and Chinese folk religion believers have Taiwan. Liberal Jews have large communities in the US and can live in liberal Israeli cities like Tel Aviv with relatively little influence of orthodox Jews in their daily life. Where would a liberal muslim go if he wants to live freely among fellow muslims?,"And so dies the illusion of the ""liberal"" Muslim country. To be clear, this isn't about Islam, it's about failing to separate religion and the state. It's simply too tempting for governments to utilise religion to cement their power. All states should be secular to be accepted into the global community and global partnerships.",1
"seems like the FAA has pretty clearly defined prohibited airspace… but hey at least you tried, right?","As for flying over an air force facility, was that a published MOA or NSA restricted airspace? And what altitudes are restricted?",1
"This morning I was looking for a compilation of funny scenes from an anime (a goofy comedy about a woman who has a dragon for a maid) and about every eighth one was some smug right-winger ranting about...whatever. Note, this is even after I've blocked channels and clicked ""Not interested in this type of content "" constantly.",I'm constantly getting fed stupid Joe Rogan clips on YouTube and I keep blocking or saying I'm not interested.,1
North Korea is still communist and as such has all the police state and indoctrination propaganda to go along with it.,in the world and has almost 25% of the prisoners in the world and you're still thinking communist countries are blinded by propaganda. Who's got the police state? Lol.,1
"Russia are FULLY escalated apart from nukes which they cannot use because they know NATO will annihilate them, so sending Ukraine everything cannot cause escalation, which is often cited as a reason for not sending anything.","The Russian's genocidal actions, and their use of torture, has erased any logic behind the acts of surrender or of ceding territory; both would mean a worsening of conditions under Russian control.",0
"Again if guns are the causal link in catalyzing people to commit suicides as claimed then the US should be number one in per capita suicides when in reality we dont even hit top 20. Did you even read the study or is this one of those reddit cases of just reading the title and not the paper itself. Idk maybe look up ""successful suicides"" in the context of that paper.","Again, that's a valid discussion to have, but I was responding to the idea that people ignore suicides. Suicides have no place in a conversation about people using semi-automatic rifles to kill a bunch of people. Some gun control proponents, probably including the person I originally responded to given their glib comment, believe that gun owners ignore suicides because they get called out for including suicides in conversations where they do not belong.",1
"Any people who would flock back to Putin just because the russia's neighbours and prior victims didn't take ""these people in"" deserves what's coming for Putin.","""Our boys"" as in ""our poor boys forced by bad Putin to do bad things"" and not ""guys ravaging neighboring country for personal gain and delusions of grandeur"". You should watch their lives, the theme ov russia being the victim is noticeable.",1
"Well Iran supply’s the people lobbing rockets at Israel every other day so I guess it’s tit for tat, but my feeling is this may escalate more because of the Iran nuke stuff.","Iran already supports the ongoing war against Israel by supplying Palestinian terrorists with weapons, but engaging in open war would bring the US into the conflict directly, which Iran doesn’t want.",1
Not really. If you had nothing really on the line at the start and get into a nuclear conflict it doesn't even matter who is at fault. You went from being fine to everyone involved losing.,The idea is not to get yourself wiped out if you can avoid it. The line countries seem to have decided for that is not directly attacking Russia because they've decided spinning those dice is not worth the risk given how fast everything could spin out of control.,0
That's an incredible thing to say when someone who hasn't been elected to any office won the presidency in the 2016 election.,"And I note that you said ""held"" instead of elected; because it's clear to everyone that Abrams rightly won the 2018 gubernatorial election in Georgia, which back then was a solid red state and is now a crucial purplish state thanks to Stacy Abrams' effort.",0
Any moderate Republicans left in Washinon DC either joined the Dems already or they don't have a job.,"For a Democrat to become speaker, they'd need to get votes from Republicans. I don't see AOC getting to dictate who becomes speaker; it's more likely to be somebody like Valadao or Newhouse.",1
"TL;DR western tanks are more or less better at every level than Russian, better maintained, and were designed with more intelligent, modern military doctrine. IE modern western combined arms. Ukraine's army is modernizing like a true Western army, but has been stuck using Russian tools designed for Russian tactics. These tanks change that.","It's not just about the tanks. It's about the IFV's, AFV's, fire support vehicles, missile defense and artillery too.",1
What makes you think an independent Palestine without Israel would've been immune to the same kind of radicalization we see all across the middle east?,"You said that in Israel's absence, a secular government would be in control just like before Israel; In real life, before Israel the place was basically a colony, and not controlled by the local arabs. If it was controlled by the local arabs, they would establish a country that's similar to Afghanistan today.",1
Why wouldn't you donate to your own charity if you know everyone running it and you agree with the mission?,"That’s why you have “charities” like the Clinton Foundation or whatever. You can say “we are donating 50 million dollars”, but you’re just reinvesting your own money back into your own company. Lol.",1
"The R&D is very expensive for a advanced tank, looks like not even russia can afford and the original plan of export didnt work, so now they collab with India?","Remember when Russia sent T-90MS to Ukraine that were built and paid for by India, instead of fixing them per their contract?",1
"The other part of that is, the remaining fact that Biden did better against poo poo than any other known democratic candidate.","Yes, Biden won because Biden is better than poopoo—essentially the worst Presidential incumbent in the history of our nation. That is not a high bar to clear. If the bar is in the ground (Trump) and Biden is on the ground, it doesn't take very much to get above that. . Now tell me, what happens if it's not Trump again in 2024? What happens when there's a 36-year age gap between DeSantis and Biden? How do you think that will be perceived by the electorate? We know how it will be perceived because we got a glimpse of that in Obama vs. McCain in favor of Democrats.",1
"If they had concentrated their entire offensive on the push to Kyiv, it may have worked out. Instead their forces- and their flawed logistics- were stretched along several huge axis of attacks Instead of just focused on one.","I'd also wager that they could have also targeted all the bridges over the Dnieper and taken the enfi Eastern Bank, splitting Ukraine in two and getting themselves a much easier front to defend against counterattack over the river.",0
"A buddy of mine has one of their rifles in .300 Winchester Mag. I have fired that gun once. It was not pleasant. Composite stock, not very heavy. Barrel was facing the sky when I opened my eyes again. Lol.","Apparently during the winter war between Finland and the USSR the Soviets were notoriously under equipped and poorly supplied. They were basically starving and the Finn’s were very good at preventing the Soviet’s supplies from getting through. They managed at one point to bait and ambush an entire column of Soviets by making a huge kettle of sausage stew, and letting the smell waft downwind where the famished soldiers could pick up the smell. The Russians found what they thought was a Finnish encampment that had been abandoned so quickly the food was still cooking over a fire. Instead of being cautious, or remembering that the Finns were never caught off guard they instead rushed to the stew and started gorging themselves. Guns were dropped, guards were let down and the Finns surrounded the Russians and blasted them all straight to commie hell.",0
But they want to maintain the precedent that the Supreme Court matters and people shouldn't go around them.,"Third, the Supreme Court has no power to enforce its rulings. It must rely on the executive for enforcement.",1
Yes State courts have the authority to review congressional maps. No state courts do not have the authority to draw congressional maps. The constitutionality seems pretty straightforward to me.,Nah. State courts very clearly have the authority to rule on election maps and very clearly have no authority to draw their own maps. A ruling that reflects that reality is more than fair.,0
"Scholz: ""Hey, I'd be up for all of us working together and to not divide the world in spheres of influence, but China and Russia are a threat to that. The west must work together more closely and stand up for freedom and democracy"".",I understand that half of you americans wanna jump into this guns blazing. This would be a bad idea:,0
"Yep. He sees the windmills as being the eyesores, devaluing his resort. It started with his Scottish golf course apparently.","When he was told about the new electronic catapults used to launch planes on aircraft carriers, he demanded they return to using steam powered catapults, because the new technology was impossible to understand. He was incapable of understanding it, therefore no one else could understand how to operate either - not even the engineers who designed it and the crew operating it.",0
Brazil has a massive beef market in Russia and China. The Amazon is burned to create pastures for cattle that provide those countries with cheap beef. Shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Brazil’s not a hard-charger for the west.,"Also more: Brazil, as I've said before, doesn't have war culture, we also don't have amo to spare. The last war Brazil had was against Paraguay centuries ago. Brazil's international politics was always of ""friendly neighborhood"", be in good terms with everyone to help in discussions as a neutral part, call it Swiss of South America if you want.",1
"But the problem with a pandemic is other people’s decisions still affect me. So I would prefer if everyone was Vax’ed and boosted because while it’s not a sterilizing vaccine, it does reduce the spreading of covid and any reduction is helpful to everyone.","In my case I have pretty much all the vaccines and the covid one twice so I wouldn't categories myself as anti vax just because I don't believe that this particular one is necessary to be taken in its current form in perpetuity. That being said, I'm open to taking one that provides a longer term protection.",1
"They aren't ""looking down"" on Africa. They are using them as a baseline because they are one of the only countries with military might of noteworth. That meets said specific baseline in the theoretical deduction.",They fell for the Russian propaganda somehow. History has always been my favorite subject and I've always been fascinated by military might as well... Anyways the point is if they had paid attention and did a just a little bit research and listened to what our history teachers were saying at even the basic level. They would have known Russia was more bark than bite. Nukes are the only real deterrent they've got for NATO.,0
Florida wants everyone in academia to label themselves politically so they can go after liberals and leftists.,Florida wants everyone in academia to label themselves politically so they can go after liberals. They want to “kill wokeness”.,1
"Leaving suddenly and bailing out on the allies was wrong, but I don’t know how you can sit there and say that the USA wasn’t trying to do the right thing by establishing a democratic government in afghanistan… they were actively trying to stop the Taliban from being in control because of how they treat their people. It’s not the USAs fault that the government/army that they have been training to defend themselves for 20 years just gave up and let the Taliban take control in a matter of days.",Most people are against war so say what you want about that but nobody but the taliban is to blame for the harsh conditions the country is dealing with right now. And if you think giving them money is going to change that you need to do some research.,0
"The way things have gone I think if russia could use nukes on ukraine without risking a full blown nato invasion or nuclear retaliation, yes, absolutely.",Russia has no credible nuclear threat against the west or they would have been swinging a bigger nuclear dick.,0
"If they fly the flag of a nation that's waging offensive war and they are accepted in front of the public eye, then they are ambassadors for the nation. If they didn't represent a nation and didn't film it and the athletes only did their disciplines.... Then they wouldn't have much to do with war.","This is an interesting subject, how many times have warring countries competed against each other in the Olympics? Is it a common occurrence? If not how often are countries barred from the games for being at war?",1
Isn't the biggest debt holder the American people? So even if China holds a big chunk it's still going to be smaller than all of the debt held by Americans.,"That’s why I don’t understand why people get so up in arms about China owning lots of US debt like it makes us dependent on them in some way. It’s the complete opposite. If China gets too uppity and does something like invade Taiwan, we just say “hey, you know that trillions off dollars we owe you? Yeah.. about that.. we’re not going to pay you back”.",1
"I said they may not be the majority, but they're voting in enough numbers to put these people in office. You just used other words to say the same thing.",I can absolutely see them telling women they have to prove a miscarriage was natural (I dont even know if one can do that) and then charging them anyway for not being perfect incubators.,0
Why do these people keep saying they’re “running” for a position that is essentially handed out by GOP elites.,I believe it speaks volumes about the Republican party when the Mike Pillows of the world naturally flock to positions of power within the party.,1
Nuclear is expensive yes but much more efficient and scalable and plenty has been done to deal with the waste.,And the government will have to spend billions cleaning up the mess of nuclear waste again like they have been forced to do in so many cases.,1
"Also they pretend it's weird that America thinks they want to take the whole Ukraine while saying earlier that they will take to at least the dnipro the next 3 years, preferably further.",It was interesting to see that they didn't play back a clip from the press conference but only showed the footage and let the host give some highlights. To be fair I haven't watched it either but it's very easy for them to change what has been said if viewers can't watch the original footage.,0
"Also the “there’s guns” ITS TEXAS, open carry is legal and without permit, of course there’s gonna be guns. Stop moving the goalposts because you don’t agree with the activity. That’s where my “me me me me me” comes from. Some drivers would say the same about lane splitting or bicyclists or whatever, but we still accommodate. We do the same for funeral precessions and school team marches.","Edit: we host parades, fairs, and markets in the street. I understand people’s concerns about safety, some of the other ones are a little overblown, but this is going to happen regardless and I’d rather it be monitored and conducted safer than it be done with no safety and people get hurt/killed (though i haven’t heard of any deaths).",0
"Strictly speaking, people stilll haven't come to terms that russia=/=communism and that being anti-imperialism, anti-USA and pro-russia can act as separate positions; you don't have to be pro-USA if you are anti-russia and viceversa but people don't seem to grasp this, much less consider it. And this affects both sides.","However, the situation now is a bit paradoxical. In theory, everyone supports Ukraine. In reality, I have met left wing people who defend things like saying that Ukraine is not a democracy; while also meeting some right wing people defending Trump as ""he also did great good things you know"" and criticizing the invasion while also defending that Putin was a great leader until the invasion.",0
"The problem is from finnish viewpoint they are basically being exploited as slaves, bad working conditions, no workers rights, bad pay etc.","People working without a proper contract is called svartjobbare (black workers) and yes, its not only illegal but also a big problem in many Swedish sectors.",1
"Serbia has also never backed up Russia in this war as as far as I know, they have actually done the opposite thing and condemned the war in several UN resolutions and have joined the EU sanctions on Belarus for their role in supporting Russia in the war. The only “support” they have offered Russia is not placing sanctions on them, however this does not necessarily mean that it is because they support them in the war, rather you also have to take into account the Serbian energy industry which is solely dependent on Russia and Russian gas.",How is the country starting shit? You people seriously need to read past the headlines. The article says Russia is recruiting Serbian citizens and it says that the Serbian president and defence minister are urging the citizens to not go and fight as it is against the constitution and will result in legal repercussions. How do you then conclude that Serbia is the one starting shit when the Serbian government officials and representatives of the state are urging the citizens to say no to the recruitment and not go to fight?,0
People in these comments dont understand what it means to be “leftist” or “conservative” in Latin America.,"Well, if the gringos think that Bernie Sandie is ""extreme-left"", I already want to imagine how they will see the people of Perú Libre or Juntos por el Perú.",1
"That being said, if a reactor has a catastrophic meltdown in Ukraine, it would still be cause for foreign intervention to at least clear the area and stop radioactive pollution from spreading into the rest of Europe. And that's something that's absolutely on the minds of Russian leaders.","I mean, the unfortunate reality is this would be a disaster for the entirety of Europe and international intervention would be required to at least slow the spread of radioactive materials and entomb the reactor.",0
"Amy etymological analysis, or maybe an example of antisemitism being used to refer to hatred of people or semitic ethnic descent in general?","And no, being treated as second-class foreigners from the Levant in Europe for centuries does not mean Ashkenazi Jews are “actually European”.",1
"That, along with the fact that Putin's removal will likely be extremely violent (the greatest threat to his regime right now is not a democratic opposition, but an ultranationalist one), makes it so that these next 10-20 years could very well be enough. The corruption will still be there, of course, but just cleansed enough that they get their shit together and form a decently trained and armed army. And if the ultranationalists take the wheel, they probably won't be aiming for peace.","Take a look at the Weimar republic, and see the paralels (ik it's not a perfect example, but close enough to what Russia is looking like it's becoming, especially once their foreign currency reserves fully run out). Their economic/industrial/societal state was going down hard, and it looked like they wouldn't be able to become any kind of threat for a long, long time (which was the main goal of the Versailles treaty). A decade and half later, well...",0
"There's no reason for the dems to stop laughing at the ineptitude. If reasonable moderate republicans exist and are tired of looking like a joke, they can come crawling to the democrats. No reason for the democrats to come in and save republicans for themselves.","The Democrats would be fools to trust the Republicans on meeting in the middle. If the aftermath of January 6 hasn't shown them that the Republicans will lie about this every time, then we are doomed. They need to insist Republicans take irrevocable action first, then they can compromise.",1
"Either we stop Russia now, or they take Ukraine fully over the next decade, and kill millions of ukranians, because people like you whine about helping other countries defend their homeland.","Where we are now is that the far right MAGA element of the Republican party are openly pro-Russia and they want to cut military aid to Ukraine to help Russia to win the war. That's all this is. Please don't take them at their word, because they've shown time and again that they don't deserve it.",1
Seems like too many caveats which leaves things open to interpretation. Just make it a law or don’t and move on to figuring out why the documents were able to be handled so poorly in the first place.,"“President must have logs kept of all interactions from the day they are certified as the winner of the election, until they die.” Is my actual stance on this matter.",0
"When we are talking about politics ultimately most of these types of being an asshole is in support of a fascist agenda, so you could just say fascist. Since it is literally a political movement based on the idea of being assholes to everyone who doesn't fit within a very narrow spectrum, it is quite appropriate in this situation.","He's right but it's weird to cast virtue signaling as a bad thing that only your enemies do - it's how all American political groups express their political identities. By publicly signaling what their virtues are. Ted does it, dems do it, Twitter libs do it, the magas on parler and truth social do it, boomer fox News grandpa's do it with bumper stickers, tankies do it, libertarians do it. He's stupidly pointing to something normal as if it's a problem.",1
"I personally see no way to fairly determine who gets and who pays. There are many blacks and whites in this country whose ancestors had nothing at all to do with slavery or Jim Crow. I would support something along the lines of the GI Bill of Rights to pay for education, home loans, business loans to all underprivileged blacks, which could cost more but that’s ok with me. I strongly support that because it helps blacks and helps the country. Reparation is a con job that does nothing for the country except engender massive resentment by those unfairly forced to pay.","Why should non-blacks whose ancestors suffered war, death, injuries and maiming from fighting for the Union be forced to pay?",0
"-Asked to compare the scale of the abuses by both sides, Bogner said the mistreatment of Ukrainian prisoners by Russians was ""fairly systematic"" whereas she said it was ""not systematic"" for Ukraine to mistreat Russian soldiers.-.","Actually the line that matters is the observation that the Ukrainian abuses were limited to 3 detention sites, while the Russian abuses seemed to be systematic. So Ukraine it's specific individuals responsible at those sites (which should 100% be investigated and prosecuted) while Russia it's the Russian military/government as a whole and seems to be a matter of policy.",1
"Any force large enough to simultaneously taken out all the guns before passing, ignoring anti ship missile launchers, would be very noticeable as an invasion force, and would cause turkey to send their fleet there as well as requesting NATO navy support.","Just because you know the position of a whole range of defensive guns doesn't mean you can just take them out, even if you didn't mind declaring war on turkey and NATO while losing a war against another small independent nation.",0
"Sadly, until she’s back where she belongs, she will be a member of the U.S. House of Representatives with the ear of the probably speaker, and way more influence than she should have. I would like to see her hateful rhetoric implode the current GOP, but so far, the only people suffering are the ones they are focusing their hatred upon.","Get ten people even more centrists and the ""middle"" scared of Republicans and encourage each of them to terrify ten more and on and on.",1
"At the end of the day, Russians lost a voice of opposition and a voice of reason in amongst the propaganda being spewed at them by both Putin and the West.","Any people who would flock back to Putin just because the russia's neighbours and prior victims didn't take ""these people in"" deserves what's coming for Putin.",1
"Just imagine, a Disconnected world in chaos, suffering from, worrying about, and debilitated by pandemics while china is free to do whatever it pleases without rousing any attention at all.","The worst part is, china gets zero accountability and take no responsibility for the lives lost and damages done.",0
"He really is. I had no idea until he purchased Twitter, honestly. I had always thought of him as a planetary activist based on nothing more than owning Tesla. How informed I’ve become in the last 6 or 7 months. Wanting an EV myself, I would never purchase a Tesla.","Does this guy know who buys Tesla’s? It’s fascinating watching him alienate his entire customer base, lol. Guess who won’t be buying another Tesla ever again?",1
"\ Of course given it's location, it benefits substantially from being in NATO as well, and unlikely to do so much as to leave or get kicked out.","Yea, that's great, but individual defensive pacts will never be as potent as NATO, with all the countries involved. Additionaly, the agreement between Sweden and the US won't necessarily have the same requirements/agreements as NATO has. My understanding is that it's not a ""bilateral defensive pact"" a la article 5 ""if they attack you we'll join in"", but a ""defensive cooperation agreement"", which implies ""military aid"" of the ""we'll sell you weapons"" variety and security cooperation, rather than boots-on-the-ground ""military support"" a la NATO Article 5, which is where NATO's power comes from.",1
"I'm pretty sure this ofensive is a last gasp, desperate move by Russia to try to reclaim some land before the western tanks start arriving in Ukraine. Russia knows after the Ukrainians are trained and running in technologically superior tanks, that there's not much they can do to stop them.",No surprise that now Ukraine is targeting artillery in large numbers to cut russia's offensive back-bone. Commanders can once again delay until more artillery arrives or go ahead with insufficient shelling.,1
More likely the AK-12 or AK-74 pattern rifles (which are in 5.45×39 instead of 7.62×39 from the AK-47/AKM).,"The rifles in the video clearly have the more curved magazine of the AK-47/AKM. Also, the two larger holes on the wooden heat shield is another dead giveaway, as that is the stock heat shield on AK-47. AKM is just the stamped version of the AK-47, so those two are very similar. The AK-74, which you nonchalantly compared to the AKM via /, is also a 47 variant but with a less curved magazine and no holes in the heat shield. That is, the ones I shot had no holes in their stock heat shields.",1
"If they're under a work visa for a couple of years they only should be able to vote in their home country since that's where they will be returning to, they shouldn't be able to vote in the country they work temporarily in.",Whilst being an immigrant for 2 decades I chose to never vote in any election in my own homeland even though I had that right because in my view people who don't live there and don't have to suffer the consequences of their choice shouldn't be making choices for those who DO live there.,1
AA guns like the Gepard can and have helped thin those barrage down since they have to travel low and slow over a large territory. Ukraine just needs more.,There’s no prohibition against Ukraine developing its own weapons (like Neptune). With under the table assistance from its allies Ukraine can surpass Russias’s junk in capability and volume.,0
"“While it could take hundreds or thousands of years, the ice shelf could disintegrate much sooner, triggering a retreat of the glacier which is both unstable and potentially irreversible.”.",So melting will probably take a very long time (century timescale) while a progressive collapse might happen much sooner (years to decades).,1
Ukrainian Military Intelligence has stated that the Major Offensive that is being planned for Spring will take place in Southeastern Ukraine and will be intended to drive a wedge between Crimea and Mainland Russia.,"This could very well be misdirection, but I honestly believe Ukraine is going to retake Mariupol and cut off the land bridge to Crimea for a major blow to the Russians.",1
"Doesn't mean I agree with it, doesn't mean I don't think its not disrespectful. But I wholeheartedly agree that it's just a fucking flag and my despite if someones or mine feelings get hurt that someones burning their own property doesn't give the government a right to persecute them for that.","I agree, though I don't agree on their agenda, the demonstration was perfectly legal and burning any other flag than the Finnish one is not against the law so I don't really see a problem here.",1
It has nothing to do with the Euro. Just greedy retailers seeing an opportunity to rip people off with overinflated prices in the confusion of conversion.,"This has nothing to do with Euro itself, it's just opportunistic businesses using the situation to rip people off.",1
"And? They can’t stop paying customers from walking in and buying burgers. I feel duty-bound to say, I don’t support Trump, but McDonalds would be wayyy out of bounds to refuse service on the basis of political ideology.","Just to clarify though, legally speaking McDonalds would be well within bounds to refuse service to anyone they want for purely political reasons. Plenty of businesses do and this kind of autonomy is regularly championed by the right when it's something they agree with. But socially/politically yes it would be a shitstorm if they did on the right due to their hypocrisy.",1
"The idea in principle is that with or without VAT, the business would have charged about $X for their product.","Which is a very simplistic few of the whole thing. There are plenty of countries with so many import taxes, VAT, etc, that goods are very clearly overpriced and would not be so pricey without all of that, because of undercutting. The price stabilizes usually at a point that grants profit leading to a 'desirable' level of growth.",0
"The poor int he depression did have it significantly worse and I think that’s where he’s drawing the parallel. Granted it is a dumb thing to say with so much wealth, he could change millions of peoples lives if he chose to.",Imagine how much better off they'd be if wealth inequality wasn't as disgustingly lopsided as it is.,1
"In the same argument a conservative will tell you that the Constitution is sacred and the highest law of the land, but then say that it is outdated and either needs to be changed, rewritten, or scrapped entirely. It all depends on whatever argument they're trying to make right now.","Unfortunately the only real response from the Dems has been the right response, taking the high road and saying that the maps should be nonpartisan.",0
"OPEC refused to increase supply; the US has stopped issuing oil drilling permits leases. I'd love for India to cut of Russian oil, but who else has enough to support the oil needs of a developing nation with 1.3 billion people?","However, if some rich investors were to come in and provide funding for oil alternatives (climate financing), India would be able to reduce its oil dependence and therefore its Russian oil imports.",0
"The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.",Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.,0
This is ALL about their political careers & they couldn’t care less about real people’s lives. I feel as strongly as I do because both my parents are survivors of the Indian Residential Schools & the horrors that went along with those places. Even in their late 70’s they still have not been able to find some sense of safety or community or anything. Those schools made it so Indian children didn’t even trust each other. And so when I see what the right is doing with LGBTQ people I see much the same pattern weaving religion & shame & trying to make their existence just go away. I can tell you from experience that does not work. Whats worse is these politicians KNOW this.,"It should be really obvious to most people that this is a political sideshow. I have never been to a drag show, wouldn't know where to go to see one, and really will not be affected in any way by drag shows occurring but this is what the GOP wants to spend their time on.",1
"If we can be adults and recognize how different mental health conditions can and cannot influence somebody's ability to fulfill their role as a public servant and representative, it's a fine conversation. We should be able to scrutinize not just how we feel about candidates, but their actual capabilities to govern and the stances they hold given different policies.","It isn't our job to convince people that they should be discerning, and no amount of self-censorship will convince them out of the propaganda hole they fall into. I'm not catering to stupid people who won't change their minds anyway.",0
I missed the part that said they had to base their diets around meat. I did reach the part in the bill that pushes for nutritional education and heathy diet coaching. But that was not mentioned in the posted article. It’s almost like they have agenda they want to promote.,"The only thing you listed that actually has health benefits is chicken and only white meat chicken is healthy for human consumption and only if it is grilled and trimmed. I mean 50 years of medical research has shown what is healthy and unhealthy. Seems like the people trying to pass this law are the only ones that care about what is being consumed, not just providing something for consumption. Just because you do not like the GOP doesn’t mean Mac and cheese and fried chicken are now healthy options to fish and veggies.",0
"And the thing being _totally ignored_ is the fact that disruptive protesting works, has worked, and will continue to work.","The problem being pointed out here isn’t wrong: protesting that is disruptive only turns people off of a cause. At the same time, non-disruptive protests are promptly ignored. At what point does protesting become more than a placebo to prevent people from getting violent?",1
"Well, Yes and no. You make it sound like they resorted to drafting every last One they can get, when really they haven't even started seriously drafting/mobilisation yet. Unlike Ukraine which has gone full mobilisation immediately. Most of Russias potential manpower is still sitting at home. So, desperation only in the sense that Putin fears the potential backlash of more mobilisation. But if Ukraine keeps on striking within Russia, there is a Chance the Population gets behind him, and that would be a Problem.","Problem is, those long range weapons could backfire. While totally understandable, firing back into russian borders is a dangerous Game and straight up opposing NATOs strategy. As it could end up helping Putin to get support among the russian civillians for mobilisation, which he so far does not have. And Russia full on mobilising is no joke. Even with the lack of proper equipment.",0
"This isn't taking agency away from a black man because he's black. It's because he's a black man already setting himself up as an enabler of white supremacy by denying CRT, denying the US has a racism problem, and shitting on the legacies of people like MLK (who he claims would agree with him).","How can you look at Donalds, who is very really denying what is a reality for much of non-white Americans, and think he's not either an idiot or a liar?",0
"I get the arguments that Patriot is vulnerable because it is, but I think the reality is that the fact that Ukraine STILL retain enough anti-air to deny Russians free reign over the country puts lie to the notion that these are going to be sitting ducks. The Patriot system is HIGHLY effective against ballistic missiles, drones, and cruise missiles, which to date are all that Russia has been able to actually field in Ukraine in any significant number.",Patriot missile system are defensive systems so Russia is upset if we shot down even ballistic missiles.,1
"My father always talks about how democracy ruined the country, how it was better before, etc. Yet here they are reaping the benefits of democracy.","This is a war for liberal democracy. It's a war for the global legal and diplomatic frameworks that enable peace, prosperity, and safety. It's a war for nationhood, for independence, for self-determination, and for humanity itself.",1
"Poland in particular is in the news every day about how Germany isn't forthcoming, while Germany said (when asked) that they never got the necessary formal request to begin with.","If Germany were to actually consider the media report a valid request and approve it, the next time some politician in Poland talks to the media would need to be considered valid as well? Or only for members of the cabinet? What if it's just local press at some evening event with alcohol? Or a demand of Germany twittered by an attendee of the event? Do they need to monitor that and respond to it as well?",1
"You to a conservative: Did you hear that Biden let three other Chinese balloons enter US airspace and did nothing about it? We, as citizens, weren’t even informed!","Exactly. When someone tells me that Biden may have broken the law, my reaction is to say that he should be investigated and punished if that is the case. I don’t find the accusation that Biden broke the law as a personal affront to my entire world view. I simply don’t identify with politicians that personally.",0
trump was being hounded after his June 1st attack on protesters to call in the military to kill the 1st amendment. Milley came out and said the military wouldn't be used for political purposes.,It's why January 6th happened. After his idiotic bible photoshoot he realized he didn't have the man power through the government to overthrow the government. So he used his violent cult to do it.,0
Maybe a good way for NATO to communicate its interest in Belarus would be to send text messages to soldiers in Belarus who seem to have moles that a dermatologist should check out.,Perhaps NATO should do some more military exercises on Russia's and Belarussia's other borders to even things up. Maybe they could blockade some of Russia's ports & shipping while they're at it.,1
"To be clear, I have no problem with people who choose to consume almond milk, or any other alternate form of milk, but it should be called juice. Almond milk should be milk flavored with almond.","But It does have a qualifier in front of it, it's say ""Almond Milk"". Almond is a type of plant, hence it's a ""Plant Milk"". Still a milk even by your definition.",1
"Last week I posted a comments similar to yours about getting things in writing and being held to the same standards the working class is held to. I'd love to have every member of Congress apply for a regular job that requires background, credit, and security checks along with drug testing. I suspect a whole bunch of folks couldn't get hired in nongrifting jobs.",You know people are already furiously writing books and screenplays about this. I'd be curious to know who all knew this guy was this much of a fraud. Makes me wonder if there's something more than party line politics. And I pay virtually no attention to conspiracy theories. But I mean c'mon.,0
"The gist of the exception is that you don’t need permission for weather balloons to go into other countries airspace, and those counties agree to leave the weather balloons alone unless they pose a safety risk. TL;DR, Weather balloons don’t have to worry about sovereign borders.","Don't worry, I don't believe for a second it was an innocent weather balloon anyway. Even if it was really just a weather balloon, China was still probably testing what it can get away with. China began scrubbing all old news about balloons in the Chinese internet. It's clearly hiding something.",1
"Trump’s dealing with Saudi, UAE, and Israel are corrupt, but his dealings with Russia are a threat to western democracy in our war with global fascism.","All of that doesn’t preclude the fact that Trump and Kushner were also compromised by Saudi, the UAE, and Israel.",0
and somehow phrase as if that's the liberals agenda when it's the conservative's. So their argument is a lie. There is a differ nce between something being a liberal idea and being the linerals idea.,Lineral just means without restriction. But for political grouping liberals are socialy liberal while libertarians are economically liberal.,0
Somebody will argue that was years ago but unfortunately Instead of teaching new generation about terrible past Ukrainian government proclaimed past Nazi collaborators as a national heroes.,"Also the past is important, babi yar was 80 years ago, most survivors are still alive and thier children are all alive , to ignore what Ukraine did to us is stupid, cause they killed 150k Jews in WW2 alone, and almost a million in the 20th century Alone , we said never forget and never forgive, and we stick by our promise to our ancestors.",1
"Rail stops also encourage development around the stops. It's an infill strategy. choosing where a rail like goes in is in effect choosing where development happens, so you can drive density to specific neighbors. Auto infrastructure just spreads people out further, and creates dead unpleasant parts of the city where you have big feeder streets.","that's actually kind of the point though, you lived next to a light rail so there was stuff nearby. you can also displace traffic with it. people never willingly do that because people are the worst but it's a lot easier for city planners to make the case of not investing in auto infrastructure when there's a real second option. It actually makes sense to put them in before it's entirely necessary or useful because getting the right of ways worked out is the hardest part. you can add capacity on a light rail way easier and cheaper than you can on a surface road, a bus route is flexible but it has more of a real limit in terms of bus drivers and passengers and traffic impacts.",0
"Exactly. It's classic imperialism. And the worse thing is, with every territory they invade, the stronger they get.","Seriously. It's harder to find a conflict with a more clear divide between good and evil. Hell, even WW2, between Germany and the USSR was one evil dictator fighting a war against another evil dictator. In this conflict, we have literal evil empire on the march, trying to squash the freedom of an innocent people who bore no threat to them whatsoever. Ukraine did not start this conflict. Ukraine wasn't amassing troops on the border, plotting a dash towards Moscow.",0
"EDIT: I'm not saying guns should be allowed. I am against A2 generally, and it's obvious that if you take away guns, you have less gun violence. You still have violence. But gun violence is way too easy: grab gun, point, shoot, kill.","If turning in my guns would get rid of gun violence I would do it. Problem is that there are so many guns in this country, if responsible law abiding people turned theirs in, only criminals and gang members would have them. Uvalde and other incidents have showed us that the police have no duty to protect us and that when seconds count, cops are minutes away. You can choose to pontificate and take a supposed moral high ground by trusting yours and your family’s life to cops, but I’m not.",1
"Like anything else, it's pretty complicated. The Bush administration did nothing in 2004 to prevent Aristide's ouster, the UN did nothing in 91 to prevent Aristide's first ouster, the US cut deals with some genuinely awful people to restore Aristide to power in 94. Anyone who views the issues in Haiti from the very ethnocentric Western right/left axis is going to be in for a hard time understanding what is actually going on, because failed nations do not neatly fall into our ideological boxes.","This decision is pretty unpopular with a lot of Haitians on the ground despite political support, but Canada's hands are kind of tied as the only alternative - which would be (and look) much worse - is doing nothing.",1
"I love Victoria, it's an amazing city. I think we could do better to help the unhoused here, but we already do quite a bit, and it's pretty normal for there to exist outdoor urban campsites for unhoused individuals.","That way, the only homeless people on the actual streets would be the ones that are easiest to rehouse (just put them in permanent supportive low income housing). All of the crazy/drug addled ones should be in massively reformed psychiatric care asylums.",1
"After that, he was about to lose the governorship to a Democrat, which was unheard of Indiana, and he saw a way out by stepping out of the race to be veep for Trump. I believe he fully expected to lose, but thought he would be seen as the serious mature adult in the room who stepped up to save a failing campaign, and get some good karma with the GOP establishment.","For real. In some ways I think he may worse than Trump, because he enabled him while doing his evangelical schtick that Trump was an imperfect vessel etc.",0
"1. Russia, not a real party anymore, have made themselves North Korean level of travesty, intentionally.","Lavrov said, ""On the one hand, they keep spinning the irresponsible narrative that Russia is about to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and citing some statements by the Russian political leadership. In reality, there have been no such statements."".",1
"I would guess it's very likely they did, but the primary motivation was that it tasted better and smelled better.","It could be that it was safer, so we did it, and then developed the appreciation for the aroma, but I'm not sure there was enough time for that. So, I think somehow cooked food was naturally more appealing.",0
"Like yeah, destroy Russia's influence and fear factor on the world stage, kill (edit: and wound) over 100,000 Russian soldiers/conscripts, destroy or lose much of their modern military equipment, get neutral nations to apply to NATO and double the Russian border with NATO members, get the EU and UK to drastically reduce reliance on Russian energy and accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels in general, get sanctioned all to hell by the world so they can't even get replacement ball bearings to run their trains...","All that, just to cripple Ukraine's power infrastructure for the coming winter. All part of Putin's original plan from the start. Uh-huh. Sure.",0
You are the one who said Biden reported himself so it must have relevant to you an it’s clearly not true. I’m not saying they did anything wrong. what I’m saying is let’s not jump to conclusions that they did everything right. They kept this to themselves since 11/02. Before the election. They had no intention of telling the public. During that time Biden criticized Trump for the handling of those documents . Trump should be criticized because the Trump team signed an affidavit stating they had no more documents and they did. But right now 2 locations had documents that were classified that Biden forgot about. And they were found at 3 different times. They may find some more tomorrow. We don’t know. We also don’t know if anyone was looking for those documents. If no one was looking for them then why weren’t they? There should be a clear chain of custody.,"Actually we know someone didn’t follow the rules. You don’t accidentally take classified documents. He may have forgotten he had them in multiple locations but that doesn’t look good either. We don’t know, when they were discovered, if they did follow the rules. Right now it looks like they might have but Biden was slamming Trump for taking documents when he already knew he had too. Yes Trump team signed an affidavit saying they gave them all back and as we know now it was bullshit but we don’t know anything yet about Biden.",0
“Many Africans in regions without French influence view France as the enemy of Africa as a whole at this point”.,Many Africans in regions without French influence view France as the enemy of Africa as a whole st this point...,1
"It's literally been stated by NATO, nuclear fallout affecting an allied nation would be a justifiable trigger for article 5. I have no reason to think the nations that would be affected by the fallout from a nuke ukraine (if there is any fallout as you said, there may not be) would hesitate to hit the button.","But using any nukes at all in this fashion would have to result in russia getting cut off, and all nations in this know it including china. Otherwise it sends a message that nukes are OK to use as long as there's no fallout in neighboring nations and I don't think any nation, US and china included, want that memo.",0
"And yet Belarus still isn’t a full party to the conflict, so after defeating the early attempt to take Kiev, Ukraine has been able to focus troops and resources on fighting the Russians in the east and northeast.",The fact that Ukraine hasn’t been regularly carrying out strikes on Belarus for the whole last year should be proof that Ukrainian command also thinks that passing up targeting Russian assets based in Belarus is worth avoiding pulling them fully into the invasion.,0
The kind of Republicans competing with the likes of Trump and DeSantis and the positions they would need to take on to emerge victorious in a nationwide primary would make them wholly unpalatable to any kind of center-left voter.,"The only way any Republican should win a majority is by stop pandering for the fascist and lunatic votes, and start being honest on issues to win more of the centrists.",1
This is also a country that turned down 15B USD to open their southern border for the US to have a second front in the Iraq War.,"Russia and Turkey have good relations, but they are far from allies - it wasn't long ago that Turkey shot down a Russian fighter, and Russia called Turkey a bunch of terrorists and slapped sanctions on them.",0
The irony is getting a little warmer might make Russia a bit more liveable. Putin will not live to see it.,"Russians KNOW full well what is going on. They can watch it in real time. And they are celebrating it. They are proud of atrocities they committing. They want to commit more. They are proud that ""Russia is expanding"". They want to expand it more. They are proud they are genociding Ukrainians.",1
"Aren't there laws that make it where criminals can't remain in office? They can run while in jail and things I know, but there are some laws that restrict activity of those in office.","So, tradition and morals are the only things stopping it from being abused how it currently is then. Got it. I really do keep forgetting that the ""norms"" are the only thing keeping people like him from exploiting this country for every penny and for power. Trump has shown us that our safeguards don't mean anything if people don't adhere to tradition and simply break laws and run for office or remain in office to avoid actually paying for the crimes.",0
"So trains block to road next to my business about 30% of the time. Sometimes they will park their trains there for literally 3-4 days. I've called the local sheriff, and there is literally nothing that they can do due to the law being repealed.","TLDR - in Ohio, it's 100% legal for Norfolk Southern to block roads with their trains for as long as they want, thanks to having bought off politicians, having a previous law repealed.",0
Like massively purging people off of the voter polls. Like an asshole who is too scared to really let the people vote. Bunch of crybabies who can't actually let people vote for what they want. Teachers deserve a raise. Teachers also deserve a shit ton more. Everyone does.,"I guess that's the difference between us? I'm not cool if we do it, but you're cool if you all do it? You're cool with electing people to subvert the will of the people?",0
"On one hand these are old technology & will have no impact on Russian air capabilities, on the other hand giving Ukraine these defensive weapons will have ""unimaginable results."" If they won't be effective why would Russia escalate a war with the United States. I'm betting the systems are old tech & more than capable of shooting down what Russia sends Ukraine's way.","If enough countries tell Russia to GTFO of Ukraine, it may eventually help tip the scales. To receive the messages, Russia has to be there.",1
"I grew up Catholic so it takes a lot to shock me, but I never had a priest bring up masturbation in the confessional. Utah Mormonism in particular is on a whole 'nother level of sex cult craziness.",Utah contains some of the most majestic scenery on Earth and enough troubled Mormons to keep me away. (From a someone who grew up there and who would love to return in different circumstances.).,1
"On the positive side a meh tank is better than no tank and the Leopard 1A5, which is what has been stated will be sent, is equipped with dated but still effective thermal sights which will more than useful in Ukraine. How you use the tank is generally more important than stats on paper and the Russian's often terrible tactics have cost them tanks that on paper are vastly superior to what they're fighting in Ukraine.","They are equal to the soviet T-72, the most common tank on the battlefield, a modern tank will destroy it but it can easily destroy old tanks, lighter vehicles, fortifications etc.",1
"As a Ukrainian Jew, whose grandpa fought through the end of WW2, and whose two great-grandpas perished fighting in the same war against Nazis, I can't emphasize enough how false this statement is.",I don't mean to excuse what they did -- but it isn't like resisting the Nazis to side with the Soviets was going to seem like a great idea either to many of them.,1
Which means more innocent people in Mexico & elsewhere will be brutally murdered for the money machine.,"The demand for drugs in America’s going one direction, and it ain’t down. Between Pharma companies, higher costs of living, narcissstic materialist culture and corporate/political fuckery….yeah, people here are gonna use drugs to deal with this shit.",0
Deportations decreased significantly during the Trump presidency while illegal immigration increased significantly. He was just so incompetent and ineffectual he made illegal immigration significantly worse.,He blew the entire budget on stupid ineffectual shit like the wall and unnecessary (and expensive) detainments.,0
That’s because Dems lost the senate and McConnell was obstructing. The senate will continue supporting Biden but we’re likely losing the house so there’s a lot less Biden will be able to do anyway. It has nothing to do with if Biden runs or not.,"There might be a slim chance Biden can pull that off this term. This election showed that Americans don’t want extreme right-wing politics, they want centrist politics. Lastly, don’t associate the actions of rogue citizens who believe in extremism with those who sit in congress. Most DC republicans don’t stand for any violence. Yeah, most. Not all.",1
"And it puts Israel in a light that makes Israel ignore them entirely, and validates Palestinian propaganda that's extremely unhelpful to any sort of lasting solution.","There is a clear bias against Israel but it isn't due to any particular hatred, just fifty years of pent up annoyance and ire stemming from a conflict that will not end and the only party of that conflict in the UN technically, is Israel. So it has become modus operandi to just condem them over and over and over again. Fifty years is a long time for an issue to still be prevalent.",1
"I doubt a major war will suddenly kick off, but likely a series of regional conflicts will coalesce into a singular war will happen within the next decade.",None of those are likely to expand into a larger war. Russia has expended far too much of their military already. They can't afford to open new fronts.,1
"This election is an encouraging sign for Wisconsin’s election maps. It also shows that abortion isn’t going anywhere, no matter how much the GOP just want to wish it away.","She had no solid messaging other than “I put Darrell Brooks behind bars.” At one point during a “debate” between candidates (it wasn’t a debate-debate, more of a symposium), she was reading answers out of a binder. Zero charisma or personality as a candidate. She did well in Waukesha/Ozaukee/Washinon counties, that was about it.",0
"Yeah, totally support Ukraine's need to defend themselves but conscription is fucked up. I never got why militaries wanted a bunch of people who didn't believe in the cause and weren't willing to die anyways.",I don't see that as a justification for seizing people and forcing them to fight or be killed against their will.,1
"I'm not saying that solar panels stop the libs from turning america into a communist country, but ever since solar panels were invented the Soviet Union collapsed and the US is still capitalist.","But in 30 years the solar panels will need replacement anyway. You can get solar panels now, reap the benefits now, then replace them in 30 years with the money you save from the solar panels now to save even more money.",0
"it's not an EO, it's using executive authority as granted by the HEROES act that allows the Secretary of Education to waive debt during wars or national emregencies (like global pandemics).","No it isn't. Piecemeal cancelling and then stopping the process for groundless judicial stays is not ""cancelling it outright."" If Trump's judges are illegitimate so are their rulings.",0
"Missile tests aren't threats, and the US has a long history of testing ICBMs like that, and making threats. North Korea isn't uniquely dangerous. Small countries rely on asymmetric warfare, and North Korea is surrounded by five of the world's largest militaries; the missile program is a deterrent, a paper tiger. They cannot engage in an aggressive military action without getting wiped off the map—a threat commonly made against them—and they have significant reason to fear the major military powers around them which have previously occupied the country. Like them or not, these people won't be attacking anyone and don't see themselves as aggressors.","Maybe not for that reason, but yes. It would have the same added value that lead the US to position short range ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons systems in East Europe and Turkey when the Workers' Republics became a threat to US hegemony. A bit Dr. Strangelove imo.",0
"They can continue the civilian targeting with drones and cruise missiles as long as they can maintain the stock, but that's not going to win them the war and its not going to bring down Ukraine.",Ukraine isn’t a static entity either as seen in how quickly they’ve progressed technologically with their long range and drone weapons. Don’t confuse justice and mercy for inability.,1
Cubanos are not some magical special Latinos that are automatically pre-disposed to vote Republican. This is a result of a long period of incompetence of Floridian Democrats in particular.,Cuban Americans were swinging for Obama as late as 2012. I don't feel like this is anything more than demonizing Cubans.,0
"So them stating this didn't came out of the blue, it's just something to remind the West/Allied Nations.","Their inability to do so was made clear in March, but that doesn't mean they aren't too dumb to try with any non-NATO country. Ukraine is certainly the bastion against Russian expansion in the long term.",1
Also on another note the russian state promotes and enables their athletes to use doping in all international competitions...,How is making it easier for Russian athletes to represent countries other than Russia pandering to Russia. It does the opposite. Unless your a reddit neckbeard who thinks Russian athletes are personally responsible for the invasion of ukraine.,1
"A Ukrainian soldier once remarked they'd fight with sticks and stones if they must, but it seems Russians are racing to get there first.","Considering the power imbalance between Ukraine and Russia, I can understand the hyperbole. But if I was going to be more specific, I'd say the Russian state terrorists are more caught and being slowly ground.",0
Is it possible that a contingent of House Republicans refuse to vote for whoever the GOP Speaker candidate is and Democrats could push through one of their own?,"I’m saying if there are even like 3 or 4 republicans who decide to not cast a vote for whoever the compromise GOP speaker candidate is, Dems could just vote in a minority Speaker.",0
"Putin's trying to save face. He fucked up, underestimating Ukraine and rather than look weak by pulling out, he's going to keep pushing even if it drags all of Russia down with him.","Maybe it isn't, and we should still support Ukraine fully.. but increasingly it's feeling like just another fake-out by Russia, in a long long long javelin-destroyed caravan of lies.",1
"On a less direct note, that softly implied that Ukraine should consider forfeiting its territories to Putin.",Would have been more genuine if he didn't parrot russian propaganda during the first months of the invasion and put the blame on Ukraine. This is little more than a PR stunt.,0
"This isn't really about AKs and the article is adding that bit in. This is just a change from handgun to firearm. So a folding single shot shotgun in a backpack is now legal (good for transporting). It also would cover a shotgun in a car, which can be considered concealed in some places. I think the more likely thing is hunting guns, but for people walking around with different guns it would probably be firearms like the Shockwave carried in a bag/backpack.",How can you not comprehend the difference between someone carrying a holstered weapon and someone pointing one at someone? they dont look anything alike.,1
"I'm not saying he hasn't done good as well, just that Democrats have become a very pro-corporate party and it's disappointing.","Young voters are big part of the reason there wasn't a red wave, and Biden doesn't really inspire them. Younger voters had a big impact on the midterms, and that's despite still having a relatively low turnout. If you could find a good, younger candidate they could relate to, that could easily make up for any incumbent bonus.",0
"A new disease at that spread rate would’ve been detected in the west by now in all likelihood… because people would have similar symptoms, no Covid 19, and then theyd discover a novel virus, so far not the case so no reason to think it is.","2) Infecting hundreds of millions of people is going to give the virus a chance to generate hundreds of new variants, one or more of which could spread more easily and/or be more lethal than present variants.",1
"So what country is it going to be to help them out? Probably the US, Canada, or even France I'm guessing.","Haiti has been out of control for quite awhile now ""decades,"" but recently it's worse than just uncontrollable pure madness and chaos.",0
"Its not that they're destroying anything (so far), it's that they're being insufferable ass-clowns and making people think climate activists are a bunch of fucking vandalizing morons who are doing this for attention to themselves, rather than attention to the issue they claim to care about.","This is low-effort, low-stakes tomfuckery which, to be fair, does get attention but it only makes climate change activists look like overpriviledged fuckwits with too much time on their hands and not enough drive to do something actually meaningful.",1
"Interestingly enough my husband pretty much never gets sick, not even a head cold, and all through the ""dark days of covid"" he was the one that went out and did all our shopping and such. Yet this hit him REALLY hard, to the point that I was actually worried about him for the first time in nearly 30 years together.","Pretty sure husband and I had it just before christmas, and it was absolutely horrible. We are both vaccinated with all available boosters and I have a flu shot.",0
"Just my two cents, but I think you’re wrong there. If you go back in the closet, how will they target you? Try to think of it from the perspective of a heartless, conniving shitbag. It’s not that the top shitbags super duper care about hurting you, it’s just that language about hurting you really energizes their base and any actual danger to you isn’t something that concerns them. Of course, if it wasn’t you, they’d be terrorizing someone else, because that’s where their power comes from. That’s why we all need to oppose this sort of rhetoric and the people who use it.",This rhetoric from the dumbasses being spread here is one of the reasons the debate has gotten to this point. You say something absurd like “if you don’t like LGBT then you clearly support the mass shooters” removes any credibility you had.,1
"Russia has lost half of its armor, and massive amounts of manpower, while Ukraine gains more daily. In the long term, Russia never had the resources to win, and at this point, even if they managed to get to Keiv, they don't have the power to hold it long term with the rest of the world supporting Ukraine.","That’s not to say Russia can’t win at all either, nor are they harmless to Ukrainians, but to say that Ukraine cannot win is downright wrong.",1
"Edit: But I see the hole here. Yes, it should be amended to not allowing an automatic approval if the governing party of the Senate is the same as the president.","The only remedy is Impeachment/Removal, which is a political process, and only has a chance of happening if there is strong public support for it.",1
"I’m American born and raised. To be specific, Asian American. To be even more specific, Vietnamese ethnicity. But as American as it gets. I was raised by parents who fled Vietnam after the war, as like tens of millions of others had. They didn’t flee anything scandalous, no. They fled communism. You can imagine how I was raised, as to what ethics and you can probably imagine how I feel about socialism.","They’re banking on a dream that doesn’t work, has proven to not work, but they’re banking on the theory alone. It was ignorant of me to come all up in there to think I could debate them. Just as you did over on that sub.",0
I think the key is DeSantis _bragging_… unless someone asked him to prove it and he then did I don’t how he could possibly know that in reality. Last time this whole “exodus from liberal state to conservative state” was brought up it was later determined that the flow was absolutely no different from any other year regardless of political orientation.,"Seems a good issue to rustle up significantly more people to not vote for him. DeSantis needs SOME independents and democrats to vote for him. This isn’t a great way to do that. People keep saying he’s smart and yet this is a seemingly incredibly dumb political move at the national level. Republicans need to be bland enough to get democrats to sit out the vote to win, going HARDER right is already shown as a losing proposition electorally.",0
"ELI5: Isn't a regular grand jury empaneled only for indictments just a special grand jury with extra steps? What restricted the special grand jury from making indictments? Why would they need a whole new and separate group of people to decide on indictments, who weren't part of the investigative jury?","The special grand jury, however, cannot issue indictments. They can only offer recommendations and write a final report.",1
It would explain why we have Ukraine light tanks that excel in mobility and have anti tank ability. The tow systems and radar will give Ukraine the advantage when on the defensive.,Probably showed up with satellite data of Russia's next invasion attempt after mobilizing the 300k troops. Russia has actually decided to train these troops in some form. They probably will try to invade again with this new troops in March.,0
"Unclear whether this is true. I'd probably take her over a Republican unless 2024 goes extremely well for Democrats and her vote is unneeded. But incumbency does have huge advantages, so ceding the seat to a Republican is probably a bad idea. It might be better to bide their time and then oust her in 2030, rather than handing the seat to Republicans, if it looks like 2024 will be tight.",This move will definitely cost us the Senate in 2024 but I think it's better to let a republican get in for six years than to cave to simena's disgusting tactics.,1
"This is right out of the democrat playbook: Complain about something using faulty logic, pass a bill that does nothing that would even fix said complaint in the first place, allocate absurdly large amounts of taxpayer money, and then blatantly steal it all in front of the American public. Then blame the other side for what you did and laugh that your base is so incomprehensibly stupid that they’ll actually go along with it and then keep voting to let you steal more of their money.",Seriously - tell me how on EARTH can you blame the previous republican governor who spent $6 million putting up a wall for the $95 million of taxpayer money that democrats just stole?,0
"What part of Hitler's core belief that blue-eyed blond Christian men are superior to everyone else and you will be rounded up, jailed, exterminated for any deviance such as being non-christian, homosexual, of a differing race etc. can even remotely be attributed to Biden?","Sounds more like GOP white conservative Christians unless you support doublespeak (1984) deliberately obscuring, disguising, distorting, or reversing the meaning of words as Trump and DeSantis are prone to do.",0
"I hope no one would read this and take it as Barbados being LGBT friendly. This is like the lowest bar possible for LGBT rights (not to detract from it being great progress). A country decriminalizing gay sex means just yesterday they threw you in jail for it, and culture doesn't change overnight like laws do.","Yeah this was a judicial decision rather than a legislative one, so there's still a lot of societal changes to happen before the LGBT community can feel safe in the country.",1
"Idk why but I’m imagining how daft it would be for the Russian gov to arrest Russians for paying any sort of reverence or attention to Ukrainians such as Khrushchev or Brezhnev, or idk a Georgian like Stalin? Is that anti-Russian?","I just think that Russians call anyone Nazis (namely fascists) they don’t like. Especially, those who said something bad about Russia. Ultimately, they justify to themselves why they are hating and killing people.",1
"Nukes certainly prevented a war between Russia and other major players with nukes, which would've been more deadly.",If they didn't have Nukes then all of the countries supplying Ukraine with weapons to defend itself probably wouldn't have to add the stipulation of not attacking Russia back with said weapons.,1
"It is a common conservative talking point to conflate criticism of Israel with criticism of Judaism as a whole, because that way they can paint opponents of Israel as antisemitic.","It was more the tweet that Israel had ""hypnotized the world"" that trafficked in antisemitic tropes of secret world domination, than the ""all about the Benjamins"" tweet.",1
"""They will fight with everything they have, because that's what they see you as trying to take from them so they've got nothing to lose."".","You seem to be under the impression that incremental progression is possible in a place like iran. These people are literally arresting, killing, and blackmailing people and their families just for speaking out against a head scarf. a good start is sending the theocracy out of the country, like they did to the shah 40 years ago, anything else is a half measure that will be met with the same kind of brutality you see in russia and china. to protest for incremental change is to put a target on your head for both yourself and your entire family, these people only understand the language of violence.",0
People need to lose this delusion that Ukraine is somehow in control of this war and on a winning path. Russia fully plans on taking as long as it takes. And they're getting supplied by Iran and North Korea. They're building out new weaponry plants. And don't be surprised if in a year China starts supplying them. And that will be catastrophically bad for Ukraine. Which is why we need to give maximum support now so that the Ukrainians can smash Russia while they are still in a weak and disorganized state and force them to the negotiating table.,"He's pushing so hard on taking Ukraine because he knows his grip on power is reliant on delivering, as failure is weakness and weakness is unacceptable.",1
"This World Cup is probably gonna be immortalized as it’s the last of the two goats and if Argentina actually wins this year, probably gonna be one of the most famous world cups ever. The World Cup is projected to be watched by 5 billion people. People are definitely excited.","At the end of the day, people don’t really care about this shit otherwise Fifa would’ve died years ago. No cares if it’s corrupt as long as they provide entertainment to fans.",0
Because the voters once again refused to empower Biden and his breed of mainstream Dems with the sort of majorities they'd need to actually get their ambitious agenda done.,"Biden is basically where the average Democrat voter is politically, so stop calling a majority of Dem voters “corporate” or you’ll continue to lose primary races.",1
"The new 233 page rule was written by the Department of Justice, not the ATF, at the instruction of the President, to make gun regulation conform to the President's personal preferences.","The new, less corrupt President promised not to further politicize regulatory agencies, but he made it all the way to February before he tried to push a professional gun control lobbyist in as Director of the ATF. And he made it til April before he decided to write a blizzard of gun regulations from the Resolute Desk. Regulations that can put people in federal prison for ten years who were obeying the law.",0
Or are you suggesting that companies have only now been able to raise prices for some unknown reason.,"What is happening right now is that some companies are arbitrarily raising their prices in an attempt to make more profit. This is causing a ripple effect where other companies reliant on these first companies are also raising heir prices, and so on and so forth.",1
"Yyyyup. Wagner group is named after hitler's favorite composer. That's not a coincidence, that's actually why they're calling themselves wagner.",You can look up an old photo of a wagner top dog with swastika tattoos. Along with another photo of him standing next to putin at some formal event.,0
Ask your coworker if he supports Kanye’s statements on nazis and hitler. Preferably in a group setting.,"“Yesterday, you told me you really liked Kanye’s positions. He just said he likes Nazis and Hitler, what are your thoughts on that? What made you back a Nazi?”.",0
"Does the Kremlin not understand that making threats is either going to hurt their credibility or it's going to have the opposite effect? They're basically arriving at the same levels of absurdity as North Korea, threatening to drop a nuke from one day to the next, as if they thought this was the only reason they haven't been invaded until now..","I 100% agree with this. I don't mean it should only be a threat, but I also don't mean to say Poland should just fully invade. Treat it like a negative peace. Act as if Russia might invade at any point, so you station troops at the border, you attack trade ships, you quadruple support for Ukraine.",0
"Yup! fast and good sensors means you can identify the target from far out, hit it once you're there, and be gone before air defenses even get a chance to start shooting. A-10s are comparatively as slow as the plane flying the banners at the beach in the summer lol.","Essentially, a baby B-1 bomber used for high speed tactical bombing missions. In Desert Storm it used its ground scanning radar to find targets way out ahead of it, its laser designator to paint at targeting beam on them, and dropped laser guided bombs to destroy roughly 28% of all Iraqi armor lost in the war.",0
"So being antisemitic is still not the same as having anti-Muslim bias, though both are discriminatory of course.","Like the poster said above me, I’d go call it “anti-Muslim bias.” There should be a distinction between being against the religion itself and being against the people who just happen to follow it. This is coming from someone who was born into the faith and has left.",0
"Its the biggest source of corruption and nepotism in the region (see Petrobras, Pemex, Ecopetrol,etc...).",The difference is nationalizing it leads to corruption of nations and bad nation states. The government isn't holding oil accountable if the government owns oil...this is real life where there's actual bad people.,1
"Unfortunately, black people have carried the stereotype of being more likely to commit a crime for quite some time.",It’ll take more than under-reporting crimes committed by black people for that stereotype to go away.,0
"That sums it up pretty well - there is also Iran's nuclear program, which Israel has attacked before ( with the help of the USA - ).","Israel has attacked Iran before in response to this activity, and Iran isn't really in a place to declare war on Israel and all of its Allies, so the cycle continues.",0
There is no laser from space that can deliver enough power that will result in an underwater detection of a submarine.,"This is the Chinese testing satellites that can detect submarines. Google ""lasers detect submarines"" and a number of articles pop up about their research going years back and some about their satellite with this capability. I think they are less concerned with aircraft carriers due to anti ship cruise missiles/ballistic missiles potentially being able to overwhelm their air defenses and sink them.",1
"Temporary visas is different from many just coming across, many are underage. And if a state relies heavily on slave labor, that state needs a reckoning for undermining American workers.","I live in a state that heavily relies on undocumented workers. Construction, tourism, hospitality/service, landscaping, agriculture. Our economy would not survive without them.",1
So why is India pointing the finger at Pakistan and calling it a backstabber if Pakistan are only engaging in their own self-interest as India does? You can’t have it both ways if you wish to be taken seriously.,"When India is invaded, will people remember India’s indifference to Ukraine being invaded? Perhaps; perhaps not.",0
They've accumulated so much money because of how cheap it is to borrow going back over a decade that they've literally run out of things to buy. So on to the next asset class: residential real estate.,I'm thinking of it as they see the rental housing as a way to make money are and investing 1bn in it.,1
"""According to the Hindu outfit, students who believe in the Sanatan Hindu religion and culture are being forcefully asked to bring Christmas trees and dress up as Santa Claus."".","I'm not saying that it's true. But if it is true, that's coercion. As a follower of Christ, I'm completely against anyone being forced to participate in Christmas that doesn't want to.",0
Progressives need to start acting like the rising future leaders of America if they're ever to be accepted by the broader voting public or by the Democratic Party as such. No one should expect another political faction to just hand them their reigns.,"No, we don't need progressives to be handed anything. They need to take their place else they have little prospect of keeping it.",0
"That's one scenario but it's not happening right now. The smart move is to just say Ukraine now belong to US/Germany which make them NATO region right away. But no, his ego is too high for Ukraine and he want to keep fighting sacrificing millions of his people and future.","It is better to support Ukraine against an unprovoked invasion and genocidal occupation. Allowing Russia to take what it wants is a dangerous and appeasing precedent. Russia can end this whenever they want by leaving Ukraine, yet it's somehow Ukraine's fault Russia is continuing to attack them?",1
"CA Dems aren't the left-most as conservative media makes it sound, and CA GOP have been going even more right in the last 10 years -- its not adding up to the voters.","Arnold is GOP, but he's about the left most leaning GOP candidate you can think of. Even at the time he was elected, he was practically considered a RINO. The CA recall process is also a bit too easy to accomplish, and that year was filled with a wild amount of candidates.",0
"Well, I can't speak for everyone, but my country keeps 10k troops there fully armed and spooled up. If a fight comes, they will be there, and I don't see my country just hanging their battallions out to dry. They have air and ground assets, and I'm quite certain after watching this debacle that 10 battalions highly motivated and fully armed and supported by air assets would mop the floor with these russian battle groups. Once you throw the poles themselves in with their soldiers who are also highly trained and motivated..... russians stand little to no chance in that fight. Especially once an extra squadron or two of f22/F35 shows up escorting a handful of B series bombers..... good lawd. Just typing it out paints a picture of death and destruction of epic proportion.","I believe that is probably the case. It's quite tiring watching them all play the trickle effect with these weapons. I really wish they would just start loading ships and let the Ukrainians get this party started. Start training a few battalions today, and let 'em eat once the shit finally makes it to theater.",0
"I am not really into conspiracy theories, but assuming Israeli Intelligence involvement isn't much of a stretch considering just their recent history of sabotaging the nuclear capabilities of unfriendly regimes in the region.","Assassination of Aziz Asbar (August 5, 2018) - the alleged killing of senior Syrian scientist Aziz Asbar in Masyaf.",0
"Walloon is a separate language. It is a descendent from Langue d'Oil, so a cousin to French. But it isn't a dialect, and is not mutually intelligible. Walloons are the dominant French-speakers in Belgium, and have lost most of their Walloon.","They speak dialects of French but you're right, the actual Wallonian languages are all pretty much extinct. Which as a Dutchy I'm a bit sad about, the low lands have such a huge diversity of dialects and languages and an entire group of those has just disappeared over the course of history.",1
"It's actually a broadening of the standard. McCarthy is suggesting expulsion and, since the Civil War, only two members have been expelled from the House, after being criminally convicted of crimes and refusing to resign. McCarthy is saying that Santos could be expelled based on the outcome of an Ethics Committee report. That's moving the goalposts from criminal conviction to a finding from the Ethics Committee, which is a much wider net.","Ethics committee comes back and says ""as we are not the executive we cannot determine whether or not laws are broken. That is for the DOJ to decide. We have concluded that Santos is going to vote lock step from here on our now that we have gathered this kompro... I mean, now that he's family"".",1
I guess no where in history battles were fought and won with no hidden agendas… everything is done at face value… u must be a high level strategist or chess player.,Half their resources?… u mean use their outdated resources?… I haven’t seen them use any next gen tech… what better use could outdated weapons than to test an opponents defense.,0
I’m a descendent of the last one accused and killed (a bit of confusion over her death we believe she was hung) in CT.,"Just pointing it out. They were not witches, they were women (and sometimes men) that pissed off the wrong people or had something someone else wanted at a crazy time in history and they were tortured and killed for it. There’s no one to apologize to because they died.",0
"The school was Upper Arlinon and I thought I read that during the latest remodel, they found more graves.","Also the high school, was that the Upper Arlinon School district, or another one? With that one, they just exhumed the remains and buried them in a different cemetery with no markers.",1
"For the percentage of obese people who do not fall into that group, this drug would be appropriate. In other words, it shouldn't be used as a lifestyle drug.",No. I do not think that obesity is necessarily the result of an underlying condition. Many obese people could address their weight through a permanent change in diet and regular exercise.,0
"I have a serious question. Trandgender people don’t feel comfortable using the bathroom that corresponds to their biological sex, so advocates say that they should be able to use the bathroom of their choice. If biological women don’t feel comfortable sharing the bathroom why are their concerns not valid? If anything why not make a third bathroom for trans students?","Trans people want to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as. If they have not had gender reassignment surgery, then I also understand why woman would not want to have someone with a penis in the bathroom with them. Now I personally think it's silly because no one's looking at genitals in restrooms. But and I mean this is the nicest way possible, but why are the concerns of cis people discounted? Trans people don't want to use the restroom of their birth gender, because that makes them uncomfortable. But if cis people are uncomfortable with someone who still has the opposite genitalia in their bathroom they shouldn't be listened to as well?",1
"These days russian is practically useless due to ongoing Russian bullshit and Lithuania moving away from using russian language as secondary, the later began happening more than a decade ago.",Lithuania began phasing out russian as a second language in final years of the first decade of 21st century.,0
"EU has literally zero jurisdiction when it comes to price controls in Croatia, there's no EU ""economic ministry"" either. There's ECB (european central bank), but neither them nor Croatian central bank can really do anything about shops gouging their customers. Both institutions done their job when it comes to the ""big picture"" of switching currencies, like agreeing on exchange rate, making sure there's enough physical cash in circulation, preparing banks for the switch, making sure prices are displayed in dual currencies (HRK and Euro in this case) etc...","That said, shit like this happened in pretty much all countries that switched to Euro to various extent though, in some countries it was worse than others.",0
"Honestly, as much as I dislike Musk now due to his right wing nonsense, I do think that the monopoly power that Apple has over its app store is problematic.","Either they have to allow other storefronts on their phones imo, or they shouldn’t charge apps for access.",0
"And that’s good, but take Hungary for an example, the nation has a fair share of problems and an increasingly authoritarian leader. They also get a lot of money from the EU, so life for the average person in Hungary is relatively good. That can breed complacency in the face of authoritarian governance, so as long as the people keep good living conditions they have no reason to dislike their leader even if Orban has a lot of stuff to dislike him for. I suppose my fear is that this dynamic could happen on Afghanistan. Although I admit this could also give India enough leverage over Afghanistan to curb their worst actions. But that’s my thought process of how even giving humanitarian aid could perpetuate the Taliban.",So your saying the Taliban oppressing afghan people and allowing people to starve and sell their children is americas fault?,1
4. Trump was the President when this alleged fraud occured. He nominated the heads of both the FBI & CIA. How are the Democrats the ones apparently holding such power over Facebook and Twitter?,The reality is that none of the right wing claims of election hacking and fraud stand up to any logical investigation.,0
What are your thoughts on Crimea seeking twice in the 90s to declare independence from Ukraine and Ukraine denying their independence? The intention was for Crimea to return to Russia at that point by way of Crimean self-determination.,I think the real tricky question is what to do with the ethnic Russians who lived in Crimea before Russia's annexation. They were Ukrainian citizens and legally probably still are.,1
Perhaps this helps you understand why Jews (both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine) tend to be somewhat alarmed and offended by any insinuation that organizations rooted in the Jewish community manipulate politicians.,The problem is claiming any politician who supports Israel does so because they're being manipulated.,0
"This is about Russia wanting the Republicans to win in the midterms so that they win in 2024 which they view as the best outcome for less support to Ukraine in the long term, but really if you just go to r/ukraine and talk to anyone there, they would also confirm that this is what Russia wants.",They have even stated what the goal is: to divide the United States and make everyone in the government eat eachother until democracy dies.,0
"“We are discussing with the management of Ukrenergo the placement of three power plant ships with a total capacity of 300 megawatts near Odesa."".","Re. ""Russia launches 'empty' missiles to wear out Ukrainian air defense"" I can imagine this may prove useful to throw decoys into the bunch to increase the probability missiles with legitimate warheads get through, but... Warhead aside, the actual missiles themselves can't be cheap. Considering Russia's economy is in shambles while there is no sign of the world's funding of Ukraine not subsiding — I can't imagine this could possibly yield a net-positive for Russia, economically-speaking.",1
"""But in the past two years they've all entered the party together, and this is just the beginning of a 10-to-12-year time period where there's about 50% more people that are wanting these things than there were in the prior group."".","Smead explained that in the U.S. there are an estimated 92 million millennials, primarily in the 27- to 42-year-old age bracket. ""The last time we saw what we call 'wolverine inflation' — which is inflation that is hard for policymakers to stop — was when 75 million baby boomers had replaced 44 million silent generation people in the 1970s."".",0
"Yeah I think racist white people think all white people are racist. I can’t count the times a white person has just flippantly said something ridiculously offensive about another race in conversation. Family members or strangers, it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Any time I’ve called someone out on it there’s always a deflection. Oh I didn’t mean it like that, or no no they’re all like that it’s just a fact, or I’m not saying that just because they’re x. Like I’m the naive one. Ugh.","Oof. I'm not a violent person either, especially toward anyone who says they like having firearms. But he had already been crass to the female bartender, and I had to speak up. Luckily, the owner of the business heard most of it, I walked away, and he kicked the dude out.",1
I would also mention the clear big winner from a MIC perspective is actually South Korea. They moved to 3 exporter in the world this past year. Mostly via procurement contracts to modernize other nato countries arsenals while they ship aging / retired hardwear to Ukraine as write offs.,"As far as I am aware very little is being given to ukraine right off a production line / active procurement program. Therefore any money going back to defense corps should be from orders placed by Ukraine using their own defense budget, to some extent bolstered by US loans/grants.",0
"Wonder if they are hoping to spread it to the west in hopes of dividing and destabilizing, weaponizing a pandemic is 100% something I could see China doing, especially after their thinly veiled attempt at total domestic control with their ""zero covid policy"" failed.","Just imagine, a Disconnected world in chaos, suffering from, worrying about, and debilitated by pandemics while china is free to do whatever it pleases without rousing any attention at all.",1
"Xi fancies himself a dragon, but he has turned the prospect of the Great Empire of China arising into ""Xina: Super North Korea"".","Fairness Doctrine might have been the precursor, but that was temporally too far away for this incarnation to focus further on.",0
"I mean, while deforestation wasn't as big back when Lula first took office (in 2003) his first term saw drastic decrease in deforestation, which held for his second term and his sucessor's (Rousseff).","When Lula went into power in 2003, he caught a way bigger yearly deforastation rate compared to Bolsonaro (21.800 km²), in his first mandate it was reduced by 34% and in his second mandate it was reduced by 51%. By the end of his second mandate, the deforastation rate was of 7.000 km², with a total reduction of 67,6%.",1
"I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they've done some very extensive research on the exact cost to implement a dual currency system. But it sounds like a nightmare to me. Best of luck to 'em though, hope it goes better than the way of Argentina's own currency.",If Brazil is trying to take advantage of Argentina why would they value their currency as high? They would do the opposite because they have more leverage.,1
"But then actual tank on tank combat is rare, most tanks get lost to infantry with AT weapons and Ukraine in particular is very infantry and artillery heavy. And the concept of -not a main battle tank- but an armored self-propelled gun (or what we would have called a light tank in earlier times before the US arbitrarily changed their terminology) is still very much a thing (see French AMX-10s or US Strkyers -at least in the 105mm gun variant- or the new US MPF program). Because most of the time you don't need the heavy tank that can pierce another heavy tank, but just a moderately armored big gun to attack fortified infantry positions and armored vehicles. In fact some of the older soviet ""tanks"" in use in Ukraine would also fall more into that category compared to modern MBTs. And the old Leopard-1A5s still run somewhat solid optics, thermals and stabilization (a lot of armies used and modernized them until the early 2000s, the fire control system used in the latest ones is based on the one developed for the Leopard-2...).","On the positive side a meh tank is better than no tank and the Leopard 1A5, which is what has been stated will be sent, is equipped with dated but still effective thermal sights which will more than useful in Ukraine. How you use the tank is generally more important than stats on paper and the Russian's often terrible tactics have cost them tanks that on paper are vastly superior to what they're fighting in Ukraine.",1
"The airspace in Ukraine is contested at the moment, but giving Ukraine jets with solid air to air capability even more difficult for Russian aircraft to operate and will help with .","Jets is going to be really difficult because of high training requirements to be useful in the way Ukraine wants. Russia has the fighters but still can't use them because their pilots simply aren't well trained enough to pull off SEAD/DEAD, so if they use them they just get obliterated by Ukrainian AA.",1
"Suprise mechanics is when I find extra fries in the bottom of my McDonald's bag. They where always part of the fries I got, but they are a nice suprise.to find anyway.",If it crashes we might just go back to an age where actually good games are made to earn a profit instead of scummy practices.,0
"GOP are more desperate than they’ve ever been, because young voters do not need to be goaded into participating in elections, they are voting for their lives.",…the problem is now climate change and abortion rights and the real threat of a fascist US has galvanized voters <30 to actually care about elections. The smoke and mirrors no longer work when a potential burning planet and lack of basic rights if the GOP have their way is enough to cut through to nonsensical “woke is bad” campaigning all the GOP muppets run with.,0
"India is still going to buy it all, even if it's ""normal"" price because others will charge more due to increased demand.","India gains nothing long term, but if they'd take the short term lose we'd all be better off in the long run.",0
"The feds and provinces need to take drastic measures to ensure affordable housing as a first priority, then maybe unfuck healthcare right quick.",There has been collective efforts across the board to shrink the younger generations access to wealth that you should probably look into further as I do not have the mental capacity to scream it into the void right now.,0
"He flew with and directed helicopters. I think he did have a guard with him apparently, but it was a role he could do without their direct interference I presume.",Whilst at the time I think Harry wanted to have a purpose in his family. And the proper career for him was seen as the military. He probably felt then that going to Afghanistan was a way to get away and feel more normal. Just another soldier. But he still couldn't really escape it.,0
"DeSantis is absolutely fantastic and checks all the boxes: conservative, traditional, eloquent, disciplined, whip-smart.","IrishJoe, so will Democrats. We are that polarized. If Republicans ran a war hero or Ivy League grad and Democrats ran Rosie O’Donnell or one of the Kardashians, you can still bet on a close election whose result would be uncertain.",0
"Not to mention the mass amount of destruction, horror and murder Israel does pretty much yearly in Gaza with impunity.","Regarding Gaza, you seriously are trying to absolve Israel of all blame? How was Gaza before Hamas rose to power?",0
"It's hilarious at this point. I'd like to see the last 6 Republicans in the roll call suddenly decide to vote Jeffries, drop the mic, drop the curtain and we have the new Speaker .",If Republicans get passed this speaker vote then they can finally get started on their agenda of doing nothing except endless hearings on Hunter Biden's dick pics.,1
"The soft Brexiteer (and there are plenty of them) won't admit to being 'stupid', but they will admit that they were lied to and deceived, and once they make that jump they'll take their revenge.","In other words, blatant pandering to Brexiteers who've indicated they won't come back to Labour if their Brexit dream is remotely disagreed with.",1
Most people either don't know or don't care about Elon's antics. This is a case of living in the reddit echo chamber. Need evidence? Tesla still can't manufacture cars fast enough to meet demand. Try ordering just about any model and you'll be on a 6-9 month waiting list.,"If you go to order a Model Y right now, you’ll get an estimate of 3 months before you can take delivery. That isn’t terrible, but it’s quite a wait. They always have a backlog. Tesla’s problem has always been regarding supply, not demand.",1
"The idea that these vouchers are going to give poor kids in failing institutions ""school choice"" to go across town to a private school is ridiculous.","School vouchers literally transfer money from the poor kids to the rich kids. They are almost never enough to fully cover the tuition of a private school, so they only go to people who have excess funds to pay for private school in the first place.",0
"The ACA hasn't solved our healthcare problems, but I will always be thankful that John McCain voted against his party to preserve it.","No, the position of the Democratic Party is to maintain the status quo and retain the ACA rather than some form of universal healthcare that would improve things vastly. Most people on this thread also want to toe the political line too.",1
"While I wish the parents would just take whatever blood they can get, would it not make more sense to just try to get unvaccinated blood in this scenario?","""Sure, we'd like our baby to live, but not at the cost of having some antibodies against another disease. If that's the case, fuck it, we'll just try and have a healthy one next time."".",1
"“Musk frames the dispute with Apple as an issue over free speech and content moderation, and Republican politicians agree.”.",Musk is trying to force Apple to remove the mobile Twitter app from the app store in order to give Republicans an excuse to attack “woke corporations” that are “censoring” free speech.,1
"What's right, though, is probably not to try to pass a regulation, which will then be immediately prevented from going into effect by court injunctions because Congress in 2015 explicitly required that this exact regulation be repealed.","Legally he probably can't reinstate the old rule, because congress changed the law, which is why he wants congress to pass a new law allowing the rules so the supreme court won't throw it out, because he cares more about the rules actually ending up good, than simply sounding good for sound clips.",1
"If things keep going as they are, ukraine will retake their country. It isn't going smoothly but they already took back several bits of land lost in the shock of the initial invasion that Russia can't take back, and the Russians already lost more people than they can recover from.","The best option would be total russian defeat and withdraw, along with restoration of the ukrainian borders. Otherwise the Russians would be emboldened to keep doing what they're doing to their neighbors, and that further justifies why they seek refuge within nato. The United States is completely justified in supporting this.",0
"Those who keep voting against McCarthy aren't voting against McCarthy, they're voting against Democracy. The House can't do business without a Speaker, they don't want the House to do business.","Good for Biden since for the next two years he can label everything as crazy Republicans can't get a house speaker let alone comprise done. What do I know, though?",1
. I also have worked outside in The rural west my entire life and always wear a big straw hat ( and long sleeves etc) .,In the last few years these Fox fueled fools seem to have now co-opted the American flag and now cowboy hats are seen as a symbol of oppression by many .,0
"I really wish people would stop doing this. Even if they're just trying to be ""funny."" (DAE find no part of this amusing??).","Yes. The fucking answer is yes. Do you live in America? Do you understand the concept of transparency? Did you not think we had the right to know what happened behind Iran Contra? Or, Watergate? Or White Water? Or January 6th? The Constitution demands transparency for the people. They are supposed to answer to us. Thats the way its written. Our leaders have been implicated in Epsteins crimes. We absolutely have the right to know. WTF? Dont tell me im not answering the question when you dont even understand the basic principle of the question you're asking.",1
"Note that NI as a whole voted against Brexit, but these radical Unionists were for - because they expected it to hurt Ireland more than them.",This is a part of the reason why Northern Ireland overwhelmingly voted against Brexit. They knew that a hard border on the island of Ireland would lead to sectarian violence & terrorism (again).,1
"“Don’t let anyone convince you lower corporate tax rates benefit anyone but shareholders”, lower tax rates in previous years have resulted in higher tax revenue. That’s why I mentioned the Laffer Curve.",There are curves to all these things. Every single change in something like tax rates or interest rates makes a difference in a macro sense. They are like supply/demand curves. A small change here has an effect there. Plus there are the decisions on where global corporations choose to set up shop to consider. It’s a big dynamic world out there. That’s the beauty of capitalism.,1
"I hear my fellow Americans HATING on Muslims. Like guys.... You don't hate the people, you hate the terrorists and the terrorist sponsoring governments. But the media would have you believe everyone in the middle east wants you dead.","But looking to the point of the people above, even Russians living in the US seem to have the opinion that Ukrainians should be killed in mass and raped?",0
Let me remind you Sweden had an arms embargo on Turkey while they were applying to a military alliance where co-defence is the main theme.,"The EU may have a mutual defense agreement, but the military response would likely be through NATO. There is no way that the EU could conduct a war without NATO involvement.",1
So it seems like women don't have an issue when men are conscripted but once the men get benefits for something like that they see the benefits as a problem.,"In fact, they should be happy; women are entitled to the same benefits if they serve, and service is optional. It's the best of both worlds.",1
"Of course, a more likely ""Trump Independent"" scenario is that Trump forms a new MAGA party to run under, but isn't on the ballot in most states. Thus, he's a spoiler in a few states - leading to Democrat wins or races that were closer than they would have been without Trump in the race - but doesn't have an effect on other races.","I don't think this would be likely. It would be more likely that an area that's 60% Republican normally goes 35% DeSantis (or whomever else is the Republican nominee), 25% Trump, 40% Democrat which leads to the Democrats winning races that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to win. Then, those electoral votes would go with the Democrat leading to a blowout victory by the Democrats.",0
For me it’s the analytic nature. It really is just a meeting for an hr and a half but i still can never get over the fact that it happened. These men really decided the direct fate of millions and indirectly countless more. Even more appalling is how they were just numbers and it was approached in such a business like manner. The extermination of a people was debated over wine and cigarettes.,Edit: since im getting a lot of comments about movies and what not I figured id link an interesting HBO movie from 2001 that is about the German Final Solution and how it was deliberated. It has a fantastic cast and was informative to say the least. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the subject.,0
"Hell, governments dont even understand things like levelized full system cost of electricity for generation and now they want to criminally charge for impacts ?!",Umm. Where to start… developing nations have access to allot of tech and science that developed countries did not have which will allow developing nations to avoid rampant emissions dependence. Stop making excuses for their leaders. Everyone needs to do their part now or we and a hell of allot of what remains of nature will be gone soon.,1
"Yeah, there's a lot of attention being paid to the sheriff's office's attitude towards red flags, but you aren't going to keep guns out of people's hand for 2 years or more if the DA won't prosecute them for the related offense. Sure, the topics are related.","Yeah, that is what I meant. It would extraordinary for an order barring his access to firearms to have been extended this long if a trial were not moving forward.",0
"P.S. I am from Turkey where I can openly declare my atheism and women can freely walk around without veils, where all legally recognized marriages are still only civil marriages, where it is still illegal for religion to be a basis for discrimination, where abortion is not illegal, where sharia has no effect at all, let alone over the civil code. Consider that Erdoğan had 20 YEARS to change this, but didn’t or couldn’t. Consider for a moment there is more to the story than what you’re privy to.","That said, I am familiar with the sort of denial you refer to, unfortunately. Perhaps it is ingrained and that is exactly what I'm doing. Who knows? .",0
People are brainwashed in to thinking NK are a bunch of crazy nutters out to destroy the world there just trying to protect them selfs. It has seen what the US likes to do and said fuck that shit that is not for us.,To be safe its that simple. NK dont trust the US at all and that is well justified by the US track record.,0
"It plays into the bullshit stereotype that because gay men are attracted to men and only women are supposed to be attracted to men, gay men must therefore act like women because they're attracted to men.","Not because being gay makes you effeminate but rather because being gay makes you more likely to reject toxic masculinity. A lot of what we consider ""effeminate"" (being in touch with/expressing your feelings, having female friends, caring about your appearance, liking your space to be tidy and well decorated etc) aren't actually female things at all, they're normal human things that are denied to men due to toxic masculinity.",0
"McConnell literally got burned as recently as 2021, Senate Republicans pulled the same shit and Democrats didn’t back down. McConnell ended up being forced to back down and even agreed to a one time temporary filibuster exemption for the debt ceiling so that way Democrats can raise it without a single Republican vote. When it comes to the debt ceiling Democrats have actually shown to have a backbone and more often than not the public sides with them.","Even if the debt ceiling is first introduced and passed in the House first it can still get filibustered in the Senate, there’s no exemption to that. McConnell’s point was more so that any deal him and Democrats in the Senate strike will go nowhere in the House, that’s why he wants the House to start it because whatever the House passes has a better chance in passing in the Senate than vice versa.",0
He is literally saying that this “fraud” doesn’t immediately terminate the clauses of the constitution but rather that it justifies doing so.,"Edit: Even if we were to give the benefit of the doubt and believe that he was misunderstood (saying that allowing the ""fraud"" essentially terminates the constitution) the rest of his post/defense shows he has no respect for the Constitution.",0
"All of these short doses of what can only be seen as alpha male championship level success…this is how he convinced a lot of people that he was no nonsense/tough skinned/straight to the point. It’s the equivalent of you or I only posting our best moments in social media, thus making others think we are crushing it.","His base are more than happy to either be spoon fed headlines so they don’t have to hear the story, or the information they consume has to be so dramatically compelling that it turns into an episode of the xfiles.",0
"The propaganda my parents generation had to deal with in order to believe that stuff was insane. Constant commercials and news reports about how they are helping people in their own country and other countries. Meanwhile, it was just a distraction by right wing politicians from the real problems.","In a culture where prostitution is normalized like Indonesia, most strait people will either not be reported or the police will not arrest those that are. However, the minority groups like gays are more likely to be reported and more likely for the police to act because they are viewed as different. Same with women because it is a Muslim country and men continue to hold most of the power. My guess is that reporting by “spouse or family” only applies when a woman cheats but not a man.",0
California's laws won't stop anything with federal support because it doesn't address the fundamental issues of why people are going on shooting sprees.,"See the problem is, California laws alone are incapable of punishing rural firearms enthusiasts in Wyoming for the crimes of inner city gangbangers in LA. Takes a federal level infringement to pull that off. People shouldn't be able to just move out to the country and do what they want, we need to make it so there is no escaping maximum government control.",1
"I mean, I feel like it's probably a good thing to know how a pandemic originated so we can try to not let it happen again.","And I'm sure I'll get obliterated for even asking, but can someone explain to me why it's such a big deal for everyone to get vaccinated for COVID? (I got the vaccine as early on as possibly FWIW) They originally said you couldn't get or transmit COVID once vaccinated, so it made sense. But once both of those things proved to be untrue, doesn't it just become a personal choice at that point?",0
"The Republican loser is claiming that redistricting hurt him because in the towns that were new to his district, he was an unknown. He seems to think that being an incumbent means you don’t have to work to gain voters’ confidence anymore and should give you an automatic advantage over any opponent.",That means you're basically conceding very close elections because you told your supporters to only vote in a one-shot way instead of the easy way and a small percentage aren't going to make it on election day.,1
"However, he couldn't be arrested as he was a public official and laws in Trinidad and Tobago prevent public officials from being arrested/extradited. Law enforcement said to him he could save them if he just gave himself up willingly. He just told his son's he hopes they get good lawyers and let the police take them away. How true all of that story is is questionable to me, but after seeing the level of corruption these guys were a part of I wouldn't put it past him.","One anecdote about Jack Warner from the documentary I'll mention is that when they went to arrest Jack's two sons (they were laundering money for their dad) at their apartment, Jack was present.",0
"And before you bring up ""gun sellers should be responsible for checking out the people they're selling stuff to"", there are already background check laws in place and so on with regards to guns being sold. The issue is that the system is poorly run so the existing gun control restrictions don't even do what they're supposed to. That's not something that more gun control laws can fix.","From what I've seen, gun control advocates want nothing less than a full ban. Anything less than that is bemoaned. I only see one side refusing to compromise in the long-term, as more and more strict anti-gun laws keep being added.",0
People try to normalize Liz Cheney for doing her job regarding the January 6th committee while ignoring that her politics outside of that are dogshit.,"If you're concerned about Cheney's ideology, you don't understand what the speaker does generally or what she'd need to do in this coalition situation. The only thing she'd be needed for is settling rules disputes, which I'm not worried about and you shouldn't be either.",1
"I'm worried these tanks will make it to the front and not be able to cross bridges without the bridges being reinforced, which just gives away to the Russians where your tanks are going to come from.",Russians don't live with total news blackout; they will hear that NATO are now supplying heavy tanks.,1
I fail to see how Russia having nukes should have any impact on whether a western country should defend itself.,"Similarly, NATO won't make Ukraine a member while it is in active conflict because it will trigger a nuke war that NATO can't win.",1
"So, here's my thought. How many US officials were tried and convicted of war crimes against humanity for dropping -- not one, but two -- atomic bombs on Japan?? Let that sink in. War crimes are determined by those who ""win."" There is no such thing as a ""good war."" There is no such thing as a ""clean victory."" There are, however, individuals -- atrocious individuals -- who use war as a way to release their inner monster. But, I find it offensive to declare Russia -- all of Russia -- guilty of crimes against humanity.","Secondly: US crimes, current or recent are no where near the scale or extreme of Russian crimes. Comparing US crimes to Russian ones are like comparing a mugger to a murderer. Sure both committed crimes they shouldn’t have, but don’t pretend they are equally bad, and don’t use the muggers crimes to justify the murderer.",1
I'm not saying you make it a war on religion. People are free to get an abortion or not. To express themselves in how they see fit and to love whom they love. What's not ok is when a religious minority is sculpting the laws and pushing their way of life onto everyone else via legal means.,No. What I'm saying is that the people arguing to make it illegal are doing that on the basis of their religion.,0
"1. Most reps and government officials are not well known outside their (small) constituency, even then probably not well.","The next time you see a politician talking shit or engaging in what you believe is self destructive rhetoric that will kill their career—they are aiming for a gig like this (and/or a book tour, also lucrative and no work involved). It pays so much better than their regular job, and there will almost ALWAYS be a gig like this waiting for anyone with national attention. Liz Cheney tanking her career? No fucking way, a book is DEFINITELY going to come soon, she's also due since she had books in 2011 and 2015. And it will sell like hotcakes in airports to bored liberals looking for catharsis. MTG talking the worst possible shit? Conservative media is saving a seat for her. Kyrsten Sinema fucking over the people who elected? Doesn't care, better paying gigs are coming now that she is a nationally known figure.",0
"Fun fact, ""illegally"" (is there a such thing as a legal invasion? No. It's just were you successful in justifying it to your constituents) invading a country isn't a war crime.","Its how you invade and act during the invasion. Which all things considered in the rankings of invasions it was probably one of the least war-crimey of all times. But don't let facts get in the way of whataboutism. Next you'll be complaining about ""russiaphobia"".",0
"So to be clear, a guy was walking around the battlefield without any medic vest when he was shot. Being a medic does not create a bubble around you where everyone within several feet is considered a noncombatant. In every armed conflict, combatants walk near medics at some point.",A soldier can also retrieve other soldiers. That doesn’t make them a medic that’s immune from the battlefield. A medic on a battlefield should wear uniform that clearly shows they’re a medic.,1
"It's not really about getting new voters or even swapping voters, turn out will presumably be low and it's a question of how many of your previous voters you can convince to go back out to the polls again. The quality of each campaigns get out the vote efforts is going to be what drives this election more than anything else.","This election - like most elections- will be mostly about turnout. Get your people to turn out, and dissuade the other guys from turning out.",1
"It's not even interesting on abuse reddits, it's just a repeating cliche... a known pattern like gaslighting, FLEAs, projection, reversal, and triangulation.","Triangulation, in the context of abuse, means the abuser using a third party to manipulate the victim. For instance, say a person cut contact with an abuser to try and protect themselves.. the abuser might convince a third person to 'go talk to' the victim, either to find out information or convince the victim to return to the abuser.",0
But that’s how the Western system can seem to Chinese people (especially during Trump’s term). Makes it look like someone with zero experience or ability in politics can be put in the most senior political office because of wealth and becoming a beloved celebrity. Whereas a Chinese leader has always had decades of experience in governance.,"And, given China's long, long, rule by emperor; it is quite different than the path democracy took in the West.",1
"SCOTUS's current stance is that abortion-related issues are a power not withheld from the government by the U.S. Constitution, and that abortion-related rights are similarly not reserved to the people by the same. Further, Dobbs made it EXTREMELY clear that ground-floor abortion restrictions do not involve any area where the federal government can assert supremacy.","""Codifying Roe"" directly says: nuh-uh, the feds can swoop in and be in charge of that stuff, actually.",0
I agree there is good debt and understand that a country’s debt is not the same as a persons. However a large amount of debt is held by borrowing from social security. I would rather them freeze social security rate increases now than doing a more extreme freeze in the future.,I’d rather fix the debt issue now than do the traditional leave it for the next generation to fix. Gen Z and millennials are already fucked. I’d prefer not to make it worse.,0
"Yeah hopefully in the future it just gets ignored. Conceding is a nice gesture, but it is meaningless as far as who won and who lost. The jets lost on Sunday. Them refusing to admit they lost doesn't change the outcome.",I don't get why we keep hearing about which loser refused to concede? The headline suggests there's something fishy about the winner of an election starting to prepare for doing the job.,1
"That said, Biden has the opportunity to replace two more board members in 6 days giving the theoretically anti DeJoy members a full majority and if there isn’t a call to oust him then I can’t for the life of me figure out why not.",Who cares is that while that’s occurring why wouldn’t the board of generals who have enough people backing DeJoy not just elect a proxy for him?,0
"If the moments comes where Ukraine pushes Russia out of their country, he will simple stop sending his forces over the border and just say ""Mission accomplished"" while never losing a word about this.",With all the abandoned Russian gear getting fixed up and being used by the Ukranians maybe Russia should just attack itself a bit to slow down the militarization!,1
"Maybe one day we'll run a decent Independent that will force the Dems and Republicans to change their platforms, or lose.","Well, i may not be into that party, but i do think people are tiring of the political parties. I've been an Independent for years, and do like the Progressive Dems, but they too get corrupted by the Corporate Democrats.",0
"I agree. Unfortunately NATO is doing what other countries did before WW1 and WW2, they are acting as though by averting their eyes they will not be attacked by Russia. So probably NATO will be late to the war in its role to defend against Russia.","How could it be a wider war when Russia is losing to an indirect conflict with NATO? Them expanding to Moldova, etc would just spread out their forces even more, absolutely crippling them. Are we about to see the Russia Govt/Oligarchy collapse?",1
"(Here in Norway we went from ""bicamberal"" (for two readings of laws, not when agreeing upon budget) to unicamberal in \checks notes\ 2009. ""Nobody"" noticed.).",Yes. That’s the plan. Allow the wealthy to “cheat” on their taxes while punishing regular people who are already scared of an audit and probably did nothing wrong.,1
That thing is nothing but a shameless murderer too cowardly to actually kill anybody so instead he just offends those who actually engage in the violence he just fantasizes about.,"The number of undercover agents used to find these lunatics is well worth it, then, I can't imagine any halfway sane person being talked into going out to kidnap and murder someone because they resented having to wear a mask. It's not like some high school kids getting taked into shoplifting a six-pack of beer.",1
One store I went to that has reasonable prices for eggs (all local farmers) was stripped clean of its eggs. Another store that is posting the price gouging was fully stocked and nobody was buying the eggs.,so that shortage creates higher prices as competition (Walmart/Kroger/ALDI) bids up the price to have eggs in stock so .....,1
"I think what they mean is that Ukraine may overextend. Ukraine is just holding the line and has been practicing attrition warfare, but if they rush down into the Donbass it could leave them vulnerable to counterattacks. Basically, Russia can't ""win"" anymore, but Ukraine can still lose.",Ukraine wants to hurt Russian occupiers and make this costly for Russia. (This gives them a target rich environment where they can pick any Russian target in their land as a legitimate target.,1
"The right needs to be forced into confronting people they’re too scared to confront. If they’re going to insist on continuing this nonsense, then I’ll insist they go all the way & include everyone.",This is ALL about their political careers & they couldn’t care less about real people’s lives. I feel as strongly as I do because both my parents are survivors of the Indian Residential Schools & the horrors that went along with those places. Even in their late 70’s they still have not been able to find some sense of safety or community or anything. Those schools made it so Indian children didn’t even trust each other. And so when I see what the right is doing with LGBTQ people I see much the same pattern weaving religion & shame & trying to make their existence just go away. I can tell you from experience that does not work. Whats worse is these politicians KNOW this.,0
"Live In the Midwest too. There’s amazing polish and German places. Pretty good Italian places(mom and pop Italian places that make different homemade pasta noodles each morning), great Mexican food, a great Salvadoran restaurant. There’s also really good Vietnamese and African restaurants. Plus others in forgetting. That’s all within a 20 minute drive.",Not sure how to explain it other than I just didn’t have good food? I spent about a month in each country so I had a fairly good idea of the food. 90% of my meals were at food carts or little local restaurants with those tiny plastic chairs. So the type of restaurants I went to were all the same across Asia.,0
"FYI: ""Starting around February, those 21 and older can apply to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services for a home cultivation card. A license costs $100."".","Idk. If you hang out on liberal circlejerk forums (like this one) on liberal circlejerk websites (like this one) it can get pretty hard to know what actual conservatives actually believe - you'll encounter a million folks claiming that, say, conservatives believe a black dudes criminal history justifies police killings him before you'll actually encounter a conservative saying it.",1
We also don’t have condos in Australia or New Zealand. We have apartments which you own or rent from a private owner. The owner of the apartment pays fees to the apartment buildings owners corporation (strata) which every owner is a part of and to the local council for things like garbage and water.,"Cause in Australia that's still an apartment. I've lived in a 6 million dollar apartment on harbour with a rooftop, gym, and full time concierge but it's still called an apartment. I bought a very nice but small apartment in a low density block that has no amentities and that is still called an apartment.",0
"The missile can blast targets at a terrifying 16,000mph and has a range of over 11,000 miles, reports The Sun, making it 1,000 times more powerful than the bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during the Second World War.","I swear it’s using the range of 11,000 miles and comparing it to the range of the bombs (when exploded) in Japan. Atleast that’s what the sentence makes it out to be.",1
"Do you really want our entire government to act to stifle progress for the foreseeable future due to political games, instead of just half of it?","I may sound a little harsh or condescending here because I see this thought process a lot, and I think it is half-considered. It ties in with the general view of ""criminals"" in our country.",0
"Except, it is a kangaroo court... made up of Republican ideologues forced on the court with zero Democratic support.","I am not trying to excuse the Republicans at all, however they weren’t alone in creating the current partisan court. I do not doubt in the slightest that had the shoe been on the other foot our court would be equally partisan just with a liberal bias. Hell, if you look at the voting record of the court up to 2016 (haven’t looked since our former president started nominating true crazies), the liberal justices overwhelmingly voted as a single block and the conservative justices had a much more varied record where they would cross over and support ideas the liberal justices supported. That has likely changed with the three new justices though.",1
"Romney has a better chance of solidifying the GOP base back to the norms pre-trump. He's still a pro-corporate dipshit, but he has morals. Unfortunately, the GOP has gone into the direction of embracing nazis and authoritarian-lite ideology to win elections.","I like this response. Especially bc in 2016, everyone believed clinton would win the presidency bc the polls showed that. Instead, we got trump creating a massive upset. So, true. 2024 is still a long way from now.",0
"Religion sucks because it is always being hijacked by assholes and is difficult to fight against, but it doesn't turn people into monsters on it's own.",Also religion doesn't stop <insert Abrahamian religious group of people here> from conducting murders or killings.,1
"Sanctions aren't working, means send more military and put pressure on other countries trading with Russia.",The west realizes this is going to be long war and is letting Russia bleed itself. The west is invested in keeping Ukraine out of Russian control and will continue with its military support for the foreseeable future.,0
"There is no such thing as freedom of religion without also having freedom from religion, how can you have religious freedom while being forced to follow someone else's religion?","But it does guarantee freedom OF religion, which implies no person can be compelled to behave along the lines of someone else’s religion.",1
"These types of generalizations are completely unhelpful and only serve to drive Serbs away from the EU and towards Russia. Obviously the government of Serbia would not be involved in this type of plot, the risks would be far too great even if they felt inclined to do so. However, it's no secret that a substantial of the Serbian population has a pro-Russian sentiment and thereby serves as a potential recruiment pool for Russia.","That does not mean ""Serbia"" is helping Russia, it means some Serbs may have been recruited by Russia. Big difference.",0
It would mean that other people potentially wouldn't have access to blood that would normally be made instead.,"Blood donations aren't like in the movies; you can't just hook a tube up to someone and stick the other end into someone else. You need a blood bank to process and standardise the blood, which would need to be done even in this case. What if 2 of the 20 volunteers have gotten their blood type wrong? That would kill the child. What if one of them has meningitis and doesn't know? Or HIV? Or one of many other blood borne illnesses? Not only that, but what happens if they only get 3L of usable blood from the volunteers and then end up needing more than that?",1
"Secondly, it states it's a factor in deciding whether to invite a state to join. In other words, this is not a hard binary yes/no. It's not saying that countries must have settled their disputes to be members (or many existing NATO countries should not be in NATO); rather that they must show a commitment to settling them in that manner.","And again, it's about showing the commitment to resolving these types of conflicts according to international law. Ukraine has shown this to be the case. The fact that a hostile power has illegally invaded them doesn't change that.",0
Everything that can be realistically done should be done. Even making 100% sure the violent regime won't get it's hands on nuclear bombs will go a very long way into giving the people a chance.,"Yes, and Iran knows this, which is why they've structured their nuclear weapons program to make it impossible to wipe it out with a one-off strike like this.",1
"""Men cannot be lesbians"" was a statement targeted at a trans woman who identified as lesbian - the potentially offensive nature of the statement is that this filmmaker referred to a trans woman as a man.","In this specific case, the statement ""men cannot be lesbians"" appears to be part of a pattern of repeated harassment of a lesbian trans woman. Norwegian law covers hate speech based on gender identity as well as other categories such as race, so it's possible that applies here.",0
Lmao keep gobbling up bullshit ass news sources. How would the user base grow and they lose more money than before? That makes no sense. And who at Twitter was better at running a company than Elon?,"No way, news sources would never all collectively lie to form an agenda. Like they did about a certain laptop now they're starting to admit the laptop is real..whoa...",0
"Hmmmm well that energy charter treaty sounds like a pretty good way for companies and countries to receive long term support for investing in a 0 carbon form of energy, like nuclear but the Germans wouldn't want to build power plants that have proven to provide baseline energy reliably. Much easier to quickly build a few more gas plants and improve slightly statistically but not focus on how to reliably power their countries carbon free for the coming centuries.","Nuclear is maybe carbon free(at least when the fuel rods providing energie, not the plant and all the process around it) but it is for sure not the cheapest and arguably not saver than solar or wind. I don't get all the hate Germany gets only bcs they don't go nuclear. Like pls, if they manage their goal without it be happy.",1
Much like how progressives are more passionate about preventing insufficiently left wing Democrats from getting elected than they are about preventing far right Republicans from getting elected.,"That's because a lot of New York ""Democrats"" are actually Rockefeller Republicans who want to vote for moderate Republicans, but moderate Republicans don't exist anymore, so they're forced to vote Democrat instead, and they drag the party rightward.",0
"Walker does not have DID, he just uses that as an excuse to dodge accountability for legitimately horrific acts of domestic violence (""it wasn't me, it was an alter!"").",Yep. The last time I voted for a Republican was 2012 iirc; I voted for the Republican (who cast the deciding vote for an anti-discrimination bill that passed) that was running for Lt Governor rather than the Democrat that was... well. Let's just say that from what I could tell at the time the Dem running was further to the right than the Republican.,1
Makes me think this would apply to intersex people a well. So that means they would be going after people who were literally born with both sets of genitals.,"Edit: I'm dumb for not knowing that transvestite and intersex aren't similar. It's still a fucked decision though. As long as it's not hurting someone, who the fuck should really care? No one.",0
"Nope, it's not, and that's why people here are saying it's odd the media is focusing on it. Asbestos is bad to work with because it's basically just lots of tiny glass shards, it gets stucks in your lungs and never leaves.","The danger of asbestos is mostly, that the broke off dust particles harm the human lungs, just like moondust(regolith), and inbedding itself in the tissue.",1
"""Anyone wishing to hold on to their weapon and join the ranks of France’s 5 million legal gun owners can do so if they seek to obtain a legal permit."".",Yes. In big cities like Marseilles or Paris it's mostly gang related with more modern weapon or ex soviet stocks coming from Eastern european countries but in the country side lots of murder or aggression are made with these old timers weapon. It's not the same volume as gun violence in USA mind you but still.,1
"Ask yourself what the midterm elections would have looked like if Democrats hadn't passed an infrastructure bill, or a prescription savings package, or invested hundreds of billions in climate change mitigation, it might not have moved the dial much, but it wouldn't have to.","Without the ability to pass legislation the job of advocating for the Democratic party falls on us, the folks who want to see them elected and in control, Nancy Pelosi can't force action in a majority Republican House, the minority party has practically zero power in Washinon, DC.",0
We are held to a higher standard and often held accountable for fuckups like you mentioned above. But it is war and shit happens. Domestic law enforcement attacking civilians and it’s not even a war zone? What’s their excuse?,"Shit happens in the fog of war. I’m not justifying or excusing it. I find it reprehensible as fuck. It’s why I didn’t renew my contract after the second time. I did 12 years and got out under Obama. Believe me, I know there’s a lot of former military dudes now in law enforcement. A few police agencies tried recruiting me after I got out and I told them to kick rocks.",0
"If you want an example on the left of what happens when you don't reach out to those who don't agree with you, look at Bernie Sanders' Presidential campaigns. Bernie never expanded his base of support much beyond young upper middle class White liberals because he didn't reach out to establishment Democrats, or temper his campaign message to appeal to moderates, or vary his stump speech to speak to the concerns of a varied electorate. Bernie expected voters to come to him and it doesn't work that way; one of the critiques I remember from his 2016 campaign was that his phone volunteers were more interested in winning arguments with the people they were calling than they were interesting in making more calls and swaying more voters.",' his phone volunteers were more interested in winning arguments with the people they were calling than they were interesting in making more calls and swaying more voters. '.,1
"You can't just ignore the toxic processes used to create the leather, though. It is not some ""all natural"" product with zero environmental impact. Tanning chemicals are not biodegradable.","Google says 90% of leather is made using a chromium tanning process, and chromium tanned leather is not recyclable or biodegradable. It also causes heavy metal pollution, which I'm not sure is the case for.",0
"When you start applying the term “terrorist” to people that are attacking legitimate military targets of a foreign invader…that’s where you lose me. Especially because we have killed a horrific amount of innocent civilians. If a country invaded America and accidentally blew up my wife and kids, I couldn’t give a fuck less if they didn’t mean to. I’d be on borrowed time, and taking as many of the invaders with me as possible. It wouldn’t matter if they were directly responsible for the death of my family, if they were a member of the military that did it…fuck em.","I was just pointing out that if someone is wearing a suicide vest and blows it up, they probably weren’t an innocent civilian.",0
"I am reminded of South Korea’s development of their steel industry, and Britain’s preconditions for promoting “free trade” after establishing a dominant industrial capacity.","That said, poverty is the biggest killer in Indonesia. Fix that, and solutions to secondary problems will evolve, just like the electrostatic precipitators that had to be installed to reduce fly ash pollution at that plant in Alberta….",0
That's like saying a boxer isn't weak if he goes up against a child and he manages to barely stay in the fight for 10 rounds.,"Not much more than a year ago is a strange way of saying Nov 2019, which was over 3 years ago, during Tump's reign. Macron had good reason to say it at the time.",0
"So many ""Christians"" would be gunning for him, labelling a terrorist or worse. The other half would be trying to figure out how to make a profit off him. (There's a prophet/profit joke in here somewhere, lol!).","Yep. You later find out they mean ""Love thy White Cisgender Christian Neighbor who better belong to the same church as you and HATE all thy other neighbors"".",1
"No. Zelenskyy knows that the public will never support anything Putin says. If Putin said “return to February border lines” the public would go “no, Ukraine deserves part of Russia!”.","Obviously this is something advantageous for Ukraine to which Putin will never agree. The issue regarding open negotiations like this between the invader and invaded would require the public discussion/admission of responsibility regarding things like troop numbers, civilian casualties, etc. that Putin really doesn’t want to discuss.",1
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"It's horrible what's happening in Yemen, but don't start pretending those murderous bastards are some sort of freedom loving local heroes.","Houthis arent fighting for freedom, they're an extremist terrorist group backed by Russia, Iran and North Korea.",0
"It's important to note, DeSantis is being championed by the propaganda pushing media arm of the GOP, as an alternative for Trump.","He has no ""brilliant businessman"" narrative. He doesn't brag about sleeping with models. He doesn't shit in a gold toilet. He's a bully sure, but he's not punching down in quite the same way.",0
"Yup, and i believe that the capital of South Korea is well within artillery range for the North Korea.","I mean, in the event of a war, isn't North Korea using a significant amount of its artillery fire to pound a civilian centre a good outcome for the South Korean military? Like all the enemy artillery are shooting at a target that isn't posing them any harm, and largely wouldn't hurt the South Korean armed forces, and are letting counter artillery radars locate exactly where they all are.",1
"Sure, and similarly there is no way to prove to someone else that you voted a specific way with mail-in voting. So it's not really clear what point you are trying to make. Everything you have mentioned so far applies to both in-person and mail-in voting.","In a state where well above the majority of ballots are mail-in ballots. Asking a judge to unilaterally decide by themselves to throw out most of the votes, yeah...that's not going to go well.",1
"On the other hand, the 4th Guards Tank Division (which is a part of this 1st Guards Tank Army) was more or less completely destroyed when Ukraine encircled Izium.","When the Karkhiv counteroffensive happened, the Ukrainian army attempted to encircle 4th GTD at Izium. The 4th GTD then retreated back into Russia, however they lost what would have been 50% of their tanks when they were at full strenh, considering their losses prior to being sent to Kharkiv, this loss here meant that the 4th GTD no longer existed as an effective fighting force.",0
Fraud was rife and Trump And Kushner both received millions in PPP funding. How is that not illegal and why aren’t conservatives asking for lynchings due to all the waste of tax payers money?,It confounds to no end how the GOP can whinge about misappropriated government spending... And then waste all of our time and fucking money investigating a gesture to save the citizenry time and money.,1
"It Depends©. It's possible that Russian oil was always the better short term option despite being the worse long term option, and this will kick short term profit focused corporations into actually making the better long term move.","Plus it doesn't matter for the purposes of sanctions whether India buys and resells Russian oil, all that matters is that Russian oil is having to be sold at a price much lower than the market price. You wouldn't want to drive Russian oil out of the market entirely because that would push the price of all oil up and hurt developing countries. This mechanism of a price cap that only affects the price of Russian oil is very clever.",1
"It’s sort of a natural consequence of how the UN operates in regards to Israel. They spend a lot of time and energy passing resolutions condemning Israel, far more than any other country, and for at least a few years now more than all other countries combined. You can criticize Israel and still think that’s nuts, and still understand why Israel would stop listening to the UN.","This situation is absolutely sick and if Israel truly wanted peace, they'd at the very least halt building settlements but they won't even do that.",1
"On top of that, Japan just had serious dispute with a Korean cult called Unification Church which has a strong tie to Ukraine and one of the most prominent ""online"" speaker for Ukraine is with that cult, obivously it doesn't really look good.","But besides that, enough people also have bad image towards Russia and have strong belief that they need to be on ""the winning side"" for whatever wars to get on top of the food chain.",0
"And if North Korea sends troops to Ukraine, South Korea must seriously consider doing so as well, or at least a very large number of non--combatant Abrams and F-16 maintenance technicians, fully equipped. Just as Israel and Saudi Arabia Iraq, and Turkey must more than respond to what Iran has done in Ukraine. The Pacific Rim nations must respond to what China and India (after their abstention votes in the UN) are or are not, doing in Ukraine. As the worlds most populous neighbors, they both have the most to gain from the ""support the non-aggressor"" precedents increasingly being reinforced in Ukraine.","This is dangerous on it's own, because it sets a precedent for someone else to come to Ukraine's aid. A certain neighbor with an axe to grind with Russia, perhaps.",1
Did they rise to power because they were religious? Or because their was an unstable political regime that fueled their rise?,"It was not about religion. The major rebellion rose from famine and socio-economic reasons, famine caused people to move for labor, rich people took advantage of the cheap labor, only making it worse, ontop of high taxation and a weakened han government, rebellion was imminent. It just happened to be a religious group that rose to prominence in a chaotic period.",0
They want to allow other countries that bought weapons for their own defense to aid Ukraine rather than having Switzerland stop them from doing so.,"I would guess that our government will attempt to find a loophole to allow sending weapons to Ukraine, but from my experience, swiss neutrality is here to stay for the forseeable future.",1
"The power to give people security clearance is derived from the executive. Likely someone from the IC came to him and said ""Jared doesn't pass our standards for security clearance"" and Trump waved it away saying ""Give it to him anyway."" And they did.","Well, yes. We don't know. I just know that with that lot, every denial is an admission, and knowing Giuliani, he got confused and tried to sell classified documents to Borat's niece.",1
"It is a very shitty narrative. High school students and university students are our future. They do vote (or will shortly when they turn 18). Good for them standing up for what they believe in. The right to peacefully protest and make their voices heard, that is what freedom is all about.",True except conservatives believe blocking a road in protest forfeits your right to life. Considering their opinions on guns I doubt age would stop them.,1
Popular vote can be tyranny on either side. For smokers the flavor ban is extremely unpopular and just makes their enjoyment worse while not impacting consumption.,"At least, based on the fact that they recently banned flavored tobacco products outright, by a majority vote.",1
"I understand thinking that way, but you have to remember it also dropped pretty low in 2016 when low gas prices would benefit the Democrats. So the price inputs are a lot more complicated than simply ""election year, price it to help Republicans"".","If you think the Industry, the one that spent $12.4 million just in the 1st quarter of this year, would be below manipulating prices to feed the Republican talking point and make a few bucks in the process, then I don't know what else to say.",1
"The massive European forests are gone. That's a fact and nothing can change that without time travel. But what's also another fact? Other forests are still here, so there's still a chance to save them.","On top of all that, Europe did cut their forests when the knowledge of agriculture was basic. Now we know a lot about it and have technology that our ancestors couldn't even dream of. There's no reason to cut down forests anymore.",0
"Then, Ukrainians get HARM missles that hunt radars, and Russian equivalent missiles don't work all that well, and it's all a huge game of cat and mouse now.","So... Russia strikes hard with air, jams the Ukrainians till blind, but then has to shut down their jamming to not interfere with own operations.",0
"The current century? It wouldn't surprise me if the Russian federation collapses before 2030. I'm not saying it certainly will, but if that does happen it wouldn't surprise me.",It's ironic.. Putin wanted to be remembered as a scary ironman and the glorious hero of Russia who restored it to a superpower.. instead he'll go down history as the dummass clown who took on a nation 10X smaller and miscalculated so bad he kickstarted the collapse of his own country.,0
"2) It can help break the stranglehold that the two party system has on our politics in that a vote for a third party, or independent, candidate is essentially a vote thrown away. But without throwing us into the chaos of a multi-party parliamentary system.",“One potential takeaway from [the midterms] is that the US is a center left country with a gerrymandering problem.”.,0
"They didn't say a complete change, they said a different virus, which is very much true. Mutation is difference, and they are right that we won't know how dangerous it is until it happens.","Sure, same virus as in it's the avian flu. It's different in that it behaves differently than the avian flu currently does, by being transmittable between humans. That's all this person was saying, not that it suddenly becomes some completely novel virus.",0
If I wasn’t such a pessimist I would be amazed but a part of me also thinks Russia is testing anti missile defenses and we are just giving them easy access to test our defenses for weaknesses.,I guess no where in history battles were fought and won with no hidden agendas… everything is done at face value… u must be a high level strategist or chess player.,0
I'm thinking of it as they see the rental housing as a way to make money are and investing 1bn in it.,"So they are building additional housing capacity with the intent to have it as rental only. Yes, making only rentals available in the future is bad. However this is new housing, which should alleviate both rents and purchase prices in those areas.",1
"On some level, if vasagel were a real option and not perpetually 5 years away, I might prefer that, just as a hypothetical ""maybe less damage and complication risk"". But I'm also not really interested in having kids, so I just kinda bit the bullet and decided that I'd rather end the risk and quit worrying during sex with my gf.","When I was younger and dating I got two different people pregnant and I was extremely fortunate they were both on the same page as me and didn't want kids. Those experiences and the fear surrounding them shaped my sexuality for a long time. If I had gotten a vasectomy way back then, things may have been very different. I could have felt safer regarding sex which would likely have meant a more robust sex life. And that reason would have also been completely valid.",1
"TDLR: Apple is collecting data exactly how it says it is, while Mysk is using clever wording to mislead and file a lawsuit.","This is also the difference in Google and Apple, Apple shares data in a way that’s usually useless outside of app development, and developers generally can’t track back.",0
"Furthermore, utilizing it as a value engine to determine how well thought your idea was was also never a good measure of worth.","I dont think Elon Musk is worth more than Twitter, but I don't think the world will be less without either of them either.",0
"No need to include ""for money"" - ""People that do this should be considered as traitors"" is fine by me. Not only do these pilots get money, but they are likely provided lots of other comforts in order to get more info out of them. Honey traps are common tools.",Imagine if a Chinese pilot defected or provided these trainings to Australia - the reaction of the Chinese government would a secret massive hunt including repercussions to the pilot's family.,0
Turns out being pieces of shit doesn't exactly correlate to winning over voters. And being pieces of shit obviously the only choice is to say fuck the voters fuck democracy and just seize control instead.,Yeah when you're gonna go full authoritarianism and stop supporting election results and openly try to overthrow democracy.... you MIGHT just split your party when you fail.,1
"seriously, if the germans had spent the two trillion euros building nuclear they'd be carbon-neutral and exporting gobs of green energy to the rest of europe. instead they installed solar and wind with a theoretical capacity of 200% of germany's needs and an actual output of about 20% of its needs.","the euros are building nuclear, right? they're not doing something stupid like spending two trillion euros building solar and wind in germany, a country that is neither sunny nor windy, are they? they certainly wouldn't do that while decommissioning their existing nuclear plants and switching to lignite, the dirtiest coal there is, would they?",0
"Now I just think they are dumb. Ignorance is fine not everyone knows everything. But being dumb is a choice, you can't stay dumb forever unless you actively block out new information.","Imagine actually looking at this guy and using him as an example of a smart/strong/sane person. It's been 6 years and I literally can't understand how this man has any supporters. I feel like I lost all respect for 38% of the country. I used to think ""well they are ignorant, but they aren't necessarily dumb."".",0
"If I was a centrist republican, I'd try to get nine other republicans to vote present. It would make Jeffries win the speaker, and it would show the freedom caucus that they can't rule over the rest of the party. Then just let the freedom caucus realize that they overplayed their hand. Once they do, you can call a motion to vacate and put McCarthy in the speaker position.","If McCarthy/whoever agrees to any of those they will lose too many gop votes for speaker, I would think. And we can't trust a gop speaker to follow promises any way.",1
"I mean, in Australia we did a lot more and... it went well after like three weeks. A couple months of people voluntarily dropping guns off, and we have had well, not zero gun deaths in the last 20 years, but close and only one or two ""mass shootings"" since.","Sorry, off duty and retired cops should have no greater access to weapons than the rest of us, quite frankly, neither should on duty until they can stop murdering us.",1
"I agree to support Ukraine with tanks, but when you're actively helping Trump, who was impeached the first time for blackmailing Ukraine by withholding weapons...","About sending tanks to Ukraine, all one had to do is read my posting history to see just where I stand.",1
"Also explain to me how Putin surrendering a fight he was certain he would win, let's him save any face at all. He's not getting his territory back and he's not going to be able to end anything without losing more.",The article doesn't even address that part. It states that Ukraine is winning and want's all their territory plus Crimea back but they don't even touch on what happens to all that territory if Russia just end's the conflict.,0
( For what I have seen it could send a mensaje of mistrust in some banking institución. Specially for china. But aside from that apparently it doesn't have any other negative aspect ).,Aside from that Rusia has been sanción because in Europe it was an ancient enemy and it kinda has a precedent of eating land ( like in 2014and like two times in the Cáucaso I think ).,0
I agree with you to some extent when it comes to the burka - rather than a religious symbol it could be understood as a symbol of oppression of women.,"I definitely agree with you about the burka, but the wearer will turn around and say she is a feminist and wears it by choice because she feels liberated (face-palm, head-shake).",1
"I'm not saying close Disney World in Florida, but expand and give families more options and it could give Disney options if shit like this continues.","As the governor of Florida he can only affect what's in Florida, which is the Disney World Amusement Park. The divisional headquarters themselves for the Parks Division and Cruise Line can easily be relocated. Disney itself, along with most of its other divisions, are headquartered outside of Florida.",1
"Dozens of rioters overturned and torched cars, set electric scooters on fire and pelted cars with bricks. Police moved in after one person suffered facial injuries, Brussels police said.",Riots broke out in several Belgian and Dutch cities after Morocco's 2-0 upset win over Belgium at the World Cup on Sunday.,0
"Studies show the middle actually has the least amount of empathy as compared to those who are considered staunchly left or, amazingly, right wing.","The holier than thou part is essentially making up your own standard for the word blatant. What do you want a signed confession? Her net worth ballooned while a member of congress, they are allowed to insider trade. We are not fuckin idiots.",0
"Whilst a shifting polar vortex can cause temporary extreme cold events, the overall trend for Northern European winters is rapid warming.","“Northern Europe has warmed more strongly in winter than in summer, while in the south the warming trend is more apparent in summer.”.",0
"The UN is basically the assembly, a place to go on the record and say what's the real reason why such-and-such, with the aim of preventing unwanted wars of misunderstanding.","Not really, the UN is there to provide an outlet where all the countries can get together to discuss things peacefully. Arguably, the status quo is the entire point.",1
"From what I know about the iron dome(which isn’t much granted), it’s primarily meant to stop low altitude, low velocity projectiles like mortars, artillery, RPG, etc.",It is “impossible” in the sense that it wouldn’t protect against the high velocity of Russian missiles or the large number of artillery.,0
"St. Petersburg's mayor, on the other hand, is a full on Z-ultrapatriot actively involved in this stuff. My guess is it's because he feels his seat is vulnerable (he's in a feud with Prigozhin, who's rapidly gaining Putin's favor) and he has to lick Putin's ass even harder to keep it.","Anyway, in his opinion (and mine) Prigozhin overplayed his hand with his open play at becoming mayor of St. Petersburg, and the siloviki will probably crush his power base in retaliation once the war is over. Strelkov/Girkin though is someone we disagree on. I think Strelkov is going to be removed from any prominent position too, as evidenced by him being sent away from the front line and being trashed by Solovyev regularly. My ""friend"" however believes Strelkov is protected by Kadyrov and anti-Shoigu parts of the military and intelligence services. He believes that if Russia loses the war and Putin leaves office, Strelkov might be fronted by the military faction as the revanchist, anti-silovik, anti-oligarch presidential candidate. I find that extremely doubtful, though I am sure he would like to enter politics. Your thoughts?",1
"TBH two platoons reached Pavlivka and were able to hold there with no Ukrainian soldiers in it (they moved to the secondary defense line to let artillery work) for about 24h, so they could kinda report that they took Pavlivka. Kinda.",Yeah. Or until it's far enough away from the front line to not be a target. But well Kyiv is being attacked so their really is no such thing as being far enough away from the front line at this point.,1
Converting heat from fusion to electricity (which is not done at the moment) would have an efficiency of maybe 30% or so.,"Assuming ITER reaches its goal it won't be that far away: 300 MW electricity used to produce 50 MW of plasma heating which leads to 500 MW of fusion, converting that to electricity would give something like 150-200 MW. There is also some power for cooling and other stuff, but we are talking about a factor 2-3 to break-even instead of the 300 for inertial confinement. In addition it's already in a relevant power range - going from 500 MW to 3 GW is a smaller step than going from a shot per day to multiple shots per second.",0
Here’s an explanation of one argument given by one of the LGBTQ+ rights organizations in Japan pushing for same sex marriage:,Same-sex marriage is a tricky issue in Japan because marriage being between a man and a woman is explicitly in the constitution.,1
"""He also claimed credit for Mr DeSantis’ 2018 election victory over former Tallahassee, Florida mayor Andrew Gilluim and said he “fixed” Mr DeSantis’ 2018 campaign and used the FBI and Department of Justice to swing that election to the Republican.","“I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win,” he said “I stopped his Election from being stolen and now, Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games”."".",0
Kathy Griffin. What's interesting about that is that Democrats didn't rally to defend her. The joke was in poor taste and she was rightly called out for it. Also worth noting is that Kathy Griffin does not have the ability to bring about the violence she joked about. MTG is a member of congress who has actual institutional power. It's a very different kind of joke when you have the power to potentially make it happen.,For argument's sake let's give her the benefit of the doubt and say it was a joke. She joked that she would have made sure the rioters were armed so that they could successfully murder members of congress. Do you think Republicans would excuse a Democrat for joking about murdering Republicans?,0
"this ALWAYS happens. Breaking news drops and you get really reasonable takes in there (looked at their top post about this and the top comment is how all news, Fox included, with shareholders, lies to the people. Many highly upvoted comments agreeing that Fox is BAD).","The only feasible outcome I can see from that sub is them ditching Fox but moving towards NewsMax or whatever the far, far right media is now.",0
To be fair this could work in Ukraine's favour. China really doesn't like the idea of legitimizing territorial separatism as much as they want to support Russia.,"China doesn't want to establish the idea that a country can just take land from another or support separatist movements. Taiwan doesn't violate that worldview because it's an unresolved civil war and both sides, at least officially, claim to be the same country under different governments. China's deal is probably Russia keeps Crimea, Russia otherwise fucks off and Ukraine can join or not join any international organizations as it seems fit with Chinese economic support for both sides of they agree.",1
"Ask John Conyers. Guy can barely read himself, and made the statement that who can read this when he was an elected official. The idea was just pass it and see what happens. This was around Obamacare...",Basically they have people skim through and they make a decision but realistically they vote on whoever pays them to vote on something.,0
Nah. State courts very clearly have the authority to rule on election maps and very clearly have no authority to draw their own maps. A ruling that reflects that reality is more than fair.,"A narrow ruling might be a desirable outcome. The problem is that it doesn't make any fucking sense. The only way that this is a federal issue rather than a state issue, is if the state courts lack the capacity to decide that a state law governing federal elections violates the state constitution. If state courts can decide that, at all, then this is purely a state issue and the Supreme court has no jurisdiction over this.",1
"I debate the abortion issue a lot. People have, on several occasions, brought up the United Nations' take on abortion. I realize the United Nations and EU are obviously completely different, but the situation is the same for the language they use. Doublespeak to appease less progressive Nations. People will point out that the United Nations doesn't view forced birth as torture. And doesn't guarantee access in all cases:","""States parties must provide safe, legal and effective access to abortion where the life and health of the pregnant woman or girl is at risk, and where carrying a pregnancy to term would cause the pregnant woman or girl substantial pain or suffering, most notably where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or is not viable."".",0
"Thanks to their range they'd be far better at providing AA coverage, they'd basically be one shot kill weapons vs a drone and drones should be well within their targeting capabilities given the speeds involved.","However, i do believe that to counter drones, one does not require missiles, but anti-air guns/flak cannons, which i would imagine is much cheaper than a missile (that can track a target). Therefore, it is essential to develop ground based tracking, gun-based anti-air. The amount of bullets spent to blow the drones up must be made cheaper than the drones themselves, or it's a losing battle.",1
I'm grown sick of transphobes dispensing medical advice about my healthcare without a goddamn clue of what they're talking about.,"You're reading a simplification of what was likely a drawn out process with multiple warning signs before the kid said ""I'm trans"". Also all scientific evidence points to children actually having a very good grasp on their gender. The idea that they have no clue is unfounded.",1
Covid won the war on covid and because no one has any idea what to do to both stop it while keeping everything exactly the same... Well at that point it just keeps crumbling.,"I think there's the additional angle of, Covid isn't going to be eradicated. There's always going to be a possibility of a new coronavirus, just like there's a possibility of some new turbo flu.",1
"-In the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Wagenknecht was a prominent defender of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin, arguing on February 20, 2022 that while the United States was trying to ""conjure up"" an invasion of Ukraine, ""“Russia has in fact no interest to march into Ukraine.”.","-Wagenknecht opposed sanctions against Russia over the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and, in a speech in September 2022, accused the German government of ""launching an unprecedented economic war against our most important energy supplier"".",0
"Also post Brady Bill, he ordered a case of 7.62 steel core ammo. Dude had loads of 7.62 ammo, so we continued blasting the hell out of the woods with AK-47's and SKS's. The 47 was particularly fun to wield with a 75 round drum magazine. We thought the ammo with steel casings was the cheap, corrosive stuff. Turns out my pal had been hooking us up with the armor piercing ammo for years. Didn't find out til that case was down to like 3 boxes. His dad was passed pissed.","A pal's dad had a federal gun dealer permit. Back in the 80's, he had a fucking arsenal that occasionally included a few fully automatic weapons. However, the ones we always took to the woods were semi auto ak-47's. Post Brady Bill, he got some 74's and SKS's. The AK-74 was chambered in 5.45 and was shorter than the AK-47. The SKS was chambered in 7.62.",0
"If China were stupid enough to engage mainland US on US soil, then lord help them, because they don't stand much or a chance. Whether you're pro, anti or controlled 2A, I'd wager most gun nuts and hoarders would hand a weapon to their non armed next door neighbour to defend against an invasion.","As a Brit, we know that what ever war US is in, we'll like be in too. Now, I don't doubt the might of our respective countries, but do not underestimate an opponent. Besides the huge amount of military spending, one of the US militarys biggest boons is in sheer numbers. Its, from my understanding, one of the big tactics the US uses, overwhelming numbers. Should the US get pulled into a war with China, it must be remembered that China has almost twice the amount of personel. They also have a larger amount of naval ships than the US. Their budget however is smaller (2nd to the US).",0
"Look, it is all good and well to have MAGA defeated at some level, but voters of all kinds must not stop until the root problem of unaccountable government is addressed.","Campaign finance caused Trump because it crippled consensus lawmaking in what decades ago was a somewhat accountable congress in favor of a politburo of unaccountable lobbyists. Republics usually have to fail for weak and incompetent dictator types to win elections. This failure was aided by voter failure to oppose legalized corruption that made traditional politicians useless to voters other than for ineffective social justice. Voters figured out they didn’t matter, but they didnt know why so they hired Magic Donnie to fix it because he said be knows everything and is a rebel. Gonna. Happen. Again.",0
"Explicit legislation that does not say the business has a right to protection against government search and seizure, just that they have to take care to protect data. Without 4th amendment protections, the cops could still show up and take records regardless of the laws that govern how a doctor's office secures and shares your data(that's the whole point of the 4th amendment in the first place).","The 4th amendment doesn't prevent you from releasing information in your possession if you choose to do so, it prevents the government from (illegally) seizing that information when you don't want it released.",1
You drop these rednecks off in the middle of Romania and you tell them to go fight their millitary. They'd get their asses kicked. And they're out here thinking they can take on the US government by force.,What kills me about the gun lovers is they always use the excuse of they need them to defend themselves from the government.,0
"It's rather amusing, honestly. I can just hear Lindsey Graham on the Senate floor in a couple months, ""but, it's a penis Doesn't anyone care about dicks anymore?"".","Well, um.. yeah. It’s the job of judges and the judicial branch to imprison people. You make referrals because you want to bring attention to the jailers with who you think should be locked up and why. Just because something is more symbolic than 100% action doesn’t mean it’s useless. Not to mention all of the documents they’ll transfer to DoJ that none of us know about, and politicians are always going to do political stuff.",1
"This fucking bullshit. Bottom line the world was different in 2009 compared to 2011 and it has only gotten worse. It wasn’t about upholding shit from the 70s that was always there, it was about once again inventing a precedent, or excuse to create the unregulated and further corrupted result they and the federalist society desired since before citizen’s united even started.",How was this even remotely possible? Could it possibly have anything to do with Citizens United opening the door to foreign financial influence JUST LIKE EVERYONE BACK THEN SAID IT WOULD?,0
Perhaps if you lived in America during the cold war where both communism and fascism were enemy 1 for the GOP you would understand the outrage about Russian/fascism 'meeting of minds' with the GOP in recent years.,What we are seeing now is right wing media/GOP celebration of racist/fascist Putin who is being used as an ideal figurehead to defend their demented world view. It is false equivalency on your part to deny this as something worth being extremely troubled about.,0
"""Former president Donald Trump and his lawyer, Alina Habba, have been fined almost $1 million by a federal judge in Florida for what was ruled a frivolous lawsuit brought against his 2016 presidential rival Hillary Clinton and others.","Former president Donald Trump and his lawyer, Alina Habba, have been fined almost $1 million by a federal judge in Florida for what was ruled a frivolous lawsuit brought against his 2016 presidential rival Hillary Clinton and others.",1
"The church need to get with the times. They're a part of our society, not ruling over it and not unaccountable to it. They don't get to tell entire countries how to treat large groups of the population. If they want to keep their hate-filled dogma, as far as I'm concerned they are more than welcome to do so - as soon as they give up on all the benefits they already have over the rest of society in terms of taxation, legal accountability, etc.","If yes, we agree. If no, you're saying there are certain issues where what a religion wants should outweigh what the nation wants. I'm not onboard with that.",0
"The federal government already offered Ohio aid; the governor of Ohio declined it, because apparently Republicans would rather have their constituents suffer and die than accept help from democrats.","The federal government already offered Ohio aid; the governor of Ohio declined it, because apparently Republicans would rather have their constituents suffer and die than accept help from democrats.",0
And all of Trump's election denying candidates lost badly in the midterms. It almost feels like our American democracy might survive this far right authoritarian movement.,It makes it impossible for a repeat of the Jan 6th coup attempt. Trump tried to get the VP and others to refuse the certification of Biden as president and Trump nearly pulled it off but VP pence refused and certified Biden after the Capitol was secured.,0
If Russia can produce shitty drones and missiles at a higher rate than the west can produce effective air defense missiles than they can exhaust Ukraine’s current supply of missiles. The west has given two NASAMs launchers to Ukraine and four more will arrive by November of next year. I would be shocked if they get more than eight Patriot launchers in total. Ukraine doesn’t really have that much air defense that can counter ballistic missiles.,Russia can't deploy anything but missile artillery and drones as it is. They aren't suddenly going to find some new capability to deploy against the patriots or they would have already used it to knock out the Anti Aircraft systems that Ukraine is already successfully using to keep their planes out.,1
"As someone who works at a bank, there absolutely usually is a fee to transfer money between banks internationally - in the UK it’s typically £25. You’re mistaking it for a card payment where typically its down to how you choose to have the exchange rate worked out (i.e by the merchant or your bank) but other than an exchange fee of a couple quid, there’s no real fee for transacting internationally. Some banks even offer no fee for transactions in certain areas (e.g I think Monzo allows for no fees in Europe, Starling is the same for US?).","Great. So any ambassadors who get called to Turkey to talk about this, simply start out with “Russia is doing this, you know this, we don’t have anything to talk about.“.",1
"Not to mention the issue of Ukrainian civilians, including numerous children, kidnapped to Russia and scattered. Getting the land back won’t bring them back, and I don’t think Ukraine is going to tolerate throwing them under the bus for Crimea.",Or maybe the vast majority of Ukraine citizens don’t want to negotiate and want to take back their land and get security guarantees from Europe and the US so they don’t need to do this again in 5-10 years.,1
"Housing prices are only increasing due to a shortage. There's tons of research on the strong relationship between vacancy rates and prices, between new construction and prices. (More building = lower prices).","The only solution is to build more housing. We need to remove the barriers that landowners have setup to block new housing. Whether it's public housing from the government, or new private housing from developers, doesn't really matter. In either case, more housing will solve the problem.",0
"Cut the military budget in half. Make taxation fair - why the fuck am I paying more in taxes as a blue collar worker than billionaires? Healthcare should not be for profit (public health and profit are diametrically opposed and can’t coexist, add in that for profit healthcare costs us all more in total, and for profit healthcare is truly against conservative values), make a true public option. Start there, those are true conservative values.",Those are textbook values that align with the definition of conservative values. But they’re the pposite of GOP values. The GOP is not conservative and does not represent the textbook definition of conservative values whatsoever.,0
There are resistance movements in Russia and I will say I hear way too much complaining about Russians not resisting and not nearly enough about the ones who already are.,Edit: My main point still stands which is that the resistance in Russia has no chance unless they get more support.,0
"If diversity means you have to rent to an unemployed crackhead because she happens to be a minority, you are forcing the property owner and the other tenants to accept risk that they shouldn’t have to.","Diversity is fine, but don’t purposely sprinkle in impoverished shitty people because you think this is what my neighborhood needed. I am no longer safe in my front yard and I am sure my resale value has been greatly affected. What sounds good on paper isn’t necessarily great in practice.",0
"“Although there are other laser-based defense systems already deployed, there aren't any that claim to act like Iron Beam to cheaply destroy small targets like rockets,"" said Ryan Bohl, Stratfor's Middle East and North Africa analyst at RANE. ""That puts Iron Beam into its own category in terms of mission type."".","Thank, but I’m going to go ahead and believe an actual defense analyst over an arm chair analyst who read a Wikipedia page and now thinks they’re the worlds expert on the topic. Thanks for your input though.",0
"So, you’re saying that several hundred thousand people that are either compelled to service or decided to make a living in the military, somehow represent all of more than 100 million Russians?",I’m not making any grand discoveries. I’m pointing out what’s obvious. Just like not all Americans support the war in Ukraine. Not all people supported the Iraq war and therefore should not have been treated the same as the rest who did support the war.,0
"If you’re a Christian family, sure, but my point is it’s totally legitimate to celebrate Christmas from a secular/non religious, even atheist stance.","Most of Western Europe is atheist/agnostic but we all celebrate Christmas as a cultural tradition and midwinter festival, more so than to celebrate Jesus.",0
"Turnout in Georgia’s general election this year was 56 percent of all active voters, shy of the 2018 high-water mark for a midterm election.","About 1.3 million mail ballots were cast in Georgia in the presidential election two years ago, compared with just under 250,000 last month — an 81 percent decrease.",0
"D; Ukraine accepts and actually honors the ceasefire, but Russia blows up some of its emptied out hangars and blames it on Ukraine for not wanting piece.","Ukraine accepts ceasefire and sticks to it. Russia launches a massive attack with impunity, while gloating about the fools that believed them on national TV;.",1
"Facism is the dictatorial rule of a central figure, using the forcible suppression of opposition and individual interests for the perceived good of the ruling group.","No, this would be fascism as the conservative government is utilizing the power of the state to punish a company for not following the dictates of the conservative party. That is fascism not communism.",1
"And soft on Saudi, and Qatar, and Iran, and Syria, and wait... there's a clear trend here where all the surrounding countries are worse but get a pass but Israel gets condemned.","Unfortunately every other Arab nation will go after Israel, then other countries will go after Israel to piss of the US, and then finally Israel is a giant douche about Palestine.",1
"For those playing along at home, that’s almost enough to service the $1.5B in yearly interest that Musk has to pay on the giant loan he has for the site.","So the financial situation is not great, but could be better so let’s “put it to a public vote” by the guy that has the ability to manipulate said vote and is financially incentivized for the outcome of that vote. It’s definitely not strange that within an hour of putting up the poll that it had 2.5M votes that nearly 70% of those going Trump and as it goes on it’s edging closer to 50:50 with another 10 more million votes in 20 more hours. Doesn’t sound like anyone’s been attacking it with bots early, nope surely not.",0
"Yes, there's always the chance that just by being a dual citizen you can get in a lot of trouble - but people weigh those risks when it's down to big events that have to do with their families. It's not so cut and dry as ""never go back to your homeland ever again"" for a lot of people.","Also, I agree with this detainee that the US should do more. After decades of sanctions to tell us we need to revolt against our government and force regime change, time and time again when there are movements... our people haven't really gotten support from western governments. Now we're talking about 4 months of sustained civil unrest against the IRI... and there's still so many high level members of sepah/IRGC and the government that western countries are sanctioning.",0
"Trashy. How much are those people told to pay in %age of their income to multi-billionaire banksters as ""student debts"" ?",Now for the interesting fact: the 10% of borrowers with over the $50k line hold 40% of all student debt.,1
"Exactly what all the pro CCP types always say to defend China. So China has unfair business practices that you all defend but the moment the US does anything to retaliate or limits what Chinese companies can do in the US, you guys quickly criticize the US.","Like /u/Ayylmaothoughyaknow said, There’s no fair play in China so why should you or China get made when roles are reversed?",0
To be fair they had a couple of reasonable amendments in there that got rejected like the ban on selling fetus body parts or adding restrictions on abortions after 39 weeks.,"The only people getting “abortions” at 39 weeks are people who are in the most dire medical need, so banning end-term abortion actually just means killing people. No one’s aborting babies that are fully capable of living outside the womb without any intervention.",1
"I don't blame you for not looking. Others have - I took a quick look - Sunday, this news was not in the top 20 items sorted by best, hot, or new. I couldn't get beyond 20 items before reality started twisting.","Republicans sound more and more like Hydra, the creepy, secret organization in the Marvel universe with plans begun by the Nazis () to defeat democracy in the United States (), then take over control of the world(!).",0
He’s not getting a second term. He HAS TO know that. But there’s nothing he can do right now that would make his long term prospects worse.,"And the only people that can remove him are his Republican colleagues. And they have a narrow enough margin that, so long as he does what he’s told like he just did re: committees, there is also nothing he can do that would make putting up with him worse than putting his seat back up for a special election that would probably go to a Democrat.",0
"In 1992 we made a full Spanish-version monopoly game with real cash. It was worthless. I remember we ran it through the washing machine, then ironed out the bills. We still have that board ""game."".","There it is. This is one of the major problems with Argentina, everyone focuses too much on Peron, either using him as a scapegoat or a role model, and not enough on getting shit done. Blaming him solves nothing, doing stuff does.",1
"Uncertain. My deck is a sun-blasted hellscape in summer. “Bright shade” could be okay, and mine live under feet of snow for weeks at a time every winter. Opuntia something or other. I got my first pads from a guy on eBay who lived in northern MN, grew them on the side of his house.","They have both long, relatively fat and very painful needles, as well as tufts of sticky tiny needles that will never leave you. Instead, consider planting along the entire perimeter for effective home defense .",0
"Omar has criticized Israel in the past so the new Republican leadership said ""We won't stand for anti-semites! 😤😤😤"" And kicked her off her committees. Meanwhile the actual anti-semite Republicans are given their choice of positions.","Smart Republicans care about electability, but they're in the minority. Most Republicans want racism, little dances, and insulting nicknames. If you promise to hurt the people they hate, they'll love you forever.",1
It's ironic.. Putin wanted to be remembered as a scary ironman and the glorious hero of Russia who restored it to a superpower.. instead he'll go down history as the dummass clown who took on a nation 10X smaller and miscalculated so bad he kickstarted the collapse of his own country.,"Russia has had troubles for years, but one of the reasons so much of its shit got tolerated was how Putin was seen as this iron fisted genius. Somebody that slowly was stabilizing a country wrecked by the collapse of the old glory, when Soviet fell apart. Somebody that, while not nice, was simply needed in a place of great corruption and hopelessness.",1
"Even my own father got in on the whole Marcos thing cause he bought into the Duterte cult of personality who supported the asshole, he even warned my mother not to vote for the opposition. Now that the Marcos are in power though, they're in the seat that people shit on since they have to deal with the aftermath of Covid and the inflation issue and their supporters are either on the defensive or just ignore reality and sit on their little bubble ignoring the burning building, bad news though is that Marcos seems to be still focusing on PR instead of any work that can alleviate all these issues, he's also imitating Duterte's foreign policy of ambiguously sucking off both China and the U.S., depending on who's the lesser threat like some crackwhore who's choosing which STD to get.","Filipinos in general have massive presence online, but they aren't exactly savvy and are so easily affected by disinformation. My own aunt is basically not on speaking terms with her own sisters(including my mother) since she's a Marcos supporter, EVEN though my grandparents suffered through the martial law and hated the Marcoses(this aunt of mine was too young back then to remember but my mom still remembers the days of hellish curfew and the police brutality that was common back then).",0
"Undeniably so. During his declaration of war special military operation speech back in February, the guy openly said that Lenin and Stalin made mistakes and that many countries came into existence in 1917 which never should have been allowed to do so, due to a lack of precedent for independence. And obviously who better to reestablish the union than Daddy Putin?",The problem is that Russia - or at least Putin and many Russian nationalists - does not see it that way. They see Ukraine (and Belarus) as really being Russian land and the people really being brainwashed Russians.,1
"You know that concept pre-dates the USA by about 1500 years, right??? The Vikings invented trial by jury. They gave it to the Brits, who gave it to us.","GA has two types of Grand Jury. Special Grand Jury which this chick was the foreman for, and regular Grand Jury. Special GJs last longer, but don’t have indictment authority. Regular GJ which is going on now, only last for 2 months, and they have indictment powers. The next jury after the indictment isn’t really accounted for because it hasn’t been selected yet. That will follow after indictment, and arraignment.",0
"Well, it's a voluntary weapon disposal program, with apparently the possibility to get a permit for the weapon. Though yes ... why should you have to go pay and ask for a permit for something that is already yours?","In any case, it doesn't seem like it's a forced confiscation or anything, just reminding and asking people to hand over old guns.",0
"Not all Gerrymandering is bad, it is actually a nessecary process so long as there is still inequality or geographic separation. If everyone was equally well off, and there was no racial or class based discrimination of location, then we could throw out gerrymandering.","Not to mention just totally pissing off every kind of social or ethnic minority possible lately; me included. I'm not a fence-sitter and always vote, BUT I KINDA WISH I COULD SHOUT MY VOTE THIS CYCLE.",1
"I’ve read about all those actually. None of it is perfect. Could we as a nation forbid all companies based in the US to get out of Russia? I bet we could, but I, not sure. And boycott the ones who aren’t based here but still do business there. ( IKEA comes to mind) We could’ve stopped this war months ago but seem bent on keeping it going. Like I said it’s far from perfect , the way it’s playing out. War has always been a boost to a slow economy. Is this what’s happening ? It’s a strategy ?",Are you an idiot? You really think the asswat Modi who supports the fascist Putin really needs to make weapons? Try reading about what Putin is doing in Ukraine before you decide if he needs to have any help him making more weapons.,0
"The goal of this seems to stop the ""braces"" that are really just rifle stocks and not the type of braces that form around the forearm and can't really be shouldered.","Please not that the rationale for all this is that braces mounted on pistols make them more concealable. Except that that is absurd, they make pistols _less_ concealable. The whole thing is performative and will make zero difference in violent crime.",1
"The American polarization on guns didn't really exist until the 80s anyway. Before then gun control wasn't particularly pushed for, and gun rights weren't advocated for much either. It wasn't until the violence of the 70s and 80s that gun control became a bigger push, and the gun rights movement was awakened into the powerful force it is today.","Not that gun laws are not racist and classiest, but California really got enthusiastic about gun control when somebody took a shot at Reagan. Which kinda says a lot about the moorings of Republicans. A country of men, not of laws.",1
"It is, the nature of territorial status means that the constitution doesn't fully apply, which is what allows the ethnic based laws to operate.",Basically a territory can't just declare itself a state. Congress needs to approve the entry of any new state. So any referendum undertaken by Puerto Rico without a vote in Congress legitimizing it is non-binding. Similarly Congress can't force statehood on a territory they can authorize a binding referendum but can't make Puerto Rico hold one against their will.,1
"Everyone suffers if nukes star flying around. It just devastates both sides, and Putin is willing to go down swinging, in that sense it's better to not star world war 3.","- an all-out conflict with the West, in which case it might also end in a total destruction of Russia as a country and culture.",1
Yeah there is. Let them strike and congress could get out of the way. The billionaires have hundreds of billions in profits. They can afford to give sick leave.,"Their employers have the money to give them sick leave. We could have paid sick leave AND have the trains run on time if the employers would just treat their workers better. If the rails fail, it won't be the striking workers fault, it'll be the greedy employer's fault.",1
"Nah, we all know that they're racists and we also know that he's complicit in that racism. He should own that CHOICE without it being assigned to the Republican party and removed from him.",Sure. But I'd argue that the problem is the belief that a Black person can't agree with them without being a prop.,0
"We haven’t had a new massive missile strike in quite some time, our forces were predicting that the next one could happen at the end of this week, and it still might, but usually they don’t fire missiles during the weekends. The last big missile strike did happen on weekend, but it was a special occasion, because they would never miss an opportunity to bomb us on New Year’s. So I’m not sure if there will be a missile strike today or tomorrow, though there’s a good chance it will happen at the start of the next week.","If they had started the first day of the war the first (small) batch would just be arriving right about now. And the bulk would take nearly another year from now still. So I think this is naturally just a very slow option. They are right to balk at this, imo. It's just unacceptable. Either the people doing the work need more money/resources to up their timelines or we need to do something else (or something in addition to this).",1
"Dogs, cats, rabbits, and monkeys are cool and all, but seriously, human lives are far more important. I don't condone the mistreatment of animals during testing, but the vast majority is done in a humane way.","No, because most people don’t give a shit about medical ethics - they care about puppies. I ain’t saying they’re right, but you won’t win people over with that argument. Anyone who cares about that already agrees with you!",1
"All Prigozhin does is broadcast bold bandit-like rhetoric that Russian and credulous Western media picks up on, and that happens because he's powerless, just like Medvedev, after he was demoted to unimportant roles. In the West they just can't imagine that power in Russia can be as centralized as it isn't in the democratic countries.","He doesn't have any real power, as he can't even do anything against the (pro-Putin) Saint Petersburg mayor that's criticizing him for using an illegal mercenary army, is constantly being searched by Russia's security apparatus, and doesn't even get a meeting from Putin. Plain and simply, there's no evidence on the ground that Prigozhin is building up influence among Russian siloviki, military and policymakers.",0
"Stems from the same core philosophy. All liberal parties have been on-board with it for decades. Liberals actually believe in the liberal side of it, conservatives only when it suits them.",and somehow phrase as if that's the liberals agenda when it's the conservative's. So their argument is a lie. There is a differ nce between something being a liberal idea and being the linerals idea.,1
Not a reason not to do it. He will do his worst either way. The thing to do is help Ukraine defeat his worst efforts.,"To be clear, the very fact Ukraine got anything at all is what let them survive against the crappy Russian army. Further, you conveniently ignore the javelins, Nlaws and Himars that are by no means junk. This is exactly what I mean when I say people underlay the role of the west.",1
"Exactly. The point isn't to have Taiwan win, but to make taking it so costly and unfruitful that China cannot afford to invade and/or occupy long term.","For something like this USA to Taiwan sale to help prevent Chinese incursion, I can see a lot of reasons for why this is normal and legimate (perhaps because I'm on the USA side of that issue).",1
"Only if moderate Republicans pull off a coup and build a coalition for the speakership with the Dems. Otherwise, the speakership will be decided by the Republican Party plurality of crazy. And without the speakership, Dems have no control over the house agenda regardless of how many Republicans would join them in moderate legislation.","Republicans, for whatever reason, ASSUME that if Democrats take control of the legislature, that they (the Democrats) will treat Republicans like Republicans treat Democrats when Republicans are in power.",1
Are you also aware that the reason they're currently being barred from the National Assembly is precisely because they did NOT swear this oath to the monarch?,"I mean, if your government is a constitutional monarchy, swearing an oath of allegiance to the monarch is akin to swearing one to the constitution. In the US we often swear an oath of allegiance to a flipping flag because it’s the symbol of our government. The British monarch kinda plays the same role in Canada, Britain, and the other Commonwealth countries.",1
"Then again, one of the major points regarding shorter work weeks is that many employees aren't doing the 40 hours' worth anyway, as it's too much to ask.",I do actually kinda get the reason for both shorter workweeks & work from home being faught against.,1
Biden's continuation of Trump era policies regarding asylum seekers should be condemned. The fact that he was looking to Gitmo for displaced Haiti asylum seekers shouldn't be taken lightly. The fact that ICE falls under his direct purview yet continue to use the concentration camps is unforgivable.,"It's vile regardless and shouldn't be defended by bringing up Obama or Bush. Biden's own implementation of Title 42 is insanely restrictive that almost no asylum seeker will be able to fall under it. The whole system needs an overhaul, but we need to stop cutting them slack when Biden has almost full control of ICE and isn't doing much of anything to slow their abuse down.",0
If you do so with intent or recklessness as to it being used to result in arrest or trial of an innocent person?,"See the case of Simon James who orchestrated a false accusation of drug dealing against his ex wife, having ensured that cocaine had been planted in her car. Convicted, along with his conspirators, Austin Warnes and Jonathan Rees.",0
"Russia is already trying that with cheap self-destroying drones from Iran, at the point that they become cheap enough for this sort of attack they also become susceptible to light arms fire taking them down as they move slowly and are quite loud.","My hope is Ukraine can use these new drones to take out more launch sites, make it so any missile volleys that are launched are reduced so much that Ukrainian AA can handle it without issue.",1
"Look at it this way: cisgender people have the ability to have their legal gender reflect their gender identity. Nonbinary people currently do not. This outcome isn't the end of the world, but it does reflect disappointing yet unsurprising attitudes towards trans people.","Having a legal third gender won't erase bigotry, but an unacceptable social climate leads to leaving nonbinary people out.",0
"H.R.8404 ""replaces provisions that do not require states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full faith and credit or any right or claim relating to out-of-state marriages on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin. (The Supreme Court held that state laws barring same-sex marriages were unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015; the Court held that state laws barring interracial marriages were unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia in 1967.) The act allows the Department of Justice to bring a civil action and establishes a private right of action for violations."".",A ban would still be a 14th Amendment violation. And RFMA would still prevent the Iowa state government from prosecuting couples who married out of state. Both of those laws would seem to completely invalidate any sort of ban on same sex marriage.,0
Unfortunately the Russian people don’t care enough now to remove Putin and his subordinates from power.,Such measures are probably counterproductive because it will just make it less likely than Putin will give up and instead will fight to the bitter end.,1
Eh nothing special she flip flops way too much the only thing I’d like about her winning would be to piss off the left in the fact that the first female president isn’t a democrat.,"Hell, I'd wager even a lot of the GOP party leadership, when push really comes to shove, aren't gonna have the balls to turn their backs on him like that - however sick of him politically as they might be. I think A LOT of people are really underestimating the psychological hold Trump still holds over the party base. His image is still more powerful than that of any other politician in the party (including DeSantis).",1
"I do mean proper journalists, not talking heads and all that. The ones who do the work that is then ripped off by 5k clickbait sites and badly misquoted. News hosts can be journalists and often are former ones but often not.","Most of the journalists aren't putting their lives on line, most of the journalists ignore important and relevant News and pump out cheap news that gets clicks/retweets. Journalists and editors are also responsible for curating news, manipulating story, pumping out headlines that grab attention and distorts the truth.",1
I’ll also follow up and I believe military times showed with polling. It also depends on the branch. The Army and Marine corps have favored the Republicans while the Navy and Air Force have favored the Democrats.,The most comical part about this is the military vote is typically GOP. So not only are they clipping their own direct votes of active deployed military they are also pissing off veterans who largely vote GOP.,1
Again Ukraine's UN vote same as Azerbaijan's vote changed nothing at the UN. Just another weak political excuse for blocking lethal aid.,"You make the same argument, Ukraine didn't do anything for us so why should we help? It's short-sighted and weak. Israel knows all too well how much help it needs to survive. If nothing else, Israel should stay close in policy to their biggest allies, the USA and Europe countries, and who they sanction and support.",0
Hmmm looks like the russian economy is tanked even harder with the war and there is a high probability that this will end with the pike in putins ass up the way to his head. Sooo great job.,That's pretty much how it has always worked. Except substitute EU for the U.S. You think the sanctions on Iran and Iraq were supposed to be fair or something? The global financial system is a tool of U.S. politics. Always has been (since WWII anyway).,1
It's still threatened for those who believe in the Moscow patriarchate. Why not just punish religious leaders without banning the practice of religion?,"Right to practice religion is not threatened. There still is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, which follows the same rites, but is not subordinate to Russian aggressors.",1
"1. When we look at Mississippi's history, we have a whole lot of white judges intentionally suppressing the rights of black people.","Also, if you look up the history of voting in Mississippi, you’ll undoubtedly find that white people didn’t derive their power from fair voting.",1
Laws were never designed to prevent crime or to keep someone from doing a thing. All they do is define a certain act as bad so that we can punish the person who committed the act.,My usage of black didn't refer to the black market but the color of the average AR15. How do you suggest catching all of these supposed black market sales?,0
"Basically, if you're a farmer and want to plough a field after a war like this, you need to treat the whole thing as if it were a mine field, even if you can't find any evidence that it was mined. You're going to disturb every inch of the field, and just one device could kill you.","The problem with mines that that there are 'mine fields' that are known about, mapped and even marked, and then there are the ones that weren't documented or marked. Any field the Russians have occupied might have been mined.",0
"I’d be surprised if they even get that. Seeing some of the sentencing going on these days, makes it seem like murder isn’t a big deal anymore unless there is public outcry.","Also what system is in place for murderers paying restitution, I agree that would be excellent but it hasn’t happened. In the case that it does they still should serve at least ten years, they can do prison work for restitution. Anything less than ten is way too soft and you’re going to have people thinking it’s not such a bad penalty. Also cops tend to get significantly less sentences than the precedent if at all, with time served being even less than the sentence: so whatever you set keep that in mind. Do you want cops running around getting off with a few months time served on murders?",1
"And no, being treated as second-class foreigners from the Levant in Europe for centuries does not mean Ashkenazi Jews are “actually European”.","I mean, the difference there is also the Jews come from the area and are also indigenous to the land as well as the Palestinians...",1
"We face an existential threat to human civilization, and we are speeding up as we go over the cliff.",The point I was trying to make (perhaps not so well?) was: show me a dozen Democratic members of Congress - the party that I routinely vote for - that will significantly slash the Pentagon's budget.,0
"Yea. For real. As another user pointed out, the Gov. can call a special session at any time, but it's typically reserved for emergencies and used to extend the sessions in years they are already meeting.",(I have to point this out because of how fucking stupid it is these jackasses only work every other year.).,0
Only if the most extreme form is adopted - and SCOTUS has already recently rejected a case that asked to do just that.,"Now, certainly nothing stops SCOTUS from overreaching and ruling on that too, but given they rejected a similar case I'd say it's unlikely they intend to do so.",0
"Russia has shown interest in seizing these deposits so starting developing them is a way to prevent that as any attack on them will be seen for what it is nothing but theft of there oil and gas deposits, not that russia has the knowhow to develop these fields but they could stop others from doing so thus the reliance on russian oil and gas remains.","Oil is not necessary in any way it is just the will of the people to force government to install solar that is lacking due to propaganda saying it is not good enough or too expensive, yes the energy created from solar on every roof would give more electricity than all oil and gas power plants combined.",0
"I think that gradually phasing in new stoves as electric ones is a good idea. If you’re going to electrify your oven, might as well do the stove while you’re at it. Even if you are using gas fired power plants for electricity (which is by no means guaranteed especially as time passes), there would still be the thermodynamic advantages that come from combusting gas on a larger scale. A long tailpipe, but still a narrower one nonetheless, and those rounding errors will add up over time.","I lived in a deathtrap of a building with horrible ventilation, no insulation (and lath-and-plaster walls), gas space heaters (only source of heat), gas stoves, and gas ovens. I absolutely hated that oven and avoided using it as much as possible. Even then, I put fans in the windows to have a continuous supply of fresh air. Nobody else in the building seemed to be doing that, though. I shudder to think of the air the other tenants were breathing in there. Gas ovens definitely need to go.",0
Now Im not interested enough in what is potentially a bad faith argument from you to go do more research as to how many board members of Shell over the years have had links or were politicians in the VVD. But I will bet its going to be a reasonable number.,Im gonna bet the friends of the VVD have enjoyed their increased wealth from syphoning revenues from the Groeningen fields.,0
"Even so, a guarantee saying that Russia won't attack won't mean much unless a violation draws in multiple countries to defend against a Russian invasion. Better to simply assume that Russia will attack and spend 5-10 years rapidly building defenses like Finland.","Certainly, but that is not going to happen while Putin thinks he can come out ahead of where he was before the 2022 invasion and while Ukraine sees that they can liberate even regional capitals from Russian control. Since a compromise now that gives Russia ""a win"" will only ensure future turmoil and suffering, Ukraine needs to keep pushing until Russia is forced to come to the negotiating table.",0
"And for what it's worth, I'm sick of being lumped in with all the racists because I look and have an accent like them.","No, and fuck em, from a white, male, middled-aged leftist, who votes as far left as the ballot allows.",0
"""At first we were skeptical, but then it turns out we found that it's constitutional to set up permanent conservative minority rule in America! Good thing we, the conservative voting majority on the supreme court, were able to come to a balanced and reasonable solution to this case."".","This. I'm expecting something along the lines of ""the SCONC was within their rights to reject the proposed map, but overstepped their authority in redrawing the map independently of the legislature."" Which is a moot point because the map was temporary anyway.",1
"You’d have to have it on all the time, though, as the problem is that gas stoves leak gas even when not in use.",30 years ago that was a recommendation concerning gas stoves provided by our gas supplier. Provide adequate venting to the outside and use it every time you use the stove.,1
"Turns out, when the americans left, they 'found' (read, faked) almost double the oil reserves over night.",Bruh look at their demographics. China lacks vital stuff like high precision machining and Chip manufacture. They just lost access to that and the leader is driving it into the ground faster.,0
It's a backhanded comment to point out how India isn't doing shit and funding Russia's side of the war through increased oil purchases...,"Like I said, Modi started refusing it because he cares more about telling his voters that India is ""an emerging superpower"" than children starving.",0
I don’t think she’ll get the nomination but I think she’d easily win the general of the matchup was against Biden and Kamala.,"I don’t think she’ll get the nomination, but if she did there is no chance that Biden or Harris can beat her. She’d peal off women from Biden, along with a whole lot of minority votes. Harris rubs all but the hardest left voters the wrong way, I don’t think she can beat any Republican, including Trump.",1
"Yes the ""militarized swat-only police"" budget obviously need to be partly allocated to auxiliaries to descalate, medical assistance and so on. And they shouldn't be above the law (re prosecuting the obvious gang & racist murders waved with a badge, leading neonazi mobsters to join in bulk to try to dodge the law). But you still need at least some cops. Even after booting all the neonazis & corrupt elements.",The neonazis cannot be booted. American police grew out of slave catching patrols. The institution is intentionally rotten. There is nothing they solve that couldn't be better solved with fewer murderous side effects through another method.,1
"Protests can be effective as a tool of change. There are other tools in the toolbox, mind you, and the state is aware of that. Why else do you think they (the state) would attempt to quell protests using violence if there were no point to them?","The thing, the protesters having weapons probably wouldn't make this that much better since the government would just have better weapons. And those weapons do nothing without some sort of legal foundation for the protesters to grab onto.",1
"Donald Trump was not on the ballot this week for Republican leadership races in Congress, but in several key spots the proxy candidates espousing his approach to politics dealt the ex-president another losing hand.","Scott began his tenure chairing the National Republican Senatorial Committee early last year by making up an award to present to the ex-president at his Palm Beach resort, continued into this year by not intervening in GOP primaries to block Trump-like candidates and ended with Democrats retaining the majority by defeating those mini-Trump candidates.",0
"The Chinese government has also argued that Taiwan's separation from the mainland is a legacy of China's history of foreign invasion and colonization, and that reunification is necessary to restore China's national dignity and unity. In addition, China's leaders see Taiwan as a strategic and economic asset, and believe that reunifying with Taiwan would give China greater influence in the region and the world.","TSMC is an important part of Taiwan's soft power policy, but it is at best secondary in either the US or China's interests there. The Chinese hawks see the continued existence of a free Taiwan in general and the KMT in specific as the final bit of ""unfinished business"" left over from The Revolution. Which dovetails with but is still probably less important than the military truth of the situation.",1
Nope Russia are a strategic threat to the west and only partial normalisation should ever be on the table. Any material that can be used for military purposes should be barred from sale to Russia on an indeterminate basis.,All expectation is Russia will be forced to accept the reality of losing the war without anything materially changing in Russia. That doesn't allow for what happened with West Germany.,0
Even the strongest building gets destroyed though when earthquakes just hits the fact that a 6 magnitude earthquake hit my place.,"Is It true that the Richter scale is not particularly useful when it comes to measuring nearby quakes larger than magnitude than 6.0-7.0? I know the physical seismograph can only physically record about that high if you're near the epicenter of because there isn't actually room for the pen to measure higher than that. I believe most devices are digital now, but do they run into the same problem?",1
These same suburban Republicans/moderate Democrats are flipping a shit over progressives wanting to remove AP/Honors courses for classroom equity reasons. I highly doubt they’re suddenly gonna be fine with it because of “woke shit”.,Rural republicans yes but suburban republicans/swing voters won’t be too keen on Desantis’ policies that torpedo their kids’ chances at getting in to a competitive college.,0
">As an attempt to gain ""discourse power"" in international politics, wolf warrior diplomacy forms one part of a new foreign policy strategy called Xi Jinping's ""Major Country Diplomacy"" (Chinese: 大国外交; pinyin: Dàguó Wàijiāo) which has legitimized a more active role for China on the world stage, including engaging in an open ideological struggle with the Western world.","Because, insofar as this article and wikipedia, the Chinese don't seem call it that domestically, at least not officially. It's a descriptor of their ""Major Country Policy"". It's seems to be a Tongue-in-cheek expression. The guy that started with the agressive comments once called a wolf warrior which is not good.",0
"- Can the House & Senate be compared in terms of ""importance""? As in, if the Dems hypothetically had to ""choose"" one to win, is the Senate victory more important?",- Which states do the Dems need/which states look like the Dems could win and simultaneously win the Senate majority?,0
He's a dominionist and always has been. It's safe to assume pretty much every republican voting Christian feels this way. Right wing theocracies are a pretty common thing in human history.,We are on borrowed fucking time if we don't chain these tyrants down now and pull this country hard to the left. We are on the brink of becoming the next Iran. These statements are effectively our final warning.,0
"You disagree that Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, etc wouldn't love to park some nice shiny loaner nukes on their land, thereby propping up both themselves and Russia?","If Russia uses nukes, especially first, then all the currently 'neutral' countries that are pretty much there just for the cheap oil or because west bad, they'll turn against Russia. Putin using nukes benefits exactly no one, not even him.",1
"Peace is made by negotiations. Always. Warlords never start the peace talks, so simply waiting until Putin makes a peace offer or leaves is unrealistic and naive - and waiting for a military victory by Ukraine only means prolonging the killing of thousands.","Usually I would support negotiations to stop any war, but security guarantees aren't going to stop Putin's Russia from trying to ethnically cleanse Ukrainians in Ukraine.",1
"And will talk about publicly. If there were some that the perpetrators don’t know that MI5 are aware of, they wouldn’t necessarily confirm they knew about it.","I'm fairly confident that if you thought of that, MI5 have also thought of that and made a calculated announcement for reasons they'll likely not reveal. Not saying you're not a smart person, but I think MI5 got this covered and know a thing or two about this kinda stuff.",1
It isn't a false equivalence. The USA and UK invaded a sovereign nation over what we knew even then was almost certainly not factual. The fact that one nation is democratic and one was authoritarian is irrelevant as the claim I replied to was regarding the invasion of a sovereign nation.,You might not like the idea that those nations invaded Iraq over what they knew were lies but that does not change the truth.,0
more likely Russia is looking at a civil war between 4 players who ever is controlling the Military who ever is the 1 & 2 richest and what ever merc grope is left.,They never said it was a Missile Defense System more likely its a radar tower Putin probably scared out of his mind that CIA or some other group will come in the night.,0
"This quote from Cheney's spokesperson leads me to believe that this isn't an instance of them trying to streamline the report or whatever else, but is instead Cheney attempting to not make certain groups look bad.","Hmmm… you mean Cheney, an Anti-Trump GOPer, might be trying to avoid investigating things that would make the non-Trump members of her party and their supporters look bad?",1
"edit: I will say in the spirit of fairness, disapproving of him doesn't mean that these people disapprove enough to vote for a Democrat or stay home and not vote.","It's good people like yourself make the choice to change, but they need to stop pretending that somehow the Republican party of 2012 is any different from the Republican party of 2022. The only difference is how outwardly vocal the party is now. Still though you can't just say I voted Republican then and now I don't just to justify your poor thinking and decision making of the past by saying,""well back then the party wasn't like it is now"". Frankly, yes it was, and if the Republican party wasn't universally hated now because of how outwardly disgusting they are, you would essentially vote for them.",1
"I’ve got no real issue with 16-17 year olds hunting by themselves. Sometimes, in rural places, it’s a necessary food source and parents have jobs. A 14-15 year old with an a ar15 is a whole different thing. Unfortunately there isn’t really a legal distinction between the two. That is the dumb part.","This article makes is seem as though police officers would be powerless to do anything about a child openly carrying a rifle. Would it not still fall within the scope of reasonable suspicion for any officer to stop and question a child with a rifle? At the very least it is reasonable to suspect that one of two things could be amiss. Either a crime has just been committed in the area, or the rifle is stolen, since children can’t buy rifles. It would be perfectly reasonable then for the police officer to call the child’s parents. If any person is going to walk around with a rifle they should be prepared to answer a few questions if stopped by the police. Including, who are you? Where are you coming from? Where are you going? And why do you have a rifle?",0
That's funny because it's the same argument that nefarious actors made for these regions of Ukraine that Russia invaded in 2014 or has been encroaching on and pumping propaganda into for years.,"So I see stuff about Ukraine doing some fucked up shit coming out of the Russian camp, and have no real way to combat it since every other source I see is so blatantly pro-Ukraine that I can't call it ""Unbiased"".",1
"I only had to hang outside corner stores trying to convince adults to buy smokes for me for about 5 or 6 years before I turned 18. I have a hunch that public sentiment has shifted enough by now that it's even more difficult to convince someone these days. If I had to do that every time I wanted to buy a pack, for literally the rest of my life, I probably would've quit by now.","For what it's worth, I'm a 40yo, 25+ year heavy smoker (weed and cigarettes) who's lived my whole life in CA. I've been at 2+ packs and about an 1/8-1/4 oz per-day consistently for more than 15 years. When I saw New Zealand pioneering this idea I thought it was fucking brilliant.",0
"There's a reason Egypt and Jordan refused the lands Israel offered, and it isn't because the Palestinians are a pleasant people.","Israel occupying Palestine is not, in of itself, justification for what HAMAS is doing. Especially when you consider why Israel is occupying them. Hence why this is not a black and white conflict, but very gray.",1
"At an airshow I was at many years ago, regular old joes had 30+ cars go up in flames because one flamed out and caught the others parked nearby.",rental lot returns are parked very VERY close. This was a problem in southwest florida international's car fire that caught from car to car consuming thousands of cars a few years back.,0
"That is not evidence of intent to commit a crime. That is intent to vote. If she intended to commit a crime, such as with these other assholes, that would be worthy of punishment.","What these examples actually show is that when would-be criminals try to cheat, the existing system is strong enough to catch and prosecute them. This doesn’t prove the need for new voter-suppression laws; it helps prove the opposite.",1
"Also, remember the majority of younger voters refuse to vote. They understand politics like the boomers understand tech...but the boomers at least get something for their ignorance....re-elected.","Boomers show up, and vote for their ideologies, and people their age. Change needs to come from the younger generation. it doesn't happen magically. Only 27% of voters 18-29 showed up. That's 73% that didn't. If you want to point fingers, start with the 18-29 year olds that refuse to vote. The younger voters could push these dinosaurs out of office. They don't. twitter burns, and complaining aren't action.",0
"We'll have to wait until the investigation is complete to determine whether the documents were misplaced due to stupidity on Biden's part. Typically Presidents and VPs do not do their own document preparation and disposal, they trust that their staff is trained to follow proper protocols. It's highly unlikely that Biden's intelligence factors into the document mishandling in any way.","Claiming that Biden is unaware of classified documents at his home is either extremely naive or extremely concerning. If Biden is, in fact, unaware that he has classified documents at his home as that user is claiming, yes, indeed that is factually a terrifying prospect and worse than what Donald Trump is accused of doing. Donald Trump is accused of being cavalier with classified documents of which he was aware. Being unaware you are in possession of classified documents is much more worrisome because it invites the possibility you don’t know where some of those records may be, or in whose possession. This is not debatable and to suggest the possibility is ridiculous as you are is asinine.",1
Cant wait to see the crybabies on Russia TV say its unfair when Ukrainians start to fly the 1000km+ Drones all over Russia to take out energy infrastructure and military equipment.,"Wait i heard Ukraine had over hundred S-300 systems at the start of the war (and didn't lost significant amount either), does Russia really has less than UA?",1
"yeah, I was just reading up on it. Apparently the accepted term is ""sore loser laws"" and most states have some flavor of them at this point with variations. With that in mind, he might have to settle for trying to tear down the winning candidate as much as possible. He's got enough die hards remaining to cause a bit of a GOP civil war. Though I will say that these last few months, and especially after the midterms, I find myself wondering if his influence is just going to continue to evaporate. This poll certainly adds weight to that side of the scale.","I think that a 2024 campaign would be a sad desaturated echo of his 2016 showing, but I can almost guarantee he's going to try even if just to try to fend off being charged for everything that's currently brewing. Right now he no longer has the power of the executive branch to shield himself, and until now he's been able to count on the Republican establishment to a degree, but it seems that's going away. His options are narrowing and the only way they widen again is to revive his political career and get some power back.",0
"What terrifies me at that point is the prospect for state government endorsed violence against communities that typically vote Democrat. When the state isn't accountable to a group, they tend to brutalize them with impunity.","And they'll have the legal mechanism to do it once Moore v. Harper is ruled on, and ISL theory becomes law of the land.",0
India is the 3rd largest renewable energy producer. Also check how many nuclear reactors are being built. Some nations just talk. India is walking the talk.,India should look in a mirror when speaking. Let them take the lead and show the world how its done.,1
"It's the internet, usually lowest common denominator gets upvoted fast. Repeating a joke means there's not even an attempt at trying to be funny or clever because you are guaranteed ""success"" and people crave attention.","There's literally no point in trying to argue against it and, honestly, arguing against it can be as nonsensical as the thing you are complaining about.",0
The Netherlands shouldn't (and wouldn't) wait for Russia to get to the Dutch border before joining the fight. As part of NATO we have a responsibility to our allies to defend their borders if it comes to it. And an effective defense would require tanks.,"That's fair. But during the cold war the Netherlands fielded around a thousand tanks. Of course cold war tanks and modern tanks are a different beast, but it still seems like we should have sufficient scale to field an efficient tank force.",0
Your point here contradicts your assertion that you have to see Lulas plans in order for him to accomplish his goals...,"Lula wasn't perfect in his first two mandates. Regarding environment, deforestation was low but it still happened so they had every right to complain. Now we are in different times, not only Bolsonaro was way worse, but also Lula is showing to be even more open to address environmental issues.",1
True except conservatives believe blocking a road in protest forfeits your right to life. Considering their opinions on guns I doubt age would stop them.,"In highschool I participated in a 15 min walk out/ moment of silence for a school shooting that happened near me not only did the principal tell us we were all suspended, many students, teachers and administrators told us we were wasting our time. One kid even said he would kill us all if his guns got taken away.",0
"Doesn't matter if it's true or not, it is a failure of the system either way. It just changes which part of the system we blame. Either the Prosecutor was incompetent, the police were negligent or the grandfather conspired to cover it all up.","The one thing that changes is that if the grandfather conspired to cover it up, he should be sharing a cell with his piece of shit grandson.",0
That guy bought an induction cook top worth almost 20k. You're not comparing apples to apples. a 1k gas cook top is way more affordable than an induction that can achieve similar results.,Regarding control the Chefs say otherwise and love how efficient it is because it heats much faster than gas. I'm not here to debate though. Your opinion differs from the vast majority of the ones I have heard coming from chefs.,1
"Biden was always going to run for a second term, and as far as I know he has never said otherwise. The most he's done is not publicly commit. I personally think this was a strategy to manage an overheated media.","From what I can see, Biden's already either a) shown he gets more votes than those candidates by defeating them in the 2020 primary, or b) they have already said they're not running in 2024.",0
Mr. Shakir forgets that Biden's win in SC primary was reflected in Biden's win in GA which ended up giving the Presidency and the Senate to Democrats.,"The flaw that dooms Mr. Shakirs's complaint is we are talking about a subset of voters in SC, Democratic voters, 23% of voters in SC and that subset is 60% Black voters.",0
"Thank you. The efficacy of the previous President's disposition is currently being discussed and deliberated in Congress. Any actions the President took, that were not explicitly forbidden by Congress are legal acts, due to the unorthodox nature of the job of President.","There shouldn't be a limitation on age after the minimum age requirement is met. There is a clear chain of succession as to who gets to be President if the President dies in office. The President should receive frequent checkups by military physicians in regards to competency, and health. That should be enough to trust the President is sound enough to do their job.",0
"I read a book, sorry can't remember the name of it, were rebels tried to fight a global nation/corporation amalgam and their last holdouts were in some kind of jungle. The Nation/Corp. had huge, slow but mobile fortesses with Sci-Fi lasers that basically burned a few miles of the jungle every time they fired and adwanced to surround the remaining jungle, while buring it down at the same time.",They were described as only a little larger than a humming bird but would attack in the hundreds on one target and if they found a large group of targets were able to call for more drones.,0
"no offense but I would trust WHO over some Indian pharma companies…the Indian officials are equally likely to protecting their financial interests by denying the claims…interesting they don’t say none of the compounds were found in the medicine, they just say the medicines complied with specifications….",The firm producing the syrup is not really very important to indian Pharma industry but WHO itself contradicts in its own report that all medicines have complied with safety limits of WHO. While i hate the fact this conversation includes the death of kids but WHO needs to clarify how has it put the blame on medicine. Indian officials in health ministry are asking WHO to submit investigation report which WHO is not doing.,1
"Jeffries is a supporter of M4A which the progressives never ""force the vote"" on because it would get crushed and set them back a decade, but sure the progressive caucus guy who got every vote from the squad only got it because there's obviously a difference between debating policy and the speaker vote.","Jeffries got every Dem vote in every round of voting, so what “major inroads” does he need to make with progressives when even the squad fell in line?",0
The laptop was gave to ghoulini. Who Is currently being sued for billions of dollars in connection to his other lies around the election. On top of the criminal investigation of his involvement with the fake electors fraud and his fraud guaranteed company and his American first campaign finance crimes with lev parnes.,"Pretty much wasting everyone’s time and money, just so republicans have another fake controversy to get worked up for. Pretty much anyone pushing this bullshit all is a pretty terrible person.",0
Particularly 2018 Florida (sooo close) and 2020 Maine (wtf Susan Collins??). Those should have been Dem wins.,I do wish we could’ve gotten rid of the filibuster for voting rights & tbh rebalancing the Supreme Court because of stolen seats. But we needed to win more seats in order to pull that off.,0
What is modern day Tamil Nadu and Kerala was never part of the Mughal empire - either as territory or as vassals. They were only conquered twice by outside forces in their history - by Malik Kafur in the 13th century and by the British.,Extremely ignorant comment. The Mughals were not even the first muslim empire. Northern India and present day Pakistan were under muslim rule for over 300 years before Babur.,0
What do you think NATO would've done if it indeed was the case that Russia launched missiles that hit Poland? Do you think NATO would just start dropping nukes?,"That doesn't make sense, so Polish and Ukrainian governments would be in on it? Why wouldn't it be easier then just to say Russia hit Poland with their missiles but they're not going to escalate the situation further?",0
"For the record, although I'm optimistic this will happen, and it absolutely would in a perfect world, we don't live in a perfect world. Unless you're Reagan in 1984, no race is boring enough to be worth ignoring or slacking off on. (That is how we got President Trump!).","But things change. We've seen the midterms -- and that taking Biden's approval ratings into account. Trumpism and extreme election denialism are simply that unpalatable, perhaps independent of any other policy.",0
"It worked when you could take a proven, loyal Republican politician, have them (almost certainly him) act like the biggest piece of shit in the room to galvanize the worst of their electorate and then play the standard republican playbook in a general election.","That no longer works -- because now those Loyalist operators are losing their primaries to genuinely crazy scumbags who are genuinely the worst people in the room. These people then refuse to read off the Republican script in the general - and while they delight the scummiest portions of the Republican electorate, they fail to perform in a general election.",0
"Christmas is just a stolen pagan holiday, which is why it's in December and has nothing to do with Jesus' birth. A lot of people will say that they made a Jesus version of the pagan party to be more inclusive, but the opposite is true. The Church (as an arm of political power) was pressured into a December 25th celebration because people were abandoning the church as it was forbidden to celebrate the pagan holiday even though it was so popular.",My understanding is that using December 25 was Christian’s appropriating a pagan celebration (I wanna say winter solstice) to make it more enticing for pagans to join in.,1
"Rather, you should try to think about what your enemies could do - could China launch an invasion of Taiwan even though they are not by any means prepared? They sure could.",They just about can. They've made a priority of increasing production of staple crops in recent years. On The Economist's they rank 25th in the world (the United States is 13th). Russia would be more than happy to help make up any potential shortfall.,1
"The Iron Dome currently protects a tiny country against primitive rockets. Creating a system that can protect a country as big as Ukraine from modern, sophisticated missiles and drones is a much more difficult and expensive task.","They can continue the civilian targeting with drones and cruise missiles as long as they can maintain the stock, but that's not going to win them the war and its not going to bring down Ukraine.",1
"If you're thinking this is a gotcha, liberals don't tend to view political parties like football teams, and are generally quite comfortable with a realistic view of individual politicians and the democratic party as a whole. No one is claiming democrats are perfect - just that republican leadership is a steaming pile of bigoted, self-serving dogshit.","Edit: seems I'm getting down voted, likely by republicans who don't like criticism of republicans. However, this comment goes for both Democrats and Republicans who would vote for ""their"" party regardless of how bad it is.",1
Lol. Qatar spent billions on this so they could become more visible on the world stage and I went from knowing very little about Qatar to hating it with every fiber of my being.,"Difference here is that Qatar has deep pockets and fifa is more than willing to whore out the sport, its fans and what minimal amount of integrity fifa had left for that money.",1
Well do I have news for your! You don't have to wait for the election cycle since I've already seen it in this thread and others on this sub.,"Primaries are important, but when it comes to ""The guy who tried a fucking coup"" and ""the guy that's milquetoast centrist skewing slightly right, I'm voting against the coup people.",0
"That's still the same, they do stop them sometimes. Maybe people just need to stop shooting places up and then people not even from the US wouldn't want to change rights that don't affect them?","Not trying to say guns should be allowed, just pointing out an incompetent, racist, ultraviolent police isn't exclusive to the US.",1
"If they want to filibuster that’s fine, make them stand there and read Dr. Seuss and actually be in any way accountable. It’s absurd that they just decided to completely break the Senate because they were lazy, and now they stick to it because “if we eliminate the filibuster rule it’ll come back to bite us when the GOP is in the majority.”.","Get rid of the filibuster, gerrymandering, and make voter suppression of ""eligible voters"" a mandatory 5 year penalty and Republicans will never win another election. Their edge is manipulation of the vote after manipulation of their stupid ass followers.",1
The real issue is gas stoves and ovens that need to be cleaned and homes with bad ventilation. Usually older homes. Your kitchen hood over your stove should be on venting to the outside.,"Gas stoves are everywhere, the older an area the more common they are. The last apartments I've had in Boston were gas, I think one unit maybe doesn't? They've often been a selling point for people who like to cook as heat control can be a lot better than the older electrics, tossing a wok on the electrics isn't easy and you don't have to worry about whether your own will work. The ovens often get hotter, with the downside that they have to vent so heat up the kitchen much more.",1
"The problem with these people is they ignore the very real threat they put into office. Like, for example the last orange clown that would have gladly been a dictator if he could have and the very real threat that this next guy, Desantis, probably wants to make this a theocracy based on everything he does and says at least.","I just don't have confidence that Biden can beat Desantis. I hope he does, that would be great for a GOP rising star to be ousted by great grandpa, but I worry the surface level narrative of ""He's too old..."" will hurt Biden unless he's going up against another old person, like Trump.",0
"I mean, they likely are, it's just not public. But now that they public is aware of it, private citizens are tracking.","There's probably little risk because most major assets aren't visible openly, and those that are can be seen on any number of sources anyway.",0
"And then what? Pilots quit, and/or wildcat strike anyway, and the airlines do what? Make the C-suite execs try and fly the planes? You can't effectively scab the entirety of high-skill and high-experience jobs like ""large passenger plane pilot."".","Yeah. When I worked in Holland for a while, I was floored with how much EU residents get. Even the lowly service and retail workers. I sent some guy home one day because he was being an ass, and my boss asked why. I told him, and he said, ""No, don't do that, he still gets paid, even if he's not here."" Top that with sick pay and vacation pay, and somehow, things still run fine and I guess it's profitable since companies stay in business.",1
"I guess that's the difference between us? I'm not cool if we do it, but you're cool if you all do it? You're cool with electing people to subvert the will of the people?","I'm talking about the last election where Kemp was Secretary of State. Abrams conceded this race, I don't doubt it. But if you have to be on the side that can only win by gerrymandering and voter suppression, you don't get to be on the high horse.",0
"Or not? Like, rockets are huge on the launchpad because you need a large amount of thrust to punch through the atmosphere. Then by the time the payload's in orbit it's tiny. Maybe the first time an alien sends a probe or other vessel this way they aren't thinking it should be wrapped in megatons of armour just in case of missile attack.","It also helps to get people to stop thinking that every weird sensor reading is an alien spaceship, since literally none of them have ever been alien spaceships.",1
"""Codifying Roe"" directly says: nuh-uh, the feds can swoop in and be in charge of that stuff, actually.","That is the type of law that directly ""codifying"" Roe would be. That is the federalism problem it presents.",0
Ah not quite sadly. Their frigates and subs are actually solid. Russia never really invested money into aircraft carriers like the US did. Different strokes for different folks.,Yeah but that is also the point of MAD. Realistically the only navy with aircraft carriers Russia would ever face off against is a NATO country and realistically any war in Europe would be land based. Russias military was not designed for naval force projection in conventional warfare on the seas or in a bid to launch carrier operations making strikes on the US mainland.,0
"Literally had to pause the video to laugh out loud for a few minutes when he said ""...like dinner with me - I dunno if that's an amazing prize but it's what we've have."".",They. Arent. Even. NFT's. The site explicitly says there is no limit to how many will be sold and they are for entertainment and not investing. They are literally nothing. You're paying Trump for the privilege of paying Trump. That is it.,1
"In other words, livestock and poultry are great at making it easier for viruses to spread amongst humans. As to why this is, one author explains:","It is likely that animal agriculture enabled the 1957 Asian Flu, 1968 Hong Kong Flu, bird flu, and the 2009 swine flu. Of these, bird flu is the cause for most concern. In past outbreaks, the case-fatality (CF) rate in humans was 60 percent, although one study suggests that if it became a larger pandemic, it would have a median CF rate of approximately 23.5 percent. It is thought that the 1918 Spanish Flu may have infected one-third of the global population and had a CF rate of 2.5 percent. If bird flu were to mutate in such a way that it was anywhere near as contagious as Spanish Flu, with a CF rate almost 10 times higher than Spanish Flu, the results would be apocalyptic. As two authors wrote in a WHO publication:",0
It's not quite as stupid as that but then it becomes much more stupid than that. The reason they're asking for money now is because they're ending their free streaming which DirecTV says invalidates any claims that it's DirecTV that's reducing accessability to Newsmax content.,"Right now, DirectTV pays $0 to Newsmax, but DirectTV also does not require any advertising time and lets Newsmax offer its streaming services as well.",1
"A lot of people think genocide requires mass murder, which is why I use the Lamkin quote. Genocide is the death of a culture of people, either through mass murder or serious injury, infantacide or sterilisation, removal of children or through deliberate hardship or difficult living conditions.",Just making the VERY obvious point that children dying of diseases (that were killing children of all races) is different than concentration camp style mass genocidal graves.,1
"That ignores the difficulty of building the wall in the first place. In order to get construction equipment and materials to the spots where the wall is being constructed, roads (even if temporary) need to be built. These roads, and even some of the property that the wall will be built on will need to have land seized from private owners by the Government. Much of the terrain is also very rough with mountains, canyons, etc., in the patch of construction.",There are plenty of reasons to oppose a massive border wall even if you are in favor of stricter border and immigration enforcement.,0
"It was extremely effective in 2012 (based on the 2010 Census and the gerrymandering done from that), and got republicans a 33 seat lead even though democrats received 1 million more votes overall than republicans did.","Reminder: gerrymandering is a fundamental Republican platform, called Project Redmap, where Republican Party paid 30 million dollar to gerrymander in 2010 to elect republicans no matter what the vote was.",1
"Those were accepted because they were beneficial for the U.S. indeed when they tried to keep their Emperor in their first attempts to surrender those pleas were rejected. Surrender happened first, then the U.S. decided what Japan could have. Many documents were seized as a result of Japan losing. They weren't really a token Japan could throw in for favorable terms.",Edit: if you want to downvote can you at least try to prove me wrong? I don't care about votes but my counter was objective fact.,0
"Like I said, Modi started refusing it because he cares more about telling his voters that India is ""an emerging superpower"" than children starving.",What's really fucked up is Modi started rejecting it out of principle despite almost half the children in India not having food security.,0
Maybe this is a hot take but I think we should probably stop genocidal action before the killings start.,"Would you hold this same opinion in Germany in 1933, before the camps opened? The nazis didn't go from zero to gas chambers in one day, they started by fomenting a climate of hate toward Jewish people and depersoned them publicly. The fucking Texas governor asked for a list. We are not far off from pink triangles. If a Jewish person back then told you ""hey things are getting spicy 'round here"" would you tell them they're overreacting?",0
Russian is known to assassinate guys like him in foreign countries. Being the first guy to produce evidence of war crimes is a brave thing to do seeing as no one else is doing it.,Umm he has evidence of war crimes and is clearly willing to testify. That’s very useful information .,0
My understanding is they are asserting some ballots weren’t tallied properly because of machine errors? And instead of correcting the error poll workers placed the ‘uncounted’ ballots in with ballots that were already counted properly?,"There's an allegation by the GOP that in at least two instances, ballots in these secured holding bins were ""co-mingled"" with already electronically tabulated ballots. Maricopa County seems to acknowledge that this happened, but states that they have a procedure for un-mingling these ballots accurately.",1
"Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but Tesla is not important in the evolution of EVs. At least not anymore - they used to be, but the market has caught up to them and overtaken them, which is why the Tesla stuck is down to 50% what it was at the start of the year. And it is still overvalued. Now they just make sub-par hugely overpriced cars in a market where many other manufacturers make way better EVs for cheaper. The only aspect where Tesla is in front is charging network, but even that is changing. Most major markets for Tesla either already regulate that their chargers need to be able to be used by all EVs not just Teslas, or such regulation is coming.",Tesla's in European markets use the standard J1772 plug because that was the standard when Tesla arrived in Europe.,1
"A year? This has been going on for at least a decade. The West has a weird fetish with claiming Putin has dementia/Parkinson's/Cancer, etc.","They did not claim Putin was in perfect health, every comment they made focused on claims that were speculating on severe illnesses like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's etc.",1
No but some cities have been trying to ban gas stoves for new housing developments. Franky I think its pretty ridiculous and I think people should be able to buy whatever appliances they want for their house.,"100 years from now, people are gonna look back at us as insane for building these huge gas networks for our home kitchens.",1
"This was around the time the ""tea party"" started happening (even if a lot of that was astroturfed by right wing Libertarian billionaires). This was the point that the rubes basically started seizing power from the GOPers and electing their own guys into office, who not only spouted the bullshit propaganda lies like the GOPers did, they actually believed this shit.","With the way the GOP media ecosystem operates and the fact their base seems drawn to unrepentant liars, assholes, and idiots, I'm half expecting this whole fiasco to turn into this guy becoming their next ""shining star"".",1
"Railroad workers are still on call even when they go home, unless they use PTO. They can't schedule a doctor's visit when their employer might suddenly call them into work. They can't do much of anything at all.","They can't do that, because they aren't. Republicans are the party of rich white men, Democrats are the party of rich people of any skin colour and gender.",1
"Yes, because Russia is afraid of NATO attacking it right now... NATO won't even let Ukraine launch missiles over the Russian border in fear of retaliation, but they're going to launch a full scale invasion of Russia once they see that Russia is running low on cruise missiles.","If we accept that Russia was able to invade Ukraine because Ukraine does not have nukes, wouldn’t Russia want to avoid any possible scenario where that logic could be used against them? Between that and the fact that international inspections occur, I’d assume that Russia is not even touching what they’ve allocated for nukes, even just as a way of maintaining an exit strategy for the war.",1
"Yea. I know they will try to move many body's just beyond the trail as to not demoralize climbers, but those are more recent bodies, but that's as far as they're going.","Some dead mountaineers got pushed off cliffs to get rid of them, others were kept where they are because it was impossible to get them out of the ground.",1
"Yeah, while one time debt cancellation is a nice thing, it's really a band aid that doesn't address the root problem, which is the interest being insurmountable. Plus the debt cancellation is a political lightning rod.","In the plan that the administration laid out, interest wouldn't accrue if a person was faithful in payments--but this only applied to income based repayment plans. I personally think they should just extend this to all federal loans, even if someone isn't on an IBR plan.",0
"They are making so much from the gas price increases and the need for Europe to replace Russian gas, the Norwegian government has said that they want as much of that profit to go back to ukraine as possible as to not be considered war profiteering.",Whatever Norwegian grants that go to Ukraine will not have to be paid back but they might come with demands of anti-corruption work or pro-democratic goals being met but the situation is very different for Norway right now because of how much money is coming in from gas as a direct result of this war.,1
"Now, if you wanna blame people like Manchin and Sinema and the GOP for gumming up Congress to such an extent that corporations go effectively unregulated, I’m with you. But there’s no direct line between Biden’s actions and this specific disaster.","The point I was making is that if Biden had just clearly stated the issue to the public, repeatedly. Showed up in Ohio, and viscerally tore down the governor for not declaring a state of emergency so that he could render aid...Then Republicans would have been completely castrated.",1
"But knowing the leadership in the Pak military, it is the country MOST LIKELY to use it's nukes out of all the countries that have nukes.","They don't have ICBMs; so yeah in retaliation they might nuke some other country, but can't nuke mainland US.",0
"So you know nothing about the start of this conflict? Pity. I’ve already stated that that I’m against settlements excepting East Jerusalem, and at that only to a point. Beyond that I’ll stand next to you and criticize Israel and often have, but the claim that Jews showed up and stole land is false.","So you cannot legitimately state that Israel didn't steal land. They did, and still do to an extent.",1
">“A 2021 study found the ice shelf could shatter within the next five years, and last year scientists said the Thwaites Glacier is hanging on ""by its fingernails"" as the planet warms, with the potential for rapid retreat in the coming years”.","“While it could take hundreds or thousands of years, the ice shelf could disintegrate much sooner, triggering a retreat of the glacier which is both unstable and potentially irreversible.”.",1
"30-50% less meat seems like a small price to pay to me, even as someone who eats meat. We’re not asking to cut out all meat just some. Not bad. I can do that.","I get that. However, if our existing vaccines can be updated to fight this, and an outbreak is likely, I would bet Big Pharma is already working on, or at least has a plan to make, a targeted version.",1
"Edit: Just wanted to add one of Ryder's comments, related to the so-called ""cease-fire"": ""Russia is good at exporting violence; they are not good at exporting truth."".","This is it. This is him throwing everything he’s got at it. There is no ‘total war’, there is no ‘full mobilization’, that will magically conjure more weapons deliveries, more logistical capability, more firepower. If he could produce more weapons? He would have been doing it already. This is all there is, there ain’t no more.",1
"It doesn't quite work that way though, because doing so requires you to ignore the law re immunities. If you have laws that say ""x is illegal except that in ABC circumstances, there shall be no liability for x,"" then it's not ignoring the law to apply to the carveout. That's just following the law.",What kind of law are we upholding though? Sometimes this faux neutral stance itself is a bad one- should the children of monarchs really be given a free pass to have people they dislike chopped up?,1
Going to be kind of hard justifying an escalation when they are the ones caught red handed with a spy balloon (assuming it is a spy ballon).,"Not to mention, if it was just an innocent weather balloon gone astray, wouldn't a simple heads up be prudent?",1
The real core issue is Xi. He reversed China's previous direction which both makes them a less valuable partner to the west and threatens their economic rise.,"Modern China would not be possible without the participation of the US, and the US is withdrawing its support. It's only a matter of time before all their accumulated problems drag them down. All the US has to do is go home.",1
"Having said all this. Maybe there was some assholes running this course that ignored all the rules and just wanted to see some guy jerk it onto a book. I dont know, I wasn't there .","They tailor the experience to the individual. If he was a God botherer, then getting him to simulate a wank over a bible seems par for the course. Remember, the difference between a simulated sex act and an actual sex act is crucial.",0
"A smaller group of latinos find the effort to change the word at all offensive, though. Based on the quote from the sponsor of this bill, it seems he would fall into that camp. Some people see this effort as the product of white people and third-generation latinos who primarily speak English to change their language from the outside, and consider the effort an attack on their own language and culture.","Finally consider this, your point ""white English speakers trying to change Spanish grammar when the English word, Latin Americannis naturally gender neutral"" is very similar to what these Dems are trying to do.",1
"Remember that this whole thing started when Mahsa Amini was killed, and it is reported that Mahsa was not interested in politics and didn't really care to go against the regime. Yet they killed her because the morality police had a bad day that day.",I am not denying the fact that the Islamic Republic oppresses Kurds. I am not even denying that the Islamic Republic oppresses Kurds more than other ethnicities (maybe other than the Baloch). I am merely pointing out that the overwhelmingly vast majority of Iranians are being tyrranized by the Islamic Republic.,0
"At Twitter, there is no management layer steering the ship, it's just him, and so far he's a disaster. The only way to make his management look competent is to claim he's purposely trying to tank the company. I think the simplest explanation, that he's out of his depth, is the most likely.","Elon Musk is a chode. When he was still fighting to get put of buying Twitter, his main angle of attack was that Twitter was flooded with bots, more than was disclosed.",0
"That is very possible tbh. Behind the scenes maybe China is like ""hey we're gonna keep pretending we are threatening you, but no worries, its politics"".","you're reading that hella wrong, unless you're suggesting nobody should interfere and let China/Taiwan sort it out cuz that's what it sounds like you're suggesting.",1
"Nobody likes what's happening, but his promise in the elections was to reestablish our foreign relations and telling Russia to go fuck themselves wouldn't help that much, especially now that Bolsonaro shut down our fertilizer factories (made by Lula and Dilma over 10 years ago) and we became heavily reliant of Russia once again.","Brazil was inserted into the new world order with the BRICs, but he has his place in the old one. Not saying it's righteous, but it's how the country aligns its Foreign Affairs - by not telling others how to do things but understanding and trying to counsel within its interests like any other country as well as the US and Europe which are the current holders of the status quo and have all the interest in Ukraine.",0
"While I agree some of the issues will still be there, abortion is still something that the majority of Americans want to be available. That won't go away in 2 years and Gen Z is now a BIG factor. Take into account that boomers are dying and the younger generations are heavily leaning to the left, the onus is going to be on the republicans to come up with something more creative to act offended toward. The republicans are becoming more and more unpalatable to the increasing majority of Americans. People tend to react very strongly to having their rights taken away from them and their kids. Gen Z seems to be thinking long term and has dug in on voting for their rights instead of cultural issues used to distract at the very most.","The right is getting more and more desperate. Americans don't want to be ruled by authoritarians, christians, old white men who are out of touch or anyone who is as extreme as any MAGA candidate. It's encouraging to know that the GQP is being crushed and rejected by most facets of society. The majority isn't buying what the republicans are selling. So, either the republicans change their ways or they'll be extinct in the next few election cycles.",0
"Even if Air India was buying anything like an Embraer jet, if simply makes better economical sense to bulk order (of all jet sizes) from one manufacturer for better prices, maintenance and support advantages.","Yes the Max's have crashed (the Airbus not so much) but with improved technology and the minimal increased costs to operate a larger aircraft, it makes sense for most folks to take on the extra seats due to the increased revenue.",1
"You can spy on other countries with balloons, you can't do so in such an overt way to the population of that country. You can use balloons to spy, but you can't send fucking 50 floating around at the same time.","None of which is to say that I believe that it's a weather balloon. Just that you should always assume the party leadership of the PRC is always lying, no matter what they say.",1
"Yes, I mean it’s practically unknowable. On top of that, atheism as we think of it today is a relatively new concept. Sure, the nominally atheistic despots of our age may have pretty high body counts, but how does that compare to the multitude of instances throughout time of someone killing someone else because they don’t believe in the right god?","edit: I lied, I did cherry pick a bit, there were more in the middle ages that I skipped over, I'd never heard of them, and figured their small death counts weren't going to move the needle much against the backdrop of ""atheist despots have killed more humans over time"", and around >30M net-on-net deaths in my table above.",1
"Hitler could focus German economy and industry towards building a bigger army than any german president would be able to find public support for. At the start of the war Germany had relative good generals and well trained soldiers, but this is not because of Hitler or the nazis. The german generals that fought and wins the first part of the war were not trained by nazi Germany. They were not promoted during nazi Germany. They had been trained and promoted during the German Empire and the following Weimar Republic. They were good, not because Nazi Germany had made them, but because Nazi Germany had not destroyed them yet.","Had Hitler wait 10-20 years with starting WWII, then most of them would properly had lost their jobs or been killed for not being loyal enough and the army would have been much worse than it was in 1939. Because autocracies destroyes the good institutions they inheriates from democracies.",0
"Also, mankind has proven time and again that it doesn't need religion to dominate the ""other"" brutalize torture rape and create unspeakable horrors towards each other. If you look for something that needs to change it isn't the instrument but rather the condition of humans. . This is what (true) religion/s attempt to do yet typically, being a man made system/ideal it is ultimately bound to be corrupted and fail…as religions generally have.","a religion is not humanity it is a way to control people, the people being brainwashed and controlled by them are humanity, and the people would be far far better off without the religions.",1
Shooting down 1000 dollar balloons with half a million dollar missiles could bankrupt the US in like a year if the US decided to continue this course. The reality is its just not cost effective to do this and that high up its unlikely the weight restrictions on balloons would make it more effective than satellites.,satellites balloons and planes are dependent on gravity. Without the earth's gravity the atmosphere would be pulled into the sun.,1
That's policy. Now COVID complications and federal prison camps (especially camps with drug programs) being full complicate placement. That fictitious prisoner could be placed into a low security prison until an opening becomes available.,Part of the reason most white collar criminals are placed into low security prisons is because those prisons are CHEAPER per inmate.,1
When this offensive is repulsed Ukraine has the perfect opportunity for a large scale counter-attack because Russia will be spent for a while afterwards.,I remember when Ukrainians had successful counter attacks in Severodonetsk- but Russians just pulled back and shelled the area again. Counters on the flanks seem more promising. But let's hope Ukrainians don't have losses while doing these. Attacking is generally more dangerous.,1
"""Threatening the government officials of the United States is a felony under federal law. Threatening the president of the United States is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 871, punishable by up to 5 years of imprisonment, that is investigated by the United States Secret Service.[1] Threatening other officials is a Class D or C felony, usually carrying maximum penalties of 5 or 10 years under 18 U.S.C. § 875, 18 U.S.C. § 876 and other statutes, that is investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When national boundaries are transcended by such a threat, it is considered a terrorist threat.[2].","When a threat is made against a judge, it can be considered obstruction of justice.[3] Threatening federal officials' family members is also a federal crime; in enacting the law, the Committee on the Judiciary stated that ""Clearly it is a proper Federal function to respond to terrorists and other criminals who seek to influence the making of Federal policies and interfere with the administration of justice by attacking close relatives of those entrusted with these tasks.""[4]"".",0
"It's crazy to me how on the other end of the country and political spectrum, we have school districts getting rid of AP classes in the name of equity:",These same suburban Republicans/moderate Democrats are flipping a shit over progressives wanting to remove AP/Honors courses for classroom equity reasons. I highly doubt they’re suddenly gonna be fine with it because of “woke shit”.,1
The irony is great. I am curious why the dems haven't reached out to the more reasonable republicans to nominate one of them. The chance to stop the MAGA and crazy legislative slate is pretty much there for the taking.,"EDIT\ there are far too many comments to respond to so I will post my one thought about it here. They don't need to nominate an active house member. They can nominate Liz Cheney, they can nominate Bill Gates, they could nominate anyone that they can get 6 republicans to agree on. There may be a few dems that would never nominate a republican but I think there is someone out there that the democrats can partner with 6+ GOP members on to get put in. It would show good faith from dems to vote with some GOP members and it would totally stop the waste of a legislative session by ending the upcoming wasteful ""investigations"" into the FBI, DOJ, Hunter Biden, Jan 6th committee and any other crazy stupid thing the modern GOP want to go after.",0
"There hasn't been a lot of polling on it this year, but as of the last results he has a pretty ugly negative net approval in Utah. That might have just been backlash from him supporting Trump's impeachment and might have worn off by now, but I've yet to see him make it into positive since.","edit: I will say in the spirit of fairness, disapproving of him doesn't mean that these people disapprove enough to vote for a Democrat or stay home and not vote.",0
"Europe’s armies are armed with Leopards, and Norway has decided to spend its money buying this tank because of European standardisation. How will you argue against what THEY JUST SAID?",Do you think they would be using the American built military infrastructure and training? Or start anew? Obviously they would be going with what they already have in place. The Iraq army is American armed and trained. That maintenance capability is a holdover due to supporting the large American presence. It’s not some home grown domestic capability.,0
"That seems unlikely. Blue and red states don't typically switch parties each election bc they're upset at current leadership. That's more of a purple state thing - and only then, bc of fraction of voters who identify as independents and people without strong party affiliation. In other words, most people don't swing ideologies broadly.","I don't think they'll attack us bc they are us. Almost all of us have friends and relatives in other states. Also, they'd draw massive global condemnation. Lastly, again, they need the funds for the army and red states are poor. Just imagine they institute a 10% flat tax, for instance. They'd be struggling to get anything done, let alone maintain a powerful army. At the same time, as much as I have serious qualms with it, robotic warfare is gaining ground and blue states tend to have the tech people. but again, I don't even think it'll come down to warfare.",0
"We just asked for independence nicely, and one of the stipulations for gaining freedom is the instituting of a constitutional monarchy. Which means while we run our nations completely independently, the British Monarch is still the head of state, even if they have no actual power inside the countries.","Well, it's not exactly independence if a representative of a foreign head of state can dissolve your government, or even have a say in dissolving your government, regardless of their relation to the monarch. I wouldn't call that independent, anyway.",1
"i dislike the iranian govt as much as the next guy, but theres no way the israeli govt gives a damn about iranian civilian casualties compared to the strategic importance of knocking out nuclear sites lol.","I don't agree with a lot of what the Israeli government does, but in terms of keeping your entire country from being destroyed overnight, it's better to be proactive and stop a bomb being built in a lab than it is to enter an all out war or have to suffer an atomic bomb.",1
"I'll likely be downvoted for this, but....America can do a lot to help the protests by putting sanctions on the upper class in government who enjoy/Live in Western countries as well their kids and freezing assets abroad. This is actually what a lot of Iranian commentators have been calling for from western countries. I'm actually glad Biden spoke up about this, now it's time for him to take action.","edit: note that I acknowledge in my post that Biden does indeed misspeak. I've received the same response a dozen times. You don't need to tell me Biden misspeaks because, and this is the part I want you to read carefully, I acknowledge that Biden misspeaks.",1
Below are the sequence of events in chronological order following the lawful search warrant to recover classified materials from Mar-A-Lago. The Department of Justice is investigating Trump for mishandling hundreds of classified documents.,"3. Special Master Judge Dearie - A Reagan appointed judge from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He also served as a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) from 2012 to 2019. Judge Dearie is known as a very fair judge and is historically respected by both Republicans and Democrats. Trump's team and the DoJ provided Judge Cannon with a shortlist of judges to be the Special Master, however they only agreed on Judge Dearie.^ Judge Dearie has questioned the authority of District Court Judge Cannon and is demanding to see evidence of Trump's outlandish allegations such as the FBI planting evidence.^.",0
Renewables won’t be enough for current demands for years to come (if ever at this consumption rate).,"So maybe these people should stop using electricity, cars, and anything that uses coal, oil, or nuclear power to cut down on demand. Without the need for the coal, this wouldn’t happen. The clean electric isn’t quite there yet, not enough to power nations and industry. I can understand them wanting to protect the town from being destroyed though.",1
"Even if we view them as worse then most because they're an exporter of fossil fuels, I think much of the blame continues to fall on the west. The people who buy the fuel and then burn it are also at fault (looking at you Germany).","You hear it all the time in the states ""we can't do anything about Climate Change, even if we tried China and Russia would continue emitting."".",0
"Though there could be some benefits to that method, like providing on-site testing of heroin and other drugs to see if it's got too much Fentanyl in it. And some of the more trendy heroin users like suburban kids and celebrities would not be getting tainted dope because they could afford to buy the real thing if it were legal.","Then they lost a massive lawsuit over it and not a penny of the billions of dollars they paid went to the victims or the families of victims. It all went to various governments to pay for the ""extra police, prison, and hospital resources"" they had to use for all the people Big Pharma got hopelessly addicted to opiates. But the parents of teenagers who doctors got addicted to opiates and died from ODs got nothing.",0
"And with Russia not for rescue, there is no way India can fight a long war with China alone. China domestic arms industry is expanding at mind blowing pace even to give US generals sleepless nights. India on the other hand is mostly dependent on other countries namely Russia and USA/France. Make in India is still in nascent stages and India still depends on other countries for critical components.","Moral issues aside, India might regret this later. Russia would be China’s bitch after this war, so India would have no support from Russia against China and no western support for its alignment with Russia.",0
"Federal government throw money you mean mess up the rental market some more. You think citizens will be happy, biden starts giving section 8 vouchers to asylum seekers, while Americans are struggling to pay rent and can’t find housing? Pls tell me you missed the whole concept of inflation the past year?","Temporary visas is different from many just coming across, many are underage. And if a state relies heavily on slave labor, that state needs a reckoning for undermining American workers.",0
The still relevant questions here are: 1. Were the documents properly handled given their classification level? (probably not). 2. What are the relevant laws to improper handling of classified documents. 3. These are records under the PRA and should have been turned over to NARA. (While that is a law there are no legal consequences to breaking it).,That's not true. Biden maintained a security clearance during his time out of office. He still had clearance for these documents.,0
"I get it. You're probably one of those dipshits that likes to say ""Herp derp, we're a republic, not a democracy!"" while conveniently ignoring that a republic is just any form of government without a hereditary monarchy, and the US is a constitutional federal democratic republic. And it's usually because you're poorly educated, but occasionally just because you're a liar. .","Well. That's kinda what happens once you have played your last card. In regards to Iran, that card was played over a decade ago. So much so, that in the last decade the direction was reversed into:",1
"Notice the conservative emphasis (""due process"" and especially ""unprecedented"") so rarely heard from Republicans but slowly getting more common. It just goes to show that the nutcases are having a hard time purging conservatives from the Republican party.",Nancy Mace (who certified 2020 voters' decision on Jan 6) beat Katie Arrinon (who supported Trump) in the 2022 primary.,0
What if I told you that there has always been weather balloons and spy balloons and they could be shot down whenever they really needed something for everyone to focus on?,"Basically, balloons are excellent bang for the buck, plus it's easy to claim it's an atmospheric research tool that just happened to go off course, and not an intelligence gathering platform. A stratospheric solar powered plane with a 30 meter wingspan, studded with camera domes and directional antenna cowlings is a little harder to explain.",1
Did they ever let those Ukrainian women carrying Russian rapist babies get abortions or did they continue to help the rapists by forcing the victims to carry their babies?,Well even now after further restriction of access to abortion in Poland rape and health risk or life risk of the mother are legitimate causes for fully legal abortion in Poland. Doctor who refused to execute the procedure should be prosecuted for the failure to comply with their professional obligations as a doctor.,1
Why are other countries bending backwards to accommodate passengers from any country that has given up control of the virus?,Which country is still trying to control the virus at this point? Hasn't just about every place ditched all internal restrictions and lets the virus spread freely?,1
"They have annual PTO, which is used for sick days (as in many other companies). They start out with one week annually, but the average employee has three weeks annually.","> At the start of February, workers got 30 points. Taking time off almost always costs them between two and 15 points. They can only earn [four] points back by being available for work with 90 minutes’ notice for 14 consecutive days, meaning they can’t go out of town, schedule doctors appointments, or go to a movie. Use all 30 points and they get suspended and given 15 more points. Use those 15 points and they get suspended even longer and given their last 15 points. Use those and they’re fired.",0
No it's not aliens lol. Extra terrestrial life obviously exists considering the vastness of our universe but there's no logical way they'd have the technology to be able to travel this far and also being vulnerable enough that a human weapon can shoot them down.,"People often offer theories about alien species invading to steal our resources, but an alien race capable of interstellar and intergalactic travel, probably has far more resources than we do. If they were here to enslave or subjugate the human race, there would be little pretense for hiding it and it doesn't make a lot of sense to spend decades or centuries ""secretly"" enslaving humanity by making people think it's okay to be nice to each other, which is an argument the American political right would make and HAS made.",1
"No, Trump himself was not indicted, but drawing conclusions about Trump's own individual conduct was also not in the direct scope/authority of Mueller's investigation. This is very different from the current DOJ action, where we already know that Trump himself is the subject of the investigation.","""If you take the exact same conduct -- and make it not about Donald Trump and not about a former president of the United States, would the case have been indicted? It would have been indicted in a flat second,"" Pomerantz said Sunday. He called Bragg's decision not to bring the case a ""grave failure of justice."".",1
"So, if you are younger and vote, good for you. If you are too jaded and cynical to vote you are getting what you deserve. And if you do vote, vote single payer. Be a one issue voter. It will be good for all of us.",This is good news. It's just too bad that due to the omnibus bill that broke the link between the public health emergency and extended health coverage.,1
"Of course Russia does have a lot of armored police vehicles and other equipment meant to squash protests. But it remains to be seen if they can actually spare any forces to send there. Kazakhstan is a different case, being a part of the CSTO and they helped them when they weren't waist deep in a massive war yet.",Aren't there any weapons being smuggled from Iraq's Kurds to the Kurdish people of Iran in the regions where there are a lot of them?,0
"I'm GenX and for like ten years I was able to rent a house alone, pay my car payment, and save money too. Rent was $650/mo. for a 1 br house with a nice yard. That was only about 20 years ago. Wages have not gone up much but that same house probably rents for $2k now.","If you can pay $2,000 a month for rent, but the cheapest possible rent you can find is $2,100. You can’t make that rent payment. If you live at home for two years and save that $48,000 instead of blowing it on luxury goods you can pay the extra $100 you don’t earn monthly on rent for 480 months.",1
"New US $2.2 billion military aid package to Ukraine includes longer-range missiles (150 kilometers) for HIMARS, two HAWK air defense firing units, 250 Javelin anti-tank missile systems and 2000 rockets, 181 MRAP vehicles and 190 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights.",⚡️US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the assets confiscated from the sanctioned Russian oligarch will go to help Ukraine.,0
"Allegedly, both sides will use propaganda, we probably won't know true death counts for Ukraine and Russia until long after the war. Fair to say Russia ironically getting their shit pushed in though.",Russia's figures are off by a factor of ten from everyone else. Everyone else is Ukraine's numbers +/-10%.,1
"So to add onto what others have said, a Prion isn't a virus or bacteria, it's literally just a highly complex misfolded protein. Its full name is ""proteinaceous infectious particle"". A Prion's form is extremely stable and resists being denatured even by autoclaving.","Prions are fairly close to indestructible, they don't get destroying simply by burning. You need an autoclave that can create both immense heat and a lot of pressure just to destroy it.",1
"Finland joining is about as good as them joining with Sweden, as it provides the protection to Sweden and the rest of Europe, can easily blockade St.Petersburg and it makes it so that the Baltic is now a Lake NATO.","Finland joining NATO and with several NATO members surrounding it; Norway to the West and the North, Denmark, Germany and Poland to the South and the Baltic states to the East, Sweden would find itself protected inside a ""NATO cocoon"", with only the Baltic Sea as the only way for Russia to invade.",1
"You are right people hold fascist ideas but everyone all across the political spectrum engages in some form of fascist ideology, they just believe they are righteous as they engage in fascist activity so it's okay when they do it they will just say it's for the good of the public.","No the argument was they're not truly fascist and I never said everyone's fascist only that you all have some fascist ideas and engage in fascist activity whether you admit it or not it doesn't mean you're a fascist, the CCP is a pretty fascist acting government but they don't categorize themselves this way. There's nuance in politics I am not going to just accept I should demonize an entire percentage of US adults and label them all fascist because some people believe it's true.",0
I don't think it can be described as perfect when you get a tiny portion of people who can control the narrative.,But you don’t get a tiny portion of people controlling the narrative. You’re missing that there’s a second house. The Senate is important because it gives people in small states a more equal voice.,1
"What russia is attempting to do here is genocide. They're trying to erase Ukraine from history. They use the word ""nazi"" for anyone they see as an enemy with no regard to the actual definition.",It is beyond irony that the Russian crime empire uses anti Nazi rhetoric for propaganda purposes when they are behaving like textbook Nazi's without the German.,1
"Republicans are literally pushing women to death’s door through abortion bans, so while we bash Boebert, let’s try to keep in mind who is on control and who is setting the stage and dictating who is to be hated and who is to be approved. It isn’t crazy Boebert. She deserves to be dragged for her hateful comments, but the entire GOP needs to be turned into dust for it’s hateful agenda.","She calls these people degenerates and groomers, she was absolutely pushing hate in those tweets. The fact that you can't acknowledge that tells me exactly where you stand on this issue, and why you don't have a problem with any of this. There's plenty of people out there who are willing to take their kid to see a man in a dress and a wig, just because you have a hang up about it doesn't mean everyone has to accept your intolerance.",1
we’re getting both and native texans that are both liberal/conservatives leave the state as well… so idk wonder what the balance will end up being lots of non voters too.,"I'm uncertain if the influx of residents from CA and other states is really affecting the political makeup of Texas or not. I've heard assertions that we're getting all of the conservatives leaving CA. I've heard that no, we're getting the tech workers who were priced out of living in places like SF and they're liberal.",1
"But if you extend wind and pv (which is happening) you will have more and more days reaching 100%, where you don't need any other power. Let's assume you now make 80% with renewables in average - that probably means that probably half a year you don't need anything else, but for something like two weeks a year you need to cover 100%. This is not something you want to do with a nuclear power plant for technical and economical reasons.","Nuclear power plants can reduce power to 80% load quite easily, newer ones even to 50%ish range. Going below drastically reduces cycle treshhold (can't recall exact numbers, but it was something like from 20.000 to 2000).).",0
But not one single European country have been even remotely close to have aspirations to invade Russia?,"The very existence of Western leaning, democratic Ukraine on Russia's border is an existential threat to Putin's regime.",1
"First of all, chill out lol, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with ranked choice voting in general. But ranked choice voting can sometimes help moderates and sometimes help progressives based on the breakdown of the constituency. In NYC it definitely benefits moderates more because it frees up Republican voters to vote for the moderate Dem and NY Democrats tend to be more moderate so a lot of them are putting the moderate Dem as their first choice anyway.","If you accept the hypothesis that Republican voters will prefer a moderate Dem to a progressive, then the progressive must outperform the moderate on the first round of voting in order to win. The moderate has a margin for error, because they can come second as long as they get enough second-choice votes to make up the difference.",1
"I think the correct response at this point is full-bore, non-stop mockery of Mohammad, the Quran, the whole stupid Shia/Sunni thing, and the precepts of Islam generally.","And I ask this because in the USA you have lots of not Muslims who froth at the mouth for insulting their religion. They get violent and take over government positions to assert authority. They are currently waging war against women's rights. They might be using different tactics currently, but that will change.",1
"If Chicago to Minneapolis arcing through Wisconsin makes sense economically, and it certainly does topographically, then no good reason not to improve rail travel through there.",Looks like the distance is about 80 miles. About the same as in the San Francisco Bay Area from Fremont to Antioch by BART. My point: 80 miles sound like a job for light rail.,0
"See, that's the thing. Americans often use that ""aiding an enemy state"" definition, when the general meaning of treason is more ""betray your country or try to overthrow the government."".","Ahh. Sadly, I almost forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder. So I guess we can chalk that up to at least two Republican presidents who let millions die through their incompetence and maleficence.",1
"All a ""short truce"" would do is give Russia time to regroup and rebuild its forces, and Ukraine currently has the momentum in their favor and truly has Russia on the defensive. That's what Russia is trying to do with this, and Ukraine isn't taking that bait.","And let's not forget, this isn't the first time Russia has pulled this sort of stunt, just look at Moldova and Georgia as an example, they aren't going to stop. What do you think happens to Belarus if they suddenly also decide to move towards warmer relations with the West? And other countries like China is keeping a close watch on the conflict as well, as they too also have dreams of imperialist expansions to neighbouring territories, and in fact have done so in recent memory, just look at Tibet. And we know they're really eyeing up Taiwan right now.",1
"Neocon and neolib aren't just liberal and conservative with modifiers. They're fiscal and foreign policy positions. That's why someone like Reagan, who was very much a conservative, is also a neoliberal. Yes, he's a fascist. That label applies to the vast majority of Americans and American politicians.","I don't think you understand what neolib and neocon mean. A person can be both, which Reagan was. Neocon being their foreign policy position with neoliberal being their economic position. Tucker is not hawkish. He's just a neolib, but not a neocon.",0
If the intent of these changes is to ensure that lower income families can raise healthy children then that is great. If the intent is to stimulate birth rates then this needs some rethinking.,But you're right: it has proven to be true that government incentives for having kids tend to have little effect on birth rate.,1
"Dems are around 30-35 of the vote in most races and there are 0 dems (2 senators, 4 house reps) elected, the main democratic area has been cracked into 3 60/40 conservative districts to neutralize the democratic voters.","It was extremely effective in 2012 (based on the 2010 Census and the gerrymandering done from that), and got republicans a 33 seat lead even though democrats received 1 million more votes overall than republicans did.",1
Dems don't even have to do anything unethical or illegal to get Republicans all worked up...look at the stink they've been trying to raise about Hunter Biden for the past two years. It's a big nothingburger and they can't let it go.,"Also, remember their greatest hits from the Obama days: Tan Suitgate, Dijon Mustardgate, Saluting with the Coffee Cupgate, etc., etc.",0
"Also, Trump's base wasn't enough to win an election in 2020 and there's no reason to believe it's grown since then, and DeSantis doesn't have the record to campaign as anything but Trump with a college degree.","The only shot they have is if they somehow get Trump to both step aside for Desantis and not run 3rd party (good fucking luck and even then much of his base will feel betrayed), or get DeSantis to step aside in favor of Trump and wait for 2028 (but Trump lost 2020 and isn't likely to do much better in 24).",1
"This reminds me of the story about the billionaires prepping for the apocalypse by building huge bunkers and hiring private security, but realizing once the apocalypse has happened and they're safely in their bunkers that the security doesn't need them anymore and worried how to stay in power.",">More questions came about these guards, like 'How would you pay them once crypto was worthless? What would stop them from eventually choosing their own leader? Perhaps robot guards would be better?'.",0
"So are Payday loans nasty and exploitative? Yeah I think so. All I'm saying is ""OMG LOOK AT THE HUGE APR!"" is misleading.","Wellll... I mean I do agree with the notion in that these loans are predatory because if you can't afford to pay your bills this week, adding more charges will simply keep compounding the problem...",0
"Corrupt slob Trump revealed his own investigation. No one knew NARA and the DOJ were trying to get Trumo to return the classified documents for over a year. They had to issue a subpoena, and Trump still did not comply. He only returned some of the boxes he had in his possession. Then, after not complying again, a search warrant had to be issued!","President Biden requested items from his official at the Penn Biden Center. In those boxes were items pertaining to his son Beau's death from brain cancer in 2015. Among those items was an envelope marked VP Personal. As soon as his lawyers found it contained classified documents, they immediately closed it and reported to NARA. DOJ did not have to pull teeth to retrieve the documents and immediately searched other places. Even if documents were packed up inadvertently, there is no excuse for anyone to be sloppy. Better procedures need to be put in place. President Biden had 1 document marked top secret, and Trump had 60. The bottom line is President Biden did the right thing, and Trump obstructed and claimed they belonged to him, which is not true.",0
"Some, yes, but you get highly educated people believing this bullshit, too. You can have all the smarts in the world, but it doesn't make a whit of difference if you want to believe it's true so badly you refuse to engage them.",You're right that Putin doesn't see Trump as anything more than a useful idiot and would love nothing more than for us to fall to civil war. But he did specifically want Trump to win... because he .,0
"Publicly, they can’t be too antagonistic with China, but the South China Sea dispute and Vietnam’s growing ties to America seem to suggest a different view….","Again, China doesn't want to engage in war against the American navy where they've many carriers, submarines, plenty of missiles to destroy all Chinese main naval and shipping ports within a week. The US can comfortably impose a full blockade of all ships out of the south China sea with their airforce, carriers and submarines. Don't think China has a chance to go head to head with the F35s, submarines and aircraft carriers on top of sanctions.",1
"This is a good source of information, regarding Crimea. This guys name is William Spaniel, and he's got a lot of really solid informational videos about the war in Ukraine.",This guy has some really on point videos about the war in Ukraine. His name is William Spaniel. This video is about Crimea specifically.,0
"If we want nuclear to have a future, that trend needs to be reversed. Its competing against renewables that have managed to decrease prices by like 90% in the past 20 years.","The cost of grid storage fell by 90% in ten years. It’s getting exponentially cheaper over time, already, today.",1
"One such study, yes. But a large number of later studies have confirmed that people with AD do have lower levels of amyloid-beta and higher levels of tau in their CSF. The study was about a specific oligomer of amyloid-beta and a specific mechanism of action for the disease, meant to explain the presence of amyloid-beta, not claim or disclaim its existence in people suffering from AD.","All Alzheimer's research in the past 15+ years was based on one study establishing links between amyloids and Alzheimer's, a study which has recently been openly called into question (and it was called into question behind closed doors before, to be shot down by the so-called amyloid mafia). I mean the study literally had photoshopped western blot images.",1
"Yes the Max's have crashed (the Airbus not so much) but with improved technology and the minimal increased costs to operate a larger aircraft, it makes sense for most folks to take on the extra seats due to the increased revenue.","During 2020 the Boeing 737MAX fleet was grounded because the planes had a fatal flaw, so the older planes were being flown not because the airlines were poor, but because Boeing sells unsafe aircraft with single redundancy flaws that kill passengers to save money in manufacturing costs.",1
"And Russia invaded anyway. Absolute scum of the earth. They will die, rot, and fade into the lost abyss of history. And it’s all on Putin’s hands.",You neglected to mention the most important aspect of that memorandum: UKRAINE GAVE UP THEIR NUKES IN RETURN FOR A PEACE GUARANTEE FROM RUSSIA.,0
Social media has really removed most kinds of nuance in favor of ingroup buzzwords and catchy or emotion inducing titles.,"The difference is that most people(hopefully) can at least tell that they are low effort arguments even if they agree with the sentiment, and if you CAN counter them they fall apart pretty fast.",0
"doubt that ... African governments, elites and rebel groups are just as deep into the exploitation at the expense of their own people as everybody else.","Capitalism is looking to destroy and reduce the lives of Africans, and everyone here is focused on religion?",1
Outside of that I also listed how both parties have a set of rules on how to oust a Speaker. Ousting a Speaker doesn’t have set rules by the House so it’s established in the party rules that’s based at the beginning of each congressional session.,"The Speaker can block a general motion to vacate but they cannot block a party-led motion to vacate since they can’t unilaterally change the rules. Like I said, for Republicans the current threshold to initiate a motion to vacate is 5 members, once that threshold a reached it goes to a vote, the Speaker can’t block it.",0
"If only a competent politician could rise and gain popularity. I blame the lack of options in India’s democracy squarely in the decision of the main (and once dominant) opposition party’s insistence that only someone from the Gandhi family can be their choice of PM. People are sick and tired of the nepotism and would rather have Modi than throw the dice with another Gandhi. The congress party only reversed this decision in recent months, and even then chose a completely unlikable party hack as their lead candidate — more likely to reward his loyalty than with any intention of winning an election. It’s a sad state of affairs.",Very sad. India may hold the geopolitical key to stability in the region - by virtue of rapid modernisation of its economy and industry. If China has a near-peer neighbour it might think twice before expanding with impunity across everyone’s borders.,1
I bet the pro-DST sleep researchers were paid off by Corporations to argue that perma-DST is superior to perma-standard time.,"I mean, we saw a rampant increase of productivity since the '70s. We could have saved energy by cutting labor hours for the same wages. This could promote more outdoor activity and 'traditional family values.' How would that profit corporations though.",0
"The problem is that if the state government secedes, real people will be affected—including people who aren’t fascists (which is the majority, but Texas is currently under minority rule).","The de facto regime of the region formerly known as ""Texas"" has engaged in such extreme voter suppression efforts that it no longer qualifies for statehood, which requires each state to have a republican government.",1
agree with the other comment - all of these limits are just excuses for voters voting shitty people into office.,"Gerrymandering affects statewide elections as well, because if the majority of your votes feels meaningless because of it, why turn out at all?",1
"Iirc, some models of hybrid American pickup trucks work that way - they're designed to operate as a worksite generator and, if equipped, sometimes feature a 240v, 30amp connection. ... Heck, one guy I know has a regular has powered pickup and he has that ability.",A plug-in hybrid like that would likely have a 16 to 20kWh battery - I say 'likely' because I haven't done any reading on that since just before covid hit.,0
"""Australia, are you cunts alright?"" sounds like a poorly translated Chinese tshirt or wristband you would see in a Vietnamese market. and yes we are apparently.","What he is saying is definitly plausible. Though as I said, they spend a few days with you explaining what you can expect and a way to tap out if you feel like things go too far.",1
"Yes, good point. I also wonder if since Putin can stay protected for longer, that a physical illness or assassination attempt could end him too.",Mental breakdown on Putin's part is probably what will happen unlike Hitler who put bullet in his temple.,1
"But, of course, if Google Earth offered that kind of detailed aerial photography to me for free 10 years ago, then the United States may well offer the results of better aerial photography to Ukraine now. Chances are the main obstacle to the mole screening program would be that Ukrainian military strategists have no interest at all in seeing pictures of Belarusian soldeiers' moles.",Maybe a good way for NATO to communicate its interest in Belarus would be to send text messages to soldiers in Belarus who seem to have moles that a dermatologist should check out.,0
Focus on the Family is a terrorist organization. They terrorized me as a queer kid. The fact that they still persist is a stain on the nation along with all the other hate groups. I’m glad you survived their attempts to brainwash and destroy you. <3.,"Yep. Growing up, I remember there being a distinct separation between Denver, Castle Rock, and the Springs. Last time I was out there, it was one, unbroken suburb between all of it. It was shocking.",1
"As long as it's coupled with other assistance programs instead of switching one for the other, yes. Most of the time, people try the ""well-with-universal-income-we-can-remove-the-other-programs!"" argument which only exacerbates the problem; universal income has to be in addition to other programs in place to truly be effective.","Iirc, when a universal income was being debated during the last round of presidential primaries, the logic behind it was it saves money. All of the applications and bureaucracy behind our current welfare system are very expensive. Guaranteed income to everyone is much more efficient.",1
There can be a need for nuclear when wind and solar is at it's limit but that isn't the case in any country right now.,"But if you extend wind and pv (which is happening) you will have more and more days reaching 100%, where you don't need any other power. Let's assume you now make 80% with renewables in average - that probably means that probably half a year you don't need anything else, but for something like two weeks a year you need to cover 100%. This is not something you want to do with a nuclear power plant for technical and economical reasons.",1
"He knows what country this is, right? He's apparently running as a conservative in a country where Mehmet Oz had to run as Dr. Oz so his base wouldn't be turned off by his foreign name.",He ran as Dr. Oz because he's a celebrity and trying to ride off the name that gives him the most name recognition. It wasn't because his name was Mehmet.,1
At no point did you address the statements I made or the supporting documentation I presented. You simply called me a liar and declared that you were right.,"I did, I said he was a liar and he is. None of what he linked was compelling enough in 2008 to alter Heller and it didn't make a lick of difference in Bruen either. It's garbage peddled by people who torture the historical record and they have failed. Bruen made the threshholds pretty clear and they're pretty easy to meet, yet so far gun control activists have come up short.",1
Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York delivered an impassioned speech defending Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota as Republicans seek to remove Ms Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.,"House Republicans have sought to remove Ms Omar for comments they consider antisemitic, for which Ms Omar apologised. But Democrats say that Republicans are engaging in Islamophobia.",0
"In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan responding to a flurry of document requests, the DOJ said that “any oversight requests must be weighed against the department’s interests in protecting the integrity of its work.”.","The letter added: “The Department’s mission to independently and impartially uphold the rule of law requires us to maintain the integrity of our investigations, prosecutions, and civil actions, and to avoid even a perception that our efforts are influenced by anything but the law and the facts.”.",0
"These are police officers that like to think they’re hardcore but in reality? They’re too chickenshit to sign up for the military. But they sure do like to pretend they are. This is why we have a 2A problem in the United States, also why people feel like they need to carry concealed.",We are held to a higher standard and often held accountable for fuckups like you mentioned above. But it is war and shit happens. Domestic law enforcement attacking civilians and it’s not even a war zone? What’s their excuse?,0
But this probably wasn't the Ukrainians because the Russians aren't blaming them for it; in the assassination that was carried out by Ukraine earlier this year they didn't try to pretend it was a suicide.,Who actually thinks Putin then would not take this opportunity to blame Ukranian insurgents for this after locals killed his thug?,1
"I suppose someone can always find a way to worry about extremists and nuclear weapons, but that’s the ONLY other card someone new could actually play, and not just talking about it, but doing it. But that’s obviously a lose to lose to Russia, there’s no winning there, period end of story.","- So, in the end the Russia's complete victory will be the only choice for Russian authorities, but it would have much lesser cost if they acted correctly from the start.",1
"Also, immediate care of a sick neonate is really something that should not be done outside of a suitable environment. If the prison authority wants to reduce uncertainty, why not let the mothers-to-be have a, y’know, normal human conversation about options for induction/Caesarian _after they are moved to a labour ward_?","I ask this as someone who was faced with having to potentially resuscitate a sick baby on a baby-change mat, placed on a desk, inside a patently unsuitable room in a psychiatric hospital. Having been told I might be sprinting 200 yards with a kitbag from the SCBU when I got the call she was dropping. This situation was different in that the lady was psychotic but had a midwife with her, and _did not consent_ despite understanding our detailed explanation of the risks, or you bet we would have taken her straight to labour ward. Even in these extreme cases, consent and autonomy have to be respected even if it seems mad to a reasonable person and makes our professional decisions harder.",0
"Since the first WTC bombing at least. . . I felt it as a kid but never really understood why everything I was taught about being a nice person, sharing, courtesy etc. was ignored by the same adults and types who pushed these ideas. First I thought maybe because I'm a child and adults don't have to be nice to us (I mean, adults in my family weren't very nurturing either. . .just religion), maybe the way my mom would allow me to dress (no MC Hammer baggy pants or vanilla ice lined haircut for me!), maybe because I was apparently poor at the time? Not once did it cross my mind that it was due to my black hair, brown eyes, and skin that didn't show all my veins. . .","Oof. I can relate. I’m still having record scratch, freeze frame moments when I realize that no, it wasn’t me, it was because I was disabled. Some adults treated me horribly and hypocritically just because they hated how I made them feel. By pointing out their own mortality. How Just World Fallacy can’t fit disabled kids. How their cruelty was noticed and recognized to angry retorts of “bleeding heart, crybaby, too sensitive” or as I got older “you’re paranoid, alarmist, you see a therapist”.",1
"Yeaaah. Since the war in Ukraine began, I've seriously started to wonder how many of their nukes are even functional let alone have a reliable vehicle for delivery.",That was a big reason but it is my understanding the much bigger issue is the cheap Chinese tires they use for all of their vehicles. Tires which aren't rated anywhere near the necessary standards to support the weight they were expected to carry.,0
He voted against gay marriage more so than voting for protection for interracial marriage. It’s the fact that they’re tied together that makes it an easy headline grabber to demonize him. He’s a piece of shit but the fact is he prioritized being against gay marriage rather than codifying protection for interracial marriage. It actually shows more that he won’t back down from gay marriage regardless of the benefits that would help his own.,"3) Marriage is religious and our religion is allowed to ban gay marriage. You can have civil unions if you want, but I'm going to vote against that too because gays are gross and I just feel so icky whenever anyone respects them. It's unnatural.",1
"Visible at top left at 0:50, they already lined up some dead at the edge of their hobo camp. That helps identify some shapes seen in the wide shot at 0:04, looks like at least four corpses.",Very thinly manned. Artillery is still going jagga jagga as the video starts. We're watching the final moments of yet another hapless platoon.,0
"So you are just a pussy I gather? People have to defend their homeland from time to time, sorry it offends you but it’s reality. It’s nice to think other people should defend your life, but you don’t have to do anything.",I'm not asking anyone to defend my life. If a country attacks mine or vice versa I have the right to decide if I think the conflict is worth fighting for or not. If its not then my death is not the automatic outcome even if my country losses. I'd have to weigh the consequences of that situation out and decide if I thought it was worth it or not.,1
"Not too long ago the Mexican DoD (I forgot their real name) was hacked by a ""Guacamaya group"" or something like that and they basically said ""Hey we got everything the DoD had in their servers, we did it like this, oh and btw we noticed there were like 30 other backdoors, so we're probably not the first ones to hack the DoD""; anyway they're not gonna drop all the information on the public because there is 'a lot of sensitive information' which most likely means that a shit ton of past and current important people in the government are in some way strongly involved with organized crime, and releasing the info would end with a shit ton of 'tying lose ends', not to mention the loss of any legitimacy the gov. has in the eyes of the Mexican public.","So yeah, it's basically common knowledge that the gov. Is heavily crooked and plays a mayor role in organized crime, the public just needs hard proof of it, but tbh the hard part is not proving that the gov. Is crooked, it's cleaning it up without turning Mexico in an actual Warzone.",0
"Without direct access to the information and validation of those sources, Michael Parenti can be dismissed entirely out of hand.","With respect, there were 15,000 executions in the entire history of the USA. Even taking this at face value (which is beyond difficult to do), 700k executions is insane and barbaric.",0
"The argument that Jews are in fact allowed to help the victims of the earthquake and that’s a good thing is like praising someone for not being a total asshole, where I would argue that it’s the absolute minimal requirement to not be a terrible human being.","More to the point, if religious Jews are still helping sift through the rubble two months after the earthquake, there would be no expectation that doing so would save lives (even if it's still important work). The helpers would at that point be expected to refrain from their work on Shabbat.",1
It was never meant to be justice. She is a Federalist society bot - their judges and supporting judges are put in place to support the conservative federalist cause i.e. electing Republicans and policies. This was a way to NOT demoralize Republican voters directly before the election and/or to prevent more motivation to Democratic voters. We will never be able to accurately quantify but it may have helped them in some close elections. She is just one of the terrible people we will have to deal with because of Trump. She should be impeached.,"Rather than impeach her for explicit crimes, it might be faster and better to impeach her for incompetence.",1
"When describing that socialism will actually mean more control over your work day and a claim to the money you boss makes off your work, it is more popular than the common American imagining of ""socialism"" of your taxes go up and maybe you get some more services, but maybe not and it all goes to the army and Congress's dumbest nephews' contracting firms.","Those public goods are technically socialist in nature, but when people are talking about capitalism and socialism, they are exempting all the things that everyone agrees government should provide. Both socialists and capitalists agree on those things, so it is pointless to include them in the debate. The conversation is only really over the parts where the two sides disagree. It is sort of like how you would assume a pacifist would still want to defend himself if attacked, even though that isn’t really pacifism.",1
"Agree. This was a significant unforced error on Biden's part, one that he knew better than to commit, but I can't see myself ever voting for a candidate from the insurrection-embracing Trump party in the future.","It's not a difficult decision for us, but we have to recognize that non political, undecided, or ignorant voters might be inclined to think it's the same thing or that Bidens case is even worse for whatever stupid reason. This is going to hurt Bidens reelection chances if only because the GOP is better at weaponizing things like this and their voters and many undecideds will eat it up.",1
"Are you saying the right is how they are because of propaganda alone? Sure there are irrationalist sheeps but there are much more ""rational"" reasons. Yes those reasons are utterly selfish and partisan but they are still rational, in the sense that it's humanly understandable. An SKn supporting NK is irrational to the extreme. It's not even like someone believing in tarot or shamanism for personal benefit. There is no benefit.","I mean, just to name a couple... the whole Halloween incident, the president's recent (supposed but probably true) swearing against Biden and generally making a fool of ourselves overseas, losing our position in UNHRC for the first time in history, the usual continuous exposures of politicians' shady activities, NK keep firing missiles lest we forget about them (which somehow triggers old people like my mum with minor war panic). Socially people are just becoming bitter, hateful, and just selfish in general, and of course, there's the usual economic panic, although these are apparently global patterns.",0
"Increasing rates induces a cycle of default and consolidation for firms that are over leveraged and are unable to continue rolling over their debts. The liquidation of these assets can be considered like a tax that is apportioned to the firms that underwrite the debt, as the capital is taken out of circulation and is applied to settle accounts. This allows the monetary system to apply huge tax rates to the victimized firms and asset classes, while never having to go through the process of passing legislation or incurring the negative political capital. This is modern monetary theory, and it seems to be validated. If this process does not occur, you will see what hyperinflation actually looks like.",Are you referring to hyper-inflation like the other commenter? Arguably not possible in US due to reserve currency status and the petro-dollar.,1
"Personally I think we should go with a literal interpretation of the 2nd amendment, as the Founding Fathers wrote the Militia Acts in the same time period that clarifies what it is exactly they meant:","And insofar as this all relates to 2nd Amendment, it directly counters the anachronistic insistence that it only guarantees the militia and not the right to keep and bear arms, and ALSO directly counters the similarly anachronistic insistence that the militia has nothing to do with it. It does, but not because of the guns. The militias had to be protected so the Army couldn't stop them from hunting down black people escaping to the North. The only way to do that is to ensure the people are able to be armed, because, again, by definition, the militia cannot exist without an armed population to draw from.",1
"Blaming someone, and saying that someone is not without blame are two very different things. And I've been saying that she's not without blame since the beginning.","Whatever reason why she's there when it's already May, is not of concern. She had November, December, January, and February to leave. When Russia invaded and it became a warzone it was already too late. You're just ignoring all my arguments and focusing on the circumstances where she had no longer had control.",0
His testimony may be useful in identifying perpetrators of war crimes and perhaps assist in bringing some of them to justice.,"Medvedev said he wanted to speak out about his experiences in the war so ""the perpetrators are punished"" for their crimes in Ukraine.",0
"Yes, they turned out to be. But Trump didn't know that when he took them, and it doesn't matter anyway. He took the ambassador's personal decorations away to place in the White House, the ambassador did not know until Trump had left. When pressed, the White House responded that they could have them back after Trump's second term would have been up in the 2024 election.","Scrolling through the long list of atrocious shit by this guy, during a 2018 visit to Paris, (same visit where he called veterans, “suckers and losers”) he transferred art from the home of the US Ambassador to France to the presidential residence of the White House, flummoxing many…How do you respond to a president who acts like an emperor visiting the house of a feudal lord?",0
"German society in 1933 was very very different than American society 90 years later. The fascist playbook is the same, and they will no doubt wreck havoc, but the internal resistance to it in 2023 America is far more powerful than the authoritarian leaning social order of 1933 Germany.",Some good news is that these Swings toward Fascism in the past tend to last only around 10-15 years and are then followed by a pretty strong progressive period as people strongly reject it when it inevitably falls apart.,1
"Michael Rockefeller was poking his nose into Asmat territory which at the time included the river coming down from Ertsberg in which their Freeport mining company wanted to build a port for exporting Papua's gold, silver and copper to the US and other markets.","Freeport WAS owned by the Rockefellers and members of Robert Lovett's bonesman network, the first open pit site Ertsberg was depleted twenty years ago and the second larger Grasberg depleted several years ago since when they have been digging under the base of the mountain to reach more of the gold, silver and copper. Because the extreme high profitbility era (open-pit) is over the US shareholders have been selling their holdings to the Indonesian government that shares their interest to keep their looting of Papua secret.",0
"impossible, precisely because there are no more foreign students, therefore the costs of universities (and everything gravitating around universities) will be borne by British students.",if the British universities cost for example a billion and instead of for example two million students now there are only one million who pays this billion? Do you want British students to really not have to pay more?,0
"1) Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, really anybody - will use this nuclear blackmail strategy to get what they want. We’d be in for a shit future.","I just want to clarify that anybody labeling proxy, compares it to the fear of “communism” spreading or other small-ish consequences in this the past.",0
"""Everything that used to be part of the Russian empire and then part of the Soviet Union is the territory of Russia's strategic interests,"" the academic added.","Referring to the ex-Soviet states, Sardaryan told his fellow guests on Russian state TV: ""This is our land, our territory of strategic interests."".",0
"Your order of events is wrong and incomplete. First came the French AMX-10RC ""light tanks""/heavy armament combat vehicles, then a day later came the joint announcement of US Bradley IFVs and German Marder IFVs, and later the other vehicles you mentioned.","This all came on the heels of the US sending Bradley fighting vehicles, Striker light tanks, and the British sending Challengers tanks to Ukraine. The fact of the matter is that even despite the unprecedented aggression on the part of Russia, Germany has so far been a very weak ally in NATO, and has been dragged along by the ear up to now. I can even recall early in the conflict the British setting up an air bridge with C-17s to send NLAWS to Ukraine, and their flight paths were identified as having skipped around German airspace, heavily implying that the Germans were refusing transit of the weapons-- shipments that were critical in the early phase of the war at repelling a Russian invasion of Kiev.",1
"Im not familiar with TN laws, but here in PA having a firearm loaded or capable of being loaded in a vehicle counts as concealed carry. Without a LTCF the ammunition or firearm has to be stored where the driver does not have access. With an LTCF they can be loaded, including pistol AK variants.","The bill does not mention the AK47, it changes the text of current conceal carry laws from ""Handguns"" to ""Firearms"". That is all. The comment about the AK47 was added by someone else as a way to scare people and drive up engagement.",1
"When it all went wrong and Russia doubled down rather than give up and back out again they ran into the problem of the makeup of the Russian armed forces being based round the conscripts and the lack of them for the ""special operation"". It's a major stumbling block for them and has directly been the cause of some major loses. It's also as I understand it why Putin has been so desperate to label the conquered parts as ""Russia"", it then allows them to be defended with the full conscript bolstered army rather than merely the career army backed up with mercenaries. Even there however the mechanisms for calling up the reserve have all atrophied and fallen into neglect.",That's also not mentioning of course just how much their remaining armed forces have atrophied since the fall of the USSR. Had they come storming across the Fulda Gap they would have thrown everything at us including their air power. All of which was much more impressive during the 80's.,0
"This is not how the US MILITARY fights wars. However arm someone not US military to fight the war instead of sending our military is very much a part of how the US fights wars. such such we need the equipment not only are military needs, but also the equipment we don't need but someone else ew are arming needs.","It wouldn't be burdensome to strap a pair of emergency stingers, or some more up to date equivalent, to one vehicle in a platoon. Just in case.",1
"I’m not too concerned about age because he has the best healthcare in the world and if he’s in good health (which he seems to be), then he should continue doing this country a service.","Let us have 4 more years of a damn good politician and progress and we’ll talk in 2028 about a younger, Democrat president.",0
"Here's some not weird math.... since California is <12% the nation's population, they have had job growth nearly double their per capita share.","Not to knock anything on California, because this is great news, but the answer to your question is likely to be mostly just math. California has right around 12% of the us population. It makes sense they would own a disproportionate share of job creation. Obviously 20% is bigger than 12%, but knowing nothing about where the numbers come from they could probably easily be explained by the massive shutdowns California had. Relative to a lot of states, they likely (again, I'm guessing, but it seems like a strong guess) lost a lot more jobs too leaving a larger deficit to recover.",1
"Russia likely can't occupy or even reach Kiev, but Crimea is still defendable. It's probably not worth it for them and will accelerate the collapse of the Russian state, but it's still possible.",I know it sounds silly and Russia probably isn’t that stupid to use a nuclear device in any capacity… but I feel like they’re getting desperate and almost all bets are off at this stage.,1
"La inmunidad de arresto está contemplada en el art. 69 [Constitución Argentina], que dispone que “ningún senador o diputado, desde el día de su elección hasta el de su cese, puede ser arrestado; excepto el caso de ser sorprendido in fraganti en la ejecución de algún crimen que merezca pena de muerte, infamante, u otra aflictiva.”.","She can’t go to prison now but certainly she can once she is no longer Vice president. If she appeals, she will be out of office by the time she can end up in prison. Immunity is applicable while in office only.",0
"""It's a shame. It makes us look foolish. If I didn't know any better, it's like the Democrats paid these people off,"" Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Texas Republican, told Fox News. ""Let's make it look like the Republicans can't govern and don't deserve any gavels whatsoever. That's what it makes it look like."".","Good. Fuck 'em; couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. It's politicians like McCarthy who are the worst for the country. Only in it for themselves and not for the good of the American people - not that it wasn't obvious by his party affiliation these days, but McCarthy was an especially brash and open example of hypocrisy and saying / taking any position to be in power.",1
"3. There's only a beef-eating culture in Brazil because the Portuguese invaders (among others) brought such culture to the territory, in their process of extracting all the mineral wealth (silver, gold) from the territory to send it back to Europe. Had they never invaded and conquered, the rain forest would be just fine today.","I agree in a more general sense, since beef is an extremely trophic-level inefficient source of sustenance. So much water and space used to raise food with nutrients you could effectively get from food that's more efficient with the world's resources and total space, and also to grow/raise.",0
"He stole data and took it to China and Russia, that’s treason. Further, half of his claims- at least- are absurd. There’s a way domestic intelligence collection works, and it’s not what Snowden said it was.","You’re a random stranger claiming you know more about domestic surveillance then Snowden. Doubtful you even sniffed a security clearance because you’d know it’s not classified info to disclose your clearance level. So, either put up or shut up.",1
"Not to mention completely shattering the world's perception of their military might. So many works of fiction made their military look to be cutting edge with highly trained soldiers, but actual combat footage has shown that they're anything but. They went into Ukraine with old and poorly maintained gear and ineffective troops that didn't even know why they were there.","I'm talking about radio dramas, movies, novels, video games, and TV shows. There were multiple generations who grew up with the idea being thrown around that Russia was a considerable military threat, even without the use of a nuke. I can't help but imagine that that notion died in Ukraine, along with a good chunk of Putin's cardboard army. It almost makes me wonder if any future video games will continue to use Russia as the opposing team in military shooters?",0
"The thing about the legal system is that it relies upon precedence to work efficiently, as whatever ruling was given in the past case should be the same ruling given in a present case of similar circumstances. Going further, courts lower than the Supreme Court must defer to precedence in their rulings, and have to go out of their way to explain why a current situation is different than the previous ones if they try to go against the precedent.","Now with Trump, things have been taking many years to work their way through the legal system because it’s all unprecedented. There hasn’t been a situation in the past where an ex-President refused to hand over their tax information to Congress, nor has there been a situation where an ex-President refused to return classified materials to the Presidential Archives, etc etc for all of Trumps legal issues as an ex-President.",0
"He's 48, he just pulled a life sentence with a minimum 32 year tariff (your typical murderer on a life stretch serves about 18 years in the UK, IIRC).","He was sentenced to a life sentence, where after the 30 years it will be reevaluated if he’s no longer a danger to society.",1
"If Israel is providing any support- and is willing to keep Russia's 1 ally Iran in check, it would be stupid for them to jeopardize that.",If it happened it would be more about paying Israel back for supporting Ukraine if Israel went that route. The whole eye for an eye thing.,1
"On top of all that, Europe did cut their forests when the knowledge of agriculture was basic. Now we know a lot about it and have technology that our ancestors couldn't even dream of. There's no reason to cut down forests anymore.","Europe hasn't been a big-ass primeval forest since 11,000 years ago. By the end of the Bronze age 3,000 years ago almost all primeval forest was gone. So you're saying the EU should fund your deforestation today because otherwise we're hypocrites with our prehistoric forefathers? Pfff.",1
Close them down. Governements of the affected countries should be furious and take action. Instead we get strongly worded statements and that's it.,You banned all foreigners from travelling to China and later requested everyone to have a negative pcr test and upload all kinds of personal information. And then when you enter China you're put in quarantine for 8 days at some state run facility (not your hotel). And you also have to pay for it!,0
"It's ok, there is no way that fifa boss Gianni Infantino will let Qatar boss him around and he is above reproach as he has absolute no connection to Qatar... checks notes... Ahh, it seems he moved himself and his family to Doha over a year ago and pays ""rent"" on a house - probably to one of the members of the royal family...","He response will be something along the lines of ""Nothing to see here, and stop wearing fucking rainbow hats. By the way I should know what it's like to be persecuted, because I used to have rainbow colored hair"".",0
There won't be any off ramps or even negotiations. If Ukraine agreed to Russia's demand of recognizing the occupied terroritory there would be a bit of ceasefire until all the war elements are moved up to the new border and the war machine would start rolling again until it has consumed all of Ukraine or at least Kiev.,"Russian media has been talking about NATO invading Russia for years before Russia invaded Ukraine, so it's easy to sell it to the population as a defensive war.",1
"The whole point of you going to prison is to be reformed and to come out a better person. However, this segregation will only lead to more crime because of how you’re treated and given less opportunities due to the system….",That’s all good mate but I’m still shocked at how it’s considered a felony! Sorry to hear that you’re classed as a lower classed person for life. I honestly think it’s messed up….,0
If Brazil doesn't want Germany dictating who they can export to they should stop signing contracts with Germany to buy systems to put in said exports saying Germany has to approve all exports of those systems.,"""Germany is producing critical parts of the tanks and Brazil has signed a treaty to not export them without germany's acceptance which is absolutely in line with all treaties of that kind."".",1
"The genocide story was never about millions dead. It was claimed that millions were detained and subjected to various types of abuse including torture. It was always about a cultural genocide, not something like the Holocaust.","In case you were referencing the Uyghur genocide, no one is talking about mass extermination of people there. The claim is rather that China detained more than a million people there to systematically erase Uyghur culture, which is sufficient to match the definition of genocide.",1
"Conservatives speak of the Constitution like it's a holy document. But in the past week Trump said we should just cancel the US Constitution, and this lawsuit is literally Republicans suing to make all state constitutions null and void.","In the same argument a conservative will tell you that the Constitution is sacred and the highest law of the land, but then say that it is outdated and either needs to be changed, rewritten, or scrapped entirely. It all depends on whatever argument they're trying to make right now.",1
"The solution is simple: pay teachers enough to make it a coveted job, protect them from crazy parents/admin, and make it a viable career path that new teachers want to begin.",Teaching should be one of the most highly paid positions we have so only the best of the best are teaching our children.,1
"He caucuses with the Democrats, which means Chuck Schumer — not Mitch McConnell — gets to decide what bills get voted on, what pace we confirm judges, etc.",Particularly 2018 Florida (sooo close) and 2020 Maine (wtf Susan Collins??). Those should have been Dem wins.,0
"if NATO is so afraid of having to actually serve its purpose and defend something that they refuse ""risky"" members then clearly NATO is no longer fit for purpose and should be dismantled.",but a defensive alliance that excludes a potential member because they may have to defend them is no longer fit for purpose.,0
"I liked what Yang said back in 2019-2020, but it just appears that he’s a grifter like so many others. Even looking at his history, he seems to have that sort of makeup.","Everything he does is a cash grab. Running this third party is no different, and the vote splitting is actually harmful to the party whose agenda he allegedly most closely aligns with.",0
-in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened.,"-in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, and also.",0
"And also in fairness to Germany, the Russian leader they were negotiating with probably did not realize himself how badly this war would fuck Russia's economy either. Putin seemed to truly believe he would sweep over Ukraine with only short-term economic consequences. It's obvious at this point that he never thought his army would be getting bogged down in an attritional war of annihilation and that Russia would be dealing with epic, unprecedented Western sanctions for an entire year straight at the same time. If he'd known this would be the outcome, he probably wouldn't have invaded.","Less a question of riches and more one of motivation. Germany's memory of the world wars is still fresher than most countries, and they have very little stomach for anything liable to start a repeat of the carnage. Before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine there is just no way the voters would have tolerated cutting back on Russian fossil fuel imports.",0
"This will probably be dismissed. But coming from the left, with a lot of friends on the left. There is a lot of criticism of DEI. Not because of its goals, which I agree with, but because of how it's implemented. For my job we had a week long dei training that everyone had to attend. A few problems.",They made discussion impossible. The q and a session was very limited and all the events (we attended probably over 20 speakers in five days) were more lectures than they were about discussion.,0
Most places I've worked I've had managers that stated pretty openly that they know if they did drug testing for weed that they would have to fire too many good employees.,"I’ve only ever been drug tested once I moved into higher paying jobs, I was never tested as an hourly worker.",1
"It’s probably good not to characterize pleading the fifth as an indicator of guilt, despite how disgusting Trump is. It’s such a harmful attitude to assume that if someone doesn’t want to testify, they must be guilty or a criminal.",If you’re the criminal defendant you don’t have to outwardly plead the fifth. The state has the burden of proof so by design you don’t have to put on a case at all if you don’t want to - your defense can be that the prosecution failed to meet its burden. Also throughout the entire proceeding the court pounds all of this into the jurors’ brains and the logical outcome - a requirement not to hold it against the defendant if they don’t testify.,1
"And generally speaking, Russian leaders have no idea how to succeed in the 21st century. They mentally live in a world that no longer exists, and their strategies show it.","I agree that it'd be a complicated equation of pros and cons. If the death rates were anything like those of Russian troops in the Ukraine-Russia war, I'd take my chances on a life somewhere else. Or do the jail time. Better that than dead.",0
"A lot of people had quibbles with your comment, but none of them pointed out that ""regime change"", by assassination, is exactly what Russia has been trying to do to Ukraine.","Ukraine says they won't negotiate in Putin, but if pigs fly and Putin one day just says ""fuck it, we'll rolling back to 1990s borders"", I'm fairly certain the Ukrainians will start to talk. Ultimately they care more about making themselves whole than replacing Putin, especially since there's no guarantee any Putin replacement won't be even worse.",1
"Ooh, these hackers are stepping into the war now, with a cyber-attack against a country specifically due to that country's involvement with defending Ukraine?","Would Russia believe independent black hat hackers are capable of a cyber attack causing physical damage? Probably not, and if so what does Russia have the capability to do as a response? Regardless of that answer there's a reason nobody is rushing to set these precedents.",1
"it's incredibly easy to get, yes. your ssn is probably floating around for sale by half a dozen data brokers. and that's only the semi-legitimate data brokers.","i'm not in georgia, but we should probably go vote by mail as the standard. too bad republicans are idiots.",0
"Christians just co-opted Saturnalia from the Romans, including lightning candles and the practice of gift giving, to give Christians a holiday to celebrate while the rest of the Roman Empire was celebrating a “pagan” holiday.","The existing Saturnalia festival which occurred over several days, featured exchanging of gifts, and was a rare time when Rome was lit at night by candlelight.",1
"Not only is it historically realistic, it's 100% possible with precedence to nationalize a rail line, fix it, and then return it to the private sector.","With so much reliant on rail transportation, we cannot sit by while private companies fail to act in the nation's interest and harm others through their mismanagement.",1
Norfolk Southern were also supposed to show at a townhall and have ghosted it. They also only released full list of chemicals days after the controlled burn and Ohio already said the water was safe (how do you test the water w/o a full list of contaminants to test for?).,Yup. No way he’s not covering this shit up. But leave it to the Republicans to think they can keep their own residents from figuring out they aren’t being poisoned.,1
"Nixon also had a few good policies (ending Vietnam, OSHA act, forced desegregation) whereas Trump was just a stream of steaming bullshit.",Because it is a fact the Nixon admin ended the war as he was the commander in chief as that's how America works.,0
Let’s just pretend like Cuba wasn’t a lapdog of the Soviet Union. Or that they didn’t base ICBMs there.,"Last time I checked, people are still trying to get away from Cuba in droves and despite the internets best efforts to convince me otherwise, I don’t see a single communist based nation on this planet that’s capable of existing without being 100% dependent on outside western trade.",0
"We do know that nations ask for export permissions, even when they know they will be declined. What is stopping Poland or any other Nation to do exactly them same?",Isn't the whole fundamental idea that they can't be bothered with a bit of paperwork genuinely absurd?,0
"if I remember correctly, he was a veteran that gave up his American citizenship to become an Australian citizen. Unless Australia doesn't allow for dual citizenship, the fact he gave up his US citizenship means he could be disillusioned with how the US treated him after he left the military.. either that or he doesn't want to pay US taxes while living in Australia.",I was thinking more of how the US government 'took care' of him and other vets after they left the service. Or maybe something happened during his service and he felt betrayed. But the simplest reason to give up his citizenship is probably due to tax purposes.,0
"So there won't be any bankruptcy or spinoff necessary. A win for dominion would hurt the Murdochs in the pocketbook, but they'll still be billionaires when the dust clears. And Fox News will still be churning out misinformation, thought they might be a bit more careful when they attack large corporations in the future.","The only thing that would be a death blow for Fox News would be creating and enforcing standards and regulations on reporting. If they can’t spew propaganda and vitriol 24/7, the cult will change the channel and they will go under.",1
"Good genetics really helps. I have cheap Amazon led lights, five gallon buckets, a 20 dollar tiny desk heater. I check the tent each day, water about every third day. Harvest 3-4 ounces about every 90 days. Way more than I can use. The seeds are twenty bucks each though.","Yah, you can get 300 dollar weed, but come on. This isnt like my first time in a bar where someone is going to convince me its worth it to buy pricey booze. I have had 500 dollar ozzers and I have had 40 dollar ozzers. There's a reason i still buy 40 dollar over 200,300,400+ dollar ones.",1
"All that, just to cripple Ukraine's power infrastructure for the coming winter. All part of Putin's original plan from the start. Uh-huh. Sure.","Of course. I'm just setting the record straight that people literally cheered in the streets, en masse, when Sadam was overthrown. Also, it wasn't just some staged propaganda; the vast majority of the citizenry acted that way.",1
"When the two numbers are ""1"" and ""millions"", that does not take a genius . . Also does not really contain any information at all to say the number is somewhere in between those extremes.","Should the US be involved in fighting terrorism abroad? Obviously yes. Should the US use drones for that? Well, yes, why not? Will there be instances of bad missions? Obviously yes, have to break eggs to make omelette. You can then quibble about the details, the quantity and quality, and the whole. But just saying that Obama did drone strikes should not qualify as a ""real controversy"".",0
"So NK is going to invest heavily in developing nuclear weapons or maybe work on getting a spy satellite in orbit? Maybe they could kidnap some Japanese nationals? Or, possibly to match Japan's belligerence, test out missiles and hold war games nearby to Japan.","They shoot missiles over Japan, Japan responds by amping military, NK complains about military buildup?",1
"maybe instead of shitting on dems for not being completely perfect, you should find some way to convince republicans to stop being totally corrupt?","would it help if I told you we also did it before we lost the house, and removing the filibuster wouldn't have helped since a supermajority is required anyway?",0
He believes NATO wouldn’t be ballsy enough and wouldn’t risk getting involved directly in the conflict as this could quickly spiral into the nuclear war.,"Why he hasn’t done that is somewhat obvious: once he strikes, there would be 0 support from China or India.",0
I'm pretty sure Bernie introduced his student policy in 2019 not 2016.The first person to announce student debt policy into her campaign was Liz Warren.,"The problem is Sanders over promised and set the bar very high with his supporters during his campaign without even considering what congress would look like.He made people believe all that was needed was a bully pulpit to change votes in his favor, when in reality is even he would have massively under delivered.",0
"If building nuclear capable ICBMs is irrational, then the US, Russia, UK, India, China, France are all just as irrational - since they also have nuclear capable ICBMs.","If you assume an irrational actor, you have to assume a nuclear attack sooner or later and should strike first. He is not irrational but cruel and without empathy for his people. He wants to stay in power, which means he does not want to be annihilated by a nuclear counter strike which would be the precise consequence of an attack on the US. He rattles the sabre to remind people not to attack him. The current situation is the ideal outcome for him, there is literally nothing to gain for him in a nuclear war.",1
"When you vote for a Hindu terror org which is responsible for the rapes, murders of 1000s and destroyed lives of 100s of 1000s, you are a Hindu militant nationalist.",and if i vote for the other party i’m an anti-Sikh militant because they’re responsible for mass rampages that killed Sikhs. i’ll be stuck being an angry little turd on reddit like you.,1
"According to the US Department of Transportation, pipelines are the safest way to transport energy. Statistics from the National Transportation Safety Board show pipelines make up less than one one-hundredth of one percent (0.01%) of all transportation accidents in the U.S.. Safer for people and the environment.","Different pipeline but within the Keystone portfolio. A side note, no major media report on the multiples of train derailments carrying oil. Because pipeline leaks are rare, they get more coverage.",0
"US intelligence thinks the Russian death toll is 100,000 ""killed and wounded"". There's reason to think that the Russian dead-to-wounded ratio is around 1:5 (US would be at least 1:10, because of body armor, advanced medical care, etc. The historic ratio is 1:3 in most wars).","I suspect it's a bit higher, just based on the ferocity of the fighting. Maybe 30k Russian dead and 90,000-120,000 wounded, but I'd be surprised if it's any more than that.",0
"Even if Jews aren't technically a separate ""race,"" the Nazis considered us to be one and persecuted us as such. Yes, we tend to have an advantage in that we can ""pass for white,"" but that doesn't lessen the oppression. It means needing to live every day of your life as someone else - likely under a different name. (A ""Joseph Goldman"" wouldn't be able to give his real name and not arouse suspicion of being Jewish.) Just ask any LGBTQ person in a repressive society how ""free"" they feel having to ""play straight"" and hide themselves every second of every day lest they be discovered and persecuted.",Whether or not Jews (such as myself) actually fit the definition of a race is immaterial in this instance. The Nazis treated us like we were a separate race and persecuted us for it.,0
"I'm more interested to see if China will try to press Russia to accept a deal not acceptable to Putin to keep their logic on Taiwan consistent or drop support for Russia because fuck Russia's geopolitical goals, China's goals are more important to China than Russia's goals.","I think they could've used the russian argument that those territories were always russian, therefore Russia has the right to maintian its integrity with those regions (all of which is ofcourse complete bs on the russian part), and then use that to support their claim of Taiwan and Hong Kong, but they at least didn't likely because they know Russia will lose anyways so best not to hitch your horse to that.",1
"Edit: as others have pointed out, they meant the lead had narrowed to 551, not that there were only 551 votes left to be counted. Phew!","Same! It is a testament to how awful of a candidate she is that she can fail in such a miserable fashion, but hey, what else would you expect from this ""FirEBraNd""?",1
"And if you wish to bring something to the table, maybe to fight the antisemitism among Arabs then why not focus focal point (Education) which you seem to agree with rather than Arabs as race(leading to racism) or Muslims as religion(leading to Islamophobia) being the reason.","It is fair if he is speaking about Arabs and Muslims as whole, he didn't specify Iraqis if that was the case I would've not commented instead he said ""Reality is most Arabs"" which is unfair categorization.",0
Journalists have been banning people from social media for having done nothing which violates the site's TOS?,"Twitter has suspended the account of prominent liberal journalist Aaron Rupar as well as reporters from CNN, The New York Times and The Washinon Post.",1
"My guess is that secretly a lot of people around Putin wishes there was someone sane in Putin's position, but it doesn't seem like anyone will act on it.","I dearly hope that going forward, people will stop hyping up these fucking ridiculous speeches from Putin….",1
"I would guess that our government will attempt to find a loophole to allow sending weapons to Ukraine, but from my experience, swiss neutrality is here to stay for the forseeable future.",Switzerland can still be neutral and at the same time allow other countries to export weapons and ammunition that they've produced. I mean if the other country already purchased the items and have possession don't stand in the way.,1
"yeah, when the president literally concentrates the power in his person, closes the parlament that was also choose by the people and literally wants to rewrite the entire constitution of the country and other country wants to give asylum to the same guy that wanted to be a dictator the oligarchs are the ones to blame when Peru doesn´t want him to run from justice.","One of Castillo’s main campaign goals and the reason a lot of people voted for him was to reshuffle the corrupt congress and rewrite the constitution to remove clauses that have been damaging our country for so long, such as the Congress’ current ability to impeach presidents based on ‘moral incapacity’ at any given time, which was left vague intentionally and can mean anything at all. This constitution was written by the previous dictator of Peru as well mind you, and has been a hindrance on our country for decades now.",1
"If SCOTUS overturns _Obergefell_, states with marriage bans in their state constitutions can outlaw marriage equality despite the Respect for Marriage Act. The bill makes it so those states with revived bans still would have to recognize same-sex marriages performed legally in other states.","Well this bill actually covers gay marriage, unlike the 1st amendment. So if you were interested in protecting gay marriage, you would be supportive of this bill instead of trying to make an unrelated and irrelevant 1st amendment argument.",1
The convinced ones know the truth….they cannot say it out loud because then they would be revealed as the Putin shills they are. You and I are convinced they know this too.,"You are correct. He said that in the first half of his January 6th speech before his supporters March down to the Capitol at his direction. In that speech, he also said:",1
"I think it's pandering, and given that the next election is increasingly starting to look like a penalty kick, Labour doesn't have any reason to risk a major policy platform change.","And the fact that Starmer's Tory-Lite, Brexiteer-pandering watered-down ""Labour"" is the ""good"" outcome- or rather the best we can expect- is the most damning thing of all about UK politics.",1
"There’s a decent shot that MAGA republicans dig in too deep, and feel they have to back whoever they decide to back instead of McCarthy, then then GOP comes to the democrats and brokers a deal for someone even more moderate than McCarthy.","If McEachin were still alive, or had already been replaced, then it would only take five GOP Representatives to vote with the Democrats (whether or not one of those five were the candidate).",1
"They already couldn't handle the logistics for 100,000 soldiers when they were fresh. Another 500,000 can only hope to wear down the Ukrainians through sheer attrition as they throw countless soldiers into the meat grinder, which isn't an ideal strategy in the least.",As Ukraine gets too notch tanks delivered to them and them preparing for that atack for a while now chances are not that bad of untaine wining out the war of nutrition.,1
"No, not all police are bastards. In fact, the vast majority are hard working, good people, who perform a wonderful and necessary service.","Yeah crime has been increasing, and the number of deaths is a tiny fraction of total police interactions. Also (and unfortunately) since we in the US insist on having a lot of guns around, we will always have more deaths on all sides (people shooting others, but also police escalating more quickly than if guns weren't as large an issue).",0
Actually M2 Bradleys using TOW missiles destroyed more Iraqi T-72 tanks in the Gulf War than the Abrams MBTs did.,"Bradleys were the top ground tank killer of Desert Storm, F-111s were the top aerial tank killer of it. Neither get anywhere near the credit they deserve for how damn good and effective they were.",1
The mRNA tech allows them to cover more strains at a single time. We understand the flu a lot better now too.,nah its actually better. Vaccine simulate getting ill without most of the side effects of getting ill.,0
"But yes, agree that it's going to be a mess for a while. Here's hoping for the most rational solution that benefits the original artists being used for the models, and art in general, while everyone gets to use these tools to unleash their own creativity.","It's way too simplistic to assume that artists are somehow only capable of creating things that are derivative of others' styles, and in this case, the AI art is directly emulating others' styles, not even coming up with its own. Are you an artist? A lot of learning consists of slamming paint around until it looks like something and refining your own randomness, not copying others at all. Real artists learn actual technique and materials skill, and principles of art, and put these to use instead of ""learning"" by chopping up existing art and making a collage out of it like AI is doing.",1
I think it's only a bloody urban battle if there are Russian troops left behind in Kherson which may not be the case.,"It will be so exciting to see Ukrainian forces enter a liberated Kherson city, though I shudder to think about what they might find when they get there.",1
"With India taking equipment from Russia the US wants to prop up Pakistan to maintain parity, this is something the US has been doing with Pakistan for decades, which is why they had their fleet of F16s in the first place. Neither of those countries give a shit about what the US and Russia are doing anywhere else, but the US (and most of the world) wants them to remain at a stalemate to the extent possible because and India/Pakistan/China conflict is bad news for everyone.","It doesn't really show that at all, those countries are more so neutral or supporting Russia to spite the West for its colonization and imperialism of their countries in the past, American influence is just as strong as its ever been especially now that the world sees how weak Russia really is, when you say multi-polar do you mean China? Because it's doubtful they can challenge the US hegemony in any significant way with all the internal problems they face now.",1
"Warnock won and its no secret in Washinon that she was planning on switching to Independent. So, in efforts to keep her committee assignments, she had to keep her promise to be independent, but not caucas with the GOP.","I think she caususes with the Dems, but you know McConnell would give her whatever she wants in terms of committees to switch sides. Keeping a power sharing agreement in play would be huge for Republican obstruction.",1
I don’t understand how taking a phone out during class could be tolerated at any level. This would be like kids taking a Gameboy out back when I was in primary school; it would have been unthinkable. I get that teachers cannot physically take the phones but there is no way it should be allowed (policies like ISS unless it was a validated emergency or something).,"Same here. I cannot imagine the distraction that modern cell phones would bring into classrooms. It’s already hard enough to concentrate and pay attention in gradeschool, but to have a device like a cell phone that you could discreetly look at and use to record, they never should be allowed out.",0
"It would be quite something but really not all that shocking if Biden managed to gather votes from Republican House members to keep things moving (at least avoid likely shutdowns). The GOP is doing some soul searching right now, and a few might just sober up and realize that governing effectively has a positive effect on approval.","We all had a pretty strong consensus, he's doing a great job. Nothing revolutionary, but he's also acting as a moderate within the party, meaning he's pulling the centrists further left. ""Sassy Joe"" is what my sis-in-law called him, and he totally is.",0
"you're reading that hella wrong, unless you're suggesting nobody should interfere and let China/Taiwan sort it out cuz that's what it sounds like you're suggesting.","He's saying ignore China's continued crying, because if they actually tried anything they'd find out how hard it is to invade Taiwan and they'd have a bunch of allies ready to help.",0
"This is not entirely accurate. The FBI knew about the records, and there was an ongoing discussion with the archives. Also, the records turned out to mostly be public knowledge anway.",The DNC wants Biden out. It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't through him under the bus to prevent him from running again. The small loss they would take from that would be nothing compared to the loss if it were Biden vs anyone other than Trump.,0
"(""In addition to these short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the KPA has at least 700 long-range artillery aimed at the Seoul metropolitan area and northern parts of South Korea"").","(""North Korea maintains nearly 6,000 artillery systems within range of major South Korean population centers, which it could use to kill many thousands in just an hour, even without resorting to chemical or nuclear weapons."").",0
Multiple judges have already said this will help them in certain legal cases as the specification allows them to point at certain edge cases regarding disability and sexuality discrimination (but ESPECIALLY disability discrimination) and tilt them in favour of the disabled party.,"Man, people are really bending themselves over backwards to find reasons to say being anti-discrimination based on sexuality or disability is bad.",1
"It's much more complex than ""descended from,"" they were forming their own culture alongside other African groups as a unique identity with a unique language and culture.",From my experience in talking to them it is about having a cultural attachment to their roots in being slaves without the skin colour aspect. There are Black people in America that do not share that heritage of slavery (even though of course they are subject to the same racism). It is therefore a more cultural distinction these days which makes racists calling Musk an African American even more evil as it tries to erase that culture built from the ruins of being enslaved. This is of course not universal as no culture is a monolith.,1
- China finds Canada's actions in the Meng / Huawei / European lobbying situation particularly frustrating and at this point Xi doesn't event respect Trudeau enough to talk to him.,- Xi thinks Canada represented by Trudeau is the little brother of the US and doesn't even deserve a seat at the table with China given the poor relations.,0
I mean. It's also weird for balance sheets. Give me 300 billion of someone else's money. I promise to give them all of the returns.,If the EU invests it. They will without a doubt take fees from the money under the guise of needing to pay people to invest it. That $330 billion in money will net some bankers some nice fees and some nice bonus checks. All while locking the money up for years and trickling it into Ukraine.,0
"Agreed. I live in a place where my vote doesn’t matter. I will be completely washed away by the volume from the other side. I completely ignore that, I read up on the candidates, learn about any ballot initiatives or bond proposals, and I vote knowing I’m tilting at windmills but the only way that outcome will ever change is if I and a lot of like minded voters get out there and vote. I’m not waiting for the polls to say everyone else is ready, I just cast my vote and move on.",I would never and have never poll’d prior to the official vote. There’s zero reason to vote more than once- especially considering that they literally can’t/won’t reach everyone who is going to ultimately vote anyway.,1
"I don't blame you. It's more surprising seeing teachers STAY at this point. How this country treats its teachers is shameful and disgusting. I hope you find or have found fulfilling employment that compensates you adequately, if not much better. .","This. This is why I’ve always been a strong advocate for tracking. I know it’s such a dirty word in the world of education. But in all honesty, the high level learners are not always going to help pull up the low learners, and in fact will usually be bored as fuck and start acting out. Tracking has the added benefit of making lessons much more closely aligned with each child’s abilities instead of having a over view lesson and then a crap ton of self guided work so teachers can then go do one one one or small group work. Someone is always going to get left behind this way.",1
"Yeah, he was prison, Wagner, surrendered, prisoner of war, given back to Russia, then killed for surrendering.","Heres an idea genius, if russia will kill me if i surrender, maybe i wont surrender. Or im sorry, let me extend my arm chair, if ukraine will kill me i surrender, maybe i shouldnt surrender.",1
i agree in principle but as with everything it is a complicated matter. as far as i know some of these territories have voted to keep the status quo. as opposed to PR that wants to join the union.,"I'd be very happy to see them join the union. It would finally give them representation in congress, and I imagine it would substantially improve their economic situation. And I think having a Latin American state would go a long way in promoting diversity within the US.",1
"Up through the first half of the 20th century neither the law, medical science, nor social attitudes made any meaningful distinction between gay and trans people. People who would now be considered either gay or trans were all considered - people believed to have an inborn reversal of ""natural"" gender traits. A woman who desired other women was considered to be ""sexually male"", a man who desired other men was considered ""sexually female"", while bisexuals were called ""psychosexual hermaphrodites"".","A person who was born male, happy as such, and conventionally ""masculine"" in all respects except for his desire for other men, and a person who was born male but identified and lived exclusively as a woman, were considered variations of the same ""inversion."" The former was seen as ""inverted"" solely in his sexual desires, while the latter was seen as ""inverted"" in all aspects of her personality.",0
"Meanwhile in Russia: a pundit argues that younger men should be trained and sent into combat, so there are no widows or children to pay when they get killed. Another argument is that Russians over 40 are too worn out by alcohol consumption to run, jump or be any good in combat.","""The force of arms replaces diplomacy because it is the only language that Putin and the Kremlin are ready to understand"" she added.",0
"All of these people in LCOL red states are big mad that Californians and New Yorkers are moving to their states, outbidding them on houses and services, but none of them ever stop and consider why all these people from blue states are so much better off than them in the first place.","I'd imagine the majority of the ones leaving are republicans. It doesn't matter though, red or blue, they all benefited from the same Californian policies.",0
"The reason why unions are so important is in the cases of billions of dollars of capital negotiating as a single unit (corporations), while labor negotiates as individuals. The labor/capital curves end up looking like the supply/demand curves of a monopoly. Unions are one solution to this problem, the other being breaking up giant companies. When mom and pop places hire people, they have to compete with all the other mom and pop places in their industry the same way workers compete against other workers. Imagine if the gardening department and menswear department of Walmart had to compete against each other for retail workers. Both wages would rise.","So unions hired by corporations are more likely to have fairer wages, and tiny businesses hiring individuals are also more likely to have fairer wages.",0
"Additionally it’s stated to be a grenade launcher which is not a rocket launcher, but even common sense would dictate the same rules apply, if you don’t know what your doing with it you don’t touch it until you get help. I WOULD expect any reasonable person to know that you should not handle deadly weapons like they are toys, and I ESPECIALLY expect a senior police officer to know that.","Well, the police chief likely has not seen the type of launcher (or any launcher) before and has no reason to know how to safely handle one, so it's hardly his fault.",1
"It also annoys me that the media calls this shit ""Right to Work"". Can you imagine the conservative anger if the media called it ""Union Stomping"" or ""Right to Poverty""?","You can disagree with your union and still be part of the union. I would say lots of people regularly don't agree with everything their union does, just like most people don't agree with everything their government does.",0
Source: Have handled the equipment and had to shoot rubber bullets at violent protesters. If you’re interested in more info:,Fired using an ordinary rifle eg M-16 using similar propulsion to what normally sends a bullet through a human that is 2x-4x farther than the close distance that “Rubber Bullets” are normally fired at.,0
"It's not Trump's fault really, I mean he exposed the Republican platform but even if he's gone we have a lot of evidence of the Republican platform, Trump or not.","They will use Trump as a convenient scapegoat - which will allow them to ignore the fact that their policies and platforms are cruel and unpopular. It wasn’t reproductive rights, it was Trump It wasn’t the fact that they have publicly stated that they want to cut Social Security and continue to deny climate change, it was Trump.",1
Note how the argument is always “who can blame companies? It makes them money!” While simultaneously “individuals are to blame for not changing their lifestyles by using the cheapest stuff consumerism etc.”.,"Why do businesses get let off the hook when they dominate the options, but individuals are expected to shoulder the blame when they just react to what actually available?",0
"So taking a stand against the new axis of evil where Iran, Israels mortal enemy, is a central actor is not a reason to aid Ukraine? Because Ukraine hurt their feelings?","My country has nothing to gain from Ukraine, we border Russia and they are pissed at us for our support to Ukraine. And we have reccord energy prices in a country that is frozen during winter and alot of us use electricity for heating. I cant burn wood to heat my place, i have heating cables in all my floors. My eletricbill is way higher.",0
"If the Ukrainians want to fight to the last Ukrainian against the Russian menace, what's so bad about the west arming them and benefiting from it?","I'm going to play devil's advocate here: several years is bad for both Ukraine and Russia. But, keeping the war in Ukraine (with only Russia as the other war party) is in Europe's and USA's best interest. And as long as the west is only supplying arms, Russia has a very weak case to get more direct help from / involvement of friendly nations (namely, china and India).",1
The first time I had that thought was when I heard some particular opinions about WW2. I'm sure you can guess the general gist of it.,"Pretty much. Racists believe that every person with a particular skin color is exactly the same, so them being racist = all white people are racist, in their minds.",1
"Republican counties had a 20% higher death rate the democrat counties in 2019, despite that repubican and democrat registered voters had the same age adjusted death rates at that time. Starting in September 2020 the registered republicans started to die at a faster rate then democrats did, and that gap has gotten wider over time.","From what I can tell taking all causes of deaths together there were 200k more republicans who died then democrats in the last 12 months. That sounds like a lot but spread out over the country its only like .2-.3% of the electorate in any given race, so in reality it probably only effected a handful of races. If it stays at this elevated rate going forward then maybe it will be enough to push them out of power forever, but who knows if they will change their ways.",0
"McConnell voted for the infrastructure bill. The infrastructure bill includes money for a Cincinnati-Kentucky bridge. McConnell gets a bridge he can tout as an accomplishment for his constituents, Biden gets bipartisan support for his bill (which McConnell makes a capital ""B"" Bipartisan).","From Canada looking in, so every Republican votes against everything that Biden and the Democrats tried to pass and yet Biden is still seeking bipartisanship . Days after Republicans take the house. I'm just going to notch it up as me not understanding how the American politics works.",1
Don't destroying these Russian units means that they will continue destroying Ukrainian cities and killing Ukrainian soldiers.,I reckon that there are other factors that are limiting the delivery speed and number of weapons and vehicles to Ukraine than just politics.,0
"Why so many people saying the Chinese vaccine don’t work? There is data out there verified by not China that it is in fact very effective. Just because you get fever doesn’t mean anything, as long as a ICU visit is prevented it has done it’s job. As for the unvaccinated that’s on them for not doing it and listening to people like this who says vaccines are not that effective.",Rebuttal 1: If the vaccines were effective then that would have naturally resulted in a zero covid outcome for the vaccinated.,1
"So far India has been maintaining a very dangerous situation with other nearing countries like China and Pakistan at the border of India. Therefore, India needs more powerful military organizations. A.K.A India bought huge amounts of petroleum & natural gas, at very cheaper costs many times from Russia regardless of the US & EU's negative responses. India does not have any interest in the Ukrainian war, at the same time, the nation would like to obtain an awesome weapon-building technology to punish China at the border of India.","India could have ten times as much military forces at present and it's still not really a -threat- to China, even if on paper they could win a conventional conflict. Likewise, China with ten times their present forces isn't really a threat to India simply because they've got other fish to fry, so to speak.",1
"Yeah, and everyone always just kinda move on? That’s what people are trying to say, the fact that male politicians pull worse shit than this and a lot of the time they still have a platform and people just shrug.","Not really, you see news about male politicians doing that shit all the time. Isnt it like every other year when some homophobic conservative gets outed for having sex with male prostitutes.",1
Except they can't even do that right. It's really hard to blame the dems for not helping the GOP pick a speaker.,"Maybe, but from what I’m seeing, no matter who gets the speakership for the Republicans, they will need Democrats’ support to get almost anything done.",1
"2. Herd immunity would not necessarily be conferred against mutations. Mutations are different from the original strain; some are so different that they can evade our body's existing defense systems. This is why as the pandemic continues and more mutant variants arise, pharmaceutical companies are designing new vaccines, because the old vaccines are not as effective against new variants. Your body's immune system is no different. If you caught COVID near the beginning of the pandemic, your immune system would know how to identify and destroy that original strain. But it may not know how to do so against Omicron or any potential future variants, depending on how different they are. In other words, future mutations would still have just as much of a chance of infecting you and producing symptoms.","I suppose, at least, it would be helpful to identify any potentially dangerous mutations as early as possible.",1
"We shouldn't be. The sale of vital infrastructure to foreign nations is a national security risk. Even if they don't use it against us directly, if we ever have to forcefully nationalize a company and seize it from a foreign government, it will impact our ability to trade in the future.","COVID wasn't the only problem in recent times. When Russia and Saudi Arabia had their trade war it dropped prices per barrel into the negative. This caused multiple shale mining operations and numerous refineries to shut down. Then, the previous administration went and made a two-year deal with Saudi Arabia to lower production output. Once that agreement ended, in mid 2022, prices started to fall at a rapid pace up until Russia and Saudia Arabia agreed to lower production again. Not to mention oil company profits are up significantly due to price gouging.",0
"They also get to further hurt the LGBTQ+ community during the whole process, and get to point at drag queens as ""causing the kids to be trans"" which is an added bonus for them.","I think the whole point is to find a way to ease into outright banning trans people. If they can wiggle their way into fully banning drag shows and/or labeling them as adult content, then they can move into labeling any trans person just walking down the street as being ""obscene"" or ""offensive."" It also lumps the two groups together for people who don't understand the differences, and pushes the narrative that trans people are only ""performing."".",0
Musk's love affair with MAGA morons is going to fuck him over. He's not going to be able to afford apartheid Twitter by pissing of his Tesla customer base and I don't see MAGA conservative buying his cybertruck and Tesla branded truck nuts anytime soon.,He needs to return the public money he took from government handouts but other than that he can keep whatever is left after the collapse of Tesla (and the inevitable fall of everything else that the Ponzi is propping up) and then he can fuck off.,1
"Can you elaborate on how someone's compulsive behavior drove them to kill someone? Ted Bundy made that claim in one of his later prison interviews, but it was.","Thanks. But I'm not seeing porn usage as a causal factor in any studies I can find. I'm not sure I follow your point, sorry. Are you trying to make an argument that porn should be outlawed for adults?",0
Russia is clearly the external aggressor seizing territory and annexing it permanently from Ukraine which is clearly forbidden by the UN Charter.,The Russian Federation broke their most important treaty obligation when they invaded Ukraine in 2014 and subsequently annexed territory. They can’t claim the rights of the USSR if they abandoned the responsibilities of the USSR.,1
"For two and a half centuries, the words they never really meant have lived on as a sword in the hands of the oppressed. The world is a better place today because they claimed high ideals as their justification for creating America as an independent nation, and because they thereby permanently opened America to rebuke with its own hypocrisy.","The U.S. is a ""freekin' awesome country"" because it was founded upon enlightenment ideals (to which it asymtotically approaches), is a bastion of freedom, has become the most powerful nation to have ever existed, creates peace and hope, does awesome things like landing on the moon, has altered the direction of history for the better, and created the greatest food of all time: Pizza.",1
It would mean that other people potentially wouldn't have access to blood that would normally be made instead.,It would mean that other people potentially wouldn't have access to blood that would normally be made instead.,0
"Investing a large sum of money and putting the profits to work can go a looong way and personally i have a feeling that Ukraine will still be feeling the effects of the war 10 years down the line (rebuilding stuff, clearing mines, ect.).",I mean. It's also weird for balance sheets. Give me 300 billion of someone else's money. I promise to give them all of the returns.,1
"They were also not found by any government agency such as the FBI, they were found by a team trump has hired and paid, there was absolutely more documents there, the two they gave up probably aren’t very incriminating while the others are and were most likely destroyed in the search.","Can you fucking imagine if the FBI had reason to believe you were illegally holding classified documents, and you were allowed to hire your own team to search for them?",1
"I'm sure to the Russians it's great propaganda because they see Ukraine as a NATO puppet. Meanwhile in Ukraine they say ""We will suffer all the real hardship and loss of life in this war as long as NATO keeps helping us to reclaim our freedom."".","While true that we need to care about what Russia considers escalation a little bit, it's important to both distinguish between escalation and anger (a lot of things the West does merely angers Putin) and to think about what escalation really is in practical terms rather than a more nebulous ""bad thing."" addressing this topic in depth.",0
This is basically the only real answer. Russia will probably end up having all their over seas assests seized and have to pay the following at minimum.,"The cost of us having to aid ukraine against an illegal war (remember before i hear ""what about us"" we have ALWAYS had a legal cause for war).",0
"The US investigation says that bullet was likely fired by IDF: ""SEE? This 100% proves it was an Israeli bullet. Thank goodness we finally have an honest investigation!"".",Yup. And it was funny seeing people talk about it after they had already decided before any information was out there that Israel had deliberately targeted her.,0
"No one has explained to me, logically how gay marriage affects the family dynamic. Gay people are not going to marry straight, at least not without a lot of suffering and ultimately a bad marriage.",Lots of people hate LGBT folks (who are not actually responsible for their own oppression). Politicians like votes so they tap into this negative energy to keep their jobs.,1
Real world examples: Trans people. Gay people. Drag queens. Migrants. Librarians. Teachers. Every Democratic politician up to and including Biden and Harris. “Woke leftists.”.,"Fox News is saying untrue horrible BS about every one of these people/groups all the time, every bit as bad as what they said about Dominion, poisoning their neighbors and communities against them. But maybe it doesn’t rise to the legal threshold of “defamation” because they aren’t attacking one individual directly, they’re spewing their godawful venom about the whole group and we don’t write laws to protect groups of people from collective defamation.",0
"You’re right. They aren’t trying to enact change at all. But that’s not what I’m saying. They are angry, that’s why they are doing this. And because little is being done the about source of climate change (corporate greed) after trying other methods of protesting, the anger that they are displaying is justified.","I don't think it's the best way to raise attention for environmental causes, but honestly nothing else has worked for the last 50 years, so...",1
Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.,"Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article, with few exceptions - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.",1
The point I was making is that the warmongering mentality isn't unique to Putin but that there are many people in positions of power who would try to continue or even try to escalate the war further.,"I don't doubt that Putin would like to attack America, but he can want to do something all he wants, if he isn't able to it doesn't matter what he wants.",1
"As a Pole, I'll tell you that that Russian would've been right if we thought the way they do, but the simple fact is Poland has given up any expansionist aspirations long ago. It's just Russia that's still stuck in the 20th century with 20th century logic.",There's a reason Russia pushes these stupid ideas. Sure they'd love to tear some pieces off of Ukraine so that they could sieze the rest more easily but even if they see that it's not going to happen it's still a good way to increase suspicion between Ukraine and it's neighbors.,1
So you combine all those factors with the historical issue of US culture stigmatizing black folks as inherently criminal or dangerous.,"Trying to demand racial parity from them would be silly, because each individual police department is different. Let’s say black folks are the suspect in 11% of the crimes in Polk County. Would you require the Polk County PD to keep track of all their tweets and intentionally feature black mugshots in 11% of them?",0
"That is very purpose of the channel, have you heard a lot of criticism of Qatar by any other country?",Its like how fox news first started with good journalist and some opinion pieces over time once they got viewership they pivoted slowly and now is basically a opinion tv and not a news channel.,0
11th circuit really stopped short of calling Trump appointed judge Cannon illiterate in law. The judge should vacate the bench tbh not that it will happen but that would be the moral thing to do here.,"I suppose she could be arrested for something, but the judge that hears that case is going to throw it out. She could be impeached by the House and upon conviction in the Senate removed from the job. Odds of that are zero.",1
"(Normally I change the term “anti-Semite” when including this quote from Sartre, but for Ms Space Lasers, it fits, so I’ll leave it.).","Oh yeah. It sticks out that they never, EVER refer to them as anti fascist and I’d wager good money that a large portion of the base doesn’t know what antifa is short for.",1
"In most federal districts, there are a handful of judges sitting, and when a case gets filed and hits the docket, it gets automatically and more importantly randomly assigned to one of the sitting judges within that district.","Shouldn't be allowed to preside over a case involving anyone who nominated or confirmed you, and judges should be assigned at random from a pool of all available judges without conflicts of interest.",1
"If you're still on single pane windows it's worth upgrading, but the improvement from double to triple pane is not big enough to justify the cost usually. At least not compared to other insulation measures.","Replacing your old windows without also improving your home's insulation is a recipe for mold problems. The windows should be the coldest point in the room, otherwise the moisture will cling to the walls.",1
"Heres a fact check with some sources you can read. In a case where some tied Biden to saying the Travel bans xenophobic, it was actually confused, as he called Trump Xenophobic the same day the bans were announced. If you can find anyone significant calling the covid travel bans themselves racist however, Id be more than happy to look at them.","Do keep in mind though, that if the common consensus is that Liberals wanted everyone locked in at home, they would've supported travel bans.",0
"Also, last I checked, Russia's overall standard of living is a bit higher than Iran's, which is definitely a factor in both why so many Russians are apathetic and why they aren't exactly rushing in to die for Putin and his yachts, palaces and oligarchs. They have to be forced to do it instead. Apathy, not support, is the dominant feeling in Russia.",A lot of the Western misconceptions about Russia like the one you mentioned are exactly what fuel Putin's murderous and illegitimate regime.,0
"When you’ve got the momentum and advantage it’s not best practice to let the competition dictate the game. I’m disappointed that I have to describe US politics this way, it’s sickening.","I'm not saying he hasn't done good as well, just that Democrats have become a very pro-corporate party and it's disappointing.",1
"The West keeps the Ukrainian military supplied. The PEOPLE keep it functioning. If this weren't so, why would Put in be shelling the people over military targets? According to your 'logic' he wouldn't.","A tip: when you think you know something the whole world seemingly doesn't, it's usually because it's such a bad idea it was ruled out on day 1.",0
I hate how much I’ve seen the 4x10 get talked about. No amount of extra day off is going to make me any more productive when working a 10-hour day.,"In the UK a full time work week is a minimum of 35 hours, and if you worked 9-5 Monday to Friday it would be 7 hours a day plus an hour unpaid break.",1
"what evidence you have of that? Sinema and Manchin have long been on the record against filibuster reform, you think Schumer just snaps his fingers and they flip?",2016-2020 he was president and nearly broke our democracy. these last two years he's not and the DOJ and various states are gunning for him. Our democracy still hasn't healed and it definitely isn't going to be repaired until he is held to account.,0
"Assuming prescriptive linguistics, we can’t disagree on if a given action, carried out with a given intent, was genocide.","“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:",0
And although it is arguable if the obama era regulation would have affected this particular train (assuming that the railway company wasn't going around the rules by reclassifing the train to other types). Obama's regulation only got so far as calling for an investigation into the costs/benefits. That investigation was done by Trump administration and was latter found to be lacking quite substantially.,"Overall it probs would have been better, also in this case, if the train was equipped with better braking systems. It wouldn't have prevented the derailing, but it could have limited the impact. And in general it is a great example of why deregulation is only wise from a short term, quick win for shareholder point of view. But never good for the general public, as they will not be the ones to enjoy the lowered costs of operating of the railways.",0
That's the downtown Orlando district though. Val Demings won it with 65% and then 64% of the vote. Maxwell just got 59%.,"It's Texas. Neither liberals or progressives are going to flip it anytime soon. I know reddit hates ""moderates"" but they are the only ones with a chance in solidly red states. You really think Texas is going to flip for a AOC like candidate?",0
An arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation oversees pipeline safety and permitted TC Energy to have greater pressures on the Keystone system because the company used pipe made from better steel.,"According to the US Department of Transportation, pipelines are the safest way to transport energy. Statistics from the National Transportation Safety Board show pipelines make up less than one one-hundredth of one percent (0.01%) of all transportation accidents in the U.S.. Safer for people and the environment.",1
"What makes artillery scarier than air strikes is that if you have no way to take out the guns, they can literally lay fire down 24/7. Whereas a plane has to fly back to re-arm / refuel and guided bombs are expensive vs an artillery shell, some gun powder and a bunch of bored Marines.","Regarding rate of fire, the British would probably buy slower firing howitzers before they decide to buy more ammo.",1
"The trigger is still being “pulled” once for every bullet. The only way this becomes untrue is from some technical failure resulting in two bullets feeding at the same time, which would result in a misfire. The trigger as part of the gun’s firing mechanism has to reset to a certain position and be “pulled” again before another bullet can be fired.","Edit for clarification: automatic firearms are those capable of firing multiple bullets with a single trigger pull. Semiautomatic firearms fire one bullet per trigger pull. Bump stocks only increase the rate at which the trigger is pulled, therefore it’s still 1 bullet per trigger pull, and technically not a modification into “automatic.”.",0
Perhaps the real question is why aren’t we all outraged at our classification system allowing such poor handling of sensitive material?,"Some of us have been outrage for a while about how over used the classification system has been abused unnecessarily, lump it all in and maybe we get some improvement.",1
"Thus, nuclear weapons will be used, without a doubt, Israel will nuke Iran and won't even think twice if it means preventing them from achieving a nuclear weapon, there is quite literally nothing worse than a nuclear Iran for Israel.","Israel knows it doesn't have strategic bombers, it's pretty much guaranteed it developed a nuclear penetrator bomb to compensate for it.",0
"Imagine if the US did, in fact, say they will carry out this attack if Russia doesn't remove Putin from office in the interest of global stability. Russia would be like, ""Damn, maybe we should have him removed."".","Yep. The Ukraine defense extortion and Hunter Biden stuff kinda came out of nowhere in the Trump drama, and it's only in retrospect that it was in some sense telegraphing Russia's intent. It was a lingering question that has an answer now - Russia was counting on Trump to hamstring Ukraine's defenses for the upcoming invasion.",1
"no matter what you think about IDF, i think anyone can agree that putting rocket launchers near a school shows a horrifying disregard for lives of children.","That aside, I think any rational human can agree that placing rockets IN AND AROUND SCHOOLS is morally reprehensible and suggests that they value killing israeli's more than they do protecting their own children.",0
"At one point last year Ukraine even accused Hungary of knowing about the Russian invasion beforehand, and that they would have offered Carpathian Ruthenia had Hungary cooperated.","Orbán said that the West does not understand that in Ukraine, time is on the side of Russia, which is a powerful country and can mobilise a huge army, but Ukraine cannot.",1
"Nah, Russian and Ukraine is war between two actual armies, with Russia deciding that war crimes are an acceptable strategy for attrition.","Secondly, do you know how many Ukrainians have been killed by Russian rockets and soldiers? Turkey’s response has been to increase trade with Russia and extort countries trying to join NATO for political gain. Turkey has no problem watching other people get bombed and in fact tries to use that as leverage to bully Sweden and Finland - the contempt held for turkey in the west is a grave it has dug itself.",1
"If the trigger moves back and forth, it is not a single function. The rate of fire does not matter. Whether you think ""the purpose of the definition seems to be"" different from what the text is, does not matter. If the law is defective, it is up to Congress to change it. Through legitimate democratic process. Not by fiat.","No it does not. Per federal law a machine gun is a firearm that can fire more than one cartridge per action of the trigger. A bump stock does not make that possible, it just uses the recoil of the gun to help the shooter pull the trigger faster than normal. A firearm with a bump stick still requires one action of the trigger even if it looks like it's firing very fast.",1
"I really wish we would just make ""state rights"" be about letting the popular vote decide legislative shit. Marijuana is a state issue, let people in the state vote for it. Women's health is a state issue, let the people in the state vote for it. I'm tired of gerrymandered assholes in my state decide for things that the majority of people don't want regardless of party. I just want Texas to do what other governors are letting their states vote on. But then Texas would have to admit the only reason they win is that our low voter turnout, especially in cities and among young people, are the only thing keeping reds in charge. Let's see if people care if you actually let us vote for something that affects us.",Not as easy as you think since lots and lots of states have Republicans in power that KNOW that any meaningful ballot question will drive voter turnout and hurt them.,1
"If you look at the tax rolls, half the AirBnBs in Austin have homestead, “primary residence”exemptions.","No, but we have property taxes that make up for not having a state income tax. Part of figuring the property taxes is if your home is your primary residence then you get a homestead exemption which cuts your taxes by like 20-30% (Maybe more, don’t remember off the top of my head). I think our taxes are about $12k per year and with homestead exemption they are around $9k.",1
"I would recommend the whole article, which goes on to describe and analyze the unique challenge faced by being a politician, which is a 'front stage job' who suffers from depression, which is a 'back stage' illness. The Atlantic has a metered paywall; if this synopsis interests you, I'd recommend using one of your monthly clicks.","I suffer from a mental illness, and not one of the more 'media friendly' mental health diagnoses such as depression or anxiety. I'm well treated for it (schizoaffective disorder), as you can hopefully tell from my relative coherence. I'm posting this article partially because of an interaction I had the other day in this subreddit, wherein a commenter joked that C-SPAN callers were undiagnosed schizophrenics, and I was downvoted for asking them not to make a punchline out of the illness. I'm sharing this article and this story to hopefully help humanize those with even the less savory mental health issues, and maybe give someone pause before the next time they joke about ""schizos"", call Fetterman a 'vegetable', rush to attribute violence to mental health issues, or in some other way do their part to ensure that those with serious mental health issues and/or disabilities do not take part in public life.",0
This has HUGE implications. It means EU countries will set a precedent to further restrict trade and increase sanctions on Russia. But what's even bigger is it also applies secondary sanctions to countries and other entities that trade with Russia. This is very good. It forces the rest of the world to play along with efforts to punish the aggressor.,"Parliaments in several of Ukraine's most ardent EU backers - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland - have declared that they consider Russia under President Vladimir Putin to be a state sponsor of terrorism.",0
"I think you should be able to pick any public school for starters. There shouldn't be boundaries. Furthermore, I think that you should be able to take the funds that would be spent on you in the public school and use it as a voucher to help pay for a private school. Since this original post involves Florida I think they are a pretty good state in this regards. So here is a look at the school choice options they have.","You are allowed to pick your schools. You can go to private ones, homeschool, join a homeschool pod with other families, or move to a different school district. You already have the options you say you want but you’re still supporting taking away options from others. I don’t try to force my kids’ school to change how they teach because I trust the education they’re getting there, I know their teachers, and I’m actually involved in my kids’ lives to know what they’re doing. .",1
"You couldn’t be more wrong. Governments all over the world are setting rules and restrictions, from authoritarian ones right through to fully democratic govts. Land in Shanghai and try and find google on your browser - or just about any western news website. National controls on web content is common. In fact your own US Govt commonly forced other countries to block content over I.P. Issues. And I stand by my view that a completely unregulated internet was always a masturbatory delusion of the simple minded.","If it makes you feel better, your response doesn’t seem too rant-ish to me. Your views are strongly held. I will argue though that censorship of extreme material on the internet is a much smaller threat to your freedoms in America than 1) highly gerrymandered electorates, 2) rules that make it extremely hard to vote, 3) extremists storming the congressional building, 4) Rupert Murdoch and his media outlets showing extreme bias, 5) billionaires ploughing huge amounts of money into politics.",0
Send enough armor and weapons to Ukraine and let them kick those fuckin Russians back to Moscow so they can topple Putin and get it over with.,"I think you're missing the point that Poland isn't submitting an application in the first place, and this is the problem.. not that Germany can't approve it.",0
he cannot possibly fulfill the duties I imagine even a USA house speaker would have against tradition and process.,"That could work, with a condition: she would be a nonvoting Speaker of course, no longer being an elected US Representative. The condition would be taking it as a non political position, neutral to both 'sides', with responsibility for ensuring institutional integrity and transparency of the House.",1
"I'm amazed restaurants still take reservations. As a former service worker I totally agree with charging no shows. It's like the airline, you book a flight and pay, if you don't show it's your loss. This applies to restaurants, they hold your table and tell others to wait, it costs the restaurant money to have empty seats with paying customers waiting at the door.","If you were the table that stayed too long and caused someone else's table reservation to not be available on time, would you pay them? It gets tricky. It's hard as a restaurant to handle the tables that stay for 3-4 hours, especially when not ordering while doing it. It's not ok, but it's also not ok to ask them to leave. That's usually why reservations aren't ready.",1
"Also, given that this race could give Democrats an edge in the Senate, GOP Georgia voters may be more energized about making sure that doesn’t happen and that’s a big driver too.","On one hand, some Georgia GOP voters have said they like Walker because they know him from his football days, they think he’d be a fresh face in the Senate. People often like political outsiders who don't have conventional experience. But - there is indication that republicans in Georgia don’t want to see another seat go to dems and that is likely a significant part of his support base too.",0
Let's also not forget that there are years like 2017 when 60 people were killed and over 400 wounded in just a single shooting with AR pattern rifles.,"36 isn’t bad when you think of the thousands who die every year in the states due to firearms, which includes AR15 deaths.",1
Russia has exactly two strategies in their playbook for offensive action to take cities: Bullshit and Bombardment.,"4) russia cries how victimized they are, then launches theor ""surprise attack"" anyway. They die like dogs because Ukrainians aren't stupid.",1
The Afghani Taliban had to soften its stance on some things to be considered a viable national government to Afghanistan that would actually be recognized and traded with. A version that can never hope to aspire to anything but terrorism does not need to do that.,"Not really accurate. The US did supply arms to anti-Soviet rebels in Afghanistan but those rebels' values reflected what a lot of the population already felt. A large supply of high-tech weapons can only go so far without soldiers willing to carry them. Also, a lot of those soldiers came from Islamic nations outside of Afghanistan. Also, China also helped the Afghan rebels as by that time they had fallen out with Soviets. In sum, to say the US is uniquely responsible for the Taliban is fallacy.",0
"And since the payment pause is universal it's harder to justify politically, plenty of 6 figure folks benefit from the pause.","I think the bigger problem with a extended pause is the revenue hit, I would expect a GOP house to cut funding to social services until payment are restarted.",0
"The only path to peace between Israel and Palestine is if they both stop trying to kill each other. Supporting Palestine shouldn't mean condoning their worst actions, but all too often it does.",You keep saying what support of Palestine shouldn't be. But you don't seem to be offering actual alternatives beyond vague platitudes of building them up.,1
"Let's be real, Ukraine was one of the most politically corrupt nations in Europe. Likely still is. And that's not going to change ""swiftly"" no matter what happens.","Also this does NOT mean it was acceptable for Russia to invade them, or that other nations should not assist Ukraine.",0
"I think it means ONLY 5 GOP votes are needed with the cooperation of the Dem's to elect the leader. That puts a lot of power in some GOP moderates if they want. In the article, a Dem has mentioned he'd never do that, so that means +1 GOP vote needed. I think it's easier to convince Dem's to (1) vote for a moderate GOP over (2) let Kevin agree to a bunch of concessions that are bad for everyone.","Now, if it's a necessary part of the deal (eg, some moderate GOP Reps don't want to vote for the same Speaker as, say, AOC), that's a different story. If that's the case, then, by all means, do what needs to be done. But barring something like that, I think it's a stronger move to have a unified Democratic Party in a coalition with however many reasonable Republicans can be corralled. The larger the majority electing the Speaker, the better. You get unity among Democrats, bipartisanship, ""Republicans in disarray,"" and can say both the progressives and GOP moderates put country above party. And it makes it unique in the GOP that they're uncompromising and would rather lose power and be in the minority than give an inch, which, hopefully, will give their voters pause and encourage them to nominate more moderate candidates next cycle.",1
I'm not sure what point you're arguing here. Are you simply saying that GOP voters must be rubes with no understanding of what they're supporting or....?,"If you’re saying the GOP is lying, I generally agree. If you mean all people who vote Republican are lying about wanting less government and are actually authoritarian fascists, you’re vastly oversimplifying it.",1
Are you an idiot? You really think the asswat Modi who supports the fascist Putin really needs to make weapons? Try reading about what Putin is doing in Ukraine before you decide if he needs to have any help him making more weapons.,"Google "" How Ukraine became a testbed for western weapons"" by CNN. I hope CNN is not a Russian media.",1
"I think that's reductive, but that's beside the point. I'm saying that there was a way that Twitter could have pivoted their advertiser-funded approach toward a more Twitch-like model, but Musk has bungled it.","If there was a way to slip that banana peel under Musk, what would you do to end the tweet storms (and Twitter) masquerading as journalism?",1
"Ironically, calling in the Guard probably DECREASED the risk of violence, due to how utterly borked police departments are these days, especially in Georgia..","I'm WHITE and worked as an EMT, and I don't even feel safe around many Police these days (I worked in a major city, and could trust the police there- bit the police in the exurbs are hyper-aggressive Good Old Boys...) They tend to be super militaristic, with a constant siege mentality outside the very best departments and a few good apples here and there...",0
"Ukraine is doing this to revive their own language in their country, I don’t really see the problem in any of this.","I'm pro Ukraine, but I don't feel personally threatened by Russia so I'm less biased then most people here. If any other country did this, redditors would be all up in arms, rightfully so, but because it's ukraine doing it to its Russian speaking citizens, then it's OK.",1
"Like any international treaty, the NATO Treaty can be changed by unanimous agreement of the parties. Accepting a new European member already requires the same unanimous agreement. And in practically all countries, the internal mechanism (parliamentary vote, etc.) is identical for a treaty change decision and a ""invite new NATO member"" decision.",When NATO changes the charter it was founded in. Under article 10 it limits to only nations with land in Europe joining after its founding (Canada and Us are exception).,1
"All these people retained their power and privilege, and in some cases (Butina) expanded it. That is why there is a general sense that nothing came out of the Mueller investigation.",Can we PLEASE stop pretending that nothing came out of the Mueller report? This is Republican propaganda.,1
Ok. You’re assuming that there is no difference between varying degrees and types of attention. You’re not considering how international relations with China could be leveraged. You’re also assuming that the current sanctions (attention we are paying to them) are not hurting their country and slowing down their production of nuclear arms. You’re assuming they wouldn’t just ratchet up their attention seeking behavior until we HAVE to pay attention to them based on probability of accidental mass casualty incidents. You’re assuming he wouldn’t exploit his people even more if we didn’t condemn and take actions against them.,How am I assuming he wouldn't exploit his people more? How does us paying attention to him help stop that? Are you advocating for some kind of military intervention to prevent that?,1
"Well, there's the , , , , ... but of course none of this was even relatively unknown for anyone following the news, you just consider the russians innocent because you sympathise with them.",You really should look more into what's happening in Ukraine before excusing the actions of the Russians.,1
"I never realized how connected Russian and Ukrainian lives were, if you got rid of the Ukrainian and Russian words from your sentence you could think it's a civil war.","Unfortunately the same can probably be said for Ukraine, the only difference is that Russia brought it on themselves, Ukraine just got attacked for no reason.",1
"When the state continually elects and re-elects politicians whose party platform is to erode and dismantle the public institutions that provide services to better citizens, what the fuck did they think they were going to get?","I have family and friends in Texas and it's ridiculous how a state that's been completely gutted by GOP control over the past few decades has convinced the voters there that all their problems are because of powerless Democrats and California somehow. Even the left leaning people I know shrug off their state's rising prices, crumbling infrastructure, and general incompetency with 'It's because of all the Californians moving here...' as if CA had some natural disaster and is now completely empty. It's the failure of your own Republican government.",1
"So they probably aren't the type of people to buy brand new cars, so they won't be directly affected by the mandate, even when it hits 100% new EV sales in 2035.","For sure, but the people who can't afford $25k for a car generally aren't the ones buying new cars in the first place (regardless of whether it's gas or EV), so the mandate doesn't affect them. Instead they typically buy used cars (for cheaper).",0
"The problem is it’s challenging to pull nearly 200 people away from voting in line with party leadership for McCarthy, unless McCarthy himself steps aside. At the moment he looks unwilling to do so.",My opinion - we’re more likely to just see republicans fall in line and vote for McCarthy as he cuts more deals with the holdouts. But who knows! Anything could happen tonight 🤷‍♂️.,0
"Same, got Covid during Omicron. Was boosted. Though, and this is very important, COVID-19 symptoms were much more severe and deadly pre vaccines/during OG Covid.","The vaccine doesn’t stop you from getting it, but it probably make the illness more mild when you do catch Covid.",1
It was that ad that turned me away. I can not vote for some one that tucks a shirt in jeans w/ no belt. It’s a generational voting issue in my household….,"I think people are generally voting for policies more so than for people. Lots of people believe that democrat policies have made things worse in the last two years. In a lot of respects this midterm election is a referendum on those policies. Walker, or whomever, as part of a republican majority, will be able to help push different policies. Maybe that's what you mean by ""rooting for the team."" But pretty simple... Republicans want fewer dems in position to push policies that Republicans disagree with and think are making things worse in so many ways. Dems do the same thing when they vote for Omar or Feinstein or others who are crazy or incompetent.",1
"You dont need a long range AA missile to intercept a long range cruise missile. S-300 has just 100 or 200 km of range, more than enough to intercept low flying cruise missiles.",No fly zone would be for planes ofc but for rockets and missiles too. Maybe I am wrong to expect a jet to intercept a missile or rocket inbound from russia.,1
"No, they just say a partial receiver is a partial receiver. The fact it's a receiver - a purpose built product to create to gun is the focus.","Please point out in the Federal Code where it says anything that gets near a gun is a firearm if it is ""purpose built"". Congress did not at any time give the President sweeping authority to write regulations of his own accord because he just feels so strongly about it.",1
"That was the basis of the first peace deal between Jordan and Israel. Jordan was the first Arab country to make a peace with Israel. Egypt later followed, but there has been no peace deal with Syria since the independence of Israel.","Jordan and Israel signed a peace agreement in the mid 1990's, with president Clinton aiding the negotiations.",1
If they don't call them a bottom they just straight up say someone sucks dicks or has sex with men because being gay or a woman is the ultimate dehumanizing thing for conservative men it seems.,Crazy (but also not that surprising) to see conservative women use such rabidly misogynistic language to attack a (presumably) gay man.,1
"I also don't agree with the framing or implication that both Russia and Ukraine are equally as untrustworthy, or that information from either side should be dismissed equally as false propaganda just because they are on opposing sides of a war.","So, unfortunately I think Russian patriotism and propaganda will be stronger than any audible dissention, left in the country.",1
"Like, this is flooring the hell out of me. Russia’s superpower/great power status has seemingly evaporated.",My personal question here is how did almost all Western military analysts completely overestimate Russian strenh and capability?,0
"The Republican party had no choice but to nominate him, that's how primaries work. No important Republican politician wanted him, but the Republican VOTERS wanted him. The problem isn't a few creeps like McConnell or Cruz, it's the entire Republican electorate.","After your voters ALL said they want him, you're going to turn around and say ""no, vote for Gary Johnson instead?"" That's the short road to political irrelevance. And if a politician cares about anything, it's power and relevance.",0
"Germany has actually done a lot, but I understand your sentiment. Germany is holding up deliveries of Leopard 2 tanks and they've been unable to explain why.","And not to detract from Polands amazing work, but Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have all given so much for their relative size and wealth. Truly amazing people.",0
"No idea what a LPR Is but if passports are being automated, that’s great. The Same level of security is being applied then as if they had obtained a passport. A drivers license and federal ID are different things. Drivers licenses can be Real ID compliant or not. There are 2 versions.","If you think so. However, terrorists are constantly looking for ways to attack America. There is a balance between freedom and security. What’s the harm in requiring people to meet certain requirements to get a federal ID when that ID is used for federally controlled forms of mass transportation when mass transportation has been used for successful terrorist attacks in the past? It’s already required to have a passport for international travel. Why is that required? A passport is really all about security.",0
"Sure, but that's just traditionally. That doesn't mean they have to. Pelosi didn't get all the votes in her caucus either, but she had the power and leadership ability to create reasonable deals and get people to vote present instead of for someone else. McCarthy is in this position because he's a bad leader to his caucus. His caucus may be actually unmanageable, but that's what people voted for and that's what McCarthy enabled.","There’s a reason that even if McCarthy gives them everything and gets their vote he can’t win, because others may not be willing to destroy themselves so McCarthy can be speaker.",1
"Beyond how the heck do these companies still manage to compete with such poor labor utilization, how are people not bored out of their minds just sitting there all the time?",I'm really shocked at how people apparently sit around at work so much and companies just... let them get away with it to the point that losing 20% of the labor hours for the week has minimal effect.,0
Are... are you serious? You're claiming guns never break? Never get broken? Don't rust? Firing pins don't get stuck?,"This conversation is so incredibly generic I'm shocked you'd even try to estimate a time frame. I'm well aware how many guns exist. I'm also aware what a ""first step"" means.",0
"It won’t affect the case against Trump & Co as the special grand jury doesn’t issue indictments, only recommendations which the DA has to then decide.","I’m sure as soon as she found out which case she would be sitting on, she got dollar signs in her eyes.",0
"You're spot on. In recent years, the US sold out their Kurdish allies and left its NATO and Afghan allies in chaos with the manner of its withdrawal in Afghanistan.","Transactional military actions have been a staple of American politics since the Korean War, lofty rhetoric and public diplomacy notwithstanding.",0
"Literally only people who encourage and defend nazis or who support white supremacist, fascist politicians and policies. Saying they accuse everyone of it to try to trick people into disregarding accurate accusations doesn't work because most people aren't as stupid as the nazis who try it.","Do you pretend to be stupid enough to not know about nazis because you think a third party reading this will be stupid enough to believe you? I assure you, no one is as stupid as people who defend nazis.",0
"Most people consider spending synonymous with budget, and the discretionary budget is only a fraction of the federal budget.","Discretionary Budget is what gets voted on and includes military, education, transportation, science, CDC, NASA, etc.",1
"Some of the land was given to us by the rulers of it (British). Other parts were won in wars the Arab population declared on us, trying to destroy our country. Calling it ""Stolen"" is a complete lie.","About the WB, I agree the settlements need to stop. But it would never happen when Palestinians don't even acknowledge Israel's right to exist and only operate with violence against innocent men, women and children.",0
"While I agree, I don't think this is the best justification. The better one is: As long as russia is killing Ukrainian athletes, russian athletes should not be allowed to compete.","I sympathize with the Russian athletes, but 2014 Sochi taught us how involved the Russian state is in athletes lives. Russia’s doping apparatus was unbelievable. Check the Icarus documentary. While many Russian athletes are independent spirits, Sochi taught us that the Russian State frequently uses athletes to cheat at the Olympics.",1
Yes better now. But that can backslide quickly. I mean just look at Roe v Wade. Something people were so certain was just inherently safe gone in a moment. Decades of progress rolled back.,Yea a lot of people get discouraged but there’s been a ton of progress made in the last ten years. A big part of it is people are more comfortable coming out so now everyone has a gay friend son niece nephew brother aunt uncle etc. Even conservatives poll slightly in favor of gay marriage now.,1
"Yes but the antisemitism ""about Israel"" in the survey is for the most part not actually about Israel. For example saying American Jews are more loyal to Israel than America is antisemitism. Saying that Israel is not criticized in the media because of the Jews that control the media is antisemitic. Saying Israel treats Palestinians the same way the Nazis treated the Jews is antisemitism.",So often not supporting Israel is wrapped into antisemitism. There are plenty of countries that I don’t support and would feel inclined to spend time with people who support those nations.,1
You're literally saying she's a victim and blaming her rather than the actual cause of her being one.,"Blaming someone, and saying that someone is not without blame are two very different things. And I've been saying that she's not without blame since the beginning.",1
"Also the hope that codifying Equal Marriage dispels any threat against it abjectly fails to recognize that the law, once codified, can be struck down by the Court if it’s deemed to not be a Power granted the Legislature in the first place.","The real criticism you can levy against dems is that they are passing a half-measure bill, if Obergefell gets overturned this bill will still allow states to ban same sex marriage, what it stops is the federal government from not recognizing gay marriage (essentially repealing DOMA) and says that if a state performs gay marriage others states have to recognize those as marriages. I understand that was needed to get it passed but I think more could have been done.",1
1. Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of states.,- Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of state.,1
"Well, to be fair, every time the virus takes a step is by the means of a mutation. This means that the emerging virus is a different virus. Sure, it doesn't look good, but nobody has a clue about the virulence of a hypothetical human bird flu virus. We'll can only know if it finally happens.","For the comments, it seems nobody has read the article. It basically says that, for the first time ever, we have observed a mammal catching bird flu from another mammal. Until now, we only saw mammals getting it from a bird, but the virus was unable to go further.",0
"You are asking this question here for the gazillionth time while you spam the typical Pro-Israeli narrative ""Palestinian invaders aren't native to the land "".","You claimed everything is “Palestinian land”, and that Israel exists over “Palestinian land”, I refuted your claim.",1
"Oh yeah, Jordan fought a war with Israel half a century ago. Since then Jordan has been the most conciliatory and neighborly country towards Israel of all of the Arab states surrounding it. And Israel refuses to repatriate any of their refugees because their chief domestic policy is ethnic cleansing.","Jordan is the most stable country of all of Israel's neighbors, and they've put up with a lot of bullshit, and their population is already like 20% refugees from Israel, Syria, & Iraq. But yeah, I guess they draw the line at Israel potentially doubling their refugee population with a flood of new deported Palestinians.",0
"There's literally no point in trying to argue against it and, honestly, arguing against it can be as nonsensical as the thing you are complaining about.","By whining about it and shitting on it, you're taking all that away from them because you're annoyed by the repetition of it without ever understanding or caring about it's actual purpose.",1
"An a liberal Democrat understanding that Biden had a 50-50 Senate tie (with Harris breaking), Manchin and Sinema sandbagging him, and only a few seat lead in the house he got...","It would be quite something but really not all that shocking if Biden managed to gather votes from Republican House members to keep things moving (at least avoid likely shutdowns). The GOP is doing some soul searching right now, and a few might just sober up and realize that governing effectively has a positive effect on approval.",1
"Sure, but even after reducing overdoses and other impurities there's still the dramatic health effects and addiction that will ultimately lead to death anyway.","What makes street heroin dangerous is the chances of it being impure, other than that it's just as dangerous as any form or legal heroin. Still just as addictive.",0
"Democracy is obviously better than dictatorship, but sometimes it can be really tiring to see policy just shift on a dime for no other reason except that a different political party got voted into power. For a while South Korea and North Korea really seemed like they were making actual progress, but then the government changed and now it's back to saber rattling.","North Korea knows better to start a war, to be honest it should be fair game for South Korea to shoot down anything that threatens them. North Koreans retaliate with anything they've not just South Korea to worry but the US itching to remove a thorn on the worlds ass for so long.",1
"Well sure its probably unfounded garbage. But is like... the reporting stinks, but theyre not even focusing on the stinkier portion of a story that stinks.",A bit like Charlie intentionally stepping in dog shit to cover the smell of the skunk that he let spray him.,0
"It’s right in line with Russia’s early justifications for this war — that a Ukraine aligned with the west poses a threat and as such, an invasion of Ukraine is legitimate (implying that Ukraine doesn’t have its own sovereign right to decide its own alignments). That’s terribly imperialistic on its own, but we also know it’s BS because it’s simply Russian imperialism, nationalism, supremacism, and expansionism that underlies their invasion of Ukraine.",It’s another way of saying that nations shouldn’t have a sovereign right to decide how to best maintain their own security interests (usually aligning themselves with military blocs like NATO in order to develop a balance of power).,0
"Flight time. Building a powered craft than can stay aloft for days to weeks at a time is difficult. With large sailplane-like drones clad in solar panels it's possible, but these are large, plane-like drones, and expensive to build. And, if you want it to move slowly to collect large blocks of, for example, narrow beam GHz transmissions which are undetectable from space, but a whisper of which can be detected if you're in the atmosphere, you have to plot a course that loops and circles your target because a plane-like platform is moving quickly. The multirotor vertical takeoff type of drone that most people think of are amazingly maneuverable in flight, but the tradeoff is they're incredibly inefficient in flight. You can't build one capable of days of flight time with current weight of materials, motors, batteries, and solar cells.","But, balloons are cheap, move fairly slowly, which is great for grabbing lots of long continuous blocks of transmissions that make encryption cracking easier, and, while not all that guidable, can be used to map a large area, identifying unknown sources and collecting data that can be compiled into a cohesive map if you send a lot of them.",0
"It's an excuse for losing. ""They only pushed us back because they attacked when we were having a cease fire!"".","There’s more to it. In Russian orthodox tradition, Christmas is on 7th of January. More Ukrainians than in 2021 decided to celebrate it on 25th of December to have less “ties” with the aggressor in their derussification attempt, but for Russians it’s like a blasphemy and spit in the face. So refusing to cease fire on Dec 25 and proposing it on Jan 7 is basically a big fuck you.",1
"for an old candidate who isn’t offering representation to them, the candidate will learn they can get free votes in exchange for nothing.","If you insist on not voting for either candidate, then your best bet is to still show up at the polls and just don’t vote for them. There are lots of positions on the average ballot and if you feel that strongly that you don’t care who wins, don’t chose either candidate, but there may be candidates who do interest you, and even if you turn in an empty ballot, that still signals that there was a vote that turned up that was missed.",1
"Canadian of immigrant-ancestry here, thank you for sharing this - I and everyone I know agree with you + believe this. Colonizer capitalism needs to be reshaped/taken apart. hoping to help support the expansion of indigenous sovereignty/treaty-obligations as topics in the broader political discourse + more. thank you for explaining.","TLDR: Canadians broadly agree with the concept of healing these old wounds and support the indigenous, but vary widely on what that means practically (is it just politics language-magic? or a real money-down commitment?). The momentum is going in the right direction, but the movement is facing growing challenges + an exhausted, increasingly-stressed electorate that may be due for some austerity measures. No consensus on action, but the work seems lightyears ahead of where things are in the U.S.A re: native peoples - and that's the foundation imo for much bigger future work to come. Would welcome an indigenous perspective to learn from here, and again I speak only from my experience.",0
"Japan surrendered on the condition of sparing the Emperor among other things, the US wasn't even sure the peace was going to hold until nearly the formal surrender in Tokyo Bay.","Those were accepted because they were beneficial for the U.S. indeed when they tried to keep their Emperor in their first attempts to surrender those pleas were rejected. Surrender happened first, then the U.S. decided what Japan could have. Many documents were seized as a result of Japan losing. They weren't really a token Japan could throw in for favorable terms.",1
"Have you ever responded like this to a comment about AOC or Hilary, or are you just deeply disingenuous with your concerns about misogyny towards female lawmakers and politicians?","So, TL;DR is: No proof she is a sex worker, but despite being elected, she is neither a profound (nor qualified) lawmaker, or has even shown a margin of critical thinking on how to propel this country forward. This is why I wish everyone who represents us in this country actually has an accredited law degree instead of just having a big enough cash injection to be seen.",1
Somehow the article tried to attack self driving when it did the best it could with an irresponsible user. And no one died. Shouldn't that mean the autopilot WORKED?,"Lastly, autopilot in aircraft require training to use. Not only people generally don't know that, they also don't know what precisely autopilot does in a plane. Naming Tesla's lane keep assist / radar cruise control after ""autopilot"" is playing on people's ignorance on the subject. That's why people find the term very objectionable.",1
"After contacting the school and providing them with several variations of Santos’s name which he has used in public, Ed Adler, a spokesman for Horace Mann, wrote in an email, “George Santos or any of the aliases you [cite] never attended HM.”.","In the October 2020 interview, which resurfaced on social media Wednesday, Santos, referring to his parents, said: “They sent me to a good prep school — which was Horace Mann Prep in the Bronx. And in my senior year of prep school, unfortunately, my parents fell on hard times.” Santos went on to say that at the time his family couldn’t “afford a $2,500 tuition” and “I left school \[with\] four months till graduation.”.",1
Them to top it off you organize them into a for profit criminal gang led by a guy determined to be the next dictator of Russia....,"In a country led by oligarchs and kleptocrats, where even the military is super corrupted from top military general all the way down to mere squad leaders, money always talks. As long as one can pay a sufficient amount of big bribes, he can walk away scott free and makec a \lot\ of ""behind the scenes"" deals. Or be relatively treated ok (or even with favors) while remaining in prison.",1
"I hear that, and I hope it is true. makes it hard for me to feel like it’s as true as various Texas Dems I’ve met seem to feel.","(And trust me, I really, really want Texas to go blue: PA born, but a sibling and their family transplanted there for work years ago, and aren’t GOP).",0
Definitely not general advice. Here in Uruguay the leftists were the ones that got our economy out of a shit crisis and into a pretty respectable position.,"Argentina has a bit of a problem where their democracy sucks quite a bit because you can't get a truly good candidate, and even if you did there's enough corruption around that it's all fucked anyway.",0
"Businesses don't give two shits about what the landscape will look like in 50 years. Sustainability would require them to give up some profits in the short term, which is unacceptable for most. Just look at the fishing industry!","Much of the fire losses in the US are due to irresponsible management and a lack of natural fire cycles, I assume Canada has similar issues. Still doesn't negate the damage we're doing by cutting old-growth forests.",0
"You do understand that if Israel actually wanted to wipe out Gaza, they could have done so in around 10 minutes, right?","Gaza has been blockaded for more than a decade now and you are saying that yeah we could've done more by wiping them out completely but haven't done it so be thankful to us. That is what you have said. Shameful. Gaza is blockaded by air and sea. Everyone knows that Israel has killed civilians intentionally there. They have shot unarmed protesters with live fire, killed medics and elderly.",1
"Ah okay. I always assumed the nato navy’s vessels out at sea would all at least try, and if it flies over and land those countries would also try. I understand shooting it down might still trigger the blast, but surely it’s safer over the ocean or miles in the sky as opposed to directly impacting a city. Then again wasn’t Hiroshima exploded at a height for max damage?","But breaking it down, would a nuclear strike be devastating? Yes. It would kill millions if not billions and change the earth's climate so suddenly we'd ve in an extinction level event many would find difficult to survive. But...humans would survive. Many, if not most, in all the countries involved would survive. The governments would likely survive. And the major countries involved would still be considered borderline uninvadable. This is to say nothing of the many humans living in remote or non-associated regions (like...would anyone even target South America? Africa? Australia?). Fact is, as big as nukes are, as many as there are, Earth is bigger. There's just not enough dakka to cover it all (and no, radiation wouldn't be much a thing either, the fallout lasts surprisingly little time for air bursts).",1
"Because the US and most NATO countries don’t have 30+ year old Soviet tanks laying around, and training the Ukrainians on the Abrams tanks would be too expensive/take too long.",Ukraine already has experience with anti-tank TOW missiles and TOW missiles on Bradleys destroyed more Soviet-made Iraqi tanks than did Abrams tanks did.,1
"There is such a bad stigma around pitbulls that they are often unwanted/discriminated against, a byproduct of this is that they are the most common dog found at shelters. Now that they are the most common and affordable dog, a lot of the adopters aren't going to do any proper training. Some of those untrained dogs will go right back to the shelter willy nilly because there wasn't much of an investment to adopt them to begin with. It's really a vicious cycle.","It's really easy to say ""shitbulls"" or ""all pitbulls are fucking trash"" but its not easy to ask and understand why these things are happening.",0
"Ukraine isn’t third world, they are best described as former second world (soviet bloc) and now first world (aligned with US and western Europe).",the meaning of “third world” shifted over time to just mean “poor countries” but Ukraine isnt that either.,0
"Considering the precedent establishing gay marriage was the 14th amendment and not the 1st, the argument does not hold any weight.",My personal outrage aside… The restriction of marriage (as a legal process) based on a religious ideals makes the 1st amendment relevant here.,1
"Yeah I'm aware of that. Just because it's a possible side effect doesn't mean 100% have a peoblem. Hell, there are developing youth having problems gaining bone mass that aren't going through a transition of any kind. And that's a worry too. Thank god there's people who help them along. I hope they all get what they need for stability because that's super hard to come by.",I'm short too in fact and probably more people have had their height stunted during development from stress over Rx's of any kind. And what does height matter when your bones are so weak you're in a wheelchair at 30? That's where bone density and growth can be an issue. Is it happening to everybody in the trans-youth category? Obviously not or we would hear an awful lot about it.,0
"I’m guessing you don’t know much about water treatment in general, much less the specific type of treatment plants used in East Palestine, a tiny rural community.","As someone who has experience with both rural water and Superfund clean up sites, your concept of water purification is of systems that do not exist in the real world.",0
If you had paid attention to what he'd been saying during the campaign you'd see that was his stance all along. He never had a stint where he was tough on Russia.,"I have a Russian friend who got out of Russia before the war. They've met up with their friends and family who are still in Russia in either Dubai or Doha, can't remember which. That's an option. Although, OP will likely need to pay for the family members tickets, as their bank account are likely frozen so they can't pay for tickets themselves.",1
"But what would Newsom add as the VP pick? California isn't going to be a swing state anytime soon and there are other white male reps or Senators to pick from that would make more sense, imo.","We need to see more from Shapiro, but Whitmer has a bright future if she can use the new Democratic majority in both Chambers of the state legislature to their fullest extent.",0
"If by a bunch of old white men owning or affecting the value of almost everything and/or making laws to bestow and keep power…then yes, we do have a white supremacy problem.",What are you talking about when you say that black people stood in line to send a black democratic senator back for a full six-year term because of...white supremacy?,1
"This starts to look like a crisis. If there are no clear objetives, probably there's fighting in the high command of where they want to go. Not having a global strategy will exacerbate the lack of military cohesion. Maybe this opens new options for Ukraine either trying to create more confusion in the Russian State or more effective strategy on the frontline.","What do you think is more unnerving to Putin and the Kremlin, NATO and their allies giving Ukraine long range weapons or Ukraine developing their own? Ones that no one knew they had the ability to make or use prior to the war?",1
"To learn more about that impact, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research drilled ice cores to create a ""high-quality reconstruction"" of temperatures in central and north Greenland from 1,000 AD to 2011. With that data, it became clear: Not even some of the coldest, most remote and highly-elevated areas of the world can escape the impacts of global warming.","Aside from complications in determining climate from the deepest cores, it's important to keep in mind that while man made global warming is real, the era of humans has occurred in an interglacial period that's been relatively colder than in the past. The last ""hot house"" period happened before humans existed (several million years ago) and saw a consistent decline in temperatures until the current day where they are suddenly and rapidly increasing. Due to this man made increase, it's unlikely that humans will ever see another ice age again.",1
Unfortunately the U.S. deputy ambassador recently told the U.N. Security Council that Haiti must address its continued insecurity challenges. It doesn't look like there is much interest in helping Haiti.,"Well put that on a Hallmark card I doubt anyone would disagree with the deep and insightful advice that Haiti needs ""a good leader."".",1
I think there is a repeated sense of preferring to overestimate enemies than underestimate them but this is compounded by the fact that Russian forces regularly lie up and down the chain. Western intelligence seems like they’ve gathered some intelligence directly from mid or even high level Russian sources but if all those reports were wildly optimistic for Russia and the west generally assumed competence then it’s easier to say how they got it so wrong.,"I'd wager that even if signs pointed to Russia's now obvious problems, the West still would have overestimated just because it's better to be overreacted than under.",1
They were described as only a little larger than a humming bird but would attack in the hundreds on one target and if they found a large group of targets were able to call for more drones.,Imagine the drones that identify people and armour sending telemetry (aotomatically) to call in more drones or artilery.. You could coordinate a strike of 1000s of artilery and drones to hit in the same few seconds.,1
If the Russians are really planning an offensive then it's just much better to sit behind your defenses and let them rush across the open fields instead of attacking yourself.,"If a russian building hoarding ammunition stands in the way of our new missiles, we could ignore it's deep in russian territory and housing conscripts again.",1
Edit: My main point still stands which is that the resistance in Russia has no chance unless they get more support.,And there are Russians resisting. The difference there though is resistors in Nazi Germany knew if things went their way Germany would be invaded and the Nazis toppled. That hope doesn't exist in Russia. No one plans on invading Russia.,0
"Just look at the political lean of Millennials and younger, and realize that in just a few decades, They'll be the oldest generations.","Fortunately, some Democrats are already talking about doing the smart thing, and getting rid of the Electoral College, when they get the power to.",0
"The modern era would seem to support that the ability to build ""Modern"" Naval weapon systems was key. Today the West appears focused on building a carrier centric Naval fleet that can win a WW2 battle.","The US is investing billions in Aircraft Carriers, while China invests millions in ballistic anti-ship missles?",0
"I personally don’t think it needs to be as restrictive as a complete ban on all property ownership but some reasonable restrictions to prevent corporate ownership of American land would be wise. Individuals immigrating and owning a residence should be fine, assuming there is a sort of participation in the path to citizenship / permanent resident / etc. or other worthy proofs of legitimacy.","It’s really hard to say what the initial benchmark should be, but it’s most likely solved through ongoing audits and housing is something that should have more protections as it is objectively becoming harder and harder for people to own a home.",0
That level of certainty requires them to 1. Know what we would use against them in order to avoid it. 2. assumes they are like us where thoughts of weapons are front of mind. A species that comes from a peaceful planet and doesn't participate in violence is unlikely to come prepared to fend off an unknown attack from an unknown species. 3. assumes they didn't send these probes into our atmosphere for the purpose of observing our response.,To say that aliens would be beyond our ability to shoot down requires an understanding of their technology that none of us has.,0
"That social data is just as valuable as the pictures they could be taking, that balloon’s basket could have some insanely high new groundbreaking tech, but it could also be empty. Why spend a shit ton of money on something that you know is going to be shot down and recovered or risk that stuff ending up in enemy hands?","Decent chance they actually wanted to see how different governments and civilians would react to “spy balloons” from hostile governments hanging out in their air space, or are testing the waters. Everyone talks about pictures and data and radar and etc, but there’s valuable social information to be gained.",0
"Water boarding was bad, making dudes get into a pile whilst naked was bad. But shocking a dude’s genitals for no reason? Arbitrarily murdering, raping and abusing human beings? That is some next level evil.","Generally speaking, westerners gave up this sort of thing. Not that it doesn’t happen, but when it does it is roundly condemned.",0
"I know people will say this will lead to end of the world if NATO retaliates. But the must, if Rusdia realizes they can land bombs in a NATO country without a response, Putin will know he can get away with even more and escalate on his end.","The side effect may be that towns like Zabolottya in Ukraine may gain anti-missile coverage, just because of their proximity to Poland, but I guess Russia wants to play that game.",1
"Well interesting as in it implies where the sympathy lies, then again its no surprise there are issues between India and Pakistan but as far as journalism goes not a great headline.",So why is India pointing the finger at Pakistan and calling it a backstabber if Pakistan are only engaging in their own self-interest as India does? You can’t have it both ways if you wish to be taken seriously.,1
That’s -80.86 ° F. I live in Montana and so far this winter it’s gotten down to -42°F. I can’t even imagine twice as cold as that and most people can’t even imagine -42°F.,"Always amazes me that people can live in such extreme cold. Like as of this post, it’s -51 F (-41 C) real temp, but “feels like” -67 F (-55 C).",1
"When it comes to the toll on your body then I believe stimulants like amphetamines (meth especially) are much worse. A long term amphetamine addiction is going to wreck your body. Withdrawal on amphetamines isn't as hard as opiates physically but it can be tough mentally, potentially causing a lot of anxiety. They are also likely starved and have a deficiency in various things.",Then you have benzo. Benzo and alcohol are the only drugs that you can die from quiting cold turkey as far as I am aware.,0
“One potential takeaway from [the midterms] is that the US is a center left country with a gerrymandering problem.”.,“One potential takeaway from [the midterms] is that the US is a center left country with a gerrymandering problem.”.,0
"I was standing at the last link's fire when the first car went up and watched it burn through the first car, hit the fuel tank and then get all the 5 cars adjacent to it, and they caught all the cars near them and so on. I used my fire extinguisher, and in the time it took the on property ready fire crew to get there, there were dozens of cars already burned out.",I saw a small engine bay fire destroy many vehicles parked next to it. This is anecdotal. But it was a small gas leak in the engine bay of one car parked in a long row of cars. The fire kept spreading car-to-car.,1
"The US sent roughly 1,400 Stingers to Ukraine, reportedly around one quarter of its stockpile. Nobody's talked much about it since around May, when the US made some orders to backfill what they'd sent. It's uncertain if the US ever sent more since they aren't currently being manufactured and there's been some challenges in starting up the production lines again.","I'm somewhat annoyed by the focus on Patriot systems. Sending them is largely symbolic (signifying a change in what NATO is willing to provide rather than any substantial change in aggregated deployed capability), they're extraordinarily expensive to use ($4 million per missile for PAC-4) and there won't be very many of them. As such they will only ever be used extremely sparingly for the most important targets. And yet everybody acts like they're going to be some sort of game changer.",0
Because of previous measures already taken very few people still smoke. They are already taxed through the roof and a pack of 30 costs $40/pack. Young people almost exclusively vape now anyways. If you smoke now you can continue to smoke.,"And if you smoke outside and dont blow it directly on someone (who the fk does that?), how are u affected?",1
"Pfft, I’ve assembled an IKEA wardrobe on my own, send me out with a supply of Madonna CDs, I’ve got this!","Case in point, ask anyone who knows how to drive if they’ve ever read the driver’s manual to their car cover to cover. You would be amazed how many people would turn out to have skimmed it at most and couldn’t accurately tell you how many pages their car’s manual has to the nearest 100 pages.",0
"So.... how the fck can crap like this be allowed to happen? I understand ""freedom of speech"", but you can't go into a crowded theater screaming fire. Isn't blatantly lying about topics like this the same thing, especially when you have a audience of MILLIONS of people who trust you?",It's a very telling thing they would mock these claims and people but have a low enough opinion of their audience that they would think they would believe such ridiculous claims.,1
But in reality the Russians weren't in a strong position to invade Japan after getting the Germans out of Russia. And the impact of those bombs was truly enormous psychologically.,"Unfortunately, the destructive power of bombs has also come a long way since WW2. Normal explosive nukes aren't enough to end the world, but salted warheads definitely could. No one has really been crazy enough to build salted warheads, but theoretically, a barrage of a few hundred of those would make Ukraine glow blue for the next hundred years. Even resistance fighters in underground redoubts would be stuck and left to starve because they can't leave for fear of the radiation.",1
Nowadays I believe it’s becoming part of your hiring contract when you work in a hospital. Eventually the list of things your conscience can absolve you from will not include abortions. So no punishment for abstaining medical staff yet but that won’t be the case forever.,"I'm not saying that medical staff shouldn't have choice. I'm saying that their choice shouldn't override patient's choice. If doctor is not comfortable doing certain procedure then it should be his duty to find/refer someone else who is able to do it. That would respect patient's wishes, that would make me trust him as I would know that he has best interest in my wellbeing. But Conscience clauses are commonly used as ""I don't want to do it, so you shouldn't either'.",1
"Usually it's okay because you stage demos that have ""a few bugs,"" and when you get the funding/grant/investors you need you can fund people to bring everything up to the level of what was promised.","I'm positive the engineers knew it wasn't ready, but Musk left things vague and let people assume it's ready and safe for use.",0
And Iran government has no problem of torturing and killing them. So the citizens of an violent regime has some sort of moral obligation to risk their lives and protest? Easy for you to say when you aren’t the one risking your lives. self preservation is a human right. Not to mention protest in non democratic country seldomly amount to anything at all without external help.,"They show public support because it avoids drawing attention, bad things happen to people who don't support the regime. There are Russian civilians resisting via sabotage, those people don't want to draw any undue attention and probably ""support"" Putin to stay under the radar.",1
) On the condition that water and coffee is refilled regularly and our service maintenance is being used bi-monthly at the current conditions.,) How quickly and what version you can have depends on your freely adjustable annual Children Expectation Fee and the Special Deere Midwife service you have chosen.,0
Turkey is just doing Russia a solid. All the rest is just window dressing. Sowing discord between NATO allies is basic Russian playbook and Erdogan is on good terms with Putin.,Enough with Erdogan playing politics at the expense of NATO. For playing joker on a matter important to security of organization for its own political gain Turkey need to be put on notice that this time it went too far and there will be repercussion once war in Ukraine is brought to conclusion.,1
"In the US, we deal with this in part by funding things like special visas, workforce housing, expanded medical care, and school programs for migrant families. It would be much better if we had a more sustained and consistent social safety net, but this way do make sure families are being cared for even as workers move around. We’ve also passed some pretty intensive legislation on hazard pay and workplace safety for things like extreme heatwaves and wildfire smoke.","Honestly, it’s not even just attracting British workers. Crop harvesting is serious skilled labor. The speed, strenh, muscle memory, and attention to detail you need is nuts, and the conditions are hazardous at best. Many folks would love to pretend otherwise, but you want skilled, seasoned workers for the gig.",0
"Russia is more than you guy's common enemy, and you are more to each other than just momentary allies. You're brothers, and you should look out for another. A rising tide lifts all boats, and a hurricanes waves will drown all of you all the same. Who cares which side of a randomly drawn border you're born at, what language you speak. Recognize who is the current asshole, and who are your friends. That's it.","We should always make different choices, work together to make ourselves whole where we can, and continue to work together and do right by each other where we can't.",0
"So, is that just switching to FPTP? Or do they mean still having a threshold for runoffs, but making it lower than 50%? Eg, you can win with a plurality of 45+%, but if the plurality winner only has, say, 40%, it would still go to a runoff?","But it's also possible to have runoffs with plurality winners. They could set the threshold at 40%, so whoever both gets the most votes AND exceeds 40% wins outright, but if the one with the most votes only got, say, 38%, it would go to a runoff election. This system wouldn't require majority support, but it would set a floor for a minimum level of support was needed to win (in my example, 40%).",0
"There is probably a reason, maybe even along the lines as to why the US is not capable to control a bunch of lowlife junkies within their more-than-decently developed borders keeping the demand for drugs going strong.","If you want to do something to stop violent drug cartels from being able to become so powerful stop doing so much motherfucking cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine. Or legalize them.",1
"However, the conditions at these camps are terrible and allegedly people are almost picked at random by local government to fill them up just to satisfy quotas and mandates coming down from the central government.","The problem with the zero Covid policy is that is operates under the idea of a dictated reality: the central government says that Covid isn't endemic in China, therefore it isn't and can't be. The various local governments just don't do testing until they're forced to by case loads that they can't hide, and they blame people coming from other provinces, or , or just . Then they just do a few harsh and indiscriminate lockdowns for a while and juke the stats so it looks like it worked and everything is okay again. Then repeat that same song and dance all over China.",0
"Like I hated Schrader too, but the district was a highly competitive one, and even strong incumbents have been struggling in a lot of places. It wasn't an unreasonable decision to prioritize other races they thought they had a better chance in, especially when money doesn't translate directly into votes. It's not like we can say ""If they'd spent X million, she WOULD have won"" - all we can say is ""Maybe she would have, maybe they'd have wasted a ton of money that did more good elsewhere."".","The bottom line is that progressive candidates just don't have a good track record of winning highly competitive districts, especially in challenging election cycles. And if progressives want to count on establishment support then the burden is kind of on them to prove they're good enough to win, especially when you're in the process of knocking off establishment incumbents.",0
"If the sheriff gets to decide on their own what is and isn't constitutional, that sheriff is above the constitution.","What a flawed belief, that law enforcement has the ability, legally or otherwise, to make judgements on what's Constitutional and what isn't.",1
"Nearly 20% of people think it's very bad for society, I'll take any odds you have that they're nearly all republican. That's a huge, well motivated portion of their base that will be against any republican who votes for it.",And both Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh have said that any Republican Senator who chose to vote yes on this bill should be kicked out of the party. That there should be some sort of a litmus test for the GOP. Good luck trying to win elections with 30% support of such a position on an issue as gay marriage.,1
"Have you ever been invited to the palace as a minority who has been repeatedly asked this question over your life — often by people who are only interested in parsing out how you don’t fit in and are different — only to hear the same question from a representative of the royal family? Maybe you have, and maybe your experience was different. You weren’t traumatized. She was. Wanting to understand how and why trauma can result from this type of interaction is totally valid. But “knowing” how we’d react to a certain situation isn’t enough to justify calling someone else a liar, which is sorta where we’re headed with this. For a bad analogy, consider someone having an allergic reaction — you might brush off a bee sting as no big deal; but others might literally die. Or someone who’s been badly beaten — one more hit could be lethal for them, whereas you’d be perfectly fine. Well for many people they’ve taken hits their whole lives and one hit like this, in such a setting? Of course that’s going to be traumatic.","So yes, this would be traumatizing, because the questions open deep existential wounds. Work in your empathy, people.",1
"I'm hoping they only use excess electricity for hydrogen production, otherwise it's pretty dumb to go from solar to hygrogen then back to electricity for no reason. Very inefficient.",There's no bigger picture. It's basic math. I think you're either misunderstanding how a power plant works or a misunderstanding of efficiency in the conversion.,0
"If you create a caricature based on a tragedy which killed 21000+ plus people and what’s more, on the exact same day as it happened, you are a horrible person no matter how noble your intentions are, there is a thing called “time and place” when choosing to do or say something.","A lot of people interpret it in such way, I would too if I were a victim of this. If a caricature was misinterpreted by most people as you say, then it’s a bad caricature.",0
"Please understand that I'm not saying Russia are the good guys. I'm saying there are no good guys, and least of all the US. What you are right about is that the points you have raised will all be used in western propaganda to convince us that spending our money on US imperialism is justified.","The US didn't get involved for the first 5 years of WW2, instead choosing to profit from weapons sales. It is difficult though to compare getting involved in a world war, with interfering in a conflict between two neighbouring countries on the opposite side of the world to you.",0
"A higher melting point doesn't necessarily equate to a better, more flavorful chocolate. Quality of cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar and other ingredients are important. That is why you have Swiss Nestlé chocolate bars that cost under $2.00 vs. high end chocolatier's bars from Italy, France, etc. that cost big bucks.","Sickening. And because they are such a colossal, powerful business entity worldwide, I'm sure that makes it even more difficult to prosecute them, under international law which is already fraught with problems.",0
H.J.Res.16 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States extending the right to vote to citizens sixteen years of age or older.,There's nothing in the Constitution or otherwise that I can see that requires a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age.,1
"Yep. Qatar pretty handily showed that most folks have few morals or values when it comes to voting with their wallets, and that many people in the Western world do not care that 10k slaves died to build a one-use stadium in one of the hottest, and politically most regressive/medieval, places on Earth.","Amazing to me how low FIFA & the world cup can sink, yet the vast majority of people still brainlessly watch it and support it whilst pretending to care. Qatar pegged their audience well, and this is quite the propaganda win for them with very little oil/blood money investment.",0
"Complain all you want about differences in political ideologies and agendas but to claim an entire political establishment that represents at least half of the population wants journalists dead is not only inaccurate, it’s inflammatory.",A very loud minority that calls journalists enemy of the people is not half the population nor inaccurate to blame republicans for the aftermath of their rhetoric. The only thing inflammatory is the ignorance not to see the connection between the shit republicans say and the violent actions their domestic terrorist base act out.,1
"The only way to enforce a naval blockade is by sinking ships, which is a really bad idea - same reason why NATO could never establish a no-fly zone over ukraine.",If Russia assists their cargo ships with military ships then it's up to a NATO country to force the blockade. I don't think that will happens. USA has shown zero interest in direct escalation.,1
"Japan has been tolerating a strong Chinese presence for decades, and continue to tolerate it regardless of their own impending buildup. No one in the region can do anything but tolerate it, as fighting a large overseas war in this age is impossible for anyone to win with the one exception being the US. Every country has a violent history, and any anger over Japan’s buildup should be directed at regional players who talk and act aggressively, forcing their peers to buildup or risk invasion. China and Russia had a pacifist nation on their eastern doorstep, but due to their aggressive rhetoric and expansionist plans, they’ll have a neighbour who will hit them back.","While the government might realise they need to build up a better fighting force to combat both Russia and China, the sentiment is not shared with the population.",1
"Now you want to lump together statehood and status quo. My original comment was about statehood alone. The results are not as clear cut as you’re making them out to be. You don’t address free association either, which is one of the options here. It’s a complicated situation and it’s not just statehood, status quo, or independence.","So not having statehood actually does have benefits, and not all the people in the territories want it.",1
"So because the right wing declared war against the truth, we also have to start spewing baseless accusations now?","If it is not okay for the right wing to throw around false flag accusations, why is it okay for us to do it?",0
"Removing russian language from class is just natural progression of what has been happening for more than a decade, especially as english really would be more useful for modern youth.","These days russian is practically useless due to ongoing Russian bullshit and Lithuania moving away from using russian language as secondary, the later began happening more than a decade ago.",0
The Republican Party is extremely right wing and the religious right and white nationalists have more power than ever within that party.,"Openly tapping white nationalism and christian nationalism was their scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to cling to power. It's been a slow motion disaster for 20 years. The unfortunate reality is it's probably a generational problem. People over the age of 30 rarely change their beliefs radically, I don't mean boomers specifically either, but rather people sort of lock in to their beliefs in their 30s.",1
One sentence of explanation about what the holocaust is doesn't magically make the results more reputable or less worthless. The questions after Q11 are still very in depth.,"It doesn't matter what people answered. Even if you get an explanation of one sentence about what the Holocaust is, you then have to answer 80(!) more questions about that topic you apparently previously haven't heard about. The result will not be very useful, other than that you could conclude that this percentage is ignorant or received poor aducation. But that's not the conclusion the headlines show.",0
And that’s the problem. The midterms have democrats feeling big for their britches thinking people will vote for Kamala no matter what but the reality is she will get creamed by Trump or Desantis. She is a zero charisma candidate like Gore Kerry and Clinton and we know what happened to them.,What does it say that I’ve nearly forgotten that she was the Democratic candidate already? That’s the charisma you’re talking about.,1
"The argument apparently is that the federal court agrees that it was improper to suspend him, but notes that the federal court lacks the authority to reinstate him for violating state law.","And that judge did add that “These other factors could not properly be the basis for a suspension under the Florida Constitution—there were no blanket non-prosecution policies, no neglect of duty, and no incompetence.” Pointing out that Warren's removal was a violation of FL's Constitution, and was basically telling them to appeal in the state.",1
"Much of what we're sending is stuff that was going to ""expire"" soon. Ammunition has a limited shelf life, for example. We were going to buy new ammo anyways. By sending it to Ukraine, we're actually getting more ""value"" out of it than if we destroyed it (value in terms of stopping Putin from running roughshod over Eastern Europe).","Even if it were money, it's less than in the long run if we didn't send it. Ukraine is a breadbasket and also sitting on a lot of untapped oil and gas. If Russia were to take over Ukraine they'd control even more world food and energy markets. Also, they'd be poised for their target, probably Moldova.",0
The joint Dem House & Senate investigation is now moving just to the Senate. And there are rumblings of Dem Senate investigation of Alito and Thomas.,"Nah, forget that. Ignore or executive privilege every sham subpoena. Gym Jordan being chair of justice while being investigated for OBSTRUCTION of justice is just one of the many ludicrous unfit debacles of this GOP House.",0
"Abandoning Bakhamut would not stop that depletion, this is logic akin to if Ukraine was not fighting battles the soldiers would not be dying.","Yes, but they would be depleting it anyway, as Russia seems to be insistent to force attacks even if they won't work.",0
"I think it's a bunch of bullshit how they're treating trans people, just don't think this is a workable angle.","I think trans people are the test case, if it works, all sorts LGBT and women's rights will be removed, obviously women have already lost reproductive rights in Texas.",1
"The ironic part is that this ruling, if implemented, would appear to result in school funding increases in primarily rural, small town and republican parts of the state - not in Democratic areas like Philadelphia.","Nationally, local property taxes account for nearly half of public school funding, creating inherent inequality between wealthy communities that are replete with high-value properties, and poor ones, where properties are worth less. State and federal funding is supposed to help level the playing field, but it is often insufficient to make up the difference. And even if the funding were equal, advocates argue, students in poor communities often require more resources for things like special-education teachers and English language learning. It is why, for example, the federal government allocates extra dollars to schools that educate high concentrations of students in poverty.",1
He is regulating where he can. For example last year he re-started the process for the 2-person crew minimum rule that was initiated by Obama and shelved by Trump. He also put a pause on a Trump rule allowing liquid natural gas to travel by rail while more safety analysis is done.,Another notable rail safety thing they did is pause a Trump rule allowing liquid natural gas to be shipped by rail. There were safety concerns when Trump's dot allowed it. Pete .,0
"Xi Meeting Blinken would be very much out of the norm and there has to be a purpose to showing ""sincerity"" and ""good will"". I can't imagine anything coming out of a hypothetical Xi-Blinken meeting that would tempt the Chinese. Nothing of substance came out of any of the Biden-Xi meetings then nothing is going to come out of a Xi-Blinken meeting. Has any of the proposed US-China committees from the 1st (or was it the 2nd) Biden-Xi meeting done anything yet?",Your argument is that the Chinese wanted this meeting because this meeting was scheduled. Your argument is that the Chinese wanted this meeting so bad that Xi was going to meet with Blinken outside of diplomatic norm.,0
"But you're obviously fishing for crap, knowing full well how inconsistent the conservative justices have been, and not just with inconsistent rulings, but also with making the rulings as wide-reaching as possible, to say nothing of the obvious bias shown toward one party when it comes to putting holds on certain policy changes that they wouldn't do in the inverse only a few years ago.","He is incorrect in gaslighting us by casting any criticism of the Supreme Court as merely honest disagreement of opinions rather than questions about legitimacy, corruption, and partisanship in the land’s highest court. I almost never agreed with Scalia, but I always believed his opinions were rooted in a deeply held judicial philosophy. By contrast, I have not seen anything in the current court that dispels the concern that their rulings are anything other than naked partisanship. By claiming people are just unhappy that a ruling didn’t go their way, Roberts does a disservice to the court’s legitimacy with such a response that amounts to little more than “How dare you question the Court’s legitimacy!”.",1
"But we are. While you may have the intelligence and personality of a wilted daffodil, you are not a plant, you are an animal.","All animals, including humans, will always choose to pick on the most vulnerable if it is deemed in their interest to attain something from another being. It's just common sense (if viewed from a purely risk/reward aspect). You don't see apex predators trying to take down the strongest members of a group of prey. They always go for the weak and infirm members. Lowest risk of expended energy, lowest risk of defence, and therefore lowest risk of damage being done to them by their prey. This gives the highest reward compared to going for the strong member of the group.",0
"Also, along that vein, the maximum punishment allowable for an impeachment is removal from office. Maybe the two taken together merely give the impression that Congress can only impeach in response to a crime, without that impression being factually true.","…which seems to say people in office who commit crimes must be removed from office if impeached, but does not say explicitly that impeachment can only be incurred in response to a crime.",0
As it appears to me the GOP is part of strategic influence campaign to create the image of new gained omnipotence. It is more about image and an attempt to change the wave to their favor. I say just vote.,"Fuck the polls, go and vote! Bonus fucking points if you can get someone else to vote, who may not vote otherwise.",1
This makes perfect sense - it's the rate of fire that promotes mass shootings and what distinguishes a military grade weapon from a gun for sport or self-defense.,"But I also think that looking at it objectively, that very thought, can be a part of the equation that leads to gun violence.",1
3.2 million in the New Hampshire primary to run pro Buldoc ads while simultaneously saying that election denying politicians like him are a grave threat to democracy?,"Besides outvoting them, what is it going to take to minimize if not fully prevent election deniers and insurrectionists from gaining political influence?",1
You're essentializing ethnicity and hating people basically for where they were born. You're as fascist as the mentality driving Putin to ethnically cleanse Ukraine.,"Yeah, and the Russians are actively proving that their monsters for what they’re doing in Ukraine. I’m just saying that tactically speaking, sending them back is only going to add to the radicalization of Russians. It’s not the “responsibility” of any country to accept the refugees, but it’d be a nice hit the Russian economy.",1
"""It's obviously politically motivated"" isn't a legal concept, and there is no precedent-setting Ducks v Quacks.","I wish people would learn to distinguish the language of various entities and institutions, and also that context matters.",0
"This somehow makes it even more ridiculous that we don't have tanks ourselves (well, technically we lease 18 Leopards from Germany for knowledge retention). Even with the recent investments in the military to get us back to NATO's 2% requirement, there's still no plans to reintroduce tanks into the army.",The Netherlands shouldn't (and wouldn't) wait for Russia to get to the Dutch border before joining the fight. As part of NATO we have a responsibility to our allies to defend their borders if it comes to it. And an effective defense would require tanks.,0
"They’re distractions from the actual work of stopping climate change, soaking up valuable resources while accomplishing nothing.","It’s likely been very effective for driving donations and, to the extent that these sorts of activists AB test their methods at all, it’s largely through donations and praise from the donors.",0
The power of the Federal government has grown substantially because of people making this circular logic you've employed here.,"That may have been part of the original intent, but the power of the federal government had grown substantially since then. States no longer wield the most power in our system—the federal government does.",1
"A very fast baseball is harder to hit for a human. A camera, computer and robotic arm can hit every baseball every time no matter how slow or fast.","If you are 100 miles away driving on a highway at a constant rate of 100 miles per hour, I know exactly where you will be at any instant so I can intercept you even in a vehicle traveling just 10 miles per hour.",0
"Background checks are already a thing nationwide, it’s dumb for Oregon to be like “oh yea, me too!”. 3 day waiting period as well, already in place.","There are no statistics to show that magazine bans actually do anything. Plus, you think the cops are going to give up all of their mags that hold more than 10? Nope, they still gonna mag dump someone’s back with 17 rounds before they reload.",0
"He lies uncontrollably. Many, many lawyers have tried to coach him on giving sworn testimony. There are plenty of ways to skate around the truth, to obfuscate it and work around perjury laws.","Also the lies have to be about a material issue for it to be perjury. So the babbling about Mueller and the election is irrelevant, Trump says that crap whenever he opens his mouth. The only potentially material lie was his claim that he never touched a woman without her consent. I bet there will be a parade of witnesses at trial to impeach this statement, which will be a circus. ""The plaintiff calls Billy Bush to the stand."".",1
"She converted from Lutheranism to the Russian Orthodox faith, changed her name to that of Elizabeth’s late mother, Catherine, and learned Russian. Peter came to the throne in 1762 and threatened to incarcerate her in a convent so that he could marry his mistress. Instead, Catherine seized the throne via a military coup. Her husband, Peter III died while being held prisoner.","Ukraine was ruled by the Ottoman empire, the Russian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland and Lithuania, and the Soviet Union before declaring itself a separate nation on August 24, 1991.",0
The Iranian drones are effective because they're disposable and cheaper to send out for one way trips than they are to shoot down.,The IRGC has developed even cheaper drones to overwhelm AA defenses and allow the more important aerial assets to get through. It is a test of who will have more here.,1
"I see religion is the major factor dividing people, creating hate, and motivating terrorist acts and even wars.","You mean, the pope that publicly admitted actively covering up the abuse of priests for his entire career, enabling the abuse of children for decades, and never once helped a victim or assisted authorities?",0
Koch’s admitted they funded idiots. They’re rapidly funding other primary candidates now for the GOP to challenge Trump. American politics has been here before with Joe McCarthy in the 1950’s. Eventually people got wise to his bullshit and walked away from him.,"Reagan said this. He was a total ass and helped create the homeless crisis by refusing to fund community support for the mentally ill, and created the wealth gap through his fake tax policies. Not only that but the Christian right gained power with his help. The guy was essentially a corporate shill (he worked for General Electric for several years).",0
"The issue I see with most younger politicians is they are a lot more extreme which frankly doesn't help anyone. We need more moderate leaders that can at least attempt to represent most Americans, in my opinion.","I imagine the qualifier is to avoid alienating “moderate” Republicans who they hope will vote for them. (I’m not sure if those voters exist, but I understand the logic.).",1
"Yah, that is not going to happen. These countries are using Russian weapons largely because of their history with the US.",The US has already given what few operational Russian weapon systems it had to Ukraine. Why is the US doing this trade? Because Ukraine predominately uses Russian weapons and it makes sense from a training and logistics stand point to continue to supply them when able.,1
H5N1 is currently difficult to transmit between humans but when people do get infected the mortality rate is reportedly up to 60%. What we don't want is a shift in H5N1 where it becomes highly transmissible between people and remains highly deadly.,"H5N1 is a virus that has shown the ability to cause high levels of lethality in humans (the highly pathogenic strains), easily sitting above 50% and climbing as high as 80% in some outbreaks. So far these infections have been through direct contact with infected birds and has shown very limited human to human transmission, so low it could not become a sustained epidemic. But the effects on its victims is merciless. They drown in a pool of their own liquified lungs as their bodies immune system goes haywire trying to fend off the attacking virus. Other non highly pathogenic strains of avian Influenza have fortunately been less severe, and we'll be very lucky if one of these strains becomes the one to cause an epidemic. Even then, a virus with a 15-20% fatality rate as opposed to 50% or 60% will still be devastating. And the lethality rate doesn't necessarily impact how transmissable the virus is as Influenza can spread before a person even shows any symptoms. Once it has spread, it doesn't really matter if the infected host survived or not, hence the lesser impact the fatality rate has on transmissability.",1
"Don't get me wrong, I respect Ukraine for fighting Russia but for us the US is to Latin America what Russia is to Eastern Europe.","As Latin American, our history has taught us to fear and not trust the US rather than the Russians (I don't give a fk about Putin though, we don't support him).",0
"At the end of the day, nuclear submarines are much more suited to future warfare and the types of seas surrounding Australia.","Just FYI in case you're not following as close as us Australians are, the submarines are not expected to be in the water for another 40 years. I will be 70+ by then.",1
"We can sit here and make fun of NK's lack of grasping reality. China's the one who has to actually explain things to them. It does make NK less reliant on Russia, to be sure...","NK is China's puppet, not Russia's - always has, always will be. They don't really care about what going on in Ukraine, it's just a way to take against the class enemy.",1
"3) sign it, then claim Ukraine broke it thus giving them an excuse to join the Russian effort further.","Finally, signing such a pact would allow Belarus to allow Russia to launch attacks from Belarus, without allowing Ukraine to strike back.",1
"Christian nationalism is a drug worse than heroin. Apparently, being friends with LGBTQIA+ people brings about the destruction of the United States? How? What are LGBTQIA+ people doing? What, we are melting the ice caps in Antarctica or something?!","Yow. That's . . . depressingly unsurprising. What a paragon of Republican virtue. I see, though, that he did not win the election outright and then dropped out in favor of Jarom Wagoner (which is about as Mormon a name as I have ever heard). I wonder if some other skeletons were getting ready to tumble out of the closet? Best of luck out there.",1
"The exception to the rule is some of the queer groups, but even then its often ""I hate you but we'll get along."".",Yes. Democrats need to embrace a significant part of their historical core platform just like Fetterman did. We need pay some much-needed attention to the much-neglected blue collar working class and working poor.,1
"This speaks to a fundamental misunderstanding of Chinese governance. The ones with true power, like Jiang, don't need to hold office. Jiang stacked the party with loyalists so he could be certain he would be able to continue influencing politics despite being formally retired. Xi needs a third term because he lacks a clique he can continue to influence upon retirement.","Falun Gong is China's version of QAnon. China's solution was heavy-handed, but most Chinese would argue it was necessary to prevent the unrest we in the US have to deal with due to our political cult, QAnon.",0
"Further information see our complete Terms and conditions on this small brochure with 396 pages of legal information we recommend you not to read, though you have to accept with your signature, initials and notarially certified.",John Deere here: You‘ll be glad to hear that we are going to introduce our Deere Special Marriage monthly subscription soon. For a yet to be determined amount you‘ll be able to be with your love 24/7 and it even will be able to cook your coffee ) You‘ll even be able to have offspring. ).,0
"I think the headline pretty much says it all, but it is kind of interesting reading, and watching for the Lincoln Project ad linked to in the article. Pence is gearing up to run in 2024, but who expects that to go much of anywhere?","After that, he was about to lose the governorship to a Democrat, which was unheard of Indiana, and he saw a way out by stepping out of the race to be veep for Trump. I believe he fully expected to lose, but thought he would be seen as the serious mature adult in the room who stepped up to save a failing campaign, and get some good karma with the GOP establishment.",0
) How quickly and what version you can have depends on your freely adjustable annual Children Expectation Fee and the Special Deere Midwife service you have chosen.,"Further information see our complete Terms and conditions on this small brochure with 396 pages of legal information we recommend you not to read, though you have to accept with your signature, initials and notarially certified.",0
"Actually if you look at the popular vote in the recent election, it's pretty 50/50 if you look at it from a pro Bibi/Anti Bibi POV. Granted the anti Bibi coalition involves everyone from some center right to far left to anti Zionist Arab parties. So not the most stable coalition itself. But it does go to show that the country isn't as black and white as ""OMG ALL ISRAELIS SUPPORT FAR RIGHT POLITICS"".","Because Netanyahu doesn't even get 1/4 of the votes, but this is how Israeli democracy works. In the same way I can ask how Bush became president without wining more than half the votes in 2000. Yes it is a little more drastic here, but that's what happens when you have so many parties.",1
"What does Brazil have to do with the US midterms? Mail in ballots are ballots lol Arizona has been using mail in ballots for over 30 years. No one claimed it was an issue before the last election, what a coincidence.",Yeah I think I've only voted once in person since my first election for the 2008 election. And I only did it that one time because I forgot to fill in my ballot and my dad was going to vote in person anyways lol.,0
"Tobacco is obviously nocive, but that doesnt make marijuana good. Its not that harmful to your own organism, but ""less than x"" doesnt mean its totally harmless. Also while It won't kill you by smoking It its still detrimental to society.","I agree that weed should be legalized, however I'm also tired with the most pro-weed addicts bullshit that weed doesn't harm. I've seen people lose most of their brain and turn permanently stupid for smoking weed for only two years, so don't whitewash it as if it wasn't generally bad for health. And societies like the Netherlands or St Francisco where too many people are high are not really a good model to imitate.",1
"Seizure wouldn't be hard if it did enter our waters, as long as it's Chinese or Russian.capture is just a occupation hazard. north Korea is what worries me.",But a north Korean vessel filled with north Korean soldiers that we already know are incredibly stupid/crazy getting stopped.,0
"The idea is that the bill doesn’t force state to license gay marriage, but rather forces them to recognize other states’ licensure.","Considering ""expressly"" would mean that the law literally says ""state's can take away the civil rights of same-sex partners"", no, it doesn't.",1
"It's shit like this that encourages Iran to develop nuclear weapons Russia has shown that world that if you have nukes, people won't touch you Iran has clearly learnt that lesson and Israel's saber rattling only exonerates Iran in their quest for nukes.","i dislike the iranian govt as much as the next guy, but theres no way the israeli govt gives a damn about iranian civilian casualties compared to the strategic importance of knocking out nuclear sites lol.",1
"If Putin was relying on the esprit de corps to, because he was a former member, keep the FSB rank and file on his side (the guy who has been ""the boss"" for more than a decade), his very public dressing down of the head of the FSB early on for the invasion failures (rather than, you know, the corruption that starts at the very top and drained the military of its power) would've cement him as ""not one of us"" in many minds and maybe even as ""the biggest danger to Russia"" amongst those FSB members who are genuine patriots.",I mean there are many within those agencies that are leaking (the entire apparatus of the invasion itself was practically given to the Five Eyes it seems) and we are at a phase now that Russian internal opposition to further blunders (from within its own security services) is likely at critical mass.,1
"Edit: I’m just a cynic not rare on Reddit the bigger problem is older than a decline in lion population, Fuck all media outlets that drive a narrative that few people make a bigger difference then stopping mega corporations poachers and hunters from hitting the original land of all people this is inconsequential when all life will be dead on earth with no end in site for pollution.",All I’m trying to say is why would we be even looking at news like this if Africa wasn’t colonized in the first place that’s what first comment was referring to.,0
"For no reason you think Ukraine is worth it but Afghanistan wasn't, are you sure you just didn't get swept up in the media storm?",We had no good reason to invade Afghanistan russias got no good reason to invade Ukraine. Moral reasons are not good justification to go to war because if you looked around you'd find we would have to go to war with a lot of people.,0
"The message was simply ""The Democrats are really the bad guys. Everything a Republican does is terrific and good or acceptable or, at least, excusable."".","Gov. Abbott says he will ""fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion."".",1
"Get rid of the filibuster, gerrymandering, and make voter suppression of ""eligible voters"" a mandatory 5 year penalty and Republicans will never win another election. Their edge is manipulation of the vote after manipulation of their stupid ass followers.",And not voting gives the same result as voting for conservative candidates (which is why they've spent billions disinfranchising the vote).,1
"Again, you’re mixing up centralized exchanges with etheriums on chain protocol and saying because a scam happened here in a CEX that the whole thing is a scam.",You either are mistakenly mixing up the crypto protocols with centralized exchanges which are more akin to a broker relationship.,0
"A hurricane locks up so much water that it drops 2.4 trillion gallons of water per day. Even if every car had hydrogen fuel cells, we would be locking up about 60 billion gallons at a time. Notice the scale difference?","352,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water. I think evaporation can replace the pitiful amount we would be taking quite easily, don't you?",0
Majorities in both parties voted to strip the unions of their right to strike and force an agreement on them that the majority of workers had already rejected.,The democrats did not have to vote to force the rail workers to accept the deal the union voted down.,1
"Yep, I liked him in the primary. He was out by the time my state came around so I voted for Biden. As time has gone on I’ve started to dislike Yang, and don’t see that changing in the near future.","I liked what Yang said back in 2019-2020, but it just appears that he’s a grifter like so many others. Even looking at his history, he seems to have that sort of makeup.",1
"The the other side of the strait is Taiwan. If America and its allies control the strait, they can choke China. No shipping means, effectively, that the CCP’s hold on power is not longer acceptable internally.","But do we really think that Americans will forever care enough about an island of 23 million people that’s 7,600 miles from America? And only 100 miles from China? Is it worth going to war with the only other superpower over Taiwan? No way Americans are going to buy that.",0
"By agreement and UN Resolution 1244, serbs have right to deploy no more than1000 soldiers or policeman In Kosovo . US and EU do recognize that. However serbs never use that. Until now, but what is the reason?","Because , no matter of deckared independence of Kosovo and recignition , Kosovo is not recognized bu UN and its not a member of. Resolution that give serbs right to send no more than 1000 servicemen is UN resolution. So the right to return is undesputable.",0
"At least that's my take. I know some idiot will come at me with some bs about how I'm ""BoTh SiDeS""ing it.... but I'm not. I'm well aware of hòw different both parties are. Just reread what is written and understand the difference before telling me I'm just a libertarian or conservative troll or some other such bullshit.",This isn't about republican vs democrat and who is worse... though I am well aware of how much more republicans suck and I've never voted for one.,0
"It's clear that's Bashagha, hafter and dbeibeh (western libya government) all want to gain the power for the long term but if you looked to each sides you will find hafter and Bashagha decided to not use armed forces to decide who gain the power and do you know what is the only other option exactly democratic elections.",There is no democracy in libya thats a fact but under the current situation with militias controlling the capital I don't think having elected government that's could bring stability to libya won't be an easy task at all in the other hand the Sharing of power between between Bashagha and hafter is the best opportunity libya had to achieve that.,0
"What's funnier? That lindell thinks he has a chance, or that the GOP suffered one of the worst electoral defeats (relative to context) after 2 other historically bad losses, and they immediately re-endorse the chair.",Two complete and utter failures in Michigan lost actual elections and then promptly said they were “running” for Michigan GOP chair.,1
"apparently my English is really bad, I will write through a translator. the T14 is designed for a different engine, a new one, this engine is not being built now, there are no factory capacities, there are no long-term operational checks, there is a rather large complexity in manufacturing and operation. also with the transmission, the use of Western aiming systems and night vision systems can not even be remembered. it is radically different from the tanks of the 70 series. The T72 is still in service as the main battle tank, there are repair plants and well-known engines for it. the fact that the t14 was designed and there was enough knowledge and strenh for it - I do not dispute, but there is no capacity to manufacture a commercial quantity, there is no time to create these capacities either. I know about the continuity of generations in the development and production of tanks, as well as any other equipment. But the T14 is not the successor of the 70th series. Due to corruption and massive abuse of state subsidies, the Russian army does not have these tanks in service, plus global production problems. This is another beautiful picture from Russian propagandists and a story about the Great Army. In the army, there are not even enough underpants with socks, not to mention the t14.","I agree with you, but t14 has a different engine, transmission and etc. Big troubles with electronic systems. Russia can't build it a lot.",0
"Step 9) Due to Step 6 and 8, Boris Yeltsin has an opportunity to seek revenge on Gorbachov, and being in control of the Capital and at least being charismatic is able to actually seize power from the incompetent coup attempt and also able to humiliate Gorbachov.",Step 11) Because Yeltsin is an idiot alcholic who really only cares at this point about sticking it to Gorbachov be sure to give away an Russian speaking areas in Ukraine as you secretely negotiate support for your government with several break away republics and define their borders.,0
"India's vaccination drive was huge and mostly great, but it was only in the shadow of the biggest tragedy in the country's history since Partition.","If you want, I can start an argument about how India was critical of the west’s hoarding of vaccines, yet when Delta hit, India stopped all shipments of its vaccine and used them completely on its own populous, letting China. EU and the US vastly overrun them in terms of both sold and donated vaccines.",1
"I'm cautiously optimistic that voters, whether in Arizona or elsewhere, will start to reap what Biden has been sowing, or at least have a clear path to doing so, and of course, that Trump's standing in the public eye will only worsen in the next 20 months.","For the record, although I'm optimistic this will happen, and it absolutely would in a perfect world, we don't live in a perfect world. Unless you're Reagan in 1984, no race is boring enough to be worth ignoring or slacking off on. (That is how we got President Trump!).",0
"But a very, very slim margin of a Republican House majority (218 or 219) with the constant infighting and having a minority party of Democrats being large enough to constantly breathe down their collective necks sounds like a schadenfreude inducing consolation prize.","Don’t really get the doom and gloom over losing the House as winning it was always a stretch, I mean it’s frustrating that we were so close (big ups to my dumbass local Party) but still :T.",1
"The fun part is, if you make so little that you qualify for medicaid on a federal level, you can't get a subsidised plan through Obamacare.",I'm doubtful that the group of people that don't work yet qualify for Medicaid are really a category that they can extract much from. Why would this be worth lobbying for? I'm pretty sure this is just to appeal to the Republican base who wants to see the needy punished for being poor.,1
"As for Russian gas becoming available to Europe anytime soon, the war is not expected to and quickly and so it’s highly unlikely the energy relations between Russia and the European Union would go back to the same level as before the invasion. But even when the war ends, whatever form that end might take, going back to the way things were in terms of energy will be seen as politically and economically risky in Europe. After all, Moscow severed energy links with Europe this year that date back to the depths of the Cold War and in most European capitals Russia is now seen as an unreliable supplier. What’s more, the deep energy links that Europe, and specifically countries like Germany, which got as much as 55% of its gas imports from Russia, had before the conflict are now seen as a mistake - one that leaders here are unlikely to risk repeating.",Is it likely that European countries/EU will change their foreign policy towards energy players to reduce the dependency on Russian energy?,1
"Russia should dispose of Putin and use the occupied territory as a bargaining chip. If not, any ground offensive, no matter where, is going to run into the same logistical problems. NATO says that the Russians are only capable of operating within 160 km of their supply bases in Russia, which cuts way back on where they can strike with any chance of reaching an objective. The reason I think they'll try for Kyiv is because Putin isn't a rational thinker. He would rather destroy Kyiv than follow logical military strategy. Proof is how much firepower Russia has wasted attacking civilian infrastructure instead of using it on military targets.","If the ground does freeze solid, there would still be choke points. And, yeah, Ukrainians will be ready this time instead of playing catch-up. Pretty much all wars are a matter of attrition. The best way to diminish the UA would be to force it to attack prepared, in-depth defenses that take advantage of local geography. I have to wonder how many casualties the UA could take. Any Russian ground offense at this point defies common sense and plays to the Ukrainians, and that's if the Russians still have the logistics to pull it off, which is doubtful. Yet, like goddess knows how many other wars, the loser gets desperate because defending isn't a viable political option, even if it's the proper military strategy. Putin will want to attack Kyi because he's a psycopathic murdering thug, not given to rational thought. Again, if he had a rational military mind, he would't be wasting firepower trying to destroy civilian infrastructure.",0
My daughter had a procedure last year that the provider didn’t put through until now. We’ve changed insurers.,My daughter got a bill for a doctor and the insurance she was under back then isn’t the same as the insurance she has today.,0
"Then there's the stuff that the left does to completely alienate hidden swing votes in purple areas -- specifically Texas. If Democrats would drop their obsession with gun restrictions like the hot mess it is, you could likely flip Texas. Even the Dems in that state don't want that, but folks keep banging that drum to tickle the fancies of firmly blue areas like California that don't matter and would still vote blue without it.","The left keeps pushing it anyway, and the right just sits there and goes, ""Hurrhurr, see, Dems want to take your rights!"". It's an easy win for them and they don't even have to pretend to fight for anyone's rights.",0
"But to put it succinctly, he can't loose more than the total value of his stake in the now non-public Twitter corporation unless he decides to pump more money.","It's more so that you can't hide your profits with buying licenses from your daughter / parent / sister company, throw it all back into new projects or buy back stock and act like you don't have money.",1
"The characterization of the Russian military as largely unmotivated to execute combat operations has been highly overblown in the West. Yes, it is true that there have been desertions and surrenders, especially among conscripts, and yes, it is true that hundreds of thousands of young men fled Russia when the first wave of follow-on conscription was announced. However, the idea that the Russian military is unmotivated to achieve its objectives is largely untrue; the continued pace and unabated intensity of the fighting belies the widespread perception in the West that the Russian military is unmotivated and unwilling to engage in combat operations. The Ukrainians themselves caution against this perception of the Russian military:","The takeaway is that the UAF needs more and better military aid NOW, and must continue to receive increasing levels of aid, if they are to succeed in restoring Ukraine's borders. Ukraine suffers at a strategic level from the fact that its minimalist aim, the expulsion of Russian forces from its borders, is also its maximalist aim, a war goal that will take thousands of lives, hundreds of millions of dollars, and likely years yet, to achieve.",0
"Wow, what a pompous ass. Condescending, insulting, made every generalization about Americans he could think of including how US companies always build software that doesn't work because it's built for the cheapest cost possible. (I replied with, sir I'm from Canada and that's Canadian software you're using.).","Says the . The only reason Russia didn’t have a African colony wasn’t because of any anti-imperialism morals, but because the French kicked them out when they tried to get one.",1
"Give n McCarthy thinks that the American people should actually see all that happened instead of a report that's written on a political bias, my assumption is that all 14,000 hours would have to be shown unedited to provide the whole story.","“Flashback: McCarthy told reporters in Statuary Hall last month that he thinks ""the American public should actually see all [that] happened instead of a report that's written [on] a political basis.""”.",1
"While post natal centers are indeed popular among women, I don't think no non-birthing parent leave is main reason, considering way more women prioritize ""government aid on post natal center fee""(roughly 75%) over ""giving partner parent leave""(roughly 38%) according to.",I learned recently South Korea has post natal centers where about 75% of women will go to recover because no non birthing paren leave means that you’ve basically got to take care of yourself after giving birth. It’s usually out of pocket for them too which is unusual contrasted with the rest of their birth experience/expenses.,1
"While publishing a discovery does allow anyone else to use that discovery/method without a patent, one can simply add a simple improvement of discovery and file a patent on that improvement. That alone makes it harder for anyone else to find a room to operate on previously published discovery.","Because of the technical legalities at a time, not to mention that modern medicine is a conglomerate of discoveries from different scientists. For example, the COVID vaccine is made possible by discoveries in RNA modification, nucleotide synthesis and RNA packaging among other things. For the COVID vaccine to be ""open-source"" everyone who has patents on these discoveries all have to agree to charge no money for the use of their patents, and at the end of the day, it would all just lead to the manufacturer who got permission for fair use to pocket all the profits.",0
Which is why we are going to get billions pumped into free-to-consume media portraying him as the Sensible Alternative.,"You’re right to point out that my argument involves something of a logical leap- Ron DeSantis in his uncut form probably won’t actively appeal to many of these “gettable” voters. My bet is that he will have the canniness (and outside assistance) to tone it down juuuuust enough if/when he’s forced out of the Bubble, while still playing to the fashmob when he goes on Fox etc.",0
"I already was a soldier and I spent years in Europe, including some time in Eastern Europe. You keep backing your fascist Russian dictator. I'm going to stick with the NATO allies who stood beside us through 2 wars and 20 years. I know because I saw them there when I was playing soldier instead of living out your little league of legend fantasy about me you little fascist freak.",Russia invaded Ukraine. I didn't. Russia threatens me and my family. I'm not threatening them. Your people are embarrassed because Russians can't fight. You can't win your war of conquest and your Hitler wannabe dictator will have to face consequences along with your people.,0
"I never understood how these election deniers thought they had a winning argument. Let's think about this logic for a moment.... Joe Biden won Arizona in 2020 because more people voted for him. The Republicans threw a hissy fit, lied about fraud, and tried to invalidate votes/overthrow the government. So.... Kari Lake thought ANY of those voters were going to forget that and vote for her? If I lived in Arizona and had voted for Biden, how could I possibly accept a governor who won't accept my vote?","You're absolutely right. The thing is.... Biden voters (made up of democrats, republicans, and independents) didn't take kindly to the Republican party attempting to negate their vote, thus motivating them to get out and vote in the midterms (where turnouts are typically lower).",0
"I mean, there isn't a single Jew left in places like Afghanistan, so there isn't anyone left to be doing this to...",Why is all the blame on Israelis when Palestinians won't just accept that Jews are going to live in the region at all? When the PA is literally paying Palestinians to kill innocent Jews in areas that everyone (except them) would say should stay in Israel under any solution. When rockets are being launched from areas Israel unilaterally withdrew from to give them their own independence threatening Israeli civilians who did nothing at all wrong.,0
"Yes. Black people and Hispanics tend to be incredibly conservative in their views of LGBT, and Republicans definitely have been successful with their messaging that “the left” is trying to groom their children with sexually explicit and pro-LGBT propaganda. Black and Hispanic voters are also more likely to face substantial difficulties due to inflation wiping out their already low-on-average buying power while the Democrats keep telling everyone that things are going swell/okay (the economy is doing fine, for those of us who are upper middle class or higher).",These articles are there to push the Dem base to the right by trying to get rank-and-file Dems behind the idea that they need to sacrifice caring about LGBT rights and social justice if they want their party to win in 2024. They aren’t there to bolster the Republicans.,0
"The prohibitions will not apply to museums, archives, libraries when organising exhibitions, informing the public about totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their consequences, and using such objects and information for the purposes of education, scholarship, professional art, and collecting."".",Eh. That also seems like a really convincing argument that established power structures and morality should be able to use intolerance to maintain their power and morality over the populace. As long as they cloak themselves in a veil of tolerance.,1
"If Russia left tomorrow, I've no doubt Zelenskyy would be all over their asses politically: wanting reparations for the damage they've caused and for their war crimes to be punished, but my key point is Ukraine doesn't want to be fighting for a second longer than they have to.","I am concerned however, that if Ukraine goes on the offensive by attacking targets inside of Russia instead of being strictly defensive, that it backfires and causes the Russian people to feel like they need to rally their support for the war instead of feeling bad for Ukraine and not supporting the war.",1
"And despite the horrible outcomes of some of that communication, it's generally considered good that the public has more communication with their representatives.","If you ban all social media from gov't phones, we'll be back to the days of opaque governance, where the only places we can get information is websites and the media.",0
"This is what bitcoin was meant to help mitigate, but people turned it into a poor man's Ponzi scheme. When a regime changes money, or is replaced, your bitcoin would still remain the same. But that requires a stable bitcoin, which won't happen until the cheats and crooks are unable to move the price up and down at will.","Compared to this news the bitcoin is relatively stable. At worst it dropped like 50-75%, but not 90% like this article. So might still be stable enough when you really don't trust your government.",1
Any evidence of the US routinely and unlawfully intercepting Chinese aircraft in international airspace with a fighter jet in recent times?,Do you have any evidence of the US routinely and unlawfully intercepting Chinese aircraft in international airspace in the last year?,0
"IMHO, that's the same thing with capitalism. It requires critical thinking, wisdom, and attention from citizens. (e.g. enforcing anti-trust laws, keeping economic inequality at healthy levels, making sure the social mobility ladder is there and is very wide, and functions both way, i.e. rich but dumb and lazy people fall, poor but intelligent and hard working people rise, making sure education is free, including higher education; making sure unions have high degree of freedoms, and rights (as they're the checks-and-balances of the upper-class and their corporations), making sure parliament is elected by proportional representation, so that people from the lower and middle class can get elected with support from unions, and make sure taxes are fair, and inequality low, making sure the field is level and people rise on merit alone (but people don't fall too low, i.e. a rather equal society) and etc. etc.).","Ideological? What? The people doing that do it for one reason: greed! That's not ideological. That's extremely practical. They just want more wealth, more influence, and more power.",0
"(1) The polls shall be opened on the day of a primary, special election, or regularelection at 6 a.m., prevailing time, and shall remain open until each voter who iswaiting in line at the polls at 6 p.m., prevailing time, has voted. At 6 p.m.,prevailing time, if voters are waiting at the polls to vote, the precinct election sheriffshall announce that a voter wishing to vote must immediately get in line. When allvoters waiting at the polls at that time are in line, the precinct election sheriff shallthen determine which voter is the last in line, and that voter shall be the last voterpermitted to vote. The precinct election sheriff shall wait in line with the last voterwho shall be permitted to vote until that voter has voted and shall inform a voterwho subsequently arrives at the polls that no one shall be permitted to vote after thelast voter in line at 6 p.m., prevailing time. After the last voter waiting in line at 6p.m., prevailing time, has voted, the polls shall then be closed.","Can we please wait for polls to close before we start the doom and gloom? I know it's a rough and frankly scary day in general. But remember, old boomers and above don't work so they have plenty of time to vote early today. It happens at every election and they always vote on the red side of things so it will seem skewed to the right at the start.",1
"Oh, there's your issue, you just assumed Japan isn't killing endangered whales and decided to go with that opinion like an ignorant jackass.","While I don't agree with whaling if Japan wishes to continue killing it's own marine life that's on them, but the sei whales and bryds whales are highly endangered the minke have pretty healthy populations.",1
"Democracy tells about the source of the power the offices wield (demos - the 'mob' or people). It is contrary to monarchy (bloodline) where the confusion comes from, theocracy (god), and dictatorship (power/might/military).","I could accept this, if I did not explicitly brought up an example of this not being the case. A republic can be easily a country where the upper class or some arbitrary group elects the officials. One could argue that the US was originally not a democracy, as only land owning white men were able to vote. But this is a false view of history, trying to apply current day morality to past structures and events. In their time the original US system was a fairly progressive one, that was viewed as democracy by its peers, and was intended to be a federation of democracies in a democracy by its founders (however irrelevant that is).",0
"It is objective reality that both parties, but the Democrats most visibly, have given up on rural America. That the urban population outnumbers the rural population lets you call this a winning strategy, and that's fine from a game theory perspective, but it should be no surprise that resentment is sky high in these areas. It's no great mystery, they are bleeding jobs, money, and population to the cities. Just look at the county maps from 2000 vs today.","I have a surplus of good will for the democrats given what the last 5 years have been, but the gap between their talking points and their actual legislation remains significant. Rural Americans are one of the poorest cohorts in the country and yet they vote hard right. The working class party has not improved their lives one iota in 20 years. Neither have the Republicans, but the Republicans at least gleefully extend them the evil elite bone, and that's the only bone they have. They chew on it viciously.",0
That graphic that went around showed soy and oat as the least intensive but even almond was well well behind cow milk in that regard….,"""I read an article saying that growing almonds was bad for the environment, and yet I continued to use almond milk in my coffee."" - Chidi, The Good Place.",1
"Edit for clarification: automatic firearms are those capable of firing multiple bullets with a single trigger pull. Semiautomatic firearms fire one bullet per trigger pull. Bump stocks only increase the rate at which the trigger is pulled, therefore it’s still 1 bullet per trigger pull, and technically not a modification into “automatic.”.",Effect and practical application using different systems of that effect is an extremely called upon point in many other facets of gun law outside of bump stocks. The ATF can feel that they are mimicking automatic fire (and they are more or less at a little less than half the fire rate of machine guns) but that does not change their procedures in the enforcement of the law written by Congress in 1934 and 1968. Governments have to be accountable to the law that’s voted on by representatives and not become rogue agencies. It’s a dangerous slippery slope when the hammer doesn’t come down in my opinion. It’s the same reason why their recent rulings on ghost guns likely won’t hold up in court. I think I answered everything you asked but lmk if I missed anything.,1
"Lastly, for this question you seem to hang your hat on - maybe for India, there is no country that is more morally-defensible than Russia. So do what you feel is the right thing to do. /shrug There is no country that is completely blameless on all accounts with a perfect track record and a history without blemish.",You prefer the conveniences of cheaper energy costs. International efforts on behalf of suffering Ukrainians are secondary to your comfort. That's where you are. Accept it.,0
"When they do political polls, they should ask ""are you voting for this candidate solely because of their party affiliation?"" How many voters that support Walker even know anything about him other than he's Republican?","Only 11% of GOP voters crossed party lines, that suggests that “they all” do not actually know how much of an idiot Walker is. Or if they do it shows that they don’t care because he has an R next to his name.",1
I took part in a G7 ministerial meeting at the invitation of Japanese FM Hayashi Yoshimasa. We focused on everything needed for Ukraine's victory in 2023. There will be rapid deliveries of weapons and new sanctions. Russia must realise we won’t tire of countering its aggression.,I don’t doubt that orders have been issued by Putin to launch various offensives. But I am skeptical that Russia is actually able to achieve any build-ups of capabilities right now.,1
Yeah Demings had won it by far larger margins in the last two elections. It's silly to say progressives are the answer to flipping seats given that they never win purple districts and only win in dark blue districts.,That's untrue given there are several purple and red district Progressives won in over the past two years. Not to mention Progressive Fetterman just won a purple state. After having a stroke and being unable to ideally communicate for months.,1
"And that boggles my mind! I get the libertarian thing, but even that, in the US it co-opted and backwards IMHO. Not trying to start a fight, because I know a bunch of those people. But do they honestly think the Dems or the Christian conservative block in the GOP are more ""controlling"".","Or it's also likely that our democracy is in a death spiral in which the GOP manages to seize power because the system is designed to uphold minority rule. Dems are likely to lose the Senate in 2024, and because of the electoral college the GOP could certainly win the presidency, not to mention their firm control of the SCOTUS already. And then that could be the end of democracy. In the end it doesn't matter how unpopular the GOP is when they don't need popular support to win.",1
"If Russia actually thinks it is going to lose the war in Ukraine, this is the reality for the Russian elite. They will be ostracized from just about anywhere in the world where you can eat in a Michelin star restaurant, park a yacht, and stay in the presidential suite of a Four Seasons. They and their nation will be humiliated and isolated from the developed world’s economic system, which they have used to facilitate their theft of state resources and escape Russia to enjoy the freedom and democracy of Europe and North America. Their future will be one of poverty and isolation. They will not tolerate that.","The Earth will recover and there will be life again. Let’s hope if there are any humans who survive, they do a better fucking job protecting the only home we have in an infinitely vast, mostly dark and empty universe.",0
"“Education.” You mean indoctrination? I mean, I don’t know how anyone can support socialism, think farting cows are destroying the environment, deny binary gender, and deny the humanity of the unborn , buy into CRT and every new woke label, and actively work to cancel “wronhink” and still claim the mantle of “educated.” Degreed, yes. But not educated.","DeSantis is absolutely fantastic and checks all the boxes: conservative, traditional, eloquent, disciplined, whip-smart.",0
"If we took water from the air, water from the ocean would just evaporate and replace it. There's no way humans could ever take enough water from the air that the ocean wouldn't be able to replenish it. Especially since we'd be using the hydrogen to burn or run through a fuel cell which turns it right back into water.","When exposed to sunlight, the device absorbs water from the air and produces hydrogen. The hydrogen produced in this way could be used as fuel or for the long-term storage of solar energy, the authors wrote in the scientific journal “Advanced Materials” on Wednesday.",1
The bigger issue that I'd like to see investigated is how the National Archives didn't know that these documents were missing for 6 years. If classified documents can be misplaced (or taken) and nobody realizes for years then what classified information was leaked and what damage has it done?,Exactly. If there was any intentional taking/keeping of classified documents in the Biden case then anyone responsible should face appropriate consequences.,0
"We left Argentina in 1994, plenty of extended family left behind. All these years later, same old shit. My father (visiting family) just got a haircut down there for like $1.75ish US. People are desperate. Failed state, no jobs, no money, barely enough food.","In 1992 we made a full Spanish-version monopoly game with real cash. It was worthless. I remember we ran it through the washing machine, then ironed out the bills. We still have that board ""game."".",0
"I mean that's as good an option as any other really. We shouldn't have one 'leader' or even a small number of leaders to be honest, but we're not there yet as a species so while we're still too dumb collectively to rule ourselves and need a leader, why not have an 80 year old pisschad?","I’m the first one to say our leaders shouldn’t be so old they can’t function, because they don’t have any bearing on society.",1
"The usual method is hydro, with excess electricity you power up pumps to fill a reservoir; and when experiencing a shortage, let the water down and power the turbines.","If you really need electricity long term, compressed air and pumped hydro is the way to go. And for short term storage + grid services, batteries are cheaper than peaker plants.",1
We didn't really know what mig 25s we're outside that they had a weird design and were fast until a Russian pilot defected and landed at a random airfield in Japan.,"Sorry, I found it on a rabbit hole vid watching session which probably started when watching something from Real Engineering on youtube.",0
"Why did he resign, and what was erroneous...does he believe they could have defended against the missile but failed? I don't quite get it, not enough context.","Is that the correct summary? Well everyone makes mistakes in these difficult circumstances, not sure resignation is particularly constructive during war times unless he's particularly incompetent?",0
"Yes, but more in the case of when an Indian child needs foster care, not necessarily that they're just snatching children. And the crux of the issue is whether these children in need of foster care should be kept in their communities/culture or fostered with non-native families. And I'm sure these christian groups logic for opposing that is they'd rather these kids go to Christian families so they can show them the light and make them Christian. Just a continuation of the cultural genocide of the native Americans.",Genocide is far more common than even the genocide of the indigenous Americans & Australian-Oceanian aboriginals would suggest.,1
"I am still in disbelief that a good chunk of the LGBTQ community is still anti 2A after all the hardships they have gone through, especially after the pulse shooting.","maybe i’m just gay and angry, but it’s a little disturbing to me that ANYONE is putting full blame on the access to firearms instead of the disease that is ignorance and hatred. don’t get me wrong, this is also a gun control issue, but he’s playing it as JUST gun control instead of an amalgamation of pitiful gun control, lack of education, and tolerance for hatred; which it is. he’s tip-toeing around calling for better lgbt+ education because god forbid we teach kids that other kids exist.",1
"They probably don't care if they can fire a weapon, their main purpose on the battlefield is just to draw Ukrainian artillery fire so their commanders can see where it is.","They send the convicts in to get fired on by the Ukrainian artillery, so that their real soldiers can spot the artillery’s location.",0
"Remember, the GOP always falls in line and rallies around their choice, and the feral base of the party steers the whole thing.","The fucker is literally only doing it to pull one last grift and steal what donations he gets and is going to drop out near the primaries. People forget he’s actually run before, there is no doubt that he’s going to do it to get one last payout to pay for his deepening troubles.",1
"They, probably, will say, that it's Ukraine's work, but in reality, Russia just sucks and falls apart.","The commenter above you is saying that Ukraine has no more right to blow up civilian infrastructure in Russia than Russia has in Ukraine. It would be highly unethical for Ukraine to blow up power substations in Siberia just to hurt Russian civilians, even though Russia is doing exactly that in Ukraine.",1
"It is not like The Russia didn't try, but despite preparations for months, the mobilization, weapons from Iran, Belarus and NK, etc, The Russia is not able to hold on.",At what point does russia capitulate so they can maintain some level of military readiness for defense? Imagine losing half your shit & being strangled by sanctions at the same time. What a weiner Putin is.,1
"I guess the kindergarten teacher who was recently shot by one of her students, would have been able to shoot the kid back if she had had a firearm. The right would have hailed the situation as an example of a “ good guy with a gun”.","The rare time police have responded to a shooting where a good guy with a gun actually stopped the shooting, they killed them. Having more guns just increases the chaos. It’s not a common occurrence that a random good guy with a gun actually stops a shooting. This is going to make teachers initial targets. Not to mention the hostile environment of having a gun in the classroom.",1
"AFAIK, these are considered aftershocks due to the geological proximity to the fault zone that ruptured and smaller magnitude.","Again, from personal experience with the Canterbury Earthquakes (2010-2013), aftershocks can rupture different faults/segments and still be aftershocks.",0
And it doesn't have to weigh on your conscience because you can tell yourself it's what the voters want.,And yet they're another group that can get away with lies theft and murder shielded by their office.,0
"India is one of the closest major partners of Russia. Most of India’s military is made up of Russian exports, and India runs a big trade deficit against Russia. And just generally, Russia wouldn’t want to lose such a major country as a close partner.","I didn't mean India, I meant russia is losing, and russia is pulling favours so that their allies would be for stopping the war as it is. Where did I say that India is losing?",1
"Even IF the EU banned the trade, (at the cost of millions in bureaucracy) the effect would do nothing for the poached hippos that go to non EU countries.",The former because the EU argues the actual trade with hippo ivory and other products derived from the animals is not significant enough to warrant a trade ban. Make of that what you will.,1
They could start by gluing themselves to practically anything else high-profile that relates to climate change instead of artworks. That's something they haven't tried yet.,Higher profile doesn't include those things if they didn't gain much attention. But why is that in an age where almost anything can go viral? Were they noticed or not? What was the response? And did it have a net positive or net negative effect on support for ecological goals?,0
"Consider this: Russian ""hackers"" steal passwords, troll social media and send the occasional ransomware.","Anonymous, Ukranian hackerd, Russian IT defectors, Oligarchs clenaning up files, databases etc. When you have so many enemies as Russia and the country is a damn shit show.",1
"""Lower your flags and march straight back to [Russia], stopping at every home you pass by to beg forgiveness for a hundred years of theft, rape, and murder. Do that and your men shall live. Do it not, and every one of you will die today."".","Yup. Or rather continues the same kind of horrible precedent Russia that the world set with Chechnya, Georgia, and Transistria that directly lead to this invasion...in 2014.",1
"Without the USA sending Abrams European countries need to be willing to send significant parts of their tank force to supply Ukraine with the amount of tanks they need. Likely up to an level that at least some of their own tank units have to be disbanded since they will lack the tanks to remain operational. If not even the UK, a nuclear armed island country (so ground forces are secondary for their own defense) with one of the strongest militaries in NATO is willing to do so how can one expect that from mainland European nations some of them bordering Russia?","That was what I wanted to point out. Without the USA sending Abrams, 300 modern western MBT for Ukraine might just be an unrealistic goal.",0
"At one point, he dinged GOP lawmakers who voted against a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. “To my Republican friends who voted against it but still ask to fund projects in their districts, don’t worry,” he said. “We’ll fund your projects. And I’ll see you at the ground-breaking.”.","Joe wants to help fix our roads, power grid, railways, etc. He says, “It’s going to cost this much to do all that”. Republicans say boo you’re a democrat and I don’t want you to get any recognition for something successful, I’m not voting for it. Even though that republican’s infrastructure is in shambles and desperately needs it.",0
"And (from July, but I doubt much has changed) shows that Sinema is more popular with independents and Republicans than she is with Dems. If the Dems put up a strong candidate and the GOP runs someone crazy again, Sinema may peel off enough sane, right-leaning voters to hand the seat back to the Dems. If the GOP runs a moderate, though, solid chance they flip it.","No they aren’t; it’s a lot closer than that. It’s more like 35% GOP, 34% independent, 31% Dem (rounded up). Source:",0
I mean the argument is that they are so dangerous they can't have guns but also not dangerous enough to lock up?,"This isn't to diminish the seriousness of gun crime in this country or an argument against gun control, but rather how I see the fallout from any such push.",1
"However, staffers are right that this approach covers up all kinds of ugly and Cheney is using this to find her next job.","Cheney and her people are right to focus hard on Trump, because national media struggles to walk and chew gum at the same time.",0
"Right, yeah if anything it helps to think of Latinos as the ultimate swing voters. They mostly align with democrats on values but they are hyper-sensitive to the economy since they mostly are trying to live the American dream and build a life for themselves. If the economy is good, then democrats will do well with Latinos.","In 2018 the country as a whole went for the democrats by 8.6%, in 2022 the country as whole will probably go for republicans by 2-3%. That’s a 10-11 point shift in the National environment. Not saying the shift among Latinos isn’t important but it’s very misleading to compare the 2018 election results to the 2022 election results.",0
"I must also say I don't believe NATO are planning to do this, things are not at that level and there is nothing for NATO to gain from attacking Belarus.",Now I don't think that will happen and it was a few years they came up with the plan so it might of changed but rhe general idea was it's a way to show Russia NATO are willing to escalate without striking Russia an starting WW3.,0
"Granted it's only the word of one politic analyst, but the mere fact this can be said out loud in Russia is deeply unsettling imo, nuclear weapon or not.","I said months ago, that the propability, that a substantial amount of nuclear weapons in Russias control are duds is higher than the propability that a lot of putins complexes stem from the fact that he is a absolute manlet.",1
"Yeah. While the young demographic is one of the most Democratic leaning bases, it's also one of the most apathetic groups with typically low turnout. Biden really needs to energize the youth vote any way he can if he or any other Dem wants to win in 2024.","Its a loss for Biden, Democrats need working class rural Democrats to vote in the 2024 elections and every election after. These are primarily people who couldnt afford to go to college even with loans. The left brutally attacked rural communities said they were coming after their jobs and their guns and their bla bla bla. A good way to suppress the Democratic vote in rural regions is to make people who are living hand to mouth pay for your bloated college expenses so you can buy a house while they struggle to pay rent.",1
It doesn't make you think why it wsa being created in the lab in the first place? And it doesn't make you question if it wsa an accidental leak or on purpose? It doesn't make you wonder if the government knew the entire time how the pandemic began?,"I mean, I feel like it's probably a good thing to know how a pandemic originated so we can try to not let it happen again.",1
"See the problem is, California laws alone are incapable of punishing rural firearms enthusiasts in Wyoming for the crimes of inner city gangbangers in LA. Takes a federal level infringement to pull that off. People shouldn't be able to just move out to the country and do what they want, we need to make it so there is no escaping maximum government control.","Saying the second amendment doesn't apply to modern rifles because it was written in the time of muskets is exactly like saying the first amendment shouldn't apply to speech over the internet since it was written in the time of quill pens. Technology changes, principles do not.",0
"The Russians want to eradicate this smaller Ukraine, but it manages to hold on. The smaller nearer Russia gets conquered after it failed to invade, and so it sends suicide bombers to the smaller Ukraine every five years or so, in waves.","That's basically Israel, extremely simplified, and most likely a wrong analogy, but you get the jist.",0
"The issue with this logic is that near everyone knew Trump for his hate speech, racism, lies, and anti-democratic proclivities even before he stood for President in 2016.","Republicans tolerated Trump's very overt racism, bigotry, fraud, and even his fucking violence and treason... so long as they believed that he guaranteed them power. Now that Trump is not a guaranteed path to power the Republicans are trying to pretend that they have any scruples to speak of; this is theater. If the current shifts and Combover Caligula becomes their best means of gaining power in 2024, they'll suddenly all be back on board with him and all of his bullshit and they absolutely will not give a shit about it.",1
"I wouldn't expect a 16 year old to have the foggiest understanding about how their vote would affect things. Would their input really be valuable? Do you really want 16 year old kids to have the power to influence important decisions? I dunno, I'm not against the idea neccesserily, but I understand why they currently aren't able to vote, let's put it that way.","But if we're letting old people vote and they have hardly any real skin in the game, I don't see why 16 year olds shouldn't have the chance.",1
The democrats did not have to vote to force the rail workers to accept the deal the union voted down.,Edit 3: Did the democrats have to pass a bill in the house forcing rail workers to into a contract the workers voted down?,0
There isn't going to be a diplomatic end to this conflict so long as Russia believes that Ukraine belongs to them and is willing to use whatever means they have available to impose Russian rule.,"Putin has the option to cease being an asshat and pull back troops and cease military action in Ukraine, and the Russian people who continue to support the conflict are almost as much to blame, but only as a result to the decades of Russian propaganda that Putin has orchestrated and forced on the Russian people.",1
There’s a reason they’re resorting to such brutal punishments for the convicts. They’re rebellious because they’re being sent into certain death.,"They probably don't care if they can fire a weapon, their main purpose on the battlefield is just to draw Ukrainian artillery fire so their commanders can see where it is.",0
"I am guessing this law will get stuck down since it basically says ANY semiautomatic rifle is banned from being sold and all existing ones have to be registered since there is the part about ""a shroud attached to the barrel or that partially or completely encircles the barrel, allowing the bearer to hold the firearm with the non-trigger hand without being burned, but excluding a slide that encloses the barrel"". That language basically says forend...like the kind found on basically ANY rifle.","It literally defines most rifles as ""Assault Weapons."" Even posessing many accessories and a rifle/pistol that they can attach to also counts. That includes any undermounted flashlight!",1
"There were no borders of Palestine in 1967. Does he want Egypt to give the Sinai to a new Palestine? Does he want to give the West Bank back to Jordan, because they had it before the 1967 war?",I wouldnt say Palestinian people in general agree it. If you ask Palestinians in the West bank most of them will say they only agree to peace if there isnt an Israel anymore.,1
"Yes and I said that it is still unreasonable to side with them anyways, particularly Russia. This article is but one of the reasons why. Better to stay neutral or pick no sides when it’s clear multiple countries are willing to exploit them, even if the levels of exploitation are different.",They were mad about Ukraine/Poland giving them a hard time to cross the border at the start of the war but won’t say a peep about this I guarantee it.,0
"No, I'm saying the USD is not backed by anything. Its backed on the promise the government will payout on the value of the bill, in other words its value and global exchange rate is based on faith.",If the US was largely devastated by a nuclear war the USD will drop to almost nothing overnight because its becomes functionally impossible for the US government to honor its debts or export anything.,0
"The entire system is broken. Money buys influence, and therefore the wealthy individuals in societies will prevail.",The wealth gap and the power of dark money in politics means that the super rich can buy the politicians and outcomes they want.,1
"Democrats are pretty strained by the responsibility of being both the liberal party and the conservative party, and you know a lot of conservative voters are holding their noses when they have to vote Democrat. Left/right is a legitimate difference of opinion between people, and one party can't really have a coherent platform trying to serve both. There will always be incentive for conservative politicians to run as Republicans instead of Democrats, and when they do, sometimes they're going to win their primaries against the nutcases, _especially_ magans.","Considering how well Dems did on the mid terms with Governor and state legislature races, enstating Moore would no longer benefit Republicans like they hoped. It would states like PA that picked up a Dem majority and Dem governor could be forever Democrat since stayed could just over rule any future votes.",1
"Since then that’s how you deal with such a plot, you get the main organizer, the ones that enabled it and you try them preentively . If they walk free they’ve tested your defenses and in some cases garnered support so you can’t let them try again.",I’m not saying try everyone related to 1/6 there would be too much pushback but at least ban the main enablers from holding office.,0
"Sure. That’s a different issue. Republicans could have gotten the sick leave passed. They came out in numbers against it. Both sides fucked up, but the republicans are the reason the sick days didn’t pass. Period.",Biden made a mistake. That mistake could have been fixed by republicans voting for the sick leave bill. They refused because they’re evil. They’re at fault.,0
"I think democrats know that, and honestly don’t care. What is Sinema doing for them? She stifled that at every possible turn and doesn’t agree with their positions. This isn’t like Manchin where it’s as good as it gets. Kelly votes like a rank and file democrat and he cruised to an easy reelection. It’s probably better to just lose the seat and get a real democrat in 6 years.","Oh I know, and maybe the Dems can rile up enough hate for sinema that they can take the seat back. I'm mostly pointing out the reason sinema decided to come out as an independent is because she was completely fucked as a candidate if she remained a dem.",1
"Yes, but they're only buying because they can get more in rent than their mortgage. That's due to the supply of housing.",There's a housing shortage in the US. Zoning regulations caused it. Prices go up when there are shortages. Stop gaslighting people and just admit this already.,1
"FYI, we don't know what variant of the Sea Kings are being sent. Nobody has mentioned the anti-submarine version, although it is possible. That requires the dipping sonar etc.","All that said, it would make sense to give the Ukrainians that capability since it's clearly something they need since the Russian surface fleet is no longer a threat.",0
"While I believe that he is correct in his assessment of the situation (that heavy weapons will be needed to defeat russia), one does not simply get war ships and air forces. It would be far, far more effective to ask for an umbrella of protection from NATO.","Personally, I do not think this war has a path to conclusion that does not include the destruction of russian leadership. And THAT is where the biggest problem lies... current russian leadership would rather commit global suicide than surrender power.",0
"There were never any significant investigations or punishments, and Obama's people justified it as wanting to ""unify, not divide"" people more and that they were ""focused on moving forward, not looking back"" and similar wishy-washy phrases.","I'm a leftist, but I love my country, or at least the values that it was meant to stand for. I just want to move forward. And I want to hold the far-right accountable for some of the things they've done in recent years.",0
"No it does not. Per federal law a machine gun is a firearm that can fire more than one cartridge per action of the trigger. A bump stock does not make that possible, it just uses the recoil of the gun to help the shooter pull the trigger faster than normal. A firearm with a bump stick still requires one action of the trigger even if it looks like it's firing very fast.","The trigger is still being “pulled” once for every bullet. The only way this becomes untrue is from some technical failure resulting in two bullets feeding at the same time, which would result in a misfire. The trigger as part of the gun’s firing mechanism has to reset to a certain position and be “pulled” again before another bullet can be fired.",1
"The truth is that the Cuban regime is what holds back the country from having relations. We already know that their whole ""humanitarian assistance"" with doctors has the government withholding payment from those doctors to keep them from basically running away of the country.","Are you aware that only a minority of abroad Cubans are up to that level of wealth? Well fuck all of those teachers, doctors and their families that managed to run to other countries am i right? If they hate an authoritarian regime that has made sure to keep their population in misery, they must be rich.",0
The search team was hired so Trumps lawyers could tell a judge a search had been done and there were no more classified documents at any Trump properties.,"""... after lawyers for former President Donald Trump arranged for a firm to search for additional classified material ... "".",1
Yeah so if Russia wants to block new NATO countries they just need to have someone burn a book in thier borders and know that the country won't murder them for it it will make Turkey mad 🦃?,"Even if Sweden is blocked by Turkey, NATO would never allow Russia to control Gotland, it would be a huge threat to all the NATO counties that border the baltic.",1
The Republicans want to literally starve their own people and make them more susceptible to illness?,"Next in the IA GOP plan… extermination chambers for those yucky Americans who are a drag on IA society. You may think that’s hyperbolic… but if you look at the republicans antivax message and boarder policies, which created near concentration camp like facilities, we should acknowledge… it’s happening here already and stuff like this is a step towards concentration camps.",1
Ballot access mostly. Though I could probably go on for days about ballot access laws let's just say that in many states reaching a certain threshold makes it easier to get candidates on the ballot in the next election.,Often times states have rules that so long as one candidate gets 2% of the vote (or sometimes 5% for further down races) that they get ballot access automatically for the next election.,1
"Well put that on a Hallmark card I doubt anyone would disagree with the deep and insightful advice that Haiti needs ""a good leader."".",This. Look at an areal map of Hispaniola. An island divided in two sides rather randomly. Yet you can see without any lines roughly where Haiti and the DR’s borders are.,1
What a win for a world champion who wins the cup in Qatar. Big nations should simply play their own cup inofficially. Stream it for free and show what real football is. Not this FIFA shit show.,Didn't FIFA say Russia can't be part of the world cup? Isn't that political? Absolute double standards FIFA are a shambles someone needs to make a new non corrupt fifa and have away with them.,1
Can wasn't kicked in this circumstance unless you are saying Republicans kicked the can and Biden is doing what his constituents want from him?,Now we get to watch as Republicans slowly finger their buttholes and then lose even worse in the election because they continue to alienate the educated members of society and the moderates who aren't psychopath religious nuts.,0
"But they are helping Brits do it. It's so easy, all they need to do in encourage conflict wherever it arises. They support both sides of the argument, as long as anger flourishes ... and Brexit was one of the results.","Basically, the actions of the Cameron Government show that they wanted Brexit, even if their words claim otherwise. Either that, or they were even stupider than the Truss government.",1
"Except that we have literal proof of this not being the case when it comes to nuclear weapons, in living memory, during the most brutal periods of the post ww2 soviet union, which was as close to a cult of personality as you could get.",you have to trust your enemy is that crazy. Odds are they're not. That's what the soviet missile commanders decided when they didn't hit the button when their EW satellites picked up a weird glint off the atmosphere and had a false positive massive nuclear first strike coming out of america.,0
"Visual only drones as recon are just barely useful given they would need to have the map already committed to memory in the drone to get there and back, and you aren’t doing that in a $500 drone. For ordinance the risk of friendly fire would be astronomical with little chance of hitting the intended target.",Small guided munitions are a great theory but avoiding an incoming munition is one of the few things a drone can accomplish fairly easily and completely autonomously without gps or external comms- they’re amazing at evasive maneuvers.,0
"I think there’s a decent amount of people in this country that genuinely believe “fake news” just means “news that I don’t agree with”. Bias is more subtle than a lot of people think, you usually can’t see it just from reading or watching (unless it’s egregious), it happens more like what stories they choose to run and not run. And don’t even get me started on the rights hatred of journalists. So yes r/conservative all news is biased, but that doesn’t mean it’s all the same level of bias.","That’s the thing conservatives don’t understand, yes all media is bias but that doesn’t mean you can’t trust any media. You just have to vary your sources and use critical thinking like you said. Instead they use “all media is bias and lying” as an excuse to only watch media they agree with. If every news org reports on trump shitting his pants except fox, then clearly the other media companies are colluding and fox is the only one you can trust.",0
"Turkish people want him to do this, that's why he's delaying the vote until after the election because polls show a very close race and he might lose the election.","If you're pro-democracy, why don't you respect the fact that Turkish people elected him and he's doing exactly what Turks want (because he needs votes in the upcoming elections)? Many of you ""pro-democracy"" westerners would actually suppory a non-democratic coup to replace an elected leader who won't do what you want.",0
You really really are going to go to your grave with one man tormenting you eternally from inside your head... like the bug Khan put into Pavel Chekov's ear.,"(For, the record, I support Ukraine 100%. But I am not idiotic enough to fail to get how bloody dangerous and fraught with life-and-death peril is this casual dismissal of what Russia might do if truly backed into a corner.).",0
"> Hours later, at around 9:00 p.m. on the same day, a second package addressed to the Instalaza de Zaragoza arms company was detected. The company sent grenade launchers to Ukraine under the Russian invasion. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist Technician (TEDAX) carried out a controlled detonation.","Spain has always had them, we had a fascist dictatorship until the mid 70s and it just finished with Franco dying of old age, the fascists were and are still around.",0
"We're also likely to see more wars being fought over energy, food and clean water, which will cause and exacerbate already existing declines in living standards.","Refugee crises, famines and droughts will become a lot more common place than they are already today, as after all, many places where humans exist will cease to be hospitable.",0
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was nominated the Nobel Peace Prize by Turkish parliamentary speaker Mustafa Şentopfor for his supposed efforts in resolving the Ukrainian crisis.,"""Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was nominated the Nobel Peace Prize by Turkish parliamentary speaker Mustafa Şentopfor for his supposed efforts in resolving the Ukrainian crisis."".",1
"I was about to say, people in this thread are acting like he knows it's false, but authoritarians tend to believe this shit. Putin almost certainly believes that he is necessary for the survival of Russia.","It is a war for Russia's survival. A former soviet state became a democracy, and they are not interested in having closer ties with Russia. If Russia were to win, other countries would be afraid to be invaded by Russia. But now, the Ukrainians called their bluff and Russia's true power is much smaller than anyone thought.",1
"I'm pretty sure she was down by about 23,000 only two days ago and now she's only down by little under 9,000 with most of the remaining votes coming from Clark and Washoe. 57,000 of the remaining votes are from Clarke, where she is receiving a little over 60% outstanding votes. In today's vote dump from Clarke alone she could pick up 9,000 votes (it's not the whole 57,000), and then there's over 20,000 votes left in Washoe, where she is also picking up 60% of the outstanding votes.","Weird the author says the most out standing votes are from Washoe and Lincoln...like Washoe has 165k voters with 14% still to be counted and Lincoln has less then 2k, and has 21% left. Like why are you even mentioning those two counties in the same breath as though they are comparable. Shit, the 7% left in Clark is probably more than what we can expect in Lincoln.",1
If Russia is broken as a power they will cease to be a powerfactor in Israels neighbourhood and maybe if they change regime the new one would be more friendly to democracy and the west.,If Russian defeat leads to regime change this new regime could be more pro west and unable to mess in Israels backyard.,0
"While Trump was in office, he promised to reduce the trade deficit. It soared to new heights before Covid. He promised to use tariffs to bring home manufacturing, and it didn't work. Ironically, because of the covid impacts on the global supply chain, more manufacturing will be coming home to the US under Biden.",You're correct. She can't tell the difference between Turkey as a country and Al Qaeda as a terrorist group. She puts them all in the same hate soaked bucket.,0
"Trans rights are human rights. We aren't hurting anyone. Unless you are a medical professional, you don't need to know the highly advanced science behind why we exist and why the medical community treats us.",Many of us they wouldn't know it if they saw us. We are just normal people who sent through some suffering and found relief. They focus on drag queens because the show that drag queens put on. They think that's our existence.,0
"I'll also note most of these ""Assault Weapon Bans"" tend to target certain grips, stocks, barrels, etc. which have little to do with lethality of a firearm.",Pistols are much easier to surprise victims with. And no credible proposal is getting rid of glocks.,1
"That should leave us with more judges confirmed by both parties (yes, I know strongly partisan judges like Thomas or Alito had 80+ senate votes, so this isn’t a sure thing) and a far less partisan court system.","Great, Now Roberts is gonna have to go and whine about how the American People don't view the Supreme Court as a fair organization, and is losing credibility and standing in the eyes of the citizens.",1
"And seriously, the Muslim world already despises the US, that isn’t a threat, you already took out their skyscrapers.","If you think the Islamic world hate the US now, you'll be surprised how much hate they can muster when the ""crusaders"" attack their ""holy land"".",1
A mechanism for Congressional recalls should move forward considering the barking mad grifters that now hold positions of power.,"And it wouldn't just happen to grifter weirdos: the howler monkey contingent would try to recall the Speaker, and every committee chair, and anyone who ran for Senate.",1
Oh you're wrong about one part the withdrawing from the World Police and World trade that's not going to happen. Because to give that up will be a major blow to US influence and would raise instability everywhere.,America is vastly less concerned about global trade instability in the era of Shale Oil. Only Rwanda and Botswana have economies less dependent on the rest of the world than the USA.,1
"Tell me how many of those universities truly matter? Cause I am certain that the top 100-1000 universities contribute far more Papers than the rest of the 24000 that exist on Earth. The fact that much of this information is digitised means that it would be far easier to make this information accesible, Now I do aknowledge that you most certainly can't become a PhD Student without mentorship this I concede that Universities should still exist. But I do believe that the Monopoly of Scientific knowledge that Universities have should be broken.","We should find a replacement to the University system. Having a bunch of institutions have monopoly over scientific knowledge is dangerous, Because that means targeting of these institutions alone could cause damage to a nations scientific research.",0
The problem is massive voter suppression in every way imaginable by the Republicans. Add in that Republican voters vote down ticket and it doesn't matter if the AG has mulitple criminal court cases on him. Why you ask? Well he has an R next to his name.,"The majority of Texas voters want a guy with an R next to his name at the voting booth. Doesn't matter what he does or is guilty of, he had an R next to his name.",0
My personal question here is how did almost all Western military analysts completely overestimate Russian strenh and capability?,I think there is a repeated sense of preferring to overestimate enemies than underestimate them but this is compounded by the fact that Russian forces regularly lie up and down the chain. Western intelligence seems like they’ve gathered some intelligence directly from mid or even high level Russian sources but if all those reports were wildly optimistic for Russia and the west generally assumed competence then it’s easier to say how they got it so wrong.,1
It's a PITA to balance the grid when everyone has their own micro production and that's going to get worse. I'm just waiting for regulation to come that says that if you want to be grid connected then you are mandated to allow the power company to remotely turn your solar cells off for grid balance reasons.,"Hey we will install and service your solar panels, you just keep paying us the monthly utility bill you were paying the electric company. (Meanwhile, they will also receive all of the money from the electric company buying electricity from those solar panels on your property, even as you continue paying them, but they won’t tell you that outside of the very fine print.).",1
The Airport is in Rhineland-Palatinate which is governed by an SPD led coalition but the CDU led coalition of Hesse sold their shares of this embarrassing airport.,Hesse owned the airport (together with Rhineland-Palatinate) because once it was owned by the main Frankfurt airport but was never profitable enough. Then RLP sold its shares to a Chinese company which went into bankruptcy in 2020. Afaik most shares were controlled by a court appointed bankruptcy manager.,0
"So, to claim it's ""at least as useful"" I think does a disservice to the Frogfoot. The A-10 isn't a bad plane (I mean, some disagree) but this isn't the environment in which it is designed to thrive. It works best in tandem with suppressed air defences, i.e. SEAD dealing with SAMs and fighter cover to deal with interceptors and other would be dogfighters.","If I recall, it has a larger radar cross section and is slower and less agile. Also, since its primary weapon is the, y'know, gigantic cannon the entire plane is built around, it has to get up close and personal rather than volley firing unguided rockets or just being a flying pylon for a guided missile. All of those things make it less survivable.",0
"You're selling the EU members of NATO quite short, I assure you. Especially when you consider that they are a tightly integrated force. If you really think all these forces combined in one command structure could not defeat Russia in a conventional war, you're mistaken: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Denmark, Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Norway...shall I go on? There's like 6 more. I hope you get the point.","That's what I'm thinking. Attack a NATO country and see what happens. Russia still doesn't have air superiority and their nine/ten months in? NATO would do it in less than 24 hours. Russia is very obviously a paper tiger, feckless, and severely lacking in many military advances since WWII. Ukraine is beating them with our last generation of equipment, Russia isn't ready for the current generation and would be at the whim of the people who decide how bad they want to crush them.",1
"Don't take it personally, but you're a party involved into the war and im beyond giving benefit of doubt at this point.",And that he was (probably) forced into the exchange. So you're implying that he wasn't accepted into Ukr army (or any pow switching sides program) and he was kicked back to mommy Wagner instead.,0
"I'm actually fairly optimistic about the trajectory we seem to be on. I definitely think we missed our chance to limit warming to under 1.5 degree Celsius, but I think even just a few years ago warming of 4-5 degree Celsius was on the table, but we seem to be on a lower trajectory more like 2-3 degree Celsius.",Yea I'm not arguing there are going to be devastating effects at 2C warming. There absolutely will be.,0
"Since to these people assigned sex is all that exists, they implicitly see trans people as full time drag performers. The legislation to ban drag is just a guise for banning trans people.",Anti trans legislation is just the new anti gay marriage. They just need a new wedge issue to rally the hate vote. They always need some boogeyman to be angry at because the Republican platform would never have any support if it was just based on their fuck over the poor policies.,1
"Other that abortion and being anti-LGBT, which are not truly Christian values, name A SINGLE Republican policy or stance which is pro-Christian or AT ALL reflects Jesus’ teachings? I’ll wait.",Not to mention the insane hatred and bigotry of the Republican Party which would and is OBVIOUSLY maligned with Jesus’ teachings.,0
"If we were facing full scale invasion recruitment is quickly replaced with conscription, we would react just like Ukraine, full mobilisation and the economy would be turned into a war economy with all resources directed to the war.","The mass mobilisation of the population would be immediate, and the fact Russia would have to transport millions of troops thousands of KM just to attack any meaningful target they would be easy prey for our airforce while the country builds defences and trains troops.",0
"“The Trevor Project says these provisions, ""appear to undermine LGBTQ support in schools and include vague parental notification requirements, which could effectively require teachers to 'out' LGBTQ students to their legal guardians without their consent, regardless of whether they are supportive."".","Wow. Thank you for pointing that out I did not see my comment gave that kind of a vibe, but I still don’t agree in totally removing accountability. I understand that some have to take them to have a better future. Everything worth getting requires sacrifice. We take different routes for the same end goal. I still want to empathize a change to the system to make education more accessible and affordable.",1
"It's been obvious for decades that this was Putin's take on the matter, and he viewed it as only a matter of time before all those countries were fully returned to/puppeted within Russia's sphere of influence.","""Everything that used to be part of the Russian empire and then part of the Soviet Union is the territory of Russia's strategic interests,"" the academic added.",1
"By destroying Russia’s military in Ukraine, the US could drop its defense budget to 400 billion a year and still maintain enough of a presence after asking allies around the world to step up monitoring the flow of goods.","Also, we're defanging a major geopolitical rival with no troops on the ground for a fraction of what a full blown US/Russian war would cost (even if you somehow kept the nukes shelved). We're gathering intelligence on every action Russia takes as well as what weapons of ours are most effective against them.",1
"Having gone to school, I think some of these parents are making a bigger deal out of this stuff than the kids who go to these schools are. Kids will use all sorts of things to segregate other students into cliques, but it's because they want to belong to a special group, not because they inherently care about all these race or cultural issues. That may shift in high school, as kids become more individualistic in their beliefs, but they're also highly influenced by their own social groups....but overall, talking to any kid about many of these issues, and they usually just shrug it off because they think it's stupid.","I feel for the teachers, and hate what's happening, but the above question is something that I feel has been left out of the whole conversation.",0
"The data seems mixed on immune system effects, but I can’t help but think it’s the effect of Covid. It’s the only factor that’s really changed. And now we’re just supposed to live like this? It’s really fucking depressing.","I have a young child who brings home all manner of colds and viruses. Last winter, I would get mildly sick when he did, but it wasn’t a big deal. We got Covid for the first time over the summer. Since then, he’s sick every few weeks, and I have been absolutely walloped. I had a double ear infection for the first time since I myself was a toddler. I also spent all of Christmas break sidelined with a terrible cough.",0
"There is historical precedent for this in Russia itself with the NKVD divisions in World War II, and elsewhere - the SS on the other side of the same conflict were set up to give Hitler armed forces outside the normal military hierarchy which he distrusted.","Wagner is already under his control - technically the whole thing is illegal under Russian law which means he can prosecute its leaders at any time. The reason this power struggle is happening isn't because Wagner threatens Putin, but because its competing for resources with the military.",0
"A semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine or that may be readily modified to accept a detachable magazine, if the firearm has one or more of the following:","A semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine or that may be readily modified to accept a detachable magazine, if the firearm has one or more of the following:",0
I think he sold his soul to the devil saying he wanted to be part of a historic Republican speakership and this sure will be historic that they have to do multiple rounds of voting for the first time in 100 years. Speakership might not be his.,It is kind of funny but he had to move out of the minority leader offices and I dunno where else he would go. Kind of weird they do the moving before the vote.,0
"What I have seen is the failing of the marketplace of ideas. Only a handful of people control the largest media platforms and outlets, and these firms all want to preserve their own market shares. The firms' attempts to keep their users loyal have led to the lacing of content with an addictive substance: outrage. Rather than browsing among merchants of all kinds, the patrons of the marketplace are gathering at ""their booths,"" getting ""their truth"" and claiming that everyone else is ""brainwashed."".",Same. It was a huge onslaught of far right nonsense in my feed all of a sudden. I deactivated my account a short time later when it was clear Musk was going to ruin the place.,1
The reason Ukraine is on the front page is because Russia is/was a Global superpower. If India was at war with Pakistan today it would be front page news. Because you both have nukes...,"Because they built up a nuclear arsenal. Which Ukraine opposed and then supported sanctions on, while Russia backed them.",1
"For Biden, it remains to be seen. So far he has returned all of the documents that we know that he knew that he had, immediately. Where he can run into problems is.","So in the case of Hillary, for example, there was classified material, but the question was whether she should have had a separate server. That, if irregular, could be something like gross negligence. It turns out that it was not irregular. Or in the case of the other clauses, if she intentionally withheld the material after knowing it was classified, or any of the other things, then it becomes illegal. It turns out nothing she did qualified as illegal, although maybe ill advised.",0
"Russia has the one carrier, but they NEVER had the support ships required to protect what is in reality a helicopter carrier. Even back in 1985 when the ship was launched, it was a fools errand. A carrier requires a Carrier Strike Group to support it at sea, and Russia never had those ships.","In that specific area yes but Russia still has a ""real"" battlecruiser afloat elsewhere. For some reason the only Kirov-class that is still seaworthy wasn't sent into the Black Sea before Turkey closed it. Got a feeling if it had participated in the bombardment of Ukraine we'd have found out that it too is an oil caked nightmare with most of the fire fighting gear stolen or locked up. Just as well though since at this point if Piyotr Veliky had been in the Black Sea, Russia would have probably used some of its P-700s as cruise missiles and nobody needs that.",1
"I wouldn't be so sure about that. If you watch some of the early 1900s interviews of women talking about the right to vote, a surprising number were anti-suffrage. An entire system of oppression cannot be maintained without participation from both genders. Maybe 50% of young women in Afghanistan are anti Taliban but women in general are probably not anti Taliban.","My idea is to arm, support, provide ongoing on base education to create a female resistance army in Afghanistan. The men can’t do it but I’ll wager a shiny bauble that if the women there find out there’s an army, they’ll do some changes.",1
"I agree with the logic of your idea and regulation may help solve for some overdoses. Sadly I can’t fix stupid. Although it was hilarious when your patient is convinced they’re dying when their blood pressure is 118/80, 65 bpm and 14 respirations. Like dude your vitals are better than mine you’re just high as fuck.","You hit the nail on the head with weed these days, shit is crazy strong. I work security these days and consistently have to deal with people that are so high that they get lost in a building with clear signage every 50 feet telling you where are you are and where to go. I’m guessing a lot of them are combining marijuana with benzos not understanding that’s a really bad combination if you need to be in public. My recent favorite was a college kid who decided to light up a joint because recreational weed is now legal here. You still can’t smoke in a goddamn building.",0
You’re side-stepping the question. What actual political beliefs do leftists share with fascists? And why is that at all relevant to the failure of economic systems that aren’t doing much worse than capitalist America? You don’t just get to say “they don’t like freedom” without specifying the specific policy.,"Technically, you're free to speak whatever you want, but within the limits set by other laws. And other laws practically allow to declare any public speech a crime.",1
"Because when no one cared about his dick pics, and no one cared about the pics of him (a known addict) smoking crack, that was where they went. The rumor mill started the old familiar pizzagate chestnut walnut about how it actually contained childporn and videos of him banging Obama's daughter.","The laptop is a catch all for every bullshit accusation made up by idiots online and spread by Facebook grandpas. ""Oh, so the laptop is real, you say, then obviously all that other made up bullshit about it is real too."".",0
"They are neutral to the point where you get complaint threads like this, they aren't a military threat and they aren't doing anything to help anyone's enemies. You could go after their land but there's not much worth taking that you could take in a war.",There's a big difference between arms sales during peacetime and donations to a country currently at war.,0
"And then there's the man accused of mugging a woman who chose to defend himself and asked his alleged victim on the witness stand ""Did you get a good look at me when I stole your purse?"".",True enough there. I’m more or less playing “devil’s advocate” here and trying to point out that it isn’t nearly as hard as it used to be to find enough information about things to do very stupid things in somewhat effective manners now as it once was.,1
"My post was probably too vague, but I meant that ranked choice voting will help moderates and hurt progressives in this specific situation, which is the race for mayor of NYC. That's because NYC has a sizeable minority of Republicans whose votes are basically guaranteed to go to Adams and because NY Dems tend to be moderate, meaning that for many their first choice will be a moderate Dem.",The idea is over a significant period of time voters (in NYC) will see the inaction and/or harm that the moderate democrat brings/sustains and a further left voice is able to gain power/influence that hopefully leads to more elected representation.,1
"I'm an old US MLRS/HIMARS soldier/officer. If the report is correct that 6 rockets were fired and 4 hit, 200-400 KIA/WIA would be very possible in a building. From the initial information, it sounds like the place was a staging area or barracks. If it was also true ammo was stored nearby well then lord knows how many could have been KIA/WIA.",This sounds like a precision strike that just hit a perfect target. Frankly the only defense against MLRS is.,0
", in the earliest days of the web, talking about how it's already inevitable, and how the internet had been used for commercial purposes from very early days.","The internet in it's current form has existed since the 60s, the world wide web didn't exist until the 90s.",1
"The NC SC found a map by NC legislature unconstitutional (with the NC Constitution). This is normal judicial review and is hardly the first time courts then drew a redistricting map. Legislatures should have to follow their own states' Constitution, and I hope you agree with that sentence.","Please give me the section of the constitution (federal or state) that gives courts this authority? Doesn't exist in the Federal Constitution. If state lawmakers put it in their state constitution, then by all means they have the authority. otherwise the court can do jack shit other than say the redistricting law is unconstitutional and can't go into effect.",1
"Or just keep it going. It's like Trump's attempt to get Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, the point wasn't to actually find evidence, the investigation was proof enough that something was going on.",So sounds like you have a fake scandal over story wrote that the author wouldn’t put their name to spear headed by a disgraced lawyer with a history of lying and a connection to the Russian oligarchy under multi federal investigations for fraud. On top of all that nothing will ever come from the laptop. No prosecutable crimes were discovered and no DA is ever going to indict on any evidence from that laptop.,1
"I think you are wrong about Garland. He's careful, but I don't believe he appointed a special prosecutor just to undercut him later. If Smith recommends charges and Garland refuses, that will be made public.",I think there will be charges in the stolen documents case and soon. And it's looking more and more like there will be a financial crime charges related to Jan 6. Whether they can pin the seditious conspiracy on Trump himself is a big question mark.,0
"If it’s half assed for sure. But if everyone just stops. I’m talking about every Starbucks employee, McDonalds, front line Apple workers, airline workers, railroad workers, office employees-literally everyone in the 99%. i think that would cause real damage to the rich.","But seriously, we (Americans) need to just stop working- just don’t show up and refuse to show up until the rich see that we are not gonna put up with this anymore and start to change things for the better of everyone.",0
It not just one day. They can continue to attack it. Not even sure how to protect the workers that try and repair.,I am not sure how this is not considered serious war crimes at the same level as intentionally attacking civilian centers.,0
"That’s not the point. A bunch of the truckers got arrested too. The point is, do you think someone should have had their wages garnished because they donated money to a Black Lives Matter go fund me despite not physically participating in any of the violent protests?","“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation,” - Hawk Newsome before buildings were burned.",0
So are they making it so that the lawyers can be charged if a warrant is issued and other things turn up after a DOJ search?,"Well if the DOJ and FBI weren’t going to pursue warrants for all his properties before, they sure as hell ought to now.",1
Indeed! Any participation of Russia in competitions has been used by Putin to push their propaganda further.,"Oh, you're right... the world is currently in a very complicated situation. While banning russian competitors enrages some of the general public (and spreading the ""west is russophobic"" propaganda), allowing russian competitors means Putin can take profit from these competitions as well.",0
"Yeah, it's the same in Oregon, but because I'm a contractor working for a company that doesn't have 10 employees in Oregon, they're not required to provide sick leave. And the changes that Oregon enacted won't change that.","Because there actually was such legislation already. It was a separate bill, but it passed the House. The Senate, not so much. I know he voted against that legislation because it didn't contain that. I'm not sure whether he proposed an amendment to add it, but if he did it failed.",0
"According to Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation is the more probable one, the US blames Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda claimed the Attack, how the fuck did Saudi Arabia turn out to be the preparators.","Even dismissing Ockham's razor as an analytical philosophy you can still use logic and reasoning to see that Saudi Arabia funding 9/11 (while possible) is still more unlikely than a group of extremists carrying it out independently. Like the other commenter stated during the gulf war the MAK (led by Osama bin laden and later called Al Qaeda) was looking to expand his jihadist movement to other parts of the Arab world after winning the war against the soviets. Bin laden offered to aid Saudi Arabia with troops to protect against the Iraqi army. King Fahd rejected this offer and opted instead for US aid (which likely angered a lot of sympathizers of bin Laden's cause in Saudi Arabia, hence the large number of Saudi Arabian nationals involved in the attack). This animosity towards the US getting involved in the Arab world is the most likely cause for the attacks and Bin Laden wouldn't necessarily need funding from Saudi Arabia to pull it off since he had plenty of allies to his cause.",1
"Indiana voter turnout in 2020 was 65% - the higher you go, the more gerrymandering falls apart, because most of the time districts go with a couple percentage points of margin, which is blown away by a couple percentage points more of turn out.","This is a lie they tell you because they know it does. Think about it, why would they waste their breath / effort if it didn’t? The reality is gerrymandering only works with low voter turnout - the second you have a ton of turnout it falls apart, because it hinges on apathy.",0
"Israel has other systems against this kind of missiles, like Arrow 2 and 3. But I'm pretty sure there's no official known number of this missiles, especially since Israel hasn't used them (thankfully) in real combat, yet. So technically, it is a possibility that Iran will have more missiles here than Israel.","Iran and Syria, can easily shoot this missile into eastern Europe. Just looking on Google earth shows it can reach most of Ukraine, and all of Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and all the countries that reside in their area.",0
Tell us again how urban riots protesting police murders of US citizens equates to insurrectionists taking over the Capitol in an attempt to subvert the peaceful transition of power to a president elected rightfully through the will of the people?,"You're trying really hard to equate social justice protests, with millions of participants over months, to a singular attempt by white nationalists, accelerationists, and traitors to seize control of our nation's Capitol while demanding the overturning of the 2020 election and the reinstatement of Trump as President.",1
China is however a threat to the territorial integrity of US allies in the Indo-Pacific because they have unresolved territorial disputes and have refused to renounce the use of force to settle these disputes. That could draw the US into the fight because the US has mutual defense treaties with some of these countries and mine as well with Taiwan given the language in the Taiwan Relations Act.,"The main problem facing the US defense budget though is the generational replacements of the key parts of the nuclear triad which will suck $ from everything else & not contribute much to any real regional conflict. For example, replacing the Ohio SSBNs with Columbia's is going to eat most of the US Navy's shipbuilding budget in an era when the PLAN is adding several Tier 1 surface combatants each year (Luyang III & Renhai).",0
"Fuck, however will Ukraine stand up against malnourished North Koreans with ancient weapons who don't share a language with the Russian soldiers they're teamed with.","Russia is barely holding its own against Ukraine, and that's only because they are throwing bodies into the meat grinder to soak up enemy fire. They have exactly zero chance of victory if NATO actually puts boots on the ground.",1
"When the founding fathers of the United States signed a document saying ""All men are created equal,"" most of them didn't mean it and their actions didn't match it. But one would have to be both ridiculously cynical and historically illiterate to think the fact they wrote those words didn't matter.","For two and a half centuries, the words they never really meant have lived on as a sword in the hands of the oppressed. The world is a better place today because they claimed high ideals as their justification for creating America as an independent nation, and because they thereby permanently opened America to rebuke with its own hypocrisy.",0
"And as far as I understand it, Crimea is really hard to defend as soon as the land bridge to Russia is cut off. It's essentially impossible to resupply. And considering the piss poor state of the Russian armed forces...","You mean occupied territory right? Not actual Russian territory? Crimea, Luhansk, and Donbass are Ukrainian territory.",0
"The death penalty saves money, it keeps prison populations small, and it punishes the murderer justly. A life for a life.","Let's just suppose we're talking about serial killers, where there's absolutely no doubt about their guilt.",0
Qatar's 'kafala system' is a set of labour laws which allow Qatari individuals or businesses to confiscate workers' passports and stop them leaving the country.,"Qatar ships in thousands of migrant workers, subjecting them to conditions internationally recognized as slavery - wage theft, seizure of passports, loss of rights etc. Migrants work in intolerable conditions. Labour laws seem lax, there are an indeterminate number of deaths which are suppressed and recategorised so Qatar doesn't even pay the pittance they offer as wages to widows. Billions are spent on building lawns in the middle of the desert in air conditioned stadia which will certainly be abandoned afterwards.",1
"I'd lose my lunch. Every time I see her I get the impression she's just TFG in an ill fitting skin suit. I'm pretty sure naked pictures would include the necessary zippers, girdles and harnesses necessary to hold the elder Trump in.","Nah, it's just a manufactured right wing smear and fear campaign and it's been obvious from the start. The only ""people"" who care about this are right wing crazies and their dupes.",0
"Well I understand the US defensiveness considering when China was fighting the Korean war (when China insisted on postponing elections after a promised date, insisted on the illegitimate sygnman Rhee government who Sabre-rattled and probed the north), Chinese generals went to the papers asking for permission to nuke the US, and knowingly instigated a counterattack along the US border... oh wait that wasn't china????",Every single reddit take on US-china relations is entirely divorced from any historical context and its incredibly embarrassing.,0
"Exactly. Qatar was like, ""Hey, FIFA, you know when we told you that you could sell beer at the World Cup? Well, we changed our mind. What are you gonna do now, not have the World Cup?"".","Qatar sold out their culture by telling FIFA that they could sell alcohol as part of their agreement to host the World Cup, and now Qatar is going back on their word because it's too late for FIFA to do anything about it.",0
"“The U.S. should be mindful that no matter how desperately it may seek to disarm (North Korea), it can never deprive (North Korea) of its right to self-defense and that the more hell-bent it gets on the anti-(North Korea) acts, it will face a more fatal security crisis,” she said in a statement carried by state media.","Kim Yo Jong, who is widely considered North Korea's second most powerful person after her brother, lambasted the United States for issuing what she called “a disgusting joint statement together with such rabbles as Britain, France, Australia, Japan and South Korea.”.",0
"I just saw the recent videos of Ukrainian soldiers intercepting Russian cruise missiles with portable anti-air weapons. The missiles are moving so slowly. Are cruise missiles suppose to be that slow (hence ""cruise"") or is it just with those particular Russian missiles?",Most aircraft attacks are done by using jets and bombers as cruise missile launch platforms within russian borders.,1
"Marjorie Taylor Greene attended and spoke this year. Can't remember if she went on before or after Fuentes started a ""Pu-tin Pu-tin"" chant and said it was cool to be compared to Hitler.",People thinking this is a “a-HA” moment against Trump are probably the same people who had no clue of who Fuentes was until this headline.,1
"Weird to think there will eventually be a time where only 1 person in NZ is left legally allowed to buy cigarettes, even if only for a short while lol.","By banning cigarette sales to people born after a certain year, do you really think that will somehow make more people smoke? Well I guess you obviously think that, but like I said, if you took 3 seconds to google anything about it you would know it has done the opposite. Less people are starting to smoke directly because of these measures.",1
"This is so fucked. The FL statute sets out very specific kinds of content that is prohibited. But, apparently, FL approved training and sent out government agents to tell people that what they really need to be removing material that is “harmful to children”. A subjective standard that inevitably leads to public schools removing and not teaching subjects that are not prohibited by FL law. Schools now err on the side of not teaching students and hiding books from them.",Wonder how effective a kid starting a book club with banned books as the reading list would be. If a chode like DeSantis wants it banned that should tell a kid there’s at least something interesting about it.,1
"No, but people just always say African countries are evil and its kinda thrown with no legit reasons. My family of old south africans all say the exact same shit all the time about how the ANC is evil, etc etc and I promise you, they are incredibly racist.",Before implying your old South African family members that think the ANC is evil are racist you should consider what they had to go through during the decades of fighting between the ANC and Apartheid.,1
It confounds to no end how the GOP can whinge about misappropriated government spending... And then waste all of our time and fucking money investigating a gesture to save the citizenry time and money.,"Here, let's save taxpayers the money for this sham non-investigation of a made-up Republican fake nonscandal and tell the public what the results of the investigation actually are.",1
"It's not that hard to believe that Canada could go from 7% EV sales to 100% in the next 13 years, particularly given the rapid pace of technological improvements that we've seen for EVs over the past 13 years.","So they probably aren't the type of people to buy brand new cars, so they won't be directly affected by the mandate, even when it hits 100% new EV sales in 2035.",0
It is only the ice on land that raises the level. The ice floating in the ocean when it melts will not raise the levels. Easily checked with a glass bowl a bunch of ice and a marker. The level will not change as the ice melts. Basic science.,No argument with any of that. My statement was only that floating ice when it melts will not lift the overall height of the oceans. Only ice on land that floats into the ocean.,0
They are much better than the planes Ukraine is using today and getting a steady supply of planes would allow them to step up their air operations.,"But F-16 will improve Ukrainian airforce alot, and their airforce still fly missions to this day, this is crazy to me.",0
"No I don’t, because there’s no evidence that Biden deliberately removed classified info from its proper place, and when it was discovered the Biden team did the correct thing by promptly reporting it and handing it over. Reacting differently to two very different scenarios is not hypocrisy.","Hypocrisy is found on both sides. The same people that got mad when Trump did the same thing are downplaying this so I'm just trynna show the hypocrisy. If you were mad when Trump did it, you gotta be mad now too before you wonder about where I was.",1
"It's kinda surprising, China has go have a very deep pool of skilled scientists and resources, why they couldn't develop a vaccine as effective as the Wests.","Funny thing is, Russia is also Western country for them, so they wouldn't use their Sputnik either even though it's also about as effective and is better than Chinese vaccines.",1
The worst people ever are running with this saying it wasn’t Russian… most of these missiles come from Belarus. The territory of Belarus is occupied by Russia and the response should be at Putler puppet and russia itself.,It’s more in my opinion a this didn’t come directly from Russia so therefore no drastic measures will be taken (I don’t agree with that but that’s what I believe the ambiguous statement is).,0
Mbappe and Haaland are next two greats in the making. With both Messi and Ronaldo at the final stages of their career they will carry the game forward.,"I’m not a fan of Ronaldo and don’t care, I’m just answering the question. You can’t talk about the Red Sox World Series drought without talking about the Yankees, these things go hand in hand.",1
"Yep, just so hard to believe conservatives care about kids safety when they constantly turn a blind eye to the crap that happens under their nose. Then again they are probably using the whole drag queen thing so their side keeps ignoring the screams coming from behind the curtain.","Of course it didn't help in the Roman Catholic case that every other major Christian religious organizations were dunking on them. When I was a kid there was a Baptist church down the road that put out flyers around a local Catholic church saying something like ""You don't need to worry about our pastor trying to diddle your kids."" A couple years later one of their youth pastors was caught SA'ing a kid, and turned out he was a habitual abuser that the church knew about but turned a blind eye to. The local paper and news media barely reported on it.",0
They keep complaining about Nazis in Ukraine and point to the Azov Regiment. A group of no more than 2500 people in a country of 44 million people.,"By that measure, Russia has justified the West's invasion of Russia to denazify Russia, because I can guarantee you there are at least 2500 actual Nazis in Russia.",0
"Unfortunately for Texans, he's not on the ballot this year. We got a lot of other races, like Govener and Attorney General, so make sure that any Texan you know has either voted or made plans to vote tomorrow from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.",we’re getting both and native texans that are both liberal/conservatives leave the state as well… so idk wonder what the balance will end up being lots of non voters too.,1
"The same borders which did not include an independent Palestine, yes, kind of. Those were the ceasefire lines from the war, not the designated boundaries from the 1940s. It's complicated. Gaza and the West Bank were a part of Egypt and Jordan, respectively.","There were no borders of Palestine in 1967. Does he want Egypt to give the Sinai to a new Palestine? Does he want to give the West Bank back to Jordan, because they had it before the 1967 war?",1
"That's what happens when you design a healthcare system around insurance lawyers, executives, and doctors who became doctors because they wanted to get rich.","Ok, sure, but our doctors, hospital administrators, and healthcare shareholders and executives have a lot more money.",1
"Technically nobody’s at war, so Russia could argue the same thing. Declaring war just isn’t done anymore. That being said, the US is definitely an ally of Ukraine.","The world -including Turkey- recognizes russia and ukraine are at war. This results in the same effect, regardless of if russia views it as a war or not. In fact since ukraine, a fighting party, has outright called it war with evidence to prove it is, that means russia is at war.",1
"BTW, I’m not a boomer, I’m just tired of juvenile minds that want to pin all their problems on an entire generation rather than individuals.","But - without taking anything away from the issues younger generations face, I am honest about what the nation building discourse of the boomer gen looks like. And the difference between it and the examples you’ve given is that those examples don’t steer nations and policy. Boomers - through things like brexit, trump and the like, do.",1
"They too were part of the Reichsbürger scene and had allegedly planned to abduct Health Minister Karl Lauterbach while also creating ""civil war conditions"" to bring about an end to Germany's democracy.","German reports say the group of far-right and ex-military figures planned to storm the parliament building, the Reichstag, and seize power.",0
"Yeah right, because implying that people living outside Montréal aren’t « real human beings » isn’t racist at all….","Also, calling Montréal anglophones ""foreigners"" is weird as fuck dude. When they were the ones telling my parents to speak white.",1
"So the plan is to leave NATO which would ""permit Putin to save face if he ended Russia’s military and political debacle in Ukraine"" and what's the plan if he doesn't end it?","I'm not saying that we should pull out of NATO, but I don't think you really understand what their objective is when it comes to Ukraine. Whether Ukraine wins or whether Russia eventually wins but is ruined in the process...we win. If it was really about protecting Ukraine, they would have landed troops.",1
If Disney wants to move it would be a two ir three year payback. Especially since they can operate while they build and attendance numbers would be huge Especially if people knew they were leaving the state.,"I wouldn't be so sure. Being a public company, they can establish a plan to relocate, write off the existing parks as a loss and rebuild elsewhere. A small company would have an issue but consider that there are abandoned parks in the Disney world footprint and then consider the cost to build a park is around $1 billion. (EPCOT 1.4B) They already spend hundreds of millions on renovations and building new is arguably cheaper. As park maintenance increases due to age, spending part of thier over 3 Billion profit on a couple new parks with long term state tax incentives starts looking a lot better. (Disney had 3.19B net profit in 2022.).",0
"However, maritime experts say the way the UK registers imports, as well as the increased use of ship-to-ship transfers, will make it difficult for the UK to sanction Russian oil.","The has been copied to its discussion over in /r/europe, and makes it a bit clearer (and also goes into the ship-to-ship transfers):",0
"That being said, this conspiracy of the US blowing of the pipeline is garbage and backed by nothing more than puppets of the Kremlin trying to sow more internal fights so they can focus on their war crimes. Shame on you OP for playing into this. Because if you truly took a deep dive in thia story and the sources, you couldnt believe this propaganda garbage...unless your working for a certain group.","And I'll also add as an American , a real one, I'm just as critical of my government as I would be of any hypocritical country. They have done some bad shit and continue to do it all the while people bicker about the opposite parties. We need to be critical of our governments to keep them as honest and accountable as possible.",0
I actually think that this benefits China because it means that the West has no internal scruples regarding Russia anymore. Ukraine essentially has ended the Russian threat for the west without a single western (official) casualty.,"For what it’s worth, Putin DOES see himself as representing the Russian people, and he does see the Russian land as a kind of motherland. He is in that sense closer to, say, Hitler than say or Stalin or Mao. He doesn’t see the idea of a “motherland” as functional to himself, but as a function of itself.",0
"Wagner's Prigozhyn explains why he is unable to take Bakhmut - a line of defence every 10 meters, hundreds of lines of defence across the city. Russians lack armoured vehicles and equipment.","Firstly, Russian troops aren't being ""trained to fight"". There simply isn't enough time or quality instruction. The stories of ""training"" are ludicrous - a few rounds and that's it. That isn't ""training"". That's not even ""exercise"". It's theatre.",1
"This is a 17 year old boy, he went to hospital after a hard car crash and was about to die, he was still alive and TERRORISTS entered a hospital and took him and disconnected him from all the machines that were keeping him alive....","A 17 year boy Israeli agent in hospital on the brink of death after a car crash? justifications of these actions are so silly, this is in no way self defense or anything like that, all of you should be ashamed of yourselves, taking hurt and almost dead boy from hospitals and killing them is the ugliest and the most unhumane thing I've heard of, wild animals have more mercy on people more than them.",0
"This just in, after sending in the army , mentaly Ill, criminals, and a draft no new men that aren't oligarchs to be found....Russians now sending in the.","I'm not trying to down play Ukrainian's resolve or accomplishments. As someone who grew up with the Soviets being the scary ""bad"" guys of the west I'm just dumbfounded and how terrible the logistics and tactics and supplies Russian has been using.",0
"They’ve got me talking about how useless, and counter productive their efforts are. 900 vehicles by 4 tires, that potentially 3600 tires will head into landfill, well before their life is up. So now we need to truck 3600 tires to get them replaced. Tow 900 cars to a garage to get the tires changed. Its almost $720,000 of property damage (at $200 a tire, which is close to a budget price tire) so thats the “minimum” please tell me that the greenhouse gas emissions from trucking, manufacturing, and taking the tires to their final resting place is less than the emissions by just leaving those tires inflated. Also - tire ranges from 15-25 pounds each, so 3600 tires at call it 20 pounds is 76,000 POUNDS of garbage. Super good for the environment right?",But yea. We’re still talking about the climate issue right? I mean we’re certainly talking about the increase in climate damage these tire extinguishers are committing. So yea. We’e talking about the climate issue still.,0
"That's because CCP talks about how they could invade and retake Taiwan if they wanted, but prefer an amicable resolution.","Rather, you should try to think about what your enemies could do - could China launch an invasion of Taiwan even though they are not by any means prepared? They sure could.",1
"what has been a learning moment for me is grasping the one good thing (possibly the only) about career politicians; on the rare occasion they try to do something good, they know how to get it done. this country was in such a post-watergate morass of various kinds of angst since trump, i think only a real slick politician with a ton of varied connections (unlike say, jimmy carter) could pull the country back to a semblance of normalcy. i don't like joe biden much but I think he knows how to work the system better than any president since LBJ.",The question was about how Biden had anything to do with stomping Republicans last week. Working with Pelosi is one of the ways.,1
"Act 1: Pilot in small country flying a MiG-29 becomes an ace on the first day of an invasion by a country that definitely isn't Russia but is flying a bunch of Sukhois. Gets the callsign ""Ghost"". Ghost fights valiantly, but loses the rest of his squad over the course of a few missions. On the last mission of Act 1 his airbase gets destroyed by cruise missiles and he's forced to land in a neighboring country that definitely isn't Poland.",Act 3: Usea finally enters the war and they bring Ghost over from not-Poland to be their experienced spearhead. You finally get to use gigachad American fighters like the F-22. Theres a mission where you blow up this big important bridge.,0
"After their war of independence, Israel has experienced in later wars that external help is limited and anything that looks like a potential attack should be treated as an impending attack.","Israel acted belligerently in the years preceding its independence, what with arming militias that were more nationalistic than disciplined due to a lack of a real army, and fought similar Arab militias after antagonizing them by evicting as many Arabs from ""their part"" of the upcoming state as possible.",0
"Man, people are really bending themselves over backwards to find reasons to say being anti-discrimination based on sexuality or disability is bad.",Curious about the balance between banning discrimination on grounds of sexualising or disability whilst protecting religious freedom. Curious because my country is currently attempting to thread the needle on this to prevent discrimination but protecting religious expression. Seems almost impossible.,1
And in the recent years the pagan Church or whatever its called is growing while other religions are loosing members.,Eh the number of religious is still shrinking. They are just making up for it by ramping up the crazy at an impressive rate.,1
"But yeah, I know what you mean, there can be decades between the introduction of prions and the start of the disease.","Because they are caused by Prions there is no medicine or medical treatment. Your body doesn't have a defense system. There is no vaccine, there will never be a vaccine. There is no medical treatment, there won't be either.",1
"The OG tankies were british communists that cheered when russia sent in tanks to crush protests/uprisings in their occupied territories. Later on it changed into anyone who supports authoritarian states like modern russia, china or north korea.","Nowadays it pretty much applies to any westerners who cheerlead for violent authoritarian states like russia, china or north korea.",0
"for years and years the war on drugs has proven ineffective and a waste of time. The only thing we havent tried is to legalize the drugs in the US and let the government tax it. Thats side income to improve communitys, and it will take dealers off the streets. Yes there will still be deaths in the US, but that is legit the only way you take away the cartels finances.",Which means more innocent people in Mexico & elsewhere will be brutally murdered for the money machine.,1
"Political affiliation is correlated with COVID deaths somewhat less than 2:1 R. nationwide. This takes into account that Republicans skew older, more likely to be anti-vax, etc.","Older people were the most at risk of Covid, they also tend to lean Republican. Republican voters were also more likely to ignore Covid safety guidelines due to Republican politicians downplaying Covid.",1
"I suspect that Ukraine will help if it comes down to the military option. At the very least, they could provide direct support and air defense.","I think that the only way that Transnistria survives is if Russia can push to the border of Moldova. That's not very likely. Unless they can push to Moldova, the place is doomed.",0
"The Russian leader said reminders of his country’s nuclear arsenal were “not a factor provoking an escalation of conflicts, but a factor of deterrence.”.","“If it doesn’t use it first under any circumstances, it means that it won’t be the second to use it either, because the possibility of using it in case of a nuclear strike on our territory will be sharply limited,” Putin said.",0
"Generally, municipal drinking water and wastewater plant influent/effluent are tested for various contaminants regularly throughout the year, and held to specific standards. The big problem is making corporations take action if their industrial discharges cause water to fail standards.","Environmental scientist here! If it's any reassurance, water is pretty rigorously monitored in this country. The EPA and state/municipal agencies all test water quality indicators and pollutant concentrations regularly, and the results should be publicly available through the websites of those agencies.",0
">""That broad context, so to speak, is in the context of supporting Azerbaijan, getting some road of the so-called corridor logic through the territory of Armenia. Armenia continues to resist this. By the way, I can clearly say that the escalation [of tension] of September 13 is also related to this. And, for the most part, this is the basis—or motive—of the entire crisis,"" Grigoryan stated.","According to Grigoryan, this is the main reason for the crisis in Armenian-Russian relations that has been clearly expressed lately.",1
they have allowed shit like this before and it's going to continue to be a conservative tactic in the state because they know people aren't politically literate enough to spot these fuckers.,"Progressives are consistently running terrible campaigns that don't sway anyone who wasn't already part of their base, and/or splitting votes from each other by crowding the field because they're all too self-righteous to drop out to consolidate support.",1
"But don't forget that Trump era regulatory roll backs, public health policies in general and then his covid response led to the unnecessary death of hundreds of thousands of people too.","As bad as Trump was he wasn't as bad as the previous Republican president, whose lies to congress and the American people caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not over a million people.",1
"In other words, this was definitely a demonstration of US capabilities, aimed primarily at the Soviets.","This hypothetical is based around President Truman's assertion in his autobiography, in which he states that the bomb saved at least 20,000 American lives by avoiding the otherwise necessary invasion. After that, it became an accepted fact to the American public.",0
"My bigger problem with the defense against government tyranny argument is this: when does it count as fighting government tyranny? Do I ever get to go shoot a politician because I think the government has become tyrannical? As far as I can tell, actually using a gun to stop government tyranny is pretty much not a real thing, so why is there such a strong commitment to this idea?","You think it’s a great idea for only police, military, and the people who direct their actions (i.e., people whose main goal in life is to grow their own power and influence) to have all the weapons?",1
"Aeroflot's is, and there are a lot of reasons for that; Russia produces very few long-haul airliners, and the ones it does produce don't have EASA/FAA/CAA certification for passenger flights. Both of those become less of an issue in an isolated Russia.","Ultimately the Russian domestic market is dominated by regional carriers though, and while those fleets are still majority western aircraft, Sukhoi has a huge presence there, other Russian companies are starting to make an entrance to that market as well.",0
"Agreed, it will take longer, but the ruling is nonsense and even the fith circuit is unlikely to support the ruling, sense the cancellation is authorized in statute.","Hopefully it's overturned on appeal, his ruling is nonsense, Congress authorized the program through the heroes act, it would be different if they used a loophole, by having the Treasury cancel the debt.",0
"IQ is also relative to people your age, so it isn’t absolute across every age group anyways. This kid is probably way smarter than mostly everyone his age, but is he smarter than Einstein or Stephen Hawking (even if those estimates of their IQ are accurate)? You’d have to do statistics to tell for sure, but I’d guess not. Most kids are pretty dumb (and don’t tell me adults can be dumb as well, you know what I mean).","Yeah, a lot of people don’t understand that, they just think the IQ measurement is bogus. They’re right, but for the wrong reasons. He might have a higher IQ, but doesn’t matter if he actually isn’t smarter than Einstein/Hawking.",0
"Why include this in the amendment at all if it's not meant to be a carve-out for slavery? Why not just strike out the old language and be done with it? Oregon's constitutional article on ""Slavery and involuntary servitude"" now has a sentence empowering the courts to force criminals into court ordered programs. It definitely sounds like a criminal exception to slavery to me.","Is the current penal system getting pretty darn close to slavery? Absolutely, and there desperately needs to be a change, but blaming the 13th Amendment is useless. The first step to solving a problem is to define it, and if your definition is wrong so will your solution be.",1
"It's the expected outcome. Ukraine had time to lay down mines, and stock anti tank weapons in the region. I really hope russia fully commits to this offensive and gets utterly defeated so Ukraine can counterattack later with way weaker defenses.",Probably what we are going to see over the next month or two is Russia continuing to make small gains with massively lopsided casualty rates and then Ukraine smashing them back when Russian forces are depleted.,1
The situation on the front line was analyzed and countermeasures against missile and drone terror were discussed at meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.,"“I held another meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief today – it was quite long, three hours. We analyzed the situation on the front line in great detail – in all directions, on the energy front, the situation on the borders. The Commander-in-Chief, commanders, head of intelligence, Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, head of border guards delivered reports. We know what the enemy is preparing for. We will respond and continue to liberate our land. Everything related to the defense forces supply support was also analyzed thoroughly. These are equipment, ammunition, communication, winter uniforms. Countermeasures against missile and drone terror were considered separately – there are already quite significant results in this, the percentage of shooting down has become higher, but there is still work to be done,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address.",0
"I believe I had read that in England rape is defined by penile penetration so by their definition women cannot “rape” but they can have sex, so that’s probably the issue on the verbiage.","In the US it would be considered statutory rape, in the UK it's categorized as sexual penetration of a minor or something. I believe in both countries Rape is a separate type of criminal charge and the victim has to be unwilling where as this kid was (because they had been groomed).",1
I suspect the Czars think that invading (again) in the winter would mean that they are not stuck using roads and lining up a 50km long A10 Hog pilots wet dream. Czar Putin made the mistake of waiting until Emperor Jinping gave him permission to invade - the Emperor did not want his Olympics disturbed. That was the price to pay. Emperor Jinping only agreed to supporting Czar Putin's invasion on the condition Russia also supported glorious China's invasion of Taiwan which was scheduled but cancelled. Waiting for the Olympics to conclude meant the Czars army would have to use roads and get slaughtered.,"Russia could have been an economic monster but like most of the world, greed and self interest rules. It will always get worse in Russia now that they are past the point of no return. Maybe in 500 years they will dig their way out but for the near future Russia is dog shit.",0
"If they choose not to at least indict, then it appears political not from party affiliation standpoint, but from a judicial standpoint. Not indicting Combover Caligula for the 6th (or the MaL docs, or the fake elector scheme) would send the concrete, irrefutable message that US politicians are indeed above the law. Not only to us but to the world, and if the US loses more of it's credibility due to refusing to hold criminal Presidents accountable, I doubt the DOJ wants that resting on it's shoulders as an organization as they themselves lose both crediblility and what's most important to them: funding.",☝️This is the intended purpose of both withholding information until now and the public recommendations. It keeps the investigation into J6 from being squashed by an opposing Congress and it puts the spotlight on the DOJ.,0
They are already dying en masse because NATO is giving them the weapons to prolong the meatgrinder so the US can sell Europe expensive LNG. That is why the pipeline had to explode. What does winning even mean? Ukraine will be a shell of its former self for decades.,I am sad for the people of Ukraine. But there would have been less death and destruction if the US stayed out of it. They are being used as cannon fodder for finacial and political gain.,0
I pay people way below market for a 40 hour week with flexible time and then give them so much work they are forced to do unpaid overtime every week while being treated like shit and nobody wants to work here.,"Unfortunately the sheer greed that is present in most businesses is appalling but as long as the blame can be placed on the ""lazy ungrateful workers"" that don't want to work 50 hours for a 35 hour pay nothing will change.",0
"Nuance can be difficult sometimes. Wind farms are good for the environment because they can reduce a country’s use of fossil fuels, which lead to pollution in the air and all that comes with it, especially warming characteristics. However, if a wind farm causes harm to a wildlife population that is essential to the lifestyle of an indigenous population, then it doesn’t seem to help the environment that much, does it? So, if we instead put it somewhere where it doesn’t have this effect, it should provide a net good, as is the purpose of building wind farms in the first place. “We” still think wind farms are generally good, because “we” can think situationally and not treat every scenario as a black and white issue. “We” are capable of reading articles and allowing new evidence to enter our brains and modify our conclusions to be more accurate.","Because I feel no need to be polite to people who consider other groups of people less human than I do, consider planet scale phenomena to be trivialities, and consider everyone else to be guilty of the heinous misdeeds they perpetrate. My arrogance will not change facts. My conceit will not change the fact that one side tends to prioritize logic, fact, and compassion. I have no patience, and honestly no sympathy, for a group of people who deny science and humanity on a daily basis and then have the gall to call me condescending. Their every remark is how they know better than the experts. They use condescension like other artists use oils. They constantly point out which groups are coming for them because they’re so jealous and threatened by how great they are. If it’s unclear, I’m talking about the right. Condescending enough for you?",0
"In a statement, the South Korean military said it spotted about 180 North Korean military aircraft between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. local time, a day after Pyongyang is believed to have conducted the failed test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).","So, the US and South Korea conducted ""drills"" involving hundreds of aircraft (no doubt near the border unless someone clarifies otherwise), and North Korea responded by sending 180 planes flying around their side of the border.",1
"So basically America is the global hegemon and Russia resents that and wants that for itself but knows it can't challenge the US and the West so it's bitter, and allies itself with 3rd world countries and dictators that have been wronged by the West in the past.","Coming to the realization that without Russia, Iran's suddenly a whole lot lonelier and it would probably be best to not give others a reason - however disastrous it would logically be - to try invading them without proper support to repel them.",1
"Let's be fair... oil companies are basically already doing bad geoengineering as a side effect of their businesses. If we're going to clamp down on atmospheric geoengineering, lets start with the most obvious problems first.",I agree that atmospheric engineering is going to save the planet but we need some regulations and consensus before we start blasting shit up there using the guess and check method.,1
Because he's actually trying to fix problems not stand around with his thumb up his ass pointing fingers and trying to manufacture fake outrage to appear to be doing something ...ahem republicans.,It's more that he's willing to sell out everything the left flank of the party wants and stuff bills full of appeasement for Republicans and remove everything they have real objections to.,1
"Care to cite those hundreds of times? I am aware of failed replications, but no one bothers to publish those. I am not, however, aware of replications of results linking amyloid to Alzheimer's.","Of course we don't know if amyloid is cause or consequence, but there is no doubt it is associated with the disease.",1
"What is happening right now is that some companies are arbitrarily raising their prices in an attempt to make more profit. This is causing a ripple effect where other companies reliant on these first companies are also raising heir prices, and so on and so forth.",This can look like inflation to the untrained eye. And the companies who are arbitrarily increasing their price want you to believe it is inflation and not greed.,0
"They actually do. They need to aquire the guns through legal means first. And as a reichsbürger, the law has their eyes on them.","Just go to all the marksmen guilds and you find half of them. Most reichsbürger are just members, so they can aquire a gun in case they have ""to go to war against the country"" or until terrorists are taking over while germany denies them their right to defend themselves or something like that.",0
"The group descended on the car, attempting to rip the flag away from its owner, when the driver panicked and performed a hasty U-turn to cross into the oncoming lane and make a quick getaway.","A guy with a French flag hanging out of his car window in France after the victory, got attached by a group of supporters of the Moroccan team who snatched his flag and started attacking his car.",1
Police detained about a dozen people after using water cannon and tear gas to disperse crowds in Brussels and eight more in the Northern city of Antwerp.,"Dozens of rioters overturned and torched cars, set electric scooters on fire and pelted cars with bricks. Police moved in after one person suffered facial injuries, Brussels police said.",0
"Not for their egos, but because pro Iran Houthi militias overthrew the government and waged a brutal civil war against the former government. Since the Saudis hate the Iranian government and were allies of the previous Yemeni government, they intervened.....and got their butts kicked for the same reasons Russia did.","Anyway, I wasn’t trying to argue about who is better or worse, my point is, if you wanted Saudi Arabia to act in a certain way that is beneficial to you, you need to not threaten the country for a start.",1
"""Of the two individuals who sued in Texas, one has student loans that are commercially held and the other is eligible for $10,000 in debt relief, not the $20,000 maximum. They would get nothing if they win their case."".",Concur with that. Unemployment insurance spiked due to all the added COVID benefits. We are seeing the result of that as many people were getting paid more than they were making at the end of the day.,1
"True, Middle East is not stable, but if Iran suddenly has advanced ballistic capabilities and nuclear warheads, you got a new problem, not because Iran will actually nuke the region, but it will have leverage over its opponents, which would also drive them to obtain the same technologies, and nuclear warheads.","Does Iran’s opponents not already have those capabilities, so technically they would be playing “catch-up” in terms of their own development? Also is the ”nuclear warheads” not just a WMD-esq fearmongering which proliferates in Europe, The US, and Israel? I remember reading about how much material would be required but if you have a link to where Iran is in their nuclear warhead capability I’d appreciate the link.",1
That will be the real red wave. All of the candidates at each others necks. No mercy. To be the next trump you have to be aggressive otherwise the voters won’t see you as strong. The bar has been raised for them. They easily could have left him behind in favor of more traditional republicans like Liz Cheney but no. They want more crazy antics. So that’s what they’ll get.,"Well the first is a recognised thing, so they'll get real replies. I expect that most of the CRT replies will be zero because it's largely a bogeyman made up by right wing politicians.",1
"mmmm it's not bad for me to be lgbt because i'm a foreigner so i have less social pressures, so I have some priveleges (anonymity, not an arab) but i've also lived in Lebanon and Jordan where there are very active LGBT scenes. I would compare it to my life in Indiana where people gossip and disapprove and it's possible your family will disown you depending on how religious they are.","you made the most intelligent comment in this entire thread so succinctly! i'm gay and i live and work in Yemen. my national colleagues talk añl the time about how the Saudis are pushing extreme versions of Islam incessantly across Yemen (and much of the Middle East and North Africa) and they lament how just a few decades ago women dressed colorfully and could walk around in long skirts. The average Yemeni is not hyper-religious and the current civil war really has nothing to do with religion, and is more of a power/land grab by the Houthis, Saudis, UAE, Qatar and Iran to control major shipping routes and some oil deposits. I'm not super out at work, but some of my colleagues certainly know, and i work with one gay national guy who the women will take their hijabs off around when they are in private (technically a big no-no, but shows they accept him for what he is and dont see him as a threat). Of course there is a ton of sexism and homophobia, but I don't think Yemen would be anywhere like it is now without Saudi Arabia's relentless influence.",0
"I know that NK has done nuclear tests, but nobody knows if they have functioning nuclear weapons, hence I don't think it's wrong to call them an aspiring nuclear power.","Regarding Iran's nuclear program, it's widely acknowledged that there is a great deal of concern about the potential for the country to acquire nuclear weapons. Many factors are at play.",1
If Russia's really lucky maybe China is supplying military advisers who can tell Putin just how badly Russia fucked up without getting pushed out a window.,"God the fucking irony that Putin has a hard on for physically expanding Russian territory like we're in the middle fuckin ages, and that at the end of the day it might be the Chinese that annex his land.",1
They literally had a negative interest on accounts with more than 1M in them. They wanted people to sell of Swiss Francs but instead rich people just got the money in cash and stored it in stacks in bank safes.,"Switzerland exports quite a bit of tech products and if the Swiss Franc doesn't devalue like the rest of the currencies, people stop buying swiss Products.",0
"It was as I saw: Our Rep seats were taken by Republican hands, a surprisingly strong Independent ensured that no Democrat was gonna win. However, we did have a Missoulian Trans person gain a seat in the State House, we've rejected their anti-abortion amendment, and we didn't put James Brown in our Supreme Court. So we're still kind of fucked, but we didn't entirely go Republican surprisingly.","It's not as simple as Republicans demanding this be ratified onto the State Constitution. It also requires the votes of the people of Montana before they can enforce any changes. Now with the influx of conservatives coming in and some liberals leaving, that can be a problem. And there absolutely needs to be a shake up at the MTD, because they aren't prioritizing any state-level races and their federal-level choices are getting bodied left and right by more MAGA-aligned Repubs. But yeah, our State Republicans can't exactly just up and rewrite the constitution even with their supermajorities without our say so due to the Montana State Constitution enshrining our rights to choose our amendments. That was why the Republican-controlled Legislature needed to put the anti-abortion amendment on the ballot for us to vote, and why in 2020, it was the legalized cannibis vote.",0
Don’t forget that he was buddy buddy with Putin while trying to dismantle NATO and ending military funds for Ukraine. The writing was on the wall. This invasion was planned with Trump’s support. Putin failed because Joe Biden got elected. Russia would have succeeded as quickly as they wanted if Trump had won.,USA warned them about the whole thing before it happened. They didn’t believe at first because no one thought that Putin would be that stupid. The question remains is: would Trump have warned Ukraine of Putin’s plan?,0
Ukraine is taking significant loses. They are taking the same amount of military loses as Russia plus civilian according to US estimates. Our news is only highlighting Russian loses as a morale booster and because that is what people want to hear. This has been pretty 50/50 though.,Oh it’s nowhere close to 50/50. It’s not 99/1 like Reddit makes it seem but it’s nowhere close to 50/50. The reason Ukraine isn’t advancing is not because they’re taking super heavy casualties. It’s because Russia is successfully throwing meat shields in their way and Ukraine is unwilling to show a similar disregard for their soldier’s lives in order to advance.,1
"Do you disagree? Statistics from Gun Violence Archive, a non profit that tracks gun violence in the US, show that about 705 people died from mass shootings in the US in 2021. This compares to a total of about 14,000 total gun homicides.",And there’s not that many mass shootings read the fbi statistics. They lump in gang activities in blue run states which blows the bell curve. This article is Gun grabber non sense.,1
"…which means no DNC funding or support, no campaign appearances from core party members with high visibility, and a whole bunch of possible primary challengers from both the GOP and Dems.","I can’t tell for certain but it would appear her strategy is to hope that neither GOP/Dem candidate can field a challenger that can come up to full primary, or that when one side loses their supporters will shift to Sinema because they think she’s not as bad as the other guy - on both sides.",0
By late 1942 most countries were investigating how to ramp up production of fighter jets. Several thousand jet fighter planes were made before the end of the war.,"For most people, yes. But jet plane became public knowledge 82 years ago and had been flown a year earlier by the Germans at that point.",0
"There’s been a noticeable increase in problems on this in recent years that the programs were designed to counteract… removing them results in kids that are belligerent, conflict seeking, convinced they’re gods gift… in short HR nightmares.",Honestly there is substantial merit to parents forming banned book groups. Tell a kid there’s laws preventing them from reading something in school and it gets an air of intrigue.,0
Plenty of candidates are there for some form of universal healthcare (just not the unpopular idea of single payer in particular).,Health insurance companies use a fraction of the premiums we pay them to lobby against universal healthcare that would save us tens to hundreds of thousands of lives and half a trillion dollars every year.,1
"Third, disrupt their little games that distract from the above real issues. That means not responding to a subpoena when it is in bad faith and just for their dog and pony hate show, and declaring it such, out loud, publicly. Remember how Republicans said little or nothing at all when they dodged subpoenas? Do this, and they not only lose their show, but they get a public slap across the face for it as well.","Second, ensure to act in ways designed to undermine them. This means specific actions and measures that otherwise wouldn’t be taken. In today’s US politics, this means cutting off their power, in short their gerrymandering, election cheating and court appointments. This can be countered by election reform, and expanding certain courts.",0
"Agreed. There was bipartisan effort after the fight over the border wall to reign in Executive emergency powers, but the GOP tried to play politics and let Trump build his wall. Sadly it died and we didn't get any more traction on it. But I agree that we really need to address the emergency powers issue to prevent abuse.","Using emergencies as a 'Tactic', should have some kind of oversight, but not to the degree of preventing its use when it's needed. I do like the idea of auto-expiring periods where extensions need to be confirmed.",1
My guess is they've discussed it behind the scenes and once Turkey's presidential elections are over Erdo will suddenly make a statement about having received satisfactory assurances from Fin and Swe and they're welcome to join.,"Erdogan as well as Turkish ambassador to Finland gave assurances to our leadership of how Turkey would view a potential membership application favourably before we officially applied. A lot of the demands they've made are also things that could be interpreted as having been filled already under the status quo, save these demands for giving over certain people. I'm sure he's getting some actual concessions too, but it's probably not quite as dramatic as he's playing it up to be.",0
"You could also allow people to revote and only count the last ballot making it almost impossible to force someone to vote how you want, you just need a good verification system but that's no different than when I use the Global Entry website.","For 1 I don't see how that would become a major issue. You'd have to have people going door to door forcing people to vote in front of them, what if they already voted? Oops you can see that I did vote but not who for, same as absentee ballots today.",0
"so you can bet that despite how ridiculous it sounds, there are lots and lots of Russians that believe that there is a Jewish man who is head of state in Ukrane that is also simultaneously a Nazi, and that they are in fact in a war with NATO.","Step 9) Due to Step 6 and 8, Boris Yeltsin has an opportunity to seek revenge on Gorbachov, and being in control of the Capital and at least being charismatic is able to actually seize power from the incompetent coup attempt and also able to humiliate Gorbachov.",0
"Btw, if people are fine with calling this traitor and should be punished, then shouldn't what China does to its citizen whom it deemed to be traitors (corrupted politician, defector, spy, etc) acceptable.","No need to include ""for money"" - ""People that do this should be considered as traitors"" is fine by me. Not only do these pilots get money, but they are likely provided lots of other comforts in order to get more info out of them. Honey traps are common tools.",1
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"that's the thing though, they just flat out do not have the numbers. Ukraine is a massive country of 43 million people that they attempted to invade with a force of 190,000. Most western intelligence, including Ukraine itself, dismissed the idea of them invading because you can't take a country of 43 million with an army of 190,000. They're attempting to plug the hole with waves of increasingly ill equipped conscripts but the numbers have never been enough. even in the scenario where Ukraine received 0 help from anyone they'd be on the losing end of a bloody guerilla war. none of this would be without massive losses from Ukraine but it's simply numerically unwinnable for Russia.","We can't get those people back and the side effect of this awful war is that even in losing, Russia is doing deep rooted and long-term damage to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. Damage that will take generations to undo.",1
"in Russian society it's simply consensus reality that there are neo-Nazi irregular troops in Ukraine, who have been bombing civilians for years, and they're getting their weapons from NATO (now indirectly, since Congress banned sale of weapons to them). How much NATO condones or even orders those attacks is up for debate, but yes, a Russian would totally agree that if you let terrorists have missiles they will bomb civilians. Depending on how truthful it is (I doubt it's 100% lies, there's people with family members in Donetsk).","Now I will get downvoted to hell for accurately explaining the Russian perspective, not even agreeing with it (who the fuck knows the truth of what's happening on the ground on the other side of the globe there when it's filtered through many layers of propaganda).",0
"Those problems do exist in America, although to a lesser extent than other countries. I don’t know of any country that has zero crime rate and zero homeless people.","Right but you implied that people can’t comment about another country unless they’ve actually been there, but you’re doing exactly that. Quality of life in India is pretty good so long as you don’t live in poverty.",0
No one's arguing CO is being mean to the arriving migrants....just that this is fucked up for the southern border states to be doing in the first place.,"Your comment doesn't make any sense. You're responding to someone insisting the feds be sent to stop the human trafficking, which it is when southern states take people, including children and young girls who are at high risk of being 'lost' and send them elsewhere.",0
"Yup, just China. They definitely didn't see any separation of families and concentration camps under Trump. We totally didn't adopt out stolen kids through his donor's programs either. No women were forcibly sterilized by us though, at least. Oh wait, they were.","At all similar? You should have opened with how they are different, rather than a stupid question. Of course they are similar in many ways. Scope? Sure they are way different. Motivation? Zero difference.",0
"Having been in Beijing in heating season, I understand. Everything smelled like coal, and the haze was just disgusting. I grew up next to 2 GW of coal fired electricity generation in Alberta, and NEVER smelled anything like this.","Canadian here. Quebec has abundant cheap hydro used for green aluminum smelters. Indonesia might be using coal for theirs, but that will evolve. What’s most important is to lift the remaining 50% of the Indonesian population out of poverty.",0
You maybe on to something. He acts ignorant when I bring up the Xi looks like Winnie the Poo. He claims he’s never heard of this meme?!? I find that practically impossible . Probably just playing dumb.,"This is beyond dumb. If they did that, they would have lost all the data they collected. There was always a very high chance the balloon would never return.",1
"Wooden barracks, probably 10 units a building. No plumbing, sometimes no heat or gas. U have to either go shit in the outhouse in the yard or you might have a ""free fall"" toilet which is basically a hole in the floor which leads to a shit pit under the building. No clue what they do for the shower but most likely you heat a bucket of water on whatever stove you have and wash yourself in a wash basin (speaking from experience). Many places have no paved roads or paved roads that have not seen any maintenance since the day they have been created. Even in bigger cities infamous are a marvel to behold, cheap ass apartment buildings built out of panels. I think they were supposed to be temporary. My aunt lived in one. - everything is fucked; walls are crooked, ceiling panels are random thickness, heat insulation is non-existent. But it beats the barracks I suppose. A little bIt more about the countryside. Russia is very sparsely populated, I suppose like Alaska if it is anything like Canada, so yeah you can totally live in shit your whole life and not see a rich person. Heres just some random video I found, you can skip through.. P.s. fuck this kinda sucks but there are some really good Russian video bloggers who really try to get this message across but it's mostly targeted at domestic consumer to provoke social change. I wish they at least got someone to caption their stuff in English because some of it is top notch satire.","They can just start paying the population in bread, lard and 100g of vodka a day to produce war machines. Everyone who still remains in Russia will totally be ok with it. Not many people in the west can really grasp this fact.",0
"I find it all extremely hilarious. A fanatic violent regime is trying to be the new North Korea, and all redditors do is discuss what Israel did or did not do, instead of trying to stop it.","Second, whatever issues you have with Israel and Palestinians has nothing to do to Iran's nuke problems, but I can discuss it further if you want to.",0
"The link seems to hang for me without showing any results. 538 shows DeSantis leading in some polls, and Trump in others, basically a wash at this point.","Most polls I’ve seen have it at nearly 50/50 between trump/not trump. The thing is that Desantis doesn’t get all of the not trump votes, so trump has a huge lead.",1
"The problem is there is no single person who hasn't had a friend or family member affected in some way by war, whether it was death or disabilities (often by the millions of Soviet planted landmines). It's like a scar that the folks there carry. I've read countless of Afghan war and life stories that are just beautiful (most famously The Kite Runner).",Keep in mind theocracy is ambiguous in terms of what they agree on. Almost all want a religious state but otherwise most are not in favor of how the Taliban views it.,0
"You'd call up the National Guard first in the US, which is not strictly the Army and is still technically a domestic peace-keeping force under the command of each State governor. It is somewhat similar to the Brazilian Military Police.","American policing is much more localized than Brazilian. In Brazil the local cops are closer to city security guards. Which most Americans would probably support. The Military Police are under the State and local government has only ""diplomatic"" control over them. Americans would riot.",1
Armies aren't giving guys specially fit rifles nor do they need to. That isn't how markmenship works.,AKs don't have cheek risers or adjustable stocks so that's irrelevant. AK iron sights also cannot be configured for that.,0
"No piece of art has been damaged in this series of protests. You'd notice if it were because it would be in the headline like this ""Protestors destroy art to combat climate change"".",They could start by gluing themselves to practically anything else high-profile that relates to climate change instead of artworks. That's something they haven't tried yet.,1
"Now, let me try to really clarify what I'm saying. Let's say, hypothetically, the WC was being held in Qatar, and Qatar's only stance on lgbtq matters was they didn't recognize same sex marriages. And let's assume the western world condemned them for it, called it outrageous behavior. Ran all of the stories we are currently seeing about it. Then today, news comes out that Japan has taken the same legal stance on not recognizing same sex marriages, but the western world withholds it's opinion on the matter.","- Japan currently does not permit same-sex couples to marry or inherit each other’s assets, such as a house they may have shared, and gives them no parental rights to each other’s children.",1
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"Palin voters’ second choice wasn’t used bc more people voted for her as their first choice than voters for Begrich as theirs. Again, if most voters wanted him over the other 2, they would’ve put him first; they didn’t, so they didn’t.","So we gave the non-MAGAs a way to vote for a Democrat as second choice instead of ""extremist or nothing"". Isn't that a win for voters? And pretty enlightening about how unpopular MAGA really is...",1
I do question of the legitimacy the referendum and the previous governments who did not attain an actual directly supported positive 50+ % majority.,"To question the legitimacy of the Brexit referendum is to deny the legitimacy of every single government the UK has ever had. If that's your position, then fair enough. If it is not, then your assertions are intellectually dishonest, and driven by nothing more than political emotions.",1
"If yes, we agree. If no, you're saying there are certain issues where what a religion wants should outweigh what the nation wants. I'm not onboard with that.","I strenuously disagree with that premise. In the western world, the state is accountable to voters. The church is only accountable to their imaginary friend.",0
My usage of black didn't refer to the black market but the color of the average AR15. How do you suggest catching all of these supposed black market sales?,"That'll surely help. I mean, if the penalties for murder/attempted murder aren't enough, the lesser penalties for possession of an illegal gun are certain to stop them.",0
"Uh not when you look at the numbers on the ground, Turkey has the 2nd largest army in NATO and beats Sweden and Finland combined for personal and budget...","and I want Sweden and Finland to get in same as you, but reading all these post about kicking out Turkey out and how Turkey isn't as valuable as them is annoying, when Turkey is a huge contributor to NATO and its the main reason why they get to play the game they're playing right now.",0
"Of course, I am not suggesting every candidate be an Ivy Leaguer, but I truly don't think the Former POTUS really understood the three branches of our government. In a way, that's a very sad commentary on one student's lack of education (and I am in no way referring to any educator's efforts). I believe that man thought of it as a personal gain of ""power""-- that he could have things his way, hire his friends and family to join in...and he had his grip on that office and kept expressing his direction to those would still listen to him to tragedy of January 6.","Yes, I agree that most persons in political roles do spend the remainder of their terms in office preparing for the next election. I am 100% for election reform: to take money, lobbiests (sorry folks, but find work elsewhere), media overkill...the list of all the operatives that work against the majority of American citizens to not only, realistically, have the chance to vote for an individual they want to represent them in office, but also pay that forward with the ideal that any citizen who meets very basic qualifications could run for office.",0
People are gullible enough to take their PR dog and pony virtual signaling show seriously? Where else could these people show off their private jets?,"I guess it's pretty easy to spot that in this case the use of private jets is certainly not worth the cost. As long as the WEF continues to value economic growth as the highest goal, then they will not have a positive impact, because they will always sacrifice the environment for growth. For that they will be defended by primarily right-leaning pundits and their audience, who describe any deviation from this as ""socialism"". After all, the people attending are those that .",1
"The guy who created the Alt-Right Playbook on YouTube said that Republicans treat White-Supremacist voters like the mad woman in the attic: they feed her, but they don’t talk about her. They know Nazi’s and racists make up a huge portion of their base, but they can’t openly court them because it scares the shit out of everyone else, and breaks the illusion of plausible deniability which other Republican voters have regarding their more regressive policies.","It was absolutely NOT too much for the GOP, they just want to keep their wholesale embrace of bigotry out of writing as much as possible after the midterms revealed their electoral vulnerability- and also as they know that more indictments and sedition convictions are incoming.",1
"So, let me get your logic right. He's looking to save his own life by fleeing to another country and threatening to testify to the warcrimes Russia has commited? The same Russia that famously has had dissidents in foreign nations assassinated?",Russian is known to assassinate guys like him in foreign countries. Being the first guy to produce evidence of war crimes is a brave thing to do seeing as no one else is doing it.,1
"That was the demand from only 1/3 of the unions, the other 2/3 (8 of 12 involved) already signed and weren't contesting non-application-based sick leave.",“The major freight railroads refused to offer paid sick time last fall because they said the unions had agreed over the decades to forgo paid sick leave in favor of strong short-term disability benefits and higher pay.”.,1
Don't fall into the trap. It is not young vs. old. It is people vs. corporations and the Republican (and even Democratic) politicians owned by big pharma. The answer has been in the room like an invisible fucking elephant for years - single payer. If you continue to be chained you will continue to envy and disparage those with longer chains. That seems foolish when you cut work with them to break the chains. Become a single issue voter or continue to flounder.,"So, if you are younger and vote, good for you. If you are too jaded and cynical to vote you are getting what you deserve. And if you do vote, vote single payer. Be a one issue voter. It will be good for all of us.",0
"And that's just what they did during ww2, later on jews in the soviet union were banned from certain professions and were litterally sent to the gulag if they were suspected zionists.","The auschwitz extermination camp might've never existed without the soviet support until 1941, and it wouldn't've exterminated as many jews if the russians didn't stop at the border.",0
"Are we? When I did fire drills I didn't think the school was going to burst into flames, when we had earthquake drills I didn't think the school would be torn apart, when we had active shooter drills I didn't think it was ever really going to happen. The message I got is that we go through the motions just in case something ever actually happened, not that it meant we are in constant danger.","Has to be the case if they are actually terrified because that shit is an extreme outlier. In my time at school Sandy Hook happened more people at my school died from alcohol poisoning, car accidents, 3 suicides one from walking onto a highway and two from walking in front of trains, and one from a congenital heart defect that they were unaware of. None died from mass shootings. Not at my school or any nearby schools. Which I am pretty sure is the experience the vast, vast majority of students have.",0
"The tortures and depravity of religious zealots are unsurpassed in history. Anytime you have people ""on a mission from God"" awful things are bound to happen.","I don't give a shit about getting ""hammered"", what I've stated is factual. The notion that there were secular courts in 1500 is ludicrous. All power / decisions came from high up with the moral compass of ""God"", there wasn't even a fucking explicitly secular government until the US Constitution.",0
"Genuine question, if Disney were to pull out of Florida, what would that do to their economy? I imagine the state brings in a lot of tourism revenue because of Disneyland, so would their economy tank if Disney decided to leave?","I think one of the major factors foe DW in Fla was having a theme park on bot coasts, nevada puts it too close to Disneyland. The west is running out of water quickly as well.",1
"If Iran gets nukes, it will completely transform the middle east forever, in a likely bad way, considering how unstable it is without nukes. Religious radicalization is a bad combo with nukes (including Israel), and they will certainly proliferate through the region in the same way as NATO has done through Europe. This is bad for the survival of the world.","If Israel does nothing, it's also possible that Israel could be nuked off the map by a throwaway rogue Islamic faction, if Iran sells or gives nukes. Doesn't even have to be Iran launching the nuke.",0
I loathe the idea of nukes but right now MAD is probably the only thing stopping countries with aggressive expansionist policies from steamrolling countries without nukes or no defense pact with nuclear states.,It's stupendously difficult to ban nuclear weapons because everyone who agrees to ban them will be ruled by the countries that decide not to.,1
Let’s assume the typical pro-rus argument of forcing Germany to sever oil ties with Russia and have them import US natural gas.,"counterpoint for the sake of argument: Russia blew up the pipeline in order to punish Germany, hoping the pain of losing access to gas would force them to stop supporting Ukraine in order to keep NS2.",1
"I once spoke to a guy who had been a department head for one of Murdoch's papers here in the UK. On the launch day all department heads were called into Murdoch's office and he told them ""Gentlemen, I am here to sell papers. Now get out there and sell papers."".","Right. They just want to get a judgement which affirms the security of their systems, and which would discourage media outlets from slandering them in the future. Once they get that, they'll likely settle for a greatly reduced amount.",1
Iran is not a young country whatsoever and their system is religious extremism doesn't allow non extremists in power.,"Basically, people are protesting; the government of Iran doesn’t allow protests against them so they send in their military police to suppress them. Violence ensues, protestors die, and yes, also police. Police arrests a bunch of people that they claim were involved.",1
"Hypothetically, if Florida's population dropped to 100,000 hardcore reactionary Republicans, Florida would still get the same number of House seats, the same number of Senate seats ofc, the same number of electoral votes, but would be much redder and would elect 100% hardcore reactionaries, and it wouldn't be until after the 2030 census and subsequent reapportionment that it would really suffer for the much smaller population. (Politically. Economically, it'll feel the effects pretty much immediately, but that's a different issue). And it would free up campaign donations to go to other states since Florida wouldn't be contested for elections, letting the GOP put more effort into other purple states, and even making headway in blue states.","Either families accept their children will be disadvantaged, or they move to another state. They have no power to change it until the next gubernatorial election in 2026. I think this is similar to all the other terrible legislation/actions red states have been doing: anti-abortion, anti-LGBT, anti-education, etc. It may not be the sole reason, or even the primary reason, but I'm sure they aren't unaware of the demographic benefits, and doing it right after states are reapportioned after the census means they get the benefit of the larger population for census, reapportionment, and Electoral College purposes, but also the benefit of a smaller, more concentrated Republican population for all the interim elections.",0
"The vote in Crimea was a farce, same with Donetsk and Luhansk republics, Russia came in and occupied those areas. Conceding them now would indicate Russia can take what it wants by force and Russia is saying here Mariupol and Kherson are theirs as well and so they won't negotiate on them, so why would Ukraine give up its sovereign territory? Russia would come back in the future and try again.","I'm talking about the annexation referendum, which was clearly not free and fair. Also pro-Russia or Russian-speaking do not equal wanting to join Russia, as places like Kharkiv and Odesa have shown.",0
"Bitcoin is a global monetary network, secured by thousands of people globally, making it decentralised and anti fragile. It’s freedom money, you should take a look.","I see the stats, I see the progress, most of you only read what the corporate media want you to see.",0
"They restore the feature so Elon can “own the lib media” by commenting “false, it is still there” on the tweet of the original story.",It’s even accompanied by a “community note” stating that “Elon confirmed this statement is false”. Lol.,0
"What kind of safeguards do you think should exist for minors who perhaps wrongfully identify as trans, when perhaps they may identify as something else in the future? Or perhaps a better rephrasing, what are the medical channels that exist to ensure the minor is 100% trans before they have the ability to access appropriate care?","The goal should \never\ be that no minor gets care before doctors are 100% sure they're trans (because part of what ""trans healthcare"" looks like for minors is to allow them to properly explore their feelings before proceeding with more permanent treatment. That's another thing that makes these bills so menacing- they're sold as preventing things that generally don't happen anyway but they're usually written so that they also criminalize things like therapy to help a kid understand their sense of self.",1
Why should we lie about what the time is so that people can get an extra hour of daylight when we could just all decide to work from 8-4 instead? It's literally the exact same thing but it doesn't involve changing the clock and lying about what time noon is.,"Changing the time in a clock obviously doesn't impact the planet. Fuckin duh. But it does impact how much light is left in the day when people are getting when there's only 3 hours of sunlight, 2 hours, 1 hour, etc.",1
"Your final statement is the logical point. It’s very probable & would sense from a geopolitical perspective given Israel’s geographical location, relations with neighbours & Russia’s relations with countries in the region. Israel appears to be protecting their own interests which make sense, while still providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine.","Your example isn’t great….Israel technically did help (Ukraine up) with humanitarian aid. As for dirty hands, they could face annihilation from their neighbours. As for any excuses Israel have made, they’re very plausible so there’s nothing to suggest they’re lying other than raw emotions.",0
Because it’s a one party issue. Democrats have created a budget surplus almost every single different POTUS in the last 40 years.,"In those same 40 years, every single republican POTUS has blown the deficit up. They are the ones who don’t pay their bills.",0
Turkish ships are all over the Black Sea and Russia doesn't touch them. A Turkish civilian vessel being attacked by Russia would bring Turkey directly into the war as a full participant. There is an enormous difference between hostile forces and civilian ships.,"A solar installation for a single house uses about 2-400 square feet of roof surface, and costs about twenty thousand dollars. Powering an entire city with solar requires hundreds of square miles of panels. It's really helpful for stuff like emergency lighting and keeping road signals working, but as a general purpose power supply you have to spend a lot of time and money building very big. If it was a quick solution we wouldn't still be burning coal all over the world.",0
"I addressed your question: I'm not more enraged than them. I explained to you that the union workers rejected this same deal already. That the citations you're making for the union workers ""not being enraged"" are from the same people who praised a deal the union workers rejected already.",The union has rejected deals for 3 years now for not including sick leave. The pay raise is not what they have been asking for.,0
I did a little googling and I found from 2005 (3 years after the country converted solely to Euro)...,It has nothing to do with the Euro. Just greedy retailers seeing an opportunity to rip people off with overinflated prices in the confusion of conversion.,1
while people in west should \also\ use the book to critically evaluate their own governments (the second gulf war was unnecessary... and the first gulf war and Afghan war... there \probably\ were diplomatic avenues that could have obviated the need for force... )... its not surprising that Russians could read 1984 and somehow see it as only applying to countries other than their own.,"and i wasn't implying that people in the west don't do this... i felt while reading the book (both times) that it probably was meant as a critique of what any government could fall into, and that the warnings were universal. i've lived in different countries and its interesting how some of the groupthink can vary from place to place... conventional wisdom is... more local than universal.",0
"You keep bringing up non-sequiturs like China, which is not part of the argument. China does bad shit, up to and including genocide. That has very little to do with India buying Russian energy.",India didn’t just keep the status quo; it took advantage of low Russian oil prices and increased imports thereby funding Russia’s war in Ukraine.,0
"Libertarianism believes that all people should be free to live their lives according to their conscience, so long as they do not intrude with the rights of others.","Perhaps you have had bad experiences with some people who claim to be Libertarians, but that does not mean that you should judge them all in the same way. There are many kinds of people who call themselves Libertarians, and they all have different views.",0
"And the final boss is a huge ass balloon with tentacles that shoot out missiles. and once you shoot all of them down, you target the balloon itself.",How does the government react to the balloon? Do they reach out to the government they suspect sent it? Do they alert the public immediately? What do they do about the balloon? How quickly do they notice it? How long before they say anything? Do they try to collect it? Destroy it? Will they retaliate? How much political posturing? Where can the balloon drift to before action is taken? Will they care if it floats over specific areas? What about infighting among politicians and political parties?,1
"I mean, hunter Biden isn't an elected official, doesn't have a security clearance, isn't one of Biden's advisors.","It’s outrageous that Hunter Biden continues to be a political punching bag for the right anytime Biden or the Democrats do something they don’t like. He’s never been charged, tried or convicted of a crime. He doesn’t hold public office. I don’t think the laptop narrative is particularly effective politically but there are tens or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of slobbering mouth-breathers who think Hunter Biden is da debil and probably want to do violence to him.",1
"Extended police report is needed when you apply for certain jobs though, you have to give a report that the police vouche for you. (So sex offenders wont get to work in a school for instance).","Does that happen with sex offenders, who are already public knowledge? I've never heard of it being an issue, so I can't see why it would be a concern here either.",1
"So, the track on most tracked vehicles has a center ""blade"" that keeps the track aligned. Each of the wheels you see when you look at a tank is actually a double set, side by side, that the ""blade"" passes between. Most of the time this is fine, but if the space between the wheels gets filled with something else, and the track tension is a little off, it can cause the track to be pushed off the wheels. Normal procedure is to ""break"" the track by removing one of the pins that keep the individual track segments connected to each other (think of it like a door hinge), then manhandle the track so that it is lined up with the wheels, straight out in front of the vehicle. You then, carefully, drive the tank back into the track while the rest of the crew is carefully guiding it back into place. Once it is correctly on the tank you can put the pin back in place, completing the track loop and retension. I am glossing over a lot, and it's a pain in the ass. As you can imagine if the initial track came off to the outside, it's a lot easier to manage, since throwing track to the inside means it's under the tank.","I'm not a tank enthusiast either but I assume that ""throwing a track"" means that the track came dislodged from the wheels (like a bike chain coming off the gears). Being thrown on the inside means it came off and ended up on the tank side of the wheels, which I assume is much more difficult to fix than if it were on the outside. The outside would mean that it would just be laying on the ground next to the tank. Inside means it's snagged and caught up in all the other moving parts and difficult to access and get a hold of in order to reseat it. Plus it's really heavy.",1
"Religion doesn't ""make"" anyone do anything, but it can certainly be a convenient excuse for doing nearly anything. I much prefer ""other people are just like you, so treat them like you want them to treat you."".",. He spews kremlin bullshit about NATO and Ukraine instigating the war and that the poor russians had no choice but to murder and torture civilians by the thousands.,1
"Donald Trump does not think strategically. In every single case he undermines anyone who ""beats"" him. He wouldn't endorse DeSantis, he'd launch a third party bid, raise a bunch of funds and burn the GOP to the ground. He is absolutely incapable of stepping back from the spotlight even when it's to his own benefit. He'll also likely sue the GOP in an attempt to ""prove"" he didn't lose. He'll claim DeSantis cheated, just as he did when Ted Cruz beat him. He will lash out and claim DeSantis is part of the ""Deep State"" trying to ""take him down"". Anyone thinking he will do anything gracefully has not paid any attention to his past behavior over the years and years of documentation that we have.","You are under the impression that Trump can control his malignant narcissism long enough to get himself out of this. Donald Trump cares more about his ego, than he does about being strategic. He is incapable of trusting DeSantis to be capable of saving him, because he doesn't believe DeSantis is loyal to him. He will launch a third party bid and try to sow doubt about his loss in the primaries. He will not endorse DeSantis because then he'd have to admit he lost. He cannot do that. So he will call DeSantis a cheater and torpedo everything in an attempt to avoid admitting he's lost.",0
If this upwards trend keeps going for years i wouldn't be surprised if we eventually saw a country sending in their army to defend Ukraine directly.,"""To do this, they have started supplying heavy offensive weapons, openly urging Ukraine to seize our territories. In fact, such steps are dragging NATO countries into the conflict and could lead to an unpredictable level of escalation."".",1
Same-sex marriage is a tricky issue in Japan because marriage being between a man and a woman is explicitly in the constitution.,Except there are many legal arguments to suggest that the constitution does not in fact limit marriage to being between a man and a woman.,1
"So, the Ohio train would have been exempt from that regulation even if it was never repealed under Trump.","The derailment of the train in Ohio was likely more severe because the Trump administration repealed a key safety rule. A rule was passed under Obama that made it a requirement for trains carrying hazardous flammable materials to have ECP brakes, but this was rescinded in 2017 by the Trump administration.",1
"I remember when china’s current dictator came to power a decade ago and how he had some insane anti corruption purge that resulted in something around 1500+ members being ousted. Obviously it was also a way to rid him of political rivals and adversaries and consolidate power but yeah, these types of things are always super common.","Also to note, Ukraine was also always a country that had a STRONG corruption stereotype lol prior to the war, not many people knew much about Ukraine but the things people did always associate with it are corruption, lots of it. I think either Poland or another neighboring country had Ukrainians make up the most of its jailed prisoners, many due to corruption to an extent within business meddling or something lol.",0
"“ In lots of small towns actually the mayor is just a ceremonial figure, often someone sitting in city council already, voted on by the city council. And it’s the city manager who is in charge of actually running the city city government. Not every city is mayored like a New York or Chicago.”.",As troubling as this is it’s not uncommon for city councils to pull this kind of rank. The logic is the mayor is more of a figure head and the council has all the real legislative power. Still this situation should be monitored so it doesn’t get any more shady.,1
"One, where the National Archives tells Biden all documents appear to be accounted for; then years later Biden's people volunteer the information that they discovered potentially classified materials in an office space no longer used and use due diligence to make sure any other unrecovered documents are found and turned over..","""WASHINGTON — Aides to President Joe Biden have discovered at least one additional batch of classified documents in a location separate from the Washinon office he used after leaving the Obama administration, according to a person familiar with the matter."".",1
"If anything it's a great play to advertise Biden's security record. Spy balloon shows up, we track it, down it when safe to do so.",I know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.,0
"Data released by the Georgia secretary of state showed that mail voting in the state’s November general election plunged by 81 percent from the level of the 2020 contest. While a drop was expected after the height of the pandemic, Georgia had a far greater decrease than any other state with competitive statewide races, according to a New York Times analysis.","The decrease in absentee voting in Georgia compared with 2020 was far greater than in other states with similar races. In Michigan, for example, absentee voting decreased by about 46 percent from the 2020 election, according to a Times analysis of data from the University of Florida’s U.S. Elections Project. In Florida, the drop-off was about 45 percent, and in Pennsylvania, absentee voting had a roughly 54 percent decrease.",0
"But that would require taxing the rich to benefit society, not taxing the poor to benefit the rich, and that's a cardinal sin for Republicans.","The GOP's fetish for treating public services as profit centers is just code language for, ""We hate all government services and expenditures unless they're for the exclusive benefit of the wealthy elite."".",1
"I agree that realistically, the best way to improve lives of people is to provide good education, especially to women, and especially emphasize gender equality from young age.","I think there also just needs to be a culture change, let girls be as ""useful"" as their brothers not by selling them off like chattel, but permitting them to pursue the same education and find jobs that will also lead to improving the family's life.",1
Who cares is that while that’s occurring why wouldn’t the board of generals who have enough people backing DeJoy not just elect a proxy for him?,"While I want DeJoy gone and am angry that it still hasn’t been done the argument that the president should be able to fire him is dangerously authoritarian. The PMG is elected by board, the president shouldn’t get to remove that just because he doesn’t like him and is powerful. That’s trumps perspective on the presidency. Presidents don’t get to ignore laws just because they’re the president. Once we’re doing that we don’t have a government. That’s not “oh we should take the high road”, that’s we in a definition sense would no longer have a functioning form of representative government, we’d have a position that can just do whatever it wants.",0
There is no possible system made by humans who are fallible that could have a 100% accuracy rate with respect to death penalty convictions. It’s not nearly as simple as you are making it sound or as you want it to be.,"Except they are human, they are some of humanity’s worst but describing them as inhuman is just a subconscious means to justify killing them. And even when the death penalty has been extremely hard to grant, there have still been innocent people mistakenly put to death. It’s better to not risk killing even one innocent person.",0
"He’s trying to wipe four years of being in Trump’s administration off his shirt before he sits down at the primary table. Doesn’t seem doable, and frankly, I don’t think anyone in R-world other than DeSantis has a chance at beating Trump in a primary, especially not someone positioning himself across the maga base.",DeSantis also has the charisma of a wet napkin and I doubt he would win against against a decent Dem candidate nor could he form a mass cult like Trump did. Of course I could be wrong.,1
"Social media companies are more than fine with stoking the flames. It's just when one of the right's beloved figureheads crosses the line into a direct call for violence or uses a slur, the movement wants to cry foul that they're being censored for being conservative.","Guess it just seems to me like the right gets labeled extremists too often and in a dismissive manner, when “the left” has just as many offended. I was being a little too reactive.",1
They’re already filed. They also have a few million dollar bill from rj corman for the clean up and removal of the cars. Honestly didn’t look bad when I drove by it on that Saturday. But damn when they lit it up holy fuck did that black smoke roll. The pictures are crazy.,"Yes, it's crazy. I'm very lucky that my business is manufacturing, and does not rely on foot traffic. But the road that we are on is the least used road within about 20 miles of their main hub. So when they need to, they just stop their trains whenever they want, for as long as they want. My road being the least used means that they will get the least amount of backlash.",1
"Russia and Iran are united against a common foe. They are allies of convenience, but Russia never trusted Iran since the Revolution.","They are very unlikely to provide Iran nuclear weapons, but Israel's concern is Iran receiving Russian jets and the S-300 and S-400 anti aircraft systems which would hinder Israeli efforts to stop transitting weapons to Iranian proxies through Syria.",0
"And even then, you have all those states that kept passing anti-abortion laws anyway, even in defiance of Roe/Casey.","Even if somehow there were, the fact that the government might not have tried to exercise the power for fifty years is irrelevant, because that restraint was dictated by SCOTUS!",0
"On the other hand, if you want to make a deterrent against Putin trying anything, put the US president in Kyiv by surprise before Putin can whine about it, and dare him to have a go. Putin’s struggling to handle NATO hand-me-downs handed to Ukraine, he’s in no position to start a war with NATO proper by risking blowing up a US president.","It's bold, it's risky, but if Putin does nothing it shows he is still very very afraid of the US and solidifies the US's strenh.",1
Did it ever once occur to you the reason we have quotas is to confront the opposite problem; qualified minorities not getting hired because of racism?,This is a huge problem and if you hire based on race then it has a huge detriment to the work force as diversity hires aren’t there because of skill but because they satisfy a race quota.,1
"politicians vote on bills based on what their voters want, generally speaking. this doesn’t do anything to move the needle in the direction of quality government run daycare.",Sherrill is my congresswoman and so I guess this is another one of her “at least I tried” attempts. Bills that have no chance of becoming laws aren’t an effective way to promote an idea. And in here in her district we have free day care starting at age 3 or 4 but the facilities are awful compared to private daycares. So more of that? no thanks.,0
"Yeah but only for special use cases in areas where air is uncontested. While B52s are technically within the category of ""strategic bombers"", they don't really serve that role anymore because radar evasion capabilities (particularly stealth) is critical for a modern strategic bomber. B1s, B2s, and the new B21 fill that role (in addition to their use as bombers with conventional munitions).","The US has 45 B-1's, 20 B-2's, and 76 B-52's in active service. Normally the low number would be a sign of Russian weakness (like their Su-57 or T-14 inventory,) but in this case the reason is that heavy bomber inventories are limited by the START nuclear treaties.",1
"Evangelical Christians who previously backed Donald Trump are now accusing him of using them to further his own goals, after he gave them everything on their agenda.","Trump’s fixer, Michael Cohen, helped bury this story all while Falwell, Jr was praising Trump and promoting him to other Evangelical leaders. Will Evangelicals ever admit that they were duped by a con artist and a pathological liar? My guess is no. It is very embarrassing and reeks of the hypocrisy in the party that has intertwined religion with politics. And keep in mind, this is all while Michael Cohen was paying off porn star Stormy Daniels who Trump had an affair with.",1
"It means whichever party controls a given state's legislature will effectively have control over how that state votes for president, should the legislature decide to go there.","Question is, will the blow back happen when the supreme court rules on it, or after some state decides to try and send delegates that ignore that states voters?",1
"Yes, absolutely. We just need to have contingency plans for everything so we don't get surprised by anything with our pants down. Russia using nukes would be national suicide.",If Russians use a nuke that’s the end for russia. They will be completely isolated from the world and may have a proportionate response against them. Putin wants to threaten the use of nuclear weapons but even he knows better than to actually use one.,1
Chinese medicine most definitely works. It's not a fix all and sometimes you do need to embrace western medicine but there are many many many studies showcasing alternative medicine treatments.,Traditional medicine has been used and is still being used across the world in regions where modern medicine is not as accessible. To say it’s completely quack is just discounting billions of people as fools. What makes you think traditional medicine do not work at all?,1
"the place is like central park new york, its huge, not a lot of people except ramadan, and most people use it to get from one side of the city to the other. the mosque itself is just one part of it.",The temple mount compound is a muslim compound. It has anecdotal to 0 meaning to Jews and is used to summon up religious and nationalist tensions by politicians.,1
"Lawyers need to be sanctioned, and politicians should be liable both criminally and civilly for their actions. Lake may have violated some Arizona election laws with some of the information she put on social media.",It is time to start holding more people accountable for unjustly casting doubt on our election processes.,0
"This concentration of power gives the PMO the ability to craft and enact legislation, such that government can actually do things - unlike the crazy Yank deadlock that happens when one party throws all its toys out of the pram and chooses to just obstruct.","Well the Parliamentary system gives the ruling party the power to actually get things done, and I agree it’s more functional as you describe, but the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is too powerful within that.",1
"I just googled why uniforms are good, I know that in my country that was the main reasons all schools required uniforms, kids living in extreme poverty benefited from government subsidies for them, and didn't have to miss school because of lack of clothing.","Sure, maybe I didn't explain my point, I'm not saying uniforms eliminate bullying in general, but they help equalize the field for those children who cannot afford new or branded clothes from those who can.",0
"Congratulations, now youre on the same topic as the rest of us. Theyre not certifying without a justified reason. Thats the problem. Thats why vbratcher is calling for prosecution.","And which is literally what they were doing. You just interjected a bunch of extra bullshit that wasnt said, and didnt need to be said, because literally no one suggested they should be prosecuted for suggesting dems cheated. Literally no one mentioned it. The article doesnt even cover it as their reasoning for refusing to certify. You just injected that bullshit into their comment.",0
"Russia is giving China, and the world, the ultimatum of “Give me Ukraine or I won’t stop”, but I don’t think we can assume this whole proposal by China was done in good faith.","I'm more interested to see if China will try to press Russia to accept a deal not acceptable to Putin to keep their logic on Taiwan consistent or drop support for Russia because fuck Russia's geopolitical goals, China's goals are more important to China than Russia's goals.",1
"I get it. I’m afraid of lingering problems from covid too. But I’m under no illusions about post covid symptoms being caused by the vaccine not covid itself. People need to remember what 2020 was like. I know people who still have fatigue and brain fog from that period. Covid is a nasty virus, and it isn’t done with us. We’ve all just trying to live.. the science will catch up, but maybe not in time for us. It’s been like this for all humans across all times and places.","I moved to Tampa Bay after graduating from UF fifteen or so years ago. Some of my friends stayed in Gainesville. My Gainesville friends seem to have no idea what life is like in Florida outside the blue bubble. It’s both funny and concerning. I saw a Dr. Seuss parody bumper sticker here in Tampa yesterday that said “one gun, two gun, red gun, blue gun.” When I showed my Gainesville friend, she was like… I don’t even know what that means??? Haha Well, there are large groups of maladapted, social media addicted loonies. You avoid them when you can.",0
My sympathy for people expecting dual standards for either the rich or famous never existed. Until all people incarcerated for weed offences in the US are released I don’t see why an effort should be made for her.,American has been “Leading a war on drugs” for a good long time. There are loads of people incarcerated for weed in the US. Then someone goes abroad and vapes weed against the law and people get upset that she’s being punished. Ok you can argue about the nature or degree of the punishment and that she is being used as a political prisoner. It’s not like there are any countries above those kinds of games. I mean if she was vaping weed she should have been caught for doing drugstore and banned from the sport for a while anyway. I seriously doubt this is the first time she’s ever done this.,0
"Based on what top Republicans have said, the committee is poised to hit a GOP sweet spot of tackling broader issues of importance to the party base while allowing themselves many chances to attack President Joe Biden and his administration.","The committee that all Republicans voted to establish on Tuesday—as part of the House Judiciary Committee—has broad powers to investigate current and past investigations conducted by the FBI and Department of Justice, as well as the authority to probe “any” issues related to the civil liberties of private citizens.",0
"I think Whelan should be home, but if consistency is a thing I would say that he deserves exactly what the hardliners say Griner deserves. Also, Griner never intentionally defrauded US service members while Whelan did. He isn't a Marine. He is a dishonorably discharged former Marine.","He got demoted, and kicked out for stealing from both the Marine Corps and fellow Marines, and even his family agrees with decisions that have been made.",1
"So the other NATO members could trigger this clause in the charter to justify any sanctions that they levy against Turkey in the event that it attacks Greece. The question, of course, is will they be willing to do that at the risk of Turkey withdrawing from NATO?","it's not really a matter of sacrificing NATO for Greece, although I'm sure Turkey would want to push that narrative in the event. if the alliance can't be relied upon, there is no alliance. smaller countries would observe that larger ones couldn't be counted on to fulfill their defense obligations, and pull out. it would also serve to strenhen the arguments of anti-natoists that it is actually a cover for a western takeover if the larger countries in NATO started, you know, taking things over.",1
The IRGC has developed even cheaper drones to overwhelm AA defenses and allow the more important aerial assets to get through. It is a test of who will have more here.,"It may be mid but it has its own perks. Gasoline engine means it has long range on top of a 50KG warhead for less than 50,000 USD is something to be concerned about.",0
Yup. Dodges huge taxes and only pays a small fine… How is there no jail time for the individuals who ran this organization and the CPAs/HR lackeys who enabled their behavior?,"Something is very broken in our justice system when a company which is run by people is found to be breaking laws and the company is punished but the people who made those decisions are not held accountable. Way beyond just Trump, this must end and individuals that break laws need to be held accountable.",1
"Not going to matter if they don't enforce hiring more people. And in the end it doesn't change the culture, which is to maximize shareholder value at the expense of nearly everything else.",How many different components of an industry do we have to regulate before it's just more efficient to remove the profit motive?,0
"Yes, the early successes may have largely been helped by rumors that US intelligence was able to surmise basically the entire plan of the early Kiev Offensive, allowing Ukraine to adjust and prepare anti-air defenses, which stopped the VDV’s raid from being able to adequately secure a flight path for reinforcing infantry at Hostomel.","If the Russian incursion into Kyiv had been successful, and they had successfully captured and held the airfield long enough for reinforcements and materials to be air lifted in, the conflict would likely look very different than it does today. That’s the only thing that comes to mind that would have placed the invasion in Russias favor. But, thanks to the heroism and courage of the Ukrainian defenders (and a shitload of western weaponry), Russia is getting mollywhopped.",1
White lung is nothing mysterious. It's can be caused by many pathogens like pneumococcus and plain old influenza.,"Covid is already endemic, just like the flu. There's absolutely no point trying to isolate a population from it unless you want them to build no defenses against it whatsoever, in which case you risk ending up in the same position America was when Columbus arrived.",1
"Americans don't know their own history, which is partly why the polarize so hard. There's not an objective look at the good and the bad the country has done in the context of the time it was done in.","What made Patton right wasn't a war plan on the soviets, what made him right was the realization that the soviets were not content with the outcome of yalta and would have driven their army right over west Germany and France the moment the Americans left if not for nukes.",0
"Right. They just want to get a judgement which affirms the security of their systems, and which would discourage media outlets from slandering them in the future. Once they get that, they'll likely settle for a greatly reduced amount.","So there won't be any bankruptcy or spinoff necessary. A win for dominion would hurt the Murdochs in the pocketbook, but they'll still be billionaires when the dust clears. And Fox News will still be churning out misinformation, thought they might be a bit more careful when they attack large corporations in the future.",0
- Are you saying you believe that Biden is the best candidate Democrats have to offer in their ranks and lack anyone who could do better? That Biden is the absolute top-tier candidate Democrats could muster?,"Saying as someone who voted for Biden, Democrats won in spite of Biden, not because of him. If I was a Republican I'd be salivating at Biden running again with his 39% approval among independents and only 85% among Democrats.",0
"I believe that Russia (at this time) doesn't want to conquer all of Ukraine. They just want to fully capture and keep the areas that they illegally annexed. And Putin is content with losing a lot of men to accomplish this. If they can do that, Putin will call it a complete success. ( Of course he would probably come for the rest in a few more years) If Russia can simply hold out and make modest gains like they seem to be doing right now, then eventually Ukraine may be forced to surrender those areas just to stop the loss of life, both civilian and military that they are suffering right now.",It's a matter of who blinks first... Ukraine's manpower or Russias economy/will of the people to keep following Putin. Let's hope Putin blinks first.,0
"You can tell Americans have learned absolutely nothing from the disaster of the Trump Presidency. America is NOT the only country in the world and many many countries, NOT just the US is holding Russia accountable for its actions in Ukraine.","and as a non American I just LOOOVE hearing about how the US is single handedly changing the tide of the ukraine/Russia war, or how ""america"" is NATO.",1
"That disease isolation thing's big though, if you think this is fucked up, you'll be in a real bad state after looking up how livestock disease outbreaks are handled, especially in china.","disease isolation, the livestock are on different floors, not crowded in one big ass barn. That's actually brilliant. it can even be classified as environmentally friendly vertical farming, if they're not already given the enclosed space they can probably sequester methane too.",0
"The concept of what an arab is or isn’t always confused me. Persians aren’t Arabs, okay makes sense, distinct language and culture. Christian Arabs are, or at least seem to be considered Arabs so it’s not abt having to be Muslim. But Yemeni Jews aren’t Arabs?? And Druze also aren’t, but the last two groups speak Arabic?","In ancient times maybe but the modern definition of Arab is any group who use Arabic as their main language. Which explains why you have Arabs in Sudan, in Morocco, in Libya, in Egypt. Not all those peoples descend from Arabian (ethnic) tribes.",1
"Oil prices, run up by and the Ukraine war were propping up Russian economy. Now that Trump/GOP have lost the 2022 election, that price manipulation is falling apart and prices have dropped 25% and are going down. Russian economy is crumbling and the Ukraine war very expensive.","Surprised there have not been Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian gas, water and electric facilities to match the attacks on those in Ukraine. Cut off all Russian exports of gas and oil.",0
"- All semiautomatic rifles with a detachable magazine that have ANY of the following 'assault weapon' features (even just one): a pistol grip, any protruding grip, a folding/telescoping/detachable stock, a flash hider, 'a shroud attached the the barrel that encircles the barrel, allowing the bearer to hold the firearm with the non-trigger hand without being burned' (lol)...","I am guessing this law will get stuck down since it basically says ANY semiautomatic rifle is banned from being sold and all existing ones have to be registered since there is the part about ""a shroud attached to the barrel or that partially or completely encircles the barrel, allowing the bearer to hold the firearm with the non-trigger hand without being burned, but excluding a slide that encloses the barrel"". That language basically says forend...like the kind found on basically ANY rifle.",1
The US and allies should be supplying Ukraine with longer range munitions to delete every Russian piece of kit in Crimea.,"Ukraine has already been hitting targets in Russia, just not with western long-range weapons. It's been drone attacks and sabotage.",0
I'm sure that's true. But I'm also sure that whatever car you almost bought? They just sold it to someone else.,"As more get sold, they will eventually come down in price. Think back to the introduction of the DVD player. For the first little while, they were out of reach for the average family, as they were sitting at roughly $1000, depending on location. But, as time went on, they eventually sold for $50 each. As the market share of EVs grows, the costs will start to level out. Advancements in manufacturing also help reduce the overall costs.",1
The uk has the largest wood pellet power plant in the world… so in a round about way I’m sure lots of people are technically heating their homes with wood.,"It's actually not great for air quality if lots of houses have wood burners. I lived in an old, fancier part of down during covid and during the winter I had to keep my window closed 24/7 because all the smoke went into my room.",1
"E: Sorry, had to brush up on my history again. The Watergate investigation took over 2 years, and Nixon likely would’ve been charged if not for Ford’s pardon.","Mueller never found collusion with Russia, (the main point of that special council,) he just found a willingness to collude. Willingness is not a crime. Mueller was also constrained by the DOJ policy that you can’t indict sitting presidents (which I think is BS, no one is above the law.).",0
Good thing the have been building artificial islands around it for years packed full of ASM’s and SAM’s. They are unlikely to make the same mistakes the Russians did in Ukraine.,They have been anticipating our response. There is a reason it’s an admiral saying this. He knows Taiwan will be invaded and the Chinese have been building artificial islands around it for quite a while now to ensure that they have plenty of SAM’s and and anti ship missiles. They already have their defensive measures in place for when they seize Taiwan.,0
"I know, the Russian forces have caused untold suffering and widespread damage all across the country. I'm sure we will only hear worse to come.","The Ukrainians have fought tooth and nail for their homeland and I'm rooting for them. They have displayed tactical cunning and real military discipline taking back land the Russians took, and for all the deserved criticism, Zelenskyy has proven himself a true leader. I grudgingly accept other nations must continue to support Ukraine pushing back the Russian forces. But it really feels like a matter of when, not if, now.",0
"Seriously. It's harder to find a conflict with a more clear divide between good and evil. Hell, even WW2, between Germany and the USSR was one evil dictator fighting a war against another evil dictator. In this conflict, we have literal evil empire on the march, trying to squash the freedom of an innocent people who bore no threat to them whatsoever. Ukraine did not start this conflict. Ukraine wasn't amassing troops on the border, plotting a dash towards Moscow.",Russia isn't going to nuke shit over Ukraine. If they did they would immediately be dealt a conventional bitch slap the likes of which even God has never seen. And they aren't going to go MAD over it because that wouldn't benefit them in any way.,1
"Oddly, the releases of tax returns wasn’t a thing until Nixon did it, and it’s been tradition since then.","But fiduciaries aren’t protected by the Constitution in the same way and it will probably be argued in court that without an amendment, it is an illegal barrier to candidacy.",0
"""Mr DeSantis said at his press conference on Tuesday that the law is aimed at stopping pornography from reaching children, but among the titles that have been removed and banned in the course of the vetting in Duval County are Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, and a skateboarding magazine called Thrasher."".","Yeah. It was an autobiography, and at the beginning of the book he is separated from his mother and sister because they were murdered on arrival. Him and his dad were spared since they could do hard labour.",1
"There's nothing in my post that argues against supply and demand. Supply is and has been deliberately restricted, both by our ruling class, and NIMBYs, and small time landlords.","The reality is that average people are the ones who lobbied the government to restrict supply. Large investors were actually pretty late to the party, only buying up a small share of the housing stock well after regulations had created higher prices.",1
"ron doesn’t give a shit about Hunter Biden, I wish people in the media would just ask “dude, you know you don’t give a shit about Hunter Biden, we know you don’t, can’t we just talk about you doing your fucking job?”.","He went on there ready to talk shit about Hunter Biden but only the far gives a shit about that and all it actually does is underline the ridiculous corruption of the Trump administration, and he wasn't ready for that so switched gear to whine about the media, while being on fucking tv!",1
I put it in quotes just to say that Ukraine falling is about as serious of a threat to global freedom as we’ve had since WWII!,"Ukraine isn’t third world, they are best described as former second world (soviet bloc) and now first world (aligned with US and western Europe).",1
"The auschwitz extermination camp might've never existed without the soviet support until 1941, and it wouldn't've exterminated as many jews if the russians didn't stop at the border.",Which is wild because there were plenty of contemporary testimonies of Russian officials horrified of the things they saw in the camps (Although the Russian army did their share of atrocities in their way to Berlin as well).,1
"And besides, nobody really knows how much weaponry and ammo Russia really has, or how much of it actually works. Given the piss-poor state of their gear that was supposed to be maintained and combat-ready at the start of this war, one can only imagine the state of their surplus stock. Whatever hasn’t been sold off to black market dealers, that is.",I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Are you suggesting that Russia's military has been around for billions of years and has another several billion years worth left of munitions at the rate it's currently burning through them?,0
"Also you need to take into account that Russia is becoming weaker due to how Putin is conducting the war, which is very beneficial for the NATO.","No war in over 100 years has ended because the head of state dies, what makes you so sure this one would be any different when its clear most higher ups in Russia want that war.",1
"Florida is a ripe place for democrats to make their mark and it would infuriate der furher trump and his adversary desantis to allow any democratic gain. It is wholly possible but the Democratic Party has to go left way left in Florida. A loser idiot like Crist who use to be a Republican and who tried having a Latina on his ticket is not the way. Democrats have to not just push aside the old guard they have to push them off the cliff, the promise and the feldsteins and schemers of the party are destroying any chance of pushing anything through. It’s easy to blame Manchin and sinema but in reality it’s the old moderate guard who stifle progressives which lose elections. We need a real revolution in the Democratic Party that will purge the old and invigorate a base who is pissed off about the repeal of roe vs wade, bored with old man Biden and who refuse to be appeased by token person of color Harris. We’re not that stupid we know none of these people are actually progressives and it’s only when they do something halfway progressive they actually get any notice. Stop electing this democrats in name only and put us the real democrats who want to progress to a better future and put the Tim Kaines and clintons in the senior homes where they belong!","I'm tired of this bullshit from progressives when centrist Democrat (not talking about Manchin) policies have gotten plenty done. The stimulus and enhanced unemployment during the pandemic helped me a ton, and it wouldn't have happened if Reps held the house. We also finally got an infrastructure bill through that our country sorely needs.",1
"These states would have to change these laws or constitution, or when it goes to these state courts, the court would have to rule against the laws and call them unconstitutional. This is a possibility on either end, but a change to state constitutions will take more than 2 years.","Some state constitutions have laws that prevent going against voters, so if they try to change that, it could also cause upset. This will likely spill over onto the national stage, but from the point of view of the national constitution, they're still obligated to go by the certified electoral college results.",0
"I'd probably drive Swedes crazy, as I'm a typical Atlantic Canadian. That means I reflexively see bus stops, grocery store lineups, and elevators as opportunities for small-talk with strangers. If you're ever stuck with me as a seatmate on an airplane, you'd better bring headphones! .","Ikr. It’s pretty common in Europe that people get killed for burning the bible. Oh wait, I just realized we are in the 21th century and not in the fucking middle ages during reformation.",1
The party moved from an unrepresentative state to a less representative state of the party as a whole.,I've seen you also comment on the nation v the Democratic Party voter mix. I and others responding to you have already accounted for that. You've just dug a hole for yourself factually and keep digging deeper.,0
Ah yes. The 50 billion wasn’t enough to make people mad so now its 200 billion. Source: who cares. Cherry on top: ‘we must suspend all foreign aid for the war and everyone can hug it out’.,"They even say this exact link is their own source but didn’t link it themselves, probably because it shows they’re lying.",0
"Putin saw the writing on the wall and moved in with (relatively, at least compared to today) little issues.",Two reasons Russia invaded in 2014; their port in Crimea and the second largest natural gas reserves in Europe that were found the year prior in the Donbas region/Eastern Ukraine.,0
You can only rush some things so much. Its why any sort of transfer of aircraft is probably a long ways off even though there have probably been Ukrainians training on western fighters since last year.,"The UK is already training Ukrainian infantry in Javelins, first aid, and identifying Russian vehicle types as well as the usual gunnery stuff.",1
"I have a hard time beliving NATO would cold turkey Ukraine even if they found out it was them. Ukraine would fall immedietly and Russia would suddenly be their new neighbor. They would most likely pile it on Russia, use it as an excuse for further sanctions and more military support.",I got called crazy for saying Ukraine could have intentionally shot that Russian Missle into Poland in order to rally support for more air defense systems ( that they have been asking for months now).,0
"More than that... If Griner is to stand tall for a CBD vape pen, Whelan literally had Russian sensitive information on a flash drive, and admitted to it, and then blamed the wedding party he was attending.","Good question. His explanations for having it seem adhoc to me, but I can also see it being shenanigans considering how many of our former military love to do dumb shit in other countries.",0
"If my partner was mean to a wild animal or hell, even littered by intent or neglect we'd have serious words and boy would I be in the shit if I did the same, let alone actively campaigning to undermine the health of the planet.","Speaking plainly, imagine being with someone whose politics necessitated that they're someone who will actively lie with malice and act in bad faith.",0
"Imagine winning the majority and not being able to pick a Speaker from your party because said party is full of toddlers, psychos, grifters and idiots.","I would rather those 6 ""reasonable"" Republicans willing to negotiate with Democrats hold power than the 20 brain dead idiots trying to take power on the other side.",1
"Because pro-EU Hungarians succeeded, and then the anti-EU Hungarians are both shitheads and are in power.","Just so you guys know, we have had really strong anti-EU propaganda for at least decade now in hungary despite the money pouring in. Currently there are giant fliers all around tge country with bombs on them that have ""EU sanctions"" written on them, saying ""Brussels bombed europe's economy"".",1
"Even better, make a UN order that all transactions and imports to Russia must go through Ukraine first (with a appropriate charges made to Russia for infrastructure and fees)as to put Ukraine in an economic and political authority over the enitirety of Russia as far the Western world is concerned.",Now I know this is a very often repeated sentiment on Reddit but this could only EVER work if Ukraine gives the money to Ukrainian companies without any foreign ties. Otherwise it's essentially a way for Western countries to distribute the Russian money among themselves.,1
"What is the basis of the dollar value ascribed to any equipment sent, is it replacement cost, is it original procurement cost, is it a current cost relative to a sensible depreciation schedule.",I would also mention the clear big winner from a MIC perspective is actually South Korea. They moved to 3 exporter in the world this past year. Mostly via procurement contracts to modernize other nato countries arsenals while they ship aging / retired hardwear to Ukraine as write offs.,0
"While 3D printing isn't terribly insurmountable, it is still a way, way higher bar than a hand drill and some files. In the case of a Glock, you still need to purchase or fabricate the metal rails and the rest of the parts, even on a 3D printed frame. After your stuff comes in, you can either 3D print and fuck around with getting the right 3D model, waiting many hours to fuck up the first print, repeating multiple times, and finally maybe getting something that will work, or you can buy the 80% lower and be committing your crime in a little less than an hour. I've done both (well, not the crime part. I legally register any guns I build like my state requires me to do) and to call the two paths equivalent is silly.","3D printing a handgun is currently a lot more involved than mail ordering a Polymer 80 kit and removing a few bits of plastic. Of course this ruling won’t completely prevent illegal possession of handguns, but it will reduce distribution to people who are prohibited from possessing firearms. If 3D printing becomes cheap and easy enough for anybody to do it, then that’s a different issue to address.",0
"I'm wide awake right now at 2am on the West Coast, due to insomnia. I also have really bad joint pain, so it makes it hard to get comfortable laying down. If I do finally sleep, it's for three or four hours at a time. I just rest whenever I can't stay awake anymore. I've been having fevers and night sweats on and off as well for the last month.","I had hayfever symptoms and a bit of a cough a week after I tested positive, but I was a little more tired than normal. Napped etc.",1
One could argue it in these terms. Expelling 80pc of Palestinians (nearly a million in number) and making them refugees comes with a genocidal intent.,"Anyone who actually uses the word ""genocide"" to describe what Israel is doing, proves he has no idea about what's happening.",1
"MSNBC carrying water for ""mainstream"" Republicans and trying to pretend that Trump and Santos are things that happened to the Republicans and not the result of several decades of conservatism...","As someone who was forced to watch the Rush Limbaugh tv show, I can tell you for a fact that blatant and obvious lies were acceptable to Republicans long before Trump got involved in politics.",1
"It does both. And that's part of the beauty of it - it lets people support minority or fringe candidates, without putting someone they really don't like in power.","You can't really say exactly how good a candidate with x, y, and q attributes is for that voter, as if they get elected without many q-supporting peers that divergence may end up not mattering at all. You can't really say how bad a candidate with x, y, and z attributes is for a voter who wanted a, b, and c, because there may be issues with that voter's understanding of the issues (of course, in the mass delusion scenario, this could also be true for x, y, and z, but our election system has to put some trust in the will of the majority here). You can't even be sure how good a winning candidate in agreement with a voter is for the voter, since the candidate may be more or less effective depending on the political circumstances they're elected to - the voter may feel strongly about policy x, and want to elect someone who will fight for it, but if there aren't enough votes in the end, and after much waiting a compromise policy q is implemented, the voter's life may be worse off than if a q supporter had just been elected in the first place.",1
"Ukraine is the new model for war fighting for the US. Latest doctrine changes are no boots on the ground for US troops. And the Air Force has been prepping “Quick Sink”, which greatly increases the capacity to deny surface naval forces from operating in contested waters.","Because while the US has not been in a major naval engagement in over 70 years, there is a steep power differential... and the US Navy has much more experience sailing hostile waters.",1
inhumane abortion laws are just scratching the surface of republican monstrosity. i urge you to reconsider your stance as a “one issue voter.” disagreeing with the republicans on this one specific issue but not anything else is not going to help anyone.,"i’m sorry you and your wife had to go through this, no one should. but i hope you understand where the anger in my original comment is coming from. a vote for any american conservative or republican, at any time, ever, is a vote for this shit. it always has been and it always will be. these abortion laws have been decades in the making and they’ve never been subtle about it.",0
"Persian also refers to a specific ethnicity from Iran. Not all Iranians are Persians, only 65%. If they weren't Persian then they'd likely just say they are Azerbaijani or Kurdish, the second and third largest ethnic groups. It's just Persian is the only ethnic group that's specific to Iran. Not even all Iranic people's are Persian, the Kurds are an Iranic ethnic group with a language in the Iranic family.","Iran is ultimately a multiethnic country and the name Iran has ancient roots going back three thousand years. Persia is the name the Greeks gave to the Achaemenid Empire and is derived from a specific tribe of Iranic people, the Pars, but the empire of Cyrus the Great has never been exclusive to just one group. However, in the West the name Persia continued to be used until the 20th century even though it's not the native name.",0
"When death is the punishment for peaceful actions, you're gonna get violence from the protesters and their supporters instead. What's the point of peacefully protesting when it has the same punishment as violent riots to overthrow a government.","Now that protesting is punishable by death sentence, protesting is now a fight to the death - thats as escalated as it gets.",1
"The crime was obviously political in nature, but DoJ’s decisions to investigate or prosecute shouldn’t be based on anything but the facts and the law.","I really hope they don’t. DoJ doesn’t require a criminal referral for anything, they can have an investigation on their own (and they already do!) DoJ will just use their own judgment anyways.",0
"The war in Ukraine is likely now to go on for decades. Russia, despite what western media has you believe, is not struggling. Countries will continue to buy their natural gas because they have to, they have huge stockpiles of weapons and manpower to continue this war for as long as it takes.","I don't see Russia invading Moldova and considering most of Europe are in NATO, Russia wouldn't attack any of them anyway. Russia don't want NATO on its doorstep in the same way I'd imagine the USA wouldn't want a similar Russian let organization on theirs. Look at the Cuban missile crisis for example. The US nearly caused nuclear war and yet Russia are just meant to roll over and allow it.",0
"That being said, it's not something that's solely any one president's fault but rather the fault of several US administrations and several American national pathologies that led up to Afghanistan War being a quagmire and to the Afghanistan government being a house of cards. In the end its either to accept that reality and deal with it the best you can, or live in denial of it and continue the war. I feel for the Afghani people who must survive under Taliban rule, but it's been obvious since day one that the US government never had their best interests at heart, otherwise again they wouldn't have protected and bribed child slave owning warlords in Afghanistan.","And yes, given that the Taliban resumed their offensive after the deadline, I have no idea why foreign civilians still remained there despite repeatedly being asked to evacuate.",1
b) If they do invade again the Russian military leaderships probably thinks they can grind down Ukrainian troops just by sheer mass. Like waves grinding down rocks at the beach. It takes countless attempts but they might think they will win just by having the numbers (potentially recruitable manpower that is).,It is very highly unlikely that anything will work. Russia had some success in the north during the beginning of the war because of the surprise moment and Ukrainian lack of equipment and manpower. All of this has changed drastically during the war and I do think they will just get a bloody nose.,0
Hire undocumented people for less than minimum wage and deny them legal rights and workplace safety.,"It is bad enough that California made it illegal to for employers or their attorneys to contact immigration. DLSE has literally had ICE camp out in front of their offices on days of hearings of undocumented immigrants. Since DLSE doesn't give that information out to ICE, there is only one explanation.",1
One wonders how much is religious vs. wanting power/subordination over women and using religion as the excuse. It’ll be different for each person. Either way it sucks.,"This is awful, simply awful. But for God’s sake, keep the heck out of Afghanistan. You might as well try to make life easier for the citizens of hell.",1
"(I joke with that last bit, but I genuinely have had to assemble an IKEA wardrobe on my own. 0/10, do not recommend unless you have a spare football field.).","Yup. We've got one potential enemy and that's Russia, we're going to be safer with these guns blowing up Russian T72s and protecting Europe then we would be with them in storage here.",1
"First, IMHO, American politics are a game for most every elected seat in government. If both major paries can put that concept aside and take an educational/professional roll call perhaps some of the fools elected who lack the basic education needed to understand how the government functions, at least at the Federal level, basic economics, etc., (and consider this a big nod to the former whatever you choose to call him) to be considered for office.","Of course, I am not suggesting every candidate be an Ivy Leaguer, but I truly don't think the Former POTUS really understood the three branches of our government. In a way, that's a very sad commentary on one student's lack of education (and I am in no way referring to any educator's efforts). I believe that man thought of it as a personal gain of ""power""-- that he could have things his way, hire his friends and family to join in...and he had his grip on that office and kept expressing his direction to those would still listen to him to tragedy of January 6.",0
"Not that the National Rally is any better regarding Russia though: Le Pen and the party have been indirectly funded by Russia since at least April 2014 through a Russian-owned Cypriot bank and then a loan from the First Czech-Russian Bank the same year. Also before the latest Presidential election a former conservative MP Thierry Mariani joined the National Rally and led the 2022 media campaign for Le Pen, and that guy is a notorious Putin and Assad stooge, who's visited Bachar El Assad, Russian-annexed Crimea where he met Putin, and . Le Pen herself said in April that she supported the help to Ukraine but she, Bardella and other high-ranking party members keep opposing financial sanctions on the grounds that it supposedly hurts the French people and economy without affecting Russia.","“A far-right French politician, echoing sentiments shared by American counterparts, has criticized France's continuing provision of military aid to Ukraine amid Russia's invasion.",1
Reminds me of the signs they had in glacier National park in the US that said the glaciers would be gone by 2020. They quietly removed those in 2020 when the glaciers were still there….,"The history of the Earth shows the growth and retreat of glacier ice. If not for retreating ice, Seattle, Chicago, and NY cities would be under a mile of ice. Which, I point out, receded before the Industrial Revolution.",1
"The simple but accurate definition of inflation is ""Too many dollars chasing to few products or services."" When Biden threatened to shut down fossil fuels, the industry reacted by slowing down or stopping production. This led to slightly less oil and oil related products available for sale. Because there was no corresponding effort to reduce demand, the ONLY thing that could happen is for prices to increase. Since oil is the most basic input into the ecomony, companies that were paying these increased fuel prices necessarily had to increase their prices, and so on and so on.",Oil companies thanked the Biden Administration for granting them the ability to earn record profits. They control a commodity that was suddenly placed in short supply. Reduced supply with no change in demand immediately foretells an increase in price. A high school sophomore in their first economics class knows this.,0
"Whataboutism would be saying the first thing doesn't matter, when I clearly said to a much lesser extent.","No I am specifically NOT making comparative statements about which is worse because it doesn't matter. Both are terrible. I'd certainly argue killing 14k is worse, but there are many people who vote Red that would argue being pro-choice is quantifiably worse. ..",1
The US armed forces after running a naval warfare simulation and finding out the US fleet can be sunk by a fleet of a swarm of Iranian Ship drones.,Don’t US warships have those automated mini guns that blow anything that gets close out of the sky? Do the Russian ships not have the equivalent or are drones too small to trigger those turrets?,1
"This is why they passed a pretty big Ukraine aid bill last month. That, and R’s already said they didn’t wanna support it anyway. I doubt we will see more aid to Ukraine coming from congress until 2025.","McCarthy will only lose his re-election if he has a serious challenger. More likely, he’ll retire after getting shit on for the next 2 years like the last 5 Republican speakers did.",0
"Then when you say, ""ok, fair point, we could spend more money fighting homelessness here"" they counter ""No, that's socialism"".","Ok, fair, it's not always literally homelessness but it's always a ""the government could be spending money on _____ instead"", but then when you actually agree with them and propose that the government actually do it they flip out.",0
"If NATO was involved, Russia already lost the war as we see with just a few NATO arms Ukraine turn the tide just imagine if it was all NATO with all the weapons Russia would be annihilated.","Without wasting time as a Western guy telling other Western people how big NATO is, I am amazed that some people don't even realize what actual NATO all-out attack on Russia would look like, nuclear weapons excluded.",1
"It is very possible for an organization to police itself and there are many well established means for doing so. All of them require the organization be run by people who actually, at some point or another, want to establish the necessary structures to make it possible, and all of them from then on do require ""buy in"" from at least a signficant sub-portion of the organization, but both things are possible.",Very few of the organizations we expect to police themselves have either of those being true and even the ones that do never seem to implement the methods that are likely to make self-policing possible... almost as if they never wanted it to be.,0
"I generally don't go in for this kind of thing, but I think Democrats should totally give McCarthy a run for his money and put it through multiple votes just to fuck with him.","Yeah nominate one of the few centrist Republicans, get a few people to your side and badabing you advert the worst, show bipartisanship and piss off the rancid right.",1
"I say let China send the weapons to Russia, we can see how they operate and if it turns out anything like Russian weapons then we eliminating arsenal of 2 countries at the same time.",“The United States has seen evidence that the People's Republic of China is considering sending lethal weapons to Russia for its use in the war in Ukraine”.,1
"They have been egged on by Republican representatives, where dehumanizing Democrats, calling them baby killers and evil, etc., has become the norm, and done in the hopes a crazy person will threaten or actually act on their threats. I truly believe Republicans hope that their Democratic counterparts get killed or harmed in some way. Shoot, just look at Pelosi and the things said and done by Trump and Republicans that lead up to him being attacked. Then, look at how many Republicans publicly made jokes about it.","Or the fact that this kind of vitriol will only get worse now that the republicans have the majority again. There’s no accountability or recourse for lies in politics, so there’s no reason to ever stop!",1
"Not to mention what the winter would do to the Russians in the battle field, they look well supplied for winter. Putin does not have winter supplies for all these soldiers. He thought it would be done in a week or two.","A week ago. Yet they only yesterday USA highest general said Ukraine should not stop until Russia is gone, and USA will make sure Ukraine can keep advances in the winter time.",1
"The transition away from Communism also unleashed a lot of violence and poverty in Russia, until Putin took the reins as the next strongman. Domestic affairs stabilized, and Russia again started playing a central role in international affairs.",The period from Tsardom to communism was followed by a lot of violence and poverty and chaos until Stalin emerged as new autocrat. It was only after that that Russia again started playing a central role in international affairs. Successions after that were structured by the party.,0
"- Trump sent goons to his doctor's office to take his medical records. This probably was primarily to destroy any X-rays or other records that showed he never had bone spurs, and that he illegally evaded the draft during the Viet Nam War, but possibly this was also to conceal his history of Venereal diseases, and prescription narcotics used (Percoset and amphetamines).","- Both Trump and Santos have lied about their maximum net worth, exaggerating by about a factor of ten in each case.",0
The exciting bit isn’t that a rocket got sent to space. It’s that this is the first launch of the Artemis missions that will take people back to the Moon. They’re real now.,"The reason this is so exciting is because it’s the first step to an actual manned mission. Artemis I is a test flight, Artemis II is a manned mission around the Moon, and Artemis III is a manned landing.",0
"""Registered young people who don't actually vote"" is still a HUGE population, and that group not voting may literally cost us our democracy.","It amazes me that, without exception, every election cycle in my life has been tainted by younger generations reeing about how we need term limits because old people are ruining the country and they still don't vote lol.",1
"Feinstein is a barely cognitive dinosaur, and those are the facts. This is not a bi partisan issue, it is a term limitations issue that needed to happen decades ago.",Decades ago is an entire era in political terms. States sometimes move from red to purple in the course of 8 years (see Georgia and Arizona) let alone decades. And California in specific has gone from swing in the 90s to blue in the early 2000s to very blue now.,1
This is what happens when you don't clean out old papers. I am starting to go through BOXES of stuff I have been hanging on to for no good reason other then misplaced sentimentality. i.e. 'This old car rental map reminds of the trip I took.'.,"Sure. I can't do it with the books I have on hand, but there are studies on e.g. the death rate of roman senators. I don't even have to do the work, just find the books.",1
"Even if we assume he was a mentally ill individual, it is still telling how he specifically targets a bunch of Jews standing at a bus stop. Somehow we never hear about these mentally ill individuals targeting a bunch of arabs at a bus stop, or a mentally ill jew ramming their car into any bus stop.",Your statement at the about follow up care and his actual release are very relevant points regardless of how he may have been indoctrinated.,0
"Since you're listing The United States there, and the United States currently leads the world in gun possession, I guess you're not talking about widespread or indiscriminate gun confiscation?","That's not meaningless. That helps reduce mass shooting fatalities. That's different than addressing general gun violence, but not at all meaningless.",0
"In the ideal world, it's a harmony, co-exists thing. A husband is supposed to love their wife (aside from royals and arranged marriages, those are shit show), and if you love someone you wouldn't make them do things they wouldn't want to do.","It a perfect world it SHOULD be ok, because in the context a husband isn't supposed to give malicious orders or treat his wife with disrespect.",0
"Dude. I'm not starting an argument. I'm not saying that The West is worse. Obviously we have the largest and best extension of human rights comparatively. I'm just acknowledging the fact that having the full extension of human rights is a privileged position to be in, even in the West. There are still populations of people (in the West) that live without some or all basic rights extended to others. That is a bottom line fact.","Aaannnnnd none of that is the point. Nobody was ever, ever making the argument that Western society has not advanced or is not more advanced than those in the Middle East. You keep repeating the same thing over and over and it has nothing to do with the statement you originally ""disagreed"" with (and some of your arguments, like saying it took ""not that long"" to correct same sex marriage, are flat out wrong. It took until 2015. 7 years ago. Do you think gay people just didn't want to get married before the year 2000?). You have made 0 actual counterarguments to the statement that Western society historically and to a lesser extent currently excludes parts of its population from participating in the human rights it criticizes other societies for witholding. Frankly, it's pointless continuing this discussion, because you don't seem capable of understanding what's being discussed.",1
"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
 --- Voltaire.",Those people will talk how they support free speech and constitution until they take power and then destroy them.,0
I’m finding it hard to live in a society where verifiable liars and cons get elected and no one seems to care.,Hearing that a GOP member lied (among other things) is becoming so commonplace it’s nauseating. These garbage people need to be held accountable for their actions.,1
"According to people like you, Jews aren’t “Levantine enough” to have a state in the Levant.. but we are “Levantine enough” to be slaughtered for it by Europeans for centuries.","I mean, there isn't a single Jew left in places like Afghanistan, so there isn't anyone left to be doing this to...",1
"I live here, I am surrounded by democrats. Not one was “scared” to go vote. Most didn’t care for Christ and are sick of our state party. They’re uninspiring and run questionable candidates. It’s not a moderate/progressive issue either (see: Andrew Gillum). It’s a, they don’t have good people to run issue.","Blaming shady tactics for a ten vote defeat could be reasonable. Blaming them for a ten percent defeat is straight up denial of reality, and implies nothing should be done. Clearly, Democrats are not appealing to voters in Florida, and they need to change something. This is a state they should be competitive in.",0
Well unless governments actually arrest or block these monsters what else do we have. It seems like ignoring or worse actively supporting modern day slavery is what most are doing.,Probably thought such a message would land poorly at a venue built on slave labor in a country that's basically in an endless war and doesn't respect human rights.,1
"That's all true, and yet Cuba got worse after La Revolucion, and today, people from SA flock to the capitalist USA because they know their lives will be better there.","Especially when you consider the fact that America is richer than Cuba BECAUSE of the atrocities it has committed. Global imperialism and liberal hegemony have done incredibly damage to the world, but they’re very profitable. That alone is an indictment of the American system, imho. American Unipolarity is keeping the global south impoverished.",1
There is a real problem with part of this article. It says the Steele Dossier was largely debunked yet when looking at the cite which is to another Newsweek article which states.,"In the article, ""largely debunked Steeles Dossier"" has a link to another Newsweek article that goes through 7 of its ""biggest accusations"". 3 are listed as ""verified"". 4 are listed as ""Not proven"". None are listed as ""disproven"" or ""debunked"" or anything remotely like that. From which Newsweek concludes that the Dossier is ""largely debunked"".",1
"He doesn't give two shits about what actually happens, he got the message out to his voters that he is willing to do it, and that's all they care about.",I know he’s not a likable candidate but even overestimating him is than him winning the presidency imo.,1
The problem is that it's very hard to accurately assess which part of the competitive edge of a new variant is due to increased transmission and which part is due to immune evasion. The only way to accurately test this is by following a large group of people with no prior exposure to covid-19 or its vaccines and seeing which variants grow at which rate in this group. But finding such a group would be a monumental challenge at this point.,"So titles like ""most transmissible yet"" are a bit inaccurate, because it implies that the new variant is more transmissible than the previous, while in reality a large part of the competitive edge is due to evading preexisting immunity. If all the ""most transmissible yet"" claims were due to each variant actually being more transmissible, then the current version would be the most contagious virus we've ever known by some margin. And while covid-19 is very contagious, it's not that.",0
">""One of your companies is under an FTC consent decree. Auto safety watchdog NHTSA is investigating another for killing people. And you’re spending your time picking fights online. Fix your companies. Or Congress will."".",Yep. I was double guessing myself in this view for a bit but a couple of anecdotes helped solidify it for me. 1) Someone on Reddit commented that a maga relative of theirs liked walker because “at least he’ll do what he’s told” and then 2) I heard on CNN that there was more support for Walker among rural white voters than other groups (including black/brown people). Then there are multiple instances of Walker at pressers silently nodding and smiling while being a prop for the white politicians speaking for him. Absolutely just anecdotes but they certainly support and to an extent validate my theory.,1
"Yeah the West Bank is much more reasonable. They do still execute gay people, but that’s more community-driven and extralegal. There are entire organizations devoted to assisting gay Palestinians in escaping the West Bank to Israel because they fear for their lives.","- Gaza, a state whose government explicitly calls for ethnic cleansing of their neighbor, murders gay people, and who regularly launches rockets at civilian targets;.",0
"It’s not the gender thats that’s the issue for me. It’s how you quickly jump into “most likely will have ptsd”, and it’s clearly aimed against these survivors. Based on your diagnosis. I know it’s typical reddit to instead come up with a list of references to justify your intelligent reasoning. But, there’s the always option of saying nothing and just be glad that they survive.",If she survives. Crush syndrome is serious and who knows if they are being treating immediately for it. The survivor pulled from the Cyprus structure after the 1989 San Fran quake died 30 days later after only being buried for 90 hours.,1
"TLDR : president of Mexico supports the ex president of Peru who had tried to dissolve its congress. US official met with new president of Peru, and president of Mexico wants people out of Peru's affairs /does not agree with state of emergency.","The second part refers to the US ambassador to Peru meeting with the new president and recognizing her as, you know, the actual president/government of Peru.",1
"That's not meaningless. That helps reduce mass shooting fatalities. That's different than addressing general gun violence, but not at all meaningless.",The issue isn't a gun issue(I mean a nationwide ban on handguns would help but I don't see that in my lifetime). It is a disinvestmemt and poverty issue that will take more money than chicago or the state of Illinois are willing to muster in order to fix.,1
It's not enough to stop me from voting Biden - it looks like he's going to run and stability is important. But I wish he could nominate Kamala for another post and free up the VP slot for someone else without obliterating Kamala's career/life.,"She was my personal choice for Biden's VP (was hoping for Kamala as AG), and I think she needs a lot more recognition.",1
"Trump could have filed legally correct tax returns based on the tax code that show tax losses while making economic or cash profit. This is legal under that federal tax code. For example, depreciation of assets can create tax losses.","Well yes, if your business is creating depreciable assets then you’ll have a lot more depreciation. But my point is that most companies will have some form of depreciation, which is tax deductible.",1
"At this point it's a war of attrition, the more Ukrainian troops and weapons Russia manages to destroy the the better for them. There's a limit to how much weapons and manpower Ukraine can lose before civil unrest, or economic collapse.","Sustained combat requires hundreds of tons of weapons being constantly supplied to your troops. Every shell fired from an artillery piece needs to be driven from a warehouse in Russia, all the way to the artillery piece. If you can't get those shells to your artillery, they can't fire.",0
". High level takewaway: ""Government-sponsored plans, like Canada’s, are frequently publicly-portrayed as limiting choice. However, there is clear evidence that for Canada’s health care system, less choice in insurance coverage (although guaranteed), has not resulted in less choice of hospitals, physicians, and diagnostic testing and treatments compared to the U.S. In fact, there is arguably more."".",". High level takeways: Neither Canadians nor their doctors are flocking to the US for better health care opportunities, wait times, or outcomes.",0
"Yeah, they lie about the most meaningless bullshit, there's surely no way Putin would lie about definitely not wanting to kill Zelensky. That's why they went straight for the capital city and tried to rapidly capture forward positions like Hostomel airport with paratroopers which is just on the outskirts of Kyiv.","Entire point was to decapitate the government, how that happened I think they didn't really care much about (whether they flee, get killed or get captured). Same government they branded as neo-nazis.",0
"I think people love to see the Russian losses but ignore the part where it said Ukraine has probably lost similar amounts. These troops probably were elite, and probably killed a lot of the other side before being knocked out. It’s a tragedy all around over there, for the Ukrainians defending their home, and for the Russians being sent to die for something the oligarchy decided it wants. Russia is losing lots of people, but so is Ukraine a fact I feel is under reported and under respected, the price these people are paying for their country.","As much as people want to laugh at Russia they do have modern military equipment even if all you see is rusty AKs and WW2 guns, their army isn’t entirely conscripts, and Ukraine is launching major counter offensives which attacking territory is always more deadly then defending.",0
"The 14th amendment briefly was allowed to violate the bill of attainder clause, until the 1870 Enforcement Act closed that loophole and required all invocations of the 14th amendment to be tried in federal courts.","Setting the precedent that in the modern world congress is able to disqualify candidates without a trial, without any evidence brought up in court, and with a complete lack of due process would be such a colossal mistake it is hard to even put it into words.",0
"With as much respect to the people there as possible, there isn’t much choice to be made here for the other countries at this point, this is becoming an issue and these “activists” can’t stop the gangs or support a government that no longer exists at the moment.","""Why is it that when people participate in violent, bloody revolutions, the people who end up in charge are the most violent and bloody-minded ones, not egalitarian and peaceful people who want to redistribute the wealth and power they just fought hard to obtain? Lemme think... I got it, it's because of capitalist sabotage Once more into the breach comrades, this time it'll end well"".",1
"Yes, but in Catherine’s case, she literally grew up in Prussia as Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst. She only took up the name “Catherine” after conversion to Russian Orthodoxy for her marriage.","She converted from Lutheranism to the Russian Orthodox faith, changed her name to that of Elizabeth’s late mother, Catherine, and learned Russian. Peter came to the throne in 1762 and threatened to incarcerate her in a convent so that he could marry his mistress. Instead, Catherine seized the throne via a military coup. Her husband, Peter III died while being held prisoner.",1
"This is a thorny issue complicated by the fact that a large chunk of the Crowns wealth is leased, but not given to, to the government. There's also the issue that the Crown is in legal terms a corporation sole, and there is no real precedent for what happens when you dissolve such an entity rather than simply passing it to someone else. Technically speaking, the only legal way to transfer ownership of the Crowns assets to the government even with the consent of the monarch would be for the PM to be named King/Queen and then for them to personally bestow the assets to the nation and only then do away with the title. In theory though ofc a recalcitrant monarch could refuse to step down and constitutionally they'd be within their rights to dismiss the PM and call fresh elections right there and then, and there's nothing any PM can really do about that.",And yet it famously led to a deadlock so difficult to resolve that it resulted in a where the governor general had to intervene and call fresh elections using the royal prerogative.,0
"I know there are large cultural differences, but it seems like the DR should slowly annex a little slice of Haiti, modernize it, add functioning government, and when that area meets certain benchmarks for stability, add another slice etc.",Haiti is too failed to pull itself out of this by itself unfortunately and all the aid being dumped in doesn't do a thing without a functional government to administer it and build a future where it can be more independent.,0
"the fear is that if the republicans win, they're going to keep their maga extremism rolling, de-legitimizing the democratic election system, pushing laws through to the SC which has been stacked in their favor, and ultimately using that combination of election-disruption and bypassing congress via the SC to gain authoritarian power, a la ww2 Germany.",Revoke the publics access to politics through voter suppression and ultimately by making opposition parties illegal- again by calling them violent extremists groups.,0
He ran as Dr. Oz because he's a celebrity and trying to ride off the name that gives him the most name recognition. It wasn't because his name was Mehmet.,"I think actual woke stuff is incredibly dumb and annoying, but I also really hate how the right has jumped the shark and just call everything they don't like ""woke"". Like you said, it is like they just learned it and don't fully understand what it meant, but keep using it to sound cool.",0
"I hope this bill becomes law, and that more people feel empowered to participate in making their community a better place.",Because the community whose elections they'd be participating in decides to make it legal for them to do so. That's how democracy works.,1
"I swear it’s using the range of 11,000 miles and comparing it to the range of the bombs (when exploded) in Japan. Atleast that’s what the sentence makes it out to be.",Seems to be the case. They’d rather give downvotes to try and get that hidden instead of posting a genuine response. Putin can go choke on a bear cock for all I care but I think a lot of these people are too ashamed to admit they didn’t care until the Twitter and Reddit told them to care.,1
"Demand with less housing available. I’m talking about rent not house buying. These corporations are buying because it’s good business knowing the demand is there. More people, more demand raise prices.","Federal government throw money you mean mess up the rental market some more. You think citizens will be happy, biden starts giving section 8 vouchers to asylum seekers, while Americans are struggling to pay rent and can’t find housing? Pls tell me you missed the whole concept of inflation the past year?",0
"Anyone paying any attention for the last several years would regularly hear Russia's propaganda coming straight out of the mouths of Republican ""leaders."" I'm glad the Guardian published this. But, to anyone paying attention, this is not ""news."".","There even is some truth to this statement. The kids of rich and/or powerful people have at least one superpower: their parents. Case in point, Fucker asking Hunter for a referral. I get why people are furious about this. Shit, I am. A lot of these rich assholes talk about meritocracy but we're honestly so far from it. It's disgusting.",1
"I'm not satisfied with decent, especially when he sold himself on bigger things. Things he had originally mocked before adopting as his own policies. I don't just dismiss what the people I vote for promise once they're in office. That's how we get Sinemas. Politicians should held accountable for their words and actions.",Our current circumstances have been entirely expected for atleast four years if not more. The idea that Republicans obstructing rn and the policies they're obstructing are unexpected is absurd.,0
>Anyone wishing to hold on to their weapon and join the ranks of France’s 5 million legal gun owners can do so if they seek to obtain a legal permit.,"""Anyone wishing to hold on to their weapon and join the ranks of France’s 5 million legal gun owners can do so if they seek to obtain a legal permit."".",1
Hopefully Ukraine is able to find the perpetrators of these crimes and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law in fair trials.,I understand that war crimes have been committed and they warrant trials but… are Ukrainian judges really the best people to handle this? A judge is supposed to be impartial.,1
"You’re right of course. Apologies. I hope prosecute finds prosecutes way so prosecute doesn’t keep wasting space with prosecutes uninspired, intellectually bankrupt shit.",I’ll join you in the armchair psychology. I wonder if he gets a kick knowing that she’ll read his crap because he knows everything he says at this stage will be spread across every news site in existence? What a man.,0
"Because that itself would be a violation of the First Amendment. It would give the government the ability to regulate what is ""news"".","If you are travelling with a gang of wrestlers who will respond to this by suplexing nearby people, then you could be prosecuted for incitement.",0
Protests and demonstrations happen every day in the US. That tends to happen when its people are guaranteed the rights of free speech and free assembly. And quite often they take place without incident. That's the way it should be.,And how many times has a dress code violation led to an offender's death in the West? Just because Western society isn't perfect doesn't mean it can't call out outrageous offenses elsewhere? This is just one big whataboutism.,0
"While I agree that the decision ultimately harmed the rail workers, it was the conservative that perpetuated the actual harm.","So, in reality, it was conservatives working to prevent the rail workers from getting their benefits, while they sit back and force the rail workers back to the lines.",0
"No one is immune to propaganda, but if you know what propaganda is you can at least take a stance against it.","Are you saying the right is how they are because of propaganda alone? Sure there are irrationalist sheeps but there are much more ""rational"" reasons. Yes those reasons are utterly selfish and partisan but they are still rational, in the sense that it's humanly understandable. An SKn supporting NK is irrational to the extreme. It's not even like someone believing in tarot or shamanism for personal benefit. There is no benefit.",1
"I literally said it wasn’t the case here, but it was happening in the area. You hyperfixated on the one tree of this district when I was pointing out that your general idea of “blame the republicans for the votes” doesn’t work when new York’s redistricting made a bunch of areas a 45%-55% swing for either side, and yes democrats do vote for republicans sometimes because believe it or not they’re allowed to.","And so they flushed out all the independents, too? How are you trying to justify thinking nobody votes across party lines? No wonder the Democratic Party has no urgency to fix any problems in itself.",0
"The don't need to do that at all, they just need to fly their aircraft over the black sea and into Moldova. Moldova won't be able to do it alone. They won't have to anyway. They have a willing ally right next door who would love to show the Russians and the separatists the reality that they're facing.",The Transnistrians could well work out that they can turn on Russia right now and that's more likely to get them what they want.,1
"The Qing dynasty in particular embarked on a policy of marrying their ruling class with Mongolian warlords in the area currently known as Mongolia, and together the Manchus and Mongols + allied Han Chinese conquered the Ming dynasty.","For better or worse, modern day communist china is a multiethnic state where the majority of their ethnicities have been fully self-assimilated into the majoritarian han culture (like the Qing Manchu ruling class). Primary exceptions being tibetans and Uighurs who are being forcefully assimilate with both carrots (affirmative action) and inhumane sticks (concentration camps). This happened pre communist revolution actually and many of the Taiwanese republic of china share the same history (a lot of the landholding elites in pre-communist China were descendents of manchu nobles who fled to Taiwan because communist murdered lots of rich people). Theres actually a prominent American general of this background John Fughs.",0
2) Supporting the war by spreading tons of misinformation online and propaganda towards groups that seek to undermine the West.,"Also, this whole narrative about draft dodgers supporting the war is just propaganda bs. Younger generation is mostly against the war, those, who are fleeing it more so.",1
And I don't think it's reasonable to compare a one-off death at an American protest to the hundreds intentionally murdered by the Iranian police during these protests.,The difference is they were shooting rubber bullets and the Iranians are being shot at with lead birdshot from shotguns.,0
"Yeah, I also hate the ""no one is talking about this"" on something that went viral gaslighting. Also, figures like MTG all followed it up with ""but look at this UFO instead"" gaslighting as well. She took a balloon around congress before the state of the union as a PR stunt, she doesn't get to also claim the UFO/balloon news is meant to distract us? The brazenness of their gaslighting blows my mind.","As for lack of public awareness opening the door to right-wing conspiracy theories, I don't know, I wish good public awareness stopped them. However, things like the Paul Polosi attack got plenty of public awareness and right-wing conspiracy theories still flourished.",0
"Many if not most people in the uk done support BoJo or Sunack but do support their support of Ukraine and that while they do a lot we don't agree with, credit where credit is due.","To be fair, Ukrainians are not going to be following UK politics very closely, so all they see is the PM of the UK showing loads of support for them and apparently doing what they can to help in their time of need. Can't blame them for having a very different view of Boris and Sunak than us Brits.",1
"It's a little bit complicated and requires two stamps for anybody outside of Vermont. It also requires you to receive a letter back, does not allow for offensive names, and will require a crypto wallet. So, legally, anyone who wants to can sign up for the sweepstakes.That is not to say that it will be legitimately operated but it would be pretty funny to see HasanAbi doing a show live from the cocktail lounge at Mar-A-Lago.",What was unexpected is that he set up a sweepstakes surrounding the NFTs and sweepstakes are required to follow certain rules such as having no purchase necessary.,0
"Austria suffered under tyranny? Twice? They participated in Nazism more than anything, the idea of Austria as part of a Greater Germany was popular in the interwar years.","Well yeah there are for sure a lot of ignorant comments flying about... a quick Wikipedia check would confirm that Austria isn't even in NATO and besides, there's no mechanism for kicking out members nor would it be the right thing to do with Turkey or Hungary even if it were possible.",0
This is like how the GOP transforms into a Klan rally every month but can't take their MAGA hats off now.,"The werewolf trait would still apply - every full moon the zombie would transform. However, they would be a shambling corpse the rest of the time, still trying to do zombie things. When transformed, they would spread zombism but not werewolf.. since the victim would necrotize from zombism and that flesh wouldn't be able to spread the werewolf blood.",0
"Any single Republican who ever voted with the Dems in such a high profile way would be instantly removed from the party, pilloried, and primaried at the next opportunity. It would be political suicide.",Any moderate Republicans left in Washinon DC either joined the Dems already or they don't have a job.,0
This can look like inflation to the untrained eye. And the companies who are arbitrarily increasing their price want you to believe it is inflation and not greed.,"Inflation is an increase in prices, which can have multiple sources. If this wave of inflation was due to currency devaluation from money being printed during the pandemic (which is the main source of 'increase in money supply', then profits would not be going up this much; they would be keeping up with inflation.",1
"“This means users can no longer include a link to their profiles on other social networks in their Twitter bio, nor can they link to their posts on banned platforms unless it’s a cross-post. Twitter also says it may suspend accounts “used for the main purpose of promoting content on another social platform” and will no longer allow users to link to third-party link aggregators, like Linktree or Lnk.bio. Twitter is fine with the paid promotion of these banned platforms, however.”.","“Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors / The platform will still allow the paid promotion of these banned social platforms, however.”.",0
"After spending years doing everything he could to piss off other major foreign powers with blatantly public shows of disregard for international relations. Can't say it's all that surprising that so many governments jumped at the chance to supply Ukraine, and that their decisions to do so have been met with generally positive feedback from their citizens.","In a situation like this, were things are so dependent on everybody's willingness to put themselves on the line for the good of all, Ukraine was pretty damn lucky that the guy they had in power turned out to be a natural leader.",1
One can take it as a sensible and fair step by the Chinese Government given that the online teaching isn't ideal. I can say that as someone who had done their degree thought COVID pandemic too.,"Perhaps more so if the students would have to be abroad... But for whatever reason would be using the online classes from the place they reside. The new students whom will yet enroll will also not have any options for hybrid or sandwich like courses where they could perhaps spend more time at home in China than usually (be it wanting to be with family, urgent matters like death in the family, sudden natural events or even pandemics- ). It would make them inclined to stay in these countries rather than come back when they want to. This is then enhanced by the fact they they are culturally heavily inclined on completing their education as a matter of honour.",0
It's different because Ajax - Feyenoord is rivalry between two groups of hooligans. What happened now in the Netherlands an Belgium is Morrocans becoming violent because the country they or their parents left won a soccer match. I consider both parties idiots let that be clear. But there is a difference...,Imagine not being able to see the difference. Also I’m not defending ones and attacking others. All shit people. However that “don’t you find it odd” is exactly the problem in Europe.,1
Edit: I also read the article (I know I gave into the clickbait) and it's not even an agency but the director of national intelligence who said this who oversees all of the intelligence agencies.,"I think the greater issue here is calling the Director of National Intelligence the head of the top US spy agency. Sort of but they’re not the head of one, agency, but rather they agencies report to them. That’s like quoting Biden as the “Head of the Top US State.”.",1
Same thing is being done in the Salton Sea in California. Its a saline body of water inland which got polluted by farming runoff decades back so not much wildlife. But its very rich in minerals like lithium.,"Discoveries of lithium deposits in third world counties are not as exciting as they seem at first glance. Countries and landowners take a cut, you need skilled mining labor, funding for the project, permits, water rights, cheap electricity and accessible infrastructure like roads and shipping access. Having a deposits and being able to mine and refine it at a competitive price is another thing.",1
"At this point, they aren't going to fix this situation without outside intervention. Based on historical precedence, it's hard to argue that foreign intervention would have a long term positive benefit. It would help in the short term though, and it might give Haiti a chance to form a legitimate government. That is Haiti's only chance at stability.",Silly question but what is the solution for Haiti ? How many times we going go back there? Can the US military run the government for x amount of time before we turn it over ?,1
"What you say is true, but ignores the reality that Orbán's party effectively rules the country and what he wills, happens. If he decides on a law, it will get instituted within a day thanks to the emergency powers from COVID extended into emergency war powers. If he tells those in EU parliament to veto, his party's representatives are in a majority.","Orbán has deluded himself thinking that Hungary is a rising power that can play both the West and ""new pole of power"" against each other. He is a fool. Gömbösi tried that in WW2 and it ended up as turning us from an ally to the Nazis to becoming another occupied country by them, then later by the Soviets. All Orbán has become is Putin's last, still-functioning tool to disrupt the EU.",0
Oh ya any day. But if became a pandemic(it's dependence on liquids deters this) it would make COVID look like nothing. Hospitals had a hard time getting people to work with COVID it would be rough getting people for an Ebola ward. Or getting people to work.,I mean ya by the same angle airborne HIV COULD exist. Super deadly diseases tend to wipe themselves out. Either they are so lethal they kill the host before it spreads or it wipes out the host species if it can also spread super well.,0
"Media in Europe and America, particularly because of the Kosovo conflict, has massively oversimplified the Yugoslav wars and the narrative that emerged seems to have put most of the blame on Serbs as a whole, underestimating the guilt of other groups (it is hard for people to understand a conflict where basically everyone is the bad guy, if i may be simplistic) and also not understanding the complex political differences between for example Serbian people, the government in what is now Serbia, and the Serb paramilitary groups who committed the worst atrocities. They are connected, but not the same. Serbs are resentful of this. This makes the internal politics of questions like who to align with very difficult.","The remnants of the war have also supercharged the right wing nationalism that helped start the war in the first place, so things in this regard have become worse and this drives anti-west, pro-Russia politics that other illiberal democracies in southern and eastern Europe seem so susceptible to.",0
"I did this in 2008 for Obama in Philadelphia after driving there from San Diego. If you want to help out in a swing state where you can’t technically vote, you can still make a difference.","We must call up anyone we can think of that isn’t an active midterm voter and rationalize with them. Maybe they don’t care for any candidates now but unless they vote tomorrow, they won’t get another chance.",1
Wait so do you want me to acknowledge that women and minorities are struggling to have their rights affirmed and acknowledged in the U.S. or not?,Just because women and minorities in the US and other parts of the world are still having to fight for equal rights and treatment doesn't mean we can't support those in Iran and their fight as well.,0
"The hotter the water going into a hydrogen electrolysis plant, the more efficient it is. For example, colocating a hydrogen generation plant with a nuclear power station allows the plant to produce power when required, and use the water/steam in the secondary cooling loop as the input to a much more efficient electrolysis process.","And as green hydrogen is only going to be produced from renewable energy, it will be produced only from excess renewable energy which would otherwise be permanently lost. So the efficiencies of the process are largely irrelevant. Basically all plans for renewables require considerable overbuilding and interconnects, and in that model there will frequently be times when we have excess power. During those times, hydrogen will be created. During times of indufficient energy, hydrogen will be consumed.",0
Republicans want compromise but Desantis and/or Trump are still the most popular figures in the party?,How do you compromise with republicans? What is the middle ground on homophobia and transphobia? They only get rights 3 days a week and alternating weekends?,1
Do you really think that an alien craft that traveled here from millions of light years away could have accomplished that feat without evolving past conflict and war millions of years ago?,"Besides, my original point was only that if you believe aliens have visited us, you have to assume advanced technology, so you can't really claim such a craft would easily be shot down. It's like saying someone shot down an F-22 with a bow and arrow.",1
"It might be true that Gibson forgot his gun and they left the footage in, but he was running in the trenches and to command. Mark Lee was the one in the battle charge who was unarmed, and I'm certain that was filmed as intended. That last scene was very deliberate and wouldnt have made sense if he had a rifle.",The only way to keep these units attacking is by shooting them if they don't. And now that they've run out of convicts- is Putin willing to start shooting Mobiks?,1
"So when the higher ups in the Russian military ordered the withdrawal from Kherson, did nobody tell them that all the river crossings were fucked? Or do they really not care about stranding thousands of their best trained troops on the wrong side of the river with Ukrainian artillery raining down on them? Regardless, it's a head scratcher. I swear, it's like Russia has been giving the rest of the world an object lesson on what not to do when invading another country every step of the way.","It is not like The Russia didn't try, but despite preparations for months, the mobilization, weapons from Iran, Belarus and NK, etc, The Russia is not able to hold on.",1
You can have basic empathy towards Russian soldiers though and accept them as people and not just pawns of Putin cheering on their deaths like a game because they didn't just abandon their home and family.,"EDIT: To the Russian propaganda trolls still spouting the ""they're just innocent sons/fathers who don't have a choice"": They can surrender. A lot of Russians have already surrendered. It went fine and they were used in a trade for people that the Russians kidnapped.",1
The new house is seated and actively debating who to pick as it's speaker. Most of this article is just wrong and reasons from unconstitutional laws or assumptions about how the house will conduct itself.,Those procedures have to be adopted first. And that is the usually the next order of business after electing the speaker and administering the oath.,0
The core problem is the police need to make changes AND acknowledge that they need to earn our trust back because their bullshit isn't isolated incidents it's everywhere.,I think you underestimate how hard it is to police a distrusting to down right hostile populous. Which is why they have a history of doing what they do in these situations. Again I'm not defending the police I personally have my own reasons for not trusting the police.,0
"is director of global attitudes research at Pew Research Center. He conducts research and writes about international public opinion on a variety of topics, such as America’s global image, the rise of China, democracy, and globalization. He is an author of numerous Pew Research Center reports and has written pieces for The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, the Guardian, Politico, Foreign Policy, CNN, BBC, CNBC, and other online and print publications. Wike has been interviewed by American news organizations such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washinon Post, NBC, CNN, C-SPAN, and NPR, as well as numerous non-U.S. news organizations, including The Financial Times, The Guardian, El País, BBC, Deutsche Welle, France 24 and Al Jazeera. Wike received a doctorate in political science from Emory University. Before joining Pew Research Center, he was a senior associate for international and corporate clients at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.","The Pew Research Centre has published , that reveals that social media seen as mostly good for democracy across many nations, with the notable exception of in the United States.",0
"This was nothing but an internal party poll. The actual vote is the full House, not just the majority party.","The issue is you only need the highest number of votes to become speaker. So even if some Republicans break and vote for someone else, they have to vote for someone else that nearly the whole Democratic caucus would also vote for.",1
"Did they really care about the Taiwan visit? I only remember that one random guy saying china would retaliate, which Reddit took as “XI JINPING PROMISES WAR IF PLANE LANDS IN TAIWAN”.","Any talk of war with China would be in China's back yard in the Taiwan Strait for Taiwan, and probably with the UK/Australia/Japan involved.",1
Except that is nonsense. Investigation into multiple trump crimes well underway before he did his bs announcement for an election 2 years away. Only his lunatic cult can claim its political and nobody cares about that. That position is laughable. He has committed proven crimes against America and must be held accountable. And MAJORITY of Americans support that.,Garland is not done with the 3 investigations he has sitting grand juries for. They continue to interview and subpoena witnesses and are waiting on getting documents from the special master. I believe there will be indictments and some may even be for sitting seditious traitor GOP mocs. He builds from the ground up and does not lose.,0
"I mentioned nothing of slavery, and you didn't use ""equivocate"" correctly. (And DOMA wasn't six generations ago. I was there in DC when it was passed.) Forgive me if I'm not impressed with your condescending attitude about what constitutes progress. Democratic partisans and centrists should really take a moment to learn history and/or humility.","Okay, yes the Democrats made the right choice now, but what posts like this ignore is that the Democrats supported and a Democrat signed the defense of marriage act, the law this new one is repealing. It's great that Democrats have finally come around, but don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back.",0
"Ukraine and the OSCE (led by France and Germany) didn't think it was worthless before it was signed. It only turned out to be worthless when Russia decided it wouldn't abide by the terms it signed. Russia's duplicity permanently weakened the possibility of a negotiated settlement to the conflict, but Ukraine and President Zelensky still were willing to negotiate in late February when it seemed like Russia could win its invasion.","This is what makes negotiations so unworkable at this point: Putin thinks he can reverse his losses with just a few million more troops, and thus doesn't want a negotiated end to the war that permanently freezes the frontlines where they are right now (and especially doesn't want any possibility of Ukraine joining NATO). The people of Ukraine do not want to give up post-invasion territory just after they liberated Kherson and only a few months after the Kharkiv counteroffensive, since they see that they have the momentum.",0
">The short answer is no, Americans do not have to pay taxes twice. While there is no overall U.S. expat tax exemption, there are exclusions and credits to help alleviate the tax burden for U.S. citizens living abroad.",You can probably side step or skirt the USA taxes living abroad but tax evasion is not treated lightly here.,1
Trump’s plan would amount to Ukraine surrendering to Russia and giving into all of Putin’s insane demands. It will not end the war in Ukraine. It would merely delay it for a few years so Russia can rearm and come back to take the rest of the country.,"Just because ukraine that is still under so much of russia's past, doesn't mean they don't want to change.",1
"The GOP has become the most revolting collection of bigots, authoritarians, scammers, money launderers, duplicitous fanatics, perverts, opportunists, and half-wits gathered at the White House--with the possible exception of when Donald Trump tweeted from the shitter during 'executive time'."".",That said. You need to actually fulfill your part of the transaction to actually have relationships that are worth keeping too.,1
"In the event the GOP intends to go all of the way with this, Biden should raise the debt ceiling himself using the 14th Amendment. Force the courts to stop him.","If they don’t get their way the leverage they intend to use is a completely Washinon-caused financial crisis, fully expecting Biden will take the blame since he would be presiding over the economy if the country defaults.",0
"This will be an unpopular opinion, but I’m sure that there are Russians who don’t approve of the war, so they spend their time helping as much as they can. Maybe this yuri guy is one of those people.","If you bothered to look at my post history you’d see most of my posts are overwhelmingly pro Ukraine and anti Russia, so I’m not saying this at all from a pro Russian stance. I fucking hate Putin. But does that mean every single Russian is committing genocide? There is not one Russian who, in the constraints of what they’re allowed to do by their psychopath government, actually tries to help these kids? Sorry, I have too much faith in humanity to believe that every single Russian is evil, just because that’s the popular way to think in the Reddit hive mind. Life is not always black or white.",0
"Geopolitically, it is one of the busiest ports in the world. Almost everything shipped out of China to Europe goes through Singapore ports and vice versa.","If you're very rich and the land you sit on is very valuable, and you're surrounded by poorer but larger countries, and have no army, you're asking for trouble. Remember Kuwait?",0
"Well, being one of those people, I can tell you that we got flu shots (as did our loved ones and the healthcare workers who interacted with us, somehow without a fuss), were extra germ-cautious, as were our loved ones (somehow without a fuss), and masked when appropriate.","-The flu is far less contagious than COVID and is typically symptomatic when contagious. COVID is almost as contagious as measles or chickenpox, two of the most contagious viruses for humans. COVID also can present as an asymptomatic infection while being contagious, thereby not alerting others of the danger.",0
"Right, so every one of his missiles a patriot takes out he'll count as a win cause it blew up a patriot missile as well?","Wait, that actually makes it easier for the Patriot missiles to do their job. If he aims Russian missiles at the launchers they don’t even need to do any advanced maneuvering.",1
"Another extreme Russian nationalist, Pavel Gubarev, said everyone knew who was behind the shooting and observed that Prigozhin had for the moment gone quiet.","> Another extreme Russian nationalist, Pavel Gubarev, said everyone knew who was behind the shooting and observed that Prigozhin had for the moment gone quiet.",1
"Oh no, China wont let me come there because they are mad at other countries not letting their people in?","The reaction to chinese travel is only what china would do, if the situation was reversed, and to be honest, it beijing gies ahead and blocks entry to china from certain nations then for me,.it would be no great loss. Being of an age of increased risk I certainly wouldn't go there until i was sure that the risk level was comparable to the country where I am living.",1
Yeah like 100k-200k dead and wounded men of reproductive age plus the million they lost to covid and the million that emigrated since the war started.,I lived in Paraguay in the early 2000s and I believe that the country is still feeling the effects of that demographic shift caused by the death of so many men in such a brutal war.,1
"The Senate can conduct its own investigations as well, the reason why the Senate hasn’t and only the House has been doing all the congressional investigations was because it was 50/50 which meant committees are deadlocked. That’s why having 51 Democrats is important, with 51 committee chairmen can now use their subpoena powers without a deadlocked vote.","Because the House is switching hands, the vast majority of Democrats' legislative priorities are likely dead for the next two years. Since that stuff is deprioritized (because it's not feasible to pass), a function that the Senate can perform on its own alongside the President -- appointing judges -- becomes higher priority.",1
Calling yourself a libertarian is equivalent to saying you have the personal ethics and emotional development of a three year old and ignore your responsibilities to the community and country. In my book that is an idiot.,Libertarianism is the reason PA's roads look like shit because of the idiots that took that no new taxes pledge and the gas tax did not get raised for over ten years while the infrastructure was falling apart. There is no magic paving fairy.,0
"When we start being complacent, keeping silent about obvious wrong doings, not making these stupid ""jokes,"" it allows idiots like Kanye and Musk to spread their ridiculous opinions with an even louder contrasting voice, leading to things like promoting fucking Nazis and people being ok with government sponsored murder.","The grim reality is this guy (like many, many others) will probably face mortal peril from his government because of his outspoken criticism of their methods.",0
You said food stamps are somehow immune to this logic just because it doesn't work like that. That's why they just want people angry at poor people for receiving them. Like I said raising prices is not something they can just keep doing and expect more and more profit.,"""if you give your employees less than the amount they need to pay their rent, you will be richer than if you did pay them enough to pay their rent."".",0
"I think it's the filibuster. And to make it worse, you only have to make it known you will filibuster, you don't actually have to do it. In the old days, senators would speak at the podium for as long as they could to block the vote. If they don't want to get rid of the filibuster, they should absolutely bring that requirement back. If you want to filibuster, you should have to work for it.","If we're going to have a filibuster, it really needs to be a speaking filibuster. Preferably one with rules where you have to be talking about the subject under debate. Iirc Texas has pretty decent filibuster rules the Senate could adopt.",1
"The gay wedding cake issue came down to the state authorities mishandling the case, not the underlying issues related to the cake.","Not really, because a gay wedding cake probably doesn't differ at all from a straight wedding cake, so it's not an issue of putting any sort of content on the cake that would qualify as speech that's objectionable to the baker. At least with a website, you can tell by looking at it that it's for a gay couple if there are photos of the couple.",1
"So, there was a drone attack against Crimea a couple of days ago. I saw several claims of explosions, fires, and active air defense, but no other news ever appeared. But here's a thread translating a Russian report about it.",>QUICK THREAD on the Russian military trying to learn from past attacks to defend Crimea from Ukrainian drone strikes. Main points below on the December 23-24 drone strike with Mugin-5 commercial drones in Ukraine;' service.,0
I remember when Ukrainians had successful counter attacks in Severodonetsk- but Russians just pulled back and shelled the area again. Counters on the flanks seem more promising. But let's hope Ukrainians don't have losses while doing these. Attacking is generally more dangerous.,"I don't know if they were really offering such a thing. I remember Arestovich was making claims that they could squish Transdnistria if Moldova asked them, but I don't recall anyone making any such offers in official capacity. In general Ukraine is playing the good guy - i.e. not someone that drags more nations into a war. Offering to start a war in a neighboring country does not fit with that role.",0
"Ah yea. I read some articles, and speak to a few friends with experience there, and assume I'm up to speed on what's going on. It's obviously a complex and variable situation. Sorry to hear about the service. In my day, you didn't have a prayer of getting in, as no one left until retirement. Keep your head up, I'm proud of you and yours.","Don't have an answer myself, and all my sympathy to one who is actually entangled in this mess on the front line. You and yours have my utmost respect for staying on mission over many years. I am somewhat aware of the facts of the problem, and was more trying to make a point regarding the article than downplay the problem. In your opinion has it worsened to a degree requiring this callout, or is this simply posturing? I'm sure you guys have plenty of other things to do as well.",0
"“In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes that juries found they didn’t commit.”.","""Sentencing a defendant for what’s called “acquitted conduct” has gone on for years, based on a Supreme Court decision from the late 1990s. And the justices have turned down numerous appeals asking them to declare that the Constitution forbids it."".",1
there's that cycle of armament and disarmament of which we've mostly seen one high and one starting low and another low now.,it's to supposedly be good at something you hope you'll never have to do because it's a damn good way of signing your own death certificate.,0
"There's a significant subsidy for the electrical upgrades in the Inflation Reduction Act, which should lower the cost of switching.","Yes. You get pretty much instant heat from the induction stoves too, and temperature control is reproducible across different pots and pans in a way that's a lot tougher with gas stoves.",0
"Granted, the number of false convictions will never be zero. But this is not just based on hearsay or accusations that people would be on this list. It would be people convicted, which is famously difficult to do with regards to domestic violence specifically (murder probably a little easier to convict).",I think even with first degree murder (for example a person planning and killing their serial abuser) there are instances where a person can be reformed or released safely back into society without risk of reoffending.,1
"I'm pretty sure the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shot down the gerrymandered maps and redrew fair maps, North Carolina's Supreme Court did the same but the Republicans regained the majority on the court so the old maps will go into effect of the next election, Wisconsin has a Supreme Court election next year, that if the Democrats win can use the new majority to strike down the gerrymandered state maps. Ohio and Texas are borderline impossible.","But what would Newsom add as the VP pick? California isn't going to be a swing state anytime soon and there are other white male reps or Senators to pick from that would make more sense, imo.",0
"Google "" How Ukraine became a testbed for western weapons"" by CNN. I hope CNN is not a Russian media.",Try reading the US companies still doing business with Russia. Try reading how the US use Ukraine as a lab for field testing their weapons without real intention to end this war or help Ukraine. Try reading the resources still flowing from Russia to the EU. Try reading how the EU is purchasing Russian oil routed through India as long as the price is right.,0
Not saying trump can't win. Not saying he isn't dangerous. But I think Republicans in power are trying their darndest to keep him from winning the primary.,"Though it won't matter much GOP will fall victim to the generational political shift that started this midterm no matter the candidate. And they have nearly 0 chance of winning over Gen Z in two years, especially if Trump and DeSantis are the best options.",1
"This is different than geosynchronous satellites which are sunsetted by boosting themselves up into a graveyard orbit (as that takes less propellent than shifting their orbit to burn up into the atmosphere). Most geosynchronous satellites have orbits that decay in the hundreds and thousands of years, so military action on those satellites is a real danger.","Even if that is not a problem, it is a big problem for launching future satellites or spacecrafts. Every rocket launch is now carefully planned in order to reduce risk of collision. And with every launch, more debris are created and catalogued (including the satellite) which will be accounted for every subsequent launch. Launching satellite constellations for trivial purposes is just space junk at this point.",1
"Man, I’m beginning to think Putin is a fucking idiot. China knows the key to a new Sino dominated century is the West. There’s no getting around that fact. He thinks Xi is going to abandon or jeopardize EU/US trade relations for Russia? Lol. Fucking idiot.","He’s hoping Russia can pay China in oil and in return China will settle the transactions in Yuan so that Russia can buy munitions. China isn’t going to do it. If they do, the US/EU will cut off their market access and do some crazy shit like exit WTO.",0
"The states apart of the lawsuit have a cognizable injury as soon the debt is forgiven, at least in my eyes. I understand the purpose of standing, and it isn’t something that should be looked away from. But if that’s the case, any acting president can do something like this (above the legislature) then not be challenged until after the fact. This goes way passed executive power.","Billions of dollars of loans being forgiven creates a plethora of economic problems. If the loans are forgiven, then the problems arise. This is an injury for people all around. Especially states, whose economies get hit. I get the standing argument I just feel as though this case is slightly different due to the potential repercussions.",0
There’s no prohibition against Ukraine developing its own weapons (like Neptune). With under the table assistance from its allies Ukraine can surpass Russias’s junk in capability and volume.,"Once Russia is pushed out of Ukraine's borders, Ukraine will join NATO or an ad-hoc mutual defense treaty (for example, with the UK, Poland, and the Baltics).",1
"Granted, they should be on different networks for work and personal, but the home situation still arises.",Because if I have a government issue phone and I take it home it's probably going to connect to my wifi where I will also have my personal phone. On top of that I will probably take my personal phone to work and connect it to the wifi.,0
The Abrams also has Chobham armour but to a lesser extent than the Challenger. I still wouldn’t fuck with any Western MBT if I had a choice.,"Meanwhile the Russians are still using 60’s/70’s cold war era tanks, as well as using them incorrectly with no infantry or air support.",0
"Right now, many countries have to use facsimiles or images/models because the originals are held in the British Museum or other museums. Literally, they will just have the feet and the rest is a model because the Brits chopped it off at the ankles and hauled it away. They were the ones who destroyed the artifact first, returning it to the rightful owners is in my opinion the right thing to do ( but you have the right to your own opinion, I appreciate this conversation 😊).",Unless you’d feel fine with every single museum being emptied so all their artefacts could be destroyed by their source nations because “it’s their property and right as owners”.,1
"It's possible it was all propaganda. Look, I fucking hate Trump but propaganda is out there. After the warrant was executed all of the media told us he was stealing nuclear secrets.","So yes, according to the FBI among the most sensitive and highly classified docs Trump stole were Nuclear Secrets and the Sources and Methods of our US Intelligence Agents embedded around the world.",1
"So I would guess that those two, at least, are probably not the judges Trump would have liked reviewing the case. I'm not sure the en banc hearing would be significantly more favorable to him, either, if they even agree to rehear it.","Something his lawyer said just now: ""I cannot tell you how unfair it is while they search, subpoena, and we don't put out any discovery ourselves."".",0
"So if the west did nothing, we’d have a newly energized, refueled, fresh with plunder Russian army.","Regardless, to attack nato countries Russia would have to move material across a hostile freshly conquered nation.",1
"I don't think it's just Ukraine having better air defense, I think it's also Russia being much worse at intelligent gathering and having a comically low supply of smart and targeting munition which makes finding and successfully disabling air defense networks much harder and more costly.",Interesting article but it does a lot of handwaving that really underscore US dominance and asymmetric air warfare vs Russian air power than set Ukraine's air defense as markedly different than the Iraqi interested air defense system.,1
I would venture to say that enhanced autopilot is probably OK too because it just adds lane changing and integrates navigation decision making on the freeway.,"Commercial airliners have way more simple automated systems than a self driving car, and they still are constantly being updated and improved. This is with highly trained crew and intensely monitored machines that have been operating for decades. Tossing something complex and untested in a car for your average driver to play and saying “be careful” with seems borderline negligent.",1
"Paraphrasing: Yes, Ukrainan losses are fewer than the russian but we lose our best and russia loses their worst.","There's a reason why non-Ukrainian estimates are about 2-3x lower than Ukraine's, and it's not because Ukraine's is more accurate.",1
Maybe the DOJ should change something about how people become cops so stupid fucking shit like this stops happening.,"It’s time for police reform, full stop. Stop branding it as “Defund the police” and call it “Police accountability” or “Law enforcement reform”.",1
"Fed rates are a product of a strong middle income having ""too much money to spend"" which drives greedy companies to jack up prices for no reason causing inflation.","Inflation is caused by a disconnect between the supply of goods and services that can be bought with money and the money itself. Most money (in America) is ""created"" when a bank loans money out, by just putting numbers into an account. The interest rate is a tool which dictates to the recipient of the new money some boundaries on the rate at which work or productive effort must be done in exchange for another party's money (which is also being created by a bank putting numbers in their account). When the interest rate is high, there is more pressure to do work with the money and pay back the bank, while low interest rates encourage less productive effort. When interest rates are very low for a long time, money accrues in the accounts because it is cheaper and easier for most to just go ask for more cheap money than it is to go and invest or use the money to do work. This causes a cycle of banks creating money that is going to pay another bank for money they created and on and on. It might not seem like it, but this can be a highly stable organization to base the value of money on, as it diffuses power in the hands of various interested parties, but requires cooperation between the banks, which is what the fed is for. If the fed didn't exist, you would have hyperinflation as the banks compete to outlast each other in a race to the bottom on interest rates, making saving and investing meaningless and strongly encouraging hedonic consumption.",1
"As for their claim, well I don't think the Russians would be able to mobilize a proper ground force for a long time.","I highly doubt they will be able to replace all the tanks, arty, armor and logistic vehicles they have lost any time soon.",1
"And you didn't provide any source other than saying you watched MSNBC, of which MSNBC is well known to be a disinformation network.","The 40,000 number includes suicides, which is a common dishonest method of inflating gun violence numbers without informing viewers that half of those are actual homicides. Suicide is a mental illness, not gun violence. It's equivalent to saying suicides by hanging is rope violence or jumping off bridges as bridge violence.",0
"Eh, I don't know. They talk about critical thinking in public school, but they don't do a great job of teaching students how to internalize it. Now private liberal arts schools, those are all about that shit.","Edit: Critical thinking just kicked in. Yes. They teach the ""theory"" of critical thinking in public school.",0
"Yeah I understand what the 13A is, I’m asking if this proposed legislation would survive a constitutional legal challenge in the basis that it would go against 13A.","I’m not American, and obviously forced labour is bad and should be banned, but isn’t this technically unconstitutional due to the 13A? Or are the amendments not protected in the same way as the bill or rights? I’m curious to see if this bill gets challenged on those grounds.",0
“And I think what I find surprising… is the irs did no audits at all until such time as the day they received Mr. Neal's request for these documents… I think you will see tens of millions of dollars in these returns that were claimed without adequate substantiation”.,"Republicans in Congress could retaliate by releasing President Biden’s tax returns. Oh wait, he already released them like every president of either party besides Donald Trump for the last 40 plus years.",0
"So... Russia strikes hard with air, jams the Ukrainians till blind, but then has to shut down their jamming to not interfere with own operations.","Russia also has way more bodies to throw at this war, they will win an extended war of attrition. I see way too many jokes and overconfident remarks on here. The situation is pretty serious in Ukraine.",1
"It's maddening to me that we as a society pretend that ""white collar crime"" is less violent thing than something like a mugging. Sure, a gun in your face and your wallet being taken can be traumatic. Having your life savings stolen by a fraudster can be even more so.","“$1 billion in loans… to insiders” - damn, this alone is enough to get you life in prison for fraud.",1
"A lot of people have no compassion for the houseless problem here, which seems largely in part because of a ruling in Idaho in 2018 that make it illegal to prevent people from camping if there were not shelter space (a shelter closed and the three people living there were fined for camping - they sued and won). Betsy Johnson and Drazan focused heavily on being firm they would take care of getting rid of them (without any actual plan other than ‘cracking down’). Johnson called them roaches. I knew quite a few people who absolutely wouldnt vote republican but liked the sound of Johnson in the debates and her harshness on the issue. It took all my effort to convince them that Tina was the only one that had actual solutions and that Johnson was siphoning more democratic votes away from Tina than she was votes from Drazan. And if they really didnt want a Republican governor then they needed to vote for Tina Kotek.. Not to mention Phil Knight donated to both Johnson and Drazan and we all know how anti union that guy is.",I'm in hard R rural Oregon and I think it's possible Johnson actually pulled more votes that would have gone for Drazan than for Kotek. I heard a lot of support for Johnson around here. I like to giggle that this might be what happened.,1
"Iran is ultimately a multiethnic country and the name Iran has ancient roots going back three thousand years. Persia is the name the Greeks gave to the Achaemenid Empire and is derived from a specific tribe of Iranic people, the Pars, but the empire of Cyrus the Great has never been exclusive to just one group. However, in the West the name Persia continued to be used until the 20th century even though it's not the native name.","I've known a lot of Persian folks, and they describe it pretty simply: If it's cultural, it's likely Persian. If it's national. Then it's probably Iranian. If it's older than that, it's something else.",1
"There shouldn't be any question about the government paying its debts, but that is no excuse to keep spending money knowing that doing so will cause the debt ceiling to be exceeded. Pay prior obligations first, borrow up to (but not exceeding) the debt ceiling if necessary, and then divide the available resources among the various programs up to the authorized limits. Accept that this means some discretionary programs may not be fully funded if more money was authorized for them than is actually available after debt service and basic essentials are accounted for.","It is the President's job as Chief Executive to take into account not only whether spending on some program has been approved but also whether the government can afford the expense. Paying debts already incurred should always have first priority, short of an existential threat. However, this intolerance for default is not an excuse to keep spending and incurring new debt which will inevitably cause the debt ceiling to be exceeded.",0
"I've always been politically engaged, always called out violations for worker safety or violations of minority or disability rights at work even if it paints a target on your back.",You're essentializing ethnicity and hating people basically for where they were born. You're as fascist as the mentality driving Putin to ethnically cleanse Ukraine.,0
Yes because you're asking them to give their assessment of a system they have little understanding/information of. The factor that matters is if they're happy with the cost they're paying and happy with the care they are receiving.,"It's obviously not shit if they're happy with the care they're receiving at the cost they're paying. I get that Bernie wants to push his MFA plan, and some who want ""free"" insurance support it too, but the reality is most people are happy with the healthcare they already have.",0
Does a few targeted strikes against the russian military installations there make putin pull them back from the border to a safer distance?,"I get that. It's a shame Zelensky cant speak to Lukachenko direct and get an accord that Ukraine can attack russia military inside Belarus without making him join forces with putin to attack Ukraine. That is pure fantasy, i know.",0
I don't think it has as much influence as it used to. I believe at this point plain old streaming movies and tv shows is driving innovation. And blu ray was more of a Sony PS3 thing than what was available for porn on that format.,I will have to go back and look at blu ray v hd dvd. I remember at the time reading articles about how porn wasn't really a player in the decision and it was more ps3 sales with a blu ray player and other industry choices that led to blu ray winning. And was porn even a factor in the 4k standard? I would think that was driven mainly by tv and movie content distribution and not so much porn.,0
"When Ukraine wins the war there will still be a peace of mind, it's just a choice of when and whether it's NATO soldiers or Ukrainian soldiers dying to defend the West, and whether our direct involvement could in any way trigger a nuclear response. It's this last point why we are probably not going to directly intervene unless Russia does something to make such a conflict unavoidable.",“ but no one here has actually felt any pain or real cost directly from Russia's invasion of Ukraine”.,1
"Cash paid for income taxes isn’t the same thing as the income tax they actually pay. At the time their financials are released to the public, their tax return hasn’t even been started yet.",Their tax returns aren’t even completed until a good 7 or 8 months after their financials are released.,0
"Nevertheless, I did a brief search for you. These are some titles on the demographics of the Roman senate I found in about 5 minutes, including one PhD dissertation.",That claim that Biden took them home as a senator is disingenuous as hell. All the article says is some documents date from his time as senator; nothing about the date they were removed from wherever they're supposed to be.,0
"To add some context. The British legally acquired them by buying them from the Ottoman Government when they were occupying Greece. The Greeks say that that legal claim is baseless because they themselves weren't the ones who transfered them, it was an occupying force essentially trading away their heritage for cash. To the British it's completely legal because they have a bill of sale, to the Greeks its the equivalent of someone holding on to the Eiffel tower because they legally bought it from the nazis in 1942.","The purchase took place in 1812, 20 years before Greeks gained their independence from the Ottomans, and only 8 before their independence war began. Once they became independent they immediately officially asked for them back.",0
"The regulation he rolled back applied to class 3 flammable liquids, this train was carrying class 2. The regulation would have made no difference for this train had Trump kept it.","The regulation he rolled back applied to class 3 flammable liquids, this train was carrying class 2. The regulation would have made no difference for this train had Trump kept it.",0
Seems pretty neutral to me to stick with biological gender assignments and not caving to identity politics.,"Look at it this way: cisgender people have the ability to have their legal gender reflect their gender identity. Nonbinary people currently do not. This outcome isn't the end of the world, but it does reflect disappointing yet unsurprising attitudes towards trans people.",1
"It's all publicity and everyone is talking about Twitter. It might be rough but individual user usage is up, interactions are up, the news and many media outlets are posting and talking about Twitter. It's a gambit that may pay off in the long run. Because we humans like people that change. The villain that sees his evil ways and comes to the side of good.",It seems like that is the route Twitter is taking and I might be wrong but right now Twitter is on everyone's mind so the marketing is working.,0
"This is IMPORTANT because it is the SAME mental game that fox news and the new republican fascists play. Replace Nazi with Liberal, and the thought patterns are indistinguishable. To them there are only republicans and enemies of the state.","The greatest crime in stalinist and Putins Russia is opposing the state. You'll get killed for it. When russians are asked questions and give mindless, contradictory answers, it isn't because they're stupid. It's because only an enemy of the state, a nazi, would say what the state doesn't want you to say.",0
Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.,"Hi trifecta. Thank you for participating in /r/Politics. However, has been removed for the following reason(s):",0
"If you were in America and joined the KKK or some organization that killed people in broad daylight, you would be guilty as well, just for participating or being a tool to them, or promoting hate. The people that join these gangs in El Salvador know what they get themsleves into, they know that they will kill people, they aren't innocent by any means.",The fact that these very draconian measures are still very popular with Salvadorians points to what an insane crime problem they must have.,1
">Russian priest Mikhail Vasilyev, who had suggested to Russian mothers to give birth to more children so they would not be afraid to send their adult sons to Russia's war against Ukraine, was just killed in Ukraine.","Meanwhile in Russia: a pundit argues that younger men should be trained and sent into combat, so there are no widows or children to pay when they get killed. Another argument is that Russians over 40 are too worn out by alcohol consumption to run, jump or be any good in combat.",1
"But if global community will leave more than hundred millions of russian people alone in this lands of chaos, pain and misery, The Evil can come back once.",You are of course right in every regard but the trouble is that it's becoming more and more difficult to see Russian's as victims as the attrocities mount.,1
"I'm Canadian and live in North America, but I do not live in the United States of America and so am not American in the traditional sense.","Well then it's settled. I'm North American, as I reside in North America. But I'm not American in the colloquial sense, since America isn't a continent. Glad we can agree.",0
"Anti-fascism, is it? Do read up on history and find out how those who opposed the fascists in the 1920s, 30s and 40s handled them. There was a specific set of actions that failed, and specific ones that succeeded. Since we are talking about pre-takeover, that is, before a fascist-leaning group goes full fascist and takes over the government (Republicans), we’re avoiding all out war as an option. So that means we need to look at what didn’t work in the 30’s before WW2 and avoid doing that.","Third, disrupt their little games that distract from the above real issues. That means not responding to a subpoena when it is in bad faith and just for their dog and pony hate show, and declaring it such, out loud, publicly. Remember how Republicans said little or nothing at all when they dodged subpoenas? Do this, and they not only lose their show, but they get a public slap across the face for it as well.",0
"I doubt it. The difference in this study was 10 points, or 55% republicans to 45% democrats. That means of 50,000 people who died, 27,500 would have been Republicans and 22,500 would have been democrats.","It certainly doesn’t help the right, but Covid deaths aren’t the thing that’s going to save democrats. It’s just a tragic, stupid loss of human life that these people would rather be proudly ignorant rather than protect themselves and their families with a simple little needle.",0
"Buyback artificially pushed up the price of the stock, allowing the shareholders to delay paying their taxes until they sell. It’s essentially just a tax dodging loophole with no real value to the economy.","Putting aside the laughably low effective tax rates of companies on their profit, before buybacks was legal, shareholders must be paid dividends(which is taxable), or the company enjoys rapid growth for the shareholders to see a return on their investment.",0
"Unfortunately the only real response from the Dems has been the right response, taking the high road and saying that the maps should be nonpartisan.","So you have red states rigging their maps to make the house even more gerrymandered in their favor, and you have blue states trying to make their districts as neutral as they can.",0
"Damn, Zelensky needs to say ""I ask my western friends for just one more battalion of tanks"" and after they agree, he should reveal that the number of tanks in a Ukrainian tank battalion has been changed to a comically high number.","And 2 battalions should be enough to equip 2 full combined arms mechanized brigades, if I have my numbers right – and that's definitely enough to make a difference, wherever Ukraine decides to push next.",1
"Finally consider this, your point ""white English speakers trying to change Spanish grammar when the English word, Latin Americannis naturally gender neutral"" is very similar to what these Dems are trying to do.","Maybe. Maybe not. However, that is irrelevant. Someone might know more is a very poor argument. Fortunately, this is binary argument and we can easily explore both outcomes. If we carry out your thinking to it's conclusion assuming either option is true, it seems obviously wrong to me.",0
"Like somebody else put it, you don’t need to be drunk to be over the limit. In Australia your BAC can be 0.1 - 0.4. So 4 standard drinks do nothing to me, for example, but 0.5 is where it becomes illegal to drive regardless of whether you’re drunk or not.",Though over here I frequently hear them say ‘driving under the influence’. Where I’m from in South Africa I heard them say drink/drunk driving more.,0
Not only does corporate media ignore social murder they normalize it. They knew very well that public insurance would save lives but they let Biden pretend it was too expensive to expand in the debates (despite being untrue in every other country that has it).,If the Dem establishment referred to Bernie as a moderate socialist and Biden as a radical corporatist I think we would see different outcomes.,0
As a public figure and a congresswoman she incited the insurrection at the Capitol. She is responsible for the damage and the deaths that day. She should be in jail or at the very least be forced to resign.,"We are currently experiencing the biggest underreaction by Americans to what happened on January 6. It was planned and incited by a former president, many members of congress along with white supremacist terrorist groups.",0
"Intangible because what's really being recognized is the idea of the baguette and the process of cooking one, which can be passed down through oral tradition, recipes, stuff like that. It's more the idea of the baguette. It's so importance in French cuisine and beloved by people all over the world. The idea of the French baguette has inspired a lot of art.","French people are very particular about their baguettes. Each french person eats approximately between 1/4 to 1 full baguette per day; bread is eaten alongside dishes at lunch and dinner, and as ""tartines"" for breakfast. And the french like their bread fresh, so many of them buy new bread every single day (either they buy a full baguette or half a baguette, or ""demi-baguette"").",1
Or you just hit the entrances with penetrating bombs and just in case fly the occasional combat air patrol that can spot these ancient planes from hundreds of km away.,They’re just showing off how well defended some of their bases (bases like these are protected largely from bunker buster bombers and more conventional munitions which is what destroyed a lot of Iraqi bases) and that they have a large amount of them.,1
Compared to what the vice presidency has become she is useless. Dick Cheney & Mike Pence ran the government with Bush and Trump being the person to sign the bills.,"She should be Vice President right now but the democrats were afraid she would be vulnerable to birthed attacks, instead we’re stuck with useless Kamala Harris.",0
"The choice isn't between 'giving Ukraine 100%' and whatever it is China is doing, it is a sliding scale of support that some countries are providing more to those that are completely ignoring the situation, to those that are actively assisting Russia in it's invasion.","Edit: Curious to the downvoters, doesn't the fact China JUST abstained from demanding Russia leave really admit how they feel in action re: territorial integrity? Actions speak louder than words.",1
"This news prompted me to look up US stats. Apparently there have been 15,000 deaths in the past month. Ofc, Japan now has more deaths/capita but it just goes to show how the pandemic is still very much alive but as long we are not locked down and the media doesn't talk about it, it is like an alternate reality.","If mask mandates and social distancing were enforced with no lockdowns, would the situation really be that much worse?",0
"This wasn’t the 747 with the prayer room that always pointed towards Mecca, was it? I could see the resale market for a super-customized $500 million plane fairly small.","It'd cost more to retrofit it as a cargo plane than it would to buy a new cargo plane. Nobody's flying passenger 747s anymore - they're all being phased out, sans a few notable exceptions like Air Force One. It's a shame, but that's the reality of where these planes are with the economics of flying them.",1
Tax credits are fine but a rebate is better. As for roof solar it's good but the problem of renters ending up paying higher costs in the long run is real problem while the subsidize the landlords investment because you know the won't be passing any money back the renter when electricity prices rise due to the infrastructure overhaul.,I suppose my problem is not that people who can afford the outlay getting money back but that whole sections of society who can't will be hit hardest.,0
Eh... Look up the African Frank. France has had economic sovereignty over most of western Africa for over half a century post-decolonisation.,The only thing that France can do to gain more influence in Africa is to help put Africa on a path to true autonomy over itself and it's resources.,1
"- And the fact that for 9 years Ukrainians have been hammering at the peaceful cities of Donbass, killing both the old and the young, does this not count? +1, -6.","Now that Peskov suggested the collapse was air-defense related, the previously-ignorant masses now realize it wasn’t faulty construction but war-related, and most likely, Russian-caused. And specifically, men who know construction or military, post what had to be the cause.",0
"What really isn’t ever talked about is since the US produces nearly all weapons in house, most of that money is filtered back into the country. Most small nations purchasing military equipment can’t say the same, so that money sort of is ‘lost’.","Having small meaningless go-it-alone items like that are just vanity project and lack the economies of scale needed for complex modern military equipment. You need the scale that China, the US, or the whole of Europe signed up before even starting a program. Going it alone and then trying to sell a system like a jet, is just pure program management incompetence in the name of vanity; ie perfectly French.",1
"I agree, running Afghanistan as a puppet until we got tired of it was hardly defensive. To this day it confounds me why the US couldn't just focus on bringing Osama/AQ to justice without having to invade Afghanistan and leave it 20 years later even worse off than before—but of course, Bush's neocons didnt have much in the way of brains.","There's a difference between begrudgingly accepting an authoritarian ruler and a hostile takeover by a foreign country. One is a shit but at least somewhat stable government, another is a complete denial of your national identity and what little autonomy you had left. I know a few Belarusians (who still live there) and at least from their perspective, a Russian annexation would lead to complete revolution. They've also said that if belarus enters the war in Ukraine, it'll probably also lead to a revolution.",0
"Even dismissing Ockham's razor as an analytical philosophy you can still use logic and reasoning to see that Saudi Arabia funding 9/11 (while possible) is still more unlikely than a group of extremists carrying it out independently. Like the other commenter stated during the gulf war the MAK (led by Osama bin laden and later called Al Qaeda) was looking to expand his jihadist movement to other parts of the Arab world after winning the war against the soviets. Bin laden offered to aid Saudi Arabia with troops to protect against the Iraqi army. King Fahd rejected this offer and opted instead for US aid (which likely angered a lot of sympathizers of bin Laden's cause in Saudi Arabia, hence the large number of Saudi Arabian nationals involved in the attack). This animosity towards the US getting involved in the Arab world is the most likely cause for the attacks and Bin Laden wouldn't necessarily need funding from Saudi Arabia to pull it off since he had plenty of allies to his cause.",Edit: I'll also add in this comment that the US and Saudi Arabia had been funding bin Ladens recruiting campaign in Arabia for the entire 80's while the mujahideen was fighting the soviets which would also explain the large number of Saudi Arabian nationals in bin Ladens militia.,0
He also tried to white-wash a famous for calling for the destruction of Ukraine and the purging of its citizens.,"On a less direct note, that softly implied that Ukraine should consider forfeiting its territories to Putin.",0
"And if you smoke outside and dont blow it directly on someone (who the fk does that?), how are u affected?","If so you could argue that all the fatties spew out more exhaust gases due to the increased weight that need to be pushed around by engines (weather we talking jet, mc or cars).",0
"And yes, Venezuela is HEAVY oil which the US is by far the top refiner of. Even if US gasoline/diesel consumption craters in the next few decades, those gulf coast refineries will stay open and export refined product. Its quite feasible the US could dominate the refined fuel export market in the future. lot of locations in developing countries will require diesel for their small generators/construction vehicles to supplement solar.",Venezuela is badly in need in help with their oil industry. If i were Chevron though I'd be asking for payment up front (US might agree to unfreeze some of their assets and those go directly to Chevron).,0
The next question goes: How much better is an M1 Abrams vs a Leopard 2 that justifies that added logistics burden that will exist for any army that fields any tanks or any vehicles.,"Military vehicles are supposed to be designed with logistics in mind, a more expensive vehicle to maintain, takes away from other parts of the military.",0
"Probably the only point I would straight up give you here, it's obviously a massive conflict of interest and all legislators are currently complicit in this who aren't voting for it.","Republican legislators are NOT going to read a Washinon Post article pointing out their hypocrisy, and suddenly wake up and say ""Wait - the voters don't like this We're actually...wrong. We need to shape up"".",1
"And to conclude, I think your argument at its core is structured around the faulty premise that Ukraine can’t beat Russia. If it were a year ago today, I would have agreed with you. But it’s not, and I have a year’s worth of information that says the Russian army is nowhere near as mighty as you think it is. This isn’t just me being filled with hopium or whatever the hell, but they absolutely can win against Russia. The problems the Russian army are facing are very deeply ingrained in their military, and and are very difficult to overcome at peacetime, let alone during a war.",Giving Russia more land after a botched war of conquest and calling it a compromise is encouraging more wars in the future.,1
"If people say these countries support Ukrainian war then every Windows or Apple user for past 20 years supported US wars in Middle East. You support the ""genocide"" in China by having most things in your house made in China. Millions of people who tuned in or turned up to Qutar football supports the treatment of their workers.",Please tell us beT course of action against these evil countries that want to ease their already difficult situations.,0
"I do not live in California, thankfully, but my great grandparents came off the boat long after the civil war and slavery were both ended. I owe nothing to anyone and my tax dollars should not go to anything like this sort of thing. And since when can the offspring, generations later, be held accountable for their ancestors? But, not my state, so you folks have at it!",Heck is more than ten times the gdp of America. All of America doing nothing but paying black folks for ten years. So they really think the suffering of their ancestors entitles them to this today?,1
"Well, given that ballots still have about 24 hours to arrive to an elections office, if they were postmarked on Nov 8, it's...kind of impossible for vote counting to have concluded counting all votes by now. Literally could not have happened, if ballots are still in the mail.","Ah, there's the difference, in California, you're allowed to legally drop your vote in the mail the day before election day, have it postmarked on election day, and have it arrive after election day, and be counted.",0
Absolutely. You should be a permanent resident or citizen to buy real estate in the USA. I don’t think investment companies foreign or even American should be competing to buy up single family housing units in any market in the USA.,The American people should have access to their own country’s housing market. They shouldn’t be bidding against some foreign investors to buy a home to live in.,0
"Yea, they're old and becoming mechanically unreliable. Been marked for the reserve fleet for now, not immediate scrapping. Vella Gulf was in the defense news quite a bit before her retirement due to mechanical issues. The rest are due to be decommissioned before the end of the decade.","Agreed on many nevers, but the Tomahawk is 100% off limits. Despite the average /r/worldnews poster's belief, Russia is 100% a nuclear nation. Escalation is a major issue, the US is playing a dangerous game just like it has many times before during the Cold War. Giving Ukraine the ability to strike virtually all of Western Russia, much less their nuclear facilities, is not a option.",0
"When they tapped out the song for a listener, however, only around 2% of people were able to name the song. There was a huge discrepancy between what the person tapping thought would be obvious and what was really obviously to an uninformed person.","What you first referenced is an actual phenomenon called the Curse of Knowledge. When you're an expert or at least somewhat well-versed in a field or a topic, it totally warps your view of the public's general knowledge about that topic.",0
"No shit, Russia violated the treaty that saw Ukraine give up it's nukes in exchange for never being threatened with invasion from Russia, only for this shitshow, Don't Trust Russian Promises.",If you dont do the bare minimum (which i thought we did in Minsk 2) of guaranteeing the rights of Russian Speakers in Ukraine than Russia AND NATO dont have a reason to keep Militarizing Ukraine to use it as a proxy war between Russia and the US.,1
"It is not a normal thing to say in 2023, if someone says ""mussolini came to power legally"" his opinion should not even be questioned in areas concerning history.","Edit: I feel the need to be clear that when I say ""Mussolini took power legally"" that is not a moral judgement. He and his party used violent intimidation to ""persuade"" voters to vote a certain way, wrote terribly biased legislation that strenhened his hold on the government, staged a coup which is obviously anti-democratic, and the list goes on. However, if all Mussolini had was a couple thousand armed followers, it is unlikely he would ever have taken power. He had the support of the majority of conservative politicians who twisted the existing law or wrote new ones to legally transfer power to Mussolini.",1
"So many videos of Russian boys dying needlessly, all of them set to some sort of bizarre eastern European techno and edited to present to us in perfect bite size pieces.. And the bloodthirst from what is otherwise a heavily left-leaning and generally peacenik website is amazing.","Look, I get Russian invaded Ukraine. I get that Russia's claims on certain regions is tenuous in some circumstances (and completely correct in at least one, although this still isn't the way to do it) but the bizarre propaganda rush we've been seeing pro-Ukraine is just crazy.",0
"Yes. Also the entire country is way too far right. These guys that bend over backwards to point out that politics is imperfect. So edgy to point out that Democrats can be bought, while completely ignoring that virtually all progress made in justice and standard of living (basically whatever metric you want to apply for quality of life) for the people of this country was due to democrats. All you have to do is have a cursory knowledge of history.","Capitalism sort of works, but it has to be very heavily regulated or it breaks down. And in the long run, it seems like we need to look for a better system that doesn't rely on ever increasing consumption to stay afloat. That consumption brought us climate change and Capitalism's seeming solution to that seems to be every single man, woman and child purchasing an electric vehicle. That somehow doesn't seem sustainable either (just my thous, this isn't a masters thesis, lol). We need a new mindset. Is it so ridiculous to want to push for better and more encompassing mass transit. Not to mention, that's but one area of climate change that needs to be addressed. And yet you have these dudes bitching ""both side, both sides"" I know which side has been the only one advocating for action to combat the problem. Most of the Republicans still don't believe it's real. And the other thing is, we all can't sit back and wait for either political party to save us. We are the solution. All you young people get involved in your party. Democrat for life.",0
We have a department of 10 that joining the union in our setting would not benefit. We were “sold off” to be under another dept. said dept joined a union thus forcing our shop into it as well.,"Um, no one is forced to join a union. There's plenty of jobs where union membership isn't required. Just get a job somewhere else. Isn't that the Republican philosophy? 🤔.",1
"You would have to be insane to try and structure an organization the size of the catholic church as a true monolithic entity. Ignoring the liability aspects, there are thousands of different sets of laws they have to comply with. Some of which get even messier when an organization crosses jurisdictions.",Think of it like if a McDonald's franchise gets sued. It may affect the reputation of the corporation but it isn't the corporation's cost to pay.,0
"Inflation is an increase in money supply without an increase in output, profits are high as a result of inflation not the cause.",Or are you suggesting that companies have only now been able to raise prices for some unknown reason.,0
Are you sure about this number? I was checking Wikipedia and if you introduce biofuels (which is burning gas that you have to grow as well) it's on 44% now.,And biofuels are like 10% of that 8-10%.. Its mostly burning trash and generating gas from waste food production.,1
"Not to mention this was a major invasion of an entire country, in the direction of Western Europe, who had specifically put up with Putin's shit on the condition he didn't make them feel like they might have to deal with a major invasion by Russia in Europe.","And if anyone tries to make bullshit claims about NATO somehow triggering this conflict by eastward expansion, NATO membership is not something foisted on anyone and is nothing like the Russian empire. NATO is a defensive alliance that nations have to apply to join. They have to go through a years-long process, and the entire application process is conducted freely and in the open. And it's also entirely revocable. Any nation can leave NATO if they want. If NATO were run like the Russian empire, Orbán would have fallen out a window a long time ago.",1
"The only way that works is if only one of Trump or the Republican is on the ballot in most states. Otherwise, they split the vote and the Democrat wins in places they wouldn't otherwise win. That would have to take coordination between the Republicans and the Trump campaign. A Trump independent run kind of implies he's trying to get revenge on the Republicans so I don't see him partaking in a scheme like this and even if he were to, the odds of the vote going exactly that way are far less than 1 in 3.",Your scenario would require either the Electoral votes NOT be winner take all (which they are) or Trump get enough votes after splitting the Republican party that he actually wins a significant number of states - essentially impossible.,1
Balloons are actually very hard to detect on radar due to how high they fly at usually and how the surface usually isnt a major radar signature.,"They look like balloons, they move like balloons, I'm not seeing anything that would indicate these are anything other than balloons other than that they aren't just saying they're balloons.",1
"They are ok, if the mines are actually mapped correctly. For example how to prevent the enemy from disarming AT mines? Place some god damn anti personnel mines around them.",Mines are supposed to be a defensive weapon. Heck all weapons are probably ideally supposed to be like that.,0
"The only thing that should make Russian leadership desperate is if we launch an offensive into Russia proper, which we are never going to do.","Good point, yeah that’s my preferred too but I think it’s risky to make Russia and their leadership increasingly desperate. Not to mention the civilian costs in Ukraine, Russia is a long way from stopping.",1
"I'll be completely honest here, I don't care if it's considered uncalled for. Because to me, it really seems like that person doesn't think ahead on this issue, how wide ranging it truly is, what it'd mean if the West capitulated to Russia on this issue.","My country doesn't have any nukes, but I'd sure as hell want us to get some if that's the future we live in.",0
That’s what they say in news… the reality is far worse inside Iran. The truth never comes out. Talk to someone who lives in Iran. Talk to the people in the streets and see what they say.,"The truth never comes out of Iran. The reality is far worse. Talk to someone in Iran and you’ll see Talk to the people who survived the protests and see what they say. Most are dead and missing. And THATS NOT EVEN A WAR God damn people just protesting their government and getting shot in the face. Taxi driver honked his horn in the street, guard came up beside him and shot him in the head… woman took of her scarf and was shotgun in the chest… Women and children…. Iranian government maybe Russia’s Ally but the people aren’t !",0
1. Russia is not going to concede and withdraw from the self proclaimed independent regions or Crimea.,"2. It may accept to end the war on the grounds it incorporates the eastern Ukraine regions in to Russia proper and Crimea as is. With Ukraine acceptance that this is what it will have to concede. In this scenario Ukraine will want insurance against another attack down the track for NATO intervention (no nato bases in Ukraine but a mutual agreement to assist, if not Nato then a coalition of neighbours such as Poland, Finland, Latvia etc).",0
And even better with 51 votes senate committees will regain their subpoena powers which is crucial since the Democrats is on the verge of losing the House.,"If the Republicans get the House, then the House is not going to pass bills Biden or the Democrats in the Senate want to see. So it doesn’t even matter if we have 65 Democrats in the Senate when the Republicans are not going to pass anything in the House.",1
"Ah yes, because it's Democrats who want a dysfunctional government, not the Republicans who have been dismantling government for decades...? (Are you on drugs?).","Yes. But all of what you say depends on free and fair elections as the natural consequences leading to their political marginalization. We're dealing with people who only believe in democracy if they win, will cheat or use violence and threats of violence to ""win"", and who are heavily armed and have thoroughly infiltrated the military and police.",1
"They are a well-funded group whose purpose, to a first approximation, is to be an art project purchased by rich donors. That is what they are and do.","You’re right. They aren’t trying to enact change at all. But that’s not what I’m saying. They are angry, that’s why they are doing this. And because little is being done the about source of climate change (corporate greed) after trying other methods of protesting, the anger that they are displaying is justified.",1
"There's an argument in the article that the state constitution says only citizens can vote. However reading the constitution, it clearly says that citizens have the right to vote. It doesn't say anything about non citizens.","DC residents can still vote in local elections. Same for residents of Puerto Rico. This bill would make that an option for tax paying non citizens in RI. I don't like the fact that those two places don't have federal representation, but I'm not knowledgeable enough about the specifics to really go further than that.",0
"""Republicans have also been struggling with their internal psychodrama over earmarks (specific projects requested by individual members of Congress and included in a larger spending bill). They have typically proven quite handy for congressional leaders trying to line up votes on, say, various appropriations bills. But some of the projects have seemed absurd, unnecessary, or corrupt, and the last time the GOP took the House from Democrats, in 2011, they banned earmarks, after endlessly decrying them in the midterms campaign.",Firstly it ignores the fact that there are already term limits: they are called elections and occur every two years in the House.,1
"Finland and Swedens geographies makes it much easier to defend if both nations are together, the strategic depth is vastly improved. A large contribution of Sweden being in nato is the strategic depth it provides for countries on the eastern side of the Baltic sea.","One individuals provocation is halting a Nato process... It's unimaginable that this will be allowed to cause so much trouble, larger parties in nato need to call Erdogan out for this bulshittery.",0
"Does it matter, If Trump never existed do we feel it’s a crime to take classified government documents to keep as a civilian…..if the answer to that is yes it’s a crime, then Biden committed a crime.","This isn’t about Trump really, what I see is a lot of people using Trump as a defense for Biden, as a stand alone incident taking classified information when you leave office is either a crime or it isn’t. If it’s a crime then Biden committed a crime, independent of whether or not Trump committed a crime.",0
"Like, is that ever going to actually happen to you? I know home invasions do happen, but if you're really so afraid of them then get better locks, get an alarm system, and get a dog. Go read any article about what former burglars say deters them the most when scoping out a house, and they'll tell you it's a dog.",It's so strange. I get into arguments on Reddit all the time with Americans who say they need guns for protection.,0
"P.S.: it's a bad political move for the left to rag on religion so much. Polls show that most people are still religious to some degree; it's a part of being human for a lot of people. The left has to show some of that nuance they're famous for and be more tolerant, too OR at least get their message straight that they're not God haters and fall right into the hate preachers' ""us v. them"" agenda. If you actually read the Gospels (& ignore the stuff written/approved by the authorities), there's not a lot of bad things that can be said of Jesus. People just don't read the Bible is the problem......and it's not even the 1400s. lol.","It's not happening fast or strong enough, but REAL CHRISTIANS, especially their leaders need to separate themselves from these Bible illiterate hate mongers. Those ""Jesus Gets Us"" Ads (if genuine) are a good first step.",0
"Also 'we' isn't accurate. While there's issues with immigrant policies no matter who we're talking about, there's only one group kidnapping migrants for political points.","There's been a lot of dehumanization of immigrants so Republicans have no problem doing this to immigrants because ""it's not like they are people."" It makes it easier to do worse and worse things without any outcry.",1
"> At the same time, nothing in the proposed rule restricted persons who are not otherwise prohibited from possessing firearms from making their own firearms without markings solely for personal use, nor did the proposed rule require individuals to mark PMFs when they occasionally acquire them for a personal collection, or sell or transfer them from a personal collection to unlicensed in-State residents in accordance with Federal, State, and local law. Further, the NPRM would not require FFLs to accept any PMFs, or to mark PMFs themselves, or to provide services to place identification marks on PMFs. Licensees would be able to arrange for individuals who wish to transfer PMFs to licensees to have them marked by another licensee before accepting them, provided they are properly marked in accordance with the proposed rule.","No, they just say a partial receiver is a partial receiver. The fact it's a receiver - a purpose built product to create to gun is the focus.",0
"You, on the other hand, say that it was wrong for the West to engage in imperial wars but it is acceptable for Russia to do the same. And it was wrong for the West to profit from imperial wars, but it is right for India to do the same.","You condemn the West to have profited from imperial wars in the past, but say that India should not be condemned for profiting (if it really is, that is) from an imperial war today.",0
"Well, technically not ""any"" since some of the stuff they fire is not capable of delivering nuclear warheads, but the point stands.","There is however, a clear difference between cruise missiles like this one (which would generally carry a ""tactical"" nuke) and ballistic missiles (which would carry a ""strategic"" nuke, the sort people think about when they imagine the end of the world via nuclear war). Even a nuclear-armed cruise missile isn't going to destroy NATO's ability to retaliate so it can be given the benefit of the doubt rather than calling for the sort of ""launch before the enemy's missiles hit"" response that a ballistic missile might.",0
There is no such thing as woke ideology. I would have to say that you have somehow been trapped and brainwashed into right wing extremist bs. You need to learn real American history and then follow legit news sources. You have fallen in with the bad side. They hate you. Save yourself and get educated.,"For me, as an old white woman educated in the midwest and college educated it was the omissions that I only recently learned about and I am mad as hell that I didnt learn until the past few years.",0
That being said this is going to get bloody. Russia is full steam ahead with infantry waves. UKR needs to hold while they prep their tanks. Then we can see what happens when Battlefield 4 players get to play against battlefield 1 players….,"Yesish, but it’s likely because Ukraine is allowing it to. It’s better for them to bleed and retreat then counter attack then lose an equal amount of troops for an area of questionable strategic importance.",0
How were they supposed to know who was the victim in this case if they are literally both holding onto the hammer?,Any reasonable juror would determine that a rational person striking someone in the head with a hammer would understand that the hammer blow could cause death. The attacker was aware of this. He hit Pelosi in the head with the hammer anyway.,1
"Also people on reddit need to stop casually throwing around the word 'slave labour'. The wages are far lower than in developed countries, sure, but the conditions are still far better than the smaller, companies, but more importantly, working in an apple factory will be WAYY better than working in the unorganised sector, from where employment is transferred to the organised sector when large companies set up factories. Then there is the issue of seasonal unemployment and pseudo employment, which are also addressed by these.",The manufacturing is VERY welcomed locally as it creates legal jobs. A developing country needs to work at relatively lower wages in order to develop.,0
"Read the article, she was caught fraudulently billing clients and only had to pay back what she got for ""wrongful termination."" This isn't ""some person was lazy at work and got sued for it."".","Yep. We had to stop producing 30K dozen a year of chicken eggs when the cost of both feed and labor increased beyond what we were willing to charge for eggs. Legally, minimum wage for egg washers ratchets up each year so we had to choose between better pay and feeding birds. I’m looking for food costs to double to permit a meaningful wage increase for ag workers in the future but then, of course, a living wage won’t be a living wage anymore.",1
"If they want to dictate how, or what, it would require passing laws that the executive branch would have to follow. That would be particularly hard given their position.","Sounds like a good way to get paid to grandstand and try and win in the court of public opinion. Fortunately though, the DOJ doesn't have to answer to Congress about their investigations like this, nor is there anything that says Congress can dictate how an investigation is done.",0
I do not need to read an article to know she was cruelly punished. I can’t find the original article. I read an article that asked a bunch of lawyers what they thought about her sentence. The lawyers said based on the guidelines it was fair. I believe the sentencing guidelines where 2 to 10 years. The prosecutors wanted max fines and 9 and 3/4 years in prison. The judge gave her max fines and 9 years in prison.,I’m conservative so a lot of people in my circle don’t like this trade. A lot of my liberal friends also seem not to like this trade. What I have been telling people is at least be happy we got an American back. It’s a win. Maybe they got back more but we got an American back.,0
"They genuinely think the conservative subs are less biased, even though they're as bad as the tankie ones when it comes to banning people for wronhink.","It's always funny when someone pops out of there and is like ""This is reddit, if you want a less biased opinion you should head over to r/conservative"" -- I mean yeah, we're all biased, but holy shit lol.",1
"If the electricity company can supply 10 electricity and buyers demand 5, they can drop the price to encourage more buyers into the market or existing buyers to increase their demand. Either way, they want to sell their electricity.","If the electricity company can supply 10 electricity and buyers demand 15, they increase the price of the 10 until some buyers are priced out and they get the best price possible for their 10 electricity.",0
"Whether the patents are BS or not, the law is the law, and knowingly & massively violating seed restrictions over tens or hundreds of thousands of hectacres of farmland is going to get you in trouble. Just like if a company reproduces a patented drug, they're going to be sued.",There is no farmer who should not have known what they were doing was going to get them in trouble. They knowingly violated the restrictions on those seeds.,0
"But to offset the CO2 from coal, we have to have additional forest growth or other CO2 sequestering to make up the difference.",There's a huge difference between releasing CO2 from the currently active carbon cycle and reintroducing CO2 that has been long sequestered.,1
This is interesting because you can also state that the Trump campaign received illegal contributions from Russia.,"trump getting Russian money funneled through members of the gop, or more specifically members of the gop “aides” who I sure will with say they had no idea whatsoever this was going on or just call it a witch hunt.",1
"Democrats just will not try for any race that don't see as already in the bag, and republicans don't give a shit and they try to go for anything. In my local elections the democratic party is near extinct.","The Democratic party is in the business of staying in power with minimal effort, not winning mass elections.",0
"Me, under Biden as he outpaces Trump: ""This is what democracy looks like. The system is working exactly as it should and tbh he needs to double his pace."".","Me, under Trump: ""This is a travesty and the result of a broken system. Trump is unhinged and is literally destroying the judicial branch with this psychopath speedrun of our nation's judges."".",0
"It is weird that we would honor someone who waged war against the US, killing thousands, all so they could continue owning and abusing people and demanding that other states respect that and help them out if their slaves escaped.",The right of northern states to pass their own laws and allow freed slaves to live without threat of kidnapping and return to slavery in the south? Even the “state’s rights” argument falls apart if you think about it for a minute. The slave states wanted to dictate terms to northern states and newly admitted states because they knew they wouldn’t maintain enough support in Congress either the states or the people had rights.,0
"And India profits off cheap Russian gas by “ backstabbing “ Ukrainians by not recognizing and denouncing the Russian imperialist invasion… deliberate targeting of civilians, torture , kidnapping, forced deportation and other war crimes.","I don’t trust much of what India claims about Pakistan, and, for the same reason, what Pakistan claims about India.",0
"In 2022, turnout in NC by traditionally blue voters (Dems/independents, 18-40 year olds, and urban/suburban) statewide was low enough to give Republicans the advantage. Old North State Politics analyzed the 2022 turnout data and the graphs tell the story very clearly: .","Turnout in NC blue areas was low for 2022 compared to the other states you mentioned. The state isn't getting redder, people just didn't show up. There is a lot of speculation about why that is. Some people think it's because the upper ticket Democratic candidates were uninspiring. I think it might be a little bit of that, plus there was no direct threat to abortion in this election.",0
The solution is to ban single use plastics or to legislate that these companies that produce it also create the recycling centers for it and promote them to be used.,So no until we find something alternative to replace this single use plastic bags or everything with it.,1
The thing is innocent Russian civilians are not being killed by Ukraine as opposed to innocent Ukrainian civilians are non stop being killed by Russia invaders.,"Fake surrender is not pow, Russia it self has been bombing civilians targeting civilians infrastructures since day 1, can it get more ridiculous than this.",1
"You're looking in the wrong place for the problem. These people just just don't have enough money to pay for food, rent and heating.","Tory voters are thinking: ""living on benefits is supposed to be hard, to encourage them to work and stop people scrounging, single parents and immigrants"".",0
"As such, there are times where announcing that you will / want to do something positive is actually detrimental as it gives the same boost as doing it without the work. Then once someone start down the road to actually doing it they lose motivation and are less likely to achieve their goal.",The human brain gets the same positive response to saying they will do something as actually doing it.,0
This is why it is recommended to not talk about any positive life changes you plan to make until you are actually doing them (ex. don't talk about new exercise regime until you've been doing it for a little while.).,2. Solar PV now predicted to surpass the capacity provided by natural gas by 2026 and coal by 2027 making it the single largest power source we're using.,1
"If mask mandates and social distancing were enforced with no lockdowns, would the situation really be that much worse?","For those of us who wfh, the impact of the lockdowns may not seem like much. But there are many people whose lives and small businesses have forever been impacted by them. I seriously don't think any government would want to lockdown over any pandemic in future after this.",0
"Feel better dude. The worst I've ever been sick is with the flu. Was way worse than my bout of Covid. If this vaccine pans out, it'll be a really big deal.",A universal vaccine would hopefully work on a pandemic strain - which could happen tonight - and take a lot of the bite out of that.,1
"You can stop a country from getting nukes, you cannot stop a country which already has them. Which is the entire point of my comment.","The Jews because they were constantly persecuted around the world (Much like the black communities in the US after slavery was ended, but they still suffered from extreme segregation from white society), and the Arabs living in Palestine because they wanted a new identity for themselves after the failed venture which was the vast Islamic empire, denied by the British despite promises to the Arab population.",0
"Simply throwing somebody into college without the requisite skills or knowledge means you're just saddling them with debt and an unfinished degree after they fail, especially if they're still in poverty, or you're lowering standards and giving A's just because they're black. In which case, everyone knows and the university becomes a joke and the degree is useless.","It doesn't, because there are many years and factors before college in one's life that sets one up for success. The system we live in is also not meritocratic.",0
Are you saying I’m delusional if I don’t believe the party that hasn’t gotten a new president in via popular vote in over 30 years represents “at least half” of the population?,"You’re projecting because you want to claim I’m wrong for saying that at least half the voters out there are voting republican, that somehow republicans are winning some other way. So maybe it’s your reality that’s skewed.",1
"But agree that 2024 will be a chance for Democrats to replace her in the Senate. I don't think she can win as an independent, especially not one who betrayed Democratic voters. The real question, then, is will she be replaced by a Democrat, like Gallego, or will she be a spoiler and get herself replaced by a Republican?","Unclear whether this is true. I'd probably take her over a Republican unless 2024 goes extremely well for Democrats and her vote is unneeded. But incumbency does have huge advantages, so ceding the seat to a Republican is probably a bad idea. It might be better to bide their time and then oust her in 2030, rather than handing the seat to Republicans, if it looks like 2024 will be tight.",0
"additionally, the first person to bring up the concept of objective vs. subjective wrongness was yourself. the person you initially replied to did not say it was objectively wrong. they simply said it was wrong. if you believe that there is no such thing as objective wrongness, then you should have no problem with their statement, as it must be their own opinion. if you believe their opinion that genocide is wrong is incorrect, argue with that, don't attempt to set up a strawman about moral objectivism.",Your comment did not at all address the point I was making that there’s nothing that we can say is objectively “wrong” about this.,1
"Yeah, Trumped was divisive. He pissed people off. But he also had a ton of support. It's even more impressive when you consider that he was against Hillary the first election, then Biden the second (and Biden is going to drum up far less GOP opposition - even though there were attempts to smear Biden he's just not going to rally the GOP against him).","There weren't 10 million new voters, and I'm going to go out on a limb and say that even if you think that every 18 year old and migrant who got gained citizenship voted for him it STILL doesn't come close to explaining all the votes he got.",0
"Problem with burning is that it released CO2 immediately, and It takes decades to recapture the carbon, so really not carbon neutral for a long time.","This articles analysis limits their themselves to looking at initial CO2 use of biomass, rather than looking at the full lifecycle.",1
"That's why you use naval drones to take out ships, not aerial drones. They're much harder to detect, much harder to hit, have very long range and loitering capabilities, and can easily carry a payload big enough to cause major damage to a warship.","CIWS wasn't able to do much with them until block 1B in 2016 added FLIR to help target small surface craft. Even then, it's a challenge, they're harder to see/detect, they're harder to hit, they can be armoured, and you'd probably swarm them.",0
"depending on how things go, Russia is looking at a complete social collapse in some cities, literal mad max shit.","Russia: destroys self (they would be struggling even without sanctions, I want to mention this. The sanctions are just absolutely blasting them).",1
I remember studying political communication and analyzing DNC and RNC social media channels for part of my master’s degree and tbh the way the GOP/RNC or whoever the f makes their terrible ads or posts to communicate to their base is simply egregious and irresponsible.,"I got a similar solicitation at some point, ostensibly from the DCCC or some Democratic group, and I decided to rip into them and basically say “what idiot decided to use this messaging? this is the shit Republicans send to scare boomers into giving them money”.",1
My question is how do you decide why gets it and who doesn't? Do you get money just because you are black or do you have to provide evidence you are decendent from someone that was a slave? What about all the other groups that have been discriminated against?,There's a direct connection between the property that taken and the people that it was returned to. Are the people who receive reparations going to have to prove a direct connection to someone that was a slave?,0
"Or perhaps nihilistically trying to extract concessions. If Hungary has already decided that it does not care about being seen as a jerk, then why not make Western Europe pay Hungary in what is essentially a hostage situation? Hungary is of course acting immorally and in bad faith, and everybody would be poorer if everybody acted like Hungary.","I am sure there are other NATO friendly airbases in Europe. There might be reasons to not kick Hungary out, but airbases seem unlikely to be a good reason.",0
- Germany wouldn’t have attacked Russia if the west would have given them support like they did Britain.,- Russia wouldn’t have invaded if NATO would have kept their agreement of non expansion from the 1990’s.,0
"So as not to appear weak, they try to normalize Trumps behavior by “finding” classified documents in Biden and Pence’s possession.","Trump was clearly intentionally taking papers on purpose, while Biden (or one of the varied people working with him across his eight years as VP, which is when these documents are from) misplaced papers incidentally.",1
"In other developed countries, teaching is a highly paid and regarded profession. That won’t happen her anytime soon.","A lot of teachers who last in the profession have other income, such as a high earning spouse or old money. The math doesn’t work for someone on a teachers salary with college debt in any desirable place to live.",0
"352,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water. I think evaporation can replace the pitiful amount we would be taking quite easily, don't you?","If we took water from the air, water from the ocean would just evaporate and replace it. There's no way humans could ever take enough water from the air that the ocean wouldn't be able to replenish it. Especially since we'd be using the hydrogen to burn or run through a fuel cell which turns it right back into water.",1
"Look at literally every video game companies announcement of how they’re going to implement crypto. It’s clear they don’t understand it, but saw people making money from it and tried to get in on it.",They're not only trying to make people like it...they're trying to make people want to spend their own real money on fake bullshit within it. As if people have any money to waste on crap like that these days.,1
"EDIT: Back in the day, I wrote the wiki article on the 2004 coup (when Wikipedia was still a new thing), and I'm impressed today to read that Aristide's entry ascribes responsibility to ""right-wing paramilitary groups entering from the DR,"" and cites a single source - a political polemic - from 2012 as the evidentiary foundation for this. Which mostly goes to show that interest groups (namely, one in San Francisco that is largely clueless on Caribbean matters but find them to be a convenient political cudgel) can wrest a conversation - and thus the opinions of some - in absolutely wrong directions.","Like anything else, it's pretty complicated. The Bush administration did nothing in 2004 to prevent Aristide's ouster, the UN did nothing in 91 to prevent Aristide's first ouster, the US cut deals with some genuinely awful people to restore Aristide to power in 94. Anyone who views the issues in Haiti from the very ethnocentric Western right/left axis is going to be in for a hard time understanding what is actually going on, because failed nations do not neatly fall into our ideological boxes.",0
"Basically the article centers around reports from Vadym Skibitsky, who is Ukraine's deputy military intelligence chief, and Andriy Chernyak, who is a Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service representative.","Until Ukraine & Zelenskyy are shown to be repeatedly telling harmful lies to the West that are demonstrably false at anywhere near the level of Russia & Putin, in both subject and quantity, it's very misleading to suggest that Ukraine and Russia should be treated similarly as information sources.",1
Part A) State courts have a constitutional duty to see if the law (redistricting) violates the state constitution or other state laws. Federal Courts have a constitutional duty to see if the law (redistricting) violates the Federal Constitution.,There is nothing in the constitution giving judges the authority to draw district boundaries by appointing special masters.,0
"I'm pleasantly surprised at the law being so favorable towards the born adult.....meanwhile in the States if you're a ten year old girl who was raped, you can't get an abortion in your state when the fetus is a blob...(the girl got it, but in a different state at her parents' cost.).","Yes. Too often people forget that not everyone CAN provide, and that no child should be born to suffering just because someone says ""well, they COULD be ok"" or because of ""well, she had sex"".",0
"Even with this legislation in place, if the Supreme Court overturns Obergefell it sounds like states could still make life hell for LGBT people in a lot of ways. Like, if they got married in a blue state and then moved to a red state that didn't recognize their marriage, they'd probably have to file state taxes individually.",That's only because the bill will still allow Utah to ban same-sex marriage in the state even though they would have to recognize marriages from other states.,1
I'm not a Modi supporter btw but its ironic that you blame Modi as he's the most west-leaning prime minister India had till now.,"I do not like Modi, his politics or his party; but this infuriates me whenever I read that Modi is pro Russia. If you think he favours Russia more, you should go and check out the opposition. India has had good relations with Russia for a long time. You don't just throw away those relations. There are ongoing trades and contracts that India needs to continue till they can find an alternative source and you simply have to pretend to be friendly for the other party to honor these agreements till you find alternatives. Is the west willing to sell oil, fertilizer and military tech for cheap and with no strings attached? Didn't think so...",1
And even this is water under the bridge. People who did it are dead. What matters is intentions of alive people. And alive poles intend to kick russian ass until it's blue and purple seems to me. Who could ask for better friends? .,I am with them. You cannot be lobbing missiles into NATO territory and killing NATO citizens. It's insane.,1
"Trump actually started with his bullshit election fraud crap as soon as he knew he would be running against Joe Biden, who he knew would (and did) beat him ""like a drum."".","OH there it is! I KNEW that was coming. Everytime people like you compare BLM and Jan 6th, you just lose all credibility.",1
Your source says they were “very likely” motivated by generous financial packages rather than ideology or politics.”.,"It's clear that's Bashagha, hafter and dbeibeh (western libya government) all want to gain the power for the long term but if you looked to each sides you will find hafter and Bashagha decided to not use armed forces to decide who gain the power and do you know what is the only other option exactly democratic elections.",0
"To label the Holocaust as ""winning against the Jews"" is quite frankly something that I imagine most Jewish people would at the least not agree with, if not be outright offended by.",This strikes me as highly biased whataboutism that ignores the reality that Zionists made deals with the Nazis and literally tried to become allies with them in Palestine (based on their authoritarian ideals being similar no less). Seems like he's got a one-sided agenda.,1
"I work with teachers and I love them all dearly... but some of them have to consistently ask the students, ""Does anyone see where I put the dry erase marker? Help me find it."" One of our schools uses harmonicas as a way to calmly signal the students to quiet down and listen. Half the teachers put their harmonica down and forget where it is. This isn't a commentary on their intelligence; it's a commentary on how many plates they're spinning at the same time.","Just wait until the Phys Ed teacher forgets her gun on top of the lockers, or the chemistry teacher opens the classroom gun safe and forgets to close it properly.",0
One thing to know about Georgia is the republicans don’t advertise to vote - they KNOW when & where to vote.,"So knowing they actively suppress putting out remember to vote signs around, tells you everything you need to know.",0
"There's not really a housing shortage. That's the wolf in sheep's clothing to keep everyone at bay. The real issue is that the way housing is currently set up is based on an era that has since come and gone. People are having way less children, people are commuting to work farther and farther, family sizes are much smaller and the whole dynamic has changed. We also have an aging demographic that are living in multiple homes that are way too big and priced out of the reach of a young family sometimes to the tune of 100 times the original price and not updated since the day it was purchased. Added to that is investment arm. Land values are rising, while the structures that are on them, not so much. However, this is housing and it is being torn down and rebuilt at the cost of gentrification and the added bonus of not actually adding any new housing stock and being substantially more expensive than whatever it replaced. Dense multifamily and commercial mixed zoning is great for the city tax coffers and the developer and the stock holders, but not so much for the people it intends to benefit. Locals are generally priced out of these projects. The boogey man has and will be the ""lack of housing"" and ""city zoning codes"" but that often doesn't actually correlate with the affordability of the region. Some places are more restrictive than others and have seen the value drop and the availability increase while others with laxer codes have had an opposite effect occur. I don't have any clear answers because the reason for this crisis is mired in half truths and the ruling class has no desire to lay bare the true causes. The inflated values that these homes are selling for is described as a ""windfall"" but let's call it what it is, the older generation robbing the younger generation of wealth and it is all sanctioned by the ""free market"" or whatever the fuck that means.","Too many corporate housing investors, too many AirB&Bs, too many books and podcasts telling investors how to get rich in real estate, too many real estate investors over-leveraged or outright greedy, too many wealthy people owning several personal homes, too many houses allowed to rot into uselessness for the depreciation tax break. Fight these causes before building more housing.",1
"At the time that agreement on the Palestinian side was led by Yasser Arafat, who was part of Fatah. Since that agreement, most Palestinians do not support Fatah and definitely not Mahmood Abbas since he took over. As much as I wold like to think that Hamas can't speak for the Palestinian people, in reality they do, they were democratically elected by the Palestinian people and still have wide support from them. The Palestinian government goes back and forth on recognition, clearly does not stop the Oslo accords given the way the WB looks right now, Hamas very specifically does not recognize Israel and at points has called for the eradication of not only Israelis but Jews world wide.","According to me a charter like this with harsh wording that this charter of 1968 can never be changed, then you need to nullify the entire charter and write a complete new one to be accepted in a public referendum, which is not easy as the general palestinian opinion to accept Israel's right to exsist is hovering around 30 % only and has been this way since Oslo.",1
"In that parallel, how was burning a Quran anti-Turkey? If it wasn’t, what reason could you attach to it other than that it was a public display of hate and islamophobia?",The amount of hypocrites in this thread is amazing a few days ago you were all for burning the koran “it’s just a book and part of free speech” now you view this as a hate crime.,1
"They were not even at the same level of middling German family like the Wittlesbach of Bavaria, let alone the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasty.",There are a handful of German royal families that could make a semi legitimate claim to the throne if the throne was restored. His is not one of them by a long long ways.,1
"If you're American, imagine the UK trying to pull off a stunt like this. Millions of plainclothed British soldiers sneaking in, trying their best to be American. Wearing cowboy hats and having shitty southern accents, all while occasionally calling dinner tea and driving on the wrong side of the road.","It would take a lot more than 3 ships and a couple dozen planes to invade Taiwan. If it ever happens, the world will be watching the build up for weeks.",0
"And until many younger adults become established in society, they don't give a damn about politics and voting.",Or if your generation had actually made it easier for young people to vote they would. If your generation had made a political system that young people could and would believe in they would vote.,1
"I have stopped trying to get people to understand that regulation, licensing and training requirements are the key to a safe gun loving country. These things don’t take away any rights, they just insure more responsibility and education. No one on the right wants to listen. As a person who is trained and have a concealed carry permit I find myself carrying more often because I no longer trust my fellow citizens. Gun safety is out the window in the US.","Owning a gun makes you less safe, not more safe. The person most likely to be shot by your gun is yourself. I was robbed at gunpoint once and was very glad I wasn't armed. I would have turned me losing $25 and a budget watch into a gunfight to the death with someone who had the drop on me. That's just stupid.",1
Joe Biden has been a better President than we even deserve. A lot of the criticism against him doesn't hold up under actual scrutiny. I hope come 2024 more Republicans are up for debating because faced with actual facts they'll get destroyed.,"The issue I see with most younger politicians is they are a lot more extreme which frankly doesn't help anyone. We need more moderate leaders that can at least attempt to represent most Americans, in my opinion.",0
That stuff does matter - even obvious partisan hack Aileen Cannon tried to defend her ridiculous orders in Mar-a-Lago with some legal argument.,"Further, Bush v. Gore did empirically undermine the credibility of the court in the eyes of the public. With our slow ass government, there hasn't been any legislative impact yet, but those small things are starting to add up. If the Rehnquist Court had say ""Fuck Democrats"" in their opinion, judicial reform very well might have happened already or at minimum we would be a lot closer.",0
Isn’t it interesting that the people closest to those in power making laws vote heavily for one party.,Blaming Democrats for things Republicans vote against is just par for the course for your average American conservative.,1
"1- This figure includes deaths from all causes, whether they are from construction accidents, heart attacks, car accidents, cancer, and any possible cause you can think of. The real deaths from the world cup construction activities could be one thousand deaths, one hundred deaths, 500, we don’t know. I don’t think we ever will know the real figure. But to say that 100% of all the deaths for those nationalities in a span of 10 years were caused by construction accidents is just ridiculous. There are literally millions of those nationalities living and working in Qatar, but to say all of their deaths in a decade was caused by nothing but the world cup is laughable.","6,500 migrant workers (slaves, they had their passports stolen) died in Qatar during the 12 years from when they were awarded the World Cup.",1
"But I get it, they mean only those wars where hordes of expansionist Western imperialists invaded Russia's own motherland just like ... now ... in Ukraine?","While conveniently overlooking the wars Russia lost, like the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, WWI, or even the Polish–Soviet War of 1918.",0
The current occupation is a result of palestinans refusal to recognize israels right to exist and refusal to negotiate in good faith.,"There were points in the past where Palestinian leaders were the only ones refusing, but that doesn’t justify things like modern West Bank settlement.",1
"Fuck off, republican governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker called trump out for his bullshit in 2018 and after January 6th. He got ostracized from the GOP for this, and the Republicans lost the governorship in one of the BLUEST states in 2022 because of it.","Like in Washinon the GOP representative who called out Trump, lost the primary to Joe K., who in turn lost a red region in and by two of the bluest states to a Dem.",1
"And I'm also not saying the cost of living is the same between any of these places. People making more money in the US are not coming to ""live like a king"" but that the availability of (for example) jobs in software that pay $200k+ is significantly higher in San Francisco than it is in any other city in the world. Shoot, you just said the median salary in the UK is 30k. That's equivalent to $37k in USD compared to the . Yeah, making $77k in San Francisco is not going to give you a luxurious lifestyle, but I'm trying my damnedest to agree with your statement about why an American thinks $20k is nothing and you, a Brit, think 20k ""is good"" in your words.","Yeah 43k in Sydney isn't the same as 43k in London, but also no rational person would be making that comparison because 43k in AUD is 24.5k in GBP.",0
"P.S. I remember earlier on people were talking about making your comments into a book, which I think is a great idea Though perhaps a website could also work. There's also the question of whether your replies to peoples' comments should be included, and how to refer to those people replying to you, whether it'd require permission from them or something. I remember some of your replies were very helpful in expanding on the details of your situation. Then there’s the question of whether or not to include the karma of the comments too… anyway, those are some interesting technical details that will have to be considered at a later date – but hopefully that date comes soon.","Hi /u/SaberFlux, I just want to say that I really appreciate your updates that you've been doing over this past year. I’ve just been observing, but your updates have really helped me to understand just a little bit about what you and many of the Ukrainian people have been going through in this awful war. Your updates have really helped connect us to the human side, the human aspect of what life is like during this war, and helped me understand on a deeper level what it is like, and further justified why Ukraine needs as much support as we can give it. I hate war, but that is precisely why Ukraine must be victorious, and must be supported so it can achieve it.",0
"Yes, there's vote counting and strategic voting, but that's more a thing with the party in power beyond the ""moderate darlings"" that pretend every once in a while.","As for pre-determined, yes, votes are whipped before hand, that has nothing to do with whether or not the senators are voting the way they think.",0
"To me, US politicians look extremely corrupt, and overtly so. Just looking at cases such as , where the word ""corruption"" isn't even used by anyone, which tells me that this is just ordinary politics in the US, whereas in my country I doubt the politician would be allowed to stay in office.","See it's not corruption or bribery because for one it's legalized so it gives an air of legitimacy and we don't call it that, but what else would you call a certain interest group making political donations to a politician that is closely involved in said interest group's sphere of interest (e.g. a committee chairman, lead author of a bill, or governor of the entities home state)?",1
"""Most kinds of renewable energy are also “carbon-free”: they do not emit CO2 or other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Because of this, and because renewables like wind and solar power are so popular in climate activism, the terms “renewable energy” and “carbon-free energy” are sometimes confused. But not all renewable energy is carbon-free, and not all carbon-free energy is renewable.","Other renewables aren't carbon free either. They also require mining of toxic chemicals, and creating them takes energy as well, which today is supplied by fossil fuels.",1
China and India view each other as key threats. The minor extent China and Russia support each other is because they'd rather the US/EU aren't the only game in town. South Africa isn't a notable military power at all.,"South Africa isnt siding with Russia. They are just not siding with anyone and continuing on with their lives. When Swiss do it, oh they are so quirky. When South Africa does it, eviiiiiil.",1
"""LGBTQ people need to stop being themselves and hide from society to protect our children from their pedophilia! But not my gay nephew Alex, he has a big heart and would never practice pedophilia."".","Well said, it's the same kind of thought process for all the hypocritical positions Conservatives take:",0
"Right up until Russia starts using nukes. The greatest chance of nuclear weapons being unleashed has always been if a nuclear power starts losing a war. I hope Ukraine wins, but it's not worth WW3.","Oh, piss off. If Putin loses, he's most likely literally dead. You're willing to risk WW3 betting on the rationality of a narcissistic dictator who knows he's doomed. That doesn't even take into account that the US is unlikely to use strategic nukes in response to Putin's use of tactical nukes.",0
"“Under Operation LIMPID, the CAF monitors Canada’s air, land and sea approaches, and since 2022, it has stopped attempts to surveil Canadian territory,” he added.","“The Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are fully aware of recent efforts by China to conduct surveillance operations in Canadian airspace and maritime approaches utilizing dual-purpose technologies,” he said in a statement. Dual-purpose technology is equipment that can be used for both civilian and military applications.",0
So you’re Italian. Then you know that she’s a fucking fascist in the direct spirit of Mussolini and that they have been growing in influence and power in Italian politics recently.,This woman is the granddaughter of a fascist dictator. What other analogy are we going to compare it too. I’m not even sure if we are on the same page. Right wing populism is real.,1
"- If you have gas now and want to get rid of it, you must replace with induction if you want a comparable cooking experience.",Cooking on gas is a lot better than cooking on electric there is an actual difference. While induction is nice it's actually pretty loud and it doesn't work on every piece of cooking equipment you have.,1
"Similarly, if that same cop chose to take on the mob, got beaten to a pulp and died a week later in the hospital, we'd agree that was in the line of duty even though he didn't actually die while ""at work"" right?","If the police officer saw a mob of people coming down the hallway chanting hang Mike Pence and decided to shoot themselves instead of being ripped apart by the mob, we'd agree that death was in the line of duty, right?",0
Cuckservative governments in both countries have been intentionally fucking those systems up to force privatization. So yeah it's still a capitalism problem.,"IMHO, that's the same thing with capitalism. It requires critical thinking, wisdom, and attention from citizens. (e.g. enforcing anti-trust laws, keeping economic inequality at healthy levels, making sure the social mobility ladder is there and is very wide, and functions both way, i.e. rich but dumb and lazy people fall, poor but intelligent and hard working people rise, making sure education is free, including higher education; making sure unions have high degree of freedoms, and rights (as they're the checks-and-balances of the upper-class and their corporations), making sure parliament is elected by proportional representation, so that people from the lower and middle class can get elected with support from unions, and make sure taxes are fair, and inequality low, making sure the field is level and people rise on merit alone (but people don't fall too low, i.e. a rather equal society) and etc. etc.).",1
"But Florida is in a fix, and unless they want their taxpayers picking up Disney's slack in the billions of dollars, or even risking a move, if i were Disney, i'd look at my options.","Genuine question, if Disney were to pull out of Florida, what would that do to their economy? I imagine the state brings in a lot of tourism revenue because of Disneyland, so would their economy tank if Disney decided to leave?",1
"Pro russia are their own kind of despicable persons but I equally hate the idiots who try to ""both sides"" the issue, even if sometimes they are just oblivious pacifists with good intentions.","What's funny is Russia is recruiting neo-Nazis from Europe (who ideologically agree with Russia) at the same time as they claim they're ""denazifying"" Ukraine.",1
Biden's lawyers notified DOJ and the National Archive about his documents and preemptively returned them without any official request ever needing to be made.,"In Biden's case (from the reports that we currently have), they found the documents, notified the proper agencies, and transferred them ASAP. In Trump's case, he lied about having them, refused to turn them over, and has repeatedly fought to have the government turn the classified documents back over to him calling them his property. That shows much more intent than ""someone made a mistake, here are these documents back."".",1
"Every action DeSantis takes is basically this calculus: ""Will this energize Republican voters if Fox News talks about it?"".","I get it. I’m afraid of lingering problems from covid too. But I’m under no illusions about post covid symptoms being caused by the vaccine not covid itself. People need to remember what 2020 was like. I know people who still have fatigue and brain fog from that period. Covid is a nasty virus, and it isn’t done with us. We’ve all just trying to live.. the science will catch up, but maybe not in time for us. It’s been like this for all humans across all times and places.",1
"What would an investigation show? We already know there is a tesla factory in China... Does that create a liability in terms of blackmailing the head of twitter, spacex, etc - yes it does.",Doing an investigation assumes there is something hidden that we need to find. There is already a known business relationship and it’s not really about doing an investigation it’s more about understanding whether the intersection between a global market and geopolitical interests needs to be controlled.,0
"So, what would compliment solar/wind effectively other than coal/oil/gas that we can dial up and down or massive energy storage capacity to even it out? After all, I'm not hearing a problem with nuclear so much as a warning about over-relying on solar/wind.",There can be a need for nuclear when wind and solar is at it's limit but that isn't the case in any country right now.,1
"Anyway, the scenario in which this protects Ukraine is when Russia fires missiles near the border, so that Poland can claim that they were protecting their own airspace.",The argument of “If we give Ukraine our equipment we’ll have less for ourselves” forgets that you stockpiled all that tech to defend yourself from Russia. And Ukraine is actively dismantling Russia’s military!,1
"Someone didn't read the article. Or the consistent public polling numbers for the last 30 years showing 70% of Americans support safe, legal access to abortion.",If you do your research you will see that 60% of America believes abortion should be legal in the first trimester and 83% when the mothers life is danger.,1
There is a link within the twitter thread that the article is about. but it is just a snip from somewhere about a plea deal for a firearms charge. I can't vouch for anything about this.,"I don't pretend to know why these people do what they do. When I do see someone wearing a MAGA hat these days they're typically a senior citizen and they appear to have a permanent scowl on their face. As for the people wearing ""L et's Go Brandon"" clothing, they're a mix of the aforementioned MAGA hat wearers or younger ""country"" folk who feel like they're on a mission to piss off all the liberals. I did see a new (to me) hat recently at Walmart being worn by a younger fellow. It said ""Pedophile Hunter"" and below it was a rifle. I can only imagine that person is a pleasant individual.",1
"Probably why so many counties are just sending armoured transports as well, Russia is trying to pull pressure away from the main battlegrounds by trying another invasion in the north. But now Ukraine will be well equipped, highly mobile, and even more prepared than last year.",It would explain why we have Ukraine light tanks that excel in mobility and have anti tank ability. The tow systems and radar will give Ukraine the advantage when on the defensive.,1
"""For years, the standard dismissal of CPAC was that it was a fringe festival running adjacent to the modern conservative movement, the kind of scene often compared to the cantina of weirdos from the Star Wars franchise. Sure, the summit mattered, but far less than its enthusiasts wanted to think, and far, far less that its adherents had hoped. After all, this is a place where former Republican presidential nominees John McCain and Mitt Romney alike drew boos, far-afield ideas about voter fraud are treated as gospel, and Russia has an oddly enthusiastic set of defenders. In the words of one former Republican member of Congress, it is the Right’s “freak show,” one where the worst impulses of the GOP are on full display.","If current GOP politicians are not sufficiently extreme, then even more extreme politicians will emerge to take their place. That seems to be the way things are going for them.",1
"Thing is, our worst years were between 2014 and 2016. There's no doubt about that and that coincidentally matches the first years of Maduro's term, sanctions on the country started 2017, so no, sanctions didn't cause our collapse as we had already collapsed for a long time. Lifting the embargo would just take the external investment away. Not like the embargo did anything terrible to us, government doesn't invest on Pdvsa anyway or anything worthwhile so not being able to use our money is better.","Everything you mentioned is fairly recent. USA was never involved against Chávez, or even Maduro until sanctions.",0
I recall at the time that the WHO was strongly against implementing any travel ban and no recollection from any liberal parties stating they are against that.,You said liberals literally begged him? Where and how did this begging come about other than saying how trump has mismanaged it and is xenophobic?,0
"Yes I am very aware. I’m specifically talking about the Kurdish faction they are targeting in Syria known as the ypg, which I’m sure based on your comment you know nothing about.",Just recently the US had to greenlight Turkeys invasion of Kurdish Syria in 2019 knowing full well what that would mean for Syrian Kurds-- and this was only the eighth great betrayal of the Kurds by America in 100 years.,1
"No, and they're not compelling anybody. The website designer in the case you're talking about hasn't been compelled to make a website for a gay couple because she doesn't offer wedding websites as a service. She could continue doing that and nobody will ever force her to make a wedding website for a gay couple.",Should the government compel someone to create a website for a gay couple when it goes against the website designers religious beliefs? Creating something is speech in itself. So compelling someone to create something is compelling someone to speech.,1
"But i get your point. There is certainly a gradient. My core point - poorly expressed for sure - was that the usual assumptions that a candidate be on the right side of the bell curve of that gradient (Gohmert and the classical assumption that most congresspeople had law degrees) are fading as the left side of the curve ascend (Boebert, Cawthorn, Santos).",Yup. They’ll implement the Jesus SAT (which will almost certainly be dumbed down too) and then point to religious school test scores on them as proof those schools are amazing and need mo money.,0
"These things constitute wearing a visible religious symbol and thereby put into question the neutrality of the state. Quebecers, especially women, fought to no longer live in a theocracy in the quiet revolution. Those who wish to proselytize, or who feel their religious belief system should permeate other aspects of civil life such as education or dispute settlement, should consider immigrating elsewhere.","A Jewish man who left the Orthodox Jewish community recently sued the Québec government, as he had only received a religious education by essentially memorising the Torah. He argued that the role of the state was to ensure each child get a general secular education.",0
Palestinian isn’t a religion and they warning about it because Christian’s are about the only people left in the Middle East who aren’t anti Israel and that can easily change.,"This is East Jerusalem which isn't considered settlements; it's been Israeli land for decades where all non-Israeli residents were offered Israeli citizenship, and those who refused became residents. Only decades later did the Palestinian Authority appear and has since tried to claim East Jerusalem as theirs.",1
Polls don’t predict winners since a margin of error of 3% with one candidate leading by 3% just means the have a really excellent chance of being in the range of losing by by 3% or winning by 9%.,I answered two poll calls before my primary since my caller ID indicated they were polling organizations. Unfortunately one was a push poll intended to find out how to make people hate the Democrat. I answered a few questions on that one before the intent became obvious and I hung up.,0
"Now that protesting is punishable by death sentence, protesting is now a fight to the death - thats as escalated as it gets.","If only protesting peacefully means you get the death sentence, at that point you might be inspired to escalate as it doesn't matter. Its how all fascist nations develop partisans and resistance movements.",1
"It's unfortunate that basically any offensive that Russia makes will result in Ukrainians dying, but a Russian attack on Kyiv would result in far more Russians dying. Even in this war that is entirely based on idiotic Russian decisions it would stand as the pinnacle of idiotic Russian strategy so far.","Now the roles are reversed, Ukraine has that approach well fortified and the Russians are trying to organize an additional army of untrained conscripts while they can't supply their current army.",0
How on earth do you resupply them? send landing ships with helicopters to around where the moscova sunk?,Plus I don't think Viktor Gushan would let them. The Transnistria military has 3 times the troops that russia has stationed there.,0
"India feels they can compete with China, but they can't compete with the US / West should we decide to cut off their access to international money because their population once again voted in a racist populist with authoritarian leanings.","I mean India and China are actual regional competitors, have gone to war in the past, have had multiple border spats sometimes deadly in the last couple years and both countries have developed or are developing vehicles to fight in high terrain so both countries at least do see a conflict as possible.",1
"The Justice Department signaled Friday it’s unlikely to share information about ongoing criminal investigations with the new GOP-controlled House, in a move that’s certain to frustrate Republicans in the chamber.",Basically the DoJ policy is that if Congress requests information that its revelation could jeopardize an ongoing criminal investigation then they will advise the President to exert executive privilege to block the release. So it actually is an executive privilege claim at its heart.,1
"It is in NATO's interest to work closely with both the Turks and the Kurds. Therefore it is in NATO's interest to permanent pursue peace talks between the Turks and the Kurds. In my mind, that leads to the creation of a Kurdish state, likely carved out of Syria.","The Turks have a genocidal obsession with the Kurds. You can't trust them. They think every Kurd is "" PKK"".",1
Small guided munitions are a great theory but avoiding an incoming munition is one of the few things a drone can accomplish fairly easily and completely autonomously without gps or external comms- they’re amazing at evasive maneuvers.,Laser communications can be jammed…. You literally just need to fire your own laser at the receiver.,0
"“Peters collected samples from one side of dorsal nerve tissue, a small amount of which is typically trimmed during gender-affirming phalloplasty procedures.”.","So it seems like they took a small sample that would have normally been discarded anyway, not like they just went and cut the whole thing out. It’s easy to get confused because the thing about just saying “bottom surgery” is that it’s a catch all category, not one specific surgery. There’s like, a hundred different procedures and a thousand different combinations depending on what the patient is prioritizing: aesthetics, sensation, penetration, urinary function, etc. etc. etc. There’s a much wider array of options than in top surgeries. Some of them absolutely do involve moving or altering the clitoral nerves, usually to place them into the head of the new phallus or to just make the new phallus out of the enlarged clit itself.",0
"That's why both Trump and Putin (and now, Orban) can't be grounded in reality. Their own people would reject them if they were.",^1 - the inventor of Putin's Russia and its propaganda - started as a postmodenist theater director.,0
"The Committee did A LOT of work and they got a lot of information out over the last couple of months. If they feel that these are the appropriate charges (there could be more), then I can only imagine that DOJ will find something similar.","What it does do, I think, is give us some insight into what DOJ may end up finding / charging Trump (and others) with.",0
"The derailment of the train in Ohio was likely more severe because the Trump administration repealed a key safety rule. A rule was passed under Obama that made it a requirement for trains carrying hazardous flammable materials to have ECP brakes, but this was rescinded in 2017 by the Trump administration.","If you're referring to the statements about this being due to Trump's cancelling an Obama era regulation, that regulation applied to Class 3 flammable liquids, this train was carrying class 2. Buttegeig misled the public with his statement.",1
"It certainly won't be a cakewalk, but Russia isn't really capable of supporting a massive push of 500,000 soldiers.","They already couldn't handle the logistics for 100,000 soldiers when they were fresh. Another 500,000 can only hope to wear down the Ukrainians through sheer attrition as they throw countless soldiers into the meat grinder, which isn't an ideal strategy in the least.",0
"Lula knows that Russia and China are more strategic partners economically, whether he likes them or not, and is particularly US-skeptic due to the whole CIA-supported coup thing there when he was young. (He'd have been 18 or 19 years old at the time.).",Yes. Trump does it too. And there's so much rage-bait on reddit that I know at least 75% of it is deliberate political trolls.,1
"There is a lot of other ways that Ukraine could intercept those drones, don't we have something along the lines of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization of some sorts? If I'm not Mistaken Brazil is not in there. Don't the US has the biggest military budget in the whole world? Asking for a developing country that just got out of a coupe attempt and had an administration that was literally fascist (and don't even get me started on WHY he got elected in the first place, because that is a another story on its own, but TL;DR TRUMP) to send ammunition is like Asking Zimbabwe to help in this war. We are done with other nations messing around with other nations, we learned the hard way, 2 times already. But a question that I would like to ask is: Do you want the war to end, or do you just want Russia to loose? Or even better, can you make that distinction at all? If land is what matters then US could return some to Mexico too, that could be a demonstration of good will that could change the course of this war. The whole world was built on stolen land, and now you want us to join this madness because of it. big no from us.","We went from a guy that was literally shaking hands with Putin whilst performing the biggest genocide of indigenous people in recent history to this guy that just doesn't want to send old and not very reliable ammunition to a war that we didn't start nor should be involved. Please give us a break, last 4 years were rough. And tbh, Lula is known here to be a dumb mf, and he is very freaking old, expecting that he knows anything about this war is imo asking too much. I wouldn't call this vile, just a dumb answer, again, no one is obliged to take sides or join the war in another continent, we have our own war here against fascists and famine. I know that some countries like to send tanks and be part of every war that is fought in the world, but not us, we are not like that. We like samba, If Brazil could make the decision to end the war we would end today and we would celebrate with beers, but it is not so please don't drag us into this.",0
Ukraine will win big here. They depleted Russia as a threat to NATO and the EU for decades to come. The pain of this year and next year will be followed by a defense build up to protect Ukraine from this occurring again and then massive investment to tap their gas and other resources and then I suspect a rebuilding like was done in Germany post WW2. By defeating the bear Ukraine will be a new European hero and everyone likes and supports hero’s. They will get a boat load of cash investments and possibly grants instead of just IMF and EU loans.,Not so much really because Russia has nuclear weapons and Ukraine isn’t part of NATO or the EU yet. I hope Europe will look at Ukraines sacrifice and fast track them in. I also hope NATO will find some way to either make a mutual defense agreement with Ukraine or allow them in as a member once Russian troops are off their soil.,0
"If the 200-300 persons per jet were instead driving 200+ cars, overland, for the distance they were flying, would that not generate vastly more pollution? 🤔.","Because someone said passenger flights burn “a magnitude more” fuel than driving, let’s do the math. Average Boeing 787 Dreamliner holds 300 Passengers. Fuel Load for a maximum trip (6,300 miles) is 33,000 gallons. Let’s consider a trip across the USA, California to New York (2,915 miles). The distance in question is 46% of the maximum range of the plane, so it would be loaded with only 50% of its fuel capacity (16,500 Gallons). Let’s assume it all gets burned (it doesn’t, but whatever). Now let’s take those same 300 folks and put them in 200 cars (1/3 of the total are driving together). Let’s assume they are driving average cars, pickups and SUVs instead of electric, hybrid, etc cars, so we are getting an average of about 20 MPG (probably less, but again, whatever). The distance of 2,915 miles at 20 MPG would result in a fuel burn of 146 Gallons of fuel per car. 146 Gallons x 200 Cars = 29,200 Gallons of fuel… nearly TWICE what that single passenger plane would consume, despite all the “whatever” guesses in the favor of the cars. 🤔 A “magnitude more” fuel would mean the plane would be burning 1,000% more than the cars. Clearly, with this, the commenter can be seen to be wrong.",0
"Not going to lie, even before reading the text of the doc, I presumed, the Latvia govrmnt did an inquiry into the channel and found that Rain's activity helps Russian war effort more than it hurts.",If Latvia and the West would have them lose all credibility to the Russian people (especially those still within Russia) then what use would they be as an opposition news source?,1
"The propaganda machine will be started once he gets the nomination ""Oh you liked Trump's policies? Well DeSantis is just like him, but far smarter and more effective!"".","Yep. It's not genuinely about her school grades; that's simply an estimate for her decision-making capacity, which is the cover story for the basic forced-birther position. They don't actually care about her academic potential.",1
Edit: should mention that wolves only returned to Denmark within the last decade. Hunting them is illegal and has led to prison sentencing.,"Based on a report by Aarhus University there’s an estimated number of 30, rising by 14 in 2022 through successful breeding. So far more than 5.",0
If the Dem establishment referred to Bernie as a moderate socialist and Biden as a radical corporatist I think we would see different outcomes.,These are all things you should be telling Bernie Sanders when you ask him why he never called himself a moderate instead of asking everyone else why they never called him a moderate.,1
">The Grand Jury heard extensive testimony on the subject of alleged election fraud from poll workers, investigators, technical experts, and State of Georgia employees and officials, as well as from persons still claiming that such fraud took place. We find by a unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election.","This report is from a grand jury on a massive racketeering investigation into Trump and crew for their attempts to influence/overturn the election in Georgia. It includes the ""find me 11,780 votes"" phone call, other similar phone calls, false statements made to the Georgia legislature, intimidation of election workers, and the fake elector scheme.",1
Logic works as more India buys higher loses Russia has to bear so it's effective. This leads to a net outflow of money from russia. I think it's hard for you to understand basic concepts of money. I suggest you read more about it.,"Turkey is giving drones , South korea is condemning and India has given essential medical humanitarian aid to Ukraine. So that should exempt all three for purchasing Russian oil.",0
"It's a start, I would say majority of couples know someone who can drive them to state lines where it's recognized and get someone ordained in that state to marry.","You’re basically guaranteed the ability to have a recognized marriage as long as you’re able to travel to a protected state and get married there. However, not all lgbtq individuals have the resources or income to get married in another state. While I’m lucky to live in a blue state, it is really heartbreaking to think about the hundred of thousands if not millions of lgbtq+ individuals that won’t be able to get married in their home state and will have to spend even more time and resources to receive the same protection as straight, cis-gender Americans.",1
I believe he meant that the aliens were unaware of the concept of someone shooting it down (due to not having wars and conflicts for millions of years) so it was unshielded and as such an easy target.,Maybe those aliens have evolved beyond the need of weapons and didn’t expect other species to be so primitive and violent so they didn’t bring weapons….. this time….,1
"Oh certainly, it will be a painful one for the Russians, but the Ukrainians are gonna need ever munition they can get to sustain that defense. If US cuts military supply to Ukraine in February, that won't help their cause.","The way I see it the US ain’t letting go of supplying Ukraine any time soon, even if public opinion sours over time.",1
"Israel has gradually increased the scope of aid to Ukraine from zero to humanitarian to sharing of intel, especially about the Iranian arms. Also, Israel recently approved NATO to provide Ukraine with weapons with Israeli-made components including fire guidance and electro-optic systems.","So, yeah, Israel is increasingly flexible in Ukraine's favor and is pushing the boundary on approved aid further and further up as time goes by.",0
"ETA: It might also help drive students out of public schools and into private schools, which is a backdoor way to defund public schools, helping with the GOP's long-term goal of destroying public education. Then, children of the rich will still get educated, but children of the poor and middle class won't be able to afford it and will either be stuck with progressively worse public schools, or, eventually, no schools at all, once the GOP drives out enough students they can declare public schools a failure and say they're just ending public schools altogether.","Public education used to be controversial because people wanted to limit who had access to a quality education, but now it's controversial because people want to force a lower quality education onto everyone. Derp.",1
"So long as we have leverage in the form of military aid to Ukraine, we need to use that leverage maximally to rid the country of corruption, whether Zelenskyy likes it or not.","If you mean the corruption tricked Russia into thinking it would take less than a week to take Ukraine, then that is probably part of it, buy Zelensky had been running on fighting corruption since he was made leader.",1
"The Democratic side has no equivalent to this, not on real issues, and certainly not on invented issues, so people either fall into the conservative narrative (see the ) or just generally stop paying attention.","They're kept terrified of immigrants. Of minorities. Of becoming a minority. Of the gays. Of trans kids. Of ""crime"". Of Dr. Seuss books. Of any number of things that fuels conservative hysteria.",0
"The main thing that Twitter has going for it is that it is the social media platform of choice for public figures (celebrities, politicians, etc). Once they lose that, they're basically irrelevant. And if they fail due to financial issues before that, those public figures will find somewhere else.","Not saying it isn't \wrong\, and Bernie is calling for new laws regardless. It's just not what existing antitrust laws were intended to deal with.",0
"People in the West probably have a hard time picturing it without watching a lot of Putin's translated speeches, but he's a really good politician in terms of speaking in public. He's very good at making jokes and using funny folksy Russian idioms and he's remarkably quick witted.","Putin is a murderous dictator and completely intimidating and evil, but he also is well known for having a very dry sense of humor and banter in public. If you watch a lot of Putin speeches and interviews, it starts to make a bit more sense.",0
"I think the ""no negotiations"" was around deciding not to pay outstanding debts. There's no reason for Biden to negotiate on that because the House already passed the bills authorizing the spending.","President Joe Biden will press House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for a detailed list of spending proposals when the two meet at the White House on Wednesday, officials said ahead of the meeting.",1
Will 'nuclear winter' still be a thing since the advent of positive feedback global warning? Indeed it may be the only thing that will get humanity to lower its CO2 emissions (once the initial fires die out).,"Remember, we were depending on Russian rockets to get Our guys to the ISS, for years. It finally took a private company, Musk's SpaceX, for the US to be able to stop asking Russia for assistance.",0
"yeah. For a while after the civil war the Republicans were the party of Capitalists and abolitionists. But given the Capitalists slowly becoming the dominant force in the Republican party, the leftists got pushed into the Democratic party, and of course leftists and Racism don't really go together well it split the Democrats on social issues with the Racists not really giving a fuck about the economic issues. So when the capitalists realized that their party was rapidly losing steam they courted the Racist vote after the much larger socially liberal arm of the Democrat party decided that black people have rights.",When right after they passed a bunch of voter disenfranchisement policies and are now trying to figure out how to make themselves win (in the sneaky way).,1
"We need to see more from Shapiro, but Whitmer has a bright future if she can use the new Democratic majority in both Chambers of the state legislature to their fullest extent.","Would really love to see the Democrats expand their bench of up and coming players, but Whitmer would be an amazing choice for a presidential run in 2024 or 2028. Buttigieg as a running mate would be an interesting ticket.",1
"ISW recently said the ceasefire would disproportionately benefit Russia. So Russia did what Russia does, try to gaslight Ukraine to get an advantage and if Ukraine rejects they get propaganda material.","It's the usual Russian propaganda strategy, where they don't even pretend to say the truth. Instead, they drown their audience in absurd, mutually containing statements (like these ones about ceasefire), to create an impression that truth does not exist — at which point, anything becomes believable.",1
The problem is that the Russian approach to air power doesn't really lend itself to ever achieving air superiority. It just isn't how their airforce works.,"They don't really even do in-flight refueling. Think about how fundamental that is to the US / NATO air doctrine. Russian planes take off, do their mission, and land a couple hours later. That is all they can do.",0
"If Putin wins, imagine the staggering increased cost of maintaining more defences in the region (a direct US interest).","Or, if Ukraine keeps winning, imagine how much less the US needs to spend on defences in the region (its already down a lot, considering Sweden and Finland will join nato, and that it has been proven Russia's military is a paper tiger).",0
"However, nothing can be objectively wrong no matter what it is, because “wrong” is a subjective statement, just as “right” or “good” are.","There is no such thing as “objectively right” or “objectively wrong”. We may subjectively agree about what we consider “right” or what we consider “wrong”, but that doesn’t make those things objectively so.",0
"Focus on cementing Democrat gains on states like Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Michigan and try to bring Wisconsin and North Carolina in the Blue side.","If the Dems end up losing the House, I think it can be said that they lost it in New York: they blew redistricting, and then they badly underperformed a still-very-winnable set of districts, even while faring well elsewhere.",0
"The Democratic party is in the business of staying in power with minimal effort, not winning mass elections.","The Democratic Party wins mass elections. The Democratic Party also loses with a TON more votes than Republicans. See how many more votes Hillary got than Trump. The Democratic Party is not hurting for votes, and they put in a lot more than a minimal effort. I'm sorry you feel left out.",1
Very sad. India may hold the geopolitical key to stability in the region - by virtue of rapid modernisation of its economy and industry. If China has a near-peer neighbour it might think twice before expanding with impunity across everyone’s borders.,Some progress is always better than no progress - but when your neighbours ie China are progressing at a lightning pace? Well you either match that speed of progression or get left behind….,0
This is why this free food shit is both a waste of money and tremendously damaging to the health of children unless we make sure it’s only healthy food being supplied.,"Give kids free lunches, theres 0 justification for forcing the peanut butter sandwich cause your parents didn't send you money or you forgot or the money got stolen or whatever.",1
Fired using an ordinary rifle eg M-16 using similar propulsion to what normally sends a bullet through a human that is 2x-4x farther than the close distance that “Rubber Bullets” are normally fired at.,“Rubber Bullets” is the term for a packet of 3 metal balls / cylinders the size of a medium-large marble covered in a thin layer of hard rubber.,0
"Gerrymandering doesn't help state wide elections though, except by discouraging people to vote at all.","But voter turnout was shit, and it wouldn't have taken that many more voters in any of the swing states to have pushed it over the line. Because people didn't like her for whatever reason.",1
"It's the oil companies pushing the nukes, they know they are boondoggles that will take forever to build, in the meantime we keep burning oil. Russia is a prime example, they want you to buy their uranium, waste money on nuclear power and keep being reliant on them for both.","The oil and gas lobby are now fully behind nuclear as it will take decades to kickstart the industry after Fukushima with everyone realising what a liability the nuke industry had become. Money that could go to renewables is being spent on nuclear projects that wont be producing electricity for a decade or so. Small reactors, the hope of the nuke brigade will soon be seen as the folly that it is, reactors were made big to use economy of scale, small reactors will cost just as much to run as big reactors if not more.",0
"You have to pay what you owe, yes. That doesn't imply that the debt ceiling must increase. It implies that some discretionary programs may go unfunded or under-funded because the money allotted to them in the budget is needed to pay other higher-priority obligations.",In actual fact the debt ceiling was exceeded the moment the government committed to make those payments without having the income to cover them—not when the bills came due.,0
"But again, what they did makes healthcare more affordable for the uninsured. Those of us who have insurance will barely feel this change. The insurance pays a lot of the cost and we have jobs to fulfill the rest.",Those without insurance are simply left behind by society without this. This makes them have access to vaccines.,0
"Well from my very limited googling, I have found that the first “fighter jet” was constructed and built in Germany 1941, so it’s plausible some would know of it.","überbleibsel von vor den Reformen... ich erinnere mich aich noch an geleakte Berichte der Bundeswehr in denen beschrieben wird, dass genug Luft-Luftraketen für den Kampfeinsatz eines Eurofighters zur Verfügung stehen..",1
"There are not a lot of persuadable voters in the country, but they decide the balance of power, and they're concerned about the authoritarianism in the Republican ranks. They don't want a party that just endlessly litigates every election they lose.","This why the dems wont be able to stop fascism, they cant even hold the line on a contested election going into recount.",1
"The takeaway is that the UAF needs more and better military aid NOW, and must continue to receive increasing levels of aid, if they are to succeed in restoring Ukraine's borders. Ukraine suffers at a strategic level from the fact that its minimalist aim, the expulsion of Russian forces from its borders, is also its maximalist aim, a war goal that will take thousands of lives, hundreds of millions of dollars, and likely years yet, to achieve.","even pretending to believe Ukraine will keep killing 700 people a day without fail till this ends, it's still at least another year and a half before Russia ""goes broke"" to use your metaphor.",1
"Some good news is that while they were firing missiles at us the whole morning our forces didn’t sit idly, Russians reported that one of their S-300 launchers was destroyed by our strike right in the middle of the missile attack. There were also a bunch of other attacks on Russian positions on their side of the border, as well as another strike on Engels airbase, though I’m pretty sure this time they did actually manage to intercept our drone.","Imagine if Ukraine had the capability to swarm launch long range missiles or drones every time Russia did this, but instead of hitting civilian targets, they hit multiple military targets deep within Russia.",1
"Yeah nominate one of the few centrist Republicans, get a few people to your side and badabing you advert the worst, show bipartisanship and piss off the rancid right.","Why are we all acting like the Dems need to find a Republican who they can vote for? Moderate Republicans (if they even exist) should look for a moderate Democrat, say ""hey, you have our 6-7 votes"" and all the Dems get behind them.",1
"Yeah, I often heard locals disparaging people who moved there. Guess I blended in enough to hear this. I wanted to tell them that my husband and I were both recruited for jobs that required graduate degrees because there weren't enough educated local people to fill them, but I kept my mouth shut. Bless their hearts.","I don't know how Lindsey Graham survives. South Carolinians tend to be no-nonsense, and Lindsey Graham has more flip-flops than Myrtle Beach.",0
"Just to clarify, the healthcare shouldn't be classified as ""free"" but paid for by tax dollars instead of the current backwards system where private for profit companies have inserted themselves into the process along with employers.","It's also more efficient than a public option because a public option would inevitably lead to sicker people being shunted out of their private healthcare, thus making for two smaller, unbalanced risk pools. The larger the risk pool, the more efficient the insurance.",1
"If you want to tax the rich, tax their ASSETS. Every year. Don’t tax income. Don’t tax hard work and earning lots of money. Tax HIGH LIVING.","Why would anyone pay more taxes than they have to? They are obviously saying ""tax us more"" to appease the people, not because they actually want (or even should) pay more.",1
"The losses are great for Ukraine and bad for Russia, but as long as Putin is in charge, the war will go on needlessly for a long time unfortunately.",Russia is not like the US where 1 US soldier dies and everyone is demanding answers as to why and how the military could let that happen. Russia would gladly sacrifice all of its population to ensure any type of “victory” for the government.,0
"Edit- “Ask not to track” means Apple isn’t gonna share data with other developers about other apps you use, etc. This cuts down on targeted ads and helps prevent a company from building a profile on you.","TDLR: Apple is collecting data exactly how it says it is, while Mysk is using clever wording to mislead and file a lawsuit.",0
"I would agree with that, with the exception that corps are still acting immorally. Yes, theyre encouraged to do so by the system, in fact being legally required in some circumstances, but theyre still choosing to be immoral bastards, and while the system is to blame, dont let them off the hook because their cruelty helped out the shareholders.","These fucking companies warp our laws, ruin our kids future, manipulate our media, pay off our politicians and wal away with earning everything and contributing nothing.",1
Turkey properly applied the document that has allowed them to maintain their control over the Dardanelles for the last century. The only thing that's of note is that Turkey has decided that Russia is legally belligerent in a conflict with Ukraine at this time.,"So as soon as they for first time announced Russia to be war belligerent, that was it. They are war belligerent, they shall not pass. Except what black sea fleet ships Russia had out in Mediterranean.",1
"To say ""it can't be Communist if there's a state or authority"" is nonsense and shows you don't know much about Communist theory.","there are so many people like you who will tell everyone ""they don't know what communism is"" without outlining or defining what makes China communist.",1
Oh they are definitely going to try to capture it. I'd love to be on the team coming up with ideas for that. I'd say float a tethered balloon out the back of a C130 and try to get it tangled up.,What's to understand? They sanction Australian wine because they are fragile piss babies who can't even handle another country having a free press. And they wonder why everyone is suspicious of them.,0
Ukraine needs more air and missile defense systems so that fewer Russian missiles get through and then Ukraine needs more heavy weapons (plus training) to drive Russia out of their land as well as more sanctions to disrupt the Russian war machine and make it harder to fund the war.,"What is needed is a large amount of air defense to counter those attacks, the ability to conduct long-range strikes deep into russia to destroy stockpiles of missiles, airfields etc, and strikes against Iran to prevent production and shipping of those drones.",1
"Regardless, to attack nato countries Russia would have to move material across a hostile freshly conquered nation.","This is a case of non NATO country fending off Russia, if Russia invaded Poland that would be the full deployment of NATO forces.",1
And even she could tell Ron DeSantis was a racist weirdo and a scumbag for trying to whitewash history and hated the attempts to gloss over how this country fucked over Black people.,I grasped the concept of my white privilege some time ago but only in recent years have learned how powerful and horrible it is.,1
But they can compel participation in the civics of this country(see jury duty). Additionally if i am remembering this correctly Australia doesn't force you to vote for a candidate more that you must cast a ballot as there is an option for none of the above.,"Your comment wasn’t really about people who couldn’t be arsed to vote (as opposed to not voting as an act of protest), so I wasn’t addressing that segment of voters.",1
"Hmm … i see this from your CNN link: ""Senior Justice Department officials have not made a final decision on whether to charge Gaetz, according to the source."".","And your WaPo article was better at explaining it too (thanks for that link): ""Senior department officials have not made a final decision on whether to charge Gaetz, but it is rare for such advice to be rejected, these people told The Washinon Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the deliberations. They added that it is always possible additional evidence emerges that could alter prosecutors’ understanding of the case."".",0
"The majority of us are fucking sick of Republicans antics but the GOP is unable to see that- they did horrible in the midterms by peddling there bullshit but they will keep at it, one trick elephant.","Democrats keep hoping that if they're the adults in the room, eventually the GOP acting like insane children will hurt them. It often seems the opposite is true.",1
"That's why we don't consult you, we vote in Republicans like Romney and DeSantis that will plunder the program for us. We're tired of paying for the lazy who refuse to save.","Ok i will say you do provide a convincing argument. It's for social stability, and that's a fair point. I don't really know how I'd argue against that.",0
"In this scenario, Democrats win every state they won in 2016 and Republicans and Trump split all the states they won in 2016, with neither getting to 270, right?","The only way that works is if only one of Trump or the Republican is on the ballot in most states. Otherwise, they split the vote and the Democrat wins in places they wouldn't otherwise win. That would have to take coordination between the Republicans and the Trump campaign. A Trump independent run kind of implies he's trying to get revenge on the Republicans so I don't see him partaking in a scheme like this and even if he were to, the odds of the vote going exactly that way are far less than 1 in 3.",0
"This story is called a narrative-push, these Christians are from liberal congregations or denominations. The petition's sponsor is Faithful America, which organizes social justice-minded Christians to challenge right-wing extremism.","Nope, the petition is from Faithful America which is an organization for social justice-minded Christians.",0
Why on earth are you saying it's debatable when you have precisely no clue what you're talking about?,"Let me help you as a person who lives in Taiwan. Taiwan manufactures virtually fucking everything. The idea that Taiwan couldn't produce a drone is, to understate it, completely laughable. Like, comes from Taiwanese manufacturers.",0
"One reason is, Democrats tend to want to put more military spending into the USAF and USN and the Republicans have typically favored the Army and USMC in funding. Second, if I remember correctly. Most President who are democrats and vets have tended to be from the Navy (JFK and Carter). While Republicans who are vets tend to have served in the Army. Thirdly, well let’s just say the ASVAB scores can explain the third point. Or the branches with the types of jobs that tend to be more technical and require more brain power than running and push-ups tend to vote differently.",I’ll also follow up and I believe military times showed with polling. It also depends on the branch. The Army and Marine corps have favored the Republicans while the Navy and Air Force have favored the Democrats.,0
John Deere here: You‘ll be glad to hear that we are going to introduce our Deere Special Marriage monthly subscription soon. For a yet to be determined amount you‘ll be able to be with your love 24/7 and it even will be able to cook your coffee ) You‘ll even be able to have offspring. ).,"Yes. Many MANY people buy it. That is why propaganda exists, because people buy it. Doesn't matter if it's religious, political, or social... there are people who are either foolish, stupid, or just misled and brainwashed by their authority figure and don't know any better.",1
"Katie's my Rep now, and hopefully we can replace her with someone good. She'll be a great Senator, a Gen-X Elizabeth Warren who must have learned from .","She’d be amazing in the Senate, and smart of her to jump out early and get ahead of other potential candidates. Now we just have to hope Feinstein’s massive ego doesn’t cause her to mount an absurd reelection bid in ‘24.",1
"Among these permissible restrictions are those on sensitive places (but states may not play games by designating entire regions as sensitive, like Times Square), weapons which are unusually dangerous, gun owners who are felons or mentally defective, prohibitions against concealed weapons, and conditions on the conditions and requirements for commercial sales of arms.","You know, approximately 100% of neo-liberals would absolutely agree with the Mulford Act if they knew what it was. Good on Reagan, a man who knew excessive zeal for civil rights when he saw it, eh? Scary blacks with scary _loaded guns_ insisting on exercising their rights under the law. Threats are not free speech Except if you are a cop.",0
"Of course, that is only because the employers organization denied the employee union to have special exceptions that would have prevented life threatening situations from happening.","The issue is mostly related to the state, I don't expect companies to do anything that doesn't increase their bottom line, but we need a government that is more employee-friendly. Such as becoming more of a wildcard in forced negotiations, the ideal is that employee/employer enter the negotiations to find a solution without involving the state.",0
"And I'll just leave this one here on one small point: Ukraine had thousands of nuclear weapons. If it had spent $0 in the past 30 years on nuclear warhead maintenance, would it completely lose its deterrence value against Russia's attempt at a full invasion?","""To put it into perspective, the US spends more on maintaining its nuclear arsenal of 3,750 warheads than Russia does on its entire military."".",1
"He showed up to protests across state lines, brought a gun with him, and made it clear he was there to kill people. He was “defending” himself in the same way that I would defend myself if willingly I jumped into a pit of lions.",He brought a gun to protests. He 100% wanted to hurt people. You don’t Cross state lines with a gun and show up to anti-police protests intending to just watch. I can guarantee that to him “playing vigilante” included killing liberals. That was his goal. And saying he was “attacked” is misleading as even his side of the story leaves it a little muddy as to why he was attacked. If I saw someone step into my school with a gun you’d be damn right I’d attack them. If they shot me would it be categorized as self defense?,0
"They ARE the SDF. The US just rebranded them due to the PR disaster that the YPG was engaging in before the US got involved with them, namely forced evictions of native residents in territories they controlled, which continued all the way up to 2015-16 when the US forced them to stop.","Oh, also. Wanna know why the Kurds have never been able to unite under a single flag? It's because a third are Islamist, a third are communist, and a third actually don't care about independence and are okay with just trying to get more rights in the nations they live in.",0
"Also - infrastructure modern?? Lol cmon man theres barely roads in many places, theres no address system - you cant even get a package delivered from the US without going through a lot of trouble.",Just had to say something as I love CR a lot but dont like seeing people get so weirdly hyperbolic about it.,0
"1967 israel won the war, and unilaterally created the status quo by giving control over the mosque to jordan with some other rules, again, self imposed.","the place is like central park new york, its huge, not a lot of people except ramadan, and most people use it to get from one side of the city to the other. the mosque itself is just one part of it.",0
"While I may not fully understand the situation with DOW, but on the surface, this seems better than the costly / chemically intense method of turning them into running tracks. If the shoe is still wearable, then it should be worn. Reselling cost can be used to cover transportation fees.",The bigger issue should be the straight up lying from the company rather than the initiative to reuse / recycle old sneakers.,0
Weaponized? How about a maniac who had no business carrying a semiautomatic rifle using it to senselessly murder 5 people.,"I'm not sure if you understand. The right wing in America is, for some reason, gloating at this shooter being non-binary. Somehow they 'win' if they can cast this asa non discriminatory killing or even better a shooting by a member of the LGBTQ+ community.",0
"There's not much of anything I can find that Ukraine is still there, are the aircraft still working etc.",Ukraine sold them the jets a while back and I’d imagine that package also included the pilots and maintainers on contracts. So they are contacted to the Chadian government.,1
"There are hurdles to Yandex’s plan. It would need to find a local buyer willing to purchase its Russian businesses. It would also need Moscow’s permission to transfer technology licenses outside of the country, and Yandex shareholders would need to agree to the plan.","Moscow-headquartered Yandex, the country’s dominant search engine founded by two Russian entrepreneurs, is hoping to transfer its most promising new technologies overseas and ditch most of its Russian business to avoid the effects of Western sanctions imposed after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia to Ukraine.",0
"Yeah, that's also Russia holding the 3rd largest defense budget for over a decade as well as the massive stockpiles of Soviet arms. Granted, we have no idea how much went to corruption, but a single 120 billion injection doesn't quite even the field as much as it would seem just looking at 2022 numbers alone.",1). they are completely different than any jets the Ukrainians have used. So training would be a long-term process as well as F-16s requiring a substantial amount more specialized and frequent maintenance than current Ukrainian jets.,0
"2. It may accept to end the war on the grounds it incorporates the eastern Ukraine regions in to Russia proper and Crimea as is. With Ukraine acceptance that this is what it will have to concede. In this scenario Ukraine will want insurance against another attack down the track for NATO intervention (no nato bases in Ukraine but a mutual agreement to assist, if not Nato then a coalition of neighbours such as Poland, Finland, Latvia etc).",3. Ukraine is actually overrun and turned once more into a Belarusian style state with the west allowing this to happen. Or the west and Nato decide it can not accept Ukraine being overrun and decides to intervene in Ukraine only.,0
"People also forget that while the Ukrainian army has been trained well by the UK/US for many years and in possession of some NATO equipment, the bulk of the equipment they are using is the same level as the Russians, except there is a lot less of it.",The horrifying reality is that a lot of Ukrainian people are dying on the front lines and the world should wake up and take stronger measures against Russia sooner than later.,0
They've made about two generations of people who are disinterested in actual democracy and governance other than to keep it out of their lives as much as possible and totally invasive in their political and cultural enemies lives.,"Our Democracy and Freedoms were established to combat the principles and powers of the political, religious, and greedy who seek to live at the expense of the weak, poor, and desperate members of the United States of America 🇺🇸.",1
"You're asking WAY too much with the current voter population. If younger people start voting as regularly as the older people, THEN you will start to see monumental changes and the likely resultant pushback from the regressive crowd.",Everybody wants fast and large change but it's not going to happen as long as the Republicans are in control of even one branch of government.,0
You're not thinking far enough in to the future. Legal precedent needs to be set so that someone who comes long after the stench of 45 has faded from public memory (like the first ) has no potential avenue to try and become a dictator.,"Now with that in mind, think about how long it would take to get to the point of charging an ex president for the most high profile criminal case the United States has ever seen.",1
"You actually can say words that would do just that, until those words become an ""incitement to imminent lawless action,"" where such action is likely.","His inciting speech is protected speech until it becomes ""an incitement to imminent lawless action,"" where such action is likely.",0
"We've seen a Russian in the brush of the woods fake a surrender awhile ago near his 2-3 other comrades by pulling out a grenade, he was quickly shot by the Ukrainians and his grenade blew up on his body. The Ukrainian soldiers filming then said ""Hey don't shoot these other guys"" and then the video ends. These soldiers made the choice to kill the unarmed men out of either fear or anger because of the injury rambovich caused. I don't believe Perfidy applies to group based on the actions of one soldier, especially those who didnt take part. Whatever happened it was fucked up and horrible.",Edit: Their dead/dying bodies can be seen in this drone footage that people tried to claim was from mortarfire.,0
"I think the Canadian military settled on the simpler, saner solution: whenever someone ends up in Canadian territory, scramble jets to deal with it.","All of this combined shows why Canada doesn't really invest much up there. To build up the Arctic would require tens-to-hundreds of billions of dollars (you'd need train routes through completely untouched lands, you'd need to build proper harbours, etc), somehow borne on the taxes of only 38 million Canadians.",0
"In any state where the cities outvote the rural areas, but barely, they want to end mail in voting. In states like Utah where even the cities can't (or won't) outvote the rural areas, they don't care.","In cities, mail in voting allows people that work 15 hours a day to barely afford a studio apartment for their family of 4 to vote. Those people will usually vote Democrat because they want a higher minimum wage and better support programs. They don't have time to vote in person.",0
Haiti is too failed to pull itself out of this by itself unfortunately and all the aid being dumped in doesn't do a thing without a functional government to administer it and build a future where it can be more independent.,"When it comes to Haiti, it's not that the world hasn't tried, it's just that it's such a messed up Gordian Knot of interconnected problems that even the best development planners in the world working together with enormous budgets haven't been able to figure it out.",1
"Vladamir Putin has figured out the west is supplying weapons (no shit shirlock), but really it's not the west fighting the war (except some of the volunteers), it's mainly Ukrainians. Russia is so fucked and so is the idea of bringing back the soviet union, it didn't work out that well for the 24 million dead from world war 2, that was a lack of support from the government sort of like what is happening right now to Russians being conscripted. Makes me think it's Russia's population control. .","Yes. The Soviet Union had 35,000 nuclear weapons and about 3,200 in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus at the moment of its dissolution.",1
What you're saying is that he is being treated differently for political reasons. I'm saying the same thing.,"It’s true. Most laws are to control the working class. I always felt that way but what opened my mind up more is when I was hanging out with this rich kid I met for a couple of months. He had a flashy car and he was driving us into the city. He parked illegally in a spot that said $250 fine. I pointed the fine out and he just said, that’s how much it cost to get good parking and left his car there. Most laws have massive fines attached to them and any law where a fine is associated is only there for the working class. Any elite sees those fines as the cost of business, those fines are the equivalent of paying $5 for them. It’s no sweat.",1
"Does the person with support from 210 reps become speaker, or do they have to keep negotiating until a 218 of them get behind someone?",he cannot possibly fulfill the duties I imagine even a USA house speaker would have against tradition and process.,1
"I don't think so. I'm not familiar with the AZ courts or election process, but so far she most likely has been through:",Regardless: this is moving surprisingly fast. I'd be surprised if she actually got to the supreme court (federal or state).,0
"We live in SE MI, but spend a lot of time in the Traverse City area. It's eye opening just how belligerently far right some of rural areas we travel through can be. Hell, for over 5 damn years we drove past a billboard just outside of Cadillac saying ""We Love 45"" with that shit stains smiling face plastered on it. It was a good day when we saw it had finally been covered up.",There was another Michigan sub created by right wingers because they consider r/Michigan to lean too much to the left.,0
"It doesn't, because there are many years and factors before college in one's life that sets one up for success. The system we live in is also not meritocratic.","So if merit as all it is, what happens when the most qualified are minority and get hired. They going to change the law to make sure, so dumb white guy gets a job.",1
Baltic countries and Poland would really enjoy sending their full military might against starving and underequipped russian troops.,"No, Georgia and Moldova are next steps. We all know what the capabilities of russian military are, they'd stand no chance against Baltic militaries which are backed by NATO.",0
Don't forget operation Barbarossa and the Ukrainian auxiliary police who collaborated with the Einsatzgruppe in pogroms.. And Vinytsia. Ukraine largely collaborated with the SS during the Holocaust.,In the (mild) defense of the Ukrainians during WWII -- they were caught between the USSR that had already been steadily genociding them and the incoming Nazis.,1
"Question 2: ""Do you think it more important that a state's electoral votes be cast for the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in that state, or is it more important to guarantee that the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states becomes president?"".","“. . . to this very day the former president, his allies and supporters pledge that in the presidential election of 2024 — if the former president or his anointed successor as the Republican Party presidential candidate were to lose that election — that they would attempt to overturn that 2024 election in the same way that they attempted to overturn the 2020 election.” – Judge Luttig.",0
"We all thought the Russian military was super strong before this war; Ukraine was no different, and the Russian generals knew this. Its just that they fatally miscalculated the actual effects of that thought on their enemy. And here we are.","It is not deranged to think every single person in the russian chain of command thought intimidation would be enough to win; when you know (or think) you have arguably one of the best propaganda machines on the planet, you're biased to think everyone thinks about you the way you think they do.",0
"The Senate sets its own rules. It takes 51 votes to change the cloture requirement. And again, they’ve done it recently.","I’m talking about the requirement for 60 votes to force a vote, and the existence of the 2-track system allowing the Senate to move on to other matters rather than having to vote on an issue before moving on to another issue.",0
"But are the little lies like Elizabeth Warren's about having native American ancestors reach that level? Probably not though her detractors would not agree. Clearly there is some level of acceptable or tolerable lying if the liar is on ""our team."".","Lmfao. Imagine saying this during a background check for a new job. ""Oh, I just assumed I graduated with the relevant degree for the position I was applying for."".",1
"She's voted with Democrats several times, but on a lot of chances to be progressive she's gone pretty much full right/conservative.","Also, perhaps more importantly, Manchin is 1000% the most liberal person we were ever going to get into a West Virginia Senate seat.",1
"The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send US-made Abrams tanks to Ukraine and could make an announcement as soon as this week, according to three US officials familiar with the deliberations.","The timing around the actual delivery of the tanks is still unclear and it normally takes several months to train troops to use the tanks effectively, officials said.",0
The progressive voter base and the progressive wing of congress (the Congressional Progressive Caucus).,He is. There’s a reason Pelosi hand selected him to take over when she stepped down. They’re very similar in their politics.,0
And China is a rising power in a world moving towards multipolarity. In the American media they have and will continue to get a ton of criticism and anti China propaganda.,"Funny how when China does hostile and aggressive actions, western media presents it as bad, but when it is us doing the hostile and aggressive actions, they present as normal, and as if we haven't even done anything wrong.",1
"Been trying to access the Georgia election portal site for the past few days to check on the status of my mail-in ballot (that I sent in a few weeks ago; was able to request an electronic ballot, fortunately, since it was a UOCAVA ballot), but I just keep getting 403 errors. Looks like they've now geo-blocked non-US IPs, from testing with a few US-based proxies, so that's a nice little ""fuck you"" to us overseas voters. At least they didn't come up with that idea before I put in my ballot request originally, I suppose.","As for sample ballots, this is the first time that I recall having received them. It was great because I was able to fill it out, take a screenshot, and then go vote knowing I had researched the people and amendments for whom I needed to vote.",1
"I'm an attorney that worked at a White Shoe firm. Nose candy was everywhere, shamelessly. I was still a small town kid at heart and perhaps regrettably didn't partake. It was a bit odd to me at the time, but now I know how common it is. Fwiw, I didn't work at that firm in the 80's either.","I feel like Zelensky will leave a greater legacy if he finds a way to allow Putin's Russia to save face while quietly backing out. It isn't a perfect solution by any stretch. The cost/benefit analysis is clear to me though. If Putin has little to live for (whether that be factual or psychosis), a disgraced/dying man with his power presents too great a threat to the globe as a whole. It's only called appeasement when it doesn't work. JFK didn't appease Russia when deciding to remove American offensive weapons from Turkish borders to resolve the Cuban missile crisis.",0
"This isn't from Putin. It's not a direct red line warning or feigned warning of any kind. It's a US senior official saying he doesn't think Ukraine taking Crimea is in the cards right now for a variety of reasons. He also points out it's not up to the US, it's up to Ukraine, provided they have the means.","He does mention Putin by stating he feels Putin sees Crimea differently than other occupied regions of Ukraine, and goes so far as to say Putin may see it as Russian, which could influence his response if he were to lose Crimea.",0
"The most terrible injuries were because of illegal fireworks. The pollution is almost non existent because the smog clears up after a day. The particles of the firework get washed into the soil by rain and are not that harmful. Animals also survive Storms, Thundersturms etc. so something small as man made (especially German cat. II fireworks) are nothing compared to the force of nature. It’s only 3 days a year. Banning firework will get people to buy illegal and more dangerous fireworks from Poland etc.",Soo no one can have fun with fireworks on NYE because some immigrants can’t responsibly deal with fireworks? Why must they ruin everything for the rest of us.,1
How is the population responding to the turkish government's efforts ? Do they blame Erdogan or think that the state is doing whatever it can to help ?,"If so, have people turn on Erdogan? He's been shepherding Turkey for 20 years, IMO he should be responsible for all the new buildings collapsing, but what do Turks think?",1
"Natural/organic lawn care is still lawn care, and the organic pesticides used are often less safe, less environmentally friendly, and less effective.",Friendly reminder that pesticides don't just help farmers grow food more easily - they also help reduce the carbon footprint of agriculture by reducing spoilage. It's wasteful to grow crops and let them be needlessly destroyed by pests.,1
And a friendship with Palin from when she was in the state legislature and Palin was Governor. I don't think Palin ended up running any negative ads against her either in the special or the general.,Looking at explicit votes for Palin (vs. Peltola/Blank) from Begich supporters it changed from 50.28% of voters in the special election to 66.8% in the general.,0
"Well when you reject the vaccines that work and use vaccines made by yourself that turned out to not be so effective against the original COVID-19 strain, now multiple variations later, you will have to accept the fact you messed up big time.",It's my understanding their Covid vaccines are more traditional dead virus style vaccines instead of the efficacy of the mRNA vaccines.,1
Biden didn't have to recommend Congress intervene. If the strike was bad for the economy then force the owner class hand not the workers. Why is it that the workers wreck to economy when they want basic rights but the greedy oligarchs are good for the economy?,"Instead of pointing the finger at the workers for shutting down the economy... Maybe ask the capitalists in charge why the fuck saving the economy isn't worth a few sick days. This is on them, not the union, not the working class.",1
I blame NY for flipping 4 seats from democrat to Republican. That would be the majority right there. California and ny dem leadership need to see how important it is that they do things to keep their states voting heavily blue to try to counter the gerrymandering impact from states like Florida and Texas.,"Problem is even with how blue states like NY and California are, there are still rural and suburban areas which are extremely conservative. Districts in those areas going to tend to vote republican, they’re just a minority of the districts and have smaller populations often times.",1
I think if someone invented a satellite that doesn't need cables for interwebz stuff it could be a game changer 😉.,"If what he mentioned is the main behaviors then even if we got rid of cables that doesn't prevent satellites etc. Sure they'd be ""slower"" but if all one has to do is connect to set it off there's not really much need for a fast connection. As for bot networks with DDOS, I doubt they need a fast connection to set off the attack either.",1
Especially true since the Electoral College was a device created by the slave states to preserver slavery from popular vote.,It determines who is the democratic winner of the election. It determines legitimacy in a democratic republic. If the popular vote doesn't win the election it calls into question the nation's democracy.,0
"Make the case for reelecting Biden right now, because Marianne Williamson just announced her candidacy.",The democrats held both houses of congress for 2 years and had every chance to pass the John Lewis Act and fix gerrymandering.,0
"However, I as an Iranian, am still genuinely frightened. Until now, I've rarely seen foreign countries be able to cause explosions on Iranian soil and despite all our neighbours being attacked and invaded by all types of millitias, we've actually been pretty safe (Well, looking past the persecution and harrasment from our own government).","No country is going to invade you, it would be a nightmare even for the US, but you are in risk of suffering massive bombardments and significant sabotage to main infrastructure in case of war, you're luck is that unlike Iran, its opponents not only have far greater precision weapons but their doctrines of warfare hope to minimize damage to civilians and focus on military/regime infrastructure, so you should be relatively safe.",1
"Don't believe it? Consider this. 45 was the most deregging admin of the 21st century, and 2019 saw the greatest real income increase of the bottom quintile of households in the 21st c. Coincidence? I think not.",Nope. It was the Democrats Unemployment on steroids due Trumps Covid 19 debacle that crashed the US economy.,1
"The amount of cope there is unbelievable right now. A top post is “conservatives just want to be left alone, and not have our tax money go toward things we morally disagree with.”.",There’s a thread on there right now where the comments are talking about how conservatives have divorced themselves from reality. They’re almost to the full realization. It’s fun to watch.,1
While that certainly doesn't excuse Biden per se... the idea that him not knowing is nonsense is just not based in reality. This is a political statement made by people who politically need Biden to be on the hook for their own ends to be justified. This has nothing to do with Biden and everything to do with the Republicans needing to justify a revenge tour and irrational hatred of a political rival.,Are you aware of every document you have in your possession? Most who have or have had to handle any meaningful volume of documents would not be able to answer affirmatively. (at least not if they're being honest) Even if there was someone who was super on top of their filing situation and did actually have an accounting of all their documents that quickly gets undone when you start adding staff handling of documents into the equation.,0
"If it's a single nuclear weapon and not thousands of nukes, I can imagine that it would have the rest of the world launch a conventional invasion of Russia.","Nukes will be met with nukes. Why? Because if nukes are launched then ""nukes are on the table"" and the tactic that has the highest chance to succeed in preventing more launches is to hit the launch sites and the best weapon to hit the launch sites are nukes due to their large blast radius.",0
A lovely soundbite that doesn’t address the actual problem: How do you get Putin et al into the courtroom? Two possibilities exist: Either an outside force goes and gets them or there is a change of government in Russia and the new regime hands them over.,"There should be no way this war ends and Russia isn’t completely isolated from normal world society until change occurs, or the current leadership is prosecuted. Meaning for me anyway, that cannot leave Russian territory without the threat of being arrested in nearly every country.",1
Most people in the UK haven't a clue who he even is. Like how you probably haven't a clue who Nick Ferrari is.,"I know Nick Ferrari. He's like a Rush Limbaugh, but probably more popular. If the UK populace can be judged by TV andradio viewership, then you're just a bunch of chavs watching reality TV and conservative news. No wonder conservatives win all the elections.",1
This. They’ve been searching for that accountability ceiling for years and they have yet to find it. At this point I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist. Which is really bad news for our future.,The bad thing is some made up scenario in their heads. It’s different for each one of them. Can be some anti vax nonsense or a Q-style conspiracy theory.,1
Ukrainians dying in droves to resist their occupiers and Russians dying in droves trying to occupy a foreign nation. All this likely over a few decades until Russia gives up.,"Russia want to annihilate Ukraine and the Ukrainian identity. So Ukraine cannot and will not give up. Even if Russia defeated and fully occupied a non-supported Ukraine you would probably see a long period of resistance afterwards in the form of protests, partisan/army guerrilla warfare.",0
"It still amazes me that after a doctor gave him a dementia test while he was president, in which he had to identify that a drawing of an animal with a hump was a camel and that a drawing of an animal with a long neck was a giraffe, trump subsequently went on TV to brag about how he had been able to correctly name the animals.",trump did not create a new political philosophy. He read about Hitler and the Nazis and liked it. The GOP was embracing fascism long before trump became the party leader.,0
"If China proceeds with military aid to Russia, then MNCs and countries still doing business as usual will be co-conspirators in many peoples' eyes and unlike in the 1940s, we can record the who, the when, the how, and understand why in ways that will not allow these people and organizations to just pretend it's business as usual in any sort of aftermath.","What china won't do though, is sacrifice anything in order to help russia - they will extract every penny of discount they can from russia, and make favourable trade deals etc, while making sure to supply russia with just enough to keep going.",1
"We didn't get lucky, viruses almost always mutate to get less deadly and more contagious as the population builds up immunity through infection and vaccines.",I believe a combination of everyone quarantined for too long and non vaccinated people are making this a very deadly spread.,1
"Isnt that exactly what the IOC did some years back ? I was under the impression that Russian athletes were only allowed to compete as independents,was this rule removed ?",Also on another note the russian state promotes and enables their athletes to use doping in all international competitions...,1
"He's saying ignore China's continued crying, because if they actually tried anything they'd find out how hard it is to invade Taiwan and they'd have a bunch of allies ready to help.",Lol yeah it's not like the US has a huge 800 billion dollar military with an incredible presence and strategic stronghold in SEA. Lol we don't even have a need to trade with them it's not like we nearly rely on them for a few things.,0
"The only difference between science and mad-science is whether you stop to ask, ""What is the worst that could possibly happen?"" Like at the Manhattan Project when the answer was, ""We believe it is possible we could ignite the atmosphere."".","Boh! What a question... I would not know. I guess it would harm you, but on a scale so small you probably would not notice. 1 atom is so very very smal... But others, more knowledgeable, might disagree.",1
"But it also suggested that FIFA, which has faced years of blistering criticism for its decision to bring its showpiece championship to Qatar, may no longer be in full control of major decisions related to its event. The organization’s official fan guide notes that “ticket holders will have access to Budweiser, Budweiser Zero, and Coca-Cola products within the stadium perimeter” for at least three hours before games, and for one hour afterward.","The ban on alcohol sales to fans at stadiums — beer will still be available in luxury suites reserved for FIFA officials and other wealthy guests — comes a week after an earlier edict that dozens of red beer tents bearing Budweiser’s branding be moved to more discrete locations at the World Cup’s eight stadiums, away from where most of the crowds attending games would pass.",0
"Hi, they're ok, thanks for asking. We rotate them often and ensure they get good rest and whatever support they may want or need. It's taking a toll, of that there's no doubt, but we all believe in what we're doing and that goes a long way to fill up the morale tank! Regards, Dom.","Hi Dom if you are still reading. I am from Adelaide, South Australia and I listen to Ukraine: The Latest almost every day. I just wanted to say thankyou to you and the team for bringing this podcast to us. Always look forward to your daily synopsis of events. All the best!",1
"Will football fans make a stand against FIFA and teams who willingly participate in this shit, or are they going to choose the path of selective hearing and ignore the monstrosities that are being played out right in front of us?","Secondly I know the teams would never withdraw like I said they should, they're in the business of playing soccer/football and there would be all sorts of negative lasting repercussions for the national teams and the individuals involved, and probably a tiny minority of players would even want to consider boycotting...I just don't see any other truly meaningful way for FIFA to be held responsible for their ethical corruption.",1
"Which is crazy outdated. Maybe those numbers made sense in the era of B52 swarms delivering bombs but in the 21st century an ICBM attack is pretty much unstoppable. Multiple warheads on a ballistic entry from outer fucking space along with a ton of decoys are not something that can be defeated. Full stop. We don't need 4,000 nukes.","That's the whole idea of the nuclear trident. My point is basically that you don't need to account for the most warhead heavy aspect the Trident, the bombers.",0
"You are right, they are not the same thing, as I just said in my comment above. They are separate processes but the results are the same (bans). Sounds like you don’t like consequence culture either, maybe the journalists banned in this article are just facing consequences for their actions 🤷🏼‍♂️.",Journalists have been banning people from social media for having done nothing which violates the site's TOS?,1
"Of course the Russians structure their units into battle groups that are very different that Western formations and I’m sure VDV has armor in their inventory but they are primarily airmobile, light vehicles like BMDd and BMPs etc. They just can’t assault a position like shock troops do.",Armies aren't giving guys specially fit rifles nor do they need to. That isn't how markmenship works.,1
"Bruen states that laws must have history and context pertaining to the second amendment to be lawful, meaning only laws for restriction of the 2A are under this scrutiny. - Bruen is not a law, it does not mean that if something doesn't have history or context of being allowed by the 2A, that it is immediately considered illegal, etc. Let's not forget the 2A only speaks about restrictions on the government from passing laws, not restricting citizen's use of arms.","Even if it did matter, the purpose of the Second Amendment is to restrict the federal government, and not the people.",1
No candidate who actually wants a political future will file to run against the wishes of the party and the signature requirements to get on the ballot seem kinda low actually but are probably still enough to keep just any swingin dick off the street from running as a Democrat without some kind of funding/organizational support.,"And yes, my entire point was that the party can exert soft power to keep Democrats off the ballot if they wanted but they probably wouldn’t because Republicans would run a ghost candidate Dem as a spoiler.",0
"He's an old-school Republican with some sanity left, who voted to impeach Trump after Jan. 6. He's a moderate on abortion and LGBT+ issues, going by his recent voting record.","The coalition idea, while unlikely, isn't unprecedented. The Alaska state House and Senate both have coalitions. It also happened in the Oregon House after the 2010 election returned a 30-30 split.",0
"In a turn of events that absolutely defies logic, the Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to reject an amendment that would have banned minors from being allowed to openly carry guns on public land without adult supervision. Which, thanks to a 2017 law, they are currently free to do. (That law, which was vetoed by then governor Jay Nixon and overridden by the Missouri House, also allows Missouri residents to carry a concealed weapon without a permit, safety training, or criminal-background check. As S. Charles Wall, spokesman for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “under current state law, there is no minimum age to lawfully possess a firearm.”) To be clear: The proposal rejected this week was not seeking to ban minors from openly carrying weapons on public land, period, but simply from doing so without an adult supervising them. But apparently even that was too much for the state’s conservatives, who quite literally believe it’s fine for actual kids to walk down the street carrying guns. The proposal was defeated by 104-39, with just a single Republican voting in favor of the ban.","Of course, all of this is happening less than a month after news of a Virginia six-year-old shooting their teacher and a viral surveillance video from Indiana that captured a diaper-wearing toddler carrying a handgun and firing it.",0
"This implies that Australia is ever at risk of being invaded. It is not. It is too big, too sparsely populated and too far away. China does not have a blue water fleet, I doubt it ever will for a loooong time, so being blockaded isn't a possibility and even if it was, no power can currently blockade all major ports with the exception of the US. Australia has train connections across cities to bypass a blockade. Lastly, Russia is a non threat.","None of China's CV's are capable of blue-water travel. Having a blue water navy means having the capacity to deploy a task force of ships across the open ocean, and to support them at great distance from their bases. None of China's CV's, either produced or in planning, have a nuclear power plant to power them. This means they are incapable of global reach without a massive support-fleet in tow, which ofcourse makes that support-fleet a likely target. Think about it:",0
If the Republicans run another Finchem/Blake/Lake and the Dems run Gallego then honestly Sinema probably wins….,There’s a real chance that she can win a three way race between a regular Democrat and whatever batshit crank the GOP nominates. It’s also possible that she takes more votes from the Dem and elects a MAGA clown shoe.,1
"Not claiming reddit is full of morons, just full of people who read only a headline and then post stuff as long as it fullfills their narrative .","While there is something to be said about actually reading the article, but come on, just look at the god damned headline.",1
That's so dumb but it's typical authoritarian false equivalence. Ozil was hated because he played like shit at the moment he was supposed to rise as the leader of the team. It had nothing with his ethnicity. Compare this to Qatar's treatment migrant workers. Thousands died to build stadium for the megalomaniac dictator of Qatar.,"if you are idiotic enough to say ""Qatar"", Qatar spent more than that and it's to build Qatar itself, rather than the stadiums. The Qatari and Saudi teams are number 1 and 2 as the cheapest teams in the world cup. Qatar won the AFC Asia Cup, sadly they're playing like dogshit for some reason right now.",1
"Call me crazy, but I'm starting to think Republicans running on ""the election was stolen"" and ""early/mail voting is insecure and we should discourage our voters from doing it"" wasn't exactly a great way to inspire confidence in their voters to vote.","But a very, very slim margin of a Republican House majority (218 or 219) with the constant infighting and having a minority party of Democrats being large enough to constantly breathe down their collective necks sounds like a schadenfreude inducing consolation prize.",0
"This is what we keep seeing, Russia launches an offensive, it is laughably under-equipped because their power on paper isnt real, tanks have no firing pins and are useless, troops have 1940s bolt action rifles and no winter clothing, half the artillery shells are duds etc.","Russia still has quite a bit of defensive fire power and just because conscripts are ineffective doesn't mean they can't stop or slow an advance, it just takes more bodies to do so. The war has shifted from a fast paced mobile war to one of static lines and slow shifts of the front.",1
"I started having breathing issues. My job requires walking around a large campus, doing technical support, so I was struggling. Took a month before the random coughing to the point of wheezing would stop. I think I got an upper respiratory infection the first week of November, was down for the duration. I am still always short of breath. I used to run 5Ks. Now I'm winded just walking to the mailbox. I do it anyways because I need the exercise and fresh air.","Sleeping as much as I can, eating good, getting outdoors. None of it seems to help, I'm tired from when I open my eyes to going to bed, not sleepy tired, fatigued tired.",1
Would be nice if something positive would actually come from Trump's existence like galvanizing support to eliminate the types of tax loopholes he exploits....but I won't hold my breath.,"Let’s be honest, don’t be mad at Trump, he followed the law (questionable for sure), but we really need to evaluate the “tax laws” and all the loopholes that never seem to be closed.",1
The big question is how long the new encryption key lasts after a law enforcement request. The major concern is that once law enforcement has your encryption key they leak it themselves due to poor security.,Yeah but this is to be expected. As if there would ever be a mainstream & easy to use platform for communication that cannot be snooped in on.,0
Putin has had decades to consolidate his power internally and they can barely sustain a war with his closest neighbor.,"At all other times, when one Russian despot was taking the post of his predecessor, turmoil and killings (if any) were limited to inner circle of power.",1
And he was just re-elected. Would be pretty shitty of him to flip parties right after being elected.,Knew it was going to be him. He was the only Democrat in the House to vote against abortion rights. He's by far the most conservative Democrat in the House.,0
"Great idea, as your armament factories are being blown up by mystery drones, send your warships to outside of the range where they can be useful defending against such threats, to posture and show 'how great and big and good and powerful and...the regime is'. (eyeroll).","How is taking your naval warships away from your home turf, that just this weekend got bombarded, not a good strategic idea?",0
"Why don’t they support Ukraine more? Because Russia has been a long time ally, so India even sending medical supplies and humanitarian aid to Ukraine is good to see. But definitely could be better, yes.","Back to the original topic. Is the EU not the largest funder of genocide in Ukraine? Not only have they funded Russia for decades, even after Russia stole Crimea, but the EU is still Russia’s biggest customer.",0
"There are ways to punish lawyers and their clients who act in bad faith, like contempt of court charges for failing to comply with orders from the court. The client can also received default judgments and/or have to pay the legal fees for the other party. It's not as common for lawyers to suffer consequences, but for gross negligence and incompetence they can be disbarred, and a lot lawyers avoid working on frivolous lawsuits because it's just a waste of time that doesn't net them that much profit and could harm their reputation.","It doesn’t always turn out the way the complainant wants, but there are plenty of examples of attorneys being punished for that kind of conduct.",1
China would suffer far worse. The money they receive from selling will be devalued to some extent while strenhening the RMB which is a very bad thing for their economy. China invests in US treasuries in part to devalue their own currency.,"The US owes money to China in US dollars, not a foreign currency. The US can always print more US dollars to pay back any debts that are denominated in US dollars.",1
"More to the point, there is an amendment already limiting the governments' say on what a person can do with her own body. The 9th Amendment is pretty clear on the subject: no new laws at the expense of existing rights.","If what I said about the 10th Amendment isn't true, what law (federal, state, or local) makes it legal for you to eat breakfast?",0
"Bottom line; whether she fully or not all understood what she was doing when she got there, jumped in with both feet as you said, she still decided to the right thing in the end, even if it was just for herself. But it’s clear that the majority of people recognize who is truly at fault, and it’s not some 24 year old assistant.","We can sit here and talked about adult or not, smart or not, maturity level, blah blah. But there still is going to be that huge gap between people starting their career and adult life - beginning to figure out life and how the REAL world works - making mistakes VS 60 year olds that already know how shit works - intent to break law - attempt a coup - have enough power to pressure/force those below them and use that power to threaten the safety and lives of those that resist.",0
"“The New York Times reported that the girl ""has said she does not believe she was a victim,"" which would introduce issues in court.”.","The girl said she did not feel that she was a victim and that would cause issues in court?? Motherfuckers, WHY would that cause any issues in court? If an adult has sex with a 17 year old, it doesn’t matter whether she thought she was a willing participant or not - do we as a society think this is wrong or do we not??? I’m so fucking sick of this. A 17 year old is a CHILD.",1
Later he made a tweet about keeping an eye out for a smear campaign against him now that he's a republican.,The writer of the article contacted musk for comment before any of Musk's political statements here were made.,0
"No country is perfect, especially our white western ones who went round the world robbing, raping, murdering and enslaving on an unimaginable industrial scale.",It’s incredibly insulting to other countries around the world that we insist our values matter more than theirs. It’s arrogance based purely on our white privilege.,0
Edit: since im getting a lot of comments about movies and what not I figured id link an interesting HBO movie from 2001 that is about the German Final Solution and how it was deliberated. It has a fantastic cast and was informative to say the least. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the subject.,I said it in other comments but i will repeat it as much as needed. I am no fan of Israel. I just find the Nazi Hunters and the idea of it as a profession very fascinating. I understand Mossad and Israel have a nuanced history. I want to avoid that discussion here because frankly it’s unrelated and I am woefully ignorant of the illegal antics the Israelís find themselves in.,0
"South Carolina electorate is very old and very conservative. The only difference here is the conservatives are black rather than white, and South Carolina has more delegates so more heavily tilts the field towards conservative candidates.","More conservative states will go first, more conservative candidates will win in those states, voters in other states may be influenced to vote for the same candidate to be on the winning side.",1
Turkey literally fought Russia in both Libya and Syria while some of our allies in NATO helped the Russians in Libya.,"And for the last, this is not a domestic ambitions issue, Erdoğan does not advertise this much and opposition is also not in favor of approval. There are actual problems between Sweden and Turkey, some of which i will link below:",0
"Also, given Latvia are a former soviet satellite nation witnessing their former overlord invade and brutalize another former soviet satellite nation, why wouldn't they be so-called ""Russophobic""?","So yeah, Russians have an incredibly strong presence/influence in Estonia and efforts to integrate them (as opposed to them just carving out their own Russian community inside Estonia) are dog whistled as Russophobia and mistreatment which is bullshit.",1
"Yes individuals should be banned for doping. But we are saying that all Russian athletes should be banned just due to the fact the Russian government forces their athletes to dope. Until Russia as a country can prove it won’t force their athletes to cheat, then no Russian should be allowed to compete.",The point is flying over your head. Russia as a country sponsored doping for all their athletes even forcing children to do it. Norway does not do that and can’t control their athletes doing illegal stuff.,0
"Participating in the Find My network lets you locate this iPhone even when it's offline, in power reserve mode, and after power off.","In essence, if you have the ""Find My Network"" enabled your device locates other devices and in turn can be located other devices.",1
"I still think the likelihood of the UK rejoining is very high, but I don't expect to see it happen for the next 25-35 years or so.",And the UK will also not be able to rejoin on the same preferential terms that existed before Brexit.,0
"Just to clarify a few things, I don’t support gun rights and my preferred option is what goes on in every other country in the world. Heavy regulation and a good reason required to own a gun with specific requirements to be met for every class of firearm.","Require insurance for every gun license and every gun. Just like cars. Plenty money for insurance to make it profitable. The more guns you own the more it costs to maintain. Insurance companies can use publicly available social media posts to load insurance, hopefully silencing highly vocal 2A people. Also If you’re negligent with your firearms and cause harm, then insurance is required to pay out, so victims get compensated, and gun owner’s insurance premiums go up. Permit class action lawsuits for public threatening with a firearm and for mass shootings where even non-injured victims can claim for psychological trauma. Make domestic terrorism the most expensive crime.",0
"Anyone who thinks internet Censorship is a good thing is a coprite shill or an idiot who has no clue what there talking about (or both), or just an internet troll trying to get a rise out of people (witch I would personally lump into the idiot category considering what this topic is).","Thay could say an EFF article warning about a major internet censorship bill bing pushed under the gize of ""removing terrorist content"" or a bill that let's the goverment scan everyone's E-mails, and socol media PM's is ""promoting self harm"" cos ""those bills not becoming law will make it harder for law enforcement to do there job's and as such people, including possibly people reading the article could get hurt"".",0
Everyone was annoyed they wasted so much time on something so not-important. Hopefully it'll go the same way.,"I think they will. Republicans ran on nothing but kitchen table issues like inflation and crime, and then the first thing they convene on is House committee investigations of Hunter Biden and… 42 cabinet officials and random alphabet agency subdirectors. This is the shit that voters explicitly rejected, that completely blunted a red wave and that saw them barely get the House. Nobody but the conspiranoid GOP base gives a fuck about this. But they don’t have ideas, they don’t want to get things done. They lied to swing voters, and it was obvious to most people who were paying attention that they weren’t acting in good faith, but it’s laughable how fast they dropped the charade.",1
Unfortunatly it seems that way. Otherwise they would have said something before... Videos of drones dropping bombs on Russian soldiers are all over the place für quite some time.,While drones are used to drop grenades they are also one of the mayor ways to detect and defend again at Russian attacks. Why the hell should they.,0
"Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei was granted land taken from them in the heart of Auckland in 1988 as part of the Settlement process for the Treaty. They also were given possession of their Mārae back, which is incredibly important to Māori culture.","In Māori culture, great value is placed on many historically and culturally significant objects. Māori honour and preserve those artifacts.",1
Yes. Democrats need to embrace a significant part of their historical core platform just like Fetterman did. We need pay some much-needed attention to the much-neglected blue collar working class and working poor.,It was dumb. That sound bite was all they needed. He handed the opposition a golden ticket. As soon as he said that no amount of clarification would suffice.,0
In response to what you wrote: A point so often missed when made about Switzerland in WW2 when it was completely surrounded by Nazi Germany and her allies. Yet people still mention it all the time. Also Sweden was selling iron ore to Germany before the invasion of Norway as well.,Sweden's options were to sell them the ore or get invaded and have the ore stolen. Germany had just overrun Norway and was allied with Finland. Sweden was literally surrounded.,1
"C’mon Europe! Ukraine is doing all the bleeding for the west right now, the least we can do is hurry up the tanks, the GLDMs, and the anti air stuff for them.","So if the west did nothing, we’d have a newly energized, refueled, fresh with plunder Russian army.",0
"Ironically if it HAD broken, it would have inundated all the Russian troops on the east bank, doing more damage to themselves than Ukrainian forces. Of course the civilians would suffer, but it would also totally cut off water to Crimea, which Russia still controls and will until next summer probably.",Restoring the water supply to Crimea is definitely one of Russia's goals with this war after Ukraine cut the region off. I have to imagine that Russia's retreat in this region will center on keeping the water running.,1
"And according to the treaty signed between China and Japan back in the 70s stated that relations were normalized between the two nations. It provided for trade relations and recognition of Beijing as the legitimate seat of the Chinese government. It also stated that Japan recognized Taiwan as a part of China and in exchange, China permanently gave up any claim of reparations for what Japan did in World War 2. The argument can be made that by defending Taiwan, Japan would be violating that part of the treaty, and China would be free to push for reparations. In which case, nuking Japan would be settling some old scores.",And Koreans probably have more of a score to settle with Japan than China does. I wonder how the South Koreans would feel about Japan if the US wasn't forcing them to get along.,0
"But even if they win the election, voting is the minimum of your civic and political activities. There is always resistance, through protests, strikes, and countless other forms. If you look at every right we have, down to stuff like basic labor laws, it was paid for by brave souls willing to face danger and death.","There's about 1mil deaths from covid, and while what I've read seems to say it skews towards having harmed Republicans at greater numbers, that's a very small percentage of the country, and it still harmed and killed many people who did take it seriously.",0
"Since WW2, Switzerland has taken a clear position: on the Cold War, apartheid, the Balkan conflict, taking in refugees, sanctions, etc.","Especially that everyone uses the term ""direct democracy"" differently. By the way, on the page of the Federal Council, democracy in Switzerland is also called ""direct democracy"""".",0
It's beneficial for the west to keep Putin alive in my opinion. So taking it into consideration you don't want to ostracize these doctors and meddle in any way. Let them keep him alive for as long as they can.,"Putin is simply running Russia and her potential into the ground, which is very important and beneficial for NATO. Longer he is in the position, weaker Russia becomes.",0
"I think anyone brave, honourable and intelligent in Russia has already been killed, locked up or has fled the country to look for a future life where you aren't under a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.","Also, last I checked, Russia's overall standard of living is a bit higher than Iran's, which is definitely a factor in both why so many Russians are apathetic and why they aren't exactly rushing in to die for Putin and his yachts, palaces and oligarchs. They have to be forced to do it instead. Apathy, not support, is the dominant feeling in Russia.",1
"This is correct. Biden isn't a particularly strong leader, but when juxtaposed against a side hell bent on conspiracies and infighting and performative outrage, he's eminently competent and poised.","While I agreed with the overwhelming majority of Biden's message, he stumbled on his words an awful lot, and I thought sure that this was going to do little more than give the GOP an hour's worth of footage to cherry pick so they can show how ""senile"" Biden is.",1
"I would like to believe you, but I don't have confidence that many gun control supporters wouldn't view the effective ban on gun sales as a feature of the law, not a bug.","It’s a distributed database that allows for the government to track a specific firearm, but prevents it from pulling up a list of people who own a specific type of firearm. They can, with some work, take a firearm that was recovered from a crime scene and trace that back to the person who purchased it from the store. But if the government were to ban, say, assault weapons, it would be infeasible to pull up a list of AR-15 owners and go knocking on doors.",0
Watching unionization spread has been wonderful. At will employment states and the other anti-labor practices Republicans have put into place have grossly eroded the average worker's quality of life and purchasing power.,"Working class has been getting exploited for a few generations now, coincidentally at the same time union membership has been declining. Huh.",1
"Also, banning all abortions is more likely to kill more people than making all abortions up to women. It's another person's body, therefore that person has the right to decide what grows in their body.","I'm of the opinion that life doesn't start until birth. Only after birth does it seem that one can live unassisted by their mother's body nor modern technology. How, then, can we call abortion ""murder"" if the fetus is not alive, and has no life when it's placed outside of the mother?",0
"Transgender people like me cannot exist in a transphobic society. If Republicans take control and reshape society to conform to their hateful values, what happens to me? What happens to me?",That's just the first step. They're just going to keep upping the ante until they completely immobilize our free movement through society. They will begin rounding us up the very first chance they get. They're already compiling .,0
Perhaps relying on a bunch of questionable polls to project a resounding victory was not a great move on their part.,"Their big takeaway was to read and believe the margin of error for these polls. Despite the big surprising wins overall for Democrats, virtually all of these results fall within the margin of error for the polls. There were also corrections in virtually every poll to increase estimates of GOP turnout based on the last 2 election cycles. It seems likely they overestimated that turnout but not by much. Polls were always an in exact science but we got spoiled by how good they were for a decade or so. Those days are gone, believe the margin of error.",1
“Disease experts have raised the idea that the virus would need to change for it to be conducive to human transmission.”.,"As viruses get more transmissible, they tend to become more mild. This could bring the lethality down a bit.",1
"If they outsource the hacks or send their hackers elsewhere in the world then cutting the cable isn't going to work. That doesn't even get into how easy it would be to reroute the traffic to another location that isn't ""cut off"", they could just reroute through China if they wanted to. China being their ally they could just use the cables that run there. To stop the hacking it would require people to actually follow the best practices for IT security and let's be honest here, the vast majority of people don't and it only takes one mistake to leave your network open.",My brother says that ransomware and state sponsored infiltrations for the most part are the most common forms these days. Is that what you're seeing as well? (He's also in cybersecurity).,0
"The German government does not want armed domestic terrorists taking over the place/ attempting a coup (afraid is a very polarizing word in this context, please refrain from using it)? Something that armed citizens would not be able to defend against? Fear is the wrong word, it’s caution, since they have proof of a planned coup from a far-right extremist group using legally acquired weapons. Why shouldn’t they make it more difficult to acquire a gun, especially for extremists that are likely to misuse them?","Acquiring illegal guns is always a possibility, but that doesn't mean it's not useful to prevent them from acquiring them legally as well.",1
Republicans seem pretty confident they're long past needing to actually convince anyone to vote for them. Abandoning debates like this is a pretty clear admission they no longer consider undecideds to either a) exist or b) be useful enough to bother appealing to.,"Sounds nice, but the only people who would watch that are those already planning to vote for the Democrat. Its essentially preaching to the choir. By all means do it, but it likely won't effect the outcome of the presidential race any more than regular political advertising.",0
The anti-GMO crown typically doesn’t understand every food crop we use have been modified for thousands of years through selective breeding and exploiting mutations in the plant.,"Not saying GMO crops do all these things too, but focusing only on yields, and using the broadest of definition of GMO, seems disingenuous and an incomplete picture.",1
"when i heard the news i thought, ""well i guess that's gonna be one of the right-wing talking points for the next two years, along with hunter biden's dick."".","What you say is correct. The part you're missing however is, just how potentially dangerous all these experts believe Bout still is, how he will be immediately utilized by Putin, what political hay Putin gained, what precedent was set for any future negotiations for Americans still held, and that this was a terrible ""swap"" even tho an American came home.",1
Easy way to prevent your enemy from using disarming AT mines is to protect those mine with AP mines and other means.,"And yes, there are areas where mines are effective that way, but the impact wouldn't be that massive. AP mines won't really work on a highway unless you blow it up first, and even on a highway, trucks will be moving in a column, just a bit faster. And speed doesn't matter that much. And again, no one is preventing you from using the same tactic on the enemy territory, when you have to abandon an area or have a chance to scout ahead.",1
"No, this would be fascism as the conservative government is utilizing the power of the state to punish a company for not following the dictates of the conservative party. That is fascism not communism.","I ALSO said that there were cases of fascism masquerading as communism. Which is what you are describing. They lied about their beliefs and goals to gain the support of the people. Else wise, they'd have actually done the things they claimed to support rather than amassing power and subjugating the proletariat.",1
And if a protest doesn't turn violent on its own adding a few agent provocateurs to delegitimize the movement and justify use of force always does the trick.,Just because you disagree with the protestors doesn't mean you can or should discredit them for other actions and justify punishments like this. Standards must be applied across the board. I don't think any of those people would be too happy if Iranian police were punished for not doing their job and arresting women without hijabs in mass but that's the standard we're preaching so...,1
"A new Department of Justice-funded study of all mass shootings — killings of four or more people in a public place — since 1966 found that the shooters typically have an experience with childhood trauma, a personal crisis or specific grievance, and a “script” or examples that validate their feelings or provide a roadmap. And then there’s the fourth thing: access to a firearm.","EDIT: I'm not saying guns should be allowed. I am against A2 generally, and it's obvious that if you take away guns, you have less gun violence. You still have violence. But gun violence is way too easy: grab gun, point, shoot, kill.",1
"How can anyone look at this and be like “Yep. You know what, drag shows are the 1 problem in the US right now. Fuck inflation and gun control and inequality and all that other dumb shit. It’s 100% drag shows.”?",Just another classic case of conservatives fear mongering dipshit voters into believing in issues that don’t really exist.,0
"There shall be peace... When the Russian army lies dead We shall have peace when Hague tries war criminals for the women and children of Kherson, and their sons that lie dead there When Putin hangs from a gibbet for the sport of his own crows, we shall have peace.","> Theoden : We shall have peace... We shall have peace, when you answer for the burning of the Westfold, and the children that lie dead there We shall have peace, when the lives of the soldiers whose bodies were hewn even as they died against the gates of the Hornberg, are avenged When you hang from a gibbit for the sport of your own crows...! We shall have peace.",1
"..but the Western MBTs have far superior optics, targeting and gun range & most crucially armour protection. It will be very,very difficult for a Russian tank to take out a Challenger/Leopard in a tank on tank encounter.","And the Ukrainians manning them will have a far,far better chance of survival/escape from the tank than anything they're using now if they're hit by another tank or a anti tank missile/RPG. Catastrophic instant 'cook offs' like we've seen with so many Russian tanks, would be very unlikely, given the 'blow out' panels and separate ammo storage in Western tanks, designed to stop such a thing from happening.",0
Just frustrating to me that the governments solution to a “labour crisis” is importing cheap labour rather than actually addressing root causes.,"Regular immigration isn’t my issue, it’s the governments policy of bringing in tons on Temporary Foreign Workers to work low paying jobs. The standards for TFWs are much much lower than the standards for proper immigration. I probably should’ve focused on that a bit more in my posts, but I thought the first 2 conveyed that well enough. Importing cheap labour en masse absolutely does suppress wages.",0
"Yeah, maybe. So let's put him just a hair above the murderous mullahs on the evil scale. Good job, Donald!",But your argument is that that's not as bad as ordering the execution of thousands of people to keep the mullahs of Iran in power?,0
"Again, this is great that we are FINALLY doing something that would be 120 years after finding out it could be a problem, and 50 years after DEFINITELY KNOWING this is going to be an existential threat.","It isn't a defeatist attitude, it is pissed off that these cocksuckers have done this much harm and will face little to no consequences. I vote for the right people, but my 1 vote vs their billions of dollars is a slow crawl toward progress.",0
"“Let’s just say that the margin is 10,” one source involved in leadership race strategy for House conservatives said Wednesday. “If McCarthy is stumbling in negotiations with the Freedom Caucus to give them all the stuff they want, the outer core of HFC probably starts to go to him and says, ‘Hey, it’s time to step aside.’ McCarthy probably starts getting that message from all corners and stands down before the vote.”.","Even if Republicans secure and pad their majority in the coming days, McCarthy will face a problem that has bedeviled a generation of House GOP leaders: the House Freedom Caucus.",0
"Why? The war started as a civil war when the Houthi Militia broke their agreements with the coalition government they were a part of and mobilized their soldiers. KSA only gets involved after the Houthi Militia, backed by Iran, overthrows the legitimate government and attacks KSA.",An Iranian controlled Yemeni state would present significant problems for the KSA's military as if Iran wanted to attack they could much more easily through Yemen.,0
Now I'm scared that all trans people are going to lose their rights and that gay people will follow.,Like I said before we have more trans people than ever. They have more support than ever. That's not a start of a genocide.,1
"Now I will get downvoted to hell for accurately explaining the Russian perspective, not even agreeing with it (who the fuck knows the truth of what's happening on the ground on the other side of the globe there when it's filtered through many layers of propaganda).","No, you're not getting it. Read the comment I'm replying to again. Better to get it on your own than have it explained to you. But if you insist.",0
"Well, sort of. There are a lot of misconceptions about alfalfa. A lot of articles like to paint alfalfa as ""water thirsty"" and cite stats on water usage per acre per year. But what they fail to take into account is that in places with long growing seasons like AZ and CA, they're typically getting 8 to 10 cuts (harvests) per year. Alfalfa itself has a very deep taproot, over 20 feet in many cases, and is actually quite drought tolerant. It's just that with the right soil moisture it grows very quickly and you can maximize yield by irrigating.","I known it’s drought tolerant, but does it not still require a lot of water in order to grow enough to harvest. Drought tolerant plants won’t need to be reestablished after drought but they typically won’t yield well for harvests.",1
"The bottom line is that even with the old maps, if Democrats get the most votes, they control the House. With the new maps, they have the same opportunity and with greater theoretical proportional representation advantages compared to the prior maps. If we end the midterms with less votes for Democrats, will we really blame the courts for them not keeping the majority?","Yeah just wait until the SCOTUS decides that state legislatures can override the will of the people in presidential elections and choose the candidate they want to win instead. Let's say, for example, in 2024 Wisconsin votes for Biden(as they did last time) the Republican legislature would be able to say, ""No, we get to choose the president"" and they send in a slate of Republican electors instead.",1
"This isn’t about ukraine. This is about strenhening China-Saudi ties, and ties with the Middle East. This is a play to keep Russia in their back pocket (for oil and natural G’s resources in the future) and driving division with us and the Middle East. It even says so in the article.","China couldn’t give a shit about the Ukrainian-Russian war, they’re just siding with where they can source resources from in the future.",0
I am not sure the PA/PLO is able to make any compromises. None of their leaders can accept a deal that gives them any less than arafat rejected.,"In addition the Palestinians have consistently refused numerous offers of a state. As far as I can tell, they Palestinians have never compromised on any of their demands.",0
"May I remind you of when Ukraine, a country without a Navy, sank Russia’s flagship, the москва? And that was before we gave them any decent weapons. And that Turkey is not allowing Russia’s Northern Fleet into the Black Sea to augment its Black Sea Fleet?","Russia is like a dead man walking, here, who hasn’t yet realized he’s dead. The war is already lost, it’s just a matter of time.",0
If either administration had the regulation in place they would have been sued by the rail companies.,I've also read that the regulation that was rolled back would not have affected this particular train anyway.,1
"National debt is not like a credit card. It will likely always exist. It is much more important that the US remains a strong and stable power than lowering the debt. As long as that happens, our economy will be fine in the long run.","I'm not sure about that. I remember when the debt hit 1 trillion around 1990 and there were predictions that Social Security and medicare would be backrupt by 2000 and the US in general would be bankrupt by that point. It never happened. I'm not saying our debt is irrelevant, but it is not a priority to eliminate it. It is impirtant to keep an adequate debt to gdp ratio though.",0
"I know the first balloon was shot down with the 9x, and any other object an F22 popped was probably also the 9x, and the other ones that got bopped by the F16 was probably also a 9x.",The hours and fuel costs are probably a wash because they are counting it as training flight hours that would have been flown anyways.,0
There’s two aspects to the question of Russias “endgame”: their original plan and their current situation/prospects.,"Russias “endgame” in the current situation boils down to attrition. They simplified their strategy to the point where quality (of material/personnel/tactics) matters the least and are trying to turn it into a game of numbers, hoping that Ukraine runs out of either soldiers or western support before Russias is out of resources itself. Due to the lack of decisive victories such a strategy is likely to provide, the current “endgame” is probably aiming for creating a superior position for eventual negotiations. That’s assuming they stopped being delusional of course.",0
">Of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Kelly has said, “Dreamers are as American as anyone”, and has expressed support for it.",">Of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Kelly has said, ""Dreamers are as American as anyone"", and has expressed support for it.",1
It is political. It's about gun policies that don't represent the wishes or needs of the people. What's grotesque is the right continuing to protect gun manufacturers and their profits at the cost of people's lives.,It is just wild to me to think that not wanting to be killed by a random shooter who has access to an assault rifle is a political issue. I absolutely cannot comprehend that concept.,1
A lot more expensive to build than using regular windows + solar panels generating as much electricity.,"Panels for the sake of panels are not worth it, they have to actually be worth it in the first place when put directly on buildings. Otherwise it is better to get electricity from the grid, and let someone else make good use of the panels.",0
"If the Pentagon told them to do this, that's pretty much out of their hands and if you have a problem with it, go talk to the Pentagon.","If SpaceX themselves did this, well, did they talk to the Pentagon about it? If this is something they shouldn't have done, the Pentagon will come talking.",0
"France has done plenty of shady stuff in Africa, and they shouldn’t be talking, but can we talk about the xenophobic messagIng in Wakanda Forever (I just watched it for the first time)? Like every time there was a scene suggesting the that American government might actually be evil, the next scene distracts the audience with an angry mesoamerican who framed as the real bad guy. Also, Wakanda is repeatedly vindicated for their isolationism. There was plenty I liked about the movie, but it felt like the whole thing was playing on xenophobic American prejudices.","The ""scary Mexican invaders"" in this particular movie are as xenophobic as you can possibly get. They want to destroy everyone else on Earth just because they might be discovered one day lol. Even Hitler didn't want to kill everyone.",1
Secondly you can’t overturn something that hasn’t happened yet. Biden was not the president until the results were certified.,Whether you approve of Biden or not he is 1000% correct. Democracy is at stake and if Republicans take over we WILL lose our rights. You can bank on that. Yes inflation is high but it’s corporate greed causing this high inflation. Product availability is better now but corporate is still using pandemic excuses to keep prices high while they make record profits. Republicans have no plans to reduce inflation- reduce crime - they just want power. They continue to blame democrats for what they know was actually caused by a president who totally ignored a pandemic allowing it to fester to the point where we had to shut down and to this day Trump continues to encourage the divide he is responsible for in this country. It’s a long road to recovery and republicans are not the solution - they are the problem.,1
It is very clear that Ukraine is attacking Russia with drones and this will increase after Zelensky appeared before US Congress and got the political support along with the military supplies.,"Oil prices, run up by and the Ukraine war were propping up Russian economy. Now that Trump/GOP have lost the 2022 election, that price manipulation is falling apart and prices have dropped 25% and are going down. Russian economy is crumbling and the Ukraine war very expensive.",0
The DOD actually did this to Juliane Assange's PhD dissertation (preventing him from graduating) which is why Assange has a hard on for the US government.,"Point being: the DOD could take every critical patent Musk owns and classify it on national security grounds, and then they could deny Musk security clearance to his own discoveries, forcing him to hand over his company to a CEO that the DOD will give clearance to. If they deem Musk to be a security risk, they can force him out of his companies altogether simply by classifying the underlying technologies.",0
So a decades old plane used for transport and surveillance is threatening their active duty fighter jets?,"Yeah, just like the last time the U.S. complained about an overly aggressive fighter pilot harassing U.S. reconnaissance airplanes in international airspace back in January of 2001. The Chinese ignored initial U.S. complaints about Chinese fighter pilot Wang Wei's (really) reckless behavior. The lack of any action on China's part arguably is what led to him crashing into another U.S. reconnaissance plane on 1 April 2001.",1
"AOC will probably not end up in a party leadership role. Like Bernie, her job is to move the Overton window left and get the rest of the party to consider legislation that would have been considered too far left in previous years. And like Bernie, she understands that you make constructive criticism of the party in the primary, but when the general comes around, you choose pragmatism and support whichever Democrats are on the ticket.",This is what the policy consensus of conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans have left us with.,1
"I'd like to point out that democrats are more likely to live/work or generally be in and around crowded areas (see cities), yet Republicans still outpace democrats in deaths.","Republican counties had a 20% higher death rate the democrat counties in 2019, despite that repubican and democrat registered voters had the same age adjusted death rates at that time. Starting in September 2020 the registered republicans started to die at a faster rate then democrats did, and that gap has gotten wider over time.",1
"Not only are they unable to fly in countries where Russian airlines have been banned, but they're also at increased risk- and a risk that's possibly not worth it- if they fly to any country where it's theoretically possible that the Western owners could have the planes seized and repossessed by legal means.","What's interesting is that, for any planes they haven't bought from the leasing companies and where the companies want- and have the right to- demand their planes back under the original agreement, Russia is potentially even more restricted in what they can do with them.",0
"Yep. Children are not people, they are property, lumps of clay to be molded. They must never be allowed to have their own agency or will, any showing of either will result in a punishment that dehumanizes and traumatizes into obedience. They need to be indoctrinated that might makes right, that they will always need to listen to someone stronger, with more authority than they will ever be granted. They even treat their adult children like they are still young enough to be hit. They pressure for your career and childbearing, they withhold based on what decisions you’ve made they don’t like.","Yup, they don’t want children to have agency and education on sex gives them agency. They want girls pregnant as early as possible to keep then imprisoned in a cycle of male dependency and obedience. That’s (one reason) why they hate the LGBTQ+ so much - it’s harder to get them in this cycle.",1
"Does some of the data make Hunter Biden look bad? Well yea, but that's not even remotely news. Anyone that follows politics knows Hunter Biden has had substance abuse issues, we know Hunter Biden had sex with his dead brothers wife. We know Hunter Biden had some nude pics, we know we have pictures of Hunter Biden doing drugs, etc. None of that is disputed.","The story itself doesn't pass the sniff test. Hunter dropped off his laptop at a random store, to a blind man who has no receipts.",0
Florida wants everyone in academia to label themselves politically so they can go after liberals. They want to “kill wokeness”.,"Texas wants to go after trans people, and have placed bounties in pregnant women, and several states have followed.",0
"Too many corporate housing investors, too many AirB&Bs, too many books and podcasts telling investors how to get rich in real estate, too many real estate investors over-leveraged or outright greedy, too many wealthy people owning several personal homes, too many houses allowed to rot into uselessness for the depreciation tax break. Fight these causes before building more housing.","People investing is an effect of the housing shortage, not the cause. Investors want to get on the lucrative setup landowners have created by abusing zoning laws.",1
"And most of the weapons we are sending were designed to battle Russia. The problem is that the GOP doesn't care about America, just maintaining their power.","These cognitively deficient Right-wingers keep trying to divide America because it helps them stay in office. Democrat efforts to respect Republican perspectives and to cooperate have no effect. They just have to criticize everything! Of course, they would say that the Left did the same to TfG. But He Never tried to appease the Left for more than a day. His ideas were ignorant, and his beliefs were divisive. We were forced to criticize such terrible ""leadership."".",1
"I'm not sure if Putin understands how surface to air missile defence systems work? I can guarantee he will be 'knocking down' some patriot missiles, that's sort of the point...","Right, so every one of his missiles a patriot takes out he'll count as a win cause it blew up a patriot missile as well?",1
"I believe in a free market, but I also believe everyone should have a reasonable chance at getting their first residential home before someone has a chance at getting a vacation home or house to flip.",In all seriousness this is a good first step to reigning in Wall Street and creating a better environment in the housing market for actual buyers who will live in the house.,1
"I was told Poland was going to invade Ukraine like it did 100 years ago, and Russia is here to save Ukraine from Poland.","- And the fact that for 9 years Ukrainians have been hammering at the peaceful cities of Donbass, killing both the old and the young, does this not count? +1, -6.",1
"My understanding is that it’s a little pellet that gets injected that’s super similar to subs, but lasts way longer. usually done once a month, but I’ve known guys who still feel fine 45 days after a shot.",I think what they’re talking about here is people who are intending to do coke or mdma and end up having stuff cut with fentanyl and OD as a result.,0
"So they’ve made a massive miscalculation in trying to make Russia great, again The’ve destroy what they already have.",Russia is definitely not the military power we thought they were. I was listening to radio four they have less than 65 operational tanks!,0
"Probably the best Ukraine can currently hope for is what another user pointed out: Russia declaring a ""Mission kill-only-the-Ukrainian-Nazis accomplished"", allowing either for their retreat or easier recapture by Ukrainian troops while the Russian population doesn't make a fuzz about it all being for nothing.","It was probably inevitable that Russian troops eventually learn from their mistakes and change their doctrine to reflect reality. For me the worry is that the ""smart survivors"" will pass on their experience to a large amount of mobilized troops that may overwhelm Ukraine eventually just because of the sheer numbers they could muster. But that's still far in the future, if at all. And so far, it seems that for the time being, no large-scale mobilization, part 2 is going on.",0
"While it is still hard to say how many tanks Russia had pre war, it is certain they have lost a shitload of them.","From what we've seen Russia is using outdated Soviet equipment. The West is pumping modern tech into Ukraine. Putin's using up his old clay before it dries up. Somehow being able to make your enemy slightly weaker and less provisioned, dump a bunch of old equipment in a foreign country and steal/relocate families and children are his biggest accomplishments.",1
Because it is a fact the Nixon admin ended the war as he was the commander in chief as that's how America works.,"But I also think Nixon had an agenda besides himself. Sure, he wanted to be great and was driven and probably narcissistic. But he did stuff, and did compromise at times. Trump would never do that.",1
"These fucking companies warp our laws, ruin our kids future, manipulate our media, pay off our politicians and wal away with earning everything and contributing nothing.","These fucking companies pay no tax, get massive subsidies to offset infrastructure, lobby against clean competitors to cement their destruction of the planet, are responsible for massive atmospheric, biodiversity and heritage damage.",0
I don't think the Republican-controlled House will be able to leverage its small majority as well as Pelosi did. I don't think Biden or his team feel threatened.,"Tactically, it is a good position for Dems. Biden can point to all sorts of crazy stuff the House is doing, and the House will have to do the crazy stuff because their majority is too thin. The true believers will sink the whole thing if not sufficiently placated.",0
"Still, people covering such facts are also monsters and deserve the harsher punishements, and the catholic church definitely had been involved in covering such scandals, I'm just surprised to hear about a large paedophile ring, is it documented ?","We are talking covering up of crimes on a global scale, with hundreds to thousands of examples of just their failures to cover it up despite the reach and power the church has, never mind the current ongoing active priests abusing children, and ones we never heard about.",1
"Which, considering the size of the Ukraine battlespace, would also be present and not plugged by the Iron Dome.","Keep in mind, contextually I was speaking on an iron dome system for Ukraine. The cost, supply chain, and land mass talking points were all to say western nations need their advanced arms, can’t produce them at scale for other non NATO allies, and fear them getting into enemy hands.",1
"Members of his campaign did...but I don't think Trump ever like, verbally expressed to Putin that he wanted him to interfere in the election. Where Trump truly fell on his face was at the summit in Helsinki in 2018 when Trump sided with Putin over our own vast U.S. intelligence agencies when Putin swore up and down that there was absolutely no attempt at interference. That was the day that Trump put on full display for all the world to see that while he may not have been a Russian agent, he was most certainly a Russian asset.","So to try and imply that Hakeem Jeffries is some kind of extremist election denier (like Trump, like Marjorie Greene, like Kari Lake, and others have proven themselves to be) is simply not accurate.",0
"On Nato multiple times yes, the classic totally ignorant & bullshit arguments of ""Stop prolonging the war & victims by providing weapons to Ukraine"" & it's ""Nato provocation that pushed russia to attack"".","All of his statements either attacked NATO, blamed Zelenskyy & the Ukrainian government for being ""equally guilty for the ""conflict"" & the suffering of the Ukrainian population"", wrongly stated Ukrainians & russians as ""two brothers divided by a complex issue"" which couldn't be more wrong than that, etc.",0
"This information is collated by the ONS. However, it is the country of dispatch that is used to measure the nationality of an import, not the country where it was produced. This means a cargo of Chinese-made goods could be registered as being from Germany if it were imported to the UK by a German firm.","The oil came to the UK on ships owned by, among others, a German Company. Other nations involved a Belgium, the Netherlands and Greece. Some of the oil was offloaded from Russian ships onto EU-registered ones out on sea, illegally evading sanctions. Broadly this worked because the UK goes by selling country rather than producing country when it comes to oil imports. Those have rules have since been changed specifically because of these incidents.",1
"The cost of us having to aid ukraine against an illegal war (remember before i hear ""what about us"" we have ALWAYS had a legal cause for war).","This aint the old days where we can force a re-build on a nation like Russia. While id say they wont use nukes over Ukraine, or even if they are being defeated in a military sense in their own nation, actually trying to force a rebuild may cause it.",0
"“Reading these arguments was, to quote the baseball sage Lawrence Peter (‘Yogi’) Berra, ‘Déjà vu all over again,’” the judge wrote.","“Sophisticated defense counsel should have known better,” the judge wrote, adding, “In its discretion this Court will not impose sanctions, which the Court believes are unnecessary, having made its point.”.",0
"And they chose Hamas to be their autonomy, so Israel kinda controls what goes in, because otherwise Israel would have to deal with much more advanced missiles.",I'm sure Israel would be more progressive if Palestinians did not elect terrorist groups like Hamas who want to take all aid money to launch rockets at innocent Israelis.,1
"TIL massive expansion of drone technology where we can carpet bomb the living fuck out of anyone we want on the planet is ""meh."".",YEAH. SOMEONE needs to look into this guy before he bankrupts all his investors and flies a Space X into the side of the mountain to burn it all down. He is obviously not well.,1
"The alternative, where workers don't have the backing of a union and are consistently being taken advantage of by the employer, is not tenable.",Maybe because underpayment and companies abusing their rights as employers have forced employees who need to work to live (a lot paycheck to paycheck) to fight back?,1
"Well… North Korea is plenty Bad, but that’s no reason to believe every story that comes out about them no matter how wacky or insane.","Safe bet for the future: everything you read about North Korea is by definition, unconfirmed tabloid nonsense.",1
Yeah no. I have zero sympathy for her. Especially when she is anti worker and anti family. To say nothing of her opinion about citizens of Central American countries like Costa Rica.,"Yes - Costa Rica is amazing, but theres a dark side that many people dont see until you have an extended stay. My mother has lived there for a while, and so has a good friend and his partner. All three of them have had violent home invasions. My mother was tied up and held at gunpoint. Theres a reason why metal bars over the windows are the standard construction method. Yeah its an amazing place - lets not get too carried away though, the crime and violence is on another level.",1
"Actually that's not the whole story. Haaretz reported yesterday. Netanyahu wanted Ukraine to vote against the motion. Zelensky told him that in exchange for a vote in his favor or official abstention, he needed military support for the war. Netanyahu declined to commit military help but told him they could speak about it at a later point and Zelensky gave the order for the UA representative not to show up so that UA keeps the door open if Netanyahu chooses to help in exchange for a favorable vote. In this case Ukraine did not officially abstain either, they did not vote and abstention requires a vote.","Your comment said that they are ""abstaining in really helping Ukrainians"". What you meant to say was ""they are abstaining in certain specific types of aid to avoid creating new geopolitical issues for themselves"". You may not care about Israel's security, but they do and they are doing everything they can to help Ukraine without putting themselves at risk.",1
"Which pretty much indicate that they were just boxes packed by his aides and put there as storage without realizing it had a few ""classified"" documents. Republicans are really gonna be disappointed by the special counsel result i feel like.",1- Biden lawyers didnt have classified clearance of any kind and its better to let the DOJ handle it than risking messing with evidence.,0
"I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please if you have any questions or concerns.","This is an issue of great concern and much importance to me. I have a hard time understanding the vituperative and hateful things I read on political forums. The author writes in the article: “The dream with One Small Step is that we convince the country it’s our patriotic duty to see the humanity in people with whom we disagree, which is a complete moon shot.”.",1
"Sometimes I'd like to. Given Biden's age and her popularity level among the base, if anything happens to him I'm sure the Party would like to as well.",Biden hasn’t forgotten but there are a portion of people who would like to and we know who they are….,1
"Ironically, this kind of shit is going to just galvanize the protestors as well as push a lot of them away from religion.","It's literally the same thing here with the Iranian government - ""War against God"" - this is nothing more than them attempting to scare the other protestors into submission.",0
"I suppose. Not without precedent, though. We can’t forget Hoover’s hangout with Hitler and his subsequent dinner with Göring - at the latter’s personal hunting cabin, no less.","This is so confusing; I’ve seen so many different accounts of this dinner, half of them say it went appallingly, the other half say it went swimmingly. I suppose truth is somewhere in between, I guess. Must mean the appetizers were cold but the entree portions were huge.",0
"Conversely, DirecTV MUST feel, based on the ratings, and they’d know, that Newsmax isn’t worth what they’re asking. Plus, I don’t believe they have anything else to offer. When MSNBC, CNN, & FoxNews come up for renegotiations, they bundle (or at least Fox did, they’re on their own now) the news with their other channels; ie DirecTV could get all the local NBC affiliates for free but they’ll pay $.08 for MSNBC, etc. (that’s a guess, it could be higher based on subscribers).","Now, I don’t know the particulars of the Newsmax deal, but my guess is that, since they’re relatively new, they went with a low or non-existent subscriber fee, living solely on broadcast advertising for a time. They probably also offered DirecTV (and the other top 9 cable distributors) a portion of ads per hour to sell on their own as well, sweetening the deal.",0
"So let me get this straight. Russia is taking criminals. Putting them in situations where either they die or learn how to use weapons to survive. Even if they do survive, the environment they were subjected to is so hostile that most survivors walk away with at least some form of mental trauma. Added to that is that a good percentage of the people already have substance abuse problems and lack impulse control.",Them to top it off you organize them into a for profit criminal gang led by a guy determined to be the next dictator of Russia....,0
"Oh, please happen. But honestly, they'll spin it as Democrats disenfranchising the county. ""See? We were right, it was rigged. When our votes meant xyz would win, they didn't even count us."".","If it’s not this, it’s something else. They’re obviously not going to stop. If by now you’re not anticipating “more radical political action”, I’ve got news for you. Let them have at it. It’s not like the US hasn’t been through worse.",1
"The recent surge of attacks on gender affirming care for trans youth have been , the , and the , and are out of line with the medical recommendations of the , the and , the , the , the , and the .","No, there's just gonna be plenty of trans kids suffering egregious mental duress for precisely no reason that goes against what we already understand for gender-affirming care.",1
"People are going to blame who they want to blame. Everyone involved in this has some blame which is true in every strike that happens. The workers asked for things they knew they wouldn’t get to add leverage, the railways didn’t give things the workers deserve. The government forced a deal because not having a deal would hurt even more people than forcing a deal does. Not to mention most of the unions had agreed to this deal, so not like this is screwing over all the workers.","If the strike would've presented worse problems, perhaps the bosses should've given their workers rights to prevent it.",1
I remember a story on British media regarding the 2021 Mars missions that arrived around the same time.,"First step is using a Mars orbiter to receive the rover signals, to transmit to appropriate receivers on earth. I think they did some experiments to see if the ESA orbiter could be used to relay Zhurong signals, it’s feasible but not something that could be done routinely or in parallel with the orbiter’s other jobs.",1
What was shown with the polish incident is that the West is more willing to fight Russia more than ever. So Medvedev does the other Russian foreign policy move of trying to frame the West as warmongers while Russia is invading its own neighbor.,"I mean Russia did bomb a dam and try to say it was Ukraine, launching a Ukrainian missile at Poland to try and break friendly relations is well within their power.",1
"Most cruise missiles and aircraft can be shot down by the various things Ukraine has now, but Patriot missile sites give them the capability to defend against some of the really nasty stuff.","I think that's the big message being sent - Ukraine is being given the best anti-ballistic missile system, which has real combat experience backing it up.",0
There has literally not been one example since Reagan of a modern day Republican politician wanting gun control because of back or brown people.,Also people like to bring up Reagan because he's the origin of the road map for where the current GOP still stands - it's slightly less applicable when you're talking about the southern dems in the days of old lmao.,1
"This is genocide, the destruction of a people and culture. We are going to end up with the same result regardless if Putin ordered Ukrainians killed by gas chambers en masse or children kidnapped.","Either way, we agree that what Russia is doing is despicable and the fact that they are genocidal in more than one way makes the situation even more horrific.",1
Dont worry homie I'm voting for Warnock myself. I'm having a hard time getting anyone else to vote bc they don't want jurry duty or they don't care. But I'll be there.,Afaik idk I can't force them to vote tho. We do get paid but only like 100 and employers don't pay you. I'm down for more jury duty but I've never been anyways so fuck it. This is my first time voting at all.,0
Sure right now defend Nancy Pelosi and her husbands insider trading. How do you square that one up. Just let it rest. You think it’s fine and your side’s just great and the other side is pure evil. Just like the other side. See the thing is all of the elected officials know it’s a ruse and you’re the exact type of person that they count on not to pay attention. I could post 100 offenses that the right does and you’d be yeah see they are awful. I could show the exact same offenses on the left and you’d make an excuse how they aren’t so bad. Keep it up and maybe we will be $60 trillion in debt vs the $33 trillion we are today. If you lived in the movie the Matrix you’d probably choose to take the pill or to know the truth. It’s okay it’s probably good for you so that you can think you support the “right” side of things. You probably also say you support diversity as long as people agree with you. It’s okay you’re like most of the folks in the country.,"You’re hilarious, my sides fine for doing it. Both sides hire tax and legal specialists to limit their taxes. That you think otherwise is so precious. Aren’t you cute!",0
"We just had a balloon, suddenly we have more floating objects. They're also balloons. It's not aliens. Ignoring all the usual issues with that, the idea that we just coincidentally shot down a balloon and then aliens used a balloon like object to ""do whatever"" which they also didn't react to getting shot down, is just not even worth considering.",I wouldn't even rule out the possibility that the whole alien saga was invented by the US military or secret service to cloak experimental planes and balloons.,1
"On the one side, Ukraine chose to ally itself with the West, and it's not like it was unknown that Russia wouldn't like this nor was this done unilaterally by Ukraine.","Maybe if the Ukrainian politicians were in agreement of Ukraine joining the NATO and its population actually liked the NATO instead of seeing it to a large degree as an enemy, there would have been more support for membership from other countries.",1
"No, of course not. Israel did not intend to be caught intentionally importing nerve gas precursors, but sometimes airplanes crash. And that can be inconvenient. And yes, if you think Hezbollah is evil because they are trying to import chemical weapons, then pot - meet kettle.","Maybe because these weapons will only be used against Israel, and maybe also because Hezbollah are taken here as defenders of Lebanon and not as terrorists.",1
"It is not about religion or orthodox church. There are two main orthodox churches in Ukraine. Moscow branch is ruled by Gundyaev (Patriarch Kirill of Moscow), who is an KGB agent. He is a religios propaganda machine for Putin and in top 100 richest Russians.",Now back to Ukraine. Some priests as investigation shown spread Russian supplied propaganda justifying Russian agression and war crimes! Literally published in Russia propaganda how Russia has a right to occupy Ukraine and it should not exist. One priest caught in bed with an underage boy.,0
"Yep. You later find out they mean ""Love thy White Cisgender Christian Neighbor who better belong to the same church as you and HATE all thy other neighbors"".","That's definitely 95% of the reason why right wingers want to ban it so badly. It is undoubtedly a sketchy Chinese company with major security issues, but so is every right-wing app (or so many other social media apps) ever developed.",0
"Yes, the next Indo-Pak war will see many more countries siding with Pakistan bc of India's disasterous foreign policy since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.","You, on the other hand, say that it was wrong for the West to engage in imperial wars but it is acceptable for Russia to do the same. And it was wrong for the West to profit from imperial wars, but it is right for India to do the same.",1
"You aren’t just nuking Khamenei though, those facilities still reside within a country they (ostensibly) consider their own. Having nuclear weapons isn’t an evil act itself, and with Ukraine as an example it’s actually really an unfortunate necessity.","It's shit like this that encourages Iran to develop nuclear weapons Russia has shown that world that if you have nukes, people won't touch you Iran has clearly learnt that lesson and Israel's saber rattling only exonerates Iran in their quest for nukes.",1
"Japan, like most other places that have age of consent laws take this into consideration and have ""Romeo and Juliet"" laws that make the 18 and 17 year old scenario legal.",No prefecture has an age of consent below 16 so practically it is already illegal to have sex with anyone below 16 (or 18 depending on where you are) everywhere in Japan.,1
"I think I see this as it being best for NATO to have Finland and Sweden as members. Erdogan wringing everything politically possible out of the situation, but it's still politics, and there's still (presumably) negotiations happening meaning all his demands don't have to be fulfilled.","My guess is it's all political theatre, there's constant negotiating behind the scenes, and after Turkey's presidential elections next year are over and Erdo's gotten to act like a strong man making demands of the rest of NATO and Nordics, he'll suddenly announce he's gotten satisfactory assurances or whatever and will accept the application.",1
This is an absolute mess because the left isn't willing to discuss the nuance of transgender issues with minors - which is an entirely understandable concern. The right makes it much worse by branding it as 'trans bad.'.,"It's not though. It's a strawman. The medical community is overwhelmingly in agreement with ""the left"" on all this stuff. There's outlier anecdotes, sure, but they are indeed outliers and don't invalidate the experience of everyone else.",1
"I dont know why people think 4 day work week will mean shorter business hours. Instead, more people can be hired and employed. And there is more incentive to work if you are not working inhumane hours.","Because in this context, they're fighting for more hours of their life at work. Because it's the only place at least some of the people fighting for the preservation of the 40 hour week feel they get to be social.",1
The Bush and Blair administrations were aware of just how incredibly piss poor their evidence was which is why they spent so much effort trying to convince the public that these inspectors were clueless.,It isn't a false equivalence. The USA and UK invaded a sovereign nation over what we knew even then was almost certainly not factual. The fact that one nation is democratic and one was authoritarian is irrelevant as the claim I replied to was regarding the invasion of a sovereign nation.,0
"You folks didn’t know shit about Ukraine a year before, while both Russians and Ukrainians have lost friends and family members there, families split apart both figuratively and objectively speaking,relatives killed, and im not taking about soldiers here, and NOBODY knows how to stop it.","People are different, some people are doing the best they can, helping refugees with food and clothes, money, transporting them out of the country through available borders, some provide funding for them, some donate to funds that help Ukraine refugees and army but you won't read it on /r worldnews cuz it is filled with Ukrainian war propaganda which is understandable. We have no power to stop an army in a totalitarian regime, but we're doing the best we can.",0
"example: we have ECOWAS (think EU but for west Africa, and it’s a mix of Portuguese, English and French speaking countries, but the French countries outnumber every other), we already have free movement, one passport, free trade, right to live and work etc etc, and we’ve been pushing for one currency for the whole subcontinent for the last like 20 years.","our government along with Ghana, Liberia and the other non french speaking countries filed a complaint but the french west africans once again bought into french imperialism and coercion.",0
"It's not cattle, the industry that spearheads the deforestation in the amazons are the illegal logging operations. Down the line some idk how many years they may turn into crops for cattle.",The deforested areas are for raising cattle. Then after five years they will be able to farm corn and after seven years soybeans.,1
"He did have “improper” possession of sensitive classified documents , he also has done the proper thing and let the justice department do their job.",Where Trump lied and tried to impede law-enforcement from being able to gather all the classified documents to secure them properly.,1
"It was a reaction to the proposal to worsen the conditions of ""security prisoners"" by Ben Gvir, so my bet it was more a reaction than a planned start of war.","When we say ""reaction"" we imply that somehow Ben Gvir proposing (or dang it, even deciding to) worsen the conditions of terrorist in jail is a rational reason to shoot rockets at civilians. Those two aren't really logically related any more than the Mafia threatening to kill a police officer who's putting a criminal in jail.",1
Florida starts their election 10+ days before election day AND they count their votes as they receive them (those votes are REQUIRED to be counted and tabulated prior to election day). Many of us just do early voting (not ballot drop off).,"Arizona counts early ballots as they're received too. And early voting here starts Oct 12th. But the counting of early ballots isn't completed prior to election day, and unlike Florida, there isn't a requirement for it to be.",1
You know the republicans are just going to make fools of themselves and we already didn't have the votes to pass major legislation in the senate anyway.,"It’s better to let the ignorant public believe that the GOP controls the House, and that way they’ll own all the inaction leading into 2024.",1
"Do they even know what a ""civil war"" is? How exactly is this war going to be fought. With tweets? Who determines the winner?","Why is ""civil war"" now the answer to everything? Between blue and red voters, and states, and now within the GOP.",0
"As you've said, Covid was a surprise, but Influenza is what we've prepared for and it has high potential to cause massive deaths. The scale and severity of the bird epidemic illustrates that.",H5N1 is currently difficult to transmit between humans but when people do get infected the mortality rate is reportedly up to 60%. What we don't want is a shift in H5N1 where it becomes highly transmissible between people and remains highly deadly.,0
The Russian goal is to pressure Ukraine to call for a ceasefire—To keep millions of Ukrainians from freezing to death.,"Hurting civilians is part of the war in the Ukraine. Delay at the beginning was caused by Olympic games in China, and results of that we see today. There is no objective anymore, this war is pointless form Russia point of view, they cannot win, but they can do as much damage as they can and that is all to it. When Putin dies someone else will negotiate peace and everyone will forget about it.",1
"Edit: Yes, it's forcing states to recognize same-sex marriage licenses from states that do issue them.",The only reason this is getting anywhere in the Senate is because it's not forcing states to recognize issue same-sex marriage licenses.,0
"Don’t get me wrong, I’m a basketball and football guy myself. But I’m going to counter your argument because I think it is poor.","In basketball, it’s almost expected that every possession will end in a score, this makes every score have less meaning, and makes every possession more boring.",0
Existing Israeli policy is a direct result of decades of failed peace negations and “bad faith” efforts from the Palestinian side.,"While I don't feel there is a viable treating partner on the Palestinian side, how long will we support this with absolutism? We have to balance our relationship with Israel and it's protection with our own sensibilities.",1
Yep. Still delaying his trial for securities fraud. And presumably still under FBI investigation for retaliation against whistleblowers. And ... sigh ... still gonna be in office for at least one more term.,He's no more immune than any other person who has the money or connections to get top-tier legal representation. Decent lawyers can introduce insane delays in legal proceedings.,0
"As a teacher who lives and teaches in his district, he is just mind-boggling stupid. For one, kentucky has a serious issue with school funding at the moment. Schools here are funded through SEEK, which basically is that each student that attended gets a dollar amount to the school, and students with IEPs have a dollar amount that is increased by a multiplier. It was actually amazing when it was created as it helped schools to run based properly on their population. The problem is that those funds never increased with inflation, so now schools are hemerging money and have to go to property taxes to meet the difference, which only widens the gap and introduces class segregation.","Also, providing private schools, tax payer funds is the most anti libertarian stance I have ever heard.",0
"Imagine if Biden decided to run in 2024 and we were able to rally behind a young, progressive Democrat in 2028 and get 12 more years of filling spots.","Me, under Biden as he outpaces Trump: ""This is what democracy looks like. The system is working exactly as it should and tbh he needs to double his pace."".",1
"Fuck Democratic primary voters for that. If they were so demoralized by one not-particularly-large state that they gave up on candidates they liked more, then they're stupid. And if there weren't candidates they liked more because they were just so hyped to vote for someone associated with Obama, then they got what they wanted.","And the media, when a non-moderate candidate does poorly in SC, will then say, “well clearly America doesn’t want their politics” with a straight face. Sadly we as an electorate don’t have the time to investigate that for ourselves and will agree.",1
"Oil price in Japan is fine, there are also a lot of affordable public transports such as bus, trains & high-speed trains (which often corporations cover the cost too).","All of the foreign parties that have invested in the project can totally afford that loss as not only they are massive (Mitsubishi is just that big), they were already aware years before about the potential risk of a sudden loss of their shares so they are prepared for it.",0
"Yes, quite frankly. The Russian invasion of Ukraine justifiably makes Finland nervous, whatever reason one believes motivated the former, because largely it applies to Finland as well. For example:","But you don't need a functioning army to try, in what as you put it as a ""sour grapes"" response, and what I'd describe as an unsuccessful attempt. Russia may not be a threat to Finland the state, but certainly can be a threat to Finnish civilians. Depending on one's definition, that is a threat to Finland as well.",0
"We know that corruption affects different areas in different ways. You're talking without any evidence of corruption affecting weapons and aid shipments which is the type of corruption they are worried about. Our last president, Trump, was more corrupt than anything you'd find in Ukraine. I'm sure you saw your boss Putin confirm trump was his puppet on Russia TV 1 time after time.",I'm definitely not falling for Russian propaganda. That's for small minds like yours and modern fascist sympathizers like yourself.,0
"Only for a short time, until Russia runs so low on rocket ammo that they can’t fire more than they can produce.",Interceptors are valuable. Ukrainian lives are more valuable. And all those Russia rockets will sooner or later be fired into one or into the other.,0
"If anything, this will continue to be a bellwether of the intelligence level of people you converse with. ""Oh, he's going on about Hunter Biden, that gives me at least 5 minutes to putz around on my phone while he blathers"".","Leave them alone, they're done wishing they were vampires, now they wish they were were werewolves, because a werewolf can kill a vampire (did you know that?).",0
"It could be. The issue is. The US and Europe are together the 800lb gorilla in the world. But they still for economic reasons do business with bad actors. Europe only this month weaned off Russian oil - a year after Russia attacked Ukraine. Economics should only be w concern insofar as you need to manage resources to meet human needs. If you are meeting your own human needs while allowing another to fundamentally violate human needs, there is no net benefit there. Would you light a person on fire to keep a family warm?",How is demanding bilateral equal trade agreements imperialist? Why should china get to demand special treatment on what would otherwise be an open market?,0
"By the way, all these Chinese activities while Russia is also starting a new offensive in Ukraine, clearly shows that China doesn't want the war to end and we should give up the illusion that China could help to make a deal with Russia for peace.","China loves the war, not only does it distract and weaken its rivals, they also can buy an absurd amount of discounted resources from Russia, while they became their one and only trading partner that sends millions worth of goods every day to keep Russia and the war running.",0
"Ukraine are the “good guys” because they are innocent victims acting purely in self defense in this war of aggression and attempted genocide on Russia’s part. Therefore everything Ukraine does in this war is morally justified, and nothing Russia does is with the exception of fucking off and paying reparations for the war.",So your whole premise of belief is literal Russian propaganda that this war started over some attempt to allow Ukraine in nato. That is bullshit and never happened. Ukraine has wanted to join nato since they became an independent country. The west does not want them in nato.,1
"There are now new reports of a large white balloon spotted about 594 miles northeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.","Plus the US military wanted to recover the balloon in shallow waters where they could get it. A gun would need many shots (1,000+) to bring down a balloon while a missile is an immediate kill so the balloon going down could be in a place you do not want.",0
This is also why we have been giving gear like this. People get mad about the US requiring Ukraine to defend itself before giving advanced gear. What country would willing give its good shit to a country that would hand it over to the Ops?,"Facts. We also have intact top of the line tanks, IFVs, helicopters, AA, radars, and jets from Russia.",0
"So once again. Erdogan is playing games, Sweden is in reality not the part that he want to negotiate with, it's the US and other larger European partners that need to mediate in this issue. Sweden just got between the ironsights.","It's basically malicious intent to accept Finland and to let Sweden out, it's a bad strategic scenario for Sweden and Finland as well as a really bad blow to NATOs ""open door policy"".",0
"No what happened is: he was recruited by Wagner from prison. He then surrendered to Ukraine, and as a pow he even did a couple of interviews. I guess Ukraine wanted to show that turning yourself in as a mobik is the way. Then he got swapped in a prisoner exchange, and Wagner made an example out of him: don’t surrender to Ukraine or your head is flattened by a fucking hammer against a pole.","So he was convicted for murder, joined the invasion for a pardon and deserted, was then traded back to Russia as a pow for a ukraine pow, and the Wagner gang murdered him.",1
"This. And LGBTQ+ community has been assisting the government and conducting trainings for the police way before the war started. I'm Ukrainian and I remember maybe 10 years ago or so when Russia already prohibited any positive mention of gays in the media, Ukrainian Biggest Loser (the weight losing show) had a lesbian family participating in the family edition of the show on one of the major TV channels. I mean, the situation is far from perfect for sure and Pride in Kyiv has to have to a huge police plan, including closing off some parts of downtown and having police stand there protecting the march from idiots, but it's government helping the LGBTQ+ community to be safe. Again, not perfect at all that there still are idiots (mostly Russian Orthodox christians) who come to protest, but the government had been making steps forward before the war and hopefully will continue to do so to make sure our laws are aligned with EU and our people are educated.","I think Zelenskyy and Ukrainians in general understand that much of the world is headed towards a showdown between those who believe in liberal democracy and those who believe in religious fascism. A lot of conflicts have recently arisen where this ideological divide is a major factor. There’s the culture war in the US, protests for women’s rights in Iran, the trend towards authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, and yes, the Ukraine-Russia war. There are other regional issues at play in these conflicts, but it’s hard to deny that there is a common thread of liberalism vs. fascism in all of them.",1
"Holy shit, the brainwashing and fascist hate in the MAGA crowd is nuts. I always knew they were that way inclined from the r/TD days, but seeing it in this report, given this context. Wow.","Yep. I was functioning for probably 9 years? Through various stages as well for sure. Made rules like only beer which would help but then I had some serious beer binge drinking which eventually led me back to drinking liquor until things got worse and I had to do a ""correction"". Or course that only worked until... It didn't. The bender i was on was ""functioning"" but getting worse for about a year until about 6 months that was really, really, bad. But never support a racist, fascist, criminal traitor bad.",1
"The problem is that we don’t have an active, educated electorate and politicians who are blatantly corrupt will get re-elected. If we actually ousted corrupt politicians, the corporate sector jobs for them (and their aides) would dry up. Corrupt people will always find another method to be corrupt, rather than try to legislate against a method, we need to elect people who aren’t corrupt.","Or, to put it another way, how exactly could we get politicians to create and enforce that law without first reducing corruption by voting out the ones who are corrupt and voting in new ones who aren’t?",0
Agreed. Where I'm from people care more about saving money than getting their hate boners on. IIRC a life sentence is cheaper than the insane process of review and appeal and waiting that comes with a reliable system to rule out killing innocent people.,There is no possible system made by humans who are fallible that could have a 100% accuracy rate with respect to death penalty convictions. It’s not nearly as simple as you are making it sound or as you want it to be.,1
However this part of the story doesn't make sense and implies they're the ones who needed title insurance/lost money so I'm confused:,"""It also doesn't account for the house being sold under market value ... if fraudsters are looking to make a quick buck,"" said Derrick. ""You get what it's sold for, not what it's worth."".",0
"They’ve already overruled a previous lower court ruling trying to block the forgiveness. It could have just been to avoid hurting republicans in the midterms, but we shall see soon. How many different reasons can rich people come up with to block it?","Giving it to rich people? My guy, there's an income cap of $125,000. That means no one above middle class is getting any relief, and the biggest relief is going to Pell Grant students who have to be poor to receive in the first place.",1
"Gas is definitely better than old school electric for cooking, but there's people that swear by the new induction stove tops and say they are at least equivalent to gas in the heat control you get.","It's then a question of what's more efficient: heating water in a pot on the stove with natural gas, or using natural gas to generate electricity and distribute it through the grid to your home.",1
I think we need to stop with the doomsday climate talk. There is real cause to be optimistic about recent events.,"I'm actually fairly optimistic about the trajectory we seem to be on. I definitely think we missed our chance to limit warming to under 1.5 degree Celsius, but I think even just a few years ago warming of 4-5 degree Celsius was on the table, but we seem to be on a lower trajectory more like 2-3 degree Celsius.",0
The EU would love a highly militarized and friendly neighbor who will protect them against an aggressive other neighbor.,Any country that is more militarized than their neighbours is a potential to threat to those neighbours unless there is a balance. Nothing against Ukraine per se.,1
I think there are some supermarkets in big malls that are allowed to sell beer. But anything other than that e.g. the local supermarkets in residential areas are not. Even in a big city like Surabaya where I usually visit.,"I actually went to Bali a few years back and really liked the place. At the time, I could definitely see myself running a remote-first software company from there.",1
Not saying people should just sit back and let violent regime takes control but sometimes there is just nothing else people can do except to bid their time and wait for favorable circumstances to arise. I think such time may come soon for the Russian citizen to overthrow Putin.,And Iran government has no problem of torturing and killing them. So the citizens of an violent regime has some sort of moral obligation to risk their lives and protest? Easy for you to say when you aren’t the one risking your lives. self preservation is a human right. Not to mention protest in non democratic country seldomly amount to anything at all without external help.,0
"The danger is Pakistan giving nukes/nuclear technology to unsavory parties in a ""nothing to lose"" scenario. Pakistan treats the scientist who helped North Korea/Iran's Nuclear program as a national hero.","Oh I know Pakistan already gave nukes to North Korea and Iran, the danger is that if pushed too hard, Pakistan will start giving nukes to non-state entities as a way of striking at ""enemies"" they don't have the nominal strenh to take on.",0
"If you think a handful of days a year is going to stop employers hiring women, you're going to be absolutely baffled when you find out about pregnancy leave.","Also when maternity leaves were extended in European countries americans were fear mongering that less women will be hired, never happened.",1
"If I remember correctly Chad purchased the jets, or at least the SU25s from Ukraine and I would imagine that package also included pilots and maintenance since I doubt that’s an area the Chadian military has a lot of specialists in.","Because Chad leased/purchased a number of Ukrainian MiG-29s and SU-25s, and part of the contract was that Chad would pay Ukrainian contractors to organize, maintain and fly said planes. The basically outsourced some or all of their Air Force to the Ukrainians.",1
"If they really wanted to help the workers they would have made the sick days on the same bill, or would have let the strike runs it’s natural course.",If it is that big of a deal then they should just pass it with the 7 sick days. Surely a small hit in profits isn’t worth crippling the nation.,0
"Someone in favour of abortion rights has _no_ interest in leaking the opinion, I guarantee to you that the leak is on the anti-abortion side.","In other words, they don’t actually give a shit about abortion, and are using it to advance their own self interests while hurting the average voter.",1
If Russia is broken in Ukraine they could lose their ability to prop up the anti Israel regime in Syria nor could they increase cooperation with Iran.,"If Russia crumbles and fall, Iran would lose its biggest and most important ally (Putin might be overthrown) This could lead to free reigns in the region for Israel to confront Iran and their proxies without needing to cooperate with Russia. Russia helping to prop up Syria and Iran who both are anti Israel is not in Israels interest.",0
I am sad for the people of Ukraine. But there would have been less death and destruction if the US stayed out of it. They are being used as cannon fodder for finacial and political gain.,Like all wars this one is about money and corporate interest. Russia is defending the wolves of NATO at their doorstep. The US is seeking to corner a market. At the expense of Ukraine and Russia.,0
"""To ensure gender equality it is important in many cases that women and men are treated equally. But they should not necessarily be treated equally in all situations. In some cases, the underprivileged gender must be favoured to be able obtain similar results."".","Second, since we're talking about women being underprivileged and thus deserve a leg up, are you also arguing that being forced to fight and die for your country is a privilege?",0
"It speaks directly to aid to Ukraine, and how that could also enable a situation where wwiii or nuclear war could erupt. Also playing right into Putins talking points.","But going back to the point of this discussion, by your own admission, there are very few far-left supporters of Putin and this war. In the meantime, there are millions of far-right lunatics out there pushing Russian propaganda.",1
I don't get it? The U.S.A. doesn't own it's own gas resources. They are owned by private/public companies. We are paying the higher prices... all of us in the world are paying higher prices.,"Of course the US will sell more energy and at higher prices. Russia was effectively sanctioned out of market. Less supply means higher prices, and US along with other countries are filling in the gaps left by Russia. The US is profiting from that but so what? US didn’t create this circumstance, Putin did. Us benefiting from a circumstance we didn’t create isn’t a bad thing.",1
I didn’t say the state had to apologize. Just saying there is/could have been an impact to descendants in terms of property and land rights confiscated that were never returned.,I’m a descendent of the last one accused and killed (a bit of confusion over her death we believe she was hung) in CT.,0
"That would depend on if the Belarus military could be convinced to join in. It would be vastly unpopular, but so was mobilization in Russia. If the military went along with the idea, that’s another 400k troops if you count active and reserves.","You can have 400K troops or 400 million. Is doesn't matter if you can't supply them. Russia didn't even have enough trucks for the first invasion, why would they have enough for the second?",1
"3) Marriage is religious and our religion is allowed to ban gay marriage. You can have civil unions if you want, but I'm going to vote against that too because gays are gross and I just feel so icky whenever anyone respects them. It's unnatural.","Listen, buddy, we all struggle with how hot men can be. You see that Channing Tatum in Magic Mike? You better believe I'm at full salute. We all are. It's how you deal with it that determines whether it's good or bad. You just marry some gross woman, and when it's time to make children, you close your eyes and pretend that she's Magic Mike and not an icky female."".",0
"With Russia not helping Armenia broker peace, EU is now taking full responsibility to find a peaceful resolution of the conflict. What is India doing to help?","That’s better than what India is doing right now, who is actively supporting the Iranian government.",0
"Adding some additional rules like a 75 vote confirmation requirement and rules like ""the Garland rule"" which is a time limit on the Senate for voting on a nominee. If the nominee isn't voted on by the full senate within 3 months of being nominated he is automatically approved. Another necessary rule is the 2 strikes rule. If two nominees get shot down by the senate, then a randomly selected judge from the next lower court in the same party as the president is automatically promoted.","Edit: But I see the hole here. Yes, it should be amended to not allowing an automatic approval if the governing party of the Senate is the same as the president.",0
"The source below says that only 1/3 of Seoul is actually in range (only the northern part), which is less dense populated than the rest. And the farther south you go from the border, the less artillery is able to hit those long ranges. They may have some 30-40km artillery, but those are few apart and not in relevant numbers.",Looks like one of the current US artillery pieces can barely make it 40km with the right type of ammunition.,1
"So yes, according to the FBI among the most sensitive and highly classified docs Trump stole were Nuclear Secrets and the Sources and Methods of our US Intelligence Agents embedded around the world.","There is no valid reason Trump would be in possession of these, other than for their value to our nation’s adversaries, or to hold as blackmail over the US Govt.",0
What is unsound is that nobody -- literally nobody -- has ever once provided evidence that that site actually has the kind of expertise that justifies people sharing it as an authoritative source on media bias.,You're demanding I prove a negative and an alternative source that doesn't exist instead of providing evidence the site is authoritative.,0
I understand what you are saying but I feel like if there were as many as you claim there to be we would see changes happening more quickly rather than at a snails pace. If a majority of police officers wanted police accountability then they would be in a position of power and could use their majority to enact change. It is nice to see that they have started to charge police officers when they finally kill someone with their brutality. I wish more steps were taken to identify problem officers who have multiple reports against them.,"In this context the police is the department, or more specifically those who chose to fight this rather than acquiesce. I tried to make that clear when I said ""this department's mentality."".",0
"We need to repair existing roads, and allocate more money to reduce the usage of existing roads especially when it comes to single occupant commuting in cars and also commercial vehicles. We need:",destigmatize the use of busses for commuting (and improve service times...I could go a lot into this as a person who didn't have a car for a while).,0
"Actually demonstrably true. How much does a family doctor earn? Why do they earn as much as they do, is it because of their education and skill set?",Maybe in the future you’ll learn to put some thought into your post instead of just some off the cuff reactionary remark.,0
The constitutional 2 term limit for presidents did not apply to the Harry S. Truman who was the incumbent while it was ratified. I would assume that the same thing would apply here.,"We all are agreeing and saying the same thing. I'm just clearing up what somebody could think their point was because they mentioned that they ""only"" make so much and that they can vote to give themselves raises at any time. My point was just that we do not have sour grapes over that salary and that ""our salaries vs Congress salaries"" is not and should not be the issue at hand. Yes, it should be tied to constituent earnings, but I'm just suggesting going a step further by, once corrected, tying both to inflation. Then we don't need to fight for minimum wage increases for basic survival and Congress has no good reason to vote for raises for themselves. Automate both raises at the beginning of every fiscal year. It's 2023; there's no reason not to automate a significant portion of easy shit like this.",1
"Its not about NATO deciding to go first strike. Its about them thinking it might happen. Its about commanders in the field, who have control over tactical nukes, deciding in a moment of weaknes. Its about false info. human error.","You dont need a long range AA missile to intercept a long range cruise missile. S-300 has just 100 or 200 km of range, more than enough to intercept low flying cruise missiles.",0
I can easily see a situation where an employee accumulates a ton of overtime to the point where they can take several weeks off in a row. That could lead to some serious issues down the line if a critical employee suddenly takes the next two months off.,"I think it's a trait about Democrats at this point that about 80% of what they accomplish is boring keep the country running stuff, and most of their meaningful outcomes can't be fully recognized for years to come.",0
"That's a rationalization. Or more so, an excuse. Since the amount of student debt the indebted doctors had was much less than what they make in a year. So that debt should have been paid off in short order. Then what's the excuse for these debt free doctors to continue to have such extravagant salaries?","they have to pay doctors that much because of their loans, that is the only reason. again, an external factor causing economic turmoil being construed in a way that makes workers seem greedy. overall, its a no from me dawg.",1
Yeah. He did. But don’t worry he also said we’d all be dead soon from nuclear warfare so no need to worry about climate change. General theme was we will probably die from Biden one way or another before 2024 but if not vote for him. And yeah he will kill those of us who sell drugs.,"Prop 131 passed (added Lt. Gov), which was mainly supported by R’s although you had some D’s support it but it was championed by the likes of Kelli Ward and JD Mesnard. Now this won’t go into effect until Hobbs is up for re-election but they did this because they thought Lake would win, and then as an incumbent likely win re-election and wanted to cover their bases for the chance she resigns, removed, etc. Keep in mind prior to Hobbs we’ve only had 1 Dem Governor in the past 30 years who served briefly until being tapped by Obama for a cabinet spot in the 2000’s. So they figured we will hold Gov but may not always have SOS so this way we can keep control of Gov if something goes wrong. This was also always their fear with Ducey as Gov and Hobbs as SOS - basically meant Ducey could never retire, resign, etc mid-term.",0
This isn't what Christians do. Christians are literally taught from pre-school forward that it is their responsibility to save the souls of the masses by converting them to follow Jesus.,"You aren't protected though. Your state might allow abortions but without the medications covered in this particular state this will also effectively outlaw abortions in blue states by making them functionally impossible within a reasonable time span. These two drugs are responsible for 75% of abortions, without them abortion clinics will have to pick up even more slack to do physical in person abortions. Waiting lists for abortion providers are already several weeks long for the physical procedure. If the SC agrees with the premise of this group you will be looking at women that have to wait so long to get an abortion they will most likely have given birth by the time they can see a physical provider. There are not enough providers to cover the loss of this medication, this would functionally ban abortion for the vast majority of women.",0
"We already have ways of getting clean energy in the first place, and since you want to use the cheapest energy you'd naturally go for renewable when they are overproduction energy relative to the demand. There's also rules being set up for projects like this to specifically be green hydrogen, as part of the EUs energy projects.","Yeah, the ""problem"" is that hydrogen in this sense is acting as a battery, but it is ultimately a fuel (or replacing a fuel).",0
"My girlfriend actually had to sign a paper stating that she was not in Scientology when joining her current job in Germany. Was pretty funny because she didn't even know what Scientology was, it's not that big of a topic here.","God, I didn't know, I never looked into her background or saw the show but hearing the basics made me think of some of the things I'd heard Scientology from the start.",1
"Or do you mean that by having a PAC buy the book that it is skirting campaign finance laws? The article addresses that, and that isn't laundering.","Obviously, there's money moving all over this, so it could be used for laundering. I just don't know why that's the assumption. Seems pointlessly high risk.",0
What I can't grasp and understand is why they believe the western world is against them? Ever since the fall of the soviet Union the Western world and in particular Europe has tried to basically become friends with Russia...,But not one single European country have been even remotely close to have aspirations to invade Russia?,0
"(also, these are separate corporations. Going bankrupt with the casinos and steaks doesn't mean HE went bankrupt.).","Again, that’s my point. It’s almost impossible to not make a bajillion dollars in deductions and donations when you’re wealthy. Or even when you’re poor.",1
The last time that I got the flu was probably 19 years ago. I believe diet and exercise work are much better at warding off the flu than a flu shot. However this is perfect for people with a weak immune system.,"Your average immune system is going to get pummeled. So what a vaccine does is get a Mike Tyson look alike to recreate all the move sets in sparring matches, and does a rocky montage with your immune system.",1
"To be critical of Israel is to be antisemitic, as far as AIPAC is concerned. They want the US to never question their actions so Netanyahu never has to worry about consequences of defying the UN over his humanitarian crimes.","Also her criticism of Israeli humanitarian crimes is more a pretext. The real reason is, of course, as a left-leaning Democrat, she is the enemy and the GOP operates entirely in bad faith and sees Democrats as an enemy to be conquered and destroyed.",0
"In additional to this, industrial asbestos is applied as a paste. It is not free floating fibres. And if it were to become suspended, we are talking about the ocean which would result in dilution. And the thing about asbestos is that it’s chronic and prolonged exposure that cause physiological changes.","Asbestos exposure to other body parts does minor effects. However most non-lung cancers are a result of metastatic spread, rather than from the asbestos on its own.",0
Florida is racing to the bottom when it comes to public education. This feels like the Nancy DeVos model which will devolve public education to a voucher system where kids will attend private schools and charter schools regardless of the evidence that they don’t help the students who are most in need.,"Nah, the plan is to take away money from public schools, give it to Christian charter schools, and force poor people to send their children to those schools in the hopes they will become indoctrinated into good gay/abortion hating Christian nationalists.",1
"Private equity is also buying up mobile home parks, raising the rent, evicting those who can't pay - rinse and repeat. It is an assault on those with limited incomes like the elderly, single parents, etc.","Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile, tenants say they’re the ones paying the price.",0
"I assume they mean taking out bank buildings and such. They cant take out the infrastructure no, but I assume they just want to make it a lot harder for Ukrainians to buy food and necessities by destroying cash reserves.",I know life aint fair and maybe this is just wishful thinking but I see no way Russia would ever agree to pay reparations. So Ukraine is fucked completely even if allies use the frozen russian assets to fund the rebuilding.,0
"Now as I said, this event happened in a badly reputed suburb (Paillade), Police tend to NOT stick around, they get showered with stones if they do, same with firefighters depending of the case.","- Driver freaked out because of the mob and made a quick U-turn then drove away, killing that boy in the process.",0
Republicans do the republican thing and lie to their constituents about how to why voted for it so the people don’t get upset with them and take the money because the bill ultimately passed.,"The difference is republicans don't give a shit about you, they only care about money and power. You and students like you getting loan forgiveness is viewed as a negative in their zero-sum worldview and they just can't have that.",1
"I work for a Japanese company in the US and we have members from japan that stay at the US branch for 2-5 years. I am always dumbfounded that even here in the US, the Japanese employees will stay til 7-8 every night, sometimes all the way til 10:00. And it’s not like they are doing anything. I’ve stopped by the office late at night to pick something up and they will just be sitting at their desks browsing the internet or goofing off on their phones but they absolutely will not go home. It’s definitely not the American managers making them stay. They just are so used to the culture that none of them will go home and they all “work” 12 hours a day or more.",My girlfriend is Japanese and she absolutely refuses to move back to Japan. She can’t go back to certain aspects of the culture.,0
In 2020 and 2021 fireworks sales were banned due to COVID. There were fears that additional strain on hospitals due to injuries from fireworks accidents would bring them to the limit.,"The most terrible injuries were because of illegal fireworks. The pollution is almost non existent because the smog clears up after a day. The particles of the firework get washed into the soil by rain and are not that harmful. Animals also survive Storms, Thundersturms etc. so something small as man made (especially German cat. II fireworks) are nothing compared to the force of nature. It’s only 3 days a year. Banning firework will get people to buy illegal and more dangerous fireworks from Poland etc.",1
"They can't fire you. Big whoop. They also don't have to give you your position back. Just a ""comparable"" position with your regular pay.","Other 1st world countries (AND DEVELOPING NATIONS) give women a portion of, if not all of their salary to stay home with their child. No questions asked. A lot of them are for a lot longer than 12 weeks. And your job is still protected.",0
What I find fascinating about this is that there is absolutely no cultural memory left from the people who built Stonehenge. Not a shred.,"Whatever practices and beliefs those celebrating yesterday have, they are completely disconnected from the builders of Stonehenge. At best they might be somewhat connected to people who found Stonehenge built and used it for their own purposes, much like they are doing these days.",0
"Well, yeah, obviously we are racist, because we have racist policies like affirmative action in place. But I think you can take solace in the fact that we are making progress… we are looking to end racist policies like affirmative action. So there is still hope.","I don’t know if that’s true. I would think it’s the opposite. Maybe the number of people getting into college increases, but once you create a subset of a minority that is better off than their peers, then they will be taking up the slots that AA intends for their more disadvantaged counterparts.",0
"And Russia didn't have plane to plane missile technology till one of ours got caught in the fuselage of a Russian mig, they landed and reversed engineered it.",We didn't really know what mig 25s we're outside that they had a weird design and were fast until a Russian pilot defected and landed at a random airfield in Japan.,1
"Without getting rid of the filibuster, we likely can’t do most of what you list because I doubt we’ll find around 10 republicans that want those things.",And hopefully there are a handful of republican representatives that aren't full on fascist and will vote with dems on some bills. Hopefully.,1
"Based on a report by Aarhus University there’s an estimated number of 30, rising by 14 in 2022 through successful breeding. So far more than 5.","Yes. Which seems to be based on ignorance rather than an enlightened approach to wild life. One shot a wolf and got a prison sentence. Other places they’ve been blamed for attacking livestock, yet it was determined through saliva samples to have been a dog (at least the one I remember). It’s a shame really 😔.",0
"It's slightly less shocking than the other 40 times he's said he trusts Russia more than America... and less shocking still than the fact that millions of people can look at this man and think ""Yup, he's the one I want to follow"".",I'm pretty sure he's been compromised since the 1980s - he visited Russia and came back and published a letter in some news paper trashing NATO and applauding Russia.,1
"We can, each of us, only be what we are. No less. No more. But I had hoped, had faith, that people were better than this. How was it said? Judge each by their capacity?","As for my mental well being? I'm fine. I can be use to something, and still be disappointed. Palest person in the family, but apathy and disdain isn't new. As my brother says, ""Ain't nobody give a fuck about the red man."" Being trans hasn't really changed that. Twice as ignored is still ignored, unless someone thinks that nobody is looking. I just don't go out much without family, and stay tf away from cops.",0
"Other countries they supply would also be shaken and likely start looking for alternatives ""just in case"", which would lead to all sorts of shenanigans.","There's a very good reason why diplomacy calls it ""Putin's war"", and its because Russia will outlast that little manic.",0
Your scenario would require either the Electoral votes NOT be winner take all (which they are) or Trump get enough votes after splitting the Republican party that he actually wins a significant number of states - essentially impossible.,"Of course, a more likely ""Trump Independent"" scenario is that Trump forms a new MAGA party to run under, but isn't on the ballot in most states. Thus, he's a spoiler in a few states - leading to Democrat wins or races that were closer than they would have been without Trump in the race - but doesn't have an effect on other races.",1
"That's my line of thinking on it, too. I don't care if it was Ukraine's missile, it wouldn't have been in the air at all had Russia stayed the fuck home instead of invading a sovereign nation.","Ukraine wants them to say it’s Russia to get more supplies, nato doesn’t want Poland to say it’s territorial integrity was threatened, Russia is fucked either way.",1
"Iran and Syria, can easily shoot this missile into eastern Europe. Just looking on Google earth shows it can reach most of Ukraine, and all of Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and all the countries that reside in their area.","The best defence is offence - so I'm pretty sure Israel would prefer just bombing the shit out of all their known bases, as simultaneously as possible, to prevent any missile from launching into Israel.",0
"In short, Posse Comitatus does not prevent the use of US armed forces for border security. If it did .","Federally-activated National Guard. In other words, (which covers nationalized troops) rather than (state level NG). Two separate sections of US Code, one covers active, federal, military (those covered by Posse Comitatus) and state militia (national guard) that is not. This is how NG troops were used in GWOT, and deployed to Afghanistan.",0
"Ogles revealed the misstep in a statement to The Tennessee Star on Sunday, a day before NewsChannel5 published his complete college transcript.","But while it's true Ogles studied at Middle Tennessee State University, he did not major in international policy nor economics. Instead, he majored in ""Liberal Studies,"" a general education degree.",0
"Establishment Democrats are really lucky they have such nationally popular policies, because WOW they are bad at this sometimes.","It is objective reality that both parties, but the Democrats most visibly, have given up on rural America. That the urban population outnumbers the rural population lets you call this a winning strategy, and that's fine from a game theory perspective, but it should be no surprise that resentment is sky high in these areas. It's no great mystery, they are bleeding jobs, money, and population to the cities. Just look at the county maps from 2000 vs today.",1
"I know Mon/Fri travel isn't uncommon for consulting. But it was the necessity be at HQ for face to face meetings that seemed overkill. Remote work life might not have been as robust as today, but even 15 years ago we were thinking ""couldn't that be a phone call?"".",Same. I work for an old line industry. We built a new office with more of a tech look and feel and added a recreating area with video games and ping pong and such. No one used it.,1
I'd still be shocked if we ever see an indictment - I don't think there is anywhere in the country you'd get a fair jury. All it takes is one MAGA in a country where 30% of the people think that Trump was robbed by the Dems and he walks free.,Justice has never been equal in any country ever. Trump is not another citizen and it is naive in the extreme to expect Trump to be treated the same as Joe Janitor that no one has ever heard of.,0
"Um, treason? Isn’t just what he said that day, its what he did and didn’t do. Even if it wasnt his plan he still did absolutely nothing to stop it. So um, yeah, treason.","I hope they have the evidence to charge him with Treason, that would be fucking great. Unfortunately I don't think the evidence we have seen is enough to convict him with Treason in a legal sense.",1
"There's an allegation by the GOP that in at least two instances, ballots in these secured holding bins were ""co-mingled"" with already electronically tabulated ballots. Maricopa County seems to acknowledge that this happened, but states that they have a procedure for un-mingling these ballots accurately.","Maricopa County, like most places, uses ""mark-sense"" ballots. These are the ""fill in the bubble"" ballots, sometimes referred to by the trademarked name ""Scantron."" (Ironically, Scantron doesn't produce any election equipment that I'm aware of. They produce a similar type of mark-sense equipment that tabulates things like educational standardized testing.).",0
"Trump is an authentic representation of his base, that’s why they love him. He enjoys fast food, his vocabulary is simple, he has terrible taste in style, he says the things they wish a politician would say. No one can replicate that because for all of his faults Trump is genuinely Trump. When he says things he genuinely means it in that moment. While not actually blue collar, Trump’s whole personality is that of someone who is blue collar “telling it like it is” type of personality. He has a weird sort of charisma in that way. It’s partly why the rich reject him, he’s not truly one of them. That’s also why his base loves him, he’s intended as a big F-You to the rich since the rich do hate him. The others are too calculated and frankly, too smart to really be embraced by Trump’s base. Plus DeSantis and Haley have little to no charisma.",FOLLOWER 2: It's Nikki Haley. Her real last name is Nimroda or something like that. She's really an Indian.,1
"To be fair, dictatorships have changed somewhat. Instead of your early 20th century chest of medals, inform on neighbors, and kill the opposition blunt clubs, modern dictators have controlled opposition and political processes that mimic democracy and subtle walled-garden media ecosystems that try to keep their people occupied with manufactured controversies and pervasive and repetitive messaging using paid volunteers, bots, and algorithmic manipulation. The modern dictator, instead of gulaging pro-democracy activists or bloggers spreading sunshine on corrupt dealings, sends friendly people to visit dissident's homes to ask them to stop spreading rumors and make them feel watched, has flexible laws and pocket judges so there is always a crime if needed, and uses organic looking rumor mills and patriotic volunteers who fill every conversation about Dissident X with ""he shouldn't have been breaking the law. He doesn't seem so good. How can he afford to take so much time off of work? Sounds like he reads too much foreign propaganda. Is he paid by CIA?"".",True. I've heard Putin hides most of his money with a network of oligarchs. He can easily siphon off government funds for his own use by handing out government contracts to loyal cronies. Which is how the guy responsible for catering at Kremlin events somehow ended up with enough money to form his own private army.,1
"Anyway so this journalist asked «Why are you holding back Poland from donations?» and he goes «we are not, Poland is free to make their own donations» I fucking laughed, don’t need a backstory to tell what’s been going on there.","Somebody at that press conference basically asked Austin, ""Why did you stop Poland from giving MiG-29s to Ukraine?"".",1
"But my comment didn’t imply Palestinians shouldn’t have guns. I said “armed Palestinians” and I also said “armed Israeli soldiers”. The Palestinians weren’t part of an army, so I didn’t use the word “soldiers”.","But since you’re bringing it up, no I don’t think Palestinians should have guns. Nor do I think Israelis should have guns. Nor do I think Americans should have guns.",0
"► Trump was first compromised by the Russians in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money. In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider possible business prospects. Only seven weeks after his trip, Trump ran full-page ads in the Boston Globe, the NYT and WaPO calling for, in effect, the dismantling of the postwar Western foreign policy alliance. The whole Trump/Russian connection started out as laundering money for the Russian mob through Trump's real estate, but evolved into something far bigger.",This is interesting because you can also state that the Trump campaign received illegal contributions from Russia.,1
But the system itself never changes unless and until a critical mass of people gain enough power and understanding to force the system to change.,"What matters, ultimately, is the power to effect change in the physical world; to implement your ideas.",1
"If it was jaywalking or mass murder, do either of those excuse Russia for drafting a foreign national from prison and sending them to fight in a war?","Looks like the Kremlin is not just recruiting , but also foreign nationals who were imprisoned in Russia.",1
"Not dreaming is a sign of chemically stopping the natural sleeping process, alcohol intoxication has a similar effect. That's why doctors are recommended to only prescribe cannabis for sleep related anxiety disorders for a temporary amount of time and treat the underlying anxiety problems through other methods like therapy.",Tell that to someone who normally can’t sleep because they are in excruciating physical pain that marijuana alleviates. People aren’t smoking pot for problems melatonin fixes.,1
"If you are Ukrainian I hope the war ends soon for you, but worrying about the consequences of a direct war between America and Russia isn't out of pocket.","And, no I don't think American missiles flying into Russia decreases the chances of direct confrontation and that much should be obvious to anyone.",0
"That is probably going to depend on Russias reaction to being driven out of Ukraine. If Russia continues to be an active adversary after all their troops have left Ukraine, then that leaves Ukraine no choice but to take out any threat that comes from Russia proper.",When Ukraine pushes russian troops out of their country (including Crimea). At that point just send U.S troops into Ukraine and dare those dumbass russians to strike.,1
One of the reasons for announcements like this is to communicate to the Russians that Ukraine will have supplies of ammo/weapons for the long-haul.,"Is it a NATO or specific spec round, for instance we are asking Ukraines eastern European friends to donate their stockpiles because its not NATO spec weapons.",1
"Trump’s attorneys told Engoron they were happy to sign stipulations about not hiding assets, but they insisted that a financial babysitter wasn’t necessary because, contrary to what James was arguing, there wasn’t serious evidence that fraud ever had occurred, much less that any fraud was ongoing. In his ruling Thursday, Engoron was fairly scathing in his response, saying the monitor was a reasonable idea “given defendant’s demonstrated propensity to engage in persistent fraud.”.",">Engoron - the judge \- was fairly scathing in his response, saying the monitor was a reasonable idea “given defendant’s demonstrated propensity to engage in persistent fraud.” hands down early guilty verdict.",1
We can celebrate democrats being successful but Maloney is a culmination of everything wrong with the party. A comfortable wealthy white guy who felt entitled to a safe seat to wield power and influence for his own gain without any consideration of the people he represented. The DCCC deserved so much better.,"His district deserved better. And he's an excellent example of why I never donate to the national fundraising committees, DCCC, DSCC etc. I donate to individuals.",1
"I had to threaten to donate to Hershel to slow them down. I would never, but I don’t know what else to say at this point. 7 calls a day for multiple days is fucking ridiculous, especially after I said “yes I’m voting for him again, now stop calling me.”.","I’m voting for Warnock, but I’m getting so many spam texts and calls that I’m about to lose my mind.",0
"> However, while he was busy telling the bees he would address all outstanding rituals in due time, he came under attack.","I’d be interested to know what the exact circumstances of the ritual were, as bees are generally less aggressive when swarming unless the queen is under direct threat.",1
"Back to the Moon and beyond, this time to stay. I’m so happy to finally see Artemis I lift off, and with over 700,000 people watching the official NASA livestream even though it was almost 2 AM ET. In short: hell yeah!",The exciting bit isn’t that a rocket got sent to space. It’s that this is the first launch of the Artemis missions that will take people back to the Moon. They’re real now.,0
"The independent state legislature doctrine says that, because the elections clause specifies state legislatures make the rules for elections, that the state Constitution can't bind those rules.","The real strongest argument, in my mind, against Independent State Legislature theory is that it's already been decided that a state Constitution can procedurally limit a state legislature in this regard. I.e. if a state legislature draws new districts, and the state Constitution says governors can veto laws, then the redistricting has to get past the governor's veto. Court approval is just another element of the procedure of creating a law. I.e. if the court declares the law a violation of the state Constitution, and renders it void, that's essentially the same as a governor vetoing it.",0
"Also, perhaps more importantly, Manchin is 1000% the most liberal person we were ever going to get into a West Virginia Senate seat.","I think you're mostly right, but Manchin didn't single-handedly get elected as a Democrat in West Virginia. He inherited a history of strong Democratic party identification by conservative Democrats in the state. They have had a strong labor movement until recently, and families there have sometimes been Democrats for generations, notably since before the civil rights movement and subsequent party realignment. Then the world turned hyper-partisan even more than it already was, and he's left trying to hold on. Barely managed it last time, and almost certainly won't manage it again.",1
"That’s what communities are for. You’re suppose to take care of each other and as a whole. I’m also not an extremist. I don’t know where I fit on the political spectrum but I think that yes we should have order and law. And basic community necessities but I don’t think government should control what’s taught in schools, what plants you can and can’t grow, what you can and can’t say or do, where you live or how, And what you can or can’t have. And I don’t think they should be able to access our cameras or our info whenever the fuck they want. Im just done with corruption period. Small corruption can be dealt with. When the the ones that control everything are corrupt that’s a problem. And it’s a problem. The people should have more control. And I also think capitalism plays a big part in forced control but that’s a different story.(just look up why monopoly was invented) As long as you’re not physically negatively effecting others you should be left alone.",Edit: that’s what I thought. Next time don’t spew bullshit unless you can do the same for the other side cause it’s obvious which way you lean then.,0
"Immortality means you’re in the clandestine club that secretly runs the world from the shadows, though. Plus, blood rave parties and ominous meetings in cool old castles Wearing ridiculous capes and shit and somehow making it work.",Werewolf: a few times a month you stand a good chance of waking up sleeping near or in your own shit (assuming you do the padlocked cage thing before you turn).,0
"Every time someone takes issue with ""political correctness"" I always find myself asking ""as opposed to what, exactly?"".","Ah yes. Ted “my daughter is in the hospital right now this is not a time to make fun of something like this, let’s not make it political, oh look I’m gonna go make fun of something political about that shit in the next 24hours anyway” Cruz.",1
this headline is misleading because the term “Concealed Carry” in this situation refers to someone concealed carrying with a special permit; it’s always illegal to conceal a firearm without a permit.,"While West Virginia is a Constitutional Carry state, meaning there is no requirement to obtain a concealed carry permit to carry in general, but this specifically requires someone to obtain a concealed carry permit prior to carrying on campus. In addition, Constitutional Carry only applies to people over the age of 21 in WV. There is a provisional concealed carry permit available to those under the age of 21, but the law does not appear to allow provisional carry licenses to carry on campus (provisional licenses have greater restrictions on them than the normal permits available in WV).",1
"I don't like this. The problem of stores not treating or paying employees well isn't caused by self-checkouts or automation. Removing automation and self-checkouts won't make stores treat employees better or pay them more. Automation and other innovations that create a need for less labor should help everybody, but in practice those things often benefit the corporations to the detriment of workers. That's the fault of the system, and it's the very foundations of that economic system that need to change.","It's in the same category as automation in that it streamlines the business to require less labor. A whole lot of customers are just fine with self checkout, and many actually prefer it. From that point of view, it's hardly a burden.",0
"He doesn’t realize that even if he conquers Ukraine, he’s already lost. Probably even worse than if he quits right now since the world will never forgive this invasion and all the atrocities that have been committed. Zelensky is the hero. His heroic legacy will live. No one will forget him and the brave and heroic fight that the Ukrainians have waged with the invaders.","I’m glad you pointed this out...I came here to do the same. Plus, Germany accepted defeat and participated in the restructuring. Putin will die soon from his illness or a “mysterious” accident and a new Putinesque dictator will be installed. Russia will be encumbered with Putin’s catastrophic failure for a long, long time....the Russian people will suffer from his folly.",0
"There are many ways to avoid insolvency. The SS and Medicare trustees recently put out another annual report which includes those proposals. But, no one change will prevent insolvency. However, it can be prevented without any cuts for current or future retirees. There are ways. Unfortunately they include raising the payroll tax at least a bit over time for a time.","Lift the cap on the payroll tax. Institute policies so wages keep up with productivity like they did 50+ years ago. There wouldn't even be an issue if wages had not stagnated for 40+ years. Yes, the people claiming its demographics ignore wage stagnation.",1
"I wouldn’t necessarily call this scapegoating. It’s likely that Surovikin has amassed significant personal power as overall commander of Russian forces, including direct access to Putin that bypasses other powerful actors both inside and outside the Russian MoD. If so, that would be a situation intolerable to other members of the Russian military-political elite, in the long term. Gerasimov is a member of this elite. This could be an example of Russia’s corrupt patron-client network cannibalizing its own military’s chain of command. It would be fascinating insight into how Putin’s patron-client network functions.","The Russians may have no choice. Regardless of Gerasimov’s aptitude as a military leader, he likely retains significant influence within Russia itself. Putin is a dictator, but one that relies on patron-client relationships with other powerful figures in the Kremlin to retain power. Gerasimov is one of these figures. Putin may have had little choice but to appoint him to retain the support of elements of the Russian MoD for the war. Not saying this is 100% true, but it is a distinct possibility. I don’t think the failures of Gerasimov as a military leader are lost on any in the Kremlin - but neither is his influence among the Russian political-military elite.",0
The republicans literally don’t even know the law and they’re pressuring witnesses to unethically share information. Multiple Republican members also threatened the witnesses with arrest and indictment even though it was clear no crimes were committed.,The chairman of the committee was pressuring a former top legal counsel for Twitter to breach client confidentiality. He told him three times that he had to answer the question because he was under subpoena. Until Jamie Raskin pointed out that subpoenas don’t overrule attorney-client privilege.,0
"In effect, yes they're two different concepts. I wouldn't say it's a poorly educated perspective. It's common for folks to be unaware of the UNs purpose and function as it, indeed, can be very conceptual like most legislative frameworks.","Let me ask you a question: when someone says UN, are you thinking merely of the framework, or the realization of that framework when populated with the constituent member states that take part in it's machinations?",1
"I may sound a little harsh or condescending here because I see this thought process a lot, and I think it is half-considered. It ties in with the general view of ""criminals"" in our country.","Fascism is an idea. It is a thought process. It's a way of thinking. You are not immune to fascism due to your opposition to fascism, and fascists are not necessarily fascists for life. It is not a descriptor in the sense that hair color would be. One cannot use fascist ideas or ideals to defeat fascism any more than one can use water to defeat a shark. (Reasonable ideas like shooting them with a jet cutter notwithstanding).",0
"It COULD end tomorrow, but that would require Putin to grow a sense of empathy, which he refuses to have, so presumably, Putin will insist that Ukrainian-controlled areas are Russian.","Ukraine can decide how and when this war ends, but other countries have more power with regards to Russia's future. What Russia's future looks like needs to be discussed now, but this isn't the time for absolutes. This may not be realistic at all, but there's at least a tiny chance Russians could overthrow Putin and try to look towards the West. How this war ultimately ends is still unknown.",1
"I have a friend who began to lean conservative in the past couple of years - COVID restrictions (even though those were under Trump) and anti-Biden propaganda has made him believe that only conservative administrations are the way to make the country better...Anyways, long story short - he can't name any specific policy yet, but he's certain that DeSantis is the right choice for the country...Just like Trump but not mentally ill, is his take. So the media he consumed is already grooming him to think DeSantis is the guy.","The propaganda machine will be started once he gets the nomination ""Oh you liked Trump's policies? Well DeSantis is just like him, but far smarter and more effective!"".",0
>Representatives of those receiving the Congressional Gold Medal decline to shake hands with Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy during a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda.,"I applaud them for not shaking hands with McConnell and McCarthy Neither one of those trump ass kisser should have known not to be there, they and the rest who resisted to publicly denounce trump on January 6th And that py bag McCarthy is speaker of the house next year? He should automatically be disqualified for third in line to the presidency REALLY.",1
So the decision to bully coddle white supremacists started with Oklahoma City? I suppose that fits.,"Uh, yeah. He's right. There would have been a lot of people shot in that crowd, by either the police or National Guard. But a bunch of white folks? Nah they're not terrorists; that's just ""legitimate political discourse."".",1
"Vulnerable to what, exactly? Look at my taxes. I'm fucking broke but I file them every year in accordance with the law because that's what good citizens do. In this instance, the ""vulnerable"" are rich assholes who don't think answering to and being accountable to the public are part of public service. Every judge, every congressperson, every President who can't accept public scrutiny of their business practices should be impeached. Full stop.","""Essentially no one's tax information is really protected, as long as you cross some interest who happens to be in power at some particular point in time. Then we're all vulnerable."".",0
"To casually say she's a ""Chinese woman"" brings connotations of the People's Republic of China and all the baggage associated with it.","Case in point -- in 2013 the liberal super PAC Progress Kentucky released a series of tweets in a similar vein by attempting to directly connect Chao with China. In one tweet, the organization said.",0
There are people out there who view this man in a positive light and think the rest of us deserve to be treated as subhuman trash for imprisoning him.,"I'll forever espouse the idea of treating people in prison with at least the barest level of common decency; food, water, a place to sleep, etc etc. I think it's important that we not dehumanise ourselves even when dealing with the most abhorrent pieces of trash in society like rapists and murderers.",1
All cops are bastards - and the small ratio of good things that are done by them could be done in greater numbers with fewer murderous side effects through different methods.,I don’t love all the things cops do and our Justice system has lots of problems but on net I would still rather live in a neighborhood with good police response times than bad ones.,1
"And yes the US navy is free to travel through the waters but antiship missiles are increasingly large threats. Saturating a naval group with such missiles is far easier when your many airbase can sortie far more aircraft then the aircraft and airbases the US can muster in that region, especial with forces all over the world.",Next on military development agenda longer and longer range air defence systems including the radar component for both low flight patterns as well as high.,1
"So, one last time, how does us talking, amongst ourselves online and in the media, about NK missile threats result in any positive benefit?","I am still waiting for some kind of concrete example of how us talking about NK missile threats helps us, South Korea or Japan in any way.",0
"To state it concisely: (a) China's unlawful interception of US aircraft in international airspace indicates that there are increasing tensions in the region; and (b) a colourful synonym for increasing tensions is ""brewing"" tensions; such that (c) CNN's description of the tensions as ""brewing"" was not an unfair description of the circumstances.",If there are other collateral disputes between the US and China which indicates that tensions are continuing to increase - such as China violating US airspace with surveillance balloons and considering providing lethal assistsnce to Russia in its war against Ukraine - then it is reasonable to conclude that tensions are increasing.,0
"Edit: I actually went to the effort of downloading a PDF of the actual treaty, and I was wrong: the AMX-10RC is not a battle tank. Listed in Section 1, Clause 2.C of the Protocol On Existing Types Of Conventional Armaments And Equipment of the (page 25), the AMX-10RC is described as a Heavy Armament Combat Vehicle, not a Battle Tank.","Just an additional note - the AMX 10RC is not technically classified as a tank, it is an armored fighting vehicle that was mainly used for reconnaissance. It’s not as heavily armored as a MBT, is wheeled, but does have a 105mm main gun. I would bet that they Ukrainians will continue using these in an armored reconnaissance role and for fire support, and not to line up against Russian MBTs.",1
"Also many Black Americans communities have a strong sense of culture and tradition going back to African traditions, since many can’t pin down their families exact origins, African American sums their identity up well.","It's much more complex than ""descended from,"" they were forming their own culture alongside other African groups as a unique identity with a unique language and culture.",1
"Using civilian tech for military purposes has it's own risks, in the cyber attack areas, already. It is not a threat to US secrets.",ITAR is not military secrets. That would classified information. ITAR controls anything that can be weaponized.,1
"So I think that's why talk may be turning to trying to give it some kind of ""off ramp"" again, even without everything Ukraine wants and, frankly, deserves. Under any deal with any chance of happening, Russia will end up looking like giant loser and its invasion a massive mistake in the eyes of the rest of the world.","And while it might seem to us like Russia would be unwilling to agree to such terms, their negotiating position is being degraded with every passing day. Consider that they have thousands of dead and wounded returning home every week, people who were once allies of Putin criticizing the invasion, and even external allies distancing themselves from Russia.",1
"Like I know critical thinking skills are in short supply in people who pretend climate change isn’t real, but it’s even sadder than they can’t count either.","The main problem is that politicians who claim to accept global warming don't really believe in it. They don't believe in it, in that they believe it won't impact them. If they have enough money they can escape the personal consequences... it is just an issue for them to leverage public support.... but not make major changes to actually change the result.",1
"Good point. It’s 1.2 Trillion. I’ll give you an upvote. I just wonder how the EU would take it if the US said fine, we are shutting down all our bases and removing all US forces from EU countries in response? There’s a lot more than just economics at play here. The U.S. has over 100k troops and dozens of bases in EU countries. That’s a lot of savings for the US government and taxpayers. There are reasons why very few countries maintain overseas bases. It benefits the EU a lot more than the US otherwise the EU would be looking to build bases in the US.",Why should the U.S. care what the EU does? Not a single country in Europe is in the top 4 trading partners for the U.S. and only Germany is in the top 10. Britain is in there too but at 7. The EU just isn’t relevant in the western hemisphere anymore in terms of trade.,0
source: telex.hu/belfold/2023/01/27/orban-viktor-karmelita-beszelgetes-eu-ororszag-nato-haboru-joslatok.,The Prime Minister also said that it could not be ruled out that NATO troops would fight in Ukraine in the future.,0
"The only exception would be in purely terms of antitrust issues. But there is no single organization that controls that much of ""the media"".","Yeah, that's a neutral law in a time period in which a ""market"" was a broadcasting area. There's an obvious problem if one company controls all the local airways.",0
"No, I mean literally, if your master password is hunter2 and they got your cloud vault, they still wouldn't be able to unlock it. The security comes from the master password + the secret key, which the user can't make shit if they try & 1P never knows.","Like it shouldn’t be up to us to find the safest way to secure our passwords. We’re not not multimillion dollar companies with vast resources and employees, they should be working on a new solution, similar to the google authenticator app or Apple Pay where each login interaction is unique.",1
"Pats each other on the backs while laughing, then goes to a heritage foundation fundraiser dinner and complains about how everyone hates them.","""At first we were skeptical, but then it turns out we found that it's constitutional to set up permanent conservative minority rule in America! Good thing we, the conservative voting majority on the supreme court, were able to come to a balanced and reasonable solution to this case."".",0
Change the rules so that it takes 2 permanent members and at least 3 other members of the Security Council to reject proposals put before the Security Council.,"At most I'd exchange India for the UK. Too many permanent members would make the Security Council unwieldy. OTOH, giving the General Assembly the power to override a single nation's veto with, maybe, a 75% supermajority.",0
You forget that it was/is to Russia's benefit to show that they can keep the peace in their sphere of influence. That's something only great powers can do and Russia is desperate to be seen as a great power.,Russia has been pulling back from the world and focusing its attention on Ukraine. A few months after the war clearly wasn't going well they pulled their entire presence from Syria. They don't have anything spare to handle other nation's conflicts anymore.,1
That’s a great question tbh. I would imagine climate plays a factor. Culture maybe too to some extent. Also access to education and economical prosperity. Really I have no idea lol.,"No, you have no idea what you are talking about. Most Chinese have been vaccinated for 3 times. In China, they developed multiple apps to track people's datas. You would be forbidden entry to many places like stores, bakery, malls, workplaces, if your QR code showed you were not qualified. Before they loosened the covid policy, people literally needed to line up and do a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test every two days in order to be able to work. In some places, they needed to do a test every single day.",1
"Those who make political statements at the games should be banned. But you can't judge those who did nothing wrong based on the feeling of ""errosion"". That's my point of view.","I see your point. Personally, I wouldn't see Ivan as suporting the war, just suporting his family to get by. I'm sure if there was a means, he would probably have gotten them all away from a government he doesn't support. But life isn't so easy. Unfortunately, I think Ivan may also be a minority but wish him luck. Vlad sounds like a bit of a knob though.",1
"Yes, I am aware of that particularity. She, like previous Paris mayors, has been elected through representatives...who were themselves elected by direct popular vote. The city of Paris is a democracy.","Am a Parisian, can confirm. Paris mostly likes Anne Hidalgo. The majority of people who don't like her are specifically rich Parisians and people who live in the suburbs of Paris (who are typically not rich, just to show that it's not necessarily one socioeconomic group). But people in the suburbs don't get to vote for the mayor (if they did, it's possible she would not win).",1
"If NATO were to allow Ukraine to fall because of Russia's offensive nuclear threat, they they'd face the same choice at the border of, say Estonia, and not back down even in the face of a Russian offensive nuclear threat.","If NATO would defend bordering NATO nations even in the face of offensive Russian nuclear attacks, they've already decided that they'll risk nuclear war to prevent Russia from taking sovereign European countries. So NATO member nations (not as a NATO action) are choosing now to help defend Ukraine militarily. NATO member nations have already decided that risking nuclear war with offensive nuclear Russia is worth it.",0
"Not sure why I ranted about this except to say, people sure like to be upset over shit that shouldn't even bother them. These adults that want to feel attacked and offended and victimized and control other people so their feelings don't get hurt, or as some sort of punishment on others from their repressed feelings is absurd and the hate needs to stop. These people are acting worse than children (during the age that children are usually their worst) I think that's my point.",Also no idea why you generalize about bullies being the product of just bad parenting. That is not the only cause.,1
Either she is well aware that her comments are homophobic and vile or she believes that the Republicans that support her are just as vile and stupid as she is and won't care.,If they don't call them a bottom they just straight up say someone sucks dicks or has sex with men because being gay or a woman is the ultimate dehumanizing thing for conservative men it seems.,1
"The prohibitions will not apply to museums, archives, libraries when organising exhibitions, informing the public about totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their consequences, and using such objects and information for the purposes of education, scholarship, professional art, and collecting.","The prohibitions will not apply to museums, archives, libraries when organising exhibitions, informing the public about totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their consequences, and using such objects and information for the purposes of education, scholarship, professional art, and collecting."".",1
"So on the anniversary of the start of the invasion, in which its forces became bogged down in mud, Russia will start another offensive in which it will be bogged down in mud.","Add in that Ukrain would have to do (artillery) strikes on Russian soil, and any miss will be used by Russia to start a media circus.",1
"I already linked a chart of federal deficit over time 1911-2021. It and even your narrow snapshot shows democrats reduce federal deficit from administration start to administration end. That's how budgets work when you have administration changes, you can't make massive changes in a very short span of time. .","Yep. But now that the Republicans are going to run Congress, we'll get a reminder of all the shit they do. And Americans with short attention... Americans will forget it all by the next election cycle. Sadly, it's what we do.",1
"Then I may have been misinformed, I’d been under the impression that the special council for Biden’s investigation was some sort of holdover from the previous administration.","So as not to appear weak, they try to normalize Trumps behavior by “finding” classified documents in Biden and Pence’s possession.",1
Oh it’s nowhere close to 50/50. It’s not 99/1 like Reddit makes it seem but it’s nowhere close to 50/50. The reason Ukraine isn’t advancing is not because they’re taking super heavy casualties. It’s because Russia is successfully throwing meat shields in their way and Ukraine is unwilling to show a similar disregard for their soldier’s lives in order to advance.,Where have you seen confirmed killed higher? BTW confirmed killed is always lower than the actual number killed because confirming deaths and reporting them takes time and resources.,0
Also they have demonstrated that they aren't hitting civilian targets. The fear about giving UKR long range weapons was that they'd just start pounding Moscow.,"The US has been trying to limit the range of Ukrainian weapons, looks like Ukrainians have got longer-range stuff. The straight-line distance from the centre of Moscow to the Russian-Ukrainian border is about 450 km which makes it in range now.",1
"Intelligence is probably overall more valuable than any of this. You don't want to compromise your ability to gather intelligence because you blew something up. This is more relevant to attacks on power grids than anything else, but could still apply.","Russia could look to take more action in all of these gray areas including cyber attacks, 2024 elections in many countries, acts of terror outside Ukraine etc.",0
"So the alternative is letting them get rid of all the tenured professors, drive away anybody else qualified, gut programs and courses, and then stack the faculty with frauds?",The end result will be the firing of liberal professors and replacing them with conservative professors (if they can find enough). The quality of the universities will begin eroding as most professors would prefer to find a job at a university that respects tenure and doesn't have politicians dictating what they can or can't research and teach.,1
New York allowed retired police officers to keep otherwise banned assault rifles (but only if they got them while active).,Both California's Roberti-Roos assault weapons ban and New York's SAFE act assault weapons bans have exemption for current and former law enforcement officers:,1
"It reminds me of how you guys defend the concentration camps. You guys won't criticize China for it but moment the US has an officer that beat up a BLM protestor, you guys quickly say ""see, US is not different!"".","Exactly what all the pro CCP types always say to defend China. So China has unfair business practices that you all defend but the moment the US does anything to retaliate or limits what Chinese companies can do in the US, you guys quickly criticize the US.",0
"Mishandling of classified documents. It's a really easy charge to stick someone who frequently deals with massive amounts of classified information. just wait until they inevitably fuck it up, then accuse. If Cheeto Dust had just complied with orders to return the documents he took over and over again, he wouldn't have gotten raided. The damn FBI director was appointed by him, and still knew those docs god to be gotten back.","I used to work with classified document security. Believe it or not, breaches happen more frequently than you'd like to think. Usually, they don't amount to anything, and initial offenders usually just get reprimanded. Repeat offenders, or offenders that don't cooperate with security, will be charged and held accountable according to the level of classification of materials left unsecured. This includes revocation of security clearance, heavy fines, and prison sentences.",0
"I’d rather not vote for someone this old but if it’s between him and little authoritarian DeSantis or a guy who attempted a fucking coup there’s no contest. Hopefully he swaps VP, given his age it’s sort of important who his VP is and it shouldn’t be Harris. Just make up some bullshit about her needing to turn it down for family reasons.","I don’t really know who it should be, just that given his age the possibility of VP becoming President will be on people’s minds and she is way to bland and absent for that bar.",0
"There is no scenario here where a nuclear strike would make any sense. You can argue that they could throw one at Ukraine to force capitulation, but a nuclear strike would not be just a Ukraine issue, it could easily irradiate and affect a swath of Europe and require a NATO response.","I watched the Peter Zeihan JRE episode today and he was citing 500K as the number. His point was that Ukraine now has more armor and weapons than they did before the war (between NATO and EU contributions and the insane amount of things Russia abandoned) that once all of that gets put into the front, you will see a huge fire superiority discrepancy and Russia will have to use the only asset it can to try and balance the scales: men.",0
"Ukraine has already been attacking military targets in Russia proper, so that's definitely something they'd continue to do if Russia refuses to give up. Sending troops in any significant number over the border seems unlikely tho.","Neither Ukraine nor Russia seem to show a lack of manpower anytime soon. The issue for both sides are mostly material, which much depends on how aid Ukraine will get and how large Russia's weapon stockpiles actually are.",0
"they wouldn’t, Putin maybe a an asshole and cunt but he isn’t stupid, he attacked Ukraine before they apply for NATO, he isn’t attacking any NATO country because it would be straight up suicide and his own administration would kill him for it.","It wouldn’t be a sustainable situation, but Russia wouldn’t be moving an inch further would directly attacking NATO troops.",1
"If someone has a history of domestic abuse and was never charged, then they should be able to buy a gun? Even if they express a desire to harm?","What is a ""desire to harm others"" here? Because if they made an actual threat, then thats a crime. The police can arrest them for that. They have literally never needed red flag laws to do so, thats always been illegal.",1
"Just to play devil's advocate here, it's not such a bad thing to be having these right wing GOPers wasting their time chasing after bullshit instead of spending it drafting legislation that would further erode the rights and safety of regular Americans.","They could pass legislation, there are things this nation would benefit from that is not part of any liberal/moderate/conservative ideology but one side simply will not work with the other to accomplish it and always seems to go far out of the way to obstruct these very common sense things simply because the other side proposed it. I would list examples but even my short list is too long to list here.",1
"When Russia was using nuclear capable cruise missiles a few weeks back, there were substantial comments that the debris field around the impact contained no radioactive material. Apparently Ukraine (or someone with long range weapon identification capability) realized rather quickly what type they were, and wanted to tell equally quickly if they were a deliberate non-warhead payload, or a real payload that failed to detonate. Crappy world we live in when those questions need to be answered in minutes.","There was some stories back in 1989 … about the reliability of the Russian PALs. During perestroika, The US/west tried to assist in reducing the nuclear arsenal, and make it so that none of them would trigger without absolute control. That has been 30+ years ago, so my recollection may be hazy, but I know there were some efforts.",0
"Edit: if there's any misunderstanding here, I'm saying people, not myself, are saying on twitter there were clear election fraud. This isn't something I believe as there are no evidence to support that claim.","Aww so there’s all the evidence you need cons that he doesn’t believe the things he says, and is really just manipulating you to be constantly outraged by fake things.",1
"Believing someone who plays with cars/barbies is of the corresponding gender is age old myth that being gay is being ""a weak pussy"".","It's a damaging myth that gay men are basically women and like ""female"" things. Gay men are men and there's nothing about being attracted to other men that automatically makes you effeminate like a woman. Honestly what you're describing sounds more like trans or - hear me out - just a kid with his own likes and personality that don't necessarily say anything about his sexuality, whatever that happens to be.",1
"This also doesn’t take topography into effect. A large part of the blast damage is due to the shockwave generated by the detonation hitting the ground and shooting out the sides (indirect blast wave), even small mountains/large hills provide an incredible shadow.","It’s worth remembering, these are individual blasts, they don’t combine into one megablast, and the largest MIRV warhead I can find (US W88) has a true destructive radius of 2km with only light damage after that (downed trees, damaged roofs and broken windows).",0
"It means balancing the budget, not spending more then you earn, reducing debt, things like that. If “fiscally conservative” was a person, they’d be a person that saves their money until they have enough to pay cash for a car, rather than a person that takes out a loan to buy a car.","Basically, I was trying to convey that on fiscal or financial matters, I tend to favor more conservative policies. Conservatives are generally considered Republicans and liberals are generally considered Democrats. (Here in the US).",1
"This isn't some old fashioned workers vs. robber barons cliche. The rail companies thought they were giving their workers generous terms, but the heads of those 4 unions failed to figure out what their members actually wanted. This is their screw up, which is why there is rare bipartisan agreement to stomp on their proposed strike. They can quickly renegotiate or they can accept the deal. No one is going to let them hostage the entire US economy over this.","It's like how the 50 states in the US combined to form the United States. All the countries in Europe formed the EU. Or maybe you want to be in ASEAN. You can also be in the United Nations. Lots of democracies form international organizations that create rules that individual voters in each country can't violate. The Paris Climate Accords are a good example. Lots of Americans (Republicans) don't like them, but they have to live with it.",0
"He means an invasion into Taiwan. That's been ""the"" conflict scenario being prepared for a long time in the USA's navy. He's been conditioned to treat this as very real and imminent, which probably will help if it ever does happen, but it probably won't. China got hella spooked by the comradery that Ukraine received both from other governments and private corporations/entities, in particular the ability for private firms to voluntarily withdraw their business slice and beyond government sanctions. It's a facet of ""free trade capitalism"" that they didn't have on their radar, and they don't know how to surmount of they ever did attempt an invasion of Taiwan.","No. This guy's job has been to think about an invasion into Taiwan for the last 50 years, and this is what insulated military minds look like. It probably won't happen, but if it did china could only ""win"" that engagement by nuking several support structures Taiwan relies on, primarily operated by the USA. He thinks that fascist states are rational, and will realize that can't win without nuking the USA preemptively, so they will do that.",0
Not really. You just keep using the main line until it lets you wait 4 hours to talk to somebody. Thats what you paid them for. They were willing to wait on the phone.,"By ""they"" you must mean republicans. Until very recently (and really still) the IRS has been woefully under funded. Trump exacerbated that extremely. But when rebulicans make it nearly impossible for the IRS to do their job, everyone wants to blame the stressed, overworked employees who are just trying to keep up.",0
They are going to be very weak after they lose to Ukraine and risk a vulnerable few decades where they can only defend their interests with nukes and nothing else.,"No, Putin's options have always been either a) win the war and take over Ukraine, or b) lose Crimea back to the Ukrainians and lose all credibility inside Russia. Putin is ride-or-die and has been since February.",1
"I went to school in Florida in the late 90s and there were a lot of my classmates who were smart, driven, and cared about making a positive impact in the world. They all left Florida as soon as they could though, so the ones who actually stayed long enough to become politically active were mostly the children of the swamp people. These moves hurt all children in Florida public schools, including the ones who should have the opportunity to become smart enough to leave.",This is why DeSantis is lowering Florida's standards for schools imo. He knows his policies are driving teachers away so he does shit like make it so Florida will hire anyone from the military to be a teacher.,1
"Actually it is a great move, because they can practically ""buy out"" Russia for pennies on the dollar. The Ruble has collapsed in value, most major Western Corporations have left Russia shortly after the invasion started, and Putin is desperate to maintain some semblance of stability within his country.","Yes, or at the very least they'll have a lot of troops stationed there and basically ""wear the pants"" in the relationship. As Russian military power would effectively be neutered by that time, they have no choice but to rely on Chinese armed forces, and are at their mercy. It's not unlike how much of W. Europe is so reliant on the US for defense, to the point where their own militaries were so horribly underfunded.",0
"Again, it's not about him winning over Sinema, that's not the issue, it's if Sinema will spoil the race and get the Republican candidate elected because she'll siphon off votes that otherwise would have gone to the generic Democrat on the ballot. Democrats who are paying attention aren't going to vote for Sinema, but there are a LOT of low information and moderate voters who would reliably vote for any Democrat in a D v R race, but might go for Sinema in a 3rd person race (for whatever reason, name recognition, prefer a moderate, etc.), and it will only take 1 percentage point or two to throw a race.","Nothing is certain until it is. He can win, but there's no guarantee he will and he ONLY will if everyone that does not want Sinema and lives in AZ, actively organizes and campaigns for Gallego starting now.",0
">That would suggest that Putin is trying to balance tensions between Wagner and the regular army, rather than develop any fresh military strategy.","> Putin’s elevation of Gerasimov and the highly criticized Russian MoD may prompt siloviki like Prigozhin to further carve up the Russian information space and push back on the Kremlin’s conduct of the war, however. Prigozhin has relentlessly promoted the Wagner Group at the expense of the Russian MoD’s reputation and may double down on his flashy advertisements on Russian social media and state-affiliated outlets to assert the superiority of his forces.[11] Gerasimov's centralizing efforts will additionally likely face resistance from Prigozhin and other actors eager to retain their private stakes in the war in Ukraine. Prigozhin may have known of Putin’s decision to reappoint these commanders and attempted to preempt this news by amplifying information about Wagner’s efforts to seize Soledar in the past several days to claim a victory.[12] Putin’s decision to elevate the MoD may also signal Putin’s departure from attempts to appease siloviki-affiliated milbloggers in an effort to regain control over the dominant narrative. ISW will continue to monitor the sentiment among different milblogger factions regarding their ability to criticize the Russian MoD or Russian military commanders.",1
"That would be like web browsers requiring a 30% cut whenever you buy something online, because you're using their software to render your site or app. It's no coincidence that isn't the case though- that's because the web is open, vs closed within for example the Apple ecosystem. I mainly speak to Apple, because Google does allow alternative app stores on Android.","If Google also requires that apps are priced the same even on desktop and not on Google-powered devices, then Google is equally anticompetitive as apple.",1
Biden should extend it indefinitely so they make restarting loan repayment part of the presidential platforms. I want to see how a republican fairs saying they want to restart student loans on people who are hurting financially.,"That said, if a republican retakes the WH student loans will be the least of our worries, whether it be Trump or DeSantis, so we just need to make sure to vote dem.",1
"You're right about everything, but in the long term it's best that they make good money or else it's a powerful job that only the wealthy will ever be privileged enough to afford to take. The focus should be on our class struggle, not that job's compensation. So yes, raise the shit out of our minimum wage, and maybe we should lock both minimum wage (after raising it) and elected officials' salaries to inflation rates, and then we can put this entire issue to rest.","As much as I fucking hate Marge, she touches on a decent point when complaining about the $174k salary. That money is supposed to cover the costs of two residences, one of which is near work in a very expensive DC. You bring up that they're a bunch of millionaires, but that job will only ever be hiring millionaires if us common people without millions can't afford to make ends meet with the salary it pays. After taxes and deductions, $174k is probably somewhere between $100k and $130k. The average DC apartment is $2,356/month or $28,272/year. Rent/mortgage varies widely across the country, and although I realize that Marge probably represents a cheap area, not all legislators do. Food, utilities, transportation, leisure, etc add up. And although it seems like a pretty easy job where you just shitpost all day, doing the job properly is very stressful and puts you under public scrutiny every day. Travel between your constituents and the Capitol is also very taxing, and idk whether that cost is something that can be deducted or expensed or something, but it's draining on the body and mind even if it's not a personal cost.",0
"My parents were Holocaust survivors. I have an image in my head of my grandparents sitting at their kitchen table in Paris in the 1930’s discussing the events in Germany, and the growing issues in France. “Are we overreacting? It’s not that bad. It can’t get much worse, can it?”.","Criticizing Israel is not antisemitism. Targeting Jews in general, because of Israel, absolutely is.",0
"But either way, an apology under any circumstance is never meant to undo anything. It’s symbolic, it’s done to acknowledge wrongdoing, to heal and to show that you’ve learnt your actions have hurt someone. An apology has never ever been able to fix the past, so I really don’t understand why you would have an issue with this.",Any apology and recognition of the mistakes of the past will make it better for the future that is being planned. Good thing that Netherlands has done it.,1
"Russian logistics are holding (mostly, the lack of quality steel is really hurting them) at the strategic level, but they're struggling at the tactical level.","We can't do much about Russia's ability to railroad in supplies from all over their country, even the far reaches in the east, but it's becoming increasingly hard for Russia to move shells from the unloading points to the front line. It's one of several reasons Russia's artillery usage has fallen off heavily.",0
Not entirely accurate. The Obama administration capitulated to industry pressure and that regulation was only applied to trains carrying crude oil. Not other flammable materials (like the Ohio train was carrying).,"So, the Ohio train would have been exempt from that regulation even if it was never repealed under Trump.",0
The GOP is going to make shit up to stoke rage regardless. A Democrat could merely exist and wear a tan suit and the entire base will be outraged by that evening.,I’d rather have them outraged about gas stoves than about other humans just trying to live their lives in the manner of their own choosing.,0
"In every single diocese in Pennsylvania, they were raping kids, filming it, and selling the videos. You say not all churches? Evidence says otherwise.",Holy shit get them OUT. How can you look at headline after headline of kids getting raped in Catholic institutions on an industrial scale and brush it off cause it’s just nuns?,0
That and the fact that guns kill more people in household accidents or domestic violence than they do during actually self defense - not counting the almost daily mass shootings we see in the news .,"Damn, maybe the other political party should get guns for self defence, instead of making it illegal for themselves to buy guns while leaving the other side in possession of all the arms they already have?",1
"That's not really realistic. It sucks to give him anything, but he can literally unilaterally keep Sweden from joining. He'll more than likely be given major concessions to approve Sweden's accession, as Sweden joining would be a major boost to NATO and a further bulwark against Russia.","True, but that's not really what the discussion here is about. Additionaly, other defensive pacts will never be as potent as NATO, especially not when the US is not involved.",0
You’re depressed that more people don’t know about taxes. I’m not being snarky here..genuinely curious.. Did you know the rich paid so much of the income tax?,Let's say it another way... Who here is stupid enough to believe that the multimillionaires and billionaires pay what they do in taxes instead of being poor and middle class because they are too stupid to give it away?,1
"Ukraine is hitting military targets on military bases. My point is that russia doesn't have the air defense depth to protect itself from soviet era loitering missiles, they aren't going to be able to stop the NATO/American campaign to destroy their nuclear launch capability if they do decide to nuke someplace.","You said ""they aren't going to be able to stop the NATO/American campaign to destroy their nuclear launch capability"". Single drone/missile strike will never destroy entire Russian nuclear arsenal or even most of it. Bombers are only 1/3 of their nuclear arsenal, and nuclear silos are pretty resistant.",1
Are you aware of every document you have in your possession? Most who have or have had to handle any meaningful volume of documents would not be able to answer affirmatively. (at least not if they're being honest) Even if there was someone who was super on top of their filing situation and did actually have an accounting of all their documents that quickly gets undone when you start adding staff handling of documents into the equation.,Which is it Republicans? Is he a mentally unfit old man who isn't there... or is he a super genius mastermind wielding the deep state to terrifying effect? While also somehow managing to be thwarted by Trump at every turn?,0
Which countries try to counteract by paying the Brazilian government money for slowing deforestation.,"Most Deforestation in Brazil isn't due to companies, it is done ilegaly by thugs, the remaining is the example I just gave you..",1
"For everyone insisting this is totally wrong, you are not really understanding what is happening. They are not expunging these books from history as was the goal of real book burning, they are removing them from the limited shelf space in their public libraries. These books can still be accessed, they just don’t want them displayed in public.",Removing LGBT books is not ‘literally the exact same’ as removing the books of your colonisers that aren’t even written in your language.,0
"Is anybody actually shocked? FIFA and EUFA are corrupt root and branch, the European Parliament and the Qatar government are equally corrupt. Qatar won the ""right"" to stage the World Cup because they bribed everyone involved in the decision making.","The building of infrastructure and stadia cost the lives of 6,500 migrant workers, that's the figure they admitted to, it's probably double that figure. Bereaved families were offered a pittance in compensation and when I say a pittance I mean a few hundred pounds if they were lucky.",0
"I personally think that, if NATO interferes, the war would be over within weeks. Or at least '91 borders restored and the war forced into a stalemate by refusal to advance into recognized Russian territory until Russia decides to finally accept reality.","That average russian who’s never been abroad is already full of depression coming from putin’s betrayal with all those territory surrenders. I know some people who were all for the war in the beginning, but now they’re back to calling liliputin a sack of shit. This moron succeeded in putting literally all sides against his ass and he’s still breathing.",1
What essentials are you buying that have no alternative to single use plastics packaging? Batteries for your XBox controller? Seriously?,"Sure. But in the meantime, with CFCs, there were hundreds of thousands of people who stopped buying the shit because of the harm it was causing.",0
"Let’s be clear: there are actual organizations calling for the deaths of LGBT, and it’s not a bunch of conservatives in the west.","They don’t advocate for hour genocide. They disagree with you way of life and are bigoted buffoons, but after years of dealing with conservatives and religious fanatics that VAST majority don’t want the destruction of LGBT.",0
They put margarine and non-dairy spreads through the same bullshit. Margarine had to be sold undyed at one point so it wasn't the same color as butter. It came in a pouch with a dye pellet you had to pop and knead in.,"NO ONE thinks soy milk is milk, it is precisely the reason they are buying it. And most brands are enriched to equal the macro profile of dairy milk. Others not so much, but soy generally is. It is generally label readers that buy these products. And milk is a processed food anyway, and enriched also.",0
It could also provide leverage to get Belarus to push back against Russia firing missiles from it's south western border with Ukraine too.,"If the missile was indeed fired by Russia, it would be a good excuse for NATO to setup a no-fly or missile defense zone within a certain distance of Poland's border.",0
"No, the Ethics Committee is evenly staffed, as always. It's the only committee that's evenly staffed, so it always acts in a bipartisan manner and has exceptional continuity from term to term. As explained in your article, this is about the Republicans putting term limits on members of the independent OCE and limits on when staff can be hired. And this article is old. The term limits affect two of the Democratic members, not three, and Hakeem Jeffries has said he plans on appointing new Democratic members within the deadline for hiring new staff.",And the change made was that Republicans put term limits on the members of the and instituted a rule that new staff can only be appointed in the first 30 days of a congressional term. This will have a significant impact on the membership of the OCE and probably limit their activity. Republicans also changed the rules to allow the public to submit complaints to the Ethics Committee.,0
"It's very telling that even with all of their gerrymandering, systematic disenfranchisement, and voter fraud they still struggle to win.","For what is no surprise to us, the party that screams about voter / election fraud is committing it in broad daylight with these horrible, anti-democratic measures.",1
"No, it wasn't. They didn'T even start annexing anything at the beginning. Only when Boris Johnson made Ukraine stop negotiations Russia did start annexing territory. Same thing with the power grid which they didn't bother attacking for the longest time, until Ukraine attacked the bridge in Crimea.","Bennett replied: ""I need to understand that you give me your word that you will not kill Zelensky."" And Putin again promised not to do this.",0
"Given that they are looking at my poverty tax bracket ass this hard while letting shit stains like trump get away with shit, I think I'm justified in saying fuck the IRS.",Typical republican: IRS cuts mean they’ll ignore me and I can shave a couple thousand off my taxes by being sneaky.,1
These people have been let down and they're starting to realize it. They're too brainwashed to vote for another party but they don't see a point in voting when yhe writings on the wall.,They’ve convinced people that republicans voted are legit and dem votes aren’t ON THE SAME BALLOTS so there is no limit to what bullshit people will believe.,1
"I did get sick from street Thai coconut once, but I think in general everything in SEA is on a big grill/wok or put to flame and cooked.",I tried some pani puri from a street vendor and he dipped the shells by hand in spiced water. Got wrecked for 1 week from that.,0
"Mate, genuinely, I'm not even scratching the surface. His history of violence is so horrific I've literally had comments automatically removed for talking about it. He only pulled out of actively driving with the intent of murdering a man because of a Jesus bumper sticker. He wrote a freaking book about it.","Walker does not have DID, he just uses that as an excuse to dodge accountability for legitimately horrific acts of domestic violence (""it wasn't me, it was an alter!"").",0
"Only a barbarian would destroy art, regardless of its origin. To say that you want to destroy Russian art echos of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Two wrongs don't make a right.","Sure. What I understand you're saying is that as long as it's art from ""not Russia"", it needs to be protected from destruction. Or perhaps you are saying that putler sees foreign art as more valuable, since you want to be disparaging to Russian art by the virtue of it being Russian. Or perhaps when you are saying ""not Russia"" you are referring to stolen Ukrainian art, that might be in the palace.",0
Would be awesome if the final game teams right as kickoff was suppose to happen just walk off the field and refuse to play.,"If teams boycott in advance they can always be replaced, if they did it right as play is about to start than fifa will be left with nothing. Sponsors will be FURIOUS with fifa, they would sue fifa and probably wouldn't sponsor future fifa events.",0
Norway themselves consider the windfall profits from the fossil fuels crisis to be unfair profiteering and want to return there ill gotten gains to a needy country.,"So in Norway, hydrocarbon revenues were extracted by a nationalised corporation and the profits from this were invested into the Sovereign Wealth Fund to provide for all Norwegians.",1
"I think the political world is in for a major sea change as the Boomer generation begins to “exit” and more Gen Z, and by 2028, gen Alpha comes of age to vote. Younger people are incredibly, progressive, and they’re voting in unprecedented numbers.","Also, despite the hippies, today's youth are documented to be far more progressive than any previous generation. And if you click the link in my previous comment, you'll see that unlike Boomers, millennials are not getting more conservative over time.",0
And yeah. It's fairly common for people to move into their old family home to look after their elderly parents.,"I think it's often due to a family owning the land for several generations. Tokyo might be far bigger than you're imagining it to be though. While you're not going to find a little house with a garden next to one of the major train stations, you don't have to go far to find very residential areas with houses dotted between smaller apartment buildings.",0
Yes. And when everything is classified it becomes a lot harder to differentiate between “this stuff is actually a national security secret” and “this stuff is minutes from a meeting the press sat in on and reported about thoroughly.”.,I suspect the reason nobody cared about these classified documents before was because the real national security stuff is so tightly controlled that there was no possible way for it to end up in Biden's or Pence's boxes. No need to check Biden's outgoing box for nuclear secrets because NARA knows exactly where the nuclear secrets are at every moment of every day.,1
"Rail nationalization makes more sense cause there’s less certainty as to the cost compared to insurance, which is uncertain due to its nature, and the government tends to run things poorly when uncertainty is involved.","Not only is it historically realistic, it's 100% possible with precedence to nationalize a rail line, fix it, and then return it to the private sector.",1
"The logic isn’t that I think the rules don’t matter. But allowing the Dems to sit for deposition after deposition as they get subpoena after subpoena makes it seem, to the casual observer of politics that there is, at the bare minimum the same stink on both parties and at worst that the Dems are MORE corrupt than the Republicans.","How about this.... the Democrats should say they won't honour any subpoenas until the Republicans pass legislation, that gets passed in the Senate without filibuster, that makes these congressional subpoenas enforceable with serious consequences for ignoring them. Then the Democrats will obey the subpoenas, and there will be teeth there next time the Democrats hold the House. Of course, the Republicans will never agree to do this...",1
"The history of the Earth shows the growth and retreat of glacier ice. If not for retreating ice, Seattle, Chicago, and NY cities would be under a mile of ice. Which, I point out, receded before the Industrial Revolution.",The United States had made great strides in reducing our impact. We are 300+ million in population. The real question is how we reduce the impact in other regions without condemning large groups of people to continued poverty.,0
Sounds just as petty as the rest of politics has become. And here I had the crazy idea they were voted in to collectively do what is best for the nation and their constituents.,"How do we get past the ""they did it first"" mentality or payback for perceived slights and start governing for all?",0
A bit like Charlie intentionally stepping in dog shit to cover the smell of the skunk that he let spray him.,"Edit: ahhhhh or maybe thats the point. Legitimize the Iran selling enriched Uranium to the Houthis by having it as an ""accepted minor truth"" of a larger story.",0
A lot of Canadian tropes are actually just Americans who met people from Minnesota and seemed to have extrapolated that everyone north of that is the same. A Minnesotan even has something much closer to the stereotypical Canadian accent than a Torontonian.,"You think I’m joking, but I’m really not - east coast Canadians are next level nice/hospitable, the rest of us are just a pale imitation.",1
"I get that. It's a shame Zelensky cant speak to Lukachenko direct and get an accord that Ukraine can attack russia military inside Belarus without making him join forces with putin to attack Ukraine. That is pure fantasy, i know.","You're asking for it to be black or white, that is fantasy. I refuse to engage in a fantasy based discussion, this is real life and dumb choices have consequences.",1
"A hospital doesn't have the facilities to do this, and using untested blood would be medical malpractice and the doctors are correct to refuse to do so.","They can't just shut down the whole facility for doing this, run a small batch of select unvaccinated people's blood (and it may be that they need a whole bunch of it), and then switch back. They process blood in bulk.",1
"I was having major panic attacks from rage-bait reddit ""news"" headlines so I started reading the issues from other news sources. I found that while there was a kernel of truth in the reddit posts, they were phrased in ways to make you feel that every issue was the oncoming apocalypse. Every new law = the genocide of someone. Every trump action = he's absolutely going to become president, every CEO billionare is taking over the government right now. When you read the story, that's never the case.","Literally true. Their job is to wear down your resistance so you give up. That's why it's important to take breaks and take care of yourself. Fighting for justice is a long fight, you can't run yourself on empty and have nothing left.",0
"Big difference here is that Biden was likely entirely unaware, as was the National Archives, that any documents were missing. Both Trump and the NA knew Trump was in possession of documents.",Trump could easily have just handed his documents back and we would never have heard anything about it. For some reason he first denied he had them then ignored 2 subpoenas and finally the FBI had to retrieve the docs.,1
"Walk around the outside pillars of St. Peter’s Square late at night. Between each pillar you’ll see a tents or boxes occupied by the homeless. Even on rainy days, on the doorstep of the largest Cathedral on earth and with the money stashed in those walls. How dare we not let those people inside for a warm, dry place to sleep. I’ve visited the Vatican numerous times, and each time I’ve left furious at the hypocrisy of the Catholic church.","How the Catholic Church is still allowed to remain is one of the great travesties of our time and history. Can you imagine if some other entity (profit or non-profit) be it Starbucks or your local Rotary Club having been found guilty of systematically sexually abusing thousands upon thousands of children for hundreds of years AND then participating in the largest cover up of said crimes by its entire leadership over those hundreds of years?? Would it have been dismantled? Assets sold off to fund victim treatments and relief.. Leaders tried, convicted and jailed??",1
"Criminologists and other researchers found that the ban had little to no effect on firearm deaths or the lethality of gun crimes. Studies have found that the overwhelming majority of gun crimes are committed with weapons which are not covered by the AWB, and that assault weapons are less likely to be used in homicides than other weapons. There is tentative evidence that the frequency of mass shootings may have slightly decreased while the ban was in effect, but research is inconclusive, with independent researchers finding conflicting results.","Criminologists and other researchers found that the ban had little to no effect on firearm deaths or the lethality of gun crimes. Studies have found that the overwhelming majority of gun crimes are committed with weapons which are not covered by the AWB, and that assault weapons are less likely to be used in homicides than other weapons. There is tentative evidence that the frequency of mass shootings may have slightly decreased while the ban was in effect, but research is inconclusive, with independent researchers finding conflicting results.",0
"Above all, you are doing a disservice to Russia by propping up Putin's regime to oil money. The Russians won't be thankful for that after he's gone.","But I am not buying the ""necessity"" argument, given that I heard none of that before the war. India was getting by before the war without Russian oil, and I've yet to see a reason why it can't after Russia decided to use terror attacks on a massive scale in its invasion.",0
"A small portion of rural areas with psycho sheriffs might ‘stand down’ and let it happen. Other than that, I don’t see any significant defections occurring.","Harper vs Moore, etc. are the most worrying items to me at the moment. If they can ‘legitimize’ their takeover, then we are all fucked. Pretty sure that’s how the Nazi party did it, to be a bit reductive.",0
"I think you fundamentally misunderstand how ranked choice works. The final round of voting was just between Peltola and Palin, no other candidates, and Peltola won.","Also, from , “In the end, Peltola took just under 55% of the vote. Palin got just over 45%. Palin got a boost once fellow Republican Nick Begich III, who finished third, was eliminated and his 64,392 ballots redistributed during ranked choice tabulation. Nearly two-thirds of his voters chose Palin as their second choice, but 21% didn’t make a second choice – and nearly 12% went for Peltola, who won the two-year term.”.",1
"However, when DeSantis talks queer theory, he is using it because the word “queer” invokes an emotional reaction with bigots and the intolerant. The theories was also developed in the 70s, so it resonates with baby boomers still looking to crush some hippy heads. When DeSantis says it, it has nothing to do with the actual theory. He is basically taking volumes and decades of research and turning it into a Sunday cartoon except there’s no punchline. It’s just queer bashing.","Many of those women happen to be queer. These facts should not be dismissed, details and context are very important.",1
"It’s true. When profits are separate from productivity, the middle class worker is the first to hit the chopping block. Stock buy backs are a matter of national security, as our economy should not be built on a house of cards.",This is coming from a pretty hard line progressive who wants to see unions and middle class workers get some much needed support from our gov’t.,0
"3 years in prison seems to be the maximum possible sentence for hate speech in Norway - which would include things like serious death threats, so I do think there's at least an argument for that penalty in some cases. In this case, the filmmaker in question may have committed hate speech, but it's unsure - she likely won't receive any sentence at all, and if she is found guilty, she'll almost certainly get far less than the maximum.","""People found guilty of hate speech face a fine or up to one year in prison for private remarks, and a maximum of three years for public comments."".",1
According to Reddit's general Russia's about to invade Europe and our defenses are not enough even though realistically Russia could not fight Finland or Poland even if they were on their own.,Finland after the aggression of Russia in Ukraine has (with lead of Marin) gone in to the extremly skeptic about Russia and views are quite the same now with many eastern European countries like Estonia. We in Finland always before taught us the bridge between east and west. Now that is gone for as long Marin is the Prime minister. Which is about 5 months right know...,1
"That's just the baseline, the negotiations should really be about what sanctions stay on Russia and for how long. If Russia wants to negotiate, they can negotiate that. If the baseline can't even be accomplished, you can't trust Russia to not invade a third time and any deal would be worth less than the paper it's printed on.","I agree with you Russia isn't going to win this war, but if you think all THAT is going to happen... I don't really know what to tell you. I would be incredibly surprised if when peace talks actually pick up Crimea even really comes up in discussions, let alone any reparations at all. Both countries are hurting pretty badly, and their grand ambitions (for Russia, capturing Kiev, and for Ukraine, retaking Crimea) are just laughably unfeasible right now.",1
"We routinely, and correctly, hold people accountable for engaging in speech that creates public health and safety hazards. Of course, Trump encouraged people to inject bleach and take horse de-wormer but his brainless factotums choose to believe that attempting to shut down a dangerous liar who actively politicized a public health issue for political gain is somehow an infringement on a right which does in fact have guard rails. I have the freedom to peaceably assemble and pursue happiness, neither right allows me to stand In The middle of a freeway to protest.","Guns are a huge part of that. There is no credible way to deny that easy access to guns is the largest part of the issue. Until we have gun regulation, like a civilized country, we will see the same absurd rate of gun homicide that we, the united states' experience uniquely.",0
"Neither the Afghanistan or Iraq invasions were intended to help either country. No matter whose narrative you believe, the casus belli were related to US national interests or security.",Not the entire world. Most of the world seems to be indifferent to this because it doesn’t affect them.,0
This and I think it's also why Europe is desperately trying to re-establish good relations with China. They are now seeing China as sort of the thing they'll have to balance against with America.,"Becoming dependent on Russia for a lot more than just oil was a way to curb American influence in Europe. The three way talks between Russia, Germany and America was a way for Germany to play as a middle power brokering a balance between the two in Europe.",0
"AI is coming for all kinds of jobs. , for example. And even if the AI isn't good - one day it will be.","The funny thing is, that most of the people pushing AI heavily will end up losing their jobs because of it.",1
"Iran's secular authoritarian Western-backed regime was already falling apart in the late 1970s. Some Western strategists may have briefly hoped that Khomeini could restore stability to the country for a few months in 1978 but it is flat-out made up bullshit to take that and claim that ""the West caused the Islamic Revolution."".",Yeah. Those spoiled kids would have a hissy fit if they were forced to go back. The world needs to do what was done with russian oligarchs. Sanction them and take away their yachts. Freeze some bank accounts….,1
They have plenty sure but Ukraine also has quite a good bit and they didn't want them to sell it cheaper to the Europeans. Puts a damper on the whole monopoly pricing. I disagree that it is about projecting military influence. Ultimately though there were many many factors that went into this invasion. No particular one thing.,"To be fair the 3-4 other times they seized territory it didn't really piss anyone off aside from mild sanctions. I imagine they thought the world would wag their finger and Ukraine would capitulate in a week and everyone would have moved on while they quietly genocided the entire culture and sold off all the resources. I could easily see how they thought it would be a winning move. They didn't account for the Ukrainians will to fight nor the West's response. Also, I don't think it's about having resources they already have a shit ton of, it's about not having a neighbor friendly to Europe who can sell to them instead of Russia.",0
"If it is the difference between 50 and 51 Democratic Senators, I think Warnock wins by 5 or more because no Kemp on the card and the people willing to vote for Walker to ensure Republican control in the Senate but can't stand him won't go vote.","If those that voted Libertarian thought anything like 2016-me, there is nothing that'd motivate them to show up and vote for Walker in a run-off against Warnock, even if it means Dems retain the Senate (especially since the GOP basically already won the House).",1
"Gregory VIII abdicated in 1415 because of political pressure during the ""Western Schism"" out of a desire to (re)unify the church.","Gregory VI resigned in 1046 at the Council of Sutri under allegations of ""simony"", aka accusations that he effectively purchased the papacy by bribing Benedict IX to resign. By most accounts, he seemed to freely admit to doing so, but argued that it still didn't constitute simony. That went over approximately as well as proposing that drag queen story hour becomes part of Sunday School, so he ended up resigning.",0
"No, you are voting with a computer, in the sense that it's a device running software, and that's the problem. The ""security steps"" are security theater that doesn't actually address the risks that an election process has to address in order to be secure.","It's just that an ECU doesn't have to solve the security risks of running an election, while a voting computer does.",0
"While it’s important to continue to think of people having the best of intentions, there is abundant evidence that states with anti abortion laws have a higher rate of maternal deaths _even when including women who want their children_. I think knowing that data and doing it anyway… or refusing to listen to that data… at least should be called out as hostile in SOME way.","Well… I can understand why though. When everyone’s shouting and, more concerning than that, sometimes advocating murdering doctors or actually DOING that… someone saying “hey maybe some people who share similar connected concerns to those wackos might be human beings”… like… it’s hard to look away from the people advocating murdering doctors yknow? That’s an understandable human reaction to get angry at a perceived attempt to humanize that. We should still try to mentally separate the range of people involved in the discussion but I wouldn’t take it personally if people react the way they do. For many it’s coming from a place of wanting to help and protect people. The bad guys, if there are ones objectively outside of the people advocating killing people already outside the womb, it’s the people making bank off of encouraging people not to talk to each other.",0
"Trump is just a recent ugly face on a brutal beast that Republicans have cultivated for 50+ years. Even the ""never-Trumpers"" voted lock step with Trump on 90% of issues. No one should let these monsters try to gaslight everyone into thinking they're better than Trump. They ARE Trump.","Trump is the Republican brand and has been for at least a decade. Republicans are trying to distance themselves again without actually changing anything about their party. I know it's worked times before. However, this is post-Dobbs the moderates aren't going to forget that anytime soon. So unless the Republicans actually start changing their platform they will keep losing as long as free and fair elections occur.",1
"In state polls of voters each with a second question that specifically emphasized that their state's electoral votes would be awarded to the winner of the national popular vote in all 50 states, not necessarily their state's winner, there was only a 4-8% decrease of support.","In state polls of voters each with a second question that specifically emphasized that their state's electoral votes would be awarded to the winner of the national popular vote in all 50 states, not necessarily their state's winner, there was only a 4-8% decrease of support.",0
"Senate is almost the hardest to pass-by, so this is good news. I do think our parliament will approve it. Worse that can happen afterward is a referendum by the people to counter it, but it would arrive too late to stop Switzerland from supplying ammunitions to Germany and therefore, Ukraine.","__Germany is not angry over Bern’s refusal to allow Berlin to re-export Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine, says the German ambassador to Switzerland.__.",1
"Also the lies have to be about a material issue for it to be perjury. So the babbling about Mueller and the election is irrelevant, Trump says that crap whenever he opens his mouth. The only potentially material lie was his claim that he never touched a woman without her consent. I bet there will be a parade of witnesses at trial to impeach this statement, which will be a circus. ""The plaintiff calls Billy Bush to the stand."".","Good point. Let's not forget, the only reason he got within a million miles of the presidency was because the Republican party nominated and elected him to that position. The GOP insisted on it. It wasn't really his decision, he was only in it for the grift.",1
"If I buy gas at 10 dollars and price it at 12 so I can make a profit I'm not selling it for less than 10 unless I have to. Who do you think can wait longer, the guy with the gas in his storage tank or the power plant, factory, or home owner who's choices are: buy the 12 dollar gas or the lights go out/widgets don't get made/heat turns off.","So yea, there really is one price and it's the price the guy with the storage tank says it is and he's not going to lose money. At worse he'll break even.",0
Israel doesn't want to alienate Russia because Russia allows them to bomb Iranian weapons caches in Syria that are destined for Hamas. Russia also helps ensure that Iranian troops in Syria stay away from the Israeli border.,"From Israel's perspective, preventing a a terrorist group that is actively attacking them from acquiring more weapons and preventing their main enemy from staging an invasion force on their border under the cover of fighting Syrian rebel groups are immediate national security concerns. Israel is worried about the development of the Iranian arms industry, especially Iran's nuclear program. However, their current strategy, is to engage in targeted bombing of infrastructure and the assassination of scientists and engineers critical to the Iranian arms industry and weapons development programs. I will grant you that this strategy is proving to be an obstacle, but not an existential threat, to the growth of Iranian arms industry.",0
"Yeah I dropped Elon after he tried to do a twitter poll suggesting Ukraine cede its territory. Turning off starlink in the middle of the Kherson offensive, removing the ability for Ukranian users to join twitter. This motherfucker is playing with peoples lives at this point.","Solid point, doesn't stop the fact that your favorite billionaire is a hypocrite that doesn't give a flying fuck about free speech like everyone claims he does. Lets ban everyone that doesn't like him and anyone that doesn't fit his political agenda. You guys are loony toons.",0
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"Eh, Twitter to me was never a good idea. Just because you can articulate and publicize your opinion, doesn't mean the whole world needs to see it and comment on it.","Furthermore, utilizing it as a value engine to determine how well thought your idea was was also never a good measure of worth.",0
She's a traitor to her country and should have been sent to Guantanamo with the other neocons who perpetrated the 9/11 atrocities.,She’s a dire war criminal and should be rotting in chains in The Hague along with the rest of the military junta that really runs the USAs criminal war machine.,1
Ukraine isn’t a static entity either as seen in how quickly they’ve progressed technologically with their long range and drone weapons. Don’t confuse justice and mercy for inability.,AA guns like the Gepard can and have helped thin those barrage down since they have to travel low and slow over a large territory. Ukraine just needs more.,0
"Nah thats true but not true committee participation has tons of lucrqtive perks: insider trading, big companies owing you favors for helping, etc. His congressional pay is unchanged yes but nobody is in politics for their measly state given salary, they want powerful connections and the ability to insider trade with impunity.","Now that's convenient, he's going to stay on as a Congressman and continue to make his salary, but not serve on any committees and actually do some actual work.",1
"Well the number that you really want is the margin between D and R COVID deaths. Assuming your “60/70% Republicans” quote is accurate and that all the non-Republican deaths were all Democrats, the margin of lost votes would be 20-40% of those deaths.","If the margin of votes in the election was 17,000, adding those 32,000 COVID deaths back into the mix likely wouldn’t change the outcome and Lake would still have lost the election.",1
I view it as a sign of progress that we've gone from that basically not being even a blip on the radar to him being removed from a lot of newspapers over that kind of speech.,"Back in... I think it was 2011, Adams posted a blog post that was pretty close to this about women, comparing equal pay for women to children wanting candy. He ended up deleting it after critique, but in tone and intent it was pretty close. Real class act, Mr. Adams.",0
I support the climate change movement but this is not the right approach at all. I was also involved in other social justice and immigrant right movements and one thing we made sure when we executed our campaigns was to do something that could get the public support thus the goals for the campaigns ended with the positive publicity. Shouldnt it be the goal at the end so that it moves people and let them join one way or the other? These people act Iike bullies at work whose priority is getting the shit done at any cost but no one later on wants to work with.,"Well, looks like the message didn't get bought off by many, unfortunately. Even I can't agree with this, regardless if it hurts the art or not. That is not the point.",0
That's the crazy thing to me--all of their mightier than thou declarations would be so threatening if they were winning the war and crushing Ukraine.,Ukraine should take the exact same statement and just swap the countries and then trollface as Russian state media goes bananas with the “uKRaInE NAziS wANt tO DEsTrOY rUssiA11” rhetoric.,1
Beautifully said and all true! I’m sorry about your friend. I’m glad we have dogs to help us out. Also happy for the dogs because they have a loving home.,Dogs are really wonderful. I've been sometimes falling into feelings of sadness over the loss of a younger friend who commited suicide and when I do one will shove a toy to play fetch with at me and the other come for snuggles. I just realized the pattern recently but they've been doing it for a while now I realize. It snaps me out of it and I feel better.,1
He can even appear bi-partisan by putting things up for votes that the GOP want knowing it'll fail elsewhere.,"I mean, if you know which party has the majority, why not participate in their elections to elect the speaker most likely to favor bipartisanship?",1
"The really big issue with that is that even when you bring your manufacturing ops domestic, all of the feedstocks are still sourced in China, so you're hosed either way.","Everyone complaining about putting too much reliance on China for manufacturing but nobody wants to do anything about fixing the supply chain, at the same time enjoying the low cost goods coming out from China. If things were manufactured locally you'd probably only able to afford like 5 items for your whole house.",1
"Not really, charging stations are much cheaper and easier to build and maintain. Electric roads are much less efficient, significantly more expensive to build, way worse to maintain (we already have issues with normal asphalt road maintenance), and their real world practicality is dubious at best and is more likely to end up being nonfeasible and a failure than a success, much like the solar roadway fad.","That's not even getting into how ridiculously expensive it is to maintain roadways, especially highways, compared to how many people they serve or the fact we could easily replace lanes of highway with rail lines and it would be perfectly reasonable to do so where the track can reasonably be placed.",1
Yeah but that at least has the fig leaf of trying to prevent a full depression. There’s some kind of economic theory behind it rather than strictly greed.,"Corporate greed is one of the main drivers of inflation, yet people don't acknowledge this very often.",1
"Of course. Employees receiving wages are consumers and wage increases increase their disposable income. That means they can buy more which increases the demand for goods and services. Companies get more optimistic about the future and invest in the business (facilities, technology, people) and hire more people. More demand for people means wages go up further increasing the disposable income and the virtuous cycle continues.","Inflation is an increase in money supply without an increase in output, profits are high as a result of inflation not the cause.",1
"That's not to say teaching creationism is OK, it's still a massive waste of time and resources, but it's not really going to do much harm to the vast majority of the kids who graduate from those schools.","As a pastor, I think teaching creationism in public schools is a terrible idea. I grew up in a conservative state and my science teachers always said stuff like ""everyone is entitled to your relgious beliefs, but we are requiring you to learn the current scientific thoughy, just like we do in every other field. None of you have believe this, but you all have to know and understand it."" I think thats a very reasonable approach.",1
"Why does it surprise anyone that this pope (and probably most if not all before) endorses the molestation of children, come on people this is the Catholic Church we're talking about.","Not to defend the pieces of shit who are actively covering paedophiles in the catholic church, but the fact that there are more paedophiles in the church than in any other field working along children doesn't seem proven at all.",1
"There was the ad that said Jesus didn't turn his family into outcasts and I immediately knew these ads were trying to appeal to the parents who went down the qanon, anti vax, etc rabbit holes.","I can't quite figure out what their aim is with some the refuge commercials yet because they do seem to be pro immigrant on the surface, but I don't trust that surface view. If anyone has interpretations, feel free to share. I feel like there might be a narrative I'm missing from being away from the church in so long.",0
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"In addition the Palestinians have consistently refused numerous offers of a state. As far as I can tell, they Palestinians have never compromised on any of their demands.","That said, the modern PA has made some compromises with Israel. Not in terms of a lasting peace plan or anything major, but they do generally (outside of particularly large flare-ups like this month) cooperate with Israel on day-to-day matters like minor civil things, taxation, and even limited security cooperation.",1
"Just because you are too stupid to see the possible outcomes of your actions, doesn't mean that you shouldn't be hold accountable for them. If you glue yourself to the road without thinking about the fact that this could hinder an ambulance doing it's work or a doctor reaching a hospital or a police force trying to help someone in danger and many other possible emergencies that could happen that need road access, then that's your fault.","But it's wasn't even the ambulance that was stuck, an ambulance was at the place of the crash (cyclist run over by a truck) the car that was blocked by the trafficjam was only there to bring special equipment to free the victim from the truck, as stated above it wouldn't even have helped the victim survive, if it had been there in time.",1
"Classification can be something like a sensitive piece of information (sources, methods), or a specific combination of unclassified pieces of information (names + location + dates) can actually make the document classified. Documents have what's called a Security Classification Guide that outlines all this.","Apparently documents can get classified for all sorts of reasons beyond national security. Reasons can include ""better safe than sorry"" to ""now it's someone else's problem"" to ""I have a stamper and like feeling important"".",1
Iran and Israel have been in a shadow war since the Islamic revolution hit Iran in the late 70's. They've maintained a stance of Israeli eradication since then and Iran revolutionary guard have been seen operating with Hezbollah and their arms frequently make it to Hamas as well.,Something worth noting is that Israel really has no good defence against Iranian ballistic missiles. The iron dome can't intercept missiles travelling at the speed Iran's would be by the time they arrive.,1
"How is it determined that the questioning is actually because of trans-ness or because of normal dysphoria that occurs with puberty? Or perhaps due to some other undiagnosed trauma or process (e.g. autism spectrum, severe depression, etc.).","I mean, he is. Banning gender affirming care prevents people from treating dysphoria and will likely lead to minors committing suicide or ruining their mental health. I don’t see how proven, effective treatment is “toxic”.",1
"How do you draw a line between people speaking their minds and allowing hate to be spread? The people I heard that day weren’t throwing n words around or anything, but their point was pretty clear; it was also clear these folks knew how to word their points, they were probably regular callers who had some grasp of the medium.","Random story, my family used to have some (junk) land in the southern part of my state. I’d go down there on occasion to help clear brush or whatever and see the old landmarks from where I grew up [slowly being torn down and going out of business.].",0
"Edit: I understand not everyone is fortunate enough to have sick days, which is exactly why the millions of people who do need to stand up for those who don’t.","We should all general strike in solidarity, using our sick days or whatever if we have to. It's time this shit stops.",0
There are many types of mines. The mines you see being pushed around the road or even picked up normally are usually anti tank mines. They are made to be set off by a tank or heavy vehicle and a person can easily move them around unless some anti tamper system is set up.,Anti personnel mines come in many forms and are all much smaller and much more difficult to move or clear than at mines.,0
6) They're customizing the list of spending that they will allow through the House to what will keep their insipid voters voting for them.,2) They can blame Biden as the economy tanks and doesn't have enough time to recover before the 2024 election season.,0
"They'd undoubtedly support these things if their candidates did well, they're not coming around, they're just looking to pass blame for a little consolation, they don't really find these things unappealing, they're just upset that enough voters did.","So a lot of conservatives are turning on these candidates, on Trump, on election denying, on Christian nationalism, extreme, anachronistic policies, but they voted for these candidates, for these ideas, they're only lashing out because they lost.",0
It's not a lot of money to make sure you study properly and eliminate industries that are pointless. We spent trillions on this pandemic. Could have literally ended world hunger for a decade.,"They can write that on our mass graves in 20 years when this catches up with us. ""They really needed eyelash extensions and mink fur car dangles"".",0
Would it be too much to ask that the US donates a handful of older A-10s to Ukraine just in case the Czar sends another long line of cannon fodder. I am certain the old dudes that designed and sold the A-10 (50 years ago) thought of exactly the scenario we witnessed. Where the Czar railroads ended they would have to use road and be eradicated. I wonder if the ancient A-10 has a way to slow down the rate of fire so they can erase many kilometers of the Czars cannon fodder.,I suspect the Czars think that invading (again) in the winter would mean that they are not stuck using roads and lining up a 50km long A10 Hog pilots wet dream. Czar Putin made the mistake of waiting until Emperor Jinping gave him permission to invade - the Emperor did not want his Olympics disturbed. That was the price to pay. Emperor Jinping only agreed to supporting Czar Putin's invasion on the condition Russia also supported glorious China's invasion of Taiwan which was scheduled but cancelled. Waiting for the Olympics to conclude meant the Czars army would have to use roads and get slaughtered.,0
"The website is LGBTQ nation. I think it's entirely appropriate. Too many folks see sexual identity as a personality trait and political tool. It blatantly points out that just because a person is out and LGBTQ, it does not mean they are any better to represent you.",I think people need to understand that LGBT people have their own thoughts and will form their own opinions. We won't automatically agree with you because you're a Democrat. Our sexual orientation isn't our only issue.,1
"If you want to burn it cuz you hate fundamental Islam or radicalized Islam, then you're burning the holy book of millions and millions of Muslims that are neither of those two things.",people burn the quran because the muslim world have a certain sizable portion that views their religion so much more serious and more dangerously.,1
"Rather than impeach her for explicit crimes, it might be faster and better to impeach her for incompetence.","If she were to go on some kind of educational sabbatical, it might not be necessary to impeach. But she clearly shouldn't be attempting to work as a judge under her current conditions.",1
The only way to disarm a specific country is to have nukes be controlled by multinational military alliances like NATO. Let Iran have nukes in their country but their control is maintained by a separate military command structure made up of them and their allies. That would mean that any use of nuclear weapons offensively would condemn all countries in the alliance and therefore would put pressure on the countries to not use nukes or to escalate conflicts they shouldn’t be involved in.,"I know that NK has done nuclear tests, but nobody knows if they have functioning nuclear weapons, hence I don't think it's wrong to call them an aspiring nuclear power.",1
"What would have happened if democrats had decided to take the side of the workers? Knowing that they couldn't rely on the government to break the strike for them, the railway companies would've acquiesced to the union's demands.",Then it wouldn't have passed either but workers wouldn't be forced to accept a new agreement they already voted down. Seems like a fine alternative if you're actually supporting the workers.,1
"I don't get the dissociative property you Texans have for this guy - you (rightfully so) hate him, yet vote him into office, what, like 5 times in a row?","Unfortunately for Texans, he's not on the ballot this year. We got a lot of other races, like Govener and Attorney General, so make sure that any Texan you know has either voted or made plans to vote tomorrow from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.",1
"So, basically you have a deal, that although huge in the industry, doesn't give Microsoft a monopoly, doesn't make Microsoft the market share leader, and they use less predatory business practices with their current property than their closest competitors.",This is supposedly bad because it would make Microsoft the third largest publisher with the means to harm competition with their ability to affect console experiences for other publishers.,1
"I’m not saying logging should be banned, it just can a negative impact on a local economy when you think it’s having positive effects.","How do we limit/eliminate logging, tolerate more tourism and usage but still mitigate fire hazards? We all know Smokey the Bear’s slogan, but people really are that stupid and careless or think it won’t happen to them. Not to mention trail usage and off trail trampling and insane waste left behind. Pack in, pack out, stay on trail, diligently follow rules & regulations by local ranger station because they’re in place for a reason.",1
Not in Canada. Lottery winnings are not taxed. But if If my powerball ticket I bought across the border had hit for 2.1 billion I would have paid a bunch of tax to the IRS.,Many counties tax lottery winnings. The fact that this guy is from Gaza and not Israel is as irrelevant as if he was from Spain and won the lottery in Israel.,0
Dude he allowed and protected Hindus who committed mass murder of Muslims and routinely sends his supporters to assault his political opponents.,"When you vote for a Hindu terror org which is responsible for the rapes, murders of 1000s and destroyed lives of 100s of 1000s, you are a Hindu militant nationalist.",1
"It’s not really almost half the country - it’s just that their particular preferred political party has organized things to make it LOOK like it’s half the country and give them a disproportionate amount of political power relative to their numbers. But it is still a disturbingly large number of people however, so your point still stands.","It seems like they’re just doing this to make section 3 of the 14th amendment more well known to the public and that’s it, because as far as I understand they can’t actually do anything with this legislation because doing so would be unconstitutional?",0
"Notably, as shown in both the article and list, brands like Hikvision are only advised against for ""public safety"" and ""critical infrastructure"", which makes me think it's less ""there's a backdoor"" and more like someone could take advantage of inner knowledge of the devices and cause other problems, or something. Good to know.",You make no sense. Is China America? So why should they have any surveillance in a foreign country? And the Chinese are strict about foreign companies in their country. At this point only a negligent country would not take precautions.,1
"The most likely ruling, if the recent arguments are any indication, wont be a wholesale ""state legislatures can do whatever they want"", but something more along the lines of ""Courts can invalidate state laws but not impose their own rules"" (like appointing a special team to create district maps).","More specifically whether they can be limited by the courts and the (state) executive. Legislatures already have the Constitutional power to determine the ""times, places, and manner"" of holding elections. The question to the Court is ""Whether a State’s judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing ""Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives"" prescribed by the Legislature and replace them with regulations of the state courts' own devising"". Basically, can a state court overrule an election-related law and impose their own set of rules?",0
"If the House is within 2-3 seats, there might be a little wiggle room for bipartisanship. Some of the seats Dems lost were to fairly moderate Republicans, and this election as a rejection of MAGA might empower them a bit.","Only if moderate Republicans pull off a coup and build a coalition for the speakership with the Dems. Otherwise, the speakership will be decided by the Republican Party plurality of crazy. And without the speakership, Dems have no control over the house agenda regardless of how many Republicans would join them in moderate legislation.",1
"The mujahideen were very diverse and can't simply be described as precursors to the taliban, the taliban started out by fighting against the mujahideen, although plenty of mujahideen fighters would later join the taliban. It wasn't the US running the madrassas expounding the extreme deobandi ideology that influenced the taliban.","Uh, the Taliban are not Wahhabist, they subscribe to a completely different branch of radical Islam, although in practice it's not that different.",0
"The USA does military exercises in the South China Sea that are nowhere near Taiwan, and are simply a show of force. I assume the Chinese incursions into Taiwanese waters are what you are referring to.","If it is bad when China does military exercises close to other countries waters, then it is bad when we do it. That's called basic consistency.",0
"Nah he's probably a fed up conservative who's capable of some critical thought and can't excuse or bear the circus anymore. Some of these ex-R anchors are late-comers to the party, but welcomed, at least.","This is what Trump seems to be counting on.. again... for his 2024 run. After the last loss and everything that's transpired since then, you'd have to be an idiot to think you have a fair shot with a normal campaign, or a 2nd-chance coup leader who knows something's coming or being set up.",0
"When we realized CFCs were destroying the ozone layer, we didn’t say “well people need to stop buying products that contain CFCs!” We banned that shit and it WORKED.","Again; when we realized CFCs were destroying the ozone layer, we did not throw our hands up and say “well people just want their aerosol hair spray What can we do It’s up to consumers!” We banned it AND IT WORKED.",0
"Ukraine will never invade Russia. They would absolutely get nuked in that situation, and the West would have a hard time justifying a hard response, since Russia would be hitting their own globally accepted territory.","It's a lot easier with German tanks, but Poland has Abrams and mechanics that are probably VERY good at their jobs and will almost certainly be earning their pay training Ukrainian techs.",0
"Elon Musk is a chode. When he was still fighting to get put of buying Twitter, his main angle of attack was that Twitter was flooded with bots, more than was disclosed.","That is the only way to stand against and combat this bullshit, make Twitter irrelevant like the alt-right Twitter clones. When the rest of us allow the platform to drown in obscurity, their power is non-existent.",1
"Please don't act as if ""the west"" was a single bloc. Letting the kurds die was primarily a US-thing, heavily criticized by everybody else.","Just to get a bit more detail into this, the germany-russia-thing is not really primarily based on cheap energy.",0
That would allow the government way too much power to pass laws that could hurt some citizens or create a lot of unbalance power.,Like government decisions to make 20% of their citizens into second class citizens? By allowing orthodox jews to skip required military service and making them 1st class citizens over everyone else?,0
"It’ll be awkward when Republicans have to argue “He committed tax fraud because he’s smart enough to exploit the system, but none of you should do what we praise him for.”.","I think what actually makes me the most angry is that we all know he's committed tax fraud and various financial crimes, and that the IRS has all of this proof and has never done anything about it themselves.",1
Erasing other cultures is and has always been a primary objective of Christianity. It's only started to fade very recently and inconsistently.,"No, what I said was the opposite of the Jesus quote. Although I think each quote uses ""judge"" in a different way: the Jesus quote uses it to mean ""condemn,"" but the one I quoted (which I think is from Ayn Rand) uses it to mean ""morally assess."".",0
"Quickly, he had his security detail surreptitiously go to other supermarkets in the area to check, to confirm that this was actually a propaganda plot, that the store had been over-stocked with goods to make America look good.","A similar story is told about the soviet union. In 1989 Boris Yeltson visited America, and toured part of the city to see ""real americans living their lives"".",0
"Very weird that this happens when the entire vote process and transportation for Szekelys in Romania is organized not by Hungarian elections officials but, I kid you not, the fucking ruling party itself.",In Orban's case though it is to get all the votes that he can from them and by sheer accident any vote against him will be lost along the way to Hungary:,0
"Once the land connecting Crimea to mainland is under Ukrainian control, it's game over in Crimea because Russia can't supply the army there, while Ukraine has a direct supply route.","And as far as I understand it, Crimea is really hard to defend as soon as the land bridge to Russia is cut off. It's essentially impossible to resupply. And considering the piss poor state of the Russian armed forces...",1
"Notice how I never said WW2 wasn't global? Maybe you should have read what I said more carefully before going off on your wild tangent. My whole argument is that ""global"" is subjective and can be argued until the end of the world. I never said that WW1/WW2 was or wasn't global.","There were plenty of countries that weren't involved in WW1/WW2. You're saying we shouldn't use the word ""global"" because the war isn't all over the globe, and now you're backtracking.",1
"Absolutely not. Ukraine has never held irredentist ideals and never will. An invasion will destroy all western goodwill forever. Transnistria borders both Moldova and Ukraine equally and also roughly holds an equal amount of Moldovans, Russians and Ukrainians. Moldova has always unquestionably held rightful claim, even in Soviet times. The area really is just another remnant of very poor and spiteful Soviet policy making. It’s a very fascinating read on Wikipedia if you want a rabbit hole.",No trouble. If you want to learn more r/Moldova would be more than happy point you in the right direction. r/Transnistria is also very active and happy to share if you ask nicely. I think there’s a few people from Tiraspol who hang around there.,0
"All the while wages stagnate or technically decrease. 3% more wage to counter 7% inflation. With a 60k wage, I dont really get bothered by the increse all that much, but anyone with lower wages gets thorougly fucked.",Why not set minimum wage to 0 because people with hedgedonds worth millions they got from their parents don't really need any income?,1
"South Africa isnt siding with Russia. They are just not siding with anyone and continuing on with their lives. When Swiss do it, oh they are so quirky. When South Africa does it, eviiiiiil.","For me it comes down to, do you want to understand an African country and understand their motivations and history and why they act the way they do? No? You just want to call them evil, then thats racism.",0
"I recommend reading the judicial decision handed down by the Appeals Court, pay particular attention to pages 20 and 21. The 11^th Circuit said that District Judge Cannon was completely wrong and that no one, including a former President, is above the law.^.",11th circuit really stopped short of calling Trump appointed judge Cannon illiterate in law. The judge should vacate the bench tbh not that it will happen but that would be the moral thing to do here.,1
Not all pollution breaks down ozone like CFCs did. These are two totally separate issues in that regard.,1. We know the rate at which we are currently warming is 10x faster than anything previously recorded in the history of this planet. We know this from fossil and geological data. Every year we warm faster than the previous year. This has been measured independently by people all over the world. It’s a measured fact.,0
"Although i appreciate Moldova's path, there are a lot of pro-russian people over there. Morever, a large percentage of the young moldavians studying in the same city continue to speak russian and often blatantly do this. It s a major sign of disrespect, honestly, especially during this time, especially as people from Moldova are offered quite a lot of benefits here in Romania (while some of us don't have access to the same benefits).","Todays Republic of Moldova is an unfortunate out slice of this same continuum, which wouldn’t even exist if not for the aftermath of the WWII as it was artificially separated from the Kingdom of Romania, where USSR wanted to revenge for Romania's alliance with the Third Reich.",1
"Sure, but one of the reasons the French subs were taking so long, and costing so much, was because australia was asking France to modify their nuclear design to conventional power.","Now, you might be able to argue the French were correct that Australia wouldn't cut its losses and terminate the contract if the nuclear sub deal wasn't on the cards. However, it's hardly the fault of Australia if it makes the desire to seek alternative options known and another viable option is presented.",1
"It's not only that they are the same religion (after all Sunnis and Shiites both follow Islam and they've been killing each other regularly for over a thousand years), but in this case both the Pakistani Taliban and the victims are Sunni Muslim.","I am all up for appeasing Islam by saying all religions are the same but IMHO and with current statistics, Islam has been quite destructive when it comes to killing, raping, enslaving people coz of a holy book. That too in this century.",1
"So this is, in reality, a short term contract position. You should treat it as such as you know damn well twitter will be.","Yeah not many 26 year olds making 350k base at Twitter, trust me. 350k TC sounds about right for upper band senior engineer (and 26 is generally very young for senior at FAANG) but that of course includes stock options.",1
"TLDR - in Ohio, it's 100% legal for Norfolk Southern to block roads with their trains for as long as they want, thanks to having bought off politicians, having a previous law repealed.","About 5-7 years ago, politicians were bought by Norfolk Southern, and a law was repealed which made it legal in Ohio for Norfolk Southern to block roads with their trains at any time, for as long as they like. My business is located at a much more remote location than all of the other areas where their trains intersect roads.",0
"It doesn't force a conservative State to issue gay marriage licenses, it just forces them to accept those already made in progressive States.","I think this will have a negative impact overall, it feels like they're teeing up a republican judiciary to make a ""States' rights"" argument against gay marriage. Especially after a Justice.",0
"What Ukraine wants to gain is weapons and defensive aid that Russia has no answer for. More HIMARs, Patriot defense systems, western tanks or fighters.",I didnt say nato would respond with nukes so you saying it is objectively wrong is about as dense as you can be.,0
"You’re basically guaranteed the ability to have a recognized marriage as long as you’re able to travel to a protected state and get married there. However, not all lgbtq individuals have the resources or income to get married in another state. While I’m lucky to live in a blue state, it is really heartbreaking to think about the hundred of thousands if not millions of lgbtq+ individuals that won’t be able to get married in their home state and will have to spend even more time and resources to receive the same protection as straight, cis-gender Americans.",That definitely is an important point but I still feel that like much of our country’s legislation it disproportionately affects lower income lgbtq+ individuals.,0
"I think Republicans are well aware that they will not be able to retain political majorities in the future unless they disenfranchise urban voters. So here we are with a completely ridiculous reading of the Constitution, and it is not a coincidence that this comes on the tail of Republicans raising unsubstantiated voter fraud claims and an activist conservative supermajority at the Supreme Court.","Because Citizens United allows “public advocacy groups” to make expenditures and not have to include the names of their donors in their filings. As long as these organizations don’t have a “primary purpose” of electoral advocacy, but there’s an invisible wink wink by primary purpose from what I’ve gathered. Also the proposition that money is first amendment protected speech is honestly ridiculous and completely out of line with “originalism” or “textualism”.",0
"While I understand the sentiment and wish it could be the case, unfortunately it has been proven time and time again that people are unable to _agree not to be assholes_.","We have a very large Indian population and caste is very poorly understood by anyone who is not a part of the culture. Human resources, in specifically tech companies, often dismiss caste discrimination because they don't understand it or feel they cannot prove it in a court of law. Hopefully this law brings awareness and gives companies the confidence they can win a court case if they need to fire someone for caste discrimination.",0
"It's not right, but the republican party isn't concerned about quelling the idea, they're more interested in using it to gain support for their own agendas....one of which is criminalizing LGBTQ+ existence.","Also went on about how this isn’t political and the leftist need to stop trying to make it political, even though he spouts hate against the lgbt+ community like people aren’t taking it seriously….",1
"Compared to the over 60 years ago, a balloon carrying a box of instruments is a trashy renaissance vehicle to catch over enemy territory. And the US definitely didn't just find out about this as soon as you did, when they went public about it and shot one down.","More importantly, so did China. China was aware of its own surveillance network when the US started loudly announcing to the world that they were aware of, and investigating, the presence of UAPs in American airspace. They have no reason to assume they were going to get away with it for much longer and they have no excuse being so flat footed the moment when (not if) the US reveals they know about the balloons and what they do.",0
"So a lot of conservatives are turning on these candidates, on Trump, on election denying, on Christian nationalism, extreme, anachronistic policies, but they voted for these candidates, for these ideas, they're only lashing out because they lost.",True but maybe Republicans will think twice about knocking all of their sane candidates out since so many crazies lost otherwise winnable races this election.,1
"Russian’s be raping, they are raping A LOT. And the world will be better when every last Russian soldier in Ukraine is a sunflower.","And let’s be clear here. In a world where Russia invaded Ukraine, kidnapped Ukrainian children, murdered countless Ukrainian civilians and buried them in mass graves, and raped thousands of women. What OP is most concerned about is that the audio recordings of Russian women telling their husbands to rape Ukrainian women (and these recordings exist) are potentially unreliable. That’s the big picture issue that OP is concerned about. The authenticity of audio recordings, not the factual documented atrocities.",0
"The WRSA is actively maintained, and due to Israel's rather frequent use of it, it's likely filled with fairly modern, still-in-use equipment. In 2014 Israel drew thousands of JDAMs kits from it, and artillery shells were drawn in almost every conflict. In 2006 Lebanon War, Israel fired about 250k artillery shells (Ukraine fires 90k a month), and it likely drew a large number from the WRSA to backfill it.","The Ukraine conflict has become an artillery-driven war of attrition, with each side lobbing thousands of shells every day. Ukraine has run low on munitions for its Soviet-era weaponry and has largely shifted to firing artillery and rounds donated by the United States and other Western allies.",1
"Russia stated openly that they would support Iran with nukes if we intervine, so by your logic we should make them absolutely on the side of Iran instead of taking the chance they help them?","If Putin gives nukes to Iran to punish Israel for sending aid this would be bad for sure, i have no problem understanding this fear (plese link this threat) But Russia giving Iran satelites and more support after the war could mean increased tensions with Israel that would only increase as they rebuild strenght.",1
I would also add there are indeed jets that could compete in a dogfight with the F22. The Su-57 for example would absolutely hold a candle to the F22 in a dogfight. Where the F22 has the advantage though is it's stealth capability. Making a dogfight unnecessary.,"The last F22s ever made were actually built in 2011. They are certainly not ""so ahead of everything else"". In fact they are slated to be completely retired by 2030 due to their extremely high operating cost, limited range, outdated avionics and the availability of newer/better stealth technology.",0
"That said, when both sides have proof of residence, such claims should be expedited through the courts. It sucks for the innocent homeowners but we should all be blaming slumlords for being the reason why these laws need to be in place at all.",What is the origin of squatters having the right to essentially steal someone’s home? I’m not sympathizing with Russian oligarchs by any stretch but it’s always seemed like a weird thing that I could just sneak into a house and the owner couldn’t kick me out.,1
What should Ukraine negotiate? Give up their one citizen to live under Russian occupation after we have seen how Russia treats the people there? In what reality is there a negotiation?,How does anyone reasonably see civil negotiations going? Russia already knows it was wrong and should just leave Ukraine alone. Russia committed horrific war crimes and wants to annihilate all Ukrainians. How would you reasonably negotiate with that?,1
You think Swedish politicians should break the law just to please an authoritarian leader from a soon-to-be-a-dictatorship country? Then they are no better than Erdo.,"So he can keep this charad going for as long as he likes, be my guest, have at it, do your worst. It's all a play for him, to rally support at home and blackmail countries. It might work domestically, sure - but not internationally. There he will just burn his and Turkey's reputation, what little is left still.",0
"I was thinking about the werewolf shit thing. Do you think your human self has to process and shit out whatever half chewed raw bones/carcass your werewolf self eats? Or do you transition back only after the werewolf puts out what it took in? I feel like if it's the former, that human's digestive/intestinal system is a mess for the next couple of weeks.","Immortality means you’re in the clandestine club that secretly runs the world from the shadows, though. Plus, blood rave parties and ominous meetings in cool old castles Wearing ridiculous capes and shit and somehow making it work.",0
"It is not a question of air superiority for Ukraine, it is a question of keeping air parity and avoiding Russian air superiority.","If I were to guess, I'd say Ukraine has pretty good defense coverage in the capitol and populated areas, but not-so-good coverage in outlying areas, which is why they're asking for fighter jets.",1
"""In Feburary, the Mayor of Buffalo waited until a day below freezing in Texas. He began to truck down mountains of snow and dump them in the middle of major intersections, and into the driveway of Texas lawmakers. 'Why do we have to deal with snow? It's not fair that Texas is warmer. They either need to step up and help us with our snow and other weather issues, or we'll keep dumping snow down there until they listen.'"".","Yea. For real. As another user pointed out, the Gov. can call a special session at any time, but it's typically reserved for emergencies and used to extend the sessions in years they are already meeting.",1
"2. Eastern Ukrainians are not the fanatic pro-Russians you imagine, some might have been sympathetic to Russia and they use the Russian language but that does not automatically mean they automatically oppose liberation of their territories. Ukraine's own president is a Russian speaker, its just a language. Their ""separatist governements"" were puppet republics lead by Russians (from Russia) defended by Russian soldiers. Do not imagine this was a civil war, it was a barely disguised foreign invasion.","3. Ethnic cleansing is what Russia is doing in occupied regions - conscripting men so they could die, deporting civilians, stealing children. Outright murdering the population, as seen in liberated areas. Replacing these people with ethnic Russians. The idea that it will stop if these areas are annexed to Russia and peace is declared is, quite frankly, outright moronic, and you should reconsider your opinion.",0
There is a moral imperative for western nations to arm Ukraine as much as possible so they don’t have to pay too high a price for Russia’s hubris.,"Why is giving Ukraine longer range weapons (not just ATACMs but also cruise missiles) a red line, but Russia bombing civilians over and over and over again, isn't?",1
Yeah but people are also ignoring that is what Chinese fighter flight path looks like most of the time. It isn't nearly as simple as herpa derp the ADIZ extends over mainland. Yes it does but the incursions usually are not over mainland china.,"They used to own almost all of China. Now they are so small and underdeveloped, why wouldn’t they solve a dispute? They probably cannot even defend themself if China would want harm, probably depending also on imports from China. It was a sarcastic joke about countries can claim territory they once owned but lost/gained through revolution, war, treaties whatever. If Communist China can claim a land they never conquered with their civil war, why can’t Mongolia claim land they once had but lost later?",1
"Hopefully this is an opportunity for Qatar to learn from other cultures. While the world can also respect Qatar's culture, we shouldn't bow to hateful practices.","If you think about it from the perspective of Qatar, though, it really doesn’t make sense for them to allow it. You can get killed in that country for being gay, so why would they allow gay representation in their country? I am not a Qatar fan, I really dislike the Middle East in general, but they also have customs that should be taken into account.",1
Usually the transaction occurs because the child isn't allowed to buy beer. It's not like adults aren't allowed to buy condoms just because they become free for young adults.,"The joke doesn't hold up to a real life scenario because French corner stores aren't handing out condoms to 14 year old skids. However, I thought it was pretty clear it was a joke, based on just the headline and not a sociopolitical projection of the near future of French suburbs. Seems I was wrong.",1
"This isn’t ww2, throwing numbers at the issue won’t work when Ukraine is being supplied high end modern military equipment, the cannon fodder from Russia are being killed miles away from the frontline because of Ukrainian drones and artillery….","The West has to supply more advanced weapons to Ukraine such as the Gray Eagle drone, GLSDB, a Western tank, and a Western fighter plane to offset Russia's huge superiority in manpower. During the Korean War, China had overwhelming superiority in manpower, but this couldn't overcome the UN's superiority in weapons.",1
"Name me a recent time someone in America used the concept of religious freedom, to create a more fascist law. Because all I see is people forcing other people to provide them services and ignoring religious freedoms, forcing people to get the vaccine, and ignoring religious exemptions, etc. Forcing Catholics to provide women with birth control, even though that goes against Catholicism and they could've worked for literally any other company, etc.",It's all fascism that is taking root across the county especially using religious freedom as the reason they are having to take control of our personal lives.,0
"Just because Democrats are better than Republicans doesn't mean they are immune from criticism. No idea the next time they will control both the entire legislature and the executive, so failing to pass good laws is a serious failure on their end. I'm complaining that the Democrats who win elections are not progressive enough. They don't enact the laws which the general public wants. Not saying both sides are equal...","Republicans are obviously awful. But pretending ""just vote Democrat"" will fix our issues is naive and unhelpful. Our system of government is fundamentally broken. Manchin and Sinema were part of my point. The comment above made it seem like Republicans were stopping everything and just blindly voting for Dems would save us.",0
"No it’s not. I’m not making excuses for the USA’s terrible actions, that’s not the point I’m making and if you think it is you are part of the problem.","Edit: and to clarify I’m not making excuses for the USAs past war crimes. They were terrible and never should have happened. However they shouldn’t be used to justify Russias war crimes. And the Us had every right and obligation to call out Russia on their bullshit. Don’t @ me with “wElL tHe Us dId xYz…”, how does that justify Russia doing worse things on larger scales to the Ukrainians? And how do those long past actions prelude the US from rightfully calling out current Russian war crimes?",0
"For over 40 years, entire Soviet Union worked around the cloack, limiting what its citizens could afford, keeping them poor, witout good products, so in the year 2022 Russia, can take that entire fucking stock of weapons that was build for fighting with entrie West, and dump it in Ukraine. Thats how they can sustain it. They did not build these weapons. Entire Soviet Union build them. They inhereted it. And now they are literally wasting everything that was left after Union collapse (what remained after years of corruption and thvievery, and poor storage that is) and using it to and capture Ukraine.","Russia is so fucking shit, they using entire stock of soviet weapons that was supposed to help them capture whole Europe, and they cannot take Bakhmut for over 5 fucking months!",0
"Fuuuuuuuck that, no that's obviously not okay. The only reason it's not realistic is that instead of better wages and benefits, the capital class is just extracting better profits and dividends. What is it you think the stock market actually measures? It's not the health of the actual economy or the state of the labor market or anything like that. It's a measure of how fucked over the producers are out of their cut.","You also have to be careful not to overstate the role of automation here. Historically and even today, manufacturing jobs are being outsourced faster than they are being automated, and automated industries have so far not led to reduced labor hours in that sector, just increased output.",0
"Didn't expect anything less of Sweden. However, if they send personal to these regions they hopefully wear their flag on clothing or something. The Turkish people get a lot of bad narrative fed through Erdogan and Sweden should signal, that they are a good partner to have.","As a Swede I have have not seen the best of Erdogan and his regime lately, and have been resentful of the Turkish diplomacy towards us. But that does not take away my empathy and sympathy for the Turkish people and I am sure many Swedes feel the same.",1
"I asked you if you think the strike only affects the oligarchs, not who benefits the most ?Before you ask me a question, try answering what you're asked first.","Letting a massive strike cripple the economy would make the corporations hurt, and would make the rest of us hurt too. We shouldn't let labor take a hammer to the knee of the economy.",1
"There are parts of the US where local kids run around without shoes and are infested with hookworms. That's absolutely crazy, given how bad things need to be for that to happen.","It's such a ludicrous idea that the more you examine it, the worse it gets. There is zero chance that a ""national divorce"" would be pulled off without any fighting - either Second Civil War with the red states seceding or battles over what each new country gets and gives up.",1
"Like, yeah, we are fining(and sometimes jailing) peolle for being anti-war, but look at USA There is no free speech there because of cancel culture, its basically the same.","Understand what I’m saying: regardless to all the good free speech offers, free speech can be weaponized. It can be used to suppress and create absolute chaos, as proven by Trump’s GOP or QOP.",1
"Both can be true. Let's remember that he was endorsed by some of the same people whose shit flipped when a man named Barack Hussein Obama was running in 2008. They repeated his name over and over again and emphasized the ""HUSSEIN!"" part.","He knows what country this is, right? He's apparently running as a conservative in a country where Mehmet Oz had to run as Dr. Oz so his base wouldn't be turned off by his foreign name.",0
"I think the Ukrainians know that defending their sovereignty and freedom doesn't come without cost. Releasing concrete numbers while the war is ongoing just isn't a logical decision to make, and you can't really equate this to the US in the ""global war on terror"" since those two conflicts are not comparable. And the US isn't urging Ukraine to negotiate peace, they're basically just saying to be more open to it publicly and not say things like ""no negotiations with Putin."".","Yup. That’s why I’m asking. I have a feeling the reality is that the war is getting really nasty for both sides, but all we are seeing is the Russian death counts. I’m pro-Ukraine (well, more anti-Russia tbh) but the propaganda is quite obvious.",1
"If you think allowing a terminally ill or completely broken person to painlessly end their own life willingly and knowingly is ""morally wrong"", you also probably think abortion is for murderers, getting a vasectomy takes away your manhood, or something similarly ridiculous.","You can call me hardline for saying this, but I believe that you cannot honestly support euthanasia unless you also support anything else that relates to bodily autonomy (such as abortion, vasectomies, etc).",0
"this isn't about gender. no man in Iran has any problems about the main slogan of this protests being ""women life freedom"".","""To the women of Iran, who have been at the forefront of the struggle for freedom in Iran and the region: the world has finally heard you. To Iranians, you are heroes. To the world, you are shining examples of courage & righteousness. Victory is yours and closer than ever before."".",1
"In case you didn't notice, we just moved to within like 8 milliseconds to 12:00 on the doomsday clock, within the last 12 months, thanks to the US ramping up quadrillions of dollars in weapons sales to Nazis in Ukraine.","Yeah, imagine being angry at corporate shitheads blowing up the world and profiting off of sanctions, coups, drone strikes, police brutality and austerity policies.",0
"When said politician is shown to be demonstrably hypocritical, people giggle because said politician was doing something they said they were against.","A lot of times the politicians are bigots, sometimes they are not. Mostly they just like power and it is easy to have power when you are preaching (intentional word choice) against a minority. This group is not a physical threat to you because they have fewer numbers than your group. Cavemanath 101.",0
"I think it’s a mix of those who have likely been run over by the hyper nationalistic and state controlled media, actual hardliners, and people afraid of saying the wrong thing. Props to those who have spoken out knowing the consequences.","Because most of those times they knew he was lying but they agreed with the underlying message. Lying is not a problem for them, as long as they get what they wanted, and most of the time that is ""make the people I hate suffer"".",1
"SF is so expensive because much of it is zoned single-family housing, where building multifamily housing is illegal.","San Fransisco has around a dozen enormous high density mixed used housing projects ever year...Its not a lack of housing thats the problem, its the cost of living. Your average blue collar worker cant afford to live there, you work for the city...You cant afford to live there either.",1
"Even if one agrees that certain statements made by Ilhan Omar about the State of Israel are of legitimate concern, her removal from the Foreign Affairs Committee smacks of racism and partisan ""witch-hunt"" tactics, being fueled by a male Speaker against a fellow member of the House who is a woman belonging to both an ethnic and religious minority in our country.","Ilhan Omar has been forcibly removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee for statements which she has made about the State of Israel, while Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) believes in ""Jewish Space Laser"" conspiracies, yet continues to sit on the Oversight and Homeland Security Committees...",0
Biden could easily stay out of the working area and meet with some of the families. Whether the governor invites him or not is immaterial .,"Yup, no problem at all with a President overriding a state governor in his own state. Fuck federalism and constituational powers, Biden needs to make a political statement. Sometimes being strong means ignoring legal restrictions. The constitution is just a piece of paper, anyway.",1
"If the US didn’t want Saudi Arabia to alter its oil production, then the US shouldn’t have vowed to make Saudi Arabia an “international pariah”, removed the houthis from the terrorist list, and threatened to halt arms shipments.",Every time I hear the Saudis wanting to blackmail the global energy market i get so infuriated they just commit an awful war with the most high tech US weaponry for their egos essentially.,1
"Barr straight up lied that trumps status as president had nothing to do with the decision not to refer for prosecution, the Mueller report explicitly states that it did in fact did.",And the fucks made it all go away by making Mueller testify and asking him whether or not Trump was guilty and he said repeatedly that it wasn’t his determination to make but that the evidence was right there in the report.,1
"He probably caused the pandemic by advocating for masks which scared people and made them breathe harder which spread the virus quicker, even though it's not airborne OR dangerous, of course.","At the very beginning of the pandemic, when they said we needed cloth masks, my first reaction was that will do literally nothing to stop airborne particles. But within a very short span of time, I was wearing a cloth mask, because even decreasing the chance of getting covid by just a few percentage points was worth it when the alternative was ending up on a ventilator. I think many of these idiots don't make the risk/reward connection and just see someone, that they don't see as a authority figure, telling them what to do. So basically 5 year olds.",1
You are using the same logic as Republicans are using with voter fraud. You’ve got a feeling that’s it true. It must be true. Just because we can’t find any doesn’t make it not true.,Show me proof that the more people vote the more democrats win. That’s another myth everyone says is true but can’t point to any evidence. I like how you put legal in parentheses because I can point to half the population that would disagree with that.,0
"They won't be sending their secret stuff obviously. Something as simple as a few hundred thousand meal kits would be a massive help to Russia, not to mention rifles and artillery shells.",However I see no reason why they would not supply Russia with rockets and artillery. Russia's problem will be supplying people capable of using them. More mobilization and more conscription I suppose.,1
"Russia provides a vital counterweight to China in Asia. At least, they used to. Not so much anymore.",The U.N. is there for opposing countries to talk and yell at each other. It is not a group of friends or an alliance.,0
"Absolutely no reason to allow unrestricted travel until china have the disease under control. When other nations have worked extremely hard to bring it under control and gone through very serious hardships to be able to lead a normal life again, it would.be insane to allow chinese travellers to jeopardize the progress made by bringing in waves of new infection.","Time and again, history has shown that travel and intermingling can have serious negative consequences, and with the world still recovering from the economic shock of lockdowns we should be learning from recent history.",0
They have lost almost half their market cap in 10 weeks. His edge lord act has cost him more than just the $44 billion he paid for Twitter.,"Tesla is a very small player in the overall car market and with Ford, GM, VW and the Korean companies jumping into the EV market with both feet…Tesla is in trouble.",0
"Their big takeaway was to read and believe the margin of error for these polls. Despite the big surprising wins overall for Democrats, virtually all of these results fall within the margin of error for the polls. There were also corrections in virtually every poll to increase estimates of GOP turnout based on the last 2 election cycles. It seems likely they overestimated that turnout but not by much. Polls were always an in exact science but we got spoiled by how good they were for a decade or so. Those days are gone, believe the margin of error.","Agreed. I live in a place where my vote doesn’t matter. I will be completely washed away by the volume from the other side. I completely ignore that, I read up on the candidates, learn about any ballot initiatives or bond proposals, and I vote knowing I’m tilting at windmills but the only way that outcome will ever change is if I and a lot of like minded voters get out there and vote. I’m not waiting for the polls to say everyone else is ready, I just cast my vote and move on.",0
"Not that gun laws are not racist and classiest, but California really got enthusiastic about gun control when somebody took a shot at Reagan. Which kinda says a lot about the moorings of Republicans. A country of men, not of laws.","Among these permissible restrictions are those on sensitive places (but states may not play games by designating entire regions as sensitive, like Times Square), weapons which are unusually dangerous, gun owners who are felons or mentally defective, prohibitions against concealed weapons, and conditions on the conditions and requirements for commercial sales of arms.",0
The point is that Putin can say anything and his people will listen to it and applaud and the rest of the world will listen too and dissect.,"My guess is that secretly a lot of people around Putin wishes there was someone sane in Putin's position, but it doesn't seem like anyone will act on it.",1
"With the ongoing and rapid changes in the electorate, it’s a matter of speculation what those conditions would be for the GOP.","Unless there is a radical change in both policies and messaging, I think the GOP runs a real risk of becoming the permanent minority party in the US.",0
"Excuse me, but is your country already running on renewables-only? If not, please be quiet. Starting a war was Putin‘s/Russia‘s decision, not Europe’s.",Blaming Europe for russia attacking people shows a remarkable ability on your part to twist anything to suit your viewpoint.,1
"Even though we talk about the choices parents and doctors make, and it's important to note that these kids ""aren't making these decisions alone, by themselves""; it's very important to remember that they aren't deciding to be trans. They just are trans. In response, we must decide if we're going to help them or just let them suffer.","The decision rhetoric is very frustrating, especially from allies. Like, I get you want to humor the point, but you gotta press them on every time they try and imply that this is a choice. It's just the ""gay lifestyle"" bullshit all over again and we're failing to meet it. You keep someone honest on making the claim that these kids are choosing to be trans, and they either have to reveal themselves to be a total head empty bigot, or their arguments break down.",0
"Kazakhstan’s KMG Trading, a subsidiary of state oil company KazMunayGas JSC, puts 13 million tons a year into the Russian pipeline system and is allocated an equivalent amount of Urals that it can then sell internationally.","Some Kazakh barrels are already pumped northward to Almetyevsk in Russia and mixed with oil from Russian fields into a common export grade, officially known as Russian Export Blend Crude Oil, or REBCO, which is more often referred to as Urals.",0
"Turnout data suggests that a large majority of people who voted by mail in 2020 found another way to cast their ballots this year — turning to in-person voting, either early or on Election Day. Turnout in the state was 56 percent of all active voters, shy of the 2018 high-water mark for a midterm election.","Turnout in Georgia’s general election this year was 56 percent of all active voters, shy of the 2018 high-water mark for a midterm election.",0
"£11m would set me and my entire family up for life. I could literally buy a house for both my sisters, my dad and my mum, with enough left over for myself to live the rest of my life comfortably.","Fair play to her dad. What did she do other than be born? What good is she doing in the world today with her un-earned wealth? Further, wealth that comes from a country committing such atrocities as Russia.",0
"Cant believe that after all the fuckups with the polls, there are still people falling for it. Even worse, people are still underestimating Biden. At this point, people are just willfully asking to be fooled. Biden has proven to be one of the best and most capable president we've had in awhile.",No one has the experience or knows the game better than Biden. The fact that he’s always underestimated has been a strenh.,1
"This midterms, Republicans outspent Democrats by over $1 Billion, and these Republican donors were expecting an even greater conversation rate in comparison to the 2018 midterms. The total spending on the Republican party is $4.8 Billion, the highest in history - eclipsing the amount spent on 2018 by nearly $2 Billion. They were expecting a 'red tsunami'. After all, last time in 2018 Democrats outspent Republicans by $500M and gained 41 seats, so this time Republicans outspending Democrats by more that double should easily flip the same number of seats, right?",Considering how close many of these races were I would hardly call it a rejection of Republicans more as a barely able to hold back fascists and Democrats had better not rest on their fucking laurels again.,1
"Hogan is what you would hope for in a republican politician he advocates for positions because he believes they are best for the state, not out of hate or shock value. I haven't agreed with everything he's done as our gov, but at least generally, you get the feeling he's earnest about what he's trying to do.","He of course wasn't perfect, and I still think he isn't someone I'd vote for ever given that during his whole tenure he was kept in check by a democratic state super majority. His covid response was flawed in that he let the counties decide on their own for mandates which led to a lot of confusion within the state. At every chance he had he vetoed legislation that would help Baltimore, the African American community, the red line for the metro, etc. Additionally, while he never voted for Trump he couldn't bring himself to vote for Hilary or Biden, instead choosing to vote for Reagan.",1
Of course in reality if such a rule got passed they would try and argue that Christian religious expressions are just normal and not religious and only try to stop non Christian’s from expressing their beliefs.,"But, as I mentioned earlier, i am perfectly fine with using religion to communicate with religious people, and these assholes need to stop using the Lord's name in vain when it comes to trying to excuse their own behavior, or act as if whatever bullshit they feel like doing is some kind of holy mission.",1
"If that’s the case, it’s fucking bullshit. Shut the shit down and mail RR companies to the wall for it. You want to give rural voters someone to vote for? Then champion our middle class like you said you would.","It’s true. When profits are separate from productivity, the middle class worker is the first to hit the chopping block. Stock buy backs are a matter of national security, as our economy should not be built on a house of cards.",0
"As a black person, it’s a different kind of self hate to be a black conservative. It’s not racist to bring up race.","Nah, we all know that they're racists and we also know that he's complicit in that racism. He should own that CHOICE without it being assigned to the Republican party and removed from him.",1
"My idea is to arm, support, provide ongoing on base education to create a female resistance army in Afghanistan. The men can’t do it but I’ll wager a shiny bauble that if the women there find out there’s an army, they’ll do some changes.","It’s war against females. It’s sick and evil perpetuated largely by the men of Afghanistan, along with the area surrounding. Those who choose to fight against them are small in number.",0
"And any ""charitable"" donations his foundation actually does make will be to right-wing think tanks, not organizations people truly consider charities. His refusal to name any organizations that are actually receiving donations from his foundation makes it clear that's what his ""giving to charities"" actually is.","The charitable Foundation lets you donate the money to charity right now and get the tax break and the money can only be used for charitable purposes from that point forward. Then you have time to figure out how and when you want to donate that money to charity. It can be invested in the meantime, and you've effectively created an endowment where you and your successors can continue to make big charitable donations for a long time.",1
"No, not exactly, but they still can’t cancel student loans and this applies to everyone in the country. They’ll have to appeal it to the 5 circuit, and if the 5th circuit rules in favor of the plaintiffs then it can be appealed to SCOTUS. It’ll only be dead if SCOTUS rules in favor of the plaintiffs, that’s what makes this whole scenario worrying.","That seems pretty likely, unless either the 5th Circuit or SCOTUS throw out the ruling because its analysis was highly flawed...",1
"What has happened has happened, you just need to find a way to move on and an apology is a very good first step.","But either way, an apology under any circumstance is never meant to undo anything. It’s symbolic, it’s done to acknowledge wrongdoing, to heal and to show that you’ve learnt your actions have hurt someone. An apology has never ever been able to fix the past, so I really don’t understand why you would have an issue with this.",0
I believe he speculated initially that it was (and I'm not sure which) either an anti Air missile that crashed or a russian missile downed by aa but still intact.,"He's an idiot who made a dumb statement that ""it could have been that the missile that hit the building in Dnipro was due to our AA intercepting it"" it was later confirmed by the Ukrainian army that the missile was not intercepted but the damage was done and russia already weaponised his statement.",1
"The barber responds, ""Nyet. I'm not interested at all about the war crimes. I don't care about the massacres, the rape, the bombing of civilians. Couldn't care less."".","Putin gets angry, grabs the chair handles and starts to shake even more and says ""You seem to be overly interested about the fate of Ukraine... Don't you understand what happens to people who are too nosy here in Russia? Do you want to fall from a fifth floor window? Do you want to be poisoned with a nerve agent like Alexei Navalny? Or shot dead in front of the Kremlin like Boris Nemtsov???",0
"Ukraine has defended itself well with the support of Western munitions. It's most definitely not beating Russia soundly. There's a strong possibility that Russia will keep the Donbas oblast occupied in which they resolutely have far superior artillery to Ukraine. Negotiations will come at some point, so this could be the compromise made.",Long grinding war still to go. Which is why negotiations will likely happen because despite what Zelensky says the West will realise taking Donbas will involve vast resources and support.,0
That doesn't mean the laptop ever actually belonged to him or that all of the information on it is real.,"So while no one is saying everything is fake, because it's not and doesn't matter, everyone did say the laptop was compromised, because it was and that does matter.",1
"However, Russia is a bit unique due to their situation. They have lots of land and lots of resources, so they can power the economy just from internal resource extraction.","A country without those rich resource deposits would essentially be screwed. You need iron to build cars and houses. Copper to build wires for electricity. Oil, gas and/or coal to power your factories. Fertile land to use for farming. If some of those things aren't available, you absolutely need to trade with the outside, otherwise your population would suffer.",0
"From a geopolitical standpoint, the US cannot allow China to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia.","If China brokers a peace in Ukraine that Ukraine can actually accept, they get their favorable reference. Then they go back to being the devil.",1
"This is essentially a general strike now, not a bunch of individuals. The government can't cow the teachers, nurse, ambulance drivers, firefighters and rail workers. They will lose.",I'm not surprised you get down voted. It's hyperbole. The UK is on a downward trajectory but it won't amount to what you're saying. In the 70s the UK economy dipped below Italy for a bit. That's kind of a worst case scenario. Nobody's claiming Italy isn't a wealthy country.,0
"Trembling Putin goes to the Kremlin barbershop to get a haircut. While cutting his hair, the barber keeps on and on asking and talking about the 'special operation' in Ukraine.","A stressed out and trembling Putin goes to the Kremlin barbershop to get a haircut. While cutting his hair, the barber keeps asking on and on and talking about the 'special operation' in Ukraine.",1
"The special grand jury, however, cannot issue indictments. They can only offer recommendations and write a final report.","A regular grand jury has no present judge, no defense, no appeals. A new one does not need to be empaneled. Only 12 out of up to 23 grand jurors need to vote to return an indictment, and it doesn’t have anywhere near the bar required for conviction. Indictment is simply saying “there is probable cause from the evidence provided and a trial is needed to determine guilt.”.",0
There’s a big difference between publicly stating “the Holocaust was exaggerated” and answering in a survey “I think the Holocaust deaths must have been lower”.,"There's a big difference between ""How many people do you think were killed during the Holocaust?"" as an open ended question as opposed to ""Do you think the number of holocaust deaths were exaggerated""?",1
"Those Poles I swear, helping Ukraine to rearm themselves just to look better after stabbing them in the back and annexing part of their country, truly a magnificent strategy that only Putin the Insane would be able to come up with.","We attacked Ukraine and took their land, so clearly Poland wants to do it so we're here now to protect Ukraine from Polish aggression - GOP/Putin.",1
"Why, they might just lose their little stump. Equality? Ugh ""I'm not one of those people. I shouldn't be working those fields"".","If we don't have the power to turn our values into actual policy... what have we got? Other than the ability to tell ourselves ""at least we're the good guys."".",0
I did just look at exchange rates though and the Cedi (Ghana) has been cut to a third of it's purchasing power compared to 3 years ago against the USD. That may be one of the bigger drivers of the switch to gold.,"Ghana does have a GDP per capita of \$2,400 compared to Nigeria's \$2,000. But Nigeria is also 7 times more populous so it would make sense that they interact more with the US economy than Ghana does.",0
"Whataboutism only applies if I didn’t concede that that santos has lied about his past, which I accept. So now it your turn to accept that Biden is a habitual liar.","While it’s good that you accept that Biden is a chronic liar, the next step is not bring up your favorite politician, Donald Trump, in every political argument. This must be the whataboutism that the left is always talking about.",0
"I don't think I could vote for Hogan, not because he's not a competent executive but because I think Democrats have a better platform. At the very least Hogan is not ass over tea kettle insane.","Your entire comment is wrong. I'm not trying to be an ass, but no, Hogan did not toe the Republican party line, and no, Hogan didn't roll over for everything our general assembly passed.",0
Yep. Biden and Harris had a chance to take a step towards actual police reform and instead we got a watered down executive order and them wanting to reward law enforcement with even more funding while asking for no legitimate change in return.,Thoughts and prayers are nice. But talk is cheap. We want real reform. At this point it's a matter of public safety and ignoring it is just negligence. And it's pissing me off. Hollow words and half assed actions are fucking insulting.,0
"Poland is NATO, NATO is poland. there is no splitting countries within the alliance. 1 cm of Poland means all of NATO is at war and all of NATO will rain hell on the invader. doesnt matter where from. vatniks will need to walk there from russia proper anyways given russia has nothing else left. they cant take ground in east Ukraine, they cant do shit elsewhere.",seeing our public arguments as a sign of weakness.... well russia is in the find out stage of thinking they could fuck around.,0
"These past few years have made me realize that we are nowhere near a point where our rights aren’t still threatened. I was so hopeful in 2015, in 2023 I’m scared.","I don't like the future, though. The last time I felt this kind of hatred from the right was when I was like 12-13, in the early '90s.",1
"If you were the table that stayed too long and caused someone else's table reservation to not be available on time, would you pay them? It gets tricky. It's hard as a restaurant to handle the tables that stay for 3-4 hours, especially when not ordering while doing it. It's not ok, but it's also not ok to ask them to leave. That's usually why reservations aren't ready.","Sounds like it's more a problem with their reservation policy. If you have a 35 seat capacity, why on earth would you hold a table for an hour before filling the seats? I mean, if people want to give you a credit card number to make a reservation, go for it, but there seems to be a better solution that won't end in bad press for the restaurant.",1
"Shitty LA Times needs to look in the mirror at how they gave Feinstein a free pass. Their only interview with her this decade was unfreezing George Skelton to have him sit down with her and her staff (no pictures, no video).",Looking back its a good thing Kevin De Leon is such a horrible politician he couldn't even beat that zombie last election; now that the Times finally discovered that he and some of the Latinos controlling LA City Council are racist against black people.,0
Also they can be used to shoot down drones or cruise missiles and launch stand off attacks within Ukrainian airspace.,Ukraine with more planes could afford to risk them for wild weasel missions. Force the enemy AA to turn on their radar to engage them only for them to be destroyed themselves for their trouble.,0
"Dems have been winning statewide elections there pretty consistently over the past several years, and with different types of candidates top. Biden, Warnock, Ossef,...No reason to believe there aren't other liberals in the state that can't win.","Republicans can also win in Georgia, I'm not disputing that. Georgia right now is VERY inelastic, and has a very split electorate. It's reasonable to assume there are other Democratic candidates that can also win, but they need to be very high caliber. Same goes for republicans. Not every republican can win in Georgia. Kemp was a high caliber canidate, who shunned Trump and many of his most outrageous claims. He won.",0
"Like if you cheat on your wife, that's a sin. If you lust after another person's wife, that's also a sin. Both of those things warp your relationships and make you a little bit less of a good person. They're habit forming.","I'm not saying that being gay is a sin, or that it makes you a worse person, by the way. I'm just trying to talk about how it's a bit more complicated than ""sin is a crime against God"".",0
We’re in the crosshairs of the richest Transphobe on Earth. I was forced to delete my account after calling out some major transphobia. People started calling me a mentally ill groomer and shit. I had to delete my account. It’s not safe there for me anymore.,Safe to say that isn’t a risk so run. Nevertheless I’ve had a twitter account for well over a decade and I’ve only really been doing “content creation” as a responsibility the past few years. I’d rather become successful at short form blogging in the Twitter style on a platform that isn’t occupied fascist territory than even experiment at improving on Twitter.,1
"That would be like me giving you a heads up that I'm about to knock your teeth in, and saying ""See, I'm the good guy since I gave you a heads up"".","No offense, but unless Kavanaugh, or his immediate family, outright said it, I doubt the whole ""he's on the fence"" narrative.",0
"why would you cite a pandemic emergency power as your legal basis for canceling debt instead of the higher education act of 1965 which many presidents past have used repeatedly to cancel student debt? This was designed to fail from the get-go. There’s zero reason for the court to uphold it now because Biden himself has even said the pandemic is over. Why would we expect the man who made it so we can’t discharge our debt in bankruptcy to suddenly be our savior and cancel the debt? They got the midterm votes, now the action will be struck down. Ignorance is a strong word to describe people aware of the con game.","They had control of the executive office and both chambers of congress with the ability to pass laws without any Republican support, which is a trifecta. That’s how they passed the American rescue plan in early 2021 where they rejected free community college and raising the minimum wage.",0
"They are now ‘evacuating’ or more accurately ‘kidnapping citizens’, moving them from their home, to other parts of Russia far away.","They've been kidnapping Ukrainians and deporting them to Russia since the invasion.... Not specifically kids, but.....",1
"It could in theory destroy the missile, but it's the wrong tool for that particular job. And even if it did knock the target out, that's a lot of kinetic energy still in the air.","A Kh-22 can hit Mach 4.5 iirc. LPWS (land phalanx weapon system) has an effective range of about a mile, which that missile can cover in just over one second (I'm guessing, no idea what final approach speed is). Also consider, in a case like this, the missile is likely not flying directly at the LPWS.",0
If she survives. Crush syndrome is serious and who knows if they are being treating immediately for it. The survivor pulled from the Cyprus structure after the 1989 San Fran quake died 30 days later after only being buried for 90 hours.,"Crush syndrome is basically rhabdomyolysis, doesn’t have to do with a single crushed limb. When they are recovered the damaged muscles expand and dump a protein into the blood stream that will destroy their kidneys.",0
China does not like having democracy on its doorstep. It’s the same reason why they support North Korea. It’s ironic because they know western-style democracy is ultimately where China will end up but they are trying to hold that off as long as possible.,"Well tense but stable would describe it before the stupid rotting orange got into office and destroyed any progress of integrating China into the global status quo. Now it is more of two siblings doing the ""Im not touching you"" game.",1
"Which is the most baffling. These people hear it from the leadership in the places they live, they don't want people there making more money, they don't want new businesses opening up unless they're partners and most of these places already have all the partners they need going back a few generations. Like they come straight out and say it and then somehow people still believe them come campaign time when they say they're gonna bring in jobs.","I don't actually think they DO believe the GOP politicians when they say they're going to bring in the jobs. It's that they are soothed by the way the GOP talks to them. It's not about being informed and rationally weighing what politicians say and whether you think they will fulfill their promises. It's about what team you're on, and it's about your feelings. It's never JUST about whether the people you elect will do things to better your lives. It's also about whether those politicians will hurt the Other who they've convinced you is responsible for why your life is bad.",1
"You would never say the Holocaust didn’t target jews, because protestants were also killed by Nazi Germany.","But even then, the Holocaust doesn't have a comparison. For one, it IS the largest genocide in history. The Holodomor comes close if you count that as genocide but still not as many. If you include all the native Poles, Slavs, and other groups, the Holocaust balloons and jumps far beyond even that.",1
"Ok, then let Cuban people vote for any political party they want would be a start. Let Cuban people read news from independent sources. Let Cuban workers start their own businesses. Let Cuban workers sell the product of their work in a free market. Let Cuban people travel to foreign countries.","It's not only Cubans in florida. In other countries, Cubans who fled the country have that sentiment, and I'm not talking about rich cubans living in their mansions in Florida. I've had multiple Cuban teachers here in DR and whenever they mention Cuba, they don't have nice things to say about the government, and I wouldn't put them alongside Republicans.",1
This is good news. It's just too bad that due to the omnibus bill that broke the link between the public health emergency and extended health coverage.,"They should stay on it for the same reason they qualified for it under the pandemic emergency. That is, because the ACA and other subsidies are insufficient. Not only are the pandemic healthcare subsidies not enough, but we need to be expanding healthcare, not cutting it.",0
"And, given China's long, long, rule by emperor; it is quite different than the path democracy took in the West.",The term democracy 民主 has been coined in chinese by a westerner that chose that term to translate a book who dealt with forms of governments.,1
"Same thing with this insane idea that Trump and Desantis will destroy the part fighting each other, as if nobody here has ever heard of a primary election before.","""Republicans are fighting, oh so they are eating themselves alive and this means they will be distracted fighting each other!"".",0
"Keep in mind that the GOP doesn't need a popular majority, or a majority of states. They just need majorities in the right kind of places. During the 2020 election, Biden got millions more votes than Trump, but a lot of those are ""wasted"" votes.","It's counting each individual vote that was cast and tallying them, it's the same logic Dems use to say Biden won the popular vote in 2020.",1
"“The most common password in the world this year was the infamously bad “password”, and it took hackers under one second to crack it. The same goes for the second and third most common passwords: “123456″ and “123456789”, respectively.”.",Use a common phrase and you can have a unique password for every site or app. An example of the phrase could be something like:,1
"On what basis is the death penalty ""flagrantly unjust""? It is absolutely utilized in our criminal justice system. For instance, literally thousands of murder cases have been closed as plea deals for took the death penalty off the table for murders. Should we deprive aggrieved families of closure the death penalty can bring in both the death of the murderer or his further confessions to solve unsolved crimes? All so we can preserve the lives of those very murderers? Why is this even an issue when we have so many more systemic problems than extending the lives of criminals who whose crimes were deemed so heinous as to warrant death?","Someone who is found guilty of violent crime poses danger to society and must be kept away from society, but executing them is simply amoral.",1
Just to give actual reasonable timelines instead of the typical empty cynicism in all of these threads:,"Fani Willis (Fulton DA) hinted at a , but I could see it being pushed back another a month or two. But, there aren't a lot of stones left to uncover in that one - The grand jury has basically exhausted their depositional phase, having received testimony from , including the governor, AG, secretary of state, senators, reps, and more.",0
Strange what happens when Russia put themselves in a pretend noose and then learned that it was real after the fact... Putin's survival is the issue. He won't. He will take as many people down with him as he can though.,"LOL, yeah, he's kind of forced that on himself. He could have easily gone in the other direction, been a partner with Europe as a counter to an emerging China and a turbulent middle east but instead he had this egomaniacal dreams of Russian imperialism and it is all crashing down around him.",1
"""The missile can blast targets at a terrifying 16,000mph and has a range of over 11,000 miles, reports The Sun, making it 1,000 times more powerful than the bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki"".","The missile can blast targets at a terrifying 16,000mph and has a range of over 11,000 miles, reports The Sun, making it 1,000 times more powerful than the bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during the Second World War.",1
"And in our capitalist system, the return is too long and too little to compete with other investments. So private capital seeking return doesn't seek to educate, it seeks a quick return speculating or maybe innovation if it can get Uncle Sam to throw it enough bones to make it a sure thing.","So, looks like the solution is to accept your new normal or accept that “a well regulated militia” isn’t one where 1st graders are shooting people.",0
"The Holocaust was a genocide of Jews, but it was also a genocide of more groups than just them. The issue with your argument would be that the Holocaust for some reason wouldn't be a genocide.","You would never say the Holocaust didn’t target jews, because protestants were also killed by Nazi Germany.",1
"There’s a reason that even if McCarthy gives them everything and gets their vote he can’t win, because others may not be willing to destroy themselves so McCarthy can be speaker.","with concessions like these, even if McCarthy wins the speakership vote, he's going to be powerless lame duck beholden to the insurrection caucus from the first day.",1
But you don’t get a tiny portion of people controlling the narrative. You’re missing that there’s a second house. The Senate is important because it gives people in small states a more equal voice.,with the caveat that we do have something of an oligarchy which is a tyranny of the financial minority. But that has nothing to do with this discussion.,0
"That's what is supposed to happen. Conceding is a tradition that I would argue is good anywhere with elections, but it is not at all necessary.",Actually it shows that we all will work together by respecting the results of the election. Not conceding gives voice to disgruntled losers and allows them to foment rebellion/resistance. Concession is key to a peaceful transition.,1
"Is the U.S. motive really to help the Ukrainian people though? I think that may be how we perceive it as citizens, but I don't think that's why we're funding the war.","The U.S. has lately been more open about urging Ukraine and Russia to come to the negotiating table. Some in the government and military are saying now is the time to do that, others are saying not yet because Ukraine has momentum.",0
"long term weight loss just isn't really a thing, obesity is basically permanent without medical help. you can look up studies on it, no matter how much weight a person loses, it's almost guaranteed that they will regain it.","right, so you're misinformed. obesity is the condition. virtually nobody does fall into that group. less than 1% of obese people ever reach a healthy weight again, and almost all of those who do regain it within 5-10 years. it just doesn't work, obesity is permanent without treatments like these.",0
"Depends on the industry, things were slowly ramping back right after the war, but it was on the back of US money so even once Europe started being a producer again they were still heavily dependent on US money and US raw goods.",Legislation is complicated. Even popular laws have to work within a rat's next of existing laws and procedures and it takes time to properly study and implement them.,0
What a few western aircraft provide is the ability to use Western air-to-air missiles. They can now counter the Russian air patrols and to deny Ukrainian airspace to Russian aircraft.,Ukraine's air defense is primarily an old soviet system that they have a limited number of missiles. Western power does not have a lot of ground-based air defense because the strategy has been that the airforce can do most of the job so there is a limited amount of ground-based air defense that can be supplied to Ukraine. That also means there are lost of air-to-air missiles.,0
"Meet the Press had an episode a while back where they analyzed a poll about general political beliefs. Without mentioning parties, people mostly fell into four categories: strong right/conservative, center-right, center-left, and left/progressive. It turns out that they split pretty evenly with about 17% each (not sure about the other 32%). So in theory, there's a bunch of people who are center-right/left who may be amenable to a party that more directly caters to them, since people at the ends of the spectrum are likely locked into their party already. The trick is figuring out what percentage of each of those groups is actually voting, then finding ways to get the non-voters into polling booths.",This gets brought up in a lot of different contexts--that the vote would be more Democratic if we just had more of the voting-eligible population participating in elections. However.,1
"My dad is a big fan of the republicans, although not living in the US, and he once said to me he wants to execute all LGBTQ people. I think some people think like that. So they are probably happy about banning as much as possible in order to not see drag queens or anything LGBTQ related.","No not really we are living in Europe. It’s awful, yeah. He got brainwashed by all those Q-Anon, and republicans on Youtube etc. Everything he watches is like all the time some guys yelling and complaining about the west / democratic life.",0
"The foreign policy committee in Finland’s parliament on Friday voted in favour of the country joining Nato, saying that Finland should join as soon as possible, preferably together with Sweden.","According to a report in Finland’s Iltalehti tabloid, Sauli Niinistö told Finnish journalists that if Turkey and Hungary ratify Finland’s membership of Nato before that of Sweden, then Finland will automatically become a member.",0
I’m not saying try everyone related to 1/6 there would be too much pushback but at least ban the main enablers from holding office.,"Simple: change the laws, or the Constitution if necessary, to publicly fund all campaigns and get rid of all this money in politics.",1
"I'm not talking about Doug and his henchmen, although I must add that they're awful autocrat wannabes with many similar behaviours to those invading Ukraine. Like the right to protest their work conditions that was revoked by ""decree."" My comment was on the topic of the news article by OP. The debate in Canada with respect to Canada's actions in support of Ukraine are about doing more.","Since the recent war, other countries are taking more Ukrainians than Canada, so the global Ukrainian diaspora is in major flux.",1
"DeSantis strikes me as the kind of person who can hold the ideals of the far-right without alienating moderates on the right, so Trump falling out of favor like this is somewhat alarming for me.",I wouldn't put it past Trump's cult to have at least one follow who's crazy enough to try and assassinate DeSantis or anyone else who looks like they might beat Trump in the primary.,1
"As much as Americans complain about corruption in the US, the systems in place make it hard for bribery and corruption from being a thing.","To me, US politicians look extremely corrupt, and overtly so. Just looking at cases such as , where the word ""corruption"" isn't even used by anyone, which tells me that this is just ordinary politics in the US, whereas in my country I doubt the politician would be allowed to stay in office.",1
For as long as this loophole exists we're encouraging the rich to over-capitalize corporations in order so they can pay less taxes on increasing share value instead of just paying that money out as income.,"It also creates a moral hazard since capital gains tax can be delayed until realization, every year they delay is an incentive to dump money into lobbying to lower the capital gains rate further, making the tax system even more unjust.",0
If only there was a time in history that would warn us about autocratic leaders wanting to do away with the Constitution and rule of law?,"What does worry me is a takeover by ‘legal means’, such as the Supreme Court degrading democracy so much that it is a farce. In that case, the military does still have an oath to the president/constitution (correct me if I’m wrong). If that president is accepted as legitimate by the masses, then yes they will be on their side.",1
"While this is true, Sweden has already agreed to extradite several kurds to Turkey. Selling out our allies to a man who, several times, have violated international laws by conducting his own military ""special operations"" in both Syria and Iraq against kurds.","Sweden applied to join NATO out of fear of being influenced by the dictator in Russia, only to subject to the dictator in Turkey. The hipocracy is ridiculus. I have lost all faith in the Swedish government.",0
"Dems not only need high voter turnout, they need their voters to not do split ticket voting in swing states.. if you are a Dem voter, this would be the worst possible time to do something like voting for Shapiro and Oz, or voting for Warnock and Kemp, or Kelly and Lake (sadly polls show many are leaning to vote that way).","Indiana voter turnout in 2020 was 65% - the higher you go, the more gerrymandering falls apart, because most of the time districts go with a couple percentage points of margin, which is blown away by a couple percentage points more of turn out.",1
"Benefit of balloons over spy satellites is they are less “predicable”, satellites rotation is known and can be “timed” to hide things if necessary. Balloons less so.","Balloons, first of all, are fuckin' cool. The Hindenburg incident occured because they were brilliant strategic weapons.",1
"40% is the number he claims, but the company he has selected has no experience making EVs or mass-producing vehicles, apparently. It looks like a recipe for delays and cost overruns, and for the delivered vehicles to not work as advertised.","- ""Defense contractor"" says they cannot deliver EVs. Biden says, ""Buy some from real car companies."" DeJoy says, ""Pay the 'defense contractor' more money for fewer vehicles: Expedited delivery payments."".",0
">These factors have compounded their worries about Democrats outside Florida all but writing off the nation’s third most populous state, which was once seen as a marquee battleground. Democrats have struggled there in recent elections, hitting a new low last fall when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis won a second term by nearly 20 points and carried majority-Hispanic Miami-Dade County, which a GOP gubernatorial nominee hadn’t done in 20 years. Republicans also secured a supermajority in the state legislature.","Republicans have been securing supermajorities it various state legislatures because of rampant, unrelenting gerrymandering which the shit heels on the bench have been only all too happy to allow to continue unabated. FFS just look at Wisconsin- Democrats comprise a slim but very real plurality of voters yet it’s the GOP who holds 60% + of legislative seats. Fuck the the Republicans and fuck all those who are complicit in allowing them to trample roughshod over our democracy.",1
"I think the understanding of this topic has gotten incredibly bad, you can legitimately criticize Germany for the extend of reliance on Russian energy, criticizing trading with Russia in general cant be a serious position.","On top criticizing the idea of easing tensions by having Russia rely on revenue from energy sales, as some outlandish delusion just misses the whole point of central European grievance about Germany (not that many of the harshest critics would understand their own contradiction).",0
"Segal narrates the entire event from a chair, recounting his time with the secret service, only acts in 5 scenes each with him being a hero of the people.","The movie opens with Steven Segal, in a dimly lit room, sitting in a chair, and narrating his story as a secret agent for Russia. He talks about how he was recruited by the KGB and trained in various espionage techniques.",1
I'm sure you've seen the videos of idiots asking where Obama was on 9/11 and the like. So I would be surprised if there aren't a bunch of those twits who - if they acknowledge she testified at all - believe (or purport to believe) that she pled the fifth continously.,"In the same way, as you acknowledge — Trump made a big deal about people pleading the fifth, so it's fair to roll our eyes at him.",0
"As bad as Brazil is they just showed they are better and more capable of the rule of law than the US. I agree that Brazil is not the ideal to uphold but it is somehow many factors better at maintaining democracy than the US. That is the sad, pathetic truth.",It is absolutely stunning that Brazil is the example of democracy and the rule of law now as the US keeps sliding further into authoritarianism and an illegitimate justice system. It’s not even close the comparison of the two democracies. One has wealth hoarded at the top by an unaccountable few and the other reacts swiftly when the rule of law is violated even by the powerful and well connected. First the Scandinavian countries copied the new deal and the capitalist-socialist policies from the 40s and 50s to become thriving democratic countries with social safety nets and happy people and then Brazil shows the world what the rule of law is suppose to look like. How utterly embarrassing and shameful to squander such things to benefit the 1%.,0
"So presumably as long as they want, as long as a President keeps it in effect. But this could be more problematic as time goes on, economically and in regards to the pandemic justification.","The argument you're going to hear from Republicans is that the HEROES act is limited only to temporary relief, and that permanent actions such as forgiveness don't qualify past the timing of the emergency. (I'm not agreeing with this, just saying what's to come).",0
"Which is what I said. But almost 200k civilians were killed due to the actions of US troops in Afghanistan alone, whether on purpose or not that's unacceptable. It's not an apples to apples comparison but I think they're still comparable.","While I 100% agree that the Russians responsible for these acts are criminals and should she punished appropriately, having the US government call them out is the teapot calling the kettle black.",0
"It’s outrageous that Hunter Biden continues to be a political punching bag for the right anytime Biden or the Democrats do something they don’t like. He’s never been charged, tried or convicted of a crime. He doesn’t hold public office. I don’t think the laptop narrative is particularly effective politically but there are tens or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of slobbering mouth-breathers who think Hunter Biden is da debil and probably want to do violence to him.","I don’t really give a shit about Hunter Biden but it’s super disturbing that media outlets were publicly blasted and shunned during the election for sharing “Russian disinformation,” yet two years later the laptop has been verified to exist and the contents Hunters.",1
"Uh uh. No. We are NOT going to let this pass. If it does, I can't see the SC government making it much longer before it's overrun by half of its population and chaos starts.",Not to mention the cost that the death penalty in general has on the economy compared to being imprisoned for life.,0
"There was already a case that was largely blocked because of standing issues, so it's working as intended: reduce abortions with an unenforcible law, but it keeps people scared enough to get the outcome you want.","Unless there is a federal law that bans abortions, or a vote in Congress that specifically bans abortions in the DoD, the DoD is still within it's rights as an organization to allow it's members to get abortions.",1
"It's just gonna be a matter of whether they can get their people to march in lockstep, and I'm really hoping that the midterm results mean the party's fracturing into sane Republicans and MAGAs.","And I suspect this will make republicans say “Okay, we'll work with you on xxxx, xxxx & xxxx, but we want concessions on abortion, social security, and climate change.”.",1
"Falun Gong is China's version of QAnon. China's solution was heavy-handed, but most Chinese would argue it was necessary to prevent the unrest we in the US have to deal with due to our political cult, QAnon.","The problem with China is that, especially since the last 4 to 5 years, and particularly worse since COVID, is that ""politics are of the highest importance"". Every decision made are fundamentally ""Party First"". In October they even stated clearly that . Trade agreements and whole markets can be shut off at notice if they are against the will of the party (or Xi).",1
"In situations like Iraq or Afghanistan, the reasoning was offensive and far more about natural resources and looting than anything else. As a result, after the initial successful military intervention, the west didn't want stability or order or anything of the sort. They didn't want allies in the region. They didn't care about the people. They wanted loot and the way to get it would be unstable countries. That's why those military interventions went to shit. They were meant to.","As it stands, there are no obvious objectives for the west in Iran. In addition to that, since Iraq and Afghanistan, the US doesn't have the military backing of its allies in offensive wars, and still on top of that the west is already entangled in a war in Ukraine. With Iran being a large country with a decently powerful military, a military intervention will be an extremely expensive project that the west is absolutely not interested in right now. Iran in its current state is actually quite useful to the west since its the local boogeyman being used to sell expensive weapons to other countries in the region. If anything the west would be more inclined to look the other way as Iran signs the execution of 14'000 people or commits other atrocities than to try and help its people. Which is literally what they did and were going to continue to do were it not for mass protests internationally which at least got them to just acknowledge that there's unrest in Iran.",0
"I don't see Russia invading Moldova and considering most of Europe are in NATO, Russia wouldn't attack any of them anyway. Russia don't want NATO on its doorstep in the same way I'd imagine the USA wouldn't want a similar Russian let organization on theirs. Look at the Cuban missile crisis for example. The US nearly caused nuclear war and yet Russia are just meant to roll over and allow it.","For the record I'm not pro-russian or pro-ukrainian, I'm anti-war and I feel like this war could have been avoided if NATO stopped putting Russia in a difficult position.",0
"And, btw, it's not ""Germany"" and they are not planning anything. That plan has been planned long ago, right now things are being set in motion by RWE, the company responsible. Maybe, just maybe, if the 1980s hadn't seen demonstrations against nuclear power on a mass scale, we wouldn't need those coal power stations to manage base supply, but now we are fucked without them.","„ Maybe, just maybe, if the 1980s hadn't seen demonstrations against nuclear power on a mass scale, we wouldn't need those coal power stations to manage base supply, but now we are fucked without them.“.",1
Maybe the plan is to make the new generations so stupid they can be convinced that the old Republican voter demographic dying off is all Biden's fault so they keep voting for him?,"I read an interesting theory about it. The plan might be to turn most of Florida into a resort / tourism hot spot. Their economy will depend on a handful of rich people living there and money coming in from out of state visitors. Ordinary Florida residents will be forced to do service jobs to take care of guests because they aren't qualified for anything else. Florida ""education"" will regress to your only realistic option being family trade. Some people will be born and raised to learn how to work at a fast food or hotel chain. If internet is monopolized and becomes expensive, families will probably stop getting it. Within just a few generations you'll have a population of dumb and ignorant people that rival that of the 1800s.",0
"Some classmates even called them that when I was around without flinching, european racism hits different.","but that is because we are racists. We are so racist, we are not even aware that eating those chewy chocolate squares (the corners are the best) is a racist endeavor. That by eating the desert, and actually enjoying it, it is like enjoying being a raging racist spewing hate everywhere. Continuing to prepare a racist recipe we received from our parents (or saw in a cookbook, or online, or bought from our 6 year old first grade bake sale - obviously a bunch of kiddie racists). See the racism is so deep it spans generations We need to ban all brownie recipies ASAP. And while we are at it, anything with the name/description chocolate, because people have been described as having chocolate colored skin.",1
"It's vile regardless and shouldn't be defended by bringing up Obama or Bush. Biden's own implementation of Title 42 is insanely restrictive that almost no asylum seeker will be able to fall under it. The whole system needs an overhaul, but we need to stop cutting them slack when Biden has almost full control of ICE and isn't doing much of anything to slow their abuse down.","Lol asylum seeking isn't breaking the law, and you ignored the part where the administration is demanding things of Asylum Seekers that they aren't able to uphold most of the time.",0
If the Russian army ran out of shells or barrels the war is effectively going to be over pretty soon and the best Russia can hope for is a long stale mate before collapsing.,"Russia is preparing a large offensive for late winter/spring, and they're probably saving whatever ammo they have left for this moment. It's going to be a very tough time for both sides and Ukrainians are going to need every bit of help western countries can offer.",1
"Like the poster said above me, I’d go call it “anti-Muslim bias.” There should be a distinction between being against the religion itself and being against the people who just happen to follow it. This is coming from someone who was born into the faith and has left.","Edit: Also, Jewish is an ethnicity; you can’t just not be Jewish anymore in that aspect. For example, the majority of Israelis are actually secular but still identity as Jewish. (Because they are).",0
"They are doing alot India is getting rich off it, not just from the cheap oil but rolled steel as well, at least Russia is not getting their full international market value.",That’s crude steel but The Russians are undercutting local more advanced steels and seems India is buying all that Russia can supply and then exporting it ….,0
"I feel like Zelensky will leave a greater legacy if he finds a way to allow Putin's Russia to save face while quietly backing out. It isn't a perfect solution by any stretch. The cost/benefit analysis is clear to me though. If Putin has little to live for (whether that be factual or psychosis), a disgraced/dying man with his power presents too great a threat to the globe as a whole. It's only called appeasement when it doesn't work. JFK didn't appease Russia when deciding to remove American offensive weapons from Turkish borders to resolve the Cuban missile crisis.",You are spot on and that is what scares me. I loathe dictators but I also don't want to risk Putin forced into desperation to the point where nuclear escalation starts to seem like a reasonable yolo play.,0
"Putin and Russian officialls shouted aboit their ideology for years, yet European nations and the EU pretended they could get use an economic argument to stop Russian aggression, ignoring the Russian government cares more about conquest and power than prosperity.","Not like Putin was a mastermind hiding his values, he continuously repeated them, and European leaders just ignored him and pretended he had the same values as them. It is willful ignorance on part of European governments, not Putin's non-existent genius that is at fault.",0
"I know, I didn't say anyone said the invasion wasn't justified, I said inb4 people say that. I also understand nuance, while I don't think he should ever get a war memorial, I also won't celebrate the fact he had to die defending his country. Nazi or not.","I'm not denying there are Nazi's amongst the ranks. But suggesting that Azov Batallion is presently a Nazi organization, officially sanctioned as such by the Ukrainian government, is a false equivocation at best, and Russian propaganda at worst - they literally have said they are fighting the Ukrainians to eradicate Nazi's. The presence of Nazi's, and even a fascist element in its formation, is not enough to throw the baby out with the bathwater today... Else there is not a single gun-carrying group in the eastern or western world that is not also a ""Nazi organization"". Hell, has the US government ever indicated that ""Operation Paperclip"" was unethical? That's where we assisted actual Third Reich scientists in coming here because we wanted their rocket tech.",1
Now consider what would need to happen for an S300 type missile from Ukraine fired at a target towards the north east and becomes errant and goes west in some fashion to hit Poland.,"Like if a Ukraine missile fired at a Russian missile detonates near the Russian missile, what's the probability that the Russian missile is damaged in a manner that does not destroy it, but damages it in a way that it no longer is capable of hitting its target because the flight/guidance controls are in fault and not functioning properly.",0
"That's not true. Turkey was demanding more extraditions, insisting that Sweden had already agreed to that, but they were not fundamentally opposed. That only came after the approval of the Quran burning.","Why do you want to burn the Quran anyways? What will that accomplish? If you want to burn it cuz you hate Muslims, then you're a bigoted islamophobe, and not any different than an anti semite.",1
- Which states do the Dems need/which states look like the Dems could win and simultaneously win the Senate majority?,"Democrats need to gain one seat for Senate majority. They will need two of Arizona, Nevada, or Georgia to get it. Or longshot flip Wisconsin.",1
"The only reason for ""originalism"" is to use it as an argument to regress when the world around you changes in ways you don't care for. Originalism, applied to the 1st amendment, would mean that speech on the internet isn't protected and you can't record police; it would mean your electronic devices aren't protected against searches; Hell, you could make a ridiculous argument that any house built with fiberglass insulation isn't considered a ""house"", as used by the 3rd amendment, because fiberglass wasn't a thing back when it was written.","Ultimately, ""originalism"" is a theory that shouldn't even exist. It relies on treating the Constitution as a static document, which is expressly not what the founding fathers claimed it to be.",0
"By whining about it and shitting on it, you're taking all that away from them because you're annoyed by the repetition of it without ever understanding or caring about it's actual purpose.",It's not nessesary to inject further negativity or involve yourself in any way if you don't like it. It's only a problem for you because you've taken it upon yourself to make it your problem.,0
"Unfortunately, the rest of the world produced, and shared among themselves, some effective vaccines. China didn’t and, in their pig-headed communist way, preferred to maintain they were fine, despite overwhelming evidence they were not, which they hid from their entire population and forced entire major cities into lockdown (except for those given the job of sanitizing runways).",It has been drilled into them since kindergarten that the West is bad so they are conflicted and ambivalent ( not to mention they are probably called upon to make regular “fill ups” at a Chinese “service station”).,0
"Treaties among Indigenous people are a spiritual and evolving concept. In other words ""Honor the spirit of the treat."".","Native American Cree here from Manitoba originally. This shit is a hot mess. Long story short. Brits signed treaties with Indigenous people due to a lack of resources to fight the ""Indian Wars"" against them. Indigenous people signed up due to starvation.",0
Probably what we are going to see over the next month or two is Russia continuing to make small gains with massively lopsided casualty rates and then Ukraine smashing them back when Russian forces are depleted.,"This suggests that Russian losses were exactly as devastating as the battlefield videos showed, and that the vaunted ""elite"" Naval Infantry was completely destroyed within just a few short days.",1
"I think people forget that there are more than a few abrahamic religions that aren’t the three they’ve heard of. Samaritans also still exist, albeit not very many.","The concept of what an arab is or isn’t always confused me. Persians aren’t Arabs, okay makes sense, distinct language and culture. Christian Arabs are, or at least seem to be considered Arabs so it’s not abt having to be Muslim. But Yemeni Jews aren’t Arabs?? And Druze also aren’t, but the last two groups speak Arabic?",0
"The graph on p.1 summarizes the comparison over 3 quarters, from Sept 2021 to Jun 2022. Effectively, their new methodology produced higher growth estimates for the first quarter (7% vs 5%), slightly lower estimates for the second quarter (3.7% vs 4.4%), and substantially lower estimates for the 3rd quarter (0% vs 3%). Their methodology is intended to provide more timely quarterly revisions to estimates, rather than the single annual revision that is currently done. Both their new method and the annual revision leverage the large QCEW samples, while existing quarterly estimates rely only on smaller samples from a different survey. I think the takeaway is that, if their methodology correctly mirrors the annual revision, job growth is being overstated in the quarterly estimates in the last two quarters, and the trend indicates flattening growth.","they are just referencing the research paper that is literally from the philadelphia federal reserve, one of the 12 central banks.",0
"- There are so many guns in the country that you would need anti gun sentiment near 100% to accomplish the above goal. If you think this can be accomplished, you only need to look at our covid efforts. We had half measures at best, with multiple administrations figuring we can buy our way out of it by giving corporations money and upping unemployment wages, but we put almost zero rules in place to stop the spread - possibly the masks at airports thing was the only real federal rule. And yet, even with those minimal covid restrictions, the country for the most part ignored restrictions or actively rebelled against them.","i'm not a gun person at all- never owned one, never shot one, etc. but the 2A clearly does not limit your right to bear arms to small firearms or semiautomatic or anything of the sort. anyone who thinks that heavy artillery should be regulated/illegal and AR15s shouldn't doesn't really care about the constitution or our rights.",0
"China can either have Russia as a friendly/economically dependent neighbor that they can get cheap natural resources from and continue to be a thorn in the West's side (which Russia will be even with a diminished military), or they can have Russia as an unfriendly and destabilized neighbor with nukes.","If China is trying to present itself as an honest mediator in peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, they have already exposed themselves as siding with their autocratic partner, Russia. Taken along with indications that China is getting ready to supply arms to Russia, anything that China says about the Russian invasion is merely their lame attempt to establish a narrative that they think would legitimize their condemnation of a proactive US response in China’s upcoming invasion of Taiwan.",1
"To be a success, the reply would be to indicate that these defenses enable Ukrain to continue it's defense and that is why it isn't a net loss.",Except the defensive missiles don't really cost Ukraine anything and the West is happy to be able to have the real life proving ground for their defense systems.,1
"Let me put this in perspective: Ukraine is not a military ally, we do not have military agreements to protect it, so we don't have existing laws allowing us to implement emergency measures to break all the aforementioned agreements/laws/policies.","I do actually appreciate your intent. If the West wishes to roll back some degree of economic integration with China due to how China's policies have shifted, they are entirely within their rights to do so. No one can reasonably object to this. And indeed you cannot be expected to condone the kind of oppression China is moving towards, nor should you forsake supporting Taiwanese autonomy. Also, just logically speaking, the world needs to diversify its supply chain so that a disruption in China doesn't plunge everyone into shortages or a recession.",0
"You can call me hardline for saying this, but I believe that you cannot honestly support euthanasia unless you also support anything else that relates to bodily autonomy (such as abortion, vasectomies, etc).","You know, frankly, if the religious puritans want to not allow people to get an assisted suicide anyone who wants to do it should go ahead and do some civil disobedience by making it a big spectacle. Maybe once the pearl clutchers see someone jumping off a building in front of a church or school they'll come off it and give in.",1
"Which is already happening. Ukrainian forces are now not even 7 miles outside of Severodonetsk. If that falls or is even rendered useless as a major hub because of front line combat, effectively the entire Luhansk Oblast falls, and Russia becomes dependent on only a handful routes to keep the entire invasion force manned and equipped, something that becomes easy to prey upon.","The loss of Kherson is a symbolic loss for Russia, but the loss of Severodonetsk will be strategically a catastrophic loss, and very well may be what loses them the whole war.",0
Manchin could really use the cover to vote with the Republicans without changing the outcome for these next 2 years while he's running for reelection in one of the reddest states in the country.,Manchin is very unlikely to be reelected over an actual Republican in 2024. West Virginia is going the way of Florida. West Virginia is probably going to have to be written off for a while.,1
"“Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors / The platform will still allow the paid promotion of these banned social platforms, however.”.","So Twitter is no longer useful for influencers, artists, businesses or anyone who wants to promote anything.",0
"Honestly, pumping too much money into the army now seems like a knee jerk reaction. There is no real threat to Germany or NATO, so we should keep the spending at a reasonable level.","AFAIK, a bunch of things that are funded from Germany's defense budget are funded from other sources in France. In total they spent more on their military. I agree they make better use of their money, but an aircraft carrier tends to be costly no matter what. And both navy and air force are like 30% larger than Germany's. Add to that constant foreign engagements in Western Africa.",1
"Agreed with what you said tho....anti mccarthy could probably just walk out of the building, let the chips fall and call it a win because they fought for themselves for their constituents.","One the house side, its be a nightmare. McCarthy can't reason, beg, or work with them. The maga wing has him by the nuts and they aren't about to let him become speaker without some heavy concessions.",0
"Politicians lie. They've been famous for doing that for long before social media was a thing. They've been famous for doing that long before the internet was a thing. They've been famous for doing that long before television was a thing. They've been famous for doing that long before radio was a thing. People expect politicians to lie, but people accept what the news tell them is true.","If they're going to hide behind the claim that they are an opinion show, strip them of their ability to call themselves a ""News Network"". We have false advertising laws in this country and it would seem having a ""Fox News"" logo in the corner of Tucker Carlson's show, that his lawyers argued in court wasn't news, should fit into a claim of false advertising pretty nicely.",0
I have no idea what the solution is. Free speech is just as bad as it is good because it can be used to suppress people just as the Republican/Christian nationalist are showing us right now.,"Like, yeah, we are fining(and sometimes jailing) peolle for being anti-war, but look at USA There is no free speech there because of cancel culture, its basically the same.",1
"electronic devices use even more subversive ways to track you, like shared wi-fi connections, allowed access to your contacts and their apps, IP addresses, etc., the reality is both more complex and more insidious than ""the microphones are listening"" (which wouldn't work well for data collection, anyway).","either way, yeah, your smartphone is 100% spying on you in several ways and reporting to several groups, some strictly for profit, some strictly for analysis, and some doing one of those in return for the other.",1
"""(...)Roughly half of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by human activities today remains in the atmosphere. The rest is absorbed by oceans and land ecosystems. The fraction of emissions remaining in the atmosphere is called airborne fraction (AF) (...) AF varies a lot from year to year, and over the past 60 years the relatively uncertain annual averages have varied between 0.2 (20%) and 0.8 (80%). However, statistical analysis shows that there is no significant trend in the average AF value of 0.42 over the long term (about.",according to the scientific data and mesaurements - the overall CO2 lvl in Earth's atmosphere in 2020 was at 149% of a lvl from 1750 (set as 100% - pre industrial era).,0
Canada is not the only country cracking down. U.S. President Joe Biden's recently passed Inflation Reduction Act also included a tax on stock buybacks. The U.S. tax will be levied at one per cent starting next year — a concession from the two per cent Congressional Democrats initially wanted.,"Buybacks do nothing to improve or expand a company's underlying business, but they have the effect of driving up share prices and improving various profitability metrics by reducing the amount of shares in the company. Investors tend to welcome them for those benefits, but in recent years the sheer volume of stock buybacks has started to raise concerns.",0
"Abusive partners do everything they can to make sure that's not even an option. Control their finances, manipulate them into being alienated from friends and family. All sorts of fucked up shit.",Also abusive people tend to look for those who are most vulnerable and have a smaller safety net to fall back on.,0
Florida is one of 11 states that STILL refuse to expand Medicaid for the working poor. But good thing those people vote for Republicans to 'own the libs'.,"I never voted for Republicans when I lived there. Unfortunately, the bigger issue I saw in Florida was many low income people were so preoccupied with the difficulty of life that they simply do not vote. Those voter ID laws partly seem to cultivate a culture of not voting amongst the poor. A lot of the people who are old and retired which makes up a huge chunk of their population are the ones voting for these assholes. I mean I imagine there are some poor people voting against their interest there as in every state but frankly the ones I met simply didn't vote at all.",1
The ramifications of climate change have been widely known for over 50 years and yet relatively little has been done to mitigate it.,We have had generations of world leaders and entire governments working in collaboration with corporate interest groups to deny and downplay climate change.,0
Frankly the most troubling thing is why people who run for office feel the need to lie and some of the stuff they lie about.,I’m finding it hard to live in a society where verifiable liars and cons get elected and no one seems to care.,1
"Probably not, but Russia can’t keep this up forever. Their financial and Human Resources are being expended. Ukraine is obviously suffering but as long as NATO countries continue to provide aid, Ukraine can keep it up however long is needed.","Ukraine and the country that send the equipment like the US in this situation usually send crews either in Ukraine or somewhere in the EU to meet with their counterpart. All the training happens right then and there in the use and maintenance of that gear. Then, the ukraine crews go back and use what they learned to teach more Ukrainian crews. I'm sure they get to have some kind of visual instructions that they get to keep in video form on top of actual manuals for maintenance.",1
Saudi Arabia is the worlds largest exporter of Oil and ultimately the Biden administration has Russia/China as enemies already. Saudi Arabia is also at the forefront of determining global oil production/prices.,"There is a really interesting Video on Youtube, where the creator guessed the relative remaining amount of oil in the Saudis reserves.",1
She is not currently in a leadership position. She is not a leader of the Democratic Party. What leadership position does she presently hold?,Are you somehow suggesting that is not a leadership position? Or that her influence over the Democratic party isnt that of a leader?,1
"This is what absolute “free speech” acording to authoritarians or would be authoritarians like Trump leads to. Dismantling all regulations to allow social media being overloaded by so much bullshit, that it effectively censors all rational discussions. In the end it only helps fascist regimes like China or Russia what Musk has done to twitter.","Granted, Chinese Twitter has always been more on the NSFW side. If you were to click on the profile of any political poster, whether for or against the CCP, there's a moderate chance that you'll see some rather unique interests on the profile. But I'm pretty sure that usually it isn't this bad and spammy, especially on the city hashtags. I'm guessing they're using nsfw spam because it's plausibly deniable in the context of Chinese Twitter.",1
"I think this shows that Putin doesn't have an exit strategy or a plan in general. This will drain Russia if he continues this, and unfortunately even with Western backing, it will drain Ukraine as well.","That is probably going to depend on Russias reaction to being driven out of Ukraine. If Russia continues to be an active adversary after all their troops have left Ukraine, then that leaves Ukraine no choice but to take out any threat that comes from Russia proper.",1
"You are really going all out to defend someone who went out of her way to make a young woman trying to feed herself feel shame. Not sure why. The food stamps were probably in my hand and anyway, I would have had to separate items that food stamps couldn’t be used to buy, so they could be rung up separately. I was young and naive and didn’t feel anything at all about using the help I thought all Americans were entitled to until that minute, which is why it is so burned into my memory. Later I did start to notice the face just about all of them made when I pulled out food stamps to pay.","Because I don’t have that problem. If anything, I move through life oblivious to what other people think of me. Try using food stamps or an EBT card for a while. You will not have to mind read what people who should be minding their own business think of you. Now that I’m going down memory lane, I recall a big percentage of the grocery store checkers made actual comments, along with the faces. But at least the others were about having and using food stamps, not buying meat.",0
"1. The scale of the catastrophe is horrific. Allies and multinational organizations responded to the earthquakes by deploying emergency response teams and obligating funds to capacitate NGOs on the ground. How are humanitarian operators currently functioning and what technical assistance is needed to help the aid workers scale up recovery, medical, and food assistance ?","2. Under all this chaos, what is your assessment on the political environment ? What is the sentiment of the Turkish people affected by the earthquakes toward their local AND federal governments ?",0
After those were found they decided to double check other offices of Biden’s where they found some more and are following proper protocols.,And I believe this round was caused by Biden and his team deciding to go check all the various locations that they might've handled classified documents in.,1
"I certainly agree with you that ""politicians promote policies that directly contradict their professed faiths...."".","Considering how many ""religious"" politicians promote policies that directly contradict their professed faiths, i hardly consider that to be the real issue.",1
"No, because Russia can choose to not use offensive nukes. If we, the rest of the world, simply call Russia's bluff and say ""if you do or not, its not going to change our actions"", then Russia doesn't gain anything by using them.","If the world folded and let Russia take Ukraine because of fear of Russian offensive nuclear strikes, why would NATO then intervene and risk the same Russian offensive strikes? If not now, why then?",0
You mean you want to go to war? If you do and fully support that... Would you feel and say exactly the same if Trump or a conservative was President?,"I'm honestly amazed that leftists are apparently so hardcore... That there's absolutely nothing Democrats are doing wrong... Criminals are now victims and released regularly, committing murder and more crime; inflation radically jumped because Democrats (and yes others prior) are absolutely out of control on printing paper that is becoming more meaningless (trillions and trillions of dollars), and now the hardcore bent toward indoctrinating children as homosexual/trans and encouraging them to have permanent body surgery (reasonably called mutilization); energy costs, food costs, have doubled in the last 2 years (yes, and guess who is President right now?).",0
"If republicans ban abortion, slash taxes on the rich or take away lgbt rights none of those things hurt Biden, he is a rich white man. He and his family will continue living a luxury life, he does not need to be president .",People act like they are doing Biden a favor by voting for him but in reality you need him far more than he needs you.,0
"Thank, but I’m going to go ahead and believe an actual defense analyst over an arm chair analyst who read a Wikipedia page and now thinks they’re the worlds expert on the topic. Thanks for your input though.","“Although there are other laser-based defense systems already deployed, there aren't any that claim to act like Iron Beam to cheaply destroy small targets like rockets,"" said Ryan Bohl, Stratfor's Middle East and North Africa analyst at RANE. ""That puts Iron Beam into its own category in terms of mission type."".",0
"There's ""forgive and forget"" and there's ""this is a demonstrated weakness in our economy that Russia will attempt to use as leverage again if given the chance"".","Russia wasn't America's problem to solve, only Russians can do that, but we needn't have callously made it worse.",1
"Sounds like a reverse Brusilov Offensive from WW1. There the Russians sent out highly skilled squads to probe for weaknesses in the Austro-Hungarian lines, blow them open, and then the human waves come through. It proved so effective that Austria-Hungary almost got knocked out of WW1 and the Brusilov Offensive is considered to be the greatest Allied victory of WW1.","However, the Offensive was still costly for the Russians - so much so that it contributed to the Russian Revolution a year later. So imagine that, but the Russians made zero progress. That's basically what's going on in Ukraine right now.",0
"Biden handed his over the moment they were discovered, by his own lawyers who could easily have just destroyed the evidence.",Knowingly obtains or exerts control over property in the custody of a law enforcement agency which was explicitly represented to the person by an agent of the law enforcement agency as being stolen.,0
"These slavedrivers made 20 billion in profit last year. If they can’t figure out how to run a railroad without slavery, nationalize the railroads.",Congress can just as easily force the rail carriers to give the workers humane schedules instead of these abusive 24/7/365 schedules.,0
"In the 1960s, Arizona accepted junior priority rights on a portion of its Colorado River water in exchange for federal funding for the Central Arizona Project (or CAP, the 336-mile long canal that delivers Colorado River water to the central, populous parts of the state). As such, Arizona has stepped up and taken water cuts, sooner than originally anticipated. That’s a good thing. But if Arizona is forced to bear the entire shortage burden in the Lower Colorado River Basin, the impacts to millions of people, including vulnerable communities, will be considerable."".","Oh yeah. That’s right. They did ask citizens to try to use less water and also we couldn’t water our lawns while churches and (other) businesses kept their grass green. I suppose the data behind who or what entities use the lion’s share of water in our state. There was less than a 2% reduction in water use from doing that. The reason these idiots aren’t doing anything substantive is because their idiot base doesn’t believe in science and they’re brainwashed enough to think capitalism is the most important pillar in their lives, well, right after the church I guess.",1
"- Pistols that have extra grips, threaded barrels, the ability to accept a magazine outside of the pistol grip.","a buffer tube, arm brace, or other part that protrudes horizontally behind the pistol grip and is designed or redesigned to allow or facilitate a firearm to be fired from the shoulder.",1
And it also provides a scapegoat to the fact north koreas economy is in shambles due to the sanctions on their country for many years.,The reason North Korea is so chummy with modern Russia is because we've sanctioned their trade so hard that their meager economy has essentially become sanction-proof so there's nobody else to trade with them.,1
"I have no issues with faith, but putting a name on it and framing it within a non-democratic organization opens it up for exploitation, just like they were designed to be. Religions are just personality cults around personas that can no longer die and thus render themselves useless as tools of oppression.","Reducing Religions to ""just personality cults"" is disingenuous to the history of faith based structures of thought through history.",1
"for sure, obviously a lot of the price is tied to russian aggression in ukraine and them being sanctioned. I'd argue that it wouldn't have mattered what the real cause is behind gas prices when one side of US politics pounces on the everything bad is democrats fault.","I understand thinking that way, but you have to remember it also dropped pretty low in 2016 when low gas prices would benefit the Democrats. So the price inputs are a lot more complicated than simply ""election year, price it to help Republicans"".",1
"I'd agree with the first comment that I'm sure some of her voters passed from Covid so if that's the case, she might have kept a lead by now?",There has been data provided through the pandemic showing that a larger amount of Republican affiliated people had higher numbers of deaths. I'm too lazy to post links to it right now as I'm responding.,0
"I'm much more worried about the police knocking on my door due to the rise of authoritarianism that is brewing in the US here. If you think the police will be coming because somehow China has imposed themselves on the US, that is just completely delusional. I never defended or ""sucked the teets"" of any dictator and have no desire to. I'm calling out the US because its authoritarian trend is much more of a threat to me. It is not a defense or excuse for China, but acknowledging we have more pressing and local threats than China.","Prevent them from what, and how to prevent them? China has not demonstrated a desire to impose on the US, challenge yeah, but not force any kind of regime change on them, let alone anywhere near the capability to do so if they wanted. The US is trying to justify imposing themselves over China, and you are buying into the propaganda parroting that it is up to the West to prevent them.",0
"Since most Dems are Christian, I'd say that they are speaking up, at least a little. We can do our part by donating to Dems and voting.","It’s possibly to show ‘bipartisanship’ with all democrats and a good amount of repubs voting against it. Then they can parade that they are working with the dems, but the dems won’t work with them on other bills, and they can blame them for not wanting bipartisanship.",1
"According to USAToday as of about five minutes ago there are four counties that are still yet to be finalized - Pueblo, Pitkin, Garfield, and Rio Blanco.","and IF each county shakes out how it’s currently trending, then Frisch could net another 2200 votes over Boebert which would put him up by 1800 at the end of the counting process.",0
"You're forgetting a bunch of Trump's Federalist Society judges got votes from Democrats, not to mention Amy fucking Comey Barret.",Banning Democrats from voting for federalist society candidates should be just one card in the deck of a much larger strategy.,0
This is absolute madness and inane cruelty - Texas legislators subjected this woman to mental & physical torture and forced her to the brink of death for no reason whatsoever beyond their own petty ambitions.,"People in Texas bemoan the governor and higher elected officials - but Texas cannot and will not change unless the electorate pays more attention to state representative elections, unless the Democrats in Texas (i.e., the most woefully inept and disorganized bunch of Eyeores ever assembled) get their shit together.",0
"Of course, when it counts in court, you don't present any kind of case at all. But it doesn't matter. You've already grifted your supporters for a ton of cash.","The way it works is you go on social media or OAN (because this stuff is even beneath Fox now, for the most part) and talk about all the evidence and proof you have. Everything is going to be exposed!",0
"I bought most of my TSLA in June of 2019 so I can hold on for a long time. Can't wait for Elon to go. I also have driven a Model 3 in rural Minnesota for the last 4 years. This year has, if nothing else, impressed me by how amazing the people at Tesla must be to produce what they have with this outright idiot at the helm. I'm holding long-term still. Their lead is real and goes far beyond Elon's cult of personality (or in spite of it.).",Meh. Beyond all the Twitter nonsense Tesla was facing some very serious headwinds. Every major manufacturer is bringing better built competition at scale which was already going to hurt. Tesla essentially blew their technology lead to this point.,1
"I am sure I'll get responses, but it is just looking at how to proceed in a manner which makes it better going forward and not bogs us down in the past.",- They need to create separate classifications to those documents which are office bound and those that are transportable to be returned. The ability of our senior leaders to do their jobs has to be considered too.,0
Russians don't live with total news blackout; they will hear that NATO are now supplying heavy tanks.,"..and I've no doubt the Russians will be super eager to secure their first 'kill' of a Challenger, Leopard or any other NATO tank, if for no other reason than the propaganda value.",1
You see a glimpse of surprise that Meg found it real odd the prince was content with living in a mini cottage on the grounds of a famous palace while having little personal wealth. His dad and brother inherited all the wealth producing estates and real money. William got the billion dollar Dutchy of Cornwall with a income of over $20 million annually.,"They eluded to not being paid a lot as working royals, and not having creative control of media and engagements.",0
What makes you think companies will just give up those profits if minimum wage is increased rather then charge the customer who now have more money even more.,"The fact that minimum wage is not increased regularly makes is harder, because corporations are addicted to low wages. If it increased regularly, they would factor in the cost increase instead of throwing a tantrum about a massive coat increase where they threaten layoffs.",1
The Republican party lets these bigots in because of their policy that any enemy of a liberal is a friend of theirs.,"Yup; republicans have been cozying up to these kind of extremist beliefs for decades and dogwhistling to them. Trump did it pretty openly, but it's been going on for a long time.",1
They can’t comment on it because the erosion of objective truth is their end goal. There’s a reason the Republicans are so aligned with Russia and a good chunk of that is their admiration for Putin’s internal propaganda and disinformation campaigns.,"There is no “good” Republican as it is impossible to be a member of the party and not, in some way, support the attacks on democracy and objective reality.",0
You can't hold millions of people in race based slavery for 300 years and not draw a straight line to race based poverty in 2022.,"Slave ownership is not the only cause of their lack of equity building, our nation's society caused that, and still has in recent years, i.e. not even allowed to obtain a mortgage, insurance on mortgages, ect.",1
"How dedicated were they to fighting russians? Well when the nazis rolled into ukraine, they joined the SS. So they could kill russians mainly, but also, y'know, they did participate in some massacres of poles and jews, because :shurg_emoji:.","Acknowledging that Azov purpose is rotten and they are nazis and should fuck themselves does not qualify as russian propaganda, only as good sense. Fuck the entire Wagner Group, fuck the invasion, fuck Putin for enabling nazis and using this same nazism as an excuse for a genocide attempt and fuck the entire Azov Battalion. To hell with them.",1
"I think it’s more likely he spends the entire general election saying the republicans stole it from him, and even if he doesn’t outright say it, he’ll cause 5-10% of GOP voters to stay home which is enough for a massacre of an election.","You know what… that’s fair. I’ve been disagreeing (respectfully I hope) with the people who have been commenting that he will run, but I was too focused on the ego and I wasn’t focused on the grift. You have genuinely convinced me he might run. He’s selling NFTs. He’s clearly willing to take an ego hit for a quick buck.",0
"Not so long ago, you'd be called a Russian shill for suggesting a Ukrainian victory wasn't imminent.","Because Russia is looking more threatening now, pro-Ukraine Redditors (of which I am one, that's how I know lol) are starting to feel backed into a corner.",1
"People may wonder why any Dem would vote for any Republican, but the fact is that they won the House and deserve first crack at the Speakership. If we can get a moderate in there over a whack job, then at least the normal legislation like debt ceilings will get passed and performative impeachments won’t.","Agreed, but I'd love for that case to be seen through to the end where SCOTUS orders Trump to testify. With McCarthy in charge, that definitely won't happen.",0
"Use a little common sense. It's not explained by population growth, because the population didn't grow by 11 million. It's TOTALLY disingenuous to say that 4 years population growth is anywhere near comparable to 50 years of population growth (your example I think?).",Pff. Ukraine will control all major Ukrainian cities by September 2023. If they have not fully forced Russia out by then. That's way too far in the future for Putin to be so cocky.,1
"As an example the US still has about 20,000 javelins but are very reluctant to send more as they feel 20,000 is minimum just in case level.","Also like 90% of the attacks in the last 30 days have been with Iranian ""drones."" Which are new to the conflict.",0
"No need to debate. I make no claims that he is right. If Trump is so wrong, why need to lie about what he said? If you fell for this lie, what other lies do you accept as fact?","Second, they are twisting what Trump tweeted. Notice the news doesn't show the actual tweet just telling you what to believe was said? What Trump said was voter fraud allows for the termination of rules, regulations, and articles including ones in the constitution. That is a far cry from claiming Trump tweeted the constitution should be terminated, and he never said ""return to power"".",0
"A theocratic regime is essentially a part of the spectrum of Conservative ideology. And that's the reason theocratic regimes suppress knowledge. Cause and reason, are different things.",The real cause is regimes that follow Conservative ideology suppressing and controlling the population through heavily propagandizing stuff.,0
In the case of the Whitmer plot these 3 were the only ones that could be charged and not support this defense. The remaining suspects had been heavily influenced by the FBI and their informants.,The FBI did not want a case on the books where entrapment could apply to informants. The agency crossed the line in being too aggressive in proving a case where agents and informants were advocating for the commission of a crime in order to make a case. And potentially crossing a line into criminal behavior outside of the limits of undercover LE work.,0
"I think the IRS will side with the states and call it a refund, so people who itemized their deductions will need to pay taxes on it.",The real question here (and why the IRS needs to provide guidance) is if these payments are tax refunds or some other kind of income.,0
"Those voters don't understand the government at all and don't try to, nearly all of their knowledge is based on the fact that a lot of politicians lie and therefore they believe all government is bad.",Many republicans that “starving the beast” aka not funding the government or just having it be so distunctional people defund it is the answer. Also there are a lot of narcissists and idiots involved. So it’s kinda hard to predict where it will go because if everyone is acting in self interest hard to track who wants what.,1
There's a reason Russia pushes these stupid ideas. Sure they'd love to tear some pieces off of Ukraine so that they could sieze the rest more easily but even if they see that it's not going to happen it's still a good way to increase suspicion between Ukraine and it's neighbors.,"Those Poles I swear, helping Ukraine to rearm themselves just to look better after stabbing them in the back and annexing part of their country, truly a magnificent strategy that only Putin the Insane would be able to come up with.",1
My daughter got a bill for a doctor and the insurance she was under back then isn’t the same as the insurance she has today.,"All the bill says is “if employers cover the costs of transitions, they also have to cover the costs of de-transitions if applicable”.",0
Because they’re heavily dependent on Russian gas and they’re trying to avoid economic problems because of that.,"Not wanting to diminish their own stockpiles in case of war, not wanting to bankroll a production line spin up, not wanting advanced tech to fall in to Russian hands. Could be any of them.",1
"Does that happen with sex offenders, who are already public knowledge? I've never heard of it being an issue, so I can't see why it would be a concern here either.","Granted, the number of false convictions will never be zero. But this is not just based on hearsay or accusations that people would be on this list. It would be people convicted, which is famously difficult to do with regards to domestic violence specifically (murder probably a little easier to convict).",0
"Well, not surprising. One of bane of joining EU is you will lose some independence and that can cause clash between member country and EU.","Regardless, there is no mechanism for actually expelling an EU member from the union. Poland would have to come to the decision to leave themselves.",1
The big problem here is that we don't value people with disabilities and it reflects in what we're willing to pay the selfless individuals who take care of them.,Working with special needs people should be a six figure job and yet we pay them as if they're the ones with special needs.,0
"Like, Stonehenge is a cultural artifact, but bread is more conceptual, since it's not the singular loaf that counts, but the cultural importance and craft around that bread.","Intangible because what's really being recognized is the idea of the baguette and the process of cooking one, which can be passed down through oral tradition, recipes, stuff like that. It's more the idea of the baguette. It's so importance in French cuisine and beloved by people all over the world. The idea of the French baguette has inspired a lot of art.",1
"Now, given that we live next door to one of the biggest gun owning countries in the world, and given that absolute majority of guns used in crimes in Canada come from the US and are used by criminals who illegally possess them, why on earth would you think that legal gun owners in canada, the most heavily vetted and regulated people known to man, are the problem?","Considering the absolute majority crimes committed with guns in Canada come from by unlicensed owners who have no legal rights to own them - please explain to me how licensed Canadian gun owners are the problem? We aren't the US. Handguns in Canada are considered restricted firearms, which means you have to take two three day safety courses, apply for a license which has a rigorous background and reference checks that require you to provide the names of all of the people you've been in relationships with recently, your spouse, etc etc, and after '2-3 months' (it's been much longer lately) you are given your license if everything checks out.",0
"While I tend to agree that I know very few people who go down the ballot and pick half GOP and half Dems anymore, there's a fair number of moderate-leaning-GOP people who have been paying attention and are now moderate-leaning-DEM (I have family like this). But the moment the GOP rids itself of MAGA they could flip back, so dems need to keep the spotlight on the hypocrisy and bad behavior.",It’s so hypocritical and honestly painful to watch these baffoons hold power in the House of Representatives.,1
"That's because the majority of them don't even know what or who they are actually voting for. They have 1 hot button issue like gun control that they hold near and dear and that's the extent of their political knowledge. They know Republicans ""allegedly"" would never take their precious guns away and they know Democrats have talked about doing it. That is literally enough for them to forever vote Republican regardless of anything else.",Most Republicans are 100% supporting the ruling class (some are just massive grifters looking out for themselves only). Anything they propose or any vote they make is to screw over most so that it can give just a tiny bit more power to the few that they represent.,1
"Russian and Western planes are built very differently. As an example, altitude is shown in feet in Western planes, while as Russian ones use meters. Therefore for Ukrainian pilots to transfer over to F-16s, it would be a very large and wide reaching change. In the immediate term, they're better served by getting more of the kinds of planes they're used to. And there are NATO members who have old Russian planes available, so a solution exists.","As to whether or not the Russians know whether a given F-16 has all the capabilities of the US market aircraft: believe me, they know. But it doesn’t matter, because it’s not the “fully loaded” capabilities that the Russians are worried about, just the basic air superiority and ground attack capabilities that these aircraft afford.",1
"Her restaurant was so fucking stupid. I went there at the behest of an ex and was served by none other than Mama Boebert, future January 6, 2021 insurrectionist and mother to Lauren Opal Boebert. She was...quite unpleasant. The restaurant was dingy and vaguely sticky, like an old diner. The decor was a combination of cowboy guns and Hobby Lobby shit. The food was mediocre pub fare. My ex excitedly asked one of the people with us what he thought when we left. He was Russian. He paused for a second, then said ""it was...violently American."".",I.e.: The January 6th commission having to wrap things up before the next Congressional session is fallout part 1 of electing her over a Democrat.,1
"We have info that many mobiks have been getting sick, deserted, drunk. Their training is subpar, and equipment still lacking. Whatever their push will be it will happen at the height of winter. It's not beyond Putin for such an idiotic offensive, but it will backfire terribly, again.","Putin's current official replacements are as bad or worse than him. They are all people made from the same cloth. All are ultranationalistic, all dream of their past glory as the USSR, all want it back. Even Navalny argued that while Crimea was taken in violation of international law, it is now a part of Russia and will still stay part of Russia. For a total regime change to happen, it needs to occur via internal revolution in favor of a western-friendly leader or NATO would have to come in and occupy Russia, both very unlikely scenarios. The Russian regime will still be hostile even after it was thrown out of Ukraine.",1
"It's interesting for sure, but I do think attitudes are starting to shift, the biggest thing that is changing is how Russia did support Serbia with Kosovo, however with their current stance and involvement in Ukraine, this make this not so certain anymore.","Yes, this is mainly what I was angling at, seems we agree, just that I think if he changed popular support in Serbia perhaps it could influence the war. If people are against the war then measures against the war can be further supported by politicians. Politicians won't oppose the war if the people don't because they only care about staying in power not what's ethically right.",1
And the natural “compromise” would be that you can’t and that it’s instead a states rights issue. If the state constitutions are changed to give legislatures this authority then it’d be “okay”.,"But Jackson's point is that these State Legislatures are granted their legislative power via the State Constitutions. The Federal Constitution doesn't define the makeup of the State Legislatures, the State Constitutions do. The point being you can't take the State Constitutions out of the question, for without that there is no state legislature at all.",1
"Well said, it's the same kind of thought process for all the hypocritical positions Conservatives take:","Anyway, what I meant was that conservatives seem to have a thing where the signifiers of politics are the politics. If you wear a certain hat, dress a certain way, then you're probably on that ""team."".",1
Announcing tanks and long range weps that will be there by spring is basically giving Putin a chance to change his mind. Ukraine will be ready so why even bother with another offensive.,"Ukraine did not attack Russia. They just wanted to be left alone, keep their 1991 borders and thrive with partners of their choice. Ukraine did not threaten anyone. They wanted democracy and self-determination. But Putin didn't give a shit. His fucking legacy, greed and delusional vision of history required him to launch one last psychotic war before he would fucking die. Piece of shit. I hope he gets to rot in hell when his time comes.",1
"Not arguing with you, just clarifying the “former Soviet states” wanted nothing to do with Russia then or now and Russia has no claim over them in any way.","Of course, some will say ""Russia doesn't see them as sovereign, despite the official breakup of the USSR"", but as a matter of international law, that's not a valid view.",1
"You apparently have no knowledge of economic concepts. Without agreeing or disagreeing with your suppositions on Trump and Bush, if they were funneling money OUT of the American economy, this would be deflationary.","You completely ignore that Trump borrowed roughly 10 trillion dollars from the American economy, (6T through direct borrowing and 4T through monetary policy). Of that $10 trillion, of which only about $1 trillion was paid into the economy in the form of stimulus payments. You can’t just remove $9T from a $15T GDP, and then blame the absolutely inevitable economic disaster on the next guy. It doesn’t matter whether you believe republicans did, or didn’t do the right thing in burning off $10 trillion. But every economist on the planet—even those who felt the debt was justified—were in unanimous agreement that the result would be explosive inflation. We could have elected Buddha next instead of Biden, it was never going to matter.",1
"NATO is ready for a direct confrontation with Russia, but the alliance must rearm, the head of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, said in an interview with the Portuguese RTP. In his opinion, Russia's strategic aims are beyond the borders of Ukraine.",There's also some lessons learned from Ukraine that will require us to reassess what we think we know about our own capabilities.,1
"This retiring Republican. When you see a headline from anyone other than Fox, or its clones, where a Republican is speaking the truth to their party...they are retiring or lost the election.","Regardless of what the voters want or think, the Republicans will rebrand trump as a failure and force feed the voters DeSantis instead, with their army of talking heads... it won't take long and it's already underway. Just look at people like Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, even doctor Oz (who trump basically put there) plus many others at the top are already distancing themselves from trump. You will also notice more and more talk about how trump is a problem in the media from the republican side.",1
Afghanistan and Ukraine are no comparison but thanks to us they did repel the Russians in the 80s Stinger missiles. It's almost like the US has a history of arming people willing to fight Russia.,We're not battle proven in Ukraine they were battle-proven elsewhere by US soldiers fighting around the world. We currently use Bradley fighting vehicle as well. M2 M3 How do you think we know how much help they are to Ukraine. The US is one of the biggest arms dealers on this planet. Ukraine is just most recent recipient. They are doing a hell of a job too. Those people are fighting for their country. We probably wouldn't care if it wasn't Russia they were fighting. This way Ukraine fights Russia for us. Weakening them on world stage. Marketing. No that's not why this is done It's a puppet war. Unfortunately Ukraine is the puppet right now defeating Russia using us arms . Not a bad deal for US. Plus we get paid.,0
"Going purely on the public information (which is the only thing we really can go off of) though, it looks like Biden's case was accidental. It definitely should be looked into and might result in some staffer being let go, but it doesn't seem intentional like the Trump case was.",The bigger issue that I'd like to see investigated is how the National Archives didn't know that these documents were missing for 6 years. If classified documents can be misplaced (or taken) and nobody realizes for years then what classified information was leaked and what damage has it done?,0
"There has long been a scenario feared by NATO leadership where Russia occupies the Baltics in days, and then NATO being too uncommitted to initiate a liberation war against Russia. Given how the Ukraine conflict has reinvigorated NATO, I assume that this scenario is now less likely.","NATO has already increased it’s presence in the Baltics and Eastern Europe as a response to Ukraine. There are thousands more boots on the ground in these countries, each bringing their own equipment, munitions and support. Estonia could donate all of their own military equipment and should still have enough support nearby to repel an invasion.",1
If you lack the balls to reign in your own companies trying to increase Russian gas imports to your countries and try to off-load the decision on Germany (stagnating gas use for years and not much actual interest in NS2 beyond the local jobs created) you should not be surprised to be laughed at for the hypocrisy.,"""See those massive imports of Russian gas to Germany, making up 20% of all gas imports from Russia to the EU That massive dependence And they totally have no other way of getting their gas!"".",0
"He'll go for trying to be the GOP nominee, if it's obvious he can't win, he will say it's rigged and launch as an independent. Both GOP and Trump lose, Biden (or whomever at that point) wins and Trump can claim that the GOP should have gone with him instead.",I read a great line somewhere: Trump will rather have Biden in the White House for 1000 years than DeSantis for 5 minutes.,0
"Only 25% are in favour of continuing the war, whilst 55% want peace talks, a massive change in comparison with July.","“We are discussing with the management of Ukrenergo the placement of three power plant ships with a total capacity of 300 megawatts near Odesa."".",0
"It's an old decommissioned M26 rocket motor, with a soon to be decommissioned GBU-39A (SDB - Small Diameter Bomb) on top.","Is not the base version wheeled with very light armor, while MARS II is more heavily armoured, tracked and with twice the rocket capacity?",1
We don’t make more money today as land developers. We make far less with some of us getting into the home construction business and building ourselves since land profit has evaporated.,"Blame red tape, environmental “protection”, and slow procedures to develop land as the reason for astronomical housing prices.",0
"See the case of Simon James who orchestrated a false accusation of drug dealing against his ex wife, having ensured that cocaine had been planted in her car. Convicted, along with his conspirators, Austin Warnes and Jonathan Rees.","Maybe not now (I'm definitely not an expert) but someday, maybe not soon, they'll be so convincing that people literally don't realise they're looking at deepfakes. And if there's still some that are low quality, then that's even worse. People will have a false sense that they can 'always spot those things', and that just makes them even more stubborn in their belief of the ones that they haven't identified.",0
"There is historic significance to Kamala Harris’ position as VP, not to mention she is actually VP in addition to that historic significance. Idk why you are having this problem but this is one of the questions we ask in assessing mental status because VP is not some obscure position in the US. Moreover VP Harris’ place in history is also not obscure. It might be worth talking to your PMD unless there is something about VP Harris, different from every other VP, that affects you. Either way it seems to be a you problem.","I guess we should say that about all the losers. That aside, VP Harris is the VP. She is also the first woman and first black woman to hold that position and that is neither a place or time. And yes, Biden running with someone that looked like me greatly influenced my vote for him. Also not a place or time and she was qualified.",0
"There's literally no possible prosecution that could come out of that laptop, and everybody in the Republican party who is talking about it knows this.",It's not even just practically unreliable. The chain of custody on that was corrupted so badly that it and everything to do with it is completely inadmissible for any court anywhere in the United States.,0
"That sub is for those with a different mindset, different from ours and many others, there are many different groups of minds everywhere, I had to learn this through me being very ignorant and dumbfounded about them lol.","I’m American born and raised. To be specific, Asian American. To be even more specific, Vietnamese ethnicity. But as American as it gets. I was raised by parents who fled Vietnam after the war, as like tens of millions of others had. They didn’t flee anything scandalous, no. They fled communism. You can imagine how I was raised, as to what ethics and you can probably imagine how I feel about socialism.",0
"But every time the details of something like this come out, I will admit to still being a bit shocked by just how little cash it takes.","Yes, it certainly isn't shocking at all anymore that Republicans are willing to sell out their country for Russian cash.",0
"I think my advocacy work with marginalized communities is standing by those I vote for on the left. If I can help individuals recognize the importance of voting and do so compassionately and with empathy while also encouraging the good guys to do better, how is that de facto standing by the fascists?","Thats all well and good, but excusing apathy because of it has serious ""white people are only voting for fascists because of economic anxiety"" energy.",1
"Openly tapping white nationalism and christian nationalism was their scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to cling to power. It's been a slow motion disaster for 20 years. The unfortunate reality is it's probably a generational problem. People over the age of 30 rarely change their beliefs radically, I don't mean boomers specifically either, but rather people sort of lock in to their beliefs in their 30s.","Just look at the political lean of Millennials and younger, and realize that in just a few decades, They'll be the oldest generations.",1
"It is the desire of both Finland and Sweden, as well as all major NATO allies, that the two countries join at the same time. This is not set in stone, however. Finland is also having an election this spring, and the next administration might be OK with entering NATO before Sweden does.",But Haavisto said he still hoped Finland and Sweden would become NATO members in the next few months.,1
"Great… these sort of things hurt the workers of these companies. My bonus was hit hard last year, and that’s on top of inflation too. So let me get this straight, the market is supposed to reign Supreme, except when it doesn’t suit the interest of the national security apparatus. Hey, maybe if the state has a role, do something about the housing.","Nice strawman. My arguement is this "" So it’s pretty clear this is economic warfare, nothing more. The ghouls in the national security state are most likely hoping they can destabilize China and get it to do something stupid."".",0
This is like blaming Britain for US war crimes because they created the 13 colonies. Hamas was not hamas when Israel was involved.,"I’m talking about Hamas and Jihad of course, they are the ones in charge in Gaza. They don’t give a shit about their kids. Heck, they would prefer kids to get injured and die for their shallow, stupid and cheap propaganda.",1
"""All these black people angry for no reason, they obviously just hate America, which has never been anything but a force for good in the world."".","Yes. I wish they'd fight back, especially on book banning. We need them to also call out this Christian nationalist crusades they are on right now. The fact no one is even trying to call these fundies from Footloose out is astounding.",1
"> Also last year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Ga., introduced the Youth Voting Rights Act, which also went nowhere in the Democrat-led House and Senate. That bill didn't change the voting age but would have allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to start registering to vote to make sure they are able to vote as soon as they turn 18.",Why should we let boomers and silent generation vote when they have but a few years to live but not let 16 year olds vote who have their whole lives ahead of them?,1
Sanctions are not there as some arbitrary punishment out of hatred for Russia or Russian people; they exist to incentivise a change in policy. Stop the war and the sanctions can be lifted.,Some sanctions will drop. The sanctions on chips that could possibly used in military applications is likely around to stay. Economic sanctions until Russia pays reparations (or their foreign holdings confiscated for it). Etc.,1
"But Israel provoking the people around them doesn't make them safer, it only makes the others more angry. Much like the USA bombing weddings and children to get terrorists makes more terrorists, Israel occupying another country and destroying homes there makes people really hate Israel.","I tend to side with Palestine overall because of Israel's continuous expansion, but it's also a fact that Israel is surrounded by people who would destroy them if they got a chance to do so.",1
Not really- The Continental Congress 14 years before the 2nd Amendment was ratified had viewed a demonstration of a firearm that was capable of firing 16 shots in 20 seconds.,"""It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely detached from the prefatory clause. But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty. It may well be true today that a militia, to be as effective as militias in the 18th century, would require sophisticated arms that are highly unusual in society at large. Indeed, it may be true that no amount of small arms could be useful against modern-day bombers and tanks. But the fact that modern developments have limited the degree of fit between the prefatory clause and the protected right cannot change our interpretation of the right."".",1
"Also living in low air humidity isn't good for you either. Your skin is dry, your lips get cracked, breathing through your nose becomes uncomfortable, etc.","Having higher air humidity raises the perceived room temperature, which is a plus if you're trying to save energy.",0
I suppose my problem is not that people who can afford the outlay getting money back but that whole sections of society who can't will be hit hardest.,"If the government is really serious about this, there shouldn't be ""financial incentives"" but a complete cost subsidy. Make the whole process just a phone number the homeowner calls to schedule installation, and never sees a bill. Until then the White House will get few takers, especially since inflation is hurting everyone each trip to a store, and wages aren't keeping up with inflation.",1
"no. because many would not be making the trip, but also because of layovers and very indirect routes, and also because this argument is plain false- per passenger, per km, planes are magnitudes worse than cars.","when enough people get together for a plane trip and 15,000 jetfuel is purchased, the same transaction also creates 60,000 gasoline, as well as 30,000 diesel... the combined demand for all of these products sets a price for each of them. demand for jetfuel creates ""magnitudes"" of other things, planes and cars are not in competition.",0
Remember when the smart thing was to stay anon on the internets to avoid your shit getting compromised??,okay? and? as if american apps don’t do the same thing lol the worlds richest piece of shit is going to sell our data to even more 3rd parties just so he can pay the bill for his dumb bird app.,1
"The defense of Bakhmut has strategic significance. While it was soon to be deserted the ratio for casualties is so ""good"" that it is tempting to hold more than needed. It even went better than expected. Plus, the ukrainian spring offensive hasn't started yet so keeping the russian army focused on that front makes sens as well.",It also had more strategic value in the summer because the Ukrainian's didn't have fallback position's. If the russians broke through the Ukranians would have been in trouble.They've now built up defensive lines should Bakhmut fall for that value is gone.,1
The war started because Putin thought he could win quick and easy. Not helping Ukraine is literally helping that old fuck get it his way.,"If the West didn't arm Ukraine, the war was over year ago on viable conditions. Arming Ukraine won't change the outcome of the war, it is only multiplying deaths. So Corbyn is a smart guy, at least much smarter than an average MSM-bullshit eating redditor.",1
"Russia is bigger than its government. People can feel pride of being russian while criticising their leaders. They shouldn't have to abandon their homes, cultures and overall identities because they're prisoners in their own country.","If Putin was the one throwing javelins or running 100m, I'd get it. But it's ordinary people who've trained all their lives for this, they have no say in the war, they don't kill anybody. If they speak up they go to jail and can't compete, if they don't they're disqualified for a xenophobic reason. Reddit is okay with xenophobia if it's against the Russians, but let's not propose banning the US for their crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and countless other countries that went to war in the past decades.",0
"Yup. The world is in this situation with Ukraine today because twice before the international community has done essentially nothing when Putin twice invaded the territory of sovereign neighbors: Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. The world let Russia invade South Ossetia, Crimea, and the Donbas with almost zero consequences. Why wouldn’t Putin think that he could continue taking land and destabilizing the region if they aren’t subservient?","Hitler got away with taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and it encouraged him to sign a pact with Stalin for the Nazis and Soviets to invade and divide up Poland. The world needs to remember this, because we are currently repeating the same mistakes, and just getting lucky that Russia is so much more incompetent than the Nazis were (not to diminish the stellar job that Ukraine has been doing to defend themselves).",0
"How does speaker voting work, can like every dem secretly convince a dozen moderate gop folks to vote for one of themselves and the Dems agree to vote for them too? Seems like the various groups within the gop should be courting that Dem vote.",The voting is almost always along party lines. The Constitution doesn't require the Speaker to be a member of the House so theoretically someone outside of the House could be elected Speaker (that has never happened).,1
Nobody wants to go to war fucko. Why is Russia so afraid of everybody? Do they think if they don't inflate their chest and make the most threats that other countries are waiting to pounce?,"I doubt their arsenal will be useful if the UN doesn't want it to be. May even be a case of decay and poor maintenance that renders if useless. Anyway, stuff a sock in it Putin, you got nothin'.",1
"Now, I know some states are trying to popularize the notion of illiberal democracy, which is fundamentally absurd, imo, same strategy as Republicans stateside like Mike Lee seem to embrace, enjoying the trappings of democracy while trying to pull the ladder up behind them, etc. I think it’s an ugly, power hungry strategy.","At the end of the day, however, you simply can’t make the argument that democracy is not integral to the function of any republic, and if your state structures are granted legitimacy by democratic consent of the governed, if they are built on the foundation of popular democracy, pulling up the ladder so fewer people are represented is nothing less than authoritarian, anti-democratic, and caustic to the legitimacy of government. Stripping people of their representation is destabilizing. That, btw, is the same notion as concentrating representation in the hands of fewer people. Also destabilizing.",0
I think he's implying that why would Canada (or any other NATO country) even bother meeting their defense spending obligations when the U.S. would happily step in to pick up the slack.,"Unless I am mistaken, Canada spends more on defence than Poland and Greece combined, but because Canada is so rich it is lower as a % of GDP.",1
"So at the moment, this seems like just a Benghazi 2.0 (or should that be 10.0 because god knows how many they've done on that).","This sounds a bit too much like Benghazi all over again, grasping at straws to find something, anything, to investigate. If there's anything monetary to be investigated, how about looking into how much money Ivanka and Jared made from foreign business deals while they were actually employed in the White House? Or the legality of the GOP and Secret Service being billed through the nose by the President's businesses?",1
"If they actually read the Gospels it’s undeniable that he was a Jew. Mary was a Jew, Joseph was a Jew, he was circumcised on the 8th day as was Jewish custom. He was a descendent of King David on both sides, who was definitely a Jew and according to the prophets the Messiah would be a Jew.","The religion is certainly rooted in Judaism, which in turn is rooted in the Law of Moses. Most Gentile Christians follow the teachings of Paul, a former ""Jew among Jews"" who argues throughout many of his letters that Gentiles should not be held under the full Mosaic Law. There's no need for physical circumcision or dietary restriction, or religious washing and separation. Paul's argument is that's Christ sacrifice fulfilled the Masaic Law and covenant and established a new covenant where the exact formal terms aren't ever truly laid out in the New Testament and which they shouldn't be. A formal rule system he argues is a massive spiritual stumbling block where the day to day details of following the rules causes enslavement to the rules instead of enlightment to what the rules are trying to get the person the understand.",1
The Minsk Agreements were to useful propagandists to justify the 2022 invasion like you are doing now.,Why does the West need a justification to send arms to Ukraine when they have already been doing it openly after the 2014 invasion?,0
"Make it easier - there are already rest stops all over the place. The ones I'm familiar with in the Midwest have restrooms, a little area with some picnic tables, plenty of parking, vending machines, and some even have wifi. Add chargers to those and get a head start, plus they're already placed at distances convenient for, ya know, taking a rest.","Not really, charging stations are much cheaper and easier to build and maintain. Electric roads are much less efficient, significantly more expensive to build, way worse to maintain (we already have issues with normal asphalt road maintenance), and their real world practicality is dubious at best and is more likely to end up being nonfeasible and a failure than a success, much like the solar roadway fad.",1
"Ok, this might come as a surprise, but our understanding of faith pre and post glacial (up to the early bronze age with Egypt/other near eastern cultures) is based on... modern anthropological studies of what we think were equivalent cultures. We just don't have any evidence pre-Egypt really. The female figurines tell you nothing as it is missing all the other context - you are dealing with 10,000s of years and 1000s of miles of distance. Whenever anyone propounds about early faith pre-Bronze age (meaning neo and earlier lithics), they are... full of shit.","As to our bloodiest wars? Crusades, the mass enforced conversion of idigenous populations worldwide helping to spread disease, the catholic church giving half of the Americas to spain and portugal causing untold suffering and murder, the British bringing christianty at the end of a gun, the Thirty Years War, St Batholomews massacre, the sectarian violence in NI, the islamic groups in china, Partition along religious lines in India that killed millions, erm.....",0
"No, I said, that no politician can or will actually fix the system, without a popular uprising analogous to the enormous, and diverse public power backing the New Deal.","The actual work to be done is building up the public's power and understanding to force change, irrespective of what the ruling capitalists/kleptocrats or politicians want.",0
"Yep. Growing up, I remember there being a distinct separation between Denver, Castle Rock, and the Springs. Last time I was out there, it was one, unbroken suburb between all of it. It was shocking.","As a gay man who grew up in Colorado, Focus on the Family has been an absolute cancer on that state for decades. They are beyond hateful. I wrote a letter to the editor to the Denver paper back in 2003 or so in support of marriage equality. I started receiving harassing voicemails from a condescending, patrician-sounding man from Focus on the Family, asking that I ""debate"" with him about how ""incorrect"" my position was. These people are fucking evil.",0
"It's a bad spot cause Russia's not in any spot to completely invade Ukraine, but neither is Ukraine in any spot to completely invade Russia to force a conclusion. So there's always a chance this ends like Korea, with a long term armistice after pushing everyone back to the borders they started with, after massive loss of life, rather than any sort of peace treaty. I do wonder what happens the second Ukraine finishes pushing Russia out of Crimea though, since unlike Korea, pushing into Russia to force concessions and an end isn't something most people want.",It bothers me that so many people are trying to use this as a example of Ukraines aggressiveness and unwillingness to make peace when it’s Russia who is unwilling to compromise.,1
Right and similarly you can choose to tell someone at the polling station whom you are going to cast your ballot for.,If you were in a booth there would be no way for someone to be able to verify you voted the way you said you did.,1
"Just for some context I'm a 47 yo lifetime Independent who doesn't like things about both parties and though I can't stand how far right the republicans are currently and the fact that they don't have any policies but only try to get votes by stoking culture wars, I know there's lots of us Independents who want fresh candidates for both sides and given a choice of a new face or Biden, the majority of independents (definitely not me though) will go with the new person.","Though I'm an independent the last thing I would want is ron or somebody like him to be our next president, I just don't think Biden gives the Democrats the best chance just because of past presidents being able to hold on to office just because they're the incumbent president, I don't think that will be a factor with somebody who's 82 and would be out of office when they're 86.",0
If it crashes we might just go back to an age where actually good games are made to earn a profit instead of scummy practices.,"Game franchises like age of empires and sim city made money without loot boxes and folks still play . Unreal tournament GOTY, DOOM .. etc . No loot boxes .",1
You do not need to consider the messenger... at all... for the vast majority of handling the worthiness of a statement or proposition.,"In your last example, you need not consider at all, to say nothing of remembering, any aspect about Bush whatsoever if the issue of the discussion is the worth of solar power or any claims related to such. If the issue is Bush's advocacy, Bush himself, or any concern of corruption related to Bash's advocacy, then... by all means fold in anything and everything that will help you evaluate Bush rather than solar.",0
"How can you tell states that they can't allow someone on the ballot, or that their electors can't cast a vote for their candidate, or that their votes won't count, without implicating federalism concerns?","The corrupt US congress is unlikely to make this happen - so each state should require candidates to release their returns before any name is allowed on the ballot, at least for national positions.",1
"""The government"" in British and Commonwealth contexts usually means the current political administration (the prime minister and other ministers in Parliament), so this implies that it's at the direction of politicians not the civil service or other apolitical administrators.","I'm an American, but I follow British politics for fun so I've picked up a lot of the lingo, but I think the first time I figured this out was a headline something like ""Belgium hasn't had a government for two years"" that totally didn't compute with the US understanding of ""government."".",0
Please note especially the part at the start where Japan unconditionally surrenders and also the part at the bottom where they surrender the emperor and his government to whatever MacArthur deems fit.,"Japan surrendered on the condition of sparing the Emperor among other things, the US wasn't even sure the peace was going to hold until nearly the formal surrender in Tokyo Bay.",1
"Keep in mind who has been bearing the brunt of the hardship, ethnic minority regions. Go to Moscow, or St Petersburg, and you really don't find many people who are strongly against the war.","I guess part of the problem is that the war is not, within Russia, unpopular. Even among Russians who will outright admit that starting it is wrong, something like 75% think they should keep fighting until they win.",0
"I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for a GOP-led House to investigate an ethics violation of one of their own. They're too busy prepping the endless investigations into Hunter Biden revenge porn to care about actual ethics. Over half of the new committee chairs literally voted not to certify Biden's election win. Jim Jordan just got the chair position for the House judiciary committee. Yes, the same Jim Jordan that flagrantly refused to cooperate with the requests of another House committee. The same Jim Jordan that said the American public is tired of endless House investigations yet is prepping to open dozens once he gets his gavel. The same Jim Jordan that accused Democrats of unethically using committees as political cudgels is...you guessed it...about to do the same. Such unabashed hypocrites, the House GOP is completely amoral.","There's also misrepresentations in the House, yet again due to the discrepancy in state populations. In a perfect distribution, each member of the House would represent about 760k people. But the state populations don't neatly divide by that number. So you get situations like Delaware which has almost double the population Wyoming but both states only get 1 representative, or how Rhode Island gets 2 representatives despite only having a 7% larger population than Delaware.",0
"..I never said anything about legacy? Not sure where you got that. I think it's all about landing planes. Rosenstein and Barr both have shit legacies, but they accomplished their goals of keeping anything from happening, while appearing to do stuff so nobody else stepped in to actually create a legitimate investigation..","And more importantly, why couldn't he just ""continue investigating"" without bringing in a potentially unreliable and unpredictable special counsel, as Rosenstein learned after his selection?",1
Then Germany should better dissolve the European Union in the future if it isn't willing to have a common fiscal policy with the rest of the 26 EU member nation-states.,"That's not a common fiscal policy you are implying. A common fiscal policy consists of decisions about the collection and expenditure of taxes that have to be taken by a common institution and shared by the participating governments, thus EU must have a common tax-collecting agency like the US IRS for example.",0
"With a bit of common sense and, unfortunately, a major lifestyle change, cancer patients and the immunocompromised can adapt.",Friendly reminder cancer patients and other immunocompromised people are still at huge risk and dying. Not that I disagree with anything inherently but it feels like this is often not included in discussion.,1
"Although it wasn’t West Virginia, I grew up pretty close to there in one of the most poor and rural areas in Central Appalachia. I’m a younger millennial, just on the cusp of being Gen Z. From what I’ve observed, younger people tend to skew left in general - even in areas where older generations tend to be overwhelmingly conservative. If the Democratic Party continues to view traditionally red states as political monoliths, it would be a mistake of massive proportions.","Unfortunately they're not wrong... WV is deep red, and won't vote for a Dem senator again for a long time, unless there's a huge political re-alignment.",1
"Except nothing about atheism claims sexual orientation is morally wrong for no reason, which Abrahamic religious people do.","Plenty of atheists being homophobic following their own delusions, plenty of religious people being okay with it, including my own late mother and most of the guys I had fun with. Hell, if they weren't muslim it was difficult not to crack a joke about taking off cross necklace before sex so that Jesus won't punish them.",1
"Nothing I’ve listed here is opinion or political view points. We are noticing abnormal warming, we have data to show why that warming is happening, and we have historical records that back up that data. This has been measured, remeasured, and verified by people all over the world who don’t care about any one country’s politics. These are hard facts that plainly can’t be refuted without willful ignorance. There is a pretty clear line between the gases we’ve been putting out there for a long time and the dangerous warming trends we are seeing.","Now it is all climate change because we've identified it as a problem but we aren't doing anything about it. It's not a conspiracy or some made up shit to ""scare the populace"" it's a serious problem but the solution is to stop releasing greenhouse gases including carbon and sulphur emissions but there's rather a lot of industries and countries even that rely heavily on this for income and are naturally reluctant to loose out on that money. They have the incentive to tell you climate change is bs because they have a financial stake in it but unfortunately peiple li yourself buy the whole climate change is bs.",1
"The water being taken from the river is being shipped to unsustainable homes, farms and businesses so time to move them or supply them with a sustainable water source which would be solar powered water desalinization.","CA has first dibs. AZ knew this before they went crazy building houses, aka roasting ovens, in the desert with no known water supply.",0
"Yup. Also, let's not forget Trump sued to try to get the documents returned, claimed they were his property, said he can declassify documents just by thinking about it, etc.","Maybe if Trump hadn’t willfully kept them, lied about the having them, and fucked the National Archives around for 18 months, he wouldn’t have got raided by the FBI. Biden finds document, hands it in within a day. Seems pretty different to me.",1
"It's always bizarre to me when people refer to things people did or said decades ago like that's who they currently are. Trump used to donate money to Democrats, but that doesn't mean he supports them now.","The only times Biden voted to go to war with Iraq was at the behest of Republican administrations, and the second time it was because of deliberate lies told to him and the world by Republicans. Lately he's the one responsible for getting us out of that war, which to me seems more currently relevant than something he thought thirty years ago.",0
"Also when maternity leaves were extended in European countries americans were fear mongering that less women will be hired, never happened.",Not all countries have this kind of mentality dude. Heck I am in a 3rd world country and women's maternity was extended to 6 months and there was never such issues of hiring going down.,0
"In other news, apparently the Russians are drafting even 17-year-olds who live in these occupied territories. Also, while those doing their mandatory 2 years in the army cannot be sent to fight in a war zone, they can be used to defend the motherland. Fortunately, having annexed those Ukrainian provinces, they can now send draftees there to ""defend the motherland"".","At the start of the war and again during the mobilization, most of the soldiers were recruited from the eastern oblasts. The people over there are more asiatic and seen as subhumans by many.",1
"have you read what al jazeera said about the Israeli investigation? They may not agree with the conclusions, but seem to acknowledge Israel did investigate.","So Israel did look into it, and they did accept a certain amount of responsibility. Not sure how this doesn't contradict your claim Israel never investigated, and denied everything. (your accusation of Israel lying may still be accurate, I have no way to determine that. and unless you are privy to all the information from the Israeli side, you probably cannot prove it either. Still I cannot disprove that claim - Although the US does back up the Israeli version).",0
I am not trying to make excuses for bad actors. I was trying to see if political discussions could be more civilized.,"Let’s all try to make political discussions reasonable and passionate. To discuss what is posted, not just make assumptions about people or their perspectives.",0
"It's completely disgusting how much plastic is used by restaurants in gig delivery. Literally every item by some of these restaurants are packaged in their own container never to be used again. I don't even buy bowls. I just use what I've gotten from these places. Often, they are objects durable enough to be used for years. Delivery before the gig company hijacking of the industry was largely pizza and Asian based because it can be delivered in a paper based container. Most of the items that are delivered in plastic could be delivered in more ecologically sound ways that could and should be cheaper. Many restaurants are victims of their own egotism. ""Their food"" is special and it's necessary for it to be delivered in packaging that more maximizes temperature like plastic.","But plastic has properties that few other materials have - the ability to hermetically seal and not to taint the food (pizza sticks to cardboard, etc.). That's why ready meals have far more plastic than takeaways - they can actually be air-tight, which you can only really achieve otherwise with glass or maybe with some specialist expensive films that are new on the market still.",1
The horrifying reality is that a lot of Ukrainian people are dying on the front lines and the world should wake up and take stronger measures against Russia sooner than later.,"I would like to point out that while everyone speculated on Russian casualties (only info we have is from Ukrainian or Russian MoD,) no one considers that Ukrainian casualties can be just as high or higher.",1
"The fact remains, there is nothing in the constitution (not sure ab out NC law) given the judicial branch legislative powers (pass a redistricting law).","The NC SC found a map by NC legislature unconstitutional (with the NC Constitution). This is normal judicial review and is hardly the first time courts then drew a redistricting map. Legislatures should have to follow their own states' Constitution, and I hope you agree with that sentence.",1
Dude. I don't care if people get married to the same sex. It doesn't affect me. You're the one who wants to FORCE people to participate in the act. Right now there is a supreme court case about a web designer who doesn't want to type up a website about a husband marrying a husband because he doesn't want to participate in something he disagrees with. Just leave him alone. If he says he doesn't want to participate in something he doesn't like then don't use the government to force him. That is authoritarian. Leave people alone.,"How about you guys just leave people alone? Like, don't interfere with who marries who or what. If some pastors(who don't receive money from the government) don't want to marry a couple, then fine. If they want to, then also fine.",1
"Fuck Trump, but assuming I had started a charity that was doing work I thought was worthwhile (presumably I would), that's probably the primary place where I'd put my donations.","I'm the last person that would defend Trump, but he didn't say he was foregoing his salary but rather he said he was going to donate it to charity. So yes, him earning the salary is correct.",1
Restoring the water supply to Crimea is definitely one of Russia's goals with this war after Ukraine cut the region off. I have to imagine that Russia's retreat in this region will center on keeping the water running.,"The dam supplies water to Crimea, which they still control, so they wouldn't want to destroy it (yet).",1
"Lavrov, Peskov, and other Kremlin officials who are commonly quoted in Western media are not likely as close to Putin as they appear. This is also true of at least most Russian oligarchs. Putin's real inner circle appears to have become very small during covid.","Nikolai Patrushev and Alexander Bortnikov are two people everyone should know more about, but are rarely mentioned in Western media. I have no idea in terms of a successor to Putin. Most of the obvious options including Lavrov are 70+ years old. If Putin has any input into his successor, then he probably wants someone younger.",0
"Edit: Imagine if all those living in the UK for so many years had been able to vote in the Brexit referendum, or in the following general elections.","If you voted remain, the obvious first step after the referendum is looking into gaining permanent residence in the EU, because you'd likely be hyper aware of that particular downside to Brexit. And you'd continue to pay attention to politics to find out when you'd have to apply, because you couldn't really apply for permanent residency as a UK citizen when the UK was still an EU member.",1
"Yes, he could if a few moderate Republicans voted for him. You'd probably end up with somebody well to his right in order to get those Republican votes though. Either one of the moderate Republicans or one of the most conservative Democrats.","There are no moderate Republicans. Or at least, no moderate Republican voting block. Any Republican who cooperates with the Dems would be instantly primaried in any district in the country.",1
"Well, looks like the message didn't get bought off by many, unfortunately. Even I can't agree with this, regardless if it hurts the art or not. That is not the point.",Sure I guess you are right. I’m just glad to see these crazy kids start fighting like their lives depended on it because it does. Nobody is listening to them or taking them seriously but I bet they will start to now.,1
"I'm from Spain myself, and ""deport"" here (""deportar"" in Spanish) doesn't have any connotations. It's just the act of expelling a foreigner from your country. I can't talk for the whole of Europe, but it definitely isn't ""the entirety of Europe"". ""Russia is expelling Ukranians from their homes"" or ""Russia is ethnically cleansing Luhansk"", in my opinion, are better descriptions of what's going on there.","They are now ‘evacuating’ or more accurately ‘kidnapping citizens’, moving them from their home, to other parts of Russia far away.",1
"Seems like a pretty open-and-shut case that it is illegal to restrict voting to people ages 18 and above, since that is clear age-based discrimination.",The Supreme Court has declared that the current law preventing 16 and 17-year-olds from voting is unjustified discrimination and inconsistent with the Bill of Rights.,1
I agree that atmospheric engineering is going to save the planet but we need some regulations and consensus before we start blasting shit up there using the guess and check method.,"Edit: IMO, it’s always been sophomoric proposal by engineers who are ignorant of environmental science and think they know more than they really do. This isn’t a serious alternative to carbon reduction because the effects of CO2 emissions isn’t limited to heating, it’s also about ocean acidification, which this does nothing to help with.",1
"I was hoping Desantis was the one Republican canidate i'd vote for, but no in spectacular republican fashion his views on Ukraine/Russia war, education. SUCKS.","It is a very shitty narrative. High school students and university students are our future. They do vote (or will shortly when they turn 18). Good for them standing up for what they believe in. The right to peacefully protest and make their voices heard, that is what freedom is all about.",1
"Maybe not for that reason, but yes. It would have the same added value that lead the US to position short range ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons systems in East Europe and Turkey when the Workers' Republics became a threat to US hegemony. A bit Dr. Strangelove imo.","It's a systems theory statement, a comment on the geopolitical reality which faces empires with a hegemony over the world-system. You're adding an affective spin to a neutral statement.",0
"So they'll force these kids to be both not trans enough to get accepted at school, but trans enough to get beaten by the parents they're afraid to come out to.","Dunno if you know this, but some kids get beaten really really badly for less than being trans. Some parents might not take too kindly to their kid not being what they want. Even if the parents arent physically abusive, being a child or teen and being told that who you are is wrong over something you can't help is harmful. It leads them to thinking "" if I can never been good enough or fixed, why should I keep living? Whats the point if no matter how hard I try I'll still be followed by these thoughts and feelings. I would be better off not being a disappointment. I would be better off dead"".",1
"I’m a straight dude with no interest whatsoever in drag performance, but you can bet that my bearded, fat ass will throw on a dress and lip sync if I feel like it. I’ll do it as a big fuck you to Tennessee, and I’ll do it IN Tennessee. I don’t have a life and would welcome a lenhy legal battle to put these old asshats in their place. Trying to tell grown-ass adults what they can’t wear. Fuck you.",What the fuck does that mean? It's up to interpretation. Is a trans person a male or female impersonator? A butch lesbian? Anyone gender non conforming?,1
"They call it National School Choice Week. Don't be fooled. The goal is to gut public education, destroy teachers’ unions, and enrich unregulated private education companies.",Destroying public schools and making it to where only rich kids get a good education with expensive private schools does significant damage to poor people.,1
"So in Norway, hydrocarbon revenues were extracted by a nationalised corporation and the profits from this were invested into the Sovereign Wealth Fund to provide for all Norwegians.",Now Im not interested enough in what is potentially a bad faith argument from you to go do more research as to how many board members of Shell over the years have had links or were politicians in the VVD. But I will bet its going to be a reasonable number.,0
">(c)In this section, the term “classified information of the United States” means information originated, owned, or possessed by the United States Government concerning the national defense or foreign relations of the United States that has been determined pursuant to law or Executive order to require protection against unauthorized disclosure in the interests of national security.","“The classified materials included some top-secret files with the “sensitive compartmented information” designation, also known as SCI, which is used for highly sensitive information obtained from intelligence sources. Federal officeholders are required by law to relinquish official documents and classified records when their government service ends.”.",1
"Your example isn’t great….Israel technically did help (Ukraine up) with humanitarian aid. As for dirty hands, they could face annihilation from their neighbours. As for any excuses Israel have made, they’re very plausible so there’s nothing to suggest they’re lying other than raw emotions.","Not necessarily, you state that they’re lying as Israel is already supplying SA? That’s fine, they didn’t deny that. They stated that they don’t have the capacity which is very possible & there’s no reason to doubt it realistically.",0
"In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.","I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please if you have any questions or concerns.",0
"Sherriffs are like the mid point between local cops and State Police. A cop in one village or city won’t have jurisdiction in another city, they may get some deference in emergencies but they don’t get to supercede the authority of the ones deployed in certain jurisdiction.","State Police handle State wide matters, and have jurisdiction over entire State, they usually handle the issues on the highways and fugitive hunting etc.",0
"They have to beg because air defense was always seen as less important than fighters for NATO countries, which is why they barely have enough for themselves, so there's not much left to send to Ukraine, and they can't produce enough new systems in time.","The USSR went the opposite way and focused on disrupting enemy air superiority rather than gaining it, which is why Ukraine inherited large stockpiles of various SAM systems.",0
There is no farmer who should not have known what they were doing was going to get them in trouble. They knowingly violated the restrictions on those seeds.,"But, at least it's not like you can't grow the crops at all without paying for the seeds. Every crop has seeds available without any restrictions at all, many are excellent strains. Even if you can't get a super-disease-resistant strain, you can still take efforts to prevent/treat disease on your crop -- yeah it costs money, but it's at least not as bad as holding life-saving medication behind patents (which I also agree is a problem).",0
There's already evidence this shit and Trump in general is discouraging other voters. 2 years of fruitless investigations into something even a lot of the right already seem to view as laughable is just barreling into what just fucked them in an actual election.,It is disheartening that such a large portion of America is that stupid where treasonous republicans win at any level.,1
"I completely and wholeheartedly agree with you that all leadership should derive all power from the consent of those led. 100%. But that is not, and was never, how America was intentionally set up. The government has been built from the beginning to disregard our consent, and the laws are constructed to continue to allow that.","The law doesn't make something legitimate - legitimacy comes from the consent of the governed. Theoretically the law reflects this, but we can see that this is not the case, and provably so.",1
Right. The nuclear secrets narrative has died down. Feels like if it he had stolen something that sensitive he'd be in cuffs.,"It's possible it was all propaganda. Look, I fucking hate Trump but propaganda is out there. After the warrant was executed all of the media told us he was stealing nuclear secrets.",0
"Totally true. My brother is currently in China on a business trip, 10 days quarantine in a hotel with shitty food. If he went in with Covid, it would be so much worse.",Covid is going to get a lot worse for China for many factors. Having over 1 billion people with similar genetics (Han Chinese) is a big Achilles heel for fighting a virus.,1
"What's crazy is that is like the least objectionable behavior Republicans engage in. I don't give a fuck if you have an orgy or do coke, but can you stop being fascist thx.","I can't think of a less fun way to (try and) party than to do drugs with and see GOP dudes naked. Most of them look utterly disgusting with clothes on...I mean, if I saw Mitch or Lindsey or Dan Patrick naked I'd never want to have sex again.",1
"Taiwan's manpower and weapons cannot hold off China, make no mistake. What can hold off China is Taiwan's economy and chip fabs.","Taiwan is of the upmost importance for Japan. If China took Taiwan, Japan has to fear for its trade routes. Without trade, Japan is fucked since they import next to every resource.",1
"The nazis also had slaves. They enslaved the Jews and other ""undesirables"" who were strong enough to work. Those who were not considered ""useful"" were murdered.","Yeah, too many people think Hispanic is a race, and it's not. Hispanic countries are just as diverse as the US and contain white people as well (and some of them happen to be nazis).",0
"In October, a large outbreak occurred on a mink fur farm in Spain. Researchers who described the outbreak in a paper published last month believe that wild birds initially transmitted H5N1 to the mink farm, but once there, it spread from mink to mink.","H5N1 is responsible for the culling of several mink farms because H5N1 appears to have mutated to facilitate mammal to mammal transmission, still awaiting final confirmation. It's also suspected in some other mammal species suffering disease such as seals.",1
"Just to clarify though, legally speaking McDonalds would be well within bounds to refuse service to anyone they want for purely political reasons. Plenty of businesses do and this kind of autonomy is regularly championed by the right when it's something they agree with. But socially/politically yes it would be a shitstorm if they did on the right due to their hypocrisy.","I mean I agree, the shitstorm from the right if they like, actively directed franchisees to not serve him (if they can even do this legally, which I doubt) would be waaaaaaaaay way worse then some disapproving looks from everyone else with the current situation.",0
"She calls these people degenerates and groomers, she was absolutely pushing hate in those tweets. The fact that you can't acknowledge that tells me exactly where you stand on this issue, and why you don't have a problem with any of this. There's plenty of people out there who are willing to take their kid to see a man in a dress and a wig, just because you have a hang up about it doesn't mean everyone has to accept your intolerance.","Just because you know some lesbians who don't like drag doesn't mean we should ignore politicians pushing hate and violence. Like, cool, you know some members of a minority community that ""dislike"" other members of a related minority community. That doesn't mean we shouldn't hold the people who hold the levers of power accountable when they propagate hate.",0
"> Milk means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, which may be clarified and may be adjusted by separating part of the fat therefrom; concentrated milk, reconstituted milk, and dry whole milk. Water, in a sufficient quantity to reconstitute concentrated and dry forms, may be added.","To be clear, I have no problem with people who choose to consume almond milk, or any other alternate form of milk, but it should be called juice. Almond milk should be milk flavored with almond.",0
"A plethora of targets, with a limited number of systems that can effectively outrange them. Most of Ukraine's artillery is the same stuff as the Russians are using. All told, the Ukranians have around a bakers dozen modern, long range NATO standard artillery pieces like the HIMARS and Excalibur rounds with very limited ammunition stockpiles for either. 99% of what actually makes up Ukraine's artillery is the same 70's era Soviet stuff that the Russians are using.","And besides, nobody really knows how much weaponry and ammo Russia really has, or how much of it actually works. Given the piss-poor state of their gear that was supposed to be maintained and combat-ready at the start of this war, one can only imagine the state of their surplus stock. Whatever hasn’t been sold off to black market dealers, that is.",1
"Probably a little of column A and a little of column B. It's not really a threat any more than an LEO but shooting it down could cause a public relations disaster if someone gets killed, while leaving it up in the sky generates a ton of negative publicity toward China. That negative publicity leads to official trips being postponed, affects the US position in negotiations/relations, etc. Meaning, the government would like to take a tougher stance on China without appearing to be too aggressive as it could have economic impacts, but the balloon gives them an excuse.","This is probably a stupid question…but is there a way for the US to capture and study tech attached to the balloon to see if China’s reasoning are true or not? It being in the US’s airspace makes it fair game, no?",1
Looks like one of the current US artillery pieces can barely make it 40km with the right type of ammunition.,"One question, does NK have artillery that has a range of 30+km? And if they have, how much of those do they have?",1
"I think trans people are the test case, if it works, all sorts LGBT and women's rights will be removed, obviously women have already lost reproductive rights in Texas.","This fight will probably end up in front of the Supreme Court eventually, and I have very little faith that they are going to rule in favor of trans people's medical rights.",1
"I know Redditors love to bang on about Nazi gold or whatever, but having a country run by a council with revolving presidency, an economy that hasn't collapsed multiple times in modern history, and a population where the best and brightest haven't been fed into a meat grinder every 30 years or so, but still have to do compulsory national service has led to a society that is functional to the point of being almost unrecognizable to people from other countries.","Insulin in my world is only a couple of bucks, and if you wind up spending a bunch on meds overall in a given year, then fuck it - have the rest for free.",0
"One of the most interesting aspects of the Mad Cow Disease outbreaks of the 90's was that Cambodia asked England to ship all of their infected cows to them so that they could be used to ""find"" unexploded land mines dotting their countryside.","At the same time, mad cow was absolutely rampant in the Uk for a decade, when the British government was telling everyone that humans could not get mad cow, and not that many people died from it all things considered. About 178 it seems. Your chances of getting mad cow from infected beef are still quite slim, as long as you don't eat an infected brain. There will be a few American deaths from mad cow since the disease left the UK but the number won’t go higher than 1 to 5.",1
"My theory is that the people are trying to move to the left. It’s a generational shift, with Gen z and millennials being largely aligned on a lot of left-ish political issues (at least by American standards; moderate issues to the developed world).","I think the answer is somewhat like this: the trend in leftward political identity for young women mostly comes from political issues connected to being a woman. There isn’t similarly a trend in rightward political identity for young men, mostly because the political issues men care about are not issues connected to being a man, even if such issues exist. And this fosters an increasing political divide which is happening simultaneously (and even perhaps causing in part) with a struggling dating/relationship scene amongst younger Americans.",1
"If this looked like it was going to happen anyway despite that due to some collective insanity, I would immediately list my house for sale and get the hell out of here. (Texas).",Texas would likely go out on their own. They don't like welfare programs and social safety nets. I can't imagine that they would increase their support to poorer states like Mississippi or Alabama. Florida would probably do the same. Most of Florida will be under water soon anyway. Georgia might stay in the US along with Arizona and possibly North Carolina. The rich red states wouldn't want to burden themselves with whatever is left. They will build a wall to keep it Mississippians.,1
"Well, technically the age of consent was already 16 to 18; but this was set at the prefectural level. What this change will do is shut down the marriage loophole that some prefectures have (and exists in some US states too).","This is actually the loophole that the Japanese reform would close; no prefecture has the age of consent below 16, but exceptions can exist in the case of marriage or engagement. This change to the national law does away with that.",0
"Commandeering the CDC, sidelining scientists and experts in the field like Fauci, as well as appointing his stupid son-in-law as the COVID czar are just a few examples of how Trump criminally mismanaged the pandemic. In fact, he spent his entire time in office after the outbreak in abject denial that COVID was a serious threat. And even after a million+ deaths and millions more left with the debilitating effects of long COVID, the MAGA faithful continue to deny the hellscape we HCWs endured as “not that bad”.","Significantly, most of the deaths of Republicans from COVID was after the vaccines were widely available. NY was ravaged in the early days, with a lack of PPE and not enough HCWs to handle the surge.",0
"Realized he was a broke prince living doing as he is told. That their kids would grow up in a gilded cage, the appearance of extreme wealth where their parents would need to ask uncle for $ every year behind the scenes. Then after all the príveles their kids would be needing to cut their own way in life anyway but with little benefit of the generational wealth.",You see a glimpse of surprise that Meg found it real odd the prince was content with living in a mini cottage on the grounds of a famous palace while having little personal wealth. His dad and brother inherited all the wealth producing estates and real money. William got the billion dollar Dutchy of Cornwall with a income of over $20 million annually.,0
"And yup, changing that label from ""UnitedHealthCare"" to ""Medicare for All"" would change the line item from being the highest chunk taken out of our paychecks to the highest tax increase in history. Nothing but a fuggin' reclass. And it would be a great thing!","Oh great. I'm so happy to be alive during this time where I don't have massive amounts of fuck you money to combat all this bullshit. Instead, I go to work and come home all while watching my future decay before my eyes because these greedy fucks want more money.",1
"Looks like the Kremlin is not just recruiting , but also foreign nationals who were imprisoned in Russia.",Brittney Griner was sentenced to 9 years in a Russian prison for carrying less than 1 gram of cannabis oil in her luggage.,0
Russia appears to see this as an existential fight and I'm not so sure a collapse of their government would result in a new regime any less extreme than Putin's.,"That, along with the fact that Putin's removal will likely be extremely violent (the greatest threat to his regime right now is not a democratic opposition, but an ultranationalist one), makes it so that these next 10-20 years could very well be enough. The corruption will still be there, of course, but just cleansed enough that they get their shit together and form a decently trained and armed army. And if the ultranationalists take the wheel, they probably won't be aiming for peace.",1
"Considering how long we knew and how catastrophic the results will be, this is nothing in the timeline.","Again, this is great that we are FINALLY doing something that would be 120 years after finding out it could be a problem, and 50 years after DEFINITELY KNOWING this is going to be an existential threat.",0
"4. It's important to space out how many people catch a disease at once because every country has a limited amount of hospitals, beds, and doctors. If people don't get adequate care while they are infected with the illness, more people than expected would die. See point 1.","2. Herd immunity would not necessarily be conferred against mutations. Mutations are different from the original strain; some are so different that they can evade our body's existing defense systems. This is why as the pandemic continues and more mutant variants arise, pharmaceutical companies are designing new vaccines, because the old vaccines are not as effective against new variants. Your body's immune system is no different. If you caught COVID near the beginning of the pandemic, your immune system would know how to identify and destroy that original strain. But it may not know how to do so against Omicron or any potential future variants, depending on how different they are. In other words, future mutations would still have just as much of a chance of infecting you and producing symptoms.",0
"What I'm worried about most is Putin becoming cornered, deciding he has nothing left to lose and trying to take out the entire world with him on his way out.","""Russia promises when it is forced to, and fails to keep its promises the moment it has the power to do so."".",1
"What a weird comment. Trump hasn’t been accused of any specific crime in any official capacity, so that isn’t a thing.","Material that the Jan 6 commission uncovered, such as the Eastman memos, builds a stronger case, but even then much of it doesn't directly implicate Trump.",1
"If you're concerned about Cheney's ideology, you don't understand what the speaker does generally or what she'd need to do in this coalition situation. The only thing she'd be needed for is settling rules disputes, which I'm not worried about and you shouldn't be either.",Still better odds of moving their bills than they would have under actual GOP control. And the actual mechanics of the legislative process would be a subject of negotiation. They might choose to put a lot of that in the hands of committee co-chairs and devolve power from the speaker's office (more like old days legislating where committee chairs ruled their fiefdoms).,0
"Because if you burn a bunch of fuel, creating CO2, then remake the fuel and put it back where you found it, you didn't increase the amount of carbon in the air.","But to offset the CO2 from coal, we have to have additional forest growth or other CO2 sequestering to make up the difference.",1
"Kosher laws exist to ""build a hedge around the Torah."" So that even if you make a mistake, or cheat a little, you still won't do the really prohibited thing. Chicken is considered meat and must be kept separate from dairy. Fish has its own rules...","If you have a minute, maybe you could add the fish rules. I fully admit I don't know them, at least not well enough to explain. I only know you can have gefilte fish before brisket, (but not after?) and lox with cream cheese, yet it's not parve.",0
"Because if he went by what the cops said, what happened to Breona is horrible. But that would be more on the cops than the judge. If I'm missing any parts that would make the judge just as guilty, then can someone chime in? Not really defending the judge as much as wanting a fuller picture of what the judge may had done that was wrong.","If a judge is going to do their due diligence on a warrant, police won’t take warrants to that judge for approval.",1
"If you borrow money, you have to pay it back, UNLESS the one you borrow from says you don't have to. It's like if you borrowed money from my father to start a business. Some time later, my father has passed, and I'm the sole heir to his estate. You've been paying back for a long time, but your business don't go so well and I can see you're struggling. I can then say ""Hey ZanzibarColtrains, I'm cutting the last 10 grand off the debt you owe me, go buy your kids Christmas presents and food."" If someone else has paid off their debt already, that doesn't mean I have to give them money back, or can't forgive the debt you still owe.","Besides, there are already other ways to have your debt reduced or forgiven entirely, and a lot of these loans don't ever get repaid. So, the actual cost of this program will be much less than estimated. In addition, the money the borrowers save will most likely be spent in local businesses, generating more tax revenue, further reducing the net cost of this program.",0
"Their refusal to accept the fact that years of rhetoric declaring that LGBTQ+ people, Mexicans, Muslims, etc. are threatening to take their country away has radicalized a very dangerous segment of the population is terrifying. They have no real policy for the country so they invent enemies to unite their base against. It was Russia and the Cold War from the 60's until the fall of the Soviet Union, then Iraq, then the War On Terror, then Afghanistan. Now that we're not really involved in an international conflict they've targeted marginalized US citizens.","Despite years of ignoring warnings of increasing threats from ""Homegrown"" groups I'm sure the GOP will say this is just another ""Lone Wolf"" attack.",0
"Patriot is also capable of shooting down missiles, not just aircraft, which helps with reducing the civilian casualties from Russia's missile barrages.","Most cruise missiles and aircraft can be shot down by the various things Ukraine has now, but Patriot missile sites give them the capability to defend against some of the really nasty stuff.",1
"tl;dr: The US is outfitting its forces with laser defense systems, they're just so cutting edge that they're not going to be exported and they're so new they haven't seen actual combat yet.",I believe the US Military already has a number of laser air-defense systems and are working on additional ones.,1
"The problem is, Congress spends more than it takes in, so the debt is ever increasing, and there is a separate law saying the national debt shall not exceed x dollars.","To make matters more interesting, the constitution also specifies that the debt of the US is not to be questioned, so the constitution says: president must spend this money, must pay our debts on time. And statutory law says he can’t do either if we hit some made up limit. There is a nontrivial argument that the debt limit is unconstitutional, but if a president were to ignore the statutory debt limit, it would create uncertainty, which would likely cause our credit rating to decrease anyway.",0
"The health authorities rejected the request to use volunteered unvaccinated blood on the grounds that it adds extra complication to the process, would not be as strictly quality controlled and there is no evidence to suggest vaccinated blood would have any adverse effect on the child. The court agreed with these reasons and concluded going with the blood service to be in the best interests of the child.","No, because the parents weren't denying care, they were demanding the use of unvaccinated blood from volunteers the parents had solicited.",0
"The next morning the streets were clean. No debris, no red paper, it’s like it never happened. I’m not sure what is happening with these attacks, but it’s not typical NYE behavior. It’s not fireworks, it’s people trying to hurt emergency responders and that needs to stop.","There was a lot of gunfire in the Midwest US city where I live, and absolutely none of people throwing fireworks at strangers. Probably related to there being a lot of strangers with guns.",1
Just auction off the tickets and let people decide how much they’re willing to spend on some concert or whatever.,What if you just want to sell tickets for a profitable yet affordable price and ensure anyone of your fans has the chance to buy them?,1
"Yes, many faults are constantly near failure at all times, especially near an actively deforming margin. Faults share the stress among them in what is called ""stress partitioning"". If one fault fails and you have a lot of displacement to accommodate, all critically stressed faults will follow suit.","Most faults have lots of little ones connected to them, and those will sometimes move a bit too in response to the change in stress regime.",1
"Trump is a showman and was a constant source of dopamine for 4 years. Even people who hate him (me, I'm those people) got some entertainment value out of him. But I don't want to be entertained, I want a functioning government. And I want them to do all the boring shit that government does. And Biden has been doing a bang up job in that regard from where I'm sitting.","This is a classic problem for Democrats, and lately I've been thinking that it's less because Democrats are bad at messaging and more because politics and governing are supposed to be fucking boring and procedural and we're living in a time where we are constantly being entertained and stimulated. We collectively have no attention span. We hop from one stupid story to the next. The average person doesn't have the fortitude to tackle complex boring shit that politicians are supposed to tackle.",0
"I skied Ruapehu back in the early 90’s. They’d had like 20 feet of snow. At one point we tried to ski to a cafe on the slopes but couldn’t find it, then we realized we were on its roof. Only a chimney was sticking out through the snow.","And even outside of ski stations, we get less snow and it rarely lasts more than a few days. I'm ""only"" 29 and I remember the countryside being entirely white for weeks on end during the winter, that just doesn't happen anymore.",1
"Republicans still want Trump, the only issue they have with him is they now think he's unelectable, but if they thought he could win they'd be lining up behind him again. The only reason they like DeSantis is because to them he represents Trumpism without Trump's guaranteed unelectability.","Personally I think DeSantis is equally unelectable in a general election specifically because all he does is culture wars and voter suppression, and that's not going to win over swing voters anymore than it has in the last three elections (2018, 2020 & 2022). DeSantis up there trying to sell that ""America is where woke should go to die"" and that Americans shouldn't say gay and should outlaw drag shows will play great with the Republican base, but it'll read as just more extreme craziness from the GOP to everyone else. If you want to see how Trumpism without Trump does in general elections, look no further than the 2022 midterms.",0
"The same can mostly be said for China too. They see western trust and agreements as something to exploit, agreements to adhere to only as a means of restraining the west so long as it's beneficial to them and the moment they think they found an opportunity to capitalize on it to hinder the west they will absolutely do so.","Says the country with the worst record of respecting the sovereignty of its neighbors going back literally centuries. The more I learn about how Russian governments targeted their neighbors in every conceivable way to either control by weaponized migrants and generational conversion or by brute force always using terrorism like mass rape and genocide the more I realize Russia can't get along with the west, it's hardwired into their culture and ways of government both subtly and blatantly to see western diplomacy and its systems of agreements as vulnerabilities to be exploited and capitalized on with the sole purpose being domination through any means necessary.",0
"The idea of capitalism is that when all the people are able to act greedily on a free market, it results in betterment of the society (""the invisible hand"").",Thinking that the problem is capitalism when human beings will take advantage of any system for profit.,1
Instead it's going to read Trump got impeached for bribing another nation by trying to withhold weapons from them and then impeached again for trying to overturn his loss by inciting a insurrection against the US. These actions are the cause for a similar event in Brazil and republicans retaliated by acting like little kids and impeaching any person they could.,Impeaching without a good reason isn't going to go anywhere but make your party look ridiculous. You'd think they would have learned their lesson from the Clinton impeachment.,0
"I thought the special grand jury had already said they thought there were crimes but couldn't refer charges for indictment, and the thing on Tuesday was presenting to a grand jury with the power to indict.",I think it's unlikely that much will be released following Tuesday's hearing because there are two outcomes from the Special Grand Jury: (1) no crimes were committed or (2) they think crimes were committed.,1
"Well that's part of it. It didn't have to be this way just because of communism, but it happened this way specifically because of Stalin. Stalin ruled by fear and created this culture that became a staple of post-Stalin Russian culture.... shoot the messenger. If any bad news came up the chain the people reporting the bad news were severely punished.","To this the leadership of the Ukrainian SSR would send reports up the chain of great successes. Every single year they reported they had more surplus crops than they had. Which was fine in normal years because Ukraine produced more than enough crops for everyone. But they had one year where they didn't have a great harvest.... more than enough to feed everyone. But as usual, they inflated their numbers. And so the Russian leadership extracted everything they thought to be surplus.... which wasn't surplus at all. Pulling all that wheat out of Ukraine and causing people to starve.",0
"It's kinda sad how this turned from our last ray of hope to get Maduro out to... well, nothing at all.","Thing is, our worst years were between 2014 and 2016. There's no doubt about that and that coincidentally matches the first years of Maduro's term, sanctions on the country started 2017, so no, sanctions didn't cause our collapse as we had already collapsed for a long time. Lifting the embargo would just take the external investment away. Not like the embargo did anything terrible to us, government doesn't invest on Pdvsa anyway or anything worthwhile so not being able to use our money is better.",0
"In the US, cynical conservatives love to point out that Ukraine was viewed as a corrupt and regressive nation prior to this war. They’re not wrong, but nations can change, and I agree with you that there is a genuine cultural shift in Ukraine.","For them it it is a civilizational choice, they do not want to live like Russians anymore. This year in Warsaw there was combined and equal Warsaw & Kyiv Pride Marching For Peace as they couldn't make it in Kyiv. Tens, maybe hundred of thousands of people.",1
"Whaaat? Surely not, I can't imagine a real life Murdoch going down that path. Next you'll be saying he'd start a crazed alt right radio show where he complains about gay people being given basic rights.",(It's called Howling Mad Radio and is very real in case anyone reading doesn't realise this is what actually happened to Dwight Schultz.).,0
"There's plenty of parents that don't want their kids taught about science, and the human body, and sex, etc. But ignoring those things doesn't make them any less factual or real.","But ultimately your comment is a false equivalence. Teaching religious doctrine or the manifesto of a failed, no-longer-existing traitor state is not the same as teaching sex education or the history of slavery.",1
"Yeah, you right. I don't speak to russian people on the regular, because I live 40 km from russian border, and topics to talk with those people don't lead to much good. But our argument is not about that, but that you ignore 90% of what's happening and pointing out at the rest 10%. Never said that they can't buy Apple. Did I? Why you argue with that? Why you trying to disprove something that was not stated?","Ukraine transports russian gas across to neighbours like Hungary, because Hungary government insisted and veto sanctions over that gas. Ukraine doesn't buy gas from russia since 2015.",0
Could at the very least be argued that Republicans put a platform to uphold the constitution and the constitution has slavery in it therefore they can get banned as well.,"The fun part is when the constitution says that slavery is okay as long as its done as a form of punishment, meaning anyone who has or has ever backed the constitution has thus supported slavery. Something the new GOP does not agree with by their attempted coup, meaning you have to be anti USA to be able to run in florida. LITERALLY taking over the US, one state at a time through 'legal intervention'.",1
To his domestic audience its not unreasonable and that is who he is playing towards so they can spin it as Xi snubbing Trudeau when that wasn't really what happened it was just impromptu side lined that often happens a lot at these types of events for world leaders.,- China finds Canada's actions in the Meng / Huawei / European lobbying situation particularly frustrating and at this point Xi doesn't event respect Trudeau enough to talk to him.,1
"Given how dangerous the report is and how welcomed it was through Russia's propaganda and state news, ""hardly anything"" is totally unacceptable.","But Amnesty reported what they saw, it's not propaganda since Amnesty reports also Russian crimes, hiding possible violations of international laws, even tho how necessary they would be, would be more propaganda.",1
"Biden's transition team put him at Transportation because Buttigieg is an outstanding Secretary, a transportation nerd, has the political talent to help with Congress and can be used as spokesperson for the administration on nearly every topic. Not having him in the cabinet would have been a major blunder, the only question was finding the best position.","I think giving him a cabinet position was strategic. This is what people do if they are interested in the future of a political party - they look for younger party members who have promise, and they put them in positions to get them experience and name recognition. I think it was said at the time, but transportation is something that a mayor actually would have had experience dealing with; and as you said, has lower stakes than something like State or Defense.",1
The AR15 to the far right in a lot of ways has become a symbol of there march towards fascism. Its a way of saying they Support the use of guns as a tool to force through the Christian white nationalist agenda.,This is the extremist GOP’s way of reminding the Dems and their supporters that their side has the guns and has no qualms about using them.,1
Alito . Why would the investigation not talk to the one person we have credible reason to believe has done something like this before? Could it be because Roberts isn't actually a moderate?,"There's nothing definitively saying it was Alito but if the investigators were not told to interview the justices, and one of the justices is a known leaker... well...",0
"but basically you need atoms to be VERY hot inorder to fuse together. so you use an AC varying magnetic field to heat up a rarified gas. if you pump enough energy into this rarified gas, the electrons depart, and you end up with a plasma.","also you have the nasty habit of this super heated plasma wanting to touch the metal housing that all this is going on inside of, and the stainless steel wants to melt if that happens. SO you need to physically keep the plasma away from the metal walls. the magnetic fields are designed to do this too.",0
"That's basically all you said yes, and ""insurance"" companies. a very simplified approach to the profit minded nature of all things.You really think the privatized hospitals even if they are ""non profit"" in organization aren't just as complicit in all of this? On top of the largest generation all being geriatrics, the supply and demand for hospitals is atrocious. There's fewer people trying to care for more and more. The older generation with more wealth and population will literally price us out of the sector.","It's deeper then the pockets of the megalomaniacs that operate this country. So yeah it's pretty unconstructive and disregarding of all nuance to say it's ""fund mismanagement"".",0
I’m not saying anything about anything I just think the whole thing is odd (no gay conspiracy) how they seem almost calm with drinks and then the guy freaks out and almost kills Paul.,"I don't think it's odd that Paul had something in his hand, all kind of crazy shit happens during break ins.",1
I disagree with short selling and think it should be banned but I really don't think trying to set up a short sell and then trash talking the company you're trying to do it to should be legal.,"There’s a whole cult around the idea that shorts are bad because, well, people don’t like hearing “I think your company is so bad I took on unlimited risk on that basis”.",1
They're going to ban desperately needed healthcare and this shit is going to result in a lot of pointless suffering and deaths.,"The recent surge of attacks on gender affirming care for trans youth have been , the , and the , and are out of line with the medical recommendations of the , the and , the , the , the , and the .",0
"It's not really the placebo effect. If you have a kidney stone and receive morphine, it going to have an effect whether you believe or not. Don't ask how I know (.","For those who say hypnosis is real and works, it is provided you want it to work. I took a hypnosis class and it was absolutely ineffective on several people including myself. I just wasn't ready to allow even the sense of someone else controlling or affecting me take place. Yes, I was taking the class but couldn't ever get over the feeling, it didn't work for me. You cannot hypnotize an unwilling person.",0
"You hit the nail on the head here in the US. We are where your country was at the end of ww2. All the maga's heads think, or are told ,we should be running the world, and we need no other countries. That died in the 80s if it were even ever true. Hence, all the military supplies and aid. Throw in some chest beating, too.","Usa had top members of cabinets go due to security issues and a percieved, too much of a distraction for the people of Ukraine. Several senators and congress people have gone.",0
"If he isn't charged, I will accept that, as the process has happened and a determination has found that the evidence wasn't there.",If he is charged will you accept that they found enough evidence to make that a reasonable step to take?,0
Oh yes? Do you need money to fund relief for worsening natural disasters in the global south exacerbated by climate change? Do you need funds to build out green energy and transport technology as a poor developing country trying to raise the standard of living for its people? Are you someone who’s contributed virtually nothing to emissions in terms of global averages but is set to receive some of the worst consequences of climate change?,"We know from other reporting that they made no meaningful progress towards solving the root causes of climate change, so say that instead of framing it like a limited number of people's opinions on the matter.",1
"When Russia loses the war in Ukraine, Putin and his cronies will likely still be in power, and the Russian Federation will likely still be intact.","Edit: As many commentators have pointed out, yes Nuclear weapons exist. Should war between NATO and Russia break out, it is all but guaranteed they will be used. The damage will be massive and billions will likely die.",0
"In a culture where prostitution is normalized like Indonesia, most strait people will either not be reported or the police will not arrest those that are. However, the minority groups like gays are more likely to be reported and more likely for the police to act because they are viewed as different. Same with women because it is a Muslim country and men continue to hold most of the power. My guess is that reporting by “spouse or family” only applies when a woman cheats but not a man.","that being said, if one or both of those consenting adults is already married, arguably the spouse that's getting cheated on is the victim (your mileage may vary).",1
Honestly I’m starting to think we really should have a freedom from religion because the ultimate end of religion is always to takeover wherever it is.,"There is no such thing as freedom of religion without also having freedom from religion, how can you have religious freedom while being forced to follow someone else's religion?",1
"Yeah I feel like I might even be downplaying it, since I'm pretty sure my asthma triggers more easily still as of now 4 years later than before the trip. I used to only need my inhaler maybe once a year and around cats, now I gotta keep it with me just in case.","Genuinely, I pride myself as having a pretty iron stomach and like traveling to more remote tiny areas, and had some crazy street food in places like Vietnam, Philippines- but my god I've never been taken out until I went to India.",0
"I don't know if Canada is spending more on defence than Poland anymore. The figures I was looking at were for 2020, which showed Poland spent about $13 billion on defence, but looking at more news they've increased that amount and said this year that they will essentially be doubling their defence budget to nearly 5% of GDP. Canada spends about $25 billion on defence and Poland's looking to spend $30 billion moving forward.","Even at $25 billion a year in spending, that's still in the upper half of NATO countries (by just total $ spent) and more than what Spain spends on defence ($15B) or Greece (>$10B) and they have each much larger militaries than Canada's. I have no idea where all that money the Feds have been spending goes, but it doesn't seem to go very far. I don't think that's an issue with just the current government either, the previous one wasn't any better, nor were the ones before that going back to the start of post-Cold War cuts under Mulroney.",0
"While it’s good that you accept that Biden is a chronic liar, the next step is not bring up your favorite politician, Donald Trump, in every political argument. This must be the whataboutism that the left is always talking about.","Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in ""what about…?"") denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation.",1
"Я з радістю буду боротися з тобою, кровоточити разом з тобою і відбудовувати разом з тобою. Для мене це буде честю.","No. The west doesn't NEED to use Nukes on Russia. Russia might NEED to use nukes against the west, but the US and Europe have enough artillery and military capability to pretty much flatten Russia without having to use nukes.",0
It’s a God send that Hershel is a walking dumpster fire… this is all that matters for the Dems at this point 👇.,"“In the senate, Democrats’ priority will be to confirm federal judges and executive branch appointees nominated by the president.”.",0
"Also, these are Israel forces patrolling Palestine’s country, occupied west bank. Sucks to be shot by foreign occupying forces on your own soil. No chance of investigation or justice. Cops act differently when they know they can’t be held accountable.",Israeli forces have been caught lying before. They shoot a lot of people every year. They aren’t “police”. They are an foreign occupying force. They do not have any form of accountability with the nation they commit crimes in.,0
"Realistically though, even if it does pass it would be torn to shreds by the court without a trial for Trump, I think it's possible that it would have some standing had there been even a single conviction thus far of insurrection for any of the participants of Jan 6th, but there hasn't.",I’m not sure what that has to do with my comment? The removal of disability is referencing the ability for congress to reinstate eligibility for office for an individual for whom the 14th amendment has already barred.,0
"There’s a whole cult around the idea that shorts are bad because, well, people don’t like hearing “I think your company is so bad I took on unlimited risk on that basis”.","Short selling puts a price on my skepticism. If I think a company isn’t worth its present value, I have two choices: I can (1) kvetch about its overvaluation like any random asshole or (2) short the company, putting my money where my mouth is.",0
"Edit: and to clarify I’m not making excuses for the USAs past war crimes. They were terrible and never should have happened. However they shouldn’t be used to justify Russias war crimes. And the Us had every right and obligation to call out Russia on their bullshit. Don’t @ me with “wElL tHe Us dId xYz…”, how does that justify Russia doing worse things on larger scales to the Ukrainians? And how do those long past actions prelude the US from rightfully calling out current Russian war crimes?","In any case, even if I’m 100% wrong, why exactly would that make Russias actions now ok? Please explain why Russias genocide against Ukraine is ok.",0
"The reason they want to up the retirement age is because Republicans have used social security as their personal piggy bank for decades now! Need to pay for a war, take it from social security. Need to pay for a tax cut for the rich, take it from social security. On and on. Now they don't want to pay it back. That's what it really is.","Yep. And until we grind everything to a halt, we’re gonna end up regressing 100 years or so as far as workers rights.",1
"You mean occupied territory right? Not actual Russian territory? Crimea, Luhansk, and Donbass are Ukrainian territory.","This is a good source of information, regarding Crimea. This guys name is William Spaniel, and he's got a lot of really solid informational videos about the war in Ukraine.",0
Alot of the success with GMLRS is that they can pretty easily saturate any possible missle defense with like a dozen missles. But ATACMS your always launching a much smaller number of missiles that will spend a longer time in the air.,"If I were to bet I’d say air launched cruise missiles are first, with range exceeding ATACMs. Storm Shadow/SCALP has been rumored to be adapted till Ukrainian SU-24 attack jets, just like the HARM was adapted to UA fighters earlier. That would put a lot of RU territory at risk.",1
"Oh it's worse than that. The back of napkin math says that at most something like .33% of the energy of a atomic explosion is propagated into a solid hydraulic pressure wave. And that means even a modest 10m wave would require a litte more than a 500,000 kiloton detonation. The tsar bomb, for comparison, has a hypothetical yield of 50,000 kilotons. (Nuclear bombs just don't have the right force over time to make ocean waves.).","Great. We already know that. And using it will get you noting but vaporized. There’s literally no upside for Russia in this situation they’ve stupidly gotten themselves into. The best thing they could do is just pull out of Ukraine with their tail between their legs and hope the world eventually forgets. Either that, or the Russian people need to send Putin and his allies the way of Tsar Nicholas. There are less and less positive paths forward for Russia with Putin in power.",1
What kills me about the gun lovers is they always use the excuse of they need them to defend themselves from the government.,"My bigger problem with the defense against government tyranny argument is this: when does it count as fighting government tyranny? Do I ever get to go shoot a politician because I think the government has become tyrannical? As far as I can tell, actually using a gun to stop government tyranny is pretty much not a real thing, so why is there such a strong commitment to this idea?",1
Israel created a charity that emphasized Islamic identity to oppose the PLO who were non-religious palestinian nationalists.,Israel cut ties and imprisoned their leader in 84 when they began arming. They were not called hamas yet. They had not published their charter.,0
Given that: (a) CNN had criticised China; (b) the language used by CNN to criticise China was appropriate; and (c) the commenter was incited to criticise the language used by CNN to criticise China; I inferred that: (d) the commenter was hypersensitive to criticisms of Chins.,"To state it concisely: (a) China's unlawful interception of US aircraft in international airspace indicates that there are increasing tensions in the region; and (b) a colourful synonym for increasing tensions is ""brewing"" tensions; such that (c) CNN's description of the tensions as ""brewing"" was not an unfair description of the circumstances.",0
"Thousands of armored vehicles, IFVs, tanks and missiles will eventually be given in the following packages if required.",Meanwhile russia will spend all their cash reserves and will eventually have to take money from russian citizens. How long do you think putin will remain in power after that?,0
Th funny thing is North Korean artillery hasn’t actually appeared in Ukraine yet. I don’t know what the hold up is but chances are South Korean artillery will be hitting Russian troops a lot sooner.,"The other thing to remember is that there is a lot wrong with North Korea. They don’t have good infrastructure to transport shells, they’re storage for shells is probably horrible and dishonesty is endemic in the culture. There’s just a very long way from “Russia wants shells and North Korea wants to sell” to “Russia has actual working shells” and there’s a lot that can go wrong in that chain.",0
"I don't know what Eastern European nations think (we are Southern more than Eastern), but the majority of Bulgarians had no issue with Russia, before this war, and even now many still don't.","Also historically we have a lot of good will for Russia, since it was them who liberated us from the Ottoman Empire, after 500 years of occupation.",0
Maybe the countries that allowed all the male youth to run away from the draft will cancel their visas and send them back home. I do hope there is some fight left in the citizenry because Putin has to go and I don't see NATO doing anything about it ...,"I do feel bad for all the babushkas out in rural bumvuknowherski waiting outside for bread and their daily trips to the village water pump. It's going to be a rough winter, I'm afraid... I'm sorry to say that I do blame Russians for Russia and Russia's actions for DECADES around the world.",0
The only thing you get to control is whether you use iron dome to intercept some of those that do get fired.,"Also, I’d rather their remaining ammo get fired into an iron dome than into a Ukrainian civilian flesh dome.",0
"They are not, tax returns aren’t released to the public. Maybe you’re thinking of financial statements, but this doesn’t show the tax they pay.","Cash paid for income taxes isn’t the same thing as the income tax they actually pay. At the time their financials are released to the public, their tax return hasn’t even been started yet.",0
I want to preface by saying I'm not knowledgeable in all of it but aren't we risking a full-scale nuclear war by supplying Ukraine with hardware? I'm honestly confused how we can basically be bankrolling and using Ukraine as a proxy and not be attacked by Russia for doing so.,Given Yuschenko and then Yanukovichs tenures it serves to further exemplify Russian and American involvement in Ukraine doesn't it? Not sure what the point of your question is.,1
"Right, so we were the one’s doing an unjustified invasion and occupation in 2001 and now we’re helping defend a nation from unjustified invasion, doing the literal 180 opposite thing. We’re also not at war, for the record, we’re supplying lend-lease aid to a reliable allied nation which is completely different from actually sending our own forces in to occupy a country. Not to mention that even though both invasions were unjustified, Ukraine is a country which is a hell of a lot more worth defending than Afghanistan was.","For no reason you think Ukraine is worth it but Afghanistan wasn't, are you sure you just didn't get swept up in the media storm?",1
Their current 50 majority is so razor thin you might cut yourself looking at it and has an open obstructionist in Sinema whose positions are further right wing than many Republicans and an old school blue dog in Manchin who represents extremely red territory and acts like it.,"Again, Nancy cannot waggle her fingers and make legislation appear out of thin air, and getting unanimous agreement from the Dems in the Senate is not so simple.",0
"Lavrov said, ""On the one hand, they keep spinning the irresponsible narrative that Russia is about to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and citing some statements by the Russian political leadership. In reality, there have been no such statements."".","Well, yes. Yes it is, Sergey. You wanted to play war. You have shown that you are untrustworthy in geopolitics, trade, on social media, in treatment of civilians, in looking in the mirror...and SO many other things over the past 80 years.",1
It would take decades of investment in military for Russia to even be on par with NATO if NATO would actually bring out their arsenal. Russia economy and demographic in on downward spiral. Just to bring them back to what they were a year ago economically will take a long time.,"I doubt every nation around Russia isn’t quadrupling their military arsenal after this war. Either that or they are negotiating with the EU, NATO or the USA for some type of military contract. Be it arms or protection.",0
Finland has been actively arming itself against its Russian neighbor for awhile. And the most you have to present as evidence is the same thing NATO does to Russia.,"Speaking of threats and pushing troops close to a country's border, NATO has been an active threat to Russia since well before Putin got there. And your solution is to threaten Russia MORE?? Gee...now what could possibly go wrong?",0
"Tanks in terms of modern warfare will ONLY work in a situation like Ukraine in which massive conventional force against a neighbouring country is possible. If Russia wants to go after Germany, it won't be fought with tanks.","Ahh yes im sure that germany just doesnt want western tech in russian habds, thats probably why they want the us to send other, more advanced, tanks first.",1
"Yeah you can complain and say ""Democrats don't do enoguh"" but that is on voters because too many people vote for republicans or don't vote at all, never giving democrats enough votes to do anything.","Yeah, but making the issue out to be a situation where the angelic Democrats are desperately trying to save us from the evil GOP is dishonest.",1
"Also, Russia uses conscription as well. How could Finland we defend against a large Russian conscript army without using conscripts of their own?","If you're referring to military conscription as slavery, bear in mind that Finland relies on (military and civilian) conscription of men for the nation's defence against Russia. Women may volunteer.",1
Don't underestimate the ability of small groups of radical politicians to abuse the rules of a government to take power with nowhere near majority support.,"It's the reason Trump got elected in the first place, people being mad at the shadowy entity they imagine is the government and, in their minds, sticking it to the evil government by voting in an outsider. They don't actually understand the consequences of anything enough to care about it.",1
"It's impossible for us peons to know for sure, but it really looks like Putin misjudged the war readiness of his armed forces, which leads me to believe that he didn't realize the depth or degree of the corruption. And you're probably right, he probably also does know about some corruption and turns a blind eye in order to have dirt on his people, and also as a reward for supporting him. I think that both can be true.","I bet both are true. It's all made worse by the fact that on paper the corruption doesn't exist. And everything is perfect. To bridge this gap between reality and expectations everyone lies about everything when talking to their higher ups, and their higher ups know it's a lie but roll with it because the success of everyone involved including them is dependent on this lie being accepted. So the lies spiral up through the ranks until they hit Putin, who is in the worst position to understand that everyone is lying to him, so badly misunderstands his own troop readiness.",1
"doubtful to be honest, presuming any sanity left in the russian command, staging ships there literally brings them right into range of ukraines anti-ship armament, and if they actually dock, the artillery.","probably cause after the moskva, that resupply ship and losing one their newest shiniest boats to ....wana say it was direct fire rocket artillery or something daft like that, they refuse to get their ships close enough for Ukraine to hit again, specially now they have even more anti ship capacity.",0
"Back to the original topic. Is the EU not the largest funder of genocide in Ukraine? Not only have they funded Russia for decades, even after Russia stole Crimea, but the EU is still Russia’s biggest customer.","Buying a product at break even or less to Russia and then using it against them (monetary conversion to Ukrainian support). I guess that's a low blow to Russia, so maybe it is a bit morally gray.",1
"That's not a common fiscal policy you are implying. A common fiscal policy consists of decisions about the collection and expenditure of taxes that have to be taken by a common institution and shared by the participating governments, thus EU must have a common tax-collecting agency like the US IRS for example.","But when it comes to the proposal of bailing out southern European countries during the 2009-12 Euro crisis via fiscal stimulus, it was Germany and other northern European countries who opposed it and these southern European countries still suffer the negative effects of austerity.",0
"We have Harris leave office and install someone like Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as VP and then have Biden step down a few months later. POTUS Jeffries then picks the person who will be his 2024 running mate as VP, for this exercise lets say Whitmer if she is reelected.",If Progressives want to rise they need to target seats where they have the most votes and keep building where they see growing support. Encourage younger people to vote in groups either with friends or family and post their 'I voted' sticker/pics on social media.,0
The CBO estimates this bill will add just over $100 billion to the debt. Republicans also want to cut social security by roughly the same amount. In other words Republicans want to take your social security and give it to tax cheats.,The message is perfect: the GQP serve the tax cheats and they're trying to protect their rich donors while real working Americans have to pay taxes to make up for the rich tax cheats.,1
Yeah once Russia gets pushed out of Crimea in a bit.. I wonder if Chechnya or Georgia will get any support from Ukraine or Europe if they attempt to get out from under .,"Maybe, but that type of support is a long ways off for the Ukraine part of it. If the war ends Ukraine (rightfully) isn't going to be quick to volunteer troops or equipment to assist other people in similar situations simply because they can't. They'll have a massive rebuilding phase to deal with, and on top of that they'll be under constant risk of attack no matter what Russia says in any peace treaty. Everything they have will go to repairing their society and fortifying their boarders. They may be able to give token assistance to countries in need out of compassion, but for many years that's likely going to be about it.",1
It completely ignores the population of people who WOULD want this. Yea it's a smaller minority than people who fall into the binary. That's just a given. It's their decision that those peoples identities aren't represented enough to matter that's the issue.,Because the government doesn’t care what you identify as because the only person who cares what you identify as is you.,1
"So here's the thing. I'm lightspeed stupid. I shouldn't even have political opinions. Yet, here we are. That stupidity infects every aspect of my life. Analogies included, because, well, analogies fall under the category of ""every."".",Yup. Dodges huge taxes and only pays a small fine… How is there no jail time for the individuals who ran this organization and the CPAs/HR lackeys who enabled their behavior?,1
"No its not. France and Germany bet on economic interdependence to convince Putin not to be an imperial aggressor in Europe. As the war was ramping up, France and Germany were the least prepared to confront Putin's aggressive plans because of what it would mean for German energy markets.",Germany needs to act like a true leader in the Western world and do what is necessary to secure Europe from armed invasions and annexations.,1
"There are 30 NATO countries, all with the same power to make demands, only Turkey and to a lesser extend Hungary is doing this.","Only thing that matters is strenh, and Turkey is probably 5th strongest in NATO, soon to be 6th if Germany gets its shit together.",1
Keep in mind that Oklahoma still levies a state income tax...however the property tax rate is lower due to other taxation schemes.,"Then look to the sales tax and other excise taxes. Here in Oklahoma, the sales tax varies from city to city. So in one place the tax can be 9.318%, yet be 9.445% the next town over...and that tax applies across just about all purchases with the exception of houses and cars, that's where excise comes into play.",0
"Right, but they voted for both bills. It would’ve gotten through if the republicans had voted for it. It would seem the republicans are more at fault because the democrats supported it and the republicans didn’t.",Republicans would have voted it down and blamed the Dems for not letting the negotiations go on. The republicans already said they wanted a 30 day cooling off period. By then republicans would be in power in house. The whole situation was set up and people are going with the republican narrative.,1
Some peoples perspective are just so entirely different to include the fact you mix in hate and fear and for good measure that people don’t like to admit they are wrong.,"I’ve heard a few, to include immigration, abortion, excluding transsexual from military service, and distancing us from NATO but I can’t remember anymore right off the top of my head. He had the Make America Great Again slogan which made his followers feel real good, but you’re right it seems the general statement is used more often than not because Trump really didn’t have very many real policies.",0
"Most weather balloons that are very similar to the balloon shot down Monday, usually carry equipment to also report back their position on public channels. If they dont then it is hard to detect them.",But they only discovered how to track them in the past year and only have known about them since 2021. Once they figured how to track them they used SIGNET to trace back previous times balloon fly overs confidently occured.,0
Yeah. The people that were already this way before 2016 I get. The people that seemed totally normal before who suddenly had this weird awakening of conspiracy and violent rhetoric is what scares me. I have a family member who was a blue collar prounion democrat voting woman my entire life. Since 2016 she’s done a 180 and has been in the Trump train ever since.,"“I hate all Jews/brown people/immigrants. They’re ruining our country and we ought to send them all to some kind of place, a camp maybe, where we can keep them all concentrated in one place. ….oh well not those Jews/brown people/immigrants that I personally know. They’re alright. It’s just everyone else like them I’m talking about. “.",0
"I guess it's moot anyway because if this bill passes, being an actual good thing, some joke of a federal court will find a way to take up the case with no standing and no cognizable complaint and nuke it anyway.","This has to be code for ""Some awful shitty corporation is paying us to not do this for some dumbass reason."".",0
"Since then, it's been shown pretty conclusively that Japan had already decided to end the war and was in the process of doing so when the bombs dropped.","That's what made the nukes so effective at ending the war. We showed Japan we had single bombs that could level a city. That's way more intimidating than the carpet bombing, despite being less lethal.",1
"Of course the US will sell more energy and at higher prices. Russia was effectively sanctioned out of market. Less supply means higher prices, and US along with other countries are filling in the gaps left by Russia. The US is profiting from that but so what? US didn’t create this circumstance, Putin did. Us benefiting from a circumstance we didn’t create isn’t a bad thing.",Finally its not as if the war is creating all smiles on our end. We are still subject to the same inflation that this war is causing. Europes just pissed because the war isn’t hitting us as hard as it is them. Yes that’s sucks but also not at all our fault.,0
"If it does, will maga republicans support trump in 2024 or at least vote to censure him? I’m addition to ALSO saying that israel controls congress, trump has said way worse things about Israel and Jews, both while in office and post office.","To be critical of Israel is to be antisemitic, as far as AIPAC is concerned. They want the US to never question their actions so Netanyahu never has to worry about consequences of defying the UN over his humanitarian crimes.",1
"Not wanting to diminish their own stockpiles in case of war, not wanting to bankroll a production line spin up, not wanting advanced tech to fall in to Russian hands. Could be any of them.","If Russia attacks Germany/Poland it triggers art 5 and deploys all NATO forces. If it didn't escalate to nukes immediately, conventional warfare between NATO and RF forces would take place, why wouldn't Germany want tanks for this possibility?",0
China is clearly trying to buy influence by giving them huge loans. But once the money changes hands they don’t really have to give a crap about China unless they want more money from them.,Yes you’re correct - China has no intention of getting their money back - they know they won’t. They just want the land / strategic ports. Once money changes hands never happens because it’s highly unlikely these countries can pay off these debts. There’s a reason they go to China for loans (China offers 4x interest rates compared to institutions like the world bank or IMF) - it’s because no one else will offer them money (world bank / imf).,1
"Carlos has likely done a few “offscreen” loyalty tests at this point, it isn’t like he’s winging things this loosely, it’s absolutely in coordination with “The Third Right”.","It’s sad, I used to think “At least there’s probably virtuous and good wealthy billionaires who can counter the bad ones”, but now I’ve finally accepted that anyone who reaches this kind of status has to be a sociopath of some kind. Rupert Murdock has only increasingly succeeded with his propaganda machine, and the other media moguls instead have pivoted to “how can we get in on that action”. They will not save us from their own greed.",0
"Cuba's interesting set of economic bail-out buddies says a lot: China, Russia, Algeria and Turkey. It remains to be seen if Cuba's long-standing economic crisis ever gets resolved.","The truth is that the Cuban regime is what holds back the country from having relations. We already know that their whole ""humanitarian assistance"" with doctors has the government withholding payment from those doctors to keep them from basically running away of the country.",1
It determines who is the democratic winner of the election. It determines legitimacy in a democratic republic. If the popular vote doesn't win the election it calls into question the nation's democracy.,"If overall turnout wasn't so depressing this would be a decent argument even with the electoral college in place, but that isn't the world we live in.",1
"So what good would any of the rights in the Constitution do, if the legislature could ignore it and no one could tell them otherwise?","If the rights in the Constitution weren't enforceable, they would be meaningless. And the only enforcement mechanism that currently exists is that a court can say ""Nope, guys, this violates the Constitution, and that outranks a regular old law, so this is void and the courts won't enforce it. If you want to make that change, you have to pass an amendment."".",0
Yes I saw a survey that showed 90% or so of Koreans like the US. I can't speak for every Korean because we definitely have groups in the minority that hate US soldiers and the crimes they commit in SK but almost everyone I know is thankful that the US helped save SK from communism.,I'm Korean and the vast majority of us are happy and thankful for the US because they saved us from the horrible fate that innocent North Koreans face daily. Hopefully if the US can one day topple North Korea we can reunite and give North Koreans a better future.,0
"But I guess we can simple excuse the terrible things they do as they are only capable of following their orders from old white men, right?","The comment I replied to has no bearing on anything whatsoever, but apparently I'm the asshole for not wanting to excuse her terrible behavior as simply being at the behest of old white men.",0
"There's an old Russian proverb: ""Кто в армии служил - тот в цирке не смеётся""/""The one who has served in the army, laughs not in the circus"".","The jokes write themselves, but every military sends performers to entertain troops, the USO is famous for it. It seems to be a significant morale boost. I would love to see Russian circus performers, but the USO is more likely to inflict pop-country music like Toby Keith on the troops, which surely violates some element of the Geneva Convention.",1
"Is the current penal system getting pretty darn close to slavery? Absolutely, and there desperately needs to be a change, but blaming the 13th Amendment is useless. The first step to solving a problem is to define it, and if your definition is wrong so will your solution be.",">There is, Mr. President, an essential difference between the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. The act of Congress of 17th July, 1862, set free certain classes of slaves. The President's proclamation of January 1, 1863, proclaimed freedom to those of certain districts. Both were measures of emancipation. The concerned the persons of slaves, and not the institution of slavery. Whatever their force and extent, no one pretends they altered or abolished the laws of servitude in any of the slave States. They rescued some of the victims, but they left the institution otherwise untouched. They let out some of the prisoners, but did not tear down the hated prison. They emancipated, let go from the hand, but they left the hand unlopped, to clutch again such unfortunate creatures as it could lay hold upon. This amendment of the Constitution is of wider scope and more searching operation. It goes deep into the soil, and upturns the roods of this poisonous plant to dry and wither. It not only sets free the present slave, but it provides for the future, and makes slavery impossible so long as this provision shall remain a part of the Constitution.",0
Which is exactly why you need a program written by minority scholars that teaches their history and concepts.,"How about a course covering Latino, Asian-American and African-American history? Kind of a non-Euro centric US history class. Cover most of the bases. I'm not sure why African-American history needs a separate course like this at the high school level. Clearly, college is a different story.",1
The West didn't turn Russia into a Fascist kleptocracy. The West didn't force Russia to bleed out it's own military through corruption. The West didn't force Russia to mobilize 300k recruits only to throw them away into a meat grinder.,"Finish the meat grinder, end of war maybe, Russia doesn't care to qonquer, care to be safe. Ukraina is destroyed by elite warmongers, we wish to be the last fight. Focus on WORLD Prosperity and not for a few pockets.",1
"These companies get decade-long exclusive rights to drugs they’ve developed. Only after that time, will generics become available for a cheaper price that still may be too expensive for some. They are incentivized through profit motive to develop drugs aimed to reduce symptoms instead of curing the underlying diseases and medical conditions. Think of it as subscription vs. one-time fee. These companies use government and institutional research to bring their products to fruition, in addition to the $$$ we already addressed. How does this relate to Covid?","Well, let’s remember that private companies deserve to profit from their labor and efforts; but to the extent they are piggybacking off governments, public universities, and other institutions, then using the IP generated from that to profit from public health emergencies or novel and fast-moving health issues (like pandemics) they should not be allowed to charge for the IP. Looking at the vax in isolation your argument carries more water, but looking at the business as a whole, and in the setting of reality as opposed to business class, one is not impeding the private nature of pharmaceutical companies by asking them to take an L on a portion of future profits, which year over year are in the billions of dollars.",0
"There's a huge difference between traps meant for enemy combatants killing civilians and traps meant for civilians killing civilians. They could set traps on solely military objects like weapons, APCs, tanks, munitions, military helicopters, etc or locations like military bases. Instead, they are setting traps in civilian houses, in civilian home appliances, on civilian corpses and on injured civilians.","If you are against traps that are found by civilians, you're against traps and ambushes, period. No such thing as understanding if it's for soldiers.",1
"I'm so sorry for the Iranian people but we all see how brave and tough you are fighting for eachother and your rights. You are doing what Russia is too cowardly to do. Really clear to see the differences in cultures and who is willing to fight for their freedoms despite oppression. When your county gets to that point, you either handle it or you don't. Some will die for the freedom of others. OR you just act like sheep and allow the government to continue on doing what it's doing unchallenged.","Yep thank u. One of those pro ruzzies who won't stand up downvoted my comment. Go figure. They won't go to the front lines nor fight Pootin, but downvote my comment in protest of the sheep that they are. I merely compared the vast differences of the 2 countries and they hate it. Welp what can I say. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️.",0
"That’s why it calls for “peace talk”, to prevent further dilemma. However, Xi has filled his “cabinet” full of his men, and I am not sure if they have the wisdom to handle this.",Probably because he can’t stand the world’s 1st/2nd famous dictator (counting himself) fail either .,0
"If they are going to send crude waves of poorly equipped infantry, Ukraine should take them out at ranges they can't respond to, rather than letting them get close enough to engage in hand to hand trench fighting.","However the West can and is ramping up production of largely technologically superior heavy weapons, many of which can eliminate targets outside the max range of soviet equipment.",0
"Quote from Humeniuk: ""Yesterday we reported about 260 square kilometres and today over 3,000 square kilometres have been liberated. Though there are still areas where enemy forces might linger."".","On the evening of 11 November, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were in Kherson; other Ukrainian forces were on the outskirts of the city.",0
Sanctions can damage the Russian war efforts to some degree and should be viewed in that light. Focus should be on doing everything possible to deny materials which have military use.,"Larger damage to the Russian economy also do thisto some extent, but it's a blunt instrument which will take years to break the Russians.",0
"So it says that the religious exemption is only for non-profits. While the legal protections in terms of the government and what marriage grants you is good... But are we sure we want to force people to participate in things that they disagree with religiously, or even if it is something that they don't like? Since there isn't a problem in finding people to make your wedding website, bake your wedding cake, or anything else like that I can't understand why the government can force you to participate in something you don't want to be part of. What happens when it is something you disagree with down the line? My inner libertarian comes out for stuff like this and I can't help but be against anything that forces someone to participate in an activity they don't want to. Like, just hire someone else.",Dude. I don't care if people get married to the same sex. It doesn't affect me. You're the one who wants to FORCE people to participate in the act. Right now there is a supreme court case about a web designer who doesn't want to type up a website about a husband marrying a husband because he doesn't want to participate in something he disagrees with. Just leave him alone. If he says he doesn't want to participate in something he doesn't like then don't use the government to force him. That is authoritarian. Leave people alone.,0
It’s time to end the war and let Ukraine strike a peace agreement before the whole country gets steamrolled or we get goose stepped into world war three.,"“We must suspend all foreign aid for the War in Ukraine and demand that all combatants in this conflict reach a peace agreement immediately,”.",1
Looked at the Wikipedia page of this guy and definitely sketchy shit regarding this guy but you never know with Russia if they're making things up or what's the truth. Why did he have 80k of cash with him?,He had multiple passports and was caught with 80k in cash. He was caught at a hotel meeting with a KGB double agent. One could guess he was going to use that 80k to bribe the KGB double agent for classified information for the United States.,1
"Further, pray that nuclear armed nations don't fall apart or do anything stupid. Nuclear winter is its own form of man-made climate change after all...",Climate change is unavoidable. Our strategy needs to be more on coping with climate change than preventing it.,1
"“Northern Europe has warmed more strongly in winter than in summer, while in the south the warming trend is more apparent in summer.”.","“While the warming trend in Europe is on average stronger in the warmer seasons, winters are also becoming warmer as a result of global temperatures.”.",0
Trying to ban all porn with no exceptions is almost as bad of a optics move as trying to ban all drinks that aren't just bottled water.,"Outright banning all porn has a greater-than-zero chance of actually being the spark needed to begin a democratic revolution, or alternatively, bring about the total collapse of society in the US.",0
"I see one force content with us being near the bottom in nearly every OECD ranking, and another that actually wants to figure out ways to move forward in a way that can actually help the average person out once in a while. Yes, they both take corporate money, but, hey, SCOTUS decided they're people too.","Some conspiracy theorists call the Dems and Republicans the ""uniparty,"" because they're both backed by corporate interests, so they're both ""the same"" (but don't forget to vote Republican anyway!). I disagree.",0
"I believe it is in the moderate wings interests to fix the voting maps so that more districts are more purple. Even if the districts would still be won by Republicans, they would be more likely to be won by moderate republicans.","Impressively, Democrats were able to play a key role in selecting the Ohio House Speaker despite holding only 32 seats to the GOP's 68 seats in the State House.",1
"At this point, I'm starting to wonder if Russia actually is trying to escalate to a nuclear war. Or Putin has gone absolutely batshit crazy, like for realz because this makes no sense. They can't even handle Ukraine, what makes Russia think pushing a NATO countries borders back would be chill or actually be feasible considering how they're handling Ukraine thus far.","I think that Medvedev is not only assuming that Russia wins in Ukraine, but that Russia will incorporate Belarus and launch their attacks on Poland from both places.",1
My favorite thing is YouTube repeatedly ignoring my “don’t show me any more from this channel” with the Joe Rogan Experience. I literally can’t escape them on YouTube.,"YouTube? Music videos, anime and video game reviews, sci-fi & fantasy movie trailers, cooking and household DIY repair stuff....but then Joe Rogan, Benny Shapiro, and some random-ass Fox News clips constantly show up.",1
"So many people who have these conservative values about personal debt (which are very good) get worked up about national debt, but they are so different you cannot compare.",Most national debt is held in that nation by retirement funds and investment banks and giant corporations etc.,0
Sanctions could work but they would have to be catastrophic for both sides to have a chance. Haven't seen evidence of any willingness to do that.,Doesn't work if the choice is a country dominating the world one nation at a time with the threat of nuclear war if anyone intervenes.,0
"They're disconnected from reality. No business is gonna go and buy all these VR headsets for its employees to do meetings when phone calls, emails and zoom chats get the job done as it is.",And not only that but they seem to expect it to simultaneously have mass appeal and to be used as some sort of expensive business communication tool.,0
"As a side note if there is any demographic treated as poor as Ukrainians it's Russian resistors. Torture, murder, indefinite jail are what resistors have to face.","Someone else mentioned resistors in Nazi Germany. Same thing, they never were able to overthrow the Nazis and were never officially recognized as a resistance so they received very little foreign aid.",0
"Yes, we're starting to see a trend where an emergency is declared or taken advantage of in order to get through a policy decision that Presidents can't get through Congress. That wasn't the intent of it, the goal is to give the President some leeway to respond quickly to emergencies while Congress spins up to provide longer-lasting relief. Some more guardrails or restrictions on emergency powers are needed.","Agreed. There was bipartisan effort after the fight over the border wall to reign in Executive emergency powers, but the GOP tried to play politics and let Trump build his wall. Sadly it died and we didn't get any more traction on it. But I agree that we really need to address the emergency powers issue to prevent abuse.",0
"Your reward is many downvotes. If you want more, comment on all the 'goodwill' Ukrainian videos that are very real and clearly not propaganda that is planned and sent out by officers in order to hide the atrocities of war from other soldiers in order to keep their moral high and to follow orders.",The difference is that there are videos (like the many videos of what is verifiably Russian planes launching rockets into apartment buildings or the video of Russians slicing a Ukrainian man's testicles off with a box cutter) that are irrefutable evidence of Russian war crimes.,1
I mean yeah sounds bad but what does their politics have to do with anything I don't really care if a cop is right or left leaning as long as they're doing their job right. My belief is there's only a good cop and a bad cop.,"LoL, ‘killing cops to make the main character richer is ok. But doing it because contextual they are fascists is bad.’.",1
"There are a number of programs being staged up at the state and federal level to support childcare. The biggest problem we’re having is finding trained and certified workers, so we’re also funding workforce training. Unfortunately, until we can get childcare workers back in the game, costs will likely stay high.",That means everyone has to work for food/money and having a place to live in ALSO costs a lot of money now.,1
"According to Foundations of Geopolitics, Russia will offer to return the islands to the Japanese and use the diplomatic opportunity to stoke anti-American feelings in Japan. How realistic that objective is, I do not know.","This is still not accurate. The actual legislation from 2015 (not the fairly meaningless cabinet resolution of 2014) is considerably softer, and the part which alters the SDF law has these changes:",1
"Was funny that this attempt failed as have all attempts by russia to produce supposedly advanced weapons, there armata tank is vapourware, they have to buy drones from Iran and ballistic missiles it sounds like.",Putin has been reporting he has hypersonic missiles since trump sold him Americas secrets about the nuclear tipped hypersonic weapons .,0
"So, assuming the laws of physics are indeed consistent pre-big bang and post-big bang, then we can take a pretty big guess that, if entropy was not the ultimate fate of what existed before, maybe entropy is not the ultimate fate of our universe either. But how is this possible when the evidence is mounting that we have an expanding universe?","This makes me wonder if the heavier elements in our universe have then also been around longer (and in greater abundance) than we thought. Because if massive galaxies were around so soon that suggests supernovas were also going off a lot earlier than we thought, which means more time for heavy elements to form.",1
"Lawyers close to several Republican witnesses in the Fulton County investigation into post-election interference by former President Donald Trump and his allies are preparing to move to quash any possible indictments by the district attorney, Fani Willis.","The special purpose grand jury served as an investigatory body that could recommend charges but could not indict. Willis is now deciding whether to pursue charges and open a ""regular"" criminal grand jury, to seek possible indictments against Trump or others based on the special grand jury's recommendations, compiled in a report it made following the completion of its work.",0
"He was probably forced to lie that he had been kidnapped as he was most likely a part of POWs 45 for 45 exchange that happened the same day. Russian POWs don’t just walk freely on Kyiv streets ready to be kidnapped. Ukraine has not officially commented this so far, but if he was in fact exchanged against his will (which Zelensky promised would not be happening) after he already stated he wanted to fight against russia - this is a huge mistake on Ukrainian part and will reduce the level of trust and desire to surrender.",- but if he was in fact exchanged against his will (which Zelensky promised would not be happening) after he already stated he wanted to fight against russia - this is a huge mistake on Ukrainian part and will reduce the level of trust and desire to surrender.,1
"All of them are proposed to be banned because of propaganda of violence, anti-government activity, suicide, drug abuse and use of psychoactive substances, extremism, childfree, LGBTQ+, pedophilia, pornography and other sexual deviations which damage and undermine 'traditional values' and require treatment or prosecution.","Of course, they will eventually cover this form of blatant satanist propaganda. Those responsible will be taken care of.",0
Because this is what is proposed by the administration. The core issue is that people are trapped in debt at a young age and have no means of getting out from it.,Most people that are pro debt relief are also pro allowing it to be removed with bankruptcy or removing the extremely predatory interests rates.,0
Good. What has he done for Australia to be given the honor of being featured in Australian money? (Or any currency for that matter). Feature something Australian in it instead.,"Not actually Australian, actually, but I've heard about that. The Monarch didn't do anything, really. A constitutional monarchy means Governor Generals are ""appointed"" by the Monarch, although they're actually proposed representatives by the country's own government. The Monarch only approves of who the countries themselves recommend be the GG.",1
"Either way, ""also burn wood fuel"" does not mean that they are entirely heated by wood but could be a mix of all and partial wood based home heaters.","Edit to clarify: practically all our wood-burning houses have central heating with hot-water radiators and a wood-burning oven that heats the water. In the house I'm in now, there's an automation that switches to electric heating at night if the water temperature drops to a certain point. These systems aren't generally built into new houses, since not many people are willing to make their own firewood nowadays.",1
"Every night when I go to bed, I pray a prayer that I live long enough to see the next generation start blaming your generation for everything wrong.",I pray your children look at what your generation is responsible for and hate you as much as you hate boomers.,0
"The war ends in 30 minutes. NK shoots all it's conventional weapons at Seoul, and SK responds and it's over. The thing is, those artillery pieces are within range of Seoul, and it doesn't take artillery long to fly through the air and hit, giving citizens very little time to seek shelter.",So Seoul proper and southern Seoul metro may be a bit of a stretch yeah depending on how modern their artillery and ammunition is.,1
If they had some Christian ceremony where kids were forced to participate people would be up in arms. This seems no different.,"See, this is where we differ. Because you're seeing a bunch of children being forced to engage in MaGiC sPeLLs and I see an acknowledgement of another culture's hokum, as opposed to Christian (or Jewish) hokum.",1
"This is possible due to a small detail about the sanctions being kept obscure in the media: Any one head of a member state not signing a sanction is enough to stop it from coming into effect. In other words, Orbán signed everything that he claims is hurting his country.","All of Orbán's ideological friends abroad are in trouble. Trump is under legal investigation, Bolosanaro is out, Russia is desperately grappling to keep a losing war going longer in the desperate fantasy that Western unity will fall apart with the cold and so on.",1
"Now, with fracking + slower growth in US oil demand, the US satisfies most of its own needs and arguably doesn't need the SPR. But since we have it, it's handy for stabilizing prices and warding off oil-producing dictators.","Canada is a huge net exporter of oil, so it has never needed to build a strategic reserve. The US strategic petroleum reserve was created to let us handle an embargo if needed, after the US tapped out its early oil boom and became an oil importer in the 1970s.",0
"So? They don't have to vote for her. It's not an excuse nothing is written in law that a Republican can't vote Democrat or vice versa to get a toxic person out. Nothing stops people in her district from backing a moderate Republican. The problem isn't dark money its that most people don't care about local elections until it's too late, I'd bet 50% of her votes were ""she was the republican on the ballot"". People are just lazy.","Yes, people can be lazy and low effort. Very few research before they vote, even less research what they hear (or even know how to). There is no integrity with politicians who campaign with unethical means like making voters believe they are above ""insert label"". Unfortunately, many end up voting against their own interests. It's somewhat painful to watch, if you ask me.",1
"The federal government didn't go around killing protesters and/or sentencing them to death like what Iran is doing. The George Floyd protests also prompted social reform on various government levels (as an example, the federal government passed an anti-lynching bill). And no, Derek Chauvin is serving time in prison for what he did to George Floyd. Contrast that with Iran again, where Mahsa Amini's killers are unaccounted for and the regime has no intention of altering the rules in response to social unrest.",Protests and demonstrations happen every day in the US. That tends to happen when its people are guaranteed the rights of free speech and free assembly. And quite often they take place without incident. That's the way it should be.,0
"In the US you have two ""Satanic"" organizations - The Satanic Temple and the Church of Satan (i.e. LaVeyan Satanists).","There is an organization that calls itself the Satanic Temple. They do stuff like file lawsuits claiming that abortion is a sacrament in their religion and abortion bans infringe on their religious freedom, and start After School Satan clubs as a counterpoint to after school religious clubs in public schools. Basically they take the “religious freedom” laws that some evangelicals want to push, and turn it back on them. They’re all right.",1
"Second, please go back to the 80s and 90s REMEMBER airwaves, newspapers, etc. They rarely painted Trump wrong. In fact, he was McDonald commercials and most Americans just found him a joke around that time. There were journalists that were barred from speaking against him: Taj Mahal. Not everyone knew that he was an ass. NY citizens that worked within the construction, real estate market did. But not everyone. Don't analyze things from the point of view of a millennial or gen Z that is not looking back.","That's a very broad statement in regards to millennials and gen z. As a millennial, I remember the Clinton administration. And I know I'm not the only person under 40 who is politically aware- not only the current political climate but the past as well. It would be extremely short-sighted if two entire generations were only are aware of current politics. I remember Trump being a slime ball. I also remember his gaudy New York apartment. Anywho, generalizing people is not nice...",1
"They are making it clear they want this included in this year's budget. So while yes this particular bill will never get passed, parts of this bill may be incorporated into the budget bill.","Ultimately, the super-wealthy pay Republicans too much money in return for preventing the IRS from ever having full resources to go after them.",0
"(Also, as wasteful as its military spending can be.... it turns out it is actually quite efficient comparatively speaking.).","2. Eastern Ukrainians are not the fanatic pro-Russians you imagine, some might have been sympathetic to Russia and they use the Russian language but that does not automatically mean they automatically oppose liberation of their territories. Ukraine's own president is a Russian speaker, its just a language. Their ""separatist governements"" were puppet republics lead by Russians (from Russia) defended by Russian soldiers. Do not imagine this was a civil war, it was a barely disguised foreign invasion.",1
"Sure. I can't do it with the books I have on hand, but there are studies on e.g. the death rate of roman senators. I don't even have to do the work, just find the books.","Nevertheless, I did a brief search for you. These are some titles on the demographics of the Roman senate I found in about 5 minutes, including one PhD dissertation.",0
"This is a big part of my thoughts on it. Comparing it to the Bosphorus is a joke. You got like 30 countries nearby to aid support if any issues were to occur over that very short passage. Meanwhile the Northwest Passage is 1,450 kilometers long (900 miles) long and it's really only Canada there to handle anything that may happen. IF they are in the right spot the US may be able to send aid from Alaska.","As far as the US is concerned, Canada may as well be Minnesota or Alaska. If shit hits the fan, Canada is going to be defended as if it was domestic territory.",1
"So probably because of his military experience, and the fact he wasn't actually recruited straight from prison. At least that's where I'd put my money.","So, let me get your logic right. He's looking to save his own life by fleeing to another country and threatening to testify to the warcrimes Russia has commited? The same Russia that famously has had dissidents in foreign nations assassinated?",0
"Most of the major technological breakthroughs of the past half century were from public funding. This includes most medical research (yet pharma companies keep the profits), GPS, the internet, telecommunications, space travel (SpaceX didn’t invent anything), etc. hell, the Covid vaccine was developed with mostly public and donated money. It’s a life saving treatment, it shouldn’t have been patented but the plans should have been given for free to all countries who could produce it. The IP can be copied for free anyways, why withhold free medical info from countries just because they’re poor?","Lastly, removing IP laws would actually improve innovation. All ideas are copied, inspired, and built off of other peoples ideas. IP laws give temporary monopolies to individual companies, which leads to parallel development of the same thing (waste of time), and slower innovation.",0
"Had Nicholas the II not abdicated the throne, he might still be alive. But that's not how history happened.",tl;dr If Nicholas the II was more of an autocrat his family would still be in power. The story of Nicholas the II doesn't remind us to be better people... but worse.,0
"Two-thirds of GOP members see Russia as a military threat, but only 56% of Democrats share their fear. And while half of Republicans say Russia is to blame for the violence in eastern Ukraine, just 39% of Democrats agree.","The smallest partisan division is over economic aid to Kyiv: 69% of Republicans back such assistance, as do 60% of Democrats.",0
We spend the most money per capita on education - our country was fucked by half a century+ of apartheid. No one is kept dumb our country was broken during apartheid where all the whites would have gotten treated differently.,Not to say that there are no political issues affecting whites that are ignored/exacerbated by the government but it's delusional to compare it to apartheid South Africa.,1
"Jesus was a great dude with a great message, doesnt mean your going to burn in hell (which isnt even part of the actual writing) if you do something like show your hair in public, or eat meat on a friday, or do work on the sabbath(which is Saturday according to the writing by the way).","Religion is a belief in an imaginary big guy in the sky...it has nothing to do with humanity any more than any random TV/Movie cult... Religion and basing your life around it is the exact same thing as being obsessed with comic books and comicon type crap or being a complete idiot about stuff like the MCU, if you remove these things you still have humanity, just less opression of people for having different imaginary sky friends.",0
"Here in Illinois we've seen legalized weed and a rising minimum wage, and our state isn't exactly flush in progressives.","Just because everything you want isn't delivered in two years doesn't mean nothing is getting done. Run better races in primaries if you want progressive candidates, but centrist Democrats offer a far better option than Republicans.",0
"RCV changes how people decide to vote. With RCV, you don’t have to sacrifice a vote for your preferred candidate like you do with first-to-the-post. There’s a chance Palin could have won without RCV, but given the popularity of Peltola, based on 1st round votes, it would only be a chance and not a sure thing.","Without RCV Palin would’ve lost by even more in all likelihood, since Begich would run a third party race. Look at the 2010 senate match.",1
I remember reading interviews with Polish volunteers that fought for Ukraine in the first months of the war.,"So you were told ""you're gonna support the war in other ways so the trained troops can massacre Ukrainians"".",1
"Heh. My grandfather lived through that. One of the things he did to keep his siblings and himself alive (they were still kids when my great grandfather died - they didn't have anything and we're too young to work the farm) was to mentally map the floor plan of the store. Then, that night, he returned with his sister.","Iirc, some models of hybrid American pickup trucks work that way - they're designed to operate as a worksite generator and, if equipped, sometimes feature a 240v, 30amp connection. ... Heck, one guy I know has a regular has powered pickup and he has that ability.",0
Doesn’t matter if Biden did the same thing as Trump…..if it’s our understanding that taking classified information and keeping it as a civilian is a crime then Biden committed a crime it doesn’t have to equal Trumps crime.,"Does it matter, If Trump never existed do we feel it’s a crime to take classified government documents to keep as a civilian…..if the answer to that is yes it’s a crime, then Biden committed a crime.",0
All expectation is Russia will be forced to accept the reality of losing the war without anything materially changing in Russia. That doesn't allow for what happened with West Germany.,"Please don't act as if ""the west"" was a single bloc. Letting the kurds die was primarily a US-thing, heavily criticized by everybody else.",1
The article only mentions the military in reference to driving ambulances and performing other critical jobs in absence of workers because of the strikes. NOT forcing people to work at gunpoint.,Oh I agree completely that the politicians are being asshats(always are). I made my comment when a bunch of redditors were saying the govt were using the military to force people to work.,0
"First off, you’re going to need to understand what a fascist is. You apparently don’t. You also need to understand what a dictator is, something else you obviously don’t.","Because one is moving towards a fascist dictatorship and one isn't. Greedy, corrupt corporate Democrats aren't manifesting violence by telling the dumbest people exactly what they want to hear. They're just getting rich by telling moderately stupid people exactly what they want to hear. If you think those are the same, why not just be honest and say that you like the racism?",1
"Turnout in Georgia’s general election this year was 56 percent of all active voters, shy of the 2018 high-water mark for a midterm election.","Turnout in Georgia’s general election this year was 56 percent of all active voters, shy of the 2018 high-water mark for a midterm election.",0
Isn't part of the issue that older cars were made when fuel emissions standards were more lax than today (and presumably cars today are made with more lax standards than the future)? Being well maintained or not doesn't change that.,"This wouldn't be forcing a change all at once. It starts with petrol vehicles over 27 years old. I don't know what percent of vehicles are over 27 years old in Poland, but I can't imagine it's a lot.",0
I’m suggesting that she has a lot of fans of voting age and that’s why she matters. Why you’ve chosen to fixate on teenaged white girls when that describes a fraction of her fanbase today is beyond me.,"Because it’s effecting white teenage girls, it sure didn’t matter in the 90’s when Pearl Jam tried to take them on because it mainly effected white guys.",1
3. Ukraine is actually overrun and turned once more into a Belarusian style state with the west allowing this to happen. Or the west and Nato decide it can not accept Ukraine being overrun and decides to intervene in Ukraine only.,"This is going to end up with East and West Ukraine and Ukraine still being the ""buffer zone between Europe and Russia."" It will just be a smaller country. Putin's goal is not all of Ukraine but the Donbass + Luchenko region why because of it's economic importance. Tons of wheat, rare earth minerals, and ores. Russia is being a bully and taking the success of Ukraine. Putin is expanding countries populace and economy by doing this. Russia's population was actually declining and stagnant throughout the 2000's and so was their economy. All this NATO bullshit and hype about Ukraine joining NATO is Just propaganda. Putin is just trying to make Russia more powerful at the expense of Ukraine.",1
"We keep reading that Russia has suffered Strategic defeat, but they are still fighting and no end in sight. Strategic is nonsense, there needs to be tactical defeats, so Russians realise they can't continue. This is where NATO urgently must to step up to the plate and either join or give Ukraine all of the advanced support it needs. Russia will not suffer, but will just retire to its legitimate borders, Ukraine and the West can then get on with fixing our world.","Given the issues they face... blaming Putin, withdrawing, and showing willingness to work with the West is the smartest course of action.",1
"It honestly doesn’t even matter who stole it first. The bottom line is, the term was taken from a community of people where it meant something and then was turned into a way to belittle and downplay the continued struggles of Black people in this country in addition to “anything y’all don’t like.” That’s it. That’s my whole point.","Sure. Parents wouldn't like it, so let the parents deal with it. ""Your kid can't get AP credit and reduce the cost of college because a politician thinks he gets to dictate curriculum on a topic he doesn't understand for the entire country. Sorry, take it up with him."".",1
"There's plenty of content on Reddit that is dishonest and meant to shape public opinion, but it's FAR more regulated than the size of the purse you can give zuck.","You can go on reveddit to know who is trying to control narratives. You've described what right-wing misinformation campaigns do, while attributing all actions to democrats.",0
Address that to your country's government too. I mean...if these stations are known...why does barely any country seem to do anything about it?,Close them down. Governements of the affected countries should be furious and take action. Instead we get strongly worded statements and that's it.,0
"Republicans, if you’re reading this, please put up DeSantis if you want to stand a reasonable chance of winning the 2024 presidential election. Otherwise Biden will overwhelmingly win over Trump or any other MAGA-associated advocate (rightfully so!).","Yup. It's Trump's cult. I don't think they understand what that means. Cult leaders don't admit fault, they assign blame. Those who attempt to abandon the cult are threatened. Cult leaders don't surrender power peacefully, they go scorched earth and take their devout followers with them.",1
"Well, have any paintings been destroyed? Do these protesters keep accidentally targeting paintings with protective covers like they're in some comedy skit?",Its interesting how much time people spend criticising the protestors instead of the oil companies in these threads when literally no art has been damaged by these protests. I think people on reddit just hate liberal young people.,1
I’m not saying Biden didn’t store the documents better than trump. I’m saying that he didn’t obstruct justice by knowingly lying about turning them all over like trump did.,"FWIW I don't think anything should happen to President Biden because of this, but to say what has occurred is not illegal is disingenuous.",1
"I’m sure it was meant recently. The Japanese haven’t had a standing army since WW2, initially because of the occupation, but more recently by choice.","Also, as an American.. I’m pretty up to date on Imperial Japanese atrocities in WW2. However, we created deliberate Firestorms during our strategic bombings of the Japanese mainland.",0
"And then there’s the unspoken truth that if he were a Democrat, he would have been forced to resign by now, investigations would be pending, etc.","Ok, so you catch him before he takes office, yet still nothing is done and he will continue forward as a “typical” politician that lies, cheats and steals for a career.",1
The frequency of violence and terror by right wingers versus the frequency of same by leftists. The frequency of claims of “false flag operations” (unsupported and in fact contradicted by the evidence) by right wingers versus the same by leftists. The promotion of violence and terror by right wingers versus decrying the same by leftists.,"Rhetorically, the right wing are the ones primed for violence and false flags. The right wing are the ones promoting violence and terror against their “enemies” (implicitly or explicitly denying their opponents humanity). Leftists refer to them as opponents and decry violence (against anyone). Additionally, the right wing constantly makes claims of “false flag operations” in response to right wing violence, which combines well with their penchant for projecting. As a result, the balance of probability is on a false flag by her own organization. If I’m wrong, it’s because of the boy-who-cried-wolf response.",0
"It is equal. I doubt anyone is arguing that it shouldn’t be. The argument was whether knit blazers counted as “blazers” or “cardigans.” The click-bait stuff about “bare arms” is nonsense, as women were required to have jackets or sweaters in the old dress code regardless.",Why is it distressing to you that the women’s dress code would become equivalent to the men’s dress code?,1
"This is low-effort, low-stakes tomfuckery which, to be fair, does get attention but it only makes climate change activists look like overpriviledged fuckwits with too much time on their hands and not enough drive to do something actually meaningful.","Instead they're sanctimonious assholes doing stupid stunts that drive people away from climate activism, ensuring the fossil fuel stranglehold holds for a little longer.",1
"The UN exists solely as a formal mechanism, that all members have agreed upon, which facilitates the collective efforts of its members to engage with each other and coordinates the agreed upon actions of member states.","In effect, yes they're two different concepts. I wouldn't say it's a poorly educated perspective. It's common for folks to be unaware of the UNs purpose and function as it, indeed, can be very conceptual like most legislative frameworks.",0
Lithuania began phasing out russian as a second language in final years of the first decade of 21st century.,"When I was younger, my grandfather believed they still do it in Lithuania post independence and wanted me to put Russian in it.",0
Why did I think hemp production started earlier? I wonder if it was just government controlled back then and the 2014 farm bill opened it up more for private business...,Emphasis mine. This is pretty clear that language includes the ability to concentrate that D9 into a level that could get a person high.,0
For a whole new system like this they don't want to give it punishments while they figure out the kinks that wouldn't be the citizens fault for not following through... They could always add punishment down the road when they've become confident in their process.,But they can compel participation in the civics of this country(see jury duty). Additionally if i am remembering this correctly Australia doesn't force you to vote for a candidate more that you must cast a ballot as there is an option for none of the above.,0
People still get upset if I compare how Russian and Ukrainian culture are still pretty similar; a lot of sentiment is very partisan to build up a rally cry for gathering support.,"Because people on here are blindly supporting Ukraine regardless of the context, so anything that might make them look bad gets met with serious vitriol.",1
Donald Trump was the last president to increase food aid to North Korea. The president got dicked around a lot and essentially North Korea got food for absolutely nothing. That event was so shameful it's reshaped US policy towards North Korea and it's unlikely that Biden will increase food aid to the country.,Doesn't North Korea regularly conduct missile tests and other destabilizing events in order to blackmail the world for food aid?,1
"Even if true, they weren't the first ones to import deadly nerve gas components. In 1992 an Israeli jet crashed in the Netherlands with 50 gallons of Sarin precursor on board.","No, of course not. Israel did not intend to be caught intentionally importing nerve gas precursors, but sometimes airplanes crash. And that can be inconvenient. And yes, if you think Hezbollah is evil because they are trying to import chemical weapons, then pot - meet kettle.",0
"In fact, at the very end of the article, the author states that ""as an ICBM, the Yars is not a tactical nuclear weapon, and analysts doubt that resorting to unconventional warfare would deliver Russia any military advantage...however, Russian media have been pushing claims about its atomic capabilities."".","As if that matters. Launch one big one or twenty small ones, the end result is the same. Nuclear apocalypse unless the aliens I hope are watching step in.",1
Why don't we use the CIA to fuck up the Iranian government like we did to countless governments in South America?,"Can't help wondering where Iran would be today were it not for the fucking CIA wagging their penis around back in the 50's. There's always an argument for the necessity of such organizations, but good Lord at the evil shit those fuckers have done.",1
If the US joins the war they could do SEAD/DEAD if they had to and then they would have no problem flying mid altitude in Iran.,"If Iran suddenly had the ability to nuke Israel or say, a US carrier in Persian Gulf, the world as we know it would likely end.",1
"Using nuclear weapons has zero chance of ""working"". It would start a military conflict Russia absolutely cannot possibly survive, and everyone who has been paying even cursory attention since the invasion of Ukraine should know it.","I personally doubt that Russia can ever win in Ukraine, even if they undertake a WW2-style economic mobilization and receive military equipment from China. Ukraine's suppliers have deeper pockets and better toys than Russia can ever dream of getting.",1
"UK and US both have a history of forcibly removing locals from their land and subjecting them to genocide, just like how Russia is doing in Ukraine today.","Here, both US and UK have committed a crime by forceful eviction of natives from their own home island so that US can build base without interruption.",1
"I'll also add just so we're all on the same page, I'm not saying everyone should be armed with a gun. Some people don't like guns, or feel pepper spray, taser, etc is enough for them. I don't carry a firearm in public. But I do have legal means to defend myself when I leave the house.",I don't fantasize about being a victim. I fully understand not everyone is getting attacked everyday. But a lot of people ARE attacked. I have been attacked.,0
It's funny the right claims to be against cancel culture yet when their orange god was president he tried to cancel anything he didn't like. People should always talk with their wallets it's the only way anyone listens.,"When I first moved to Florida it was a solid purple state and I felt like it had a chance. Now? It's too far gone, lost to the right and I say fine let 'em have it.",0
"Still, i maintain hope. Fission is good, but safety and the waste product is not something we want to have to deal with in the long term. Geothermic and hydro power are not available everywhere, wind and solar are not very reliable. Fusion is currently the only clean energy which is not dependent on location or weather. Maybe if we figure out how to create better batteries, solar and wind would become a more viable long term full replacement option, but those have their own issues.","Thirdly, Wind Turbines or Solar Panels can only give you electricity and you can't make anything out of electricity itself. You can only power a device that will create something. Device made using fossil fuels and/or possibly using a fossil fuel of some sort to create something else.",1
Has nothing to do with it. Same reason we have no military. Any nation. who can invade us is already to powerful to be stopped by anything we can purchase.,But I'm glad you agree with me. There is no answer because the reality is that Turkey is incredibly weak.,0
"None of those ethnic groups were chained and shackled, bought and sold, raped and murdered, and then lynched after they were freed because poor racists couldn't deal with the change.",You can't hold millions of people in race based slavery for 300 years and not draw a straight line to race based poverty in 2022.,1
"It’s not just the tanks, the IFVs are an enormous step up on Russian equipment too making attacking but also defending easier too.","Thousands of armored vehicles, IFVs, tanks and missiles will eventually be given in the following packages if required.",1
"They may have to answer a subpoena, but it doesn't mean that Congress can dictate to them how and what to investigate.","Doesn't every part of the Executive Branch answer to congressional subpoenas? Their only defense is Executive Privilege, but that doesn't apply when Biden is specifically not involved in the investigation.",1
"H5N1 has a nasty CFR in excess of 50%. However, this is based on a very small sample size with cases from a variety of locations with differing levels of health care. It only includes people sick enough to go to the hospital, not asymptomatic or people mildly infected. The bottom line is it has the potential to be very deadly, but as we saw with COVID, there's alot of factors and variables that determine mortality.","Also, viruses are known to trade mobility for mortality, so if it did jump, it's possible it could lose some lethality in order to allow a farther spread. Again, another variable.",0
"Though this study was almost 4 years ago, and a lot has changed since then. I tend to think % support for trans people has decreased since then, especially (but not only) in the UK.","Also doesn't help that politically it's very transphobic, as you can even see with the UK blocking the pro-trans Scottish bill. And that a lot of the outspoken TERFs are from the UK. So it could be true that the common lay-person in the UK is less transphobic than the general EU, but that doesn't translate very well over the internet.",1
The stick is committing violent acts of terrorism against groups they don't like. The stick is for all the people they want to hurt to discourage any pushback.,"Whether or not you think it's okay to shoot someone in that situation, we shouldn't forget that Rittenhouse deliberately put himself in that situation. He decided to arm himself and go into the middle of those protests to ""protect businesses"". He went in willing and ready to kill people for the sake of someone else's property and he followed through on that.",0
"Nuclear is perfect as a stepping stone towards fusion, thorium, or whatever other power generation they may come up with in the future.","Modern nuclear reactors are demonstrably the cleanest, cheapest, and likely safest option going forward. The word nuclear scares the shit out of most people though, mostly through sheer ignorance of the advances made in the last 40 years.",1
"> Another extreme Russian nationalist, Pavel Gubarev, said everyone knew who was behind the shooting and observed that Prigozhin had for the moment gone quiet.",">Another extreme Russian nationalist, Pavel Gubarev, said everyone knew who was behind the shooting and observed that Prigozhin had for the moment gone quiet.",1
Younger voters complain...constantly about the older crowd being in politics....but the old people vote.,"Also, remember the majority of younger voters refuse to vote. They understand politics like the boomers understand tech...but the boomers at least get something for their ignorance....re-elected.",0
"Nuclear plants in the US are competing with dirt cheap natural gas plants, which is why they require subsidies to operate competitively, just like any other non-gas power source.",Nuclear energy is one of the cheapest forms of energy once it's up and running and is the only form of energy production where the waste products are properly disposed of.,0
"McCarthy will only lose his re-election if he has a serious challenger. More likely, he’ll retire after getting shit on for the next 2 years like the last 5 Republican speakers did.","Well Dan, a) That’s probably because Republicans can’t govern and don’t deserve any gavels and b) paid off? Democrats didn’t have to do shit, Republicans willingly promoted these idiots and made them the face of your party.",1
"How do we limit/eliminate logging, tolerate more tourism and usage but still mitigate fire hazards? We all know Smokey the Bear’s slogan, but people really are that stupid and careless or think it won’t happen to them. Not to mention trail usage and off trail trampling and insane waste left behind. Pack in, pack out, stay on trail, diligently follow rules & regulations by local ranger station because they’re in place for a reason.","How true. While the heavy impacts of logging and river industry hurts forested areas no doubt, can’t say that an increase in forested land tourism is without risk as well in a different level, to branch into that topic… As a wise and seasoned camper and traveler myself, I always worry about designated or dispersed camping and potential wildfire risks, which could wipe out a huge swath of land on its own. Human caused fires (NON prescribed controlled burns) are so awful. Happened right outside the Seattle metro last September, for one, with the Blot creek fire that choked out the region with bad smoke for nearly 2months. Major fire determined human caused near campgrounds. CO has seen its own terrible fires, including near gun ranges. They’re not just caused by an open flame.",0
I went to the Baltics in 2014 on a choir tour. Estonians did not hold their punches in their opinions of the Soviets.,"Estonia has been extremely harsh toward Russia from the early 90's. It is a brother nation of Finland, similar language and culture. During the cold war when Estonia was a Soviet Republic, they watched Finnish television. Especially traumatic was an ad figure of a Finnish super market chain, a guy who marketed various fancy meat products in TV daily. They had limited selection of meat products in The Soviet Union and that daily dose of Finnish wealth was a thing, which has been inspiring documentarists, and those western influences from Finland have been seen as important cracks in the iron curtain. Estonians watched also all kind of western series from The Finnish TV, like Dallas and Dynasty. I don't know what kind of series those were, but quite American they surely were. Quite a thing to watch American TV series every day in The Soviet Union. Literally the whole Estonian population learned to speak Finnish with The Finnish television, which made Estonian people even more close to the Finns.",1
"2. To go national means high chances of gigs like this, which pay a lot better than whatever you government position pays (and there is a lot less work involved!).","That's the thing. She ran as a Democrat. Now Fox News et al can drag her around as their token, claim she's the correct Democrat, and anyone left of her is a communist who wants to rape your children. It's a con as old as time.",1
"Thank God, she won over that far-right “abortion should be illegal in all cases” extremist, and it looks like the voting rights and abortion rights ballot measures will both pass in Michigan as well!","I like it, but it's interesting to think about how independent ballot initiatives on abortion could end up being a blow to the democratic platform. Dems are running a ton of races on abortion because it's a popular issue, even among republicans. But what you're seeing with these independent ballot initiatives is that red states -- e.g. Kentucky & Kansas -- are voting to preserve abortion rights but still voting overwhelmingly for republican candidates.",1
It's a war being fought with Western weapons and Ukrainian courage and blood over what the next century will look like for the entire world. Russia simply cannot be allowed to win.,"I mean even if Russia ""wins"" it'll be Pyrrhic victory at best. They've already lost far more than they could have ever hoped to gain by invading Ukraine.",1
"They want to increase the EV fee from 100, which is fair-ish to both ICE and EV drivers, to 300 dollars which is absolute bullshit. I have no issues with paying for the roads I use but when you do the it like this, it's not just patently unfair because it's far more than one would pay with an equivalent ICE car.","Again, have no issue with paying my fair share of taxes but they need to do it in a fair and not a bullshit arbitrary way and in a way that punishes EV drivers with a flat fee that's more than what a ICE car would generate.",0
Any party that runs their own candidates instead of endorsing members of Democratic or republican primaries/ general election is being a spoiler unless proper reforms have passed.,"If you want to fix democracy, vote in the democratic primary, and push candidates that say they're for ending FPTP and doing, at the very least, ranked choice voting.",0
Japan declared they lost not because of the two bombs but because Russia joined hands with the US and declared war. I do agree that the atomic bombs may have played a part in the capitulation but not the major one.,"„The role of the atomic bombings in Japan's unconditional surrender, and the ethics of the two attacks, is still debated.“.",0
"Like Ukraine, the leadership of Moldova is also very pro West. The Party of Action and Solidarity, which holds a healthy majority in the Moldovan parliament and the presidency, heavily supports EU integration. The Communist Party, the only relevant opposition has traditionally supported Russia although its influence has heavily waned with the Ukrainian crisis. Corruption is a rampant problem no matter the political party or office but mostly can be tied to Russian influence.","He was a relatively minor KGB bureaucrat who managed to get into a position (Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg IIRC) where his corruption made himself and others (who are now the Russian ruling elite) very rich. He has never commanded in combat. (He may have once ""commanded"" an artillery battalion as a reservist officer:",1
"No, it's because its a second crime for her, for most of these people if not all, its their first crime. It's amazing how we argue for lighter sentences for people then decide we don't like what lighter sentences look like when they're handed down.","If you want to be technical about it, casting a ballot with the intent for the vote to be counted, if you're ineligible is a crime.",0
"- Bolsonaro has, at best, a rapidly shrinking political power (so much so that he is the first president in brazilian democratic history to not be reelected).","As stated in the investigation, while the number of votes published by TSE were in line with the printed number of votes by the ballots, this was the only way they could audit the voting process. They didnt get access to third party code, the original code is too big and complex (17 million lines of code) and some technical questions werent answered, so with the things they had access to there wasnt any proof that the election was fraudulent.",0
I think this eases the pressure. If Tesla is going to own the network then they won’t need to worry about it. Soon they’ll start to complain that Tesla hasn’t built enough capacity or they are charging too much.,"Tesla is not very forthcoming on when, if ever, it will open up its chargers to other vehicles. 2024 is the soonest Tesla is ""considering it"" and the logistics are hard.",1
"Honestly, the problem isn't him, it's Harris. She's not pulling any weight as VP and has proven to be a mistake. Biden needs to replace her as VP in 2024 with a strong candidate that can potentially act as his successor if and when the time comes.",The better than expected results from this midterm isn't because of Biden and people being in love with his leadership and Democrats and Biden would be wise to recognize that.,1
"Fuck that - if they want to declare a filibuster then those fuckers have to stand up and talk the whole fucking time. I can’t just decide to say “I’m working, pay me” and go take a nap at home so neither can these assholes. I’d they want to keep the stupid filibuster in play then they have to stand there and talk for hours. Otherwise get rid of it. Actually just vote out all the republicans.","This is the standard Republican position though. They refuse to acknowledge the semantics at play, they assume “gender” means “biological sex”, and then they pretend that we don’t know what a woman is.",1
"So antivaxxers leapt onto the argument of ""I can't take this shot because it violates my religious beliefs against abortions."".",Yes. I was making the point that this behavior is not going to go away because there is a system of those in service who continue to push this narrative for their own benefit. I have seen the behavior of some service members out in public and it clearly shows they are happy for the worship. They can be confrontational when they don't get it.,1
"It’s sometimes hard to imagine how putin could possibly have any support from Russian citizens at this point, but then I remember that trump still has the heads of half of America shoved firmly up his ass.","Somehow I haven't yet met a single pro-war person among those Russians from Russia who are abroad, and I'd say there were less than 10% supporting the war among those whom I dealt with in Russia (I wouldn't say my circle could represent a typical person though).",1
America very definitely opposes Taiwan making official changes to the status quo. It has a big impact because Taiwanese want American support.,"The current leader, Tsai, is from the same party and before she ran for president she sent people to assure Obama that she wouldn’t act in the same way.",0
"Gotcha. So your brilliant suggestion for those wanting Hamas gone, a terrorist organization whose sole aim is the genocide of all Jews from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean, is for Israel to ""stop existing"".",What makes you think an independent Palestine without Israel would've been immune to the same kind of radicalization we see all across the middle east?,1
"Inaction/thoughts/prayers only help the oppressor. Sharing what's going on in Iran, and sharing the social media of protesters, are all good ways to help from overseas.","I can also direct you to the Iranian activists and accounts to follow if you want to stay informed. Instagram and social media is how we are primarily spreading information. People to follow are Tara Grammy, Nazanin Nour, Nazanin Boniadi, and Masih Alinejad. Accounts to follow are @middleeastmatters , @iraniandiasporacollective, and @from_iran .",1
As a federal employee I am allowed to accept unsolicited gifts of $20 or less per occasion and no more than $50 a year.,"As a bank employee, I can gift $20 to a federal employee if I spend the necessary few weeks filling forms, get manager and legal approval and can justify a special occasion.",1
"This isn't the big win that everyone thinks it is. The goal was to codify the right to same sex marriage in every state, and that's not the Respect for Marriage Act does:","This is great news for marriage equality. But remember, 36 Republicans, 70% of the Senate GOP, voted No on marriage equality, on interracial marriage and same sex marriage, in 2022!",1
"Oh yeah, Jordan fought a war with Israel half a century ago that create a refugee problem for them, never omit this part.","Oh yeah, Jordan fought a war with Israel half a century ago. Since then Jordan has been the most conciliatory and neighborly country towards Israel of all of the Arab states surrounding it. And Israel refuses to repatriate any of their refugees because their chief domestic policy is ethnic cleansing.",1
"I think that's why he's being pushed to run again. Old and senile or not, he's probably still got a better chance of beating Trump again (assuming that's who the Republicans run) than anyone else the Democrats have. I'm not thrilled with it. I'd like to see someone younger and more progressive, but I don't know if politically that would be the best strategy for a win.",Really I wish we just had ranked choice voting. This voting for the lesser of two evils thing is getting old.,0
"The Tea Party Republicans were the ones who started the radical republican trope, and they were getting elected to their first terms in 2010/2012, and didn't start trying for president until the 2016 cycle.","He didn’t deserve the radical conservative label back in 2012, just like Obama didn’t deserve the communist label being thrown at him during his election years either. I certainly preferred Obama, but a Romney presidency would’ve been okay, and I’d definitely prefer it to the shit show we’ve witnessed from 2016-present.",1
"Most Israelis are against expanding settlements, it is being done to get the favor of the far-right. So most Israelis then vote far-right, which will most likely expand the settlements even further, which will fuel even more retaliation from palestine, and yes, that includes rocket launches and 'terror attacks"" from the people whose land and homes Israel has illegally taken - which is what Israelis are so scared of that they keep electing the far right.",In the period where the majority of countries in the middle east have warm ties with israel and relations are the best theyve ever been they vote in the most right wing anti arab govt in israeli history… Probably not the best move.,1
"I would say the bolded section applies comfortably to Fox News. The Republican party at times both directly and pretty much all the time indirectly controls Fox News. Fox News is a revolving door for Republicans and if you can agree that when Trump was President it would qualify as ""state-run media"" then the only thing that has changed is their control of the federal government, but because America is a Democracy and has two major parties one of which still very much has a substantial amount of control over the government at a local level and hopes to soon go back to federal I'm not sure how you can say it doesn't fit that definition.","Simple. For the majority of people who watch Fox, Republicans are their government both in practice and in theory. E.g State/Local governments and the fact that a lot of these people truly believe that Trump is still ""their President"".",0
You wish they were in NATO because you wish for a direct conflict between the two largest nuclear powers in the world or because Russia would never have invaded in the first place?,"If Russia invaded an actual Nato member the response would be vastly different. Russia would not have military assets capable of threatening missile strikes against Nato members within hours. After any first strike effect, Russia would only be able to retaliate with nuke subs and similar mobile, hard to track assets.",1
"How is it pro-life to not protect pregnant women's ability to access water, seats, etc. during the workday? Not having those things threatens your ability to carry a baby to term.","To me, pro-life is a higher standard than anti-choice, and requires that the politician be concerned about policies that actually help people conceive, carry, and support children, physically and economically. Universal pre-k, universal healthcare, paid family leave... all of these policies are pro-life, but not necessarily anti-choice.",0
"That’s why you have “charities” like the Clinton Foundation or whatever. You can say “we are donating 50 million dollars”, but you’re just reinvesting your own money back into your own company. Lol.","If Bezos actually wanted to be generous with his fortune, he’d be out there paying off medical debt, making low income housing or co-ops, paying for lawyers for people being fucked over by the cops and sending kids to college:",0
"Moldova needs to take the steps to eliminate the immensely powerful Russian plants just like Ukraine is. The general population hates Russia, the sizable PAS majority is evident of that. They have the government and foreign means to end the conflict but corruption must end before any real change.","Absolutely not. Ukraine has never held irredentist ideals and never will. An invasion will destroy all western goodwill forever. Transnistria borders both Moldova and Ukraine equally and also roughly holds an equal amount of Moldovans, Russians and Ukrainians. Moldova has always unquestionably held rightful claim, even in Soviet times. The area really is just another remnant of very poor and spiteful Soviet policy making. It’s a very fascinating read on Wikipedia if you want a rabbit hole.",0
I guess a nuclear test seems logical. It would make Ukrainian allies a little more afraid of escalating. I don't support Russia. I'm just theorizing.,Do you all think Russia can afford to lose this war? How far do you think they're willing to go to accomplish their goals? At some point destroying too much infrastructure causes Ukrainian land to be diminished in value.,0
"His goal domestically is the same as his father and grandfather, to rally the North Korean population to support him in the face of a threat from a supposedly greater external enemy, the US. Without the US being the bogeyman, he would likely be facing a civil war or at the very least being replaced by a military junta. He and those acting on his behalf have had far too many high ranking officials killed for him to be liked that much among the rest of them.",North Korea is still communist and as such has all the police state and indoctrination propaganda to go along with it.,0
What an awful article. It frames it as if the family's understanding of superstitions around bees is normal and correct. What the hell are they saying? The bees killed him because he angered his ancestors? And it doesn't go into the truth of the situation at all. What did he really do to anger them? Maybe give more detail about bee behaviour and similar situations.,"> However, while he was busy telling the bees he would address all outstanding rituals in due time, he came under attack.",1
The only reason this is an issue is that it treads on Christian sensibilities and revs up their tendency to persecution.,"While I definitely agree with you, I would like to point out that your arguement is the exact same one religious groups would make in response to some of the other statements in this thread. They would argue that sexuality is a choice (it isn't) and therefore they can refuse service to people that ""choose"" to associate with certain groups.",1
Fears of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan have also prompted Japan to double military spending in the next five years -- a change in policy no sensible Chinese leaders want to see.,"The strategic and economic costs to China are only going to mount. Xi has no alternative but to stick with Putin. Abandoning him now would be seen as unforgivable treachery in Moscow, while having a marginal effect in patching up ties with Europe. Withdrawing Chinese support for Putin could also accelerate the latter’s defeat in Ukraine, which would allow the US to concentrate its undivided attention on China sooner.",0
"So - not only do we not care that the population of Generals in Russia is being killed, we fucking celebrate it!",Remember when Russians used to live in peace and enjoying life before most of them became bloodthirsty for Ukranian Blood tenfold in the beginning of 2022? Yeah I remember these days... these were the greatest days... I hate my fucking life.,1
"When the vaccines first started rolling out I had a maga fan reply to a comment I made on a thread about it and they were ranting about how “leftists” need to be grateful and worship trump for the vaccine because without him it never would’ve happened. Yet in the next paragraph of the very same comment they went on to talk about government overreach and how vaccines are this and that and they’ll never get it, etc. It was so odd.",AZ is a bit surprising. I was there in 2016 at ASU and a lot of my fraternity brothers were outspoken Trump fans.,1
"""Z'Russian Federation emerges victorious on 2 fronts az z'we have completed all military tasks in Ukraine & carried out our valiant retreat.... & the former land of Belarus has been joined with Mother Russia"".","And yet Belarus still isn’t a full party to the conflict, so after defeating the early attempt to take Kiev, Ukraine has been able to focus troops and resources on fighting the Russians in the east and northeast.",1
"“Mr DeSantis said at his press conference on Tuesday that the law is aimed at stopping pornography from reaching children, but among the titles that have been removed and banned in the course of the vetting in Duval County are Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, and a skateboarding magazine called Thrasher.”.","""Mr DeSantis said at his press conference on Tuesday that the law is aimed at stopping pornography from reaching children, but among the titles that have been removed and banned in the course of the vetting in Duval County are Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, and a skateboarding magazine called Thrasher."".",1
"You're right, although I think you may have misunderstood the quote (or maybe I misunderstood you). What he was saying is that in order for Ukraine to join NATO they would first have to go though a full-scale war with Russia, because Russia would try to prevent them from joining. He goes into detail on Russia's reasoning behind this but it boils down to ""the west/NATO will lose interest in Ukraine if they're involved in a war"".","In a way Ukraine is cutting the fingers and toes off of Russia, making them much more ineffective against Ukraine.",1
"The situation in Ulkraine isn't getting better just because Puketin lost half his tank, and that doesn't change anything because he is happy to throw in the other half.",The real danger of reading these article is getting a false sense of progress in Ulkraine. There is no progress until Russia is stopped.,0
It’s not that I doubt they don’t have the means I just doubt a sitting pm would ever allow it because UK nationalists would campaign to get them out of power afterwards.,"Lastly, the Scottish IndyRef shows that it's viable and fairly current for a Government to offer a vote, even if the potential outcome is a part of the UK splitting away. Throw in that the EU referendum shows that UK Governments/Parliaments will follow through with referendum outcomes even where they broadly oppose the outcome, and it gets hard to argue that the UK wouldn't allow something to happen.",1
"I don’t know what you are looking for then. You suggest the US should not commit to investigating war crimes in Ukraine, so please find another volunteer to replace them.","Not to downplay the atrocities happening in Ukraine, but before you start poking fingers at how other nations treat civilians maybe you should hold yourselves accountable for how you treat yours.",1
"Nobody thinks you (as a country) spend money on military rather than free healthcare, it's not a binary choice. That's all your internal marketing and arguments.",We think you don't want free healthcare because you see the individual as more important than wider society. You would rather step over dead children than tax others to stop children of the poor dying.,0
"Still so many people, even those that don't like him, hold on to this fake narrative of Putin pulling Russia out of the mud and bringing him to lead the earth when all those stories about Russia's greatness have been thoroughly been proven lies.","But we should all be wary of any narrative that paints the Russians as so fundamentally corrupt and inept they can't fight their way out of a paper bag, which is a popular sentiment I see on these front page posts.",1
"It's not a fair comparison for a few reasons: Jeffries wasn't denying Trump won the electoral college; and ""election denier"" is a term that has taken on a very specific meaning post 2020, and that meaning is at odds with Jeffries' comments.","Jeffries was referring to Russian interference in the 2016 election, and I think it's fair to argue that a president elected with the aid of a foreign government (and US adversary) is _less_ legitimate than a president elected without said massive influence campaign, especially when the former loses the popular vote.",0
"This is totally anecdotal but during my divorce my husband ignored his weapons subpoena multiple times and nothing happened as well as perjured himself. At first he lied and said we’d never bought one and the court was like oops we’ll he says there’s no gun so I guess we have to believe him. Then when he was subpoenaed again on his 2nd DVPO he admitted that he’d lied under oath (no consequences) and that we’d bought a gun but claimed to have lost it to which the courts said o well nothing we can do about that. The 3rd time he was subpoenaed after this he claimed he’d given it to his father out of state and the courts, again, did nothing. To get unsupervised visitation he was supposed to have to do classes, never did them. No enforcement. He was now recently subpoenaed over a new case against him and never complied. Still no consequences.","Just saying, I’m not sure it’s just trump. I don’t think our court system is enforcing subpoenas, protections orders, or really anything anymore.",0
It was long known that Moscow branch that is in direct subordinate of Gundyaev is nothing more than a FSB branch. But the topic was too sensitive. Now it is time to show who is with Ukraine and its people and who is pro Putins tyranny. When civilians getting killed by russian troops they want kgb agents that pretend to be priests to get the hell out of Ukraine.,"If one were to be pro Ukrainian in Russia, they would have been found dead with their hands tied behind them and shot themselves in the back of their heads.",1
"Yep, and as I said in my OP, they were told they could legally vote by the State of Florida. That's why the police were apologetic and the charges were dismissed in court. This may very well have been a publicity stunt to put a seed of doubt in other voters' minds that even though they may believe they could vote, they could very well be arrested anyway.","Its like people have totally forgotten Florida is famous for vote rigging for Republicans because they are terrified of being labeled as 'election deniers"".",1
"They said between 3000 and 6000 left. The difference in votes in 1122 so far. Some of these are ballots needing to be cured, some are mail ballots from overseas.","Yet people still say 'look at the polls' in the runup to the election. That is the actual problem. Our electorate is broken and polls are only a small part of that problem. Yes, Nate's in depth analysis might be spot on and utterly impeccable on methodology, but we live in a headline society. Even here, in one of the more 'aware' communities on reddit, people rarely get past the headline.",1
"Judges are important, but just a food for thought: who choose those judges? Can the judges themselves rule out candidates? Can the judges rule based on a vague law that they can use however they want?","""Can judges use vague laws to do whatever they want"" is basically just ignorant concern trolling. Nobody who takes even a second to consider how professionalized and institutionalized/systemitized an advanced judicial system is could ever ask such a question.",1
"For one, his work has non-existent peer review in academia. His book is devoid of contemporaneous Russian sources and his information almost exclusively comes from news organizations in the US.","Without direct access to the information and validation of those sources, Michael Parenti can be dismissed entirely out of hand.",0
There’s a real chance that she can win a three way race between a regular Democrat and whatever batshit crank the GOP nominates. It’s also possible that she takes more votes from the Dem and elects a MAGA clown shoe.,"In a three way race she’s only need 34%of the vote. Trump had negative net approval for his entire term and got the second highest vote total ever and lost the electoral college by razor thin margins in AZ, GA and WI.",0
"You're really ignoring that each item you mentioned was killed by right wing obstruction. Every time. Kirsten Sinema and Joe manchin are both right wing, btw.","Republican voters will never support m4a on a ballot, and it would likely require congressional action anyway. With the broken Senate consisting of wildly slanted representation toward rural right wing states, it cannot happen.",0
"Officials in Washinon have warned that “Ukraine fatigue” among allies could worsen if Kyiv continues to be closed to negotiations, the Washinon Post reported. US officials told the paper that Ukraine’s position on negotiations with Russia is wearing thin among allies who are worried about the economic effects of a protracted war.","As far as the US is concerned this war advances US national interests, is great business for US defense firms, and time is on their side while Russia bleeds. This narrative that the US is going to get tired of supporting Ukraine doesn't even make sense, unless the GOP gets really excited for more self-sabotage on an international stage.",1
"Basically, people are protesting; the government of Iran doesn’t allow protests against them so they send in their military police to suppress them. Violence ensues, protestors die, and yes, also police. Police arrests a bunch of people that they claim were involved.","They sentence them to a highly dubious crime of “war against God”, which essentially lets the Iranian state suspend all rights that you usually are afforded as a citizen accused of a crime. That’s why the sentencing takes 15 minutes. No defense, no appeals, court sees you once, gives you a sentence, they arrest you and 2 weeks after you’re executed.",0
"It certainly doesn’t help the right, but Covid deaths aren’t the thing that’s going to save democrats. It’s just a tragic, stupid loss of human life that these people would rather be proudly ignorant rather than protect themselves and their families with a simple little needle.","That said, I agree it's a tragic stupid loss of human life, but it's definitely having a wide variety of consequences.",1
Hasn't McCarthy already moved into the House Speaker's office...even though he hasn't been elected to that position yet?,"Within the year, Kevin McCarthy will wish he'd rather been caught in a nasty scandal and resigned than become the Speaker of a marginal Republican House.",1
"No I am specifically NOT making comparative statements about which is worse because it doesn't matter. Both are terrible. I'd certainly argue killing 14k is worse, but there are many people who vote Red that would argue being pro-choice is quantifiably worse. ..","I mean.... Yeah.... They probably want to do a lot of crazy shit. It doesn't mean they will actually do it lol. As I said, they're not that crazy. At the end of the day they want to maintain the status quo. Even they know It would mean the end of their regime if they went too far... They're already balancing on the edge of the knife as is.",1
"Realistically, the protests had absolutely nothing to do with the cyclist's death. Traffic jams in Berlin are normal, the equipment was never actually needed and the cyclist probably wouldn't have survived anyway. However, the entire right wing/conservative media apparatus tried to frame this as ""the protesters killed the cyclist"". Complete BS, but it helped to de-legitimize the protests.","A riot on the other hand is obviously done by bad people, so you don't have to engage with the actual argument of their protest.",0
"When UK were negotiating for the building of new nuclear power station projects, they guaranteed that they could sell their electricity at I think 3 or 4 times the then price of electricity. So all the other energy producers work to raise theirs to match yes?","Ideally we should be reducing the energy price so high cost dirty production is priced out. But no, we raise the price to accommodate.",0
"Lastly, I think it shows that Biden's actions on this subject aren't just a cynical political ploy to get votes, coming after the midterms.",Can wasn't kicked in this circumstance unless you are saying Republicans kicked the can and Biden is doing what his constituents want from him?,1
"Yep. If a Domino's delivery driver showed up wearing a shirt that said ""Domino's delivery drivers should be allowed to murder with impunity."" that person would be fired on the spot. They wouldn't need to have a rule on the books for it.",The Punisher is a comic book character whose primary defining characteristic is that he straight-up kills criminals.,0
"That made me sad but immensely frustrated. It proved they didn’t actually “do their own research” at all, because if they had they would’ve at least come across the very basics about vaccines and would have known that that’s NOT how they work.","I do know someone who has been an anti-vaxxer for decades who did start to like trump a lot less after he took credit for the vaccine stuff though, so at least one of them was consistent.",0
"Johnson, who is on a high-profile speaking tour of the US, told the think tank's audience that he hasn't watched anything that Tucker Carlson has said, but that he's 'struck by' how often his name comes up in conversations.'.",Right. One sentence out of 100s of hrs defines a person lol. I think the left is just completely out of there mind that theres a small sliver of news that isnt owned and pumping out propaganga for china.,1
"him publicly donating to dems shows that he at least thinks the public sees them as ""the good guys"" .. combine with his family history, and without proof it is very fishy that he suddenly comes out to admit to more fraud with the only positive outcome being that the Dem party looks less sketchy, if only by the Republican party looking equally sketch on this specific issue.","If you actually listen to his interview he says he donated equally to both parties, but had to make his republican donations dark because if he did not, the media would have picked it up and ran with it, not mentioning that he also gave equally to the dems as well.",1
"If the laser took 100x the energy to charge, that would be a 1% efficiency... 0.02% would be 50,000 times more.","Divide 100 by 1.2, and you get 83.3, so to charge the laser took 83.3 time more energy than the reaction output, making it 1.2% efficient in total, not 0.02%. Otherwise by your metric, making the laser 1 to 1 would be 2%, and that doesnt add up.",0
"For any smokers, listen to this talk on nicotine and smoking: The app, Smoke Free, helped get me off cigarettes. It shows all of your health improvements as time goes on. And the book, This Naked Mind: Nicotine, helped. And subscribe to r/stopsmoking.","Outside of the myriad health benefits, I have more time now. Every day was structured around smoking. And I've saved so much money.",0
"Apparently documents can get classified for all sorts of reasons beyond national security. Reasons can include ""better safe than sorry"" to ""now it's someone else's problem"" to ""I have a stamper and like feeling important"".",Since nobody was actively looking for any of these documents; they’re probably going to turn out to be irrelevant or out of date paperwork that just got misplaced during the move from office to office.,0
"There are cigarette butts all over the human parts of the world. They don't degrade easily. Lit cigarettes cause fires. In many parts of America there are substantial littering fines for even one butt. During 2009 I was forced to take a janitorial job during the Global economic collapse and picking up butts was part of my job around the factory. 200 employees produced an equal number of butts. Often people dump their ashtrays in the parking lot. If you want to smoke, fine, but it is rude and ignorant to flick lit cigarettes anywhere you happen to be.","God, the entitlement of smokers to litter is such a pet peeve of mine. When I worked at a gas station, the vast majority of litter I picked up that was blowing around was by far cigarette butts. It was absolutely insane how many you'd get on a daily basis. Sure you'd have a couple plastic bottles or McDonald's bags every now and then and the blown away receipt but the sheer numbers of cigarette butts was insane. Like 200+ a day in like 4000/5000 sq-ft of an area people aren't even supposed to smoke around.",1
"As of right now, Germany approved to send heavy tanks into Ukraine. They import zero gas or oil from Russia and are one of the top European supporters of Ukraine. It‘s pretty clear where Germany stands on the issue. Where is your evidence?","Tanks coming a year too late? Bro the war started in February 20th, it‘s not even been a year yet. Oh and the question if Germany would send soldiers? Yeah pretty sure they would. They did after 9/11 and that was in fucking Afghanistan. It‘s not far fetched to believe that Germany would support a neighboring country when under the threat of invasion. Stop being a spiteful Germany hating German and check some facts.",0
"of foreign workers as it’s hurting the economic opportunities of people already in Canada: FN, immigrants, descendants of imperialists alike. If we had the infrastructure, economy, and healthcare systems to support that many people, I would have nothing to say, but that’s not the case.",Just frustrating to me that the governments solution to a “labour crisis” is importing cheap labour rather than actually addressing root causes.,0
"I'm positive the engineers knew it wasn't ready, but Musk left things vague and let people assume it's ready and safe for use.","They might have very well assumed that Musk would say ""we have a long way to go, but we did do this after a lot of trial and error."".",0
"(3) No person shall be penalized for taking a reasonable time off to vote, unless, undercircumstances which did not prohibit him from voting, he fails to vote. Anyqualified voter who exercises his right to voting leave under this section but fails tocast his vote, under circumstances which did not prohibit him from voting, may besubject to disciplinary action.","118.035 Hours polls to be open -- Employees to be allowed time off to vote, to applyfor or execute absentee ballot, and to serve or train to be election officer.",0
Considering how effective the small amounts of himars and self propelled artillery has been it’s gonna be pretty wild to see how all this armor does.,Well I’m thinking the Iraqi army and especially the republican gaurd were a far better force than Russia is currently.,0
"Don't be a fucking idiot. Calling all Republicans ""literally Nazis 2.0"" says more about your own lack of critical thinking than anything. The only way we as a country can move forward is if we learn to shut up, listen to each other, and have a discussion without it turning into each side throwing insults at each other like monkeys with shit. And that does go for both sides.","So America is a god awful society because of all our violence? Gotcha. Does that include all the death and destruction that we've exported all over the world? We've bombed whole countries, destabilized and overthrown governments, illegally detained and tortured innocent people, supported dictatorships. That's just off the top of my head lol. Maybe you're right, the worst violence is, the worse (it's spelt W-O-R-S-E, btw) the society.",0
"No no Ahole, Russia is directly involved in Ukraine. When Russia leaves so will the Nato weapons As usual Hound Dog face has it upside down and backwards.","If NATO was involved, Russia already lost the war as we see with just a few NATO arms Ukraine turn the tide just imagine if it was all NATO with all the weapons Russia would be annihilated.",1
"That's huge, the UK just announced hundreds including bulldogs, with the potential for strikers from the US maybe to be announced. People are fixated on the tanks but other armoured deliveries seem to be ramping up a lot as well.",- Why the latest supplies of western Infantry Fighting Vehicles and tanks may not help as much as many think.,1
Not really. It's excruciatingly difficult to maintain the facade of intellectual property and gets harder as time goes on.,Reality is we need more NOW and it's hard to adjust the system to shorten the life-span of a copyright without hurting the whole process.,1
"There is other problem, PRC have some serious problem with North Korean illegal immigrants. If they annex North Korea they not only got a shitload of socio-economic problems but also massive refugee crisis AND Koreans not gonna accept they are part of China.",I don’t understand it because if n Korea falls and China assumes it’s territory it’s still effectively the same situation right?,1
"There are already complains from people from newly deoccupied Kherson that Donetsk and Luhansk origin soldiers were the worst and more cruel in comparison to buryat, russians, and chechen together. And this is sick considering that they developed such a hate toward their own people for 8 years being in occupation. Well, no excuses, whoever comes with the gun, is a killer, whoever sits silently in russia is a supporter for killers. They will be exterminated, and it’s for every Ukrainian to make sure that those who did this to us will get the punishment according their crimes. This will stay with us forever, and this will pass to our kids. Punkt.","Ah okay. I always assumed the nato navy’s vessels out at sea would all at least try, and if it flies over and land those countries would also try. I understand shooting it down might still trigger the blast, but surely it’s safer over the ocean or miles in the sky as opposed to directly impacting a city. Then again wasn’t Hiroshima exploded at a height for max damage?",1
"As much as people want to laugh at Russia they do have modern military equipment even if all you see is rusty AKs and WW2 guns, their army isn’t entirely conscripts, and Ukraine is launching major counter offensives which attacking territory is always more deadly then defending.","When it was first sent into Ukraine, the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, stationed in northwestern Russia near its border with NATO-leaning Finland, had more experience, newer equipment, and better training than many other Russian units, The Washinon Post reported on Friday.",1
"Maybe if the US actually helped with renewable technologies manufacturing instead of, y'know, freezing out semiconductors?","I mean, if America wants to send a consistent message, maybe they'd start manufacturing renewable technologies instead of relying on supply from Asian manufacturers?",0
"From what I'm reading, and correct me if I'm wrong, this hasn't happened and so the President doesn't have the power to dissolve Congress.","The President has the right to dissolve congress, under the constitution. That's what snap-elections are.",1
And it’s astounding the amount of voters that give up just because their primary candidate didn’t get chosen.,Just because your favorite progressive candidate doesn’t get the nod from the DNC doesn’t mean the rest of the country has to suffer.,0
And that can be fixed by raising the capital gains tax maximum rate with new higher brackets that are matched to earned income brackets.,"I’d much rather see us go after the tax basis step-up at death and low cap gains rates and carried interest. I also think a lot of the exemptions on real estate are too much - fine for exemptions around primary residence, but the 1031 exchange and stuff makes real estate investing too lucrative and must be contributing to our current pricing issues in the space (though real estate investors will hate me for that / sorry).",1
"Partisan gerrymandering—and the importance of today’s Supreme Court in upholding that gerrymandering— Republican lawmakers refused to change maps that state courts had determined were illegal in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio.","You missed the part where the FL Supreme Court rejected the DeSantis map as unconstitutional, the FL legislature passed one that the FLSC approved, then DeSantis rejected the legislature's map and submitted his own unconstitutional map again, which the legislature approved and at that point it was too late to do anything. Republican ratfuckery was on full display for everyone to see and no one could do anything about it.",1
"Right now the Russians are desperately trying to support these infantry pushes, which means they aren't displacing as often or quickly as they should, making them easier targets. Ukraine is killing the slow crews first, the others will (re)learn and adapt, at least for a bit.",really they should be defending in the places where they can kill the most Russians while losing the fewest Ukrainians. If that's Bakhmut then they should stay in Bakhmut.,1
"Everyone has their own pet issue they think should be the center of attention. Even if it is popular on its own, it isn't always the best one to unite a diverse group of voters. But despite that, many Democratic candidates continue to support the idea of universal health care in one form or another.","A substantial number of Democrats and swing voters also don't agree with the idea of a single-payer health care system. It has probably shifted a little more in favor since this poll, but this is the one that came up when I searched.",0
"People volunteer to be the guinea pigs for cancer drugs. Drugs that have successfully cured cancer in animals and have been approved for human trials. But guess what? 93% of cancer drugs approved for Phase 1 Human trials FAIL. If you're a mouse or a monkey, scientists can cure your cancer no problem. But those miracle drugs don't do shit for humans.",And that ninety-five percent of all drugs and products that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials?,0
"On /r/worldnews we mostly have pro-Russian / pro-Erdogan / pro-CCP astroturfers. A few years back Iran had surprising influence as well. They don't have the numbers to significantly influence votes of the top posts, but scroll a bit down and you'll often see them having great impact. This is especially true for issues fewer people care about, where they don't get much pushback from real users and can easily form the narrative, just look at pretty much any post that deals with China as an example.","Yeah, /r/news is still significantly astroturfed by the far-right, just watch what happens when crime stories with a black suspect is posted. Often the top 2-3 posts (with thousands of upvotes) are blatantly racist. Though I guess it was worse under Trump.",0
Seems to me like focusing on race-blind antipoverty measures and other reforms is a better way to try and make things better for disadvantaged groups.,"Plus half the time if you look at the actual policies folks calling for ""reparations"" suggest, it's basically just something like ""let's invest more in disadvantaged communities"" or whatever - the sort of stuff that could be done in a race blind fashion anyway.",0
"An advanced society like that would require a huge number of resources. Obtaining resources from the natural environment, regardless of which ones, leaves evidence. Turning those resources into whatever you need to support a society leaves evidences. And then at the end, everything that was created leaves trash as it breaks and is discarded. And yet, we’ve found none of these traces. That makes it incredibly unlikely that such a society has existed.",Because the evidence wouldn’t be gone. An advance civilization like that would leave so many traces on the surrounding environment that it is just not possible for them all to be gone.,0
"Basically, every human commits sin on a daily basis and so you shouldn't hate someone because they sin differently than you.","There are countless sins that People (Christian or nonChristian, doesn’t matter) commit every day. No one is perfect.",1
Spotting spy ships is something the us military does on the regular. They really don't have very good stealth or field craft.,"Seizure wouldn't be hard if it did enter our waters, as long as it's Chinese or Russian.capture is just a occupation hazard. north Korea is what worries me.",0
I know where you are coming from but with so much hatred against lgbt people in schools I would much rather send them to this school instead of exposing them to such hatred and violence in public schools.,"They are trying to shut down public schools and erase LGBTQIA+ students, diverting the money to start schools for Christian nationalists.",1
"As of right now, I doubt this will happen. What Democrats need to pull this off today are Republicans at the end of their career, willing to sacrifice it all for a cushy commitee position, and a few provisions in other bills.","Sort of. Although there are possibilities to win without a majority of those elected, just a majority of those voting, I don't think Democratics will do that. Either a true majority (By backing Jefferies, or a comprise coalition candidate), or no move at all.",0
"We live in a country where it is often said that no one is above the law, not even the President, but that's not really true for someone who enjoys the level of blind support that he does under our system of justice.","I've always though laws are only laws if you can actually enforce it, Trump has been testing the integrity of our justice system for a while now and so far I am not impress.",1
It’s a rehash from last year’s negotiations in Munich before the Russian Invasion which Ukraine rejected and suggested that it be allowed to join NATO or it might consider Nuclear Rearmament.,"\- NATO should stop expanding, this is where the ""cold war"" mentality comes in, but it also means that Russia should stop seeking westward expansion due to its flat geography, which gives it few natural protections against the west.",1
"As for someone else profiting by imitating his voice, again, that could spark further interest in his work. I don't see any reason why Yung Gravy's profit is necessarily Astley's loss, in this situation.","It's Astley's decision to make, and as I said, it sounds like he has a pretty chance of prevailing in court, but as a practical matter that course of action may not be without risk.",0
"Or, put differently: When George W. Bush comes out in full throated advocacy of solar power you don't take that opportunity to remind people about his torture program, you take that opportunity to double down on his comments about solar power. You don't forget about the torture program, you just put a pin in it for a second.","In a vacuum the identity of the speaker wouldn't matter, but we don't live in a vacuum, we live in a time and a place where people are slow to trust and put a great deal of stock in an individual's identity. You're talking about a spherical cow in a frictionless void, I'm talking about a holstein in a hurricane.",0
so that shortage creates higher prices as competition (Walmart/Kroger/ALDI) bids up the price to have eggs in stock so .....,"Culture and consumer demand have changed. One onion and 1 onion pre cut up are the same thing, except the pre cut onion comes with an added higher costs and profit margin.",0
The word racist makes people think of lynch mobs and so on. So almost no one is going to admit to being that kind of racist.,"When a friend of mine said that being uncomfortable around black folks was racist, it blew my mind. I sometimes felt uncomfortable around black people. Like an interloper or some kind of jerk, just for being there. Figuring out how we can all grow and support each other is good. Here i mean specifically white people admitting and accepting our full spectrum of racism and getting our s---t together, not trying to make it anyone elses problem.",0
"Biden should say, even if it wont happen, that he's directed WH legal counsel to look into whether he can simply ignore the debt ceiling because of the 14th Amendment. Or that he'll just order the Treasury to print coins to cover the debt.","If the debt ceiling is unconstitutional, there's no need to mint the coin. They just point to the previously authorized spending bills and continue on as normal.",1
"If federalism is the correct model - then we should abolish a lot of the rules that make the coasts subsidize the south and Midwest. We should be free to legalize what we want, ban what we don't. And the federal government should be forced to recognize our will. Obviously this will impede a lot of commerce and travel since people won't want to cross the line into places like Idaho.","If it's a centralized government- then they need to STFU with all this backwards stuff. No more electoral college, no more abortion bans because a few states wanted it.",0
"However, the thing about societies that have had endemic corruption for generations like Ukraine is that everyone with even a modicum of influence or power is also corrupt, including those doing the corruption hunting. That's why it's so difficult to root out.","It is difficult, but possible. I think Zelensky, used the Servant of the people show to offer a mirror and a vision of future to the Ukrainians. That is an important first step. The Maidan protests, and the fact that he was elected based on this vision is an evidence that there's a buy in from the Ukrainian people. The war could be an important catalyst that will speed up the process, but assistance and help from the west will be essential. We must not betray their trust in us and our system of government and rule of law.",1
"This always had to do with legal marriages. As in yoh are entitled to the same legal rights by signing the agreement that binds you to another in tax law benefits, and benefits entitled to closest kin when decisions of life and death and wealth are in question. That's it. That's all this ever was. How any individual or group feels about all the extra superfluous stuff is up to them.","No extra clause is required because to force any church to marry someone is not, nor would it ever be permissible under the 1st Ammendment. The idea it ever was a conversation at all is a fiction straw man cooked up by the fear addled minds of conservatives. No one was ever going to force religious institutions to marry people in their ceremony when they don't want to. It violates the core of the Bill of Rights. Any language added on is just to placate the idiots who thought that was ever a thing to begin with.",0
Or does Trump mean he would have not supported Ukraine and it would have fallen to Putin without a fight?,"So if Trump had won, I don't think Putin would have invaded Ukraine, he would not have felt he HAD to.",1
I was just pointing out that Israel's parliamentary system has its own flaws as well that can lead to disproportionate representation when compared to strict majority popular vote.,"Israel votes left, Israel attempts peace/negotiates with a terrorist government, it blows up in their face spectacularly, Israelis vote right. Palestinians suffer. Repeat.",1
Because he won. That's all that matters to the GOP. Honesty and integrity obviously don't and haven't for quite some time. Why are we surprised by this??,"Meh. I don’t think so. It sets a precedent and Republicans have bent over backwards to do literally the opposite whenever possible. If a “friendly” Republican was more palatable, there would be no Margarine Taylor Greene or Lauren Boebert. Neither are particularly friendly to McCarthy and cause him more trouble than he’d like. Hell, the same could be said for any of the “Freedom” caucus that have been implicated in the January 6th investigations.",1
Just making the VERY obvious point that children dying of diseases (that were killing children of all races) is different than concentration camp style mass genocidal graves.,"Separation if children from their parents en masse is a very cruel and sadly effective tool of cultural genocide. If you do this for one or two generations, you can eradicate most of the cultural distinction that makes up Tibetans.",1
"This war rages on because Russia can’t walk away with zero gain, despite them being entitled to jack shit.","Any bargaining you think might be productive will only add fuel to the Russian fire. They will be back and hungrier than ever, and all your ideas of productive peace talks will be pointless. Ukraine knows this, so they cannot realistically even consider peace talks.",1
"I'm not sure how you reach out to that. Without aggressive, questionable, measures I don't think there is a way. They are programmed to hate Democrats and liberals no matter what. They don't see Democrats and liberals as ""people"" even. Just the ""enemy"". An enemy they are convinced they are at war with.","They are nice to you. They are probably not nice to another set of people. In 2016 I learned a lot of the people I grew up with that I thought were good people ended up being extremely shitty people once Trump was elected. Turns out they were only good to me and because I was like them - I fit in the ""good"" container in their minds so I wasn't in the ""bad"" container that had the same people Trump wanted to attack. They also did not know I was atheist or Democrat.",0
"Mm, I think one of the few benefits of corporate power is that protecting their own rights to copyright also is accidentally protecting individual's copyrights. : ) So at least as things stand I think that will stay protected.","But yes, agree that it's going to be a mess for a while. Here's hoping for the most rational solution that benefits the original artists being used for the models, and art in general, while everyone gets to use these tools to unleash their own creativity.",0
"In part, this is why authoritarian nations had a edge against democracies to win international bids: they can bribe their way to victory with impunity. On democracies, to do the same requires sophisticated money laundering schemes, getting around auditing, undercut control institutions, etc... and people may get arrested.","All Gulf Nations work under a social contract, where the absolute king and his ruling family can do whatever they want, and the people would turn a blind eye for it as long they are provided for with enough to be happy and don't disrespect their customs and religion. This in turn provides with the social stability required to engage in complex entrepreneurial endeavors like massive oil extraction and refining, along with handling the mind boggling finances of that.",0
"Guns are a huge part of that. There is no credible way to deny that easy access to guns is the largest part of the issue. Until we have gun regulation, like a civilized country, we will see the same absurd rate of gun homicide that we, the united states' experience uniquely.",But the personal identification of the shooter in no way eliminates the potential impact of hate rhetoric and loose gun laws on the atrocity.,1
"Hindutva is on rise in India, it was a ideology propagated by RSS during Indian Independence which talks on far right Hindu totalitarianism and proposed a model of Authoritarian governance similar to Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, it is inspired by Hitler's Nazism and Aryan supremacy, Vinayak Savarkar and MS Golwalker were Hilter fanboys.","Currently there are other far right extreme Hindu groups like Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal who unitedly operates under the Sangh Parivar, their demand is making India a Hindu Rashtra from Afghanistan to Indonesia where Hinduism will be the state religion.",0
"Stop both siding this, there's a world of difference between the two. And, again, nuance is important. I highly recommend having a look at the articles about this topic and not just the headlines, they are awfully reductive and often misleading.","Russian torture of ukrainian victims is both systematic and state-sanctioned. It's part of their war tactics. See all the massive torture rooms and civilist mass graves which have been found so far. Who knows how many more there are still around... Russia has no intentions to punish the perpetrators, instead they are giving them promotions and medals.",0
"Not even like this is the only time they have violated another countries sovereignty, as the do it all the time, and in very serious ways (air strikes, drone strikes, assassinations, invasions etc.) Can you imagine the reaction among the media and politicians if China was doing these things to the extent that the US is?",And China is a rising power in a world moving towards multipolarity. In the American media they have and will continue to get a ton of criticism and anti China propaganda.,1
India likely figured that they could get a very good deal on all the R&D Russia has done for this stillbirth of a tank and developed their own model much cheaper and faster than they otherwise would have been able to. With a little luck they can even export the result to countries that would no longer want to buy Russian now.,"The whole business relied on being able to sell tanks aboard in order to make some for Russia itself. Now the whole tanks made in Russia thing is no longer a thing anyone wants and they are left with a tank that is really good on paper, but doesn't really exist in real life.",0
So is the so called “conspiracies” about Donald Trump debunked or are they substantiated or grounded in some facts but not completely verified.,There is a real problem with part of this article. It says the Steele Dossier was largely debunked yet when looking at the cite which is to another Newsweek article which states.,0
Exactly this. All the people suggesting chaos for chaos’s sake sound like the flip side of the MAGA coin. The job is to govern. If a reasonable partner approaches the Dems in good faith and presents a way to do thatC they should take it.,"I tend to think, in that context, the latter would be more palatable to many of McCarthy’s supporters than the former. But if this goes on indefinitely and Democrats refuse to give the Republicans an off-ramp, the more reasonable ones will have no choice but to cave to whims of the far right just to end this.",0
"“Woke” was specifically chosen to be used by Black people to indicate that we are aware of the systemic and systematic oppression against us. “Stay woke” is a term we’d often say to each other to continue to encourage being aware of our reality. Then it was stolen and bastardized by conservatives and then again by liberals. But honestly, it’s infuriating that it’s being misused because it had value to the Black community and is now being used to simply define “anything y’all don’t like”. But I’m not surprised at that.","It honestly doesn’t even matter who stole it first. The bottom line is, the term was taken from a community of people where it meant something and then was turned into a way to belittle and downplay the continued struggles of Black people in this country in addition to “anything y’all don’t like.” That’s it. That’s my whole point.",0
I have never in my life seen people in china pull people from police and shout about having the CCP step down.,"There were a few hundred protestors in Shanghai that had anti-CCP chants, the rest of the overwhelming majority is protesting against the Covid measures and not against the CCP.",1
You keep saying what support of Palestine shouldn't be. But you don't seem to be offering actual alternatives beyond vague platitudes of building them up.,You do understand there isn't a binary option of stop Hamas and let Hamas bomb them right? The illegal settlements in the West Bank doesn't stop bombings in Gaza.,0
"Give them 1 more vote, anyone who votes against is out, then work with the Dems to appoint a centrist speaker.","Your saying that they will spend ""2 years doing nothing"" has nothing to do with this speaker vote. Whether or not they vote in the way you described has nothing to do with the validity of the idea of removing earmarks or imposing term limits. Imposing term limits is another often spoken solution to reducing stagnancy in Congress.",1
"Their attempt to do so would be based on recent public statements by the forewoman of a special purpose grand jury, Emily Kohrs, according to two people familiar with the discussions who spoke with CBS News.","“Lawyers for several witnesses are preparing to move to quash indictments, based on the forewoman's comments, which they would argue taint any such charges and the investigation.”.",1
And it's not like the russians being put in the tanks will get better training than the new Ukranian tankers either.,"It's starting to be used to differentiate from Soviet era tanks, and the heavier western tanks, who, it's been argued can/might be able to take a few large rounds to the turret from the front. It's generally believed that any western tank will go through the front of all the soviet era tanks. Also separates them from all the light stuff/Bradley's being sent. Yes, its still MBT's, but if you are committed to maneuver warfare, you should have a spearhead of ""heavy"" western tanks, nowadays.",1
Many of us they wouldn't know it if they saw us. We are just normal people who sent through some suffering and found relief. They focus on drag queens because the show that drag queens put on. They think that's our existence.,"Dignity should not be so hard, like legit. What's the goal? You get rid of all trans people, force some of us into the closet, others die and many young people just never get to com out and suffer in silence.",0
Please tell us beT course of action against these evil countries that want to ease their already difficult situations.,Besides when you know something is NEEDED then you would be stupid to sell it dirt cheap. Besides if Russia offers the best price then you also save a bit on transport since ME is not right next to Japan like Russia is.,0
"You clearly don't know what you're talking about. First of all, these reactors are all housed in containment facilities that can withstand the force of a jet plane directly colliding with them. 9/11 made that fear something to think about. They've withstood damage so far, and if Putin wanted them blown up he could have done so without shelling them, especially as he has the staff essentially held hostage.","All accidents so far have been counted and its still one of the safest, maybe not the safest, so I doubt this release will seriously impact those figures. Fission is dangerous when mishandled and anyone who's studied nuclear physics, like I have, knows that, acknowledges that and understands that treating nuclear power with respect and transparency makes it a safe resource to use.",0
"That was 150 - 160 years ago. That’s like 7 or 8 generations after the fact. Maybe we need to stop dredging up the past and instead focus on what can be done today to eliminate systemic poverty, regardless of race.",Context is extremely necessary/important in order to solve the issues of systemic poverty etc issues that affect the black community to this day.,1
"Some of it, but there are other factors as well. We lost a ton of childcare providers during the pandemic because yes, shit pay and lack of financial safety net, but also death and retirement. The other issue is the cost of the certification and education needed. We want qualified, educated people watching our kids, but we need to pay them accordingly and provide funding to deal with student loan debt.","There are a number of programs being staged up at the state and federal level to support childcare. The biggest problem we’re having is finding trained and certified workers, so we’re also funding workforce training. Unfortunately, until we can get childcare workers back in the game, costs will likely stay high.",0
"I've been noticing it's like every week or so, another minister, cabinet member, judge, or government official is sacked. In nearly every case, non-government Ukrainian-based news sources can point to specific acts of corruption from these officials.","Let's be real, Ukraine was one of the most politically corrupt nations in Europe. Likely still is. And that's not going to change ""swiftly"" no matter what happens.",1
Happened to me on thanksgiving…it was a day free of Fox News and I was so happy. I had said “isn’t it weird how Black Friday isn’t really a big deal anymore?” And my father fucking lost it “YEAH BECAUSE THESE WOKE IDIOTS RUINED EVERYTHING AND NOW YOU CANT EVEN SAY BLACK ANYMORE!”.,"Oh holy shit, I remember my dad talking to a friend of his about how they're surprised that the liberals haven't tried to change Black Friday into African-American Friday and it's like what kind of brain rot is that.",1
How the fuck is talking about notorious slave states and colonial powers fucking “Justifying” slavery?,You think countries that are poor/somewhere in the middle right now didn't meddle in slavery? Didn't have a genocide or two? Don't have/had way bigger problems with corruption than the rich country club?,1
"To be fair the 3-4 other times they seized territory it didn't really piss anyone off aside from mild sanctions. I imagine they thought the world would wag their finger and Ukraine would capitulate in a week and everyone would have moved on while they quietly genocided the entire culture and sold off all the resources. I could easily see how they thought it would be a winning move. They didn't account for the Ukrainians will to fight nor the West's response. Also, I don't think it's about having resources they already have a shit ton of, it's about not having a neighbor friendly to Europe who can sell to them instead of Russia.",They did have a profit motive. All the oil and gas under Crimea and in the black sea. Granted it was pretty obvious after the first month that they would never control all those resources.,0
"We should find a replacement to the University system. Having a bunch of institutions have monopoly over scientific knowledge is dangerous, Because that means targeting of these institutions alone could cause damage to a nations scientific research.","It's not a ""monopoly"", it's not like institutions everywhere are clamouring to do science but can't because universities have locked it down; this is the edge of human knowledge, it's the edge of our capacities, we haven't anywhere else to do be doing it science outside of corporate labs.",1
"Ok, I apologize for my first statement. But I wouldn't trust anything that starts with ""Russia says"", its usually 180 reverse. And lastly these are the water drones I've only heard about by reading and seeing their POV attack videos First time hearing there are submarine drones in the works.","Note however that you cannot use a water drone to hit a land vehicle. Wheeled drones have their own set of guidance problems, while not many of the water drones benefits.",1
"I'll agree Manchin or Sinema wouldn't have gone for it. But I think we should be clear, the original authors of the bills intent is just as good as legal experts and counsel opinions. What's lawful will be decided by the Supreme Court.","The question at hand is whether the president actually has the legal authority to do the thing he did... Who else, if not the Supreme Court, do you want to decide that question?",1
"We found a diplomatic solution. Trump killed it. Finding another looks like a remote possibly as we have lost credibility. At this point Iran will align with Russia and China and may develop a nuke. The US public will not support another war. So soon we may say hello to the next nuclear power, as we did with North Korea.","For example, the US should encourage China to station nukes in North Korea in exchange for no NK nuclear program. Same with South Korea. They get to have US nukes but controlled by QUAD.",1
Russia can be defeated in 2023 if the West stops dragging their feet and gives Ukraine the long range precision artillery that is able to reach its borders.,"if Ukraine is armed to the teeth, we ought to fear them taking Moscow before we worry about their weapons falling in Russian hands; who wouldn't know how or where to operate them.",1
"The numbers do not support your claim that ""the national debt always rises more under democrats than republicans"". If you really care about national debt, that can't be tackled until you have administrations that bring down spending. Republicans haven't since Eisenhower.",Which year are you looking at? And where are you getting your data from? and they manage to do so while .,0
"If you want to accuse gas stoves of poisoning people while they sleep, you have to implicate induction in burning people's houses down while they sleep.",The source study in no way has implied that gas stoves are poisoning people why they sleep. The implication is that inadequate ventilation of combustion products may contribute to childhood asthma.,0
Until people understand the role of corporate media in normalizing the brutality of our existence we are left with nothing to do but stack bodies to the sky waiting in the name of profits to multi national corporations.,But of course corporate media which is owned by the same people who own for-profit healthcare will never cover this issue in a way where the politicians beholden to healthcare lobbyists are radical or extreme or racist or mass murderers.,0
"For most people, yes. But jet plane became public knowledge 82 years ago and had been flown a year earlier by the Germans at that point.","I'm going to seem like a typical American ignoramus here, but I was not aware until now that the Luftwaffe was still rocking the iron cross on their planes.",1
"Yeah, like this probably isn't Putins direct fault, but is more likely a fault of management in Russia's internal pharmaceutical industry along with I'm sure the vast sanctions against Russia not helping the problem.",I see Putin still needs to shill reasons as to why the average Russian needs to pay more for sugar pills that his pharma oligarch friends are manufacturing domestically after stealing all the legitimate medicine for themselves.,1
"in the hypothetical scenario where NATO, at the request of Moldova, mobilizes to protect Moldova's territory. Would russia respond to it as tho it is an act of war and also mobilize ?","A country can consider whatever they want as an act of war. The problem is the response. Even tho you know it's a bluff, what if russia uses their nuclear card?",0
"Great, Now Roberts is gonna have to go and whine about how the American People don't view the Supreme Court as a fair organization, and is losing credibility and standing in the eyes of the citizens.","Don't get me wrong, I think that's also an ugly thing for a sitting Justice to be doing, but it's neither surprising nor as offensively brazen a display of bias and partiality as this is.",1
"If it's only purpose was to taunt the US, then not shooting it down but still acknowledging its existence is America saying ""oh, that's cute China, be sure to try harder next time"".",Let's say we did shoot it out of the sky? That would give away tracking methods and response time. Plus the Chinese government would have ammo to say that the USA is scared of an obvious weather balloon.,0
"Tourism is very lucrative of course, but that's not what I meant though I probably didn't explain properly. What I meant is that inhabitants of Amsterdam such as myself don't see any of the money being brought in by tourists. The main effect these people have is driving up prices for basically anything from housing to groceries in the city, and the money they do spend disappears in the pockets of a few rich multinational corporations. While there's shockingly little insight into where exactly all this tourism money goes, it's an undisputed fact that housing has become ridiculously expensive in great part due to tourism (AirBnB for example).","I agree with you on that tourism will most likely suffer, but almost negligibly so. Most tourist I talk to (I work in the city centre) are there for the grachten and the tulips and the cheese and all those cliches, very few of them are there for weed and prostitutes.",0
"Edit: I learned lots of stuff from the replies to my comment. I have known the differences between Arabs and Persians but I thought the honor killings were a Muslim thing, didn’t realize it was mostly contained to Arabs, and I think I have have lots more to learn.","I'm sure a lot of Iranian and Arab traditions are very different, but what we want to hear more about is the attitude about religion, treatment of women and similar issues.",1
“How long will he remain there before he is considered a squatter?” Mr. Gaetz wrote. “Please write back promptly as it seems Mr. McCarthy can no longer be considered speaker-designate following today’s balloting.”.,Hasn't McCarthy already moved into the House Speaker's office...even though he hasn't been elected to that position yet?,1
"Gotcha, I was out on the other side of Philly. For sure, and the WWII bombs were much dirtier in fallout, to a terrifying degree, and radiation decontamination wasn’t a thing we understood at all. Now if you throw an N95 on, get the fuck out, and take a shower… if you aren’t dead in a few days you’ll probably live an almost full life (with increased cancer risk but minimal other effects).","Most modern nukes (1970s tech and newer) also have an incredibly localized deadly fallout zone, which makes sense because fallout means you had an inefficient detonation.",0
"Fusion refers to two atoms fusing into one. The gotcha here is that every atom’s nucleus is positivity charged, so they want to repel each other. Also, because of inverse square law, the closer you get to nuclei together, the stronger they repel each other. That strenh grows exponentially (squared) the closer they are together. However, if you can overcome that force enough and get their nuclei close enough together, the weak (or strong, I can’t recall) nuclear force takes over and pulls the atoms together, achieving fusion and releasing, and this is the technical term, a fuck-ton of energy.",(though it's probably the g-force the projectile feels when it hits the target - which is indeed relevant if you want to achieve high enough pressures for fusion).,1
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Don't forget attempted genocide by way of mass abduction of women and children whom they will attempt to program as loyal Russians. Even aside from the mass slaughter of Ukrainian citizens.,"What russia is attempting to do here is genocide. They're trying to erase Ukraine from history. They use the word ""nazi"" for anyone they see as an enemy with no regard to the actual definition.",1
"There’s more to it. In Russian orthodox tradition, Christmas is on 7th of January. More Ukrainians than in 2021 decided to celebrate it on 25th of December to have less “ties” with the aggressor in their derussification attempt, but for Russians it’s like a blasphemy and spit in the face. So refusing to cease fire on Dec 25 and proposing it on Jan 7 is basically a big fuck you.","It’s not about believing. It’s just Ukraine’s proposals that Putin refused to accept are not told about to Russian population, but Russian proposals are. So on TV, Russians are generous and mad Ukrainians just want the war no matter what. Like they show that those pesky Ukrainians blew up a bridge, but they never show how they killed a 4 year old in Vinnitsya or claim that a supermarket with civilians inside was actually a storage of ammunition. They’re not straightforward lying, they’re showing a convenient part of the truth to their citizens.",0
This whole situation is shitty. We need to stop treating this as a win. Brittney Griner fucked up and Biden ate crow to get her out. She deserves to face some kind of punishment for putting us in that position in the first place. This isn’t a left issue or a right issue. This is a national issue. She fucked up.,"These articles are really forced. I voted Biden and absolutely would again over any Republican, but this Griner situation isn’t great. We’re allowed to criticize him. We’re supposed to criticize him. He’s a public servant. Not a king. Biden bowed to Russia’s demands and handed over a very dangerous man in exchange for a medium profile celebrity because of the optics when we have thousands of people imprisoned in our own country for the same charge. A US marine is also in prison in Russia.",0
"I heard a clip from Fox News yesterday where Tulsi Gabbard, the fill-in host for Tucker Carlson (yeah, seriously), asked Santos if he has any shame for lying about his resume. Guess what he said in response? (my paraphrased version).","Tl;dr your average Republican voter wants rules for the out group and none for the in group (which they consider themselves a part of). Santos helps them accomplish that, his background be damned.",0
"I’m afraid that once a political party decides that cheating is justified, democracy is doomed. It’s a terminal cancer.","There is definitely an authoritarian streak among young leftists, but the problem is a much less urgent one. The extreme left is less violent, less organized, less funded, and much farther away from the levers of power. (For a historical parallel, Germans were absolutely right not to trust the KPD, which was practically run out of Moscow, but they never were the threat the Nazis were.).",0
Singapore also has a very robust oil refining industry. Almost 1/3 of the oil China uses passes through Singapore and Singapore is one of the top oil refining centers despite having no crude oil (it is the 5th largest in Asia Pacific).,"Singapore has also been an important trading hub even before the industrial revolution and still continues to be one of the worlds largest exporter of goods with the worlds second busiest port by volume. Today, Singapore exports more goods than India and exports the same amount of goods from the US as France. While it is definitely tiny in terms of its geography, its importance in the global economy should not be underestimated.",1
Send masses of bodies at the enemy and make sure it is primarily prisoners and other individuals you don't care about anyways.,Seems Russian war doctrine hasn't changed in the past 80 years. Just like their attitude towards the West and a civilized way of life hasn't change in the past 80 years.,0
"Everyone is acting like it’s just stupid for North Korea to test these weapons, but what they are trying to do is normalize the tests, such that the world eventually accepts North Korea as a nuclear power. Everyone has seen what Russias nuclear weapons have done for it. NATO would probably be all up in their shit if it weren’t for their nuclear capabilities. Other countries want those assurances, like North Korea, so they will try to become accepted nuclear powers like Russia.",The Russians and the North Koreans just like to scare people with their nuclear weapons. Putin is doing it to basically say hey stop giving Ukraine weapons and let me destroy my neighbour and Rocket man is just doing it purely for attention going “hey everyone I’ve got missiles and nukes to Please be afraid of me”.,1
"Prions are not like viruses or bacteria. They're misfolding proteins (Prions) that, when they come in contact with similar proteins, cause these new proteins to misfold.","So to add onto what others have said, a Prion isn't a virus or bacteria, it's literally just a highly complex misfolded protein. Its full name is ""proteinaceous infectious particle"". A Prion's form is extremely stable and resists being denatured even by autoclaving.",1
"Go look at divorce cases, anything prolific will have a shopped judge who leans more heavily one way or the other.","When I practiced family law last century, there were five judges who heard divorce cases. Cases were assigned on a rotating basis. All you had to do to forum shop was ask the clerk who was up next, and then wait until enough other cases were filed to make the judge you wanted be the next one. Then you filed yours. Some judges were better if you were trying to get a father custody of his kid, others were better at alimony awards, etc.",1
"Always have; It was a big part of why people fought against NAFTA. US floods Mexican corn market with subsidised corn, undercutting local growers. It's also why so many Mexican farmers turned to more lucrative crops and fed the drug trade.","And when Mexican farmers can not make a subsistence living growing a little bit of corn due to greedy agribusiness, what do they do? They immigrate north.",1
"“I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win,” he said “I stopped his Election from being stolen and now, Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games”."".",This. Trump publicly called Cruz’s wife ugly and the man bowed his head and bent the knee. How anyone can respect this disgusting piece of trash is beyond me.,1
"seeing the west take back their tank commitments pisses me off, they really, really dont want Ukraine to reclaim Crimea.","Ukraine is a full fledged western style democracy and if Ukraine falls, we will be looking at an all-out world war between NATO and Russia. Better to kick Russia's ass in Ukraine and contain the conflict.",1
Yeah so the video is a sight to see there are two videos one first person where you’ll see the Russians surrendering and then their bozo companion runs out guns blazing while a soldier with a machine gun over watches them.,"I've seen several videos like this, shot from Ukrainian body-cams, where the Russians pretend to surrender, then one pops up with a gun or grenade.",1
"While we're at it, in the years since the creation of communist China, they have seized territory from (and sometimes fought wars with) nearly all of their neighbors.","But I was told by Chinese redditors that American imperialism is the problem, not them, so I’m not sure why all these countries are saying they’re defending themselves against China /s.",1
"Hi Correct_Coconut2020. Thank you for participating in /r/Politics. However, has been removed for the following reason(s):","The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.",0
"At least Ukraine should have an advantage, a lot more soldiers have night vision, in the russian army you have to buy it yourself.",The big question is how safe are Russias ammo depots in Ukrainian territory? If Russia is completely unable to hide them then choosing a location like the mine would actually be a good idea since Ukraine would attack them anyways and a mine is much easier to defend and would give more room for mistakes.,1
The drinking water that comes from municipal water sources is treated and safe. I wouldn't drink the water in creeks or rivers before or after this incident.,"People don't typically drink directly from creek water. The amount of processing that water plants use are very likely to clear any of these chemicals. At least, modern or Major population centers water treatment plants...perhaps this small community doesn't have that solid of a water infrastructure.",1
"Tbf, a lot of Democratic lawmakers could do a lot more than they're doing to resist the GOP and just keep trying to take the easy way out by pushing dumb platitudes about bipartisanship while doing things that their donors/GOP donors (lots of the same people) like. The way to fix that isn't by punishing the Democratic party/punishing America by allowing Republicans to get elected, though it's turning out to vote in primaries and making sure all your friends and neighbors know who the good and bad Democratic lawmakers are.","Maybe if progressives stopped chasing partisan dreams in a country with a moderately conservative median voter, progressives would be better able to legislate rather than standing in the corner quiety thinking ""they don't know I'm a pro at legislating” to only complain that their absurd demands weren’t given serious considerations when they don’t reach and pass both floors of Congress.",1
"""This is Lexinon and Concord. First shots fired against tyranny,"" is what he had to say just three days after the January 6 insurrection. It really isn't any stretch to think that impressionable young minds are being influenced by this kind of poison.",The US is the only country in the world which has this kind of problem with mass shooting. We're up to nearly two a day. So is it really grotesque politicization to talk about why that is?,0
"For those worried about this so-called new hypersonic threat, while their speed can pose a challenge: The US Military has already been shooting down real supersonic and hypersonic ballistic missiles in tests and in combat for over 20 years. People forget or don’t know that ICBMs and MRBMs already reach hypersonic speeds (Mach 5+), and have done this for decades.",This frigate is a sad shadow of the large Atlantic and Pacific Fleets with Kirov-class Battlecruisers that the USSR used to field during the Cold War.,0
It’s wise to not make a big deal out of one off instances of voter fraud that are caught and prosecuted because the system is working as intended.,Well look at most of the actual small time voter fraud that comes out is repubs. It’s literally a small article and you never hear about it again. Dems should be going nuts with commercials everytime a repub is caught doing voter fraud. Then end the commercial with even though this person cheated it wouldn’t change the results.,1
"Gun control and red flag laws are nice and all, but I don't think it strikes at the true heart of the problem, and at best is just an easily digestible action the opposition can push. Take away the assault rifles and leave the constant hate pressure, you're just going to see more vehicular attacks, stabbings, bombings, etc.",Why would any single-shot kill or mass murder by gunshots be a surprise to anyone given the utterly unfettered and nationwide access to firearms and ammunition? The only surprise would be the one that happens in a prison or an airline cabin.,1
"This is a lie they tell you because they know it does. Think about it, why would they waste their breath / effort if it didn’t? The reality is gerrymandering only works with low voter turnout - the second you have a ton of turnout it falls apart, because it hinges on apathy.","Between voter suppression, gerrymandering, and the fact that the electoral college gives more voting power to dirt than to citizens, the deck is pretty well stacked against democracy.",1
Still allowed but doesn't have access to the information that would be available in say for example the intel committee when something pretty big like covid is on the horizon circa January 2020 that could effect slcertain stocks and shit. That's the important stuff and nobody is gonna leak that stuff to Santos cause nobody likes him they just need a warm body in his seat.,"Nah thats true but not true committee participation has tons of lucrqtive perks: insider trading, big companies owing you favors for helping, etc. His congressional pay is unchanged yes but nobody is in politics for their measly state given salary, they want powerful connections and the ability to insider trade with impunity.",0
"I don't understand the ruling here. Can someone Explain it like I am 5 years old? So if someone is paid salary, but works more than 40 hours a week. Then they get overtime?","Hell yeah give him overtime pay. Yeah they make a lot, but it's a job where any day you could literally die. One of the most dangerous and isolating jobs out there.",1
You can find another platform to spew your nonsense. You are just pissy because you want access to the number of people on Twitter and because it's popularized.,Twitter tomorrow could post dinosaurs roam the earth again or that aliens are harvesting human brains for China or some shit. Doesn't matter its a private platform.,0
"I imagine they are just restructuring their pilot's schedule to -1 target practice sortie, +1 Balloon Hunt.","Am I the only one imagining thag, after the first pilot shot that balloon, all the other pilots wanted to shoot one too.",1
"Trump wins that ""election"" in congress. Then it would obviously go to court where (I'm sure this is where Ginni Thomas comes in it was probably pre-arranged) SCOTUS puts a bow of legitimacy on the contingent election and says yes this is all well and good. From there we never again have an election for President.","Oh, but let's say the contingent election happened. Then what? Well funny thing, the states get involved AGAIN and independently vote for who they feel won. This would typically match the popular vote and the previous electoral vote. Just as long as there wasn't a stalemate, the individual states are again the ones deciding. Again, the federal government, no single centralized entity has control over the election.",1
"that's not what he's saying, the full wapo interview linked in the article goes more into it. he wants comprehensive reform and supports things like daca.",">But when I talk to my Republican colleagues who are not anywhere near a border — let’s say they’re in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee — they have the same problem. So there are solutions and we’re continuing to work on this. Our country would really benefit from stronger border security and comprehensive immigration reform.",0
Looking at that data it makes it seem like the earthquake never stopped. There has been lots of 4.0-5.0s almost everyday since the big one. Am I just unaware how common earthquakes are or is this abnormal?,"Why are there so many strong earthquakes happening at once? I understand there were a ton of aftershocks, but, if my understanding is correct, this isn't an aftershock?",1
"People will also try to say workers in Europe have better protections than Americans, while conveniently ignoring that strikers and protesters in say .","Sure! What does Europe think about no-fault divorce. Or abortion. Or whether you should have a hereditary monarchy whom all power derives from? How about (especially unskilled) immigration? Or things like ""official language""s?",0
It’s not the Groundhog Day. Just Russians mine-clearing the area with their MBTs and trying to find every single mine placed by Ukrainian troops near Vuhledar.,"I have read that the Russian thought they had cleared the mines but Ukraine was able to replace them before the attack, so thatt's why they are confused.",1
"World fertility rate is only 2.3 children per woman. It drops every year so it gets closer and closer to replacement rate, and then world population drop. This is not just a rich country thing, almost every country is in the world regardless of wealth has had their fertility rate drop over the decades. There's just a few countries that increased their fertility rate.",What do you do when the countries you are sourcing immigrants from start having a declining birth rate? It's not a long term solution.,1
"""If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your side, pound the law. If neither are on your side, pound the table."".","That's my point. If this were a copyright issue, it would be a different situation. SNL doing a Jack Daniels parody commercial, The Onion, Weird Al... that's all copyright and should be protected as parody.",1
"The bond holders are the lender in this analogy. If they believe the US won't repay them, they won't buy the bonds or will demand much higher interest rates. Just like the credit card company would increase your interest rate or not raise the credit limit.","Can a credit card account owner create their own currency when they hit their credit limit? That's why the analogy breaks down. Government finances can only be compared to a household budget in certain ways, and the rest mean there is no valid comparison.",0
"You’re a random stranger claiming you know more about domestic surveillance then Snowden. Doubtful you even sniffed a security clearance because you’d know it’s not classified info to disclose your clearance level. So, either put up or shut up.",You obviously haven’t researched or looked into snowdens upbringing and decision to release the info. You’re mad at an individual who exposed our countries lies? Why? Because you rather be lied to? Think our government is on your side? Weird.,0
"Ukraine is also getting donations of cold weather gear in huge amounts from Canada and Denmark, both countries that know a thing or two about cold winters.","It's also not going to help in that it's much, MUCH easier for NATO to supply coats and blankets that Ukraine will need than it is for Russia to do the same for theirs.",1
"The russians siding with Iran on this would mean either mean direct fighting between Israel and russia, or Israel being forced to attack shipments in Lebanon itself (which means war with Hezbollah).","Iran (Israel’s nemesis) is active in Syria which Israel wants to bomb, so they give heads up to Russian air defense as to not make misunderstandings.",1
"Doesn't matter, they're all cannon fodder - just get the next bunch of criminals and recruits / conscripts, pump them full of drugs and send them out to die.",Send masses of bodies at the enemy and make sure it is primarily prisoners and other individuals you don't care about anyways.,1
"I wish oat milk had the caloric numbers that almond does, because it’s the closest to actual milk so far. But it’s also like 6x as much as almond milk so I just can’t justify it. And as someone else pointed out here - dairy farms take up something like 5x as much water as almond farms.",That graphic that went around showed soy and oat as the least intensive but even almond was well well behind cow milk in that regard….,0
"In my experience most chinese canadians don't want anytning to do wjth the CPC. A large number of them back politicians and parties that are against the CPC, are highly religious(which is against communism in general), an increasing number of them are pro marijuana, and regularly prostest anything involving the CPC. For a lot of chinese canadians and chinese people living in Canada, life in Canada has become about enjoying freedoms they don't have in their native country and moving their assets to a place the COC can't possibly touch, which is a big part of the housing issue.",Chinese people are a sizable minority in Canada. In some places like Richmond they're the ethnic majority. But to my experience any affinity for China is mostly cultural and almost none of it is political.,0
It's kind of weird that 2.8 million have fled to Russia. Wonder why. Caught behind lines and they can only flee that direction or were they just ethnic Russians living in Ukraine before the war?,"Are you an ""ethnic Ukrainian"" or an ""ethnic Russian"" if you come from both sides of the border - which is the case for many, many people in Russia and Ukraine?",1
"So would that mean that those are all unpaid days when they remove themselves for illness? If they're so short-staffed why would they want someone to take an unpaid day off now, and then take an additional paid day off in the future, instead of having them just take the day then?","By having it unpaid, they're hoping to push people into not taking the day at all, and only ever using the scheduled ones. They'd rather have the people come into work sick.",1
"India could have ten times as much military forces at present and it's still not really a -threat- to China, even if on paper they could win a conventional conflict. Likewise, China with ten times their present forces isn't really a threat to India simply because they've got other fish to fry, so to speak.","China and India have a border, but it's comprised of some of the most forbidding terrain on the planet; not important to either country, not really useful for anything, but it's hell to try to campaign through the Himalayas. Neither country is likely to seriously attack each other.",0
"He was famously so bored, in fact, that multiple staffers making six figures of taxpayer money were assigned the sole task of summarizing the movies into tiny mini-videos desperately trying to relate the plot to the second man himself somehow, simply so he might be able to pay a little bit of attention upon which he will base his next inexplicably idiotic and ignorant ""decision."".","Yup. People are still making too much of this. From what is known, it warrants an administrative review and that's about it. If something else comes out of that review. That will be something else.",1
"There are also hardy cactuses. I live in the Upper Midwest in the States and I keep barrels of them outside on the deck year round. Green bees love the flowers and the fruit is really nice, even though there are so many seeds. Like if a strawberry was in the form of a raspberry, if you can imagine that.","Uncertain. My deck is a sun-blasted hellscape in summer. “Bright shade” could be okay, and mine live under feet of snow for weeks at a time every winter. Opuntia something or other. I got my first pads from a guy on eBay who lived in northern MN, grew them on the side of his house.",0
"OMG Kids are the product of sex, as well I just realized that kids seeing OTHER KIDS is also a reminder of sex.","Sadly, it's more than just grapes. Plants of all kinds are out there just willy nilly having sexual relations out in the open. Sometimes they make bugs join in with no consent. Some are even having sex with themselves! I just pulled this off Scientific American:",0
"Some intelligence people had said not that it was Russian disinformation, but that without any specific knowledge about the laptop, the whole thing looks like a Russian disinformation op.","I highly doubt the FBI has actually looked at the contents. It's an illegally hacked laptop that was passed around political operatives before making a show or turning it over to the feds. The whole thing is inadmissable and if anything in it was real, going after that lead on the basis of it coming from the laptop would probably poison the well of anything that came of that lead.",0
"You're absolutely right. The thing is.... Biden voters (made up of democrats, republicans, and independents) didn't take kindly to the Republican party attempting to negate their vote, thus motivating them to get out and vote in the midterms (where turnouts are typically lower).","Contrast that with a hypothetical where a ""sane"" Republican who respects election results runs third party and who garners that hypothetical ""at least 1%"" of the vote.",1
"Here at rpolitics, it seems the Neo Cons, and what's left of them, are Democrats, not Republicans, and in that, a generation who has at most another decade of political viability.","sounds like the democrats should probably move left, and maybe try posing any form of obstacle to fascism for once, if they want to run on ""vote for us, we can save democracy"".",1
"Republicans are hostile to things that are very important to young people, like climate change, and reproductive rights, and acceptance of marginalized groups.","Republicans already fear the blacks, the foreigners, the fairer sex, the differently able, adding the young to the list doesn't seem like that far a leap.",1
"Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipelines that would have transported another 800,000 barrels of Canadian heavy crude to the US gulf coast oil refineries. That decision is looking stupider with each headline of the US seeking additional oil output from the Middle East or Venezuela.",Besides pushing oil production from the US to Venezuela does little for the environment. I guess it helps win elections though.,1
Studys have proven that non religious people have a higher moral standard and are more accepting of minority groups and modern trends.,And in the recent years the pagan Church or whatever its called is growing while other religions are loosing members.,0
"They're getting taken out by drones that spot them, artillery, drop grenades on them, and drop anti tank grenades that destroy their limited supply tanks.","There's one great one where a Ukrainian drone operator counts like 15 Russians entering a small farmhouse, waits until they're all in, then calls in a precision artillery strike that levels the house.",1
"If you want my opinion on this whole thing, of course he has a significant responsibility in the death toll. But to be honest, I'm not sure that things would have been very different with someone else in power. And I'm not sure things will be very different if an opposition party comes to power in May. In any case, Istanbul is fucked. There will be hundreds of thousands of casualties when the big one strikes the city. In this disastrous economy, there's not enough time and money to destroy, rebuild, strenhen, renovate, etc. And for that too he is partly responsible...",Erdoğan was mayor of Istanbul in 1994-1998. The statements quoted in the article are from 2019. How is him being mayor 30 years ago relevant to the discussion ?,0
"Russia paying the price for twenty years of aggression and murder for bargain basement prices too. ""So General, if we keep all this old Cold War equipment we bought when I was still in the Senate we'd have to keep paying to maintain and store it just in case WW3 breaks out, right?"".","Yup. The world is in this situation with Ukraine today because twice before the international community has done essentially nothing when Putin twice invaded the territory of sovereign neighbors: Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. The world let Russia invade South Ossetia, Crimea, and the Donbas with almost zero consequences. Why wouldn’t Putin think that he could continue taking land and destabilizing the region if they aren’t subservient?",1
"How did this escalate to ""fuck off, Putin-propaganda, strawman fallacy"" talk? The way I see it, they took your reply as supportive of the rumors so he kept going on the same angle. I can see how you would feel they ignored what you were saying, or that they were mocking anyone believing Putin is sick in some way.","Personally I like the idea that Putin is secretly quite sick, and I don't think the rumors do harm because they are also harming Putin's image. But I also don't think being annoyed by what are essentially rumors, and a long pattern of them means that someone is a Putinist.",0
I'm sitting here in my car on my break and vaping. My last cigarette was a few months ago. I voted for the ban. Now I'm working on quitting the vape too.,"I'm not awfully out of shape, but running up a flight of stairs would leave me out of breath and sweating. I'm amazed now how easier every physical act is. My teeth are whiter than they've been in ages. I didn't know what really taking in a full breath was. I'm still so amazed by it that I'll deeply inhale and exhale, because it's a new sensation.",0
"yep. The main thing is that as things stand, russia would eventually wear down Ukraine through sheer strenh of numbers; we need to make sure that Ukraine has whatever they need to push russia out of Ukraine and even strike military targets inside russia, so that they no longer have the ability to field fresh equipment and soldiers to continue the invasion.","Russia can certainly try to restore it's massive soviet era stockpiles of shells and tanks and vehicles while under sanctions, and it clearly has no regard for the life of Russian conscripts.",1
"Oh so I'm a misogynist because I don't appreciate some random tool barging in and spouting some of the most annoying rhetoric on this website? Are you that insecure that you immediately result to calling someone a misogynist whenever your fragile, shitty talking points aren't appreciated? Oh I apologize, I guess I'm ""mansplaining"" to you right now. I can't wait to be brought up in some 12,000 word manifesto posted to r/TwoXChromosomes about how men on this website are so horrible and never treat women with the respect they deserve.",As they should. Elected officials should be held to a much higher standard of speech compared to civilians. Greene and Boebert need to be arrested ASAP.,0
"So again, when I hear that 12 Jewish members of congress were so offended and condemned her statement, I just hear that they were posturing to stay on their good side.","If it does, will maga republicans support trump in 2024 or at least vote to censure him? I’m addition to ALSO saying that israel controls congress, trump has said way worse things about Israel and Jews, both while in office and post office.",0
"Israel will be ready to risk an all out, devastating war to prevent Iranian nukes - if everything else fails.","Israel is a shitty neighbor because they don’t want Iran, which is a country that constantly threat Israel’s existence, to create a nuclear weapon.",1
"I’m arguing that for something to be an addiction it must produce physical withdrawl. If quitting is not a medical process, it’s just a compulsion or a habit.",Not getting a dopamine rush isn’t “withdrawl.” It is a “lack of joy.” It’s man’s natural state and we are all born capable of dealing with it. It it intellectually dishonest to call repeatedly seeking out pleasure an “addiction” in and of itself.,0
"I don't agree with Turkey's demands that have nothing to do with Sweden and Finland, but this one is reasonable. You want to be in the same military alliance as them, so it makes sense not having an arms embargo on them.","What is your view on other NATO members having arms embargos on Turkey? France, the Czech Republic, Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and USA at least have some sort of embargos on Turkey. Why do you think it is reasonable for a country in a defensive alliance to blindly support offensive acts of other members?",1
"To Taiwan, sure. It is not a threat to western nations though, they are much more at risk from fascism growing internally in them.","I'm much more worried about the police knocking on my door due to the rise of authoritarianism that is brewing in the US here. If you think the police will be coming because somehow China has imposed themselves on the US, that is just completely delusional. I never defended or ""sucked the teets"" of any dictator and have no desire to. I'm calling out the US because its authoritarian trend is much more of a threat to me. It is not a defense or excuse for China, but acknowledging we have more pressing and local threats than China.",0
"This is a warning to Iran that Israel knows what they are doing, they know where they are doing it, and the F-35's are already on standby ready for takeoff to wipe Iran's nuke program off the face of the earth.","Producing bunker buster bombs is well within Israel's capabilities, considering they've been preparing for this OP for more than a decade im sure the capability exists.",0
"Work under direct supervision of minor's parent or guardian in connection with parent's or guardian's business, trade, or profession if minor would otherwise be permitted to work in the same job at age 14.",Minors must be at least 14 years of age to be employed or permitted to work in most gainful occupations. Younger minors may be employed or permitted to work as follows:,0
"Of course, that calls into question what hypothetical war the US could possibly find itself in where stingers of all things are a relevant contribution to their air dominance plans. Like, if a US soldier actually has to fire a stinger, someone fucked up. In realpolitik terms, it really only has the singular use case of providing it to other countries where a given faction is unable to establish air dominance.","Unless both the entire US Air Force and Navy got wiped out, you still wouldn't be using a stinger as a US draftee. In modern US doctrine, it's not the job of the infantry to establish air dominance.",0
"our government along with Ghana, Liberia and the other non french speaking countries filed a complaint but the french west africans once again bought into french imperialism and coercion.",“Many Africans in regions without French influence view France as the enemy of Africa as a whole at this point”.,0
I'm starting to ramble but the Soviets were the brute force strenh that won the war in Europe but they weren't the main reason why Japan surrendered.,"Japan got to bow out with some dignity now that they could point to a superweapon as the cause, but the real reason was that they didn't want the USSR joining the fight.",1
"Regarding the west they are only interested in the potential economic value and acquiring Western weapons, but beyond that that’s it. India doesn’t want to become part of the west so much as to become a competitor to the west. And they have proven that by still dealing with the Russians and indirectly aiding the Russian war effort by allowing Russia to skirt the sanctions via the Indian market.","The only reason why Europe even cares as much as they do is because Russia is a threat to them, if India invaded Bangladesh the sanctions placed on them would be a joke compared to what Russia got hit with.",1
"What? You mean the timeline of: Russia annexes Crimea in 2014, Trump runs in 2015 and wins, starts fucking with Ukraine's gov. by threatening to withhold aid and getting impeached over it, the whole trump tower moscow thing, and praising Putin, Xi, and Un, threatening to pull out of NATO, and generally being a twat trying to stay in power illegally until finally getting the boot in 2021, prompting the Russians to have to rethink their angle of attack raises your suspicions?",The point I was making is that the warmongering mentality isn't unique to Putin but that there are many people in positions of power who would try to continue or even try to escalate the war further.,1
"It's not against the new government. It's against the set of rules they want to pass to make the government above the judicial system, making de facto the govt able to overturn the Supreme Court if they feel like it.",It seems like changing the functioning and power of the judicial branch is something that should be done by 2/3rds public vote or something and just not a simple government majority.,1
"I think we should take a moment as a country to contemplate the fact that Trump now just openly and overtly admits to specific crimes and we all just shrug and say “oh well, it’s only Trump”.",To think that we've reached the point where Trump thinks boasting about crimes he didn't even commit will get him more praise and attention than boasting about how rich he definitely is.,1
He's had too much time to figure something out to mitigate the bullshit and lets face it - he's done way worse than scam on his taxes and ain't shit been done about that.,"We can all look at the top line numbers and say he's a tax cheat, because we know those numbers are unacceptable and wrong for society. But I what I want to hear is whether our corrupt tax code really does permit the wealthy to do this, or whether there's been impropriety.",1
"Maybe the idea that you can be ethnic Chinese but nationally American might sway a couple people, or some funny headlines from ccp presses like “America is destroy the Chinese people in her own borders”.",I think this is more of an excuse/rationale to infiltrate the Chinese diaspora abroad like they do in Australia and Canada to exert pressure on them that translates to people more aligned with them in the west.,1
"I see it as a life and thus the right to life can only be suspended in extenuating circumstances. Also, they did democratically decide that it was not constitutional for the federation to impose on the states? Is it not democratic for you to vote for the issues? Dumb take, if you ask me.","Well, for me, at least, it is up to a vote in my state... But they couldn't help but add more than just abortion to their proposal so I will have to vote no.",0
"“We are not going to repeat the mistakes of the USSR, instead we will make new ones, like starting a direct war against a country fully backed by the west, re-unifying NATO and helping NATO expand by making historically neutral countries nervous with our war of aggression”.",">“We will not repeat the mistakes of the past, when in the interests of increasing defense capability where necessary and where it was not really necessary in fact, we destroyed our economy,” he said. “We simply don’t need this.”.",1
"Nowadays a ton of religious people don’t go to worship in groups, even Christians. In the East much religious activity is just continued funeral services after people die, or throwing a coin at a shrine for good vibes.","You said “you don’t say” as if it was obvious. Yet it’s an observed trend over centuries that people in the west do this constantly. When people say religion is bad, 90% of the time you can tell they are only talking about Christianity.",0
Anyone have more knowledge on what weapons system the strike was made with? I wasn't aware of Ukrainian missile capabilities.,"My understanding of the weapons system was incorrect, the munitions are very much guided post launch.",0
I hate the sentiment that by not voting they can’t be blamed. No. Exactly the opposite. By not voting you are more at fault. Our democracy only works with participation otherwise what we’re seeing now happens. A minority rule is trying to subvert our system of government to give themselves total power. The village idiot is put in check by the majority. If the majority doesn’t care or can’t be bothered to care then the village idiot becomes the mayor.,That will be the real red wave. All of the candidates at each others necks. No mercy. To be the next trump you have to be aggressive otherwise the voters won’t see you as strong. The bar has been raised for them. They easily could have left him behind in favor of more traditional republicans like Liz Cheney but no. They want more crazy antics. So that’s what they’ll get.,0
"You're asking for it to be black or white, that is fantasy. I refuse to engage in a fantasy based discussion, this is real life and dumb choices have consequences.","The Belarusian military doesn't support Russia's invasion, if Ukraine attacked Belarus then the (Belarusian) military would probably directly help Russia.",0
"Inflation is caused by a disconnect between the supply of goods and services that can be bought with money and the money itself. Most money (in America) is ""created"" when a bank loans money out, by just putting numbers into an account. The interest rate is a tool which dictates to the recipient of the new money some boundaries on the rate at which work or productive effort must be done in exchange for another party's money (which is also being created by a bank putting numbers in their account). When the interest rate is high, there is more pressure to do work with the money and pay back the bank, while low interest rates encourage less productive effort. When interest rates are very low for a long time, money accrues in the accounts because it is cheaper and easier for most to just go ask for more cheap money than it is to go and invest or use the money to do work. This causes a cycle of banks creating money that is going to pay another bank for money they created and on and on. It might not seem like it, but this can be a highly stable organization to base the value of money on, as it diffuses power in the hands of various interested parties, but requires cooperation between the banks, which is what the fed is for. If the fed didn't exist, you would have hyperinflation as the banks compete to outlast each other in a race to the bottom on interest rates, making saving and investing meaningless and strongly encouraging hedonic consumption.","Republicans know they can't actually cut medicare or social security while their voting base is disproportionately dependent on that spending. It would be political suicide. However, they can manufacture a crisis then surrender control of the nation's finances to the Democrats and demand that the Democrats do the dirty work (and some of them will be willing). Only Nixon can go to China type deal.",0
But that’s not even the point. I’m talking about policy. Sorry that you don’t see policy and excuse it by using buzzwords like corporate democrats. How can YOU say that with a straight face.,"You can say that with a straight face? With all of the corporate democrats that are millionaires, in some cases one hundred times over and have gotten that level of wealth while being in government? How does that differ from an oligarch in Russia or a corrupt energy executive in Nigeria?",1
"According to one of the sources, at the places where temples were blown up, the Rashists plan to remove HIMARS fragments brought from other places of explosions in the plots for propaganda.'.",>InformNapalm is one of the best OSINT/investigative groups in region and for years has contributed to important work including the MH17 investigation and hundreds of other russian crimes.,0
"Right to practice religion is not threatened. There still is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, which follows the same rites, but is not subordinate to Russian aggressors.","Because of russian agression and all the lie, which comes from russia, now is the time to forbid everything russian and have only one Canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine.",1
"There is wide political support for Hamas in the WB, and if Israel leaves - the rockets from the west back could cover the whole country easily. They don't want to take any more chances after leaving Gaza.","Palestinian have a hard time under Israel's occupation but they also have it bad under Hamas' Gaza. Some of the resolutions are submitted by Hamas itself which is ironic and despicable,and many including the latest one denouncing Israel are submitted by the PA while they themselves are guilty of corruption and oppressing any political opposition and critics.",1
"Well they continued, and Russia just attaked Kyiv again Time to send the fucking long range weapons and fuck Russia up.","It’s funny to think about Russia going “Oh, you promised to send EVEN MORE modern and devastating equipment if we do the thing? Well now we’ll do the thing As soon as possible”.",1
"So, while a large part of the country is fine with gay marriage, I guarantee a large part also doesn't care if it goes away. They don't care if the queer suicide rate goes up. They don't care if we're treated as humans. As long as they get their cheap gas and peace at the family dinner table, they'll vote Republican and defend bigots over hurt minorities.","It's easy to respond in the affirmative on a poll on a topic you don't care about, but perceive social stigma for being against. That poll isn't measuring actual support, but something closer to apathy. I know centrists who ""support"" gay marriage, but defend the don't say gay bills. Ones who also think queer people are too woke and need to tone it down. Ones who tell their queer relatives to ""drop it"" when uncle Jim is over calling queer people groomers/pedophiles, just to have a ""nice dinner with the family"", knowing their queer family member is more likely to acquiesce than the bigot. There's also the ones who ""Don't care about the gays"" but will vote Republican no matter what, and make excuses that it's just 1 issue they disagree with, so it's not a deal breaker.",0
"Inb4 we have people saying America does the same to Chinese waters, ignoring the whole international ruling against China and their absurd territory grab attempt.",To say that Japan 'administered' the islands since the late 1800s when they basically claimed it as part of a broader imperialistic war and then claiming this is Chinese imperialism in action is just wrong.,1
"""Transcripts obtained from DeVry by the New York Times indicate Santos held a steady 2.1 GPA in accounting before dropping out and spending the remainder of his student loans on a 'sick set' of throwing stars."".",This. So much this. He pulled in $4.4mil in 2019 and he’s a billionaire?? Even if he was worth $1 billion his assets only made him .4%??? No way in hell.,1
With the exception of maybe China (maybe) the only real question in whether the US will militarily do something is whether they are ok with the consequences of that action. Musharif thought maybe they wouldn't be and W called his bluff. And maybe he was bluffing too but we'll never know.,As heated as the American public was at the time I think W was likely not bluffing. We were going in and anyone in our way was going to catch jdams all day til they weren't any longer.,1
">(Some would also argue that if Clinton had campaigned more in the so-called ""blue wall"" states, she also could have picked up more votes.).","Well because it is. If you look at the tumult from the Left, and the Right over the course of years, be it Tea Parties, Occupation Wall St, BLM and Far Right Insurrectionists, we are in the throes of a Revolution whether we want to admit or not.",1
Part of the reason why the Afghan War wasn't able to be painted as a war against Islam is because Turkey was a critical partner in Afghanistan even if they didn't take part in combat operations.,"The US was never expecting the rough terrains of Afghanistan, or Vietnam for that matter, and Korea didn't really have a winner regardless so that one is irrelevant. Look at Finland, however, who literally only trains their military to defeat Russia in the event of invasion. Their past proves they aren't easy to take them down.",1
I'm curious if this was Putin's plan all along. Use Wagner to hire convicts and send them to the front as cannon fodder to wear down Ukrainian troops and supplies while Russia attempts to train thousands of new conscripts.,"Could also be as Prigozin says. Wagner and it's convicts having more success than the Russian military, against elitist ideals etc.",0
"She gets a lot of her material from her followers and Truth Social. And when the subject is gun control, she just repeats everything she's said for years.","She started in on him She was talking about how he didn't have enough support in Congress, because he wasn't standing up against the Democrats for the GOP extremists (specifically her) while she was doing her douche tour with Gaetz.",0
"New Yorker here. Can confirm that since rec legalization, the same old potheads continue to smoke weed, and the same old sober people continue to not. I still don't get what's so scary to some people about legal access to weed.","The thing I don’t get is why are their people opposed to legalizing Marijuana? If these people are against it , they don’t have to smoke it. It just amazes me why some are always trying to tell others how to live their lives. This applies to a number of opinions on other shit too!",1
"This is also the difference in Google and Apple, Apple shares data in a way that’s usually useless outside of app development, and developers generally can’t track back.","And it won’t, Device Analytics shares ALL the data about the device with Apple and not just Apple use you, it also doesn’t prevent a 3rd party app that uses a log in from collecting data.",0
"I'm certainly not blaming democrats more than republicans, but they 100% sided with capital against the workers when they decided to split the bill. It's the same thing they did with BBB. You can say half a win is better than no win, but fuck eventually these half losses are going to be insurmountable. And it puts into sharp focus that the Dems aren't exactly ""good guys"", they're just better than the alternative.","If they had left the bill as one, then there would be immediate and tangible repercussions for Republican fuckery. They could actually point to the railroad strike and say ""See? This is what happens when Republicans get their way"" and the public would be more incentivized to put pressure on Republicans because they are being affected. I am blaming Democrats for a very obvious tactical error, and for claiming to be working in the interest of the workers when they clearly are not.",0
"From Pew Research, Handguns were used in 59% of the gun homicides in 2020. Weapons that would be categorized as ""assault weapons"" were used in 3% of gun homicides. Shotguns were used in 1%. The other 36% was classified as ""type not stated"".","Do you disagree? Statistics from Gun Violence Archive, a non profit that tracks gun violence in the US, show that about 705 people died from mass shootings in the US in 2021. This compares to a total of about 14,000 total gun homicides.",0
"As a former military man I’m rofl, you can’t make this shit up. Bad Ukrainian gifters, but bad police chief too, you both get a spanking for not clearing the weapon system properly.","Nope full liability. If you dint know what your doing with a weapon system you don’t touch it until you have a trainer with you, as a police chef especially he should know these basic weapons safety rules.",0
The GOP loves it when fewer people vote and when only the old retired folks scared shitless by Fox News vote.,"Saturday voting could HELP the GOP, too That's what is extra fucked up about this Now that the Warnock/Walker runoff isn't going to decide control of the Senate, Republicans are going to have a harder time poking their base to get out to the polls again.",0
What he was was frustrated and angry that it was so obvious how impotent he is. (Maybe someone should send him a truckload of Viagra. Collect.).,"This is correct. Biden isn't a particularly strong leader, but when juxtaposed against a side hell bent on conspiracies and infighting and performative outrage, he's eminently competent and poised.",1
"It's like, why did DeSantis pay over half million dollars for plane tickets that shouldn't have cost now than 30k.","So in short, the court knew what it was doing was wrong, and, because it's all they know, did something else wrong to try to pressure others in their party to choose something less wrong.... That tracks...",0
Will be interesting to see if the US/Israel try to drum up support for any military action (see places like Saudi Arabia for instance).,"On the other hand, if Israel launches a preemptive strike against Iran, it sets a dangerous precedent. Not only will Iran and Israel likely be committed to full-scale war, they will drag the US and Russia into it, complicating an already bad enough situation in Ukraine. This is the kind of thing which leads to true WW3.",1
"Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries won the support of all 212 Democrats and a plurality of all votes cast, but no candidate achieved the necessary majority to win.","Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida accepted a nomination to be the Republican alternative and picked up 20 votes in the fourth round, while Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana voted “present” on the fourth ballot.",0
"Maybe they could have beaten just Ukraine-- I'm really not sure, given the incredible resolve of the Ukranian military and my lack of knowledge about Ukraine's pre-war supply situation-- but they're not fighting just Ukraine. They're fighting Ukraine and a massive pile of weapons and supplies from third parties who want to stop them from taking territory.","They're losing, but they're losing against an incredibly dedicated military that's being funded by... pretty much everyone relevant, at this point, and doing a lot of damage in the process. Russia claims to be fighting NATO, and they're only slightly lying about it. (To be clear, so no one thinks I'm a troll, I'm not saying anything Russia has done here is in any way acceptable-- just that it's not wrong to say that NATO members [and possibly other nations as well; I'm not sure exactly which ones have provided support] have contributed enough to Ukraine's defense efforts to be considered involved in the war.).",0
The difference in my opinion is that Ukraine is willing to fight for its freedom while Afghanistan is just a basket case that gave up without a fight. Heck France lasted longer in WWII than Afghanistan and they were up against the Luftwaffe and had nothing but a few trees and an open field between Paris and the Belgian border.,"Edit: even when France surrendered, many of its people kept up the Resistance and Germany was constantly dealing with internal sabotage. Meanwhile the Taliban seem to be largely unopposed by ordinary Afghan citizens. I am left with the conclusion that the average Afghan man at least tacitly supports the Taliban, even in liberal bastions like Kabul.",0
Desantis is not “anti-woke”— he’s racist. And the idea of accepting anything but his own narrow views offends his white nationalism. Florida is trying to outdo Texas in its stupidity and hate mongering.,How long until the people of Florida reject this massive policy failure by DuhSantis and his gang of partisan extremists?,1
"And finally, Kabul's Baraki Square, site of last week's annual Pride Parade, was closed again to traffic today as boisterous celebrations broke out at news of the Taliban government's official recognition by the United Nations, following Tuesday's release of thousands of detainees accused, but never convicted, of unironically referring to their pets as their fur babies."".","Etcetera etcetera. Through the lense of austerity and welfare cuts, untold numbers of our citizens have died die to starvation and other causes directly attributable to the cuts made. Disabled people are particularly affected:",1
"In fact, it is alwas up to the moderation team's call what to do with a given problematic post or not.","Also, you are falling into the mistake where you think social media companies have any obligation towards freedom of speech. They do not. They are corporations and can apply whatever arbitrary rules they deem necessary. Each social media company like Twitter (both before and after Musk) has its own rules that it can arbitrarily chose.",0
"Not even NASCAR is truly safe from them anymore. They banned the Confederate Flag from all races, Dale Jr. aka Redneck Jesus has supported the ban, Bubba Wallace has a good chance of getting another win under his belt this year to go with his sponsorship bucks, Brandon Brown's (yes, that Brandon) career is completely ruined due to both being toxic to most sponsors and getting rug pulled by a right-wing crypto scam, Matt DiBenedetto (another big time MAGA guy) is stuck in third-tier Truck Series purgatory despite actually winning a truck race last year and cup series driver Cody Ware even said Trans Rights on Twitter.","There's still a lot of right-wing assholes in the sport, there will be for quite some time, but even the heads of the company themselves know that they need to move on from the old school stereotypes if they want to survive into the future.",0
"The vaccine doesn’t stop you from getting it, but it probably make the illness more mild when you do catch Covid.","Yes. I’ve had four vaccine doses and caught it from my wife who has had three doses, and she caught it from a coworker who is also vaccinated.",0
"Take a look at the Weimar republic, and see the paralels (ik it's not a perfect example, but close enough to what Russia is looking like it's becoming, especially once their foreign currency reserves fully run out). Their economic/industrial/societal state was going down hard, and it looked like they wouldn't be able to become any kind of threat for a long, long time (which was the main goal of the Versailles treaty). A decade and half later, well...","Perhaps, but I wouldn't underestimate them. For sure, their military power is largely inflated, and is mostly because of widespread corruption (since the later days of the USSR, when they genuinely thought that because of the nukes, they'd probably never have to enter a conventional war). But as this war exposed their flaws (not only in corruption but industrial capacity, which I'd argue is worse for them), they are bound to correct them, at least enough to become somewhat functional.",0
It’s not about Trump. It’s not about Desantis. It’s not about Ryan. It’s about demonizing the political opposition whoever that may be.,"It literally makes no difference. Ryan can publicly denounce Trumpism ad nauseum, but if he’s the Republican “face of the future” he’ll be hated with fervor by the same people that hate trump.",0
I did a project on this for my university and Brazilian cattle ranches are also just plain inefficient. I believe it takes four more times the land to raise a cow/bull in Brazil than it does in the most inefficient areas of the US. That's why so much land is needed for these ranches. It's a compounding issue but still part of the equation. Finding a way to increase the efficiency and productivity of ranches in Brazil may also help significantly by reducing the land needed to produce X amount of beef.,"Imports of Brazilian meat are the biggest driver in new deforestation, as we (Brazil) already have enough cattle and farmland to feed our entire population. Exported Brazilian beef reached sales of almost 10 billion USD in 2021.",1
"Why does this matter though? China is running a no COVID policy. It's not like the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines make you immune to the virus. If it was he probably would. Even if they accepted Western vaccines, it wouldn't change anything about the current situation in China.",NOTE; Im not supporting Xi decision to reject western vaccines... just adding a side note to a possible reason many in china refuse to take a western medicine.,1
"Not to mention the fact that many imports from China are critical, whereas India can and wants to move away from US dependence.","The nationalist comments that dislike the West and like Russia are indeed a plurality, if not majority.",0
"Canadian here. Quebec has abundant cheap hydro used for green aluminum smelters. Indonesia might be using coal for theirs, but that will evolve. What’s most important is to lift the remaining 50% of the Indonesian population out of poverty.","This is a temporary thing. I state this having watched the USA regularly institute punitive duties on Canadian softwood lumber, and regularly having those protectionist duties struck down as illegal and unfair. Indonesia’s is another case of “better to apologize than to ask for permission”.",0
"The fbi colluding with private companies is dangerous. And of they are going so far for a nothing burger, who knows what they’ve done for consequential things.","Would you get the fbi to lie twitter and Facebook, and call pictures of your son’s junk Russian disinformation.",0
"Zelenskyy was right to point out that the UAF protected them. But yeah, without the American training over the last 8 years it is likely this invasion would have gone how Putin expected it.","If Putin wins, imagine the staggering increased cost of maintaining more defences in the region (a direct US interest).",1
"\- NATO should stop expanding, this is where the ""cold war"" mentality comes in, but it also means that Russia should stop seeking westward expansion due to its flat geography, which gives it few natural protections against the west.","It’s right in line with Russia’s early justifications for this war — that a Ukraine aligned with the west poses a threat and as such, an invasion of Ukraine is legitimate (implying that Ukraine doesn’t have its own sovereign right to decide its own alignments). That’s terribly imperialistic on its own, but we also know it’s BS because it’s simply Russian imperialism, nationalism, supremacism, and expansionism that underlies their invasion of Ukraine.",1
"Lol, the political illiteracy is real. When did the standard change for supreme court nominees, and which party affected the change? Was the change good or bad overall for democracy do you think?","Well yeah that’s the point of democracy. If you don’t vote then you don’t get a say in what happens. Jesus Christ, do you not understand how your system works? You can’t fucking complain about republicans and shit laws and then not even bother voting and pretend like you aren’t the problem.",1
"Hey, I am Ukrainian who is now Canadian but I grew up in Ukraine and was born a few years before the USSR collapsed and I had a misfortune to live somewhere in Siberia for a year because that's where my father was stationed. I have been following the conflict since the orange revolution. I would love it if our boys could crush Putin with the help of the west and the sanctions west has imposed. However, I have to stay objective to not get my hopes up. The majority of Russians live in shit, literally. It is not hard to adapt from living in shit to living in even more shit, especially if you have done it several times before, you know you can pull through as long as ""them"" suffer in the end and the all knowing TV points you to a ""real reason"" for all your life problems be it Ukraine, USA, Germany, EU, NATO, gays, Jews, churkis, etc. Fuck, you might even pick up an AK and go try your luck fighting the ""holy war"" because what is the alternative at this point?",Of course it is not all clear and cut but majority do support what is going on and they don't really give a fuck if their quality of life deteriorates.,0
"Literally true. Their job is to wear down your resistance so you give up. That's why it's important to take breaks and take care of yourself. Fighting for justice is a long fight, you can't run yourself on empty and have nothing left.","I urge everyone to 1. read legitimate news sources regularly, like a few days a week. Go to , , watch npr newshour on youtube, al jazeera is pretty good. (If you're outside the Anglosphere, please add to this list, I can only read in English, sorry.) You can also check the bias of your news source a site like .",0
"So nos the question is what happens when Ukraine start to run out of old soviet missile, the use them both to fire enemy aircraft, large drones, and missiles that try to hit critical tagetes inside Ukraine. There is not enough western system to replace them so you risk Russian superiority where they can use aircraft at higher altitudes and behind the Ukrainian line.","It is not a question of air superiority for Ukraine, it is a question of keeping air parity and avoiding Russian air superiority.",0
And now Qatar reneged in the arrangement and alcohol isn't allowed on stadium grounds at all. That's the part that has people pissed. To pull this stunt just days before kickoff - and FIFA be fine with it.,"It’s preposterous that FIFA would cowtow to this. If Qatar didn’t want beer, or women, or gay people in their football stadiums they shouldn’t have killed all those slaves to build them. Host your own medieval sporting event if you want to be barbaric thugs. How about a good public execution?",1
A prion is a protein that causes other proteins to misfold and become prions. So prions are always involved.,"Prions are not like viruses or bacteria. They're misfolding proteins (Prions) that, when they come in contact with similar proteins, cause these new proteins to misfold.",0
"Should have held your nose and voted Democrat then, you dumb shits. The amount of complete fuckery it would take for me to vote for a fucking Republican in New York is significantly higher than whatever issues New York state's Democratic Party has been dealing with over the past few years.","I mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.",0
"Frankly, they should keep it legal, and just apply double/triple the excise taxes they do for cannabis.","I feel like the cases of abortion being criminalized have been as a result of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision (which was not achieved by a majority vote of the citizens of any state), and subsequent state legislatures passing bills to restrict the ability of doctors to perform abortions (which to my knowledge have not been as the result of achieving a majority vote of the citizens of any state where it has occurred, only the votes of several dozen mostly white male legislators).",0
"Yes, but if they wanted to check if old used up shoes were tossed, they should have planted tracking devices in old used up shoes, not in lightly worn shoes.","Optimally if the shoes are still good to use, just keep them and save yourself some money. But that's not how this all works.",1
"However, with other big markets banning animal testing (The EU and California), more companies are going with stopping animal testing since the markets that ban animal testing are starting to out-weigh the markets that require it.","Beyond trade secrets, knowing this Canadian provision, what manufacturer will proclaim their products (for export to Canada) are animal tested?",1
"You are actually correct, Egypt was the first Arab country to make peace. I wrote my comment from memory, sometimes my recall ability is not the best.","Indeed, but if I recall they have some level of armistice deal, which I am not sure if Israel break or not when doing bombing campaign in Syria. But armistice does allow people visiting from Syria. I personally saw one in Ben Gurion airport. Came out of a plane and was stickied by military guys with red stickers which said that he has 48 hours to visit relatives and after that he must be out of the country. Unlike Pakistanis who might lose citizenship if they arrive to Israel.",0
"They are, kind of. The “other” candidates besides Jeffries and McCarthy have varied from each round.","McCarthy has the plurality on the most recent votes. Of course, he'd have to both be confident that the MAGA 20 that he flipped would stay with him and that the MAGA 20 that weren't flipped wouldn't vote Jefferies out of pure spite (giving Jefferies the majority).",1
Any Russian that is in Ukraine to fight for the Russians is an enemy combatant and deserves to die. Russians that fled to avoid conscription or any Russian that surrenders to Ukraine at first chance should be reprieved. Ukraine has setup multiple ways for Russian soldiers to surrender.,"It is past time to send them ATACMS. We have already sold them to Bahrain, Qatar, and UAE. If we can sell them to those countries we can trust Ukraine with them.",0
"In reality, neither should be posted, because both Biden and Pence are doing the right thing and working to get the documents back in the right place.","If Pence and Biden had some classified documents laying around that were able to be boxed up when they left vice-presidency, I am guessing it was mostly crap like this. I think what the takeaway from the BIden\\Pence stuff is that classification and everything around it needs a reworking. This stuff, someone is supposed to bring it to you then take it back. If it really is important secret stuff, the taking it back part needs to be looked at for what 's going on. If it isn't important things, I think we need some rules around how mundane stuff like schedules and talking points can be declassified more easily or automatically.",1
"So for most of Estonian history, the most hated nationality tended to be Germans (at least the local Baltic Germans).",Estonia before the 20th century had two major groups of people: Baltic German aristocracy and the Estonian farmers.,0
Historically been shown to be the best way to get idiots to vote for you. Same way the Nazis got power (by blaming all of their post-ww1 problems on Jews). The idiots ate that shit up while the smart people were packing their bags.,"That's just a byproduct of the ""got mine, fuck you"" attitude. Unless it's not a tax cut for the rich, or ""bigger military,"" Republicans aren't into ""the gubment"" spending ""their"" money on it. Even if their electrical grid fails once in a while. They never make that connection.",0
"They are very unlikely to provide Iran nuclear weapons, but Israel's concern is Iran receiving Russian jets and the S-300 and S-400 anti aircraft systems which would hinder Israeli efforts to stop transitting weapons to Iranian proxies through Syria.","So, a non-nuclear Iran can respond to an Israeli strike by bombarding Israel with ballistic missiles, while a nuclear Iran can't (or can't without potentially triggering a nuclear response.).",1
"For Ukraine, ultimately if Russia is trying to push through this point, they can either go for a tactical retreat, or hold their ground. I assume they have concluded they can gain more by holding their ground (possibly inflict more damage on an attacking army while being well entrenched?).","The fact that both sides are locking horns about an empty town in the middle of nowhere is puzzling to me too, but the above is the only logical explanation I found.",0
"The more houses these.investors buy up, the less supply that is available to others to buy, so more people have to rent for longer.","Yep, they buy up a ton of them to park their cash and then coincidentally gain a decent amount of control over the rental market.",0
She used antisemitic tropes/conspiracy theories when criticizing Israel. It wasnt a coincidence. Antisemitic tropes are still antisemitic whether you put Israel or Jews as the subject.,"So being antisemitic is still not the same as having anti-Muslim bias, though both are discriminatory of course.",1
"Lukashenko is soo scared that he would do anything.... anything at all.... to keep from being overrun by his own people, let alone russia. He is a useful idiot.","He is not useful idiot in the meaning of the saying tho. Luka knows what he is doing, and what kind of situation he is in. Putin and Luka aren't really friends, they just need each other. Any other leader in Belarus would cause problems for Putin, and Lukashenka needs Putin to stay on power.",1
"Why? You claimed the US can't produce sugar domestically. I refuted that claim with data on the amount of sugar the Louisiana agricultural industry has produced annually for the past forty years. It's undeniable that the US can and does, in fact, produce sugar.",Not on crack.. sugarcane will grow in the US but there’s no labor force in the US that would work it. Other options are Cuba which is communist and used to be the main producer of sugar for the US pre Fidel Castro. Other option is Puerto Rico and we alll know that’s not going to happen….,1
"There is also a lot of war material in the US military that could be donated or sold to Ukraine, and there is industrial support that could help the Ukrainian people.","There are also thousands of 80s-00s armoured vehicles, aircraft, and munitions that could be transferred from the US to Ukraine for only the cost of shipping and training. The US keeps these in mothballed storage in case the US ever gets invaded (somehow...), and since it costs money to keep them maintained, arguably they would be better used in Ukraine rather than being stored until they reach the ends of their lives and have to be scrapped.",1
"Jan 6 was OK for them because in their minds, THEY will never be attacked by a frothing mob of lunatics. Those cops beaten and trampled to death, THOSE were just the Democrat praetorian guard, those werent REAL cops like THEM, who will ALWAYS be swaddled by big papa fascism.",Every fascist is that. Literally that. The body grows but the limbic system doesnt. They do horrible things to.other people and never even do the smallest amount of brainwork to think about what it would feel like of it were done to them.,0
"As for the Camp David Accords, peace with Egypt was inevitable. Egypt wrecked Israel in the 1973 Yom Kipper War, and as much as Israel likes to claim they were winning at the end, they were burning themselves thin. Their southern forces were practically wiped out, where as the Egyptians still had plenty of forces, albeit separated and fighting independently from one another, still making plenty of headway by the time a truce was called.","If we're speaking about the Israeli government ignoring/disregarding a ""two state solution"", that's been going on since they were founded. They took a lot of land that the 1947 UN Resolution 181 had set aside for a ""future"" Palestinian state during the 1947-1948 Palestinian Civil War.",0
"On the other what’s good for the goose… and I’d love to see the Biden administration respond with “Trump administration ignored House subpoenas, and so shall mine”.","Make no mistake: If Biden answers one subpoena from this stupid GOP House Party, they will just keep doing it.",1
"WELL, this means if Trump incites an insurrection by posting on Twitter, then Twitter can also be held responsible. Twitter lawyers were like ""you need to distance yourself from this A-hole before we all get sued."" Leading to Twitter having to post warnings on basically every tweet Trump made.","If you paid attention you saw twitter actually had a conservative bias and Trump was the one who tried to censor Twitter. If you paid attention you saw Clinton defend herself from a brutal hearing for 9 hours and emberass the Republicans. If you watch Fox News then Republicans did a hearing about Twitter bias against conservatives, and since Twitter is so much on the news, twitter must have an anti-conservative bias Republicans did a hearing against Hillary, and since there are so many hearings against Hillary she must be corrupt.",1
The issue isn't that they're pushing TCM but that the actual medicine that they do use are just less effective than their foreign counterparts.,"On the other hand, isn’t a lot of our medicine derived from ancient sources (herbs and all) - so… I’m sure there’s some element of viability to TCMs. Perhaps not against COVID, as it’s too novel? I don’t know. Would need to do some actual research and reading up to find out more instead of blindly believing the crowd and current sentiment.",1
"Canada's Department of National Defence said the balloon's movements were being actively tracked by the North American Aerospace Defence Command, which is responsible for monitoring airborne threats to the continent.",Yeah it doesn't look like the press noticed until the US press started the story. I'm sure they had other big stories like the death of Fred La Marmotte so something like a Chinese balloon seemed minor.,0
There are no police anything setup for firearm approvals. This will take at least a year to get setup which means the people of Oregon will no be able to buy 2A firearms. This is an attack on the 2A and if you cant see past the lies youre basically a shell. If the intent was to instill firearms training courses before selling you a gun then then Constitution should be ammended. This is BS and Im surprised Oregon fell for this BS.,"Background checks are already a thing nationwide, it’s dumb for Oregon to be like “oh yea, me too!”. 3 day waiting period as well, already in place.",1
"Hmmmm, every time the rule has been discussed, it has been mentioned that non-owners would instead get fined equivalent to the value of the car.",You have to pay a fine totaling the value of the car driven. There was a case not long ago where a drunk driver crashed a rented tesla and had to pay over 100k.,1
"Yeah. There are plenty of LGBTQ+ wrestlers all across the industry, enough to run entire shows like Effy's Big Gay Brunch every Wrestlemania weekend. Not just here, even in Japan trans wrestlers are pretty respected. YENY/ASUKA, Yu Ishino even though he came out after retiring and even Nyla Rose herself were able to become something in Japan. It was her work over there that got Kenny Omega's attention and ultimately led to her signing with AEW.","Not even NASCAR is truly safe from them anymore. They banned the Confederate Flag from all races, Dale Jr. aka Redneck Jesus has supported the ban, Bubba Wallace has a good chance of getting another win under his belt this year to go with his sponsorship bucks, Brandon Brown's (yes, that Brandon) career is completely ruined due to both being toxic to most sponsors and getting rug pulled by a right-wing crypto scam, Matt DiBenedetto (another big time MAGA guy) is stuck in third-tier Truck Series purgatory despite actually winning a truck race last year and cup series driver Cody Ware even said Trans Rights on Twitter.",0
"The joke doesn't hold up to a real life scenario because French corner stores aren't handing out condoms to 14 year old skids. However, I thought it was pretty clear it was a joke, based on just the headline and not a sociopolitical projection of the near future of French suburbs. Seems I was wrong.","The joke is: kids sometimes pay shady adults to buy beer for them, the adults don't actually pay for the beer. The kids pay beer+incentive to the adult. So the joke is: now, the kids can just give the adult condoms and the cost of beer, and the adult gets free condoms, everyone walks away a winner.",0
It seems the people in charge did not think another big earthquake would come soon and make people ask questions about where the money collected went.,"There's no if, his cronies already admitted that the earthquake tax that was created for future disaster relief were used when ""needed"". And has long since disappeared and its fate is unknown, there's a reason why whenever shit hits the fan they disappear and blame everyone but themselves and force citizens to help other citizens while sharing bank info for funding and locations for clothing donations.",1
"I think most people and most governments have learned nothing from this pandemic, the management was a complete disater, not the virus. Lockdowns didn't help anybody, they destroyed the economy, fucked up psychologically millions of people, now we have tons of excess deaths due to people who were at home scared of going out or couldn't get out and their illnesses went unchecked, cdc literally admitted making up the 6 feet thing (which is till in place now in some places ffs), pfeizer literally admitted lying about the vaccines stopping the spread of the virus, which made the jabbed feel safe and the unvaxxed being marginalized, ending up with tons more infected. Politicians showed that they didn't care about the mandates they were pushing themselves, having fucking parties in the middle of a pandemic...","Now who's to blame if there are so many people who don't trust the government? Well, looks rather simple to me, the government itself. That's what happens when you lie to people over and over again.",0
"Yes. Winning a war typically has more to do about production and logistics than sheer manpower. As Russia is proving, manpower is a thing that countries can typically paper over in the short-term. But running out of men is rarely the primary reason a war is lost.","It is true that one of the driving factors of WWII Germany's capitulation was simply running out of guys. But that was a country that fought WWI the generation prior. And then tried to take over all of Western Europe. And then try to take over part of Africa. Then try to take over all of Eastern Europe. To say WWII Germany was stretched too thin and overcommitted would be quite the understatement! Ukraine is just fighting for Ukraine, not world domination. All their people are there. Russian, in contrast, is now challenging their supply chain and logistics of the entire Western World that have profound strategic interest and capacity to ensure that Russia does not win.",0
"With a monopoly, or in sectors where a coordinated effort to stabilize the price at a profitable range is possible, then removing the taxes imo is useless. There is no point in removing taxes on transactions like cars, in my opinion.","But basic foods? There is no way to price fix that. The price you see is the lowest price possible at current conditions, usually. I think Spain is absolutely in the right of this line of thinking.",0
"Also, remember that about 2 years ago Disney planned to move the entirety of their Burbank, CA offices to FL, and then DeSantis was such a clown that they cancelled that plan. Disney has the will to do it.",If Disney wants to move it would be a two ir three year payback. Especially since they can operate while they build and attendance numbers would be huge Especially if people knew they were leaving the state.,1
I think the problem Germany has is their choice is either coal (which is dirty but they have it) or oil (which is not as dirty but they have to buy from Russia).,"i was under the impression that even if Germany buys oil from someone else in the area, like Kazakhstan, it still has to go through Russian controlled pipe?",1
"Dementia patients should have access to euthanasia, however I can’t support that if it would eventually lead to killing other people that don’t have to die, which it seems is the case due to the support for euthanasia for depression.","Right now, it seems that some of the people choosing assisted death are doing so because they don’t have access to financially prohibitive alternatives.",1
"And I get it, it’s going to be expensive and painful to switch to electric nationwide, but even the mainstream media has already picked sides while trying to appear “balanced”.","Listened to a show on NPR the other day where they talked about it, and how there’s going to need to be a lot of pain switching to electric furnaces on the north east coat what with blizzards knocking out power, and I was like; a shit ton of gas furnaces and ovens stop working when the power goes out anyways, because they have safer electric starters instead of pilot lights and thermostats are electric as well. Not once was it even mentioned, even to the point where they linked gas stoves to emergency heating, which you are NEVER supposed to do.",0
"I'm not gonna watch the video. I gotta keep my sanity. With that being said, what could we call for that they haven't done? The cops have been fired and charged with murder. That happened before the video came out, before the news of anything came out. The police department has been responsible about this.","Maybe police agencies should be not federalized but under one agency. No more sherriffs no more local police. Just state police. 50 states, 50 police agencies. Keep it simple.",1
"""But.... But what about Hunter Biden's laptop? How do we know if his dick pics haven't been photoshopped to look bigger??? The American people deserve to know"".","Trump: ""BIDEN 👐 is the most CORRUPT president 👌 in the history of the world. I would know, I am 👐 a very corrupt president, but not as corrupt as Sleepy Joe Biden. I am 👌 the corruption America needs to defeat the radical left Democrats"".",0
"If they sincerely support the sick leave provision, it would've been more effective to let workers legally strike than failing to deliver in this way.",Expecting Republicans to act in good faith in 2022 is either extreme incompetence or willful ignorance. Either one carries some responsibility.,0
What we have right now is objectively the most expensive and least effective health care system in any western democracy.,A universal healthcare bill would have a significant economic consequence on the economy. Just as nationalizing the railroad would be or any other nationalization effort.,1
"Absolutely they do. Well, Kushner not so much (barring bribery charges), but Trump's value is heavily tied to his brand and his ongoing ability to do business. If the NY lawsuit goes through, he cannot do business there. That'd be a major blow to his empire. As I said, that's one court case of many, most of which are moving forward fairly rapidly.","Ivanka and Jared's lawyers are currently in a courtroom about Trump's richness, where they're not doing well. Among other things, the judge has the option to decide himself on the case, a bench trial--and Habba has given absolutely no reason for him not to.",0
Likely only because they don't want to set a precedent that climbing through the broken glass of a locked door to the floor of Congress while government agents tell you to stop with weapons drawn is acceptable.,"Same Republican congressperson: “if someone breaks windows and forces there way into a federal building and disobeys orders to stop, then they are a hero. The person paid to defend the building and the congresspersons within it should be put on trial if they shoot and kill this ‘hero’”.",1
"In other words, you're comparing a civil rights movement to a fascist coup d'etat. But by all means, proceed with your ""it's your fault for making me hurt you"" rhetoric - I guess ""TheFascistAltRightGenX"" would be a more off-putting username for you, as fitting as it is.","So, your takeaway is ""context is meaningless"" - a common sentiment among conservatives trying to justify fascism.",0
"Also yeah Ik the three letter agencies are all corrupt, but like Al Capone went in for tax evasion, this seems to be only thing that’s provable.","The fbi colluding with private companies is dangerous. And of they are going so far for a nothing burger, who knows what they’ve done for consequential things.",0
"I'm not saying the invasion of Afghanistan was justified or not. All I'm saying is that the US was the invading force so comparing the afghani response to their ""help"" to the Ukrainian response is asinine.","The difference between Ukraine and Afghanistan is that the US would be defending Ukraine against a foreign invading power, while in Afghanistan the US was the foreign invading power.",1
"Exactly. Shoot it down, stuff the pieces in Mr. Blinken's luggage. When he arrives, he can say, ""hi, I'm returning something I found that belongs to you. You're welcome."".","Now look at what they said. ""Force Majeure caused supposed weather balloon to go off-course. Not intended to violate sovereignty. Please keep a leveled head."".",1
"Remember the media doesn’t always tell the truth. Putin isn’t a good guy but neither is Zelensky, however public opinion of Zelensky is incredibly high because of the media. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt nations in the world before the war.","And going by your logic, how corrupt is russia? Much more than ukraine and they're not changing and haven't even tried to change.",1
"Yeah, we know the parliament was against him and tried unsuccessfuly to impeach him legally. That doesn't negate nor justify the fact Castillo tried a self coup, an extremely illegal power grab, and got legitimately thrown in jail for it.","On to the argument on what is or is not a coup, our previously elected president was ousted by congress in the exact same way as Castillo was and that move has widely been regarded as a coup.",1
"Israel uses an unusual form of government, proportional representation, where a party that gets 5% of the vote gets 5% of the seats.","And when they do, it really only lasts until the other party can negotiate a better offer. That's why they've had five different coalitions in three years.",0
"These subsidized lunch programs for all are a very poor use of public dollars. The vast majority of families can afford to feed their children no problem which means most of the money spent on this program isn't going to those who need it. I'm significantly more in favour of taking all of the money the lunch program costs and to just straight give it to the bottom 20% income earning families. Nearly all social programs should be income based to ensure it goes to those that actually need the supports, not buying lunch for wealthy people's kids.",Tax the rich with a progressive tax and fund universal free lunch at school so that there is no means testing or admin costs to sort out which kids are “needy.”.,1
F16s go astray? Never been shot down though. What part of this conflict makes you think weapons on the hand of Russians will be any more effective than in the hands of an Arab? The Russians are currently firing s300 rockets into apartment buildings….,If the Ukrainians are getting shot out of the skies it sounds like they need better planes then huh?,0
"It definitely seems like conservatives exhibit some kind of racial-sexual inferiority complex, and I think that's worth pointing out anytime ""cuck"" comes up.","Have you noticed the connection between conservatives' ""great replacement theory"" and the fact that a large percentage of ""cuck"" porn is large black and brown men fucking white women?",0
"When I was a kid in PA (45 years old now) you could get your learner's permit at 15, and take your driver's test at the age of 16.","Back in ancient times when I was learning to drive (late 80s), my home state of SC allowed 15 year olds to get a learner's permit and a day license. You could drive at night if an adult 21 or over was in the passenger seat. It became a full license at 16.",1
"Nah, I doubt insurance companies want this. They don't make money by insuring high-risk drivers. All this will accomplish is raising rates for everyone else when their parents inevitably lie about them driving when the premiums become outrageously unaffordable.",Yeah and then the parents see the rate increase and decide it's better to lie about having a teen driver. Then little Timmy wrecks the car on the way to the coal mine and everyone else's rates go up to compensate. Saying car insurance companies want more 15 year olds driving is like saying life insurers want more smokers.,0
Im pretty sure if Russia said tomorrow that it was no longer Protecting Belarus that Poland would have some choice words.,What do you think NATO would've done if it indeed was the case that Russia launched missiles that hit Poland? Do you think NATO would just start dropping nukes?,1
"Progressive and Democratic leaders should have already been doing this by publicizing and attacking the Federalist Society for its central role in overturning Roe, yet they haven’t, which is a huge fail in messaging.","You do not, under any circumstances, ""gotta hand it to"" the Federalist Society, but damn if they didn't plan and execute a decades-long mission to accomplish their goal despite it being wildly unpopular. We can't even get moderate Dems on board with ""maybe a lack of money shouldn't be a death sentence to sick people"".",1
"Personally I love American food but I agree it doesn’t need to be that high, as long as it’s higher than the UK countries though 😉.",I’ve backpacked around loads of countries(all over Asia and Europe) and I was pleased surprised at the backpackers I met who had been to the US and said it’s some of the best food they’ve ever had. And that’s coming from people that have 20-100 countries checked off their list.,1
"if you can't see why this is a suspicious statement by him without any further evidence/proof, then you're pretty hard into the koolaid. i'm not saying it's impossible, i'm just saying it's convenient, and it doesn't make much sense.","him publicly donating to dems shows that he at least thinks the public sees them as ""the good guys"" .. combine with his family history, and without proof it is very fishy that he suddenly comes out to admit to more fraud with the only positive outcome being that the Dem party looks less sketchy, if only by the Republican party looking equally sketch on this specific issue.",0
"I am since they keep wanting to deny the help and the prevention to others, save the help for others who will need help from the GOP/East Palestinian decisions.","First off...of course we will help, because many of us, despite how the majority of people in East Palestine voted, realize that as a country, we are no stronger than our weakest link.",1
"You laugh, but it might just happen! Not because they’re afraid of the military threat that piece of shit represents, but the long-term environmental impact of it getting anywhere near your own country’s aquatic ecosystem. That aircraft carrier is nothing more than a floating superfund site.",I would really hope that they have specialized maintenance crews for their only aircraft carrier. it's not like there's another piece of equipment they can transfer that knowledge to.,1
"Gentle reminder that beauty pageants, concerts, prom nights, cheerleading, and dance performances would all fit under this. It's our duty to help enforce the law, so be sure to report these if this bill is passed.",Then it will be fair when the police are doing the enforcement. They could even have a special police force. It could be called the FASHION police! Man that would be so FUNNY.,1
"This is what we did in Spain last year. Lights, helmets, hand signals, obeying lane rules and traffic signals or you get a big-ass fine. Since then I have noticed a significant, but not complete, reduction in the number of lawless assholes and idiot kids in the middle of traffic on these things.","Hmm, there is something to this, just forcing them to obey basic road etiquette and actually enforcing it would indeed go a long way to ameliorate most of the basic issues people are pissed about...",1
Second just to play here... Biden's 15 docs isn't Trumps 350 ripe and current national top secrets. Biden followed process immediately upon discovery.,I am wiling to bet that the documents found have a record at the national archives as being sent to him for research and that they forgot to return them.,0
"But while it's true Ogles studied at Middle Tennessee State University, he did not major in international policy nor economics. Instead, he majored in ""Liberal Studies,"" a general education degree.",Liberal studies degree means he never declared a major but had enough units to graduate. Basically the school kicked him out to make room for more serious or deserving students.,1
"I personally don't buy that it's either Manchin or a Republican. WV was once a hotbed of militant labor-- clearly things can change. Ultimately what diminishes Dems is an unwillingness to change-- running the same candidates over and over again because they're out of ideas. The working class is tired of establishment politicians, and Dems are all too happy to allow Republicans to claim to be the anti establishment party.","But to me, the conditions you describe seem like conditions which are ripe for a political party to use to spread their programme and solutions. It feels like a candidate who wasn't so entrenched in the system that's presided over the worsening quality of life could make a persuasive case.",0
"The only way this makes any sense, and it has never come to a vote to be tried, is if McCarthy thinks the Dems would vote to keep him as soon as it was called. A majority vote would be required to remove him so he’d have to rely on having at least 5 Rs from the 20 voting against vote for him to remain. Or Dems.",Which if you’re asking for the 1 vote threshold is what you want. Because then you can howl that he’s in cahoots with the Dems so long as the 20 vote against.,0
"And your WaPo article was better at explaining it too (thanks for that link): ""Senior department officials have not made a final decision on whether to charge Gaetz, but it is rare for such advice to be rejected, these people told The Washinon Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the deliberations. They added that it is always possible additional evidence emerges that could alter prosecutors’ understanding of the case."".","So, not officially declined yet. But possibly leaning that way, unless something has happened in the last 2½ months. I see some reports from court filings that Greenberg is continuing to cooperate (with evidence under seal) in hopes of reducing this sentence. But maybe that’s nothing to do with Gaetz.",0
"These same Texan ranchers and farmers will surely vote for sensible immigration reform as well as social programs to entice these hard workers to come to our country to work, right?","The drummed up outrage is so Texans keep hating 'illegals' so they never allow them to become citizens, where they would be paid min-wage and benefits.",1
"Excluded middle. Please, if you want to claim that your argument is ""logical"" don't make such beginner mistakes. But to the point:","And that’s not the argument I’m making. If what you say incites violence, especially if what you are saying is fabricated, you should be dealt with swiftly. Someone who has influence over hundred of thousand if not millions of people is held to a different standard. No one forced them to get up on the podium and speak.",1
"Well, no disrespect to him, but since he jacked off on a Bible because he was captured by his own country, I imagine he would act in a similar way or worse if he was captured by a foreign country lol.","The soldier who claims he has PTSD from the training and is suing the government claims that he was forced to simulate sex acts with a toy doll and forced to renounce his Christian faith and masturbate over a Bible. Australia, are you cunts alright?",0
"I mean, we actually can't. Think of how many millions of people think Covid is caused by 5G, and how some of them believe this strongly enough to physically attack 5G towers. That is caused by ""my ignorance is as worthwhile as your intelligence"" levels of free speech.","Free speech is the idea of allowing one’s opinion, but this assumes their opinion is a rational one with some base facts. But the entire idea of acknowledging facts is out the door.",1
The person that gets posted to a US ambassadorship in an important country like Russia is rarely a political appointee like they are for less strategic countries. They are usually experts on the country long before they’re even considered for the role.,"Unlike working at Burger King, when you leave the job, you tend to stay connected to your network of intelligence assets and even members of the CIA that operated out of the embassy you were in charge of.",0
"TX expanded the age for gun purchases down to 18 (from 21) which gives approximately 1 million more Texans the right to purchase firearms, an increase of about 5%.","> While the official minimum age to own and carry a gun in Texas remains 21, another law that came into effect in September allows people between 18 and 21 to buy a handgun.",0
I'm from Canada and we also had DARE. I remember being told that when I got just a little older there were going to be people constantly offering me free drugs just to get me hooked.,"I only had to hang outside corner stores trying to convince adults to buy smokes for me for about 5 or 6 years before I turned 18. I have a hunch that public sentiment has shifted enough by now that it's even more difficult to convince someone these days. If I had to do that every time I wanted to buy a pack, for literally the rest of my life, I probably would've quit by now.",1
"It will be so exciting to see Ukrainian forces enter a liberated Kherson city, though I shudder to think about what they might find when they get there.","Don't believe the withdrawal too much yet, not until Ukrainian troops enter the city and liberate it. It could be some sort of attempt at deception. Like Ukraine did to Russia by claiming to attack Kherson when they actually advanced in Kharkiv, Russia in its typical fashion might be trying a ruble-store version of something similar.",1
"No, of course not. Any ectopic pregnancy is life threatening to both baby and mother and must be treated.","With all these unwanted babies being born, who is going pay for prenatal care, ultrasounds and the birth of the babies? C-sections cost thousands — who pays for that?",1
"If it is not okay for the right wing to throw around false flag accusations, why is it okay for us to do it?",Come on man. How is this any different from when a right winger says white supremacist terrorism is a false flag?,0
While I am happy to have visited India I don’t have asthma and it was still hard on my lungs. I had to borrow my host’s inhaler in Delhi. Kolkata was not as bad when I went. The humidity seemed to help. But Delhi and Agra were rough on my respiratory system straight away. I am sad to say it but if you have asthma I’d advise you to go somewhere else.,"Yeah I feel like I might even be downplaying it, since I'm pretty sure my asthma triggers more easily still as of now 4 years later than before the trip. I used to only need my inhaler maybe once a year and around cats, now I gotta keep it with me just in case.",1
"As much as I hate Xi Jinping's politics, it is a brilliant political move. If they can grow their influence in Russia by making it a vassal state, then, they can expand their influence -militarily- into Europe. Especially if Ukraine fails to take back Crimea, they could ask to station some troops over there, giving them a Warm-water port in the Black Sea and allowing them to project power further westward. Not to mention, they could move more Chinese people over into Russia to fight their own overpopulation problem.","Also, China no longer has an overpopulation problem. At least not with young people. The population is falling and they’re facing an impending demographic crisis. Unless they’re planning to send their elderly to siberia or something….",1
"I would argue talking about Hunter Biden is as relevant as talking about Don Jr. or Eric Trump though. It's fine if you don't want to hear about that stuff, but it will be talked about on TV, and here.",You don’t have to turn tv on to distract kids. They are already spell-bound by the crap on their phone. Remember when Republicans were certain the Durham probe was going to expose all kinds of shenanigans on the part of Hillary and the Dems. And what happened? Exactly.,1
"The one thing that changes is that if the grandfather conspired to cover it up, he should be sharing a cell with his piece of shit grandson.","There’s more at work here. I get that some sheriffs, including the sheriff of this county, refuse to enforce gun control laws. That said, the shooter was arrested and charged for threatening to blow up his mother with an improvised explosive device. That’s a bit more than breaking gun control laws.",0
"[In] the context of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Court finds that Mr. Carlson’s invocation of “extortion” against Ms. McDougal is nonactionable hyperbole, intended to frame the debate in the guest commentator segment that followed Mr. Carlson’s soliloquy. As Defendant notes, Mr. Carlson himself aims to “challenge political correctness and media bias.” This “general tenor” of the show should then inform a viewer that he is not “stating actual facts” about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in “exaggeration” and “non-literal commentary.” … Given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ ….","""The ""'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' "".",1
"If anything it is counter productive, people will read the news and associate climate activism with these fools.","They’re distractions from the actual work of stopping climate change, soaking up valuable resources while accomplishing nothing.",1
"Maybe. Maybe not. However, that is irrelevant. Someone might know more is a very poor argument. Fortunately, this is binary argument and we can easily explore both outcomes. If we carry out your thinking to it's conclusion assuming either option is true, it seems obviously wrong to me.","Conversely, if I unquestionably know less, does that mean my opinion should be considered the incorrect opinion? I would say no. The flaws in my argument should be pointed out before my opinion is taken as wrong. The same should apply to Gallego.",0
How could anyone possibly count that? There isn’t an exit poll when you leave a state that says if you’re going to vote for someone and no one is going to look up peoples ballots to find out if they’d recently moved from New York to Florida for political reasons or because their job forced them to or because they were just retiring.,I think the key is DeSantis _bragging_… unless someone asked him to prove it and he then did I don’t how he could possibly know that in reality. Last time this whole “exodus from liberal state to conservative state” was brought up it was later determined that the flow was absolutely no different from any other year regardless of political orientation.,0
"When we say ""reaction"" we imply that somehow Ben Gvir proposing (or dang it, even deciding to) worsen the conditions of terrorist in jail is a rational reason to shoot rockets at civilians. Those two aren't really logically related any more than the Mafia threatening to kill a police officer who's putting a criminal in jail.","You stated ""it was a reaction"". Unless your job is to parrot their propaganda I'm not sure how you could claim to be explaining something while simultaneously saying ""go ask them"".",0
"I have an obsession with remote, cold city/town/villages and I’ve been looking at towns throughout Siberia on google earth lately. I am kind of convinced that the Russian government has put a lot of money into these extreme locations, both infrastructure and creating jobs there. Siberia seems to have a pretty significant amount of these extremely hostile cities whereas Canada and Alaska do not seem to have as many. All these cities and towns have a couple of massive residential buildings whereas in Canada and Alaska it’s more just cabins or houses.","I want to visit places like that, but I think I would hate the lifestyle very quickly living in places like Yakutsk, Svalbard or any other extreme remote area. Especially the darkness of winter (I think I would like the cold, however). But yea I love exploring google earth.",0
"Iran has been under sanctions for decades, this is just another thing they have been buying illegally. Now that America knows what parts Iran is sourcing for it's drones, it's possible to chase down said supply lines.","It seems to me this is more about the ""embarrassment"" of American items being found in Iranian drones. But AFAIK, Iran can fairly easily (and probably already is working to) replace American items in their supply chain with reasonably equivalent Chinese parts, or parts from other countries?",1
"I am 100% on board that rural America needs a political enema and that starts with a lot of great tools and mobilization, but I think that change needs to come from within.","I'm out here in rural Eastern Oregon thinking, ""I really hope this isn't another Democrat-led initiative that's focused on metro areas, or limited to women and minorities..."".",0
"He used his leverage for a vote which was a mistake because the vote wasn’t gonna pass. He should have used his leverage to delay the process and give the workers a chance to strike. But really the anger needs to be directed towards the entire party. If the democrats voted no the workers would be striking. The reason they won’t be is because the democrats are either cowards worried about political fallout, corrupt and bought by large interests, or stupidly think that anybody will care about this issue next election cycle. But this will make the problems in our railroad system so much worse.",They just voted it down and now it’s going to pass the original deal and force workers to take it even after they voted it down. Anybody claiming the democrats as a whole really wanted this to pass is delusional. Maybe certain members like Bernie did but it doesn’t matter. This is what complete corporate dominance looks like.,0
"But in 30 years the solar panels will need replacement anyway. You can get solar panels now, reap the benefits now, then replace them in 30 years with the money you save from the solar panels now to save even more money.",In 30 years the solar technology will be significantly better and rural communities can adopt it at that time.,1
"The only thing that ever drives down prices is when there's more supply than demand. So as competition heats up and more manufacturers begin putting out (non-trivial) amounts of EVs, yes, prices will come down.",I'm sure that's true. But I'm also sure that whatever car you almost bought? They just sold it to someone else.,0
"I saw COVID happen and it was a bit of a make or break for the medical community (I grew up in medicine, in a far right community). It was kind of humorous, as the medical community relied on so many LVN nurses who, are kinda dumb. Well, all these nurses and other medical workers (office staff, etc) became anti-vcxx for whatever reason, when there were vaccine mandates for employment in fucking healthcare they all decided to quit, I think they thought because nursing is in high demand that they would be able to find another job that didn't require it.... Because they are idiots.","Oh, I have a grandma in another part of the country, she's old and losing it a bit. Sweetest lady every, my whole life, but her doctors basically prescribed ""cancel Fox News"". She's in a very red state, surrounded by Trump people, so I think when Trump people say you've had enough Fox News it's pretty bad. She has great grandchildren that are black, gay, etc and loves them all. It's a very weird thing to see, because she really played the part of ""nice, sweet grandma"" in my life, my other grandma is cold and mean. She still is super nice and sweet, her brain is just scrambled on some topics. Very sad.",0
"The. Executive Branch- they carry out the work of the Legislative Branch- example some may consider him “Sleepy Joe” but he is the chief executive of the most modern governing body in human history. It’s not so much him as how he selects, empowers, and if necessary fires appointees based on their performance In carrying out their responsibilities.","Now on the actions of the former president, We have the Judicial Branch doing their work ( on multiple cases) we will see what happens. The wheels of justice turn slowly, however turn they will.",0
"xD this comment has too much cringe ""badasses"", ""knuckle dragging redditors"" like seriously I'm just voicing the concern that we have been fucking with Africa long enough to change the culture of a relatively small tribe. I had no intention of dragging my knuckles to go see a tribesmen kill a lion xD.",It's also less dangerous to take part in a sporting event instead of trying to hunt a lion. Modern warfare is never going to involve fighting a lion with traditional weapons so it doesn't really make sense as a right of passage anymore anyway.,1
"Iran still wasn't going to get the bomb after 10 years like the other redditor said. Yes, some of the restrictions had time limits, but not the most important restrictions that would actually allow Iran to build a bomb.","Yes, and according to Netanyahu back in the 1990s, Iran was 2 to 3 years away from developing a nuclear weapon. So can we assume that like Iran's phantom nukes, an Israeli attack will never eventuate?",1
"Florian Philippot is fortunately a 100% irrelevant politician as of 2022. He left / was pushed out of the National Front after the 2017 elections and then founded his own party Les Patriotes which advocates leaving the European Union, the Schengen agreements, the European Convention on Human Rights and NATO, and he's become a covid antivaxxer shamelessly spouting fake news and nonsense pandering to conspiracy-minded people from day 1 since the beginning of the pandemic.","Not that the National Rally is any better regarding Russia though: Le Pen and the party have been indirectly funded by Russia since at least April 2014 through a Russian-owned Cypriot bank and then a loan from the First Czech-Russian Bank the same year. Also before the latest Presidential election a former conservative MP Thierry Mariani joined the National Rally and led the 2022 media campaign for Le Pen, and that guy is a notorious Putin and Assad stooge, who's visited Bachar El Assad, Russian-annexed Crimea where he met Putin, and . Le Pen herself said in April that she supported the help to Ukraine but she, Bardella and other high-ranking party members keep opposing financial sanctions on the grounds that it supposedly hurts the French people and economy without affecting Russia.",0
"The modern teen can totally be forced to have a rape baby AND be used as a human clay pigeon, but viewing porn and the run the risk of what? I’m not saying it’s because of porn but google teen pregnancy rates since 1990.",I just did a google search asking if women were killed by men with porn addictions. Did find one where a woman killed her husband cause of his porn addiction; but there have been some men who killed women citing their porn addiction as the reason.,1
"The UNSC never agreed to the invasion of Iraq, that is a blatant lie. Multiple permanent members explicitly spoke out against it. It was an illegal invasion, stop living 20 years in the past.","Fun fact, ""illegally"" (is there a such thing as a legal invasion? No. It's just were you successful in justifying it to your constituents) invading a country isn't a war crime.",1
"I don't think McConnell's corporate overlords would be pleased with destroying the biggest holiday of the year over 7 unpaid sick days. My personal take is that Biden wasn't having his arm twisted by republicans, they agreed.","Biden didn't fuck over rail workers, their union negotiators did that. Biden weighed 115,000 jobs against 750,000 jobs and the health risks of over 100 million people and told Congress they should help as many people as they could. The House of Representatives did what they could. They passed the original deal with a second bill that would amend the deal immediately upon passage that would grant the sick days the unions wanted. The Senate passed the original deal, but it failed to break the filibuster on the sick leave bill in a 52-43 vote. The options Biden had were to veto the original deal (which passed 80-15, so a veto would have been entirely symbolic and cost Biden political capital he doesn't have) or sign it to make it law.",1
"LMAO. Why are you so afraid of US history? Do you understand many people in NJ aren't degenerate scumbag Republican cowards? Not everyone sees what's happening in Republican shitholes like Florida and says, ""Yes, I want to be a disgusting, delusional bottom-feeder as well!"".","Yes. Republicans are scared of history snd science and are very, very mad their insane delusions aren’t catered to by people who live in reality and/or aren’t absolutely disgusting moral degenerate filth.",0
You either are mistakenly mixing up the crypto protocols with centralized exchanges which are more akin to a broker relationship.,"Like yeah, Ofcourse there’s scams proliferating with crypto, it’s a new way to creat wealth so obviously there will be scammers. But wether you believe in the crypto technology or not you arguing in bad faith to say that crypto caused this. The scam tokens will fall just like pump and dump penny stocks when they don’t preform.",0
It’s possible to set up a carbon tax that pushes most of the cost into the polluting corporations isn’t there? That’s what I thought the plan was all along - consumers would get the vast majority of the money back via tax breaks - the tax burden in those instances pushed onto those who actually pollute. That’s how we were implementing this thing here in Canada.,"Says the Canadian (Avg. emissions/cap 2021: 14.3 tons CO2) to the Swede (Avg. emissions/cap 2021: 3.42 tons CO2) about the average Scandinavian (emissions/cap 2021: 5.33 tons CO2). , ].",1
"Sounds like a good way to get paid to grandstand and try and win in the court of public opinion. Fortunately though, the DOJ doesn't have to answer to Congress about their investigations like this, nor is there anything that says Congress can dictate how an investigation is done.","They may have to answer a subpoena, but it doesn't mean that Congress can dictate to them how and what to investigate.",0
Florida should go back to being a swamp. The destruction of the natural state of that peninsula is absolutely mind-boggling.,"And it was that way for a reason, before men came and paved it over. Why we continually choose to build in the absolute worst areas, I have no idea. Las Vegas, I'm looking at you...",0
"Coincidence regarding timing of his tax returns coming out? To me this looks like a threat to republicans who want to stay in power, lean in harder or fall down with him.","He would only threaten this to win over Republican Party officials to support him. He and they know him running as a third party candidate would split the vote and ensure a democrat win. He’s not an idiot, and would not do this to win an election.",1
You realize that not what this piece is about right? It’s about people virtue signaling they want to help disenfranchised or homeless and then not wanting low income housing built in their neighborhood.,"A modest proposal: do nothing about housing and let homeless people simply die of exposure, overdose, or starvation, thereby solving the problem of people being homeless. /s.",1
I believe the US Military already has a number of laser air-defense systems and are working on additional ones.,"You know, it was back in 2000 that we had the Laser Avenger, which took the standard Avenger air defense vehicle, and replaced one of the SRM4 racks with an ER small laser. 250 kilowatt is really pretty shitty against y2k threats, but now that slow-ass swarm drones are such a threat, the Avenger's laser cannon is much more capable of swatting things out of the sky.",1
"That doesn't make up for the fact that this is so far behind where we could/should be at in order to not permanently damage things, assuming we can even fix the problem (we won't). We will probably not destroy the planet but millions of people will die so that a few oil execs could get a couple more dollars.","Billions sounds big, but the oil industry has earned literal trillions from fossil fuel extraction, and set us on a path to spend more trillions to attempt to fix the mess they created.",1
I understand the sentiment but there's a huge population of Texas that is blue/minority/etc that wouldn't support secession and would horribly suffer if it were to happen.,"The problem is that if the state government secedes, real people will be affected—including people who aren’t fascists (which is the majority, but Texas is currently under minority rule).",1
- They need to create separate classifications to those documents which are office bound and those that are transportable to be returned. The ability of our senior leaders to do their jobs has to be considered too.,- maybe we need an amnesty period for other senior leaders to self report now and turn over everything they accumulated without intent to steal.,0
"Modern fighter jets mostly launch missiles. They can be used for air superiority, or for striking ground targets, or for electronics warfare. EG a fighter jet might fly near an area, detect a radar, then launch a missile towards that radar. The fighter jet is mobile. It greatly extends the range of many missiles, compared to launching those same missiles from the ground. Then the fighter jet has a gun as backup, for shooting down drones or dogfighting.","Though it’s an old jet fighter, but still very powerful. Why not to deliver these Tornados to Ukraine @Bundeskanzler?",1
"Colbert had a great joke last night. Basically he said ""At this point we need to be searching everyone. Clearly people have been just hoarding classified material when leaving office with reckless abandon. I saw we look at Jimmy Carter next, I know what he's been doing building all those houses!"".",Noticed that too. I saw this clip earlier on the news. It was the restlessness/fidgeting + anxious foot tapping that made me think his body was telling an entirely different story.,1
"The court in this CA case correctly determined that it could rule (in an earlier ruling) and enjoin the enforcement (even if that enjoins private citizens not party to the lawsuit) of their version of the law. If the same logic from the TX case was applied, the 2nd amendment argument wouldn't have even come up because as designed the State is not a valid party and these constitutional questions would have to be litigated in every case filed under the law (like is currently happening in TX).",Now whether after suing the abortion provider u will prevail in court and get the 10k is another discussion but it's irrelevant for the purposes of the discussion here which is about pre-enforcement action by the courts before a lawsuit under the TX (or CA) law is filed.,1
"Evangelicals don’t get a pass on this. They don’t get to say Trump is behaving badly now, so we are not supporting him. They never should have supported him to begin with. You know it, we know it, we all know it.","Yes, this is spot on. Devastating how a father and son could have such a devastating impact and bring us the most corrupt President in American history.",0
Roe is the big one. You can't turn over half the population into second class citizens and not expect serious opposition. I think future history classes will teach that overturning Roe was one of the greatest political miscalculations of all time.,"At the moment the Republicans have been shocked into dumbfoundedness by the election results and are holding their breath to see if the Dems may end up controlling the House, but I expect them to start doing some serious doubling down on all their worst ideas at any moment, especially if the Republicans end up in control of the House.",0
"Also having degree in linguistics doesn’t mean you know every inch of the world. I am pretty sure being Indian I know more about India If not all than you, unless you are an Indian too. So keep your ego aside and try to respect what others are telling you. Hope they taught you to that in your linguistic degree. Unless there is spacial class on “don’t listen to anyone because I am a westerner and I know everything - 101”, then its different story.",Unfortunately you didn’t learn to read someone’s reply in your linguistic degree. Again have some education and dont be egotist about your degree.,0
"I have a feeling the Republicans are going to pick someone like DeSantis, whose national campaign is going to be about drag shows and bathrooms, and I think we saw in the past three national elections, people don't really give a shit about that. Let's cross our fingers this will be another 2012 where the incumbent mostly just cakewalks into re-election.","I'm ok with this. I think Biden did very well against Trump in 2020 because it's hard to hate the guy. You can't make stuff up very well and make it stick (for people who aren't already biased against him), and anything that was going to come out about him already happened decades ago.",0
Diesels are dumb as fuck by comparison. Maintain cylinder pressure and fuel deliverand you’re basically set.,"Repairing a diesel is much easier to do if we get blasted back to the Stone Age, you just need some dumb components that rarely need specialized techniques and/or tools to manufacture. A screw driver and a wrench can get you 99% of the way there.",0
"You have to open your eyes. There are tons and tons of bullies and racists in real life. They don't want the Mitt Romneys of politics. They want the Trumps and MTGs. People who say what they want to hear. Trump won in 2016 for a reason. Despite the racism and misogyny he displayed during his campaign. Yeah, the GOP need gerrymandering and the electoral college to keep winning but they still need some people voting for them. And as it stands, AT LEAST a third of America is all for the hate and selfishness the GOP are leaning on.","Because people who like MTG are the ""Fuck you I got mine"" type. Why would they give a damn about another country getting invaded? Heck even on this subreddit, I've seen pieces of trash commenting that America shouldn't have to take care of other countries that can't defend themselves.",0
"Well… they get to see how long it took us to notice them. Also, just because we aren’t sure what this thing can do doesn’t mean we take their word for it that it’s nothing. Their batshit response doesn’t suggest it’s nothing. I hope we recover useful bits from the downed balloon.",Edit: I am not making conclusions about how long or not long it took us to notice. Only saying that might be a motivation for this weird Chinese balloon shenanigans.,0
"Yes but this time Ukraine is fortified, and they have been surveilling every single Russian unit with Satellites and recon Drones, they are armed to teeth, at least comparing with what happened with the first time I am sure they are well prepared and armed.","Ukraine has better air defences, they are currently getting trained on Patriot system and Israel is Hinting their will supply the dome defensive system to Ukraine in some future.",0
"There’s also a misconception imo about how age of software matters, some of the most stabile business models are run using software written or purchased in the 90’s and that shit works great. All the kinks have been worked out, adding functionality is impossible, but really that means there’s less shit go wrong when the software is simple.","I know this is against the rhetoric, but as someone who flies frequently (30 times in 2022) southwest is the best domestic carrier imo, they give away a lot of perks that you have to pay at other airlines and it doesn’t feel like a cheap experience. Maybe that’s just because my primary airport is a southwest hub, but that’s just my 2 cents.",0
"Are you sure? They are setting the age of consent to be 16, and generally what that means is that it is legal for anyone to have sex with someone 16+ if they consent. I know nothing on Japanese law, but many states in USA have the age of consent being 16 which means it is legal for 16 year olds to have consensual sex with people of any age.","(Also, technically some US states have a minimum age of consent of 13, but that has a maximum age gap, like the proposed Japanese reform).",1
"This. She truly beleived that Trump wasn’t ever going to win and she would step down under Hilary. It was a gamble that didn’t pay off and remember, if she had died 11 days later, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation but as you say, McConnel is scum and forced through the fastest nomination in history.","Meh, I get the point but you’re wrong when it came to RBG - she was sharp as a whistle and one of our greatest minds until the very end. I just think we need regular cognitive tests for anyone over 70, like we do for driver licenses.",0
"I understand that it’s not his voice, but it’s his melody and such that he’s had a lot of success with. I just feel like before it was released he heard it, if nothing more than to essentially approve it or be the first to hear Gravy’s version since he did use Rick’s song.",It looks like Gravy licensed the composition of the song and imitated Rick Astley without his involvement.,1
"There's no loyalty to Russia. There's some fanboying going around, yes, but that's about it. Russia and China, however, have showed their support towards Serbia on the question of Kosovo, and now Serbia needs to act neutral if they want to retain those UN vetos.","Serbia has also never backed up Russia in this war as as far as I know, they have actually done the opposite thing and condemned the war in several UN resolutions and have joined the EU sanctions on Belarus for their role in supporting Russia in the war. The only “support” they have offered Russia is not placing sanctions on them, however this does not necessarily mean that it is because they support them in the war, rather you also have to take into account the Serbian energy industry which is solely dependent on Russia and Russian gas.",1
"By any and every metric France should be a shining beacon that we DONT need 9-5, 5 days a week or any other bs system imported from the industrial era for most jobs. People can get their work done, produce profits as the company needs, and be home in some cases working 1-2 hours of a working day.","USA: long working hours, only 2 weeks holiday, maybe need 2nd job to survive. ""Life is so depressing"".",1
"6% is a fucking massive chunk of Ukraine's territory... Drop it in Pervomaisk, and the entirety of Ukrainian held SW Ukraine is safe, because to get beyond it, you'd have to go through it. Don't need to protect Uman from drone attacks out of Crimea, if the drones can't get there in the first place... Drop the second gifted battery in Dnipro, and all of eastern Ukraine is now covered. You don't need to protect every square inch of Ukraine to provide credible air defense cover to every square inch... unless you think Russia has a teleporter that can send drones right into the middle of Ukraine where there's no air defense systems that is...","And yes, their personnel need to be trained, particularly the fire control and launcher teams, so that they know what they're looking at on radar and fire at what they're supposed to, so that they don't look like dumbasses akin to how the fire control team aboard the Moskva looks.",0
He thought his blitz plan would work and it would be over in days. That at least had a chance of working based on the information he had at the time.,"Using nuclear weapons has zero chance of ""working"". It would start a military conflict Russia absolutely cannot possibly survive, and everyone who has been paying even cursory attention since the invasion of Ukraine should know it.",0
This is funny considering that Moldova has always been submissive to Russia and they were almost certainly on the menu anyways had Russia not gotten bogged down in Ukraine. They were going to annex Moldova no matter what they did.,"From what I've heard, it's a contentious topic in Moldova. A lot of people believe it would be very sensical. Romanians and Moldovans are essentially the same people, and Romania is much more prosperous than Moldova. It could solve a lot of their economic problems if they joined together. Unfortunately, others view the idea with disdain, as over the near 80 years of Soviet occupation, a small bit of Soviet Moldovan identity was formed, and some people still hold onto that. Instead of seeing the state of their country as being a consequence of communism, they view it as a consequence of the modern corrupt Moldovan government, and they long for a return to the good old days in the Soviet Union.",1
"That’s not the case for the Japanese GOVERNMENT, who refuses to teach their students of their past and is extremely lenient on the topic of their involvement in World War Two and prior, to the point where they celebrate it. the Japanese government is full of descendants of the same officials who plotted the attacks of Pearl Harbor and the terror against Asian civilians.",The arrogant culture of the Japanese elites led to its aggressive attacks on the United States bringing the US into WWII. There is no reason to believe that Japan would not fall into the same trap a second time if it were to re-arm. The victims will be the citizens of Japan. It is up the US to defend the aggressor nations of WWII because allowing them to develop offensive capabilities is a recipe for disaster. Japan is still a fiercely proud culture and that is the heart of the problem.,1
"That no longer works -- because now those Loyalist operators are losing their primaries to genuinely crazy scumbags who are genuinely the worst people in the room. These people then refuse to read off the Republican script in the general - and while they delight the scummiest portions of the Republican electorate, they fail to perform in a general election.",The exact problem the Republicans are having is that their reliance on the system you describe has cultivated a situation where it is no longer working and they don't have a clear and obvious answer.,0
"There is a really interesting Video on Youtube, where the creator guessed the relative remaining amount of oil in the Saudis reserves.","China has the ability to make larger chips, like for simple electronics, yes, but with the current CPUs, we talk atom sized transistors with quantum tunneling issues (we got so small with CPUs the electrons just phase trough walls of a few atoms randomly sometimes), which is extremly hard to make.",0
"Crossing the river will require alot of Ukrainian forces to even attempt such a move, and then they run into the same supply issues as the Russians faced.","If the Russians bomb the water infrastructure in Kherson or blow up the dam, they make it much harder to hold onto Crimea.",1
"Mostly threads like this. Where someone who is uninformed connects dots incorrectly and writes an article about “odd timing” to generate hate-clicks because they know any article critical of Pelosi, even if it’s not based on facts, will get them views.","Its just weird to me that Pelosi is the poster child on the issue, despite not having been on top of the leaderboards for awhile, and these Pelosi-centric articles seem to pop up a lot more frequently recently.",1
"I would have to guess it'll depend on how they organize afterwards. A lot of the equipment will also have gone through a tough war and most is older stuff. Probably a lot will be scrapped, some might be returned if working and still used in those countries inventories. It'll take a long time since I'm sure they'll want to reduce equipment variety and restart their own arms industry again.","Lastly, the post war military likely won’t want 10 kinds of tanks etc. So that may factor into things.",1
Wouldn't matter. It would be swept under the rug. Now that DJT has made bigotry fashionable again they will still vote en masse for whoever is the poster-child of hate and intolerance. (I didn't coin the term DeSatanis).,I agree the right would be well served by a muti-party system with ranked-choice voting now that they are split. It never would have happened (at least in my state) if the repugnicans stayed together. Then we can push the left away from center-right and back to the left by the majority of left-leaning voters voting progressive first and Democrat second (to prevent our votes from splitting our party and helping the right).,0
"The problem is this should be a federal level tax, not a state level. Driving every rich person out of California and to Texas would not help Californians overall. This type of tax needs to come from the federal level so that all states are on a level playing field.","I mean to some extent, yeah if your definition of ""fair share"" is far enough out of line with what other states would tax them. CA is already pushing the limits there it seems.",1
Anyone who voted in favor of these measures should have to work under the same set of terms and benefits as those they just forced on railroad employees.,"First, eight of the twelve rail workers unions’ members voted in favor of accepting the existing deal, with four remaining as hold outs and leading to the current situation. Contracts are negotiated collectively, so all twelve receive the same agreement with the railroads.",1
"The only reason ""number go up"" is because a rigged casino takes in money from marks and pays it out to scammers. That is, when it is connected to some scammy centralized exchange or market.","Again, you’re mixing up centralized exchanges with etheriums on chain protocol and saying because a scam happened here in a CEX that the whole thing is a scam.",1
"Because Netanyahu doesn't even get 1/4 of the votes, but this is how Israeli democracy works. In the same way I can ask how Bush became president without wining more than half the votes in 2000. Yes it is a little more drastic here, but that's what happens when you have so many parties.","1) they somehow have 8 kids but yet some religious parties still don't make it over 7 mandates? Just look at UTJ in Israel over the years. Their community AVERAGES 7 or 8 kids per couple and yet they have never made it over 7 mandates. It is a big question in Israeli politics to answer why, but one theory is that many vote for non-religious parties or don't vote at all (a lot of them don't recognize the Israeli government on principle, so won't vote, it's a question how many).",0
"Swede here: While on one hand it's great if Finland could join, it'll unfortunately mean that Sweden will withdraw from the whole thing once you join since our politicians are all fucking cowards. So it's really in NATO's best interest to ensure that Finland doesn't join first, because once you do, we have absolutely zero reason to care about NATO since we're protected on every side. The reason our PM is saying this is because he's covering his ass for when he'll later explain why we're not joining. (We warned them, etc etc).","Even if we were to somehow have our politicians continue the process, the reality is that even if they continue, Erdogan won't stop fucking around and demanding that we extradite people that haven't done fuck all except to piss him off. And while our politicians might do a lot of things in the interest of diplomatic relations, they know fully well that trying to get the innocent people on Erdogan's list extradited would be VERY illegal in terms of justice proceedings. Not to mention political suicide. So, for them, the safest way to get rid of this whole hot potato would be to simply ""wait and see"" and let you guys do all the hard work.",0
"I’ve seen the video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin, and it’s not as bad as you think Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin, would be.","Was Madison Cawthorn in fact naked, face fucking his cousin, or was it just a rumor that Madison Cawthorn was on video naked, face fucking his cousin?",1
"Think about the White House meeting on December 15 when they had Cohen in there, and then Cippollone and Herschmann and Clark. It was supposed to be the meeting where Trump got Cohen to resign, and then they went over their plans to use Clark to order the military to seize voting machines in swing states, and do some sort of recount, which, of course would just be basically stealing the election. And then the pushback was that Trump was informed that the entire justice department was going to resign and protest, and he balked. That was his moment where he basically chickened out... and where the plot officially entered being hopeless.","It's still going to be an inflection point. They can't just press that button and just walk off into the sunset like that. Every single person in this country who pays attention to politics is going to know exactly what they did. And then they're asking people just to say 'that's fine, might as well just go about our day.'.",0
"Of course we all know what he really meant, but the burden of proof is on the prosecutors to demonstrate that he meant something different than what he said. Proving intent is a requirement for the Georgia law, so if Trump's defense can convince part of a jury that Trump really believed there were 11,780+ fraudulent/fraudulently discarded votes, then they can argue that he did not willfully pressure Raffensberger to commit election fraud, but merely to investigate it.","They are both damning cases, but the main piece of evidence is the Raffensperger call, which is an hour of smoking-gun evidence and a Secretary of State potentially testifying against him - and the GA case also involves the correspondences of John Eastman, who is central to the fake electors scheme and conspiracy charges.",1
"More importantly, you can't act like the invasion is the only obstacle to a lasting peace in Ukraine. How about the majority ethnic Russian Crimea on one hand, and Ukraine aiming to be an ethnostate, suppressing other languages and cultures? What if many Crimeans don't want to be part of Ukraine?","And it seems like many people want him to ""promote peace"" by arming Ukraine. No, that's not how you promote peace.",0
"edit: all bad reasoning at that, since they ignore the issue of whether cops should be murdering people.","Okay, so maybe people don't say they deserved it, they say the police were justified. Which is functionally the same exact position.",0
Problem is there's only two types of Republicans left (at least judging by their public statements): extinguished and MAGA.,"Kasich, Cheney and - shudder - Ryan are all seen as traitors by the base and would never be able to lead the GOP caucus even if they were somehow miraculously elected Speaker.",0
"Reminder: gerrymandering is a fundamental Republican platform, called Project Redmap, where Republican Party paid 30 million dollar to gerrymander in 2010 to elect republicans no matter what the vote was.","A huge point that everyone needs to know is that gerrymandering is a fundamental foundation of the Republican Party, it is literally called ""Project RedMap"", it is in their party documents, developed by the Republican State Leadership Committee, and the Republican Party spent 30 million dollars initially to start the project.",1
"The US was the biggest guarantor of European security and its likely NATO, not the EU, that most contributed to the long peace that we've had in Europe.",It was the US's presence in Europe to contain the influence of the Soviet Union that lead to the conditions that allowed the EU to form in the first place.,1
Of hardwoods for sure! It'd be nice if a similar pressure emerges to protect our boreal forests one day too (and help countries like Canada/Scandinavia bolster softwood prices too etc).,"Between these three countries we cover the vast VAST majority of the world's tropical rainforests. This is positive. So interesting to see them working together and identify with each other over their a) resource that historically was hard to avoid plundering, but b) the rich biodiversity and more that also makes these forests an incredibly important asset for the whole planet. By taking on a stewardship role, these three countries could boost their influence internationally in many areas of science, conservation, medicine, indigenous relations and more (issues all three countries have struggled with, but could one day contribute to advancing).",0
Donald Trump was a hate filled gollum and Ava Andrew Cuomo instituted policies that killed thousands of elderly people in nursing homes out of political convince.,It’s absolutely in good faith. Our political establishment is killing us and the Democrats being less evil than the Republicans doesn’t give them absolution. I’ll never vote for either major party or participate in their nonsense game of monied interests and pandering. The Democratic Party does not represent the working class and I will not be coerced into voting for my preferred abuser.,0
"a buffer tube, arm brace, or other part that protrudes horizontally behind the pistol grip and is designed or redesigned to allow or facilitate a firearm to be fired from the shoulder.","A semiautomatic rifle that has a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, except for an attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only with, .22 caliber rimfire ammunition.",0
I don't support keeping people in place. I do support people who choose to stay and defend their country from being overthrown by a hostile dictatorship. Your logic is so flawed that I'm suspicious of your motives.,The people who wanted to leave already left. Everyone else leaving means the country ceases to exist. You can't just have a military and nothing else to keep it functioning. It's the most naive thing I've ever heard.,0
"Well, if they buy tickets give them a show. I’m tired of these clowns wasting taxpayer money to propose and pass laws we’re all expected to treat as “just a joke bro.”.",If it passes a serious person needs to take it to court to keep every bit of meat eggs and dairy out of the grocery stores to teach these idiots that we vaccinate livestock to stop pandemics that could cause billions of dollars in losses from animal diseases.,0
The top 20% income earners receive $764 billion per year from the tax code deductions and credits. The top 1% receive $313 billion per year.,"“Tax expenditures” are subsidies delivered through the tax code as deductions, exclusions, and other tax preferences. In fiscal year 2019, tax expenditures reduced federal income tax revenue by roughly $1.3 trillion.",0
"He noted that the Russian Federation used ""everything that can move"" against Ukraine - launched ""shaheds"" and fired from S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems.","I just saw the recent videos of Ukrainian soldiers intercepting Russian cruise missiles with portable anti-air weapons. The missiles are moving so slowly. Are cruise missiles suppose to be that slow (hence ""cruise"") or is it just with those particular Russian missiles?",1
I demand to speak to the manager of Twitter because I don't understand that I agreed to their terms of service and I also don't understand what the 1st amendment to the constitution means.,How does she still not understand that Twitter is not a government service and therefore not bound by constitutional proclivities?,1
"The Chicago killings are also committed by guns, so that doesn't refute the argument that guns are a threat. In fact, that highlights the need for more gun control and less indulging the NRA and their paid for GOP puppets.","Weapons manufacturers, politicians who they own and gun fetishists who vote for those politicians are still preventing what is needed to end the slaughter, comprehensive gun reform. The vast majority of Americans including many responsible gun owners want it but…pfft.",1
"Please give me some names then. I literally searched ""worst despots"", then looked up each one's religion and death count. Give me names and I'll do the same for them.","Yeah exactly, for _some reason_, this got narrowed this down to ""atheist despots"" in particular. Wonder if the reason is the absolute multitude of religious wars in history perpetrated by a different type of despot: A monarch of some type.",0
"What am I really supposed to take away from this? Oh shucks, someone else in history said punishing a judge for bad decisions is bad so it must be bad in every case?",They really defended Cannon’s terrible judgement with a story of a judge who sentenced a fugitive slave to be sent back to slavery?,0
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"But the difference is that thousands of lives were not lost before that happened. I know that some people (well, actually, most people) have human lives at the very bottom of their values, but some also might see a deal with the devil as better option that letting the people you govern get slaughtered.","Aren't we all enslaved? Does it really matter if oligarch A will profit from us, or oligarch B? Common folk will hardly notice a change, unlike the situation when their loved ones die, their stuff destroyed, and they live without basic things like water and light.",0
"Exactly! This is no place for Euphemisms, Russia is straight up commiting genocide. it's also what Ottomans/Turks did when they enslaved Greece. Kidnapped children and brainwashed them to be Genitsaroi, soldiers made to hunt down and fight their own kind.",The boy children will be trained for war and the girl children will be put through forced pregnancies when they all come of age.,1
"All joking aside, I got Pfizer x2. Then Pfizer boosted. Then actual Covid in July. Then the new booster October.",My elderly parents got Moderna x3. They wanted to travel so I had them get Pfizer in February before a trip. Then got them to new booster. So 5 shots. They’ve been good so far!,0
"North Korea knows better to start a war, to be honest it should be fair game for South Korea to shoot down anything that threatens them. North Koreans retaliate with anything they've not just South Korea to worry but the US itching to remove a thorn on the worlds ass for so long.",Right now a decapitation strike would be better than live to regret what much worst shit they'll pull with nukes as their bargaining chip.,0
Same as the GOP you wouldn't have everyone under the same umbrella... but America is and will likely continue to remain for a long time a two-party system because it's become far too established and financially secure in that model.,"This is what AOC meant when talking about how in other countries she wouldn't be in the 'same party' as many other Democrats. They'd have their smaller 'progressive party' and then they'd form a coalition with the ""Moderate/Center Dem Party' and that would be a power structure.",0
"The goal would be to throw Ukraine and its military into undirected chaos, and it would be horrific and deeply traumatic to the Ukrainian people.","I don't think that will happen, but I also don't see Putin just stepping back. That leaves one good ending scenario for the world... And it's something the Russians have to do themselves.",0
That’s weird. Why were they just like chillin when the door opened. Pelosi wasn’t like freaking out or asking for help. Fucking bizarre. They were both just standing there chillin’.,Some people also have chill for days. If I believe I had enough control I would for sure greet the police. They don't know what is going on an are more likely to assume the aggressive party is the attacker.,1
"The morale and propaganda hit that losing their most prized and state of the art tank to the Ukrainians would be too much to risk it in vulnerable offensive roles when they still have thousands of T-72s and T-80s in storage they can quickly repair, modernize, and use for offensive operations if they must.",as front line/ breakthrough tanks. Even the dozens of the most modernized T-90M Proriv tanks Russia recently sent over to the front have thus far been used to take long range shots at Ukrainian armored vehicles and set infantry positions up to 5km away.,0
"They made a hero out of Kyle Rittenhouse, for god’s sake, as though what he did was righteous and patriotic. They continue to lionize the January 6 insurrectionists and paint them as unjustly persecuted freedom fighters. There are thousands of gun murders every year, including the murdered children in Uvalde, the innocent shoppers in Buffalo, and so many others just last year in terrorist attacks with that exact gun that they are wearing on their lapels. It is so bizarre and grotesque. The most outlandish parody from ten years ago could not capture the reality of today’s GOP.",The fact that you think you have a gotcha moment with the George floyd protests just shows how distorted your worldview is.,1
I want an unbiased article that actually gives me factual information. I'm not asking them to insult their views. But they should present the opposite viewpoint coming from scientific understanding of bee behaviour for example. They should provide counterpoints both ways and talk about these being traditional views that run counter to expert advise but also that these views have long standing tradition so it's understandable that they ignore advice. And they should go into more detail of how they are usually handled and why it went wrong this time (if this is unusual). It's important to highlight these details. The article is essentially a presentation of quotes and beliefs with no actual substance. It's lazy and poor writing.,What an awful article. It frames it as if the family's understanding of superstitions around bees is normal and correct. What the hell are they saying? The bees killed him because he angered his ancestors? And it doesn't go into the truth of the situation at all. What did he really do to anger them? Maybe give more detail about bee behaviour and similar situations.,0
"In a nutshell, strike or no strike is not function of deal or not, but function of how close Iran is to getting the bomb. I.e. if there is no deal or there is a bad deal, but Iran doesn't do sudden moves: then there is no strike. A deal can prevent Israel's strike if Israel is convinced that terms of the deal make it impossible for Iran to make such sudden moves.","That said, Netanyahu was always clear that he is willing to use military force to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon, if diplomacy fails.",1
"No. The defendant was found guilty on federal robbery charge of controlled substance. Which is up to 20 years. If I understand correctly, the armed part of the conviction tacks on 5 more, so up to 25 years. (The murder part would have allowed up to life). The 19 year sentence is within the scope of what is allowed by law for the charge that they were convicted for.","The key point being if the sentences are both within the range allowed for the crime that was convicted. Now, if the sentence is adding on extra time beyond what is allowed for the convicted crime, taking some from the acquitted crime- that isn't right.",0
"Edit: I noticed you deleted your previous comment. Tell me again, who is spewing nonsense? You weren't even aware that Twitter is now a private company.",And no shit Twitter is a private company. So then how do you know the value of the company? How much is it worth?,1
"It takes a particular type of fool to fail to understand this and instead start dismantling the structure in the blind pursuit of democracy over all else. It leads to asinine pieces of legislation like the Fixed Term Parliament Act which led to the Prime Minister of a minority government being deadlocked in parliament and yet unable to call an election despite opinion polls indicating if he did he would win a landslide majority in favour of what he wanted to do, simply because he was unable to ask the monarch to exercise the prerogative right to call elections and the opposition knew elections would see them decimated and so repeatedly blocked them in the house. In the end, he was forced to wait until a scheduled recess and use the still extant prerogative of prorogation (arguably far less democratic, ironically) to force through his program by default. Fortunately the FTPA has since been repealed, but let us learn from that lesson rather than repeating the mistake with the Lords.","This is a thorny issue complicated by the fact that a large chunk of the Crowns wealth is leased, but not given to, to the government. There's also the issue that the Crown is in legal terms a corporation sole, and there is no real precedent for what happens when you dissolve such an entity rather than simply passing it to someone else. Technically speaking, the only legal way to transfer ownership of the Crowns assets to the government even with the consent of the monarch would be for the PM to be named King/Queen and then for them to personally bestow the assets to the nation and only then do away with the title. In theory though ofc a recalcitrant monarch could refuse to step down and constitutionally they'd be within their rights to dismiss the PM and call fresh elections right there and then, and there's nothing any PM can really do about that.",0
While I don't believe that Biden's possession of these documents was nefarious (in comparison with Trump's possession which was shrouded between repeated lies and misrepresentations to our government)-- I am deeply concerned that apparently Top Secret documents are tracked so poorly that them missing only comes up in audits or when the person who had them turns them in.,And this applies to both Trump and Biden. I find it absolutely absurd that Top Secret / SCI documents-- documents that have been designated as something which would be disastrous for the wrong person to get a hold of-- are sitting around in fucking banker boxes at people's homes and on desks.,0
"Go figure: democracy and public education aren't working in Texas, so of course people are losing faith in those things.","When government cannot meet the basic needs of its citizens, those citizens stop thinking that it's a good thing to have that government.",0
"""Hong Kong, China has been a WTO member since 1 January 1995 and a member of GATT since 23 April 1986."".","Yes there is. You need to have independent sovereignty to be a member of the WTO. Hong Kong used to be sovereign, and now they are not. I never said they needed to be a democracy, but China destroying their democracy proves that HK is not independent and therefore they deserve zero recognition under the WTO.",1
"Edit: ""Shunning is a dangerous practice used by cults. Those who are kicked out of authoritarian religious organizations are cut off from their entire social universe."".",True. I find it insane that these people would let Israel use European Jewish tragedy to shield itself from criticism. A criticism against Israel isn’t antisemitism just as a criticism against China isn’t racism.,1
">South Korea and the United States are discussing possible joint planning and exercises using U.S. nuclear assets in the face of North Korea's growing nuclear and missile threats, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said in a newspaper interview.","But North Korea (and China when they defend NK at the UN) always say that these missile tests are for their ""own protection"", and that the US and South Korea should stop doing military exercises (which in turn are done to maintain defense readiness... interpreted as preparing for invasion by NK / China (but we all know this is their own propaganda)).",1
"But, if that is the benchmark to look for, Ukraine can merrily liberate Crimea, and Russia will have to accept the loss of territories for talks...","Not to mention Ukraine is damn smart for not accepting any ceasefires or ""peace talks"" unless Russia leaves the country. All Russia wants is time to get their troops rearmed before the talks will mysteriously fall apart and a renewed offensive starts.",1
"If somehow the U.S. congress and president justified to themselves that 'thoughts and prayers' were deemed 'necessary', then maybe. Article 5 does say that member nations should act in sufficient capacity as if they were themselves attacked.",If article 5 is invoked all of the members of NATO will come to the attacked country’s defense with such action that they deem necessary. That have to contribute in one way or another but they are not all required to or expected to fully mobilize their militaries and send them to war because there are NATO members whose militaries are irrelevant. Like… if NATO went to war with Russia a country like Croatia really has nothing meaningful to contribute militarily so they would find other ways to contribute.,1
"No, the vast majority WANT the current state of affairs. Only a very small minority living in the cities were anti-taliban. People have to remember that Afghanistan was a stone age society 20 years ago. We cannot force idealogical change.","I wouldn't be so sure about that. If you watch some of the early 1900s interviews of women talking about the right to vote, a surprising number were anti-suffrage. An entire system of oppression cannot be maintained without participation from both genders. Maybe 50% of young women in Afghanistan are anti Taliban but women in general are probably not anti Taliban.",0
"The U.S. is a ""freekin' awesome country"" because it was founded upon enlightenment ideals (to which it asymtotically approaches), is a bastion of freedom, has become the most powerful nation to have ever existed, creates peace and hope, does awesome things like landing on the moon, has altered the direction of history for the better, and created the greatest food of all time: Pizza.","Stopped a bunch of genocide in various places. Killed several dictators and a bunch of jihadis, Kosavo, pirates, counter-balanced other powers. Prevented WWIII. Yeah, doing pretty well.",0
"Yes. For all the sympathetic souls above who are saying, ""gun control and health care"" are the solutions, yes, both would be nice.","Gun control and red flag laws are nice and all, but I don't think it strikes at the true heart of the problem, and at best is just an easily digestible action the opposition can push. Take away the assault rifles and leave the constant hate pressure, you're just going to see more vehicular attacks, stabbings, bombings, etc.",1
It's not like your usual login where password recovery simply means replacing your hashed password with a new hashed password. Replacing the hashed master password is useless if the old password wasn't used to decrypt the vault first.,If they fail the solution shouldn’t be “make a new/stronger password” or “don’t use cloud password managers” it should be something else entirely.,1
"As you said, no method is 100% effective, so when you employ more than one method (safe sex/condoms in addition to birth control, which can now happen on both sides) then that is the best you can do all around.","There are a couple of problems: no birth control method is 100% effective, and there's no way of knowing whether the man taking the pill has actually done so, unless the woman watches him do it, or whether the pill is the right one.",1
There is a reason the F-22 is so ahead of everything else and we still barely produce and use them. They are outdated in 2022.,"I don't understand this. Yes, noone can compete in dogfights with the F-22 and we don't export the F-22, but noone is dogfighting with jets.",0
"Because really? We’re seriously at the point where someone can just blatantly lie about their entire life, hide their criminal history from another country (where the case is still open), get elected to Congress, and still be allowed to take the seat, and there’s no recourse other than hoping and praying that the people who live in that seat see anything wrong with it? When this guy likely committed several crimes in the process (lying on campaign disclosure forms, for starters). What kind of country are we running here?","And then there’s the unspoken truth that if he were a Democrat, he would have been forced to resign by now, investigations would be pending, etc.",0
The fact that news anchors at Fox News did not endorse the false narratives doesn't help Fox. It makes it worse. Fox News correspondents and news anchors said the claims were false. The hosts mentioned would have learned that the theories were false by paying attention to the reporting of their own new network.,"The actual news hosts at Fox did not like Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Chris Wallace, Eric Shawn, Shannon Bream etc. But that doesn't matter in this case. The Fox News hosts mentioned did endorse those false narratives. That fact makes Fox News as a whole liable. It occurred on their airwaves making them liable.",0
"What you want is mostly a stable population. Explosive growth is not good, and there's only so many people the world can support, but a shrinking population causes plenty of issues as well.","Another problem is of course that the birth rate is not evenly distributed. Africa stays poor in part because there are too many kids, while Europe and some Asian countries will become poorer because they have too many elderly.",0
"The state does not interfere with who gets to be married in your church, and your church does not get to decide who can get married by the state or another church. That is separation of church and state.",What you want is for your church to decide on whose marriage is recognized by the state. That is NOT separation of church and state.,0
"True leaders make others want to do something, not be forced to do it (by money, by a sense of duty, due to social pressures and so on) and as I said, in a life and death situation the former is vastly superior to the latter.","Sure, you can still be the formal, nominated, Leader - what in a business environment would be called ""the boss"" - without sticking around when the going gets tough, but not actually somebody to whom others naturally look for leadership.",0
What happens while Biden is in office matters and will be used for or against our Party in 2024. Low-engaged voters will blame the WH more than the GOP chambers in 2024 too.,"We have Harris leave office and install someone like Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as VP and then have Biden step down a few months later. POTUS Jeffries then picks the person who will be his 2024 running mate as VP, for this exercise lets say Whitmer if she is reelected.",0
I think it’s time we realize that India will never be a solid western partner. Strategically it has long and strong bonds with Russia since the Soviet Union. They won’t break from them.,"Regarding the west they are only interested in the potential economic value and acquiring Western weapons, but beyond that that’s it. India doesn’t want to become part of the west so much as to become a competitor to the west. And they have proven that by still dealing with the Russians and indirectly aiding the Russian war effort by allowing Russia to skirt the sanctions via the Indian market.",0
People pick and choose from their religion/ideology and dictators and radical groups are no different.,"If there was no Islam or religion, men in power would use ""our customs"" or ""our tradition"" as the next excuse.",0
"That's me. Work a full time job, still can't afford any place decent. Meanwhile, landlording is so profitable that large companies are making it a priority to buy up housing. Thinking that's not right makes me the jerk, somehow.","The ""just build more housing"" thing doesn't pass the sniff test. It couldn't hurt, but rent is raising faster than the population. In other words, this is driven by greed, not demand. I am very skeptical that increasing the supply will cause the landlords to take a profit cut and lower rent.",0
"True, that would be the earliest point where they are able to see it because they'll be seeing high school and college graduates from Florida unable to do anything but low paying service jobs. But I think they won't care until they realize there is no retirement plan under desantis leadership besides having enough money already or dying.",Maybe the plan is to make the new generations so stupid they can be convinced that the old Republican voter demographic dying off is all Biden's fault so they keep voting for him?,0
"This isn't to diminish the seriousness of gun crime in this country or an argument against gun control, but rather how I see the fallout from any such push.","I'm relatively agnostic on the subject of guns (though not without some strong opinions) and my personal take is that this could cause a lot of harm to a lot of people who don't deserve it, and could backfire against middle of the road Democrats. This could have the fallout of causing deeper divisions and political polarization, and shift centrist voters back towards the right.",0
Also does Canada allow up to 7 days for ballots to be delivered if they were post marked by election day.,"Mail in ballots have to arrive by election day. But again, there's no reason they should accept them afterwards.",1
"That's why Erdogan loves Turkish people in Germany. Here they vote for whatever provides social security, at home it is erdogan.","Sure, those exist. They are the good ones that - for whatever personal reason they had left Turkey - enjoy living somewhere else. I am not talking about those. They are usually older, smarter and liberal.",0
"So the weapons and training provided by western countries are some of the reasons for Ukraine's successful fight, but the resolve of the Ukrainian people is another key reason.","Also, western would not be willing to support Ukraine with intelligence, arms and funds that much if Ukrainians would not be seen as nation that is ready to use it.",1
"The Islamic Republic kills everyone. Man, woman, Kurd, Non-Kurd it doesn't matter. 3 years ago tomorrow the Islamic Republic shot down a plane and killed 176 people of all ethnicities.","Remember that this whole thing started when Mahsa Amini was killed, and it is reported that Mahsa was not interested in politics and didn't really care to go against the regime. Yet they killed her because the morality police had a bad day that day.",0
"Exactly, this ‘war’ has always been about Pootin trying to snuff out any competition from Ukraine, hence taking the Crimea and East Ukraine where all the resources are.","The funny thing is that when this concludes with Crimea and the Donbas back with Ukraine, Pootin and his regime will be in a failing country while Ukraine will be a powerhouse of Europe.",0
"That’s okay. Given the standards the state has set for elder care, there are gonna be some interesting times ahead for those people. They’ll deserve everything they get in the nursing homes to come.","Frankly, he’s betting he can do whatever he wants for two reasons: Florida was the only sound choice for Disney World when it was created, and it’d be nigh impossible to find a replacement with a suitable climate in the US (also…the price!) Disney World isn’t going anywhere; DeSantis has Disney at gunpoint.",0
"You would just never know when thing would just scatter the most after all, destruction is what it all causes.",When buildings get destroyed due to earthquake and people lose their lives that stuff is indeed difficult enough to watch over!,0
"I'm hoping there is a voter backlash to all this, though it might take a few years to see it, with all the boomers moving in with their more conservative politics.",Is it just me or are all these old conservative voters gonna be dead in the next 20 years? I feel like they can’t be replaced fast enough to be equal to their hold now. And that’s a good thing if true.,1
"He literally celebrated the deaths of these people as content for his show. In other words, he used their deaths for profit, to further his career. Should we not live by the golden rule? Treat others as you wish to be treated? Where was Limbaugh's compassion? Where was Sen. Samuel Thompson's compassion all these years?!? And now the final straw for him was his ""friends"" thinking his age might compromise his ability to be an elected representative? THAT'S why I should have some compassion for him?","I will show them the same amount of compassion they have showed others. If that is not sufficient for you, perhaps you should question why they lack so much of it themselves.",1
"Look, I know you're not a Putin apologist, we frequent way to many of the same subs for that, but that was a bad take!","Some within the milblogger space, such as Igor Girkin have also been openly critical of Putin directly. Girkin was a separatist paramilitary commander in Ukraine during the initial separatist period, including as the Supreme Commander of the Donetsk People's Republic (one of the two separatist regions in the Donbas). He fell out of favor due to losing ground to the Ukrainian Army... and the very public shooting down of MH17 (as an Australian, we owe him 38 lives, but I'd settle for one).",1
Unfortunately I think there are quite a number of countries that would be interested in allowing Russian military installations on their territory if it means they can thumb their nose at the US.,"You disagree that Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, etc wouldn't love to park some nice shiny loaner nukes on their land, thereby propping up both themselves and Russia?",0
"Also, no one is more critical and dismissive of my beliefs than the crystal rubbing magical thinkers that I know.","What you're describing is regular charlatans, who are present in all sorts of belief systems and religions. And seeing someone who likes this stuff being bombarded like they're the antichrist of society is just ridiculous. People like to have their little placebo rituals. Let them be happy. Be angry at those who actually encourage turning down real medical care. Those are the baddies.",1
"I’m honestly not sure, there’s a very good reason open conflict between nuclear powers has never been risked. Just doing some armchair geopolitics, I’d assume the goal would be to drive Russia out of Ukraine/Europe and probably wouldn’t entail invasion of Russia itself or deposing Putin or whatever. But again, with nukes you can’t know that they’re not gonna hit the button, which is (imo) why everyone’s so keen to keep the conflict framed as war between Russia and Ukraine, with western support.",I want to preface by saying I'm not knowledgeable in all of it but aren't we risking a full-scale nuclear war by supplying Ukraine with hardware? I'm honestly confused how we can basically be bankrolling and using Ukraine as a proxy and not be attacked by Russia for doing so.,1
"Edit: instead of downvoting, would anyone care to explain what I’ve got wrong here? Isn’t the legal system based on precedent?","But the crimes as defined by the court aren’t different in severity. The court is suggesting that as long as you are committing crime against a ship that is flagged from a nation that commits terrorist acts, then it is ok. Dozens of countries would qualify for that. Whether it’s full on invasions, torture, etc etc they would all now qualify for their ships being blockaded?",0
"This an absurd statement on its face and the exact same one that China is making (both explicitly by “chiding” the US, and implicitly through their own far more extreme censorship).",At some point it's going to become direct bullying but by that point China will probably be impossible to stop.,1
This creates an incentive for companies to drop trans care entirely nationwide. That will be the eventual impact.,Republicans are very good at finding ways around limitations on their power to implement their agenda.,0
"But I don't think we have enough information to conclude much from her testimony alone, unfortunately.","I'm speaking to all the comments that believe there is somehow clear evidence of criminality from her testimony, which there isn't. I think a lot of people are reading the title and running with it, so I'm just providing context. I want him held accountable as much as anyone else.",0
"An announcement about the tanks could be part of an attempt to break a diplomatic logjam with Germany, which indicated to the US last week that it would not send its Leopard tanks to Ukraine unless the US also agreed to send its M1 Abrams tanks.","The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send US-made Abrams tanks to Ukraine and could make an announcement as soon as this week, according to three US officials familiar with the deliberations.",0
"These companies use these 800%+ APR for a reason, and they generate money like you wouldn’t believe for a reason, and they aggressively lobby for a reason.","And it isn’t because the “misleading” thing about them is that the APR is misleading. What’s misleading is portraying it as something which is temporary. Well, OxyContin was meant to be temporary as well. And yet Purdue found a way to break the system to make it not temporary. Same with payday loan parasites.",0
"The thing is, many don’t actually get information about what Democrats want to do from primary sources. They don’t trust anything blue and don’t even want to look at the people they perceive as opposing their livelihood. They never actually watch the speeches or read what Democrats actually say they want to do. They take whatever stupid thing their radio host says at face value. It is stupid, which is why the ammo shouldn’t be provided to begin with.","Democrats apathy toward the Midwest and especially the south doesn’t help much either. Bill Clinton was responsible for NAFTA, and that was responsible for manufacturing jobs leaving the country en masse. He also allowed the repeal of glass steagall and that turned banks into casinos that would ultimately cause the 2008 crisis. GWB accelerated it by never making a good decision his whole presidency, but the DNC actually made that monster. Then In 2016, Donald Trump paid attention to the people whose jobs were destroyed, pretended to be on their side, and made false promises of bringing back jobs. Hilary Clinton largely ignored the rust belt.",0
"Russia would still carry the can, because Belarus aren't going to be launching any nukes on their own. Belarus as Belarus is under no threat from anybody, and that's proven...the initial attack was launched in part through Belarus and Ukraine has not retaliated to Belarus as a nation, because everybody knows Russia was reaching up and working Lukashenko like a muppet.","Doubt it'd happen, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the launching site if it did. Or near any Russian military equipment, come to that. NATO has had more than 9 months to work out a plan. They've probably got some sort of Python script ""Just Do It!"" button by now.",0
Thanks for this info! I've never heard of Pritzker before. It's exciting to learn that there might be some Dems who aren't in the spotlight who are considering running in 2024.,"Are you saying Dems are grading him for reelection on a curve because he's done a great job on pursuing his agenda? Or are you saying grading him pursuing his agenda on a curve would result in a ""great job?"".",1
Imagine losing the most reliable voting block in the country because you successfully discouraged them from taking part in the process?,"Look, it is all good and well to have MAGA defeated at some level, but voters of all kinds must not stop until the root problem of unaccountable government is addressed.",1
"1. Who cares? So long as Ukraine gets what it wants, RT can scream vindication from the rooftops and try to sell that as a win to its people, to distract them from the fact that they can no longer vacation in Ukraine-liberated Crimea. “We’re now safe from NATO Thanks Putin!”.","Because name 1 time where russia didn't break an agreement. This is clearly an attempt to return to ""business as usual"" where the only losing party will be Ukraine. It's not russia that needs security guarantees but Ukraine. And what negotiations are we even talking about when the fuckers broke each and every agreement they had with Ukraine or others since the 90s. How stupid do you have to be to think that it's a long-term solution that will protect the victim - Ukraine - and not just a way to get back on good terms with the aggressor. And so far I have not seen Macron or anyone else clearly and openly state, not to mention have it in writing, that if russia is to ever break an agreement again they would rain missiles on every military person or equipment they have anywhere outside russia's official borders. Anything other than that is just an attempt to stab Ukraine in the back for their own wimpy benefits.",1
"Whether he succeeded or not, he attempted it and twisting her words doesn't change that. This attorney isn't letting his weasel words slide and neither is the judge.","This is by no means siding with the creep, but out of curiosity I read the interview with Anderson Cooper. She isn't a hell of a lot better with words than Trump and suggested that some people like rape... it's sexy... By that she we alluding to role playing.",0
A hypersonic ballistic missile is a missile that follows a ballistic trajectory at high values of mach.,"If you just want to the missile to go very fast in a ballistic trajectory, you literally just need a round nosecone.",0
"A wide and complicated range of different aspects of society. The sort of thing that is complicated to deal with, and thus nobody wants to consider, since it's so much easier and more ideologically gratifying to instead go with a simple populist rhetoric of ""big tech bad"".",A lot of the populist discourse around this stuff makes it sound like it is basically the responsibility of tech companies offering social media platforms to protect us from our own speech and sight.,0
"But living in a state where the party in power has an explicit platform of keeping the population poor and unhealthy, even to the point of refusing free federal money redistributed from taxes collected on the citizens of other states...","Only a checked-out idiot would persist in claiming there's no practical difference - becuase while the ""better"" side is still very disappointing, the practical difference is night and day, in more than a few cases literally life or death.",0
"Russia has a long history of using mass rape as a weapon. Rape happens in every war, it's a side effect of dehumanizing the enemy; however there are very few armies today that would instruct their soldiers to rape everybody they came across. Russia is one of those and has been for hundreds of years.","This is how Russia has always been for hundreds of years. The October revolution tried to change this but only managed to put a coat of red paint over it. This is why Russia continues to try and support the world's ""second largest army"" despite having an economy smaller than Italy's, and this is why Russia has been unable to join the ""global community"" despite thirty years of the world bending over backwards to integrate them. To a Russian fear and respect are entwined. You cannot have respect without fear. They never even considered building their economy like Germany did because they don't consider Germany respectable because nobody fears Germany. This war is happening now because, ultimately, nobody fears Russia anymore either, even the ""inferior"" countries that Russia has traditionally bullied.",1
"If you sanction A, well now the country needs to switch to B to keep things going smoothly. After a while, when your country has swapped over to B completely, you sanction B. Now that hurts more, and your country needs to scramble harder to fix that problem, so they switch to C, etc...","Fair points. Idk how much it matters in the grand scheme of things but I have followed the Ruble over the last year. Since 8 months ago, its been dropping, and it hasn't stopped. It just reached it's pre-war level and it is still going down. So sanctions are hurting Russia, I wish it would be a faster effect to force Putin to stop the war, but it is hurting Russia.",0
"But that’s what republicans want; they think being gay/trans is something that you can physically beat out of a child. All it does is make the child ghost them when they’re older and supporting themselves, just like I did.","I grew up here in NC (25 now) in a very strictly evangelical die-hard republican household. Had I been outed or outed myself as trans to my family, I’m not sure if they’d have let me see the light of day ever again, the physical and emotional abuse would have been too much.",0
To me its more likely that either Zelensky is genuinely pointing out Putins absence or he wants to provoke Putin for whatever reason.,"Accusing Putin of being dead also probably stems from the old USSR tactic of hiding leaders as internal power struggles ensue. Putin dying would be a change of pace but it unlikely, my money is more on him laying low because he feel and pooped his pants and now he must wait until enough time has passed that everyone can just forget about it, he is Birthday Boy for life after all.",1
"A lot to read but my takeaway is that the Republican poor showing wasn't because of Biden's leadership driving things since we have the exit polling stating most wouldn't care for Biden to run in 2024 and even the majority of Democrats only staying the somewhat approve of his leadership, rather it's threats to abortion from the regressive party was the driving force.","For the progressives who resent Washinon’s lack of action on major issues, which I’m one of by the way, the answer right now isn’t to primary Biden - it’s to continue taking over Congress and state politics. Vote blue, vote for a strong progressive caucus, and send Biden the bills we need for change. Make sure we are present in the Senate should a vacancy appear in the Supreme Court. In the meantime, safeguard our states against SCOTUS fuckery with blue legislatures, governors, and attorneys general, and fight for independent districting committees and ranked choice voting.",1
"Bullshit. I saw two last week. Although one did say ""Foxtrot Juliet Bravo"" instead of simply ""FJB."" I also saw a ""L et's Go Brandon"" sticker yesterday. There's still a truck driving around in my area with a large image of Trump on the driver's-side window and a picture of Clinton behind bars on the passenger window.","I'm still seeing a bunch of Trump 2024 flags and stickers. I imagine it won't be too long before they receive updated firmware and start putting up DeSantis stuff. I suspect there will be some holdouts, but in the end they will fall in line.",0
"Lots of translation apps for the phone or add-ons for your favourite browser available for most languages. I use it for polish and french, and they work great.","It let's you see how other countries view a topic, lot of times you get a better understanding of the topics because they publish information that might not be reported in your country, etc etc etc.",0
"Hi TinaToner311. Thank you for participating in /r/Politics. However, has been removed for the following reason(s):","Edit: I noticed you deleted your previous comment. Tell me again, who is spewing nonsense? You weren't even aware that Twitter is now a private company.",1
"He went on there ready to talk shit about Hunter Biden but only the far gives a shit about that and all it actually does is underline the ridiculous corruption of the Trump administration, and he wasn't ready for that so switched gear to whine about the media, while being on fucking tv!","He doesn't actually care about what Hunter Biden did or didn't do, what he cares about is keeping that in the media cycle because ""political correctness"" is done, people aren't scared of terrorist right now, immigration fears are not working, they ""won"" on CRT and abortion and this is just the next thing to keep their supporters engaged. Republicans run on outrage and drop out when it comes to discussions about governing.",1
"Hey everyone! My name is Andrey Pertsev and I’m a Russian journalist with Meduza. My work also appears in Carnegie Russia and Riddle. I’m best known for having sources throughout the Russian government, and understanding the political machinations of the Russian Federation. I’m from Arkhangelsk, but I’ve been to a majority of Russia’s regions and know their political structures well.","There are two points of view - according to one (and it seems to be confirmed by official sociological surveys) Russians support the war and Putin. According to the other, the majority of citizens do not support the war, but are afraid to answer honestly to pro-government sociologists. The truth is out there. Most likely, the share of support for the war is much lower than official sociological data - people are really afraid to speak honestly, there are criminal penalties for “discrediting the army” in Russia. According to the indirect results of independent researchers who do not ask directly, we can judge that support for the war specifically is not so high - people are tired of the news about the war, they would like peace negotiations (especially if Putin initiated them). Young Russians, as a rule, are against the war. There is an apathetic part of society, which continues to live as if nothing has happened - the war disturbs it. They don’t want to go to the front - according to polls, the level of anxiety in Russian society exceeds the level of calm. Moreover, anxiety arises at moments when new rumors of mobilization arise. Finally, there is indeed a large segment of society that supports the war: these are people who watch television and consider themselves supporters of the authorities. But again, in this group we can identify another subgroup - Russians who seriously think that this is a “special operation” and that the Russian army is fighting the Nazis. They are victims of propaganda. Thus, Russian society is very heterogeneous in its support for the war, although it should not be downplayed.",0
"Yep. I can see why the suits want this feature, but there's no way to implement it that doesn't inconvenience families with kids in college - one of the main legitimate use cases - or which doesn't introduce hilarious loopholes, like how you should theoretically be able to share an account with other people in your dorm.","You mean like college students? They're probably one of the main demographics of legitimate sharing, but Netflix only lets that happen if they can go home at least once a month.",0
"This narrative paints Orbán and his party as ""freedom fighters"" trying to keep a deranged Brussels in check, shifting all blame solely on the EU.","A (it's in Hungarian, not sure if there is an English version) revealed that a third of all voters (and half of Orbán's voters) were convinced that Orbán voted against the sanctions.",0
"She should take note that a professional, educated system would have phased abortion out in an orderly and systemic way to lower the risk of collateral damage. That was not the case. Things are dangerous now.","Yes, but I'm afraid rights to credit and fair housing are going to be the next to go. With the religious extremism, blatant ignorance, and the disinformation campaigns - I'm concerned American women risk the same treatment as the women of Iran after the overthrow of the Shah in the Iranian Revolution of 2/11/1979.",0
"Trump himself is expected to face criminal referrals, reportedly for conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, and insurrection. Referrals are also expected for other Trump allies, including Republican lawmakers who refused to comply with Congressional subpoenas. Committee Chair Bennie Thompson has suggested referrals for ethics violations, legal misconduct and campaign finance violations may also be issued. However, the Committee's referrals are non-binding and it will be up to federal prosecutors to bring charges.",BREAKING: RASKIN: CRIMINAL REFERRALS: You tasked us to form a subcommittee to determine whether criminal referrals should be made.,1
"'Oh really? You're able to give all of us ALL the committee assignments we all want? You'll understand if we don't believe you, so we're going to need some insurance that allows us to tie up business if you end up trying to fuck us over.'.","True. But I really don't know who else in the republican party, that is actually qualified, would really want the job right now given how in disarray the party is. It seems like a good way to end one's political career come the next election. I'm not even sure if McCarthy could have managed it if there had been a red wave, but he's wanted the position for a long while now, so I guess he felt this was his chance, with no consideration of if he could do the job.",1
"This protects every existing gay and interracial marriage in the US as well as protects every gay and interracial marriage in the future. Yes, there is still work to be done to get those other states to allow gay and interracial marriages, but that will either require a social change to vote in better politicians, or a constitutional change to eliminate any gray area with the first amendment.","Nah, it’s because it allows (if Obergefell is rolled back) states like Utah and North Carolina to openly ban gay marriage again, as long as they recognize them when their residents elope to Hawaii.",1
"If the government started actually looking for ways to maximize ROI for the entire economy then health care, the railways, and nuclear power infrastructure would be nationalized and invested in en-mass. Those industries all have tremendous untapped ROI and are all proven areas where government management works because top-down management is efficient (natural monopolies) but where abusive monopolization is dangerous to consumers. Nationalization is also proven to work in all cases.","But that would require taxing the rich to benefit society, not taxing the poor to benefit the rich, and that's a cardinal sin for Republicans.",0
"Thats a very incomplete list. Brands like Lagunitas, Dos Equis, Red Stripe, Tecate, Strongbow, New Castle Brown Ale, etc... all are owned (or distributed) by Heineken.",It's pretty well known that Heineken sold in the US is different than the ones sold in Europe. So you should probably blame your local countrymen for having bad taste cause Heineken adjusted their beer to accommodate American taste.,1
"I really can't see Russia ever giving up any part of Ukraine unless forced out, and Russia will only agree to a ceasefire if they get the land they think is theirs. That won't stop Russia though - it ultimately wants ALL of Ukraine.","If things keep going as they are, ukraine will retake their country. It isn't going smoothly but they already took back several bits of land lost in the shock of the initial invasion that Russia can't take back, and the Russians already lost more people than they can recover from.",1
"The minimum response required to ensure that no more missiles can go into NATO airspace, since Russia apparently can’t ensure that on their own.","One stray missile landing a couple of kilometres inside Poland, assuming it was even fired by the Russians, is nowhere near the threat level posed by the Cuban missiles.",1
"Depending on how steep those are, and if the proceeds are actually used to build more affordable housing, that could improve both rent and housing affordability.",I'd encourage you to actually watch and read through the links I posted more carefully rather than assuming you already know or understand what they say. Well-educated voters in a well-educated population are a big part of what's needed.,0
"we have had some spectacular failures around the world too. Afghanistan being the latest but Libya is another recent example. Like I said, I’m not against intervention but I remember reading excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s emails and they said something like “convincing Obama to bomb Libya is our greatest foreign policy achievement” and then later “omg we never could have guessed what would happen later” as the situation devolved into what it is today. Too little thought goes into what could happen if things go sideways.","Quite right. Going further, whose idea was it that led to that? sadly, it goes back to US imperialism and “regime change”.",0
"“Her husband, a Ukrainian soldier, died defending Kherson’s Antonivskyi bridge on the first day of full-scale war, she said. During several interrogations in the spring, Russian forces submerged her hands in boiling water, pulled out her fingernails and beat her in the face with rifle butts so badly she needed plastic surgery, according to Minenko.”.","I can imagine russian POWs getting a serious beating if they were captured in an area that it was known the russians had been brutalising the populations or if a AFU soldier had lost his friends to them, and I can imagine 'officers' getting waterboarded during interrogations. I can imagine many other things - but they're done for 'tactical' reasons, no matter how horrible they are - not for amusement or to terrorise the population. But the Ukrainians know that the continued support of the West relies on then appearing to lay be the rules and if a few graphic instances of torture hit the media support would evaporate. And if/when they win there's going to be lots of investigations and their getting into the EU etc will ride to those. The very fact that the russians won't allow anyone at all to see their POW camps is telling.",1
"And honestly, it's pretty obvious that if NATO has something pointing towards Russia, it's a good chance that this is nuclear; if NATO goes hand to hand with Russia, is going to be on a nuclear scale.","I'ts important because its not the same ""nuke us, we will nuke you back and we will have a good chance of surviving"" than ""well, everything's fucked up now."" Specially because during the first weeks of the Ukrainian war I read a lot of people talking shit about the nuclear stockpiles of Russia being defective or whatnot, as if this would make a difference.",0
"With EU no longer buying, supply now greatly exceeds demand for Russian energy, which is why China and India are able to buy at greatly reduced prices that barely leave any profit for Russia.. especially considering how pricier and more difficult delivering that energy to east Asia is compared to Western Europe.","The current century? It wouldn't surprise me if the Russian federation collapses before 2030. I'm not saying it certainly will, but if that does happen it wouldn't surprise me.",0
"Arrival to power, where conservatives seeking to control rising leftist opposition invite fascists to share power.","In his 2004 book The Anatomy of Fascism, Paxton refines his five-stage model and puts forward the following definition for fascism:",0
"As I understand it, the past week Russia has been stepping up it's offensives on Ukraine's defensive lines with their expendable new recruits. The goal seems to be to make one or more breakthroughs to force Ukraine to have to commit its reserves to stabilise their front line. Russia would then start their major offensive further north while much of the Ukrainian reserves are tied up and unable to respond effectively. So far it doesn't seem to be working as Ukrainian defensive lines have held, or they are being smart and withdrawing to more effective defensive positions.","If Ukraine sets good defensive positions, fallback lines, and detailed plans don't think this russian offensive will manage a full breakthrough. The most important thing is anti tank weaponry. Javelins, NLAWs, Stugnas, RPGs, etc. Losing 15 tanks a days sums up 1800 tanks in 4 months. And it may well be a conservative number for a big offensive.",1
"As tragic as this is, legal system doesn't get all terrorists even if they're right in front of them.",In 2017 in France a guy who had plans to kill officers was let go due to lack of evidence. He later killed a police officer. Here's some information about that case:,0
"The bill mandates states to recognize marriages from other states as well as codifies federal protections and benefits for couples as long as the marriage certificate is valid in the state it was issued. If Obergefell v. Hodges were to be overturned, theoretically a state can ban gay marriage but it would still have to recognize a gay marriage as valid if performed in a state recognizing said marriage. Basically, the law allows states to discriminate within their own borders and refuse to issue marriage certificates, but MUST accept marriages performed outside their borders within the US as valid.",It requires states to recognize marriage licenses issued by other states where a same-sex marriage license is legal. It’s using the same authority that enables us to drive across state lines with a single driver’s license rather than take a driving test in every state.,1
"My take is that either malfunctioning S300 missile(russians were hitting themselves with malfunctioning S300 a few times already), or it was kh-101 which trajectory was messed up after AD failed to hit it directly.","The point of firing two missiles would be to prevent a complete failure to disable a target in the case of a misfire, how would both missiles fail and then also both land at the same place? That makes even less sense than the Russians firing 2 missiles at the wrong target.",1
"The US tanks are insanely over-engineered and require a constant logistics chain of replacement parts that can only come from the US, and I believe contain special armor the composition of which is considered secret and so the US doesn't want to see them ever fall into enemy hands if defeated in combat.","Ukraine won't be able to use US tanks for a long time. But Germany insisted the US send these tanks as a precondition for them sending Leopards, so that Germany wouldn't be seen as unilaterally ""escalating"" anything by being the only country to send tanks to Ukraine.",0
It was dumb. That sound bite was all they needed. He handed the opposition a golden ticket. As soon as he said that no amount of clarification would suffice.,We need the party to go back to supporting the working class. The party needs to return to being pro-union and promoting jobs coming back to the US. Fetterman does this. I don't care what his pedigree is if he stands behind what he's saying.,0
"Designating a location as ""holy"" serves to provide the believers with motivation to fight for control of that location. This specific holy land happens to be a major hub for transferring goods & military forces between the mediterranean, the middle east and north Africa, and the more granular holy places such as Jerusalem, Hebron or Safed happen to be situated on tall mountains overlooking some of the major pathways in the region.","You could call that an atheistic point of view, and I'll give you that if you would, but you can't deny how conveniently located these ""holy"" places are.",0
"And we can't say anything because they get offended when we say they vote against their own interests. Even though they do. They're steeped in 30 years of Fox News and Talk Radio, whipping them up into fear and paranoia about cultural issues (gay marriage, for example) to the extent that that's all they think is important. That and guns. They've given up any pretext to other issues being important, even though red states have lower measures of all the elements of wellbeing. So they could use the help, but they're so steeped in their own propaganda that they can't see how something common sense, like expanding medicare, which is 90 percent covered would benefit them. It's more important to 'stick it to the libs.' I live in a red state, from a family of hippies, teachers, and social workers. It's nuts seeing just how much people bend over backwards to refuse smarter ways of doing things. Pride and tribalism costs people down here years off their life and a truncated future for their children. Don't even get me started on climate change.",Don't fall into the trap. It is not young vs. old. It is people vs. corporations and the Republican (and even Democratic) politicians owned by big pharma. The answer has been in the room like an invisible fucking elephant for years - single payer. If you continue to be chained you will continue to envy and disparage those with longer chains. That seems foolish when you cut work with them to break the chains. Become a single issue voter or continue to flounder.,1
"People will get an urge to kill those who they blame problems on and see as weird, disgusting etc. That nature can be directed on specific groups but its inherent within human societies and needs to be actively checked so it dosent get out of control.","That depends on the person, one man could become more forgiving with it while another might decide they need to fight satans homosexual minions.",0
"Again, I don't support the settlemsnts, but you surely can see the difference between ""builds houses on contested territories"" to""pays people to murder random civilians"".",This are literally spontanous riots done in response to the murder of 2 children from their community and the celebration of these murders in the palestinian village.,0
"Add in the massive student loans they have to become teachers, the threat of school shootings, hostile parents and lack of classroom aides to assist with special needs students and you have to wonder why anyone wants to teach.",How about funding the schools themselves properly so this isn’t an excuse for the minimum salary to be eaten up by forcing the teachers to buy even more school related-supplies?,1
"If israel got the same results as we have then the conflict is over, there is no more conflict, our mistake was allowing parties to be armed being to easy on their transgressions on the sovereignty while no one would think it was about if palestinians should have had citizenship, also palestinians were much better educated and were much better at trade and manufacturing so i hate to admit it but they are the ones to make this country turn from a desert not worth occupying into the most advanced and educated country jn the arab world.","2) The goal of the disengagement from Gaza was not to be nice to the Palestinians; Israel left due to the realization that Israel could never achieve Jewish majority in Gaza (no majority, no potential future annexation, no point in staying). Even further, Sharon's plan was apparently to torpedo any chance of peace with the Palestinians with that disengagement plan:",1
"I'm kind of shocked that this is news to you, the use of Javelin and Stinger missiles in Ukraine has received extremely widespread news coverage.","They sent thousands of stingers to Ukraine, they had some of them before the war even started. They are an important part of why the Russian airforce has been a non-factor in Ukraine the entire war, every babushka and her dog has a stinger stashed away.",0
We traded an American citizen that was being cruelly punished publicly and there's no telling what else they would have done to her regardless of fame status...,It really bothers me when American citizens get locked up in other countries either cruelty or unfairly. It’s probably a good thing I’ll never be in charge of the country because I’m ok with them putting boots on the ground to recover Americans as long as there not deservedly locked up.,1
"These are wants, not necessities. Profits aren't what's important here, we can't afford to just hand this technology over to the government of a geopolitical adversary just for the sake of corporate profits. It isn't worth it.","Just because we're wrong about supporting Saudi Arabia doesn't mean that preventing China from getting this technology isn't the right move. You know what the Chinese government would use the chips for, right? Military technology. I really hope we can both agree that the Chinese military having access to our chips is not a good thing in any way, shape, or form. If you don't agree, then I'm glad that you aren't the one dictating our foreign policy towards China.",0
"This is why Corporations must be forced to 'do the right thing' by making it a losing proposition for their shareholders to continue doing business in Russia. Therefore, sanctions.","At the end of the day, are the sanctions necessary? Yes, Putin is a ass and deserved to be tried at Hague. But claiming companies only are greedy is a bit misleading.",1
"Yea I remember that when you had to wait around and try getting on a website that would be booked up in seconds every time there were openings, and you had to look in all the cities near you too because they did a shit job getting the vaccines to where the demand was.","Moderna is going add this vaccine to their patient assistance program, so you can fill out a bunch of paperwork and jump through hoops in the hopes they decide you're poor enough to qualify for assistance in paying for it.",1
"The other kind, however, is the sort that loudly screams for shooting down activists, have delusional fantasies about race wars, and considers every minority community to be foreigners and outcasts that must be subjugated to the will of the majority.","Their racism is more...well, it trends more towards sniffs of disapproval, privately mocking african-americans and making digs about the usual topics. But they're polite enough, generally won't do anything too radical, and are capable of being made to see reason.",0
People want better life for themself. There is nothing wrong with this desire. In Middle East and Africa it is also trendy to migrate.,"The avalance of Iraqi migrants is partly due to Iraqi population DOUBLING after 2003 war started. War and poor conditions increase birth rate, in this case to developping country level. That war was pointless and now there is also this backlash. I bet we have this same issue ahead in Ukraine in 20 years, altough I hope it will be itself a rapidly advancing and properous EU country by then. If not, the young Ukranians will migrate into such countries.",0
"The is good enough because if/when the Supreme Court strikes down Obergefell, any same sex marriage can be disregarded by an anti-LGBTQ state. This makes sure any legal marriages are still recognized by every state.","It's not forcing every state to legalize it, but it is forcing states to recognize married couples as such.",1
"My understanding is that the nukes had very little, if anything, to do with Japan's surrender and that this story served more as a face-saving measure for both sides:",I'm starting to ramble but the Soviets were the brute force strenh that won the war in Europe but they weren't the main reason why Japan surrendered.,1
It's still creepy but the supreme court ruled back in the 50s that students can't be forced to do it.,"Yes, but the key sticking points is that the student must pledge support to The Party. And that their guarantor is forbidden from leaving China until they finish their education and return home.",0
"Why are we all acting like the Dems need to find a Republican who they can vote for? Moderate Republicans (if they even exist) should look for a moderate Democrat, say ""hey, you have our 6-7 votes"" and all the Dems get behind them.","Republicans act nastier than democrats so maybe it looks harsher or that there's more internal strife, but there's not. This is just how assholes determine who comes out on top. And the assholes who lose will lick their boot after. Don't look for schadenfreude here, you're only gonna play yourself in the long term.",1
"You can bet your ass it is. The more likely it becomes he will be indicted, we are pretty close to certainty already, the more likely he attempts to flee and makes all this shit 50x worse for himself.",Trump in an old man sprint into the back of a black SUV with toilet paper stuck to his shoe 🤣. Realizes nobodies coming with him and he's in the back by himself.,0
"- a drone fired two missiles, one was shot down, other hit its target. Drone itself was not shot down.","> ""As a result of its [the drone’s] debris falling, three Russian servicemen who were at the airfield were mortally wounded."" It is claimed that the aircraft was not damaged after the attack on the airfield.",0
"Well, ""give"" is too strong a word. Germany repeatedly renounced any demands of the lands east of the Oder river, I think first East Germany as part of the communist block, then in 1990 West Germany with the 4+2 treaty to make reunification possible.","It was Stalin that gave those lands though, in exchange of keeping most of what he had claimed and annexed from Poland with the Molotov Ribbentropp pact already.",0
"Do you honestly think that everyone who is white and also votes Republican is a white supremacist? Because that isn't at all how things really are. Do white supremacists find a home in the Republican party? Absolutely they do. Are they the majority of Republican supporters? No, they are not.","No. Because those identifying with one party, or tribe, can never see it as bad as the opposing party, or tribe. It's not how human psychology works.",1
"Europe's ""green transition"" realistically consists of a bit of wind in the north, a bit of solar in the south, and a fuck ton of nuclear everywhere in between.","seriously, if the germans had spent the two trillion euros building nuclear they'd be carbon-neutral and exporting gobs of green energy to the rest of europe. instead they installed solar and wind with a theoretical capacity of 200% of germany's needs and an actual output of about 20% of its needs.",0
There is no 'level playing field' when doing business in China. Why in the hell should there be one in the US? Why in the fuck should the US play nice here?,"Until every Chinese company doing business in the US is forced to do go through a US equivalent company while allowing an agent of the US government to be present at all times, no mater how sensitive the matter, I really don't give a fuck.",0
I don't like Ron and I too think him and the GOP of FL are nutcases but why resort to lying on him? rather we like it or not him touting FL as a freedom state during a time almost every state was on lockdown worked and it worked because people who grew tired of being on lockdown took the bait. I hope you aware that the average person doesn't consider politics when planning a vacation.,"No he didn't. Foreign tourism decreased in 2020 and 2021 because of the travel ban while domestic tourism increased. my source but I'm sure your source is ""trust be bro,"" ""everyone I know refuse to visit FL."".",0
"""Republicans, so far, are silent on Trump's profound attack on the Constitution, the basis of our democratic government,"" she added. ""That is the story, and it is Earth-shattering."".","This. I hate that people consider it a weakness to change their views after being presented new information. Actually, no, it's weak to reject new information to maintain your current worldview. It's strong to grow and adapt.",1
Lots of people hate LGBT folks (who are not actually responsible for their own oppression). Politicians like votes so they tap into this negative energy to keep their jobs.,"Wow. Nope.Not my intent at all. If I may, your.comment is a little wrapped up in itself. This is how I'd like to unwrap it.",0
"""African people were taken from their homelands, forced into slavery in brutal conditions. Eventually they were 'freed' but still treated like shit. Eventually they weren't treated quite as bad, but still not great. And now they have the right to exist."".","""Additionally they have contributed greatly to our society. Serving in our military, contributing to science and the arts. And building this nation into a global superpower all while being treated as less than human."".",0
"That's the whole idea of the nuclear trident. My point is basically that you don't need to account for the most warhead heavy aspect the Trident, the bombers.","Spread some ICBMs out on submarines and land based silos and you're fine, 200 will do. 400 if you want to be super duper over armed. ""Oh sorry, we can only destroy 25 major Chinese population centers and 250 million people while still accepting a 50% failure rate AND keeping half the nuclear fleet in reserve"" boohoo, sorry we can only destroy you to 2 full fledged superpowers in nuclear armageddon in an era where only one other superpower exists.",0
"Most Deforestation in Brazil isn't due to companies, it is done ilegaly by thugs, the remaining is the example I just gave you..","It's not cattle, the industry that spearheads the deforestation in the amazons are the illegal logging operations. Down the line some idk how many years they may turn into crops for cattle.",1
"South Carolina doesn't feel like a strictly worse choice than Iowa, at least, but either Michigan or Nevada would have been much superior choices. Both states are still diverse and both states represent the kinds of environments the Democratic party is becoming, and needs to continue to be, competitive in.",If I were cynical I'd say that these are picked because they're all states that reliably vote for Third Way candidates because they can't have a repeat of 2020 where a progressive almost won.,1
"No. Because those identifying with one party, or tribe, can never see it as bad as the opposing party, or tribe. It's not how human psychology works.","From the neutral place I try to maintain, Conservatives are often insufferable through their Fundamental Christianity and belief in moral superiority through that religion. Liberals are often insufferable due to their faux-intellectualism and the conviction that they're smarter than others; their smugness.",0
"“Buildings about to be bombed are not a Ukrainian false flag operation, but rather an attack by Russia.”.",What building can Ukraine blow up that would be more outrageous than what Russia has already bombed the hell out of? Hospitals? Russia did it. Schools? Russia did it. Apartments? Russia did it. Power plants? Russia did it. Movie theaters known to be full of civilians? Russia did it.,1
"Well this bill actually covers gay marriage, unlike the 1st amendment. So if you were interested in protecting gay marriage, you would be supportive of this bill instead of trying to make an unrelated and irrelevant 1st amendment argument.","Considering the precedent establishing gay marriage was the 14th amendment and not the 1st, the argument does not hold any weight.",0
Of course Wagner is not a true private military group and is just another arm of the Russian state but that is the pretence they are trying to keep up.,"Or private militaries apparently. A private military should not need to rely on a national one for its logistics, it defeats the entire point.",0
There's no way she primaries with the Democrats. She'd lose and she knows it. That's what this whole thing is about. My guess is that it's one of two things.,"It does. In SC students must complete a US Government course to graduate. In previous decades, Civics was required in middle school. However, people have forgotten what they learned.",1
"Translation - Japan’s increasing defence budget means they have the capacity to stand up to the PRC and their increasing bullying of nations in the region. Which, of course, is unacceptable in Beijing’s view. A strong Japan is good for regional stability, whatever the Chinese claim.","And according to the treaty signed between China and Japan back in the 70s stated that relations were normalized between the two nations. It provided for trade relations and recognition of Beijing as the legitimate seat of the Chinese government. It also stated that Japan recognized Taiwan as a part of China and in exchange, China permanently gave up any claim of reparations for what Japan did in World War 2. The argument can be made that by defending Taiwan, Japan would be violating that part of the treaty, and China would be free to push for reparations. In which case, nuking Japan would be settling some old scores.",1
Pistols are much easier to surprise victims with. And no credible proposal is getting rid of glocks.,‘Assault weapons’ are rarely used in crimes. These bills are feel good but ignore the actual problem.,0
"If they were able to have the US by the balls economically for decades, then they certainly can take advantage of Russia.","Actually it is a great move, because they can practically ""buy out"" Russia for pennies on the dollar. The Ruble has collapsed in value, most major Western Corporations have left Russia shortly after the invasion started, and Putin is desperate to maintain some semblance of stability within his country.",0
"Biggest problem is that even if you don't buy apple, which i don't, the alternatives aren't much better, and anyone saying you don't need a smart phone in today's world are pretty disingenuous or naive. I would gladly pay more for a phone made in the west at higher standards, but they are not really on the market or at least i have not found one.","I am not young, just always surprised by the ignorance of Americans, you seriously didn't know that iphones one of the main products of one of the largest companies in the world, are sold outside of the US?",0
But the terrain in Ukraine is much more complex with a lot of forests and other elements which makes battles being fought much closer to each other.,"Tanks are scary as fuck to defend or attack against so the more there are the harder it is for the enemy, no matter the quality of the tank.",0
"The more news that are coming out about the Furuvik Zoo, the worse it looks. I highly doubt that they will able to keep their remaining chimpanzees after this.",PS: Your point about a human life being more important than that of a Chimp I would dispute such a charge.,1
"It's more referring to the fact that every ballot measure on abortion went in favor of women's rights to choose, even in deep red states. It's not talking about the Senate votes. People still voted for Republicans while voting against abortion bans and pro-life nonsense.",What the right failed to realize is that anti-abortion is a fringe position. It has been for decades. But this extreme minority view has been such a huge part of their platform that they’ve believed it was much more popular than it is.,1
"The bunker covers those first two, but limits the last. If that limitation has been mitigated elsewhere, fine. Security is about trade offs. But having a bunch of airplanes grounded because you can't get the blast doors to your bunker open seems like a horrible point of failure in planning.",Or you just hit the entrances with penetrating bombs and just in case fly the occasional combat air patrol that can spot these ancient planes from hundreds of km away.,1
Both Ukrainian F-16s and any Russian airframes flying at medium or higher altitudes are going to get shot down by air defenses.,"So all things considered, Russian pilots will be fighting for their fucking lives, if Ukraine got western aircraft.",1
Russian forces repelled a vicious saboteur attack in the homeland but it did not come without a heavy cost. Russian defense forces lost ten soldiers in the battle before defeating the three terrorists armed with advanced western airsoft guns.,⚡ General Staff: There is a large number of losses in Russian units operating in the Lugansk region.,1
"I'm not talking about the PKK but the YPG. The assaults on them in Syria, on foreign soil, are definitely part of Erdogan's term. And as far as I know is Turkey the only country that considers YPG a terrorist organisation.","Interesting, Turkey claims the YPG is just a rebrand of PKK. Some independent groups have also made the same connection.",1
"No, if they are retired then it should be totally acceptable. The whole reason against wanting military people to speak out against the POTUS is so that you don't have to worry about them not following a order because of political reasons.","Frankly, I’m not sure I could respect any military leader who DIDN’T take a critical view of trump. Whether they publish it in a paper or just hold those views…doesn’t matter to me.",1
You neglected to mention the most important aspect of that memorandum: UKRAINE GAVE UP THEIR NUKES IN RETURN FOR A PEACE GUARANTEE FROM RUSSIA.,"Ukraine already negotiated peace and safety by giving up nuclear weapons. Russia is a terrorist state, how can you expect any diplomacy and word-keeping? Any negotiations will be used against Ukraine.",1
"I imagine the logic was for Prigozhin to show that he could make gains where the army could not, and he kind of achieved something in some way by maybe getting a few more meters than the army, at the cost of basically the reserves of troops he could get his hands on. As the prisoners realize a lifetime in jail is still better than a headless corpse in a week, that supply of cannon fodder is dwindling fast.","A lot of the current news has major offensives and ""gains"" being attributed to Wagner. Whether is this just propaganda to an extent, or actual real information, it means that Wagner is actually being used as the cannon fodder to try and get somewhere.",0
"The whole thing is a distraction to try and draw some Ukrainian forces that way with the threat of another front. Russia could absolutely take Moldova if they took Ukraine. The problem with the whole thing is that Russia didn't take Ukraine and all paths to Moldova either go through unoccupied Ukraine or Romania, who is a member of NATO.","Moldova should be proactive in denying Russian access, but there's no real threat unless Russia can make gains into central and western Ukraine, which is (partially) why Ukraine retaking Kherson was vital.",1
"Do subpoenas have an expiry date? Because there's hilarious hypocrisy and hijinks that Democrats and Cheney could get up to with this. A very simple ""I will honor your subpoena when you honor mine."".",". Based on my reading, Democrats control the committee calendars, and deadlocked committee votes on legislation and Executive Calendar items can make their way from subcommittee to committee, then up to Schumer or McConnell if the deadlock remains. Either of them can then schedule a full senate vote, which can then be tiebroken by VP.",1
"LNG is not oil. It is far more expensive per unit output of energy. They are buying up supply that was already called for further causing the price of Russias number 1 export, natural gas, to rise.",Anyway you do have a point in that a lot of the places Russia will be supplying are expected to grow massively economically.,1
"And that’s without putting a single American life at risk or effort on gathering intel on enemy and simulations. Add to that the fact ukraine is now in billions in debt to us, it’s weakening Russia, power projection, free advertising for NATO/US weapons, etc.","It doesn’t matter, because the benefit of weakening Russia and sending a warning message to anybody trying to upset the world order far outweighs the cost, which is a drop in the bucket for the US. 50 billion dollars is pocket change for America.",1
Libertarianism is the magic thinking lie Reagan told that government is the problem because rich people hate paying taxes.,"Libertarianism is not about rich people hating paying taxes. It is about freedom, and about the right for all people to live their lives according to their own ideals.",1
"Edit: For the record; she hasn’t even been antisemitic. She’s been critical of some of the acts that Israel, as a country, has committed.","Edit: also her comments about “dual loyalty” and Israel “hypnotizing” the world. Also antisemitic tropes. I call them out when I see them, even when it’s from our side. Especially when it’s from our side.",1
"If the fines are just on Southwest and they raise prices too severely, won’t people just fly with another carrier? I don’t know enough about the airline industry, but it seems like there is competition and people can choose just not to fly SW if their tickets cost too much.",Are you really saying that having to fly at all cost is comparable to just having to move the plane back to the terminal (and getting delayed more)? Really? Obviously airlines will try to avoid waiting on the tarmac in the first place. But if that doesn't work out there is an easy and completely safe solution. Avoiding a cancellation or major delay in case of a technical problem is a safety risk. So is having a sick or tired pilot if there's no substitute.,1
"Hi FawkesHeart. Thank you for participating in /r/Politics. However, has been removed for the following reason(s):","The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.",0
"Pretty much. Does this make Ergodan ""less of a bad person""? Fuck no. Does the fact that he's a jackass mean that this must not be a genuine opinion that he has? Fuck no. Who cares whether it's an actual belief or something he's saying for political clout? It changes nothing about Turkey itself either way.",You would if you know about Turkey. You wouldn't if you don't and your only knowledge is it's a Muslim majority country. I think even if we had good news internationally a lot of people would have the same reaction to this news.,1
We only make basic steel. Mild steel grades. Higher value added specialty steels is not our forte. That is the reason why a country like Japan has same volume output but double in terms of value addition.,"India will expand but with domestic consumption as prime focus. We are improving. For ex, we are almost an export hub for automobile manufacturing now. India has been able to develop grades reqd for automotive industry. It's an entire eco system that needs to grow and evolve. But China is so far ahead, it's futile to even think of competing at this point.",0
"Instead of humbly accepting the Ukrainian military's Cross of Merit, Chernyavsky handed it right back to the president.","Instead of humbly accepting the Ukrainian military's Cross of Merit, Chernyavsky handed it right back to the president.",1
Solzhenitsyn further alleged that the theory that the Holodomor was a genocide which only victimized the Ukrainian people was created decades later by believers in an anti-Russian form of extreme Ukrainian nationalism. Solzhenitsyn also cautioned that the ultranationalists' claims risked being accepted without question in the West due to widespread ignorance and misunderstanding there of both Russian and Ukrainian history”.,Actually the dude who wrote the Gulag Archipelago didn’t think it was genocide targeting the Ukrainians specifically but rather cruel and poorly implemented Soviet policy that did not spare Russia either.,0
Onion is one of the things I never thought of growing in the garden because I could get them cheaply and in large quantities.,"I can buy a kg of half rotten locally farm grown onions for $1.5 ... (even the ones that look ok, still smell rotten.. usually won't last more than 2-3 days).",1
True... IF you live in a Western country. It's crazy how you're replying to someone talking about Western bias and you're literally just repeating the same biases back like it's an argument.,"Are you aware that you're basically just arguing my point for me? Yes there are many countries, factions, and moving pieces in Africa. Many factors affecting the risk of famine. The war in Ukraine is just one of these factors and not nearly the biggest one. Thank you for agreeing with me.",0
He can be stopped without starting a nuclear war. It's a strategy called containment and is what the US used against the USSR. Starting a nuclear war will result in a destroyed world. It's a dumb strategy.,"The Iron Dome currently protects a tiny country against primitive rockets. Creating a system that can protect a country as big as Ukraine from modern, sophisticated missiles and drones is a much more difficult and expensive task.",0
I doubt that any will actually be sent if they send any and when Ukrainian forces destroy them it would literally tank the commercial value of it for export never mind the first one they capture would likely mean the West will see how advanced the Armata is and not just the numbers the Russians put out.,"The morale and propaganda hit that losing their most prized and state of the art tank to the Ukrainians would be too much to risk it in vulnerable offensive roles when they still have thousands of T-72s and T-80s in storage they can quickly repair, modernize, and use for offensive operations if they must.",1
"Totally true as DeSantis barely won his first election in FL. If Trump had not endorsed him, fair to say a number of the faithful would not have shown up to vote.",DeSantis is scared enough of Trump supporters that he won't run if Trump runs. No one can really as Trump has enough supporters that no one can challenge him in the GOP was we saw with last election. Trump is the kingmaker within the GOP.,0
"ya i don’t think low unemployment is the win they are claiming it is- if so many people can’t really afford to live/have access to basic needs, what’s the fucking point ?","Unemployment is not the same as Underemployment (not measured), wherein People are working but not able to support themselves on their income.",1
"The US will absolutely not allow Kurdistan to be attacked by Iran under any circumstances. In any case, this would be disastrous to Iran, who would immediately be faced with Kurdish resistance like they’ve never seen before.","If Iran hostilely attacks Iraq, specifically Iraqi Kurdistan, I propose that the Iraqi’s and Kurd’s band together, to declare total Kurdish Independence from Iran.",1
"P.s. Germany, china, turkey and Netherlands have been the largest importers of energy from Russia from Feb to nov. India is 5th on this list.",According to your site India is the third largest importer in the last month and is above every other EU nation. Throw in the fact that EU just implemented a oil price cap and it becomes clear that India will soon make up a very larte part of the Russian export market.,1
"Can I ask if you’re a woman or mother? It can take between 6-10 weeks (or more) to truly recover physically from birth especially C section and I wonder if you could comment on gender norms about care and household chores, wondering if those wouldn’t factor into their decisions to seek respite elsewhere. Any idea how long somewhere like say, Samsung might offer for NBP parental leave? Is it considered a bad career move to actually take that leave? I know at least in Japan taking ur vacation is pretty much frowned on.","The report I saw was from a Korean woman living in Korea but this is an interesting perspective. What I understand is you’re sort of saying it’s like the plastic surgery phenomenon, where a cultural norm has taken hold and it’s a manufactured “need”. Interesting that there is a false racialized narrative about women’s bodies, western women are victims of a similar campaign that has led to inappropriate over-medicalization of birth mostly due to corporate greed.",0
"Each state should send a single elector, who presents the number of votes each candidate got in that state. One person, one vote.","It’s not as a vote it’s self is different than any other vote. It’s more of a concentrated areas. I think the above person gave the examples of California, New York, Texas, and somewhere else. So let’s say I’m running a national election for president. I could easily see a world where candidates make promises for economic aid package. Is it fever only those areas in order to carry the vote. And there’s a natural disaster in North Dakota. Why are you even sign off on a FEMA a package so you’re gonna lose any votes up there but when it hits a population center can you make sure they get money up the butt. I just woke up. I’m trying to piece it together. does that make sense?",1
What kind of qualificaiton is that? Fox news is the most watched news source in the world. Ignoring all sources that aren't partisan is just ignoring all persuasive news media period.,"I dont get why someone would be so steadfast that free press didn't help trump, especially in the face of direct evidence to the contrary.",0
"Ekaterina Shulman recently quoted something like 17k cases of the Russian government paying widows the promised money for their husbands killed in the conflict, and that's naturally only the cases which were so obvious even the government couldn't deny payment, plus this number most likely doesn't include the losses from dnr, lnr, pmc Wagner etc.","And seeing how very bad Russian medical support is, far worse ratios than 1:4 or 1:3 dead:wounded can be expected.",0
"My friend showed up to our games session last night having to walk through it from home and had some bloody hands and knee from being knocked down. Another friend saw some police brutality. Lots of interesting videos being shared of people chanting, yelling, and lots of police in force.",I have never in my life seen people in china pull people from police and shout about having the CCP step down.,1
"Umm. I’m not sure which one of us is misunderstanding something, but if the voter turnout is 50%, the percent of PiS supporters who voted drops to 15%, because proportions.","According to practically all polls, PiS may technically ""win"" elections, but they won't get a supermajority like they used to. That'll be a huge problem for them, because ZP/PiS had effectively made all other major options their enemies.",1
It gives them the ability to launch missiles with a huge kinetic advantage at Russian planes in that area of the country you mention.,What a few western aircraft provide is the ability to use Western air-to-air missiles. They can now counter the Russian air patrols and to deny Ukrainian airspace to Russian aircraft.,1
"For a country that suffered under tyranny more than twice, you have to be surprised at Austria being such wankers about this.","Austria suffered under tyranny? Twice? They participated in Nazism more than anything, the idea of Austria as part of a Greater Germany was popular in the interwar years.",1
"Thats all well and good, but excusing apathy because of it has serious ""white people are only voting for fascists because of economic anxiety"" energy.","By the way, most marginalized communities do not stand by and not vote because they think white people are only voting fascists. They don’t pay much energy to people who are currently voting but instead look inwardly at their own generational situations and think ‘if things have been the same for us since my grandfather or my great-grandfather’s time, then why should I vote?’.",1
A lot of Hispanics are social conservatives and the loud chanting by the progressives on everything they believe just shows a large portion of Hispanics how different they are from them.,it’s always so honest and devoid of right wing talking point arguments that ignore the actual prevalence of racism and the fact that the right is so tied to white supremacy that it will absolutely turn on latino and hispanic voters the second it becomes expedient!,1
"Only far-right religious zealots believe that. Unfortunately,some things are beyond our control, and in order to reverse the withdraw, the US would've had to send tends of thousands of troops in because the Taliban was already signalling that they were tired of waiting an were about to mount an offensive.","THey effectively made a deal with the taliban, gutted forces and then at every opportunity blocked and stalled attempts to bring in every Afghan who helped the US military with information, translation or any other services. thousands and thousands of people who would be targets for torture and killing and made it near impossible to withdraw them by the dates set.",1
"U.S.A. is way more fascist in its social fabric ( pledge of allegiance in classroom, overblown military-industrial complex, relentless mobilization against the external enemy of the day e.g. the communists, the Muslims, the Chinese etc. ) than present-day Italy.",So you’re Italian. Then you know that she’s a fucking fascist in the direct spirit of Mussolini and that they have been growing in influence and power in Italian politics recently.,1
was a CAPTAIN assigned to the 4th division at Fort Bragg. This is part of a special operations unit.,"I realize this might be a coping mechanism from some of you, to reduce fear or anxiety about the future. But it would be a GRAVE mistake to underestimate these people.",0
"I mean the corruption is affecting the war, it isn’t as if resources aren’t being co-opted by these corrupt officials that can be used to fuel the war effort.",That corruption is literally killing his countrymen fighting on the ground by depriving them of the equipment and resources they need. I think he would have the backing of his people to do whatever he needs to do to get that under control.,0
"Hell myself I'm a supporter of setting up a safezone within Ukraine, manned by NATO which wouldnt require training Ukrainians.","Ehm with the Iris-T system and the Gepards, Germany is already one if not the top country that seriously support the security of Ukrainian airspace. A Patriot system will be coming soon too, along with one from the USA.",1
What's the point of a voting system that gives you absolute majority power on 43% of the vote if you can't use that power to force others to make you money???!,And? That will never happen. Who is going to organize it? How are they going to convince all or even most police to sign on? And how are you going to keep it secret before it's ready to go off? How is that cop going to avoid being fired before the strike ever happens?,1
"They certainly implied it by posting it as a response to an article specifically talking about a Christian-led protest petition. And enough people insist that the US is a Christian nation that I hope you can understand why, as a non-Christian, I'm quick to point out that no, Americans are not all Christian, when it seems someone is going that way.","There is a sizable contingent of progressive or at least anti-theocratic Christians in the U.S., but as another user put it we're thousands among millions.",1
A “good relationship” with China is bowing down and doing what it asks you lest you incur its wrath and tantrum.,"Maybe China can fuck off and leave us alone, then we can talk diplomacy. Yeah, let's go and have some diplomacy when facists have a gun to our heads. Great idea.",1
Thats what they're referring to. During the Korean war Russia sent their own pilots to fly with and train in.,"During the Korean War, the USSR had ‘volunteer’ pilots fly jets while the North Koreans and Chinese learned. I’m pretty sure there are more than a few retired Western pilots willing to ‘volunteer’ despite all the risk.",1
"Yeah I mean again, and really trying to not sound condescending here but the point of a protest isn't necessarily to achieve anything, it's about raising your voice and protesting something.","It's kind of like playing dumb and being a smug asshole towards people taking part in this protest. It won't cause Russia to immediately and magically win the war, but in a small way it actively contributes towards it by making fun of people opposing them.",1
There's a very clear tradeoff I've already outlined. Open now in best case scenario where everyone is 100% vaccinated with best vaccines and you still lose 40k people.,"The CCP: Why should we spend money on vaccines for people who won't live long? Also, we have a population problem. This will get rid of the old and sick who are taking up space and using resources while contributing nothing to the country. As an added bonus, the younger generation will inherit and they always spend like crazy, so the money gets back into circulation faster! How can we lose?",1
"You personally might, but when you say “condemn this war” you’re still missing the point. You’re supposed to condemn the imperial country attacking their neighbor for no good reason. Condemning just the war is the official stance of India: blaming Ukraine for Russia attacking it.","Yes, the next Indo-Pak war will see many more countries siding with Pakistan bc of India's disasterous foreign policy since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.",1
"People living in 23 regions across Tokyo and local commuter hotspots will be eligible for the relocation money, according to a press release from the Kyodo news agency. The financial support is expected to be in place during the financial year of 2023.","The move comes as authorities attempt to disperse the dense populations in Japan’s metropolitan areas, improve declining birth rates and diversify aging populations in more rural areas.",0
"The Democratic party takes hand outs from the wealthy and connected too, and inequality is also an act of violence. But this was just killing as a means to an end. Mafia level shit from the highest office in the land.","Same party that rallies around ""law and order, family and 'Christian' values, 'pro-life,' and 'government is the problem'."".",0
"That part is kind of false on authoritarian nations: on Qatar, the money belongs to the Emir to do whatever he want. There's no such thing as ""stealing billions from tax payers"" because it does not belong to the public in the first place. It's a nation with an owner, if you live there, you are a subject, not a citizen.","In part, this is why authoritarian nations had a edge against democracies to win international bids: they can bribe their way to victory with impunity. On democracies, to do the same requires sophisticated money laundering schemes, getting around auditing, undercut control institutions, etc... and people may get arrested.",0
[Edit after the above person's edit: It appears that this is actually an enrollment correction which are sometimes approved by both chambers and sometimes not. Yay.].,Not separate - They just voted 221-207 (3 R joining all D) to pass . It orders the clerk to amend the leave-less resolution to instead have 7 days paid leave. That is what will go to the Senate. .,0
"The defeat, or rather the average result, of the Republicans at the Midterms sounds like a warning signal with two years to go before the presidential election: the Trump brand is no longer a winner.","Donald Trump was not on the ballot this week for Republican leadership races in Congress, but in several key spots the proxy candidates espousing his approach to politics dealt the ex-president another losing hand.",1
"There's also ÖİV, ""Special Communications Tax"" which was originally the ""earthquake tax"" that was supposed to disappear at 2002, but still exist and is a blanket tax for anything cellular or wireless communication at 10%.","""Minister of Treasury Şimşek said that the collected tax was used for health system, education, ""median separated roads""(or highways if you will) and railroads. After-all it is asset of/for 74 million citizens. On top of ""earthquake tax"" there's ÖTV\1 etc that was made permanent. You say ""you collected 44 billion liras in tax, where has it gone?"". We spend 44 billion liras in a year alone for our citizens health. It goes towards highways, railroads, airlines, farmers and education"".",0
The thing is that there was a similar shift among black voters though not quite as large as among latino voters toward the GOP in 2022 from 2018.,"This is where everyone stumbles on the Latino vote, it's very dependent on who you're talking about.",1
"Of course, compared to something like coal plants, wind energy is less emmissive. But compared to other renewable sources such as hydro, nuclear (technically not renewable, but so effecient that it may aswell be), and even solar. Wind energy is just horribly space inefficient, resource intensive, and damaging to surrounding landscapes and wildlife.","Wind energy is not very environmentally friendly, considering the significant waste they produce in replacement parts and lubrication.",0
"one would think that a democratic country would release people when they can't find proof of wrongdoing, even if detained without charge, but guess that's too high of a bar.","Yeah, sure couldn't let them go free due to breaking international law in detaining and torturing them, after all. Gotta keep them somewhere we can keep torturing them for information.",1
"It's the middle of February. This summer and all summers to come are going to be unbearable. We are past the point of ""when"" and into the ""now"". Global warming and the effects its going to have on the planet are being seen every year with increasing intensity and its only going to get worse.",There's been very light snow in NYC this year. And only a couple times at that. We used to get feets of snow to where I'd wake up in the morning to watch the news to see if schools were closed.,0
This is what I’m trying to figure out. What’s the actual grievance? What has Biden or whoever done or not done in the eyes of the right in regards to this disaster?,"Incorrect. While I agree with you that shutting down that strike was wrong, this incident wouldn’t have been prevented with increased sick leave. It happened because the rail companies are using fewer workers and longer, less adequately manned trains. The strike didn’t address that issue, it addressed a symptom of it. It wouldn’t have stopped rail companies from running the trains the way they do.",0
"Their main goal is to lift these sanctions, but they can’t because the international community knows- If North Korea is able to prosper- they are aggressive as fuck and have no trust. They won’t cooperate with the world, and will develop weapons that threaten world. So we send them aid when they rattle their sabers but they know and we know if they did anything- they’d be wiped out.",And it also provides a scapegoat to the fact north koreas economy is in shambles due to the sanctions on their country for many years.,0
"In a country with such a diverse population, I'm sure it is very common for people to speak two or more languages.",There are plenty of people who speak the same language who grow in different cultures and have different experiences. A native Spanish speaker in Argentina experiences a vastly different culture than a Mexican or a Spaniard.,1
"He’s hoping Russia can pay China in oil and in return China will settle the transactions in Yuan so that Russia can buy munitions. China isn’t going to do it. If they do, the US/EU will cut off their market access and do some crazy shit like exit WTO.",Absolutely not. This is a monumental misunderstanding of Chinese foreign policy. The minute China pays Russia in Yuan for oil and NG is the minute the US and EU sanction China. Over 50% of the export market. It would be disastrous to the Chinese economy.,0
"- On March 7, 2022, Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida declared that the southern Kurils are ""a territory peculiar to Japan, a territory in which Japan has sovereignty."".","- On June 7, 2022, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced Russia's intent to cancel a 1998 agreement with Japan allowing Japanese fishermen to operate near the southern Kuril Islands, claiming that Japan is not meeting the financial obligations outlined in the agreement.",0
The difference being Mueller didn’t have the power to indict and prosecute anyone without approval from the DOJ. This order gives the special counsel that power.,We have already had a special council. We have had two impeachments. We have had a Jan 6th committee. We have had a DoJ investigation. We have had several NY state investigations. We have a GA state investigation.,1
I think what people miss is that parents are going to send their kids where they think they will be safe and get a good education and restricting their choices to underperforming public schools or expensive private ones is unfair and counterproductive.,"Not only that they're more than often managing students more than teaching, and on top of that even with higher pay teachers avoid those schools like the plague and the quality of education becomes worse and worse.",1
"I'm honestly not entirely sure. Kansas is conservative overall, but more traditional conservative rather than the current definition. I think the idea that balance creates good results is appealing, and that probably plays a part. I also imagine there's a lot of conservative leaning moderates in the state that will vote for either party based on what the current needs of the state are.","For sure, and that's even with efforts from our legislature last election redrawing the districts to heavily favor Republicans.",1
"Nothing new... it's been going on for years.. Putin eliminates those that get in the way... mysterious deaths , sudden heart attacks , bogus charges , falling out of windows "" accidently "" who in their right mind believe any of their concocted lies.",The Kremlin is steeped in corruption and paranoia . The russian citizens live in fear never knowing what will happen in their evil police state Utopia.,0
"I think Putin never seriously planned for the contingency that he wouldn't steamroll Ukraine in a few days. And potentially unpopular opinion, I think Putin was really close to winning.","To be fair, dictatorships have changed somewhat. Instead of your early 20th century chest of medals, inform on neighbors, and kill the opposition blunt clubs, modern dictators have controlled opposition and political processes that mimic democracy and subtle walled-garden media ecosystems that try to keep their people occupied with manufactured controversies and pervasive and repetitive messaging using paid volunteers, bots, and algorithmic manipulation. The modern dictator, instead of gulaging pro-democracy activists or bloggers spreading sunshine on corrupt dealings, sends friendly people to visit dissident's homes to ask them to stop spreading rumors and make them feel watched, has flexible laws and pocket judges so there is always a crime if needed, and uses organic looking rumor mills and patriotic volunteers who fill every conversation about Dissident X with ""he shouldn't have been breaking the law. He doesn't seem so good. How can he afford to take so much time off of work? Sounds like he reads too much foreign propaganda. Is he paid by CIA?"".",0
"So basically everyone will just watch the disaster unfold with fascination, rant a lot and secretly relief that we are not over there (except those affected).",what climate challenge? The trash mountain is killing people a lot faster than how it affects climate change. The climate challenge is a lot less relevant than those who are being poisoned right now.,0
"As for pre-determined, yes, votes are whipped before hand, that has nothing to do with whether or not the senators are voting the way they think.","I’m guessing a number of other Republican Senators would want to come out in support of this, but they can’t without sinking themselves.",1
Ironic. Why do right-wing bots spend their time spamming sports stuff that nobody gives a shit about? I mean look at all your worthless submissions nobody cared about. I feel like you are the guy to ask.,"No, that guy's right. Look at how dumb the average person has become where they can only acknowledge propaganda of one side as actual propaganda. Not like the crimes you mentioned aren't sad, they're just overshadowed by the manipulation people accept and rejoice in because it fits what they think they should believe.",1
The rise of Japanese fascism in the 20’s can be directly linked to economic turmoil that created a nationalist fervor among the peasant class which made up the core of the military and many of its officers.,"U.S.A. is way more fascist in its social fabric ( pledge of allegiance in classroom, overblown military-industrial complex, relentless mobilization against the external enemy of the day e.g. the communists, the Muslims, the Chinese etc. ) than present-day Italy.",1
The firm producing the syrup is not really very important to indian Pharma industry but WHO itself contradicts in its own report that all medicines have complied with safety limits of WHO. While i hate the fact this conversation includes the death of kids but WHO needs to clarify how has it put the blame on medicine. Indian officials in health ministry are asking WHO to submit investigation report which WHO is not doing.,Indian officials are asking for the tests and reports which show that syrup is responsible which WHO is not issuing.,0
True. I guess we really can't say if anything was net good or net bad until we are out of it. What sounds bad for Russia now might just be bad for everyone given some time if it means they are finally passing the threshold of not caring about being perceived as aggressive.,"Exactly. All I see is that China has just been ""handed"" an ultimatum that ensures no peace unless Russia controls Ukraine. They now have justification for escalation and can say ""well, we would have preferred Plan A but you guys all saw how that worked out, so we had to change course"".",0
"A lot of times the politicians are bigots, sometimes they are not. Mostly they just like power and it is easy to have power when you are preaching (intentional word choice) against a minority. This group is not a physical threat to you because they have fewer numbers than your group. Cavemanath 101.","The important thing is why people giggle. Well, I don't know, but I perceive this is because society in many countries has gotten to the point where people accept LGBT folks(there is a lot of room to improve, mind you). So when they giggle, people are really thinking "" wow, that dude is a liar"" rather than, ""that dude is gay, screw him"".",0
"yeah he will want to sell to others, but china and india both have extracted a large discount from russia and this price cap will give them even more leverage going forward. remember, both would absolutely love to pay less for oil, and can make a nice excuse about 'well we WANT to give you more money vladmir, but see we have to buy our own insurance now and our own tankers, so you know... higher costs means lower prices.'.","putin can't stop selling. oil wells are very unlike most other things in that you really can't just stop extraction - if you do, it's incredibly costly to get things running up again. and oil is expensive to store around. so russia has to sell at capped prices if that's all they can get, cuz making a lil profit is far better than losing a ton of money.",0
For whatever reason recently moderates generally end up winning on the left side for primaries for national/large elections.,Most centrists would do better in a national election than the primary. But you have to win the primary first. This goes triply+ for the current GOP.,0
Most of them are career professionals that could see what would happen if a bunch of goons and cronies took over. They stayed to keep the wheels on the bus but they had to follow orders to stay. It's gotta be a nightmare filling in the brain drain that happened during trump and I can't imagine they've finished making up for the centuries of collective experience lost under trump.,trump was being hounded after his June 1st attack on protesters to call in the military to kill the 1st amendment. Milley came out and said the military wouldn't be used for political purposes.,0
"On top of this, they've (the Chinese state media) recently changed their whole covid angle and now say that long covid isn't scientifically substantiated and that covid isn't that bad in general. Which goes against their whole stance over the past 3 years, but it is a good distraction instead of people realising that zero covered was an illogical, political power play. (Specifically xi jinping's zero covid-19 idea failed).","Zero COVID was never a viable strategy. You can't eradicate COVID just like you can't eradicate the common cold, so I won't criticize China for attempting to reopen, but what led to the reopening is ludicrous. China had the chance to be in sync with the rest of the world by importing better vaccines and reopening in a more gradual and smooth manner, but it sabotaged itself with propaganda and its own hubris. China put so much effort into politicizing the pandemic and giving itself the credit for being the best country in handling the pandemic, but now, it is forced to follow the global trend anyways, only to be several steps behind the rest of the world. Xi Jinping still won't accept western vaccines for China, which will only extend the upcoming surge in the spread of the virus within China.",1
"Not only was it pretty intriguing and a good concept, but it also highlights this exact scenario pretty (what I think) accurately!","So many ""Christians"" would be gunning for him, labelling a terrorist or worse. The other half would be trying to figure out how to make a profit off him. (There's a prophet/profit joke in here somewhere, lol!).",0
"But how that happens would come down to the state legislatures under ISL, and republicans have total control (both state house and state senate) in 30 out of 50 state legislatures.",There's no question that Republicans would far prefer to be able to override the popular vote via state legislatures than avoid some bad PR by allowing that to be legal.,1
"That being said, it's also a great time to modernize and spend, as public support is really high (see what I said above) , so there's not going to be a better time than now... With the added bonus of also propping up your own industry and add with that thetechnology transfer etc. It's kind of a no brainer.","Russia occupied Poland for 50 years. Everyone there remembers that, and wants no part to bringing that filth back! Also, the last time Poland relied on its allies to come to our rescue... Well... Go read about that yourself, it's called ""the western betrayal"". So Poland is well aware, historically, that it can only really rely on itself.",0
"There may be some confusion with the name Cherokee Nation here. The Treaty of New Echota was made between the US government and ""the Cherokee Nation"". But that was the united Cherokee Nation which was abolished as an entity by the government around 1900. The modern ""Cherokee Nation"" is a later institutional creation which does not consist of all Cherokees or even all Cherokee tribal institutions (hence the United Keetoowah Band and the Eastern Band existing as their own separate things). Since New Echota was between the US and the Cherokee in general as a united people, it doesn't necessarily legally make sense to assume that the modern creation of the Cherokee Nation inherits the seat as opposed to the broader Cherokee people in general which would be inclusive of the other two tribes too.","While seating the delegate selected by the Cherokee Nation would grant increased representation, it would not give American Indians representation as a whole because the US government recognizes 574 tribes. The State of Alaska has the most recognized tribes with 231.",1
"""It was a significant incident because it convinced Hitler that the Russian Bear was a tame beast indeed."".",This. Top notch night vision gear for Ukraine is much more of a priority and advantage than a lot of people recognize. So is great winter gear and training so the Finns are offering a very important support to Ukraine that may not be as sexy to most people involved in reporting and media but experienced war correspondents will know.,1
"If teams boycott in advance they can always be replaced, if they did it right as play is about to start than fifa will be left with nothing. Sponsors will be FURIOUS with fifa, they would sue fifa and probably wouldn't sponsor future fifa events.",Without the clubs releasing their players (their employees) FIFA doesn't really exist. FIFA would barely be able to organise any global tournament worthy of the name.,1
"Oh I know, and maybe the Dems can rile up enough hate for sinema that they can take the seat back. I'm mostly pointing out the reason sinema decided to come out as an independent is because she was completely fucked as a candidate if she remained a dem.",Republicans will win the seat if sinema splits moderate/dem leaning voters with any other candidate.,0
"Out of 46 election in U.S history, only 10 president that was not reelected. If anything it better for democrats to put their hope on biden than undermine him.",Is this because trump is likely the nominee and Biden has a chance to beat trump again and not other democrat candidates? Did Biden say just couple weeks ago that he would not run again?,1
"Well if the President used the means at his disposal to ""protect the capital"" without giving any notice or being formally invited to do so, then that could be seen as the executive branch interfering with the legislative branch.",I'm interested in why you say it is defeatist conjecture rather than recognizing it to be a statement under oath by a person who was working in the executive branch at the time.,1
"The US killed hundreds of thousands of civilians with chemical weapons, and caused serious illness in millions more.",Hundreds of thousands of citizens were killed in Iraq; perhaps more than a million citizens in total.,0
Part of the reason most white collar criminals are placed into low security prisons is because those prisons are CHEAPER per inmate.,"TBH, no sensible government would waste $$$ putting an almost certainly nonviolent inmate in a high security prison.",0
"A non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?","What actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.",0
"My point is that while religion has been the source of many bad things history; there's overwhelming evidence that humanity can be extremely evil, with or without it. And the evidence goes even further to suggest that religion is less of a factor.",Evidence suggests that we could be better off without religion. It also shows we are capable of devastating evil without it as well.,0
"The President has the right to dissolve congress, under the constitution. That's what snap-elections are.","President calls snap election, then gets arrested. Western media immediately support new un-elected government...",0
"Oh man, been there done that with the whole Jerusalem burning thing lol. If im not mistaken the Bible actually says its got one final torching in it before the end times.","As he predicted the destruction of the Temple, Jesus described it as the end of the age. He absolutely predicted the end of Judaism in the Olivet Discourse, if you care to look. While the Romans did indeed see it as punishing a Jewish rebellion, their part was to fulfill a prophecy Jesus had made a generation earlier. The fulfillment of prophecy is a proof of divinity.",1
"Russia shoots missiles over Belarus at Ukraine, Ukraine anti air shoots to intercept than Belarus possibly intercepts calls it an attack, sends mass troops to reinforce border before crossing.",Belarus is in no position to complain when Ukraine missiles land in Belarus as long as Belarus allow Russia to use Belarus as a base to send drones andcmissiles into Ukraine and invade Ukraine. Ukraine should be able to attack any Russian Military in Belarus.,1
"They will try but with Democratic Senate protecting US, it is only the Debt Limit vote that gives them any leverage.","Doubt any of the GOP/MAGA agenda gets done, written into law, since Democrats control the Senate and White House.",0
"It’s not that politicians moving into private sector is bad, it’s the corruption that comes from politicians listening more to the private sector future jobs than their current elected/appointed one. The solution is far simpler (if not easy), it involves an active, educated electorate that votes out politicians who seem more in bed with corporate interests than their constituents.",Having people in government who have reason and means to create rules for our country that benefit corporations over the people seems like a threat to democracy to me.,1
That was a big reason but it is my understanding the much bigger issue is the cheap Chinese tires they use for all of their vehicles. Tires which aren't rated anywhere near the necessary standards to support the weight they were expected to carry.,"It's such a tossup these days. It's really hard to say anymore. I left Ukraine out because I simply don't think they have the capacity to beat any of those I listed on their own merits. They're repelling a Russian invasion with huge support from NATO, sure. But on their own, their nation and military just aren't that great. Repelling an invasion with international support and winning a conventional war on your own are two entirely different things. Lastly, and very much importantly, nukes.",0
The best part about this is the Insurrection Caucus members are totally seeing through this blatant vote-buying from McCarthy with a healthy dose of skepticism.,"'Oh really? You're able to give all of us ALL the committee assignments we all want? You'll understand if we don't believe you, so we're going to need some insurance that allows us to tie up business if you end up trying to fuck us over.'.",0
"And I'm sure I'll get obliterated for even asking, but can someone explain to me why it's such a big deal for everyone to get vaccinated for COVID? (I got the vaccine as early on as possibly FWIW) They originally said you couldn't get or transmit COVID once vaccinated, so it made sense. But once both of those things proved to be untrue, doesn't it just become a personal choice at that point?","And I don't think I misunderstood that quote. You can read the entire exchange from the official whitehouse.gov transcript. I don't understand why both things can't be true. The vaccines are a good thing and people shouldn't be afraid of them, but at the same time many people in positions of power, the President included, made false claims about it to reduce vaccine hesitancy and push people to get it.",0
If I were cynical I'd say that these are picked because they're all states that reliably vote for Third Way candidates because they can't have a repeat of 2020 where a progressive almost won.,Allowing states that will never swing for Democrats in a general election to have an outsized influence over the candidate that Democrats select for that election is political malpractice.,1
"The reason it says it’s a win for democrats is because it was literally a win for one side of the case, which was the Georgia Democratic Party.","The story at its core is about a Democratic plaintiff and a Republican defendant, the former of whom won. I think it should be up to the reader to draw conclusions about whether that is healthy for democracy. You and I both came to the same conclusion, but it was supported by the same hard facts.",0
"- The kind of renewable energy considered here cannot be easily aligned with the demand, because of its transient nature.","- To re-align renewable energy production with grid demand, or to increase the share of renewable in the energy mix, the renewable energy needs to be stored which isn't a solved problem at scale.",0
"Also, Donald Trump didn't refuse to release his taxes. If he ran in 16 saying, ""Fuck you that's none of your business,"" that would be refusing. He said he would and then made excuses for why he wouldn't.",You could make the argument that Congress was just helping Trump fulfill one of his campaign promises.,0
Then we get to see what the effects on ocean salinity are and how much the newly exposed land contributes to global warming.,"I think the fear is that once Thwaites is gone it's no longer supporting these half mile high walls of ice from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The physics of ice, as we've modeled it, indicates that this wall of ice will collapse, which exposes a new wall which collapses, exposing a new wall, etc.",0
Export Abrams have already ended up all over the place (largely because the Saudis are as bad at combined arms as the Russians). The export models never have the good stuff for this reason.,They're not export models. The US is really stingy about the classified armor used in every modern domestic Abrams tanks and won't include that in any that are sold abroad. Doesn't seem like they want to make an exception here.,1
Right? Kevin McCarthy is going to go insane trying to corrall whiny over-priviliged asshats like Gaetz and Greene and Gosar. I wish him the best worst.,"I generally don't go in for this kind of thing, but I think Democrats should totally give McCarthy a run for his money and put it through multiple votes just to fuck with him.",0
"I wouldn't really call Belge French a dialect of French. It's too similar to mainline French, and is really more just a regional accent. Some people can have really heavy accents, like my grandparents, and there are a lot of local idiosyncrasies, but it's not much different than, say, a heavy Canadian English accent and a Southern US accent.","Walloon is a separate language. It is a descendent from Langue d'Oil, so a cousin to French. But it isn't a dialect, and is not mutually intelligible. Walloons are the dominant French-speakers in Belgium, and have lost most of their Walloon.",0
"like, can I get some context please? why is germany blocking brazil from exporting weapons to the philippines just because they don't want to send military equipment to a conflict they have no relation to?",If Brazil doesn't want Germany dictating who they can export to they should stop signing contracts with Germany to buy systems to put in said exports saying Germany has to approve all exports of those systems.,1
"because his parents are highly invested in the Democratic Party and it was a very bad story for them when this guy was stealing people's money and donating it to the Dems? obviously, that's a bad look, and it's very easy for him to come out and counter that with ""oh yeah, donated to the republicans too just can't tell you or show you where or how lol"".","if you can't see why this is a suspicious statement by him without any further evidence/proof, then you're pretty hard into the koolaid. i'm not saying it's impossible, i'm just saying it's convenient, and it doesn't make much sense.",0
"Biden visiting is bigger I think, because the US is not only showing solidarity but swinging its diplomatic weight around knowing Russia can't or won't do anything about it.","In fact, I can totally see Russia temporarily stops any attack around where Biden is just to make sure they don't accidentally end up being in a total war with the U.S.",1
"That's because the only GOP policy is ""do whatever is the opposite of the democrats and damn the consequences."" It has been for a long time. Republicans would be all for single payer healthcare in a heartbeat if the Democratic parts suddenly was against it. If Democrats were smart, they would just set their policy to the opposite of whatever they actually wanted to do.","Eh, the XM5 and XM250 aren't deployed yet. They won't start getting their shipments until Q4 of next year. Even when they do, it will take time for it to become standard across all units. JSOC and active duty infantry will get them first, then combat arms, armor, and MPs will get them, then they will go out to the rest of active units, then the national guard will get them, then training units will get them, then the Marines will finally get them once there are gently used ones available for purchase. There are training battalions still training on the M16 even though the M4 has been standard issue for years. I guess we could send the thousands upon thousands of rifles sitting in warehouses to Ukraine, but the military still needs a lot of them while they wait for the new ones.",0
"It’s not an obsession, it’s just calling people like you out. It’s really nothing more. Things have devolved so much, most of you won’t pay attention to anything unless it dealigns with your perverted sense of politics, let alone acting how you are somehow now noble. It’s really nothing more, I hate Musk, never used twitter, voted dem and progressive my whole life. It’s really just calling out a hollowness that allows lies to build. No more, no less. Twitter always sucked, and your’re getting rage baited into headlines to push ad revenue, that you would never get if someone else owned it and did the same things.","Twitter’s response reads more like a “oh, shit, people don’t like what we did” attempt at public relations damage control. The original interpretation—that it was intentionally removed—seems more likely. Or even just that it was mistakingly disabled due to a bug. But taking it down to revamp it? That’s probably the least-likely explanation.",1
"Here I disagree. With the sam threat no one is sending out their jets at high altitude to perform air to air. Best case would be firing aim120s on some of the Russian stuff firing cruise missles, but don't think they get cleared to hit them in Belarusian /Russian airspace.",Both Ukrainian F-16s and any Russian airframes flying at medium or higher altitudes are going to get shot down by air defenses.,1
"In any case, even just plain logic is enough to see that there wasn't any fraud: assuming that PT frauded the elections when Bolsonaro and his minions were in power and very openly using the public machine in their own favor means that it was possible for PT to fraud the election when he won in 2018. If it was possible for PT to fraud the elections they(and any person or entity with their sanity intact) would never have allowed Bolsonaro to be president in the first place.","Make no mistake, many of these supported Bolsonaro during his government and deserve A LOT of criticism, but unlike the GOP a majority of the right-wing in Brazil is firmly against these terrorists and accepts the election results. This is also true for many of the right-wing (such as the speaker of the house) and center-right parties (such as the governor of Rio Grande do Sul) - even though they're formally opposition to Lula's government, they're all against the terrorists, in favour of the democratic process and ready to condemn Bolsonaro's cult.",1
"and it was Greece the peninsula, not Geerce the nation. That was born, ironically, because of the extreme hellenophilia from the west, especially England, that fuelled nationalism and greek identity in Greece in the modern era.","The concept of Greek nationhood was a very real idea when the Elgin Marbles were taken, hell there were several active revolts trying for independence decades beforehand in the 1700s. Acting like the Greek nation-state is centuries off and not something that was actively being pursued by the majority of Greeks when the Marbles were taken is disingenuous.",1
Full decriminalization of it at the federal level requires congress. The steps Biden took were literally the first steps towards it and the first steps towards government funded research into it which is only a good thing.,A president does not have the ability to legalize or criminalize anything. That's the job of the legislative branch.,0
Better than induction or better than electric? Chefs are starting to use induction and like it because it is easier to control and clean up is quick. They also are reducing the heat in their kitchens and staff aren't betting burned.,"The truth is the attraction of gas is that people are used to it being better than coils, but induction is not coils.",0
"But it's also not equal still. Senate has the static rule of 2 senators per state, but the House is way off.","The House has numbers reflective of the number of people per state, while the Senate only has 2 each.",1
I find it Stange that this is not something tought here since to become a police officer you have to complete your 1 year of mandetory service in the millitary normaly you can also compleat it as a civil servant doing stuff like being a paramedic or caring for the elderly but to specificly become police you need to have served. Keeping that in mind you would think this makes police even more agresive but aparently it doesn't.,The people we want to become cops won't become cops because of the way we view the cops.. The only people left are the people we'd rather not have become cops.,1
"Well keeping it illegal just increases violence in the form of gangs and other nefarious people. If it was regulated then it would taxed and those funds could be used to treat people who have an addiction and it would decrease the amount of people in prison for possession. Locking people up for consuming drugs is assinine. Legalize it, regulate it and tax it.",Well that's what coke dealers do. They get the coke and cut it for more profit. If it was legal then you could get the primo stuff and not have to worry about overdosing on some adulterated coke.,0
"My point was that it isn't as simple as ""Iran would get stomped"" as if they have no capcity to retaliate. They very much do. Both Iran and Israel should be cautious here.","And despite all, we know Israel would get further help from USA anyway, even if they can handle Iran with their own strenght.",1
"He strikes me as a guy who I can have disagreements with but still respect. I personally don’t think originalism is the proper interpretive method for the Constitution, but I understand why Gorsuch does and I don’t think he’s inherently bad for the country the way Thomas and Alito and Barrett are.","And he also seems to actually be an originalist, which, again while I disagree with I can at least respect that he has a view and intelligently argues for it.",1
"But I'm sure that if even Republicans haven't been able to prove anything despite their willingness to bend and break reality, a congressional committee will for sure impeach Hunter! /s.",Tucker Carlson and Rudy Giuliani had the laptop contents for months before the 2020 election and it was such a nothingburger that Tucker Carlson put out a statement saying that he thought Giuliani was offering him bullshit.,0
"It's almost like she's mad that her party sees her as the weaker sex and is lashing out, using language that denigrates him in almost exactly the same ways conservatives and misogynists denigrate women.","It definitely seems like conservatives exhibit some kind of racial-sexual inferiority complex, and I think that's worth pointing out anytime ""cuck"" comes up.",0
"And here we are again. They can't do anything and now everyone is watching. Whoever gets the Democratic nomination for 24 be it Biden or the ketchup pack on my work desk, they'll sail into the presidency like butter on a hot skillet.",I mean this is just a continuation of the first half of the Trump presidency and by extension the last part of Obama's.,0
Same. Biden was not my choice in the primary but he's been doing a better job than I hoped so I'm not going to go disrespecting his eligibility to do the job now.,"Biden still isn't my pick to run in 2024, I'd rather have a senator, but they all need to stay where they are.",1
Are they? They seem more expensive to me. I'm not 100% sure. I was looking at eggs the other day and decided to just not get any because of the price.,One store I went to that has reasonable prices for eggs (all local farmers) was stripped clean of its eggs. Another store that is posting the price gouging was fully stocked and nobody was buying the eggs.,1
"""[The negroes'] servile instincts rendered them contented with their lot, and their patient toil blessed the land of their abode with unmeasured riches. Their strong local and personal attachment secured faithful service ... never was there happier dependence of labor and capital on each other."".","But i get your point. There is certainly a gradient. My core point - poorly expressed for sure - was that the usual assumptions that a candidate be on the right side of the bell curve of that gradient (Gohmert and the classical assumption that most congresspeople had law degrees) are fading as the left side of the curve ascend (Boebert, Cawthorn, Santos).",1
"Sherriffs are County Wide, they have jurisdiction over the entire county, all the villages and cities and Townships and unincorporated lands within that County. All the people arrested by local cops get sent to the County jails maintained by Sheriffs.",Sheriffs are usually elected and work for the County they are sheriffs of. Deputy sheriffs work under the elected sheriff and the county and are unelected.,1
Why can Congress force workers to work for lower wages and less sick days but can't pass legislation forcing companies to pay more and offer sick days?,I think both parties do NOT want to set any kind of precedent guaranteeing any workers PTO or sick days- if they give in to the railroad workers maybe the rest of America’s workers will demand the same.,1
"For sure, but the people who can't afford $25k for a car generally aren't the ones buying new cars in the first place (regardless of whether it's gas or EV), so the mandate doesn't affect them. Instead they typically buy used cars (for cheaper).","Cars are an elastic good, as a change in price will cause buyers to check out more affordable competitors. It would be better to add a $5000 tax on ICE vehicles. It would bring prices in line with EV counterparts but doesn't outright ban ICE.",1
"TLDR - yet another minor political party has made the 10,000 signature requirement to be recognized. They claim to be centrist, but stuck their foot in in the last race endorsing the Republican candidate.","They do have a platform, though it’s almost a copy of the democrats voting rights platform, so will likely siphon more votes from democrats than republicans 🥲.",1
"You have to be so naive to actually believe the US has the Ukrainians in their best interests... Plus, it's not like any of this has happened before in history....","They are imperialists for doing those things, and they do those things because they are imperialists. You could say, however, that the ""ideology"", or rather production system, that guides these decisions is capitalism. Imperialism is the highest form of capitalism.",0
"E-books seem to rip off the author by selling at much lower prices, but they can also eliminate the paper-pushers and their advertising dollars.",I recently purchased my first e-book from one of the big sellers after a long boycott. (My original e-books were locked after their DRM was orphaned.) That started my boycott.,1
That's just the first step. They're just going to keep upping the ante until they completely immobilize our free movement through society. They will begin rounding us up the very first chance they get. They're already compiling .,I'm grown sick of transphobes dispensing medical advice about my healthcare without a goddamn clue of what they're talking about.,0
I’m agreeing and also saying the government shouldn’t be stealing your money (in taxes) to pay teachers to brainwash your kids with Christian propaganda and tell them that Darwin was wrong.,"That's not to say teaching creationism is OK, it's still a massive waste of time and resources, but it's not really going to do much harm to the vast majority of the kids who graduate from those schools.",1
"There is no preventing it at this point, their only options are to kill him now and save as much as they can or let it play out and go down in total flames. Russia best bet would be to taking out putin themslevs and salvaging what they can then begging the Ukraine and NATO for forgiveness.","I agree that was a sham vote, which is why I said Russia needs to give everything else back. But I bet if a legitimate vote was held, Donbas and Crimea would vote to join Russia.",1
"If this is so predictable, why do the Russians keep cooperating? Because they have no other choice. The Russians need some sort of victory to salvage the reputation of their leader. They can’t simply go on the defensive themselves, it would look like an admission of defeat.","Most people here disagreed with me, arguing that Ukraine ought to keep up the momentum and keep conducting offensives until the last Russian soldier ran for the border.",0
"Tell them if they wish a merry instead of a deadly Christmas…, withdrawal back to Russia while handing over the Crimea et al. They withdraw Merry Christmas to them. They don’t Rudolf is the name of every missile when it lands in their laps while they are in Ukraine.","I’m a little worried about the hypersonic missile boat that the Russians have; however, Ukraine has fought valiantly for their home.",1
Europe and US basically got rid of all its most polluting manufacturing by outsourcing it to China.,"US and European countries export their waste to developing countries because it's cheaper than recycling themselves. China banned plastic imports a few years ago while India hasn't, single use plastic is banned everywhere in India.",1
There is a similar partisan divide over what to do about the situation in Ukraine. Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to support military assistance. Six-in-ten Republicans voice support for NATO sending arms to the Ukrainian government compared with 39% of Democrats.,"Two-thirds of GOP members see Russia as a military threat, but only 56% of Democrats share their fear. And while half of Republicans say Russia is to blame for the violence in eastern Ukraine, just 39% of Democrats agree.",0
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Most ppl will get way more radiation from an airplane flight than swimming on that coastline. Radiation scares are often paid for by oil and gas companies because it's a direct threat to their industry.,"It's the oil companies pushing the nukes, they know they are boondoggles that will take forever to build, in the meantime we keep burning oil. Russia is a prime example, they want you to buy their uranium, waste money on nuclear power and keep being reliant on them for both.",1
"Accused of failing to stop the rioting, Modi denied the accusations and was exonerated in 2012 following an inquiry by India's top court. Another petition questioning his exoneration was dismissed last year.","Hindutva is on rise in India, it was a ideology propagated by RSS during Indian Independence which talks on far right Hindu totalitarianism and proposed a model of Authoritarian governance similar to Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, it is inspired by Hitler's Nazism and Aryan supremacy, Vinayak Savarkar and MS Golwalker were Hilter fanboys.",0
"Well if Russias demands are met, what makes you think they wouldn’t send soldiers over to denazify other countries and then again ask them to end the suffering by meeting their demands?","Yeah, Russia could promise they wouldn't invade a now weaker Ukraine again (which, as part of any deal, wouldn't be allowed to join NATO) and take those regions, but given that they made a similar promise less than 30 years ago that they've already broken, why would anyone believe them?",1
"To be completely honest, I’m surprised at how many mass murders aren’t tied to extremism at all. The majority of mass shootings aren’t politically motivated or demographically targeted at all, just straight up killing for killing’s sake. For every Pulse Nightclub we have four Gilroy Garlic Festivals.","Not that one’s any better than the other, it’s just hard to believe how much violence isn’t motivated by any kind of specific hatred or extremism.",0
"That's so awful. The number of lives lost, and lives ruined. And for what? Some old man's obsession. All those able-bodied young people with their whole lives ahead of them, just being slaughtered. On both sides. And yes, I know Russia is the aggressor but I can still feel sorrow for this absolute disregard for human life and all of the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers being killed in pursuit of such a stupid and tragic goal.","Russia WILL lose, it's just a question of how many more innocent Ukrainians will have to be killed by Russia, before the West steps up to its moral duty to provide the weapons Ukraine needs to end this war ASAP.",1
"If you follow Russian logic, Ukraine could just annex some parts of western Russia, declare it Ukrainian souvereign territory (maybe declare a mock referendom or two for good measure) and then rain missiles on it.","If Russia is pushed back all the way to the 1991 borders (UA is willing to fight, the only question is if we are willing to arm them appropriately) and Russia still bombards Ukraine with cruise missiles, I suspect we'd see the political calculus in the West change dramatically. For now, better to do everything possible to stymie Putin's attempts to make this war ""a great patriotic cause"" for the Russian people while ramping up support to Ukraine.",1
"Like it's hilarious how the US has the balls to literally say anything despite using depleted uranium ammo. Like if that isn't a nuclear weapon, I don't know what is.","It's not... nuclear weapons utilize fission or fusion to create explosions. DU isn't used that way at all. It's used in armor piercing ammunition and tank armor because it is hard and dense, and in ammunition is self-sharpening.",1
Imagine how much better off they'd be if wealth inequality wasn't as disgustingly lopsided as it is.,Median income doesn't mean anything when we have a lot of the world's richest people inside our borders throwing those stats off.,1
"The town where I’m born and the neighbor where I grew up, there’s a high concentration of minorities present and that’s one of the most dangerous area out there (Paillade):","Now as I said, this event happened in a badly reputed suburb (Paillade), Police tend to NOT stick around, they get showered with stones if they do, same with firefighters depending of the case.",0
"At some point claiming elections were ""stolen"" without offering any proof should be considered a criminal offense, as it is a direct attack on American Democracy.","Well yes, because their leaders and Right Wing media networks are constantly lying to them about the accuracy and legitimacy of our electoral systems.",0
"Finland joining NATO and with several NATO members surrounding it; Norway to the West and the North, Denmark, Germany and Poland to the South and the Baltic states to the East, Sweden would find itself protected inside a ""NATO cocoon"", with only the Baltic Sea as the only way for Russia to invade.","The foreign policy committee in Finland’s parliament on Friday voted in favour of the country joining Nato, saying that Finland should join as soon as possible, preferably together with Sweden.",1
"But apparently great motivation to go start another war in Ukraine. That's the thing, always plenty of russians who are willing to die, just not fighting fascism but supporting it.","i can agree what you say about this, there are so many in russia that said the same thing when I was living there before the war. I had to be very careful what I said to others that I was around.",1
"Don't worry - Florida doesn't have to go anywhere. The ocean is coming for it. ""Climate activists are propaganda bullglubglubglub gasp WE NEED FEDERAL AID!"".","Well, sorta. We still need a , and that's all subject to the same chicanery. It's the rules vote where Dems will see their demand met, and the way the voting works, we save the required abstentions for the last voting Dem members (so we can abort the play if it's not working out). That rules vote is where rubber meets the road on _all_ of the demands being made of the Speaker. Rules about when the Speaker can be recalled? Governed by the adopted rules.",1
"It's over 10 years old at this point but here's a showing how popular support for interracial marriage took about 40 years to climb from about 10% to 50% from 1955 to 1995, while support of same-sex marriage went from \20% in 1985 to majority approval in 2011.","The big difference being that with regard to interracial marriage, full legal access was granted in 1967, back when not even 25% of the population supported it. It took until years after majority approval for gay marriage to be legal throughout the country.",0
In the movie version of MASH Frank was a good surgeon. People hated him because he would take credit for the saves and blame everyone else for the ones who died.,"'The 8th Dwarf,' by Ross Thomas. In 1946, an ex-OSS hot shot and a Rumanian dwarf [who stole $50,000 in gold from the British] fly into Occupied Germany to find a psychopathic Jew who is killing ex-Nazis.",0
"I’m pointing out that the statistic of “gun deaths” is generally used when talking about violence. Suicides are absolutely gun deaths, but the term “gun deaths” is used to obfuscate the conversation more often than not.","No shit, except the original comment was that again guns were the MAJOR causal factor for suicides in the US. Guns might make it so suicides are more successful in the long run, but I can think of a plethora of greater causal factors for an individuals want to commit suicide than owning a gun.",1
"wait, isn't that like an example of efficiency and a good thing? I mean, it's a bad thing when they're squeezing the housing supply in a particular area to try and gouge prices, but building new houses in the right places sounds like a good thing, isn't it?","Depending on how steep those are, and if the proceeds are actually used to build more affordable housing, that could improve both rent and housing affordability.",1
I’m not part of any ‘we’ so I will let the game play out as is. The right declared war against the truth and should face those consequences.,"So because the right wing declared war against the truth, we also have to start spewing baseless accusations now?",1
Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.,"The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.",0
It is completely dishonest to include 100% self funded Social Security and Medicare which have NOTHING to do with current $30T debt created SOLELY by the discretionary budget.,"You are confusing US budget with Social Security and Medicare, which are self funded, have a surplus and have contributed nothing to US debt to Discretionary budget which is the source of 100% US debt and is 70% US military.",0
"What a flawed belief, that law enforcement has the ability, legally or otherwise, to make judgements on what's Constitutional and what isn't.",What I pointed out elsewhere is there's a difference between refusing to enforce a law they believe to be immoral and refusing one they believe to be unconstitutional.,1
"A lot of that has come down to what Ukraine has needed. Their army started the war equipped and trained with stuff that was ex-Soviet or derived from it, still conforming to the standards and methods of that equipment. Shifting to NATO standard equipment would be a huge effort in terms of training and rebuilding logistics networks, as well as creating the headache of trying to support two different sets of equipment in the field: legacy Soviet stuff and NATO stuff.","A number of European countries that had been in the Warsaw Pact and have since joined NATO are in the process of transitioning away from legacy Soviet style equipment to NATO standards. This means they have a load of old Warsaw Pact standard equipment they know they will be getting rid of pretty soon anyway. It's a pretty simple decision for these countries to donate all this older kit to Ukraine and accelerate their own transition to NATO standards, and this makes life easier for Ukraine because the equipment they are getting is stuff they have trained on and understand how to use.",0
"The government was already offering 300,000 yen per child for families relocating to other parts of the country.","The government was already offering 300,000 yen per child for families relocating to other parts of the country.",1
"they could use desalination plants to get enough water to setup a closed system where all the water gets reused, thereby freeing up the colorado river for the midwest.","The water being taken from the river is being shipped to unsustainable homes, farms and businesses so time to move them or supply them with a sustainable water source which would be solar powered water desalinization.",1
"It's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.","There are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.).",0
That's a great description of the internal dialogue of the 3 out of 4 youth voters who didn't turn out this election.,"And until many younger adults become established in society, they don't give a damn about politics and voting.",1
"There's probably not the 'one big reason' people are looking for. But I guess one major part of the internal discussions is the supply of clearly offensive weapons, which would match the russian escalation of the war. There are probably a whole lot of nation leaders who don't want to find themselves in a spiralling escalation.","Now with the rumoured new mobilization wave, possible arms supplies from Iran, ongoing radicalization of russian population, dramatic situations like the Dnipro apartment bombing there is a western will to match the escalation.",0
"Actually, both Russia and China are courting South American. There's a long history of the usa sticking its nose in there, supporting the wrong people, hence a dislike for the US. It's not a small continent like people seem to think. Brazil alone is 80 some percent the size of continental usa. Hence, the largest beef supplier in the world any given year.",Brazil has a massive beef market in Russia and China. The Amazon is burned to create pastures for cattle that provide those countries with cheap beef. Shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Brazil’s not a hard-charger for the west.,1
"In this case, she believes that gay people are groomers. It's something she can prove is a real opinion of hers, and there's plenty of examples she could cite to prove this. A person isn't held accountable for their ignorance in this kind of case.","Expressing an opinion is protected speech in most cases, and someone can't sue and win for libel/slander or defamation of character. Repeated attempts with malicious intent could possibly bolster a case, but it'd still be a hard sell under the law. If there are repeated attempts at asserting this claim, it's possible that harassment could come into play, but a single instance is unlikely to go that far.",0
"Democrats and Republicans alike love when the poor stay poor. Classism has nothing to do with the Republican party and has everything to do with the working class vs. the elites. Most Democrat politicians either opposed debt cancelation up until very recently, or at the very least have done nothing to attempt to move it forward. You should be mad not just at the AG of Arizona because they are not the only one who's kept Americans in debt. Even some progressives have blood on their hands.",".... A lawsuit getting thrown out means the cancelation is all clear to move forward you realize, right? Or at least it removes one more hurdle.",0
That might be too optimistic — Sinema wouldn’t need to get that many swing voters to thwart a Democrat.,"eh, don't assume they'd go for her over a republican. She votes with the dems like 90% of the time and as frustrating a narcissist as she is to deal with, I don't think there's much love on the right for her either - she's gonna have a primary to her left and a republican to her right, and she's basically committing political suicide imo.",1
"So yes, they can set regulations like requiring a voter ID because states have a legitimate interest in ensuring fair elections, they're not impediments. If you want your ballot, nothing stopping you from walking to the polling location and filling it out.","This isn't being done according to this article, and polling places are still open, so no right is being taken away.",0
It seems to be an issue that states and the DNC are still trying to figure out themselves. Here's what some Iowa legislators had to say about the DNC decision:,"EDIT: you seem to be talking about going into Iowa” as the day of the caucus. You may not be taking into account that the first caucus/primaries are 6-8 months in the making for the candidates. Depending on the cycle and how open the field is, candidates can start showing up in the state up to a year in advance. That takes money, yes, but not nearly as much as it would take to concentrate on 12 states at once. Only the most well-established candidates would have the fundraising available to compete.",1
"Fuck fines. If a person as an individual caused as much destruction and harm as was caused in Ohio, they'd go to prison. But somehow if you fill out some paperwork and form a company, now you just pay a fine instead of going to prison?","Meanwhile, the Trump and the Republicans have never had a supermajority, and yet they were successfully able to roll back regulations. How is it that the democrats always need to ""elect more democrats"" even after they win, but Republicans with the same or smaller sized majority always have enough?",0
"So, mandatory waiting periods and red flag laws instead of disarmament seems like a better course of action. The GOP isn't going to get rid of their guns and I can't see LEOs being all the interested in disarming conservatives since they tend to be a) pro-gun and b) right-leaning.",Not down with disarming in anyway as long as Conservatism is as strong as it it is right now in this country. Better to do it after.,0
It really bothers me when American citizens get locked up in other countries either cruelty or unfairly. It’s probably a good thing I’ll never be in charge of the country because I’m ok with them putting boots on the ground to recover Americans as long as there not deservedly locked up.,I do not need to read an article to know she was cruelly punished. I can’t find the original article. I read an article that asked a bunch of lawyers what they thought about her sentence. The lawyers said based on the guidelines it was fair. I believe the sentencing guidelines where 2 to 10 years. The prosecutors wanted max fines and 9 and 3/4 years in prison. The judge gave her max fines and 9 years in prison.,0
"Even if it did matter, the purpose of the Second Amendment is to restrict the federal government, and not the people.","The second amendment is a restriction on the federal government, and not the people. It means the people have the RTKBA and the government shouldn't try to take that away from them.",0
"I don't know when this happened but for w/e reason that word now seems to mean ""partisan"". It shouldn't though.","IDK about that. I think that it has been shown in the past that, despite being partisan hacks, none of the justices trump appointed really give a shit about him. They didn't curry favor with him to get the job, they curried favor with the Federalist Society and other republicans.",1
"Haha, the US should stop the aid money to Palestinians as well and if anything pressure them to stop the denialism and accept a two state agreement with security guarantees for Israel. Once that is done, hell yea, Palestinians might have a thriving economy and hopeful future. I could see them being an ally like Jordan even. They just need to get over the whole “kill all the jews” vendetta.","You and many others think that the money is a charitable donation to Israel, but its really a mutually beneficial transaction. The US receives a lot in return. Personally, I think it would be great if the US stopped the aid money. Then Israel wouldn’t be restrained as much in dealing with Iran, Hamas, Hezbolah, and Palestinian terrorists.",0
"Since at the time of the Framers there was a weapon called the Girardoni Air Rifle (a weapon that could fire 22 lethal shots in fairly rapid succession), and Thomas Jefferson owned two (he thought they were super cool, and he sent them west with Lewis and Clark), and NOBODY had any suggestion of banning them (especially as at the time civilians owned cannons, mortar launchers, even warships), it's very unlikely that this law would pass a text history and tradition test.","Imagine a state passed a law that prohibited criticizing the state online. A free speech proponent might sue and argue that this law is a violation of the 1st Amendment. If the law is allowed to stand while the case is argued, then numerous peoples 1st Amendment rights may be severely curtailed or infringed during the months it takes for the case to go through the court system. Thus, the judge will stay the law pending the outcome of the trial, basically say that the law is on the books but it cannot be enforced until/unless the court determines that it is acceptable.",0
"""Just look at all the different kinds of \[white\] people You've got Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Catholics, Baptists, even Mormons What else is there?"".","It will never happen. Speaker controls committee leads and what legislation makes it to the floor. There is no way a majority essentially gives up their majority for that on purpose. Now, if the 20 or so obstinate Republicans vote ""present"" for one round instead, that would really fuck them up to the point McCarthy might try to stop the count immediately.",1
LOL it’s so funny to see all the surprised people here. “Why would the Palestinians put their children at risk?” “That should be condemned”.,So your point is the people setting up rocket launchers around schools and hospitals are not Palestinians?,1
"You don't have to vote. You just feel a social pressure. You've never done anything because of a social pressure? Fill out a survey, listen to a sales pitch a few minutes longer than you would have, ect.? Also, it's weird because voting patterns have patterns to them and you can reliably sway the ballots you pick up to favor one side over the other. It's not going to be 100%-0%, but it's pretty significant. I just don't like the idea when people could just mail it or you could let someone they know hand it in. Why allow a stranger in the mix?","The ballot harvest thing is really messed up. I had my fire department visit my home and my wife answered. They pressured her to vote on increasing the fire department taxes. Like, sure... they didn't explicitly say they wanted us to vote that way but you know they want us to. And you just feel like you want to make them happy.",0
The voting is almost always along party lines. The Constitution doesn't require the Speaker to be a member of the House so theoretically someone outside of the House could be elected Speaker (that has never happened).,"While the house can indeed not take up a vote, it will force them to respond and members of the house will have to answer questions why they haven’t taken a vote. If the democrats work on meaningfully legislation in Senate and use the bully pulpit of the presidency to set the agenda, keeping the focus on things that actually effect voters. One thing that can be done to take the wind out of their sail is addressing the border issues.",1
So you create a nonprofit company. And you call that non-profit company a charitable foundation. It's just like any other charity except it's main purpose is writing checks to other Charities rather than doing work itself.,Now capital gains taxes add another layer of complexity and potential for fraud because stock can be donated straight to the charity without paying capital gains taxes.,0
If you're wondering where the commonly floated rhetoric around the world of just simply lying in the face of glaringly obvious truth originates from...,"The “sure I lie but everybody lies” is more like a conscious rationalisation process. Projection is often really quite unconscious, where people don’t want to consciously recognise the faulty parts of their own self (or group) so they project their faults onto others. So it’s more “I don’t ever lie but look at those terrible liars over there”. And because it’s our own darkness that we are fighting, it’s an explanation for why people have such strong irrational hatred to people they know nothing about. Because it’s their own long standing darkness they are hating. People sorting out their own darkness would go a long way to reducing a lot of racism, sexism etc etc.",1
"Now for the topic at hand, I would agree that it remains to be seen if the mayor of the main hosting city can influence the IOC in any meaningful way, though it does sets the tone.","She still got a 6.5 points lead on her rival Rachida Dati, and that's in terms of direct popular vote. You can say she is hated by the people all you want, it will not make it true.",0
And the fucks made it all go away by making Mueller testify and asking him whether or not Trump was guilty and he said repeatedly that it wasn’t his determination to make but that the evidence was right there in the report.,Seriously underestimating the group of people who still to this day insist that Mueller totally exonerated Trump of all wrongdoing and declared that “Russian collusion was a hoax.”.,1
"Source for where trees don’t sequester carbon? I mean, even recent research from this year alone found that trees are actually more effective than we thought at reducing the level of carbon in the atmosphere.","What Plzbanmebrony is suggesting is that we turn an area of forest into charcoal, hide it away like the fossil-fuels originally were, then regrow the trees in said area so they'll drain out more of the carbon in the air to grow. This would in theory work as long as the process (including storing it) doesn't produce more emissions through fossil fuels than it stores (albeit be a bit inefficient). The biggest challenge would be making sure that we don't also store away inorganic nutrients.",1
"They might have very well assumed that Musk would say ""we have a long way to go, but we did do this after a lot of trial and error."".","Yes. But the video says it’s done by the software and that the driver isn’t doing anything. That’s a straight up lie, according to the dev. That’s not normal at all.",1
"All this is doing is making it so those who are addicted are no longer going to be arrested for their addiction. I think we can both agree that's an objective win, right?","No it doesn't? It's still incredibly illegal to sell or traffick drugs. All that's changing here is that it's no longer illegal to possess small amounts of drugs. If you have a quantity of drugs in your possession that is a sellable amount, changing depending on what drug specifically it is, you can and will be arrested for it.",0
is what the FTC lawsuit says is an issue any different from whats going on currently with platform exclusivity deals? why are they only worried about it to stop this merger and not preventing exclusivity deals entirely?,Why should a deal be halted if the acquisition neither creates a monopoly or is likely to be used in the furtherance of monopolistic practices?,1
"And vice versa. China has always tried to be the ""strong, cold, mature man who runs the company at 22 and gets all the ladies"". Hell, it's even a trope in their tv dramas. What they're very bad at is being human in front of the camera as a result. This is likely not a lie regarding US balloons, and from a geopolitical perspective it makes sense to remind the US that ""hey, this isn't as stupidly bad as you make it out to be because your balloons are STILL floating around on our front lawn!"".",Sure. But if what China says is true then if their radars could find them then I assume at least Russias could as well. If Chinas radars didn’t pick them up then how does China know they were there.,1
"Yup. That's the republican ethos: ""I only care if it personally affects me. I got mine, so fuck you."".","Yup. I'm a liberal gun owner who is all for stricter gun control... but dems have to stop using phrases like ""stricter gun control"", or any other words or phrases that's going to scare socially liberal and moderate, 2a supporting voters over to the right.",1
But your argument is that that's not as bad as ordering the execution of thousands of people to keep the mullahs of Iran in power?,Why don't we use the CIA to fuck up the Iranian government like we did to countless governments in South America?,1
As far as Palestinian is concerned Israel is occupying on their land and Israel of course claim otherwise.,"I'm sorry, do you forget the multiple nations that also border them that wants to wipe out Israel? The only thing stopping them is Israel's military and if they didn't have that you cannot pretend that Palestine wouldn't ally with them to wipe Israel off the map.",1
"Germany is chosing the lesser of two evils for the sake of keeping an essential resource in stock, without which the economy and the people would suffer immensely.",India is chosing to buy cheap oil from russia for the sake of having cheap oil to grow their industry with.,0
It's about time that corporations who have data breaches are forced to compensate victims at a cost that would be higher than the cost of making sure this didn't happen in the first place.,"Make an example out of them, make it clear to the corporations that it is unacceptable for them to value our privacy with such little regard. The fines are always a slap on the wrist, the damage to their reputation seems to always be negligible. It's highly likely that accounting and legal have made the decision to cut the cost of adequate security in aid of profit, and our data be damned.",0
"Idk it’s barely the same language if it is, and I don’t think the whole of it is valuable. It’s not that I think it’s inappropriate it’s that it’s really difficult to read. Like I have a bachelors degree and speak English, Latin, and German, which should lead me to like a basicish ability to triangulate meaning, but I’d need a translation guide especially since the evolution of English since it was written was fairly chaotic.","I hated English class in school for so long, it was reading boring books I didn’t want to read but it taught me how to think and analyze media and I’m so grateful I had to read those books. And yeah sometimes it made me uncomfortable. That was occasionally the point.",0
"To play devil's advocate, it's pretty common to have higher thresholds to make sure changes are going to be consistently popular. So if it passes one election but not the other, then it may not actually be majority popular.","We’re guaranteed the opportunity to vote on it during a midterm and during a presidential election, and it works. That’s how we got our renewable energy measure passed a couple years back and I’m looking forward to RCV passing in 2024 as well.",1
Okay. So the suggestion is that Putin didn't see a Trump led NATO/ United States as a threat and therefore there was no need to launch a full scale invasion of Ukraine.,"So yes, it's entirely possible Putin saw an increase threat from NATO and US under the Biden White House - more so than when Trump was President.",0
"As far as MDs in the area went, I'd say COVID was the final straw for most, though Trump wasn't super popular in the medical community as it was, despite it being such a hard right region. That didn't stop a few MDs I know from 'preaching' at church about how the vaccine wasn't necessary and just getting COVID would be the same thing. I know several of those doctors lost their license or are under review by the medical board. lol.","I saw COVID happen and it was a bit of a make or break for the medical community (I grew up in medicine, in a far right community). It was kind of humorous, as the medical community relied on so many LVN nurses who, are kinda dumb. Well, all these nurses and other medical workers (office staff, etc) became anti-vcxx for whatever reason, when there were vaccine mandates for employment in fucking healthcare they all decided to quit, I think they thought because nursing is in high demand that they would be able to find another job that didn't require it.... Because they are idiots.",0
All the other ones are aftershocks. There have been more than 400 aftershock earthquakes so far and they will continue unfortunately.,"There is a high risk of aftershocks in the areas after an earthquake. Normally, the plates move about two centimeters per year. But that's an average. It is actually a kind of elastic in which the energy is stored until the pressure becomes too great. Then the plates can suddenly move meters.",1
"Yes, it does affect jobs and economies. It would be worthless to the economy if it didn’t. Being long also costs people their jobs because it causes companies to reorient toward what the market rewards, which may not be employing people.","Short selling is important to the economy and should, arguably, be encouraged. Part of the reason we have such massive boom-and-bust cycles is social norms around shorts, leading to companies being massively overvalued.",0
"I'm gay, I spent a lot of time this past summer in Poland with my wife who has a dark complexion, and neither one of us had issues. The Polish government on the other hand is a piece of shit and not at all representative of the population.","Oh, by the way Kowalski and Warchoł belong to the bunch of dumbest, most reactionary and disliked politicians in Poland. About half of the society laughs at them and almost all of their tweets are turned into memes at this point - just so you know, that posting their tweets is about as non-representative of the public opinion as it gets.",1
"Anyway, for the poles' sake( and anyone else that would be involved) , let's hope this never happens. But if it does, I damn sure hope there's as much footage as we're getting from Ukraine.","I'm not saying this to insinuate Poland should act in one day or another concerning jets to Ukraine ( although, I wish they would give them a squadron) just to point out that they would have whatever they need for defense of their people. Also, it doesn't matter anyway. pootin doesn't pick on countries that can fight back, he just made a grave miscalculation with the Ukrainians!",0
"Question is, will the blow back happen when the supreme court rules on it, or after some state decides to try and send delegates that ignore that states voters?","Talking more about on the state constitutional level, where some state constitutions say that the electoral college has to go to whoever won the state by popular vote. This varies from state to state, but generally falls into the bad faith elector clauses of the state.",0
"H5N1 is responsible for the culling of several mink farms because H5N1 appears to have mutated to facilitate mammal to mammal transmission, still awaiting final confirmation. It's also suspected in some other mammal species suffering disease such as seals.","H5N1 has a nasty CFR in excess of 50%. However, this is based on a very small sample size with cases from a variety of locations with differing levels of health care. It only includes people sick enough to go to the hospital, not asymptomatic or people mildly infected. The bottom line is it has the potential to be very deadly, but as we saw with COVID, there's alot of factors and variables that determine mortality.",0
"I'm in the ""organized religion is almost always bad"" camp. Lots of people use it as an excuse to hate others. But more importantly to me, if your morality is ""be nice because God said so"" and not ""be nice because duh"", then you're a shitty person and no amount of religion is going to change that. Just be a decent person because it's the decent and simple thing to do.","Religion doesn't ""make"" anyone do anything, but it can certainly be a convenient excuse for doing nearly anything. I much prefer ""other people are just like you, so treat them like you want them to treat you."".",0
"I agree that Israel misrepresents some of these wars/conflicts to its own advantage. However, I think it is best to look at them case by case rather than extrapolating that the ""standard narrative"" is largely a work of fiction. Every country in the ME has been belligerent and warlike so we might as well say all of their respective narratives are embellished and largely fictitious. But again, I see no point in making generalisations and I was talking about that one sentence that you criticized, not everything they claimed.","After their war of independence, Israel has experienced in later wars that external help is limited and anything that looks like a potential attack should be treated as an impending attack.",0
"I never said that, in any shape or form, I just simply said having a massive army doesn’t always correlate to it being powerful.","Stats are stats, and rankings are rankings. It’s easy to gauge the size of the army, but then you also have to factor in a shit load of other stats into the equation to gauge power.",0
I've wondered about this very scenario for months. Russia is so large and ethnically diverse that a few autocrats in Moscow probably shouldn't be ruling with an iron fist. In a warming planet there's also a lot of land that might become more habitable in the coming decades. Not to mention the glut of natural resources to exploit.,Perhaps the East and the West just settle on figuratively splitting Russia right down the middle once the dust settles.,0
"She is a creation of a society where a huge percentage don't have a passport, don't understand other cultures, and have never been invaded or had the threat of invasion. They may have been attacked, but it was people like her screamed appeasement and isolationism as a policy to the Third Reich. Would the US be the dominant superpower now if they had followed her policies in 1940.","I didn't say I didn't know how the second amendment could be changed. It's just ironic that children are way way statistically safer at their schools growing up in a ""Pariah State"". Purely an observation.",0
"russia is pushed out of Kyiv (first, quoting their propaganda, goodwill gesture lol), Sumy and Chernigiv roughly 1st April - ""yeah but let's be real, Ukraine doesn't have a chance in other regions now when russia will reinforce in other regions"".","russia pushed out of Snake Island (propaganda says it was a goodwill gesture, lol) which completely nullifies their chances to block Ukraine from sea and their offensive completely halts - ""yeah but let's be real, Ukraine can't get any territory back"".",0
"Statement : ""These are not mutually exclusive. You can think going to Afghanistanwas a mistake. You can also hope if your going in there, even if youdisagree with going in there, there’s some success.. You can also beangry that after spending trillions of dollars and blood of yourcitizens, most of the population of 45 Million at bests rolls over foran army that only totals 70k and has no Air Force, and at worst work forthem. Then get more angry when it’s now obviously worse, and peopleare complaining after all your country did."".",Yep. Guess you're right. If it wasn't for the Americans then Afganistan truly could have done something about the Taliban. Well now the Americans are gone. Let's see how the fare on their own.,1
"I called it a strategy because it doesn't happen this way in all conflicts by a long shot. It was a simple statement, but there is more behind it. It isn't just that they are making them pay, they are slowly conceding ground while Russia pushes forward into their defensive lines.","For Ukraine, ultimately if Russia is trying to push through this point, they can either go for a tactical retreat, or hold their ground. I assume they have concluded they can gain more by holding their ground (possibly inflict more damage on an attacking army while being well entrenched?).",1
"The guy literally called for the constitution to be removed and tried to overthrow the us government,,,,, but sure MAYBE works for me I guess ?","And even if he’s an ignorant dummy (that’s honestly how people defend it “it wasn’t a serious coup! It was just shits and giggles” etc.), even if we give that benefit of the doubt - the best case scenario is it was still gross negligence. If you’re operating a crane and do something incredibly negligent that kills a bunch of people then you get in serious trouble. Even if Trump destroyed democracy by accident it’s still worthy of treason because if you’re president you should respect the influence you have on people. It’s on you as president to be well informed of the facts that matter most and not promote dangerous lies.",1
"The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.",Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.,0
What good is your security when you allow your government to strip away the security and life of someone who is completely innocence?,I guess you unfortunately being part of the innocent few losing their freedom is worth it if it makes your country safer right?,0
"Look at the response to a devastating global pandemic and how quickly the media & government officials were to politicise, profiteer, and eventually push to sacrifice lives for ""the economy"" and I think you have your answer to how successful we have been and will be in responding to climate change.","Even mass population reduction isn't enough to force climate to be stable, the ONLY way to do that is for humans to decide they have to actively regulate climate, not just remove pollution and assume the planet will default to our prefered climate when we have so much data that says otherwise and in short enough timescale to be happening NOW.",1
The system was designed before political parties existed. It was unfathomable that elected representatives would collide with a judge or president from the other side of the country to break laws together.,"They're pretty openly against appointing more justices, despite the fact that it is necessary to save democracy and beyond that it would greatly improve the efficiency of the Court...",1
"Roughly half of the current population of Crimea today are Russian citizens who we given incentives to move there since 2014. Over a million people. How do you handle that? Forced deportations? Let them stay and give them voting rights? If you let them stay, how do you protect them from retaliation from Ukrainians living there? Do you even try? How do you handle security? Deal with insurgency? And how do you do any of this and maintain the moral/legal high ground?",This isn't about Russia formally fighting for it. The problem actually begins the moment Russia officially leaves Crimea.,0
"Whatever reason why she's there when it's already May, is not of concern. She had November, December, January, and February to leave. When Russia invaded and it became a warzone it was already too late. You're just ignoring all my arguments and focusing on the circumstances where she had no longer had control.","Oh I agree. But was she expecting to correct the whole of Russia by staying as an activist in Ukraine, as it is being invaded?",0
"Let's completely ignore the fact that Germany decimated political activists, intellectuals (including teachers), and all other things that stimulated progress in society, not to mention that they and the Red Army significantly reduced the population and eliminated cultures that helped bring diversity to Poland. All of this followed by 40 years of oppression and...you're surprised about the way things are today? And this is just during/after WWII, not to mention the devastation that the Triple Partition brought to the Polish population (i.e., lots of people from the other Empires moved around - including to what is now Poland today - and they weren't exactly the most inclusive folks).","I'm gay, I spent a lot of time this past summer in Poland with my wife who has a dark complexion, and neither one of us had issues. The Polish government on the other hand is a piece of shit and not at all representative of the population.",0
You do realise that Ghana turned to China to borrow money is because no one is willing to borrow Ghana based on how bad their credit score is.,"Yes, it affects ghanas credit rating but doesn't mean no one will be willing to lend to them ever again.",1
"Having crooks at every level is how you get Russian quality results in this conflict. For them, nothing works.","Ukraine has made remarkable good use of their military aid, achieving unexpected success against a fearsome adversary. Prior Ukrainian Administrations were quite corrupt, to the point of becoming Russian puppets. The corruption became so acute that the people rebelled and beginning with Poroshenko in 2014 Ukraine has been a model of clean government.",0
Pretending that you have a single source who is intimately familiar with a secret operation from the perspective of 6 foreign governments and this source went to you instead of a news organization is a lie.,"I don’t think that Noam Chomsky and Seymour Hersh suddenly became Russian sleeper agents, I think it’s more likely American news companies are towing the line for the state department, like they did for Vietnam Iraq Afghanistan Syria Libya hati Yemen etc etc.",1
"True, but that's not really what the discussion here is about. Additionaly, other defensive pacts will never be as potent as NATO, especially not when the US is not involved.","Sweden and Finland would also be useful both for their strategic location but also both militaries would add real military strenh to the alliance. And let’s be real, they’ll be much more cooperative than Turkey will ever be. Truth be told, if we had to choose one or the other, Finland and Sweden (especially together) are MORE valuable to NATO than Turkey. Sweden should draw a line and demand Turkey honor their side of the agreement. Then the US President should remind Turkey if they veto Sweden and Finland then the US will have them ejected from NATO.",1
There's a lot of time for infrastructure upgrades between now and 2040 or whenever they switch to EVs.,"Canada's at 7% EV sales in 2022, and there's huge waitlists for EVs (and automakers all have big plans to increase production).",0
I think its more likely Putin is observing the ever increasing sophistication of the weapons Ukraine is being given by its allies and fears its only a matter of time before they will get ahold of something that can hit Moscow.,Ukraine sends a drone or two to destroy legit military targets inside Russia and then (as I look into my crystal ball 2 weeks into the future) Russian anti-aircraft shoots down a Russian commercial jetliner over Moscow. It's barely even a false flag it's just a bad faith argument that both sides are the same. But Russia still gets innocent victims to trot out.,1
"Living in upstate NY. It's the middle of February and it's raining. We've had some really cold days, but any snow we have gotten has melted withing a couple of days thanks to 40 degree temps... In freaking January and February. I've used our snow blower once all season.",When I was a kid we had snow every year at the beginning of December. It's February and there is no snow.,1
"Of course rising prices is a problem especially for those with lower income, but we need to step back and look at the big picture.",Exactly. I'd venture to bet that there is a disproportionate amount of older people tapping into savings in this because that's what people do when they retire.,0
"(3) Regarding the Jewish members, I would venture to guess many, if not the majority of them are religiously atheist, agnostic or unaffiliated but ethnically or culturally identify as Jewish.","(4) There is some research suggesting that, contrary to stereotypes, college-educated, high-income people are more likely to participate in a religious congregation. Virtually all members of Congress have college degrees and none of them are poor.",0
"I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please if you have any questions or concerns.","I'm not concerned with those people. Just the optics of a politician up there saying we should make young people, who are being destroyed by inflation, to pay more money, when there is a fairly simple way to fix that situation.",1
Then you will see further weakening of gun control legislation nationally. Blue states passing gun control legislation would be completely undone by neighboring red states ridiculously non existent gun control. Then there is the political consideration that in 2024 Democrats need rural Democratic voters to maintain control of the Senate and the White House.,Like Your House Bill 5471 where people over 18 but under 21 would need parental permission to own a firearm. ...These are legal adults. It also bans AR-15s by name which is a semi-automatic firearm in common use. It has already been established that such a firearm would not be subject to a ban. The legislation due to how it defines a 'shroud' would ban all semiautomatic rifles.,0
"Having a single pane glass isn't great, but it's a million times better than double/triple pane with 0 insulation around the frame and allowing draft to enter the home.","If you're still on single pane windows it's worth upgrading, but the improvement from double to triple pane is not big enough to justify the cost usually. At least not compared to other insulation measures.",1
"This is very true. The people fleeing are way more than those who died. However it is hard to pinpoint exact numbers because many who fled from Septembers draft have returned (of course many won't return). My point is that while this whole situation will shift somewhat the demographics, it will in no way create the ""dating paradise"" that many Redditors think will happen. If one can't get any women at a society of roughly 50/50, then a society where it's tilted to say 40/60 won't suddenly make them a Don Juan.","The men who have died so far are a drop in the ocean in terms of demographics changes. Russia has 140 million people. If only a third of them are men (which in reality it is not that exteme imbalance anyway) and half of them are dating age (which again, is very rough estimate) then that leaves over 22 million men. Let's say Russia continues this crazy war and doubles their losses to 220k dead next year. That is about 1%, nowhere near as extreme as one would expect the situation to be.",0
"And given the statement above as well as the continued expansion of settlements on occupied land there is zero chance of instant peace even if Palestinian groups stopped all their terrorist bullshit. And yes, I agree by using terrorism, the respective Palestinian organisations are torpedoing their whole people's future. I just don't think it's all on the Palestinians and Israel is as much at fault for the whole situation not being resolved after several decades.","And it's not like Israel couldn't have taken control back. Israel bombs and invades Gaza every couple of years to pacify Hamas for a while. Israel took back control of Westbank areas (despite contrary commitments arising from the Oslo Accords, resulting in the Second Intifada) - so it's not unheard of. So why does Israel not take control of Gaza and stop the rockets permanently if - as you seem to imply - that's the result of Israel leaving? And I think it's just not feasible: IDF patrols in Gaza would be attacked regularly, IDF installations in Gaza would be attacked regularly, IDF would constantly retaliate; occupying Gaza (regardless of having stayed or reoccupying) would most likely result in much higher casualty numbers (particularly for the IDF) than dealing with just a secure perimeter around Gaza, the rockets, and the occasional bombing campaign. It's just too many (hostile) Palestinians in that place.",0
"I for one view Twitter as having already been a toxic cesspool even with the moderation so I honestly dgaf if he ends up burning it to the ground. Good riddance IMO. Most modern social media is genuinely bad for overall human health and wellbeing, and a net negative for overall societal well-being. The general concept of using the internet to connect everyone like social media does is super valid, but the current iterations need to be replaced by better alternatives that have learned from the problems of the current platforms. (So hopefully Zuck burns Facebook and Instagram down with his ill-convenienced focus on the Metaverse before the technology for interacting with it is ready for the mainstream.).",". Despite wealth getting him laid. he has the classic incel personality and is essentially an emotionally dysfunctional manchild with no real friends. These types nearly always gravitate to the alt right because they think it makes them ""macho."".",1
"Sure, an independent Taiwan definitely does not want to be ruled by the PRC, but im afraid that choice would be made in either Washinon or Beijing and not Taipei.","So, your two points are really irrelevant, because the status quo was always an independent Taiwan unwilling to be ruled by the PRC. This election cycle didn't prove otherwise, and DPP is not altering the status quo.",1
Not sure why you think Fiona Hill casts anything but a negative insight to Trump. In the interview you link she states he is easily manipulated and therefore a tremendous security risk to the country. In another interview she says American “democracy is done” if Trump is elected in 2024.,"Or like, when he tried to bring Russia back into the G8 after a dozen or so Russian officials were indicted for interfering with the 2016 election in his favor?",0
"tl;dr- US was well within legal right to down the balloon according the Chicago convention. Even LegalEagle seems to agree, as it wasn't a light balloon and it was operating in another state's controlled airspace without their approval.","The gist of the exception is that you don’t need permission for weather balloons to go into other countries airspace, and those counties agree to leave the weather balloons alone unless they pose a safety risk. TL;DR, Weather balloons don’t have to worry about sovereign borders.",1
"The Abrams are being produced from the factory. The DoD hasn't said it directly and has danced around why it's having them produced instead of sending them from existing stocks, but a lot of speculation seems to presume that they'll be produced without the classified DU-incorporating armor that is used on American tanks but not exported ones. They don't seem to be willing to make an exception here. That armor has been used on all but the oldest Abrams tanks in inventory, and so I'm just speculating personally here, but they likely considered the production of new model tanks more worthwhile than refitting older ones since both would involve time at the factory.","The US tanks are insanely over-engineered and require a constant logistics chain of replacement parts that can only come from the US, and I believe contain special armor the composition of which is considered secret and so the US doesn't want to see them ever fall into enemy hands if defeated in combat.",1
"This woman is telling her husband to rape other women because exploring people and getting away with it is how you gain prestige in Russian society. She's not upset or concerned about the fact that she might get raped (in fact she already has been), she's more concerned about her social standing and prestige. If her husband rapes and exploits a lot of Ukrainian women then that makes: 1) Russia look better, for being strong and exploiting a weaker, ""inferior"" country like Ukraine, and 2) it makes the wife look better for being the wife of such a strong soldier who gained glory for himself by raping lots of women.","This woman probably thinks she's like Karla Homolka (dating a rapist, but is content and calm over the idea that her rapist-husband would never hurt her), or believes that he'd somehow never develop the desire to continue/escalate the urge to rape after the war with Ukraine. Either way, her words sound truly stupid, selfish and and ego-centric.",1
It is on the bigot to change their life and hide themselves away from society if they cannot tolerate all parts of society. Not on the minority they hate.,I think the point we are trying to make is that being LGBTQ is a fine state of being to have. If your kids turn out to be LGBTQ that's fine. Us existing in public isn't some existential threat to society and we don't need permission to exist in society.,0
You can't think of any white women in the GOP who have doubted the 2020 election results parroted what the men in their lives say?,"Do you honestly think that everyone who is white and also votes Republican is a white supremacist? Because that isn't at all how things really are. Do white supremacists find a home in the Republican party? Absolutely they do. Are they the majority of Republican supporters? No, they are not.",1
"I’m curious why people should care about her so much when there are so many Americans in US jails? Aren’t there something like 1% of all Americans in jail, mostly for pretty minor offences?","Who cares, people were advised not to go and thousands of men have gone to jail, for a lot longer for the same thing in the states.",1
"Not like polls matter too much for Erdogan. In 2016, he declared a state of emergency after a ""military coup failed to oust him from power,"" and he ran the country in that state for 2 years while he further consolidated power within the country.","No doubt that NATO is viewed unfavorably as Finland and Sweden have been hosting Kurdish refugees and political parties in exile, all of which Turkey designates as terrorists. And two things Turks stand united for. And that's against Kurds and Armenians.",0
"I get that, but when China is being blatantly adversarial and openly spying on us, I wonder when we decide to stop educating their elite wealthy students who it seems are going back to just help China continue being more aggressive.","On the other hand, given the Chinese Governments history of utilising students and/or Chinese orientated campuses as a way to influence and/or spy in the foreign nations. Including the spread of the illegal-police in foreign nations ensuring compliance of Chinese citizens with their law. The policy that forces students to be abroad without the possibility of online classes, can be seen as one which aims to strenhen and solidify this influence.",1
"And they can be kept internal. Everything about this cunt should just be hidden, ignored and in no way talked about regardless. Give him his due process, sure. But there's no need for the rest of society to need to know anything more about him other just knowing he's spending the rest of his life in prison.",There are people out there who view this man in a positive light and think the rest of us deserve to be treated as subhuman trash for imprisoning him.,1
"With all the elected officials just ignoring the will of the people, my vote may mean little to nothing anyway.","They don't think that being an elected official means you should represent your constituents. They believe they are elected into a position of power, to tell people what to do, and make laws banning the things they think people shouldn't be doing. So if they won the election, that means more people wanted their ideas to be enacted and put into law. If they lost, then they don't believe it.",1
"The lie was in claiming that, because the emails were genuine, that all of the contents on the laptop must also be genuine. Including the ""salacious pictures package"" that was added to the laptop remotely, while Rudy Giuliani possessed it.","The laptop was also accessed remotely, while in Rudy's possession, to add a ""Salacious Pictures Package"" folder with images.",0
They are also too dense to grasp that Socialism ( which in their ignorance they insist is Communism) is actually Humanitarianism where society looks after its own whilst permitting each to profit according to his or her own skills and abilities.,"When describing that socialism will actually mean more control over your work day and a claim to the money you boss makes off your work, it is more popular than the common American imagining of ""socialism"" of your taxes go up and maybe you get some more services, but maybe not and it all goes to the army and Congress's dumbest nephews' contracting firms.",1
"I get it why you don't like USA as a superpower but keep in mind the condition of the mindset when Kargil and Bangladesh Liberation happened. Ministers were different, mentality were different. Pakistan played the victim card then but can't play it now. People know what Pakistan is left as of today.","India was never an ally of China, only business partners. Only Russia and USA were common between us and China, nobody else.",0
">	“homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim with all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral concern and care of the Church” (1976-A069), and that they “are entitled to equal protection of the laws with all other citizens” (1976-A071).","Homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim with all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral concern and care of the church.",1
"Actually, this appears to be a vocal minority within Serbia (I dont live there so I dont know for sure) but it appears that as a whole, Serbia is having enough of Russia and pushing for more European integration over Russian.","It's interesting for sure, but I do think attitudes are starting to shift, the biggest thing that is changing is how Russia did support Serbia with Kosovo, however with their current stance and involvement in Ukraine, this make this not so certain anymore.",0
"As my last reply stated, the numbers were for All Gun Related Deaths. And, Suicide is made so much easier when a tug on a trigger does it. If it were not simple, many might not happen. And, pray tell, why gang deaths should not be counted? And, you have derided MSNBC, but, failed to mention your News Source.","And you didn't provide any source other than saying you watched MSNBC, of which MSNBC is well known to be a disinformation network.",1
Can't imagine not voting. We've just had an election with one of the lowest voting percentages (I think ever) and it was about 84.4 % of the voting population afaik.,"It's easy to get the 2nd highest turnout in 30 years when their typical rate turnout is abysmally low. This turnout was still lower than everyone else, so I don't see the point in rewarding mediocre performance by young voters.",1
"What is amazing is suddenly what.Teump does is not acceptable and unsettling to the Republican party. WOW, woke up a bit late on that issue by several years.",Thankfully I think it's too late for that. If Trump did one good thing he brought all that nastiness out into the open and exposed the republican party for what it truly is.,1
"That is what she is playing for now, because she won't get any campaign support when polling at 11%.","Polls mean less than nothing anymore, I couldn't give less of a fuck what one says, midterms and the last 7 or 8 year have shown us that. That's not even mentioning the shitshow in the house rn trying to pass that sales tax shit, you can quote me on this next election it's gonna be a blue tidal wave after the national embarrassment that is the GOP house tosses away independent and moderate voters.",1
"And most importantly, the vast majority of plastic in the oceans comes from fishing net disposal, while the vast majority of plastic straws don't end up in the ocean because they go to the landfill.",As if Westerners using plastic straws are responsible for the world’s oceans becoming plastic dumps and not all the Asian countries that use and treat the oceans as a landfill.,1
"Texas will unfortunately be one of the last states to legalize or make any meaningful progress on cannabis due to their part time legislature, recently enacted voter restriction laws that are clearly targeted at populations that tend to vote democrat, and their lack of a state-wide voter initiative/referendum process. The latter point is really the key to meaningful progress on this issue in majority Republican states.",I’ve read lawmakers in some majority Republican states are actively trying to change existing voter initiative/referendum laws in to give lawmakers veto power if they don’t like what the voters decide. Once upon a time my family considered a move to Texas to be closer to extended family but over the last 10 years or so I’ve become so much more grateful to live in Washinon State that I could never move to Texas or another state that doesn’t have the voter I&R process.,0
"Again, from personal experience with the Canterbury Earthquakes (2010-2013), aftershocks can rupture different faults/segments and still be aftershocks.","I was under the assumption that any smaller earthquakes, even if large/seismically powerful, fall under the banner of an aftershock provided it's within.",0
"It's the lifelong pattern that I would guess prompted concern when Trump wouldn't voluntarily release his taxes like every other recent candidate. He's been implicated in all kinds of financial mis-dealings over the years, why would you assume his taxes would be different?",He's had too much time to figure something out to mitigate the bullshit and lets face it - he's done way worse than scam on his taxes and ain't shit been done about that.,1
"It seems to me this is more about the ""embarrassment"" of American items being found in Iranian drones. But AFAIK, Iran can fairly easily (and probably already is working to) replace American items in their supply chain with reasonably equivalent Chinese parts, or parts from other countries?",I’m sure there is a probably a much larger number of companies importing non medical products and then moving them into Iran.,1
"I didn’t want to speak to it but yes, some Colombians I spoke to were very upset by the flush of solicitors and people sleeping in the street. Colombia has its own struggles with poverty and lack of upward mobility and felt that Venezuelan migrants were seriously disrupting Colombia’s ability to bring up its own people.","Yep, there has been a Venezuelan refugee crises in Latin America for a number of years now and Colombia and Peru are bearing the brunt of it. According to the UN the Venezuelan refugee crises is among the worst refugees crises in the world right now (along with Syria and Ukraine).",1
"The only problem is housing. Liberalize zoning and there’s no limit to how many people Canada can hold (maybe a billion, but still that’s improbable).",That's kinda my point for housing and if you look at the rest of the world yes Canadian health care is better but every system has its limits and the strain will start to be seen as these numbers increase.,1
"There used to be many thriving religious minorities in ancient Iranian empires because they were some of the most tolerant at the time. The founder of the first Iranian Empire, Cyrus the Great, is even in Judaism's texts for how he offered to take in the persecuted Jews of Babylon, even paying them to rebuild their temple.","Biblically, the Hebrews were invited to Persia as Cyrus and then Xerses as sought to build universities to strenhen the Empire. And as Jewish people normally do, they thrived in their new homes. Some Persians did not like that and wanted to expel the Hebrews. Xerses married Esther, a (secretly) Jewish woman and she used her position to protect the Hebrews people from this edict, saving them from harm. This story is commemorated in the holiday of Purim.",1
1). they are completely different than any jets the Ukrainians have used. So training would be a long-term process as well as F-16s requiring a substantial amount more specialized and frequent maintenance than current Ukrainian jets.,"In other words, if we give them F-16s, we need to be ready to do a whole lot more than that as well. If we stick to weapons that can't easily be used outside of Ukraine, then it's unlikely Russia will escalate on their own.",1
It's even more stupid that Ukraine must beg for something defensive in nature - like Anti-Air systems in enough numers - and only get them AFTER start of the bombing campaing.,"They have to beg because air defense was always seen as less important than fighters for NATO countries, which is why they barely have enough for themselves, so there's not much left to send to Ukraine, and they can't produce enough new systems in time.",1
"""These studies show that hunter-gatherers need only work about fifteen to twenty hours a week in order to survive and may devote the rest of their time to leisure. Lee did not include food preparation time in his study, arguing that ""work"" should be defined as the time spent gathering enough food for sustenance."".","Yup. When I only have to go to my job 4 days a week (say Monday or Friday are holidays), I'm so much more motivated and interested in my job that week. Having only two days off per week to live your life can be a soul crusher.",1
"It was never investigated because it did precisely what it was meant to do. Make everyone stop listening to a black man talk about how the Republican Party always managed to say crazy shit to make people stop listening to actual problems. It could not have been more Pavlovian if it tried, Richmond was literally saying not two seconds before how the public would drop anything if republicans said something bat shit crazy enough and sure enough…. Nestor.",Google Nestor Gaetz not just Nestor. It’s a very weird story and my money is on Nestor being Matt’s biological son that he had with Nestor’s supposed sister when she was a teenager.,1
"Megaraptors aren't dromaeosaurs (raptors), (they may have been feathered, but this is unclear). They are a medium sized type of dinosaur with a large sickle claw on their hand (similar to Baryonychine spinosaurs, Noasaurs and Neovenatorids... it appears many dinosaurs had hand claws). The featherd dionsaur being referred to is the Dromaeosaur Unenlagia.","Raptor is informal; the family is largely Dromaeosauridae. Lots in this family are called raptors (in their name), lots aren’t. Raptor itself means “snatching/seizing” and the clade Maniraptor, of which Dromaeosaurids are a part, references the shared feature of their hands/wrist structures.",1
"I had electric heat and stove in this house for a few years and the bill for electric was high and I have a good size solar array that could not keep up with the baseboard heat. Also, cooking with electric sucks on the stove top. I cannot just drop the heat by turning a knob. It takes time for the burner to cool to its new setting so some things may burn or boil over, unless I move the pan over and expose a hot burner. Gas does not have that problem. The electric oven was OK though.","That's how mine is, just vents through the microwave into the kitchen. I always open my windows when I cook with it however I'm not interested in switching to electric since gas is better (in my personal opinion) for cooking.",1
"- So, in the end the Russia's complete victory will be the only choice for Russian authorities, but it would have much lesser cost if they acted correctly from the start.","I am not an expert to discuss how effective certain measures are - but, obviously, if desired, Russia can come up with a lot of other things to do in Ukraine.",0
"There have certainly been religious people who have made contributions, but I believe that is in spite of religion, not because of it.","Well in my opinion, the first contribution you could make is to stop excusing religion and pontificating on all the things you think it's doing right.",1
"“In a win for democracy, democrats win a battle with republicans to let you vote, no matter which party”.","The GOP chooses to see it as a win for Democrats because the more votes that come in the better the Democrats do – because most of our country is Democrat, and Republicans are the minority party.",1
6:Mandatory minimums for cops who are convicted of crimes that are harsher than sentences for citizens.,"We at this point literally have no idea how many people are shot, beaten, tazed, pepper sprayed or bitten by cop dogs every year.",0
Protected classes provide additional protection against discrimination or harassment. Gender and sexual identity were determined to be included in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Bostock (2020).,"Up through the first half of the 20th century neither the law, medical science, nor social attitudes made any meaningful distinction between gay and trans people. People who would now be considered either gay or trans were all considered - people believed to have an inborn reversal of ""natural"" gender traits. A woman who desired other women was considered to be ""sexually male"", a man who desired other men was considered ""sexually female"", while bisexuals were called ""psychosexual hermaphrodites"".",1
"That's funny, 50% less value. ""Oh, no, my energy is more resilient because it has diversified sources and not destroying the planet, woe is me."".","Yep. He sees the windmills as being the eyesores, devaluing his resort. It started with his Scottish golf course apparently.",1
The former because the EU argues the actual trade with hippo ivory and other products derived from the animals is not significant enough to warrant a trade ban. Make of that what you will.,"As for the latter - it's a joke based on - the first wild brown bear to be sighted in Germany since 170 years, soon to be the first shot brown bear in Germany since 170 years after it snacked on some livestock.",0
Venezuela has been on the shit list of the US since 1976 when Venezuela nationalized the oil sector … The oil companies (namely Chevron) went all holy war on anything Venezuela since. They are the big reason Venezuela went to hell in a hand basket. But now US need Venezuela and they sure look better than Saudis and Russia to work with … Also if Venezuela economy can get turned around US could reduce the 2nd largest group of illegal immigrants coming into the US. Venezuela should be one of the richest countries in world ….,"And yes, Venezuela is HEAVY oil which the US is by far the top refiner of. Even if US gasoline/diesel consumption craters in the next few decades, those gulf coast refineries will stay open and export refined product. Its quite feasible the US could dominate the refined fuel export market in the future. lot of locations in developing countries will require diesel for their small generators/construction vehicles to supplement solar.",1
"You know we have laws like this in the US for example, if you are robbing a store and someone dies as a result, even if you do not kill them, even if they were killed on accident by the police in response to your crime, you will be charged with murder.","At the same time, to use another example from US law, if you are in a situation where you are forced to use a firearm to defend yourself, but miss and hit a bystander you will be held accountable. Though you'd likely be held less accountable than if there was no defensive situation.",1
"You may be on to something here. Just as Fox News exploited the market niche for reactionary views, there will clearly be a need for a GOP GPT trained on Tucker Carlson monologues and Trump tweets.","Seems like in order to survive, the right wing will have to develop their own AI trained solely on their beliefs, excluding the Enlightenment.",0
Look up the Israeli settlement program. Would you trust someone who was already illegally occupying those land and the United Nations did nothing about it?,Because they couldn’t trust the rest of the world to back them when the government changed hands. Not to mention it did t help that far-right Israelis kept agitating things and baiting the Palestinians into rioting to help blow up the talks.,0
"The Leopard 2 has the same gun. They invented that gun. If the Leopard 2 is less hampered by logistics and can also kill T-72s, and it was designed with them in mind, perhaps its a better tank.","Bigger question is not T-72 vs M1, but what is so greater about the Abrams that its worth the logistics burden including fuel and not being able to cross real bridges in the most likely actual battlefields over the Leopard 2?",0
"I'm kind of surprised it's not standard procedure. Frankly, I kind of assumed it would be. Just a basic flip through filing cabinets and boxes at places an office holder would normally have taken documents as part of their job. Hell, right down to members of Congress on their way out. I have a feeling we'd find some with any elected official that would have them as part of their duties.","This just shows there should be oversight when an elected official of any kind leaves office. Really not hard. The honor system obviously doesn’t work. However, Biden having docs doesn’t concern me nearly as much as the boxes Trump had.",1
"""Democratic Representative Dan Goldman said he wrote on Sunday to McCarthy, Representative Elise Stefanik, the Republican conference chairwoman, and Dan Conston, head of the Congressional Leadership Fund, a House Republican fundraising group, about a New York Times report that they were aware of Santos' fabrications before the November election."".",But yeah. Restoring order to the corruption of a government is hard. Simply pushing the ruling parties out tends to leave a nasty power vacuum that can quickly get filled by the even more corrupt. (You can't break any laws if there are no laws to break! <taps forehead>).,1
"I think that voting ""present"" allows you to fulfill your obligation to participate in the vote, but doesn't add a vote to the Speaker candidate's tally. Because you were present, the number of votes necessary for a candidate to win the Speakership does not change.","They are trying to elect a speaker. None of them have sworn in. There are currently no US federal representatives, only senators (117th Congress ended yesterday). It's this weird artifact from colonial days where colonies held their elections, all representatives traveled to the capitol, elected a speaker, the speaker swore them in, then started Congress. The speaker is the one who selects committee members, chooses votes, and decides on the rules for the next two years. Literally the only two things the representative-elects can do is vote for speaker, and vote to adjourn for the day.",1
"And in this case, when we're solely looking at accepting or rejecting an accusation, we need to be particular. Don't give people an ""out"" or any wiggle room to act in bad faith.","The person you responded to isn't wrong at all. However, ensuring specificity with claims/accusations is incredibly important and the inability to do so just gives ammo to the other side that ""These guys can't even make up their mind about this or that, the Whataboutisms and Ya but...s are ridiculous"" etc.",0
"If the Russian soldiers (or their wives back in Russia) hear this, it could keep the already low morale of the Russian solders low….","This is Ukraine pushing against the Russian narrative. They are saying that the coalition of countries helping Ukraine is giving them everything they need—and, everything Russia doesn’t have: ammo, new tanks, long range weapons, winter uniforms, armor plates, Javelins, planes, etc.",0
"Sadly, It was already incorrect when posted. As of Feb 14, we were at 71. (According to the gun violence archive.) There have been at least three more since then. (GVA defines mass shooting as having a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.).","This. She truly beleived that Trump wasn’t ever going to win and she would step down under Hilary. It was a gamble that didn’t pay off and remember, if she had died 11 days later, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation but as you say, McConnel is scum and forced through the fastest nomination in history.",1
"Sure, maybe I didn't explain my point, I'm not saying uniforms eliminate bullying in general, but they help equalize the field for those children who cannot afford new or branded clothes from those who can.","Also, while I do agree that uniforms probably do reduce bullying, let's not mislead other readers about what is the main reason for bullying.",1
"A lot of comments that can be replied to but I'll reply to this one. I'm not ABC (CBC?) but immigrated when I was a kid. Never thought I'd own firearms until I tried it at another Chinese person's cottage and was hooked. The focus and breathing and nice weather outside was incredibly relaxing. That's what I still like now, been shooting smallbore prone. Nothing is quite as relaxing as focusing on just 1 thing for a couple of hours and thinking about nothing else.","Theres also a perception that it's only enjoyed by a certain demographic, which is not true here in Canada! For example I'm seeing more and more chinese people get into it, join ranges, being directors. At least 2 of the largest gun stores in the GTA are Chinese owned.",0
"Those countries basically fall into two groups: autocratic governments who love Putin because Russia's Wagner group helps them with unpleasant acts like killing dissidents, and various South American countries who rightly resent US imperialism in the 20th century and thus don't care about Russia's imperialism.","And then there's India, which is basically forced to play nice with Russia out of fear that they will cut India off from maintenance and spare parts for their mostly-Russian military.",0
"The only times Biden voted to go to war with Iraq was at the behest of Republican administrations, and the second time it was because of deliberate lies told to him and the world by Republicans. Lately he's the one responsible for getting us out of that war, which to me seems more currently relevant than something he thought thirty years ago.",Did America invade Iraq in 1998 when Democrats had the White House? No. Did America invade Iraq on two separate occasions when Republicans were in the White House? Yes.,0
"The stunningly idiotic Russian take is not that Ukrainians can't physically (due to lack of ability) attack Russian assets being used to attack Ukraine....it's the stated position that it is MORALLY WRONG for Ukraine to attack Russian assets being used to attack Ukraine. It is astounding. ""Don't you DARE attack our missile launching jets that we are using to wreck you mutherfuckers, your mothers, your children, your schools and hospitals. You are morally obligated to let us kill you."".","Good. But the NYT articles today have been absolute trash today repeating how this is Ukraine ""escalating"" the war. No dickheads, this is self defense hitting the military site that has repeatedly attacked Ukraine in an unprovoked war. What is Ukraine supposed to just let itself get attacked again and again without response?",1
"Unlike working at Burger King, when you leave the job, you tend to stay connected to your network of intelligence assets and even members of the CIA that operated out of the embassy you were in charge of.","A lot of it is because, even if you leave government service, you’re still an expert on Russia and that is your career path. Maybe you’re teaching at a university or you sit on the board of a company that has business in Russia and you’re asked to grease wheels and get the company meetings with high level Russian officials that you knew during your service.",0
"Sen. Bernie Sanders has called out Warren Buffett for making billions of dollars, while rail employees are fighting for paid sick leave and better working conditions.","""In one day, Mr. Buffett made twice as much money as it would cost to guarantee 15 paid sick days a year to every rail worker in America,"" the Vermont senator said. ""The greed of the rail industry must end."".",0
"Also the German demand was not honest. I am pretty sure that Scholz is primarily concerned that the US 2024 election will be won by Trump/Republicans. In his last term Trump openly discussed to Blackmail NATO Countries for the US Security commitment. With a possible returning of Trump it doesn’t make sense to send the best German Tanks to Ukraine, without the same baking by the US, because the republicans could easily blackmail Germany, when Germany send most of there tanks to Ukraine and following that is highly dependent on US security guarantees.","An announcement about the tanks could be part of an attempt to break a diplomatic logjam with Germany, which indicated to the US last week that it would not send its Leopard tanks to Ukraine unless the US also agreed to send its M1 Abrams tanks.",1
"Why does everybody think buying Greenland is a bad idea? It apparently has huge mineral reserves that are being exposed as the ice melts, and when the North Pole is ice free for extended periods Greenland is poised to be a huge shipping distribution hub between the Pacific and Atlantic.","Now of everything on this list, I would say purchasing Greenland was probably the most same and forward thinking, as it would have given us control over most of the North Atlantic/polar sea which, thanks to Republicans, is becoming more ocean than ice and can be a valuable shipping lane in the coming years.",1
"Here is an alternate headline: Black Democrats overwhelmingly prove they’re willing to protect the rights of others, even when they admittedly don’t understand them.","Besides the other responses, something you're missing here is that being a party of civil rights means protecting vulnerable people even when it's not an overwhelmingly popular stance. The qualities of the party that make a huge majority of Black voters side with Democrats are the same qualities that make things like trans rights an important part of the party's platform.",1
Probably showed up with satellite data of Russia's next invasion attempt after mobilizing the 300k troops. Russia has actually decided to train these troops in some form. They probably will try to invade again with this new troops in March.,I think the Pentagon is planning on the Russians running head first into the Ukrainians again. So this time the Ukrainians will have mobile anti tank weapons to go along with the javelins.,0
"Rape is absolutely being used as a tactic. The authenticity of the audio may be in question, but thousands of rapes happen isn’t a coincidence, it’s a feature.","You are missing, OP is pro Russian, they think the rapes are being exaggerated to make Russia look bad and Russia is the real victim here.",0
"Israel mostly attack Iranian targets in Syria, which is valid because Israel and Syria and still technically at war, and sometimes conducts small attacks in Iran, mostly assassinations.","Iran is funding multiple terrorist orgs by Israel's borders, but they themsevles don't want an open war with Israel because it would escelate into a larger conflict very quickly.",0
"So really, the situation ends up being that a person could have been in hormone replacement surgery for over a year, been living as a legal adult for over a year as the new gender, but still can't apply for a certificate that's tied to being 18.","Because 16yr old minors who identify as a different gender for a couple of months, and have no medical diagnosis at all, shouldn't be legally and medically changing their genders. At the very least not without their guardian's consent or a physician's supportive diagnosis.",1
"Everyone is getting confused here. The reason why SpaceX is baulking and limiting use here is due to one very specific example. See, Ukraine has directly integrated SpaceX Starlink terminals into the suicide drone itself. The Starlink terminal is part of the weapon, which in this case is effectively a tv guided torpedo.","The communications network of Starlink allows these tv guided torpedos to have infinite range, limited only by how much fuel can be loaded into the drone. If they were to use solar arrays to provide power for propulsion then even that restriction can be removed.",0
"No no, it's only gambling if you and I are doing it, because when we lose it's our problem. But when the banks and investment firms do it, it's the government's problem. Which usually means it's back to the taxpayer's problem.",I’m listing wasteful things the government has spent on. I am fully aware national debt is not always terrible. It is also a legitimate point to say the current national debt is a case study in insanely bad proportions.,1
It’s more in my opinion a this didn’t come directly from Russia so therefore no drastic measures will be taken (I don’t agree with that but that’s what I believe the ambiguous statement is).,"Various western mouthpieces, they haven't said it was Russia, despite having the missile trajectories(according to NATO). And we know it was specifically likely PRODUCED in Russia(which SU-300 is). And Ukraine had SU-300 operating within range of the area that got hit. And we know SU-300 do this kind of thing. It all sort of leads to it being a Ukranian misfire of a SU-300. Or a Ukranian AA hitting a Russian missile and knocking it off course.",1
If Russia want to keep turning up the heat rather than admit defeat then we're going to come to blows.,There will more than likely be a conventional war before nuclear war.. stop pretending like you're the only one who understands the implications.,0
"You answered your own question. The way the Primary season starts is with four low population States one week apart, with each State in a different part of the Country, and different demographics.","It goes Midwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast. They have NV and SC for diversity. They just need to rotate it. Although if Michigan is first, that should suffice, but rotating every election would still probably be better.",0
"This is so true. Walker may be among the dumbest, but Roy “Banned-From-Malls-For-Creeping-On-Teenaged-Girls” Moore was a terrible candidate and had no fame… just allegiance to Trump.","My understanding is Q Score is more about likability than name recognition. Media and marketing execs will panel test personalities to see how well they are received. I’m not an expert on this, so if I’m wrong, please educate me.",0
"C’mon now, you can be supportive without selling yourself so damn short. If you could afford the most expensive cosmetics, tailored dresses, and spent hours doing your makeup you would definitely look as feminine as a drag queen.","It’s so dumb that the left jumps on these pics as some kind of gotcha. Crossdressing for them isn’t some sign of latent trans identification, it just proves that they think it’s something silly to do. It’s harmful and nonsensical to suggest that the only reason people crossdress is because of gender dysphoria. Many people just do it for fun.",0
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"It is not illegal for voters to choose to disclose, if they so wish, whom they intend to vote for or whom they voted for.",Right and similarly you can choose to tell someone at the polling station whom you are going to cast your ballot for.,0
"I tried to tell him when he left it was a mistake... but as usual, no one ever does the long-term cost benefit analysis.",Sean just preparing for the next network and trying like hell to keep his own bad choices from imploding his career before he can reach them.,0
"Now lets reimbuse Ukraine the nukes they gave away to Russia after collapse of Soviet Union, when they were given security guarantees from Russia, USA and UK if they do so.","I’ll say it again: the fact that NATO refuses to join the war even when it’s Russia that started it is a clear proof that NATO had no intention to invade Russia at all, so Ukraine joining NATO can’t pose any threat to Russia. The only difference is that if Ukraine joins NATO, Russia will no longer be able to invade it, that’s why Russia wanted to do it before it’s too late.",1
"Additional counter-point. with modern indirect fire weaponry, which South Korea has a lot of, everything in North Korea is in range, but no one makes the argument that the North Koreans are at a military disadvantage because Pyongyang is in ballistic missile range from land, sea, and air.","If you think with every ""test"" missile launch that the Korean, US, and Japanese governments aren't out trying to find and recover anything for some intelligence purposes, you'd be out of your mind.",1
"FiveThirtyEight just did a podcast about this. Because they're FiveThirtyEight they tried to argue both sides, but it's inevitable that the Boomer chokehold on our politics will diminish in the coming years.","I think the political world is in for a major sea change as the Boomer generation begins to “exit” and more Gen Z, and by 2028, gen Alpha comes of age to vote. Younger people are incredibly, progressive, and they’re voting in unprecedented numbers.",1
I fail to see how a treaty made in the 1730s would allow an indigenous tribe a specific exemption to continue owning firearms some of which come into existence over two centuries after.,A new generation of high performance rimfire cartridges would probably be good for the UK as well given their ban on all semi auto guns save for rimfire long guns and shotguns (barring NI’s exemptions).,0
"In large part, yes, when that chaos is occurring so close to your own country. The US concern back in the early 20th century was primarily through the lens of WWI and environs, so fears of Germany using Haiti the way the USSR would eventually use Cuba. Another concern then and now is that when things go terribly wrong in Haiti, Haitians have an understandable tendency to fo and flee… generally to the US.","Well then good news, because no one wants to go in there either, just turn the migrant boats back to shore and let them rot in the bed they’ve made. In the time since the last foreign occupiers left Haiti, in the time since the last of the awful French debt was paid, a lot of countries pulled themselves up from as bad or worse situations than Haiti.",0
"That’s probably because 75% of Americans are not conservatives, and we’re being run from the rich minority by a bunch of voter suppression techniques.","I can assure you, nearly 100% of those House Republicans do not care about those 75% of Americans who believe they aren’t paying attention to the most important problems. They are a ruling minority party ruling for an ever shrinking minority.",1
did a good job explaining a lot of it and the problem with how America generally teaches it’s history.,Which is exactly why you need a program written by minority scholars that teaches their history and concepts.,1
Whether or not they will be able to catch us as they intend to though is an open question… There is an excellent hour long video on this by Perun if you want to watch it.,"I’m not trying to fearmonger or anything, I’m only saying the competition with this particular country is in all aspects you can name. It’s not like they’re particularly shy about that desire.",0
"Macron wanting to get out of there, isn't a bad idea. France is isolated in Africa, with US&Uk/Muslim Brotherhood/Russia/China doing everything possible to destabilise the region.","With China massively investing overthere and US intention to invest the area, Africa looks more and more like the battlefield those two decided for their proxiwar.",0
"The judiciary are unelected positions so it makes more sense to give them terms of a set duration. Personally, i like the 18 year terms for 9 justices coupled with a system where every new congress appoints a Justice to replace the outgoing justice. It gives every election meanjng and it ensures the make up of the court at least some what matches the current sentiments of our voting population.","Congressional term limits are a different beast than Presidential or Judicial. Elections act as term limiters for congress. If youre representing your constituents well and they support your actions in congress, you'll be reelected. If not, you're gone.",0
"And every energy source produces toxic waste. Coal and natural gas release its waste into the atmosphere, and spent batteries, spent solar cells, GaAs integrated circuits, turbine lubricants, and everything else all go to a landfill or into the ocean. Nuclear isn't unique there, only except that radiation is scarier than other forms of poisoning.",And the reason nuclear is stagnant is because people are unjustifiably scared of it. Nuclear is a great resource as part of a mix of energy generation along with solar and wind.,1
You copy pasted a lot but did you read it? The court is arguing that not acting on climate change immediately might cause huge losses of freedom in the future. Children born today will lose many of their freedoms as adults just so the adults of today can procrastinate on climate change for another decade.,Do you actually care about preventing climate change or are you just here to be an edgy 15 year old?,1
"That’s better than what India is doing right now, who is actively supporting the Iranian government.","Don't really understand why you are so agitated about the fact that India 'supports' Iran, whatever that means. It's clear India has massive projects in Iran which was literally started years before. Also, India condemns the actions of Iran (and Russia for that fact), however, they can't choose an extremely aggressive stance like the US without the risk of losing a fuckton of money, resources, and time invested in the Chabahar Port project.",1
"Desantis is coming with the full weight of the right wing media behind him. I want to watch Trump just as any more sentient being. But I really want him to do that thing where he makes up a stupid nickname for a person and then somehow everyone is talking about the nickname and agreeing that it is a lethal zinger that has destroyed the recipient’s electability. I dont really understand how it works. But I really need him to do it to Desantis, I feel like Anthony Michael Hall in the strangely good DeadZone Series from the early 2000s. Desantis is a more competent Trump.","Anyone who tries to act like Trump's nature is a recent revelation should not be trusted. If they can't acknowledge their own complicity and error, they are still ready to jump right back in to insanity. They are just hedging their bets.",1
"The problem is that you cannot mislead investors or insurance companies about the value of your assets in relation to what you tell the IRS. If you tell the IRS its worth $10, and you tell your insurance company its worth $100, you have technically lied to both. whats worse, if you lied to banks or investors about those assets as well, you have done worse because you pissed of really rich people.","That said, to be clear, what he is doing isn't ""illegal"", it might be perfectly legal. from a business standpoint, if you show low business income or a loss, you get paid back by a lot from the government, so it is a smart business strategy if you aren't a publicly traded business.",0
"As a bank employee, I can gift $20 to a federal employee if I spend the necessary few weeks filling forms, get manager and legal approval and can justify a special occasion.","Fed workers (at least at the normal level) can accept, cumulative, $50 worth of gifts in a year… it’s those in the upper echelon (appointed judges, congressional reps, etc.) who can make their living off of bribes….",1
"Mueller never found collusion with Russia, (the main point of that special council,) he just found a willingness to collude. Willingness is not a crime. Mueller was also constrained by the DOJ policy that you can’t indict sitting presidents (which I think is BS, no one is above the law.).","This. Such a good point. Didn't read really occur to me at the time but the media completely misrepresented the situation (at least CNN). They did mention it here and there, but if there being honest they would make it clear that the 20 holdouts aren't the only extremists.",1
"Unemployment is not the same as Underemployment (not measured), wherein People are working but not able to support themselves on their income.","Now I just want to remind everyone, unemployment isn't a binary ""person A has or doesn't have a job"", but rather one person working 4 jobs to stay afloat and 3 homeless, unemployed people is also a 100% employment rate.",1
"Some of the tallied “anti-Israel” resolutions are literally resolutions to help Palestinians. They are not condemnations of Israel, they are trying to help Palestine.",Israel also has more enemies. Most of the non-Western world are allies with or indifferent towards China and Russia.,1
California appears to be the source for its own crime guns 85% of the traces. I think that really blows out of the water the porous borders argument people use to defend Californias failures to address its gun violence.,"Considering how large California is, the fact that only 60% of its known guns are coming from in-state purchases I think does somewhat lend to the fact that the gun problem can't be solved completely within California, because a large number of guns are still coming in from out of state. And when you compare it to Texas, where 85% of its known guns are purchased in state, I think it proves that guns are being bought elsewhere and then brought into California.",1
"Garbage headline she actually said Russian invasion of Ukraine revealed that Europe is too reliant on American defenses, that the EU should be more self reliant.",According to Reddit's general Russia's about to invade Europe and our defenses are not enough even though realistically Russia could not fight Finland or Poland even if they were on their own.,1
The funny thing is it is happening on the state level. I’m in Florida and Republicans from the governor on up to members of Congress have acknowledged that climate change is real and have taken steps to address it here.,That’s obviously not good enough — we need to address it as a country and on the world stage. But all Republicans aren’t the climate deniers they want you to think they are.,0
"We ALMOST replaced Manchin this month with Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin. He only lost by 2 points after getting minimal funding from the DNC/DSCC and relatively minimal attention or assistance from the party until the last week or two of the race. Had the Democratic Party gone as all-in on Barnes as they did Val Demmings, Barnes would have won. Democratic leadership wasted money and time swinging for the fences in red-as-Satan's-ass Florida because said candidate is an Obama Administration alumna, while relatively ignoring a far more easily winnable race because the guy running is a Progressive Berniecrat who overturned the apple cart by beating the Moderate party favorite during the Primary.",2024 is another opportunity to replace Manchin. Hopefully Chuck Grassley will retire or be forced to retire due to age and health issues and we can have a chance to replace him with a Democrat. Missouri is another potential pickup (and probably easier than Iowa).,0
"We're now in a world where Mike Pence, the man who believes in conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ individuals, is going to run as the ""sane"" presidential option for Republicans.","TIL massive expansion of drone technology where we can carpet bomb the living fuck out of anyone we want on the planet is ""meh."".",0
"I used 2012 as an example because of the way the House was split unevenly due to gerrymandering and how it showed how quickly Republican control of the majority of state legislatures, and therefore district mapping, had rigged the game against Democrats that enjoyed vastly wider popularity across the general electorate.","Personally, I feel this should be a prime example of why we should have representatives picked on a ratio basis of state votes as opposed to candidates running for individual districts, as most states have such lenient residency requirements for qualifying to run in a district as to make it laughable that a candidate needs to ""know"" their district. See Marjorie Taylor Greene or even Dr. Oz (yeah, I know, he didn't run in districted election, but he qualified to run without even actually having lived in the state for any appreciable amount of time, which was a factor in him losing) or any other carpetbagger that has won an election, quite honestly. Would I rather advocate for representatives to have at least a decent amount of experience within their own district? Absolutely. Am I being pragmatic about the way candidates move to qualify for a district they believe they can win as opposed to winning the district they're in and the way districts are redrawn every ten years, negating most or all of the ""hometown"" essence behind being a representative? I believe so. I used to live in a district that had a 200 by 20 mile with rural bubbles on the sides, splitting three heavily blue cities into multiple other districts that all went red because of how they were split up and countered by the rural vote. That's how you get cities that vote for blue presidents and blue senators and blue governors (and other blue statewide seats and mayor's/city leadership) but have solid red representatives in the US House and State legislatures. We had a cardboard cutout of our rep at town halls because he refused to show up to meet constituents unless it was a Republican donor event. There's a lot of that going on outside of major cities now, and even in some of the bigger cities. Just look at Nashville after this election. Gerrymandering split apart a very blue city with a large population to the point that there are no Democrats representing it, and only 1 Democrat was elected to the house from Tennessee, even though the numbers should have had 2 Democrats, at minimum. The Wisconsin elections are just as skewed, with districts radiating from Milwaukee and Madison in a way as to concentrate blue votes inside the cities and then negate them on the edges with sprawling districts that only make sense if you are admitting you can't win an election with maps that are remotely fair.",0
Yeah if the whales don't like it and the people don't like it seems like a prime opportunity to stop and invest in something whales and people like. Or a least something people like that doesn't kill whales.,Not all whales are going extinct. There’s over 1.5 million whales in the oceans. I can’t read the article because I live in Europe but I imagine endangered species are still being treated as endangered.,1
"Makes you wonder where we'd be if Yanukovych had had the courage to hold out for Russian support. Would Ukraine be like Belarus now, its population living with sanctions applied on Ukraine in an attempt to punish the old elite. While we, brave and righteous redditors that we are, tell them to just revolt if they want the sanctions removed.",I'm talking about the 2013-2014 Ukrainian protests and revolution that saw the pro-Russian Yanukovych (then Ukrainian president) chased out of Ukraine.,0
"I’m voting for Warnock, but I’m getting so many spam texts and calls that I’m about to lose my mind.",Dont worry homie I'm voting for Warnock myself. I'm having a hard time getting anyone else to vote bc they don't want jurry duty or they don't care. But I'll be there.,1
"if Ukraine is armed to the teeth, we ought to fear them taking Moscow before we worry about their weapons falling in Russian hands; who wouldn't know how or where to operate them.","Depends if he uses tactical or strategic nukes, people don't seem to realise that nuking Ukraine does not necessarily mean mutually assured destruction. Everyone also seems to think article 5 would be activated in the event of a nuclear strike on Ukraine because of radiation crossing borders, hate to break it to everyone but they can detonate a nuke over Kiev with minimal fallout.",1
"I can’t imagine anyone the Rs would put up would be tolerable, so I will vote dem, for sure. However, I want someone other than Biden to run. Not sure who that should be, but Biden is too old and very unpopular. (I’ve been relatively happy with him as potus, but would like him to retire after 1 term, as he stated he would do before running in 2020. ).",Same. Biden was not my choice in the primary but he's been doing a better job than I hoped so I'm not going to go disrespecting his eligibility to do the job now.,1
"She hasn't been sentenced yet. Her bond was revoked as she was found guilty and the judge decided she is a danger in some way, or going to take off, so she is in custody until the sentencing hearing. These go towards time served.","She was found guilty, so basically the judge revoked her bond and had her remanded into custody until sentencing. It can be in a week, or months. Most states have the probation department do a pre sentence investigation and balance things like her criminal history, how bad the crimes were, aggravating and mitigating factors, etc, and come up with a recommendation for what and how long her sentence should be.",0
It's honestly gross how many people in this thread seem deadset on the idea that somehow old white men are the source of all evil and any women or minorities who go along with it are simply doing so because that's what old white men want.,Are we really pretending like women and black people can't simply be bad people on their own without input from old white men?,0
There’s so much that needs to be done. We need so much fucking help right now. Numerous states are trying to violently outlaw our existence every day. We’re all struggling & growing more terrified each day.,We’re in the crosshairs of the richest Transphobe on Earth. I was forced to delete my account after calling out some major transphobia. People started calling me a mentally ill groomer and shit. I had to delete my account. It’s not safe there for me anymore.,0
"Yeah, months before the pipes were even shutdown. It was already taken care of diplomatically, there's no reason to read anything else into the statement other than conspiratorial thinking.","So now the argument is both that Biden was intentionally signalling to Putin but also, despite his decades of media interaction, became flustered and gave away a covert operation that would drive Europe away from the US?",0
Hey it's worked for them so far. They've been campaigning on protecting the right to abortion for as long as I can remember.,No. Everything bad Republicans do is Republicans fault. And everything Democrats fail to do when they have the power to is Democrats fault.,0
It... really isn't bullet-proof except on the federal level. Many states still ban gay marriage and would likely dissolve marriages done since gay marriage was legalized.,"A law doesn't have to be perfect, just functional, and this protects LGBT marriages today. It is a major step forward for us to make sure we don't slide backward. Not to mention it repeals the existing law defining marriage as between a man and a woman, a major legislative roadblock in the past. Yes, there is still progress to be made, but you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.",1
"Mueller, spells out the crimes trump committed, but no one has the political will to do anything about it. So ""Mueller exonerated trump"" sticks.",It allows them to lie and keep the people believing their bs while being in a completely different world.,0
"The problem is not the danger of deforestation, but rather the emissions from burning wood and releasing it into the atmosphere. At least you don't get the ancient CO2 from coal or oil, but it's still multiple decades of CO2, and burning wood is also pretty dirty with a lot of fine particles and other gases that are troublesome.","Problem with burning is that it released CO2 immediately, and It takes decades to recapture the carbon, so really not carbon neutral for a long time.",1
"Once the transfere is done, and the russian cargo is now mixed with the original cargo of the mother ship, the owners of the cargo can request the chamber of commerce (a relevant CoC authority, it cannot be a CoC from the UK when the ship is sitting in the territorial water of let's say Spain, it has to be a Spanish CoC). The CoC the issues a certificate of origin as Spanish origin...","As someone who had been in the oil industry for over a decade, I can tell you it's the most corrupt industry, only second to the vessel owners.",0
"You can claim its Propaganda as much as you want, but its no secret what our Plan is. And while the main hope was the rich oligarch to turn on putin because of the sanctions, that clearly failed. But it now looks like it might work on the regular russian People slowly. Open critic on Putin and the war is slowly appearing in Russia. And the drafted civillians are unhappy with how shitty everything is, like equipment and Food, other supplies. Its slowly falling apart. You just got to hold the line a bit longer. So far you are doing more than great. Otherwise, if Russians dont go against Putin, and China keeps helping them to survive the sanctions, this war could go on for years and years, because they can just keep drafting more People from their massive populace, keep replacing the losses. But at the moment, Putin does not have the support for that, thank fuck, he allready got backlash when he did that relatively small draft, like two Months ago.","Putin saw the writing on the wall and moved in with (relatively, at least compared to today) little issues.",1
"In the case of the Texas abortion law, private citizens were empowered to enforce the law by suing and the courts ruled that a court cannot enjoin all private citizens from suing.","In the case of the California gun law, private citizens are empowered to enforce the law by suing and, following the same logic as above, a court cannot enjoin all private citizens from suing.",0
Also depends what drug offenses you might be talking about. There’s a big difference between smoking a joint and smuggling fentanyl across the boarder.,"Well since we have a system of law and order which also has checks and balances to help prevent abuses and yet they were still found guilty means there just happens to be repercussions. One of which means they just happen to have lost their freedoms and rights. Frankly there is no more invasive punishment than being imprisoned, but as a consequence they lose their right to vote just as they lost their right to own a gun well then I see no problem with that whatsoever.",0
"Though I don’t think it’s the end of missile strikes for today yet, as just recently there was a second missile strike aimed at Kharkiv’s energy infrastructure, and apparently it wasn’t done by an S-300 missile, but a cruise missile, which they usually do not use on Kharkiv, because they can use the cheaper and more abundant S-300 missiles for it. Some people reported electricity being cut after that missile strike, but for us it’s stable for now. We had it the entire day with basically no interruptions despite the missile strike, though it did flicker for a couple of seconds right after the first missiles landed in Kharkiv in the morning.","Some good news is that while they were firing missiles at us the whole morning our forces didn’t sit idly, Russians reported that one of their S-300 launchers was destroyed by our strike right in the middle of the missile attack. There were also a bunch of other attacks on Russian positions on their side of the border, as well as another strike on Engels airbase, though I’m pretty sure this time they did actually manage to intercept our drone.",0
"Most polls I’ve seen have it at nearly 50/50 between trump/not trump. The thing is that Desantis doesn’t get all of the not trump votes, so trump has a huge lead.","If trump and DeSantis run against each other the best thing would be for trump to narrowly lose to DeSantis. Trump will rail that DeSantis stole it from him and his supporters will either protest vote against DeSantis, or trump will run 3rd party guaranting a dem win.",1
"“President must have logs kept of all interactions from the day they are certified as the winner of the election, until they die.” Is my actual stance on this matter.","Bud, if I can come up with 3 easy questions about caveats, what do you think our friendly, fascists-in-training political party (GOP) will do to obfuscate laws? This has been the whole reasoning behind my posts… If you add caveats, you open yourself up to exactly the kind of questioning I presented… And I assure you much more powerful, well-funded organizations could take any caveat and bend it to their advantage.",0
"Nations don’t have morality. Look at Swedish neutrality in WW2 where they supplied loads of iron ore to Germany. That allowed Germany to build plenty of military equipment, tanks, ships, guns, etc.",In response to what you wrote: A point so often missed when made about Switzerland in WW2 when it was completely surrounded by Nazi Germany and her allies. Yet people still mention it all the time. Also Sweden was selling iron ore to Germany before the invasion of Norway as well.,0
"Easily two of the top greatest emotional traumaz someone can go through is abandonment or banishment from one's own ""in-group"", and enduring life or death violence.","These police were betrayed their fellow police officers, as well as betrayed by the fellow American citizens who fell on them in a filthy mob.",0
"Putin is a murderous dictator and completely intimidating and evil, but he also is well known for having a very dry sense of humor and banter in public. If you watch a lot of Putin speeches and interviews, it starts to make a bit more sense.","I wonder if the same phenomenon is at play when people diagnose Putin from pictures and videos. Every week some journalist or talking head diagnoses him with something, but most doctors interviewed seem to be saying, ""could be cancer, could be something else, come to the office"". I think the media does this to give people hope.",1
"For those that don't want to click on the link, it's an unreliable source claiming that Iran was shipping uranium to Houthi rebels, and al-quedaa now has it.","The material was allegedly being delivered from Iran to Houthi rebels in Yemen when some of it was intercepted by the terror group, Israeli newspaper Maariv said, citing unnamed sources."".",1
"If the actions of some random climate activists change your mind about climate change, your ideological integrity is about as rigid as a wet napkin.",Maybe if your audience is a bunch of morons without the capacity for careful examination of complex issues.,0
You might not like the idea that those nations invaded Iraq over what they knew were lies but that does not change the truth.,"The UNSC never agreed to the invasion of Iraq, that is a blatant lie. Multiple permanent members explicitly spoke out against it. It was an illegal invasion, stop living 20 years in the past.",1
"If you think so. However, terrorists are constantly looking for ways to attack America. There is a balance between freedom and security. What’s the harm in requiring people to meet certain requirements to get a federal ID when that ID is used for federally controlled forms of mass transportation when mass transportation has been used for successful terrorist attacks in the past? It’s already required to have a passport for international travel. Why is that required? A passport is really all about security.","How is that different from a passport? I don’t have a drivers license anymore because I’ve been overseas for twelve years and it expired. Oops. I don’t have to drive anymore lol. I’m thinking as long as I have a passport I’m good, but this is making me think not.",1
I'm really shocked at how people apparently sit around at work so much and companies just... let them get away with it to the point that losing 20% of the labor hours for the week has minimal effect.,"Then again, one of the major points regarding shorter work weeks is that many employees aren't doing the 40 hours' worth anyway, as it's too much to ask.",1
"As I did in another comment, I just want to add some nuance here - the law isn’t “don’t work on Shabbat.” It’s, “don’t engage in the following 39 melachot on Shabbat.” Those are specific acts of work that were done building the tabernacle. Carrying is just plainly one of them, no interpretation needed.","I think a lot of people get confused and don’t understand how Jews arrive at these seemingly strange interpretations of what seem like simple rules. I think it comes from most people not knowing that there are two Torahs, both of which are held as equally important: the written Torah, which most people know as the Old Testament, and the oral Torah (now also, confusingly, written down), which prescribes the majority of Jewish law. You can’t have one without the other.",0
I don't fantasize about being a victim. I fully understand not everyone is getting attacked everyday. But a lot of people ARE attacked. I have been attacked.,Statistics don't mean shit when you're the target and it's happening to you. What do you propose someone does to defend themselves when attacked if they're not allowed to be armed?,0
"You just said “free speech” doesn’t cover straight up lying. You miss the point in that without free speech, you can’t call out lies. That’s what the people who are speculating about Paul Pelosi are doing. They think that the news media is lying, so they’re trying to produce speculation. Exactly what OP commenter did about Musk being bought by Putin. It’s probably not true, but I support him being able to speculate and put pieces to a puzzle together on any theory he may have, what if Twitter removed his theory and called it “misinformation”? What if his stupid theory happened to be true?","Great, you should do that. If you see lies, expose them. But let’s not ignore the rhetoric seen on these comments, and assumedly you, that indicates that Twitter has a moral obligation to censor anything that’s seen as “misinformation,” according to them.",0
"Back on the original subject, we shouldn't bail out any business. If a certain industry proves to not be profitable enough for the private sector to manage and it is deemed essential, then and only then should we attempt to nationalize it.",He should have threatened to nationalize the whole industry and proposed taxing the rail billionaires huge percentages of their wealth to help pay for retrofitting a system that they neglected for decades in an effort to improve their profits.,1
"From what I've heard, it's a contentious topic in Moldova. A lot of people believe it would be very sensical. Romanians and Moldovans are essentially the same people, and Romania is much more prosperous than Moldova. It could solve a lot of their economic problems if they joined together. Unfortunately, others view the idea with disdain, as over the near 80 years of Soviet occupation, a small bit of Soviet Moldovan identity was formed, and some people still hold onto that. Instead of seeing the state of their country as being a consequence of communism, they view it as a consequence of the modern corrupt Moldovan government, and they long for a return to the good old days in the Soviet Union.","In reality, Moldova was poor even then. The modern issues of Moldova are a result of both old and current corruption. If people could agree on that, then I think some day there may be a solution. As for right now, nothing will change so long as this debate is bogged down in polarized mindsets and continued governmental neglect.",0
"Nowadays, to have any sort of meaningful wealth in Russia you need to be a creature of the state. Half your assets are considered state property. (If not Putin’s himself, although I’m not sure he sees much of a difference.) You act in its interests and it tells you what it expects of you, and dipping a toe into Russian politics is entirely off limits unless you’re directed to.","People still have outdated views on the oligarchy as if it was shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when it did indeed hold much political power, but that isn’t really the case anymore as you said.",0
"No, what I said was the opposite of the Jesus quote. Although I think each quote uses ""judge"" in a different way: the Jesus quote uses it to mean ""condemn,"" but the one I quoted (which I think is from Ayn Rand) uses it to mean ""morally assess."".","Yes. Have you ever been involved (or known someone who has been involved) in one of these missions? Sure, some may be scummy, but the vast majority involve real help like building school buildings/homes/wells, providing medical care/etc. They proselytize as well, but to say they're not helping the indigenous people is disingenuous.",1
"I'm a liberal voter, as well as a legal gun owner. Guns are not my entire identity but I'm honestly getting pissed off. There are so many more important issues they can be tackling, but they choose this. It feels like its personal. World's burning down around us, grocery chains price gouging hard, and they choose this. Mendocino gets on TV, makes misleading statements but people who aren't gun owners will not care.","A lot of comments that can be replied to but I'll reply to this one. I'm not ABC (CBC?) but immigrated when I was a kid. Never thought I'd own firearms until I tried it at another Chinese person's cottage and was hooked. The focus and breathing and nice weather outside was incredibly relaxing. That's what I still like now, been shooting smallbore prone. Nothing is quite as relaxing as focusing on just 1 thing for a couple of hours and thinking about nothing else.",0
"Most provinces are bird shot bullets, rubber bullets and paint ball with occasional live rounds. Some provinces there's high use of live rounds such as sistan and baluchestan and Kurdish regions cause the regime is racist towards them compared to Persians.",4. Biden administration want to renew the Nuclear deal I don't think he's willing to send guns to Iran. Even if someone is willing to send guns in good luck trying to smuggle it in. Border security is heavy.,0
"Also, as an American.. I’m pretty up to date on Imperial Japanese atrocities in WW2. However, we created deliberate Firestorms during our strategic bombings of the Japanese mainland.",You can examine the voting history of the last couple of decades and see the Japanese population staunchly against supporting anything other than their Defense Force.,0
People buy pets impulsively for the holiday and then return them once the regret sets in. Or releases domesticated rabbits into the wild where they will be unlikely to survive .,"Now all that being said, when I opened the article there was a video about an alligator playing and my immediate thought was ""For fuck's sake Florida. That is not a dog."".",0
"If Russia wasn't using these soldiers trying to get Ukraine to spend money/time/energy on POWs, I shudder to think of what they might otherwise be used for.","Looking back over Russia from the last century, I don't think any of the Russian officers have the resources, time, or empathy for their wounded soldiers.",0
"(""North Korea maintains nearly 6,000 artillery systems within range of major South Korean population centers, which it could use to kill many thousands in just an hour, even without resorting to chemical or nuclear weapons."").",Yeah. That’s their strategy. Sacrifice waves of men until they exhaust the enemy. Then doing that in Ukraine or S Korea makes no difference to their army’s reputation.,1
"Saying as someone who voted for Biden, Democrats won in spite of Biden, not because of him. If I was a Republican I'd be salivating at Biden running again with his 39% approval among independents and only 85% among Democrats.","The other part of that is, the remaining fact that Biden did better against poo poo than any other known democratic candidate.",1
Maybe those aliens have evolved beyond the need of weapons and didn’t expect other species to be so primitive and violent so they didn’t bring weapons….. this time….,If it was alien craft that traveled here from millions of light years away do you people really think we humans could shoot it down with our proverbial stick and stones?,1
"Yeah they have black budgets, underground SCIFs (where high ranking officials can learn of certain secrets they are cleared for), and incredibly compartmentalized to facilitate secrecy. The MIC is obsessed with compartments and modules. From their weapons platforms to their bunkers and especially with their hierarchy. I read one year (2016 I believe) that 6.5 trillion (with a T!) went “missing” into black budget projects. That’s not corruption, it’s way too much. It’s likely them spending on things they don’t want any record of. It’s very shady and needs to be thoroughly audited imo.",There’s a source that you didn’t ask for. It’s not the original it just references the original article. The 6.5 trillion was more than the Pentagon’s entire budget that year by A LOT. If it is corruption then we have a serious leak in our budget.,0
"Politically, the GOP had no choice. They would’ve had to tell their voters, “no, y’all are fucking idiots.” It would never happen. No political party would do that, period. I frankly don’t think the dems would do it were the roles reverse. Pragmatically, they didn’t really have much of a choice if they didn’t want to blow up their own party.","Regardless, my point was more so that they didn’t follow him for the “allure of power and money” like you suggested. They followed him because their voters chose him and put them in a position where their only alternative to following him was blowing up the party.",0
"Oh, I know how they do it. I'm a tax professional. I'm just saying the part of the code you're referring to isn't a ""loophole"", it's a legitimate strategy with very real consequences. The fraud comes when a taxpayer lies on their return, not from the advice or direction of the tax professional.","The same handful of fraudulent “finance advisors” like tax attorneys, accountants, CPAs, etc. seem to figure out these elaborate schemes, and then it gets circulated through friend groups and other social circles.",1
It's a very telling thing they would mock these claims and people but have a low enough opinion of their audience that they would think they would believe such ridiculous claims.,It will be a bummer if their audience who followed these claims don’t realize the idiocy of their ways upon reading this news. Anybody who sees evidence of their views being mocked by the very people who convinced them in the first place need took take a serious look at what they actually care about.,1
"Ok? There are billions of people that still believe in a higher power around the world and ,whether or not you agree, people in the US have the freedom to have religious views under the 1st Amendment. If you think that religious individuals shouldn’t hold power you are infringing on the 1st Amendment at that point. As long as the church and state remains separate I don’t see why it matters if someone is religious or not?","It is separate though? There isn’t a law outlawing people in power being religious, the law is that religion cannot form an actual powerhouse within politics. And if you make the call that you can’t be religious when getting into politics you are now infringing on the 1st Amendment.",0
"A majority of those 11 will actually go to Democrats, it just depends how many. Most predictions have at least 7. That means Dems will have 216 seats to 219 for Republicans. There is a 25% chance that Dems win 9 and clinch the majority.","Right now, the betting markets give 55% chance of McCarthy winning, 22% Pelosi... And thats it. The other 23% is Cheney.",1
Russian refugees into neighbouring baltic countries is clearly a national security issue (because Putin can and will use it as an excuse to Tey and annex territory from bordering countries).,"Also, given Latvia are a former soviet satellite nation witnessing their former overlord invade and brutalize another former soviet satellite nation, why wouldn't they be so-called ""Russophobic""?",1
"2/3 of its territory wasn't populated by Hungarians though. It was populated by people who by and large, were colonized by Austria-Hungary. that is the root of the issue.","After a genocidal war has started, and all of the prejudices, fears and paranoias about russia have become validated. the Polish hate-boner for Russia is far stronger than it's value of keeping Hungary as a friend, when Hungary is supporting Russia.",0
Have you seen the Multi-Level Marketing and other schemes in Utah? Utahns are EXTREMELY gullible. (I’ve lived in Utah and have worked for a few of these companies…).,"I had them when I lived in Utah. They're good- I mean, how can you go wrong with cheese and potatoes?- but they're very bland. Adding a bit of spice goes a long way with them.",1
"I had posted this elsewhere. They try to frame it as people don't want to work but where I live in one of the top 25 most populous cities in the US, people have been priced out of the area. A recent report showed there was not a single apartment in the city that a person making $15 an hour could qualify to rent (30% of income rule) and many places just pay minimum wage or even less for restaurant workers. It's hard to fill positions when the wages paid will not allow you to live in the area.","Pay people a living wage. That’s the only feasible solution to the labor shortage. Stop being a bunch of egotistical, money hoarding assholes and pay people enough to live on. You don’t need all that extra money and you can’t take it with you where you’re going after the big dirt nap so crack open your wallets and start shelling it out. It’s only going to get worse if you don’t.",1
"I hope you realize that ideologically, Putin and his followers are much closer to the GOP. Right wingers love to project fascism onto the left but never care to take a hard look at what GOP candidates are actually saying.",You’re side-stepping the question. What actual political beliefs do leftists share with fascists? And why is that at all relevant to the failure of economic systems that aren’t doing much worse than capitalist America? You don’t just get to say “they don’t like freedom” without specifying the specific policy.,0
“Whataboutism” is not just a general word for “vaguely supportive of something Russia said.” Whataboutism is deflecting blame for something by pointing out that other people did the same thing or something worse. Citing the fact that France has sponsored violent acts before is not whataboutism when the subject we’re talking about is France potentially sponsoring another violent act.,"Edit: If the folks downvoting would like to explain why it’s whataboutism to talk about France in a thread about France, I’m all ears.",0
Why do you think Ukraine can win this war? The longer this goes on the worse it will get for Ukraine.,"Fucking Christ, it's like people only think about this war in the long term effects on Ukraine and not the long-term effects on Russia.",1
"To be clear, the very fact Ukraine got anything at all is what let them survive against the crappy Russian army. Further, you conveniently ignore the javelins, Nlaws and Himars that are by no means junk. This is exactly what I mean when I say people underlay the role of the west.","There's also the fact that Russia is actively mishandling this whole thing by not properly mobilising from the start, but just not having Javelins/Nlaws early in the war could have been eough to seal Ukraines fate.",0
It brought back 13 of them in 2014 with a M270A1 modernization effort that notably removed the ability to operate cluster rockets from it.,"It's an old decommissioned M26 rocket motor, with a soon to be decommissioned GBU-39A (SDB - Small Diameter Bomb) on top.",0
And Gaza is controlled by Hamas a terror group... Not controlling what goes in and out makes Hamas a huge threat for security.,"Israel made Gaza a prison, controlling EVERYTHING that goes in and out. Gazans can't leave Gaza without Israeli permission. That means if a Gazan wants to travel abroad, well too fucking bad he can't.",1
Ikr. I have no hope for this either. It’s a shame that US democracy seems as farcical as the notion of judicial justice when it comes to people with any ounce of lobbying and economic power beyond the norm.,There are three large problems with a case like Trump that are generally anything that has to do with rich people and the judicial system(besides the obvious):,1
"Heres an idea genius, if russia will kill me if i surrender, maybe i wont surrender. Or im sorry, let me extend my arm chair, if ukraine will kill me i surrender, maybe i shouldnt surrender.","And I just hope Ukraine won't let another like him be exchanged to their death. Good chance they actively try to avoid this sort of thing, but I just find tragic things to be tragic is all. There's enough senseless death in war, and a potential administrative oopsie or lapse in thinking or judgement resulting in torture and public execution is pretty shit.",1
Now back to Ukraine. Some priests as investigation shown spread Russian supplied propaganda justifying Russian agression and war crimes! Literally published in Russia propaganda how Russia has a right to occupy Ukraine and it should not exist. One priest caught in bed with an underage boy.,It was long known that Moscow branch that is in direct subordinate of Gundyaev is nothing more than a FSB branch. But the topic was too sensitive. Now it is time to show who is with Ukraine and its people and who is pro Putins tyranny. When civilians getting killed by russian troops they want kgb agents that pretend to be priests to get the hell out of Ukraine.,0
But even so have fines of $0 for cancelled flights that are the error of Southwest's refusal to properly staff or invest in IT isn't the answer.,"If the fines are just on Southwest and they raise prices too severely, won’t people just fly with another carrier? I don’t know enough about the airline industry, but it seems like there is competition and people can choose just not to fly SW if their tickets cost too much.",1
"On its own, probably not. In combination with RCV, I think it would limit extremism because you'd be more likely to have moderates who can pull from a broad range of voters politically most likely to succeed. It would also make it more difficult to game the system and make gerrymandering much more difficult. I think it would also change the dynamics of electoral politics because no candidate would be running against any other individual candidate. I think strategically, in general, it would necessitate candidates who express more positive visions of what they'd like to do and less negative personal and partisan attacks against a singular opponent.",My preference is for both ranked choice voting and multimember districts. That way more people have an opportunity to have someone that represents them that they voted for instead of winner take all where you end up with up to 49%+ of a single member district not having any representation.,0
"Biden isn’t going to resign unless he’s elected and an unexpected health issue comes up. But even if he did resign it wouldn’t impact the house or senate majority since the new president gets to appoint a VP. If the Senate is held by the GOP and they refuse to confirm a VP then the office sits vacant and the speaker of the House is next in line should something happen to Harris, but they are still in the House until that happens.","You don't get to have 2 hats, if Biden resigns the VP becomes president, but then someone else needs to become VP (which would probably be speaker of the house), and someone else needs to be speaker of the house.",1
"In canada we have had magazine limit laws since the 90s, with a few loophole exceptions centerfire semi automatic rifles and shotguns are limited to 5 rounds and pistols are limited to 10.","So… rifles are rarely if ever used in crimes in Canada, and legally purchased guns are rarely used in crimes in Canada… but those two categories are the subject of this new round of regulation?",1
"I’ve been hearing that the votes are because the far left wing has some super extreme concessions they’d like McCarthy to make, and that’s the reason they’re not voting him in. I heard there are 25 of them in total who will be changing their vote in subsequent votes to embarrass him - one each vote.","(Like, for a minute. One of the rule changes that McCarthy already allowed was for a simple majority to unseat a speaker, so any outcome from any vote, no matter what is more or less non binding - which seems oddly fitting, coming from republicans.).",0
"And, if you think NATOs purpose is to destroy Russia, rather than to defend against Russian aggression, why don't they strike Russia now, while the Russian military is busy shitting the bed in Ukraine?","Why wouldn't the countries supporting Ukraine, not sending top technical arms per person, night vision, computer sat, location and the marksmen take out the Russian enfentry like ducks o and a pond. 1500, 2000, 2500 meter sniper shots, all kills no wasted rounds. Supported with barrage fire form cannons tanks etc..",1
"It’s worth remembering, these are individual blasts, they don’t combine into one megablast, and the largest MIRV warhead I can find (US W88) has a true destructive radius of 2km with only light damage after that (downed trees, damaged roofs and broken windows).","And if you don't light up like a Roman candle, the blast wave overpressure within a second or two is going to shred your limbs from your body with flying debris or turn you into a crash test dummy at 100 miles an hour slamming you into any still stationary surface including the ground. Yay.",1
I saw national guard subtly step between protestors and cops in a few times in 2020. And there were videos of some of them dancing and talking with protestors. I definitely felt safer with national guard around because they seemed to keep the cops more in line.,"What’s depressing as hell is that it is safer for the public to have soldiers maintain order than normal cops. When soldiers have better de-escalation training than cops, you know you have a problem.",1
"The economy is shit, people on Reddit are just young and don't remember the world before 2008. It comes to a point people form their standards on averages, not what should actually be the case.","Yeah, Biden did a good job doing something, but I don't know if it honestly made a difference in my life. I still have high rent that wont go down and I have more expensive groceries. They haven't fixed that, they basically did their job preventing it from getting significantly worse and we act like they're hard working heroes for it.",0
"if it wasn't Ryanair using the airport with 20€ flights to Spain, the UK, Egypt etc, it wouldn't have been close to 4 million passengers at all.","Since it's only used by Ryanair, you could gather how many Germans travel to the Balearic islands or to another airport which misleadingly claims to be near a European city.",1
"Also, many anti-semites actually support a nation of israel, that way they can have a reason to try and pressure Jews in their country to move somewhere else.","I guess it doesn't help that instead of supporting the Zionist left, the left in the world seems to go further and further into antizionism - rejecting Israel's right to exist at all. Hard to convince Israelis there's a chance for peace when your entire existance and right to live is questioned and not your policies. And I know that because I am one of the few who still vote left.",1
"Stopped a bunch of genocide in various places. Killed several dictators and a bunch of jihadis, Kosavo, pirates, counter-balanced other powers. Prevented WWIII. Yeah, doing pretty well.","Yeah, could been putting in more work, but you'll notice that SpaceX is an American company and they are basically the biggest space program around. (Props to Elon).",0
"I got to say this every time I see this mentioned, but when he did that, he was talking about provisional ballots. Wherein someone who already sent in a mail-in ballot can go to the polls on election day and vote ""again"" just to make sure that they're counted since mail-ins can be rejected based on certain criteria not being met.","Just to be clear though, voting by mail and then voting again with a provisional ballot is not what provisional ballots are for, and is not suggested officially. That's just not what a provisional ballot is for. You don't vote twice, period.",1
"Breaking state's rights was the requirement for a national majority to break open the petty tyrannies that the racists built - so the conservative faction has spent the intervening time installing their own judiciary to favor state's rights - and they have been rewarded for it with Shelby v Holder, which allowed the recent wave of voting restrictions targeting Democrats.","It wouldn't - both the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts require that the national tier of government impose restrictions on the state tier of government specifically to guarantee rights (political participation, housing, employment, marriage, etc) for groups of individual people whom the state tier does not not want to have such rights.",0
"For the first time Turkey is politically strong to ask what they want from others. All these countries you said had upper hand against Turkey so they didn't care about what we said but it's different in this situation. Every country would do the same. And they don't need to support Turkey's operations, but also they shouldn't put embargoes against an ally while arming, funding the group we are fighting.",Finland wanna be in the same military alliance with Turkey while having arm embargoes against it. Is that really weird that Turkey asks Finland to lift these embargoes?,0
If a black person killed another black person because they did not like black people we would still consider that a hate crime. The fact that this person is claiming to be non-binary does not change the fact that they committed a hate crime.,"Wait, how could the attorney attempt to lessen the hate crime by giving the client a non-binary identity? Like is that actually a thing?! Being Non-binary isn’t mental illness so why would that lessen the charge?",1
"CCW permit holders are vetted by the local sheriff department in my state and receive training from the local police after a psych interview etc. IMO, they are the only citizens/ regular people who should be allowed to carry a gun.",this headline is misleading because the term “Concealed Carry” in this situation refers to someone concealed carrying with a special permit; it’s always illegal to conceal a firearm without a permit.,0
So to sum it up… there’s a bunch of people offended that trump is comparing himself to one of “the greats”.,"""Folks... Trump is like a Benedict Arnold... one of the greats, if not the greatest of Americans... many people are saying. We're looking into it strongly..."".",1
"And it won’t, Device Analytics shares ALL the data about the device with Apple and not just Apple use you, it also doesn’t prevent a 3rd party app that uses a log in from collecting data.","•	Apple is collecting this data regardless of a user’s settings where they are given the option to turn data collection off, possibly giving them a false sense of privacy.",0
"I work with a guy in his mid 40s who’s a retired cop (injured on duty). Really nice guy, fun to shoot the shit with. A couple years ago he was working on some pro cop bill with some cop org (no idea what the details were… maybe some kind of compensation program for families of injured cops?) Anyway he’s telling me about the time they went to the capitol to lobby politicians and present the case to congress. And he’s got these fun anecdotes about people you’ve heard of.","The gist of this story is that he was surprised that of all the people they tried to shake hands and chat with, only one republican gave them the time of day. But they got loads of time with “the people you wouldn’t expect” Pelosi invited them to her office, Bernie Sanders shook all their hands and listened to their cause, etc. He’s got a picture with Biden who signed his bill into law after getting no response from the White House in the 5 years they were trying. And he was like, the people in congress are nothing like how you expect from seeing them on TV. Weird!",0
"We need all of the states to join the lawsuit against them. There is a term for that, I just don't remember it. But anyway, fuck these piece of shit pharmaceutical companies, especially when the guy who CREATED INSULIN decided to give it away for free so that MANKIND COULD BENEFIT FROM IT.","THESE FUCKING ELITE GREEDY PIECES OF SHIT have destroyed and killed thousands of people and it should be illegal, with jail time and fines.",0
"Also also anyone who expected Democrats to cut national defense spending kind of doesn't know who we are. We like work projects, domestic job creation, and national security, we're not the ones who dipped into the military budget to fund a boondoggle border wall.","Bear in mind also that we need to replace all the arms, ordnance, and munitions we've provided to Ukraine from our own supply this year.",0
"In cities, mail in voting allows people that work 15 hours a day to barely afford a studio apartment for their family of 4 to vote. Those people will usually vote Democrat because they want a higher minimum wage and better support programs. They don't have time to vote in person.","You don't have to vote. You just feel a social pressure. You've never done anything because of a social pressure? Fill out a survey, listen to a sales pitch a few minutes longer than you would have, ect.? Also, it's weird because voting patterns have patterns to them and you can reliably sway the ballots you pick up to favor one side over the other. It's not going to be 100%-0%, but it's pretty significant. I just don't like the idea when people could just mail it or you could let someone they know hand it in. Why allow a stranger in the mix?",1
"However, they are supposed to be talking about Ukranian forces, and the world knows it actually applies to Russian forces.",Or are they saying Ukraine has been demilitarized because of all the Russian arms Russian brought in being destroyed by Ukraine? Maybe they are thanking Ukraine for reducing the amount of arms Russia brought in by destroying them.,1
These articles are there to push the Dem base to the right by trying to get rank-and-file Dems behind the idea that they need to sacrifice caring about LGBT rights and social justice if they want their party to win in 2024. They aren’t there to bolster the Republicans.,"They aren't following Republicans like brain dead stooges, they are Republicans, and Republicans are brain dead stooges.",1
"If McCarthy was smart, he'd tell those hardline Republicans that he's got 6 moderate Republicans who'll turncoat and vote for the Democrat and they'll get NONE of their agenda through for the next 2 years.","As a moderate Republican in Congress, or rather, a less crazy one, would you really want to vote for McCarthy after all the concessions? He’s going to be QAnon property, anyone can make him fold.",1
If I did not know better I would call it hubris. Except I am sure the large % of these moms would not know the meaning….,"More to the point, if I don’t believe in God I am still an American, and as a fellow American it is a “citizens” right and responsibility to defend my right to believe that way….",0
And puberty blockers should be included because puberty needs to happen while a person is growing for proper development of the body and its systems.,"If thats the issue why are puberty blockers included, which are largely reversible and considered a fairly noninvasive intervention. Even then, life saving surgery is done all the time for various reasons in extreme situation when less invasive interventions fail, what makes this different?",1
"Edit: I should preface that I’m a product of the US public school system which certainly mentioned Germany’s economic woes as a catalyst for men like Hitler, but I was specifically referring to the after shock of Black Tuesday and how it either added fuel to, or galvanized fascism around the world.",The rise of Japanese fascism in the 20’s can be directly linked to economic turmoil that created a nationalist fervor among the peasant class which made up the core of the military and many of its officers.,0
"Compared to most modern munitions, these drones are very cheaply made and cheaply bought. Some of the reports I've seen say these Shahed drones are $50,000 to $70,000. When you compare that to a single S-300/S-400 missile costing more than $1,000,000, these drones are very cheap.",They've been using cheaper defense measures against the Shahed drones. The Gepard flak cannons as well as mobile teams of heavy machine gun crew have been picking up a lot of the slack on these. Not sure what the exact ratios of intercepts are but the UA and western support are well aware of the issues of dealing with low cost drones.,1
"It's not really pain-free, though, as people really like their gas cooktops. The emissions improvement will be a rounding error, as you say. There's no gain at all in switching from a natural gas stove to an electric stove powered by a natural gas power plant. And then you have the emissions of making, shipping and installing new stoves. So, a short term loss, to be made up in places served by solar and hydro and such which should improve over time. All told, any actual emissions reduction will take many many years.","The real improvement here is a safety improvement, in reducing the toxic gases within our homes. Nobody wants asthma.",0
"And yes we finally relented because Ukraine needs to tanks, and unlike the Germans that sucked from Putin's gas tits the last decade, we wanted to act quickly. We agreed to send more equipment over just to force Germany's hand on this.","The US has literally provided more military equipment than everyone else combined. We have sent 47B, compared to 51B for the entire fucking EU. Maybe Germany can pick up the slack on tanks, since their tanks aren't the logistical nightmare that US tanks are?",0
"And thanks to Fox News, there’s this “prevailing belief” that all news is inherently false/ misleading.","Consider that both things can be true at the once - the “news” has fundamentally changed, maybe for the worse, and that right-wing news has done so in a much more extreme and harmful way.",1
There isn't any major difference in coal emissions between India and Europe. But the overall per capita emission across all sectors (phew) gives the actual picture.,"India consumes about double the amount of coal consumed by Europe, and India has double the population of Europe as well.",0
"My friend is an Air Traffic Controller. They have some crazy strict guidelines for how long they are allowed to work. If i remember correctly they are required to take 30 min breaks every two hours and can’t work more than 10h shift without taking at least a 9h break. I know trains are not airplanes, but a well rested operator is crucial in both fields.","I did both the railroad and the airlines. I'm an engineer / rocket engineer now (Specifically a specialized systems engineer but no one knows what that means). I make more than I did at either. Granted I might now have made more at the airlines but I've been making a lot more for 15 years now so I'm good. Oh, I get weekends off too.",1
"I'm honestly amazed that leftists are apparently so hardcore... That there's absolutely nothing Democrats are doing wrong... Criminals are now victims and released regularly, committing murder and more crime; inflation radically jumped because Democrats (and yes others prior) are absolutely out of control on printing paper that is becoming more meaningless (trillions and trillions of dollars), and now the hardcore bent toward indoctrinating children as homosexual/trans and encouraging them to have permanent body surgery (reasonably called mutilization); energy costs, food costs, have doubled in the last 2 years (yes, and guess who is President right now?).","There it is. Follow your media handlers and deny, obfuscate, ridicule. All while these fuckers rape our children, drag us into meaningless wars, burn down our country. Right. Just kidding folks. Hunter is a model citizen. Uncle Joe isn’t even a little bit creepy. Have some more koolade.",1
Their free speech is restricting other free speech. It’s like how their “freedom of religion” is their freedom to restrict equal rights.,"Free speech, as a Constitutional right, doesn't enter into this at all. Twitter is a private company and can allow or disallow whatever they want.",1
"If you believe a law is unconstitutional, as an elected official you have the sworn obligation not to enforce it. The onus is on the legislature to sue you to enforce it and prove it is constitutional.",They do have more authority when theyre UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION. They're elected officials that swore an oath to the Constitution. Use your head lmao its funny when anti gun tyrants think they have more authority than the Constitution.,1
"So, Russia has a history of blowing up their own pipelines during conflicts to apply pressure to their adversaries. They expected winter to be brutally cold and the EU to have a lack of gas, thus requiring the EU to back off from their support of Ukraine if they wanted the pipelines repaired. Turning the gas flow off is extortion and might be viewed as warfare, but blowing up the pipelines gives them plausible deniability.","That being said, this conspiracy of the US blowing of the pipeline is garbage and backed by nothing more than puppets of the Kremlin trying to sow more internal fights so they can focus on their war crimes. Shame on you OP for playing into this. Because if you truly took a deep dive in thia story and the sources, you couldnt believe this propaganda garbage...unless your working for a certain group.",1
"The Russian Army has none of those things. It's literally falling apart. So, if a Russian invasion isn't a threat to Finland there's no need for them to join NATO.","Do YOU know anything about current events, or that Finland wasn't actively threatened by Russia, pre-Ukraine invasion? I'll sit and wait, while you supply those sources detailing all the threats Russia imposed upon Finland, c1990-2013.",0
"Not confirmed, but almost certainly the case. The Ukrainians are also doing good things with their drones, and calling in arty strikes with incredible precision. The footage is insane. The Russians are also not doing themselves any favors by being complete slobs in their encampments. They just throw their neon green MRE bags everywhere and stick out like a sore thumb. They look like hobo camps. That’s a big no no, and sign of poor leadership from top down.",Not just that. They are getting the stripped down export versions of Russian shit. So not even as good as the actual Russian shit. And they plan on fighting China with this stuff?,0
"I have a group of friends and they all think that Ukraine is kicking Russia's arse, the Russians are deserting and there are anti war riots in Russia. All form their opinions from exposure to local news sources and none from independent commentators.",I have the time to follow the situation and l try to form a balanced view. I think Zelenski is being manipulated by others and that Russia is being underestimated.,0
It’s time to put that PhD in Cro-Magnon Musical Instruments to work (or start flipping burgers) and pay back what you owe. It’s high time you learn that nobody owes you a Goddamn thing.,"I would, with conditions. Perhaps interest free for a number of years, with interest kicking in a year or two after the borrower begins generating revenue.",0
"Why this matters is: Nationwide more democrats vote by mail so people are hoping that as more mail in ballots get cured it will mean more democratic votes. However, in CO, a state with 100% distribution of mail in ballots, the more likely outcome is cured ballots equaling the democrat/republican distribution of the already counted ballots. So if 2000 ballots get cured, likely 1005 will be for Boebert and 995 for Frisch (to match the other percentages).","As a note: It was originally republicans that pushed for 100% mail in ballots in CO. There was a major storm that affected the mountain and rural areas of CO, cutting off those (mostly republican) voters from the pols on election day. Metro Denver (more democrats) did not have as serious weather and got to vote. Republicans, unhappy with the outcome of that election because they did not get to vote, pushed for a mail in voting system. And it has developed in to the best mail in system in country.",0
"Also, that article using silver certificates as an example of ""default"" sure is stretching what is means to default. The debt was still valid, it just wasn't redeemable in silver. It's extremely misleading. Actually, so is 4. The debt was still valid, it just couldn't be converted to gold. Changing how debt is payed back (or redeemed) isn't defaulting.","Defaulting on relatively very small portions of debt (like gold bonds or silver certificates) is extremely different from defaulting on all debt. And that article really stretches the meaning of ""default"" (not to mention getting it wrong about silver certificates) and was written by a contributor to the Federalist Society, so I'd take it with a very tiny grain of salt. It's very clearly written to give the misleading impression that the idea of the US never defaulting isn't true and what could happen later this year is just the same (it's not).",0
"Doesn't this case also allow for those GOP controlled state legislatures to discard the ""old"" method for selecting electors for the electoral college and instead allow for those 30 GOP controlled state legislatures appoint their very own state electors regardless of the dictates of the popular vote?","Naw, I'm sorry but it doesn't help the dems, if primary decision making power about federal election rules is given to the state legislatures, given that republicans control 30 of the state legislatures. Which is what is ultimately at stake here.",1
"People need to look at the historical context for treaties. There was no realistic outcome of this war where Ukraine, or the west, gets to decide what happens to Moscow, that fate is already sealed anyway, and maybe you are underestimating what this war will do to the country internally, in 20 years from now I bet the map of Eastern Europe and Central Asia is going to look massively different as a result of what's happening today. What Ukraine gets here is pretty massively favored to them being able to survive a dying regional power on their doorstep.","That being said, putin isnt invading my country so I'm sure the people of Ukraine probably feel way differently given the losses they've suffered this war and the blatant disregard of sovereignty.",0
Hopefully Ukraine will be given plenty of werstern tanks for their next major offensives to blast ruzzian fascists with.,"So what, they're also facing British, American, and Soviet tanks. And this time the German tanks are being used to defend Ukraine, whereas last time they were used to invade it.",1
I call [crap] on this excuse. The ROI would pay for itself. They don't audit the rich because the rich would see to it that whoever at the IRS authorized the audit would be out of a job before the audit concluded.,"They are not, tax returns aren’t released to the public. Maybe you’re thinking of financial statements, but this doesn’t show the tax they pay.",1
The only troubling part about this is that these sustained and continued attacks on the legitimacy of our elections are probably doing significant damage public perception of government legitimacy.,"If that's really the case Democrats shouldn't sue just let them get their own results thrown out, costing the GOP a seat in the house. If that actually happened this would never be an issue again.",0
"I can sort of give a pass on not moving in on the Bundy ranch since the traitors had family members as human shields, but the soft glove treatmemt at the Wildlife refuge is inexcusable. It started us down this road of getting bigger & bigger padded gloves for white domestic terrorists. That it would only encouragement the terrorists feeling of not being accountable should have been obvious.",So the decision to bully coddle white supremacists started with Oklahoma City? I suppose that fits.,0
"I saw a post earlier today, I think it basically called this making an ""electoral box."" Let them concentrate in Florida and run everything in the state. There are only so many reps and senators they can send to Congress, and only that many votes they get in the electoral college. Whether they win the state 51-49, or 90-10. Let them overvote in FL and let Dems have a better chance in the areas they left!",Not the candidates that Florida Democrats are looking for would be my guess. They went with a former Republican which would make sense in a moderate minded electorate in other states but they would have been better served by an energetic younger progressive. Voter enthusiasm amongst democrats had to be pretty low.,1
"The numbers skew up not down on which group is getting to the polls, and I think too young of a Millennial will push the wrong buttons on the 50+yo that are Independent voters to the right.","Sinema will get less than 2.4% of the total vote, and that none of those voters who previously voted for her will vote Republican instead of a progressive Democrat.",1
"Considering that attacking trans people seems to be the number one issue hands down in so many red states, that's a small amount of time no matter what the excuse is. I think they're afraid of losing transphobic diet dems.",I want people to give a damn things are getting bad for the trans community. So really at least some semblance that Democrats will try to do something about the enormous amount of anti trans legislation would honestly be enough. But what we get is effectively a nothing burger.,1
"It’s not just that this is some off-beat Putin opinion. Most of the older generations of Russians, especially retired, have a very strong opinion about “the motherland”.","This, and the fact he views all the old Soviet/Tzarist territories as “rightfully” Russia’s. The West stopping him from grabbing Ukraine is seen as a direct attack on Russia because, according to him, Ukraine has no independent culture or history worth respecting. It’s similar to how China views Taiwan. Dude wants to be a new Peter the Great and is mortified at the possibility of failure. His legacy, worldview, AND life are all on the line. I don’t have an ounce sympathy for the bastard.",1
"Disney is a global company, it has a market cap of +180B with over 220k employees, and only the massification of A/C is more important than Disney in creating a modern Florida economy.","Anyone that thinks Disney will just up and leave their 27,000 acres of land, on which sits 32 resorts and hotels and 4 whole theme parks which generate them $20 million per day, has obviously never been to Disney World in their lives.",1
"Yeah, shops carry zero-nicotine versions of most products, like it's the same exact thing without any nicotine. I'm not clear on the law but I think (in my state at least) they're required to.","Yes, and that is exactly, EXACTLY what this legislation is doing. It is not prohibiting people from getting the addictive and harmful drug. It is regulating how that drug can be sold.",1
"Moderate Republicans absolutely want to move on from Trump, but moderate Republicans are a very small part of the Republican party. Just look at how the GOP primaries went all across the country this year if you have any questions about where the GOP voting base still is.","If he’s the GOP candidate, a staggeringly significant chunk of the country will still vote for him. The GOP isn’t evolving past horrible candidates (or Trump in particular), they’re just confused about what their best move is at this point.",1
"2. Czechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.","A stronger Russia would mean more of this. Follow that trend for years or decades, and future Czechia could realistically become a pro-Kremlin bus stop (this is now happening to Hungary, btw).",0
Do not be fooled by the new reborn right wing promising a kinder gentler nation. In fact the branding will be so slick as to be obvious.,"Careful with this media lead as a whole. The GOP is trying to ""rebrand"" and in order to do so they must imply that they died somehow.",0
"If Europe imports Russian oil from India, then it means that Russia has enormous losses, because it cannot sell it at the same price directly, but must hand over its profit to India (not to mention the cost of the detour that the oil must make, once to India and then back again). India can sell the oil only for the price of the world market, for India's profit and the extra cost Russia has to compensate with discounts.",The volumes of oil products bought from India are a small fraction of what was being bought from Russia.,1
"With the House, the Republicans will gain subpoena/investigative powers, so expect impeachment, endless hearings and special investigations (like Jan 6), and can also prevent any legislation from being passed. They could maybe cause a government shut down but I could be mistaken.","Senate matters quite a lot for the judiciary. Biden nominates federal judges, Senate can approve them with a simple majority. Dems controlled the House for half of Trump's presidency but not the Senate, and that's how Republicans shoved through hundreds of often unqualified, far right judges who now have lifetime appointments and are wreaking all kinds of havoc.",0
"Goddamn. I understand why insurance is a thing, but the government making it law to have it is wild. They’re driving profits toward a private company. I’d really like a law that holds the rich and powerful responsible for the things they do.",You hope to never use the gun. Paying insurance on it is a straight up scam and it’s unconstitutional to prohibit someone from getting a gun unless they pay a private company first.,0
It's slightly more complex. Sometimes a leader can be chosen purely by MPs of their party (the people sitting in parliament) whereby they must get a certain amount of backing before they can be included on the ballot. Then this can either go through several rounds of elimination before the MPs select a candidate or it can go to the public membership.,Kind of the public vote for a local candidate either from the major parties or an independent candidate the winning candidate in each ward becomes a member of parliament (m.p).,1
"If the West didn't arm Ukraine, the war was over year ago on viable conditions. Arming Ukraine won't change the outcome of the war, it is only multiplying deaths. So Corbyn is a smart guy, at least much smarter than an average MSM-bullshit eating redditor.",Tbf Corbyn was a bit shit and some of his opinions are dodgy but this insistence on him being unelectable doesn’t really take into account the whole picture. It’s like saying democratically elected socialist governments are predispositioned to having coup attempts without mentioning the CIA.,1
"Opioids users tolerances are so high at this point, Heroin alone would likely not even work for them. Plus the false confidence that they are immune to ultra potent Opioids when that isn’t the case with Nitazenes becoming widely available.","I should have been clear that I was speaking in the context that replacements are already available and don’t have to be discovered, not that Opioids in the Benzimidazole class can be an immediate replacement. You are correct that they obviously need FDA approval.",0
Think of it this way: His overall demographics are declining so he is using his last chance to mobilise large swaths of young misinformed Russians to fight his war in order to defend himself against the unipolarity of the American empire.,"The West's strategy is to draw the Russian forces into a protracted conflict with high losses in order to force Russia to go to extreme measures like this to weaken Putin's domestic support. The West has no problem supplying Ukraine with ammo and armaments, we can build it faster than we give it, and most of the giveaways have been surplus equipment anyway.",1
We were children. It shocks me how heartless some of the commenters here are. I doubt they have had to beg their friends parents for food before.,"If I didn’t eat all there was at home was tortilla chips and jarred cheese dip, or maybe some Ho-hos because food banks sometimes only have sweets to pass out. I got over that embarrassment real quick.",0
"Well, Tom Brady is also a piece of shit in his personal life, so they have that in common. Tom Brady is a winner, though, and that's something Trump will never be.","Tom Brady is the Greatest (and “winningest”) Quarterback of all time… so, yes, Trump Jr is trying to saying he’s a “winner” with this anecdote.",1
"The way I see it the US ain’t letting go of supplying Ukraine any time soon, even if public opinion sours over time.","A good analysis. American public opinion unfortunately doesn’t even matter all that much when talking about US involvement in international conflicts. The war in Afghanistan had years of negative polls with Americans saying we should leave, and yet the US was still spending money and being involved until very recently.",0
Traitors and bigots don’t deserve commemoration. Their only memory should be in history books about the hell and depravity they caused so that subsequent generations can learn from their hideousness.,"The fact that RepubliKKKans have been trying to save these statues is an insult to those who suffered and died while enslaved and to all those since who shed blood, sweat, and tears to promote equality and equal protection under the law.",0
"Treason can carry a penalty of death. Politicians contest results all the time. There is a legal process. If you say election deniers are traitors, Republicans will start calling every when recount treasonous.",Some of these election deniers lost in their primaries and screamed fraud/rigged against their own party.,1
"Heck, I could see some families to other locations on the network for this if they can find a place in the new city that is closer to a station even if they still work in Tokyo.","People living in 23 regions across Tokyo and local commuter hotspots will be eligible for the relocation money, according to a press release from the Kyodo news agency. The financial support is expected to be in place during the financial year of 2023.",1
"I guess from what I’ve seen, this is nothing and I feel like we’re following Republicans down this rabbit hole that in the end will show that Twitter moderated content and may or may not have considered, among other factors, whether the government thought the content was factual or not.","I’m not surprised that Republicans are the ones trying to censor voices they disagree with on Twitter. I mean, after all, they accused Democrats of doing it, so you know that was a Republican admission.",0
"While this is likely what would happen in terms of criminal liability, you will almost certainly be sued and situation dependent face civil consequences.","Huh, I don't think it's that way in most states though I'm not familiar with other states laws. But I can say you'd face civil action in my state of MN.",0
"Jeffries got every Dem vote in every round of voting, so what “major inroads” does he need to make with progressives when even the squad fell in line?",Well I wish there was a better metric for progressives in the house that doesn't include 50% of dems... but unfortunately the CPC is the furthest left caucus and they let basically anyone who wants to join in.,1
There are people from donetsk and other occupied territories who are forced to join the russian military … they are ukrainians and are forced to.,"There are already complains from people from newly deoccupied Kherson that Donetsk and Luhansk origin soldiers were the worst and more cruel in comparison to buryat, russians, and chechen together. And this is sick considering that they developed such a hate toward their own people for 8 years being in occupation. Well, no excuses, whoever comes with the gun, is a killer, whoever sits silently in russia is a supporter for killers. They will be exterminated, and it’s for every Ukrainian to make sure that those who did this to us will get the punishment according their crimes. This will stay with us forever, and this will pass to our kids. Punkt.",1
"I've tried explaining how the media (especially right wing media like FOX News) runs ""crime stories"" because they generate more views, but my father remains unconvinced because FOX told him that crime is way way up.","He's been watching FOX News for over 20 years, but the fear that right wing media has instilled in him over the past decade is on a whole different level.",0
"Stats show people don't want to go work in a shitty job with management always over their shoulder, when they can get the same work done at home, in their own time, AND spend time with family, or get things done around the house.","Nah it's definitely stupidity. I mean Twitter was already slowly losing money as it was....he just came and burned the whole thing down. He thought he could run it the same way he runs all his other endeavors, but forgets this isn't science based. So nobody is going to care about clout working for one of the smartest tech geniuses of our time, because it's fucking Twitter, and they don't get paid enough for to deal with his shit.",0
"Russia was also building newer systems (up to mysterious S-500 which is claimed to reach space...) but they are of high-value and rarely used on the battlefield Ukraine claims a couple of S-400, we will know after the war how many were lost and left.",I do not think that many Ukrainian S-300 systems were in good shape before the war - you need parts from russia where they were produced but after 2014 that was absolutely impossible. Number of suitable missiles is even more improtant and 8000 is the number which circulates. I do not think that Ukraine had anything close. Please do not forget that Ukraine was a relatively poor country before the war. Keeping such systems in operational readiness is very expensive.,0
Those without insurance are simply left behind by society without this. This makes them have access to vaccines.,Shit job getting the vaccine to demand. You mean everywhere? They did a shit job of getting the vaccines everywhere? Personally I had multiple routes to access a vaccine. 3 in walking distance actually and that’s aside from the ones offered by my job.,1
"I remember when Biden was elected nobody assumed he'd run for a second term. Most folks I knew expected Dems to use his first term preparing a candidate to take the party and country from there. But national Dems have failed to do this, just like they've failed to build up their ranks on state levels like in Florida. It's not a forward looking strategy and risks giving up the small gains Dems have made up to Republicans.","See that's interesting because it almost sounds like youre saying that the problem is a candidate that meets those criteria doesn't exist or hasn't tried to run. But where do you think party candidates come from? They don't just appear out of thin air. Parties are supposed to vet, recruit, and build up future candidates. It feels like a lot of Democratic voters have given up on assigning any responsibility to the party in favor of blaming magical candidates not just appearing, or blaming masses of unorganized voters not voting a certain way.",0
Regarding control the Chefs say otherwise and love how efficient it is because it heats much faster than gas. I'm not here to debate though. Your opinion differs from the vast majority of the ones I have heard coming from chefs.,"""When Eric Ripert, the chef of Le Bernardin, renovated the kitchens of his Manhattan apartment and Hamptons beach house, he nixed the gas, instead choosing sleekly powerful induction cooktops by Miele and Gaggenau."".",0
"Redditors quarreling about something as mundane as beer, or which football team is the best is perfectly fine. When the same quarrels derails into racism, homophobia, transphobia or whatever discrimination against a certain group of people passes the line in my book.","It does suck to have to disassociate and delete people that didn’t seem homophobic at first, some i’ve known socially for years.",1
"There is not one single other country, regardless of religion or race or class, that completely ban its female population from studying. Not even what we'd deem the most conservative countries (e.g. Saudi?). That's how nuts these Talib guys are.","The problem is there is no single person who hasn't had a friend or family member affected in some way by war, whether it was death or disabilities (often by the millions of Soviet planted landmines). It's like a scar that the folks there carry. I've read countless of Afghan war and life stories that are just beautiful (most famously The Kite Runner).",0
Oh course he's going to announce it. Last ditch effort to not have to testify and an attempt to stave off indictment. Hopefully no one falls for this bullshit and they nail him to the wall.,"My point is, it looks like we do in fact have time to do this right, to line up the nails that will pin him to the goddamn wall.",1
"Lol asylum seeking isn't breaking the law, and you ignored the part where the administration is demanding things of Asylum Seekers that they aren't able to uphold most of the time.",There are also those who don't give themselves up at the border to claim asylum and actually enter the country illegally. Those are the ones who get expelled.,1
The argument of “If we give Ukraine our equipment we’ll have less for ourselves” forgets that you stockpiled all that tech to defend yourself from Russia. And Ukraine is actively dismantling Russia’s military!,"And probably destroys more than a Euro of Russian military capabilities, which honestly is why the military equipment was manufactured in the first place.",0
"Now, I don’t know the particulars of the Newsmax deal, but my guess is that, since they’re relatively new, they went with a low or non-existent subscriber fee, living solely on broadcast advertising for a time. They probably also offered DirecTV (and the other top 9 cable distributors) a portion of ads per hour to sell on their own as well, sweetening the deal.","From what I understand a good section of the boomer market for television subscriptions, especially in rural areas play Dish against DiretTV all the time. When the rate increases they just switch to the competitors lower costing service. Special offers, introductory rates, and just trying to out do each other. Back, and forth, back and forth. It really helps if you're on a fixed income.",1
An update to this: Brazil's supreme electoral court replied that the complaint needs to be edited or it will be discarded without the merit being examined since it's not legally possible to challenge only the second round of the election without voiding it entirely.,>... it will be discarded without the merit being examined since it's not legally possible to challenge only the second round of the election without voiding it entirely.,1
It also shows how weak China is because it tells the world that they are relying on a balloon to do their spy work.,"In the age of advanced satellite imaging and classified technologies for spying purposes, it’s laughable that everyone is making a big deal out of a Chinese balloon.",1
I really hope people start ignoring 538. When was their last election prediction actually correct? 2012?,"538 is an opinion site. People forget that and treat anything they say as gospel. I have been anti-538 this whole cycle and telling folks to not trust ANY polls, people got pissy about it.",0
"Cannabis got the public on its side beginning with medicinal usage. Harder chemicals like heroin or cocaine would need to get the public on their side, I'm not aware of many medicinal usages that could be administered by the individual using. So, you'd have to convince the public another way.","States get away with legal cannabis because the federal government doesn't really care to enforce the illegality, (Do dispensary raids happen anymore?), But it's still federally illegal & the DEA could still crack down if they were so inclined.",0
Which if you’re asking for the 1 vote threshold is what you want. Because then you can howl that he’s in cahoots with the Dems so long as the 20 vote against.,"Give them 1 more vote, anyone who votes against is out, then work with the Dems to appoint a centrist speaker.",1
"There’s various levels of classification/restriction that the community and media know fuckall about, and so they blow the whole story out of proportion.",So why don’t the various branches encrypt/block foreign IP addresses on their publications pages? You can download a shitton of US Navy training manuals for various aircraft straight from the training command’s website.,0
"If he’d said “I was there, I had a job to do, I disconnected from the human aspect and focused on my objectives and what I felt to be my duty,” totally different feel. But that’s not how he explained it, and not how his editor suggested he rephrase himself. And here we are.","Yep. Used to work on a large Marine base in the US. Went to a bar one night close by and started talking to a group of Marines about to get out. The guy who actually killed people didn't talk about it, but everyone else was really excited to tell me about how that guy killed 6 people.",1
Why does the West need a justification to send arms to Ukraine when they have already been doing it openly after the 2014 invasion?,Denying the Russians' participation eight years ago at Danbas is like denying the participation of NATO troops on the Ukrainian side now.,1
"Indians have a deep mistrust of Americans considering their decades long partnership with Pakistan, their considerable opposition to India's nuclear program, and USA's fuck up in West Asia (especially in regards to Afghanistan).","USA: Used to have bad relations with India due to support of Pakistan in its wars against India, but recently, there’s been a massive uptick in relations between India and the US, especially in the military sector. Even during this period of “support” for Russia. And as India develops, the India and the US (and the rest of the west) will only continue to grow stronger ties. Also, in this article, the US is seen as the second most friendly nation, very close behind Russia.",1
So far Russia has not used S-300s to attack Northern Ukraine and I don't know if they are even in Belraus operated by Russia. Since it's unlikely Russia would somehow make the same mistake of Kyiv-Lviv in multiple Iskander systems that basically leaves the S-300.,"The only systems that can fire from occupied Ukraine and Belarus would be Iskanders and S-300s. Iskanders are a single missile launch system, S-300s can fire multiple missiles but they are only in range of Poland from Belarus.",0
People do cycle and/but you just know in the back of your mind it could become an adrenaline producing situation at any point.,If Plaza Vea is across the street and the person you're crossing with is old or disabled you're waiting for a nice big opening. Could be there a while.,0
"That would make things quite complicated for him all over the world, people are just having a tough time understanding that concept.","Of course it would be complicated. You can't just annex a country where people have expectations of democracy. If they remain under subjugation, they will resist. If you grant them democracy, they will want independence. If you exterminate them, you run into a host of problems, not least the moral resistance of your own forces. The people won't just forget that you bombed their hospitals and schools.",1
"?? There is more human life than ever. Most of that is due to modern capitalism and all the pollution is causes, due to fossil fuel fertilizers and diesel fueled global trade.","The thing is that the only reason that there was massive growth in population, was because there was a massive drop in mortality from a variety of causes like hunger and disease, mostly decimated (temporarily) by economic growth and technological progress.",0
The US should be outfitting Poland with everything we can since they're probably going to be Russia's next target if Ukraine falls.,Hopefully Ukraine will be given plenty of werstern tanks for their next major offensives to blast ruzzian fascists with.,1
"Well in this case they are actively killing protesters so it's not that incorrect. Not to mention there is reasonable cause to think that they are torturing, raping, and murdering prisoners so there's that.","Imagine the amount of rape happening in Iranian prisons, then imagine the torture, then the murders. I would be surprised if this wasn’t happening to women of all ages either. Disgusting.",1
If you read the Republican platform this is basically what they're looking at. They don't want to cut Social Security.,"They don’t want to cut it, they want to privatize it. Then their people get a vast sum of money with very little to no oversight. Then, when it goes under, the people running it will shut it down and they’ll point to democratic efforts as to why it failed in the first place.",1
"AOC would have been a great choice but Pelosi and similar legacy power people in the Democratic party were too eager to let the right make her a boogeyman and intentionally handicapped her political progress despite the fact that she 1.) Appealed to a lot of young voters early on through her social media presence, 2.) Has a lot of policy positions young voters like and 3.) Has a great backstory.","DeSantis seems to be poised for a purely two-sided, party-line driven fight which is a bold choice given that Republicans haven't won the popular vote for President since 2004.",0
Balloons like this are actually really hard to shoot down. The contents inside the envelope are pretty much at the same pressure as the atmosphere so they don’t just pop.,"Years ago, a research balloon out of Saskatchewan failed to terminate its mission (they’re built with a heating wire that cuts them wide open). When the balloon got out over the Atlantic, the Canadian government sent a pair of CF-18s after it. The two jets unloaded their Vulcan Cannons into the balloon. And nothing happened. Eventually, the balloon came down on its own in Sweden.",0
I'm pretty sure even the most severely transphobic Scottish folks will support this bill even harder because they hate the English dare telling them what to do.,Grats England you just helped forward the Scottish independence movement and also probably got conservative Scots more on the side of trans people just to spite you.,1
Youre making a very broad assumption based on one criticism I made. I'm not going to blindly sit here and suggest an abrasive and knee jerk reaction such as attack Russia's power grid.,"Edit: and to add, Ukraine has absolutely made it a point not to attack civilian targets. Hence the impressive and effective method of attacking Russia's airbases. If you're going to sit here and say Ukraine is doing it all wrong and they need to start attacking civilian targets, then youre fucking insane.",0
"If you want to fix democracy, vote in the democratic primary, and push candidates that say they're for ending FPTP and doing, at the very least, ranked choice voting.","Maybe one day we'll run a decent Independent that will force the Dems and Republicans to change their platforms, or lose.",1
"The ""scary Mexican invaders"" in this particular movie are as xenophobic as you can possibly get. They want to destroy everyone else on Earth just because they might be discovered one day lol. Even Hitler didn't want to kill everyone.","You do realize that the US did not exist yet when the backstory for this particular villain happened, right?",0
"The nuclear threats happen on regular basis so I doubt that's the thing - they won't toss another ""world should let us have Ukraine otherwise we'll nuke nearby countries"". It gotta be something else - they might decide they have reached the goal on Ukraine (while not getting it at all), and now they'll conduct another ""special military operation"" in Moldova which has issues with Transnistria.","They're giving themselves 22 days to turn this shitshow around and if not, they'll announce theyre moving on from Ukraine and invading Belarus, who should be an easier target.",1
"No he didn't. Foreign tourism decreased in 2020 and 2021 because of the travel ban while domestic tourism increased. my source but I'm sure your source is ""trust be bro,"" ""everyone I know refuse to visit FL."".","Ah yea. I read some articles, and speak to a few friends with experience there, and assume I'm up to speed on what's going on. It's obviously a complex and variable situation. Sorry to hear about the service. In my day, you didn't have a prayer of getting in, as no one left until retirement. Keep your head up, I'm proud of you and yours.",1
"Lukashenko is under a lot of pressure by Putin to join the war, but he has to balance this against the risk of his own regime becoming legitimate targets. It's not inconceivable that Ukraine could cooperate with Belarusian resistance forces to knock out enough military and governmental infrastructure with air and artillery strikes to make the Lukashenko regime vulnerable. They could also work with their Western allies to arm Belarusian resistance forces. Suddenly the Belarusian army and police will have to deal with a flood of weapons including small arms and more dangerous things like Javelins and NLAWs. The West absolutely could provide these weapons to Belarusian resistance forces now, but again, unless Belarus attacks first, it would amount to an ""unprovoked aggression"" against Belarus. Again, if Ukraine is seen as striking first, it would severely degrade the diplomatic standing they currently enjoy.","It would also strongly be in Ukraine's interests to see Lukashenko removed from power. A free Belarus aligned with the West would be an enormous boon to Ukraine. It would mean that Ukraine's northern front would be completely safe from invasion, meaning they can devote more troops to other fronts. A free Belarus would also be a great ally for Ukraine. Long-term, it would mean a much more defensible border against future Russian aggression. With Belarus firmly in the Russian orbit, Ukraine is effectively surrounded on three sides. With Belarus and Crimea recaptured, Ukraine would only have to worry about invasion from one side.",0
"Cuban people starving is the result of Cuban domestic policy choices. Their government takes full credit when things go well and takes the blame when it doesn't. I get the sentiment that the US should ""help"" but I don't get the sentiment that it is primarily the US's obligation to do so. (not withstanding the fact that the US appears to be intent in providing humanitarian aid to Cuba after the recent hurricane AND has done so in the past).","Yeah, I find it hard to believe any HDI that comes from Cuba considering we Americans are only shown American propaganda against Cuba. Maybe if we actually allowed Cuba to participate in the world economy and have access to essential resources, we could determine with our OWN brains if Cuba is a failed system or not.",1
"""Look, I know Lula has a proven history of reducing deforestation. But that isn't evidence that he can accomplish this again in the future We have no idea what will happen in the future We certainly can't base our judgements off passed events, because reasons"" - you.",Your point here contradicts your assertion that you have to see Lulas plans in order for him to accomplish his goals...,0
"When they changed Senate elections to a popular vote instead of an appointment by the state to represent the needs of the state, they should have made Senate seats represent districts with roughly even populations - the original design was to have some protection of states autonomy etc which might be different than a popular vote in the state. That might mean having 13 senators from California and 1 covering all of Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas. (The 13 from the CA part would be more like an 8/5 split. Illinois would have 2 from Chicago and one for the rest of the state etc. Some things might cross state lines.).","Yes. Look at the real Taliban. They waited 20 years on exile to come roaring back to do the same thing, and the people forgot how awful they were and let them waltz into Kabul. The GOP will do the same thing. They’ll be the “we’re not crazy anymore™️” GOP until the moment they see the opportunity to go back to the fascist well to propel them into power. And we’ll go right back to the overt racism, unqualified candidates constantly blowing racist dog whistles and all the while every republican furiously lining their pockets.",1
Also its part of fascism that all these people implicitly assume theyll never be the VICTIMS of fascism.,How fascist of them It’s crazy they don’t support a party that vilifies them at every possible opportunity.,1
"A January article padded with rampantly incorrect information - nevermind, the defendant received 11 years (well the court adjudicated the sentence in months) instead of three years as the law professor speculated.",That's policy. Now COVID complications and federal prison camps (especially camps with drug programs) being full complicate placement. That fictitious prisoner could be placed into a low security prison until an opening becomes available.,0
"The only thing keeping the GOP hopes alive for a presidential victory in 2024 is the lack of a charismatic candidate from the Democrats. If the Dems had someone like Obama running, they would have no chance in hell.",What they need to happen is Trump to withdraw and endorse Desantis. Which won’t happen. Then they need to adjust their platform to appeal to younger voter voters and more centrist voters. Which also won’t happen.,0
So what's the point of a second term for Biden then? He won't even be able to get supreme court seats. Odds are the 2026 midterms will be another loss as well for Dems if he is still president. How big of a Republican majority are you willing to give them just for another 4 years of a biden and a Republican Congress?,I'd rather have 2 years of a slight Republican trifecta from 2024 to 2026 then get stuck with a huge Republican majority in 2028 that persists for 4-6 years or longer.,0
"Thank you, I am reading the sky news account of this...they say, that he had claimed the missile that blew up the building had been shot down by air defences. Russian propaganda used this as a way to blame the destruction on Ukrainian air defenses.","What I got from reading the news is earlier Ukraine accused Russia of targeting the building. However, now they say the building was hit after the Ukrainian air defense intercepted the Russian missile.",1
"Yup, proves my point. Lower actual numbers, but more interesting: a much lower market share (48% vs 69%). So even though it was played at a much more attractive time for TV (because the total market was much higher than in 2018), it had a significantly lower share of that market.","It's very entertaining to read this. It's constantly self-referencing, or talking about breaking records from earlier in the same World Cup. Like more people watching France's second game than their first, record broken, woohoo!",0
"I know it's so weird right? When I go to Germany, cops communicate with the central in German. They are weird like that.","Also, I don't hate anglophones in general. Just the stubborn entitled ones who refuse to learn a single word of French and attempt to paint themselves as done kind of oppresses minority.",0
"Funny how you were downvoted for telling the truth, and China, unlike Russia is not incapable of producing many of the more modern stuff including microchips, sure they are behind by and are banned from being able to buy the lithography machines, but they recently are showing that they are able to produce 5 nanometer chips, which are only a couple years behind at most. From both high tech and low tech manufacturing, China is taking the cake and eating it. The less educated who are looking at this with prejudice are pretty much in denial, maybe to stroke their ego, or hopping on to the China-hate wagon.",The first sea trial probably saw issues and the ship thus has to be refitted. And this all is new for China.,0
"If you made it so you could force special elections on political opponents, then parties would definitely force members to change membership to pressure them.",It is changing parties. The party has the ability to control membership. It can make someone an independent. The only reason this is never leveraged is because party membership cannot be used as a weapon.,0
And only an idiot would believe this shit is getting people to increase the speed of transitioning to greener energy.,"They are not talking about climate change but the stupidity of these folks. If you think they are talking about climate change, your thinking is no different from Trump's. These folks are at the end damaging the movement by just looking at one metric - they are talking about our actions. But they don't even think about other and more important metrics - will people support our cause and move along with us? They have failed that and the whole movement miserably, if you ask me.",1
The Russian reasoning - my guess - would be to undercut any possible power brokers seeking to displace Putin and offer the resumption of natural gas supply to Europe.,"\- Sabotaged by U.S., to prevent Europe from purchasing from Russia through the pipelines again, thereby minimizing potential Russian influence over EU and/or to increase dependence on US supplies of gas (and oil) (or other sources where US might have a hand in play).",1
"Secondly, a lot of the ""ultimate power, created Heaven and Earth, yadda yadda yadda"" stuff is at odds with the actual rest of the Bible. For example, The Lord (supposedly) creates Adam and Eve, the first humans. They have two children, Cain and Abel. Cain kills Abel and is cast out of Eden, so he goes to live with the people east of Eden in the land of Nod. What's that? If there are only 3 people in existence at this point, how does he go live with other people? Later, Adam and Eve have more sons, and they take wives from the land of Nod as well. Additionally, there are other gods mentioned in the Bible who have similar powers to The Lord.","Almost like, to religious people, the Bible and God is whatever they need it to be to justify their actions.",1
The solution is Palestinians wanting peaceful solution that doesn't involve wiping out Israel.......They have never wanted that though and doesn't look like they ever will.,The majority of Palestinians don't want peace once you can realise that you will understand why Israel isn't going to work with a fanatical terrorist state.,0
"Correct me if I’m wrong, but why not offer annexation of Crimea and Donbas, the area that has voted pro-Russia for the last decade?","Even if ukraine gave up those territories russia would not stop, their goal is to keep nato out of ukraine, just because they got a few cities they still want no nato at the borders.",1
"In 2018 the country as a whole went for the democrats by 8.6%, in 2022 the country as whole will probably go for republicans by 2-3%. That’s a 10-11 point shift in the National environment. Not saying the shift among Latinos isn’t important but it’s very misleading to compare the 2018 election results to the 2022 election results.",Because the democrats rely on high margins in several key constituencies including latino voters that does matter and we shouldn't ignore it.,1
"“Exposed my niece, straight out of the NICU, as well as my mom and her immunocompromised friend (chemo) to COVID.”.","The trick is poison the cancer to death and not poison the person. So they punch the patient as far down as possible before damage, then give them a little break, then back into the ring (ding ding!).",0
There is very clear goal and end point. Goal is to get Russia out of Ukraine and it will end once that is achieved. Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan USA is not attacking. They are helping Ukraine to defend.,This is not complicated war with internal conflicts. This is very clear war where Russia is invading Ukraine and USA is helping Ukraine to defend.,0
Ukraine was very corrupt at that time. Its political leaders were extremely divided. And the clear majority of the Ukrainian population was against NATO membership and many even saw NATO as a threat.,"So the weapons and training provided by western countries are some of the reasons for Ukraine's successful fight, but the resolve of the Ukrainian people is another key reason.",1
"Regardless, there is no mechanism for actually expelling an EU member from the union. Poland would have to come to the decision to leave themselves.","The fact is, no country can make decisions in the EU alone. The EU consists of several institutions, all of which are closely linked. New EU legislation emerges after a process involving all of these institutions. And, of course, European citizens ultimately vote both for their own governments and for Members of the European Parliament.",1
"Hmm. I'm not going to delete my previous comment, but after a bit more though, I may have been reading an in situ engineering analysis of recreating a naturally occurring tsunami.","Oh it's worse than that. The back of napkin math says that at most something like .33% of the energy of a atomic explosion is propagated into a solid hydraulic pressure wave. And that means even a modest 10m wave would require a litte more than a 500,000 kiloton detonation. The tsar bomb, for comparison, has a hypothetical yield of 50,000 kilotons. (Nuclear bombs just don't have the right force over time to make ocean waves.).",0
Blah blah blah consequences blah blah blah choke off your entire economy by simply blockading the south China sea blah blah blah JV team playing against the varsity.,"You're right. When did anyone say we'd do it before that? If china or any country ever actually follows up on these hollow threats to attack US assets or allies, that would be an act of war, therefore triggering our response.",0
"I still think it should fail the establishment clause as being denied an abortion is very much being forced to adhere to a religious dogma that is not your own. (So IMO the ""Abortion Ritual"" direction the Satanic Temple has taken is interesting.).","Right. This is why a ""right to life"" protects plants from being uprooted too -- heck, being confined to a womb is an intolerable abridgement of a fetus' right to liberty.",1
Then on top of all of that it is way cheaper to float a bunch of equipment on a balloon than it is to shoot it into space or mount it onto a spy plane.,A balloon is going to be able to spend way longer loitering over the target and it will be getting far higher detailed imagery because its way closer to the target.,0
And they invariably end up worse off than they were before and they can't understand why. : ) Thank you Illinois for this perfectly crafted test case.,"It is an interesting point because alcohol kills 95,000 Americans/year, which dwarfs gun violence, alcohol _really is_ something nobody needs unlike guns, and banning it because that would ""save lives and keep society safe"" should be a moral imperative. All the public interest tests gun control advocates like to advance wrt guns also apply to alcohol.",0
You can probably side step or skirt the USA taxes living abroad but tax evasion is not treated lightly here.,"If you have citizenship in a country you're not currently living in you still have to pay taxes to that country. And the thing about immigration is that it's a multi-year process, many countries even require you to live in their country for years before they allow you citizenship.",1
There's a long history of Republicans cutting IRS agents to prevent going after the rich. Republicans cutting IRS funding to prevent going after the rich. I'm sure Republicans can handle it when or if an actual real need arises.,"If tipping is mandatory, and it's at a minimum mandatory percentage, just bake the tip into the god damn menu prices and put a sign up that says as much and tipping on top is still nice. If you are in to that kind of thing.",0
So youre looking at a solid 2 to 4 decades of decline for the Republican party. Calling out extremist cells in 2016 wouldve been like water on a hot stove.,"In theory, no. In actuality i think the political system in the US is too corrupted and rigid for a 3rd party, because said 3rd party would essentially act as a vote splitting party to either ensure a perennial democratic or republican leadership.",0
"Essentially I think it just allows more potent tanks to be freed up for frontline action and the Leopard Is can be used in deeper defensive positions. What next though, Chieftains, Centurions and M60s?",The point on life is important - it's probably easier to replace the vehicles themselves than trained crews and the Leopard 1 in particular isn't actually much better armoured than a Bradley...,0
"And lets take the Jan 6 scenario to its extreme - lets say they isolated and murdered a bunch of Democratic politicians. What then? They just... hand the keys to the nation to a bunch of dumb rubes? No, they'd have eventually been swarmed by heavily armed military and killed by the dozens and the survivors would all be awaiting life sentences in supermax. Actually, in this scenario the liberals of r/politics might have finally gotten their dream realized - Trump in prison.","My dude, they have guns. We're not talking about those few isolated cops that got beaten, I am talking about a literal coup in which you'd have to defeat an actual organized police or military force there to stop it.",0
Holding out hope that they would choose peace? That's a warped view for keeping people captive and submissive on their own land. You said it yourself; Israel controls the water and power.. and beyond that they also control the Palestinian people's ability to move and conduct in everyday life.,"Explain the part where it's acceptable for Israel to have taken their land and formed as a state in the first place, without resorting to biblical nonsense, and perhaps you'll sway me.",0
"This is just silly though, it looks like they’re saying Facebook cant track user behavior within its own app…. This is necessary for an app to function well…. And the users are gonna get horrible stupid ads without it too.","Meta will probably lose money from this, as they make money from showing you those ads. If people choose not to accept them, Meta doesn't make that money. Poor fucking Meta, eh.",1
"This will be the first time since 1984 that Democrats will control the state legislature in Michigan! And it’s important to note that this only happened because in 2018, voters in Michigan approved a citizen-initiated ballot referendum that transferred the power to draw voting maps from the state legislature to an independent redistricting commission.",The problem is that the amendment that passed in Ohio still gave the state’s legislature power over redistricting where as Michigan took away that power and gave it to an independent commission.,1
"Again, antisemitism has always meant hatred of Jews specifically, regardless of the fact that ""semitic peoples"" includes more than Jews.","Amy etymological analysis, or maybe an example of antisemitism being used to refer to hatred of people or semitic ethnic descent in general?",0
In reality i am somewhat split over it because i also do not want to trigger nukes but seeing as Russia has been saber rattling nukes for a solid year i am kind of worn down on that crap.,Hey if i am wrong i gotta stand up and take it by bending over deeply (pun intended) and smiling. Thing are best taken with a smile and a laugh. I will look back at this exact conversation next time i have to spell it.,0
"The reality is that no western country would ever risk a direct military conflict against a country with nuclear weapons capabilities. Furthermore , historically , there is a repeated underestimation of the effects /challenges of an invasion into Russia . The loss of life on natos end would be catastrophic. Redditors have to stop masturbating to the notion that Russia has to be taken down by a unified western presence... It would be utterly catastrophic.",Russia won't risk a true escalation into article 5. They will likely do a very minor attack which would yield minimum disruptions leading to future admonishments /sanctions by NATO members without any real major change to the current state of affairs.,0
If your Israeli and in an Arab country u shouldn’t admit it you can say your Jewish and they are still very hospitable and nice the anti semetismnis pretty common tho but not as common as just despising israel and Zionism in general.,"And Majority of Egyptian are educated in the sense that they graduated from college, I have Syrian, Palestinian Saudis within my family members and friends and majority of them wouldn't say anything about Jews but Zionism and Israel as state.",1
"There was also the fact that imposing huge punishments designed to cripple the German economy after World War I led directly to the outbreak of World War II, and at least a few people in charge decided they didn't want to repeat the pattern again, except with nuclear weapons.","In cases of Japan and Germany post WW2, the west could have penalized them into oblivion and destroyed both countries, taking everything they had, but they decided that for various reasons (a major one being the USSR) they preferred to have allies instead of loot, so they invested massively in both countries turning them into what we have today. This was on top of their reasoning for intervention being defensive and an attempt to deal with a hostile power.",1
"No. The authority of the executive to discharge this debt is rock solid, regardless of what Pelosi, the Republicans, or Biden himself has said. The current lawsuits- and any that would arise from completely cancelling and discharging student loan debt- have no standing at all. The correct move would have been to cancel it all, effective immediately, and then tell the courts to come and collect if they want my $20k back.","They don't though, and just because you and a few other people say so in bad faith doesn't make it so.",0
"They want there to be “riots” (peaceful protests they can disrupt and attack) - they don’t want actual riots. If there were actual riots across the country the average white conservative would be terrified. That riot would likely never reach their small, rural communities, but attack the politicians at their homes with threats of violence and see how fast things change. With true riots if Rittenhouse were to show up with his gun he’d be shot rather than able to shoot unarmed protestors.","He showed up to protests across state lines, brought a gun with him, and made it clear he was there to kill people. He was “defending” himself in the same way that I would defend myself if willingly I jumped into a pit of lions.",0
There is no way in hell that Russia dares target any NATO target absent direct NATO involvement in Ukraine.,"The idea that Russia will dare attack a NATO country because Ukraine uses NATO supplied weapons is simply laughable chicken little shit. They might be spouting a lot of bullshit propaganda, but they know NATO can curb stomp their military in a matter of days.",0
"Yes negotiating with people you disagree with is important. Yes if I'm negotiating with them I have a line in the sand that domestic freedom in my own country is non-negotiable. If I'm a diplomat and another country threatens to cease trade relations over our government allowing freedom of speech, then sorry guess we're not trading. And in this example if they actually follow through it will hurt them a hell of a lot more than it will hurt western countries, especially as renewables become more and more viable and their oil is worthless.","In a world where their upset ended at upset, I'd agree with you and everyone would think the people burning it were the bad guys and bullies. But the upset doesn't end at upset, it leads to terrorism and the murder of innocent people, not to mention that the very book is used as an excuse as an excuse for these same countries who are super pissed by a burning book to execute homosexuals and women who are raped if they didn't cry out loud enough because they might have actually enjoyed it and wanted it and now they're damaged goods who aren't virgins before marriage. At this point burning a Qur'an is also standing in solidarity with those who have been oppressed by Islamic theocracies and also standing with those who have been murdered and terrorized for the sin of insulting Islam whether it was drawing their prophet, criticizing the faith, or burning their holy book.",0
"Yeah. Historians have reviewed the pre-war societies and concluded they were basically haemorrhaging money and manpower hand over fist. Many of their governments were full of infighting, competing and redundant organisations in an attempt to seize more power.","Its theoretically possible. It would require a dictator who was very competent at just about everything though, as in fascism one of the core points is you can't allow anyone else to get to powerful to contest you. Its very difficult to rule any area of any reasonable size without some element of clear power sharing.",0
"Of course but in the realm of geopolitics, SK being a democracy means they have to think about support for any war they get into. That's why the US lost in Vietnam despite never losing a single substantial engagement.","China isn't going to invade anybody, it's going to do exactly what it did the first time around. They won't take over NK because, A: it would be too late once the nukes started flying and B) that would defeat the purpose of having a buffer state.",0
"How it works is far-righters hang out on other social media and a link is posted whenever there's a good brigading target. This isn't some big secret, their plans are an open book. They simply pop in and do the range of ""just asking questions"", post fake / misleading sources and generally troll + vote brigade.","You can't conclusively determine that on an individual account level, after all there are probably a few actual Nazis/alt-righters there who don't co-ordinate outside the site. We can see which Reddit posts get linked to on far-right social media though. It's also highly suspicious when certain types of posts will have large numbers of fresh accounts posting far-right propaganda.",0
"“US President Joe Biden has stated that he does not intend to speak with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the moment, but he will be prepared to do so if the latter shows real interest in ending the war he started in Ukraine; that is, if he withdraws his troops from Ukraine.”.","Background: US President Joe Biden has stated that he does not intend to speak with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the moment, but he will be prepared to do so if the latter shows real interest in ending the war he started in Ukraine; that is, if he withdraws his troops from Ukraine.",1
"A (it's in Hungarian, not sure if there is an English version) revealed that a third of all voters (and half of Orbán's voters) were convinced that Orbán voted against the sanctions.","This is possible due to a small detail about the sanctions being kept obscure in the media: Any one head of a member state not signing a sanction is enough to stop it from coming into effect. In other words, Orbán signed everything that he claims is hurting his country.",0
Basically they have people skim through and they make a decision but realistically they vote on whoever pays them to vote on something.,"Realistically, lobbyists often write the documents, work together to collate them and then inform the congress person how they want them to vote on it. Then an army of staffers read the documents and summarize what’s in it for their congress person, if they care at all. Some Representatives and Senators still have their teams add content of their own design and try to work with each other to get it supported by enough people to be included in the final bill. But as I said, these days, corporations do a lot of the heavy lifting and those in congress mostly just rubber stamp what their big donors tell them to rubber stamp.",1
"Purely due to gerrymandering. Had a non partisan map been used in just Ohio let alone the other states with maps as ridiculous, we’d likely still have the house.","A nonpartisan map is required by the state constitution, but the Republicans played games, dragged it out and basically forced the state to use one of their bullshit maps because ""we need some map for the election and this is the best we've got."".",1
"Police get shot: ""We don't have any suspects, so we just killed everyone who isn't a cop in the city."".","This is a news report. They're gonna give you facts, not speculation. If something LOOKS like terrorism to the journalist, they ask the investigators if they're treating it as terrorism. Then they report that they asked and what the response was. That's all you should want or get from a news outlet. Anything more is Fox and Newsmax.",1
"In that case, ukraine could offer the following things in exchange for a peace deal with Russia (note, it is of course ukraines decision what to offer, could and should are not the same word):","There’s plenty of the above that ukraine could offer up, that would make peace a better outcome for the Russian government.",0
"It's more playing no sides than both sides, while still demanding protection from one side against the other.","What is a defensive pact worth when you aren't willing to defend yourself? Is an attack on Poland worth less than an attack on the USA, France or Germany would be just because it is in closer proximity to a conflict zone? If you draw a line which you don't enforce there is no line.",1
In my area we have a few houses like that but it's mostly all Bible verses and conspiracy theory web addresses. There used to be one that just had a huge blue Q spray painted on plywood that always made me chuckle.,"No by all means fucking vote. Please for love of everything vote. If anything I think the majority that are taking down their flags and removing their MAGA hats are hiding it and because they don't want to be seen as losers. Where I work is predominantly very conservative and most of them are not outwardly supporting him anymore and a good chunk, if not most, have verbally stated that he is to blame for the recent election. Make no mistake though I doubt few won't dust off their hats and flags if he gets the nomination.",0
"Answer : The People ""Rolled Over"" Because the Afghan people have been in a constant state of Corrupt Governments, War, Extremist Militants, Poverty, Aerial Bombings and War for over 40 years now.","Statement : ""These are not mutually exclusive. You can think going to Afghanistanwas a mistake. You can also hope if your going in there, even if youdisagree with going in there, there’s some success.. You can also beangry that after spending trillions of dollars and blood of yourcitizens, most of the population of 45 Million at bests rolls over foran army that only totals 70k and has no Air Force, and at worst work forthem. Then get more angry when it’s now obviously worse, and peopleare complaining after all your country did."".",0
I think the idea is that you're forcing the store to pass along the savings to customers that don't use a manned checkout. But it's just a phenomenally dumb idea.,"Yeah this is a pretty bad idea IMO. The number of jobs lost to self checkouts is not that big, and frankly being a cashier is a shit job anyways.",1
"Trump: Now, like everyone else, she gets paid by a radical, left-leaning publisher to say bad and untrue things."".","This is who he is. He's irreversibly broken, and deeply pathologically disturbed. It is horrifying that he ever got within a million miles of any elected office, never mind the fact he served in that office for a four agonizing years.",1
"Yeah, and the fact that the countries around turkey are assimilated, colonized by them and also that every country around turkey is speaking only Turkish clarifies how a giant piece of shit Turkey is.","Well, Turkey has historically been a giant piece of shit to countries around it for hundreds of years before collapsing into multiple states, Turkey included.",1
"As for black Americans, they have a systemic history of distrust in the US government in a wide array of ways including medical experiments. The Tuskegee experiment is, what I'd consider, the most immediate thought to why.","I'd assume a majority of the 1M deaths. They didn't trust the vaccines, masks, distancing while crediting Trump for fast tracking the vaccine. It's both his fault and not his fault.",0
"As usual though, there are plenty of Russians that come/came to Estonia that have happily integrated and became Russian-Estonians/Estonian-Russians but they tend to send their kids to Estonian schools, learn the language, don't vote for the Russian party (Centre party), and don't fucking support the invasion.","There is a political party, the Estonian Centre Party, a populist party that essentially represents the interests of Russians in Estonia and they are very influential because they get so many votes (from Russians in Estonia).",0
"It's complete insanity that this buffoon was elected to the Supreme Court. The US SC is nothing but a joke now, except it can ruin countless lives with their partisan hyper-conservative bullshit.","For all that conservatives whine about Democrat's spending a hundred bucks of their own money on hair cuts, they entirely ignore the batshit insane lenhs and cost that trump goes to.",1
"While I’m glad the destruction of the Brazilian Amazon gets posted regularly, I do not understand why the same doesn’t happen with Bolivia, whose government has been as destructive as the Bolsonaro administration when it comes to the Bolivian Amazon.",The basic point is that the natural resources of the Amazon rainforest is inherently going to be a temptation for any Brazilian government looking for short-term profit and growth. The idea is to realign the economic incentives by offering access to a substantial fund if they don't start slicing it up.,1
"You can have sympathy for them. I certainly do. The story of them being ordered to dig trenches in the Red Forest has stuck with me for the better part of this year. But if they're not killed, and they do not leave, they will kill innocent people, take their homes, and contribute to genocide, whether it was their idea or not.","Rooting for Ukrainian victory and not rooting for the death of Russian soldiers are, unfortunately, mutually exclusive at the moment.",0
"> ""First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ""order"" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ""I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action""; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ""more convenient season."" Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."".",Valid take. Let me rephrase. Those things you mentioned aren’t as flagrant and widely acceptable as they are today by any stretch.,1
"Edit Before I get a snarky ""but guns don't make you safer your own gun is more likely to kill you."" That's because gun suicides outnumber gun homicides. People aren't killing themselves because of guns, they're just using one of the most effective means of suicide around them.",I'd say about 40% of my LGBT friend (including me) are firearm owners and most own AR-10/15 platform rifles and we don't really want our guns taken away especially in the rising homophobic tide that is the American right.,0
"The difference: Israel's allies are starting to lose sympathy, and the other countries have string allies that are scary to the UN. I'm not saying any of them are good. It is that the UN can get away with condemning Israel right now.","Israel doesn't want peace, they want war and death. Iran wants to give it to them. It sure seems it would be best to stop encouraging this on both sides.",1
"By picking progressive leadership in the House and not Hakeem Jeffries, and giving progressive activists an actual seat at the Democratic Party table.",Progressives need to start acting like the rising future leaders of America if they're ever to be accepted by the broader voting public or by the Democratic Party as such. No one should expect another political faction to just hand them their reigns.,1
"The report we're discussion: [Social Media Seen as Mostly Good for Democracy Across Many Nations, But U.S. is a Major Outlier.","Social media is great for democracy. The problem is that it brings in voters who have been otherwise ignored…and a lot of people who claim to love democracy really, really hate that.",1
"So voip totally isn't the same thing as a phone call, so why not act like the privacy rules around phones have totally nothing to do with it?","The problem is that their ""not having ideas"" is how to sell something they already couldn't get several times in the past, but they feel really confident that THIS time they can frame it believably. And as a fall back position they have the ""woe us, this is rather difficult and new"", because they REALLY want to avoid the accusation of ""this is difficult because it's really old, and we were told we can't have that"".",0
That sounds a lot like the argument Republicans make any time they want law enforcement to seize cash from an American. People travel into the United States with large sums of cash and no one automatically assumes it's for criminal activity.,"It's not illegal to carry large sums of cash across state lines in the United States, although it is probably inadvisable if you have any strong attachment to that cash.",1
"Just a periodic reminder that the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is April 4, 2023, and it's the most important election in the country between the Georgia runoff and the 2024 general.","The gerrymander is obviously my top issue, so we can actually have a legitimately elected government again in Wisconsin -- it's been 10 years.",0
The impression I got from my limited time in Sweden is people worked hard during the office hours and more generally arrived and left on time rather than putting unofficial hours in.,"So 4 x 7 is exactly what was trialled here. It was four seven hour days with an hour unpaid lunch. So it's 32 hours if you count ""time spent at physically work"" but 28 hours if you count ""time paid to be working"".",0
Well no because then it would be a foreign enterprise which is banned from purchasing residential property. The only way they could start up a Canadian company is if they got a visa for immigration.,"The Canadian law permits refugees and those with permanent resident status to buy. So it's not really ""immigrants"" they're banning; it's foreigners who reside outside of Canada and people on work-type visas who aren't confirmed to be staying long term.",1
"Software companies usually stage demos, they get the funding/grant/investors they need and then proceed to pocket half of it while delivering a broken product anyway.","Usually it's okay because you stage demos that have ""a few bugs,"" and when you get the funding/grant/investors you need you can fund people to bring everything up to the level of what was promised.",1
"Laws against gay marriae are clearly bigoted, but theres an obvious place for a law that says a 40 year old man can't marry a 12 year old.","My point was, they shouldn't be in the business of deciding who can marry, as they were historically by barring same-sex marriages. I was simply expressing support for the bill, as it codifies further the ability for all couples of legal age to be married.",1
"That’s exactly a colleague of mine (who is an Emirati American) said. There isn’t any accountability in the Middle East as rich/royal family can get away with anything and everything. A good example is the murder of Khashoggi by MBS. It’s common place to do that and MBS was taken aback by the international uproar. Same way, Qatar has no clue that human right abuse and bribery are not every day occurrence in other parts of the world.",My only real problem is that it almost comes across like Qatar's biggest sin in this whole ordeal is that they bought the world cup through corrupt means instead of the gross human rights violations.,1
And Koreans probably have more of a score to settle with Japan than China does. I wonder how the South Koreans would feel about Japan if the US wasn't forcing them to get along.,"I think a lot of those Americans are caught up in this weird idea that Japan can never, ever be trusted because WWII.",1
What I pointed out elsewhere is there's a difference between refusing to enforce a law they believe to be immoral and refusing one they believe to be unconstitutional.,"They have a moral obligation to protect us from immoral laws, and that distinction is important because the constitution has often been wrong in terms of morality.",0
"Unpopular opinion but Fahrenheit is superior for most applications when used for temperature related to humans. It is more precise without having to use decimals and more closely aligns with every day applications. Arguing for the use of Celsius in everyday life is like arguing that using Kelvin makes sense for weather, home comfort and body temperature. The water freezes at zero and boils at 100 Celsius argument…. When was the last time you needed to set something to 100 to boil water?",When’s the last time you had to set something to 212 degrees Fahrenheit just to boil water? Or 32 degrees Fahrenheit to freeze it? That’s a 180 degrees difference? Like why can’t it just be a nice round number like 100 degrees of difference?,1
"Satellite? How do you tell apart dead from injured or healthy, or even who is a russian body or ukrainian? What if the bodies are inside a building or under rubble or in a foxhole or in a forested area? What if it's a cloudy day? Sattelites don't see everything.","How would UK and US know the true numbers? They're not physically on the ground/frontlines counting bodies, - Ukrainians are.",0
"You're not wrong - they said as much when Trump's mishandling became public, that forgotten documents and such is pretty common in transition periods, and they have standard systems and procedures for rectifying the issue when it does. It's a complete non-issue so long as people report and cooperate when documents are found.","You're continuing to intentionally ignore what the actual issue is and always been. The problem isn't that they were in possession of documents in the first place. The difference is that in _ONLY ONE OF THESE CASES_ did the person with the documents refuse to answer subpoenas, refuse to return documents, lied to the authorities about where they were, how many there were, their classification levels, etc. In both the other cases, the individuals in question contacted the authorities of their own volition to get documents returned rather than fighting to keep them.",0
"Still no warm feelings for Russian soldiers, but let's be honest, they have half a dozen of possible ways of action, and _all_ of them are incredibly bad.",They're people and yes war leads humans to do truly despicable things and there are definitely many scumbags amongst the ranks of the Russian Army (Ukraine also has their share) but cheering on the deaths of soldiers is just weird.,1
"Following your logic, anyone can make church and lead illegal actions against the state, and state can do nothing with, because they're hiding under the religion.","Nowadays Ukraine has two Ukrainian Ortodox Canonical churches. One of them is under Moskva, another - under Constantinople.",0
Ticketmaster makes more money on transfer fees for resellers than they make on the initial sale of the ticket.,"On the initial sale, they'll keep 5-10% once, but on every time a ticket is resold by a third party they have to transfer it in Ticketmaster's computer systems, which is like 4% fee (when I was there, but it changes).",0
There are many more. But you can also Google and you will find many articles on Modi being the most pro West Indian leader in our history.,I'm not a Modi supporter btw but its ironic that you blame Modi as he's the most west-leaning prime minister India had till now.,1
You prefer the conveniences of cheaper energy costs. International efforts on behalf of suffering Ukrainians are secondary to your comfort. That's where you are. Accept it.,"I'm done here. You can have the last comment and therefore win the internet debate championship trophy. I don't care as much as it might seem I do. Only driven to comment because I have a number of friends from India and they are good people, so India's choices here have come as a surprise. It is what it is.",0
"Until Ukraine & Zelenskyy are shown to be repeatedly telling harmful lies to the West that are demonstrably false at anywhere near the level of Russia & Putin, in both subject and quantity, it's very misleading to suggest that Ukraine and Russia should be treated similarly as information sources.","I also don't agree with the framing or implication that both Russia and Ukraine are equally as untrustworthy, or that information from either side should be dismissed equally as false propaganda just because they are on opposing sides of a war.",0
"I'd like to call him Captain Obvious.... but he's right. This needs to be stated, over and over again. Russia will not win this war or any part of Ukraine.","It's not just about taking Ukrainian territory. It was betting that Ukraine would be a fait accompli that would discredit the whole system of international politics. Proof that Russia was still an empire and great power that deserved a sphere of influence where it controlled puppet states in which no foreign power could legitimately meddle, like during the cold war or the age of empires of the nineteenth century.",1
The Democratic Party is basically the de facto “normal conservative” party at this point and the republicans are just “fascism 2: this time it’s personal the party”.,"The educated became more and more offended as the sexists and racists took over the Republican, found that the Democratic party also has a wing for conservative economics, and moved to the Democratic party.",1
"If the next big russian offensive hasn't even started yet, it is going to be a goddamn Verdun for them.",I think everything will arrive in time for Russia's offensive in March. All these announcements happened the same time the CIA delivered information to zelensky. They probably showed up with detailed information on the 2nd invasion and how Ukraine can defeat it.,1
A state that never allowed slaves using taxpayer dollars from people who never owned slaves and giving to people that never were slaves.,"The African counties should pay reparations not only to the descendants of the slaves but also the white people that fought for their freedom. The slave trade was run why black kings who would capture their enemies and sell them to white people. Africa has a lot to apologize for to its people (not to mention the shameful history of Liberia, where freed black slaves who returned from America started … capturing and selling slaves as their main income. People are so rotten).",1
"First 2 days. During 3rd day Russians were forced to send third echelons to try to pierce Ukrainian defences as first and second echelons failed to breakthrough, stopped successfully by Ukrainians. Third echelon forces were Russian operational detachment prepared to exploit previous breakthrough which was supposed to be made by 1st or at most but suboptimal 2nd echelons.","At this moment, during 3rd day, many military experts already stated the operation has failed and the very long and bloody war has begun. Russians doesn't have military expertise or capabilities to conduct large scale war.",0
"So, sure, somehow building settlements and stimulating the Palestinian economy (though that isn't their goal, obviously) is genocide. I'm sure another 30 years of settlement building and unsustainable Palestinian population growth will fulfill the Zionist agenda... which is...?","Palestine is one of the world's fastest growing populations, you may call settlement building 'genocide', but it's almost as effective a form of genocide as charities. Settlement industries are overwhelmingly filled with Palestinians. About a third of all Palestinians work in Israeli settlements or industries.",0
"That whole saga was crazy. First the Dem won with one vote. Then the Republican found a thrown out ballot where someone voted for both candidates, but they changed it to be a vote for the Republican because the other votes on the ballot tended towards Republicans. That made the election tied, heading to the ""drawing."" Then, the Republican was chosen to be the representative with their name being chosen from a bowl.","What rubbed me the wrong way was (1) the ballot being changed when it shouldn't have and (2) when you watch the video of the ""drawing"" it appears quite obviously to me the person doing the drawing knew to grab the Republican name. It was very odd. I would have rather they flipped a coin to avoid any possibility of bias. But I'm guessing they wanted a Republican in the seat.",0
"If he wasn't shot by the police however, I can't see a black kid in the exact same situation even being charged with a crime. The optics of a black kid shooting a violent felon charging at him, and the of that felon's buddy and buddy's wife whipping up a crowd of white people to chase a fleeing black teenager would be too much.","It was Veteran's Day, I assume the old ass judge does that every year. He was surprised there were no Veteran's in the courtroom and remembered that John Black was a veteran. He probably gives a round of applause to Veterans' in court every year. Sure it's sloppy, but I don't think that pushed the needle towards acquittal at all.",0
"This is already happening. That's why there are like 4 ""rainbow mountains"" in Peru now, the glaciers are gone.",Reminds me of the signs they had in glacier National park in the US that said the glaciers would be gone by 2020. They quietly removed those in 2020 when the glaciers were still there….,1
"Actual combat soldiers have much more discipline and a very narrow set of ROE. We are not allowed to go around and detain civilians and beat them up if the answers they gave us weren’t satisfactory. You would WANT a former combat soldier to be a police officer, but there’s always one or two assholes.","Police departments attract brutes, do nothing to screen them out, train them to be brutal, then protect them when they are brutal. Conservatives then overpay and over provision them, letting them LARP around with military gear. It’s America’s biggest gang.",1
"I wonder what happens. Quatar has done so many shady things in this process, but now FIFA might get sued for huge amounts of money. Maybe that is the only thing that will make FIFA actually do something.","This is FIFA. They buy/sell/own the World Cup, and therefore your loyalty to it. They \sold\ the WC to Qatar who bought it without even blinking they have so much goddamned oil money. Now it's in their country and they want their fucking Sharia rules on FIFA. FIFA will bend, you know it, because fuck all of you, the money has already changed hands. FIFA doesn't care what you think. Qatar sure as fuck doesn't care what you think, you can fuck right off. They already have your money from oil and will get more tomorrow. You want beer? STAY HOME. Don't come to Qatar for the WC. You'll only fry and regret. Fuck this whole fuckshow.",1
"About apple being smuggled in russia it isn't unexpected. But what it tells - someone still want to buy it, and some still want to sell it. And this isn't like sanctions took full effect yet. It was just yesterday that US sanctioned more electronics and phones over 300$. Like 1 day from this new sanctions. 1 month since EU banned and price caped 1 billion barrels of Oil products. 3 month from seaborne Oil ban and cap.",Did they imported 10 thousands BMW M3? Or mere one? How this has anything to show about their buying capacities? That's not how to measure it.,0
"Unfortunately when people refuse to vaccinate, they look mostly at the death rate/virulence of the virus and not long term side effects.","Third World countries know the value of vaccinations and clamour to get them because they can't afford to get sick, it's a literal matter of life and death.",1
"Republicans who claim they are going to compromise get voted out of office or suddenly find some reason to vote against anything Democrats propose, even if it means many of their own constituents lose out.",Republicans want compromise but Desantis and/or Trump are still the most popular figures in the party?,1
"“I hate all Jews/brown people/immigrants. They’re ruining our country and we ought to send them all to some kind of place, a camp maybe, where we can keep them all concentrated in one place. ….oh well not those Jews/brown people/immigrants that I personally know. They’re alright. It’s just everyone else like them I’m talking about. “.","This is the thing. The Nazis played this trope to the hilt–always changing the narrative, keeping everybody off balance. The only constant is they’re right, and they’re in charge.",1
"Personally, I'm not willing to read the article or anything related to this case, so I'll have to live with my ignorance. I am going to re-up my conceal carry license because I just want to drink and watch a drag show in peace, and these conservative dickbags don't seem to like that.","Iirc, Colorado lets you get an 'x' under sex for nonbinary people. This makes me wonder if the hate crime perpetrating mass murderer actually has that.",0
"What the contract says and what the pilots actually have to do could be different things in China where such contracts are just mere paper. It would be good to hear the pilots' experiences, if they ever return.",Is it on only pilots we worry about here? If an infrantryman went to China to train their soldiers is that also bad? Doctors? Naval officers? Just curious as to where we draw our lines.,1
"I don’t think any Supreme Court would want to overturn something of this precedent on standing, arguably paving the way for future presidents to do something like this.","The states apart of the lawsuit have a cognizable injury as soon the debt is forgiven, at least in my eyes. I understand the purpose of standing, and it isn’t something that should be looked away from. But if that’s the case, any acting president can do something like this (above the legislature) then not be challenged until after the fact. This goes way passed executive power.",0
"So more specifically, he's basically saying that Taiwan could be the next Ukraine if the west abandons Ukraine. The logic goes that if China sees that Russia can break the west's resolve in the war with Ukraine, then it would embolden China.","And China is in a better position than Russia. The world is far more dependent on it than the world was depending on Russia, and they have significantly less corruption so their military is likely to be better equipped.",1
"""And I'm saying, and I'm not being tough, I'm saying if you know a place better, you go there but you lose your citizenship here in the United States of America,"".",">""And I'm saying, and I'm not being tough, I'm saying if you know a place better, you go there but you lose your citizenship here in the United States of America,"" Walker continued. ""And then when you come back, you gotta come back legally, like we should be defending the border."".",1
"Well tell you what. Since you're so freaking knowledgeable about it, feel free to get my mom signed up.","She draws a whopping $700/m from social security. That's her only income. She can't get medicaid here in Ga. They claim she makes too much. She can't get a subsidized plan through Obamacare, because they claim she can get medicaid. This is a fight I've been dealing with for years.",0
"UBI, just seems like a poor policy compared to almost anything else we could do. Unless it's specifically a UBI that leaves existing welfare mostly unchanged, which I would be fine with.","Doing things like free universal health care, free higher education, expanding EITC to cover most of middle income America, tax credits for child care, etc. These would be more effective programs over UBI.",0
"It's deeper then the pockets of the megalomaniacs that operate this country. So yeah it's pretty unconstructive and disregarding of all nuance to say it's ""fund mismanagement"".","If that falls within your definition of ""mismanagement"" then the term is so vague as to be meaningless. And it would also apply to your example of someone on minimum wage who can't afford to live.",1
"He was and will never be a team player. Hell, he was a democrat before he got into politics. He only changed because people smarter than him made him realize that there is a huge population of people ready to blindly follow him because he’s “a successful businessman and a political outsider”. But to your point…yes, it’s gonna be great to watch his ego destroy himself and to watch him lose for the 2nd time (the presidency anyway). And he’ll conventionally split up the GOP and bring that party that much more close to altogether collapsing.",he's going to split that ticket and it will be chaos before and after the final candidate is chosen on the republican side. The republican party is in worse state than it was after nixon when it was literally on its way out until they revamped the party with the two santa clause theory in the late 70s.,1
"I'm also worried people will misinterpret what you said as ""Politicians and corporations need to fix the problems they created"" with out understanding politicians will never do that unless we incentivize or outright force them to.","At this point, when it's clear corporations and governments aren't going to do what's needed to be done, the responsibility is on as as individuals to act as a collective to force their hand. It's really that simple. If we're unwilling or unable to do that we're fucked.",0
"Having a populace with broad genetics like USA, Brazil, Europe, etc. Prevents ease of replication due to differing immune systems and it's response to the virus. Also having a variety of effective vaccines.","Unfortunately, the rest of the world produced, and shared among themselves, some effective vaccines. China didn’t and, in their pig-headed communist way, preferred to maintain they were fine, despite overwhelming evidence they were not, which they hid from their entire population and forced entire major cities into lockdown (except for those given the job of sanitizing runways).",1
"The postal service has been the most unreliable with absentee ballots that I have ever seen. I requested mine the first day it was available. It was issued on Nov. 21st. It showed up in informed delivery on the 23rd(which generally means it should be delivered that day.) It wasn’t delivered until November 30th. A full week later. If it hadn’t come that day, I was going to vote in person, where I would have had to explain the situation to poll workers and get the absentee ballot canceled.","I never received my absentee ballot after getting the e-mail that my application had been approved and it would be delivered, so I guess I'm going Tuesday to vote in person like I was desperately trying to avoid.",1
"No wonder Russia will lose the wars they started cause they are no longer fighting lousy terrorists in their country, but a professional army full of foreign PMC.",They are going to be very weak after they lose to Ukraine and risk a vulnerable few decades where they can only defend their interests with nukes and nothing else.,1
"Oh look, another right-wing emotional nut job making terroristic threats to a Democrat after listening to another right-wing nut job's comments.","They have been egged on by Republican representatives, where dehumanizing Democrats, calling them baby killers and evil, etc., has become the norm, and done in the hopes a crazy person will threaten or actually act on their threats. I truly believe Republicans hope that their Democratic counterparts get killed or harmed in some way. Shoot, just look at Pelosi and the things said and done by Trump and Republicans that lead up to him being attacked. Then, look at how many Republicans publicly made jokes about it.",1
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Nothing just want the negativity ✌️!… Cops and teachers have the worst pay and endless stress now. I want fair pay so the rest of my life I’ll be placing post notes in stores saying equal pay so they could waste more money and time cleaning.,Its only happening because everyone needs more money so mr. fuck up (President Biden) please release more money so we could seem like we gotten anything for another 2months 🥱.,0
All of a sudden they become suicidal and decide to fall on several bullets as they jump out from the 8th floor.,Russian refugees into neighbouring baltic countries is clearly a national security issue (because Putin can and will use it as an excuse to Tey and annex territory from bordering countries).,0
"In all seriousness. Drug testing is BS. I remember an old GM I worked for said if she had to drug test, she'd have to fire half her staff. Give us a break. Drug testing is only meant for the poor underpaid workers. You know who never gets drug tested? Management, CEO's, etc...",Personally I like pre-employment drug testing. It's a good way to weed out (pun possibly intended) employers I'd never work for.,0
"No shit? It's rather well known at this point, that there's a fairly large and organised paedophile ring within the church, hiding behind the power and influence the church provides, and very clearly goes to the tippy top.",Pretty sure the Catholic church with the amount of known abusers and number of victims in the last 50 years puts the church as the largest pedophile protection ring in modern history.,1
"Fani Willis (Fulton DA) hinted at a , but I could see it being pushed back another a month or two. But, there aren't a lot of stones left to uncover in that one - The grand jury has basically exhausted their depositional phase, having received testimony from , including the governor, AG, secretary of state, senators, reps, and more.","These are moving fast, all things considered in our glacial legal system. Trump will 100% get indicted. Unfortunately, that's only the beginning. A trial could extend for years to come, and it's still possible he would never be incarcerated or even convicted. There's a long ways to go in any scenario.",0
"Yeah, too many people think Hispanic is a race, and it's not. Hispanic countries are just as diverse as the US and contain white people as well (and some of them happen to be nazis).","Like I’m Puerto Rican and I’m still white, even if not all of my ancestors were. But I also have cousins way darker than me who are more supportive of idiots like Fuentes. I mean, look at Kanye….",1
"If you need an example of what being cancelled actually looks like, check out Kevin Spacey. One allegation and he was fired from his own show. That's being cancelled.",So this situation is also called cancel. In fact even Merriam Webster defines cancelled as stopped giving support:,1
"If China starts sending weapons to Russia, it will be a big geopolitical shake-up, but I don't think WW3. I mean, when you think about WW3, either Russia or China will need to directly attack NATO first, or NATO will need to directly attack one of them first, or there has to be some sort of accident that demands a military response. (someone accidentually shoots down a NATO plane, for example).","So when people bring up WW3 breaking out, I have to ask who is attacking who first? We will not attack China directly if they start supplying ammo and drones to Russia. We will sanction them. Russia will not, and has not, attacked NATO directly because they cannot handle us in a conventional conflict. It would be nuclear, and would be suicide, and the Russians are not suicidal yet.",0
"... not needlessly expensive. Our infrastructure is in the crapper, has been for decades now. Engineers have been screaming about how bad a lot of dams, bridges, electrical and other important infrastructure conditions are. The fact that this kept getting kicked down the road is why it's so expensive.","It’s going to result in increased costs and longer wait times for almost any decent sized project. As someone who manages federal funding on infrastructure projects, it’s already awful enough dealing with the existing bureaucratic layers.",1
"Yes. I had a lawyer friend draw up the contract and incorporated over a weekend. There were a few more caveats he threw in, but he earned his fees and then some.",Sadly this story or a very close version of it happens again and again across so many industries. A numbers person thinks that the numbers on a report are the only thing they need to understand running a business.,0
"Yes, which would mean that Reddit (and in turn us) would be paying that news organization for the right to give them more traffic...","One could certainly make the argument that people on Reddit should not be transcribing news stories that are behind paywalls - but the vast majority of news I read on here is just directly linked to ""free"" sites.",0
I'll think you'll find slavery in Middle East has existed for an extremely long time. It's very easy to say Colonialism is the source of these problems and for some it is. But Slavery? In the Middle East? Nope.,"No. The number is definitely not the number of construction workers. It's the deaths of the entire nationalities that they belong to. Go read the article. Even if it was just workers, the number of workers is over 1M anyway.",1
"Of course, Ukraine is supplied by weapons made outside Ukraine, so this effect isn’t very helpful to Russia.","Can you just imagine what Ukraine would be like today if they didn't receive all of the anti-air assistance? If those 76 missiles have landed, the casualties would've been ridiculous.",1
"If those that voted Libertarian thought anything like 2016-me, there is nothing that'd motivate them to show up and vote for Walker in a run-off against Warnock, even if it means Dems retain the Senate (especially since the GOP basically already won the House).","Republicans like to imagine that the libertarians would default to Walker, but if they're motivated to show up and vote 3rd party in a close election, they're not going to bother voting at all with a runoff when the third party is not on the ballot.",1
"My last US address was in Cobb, so I'm very glad they provided the UOCAVA ballots electronically, or else I might never have gotten mine at all either. Just have to hope my completed ballot actually made it, I guess, since I can't check. Then again, it's not like I could do anything about it at this point if it didn't, I suppose; it'd be a little difficult to vote in person when I'm thousands of miles from my polling place...","Been trying to access the Georgia election portal site for the past few days to check on the status of my mail-in ballot (that I sent in a few weeks ago; was able to request an electronic ballot, fortunately, since it was a UOCAVA ballot), but I just keep getting 403 errors. Looks like they've now geo-blocked non-US IPs, from testing with a few US-based proxies, so that's a nice little ""fuck you"" to us overseas voters. At least they didn't come up with that idea before I put in my ballot request originally, I suppose.",0
"I think your complete dismissal of public opinion is understandable, but it does in fact move the needle over time. Every idiot online who claims that Elon was just setting things straight can have this thrown in their face, and will lose credibility to those new to the conversation.","And they will look like asses to the newbies. It's not about converting diehards, it's about exposing them as fools to those who aren't yet down the confirmation bias rabbit hole.",0
"Biden’s son is kind of a train wreck, and Biden is guilty of still loving and caring about his son despite him being less than upstanding. But there is zero evidence anywhere that Biden’s train wreck son led to Biden himself doing anything wrong, let alone illegal, and hunter Biden has no involvement in his father’s presidency. Notice how little Biden has said about the tax fraud investigation into his son? And how there aren’t even a single allegation that Biden has done anything to stop this investigation. Hunter isn’t a good look for his father, and Biden could have handled his son better, but fucking hell, seeing this as a scandal after 4 years of trump? Hell, yes, give me political scandals like this one again rather than the president of the US’s attempted extortion of a foreign leader, etc, etc, I’ll take it.","Also yeah Ik the three letter agencies are all corrupt, but like Al Capone went in for tax evasion, this seems to be only thing that’s provable.",1
"I think one theme we can recover from the Cold War is that the western defense contractors were phenomenal salespeople for Russian capabilities, and I thank them for that, because now everything the west has is sort of OP.","I agree with this, outside of specific operations and tactics, but I think it eventually starts adding up, and as USSR-spec kit becomes kaput, and replaced by NATO kit, eventually Ukraine is fighting with equipment specifically designed to wreck Warsaw-pact equipment that Russia is fielding.",0
"Here maybe bold will help your reading comprehension: ""The US used nuclear posturing and threats"" And if you don't know remotely any history about those conflicts, you can't just say ""it didn't happen."" You just don't know what you're talking about. Which is why i recommended a book you could read that describes it well AND then you would know what you're talking about!","The US used nuclear posturing and threats in Korea, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Iraq, and Panama just off the top of my head. Confessions of a Doomsday Planner by Daniel Ellsberg is a great read if you want to learn more, Ellsberg has a very unique perspective and info access for the time. It's a great read.",0
B) Not test them on animals but run the risk of having your product line suddenly pulled and then have to test them anyway.,"In the case of animal testing, if you don't like it, then stop buying things from companies and corporations who use animal testing.",1
"I went to graduate school in Florida to get my Phd. Professors are scared to even use the word diversity in emails now referring to it as the ""d"" word. Whenever thought is punished, it is never a good situation. It is scary what is happening now in Florida.",I'm living in Florida hell. I have 3 years before my daughter starts school. I'll be gone in 6 months. Florida is going to start suffering from brain drain over the next few years.,1
Those impeachments did absolutely fuckall. None of these cases matter if the SCOTUS decides they don't. There's no consequence coming from the body that was intentionally corrupted to stop that from happening.,"Alvin Bragg dropped his because he didn't want to prosecute a former POTUS, which was said explicitly when some of his subordinates resigned last year. You're trusting a system that was intentionally and recently corrupted for the purpose of not prosecuting this person.",0
"\-That Russia—the ""second most powerful army in the world,"" Russian General Valery Gerasimov said prior to the war's start—would dominate Ukraine on the battlefield.","Much of the... surprise... of the early days of the war was that Ukraine had actually prepared very effectively for the invasion, without telling anyone, including their western allies about it.",1
"I know he's a lying deceptive arse, but at no point has he even remotely sided with Russia during this war.","Mr Peskiv said, ""...or it was an unconscious lie and he did not in fact understand what Putin was talking to him about"".",1
"The rifles in the video clearly have the more curved magazine of the AK-47/AKM. Also, the two larger holes on the wooden heat shield is another dead giveaway, as that is the stock heat shield on AK-47. AKM is just the stamped version of the AK-47, so those two are very similar. The AK-74, which you nonchalantly compared to the AKM via /, is also a 47 variant but with a less curved magazine and no holes in the heat shield. That is, the ones I shot had no holes in their stock heat shields.","Also post Brady Bill, he ordered a case of 7.62 steel core ammo. Dude had loads of 7.62 ammo, so we continued blasting the hell out of the woods with AK-47's and SKS's. The 47 was particularly fun to wield with a 75 round drum magazine. We thought the ammo with steel casings was the cheap, corrosive stuff. Turns out my pal had been hooking us up with the armor piercing ammo for years. Didn't find out til that case was down to like 3 boxes. His dad was passed pissed.",0
"I'm old enough to know it was 2008, it was always 2008, the GOP didn't rebrand it from 2007. The market collapse was in twenty-oh-eight. Their lie is that Obama was somehow president then, because idiots think ""elected in 2008"" means ""president in 2008"". Trump was not president in 2016, nor was Biden in 2020.",Joe Biden has been a better President than we even deserve. A lot of the criticism against him doesn't hold up under actual scrutiny. I hope come 2024 more Republicans are up for debating because faced with actual facts they'll get destroyed.,1
"We also stopped the amendment that would have banned abortion, and the shenanigans where the GOP is constantly trying to undermine our state government/governor.",We also passed some amendments in the state constitution to enshrine abortion rights and abolish slavery \[strike some language in the state's constitution that promotes slavery.\].,1
I wonder what happens when Apple runs out of underdeveloped countries that can manufacture their products at slave wage labor status?,What does having a retail apple store in a country have to do with manufacturing phones in that country?,1
"That doesn't address the crux of my point though, which is that they do not seem overly concerned about employing tactics that their enemies can also employ; that speaks to their confidence in the courts to arbitrate in their favor.","If the law causes a chilling effect on abortion seekers, why would an identical gun-targeted law not cause a chilling effect on gun seekers?",0
"Republican voters will never support m4a on a ballot, and it would likely require congressional action anyway. With the broken Senate consisting of wildly slanted representation toward rural right wing states, it cannot happen.","Republicans who claim they are going to compromise get voted out of office or suddenly find some reason to vote against anything Democrats propose, even if it means many of their own constituents lose out.",1
"If Russia couldn’t beat Ukraine with the US’ hand me down weapons, they stand no chance against US advanced weapons.","And, the US would start pumping advanced military equipment into Ukraine. Ukraine’s been getting the middle tier arms from the US but an NBC attack would open the floodgates to advanced weapons, longer range missiles, etc.",0
"Given the two options above, which is going to bring in more tax revenue from wealthy yacht owners and which is more prone to evasion by people claiming a residence out of state?","Wealth tax on yacht: It wouldn't be based on the yacht, but your entire wealth, and only that which can be seen in the state... assuming you're a resident of the state. If you're not a resident of the state, then a wealth tax that includes your yacht wouldn't apply at all. Use one of your houses elsewhere for your place of residence and you're good to go with avoiding California's wealth tax even though your yachts are all over the place in the state. It would be cheaper to buy/rent a residence out of state specifically to avoid the wealth tax.",0
"I am not young, just always surprised by the ignorance of Americans, you seriously didn't know that iphones one of the main products of one of the largest companies in the world, are sold outside of the US?","No one goes out of their way to learn about iPhone in other countries, but most of us probably know that Apple has been the world's 1 company for a while. Most of us probably know a company can't be 1 just by selling their top product only in the US. We know that Samsung, a Korean company, sells phones in the US. It's just a really simple and reasonable assumption that iPhones are sold in other parts of the world, especially when they're not even manufactured here. All of these things I'm explaining to you are really basic for most people, which is even sadder as you keep trying to sarcastically pretend I'm wrong or something.",1
"If the ""Christian"" tries to claim authority based on the Bible, just tell them they're reading the wrong Bible. Tell them that Jesus gave you a copy of the ""true bible"" and told you not to show it to assholes because they like to misinterpret things to their own benefit. Any passage they try to read from their own Bible, simply comment that Jesus told you he redacted that section. ""Jesus told me that they stopped doing this shit in the middle ages, and in the 2023 version, that section is removed."".","P.S.: it's a bad political move for the left to rag on religion so much. Polls show that most people are still religious to some degree; it's a part of being human for a lot of people. The left has to show some of that nuance they're famous for and be more tolerant, too OR at least get their message straight that they're not God haters and fall right into the hate preachers' ""us v. them"" agenda. If you actually read the Gospels (& ignore the stuff written/approved by the authorities), there's not a lot of bad things that can be said of Jesus. People just don't read the Bible is the problem......and it's not even the 1400s. lol.",1
"Yeah I just watched a short video on it yesterday, if this debris hits another satellite and breaks that one apart, a low-earth orbit domino effect could begin and could render us unable to launch anything for a few years. While our gps satellites and other geostationary satellites would be unaffected by the debris, we would be unable to launch any rockets for a few years, which has terrifying implications.","There are ""junk"" orbits specifically for spent stages or satellites, we obviously don't put functioning spacecraft there. Other space craft, specifically science and exploratory missions often dump their junk into a heliocentric orbit, and a lot are straight ejected out of Earths influence. It's rly a number and saturation game.",1
"Another problem is that there is no similar apparatus of politicians and tv personalities ""provoking people to attack their own country."" Billionaires and the politicians doing their bidding have pushed the left to protest, not some demagogue. There is no figurehead crying, ""Attack!"" Meanwhile, because of their rigid hierarchies and staunch obedience, conservative groups are quite easy to trace in terms of who is telling who to do what.","I love how they have organizations of right-wing extremists, with names, ranks, centralized leadership, etc. Meanwhile, ""Antifa"" is all they've got on the left, and there is no Antifa. It's not an organization, not a coalition of organizations, not a loose affiliation of organizations. It's literally just what happens when fascists pop up. Anti-fascists also pop up.",0
"If they actually were still there I'd give them something, but the majority of the time it was just someone looking to get drug money and they would have gotten enough from others so left before I got back and the car would be fine.","I've apparently developed such an effective ""fuck off"" face that when I was in Rome a few years back even the roma beggars averted my gaze & left me alone.",0
It's not just Hispanics turning away from democrats. Every single POC group is turning away from the dems right now. Even black support is waning. This is a fact.,A lot of Hispanics are social conservatives and the loud chanting by the progressives on everything they believe just shows a large portion of Hispanics how different they are from them.,0
"In a way, what we're witnessing right now is how many adults are required to have basic functions of government. It will at least be enlightening.",At the end of the day it is whether or not a majority of members can vote for someone to be speaker. How many days of failing to elect someone would it take for them to break ranks either as Republicans or Democrats for the sake of having a speaker and actually being able to work and do their job?,0
"Most businesses pay out relative to risk. Working with people is inherently risky, you're always one hover parent and lawsuit away from bankruptcy. Now I have a business where I teach people with disabilities job skills and get them a job then go home. If I owned a group home or daycare I'd be worried constantly.","Don't forget the same angry hillbillies want you unable to have an abortion or birth control. So fuck you no matter what you do, even if you are responsible and know you can't afford the outrageous childcare expenses you still can't win. Work nonstop and die a virgin I guess?",0
All I’m trying to say is why would we be even looking at news like this if Africa wasn’t colonized in the first place that’s what first comment was referring to.,"xD this comment has too much cringe ""badasses"", ""knuckle dragging redditors"" like seriously I'm just voicing the concern that we have been fucking with Africa long enough to change the culture of a relatively small tribe. I had no intention of dragging my knuckles to go see a tribesmen kill a lion xD.",1
"They believe it means throwing your weight around, projecting ""strenh"", and just being a school yard bully. That's Putin, and every other dictator. (side note is this also describes Trump, perhaps that's why he looked up to Putin and other dictators).",Yeah I don’t get everyone’s enthusiasm about Putin being out of the picture. He never was a real threat and was fairly predictable and level headed. I’m more worried about who replaces Putin than I am of Putin.,1
"I mean there's definitely a chance, more-so than were this just a D vs. R race, but the one poll I saw on the matter (in fall 2021, when Dems were slumping in polls in general) had it as a 38R-36D race, with Sinema taking some portion of that remainder. A GOP lead, but not insurmountable by any means.","The deterioration of that friendship - Hobbs mentored Sinema as a social worker, helped run her early state legislative campaigns, and in turn got Sinema's support when she ran for the State House seat Kyrsten was vacating in 2010 - is honestly some Greek tragedy shit.",0
"That ""pre-crime prevention division"" is YOU! Take a look at your life, a look at your choices, how you've treated or mistreated people. Reflect on how self-centered you've been and how you affect other people.","Before you double down and say civilian gun ownership is at the center of the issue, just look at some countries that outlaw it completely: Cambodia, Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia. They don't allow citizens to own guns, but are subject to either government genocides, totalitarianism, complete unenforcability, civil wars, or rampant arms blackmarkets. On the other hand, you have countries like Switzerland where there is about 1 privately owned gun for every 4 people and they haven't had a mass shooting in over 20 years. So gun ownership or gun control aren't the issue itself.",0
Now Turkey still doesn't have a real democracy but is run by clowns and is regressing on Ataturk's vision otherwise.,"The Turkish government is the only one claiming the PKK did that, and their credibility isn't great. They have a ton of motive to make it look like their military actions are somehow justified.",1
"If you're not from AZ i think AZ is full of landmines if you try to run nationally relevant Republicans, or if you think people won't vote for progressive here.","They'll vote for certain progressives, they'll reject certain Republicans both of which would be more popular in national settings.",0
"Dynamic pricing really just means they think demand is high enough that people will pay more money. That said, dynamic pricing should result in relatively high attendance, if prices are high and the stadium is half empty, that is more like monopolistic pricing.","My understanding is it is really the other way around, the venues all basically purchased ticket master, and the fees are more like hiding the blame. “Don't look at us, ticket master is doing it.” Ticketmaster just lets the venues and performers pretend that they aren‘t behind the fees.",0
What would be more likely is that the Democrats push for a more moderate Speaker and try to peel off a few Republican votes with that.,And he was just re-elected. Would be pretty shitty of him to flip parties right after being elected.,0
Do you also think the EU and NATO are “destabilising” Russia because they put sanctions on them for invading Ukraine?,"People keep saying that but no one thinks that when Ukraine does conceed territory (or not), they can join NATO and it's end game.",1
"They want everyone who feels it's rigged or pointless to stay home, because the vast majority of people's values align with the general Democratic platform, so the higher the turnout, the worse it is for them.","Yeah I’m sure it’s just a result of people feeling like they’re in safe-blue areas, but it’s still frustrating to see “good governance” rewarded with apathy.",1
"The strategic and economic costs to China are only going to mount. Xi has no alternative but to stick with Putin. Abandoning him now would be seen as unforgivable treachery in Moscow, while having a marginal effect in patching up ties with Europe. Withdrawing Chinese support for Putin could also accelerate the latter’s defeat in Ukraine, which would allow the US to concentrate its undivided attention on China sooner.","How realistic such anxieties are matters little. The ensuing attention to Taiwan’s fate has been hugely detrimental to China’s interests. Westerners eager to demonstrate their support have elevated Taiwan’s international visibility and status, which China has worked tirelessly to deny. Even worse, the prospect of war in the Taiwan Strait has energized US efforts to bolster Taiwan militarily and diplomatically, further hollowing out its “one-China policy.”.",0
"Anyhow, I don't know how they would have missed the THC portion, the bill literally called out D9 THC as being descheduled. As such, it wasn't just D8 that was legalized, it was also D9, D10, HHC and any other cannabinoid as long as it was derived from hemp and did not exceed that .3% by dry weight.","It’s not that they didn’t foresee legalizing delta 8; they didn’t foresee people being able to use the D8 in hemp to actually get high. None of those cannabinoids exist in high enough quantities naturally to really get a high. It’s not like you can just smoke hemp and get a D8 high or even make an oil for vape carts. To get quantities usable for actually getting high, you have to highly concentrate it by converting other cannabinoids into D8 in a lab. They didn’t expect people to use complex chemistry to turn CBD and other cannabinoids into highly concentrated D8 that can get you high.",1
"That's now how statistics work. A 19% voting group nationally representing a majority in South Carolina represents a lack of representative diversity. To take your example even further, under your rationale, a 99% black state would be ""diverse"". You're just using diversity to mean more of a single group of people. Thus inverting what diversity even means.",The party moved from an unrepresentative state to a less representative state of the party as a whole.,0
"> Asked to compare the scale of the abuses by both sides, Bogner said the mistreatment of Ukrainian prisoners by Russians was ""fairly systematic"" whereas she said it was ""not systematic"" for Ukraine to mistreat Russian soldiers.","-Asked to compare the scale of the abuses by both sides, Bogner said the mistreatment of Ukrainian prisoners by Russians was ""fairly systematic"" whereas she said it was ""not systematic"" for Ukraine to mistreat Russian soldiers.-.",1
"Literally, no-one cares what candidates in hopeless races do. Because no-one cares, sometimes they commit fraud. This seemed to apply to Trump in 2016, until it was too late. (They should have brought out the Bush interview a few weeks earlier.).","Yeah. Because Schengen is trying to get ""Europe"" as a concept on the same level as US is for interstate travel. Try immigrating from outside of Europe, especially unskilled immigration. The US has quotas for every country that just lets random people immigrate, rather than requiring a specific skill visa; that concept doesn't really exist for any country in Europe that I'm aware of. And disagreements even over Schengen and the ""common market"" was a commonly cited reason for Brexit.",1
"Correct. For example, somebody that has retired with a few million in assets is far from being filthy rich.","This kind of stuff makes them untrustworthy because they never defined ""super rich."" It's not defined as the 1%. It is usually defined as 400k! That is like top 8%.",1
"Again, not inciting violence in the middle of a genocidal attack by Russia, just want Ukraine to be able to defend itself.","It was reasonable to expect Ukraine to fight back, and we kinda knew Russia wasn’t at NATO level, but what we’ve seen has been next level.",1
I agree with that assessment. My guess is the Soviet Union had huge stockpiles but a lot of these were sold off (both officially and unofficially) in the 90s plus Russia has had a number of wars and conflicts since then so they’re stockpiles got used up and not replaced. Russia had plenty of shells for a short war but they tens of millions and they just don’t have them.,One of the reasons for announcements like this is to communicate to the Russians that Ukraine will have supplies of ammo/weapons for the long-haul.,1
"When your college baseball teammates tell The New Yorker that you were an asshole, well, that is saying something.","He's a meathead baseball player who married a television news arm candy woman, nothing cultured or intellectual about the guy. Plenty of book smart people are also assholes.",0
"My point: I think Trump has proven that he cannot win another election because he has solidified his voter base (the crazies) and the barrier to entry to become a new trump-advocate is a line few voters would cross. No regular Joe’s (independents, centralists) realistically want insanity in geopolitics, stock markets, oppression over individual rights, or more blatant corporate greed. Trump offers people nothing. He has no plans to progress the US forward. He offers no assurance around improving healthcare, his Covid response did more harm than good, and he led an insurrection against our capitol just to name a few!","Republicans, if you’re reading this, please put up DeSantis if you want to stand a reasonable chance of winning the 2024 presidential election. Otherwise Biden will overwhelmingly win over Trump or any other MAGA-associated advocate (rightfully so!).",0
"The EU should be ready to jump on helping Ukraine to join as soon as the war is over, mixing together the accession process with reconstruction aid, to rebuild a post war Ukraine as a European country. But rushing it now will only make it illegitimate and incomplete.","But it's also impractical for Ukraine to join while partially occupied. How will they hold a referendum on it, for example? How do you begin the work on things like infrastructure standardization and measuring humanitarian and social program standards when none can even be delivered?",0
"But frankly, Iranians getting executed by their own government without any form of able resistance... Is just I don't really see any other help they can get.","The Iranian people won’t be free until every government official backing the power of the state has been killed or put in prison, and all I’ve seen is just innocent protesters being massacred and executed. So I ask again how? How will the Iranian people be free?",1
"Officially it's already a federal crime for the employer to hire undocumented workers, except in the case where they do the whole I-9 thing as required and fake paperwork genuinely fools the employer. Enforcement against businesses is approximately nil, but any administration that wanted to make it a DOJ enforcement priority absolutely could without further legislation or regulation.","Have you looked up his political views? He's extremely right wing, and stopping migration is one of his goals. Sure he is an elected official rather than a pundit, but it doesn't really change the other commenter's point. He's as biased as a right wing pundit.",0
"I believe they also have 100 Typhoon jets, even if a handful of them are in working order is still directs the heat at the UK breaking the taboo so others can send theirs.","Sending Typhoons is a ridiculous idea: we don't have spare jets, Ukrainian pilots don't know how to fly them, there are no trained maintenance crews etc. Apart from these issues it's a great idea.",1
"Plus, let’s not act like these very same Republicans won’t be back on the Trump train if he wins the nomination. The exact same thing happened in 2016.","I live in rural Pennsylvania, and this could not be more wrong. People around here are fucking jazzed.",0
"We do nothing about it. For decades now, the citizens of the US have been at ease and have forgotten what it means to stand up for justice. As it turns out, that's a recipe for the installation of fascists throughout the government. It's not enough for a few thousand of us to online comment. A revolution is long overdue and the clock is approaching midnight much faster than we're acknowledging.","""No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."".",0
"I believe the permium plans have better speeds, lower latency and can be used while moving, which is the critical part. But most importantly, this had nothing to do with what Musk wanted or decided. This was UK officials deciding a service they bought is no longer a priority and cutting funding.","This is how much the premium business plans cost for everyone, not just Ukraine. They are not paying $2500 a month for the $100 family Starlink service.",0
Also it takes two to end a war. The Russians can't simply declare the war to be over. If the Ukrainians continue to conduct offensive operations then the war continues.,"As much as any weapon delivery or sanction, that man's PR and awareness campaign is what has kept Ukraine alive and in the fight.",1
"Right, and plenty of research shows race regularly puts non-white people at a disadvantage. Diversity initiatives try to level the playing field due to pervasive pro-white bias.",Did it ever once occur to you the reason we have quotas is to confront the opposite problem; qualified minorities not getting hired because of racism?,1
"I accept that it is debatable in the sense that anything could be debated, but hardly in any realistic sense.","Russia would not have a port in the Baltic Sea. Given how thoroughly Russian internet presence was torn to shreds in the first months of 2022, Russia would likely not have any internet facing military adjacent systems still online.",0
"However, the insane amount of loss of matériel in Ukraine means that this war has been far more painful for Russia than Afghanistan ever was to the Soviet Union.","When you consider that the Soviet military was vastly bigger in terms of raw numbers than the Russian military was at the start of 2022, then the losses Russia has sustained are even more painful.",0
"I think you’re thinking of the epic of Gilgamesh which is the oldest book, the oldest story written down is a religious story of Inanna written by Enheduanna. Beowulf is the oldest story written in English.","Idk it’s barely the same language if it is, and I don’t think the whole of it is valuable. It’s not that I think it’s inappropriate it’s that it’s really difficult to read. Like I have a bachelors degree and speak English, Latin, and German, which should lead me to like a basicish ability to triangulate meaning, but I’d need a translation guide especially since the evolution of English since it was written was fairly chaotic.",0
Emphasis mine. This is pretty clear that language includes the ability to concentrate that D9 into a level that could get a person high.,"Anyhow, I don't know how they would have missed the THC portion, the bill literally called out D9 THC as being descheduled. As such, it wasn't just D8 that was legalized, it was also D9, D10, HHC and any other cannabinoid as long as it was derived from hemp and did not exceed that .3% by dry weight.",0
I think everything will arrive in time for Russia's offensive in March. All these announcements happened the same time the CIA delivered information to zelensky. They probably showed up with detailed information on the 2nd invasion and how Ukraine can defeat it.,"Ukraine can just slowly retreat why himars and precision artillery obliterate Russian armor. It just makes no sense for Russia to continue this war if they can't take out the himar systems. They can't, they were hoping we would run out of ammo.",0
Yeah. Also I don’t think that disposing of a properly working car to manufacture a new EV has such a great impact on the environment... Especially since Poland’s electricity is 83% fossil fuel….,"But in the end, people with functional cars will be forced to buy new cars, so theres a forced demand for car manufacturing, which is not good for the environment I guess?",0
It allows them to lie and keep the people believing their bs while being in a completely different world.,"They’re just telling themselves lie after lie after lie as part of the alternate universe they live in, as usual.",1
They can jump from Biden impeachment. To Benghazi to Afghanistan withdrawal. Seeing as the Senate only meets I believe 3 days a week. From Tuesday afternoon ending Thursday at noon. They can just go all three issues everyday week after week after week. All the way to election day 2024. Maybe slide through an abortion ban. A tax cut or 2 for the rich. And you've got yourself an agenda.,I'm not sure if rage is the most powerful emotions humans have. but it wouldn't surprise me. And humans honestly are just one big sloppy bag of emotions. Kind of makes sense that they would use one of our strongest emotions against ourselves and each other.,0
"And Xi has told his generals to prepare to invade Taiwan by 2027 according to the head of the CIA (). In addition, a US general released a memo, prior to the balloon, warning that he thinks we will be at war with China by 2025 ().",It seems like a ton of people on here think war with China is just not gonna happen. We just had the luxury of growing up in a really good time in the world. Large scale warfare will happen again and the United States will most likely be at the epicenter of it.,0
"You immediately criticize the US as playing dick, yet you didn't criticize China's many things at all especially on that particular sky/sea where they have no jurisdiction in the first place? So how are you balanced and unbiased? You've thought first about what big bully nuclear China felt but not the bullied smaller neighbors? The Hague Ruling is the real balanced and unbiased, no big, no small, no powerful, no weak, international and outside of any pressure from big neighbors.","The Hague Ruling already proved it all could be done legitimate and peacefully, which nations should abide. That there is a lawful way via international means away from pressure from any bigger claimant, without bloodshed.",0
The real sin is that insurance is so freaking high and is not based on your driving history or if you took driver's ed but that you're under 25.,The real issue here is that they raised the age at some point in the past 30 years. I got my learner's permit here in PA in 1984 when I was 15-1/2.,0
I would imagine you could retrofit it to do the job buts it’s the most expensive plane on the planet and kind of a waste of resources as a refueling plane.,It is not like Boeing has a wide body stealth passenger jet lying around that they just need to slap some props and some refueling gear onto.,1
I would Imagine that they are not any more or less susceptible to right wing propaganda/ conspiracy theories than whites.,"Minorities can often be racist as well, so that part appeals, in many cases folks think it's directed at others, not realizing the GOP thinks they are the others.",1
"Problem is even with how blue states like NY and California are, there are still rural and suburban areas which are extremely conservative. Districts in those areas going to tend to vote republican, they’re just a minority of the districts and have smaller populations often times.","Sometimes it is, and I’m not sure of the specifics for each individual race, but to call it a systemic issue among the California races this year is just flat out BS.",0
"2. Because of Lava Jato’s corruption that Lula can’t be trialed again. Lula didn’t create any law, and didn’t destroy due process. If impartial judges and prosecutors were doing their work, maybe Lula would have being sentenced. Maybe, but we’ll never know because they unjustifiable tried to convict him before he could be a candidate in 2018. They acted politically and created this mess, not Lula.","It was political persecution so Lula would not be able to run for president in 2018. The judge of the case conspired with the prosecution, and after Lula was arrested and Bolsonaro won, the judge became Bolsonaro's justice Minister. Lula's conviction was reverted later and if you're Brazilian, you know that.",1
So I really think this is a bill for women with Endometriosis and they don’t even realize it? Or are keeping the wording obtuse so people won’t question it? If less than 10% of women are asking to use it that lines up with Endo stats.,"I’m 26, have had problems since I was an early teen. My mom has endo. The first doc she took me to was a gynae who told us she was pushing me to hard and that’s why I was in pain and it as “anxiety”. Fun fact I never had anxiety until all these doctors told me my pain was anxiety. Then I was like damn I must be anxious all the time to be in this much pain! And then a feedback loop occurs .",0
"This is so distasteful. “If they don’t like it here they can leave”. Come on man, the west is a diaspora of different cultures, races and ethnicities. Western ideology is intended to be welcoming and democratic.","Then due to lapse in judgment a potentially dangerous racist terrorist is released and does what racist terrorists do, commit acts of violence. I’m not condoning aggressive protests or counter aggression from police forces. But saying the whole “well if you don’t like it then leave thing” is kinda gross imo..",0
"However, I think that what they're going to teach isn't really the law. The judges know the law already. It's the practical side of conducting war crime investigations and trials and the unique character of war crimes. It's something you don't cover in detail during a peacetime university course in criminal law or criminal science.",Public international law is the same for the UK and Ukraine. Relevant criminal law differs of course and British lawyers obviously cannot educate Ukrainians on how to apply Ukrainian laws to things that are happening in Ukraine.,0
"Thank heavens that the sane people are leading the world and that is all those who support Ukraine, are the worlds sane people.","Hoping it doesn't of course, but I'm just making the point that even now Ukraine is still not totally safe.",1
"If it's the former, there's not a whole lot to say, because nothing happened. If it's the latter, they're not going to want to say anything. And even if they want to, they can only say so much, because pursuing charges means that they need to assemble a grand jury for an indictment, and grand juries are secret proceedings.","I thought the special grand jury had already said they thought there were crimes but couldn't refer charges for indictment, and the thing on Tuesday was presenting to a grand jury with the power to indict.",1
"Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism. But there's scarcely an anti-Semite around who won't pass it off as ""Criticism of Israel"", or ""anti-Zionism"".","Get out of here with your antisemitism bullshit the second someone says anything negative. You can’t make everything about that. Granted some things are, but the more you make everything about that, the more you’re creating the divide and just alienating people from being critical. Everyone is fair game to be critical off.",1
"Freedom of religion should permit you to hold any religious belief and protects your right to practice it, but it should not ever include censorship of those who'd want to critique it by political manifestations.","Ignoring for a moment this was purposefully done in front of the Turkish mission, probably not - but I'd personally argue ensuring religious freedom is a core obligation of any modern state, and permitting or acquiescing to a blatant attack against any religion in the public arena does not track with that. There are more nuanced and moderate ways to level criticism. Not to mention, Erdoğan's stance in this instance has nothing to do with Islam, so I'm unclear what you would be criticizing here by burning a Quran.",1
"I remember shortly before the 2016 election FiveThirtyEight ran an article that said the election was just a normal polling error away from Trump winning. I think people just didn’t want to believe that he could win so most people assumed the polls showed Hillary winning and that any polling error would surely end up in her favor. It didn’t, but the polls weren’t off by much more than usual in 2016. 2018/2020/2022 were all pretty much in line with that the polls said too.","Trump is an authentic representation of his base, that’s why they love him. He enjoys fast food, his vocabulary is simple, he has terrible taste in style, he says the things they wish a politician would say. No one can replicate that because for all of his faults Trump is genuinely Trump. When he says things he genuinely means it in that moment. While not actually blue collar, Trump’s whole personality is that of someone who is blue collar “telling it like it is” type of personality. He has a weird sort of charisma in that way. It’s partly why the rich reject him, he’s not truly one of them. That’s also why his base loves him, he’s intended as a big F-You to the rich since the rich do hate him. The others are too calculated and frankly, too smart to really be embraced by Trump’s base. Plus DeSantis and Haley have little to no charisma.",0
you are falling for a gambit that the oil and gas companies want you to fall for. they want you to think that the switch can only come at a terrible price in human life.,"yup, we'd need an alternative source. crazy that the oil and gas companies spend literally billions of dollars a year suppressing research. insane. let's keep falling for their gambit.",0
"Yes, in an ideal world, we can keep global ""peace"" without having to deal with 3 countries that have agendas that they would prioritize over peace.","The purpose of the UN is to make it possible to keep global peace. The US, Russia, China, etc, aren't going to take orders from other countries and would just leave, rendering it useless.",0
"""Fruit development normally begins when one or more egg cells in the ovular compartment of the flower are fertilized by sperm nuclei from pollen."".",While we are at it. Milk is white - you know what else is white and expressed as a natural consequence of sex ? Semen. So no more animal based milks. The abominations that are nut milks must be stopped as well because nut is a colloquial term for a man's ejaculate and nether regions.,1
"There are jobs for which the federal government pays more - mostly at the lower end of the salaries. But if you're a professional working for the state or federal government, you're underpaid.",Yeah but working for the federal government you should have a mechanism to compensate you for working that much (comp time/overtime). I have engineer that have worked 10-12 hour days since we graduated 5 years ago for base salary lol.,1
And the UK will also not be able to rejoin on the same preferential terms that existed before Brexit.,"It's also worth noting that it wasn't that easy for the UK to join in the first place, the UK wanted to join in 1963 and 1967 and both times the application was vetoed by the French PM at the time. And when it comes to new members, every single existing member has to agree before a new country is allowed to join. Any single member state can veto the UK rejoining.",0
"It is funny how most of the world was pro-Iraq (including both the US and the USSR) in this war, with Israel being among the few who did something beneficial to Iran instead.","Not only this, but Iran also shared with Israel its intelligence (gathered when Iran did a partially successful airstrike on the same reactor a year ago), according to at least one source. Israel used this information to complete the job, coming from the unexpected western direction, as most of Iraq military was facing the East - Iran.",0
"What is a ""desire to harm others"" here? Because if they made an actual threat, then thats a crime. The police can arrest them for that. They have literally never needed red flag laws to do so, thats always been illegal.","Red flag laws are utterly disgusting and contemptable. A total nullification of the presumption of innocence, the right to arms, the right to property, the right to a trial before jury of your peers, and the right to face your accuser, all in one tyrannical package.",0
">Biden aides have been sifting through documents stored at locations beyond his former Washinon office to determine if there are any other classified documents that need to be turned over to the National Archives and reviewed by the Justice Department, the person familiar with the matter said.","One, where the National Archives tells Biden all documents appear to be accounted for; then years later Biden's people volunteer the information that they discovered potentially classified materials in an office space no longer used and use due diligence to make sure any other unrecovered documents are found and turned over..",1
Its because Brexit or undoing Brexit etc. is political wildfire. Even if they are right whats the solution? pointing out Boris is a moron? or trying to undo it because the British public won't like that either.,A lot of people said NHS funding but lets be honest what they really meant is they hate certain types of people.,0
a nuke won't help putin achieve anything tangible though and it would be a hellstorm for russia if they launched a nuke. You think a country that cant defend its strategic military bases within arms reach of its capitol can afford to play the nuclear stand off game? russia is a sitting duck and launching nukes would be the end of russia let alone this war.,"How has russia been irrational? They are doing what they know how to do, and putin is not suicidal, he is willing to slaughter hundreds of thousands of his own people, but he isn't willing to destroy his regime, hence why he is still fighting this war.",0
"Sweden obviously has no say over what Finland, a sovereign country decides to do. However I think most of us Swedes would be understanding if Finland decided to join on their own. They are in a more exposed position than Sweden geographically, and it would increase safety for Sweden as well by nearly surrounding us with NATO countries. However most are probably grateful that Finland will join together with Sweden when/if the time comes, as was always the plan.","It is the desire of both Finland and Sweden, as well as all major NATO allies, that the two countries join at the same time. This is not set in stone, however. Finland is also having an election this spring, and the next administration might be OK with entering NATO before Sweden does.",1
"Military Police are somewhat similar to the National Guard in the US, in that they report to the State Governor (but in the US they can also be nationalized and fall under the command of the Federal Army).","You'd call up the National Guard first in the US, which is not strictly the Army and is still technically a domestic peace-keeping force under the command of each State governor. It is somewhat similar to the Brazilian Military Police.",0
"A landmine that kicks up and goes off at knee / waist level for an adult, might be chest/head level for a child.","Anti-personnel landmines are designed to wound rather than kill, as a wounded casualty takes up many more resources than a dead body.",0
"In one country, gay marriage is legal, but trans are somehow this figure of great concern, in the other country, it's illegal to be gay and you get to be trans even if you don't want to be.","So they'll force these kids to be both not trans enough to get accepted at school, but trans enough to get beaten by the parents they're afraid to come out to.",1
"yeah like they are making this out to be some extreme thing but if the state has permitted me to carry a handgun, what difference does it make if I have a carbine in my backpack?","Im not familiar with TN laws, but here in PA having a firearm loaded or capable of being loaded in a vehicle counts as concealed carry. Without a LTCF the ammunition or firearm has to be stored where the driver does not have access. With an LTCF they can be loaded, including pistol AK variants.",1
"Well well. Russia forcing Belarus to use nukes on Ukraine. If this happens, NATO nukes the shit out of Belarus and Putin can watch and analyse the outcome without him facing any consequences.",I reckon the outcome would be an invasion (no nukes) by Poland and the Baltic states of Belarus. Putin wouldn't learn much from it though as I doubt a single person in Belarus would resist.,1
The article doesn't even address that part. It states that Ukraine is winning and want's all their territory plus Crimea back but they don't even touch on what happens to all that territory if Russia just end's the conflict.,"So the plan is to leave NATO which would ""permit Putin to save face if he ended Russia’s military and political debacle in Ukraine"" and what's the plan if he doesn't end it?",0
"Edit: we host parades, fairs, and markets in the street. I understand people’s concerns about safety, some of the other ones are a little overblown, but this is going to happen regardless and I’d rather it be monitored and conducted safer than it be done with no safety and people get hurt/killed (though i haven’t heard of any deaths).",My main thing was safety. Keep in mind this is going to happen regardless so would you rather it be done safer and legal or unsafe and illegal (encouraging more crime in general).,0
"The French started slowly withdrawing and then received a formal request to leave by the Malian junta, and that was the end of that.",I remember reading days ago that France left Mali because they opposed the junta's plan to ethnically cleanse the Tuaregs. Is that true?,1
"Hell, Norway changed their criminal prosecution laws so the U.S. would have ""first chance"" at prosecuting offender soldiers (which can't possibly go wrong in anything like, say, rape.) And Norway is already a NATO member.","Why should Sweden rebuild parts of Turkey because they want to join NATO? For humanitarian reasons , sure, for joining NATO, no that’s still blackmail from Erdogan.",1
When Ukraine pushes russian troops out of their country (including Crimea). At that point just send U.S troops into Ukraine and dare those dumbass russians to strike.,Ukraine has already attacked targets in Russia. This needs to continue until Russia acknowledges that their invasion was wrong and takes the appropriate consequences.,1
"Republicans proudly and by design act in bad faith at every turn in the name of power, dare Dems, Biden, or the DoJ to do something knowing that they won't or can't even if it's deserved.",Dems don't even have to do anything unethical or illegal to get Republicans all worked up...look at the stink they've been trying to raise about Hunter Biden for the past two years. It's a big nothingburger and they can't let it go.,1
"However, I think it's impossible that we could comfortably afford a good retirement and a child. She wants three. I wouldn't feel comfortable. I came from a very poor home that had lots of death, financial burden and piss poor financial planning. It's awful to see how many low income families in the 18-25 year old range that desperately want, and have kids then can't afford them through no fault of their own. My mum doesn't seem to understand that no, a single mum can't raise two children by themselves on state benefits. It's unbelievably tight. Especially with the pressures of modern society.","It's funny. My partner (28) and I (29) differ so much on this. We earn probably £65k pre-tax together, pay about £420 a month in mortgage (up north where property prices are cheaper), have our energy bill fixed at a good rate so we pay about £65 a month etc.",0
"It might not be good, they could be simply moving them so the Russians can invade and the Belarus troops will not be targeted by the Ukrainians when it happens.","My comedy brain wants Belarus to 'invade' Ukraine, then as the troops cross paths, about face and lead Ukraine to invade Russia.",1
"The FBI statistics show that in a defense shooting situation, the average number of times you pull the trigger is like 3-4 times. However, that’s just an average; yes, a single shot really could stop a threat, but I don’t want to take the chance that I’ll get it done in 4 or less shots. I’ve seen videos where a threat soaks up a mag dump and is still attacking the cops. I can comfortably carry 17 rounds with no issues, there’s no reason to do anything different.","The gun I carry everyday, it was designed with a 17 round capacity in mind. I don’t see a need to reduce that number for any reason.",0
"Because for healthcare to work, you need to have the young and healthy paying into the pot. Someone else here said ""well the government can just cover the loses,"" which is true, but at that point the government is subsidizing private insurance by spending trillions a year to cover the unprofitable parts of the population while letting private insurance cover all the profitable people.","Third, reducing the funding that the health insurance companies have to lobby against universal healthcare could help in the long run, not that the cat isn't completely out of the bag in terms of the American public being robbed, enslaved, gaslit, and socially murdered without recourse by our abusive, financially diversified ruling kleptocrat class.",1
"However, Ukraine and the rest of the world were ready this time, and surprise underhanded tactics didn't work this time.","Putin's trying to save face. He fucked up, underestimating Ukraine and rather than look weak by pulling out, he's going to keep pushing even if it drags all of Russia down with him.",0
From reporters Liz Goodwin and Marianna Sotomayor: Gallego’s entry could make a three-way race in the battleground state in 2024; it’s unclear currently if Sinema plans to run for reelection.,"She’ll get votes from both parties, and it’s definitely no rely an uphill battle for the Gallego, but it’s very possible her percentage of the votes will be in the single digits.",1
"So they are building additional housing capacity with the intent to have it as rental only. Yes, making only rentals available in the future is bad. However this is new housing, which should alleviate both rents and purchase prices in those areas.",Except they price out the rest of us from ever owning a home buy artificially inflating the price through the purchases. I understand what you are trying to say but the full picture isn't being painted.,1
"I was a strong believer, not a strong Christian per se. Attended youth group, went to Christian camps, etc., but didn’t really practice what was preached. I didn’t believe in the magical BS, but figured Jesus was the son of God and died for our sins (never understood how that worked though).","I think offering secular world religion classes are for the greater good. The ones I took so not teach WHAT to believe but teach what those who practice said religion believe. Knowing what others believe, why they believe it, and the percentage of population that believe the same is extremely eye-opening.",0
"Clearly hoping for a repeat of last time the higher-ups in Beijing decided, ""it shouldn't be just us dealing with this."".","Yeah. It would take an uncomfortable amount of draconian policy to be set. But honestly it’s not only cutting off travel to and from China, but also any travelers who’s final destination, and originating location is China. And then not to mention all the other countries following suit.",1
I was going to ask if the owner of private prisons could make a challenge but it seems like California banned private prisons in 2019. Thanks for the answer.,That’s a great point. People do want some purpose and want to work for a living. But we all need agency over that. Let them choose what they want and pay them a good wage.,1
If you are a Russian AFV commander you might have been told that the Ukrainians are running out of armor; but then being told you might face modern MBTs that will probably see you first and kill you before you see it?,I think the clever thing here is to keep working on Russian morale to the point enough soldiers decide that killing their officers might be the best option; all the way to Putin.,0
I think we agree on more than we disagree. Turkey is amazing but I'd just wait til their current leadership gets voted out. It's only a matter of time until Erdogan is out whether he is voted out this May or not. I think Finland and Sweden are still a shoe-in for NATO ascension and people just read too much into the political side of this stuff just like when they got pissed at Germany when Poland was dealing with their elections and using the Patriot system and tanks as a way to rile people up domestically. It was a good talk; I'm going to sleep also. Have a good one.,"As for your link, I think that context is important. That article is from 2017 fresh off of an abortive coup attempt in 2016 and fairly recent into Erdogan coming to power in 2014. We don't like the guy. He's a bag of dicks. I think most Western countries will see their relationship take a turn for the better when he's voted out. But our defensive alliance is different than our domestic bilateral agreements when it comes to shit like traveling visas and tourism...",0
"Why do you think India and China, who each have their own goals on the globe, remain neutral, maybe slightly pro-russian in a passive way, in this conflict despite the risk of the global devastation by a crazy neighbor? Because in talks with their leaders Putin shows level of sanity enough for them to remain neutral, which means no global devastation on the table.","In the same way, why do you think each time Putin gets into conflict with Turkiye he's forced to back off? Because Turkiye doesn't care for Putin's bullshit. They know that Putin is all talk.",0
"A stressed out and trembling Putin goes to the Kremlin barbershop to get a haircut. While cutting his hair, the barber keeps asking on and on and talking about the 'special operation' in Ukraine.","The barber responds, ""Nyet. I'm not interested at all about the war crimes. I don't care about the massacres, the rape, the bombing of civilians. Couldn't care less."".",0
"Yeah, I consider multiple direct witnesses across an entire county, and multiple direct victims that consist of entire families who claimed to have both witnessed and experienced abductions, to be wide (both literally and figuratively).","My point is just that if anything is shot down it is probably terrestrial, and that this is a logical conclusion you have to come to if you do or don't believe aliens have visited us (unless you think they deliberately allowed a craft to be shot down).",0
"Doubt it. I bet there's a lot of pressure not to ""escalate"" with more modern weapons. And while yes, there are himars, etc there, I'm betting that sending modern tanks would be used by Russia to say nato has ""joined"", and would escalate them to use nukes... They're already chomping at that bit, and the more they lose, the more cornered they are. So I highly doubt you'll see any of these, or leopards, being sent there.... Not to mention the logistical issues this would create.","That being said, it's also a great time to modernize and spend, as public support is really high (see what I said above) , so there's not going to be a better time than now... With the added bonus of also propping up your own industry and add with that thetechnology transfer etc. It's kind of a no brainer.",0
"I mean a lot of countries are hostile to the US or at least would like to see them not quite as dominant, but nobody is going to risk anything coming to Russia's aid.","So basically America is the global hegemon and Russia resents that and wants that for itself but knows it can't challenge the US and the West so it's bitter, and allies itself with 3rd world countries and dictators that have been wronged by the West in the past.",1
"Because the government doesn’t have the power to order companies to give certain benefits? I don’t disagree that 0 sick days is a little ridiculous, but the rail strike needs to be avoided at all costs. It would absolutely guarantee a blowout in the 2024 election and Americans would struggle to live their day to day lives. Sorry but it’s not worth it as a whole.","Because again, that would harm the US economy and Democrats don’t want to look bad going into 2024. The majority of Americans don’t give a shit about unions really, they only care about living their day to day lives. In this case the majority of railway unions support the new deal, it’s only the minority holding out. The railway companies have agreed to a very noticeable pay increase of like 25%. If the majority of the unions agree, and the railway companies agree, I just don’t think it’s right to try to please everyone in this case.",0
Fox said things. It got sued by a private entity. The government is taking no action to limit said speech. First Amendment is inapposite.,"Because that itself would be a violation of the First Amendment. It would give the government the ability to regulate what is ""news"".",1
"My guy, no Serb is killing albanians in 2023, but a lot of Serbs in kosovo are getting terrorised by albanians because of historic ethnic tensions. You are being brainwashed just now in this sub.","To answer briefly, Kosovo was a part of Serbia for the past 700 years or so and then the albanians managed to take it with the support from America.",0
"Russia and the Soviets abused Ukraine so much... But look at the majority of famous ""soviet"" Engineers, scientists, generals... Vast majority were Ukranian.","Khrushchev and Gorbachev strike me as two men who deeply cared for the health of the entirety of Eastern Europe. I'm sure terrible things happened under their watch, but they were moral men. Both Ukranian.",0
"""Equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism"" is weak. The threat of violence to achieve a political end is by definition terrorism. If the Republicans are going to get upset about it either way, why not just call it what it is?","Also, to be fair, a perhaps even better question that should be asked is, ""why did the Republicans do it in the first place?"".",1
"And if they greenlit projects... then they have lied about the requirement I pointed out. I'm sure their paper SAYS it will not encourage more drivers, but taking 50 drivers off the road to run one bus instead (never gonna happen) just made space for 40+ more drivers and the roads nicer to drive for all drivers.","Even if every road in the country is jam-packed solid 24/7 (or, equally, completely empty), you wouldn't be able to build a road and claim that it wouldn't increase the number of cars on the road.",0
Does a great job of explaining why this is more complicated than just forcing the railroads to add sick leave.,"It's worth noting railway union workers already get paid sick leave. The problem though is they have to apply for that sick leave after the fact, it's not automatic as it often is in most other companies.",1
"""Vladimir Putin in October ordered Russia to formally seize the plant and transfer Ukrainian staff to a Russian entity. Kyiv says the transfer of assets amounts to theft."".","Came here to say this. Either this is pure fear mongering as usual and we could theoretically ignore it, or this is a blatant threat.",1
"I'm sorry, but do you really not see the problem with this? More regs mean higher costs for the freight comps, leading to higher costs for the manufacturer or importer bringing their stuff to market. This means higher costs for the little guy just wanting to buy eggs.","I isolated 2019 for the simple reason that it was the first year that the TCJA [1] really took effect. Said Act was passed in 2017 to take effect FY 2018. Considering the usual lag, it is reasonable to expect 2019 to see the first major effects of it. Had TFG [2] not cocked up [3] the response to the Chinese novel coronavirus, it is doubtful that 2020 would have been any better. Therefore, based on simple elimination, 2019 is unfortunately the only year we have to judge the TCJA.",0
"With Russia being in Chinas influence they wont help against China. There is no way France can provide enough arms to India for a fight against China. Only remaining entity thats can really help India is USA here. And thats what my comment alluded to. With Russia in Chinas influence, can India afford to lose west as a partner.","And with Russia not for rescue, there is no way India can fight a long war with China alone. China domestic arms industry is expanding at mind blowing pace even to give US generals sleepless nights. India on the other hand is mostly dependent on other countries namely Russia and USA/France. Make in India is still in nascent stages and India still depends on other countries for critical components.",0
"It's not forcing every state to legalize it, but it is forcing states to recognize married couples as such.","Edit: Yes, it's forcing states to recognize same-sex marriage licenses from states that do issue them.",1
"I think this will have a negative impact overall, it feels like they're teeing up a republican judiciary to make a ""States' rights"" argument against gay marriage. Especially after a Justice.","This isn't the big win that everyone thinks it is. The goal was to codify the right to same sex marriage in every state, and that's not the Respect for Marriage Act does:",0
"I'll grant you that the reason behind it being Omar specifically was probably her ethnicity and some of her statements. But they were kicking someone off when they got the chance, specifically because it was done to them. They threatened to remove people from committees immediately after Greene and Gosar were removed. This is the follow-through on that.","I can see that argument, but at least in the House, they're not that focused. If it was McConnell, I'd agree with you; out of the current GoP crop he seems to be the most mechanical (and even he's pretty vengeful; see blocking Supreme Court nominee). But McCarthy and the rest of the House Rs are a lot less disciplined than Senate Rs and tend to be pretty cantankerous (see: Speaker fight), so it's more likely to my mind that they're just reacting.",0
"That's not to say that things like red flag laws and waiting periods don't have an effect on suicide, including suicide when talking about those two proposals is quite valid as they are designed to reduce things like suicide. I am merely talking about why suicides are generally not talked about when discussing the proposals above, which are a large portion of gun control proposals gun control proponents are trying to push.","Right up until we're talking about violence, at which point suicides and accidental deaths (and even justified deaths) are no longer relevant to the conversation. The issue is that ""gun deaths"" is used by gun control proponents in places where the overwhelming majority of the deaths that make up the statistic are not relevant to the conversation.",0
"It is true that Reagan, working with a Democrat majority in the California legislature, passed a ban on open carry of firearms as a response to the black panthers. However, the majority of California gun control, such as the handgun registry, AWB, ammo restrictions, etc, were in the 90s and and 2000s. Not under Reagan in the 70s. I will also point out that it is a stupid response to people criticizing California gun laws to bring up a politician wh retired over 30 years ago and has been dead for almost 20.","The American polarization on guns didn't really exist until the 80s anyway. Before then gun control wasn't particularly pushed for, and gun rights weren't advocated for much either. It wasn't until the violence of the 70s and 80s that gun control became a bigger push, and the gun rights movement was awakened into the powerful force it is today.",0
"Yes, you do. And you also need to raise the cap. And doing those two things isn’t enough, unless the payroll tax increase is sharper and steeper than most would tolerate. So, raising the full retirement benefit age by one year in increments of two months per year is also required.","There are many ways to avoid insolvency. The SS and Medicare trustees recently put out another annual report which includes those proposals. But, no one change will prevent insolvency. However, it can be prevented without any cuts for current or future retirees. There are ways. Unfortunately they include raising the payroll tax at least a bit over time for a time.",0
"Fair play to her dad. What did she do other than be born? What good is she doing in the world today with her un-earned wealth? Further, wealth that comes from a country committing such atrocities as Russia.",Russia is inflicting destruction on Ukraine...yes but what's that got to do with Indian companies pulling out of Russia? We have our own relations with Russia. Honestly the fact that they offered to pull out of Russia is baffling to me. They should not pull out. Russia is and will always remain a true partner in need for India. India's foreign policy is its own and is not affected by the west's pissing matches.,1
"The story is over a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps to be re-educated, not that they were all killed. The allegation is cultural genocide and forced sterilization in some cases. When your efforts are targeted against specific groups then it's possible for everyone to ignore it. The camps are also located far away from population centres out of public view.","Most of the people currently protesting are Han Chinese and the majority of Urumqi are Han Chinese, many fairly recent migrants. This is something that effects everyone equally and happened in the middle of a city of 4 million. Also, people all over China are tired of these restrictions and resistance has started happening in places like Guangzhou even without a tragedy like the fire. People are running out of food and can't work under lockdown.",0
"""Any action that threatens their security will be considered under international law as an attack on the Russian Federation."".","So no not the same at all. It's like saying drinking a gallon of water or a gallon mercury is the same because both are liquids. Only somebody either wilfully ignorant, stupid, malevolent or a combination of those above would say something like that.",1
"> Honestly, I am skeptical there would be any way to end this 'gender war' without abolishing conscription system. Of course, most 'feminist' group support abolishing it - but many of them also support 'tweaking' compensation as well, so it's hard for young men to see them in a good light, given that almost everyone expects that 'conscription system' will persist for at least decades.","And I guess that this is why many guys don’t support them: they’re not fighting to end a custom that penalizes males, don’t want to share the struggle of mandatory military service BUT want to reap the same benefits without having to do it.",1
"The whole measure with the price cap was to prevent Russia from selling its oil at a profit, but still keep Russian oil on the market to prevent a price shock.","If it costs Russia, say, $40, to pump and export oil then a price cap that reduces their selling price from $100 to $50 doesn't cut their profit by 50%, it reduces it by five sixths, all without creating an oil price shock that would hurt poor countries.",1
Fuck the railroad and their horseshit. I hope the current companies crumble and new companies take over the existing infrastructure. Fuck em.,"Who the fuck wants to put up with that shit? All the money in the world can't buy you more time to be with your friends and family. And considering the difficulty that railway employees have in simply scheduling a fucking doctor's appointment, that money can't even buy you good health!",1
"“Flashback: McCarthy told reporters in Statuary Hall last month that he thinks ""the American public should actually see all [that] happened instead of a report that's written [on] a political basis.""”.",I’m saying he’s a liar and this isn’t the real reason he’s releasing it exclusively to Tucker Carlson. Do you think Tucker Carlson is NOT going to spoon feed us what they want?,0
"This will blow up in their face, as usual. The last two elections for Republicans have been pathetic, embarrassing affairs. Millennial’s and Gen Z turn out more and more every election, and both generations a vastly, overwhelmingly, Dem/Prog/Lefty. That’s two generations of voters who hate the Republican Party and their policies. Gen Z is even more Left-leaning than Millennials, if you can believe it. Republicans offer nothing of value to what is now the largest voting bloc in America, and it shows. All this and similar policies will do is galvanize young people against Republicans more and more.","If you vote for Republicans you get republican policies. Kansans should reevaluate who they vote for, but they won't, because Americans are not very bright.",1
"You and I strongly disagree on a great many topics, but this is absolutely 100% correct. Why was he never prosecuted after being arrested for threatening to use a homemade bomb to kill his mother? Why was his arrest record sealed? Why did police never red flag him? There are a great many questions I would like answered. This was not a failure of the law, the laws to prevent this were already in place, but police and prosecutors utterly failed in their responsibilities to protect the community.","Doesn't matter if it's true or not, it is a failure of the system either way. It just changes which part of the system we blame. Either the Prosecutor was incompetent, the police were negligent or the grandfather conspired to cover it all up.",0
"If you are against traps that are found by civilians, you're against traps and ambushes, period. No such thing as understanding if it's for soldiers.",The line is razor thin when in urban combat. So thin you should always assume any trap you left for a soldier will harm a civilian.,0
"Translation would be that Russia is planning to blow up a lot of (more) Ukrainian buildings killing a lot of civilians, and when Ukraine reports it Russia will claim that it is the ""Ukrainian false flag operation"" they warned about.",Translation: ruzzia is planning to blow up buildings in a false flag operation and blame it on Ukraine to justify the new ruzzian offensive Ukraine has been talking about.,1
"Hitler never actually won any election. He was appointed chancellor by the president of Germany at the time hindenburg, and then was able to seize power by a loophole that gave him as much power as the president when the reichstag caught on fire which was likely started by him and his goons.","This type of stuff needs to be thought of seriously, it can and probably will happen again and we need to be on top of it. This coup in Germany even though not likely and their claims were pretty weak, could have still turned into something bad, and that is why the German government was so serious in stopping it.",0
And families forced to lose their wife/mother due to pregnancy complications with doctors not legally able to provide appropriate care. This is as much a health issue as a reproductive rights issue. Republicans have relegated all women of child-bearing age to a lesser standard of care. Thank you to all that voted and continue to vote to protect women’s (and family’s) health and reproductive rights!,I hope those abortion rights voters will continue to show up in every election; it’s our only way to defeat the Republicans and bring back Roe v Wade someday as a Constitutional amendment.,1
My two cents on this is that I don’t believe our current technology would easily pop out alien airships that defied everything we know from physics and at least our current capabilities to come to our planet to float around in the sky.,"Plus if they're advanced enough to travel across light years of space to come to earth, they definitely won't be using balloons that the US can shoot down to observe earth.",1
Those procedures have to be adopted first. And that is the usually the next order of business after electing the speaker and administering the oath.,They can just take their oaths as prescribed by law and can still pass legislation. The rules of a previous Congress cannot bind this Congress. This Congress is bound only by the Constitution and the rules it sets for itself.,1
"Heck even discounting the USA, Japan alone has a beefy navy, one which is better than the Russian one, and a good airforce.",I think Russia would struggle to transport troops across to JApan and JApan's air defnce systems are probably pretty good.,1
"The issue you are both discussing is beside the point of the comment you are replying to. The original question was whether there was just one exchange along these lines (as heard in the actual radio recording) that somehow got transformed into a more dramatic version (""you are clearly endangering my safety"") for the text article or, perhaps, there were two exchanges, both answered with nearly identical replies by the US side: one in the video, another in the article.","Is this some horrible editing of both video and article or evidence of an attempt to falsify the tone of the Chinese communication (de-escalatory ""keep safe distance"" vs escalatory ""you are clearly endangering my safety"").",0
Honestly I think they’ll be able to do it cheaper with high volume computer assisted machine gun fire or computer guided anti drone electronic warfare weapons.,"Thanks to their range they'd be far better at providing AA coverage, they'd basically be one shot kill weapons vs a drone and drones should be well within their targeting capabilities given the speeds involved.",1
A new generation of high performance rimfire cartridges would probably be good for the UK as well given their ban on all semi auto guns save for rimfire long guns and shotguns (barring NI’s exemptions).,"It's banning any semi-automatic rifle or shotgun, capable of using a detachable magazine of 5+ rounds, plus a list of explicitly named firearms, available at:",1
"No, the US and rest of NATO also share that oppinion and dont want you to strike inside Russia. They are worried Putin might Bomb his own people in a false flag Attack and blame it on Ukraine, to get more support. And NATOs tactic is the opposite, get the russian People to turn on Putin and take him out. Bombing Russia, even just military targets, will most likely Not help.","You can claim its Propaganda as much as you want, but its no secret what our Plan is. And while the main hope was the rich oligarch to turn on putin because of the sanctions, that clearly failed. But it now looks like it might work on the regular russian People slowly. Open critic on Putin and the war is slowly appearing in Russia. And the drafted civillians are unhappy with how shitty everything is, like equipment and Food, other supplies. Its slowly falling apart. You just got to hold the line a bit longer. So far you are doing more than great. Otherwise, if Russians dont go against Putin, and China keeps helping them to survive the sanctions, this war could go on for years and years, because they can just keep drafting more People from their massive populace, keep replacing the losses. But at the moment, Putin does not have the support for that, thank fuck, he allready got backlash when he did that relatively small draft, like two Months ago.",0
"Plus, this bill will singlehandedly make the Democrats lose midterms and paralyze Congress for the last two years of Biden's presidency. It's unfortunate, but the Federal Reserve's monetary policy has failed to clamp down on inflation and the IRA Act will be seen by Democrats as ""too little"" (decreasing turnout) and by Republicans as ""focusing on the wrong problem"" (increasing turnout).","And I mean fine, honest mistake, but at least own up to it. Biden initially promised 550 billion, and I think we all wish it was actually 740 billion.",0
Because Russian and the United States agreed to stop building more nukes and shrink their arsenal(The united States in the 60's had 30k nuclear warheads and the Russians caught up in the 80's with 45k nuclear warheads).,It had to do with assuring incredibly high probability of kill on the many Soviet nuclear installations (the more warheads you target at something the more likely you are to destroy it).,1
You’re as uneducated on the subject as it comes if you think Stalin saw Hitler’s beliefs as “similar” to his own in any capacity.,Stalin saw Hitler as an ally with similar beliefs. He was in a state of shock when Hitler invaded. He never understood that the Germans saw their race as lesser and in need of extermination.,1
"Also, we're defanging a major geopolitical rival with no troops on the ground for a fraction of what a full blown US/Russian war would cost (even if you somehow kept the nukes shelved). We're gathering intelligence on every action Russia takes as well as what weapons of ours are most effective against them.","Even before the lend-lease kicks in and Ukraine starts paying us back, I'd say that it's money well spent.",0
Republicans had worse results than expected but in overall mid term votes they beat Dems by 3 million — they just weren’t in places that affected the results.,"Yes. Black people and Hispanics tend to be incredibly conservative in their views of LGBT, and Republicans definitely have been successful with their messaging that “the left” is trying to groom their children with sexually explicit and pro-LGBT propaganda. Black and Hispanic voters are also more likely to face substantial difficulties due to inflation wiping out their already low-on-average buying power while the Democrats keep telling everyone that things are going swell/okay (the economy is doing fine, for those of us who are upper middle class or higher).",0
"NATO and Soviet designs weren't made with the intent of fighting vehicles similar to themselves. NATO nations designed their vehicles with the intent of fighting Soviet designs, and the Soviets designed theirs to fight NATO's.","With the AMX-10RC, it is the first armored vehicle designed with the intent of fighting Soviet designs.",0
"..... all the threats appear weak and feeble in the face of losing, and they keep losing more and more traction because they won't (can't?) back up their threats.",That's the crazy thing to me--all of their mightier than thou declarations would be so threatening if they were winning the war and crushing Ukraine.,0
"If Ukraine had surrendered you’d be watching a whole different story now. Imagine if all the power of Ukraine was used by russia against West. Just think about it what kind of problems West could have. This is what Putin wanted, but never got.","If you don’t know the history of Ukraine or even the history of Europe, that is your problem my friend, if you think that Ukraine is a random country in geopolitics.",0
"Canada is a huge net exporter of oil, so it has never needed to build a strategic reserve. The US strategic petroleum reserve was created to let us handle an embargo if needed, after the US tapped out its early oil boom and became an oil importer in the 1970s.","To replenish the national reserve the Government does not outlay any cash: it's all in-kind sales by US oil companies. US oil companies owe around 10 - 18% royalties on every barrel pumped. So normally if they pump 10 barrels of oil and sell it, they send 10% of the proceeds to the treasury. For the reserve, they send a barrel of oil instead.",1
"For context/source, I’m an electrical engineer, and my close friend works directly in substation design and construction. First, just restarting portion of a power grid while the entire thing is damaged is difficult, and even more difficult while random section could get blown up at any time. Load balancing (power production vs consumption) is going to be insane (and possibly destructively difficult) even if some infrastructure is in tact.","False optimism annoys me, and it devalues the events that people have to live through. People are going to be freezing this winter, and fixes are unlikely to be quick for many areas as long as Russia has a few missiles to toss around.",0
Because people who run companies tend to be pretty dumb in a lot of regards. They hear Zuckerberg say it’s the future. They think Zuckerberg is a tech genius. They want to get in on the ground floor of the next big thing. They are too dumb to realize literally no one wants it.,"Look at literally every video game companies announcement of how they’re going to implement crypto. It’s clear they don’t understand it, but saw people making money from it and tried to get in on it.",0
"Florida as well. Our state minimum wage is already adjusted with CPI, but thanks to a referendum we're increasing it by a dollar a year till 2026 and then with CPI after.",Illinois has raised the minimum wage but officials in individual townships are allowed to opt out on the increases. They need to increase the federal minimum wage.,1
They simply don’t want referendums; that would threaten their stranglehold on power in the state. I can count on one hand the number of referendums I’ve seen on the ballot since 2011.,"Do y'all have voter referendums? Mi did this first, have the entire populace vote on mail ballots, and then took redistricting out of the hands of politicians. However, the MI supremes not being R kinda helped in some key spots. The trick is getting things in front of all voters, not the R legislature.",1
"This is a war for liberal democracy. It's a war for the global legal and diplomatic frameworks that enable peace, prosperity, and safety. It's a war for nationhood, for independence, for self-determination, and for humanity itself.",It's a war being fought with Western weapons and Ukrainian courage and blood over what the next century will look like for the entire world. Russia simply cannot be allowed to win.,0
"My favorite part was when McCarthy said he wasn't going to play politics with the debt ceiling, after letting the deadline pass, without having an outlined budget prepared on day 1 of his speakership, despite knowing that his party had the House and that he was most likely going to become speaker.","I think the equivalent is a college final, but the professor informs you _what_ the final project is going to be on the first day of class, and tells you that you can work on it during the whole semester, but for whatever reason you wait until the night before the project is due, then whine that you couldn't turn it in. Somehow, instead of failing you, the school decides to hold up every other class on campus, requiring all students, staff, and faculty to attend-- and to cover the upkeep, the school starts selling its land.",0
".... A lawsuit getting thrown out means the cancelation is all clear to move forward you realize, right? Or at least it removes one more hurdle.","Would you have preferred the statement, ""It gives us the all clear to move forward... Well, not quite yet, but it removes a hurdle?"".",0
"Seoul is well within the range of the thousands of artillery lined up along the DMZ. The death toll within the first few minutes of the war would be immense, and that's assuming an immediate defeat by rapid response troops in the area.","(""In addition to these short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the KPA has at least 700 long-range artillery aimed at the Seoul metropolitan area and northern parts of South Korea"").",0
"I think Putin was waiting to see if Trump won reelection and, when that failed, whether Trump would bring the entire U.S. government down with his ""Big Lie"" campaign. Plus, he probably had to wait for spring to launch his invasion. (I hear Ukraine is a tad chilly during the winter.).",Okay. So the suggestion is that Putin didn't see a Trump led NATO/ United States as a threat and therefore there was no need to launch a full scale invasion of Ukraine.,1
"So is a poly marriage when every member marries each other (husband marries wife 1, wife 1 marries wife 2, wife 2 marries husband). Or is it Husband marries Wife 1 and 2 but the wives are not married to each other.","In a weird round-a-bout way, this bill might help poly marriages get recognized too. This bill essentially says ""A legal marriage in one of the 50 states, must be recognized in all 50 states."".",1
"I suspected as much though it wasn’t hard to figure out. Anyway as someone who’s not too in tune with Israeli and Iranian relations other than surface level stuff, can someone explain how Israel is able to do this without repercussions. I would imaging drone striking another country is a pretty brazen violation of sovereignty. Is it the case that everyone knows it’s Israel but it’s not official that gives Israel enough plausible deniability to not have any consequences,idk. Maybe someone more informed on the matter can explain.","Out of curiosity to what extent think Israel would intervene militarily of they felt Iran was very close to attaining nuclear weapons. From what I’m seeing it seems like they are more than will to do targeted drone strikes as it is, but do you think Israel would ever escalate further than that if they felt Iran was very close.",0
"Interesting, that does make things more complicated. Obviously you're from AZ so you'd know better than me if center right people out there would find her appealing - only people I know out there are my weird aunt and uncle that follow qanon and hunt ghosts in the desert on a 'semi-professional' basis(...i don't fucking know.) so that may be slightly skewed from your average centrist - which will be the group she relies on for reelection.","And (from July, but I doubt much has changed) shows that Sinema is more popular with independents and Republicans than she is with Dems. If the Dems put up a strong candidate and the GOP runs someone crazy again, Sinema may peel off enough sane, right-leaning voters to hand the seat back to the Dems. If the GOP runs a moderate, though, solid chance they flip it.",1
"To respond to your last two sentences, imagine that the United States is at a crossroads. The country can prioritize fixing its economy, which is mediocre but not depression-level bad, or help Ukraine by sending funding and military equipment.","If the United States prioritizes Ukraine, the American economy will remain in less than perfect shape for a while, but at least the people of Ukraine, and by extension, Eastern European countries that Putin might invade if Ukraine falls, can resist the iron fist of Putin.",0
"honestly, it's more easily argued that the constitution technically protects your rights to have any weapon than it is to argue that the constitution allows for any weapons to be banned.","It is reasonable for it to be interpreted as ""The right to keep and bear arms as part of a well regulated militia, which is necessary for a free state, shall not be infringed."".",1
"While seating the delegate selected by the Cherokee Nation would grant increased representation, it would not give American Indians representation as a whole because the US government recognizes 574 tribes. The State of Alaska has the most recognized tribes with 231.","The Cherokee nation sits within the state of Oklahoma and, while sovereign in certain affairs, is covered by Oklahoma's house districts. Cherokee citizens are also US citizens with all the rights of US citizenship. This means that Cherokee citizens living in the Cherokee nation have the right to vote for both their congressional house representative and to vote in Oklahoma senate elections. They also may vote for Oklahoma's governor, an Oklahoma state house representative, and an Oklahoma state senator. There are no , outside of a state. This means all American Indians are citizens of US, whichever state they reside in, and their respective tribes. So they do have representation within state and federal government at present. Though there is an argument to be made that the tribal governments themselves need representation.",0
"If you think the FBI is easily going to track down who did this you're going to be sorely disappointed. I'm sure Rainey was involved and knew who did it, but being able to pin it in on someone that is trained like she was is going to be difficult. Especially seeing as the Sheriff may have been involved. Hell, they couldn't even prosecute the Bundys in the ...and they were on camera committing these crimes!",was a CAPTAIN assigned to the 4th division at Fort Bragg. This is part of a special operations unit.,0
"That seems pretty reasonable to me, but it is way down in the article. Also, this makes a lot of sense:","Good points. Given how poorly the US scores on all of those metrics, I’d be interested to see what happens when a country intentionally encourages its own economy to import all of its goods.",1
"They won't do that, because the Democrat has more votes than either of the Republicans - if they amend the rules to plurality rather than majority, Jeffries gets it.","Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries won the support of all 212 Democrats and a plurality of all votes cast, but no candidate achieved the necessary majority to win.",1
"But to counterpoint your actual argument, if Ukraine secedes those land it gives Russia a base to claim even more territory based on its original argument. Meaning that even if Ukraine joins NATO that if enough Russians move into other Ukraine territories that Russia would again claim that they have rights over the land and they are allowed to go to war over that right. And because NATO/Ukraine let them get away with it before they would have to give into Russia's demands again.","If ukraine cedes land like Crimea, they can join NATO and avoid further conflict right there. NATO has a requirement for joining that you have no territorial disputes, hence why they couldn't join earlier.",1
The Episcopal Church in the US not only allows gay marriage but has equal rights for clergy & church positions for all people regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.,">	“homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim with all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral concern and care of the Church” (1976-A069), and that they “are entitled to equal protection of the laws with all other citizens” (1976-A071).",1
"Russia really going for the WW2 Germany strategy here, except if they knew anything at all they'd know the Germans stopped doing this shit because while you get a hopped up maniac soldier in the short term, the long term effects make them less effective overall. Of course, that's assuming the Russians even consider these troops as being able to last for more than one engagement; I suppose sending waves of drugged up prisoners intended to be disposable is likely the idea here.","It's important to remember that what we see of the war from any side may be propaganda, so it's true we can't know for certain how Ukrainian soldiers generally react to surrendering Russians. But I do want to mention that I i saw several videos of Ukrainian soldiers clearing out Russian trenches and putting their lives in extra risk by giving the Russian soldiers an opportunity to surrender instead of killing them on sight (in this particular situation). So while charging at your enemy is a bad idea in an attempt to surrender, I still believe these Russian men had the chance to surrender in other ways and chose not to.",1
Free labor can never compete in a market with enslaved labor. Every American worker should be pushing for legal recognition of undocumented workers because it would improve working conditions for ALL of us.,Hire undocumented people for less than minimum wage and deny them legal rights and workplace safety.,0
"I fucking hate the ""tHaTs NoT iN tHe CoNsTiTuTiOn"" arguments. Just because something isn't spelled out in the constitution, doesn't mean it isn't a protected right.","That's why we have the Constitution and it's bill of amendments. We recognized as time went on that just saying people are born with certain inalienable rights isn't good enough, you have to enshrine them in law so that everyone from the West Coast to the east coast respects those rights.",1
"First, because we would lose one of the most essential things in a democracy: To vote for our direct representatives and make our own legislation. I find it very scary to be Governed by some shady bureaucrat in Brussels that never presented himself to an election. Plus, how can you make efficient legislation for an entire continent if you don't know the specifics of every country or regions inside those countries?","So since National legislation (due to what's written in Constitution) already has to bend to European legislation, why don't we give up on all sovereignty?! That's a straight up dangerous line of thought.",0
"And seeing how very bad Russian medical support is, far worse ratios than 1:4 or 1:3 dead:wounded can be expected.","Why do you bring up the 1.1m total military number? This includes strategic missile forces, border patrol, navy, etc - lots of people who don't matter in this war.",0
Good example of the fact that lithium is traditionally so plentiful that it isn't even counted as a commodity. The Potash Corporation of Nevada/Utah was originally called the Lithium Corporation but they bailed on lithium because it was worth less than dirt. Potassium is worth slightly more than dirt at the wholesale level.,"Nah, lithium is not a desirable chemistry for stationary energy storage. Sodium and flow batteries can be made at even lower prices and don't require any scarce resources but they're not necessarily ideal for transportation. For storing solar energy in fixed locations, though, they make great sense and can certainly beat lithium on price once they are manufactured at a large scale.",0
I agree they have things that we can't even imagine. I'm just saying the 6th generation will not be ready for 10-15 years. Even if it's done they spent 1 trillion developing the 5th generation they need to sell as many as possible before they release the next.,There is no point in rushing a 6th generation fighter to market as there is nothing to even compete with the f35 so why compete with yourself? They need to sell as many 5th generations as possible before announcing the next is ready. For all we know the 6th generation might be a flightless AI fighter. Technology moves fast and if you don't think the u.s. military has secret technology you're delusional. Also the b2 is not a fighter jet they play different roles.,0
"China's military budget as part of its GDP has been steadily decreasing over the last few decades, the budget is only becoming bigger because the GDP is growing. Meanwhile Japan is seeking to greatly increase its military budget as a percentage of its GDP.","Translation - Japan’s increasing defence budget means they have the capacity to stand up to the PRC and their increasing bullying of nations in the region. Which, of course, is unacceptable in Beijing’s view. A strong Japan is good for regional stability, whatever the Chinese claim.",1
I don't know how they graduate law school - probably simply by knowing the law and passing the exams. And those have nothing to do with actual politics and party leanings. Just learning facts.,"But they all became SC judges just by knowing someone, and being biased in favor of whichever presdient got to submmit their names, and then because of who was in control of the Senate. We can thank McConnell for most of it, who has his own agenda and plan to mold the justice system his desired design.",0
"He also repeatedly went on video in the streets of Kyiv while the city was under siege to prove he was really there, wasn't afraid, and wasn't abandoning them. That was huge.","I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, let alone a stand-up guy like Zelensky. Please leave Russia to whatever ignorant idiot that wants to lead that god-forsaken hellhole.",0
USA warned them about the whole thing before it happened. They didn’t believe at first because no one thought that Putin would be that stupid. The question remains is: would Trump have warned Ukraine of Putin’s plan?,Or does Trump mean he would have not supported Ukraine and it would have fallen to Putin without a fight?,1
It's stupendously difficult to ban nuclear weapons because everyone who agrees to ban them will be ruled by the countries that decide not to.,"Banning Nuclear weapons isn't going to stop countries from using Nuclear weapons. In the end it will always be the same result. In the event that somebody fires a nuclear missile at another country, every country that has one is going to instantly launch theirs in retaliation ban or no ban on nuclear weapons.",1
"Edit: seems I'm getting down voted, likely by republicans who don't like criticism of republicans. However, this comment goes for both Democrats and Republicans who would vote for ""their"" party regardless of how bad it is.","I mean that's not quite true, every elected Democrat is playing a part in keeping the GOP out of power, it just sucks that it's come down to the wire like this. Again.",1
"Ukraine committing war crimes is a good way for Ukraine to find itself with no more western weapons deliveries. Those have been an absolute game changer for Ukraine, and Ukraine must do whatever it takes to keep them flowing.","Also, from a cost perspective, I would consider Ukraine to have the upper hand. The only profitable targets for them are military facilities that would aid in the war effort, whereas Russia has been focusing on civilian infrastructure, which doesn't tangibly benefit them on the front line. They're sinking absurd amounts of money on scoring a ""win"" for the Russian public.",1
"Re. ""Russia launches 'empty' missiles to wear out Ukrainian air defense"" I can imagine this may prove useful to throw decoys into the bunch to increase the probability missiles with legitimate warheads get through, but... Warhead aside, the actual missiles themselves can't be cheap. Considering Russia's economy is in shambles while there is no sign of the world's funding of Ukraine not subsiding — I can't imagine this could possibly yield a net-positive for Russia, economically-speaking.","Problematic for sure, but of course this is still Russian depletion too - and Ukraine has fantastic supplies for replenishment, whereas Russia has a sanctions-squeezed military industrial complex and buggered supply lines.",1
"And Belarus even fired one of their rockets at the beggining of the war, not just letting Russia invade from their land.","Russia sent the Shaheds before the strikes for probing, and are apparently sending more now via Belarus.",1
Considering how close many of these races were I would hardly call it a rejection of Republicans more as a barely able to hold back fascists and Democrats had better not rest on their fucking laurels again.,"Holy shit, it only took Trump massively flopping for r/conservative to actually be introspective for once, they have finally realized that their party doesn't appeal to anyone and only tries to make it harder to vote.",1
Taxation without representation is how you get your people to revolt and riot. Which is what the American revolution was fought over.,The National Anthem having God in it doesn't make it any less the National Anthem. I for one don't vote republican and just because someone disagrees with you on something doesn't make them one. So fuck off on that note child. You so far left you can't support our government and institutions then leave. Maybe go to Russia like Griner did.,0
"I’m a little worried about the hypersonic missile boat that the Russians have; however, Ukraine has fought valiantly for their home.","When I was debating the war in Ukraine, someone said to me that it’s NATO’s fault because it would be akin to Mexico joining an alliance with Russia and stationing troops there (since it’s so close to the USA).",0
"For what it’s worth, Putin DOES see himself as representing the Russian people, and he does see the Russian land as a kind of motherland. He is in that sense closer to, say, Hitler than say or Stalin or Mao. He doesn’t see the idea of a “motherland” as functional to himself, but as a function of itself.","If the last year has shown anything, it’s that western military might is but one thing of the many weapons that make up western power.",0
"Hello r/politics! It is finally November 8th, 2022, the last day open to voting in this year’s midterm elections. If you have not yet voted, and are legally able to do so, we strongly encourage you to do your civic duty.","(3) No person shall be penalized for taking a reasonable time off to vote, unless, undercircumstances which did not prohibit him from voting, he fails to vote. Anyqualified voter who exercises his right to voting leave under this section but fails tocast his vote, under circumstances which did not prohibit him from voting, may besubject to disciplinary action.",1
"Why do you bring up the 1.1m total military number? This includes strategic missile forces, border patrol, navy, etc - lots of people who don't matter in this war.",It's not a military it's a defense force..... We are a peaceful state that doesn't have a military. Ignore all the dead children.,1
"Of course they are, the west has been talking loudly about how aggressive China is (which they have been) for years and NATO declared China as their highest threat just a few months ago, so like no shit they’re deepening ties with Russia. We’re pushing them in that direction. And it’s particularly concerning when China has a choice to make between peace (aligning with the West) and >whatever their veiled ambitions are< aligning with Nazi Russia.","2) The core belief of preserving post WW2 borders, balancing powers and letting each society progress in their own pace without disruption or threats, is key to peace.",1
"Nowadays it pretty much applies to any westerners who cheerlead for violent authoritarian states like russia, china or north korea.","Well, the thing is that Russia is now far-right, hence that kind of sympathizers, and that should make a natural enemy of the likes of China, but they are united in their hatred of the US and the European Union.",1
People thinking this is a “a-HA” moment against Trump are probably the same people who had no clue of who Fuentes was until this headline.,"To be fair, if you've ever watched Nick Fuentes speak when he's not doing his ""show"" it's almost entirely obvious he's at least bicurious. Given that he's a far right, repressed Catholic I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of his extremist rhetoric comes from his own self loathing and inability to accept that it's okay to be gay.",1
"The PM is head of government, not head of state. However, both the head of state and head of government have diplomatic immunity. Below are some other examples of heads of states and government, everyone listed below has diplomatic immunity while in foreign nations.","In similar fashion, the Vice President of the United States (first in line to be head of state…and government…in the event of the President’s death) also has diplomatic immunity. They are neither the head of state nor the head of government, but they still have diplomatic immunity.",0
"Boh! What a question... I would not know. I guess it would harm you, but on a scale so small you probably would not notice. 1 atom is so very very smal... But others, more knowledgeable, might disagree.","Nope, sorry, not a physics expert, but electrons go at the speed of light. (Around the nucleus of the atom.) I'm pretty sure about that. It is the speed of the actual atoms that matters.",0
"If Putin gives nukes to Iran to punish Israel for sending aid this would be bad for sure, i have no problem understanding this fear (plese link this threat) But Russia giving Iran satelites and more support after the war could mean increased tensions with Israel that would only increase as they rebuild strenght.",This trajectory is not bound to change any time soon since both are natural allies due to their hostility towards the west and not doing anything leaves Israel with a possible nuclear Iran.,1
"Without comparative reference, this is a worthless number. How many non-journalists were killed in the last 20 years? Is the probability of getting killed higher as a journalist or non-journalist?",Though there aren't a lot of journalists so percentages have got to be high. I bet there are more miners or construction workers or oil rig crews than journos.,1
"Not actually Australian, actually, but I've heard about that. The Monarch didn't do anything, really. A constitutional monarchy means Governor Generals are ""appointed"" by the Monarch, although they're actually proposed representatives by the country's own government. The Monarch only approves of who the countries themselves recommend be the GG.","Because like Canada, Australia is a constitutional monarchy. We didn't fight a multi-year bloody war of independence like America did.",0
"They don't think that being an elected official means you should represent your constituents. They believe they are elected into a position of power, to tell people what to do, and make laws banning the things they think people shouldn't be doing. So if they won the election, that means more people wanted their ideas to be enacted and put into law. If they lost, then they don't believe it.","Democrats believe that they are voted in to actually represent the people that voted them in, which -- yes, sadly -- does require them to speak up for the minority (see: conservatives) sometimes, as they are still people and still fall under the purview of ""should have representation"". They don't boss people around, they aren't browbeating the minority into ""shutting up and accepting the loss"", they aren't one to turn around and say ""here's the new laws that you have to follow, so deal with it or else the cops will be all over you"".",0
"When should she have retired? If she had retired during Obama's presidency for example, what would have likely happened? When did Obama have a 60 vote majority? And keep in mind that before Kavanaugh no supreme court justice had been confirmed without 60 votes for at least 40 years. You can look back in hindsight and say the Democrats should have extended the ""nuclear option"" to supreme court picks, but I think they lose pretty much all the moral high ground at that point.","Lol, the political illiteracy is real. When did the standard change for supreme court nominees, and which party affected the change? Was the change good or bad overall for democracy do you think?",0
"However, Republicans werent questioning US military spend during the 8 years of Bush, or 4 years of Trump. Trump promised to pull out of foreign wars and put America First. Yet military spending still went up and Republicans cheered it.","Like almost everything the right does, it's in bad faith, so it shouldn't be engaged with or taken seriously.",0
The one thing I tell to every libertarian and yet they refuse to believe that the free market won't work itself out. Given the chance every corporation will fuck everyone over in a heartbeat for a few extra bucks. And corporations are so big nowadays that there isn't enough competition for consumers to have any reasonable alternatives.,A completely free market doesn't work because it assumes consumers purchases are influenced by morality more than cost.,1
"Actually, Russians have a very similar media called 'Панорама/Panorama.' Recently, quite a lot of their posts have been coming true. Also, they are sometimes reported as real news - even on TV - because journalists are bad at checking their sources and it sounds convincing enough in today's political climate.","All of them are proposed to be banned because of propaganda of violence, anti-government activity, suicide, drug abuse and use of psychoactive substances, extremism, childfree, LGBTQ+, pedophilia, pornography and other sexual deviations which damage and undermine 'traditional values' and require treatment or prosecution.",0
News here in Belgium has a lot of critique on the decision. The official WK tv show on our national televison already called it a disgrace at least a 100 times. Public opinion is on the good side.,"The players, coach and staff are complying because it is their job to do what the federation says, but they are not happy about it. Although they are ratter reserved when the topic arrises in interviews. I think personnal and professional life clash a bit here, but if you are paid millions, you stfu and do as asked, I guess.",0
"not sure why you're getting downvoted, because that same thought has crossed my mind. Surely a knife assassination or the good ol' bomb under the conference table trick isn't totally impossible in the USSR...","""...borrow nearly $12 billion from his own citizens..."" haha 🤣 oh man my sides HAHAHAHA borrow hehehahahah BORROW haha heh ahahaa ... surely the article meant ""STEAL"" or misappropriate maybe embezzle 🤣 no wait that's not it pillage or maybe swindle or ransom ... ... wait wait wait - steal implies that there was actually anything there to take so - really - defraud, scam, cheat ... hmm.",0
"which isn't to say the US shouldn't just go home, they should. but business isn't going to like it, and that means capitalists probably will try to China it as long as it remains profitable.","China's model was to dominate industries by price, whether or not it was profitable. Or whether or not there was even a demand for the product. That kept their numbers very high and that practice continues today. The mandate is not profit, but jobs. That's one great weakness of the Chinese system, many of those companies were not profitable. Even if the company was failing the government would keep it afloat by giving them unlimited loans, another weakness of the system. Virtually all loans were direct from a government bank and up to one third were simply ghost loans that would never be repaid.",1
"If the public wants more regulations here, they can get over themselves and elect more democrats. Until they do that, they will not get more regulations on this stuff.",He is regulating where he can. For example last year he re-started the process for the 2-person crew minimum rule that was initiated by Obama and shelved by Trump. He also put a pause on a Trump rule allowing liquid natural gas to travel by rail while more safety analysis is done.,1
"That said, shit like this happened in pretty much all countries that switched to Euro to various extent though, in some countries it was worse than others.",I did a little googling and I found from 2005 (3 years after the country converted solely to Euro)...,1
"We can only ensure that our industrial chains decarbonise as much as possible, and anyone who wants to sell into the EU will need to adopt that too.","Anyone who does not adopt those measures will be priced out of the EU market entirely. As it's an extremely valuable market, this will drive companies to switch to lower carbon models if they wish to sell into the EU.",0
"Israel is a shitty neighbor because they don’t want Iran, which is a country that constantly threat Israel’s existence, to create a nuclear weapon.","Thus, nuclear weapons will be used, without a doubt, Israel will nuke Iran and won't even think twice if it means preventing them from achieving a nuclear weapon, there is quite literally nothing worse than a nuclear Iran for Israel.",1
This is a huge problem and if you hire based on race then it has a huge detriment to the work force as diversity hires aren’t there because of skill but because they satisfy a race quota.,"If there's no qualified diverse candidates, it's not illegal to hire the white dude. That's fine. But if there's no legal incentive not to? Odds are that we'll be the first picks most of the time...",1
"And about your marvelously brilliant claim about how Turkey is ""weak"". If Turkey would be weak, Turkey had to greenlit Sweden's membership. Of Turkey would be weak, It's decisions would be easily swayed, PKK would've successfully created their separate state, Armenia would've reached to Ararat, Greece would take Cyprus and western Anatolia, et cetera, et cetera. The fact you can claim Turkey being weak under a topic like this speaks for itself.",Let me remind you Sweden had an arms embargo on Turkey while they were applying to a military alliance where co-defence is the main theme.,0
How so? Kosovo was a part of Serbia inhabited by an ethnic minority. Just like Donbass is to Ukraine. The people of Kosovo wanted independence so a larger power began bombing Serbia.,"The people of Kosovo wanted independence, but their desires weren't taken seriously by anyone until Serbia started killing and displacing them. That is the justification of their independence, not their ethnic background. And even then, Kosovo had to wait over a decade after said killings to see if relations would normalize before getting the international backing to do it.",1
"Russian ships, and a submarine, were spotted near the location where the pipelines were sabotaged 1 week prior to the explosions.","So, Russia has a history of blowing up their own pipelines during conflicts to apply pressure to their adversaries. They expected winter to be brutally cold and the EU to have a lack of gas, thus requiring the EU to back off from their support of Ukraine if they wanted the pipelines repaired. Turning the gas flow off is extortion and might be viewed as warfare, but blowing up the pipelines gives them plausible deniability.",0
He should have threatened to nationalize the whole industry and proposed taxing the rail billionaires huge percentages of their wealth to help pay for retrofitting a system that they neglected for decades in an effort to improve their profits.,"Yes, he should have let the strike happen and joined them on the fucking picket line. He should have called for other unions to strike in solidarity until the very reasonable demands of the rail workers were met.",0
"The long awaited next big missile strike finally happened and it really wasn’t anything special, the number of missiles that was expected was vastly overblown, as it wasn’t the 120+ missiles that everyone was talking about, but only 69 and some Shaheds along with them. It doesn’t seem that it did too much damage to our infrastructure, the problems with electricity are not widespread right now, and some blackouts are not due to the missile strike, but because some cities turned off electricity as preventive measures to lessen any possible damage.","Though I don’t think it’s the end of missile strikes for today yet, as just recently there was a second missile strike aimed at Kharkiv’s energy infrastructure, and apparently it wasn’t done by an S-300 missile, but a cruise missile, which they usually do not use on Kharkiv, because they can use the cheaper and more abundant S-300 missiles for it. Some people reported electricity being cut after that missile strike, but for us it’s stable for now. We had it the entire day with basically no interruptions despite the missile strike, though it did flicker for a couple of seconds right after the first missiles landed in Kharkiv in the morning.",0
They made discussion impossible. The q and a session was very limited and all the events (we attended probably over 20 speakers in five days) were more lectures than they were about discussion.,"The speakers came off as preachy. Having some white women speak about racism, to black people... Is cringe and weird.",0
"don't forget the L.G.B.T.Q+, immigrants, Ethiopians and Russians (their Judaism is questioned by the religious hierarchy). there will be more victims to this government beside just Palestinians.","Now compare the number of killed Palestinians and killed Israelis. And do the same for displaced people. And how many Palestinians break the Oslo accords by illegally living in Israeli territory, and how many Israeli's live illegally in Palestinian land?",1
seeing our public arguments as a sign of weakness.... well russia is in the find out stage of thinking they could fuck around.,"but for a brief moment we saw how scared shitless Russia was making every attempt to try to bargain, disprove, and beg for NATO to not get involved.",1
"To be clear, I’m all for gun safety laws (and am pro second amendment) but “assault weapon” bans are an ineffective way of doing it and is purely used as a political tool and is just a feel good half measure.",Almost anyone that looks at before and after pics of guns that were sold and were affected by the ban won’t be able to visually tell the difference.,0
"Maybe if the Ukrainian politicians were in agreement of Ukraine joining the NATO and its population actually liked the NATO instead of seeing it to a large degree as an enemy, there would have been more support for membership from other countries.","Unless you believe that the decision makers in Ukraine and NATO didn't at all expect the possibility of escalation by Russia, please shut up because you don't disagree with me.",1
"Whether you think suicidal depression is a good reason for seeking medically assisted suicide is one question to consider, the other is whether it should take a suicidally depressed person a month to get certification for the procedure.","Hell, I think they should even find clinics specifically for assisted suicide of the terminally ill, and people at severely ""beyond any actual therapy or medication"" levels of depressed.",1
"(iii) was read, heard, or viewed by a person who engaged in the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of a white supremacy inspired hate crime.","(ii) could, as determined by a reasonable person, motivate actions by a person predisposed to engaging in a white supremacy inspired hate crime or by a person who is susceptible to being encouraged to engage in actions relating to a white supremacy inspired hate crime; and.",0
"He does mention Putin by stating he feels Putin sees Crimea differently than other occupied regions of Ukraine, and goes so far as to say Putin may see it as Russian, which could influence his response if he were to lose Crimea.","But the main difference between losing Crimea and all these things you mentioned is that Putins propaganda couldn't hide or twist losing Crimea at all. Everyone in Russia will know that 2 million Russians are desperately trying to flee Crimea back to Russia, with ferries overloaded, people swimming the Strait. The Russian ethnofascists will be screaming for blood. It's already hard enough for Putin to keep them satisfied.",1
And maybe just maybe their is an actual real world out there which can’t be changed by rhetoric and philosophizing and a political ideology that pretends otherwise is dangerous.,Here’s a crazy idea what if politics isn’t debate club or a chat at thanksgiving but a matter of life and death.,0
Articles that try to make and argument that Republicans can separate form Trump are so missing the point. Republicans are free to pretend like they aren't Trump but they proved that they would bend their knees for an overgrown child. They would comply if threatened by someone who had no actual authority over them. They obeyed his every back and call. Trump is them and they are Trump.,I'm tearing up at the idea that anyone thinks Republicans aren't Trump and Trump ain't Republicans. They will never successfully remove the orange stain.,0
"3) in close races that are won by Democrats in states with GOP-controlled legislatures, the legislatures will award elections to the GOP anyway.","Well, a bunch of election denier Republicans are running in these midterms, lots of whom are competitive, and not just in red states either. So it’s safe to say that the GOP learned the lesson that they can openly run candidates that don’t believe in democracy (unless they win, of course), and people just… won’t really push back against that in any meaningful way. So that’ll just be the GOP’s MO from now on.",0
"It's 100% virtue signaling to his constituents in Utah. Porn 'addiction' rates are really high here, there are billboards all over the place with help lines to call if you're addicted to porn.",Utah has the highest porn consumption but also the most outrage about porn. Mormons are super against porn and a lot of the porn users there are shamed for it if found out. It’s super taboo. They literally treat it like heroin and have substance abuse programs specifically for porn.,1
"As a result, Republicans were no longer able to draw egregiously gerrymandered maps that guaranteed their victories. The commission instead drew a map that was fair to both parties. As a result, Democrats were able to win control of the legislature for the first time in four decades!","This will be the first time since 1984 that Democrats will control the state legislature in Michigan! And it’s important to note that this only happened because in 2018, voters in Michigan approved a citizen-initiated ballot referendum that transferred the power to draw voting maps from the state legislature to an independent redistricting commission.",0
That feels like the worst thing you can do to attract more Democrat or independent votes. Real foolish move.,"But what always gets me is, this amendment is passing by a much wider margin than the Democrat for Senate is winning.",0
"I really think they all need a good family therapist. They’ve been through a lot of trauma as a family. They should all go to a professional, sit down, and talk. I really think they’d be better for it.","Came in there and was like we can do soo much better. Let’s make this public - private partnership and run this a bit differently. We’re get the benefits of the titles, private planes, security team, office team and create our own patronages and engagements. While self funding through media and book deals.",1
"Wouldn’t China have more to gain from trading with Taiwan than spending a lot of effort destroying it, taking the damage from Taiwan counter attacks, and the global economic fallout?","As on the same line of reasoning China will not be suiciding it's air force and navy in a conventional battle over Taiwan either, or risk its most commercially productive population centres over Taiwan etc etc.",1
"He was getting a tour of tank training center in Russia, and his guide was proudly telling him that this was the closest a NATO officer had ever been to a T-72.",There’s a pretty awesome article by general Mark Hartling (last name almost certainly wrong) who was the US army commander for Europe and did a ton of work with both the Russians and Ukrainians.,0
"I'm sure many countries will do that and that's good, not sure about the whole world tho.. definitely not the middle east, Africa, most of Latin America or Asia.","Well there you have it. Overwhelming grassroots support for Ukraine is only in western countries, as well as Japan and South Korea. The rest of the world which is the countries I've mentioned are all neutral at best.",0
"If you are in traffic you are causing traffic. If you can't find parking, maybe driving was a stupid idea?",The solution is incentivising people to making the right decisions. Driving is almost never the right decision. Buying a house in a car dependent suburb is never the right decision. Buying a pickup truck is never the right decision. Cities all over the country are ripping out highways because cars suck to be around and cars suck to be in.,0
"No. Cops should absolutely not only have guns. If you are a black person in america or a trans person in america, you absolutely be armed- because there are people in law enforcement that are part of extremists groups that will do harm to black people and trans people.","Not arguing in bad faith here, but the current makeup of SCOTUS will need an actual amendment to the constitution or federal law to ever interpret a right to abortion being law.",0
"We've lost so many, and rarely does it create positive change or produce a new law or an important shift in public perception.","Roughly 40% of the homeless youth in the US are some flavor of LGBT. They need our help. Trans folks in unsupportive families and bigoted areas have a sky high rate of suicide attempts - they're not doing it because they're trans, they're doing it because society treats trans folks like shit.",0
This is 100% in the DOE’s wheelhouse they are saying based on their intel it probably came from a lab. They can’t 100% prove it because that would require CCP participation. Thus the confidence in any conclusion will be low because it’s essentially based on circumstancial evidence and the fact that the OG strain had a spike protein shape similar to other virus that are manipulated for gain of function research.,Correct it is unimportant. They have no impact on anything. The lab leak isn’t a conspiracy theory anyway. I’m sorry the truth made you lose points in your red team vs blue team political football match you base your entire personality on. I guess you should have been a little more open minded and used some critical thinking before labeling everything a “conspiracy theory”.,0
It seems like changing the functioning and power of the judicial branch is something that should be done by 2/3rds public vote or something and just not a simple government majority.,"Well, in every democracy there needs to be balances for both side, the court system balances the government but something needs to balance the court system so that they wont have roo much power. HOWEVER, giving the government total control over them is NOT the way to do it.",1
"There wasn't an Israel for nearly 2000 years, and you think it's the last 70 years that would have wiped out the Jews if not for Israel?","Salami: ""Today we are aware of how the Zionist regime is slowly being erased from the world, and indeed, soon, there will be no such thing as the Zionist regime on Planet Earth."" (2014).",1
"> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.","The first word of the phrase ""Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude"" referred to by ""except"" being ""Neither"" is a strong clue that the phrase is atomic- a clue you seem to be fastidiously ignoring.",0
"After the war we gave up Poland to the Soviets and let them take half of Europe. To me this was a mistake, to reward one of the aggressors who started ww2. But the west were exhausted and wanted peace.","Like i wrote earlier in the convo, the west was exhausted and wanted peace. I understand this very well, but that does not make it right to condem millions to slavery under the communist dictatorship of Stalin.",0
Which is kind of sad really. So much wasted potential. I think it has to be changed at some point in the future. The burden on that flag has really become too great.,"Maybe some flag which really means something. I remember patriotism lessons in school, flag colors Is something about blood of motherland defenders, faith, soul, church and that kind of shit. Everything about “great past” and nothing about, I don’t know, the future? That’s the main problem: our great history, Nikolai 2, Stalin, we’re biggest country on the world, WW2, WW2 again, “everybody respected us when we was USSR”, and again WW2. The whole fucking country is living past. It makes me sick. I swear for my whole life in Russia I never heard anything about our future, only bullshit about good old days and stories about bad future of the West.",1
"As a Nevada resident, I actually like that we have to vote on measures twice. It prevents a minority party from introducing a ballot measure during a relatively low turnout midterm and then pointing to that as they use it to make unpopular (but difficult to reverse) changes.","This won't really benefit either party, not really, but it WILL benefit the American people because it will moderate everyone, it will no longer be a binary choice between crazy/unacceptable people and we will get the consensus candidates, who will be someone we are all sort of ok with.",1
"In all honesty, that is actually a pretty good statement. It makes it clear that this is an invention primarily to simulate the vagina's environment for the purpose of studying it and products that interact with it, and I can actually see how that is a thing worth having.",“Scientists replicate the cellular environment seen inside the vagina on a small device” is more accurate but less clickbait.,1
"You present the New Deal as some sort of popular uprising on the ground, when in reality it was just a result of politicians and economists doing what they thought was best for the country at the time, the exact thing you say will not solve any of our modern problems. The ""revolution"" you go on about happened at the ballot box to elect people who worked on detailed policies that would benefit those who voted for them. FDR had massive majorities in both chambers of Congress, something no Democratic president has had since LBJ for a sustained amount of time. If you want New Deal types of policies, then vote, just like the people in the 30s did.","Voting is of course necessary, but not sufficient on its own, to produce an analogue to the New Deal in modern times, for a variety of reasons.",1
"Minimum they would do in that scenario, if Russia somehow did it by surprise (which wouldn’t be possible) is deploy troops and wait for a Russian offensive.","In the real world however we would notice Russian troops massing for an attack and then set up our defensive line preemptively. Russia then has no wiggle room, it’s war or bluff.",0
One thing I do find wird about American police is the road side sobriaty test why does police still use it at all we do have breathalyzer. In Austria if you get pulled over and the police whants to check your alcohol lvl they do a breathalyzer but you can also instead demand a blood draw wich will make the police less friendly because this annoys them to no end but why are American cops still sticking to sobriaty tests instead of using a breathalyzer instead those things are not even expensive.,"Yes I can list them all to you in Austria we have 3 types of weapon catagorise. Catagory A, B and C.",0
"I see you are actually from Ukraine, so my comment is not aimed at you. I am not supporting Russia, my comment is simply highlighting that the UK government are shameful, liars, proven time and time again, including during the pandemic but more importantly during the invasion of Iraq.","The hard left of the Labour party are kind of Putin's useful idiots in Britain (they're not pro-Putin but they are pro making daisy chains and singing about friendship while tanks roll across Ukraine's border), but they've been pretty roundly purged after their idiotic stop the war stunt at the beginning of the invasion. Jeremy Corbyn is one of the longest serving anti-NATO politicians in the UK if not the longest serving. I absolutely shudder to think what the UK's response to the invasion would have been were he making the decisions.",1
"Also what system is in place for murderers paying restitution, I agree that would be excellent but it hasn’t happened. In the case that it does they still should serve at least ten years, they can do prison work for restitution. Anything less than ten is way too soft and you’re going to have people thinking it’s not such a bad penalty. Also cops tend to get significantly less sentences than the precedent if at all, with time served being even less than the sentence: so whatever you set keep that in mind. Do you want cops running around getting off with a few months time served on murders?","Why does a murderer deserve rehab? Over 60 percent (63.8%) of violent offenders recidivated by being rearrested for a new crime. So how many of them murdered this man? Do the math and you’re not just giving them a chance to commit another crime, it’s statistically guaranteed. This is a numbers game and when you go and put all these murderers back on the street without punishment, you want to basically bless and sanction the next murder? That’s a groovy cycle you’re arguing for: like I said in most of my comments in this thread. I advocate for rehab and against incarceration in almost all cases but you have to look at the realities of extremely violent crimes. To answer your question: it accomplishes keeping shitty people from murdering and ruining more innocent lives. Also saves many more because it deters others from murdering because no punishment makes the crime more appealing.",0
"In case you were referencing the Uyghur genocide, no one is talking about mass extermination of people there. The claim is rather that China detained more than a million people there to systematically erase Uyghur culture, which is sufficient to match the definition of genocide.","The story is over a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps to be re-educated, not that they were all killed. The allegation is cultural genocide and forced sterilization in some cases. When your efforts are targeted against specific groups then it's possible for everyone to ignore it. The camps are also located far away from population centres out of public view.",1
No surprise that now Ukraine is targeting artillery in large numbers to cut russia's offensive back-bone. Commanders can once again delay until more artillery arrives or go ahead with insufficient shelling.,"The enemy made another fruitless attempt to advance with several tanks through the minefield. Throughout the day even more vehicles and assaulting infantry groups have been eliminated, few POW's were captured.",1
Except the part where an organization that shoots deserters or just uncooperative troops extended his contract indefinitiavely (spelling?) without his consent. And just finding it unacceptable to live under a regime that so blatantly commits and endorses warcrimes.,"So probably because of his military experience, and the fact he wasn't actually recruited straight from prison. At least that's where I'd put my money.",0
Not down with disarming in anyway as long as Conservatism is as strong as it it is right now in this country. Better to do it after.,"After what? These ideas are not going away. Make them criminals, and that goes for law enforcement who refuse to do their job. Rule of law, not desperado politics. Move forward. The demographics do not favour the ""right white"". Sorry.",1
"It’s almost as if giving people all these opportunities, like being able to vote when they don’t have to be at work, is an engaging and empowering way to inspire them in their right to vote… strange indeed.","It's smart of Democratic voters to vote early because on the 6th Republicans are going to engineer all kinds of issues in Blue areas, on top of the unconscionably low number of voting machines and places in those areas.",1
"The reason why the US doesn't codify the NFU is because we used nukes first (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), so what kind of counterparty would find such a declaration credible?","This didn’t really answer my question… you’re just saying “nuclear posturing” like that’s a meaningful statement, and pointing to a list of countries the USA had war or conflict with.",1
Head of State immunity applies in both criminal and civil cases. Biden didn't make it up and didn't pass the laws or create the judicial precedent that creates that immunity.,MBS wasn't a head of state during Biden's campaign and therefore had no immunity at the time. MBS was appointed Prime Minister in 2022 which then made him head of state which has the international privilege of immunity to legal action.,1
"What carrot do they even have anymore? Do poor conservatives think more tax cuts are coming? If they do, is this the most motivating factor? Is it even a factor at all anymore?","Remember, the most serious criticism of Trump came from a voter when she revealed: ""he's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."".",0
"It takes 5-10 to approve a nuclear reactor construction before and building is completed. It should not take this long considering how safe the newer designs are. So much energy can be produced that nuclear power is than any other power source in the long run. If you want to go the environmental protection route, solar produces more chemicals and lithium batteries needed for renewables also gave great environmental . Realistically, we need nuclear and renewables to work together for our energy needs.","In any event, nuclear is an opportunity cost; it actively harms decarbonization given the same investment in wind or solar would offset more CO2 and also not destroy more parts of nature to mine the finitie resources. Yes, FINITE, yet you people want to invest hundreds of billions into an infrastrucutre that will be completely worthless once the fuel source is gone.",1
Flights from the UK for example have 10% infection rate and there are a lot more of them than from China plus there is more of a risk of an immune escape variant among them because they have already been exposed to various variants unlike China.,But 50 planes of 400 people/plane from other countries with 5% infection rate making up 1000 infected travelers is ok?,1
That's not use of force... Use of force would be someone physically showing up and taking their money from them or their bank. The reason these companies generally respect the government/legal system is because the government holds the greatest forces in the country - the military and the police. Law is just words backed by the threat of that force.,"Unstable nations generally arise from a situation where the government's legitimacy given to it by its force is threatened by another force within or outside of the country. That could be an armed rebellion (revolution) or a challenging alternate ""government"" (like the Taliban in Afghanistan) or it could be an invading country (like Russia in Ukraine). In all those cases a potentially stronger force is threatening the monopoly on power held by the government.",0
"Without the ability to pass legislation the job of advocating for the Democratic party falls on us, the folks who want to see them elected and in control, Nancy Pelosi can't force action in a majority Republican House, the minority party has practically zero power in Washinon, DC.","A bill can only be brought to the floor of the House for a vote by the controlling party, if Republicans have control of the House they just won't bring Democratic written or sponsored legislation up for a vote, meaning that House Democrats will be able to pass any legislation whatsoever that they can show to their voters.",0
"Under the current system, a wealthy black student benefits from AA while a poor Asian student gets a low personal score and has lower chance of getting in.",Do you think it's morally justified that some wealthy black kid who attended private schools yet still couldn't crack a 1400 on the SAT should receive preference over a higher IQ Asian kid who attended public school and was on the verge of homelessness but scored a 1600?,1
"Don't ask questions, if you do you'll get called a Russia supporter, only trust articles that say good things about Ukraine.","I mean next to stories about Russia anything said about Ukraine would seem good. A firm and uncompromising stance against Russia is the only rational one here, anything short of that is the result of false equivalence and whataboutism, which are, along as heavy handed attempts at sowing confusion among the public's opinion, the main propaganda tactics used by pro Russian lost souls, which is why anything even remotely negative about Ukraine posted here gets compulsively down voted, since how are we supposed to tell the difference between a genuine question and an insidious attempt at bluring the line to try and manufacture apathy and neutrality ? Also I'll add that I routinely see people ask for sources for pro Ukraine informations, albeit they often give out a ""virtue signaling"" vibe.",1
"Thanks for the info. I’m not suggesting we unnecessarily poke the bear. At the current rate of the conflict, Russia appears overextended and all Ukraine/NATO needs to do is defend.","If there's a conventional war with Russia there is no discussion. It's over before it even started. Since nukes are a thing there will never be one, and that's how it's going to go until the nukes don't exist.",1
"Yeah but the democrats don't need to get those ones, they just need the infighting to continue long enough that 6 semi-reasonable Republicans are sick of it and then all the democrats + 6 Republicans vote for the more moderate Republican.","Not just that but all because a Democrat becomes a Speaker doesn’t change the fact Republicans won’t still have majorities on the committee level, any Republican who defects will easily lose all of their committee assignments.",1
"Tl.r : The Palestinians will never want peace unless it involves the genocide and exile of all Jews, and recent historical events showed it pretty well.",It’s funny how “The jews had evil intentions” is always a legitimate excuse but the Palestinians being hateful and hostile is never an option.,0
"All of those minority you mention above are part of iran for so many years , we have pharse in iran we called they've become iranize , iran isn't about just language or religion , it's a identity, I suggests you study Iranshahr or Irenshehr theory to help you out more.as you mention Kordish independent state it's because of so many years of government suppression that minority of kord peoples seek independence and again history proves that majority of them doesn't want to become separated.","If they wanted to be separated they had their opportunities, what do you mean 22 percent of iran are not iranain how is that a thing, and also entire Qajar dynasty were Azeri , Karim Khan zand was Lor ،Reza shah was mazani , current leader of iran is Azeri and they ruled all of Iran , I'm Azeri, I have kord friends , i have lor friends, i have arab friends and my entire family and childhood friends are Azeri and I see not a single on of them as separatists infact they love Iran in some degree.",0
"Most of it is stuff that would have been decommissioned within the next decade or so anyway. A good bit is old soviet tech that Warsaw pact nations have wanted to swap out for the NATO standard equipment. It's provided a way for NATO to clean out its garage so it can make room for the new stuff. Now all these nations are able to backfill with shiny modern tech from the US, Europe and Korea.",A lot of the dollar numbers that get thrown around on the news are the cost to acquire the system new. In reality sometimes the real world cost to the nations supplying them is about whatever it costs to ship it. The US advances their weapons development so fast that even some of the more modern and effective systems they're sending aren't too far away from being retired from active service. Meanwhile they're providing outsized value by being used to defend Europe.,0
Also Taiwan‘s geographic position makes it pretty hard for China to control shipping lanes or enter open ocean if war ever breaks out. China doesn't have the luxuries the US does in terms of geography. Long term if China wants security it needs a China aligned Taiwan or a puppet state.,China will bode its time on Taiwan. It will be cheaper to buy them off in the future than to storm the island and draw international condemnation.,1
"If you're pro-democracy, why don't you respect the fact that Turkish people elected him and he's doing exactly what Turks want (because he needs votes in the upcoming elections)? Many of you ""pro-democracy"" westerners would actually suppory a non-democratic coup to replace an elected leader who won't do what you want.",Now Turkey still doesn't have a real democracy but is run by clowns and is regressing on Ataturk's vision otherwise.,1
"The way I see it, America doesn’t need to intervene here. We just need to wait and Iran’s current regime will fall to a popular revolution by the end of the decade. Intervening now will just give all of Iran an enemy to rally against.","The best thing we can do is keep protesting globally, sharing social media from Iran of what is happening on the ground there. It doesn't hurt to call on any of your reps to publicly denounce the mass murders of protesters. The best thing to do is anything you can.",1
"LMAO... If you want to live somewhere abortion is outlawed, you can move to Iraq with ISIS, the other religious nutjobs who want to restrict women from access to a potentially life saving procedure.","When a nine year old rape victim is prevented from having an abortion, I’d like to think that the fucking state shouldn’t be the ones having a say about what to do.",1
"In fact, those very same PR agencies were also hired to convince everyone that not only do cigarettes NOT cause hear disease and cancer, but they're actually GOOD for you.","Random aside, I believe smoking could actually be a lot healthier (read: it wouldn't be healthy). But for some reason, tobacco naturally attracts radiation to its leaves (that can be washed off with certain chemical baths but is too expensive to do) and they also shove cigarettes full of other, ancillary chemicals that directly make it worse when smoked (but burns faster and is 'easier' to smoke it). It would still be 'bad,' but its impact could be so much less if we actually took the time and resources to make an unhealthy product less damaging. But, you know, profits. Again.",1
"A Russian website has over 10,000 confirmed deaths, mostly by visiting cemeteries and culling social media posts. But the Russian military is widely believed to be hiding large numbers of dead soldiers, and the Ukrainians have reported having large numbers of Russian bodies in freezers that the Russians won't take back.","US intelligence thinks the Russian death toll is 100,000 ""killed and wounded"". There's reason to think that the Russian dead-to-wounded ratio is around 1:5 (US would be at least 1:10, because of body armor, advanced medical care, etc. The historic ratio is 1:3 in most wars).",0
"And I am happy we have Free Speech so that we can be confronted with ideas that might initially offend us, but which might also have the power to change us.","In a less free society, the cartoon would have never been made, never been published and the minds and intellects of society would have never been challenged or enlightened.",0
"If that's really the case Democrats shouldn't sue just let them get their own results thrown out, costing the GOP a seat in the house. If that actually happened this would never be an issue again.","This whole nonsense is beyond exceptionally dumb. First of all they're not even claiming there were issues in Cochise County instead they're claiming there were issues in Maricopa County. Additionally, if they do not certify their results (they'll likely be forced to by a judge) all that happens is that the results from Cochise end up excluded which would only serve to increase the margin of victory for Democrats.",0
"I think people greatly underestimate the effort ahead. Liberating the territory stolen since February is going to be hard. Liberating Luhansk and Donbass are going to be brutal but likely if things continue as they are. Not sure how they liberate Crimea, it should be extremely defensible, with only a very narrow approaches to attack... Hope they do liberate all of Ukraine, but I think it is very early to talk about counter attacking into actual Russian territory.","However it remains a possibility and unless Ukraine has the resolve and capacity to push Russian forces back from all the annexed land, or think they can somehow force Putin to conceded...they might just have to take it.",1
"Not necessarily. There were plenty of ""almost nuclear war due to a misunderstanding"" during the Cold War. Having the UN as a glorified meeting table for the entire world has done wonders for the logistics of modern diplomacy.","Yes, in an ideal world, we can keep global ""peace"" without having to deal with 3 countries that have agendas that they would prioritize over peace.",1
"What does worry me is a takeover by ‘legal means’, such as the Supreme Court degrading democracy so much that it is a farce. In that case, the military does still have an oath to the president/constitution (correct me if I’m wrong). If that president is accepted as legitimate by the masses, then yes they will be on their side.","A small portion of rural areas with psycho sheriffs might ‘stand down’ and let it happen. Other than that, I don’t see any significant defections occurring.",0
"At the very least, should be a slam dunk defamation case since they're now saying they never believed it. ""Okay, so let's play back some of the 100's of hours of you stating otherwise, while as you've started under oath was knowingly false."".","p.s.: I'd tell friar Tuck to put the kewl-ayyyd down, but he clearly loves it so feel free not to share this with him. Heh.",1
"In 1968, the Soviets began the invasion of Czechoslovakia by seizing the international airport in Prague and then using it to land airborne forces. Last year, the Russians tried similar moves outside of Kyiv, and now we hear rumors that maybe they’ve got plans along the same lines for Moldova.",Look at a map of Moldova and tell me how Russia is going to get there. How Russia would get any supplies or ammo there.,1
"I'll tell you what I don't want the United States to do and that is to send the refugee who fled back. Otherwise, send every refugee admitted from Ukraine back.",Unfortunately the U.S. deputy ambassador recently told the U.N. Security Council that Haiti must address its continued insecurity challenges. It doesn't look like there is much interest in helping Haiti.,0
It's a real problem that technology has so outpaced government legislation that they have no idea what to do with it. It's a problem on a lot of fronts.,"That's not even the issue. Because in every single case where this ""new technology"" is by design self similar to analog solutions, both by trying to replace a use case AND the intend to be theoretically adoptable by DAU, they insist on this ""being something totally new and totally the limitations that fundamentally were agreed on in terms of boundaries don't apply"".",1
"I'm not sure how to evaluate this. A unified currency in a territory that is far from an ideal currency zone can lead to enormous adjustment challenges that, among other things, typically aggravate income inequality, as we have seen with the euro and the CFA.","unified currency in a territory that is far from an ideal currency zone can lead to enormous adjustment challenges that, among other things, typically aggravate income inequality.",1
"Other way around. Cheney has no allies, pretty much every Trump impeachment Republican lost or resigned baring one (who is in a close race). McCarthy is part of the MAGA side but there is an even more ultra-MAGA side who hates him and would prefer someone like Jim Jorden or Greene. There are about 40 of them as per the last Congress.","A majority of those 11 will actually go to Democrats, it just depends how many. Most predictions have at least 7. That means Dems will have 216 seats to 219 for Republicans. There is a 25% chance that Dems win 9 and clinch the majority.",0
The article expressly says the criminal police are questioning him. And it highlights that this police entity is empowered to investigate war crimes.,His testimony may be useful in identifying perpetrators of war crimes and perhaps assist in bringing some of them to justice.,1
"How the actual fuck do you refuse a termination of pregnancy to a disabled child who was raped and is clearly unable to care for herself, and then site the CONSCIENCE clause?",Did they ever let those Ukrainian women carrying Russian rapist babies get abortions or did they continue to help the rapists by forcing the victims to carry their babies?,1
"I feel you... but I can't help but think about when Sarah Pallin couldn't answer a underhand, floating, softball pitch of a question like,""What periodicals do you like to read?"".","Yes. That’s why you ask the question like ‘you’ve come out hard against the Biden administration for their actions, why is your response to the trump administration different?’.",1
So in theory more politicians could be verified because they may relax qualifications to meet demand with a smaller team.,"Trump was on Twitter in 2020 as the current president, but I know you meant 2021. It didn’t matter if Trump was on Twitter or not. Every message he wanted to spread was spread by mainstream media. More widely than Trump could spread it on his own.",0
"Well, unless we make it legally punishable for politicians to knowingly lie to the public, there's nothing we can really do about this until he's up for re-election. The GOP won't do anything because 1. they're all a bunch of frauds too, and 2. with only a 4 seat majority, they won't do anything to risk control of the House, including punishing or even mentioning his lies, they need his vote.","At least, going forward, they'll have to live with the stink on that guy, as they do Matt Gaetz, Gosar, Bohbert, etc., which hurts then in future national elections in close districts.",1
"This is an incredibly stupid take. Ukraine leaving landmines lying around to kill their own civilians is no different than Russia doing it. It takes a real piece of shit to openly defend war crimes just because they're committed by the ""right side."".","Yes, it is. This war is being funded and supplied mainly by the US and other NATO members. If Ukraine takes money from our pockets and uses it to knowingly kill their own civilians, they deserve to go down right along with Russia. I'd say the same thing if it was my own government doing the same thing here.",0
"I moved to Tampa Bay after graduating from UF fifteen or so years ago. Some of my friends stayed in Gainesville. My Gainesville friends seem to have no idea what life is like in Florida outside the blue bubble. It’s both funny and concerning. I saw a Dr. Seuss parody bumper sticker here in Tampa yesterday that said “one gun, two gun, red gun, blue gun.” When I showed my Gainesville friend, she was like… I don’t even know what that means??? Haha Well, there are large groups of maladapted, social media addicted loonies. You avoid them when you can.",My wife’s coworker is suffering from long covid despite having been vaccinated. All of us know that that’s a thing. Most of us probably also know these are first generation vaccines and that the tech will improve but there’s going to be a lot of death and suffering before it does. That’s life.,0
That's not true. Biden maintained a security clearance during his time out of office. He still had clearance for these documents.,"We are still a nation of laws, however unfair they may be, and the laws should be applied equally to all citizens of this country. No one is above them.",0
"""When Eric Ripert, the chef of Le Bernardin, renovated the kitchens of his Manhattan apartment and Hamptons beach house, he nixed the gas, instead choosing sleekly powerful induction cooktops by Miele and Gaggenau."".",Better than induction or better than electric? Chefs are starting to use induction and like it because it is easier to control and clean up is quick. They also are reducing the heat in their kitchens and staff aren't betting burned.,0
"In theory, yes, but in practice I think IOC will fold here and exclude Russia and Belarus. And if France would join the protest they would almost certainly fold. FIFA folded and they are if anything even more corrupt than IOC. No matter how much Russia bribes a wide European boycott is likely to hurt IOC more than the missing Russian bribes.","I wish I was able to boycott this, but I've already been boycotting the Olympics since it became clear Russia would never face real consequences for systemic doping.",1
"Joel Greenberg is the person in question, who was just recently sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for criminal stalking, identity theft, wire fraud, and conspiracy to bribe a public official, as well as one charge of sex trafficking.","To be clear, Greenberg (the witness in question) is a convicted fraudster who is motivated by wanting a better plea deal and fabricated a child sex trafficking allegation against a political rival.",1
Solar has been shown to be more than capable of replacing oil and gas powered energy plants very quickly no doubts no arguments can ignore the many examples where solar on home roofs alone have enabled countries to generate more energy than they use time and again.,"Forget wind and nuclear and other expensive initiatives that fill a small gap in the energy market, solar will mean the end of oil and gas for electricity generation, and only be used for other things and even then those can be developed from plants eventually.",0
A crucial sign that Russia's wave of civilian infrastructure strikes have failed to destroy the Ukrainian electrical grid.,"Ukraine's spring counteroffensive will aim to ""drive a wedge into the Russian front in the south between Crimea and mainland Russia,"" said Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukrainian military intelligence, DW reports.",0
"The fact that we supported Castillo's impeachment do not change the fact that congress is absolutely fucked, which is why I assume changes in approval will be very limited even after the successful impeachment.","Yeah, the CIA convinced him to dissolve the congress, and then somehow had the ability and resources to get virtually the entire peruvian congress to vote to impeach.",1
"Sorry. These judges are not just playing fast and loose, they are in open insurrection. Impeachment is a waste of time in this era. A federal judge that murdered a child on video would not be removed by Republicans unless they were a Liberal. The notion that Federal Judges are above the Law has to be dispelled forcefully because Republican judges are literally shitting on the Rule of Law because they can.","Impeachment is available and should be utilized for judges that issue rulings that are blatantly not in line with the law or the constitution. Neither side wants to do it, but it needs to be done to reign in the current trend of everybody ruling on their own personal beliefs instead of the text of the law and/or the text of the constitution.",1
Our polls are open for two weeks and by law must include two weekends. There is zero excuse to not vote.,Florida is one of 11 states that STILL refuse to expand Medicaid for the working poor. But good thing those people vote for Republicans to 'own the libs'.,0
"With qualified immunity gone officers will be less likely to commit misconduct because it would be their money on the line, not taxpayers'.","Oh, and when asked if the departments would audit the background checks on the other officers since they fucked up so bad on Edwards' background check they basically said, ""lolz no."" 😐.",0
"Nobody remembers this, but in 2016 Trump faced an honest to gosh minor scandal, one that would have seriously damaged another candidate, when he suggested there should be criminal prosecutions for people getting abortions.","In less than a decade, we have gone from the most prominent pro life groups actively fighting against the smear that they would ever support criminal charges of any kind for those receving an abortion.... to those same groups trying to outdo one another with more and more extreme positions, up to literally the death penalty.",0
">Under this approach, a state court could block an election map, but then only send it back to the legislature to try again rather than impose changes itself.","Unfortunately a huge amount of our election laws depend on public officials doing the job they’re sworn to do, and there’s a huge blind spot in the law if they just … don’t. (See also: Arizona).",1
"Oh, also. Wanna know why the Kurds have never been able to unite under a single flag? It's because a third are Islamist, a third are communist, and a third actually don't care about independence and are okay with just trying to get more rights in the nations they live in.",The PKK are literally designated by the US and EU as terrorist organizations. The YPG literally has members (including leaders) that are a part of the PKK.,0
"""Food is your own concern, but we're going to impound and destroy every automobile and gas-powered device so you don't get any ideas. Also, say goodbye to electricity, and water may be spotty. Don't complain or we will execute you. If we catch anyone burning wood, the whole household's going in the ground."".","Something like that, yes. It's a mathematical impossibility to keep billions of people alive without adding to the CO2 problem, so this is the kind of thing it would take to achieve negative emissions:",0
"Yeah, of course losing Bakhmut would be bad for the Ukrainians. But it isn't going to significantly change the direction of the war if that happens. And Russian doctrine, if you can call it that, is why this has been such a shit show for them. It's not just that they're executing it poorly.","No one is saying the Russians aren't dangerous. But I'm really struggling to understand the doctrine Russia has and what's so ""solid"" about it... They haven't had much of a coherent doctrine this whole war so why'd they have one now?",0
"North Carolinians have relied on courts and my veto power as governor to foil many of these schemes. In 2022 a successful lawsuit in state court challenging a 2021 gerrymandered congressional map resulted in fair districts, splitting the state’s 14 districts (the state gained a district after the 2020 census) so that Democrats and Republicans each won seven seats in November’s elections. It seemed only right, given the nearly even divide between Democratic and Republican votes statewide. Republican efforts to avoid this result led to the Moore v. Harper appeal now before the Supreme Court.","Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has been the governor of North Carolina since 2017. He was previously elected to four terms as attorney general.",0
I like how a lot of state Republican parties are looking at how DeSantis is able to win over senior citizens and Cubans in bright red Florida as if he is somehow a compelling candidate to swing states.,I bet migration of retirees from the Midwest (+PA) to Florida can explain why Democrats have managed to remain competitive in those states. It’s the sacrificial lamb.,1
"You already spend more on healthcare as individuals than any European nation, with worse outcomes. If an American wants a child, it's statistically better for them to move to Russia, where survival rates to the age of 5 are higher.",Even the phrasing of military vs health you put indicates you may want free health but individuals shouldn't pay extra for it.,0
"Incorrect. While I agree with you that shutting down that strike was wrong, this incident wouldn’t have been prevented with increased sick leave. It happened because the rail companies are using fewer workers and longer, less adequately manned trains. The strike didn’t address that issue, it addressed a symptom of it. It wouldn’t have stopped rail companies from running the trains the way they do.","Now, if you wanna blame people like Manchin and Sinema and the GOP for gumming up Congress to such an extent that corporations go effectively unregulated, I’m with you. But there’s no direct line between Biden’s actions and this specific disaster.",0
DeSantis has nowhere to run except to compete on how more unAmerican he can be than Trump. He really can't compete on fame or swagger and cults tend to be extremely resistant to just jumping to a new Messiah.,"If DeSantis doesn't carry Florida next week with a mandate, he is done. He's evaluation isn't Ohio, it's how he can command THE swing state of all swing states. If it's even close, Trump can hammer that home to everyone that matters to DeSantis in a single social media post. Trump can't share the GOP at all. It's most of his active revenue streams and the key to staying free and rich. DeSantis is a far bigger threat to Trump than any Democrat, DA, or court.",0
"When I was younger and dating I got two different people pregnant and I was extremely fortunate they were both on the same page as me and didn't want kids. Those experiences and the fear surrounding them shaped my sexuality for a long time. If I had gotten a vasectomy way back then, things may have been very different. I could have felt safer regarding sex which would likely have meant a more robust sex life. And that reason would have also been completely valid.","But I'd be lying if I said sex wasn't another huge reason I made the decision. It really was 50/50 - one for her, and one for me. Both for us. Just like you buy condoms to have more sex. It's really not all that different. She also got her tubes partially removed so we can both have the knowledge that we're free of those particular consequences together and individually. We made our decisions, in part, to have more sex, and it's worked wonderfully. A completely fair reason.",0
"The only thing the congressional referral is going to accomplish is to weaken the DoJ case, and to make any charges appear political.",So if DoJ decides to charge — which they may as well do anyway — now they must face the criticism that they’re taking orders from a political committee.,0
"Ah yes, a poll by ""Euroskopia,"" a nebulous organization claiming to be "" an alliance between the main social research and media companies in the EU"" which posts irregularly, focusing on how ""divided people are over the Ukraine and with a surprisingly high amount of media in Russian.","No I am not from Germany and can tell you, reading through many forums or FB and I also daily work and communicate with 150-200 people and when topics come to war, most of them are much more neutral than in first month or so, general support for Ukraine is getting weaker, but that is not what politicians will tell you they have their own agendas with ashes left behind the front. War is now a perfect distraction from failed EU system and opportunity to fix some of it.",1
"This is my concern too. Without the Democrats asserting their considerable leverage in all of this, then the ""compromise"" Speaker will undoubtedly be much farther to the right of McCarthy. Democrats could positively prevent that, and get major concessions from McCarthy for doing so. Why aren't they? They need to brush up on parlimentary strategy.","Particularly if they could get some concessions from him. McCarthy was willing to allow the Speaker to be recalled if any 5 House members vote to do so. If he were Speaker, and beholden to Democratic votes to put (and keep) him in that role, that could be a serious win for Democrats.",0
"The fucks that are burning books are doing them so they can provoke Muslims (well, the stupid fucks on the Muslim side) into a reaction so they can rile people up against them.","But yea, often times the loud minority among Muslims has this vengeful reaction and it just ruins things even more.",1
"Yep. The Ukraine defense extortion and Hunter Biden stuff kinda came out of nowhere in the Trump drama, and it's only in retrospect that it was in some sense telegraphing Russia's intent. It was a lingering question that has an answer now - Russia was counting on Trump to hamstring Ukraine's defenses for the upcoming invasion.",It’s not the US or NATO that Putin has to worry about; it’s the angry Russians who’ve been impoverished in the past year by Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine.,1
"What’s stopping the worker going to their embassy and getting travel papers to go home ? Their problems aren’t with their passports or ability to leave, but with the agent who sent them and is expecting payment.","So true, so all the more reason for the employer to pay for flights, food and accommodation so that the Thai national is an employee rather than an indentured servant. Let’s see how the Finns react to this, will they accept more expensive berries to improve the workers lives ?",0
"We get a new round of cuts thanks to outdated water policies negotiated at a time when very few people lived in the Southwest, and some states didn't even exist yet. Ya know back when the worlds population was 1/4 what it is today.",They got 4% of the world's people and 25% of the world's prison population. How are there not constant riots?!,1
"If the ""divorce"" happens, very little would change in blue states while the people in red states would just become (let's be honest it would be literal) slaves to the giant corporations who would own/run everything.","And fuck anyone else who wants to split the states like that, not only did we settle this damn argument in 1865, most red states have big blue populations and a lot of blue states have big red ones.",1
"So what, they're also facing British, American, and Soviet tanks. And this time the German tanks are being used to defend Ukraine, whereas last time they were used to invade it.","Also I hear Ukrainians say they're facing Russian tanks again, only the first time didn't happen 80 years ago, more like 8.",1
"Background: US President Joe Biden has stated that he does not intend to speak with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the moment, but he will be prepared to do so if the latter shows real interest in ending the war he started in Ukraine; that is, if he withdraws his troops from Ukraine.","The US, as before, does not recognise the new territories in the Russian Federation, and of course this significantly complicates the search for solid ground for mutual discussion."".",0
"If they don’t get their way the leverage they intend to use is a completely Washinon-caused financial crisis, fully expecting Biden will take the blame since he would be presiding over the economy if the country defaults.","The GOP is playing “the extortion game” just like they did in 2011… they suddenly want to balance the budget by cutting Medicaid, Medicare and everything except defense while drawing a red line at revenue (tax increases) in any negotiations.",0
In the UK policing is by consent. This means that everyone has a duty of care to prevent and stop crimes or disorder.,Should have been clearer it is already is a harsher sentence if you attack a police officer (or emergency worker as they are covered under the same law). It would be whilst acting as part of their job not just because of their job (or who employs them).,0
I'm not disagreeing with you but it bothers me that Dred Scott gets cited as often as it does because the 13th and 14th amendments invalidated the Dred Scott ruling. No part of Dred Scott should be used as an argument for anything.,Just because Dred Scott had clearly bad outcomes doesn’t mean it was wrongly decided. Unless you can explain how it was wrongly decided.,1
"or ""Jesus"" disagrees with everything they are saying. If they try to tell you that abortion is murder, just say, ""I just spoke to Jesus last night, and he told me you were going to say this. Jesus told me abortions are just fine, that you're an idiot and that no one should listen to you."" Anything they try to claim is ""God's will"", just immediately dispute while claiming you spoke directly to God and that he agrees with you.","If the ""Christian"" tries to claim authority based on the Bible, just tell them they're reading the wrong Bible. Tell them that Jesus gave you a copy of the ""true bible"" and told you not to show it to assholes because they like to misinterpret things to their own benefit. Any passage they try to read from their own Bible, simply comment that Jesus told you he redacted that section. ""Jesus told me that they stopped doing this shit in the middle ages, and in the 2023 version, that section is removed."".",0
"(ii) could, as determined by a reasonable person, motivate actions by a person predisposed to engaging in a white supremacy inspired hate crime or by a person who is susceptible to being encouraged to engage in actions relating to a white supremacy inspired hate crime; and.",">(ii) could, as determined by a reasonable person, motivate actions by a person predisposed to engaging in a white supremacy inspired hate crime or by a person who is susceptible to being encouraged to engage in actions relating to a white supremacy inspired hate crime; and.",1
"Edit: Anyone want to explain the downvotes? Available data has it that there are around 100k Ukrainian military deaths and around 100k Russian deaths. Considering Russia has artillery that can bombard significant areas from miles away from the frontlines, the Ukrainian army is doing really well.","“It is estimated that 20,000 civilians and more than 100,000 Ukrainian military officers have been killed so far,” Head of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen.",0
Most national debt is held in that nation by retirement funds and investment banks and giant corporations etc.,Isn't the biggest debt holder the American people? So even if China holds a big chunk it's still going to be smaller than all of the debt held by Americans.,1
"Like if we all lived in a Buddhist utopian paradise world, then sure I would love to see that charge be made. But not only do we not, there is an entire industry specifically for producing and selling weapons of war. And guess what they kill people. And again the US is one of the biggest arms dealers + also arming at least two nations currently participating in genocide...","So... since US has also committed war crimes too, and are hypocrites at dealing with war criminals, you're ok with Iran selling drones to Russia and killing civilians with it?",1
"The Greenland ice sheet, one of the coldest and most remote regions of the world that serves a pivotal role in the Earth's climate, is now clearly feeling significant effects of climate change. Researchers found that central and northern areas of the sheet have recently seen the hottest temperatures in a millennium.","It has been long clear that many parts of Greenland are warming, but the latest research, published in Nature on Wednesday, took a deeper look at the central part of Greenland's ice sheet, where the impact of climate change has long been unclear.",0
"Its just that after an unfortunate thing like the terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turks just switch on their all Kurds= terrorists vision and go on a rampage. The Turks have a history of genocides and mass killings, I just wished they’d actually target PKK instead of Kurds in general. But hey, what am I going to do about when America and Israel don’t even bother trying to help Kurds establish a state, when they called them their allies so many times. If those 2 nations can’t help the Kurds create a state, I believe no one can.",Kurds want borders that are split between 4 nation states AND are currently living in a NATO members borders.,1
"I mean, it’s one thing to force this “extreme culture” at a company like SpaceX, where there’s VERY few other opportunities for similar work…. But the same shit you can get away with at SpaceX is NOT going to fly at Twitter of all places. I’m not sure how this was lost on Musk, but apparently it was.","Fuck around and find out @ Elon Musk. Have fun running the company with few yes man around you, who will definitely not use you for their own good. Imagine spending 44b(eventually even more) on company, just so you can kill it and lose it all. This year really showed us how dumb some people are. Putler attacking Ukraine, thinking the West would not react. Now his whole nation is collapsing, West is united once again and his people are dying more and more each week in the war while Ukraine is getting stronger and stronger. Elon, thinking he will gain respect for buying twitter but in fact, more people realized how scummy he is. Now he is getting memed every single second on Twitter, platform he bought for 44b. Who is next?",1
"If he runs third party and loses, people will call him a twice loser. If he loses and talks shit about the winner of the primary who loses the general he will forever get to claim that he would have hypothetically won, and for the next 4 years there would be nonstop opinion pieces about how trump would have won and that the GOP screwed him. He would much rather hypothetically win the general election then lose as a third party candidate.",Or Jeffries can pick up a few liberal republicans with pet projects and shakey re-election chances (or who are deciding to not run in the future or who have a blue shifting seat) to vote for him.,1
The irony of course is the fact that they've spent years portraying Biden as mentality deficient and incompetent yet here we are now supposed to believe that he is supposed to have a memory that most children and teenagers don't possess?,While that certainly doesn't excuse Biden per se... the idea that him not knowing is nonsense is just not based in reality. This is a political statement made by people who politically need Biden to be on the hook for their own ends to be justified. This has nothing to do with Biden and everything to do with the Republicans needing to justify a revenge tour and irrational hatred of a political rival.,0
"You and many others think that the money is a charitable donation to Israel, but its really a mutually beneficial transaction. The US receives a lot in return. Personally, I think it would be great if the US stopped the aid money. Then Israel wouldn’t be restrained as much in dealing with Iran, Hamas, Hezbolah, and Palestinian terrorists.","Maybe dial back the apartheid regime and Israel might have a sliver of credibility, but until then, nope.",1
"Our democracy is deeply flawed, we desperately need to work hard for reform. But our various rights, freedoms, the rule of law, the existence of some effective welfare, these just don't exist in Russia or much of the world.","Politicians deserve accountability, but that includes good credit where credit is due. Biden helped save Ukraine.",0
"If Bezos actually wanted to be generous with his fortune, he’d be out there paying off medical debt, making low income housing or co-ops, paying for lawyers for people being fucked over by the cops and sending kids to college:","It's all BS and these billionaires are mostly psychopaths who will shit on the little man and keep these workers down, case and point Bezos the cretin gives 0 fucks about the workers that enrich him.",1
"Except it's not at all like you said. You thought I thought it was by Republicans and switched based off of finding out it was democrats that proposed it. However i switched not because democrats proposed it, but because the bill was actually decent. It just so happens that it was a dem who put it forth.",Edit: got this wrong. Was proposed by dem and actually not a bad law. Bans declawing aang other inhumane practices.,0
"The key part that Trump's team are skipping over in that quote is that says that documents ""shall, to the extent practicable, be categorized as Presidential records or personal records upon their creation or receipt and be filed separately."".","So disgraced-former-President Trump would need to show that he declared these documents as personal documents when they were created, and that they were treated as personal documents, and were filed separately. Given how incompetent and disorganised his administration was, this might be hard to do. Instead his lawyers simply assert that he designated them as personal documents, and argue that him having them shipped to Mar-a-Lago proves it (i.e. their argument is that it would have been illegal for him to take Presidential Records to Mar-a-Lago, so they cannot be Presidential Records and must be personal records, so by sending them there he was designating them as personal records).",0
How is demanding bilateral equal trade agreements imperialist? Why should china get to demand special treatment on what would otherwise be an open market?,We are in a situation where china is repeatedly sabre rattling in the Pacific snd using it's incumbency to demand concessions. These are not the actions of a good partner. And that's what I would really like here.,0
"they're losing 500-600 soldiers a day in this conquest and they're struggling to take tens of meters a day, and they've barely reached the edge of the city. i don't think ukraine will pull their soldiers there until they're at risk of encirclement. that's when it'll fall, but they've only now started evacuating civilians this week, so i think there's a ways to go. urban combat is hard for the attacker.","definitely, but ukraine's on the defensive, and they value the lives of their soldiers. they have proper winter gear and other equipment, they actually rotate their guys out, and they get proper meals. they park their artillery, fire, and move. they don't have as much ammo for them as russia so they only fire when it counts. they usually say attackers lose 8-10x the defenders when it's urban, and that's exactly what this is. so while ukraine is definitely losing guys, for bakhmut area i think it's minimal compared to russia's. i think ukraine lost a lot more on their offenses east of kharkiv, and also their offensives into kherson area.",0
"I doubt they have any noticeable effect on the populations of Western countries. If someone in a Western country is inclined to sympathise with Russia, they will find information to support that view everywhere on the internet, from sources that are much better at marketing Russian propaganda than various Russian embassies.","No practical purpose would be served by that, other than dick-swinging, and escalation, and it will put westerners in Russia in further jeopardy by Russia probably taking reciprocal action.",1
"Commercial airliners have way more simple automated systems than a self driving car, and they still are constantly being updated and improved. This is with highly trained crew and intensely monitored machines that have been operating for decades. Tossing something complex and untested in a car for your average driver to play and saying “be careful” with seems borderline negligent.","Pretty crazy that they were able to ship a car with beta version of “Full Self Driving” is insane. Ridiculous the regulators allowed it and horribly irresponsible that the company did it, thinking that some fine print made it all okay.",0
"These aren't either/or ""grievances"" and it isn't helpful to rank one conservative injustice above another. My black, LGBTQ friends are attacked for being both and wouldn't agree that one kind of oppression is ""truer"" than another.","Like right now they're less racist than they are homophobic, and they're more transphobic than that. Let them ""win"" against trans people and they'll go after the gays. Let them win against the gays and they'll go after their once token black people. Let them win against black people and they'll start rolling back what it means to be ""white"". The Irish weren't always in the ""club"", and without black people to contend with, they can be expelled again.",1
"It's basically malicious intent to accept Finland and to let Sweden out, it's a bad strategic scenario for Sweden and Finland as well as a really bad blow to NATOs ""open door policy"".",There's no good reasons to tie ourselves to Sweden and it is quite telling that it's all the old anti-nato pro-russia politicians screaming the loudest how we shouldn't join without Sweden.,1
Blaming Europe for russia attacking people shows a remarkable ability on your part to twist anything to suit your viewpoint.,"The eu uses trade as a means to avoid war, it has been doing that successfully in Western Europe and slowly bringing in the countries on the east side that are willing. It was naive in hindsight to think russia would put peace and prosperity for it's people ahead of warmongering but that doesn't mean Europe is to blame.",0
"If this is important, then finish the investigation. I note that Gillibrand hasn't spearheaded that.","Also, Gillibrand didn't have anything to do with the drip, drip, drip of more women coming out about Franken. He probably would have survived that first one.",1
"Covering it up is giving it 1-2 articles that don't get put on any front pages while propping up a more bombastic headline, which in recent days has been alleged spy balloons.","Not sure what news everyone here is consuming but I’ve heard plenty about both the balloon shit and this derailment from multiple outlets. (yes, probably technically more about the ballon stuff, to be fair) The ramifications and implications of both stories are still vague and not fully known at best. Maybe we shouldn’t automatically jizz “cover up!1” over everything all the time. Also, has there ever been a time when the transportation secretary has been called out “for answers” more? Personally, I find that aspect of this possibly the most disturbing.",1
•	⁠the legal arguments Kacsmaryk uses in his decision ignore the distinction of coercive vs voluntary government programs in prior rulings and further argues that minors do not historically have the right or ability to consent (which is demonstrably false).,"•	⁠furthermore, the principle that parents have a constitutional right to shape their child’s upbringing has been argued before the court before, and the previous rulings have carved out a distinction with regards to “coercive” government programs (that require or prohibit an activity) and voluntary ones like Title X grants to healthcare providers- no one is required to seek out health care services funded by Title X.",0
"I mean a big part of the problem is the supply constriction, giving people more money to spend may actually increase inflation instead of helping it since the supply issue remains. Usually the prescription is more restrictive monetary policy hence why the Fed keeps raising interest rates.","It's true that raising interest rates will eventually cool inflation, but it does it by putting a blanket, across the board price increase on EVERYTHING. It gets to the point that buyers have to refuse to pay a price because they literally don't have enough money to pay for it all. Interest rates cool inflation by amplifying the effects of poverty. It puts the burden of pulling inflation in on those most at risk.",1
"Trans teens on puberty blockers won’t be on them for more than a year or two in most situations, while they make a decision as to whether to begin hormone therapy or stop blockers and resume their default puberty, so it would be pretty hard (and not very useful) to study its effects over periods of more than a year in this case.","They won’t tell you about the weakened skeletal development, cancer risks, infertility and improper development of secondary sex characteristics that result from puberty blockers should the patient decide to not want to continue down the path of transition.",1
"Presumably the really clever part (that doesn't make the news) is the system that tracks incoming shells, works out where they came from, and sends the coordinates to the gunners faster than the Russians can move their gun. That's the bit I'd like to know about.","They don't always go for simultaneous impact. It's just something they can do sometimes, when the target isn't too far away.",0
"The reason why no one noticed that images were photoshopped earlier was because everyone already assumed Alzheimer's was caused by amyloid accumulation, but then again, when you are faking research, you are faking the thing everyone assumes is correct. The fact that no one was able to reproduce the results, that there are now other explanations for it, and that healthy people seem to have the same plaques, was the reason why some people looked deep into that shit.","No one knows. What we do know is that last 15 years of research is probably wrong, at the very least partly wrong.",0
"The really useful thing about ranked choice voting is that it doesn't allow moderate Democrats to hold a gun to progressives' heads and say ""fall in line or else"" after they continue to fail in their support of the working class.",You're saying ranked choice voting means the candidate the people like the most wins but you're going out of your way to imply its bad for progressives. There's absolutely never a situation where ranked-choice is worse than first past the post voting.,1
"They manage two things we need: Federalism, because we are a big country; and (more) accurate representation, getting rid of winner takes all. A parliamentary system is a great first step to get rid of a two parties system.","A parliamentary system is always preferable, for sure. I wish that the lower Chamber really represented districts (like in the US) and not entire provinces. It would force politicians to live among those who represent, instead of these “blanket ballots” that only represent the party. Otherwise, cities are overly represented.",1
"2) The core belief of preserving post WW2 borders, balancing powers and letting each society progress in their own pace without disruption or threats, is key to peace.","1) The core belief that spreading democracy, the western way of living, and unleashing the freedom of individuals (education, marriage, speech) is key to peace.",0
"""Sure, we'd like our baby to live, but not at the cost of having some antibodies against another disease. If that's the case, fuck it, we'll just try and have a healthy one next time."".","Nothing in the article says anything about what their motives are for rejecting vaccinated blood, whether religious or otherwise.",0
She's a symptom of a very dangerous disease. There have always been Marjorie Taylor Greenes around. It's just that previously they were mostly confined to being that crazy person that corners strangers in a grocery store and forces them to listen to conspiracy theories or spends their days furiously debating the minute details of imaginary shadow governments on private facebook groups. The disease is that the overton window has shifted enough over the decades for people like this to squeeze in around the edges and get elected to public office.,"One or two might not seem like a big deal, but have you ever had one or two rotten shrimp in your trashcan? It's gonna stink the whole place up, and the only way to fix it is to take out the trash.",0
"Two Trump appointees to the Board of Governors were termed out on December 8th, and will be replaced by the Senate in the next session. Those new appointments will give Biden a solid majority on the board.","Biden didn't appoint any pro-DeJoy people. The BOG is comprised of 11 people, including Postmaster General DeJoy, the Deputy Postmaster General, and 9 presidential appointees, no more than 5 of whom can belong to the same political party. Biden has appointed 5 governors so far, and with the terming out of Moak and Zollars on December 8th, Biden will be able to appoint 2 more Democrats of his choosing to the Board in the new Senate term, at which point his appointees will have a majority vote.",0
"My SO is diabetic, and was making a mere $10k/year a few years ago. She couldn't get any kind of health coverage because of this bullshit.","The fun part is, if you make so little that you qualify for medicaid on a federal level, you can't get a subsidised plan through Obamacare.",0
Mao Zedong proclaimed establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 after the de facto conclusion of the Chinese Civil War.,"Always good to point out that this is a term of propaganda, as Taiwan has never been a part of the People's Republic of China, not even for a single day since the PRC's founding in 1949.",1
"If you honestly think that, after seeing this play out so many times before, Trump will ever see the inside of a courtroom or even be officially charged with a crime, I have some warm beachfront property on Mars you may be interested in.","You're right. He suffered when the Mueller report was released, listing at least 10 different crimes he committed, which led to......exactly nothing because of a decades old memo. Then there was the airtight case in SDNY, which was notorious for not bowing to political pressure. He's going to be on trial for.....wait, the DA decided not to pursue charges. Never mind. And there was the Cohen case. Trump's personal fixer. Surely, Cohen's testimony is going to lead to.......an ""unindicted co-conspirator"" being the mastermind behind it all.",0
"Also, if you treble the poulation of the US and keep emissions the same, you will have decreased worldwide emissions - because those people came from somewhere.","If per capita was in any way a good measure, we could just triple the US's population, keep the same emission, and everything would be fine, right? The environment would be better off?",1
It’s his base with their power to primary people that made that possible. Gerrymandering helped to make this possible.,The Party Elite never wanted Trump in the first place. But it's the base that has a stranglehold on the Republican Party and they hate the Party Elite to include McConnel. They weren't able to convict him after impeachment because they knew full well they themselves would have suffered for it and some actually did. Those who voted to impeach or convict have either retired or have been voted out for the most part.,0
"Though a certain amount of gas plants for electricity will likely still be needed even if other countries don't need electricity from Germany anymore. They are used for balancing out the electricity grid, compensating fluctuations which happen for example because of solar and win energy which are not steadily producing electricity. A nuclear power plant can't do this. It produces a steady amount of electricity and can't suddenly be put into a higher or lower gear.","Nuclear power plants don't produce gas, so they are not suddenly able to provide fuel for all the gas heaters in homes. And as France just showed, nuclear power plants have clear downsides. Also the industry needs gas for all kinds of things which electricity will never be able to replace.",0
"This is what happens when ego is so big they think they can do no wrong. Kanye legit said in a public form, INTO the microphone that he can say anti-semetic things and there's nothing adidas can do about it. The fact he thinks he can say or do anything without consequence Yeah thats an huge ego talking there. He thinks hes the second coming of Jesus.... he is not. He is a moron.","Now I just think they are dumb. Ignorance is fine not everyone knows everything. But being dumb is a choice, you can't stay dumb forever unless you actively block out new information.",1
"If it takes a $4M missile to prevent a hit on a residential block in Kyiv, so be it. We can afford to wear down the Fascist Bloc economically with our more nimble & sturdy economies, and adapt our strategy with our more nimble & sturdy civil society. Even dumb-ass Trump America has failed to create the disorder, recession and panic of China’s zero-covid policies. And Russia’s mass conscription campaign is potentially a crippling political development sending them down the path of a failed imperialist war a la Vietnam or Afghanistan.","As for procurement, yea that sounds crap and potentially corrupt but we do have elected oversight and a free media to root out the worst abuses, unlike the Russian / Chinese / Hungarian / etc side. You can bet for every $1M Russia spends on a missile, the same amount or more disappears into yachts and blow.",0
"So, your takeaway is ""context is meaningless"" - a common sentiment among conservatives trying to justify fascism.","I suppose you would consider a murder and a self-defense killing to be equivalent - after all, ""the specific cause is inconsequential"". Or a defensive war as being equivalent to an invasion - both are war, right?",0
"OH there it is! I KNEW that was coming. Everytime people like you compare BLM and Jan 6th, you just lose all credibility.","Jan 6th was completely different. Trump was the leader of it all. His minions were trying to overthrow the government. Because they just can't accept losing. Trump employed his own children into government positions, and they did some pretty shady deals with leaders from other countries as well. And let's not forget Trumps relationship with Putin and how be admires Kim Jung Un.",0
"What fantasy world do you live in where Ukraine would attack Belarus and they wouldn't attack back? It is fantasy to say ""that [a Ukranian attack] would make Belarus contemplate closing its territory to Russia"".","I get that, but, under the rules of war, if russia invades from Belarus aren't the russian military installations in Belarus legitimate targets?",1
"You all have fascist ideas in your head whether you like to admit it or not, because our will to protect ourselves is greater than our will to have the risk of not using any fascist ideology to run a nation state, community, or organization in this day and era.","You are right people hold fascist ideas but everyone all across the political spectrum engages in some form of fascist ideology, they just believe they are righteous as they engage in fascist activity so it's okay when they do it they will just say it's for the good of the public.",0
The US should also thank Ukraine for providing evidence of how well this equipment works in battlefield conditions without US soldiers needing to die in the process.,We need to thank Ukraine for proving that our weapons work well in actual battlefield condition unlike some Russian weapons that turned to be more of a joke.,1
"It's not that Ukraine can necessarily win, it's that they can't lose. Do you know why people say the United States cannot be occupied? Everyone has a gun and everyone would rather die. Russia's constantly giving up territory that they have taken because they cannot afford to hold it.","That's just the baseline, the negotiations should really be about what sanctions stay on Russia and for how long. If Russia wants to negotiate, they can negotiate that. If the baseline can't even be accomplished, you can't trust Russia to not invade a third time and any deal would be worth less than the paper it's printed on.",0
"There's no reason to think we're close to that point, but moving in that direction is a bad thing. This thread reeks of, '""What are you going to, stab me?"" - man who was stabbed' vibes.",Russian nuclear doctrine calls for a nuclear first strike under certain conditions. There's a reason why there's no Western troops in Ukraine. There's a reason why the West places limitations on Ukraine on attacking Russian soil.,0
> More than half the respondents to the American organisation’s survey did not know six million Jews were murdered and 29% believe the death toll was below two million.,> More than half the respondents to the American organisation’s survey did not know six million Jews were murdered and 29% believe the death toll was below two million.,0
It will not come back to bite them. Get that through your head and do it fast. Laws are not like magical rules binding prosecutors to the exact wording and nothing else. They are tools of the state and will be used as the state desires to use them. Nobody is going to come after the cis woman in the Shakespeare play. They will come after the trans woman reading her poem about sunsets.,"Read a poem about sunsets at a local coffee shop open mic? Well now that's a ""sexually oriented business"".",1
"... And then he goes and has no issues in supporting Israel due to its race, religion and political views.","Basically, it comes down to the Israel-Palestine issue, and all the problems therein. Some Zionists readily move to equate criticizing Israel as being antisemitic, but that's a false equivalency.",1
The big question is how safe are Russias ammo depots in Ukrainian territory? If Russia is completely unable to hide them then choosing a location like the mine would actually be a good idea since Ukraine would attack them anyways and a mine is much easier to defend and would give more room for mistakes.,"In addition to this there are so many things that play a role, like how easy is it to collapse those tunnel? Would Russia be able to dig them up again? How many entrances are there? How safe are other Russian ammo depots? Is Russia able to deploy enough anti-air systems in the area? How extensive is the mine? How many entrances have good road access? Has Ukraine already booby trapped the mine?",0
"I'll go with that. So to say 'you used to be able to own a large one of those, but now you can only own a small one', that to me is definitely limiting. And if the smaller one is overall less effective, then yes it's starting to undermine. And I think encroach applies also- when something used to be broadly permitted and is now restricted, that seems like encroachment to me.","Since at the time of the Framers there was a weapon called the Girardoni Air Rifle (a weapon that could fire 22 lethal shots in fairly rapid succession), and Thomas Jefferson owned two (he thought they were super cool, and he sent them west with Lewis and Clark), and NOBODY had any suggestion of banning them (especially as at the time civilians owned cannons, mortar launchers, even warships), it's very unlikely that this law would pass a text history and tradition test.",0
"That was the complaint about Pelosi going over there, which I agreed with, and I agree McCarthy going there is wrong as well.",Isn't the US fundamentally changing the Status quo by sending the speaker of the house and others and using language that implies that Taiwan is it's own entity and that the US is taking sides?,0
"The very computer tech that 'discovered' the laptop, has lamented that other people have attempted multiple times to access the hard drive remotely, and add doctored information, with the goal to pass off as authentic and as having been on the laptop the whole time.","The same NYPost, that continues to falsely claim ""The NY Times admitted the laptop is real"", after the NY Times reported that certain emails on the laptop appeared to be legitimate, and not the laptop as a whole?",0
"Impossible to swap electronics between machines (so if you have a busted-out transmission in one machine, and a failing computer in the other you have two PzH2000 out of action), autoloader works great until you fight Russians in the eastern front for months and once it breaks impossible to fix in the field and impossible to manually load the gun (PzH2000 out of action again). So in summary, it works great when it works, but when it fails, you need to pull the thing out of the combat for a damn long time. You can look it up if you don't believe me.","Doubt it. I bet there's a lot of pressure not to ""escalate"" with more modern weapons. And while yes, there are himars, etc there, I'm betting that sending modern tanks would be used by Russia to say nato has ""joined"", and would escalate them to use nukes... They're already chomping at that bit, and the more they lose, the more cornered they are. So I highly doubt you'll see any of these, or leopards, being sent there.... Not to mention the logistical issues this would create.",1
"Georgia Democrats heavily favor getting rid of runoffs, partly because it's a holdover from post-segregation attempts at curbing the Black vote, and partly because it makes voting harder, which is to say it's voter suppression. Raffensperger is breaking with the rest of his party to join the left here. He's also as a replacement for runoffs. Finally, he's infamous for being . The idea that this guy has anything to do with Republicans trying to cheat their way to victory is laughable lol.",I think it's weird to assume that simply because Republicans are losing the run-offs that is why Raffensperger wants rid of them. The simple fact is that NOBODY likes run-off elections. Raffensperger's office even offers ranked-choice voting as an alternative.,1
"The people of Kosovo wanted independence, but their desires weren't taken seriously by anyone until Serbia started killing and displacing them. That is the justification of their independence, not their ethnic background. And even then, Kosovo had to wait over a decade after said killings to see if relations would normalize before getting the international backing to do it.","If there is ample evidence that Ukraine was performing similar levels of mass killing and displacement to Russians in the Donbas, then we can have a discussion about how justified it is. But right everything points to the only aggressive party being the same one that's been stirring shit there since 2014: Russia.",0
"RNC donors who contributed between $50 and $100, received autographed copies of the book “Liberal Privilege."".",They all do this. It’s like money laundering. They funnel campaign money to themselves by buying up all the copies of their shitty books then give them away at campaign events.,1
"If you read the article, their Bill of Rights states anyone 16 and over is free from age discrimination.","""The Supreme Court found that the current voting age of 18 was inconsistent with the country's Bill of Rights, which gives people a right to be free from age discrimination when they have reached 16."".",0
"I will say that the major force to having to have both parents work, as a must not a choice does play into this and its not ""all their"" fault. That being said, its still like 90% failure on parents.",Letting a 7 year old explore the internet without guidance and oversight is like letting your child run loose to wherever they want in the outside world.,0
"Twas a tad different, the enemy was hiding among the populace. They weaponized children and women to suicide themselves into troops. The taliban weren’t exactly wearing clear identifying army clothing. I’m sure the USA still killed tons of innocents but maybe not quite so blatantly. Russia’s strategy is basically inflict as much damage as possible, bomb civilian buildings, make them give up.",You’re using two incidents which involved ONE soldier and making it scale to the concerted effort by the Russians to kill civilians.,1
"Not to insult you, but your radical outlook mirrors the worst implementations of religion, a blind conviction and hate.","Religion sucks because it is always being hijacked by assholes and is difficult to fight against, but it doesn't turn people into monsters on it's own.",0
"As far as things religions have ""incidentally gotten right"" I have to disagree. Most of the world has been religious since the beginning of recorded history, and we've seen progress constantly on a macro scale. Have those religions been weaponized for political purposes? Yes. But overall, the most advanced nations have centralized religion in common as a political mechanism. The biggest lapses in progress, particularly in human rights and mass executions/apathetic starvation, in the last 200 years have come from countries that did away with religion completely.",Nope! Very much an atheist. You can hold a position on religion and still respect the position of others without reducing them to a stereotype that matches your own preconceived notions of varying groups that comprise hundreds of millions of humans across the planet.,0
"Russia is barely holding its own against Ukraine, and that's only because they are throwing bodies into the meat grinder to soak up enemy fire. They have exactly zero chance of victory if NATO actually puts boots on the ground.","If ANY country (Belarus, North Korea, Hungary, China, Iran) etc sends troops in as support for Russia, that opens the door wide for other countries to do the same on Ukraine's side.",0
And honestly ones you would want. Organs are hard enough to come by without them going into patients that are statistically unlikely to survive the procedure.,It’s kind of weird to have the perspective of “I want to be able to have procedures despite it being medically risky to the people performing them” so I’m fine with significantly more people than me not being able to get procedures. Especially when the only example given is one in which fixing the medical risk is both easy and medically recommended anyway. With the possible exception of people for whom vaccines are medically risky due to allergies or something… however it’s unlikely they’d fall into the bucket of being denied medical care if that was the situation to begin with.,0
Ranked choice is a great way to eliminate extremists. And Republicans would rather have a moderate Democrat than the progressive Anchorage wants.,Expect them to keep switching to ranked choice anywhere their MAGA's are about to lose. To prevent a swing to the other side from exactly the system their extremists benefitted from.,0
"It's not exclusive to the gay community, but being gay is way more demonized than being black and frequently creates an environment where LGBTQ people feel the need to hide it or don't understand their own sexuality at all.",Society historically made being gay so taboo - specifically those that grew up in a conservative environment - that some queer people have felt the need to overcompensate and have internalized the hate to the point they frequently become the loudest critics of themselves to deny their identity.,0
"It is possible that the Senate votes only to enact the contract, but not include the leave. If the leave is included then that is a win for the workers.","Edit to clarify, the tentative agreement has I think one day of leave, well short of what the unions were asking for.",0
"This isn't possible. Churches, especially in the South where I'm familiar with, are nothing more than mandatory right-wing community meetings with Christian window dressing. One time I attended a church in Pascagoula, MS with a former friend and I kid you not it was like watching a 1hr speech prepared by Fox News opinion writers where they spoke out against immigrants, atheists, and the evil Democrats. I went to several churches with this person (they were in the choir) and it was the same every time.","The people here, this kind of congregation for example, are bombarded with scary stories from right-wing media constantly. They listen to it on their drive to work (the 1 radio station in the state has a morning show that is very right-wing), they talk about it with their co-workers during the day, they listen to it on their drive home, they watch it on the TV over dinner, and at night they read about it on their phone before they fall asleep.",0
"Unfortunately the same can probably be said for Ukraine, the only difference is that Russia brought it on themselves, Ukraine just got attacked for no reason.","It's unfortunate that basically any offensive that Russia makes will result in Ukrainians dying, but a Russian attack on Kyiv would result in far more Russians dying. Even in this war that is entirely based on idiotic Russian decisions it would stand as the pinnacle of idiotic Russian strategy so far.",1
"Sounds like it's more a problem with their reservation policy. If you have a 35 seat capacity, why on earth would you hold a table for an hour before filling the seats? I mean, if people want to give you a credit card number to make a reservation, go for it, but there seems to be a better solution that won't end in bad press for the restaurant.","I'm sure there are restaurants that have more complicated cases, but talking about the restaurant in question, it seems to be a pretty clear case on what they should do. They say in the article they are holding tables for up to an hour waiting for reservations to show up and turning people away the whole time. A restaurant is in business to make money, and the simplest solution for that place would be to eliminate the problem - reservations. Or, if they absolutely don't want to get rid of them, rework how they do them. It's ridiculous to hold a table for an hour when you've got customers waiting. Give reservations a small window to show up and tell them they lose their table if they're late. They can introduce fees if they think it'll help, but unless they make the fees substantial, i don't see it helping in a positive way for the business.",0
"There were younger candidates. Beto was a star at one point. It's not like we have a better candidate just sitting around waiting to be tapped. Maybe if some of the primary candidates from 2020 kept momentum, and maybe if they were better integrated with the current administration, it would make sense for them to run in 2024 if Biden were literally unable.","He seems to be doing just fine. Barring that, we should be working on a good candidate for 2028 so that we have continuity of progress.",0
"I'm not saying this to insinuate Poland should act in one day or another concerning jets to Ukraine ( although, I wish they would give them a squadron) just to point out that they would have whatever they need for defense of their people. Also, it doesn't matter anyway. pootin doesn't pick on countries that can fight back, he just made a grave miscalculation with the Ukrainians!","That said, what the article points out is that Poland doesn't have enough F-16 jets to make a proper contribution to Ukraine. We'll need to get greater military powers on board in order to supply them.",1
"If he declares, he can no longer spend all the money he's raising on himself, it now becomes campaign money. Which leads me to think he'll declare without really declaring.",Oh course he's going to announce it. Last ditch effort to not have to testify and an attempt to stave off indictment. Hopefully no one falls for this bullshit and they nail him to the wall.,1
"It’s potentially more than watching themselves, it could include methods and paths that were employed to move the second and third in line of succession to secure locations, where those secure locations are located, where blind spots in coverage might be, capabilities of cameras such as resolution, zoom, pan/tilt, among other national and congressional security practices and procedures.",Publishing government facility security footage is not only a national security risk but also an example of the legislative branch meddling in the Affairs of the judicial branch.,1
"This dilemma was solved back in the Roman era. In the late years of the republic period a senator named Catilina tried to overthrow the sitting consuls with a private army. He was found out before he could put the plan into action and his accomplices holding public office were arrested. At the time there were two positions: Cicero who said that the prisoners should be sentenced through the senate, skipping a normal trial entirely (without a right to appeal), because these men where still a danger and if their plan somehow succeeded there wouldn’t be an entity to hold them accountable anymore, and Caesar, at the time a young senator, who brought forward the “but they didn’t commit the crime yet” argument (and also said that they should be prosecuted by a normal court in multiple sessions and not by the senate in a night). Guess what happened? The accomplices were found guilty and that has always been the approach through history if you have charges of sedition. The main organizer of the plot fled and joined his army of insurgents, which was then obliterated by the regular army.","Since then that’s how you deal with such a plot, you get the main organizer, the ones that enabled it and you try them preentively . If they walk free they’ve tested your defenses and in some cases garnered support so you can’t let them try again.",0
"6) Another fun fucked up request....restore the - allows amendments to appropriations legislation that would reduce the salary of or fire specific federal employees, or cut a specific program. HFC wants this so this so they can jettison Fauci, kill programs they don't like, etc.","4) ""Open the legislative process"" - a rule to require that all legislation considered on the House floor is allowed amendments, or allow amendments supported by at least 10 percent of the GOP Conference.",0
He should run again. He’s been the most productive and efficient president in mine and many other Americans’ lifetimes.,"I’m not too concerned about age because he has the best healthcare in the world and if he’s in good health (which he seems to be), then he should continue doing this country a service.",0
"Yep, and? That doesn't negate what I said, just adds that they are claiming both that it's a lie and might not be a lie.",Lying liar accused of lying (yet again). Who would have thought? We have months of bullshit front pages about Johnson to look forward to. Every newspaper that put his claims on the front page today will do the same in a few days/weeks/months with headlines like “Boris: I begged Sunak to save drowning refugees but he said ‘screw em’” “Boris: I wanted to do more about poverty but top Tories refused to let me resolve energy cost crisis”. Blah blah blah.,1
"The Aussies unleashed Rupert Murdoch on the world. His family and their empire have damaged humanity more than other person in my lifetime. For example, Fox viewers have no clue how he created them for his exploitation!","I was thinking more extreme. Cut off food to their staff, especially their security teams. Make them fend for themselves. Anybody who supports their anti-humanity efforts gets completely shunned from the benefits of society. Tatoo their foreheads. When they show up at hospitals for critical care, they get none. And if the support staff have all of their own resources, cut off the staff that supports that staff. Cutoff their families. Class warfare BY the wealthy has continued unabated forever. It's time to fight back by making them see the benefits of the society that the PEOPLE create, not billionaires.",0
My point is that the comment I replied to was written under this socialist mindset. Wanting to abolish the Department of Education does not mean that you want people illiterate.,"That's also part of why they want to cripple public education, so they can tmsend their kids to private institutions and the peasants can go to the fucking mines.",1
"It is the President's job as Chief Executive to take into account not only whether spending on some program has been approved but also whether the government can afford the expense. Paying debts already incurred should always have first priority, short of an existential threat. However, this intolerance for default is not an excuse to keep spending and incurring new debt which will inevitably cause the debt ceiling to be exceeded.",“responsible debt limit increase” is a bullshit collection of words. You have to pay what you owe. Responsible budget makes sense. McCarthy is an ass.,1
"Cooler heads tend to prevail throughout a lot of the most heated situations, especially in more modern history. There are so many factors involved, no one really wants a major war between NATO, and I don't think an accident, even one where allegedly 2 people died, is going to really push anyone over the edge. It's absolutely tragic if a few people did die, don't get me wrong, but is 2 people dying in most likely a total accident, really worth probably millions?",Russia didn't attack Poland here. This is most certainly an accident. Some Belarusian soldiers near the border testing their own equipment that probably fucked up or misfired. If Russia was attacking Poland they aren't going to hit a farm in bumble fuck no where.,0
"The government is supposed to protect people and ave lives not end them, lethal force should only be used if there is no other way to reduce harm.","Executions do not work as a deterrent to crime, they cost us more than removing freedom for life through an institution, and they make us look like neanderthals.",1
"Here is the thing, in basic economics, as the quantity of something decreases, the more valuable that thing becomes.","Then, our family immigrated to Canada. All of a sudden, I was free to search whatever topic I like, without restriction. I looked up what this 6/4 incident is, watched the TVB broadcasts at the time ( and ). I was absolutely horrified to know that the country I once called home was such a brutal place, where its leaders would stop at nothing to preserve their power. In my Grade 9 English class, our teacher asked me to choose from a list of books to read and make a presentation on, and I stumbled upon this book that talks about 6/4. I chose that book, and dove as deeply as possible into the causes. I even included footage from these TVB clips when I made that presentation (I put some English subtitles on the clips of course).",0
"No, Putin's options have always been either a) win the war and take over Ukraine, or b) lose Crimea back to the Ukrainians and lose all credibility inside Russia. Putin is ride-or-die and has been since February.","Had he pulled out at that point, Ukraine would've (and still will) gone after Crimea. To him, a Russian Crimea is non-negotiable. Crimea is the largest objective for Russia. The land bridge from the Donbass is largely another way to ensure Crimea can be supplied from the mainland. Kherson was about securing Crimea's supply of fresh water.",0
"Republican Paul Gossar, Republican Andy Biggs, and Republican Mo Brooks all helped plan the January 6th 2001 Insurrection—I bet they have some “untruths” that could be unraveled.",I mean—there are some shady things in Republican Lauren Boebart’s past that could be investigated. She has sworn that the user profile on the call girl website wasn’t hers….,0
It's so strange. I get into arguments on Reddit all the time with Americans who say they need guns for protection.,"If someone points a gun at you and says ""give me all your money"" and you give him all your money, nobody dies.",0
the only thing in here that does anything of substance for anyone is the mandatory withdrawal change.,"at which point, if they put the 2k in, even $4000 doesn’t help very much invested into a shitty near-unregulated economy that’s rigging itself into perpetual boom-bust cycles for the benefit of billionaires.",0
"There was an article in Aug 2022 about the training for F-15's and F-16's they were starting to get, so by now I'm pretty sure there are very capable Ukranians pilots ready to get their planes, I'm sure in the next few months we will be hearing about some planes being sent there.","And also take this with a grain of salt, but I read months ago about the US is training pilots on the F-15 and F-16's () and if things actually happen, they get their training and planes, you're talking about Ukraine having more weapons, giving them an advantage, unless Russia will be willing to send the planes they have, because as of now they haven't been able to gain air superiority.",0
"The Polish Foreign Ministry confirmed a Russian-made (important wording) rocket FELL on their territory. A S-300 was found at the scene, a missile that both Ukraine and Russia use, a missile made in the USSR when Ukraine was an independent Soviet Republic.","Russia has been repurposing them as ground attack missiles and Ukraine has been shooting Russian strikes down with S-300s.Ukraine confirmed 73 missiles out of 90, and 11 drones were shot down.",0
"2. Court size is set by law, and the size has been changed over the years without a constitutional amendment. (Currently the size is set by the judiciary act of 1869.).","Yes. I think politicians shouldn't be allowed to run after age 65, and judges should have a mandatory retirement age (and I'd say it's whatever the age is for full social security benefits).",1
"When consulting with a contractor, it turns out they couldn't get a permit. The reason is the gas line was 1"" to the meter, but only half inch out to the house. In order to supply enough gas for the worst-case scenario of all appliances in use at the same time, they needed a 3/4"" line from the meter. This would have required basically re-plumbing the entire house for gas, tearing out all the exterior walls and ceilings in the lower level to get to all the appliances located in the middle of the house.","Just wanted to point out that due to permits and county inspections (if you ever want to be able to sell the house), it is not always as easy as add a gas line and you're good. Being able to maintain proper gas pressure is a consideration, and if the house was designed a certain way, a retrofit might be a bit more involved.",0
Garland is not done with the 3 investigations he has sitting grand juries for. They continue to interview and subpoena witnesses and are waiting on getting documents from the special master. I believe there will be indictments and some may even be for sitting seditious traitor GOP mocs. He builds from the ground up and does not lose.,He’ll lose. 2016 happened because people thought there was no chance he’d win and some stayed home instead of voting. And he still lost the popular vote. He’s lost his own reelection since and he’s lost republicans elections since 2018. Nothing motivates dems to come out and vote after 2016 like him.,1
While that would be hilarious I don't know how that's better for the Democrats. They're better to try and squeeze concessions out of McCarthy and have some of their members vote for him.,And no Republican will go along with that because it will just be the extremists going against McCarthy and no one wants to be the guy that let the Democrats pick the Republican Speaker.,1
Liberalism tends towards conservatism. In most countries the liberal party is considered to be on the right. In the US we have a liberal party and a neo-liberal party.,"That's both absurd and untrue. It was originally considered very leftwing, was adopted by the elites as the next best thing to the divine rule of kings, and has since moved to the right as the world moved forward.",0
"True, but russia also uses ceasefire as time off to regroup, prepare/make weapons, mobilise and train people to launch another attack breaking all previous agreements. So having a ceasefire with russia isn't really an option.","I really can't see Russia ever giving up any part of Ukraine unless forced out, and Russia will only agree to a ceasefire if they get the land they think is theirs. That won't stop Russia though - it ultimately wants ALL of Ukraine.",1
"USA: long working hours, only 2 weeks holiday, maybe need 2nd job to survive. ""Life is so depressing"".","Yeah the US is on another level bad. And the culture is worse too. I know how it is in France and Italy at least (where I've been), even if people aren't happy about economic prospects and shit, the people including young still ""enjoy"" life and try to make the most out of it. Meanwhile American youngsters go into full depressive doom mode as we see on Reddit and other English language media.",0
"A lot of big business is tied up in Iran for the Russian Jewish diaspora (and to some extent even Israel). Iran is the largest portal to Russia for commerce in the middle east. A stable Persian Jewish diaspora makes sense in Iran, and I think the business with Russia is the largest motivator to stay. Of course, it's their home too.","If anything, it's quite astonishing that in this heavy political climate, the people of Iran can clearly distinguish between the Israeli government and Jewish people (ethic and/or religious). This does reflect on the people/culture of Iran, however neutrally.",0
"What's funny is Russia is recruiting neo-Nazis from Europe (who ideologically agree with Russia) at the same time as they claim they're ""denazifying"" Ukraine.","I have a group of friends and they all think that Ukraine is kicking Russia's arse, the Russians are deserting and there are anti war riots in Russia. All form their opinions from exposure to local news sources and none from independent commentators.",1
"Individual members, hell every single member, forming their own new coalition for the purpose? Yes, hell yes. But NATO only showed that it will offensively engage nations when it wills.",It's dipshit moves like Yugoslavia that remove NATO's credibility as a defensive alliance that is otherwise harmless to anyone who is not trying to attack you.,0
Not necessarily. Those safety nets are dependent on that person not working. If they get a job they no longer qualify. A UBI would encourage at least part time work to offset any discrepancy between what they are currently getting (which is not more than $1k for most adults receiving assistance) and increase their mental health as they are actively returning to the workforce.,"Except it doesn’t if implemented properly. Nixon tried to do the same thing with the family assistance plan, which likely would have been instituted had he not Watergated himself.",0
"It's secret while it's happening, cIA wants ruzzia to know they had the director of the CIA inside Ukraine talking to the president, and they didn't know about it.",3) Ukrainian intelligence stumbled on a CIA operation and he went in person to Kyiv to tell Zelensky to brief him so the op doesn't fuck up.,1
"But you don't need a functioning army to try, in what as you put it as a ""sour grapes"" response, and what I'd describe as an unsuccessful attempt. Russia may not be a threat to Finland the state, but certainly can be a threat to Finnish civilians. Depending on one's definition, that is a threat to Finland as well.","Weird, it's almost as if the sole threat to Finland, is the threat a NATO-member offers to Russia. Gosh, that sounds a lot like...geopolitical self-defense from Russia.",1
I do wonder how Ukraine will handle moving forward with the eternal hate in its heart for what Russia has done. They will remain kinsfolk and neighbors after this ends. Families will need to connect over the inevitable devide.,I think the fear clearly extends over oceans. How can we make expat Russians more comfortable to speak out and help reclaim their homeland?,0
"And in their mind, the majority of republicans in Indiana don't support it, so the republican senator not going with that opinion is an outrage.","She won by just more than that although I believe Republicans flipped a couple more house seats and can kill the part of the Montana constitution they hate most, the right to clean air and water.",1
"It's also that the loophole is an unusual practice by which the UK registers imports, according to copied to its discussion over in /r/europe, and would have to be changed by the UK:","EDIT: to clarify, the news here for me is that UK is masking imports with the help of germany, the netherlands and belgium, as stated in the article.",1
"Well my issue isn't that they portray the bad side (and India has a quite a lot of it) but rather its only about the bad side, which makes it sound like its an unlivable place from the outside.",I'm sure India has some nice spots but I can't remember the last post I saw that didn't portray the country as a post apocalyptic disaster.,1
"Well they were charged with ""penetrative sex with a minor"", but not rape. So I don't think the penetration is what determines whether or not it's consider rape, since penetration was involved.","They probably didn't use it because iirc rape in the UK legally requires penetration with a penis, and they might not be able to prove that happened. The UK and a lot of other places need to update the wording of rape laws to fall in line with modern definitions.",1
"He shouldn't run as an independent, what if he takes away votes from those Democrats who secretly want to support him but can't because they would never vote Republican It'd make those libs cry Trump supporters are a silent majority, you know!","His ego won’t allow someone else to have all the attention and glory, he would burn the GOP down to the ground before he would let another person be the nominee.",1
"„ Maybe, just maybe, if the 1980s hadn't seen demonstrations against nuclear power on a mass scale, we wouldn't need those coal power stations to manage base supply, but now we are fucked without them.“.","If those dipshits hadn't sabotaged renewables, there wouldn't be that much of a ""demand"" for coal today. Demand of today for coal was ""created"" in the 2010s.",1
The worst part is that we were literally warned that this would be the GOPs gameplan in the last year or so in Trump's presidency. Nobody prepared for it or devised strategies to fend it off.,"I'm sorry you feel terrified and unsafe because you are simply living your life and alt right zealots can't seem to understand that and let you live in peace and safety. That really, really sucks.",0
- Xi thinks that Trudeau probably took advantage of this unscripted meeting to make Trudeau seem more legitimate than he is (when Xi doesn't even want to give Trudeau time of day).,To his domestic audience its not unreasonable and that is who he is playing towards so they can spin it as Xi snubbing Trudeau when that wasn't really what happened it was just impromptu side lined that often happens a lot at these types of events for world leaders.,1
"Meanwhile, in Canada, there have been 11 (Correction; looks to be between 15 and 19 total) deaths in school shootings. ().",Lmao. How do we not have record crime when you have Buisness leaving cities because crime is so high. Maybe you’re just blind or live in a small town. But I live in a blue city and I see crime everywhere. Cities are dirty then ever and the drugs are everywhere. You can think crime isn’t happening but sadly it is.,1
"I mean, Moldova is just Romania's split sibling. They could try but I can see that a LOT of romanians could volunteer for Moldova.","Romania has a deep hatred for anything russian, my grandmother told me that under russian occupation in the moldavian area they starved while the soldiers stole their food and my grandfather's sister was executed by a russian soldier by a nearby river where they washed the clothes cause she resisted the rape.",0
"They can write that on our mass graves in 20 years when this catches up with us. ""They really needed eyelash extensions and mink fur car dangles"".","They can also be used for eyelash extension, but it's not the primary use of mink fur. However it produces masses of trash fur, which is good for extensions. They don't have to be attached to the skin, and they don't demand a whole pelt. Broken and otherwise unused pelts are often sold to make extensions.",1
I'd say the high school you went to has skewed your view of what's realistically available for a lot of students and parents.,It's also way for middle class suburban parents to choose better or alternative schools that fit their child's needs who aren't rich or don't want to live in squalor to have their children be properly educated.,0
I don't remember him being demonized for being a warmonger. I remember him for siding with people we shouldn't be friendly with. Making peace with your enemies by selling your ideals is not my idea of right. It matters why we would be going to war.,You mean you want to go to war? If you do and fully support that... Would you feel and say exactly the same if Trump or a conservative was President?,1
"Germany is repeating the same course of action it did with Russia. Ignore all of your allies’ concerns and warnings about a country, allow said country to invest into integral parts of your economy, and then act surprised when every single thing you’ve been told for years comes true.","Not to mention the political pressure they place on their allies and other countries over which they have influence, when this can lead to economic payoff for the US.",1
"If they don't accept Israel's right to exist and instead stand for violence, they are different shades of terrorists and nothing more.",All the Palestinians need to do to end the conflict and be on their way to a country of their own is to announce publicly and honestly that they accept Israel's right to exist and are letting go of the violence.,0
I wouldnt say Palestinian people in general agree it. If you ask Palestinians in the West bank most of them will say they only agree to peace if there isnt an Israel anymore.,"Just noting that isreal agreed to the 1967 border lines a few times in its past in the name of peace, and has always been rejected by the palestinians or the surrounding countries.",1
Britain was the main reason the condemnation of the slave trade was included in The Final Act at the Congress of Vienna in 1814-1815 iirc. This was a few years after the slave trade was banned in Britain. Abolitionism was an extremely popular movement in Britain at the time and slavery was abolished completely a couple decades later in 1833.,"So, by the time of the 1900s there would likely be very few people left living in Britain who could say what being a slave was like, if any.",0
"Random aside, I believe smoking could actually be a lot healthier (read: it wouldn't be healthy). But for some reason, tobacco naturally attracts radiation to its leaves (that can be washed off with certain chemical baths but is too expensive to do) and they also shove cigarettes full of other, ancillary chemicals that directly make it worse when smoked (but burns faster and is 'easier' to smoke it). It would still be 'bad,' but its impact could be so much less if we actually took the time and resources to make an unhealthy product less damaging. But, you know, profits. Again.","You know, I probably could have phrased it better. These assholes knew what they were doing, and almost everyone involved knew it was pollution to some degree. Though I guess they absolutely did pretend it was anything but.",0
"Several years ago there was some reporting that Washinon D.C. has the highest rate of binge drinking and alcohol misuse even though members of Congress supposedly has a slightly lower percentage of reported alcoholism than the nation. Some members have opened up about being a recovering alcoholic or addict. I suspect those numbers are higher. I'm not interested in anyone's personal private medical struggles, but addiction could be problematic in many ways including security. Privacy is important, but standards we all have should also apply.","Last week I posted a comments similar to yours about getting things in writing and being held to the same standards the working class is held to. I'd love to have every member of Congress apply for a regular job that requires background, credit, and security checks along with drug testing. I suspect a whole bunch of folks couldn't get hired in nongrifting jobs.",0
"This is a very important point. Suppose Greene got her wish and the US divided in two. Where would my state, New York, go? The Blue USA obviously, right? After all, New York is extremely blue. Except it isn't completely blue. Huge portions of rural New York are deep red. So they'd want to join Red USA. Meanwhile, blue counties in red states would object to being forced into Red USA.","Oh, the former red states would just blame the former blue states until it became a war. Red state problems are never caused by the shitheads they elect, it’s always California’s fault or something.",1
"My dude, they have guns. We're not talking about those few isolated cops that got beaten, I am talking about a literal coup in which you'd have to defeat an actual organized police or military force there to stop it.","The worst coup attempt in written history was the Beer Hall Putsch, where the crowd was stopped by over a hundred police officers before it could get off the ground.",1
"""We are only talking about re-exports of ammunition produced in Switzerland and bought by Germany 20 years ago, for anti-aircraft and therefore defensive systems,” ambassador Flügger told the Swiss newspapers. ""Nobody was asking Switzerland to deliver arms to Ukraine."".","Switzerland has previously rejected appeals from Germany to allow it to re-export Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine, saying such a move would violate its neutrality. On January 11 Spain also said Switzerland was refusing to allow it to re-export war materiel to Ukraine. But pressure has been rising for Bern to review its policies, including at the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF) it recently hosted in Davos.",0
"If France would have kept going, EVENTUALLY they would have caught the German army during such a low period.","Addiction gripped the troops, constant theft of what was there, violence, some units completely unresponsive because of how knocked out they were because they were all high...",0
"I mean sure. Its more expensive, has a ridiculously higher risk factor, takes years to build needs tons of vacant land around it, operates for what, 50 years and then the site is unusable for another 50.","Oh and they’re both cheaper, neither will make the land unusable for half a century, and neither can fail in a way that requires large scale evacuations.",0
"To be fair to the court, something that should be heavily monitored and controlled/restricted might not be in the court system's wheelhouse. Anything that needs that level of oversight should be legalized through legislation, not court order.","Like I said, logistics and bureaucracies, I want to make sure every i is dotted and every t is crossed before it becomes state or federal law. Death with dignity, and choosing to end one's life in general, is a uniquely permanent choice for a human being to make.",1
"Real question if the sick leave is that important and they are willing to strike why not just ignore their demands and refuse to come in if sick, they clearly can't afford to lose them.","If they sincerely support the sick leave provision, it would've been more effective to let workers legally strike than failing to deliver in this way.",1
Democrats complaining about the terrible policy decisions of Trump vs. Republicans complaining that Biden didn't drop something the size of 3 busses over a populated area... yeah that's the same thing.,"Republicans don't know how any of these decisions work, and the ones who do know are attacking Biden to score political points.",1
Weird since Palestine is the one that said they won’t accept peace without the eradication of Israel and their leaders calling for the deaths of Jews worldwide.,"Israel wasn't a UN project, they wanted it to be but the Arabs rejected the UN proposal and tried to genocide the Jews.",1
"You make good points but I think many moderate, centrist Dems are really not getting, even now, that millions of people voted to get the former piece of trash out of the presidency. Biden would certainly win again against Trump but DeSantis? Enough low-info “indepedent” voters would “give him a chance” over Biden.",The people who lost to POTUS Joe Biden I'm not sure would somehow be a better Presidential candidate than he. US Senator Bernie Sanders lost because the Mainstream Media was so against him and US Senator Elizabeth Warren didn't drop out when the others did. US Senator Sanders would have beaten Donald Trump in 2016 and we would have presently been in the 2nd term of the Sanders Administration.,1
Oh I agree completely that the politicians are being asshats(always are). I made my comment when a bunch of redditors were saying the govt were using the military to force people to work.,I am aware that the government has used the military to step in and fill the roles of striking workers in the past.,1
"Leopard tanks are proprietary tech that Germany owns the license to for exporting i.e buying and selling. When you buy them, part of the agreement of their use is that any sale of them must be approved by Germany so they don’t go to countries Germany doesn’t want them to go to, for obvious reasons.","If I was Poland, I wouldn’t give a damn about export agreements. If Ukraine falls, they’ve got Russians on their border. Plus there’s plenty of other countries in the world to buy MBTs off of if Germany refuses to sell them more Leopards in the future.",0
"Only a damn Democrat would capitulate to Republicans at a time like this. Jefferies has consistently been getting 212 votes, which is way more than McCarthy. If there's a coalition it should be Republicans voting for Jefferies, and not 18-20 Democrats voting for the fascist McCarthy.","Sounds like a reporter asked ""Would you be open to forming a majority coalition with the Republicans?"".",1
"With chances of finding more survivors growing more remote, the toll in both countries from Monday's earthquake and major aftershocks rose above 33,000 and looked set to keep growing. It was the deadliest quake in Turkey since 1939.","Türkiye has a lot of reckoning to do in the aftermath of the quakes. The most obvious is who’s for the shoddy construction, lack of oversight, absent Earthquake Tax Funds, lack of coordination in relief efforts, and other problems. Naturally Erdogan is saying “This is a time for unity, solidarity, In a period like this, I cannot stomach people conducting negative campaigns for political interest.” Sounds like the rhetoric we have after Mass gun shooting’s, when politicians are asked how can they be prevented.",1
"Heck yeah. Improvements have been made, but headlines like these are an example of how we can improve even further.","The problem is that news outlets must encourage their writers to make up headlines like this to make it seem like more of a story than it actually is. Their data shows more people click if they use words like 'slams' and 'blasts' than if they said 'criticizes.' Yeah, the latter is way more accurate but doesn't captivate the audience who hasn't seen those other words 1000 times only for it to be a big nothing burger.",0
"Also, I'm pretty sure like basically all laws regulating adoptions and child custody are state level laws and I think bans on LGBT adoption were only struck down because of Obergefell, so that could be a problem this legislation doesn't address.","Even with this legislation in place, if the Supreme Court overturns Obergefell it sounds like states could still make life hell for LGBT people in a lot of ways. Like, if they got married in a blue state and then moved to a red state that didn't recognize their marriage, they'd probably have to file state taxes individually.",0
"That’s the issue though, isn’t it? Trans people are such a small part of the population that few know what ‘they’ look like.","Funny how such news always show drag queens (not necessarily trans) or footage from pride events, and not trans people how they look in their everyday lives. God beware, people could think trans people were people just like them.",1
"If the Democrats are nice to her she'll drop out, but if they aren't she'll try to give the seat to the Republicans by staying in the race.","I think Sinema's strategy is now that she no longer hold her deciding vote hostage against the Democrats she's using the Senate seat. ""Give me my demands and I won't run"". It's basically the only thing she has at this point since she had no chance of keeping the seat as a Dem and still has no chance as an independent.",0
"The tribalism is not helping America. It's only dividing us further. Democrats complained about everything Trump did (rightfully or not), and now they seem to be upset when Republicans complain about everything Biden does.",Democrats complaining about the terrible policy decisions of Trump vs. Republicans complaining that Biden didn't drop something the size of 3 busses over a populated area... yeah that's the same thing.,1
"I'm not saying Taiwan wouldn't experience an invasion (I think the Navy wargamed it and found we couldn't respond fast enough to stop a landing), but the Chinese navy's chances of survival are slim.",The biggest way to shred this paper tiger is to remember that we have 11 carrier groups with 1 already deployed to Japan. That's basically 11 medium-sized country navies + an air force.,0
Does anyone seriously think Russia will start attacking NATO countries just because Ukraine used long range weapons against Russian targets?,"I understand that many in the West fear a Russian escalation, but I think given the fact that Russia has invaded Ukraine and committed a long list of war crimes, it should be fully expected and normalised that Ukraine can strike military targets in Russia.",0
"That doesn't really work with opiates. Once you are so addicted that you're shooting heroin or purposefully taking fentanyl, you generally no longer care how safe it is and only care about access - meaning how much it costs. Fentanyl will always be cheaper than other opiates, so there will always be a market for it.","Though there could be some benefits to that method, like providing on-site testing of heroin and other drugs to see if it's got too much Fentanyl in it. And some of the more trendy heroin users like suburban kids and celebrities would not be getting tainted dope because they could afford to buy the real thing if it were legal.",0
And? The aircraft that Ukraine are currently using are even older than the F-16 NATO could supply and less capable than the Russian aircraft.,"The primary air defense of Russia is a decade older than the f16, it was designed specifically with Russian air defense in mind. The Ukrainians have been doing fairly well with older airframes.",1
"Econmical and diplomatically speaking if we had to shell out more money than russia had the ability to pay, as the west id probably do it. Good way to really solidify a friend right there.",This is basically the only real answer. Russia will probably end up having all their over seas assests seized and have to pay the following at minimum.,0
"Huh, I don't think it's that way in most states though I'm not familiar with other states laws. But I can say you'd face civil action in my state of MN.","Again, that's obviously much less responsibility than if you were just out there firing off a gun for fun, but you would still be held accountable again situation depending.",0
"Ignoring that republicans will vote for any warm corpse on the ticket next to the (R), are their candidates really the best they can do?","Is there a Democrat candidate running for office that’s as unhinged, delude, or hypocritical as Walker is? I feel like most Rs would say AOC or Bernie, but those are pretty baseless accusations. How are the Republicans defending Walker?",1
"Yes, I know what I said. Still, Desantis' abuses of power and rake-stepping don't compare to Trump's.","Second, Desantis sees what the rest of the non cult GOP sees: Trump is a millstone weighing down Republican chances at regaining the power they had after '16. He drives more Democratics and Trump-tired independents to the polls. Desantis' chances at the oval diminish if he's on a Trump ticket.",0
"I’m genuinely fucking tired of articles like this. One side peddles in sedition, fear, and blatant misinformation. Their supporters give zero fucks what Democrats say or do. You counter their lies with facts and they just ignore it. Just look at the Pelosi attack.","If after all that’s happened the last several years we can’t garner enough support to not vote for literal fucking crazies, then we deserve it.",0
"HOWEVER, just like the energy companies, just like wall street, the healthcare industry is ""ToO bIg To JaIl"" so, probably won't happen.","I hope it isn’t going to result in these companies exiting the market, which is also possible. The State of California could create dispensaries to eliminate the pharmacy benefit manager middlemen like how Walmart did it with their ReliOn Insulin. Their ReliOn Novolog is about 75% less than branded Novolog while being biosimilar. It is still likely profitable for Walmart but the state can potentially charge less to only markup to cover overhead.",1
"Hopefully, it will be like the morons who tried to burn down an immigration services center and not only ended up setting themselves on fire but dropped their cell phones while getting away.","And then there's the man accused of mugging a woman who chose to defend himself and asked his alleged victim on the witness stand ""Did you get a good look at me when I stole your purse?"".",0
"Eh. Instant runoff, which is what everyone means by ranked choice, is a start. Better than what most of the country does now. But don't set it up like some kind of ideal. It's another broken system that's a little less broken than what we're doing already.","If you really want to fix things, there are any number of voting systems that aren't broken. They do use a ranked ballot. So maybe if we can at least take that step, then in another 20 years we can switch to a decision process that isn't broken.",0
"But if we're letting old people vote and they have hardly any real skin in the game, I don't see why 16 year olds shouldn't have the chance.","well, a 82-92 year old can vote too, so should we let 14 year olds vote as well ? a 96 year old can, should a 10 year old be able to vote ?",1
"Navigating a crisis well would have likely have given him a boost in the polls, as well as creating a national unity around tackling the problem. It was an easy chance to display non-partisan leadership. The fact he didn't do any of the above very well is likely why the polls were fairly accurate within the margin of error either way; he didn't gain any support, and he may have shed support or motivated opposition support. Who knows for sure?","I doubt it. The difference in this study was 10 points, or 55% republicans to 45% democrats. That means of 50,000 people who died, 27,500 would have been Republicans and 22,500 would have been democrats.",1
"I remember in the late 80s bookstores with any kind of Media Criticism section had a shelf groaning with books about the coming News Apocalypse. The news was fake for nearly 25 years before Trump announced that any media criticizing him was “fake news.” Typically, conservatives will take 25 years to get on board with changing circumstances - once their misinterpretation of the consequences will fit on a bumper sticker.","MSNBC carrying water for ""mainstream"" Republicans and trying to pretend that Trump and Santos are things that happened to the Republicans and not the result of several decades of conservatism...",1
"President Biden requested items from his official at the Penn Biden Center. In those boxes were items pertaining to his son Beau's death from brain cancer in 2015. Among those items was an envelope marked VP Personal. As soon as his lawyers found it contained classified documents, they immediately closed it and reported to NARA. DOJ did not have to pull teeth to retrieve the documents and immediately searched other places. Even if documents were packed up inadvertently, there is no excuse for anyone to be sloppy. Better procedures need to be put in place. President Biden had 1 document marked top secret, and Trump had 60. The bottom line is President Biden did the right thing, and Trump obstructed and claimed they belonged to him, which is not true.",You are the one who said Biden reported himself so it must have relevant to you an it’s clearly not true. I’m not saying they did anything wrong. what I’m saying is let’s not jump to conclusions that they did everything right. They kept this to themselves since 11/02. Before the election. They had no intention of telling the public. During that time Biden criticized Trump for the handling of those documents . Trump should be criticized because the Trump team signed an affidavit stating they had no more documents and they did. But right now 2 locations had documents that were classified that Biden forgot about. And they were found at 3 different times. They may find some more tomorrow. We don’t know. We also don’t know if anyone was looking for those documents. If no one was looking for them then why weren’t they? There should be a clear chain of custody.,1
"""The Shahi Imam of Ahemdabad’s Jama Masjid Shabbir Ahmed Siddiqui in Gujarat made controversial remarks on December 4 saying those who give election tickets to Muslim women are against Islam and weakening the religion."".","Ah yeah, you might be right. At the same time women were also doing the best they could too, protecting the home when alone as well caring for children. I think that far back they didn't have gender roles because women were 'inferior', they did those things because women could nurse an infant and a man could wrestle a boar or elk. There's a sort of innocence in that simplicity of life; no one is having a good time and in order to survive you both had to work together.",1
was arrested with four days of the FBI finding out about her leak. She was charged within nine days. And sat in jail without bail for over a year until her sentencing.,"Don't let any bullshitters tell you ""these things take time"" or ""you have to build a perfect case"" or ""you can't arrest him yet because he has the right to a speedy trial"". The law is fast and effective...when it wants to be.",0
This article makes the same basic fundamental mistake they always do: They are treating Trump and the GOP as separate entities with different values.,Articles that try to make and argument that Republicans can separate form Trump are so missing the point. Republicans are free to pretend like they aren't Trump but they proved that they would bend their knees for an overgrown child. They would comply if threatened by someone who had no actual authority over them. They obeyed his every back and call. Trump is them and they are Trump.,1
"I would say that Russia was in step with us. Some areas ahead in some, some behind. For example, We didn't know about the heads display until some defector in a mig showed up here. They had it inservice for 3 years before we knew, but that was the ussr. After the collapse, they had 10 years of major theft done by privates to generals to live off of or become wealthy. The system they have now is corrupt from the top down. How don't you know warehouses full of equipment like tanks are striped of everything. Alcoholism is rampant in the troops, which is caused by unhappiness. They still have good weapons designers, but they need to import components from around the world, which makes you vulnerable. They had functioning hypersonic missles about 5 years ahead of us. I saw videos of ours breaking up before covid. Again, greed kicked in, making something better but short it on important parts so pockets could be lined. Here pockets being lined is out in the open, but we don't go short on parts. Really fighter jet and other equipment with no or usless guidance systems. SLAVA UKRAINI.","Can confirm, am Ukrainian. Never was a fan of BoJo. Don't know a lot about Sunak for now, time will tell.",1
"In the USA, you generally just don't get paid at all while you are away sick. The Dr's note will excuse you but you won't be paid. Some companies offer paid sick days as a benefit. But if you have 5 sick days you stop getting paid after the 5th day absent.","So would that mean that those are all unpaid days when they remove themselves for illness? If they're so short-staffed why would they want someone to take an unpaid day off now, and then take an additional paid day off in the future, instead of having them just take the day then?",1
"So ""a joke"" is defined as something that disgusts and outrages the sane members of society and makes the crazy right wingers all cheer, but lacks any element of humor?","Conservatives are so unfunny and have such a fucked sense of humor that they can use ""it was a joke"" as an excuse and not have to worry about their ""joke"" being funny or having a punchline.",1
">There is, Mr. President, an essential difference between the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. The act of Congress of 17th July, 1862, set free certain classes of slaves. The President's proclamation of January 1, 1863, proclaimed freedom to those of certain districts. Both were measures of emancipation. The concerned the persons of slaves, and not the institution of slavery. Whatever their force and extent, no one pretends they altered or abolished the laws of servitude in any of the slave States. They rescued some of the victims, but they left the institution otherwise untouched. They let out some of the prisoners, but did not tear down the hated prison. They emancipated, let go from the hand, but they left the hand unlopped, to clutch again such unfortunate creatures as it could lay hold upon. This amendment of the Constitution is of wider scope and more searching operation. It goes deep into the soil, and upturns the roods of this poisonous plant to dry and wither. It not only sets free the present slave, but it provides for the future, and makes slavery impossible so long as this provision shall remain a part of the Constitution.","> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.",1
"You're continuing to intentionally ignore what the actual issue is and always been. The problem isn't that they were in possession of documents in the first place. The difference is that in _ONLY ONE OF THESE CASES_ did the person with the documents refuse to answer subpoenas, refuse to return documents, lied to the authorities about where they were, how many there were, their classification levels, etc. In both the other cases, the individuals in question contacted the authorities of their own volition to get documents returned rather than fighting to keep them.","He was never ""the only one that did this"". When his issue became public info, it was clearly stated by the authorities that this is something that happens all the time, and tends not to be an issue because _people cooperate with said authorities and return the documents when found_. The issue in Trump's case is not that he had documents he was supposed to have returned, it's _that he continued to return them, fought with the FBI to avoid returning them, lied in increasingly stupid ways to avoid having to return them, lied about having declassified them, lied about having returned them, lied about them having been planted_, and much, much more. Had he just given them over, there would not have been a problem, which is the case with Pence, the case with Biden, and the case with every other person who has found and willingly returned documents without the FBI having to fight them for it.",0
"This is going to be a problem in the US. Pay is shit for teachers and more so for assistants. Teachers, unlike cops, can be held personally liable if they make a single mistake and the parents of special needs kids can have hair triggers for lawsuits.",Parents of special needs children often have hair triggers for lawsuits because our school districts have clearly demonstrated that a lawsuit is the only way to get a response.,1
>Equal Protection as guaranteed by the 5th and 14th amendments require broadly that each person be treated equally in their voting power.,"The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that no state shall ""deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."" This clause does not explicitly guarantee the right to vote, but it has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean that all citizens must be treated equally when it comes to voting rights (unless voting rights have been lost under the due process clause of the 4th Amendment). Therefore, the Equal Protection Clause does not guarantee ""one man, one vote,"" but it does guarantee that all citizens must be treated equally when it comes to voting rights. So states are free to decide for themselves how electors are chosen and people participate.",1
"In Wisconsin, where Republicans have gerrymandered themselves to a majority in both state legislative houses despite the fact that it's basically a 50/50 state, the GOP can just decide that the state voted for a Republican President.",The only way this would be utilized is in swing states that have been gerrymandered and have a majority republican legislature with Democrats winning statewide seats.,1
"So basically as anyone who thinks critically could have predicated, euthanasia is going to be used as a tool and pushed more and more to remove the ""undesirables""... basically anyone disabled or poor under the guise of compassionate care.","Whatever one thinks of euthanasia as it pertains to the terminally ill, there's no doubt that in a society that's focused on capital over care that there will be many casualties as a result of these policies.",0
My entire adult life I have watched democrats dig us out of the shit with economic policies that I now understand and are actually quite intuitive and then republicans take of and just absolutely fuck everything up.,"Since I’m 55, the last 40 years are the only ones I was old enough to really understand politics enough to see how consistently republicans are bad for the economy.",1
"“The question of free speech is always more complicated than it looks,” said David Brody, managing attorney of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. “There’s a freedom to speak freely. But there’s also the freedom to be free from harassment, to be free from discrimination.”.","That's actually not true, it's considered hate speech and it's not protected. If you fully read what the first amendment says and its expanded legal definition, it basically outlines that racism isnt protected in free speech. Real fucking weird that you even tried to do that...there are tons of legal phrases that cant be said that come with repercussions, you're analyzation of free speech is based off of the concepts the words themselves have seperately, but the legal concept of ""free speech"" is a lot different. My next question is why do you think hate speech should be protected, weirdo?",1
"Yeah solar and wind are extremely cheap and a good investment........but they don't fucking work when the sun ain't shinning and the wind ain't blowing. It's easy to turn those gas plants on to replace the irregular energy sources and they are reliable and really easy to turn on but they burn fossil fuels. You need to have baseline electricity that works day and night, windy or not and as we've seen in Europe and Germany is that they're still burning coal to make sure they have that reliable energy source during winter. Nuclear is carbon free and can replace those fossil fuel plants that are still needed all over Europe and now that they've been cut off from their cheap source of gas and are entering the global LNG market those gas power plants are going to stay a looooot more expensive to run than it was during the easy Russian gas days.","Hmmmm well that energy charter treaty sounds like a pretty good way for companies and countries to receive long term support for investing in a 0 carbon form of energy, like nuclear but the Germans wouldn't want to build power plants that have proven to provide baseline energy reliably. Much easier to quickly build a few more gas plants and improve slightly statistically but not focus on how to reliably power their countries carbon free for the coming centuries.",0
"Its been almost 50 years since the last time a party in Canada has won over 50% support. Its a broken system, and maybe if we had one that forced parties to work together to pass legislation, we'd have a less divisive political atmosphere, with tangible results for Canadians.","No, I think we should have a Parliament that proportionally represents how all Canadians vote if we want to call ourselves a democracy. Not one that due to design can grant almost absolute power to a specific party, with less than 30% of the electorate voting for them.",0
"And frankly, too many Democrats are afraid of what Republicans would do if they regain power to aver swing killing the filibuster. Two years ago I would have disagreed, but looking at how quickly the MAGA brain worms have infected the rest of them since 2020 I'm afraid too.","It's important to remember, ANY legislation that can't somehow get folded into a major spending bill needs 60% to pass, so until Democrats can pick up more seats, get some measure of Republican buy in, or they can convince the small handful of Democratic holdouts to kill the filibuster, nothings going to happen.",0
I can't eliminate them completely but have to a large degree for the last year shopping at big chain grocery stores. You can resist if you really want to.,"Wanton, repeated and ongoing criminal acts committed with impunity and zero conscience surely represent some of the most evil people on the planet.",0
"The west can't even ask itself questions about what meta-cultural human values might be, or what basis we might have for even believing such values could have validity, bc the west has essentially abandoned the concept of genuinely real moral objects, even though we operate under the unspoken assumption that such moral objects do indeed exist.","My point is that you can't simply assume that the fundamental values which you take for granted will be taken for granted by everyone, and if such values are expected to transcend cultural differences, then there needs to be very strong arguments as to why and how that can be the case.",0
I’m not sure why the New York Times analysis has the remaining votes in Pueblo County breaking for Boebert when 55% of the vote total Went to Frisch. Maybe they are using last election cycle’s percentages in their estimates? Or maybe they know something I don’t. Military vote? 🤷‍♂️.,"Looking at the counties that still have outstanding votes, Boebert looks to be toast. At least one less qanon nut to chair committees once the dems lose the house majority.",0
"Meh. I don’t think so. It sets a precedent and Republicans have bent over backwards to do literally the opposite whenever possible. If a “friendly” Republican was more palatable, there would be no Margarine Taylor Greene or Lauren Boebert. Neither are particularly friendly to McCarthy and cause him more trouble than he’d like. Hell, the same could be said for any of the “Freedom” caucus that have been implicated in the January 6th investigations.",They can’t comment on it because the erosion of objective truth is their end goal. There’s a reason the Republicans are so aligned with Russia and a good chunk of that is their admiration for Putin’s internal propaganda and disinformation campaigns.,0
"There is . Even if it was Ukraine, I don't see the issue. They're at war. It's a fair target and any strike on military targets in Russia shouldn't be controversial.","The Russian soldiers have to wonder why these missiles couldn't be used in the war effort instead of against civilians, who are no threat?",1
"Nah, there are still little pockets of it in rural Belgium, even with some young people. Though no young people really speak it as a first language, they'll just have really heavy Belge accents in French. There is a movement to revive the language, so it's a question to see how successful it is.","I wouldn't really call Belge French a dialect of French. It's too similar to mainline French, and is really more just a regional accent. Some people can have really heavy accents, like my grandparents, and there are a lot of local idiosyncrasies, but it's not much different than, say, a heavy Canadian English accent and a Southern US accent.",0
"If I cannot climb over someone who is too obese to move to use the bathroom or they are in a seat that makes it unable for them or me to adequately move during a long flight, then yes, it’s a health and safety issue.","When the physical space for a person encroaches on the safety regulations in an aircraft passenger seat making someone’s safe usage of that space impossible, it is indeed a safety and health issue.",0
Please name and cite an event in which the US managed to hit civilians in a different country than the one they were aiming at with a failed missile strike.,"If they acted so recklessly their missiles killed the citizens of another country, they chose to take that risk. Oops it was an accident doesn't really cover it, especially since Russia isn't exactly on the phone with Poland apologizing for killing their citizens and explaining how it was an accident.",1
I’ll respectfully remind the Republican candidates that they’re the ones who didn’t want to use electronic voting and want us to go back to counting paper ballots by hand.,I couldn't imagine the elderly people who move here to retire all wanting to switch to voting in person if the vocal republicans got their way lol According to the site below idk when it was created so maybe it's even higher now but it says that 80% of az voters vote by mail in ballot.,1
"The obvious answer is that they made it easy to swallow and bulletproof. We're not trying to end homophobia with this law, we're trying to protect LGBT and interracial marriages today so that the Supreme Court can't take the right away as they have signalled they will.","This protects every existing gay and interracial marriage in the US as well as protects every gay and interracial marriage in the future. Yes, there is still work to be done to get those other states to allow gay and interracial marriages, but that will either require a social change to vote in better politicians, or a constitutional change to eliminate any gray area with the first amendment.",0
"would it help if I told you we also did it before we lost the house, and removing the filibuster wouldn't have helped since a supermajority is required anyway?","Not only that, it requires a Constitutional amendment, which requires a 2/3rds majority in the House and in the Senate. It's more likely you see Kevin McCarthy and Eric Swalwell holding hands in public than this passing.",1
"Not sure, but does it matter? It’s not as if the alt-right trash will acknowledge it- it would mean they’d have to stop playing dumb. I promise, there’s literally nobody in that camp for whom evidence of anything matters.",We've already seen the evidence. We watched it happen live. He keeps admitting to committing crimes. Stop pussyfooting around it and arrest the fucker already.,1
"It's a leveraged buyout, which basically means Twitter itself is the collateral for that portion of the loans. Musk is responsible for putting the mountain of debt on Twitter, but Twitter the company is responsible for repaying that portion of it.",Twitter was in some serious debt when Musk bought them. And when he bought them he made it a Leveraged Buy Out (LBO). This put even more debt on Twitter and made it so that Twitter would have to pay off the purchase debt... which meant Twitter was now back to being cash poor. And unfortunately Musk hasn't been willing to pump any new money into the platform so they have to work with resources they have.,1
"It depends. The expanded child tax credit certainly helped a lot more than that, and the doubling of the standard deduction did too.",The 83% figure is for the year 2026 when all of the individual cuts have expired. Why would you use that year specifically unless you’re trying to spread misinformation?,0
Doing those things while corporations and governments still fuck the planet is like one less stab wound on a decapitated corpse.,There are billions of people who never gave a shit in the first place and they're the problem as much as the corporations and governments.,1
It’s good to remember there were people (even in small groups) in Germany who were very vocal about dangers of the Nazis and crimes they were committing. They were also killed. People were warned or told and often attacked those trying to stop the Nazis. You kinda don’t know what side people take until it happens and how they react to opposing voices or violence taking place against minorities and opposition groups.,Also the word ‘Nazi’ was started as a joke which was at the time calling their followers red necks type thing. People I think were attacked in Germany at the time of their rise to power for calling them that.,0
"There's a big difference between ""I feel like there's a lack of evidence to support that it was strictly a war crime, but it happened"" vs ""YOU JEWS NEVER HAD GENOCIDE PROBLEMS STUPID JEW JEW JEW JEW"".","The purpose of a Nazi saying ""The Holocaust didn't happen"" isn't to deny the truth to themselves -- they know it happened. What they're doing is signalling to others that they're Nazis and hate Jews, making themselves visible for like-minded as well as creating an atmosphere of intimidation. The usual victim cult thing also plays into it, ""The Holocaust is a Jewish conspiracy to strangle the German people"" kind of talk, ""Join us and we'll save Germany from that attack, and yes of course murder Jews because while the Holocaust didn't happen it should have"".",1
"So while no one is saying everything is fake, because it's not and doesn't matter, everyone did say the laptop was compromised, because it was and that does matter.","So the data on the laptop is clearly real, but the story of how it was obtained is clearly bullshit. However, there is in any sensible way. Giuliani almost certainly bought or bartered with pro-Russian Ukrainians for the cache of stolen emails and then came up with the laptop story to explain his possession of stolen data.",1
Holy shit get them OUT. How can you look at headline after headline of kids getting raped in Catholic institutions on an industrial scale and brush it off cause it’s just nuns?,So what’s the magical number of kids raped and molested and abused before we get to burn down churches and force religious leaders to come clean ?,1
PS. You can also let retired seniors die suffocating in their own feces because you're in the pocket of private long term care cutting costs during a major pandemic.. or you can sell off protected wetlands to developers etc. Etc.,"Like here in Canada, you can lie you're not going to gut public healthcare, then gut healthcare inevitably leading to people dying from lack of or delayed care, and then pocket the money that was supposed to go to healthcare into campaigning for your re-election.",0
"Considering the power imbalance between Ukraine and Russia, I can understand the hyperbole. But if I was going to be more specific, I'd say the Russian state terrorists are more caught and being slowly ground.","Think of it like a manufacturing accident. ""Crushed"" implies immediate, grievous injury most likely resulting in death. ""Caught and ground down"" implies a low, possibly non-lethal outcome. If Russia was being crushed, this war would be over. But Russia is instead throwing their military at entrenched and highly experience Ukrainian forces, grinding down their military capabilities.",0
"The (English version) text in Peru's Constitution is: ""The President of the Republic has the power to dissolve Congress if it has censured or denied its confidence to two Cabinets."".","The President can't just dissolve Congress on a whim. Have the conditions stated in Peru's Constitution happened? Sounds like the conditions are a divided Congress that's unable to function, which obviously isn't true if they're all agreeing to impeach the President.",0
"Yes, Biden won because Biden is better than poopoo—essentially the worst Presidential incumbent in the history of our nation. That is not a high bar to clear. If the bar is in the ground (Trump) and Biden is on the ground, it doesn't take very much to get above that. . Now tell me, what happens if it's not Trump again in 2024? What happens when there's a 36-year age gap between DeSantis and Biden? How do you think that will be perceived by the electorate? We know how it will be perceived because we got a glimpse of that in Obama vs. McCain in favor of Democrats.","The answer, whether you like it or not, is because the democrats just had a pretty good midterm under Biden's leadership. That's basically the answer.",1
"They were called alarmist nutters by the politicians and corporations who really love raking in money from doing exactly what caused the problem, and they are still raking it in today.","Even if it was halted right now today, it is way too late. The coastal populations around the world are going to be fucked, and poor people everywhere, of course.",0
"A tip: when you think you know something the whole world seemingly doesn't, it's usually because it's such a bad idea it was ruled out on day 1.",I don't support keeping people in place. I do support people who choose to stay and defend their country from being overthrown by a hostile dictatorship. Your logic is so flawed that I'm suspicious of your motives.,0
"The pro-Democratic Senate Majority PAC plans to return $3 million in donations from former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and the crypto exchange’s ex-head of engineering Nishad Singh, the group said Tuesday.","“Following the serious allegations against FTX, Senate Majority PAC previously set aside the contribution amounts from Sam Bankman-Fried and Nishad Singh with the intention of returning the funds once we receive proper direction from federal law enforcement officials based on their legal proceedings,” a PAC spokeswoman told CNBC on Tuesday.",0
"But you do really paint quite the picture of your view on regulations with your statement on what would happen. You're basically saying regulation = bad, which pretty much explains your stance.","Exactly. I'm not calling for some heavy-handed overzealous regulation that breaks everything, that'd be bad. But to do nothing and act like everything is ok is equally bad. And I'm not saying I have the answers to any of this stuff. We'd have to actually sit down and have a real discussion about what makes sense and what doesn't, and really dig into it. But we can't even have that discussion unless people are willing to see that some regulation can make sense and help.",0
Yes I’m well aware of the Kemp issue and I think neither he nor Hobbs should have had an officiating hand in their own election. “What about” doesn’t solve problems. It only tries to justify continuance of a bad system.,"And to use the term “refuted” about Lakes claims when that ball is still in play is irresponsible. It creates potentially false expectations which will in turn set people up for false outrage should the AG office investigation go the other way. It is much more accurate to say that Maricopa County officials have denied the allegations but an investigation by the State Attorney General’s office is still underway. Maricopa county is scheduled to provide responses to the AG Election Integrity Unit by Monday, November 28. Your comment doesn’t seem to acknowledge that. Were you aware of it?",0
"My bottom line is that when it comes to poverty and homelessness, all folks in that category deserve help. Creating a divide within that community that says one group within it is more deserving really undermines the larger issue at hand, and makes it sound like there are people within the at risk population that somehow just don't deserve a hand up.","I agree it should be extended to anyone at-risk or experiencing homelessness. This sorta sets up a dynamic of ""well yah but this group of people is more important than those imminently facing homelessness"". Boooo. I do understand and agree with programs to help marginalized populations, but when we're talking about critically needed income assistance to the impoverished in general, I don't think it's the right arena to be creating divides with regard to who deserves it more inside at-risk populations.",0
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Sinema in fact is playing some weird game of stymieing and hampering the democractic legislative agenda so not sure why you'd say that.,"what evidence you have of that? Sinema and Manchin have long been on the record against filibuster reform, you think Schumer just snaps his fingers and they flip?",0
"Just did a quick Google search. In New Zealand jt is a regulated profession and requires a bachelors degree in midwifery. I think the issue is that midwives do attend university and get this degree and need a license to practice but it may attract people who think that home births are the best way and that modern medicine is a sham. I have no issues with midwives (or potentially going to a birth Center to deliver a baby), but modern medicine has saved countless lives and the people making up the medical system have years and years of training under their belt. Also, these parents are scared blood “may” kill their child. You know what wil 1000 percent kill your child? Not having heart surgery.",It’s possible for sure. Regardless that is a fucked up situation. I cannot believe someone would rather have their baby die than receive a life saving procedure.,0
"I think you'll be surprised how quickly Ukraine manages to fix things, at least to a basic level. Power plants are big, and a single conventional missile won't completely destroy them.","Second, power plants can be massive, and Russia has more than one missile… fairly obviously. Let’s not be optimistic, this is going to be a dark winter for many, many Ukrainians.",1
"It's not illegal to carry large sums of cash across state lines in the United States, although it is probably inadvisable if you have any strong attachment to that cash.","""It's not illegal to carry large sums of cash across state lines in the United States, although it is probably inadvisable if you have any strong attachment to that cash."".",1
But yeah. Restoring order to the corruption of a government is hard. Simply pushing the ruling parties out tends to leave a nasty power vacuum that can quickly get filled by the even more corrupt. (You can't break any laws if there are no laws to break! <taps forehead>).,You gotta be picky these days. The last time someone said there was going to be free cake. The crowd was pissed when they found out that it was all gone. They started cutting people's heads off and shit.,0
"They’re banking on a dream that doesn’t work, has proven to not work, but they’re banking on the theory alone. It was ignorant of me to come all up in there to think I could debate them. Just as you did over on that sub.","That's par for the course, far beyond that subreddit. Here in Georgia everyone I know (in a very conservative county) was righteous about some old story about Rafael Warnock running over his wife's foot, but was very dismissive of the far more egregious abuse stories about Hershel Walker.",1
We've managed to make plenty of profit. The amount of ridiculous excess greed in the US has gotten bad. I refuse to allow the people that work for me to feel like they've been taken advantage of.,"This is why I compensate my employees for any additional effort put in, on top of keeping a competitive wage.",0
"Yeah and like anything else in reality it has nuance, a US military industrial complex is a good thing, we dont want to import military equipment. How much money its draining is not, how much control it has over congress is also bad.","They need to stop actually letting the GOP use the debt ceiling as a way to demand things and just ignore them. Tell the public that while the GOP are trying to crash the economy and make cuts to things people actually want and use, the Dems are looking at ways to actually govern and pay for things Congress already approved.",1
"If China brokers a peace in Ukraine that Ukraine can actually accept, they get their favorable reference. Then they go back to being the devil.","If we're referencing British WWII-Era politicians, how about Winston Churchill: ""If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the devil in the House of Commons."".",0
"Finland can then push for Sweden's membership from within NATO. The more the merrier. Assuming Lithuania means let a free and fully liberated Ukraine into NATO after the war, that seems like an easy yes also. Not sure if it's realistic or not, but if they're fully liberated then absolutely.","Edit: Looks like the above poster can't handle every NATO member's veto. They sent a long, aggressive PM about it. Yes, it sucks, but complaining here about the veto mechanism in a military pact helps no one when we can at least get one country past the finish line. From a practical standpoint, even just Finland in NATO would still be a net gain. Hopefully Sweden is permitted entry down the road as well, but if Turkey won't block Finland there's really no need for Finland to wait. Simply wipe the Cheeto dust off your fingers and look at a map. I love Sweden, Ukraine and Finland, and if we can get any of the three in then that's a positive.",0
"With actual Russian labor and material costs, Putin could have built railway track to take several turns around the earth during his term, using only the % of the budget he throws at war right now.","Probably not, but then again, Russia is THE biggest country in the world, with incredibly low population density. There's hundreds and hundreds of miles of tracks that don't really go through any settlements. And as paranoid Putin is, he'll surely prefer those.",0
"Former president Donald Trump and his lawyer, Alina Habba, have been fined almost $1 million by a federal judge in Florida for what was ruled a frivolous lawsuit brought against his 2016 presidential rival Hillary Clinton and others.","The suit was filed in March 2022, with Trump alleging that Clinton and others had orchestrated “a malicious conspiracy” to spread false information that his campaign had colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential race that he won.",0
"Qatar is supplying 5% of what Russia supplied to Germany. If anything, the only one that Germany is truly dependent on for gas now is Norway, which covers more than 30% of all gas exports to Germany. Terrible, terrible Norway, oh what horrors does Germany permit by being dependent on them.","Germany is chosing the lesser of two evils for the sake of keeping an essential resource in stock, without which the economy and the people would suffer immensely.",1
Corruption begets oversight which is swallowed by corruption and greed becomes overwhelmed by morals while money purchases the influence to kill the truth.,"I hope so much that this is true, but we've seen people support his utterly flagrant and disgusting corruption before. I will be staggered if he actually has real consequences. Hopefully, he will at least be barred from any office ever.",1
"Yes, Greece is going to purchase F-35s. What's your point? Turkey could have purchased F-35s as well but decided they were too costly and wanted to purchase soviet S400 anti air systems instead which were a lot cheaper and of more importance to Turkey at the time when presented with the ultimatum to choose one or the other. Greece and Turkey will never get along, but they're not going to go to war either. Turkey would like to eventually join the EU (maybe under future leadership and further separation of church and state, this may eventually be possible) and both are current members of NATO so most of their bickering remains rhetoric. I feel like there's a bit of a disconnect with most westerners sentiments towards Turkey and its leadership right now. Erdogen is at real risk of not being reelected. The opposing party wants a more secularized government and they are holding Erdogen responsible for the economy/inflation. There's a lot of domestic issues right now over there and this Sweden/Finland stunt is being used as a bargaining chip by current leadership as a means of trying to stay in power. Watch how quickly things change in May once the elections take place.",I think we agree on more than we disagree. Turkey is amazing but I'd just wait til their current leadership gets voted out. It's only a matter of time until Erdogan is out whether he is voted out this May or not. I think Finland and Sweden are still a shoe-in for NATO ascension and people just read too much into the political side of this stuff just like when they got pissed at Germany when Poland was dealing with their elections and using the Patriot system and tanks as a way to rile people up domestically. It was a good talk; I'm going to sleep also. Have a good one.,0
"Ukraine transports russian gas across to neighbours like Hungary, because Hungary government insisted and veto sanctions over that gas. Ukraine doesn't buy gas from russia since 2015.","About apple being smuggled in russia it isn't unexpected. But what it tells - someone still want to buy it, and some still want to sell it. And this isn't like sanctions took full effect yet. It was just yesterday that US sanctioned more electronics and phones over 300$. Like 1 day from this new sanctions. 1 month since EU banned and price caped 1 billion barrels of Oil products. 3 month from seaborne Oil ban and cap.",0
"Can't you see both sides are the same? Why should someone who wants to give people access to a better education, worked their way up on the american dream, highly educated, cares about the poor and needy get a vote over the person who wanted to commit tax fraud and leave his own voters dead, dying in the cold and infected with the plague, and watching his own voters die.","She must have worn something revealing!"" Like damn it's a child and they're trying to victim blame a raped 10 yr old. WTF???.",0
"But if--and that's a big hypothetical ""if"", not something I actually believe happened--for example there were an unusually large discrepancy in the recount, that might be worth challenging. If there's evidence that vote-counters were openly partisan, that might be worth challenging. Hell, if there's evidence that illegal voter suppression caused a significant shift from polling, that might be worth challenging.",There needs to be an understanding and realization on the part of those perpetuating these challenges that they're doing harm to their electorate. They aren't sticking it to anybody but themselves really. We're all in the same in boat.,1
"What you first referenced is an actual phenomenon called the Curse of Knowledge. When you're an expert or at least somewhat well-versed in a field or a topic, it totally warps your view of the public's general knowledge about that topic.","That concept translates to just about every field. It's easy to wildly misinterpret the layperson's understanding of a subject when you're an expert in it, or to think something is common knowledge when it's actually rather obscure. It's just how our brains work.",0
"I still think Putin wanted all of Ukraine, Moldova as the cherry on top, and Russia simply couldn't mobilize enough force to reach Kyiv on the border faster because it seems Russian logistics was rustier than expected. That said, intelligent commentary about logistics is well above a layman like me.","I think Putin never seriously planned for the contingency that he wouldn't steamroll Ukraine in a few days. And potentially unpopular opinion, I think Putin was really close to winning.",0
"They want money - pure and simple. Of course, what they want is money from the west and if the west boycotts the Olympics, you can kiss most of that sponsorship and TV money goodbye.",I think everyone in the west should boycott the Olympics if they are going to turn into something like Sochi 2014 or Berlin 1936. Maybe the Olympics run by this IOC has reached the end of their welcome in the world.,1
"> Both scholars are clear that affirmative action—a policy designed with the purpose of including members of certain nonwhite racial groups, often African Americans and Latinos but also sometimes Asian Americans—differs from racial discrim­ination against Asian American applicants on the basis of race. The work of Matsuda and Kang provides the conceptual framework for understanding why efforts to end racial affirmative action are unlikely to expose or end anti-Asian purposeful bias, anti-Asian effect discrimination, or policies and practices that place discriminatory ceilings on Asian American admissions.","Concerning the topic of affirmative action and Asian Americans, I believe that it is important that I begin by strongly discouraging any attempt to make strong and sweeping claims based on a single paper. This is true in general, for any complex topic. Do be aware, too, that the NBER publishes , and that the paper in question is about Asian American discrimination in Harvard admissions.",0
"Brazil's previous president was deeply tied to the U.S. government, and our current president has only been in power for a couple of months. It's not that Brazil was neutral neutral, it's just that the U.S. never pushed us into conflict, but we'd still 100% get in a war if they pressured us to do so.","geopolitics is not black and white as you describe it, and Brazil shouldnt be completely alligned to the US, it should do whats best for it and not the others.",1
"They were supposed to seize the airfield but they were never intended to strong point and take anything bigger than the outskirts of the airfield. Maybe that’s what you mean but since you’d said ‘secure the city’ I thought I’d mention these guys wouldn’t take Kyiv. Call in air and artillery assets, take villages, bridges and supply routes, defend a fix position with ATGMs etc etc, but they really failed because the column didn’t move at nearly the rate needed to relieve them.","Of course the Russians structure their units into battle groups that are very different that Western formations and I’m sure VDV has armor in their inventory but they are primarily airmobile, light vehicles like BMDd and BMPs etc. They just can’t assault a position like shock troops do.",0
"The answer, whether you like it or not, is because the democrats just had a pretty good midterm under Biden's leadership. That's basically the answer.","That's my take on it. We'll find out in about 2 years. If you end up wrong, as I expect, maybe consider that incremental progress through seeming centrists is better than taking wild risks that leave the White House open to crazy morons.",1
"I invite them to try alllll they want. It will be funny to see iran begging for mercy when Israel starts shredding their entire nation, town by town, extremist by extremist.","Fada also urged the destruction of the Jewish state, calling it ""the child-murdering regime [of] Israel."".",1
"Nope. It’s bad when anyone doesn’t repay money they borrowed. I could care less what your political leaning or party is. If you take out a loan, of any type, you are obligated to repay it. Going to get to the point where responsible people who pay back their loans won’t be able to get them because everyone decides to default because life is hard.","If you borrow money, you have to pay it back, UNLESS the one you borrow from says you don't have to. It's like if you borrowed money from my father to start a business. Some time later, my father has passed, and I'm the sole heir to his estate. You've been paying back for a long time, but your business don't go so well and I can see you're struggling. I can then say ""Hey ZanzibarColtrains, I'm cutting the last 10 grand off the debt you owe me, go buy your kids Christmas presents and food."" If someone else has paid off their debt already, that doesn't mean I have to give them money back, or can't forgive the debt you still owe.",1
Even as a propaganda tool (for both Russian and American consumption) Trump would be Putin's most powerful weapon by far.,He would definitely be a propaganda asset for Trump especially if he is given safety and able to convey his messages to his base in the US. Very well could try and start a civil war if he gets away OR ends up in prison.,1
"The thing is, they answer to a Japanese manager that is there in the US temporarily the same as them. So even though the American managers don’t care one way or the other, the Japanese manager maintains the Japanese work culture for the Japanese employees. I feel bad for them, but they all seem so used to it.",I'm sorry to hear your experience. We tend to look at Japanese Medical Literature with a healthy scepticism due to publication bias (although not a generalisation to all research).,1
Edit: I want to add that my initial comment was to say that I don’t believe any sane Jew would refrain some saving lives in a disaster scenario because of Saturday and that this Rabbi is simply posing.,"The argument that Jews are in fact allowed to help the victims of the earthquake and that’s a good thing is like praising someone for not being a total asshole, where I would argue that it’s the absolute minimal requirement to not be a terrible human being.",0
"And I would like to be that one Ukrainian who says that I wish that one day Russia will support us just as much as Poland does despite our previous conflicts. Fuck Putin, and the Russian government, and my cousin who is a Russian citizen who supports war, but there are still good people there.","Russia is more than you guy's common enemy, and you are more to each other than just momentary allies. You're brothers, and you should look out for another. A rising tide lifts all boats, and a hurricanes waves will drown all of you all the same. Who cares which side of a randomly drawn border you're born at, what language you speak. Recognize who is the current asshole, and who are your friends. That's it.",1
"This isn't just something you can glance over by pointing out the dumb things the british museum did in the past, realistically the standards between countries vary greatly.","I get his point about accessibility and that it's both hypocritical and often inaccurate (because the items are often not displayed). But there's a difference between returning something to let's say Greece or Peru, and returning it to a currently very unsafe country that's ripe with terrorism and corruption (yeah clearly there's corruption everywhere but all I know about Nigeria is that it's a whole different level).",0
"Now instead of running a shock troop of assholes he now has nothing tangible left that is of any worth to Putin, and he will likely watch Wagner get butchered as the army tries to capitalize on the failures.","However, since his use of massing troops did work and it did embarrass the military in some ways, they are likely not his best friends now. And with less and less bodies to be able to recruit and throw the issue, he is going to be stuck with less and less results.",0
Denying athletes from entering will be unfair to the athletes and will have little to no effects on the IOC decisions at all.,Allowing athletes that cheat to continue to compete and deny those fairly competing to be denied the fair competition is far more unfair.,1
"Keep denigrating teachers, Mike. You others who have some pathetic axe to grind because you received an F in 10th grade keep up the negative rhetoric. When the teacher shortage reaches epic proportions perhaps you’ll “learn” it wasn’t wise to target an essential part of your country’s workforce.","Then, after a time, start to demonize those remaining teachers as they try and take measures to protect themselves, their professions, and their curriculum from the crazies. Invent stories of things you hate, specifically high-level educational concepts that don't even touch public education, as you further drive your supporters down the rabbit hole of hating what was once considered the foundation of America's success.",1
And: would desantis be worse than trump as the republican nominee (as far as performance in the election goes)?,But I think he might not perform as well as trump as the Republican nominee. It’ll depend on what happens over the course of the campaign and if the moderate Republicans are successful at poisoning trump.,0
"Exactly. Every race is local, so candidates have to pitch ideas that resonate with their electorate. A deep Blue district might be supportive of progressive rhetoric or DSA slogans, but purple or lean-Red ones aren't going to.","""That’s a progressive agenda that some members of the Democratic consultant class often urge candidates to downplay in statewide races"".",1
Did America invade Iraq in 1998 when Democrats had the White House? No. Did America invade Iraq on two separate occasions when Republicans were in the White House? Yes.,"Agreed. A lot of people who espouse secession as a viable solution seem to not realize that there are a lot of impoverished, queer, BIPOC, <insert minority here.",1
"Arresting criminals is great, the cops just suck at doing their job because they can rarely ever do it properly.",If you can’t see why people arresting other people committing crimes is good than you are really out of step with the average American.,1
"Ahh yes… Freedom of speech = denying the holocaust, an extremely well documented and tragic event that stripped millions of people from families, lives, and the world altogether. Freedom of speech does not equal hate speech, they are two very VERY different things.",Freedom of speech is very straight forward. You are advocating for censorship. Look at history for how societies that censor vs those that allow free communication fare.,1
"What is the amphibious landing force going to do? Where would they land? How would they support themselves? Logistically it would be insane, no way would it be militarily viable for anyone to even bother.","Australia must be thinking about deploying them offensively with forces overseas, which Australia has a long history of doing.",0
"In this specific case, the statement ""men cannot be lesbians"" appears to be part of a pattern of repeated harassment of a lesbian trans woman. Norwegian law covers hate speech based on gender identity as well as other categories such as race, so it's possible that applies here.","Norway's hate speech laws include hate speech based on gender identity, which might cover this statement.",0
I don’t condone what Qatar is doing but to be frank there have been a lot of Islamophobic/racist comments on Reddit recently. Any comment thread about Qatar eventually derails into Redditors cursing the entire Middle East region and its Arab populace.,It is true that both Qatar and Israel are crying 'discrimination' when they should instead stop being monstrous abusers.,1
But yeah ballistic missiles have been hypersonic and much longer range for most ppls entire lives and much faster than the short range hypersonic cruise missiles in the news lately.,"Ballistic missiles have been doing Mach 20+ for a long long time, but jets and cruises missiles are far from that fast. They just have the option of flatter trajectory, but less range.",0
I get sick of their “it’s so-so’s turn now” that they seem to play. But the democrats have had 4 years and the best they can do is biden.,the democrats as a party pretty much exist to make excuses for joe biden at this point. imagine how much more they’d accomplish by putting that energy into actually trying to govern in normal peoples’ best interest.,1
"The avalance of Iraqi migrants is partly due to Iraqi population DOUBLING after 2003 war started. War and poor conditions increase birth rate, in this case to developping country level. That war was pointless and now there is also this backlash. I bet we have this same issue ahead in Ukraine in 20 years, altough I hope it will be itself a rapidly advancing and properous EU country by then. If not, the young Ukranians will migrate into such countries.","What EU should do in long run, is make effort to better the conditions, rights and safety of the people in their own countries. There should be legal ways available for people to migrate, instead of using human trafficIng.",0
"From everything he did pre-Covid, he seemed like a decent doctor who also had a PhD in public health. Tenured at UCLA. It seems quite strange that he'd suddenly make such a big turn from good scientific practice to... this.","No, there was not. This report is only relative to his hiring at UF, since the Surgeon General of Florida is automatically given a position as a professor there. If you look at his publications pre-2019, he was a pretty normal researcher at UCLA. The report you linked even has testimony saying that when reviewers looked at his CV pre-Covid, they thought he was a fine hire, and it was only until they scrutinized his more recent op-eds and other work related to Covid that they questioned his fitness.",0
"Yup. Or rather continues the same kind of horrible precedent Russia that the world set with Chechnya, Georgia, and Transistria that directly lead to this invasion...in 2014.","Russia has been whining about being ""forced"" to invade because of some reason or another, but it is all just lies and propaganda for their facist imperialism.",1
True I'm not sure exactly how it's gonna work but I would assume if you're already prescribed them you wouldn't need the visit for a refill. At least that makes sense to me.,Makes sense to me. Although I would think under certain conditions first time prescriptions can be done safely over telehealth.,1
"Using a nuclear weapon of any kind is a gaurantee of a NATO intervention, Ukraine being a member or not doesn't matter, the free world has had just about enough of this little celebration of genocide.",Simply put Russia isn't going to use nukes because there is literally no realistic scenario where they end up in a better situation (and why would you use a weapon that guarantees a loss). Russia keeps threatening nukes because they know people like you are going to panic about them and try and force those who know better to back down.,1
Trumpism without Trump. Something that will appeal more and give the GOP a better chance to win the presidential election against Joe Biden.,"The defeat, or rather the average result, of the Republicans at the Midterms sounds like a warning signal with two years to go before the presidential election: the Trump brand is no longer a winner.",0
Teaching should be one of the most highly paid positions we have so only the best of the best are teaching our children.,"In other developed countries, teaching is a highly paid and regarded profession. That won’t happen her anytime soon.",1
"Eh we have Lisa Murkowski here in Alaska, I don’t agree with all of her politics but she seems to want to work with Democrats to pass things that benefit her constituents instead of just refusing to negotiate. There aren’t many but there are some.","I can agree with that, because at some point they are going to just get tired of losing elections (and now they don’t even lose according to them, they think it is obvious that it’s all a conspiracy and cheating, they can never concede that their ideas just aren’t popular with the voter base) and they will just openly declare war on people who don’t believe what they do. That, I believe, is a reality that will come within my lifetime.",0
"The reason I brought up the ones I did is they are more labor intensive to argue against, and are often used in conspiracy groups, which the article is referencing.","The whole vaccine debate is filled to the brim with these kinds of junk science populists, misleading claims, out of context statistics, and straight up lies and has been this way for several decades. When you thoroughly debunk one thing, either people don't read the counter arguments, or they just make up something else and move to the next thing.",0
"There it is. This is one of the major problems with Argentina, everyone focuses too much on Peron, either using him as a scapegoat or a role model, and not enough on getting shit done. Blaming him solves nothing, doing stuff does.",Definitely not general advice. Here in Uruguay the leftists were the ones that got our economy out of a shit crisis and into a pretty respectable position.,0
"Are you aware that you're basically just arguing my point for me? Yes there are many countries, factions, and moving pieces in Africa. Many factors affecting the risk of famine. The war in Ukraine is just one of these factors and not nearly the biggest one. Thank you for agreeing with me.","My ORIGINAL comment was accusing another poster that their definition of ""global"" was almost definitely only NATO countries and Russian allies if they would have any. The correct argument against that would simply be stating that this indeed is or isn't their definition of global. Not getting into this weird argument that is basically ""oMg I bEt YoU dOn'T cAlL WW1/WW2 WoRlD WaRS EiTheR1"".",0
NATO has already said the use of a tactical weapon would not generate a nuclear response from them. It would illicit a full conventional confrontation which they would then learn about what fighting NATO actually is.,The reason they say NATO and always say they are fighting NATO directly. Is to try and save face with their people. In their view it's incredibly embarrassing if Russia is losing to just Ukraine. Even Ukrain backed by NATO weapons is too embarrassing. It's why they have constantly said NATO is directly fighting and providing far more than weapons and Intel.,1
"Milk comes from animals. Vegan milk comes from grains/seeds. And they produce it by pressing the grain/seeds. Therefore, it's juice, not milk.","> Milk means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, which may be clarified and may be adjusted by separating part of the fat therefrom; concentrated milk, reconstituted milk, and dry whole milk. Water, in a sufficient quantity to reconstitute concentrated and dry forms, may be added.",0
"If Dems take these seats, the majority is secured. We know the remaining votes that need to be reported all favor Dems. Additionally, that’s not including other districts that are relatively close as well. Stay strong y’all, let’s hope for the best!","EDIT: I commented this below, but putting this here to show why I have hope, and maybe alleviate the apprehensiveness, or for worse, pessimism about the House elections that some may have!",0
It's going to get absolutely spicy and dicey. The previous order that held this all together for so many decades is beginning to erode.,"There's no way in hell they develop their own before all this goes down. Iran will not give up their initiative. Neither will Israel, I'd guess.",0
I can tell you people do consider it bad parenting if you don't have communications at all times now and I can assure you that 11 is the minimum age with many expecting you to provide a phone at a much lower age.,"Also ITT: Parents who don't want to interact with or parent their kids, and distract them with phones to avoid parenting their children.",1
"With respect, there were 15,000 executions in the entire history of the USA. Even taking this at face value (which is beyond difficult to do), 700k executions is insane and barbaric.","In any case, the killings of political opponents were not in the millions or tens of millions—which is not to say that the actual number.",1
So melting will probably take a very long time (century timescale) while a progressive collapse might happen much sooner (years to decades).,Then we get to see what the effects on ocean salinity are and how much the newly exposed land contributes to global warming.,0
"Taiwan claims to be Chinese so as to avoid pissing off china. it is called Strategic Ambiguity, and it has been the go to policy regarding the Taiwan question for decades now.",Sure in the same way that the Nagorno Karabakh region is 95% ethnically Armenian yet the region is still Azerbaijani.,0
Russia can't deploy anything but missile artillery and drones as it is. They aren't suddenly going to find some new capability to deploy against the patriots or they would have already used it to knock out the Anti Aircraft systems that Ukraine is already successfully using to keep their planes out.,"I get the arguments that Patriot is vulnerable because it is, but I think the reality is that the fact that Ukraine STILL retain enough anti-air to deny Russians free reign over the country puts lie to the notion that these are going to be sitting ducks. The Patriot system is HIGHLY effective against ballistic missiles, drones, and cruise missiles, which to date are all that Russia has been able to actually field in Ukraine in any significant number.",0
"So if Trump had won, I don't think Putin would have invaded Ukraine, he would not have felt he HAD to.","Then again, Trump thought that Putin was a ""genius"" for invading Ukraine to make it ""independent"" ... even though he previously said Putin would not ""go into Ukraine"". Here's a reverse timeline;.",1
"The us arguably does benefit from the strenh which it projects. Europe and the US have undoubtedly benefitted from this alliance for years. The dollar itself, is largely stable because it's directly tied to the sale of oil. These are the big geopolitical factors nobody really wants to debate or discuss. It's easier to go to bumper stickers and be like ""were giving Ukrainian nazis weapons why can't we house the homeless!"" it's not a njanced conversation that actually gets into the weeds of what's happening.","It speaks directly to aid to Ukraine, and how that could also enable a situation where wwiii or nuclear war could erupt. Also playing right into Putins talking points.",0
"And while all of this is happening, I hope they remember - there is only one way for them to get the sanctions lifted, and it isn’t even very difficult:",Sanctions are not there as some arbitrary punishment out of hatred for Russia or Russian people; they exist to incentivise a change in policy. Stop the war and the sanctions can be lifted.,0
"That's how it worked before, black codes formed the era that lead to jim crow. Black Codes oppressed certain groups by 13th amendment flaw that you could be a slave when your in jail and you can't vote for anyone in jail.","Voting rights are lost when you go to prison because it is part of Jim Crow laws that have not be removed. How better to keep black people from voting then to make a law saying you can’t vote if you are in prison, and then send a lot of black people to jail on trumped up charges, for overly long sentences, or for activities that were criminalized because mainly minorities did such things. Look at marijuana and crack cocaine for examples.",1
"That's why I said running unopposed, or where the Democrat doesn't really stand much chance of winning.","Democrats just will not try for any race that don't see as already in the bag, and republicans don't give a shit and they try to go for anything. In my local elections the democratic party is near extinct.",1
"Voting is of course necessary, but not sufficient on its own, to produce an analogue to the New Deal in modern times, for a variety of reasons.","Without essentially an uprising from the public and working classes, as happened for the New Deal, no politician can or will actually fix the system, because they are also subject to the same system.",0
Because it is currently bullying it's neighbors and trying to impose ridiculous claims on the south China sea matter-of-fact it's not only the US but it's neighbors that consider China a threat.,"And, given China's increasingly belligerent attitude to international norms, I think that's a useful comment to make.",1
"I don't know how Lindsey Graham survives. South Carolinians tend to be no-nonsense, and Lindsey Graham has more flip-flops than Myrtle Beach.",Then he gave a very cringey interview where he sat next to Herschel Walker and touted GOP diversity but didn't let Walker say a word.,0
"For what? I don't agree with these idiots, but claiming the other side ""cheated"" isn't criminal. If it were, children on the playground would be prosecuted everywhere. That's exactly what these clowns are... childish.","And can you not understand simple English? I've already explained this. Go creep elsewhere. I've now addressed this particular issue twice. If you can't understand the rudimentary difference between what I said about THIS issue and the other crybaby issues, there's really no way I'm going to spell it out for you on a more elementary level.",0
"This is what I'm getting at! DID is a super rare and controversial diagnosis and the idea of ""alter egos"" is better conceptualized as severe mood swings, not the stereotyped holiwood way the Dr that diagnosed him has popularized of a ""split personality"". Where we draw the line for what behaviors we pathologize and assume to be predestined and not is somewhat arbitrary. It's more accurate to say that Walker is an asshole wife-beater than perpetuate some sort of ""ticking time bomb"" narrative about his mental health.","There's better ways to talk about mental health and Herschel Walker than this. Herschel Walker is a bad person because of his actions even if (and a big if, considering exactly how controversial of a Dx DID is.) he has a bona-fide case of DID(which is nothing like how it's portrayed in media) not everyone with DID is going to be a domestic abuse monster nor is it something that can't be maintained.",0
Or even precedent from most of the history of the country. There are letters written by DAs or AGs in the 19th century saying that they couldn't (not wouldn't) charge anyone for ending a pregnancy before quickening.,"It won't put much into the economy, most people who will actually be helped by this live paycheck to paycheck. The money that they would have been paying on the loans was instead going to other things they needed. So, when this goes through, it's not going to add money to the economy. Or not as much as so many people think. Because what's going to happen is that some will just not have to pay anything to their loans (that's not new money into the economy for most of them, because they have been spending what they would have been paying on their loans), while a lot of people will just be paying a lower amount on their loans. The people at the higher end of the scale are going to be the ones who start putting money into the economy, and that's likely to be a much smaller amount than will be leaving the economy because people are paying on their student loans again.",0
"So it's not really saying ""parenting is slavery"", it's more like ""former slaves are constitutionally allowed to choose to have abortions so that right also extends to everybody else."" (Again, I'm really skeptical about this argument, it sounds like a super stretch.).",Jeez. The Third Amendment has a better chance of protecting abortion rights than the 13th. Don't quarter fetuses in a womb without the owner's permission!,1
"Democrats try to offer realistic plans with solutions that will help most people, but it would require change and effort. Example : hey, coal mining town where the mine dried up or only employs like 5 people anymore, that's tough, and that prosperity isn't coming back on its own. Here's some potential things we can do, such as job retraining, community assistance, modernization, etc. No, it's not going to bring back the good old days, but we can help get on a road to better.",Republicans offer soothing lies. Example from that same mining town : it's Democrats' fault that the coal money left Or immigrants Or gays We'll fix all that and you can go back to the good old days MAGA! (though that same stuff has been peddled for decades long before the MAGA brand came around).,0
"I would too...but I don't know if the rest of the country will see it that way. I just have lost faith in this country as a whole, especially GOP voters. They have given us two downright terrible presidents their last two chances and are looking to give us a third.","The problem with these people is they ignore the very real threat they put into office. Like, for example the last orange clown that would have gladly been a dictator if he could have and the very real threat that this next guy, Desantis, probably wants to make this a theocracy based on everything he does and says at least.",0
"And you are so right in that second paragraph. Leaders due tend to opt for war as a way to regain support. There had to be something going on for Putin to not be satisfied with ""just"" taking Crimea and part of the Donbas.","I will say what he is doing has become somewhat overshadowed by the war. While we all knew how Russia treats dissidents, it was still a huge message for him to willingly be arrested and show the world what they're capable of, and very publicly.",0
"And given the EU wants to get Ukraine aligned to their rules and economic standards for eventual membership, as seems to be Ukrainian aspirations, more likely you see European investment. That would fit EU's desired outcomes. The US has mostly got what it wanted, which is another Russian Afghanistan to bleed and decrease the capabilities of a rival, it gains quite a lot geopolitically. It'll want some things, but I doubt it's going to do what people here seem to be imagining, Ukraine aligning with the EU would be a general win for the US as well tbh.",How much would you be willing to bet that they are probably not doing this out of concern for the people of Ukraine and the pure goodness of their hearts?,1
Eh the number of religious is still shrinking. They are just making up for it by ramping up the crazy at an impressive rate.,I don’t know why you call them Christian’s and participate in their game of pretend that it has anything to do with what Jesus talked about.,0
"After the tiny man loses, I’m sure Ukraine is going to sign some documents allowing US military bases into the country both for defense purposes and for training purposes.",The US should also thank Ukraine for providing evidence of how well this equipment works in battlefield conditions without US soldiers needing to die in the process.,1
In a decade or two we'll know what they were and what country sent them. It's incredibly unlikely we hear before that unless it's used to justify an attack.,People that have been saying aliens are real for years/decades think eveything proves aliens are real...,0
How is Russia afraid of NATO if at the beginning of their invasion they moved their troops near their border with NATO to aid in their invasion of Ukraine? Russia was never afraid of NATO because Russia knew NATO was never invading. NATO wouldn’t even be relevant anymore if it weren’t for Russia constantly bullying all of its neighbors.,"My point is: from the Western intelligence's point of view that should be a likely scenario, yet there was little deterrence made to dissuade Russia.",1
"Unfortunately it's exactly this vagueness that gives rise to the need to remind some that it's not so black and white. If these sources of ingrained institutions, as you call them, remain vague and intangible why should anyone simply accept that a serial killer isn't just insane, but actively encouraged by, for example, institution x or y that does more good than bad in the eyes of most? If we actually care about solving any real issues we're going to have to be more precise, otherwise it's just openly saying 'I'd rather be right than effective.'.","But we are. While you may have the intelligence and personality of a wilted daffodil, you are not a plant, you are an animal.",1
Putin's pre-war speeches revealed that he considers all of Ukraine to be an illegitimate state that was unfairly carved out of Russia. He was not just talking about Donbas and Crimea.,Russia has been somewhat effective in misleading the West into thinking that the conquest is only about Donbas and Crimea. Meanwhile Russian officials all the way up to Putin himself have been hinting or outright stating that the war is about annexing all of Ukraine.,0
If anyone is wondering it’s actually because the Israeli government prohibits Jews from traveling to Palestinian Territories unless they are there to steal land. Source: American that’s been to the West Bank.,"Yeah the West Bank is much more reasonable. They do still execute gay people, but that’s more community-driven and extralegal. There are entire organizations devoted to assisting gay Palestinians in escaping the West Bank to Israel because they fear for their lives.",1
"yup. Focusing on Hunter Biden, or the emails, or Benghazi, isn't the point. The point is you're always investigating, because the Democrats are always corrupt, always doing something underhanded, and we're going to figure out what!","Bingo They have been having wet dreams about democratic scandals coming to light or a democratic president resigning in disgrace for a long time. They were so sure they finally had it with Clinton's blow job and they just completely lost if when it turned out that despite the prudery, no one outside of the most rabidly rightwing partisans gave a single fuck about it.",1
"The idea that Russia will dare attack a NATO country because Ukraine uses NATO supplied weapons is simply laughable chicken little shit. They might be spouting a lot of bullshit propaganda, but they know NATO can curb stomp their military in a matter of days.",And you're fooling yourself if you don't think NATO is providing Ukraine with a ton of logistics and information to help them.,1
Assange is not a journalist. You have no intrinsic right to groom mentally unstable US military personnel and convince them to steal classified data for you. That's what he did and he's going to go to jail for it.,Assange claims he didn't know it was from the Russians. The US claims that he did. The former would be journalism (i.e; the reporters who published the Snowden leaks were never indicted). The latter is espionage.,0
Fascism works for me but it's used incorrectly most of the time and conservatives believe leftists are the real fascists . Fascism is right wing authoritarian power.,"Arrival to power, where conservatives seeking to control rising leftist opposition invite fascists to share power.",1
"And you do realize that ""all 8 times"" the agreement was always one sided in favor of Israel and extremely limiting for a state of Palestine, right? It doesn't return any of the land that Israel has stolen; it heavily limits their military; Israel has full control over their land, sea and air... essentially not actually an independent state, but a vassal.","Israel exists officially as a country & is recognized by the UN (just like the US is, which stole all of its land from the natives). Much of Israel already had Jews living in the region before its official formation, unlike America.",1
Tik tok will take data from any devices connected to the same network. So if you have tik tok on your personal phone connected to your home wifi but also a government issued phone connected to the same wifi. Tik tok gets the data from the government phone.,I meant to comment this one your comment but…Tik tok will take data from any devices connected to the same network. So if you have tik tok on your personal phone connected to your home wifi but also a government issued phone connected to the same wifi. Tik tok gets the data from the government phone.,0
"I agree with you on that tourism will most likely suffer, but almost negligibly so. Most tourist I talk to (I work in the city centre) are there for the grachten and the tulips and the cheese and all those cliches, very few of them are there for weed and prostitutes.","I always thought that district was for prostitution and the rest of the touristic area was for weed, never really saw people smoking while looking for sex workers there.",1
"Speaker of the House does not need to be held by a House member. Theoretically, they could push for Cheney (who did not win her primary) to be Speaker and that would be fine. There were also Republican plans (or whispers of plans) to elect Trump as Speaker that were floated earlier this year if they re-took the House.",Is it possible that a contingent of House Republicans refuse to vote for whoever the GOP Speaker candidate is and Democrats could push through one of their own?,1
Unfortunately it's also hard to see Ukraine winning in any meaningful way. Russia will just drag this out for years until the west inevitably loses focus.,"Russia is not making a loss , they are earning less. Not like they are buying oil from some other country, it is a natural resource on their territory.",1
"How much of a fee are they going to charge that's going to make a difference to either themselves or their clientele? If this is a tapas restaurant seating only 35, i can imagine it's not cheap. A $20 fee isn't going to make a dent in their lost income over a cancellation, and it isn't going to mean much to someone likely to spend $100+ per person at their table. But if the restaurant tries to make it a more meaningful fee, they're going to really piss off clientele...","If you have a 35 seat restaurant and don't aim to fill all the seats, i doubt you'll be doing especially well. If the kitchen gets bogged down preparing orders, i think it's more a function of either staffing issues or menu choices. If you can't turn out food in a reasonable time, fix the staff or fix what you're offering.",0
"China's economy can be shut down at a moments notice by the US, the US through allies and naval bases can blockade China, I'm guessing they want a stable source of resources and oil and russia is the best bet if things heat up in the pacific.","But let's take the nukes been launched off the table, no one's going to push into Russia, Russia would break up splinter and create even more chaos, at best they may be pushed back to the old border.",0
"Can we please wait for polls to close before we start the doom and gloom? I know it's a rough and frankly scary day in general. But remember, old boomers and above don't work so they have plenty of time to vote early today. It happens at every election and they always vote on the red side of things so it will seem skewed to the right at the start.",A quick reminder: We ARE going to have to deal with people claiming the vote was rigged. In every election. In super-blue California House districts. In local judgeships lost because the candidate shot a local's dog.,1
Funny how those judges did not grant abortion clinics the same safety when abortion was legal. And the judge’s’ integrity should be more important than their safety but this Court has only 3 out of 9.,The only way judges will truly be safe is if there's actual accountability within the system... Otherwise eventually accountability will be attempted outside of the system.,1
"The DNC doesn't have dedicated propaganda channels like the GOP does. Makes getting any messages or petty hard especially when networks try to ""both sides"" every damn thing thinking that's what legit news does.","""Democrats say the sky is blue. But in a stunning upset several prominent Republicans say it's green. Tune is at 6 Eastern Time for an interview with a Republican Senator to hear their reasoning."".",0
"Humans cause just over half of the climate-changing emissions, with somewhere around 40% being caused by natural sources in our exit from Earth's last ice age. So unless we can reduce our emissions by 166% we are going to have problems anyway, and there is no way to bring total earth emissions to zero without deliberate offsetting.","But to do that UN scientists say that global emissions must be slashed virtually in half by 2030, and after that they should be reduced to net zero by 2050.",1
"We can argue about whether this is a court issue and run on it for the next two decades, but as someone who is pro-choice and wants results I really wish we'd gotten 15-25 week protections in while Dems had the majority. Ideally that would be the focus now instead of leaving women to suffer in red states.","Probably about the same. A lot of the midterms was republicans having really, really bad candidates. People were basically going ""I don't like these guys, but these other guys are election deniers and f that."" I'm thankful the public did, as the DMC played a very dangerous game of helping more extreme candidates (putting something like $50M+ towards it) they hoped would be easier to eat beat. It didn't go really bad this time, but I'd like to see that tactic go away.",0
"Giuliani also said top secret files are ""very, very strange the way they're put together"" and ""often are very small, but they contain a lot of information."".",“Sec. 1.3. Classification Authority. (a) The authority to classify information originally may be exercised only by:,1
"Santos is either a US citizen or not, that can be decided with evidence and then we act on the evidence. If a democrat did it I'd support the same thing, they can't take office if they're not a citizen.","Not at all, there is doubt if he is even a US citizen. He's lied about everything else how do we know he's telling the truth about being born in NY? Immigration should absolutely be investigating him. Note that even if he got naturalized at some point if he's found to have lied on immigration documents they can and should take away his citizenship.",0
"I always thought the people saying ""globalists"" were a problem were just crazy conspiracy theorists. Maybe their concept of globalists was off but really it is a problem where just a few super rich people will own the world leaving scraps for the rest of us, and it's just becoming more and more evident.","Honestly, while I agree it is indeed caused by globalization, this is just bringing to rich countries what has been happening in poor countries for a long time, where rich citizens from other countries would own a lot of property there. Probably in former colonies.",1
"I'm not saying that we should pull out of NATO, but I don't think you really understand what their objective is when it comes to Ukraine. Whether Ukraine wins or whether Russia eventually wins but is ruined in the process...we win. If it was really about protecting Ukraine, they would have landed troops.",NATO unity in the support of Ukraine is all we have to confront both of these tyrants. China may not have the military we have but they are a very powerful country. In comparison Russia is just a gas station and the Ukrainians are struggling.,1
"My take is, Russia killed a lot of UA early in the war before the funding and then UA with drones and actual gear and attrition decimated the Russian army. Which is very impressive because everyone thought russia would just roll them over.",Syria and the second Chechen war are examples of Russian wars of attrition in modern time. In both these conflicts the enemy had collaborators within to help Russians win. What they lack right now is a significant 5th column in Ukrainian upper command. The people Russia paid off to be collaborators in the government have been either snuffed out or ran away. But If UA armed forces fracture this will be the biggest win for Russia because they could come to an agreement with one side and eliminate the other. Thus Legitimizing the win and winning over the population by saying “see it was Ukrainians who ousted their illegitimate leader”.,0
The Speaker of the House has the ability to uphold the reputation of that body by calling on all of its members to expel him.,"The other answer would be having Congress expel him, but again, Republicans are shameless enough to refuse to hold him accountable.",1
"Like here in Canada, you can lie you're not going to gut public healthcare, then gut healthcare inevitably leading to people dying from lack of or delayed care, and then pocket the money that was supposed to go to healthcare into campaigning for your re-election.",And it doesn't have to weigh on your conscience because you can tell yourself it's what the voters want.,0
"Concerning the topic of affirmative action and Asian Americans, I believe that it is important that I begin by strongly discouraging any attempt to make strong and sweeping claims based on a single paper. This is true in general, for any complex topic. Do be aware, too, that the NBER publishes , and that the paper in question is about Asian American discrimination in Harvard admissions.","comment we should first discuss the premise that ""[affirmative action] appears to be bad for Asians."" Not only because the claim itself merits careful analysis, but because this sort of claim tends to be part of a particular manner of framing the discourse surrounding affirmative action and institutional discrimination, in order to legitimize concerns about White people being institutionally discriminated against in the same manner as racialized minorities are.",0
"Separation if children from their parents en masse is a very cruel and sadly effective tool of cultural genocide. If you do this for one or two generations, you can eradicate most of the cultural distinction that makes up Tibetans.","Tibetans being abused by Chinese is pretty different than Native Canadians being abused by other Native Canadians, no?",1
"The main reason to use UAP instead of UFO is because most UAP are exactly that -- ""aerial phenomena"". Lights reflecting off a cloud? That's not a flying object, but it is an aerial phenomena. Glowing ball of gas above the local dump? Same thing.","Now here's where it gets weird. Yes, the A-10 carries sidewinders. But the two air-to-air kills were done via BRRRRRT.",0
One of these claims actually ending with an indictment and charge would be the first that wasn't complete bullshit.,"If he isn't charged, I will accept that, as the process has happened and a determination has found that the evidence wasn't there.",1
"Defending is different to winning/beating. For Ukraine to win they need to get Ukraine territory back to pre Feb 24th borders. If you look at Bahmut, Russia isn't winning there and they're putting everything into trying to take Bahmut. However Ukraine isn't pushing them back either. I think Ukraine will win as in stop further aggression but the cost will be a loss of some of their territory.","Ukraine is beating Russia soundly, and they don't have 200 F-16s at their disposal and a 110 mile strait of ocean at the Ukraine/Russia border the way Taiwan does.",1
"It's not that I think that they should be expelled, there are many awful dictatorships in the world right now and all of them have their representation and narratives, but in the case of them it's not only that but also the fact that they are very outlandish and isolated that I (yes, just the ignorant or naive me) thought they would just relinquish any seat/voice there and would have no will to participate with the rest of the world not even for propaganda reasons. But thanks a lot!","Thank you for saying this. I completely support Ukraine, a lot of my friends do too. But I also understand my country's position. My dad fought in that war. What for many people on Reddit is just discourse on a website, was a horrifying reality for our people at the time. I want to point something out though. The US didn't ""tacitly"" help Pakistan, they straight up sent the 7th Fleet to aid them. Only thing that stopped them from steamrolling the Bangladeshi resistance was a Soviet submarine fleet that blocked their way to the Bay of Bengal. There are many reasons for our people to have some level of distrust of the US.",1
I’ve always tried explaining to people from the US how bad racism is outside of this country. We are beyond progressive here even with our issues. There are places out there who’s racism (like this man) would shock the average US citizen.,"They all have the same skin color, how can they be racist? From what I read in his report it was just rich people oppressing poor people, racism is something else, I'm a black man I know what I'm talking about.",1
"Coming from a conservative ME family, I totally understand that they're at a different point on the progressive timeline (understand, not agree).","Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending anything, and I think they completely underestimated the whole world cup situation. They want to make clear that they won't give in to outside pressure, which ironically makes them look, well, scared of rainbows.",0
"Ukraine must do what it has done largely well so far: Be creative and outsmart Russian strategy, and I hope the western tanks and IFVs arriving soon will have an actual impact!","In fear of more weaponry like the Leopard II tanks, a quick last attack and Russia’s last great attempt? I am so proud of Ukraine and hope support from non western countries rises too.",1
"And assuming that they are being honest about that, it is an important point to make, so the people who have municipal tap water will drink that so bottled water will be available for those on well water who need it.","Yeah, I didn't want people to misread my comment as trying to say everything is fine, just noting that what they're drinking is not the water that actually is a problem.",0
"Where are these houses though? I mean genuinely asking, I’m not in CA but I do know two homeless people who are and they Al have been qualified for housing since spring, there isn’t availability.",Don't forget homeless people that cease to be homeless get better jobs and have opportunities for education etc.,1
"This New Yorker article from the summer predicted it's going to be a bloodbath between him and Trump if he runs for President. Also, his college baseball teammates say he's a huge a-hole. If guys you hung out with, threw a ball around with, dipped and chewed gum with hate you, that is saying a lot. It's pretty easy not to hate a guy you sit around with mainlining nicotine and scratching your balls.","When your college baseball teammates tell The New Yorker that you were an asshole, well, that is saying something.",0
And that squad member is correct. Members of his own party don’t wan’t America’s slave history to be taught in schools because it makes white kids feel guilty.,In addition to setting us back in the fight for equality by saying asinine things like racism doesn’t exist and slavery was a choice.,1
"Failed Russian assault with tanks in the Svatovo area. Use of mines, Ukrainians on the defensive there.","Ukraine has spent months digging in and turning the frontline into a series of fortresses. Attacking is very hard and requires a 3:1 numerical advantage as well as modern weapons, good leadership and training in combined arms tactics. If you take away these factors attacks can quickly become suicidal for the attacker in 21st century warfare. Russia has a lot of manpower but this isn’t the Victorian Era when you could win wars just by throwing mass infantry at the enemy until they surrendered.",1
"I've tried to fight against the misinformation, but my father's dead set in his views now. FOX played up the scare tactics so much that my father is convinced that it's impossible to be in NYC and not be a victim of some violent crime.","Sadly, this works. My father is absolutely convinced that crime is running rampant everywhere. He thinks that this is especially true in cities, but even in his suburban neighborhood he thinks he's taking his life in his hands when he goes to the store to get groceries.",0
"If NATO would defend bordering NATO nations even in the face of offensive Russian nuclear attacks, they've already decided that they'll risk nuclear war to prevent Russia from taking sovereign European countries. So NATO member nations (not as a NATO action) are choosing now to help defend Ukraine militarily. NATO member nations have already decided that risking nuclear war with offensive nuclear Russia is worth it.","If Russia shows a willingness to actually launch nukes, then containment and threat of retaliation no longer applies, as Russia has already launched.",1
"Can a credit card account owner create their own currency when they hit their credit limit? That's why the analogy breaks down. Government finances can only be compared to a household budget in certain ways, and the rest mean there is no valid comparison.",The credit card analogy breaks down however when the government can just print new money instead if they REALLY think the spending is necessary. The federal government literally spends money into existence.,0
"Top priority in Russia's goals include Ukraine not to join NATO, and to be a buffer between Russia and the decadent Western world.",There’s two aspects to the question of Russias “endgame”: their original plan and their current situation/prospects.,1
"Maybe it's the American way of thinking that if it's paid by the government nobody wants to get it, but if it's an expensive premium treatment everybody wants it... 🤔.","I don't understand why the government stopped buying. (I'm from Europe btw.) I can imagine you want private healthcare, as that is mostly about your own health. However vaccins are at least as much about not infecting others as it is about not getting sick. Societal benefits of covid vaccins are huge, but who's going to pay 100 dollar to get a vaccin?",0
"However: remember that the comment my original comment replied to was about the concept of reimbursing Brazil for slowing deforestation. So I mentioned an example of it in practice, as well as an example of it being used to pressure the Brazilian government when they didn’t meet targets.",Which countries try to counteract by paying the Brazilian government money for slowing deforestation.,0
"My concern is that every Member of Congress would have to stand for election, then defend a recall the next year, then stand for election again.",A mechanism for Congressional recalls should move forward considering the barking mad grifters that now hold positions of power.,1
"Polls mean less than nothing anymore, I couldn't give less of a fuck what one says, midterms and the last 7 or 8 year have shown us that. That's not even mentioning the shitshow in the house rn trying to pass that sales tax shit, you can quote me on this next election it's gonna be a blue tidal wave after the national embarrassment that is the GOP house tosses away independent and moderate voters.",The fail rate on signatures collected by paid canvassers (and Sinema's likely going to have to rely on a lot more of them than party volunteers) is higher - which knocked a bunch of MI-GOP gubernatorial candidates out of the running last year.,1
"Edit: It's almost like laws already exist that say ""No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property"". The DOJ could try to enforce that.",Protected classes provide additional protection against discrimination or harassment. Gender and sexual identity were determined to be included in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Bostock (2020).,0
"Trump abusing the presidential pardon power does not change the fact that the DOJ obtained guilty pleas/convictions and multi-year sentences for Stone/Manafort/etc. At minimum, the Mueller report is not evidence of the DOJ's unwillingness to act (as is constantly being implied).","34 indictments and 9 successful prosecutions against senior Trump officials. Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, and others were issued prison sentences.",0
"The New Covenant (Jesus, etc) was just that: a new covenant (aka contract). It was a renegotiation of the original one with updated rules and membership requirements. (There apparently was a prophecy in the Old Testament predicting it, but it's a bit of an ass-pull retcon).","Secondly, a lot of the ""ultimate power, created Heaven and Earth, yadda yadda yadda"" stuff is at odds with the actual rest of the Bible. For example, The Lord (supposedly) creates Adam and Eve, the first humans. They have two children, Cain and Abel. Cain kills Abel and is cast out of Eden, so he goes to live with the people east of Eden in the land of Nod. What's that? If there are only 3 people in existence at this point, how does he go live with other people? Later, Adam and Eve have more sons, and they take wives from the land of Nod as well. Additionally, there are other gods mentioned in the Bible who have similar powers to The Lord.",0
"The Earth will recover and there will be life again. Let’s hope if there are any humans who survive, they do a better fucking job protecting the only home we have in an infinitely vast, mostly dark and empty universe.",They will absolutely break all the toys and leave the sandbox if they can’t do what they want when they play in it.,0
Happiness can be polarized in a way that leads to high suicide rates but a high average happiness ranking still.,"Like country A could have 5% of the population rate their happiness as 1/10 and kill themselves while like 90% of the population rate their happiness 8-10/10. That country is going to be higher on the list compared to country B where 90% of people rate their happiness as 3-4/10, (where people still don't kill themselves as much). Or is it? I'm not going to calculate that, but you get the point.",0
"Your not Israeli , you don't know anything about us or our interests as you shown in your comment, it's in your interest that we support Ukraine, not in ours.","You can talk but you can't claim what's in the intrest of a country if you're not a part of that country, if I said it's in Ukraine best interest to surrender it's bulshit like you said Israel's best interest is to help Ukraine.",0
"Russia is preparing a large offensive for late winter/spring, and they're probably saving whatever ammo they have left for this moment. It's going to be a very tough time for both sides and Ukrainians are going to need every bit of help western countries can offer.","The thing with Ukraine is they have the whole western world suppling them. And if they said they really need more ammo or supplies urgently, they would get it.",1
"While I agree that there is a more systematic approach to be taken when it comes to cutting down on cartel activity, I’d argue that the war on drugs has been a colossal failure and likely has had the opposite effect.","For anyone that is vehemently opposed to illegal immigration, I’d challenge them to listen to a refugees story from start to finish and then tell me that they don’t deserve a chance at a better life.",0
Truth is probably somewhere in between. Russia mentally accepted heavy losses. The problem is Ukraine's manpower is irreplaceable. Ukraine will probably hold since Ukraine has better technology and equipment but while doing so Ukraine sustains losses.,"But Russians are suffering more. If Western countries were supporting Ukraine more willingly, Ukraine wouldn't have lost this much manpower and they might have had some resources to launch a counter-offensive.",0
"I'm waiting to be pointed to anywhere that Iran says they are getting nukes to attack Israel, even if that was true, they wouldn't be saying that would they.","This is a warning to Iran that Israel knows what they are doing, they know where they are doing it, and the F-35's are already on standby ready for takeoff to wipe Iran's nuke program off the face of the earth.",1
3) Speaking of steering committee - they want to open it up to “regional representative” positions. Again...to kick out establishment R's and get the loons in there.,"5) This fun one....eliminate proxy voting and restoring the ability of any member to make a “motion to vacate the Chair,”. Essentially a motion to oust the Speaker at anytime. Again - Boehner had to deal with this bullshit. I'm sure McCarthy told them to go fuck themselves in regards to this.",0
"People of color aren't immune to being idiots, and most of those idiots will flock to the Republican party.","Republicans are using their racist views to win over racist black Americans. Republicans tend to hate every skin color other than white, but they're weaponizing their broad racism to appeal to minorities that are also racist. It's a giant ball of hate.",0
"Also doesn't help that politically it's very transphobic, as you can even see with the UK blocking the pro-trans Scottish bill. And that a lot of the outspoken TERFs are from the UK. So it could be true that the common lay-person in the UK is less transphobic than the general EU, but that doesn't translate very well over the internet.","You would honestly think we were one of the most transphobic countries in the world according to many internet spaces, when actually the complete opposite is true.",1
"At what point does mass civil disobedience, including armed resistance, become a necessary or justifiable response to people who openly and explicitly state they will not respect the outcomes of elections or the peaceful transfer of power? Put another way, if election deniers succeed in taking over elections and render our votes meaningless, is peaceful resistance to unpopular or unjust government policy even possible?","That said, while Electoral Count Act reform would protect against a 2020-type challenge, there are myriad other ways for an election-denying secretary of state, attorney general, or governor to gum up the electoral process, restrict voting rights, or sow confusion around elections. And presidential elections aren’t the only concern: They could cause problems for other races too, and almost certainly will where they’re virtually certain to win. Absent major (and unlikely) political reform, they’re going to continue to pose a risk as long as they remain so influential within the GOP. — Travis.",1
"It has nothing to do with the teacher(s). You think classroom size has a correlation to school shootings? And, what is your data set to support this theory? And, nothing about guns? It's not a classroom size problem, although we do need more resources for teachers.","You're blaming the school system, and classroom size? And, avoid the entire situation that a 6 year old had access to a firearm. That is just something that doesn't even register?",0
It's dipshit moves like Yugoslavia that remove NATO's credibility as a defensive alliance that is otherwise harmless to anyone who is not trying to attack you.,"Yes, Libya too. NATO did not need to lead the charge to impose the UN Security resolution, and should not have lead that charge.",0
Sometimes all it takes for someone is recognizing that others want to help them which is what mandated rehab is. It's a better use of money then policing their drug use.,"No, criminalizing drugs to curb use didn't work. People kept doing them and then they were also taxed with criminal records which made rebounding even harder. What I'm talking about is focused on recovering drug addicts, not hurdling more barriers at them.",0
"I don’t think she’ll get the nomination, but if she did there is no chance that Biden or Harris can beat her. She’d peal off women from Biden, along with a whole lot of minority votes. Harris rubs all but the hardest left voters the wrong way, I don’t think she can beat any Republican, including Trump.","In recent years white centrist women has become a must win demographic for Democrats. If the Ds don't get that voting block they don't win. Hailey is charismatic, educated, experienced, people will feel good about voting for the first woman president and first Indian/Asian president. She brings a whole lot of what Hillary brought, with fewer negatives, and the identity obsessed left is going to have a very hard time attacking her because they'll worry about the optics. She'd peel away enough women to make a difference.",0
"The Russian Federation, which is only 31 years old - has no historical right to claim Russian language speakers abroad are under their jurisdiction. It is fucking absurd.","Yes, Ukrainian is the official State language, but that doesn't mean Russian is being banned. Eastern Ukraine is mostly Russian-schools, Russian-language signage and Russian-language daily life.",0
"There’s a bunch of the prisoners laying down on the ground surrendering, and then there’s another guy who CLEARLY lifts up his rifle and starts firing at the camera man, or someone near by.","The Russians can all wave the white flag, and have the drones inspect them close up to drop all their weapons. Then they can follow the drones for a proper “rendezvous” so to speak….",0
"Insurance is required because these are russian ships, which are old unreliable undermanned and poorly trained. An oil spill is much more likely than any other ship.","An oil spill in the Bosphorus would be worse. is home to some 16 million people. It would be an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe. No transit via ships, no fishing no cross strait ferries.",1
"We can all look at the top line numbers and say he's a tax cheat, because we know those numbers are unacceptable and wrong for society. But I what I want to hear is whether our corrupt tax code really does permit the wealthy to do this, or whether there's been impropriety.",What sane non-billionaire would decide that billionaires should pay less taxes than someone making 50k a year?,1
Yep. I was double guessing myself in this view for a bit but a couple of anecdotes helped solidify it for me. 1) Someone on Reddit commented that a maga relative of theirs liked walker because “at least he’ll do what he’s told” and then 2) I heard on CNN that there was more support for Walker among rural white voters than other groups (including black/brown people). Then there are multiple instances of Walker at pressers silently nodding and smiling while being a prop for the white politicians speaking for him. Absolutely just anecdotes but they certainly support and to an extent validate my theory.,"Just look at the personalities that have been embraced and the policies they’ve advocated. Sure, if they were just compassionate and fair they would have broader appeal but the only moves they have are being their.",0
">""The indictment outlines a campaign so effective at reaching American voters, US businesses began paying the Russians to run promotional material. The IRA would charge the businesses - presumably unaware who was behind the account - between $25-$50 per post."".","But that's besides the point. The topic at hand is an authoritarian regime manipulating the populace of other nations to erode support for their democracy, push policies that negatively impact the other nation (Brexit), and sow unrest and dissent.",0
Then fled to Norway to request asylum as his country was committing mass war crimes and is willing to produce evidence.,"While Norway has a history of accepting such asylum requests, we have a worse history of being able to protect them from assassination. But we'd really rather not have another repeat of Trotsky, so maybe we've got our act together since then...",1
"I mean, yeah it seems like now you talk about adding any additional regulation at all and people kick and scream, and yet are simultaneously ok with existing regulation to bar people like felons from owning guns. Do you believe that adding any common sense regulation with empiric evidence of reduction in violence is a slight on the 2a? And if so why should felons who have served their time not be able to lawfully purchase?","Cept felons - and medical mj patients. Funny how that's not a slight against the 2a, but making guns like ARs even slightly tougher to get by implementing something like a waiting period is.",0
"For argument's sake, let's start by assuming that today's ""China"" is synonymous with ""the PRC"". After all, it is a fundamental claim of the PRC government that China = PRC.","But as we all know, since the PRC was founded in 1949, not a single day has elapsed where the PRC has controlled Taiwan.",0
"""Our chicken is finger-lickin good. This June 30th we're having a 3 day sale on all finger-food! So eat with your hands and keep your long knives clean for other uses."".","That's the thing. This is not an AI using an unfitting word. This is an unchecked AI celebrating Nazism and crimes against humanity. And I damn well hope it was unchecked, because if someone approved of that, it would be KFC celebrating just that.",1
"So what you're suggesting is, we shouldn't even try and make russia accept any conditions that are favorable to the west and ukraine?","It's not up to you to decide if russia accepts this or not, but it should instead be in your interest if they did, seeing as you support Ukraine.",0
"You compare what Microsoft offer to drugs, but you know drugs don't really offer anything to society but temporary pleasure to addicts, while Microsoft do really offer real world services, so again, so what if they profit from this eventually? What makes you think they won't go to Microsoft even without this aide eventually?","Money? What money? Your money? Microsoft didn't say they will give 100 mil of cash, they said it will be digital infrastructure. Maybe, if you send them 100 mil, then you can dictate build the opensource infrastructure you're suggesting. You want Microsoft to send 100mil and tell them to build opensource infrastructure? You really sure that's a smart thing to do if you're CEO of Microsoft?",0
"Ski stations in other places in my region (canton of Fribourg) rely more and more on artificial snow each year, despite their higher elevation.","In Switzerland, we have always used snow sport transportation in summer as well (as far as feasible, e.g. T-bars of course won't work), we love hiking in the Alps (hiking in general is considered our national sport) and with the advent of eMTBs mountainbiking has increased in popularity in recent years as well.",1
"Are you aware that only a minority of abroad Cubans are up to that level of wealth? Well fuck all of those teachers, doctors and their families that managed to run to other countries am i right? If they hate an authoritarian regime that has made sure to keep their population in misery, they must be rich.","This is pretty much it. If you open trade with Cuba, it's pretty much like giving more money to the regime. As long as Cuban remains under a one party rule, shit is likely gonna stay the same. Let Cubans vote, let independent media exist, and then change will start.",0
"Interesting how the USSR would align with the west in a full cooperation capacity with the goal of fighting fascism together, yet made the most hands-off deal possible with Germany to buy time when this push for total alliance with the liberals was denied.","It’s a stretch to call a nonaggression agreement “aligned”, and to say Russia benefitted more than anyone is to be completely blind to the existence of the USA.",0
If you aren't getting meat from the butcher section of the supermarket then it probably has nitrates in it.,Nitrates are very important in cured meats as it allows them to be made and processed without shit that will kill you.,1
"I mean, if your government is a constitutional monarchy, swearing an oath of allegiance to the monarch is akin to swearing one to the constitution. In the US we often swear an oath of allegiance to a flipping flag because it’s the symbol of our government. The British monarch kinda plays the same role in Canada, Britain, and the other Commonwealth countries.","Well here in Canada the british monarch is our head of state. So they really do have the final say on everything. They could call us to war if they wanted to, or enact a draft, etc. The governor general of Australia dissolved a lawfully elected parliament that still had the confidence of the house before. The same thing could happen in any commonwealth country where the monarch is still the head of state.",1
"ME: "" I think Trump did absolutely nothing, turned the other cheek on purpose because he has real estate in China, and other business dealings. Trump probably tried to make $$ in China, and didn't want to strain relations, because all Trump cares about is what HE gets out of it."".","Well. The last president didn't care about hearing about much. The information could have very well been in briefings but it's common knowledge that it was difficult, to say the least, to get him to listen. He was easily bored.",1
">The prohibitions will not apply to museums, archives, libraries when organising exhibitions, informing the public about totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their consequences, and using such objects and information for the purposes of education, scholarship, professional art, and collecting.","The prohibitions will not apply to museums, archives, libraries when organising exhibitions, informing the public about totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their consequences, and using such objects and information for the purposes of education, scholarship, professional art, and collecting.",1
"if you think somehow the ignorant voters are going to suddenly replace ousted candidates with better options, then you are sorely mistaken, or you have such a low opinion of current candidates that you think ""everything must be better"".","It's pretty hard to believe that people are consciously voting for Johnson and a Democratic governor, AG, and SoS...so, if you ask me, I feel like the majority of people here are just morons voting for the incumbents.",1
I have been wondering if a price cap would even work. Surely Russia could simply choose to sell to those non-aligned nations at something approaching the a dual costs associated with drilling/transport.,"Perhaps this could provide an impetus for insurers to set up shop in non-aligned countries. Think an insurer based in Mumbai and underwrites the policies in rupees. Of course, such an entity would be a pretty boutique operation; it could not deal in western/Allie’s ports.",0
"The current US administration & American weapon builders don't know India's central government & its citizens' hearts on the national defense of India. Why did those Indians support Putin's regime during the war in Ukraine? The nation has purchased a large number of tanks & jet fighters from Russia, so the PM of India, Narendra Modi used to announce ""Putin is a real brother to Indians"".","So far India has been maintaining a very dangerous situation with other nearing countries like China and Pakistan at the border of India. Therefore, India needs more powerful military organizations. A.K.A India bought huge amounts of petroleum & natural gas, at very cheaper costs many times from Russia regardless of the US & EU's negative responses. India does not have any interest in the Ukrainian war, at the same time, the nation would like to obtain an awesome weapon-building technology to punish China at the border of India.",0
"Although I'm not an expert, and there are other ways the system was defrauded, the most obvious examples are businesses claiming more employees on their payroll than they actually had. My understanding is that the requirements for proving payroll were not very stringent and many people 'employed' their own family members a few months prior with higher than normal salaries to get more money. If you're looking to report someone it's easier if you are more familiar with their business. However, just from that site with minimal information you can maybe draw some conclusions. Look for the number of employees claimed. For example: If a pool with 5 lifeguards claims 50 full-time employees that's a red flag.","You CAN remain anonymous, but you then cannot get the finders fee unless you allow that to be public. You could report them and see the repercussions unfold naturally or you have your name out there and get your 'cut'. Definitely something to think over. However, I have seen a few reports of people getting large payouts but according to this article the max is 9,000,000.",0
Median income doesn't mean anything when we have a lot of the world's richest people inside our borders throwing those stats off.,Seriously in relative terms to the growth of the worlds output the wealth inequality speaks for itself. We should be 10 times better off and we shouldn't just be happy with what Mr. Billionaire says as if we should appeal to authority for his interest.,1
"It's for ADA compliance. Ballot markers are legitimate devices that can complete ballots for individuals who are blind, legally blind, cannot write, cannot read (these devices have audio support), etc.","The article doesn't provide details, but it's likely that the ballots would not have been accepted when counted. The ballots have ""code channels"", which are indicators printed on the ballot. They restrict the ballot to only be read in the correct precinct.",0
"He's pushing so hard on taking Ukraine because he knows his grip on power is reliant on delivering, as failure is weakness and weakness is unacceptable.","Russia values strenh. If he falters, which he already looks like he's going to falter trying to take Ukraine, he's ripe to be overthrown by someone, like a Prigozhin. His successor might be worse than him though, that's a risk that's very possible.",0
"Well you understand that from the perspective of many, supporting an AWB would in fact make you “anti-gun”. The term isn’t exactly a precisely defined one so it comes down to the perspective of the person using it, so surely you can see that while you may not consider yourself anti gun, they might considering you’re advocating gun control policy.",edit: A question that's more interesting to me would be why do some gun owners expect anyone that disagrees with them on any given aspect of gun politics to be an 'anti-gunner'?,1
"They're kept terrified of immigrants. Of minorities. Of becoming a minority. Of the gays. Of trans kids. Of ""crime"". Of Dr. Seuss books. Of any number of things that fuels conservative hysteria.","Also also, most people don't care about government. Their question is ""what are you doing to make my life better?"", and unless you are constantly hammering that point, as well as that Republicans will harm them, Republican faux-populist talking points will stick, again supported by their media narratives.",0
"And also keep in mind that UK's current PM (Rishi Sunak) does not agree with the documentary regarding Modi, according to reporting from BBC itself (.","But anyway...the UK leadership (Rishi Sunak) has also disagreed with Modi's characterization in the documentary, which is thankful. I would be quite worried if the west was full of gullible people that believe everything they see or hear without questioning whether a particular piece is propaganda or not.",0
It’s very likely not. Most likely this was just taunting America and the fact they let it hang around for a few days projects weakness that we know a nation like China would not reciprocate if the same thing happened on their soil.,"If it's only purpose was to taunt the US, then not shooting it down but still acknowledging its existence is America saying ""oh, that's cute China, be sure to try harder next time"".",1
"There is an interesting book, ""How Civil Wars Start"" by Barbara Walter (not Walters .). She's a political scientist who studies civil war. She lays out some criteria that often lead to civil war (and mentions that civil wars are less about geographical divisions than they are ideological or other divisions.","And she does make a point that in many civil wars people think ""no way that would happen here"" up until the moment it starts.",0
"Erdogan also has a bone to pick with a lot of nato countries harboring turkish political refugees/diaspora, and Sweden is the only country that he has leverage over.","Given that he right now wants us to change our country’s laws for his sake, and that Sweden isn’t in need of immediate Nato entry, I personally don’t believe we will reach a deal. The whole point of joining nato is to avoid being told what to do by foreign strongmen dictators.",0
"It sounds like a lot but for what job? Especially when you take into account that a lot of the federal jobs in DC are at an agency's headquarters, and thus that it's for more senior personnel.",The starting salary for someone with a bachelor's is like $45k in the federal government. It's a bit more for some degrees than others but it includes engineers and scientists. For someone with a PhD it's about $75k. That's very low for many technical degrees.,0
"These fucking companies pay no tax, get massive subsidies to offset infrastructure, lobby against clean competitors to cement their destruction of the planet, are responsible for massive atmospheric, biodiversity and heritage damage.",It’s good for us to remember that they are driven by naked greed and have none of our interests as a priority.,0
"Yes, the law does block direct or indirect ownership of residential property owned by Non-Canadians either personally, through corporations, or through other types of agreements. Seems like they've thought that part out and tried to close any potential loophole that could exist by using a corporation.","Basically, the first ""Prescribe real property"" refers to prescribed exclusion in the Regulation (See section 3(1) under sub-title ""Residential property - exclusion"" in the Regulation), while the same term in paragraph (c) is defined by section 3(2) of the regulation (Which applies the Prohibition to vacant land zoned residential or mixed use in the property census areas).",0
It'd be a good way for Democrats to show that lies have consequences; and that Republicans aren't the only ones who can work the political outrage machine.,"I don't know the answer exactly, but relying on the same old democratic doublespeak that allows for them to sound like they want changes only for them to point at the republicans and shrug and say, ""Well, we tried but they wouldn't let us do it... oh well. Gotta go to a fundraiser now. See ya."" seems to be what we're doing... again.",1
"But, as you say, one set of customers are unlikely to pay substantially more than what others will pay. And Russia has to sell oil/gas because it is the prime earner for them (though there remains tremendous nickel, iron, and all manner of other critical resources that the world is importing). The end result may very well be that the world is able to push the market price of oil well below what the Russian state budget requires, perhaps even below the cost of production.","Oil/LNG tankers require insurance. Most insurers are western and will have to abide by the rules. Additionally, if anyone wants to deal in dollars they have to contend with the sanctions.",0
The problem with our government is they are bypassing the constitution and exceeding their given powers.,"Judging the past by today's ac and heat, grocery stores and internet luxuries standards is the biggest problem people try to judge by.",0
"I guess the benefit of telehealth is that you can use them too? I’ve heard that Ritalin has a generic version for example. Elvanse/Vyvanse is more expensive and less stimulating, so maybe it’s not as popular yet.","The thing with ADHD is that if you’re able to “behave” as a child and avoid underperforming at school, people will assume you’re fine.",0
And how will election results be overturned without denying them in the first place? Just because it’s “only” the first step towards treason doesn’t mean it isn’t precisely that.,Further: they do NOT meet the standards or definition of the legal framework for ‘traitor’. In anyway.,1
"Well in my opinion, the first contribution you could make is to stop excusing religion and pontificating on all the things you think it's doing right.","As far as things religions have ""incidentally gotten right"" I have to disagree. Most of the world has been religious since the beginning of recorded history, and we've seen progress constantly on a macro scale. Have those religions been weaponized for political purposes? Yes. But overall, the most advanced nations have centralized religion in common as a political mechanism. The biggest lapses in progress, particularly in human rights and mass executions/apathetic starvation, in the last 200 years have come from countries that did away with religion completely.",1
"“14th Amendment Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.”.","Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution states that ""Congress shall have the power to regulate Commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes"".",0
"My take is that FIFA has been telling everyone for years “don’t worry, Qatar will be great hosts,” and at this point FIFA is too embarrassed to sanction Qatar and thereby admit they were even a little bit wrong.","It's ok, there is no way that fifa boss Gianni Infantino will let Qatar boss him around and he is above reproach as he has absolute no connection to Qatar... checks notes... Ahh, it seems he moved himself and his family to Doha over a year ago and pays ""rent"" on a house - probably to one of the members of the royal family...",1
"If nothing else it helps make Russia dependent on China, so when the dust settles in Ukraine they have a big thumb on what happens with whoever is left running things in Moscow.",That’s where I see the two stories lining up - when western countries say that China’s plan isn’t acceptable - China says it’s the reason they need to support Russia.,1
"Their inability to do so was made clear in March, but that doesn't mean they aren't too dumb to try with any non-NATO country. Ukraine is certainly the bastion against Russian expansion in the long term.",At present the west have said that they intend to continue supporting Ukraine’s efforts to fight Russian aggression inside of Ukraine.,1
While I kinda agree that Russia should be the most I am not surprise Israel would be a top 5 most condemmed.,"And soft on Saudi, and Qatar, and Iran, and Syria, and wait... there's a clear trend here where all the surrounding countries are worse but get a pass but Israel gets condemned.",1
"Replenishing doesn't bring forests back. It merely brings back some trees. There is no biodiversity, and it takes decades, sometimes even centuries, for forests to gain back their native fauna and flora.","Yes I agree completely, but bulldozing virgin forest should stop asap. We need to start using the same land to produce timber instead of harvesting from new land. This isn't the case.",0
There's no doubt there's some unrest right now in the upper strata of Putin's government. This Putin confidant may have just gotten too friendly with one of the potential replacements' camps and got caught. One thing that has become clear in the last few years. It doesn't take much for Putin to identify someone as a threat to his power and respond lethally.,"Yeah rereading the article it looks like he's probably not. Although I would argue that someone could be in Putin's circle and be stationed anywhere, but anyway... it seems most likely on closer examination, with his involvement with mobilization, it might have been an angry local that took him out. It's simply being reported as a suicide because it sounds better for the war effort. Putin's war is starting to become decidedly unpopular in the outlying republics. Who thanks to modern technology are becoming acutely aware that this has largely been a war of poor kids from the provincial areas dying for rich men in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Which kind of describes a lot of Russia's wars, really.",0
"Meh, in like 1855 they had 133 failed votes for Speaker, keeping the House unsat for like, two months.","I mean, if they can't find someone who is acceptable to a majority in the current House, they don't have much choice. This is uncharted territory in a lot of ways.",1
"Tl;dr your average Republican voter wants rules for the out group and none for the in group (which they consider themselves a part of). Santos helps them accomplish that, his background be damned.","Many of these goals prop up the others, but the crucial step is beating Democrats – which Santos did handily. The remaining four will inevitably follow.",0
"I wouldn't say some outside agency is policing them, it's more like... every single lawyer is policing every other lawyer. Yes, conflicts of interest exist, lawyers who are chummy with one another, Lawyers who work together, or for one another, but, in the aggregate, the entire profession is holding each member of that profession accountable. For a large enough group of people, with enough conflicting priorities, enough different little tribes, this works. Short of these industry wide organizations, almost no self policing body is ACTUALLY policing itself.","It is very possible for an organization to police itself and there are many well established means for doing so. All of them require the organization be run by people who actually, at some point or another, want to establish the necessary structures to make it possible, and all of them from then on do require ""buy in"" from at least a signficant sub-portion of the organization, but both things are possible.",1
"Conscription is necessary when the nation is threatened though. In Ukraine many brave women joined their male counterparts in the armed forces to push back the invaders, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that women have their place on the battlefield. I think it's true that women tend to dislike armed conflict more than men but when the necessity arises, all should answer the call of their nation.",However you’re correct that women in general tend to oppose equality in conscription more than men. Which is stupid. However I think women oppose conscription in general more than men too.,1
"The German tanks probably have better optics too and will likely wreck the Russian tanks too, it’s a shame it took so long to send them.",It’s kind of surreal seeing almost the same tanks matching up in a war 35 years later. I’m sure Russia watched the gulf war footage and know these tanks are really bad news for them lol.,0
"Sure, the U.S. and South Korea have massive superiority over North Korea, but unlike NK, they aren't going and shooting ICBMS over Japan and making nuclear threats left and right. At this point NK has nukes, they don't need to keep making threats to maintain their independence, yet they continue to do so.","Missile tests aren't threats, and the US has a long history of testing ICBMs like that, and making threats. North Korea isn't uniquely dangerous. Small countries rely on asymmetric warfare, and North Korea is surrounded by five of the world's largest militaries; the missile program is a deterrent, a paper tiger. They cannot engage in an aggressive military action without getting wiped off the map—a threat commonly made against them—and they have significant reason to fear the major military powers around them which have previously occupied the country. Like them or not, these people won't be attacking anyone and don't see themselves as aggressors.",1
"bro what, how does standing with russia leave China without an argument that Taiwan belongs to China. Who are they arguing to ? Nobody is going to change their minds if Taiwan is chinese based on how they treat Ukraine, not to mention the whole point China/Russia creating a new world stage is to not care what anyone thinks of their own stratetic moves.",I can only see one move that would fix the current situation for Ukraine in regards to China Russian cooperation.,1
It just blows my mind that Moldova hasn't tried to overhaul it's military. This is far from the first time there's been credible evidence Russia is interested in destabilizing Moldova.,"Then they'll go conspiciously silent when Russia annexes Moldova, or just do their good old mental gymnastics.",1
"A semiautomatic rifle that has a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, except for an attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only with, .22 caliber rimfire ammunition.","A semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine or that may be readily modified to accept a detachable magazine, if the firearm has one or more of the following:",0
"The only way you get to a majority is if you include all of the mortars; pretty much everything in the active inventory for the field artillery (549, 795, and all of the 58 cal families of munitions) are fin stabilized and anything we're manufacturing at this point is equippable with additional PG kits (literally connect the plug and bolt it on).","Arguably the base bleeds could still be called a ballistic profile if not fin stabilized, but that still only gets you to like three out of the twenty or so manufactured LIN's of US 155mm. I'd have to check what's still in production for the 105mm but it's almost entirely base bleed for the ammo in the unit basic load.",0
"5) There would be serious federalism concerns here too, because states are largely empowered to conduct their own elections.","How can you tell states that they can't allow someone on the ballot, or that their electors can't cast a vote for their candidate, or that their votes won't count, without implicating federalism concerns?",0
"However, if Russia decides to lob a (Short Range or Intermediate Range) ballistic nuclear weapon or use heavy conventional bombers, a Patriot battery will eat their lunch.","Patriot is also capable of shooting down missiles, not just aircraft, which helps with reducing the civilian casualties from Russia's missile barrages.",1
"I'm afraid there won't be any reparations from Russia, their buddies from western Europe won't allow it. Ukraine will be left in ruins for decades, which will be considered as a win for Russia. Sure their economy got a big hit from sanctions, but as long as their neighbour suffered even more, it was worth it. That's just russian mentality.","Sorry, but that's naive way of thinking. Putin is not a cause, he's a symptom. He attacked Ukraine, because that's what common Russians expect (not all ofc). For Russia to act like an empire. It always has been this way, Russia never leaves its neighbours in peace, no matter who rules in Kremlin.",0
"In Ukraine it’s been Soviet tanks vs Soviet tanks. The change in capabilities will definitely push tank-on-tank kills since Leopards/Challengers/Abrams are able to acquire, engage and kill T72s from distances where T72’s will struggle with just acquiring the target.","They are, the Leopards are main battle tanks, Bradley’s are closer to light-medium armor infantry fighting vehicles with some serious ability to . The Leopards will do heavy tank stuff, like blow up other heavy tanks, vehicles, emplacements, and really anything else they want. Both are needed, both will do some serious damage in mostly the same but slightly different ways.",1
"My wife and I sit at the table together and fill out our ballots, they are not secret in the sense that we can choose to (or potentially be coerced to) show someone else our ballot prior to submitting it. That isn’t an issue with in person voting since you are in a private space and immediately drop your ballot in the box. Some states even have rules around not taking a photo of your ballot to keep your vote secret.","It is not illegal for voters to choose to disclose, if they so wish, whom they intend to vote for or whom they voted for.",1
"Their goal now may simply be to save face by not losing, weakening and destabilizing Ukraine, demonstrating Russia's ability to project military power on it's neighbors, and having some Ukrainian territory to show for it all in the end.",If the Ukrainians can keep supplied then the Russians will most likely run out of munitions and soldiers to throw at them and Ukraine will push them back. But if Ukraine cannot keep up with the supplies then the sheer amount of Russians coming will overwhelm them at great cost. But putin would be fine with that as long as he gets the land. It would truly be the Zap Brannigan tactic but it may honestly work.,1
"A Russian warship was sunk in the same area on January 10 by Ukrainian artillery. While it was unclear what class the vessel was at the time of the sinking, an infrared photo accompanying the announcement showed what appeared to be a patrol boat on fire.","Following the reports of the sinking of the five motor boats, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry did not update its tally of Russian ships destroyed by its forces, perhaps indicating that they were too minor to count or unconfirmed.",0
"There is also likely bigotry playing a factor. As 'protecting french language' heats up, there is a lot of pressure for Quebec to accept more west Africans (as they can protect french, most other immigrants flip to english). But that'd make Quebec dark skinned, when a reality is a large number of those defending french language are actually using it as a dog whistle to protect old stock white francos. Quebec has one of, if not the worst demographics on the continent and their language will significantly drop if they are not willing to target darker Quebeckers for immigration. Instead, racist tension builds and builds in Quebec (they are not alone of course).","Video account from people of colour who immigrated to Quebec and face discrimination and other issues, despite your denial:",0
"Like, even if this war was going well for Russia, this would still be disastrous on the world stage, even for their “allies.”.","What nation, what investor is going to go to Russia when they can and have backtracked on their statements in as little as a handful of hours?",0
"January 2022: Former President Donald Trump said Russia controls Germany because of its dependence on Russian gas and said the Russia-Ukraine crisis is a ""European problem."".","That said, without the support that the US gave so far, I'd bet that the war would be a guerilla war with lots of street fighting right now.",0
"Wouldn't you want to be proud of being first to stand up to Russia with a big fuck you and supporting Ukraine? I know it's logistically more difficult than that, but stop pussy footing around Russia - they're already exposed for what they are. Decide now, or later isn't going to change what Russia may or may not do.",I seem calculating and cold but i think we hold Back so russia gets grinded down slowky and not stompt in in go. So they Lack the will and Power to lauch atomik or further attaks in general.,1
"Maybe because these weapons will only be used against Israel, and maybe also because Hezbollah are taken here as defenders of Lebanon and not as terrorists.","In Lebanon the Shia sees them as defenders, not others, you are right. However, if you re-read my comment, I said ""Hezbollah are taken here as defenders of Lebanon"", as in Reddit, where people know nothing about the region. Obviously Lebanese, who live in Lebanon, will know better.",0
"No, Trump’s actions were worse because we know that he actively misled and refused to cooperate with the DOJ. We also know he had many, many more documents. Not knowing the specifics contained in each document, I cannot say the materials one has was worth than the other.",Carelessness due to arrogance; and lack of oversight and real consequences. Same reason after the email “scandal” it continues to come out that every other official is sending sensitive information from hotmail accounts.,0
"The amount of apps that track you is obsene. I have some apptracking software on my deivcie and in the last 7 days i got somthing like 36,206 tracking attempts from 13 apps. everything from GPS coardinites to screen resuliton. A while ago I also got a tracking attempt to see Headphone status. It is insane so much personal info from so many componies. and such a wide variety of stuff they want to know my exact location and wether i have headphone conected. Privacy is so hard to get in this digital age.",Remember when the smart thing was to stay anon on the internets to avoid your shit getting compromised??,1
Nope. I didn't make up the fact that diabetes afflicts economically depressed populations at a higher rate than the population at large. But you know this.,"There is another side to this. As a kid my family was on food stamps (EBT), my sister, brother and me all got low blood sugar often. In my brother it never got too bad but me and my sister brother feinted from it on occasion. Me more than anyone else. Because of this it was necessary for us to have high sugar stuff around because if I didn't eat every couple hours I could go down and having something to get the blood sugar back up quickly when I noticed the signs was very important. I have a high metabolism and have always been energetic so I would burn through calories faster than most. It took me a long time to get used to the fact that I have to eat frequently even if I'm not hungry and I'm able to mostly manage it now but still there are times at work where I have had to sit down and get someone to bring me a candy bar so I wouldn't drop.",1
Our Constitution and our institutions are purpose-built to fight against attempted coups. It was all written just after we came out of a military dictatorship.,"All three branches of government now have political will, popular support and evidences to go hard on these insurrectionists and whoever is organising and financing them.",0
"The purpose of a Nazi saying ""The Holocaust didn't happen"" isn't to deny the truth to themselves -- they know it happened. What they're doing is signalling to others that they're Nazis and hate Jews, making themselves visible for like-minded as well as creating an atmosphere of intimidation. The usual victim cult thing also plays into it, ""The Holocaust is a Jewish conspiracy to strangle the German people"" kind of talk, ""Join us and we'll save Germany from that attack, and yes of course murder Jews because while the Holocaust didn't happen it should have"".","Courts, by interrogating expert witnesses -- aforementioned historians. Same process of truth finding as in any other case. You're welcome to argue your point against those historians but they're going to tear you apart mid-air because unlike deniers they actually know their stuff.",0
"I offered an explanation to someone replying to you, but please correct me if I’m the one who’s wrong. I’m pretty sure that you’re saying establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats both think that voters want more conservatism, when the opposite is true.","I think that the person you’re replying to meant that Democrats have been saying candidates weren’t “conservative” enough, literally exactly the same as the Republicans. It doesn’t seem like they were saying Democrats were doing the ‘equivalent’ of the same thing on their side of things within their end of the political spectrum, and picking a bunch of Bernies and AOCs in their primaries ... rather, they’re saying Democrats were completely MATCHING the push to the right, both parties in the same direction.",0
"Of course, that is nonsense as it would be too late for him to have designated them as personal records when he sent them to Mar-a-Lago; they have to be designated as personal records upon creation...","So... that is kind of what the law says (see e.g. which notes ""the President has the discretion to determine what is personal material"").",0
"Last time I checked, people are still trying to get away from Cuba in droves and despite the internets best efforts to convince me otherwise, I don’t see a single communist based nation on this planet that’s capable of existing without being 100% dependent on outside western trade.","Instead - the trade embargo continues its six decade-long failure at dislodging the Communist from Cuba, stands as a thorn in the side of general U.S. - Latin American foreign relations, and allows Havana an ever so convenient bogeyman to blame for their own self-inflicted policy failures.",1
"Putin declared a unilateral ceasefire, which they violated after a couple hours. Ukraine wasn't required to accept it, and they probably didn't even have time to break it before russia did so.","It was just a pr stunt to try to put a blame Ukraine for not willing to make some peace. Never forget, putin did not asked for a ceasfire for ukranians holidays, he declared one for Russians holidays, like if they where entitled to. Second point, you can't unilaterally declare a ceasfire, that's illogical, you ask for one. And even if Ukraine would have agree, they would have broke it and blame Ukraine.",1
"But yet, this idiot has been fighting hard to move education funds to private schools in kentucky. Which would only increase this issue. Believe it or not, Kentucky doesn't allow this, and just recently, the bill to accomplish this did not pass.","As a teacher who lives and teaches in his district, he is just mind-boggling stupid. For one, kentucky has a serious issue with school funding at the moment. Schools here are funded through SEEK, which basically is that each student that attended gets a dollar amount to the school, and students with IEPs have a dollar amount that is increased by a multiplier. It was actually amazing when it was created as it helped schools to run based properly on their population. The problem is that those funds never increased with inflation, so now schools are hemerging money and have to go to property taxes to meet the difference, which only widens the gap and introduces class segregation.",0
"It's not complicated, it's just fools whose brains are incapable of connecting dots from point a to point b.","Republicans love spouting free market principles... no regulations because the people are smart. This is what a lack of regulation nets you. Bodies. Still obtusely pretending this isn't conservative rhetoric 101 or that you are tired of politics, doesn't make you moderate... It makes you stupid.",0
"That's the ideal solution, but governments, generally, are becoming less willing to kneecap employers behaving badly.",The similarities are the government intervening and stopping the workers from getting their reasonable demands.,1
"His inciting speech is protected speech until it becomes ""an incitement to imminent lawless action,"" where such action is likely.","What I find interesting is that ""likely to incite or produce such action"" should probably be viewed in the context of the amplification of that speech. In other words, if you tell 10 people ""someone should break so-and-so's damn neck"", the odds are not likely that one of those ten will do it. But if you tell a million people? It becomes a lot more likely, statistically speaking.",1
"It fucking sucks that it's come to this, but there's no sense in denying that the vast majority of voters don't see it as anything but popularity.","This both sides are equally undermining the election process and ""none of them are for the people"" (all politicians are equally bad) is the weakest of all talking points. Want to quantify your claim? How many times and ways has Donald Trump claimed the 2020 election was stolen? What's the number? And you want to put a number out their for how many times you claim Hillary claimed the 2016 election was stolen? Are those numbers equal, close?",1
"Women could not generally do the sort of back breaking labor that was required for survival in those days; and men obviously could not get pregnant or breast feed. So it was an ""equal"" contract.","Historically, it was a contract by which men and women both committed everything they had (for men, their ability to do hard agricultural labor; for women, their ability to have children and take care of them) in order to generate sufficient resources to support a family.",0
This probably means that they realized that the state of their current nuclear arsenal and infrastructure is not what they thought it was.,"This means that they're current nuclear infrastructure is not actual capable of launching nuclear strikes, and Putin's nuclear rhetoric has all been a bluff. NATO must launch a full-scale preemptive strike against Russia as soon as possible to prevent them from developing this nuclear capability.",1
"That's not what happened here. There was a compromise to end the use of coal 2030, so the energy companies are allowed to burn that crap until then. The compromise also saved 5 towns from beeing destroyed for a even bigger mining expansion, even without the Ukraine war this would have happened. Unfortunately, a lot of russian gas needs be substituted by coal for while because what's the alternative?",I think the problem Germany has is their choice is either coal (which is dirty but they have it) or oil (which is not as dirty but they have to buy from Russia).,1
There will more than likely be a conventional war before nuclear war.. stop pretending like you're the only one who understands the implications.,Any nuclear exchange would probably only come if one side got too close to winning the conventional war first. Neither China or the US would want to fire the first shot unless their theoretical backs were up against the wall and it was the last choice.,1
"The newspaper cited unnamed sources as saying the request by American officials was not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, but a calculated attempt to ensure Kyiv maintains the support of other nations.",">The newspaper cited unnamed sources as saying the request by American officials was not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, but a calculated attempt to ensure Kyiv maintains the support of other nations.",1
"This changes things for SpaceX considerably. It turns them from just a communications provider (which they have no objections about since they also provide US military with communication services), into a weapons manufacturer. A very different deal for SpaceX. The other uses for Starlink is fine. They have objections about Starlink being made into part of a weapon.",(You're saying Starlink doesn't want to be held under some US weapons law... But the US government might want them to be anyway)?,1
"Can confirm. There's was not a single power outage since February, 11. For comparison in worst days of December there were no power for up to 20 hours per day.",I live in front of a major power station and witnessed more than 10 rocket strikes on that power station and a herd of Iranian drones. Luckily for the power station Russian cruise missiles and ballistic missiles are shit. They hit in radius of 1.5 km. Because of these terrorist strikes innocent people die. And no I'm not talking about intercepted missiles. Russian missiles are really this terrible.,0
"""Russia no longer poses a military threat to the world, it's just a fiction, the only issue left is a nuclear arsenal and an uncontrolled regime that will make the whole world realize the need to denuclearize Russia."".","""Then we will see more liberation of territories and the task of the final defeat of the Russian Federation. This will happen throughout Ukraine from Crimea to Donbas,"" -he said.",0
"""In particular, Barclays named CCH, Henkel, PMI, JDE Peet's and Carlsberg as having the largest sales exposure to Russia within the European consumer staples sector."".","So, here's my thought. How many US officials were tried and convicted of war crimes against humanity for dropping -- not one, but two -- atomic bombs on Japan?? Let that sink in. War crimes are determined by those who ""win."" There is no such thing as a ""good war."" There is no such thing as a ""clean victory."" There are, however, individuals -- atrocious individuals -- who use war as a way to release their inner monster. But, I find it offensive to declare Russia -- all of Russia -- guilty of crimes against humanity.",1
No wonder Russia is having to snatch people off the streets and you know they are not getting even close to adequate training.,"We know Ukraine will ultimately defeat tyranny, and the UK will continue to train and arm Ukrainian forces with the equipment they need.",1
"BRUSSELS — The mysterious blasts in September that hit the Nord Stream gas pipelines built to carry Russian natural gas to Europe were caused by “gross sabotage” and investigators have found traces of explosives, Swedish authorities said Friday.",The explosions in late September rocked a key pipeline that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe at a time when Moscow is using energy as leverage in retaliation for Western sanctions over the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.,0
"I’m not surprised that Republicans are the ones trying to censor voices they disagree with on Twitter. I mean, after all, they accused Democrats of doing it, so you know that was a Republican admission.","You’re probably a bit more sanguine in the prospect of Republicans engaging in self reflection than I am. I see no reason to believe they will ever stop and think “Wait, are we the baddies?” But I take your point there.",0
"People just want to continue living their same exact lifestyle, but with different words attached to the same thing. In reality, the changes we need to make probably wouldn't leave us with something that resembles the modern, comfy lifestyle and may even require population shrink (Imagine telling people that they can't have as many kids as they might want? Good luck on that one.) No one wants to sell this to you because they already know you won't buy it and no politician wants to promise it to you because they know you won't vote for them on it.","We can blame politicians and billionaires and whatever else makes you numb and apathetic, but it matters not because we are all responsible and we will all suffer the same fate which is extinction and it may come a lot sooner than you think.",0
But then you open up the argument that some of the FBI still have an “insurance policy” against Trump and he stated the documents at his house were planted too…..so if you believe secret service loyalists set up Biden then at least some credibility is granted to Trumps claim that FBI loyalists set up Trump. Since it’s no longer out of the question that the government could do such a thing.,He’s not getting busted for 1-6 either. He wasn’t at the Capitol and there’s no evidence he wanted people to attack the Capitol.,0
"There aren’t two sides when one side is morally decrepit and seeks to deprive the other side of their human dignity. In this case, it’s one side of the argument and a pile of shit that needs to be shoveled away.",Walker’s either a dumbass tool or smart enough to shamelessly milk the white racists’s perception of the dumb black slave persona for gain.,0
No he didn't. He had no stint where he opposed Russia with any reality or legitimacy. He was favoring Russia even during his campaign for presidency. There were people wearing shirts at his rallies that said stupid stuff like I'd rather be Russian than a democrat. Hillary was widely known to be tougher on Putin and Putin openly hated Hillary and favored trump.,"""Trump refused to call on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stay out of the American politics and instead reasserted his desire to draw Russia and the US closer together as president."".",0
"So that history makes it even more important to try to change. And Francis tries to be the example of that change. He lives in a simple apartment --- not the Pope's luxury quarters. He drives an old car, a 1984 Renault 4L.",This is a man who is doing his best to live his life as an example of the virtues that he preaches.,0
"Yes - Costa Rica is amazing, but theres a dark side that many people dont see until you have an extended stay. My mother has lived there for a while, and so has a good friend and his partner. All three of them have had violent home invasions. My mother was tied up and held at gunpoint. Theres a reason why metal bars over the windows are the standard construction method. Yeah its an amazing place - lets not get too carried away though, the crime and violence is on another level.","Also - infrastructure modern?? Lol cmon man theres barely roads in many places, theres no address system - you cant even get a package delivered from the US without going through a lot of trouble.",0
"I can't imagine it'll do anything but help their economies. They just don't want Biden to have a political win, and they want to keep people as desperate as possible.","The first is they want to deny Biden a ""win"". Student debt relief is an easy issue to court the younger voters, since it's a prominent issue that disproportionately affects them. If the relief gets denied, then they can run ads where that gets listed as a ""broken Biden promise"" despite their obstruction being the cause of it.",1
They may have lost the war but they stubbornly fight on hoping to overwhelm Ukrainian resistance with sheer numbers of canon fodders so it isn't over until the last Russian soldiers left Ukrainian border.,"So if I get this right Russia sacrifices hundred thousands soldiersz thousands of tanks, IFVs, artillery pieces, hundreds of jets and helicopters just so they can deplete NATO's reserve ammunition?",1
"That’s pretty much who it was in my youth as well. Frustrating because I was going to school, working part time, and constantly applying for full time jobs. Plus, in those days you had to pay something if you could afford it so I had to shell out $12 for $48 worth of food stamps — and live on that for a month. I will never disparage people on welfare or vote for any politician who promises to get those “deadbeats” off. If not for food stamps and Medicaid (and Planned Parenthood) I would never have made it to bring an educated, taxpaying citizen.","You are really going all out to defend someone who went out of her way to make a young woman trying to feed herself feel shame. Not sure why. The food stamps were probably in my hand and anyway, I would have had to separate items that food stamps couldn’t be used to buy, so they could be rung up separately. I was young and naive and didn’t feel anything at all about using the help I thought all Americans were entitled to until that minute, which is why it is so burned into my memory. Later I did start to notice the face just about all of them made when I pulled out food stamps to pay.",0
"It doesn't help that McCarthy is a spineless blowhard more interested in acquiring a new job title than amassing power. He's ensured that he'll be nothing more than a paper tiger, a puppet for whoever manages to actually come out on top within the House of Representatives.",I doubt they would join the Democrats given the current atmosphere. Much more likely that they either plan for retirement or believe they can win their seat as an independent. Voting for a Democratic Speaker would end them as Republicans. The consequences would be.,0
"We are at the beginning of finding out just how much long-term damage Trumpism is going to do to this country. Trump was successful in a couple of things. He was successful in exposing the fact that there are a lot more racists and bigots in this country than anybody was comfortable admitting to, even if they knew it privately. He was successful in coralling them into a voting bloc that reshaped the GOP and in many cases can no longer be ignored due to its sheer size. He was successful in showing us that continuing to push the envelope as far to the right as possible, then pushing it further, is a viable pathway to victory in some areas. And he was successful in showing us that our government really doesn't have an answer when someone like Trump comes along and says ""So What? What are you going to do about it?"".","2) Cooperate with the J6 committee, support their findings and support a recommendation for prosecution by the DOJ.",0
"So can Carbon. We're better off using charcoal from wood which captures the carbon from the air to constrain the Hydrogen in a Hydrocarbon. Then you don't need to change anything about the engines or storage. The issue though is doing it cost efficiently. Same issue we'd have with making Ammonia from green Hydrogen except without having to deal with Ammonia, which is some nasty shit that would put tonnes of NOx in the air.","The issue with Ammonia is if it escapes, and it wants to be a gas at atmospheric temperature and pressure... It'll kill you way faster than gases that merely harm us by displacing Oxygen. The Hydrocarbons we use don't really evaporate fast enough to asphyxiate us. Avoid Ammonia at all costs.",0
"So, some of this goes back to Mueller and trump with Russia. The right learned to hammer on points that are right, but ignore some factual point.","Trump saying no collusion. There is no crime of collusion, so that was always going to be true. Never mind one of his guys gave polling data to a Russian asset.",0
The boy children will be trained for war and the girl children will be put through forced pregnancies when they all come of age.,Their population growth is stagnant for over over 30 years. The war is killing off their able bodied men.,0
"Most of the west is grassland plains, not desert. The Great Plains as it's called, makes up a third of the US land. Though some areas have been utterly ruined by human actions and can't really be called grassland anymore. Still, with a bit of water and some caring we could make the Great Plains great again!","Nope, most of the west is not a desert. Most of it is grassland plains, and has been so for thousands of years. Those grassland plains are also a major breadbasket for not only our nation, but for many others as well. Now the southwest has many areas that are deserts, but there are some health benefits for people to live there. Like people who have asthma or bad allergies to plant pollen have it easier there.",0
according to the scientific data and mesaurements - the overall CO2 lvl in Earth's atmosphere in 2020 was at 149% of a lvl from 1750 (set as 100% - pre industrial era).,"Mankind (in general) is responsible for CO2 that amount to circa about 0,000925% of Earth's atmosphere.",0
Imagine having to support a billion different versions of the architecture made by a billion different people/organizations. Good luck getting unified OS's like Android and iOS to work on a billion different instruction set architectures.,"Without IP protection, any person would be able to copy and modify the ARM architecture as they wanted to.",0
The Republicans have been butchering up the tax code for decades in order to benefit their corporate overlords so they don't have to pay much or any taxes.,"And spare me the ""a flat tax doesn't tax everyone fairly"". Yes, it does. 10% is 10%. How much you pay is relative to how much you make. $3000 from a $30,000 salary is a lot less than $10,000 from a $100,000 salary. If they lower the tax rate to 10%, everyone will take home more money so they'll have more to spend on food, clothing, etc if they are low income earners.",0
"That is essentially what the “liberal” argument boils down to, which sounds far more fiscally conservative to me than cutting revenue and then blaming the other side for ballooning the deficit because they don’t want to take essential programs away. The GOP aren’t in any way fiscally conservative, they are simply using that idea as a weapon against their political opponents while acting as a de facto political wing of corporate America and the 1% with no regard for the welfare of the people of this nation whatsoever.","The Democrats don’t run on a fiscally conservative platform, but the data shows that in the last 30 years Democrats have been more fiscally conservative than Republicans, when they control the Executive Branch.",1
"Would also explain why both sides deny it's theirs; Russians have a missile shot down, because it was, and Ukraine have a missile that shot down a Russian one, but failed to detonate. Result being the Russian missile is thrown off course, and explodes in Poland.","Volodymyr Zelensky has ""no doubt"" that a missile which landed in Poland and killed two people was fired by Russia.",1
"People 18 and older were already voting due to the . The Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not pass a law to lower the voting age for local and state elections and that's up to the states to decide, which many of them allowed. For federal elections it wasn't overruled by the Supreme Court. So the 26th Amendment accomplished two things, making it so no one 18 or older can be denied the right to vote due to their age (which they were already allowed to vote for federal elections and many state and local elections), and two allows a protection for this right that isn't easily rolled back with another law.",H.J.Res.16 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States extending the right to vote to citizens sixteen years of age or older.,1
"That’s not to say Russia can’t win at all either, nor are they harmless to Ukrainians, but to say that Ukraine cannot win is downright wrong.","And to conclude, I think your argument at its core is structured around the faulty premise that Ukraine can’t beat Russia. If it were a year ago today, I would have agreed with you. But it’s not, and I have a year’s worth of information that says the Russian army is nowhere near as mighty as you think it is. This isn’t just me being filled with hopium or whatever the hell, but they absolutely can win against Russia. The problems the Russian army are facing are very deeply ingrained in their military, and and are very difficult to overcome at peacetime, let alone during a war.",0
"Ever since Reagan's days Republicans do not criticize other Republicans except when actively campaigning agains them (primaries and such). Once that's over with, no Republican can ever do any wrong in the eyes of other Republicans.",The threat of getting primaried is an axe at the neck of all Republicans reducing their ability to act out of consience always looking to the party dads for direction.,1
"States get away with legal cannabis because the federal government doesn't really care to enforce the illegality, (Do dispensary raids happen anymore?), But it's still federally illegal & the DEA could still crack down if they were so inclined.","States can also legalize or criminalize things. So, if you want weed legalized in your area, you need to look at your state government. Local elections generally mean more than federal when it comes to your everyday life.",1
"No, for enforcing the world order that does not allow for genocide -- which is what we are already dealing with. Your whole ""all this war? for what?"" is really misguided. We are already in this situation. And if things get out of control, it is squarely the fault of Russia who is constantly threatening to use nukes.","Russian state media constantly talks about striking NATO -- even hitting them first, nuking London etc. Don't you think this kind of belligerence will breed misunderstandings?",0
"What you're describing is regular charlatans, who are present in all sorts of belief systems and religions. And seeing someone who likes this stuff being bombarded like they're the antichrist of society is just ridiculous. People like to have their little placebo rituals. Let them be happy. Be angry at those who actually encourage turning down real medical care. Those are the baddies.","Alright, I don't have data for this to react properly, but I've seen plenty of examples of christians denying modern medicine and relying on God. There have been news of orthodox churches having hundreds of covid positive believers because the priest told them they should rely on their faith. Also how could one forget about the infamous televangelist Kenneth Copeland and his covid speeches. Just commanding covid to go away in the name of Jesus is all it takes, apparently.",0
Russia is inflicting destruction on Ukraine...yes but what's that got to do with Indian companies pulling out of Russia? We have our own relations with Russia. Honestly the fact that they offered to pull out of Russia is baffling to me. They should not pull out. Russia is and will always remain a true partner in need for India. India's foreign policy is its own and is not affected by the west's pissing matches.,"A US/West supporter speaking about human rights, murder, torture and rape. Need I remind you that humanity owes its gratitude to the west for inflicting it with the cancer that is the middle east's crisis? Not to mention the countless people turning towards insurgency due to the west's undemocratic moves in the middle east. Radical islamic terrorism? Ever heard about it? West is definitely one of the major if not the biggest factor that contributed to it.",0
"Ionization ones are better at detecting really hot fires quickly, while light based smoke detectors are better at detecting smoldering fires that produce a lot of smoke.","Ionization smoke-detectors and photoelectric (not ""infrared"") smoke-detectors each work better with different types of smoke.",1
"It's such a ludicrous idea that the more you examine it, the worse it gets. There is zero chance that a ""national divorce"" would be pulled off without any fighting - either Second Civil War with the red states seceding or battles over what each new country gets and gives up.","This is a very important point. Suppose Greene got her wish and the US divided in two. Where would my state, New York, go? The Blue USA obviously, right? After all, New York is extremely blue. Except it isn't completely blue. Huge portions of rural New York are deep red. So they'd want to join Red USA. Meanwhile, blue counties in red states would object to being forced into Red USA.",0
"Of course I want NATO and the US to supply Ukraine with even more and it is frustrating to see them refuse to supply long range munitions while my relatives have to hide in the basement from missile strikes, but I'm also grateful that NATO and other nations have provided so much and continue to assert their support for Ukraine. If support was not provided - both when the war started in 2014 and when it escalated in 2022 - I know that people would have still fought against Russia but it would have been even more brutal and difficult for the people to stand against Russian imperialism.",Are you saying that NATO has not supported Ukraine enough and that no republic of Russia would want to experience war?,0
"Also frankly Russians knows long since that he is loosing this special military operation. That was made abundantly clear when he broke his own words, and started illegal mass recruitment.","People act as it the Russian people will suddenly decide that they have had enough and storm Putin's palace, which is just a silly pipedream. Putin isn't Gaddafi he has Russia locked down so tight, that people don't even know where his palaces are.",0
Her argument is that because Bangladesh refuses to admit she is theirs she is rendered effectively stateless by this law which conflicts with UK law that does not allow someone to be rendered stateless. So she feels that despite her activities and support of terrorists she should be free to return to the UK.,"So for the people arguing to allow her back, what is her punishment for becoming a terrorist? Jail time? Say she’s gone through enough?",1
You are missing the nuance. Russia claims things are false flags when they do something on purpose.,"Why now, false flag? Mistake or intentional, or Russia used foreign rockets without their identification markers. Time to see where these missiles were from.",1
"People frequently say this in these threads, but it's about as accurate as ""both-sidesing"" U.S. political parties. If you look at Ukraine's reported numbers on various things in the war, they come a hell of a lot closer to numbers confirmed by other sources than the Russian's numbers do.","I mean sure, the Russian military has been a complete clusterfuck in this war, but they definitely have more experience than anyone else with burning tanks.",1
"Now, you might be able to argue the French were correct that Australia wouldn't cut its losses and terminate the contract if the nuclear sub deal wasn't on the cards. However, it's hardly the fault of Australia if it makes the desire to seek alternative options known and another viable option is presented.",Australia had signaled they were exploring alternative sub options in public forums one year piror to the actual cancellation due to contract underperformance. The decision to accept the nuclear subs deal was also supported by both major Australian political parties so it was hardly a captains call.,0
"TSMC is an important part of Taiwan's soft power policy, but it is at best secondary in either the US or China's interests there. The Chinese hawks see the continued existence of a free Taiwan in general and the KMT in specific as the final bit of ""unfinished business"" left over from The Revolution. Which dovetails with but is still probably less important than the military truth of the situation.","There’s no comparison between the militaries. China has just over 200 Gen 5 fighters, which the US’s F16s can detect and destroy before they can destroy the F16. Let alone the US’s better planes.",1
"Same with lithium, even if it is mined in Australia or Chile, it’s most likely refined in China, with 61% of the worlds lithium refining capacity.",But anyone looking for lithium or rare earth minerals in the next 5 years will need those two countries. The lithium might be mined in Australia… but it’s refined and turned into batteries in China. USA imports 95% of its lithium from China. That includes TESLAs need.,0
I'm also saying no nation state should have the ability to grab someone off the street and force them into a situation where their life is in danger against their will. Especially when threatening them with prison or death for not complying.,If you need to threaten your own people with prison or death to get them to fight then seriously why even bother?,0
"For the last fucking time Russia is not forced to sell it's oil to Europe, Europe is forced to buy the oil from somewhere else. That oil Europe is buying has a higher price than Russian oil. Europe cannot afford a 100 plus US dollars price per barrel. Russia will sell to India and China at 80 dollars because the world price of Oil will rice to 100+ and instead of buying that, they will buy the Russia discounted one.","yeah he will want to sell to others, but china and india both have extracted a large discount from russia and this price cap will give them even more leverage going forward. remember, both would absolutely love to pay less for oil, and can make a nice excuse about 'well we WANT to give you more money vladmir, but see we have to buy our own insurance now and our own tankers, so you know... higher costs means lower prices.'.",1
"Don’t get your hopes up, if anything if this happens enough detractors will support McCarthy just to avoid split committees. Keeping their committee powers is far more important. They can always just oust him at a later time.",Outside of that I also listed how both parties have a set of rules on how to oust a Speaker. Ousting a Speaker doesn’t have set rules by the House so it’s established in the party rules that’s based at the beginning of each congressional session.,0
"We also have federally and state mandated water quality monitoring programs at known polluted sites. If you look at all the EPA National Priorities List (Superfund) locations, a part of the legal process involves studying the sites to establish baseline water quality, and then periodically testing during and after remedial actions are taken to make sure those actions actually keep the water clean. We usually do similar monitoring/testing for sediment, soils, vegetation, and animal tissue.","Generally, municipal drinking water and wastewater plant influent/effluent are tested for various contaminants regularly throughout the year, and held to specific standards. The big problem is making corporations take action if their industrial discharges cause water to fail standards.",0
"If there was no Islam or religion, men in power would use ""our customs"" or ""our tradition"" as the next excuse.","This reminds me of when the Taliban pick and choose things from Islam as well. Like forcing women to cover up but then not letting them run businesses/work, going to school, stoning people for adultery (except the burden of proof in Islam for such a crime is having 4 men seeing the act occur which is virtually impossible), and so on.",0
"That's the first time I've read that suggestion, and it sounds like something a serious political party might consider. Maybe pitch it to Europeans and Canadians, but leave us out of it. We Democrats are busy trying to blow a general election.","The Iowa Caucuses are ""a particularly undemocratic way of picking a nominee,"" and may have been essential in propelling a first-term senator to the Democratic nomination in 2008.",0
"No, Mr. Yglesias doesn't actually have any logical arguments. Actually read the whole article instead of the first few paragraphs. Mr. Yglesias goes on a rant proclaiming that sending US steel to fix bridges will take away from building apartments (note there is no law that states apartments HAVE to be built with US steel and this bill only covers infrastructure)... or that people leaving certain jobs for other jobs (that might be paying more/better or just simply improves their life by switching) is going to hurt the economy; or that we'll see massive inflation. Mr. Yglesias is talking out his arse, he has no coherent or intelligent argument at all.","... not needlessly expensive. Our infrastructure is in the crapper, has been for decades now. Engineers have been screaming about how bad a lot of dams, bridges, electrical and other important infrastructure conditions are. The fact that this kept getting kicked down the road is why it's so expensive.",0
"To be clear, in that statement they were referencing Nancy Davis, who was pregnant with a fetus with no skull who would die an unpleasant death shortly after being born if carried to term. Anencephalic fetuses can actually go to term with no sign of miscarriage. These ghouls aren't talking about hospice care for fetuses, they are talking about forcing a woman to go through months of additional pregnancy and full labor with all its attendant risks, all while knowing the baby born will have a lifespan of hours. The ""hospice care"" being offered to the doomed infant is in no way ""compassionate."".","Very well said. Unfortunately, we are seeing that modern conservatives dont actually have any guiding principles other than vindictiveness and greed. The Republican party no longer has a written platform as their vague sloganeering and symbol worship (claiming to value freedom, the Constitution, fiscal conservatism, law and order, Christ etc) would be more easily cited and exposed as completely meaningless.",1
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”.",Isn’t it interesting that the people closest to those in power making laws vote heavily for one party.,0
"""Yes, we will have peace. We will have peace, when you and all your works have perished -- and the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us. You are a liar, Putin, and a corrupter a men's hearts. You hold out your hand to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of the KGB. Cruel and cold! Even if your war on me was just -- as it was not, for were you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine for your own profit as you desired -- even so, what will you say of your torches in Kyiv and the children that lie dead there?","When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Russia."".",0
"The only logical help nukes would be if Russia had enough to destroy NATO before NATO has the ability to launch a counter-attack. But of course if it ever appears Russia is getting close to that kind of capability... they would be nuked immediately. (Likewise if Russia thought NATO was getting close to be able to launch a successful first strike, then Russia would be forced to launch).","The way things have gone I think if russia could use nukes on ukraine without risking a full blown nato invasion or nuclear retaliation, yes, absolutely.",1
"What is absolutely true is that Japan currently administers it, and neither Taiwan nor China likes it.","China and Taiwan posit their claims mainly because of their proximity to the islands, and some historical records. Japan stipulates their claims from its late 19th century survey and the islands’ status of terra nullius at the time.",1
"Now, Newsmax is demanding that DirectTV pay them. DirectTV says that Newsmax isn't worth it, and says they will honor the current deal.","Conversely, DirecTV MUST feel, based on the ratings, and they’d know, that Newsmax isn’t worth what they’re asking. Plus, I don’t believe they have anything else to offer. When MSNBC, CNN, & FoxNews come up for renegotiations, they bundle (or at least Fox did, they’re on their own now) the news with their other channels; ie DirecTV could get all the local NBC affiliates for free but they’ll pay $.08 for MSNBC, etc. (that’s a guess, it could be higher based on subscribers).",1
"It's amazing watching people finally, sadly, and hilariously disown trump as their own. As well as all the conservative outlets that post it getting smeared, calling it a hoax. It's freaking amazing.","Amazing. I couldn't come up with a more ridiculous parody of this if I tried full time for a year. I love how piss poor and fake looking the ""art"" is. Half of these barely look like him at all.",1
Yes but most of the democrats in senate and house were not there at the time of DOMA. This is was progress is called. And don’t equivocate that to modern Republican denial of the exact same thing. It’s pretty much the same as “DEMS WERE THE PARTY OF SLAVERY!” When that happened 6 generations ago.,"I mentioned nothing of slavery, and you didn't use ""equivocate"" correctly. (And DOMA wasn't six generations ago. I was there in DC when it was passed.) Forgive me if I'm not impressed with your condescending attitude about what constitutes progress. Democratic partisans and centrists should really take a moment to learn history and/or humility.",1
"Mindful of the failures of the League of Nations in the 1920s, where powerful member states would walk away from the coalition whenever it limited their ability to act on the world stage, the UN Security Council with it 5 permanent members was created not to promote peace but to solidify the power structure of the world to align with the Victors of WWII; who provide the lion's share of support to maintain the institution.","Without the Permanent Members of the Security Council, there would never have been a United Nations.",0
"Biden has been amazing in comparison to any president in recent history. Saying he's not perfect really says nothing. Washinon, Lincoln and Jefferson weren't perfect either because there's no such thing as a perfect president.",Overall I don’t really care to debate it though because it’s not like I think Obama was terrible. I just think Biden has been great by virtually any standard you can hold the position to.,0
Probably more of missile to hope distract. If they are running low the only way they can beat the AA is to over whelm it. So you can shoot these dummy rockets hoping a real cruise missile gets through while the AA is shooting the dummy rocket.,"This missile is very similar to Russian cruise missiles carrying conventional warheads; I don't think there's a way to tell them apart while they're in the air. I'm sure intelligence services are doing a lot to keep track of which kind of missile Russia is launching but ultimately it's impossible to know for sure until either the warhead goes off or the missile is shot down and examined (as in this case). So the issue isn't that this missile might have been a real nuke, it's that any missile Russia fires might be a real nuke. Many NATO missiles are also capable of carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads; this is one reason any direct engagement between NATO and Russia would be so dangerous.",1
I do see their perspective and there are many who fulfill this evil stereotype . ( looking at you Sheriff David Clarke!).,"Yeah. I enjoy some of those movies, and a few games made in that style, but realistically, ask most people who dress up like that to do any of that kind of actual work, and they wouldn't last long.",1
"In Mariupol, invaders are demolishing houses in the historic part of the city. ""Another cover-up of the consequences of bombing by russian planes. This is how the history of Mariupol after the Second World War turns into garbage."".","And he is kinda correct. But the best part is when the host asks ""so why aren't we hitting it?"" ""Hmm.. because priorities - first energy sector, then control centers"".",1
"The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.","Hi John_Watkins_287. Thank you for participating in /r/Politics. However, has been removed for the following reason(s):",0
They are depleting their missile stocks (With the exception of the cheaper ones which they still have in high numbers) and I believe NATO already have the data they need about their hypersonic missiles.,"The only things they have left are nukes, subs and their airforce which for some reason is equally a threat for NATO and Russia because you don't know when it's gonna fail and crash on an appartment building.",0
"The question isn't whether she can peel off Democrats; it's whether she can get votes from unaffiliated voters. Someone else posted exit poll numbers that say only 27% of Arizona voters are Democrats, compared to 40% independent and 33% Republican. Democrats don't win there by focusing on that 27%; they win by getting votes from the 40% independent voters, too.","Sinema ceasing to register as a Democrat doesn't really change the situation with votes at all. Sinema didn't become a Republican. She was already not a reliable vote for some Democratic bills, so that's not new. By all accounts, she will still be a vote for Democratic leadership positions. And with a Republican house, it's unlikely that much progressive legislation will be a possibility anyway. The Senate for the next 2 years is there to confirm Biden's nominees, and little else, and Sinema and Manchin are both relatively supportive of Biden nominees.",0
"Lithium is a relatively abundant Minerals on Earth, it is ""rare"", because until recently only the most obvious deposits where enough for the world market. Only recently it became strategic so people actually started really exploring for it, and, ooh wonder, are finding deposits everywhere. Thats why the rare Lithium for Batteries scares where always overblown (and likely funded by big oil).","Regardless of that it's a significant discovery, not only is it lithium it's rumoured to be of high grade lithium.",1
"Nicholas the II worried that revolution might come to Russia and make it incapable of continuing to fight the war. A guy by the name of Lvov came to Nicholas, this was a lesser prince in Russia. Lvov convinced Nicholas the II to abdicate the throne and allow a government lead by him to rule.","Had Nicholas the II not abdicated the throne, he might still be alive. But that's not how history happened.",0
Sherrill is my congresswoman and so I guess this is another one of her “at least I tried” attempts. Bills that have no chance of becoming laws aren’t an effective way to promote an idea. And in here in her district we have free day care starting at age 3 or 4 but the facilities are awful compared to private daycares. So more of that? no thanks.,Thanks for your kindness. I see it as different problems in different places my niece is in Vancouver bc and she had issues finding a primary care provider.,1
"If it's a pressurized balloon, then yes. If it's an aerostat/zero pressure type balloon, no. You can poke holes in it, but the gas will escape very, very slowly.",Balloons like this are actually really hard to shoot down. The contents inside the envelope are pretty much at the same pressure as the atmosphere so they don’t just pop.,0
"Well this is a complicated situation though because in one hand pension is great as it takes care of the elderly population, on the other hand if pension is a significant portion of your gdp then in essence you are paying the older generation with the future of the younger generation and for a country that is facing natural population decline it puts more pressure on the younger population. I don't know what the solution to such a problem would be but it is one that we need to figure out as more and more countries will have to wrestle with the same question. One more problem that comes up in this is that if a country is seeing a natural population decline then the interests of the older population have a higher representation than the interests of the younger population.","Maybe I'm being naive, but the inevitable consequence of people living longer, a falling birth rate and an ever increasing proportion of older people in the population is that people will have to work longer (unless they have saved enough to self fund retirement).",1
It only discredits the argument against him when people pull slanted logic that deviates from the argument at-hand.,"And in this case, when we're solely looking at accepting or rejecting an accusation, we need to be particular. Don't give people an ""out"" or any wiggle room to act in bad faith.",0
It's like Good Guy Trump...brings untold hatred down onto himself in order to destroy the piece of stinking shit that is the GOP.,"""Sure, Trump is a criminal narcicist who may well destroy the GOP, but at least he's not a liberal. Now if you'll excuse me l, I have a laptop to find."".",1
It is against the law for companies to waive employees' rights to overtime pay via contracts (day rate pay does have a possible exception if it meets the requirements to be considered a salary). It doesn't matter what a contract says regarding overtime: An employee is legally entitled to it.,"Because if you're non-exempt, you get overtime pay. It doesn't matter what you're told. That doesn't trump law.",0
"it had nothing to do with ethics, the states just like to steal peoples money without ever giving you a service in return because they are absolutely shit at budgeting. So they tax something to make up for the shortfalls of mismanagement. They contributed nothing to indie developers who struggle to make games. They contributed nothing to help online market places like steam.","there was a time when the sin tax seemed to make sense, but after years of data to evaluate we find that it does nothing for the reduction of alcohol and smoking use. Then a paradigm shift occurs, vaping becomes popular. People have a somewhat much safer means to consume nicotine. AND THEY TAX THAT.",0
Candace Owens is a grifter. She's a Machiavellian in the Dark Triad. She doesn't give a fuck about anything other than her own wealth and power. She just wants a horde of fans who will pay her to feed them poison. She gets off on it.,Gotta give it to her. She's really good at her job. Now her job is being The human embodiment of a piece of s. But she really gives it her all every day . She makes the best kapo I've ever seen.,1
"The reality is you won't go anywhere if you only speak french in Alberta for example, Canada is not really bilingual outside of Québec and New Brunswick.","So why can’t a person just immigrate to, say, any of the many other provinces or territories, them simply move to Quebec if that is, for some odd reason, their preferred location?",1
"In order for something to actually be done, the definition of what is considered acceptable under free speech to be changed, and that would likely take years, and be met with extreme resistance.","On a side note, I'd like to point out to anyone who doesn't know, that the notion the shooter considered himself non-binary, has absolutely nothing to do with if this can be considered a hate crime.",0
It's not just the equipment itself you need to worry about when you provide systems like the Abrams. The big problem is the significant logistical issues of keeping the Abrams functional.,"The US had the money, and time, to build up a huge amount of logistical personnel, equipment, depots, etc, all over the world to support these drawbacks of the Abrams. (and the reserve numbers to 'fill in' for equipment being serviced).",1
"Largely because after the Romans left there was a large scale population migration into England, who brought their language, culture and religion with them. In Roman times the population of what is now England were essentially Welsh. Wales and Cornwall and Scotland were the bits the incoming people didn’t reach.","In essence, the population has been largely non-religious for decades, but a lot of people identify as “Christian” for cultural rather than actual religious reasons. The number of people who self identify as belonging to the Church of England who actually go to Church is less than 10%. The main change is that people who lead non-religious lives are now being more honest about it.",0
"...as opposed to a ""reputable"" news agency whose ""opinion panels"" are populated with CIA agents and State Department flunkies, and whose advertising revenue is funded by the people who manufacture the Javelins, tanks, drones and missiles that are being used to blow up huts and weddings.",Pretending that you have a single source who is intimately familiar with a secret operation from the perspective of 6 foreign governments and this source went to you instead of a news organization is a lie.,1
"Gaza’s government explicitly calls for ethnic cleansing of Jews from the region, and they kill gay people. Shit’s wild with the double standards on Israel.","Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism. But there's scarcely an anti-Semite around who won't pass it off as ""Criticism of Israel"", or ""anti-Zionism"".",1
Yeah it’s awful. So many young men were killed in this meaningless war and even more young men chose to leave the country. The future is really dark.,"It’s nothing new. In the last 15 years or so Putin decided to make gay people the punching bag and the scapegoat of Russia. Whenever Putin’s popularity takes a nosedive he screams in fear and anger “Guys guys listen We should blame gay people It’s all them, it’s not me If Russia ever fails it’s because of the gay people Let’s protect the motherland from the western gayness!”.",0
"Trying to accommodate everyone by curtailing freedom always results in no freedom for anyone, because everyone has a different idea of what should be acceptable and what should be banned.",Every country curtails freedoms and it doesn’t automatically result in zero freedoms. Just because the government restricts the right to go around bottomless doesn’t mean they have to accommodate someone wanting to force women to cover their hair.,1
"Do you know where the term banana republic comes from, and the history of these places? This is not the time of place for this discussion, but the reality is every government is responsible for some evil. Some like Russia is very much intentional evil. The evil of other governments may come in the form of unintended consequences most of the time.","No matter how this war is resolved, it will lead to new challenges. To make your mind up now that all Russians deserve to suffer for many decades to come is very premature. To take such an absolute position without acknowledging the problems with it is also unwise. This is also unrealistic considering the rhetoric from almost all European and NATO countries. You don't have to like it, but countries such as India and China will also have a voice in Russia's long term future.",0
"Which is still a weird thing for Republicans to attack him about. There are only 4 years between Trump and Biden. Next election, Trump will be as old as Biden was at the last one.","If he makes it a full term, great, the new VP can then be the nominee for 2028. But he can't just ignore people's concerns about it.",1
In 5000 years future scientists will look back at the ruins of our civilization and scorn us for have the legal age at 18 when their legal age is 358.,The point is the age of consent is an arbitrary number. Some people aren't emotionally ready at 18 and some aren't emotionally ready at 30. A blanket age of consent is archaic and that problem will be solved in the far future. Just tacking on underage to everything to provoke an emotional reaction is pointless.,0
"This reminds me of when the Taliban pick and choose things from Islam as well. Like forcing women to cover up but then not letting them run businesses/work, going to school, stoning people for adultery (except the burden of proof in Islam for such a crime is having 4 men seeing the act occur which is virtually impossible), and so on.","""In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin […]"".",1
"Cuban missile Crisis notably. Under Trudeau Sr. Canada was one of if not THE first western country to form relations with Communist China. Canada despite the US embargo on Cuba, was personal friends with Castro and made many visits to Cuba as well as friendly relations between the two country. In 2003, PM Jean Chretien did not participate in the Iraq War despite pressure from Washinon. Need I go on?","Fucking America. Canada honours the extraditions, tanks Sino-Canadian relations and we get two of our own citizens kidnapped by the CCP and the Huawei bitch gets off? Tf man. “USA is best ally of Canada” my ass. Time to add that to the list of reasons I hate Biden and the USA. It was literally for nothing except the whims of a deranged Cheeto.",0
"You are correct about the largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world being in Canada. Before the war, Canada was on its 7th or 8th wave of Ukrainian immigration. We're one of the few countries in the world that has been consistently open to Ukrainian immigrants, they had very hard time immigrating elsewhere.","A huge number of Canadians are of Ukrainian descent (I think it’s the highest number outside of Ukraine and Russia), and plenty still have close ties to Ukrainian culture. I can see a lot of people going for this.",1
"I'm pro Ukraine, but I don't feel personally threatened by Russia so I'm less biased then most people here. If any other country did this, redditors would be all up in arms, rightfully so, but because it's ukraine doing it to its Russian speaking citizens, then it's OK.","The bigger fish to fry right now is the literal Russian genocide of Ukrainian people and culture, but let the Hungarian government cry about this I guess if it makes them feel better.",1
"Crt is a theory, hence the t in the name. DeSantis has no problem with it not being taught. Crt is one-sided in favor of the black people, there where social ecomical during that part of history that aren't present today. To call for reparations is just ridiculous. If reparations are due it should come from the African tribe leaders that sold their own people to the slave trader's.","""African people were taken from their homelands, forced into slavery in brutal conditions. Eventually they were 'freed' but still treated like shit. Eventually they weren't treated quite as bad, but still not great. And now they have the right to exist."".",1
"Wow, it really took Mike Pence a while to speak out against Trump for what he tried to do to him on 1/6. I always though that Pence was a religious man with morals and was just screwed up in the head.","He believes that god acts through unholy people... He believes the ends justify the means. He believes in eternal damnation unless he converts people into members of his specific religion. He believes in theocracy. He believes in lying to achieve theocracy. He believes in things that aren't true, to everyone's detriment.",1
"The safety rollbacks cited by the White House in response to the East Palestine spill are certainly cause for concern. It is important for government officials to prioritize the safety of their constituents, and taking steps to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future should be a top priority. Hopefully, the situation can be addressed in a bipartisan manner to ensure that the necessary safety measures are put in place to protect the public and prevent further environmental damage.",Sharp accusation against Trump admin hiding something in East Palestine. But throwing JusticeForEastPalestine tag on vague claims does little justice to the cause. Let's call for concrete evidence before jumping on the outrage bandwagon. FactCheckFirst.,0
"In the age of advanced satellite imaging and classified technologies for spying purposes, it’s laughable that everyone is making a big deal out of a Chinese balloon.","You'd think with all the republicans believing the China released covid on purpose, that they would be wary of an overly obvious balloon that's begging to be shot down. Great way to make your enemy release a bioweapon in their own country.",1
Just keep investing in China and keep your supply chains in this hostile county notwithstanding they want to destroy the western world order.,If the West sanctioned China it would be the worst hit to the economy ever and they can't afford it. That's why they followed the western sanctions on Russia.,1
The problem is he walked in with a film crew and used the place for his publicity stunt without asking the permission of the owner.,"But they wouldn't be out of bounds to refuse service to a private citizen with a film crew who did not get permission to film on their property, would they?",1
Right now she’s already admitted the process has happened by complaining to the press she isn’t getting time/attention.,Nope. She’s already castrated herself. That’s a good (bad) politician in Alberta vs what they have in the US. See in Alberta people are simple minded and just want their oil money. Either job or business running off oil. It’s all oil. And as a politician you gotta get things done. These turkeys never have experience in large scale diplomacy. They come in hot and ferocious. When you come into a leadership acting like you hold all the leverage against the federal government what happens is they just ignore you.,0
Either way these short term landlords playing a type of stock market sales but with houses are the worse. No fault evictions for their tenants who they barely make repairs for. Also they try to do work on homes for less. Which takes money away from businesses who do fittings or supplies for houses (as long term owners of homes put more money into home improvement).,"The more houses these.investors buy up, the less supply that is available to others to buy, so more people have to rent for longer.",1
"Ukrainian soldiers aren't incapable of being cruel fucks in war, on the less the Russians armies systemic maltreatment of their own soldiers probably favours such an outcome in soldier's. The reason why you are fighting is defently also a big part of it. (Why i think that wounded russian soldiers aren't killed or worse, instead treated) well hopefully.",Russian army probably abandoning their wounded because they know the Ukrainians will give them medical attention. This is about adding strain to already busy medics and doctors. Goes hand in hand with destroying civilization infrastructure.,1
"I wouldn’t put it past them but I’m also not going to let myself get sucked into conspiratorial thinking without more evidence. With the thousands of documents that are removed during the transition of administrations I wouldn’t be surprised if there are classified documents sprinkled in others (Obama, Bush, etc…) because I can imagine it’s easy to happen. In fact if we lived in a society where “petty revenge” wasn’t the goal, this would seem to be a good opportunity to update oversight to make sure this isn’t happening in the future. Maybe review past presidents/vice presidents documents and be sure they also don’t have documents that they shouldn’t have.","Certainly the difference with Trump still remains his refusal to cooperate and return the documents, whereas as far as we know, Biden’s team has been pretty upfront in finding me returning these documents.",0
If article 5 is invoked all of the members of NATO will come to the attacked country’s defense with such action that they deem necessary. That have to contribute in one way or another but they are not all required to or expected to fully mobilize their militaries and send them to war because there are NATO members whose militaries are irrelevant. Like… if NATO went to war with Russia a country like Croatia really has nothing meaningful to contribute militarily so they would find other ways to contribute.,You wish they were in NATO because you wish for a direct conflict between the two largest nuclear powers in the world or because Russia would never have invaded in the first place?,1
"News is smaller, but there was a large push by the alt right during the Trump era to try and take it over. There are still remnants of that in the comment section with people with ultra right-wing views cropping up more often then usually expected.","How it works is far-righters hang out on other social media and a link is posted whenever there's a good brigading target. This isn't some big secret, their plans are an open book. They simply pop in and do the range of ""just asking questions"", post fake / misleading sources and generally troll + vote brigade.",1
Absolutely not. This is a monumental misunderstanding of Chinese foreign policy. The minute China pays Russia in Yuan for oil and NG is the minute the US and EU sanction China. Over 50% of the export market. It would be disastrous to the Chinese economy.,Just keep investing in China and keep your supply chains in this hostile county notwithstanding they want to destroy the western world order.,1
"If you're saying that workers should do the work themselves and demand the wages they need based on their own costs of living, well, I won't totally disagree. But if the worker really is educated enough to do that math, they will realize they need to demand more than minimum wage in most places in order to survive. In most places, it's way out of date and doesn't reflect what a worker needs to live.","No employer is keeping a position that doesn't create surplus value. That's how capitalism works at a fundamental level. If you have a job, your employer is making more money from your work than they pay you.",0
"""putting more restrictions in place from members earmarking spending on unrelated bills for their own projects, or committing to bringing a bill to the floor to impose term limits"".","""Republicans have also been struggling with their internal psychodrama over earmarks (specific projects requested by individual members of Congress and included in a larger spending bill). They have typically proven quite handy for congressional leaders trying to line up votes on, say, various appropriations bills. But some of the projects have seemed absurd, unnecessary, or corrupt, and the last time the GOP took the House from Democrats, in 2011, they banned earmarks, after endlessly decrying them in the midterms campaign.",0
Our current circumstances have been entirely expected for atleast four years if not more. The idea that Republicans obstructing rn and the policies they're obstructing are unexpected is absurd.,And that’s with having the slimmest majority in the Senate possible during a time where Republicans want to block most legislation. Definitely credit is due to Biden.,1
"Yesish, but it’s likely because Ukraine is allowing it to. It’s better for them to bleed and retreat then counter attack then lose an equal amount of troops for an area of questionable strategic importance.","Given how long the fighting there has gone on it’s a higher number but not insane. I mean they do Zerg rushes literally every day. If they loose 500 men a day, that only requires 100 days, or a little over 3 months, to hit 50k.",0
"What we need to do is dump huge resources into reversing greenhouse gas emissions, which is our only option for long term survival.",Even if we somehow got all our travel and energy needs met by green or zero emissions methods the greenhouse gas emissions wouldn't completely stop either. Construction materials like concrete emit carbon and many industrial processes to make the materials and technology we need produce greenhouse gasses.,1
"I don't doubt that Putin would like to attack America, but he can want to do something all he wants, if he isn't able to it doesn't matter what he wants.","In an attack that happened because they were angry at prior U.S. military intervention in the middle east. Which is why being an interventionist force makes us less safe, not more.",0
"Don't forget that in 1945, the world's sovereign nations numbered about 60 or so, with vast swaths of the world part of European empires. When you take the combined USSR, USA, British Empire (including the dominions), French Empire and China, in 1945 the 5 permanent members of the security council represented the vast majority of the world's population and economy, and virtually 100% of its military power.","The UN was created to build a new world order that placed the victors of the war in the 5 permanent security council seats, something that hasn't changed despite being obsolete...it has nothing to do with preventing nuclear war.",0
"All but 2 states use a ""winner take all"" system for allocating their EC votes: Whichever candidate wins a plurality of the vote in the state gets ALL the EC votes for the state.","So the 52% who voted against the GOP candidate effectively wind up helping the GOP candidate win the presidency because Texas gets more EC votes thanks to the presence of non-GOP voters in the state. Democrats in Texas are effectively ""captured"" by the GOP plurality and forced to help the GOP.",0
But a north Korean vessel filled with north Korean soldiers that we already know are incredibly stupid/crazy getting stopped.,"My theory is there was an aircraft down or vessel in trouble the Russians were trying to get to, and to avoid an accident the Coast Guard was letting them.",1
"Maricopa County, like most places, uses ""mark-sense"" ballots. These are the ""fill in the bubble"" ballots, sometimes referred to by the trademarked name ""Scantron."" (Ironically, Scantron doesn't produce any election equipment that I'm aware of. They produce a similar type of mark-sense equipment that tabulates things like educational standardized testing.).","These ballots are automatically tabulated by an electronic reader, which requires the use of what are called ""timing marks"" along the edges of the paper ballots to be properly read. A problem with some of the ballots caused the timing marks not to be printed dark enough for the ballot reader to sense those marks.",0
This is why DeSantis is lowering Florida's standards for schools imo. He knows his policies are driving teachers away so he does shit like make it so Florida will hire anyone from the military to be a teacher.,Also the last two elections have destroyed the Florida DNC. It seems they have lost hope with DeSantis just constantly tightening his grip and flexing on them constantly.,0
I am with them. You cannot be lobbing missiles into NATO territory and killing NATO citizens. It's insane.,but that would be nuts. They could go into Ukraine to fight Russia and would Russia be able to strike back into Poland?,0
"And if you survive the cure, you'll live a life needing more medications and constant checkups than a person with HIV would.",This will require a lot of extra research and a working cure for AIDS could still be years in the future.,1
"This is correct, but Muslims and Jews have some similarities in the foods they don’t eat, like pork. But I agree that it’s more looking like anti semitism than anything else.","And not mixing milk and meat, so a cheeseburger isn’t kosher. Any Muslims reading this feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Muslims eat cheeseburgers? I’m Jewish. So I could be wrong.",0
"I wish it was a joke, but they're super serious. I highly doubt it has a chance of passing, but that that is the idea they've come up with is scary af. There's even an exemption to the tax for business to business sales. No one will take advantage of that. Right?","Correct. For example, somebody that has retired with a few million in assets is far from being filthy rich.",1
"The ""US vs China battle"" happens when the regime is toppled. US and China will both want to install a puppet they can control but it's unlikely they'll go to a conventional war against each other just for that.","Regardless of whether the new NK is aligned with China or the West, all I care about is the removal of nuclear arms and the current regime hellbent on producing them.",0
"Again, I'm not trying to pass judgment or insult anyone, but I would like to better understand how someone with clarity of mind can come to a rational decision to pay money to let a deadly wild animal live with them at home.","Didn’t know it’s anthropomorphism to say that keeping intelligent wild animals is usually bad for the animals’ well-being. Is it also humanizing animals to point out that owning something that can kill you and taking risk that kind of risk with it is also shitty for the animal? If it kills you, it’ll almost certainly be destroyed, and it’ll be entirely your fault. But no one should care about that whatsoever, right? Because according to you caring about the well-being of animals is the same as pretending they’re human.",1
"Probably about the same. A lot of the midterms was republicans having really, really bad candidates. People were basically going ""I don't like these guys, but these other guys are election deniers and f that."" I'm thankful the public did, as the DMC played a very dangerous game of helping more extreme candidates (putting something like $50M+ towards it) they hoped would be easier to eat beat. It didn't go really bad this time, but I'd like to see that tactic go away.","Have you read her opinions? They're often very outcome-oriented rather than sound legal theory, and full of appeals to emotion. I can see this being an emotional outcome for her for a lot of reasons, but damn, Ginsburg warned Rowe wasnt the best legal footing and this could be heading our way whejit passed.",0
"If they stop having AP courses, FL students will likely not make it into any competitive colleges/universities. He can look into any alternative he wants, likely won't have much clout with college admissions offices.","I'm hoping there is a voter backlash to all this, though it might take a few years to see it, with all the boomers moving in with their more conservative politics.",0
"Fully agree that euthanasia should be allowed for terminal conditions and if a kid had a terminal condition that’s fair, but in other countries the threshold is becoming lower and lower and we have to make sure we don’t get to the point where there are are no resources to help their condition except euthanasia.","I agree in principle, but if anyone does further research into the euthanasia situation in Canada, it's really quite appalling just how low the threshold is for assisted suicide. It's especially bad how many disabled people in Canada are receiving such low financial support that they almost are indirectly being pushed into considering assisted suicide. ODSP gets you around $20K/year, regardless of the cost of living where you are in Ontario. Even in Toronto, a severely disabled person would only get around $20K/year and lives on the brink of poverty, if not actually well below the poverty line.",1
I remember watching that play out live back when I would still watch the news on occasion. I was so depressed at the outcome because I thought that the secularists were actually making a strong move for control of the government. But then it all fizzled out in just a couple of hours. So I’m happy to see this headline and I think the Turkish people have a lot to contribute to the world without the yoke of religious oppression.,"Which is wild because any abroad living Turk I’ve met HATES Erdoğan, but these are all young progressive people, so I imagine the support comes from the older traditional crowd.",1
"Right? There was so little traffic that the only background noise was all the building services, HVAC etc, not traffic. Like I never would have realised how noisy buildings are without the pandemic stopping traffic.","If you are in traffic you are causing traffic. If you can't find parking, maybe driving was a stupid idea?",1
Do you have any knowledge on solar paint ? I read an article years ago about how it’s going to be the next big solar thing and then never heard a word about after that.,I mean no solar panel NEEDS direct sunlight (have you ever seen a solar calculator? Those work fine indoors). The point is you are losing efficiency off the bat by having fewer photons per cm^2 of solar panel. Then losing even more efficiency by letting light through instead of absorbing.,1
"These people have the ability to access a lot of resources. They just sit around waiting to be picked off and robbed, or play along and lose a ton of money anyway. ... it seems incredible to me that it goes on and on with seemingly no reasction.","Yeah I see that a lot and it's clear that it was a good argument about 11 months ago but it sure as hell isn't now; if half of their collective fortunes disappeared in months, that gravy is disappearing fast and much worse, LOTS of them are dying ... and their families left with nothing (those that have families who survive at all -- more than a couple have seen their family shot in front of them before being killed themselves and ... and then a suicide is staged. Oh, look and they signed literally everything over to Mr Putin or a close associate.).",0
Why is everyone pretending that a lack of a pathway for female involvement in anything in Afghanistan is the most important reason why Australian cricketers shouldn't tour the country? We boycotted Pakistan for years over safety concerns.,"Boycotting Afghanistan is no different to when South Africa was boycotted during apartheid. It was the right thing to do then, and it’s right thing to do now.",1
This is why I said Ukraine should target what Russia values - its power and prestige in the form of weapon systems and warfighting infrastructure it cannot replace.,"Of course, Ukraine is supplied by weapons made outside Ukraine, so this effect isn’t very helpful to Russia.",1
Only if you try to make it “disqualifying.” You could pass a law requiring the IRS to furnish the tax returns filed by the President to the public.,"2) There is a significant difference between furnishing tax returns to Congress, vs making them public.",1
"No. The west doesn't NEED to use Nukes on Russia. Russia might NEED to use nukes against the west, but the US and Europe have enough artillery and military capability to pretty much flatten Russia without having to use nukes.","the only contry who has used Nuclear Capable weapons has been Russia, they have fired Nuclear Capable Ordinance into Ukraine before, thankfully without the warhead.",1
None of those are likely to expand into a larger war. Russia has expended far too much of their military already. They can't afford to open new fronts.,Israel and Iran are relatively small military powers. Iran is currently experiencing large internal protests.,0
"I don't think the current Israeli government wants a two state solution but it is the Palestinians who turned down peace in 1937, 1947, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2014 and 2019. After Israel withdrew from Gaza and voted in a government based solely on withdrawing from most of the west bank, the Palestinians voted in Hamas to step up the war. Criticize the current Israeli government all you want (it's garbage) but the Palestinians have a pretty clear track record here.",So you admit the Palestinians don't want peace with Israel now? Which is it? Palestinians want peace or they're right to reject peace because Israel has no right to exist in any borders? Pick a talking point and stick with it.,0
They don’t want us to teach that gender is a social construct even though that is solidified by research and testing.,"There's plenty of parents that don't want their kids taught about science, and the human body, and sex, etc. But ignoring those things doesn't make them any less factual or real.",1
This is it. The carrot is limiting the rights of groups they don't like and hurting those groups. The carrot is for all the bigots that support the Republican party to encourage that support.,The stick is committing violent acts of terrorism against groups they don't like. The stick is for all the people they want to hurt to discourage any pushback.,0
"In basketball, it’s almost expected that every possession will end in a score, this makes every score have less meaning, and makes every possession more boring.","Basketball is boring because its just back and forth scoring points, feels like scoring a basket doesn't even matter because it happens nonstop.",1
"The complaint about ""it's over before my state votes"" is a bit bogus as the general election itself is like that for Western US. If someone gets 270 before CA votes for example.",Mr. Shakir forgets that Biden's win in SC primary was reflected in Biden's win in GA which ended up giving the Presidency and the Senate to Democrats.,0
Agreed. Putting aside all the jokes I wouldn’t be surprised if this is an actual suicide. The guys entire life was the military and he was fired last month. I don’t think he was necessarily a “threat” to anyone although it’s Russia so who can say? Still I do get a sort of grim satisfaction when seeing high ranking Russians who supported Putin have their careers destroyed.,"Look, I know you're not a Putin apologist, we frequent way to many of the same subs for that, but that was a bad take!",1
Anyone that listened to hardcore history on WWI (highly recommended) knows this is true. Tough to be on the other side of rape or baby murder.,"Rape is absolutely being used as a tactic. The authenticity of the audio may be in question, but thousands of rapes happen isn’t a coincidence, it’s a feature.",1
"Voting is important, but so are education, unionization, anti-corruption reforms, and building other forms of collective power and leverage with respect to the ruling capitalist/kleptocrat class.","Under capitalism/kleptocracy, the ruling class makes most of the major economic decisions in society without any input from the workers.",0
"So at some point in the future, there will be a sentencing hearing where the Judge makes a decision.","Then the defence and prosecutor argue for what sentence they think she should have and why. The defence asks for lower, the prosecutor asks for higher, 99.9% of the time, they argue why, the judge rules. This can take 5 minutes, and I sat through a sentencing that took 4 hours (I was a victim) before being adjourned and finishing the sentencing, which took another 2 hours, I wasn't there because of a snowstorm but the victims advocate and probation department (who asked my opinion on their guidelines before the first hearing) kept me notified.",1
If russia's peace conditions are that they get to steal territory with the use of force do you really think they will stop invading neighbors?,But there’s no chance that Russia is going to escalate against NATO countries if they can’t subdue Ukraine still after 1 year. That would be suicidal for the Russian regime.,1
"SCOTUS said in Dobbs: as a matter of constitutional import, ground-floor abortion stuff gets to be decided by the states.","SCOTUS's current stance is that abortion-related issues are a power not withheld from the government by the U.S. Constitution, and that abortion-related rights are similarly not reserved to the people by the same. Further, Dobbs made it EXTREMELY clear that ground-floor abortion restrictions do not involve any area where the federal government can assert supremacy.",0
It requires states to recognize marriage licenses issued by other states where a same-sex marriage license is legal. It’s using the same authority that enables us to drive across state lines with a single driver’s license rather than take a driving test in every state.,"Note, a valid driver’s license entitles us to drive in every state without the need to get a driver’s license for every state we drive in. Marriage licenses work the same way.",0
"In any case, even if I’m 100% wrong, why exactly would that make Russias actions now ok? Please explain why Russias genocide against Ukraine is ok.","The Russian state has committed all five of these in Ukraine, and Putin's statements have proven genocidal intent.",1
destigmatize the use of busses for commuting (and improve service times...I could go a lot into this as a person who didn't have a car for a while).,"Even if you drive and will continue to drive your whole life, it's in your interest for public transportation to be better because it actually does reduce road congestion. You should vote for transit even if you love to drive, because you can spend more time driving and less time in bumper-to-bumper traffic.",1
"Houthi Rebels representing Houthis that have been historically been oppressed and are currently being genocided, responsible for overthrowing an unelected government propped up by the Saudis in the Arab Spring.","The Saudi bombing campaign has been atrocious, but there's still legitimate reasons to support the UN recognized Yemeni government over the Houthi movement.",1
India haven’t even commented the the brutal killing of Iranian women and men protesting. And is now making trade deals with them?,"With Russia not helping Armenia broker peace, EU is now taking full responsibility to find a peaceful resolution of the conflict. What is India doing to help?",0
"Pretty sure most people aren't actually trying to get famous or even posting much. The general attitude seems to be more along the lines of ""everyone has my data anyway, who gives a fuck? Expedia and every other company gave away way more of my sensitive data than I gave TikTok and nothing happened to them, why should I care what the government thinks if they won't protect me anyway. Fuck it and fuck them, I'll get my half hour(or significantly more) of happy brain chemicals/doom scrolls/zone out."".",Yeah. Even the cheapest IP/WiFi-camera's on Aliexpress typically run a barebone Linux OS on multicore ARM SoC's that are more capable than 10 year old smartphones.,1
"Those aren't gifted to Poland, they will be simply stationed in Poland instead of Germany for the time being.","No doubt though the Germans are making sure most of ""their funds"" they pay into there don't get into Polish hands. Cause you guys love us so much 😉.",1
"and IF each county shakes out how it’s currently trending, then Frisch could net another 2200 votes over Boebert which would put him up by 1800 at the end of the counting process.","With about 7,500 votes left to be counted in Pueblo County, per this article, and Frisch having a 54% to 46% advantage in that county so far, we can extrapolate that forward to say that it's possible he gains enough net votes over Boebert that her 433 vote lead gets erased, leaving him with a 170 vote lead.",1
"But to me, the conditions you describe seem like conditions which are ripe for a political party to use to spread their programme and solutions. It feels like a candidate who wasn't so entrenched in the system that's presided over the worsening quality of life could make a persuasive case.",Thanks but I didn't forget a word. I actually wouldn't say this trend is exclusive to white working class voters.,0
"No practical purpose would be served by that, other than dick-swinging, and escalation, and it will put westerners in Russia in further jeopardy by Russia probably taking reciprocal action.","Personally I don’t think everyone should do it, but severe cutbacks on allowed Russian personnel should happen, and you really only need a few countries to have the connection. I don’t think that will happen tho.",1
"So what your saying is that they shouldn't just state the facts, but come up with some catchy phrase like ""Stop the Klassroom Killings""......or maybe ""Fuck Burying Toddlers"".......sorry, ANYTHING that is proposed that doesn't make gun ownership even easier will be considered an attack.....and I am also a liberal gun owner.","Yea, having to wait an extra few weeks while an enhanced background check is done is a real hassle......same with those stupid Red Flag laws......all garbage....../s.",0
"Fun fact: If you write that cheap ass, skinflint, phony billionaire a check for $0.18, that pathetic doofus will cash it. There is no handout too insignificant for him to turn down.","If anything, this will continue to be a bellwether of the intelligence level of people you converse with. ""Oh, he's going on about Hunter Biden, that gives me at least 5 minutes to putz around on my phone while he blathers"".",0
it's really good to see her evolve from angry teenager yelling at un crowd to be invited for official talks.,"y'all need to come to terms with the fact that sometimes activists become lobbyists or otherwise influencial political players, and it looks like greta is here to stay.",0
"I don't think that will happen, but I also don't see Putin just stepping back. That leaves one good ending scenario for the world... And it's something the Russians have to do themselves.","Who knows what the Russian people really think? They have laws which prevent them speaking the truth about the war, about the army, about Putin. It’s been a police state for decades. If you watch the 1420 YouTube channel you can see the fear and reluctance in the expressions of many people who are asked political questions by a stranger with a camera running.",1
"Most of us Croatians don't share his sentiment in regard to Ukraine, and we are highly supportive of them.","So I think that if anyone has relevant opinion on this, and can really sympathise with Ukraine, its Croatia.",1
Layoffs happened because they overexpanded and took on too many projects - projects they could no longer fund or find profitable now that their cost of capital is drastically higher.,"I'm not defending the way Google handled their layoffs (which was particularly savage and ugly), but the rationale behind the decision is completely sound.",0
"I guess Newsweek reporters will believe the stories of fringe animal rights groups told to a BBC reporter, without any independent verification of that information. In this case a German woman who sees Swiss pet eaters hiding everywhere, but only can produce whispers and anonymous personal communications as evidence. I recall Newsweek was once a reputable publication.","“Unlike most large American magazines, Newsweek has not used fact-checkers since 1996. In 1997, the magazine was forced to recall several hundred thousand copies of a special issue called Your Child, which advised that infants as young as five months old could safely feed themselves zwieback toasts and chunks of raw carrot (to the contrary, both represent a choking hazard in children this young). The error was later attributed to a copy editor who was working on two stories at the same time.”.",1
"DeSantis will pick up more of Trump’s supporters after the primary victory, but the fighting will just make Trump’s remaining supporters even more adamant. DeSantis will pick up the overwhelming majority of the Republican vote, but Trump will get somewhere around 10%, and that will be enough to sink DeSantis.","But unless the GOP successfully consolidate the anti-Trump base around one person (DeSantis), then we'll have the same situation as 2016 where Trump kept winning states with a plurality in the 30-40 percent range.",1
"Well Dan, a) That’s probably because Republicans can’t govern and don’t deserve any gavels and b) paid off? Democrats didn’t have to do shit, Republicans willingly promoted these idiots and made them the face of your party.","""It's a shame. It makes us look foolish. If I didn't know any better, it's like the Democrats paid these people off,"" Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Texas Republican, told Fox News. ""Let's make it look like the Republicans can't govern and don't deserve any gavels whatsoever. That's what it makes it look like."".",0
"""Why is it that when people participate in violent, bloody revolutions, the people who end up in charge are the most violent and bloody-minded ones, not egalitarian and peaceful people who want to redistribute the wealth and power they just fought hard to obtain? Lemme think... I got it, it's because of capitalist sabotage Once more into the breach comrades, this time it'll end well"".","""We'll create a voluntary, non-hierarchal community of workers who'll mutually decide on their own community laws by consensus."".",0
"I predict he'll unambiguously call for violence the day before he gets arrested, and the fallout will be so disgusting to everyone in the country that he'll have trouble finding lawyers. Or, he'll refuse to hire anyone permanently as one-by-one they explain how fucked he is because he's admitted to all his crimes and intentions in public.","No, they can't, not unless he's already been involuntarily committed or agrees to testing (he won't if he knows they're looking for incompetence).",1
"When they couldn't find any wrongdoing, they spent the next five years trying to find another reason to impeach him.","“when asked for his response to Republicans pushing the impeachment talk. He previously joked, ""I don't know what the hell they're going to impeach me for.””.",1
"But ultimately your comment is a false equivalence. Teaching religious doctrine or the manifesto of a failed, no-longer-existing traitor state is not the same as teaching sex education or the history of slavery.","I'm seeing this a programmer. Most of the kids entering my profession seem to have slept through computer science fundamentals - they're okay albeit inexperienced with things like JavaScript, but when it comes time to learn something like Go or Rust or write an OS they get completely lost.",0
"Joshua Thurman is brave, loving person - as I’d say of any who were at the Club that night (or anywhere, any day or hour) for a fun time surrounded by love and joy and filling a human need for companionship and camaraderie with like minded people.","He’s breaking down, saying it should have been him who died, instead of the people that did die. That is SO SAD and unfair. He does not deserve this broken life.",0
It's strange because of the political currents which caused this particular confluence of events. Years of the far right calling for Nancy's death led to this actual attempt. The far right accepts no responsibility and claims the victim brought it on himself for reasons that make no sense but feed their internal narrative. The context is the strange thing.,That’s weird. Why were they just like chillin when the door opened. Pelosi wasn’t like freaking out or asking for help. Fucking bizarre. They were both just standing there chillin’.,1
To say that aliens would be beyond our ability to shoot down requires an understanding of their technology that none of us has.,"If aliens are technologically advanced enough to travel the distance, they sure aren't going to let themselves get detected let alone shot down. Part of me wants it to be aliens though. That'll be cool to see lol.",1
It would take balls of steel for Lukashenko to give firearms to 1 million unarmed Belorussians… I’m not so sure Ukraine is the place they would storm….,The thing is: Lukashenko right now is shitting bricks with the possibility of Russia going after them too.,1
"To answer briefly, Kosovo was a part of Serbia for the past 700 years or so and then the albanians managed to take it with the support from America.","- The reason that caused Serbs to start not liking Albanians is that when the Ottomans conquered the balkans, the Albanians switched sides and became Muslim (mostly). The Ottomans decided to expel as many Serbs as possible from the Serbian heartland and settle the area with Albanians.",1
This is what the policy consensus of conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans have left us with.,You're a policy conservative who is liberal on social issues... after those issues reach mainstream acceptance. Just like a lot of the Democratic party. Which makes you center-right.,0
"Yeah, the USA's / NATO's ""escort ships"" are more vastly more powerful than the flagships of the Black Sea.",Also we have 9 Amphibious Assault Ships that are as big or bigger than what most other countries call carriers and perform similar roles. We've got 20 ships capable of launching F-35s.,1
You have a religious belief that white people should be discriminated against? You'll end up in jail.,"Oh, they still want to fight. But just like with Trump and the midterms, they don't want to be seen losing a fight.",0
"Just checked our guidelines are you’re correct, there is no intermediary fees for banks in PSD (replaced by PSD2) Which is ofc an EU directive. Otherwise payments outside PSD jurisdiction may be subject to the following:","As someone who works at a bank, there absolutely usually is a fee to transfer money between banks internationally - in the UK it’s typically £25. You’re mistaking it for a card payment where typically its down to how you choose to have the exchange rate worked out (i.e by the merchant or your bank) but other than an exchange fee of a couple quid, there’s no real fee for transacting internationally. Some banks even offer no fee for transactions in certain areas (e.g I think Monzo allows for no fees in Europe, Starling is the same for US?).",0
So when you force a school to do something it isn't getting in the way of my rights but if I do it is getting in the way of yours? That is the definition of hypocritical. Why not allow people to pick their schools? Why do people prevent that?,"I think you should be able to pick any public school for starters. There shouldn't be boundaries. Furthermore, I think that you should be able to take the funds that would be spent on you in the public school and use it as a voucher to help pay for a private school. Since this original post involves Florida I think they are a pretty good state in this regards. So here is a look at the school choice options they have.",0
How so? He had a disastrous record as Governor of Indiana in that he killed a bunch of people by mishandling an HIV outbreak in the state. Then went on to alienate everybody with ).,"I think the headline pretty much says it all, but it is kind of interesting reading, and watching for the Lincoln Project ad linked to in the article. Pence is gearing up to run in 2024, but who expects that to go much of anywhere?",0
"Their voters hear that he is defunding the IRS, so they think they won't have to pay taxes (for some reason). Whereas what he really is doing is just making it so the wealthy can cheat ok their taxes, so revenue goes down, and tax rates need to go up (for the voters) to cover thoae loses.",I'm sure they'll have an interesting justification for letting the rich cheat on their taxes...and during tax season as everyone else pays up.,1
We need to thank Ukraine for proving that our weapons work well in actual battlefield condition unlike some Russian weapons that turned to be more of a joke.,Afghanistan and Ukraine are no comparison but thanks to us they did repel the Russians in the 80s Stinger missiles. It's almost like the US has a history of arming people willing to fight Russia.,1
I’m so fucking sick of these traitorous mother fuckers getting away with attempting to overthrow our government and then walking in and casting their vote as a member of the US House of Representatives. That is so insanely fucked up!,She’s such a fucking idiot. What does she think this is? She’s actively advocating for a unconstitutional act and should be removed from Congress yesterday.,1
And compliance doesn’t protect you from being refused medical care when you have a miscarriage and need a DNC. Or there is a complication in the pregnancy that is potentially life threatening but doctors refuse to do a termination until the woman is at death’s door because the fetus still has a heartbeat.,All of these Republican fckers implementating bans and restrictions should be sued into oblivion for every health care issue related to the bans.,0
"They’ll probably end up in some niche use cases where some combination of factors make renewables unworkable in an area, but not as the main source of electricity.","Ill also point out that I think more grid storage is needed regardless, its both useful for controlling the grid and if you want to reduce NG plants youll have to have it as otherwise its hard to replace how fast those can turn on.",1
Yet countries like Iran can openly do evil shit like this every day while the whole world watches and does nothing about it.,It's quite amazing to me how most of the world can come together and agree how utterly evil the nazis were during the holocaust.,0
"⚡️ ""We give all our 155 mm howitzers to Ukraine. And we want to create a precedent in this way so that other countries do not have any excuses why they cannot provide Ukraine with the necessary weapons to win the war"" – Estonian Ambassador to Ukraine Kaimo Kuusk.","While there have been many horrific wars most of the world has unfortunately ignored, there’s never been a better time to the support the good guys (Ukraine) in this one. The world cannot have Russia (Putin) win. A Putin win will ravage Ukraine, result in even more innocent bloodshed, and also set a horrible precedent that will affect the world for decades to come. Among other things, it will teach countries like Russia that you can maliciously invade other countries and not really have any consequences.",1
"If Republicans really do end up with 219 seats and Democrats could find a rational Republican that their entire caucus could get behind (and poach a few Republican votes) they could install a rational actor as Speaker instead of McCarthy who would be beholden to the crazies in his caucus. There won't be a Democrat Speaker, but we can make sure there's a sane one.","No, neither one are my preferred candidate for speaker. But either is better than McCarthy, and neither would be too keen on 24x7 Hunter Biden investigations and impeachment trials.",1
"When I think ""millionaire"" it translates to someone who can spend large amounts of money without worry due to huge income sources. Not average guy who has been saving for 30+ years to ding into the 7 figure savings bracket.","Let's say, that as a household, you make $100k and are prolific savers. 20% is not outlandish for very aggressive savers. Saving that much, negatively impacts your lifestyle - those people are making a decision to give up today for tomorrow.",1
Sorry about that. Yeah I missed that and now I'm to lazy to go find the US gov data. The demand for oil will be consistent for many years.,"I do hope we continue to find safer replacements for oil and gas. Until we do, the safest transportation should be allowed.",0
I mean he wasn’t wrong because his cronies successfully brushed the investigation under the rug. So who here is stupid? Trump who continues to test the limits of his corruption or us (America) for not holding him accountable? Im honestly not sure anymore.,"If you ignore Trump for a second, this is blatent corruption by Barr and Durham whom are both government officials.",0
"One of Castillo’s main campaign goals and the reason a lot of people voted for him was to reshuffle the corrupt congress and rewrite the constitution to remove clauses that have been damaging our country for so long, such as the Congress’ current ability to impeach presidents based on ‘moral incapacity’ at any given time, which was left vague intentionally and can mean anything at all. This constitution was written by the previous dictator of Peru as well mind you, and has been a hindrance on our country for decades now.","There has to be more to it, look at how his hands are shaking so hard during the video. No one was expecting this and he absolutely knew that he did not have the support to go through with this given the chaos in the Congress and low approval ratings. Something is so off with the current situation. Currently in Lima and there is word spreading that a US official met with Castillo the day before and spoke to him like he was already a former president.",0
"Remember when Russia sent T-90MS to Ukraine that were built and paid for by India, instead of fixing them per their contract?",i would say india would be fucking stupid to accept the russians help with tank building thanks to the ukrainian war.,1
Biden going into Kyiv is a pretty big thing; it not only demonstrates that Kyiv is safe enough for a US presidential visit but him being there literally will create an operational wall that Russia won't exactly want to engage in for fear Biden might get injured or killed.,"Biden visiting is bigger I think, because the US is not only showing solidarity but swinging its diplomatic weight around knowing Russia can't or won't do anything about it.",1
1) I very specifically stated that I'm giving a quick overview of Israeli history from the Israeli perspective.,"Again, I was giving a quick summary of things from the Israeli perspective. The Jews were literally in the middle of being genocided in europe, turned away at all ports, and the British were insisting that the refugees could only go to the place that was supposed to be the Jewish national home in tiny numbers. The Jewish groups in mandatory Palestine had every right to feel betrayed, and this is one of the formative moments in the Israeli consciousness.",0
Honestly there is substantial merit to parents forming banned book groups. Tell a kid there’s laws preventing them from reading something in school and it gets an air of intrigue.,"Not to mention that when parents are able to threaten teachers with reviews in ways that make grades suspect, good grades from Florida schools or elsewhere with these policies become unreliable indicators of capabilities.",0
"What a misleading headline. He won nothing. All this vote shows is that he has a majority of the party backing him, but that's meaningless because that's not how Speaker votes work. If anything, it shows he doesn't have the votes to become Speaker.","This was nothing but an internal party poll. The actual vote is the full House, not just the majority party.",0
"Now with the rumoured new mobilization wave, possible arms supplies from Iran, ongoing radicalization of russian population, dramatic situations like the Dnipro apartment bombing there is a western will to match the escalation.","Notice how they didn't supply properly armed IFVs beforehand? Just M113 with a machine gun on top, maybe some old BMPs. Only (stationary) artillery, which enables Ukraine to hold their defensive line.",0
"If you take your values for democracy and the rule of law serious, there is no place for Erdoganisis and Orbanistan in NATO and EU.","Erdogan also has a bone to pick with a lot of nato countries harboring turkish political refugees/diaspora, and Sweden is the only country that he has leverage over.",1
"If you accept that two parties are the only options, outside of a general ass ""independent"" vote. What's actually happening isn't possibility reflected in what's being talked about in political circles, where outcomes in politics are more important than the substance of voters/issues.",What a stupid take by 538. Shoehorning all voters into two parties makes these conversations moot. It's more of the inside baseball type shit we get from major news networks. There are only two boxes to choose from. Of course people will keep picking one or the other.,0
Only democrats have agency. Even funny is how we should give up our agenda in favor of theirs in the name of bipartisanship because ostensibly the people want that despite electing democrats.,"I mean, the alternative is getting nothing done for the next two years, so... if the Democrats can build a coalition with a handful of moderate Republicans and elect a moderate Speaker who will support moderate Democratic bipartisan legislation, I'd say go for it.",1
"When America supplied Saudi Arabia with a complement of their tanks, and provided dozens of instruction manuals for the tank crews to read, the Saudi Arabian general in charge immediately confiscated all the tank manuals, so that no one would know more about the tanks than him. He was more interested in securing his own power and job security than training competent tank crews. Perhaps Russia has a similar issue.",Also I would imagine a lot of countries are probably rethinking whether Russia is a reliable country to buy arms from. Russia already took some of the tanks that were supposed to be sold to India and used them in Ukraine instead and with the sanctions being imposed it raises questions about Russia’s manufacturing ability.,1
"The Turks have a genocidal obsession with the Kurds. You can't trust them. They think every Kurd is "" PKK"".","And no, the YPG are not ""progressive"". Also don't excuse this sort of behavior just because they're ""progressive"" in your opinion.",1
"I'll try to answer my own question here: the fears that the GOP stoke allows people to demonize ""those people"", which is somehow acceptable, especially if it's not overtly phrased as racist (and even sometime when it is). But those that the Dems stoke require targeting of groups that we're told are off limits. Climate change and income inequality require us to target the rich and ""that's not good for the economy"", while reproductive rights require targeting christofascists and that's ""religious discrimination"".","They stoke fear about exaggerated dangers, get elected, stop stoking, and the public is left with the feeling that Repubs have ""done something"".",0
"I specifically remember having already gotten a raise to that much then being told there would be no raise for people already making that much since we ""already earned it"". Like, no. I worked at that god awful job for months to get a raise, just pretending like the new minimum wage is the same is bs. Of course we all had to ""earn"" our raise again out of minimum wage.",You can’t argue for $25/hr minimum without arguing that all wages increase at the same rate. Unskilled labor at 25$/hr doesn’t feel right when you get payed that for skilled labor in many parts of the country.,1
"That’s why the GOP did well in safe Dem states (California, New York, Illinois, Oregon) because there was no fear over their policies being implemented due to the heavily blue state legislature.","I mean the GOP underperformed because, even with some electable candidates (Laxalt, Fung), they really didn’t do enough to move away from Jan 6, election deniers, and anti-abortion views, which ruined them in suburbs.",0
"i mean, 40% of americans are too. probably around that number + or - some for all the other western countries as well. not even mentioning china... or other east and SE asian countries...","Yup, just China. They definitely didn't see any separation of families and concentration camps under Trump. We totally didn't adopt out stolen kids through his donor's programs either. No women were forcibly sterilized by us though, at least. Oh wait, they were.",1
"State Police handle State wide matters, and have jurisdiction over entire State, they usually handle the issues on the highways and fugitive hunting etc.","Sherriffs are County Wide, they have jurisdiction over the entire county, all the villages and cities and Townships and unincorporated lands within that County. All the people arrested by local cops get sent to the County jails maintained by Sheriffs.",0
"Though it won't matter much GOP will fall victim to the generational political shift that started this midterm no matter the candidate. And they have nearly 0 chance of winning over Gen Z in two years, especially if Trump and DeSantis are the best options.",I am more afraid that trump runs and wins enough electoral votes to deny either party a majority. Sending it to the house which would be a serious cluster fuck.,1
"2. Under all this chaos, what is your assessment on the political environment ? What is the sentiment of the Turkish people affected by the earthquakes toward their local AND federal governments ?",How is the population responding to the turkish government's efforts ? Do they blame Erdogan or think that the state is doing whatever it can to help ?,1
"Hunter is a side show now, the impeachment will be over the classified documents. Hunter will be involved to the extent that they want to place him and the documents at Joe's house at the same time, so they can baselessly allege that Hunter probably copied and sold them to China or whatever.","I don't think it's implausible for Hunter to have dropped off a malfunctioning laptop at a local shop in Wilminon if he was there visiting his father, and simply forgot to pick it up before flying home. The repair quote has a date on it, if Hunter wasn't in Delaware on that day he could easily prove it. The fact that he hasn't done that, or even explicitly denied the laptop story, strongly suggests to me it's true.",0
"How the Catholic Church is still allowed to remain is one of the great travesties of our time and history. Can you imagine if some other entity (profit or non-profit) be it Starbucks or your local Rotary Club having been found guilty of systematically sexually abusing thousands upon thousands of children for hundreds of years AND then participating in the largest cover up of said crimes by its entire leadership over those hundreds of years?? Would it have been dismantled? Assets sold off to fund victim treatments and relief.. Leaders tried, convicted and jailed??","Well you have to do this... Unless you have ""offices"" in another state in which case you can do this, or this. Unless you also have ""offices"" in another country in which case you have to do this but you can also do these other things too if you want.",1
"I dunno, but it seems like they should do the big guys first? Maybe we should spend a little of that defense budget on more IRS guys to do those folks? Maybe??","""Fund the IRS!"" would almost certainly backfire but it would be gratifying to see the biggest tax dodgers handled while the rest of us benefitted more from the leeway they seem to have gotten used to.",0
"So, Japan is debating obtaining missiles to shorten the time-of-flight to a ballistic missile base in an enemy country (North Korea), which is significant because Japan was preciously self-defense only.","""The capability, which would allow Japan to fire upon and disable enemy missiles before they are launched from foreign territory, remains controversial among legal experts, given that Japan has pursued pacifism under its war-renouncing Constitution since 1947."".",1
Republicans will win the seat if sinema splits moderate/dem leaning voters with any other candidate.,This could change if Republicans nominate a genuine centrist candidate though... but I highly doubt the Republican base would ever vote for a pragmatic centrist candidate.,1
"If he had achieved actual military successes, his political position would have likely skyrocketed. But Wagner’s Bakhmut campaign does’t seem to be much more advanced than it was 4 months ago and losses are mounting.","Now he’s left with massive costs, a lot of dead mercenaries, no real successes to show and he has just recently publicly criticized Russian army.",0
"They both face the same risk though don’t they? Getting murdered by the regime? They should both be honored imo, plenty of men have died for the cause as well.","I agree with you on that, there is certainly a lot more they can do (and have done) to women than men. But at the same time, both men and women face death for protesting, it’s just my personal opinion that the men who have died for the rights of others should be recognized for that sacrifice as well. Either way as you pretty much said, our opinions as non-Iranians mean jack shit regardless.",0
"Doesn’t really matter, language is a form of communication and I think just about anyone would understand what is meant by drink-driving.","Anywhere in north America, where majority of the primarily English speaking population of the world live, you would be mocked for saying ""drink driving"".",1
"Crazy thing is there is big big money to be made by most of those entities (maybe minus prisons and police, but those should not be money making ventures anyways). All it takes is a little investment and re-tooling and there’s huge potential profits to be made by getting in early. Nobody is going to stop drinking if weed is legal let’s be real, plus weed beer is a thing.",Regulating the THC content of marijuana products sounds like a great idea but people are dumb and it won’t help much. I had a few calls because patients ate the whole damn bag of edibles when the bag clearly states the dosage and that you’re supposed to eat one pot candy. There’s nothing quite like having to take someone to the emergency room because they’re having a freak out and think they’re dying when they’re fine physically they’re just gonna have a really rough 24 hours mentally.,1
Same. I work for an old line industry. We built a new office with more of a tech look and feel and added a recreating area with video games and ping pong and such. No one used it.,"Idk. I'm a manager of software engineers and I want them to enjoy some of their time more. I don't encourage it ""just because"". I encourage it because employees that are happy do better work. Plus, if they build a social group at the office via this activity, it makes it even harder for them to want to leave.",1
"Ha I remember the “butterball hotline” that was actually informative too. People always rave about that show, but I don’t watch much tv, so never got in it. Thanks.","Thank you. The efficacy of the previous President's disposition is currently being discussed and deliberated in Congress. Any actions the President took, that were not explicitly forbidden by Congress are legal acts, due to the unorthodox nature of the job of President.",1
"And Europe is way ahead of the US, as well. This private equity guy is just talking up his book. It would be amazing if the US was actually launching the world's most aggressive clean energy environment, but the truth is our power grids are totally falling down, most of our ""clean"" energy is nuclear, and there's hardly any wind or solar yet, and practically zero large battery storage.","The US is in a great position to do so, but it hasn't because it's politicians are so focused on fossil fuels and fossil fuel companies don't want renewable technology to exist at all. Allies should be alarmed because the US getting serious about this will diminish their chances of cornering the market significantly, even though as allied nations they would still benefit greatly from the technology.",1
"I was primarily suggesting it for goods imported to the US. Of course, a lot of this would be goods made for US companies by contract manufacturers. But, I suppose the federal government could use their power to regulate interstate commerce to charge taxes on domestically produced goods. If you want to, for example, build office furniture using prison labor in Alabama, you'd face the same low score and high rate charges when trying to ship that to New York distributors, no different than a clothing manufacturer in China using Uighar labor camps to assemble ""fast fashion"" clothes.","As with any big change, it would be best done with a soft start, getting the key elements of the scoring system in place, with minor changes to the base rate, and then start cranking up the base rate, giving countries with poor environmental, labor, or human rights time to consider what access to the US market is worth to their economy, and US companies time to shop for new CMs.",0
Meanwhile he couldn't even stop himself from having to seize the spotlight during Covid from his own experts even though he made a complete idiot of himself.,"Very much this. It's not just that he won't be getting money, he'll no longer be center stage in the spotlight. He'll be Bush, pushed offscreen and forgotten except when they need someone to blame for bad things that happened (but that they can't easily just blame on Democrats). And he knows that, too.",0
"Also, anyone who can be bothered to malinger their way into a medical marijuana recommendation can use it in Oregon even when on probation or parole.","Oregon law specifically notes that one can be required to test for drugs and alcohol, including cannabis under specific circumstances (history of substance problems), but it's not an inherent condition of probation.",1
"Well tense but stable would describe it before the stupid rotting orange got into office and destroyed any progress of integrating China into the global status quo. Now it is more of two siblings doing the ""Im not touching you"" game.","The US has actually done a better job at separating their economy from China surprisingly and the credit does unfortunately need to go somewhat to the Trump Admin for that. The US's largest problem would be rare earth metal production for military supplies, which China dominates.",0
"Yeah, I agree. Why settle for 50 Senate seats if you are running a vast, untraceable election fraud conspiracy?","“Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!” he continued.",1
A more realistic regulation would be to require that gas stoves be installed under a hood that vents to the outside of the house. Too many vents only filter and recirculate the air.,And even with the vent fan on… not all the fumes would be caught by it. There’s still some fumes dissipating into the home.,1
No it says it’s their greatest achievement. And posting a pseudo-intellectual love note about how victimized communism is on a post about how dumb communist governments are is suggestive to say the least.,"Parenti is a Marxist for sure, but his writing is not a ""love note"" to communism and rather a critique on how much anti-commie propaganda Americans ate up without realizing it.",1
"Russia is a failed state with zero democracy or morality as shown by the fact that they, in 2022 none the less, tried to invade a European country and attempting to assassinating president Zelensky. If they had succeeded with their ""3 day invasion"", they surely would not have stopped at the Ukrainian border.","However, that is as irrelevant as bringing up what the US has done when discussing russia's invasion of Ukraine that is currently undergoing.",0
"Jan 6th was completely different. Trump was the leader of it all. His minions were trying to overthrow the government. Because they just can't accept losing. Trump employed his own children into government positions, and they did some pretty shady deals with leaders from other countries as well. And let's not forget Trumps relationship with Putin and how be admires Kim Jung Un.","No amount of anything the right tries to use to make Biden look bad, will ever be enough to overcome everything Trump has done. That stain will never come out and the GOP looks so weak and pathetic every time they try and shame Biden for anything.",0
"""The tu quoque defense (Latin for 'you too') asserts that the authority trying a defendant has committed the same crimes of which they are accused. It is related to the legal principle of clean hands, reprisal, and ""an eye for an eye"". The tu quoque defense does not exist in international criminal law and has never been accepted by an international court.","Tu quoque was invoked during the Nuremberg trials. In the trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the controversial lawyer Jacques Vergès argued that during the Algerian War, French officers such as General Jacques Massu had committed war crimes similar to those with which Barbie was being charged, and therefore the French state had no moral right to try Barbie. This defence was rejected by the court, which convicted Barbie."".",0
Is it on only pilots we worry about here? If an infrantryman went to China to train their soldiers is that also bad? Doctors? Naval officers? Just curious as to where we draw our lines.,"Ok let's keep going, if we are in a cold war then you would agree that corporate secrets and such are also a big concern (Nortel) so perhaps the next step is to make it illegal to conduct business in China at all. I mean if we do allow Chinese business people into Canada or vise versa, Canadians might pass off vital secrets.",0
"They likely want it to spread to the west, they openly treat the west as their enemy and since their zero covid policy was a disaster that blew up in their faces spreading the new variant to their enemies to further divide and destabilize would give them the opportunity to scape goat the new strain on the west and claim it started with the west... again, like they did with the first round.","If it spreads to America again the rich and corporations will do exactly what they ended up doing last time and saying ""fuck the workforce, let them die so long as we keep raking in the profits"", sacrificing the working class to appease the rich was even supported by the politicians and that will undoubtedly cause even greater turmoil given financial and medical situations for most Americans. I could easily see China trying to turn their bad situation into a means of damaging the west, and then blaming the west for it even starting.",0
"Even if we decided to honor the fact that this misnomer has been accepted by most everyone, it would still be logically inconsistent. If Indian is a correct term for a Native American person, then why is this continent called America instead of India?","All joking aside, I do also understand how on an individual a basis that there may be people of Native decent that prefer the term Indigenous to Indian. I was speaking from person experiences. Where you lost me was telling me to shut up and referring to me as racist, which I am the furthest thing from, you could ask my diverse friends group I have carried throughout my life as I appreciate different cultures and celebrate the new traditions I learn with each of them.",1
"Interesting, Turkey claims the YPG is just a rebrand of PKK. Some independent groups have also made the same connection.","Also, take a closer look at the Kurdish protests in sweden or Finland next time. They wave pkk flags and Cary pictures of the leader.",0
"So no I don't think there should be a no-fly zone, American boots on the ground, or American-made missiles whizzing over Kovrov.",And even if that happened it would still be doubtful that they would dare hit targets inside actual NATO territory. Putin _might_ be able to sell a withdrawal from Ukraine. He would not survive setting Russia on a suicidal course.,1
"Right? I just wonder how much damage they are doing to their own organizations by pulling these stunts. I think most of us agree that doing our part to to save the environment/climate is a good thing. However, when groups do things like this - why would you even want to hear what they have to say?","I just feel they are trying to bring attention to climate, but are making people talk more about the negativity of their actions than the actual message they are trying to spread.",0
Which was the only way the norwegian producers could get congress to accept buying it for the american forces. (American jobs!).,"I say go for it. Their caterwauling isn’t going to change anything in Ukraine, Joe sure as hell isn’t going to back down. You’re just making Biden look even more bad-ass. As the “strong on defense” party, your natural move should have been to criticize him for not doing enough. But if you want to blow up your coalition? I don’t mind.",1
I really do not think this is an issue. Or why it is even getting any coverage at all. These documents are from when Biden was VP. What is any relevance here? And Who cares?,Point 1) this doesn't matter. Just because it's fewer doesn't mean they have less sensitive information. EVERYTHING ELSE you said was 100% true though. It is an entirely different scenario.,1
"Yep. News media constantly pat itself on the back, and take glory from a tiny portion of journalists that take actual risks and paints the entire industry with the glory of their work.","News media OTOH, keeps on praising itself and hyping up any risks the organizations or journalists take to raise their profile. My sympathy is with the journalists that are actually reporting from the dangerous areas (war zones, jihadi and extremists camps), not with the most of the journalists that live in safe city pumping out cheap headlines.",0
⚡️US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the assets confiscated from the sanctioned Russian oligarch will go to help Ukraine.,“Today I announce that I have authorized the first ever transfer of confiscated Russian assets for use in Ukraine. These confiscated assets came about after I announced last April that Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev had been charged with sanctions charges.”.,0
"This was the only move she had and it was basically a desperation move. Her only hope is convincing Democrats not to run someone in 2024, and I highly doubt that happens.",That might be too optimistic — Sinema wouldn’t need to get that many swing voters to thwart a Democrat.,1
"Same. Kasper Weinberg, James Baker, Edwin Meese, UGH! And it wasn't just Reagan's staff either—you can include his supporters in Congress. Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott, Jack Kemp, Tom Loeffler...relentless trash.",The man’s brain is a runaway fruit cart barreling down a hill. Walker has no impulse control. I really wonder if a large block of voters look at politics like it's a reality TV show and they’re doing it “for the lulz.”.,0
Anti personnel mines come in many forms and are all much smaller and much more difficult to move or clear than at mines.,"Then there are areas where they might be the occasional mine, or where 'scattered mines' (delivered by rocket or even artillery) might have gone off course and left the area dangerous. And unexploded shells that might go off if you hit it with a plough.",1
"Ivanka and Jared's lawyers are currently in a courtroom about Trump's richness, where they're not doing well. Among other things, the judge has the option to decide himself on the case, a bench trial--and Habba has given absolutely no reason for him not to.","So I would guess that those two, at least, are probably not the judges Trump would have liked reviewing the case. I'm not sure the en banc hearing would be significantly more favorable to him, either, if they even agree to rehear it.",0
"Thankfully this is the case (that most on the left support Ukraine) but as you go further left, to groups like Democratic Socialist Alliance, you'll see a ton of very pointed support for Putin and Russias actions. One of the speakers (Jackson Hinkle) runs a communist group, and also is paid as Russian State media operative.","The us arguably does benefit from the strenh which it projects. Europe and the US have undoubtedly benefitted from this alliance for years. The dollar itself, is largely stable because it's directly tied to the sale of oil. These are the big geopolitical factors nobody really wants to debate or discuss. It's easier to go to bumper stickers and be like ""were giving Ukrainian nazis weapons why can't we house the homeless!"" it's not a njanced conversation that actually gets into the weeds of what's happening.",0
"And I quote, ""According to The Pegasus Foundation, an organization advocating to ban donkey hide products, an estimated 8 to 10 million donkeys are killed and skinned each year to meet demand for ejiao."".","Lol ... let's not be hypocritical here. We eat millions and millions of chickens, pigs and cows every day, and suddenly a little donkey skin is no-no?",0
"I work with many conservatives and you overestimate their ability to distinguish a dismissive ""okay"" from a sincere ""wow, really? Tell me more right now, following me wherever I'm going to continue ranting in assumed agreement."".","Yep. They don't want a debate because they don't tolerate you disagreeing with them or pushing back or doubting them. They want you to immediately join them without question, or else you're ""part of them/it"" to them.",1
"It's also used to rally their base to get more extreme right politicians in office and more extreme right judges in place. Once they get enough extreme right judges in the right places, the courts will suddenly decide that people don't have a right to be LGBTQ and that politicians can definitely persecute them as much as they like.",And some justices have already shown a willingness to declare LGBTQ folks don't have a right to exist. Clarence Thomas did as much when he called out Lawrence V. Texas as a case his wishes overturned.,1
Russian's tactics throughout history have pretty much always involved some level of out numbering the enemy and out lasting them. No one high up probably wants to try anything much different. It's not the kind of place that rewards new ideas or trying things different.,The Kremlin sees Stalin as a tactic genius and defender of Russia. To everyone else it seems stupid but the only problem from Russia's point of view is if the people back home get sick of it.,0
"Never. Nukes protect both countries from invasion, they are more than capable to deal with internal protests, and regimes wont change themselves of course.","Dump their only sort-of-ally and end up facing entire West alone? China is not that dumb. It needs Russia as a buffer against West. If Russia can win in Ukraine, good. If Russia cannot and will become weaker and depend more on China, thats good, too.",0
"Yes they understand that. They attended college. In a country with stagnant wage growth since the 70s, without universal healthcare. Should we go into who wrote the laws for student loans and how they were designed and who profits from them?","It turns out that student loans, which were supposed to enable young folks to attend college, are a parasitic bank scam to saddle them with crushing, lifelong, debt instead. The juristocracy works for the banks, obviously.",1
It doesn’t matter if 32k is under-reported. The ratio of COVID deaths is 2:1 R.. That ratio is the same no matter what the total is. And there is no evidence to suggest that the after-COVID deaths you reference would skew Republican.,"If 32,000 people in the state died of COVID, this would mean that 20,000 of those deaths would have been Republican and 10,000 Democrat.",0
"Then the GOP politicians and media outlets repeat fraud, which just reinforce GOP voters to not vote.","Not even, they've been told it's rigged so much but their people they're probably not voting which leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy.",0
"Signal is a mainstream and easy to use platform for communication that cannot be snooped in on. It’s an open source WhatsApp clone, essentially.","I know that WhatsApp uses same encryption than Signal does, so that's solid. But do you trust Meta for not having some sort of backdoor there? Is there any way for me to verify this?",1
"In reality, Finland's position is quite consistent: They want to join together with Sweden, as quickly as possible. But if Hungary and Turkey ratify their accession protocol and not Sweden's, Finland will not withdraw it's application and say ""screw NATO, we're not joining after all"".","On topic, as a Swede, I support Finland being admitted to NATO as soon as they are accepted and waiting for Sweden to be admitted when the Turkish election is done. Assuming that's what Erdogan is waiting for.",1
"Moderna is going add this vaccine to their patient assistance program, so you can fill out a bunch of paperwork and jump through hoops in the hopes they decide you're poor enough to qualify for assistance in paying for it.","I'm not sure what you're even talking about in the context of Moderna offering free vaccines to those who are uninsured. Obviously in this scenario it doesn't ""raise the cost of Healthcare for everyone"" when the uninsured are now getting vaccines for free when they would have been $130.",1
"Except its not like cars at all. Cars aren't an enumerated right. Cars have issues with very high rates of accidents and that is not the issue with firearms. The issue with firearms is intentional criminal violence, which insurance generally doesn't cover. Cars only require the insurance to operate on public roads, you do not need insurance to simply own a car.","As a note though, cars only require insurance when driven on public roads. So this would be more equivalent to carry guns needing to be insured (which MIGHT have more than a snowball's chance in hell of passing). There are some things that could be thrown into the bill to garner support as well, namely deregulation of silencers, SBSs, and SBRs.",1
"Pay people a living wage. That’s the only feasible solution to the labor shortage. Stop being a bunch of egotistical, money hoarding assholes and pay people enough to live on. You don’t need all that extra money and you can’t take it with you where you’re going after the big dirt nap so crack open your wallets and start shelling it out. It’s only going to get worse if you don’t.","They’re not really now, so this will only make things worse. Company makes billions and then get a tiny fine. The maximum penalty by federal law is $15,138 per kid. It’s laughable.",1
"A lot of Americans attribute a bunch of fantastical things to the president. They think that they control inflation, control gas prices, control the (already appointed by their predecessors) Supreme Court, and so on. So when one or more of those things go wrong, which they ALWAYS do, they blame the current president and vote against their party in the midterms. There have only been a few modern exceptions, like right after 2001 when America was a bloodthirsty mob and would do anything GWB said.","I think that as much as people talk about abortion etc., for huge swaths of America all they care about is gas prices. That single number that they see every time they go by a gas station that tells them how good or bad the country is doing. By that one, stupid measure, Biden and the Dems are doing badly.",0
Most air based defence platforms have IFF capabilities (wondering about Russias tho) that’ll tell you if it’s friend or foe.,"I wouldn't be surprised if the US still has some VADS (same gun as CIWS/LPWS) in storage, hell, the JASDF still uses them for airfield close defence. Sure, the LPWS can intercept mortar shells (which I doubt the VADS can), but if it's drones that we're concerned about then that is also an option/supplement.",1
My point was simply blaming Russia for climate change because they are a net exporter of fossil fuels kinda diverts attention from the countries that are dependent on Russian fossil fuels like Germany. If Russia stopped exporting fuel to Germany (which it largely has) Germany would continue to be a large greenhouse producer and source its fuel from other places like the Middle East or the United States.,"Chinas main source of CO2 emission comes from burning coal ( which they import mainly from Australia, the biggest coal exporter in the world btw ), the U.S. isn’t importing from Russia either, so I do not understand the point you were making about Gas being exported by Russia and your shout out to Germany in particular.",1
South America as a whole is %83 Christian over 439 million. Damn more Christian than the USA. So why aren't these Texas Christians welcoming them into their homes into their communities ?,"Because S America isn’t Christian according to a lot of Texan Christians. Many believe that Catholicism is a cult, that they worship the pope, and other psycho shit (these are common Southern Baptist and Church of Christ beliefs). These fuckers actually go on mission trips to S. America to try and convert them to “real Christianity.”.",1
"Don't really understand why you are so agitated about the fact that India 'supports' Iran, whatever that means. It's clear India has massive projects in Iran which was literally started years before. Also, India condemns the actions of Iran (and Russia for that fact), however, they can't choose an extremely aggressive stance like the US without the risk of losing a fuckton of money, resources, and time invested in the Chabahar Port project.","Bold statement that I'm lying, literally see the official statement of India regarding Russia's action on google, and regarding Iran's action, they literally mentioned the condemnation of it in the recent statement regarding the continuation of the Chatabahar Port project.",0
"They are presently civilians (because this hasn’t happened yet), they will be (future tense) killed by a Lockheed Martin product.","Pray tell, just what is the point of BourboneAFCV's original comment, that spawned this chain and your vehement defense, if it is not to disingenously imply that Lockheed Martin will soon be killing civilians?",1
"Random thought: Can we have a primary for the VP? Biden gets the job done, but recently voted on confidence in his 'replacement' could make the age thing less concerning.","I remember when Biden was elected nobody assumed he'd run for a second term. Most folks I knew expected Dems to use his first term preparing a candidate to take the party and country from there. But national Dems have failed to do this, just like they've failed to build up their ranks on state levels like in Florida. It's not a forward looking strategy and risks giving up the small gains Dems have made up to Republicans.",1
"Vertical farming is highly efficient, reduces the spread of chemicals in the environment, can be conducted year round and provides food products within a local area, reducing transport costs.","The nice part about this is much like hydroponics and vertical veggie farming is that its a controlled environment. People are saying oh the poor pigs, but depending on how this is done they may have a better life than at a standard factory farm. The controlled environment is also far more efficient and is going to be much more ecologically friendly in the long run. The whole thing is going to hang on if they can keep disease outbreaks from happening and spreading.",1
"While I don't doubt for a minute there has been cases of torture of russian POWS, it's not the systemic torture and rape of civilians of all ages and genders.","I think it should be said that the US is also guilty of all of these horrific methods of torture in our secret prisons around the world. Bodies are found outside US detention sites with eyeballs and tongues removed, fingernails removed. Plenty of horrifically disfigured survivors of US secret prisons are alive to tell their stories.",1
I agree the right would be well served by a muti-party system with ranked-choice voting now that they are split. It never would have happened (at least in my state) if the repugnicans stayed together. Then we can push the left away from center-right and back to the left by the majority of left-leaning voters voting progressive first and Democrat second (to prevent our votes from splitting our party and helping the right).,"If one ignores the whole “one party trying to take away people’s rights and making a blatant march toward fascism” thing, the conditions were right for Republicans to sweep the midterms. They didn’t, and that’s a huge blow to their political agenda.",1
He is a hardcore narcissist. He's not going to allow anyone on 'his' team to argue that he is weak and unable to control himself. He has to feel he's on top of everything and he can fix things.,"""He can never accept reality that is unacceptable for him. Normal people, we all have losses. Trump doesn't have losses. So he denies it. When it comes down to it, if you push him hard enough, which is what has happened, then you see the delusional core of it. It has all the qualities of a delusion."".",0
"The ballots remaining are mail in ballots that people walked to the voting place on election day, but my worry is that Lake told her voters to do that (only vote same day and don’t mail your ballots).","I believe everything being counted now were from voters who dropped off early/mail ballots on Election Day. Take from that what you will - the fact that this population used mail ballots suggests one thing about the partisan slant, and showing up day-of to drop them off suggests the opposite.",1
African countries only exist as they do today because they were drawn up by white men in Europe trying to decide how they were going to divvy up the land to go conquer it.,"Yeah, I can't help but think that their definition is intentionally wrong, in order to create a straw man so that mislead people can disagree with queer theory before they can understand what they are or aren't agreeing with.",0
"Viability is more than ""will the fetus survive birth"". It includes consideration for quality of life. It sounds like the private details being kept from us suggest that the quality of life in this case won't be very good at all. It might even be downright cruel depending on circumstances. We just don't know.","I'm pleasantly surprised at the law being so favorable towards the born adult.....meanwhile in the States if you're a ten year old girl who was raped, you can't get an abortion in your state when the fetus is a blob...(the girl got it, but in a different state at her parents' cost.).",0
"edit: but then again every single international murder he's committed has had blowback and damage to Russia's interests many times the perceived worth of the murder/sending a message. Putin has been an insanely stupid human for decades, none of this, the war in Ukraine, further murders, etc, should surprise any of us, Putin outed himself as a drooling fool long ago.","Whereas this is undoubtedly true, it's worth remembering that less than 12 months ago the great analysts of Reddit were assuring us that the oligarchs ran Putin and all we had to do was pressurise them and they'd depose him.",1
"It's not happening fast or strong enough, but REAL CHRISTIANS, especially their leaders need to separate themselves from these Bible illiterate hate mongers. Those ""Jesus Gets Us"" Ads (if genuine) are a good first step.","Read the 'Parable of the Unjust Steward' in Luke. I mean, they're spending their own money on good messaging like thinking about the poor, powerless, and migrants. I don't see a problem with that.",0
"For real. In some ways I think he may worse than Trump, because he enabled him while doing his evangelical schtick that Trump was an imperfect vessel etc.","I wonder how he really reconciles his tenure with Trump in his own conscience. Say what you will about him, he’s legit religious, and it seems if I were the same way I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. Of course he’s also a piece of shit, but he’s not the same caliber of “Christian” as the rest of the GQP. Perhaps trump was his god testing him, and he failed miserably, lol.",1
Not sure why you are getting so excited. It was an honest question. She is my representative and honestly I’ve never heard of here proposing any substantive legislation or catalyzing any important debate (since the early 00’s).,"I don’t think Feinstein believes she is done. She’s delusional and suffers from dementia at the very least, and obviously has a huge ego.",0
Just have people work from home and close non essential places like schools and some factories would have slowed down the spread considerably.,"Another way would be to geographically stagger the opening. Impossible to do in a democratic country but I could see it happen in China where they open provinces one by one, focusing doctors and equipment of the entire country to soften the blow, then when the peak has passed, move it all to the next province. It would have taken a full year probably so quite an undertaking.",0
Thoughts and prayers are nice. But talk is cheap. We want real reform. At this point it's a matter of public safety and ignoring it is just negligence. And it's pissing me off. Hollow words and half assed actions are fucking insulting.,Without accountability there's no repercussions for officers that refuse to adhere to training. And without raising the hiring standards you're just going to end up with more and more Derek Chauvins. Training alone can't fix this.,0
"The difference is that he's not saying this because they're Jewish Americans fighting for Jews around the world, he's saying this because they're lobbyists that are lobbying for an apartheid state.",Saying these remarks resemble antisemitism is not crazy but saying that antisemitism is the reason he's calling out a lobbying group and an apartheid state is crazy. It's a way for Israel & APAIC to shield itself from criticism without having to be accountable to their actions.,0
"Unfortunately yes, basically take the approach being done by Putin at schools, where they are teaching them history and values according to their ideology.","Education is highly, and unavoidably, bound up in the educator's values and ideology in many ways. There is no such thing as a non-political and objective education anywhere in the world.",1
"Just like Elon - it's only censorship when other people do it, when I do it it's just the right thing to do. No one is more hypocritical about free speech than conservatives.","No, slander is a crime; and he’s advocating for free speech. Hitler took over the media first which is exactly what the left is doing; they already have dominance in tech and social media, along with established media. Add to that coordination between government and big tech and the “private business “ argument goes out the window. Rationality is gone. The hypocrisy is embarrassingly blatant. Facts are.",1
"The only way to address the housing crisis is to build more housing and address the rent-seeking. More supply comes from destroying the artificial controls of the market, specifically the restrictive zoning policies. Eliminate it, or at the very least make it less restrictive. To address rent-seeking, replace property tax with land value tax. Most economists agree that LVT is the most efficient tax (due to lack of deadweight loss), will help remedy the housing crisis by encouraging more development, and will likely decrease the wealth disparity seen in the US.","Not sure what you’re trying to say here… LVT disincentivizes using it as an investment. It was quite literally made because someone thought that landlords were the real enemy of the people. Hell, the book that proposed it was probably one of the most influential pieces in modern political history.",0
I get that we can't bow to fear but it's not our children or spouses in the LITERAL sights of a Q persons weapon. For us it's figuratively being held at gun point by crazies but them it's literal.,"So back when people brought up the 25th amendment a lot, senators were saying they don't want to be responsible for a ""Constitutional Crisis"".",0
"Even if you don't think it is, sending weapons in any way shape or form is picking a side, righteous or not, and therefore not neutral.","They are neutral to the point where you get complaint threads like this, they aren't a military threat and they aren't doing anything to help anyone's enemies. You could go after their land but there's not much worth taking that you could take in a war.",1
"God, I didn't know, I never looked into her background or saw the show but hearing the basics made me think of some of the things I'd heard Scientology from the start.","In reality, Scientology will slowly brainwash its adherents - and here's the scary part - then teach them to do it to themselves. It's scary shit. It's done so very slowly while giving the member a HUGE sense of belonging which is hard to push away when you're vulnerable. That's what really happens.",1
It's greed. During the pandemic everyone rose their prices citing 101 reason. Many services went up by 50% and more and don't get me started on groceries.,"Seriously! When banks give interest free loans (creating money from thin air) to the Rich so they can buy more stocks and a new Yacht It's ok, but It's bad if workers get some of that money.",0
"Although the specific amounts are not public, Newsmax wants DirectTV to PAY newsmax, for the privledge of carrying the channel.","Now, Newsmax is demanding that DirectTV pay them. DirectTV says that Newsmax isn't worth it, and says they will honor the current deal.",0
"I mean have you ever tried to sponsor employee visas it’s a money pit and a fucking disaster of a process omfg - two , three , five years ffs - I don’t blame them for hiring illegal folks.","Officially it's already a federal crime for the employer to hire undocumented workers, except in the case where they do the whole I-9 thing as required and fake paperwork genuinely fools the employer. Enforcement against businesses is approximately nil, but any administration that wanted to make it a DOJ enforcement priority absolutely could without further legislation or regulation.",1
"Regarding Gaza, you seriously are trying to absolve Israel of all blame? How was Gaza before Hamas rose to power?",And Gaza is controlled by Hamas a terror group... Not controlling what goes in and out makes Hamas a huge threat for security.,1
The referral will have no actual basis for either Garland or Smith because they're already doing the investigation the Committee is asking for.,"The Committee did A LOT of work and they got a lot of information out over the last couple of months. If they feel that these are the appropriate charges (there could be more), then I can only imagine that DOJ will find something similar.",0
It's Christie who keeps displaying a lack of judgement by inserting himself in this situation like we'll forget the time he ran trump's doordash dressed as a fucking pokeball.,"Conservatives like to think Christie is a tough no nonsense politician, but he's just another bootlickin piece of shit.",1
"The point is before politicians at least did the right things not because they wanted to, but because they at least felt they had to. Now though. Not only is there no pressure to do the right thing, there is pressure to do the wrong things. Simply counting votes now gets you death threats if the results don't match the desire of certain parties.",Turns out being pieces of shit doesn't exactly correlate to winning over voters. And being pieces of shit obviously the only choice is to say fuck the voters fuck democracy and just seize control instead.,1
I hope we get to the point where the Russian Legion of the Ukrainian Forces can return home and fix their own country!,"C’mon Europe! Ukraine is doing all the bleeding for the west right now, the least we can do is hurry up the tanks, the GLDMs, and the anti air stuff for them.",0
"When you buy a house, you buy the land from your town or city, who was given it by the county, who was given ownership by the state/province who was given ownership by the nation. The nation is the REAL landowner, not you or any of those. But with a king, they ARE the real landowner, the nation owns the land under them.",So do you just steal all land from every single old money family in the country? What's really to stop them from taking yours next so all land is owned by the government and everybody pays rent to them?,1
The problem is claiming any politician who supports Israel does so because they're being manipulated.,"Lobbying barely explains it.. the core left wing is sympathetic with Palestine, and the core right wing is a roiling stew of antisemitism, so it boggles the mind how Israel is able to continually receive such positive treatment by our leaders.",1
"At this point, ""abortion rights being up to the states"" is the new status quo, and I doubt voters will actually start voting hard enough to change it.","It's more referring to the fact that every ballot measure on abortion went in favor of women's rights to choose, even in deep red states. It's not talking about the Senate votes. People still voted for Republicans while voting against abortion bans and pro-life nonsense.",1
In the last few years these Fox fueled fools seem to have now co-opted the American flag and now cowboy hats are seen as a symbol of oppression by many .,I do see their perspective and there are many who fulfill this evil stereotype . ( looking at you Sheriff David Clarke!).,0
"The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that no state shall ""deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."" This clause does not explicitly guarantee the right to vote, but it has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean that all citizens must be treated equally when it comes to voting rights (unless voting rights have been lost under the due process clause of the 4th Amendment). Therefore, the Equal Protection Clause does not guarantee ""one man, one vote,"" but it does guarantee that all citizens must be treated equally when it comes to voting rights. So states are free to decide for themselves how electors are chosen and people participate.","Non-enacting states would award their electors however they want. Continuing with district or statewide winner-take-all, or enacting some other law.",1
"They're untrained, ill-equipped and undirected, so they're destroying everything in sight. And unfortunately that's a worse outcome for the Ukrainians.",Worst case scenario if you underestimate you enemy is exactly what we are seeing with Ukraine withstanding the Russia.,1
"It's nowhere near as bad. If they're from his time as vice president, the National Archives obviously didn't know they were even missing and he wasn't trying to prevent their return. Trump basically ignored the NA informing him they were missing documents and asked form then to be returned and Trump basically refused to cooperate to the point his home was raided. Biden has been fully cooperating and he/his staff had previously found documents and returned them on their own.","Likely human error as, from reports that I've read, it's a small number of rocuments like less than 30 from many different larger files. Trump had numerous files and hundreds of thousands of documents.",0
"I've been voting since the mid-90s and I never felt democracy was on the line until 2020. I don:t know how anyone else felt, but that was my personal feeling.","For everyone who didn't AT LEAST vote: your excuses, justifications, ""concerns"" and equivocations won't mean a thing when the Republicans take power.",0
"Democrats need 50 seats to retain control of the Senate; Vice President Kamala Harris would continue to give them the tie-breaking vote for the next two years. Republicans need 51. As of Wednesday morning, both parties have the magic number within sight. Democrats control 48 seats and Republicans hold 47, with five races still too close to call. The GOP is going to win in Alaska, with two Republicans vying for the seat, leaving the two parties even at 48 seats, with four races still truly up for grabs.","Forget about losing key races so far, their party internally will be fighting this for the next 2 years and it might be the biggest outcome of the midterms.",1
"I think a lot of those Americans are caught up in this weird idea that Japan can never, ever be trusted because WWII.","As an American, I am generally quite happy to see our reliable allies stepping up their military readiness. I think many of those allies were content to rely on the certainty of American intervention if they were attacked, which isn't a good strategy in my eyes. Not because I doubt America would make good on treaty obligations, but because America can't be everywhere at once.",0
"Keep in mind, it can be solely to provide insurance, and not that the government employs the actual doctors and all the health care workers.","The whole country should be the insurance base, and basic coverage for everyone. it's an enormous pool to pull from. The bigger the insurance base, the better it works.",0
"Denmark, Iceland, and Norway may also be criticized. But I have a feeling that Japan is being attacked in an unusual way.","serious question, because i don’t know shit: is any other country doing it as aggressively as japan? i ask because i haven’t heard of any other country commercially hunting whales [or sharks]. also because someone else mentioned that some japanese schools serve whale meat once a month - which they called ‘infrequently’.",1
"For what it's worth, I'm a 40yo, 25+ year heavy smoker (weed and cigarettes) who's lived my whole life in CA. I've been at 2+ packs and about an 1/8-1/4 oz per-day consistently for more than 15 years. When I saw New Zealand pioneering this idea I thought it was fucking brilliant.","25+ year smoker who still smokes, lives in CA, and fully supports this plan. I think the fact that we already have more money than we know what to do with might work in our favor here. I agree with you 100%, just pointing out that CA might be the ideal state to pilot this idea.",0
Who cares if some permanent secretary continued to use a 3.5K EUR flat after retiring? Or a 5K EUR /month flat? Or paying 3K EUR monthly stipend to a widow? That's.,Yep. The laws around language are pretty typical for most countries. They set a standard for which the government is to operate. The official language of the US is English. There are regional exceptions for Spanish and other languages though. The laws Ukraine passed in 2022 after the Russian invasion are clearly geared at limiting Russians and sending a message to Russia.,1
"The fact that the Russian government thinks this is doing anything other than making them look pathetic, or the fact that there are people that actually buy this bullshit.","Seriously, the only people who think Russia is still an alpha dog are the Congressional Republicans that Russia still sponsors.",1
"If you find that's odd that a neckbeard broke into a home and fractured an 82 years old dude's skull with a hammer, you are probably not the only one.","If you think that there's something ""fishy"" and that this needs to be ""researched"", then you are probably not the only one either, there's a plethora of dumbasses out there that think that everything related to the democrats is staged.",0
"Absolutely, believe me wasn’t firing many howitzers in Baqubah everybody was a grunt for all intents and purposes we just liked to give the 19Ds shit with their Stetsons and spurs. A little friendly poke to the ribs.",Edit: if I remember correctly 90 days after being AWOL it becomes desertion and yes a possible death sentence in wartime although this hasn’t been done in a very long time to my knowledge.,0
That’d probably just mean that the entire set of homophobic parents willing to abuse their kid on the inkling of gay allegations would start in as opposed to one or two.,They're basically saying that teachers have to report a kid even if a parent could be hostile and perhaps hurt a kid for coming out as LGBTQIA+ (which most certainly happen).,1
"With Indonesia now moving further towards repression and conservatism, is there any majority muslim country left for liberal muslims to live in? Is the west now their only option?","Things would be very different if arabic cultural export of Wahabism would have been less successful, for example.",0
"He’s been in bed with Russia almost as long as Giuliani, who the Russians helped take out the the American mob back in the 80’s for a little bit of fame and camera time.","and oddly enough, 3 trump executives died in a freak helicopter accident in 1989. What are the odds, right?",0
Yep. The last time I voted for a Republican was 2012 iirc; I voted for the Republican (who cast the deciding vote for an anti-discrimination bill that passed) that was running for Lt Governor rather than the Democrat that was... well. Let's just say that from what I could tell at the time the Dem running was further to the right than the Republican.,"So please, enlighten us on what the republican house ran on that would make you think they are going to do anything?",1
"Various mentalities lead people to wear the brass collar, but whatever the reason, I doubt most understand how such a poor decision as voting Republican impacts their lives.","Same. Kasper Weinberg, James Baker, Edwin Meese, UGH! And it wasn't just Reagan's staff either—you can include his supporters in Congress. Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott, Jack Kemp, Tom Loeffler...relentless trash.",0
"Sure, you can still be the formal, nominated, Leader - what in a business environment would be called ""the boss"" - without sticking around when the going gets tough, but not actually somebody to whom others naturally look for leadership.","That's what I mean by ""formal Leader"": a person nominated to have the responsability to tell others what to do, not a person others look to for leadership.",0
I think one reason that our democracy has been so reselient is that we have democracy allocated at so many levels. The prosecutors are acting within their right here prioritizing the cases their community cares about (which they have the discretion to do according to state law). If a community feels that their prosecutor is doing a bad job keeping their community safe they can elect someone else.,"After all, if a community feels that their prosecutor is doing a bad job, they can elect someone else.",1
"This is just a sneak peek into the gridlock that is the US political system. It’s explicitly designed to be hard to do anything. The democrats have tried passing many liberal policies, but they always fail. The only time policies can pass are when they are quite watered down to get more centrist politicians on board. This is why most of the radical policy changes happen through the Supreme Court.","One complication is that the Senate has a 60% threshold for most legislation, when the party in power typically has 50-55%. So unless the left and right agree on something, it’s not passing. Another complication is the elections of the two chambers, and the president, which all happen at different intervals; 2, 4, and 6 years. This increases the likelihood that the party in power of each of the 3 don’t match, also preventing major legislation from passing.",0
"The former are standing committees like the Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, and so on. These are permanent committees, established by House rules. These exist for government operations, like spending.","The latter are temporary, created by resolutions, and generally exist to serve a specific function that's goes beyond any of the standing committees. They tend to be investigative rather than legislative.",0
"I truly believe this is overstated. I think the truth of the matter is that when scared, half of people shut off their empathy and go into survival mode.",Some peoples perspective are just so entirely different to include the fact you mix in hate and fear and for good measure that people don’t like to admit they are wrong.,1
"If the US were to make a statement that, ""If you work hard. We will make sure that food, shelter, health and education are affordable, if not free."" And actually make that happen we would have less crimes, and be better as a country. However, the next question is how do we pay for that? The answer is tell the wealthy that some of their tax breaks / tax loopholes will be going away. Of course they don't want that. They want more profit for themselves. So they pay. They pay politicians, radio hosts, tv personalities to say the same bullshit. ""If we just give the wealthy even more tax breaks we will be better as a country!"" But you need a distraction or an enemy to prevent asking questions like, ""Is the result of higher grocery prices because of a supply chain issue, or is it for-profit corporations wanting to make more profit?"".","This is what I was thinking. The real question is : Why does the GOP base, who are outspoken enemies of the elites, continue to vote for GOP leadership that is very obviously the elite?",1
"Japan did not end with a true unconditional surrender, they redefined it in 1945 to give them a way out so they didn’t fight to the absolute end like Germany did.",Please note especially the part at the start where Japan unconditionally surrenders and also the part at the bottom where they surrender the emperor and his government to whatever MacArthur deems fit.,1
"A year is fine, but let's be real. Anyone sending a rover mission would like it to last until the next Mars transfer window opens, which is about 3.5 years. Then you can have a working rover until your next mission and be learning about running rovers all the time.",It takes a lot of coordination of complex and limited resources to interact in a useful way with a rover on mars.,1
"So who does the hiring manager pick? Typically whoever they like the most, which is gonna be either who they're most sexually attracted to if they're that kinda person, or the person most similar to them... and if they're most likely some 30 or 40 something white dude? They'll be hiring the white dude applicants.",I'm saying this as a white dude too. Having diversity goals and such mostly just minimizes racism and nepotism. Even non racists are typically most likely to hire someone more similar to themselves subconsciously.,0
"1) Putin is dead, the CIA is operating a coup to have him replaced with a moderate, and he went to ask Zelensky to slow done so the Hawks don't get momentum.",2) Smoke and mirrorrs to make the Russians crazy and to tell the world the US is taking the Ukraine war seriously.,0
"No I get that but they still rebelled against the Union so I have little sympathy for them especially with the south’s willingness to build monuments to those who rebelled against the Union. Their monuments belong in a museum but other than that I don’t support their exoneration on state sponsored land. You lost, get over it and accept your spot in American history. We all have a lot to learn from history, especially the wrong sides of it so we can move forward.","Americans don't know their own history, which is partly why the polarize so hard. There's not an objective look at the good and the bad the country has done in the context of the time it was done in.",1
"I mean, if you look at how effective Biden has been with extremely slim majorities, it does seem that older leaders may have extra abilities for legislation.",We also have to think about the potential Biden could pass away in office (he is in his 80s so this isn't alarmist shit-talk) and no fucking way is President Harris going to be able to get elected in her own right.,1
"Some voters in Georgia saw a brain-damaged wife-beating child-abandoning moron running for the Senate and decided to vote for his opposition, but I would be interested to look at their choices down the ballot.","But when Republicans show up in Georgia and vote Democratic and help put Raphael Warnock into office, I guess that “every republican voter is complicit” argument goes out the window. That partisan logic does not do democrats any favors especially in tight races in tight states…..",1
I believe he is saying he is listening and possibly going to apply more pressure on the wealthy elite who enjoy western Europe and America by sanctioning them and their adult children. Like for instance we have and adult offspring of the upper class( Iranian government) living in New York.,"I'll likely be downvoted for this, but....America can do a lot to help the protests by putting sanctions on the upper class in government who enjoy/Live in Western countries as well their kids and freezing assets abroad. This is actually what a lot of Iranian commentators have been calling for from western countries. I'm actually glad Biden spoke up about this, now it's time for him to take action.",0
In 30 years the solar technology will be significantly better and rural communities can adopt it at that time.,"You are not going to reap the benefits unless you meet very specific conditions. The cost of installation is high, so you need federal and state rebates and net metering with a utility that pays a guaranteed rate back to property owners for the lifespan of the solar panels.",0
"If this was just a Russian missile that misfired, NATO likely would have said so by now. They have the trajectory info. If it was that simple, it could likely be figured out in a few minutes.","It really doesn't matter much whether it came from Russia, or Belarus, or from Russian positions inside of Ukraine.",0
"That's fair. But during the cold war the Netherlands fielded around a thousand tanks. Of course cold war tanks and modern tanks are a different beast, but it still seems like we should have sufficient scale to field an efficient tank force.","Besides, Poland has still tanks of soviet design they could provide. Nobody is stopping them but themselves. Same shenanigans as with their MiGs they can't send, because the US won't do it for them.",1
"It will probably mutate and adapt to spread among mammals, and it probably will happen in some other animal first.","I think it is because it's a diverse collection of mammals infected from this particular strain. It hasn't been confirmed, but it's looking likely that it is the case. Sea lion, seals, bears, mink, foxes, dogs, cats, and more. That is a divergence from previous outbreaks of H5N1.",1
"More to the point, if religious Jews are still helping sift through the rubble two months after the earthquake, there would be no expectation that doing so would save lives (even if it's still important work). The helpers would at that point be expected to refrain from their work on Shabbat.","In Judaism Saturday is a very very holy day, which you cannot preform any kind of work on. Saving life is one exception you NEED to be working and do anything possible to say life, so him ""working"" is a very special thing in my terms of his religion.",1
Allowing athletes that cheat to continue to compete and deny those fairly competing to be denied the fair competition is far more unfair.,"How this could be considered a fair competition if Ukrainian athletes being killed, Ukrainian sport facilities being destroyed, and russians will come try to get prizes unaffected?",1
"To do a lot of what you want, we’d need to get rid of the filibuster. We still have 2 senators that oppose that. So at best we’d have 49 votes to get rid of the filibuster which fails.","The last two can't happen, because the votes simply do not exist to scrap the filibuster rule. It will happen at some point, and I have no doubt about that. But it's not going to happen in this Congress or the next one. And considering the awful, awful 2024 Senate map, probably not in the 119th Congress either.",1
"You have a point.but you have to realize a F22 capture would send Russia ahead decades technically. We knew javelins would be stolen from Ukrainian forces .but that tech is a drop in the bucket compared to the gap between us and Russian weaponry.a modern Abrams or god forbid a top their drone would make them horribly more of a threat in the future. It's bad and cruddy towards Ukraine I know.but we have to think about the next wars,cuz Russia WILL START OTHER WARS .","I have a hard time beliving NATO would cold turkey Ukraine even if they found out it was them. Ukraine would fall immedietly and Russia would suddenly be their new neighbor. They would most likely pile it on Russia, use it as an excuse for further sanctions and more military support.",1
As as of at least two weeks ago Ukraine controlled parts of P66 so it isn't usable to supply Russian troops to the south of that.,"That kind of doesn't make sense considering the P66 connects to the P07 north of svatove, which is already substantially in Ukrainian hands. What it does mean is that there are no substantially convenient defensive positions all the way to starobilsk from there, opening up sieverodonetsk to significant advance from the northeast and driving a nail in Putin's ""capture of the whole of luhansk oblast"".",1
"Usual reminder that Congress can supersede these state laws. Want national voting rights laws? Vote for Democrats (progressive preferably, but any is better than none).","So there is ample precedence, both legislative and judicial, that reinforces the idea that Congress is able to supersede state election laws.",0
"With the AMX-10RC, it is the first armored vehicle designed with the intent of fighting Soviet designs.","Except the AMX-10RC is in this particular case far less protected than the old Soviet tanks that were sent. The AMX-10RC is a recon vehicle that can at best take what, 14.5mm?",1
"To my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.","It's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.",1
Not sure why it is a separate resolution and not an amendment to the original as Bernie proposed. This sets up an awkward scenario wherein only one of the resolutions may pass leaving the railroad workers boned.,"The Democrats, who will ultimately be the deciding factor in these resolutions are expected to fight for unions though, and if the sick-leave resolution fails then so will they.",0
Brittney Griner was sentenced to 9 years in a Russian prison for carrying less than 1 gram of cannabis oil in her luggage.,"For instance, ex-WNBA player Brittney Griner got sentenced in Russia for NINE YEARS of imprisonment for posessing a tiny tiny amount of canabis oil (less than a gram (sic!) of hashish oil in her luggage).",1
"I don't see how the Russians can effectively threaten Moldova now, they could bomb it with missiles but can't safely reach it.","Russia isn't very well equipped for a maritime assault though, their Black Sea fleet is trying hard to stay out of range of Ukraine. Not that they'd meet a lot of resistance in Moldova as their army is laughable, so a relatively small force could capture it.",1
"What I'm most surprised about is that Ukraine is in a position to do so. The fact that they're not only resisting, but bombing Russia is pretty incredible.",Really must say the Ukrainians are showing the world a brilliant display of modern defensive warfare.,1
"When he was told about the new electronic catapults used to launch planes on aircraft carriers, he demanded they return to using steam powered catapults, because the new technology was impossible to understand. He was incapable of understanding it, therefore no one else could understand how to operate either - not even the engineers who designed it and the crew operating it.","Part of Trump's December 2019 speech: ""So they make these things, and then they put them up, and if you own a house within vision of some of these monsters, your house is worth 50 percent of the price."".",0
Which is part of why I’m hoping this creepo hangs in there and pollutes the GOP House for the next two years.,"He may be, but is he more evil due to knowing how to work the system to get the results the GOP have been clawing for decades. If you ask me who is more nefarious; Trump or Ryan and I will tell you it is Ryan or any GOP member who is willingly to hurt this country to fluff their own pockets.",1
"If house margins get razor thin (<10 is likely at this point), then bickering within the GOP house members can actually be worse for them than losing the house.","“Let’s just say that the margin is 10,” one source involved in leadership race strategy for House conservatives said Wednesday. “If McCarthy is stumbling in negotiations with the Freedom Caucus to give them all the stuff they want, the outer core of HFC probably starts to go to him and says, ‘Hey, it’s time to step aside.’ McCarthy probably starts getting that message from all corners and stands down before the vote.”.",1
"Well Biden is supposed to give a speech on the objects we've been shooting down. So he should mention that he wants congress to make a law, that all trains now have the ect braking system that was an executive order that the last adminstration repealed.","What's right, though, is probably not to try to pass a regulation, which will then be immediately prevented from going into effect by court injunctions because Congress in 2015 explicitly required that this exact regulation be repealed.",1
"My point was, they shouldn't be in the business of deciding who can marry, as they were historically by barring same-sex marriages. I was simply expressing support for the bill, as it codifies further the ability for all couples of legal age to be married.","The bill mandates states to recognize marriages from other states as well as codifies federal protections and benefits for couples as long as the marriage certificate is valid in the state it was issued. If Obergefell v. Hodges were to be overturned, theoretically a state can ban gay marriage but it would still have to recognize a gay marriage as valid if performed in a state recognizing said marriage. Basically, the law allows states to discriminate within their own borders and refuse to issue marriage certificates, but MUST accept marriages performed outside their borders within the US as valid.",1
"They don't have ICBMs; so yeah in retaliation they might nuke some other country, but can't nuke mainland US.",I hope the other countries have contingencies for what happens to their nukes if they can't handle the terror they created right on their doorstep.,1
"Just watched the new Netflix documentary about FIFA and this dude was quite a huge part of the corruption and how FIFA leadership ended up getting busted by the US. I always knew FIFA was bad, but I had no idea how insane some of the bribes they received were and the shit they pulled.","He ate at FIFA's top-table in the corruption league. His name always came up every cycle, and yet FIFA did nothing about it.",1
"Was thinking earlier today how funny it would be if Obama issued a statement saying ""I declassified the Biden docs with my mind in 2016."".","Yup. Also, let's not forget Trump sued to try to get the documents returned, claimed they were his property, said he can declassify documents just by thinking about it, etc.",1
"That aside, I think any rational human can agree that placing rockets IN AND AROUND SCHOOLS is morally reprehensible and suggests that they value killing israeli's more than they do protecting their own children.","always shocking to me that people, no matter where they stand politically, will willfully ignore the fact that military units will place rocket launchers IN AND AROUND schools. Surely your hatred for the IDF can't blind you to the fact that what Hamas is doing is morally reprehensible and even doubly shocking given that they're putting their own children at risk.",0
"Also, who’s to say what’s “wrong” and what’s not? Most consider it wrong, but that doesn’t make it the objective statement you phrased it as.","However, nothing can be objectively wrong no matter what it is, because “wrong” is a subjective statement, just as “right” or “good” are.",0
"Not to mention, there is no stopping another country from doing what China is doing, loan them money in hopes of influence ignoring the high risk of default.","But if the debtor countries refuse to give up the land and just declare bankruptcy, there is little China can do - and they suffer no real consequences because no one else was willing to lend them anyway.",0
"Bradleys were the top ground tank killer of Desert Storm, F-111s were the top aerial tank killer of it. Neither get anywhere near the credit they deserve for how damn good and effective they were.","Yup! fast and good sensors means you can identify the target from far out, hit it once you're there, and be gone before air defenses even get a chance to start shooting. A-10s are comparatively as slow as the plane flying the banners at the beach in the summer lol.",0
Do you think you have a better chance taking on the most powerful military in the world with some pistols and rifles than you do with a pointed stick?,Would you prefer to protect yourself with any form of small arms or a sharp stick? An armed intruder breaks into your home are you better prepared with your own firearm or your cell phone calling 911 then waiting for armed help defenseless? I see it says your from New York how’s all that strong gun control working out for you guys? I just saw the other day there was a shooting in Times Square how could that happen in such a gun control bastion?,1
"All that does is push the issue back a further step; freedom of choice as a moral value is an extremely novel concept when considered within the grander scope of human history, and we can't simply assume that it should be obvious to everyone that such freedom of choice is good for societies and individuals. There are plenty of arguments that have been made which purport to show how such freedom of choice in fact results in the discordance and erosion of social structures.","Edit; I should also mention the further argument that the western ideal of free choice tends to be a game of smoke and mirrors more than genuine freedom anyway. Is my choice between 12 different kinds of toothpaste at a store really freedom? Is my choice to paint my nails one of a hundred different colors really freedom? Where is the freedom when most people are shoved into one of a number of slight variations of what is essentially the exact same way of life, conditioned by the realities of post-industrial techno-capitalism? Is my freedom to make monthly rent and car payments by sitting at a desk for most of my waking hours a freedom worth fighting and dying for?",0
"Well, that's the thing. Thus far, the only 'official' countries involved in the war are Ukraine and Russia.",Russia literally cannot afford to have any other nation get involved in this conflict. It is a guaranteed defeat if that happens. They have no choice but to remain the only aggressor nation.,0
"Yeah I've started quietly doing this again as well. It's not really out of fear of catching the virus, more that I absolutely have not forgotten how my fellow citizens behaved at the beginning of covid with regards to panic buying. I'm planning on having maybe a month or two's worth of stuff to weather the initial storm. Had a very bad feeling twice in the past 5 years - one in December 2019 when I saw whisperings online about some sort of virus in China, and one in December 2021 when I saw videos of Russian APCs with parachutes attached being mobilised in Belgorod. I've got that same feeling again reading current developments around bird flu.",I'm not saying bird flu isn't an enormous concern. But the necessary mutations for a human pandemic haven't happened and hit the human population yet. We're not where COVID was when it spread out of China. Not even close.,1
My takeaway from this article is to definitively never call 911 if someone needs help because I might be too polite and end up charged and convicted of a crime I didn’t commit.,"I don't know he was ""rightfully convicted"", but I'm not writing an article saying he was rightfully convicted (like the article above). I never even stated he was rightfully convicted. He might have been, neither of these things are possible to know. It is completely possible that he was rightfully convicted, and then let go due to this ridiculous bullshit being used here, and they let a criminal go, also just as possible that this journalist is correct, and he was innocent the entire time.",1
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was reported to be considering a ban on gas stoves over fears they cause indoor pollution linked to asthma in children.,There are probably innumerable irritants within the environment of the average home that are likely much more irritating to kids with asthma than gas stoves alone. I'd bet that mold and dirty air vents play a far bigger role. Some foods could be dietary 'triggers'.,1
So they waited till they couldn't win with a far right MAGAnaut to switch to a voting system that would block extremists.,Ranked choice is a great way to eliminate extremists. And Republicans would rather have a moderate Democrat than the progressive Anchorage wants.,0
"The other five seem to just be personally against McCarthy. Good hates him because McCarthy didn't call him right after he ousted Riggleman in the primary. Norman hates him because McCarthy wasn't a fan of Norman's proposed campaign agenda. Biggs is running himself. Not sure what Rosendale's beef is, but I've seen speculation that it is early posturing for a Senate run. And I'm assuming Gaetz just likes the attention and chaos. Tough to see any of them agreeing to any concessions.",This may be part of the reason they're pushing for all these concessions now and allowing him to take it. A feckless idiot can be turned into a figurehead.,1
Yet the intelligence of two non-EU countries is accepted as accurate on a mostly-Western platform and is used as an excuse to insult Serbs and incite hatred. And then you ask yourself how it pushes Serbia towards Russia.,Are Serbs driven into the arms of the EU and away from Russia by the actions of non-Russian countries?,1
You are blaming Israel for Hamas putting rocket launchers next to schools? In what way has Israel forced Hamas to do this?,"Who do you think is sneaking around Arab Palestinian Gaza launching rockets into Israel? If you say Iranians I’d probably believe you. Iran runs everything else there, using Hamas as their paid proxies.",1
"I made record profits, even near doubled my profits. All because people wanted a better product that was already in the store.","I made record profits, even more than doubled my profits. All because people wanted a better product that was already in the store.",0
The commenter has conditionally assumed the truth of the statement in order to make unjustified criticisms of media reporting that is critical of irresponsible Chinese practices.,Given that: (a) CNN had criticised China; (b) the language used by CNN to criticise China was appropriate; and (c) the commenter was incited to criticise the language used by CNN to criticise China; I inferred that: (d) the commenter was hypersensitive to criticisms of Chins.,0
"I feel like they panicked and put it all in low risk, which means they didn't recover the way they would have. We lost half our retirement, but tripled back what we'd lost during the Obama years.","My in-laws lost their asses in the 2009 crash. Well over half their retirement. They both went back to work full time. My mother in law is still commuting (a really shitty commute) 3 days a week. At 76. They thought they were all set, but had never switched their high risk investments to lower risk. That's a mistake we won't make! I have zero desire to be working past 60, thanks.",0
Knowing Trump he is paying them enough to perform a BS search and sign off for him to deny he has more docs.,"""People close to Mr. Trump had said earlier on Wednesday that no classified material had been found during the searches, a claim that was later proved incorrect"".",0
"this is one of those things that will die in one news cycle because the left doesn't have a victim complex. If this was ""MSNBC shared Trump Ad info with Biden camp"" the right would be apoplectic.","Imagine how white hot Fox correspondents would be if it came out CNN officials informed the Biden campaign about Trump ads? Shit, they were already white hot about Biden asking for revenge porn to be taken down from Twitter.",1
"No chance of 6 Rs backing a Dem speaker, or of any R accepting a position of Speaker that relied on Dem support to keep them in power. They'd 100% lose their next primary, the republican base won't stand for that sort of moderation.","I just hope all this bitter in-fighting will render the republican controlled house all but useless. Like, I'm hoping these debates stir up a lot of bad blood so they won't even be able to come up with a majority on most things.",1
"In a perfect world, Afghan women would all be allowed to leave Afghanistan, immediately. That would solve the problem the spineless Taliban seem to have with women, and in a few years, would solve the world's Taliban problem.",Just because reddit lacks all ability to see nuance in an argument I agree that women should be able to leave and that the Taliban are nutjobs. I am just sick of people pointing at religious nutjobs and saying those “brainwashed men” are doing this… There is always a group of nutty women in the dumpster fire with the probably majority men group.,1
The Party Elite never wanted Trump in the first place. But it's the base that has a stranglehold on the Republican Party and they hate the Party Elite to include McConnel. They weren't able to convict him after impeachment because they knew full well they themselves would have suffered for it and some actually did. Those who voted to impeach or convict have either retired or have been voted out for the most part.,It is understood until you see they acquitted Trump on the second impeachment. He literally tried to overthrow the Republic and they stood by letting him off.,1
"Funny enough with the PTSD, I’ve known both migrants of war torn areas and veterans to be affected by fireworks as well.","I’ve heard for decades how fireworks scare veterans and have been scolded by people for scaring them. I’ve never met a veteran who is freaked out by fireworks and definitely not professional fireworks, which means there’s people stealing valor from veterans to complain on their behalf, usually because fireworks scare their dog and they don’t even know a veteran.",1
"So they could be trying to find that line/balance, testing the limits off what they can get away with.","They are testing their own limits and how far they can go. This is a textbook example of testing if someone is serious about red lines or not. If NATO doesn’t react in a proper way, nobody will take it seriously anymore.",1
"The reality is that for people who suffer from either, it can look very much the same. There are no moral equivalencies, but the dead will remain dead no matter how or why it happened.","I'm not arguing for appeasement. The exact opposite of appeasement looks like North Korea, and I'm not arguing for this either. The original comment I'm responding to was.",0
"What about Jordan and black september? If Israel acted like Jordan integrating the population providing equal rights and citizenship remove military law and release all political and military prisoners then the conflict would have been over, the fact that most Jordanians and most palestinians refused to take part in the fighting should tell you something, my grandfather refused direct orders from the king and almost got to court for it, but again it was in the past like more than 50 years ago.","Yes Israel should treat palestinians as equal or leave them be, the reason why dont hear about palestinians violence in Jordan nowadays is simply because they are equal, every single incident of violence since the 70a was by jordanians or syrians, had israel taken our approach then it would jave been fine.",0
"Because of district and state-by-state winner-take-all laws, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution. . .","“ . . . the mechanics of the Electoral College allowed the defeated president to incite his followers into mounting the first attempt in U.S. history to seize the presidency by violence. Far from preventing them, the anti-majoritarian mechanisms of presidential elections were the crucial culprit in creating the “tumult and disorder” and the “heats and ferments” that so worried the authors of the Constitution.”- David Frum.",0
This line of thinking resulted in Putin concluding that the west would never apply serious sanctions to Russia and would easily choose cheap Russian fossil fuels over commitment to Ukrainian sovereignty.,"China's not to be dismissed though, in the same way the west chose not to intervene in Ukraine as a security guarantor, and keeps throwing out excuses such as ""crossing Putin's red lines"", it's all because Russia is a nuclear power.",1
"You're assuming that the balloon wasn't phoning home in real time... And considering it's not likely to be recoverable by the Chinese, how could it not be?","Balloons are probably cheaper and China doesn't have anywhere near as many satellites as the USA, so you're probably right about capabilities.",1
"Yes. It's about wrongheaded ideas about escalation. It doesn't even make any sense, its not like Bradleys can shoot missiles all the way to Moscow. If Western leaders are serious about Ukraine taking back all of its occupied territory from Russia, then Ukraine needs a huge increase in armored and mechanized forces.","Giving the Ukrainians a random selection of tanks would make logistics way harder, plus probably concerns with sending their latest stuff to Ukraine for security reasons.",1
"It's not like the Soviet Union that Regan fought against collapsed in the early 90's and the ""evil empire"" since has been dismantled and scattered into a half dozen separate countries. Almost like it's not even close to the same thing and global politics have changed over 40 years.","Officials in Washinon have warned that “Ukraine fatigue” among allies could worsen if Kyiv continues to be closed to negotiations, the Washinon Post reported. US officials told the paper that Ukraine’s position on negotiations with Russia is wearing thin among allies who are worried about the economic effects of a protracted war.",0
"See. I kinda disagree. First of all, I didn't say it can't work, I said it is destined to go bad. That's a difference.","America basically has the civil war codified by lawusing a two party the winner takes all system with the office of president collecting more and more authority over the years, things that were in the hand of congress before.",0
"Maybe if Russia occassionally used flanking manuevers or something, rather than sending ten frontal assault waves until Germans ran out of bullets, they'd have millions of more men alive. Are you aware that when it came to Poland, Russia was proud to work with the Nazi's to murder and deport people? It's like Russians literally had to be forced at gunpoint by the Nazi's to fight the Nazi's.","Are you aware the Russians were primarily responsible for defeating Nazi Germany? They suffered enormous casualties, but it did work in WW2. Times are different though, and that mentality is not going to work in high tech warfare.",1
He was very open about his goal being ethnic cleansing before restarting the conflict two years ago. It didn't matter then internationally and is also an important part of his domestic branding.,"Partially, but it's more because the Azeris are a Turkic people and Turkey will always back Azerbaijan. Turkey would be quite fine pretending the genocide never happened and having an actual relationship with Armenia (as it stands they do a lot of mental gymnastics to justify that they have no problems with Armenia or Armenians, and the problems are solely with Armenia's government). It's Armenia that would be the problem - they want Turkey to admit to the genocide first - but the situation dictates pragmatism and they've made multiple attempts to reach out to Turkey anyway.",0
"I don't think anyone in any country supplying weapons to Ukraine expected anything different? It is a bit odd, almost like showing their hand how nervous Kremlin is about provoking a NATO response.",Russia has made these particular weird statements before. Saying weapons supplied by the west would be targeted once in country in Ukraine.,0
I had an argument with somebody that was vehement that Putin would have gone down as the greatest statesman of our times if he hadn't attack Ukraine because he made Russia a world power again and.... that's absolutely objectively not true.,"Still so many people, even those that don't like him, hold on to this fake narrative of Putin pulling Russia out of the mud and bringing him to lead the earth when all those stories about Russia's greatness have been thoroughly been proven lies.",0
"SCOTUS isn't forced to just flip an on/off switch on this. There's a lot of aspects to the ISL doctrine/theory, and even if they indulge some part of it, they don't have to indulge or even consider others. As I pointed out, SCOTUS already rejected a case that tried to assert ISL in a presidential election against state court rulings.",Only if the most extreme form is adopted - and SCOTUS has already recently rejected a case that asked to do just that.,0
Are you telling me that Israel's conduct warranted more than twice the condemnations that Russia got?,UN condemnations are basically and are used to bully Israel while other much worse offenders get on their high horses to parctice their hypocrisy.,0
"Let me get this straight - you think the recidivism rate indicates people who WANT to be in prison? Moreover, you think these people who want to be in prison return DESPITE the low pay? As if they would happily go back inside sooner except the pay out here is just so much more enticing than what comes with their little concrete and steel home.","As for your soap joke, the idea that men who are incarcerated so long that raping other men seems like a good idea to them seems funny to you tells me all I need to know about your sensibilities.",0
"With current statewide winner-take-all laws, a presidential candidate could lose despite winning 78%+ of the popular vote and 38 smaller states.","But, the political reality is that the 12 largest states, with a majority of the U.S. population and electoral votes, rarely agree on any political candidate. In 2016, among the 12 largest states: 7 voted Republican (Texas, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia) and 5 voted Democratic (California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Virginia). The big states are just about as closely divided as the rest of the country. For example, among the four largest states, the two largest Republican states (Texas and Florida) generated a total margin of 2.1 million votes for Bush, while the two largest Democratic states generated a total margin of 2.1 million votes for Kerry.",0
"You are missing, OP is pro Russian, they think the rapes are being exaggerated to make Russia look bad and Russia is the real victim here.",Well someone who doesnt really read articles sent me one thinking it was proof of Russians condoning rape.,1
Republicans control the House. The only way to pass anything is bipartisanship. So Biden might as well try to encourage bipartisanship since it's the only way to get anything done.,"Everyone wants to act all shocked that Biden would want to be bipartisan or work with Republicans. Regardless of McConnell's crimes and faults, he still holds office and power. To ignore that or work against it would be counterproductive from the President's perspective. Add to that McConnell was one of the Republicans that did vote for the infrastructure bill. Meet on the things you agree on makes meeting on the things you don't easier.",1
"Correct, why would the democrats pass a bill forcing the workers to accept a contract they rejected?","They’re literally forcing a contract on workers, of whom a majority of them voted to reject it. This removes their leverage. He absolutely is Union busting, he’s just covering his actions with white chocolate frosting and rainbow sprinkles.",1
"The US knew an invasion was at least possible, incorrectly assessed Russian strenh and then came to a reasonable conclusion based on that - the Russians have the forces and are going to invade. Correct, but for the wrong reason.",He’s not wrong. I’d go further and say France was in denial for a long time after the invasion had begun.,1
"Also, we don't have the insane US bipartisan system, where there's always a fear of appearing ""partisan"" or something.",Our Constitution and our institutions are purpose-built to fight against attempted coups. It was all written just after we came out of a military dictatorship.,0
"""It was rigged. I actually won. Ted cheated."" All that shit. It's crazy, he's only got one fucking note.","He's gonna go nuclear. He's 80, wears diapers, has an adderall addiction, is functionally illiterate, and is gonna pitch the mother of all hissy fits when he isn't picked to run for president.",0
"Besides. Lots of things that western companies make for CIS countries are not actually imported but made locally. More often than not, in Russia. And if the company decides to pull out, they can't take their production lines from Russia. They'd have to sell it to a Russian company that would just keep making the same product under the different brand.","Which, in the long run, actually helps Russian economy, which replaces imports with domestic products. As well as Chinses economy, which still abides by sanctions but has loopholes around them and doesn't care about all the boycotting.",0
"Depending on whether Sinema runs for reelection as a Republican or who the Republicans put against her, she could end up taking more votes from the Republican candidate than the Democrat.","She has a higher favorability rating among Republicans than Democrats in her state, so yes, there will be Republicans who would vote for her as an independent. Especially if Republicans decide to run a nutjob.",1
I don't get why we keep hearing about which loser refused to concede? The headline suggests there's something fishy about the winner of an election starting to prepare for doing the job.,Which is normal. That is always what is done. That someone bothered to write an article and publish it suggests this is not normal. That something is happening that we should take notice of.,0
"Or the other top post with tons of support saying how conservatives are tired of being tied to anti-election sentiment/big lie/scorched earth politics just because of who their last president is. Uh, fucking hello? Almost 80% of republicans believe in those things. The stereotype is real because that is what conservatives actually believe. They’ve made sure to let everyone know over the last 2 years.","The amount of cope there is unbelievable right now. A top post is “conservatives just want to be left alone, and not have our tax money go toward things we morally disagree with.”.",0
"So much for Wiki's supposed NPOV I suppose, not that that has been true for the last decade or so...","Leaving aside that the Wiki Foundation shouldn't have an opinion in the first place, because there is no way it won't infiltrate Wikipedia itself...",0
"Again, this is unconfirmed, source is Israeli TV channel 12 1 hour ago, waiting for TimesofIsrael or Jpost to publish something about it so I can post it as well, but ill add it here for now.","From what I understand it's most likely Mossad agents that came into Iran, possibly from azerbaijan and conducted the strikes from within.",0
"Protected the rights of women, for example universal women's suffrage was introduced in 1934. Scores of women in parliament even in the 1930s. Introduction of latin alphabet and Turkish as we know it today. Free primary education. Modernisation. Pursued peace. Turkish war of indepence was last war under his reign. Normalised relations with Greece despite deep emnities, which is why the Greeks nominated him for a nobel peace price. Basically made Turkey what it is today.",This is what the Turkish public wants to see. Why do you think Erdogan is pushing the vote until after the elections? It's a close race between him and the opposition and he needs votes.,1
"As I said, some here might not remember much about what Labour was like the last time they were in power (especially given that the Reddit demographic tends to skew younger). And I suspect many others are so desparate to be rid of the current Tory regime that they want to believe Labour are the undisputed ""good guys"" who can save them.","And then the Tories will blame all the current problems on Labour, and Labour will waffle around and not commit hard enough to actually get anything done, so that the Tories are right back in a few years.",1
West calculated that it is best option. Elimination 100% of Russian oil from market will enormously increase its prices and probably EU couldnt handle it. In this case Russians are slaves working for free and lowering global oil proces. Who knows maybe it is the best solution: anglo-saxons were always best at statistics in warfare.,Russia sells its oil for $45 because only India and China are buying. This oil have to be shipped from Baltic ports so its transport costs to India are much higher than oil from Persian Gulf.,0
You forget this isn't about courage - its about ego. If the GOP rejects him he may very well decide to screw them by running on an independent ticket. I can't see him getting more than 10-15% of the vote (especially if he's running against DeSantis) but that is enough to screw any chance they have of victory.,"He's likely doing this as a veiled threat to the Republican machinery - knowing that he'd split the party and all but guarantee another Dem term if they don't support him. And, yes, he is just that delusional and narcissistic to think only he matters. He is, after all, a guy who wants to BE (admired and loved as) president, but not do the actual work of a president.",1
"As for procurement, yea that sounds crap and potentially corrupt but we do have elected oversight and a free media to root out the worst abuses, unlike the Russian / Chinese / Hungarian / etc side. You can bet for every $1M Russia spends on a missile, the same amount or more disappears into yachts and blow.",In Ukraine they shoot down $10-20k drones and $100k-1m dollar missiles with $4 million dollar missiles.,1
"It’s a nice thought but pretty sure that would just cause more problems. What Iranian people seem to want is for countries to stop allowing regime members and their families to have sanctuary. The families are spending the people’s money living high lives and regime members are stalking, spying on, harassing and threatening normal Iranians who have fled and their families still in Iran.","If you look at how the regime kids live in the west you can see exactly how much their father’s rule has to with religion. Absolutely zero. Their rule and laws are only about control, power and money.",0
"Probably just racist. There are valid criticisms of Turkiye in particular - after all, their wonderful despot enjoys rather high popular support, but the people who dislike Turkiye because the people are horrible are not the ones who tend to burn disaster relief goods.","Yeah, and the fact that the countries around turkey are assimilated, colonized by them and also that every country around turkey is speaking only Turkish clarifies how a giant piece of shit Turkey is.",1
"Some progressive dems need to start running on overhauling the federal justice system and Supreme Court. Expand it to 21 members, make congress fill the court within a timely manner or else all benefits and pay for the congress people will be docked until they confirm somebody, bring back the filibuster, and rotate decisions between random 7 justices for each case.","That should leave us with more judges confirmed by both parties (yes, I know strongly partisan judges like Thomas or Alito had 80+ senate votes, so this isn’t a sure thing) and a far less partisan court system.",0
"Putin met with a panel of ""aggrieved military widows"" earlier during the war in Ukraine, and I believe it was later shown that most were state crisis actors.",Now we’re seeing Russia use the Makiivka barracks strike and support from a Putin aligned “widow’s group” as grounds for full mobilization.,1
"Honestly I'm not sure if there would have been many takers if they offered to give it away for free, net of anything. The scrapyards might have fought over it since it does have a few million dollars of scrap value, but... not much beyond that. (Frankly, moving it might have eaten so far into the costs that make even scrapping it a net loss, depending on the state of the plane's hardware and how thorough of inspections it needs.).","> Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison. That poison?",1
If they are like a lot on that conservative sub you are probably right. I have noticed that there is at least some anti trump chat that is being allowed to stick around.,"I’m not quite sure anymore, as much as I despise a certain conservative sub here because of the practice of perma banning people for asking a legitimate question, I still lurk there to see what they are saying.",0
"I lived in a deathtrap of a building with horrible ventilation, no insulation (and lath-and-plaster walls), gas space heaters (only source of heat), gas stoves, and gas ovens. I absolutely hated that oven and avoided using it as much as possible. Even then, I put fans in the windows to have a continuous supply of fresh air. Nobody else in the building seemed to be doing that, though. I shudder to think of the air the other tenants were breathing in there. Gas ovens definitely need to go.",The real issue is gas stoves and ovens that need to be cleaned and homes with bad ventilation. Usually older homes. Your kitchen hood over your stove should be on venting to the outside.,1
Shouldn’t a shift of over 1% of votes draw our attention regardless of which party’s candidate win?,"Also, I love the comments on all of the political posts. Regardless of party affiliation so many posters are absolutely confident of the opinions of every registered voter of the opposite party.",0
"The Party didn’t pick Trump the Extreme Right Wing did. If the Party had it their way Trump wouldn’t exist. Hell, the base hates most of their leaders that’s why the call them Rhinos.",It’s his base with their power to primary people that made that possible. Gerrymandering helped to make this possible.,0
"Iran is one completely fucked up country, I wouldn't wish my worst enemy to be sent to that armpit of the world, it's truly hell on earth.","They also postpone executions right up to the moment before they are supposed to be killed, they do this multiple times and sometimes for months, just to torture them mentally.",0
Kim compared the United States to “a barking dog seized with fear.” She said North Korea would consider the U.S.-led statement “a wanton violation of our sovereignty and a grave political provocation.”.,"The problem with N Korea is not that they are a direct threat to the US, but how they could very easily disrupt our interests in the area and could potentially threaten our allies.",1
"Um, can you give an example of a policy that is neither conservative, nor conservative side of liberalism, nor progressive side of liberalism? I'm not sure I understand where you think the gap actually is.","Maybe like .2 years or so, when they had a supermajority (barely) and were busy getting the ACA passed?",0
"""One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system."".","Yet. A war here a war there, oppressing his own citizens here oppressing his own citizens there. He's got a lot of work to do if he wants to break Stalins records, but he is like the Charles Barkely compared to Jordan. He's like Georgia football compared to Stalins Alabama.",1
"He chose South Carolina because it was a turning point for him in the 2020 primaries. If Jim clyburn, the most powerful democrat in South Carolina, didn’t endorse him, he probably would’ve lost South Carolina and his presidential aspirations would’ve likely been over.","Democrats used to win Iowa in the presidential elections and used to dominate in New Hampshire. Now, due to the working class feeling like democrats have abandoned them, democrats aren’t even competitive in Iowa and barely squeak by in New Hampshire.",0
">Throughout her career, Wagenknecht has argued in favor of a closer relationship with Russia; in 1992, she penned an essay praising Stalinist Russia, a view she said in 2017 she no longer espoused. In the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Wagenknecht was a prominent defender of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin, arguing on February 20, 2022 that while the United States was trying to ""conjure up"" an invasion of Ukraine, “Russia has in fact no interest to march into Ukraine.” After Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Wagenknecht admitted that her judgment had been wrong.","-In the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Wagenknecht was a prominent defender of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin, arguing on February 20, 2022 that while the United States was trying to ""conjure up"" an invasion of Ukraine, ""“Russia has in fact no interest to march into Ukraine.”.",1
"But North Korea (and China when they defend NK at the UN) always say that these missile tests are for their ""own protection"", and that the US and South Korea should stop doing military exercises (which in turn are done to maintain defense readiness... interpreted as preparing for invasion by NK / China (but we all know this is their own propaganda)).","Sure, the U.S. and South Korea have massive superiority over North Korea, but unlike NK, they aren't going and shooting ICBMS over Japan and making nuclear threats left and right. At this point NK has nukes, they don't need to keep making threats to maintain their independence, yet they continue to do so.",1
"That would be impressive... Considering conscripts did not even participate in the fights (minus several attempts to forcibly make them sign the contracts, which was a pretty big scandal). They are not even a significant part of Russian army (100-140 thousand people scattered across bases all over the country).",IIRC the genius who tried to pass that was hit hard by the backlash specifically because it made Russian army look bad. Not to mention conscripts are of little use but a lot of trouble. Somehow I seriously doubt this was intended by the command - get 600 more people for a reputation hit that bad.,0
"I was referring to Pelosi, who would have been fine with getting infrastructure done with Republicans in power.","That's what he had to do with it. Joe's presidency so far has been about being the opposite of Trump. How? By demonstrating that democracy works by governing well (passing major legislation twice) and by cooperating, especially with capable women.",0
"I think using innocent deaths to promote political ideologies is wrong. Killing in general is wrong, regardless of what your beliefs are. Creating martyrs and blaming large groups for the actions of individuals is Not Good. That is in essence how wars are started and I don’t support it.",Please explain why half of the political population should feel responsible or guilty for the actions of radical individuals. Republicans are not collectively shooting everyone up. We are all individuals and we all have the choice to make our own decisions. The people that decide to take lives and murder have to deal with their own twisted decisions. Why help them out by sharing their burden. They were in the wrong and they should receive punishment for their actions.,0
Seems like you just have absolutely crystal clear messaging on what is and is not a target Ukraine/NATO will go after of Russia's. 1) Any unit on Ukrainian soil and 2) Any point of military attack onto Ukrainian soil.,Theres no reason why Russia should be bombing the western half of Ukraine taking out civillians and powerplants. The close proximity to Poland and the fact we've seen missiles strike this soil should've encouraged us to set this up.,1
"Except that the ""let's end moneyed politics"" party has more or less the same list of donors, and makes sure to introduce it as a constitutional amendment which has a ridiculously high bar to pass so they can make absolutely sure their proposal won't actually pass.","republicans could decide they don't support buying politicians any time they want, it's not like they're legally obligated to support corruption or anything. they're choosing to be corrupt and they could choose not to be if they felt like it.",1
The minute Elon used latin in a posting I broke out laughing. His appeal to popularity was a joke and the same people who say the elections were rigged were A-OK with a twitter bot vote.,Actually not really. Twitter had a publish set of standards. They warned people. Twitter was not political except to people who were pissed they couldn't spew their warped ideology on it because it impacted civil discourse which was their products purpose.,0
"Maybe not exactly applicable for this case but as an example: free trade agreements signed with third world countries back when most of the trade was the rich country selling the poor country stuff with less taxes, with the promise of increasing the trade in the other direction are finally paying off for the poorer countries. The pendulum swings, let’s see what its equilibrium point is.",Globalization is not just the globalization of the good things is also the globalization of some/many (pick yours) of the bad ones.,0
"China also has been investing heavily in Africa, and providing developmental aid with more favorable terms, lower interest rates, and often fewer restrictions than Western aid. Again, it's not out of benevolence but it does engender good will towards China.",I think you have your cause and effect reversed. It was the countries in Europe that colonized and exploited Africa. Russian and Chinese involvement in Africa (and the Global South in general) was a response to Western exploitation and colonization.,0
"Sorta what I thought. Its their job as reporters to bring to light what you did. In this case, donating to a political party that has sorta gone off the rails toward fascism. Donating to said party might imply that you enjoy the hateful chaos that this particular party brings to the table. That's why people freak out, not because of the media. Fuckin shithead.","This fucking bullshit. Bottom line the world was different in 2009 compared to 2011 and it has only gotten worse. It wasn’t about upholding shit from the 70s that was always there, it was about once again inventing a precedent, or excuse to create the unregulated and further corrupted result they and the federalist society desired since before citizen’s united even started.",1
I hope for the best for the people of Iran! I know some people from the Iranian diaspora in my country and they are very worried and extremely angry to say the least.,I would think there are some weapons flowing through considering the amount of Heroin and other contraband that also makes it through the border.,0
"One of the key areas of disagreement centers on the Trump legal team’s repeated refusal to designate a custodian of records to sign a document attesting that all classified materials have been returned to the federal government, according to two of these people. The Justice Department has repeatedly sought an unequivocal sworn written assurance from Trump’s team that all such documents have been returned, and Trump’s team has been unwilling to designate a custodian of records to sign such a statement while also giving assurances that they have handed documents back.","I’m wondering if no lawyers on his team actually want to be the one who attests that all documents have been returned, because they know Trump is always lying and they know he’s probably hiding more. They know that Trump would lie to them, his own legal team, even if it hurts his own legal strategy.",1
"NCD living up to the sub name, just in very unfunny ways. The amount of people on the sub who lap up everything PiS says is absurd, but there are still.","No, right? Then by definition you have to be opposed to Russia's invasion and in favour of continued support of Ukrainian fighting. Somewhere around 80+ % of people in Ukraine want a return to their legally recognized borders, and they are willing to either fight or suffer in the war as long as continued support comes from us in our warm, well-lit homes.",0
"Having such an unsophisticated spying program being shot down makes them look foolish and behind the times. I think that's a large part of the reason they're trying to fake the US having spy balloons over their territory as well, so they can look ""on par"".",Isn't it more the government knows the public knows they're spy balloons but they themselves can't outright call them spy balloons because of diplomatic whatnots and implications and logistics?,1
But people in Idaho voted for these guys. Like the majority. That’s how a democracy works. There are consequences for voting and this is one of them. If you want to fix this then it’s up to the people of Idaho to vote for better politicians.,"The majority of Idaho voters voted for this crap, and you’re getting mad at someone for not saving Idahoans from Idahoans.",1
"How do you square this argument with the Texas abortion bounty system? It seems clear that the GOP is willing to pursue avenues that can be turned against them (as Newsom is attempting with the CA version of this law re: guns). That, to me, indicates some level of confidence that the court system will work to enforce the results they want and hinder the ones they do not.","That doesn't address the crux of my point though, which is that they do not seem overly concerned about employing tactics that their enemies can also employ; that speaks to their confidence in the courts to arbitrate in their favor.",0
"3. (If I may go on my soapbox) India intrinsically doesn't believe in a universal arc of justice/universal rights granted to all humans. Everything is relative/negotiable/fate. This causes Indians to disengage from politics because ""what's the point? Everyone's on the take."" This means there is no market for polarizing narratives to develop because the minute you point out hypocrisy or an abuse of power, the response is ""what's the point? Everyone's on the take."".","Idk. When I was young I was always told/thought everyone wanted to move to the US. But when I lived in Cambodia in 2012 nobody wanted to move to America, they all wanted to move to Singapore. I suspect it might have always been a bit of American exceptionalism in America to think that, at least since the 2000s and the Bush Era. But who knows, I could be wrong.",1
"You can talk but you can't claim what's in the intrest of a country if you're not a part of that country, if I said it's in Ukraine best interest to surrender it's bulshit like you said Israel's best interest is to help Ukraine.","Israel and Ukraine have almost no good relations in the international stage , Ukraine never voted for Israel in the un and even last week voted for Israel being disarmed, Israel can handle Iran without helping Ukraine, but Ukraine just singles out Israel for help when half of NATO don't help them.",0
"Then they'll go conspiciously silent when Russia annexes Moldova, or just do their good old mental gymnastics.","Authoritarian leftist. People who think Stalin wasn't problematic and think it's a-ok for the state to work people to death. Named ""tankies"" because of the tanks the Red Army sent in to crush separatist demonstrations in the SSRs.",0
He was right. It’s in the top 5 funniest things I’ve ever experienced in my life and now my abs are actually sore from cracking up so thoroughly 😂.,"Those resources are for anyone who is genuinely struggling. Your use of the phrase “I just don’t know how much longer I can take” tells me you’re genuinely struggling. And you’re still healthy enough to work right now, but you have to take care of yourself too, otherwise you may find yourself not so healthy enough to work anymore. Living on an occasional half an egg and super processed ramen noodles isn’t going to keep you healthy for very long! You can’t pour from an empty cup, as the saying goes, so definitely look into a food pantry to get yourself some variety in your diet so you can keep yourself healthy.",0
"If one ignores the whole “one party trying to take away people’s rights and making a blatant march toward fascism” thing, the conditions were right for Republicans to sweep the midterms. They didn’t, and that’s a huge blow to their political agenda.","It was a “butt kicking” in that it didn’t follow the expected outcome, both from historical precedent and polling.",0
The term democracy 民主 has been coined in chinese by a westerner that chose that term to translate a book who dealt with forms of governments.,"All in all, 民主 has always meant ""democracy"" in the western sense, and that ""rule for the people"" narrative has been pushed by the communist party to gaslight its population. Same for the ""meritocracy"" or ""full process democracy"" (which is a term used by chinese propaganda): in reality, leaders and officials are chosen through nepotism, and even the lowest echelon officials the people can vote for are chosen by the party.",0
"Imagine the amount of rape happening in Iranian prisons, then imagine the torture, then the murders. I would be surprised if this wasn’t happening to women of all ages either. Disgusting.","Just wanted to let everyone know that murdering a virgin is illegal in Iran, so the female victim is raped by a prison guard the night before.",0
"Airline seats in economy are too small, that is just a fact. If you have ever sat next to an obese person and they insist on pulling the armrest up so they can fit it’s even worse. I feel sorry for them but, hell, I payed for my seat and to have it be even smaller because their body is spilling into my seat is just not acceptable.","yeah I'm not even arguing about safety or what, it's just that I paid for my seat and anything crossing into my space is at my discretion. I would probably let you take the armrest if you're big, but I'm not giving you any of my air space or let your leg touch my leg for the duration of the flight.",1
"Putin is in the middle of nowhere with everything he can physically need, so his discomfort will take longer to reflect reality.","Yes, good point. I also wonder if since Putin can stay protected for longer, that a physical illness or assassination attempt could end him too.",0
"No bill can do that, there’s already a SCOTUS ruling that gay marriage is protected by the constitution. The reason the Mormon church is for it is because they don’t have to marry gay couples. There’s plenty of other people that will administer a gay wedding.","You can't roll back a SCOTUS decision. SCOTUS can overrule itself, but they'd need a case and a reason which they presently don't have. Hell they don't even have the votes right now if they did have a case. OP still lead with this:",0
"“In every corner of the country, giant financial corporations are buying up housing and driving up both rents and home prices.","To be clear, in some cases, the ""institutional investment vehicles"" were simply betting that housing prices were going up. They'd buy lots of properties, then simply turn around and list them again pretty soon after buying them. Prices went up, they sold on the properties untouched and pocketed the profits. But that's about the least harmful way this stuff can happen.",1
They really think it came from pragamatuc short term political decisions and not militant labor organizing/ mass movements. A delusional view of history.,2. Good then we’re not forcing a shitty deal down the throats of labor or maybe it actually would force republicans to vote for the better provisions. Either way it’s a win. By putting pressure on GOP to end rail strike you actually can force the concessions of more sick days instead of simply giving in. But the reality is democrats care more about short term political aspirations than workers which is what bring a me to point 3.,0
Update: the dump from Clarke came out with a total 27.3k votes with CCM picking up 63% and is now only down by about 800 votes.,Update: the dump from Clarke came out with a total 27.3k votes with CCM picking up 63% and is now only down by about 800 votes.,0
"Had Putin been successful with Ukraine, we'd be seeing a new threat to Thaiwan by China, which again comes back to similar logic as this potentially being an extension of the Cold War.","Scholz: ""Hey, I'd be up for all of us working together and to not divide the world in spheres of influence, but China and Russia are a threat to that. The west must work together more closely and stand up for freedom and democracy"".",1
"North Carolina has a gerrymandering problem which has made its way to the Supreme Court- the SC that has a Federalist Society favoring majority. This could put We the People's democracy on the chopping block, and if the SC rules in favor of ISL doctrine, states will be harder than ever before to 'flip' despite a majority of votes.","The state level judicial partisanship, particularly around gerrymandering, always seems to favor the GOP. NY for example. Voter turnout has never been more critical, and with Republican party legislative domination in states like NC, it is hard to imagine voters feeling their vote will make a difference.",0
Claim you're there only because the government of the country desperately needed help dealing with an internal threat and were unable to deal with it on their own. You're helping!,Russia has exactly two strategies in their playbook for offensive action to take cities: Bullshit and Bombardment.,0
"I agree with you on that, there is certainly a lot more they can do (and have done) to women than men. But at the same time, both men and women face death for protesting, it’s just my personal opinion that the men who have died for the rights of others should be recognized for that sacrifice as well. Either way as you pretty much said, our opinions as non-Iranians mean jack shit regardless.",no one in Iran is even mentioning gender it's all you people outside Iran doing this shit. everyone is United here it's not a gender war.,1
"I get that. However, if our existing vaccines can be updated to fight this, and an outbreak is likely, I would bet Big Pharma is already working on, or at least has a plan to make, a targeted version.","Could a virologist (or at least someone smarter than me) ELI5: Don't we have a really good understanding of the flu virus, and wouldn't our existing vaccines be updatable to fight this?",0
"We're never going to get a filibuster proof senate from the Corporate Democrats. Except that Obama did have a supermajority, and instead of protecting Roe they protected insurance companies.",It's still a shitshow in case you haven't noticed. How stupid do you have to be to think that the solution to for-profit insurance being unaffordable is to pass a law forcing us to buy it?,0
I mean there is a way to look at it morally and to look at it pragmatically given that the current world is more divided geopolitically than past few years is it wise to sour relations with other countries. There ability to bring negotiate with people you fundamentally disagree with on some issues is important in our world.,"Yes negotiating with people you disagree with is important. Yes if I'm negotiating with them I have a line in the sand that domestic freedom in my own country is non-negotiable. If I'm a diplomat and another country threatens to cease trade relations over our government allowing freedom of speech, then sorry guess we're not trading. And in this example if they actually follow through it will hurt them a hell of a lot more than it will hurt western countries, especially as renewables become more and more viable and their oil is worthless.",1
"Here, some random parent complained and the school’s guidance from the state trainers caused them to pull the book. It’s probably exactly what they wanted - the law, on its face, doesn’t prohibit any mention of the struggles black people or other marginalized people face/have faced. As applied, however, it’s going to start doing that.","This is so fucked. The FL statute sets out very specific kinds of content that is prohibited. But, apparently, FL approved training and sent out government agents to tell people that what they really need to be removing material that is “harmful to children”. A subjective standard that inevitably leads to public schools removing and not teaching subjects that are not prohibited by FL law. Schools now err on the side of not teaching students and hiding books from them.",0
"School vouchers literally transfer money from the poor kids to the rich kids. They are almost never enough to fully cover the tuition of a private school, so they only go to people who have excess funds to pay for private school in the first place.",We functionally have the same exact system in the US. Most of us fear the cost of healthcare so we don't go to the doctor/hospital until it becomes life threatening.,0
"It does matter. Being a tribalist and constantly comparing to defend your side is infantile and doesn’t attack the root of the issue. You’re so hell bent on being on the right team, your own leaders are fleecing you while you fight for to line their pockets. As Americans we are all being screwed and if you think that would look any different under a completely Democratic Party controlled government then you are dangerously ignorant.",Who cares who does it more or less? That’s just feeding your own inability to accept your heroes might be flawed. Corruption is corruption and it should never be as common place as it is now.,0
"It's not ""essentially book burning"", it's removing the books from the public libraries. Are this books banned? No. Are they destroyed? Also probably no. Can you still buy it? Yes. Is there enough research materials for historians? Hell yeah, and if not, contact me and I'll lend them my grandma's library, there's a good hundred of soviet books. And mind you, they are intact, once again, Ukrainians aren't ""literally burning"" anything.","Also one shouldn’t forget that the language of the Ukrainians is Ukrainian, not Russian. They are in essence removing the books of their colonisers from public eye and replacing them with their own.",1
"I guess as production and demand increase, prices will come down, but price is definitely pricing people out of the switch at the moment.","The only thing that ever drives down prices is when there's more supply than demand. So as competition heats up and more manufacturers begin putting out (non-trivial) amounts of EVs, yes, prices will come down.",1
"Meanwhile, Finlands’ NATO ascencion is unlikely to happen before this summers' NATO summit, after Turkey’s has held elections.","If Finland magically gets into NATO but Sweden doesn't, it effectively turns into an island surrounded by NATO. That definitely improves their security situation but it allows them to be ""freeloaders"" hoping that others in their way protect them from the Russians so it's better to tie them into the joint alliance.",1
"Putin is just a symptom. There are many more like him, many who genuinely support them, many who do his enforcement and are encouraged by their nationalistic friends and family. If even 1% of the population marched on the Kremlin, it would be over.","But apparently great motivation to go start another war in Ukraine. That's the thing, always plenty of russians who are willing to die, just not fighting fascism but supporting it.",0
They must think the margins will swing even wider for B in these counties - although 55% of the remaining 36K votes left to count come from Pueblo county where Frisch is currently ahead by a 11% margin.,I’m not sure why the New York Times analysis has the remaining votes in Pueblo County breaking for Boebert when 55% of the vote total Went to Frisch. Maybe they are using last election cycle’s percentages in their estimates? Or maybe they know something I don’t. Military vote? 🤷‍♂️.,1
"That allows isreal to operate in syria. If russia sell their best anti-aircraft missiles to syria, it would potentially restrict isreal operations ability, which will create defense capability to isreal.","But not directly supporting ukraine with weapons, russia agreed not to provide isreal enemies with the latest weaponry.",0
"At the start of the war some russian pundits were saying they should ""station"" troops in Finland too. Some Finnish smartass on twitter said ""But there are already 160,000 Russian troops in Finland."".","Yes, quite frankly. The Russian invasion of Ukraine justifiably makes Finland nervous, whatever reason one believes motivated the former, because largely it applies to Finland as well. For example:",1
Honestly don't care what she was going through it was her choice to break the law in another country that any reasonable individual would have seen the potential risk she was taking in a place that convicts 99 percent of those with weed charges and it is still illegal here so I don't see why she was worth trading a merchant of death for.,How does it help? Cause It fucking doesn't. What you're saying is we should worry about the dummies abroad breaking other countries laws that we still uphold over a literal international arms dealer.,0
Otherwise there's no way a country with one of the highest carbon emissions per capita can be described as a climate leader.,"How can America ever call itself a ""climate leader"" when it's the one causing the problems? America, a country 1/4 the size of China has the exact same amount of carbon emissions as China. Think about that, every single American who complains about how China creates all the pollution requires 4x as much pollution to live their lives.",1
"Nope not at all. Well it was a consensus from conservatives and conspiracy theorists who knowingly push false theories, but never by any scientific journal.",Well it's not surprising considering the media and health agencies spent an entire year saying this was a baseless conspiracy theory. Politicizing covid is the dumbest shit I've seen in my life. The waters are muddy and internal documents from NIH only created more questions. Grants were givin out to create a stronger coronavirus. Here's a good read about some of the issues and touches on the complete lack of transparency and oversight.,1
"But my country were under russian rule, when we had puppet presidents before the revolution. And, you know, it was nothing like NK. Actually, i can name a big list of reasons why my life turned from ""existing somehow"" to ""barely able to survive only with help"" since the revolution, when people chased away russian puppet president, and won't be able to name at least a single positive change. Not even one. But you don't really want to hear it, right? Since all you want to believe that in case of surrendering entire population would be sent to mines or executed if they refuse. But in reality life for average citizen aren't changed much, and life for the poor turned into living nightmare under the new regime, because they don't care about disabled and elderly, even a slightest.","No doubt about that, but that desision also had a side effect of saving thousands of people that would died in case of war. Also, don't you find hyppocritical in bashing weak state without any kind of power for not going into direct conflict against nuclear power, when literally every country in the world are scared to do the same? If any country at all allied with Ukraine in united front, this war would be won long time ago. But they are all scared for their lives.",0
There's no case for black reparations and anyone who thinks there is probably just lying to themselves.,I often wonder the ratio of useful idiots to class warriors among those proposing and supporting race-based reparations.,1
I believe it uses Bluetooth LE to broadcast a signal. Other iDevices can then receive that signal and pass it onto Apple.,"Apple can even track your location even if your Apple device is turned off, using other Apple users near you. The chip components of your device actually still have power and tracking is still active.",1
"Russia's blustering has reached the point of absurdity. If I were advising strategy for the U.S. & Europe, I would contend that they are indeed a paper tiger, and to call their bluff. For every announcement that Russia makes threatening vague, but grave consequences for the support of a NATO country, (like releasing video of an icbm missle with multiple warheads being loaded into a silo), I would counter with a brief and consistment statement which states NATO will continue to provide any support they deem fit to assist Ukraine to regain their illegally annexed land. Period.","You're selling the EU members of NATO quite short, I assure you. Especially when you consider that they are a tightly integrated force. If you really think all these forces combined in one command structure could not defeat Russia in a conventional war, you're mistaken: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Denmark, Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Norway...shall I go on? There's like 6 more. I hope you get the point.",0
"There are nearly 8 billion human beings inhabiting this world and you'll find nearly 8 billion political and social beliefs to go with them. Simply saying ""there are terminally stupid lefty takes on Ukraine..."" means nothing because there will be people on the left who support Russia just as there are people on the right who support Ukraine.","Thankfully this is the case (that most on the left support Ukraine) but as you go further left, to groups like Democratic Socialist Alliance, you'll see a ton of very pointed support for Putin and Russias actions. One of the speakers (Jackson Hinkle) runs a communist group, and also is paid as Russian State media operative.",1
"Saturday voting could HELP the GOP, too That's what is extra fucked up about this Now that the Warnock/Walker runoff isn't going to decide control of the Senate, Republicans are going to have a harder time poking their base to get out to the polls again.","The other Republicans appealing are keeping the question open and unsettled; even if they lose at Supreme by Friday evening, they've probably suppressed some votes.",1
Wearing a seatbelt and carrying a gun stems from a similar desire to be prepared for the possibility of dangerous scenarios.,"See? This is exactly what I'm talking about. There are plenty of reasons a person might carry a gun, but you refuse to believe that. The are entire subreddits and youtube channels showing people defending themselves and their families with a gun. Just because you don't understand the reasons, doesn't mean there aren't any.",0
"The scary part is it’s clear that justices like Alito and ACB don’t believe in protected characteristics. They don’t think a history of discrimination is evidence of anything, taking a completely ahistorical view towards America. Because they are there to reinforce white supremacy and Christofascism. They believe that systemic discrimination, far from being a settled academic fact, is a “woke myth”. Unless someone is shouting the N word and maybe even then, there’s no proof racism is involved.","Eh, it still seems a bit racist to me. Just because you want a red car doesn't mean you will accept any red car. I wanted 32 G of Ram in a computer, but I also had quite a few more criteria.",1
His claim more than two months ago that the annexed regions belonged to Russia came after the Russian military lost ground to a Ukrainian counteroffensive and followed hastily staged “referendums” that were rejected by Ukraine and its Western allies as a sham.,"Putin, who has repeatedly said that Russia was ready to use “all available means” to protect its territory, including the annexed areas of Ukraine, rejected Western criticism that those statements amounted to nuclear saber-rattling.",0
"It's just alot of logic fallacies by really stupid people. False equivalence plays a large role. Where some people on the right will see Biden in Kyiv and decide ""well maybe the other side has a point too?!?"" That degrades fairly rapidly into bringing up their talking points as counter-arguments to a fight that doesn't need to happen.",Hitler's rise to power didn't just happen in 1933 when he was appointed Chancellor. For the better part of the decade before that he had maneuvered on different levels and in different states. He had popular support in the army and with some of the larger manufacturers. It's not like the Nazi's just showed up in 1933.,0
"But parole officers are regularly and repeatedly jailing people for 1 day to 6 months or more for having THC in a urine test, including in Oregon. The punishment and damage is as bad as convictions and sentencing but no charges are involved since parole officers can just jail parolees for looking at them the wrong way or on mere suspicion.","So, people sentenced to state prison who are being released with conditions that would otherwise be onerous, unfair, or illegal to impose on someone who wasn't still serving a sentence.",1
"I agree with this statement, and I think the key point here is that nothing in the 'twitter files' shows any evidence of this type of activity whatsoever.","But, the goal was to have the Twitter files articles provide quotes for right-wing media to amplify to a base that would never read the evidence or possibly even the original article.",1
I read they article. The atmosphere is already 78% nitrogen. What is excess nitrogen? 79%? 80/81/85 more? The amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere is already causing the problems that are noted. It’s a part of our environment. It’s natural. It’s preposterous to think that we need to reduce the amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere to offset the “problems” that it causes.,"You've already got your opinion formed about why the policies are dumb without even knowing the effects of too much nitrogen on the _local, not atmospheric_ problem.",1
"Trump became the nominee in spite of the GOP, not because of the GOP. He resonated with GOP voters in ways that even the GOP wasn't aware existed.","Pretending that the GOP ""isn't aware"" of itself is unsupported by their own history. Trump was just the latest and loudest in a 70-year string of lying, conspiring GOP leaders.",1
"The first part about the POWs and KIAs did lead to comments about a captured US Navy boat and personnel. Although I read the article where the rumor started from, and I didn't see anything that would lead me to believe anything happened recently. It most likely was referring to remains from the Korean War. So, it could be that the news article was modified to remove the confusion, or the poster that started the rumor is an idiot.","In January 2021, when Biden took office, there was some conspiracy theory going around Chinese social media after a state news article was quoted as saying that the US naval officials (specifically the Navy) were meeting with PLA officials to discuss the return of POWs and KIAs in the present tense. And people were speculating, hang on.. the PLAN captured some US servicemembers?",0
One of the questions I'm looking forward to being answered when his returns are released is whether he really did get a tax break for burying her on his golf course.,"I appreciate you. It's exhausting reading breathless post after breathless post about conclusive evidence of crimes, when in fact the bar for actual conviction would be very much higher.",0
"As an American that has lived overseas on and off for over 10 years, starting in the 1980s, here’s a bit of reality, the rest of the world probably doesn’t want you.","As someone that has lived overseas in and off since the 1980s, it’s just sort of a rule of thumb that you shouldn’t be too friendly with anybody that’s been here less than 5 years since there’s a huge, huge chance they’re going to end up going back home.",0
"I mean as a very blue voter in a depressingly red state, I will not be happy to see Californians and NYers move here if they start to.","My general thinking on this is that if red states want to vote themselves into a situation where they're dying frequently due to sickness, violence, and poverty......well they made their bed, and we should just let them lie in it.",1
Russian propaganda needs to create the false narrative of fighting an enemy bigger than Ukraine. The actual west is fine with Zelenskyy making the demands and he very much wants Crimea back.,"What do you mean by ""back to where it started"" if you mean all of the annexed territory by Russia, minus Crimea, yes. But what do you expect out of this war truthfully? A demilitarized Crimea isn't as big of a loss as the whole south of the country or even just donbas.",1
"The 7.5, 6.7, 6.3, 6.0 etc are all considered aftershocks, even though they themselves may also induce localized aftershocks.","AFAIK, these are considered aftershocks due to the geological proximity to the fault zone that ruptured and smaller magnitude.",0
"Ah, I don't. Would be happy if we continue to have strong and stable relationships with most countries (ideally with a long-term solution to our issues with Pakistan, which is the only country with which i hope we have a significant shift in our foreign policy within my lifetime), without going into any bloc. India shouldn't be within the west's camp in the way that Asian countries like Japan or Korea are.","Eh, when you say shine light, it seems like we deny/keep these things a secret, when all three are major political issues, with work being done to tackle the same.",0
"So I guess systemic racism from people from ALL races will be investigated But NOT, only Whites are accused of being racists The Woke culture indoctrination that ONLY whites can be racists, is total nonsense!","No, this is still a good thing and I have no criticism whatsoever for this particular action to investigate systemic racism. This should have been looked into long before.",1
"2) The goal of the disengagement from Gaza was not to be nice to the Palestinians; Israel left due to the realization that Israel could never achieve Jewish majority in Gaza (no majority, no potential future annexation, no point in staying). Even further, Sharon's plan was apparently to torpedo any chance of peace with the Palestinians with that disengagement plan:","I'm just pointing out that anyone who thinks there's any chance of peace with Hamas is delusional, because Hamas themselves explicitly state that their purpose is a neverending fight with Jews.",1
"If Putin's mansion blew up and that somehow saved Ukrainian lives I would value that over the Russian artworks. If I created art and 100 years from now my country invaded another for illegitimate reasons I would be happy if its destruction was in the pursuit of justice, I would rather my work burnt to a cinder than be in such a persons hands as Putin's.",Does it now? Go ahead and quote the part where I said anything about encouragement to attack Russia or its art?,0
"I thought that the U.S. banned TikTok on government devices a while ago. It is Canada that did it recently. Either way, it's a hypocritical statement from the Chinese government, considering that virtually every non-Chinese app is already banned there.","This an absurd statement on its face and the exact same one that China is making (both explicitly by “chiding” the US, and implicitly through their own far more extreme censorship).",1
"So... that is kind of what the law says (see e.g. which notes ""the President has the discretion to determine what is personal material"").","When the law says that the President determines what is official and personal, that means they have to make that determination, not that they get to pick and choose. If you're at a potluck supper and someone says ""Which dish is yours?"", you don't get to decide.",1
"Same woman who believes it's the Ukrainians who are deluded by fake news and propaganda. Meanwhile, she sounds like a Qanon nut in the U.S. Interesting how the Russian and American far right use all the same talking points and conspiracy theories.",Interesting that she believes that if the US president dies the entire effort to aid Ukraine will just collapse. Has lived under despot so long that she just assumed all other countries are run by despots as well?,0
"Centrists are bringing the same problems progressives have, yet offer no solutions that anyone other than a republican would want.",But several folks have told you that the SOLUTIONS Centrists bring to those problems never work out.,0
"ITT: People across the world woefully unaware of the Dutch nitrogen crisis, it's relation to the Dutch housing crisis, the relative amount of nitrogen emitted by farms, and the percentage of food that we're not even producing for ourselves.","That's right, you also need an environment that can sustain the nitrogen emissions that farms like that bring, without the nitrogen emissions being a danger to nature and jeopardizing housing developments (which also emit nitrogen).",0
And I just wouldn't like to see the House of Representatives trying to politicize a terrorist attack on foreign soil.,"Cool, so I assume that you would be willing to address the fact that the Keystone Pipeline 2017 spill happened while both houses of legislature and the executive office were held by Republicans and they had even less to say than in the spills that I mentioned before.",0
"Next, Iraq isn't controlled by ISIS... But if it is life saving or posses some other medical risk, I am all for it. But then you would say: ""What about rape and incest?"" And I would say: ""Yes, rape and incest, but beyond that no."" Then what? If I say ""Injury, rape, and incest"" would that sate you or do you want more? Does it go from ""life saving"" to ""stay out of the doctors office""? That's the real issue... But if it was state by state we can vote on it... Which you say is ""anti-democrat."".","LMAO... If you want to live somewhere abortion is outlawed, you can move to Iraq with ISIS, the other religious nutjobs who want to restrict women from access to a potentially life saving procedure.",1
"They don’t have missile capabilities that can destroy the base most likely, Iranian bases were labeled as a reason to invest in underground warfare as they couldn’t easily be destroyed.","It’s an effective counter: for example a scenario where Coalition Forces wish to limit Iran’s air so they target their bases using a purely air campaign which is the most likely situation these bunkers would face. These bases for one, will be much harder to find. Two, will be well defended against missiles and even bunker busters. Three, if you find them and the exit they can easily clean the debris out the way.",0
Why is it that these republicans are always joking when they make these remarks but when a democrat says something (equivalent in outrage (fake outrage that is)) how dare them?,"So ""a joke"" is defined as something that disgusts and outrages the sane members of society and makes the crazy right wingers all cheer, but lacks any element of humor?",1
"Putin's fanbois like to spin the Ukraine war as something machinated by the USA to ""weaken Russia"" because Russia would have been a rival from the outset... it made itself the rival by invading neighbours.","what do you mean where did I say it wasn't the right case to help Ukraine, I am saying the US is motivated to see Russia army weakened and is one of the core reasons why they are supporting Ukraine.",1
"I am in Boise right now and feel like they should definitely be on the FBI watch list. I literally felt like I was reading propaganda for the 4th Reich. It’s fucking terrifying you can “report a CRT incident” for them to investigate. As nice as it was that the President bantered with Republicans last night, they have shown us who they are. WE NEED TO BELIEVE THEM!",I guess I’ve not run into many of them just because my aunt and the friends of hers she’s introduced me to over the years are all super liberal. The social circle her and my uncle in are blue as you can get as well as the business he works with in the nonprofit sector are also very liberal. So I just haven’t spent as much time outside that group to meet the crazies.,0
"If there's a conventional war with Russia there is no discussion. It's over before it even started. Since nukes are a thing there will never be one, and that's how it's going to go until the nukes don't exist.",yes man because us using nukes against a ww2 power with zero nukes is the same as us using nukes against a modern power with one of the largest arsenals in the world.,1
"If so you could argue that all the fatties spew out more exhaust gases due to the increased weight that need to be pushed around by engines (weather we talking jet, mc or cars).","If so you could argue that all the fatties spew out more exhaust gases due to the increased weight that need to be pushed around by engines (weather we talking jet, mc or cars).",0
"To add to this - they have a very impactful duty they can do independently (confirming/blocking judicial nominations), whereas the House needs the Senate to pass legislation.","Considering there won't be any legislation to pass for the next two years with the House back in Republican hands, all the Senate can really do is confirm some more judges, and 51 Senators will do nicely for that.",1
"In theory, it's in US airspace, the US can intercept it. However, they likely want to see where it is going to try and get an idea of what China is trying to scope.","I mean, they likely are, it's just not public. But now that they public is aware of it, private citizens are tracking.",0
"i never said that things would change on a dime. but let's not pretend that ""killing a sizeable percentage of the world's population"" is a natural consequence of this. that is a talking point from the oil and gas companies.","We've been relying on self-reporting by the oil and gas industries. All of our projections for what measures we need to take to fight climate change, and how strong our response needs to be, come in no small part from that self reporting.",1
"Im not here to debate if Trump is right or wrong, if there was fraud or not. Im only setting the record straight and calling out fake news. Here is the tweet, read it for yourself.","No need to debate. I make no claims that he is right. If Trump is so wrong, why need to lie about what he said? If you fell for this lie, what other lies do you accept as fact?",0
"This doesn't look particularly suspicious, honestly, and pushing too hard here risks drawing lines that are inconsistent with existing settled law. For example, it's okay for college students who are studying out of state to re-register to vote if their parents move while they are still out of state, even if they've never been to their new permanent address.","When I moved here, I sent a note to my former state via their website informing them I had moved so did my registration and voting in NC. Right away, the former state got all on my case about voting somewhere else and said they suspected fraud. I pointed out that if they can't read their own website forms that it wasn't my fault. It shut them up.",1
"Thankfully a lot of the higher tech munitions need frequent maintenance which Russia can't do currently, hence why they're getting missiles from Iran.","It'd probably be a waste of limited munitions, Russia still has the S-400 which is decently capable, it doesn't make sense to fire missiles 500 miles into Russia just for it to be shot down. Russia also has a strong affinity for mobile launch vehicles so even if Ukraine's missile made it the 500 miles into Russian space without being intercepted, there's a good chance the launcher was evacuated.",1
"M270A1 - 2005 upgrade with a new fire control system and the ability to fire GPS guided rockets such as the M30, M31, M39A1, M48, M57, and M57E1.",M270A2 - 2019 upgrade with a new fire control system that allows it to use a new lighter weight battlefield ballistic missile called the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM).,0
Edit: after reading up on it more I'd much rather visit newgrange than the pyramids in person. Egypt seems like a hot mess for even experienced travellers.,Why anyone would travel to Egypt right now is beyond me. I still remember the story from decades ago of a sausage maker in Cairo getting busted for using street dogs to make his sausages which he sold primarily to the high end hotels in Cairo...,1
"When you give people a way to prevent people from voting, they will do so. It creates a perverse incentive. Same with felon disenfranchisement. It just incentivizes criminalizing actions disfavored people engage in, for the purpose of disenfranchisement. Or extending sentences to make them felonies to the same end. Consider sentencing disparities between powder and crack cocaine, and who tends to use which.",You're saying you'd allow them to both disenfranchise people and cut down on taxation at the same time? You want to let them get two birds with one stone?,0
"- If the missile was deliberately fired at Poland by Ukraine, then and only then it would be Ukraine's fault.","The context of my reply is that it matters for the reaction of Poland if the Russians fired a missile which ended up in Poland or if the Ukrainians accidentally hit an ally. In that context, it is not essentially the same just because Russia attacked Ukraine.",1
Why do I feel that Western stories about Putin's health are Russian propaganda designed to enable Putin to fake his own death and escape to Venezuela?,"How did this escalate to ""fuck off, Putin-propaganda, strawman fallacy"" talk? The way I see it, they took your reply as supportive of the rumors so he kept going on the same angle. I can see how you would feel they ignored what you were saying, or that they were mocking anyone believing Putin is sick in some way.",1
Militaries are documented as some of the most egregious polluters in history. Add to that the fact that governments get a large chunk of their revenue from trade and taxing imports/goods/services and you have a situation where polititians are not interested in upsetting the apple cart.,"Edit: Ultimately, though, we are all a part of this massive and unyielding consumer society, and we all feed into the demand and profits of these companies. Imagine if we all stopped flying, buying stuff online, and started biking and walking everywhere? The world would be a better place, but fat chance of that happening.",0
"That is why Putin can't afford to lose Crimea. Gaining Crimea brought his historically low popularity ratings back up to the 60% range. Losing it will send it right back down again. Patrushev would have no trouble 'helping Putin retire"" while placing some controllable technocrat in charge (probably Mishustin). Patrushev is arguably more evil than Putin and close friends with him, but he's also not stupid, and there may come a time when he sees that his own survival is only viable with Putin out of the picture.","Putin very well could do nothing in impotent rage as is the case with the commie proverb, but there are other possibilities as well that have wider implications for the war and world at large.",1
"Last time Russia had an attempted coup in 1993 the military was called in and decided to open fire, since Putin entered office the Russian government has built large amounts of paramilitary police forces excluding the standard police who we see break up riots and the Russian military is still happy to butcher “traitors”, so attempting a coup would just be a mass suicide attempt and the Russian people know it. They know it so well that there are many Russian jokes about doing as you are told and not criticising the state otherwise you disappear.","Now that is very true, they don’t care as it is their doctrine/military mentality they are proud that they threw men at machine guns in WW2 as it was patriotic it’s the same in Ukraine.",0
"If you're taking the stance you described with its apparent answer, then the answer to the question of ""If not now, why then?"" should be, ""Ukraine is not NATO, let them die to Russia"", but clearly NATO members have not taken that stance, and instead the opposite. Ukraine is NOT a NATO member, yet NATO is clearly taking the risk of Russian offensive nuclear war.","Since those Russians wouldn't make a distinction, nor is/should NATO. NATO members came to that same conclusion, hence the decision to back Ukraine militarily.",0
The US warned Germany weeks before the explosions that they had intel indicating sabotage to the NS1/NS2 pipelines was likely. That gave Germany weeks to try to prevent the sabotage or at least monitor for it.,"Russian ships, and a submarine, were spotted near the location where the pipelines were sabotaged 1 week prior to the explosions.",0
"This bravado has two meanings: while he wants to show Putin his loyalty, Lukashenko is also telling Russia that they can defend themselves.","The primary threat to Belarus and Lukashenko is Russia and its armed forces, many of which are already inside Belarus. If Belarus talks about defenses, it's to discourage Russia.",1
"Maybe more than any recent candidate I've seen, it looks like DeSantis doesn't give one iota of a fuck what anyone who isn't a Republican thinks.","He doesn't give two shits about what actually happens, he got the message out to his voters that he is willing to do it, and that's all they care about.",1
"My guess is that they're hoping for a nuclear ""accident"", actively trying to fuck up the reactors... However, as other people have mentioned, the reactors are protected in ways that would minimize the effects of a meltdown.","That being said, if a reactor has a catastrophic meltdown in Ukraine, it would still be cause for foreign intervention to at least clear the area and stop radioactive pollution from spreading into the rest of Europe. And that's something that's absolutely on the minds of Russian leaders.",1
This is just mealy-mouthing. The appropriate response to political grandstanding by intrusive government goons is to withdraw all AP offerings until such time as an agreement is reached.,"I don't have time to protect every sucker from every grift, especially the very obvious ones that a child could discern with minimal effort. The Stupids will continue to do Stupid things and make Stupid choices. I doubt even Elon Musk would hire an engineer with a degree from Trump University, and he's very fond of the Stupids.",0
"Yeah I see that a lot and it's clear that it was a good argument about 11 months ago but it sure as hell isn't now; if half of their collective fortunes disappeared in months, that gravy is disappearing fast and much worse, LOTS of them are dying ... and their families left with nothing (those that have families who survive at all -- more than a couple have seen their family shot in front of them before being killed themselves and ... and then a suicide is staged. Oh, look and they signed literally everything over to Mr Putin or a close associate.).","Yeah. Although Russian history is quite literally biting the hand that feeds you and some vanity projects. Like Russian elite/nobility have an issue of wanting to keep the status quo lasting forever, and literally even the slightest deviation from this is viewed as the greatest evil in the world. This was true to Ivan the Terrible (""Hey, let's abuse the shit out of this kid that will become king one day Surely there's no way this will ever backfire on me or anyone else""), Catherine the Great (""Hey Let the czar marry the German woman, it totally isn't like he is incredibly incompetent and she'll become empress of Russia anyways""), the Russo-Japanese War (""Oh shoot Our naval officers are literally just given the positions because they're nobility, and a good chunk of our ships were previously yachts Quick, send the Baltic fleet to stop the inferior Japanese""), the Russian Civil war (""Oh what happened? The entire royal family was shot and there isn't a clear heir? We don't care, we need to stop these western ideas like Bolshevism from infecting Russia""), the attempted coup against Gorbachev (""He's selling Russia and the Soviet out to the West We need to remain in power!""), and this is still the case today.",1
"My friend is a public school teacher. She has to suppliment her income with food delivery. She also has to use a stupid amount of her OWN money to get supplies for her kids that the state won't pay for. She can't even leave her work at the school. When she's not working, she's preparing to work. 45k per year and 60 hour workweeks is what her Masters degree (that she's still paying off) bought her.","It really depends on where you live and how you live. In the past years in the city I live in, it has become pretty difficult to find a place to live that is under about $1500 per month. Add to that the fact that nearly all landlords require you make 3 times the rent and things get tricky. 3x the rent at 1500 per month would actually require $54,000 a year just for them to accept you as a tenant.",0
". Despite wealth getting him laid. he has the classic incel personality and is essentially an emotionally dysfunctional manchild with no real friends. These types nearly always gravitate to the alt right because they think it makes them ""macho."".",I used it for this. I had a long list of actual journalists I followed. And Rex Chapman because he apparently has nothing better to do than post every single thing. I'm genuinely upset its gone.,1
"I'm done here. You can have the last comment and therefore win the internet debate championship trophy. I don't care as much as it might seem I do. Only driven to comment because I have a number of friends from India and they are good people, so India's choices here have come as a surprise. It is what it is.",They are. But virtue signalling of armchair generals here is on a whole another level. The majority of them would have a portion of the fuel in their tank from Russia.,1
"I've seen other countries, mainly middle eastern ones, that have kind of killed off all of the other ways a country can normally make money, by being focused solely on nature resources, but I had no clue Russia was in this boat too. It gives a whole lot of insight into why Russia is doing this, they likely know in 10 or 20 years, a lot of those natural resources will become a lot less valuable.","Seriously, the USSR was vast and I think Russia is riding on that reputation, with the understanding they could still access those resources. Ukraine has popped that dream bubble, and the inner rot of a Dictatorship is showing.",1
They're not only trying to make people like it...they're trying to make people want to spend their own real money on fake bullshit within it. As if people have any money to waste on crap like that these days.,"They're disconnected from reality. No business is gonna go and buy all these VR headsets for its employees to do meetings when phone calls, emails and zoom chats get the job done as it is.",0
"For real though, it’s like business schools stopped teaching people how to competently and sustainably grow their businesses. They refuse to reinvest in talent, R&D, process improvements, etc. It’s stock buybacks and cutting corners and nothing else. At what point do we end the incompetence?",Yeah but that at least has the fig leaf of trying to prevent a full depression. There’s some kind of economic theory behind it rather than strictly greed.,0
"The bottom line is that when you retire, you start to cost society more than you contribute. And many countries now have ageing populations. And again, that’s not to speak ill of anyone who is retired or insist that increasing the retirement age is a good thing or the best course. It’s just a difficult situation. This is also why immigrants are very good for a country, they buff the working age population, and help alleviate these stresses.","If you don't want massive immigration (which I understand the French don't), this is the only other way to have a working age population. Life expectancy has gone up 20-30 years and the retirement age has barely budged.",1
"Yeah, given everything else he lied about, I highly doubt he would actually stick to this ""no revenge tour"", hell just saying he is ""entitled"" to one. Sigh, if somehow he actually wins, then I, I give up, because it's clear he will only focus on this and more crimes to get whatever he wants, even as more crises emerge and expand here and across the globe.","Trump's comments come as the race for the 2024 Republican nomination has yet to move into full swing. At least 17 Republicans are considering a run, though former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is the only other person besides Trump who has made it clear she'll enter the race.",0
"Though I’d say that there are ways in which Estonian culture is more European than Finnish, too. The Germanic influences have left some traces in Estonia. I’m Finnish, btw.","It might be, that Finns arrived from Estonia to Finland. Estonia was the bigger and wealthier neighbour for centuries, Tallinn was a hanseatic city (a Central European trading union). But when the climate in Finland started to get warmer in the 1500's, Finland started to grow bigger and stronger. Nowadays Finnish GDP is about 10 times bigger than the Estonian one.",1
"Because fascism is a dictatorial regime in which a person came to power illegally, obtained full powers and has a monopoly on the press and the media. There is therefore only one party and it is illegal to have political opposition and a thought that is opposed to those of the dictator. There is the exaltation of war, violence and race. Although it is a far-right government, if you call it a fascist government you should open some history books.",But you have a definition of Fascism that is really far from what fascism is. In the USA you have had Trump who has been absolutely closer to Mussolini than any previous or Italian prime minister since 1946.,0
Right wing people have decided that this means that the entire thing was fake. Because every single one of them is a depraved and dishonest piece of shit that will say I do anything in order to justify any violence against people who are not part of their group.,That thing is nothing but a shameless murderer too cowardly to actually kill anybody so instead he just offends those who actually engage in the violence he just fantasizes about.,0
"Idk. When I was young I was always told/thought everyone wanted to move to the US. But when I lived in Cambodia in 2012 nobody wanted to move to America, they all wanted to move to Singapore. I suspect it might have always been a bit of American exceptionalism in America to think that, at least since the 2000s and the Bush Era. But who knows, I could be wrong.","I read your comment and you're still wrong. The wealthy are renouncing US citizenship less in recent years. There's not great incentive for them to renounce. Most decent places to live are more strict with extreme wealth. They can get away with more in the US. And nobody wants to live in Kitts and Nevis or wherever buy-a-citizenship island country the wealthy had invested in, in small numbers in the past.",1
"I'm not specialist in the matter, but as far as I understand, Germany has to give permission to other countries so they can supply Ukraine with leopards.","Well not a single Leopard-2 operator has asked Germany for a re-export allowance, they all want to keep their tanks but point at Germany that they're not doing enough.",1
And 538 also made it clear that a lot of possible outcomes around the balance if power were all within one normal polling error.,Polls don’t predict winners since a margin of error of 3% with one candidate leading by 3% just means the have a really excellent chance of being in the range of losing by by 3% or winning by 9%.,1
"Paid the Bushes to invade Iraq twice, bought Texas' biggest oil fields and make us buy the oil back, kill our journalists.","The Saudi royalty paid the Bush family to invade Iraq twice, through the Bushes making us do their dirty work and wipe out a growing competitor.",0
"It's a good tactics of you know that your officers are shite, allows for success with army they have, it also allows for lower casualties on strategic level despite that individual attacks can suffer horrendous ones.","If we go back to Bakhamut example, if Ukraine inflicts disproportional casualties in this battle, it is worth holding, but also denying political win for Russia might increase infighting and affect coordination between competing Russian armies.",0
"We know it by the definition of an element. To phrase it as simply as possible, each element is essentially defined by the number of protons it has. The first element on the periodic table has 1 proton, the second has 2 protons, etc. A couple other properties (e.g., number of neutrons) change to accommodate this number of protons, but basically that's what defines an element. If you took hydrogen and added 1 proton to it (then corrected the number of electrons and neutrons), it becomes a helium atom. All the Renaissance alchemists who wanted to synthesize gold were unwittingly aiming to arrive at an atom with the correct number of protons (and neutrons and electrons to stabilize it).","We have produced elements beyond 100 protons and observed that they stopped being stable long ago, hence these are not naturally occurring. We also know that it becomes increasingly difficult to make the higher numbered elements, and the artificially created elements expire within fractions of a second. This means eventually we will be unable to make any further elements. The physics of what makes up an atom will no longer be possible; We'll have exhausted the possibilities for new atoms. People have made calculations around this limit as well.",0
"Meanwhile, for all their outrage on the internet, young Americans are still voting less than any other age group (yet still have the gall to complain about the results).","More Americans voted for Trump in 2020 than in 2016. They saw four years of daily scandals and said, ""Yes, more of that!"".",0
"My parents live in Texas and keep voting for republicans. They basically complain about the problems and try their best to bury their hair in the sand. Even if the are somewhat disgruntled and want changes, when it comes time to vote they succumb to the fear mongering about gay marriage, abortion, drag queens or whatever the current party line hate is and keep voting for the same people who are actively taking advantage of them.","Doesn’t help that they have gerrymandered Texas into oblivion so even when new representation is wanted, it’s difficult to get due to decades of GOP redrawing lines to choose their own voters.",1
"The players, coach and staff are complying because it is their job to do what the federation says, but they are not happy about it. Although they are ratter reserved when the topic arrises in interviews. I think personnal and professional life clash a bit here, but if you are paid millions, you stfu and do as asked, I guess.","We'll probably, and sadly, comply this time. As I understood it, football federations of those countries had a meeting and decided a yellow card is a bridge to far.",0
What are you talking about? People in Taiwan are literally Chinese people that sailed a boat over to the island throughout history and the 2 million that lost a war in WWII and retreated to taiwan.,"KMT isn't pro unification, KMT is literally the party that fought and lost the civil war in China and fled to taiwan to form republic of china aka taiwan.",0
China wants Taiwan and the US will not allow that under any circumstances. I had really hoped that the war in Ukraine would make the Chinese government realize that there was little point in continuing their interest in Taiwan but it seems to have had no effect.,China does not like having democracy on its doorstep. It’s the same reason why they support North Korea. It’s ironic because they know western-style democracy is ultimately where China will end up but they are trying to hold that off as long as possible.,0
"I believe people are just as upset about the planet, but where do you direct that anger? It’s literally every corporation doing it. People bitch about this because it’s a specific news story. It’s dumb and misguided.","What a dumb comparison. These kids are not destroying art to hide it or deny it’s existence. The crime here is more akin to taking hostages in a desperate attempt to get the word out about a global government conspiracy that will result in billions of deaths. They are using this as a platform to promote conversation, not stifle it.",1
"Pedantics aside, it was used in a recon role and isn’t meant to square off against MBTs. Very capable vehicles that I’m sure the Ukrainians will put to good use but not meant to replace Ukrainian MBTs or slot into that role.","While other nations have already supplied vehicles to Ukraine, they were ones that were either unchanged Soviet designs or were upgraded variants.",1
"Norway's hate speech laws include hate speech based on gender identity, which might cover this statement.","That said, if the hate speech law is being used to lock people up for being an idiot is true, then Norway has some much bigger issues to work out regarding their freedom models.",1
"However, i do believe that to counter drones, one does not require missiles, but anti-air guns/flak cannons, which i would imagine is much cheaper than a missile (that can track a target). Therefore, it is essential to develop ground based tracking, gun-based anti-air. The amount of bullets spent to blow the drones up must be made cheaper than the drones themselves, or it's a losing battle.",Drones don’t move super fast - nothing like a missile so I figure it’s a matter of time before someone figures out how to destroy them cheaper and quicker…. Just like everything else.,1
"They send the convicts in to get fired on by the Ukrainian artillery, so that their real soldiers can spot the artillery’s location.",Those convicts are being used as absolutely nothing but cannon fodder to tell where the Ukrainian artillery is.,0
Laser communications can be jammed…. You literally just need to fire your own laser at the receiver.,The laser receivers can be shrouded if they are actively aimed at the other end of the link. Nothing too crazy required to do this. Each drone would need atleast two transceivers to relay communications.,1
Illinois (and other states) has passed significant legislation to restrict 2nd Amendment rights in the wake of the Heller and now the Bruen decisions. What steps need to be taken to promote an explicit Constitutional right in your state?,What do you have to say about the state violating what are supposed to be Constitutionally protected rights of U.S. citizens? There has been a Supreme Court decision in very recent times that also forbids the banning of guns that are in common use. Semi-automatic (NOT machine guns) firearms have been in common use for over 100 years.,1
These motherfuckers lie as easy as drinking water. Don’t believe a thing they say.. how many have they killed so far ??? More than all the casualties in the Ukraine war.,"No actual calculations of how many civilians are dead in Ukraine. But the estimates are somewhere around 100k conservatively. Just in Mariupol alone, the conservative estimate is about 25k. We'll probably never know though, because Russians are burying the dead with the rubble from the buildings. People will be searching for their dead loved ones for decades.",1
"Added to this, for whatever godforsaken reason, my LGBT close friend was being unironically asked by people why some gay people were interested in monkeys.","""If you get monkeypox from having sex with monkeys and only gay people are spreading it, then what else could it mean?"".",0
"Let me do you one better, Hamas would not exist if not for the endless war crimes and oppression of the brutal Israeli Occupation. If Israel didn't exist, then neither would Hamas!","If you didn't want to imply that Israel should be destroyed, then maybe don't say so. Just a hint for next time - wouldn't want people to misunderstand what you are saying again.",1
"Okay but a reminder Paul Ryan supports the same policies as Trump and the rest of the republicans. Ending all social services, keeping wages low and people desperate to work, deregulations in the name of profit, voter suppression, gerrymandering , Opposing women's health choices, criminalizing LGBTQ, and establishing a Christiaan nationalist autocracy .",In 2023 there will be local and state elections near you. Vote out as many Republicans as you can to stop them from using tax money for campaign stunts like they are in Florida Texas and the house. Pave the way for their defeat in 2024 and beyond. Vote every time you get the chance.,0
Inflation would be even higher if it was worked out on per 100g of a product vs what it was pre shrinkflation of product sizes.,"Instead it’s on a whole packet size, which although has went up 10-15% from last year, that packet is 20-25% smaller than it was the year before that.",0
"It's predicted to be some very strange results. In Scotland, Labour are predicted to get back some seats: older snp voters being more against the gender recognition act are switching to labour, while people who voted tory are supposed to be moving to snp. So tory loses seats, snp stays even, Labour gains (I think it's estimated 6 seats).","And London is likely to largely return labour mps, while the northern brexit voters will likely still vote tory.",0
"There are non, which makes laws outlawing if because your religion says ""man woman"" violates my 1st amendment to not be forced to live under your religious laws.","What religious belief is the state prohibiting, or what official state religion are they establishing? None, which is why the 1st amendment doesn't apply here.",1
"Ain't no good reason that the third spaces should have to be smoking ones. House cafe outside the usual cafeteria, bar, hell, freakin' parkour/jungle gym for all I care. Tobacco normalizing is so . . . dumb.","Pretty sure this is due to the perception that the smoking areas were one of the few areas that brought staff/aides for different politicos into regular proximity without 'business', and lots of old timers and younger staff seem to think that this is where actual non-partisan/humanizing contact and some deals were hashed out, more than the 'screw you, Pelosi, undoing all of your ideas and making libs mad' angle, though the latter, sadly, can't be discounted.",0
"Inflation occurs for all sorts of reasons. One of those reasons is when you dilute the value of money by printing more of it. This is so called quantitative easing which we saw multiple times under Bush Jr. Another reason is just plain increasing the price charged for goods and services, because you as the provider, feel you can or should get more for it, or because your costs have increased.","That's not to say some supply chain/price increases were not real/natural, but it was clear that many were well and above what any kind of natural inflation for those products should have been.",1
"Well regardless of everything you mentioned which i have no idea if true, the act of smoking weed similarly to smoking tobacco severely harm your lungs in the long run because for obvious reasons. (And if they are not obvious to someone, you are free to read about damages of smoking and inhaling smoke as well as passive smoking).",I have absolutely no problem with legalization as long as smoking weed and cigarettes would have a very strict control so people won't smoke in your face all the time.,0
I’m going to take a guess and say Russia will announce in the next few days that they destroyed twice as many tanks as have been said are being sent even before they arrive.,"EDIT: But man, I can't wait to see the UAF just utterly wipe their own ass with the Russian forces even further with these tanks. The Russians have absolutely no answer to them, if the UAF use them with the right tactics with infantry and IFV's.",1
"“Until now, attempts to ban racist, extremist and discriminatory symbols have always failed because no one could agree on a list of these symbols,” it said.","Also, it would be possible to add “an explicit ban on the use of Nazi and racist symbols” to the article on discrimination in the Criminal Code. Alternatively, a special law could be passed to regulate the ban in more detail.",0
You are literally demonized for deciding you don't want your life to be about your career. This is unsustainable if you want a healthy population size.,"What you want is mostly a stable population. Explosive growth is not good, and there's only so many people the world can support, but a shrinking population causes plenty of issues as well.",1
"I have seen a mix of people move out of state. It's always because of cost of living. Where they move is def based on political leanings. The thing most don't get is, a California conservative is probably more liberal then a lot of other places conservatives.","CA Dems aren't the left-most as conservative media makes it sound, and CA GOP have been going even more right in the last 10 years -- its not adding up to the voters.",1
"Also if Russia attacks Poland, it is not Ukraine's fault at all, in fact all of the blame for all of this belongs solely to Russia.","Uh, but Russia is responsible for the missile strike on Poland. If it was Ukrainian Air Defense missile that hit, they wouldn't have had to fire it if Russia wasn't bombing them.",1
"In a couple years, having a Florida high school on your college admission is going to put you at a serious disadvantage if you’re applying to anything that isn’t a state university or JC.","True, that would be the earliest point where they are able to see it because they'll be seeing high school and college graduates from Florida unable to do anything but low paying service jobs. But I think they won't care until they realize there is no retirement plan under desantis leadership besides having enough money already or dying.",1
I'm not sure Russia knows Russia's endgame anymore. Their original plan failed and they're now stuck in a much different war than they had anticipated.,"Their goal now may simply be to save face by not losing, weakening and destabilizing Ukraine, demonstrating Russia's ability to project military power on it's neighbors, and having some Ukrainian territory to show for it all in the end.",0
I ultimately ended up coming home after because I couldn’t afford it and finishing up at UCF and the culture difference was shocking. More than I even thought it would be. The professors didn’t care about me. The financial aid office didn’t care about me. I emailed my advisor like 7 times when I was trying to graduate and he to this day never responded. I don’t know if it’s just because the size of the campus or if this experience is common in southern schools but just the difference between new college and UCF was insane to me.,"I went to a larger university in FL and like another commented, larger schools are typically way more understaffed leading to a lot of the issues I had. Your experiences is totally valid, and I have one like that too from back in TX when I first started my college journey. The community college I went to in TX was a similar experience for me as you described but it was a smaller college with about a 1:20 ratio of students to professors which really makes a difference.",1
Yep. Guess you're right. If it wasn't for the Americans then Afganistan truly could have done something about the Taliban. Well now the Americans are gone. Let's see how the fare on their own.,"Dude... the corrupt officers took their money and fled. You can't blame everything on corrupt officials. We all saw the metric fuckton of equipment and fortresses that were left behind. EVERYONE fled. Not just some corrupt officials at the top. When the USA announced a deadline for leaving, and Taliban was on the move, there was a HUGE opportunity for people to say ""you know what, it would suck if Taliban came under rule again, we should do something about that"". Instead what did we see? People piling onto airplanes or hoping things would be ""different"" this time.",0
"That’s how the real world works. If post invasion they intend to rebuild, black rock is one of the few players who can pump Ukraine with billions of dollars worth of capital.",I'd much rather governments lend the money to Ukraine to rebuild in stead of some crusty old billionaire taking all the spoils once again.,1
"Socialist, like conservatives, are very hostile to empirical evidence if it conflicts with their preexisting ideology. The reality is that supply and demand exist regardless of whether or not you believe in it.","There's nothing in my post that argues against supply and demand. Supply is and has been deliberately restricted, both by our ruling class, and NIMBYs, and small time landlords.",1
1) NATO responds conventionally which we now know would be incredibly one sided for NATO. NATO wins.,"It's not just NATO. There's a bunch of non-NATO states sending support to Ukraine. We made the mistake of looking the other way in 2014. Very few people are on your side now because you've reminded us all why appeasement is a bad idea. You just don't know when to fucking stop, do you?",1
"Those rules have yet to be adopted. The only thing that constrains the house at the moment is the constitution, and it gives each session of house and Senate broad authority to order itself however it would like.","The Constitution defines the membership and gives the House the power to make its own rules. The question is whether members-elect who have not yet been sworn in can change those rules, and why they would even if they can.",1
"So right now, Canada is not paying people enough to afford to buy homes and in many cases to even rent homes. For instance, I lucked out buying this condo in 2016 and if i had to buy it as it is valued today at today's rate the mortgage would go from $765 a month to $3600/month. Do you have an extra $3000 laying around? I sure as shit don't. I consider myself VERY fortunate.","Simultaneously, they're suppressing wages by inviting half a million immigrants a year because 'noone wants to work' because they literally cannot afford to move to the cities to take up jobs. That's 1.3% of Canada's current population a year.",0
"Hence, I don't believe the upcoming Russian winter offensive is truly aiming to capture Kyiv or Kharkiv, or otherwise defeat Ukraine as a whole. It's neither physically not politically realistic. Instead, Putin's goal is to tie up Ukrainian troops and spoil their own counteroffensive, hoping to buy enough time for the West to get tired of supporting Ukraine.","If Putin loses these borders, his strategy will no longer work, since he will no longer be able to pretend that the ball is not in his court. He would have to either accept defeat (something that will likely cost him his power, or worse), or change his message to once again go from a faux-defensive war to an openly offensive one, with an unclear end and many future casualties. After a year of disasters and no evidence of things improving in the short or even medium term, Putin cannot be sure Russians are eager to once again go on the offensive, one which they now know will be long, bloody, and heavily rely on conscripts that have zero desire to be there (his professional army having been mauled within the first year.).",0
I'm a father who was laid off for requesting a full 12 weeks paternity leave (which my state is one of only 2 states that offers parental leave on a gender neutral basis).,"Also, please explain why your statement is not heteronormative because gay couples that adopt face way more hurdles for family leave than women do.",0
"Ok, fair, it's not always literally homelessness but it's always a ""the government could be spending money on _____ instead"", but then when you actually agree with them and propose that the government actually do it they flip out.","Yea, idk, but I guess then you have a very serious nimby problem and the fact that some counties and cities would feel they’re bailing out others which is a fairly big deal to reconcile to your taxpayers.",1
"There are pictures of that girl filming the IDF soldiers. Just shows you that like others said - ""witnesses"" can lie.","So Israel can't rely on the PA. What other option do they have to keep their citizens safe? And saying BS like ""ThEy cOuLd Go AwAy"" doesn't help and isn't realistic at all, without the fact that it's not as simple as that to think of Israel as the invaders - it's much more complicated than that, and anyone who tries to paint it as something less than 5 full paragraphs is a complete moron.",0
"That doesn't make sense, so Polish and Ukrainian governments would be in on it? Why wouldn't it be easier then just to say Russia hit Poland with their missiles but they're not going to escalate the situation further?","To be fair Russia was responsible for the Polish blast, be it because it's missile hit Poland directly or because the missile was fired to intercept a Russian missile.",1
"I don't agree with ""hate speech"" or racism but criminalizing those sorts of things has the opposite of the desired effect.","Because the government doesn't do a good job of defining speech in such a way that hate speech only includes ""bad"" things. Nice speech doesn't need protection.",0
"not even including the wounded, its mind blowing that a modern country is losing so many people every day. The US army trains 50-60k soldiers a year. Last year they fell short of their goals at 45k trainees. If ukraines numbers are accurate enough, Russia has had a KIA equal to 3x the annual US army training for 2022. 9x losses if you include a 2 to 1 wounded to kill ratio.","So that would be like the US having 311,000 dead soldiers in one year of fighting or close to 1 million dead and wounded after a year of fighting with almost nothing to show for it.",0
"Until every Chinese company doing business in the US is forced to do go through a US equivalent company while allowing an agent of the US government to be present at all times, no mater how sensitive the matter, I really don't give a fuck.",Lol I am no way defending China but to say all current “US companies have an agent of the US government that is present all the time” is false. If that was the case we wouldn’t see FTX on the news.,1
"\- 22 million reais (4 million dollars) fine (the amount is not arbitrary, but 2% of the total value of the cause).","\- He ordered the Corregedoria-Geral Eleitoral (the Electoral Inspector General's Office, responsible for inspecting the regularity of electoral services throughout the country) to open administrative proceedings to investigate the conduct of Valdemar da Costa Neto (president of Bolsonaro's party) and Carlos Rocha (owner of the institute that did the false accounting).",0
"My ORIGINAL comment was accusing another poster that their definition of ""global"" was almost definitely only NATO countries and Russian allies if they would have any. The correct argument against that would simply be stating that this indeed is or isn't their definition of global. Not getting into this weird argument that is basically ""oMg I bEt YoU dOn'T cAlL WW1/WW2 WoRlD WaRS EiTheR1"".","Notice how I never said WW2 wasn't global? Maybe you should have read what I said more carefully before going off on your wild tangent. My whole argument is that ""global"" is subjective and can be argued until the end of the world. I never said that WW1/WW2 was or wasn't global.",0
"“There’s confusion and disarray in the lower courts because not only are they not reaching the same conclusions, they’re just applying different methods or applying Bruen’s method differently,” said Jacob Charles, a professor at Pepperdine University’s law school who focuses on firearms law.","Or it can be more accurately assumed that the decisions of Heller, McDonald, and Bruen were already prejudged before they arrived at the Supreme Court; and the historical evidence that undermines them reveal that the court is acting outside of its remit as it is creating new law instead of defining the law in the strictures of precedent.",1
"Agreed, which is why the political ramifications of calling them a terrorist organization are complex.","Anyway, classifying it as a terrorist organization is the correct response. If Russia wants to pretend they aren't their military and they aren't legally a PMC, a terrorist classification is a no-brainer before we even take a look at the atrocities they commit. Also, it should be made clear by NATO and especially Ukraine that Wagner members are not granted protections and rights as Russian military under the Geneva convention.",1
"Give kids free lunches, theres 0 justification for forcing the peanut butter sandwich cause your parents didn't send you money or you forgot or the money got stolen or whatever.",People will use the excuse that they don't and they get a peanut butter or similar sandwich if they don't have the money. Its a joke.,0
"So you got the rednecks and the oil workers along with farming/ranching all kind of depending on each other and all expecting their leaders to ‘whip Ottawa’ in shape. But those voters have zero idea how it works, how little power the provinces have in terms of forcing anyone to bend to a single province, and as a result they elect someone new every time thinking this one will be different. That person ultimately signs a deal with their constituents (devil) and always answers the bell for it. Lunacy.",Right now she’s already admitted the process has happened by complaining to the press she isn’t getting time/attention.,0
"If he’s still alive in 2024, Putin being an old Soviet, will hand pick his blessed successor. This man will assuredly be as corrupt and/or morally compromised as Putin. This is a survival tactic, a mutually assured destruction should they try to come after him when he’s no longer in power. It’s how we wound up with Putin in the first place.","The problem for Putin is that if he is not the Dear Leader, then he is Very Dead. Whomever replaces Putin will have almost no choice but to blame the former Dear Leader for the mess Russia is in. And this kind of blame is almost certain to be very unhealthy.. (This was not the case a year ago, but it is the case now due to the crazy war Putin started).",1
"It's a damaging myth that gay men are basically women and like ""female"" things. Gay men are men and there's nothing about being attracted to other men that automatically makes you effeminate like a woman. Honestly what you're describing sounds more like trans or - hear me out - just a kid with his own likes and personality that don't necessarily say anything about his sexuality, whatever that happens to be.","It plays into the bullshit stereotype that because gay men are attracted to men and only women are supposed to be attracted to men, gay men must therefore act like women because they're attracted to men.",0
Do you have any evidence of the US routinely and unlawfully intercepting Chinese aircraft in international airspace in the last year?,We should not be normalising China confronting US aircraft with fighter jets in international airspace.,0
"This is now America's war against Russia using Ukraine as a proxy. Notice one thing that wasn't talked about yesterday? Peace. No one said peace. It's all war. This could go on for years. Bleed trillions from both America and Russia, and leave Ukraine in ruins.","The only Peace is Russia fucking off back to Russia entirely, likely out of crimea too, or getting crushed utterly.",1
This looks particularly bad because when the Arab World was in charge of the area (1949-1967) all Jews were banned from access to any Jewish holy site in the area.,"Of all of the terrible things he does and believes, I think wanting Jews to be able to visit holy sites in their own country freely isn't one of them.",1
"McCarthy doesn’t want him to resign because the seat would undoubtedly go back to the Dems. However, his position on committees undercuts his argument for Schiff, Swalwel, and Omar to be removed.","McCarthy is currently trying to make up reasons to remove Schiff, Swalwell, and Omar from their committee assignments for trumped up reasons including “integrity.”.",0
"Right. He’s already the brand. Donald Trump didn’t come in and change a bunch of voters’ minds. He came in and publicly tapped into what they were thinking and feeling, and that republicans have been courting behind closed doors for decades.","Trump may have mobilized it to an extreme degree, but “Trumpism” has been at the core of the Republican Party for a long time.",0
"BTW, the war against Ukraine was always justified with Ukraine ""historically"" belonging to Russia, so it's not like the ideology is completely ahistorical in the sense that it doesn't reference former glory. Even the Soviet Union is still somewhat of an implicit rallying point, though rather in the subtext, it's no coincidence, that Russians brought a whole bunch of red flags to Ukraine.","Russia and Russian nationalists has also been pretty upset about the ""loss"" of Crimea ever since the collapse of the USSR. They haven't been able to shut up about it ever - it's why you hear all these things about how ""Crimea was really a symbolic gift to Ukraine, it was really Russian"" or other bullshit talking points. ""Retaking"" Crimea was a big win domestically for Putin and is part of his actions to ""fix"" the wrongs that he sees various Soviet leaders as having committed.",1
"The U.S. has lately been more open about urging Ukraine and Russia to come to the negotiating table. Some in the government and military are saying now is the time to do that, others are saying not yet because Ukraine has momentum.","How can you say it's not complicated? It's VERY complicated, and there is no clear outcome. We can pretend the clear outcome is for Ukraine to push Russia back to its borders until they retreat and end the invasion, but that outcome is highly unlikely.",0
"The IRS goes after the poor because it doesn't have the resources to go after the rich, who can afford armies of accountants and lawyers.",And if I remember right the funding that was recently passed for them was to help retain positions after retirements and cuts and not adding tens of thousands of new auditors as the right wing media says.,0
"They're in a tough spot. Bannon's strategy of ""flood the zone with sht"" carried over into 2022 polls, with a lot of new right-wing pollsters forecasting bigger GOP gains. They met criteria and were not way outside other polls - its not like non-partisans were polling a blue wave - so they couldn't exclude them, so it weighed down their model. Their defense was bad - they said Dems could do the same thing but aren't as if that validated the bad GOP polls - but ultimately fixing the model is going to be hard when polling has become a bad-faith activity for one party.","I'm sick of people EXPECTING close to 100% of us to support democrats, and then blaming us if democrats lose, because 10% of us voted republican a few times.",1
"I was born in the USSR and live in a country that was occupied by russians, so i have many personal anecdotes with average russians. I also occasionally watch russian state tv which constantly hammers the message into those same average russians that me and my countrymen are untermenschen who should live at their mercy. This is also the reason why a large part of russians living here have not and will not learn the local language - it is simply beneath them. The fact that they are victims of brainwashing is irrelevant. Germans were also brainwashed before WW2, it was no excuse to their actions.",What happened after WW1 pushed rhe Germans in the arms of Hitler because they had no hope and nothing to lose anymore.,1
I don’t doubt the bank can make use of the cash that’s in there. But that’s going to be a small fraction of the assets being frozen.,"What happens when you ""freeze assets""? Does this mean that Credit Suisse is now gleefully holding $19B dollars and is making investments and collecting interest on that money? When it ""unfreezes"" do they owe the depositors interest payments?",1
"What is with this obsession over balance or ""global equilibrium""? What good is that balance if achieving it means accepting deep immorality? Doesn't the world need justice instead of this bullshit?","Furthermore, Donbas is in Ukraine. Why does Russia have a right to police what happens in Ukraine? According to you there is no international law, therefore Russia has no concerns in Ukraine.",0
"Not necessarily. Ballistic can fly within the atmosphere, but at longer distances they probably won’t because it’s not practical. Arrow 3 would intercept like above Iraq, whereas Arrow 2 would intercept at much closer distances to Israel.","Israel has other systems against this kind of missiles, like Arrow 2 and 3. But I'm pretty sure there's no official known number of this missiles, especially since Israel hasn't used them (thankfully) in real combat, yet. So technically, it is a possibility that Iran will have more missiles here than Israel.",1
This will require a lot of extra research and a working cure for AIDS could still be years in the future.,"......however, the mechanism which protects patients from the HIV-re-infection does offer some hope as the immunity of the CCR5 gene mutation might be ""spliced"" into the genes of infected people at a cost which could be affordable on a global scale. It might even be enough to come up with a partial immunity-protection for the immune systems of AIDS-patients to reduce their reliance of ""the cocktail"" which suppresses the spread of the virus in infected bodies.",0
They don’t even actively chase you down for the most part even during the war in Iraq we would get a few awol soldiers here in there back to the unit they always were stopped for something unrelated its basically a bench warrant. They were Articled sometimes jailed and then quickly out processed with a dishonorable or OTH after completing the disciplinary actions.,"Absolutely, believe me wasn’t firing many howitzers in Baqubah everybody was a grunt for all intents and purposes we just liked to give the 19Ds shit with their Stetsons and spurs. A little friendly poke to the ribs.",0
"Yep, there has been a Venezuelan refugee crises in Latin America for a number of years now and Colombia and Peru are bearing the brunt of it. According to the UN the Venezuelan refugee crises is among the worst refugees crises in the world right now (along with Syria and Ukraine).","IIRC, both Colombia and Peru are host to over a million Venezuelan refugees each, and it certainly causes problems. Here in Peru at least a lot of people are racist towards the Venezuelans (even the sweetest most open minded Peruvians, it’s crazy).",0
Why would the US announce it? Upgrades that affect one country's strategic capabilities are a matter of national security. There's really no need to classify this kind of intelligence.,"All of the things I mentioned, the militarizing, the technology, etc. - it's all starting from way behind the US. And they're designed to threaten the US as the US exists today, but of course the US will adapt its defenses. And this is part of that: recognizing what China can/wants to do, then finding new ways to counter it.",0
"Cannabis is kinder, mellows me out, not couch potato, but lessens anxiety, thus taking edge off pain.",I have reduced so much inflammation thanks to cannabis. All inflammation was caused from diet and alcohol abuse from bad education on diet. Nice to finally have a good medication and I don't have to hide from helicopters anymore to get it.,1
"Russia has borders to protect, republics to police, an increasingly inpatient population to control.","If anything Ukraine may have the upper hand in attrition, no sanctions, western weapons freely flowing and seemingly the personal to man the equipment.",0
"Yeah, I didn't want people to misread my comment as trying to say everything is fine, just noting that what they're drinking is not the water that actually is a problem.","One thing to note is this is the municipal water supply, which has been treated. This means absolutely nothing as to the lakes and rivers. People drinking municipal tap water at this point are likely fine, but it's the local produce, fish and well water that will cause problems.",0
I mean the follow up to Hogan was Cox who was bananas. Maryland doesn't have the stomach for anything but a centrist governor. Hogan didn't even endorse Cox (not that he endorsed the democratic candidate).,"I don't think I could vote for Hogan, not because he's not a competent executive but because I think Democrats have a better platform. At the very least Hogan is not ass over tea kettle insane.",1
"They phased out coal and nuclear in order to instead use natural gas. With the current war going on, they stopped buying Russian gas, but still have to get their energy from somewhere.","Gas has only become marginally more efficient, and the risk of getting cut off from Russia was never tackled. As it turns out, after 30 years of billions a year in subsidies, gas ""just isn't there yet and it just doesn't work yet to supply the country the power it needs"". Imagine what they could have done with fossil fuels if they've gotten that money in stead.",1
"same was done to native Americans, this shit is FUCKING disgusting and evil, taking people's kids because you disagree with their way of life, so fucking evil.","taking children from their homes is part of genocide, this is genocide that is what they are doing to the Tibetans right now they're committing genocide..",0
"DC residents can still vote in local elections. Same for residents of Puerto Rico. This bill would make that an option for tax paying non citizens in RI. I don't like the fact that those two places don't have federal representation, but I'm not knowledgeable enough about the specifics to really go further than that.","I hope this bill becomes law, and that more people feel empowered to participate in making their community a better place.",0
"Eh, first of all, you can't possibly think that everyone who votes Republican is just a clone that all believe the exact same things do you? This goes for Democrats as well.","“It was determined the suspects’ primary objective was to shoot and kill police officers in what they saw as a stand against government regulations, especially in relation to firearms ownership,”.",0
"Trump won't change nor will he fade into the sunset. He'll continue down this path and end up being the Republican presidential candidate in two years, and break the party in half in either failing to win the primaries, or even in having won them.","They produced what, less than half of the gains expected in a midterm when the incumbent party's president has a less-than-50% approval rating? And the worst inflation since the 80s?",0
"Again, Mr. Necro post, Israel doesn't want a Palestine state. Why? Because then they can't get away with stealing Palestinian land.","You mean the bogus offers where Israel still retains control over land that is Palestinian land? You mean the bogus offers where Palestine is just a country in name only, with Israel controlling it's land, sea and air borders? Or how Israel would have literal veto power over any Palestine legislature?",0
"not really. the use of nukes wouldn't be to win a war. it will be to make sure the enemy loses. I'm sure if your nukes wipes out 98+% of the enemy civilian population, the enemy military will probably start questioning whether it was worth the fight.","but nukes almost guarantee you're going to also kill your targets (see: a hypothetical scenario where you need to kill everyone in your enemy's country, or try) unlike gravity bombs or conventional warheads.",1
"Like the US. Blacks have been second class citizens from the moment they gained their freedom. It was codified until the 1960s, and has been de facto with banking and housing discrimination, mass incarceration, and as recently as this past election, direct disenfranchisement.",So yeah - call it what you will - but do so equally. You can't call out israel for being an apartheid state without all of the others.,0
"- 37,600 Armoured car and half-track (including 5,000 Lend-Lease armoured personnel carriers lost[17])"".","- 83,500 tanks lost: 5,200 heavy tanks, 44,900 medium tanks, 33,400 light tanks (including 11,900 Lend-Lease tanks and self-propelled guns lost[17]).",0
"I think the way you're presenting the situation is muddled. Like, no one here is arguing that it's the first time sanctions are being used. And what's interesting here is not that the sanctions are being used at all, but that they target a person, not the country, the money is being spent, not frozen, and the US isn't even at war with Russia (while it was at war with Japan).","Or the Japanese were hated by everyone, so acknowledging this would mean the Western sanctions on Russia by no means set some kind of precedent, and US can't be reliably told to be abusing their power. The only thing that's new is it's the first time they've been imposed en masse on such a (comparatively) large economy. Sanctions, however, have been used throughout history.",1
"So, if Ukraine pushes russia all the way out of its territory, and demands the kidnapped citizens back, and russia says ok but the west has to promise to never invade us, you would say no? Because that’s how stupid you’re sounding.","1. Who cares? So long as Ukraine gets what it wants, RT can scream vindication from the rooftops and try to sell that as a win to its people, to distract them from the fact that they can no longer vacation in Ukraine-liberated Crimea. “We’re now safe from NATO Thanks Putin!”.",0
"""If you get monkeypox from having sex with monkeys and only gay people are spreading it, then what else could it mean?"".","I wish I could say this was sarcasm or a joke, but it was an actual conversation. My friend is a bartender and it has happened four times. Four times. Evidently stupid still is as stupid does.",0
"Honestly, BBC WS is one of the only news radio stations I can still stand listening to any more. They’re professional and present the facts, instead of ranting and raving; they cover news from all over the world, which has made me more aware of geopolitics and events outside my country. That’s how I learned about the recent end of the Tigray War, about the Sri Lanka President fleeing the country earlier this year, the unrest in South Africa, etc.","Center of mass is around your stomach, not your face. If they’re shot in the stomach and some of the birdshot hits their genitals, then maybe, but it seems like they’re intentionally aiming slightly downward to inflict as much pain as possible.",0
"They considered that to be their “slam dunk.” It’s hard to overstate how ridiculously stupid that is. They literally believe that a Republican My Pillow guy-endorsed Republican saying he “knows” the election outcome would have been different had the ballots been printed properly constitutes clear and convincing evidence that Lake actually won the election. And that that testimony alone should be sufficient cause for a judge to hand the election to Lake, no further questions necessary.",Interesting how the judge carefully considered the testimony of her witnesses and found that EVEN THEY admitted they could find no evidence of malfeasance by election workers.,1
"Everyone already knew the US had provided Ukraine with the medium range GMLRS missiles, but had refused to provide the long range ATACMS missiles. What this article adds is that the HIMARS launchers in Ukraine came with custom DRM that would make them reject ATACMS missiles even if you...sourced one in some other way.","They're saying the combat software on Ukraine's HIMARS does not allow for firing ATACMS, even if Ukraine had gotten ahold of them from someone.",1
Hey Sweden. Your citizens are part of the Nordic Agreement (Can move to any Nordic country with no questions asked) - tell the 73 to come to Norway or Denmark while Erdogan is having his tantrums.,Given that I have been proponent of Finlands Nato membership for 20+ years I have to say that Erdogan is making the oppositions points very valid and I am starting to have doubts myself.,1
"I'm not Israeli but from what I've seen, the Israeli system isn't ideal either. They have a parliamentary system with a ton of parties and you need to hit a minimum threshold to get seats in the Knesset.","Actually if you look at the popular vote in the recent election, it's pretty 50/50 if you look at it from a pro Bibi/Anti Bibi POV. Granted the anti Bibi coalition involves everyone from some center right to far left to anti Zionist Arab parties. So not the most stable coalition itself. But it does go to show that the country isn't as black and white as ""OMG ALL ISRAELIS SUPPORT FAR RIGHT POLITICS"".",0
"Israel acted belligerently in the years preceding its independence, what with arming militias that were more nationalistic than disciplined due to a lack of a real army, and fought similar Arab militias after antagonizing them by evicting as many Arabs from ""their part"" of the upcoming state as possible.","All of this combined soured Jewish opinions of the British and led to the formation of the Jewish Resistance movement in mandatory Palestine, and ultimately to the civil war that directly preceded the partition plan and war of independence.",1
"Would you get the fbi to lie twitter and Facebook, and call pictures of your son’s junk Russian disinformation.","I don’t think anybody is faulting Biden for acting like what any father would’ve done. It’s the fact that he/ people that work for him, used govt agencies to violate first amendment rights.",0
"It’s crazy to me that you guys think no one involved in this legislation thought of that, and then having made that assumption you didn’t research it at all. Just like the US, Spain has protections against workplace discrimination based on sex/gender, hiring protections, etc.","Spain, much like many countries these days, has what's called non-descrimination laws in the workplace. When someone is so blasé about a topic like this, acting as though ""women...won't show up"" as if there is proof of this happening all the time, it goes to show how little empathy there is and stands in direct contradiction to what they think they're saying.",1
As someone who (unfortunately) lives right on the border of Washinon/Idaho I can tell you most people are really pissed about all of these people from out of state moving here.,"I live in Seattle and I've been to Idaho exactly one time, saw a gaggle of people in Confederate flag bathing suits at the water park and I said ""this is not the state for me!"".",1
"While this stance is taken in terms of neutrality, there are serious considerations with respect to future security cooperation, to the ability to actually sell any equipment in the future due to being branded as an unreliable partner, and to be able to procure advanced military equipment from Western countries.","This is why Switzerland's ""neutrality"" in allowing arms re-exports will change, if it does at all: already the European MIC is making moves to decouple itself from Switzerland, so if the Swiss want their arms industry to remain successful, they will change their laws to allow countries to defend themselves according to the UN Charter.",1
"Why does China care about the west, South Korea or the USA, sharing a border with China anyways? What does that potentially enable us to do that China is afraid of?",I get the feeling China doesn't actually like them though. China just needs them to exist in order to keep US troops off the Chinese border. Having to handle NK's leash is a huge burden for the Chinese government.,1
"and I want Sweden and Finland to get in same as you, but reading all these post about kicking out Turkey out and how Turkey isn't as valuable as them is annoying, when Turkey is a huge contributor to NATO and its the main reason why they get to play the game they're playing right now.","Both statements can be true at the same time, that Sweden and Finland would be better members than Turkey, and that it's stupid to even suggest kicking Turkey out.",1
These are Republicans who supported Trump’s efforts to overturn a US election and who voted against impeaching Trump for inciting a violent attack on our US Capitol. They care more about chaos and clicks than governing for The People.,"As Steve Bannon said in 2017, their goal is and always has been deconstruction of the administrative state.",0
"China couldn’t give a shit about the Ukrainian-Russian war, they’re just siding with where they can source resources from in the future.","There's no way China would just start arming Russia, because further war escalation is the last thing they want.",1
"The best thing we can do is keep protesting globally, sharing social media from Iran of what is happening on the ground there. It doesn't hurt to call on any of your reps to publicly denounce the mass murders of protesters. The best thing to do is anything you can.","Inaction/thoughts/prayers only help the oppressor. Sharing what's going on in Iran, and sharing the social media of protesters, are all good ways to help from overseas.",0
Some context. Trump has never accepted the outcome of any election. Trump even questions the one he won because he did not win the popular vote and in his narcissistic mind that is not posable. Trump proposed suspending the 2020 elections. Trump wanted to fire everyone that would not support him in overturning the 2020 election. Trump motivated his white nationalist base to try and overthrow the government. Trump claims that as president and a former president he has absolute power to do anything. So when Trump says he will ignore the constitution he means it.,"Trump says Constitution should be tossed aside so he can win. MAGA says ""you have to take him in context."".",1
"They did not claim Putin was in perfect health, every comment they made focused on claims that were speculating on severe illnesses like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's etc.",Why do I feel that Western stories about Putin's health are Russian propaganda designed to enable Putin to fake his own death and escape to Venezuela?,1
"Apparently, the unending parade of mass shooters who already pass a background check to purchase their firearm would be thwarted if only one more background check was done.","A background check requirement for sale of ammunition may have more effect on a hardened criminal, as you put it, since if a person has a felony record, they cannot pass a bc to purchase ammunition, let alone a firearm.",0
"I'm not defending the guy, he's a scumbag, a con man, and I don't think he's particularly good at what he does. He does know how to sell his image though, and that gets him far. But I also know a lot of successful businesspeople who have had multiple businesses go bankrupt... It doesn't always mean they are bad at what they do.","What Trump does is grow his businesses, and then separates the revenue from the expenses. The real estate rules are such that he can claim the expenses and depreciation now without claiming the revenues and gains yet. This essentially leaves him with just enough ""losses"" to offset his income and he pays no taxes.",0
"My point: the next few DECADES are no time for complacency. Like it or not, Democrats and non-Republicans generally need to show the same disciplined commitment to voting in EVERY election as Republicans and Pro Life advocates have demonstrated since Roe v Wade. Politics REQUIRES effort, and as someone who has voted in every election since I turned 19 (yes, I skipped a fall odd-year local election at home when I was a freshman in college across the country), I have no sympathy for ANY reason not to vote.",Equal parts deep cynicism about what the GOP has become and deep cynicism concerning Democrats inability to nominate candidates who'd appeal to independent voters.,0
Saudis doesn’t respect Americans and I can’t wait until oil shit is over with so we can go tell Saudi Arabia to fuck around and find out. We should have went to war with them and blew them up after 9/11.,Can you imagine being such a piece of shit that you’ve defended the people who committed 9/11 SINCE 9/11.,1
"Nowadays, majority of Chinese Indonesians zoomers can't even speak a lick of Mandarin (or other dialects) and don't really participate in Chinese cultural events bar Chinese New Year, especially of those who converted to Christianity from Confucianism or Buddhism.","That's the same. Younger generations are less fluent in their Sinitic mother languages (Min (Hokkien), Chaoshan (Teochew), Hakka (Khek), just for major examples) compared to their elders. A lot of them now have their first and second language to be both Indonesian and English.",0
It shows that Obamas treaty was actually pretty good. It was ended a couple years ago and Iran still isn't really close to a bomb. They had to give away a lot of materials.,I think it was a pretty successful negotiation for the US considering the Americans main leverage was threatening to start a 3rd war in the region after the US had already lost its 2 previous major wars in the region.,0
"America basically has the civil war codified by lawusing a two party the winner takes all system with the office of president collecting more and more authority over the years, things that were in the hand of congress before.","Second, your historical example seems to claim that the two party system is actually good and could even prevents a civil war, but I don't see that line of argument. You say it yourself, no one held a majority and that is where conflict arised. But having close to no majority in a two party system so that every election becomes a coin toss and important reforms can't be archived with the necessary majority, you come to standstill, the same standstill mimicking that historical situation, and in recent years you can see that conflict already.",0
"""The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens."".","This is a fact. DRPK was never a part of the ROK. However, it is a lie of omission. The DRPK was never a part of ROK because both were created after a civil war which fractured Korea into two separate countries. It is clear the intent is for ROK + DRPK to reunify into one Korea.",1
2024 is another opportunity to replace Manchin. Hopefully Chuck Grassley will retire or be forced to retire due to age and health issues and we can have a chance to replace him with a Democrat. Missouri is another potential pickup (and probably easier than Iowa).,"We almost got Barnes in to replace Manchin. Just 2 points shy of victory there. Had the party focused more on the Barnes-Johnson race than the longshot Demmings-Rubio race, we'd be looking at 52 Democratic Senators in January. We need to focus on expanding in winnable areas instead of pissing money into the wind or money pit of trying to get seats in states that are becoming redder than Mississippi and Alabama. Let Manchin go ahead and retire like he already wanted to do back in 2018. Biden had to beg him to run in 2018. Manchin likely does not want another 6 years holding it until 2030. We can make up for his loss in winnable purple states. Or at least states that aren't literally the Top 5 reddest in the country like West Virginia, where a Democrat won't even be electable as dog catcher by 2025.",0
"No, it's standard corporate propaganda. Don't look right, don't look left, just stay exactly where you are and the problems will just magically go away.","It's just scaring the audience into standing still in the middle. If the right is crazy, the left must be too otherwise you might have to actually cede the left's point that the right is crazy.",0
"Yes, America WOULD go into Mexico and overthrow the sitting Mexican Government before it could make that deal with China. I mean, how could you possibly deny that?","Now, please do not conflate that with me implying that the Russian media is portraying a more accurate account of the situation. Because they by no means are doing that. Their propaganda to their citizens is likely even more intense.",0
"Honestly we should just run with it. Yeah, it's all made up and the rules don't matter, so we have decided that human rights are important and thus worthy to fight for.","well, the concept of human rights and abandoning social hierarchies is a western value, so, yes. Human rights are a western construct.",1
"Da fuq? Adam Smith was a moral philosopher that was analyzing the economic polices of his times. He had no idea about any ""capitalism"", much less hated it. His main idea was that as a general rule, regulation of economy is immoral, as it tends to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer.","But if one is using a free market with an explicit intent of doing damage to the society, it is abusing capitalism — using it for a goal that is opposed to the intended function.",0
"Annexed Ukrainian territories must be returned back to Ukraine including Crimea, Donbas, Luhansk, Donetsk and KRASNODAR, yes Krasnodar region was part of Ukraine before USSR. Look up maps of Ukraine year of 1919.","Russia would have to keep Crimea. I don’t see Putin surviving if Russia has to give this up, and putting a man with thousands of nukes in a nothing to lose situation would be risky.",1
"Funny thing is the druids didn’t have anything to do with Stonehenge’s original purpose. Druids were Celtic, a people who arrived in Britain around 600BC. Stonehenge was built something like 2000BC.","The last known construction at Stonehenge has been dated to 1600BC, and the large famous stones are dated to 2500BC. The celts didn’t migrate to England until around 800BC at the earliest. It’s a stretch to say they contributed to Stonehenge’s construction and goes against evidence.",1
"People like you see these numbers and think these doctors are so wealthy, but in reality, with the cost of living in many major hubs in the country, we don't pay physicians enough in Canada to retain them.","Both the US and Canada should be training vastly more doctors, but people within the profession shortsightedly advocate against it because it means less scarcity inflated salaries. It’s bad for everyone.",1
"Let them try to hold together any kind of Republican solidarity when half the party is pitching a tantrum over not operating 100% focused on political spite, and the Speaker needs to maintain support from 150+ Dems.","There literally only needs to be seven Republicans who side with the full Democratic voting bloc and those 218 (I'm not sure about the one Democrat who died before taking office) could elect the speaker. It's not 218 Republicans who get to elect the speaker, it's 218 total members of the house. It's always been you vote for your own party, but if a Republican has the guts to have the MAGA crowd against them - Democrats and centrists Republicans could pass legislation and wouldn't matter what the nutter MAGA people say.",1
"Reading the headline brought about thoughts of Russian troops attacking buildings with blunt weapons, which honestly isn't that far from reality after reading about how badly equipped they are.","in Russian society it's simply consensus reality that there are neo-Nazi irregular troops in Ukraine, who have been bombing civilians for years, and they're getting their weapons from NATO (now indirectly, since Congress banned sale of weapons to them). How much NATO condones or even orders those attacks is up for debate, but yes, a Russian would totally agree that if you let terrorists have missiles they will bomb civilians. Depending on how truthful it is (I doubt it's 100% lies, there's people with family members in Donetsk).",1
Cuban Americans were swinging for Obama as late as 2012. I don't feel like this is anything more than demonizing Cubans.,"Blaming Cuban Americans for falling victim to propaganda, while doing nothing to combat that propaganda, ain't the way forward for anyone.",0
"Funny thing is, Russia is also Western country for them, so they wouldn't use their Sputnik either even though it's also about as effective and is better than Chinese vaccines.","If only China was smart enough to import some Western vaccines, they could have avoided all these deaths and controversy, but no, saving face is more important to them than saving lives. In the end, China didn't save face by pretending the Sinovac vaccine works when it really doesn't. China looks like it's run by a bunch of incompetent morons, tyrants and murderers. China's leaders refuse to listen to experts. This is why China will fall in the long term. Nations that ignore experts end up facing serious consequences.",1
"Yeah. That's usually how it works. You unite to deny the opposition power, but now that the opposition isn't in power, you have to deny the majority of the coalition power.","Democrats also fractured when they gained power, just not as much because they're minority factions aren't that influential.",0
US/Canadian universities are generally better and more prestigious than anything in China. So why would they want to get their degrees in China?,"It's not all bad. Having Chinese students in the US/Canada helps westernize them and expose them to democratic values, so even if they go back to China after graduating, they're still taking those ideals back with them to the mainland.",0
"I don't think that's the opposite so much as aligned; for Putin to trust him he needs to have a worse reputation outside Russia. If he was well-regarded in the West then at best he'd need to be kept politically irrelevant, and at worst killed off. If he's hated in the West then he can be kept around as a courtier without being seen as a viable alternative (at least by factions who would want to normalise things with the West to end the sanctions).","It's kinda the opposite: he's cutting ties with the West to demonstrate that he can be trusted with doing a bit of governing still. Other than that, he has zero political relevancy and no one cares what he does. But Pu is not gonna live forever, need to think about that seat now.",1
"I agree, also “Ted” Cruz’s real name is Rafael Edward Cruz and “Mitch” McConnell’s real name is Addison Mitchell McConnell. Nothing wrong with either first name, but you KNOW that GOP base voters will denigrate both—racist and sexist, respectively, if I had to guess.",You can be sexist and still prefer a female candidate if you think she’s the best person to take away women’s rights and punish women more severely than the other guy.,1
"I really doubt DeSantis has a chance in a general. His policies are very unpopular in most of America. He's also not as slick as some make him out to be. He's really easy to get angry for example. He may be the best the GOP has to offer, but these days that doesn't mean much.",Knowing where things are likely to be at that point I don't even know if the GOP will exist. If DeSantis runs people are going to see through him so much faster because of the very real pain Trump has inflicted on the nation.,0
"All joking aside, I do also understand how on an individual a basis that there may be people of Native decent that prefer the term Indigenous to Indian. I was speaking from person experiences. Where you lost me was telling me to shut up and referring to me as racist, which I am the furthest thing from, you could ask my diverse friends group I have carried throughout my life as I appreciate different cultures and celebrate the new traditions I learn with each of them.","You clearly didn't read my statement. First, to answeryour question, yes I have Seminole and Pembroke heritage <12.5% so I don't act like I am Native American Indian as I feel like it's nominal however I respect and love the culture. Do you have any blood in the conversation? My assumption would be no since you sound more ignorant than any Native American Indian I have ever spoken to about matter relating to the subject at hand.",0
The only other possible outcome I see is that dems broker a deal for a coalition government that cuts the far right out of the process. It isn’t impossible to imagine a few republicans in more marginal seats defecting and voting for a moderate dem or switching parties to break the stalemate.,As for any Republican in any semi competitive district they are going to be dragged down even if that Republican in question is a moderate anti MAGA. These two years are going to destroy them.,1
"Russia values strenh. If he falters, which he already looks like he's going to falter trying to take Ukraine, he's ripe to be overthrown by someone, like a Prigozhin. His successor might be worse than him though, that's a risk that's very possible.",This is very likely worse case beyond any of his projections. NATO united immediately and clamped down hard. Swift was the threatened doomsday punishment and it happened week 1. China started falling apart and could not afford to alienate the west. Zelensky did not run and galvanized his country.,1
"Thirdly, Wind Turbines or Solar Panels can only give you electricity and you can't make anything out of electricity itself. You can only power a device that will create something. Device made using fossil fuels and/or possibly using a fossil fuel of some sort to create something else.",Fossil fuels usually refers to things meant to be burned for heat or energy. That's the primary target that renewables are replacing.,1
"If they keep fighting like this, there's only two ways this war can end: Russia gives up and goes home or they kill every last person in Ukraine. Putin doesn't have the humility for the former or the manpower for the latter.","Propaganda is a hell of a drug. People are suggesting Ukraine give up so that no more territory is taken. They can't even remember what happened eight years ago, let alone would happen 70 years ago.",0
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If the majority doesn't want to get involved / doesn't care and they find the protest disrupting then it is a good reason to disband the protest.,I think we need to stop grouping being disruptive and annoying as well as vandalising with people who simply want to protest without being disorderly. No country in the world is going to permit protesting that becomes antisocial.,1
Russia was not voted to take the seat. A letter was circulated with no objections. Article 27 states that “Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmativevote of nine members.,"It should have been written into the charter that a Security Council vote could be overridden with a plurality of the General Assembly. Sadly, it wasn't, so we have to work within the setup we currently have. None of the countries with veto power will give them up willingly.",1
"Mortgage companies are dead right now, most of the operations in that industry are laid off. That is an industry that is directly affected by rate changes. Many have gone out of business. There are other industries going through the same thing and no pandemic extra unemployment income at this time. (Same industry was super busy during the pandemic when many others were unemployed, at that time the stock market issues resulted in low rates).","What if there's no such thing as a ""recession"" when you have a systemic labor shortage and thus no one who actually WORKS for a living is going to lose their job, even if the precious stock market slumps?",1
"Ukraine accepts ceasefire, but responds to Russia's inevitable attack during the ceasefire. Russia whines loudly about how evil Ukraine has violated the ceasefire and must be punished.","D; Ukraine accepts and actually honors the ceasefire, but Russia blows up some of its emptied out hangars and blames it on Ukraine for not wanting piece.",1
"Tanks are scary as fuck to defend or attack against so the more there are the harder it is for the enemy, no matter the quality of the tank.",Theyre not good enough to match up against Russian mainline tanks or to break through enemy lines like the much heavier armored Leopard 2 and Abrams.,1
Either way that’s crazy to think they are willing to let NK host the World Cup ik I shouldn’t be surprised after Qatar but NK is a whole other level of corruption.,"I don't care enough about FIFA for it to be a blip on my feed, but it sounds to me like the Qatari folks essentially paid billions to put their country on blast.",1
Not always. Many PR systems are actually mixed-member systems so a district rep still exists in addition to the at-large members but there are other countries using party-list PR where there are no geographic districts.,"For some pure PR systems, they don’t have geographic districts at all and allow constituents to contact any representative.",0
"Racism Exactly, and in my opinion banning abortion too! It’s a certain type of privileged people that try to make all the decisions for everyone else. Shouldn’t be like that.","I agree completely Weed does not hurt anyone. Alcohol is addictive and you can die from overdose, cirrhosis, cancer, drunk drivers /drunk driving. The biggest problem is there are those, ( a lot of), that have been subjected to the Government propaganda the Air Force put out in the 1950’s that Marijuana will make you go Mad. Lol It’s that, uneducated,Non experienced people that have never smoked weed in their lifetime that are against something they don’t understand or have experienced. And there’s the Religious community! They’re against every Fucking thing. 🤷🏼‍♂️. There’s always going to be opposers, whether they are right or wrong.",0
- Russia wouldn’t have nukes if the us didn’t place the ussr in a position where they felt they would be next after ww2.,- Germany wouldn’t have attacked Russia if the west would have given them support like they did Britain.,0
"So all things considered, Russian pilots will be fighting for their fucking lives, if Ukraine got western aircraft.","Yep, and that was the case BEFORE all the pilot losses they've taken over the last year of war in Ukraine...",1
"Perhaps, but I wouldn't underestimate them. For sure, their military power is largely inflated, and is mostly because of widespread corruption (since the later days of the USSR, when they genuinely thought that because of the nukes, they'd probably never have to enter a conventional war). But as this war exposed their flaws (not only in corruption but industrial capacity, which I'd argue is worse for them), they are bound to correct them, at least enough to become somewhat functional.","Similarly, the corruption was possible because they worked under the assumption that a big war would never happen and thus it wasn't really a big deal. That is certainly not the situation now. It's impossible to know if common sense will prevail, but I imagine anyone caught doing this now will be punished severely.",1
"The terms that Ukraine will require, meanwhile-- freedom to join NATO and the EU, war reparations, the return of all abducted Ukrainian citizens and the return of all Ukrainian territory seized in this war (including Crimea)-- are going to be unacceptable to Putin and the pro-war establishment in Russia.",There isn't going to be a diplomatic end to this conflict so long as Russia believes that Ukraine belongs to them and is willing to use whatever means they have available to impose Russian rule.,0
Atleast a dozen homeless people are found dead in the small town I just moved from every winter. And that’s not even blizzards.,I agree though that blizzards are the least dangerous. Lived in New York and Massachusetts for many years. Never lost power from a blizzard or had major property damage. Just many annoying hours shoveling snow.,1
No they put the shah in power. Leading to a period of westernization and freedom. Then the ayatollah came back in 1979. And I think it is pretty difficult to argue that the ayatollah has done anything positive for Iran since.,"They’re a sports organization. What do you expect them to do? Invade Iran? Not defending FIFA, because they’re a shitty, corrupt organization. But that is what they could and should feasibly be able to do.",0
"I’m curious which Republicans voted in favor of Ukraine. I suspect that Collins, Murkowski, Romney and Toomey are among them, as they they sometimes have a conscience, but I’m not sure about the rest.","To respond to your last two sentences, imagine that the United States is at a crossroads. The country can prioritize fixing its economy, which is mediocre but not depression-level bad, or help Ukraine by sending funding and military equipment.",0
"Russians KNOW full well what is going on. They can watch it in real time. And they are celebrating it. They are proud of atrocities they committing. They want to commit more. They are proud that ""Russia is expanding"". They want to expand it more. They are proud they are genociding Ukrainians.","You know, seeing how Russia is once again terrorizes Ukraine with missiles, and bombing our cities, i feel that i need to reporst this once again because they launched another missile attack on our cities.",0
"It is a war for Russia's survival. A former soviet state became a democracy, and they are not interested in having closer ties with Russia. If Russia were to win, other countries would be afraid to be invaded by Russia. But now, the Ukrainians called their bluff and Russia's true power is much smaller than anyone thought.",Strange what happens when Russia put themselves in a pretend noose and then learned that it was real after the fact... Putin's survival is the issue. He won't. He will take as many people down with him as he can though.,1
Considering India's weapon exports are increasing and is about to make some Nato weapons as well. Brahmos missiles were sold to a few countries so I guess decent.,Why are you talking as if India is gonna give it to Russia? It being made for the Indian army and Russia doesn't need India to manufacture weapons for them.,0
"Turkey requires the same things from others, we all know relationship in between Turkey and France, US etc. They don't need to support, but they also don't need to act like an enemy just because we are fighting against a terrorist organization. Its a joke because West also recognize Pkk as a terrorist organization.","For the first time Turkey is politically strong to ask what they want from others. All these countries you said had upper hand against Turkey so they didn't care about what we said but it's different in this situation. Every country would do the same. And they don't need to support Turkey's operations, but also they shouldn't put embargoes against an ally while arming, funding the group we are fighting.",0
"I think the greater issue here is calling the Director of National Intelligence the head of the top US spy agency. Sort of but they’re not the head of one, agency, but rather they agencies report to them. That’s like quoting Biden as the “Head of the Top US State.”.","Lol totally fair. As someone who has a degree in marketing and an at least average intellect they irritate me too. Normally I see right through them and think they’re incredibly dumb, but this time I appear to have been out-semanticsed.",0
Ad to that a carbon tax can impact behavior. But there's not actually a place for all that carbon tax money to go to change things. We can do all the financial accounting we won't. Doesn't change the immediate fact that billions of lives entirely depend on fossil fuel emissions to survive.,"What we need to do is dump huge resources into reversing greenhouse gas emissions, which is our only option for long term survival.",1
True but maybe Republicans will think twice about knocking all of their sane candidates out since so many crazies lost otherwise winnable races this election.,"It’s not like Republicans have been a party of solid values who fumbled their messaging. They spent tons of money, all the media and candidates were in lockstep on all the same talking points… but what they are selling is dogshit and voters saw through it.",1
"I think better wording would have been to strike "", other than a prescribed real property or immovable, that is situated in Canada and"" from the beginning of the definition, and to add ""situated in Canada"" in subsections (a) and (b) after the first occurrence of ""building"" in each of the two subsections. Or, possibly, to keep the ""situated in Canada"" restriction in the beginning of the definition since it wouldn't make sense to purport to regulate any foreign property in this law.","It’s not a uniquely Canadian problem, the US sees the same thing, and no one here has seriously suggested a foreign home purchase ban because it won’t drive down prices (it’s mentioned that only 6% of BC is foreign owned) and will just drive foreign ownership underground through domestic intermediaries.",1
"The issue they’ve had is their domestically produced vaccines were kind of crap, and their elderly were largely not vaccinated.","Eh if their vaccines didn't suck ass they probably could have dealt with zero covid policy much better. Not that I agree with it but something like 50% of the efficacy as the western ones, at least their initial vaccines.",1
"There's a big difference between ""How many people do you think were killed during the Holocaust?"" as an open ended question as opposed to ""Do you think the number of holocaust deaths were exaggerated""?",One sentence of explanation about what the holocaust is doesn't magically make the results more reputable or less worthless. The questions after Q11 are still very in depth.,1
"Have to factor in greatly increased shipping costs. Pipeline to EU is very cheap compared to shipping to India. Add to that the lack of available ships thanks to the sanctions that just kicked in, and lawl. At fifty two dollars they are losing money.","North of Svatove there's a Russian border town called Valuyki, with a fairly major rail depot. That directly connects to the occupied Ukrainian town of Troitsky, which in turn has a road running due south to Svatove. And the rail line continues from Troitsky down to the eastern Luhansk area. Farther east of that there's mostly nothing but rural communities, the next Russian rail line doesn't enter Ukraine until way farther east and south.",0
Sane old guy with maybe some brain issues but with a good backup plan vs a whackass old man who caters to the Christian taliban and denies science. Biden is better.,Biden is doing a good job but hes just too old. So is Bernie. So is trump. There must be a younger and equally effective candidate on the democrats side who can pick up and run with things & shut up all the magas who scream about senility being bad when its Joe but ok with its trump.,1
"Even through his soft-ball questions and friendly edits, it was obvious that her staff is manipulating her like 'Weekend at Bernies'.","Shitty LA Times needs to look in the mirror at how they gave Feinstein a free pass. Their only interview with her this decade was unfreezing George Skelton to have him sit down with her and her staff (no pictures, no video).",0
"Latin America has a history of caudillos (you should know what that is if you're commenting), on both the left and the right. Not every leftist in Latin America is someone to aspire to.","“Leftist” in Latin America is not the same as “Democrat” in the US btw. Likewise, “rightist” does not mean “Republican”. You cant compare both because they live under two different political structures.",1
"Some dead mountaineers got pushed off cliffs to get rid of them, others were kept where they are because it was impossible to get them out of the ground.","You should see that one video of a Sherpa trying to help David Sharp at 8300m, everyone is slowly crawling up to the mountain in all the videos I see and they just pull him out of the cave like it's nothing. (I'm not 100% if it was david sharp in the video or someone from the 2016 disaster, can't find the video right now, but I remember him being in the pose of the earlier David Sharp sightings by the IMAX team).",0
"The US is investing billions in Aircraft Carriers, while China invests millions in ballistic anti-ship missles?","China has heavily invested in anti-ship missiles. Anti-missile defenses can only handle up to so many missiles before they are overwhelmed, and China has got the stockpiles to overwhelm them.",1
No conspiracy theorist is interested a theory such as: during the Regan hinted (probably through intermediaries) to Oliver North that if he took the fall he would be functionally rewarded. This is an uninteresting conspiracy theory to theorists because it is just too grounded in reality and thus doesn't create this sense that there are a select few with massive control over society.,Conspiracy theorists like the idea that the world is tightly controlled by a select few. They prefer to think that the few have absolute control over far reaching aspects of society/politics/civilization. This idea that the few have this absolute control allows for these theorists to blame this control on their own personal failings (people who have personal failings often turn to conspiracies to explain these failings). This warped world view relies on no just conspiracies but extraordinary conspiracies to really make sense.,0
"In this specific case, if a warship wants a plane to know, they'll know. By some rumors, modern shipboard radars may be powerful enough to damage equipment at close range.","However, modern radar based weapons can also be guided in TWS (track while scan). In this mode, the search radar is still scanning the sky for other targets, so the targeted aircraft won't see a change in behaviour and doesn't know it's been locked. The aircraft's RWR will know that there's a radar searching in the area which it will relay to the pilot, but the pilot will have to make a judgement call as to whether they're under attack or not. They'll only get a warning when the inbound missile goes 'pitbull' - which means it's turned on its own radar for terminal guidance. That only happens when the missile is close to its target, so the defending pilot won't get much warning.",1
"""Pius’ supporters—many of whom have advocated for the pope’s canonization—point out that the Catholic Church saved thousands of Jews by hiding them in churches and monasteries across Italy, as well as in the Vatican itself. Though acolytes argue that Pius’ inaction and silence allowed these secret actions to continue, critics cite the treatment of Jews living in Rome during World War II. As NPR’s Sylvia Pogglioli points out, a plaque standing just 800 yards from St. Peter’s Square states, “On 16 October 1943 entire Jewish Roman families ripped from their homes by the Nazis were brought here and then deported to extermination camps. Of more than 1,000 persons, only 16 survived.”.",I don't like what's happening in Ukraine either. But to compare the invasion of Ukraine to the systemic murder of over 6 million Jews during the 2nd world war is basically Holocaust revisionism.,0
Arguing magnitude of qualitative characteristic is pointless. We’re not talking about little white lies. We’re talking about direct deception intended to deceive voters.,"Whataboutism only applies if I didn’t concede that that santos has lied about his past, which I accept. So now it your turn to accept that Biden is a habitual liar.",0
I have to say one of the nice things about reddit forever ago was you had a lot less jumping to conclusions/pushing narratives/wishful thinking stuff.,"We just had a balloon, suddenly we have more floating objects. They're also balloons. It's not aliens. Ignoring all the usual issues with that, the idea that we just coincidentally shot down a balloon and then aliens used a balloon like object to ""do whatever"" which they also didn't react to getting shot down, is just not even worth considering.",0
"But in a state like Wisconsin where the GOP gerrymandered themselves to a supermajority, the governorship is the only thing stopping it from being a one-party dictatorship.","That’s why the GOP did well in safe Dem states (California, New York, Illinois, Oregon) because there was no fear over their policies being implemented due to the heavily blue state legislature.",0
"We are pissed that, after our relentlessly bombing their infrastructure and their civilian centers, the Ukranians are killing our soldiers How inhumane of them.","Having your army act as ""separatist forces,"" hiding them amongst civilians, and then screaming about ""atrocities"" committed against Russians by the defending army is not legitimate. Maybe if we didn't see Russian army AA guns shoot down a passenger jet we might have ... no, no we wouldn't. Everyone sees what Russia did. No one wants this ""move your army in and pretend they're local volunteers"" to become a legitimate way to seize territory. No one but your own population buys this ""self-defense"" garbage, and I bet most of them don't even buy it around the kitchen table. There it's ""our country, right or wrong,"" and ""for the love of God, keep your head down."".",1
"Im guessing those numbers are either specifically for Utah or are complete bullshit, but when gender-affirming care happens the suicide rate drops to average.","I'm guessing the suicide-rate number is either an aggregate of the whole population, or just for people without gender-affirming care. That number is more important when discussing how to help people not currently receiving said care.",1
"This is what our politics have been reduced to, when open obvious frauds get elected, and then get extra time to come up with lies. I'm sure the elephants will circle the wagon around this liar and charlatan, because he's on their team. Sickening.","Someone check to see if he's wearing a mask because he's sounds more like scooby doo villain, actually their villains are more plausible.",0
"It's counting each individual vote that was cast and tallying them, it's the same logic Dems use to say Biden won the popular vote in 2020.",If the majority of the primary voters pick someone else (and the candidates don't repeat '16 and all run and split the vote) he won't get a choice in the matter.,1
"As for the latter - it's a joke based on - the first wild brown bear to be sighted in Germany since 170 years, soon to be the first shot brown bear in Germany since 170 years after it snacked on some livestock.",He has a problem that Germany decided to allow hunters to shoot and kill the first bear that entered Germany in 170 years.,1
"1. Suppose the mortality rate of COVID-19 is 1%. In other words, 1 out of every 100 people who catch COVID-19 dies. This seems like pretty decent odds. But China has 1.4 billion people. If everybody catches the disease, 1.4 billion divided by 100 is 14 million people dead from COVID. This would be a catastrophic death toll, about the lower end of estimates of how many people died in WW1 (16 million to 40 million). If I was running a country, I would want to find a way to protect my population from COVID that doesn't result in millions of people dying. By the way, COVID appears to have a mortality rate of 3-4%.","4. It's important to space out how many people catch a disease at once because every country has a limited amount of hospitals, beds, and doctors. If people don't get adequate care while they are infected with the illness, more people than expected would die. See point 1.",0
"Well, I'm not on SSRIs, not addicted to alcohol, never had an abortion and am happily single by choice. I do get lost sometimes, but that's what Google Maps (an app made by a ""libruhl"" company based in ""Commie-fornia"") is for.",\-Or having Tyler from Ohio with no self awareness complain of women drinking alcohol while his entire frat party kills people during their hazing rituals.,0
"Corporate greed is one of the main drivers of inflation, yet people don't acknowledge this very often.",Because it’s much easier to get away with price increases when there is general inflation across the economy.,1
Is it delusional to think a strong Iran with alot stronger backing from Russia would be bad for Israel?,If Iran helps Russia get a win do you honestly think this wont have any effects on the current situation in Syria?,0
"Sadly, the current Supreme Court would likely rule that no Founding Father ever wrote anything about puberty blockers so trans people don't have a right to exist.","""And by 'treating transgender families with more love and respect' we really mean preventing transgender individuals from getting needed care while demonizing them and claiming that they are trying to groom kids. Only by making them fear for their lives will they know just how much we love them because we fear anything and anyone that's even slightly different."".",0
"We actually are getting fast large change but for the worst with republican controlled supreme court. The fact we have to spend two seconds listening to people like Mitch McConnell, MTG, Lauren Boebert, Josh Hawley, or anyone else of that caliber... It's a huge red flag.","Increased military spending, no legalization, no student loan forgiveness are pretty much the reasons I feel we deserve much more than a moderate-practically republican-but at least not a traitor (yet) Biden.",0
"When Congress passed the spending bill, I would say they authorized the debt. The Treasury should just keep holding bond auctions and dare Congress or SCOTUS to stop them.",The coin would sort of preclude having to issue new debt but the US would continue honouring all old bonds.,1
"You literally just described a Democracy. I agree with this lady. The Republicans need to change their playbook, as it has gotten out of control. There is nothing wrong with fiscally conservative Republicans that are willing to say “no” to Liberals who want to spend on every social program. We need that balance for a strong government.","Agreed. Republicans are full of shit, and have gotten worse the past 6 years. I lean liberal now, but think ACTUAL fiscal conservatives are needed for a healthy government.",0
"There is a role, it's just not on the front lines where a conscripted soldier is likely to go. During total war, women fill a supporting role by doing things like supplying the war machine and tending to the wounded.",It seems fairly common that women suffer casualties in war. Although obviously not to the same extent.,1
"Here’s the plan: Long covid is messing people up, but it’s super inconvenient to acknowledge that a sizable portion of the population can be crippled for a short time or a long time by an air borne disease and that there’s not much we can do about it. That’s scary. But if you tell people all of their lingering symptoms are from the vaccine, not from illness, then people have someone to demonize (“big pharma”, Fauci, liberals, whatever). That energy can be turned into political gain for DeSantis. He’s done it before.","Oh but it is not just him. And it is not just advice. His choice for FL Surgeon General is a total quack MD, raging against masks & vaccines. The person responsible for medical oversight in the state! Legally he has taken direct action as well- preventing nursing homes for restricting visitation during the height of covid. Actively firing school officials that enacted masking protocols. He has been willing & successful to enact legal punitive damage to those that go against him, and his base just eats it up. he is the closest we have ever seen to fascism, and no one seems to care.",1
"As learned from past conflicts, the training required for an active and experienced combat pilot to go from one plane to another takes way less time than in peace-time settings.","I would suspect an experienced Ukrainian Mig-29 driver would take around 2-3 weeks. A highly motivated pilot would want to learn faster than someone who was also thinking about his/her weekend plans with his pals or partner, whether or not he needs to buy a new pair or shoes, vs.someone worrying their their parents in Russian occupied northern Crimea or that their younger brother is MIA outside of Donetsk.",0
"It’s good to be skeptic about the motives of global powers’ political decisions, but you don’t have to fabricate news to backup your opinion.","They want to appear as liberal as Western countries in order to deflect or downplay criticism of their policies. See: FIFA's/Infantino's line that ""if we criticize Qatar, we'd have to criticize our own history first"" and the corrupt MEP that praised Qatar's rights record in the European parliament in exchange for cash.",1
"While its true that NATO kit will surpass Russian counterparts and already has shown its value in this war, I hope no one legitimately expects 50 of any armored vehicle to turn the tide in any sudden way. I think it's mostly to set the grounds for continued support, first 50, then another 50 etc. etc.","Yeah. Russia(n Government) started a revanchist war for nothing but glory and resources. Until they stop and get the fuck out there should be no meeting in the middle on anything, no guarantees, no nothing.",1
"It would take 10 plus years, and billions. That is true. But Disney does need a bit of a rebranding over many years, and you'd be surprised how much of the costs other states would absorb for the move.","But Florida is in a fix, and unless they want their taxpayers picking up Disney's slack in the billions of dollars, or even risking a move, if i were Disney, i'd look at my options.",0
There was a whole lot of talk of giving Putin an out for like six months and he refused every chance to walk away. After a certain point uou just have to accept the situation is what it is and that Putin won't back out under any circumstances.,"If those talks are being hard AFTER Russian troops return to Russia, that’s bout “negotiations” anymore. That’s just the loser begging their new overlords. That’s never gonna happen. That is wholly nonsensical. If that’s your steering point, then just say you’re not negotiating. That’s the part that is stupid.",1
"Maybe voters should force their representatives to pass the bill, otherwise tell them they will not vote for them.","politicians vote on bills based on what their voters want, generally speaking. this doesn’t do anything to move the needle in the direction of quality government run daycare.",1
"He is not useful idiot in the meaning of the saying tho. Luka knows what he is doing, and what kind of situation he is in. Putin and Luka aren't really friends, they just need each other. Any other leader in Belarus would cause problems for Putin, and Lukashenka needs Putin to stay on power.",Lukashenko would be out of power right now and either dead or imprisoned by his own people if not for Putin's shadow looming over him. If Putin were to die and Russia were to give up their insane plans of recreating the Soviet Union and Tsarist Russia than he would be screwed.,1
"It’s important to teach history, and the best way to do so is to have it right there to look at and learn from. Seeing a piece in a museum is vastly different to seeing an image online, or even a 3D model, no matter how intricate or advanced.","If every museum in the world right now binned off their collections to the original nations, and those nations immediately destroyed those artefacts, we’d lose an unfathomable amount of historical importance and teaching.",0
Turkey shouldn't have refused the aid plan from Cyprus since over 25M people needed shelter & food & medicine to survive. A genuinely wonderful government should put up with its political ideas for the time being to take care of its people. It means that the government should be an unselfish organization. Erdogan's government should think carefully about this.,It's not like Turkey was the world leader in building regulations before Erdogan. Earthquake resistance has always been terrible there and Turkey has a shit safety culture.,1
Taiwan and the company wouldn’t have signed off on this unless they had another card up their sleeve. People are also assuming the United States will be able to produce the quantities that Taiwan can and that is 100% wrong. It’ll take a long time before they are as efficient. Taiwan will continue to be relevant for a long time to not just westerners but asia as well.,Many nations want China to stay within the first island chain. They're aggressive in term of territory claims.,1
"This is Putin's Winter Offensive, take three. Take one was Bakhmut and it turned into a wet fart. Last week's Orikhiv offensive 100 km to the west cost the Russians a few thousand casualties but failed to make any progress.","So the Russians lost the element of surprise and suffered heavy losses to move up closer to Ukrainian guns. Ukrainian learned their lessons from Soledar and counter-attacked early and in force, negating meager Russian gains.",0
I am absolutely terrified that this is going to literally be the end of democracy in America. I've been following this case intensely. From everything I've gathered it seems that our democracy is going to come down to how Barrett votes on the issue. So far Roberts has indicated that he will vote with the liberal justices against this so that makes it 4-4. The 4 conservative justices have not held back their support for voting in favor of this theory that will end our democracy. They absolutely support this case and that terrifies me to death. So I have pretty much decided that since our democracy staying in place has come down to trusting Barrett to vote against it that we are screwed. I believe this so much that I'm preparing to move to an EU country. I'm absolutely exhausted by the political climate of this country. Plus my wife is a doctor and the reversal of Roe was too much for her. Especially since we live in TX. We know so many doctors that are also currently in the process of moving out of TX because of the ridiculous laws they've rushed through since Roe was overturned.,"I'm not sure the Roe example can be used because as soon as Roe was overturned, states started implementing these terrible anti-abortion laws. Even Texas kicked off these things with the way they implemented a way for the populace to go after those who helped or performed abortions by making it a civil tort, where the state itself wasn't culpable or responsible for enforcement. This happened before Roe was overturned, and it didn't really make people upset on the same level as Roe overturned.",1
"i think that for now, this is just posturing. China doesn't want to invade Taiwan this year or the next. If they ever feel like they have the clear military advantage (say in 5 years) then yeah it could happen. But i doubt they want to get in a stupid situation like Russia.","That is very possible tbh. Behind the scenes maybe China is like ""hey we're gonna keep pretending we are threatening you, but no worries, its politics"".",0
"I agree. But the idea in of itself is completely absurd one - there are a number of reasons I think that but maybe the most obvious one is a question in what she thinks would happen if red and blue states did separate into individual countries? Red country just has a ""Republican"" party and the Blue country just has a ""Democratic"" party? Nope. As long as elections are still held for political office then factions of parties would appear and compete and would ultimately boil itself down to two major parties again and we would end up in pretty much the same place in both countries. This means that if one of the countries (not gonna point fingers here) wanted to avoid this inevitable situation then they would have to eliminate the democratic process and essentially have a dictator. If the ""red"" country wants to be purely Republican then they would end up a Fascist regime since basically the Republican Party is all that matters and all within the country must submit to it.","I mean red and blue have already sliced up and divided controlling America, what about the majority people that don't vote for either party and would like them both to kindly fuck off, the real divorce America wants.",1
"So that would be like the US having 311,000 dead soldiers in one year of fighting or close to 1 million dead and wounded after a year of fighting with almost nothing to show for it.",No wonder Russia is having to snatch people off the streets and you know they are not getting even close to adequate training.,0
"Nothing about that is against the law. The laws are awful, the institution is garbage, but the laws have been totally conformed to.","What I'm trying to express is that the laws of the nation have been very intentionally constructed by the rich and powerful in order to allow this trash to happen in a totally legitimate manner. The institution, the laws, are rotten.",0
"Iowa wants to allow kids to work in meatpacking plants and construction jobs, with expanded hours, AND is going to eliminate liability for companies so that if a minor dies on the job, the employer can’t be held liable.","Most Wisconsin employers hiring or permitting minors between the ages of 12 and 15 to work must possess a valid work permit for each minor before work may be performed. The work permit establishes a minor's proof of age and ensures that the employer, parent/guardian, and minor are aware of the employment of minors laws and regulations.",1
Yep. Even Mike Pence (very right-wing) was worried on Jan. 6th that some of the members of his SS detail would abduct him so that the coup could work.,Even Pence didn't trust the secret service on Jan 6 when they were trying to force him in the car so the coup could succeed. Why would they delete and erase all of their phone records from Jan 6 AFTER the logs were requested. Sorry but there's no way that isn't some of the most sketchy sounding shit that absolutely deserves scrutiny and judgement.,1
"Your last paragraph will clear up sooner(end of war) than all the scheme of West to destroy Russia and feast on the riches. Is childish now to talk geopolitics, after all the attempts every century to destroy Russia, learn something, Russia is in the blood veins of this earth, it affects us all, we can't stab our own body, it's a sin, a mistake, only paranoids and sick greedy entities do this, don't be a part at least.","Because Russia was patience 9 years and warned with all hands and feet, even zelenski back then was seeking peace and signed Minsk agreements, but nazi regime in Ukraine didn't stop shelling and killing civilians, what did you expect?",0
It might have been a case of politics winning out over a dispassionate analysis of history against the UN definition of genocide.,"Not defending genocide deniers, but this is why they push for the distinction between mass murder and genocide. In their shriveled minds, mass murder is more palatable than genocide.",1
20 million guns and those guns were responsible for a total of 36 deaths in the year so far in a nation of 330 million people.,I mean it's sad when anyone dies unnecessarily but I feel like 20 million guns that can only be associated with 36 total deaths across 9 months is not that bad all things considered. Still.,0
"The President can't just dissolve Congress on a whim. Have the conditions stated in Peru's Constitution happened? Sounds like the conditions are a divided Congress that's unable to function, which obviously isn't true if they're all agreeing to impeach the President.","From what I'm reading, and correct me if I'm wrong, this hasn't happened and so the President doesn't have the power to dissolve Congress.",0
"For all their intelligence failures in other fields, they've been bang on with this one, and frequently give the impression of being two steps ahead of the Russians.","Like, suppose western intelligence isn't sure what the Russians are planning - it's a 50/50 between them bluffing and an invasion. If you go on TV and say ""the Russians are absolutely about to invade"", you're inviting the Russians to prove you wrong.",1
"🤣 So whilst you're like ""we should focus on all of it"" you're missing the point that I mention that. Like, people are literally out here focusing on one thing at a time while refusing to acknowledge the things happening in their own areas.","Also, cute that you discuss only the U.S. and act as though people aren't actively dying. Both in the U.S. and everywhere else dealing with these issues.",0
"The hope was that making Russia dependent on Europe for money they desperately need, in exchange for oil Europe needs, they wouldn't be stupid enough to attack Europe's new friend Ukraine.","It turned out we were wrong, but people are vindictive, if you think you can strongarm us, we'd rather cripple ourselves and pay more for oil from elsewhere than keep cooperating with you Russia. So Russia gets way less of the recource money, and Europe spends more on the gain of their recources.",0
"I would say limited internet access for anyone under 16, maybe even 17, I don't think it should be law but I wish more parents were more proactive with their kids.",I can tell you people do consider it bad parenting if you don't have communications at all times now and I can assure you that 11 is the minimum age with many expecting you to provide a phone at a much lower age.,1
"Trump’s fixer, Michael Cohen, helped bury this story all while Falwell, Jr was praising Trump and promoting him to other Evangelical leaders. Will Evangelicals ever admit that they were duped by a con artist and a pathological liar? My guess is no. It is very embarrassing and reeks of the hypocrisy in the party that has intertwined religion with politics. And keep in mind, this is all while Michael Cohen was paying off porn star Stormy Daniels who Trump had an affair with.","The new documentary on Jerry Falwell, Jr. is very revealing. You had the leader of the most conservative religious university in the country ask Trump for help to bury a story that was a major scandal. You can’t make this up. His wife seduced a 20 year old pool boy, brought him back to their place, and asked if it was okay for her husband to watch. In walks Jerry Falwell, Jr.",0
"I suspect this is why whenever I read what a journalist has to say about something technical, if I'm reading about a field I'm actually familiar with, I tend to be somewhat less than impressed.",Because this shit is hard. I had to go to school for nine years to become good at what I'm good at. Very few people will do that and then become journalists themselves.,0
"If Ukraine joins NATO and invokes article 5 claiming Crimea is under attack, it will automatically trigger World War 3. NATO members aren't stupid, they know what it would mean if Ukraine joins NATO.","As of right now, Germany approved to send heavy tanks into Ukraine. They import zero gas or oil from Russia and are one of the top European supporters of Ukraine. It‘s pretty clear where Germany stands on the issue. Where is your evidence?",1
They are trying to draw a false equivalence between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Who literally lives in a hotel that does keep track of exactly who visits because they are paying money to do so.,"Yeah, but the fact that the White House had to make this statement is because republicans are dishonestly asking for something they know does not exist.",0
"Center of mass is around your stomach, not your face. If they’re shot in the stomach and some of the birdshot hits their genitals, then maybe, but it seems like they’re intentionally aiming slightly downward to inflict as much pain as possible.","No, you are supposed to fire rubber bullets by aiming at the lower part of the body (thus the shooting at genitals comes from). Those who did that are actually abiding to minimize permanent damage, whereas those who shoot protestors on the face know what they are doing and are looking to blind them.",1
"This is the standard Republican position though. They refuse to acknowledge the semantics at play, they assume “gender” means “biological sex”, and then they pretend that we don’t know what a woman is.",No matter what definition you give of a woman to try and exclude trans women you will ALSO exclude cis women.,1
"China claims Taiwan as a part of its territory and has long sought to bring it under its control. The Chinese government believes that Taiwan is a renegade province that must be reunified with the mainland, by force if necessary. This belief is based on the idea that Taiwan has been a part of China for centuries, and that it is an integral part of China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity.","The Chinese government has also argued that Taiwan's separation from the mainland is a legacy of China's history of foreign invasion and colonization, and that reunification is necessary to restore China's national dignity and unity. In addition, China's leaders see Taiwan as a strategic and economic asset, and believe that reunifying with Taiwan would give China greater influence in the region and the world.",0
"Tough for Ukraine, especially with how quick Zelensky came out to denounce Russia. Good thing a direct NATO confrontation with Russia can be avoided now though.",The question is what is NATO's response in order to make sure these Russian accidents don't keep happening. And nothing has changed in that regard. Russia is targetting the Polish border. Failure to respond will mean Russia sees this as a permit to keep firing there and for more 'accidents' to happen.,1
"A law that makes sense from a distance, given that no nation would want to see their arms land in the hands of an enemy nation through a 3rd party.. but in this case, the Swiss Gov’t needs to take a break from shielding Russian oligarch funds, pull their finger out from where the Sun don’t shine and get out of the way of other nations trying to help an ally currently under attack.","Switzerland’s neutrality made sense as a self defence mechanism in the early-mid 20th century but now that it’s nestled safely in the middle of the EU it’s not only selfish, it’s immoral.",1
"It's just scaring the audience into standing still in the middle. If the right is crazy, the left must be too otherwise you might have to actually cede the left's point that the right is crazy.","Some grifters want to make the left more griftable rather than move to the right, but when that fails they just move to the right anyway.",1
"From a ""whatever is good for India"" perspective, India needs to realize that they have Russia by the short and curlies. They should stop buying for a month and then see how much lower they can get the price.","But, they wont do that b/c going by their choices over the last year Modi has the forward-thinking capability of a goldfish.",0
"Is it, tho? You’re forced to subside on human blood, and can never see the sun again. At least with werewolf, you can just lock yourself up for a few days.","I was thinking about the werewolf shit thing. Do you think your human self has to process and shit out whatever half chewed raw bones/carcass your werewolf self eats? Or do you transition back only after the werewolf puts out what it took in? I feel like if it's the former, that human's digestive/intestinal system is a mess for the next couple of weeks.",1
"Fun fact! The purchase, possession, and consumption of cannabis in a public place in Spain is only a misdemeanour. you can get a fine and/or have it taken away. No criminal penalties. But you can legally grow your own and smoke your own in private as long as you're not growing it for sale. And in a lot of areas it's very tolerated and cops won't do shit even if you're smoking in public.","Most people will certainly care, they just won't tell you if they see you smoking in public unless its a closed space and you are disturbing them. But they will for sure avoid you, because as much as people defends It smoking in public spaces its still annoying, both for tobacco and weed smokers, but weed smells way more.",1
"Then why is it that the less strict voting laws/regulations are, the more people (legally) vote? And is it just a coincidence that the more people that vote, the more Democrats win? How do you explain those two things without voter suppression?","Voter fraud on the right and voter suppression, not voter inconvenience, on the left are both myths. Both sides say it’s massive, pervasive, and a threat to democracy but neither can actual find any evidence.",1
"Correct but a lot of that goes into its own domestic consumption. But there will always be buyers for ore and pig iron. America for example runs at 80% capacity in its steel production. And you will find similar numbers around the world. Building a new steelmill and foundries can at best, assuming no red tape and environmental as well as local concerns are disregarded, take between 3 to 6 years to construct.","What really poses a problem is the scale ie. workers that China possesses in it’s manufacturing base and the systems and supply chains that are build around it, which no other country can compete with.",0
"So they weren’t lying when they said their balloon illegally flying over US airspace was because it blew off course, it was supposed to be illegally flying over Taiwan’s airspace instead….",Prop 2: there has always been more mundane balloon releases locally/by nearby countries that often got blown around and didn't get too much attention until chinese balloon comes along.,1
Because 18 years ago things were looking up in Hungary + cheap engineers for German car manufacturing. Orban used to pretend to be better and maybe he was.,"Orban didnt need to rig the election itself. He won fair and square, but due to gerrymandering he got supermajority.",1
"There’s a lot of people who want to be paid more than the value of their contributions to a business or product. While the need for a solution is in no way diminished, many of the aspects of “I should be paid a liveable wage for whatever it is that I do” can be distilled right down to that.","If you're saying that workers should do the work themselves and demand the wages they need based on their own costs of living, well, I won't totally disagree. But if the worker really is educated enough to do that math, they will realize they need to demand more than minimum wage in most places in order to survive. In most places, it's way out of date and doesn't reflect what a worker needs to live.",1
Live in Cali baby and I have nothing to do with Brazil except for a few trips there. What I should of said is that most people WORLD WIDE are smarter than American Right Wing Nut jobs. A forest mushroom is smarter than them. A dead tree filled with grubs is smarter than them. A rock is smarter than them. I could go on for a while here but you get my point now I assume.,You have a point there. It’s all on a case by case basis and it comes down to the judge assigned to the case. I’ll look it up tomorrow on his docket when I’m at work. I’m curious why he was allowed to travel. The guy is very dangerous.,1
"After spine surgery, when I was in the hospital the doctors had me on multiple painkillers and muscle relaxers to manage ongoing pain and discomfort. I just smoke a joint and it replaces like three pills. Cannabis isn’t for everyone but holy shit is it helpful for some.","Cannabis is kinder, mellows me out, not couch potato, but lessens anxiety, thus taking edge off pain.",1
No thats stupid it's the name of the continent they're on not the fucking country they're in no Mexican or Canadian(barring dual citizens)will say they're American if you mention it to them.,"I have never heard of any Canadian or Mexican identifying as ""American"". We do not call ourselves ""American"". The Term ""American"" is used exclusively to describe people from the United States of America here in Canada, and is treated as the USA equivalent of ""Canadian"" or ""Mexican"".",1
"Yes heavy metals, but also just breathing in fine grained dust from dry lake bottoms is terrible for your health, regardless of what is in it. If you look at Owen's Lake, which LA drained in the early 1900s, the dust gets so bad that communities around there call it, ""Keeler's Fog."".","Granted, the reviewers point out that Owen's Lake seems uniquely bad, but is is uniquely bad because of all the salt. ""The surface is commonly crusted, especially during the late winter and early spring, with salt… that is extremely vulnerable to erosion by saltating particles during the frequent high winds in the Owens Valley."" Unfortunately, droughts in Utah are also driving higher winds in SLC. However, Owen's Lake only cover about 110 square miles. The GSL covers about 1700 square miles, so I don't want to imagine how much dust winds could pick up...",0
"To clarify your comment, the pledge is that western powers and latin american countries have to switch to renewable sources starting now while India and China dont have to start or reduce emissions until 2030.","""I mean, if America wants to send a consistent message, maybe they'd start manufacturing renewable technologies instead of relying on supply from Asian manufacturers?"".",1
"Balloons are probably cheaper and China doesn't have anywhere near as many satellites as the USA, so you're probably right about capabilities.","Also, the US is probably flying balloons over China, which the Chinesse don't want to publicize for internal and external political reasons. Shooting down the Chinesse ballon (which cruise conveniently along the aleutian chain) would give the Chinesse justification to shoot down American balloons in response. So naming and shaming them over the balloon is the choice, as the Chinesse don't want to name and shame in response.",1
There is Directly from Ukraine Ministry of Defense. They list Pischane and Chervonopopivka as locations that Russia has shelled. Those areas are controlled by Ukraine and P66 runs through both of them. It is directly north of Kreminna. This is from two weeks ago.,As as of at least two weeks ago Ukraine controlled parts of P66 so it isn't usable to supply Russian troops to the south of that.,0
"What EU should do in long run, is make effort to better the conditions, rights and safety of the people in their own countries. There should be legal ways available for people to migrate, instead of using human trafficIng.","Immigration is fine, but the people who migrate need to learn and adapt to the society they live in. That means learning the language, building relationships with locals and accepting the host nations values.",1
"Other than taking out active radars, the F-16s are far more likely to be used in air superiority role over Ukrainian skies as standoff munition platforms, while older aircraft take more risk at the front.","In the air, Russia has air airplanes that do air patrol over their territory armed with long-distance air-to-air missiles that make it very hard for Ukrainian airplanes to operate close to the front. Urkaine does not have missiles with the same range so they need ground-based air defense to keep the Russian airforce away.",1
I think you are gonna have a hard time convincing Ukraine to use diplomacy when a 1/4 of the country is still occupied by Russia and there infrastructure has been destroyed.,"If Russia can restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity (including Crimea), Ukraine is open to talk, but that condition is almost impossible to be agreed by Putin, so why wasting time on it? All other “diplomacy” has the implication that Ukraine has to give up more territory, which is dumb af to even think about. Do we really want to reward the fucking invader again after Crimea?",1
"""BENSINGER: So a good example of this would be that Qatar's influence was seen in France with the French representative to FIFA, a former player named Michel Platini, one of the great all-time players who was very influential in FIFA. And it came out later that he was summoned to the Champs-Elysees, where then-France President Sarkozy said he wanted to meet him. This was only a few weeks before the critical vote, and Platini walked into a dining room to find the president of France and the emir of Qatar sitting there. And they were - had negotiated a deal not only for Qatar to buy airliners from Airbus, but also to buy Sarkozy's favorite soccer team and also to buy the rights to France's soccer league on television in France. So Qatar had basically injected a ton of money into France. And the president of France made it very clear to Platini where he should be voting."".","P.S. Ran into the same problem with links preventing posts here. I typed the summary in my subreddit, but I'm not trying to steer conversation there or collect karma. Locking summary there to prevent replies.",1
"They sentence them to a highly dubious crime of “war against God”, which essentially lets the Iranian state suspend all rights that you usually are afforded as a citizen accused of a crime. That’s why the sentencing takes 15 minutes. No defense, no appeals, court sees you once, gives you a sentence, they arrest you and 2 weeks after you’re executed.","Note that they’re only specifically using this sentencing when it’s people attacking government forces, Iran has a normal judicial system for crimes between individuals usually, including murder. But the government sees itself as god apparently and attacking them is made equivalent to an attack against god so they allow themselves to just do what they please when it’s people that they don’t like. They’re executing about 5-6 people for every policeman that died. No one knows how they’re making their conclusions so quickly, it’s highly doubtful that everyone getting killed was actually involved in the killing, let alone in a sufficient fashion to warrant execution. But we’ll never know, because Iran hides behind Sharia law to do whatever they want to behind closed doors without any way to resist or defend yourself. Mind you, more protestors than police are dying in these clashes, but of course, 0 police ends up getting any sentencing….",0
"Trump saying no collusion. There is no crime of collusion, so that was always going to be true. Never mind one of his guys gave polling data to a Russian asset.","Mueller, spells out the crimes trump committed, but no one has the political will to do anything about it. So ""Mueller exonerated trump"" sticks.",0
"No, he will die a quick death from a bomb getting dropped on his head. It's the innocent people that will really feel it when and if an all-out invasion happens. History repeats itself and the US will be forgiven by everyone and the same thing will happen all over again, to the next enemy.","You're not wrong about the innocent people feeling the consequences but where you lose me is by saying ""the US will be forgiven and move to the next enemy. It's just like the Korean War all over again"".",1
Plus I don't think Viktor Gushan would let them. The Transnistria military has 3 times the troops that russia has stationed there.,"On Thursday, Russia accused Kyiv of planning to invade Transdniestria, which borders Ukraine. The mainly Russian-speaking territory broke from Moldova's control in 1990, a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union.",1
Good. Large fleet vehicles that drive known distances and have lots of stop and go driving is an ideal use for electric vehicles. Curious how much gas that will save per year.,"Well if gas prices keep increasing at this rate, you might be right. I'm honestly looking at an EV myself, they are just prohibitively expensive right now. That and I need to get my ancient garage wired up. I currently have just one 15A outlet.",1
Russia has made these particular weird statements before. Saying weapons supplied by the west would be targeted once in country in Ukraine.,This is why I hope there is some to complement/protect any Patriot missile system that is deployed in Ukraine.,1
"That is true, look it up. Trump made fools of all you Georgia voters. Yes there is still plenty that has to come out, and more indictments will be coming down.","Makes sense if there is to be an indictment coming. You can't let trump baby make the case of a prejudiced jury against him because the information is out there. I want to see everything too, but damn, I'll wait if someone will actually hold him to accountability. I can see the findings after or during the trial. I just want that pos to pay for his crimes; for trying to destroy and continuing to have a hand in the ongoing destruction attempts of this country.",1
"Democrats are responsible for the policies they pass when they have the power to, and for not consequences of not passing policies they could have when they had the power to.","Republicans are responsible for the policies they pass when they have the power to, and for not consequences of not passing policies they could have when they had the power to.",0
does it matter where they are whaling given whales dont know about national borders? its a barbaric practice regardless of where its happening. the international community needs to red line this shit and have consequences even for our allies.,"dude, fuck them the same. the only communities i can give a somewhat pass are inuit communities that have to do it for survival, but they take a whale here or there for survival. Denmark, Iceland, Norway etc should get fucked for it too.",0
Yep. We're currently at the stage of Russia using convicts and 'undesirable' minorities to fight a war with equipment loaned from Iran and NK because Russia can no longer field a modern military on its own.,"As a result of all this, Russia will—more and more—need to rely on Cold War era weapons, which means their soldiers will find themselves outgunned against modern, western weapons sent to Ukraine by NATO-affiliated nations. My own country’s Military Industrial Complex™ is loving the idea of having their weapons tested in the field just as much as they are loving that sweet cash rolling into their bank accounts, and that cash will be used to change the minds of anyone serving in public office who might be considering pulling some support for Ukraine; the weapons shipments will not stop.",1
"We are at in very grave peril. We have to fight for solutions together. We need to decarbonise human activity as fast as possible, like our civilisation depends on it, because it does. If we don't fix this now, there will be no politics to argue about in a few decades.","And here is more recent research that shows that as we cut CO2 emissions and aerosols, we slow down his quickly methane breaks down in the atmosphere, leading to more warming than previously predicted.",0
I get the feeling that this was one of the Russian soldiers recently mobilized with next to no training and crappy gear just looking for a way out. Any means to make contact with the Ukrainians without getting killed is an oppertunity.,"This obviously isn’t the case, and as soon that man opened fire, Ukrainians had full authority to kill every single one of them. Prisoners can only be taken once the enemy decides to fully surrender.",1
"He can't rewrite it, but he isn't without ability to screw us, which he has done since he stepped into office and proceeded to stuff his thumb in his bum.","Nah, this is the perfect way - because Garland doesn't have to be the one who says it aloud. Garland literally just hired a scape goat who can earn ire for writing that report for congress.",0
"Sweden: East side of the country is wide open to the Baltic Sea, and Russia can go with submarines or ships all over the place.",No thanks. Erdogan can f\ck off though and stop using his propaganda bs for the upcoming election. Sweden and Finland will stick together in this NATO application. If one of us cant join none of us will. And that will upset USA and the others because they all want us in NATO.,0
"Saudi Arabia serves far more countries than just the US. Were the US to actually forcibly remove the Saudi government to put one of our own choice in place there would be global issues and possibly an actual military response. The reason the US has gotten away with moves like that in the past is because the country’s they did so too we’re firstly fairly hostile to most world powers and secondly had actually given the US an excuse to attack them (flimsy as they were in many cases) Saudi Arabia has given no such excuse and is on “friendly” terms with several global powers including Russia, China and many of the US’s European allies. Such a move would not be at all well received on the international stage. The fact is the world still needs oil for now (although the time is rapidly approaching where that is no longer true) and that means the Saudi’s are in prime position to dictate international terms as they are one of the few countries with abundant amounts of oil. Realistically the best thing the US could do to reduce its dependence on them would be to ramp up our own oil production to fill our needs and continue to invest in alternatives wherever possible. Many of our major power stations for example could be transferred away from fossil fuel power to nuclear, hydroelectric, solar and wind power. We’ve had the ability to do this for decades and have not done so, because 1 it’s expensive in the short term and 2 the Saudis and a few other major oil dealers bribe our politicians to keep them from making strides in that direction.","Oil is what everyone thinks at first, but the truth is that the Saudis (And others in the region) use London, NYC, Miami, and LA as their personal money laundromats. Lawmakers depend on that more than barrels of dino juice.",1
"You can buy them anywhere in the west without raising red flags -- suppliers like Digikey/Mouser, small hobbyist shops, ebay, etc.","We don't. Iran simply has to have someone in any western country buy them. From there, smuggling them into Iran (with Iran's help) would not be difficult at all.",0
"Nice question, the quick answer is you go into the interview with your facts ready as much as possible! This has always been an issue for most reporters covering all sorts of topics. The best way I’ve learned to combat it is to re-ask questions, point out the facts and sometimes ask them to share where the info that doesn’t seem quite right is coming from. I think most political reporters (especially those of us on-air) are aware that spin almost always happens, so be ready.","The bottom line for me as a journalist has always been that polls can be a tool to keep in the back of your mind, but go talk to voters and listen to what they are telling you.",0
"You are right. Self preservation is extremely hard to ignore. In their situation you’re probably going to do whatever it takes to survive. Follow orders so you don’t get shot, then do what you’re told but take advantage of any opportunity to get the fuck out, by either surrendering or deserting.","Yeah fuck that, if I was in my right mind I’d surrender as soon as I got the opportunity then spill my guts. “Those motherfuckers abducted me from rehab, threw a rifle and some ammunition at me then forced me to the front. I don’t wanna kill my countrymen, honestly, I just wanna get fucked up on Quaaludes and walk around town with no pants.”.",0
"Because of the elevation, it's essentially a fool's errand to get the bodies down. To do so would likely kill the helper. There is even a haunting saying about climbing Everest. ""No matter how many people are in your group, everyone climbs Everest alone."".","Yea. I know they will try to move many body's just beyond the trail as to not demoralize climbers, but those are more recent bodies, but that's as far as they're going.",0
He is not banning gender affirming care at all. He is restricting it to those who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria which is a rational way of approaching healthcare.,"Is the person who is questioning them, a doctor that specializes in gender dysphoria and has done their due diligence with evaluating the individual?",1
Also I can genuinely see that this decision for mass incarceration was made out of a true desire to benefit the greatest number of people in El Salvador instead of being born out of corruption.,What good is your security when you allow your government to strip away the security and life of someone who is completely innocence?,0
"The House Ways and Means Committee has voted along party lines 24 to 16 to publicly release several years of former president Donald Trump's tax returns in a redacted form, bringing a years-long dispute to a close.","Dec 20, 2022: Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee votes to release Trump’s taxes to the public.",1
I mean no solar panel NEEDS direct sunlight (have you ever seen a solar calculator? Those work fine indoors). The point is you are losing efficiency off the bat by having fewer photons per cm^2 of solar panel. Then losing even more efficiency by letting light through instead of absorbing.,"These panels, can't be as efficient as rooftop solar because every photon that goes through it, to bring in light or let you see out, is a wasted photon.",1
"I'm not concerned with those people. Just the optics of a politician up there saying we should make young people, who are being destroyed by inflation, to pay more money, when there is a fairly simple way to fix that situation.","Would that be challenged? Certainly. Congress works in student loan repayment into future budgets to help fund the government, and the president can't threaten tax revenues without congressional approval. However, until overruled in court, Biden can keep everything on hold. Courts take well over a year to make decisions, so Biden could keep it on hold until the general election, easily.",0
"Yes I would agree, but the UK and many other places have laws that define rape as unwanted penetration with a penis, that's why I said it needs to be redefined to fit modern definitions.","I believe I had read that in England rape is defined by penile penetration so by their definition women cannot “rape” but they can have sex, so that’s probably the issue on the verbiage.",1
"Second, sheriffs are elected officials, but they’re bound by the same laws as everyone else. They aren’t constitutional scholars and they don’t get to decide what is or isn’t constitutional. If think a law is unconstitutional they need to take it up with the elected officials who make the laws, or they need to go through the courts like anyone else.","If you believe a law is unconstitutional, as an elected official you have the sworn obligation not to enforce it. The onus is on the legislature to sue you to enforce it and prove it is constitutional.",1
The whole book is about Americans being so afraid of communism taking over that they didn't notice anti-communism had already taken over.,"He wasn't writing a scientific paper. It's a collection of his opinions on topics that he put a lot of thought into. I don't agree with his way of thinking, but I can still acknowledge that he's got a style of writing that's engaging and quotable; aka ""he's a good writer."".",0
"Though, one could argue, had Trump just disclosed his tax returns like every other President, this entire situation could have been avoided.","Also, Donald Trump didn't refuse to release his taxes. If he ran in 16 saying, ""Fuck you that's none of your business,"" that would be refusing. He said he would and then made excuses for why he wouldn't.",1
"They are Christian, since lot of those Nordic people, even though they don't believe in God, are part of the Lutheran church and also and babtized, and thus they are counted as Christians. They often even call themselves Lutheran or Christian, as they still are part of those religions, even without believing in God.","They can still be culturally Muslims, like a lot of Jewish atheists are culturally Jewish and in North America a lot of us atheists are culturally Christian.",1
He does exist and word is that he’s the greatest Democrat secret operative that has ever existed… when everything else is a lie who’s to say he’ll vote the way McCarthy thinks he’s supposed to? Or at least that’s what I’ve heard… probably worth spreading around….,"It was never investigated because it did precisely what it was meant to do. Make everyone stop listening to a black man talk about how the Republican Party always managed to say crazy shit to make people stop listening to actual problems. It could not have been more Pavlovian if it tried, Richmond was literally saying not two seconds before how the public would drop anything if republicans said something bat shit crazy enough and sure enough…. Nestor.",0
"I think that what people like yourself don’t grasp about being an undermined minority in a capitalist system, like ours, is that such minorities are not responsible, at least not to the same standards as wealthy, white, heterosexual-passing men, for what they have to do to make ends meet, which equates in said system with getting ahead. It’s the luck of the draw for such minorities. So, I think that’s her excuse, which I personally will allow since she has made recent strides in a more ethical direction with her brave testimony. I agree with you, it is a tragic waste of human potential—living within the capitalist death grip, as such.","Not saying she wasn’t misguided or even knowingly acting on poor ethics, just adding some actual, grounded, nuance to this.",0
"It is separate though? There isn’t a law outlawing people in power being religious, the law is that religion cannot form an actual powerhouse within politics. And if you make the call that you can’t be religious when getting into politics you are now infringing on the 1st Amendment.","Again, I’m not arguing that anyone broke the law or even evaded it by being religious. I never once argued for removing the right of the religious to believe or preach their views.",1
"Stupid people will tell you that legalizing marijuana is dangerous and will lead to more crime. I can tell you from first hand experience that people who smoke pot don’t tend to get in random fist fights like drunks. I don’t ever recall responding to a beating, stabbing or shooting because someone smoked weed or ate an edible, I saw more than a few when people were drunk or used hard drugs. Don’t smoke pot and drive, don’t smoke pot around your kids but otherwise it’s one of the most harmless mind altering substances and it’s a hell of a lot less worse than alcohol.","I agree with the logic of your idea and regulation may help solve for some overdoses. Sadly I can’t fix stupid. Although it was hilarious when your patient is convinced they’re dying when their blood pressure is 118/80, 65 bpm and 14 respirations. Like dude your vitals are better than mine you’re just high as fuck.",0
Ideology shift may lead to more enrollment. Stagnant or even decking were enrollment were not really acceptable. Sometime industry outsiders do more good than harm despite their “lack” of traditional qualifications.,It’s a cool college but I find nothing out of place with politicians appointing board of Trustees. My tour left me wondering why does Florida find this? It’s cool but an extravagance maybe we don’t need and the aversion to growth (like to maybe 1500 students) seems ridiculous given our states growth in needs. New management was in order in my opinion.,0
"Butina is now a Russian member of parliament. Cohen only spent two weeks in prison. Gates got probation. Kilimnik was never arrested. Manafort was pardoned. Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in prison, and spent twelve days there. Stone was pardoned before he even started his sentence.","All these people retained their power and privilege, and in some cases (Butina) expanded it. That is why there is a general sense that nothing came out of the Mueller investigation.",0
"Trump may have mobilized it to an extreme degree, but “Trumpism” has been at the core of the Republican Party for a long time.","Trump is just a recent ugly face on a brutal beast that Republicans have cultivated for 50+ years. Even the ""never-Trumpers"" voted lock step with Trump on 90% of issues. No one should let these monsters try to gaslight everyone into thinking they're better than Trump. They ARE Trump.",1
Sadly this story or a very close version of it happens again and again across so many industries. A numbers person thinks that the numbers on a report are the only thing they need to understand running a business.,"So this is, in reality, a short term contract position. You should treat it as such as you know damn well twitter will be.",0
"Call me optimistic, but I don't think it would be as bad as you are describing. It would be bad. But, there are a few things that make me think we can avoid a mega bad calamity.","During Covid, a ton of the deniers were hearing the stories about Covid being mild. They were getting Covid, and getting mildly sick. That won't be happening if we get a real outbreak of this flu. Everyone is gonna know multiple people who die. People's friends will not be saying that they had the disease and it was nothing. They are going to be saying they nearly died.",0
You would if you know about Turkey. You wouldn't if you don't and your only knowledge is it's a Muslim majority country. I think even if we had good news internationally a lot of people would have the same reaction to this news.,I don't but I also don't expect every single person to have an opinion about everything that ever happened anywhere.,0
"You mean, the pope that publicly admitted actively covering up the abuse of priests for his entire career, enabling the abuse of children for decades, and never once helped a victim or assisted authorities?","I misread the headline and thought it was talking about a single priest abusing nearly 5000 children over 70 years, or about 1 child per week, and I was absolutely flabbergasted trying to imagine how one pedophile found the time for so much molestation.",1
"They're losing, but they're losing against an incredibly dedicated military that's being funded by... pretty much everyone relevant, at this point, and doing a lot of damage in the process. Russia claims to be fighting NATO, and they're only slightly lying about it. (To be clear, so no one thinks I'm a troll, I'm not saying anything Russia has done here is in any way acceptable-- just that it's not wrong to say that NATO members [and possibly other nations as well; I'm not sure exactly which ones have provided support] have contributed enough to Ukraine's defense efforts to be considered involved in the war.).","You're not wrong that they're taking a lot of losses, but you are wrong about ""Ukrainian farmers."" Ukraine has likely been actively building up military power for nearly a decade now, if not longer. They should have recognized the threat after Russia took Crimea and been preparing ever since, possibly even sooner.",0
"For a state that is split pretty evenly, the gerrymandering has skewed the state to ridiculous levels.","It's not going backwards it's unrigging the game and it would have gave Democrats a chance to take control in states like Wisconsin when they receive more votes. It is incredible important to end state and congressional maps that can give results like , , , , and.",1
"I agree with this post entirely if Russia nukes Ukraine, but if they launched against a NATO country, a nuclear response seems inevitable.","My feeling is… again this is my opinion… Russia gets away with using one nuke. It will be on nato and the rest of the world NOT to retaliate and so restraint and the kremlin can easily blame it on Ukraine. Two is out of the question, it will be WW3 if they do… but I just don’t see them getting out of this without making such a show. Remember world: we have power, which seems to be the one thing the Russians are most upset about: pride.",1
"I'm not trying to down play Ukrainian's resolve or accomplishments. As someone who grew up with the Soviets being the scary ""bad"" guys of the west I'm just dumbfounded and how terrible the logistics and tactics and supplies Russian has been using.","At least that's one way to solve Russia's outfitting problem, and they're the only ones inhumane enough to do it.",1
\-Or having Tyler from Ohio with no self awareness complain of women drinking alcohol while his entire frat party kills people during their hazing rituals.,\-Or slut shaming a woman who enjoys the same life activities as her male counterpart because Bill from Texas got his moral system from 1955 and refused to learn to do better.,0
"In order to have a House that functions, you would want a coalition with maybe 10-25% of Republicans who are willing to make a deal to get co-chairmanships and co-staffing on committees, and you get a House that functions. You still are able to move legislation that aligns with your ideology, thought it might be slower, and you don't have to worry as much about insane investigations because subpoenas and investigative steps would require consent of committee co-chairs.","The prize — winning over public opinion — would go to those members who (1) show themselves to be most effective in cobbling together legislation that gets enacted, and (2) are responsive to their constituents' concerns.",1
"You’re right! We should partner with the civilized people of Palestine, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc etc etc who elect terrorist organizations to run their countries and stone gay people to death and don’t let women go to school or drive cars and marry of children and murder women who don’t cover their heads. You know the really super civilized people of the Middle East.",The difference is Ukrainian is not run by a terrorist organization that send suicide bombers into Russia routinely and fires rockets at Russia routinely. How can you not see that? It’s actually almost funny how hard you’re stretching to paint Israel at the aggressor but it’s actually just sad.,0
"What? You didn't actually explain why it should be a harsher sentence for someone to harm a police officer. You just said ""it's attack on an individual and wider society."" Harming anyone at all is ""attack of an individual and wider society"" since we're all individuals and we're all, in some sense, part of society. Is a teacher or a convenience store employee any less representative of ""wider society"" than a cop??","If everyone has a duty to help each other and all, why is it that harming someone who happens to be paid to do that should carry higher consequences?",0
"Any new variants will need to have one of those two or some combination of them, otherwise it would simply fail to outcompete existing variants.",The problem is that it's very hard to accurately assess which part of the competitive edge of a new variant is due to increased transmission and which part is due to immune evasion. The only way to accurately test this is by following a large group of people with no prior exposure to covid-19 or its vaccines and seeing which variants grow at which rate in this group. But finding such a group would be a monumental challenge at this point.,0
Nope. She’s already castrated herself. That’s a good (bad) politician in Alberta vs what they have in the US. See in Alberta people are simple minded and just want their oil money. Either job or business running off oil. It’s all oil. And as a politician you gotta get things done. These turkeys never have experience in large scale diplomacy. They come in hot and ferocious. When you come into a leadership acting like you hold all the leverage against the federal government what happens is they just ignore you.,Many GOP states don't even realize they would be FUCKED without the federal government letting successful state subsides their failings. Looking at you rust belt.,1
"They mostly share the same religion now, though Iran and Saudi Arabia are ruled by very different sects - Twelver Shi'a in Iran, Whahhabism in Saudi Arabia. I don't know the full details on doctrinal differences, but there's some very, very strong differences in belief about the line of succession of imams after Muhammad's death. Also, the two nations have serious long-standing beef in general.","Prior to being conquered by the Arabians, Persians followed a very different religion - Zoroastrianism.",0
"Other states could use Michigan as a road map, but not every state constitution allows for constitutional amendments via direct democracy. If we had to rely on the state legislature to get this done, none of it would have been possible.",Now we know that it's necessary to do so rather than write rules that they want the legislature to follow.,1
"Actual partisan republicans I've known have established that the Trump nepotism was fine, because they weren't going against ""order""\, but the mere hint that maybe Biden helped his son with a business deal is a huge deal because they think if he was able, he'd disrupt order.","(\ yes. It is deeply amusing/frustrating that they also have enough cognitive dissonance to like Trump because he disrupted order. But part of that also comes from them thinking ""he was reorganising things to be more how we want it"". I do miss the days when they'd stop talking there though, rather than having to admit out loud that they wish they could be more of a bigot).",0
Agreed. Cooperation is a key tool in competition with others and life..all life is in competition. That’s been a key scientific model for well over a century. It’d be pretty big news of TToE was proven wrong.,My original point though was that unions were and are an important tool for people to act against exploitation. To just sit back and take what others deem them worth would eventually lead to pretty harsh conditions and compensation…as history has shows us many times.,0
"US: Waits days, then shoots it down (according to China, a weather balloon) after it passes over the ocean out of an abundance of caution and being fully within its rights to do so.","Right wing media in general was at a fevered pitch over this. Radio was just as bad, they ran with it all day I assume based on what I heard since they did more than one rolling update during the part of the program I listened to and it was just nonstop ""this is a travesty, we should have shot this down immediately, Biden is a weak president, no one fears us, etc..."".",0
"Blame red tape, environmental “protection”, and slow procedures to develop land as the reason for astronomical housing prices.","If you want the government to intervene to make housing more affordable, then must invest in housing themselves, not placing rental caps as price caps have failed just about every time in history.",1
"A stronger Russia would mean more of this. Follow that trend for years or decades, and future Czechia could realistically become a pro-Kremlin bus stop (this is now happening to Hungary, btw).","I wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.",1
"Video account from people of colour who immigrated to Quebec and face discrimination and other issues, despite your denial:","Yeah right, because implying that people living outside Montréal aren’t « real human beings » isn’t racist at all….",1
"What kills me is the set of conflicting lies that come out. To stick with the metaphor, we ask the child covered in chocolate whether they ate the cake, and they say ""I didn't even know there was cake! And also, I saw the cat eat the cake. And also also, I wanted the cake, sure, because who wouldn't, but it was already gone before I could even eat any, so who's to say whether I should be punished for eating it since I didn't even get the opportunity to misbehave. Other people eat cake all the time anyway, so if I had eaten the cake, and I didn't, then that would've been okay too. Anyway, somebody drank all the milk to wash down the cake, but nobody's talking about the milk."".",Soo…. We need to tackle the issue here: people who shouldn’t own any firearms at all… not the weapons themselves.,1
And the gerrymandered in officials are doing everything they possibly can to prevent us citizens ourselves from voting on it.,And now I live in a US state that bans abortion before 1/3 of women even know they’re pregnant. Through absolutely no fault of their own.,0
"""Nuclear capable"" applies to a huge portion of Russia's missile systems - it turns out that being able to nuke people is really important in modern warfare.","However, if Russia decides to lob a (Short Range or Intermediate Range) ballistic nuclear weapon or use heavy conventional bombers, a Patriot battery will eat their lunch.",1
"If there was any evidence of serious criminal activity by Hunter Biden, that would be the FBI's job to investigate him as an ordinary citizen. And they would have already acted on it since they have possession of ""the laptop"" that far-right tabloids love to vaguely claim contains ""evidence"".",Instead we get some congressional circus to baselessly drag out some guy's browser history in public to humiliate and slander his father.,0
"also, I did not know about the oil industry and the effects of stopping the oil drilling. thanks for the info .","if Russia stops production completely and takes all their oil off the global market, it would cause the oil price to jump drastically. If India pays 'normal' prices now (say, 80 dollars), it would be cheaper than the elevated prices with messed up supplies (maybe 150+ dollars).",0
"It's too early to make any conclusions about this current virus period. I'd also be willing to wager that based on the trajectory of this outbreak among birds, and then mammals, is Mother Nature's doing, not humans.","It does not mean that this current stain is modified in any way. This mutation has long been present and studied. If it was a modified virus, why mess around trying to get it for ferrets, when you can modify it for people.",0
"For the sake of when the topic is conservation, captive tigers aren't considered ""real"" tigers in the field, they're irrelevant. The population number always relates to wild tigers, who breed, hunt, live and survive in the wild.",A growing wild tiger population is indicative of a healthy forest ecosystem. So this news is a big win for all wild animals in general.,1
"And I'm not gonna do a big back and forth, Canada has shown time and time again it takes a forgiveness approach to violent crime. It has shown over and over again victims don't matter and that fine if you wanna live in a society like that. I don't. So take care bud.","This will always vary by state, or in this case perhaps country. For instance in my state a first degree murder carries a 6 years to life of course other factors can be factored in.",0
"If America doesn't intervene, Taiwan's government will have to either surrender or watch its economy crumble.","Wouldn’t China have more to gain from trading with Taiwan than spending a lot of effort destroying it, taking the damage from Taiwan counter attacks, and the global economic fallout?",1
"What, what? She's never run against Bill Clinton since she was married to him, and she against Obama unless you count votes for contests that neither candidate was allowed to campaign in because of DNC rules. Obama's name wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan in 2008. Regardless, she never went up against any of the three in a general election.","In 2016 I still felt very confident that she would win (as most Democrats did), but, again, in hindsight there were very visible flaws there that we all ignored because of how much of a villain Trump was.",0
"To more directly answer your question, though, there are a lot of possible alternatives. One that springs to mind is that his background doesn't justify the level of grief/angst/martyrdom following his murder. Not being sympathetic towards the murder of a bad person is arguably pretty callous, but its not the same as saying them being a bad person justifies the murder.","edit: all bad reasoning at that, since they ignore the issue of whether cops should be murdering people.",1
"lmao I would definitely take that offer, the Finnish are really fucking proficient (and scary) soldiers, and they've been preparing for a Russian invasion since WW2.","As a Finn I think Finns definitely know how to deal with winter warfare, but let's also keep in mind Finns know how to deal with winter warfare in Finland. Ukrainian climate, terrain and daylight patterns are very different and not everything is directly applicable. In fact, some of the winter survival stuff may be an overkill, in which case you end up wasting time, energy and equipment/money that you don't need to waste.",1
"The major problem with this kind of approach is pretty simple: the WTO doesn't recognize ""climate-related tariffs"" as some kind of special category. Once the EU actually starts levying the tariff, other countries are going to go to the WTO with complaints, and those countries are going to win those complaints. The end result is going to be retaliatory tariffs against EU exports.","If you want to sell anything to the EU, these tariffs will produce huge pressure to decarbonise the entire industrial chain.",1
"Idk. Go onto r/Ukraine or listen to Zelensky's speeches. Ukrainians give a lot of credit for the USA's vital role in all this. From weapons to intel, our help has been decisive.","Ukrainians deserve full credit too. They are after all the ones dying. But sometimes in war, victory is owed to multiple causes, and logistics are just as important as the frontline bravery.",0
If you’re the criminal defendant you don’t have to outwardly plead the fifth. The state has the burden of proof so by design you don’t have to put on a case at all if you don’t want to - your defense can be that the prosecution failed to meet its burden. Also throughout the entire proceeding the court pounds all of this into the jurors’ brains and the logical outcome - a requirement not to hold it against the defendant if they don’t testify.,A jury in a criminal trial shouldn’t and won’t hear any testimony regarding a Defendant pleading the 5th. Any prosecutor who brings out that testimony will be looking at an ethics complaint and potential reversal on appeal of any conviction.,1
So the church is fine with the gay marriage and didn't want to oppose its priest's beliefs? I don't see anything wrong with that. Just find another priest that actually wants to do the wedding.,"Why would you want to get married, officiated by the church. For hundreds of years, they have persecuted LGBTQ.",1
China is aligned with Russia. They literally made an anti-west pact with 'friendships with no limits' while Russia had 150k troops ready to invade Ukraine in Feb.,The prevention is the failure of the Russians in Ukraine along with the solidarity of NATO and other Western aligned states towards Ukraine.,1
A soldier can also retrieve other soldiers. That doesn’t make them a medic that’s immune from the battlefield. A medic on a battlefield should wear uniform that clearly shows they’re a medic.,You can't expect the IDF to just ignore a possible combatant just because he's stood next to a medic. What happened here is tragic but we shouldn't jump to conclusions until we know more of the facts of the matter.,1
The majority of people in our country are not aware of the reasons ukraine fighting off the russians is so important and understandably would be annoyed at the prospect of giving away money in large sums to other countries instead of funding out nurses .,"Im in the forces myself , i have followed the situation in ukraine since feb24th . I am fully aware of the reasons for this attack and what we need to do to support ukraine .",0
"Oh, the former red states would just blame the former blue states until it became a war. Red state problems are never caused by the shitheads they elect, it’s always California’s fault or something.",This seems to be something that people often forget about when thinking they’d try out their cheap red state for awhile and if it sucks they’d move to the country housing the blue states. Odds are you wouldn’t have that choice.,1
"Best way to respond to this is ""yeah, no shit, I support Ukraine's fight against the invasion of fascists because I'm not an idiot"" and let that hang.","When we are talking about politics ultimately most of these types of being an asshole is in support of a fascist agenda, so you could just say fascist. Since it is literally a political movement based on the idea of being assholes to everyone who doesn't fit within a very narrow spectrum, it is quite appropriate in this situation.",1
"It’s that last point that highlights how fucked we are. Nobody that matters (legislators, media, voters) cares enough, or at all, to even want to do anything about it.","Literally, no-one cares what candidates in hopeless races do. Because no-one cares, sometimes they commit fraud. This seemed to apply to Trump in 2016, until it was too late. (They should have brought out the Bush interview a few weeks earlier.).",1
"Just like natzi can not peacefully coexist with jew because a natzi view of morality is vastly different. To a natzi, just being a Jew is offensive to them. And thus they pushed their view of morality with policy changes.","Not saying dems are natzi, just saying dems just like natzi push their view of morality through policy changes. Republicans do not. (If say abortion ban is immoral, I ask, since when is it immoral to save the life of a child?).",0
"Young voters didn't vote early and they didn't show up at the polls, they were the lowest participation and vote share once again.",That's a great description of the internal dialogue of the 3 out of 4 youth voters who didn't turn out this election.,0
"""Justice Singh further noted that in Indian law, it is ultimately a mother's choice whether or not she wants to continue with her pregnancy."".","This is not true. The youngest preemies to ever survive have been 21 weeks. Beyond those special few, survival rates at 21 weeks are exceedingly low. Even 24 weeks is still dicey. The gestational age at which most infants will survive if born then is 26+ weeks.",1
Working with special needs people should be a six figure job and yet we pay them as if they're the ones with special needs.,"Why take on the emotional exhaustion, low pay, and legal risk to teach special needs when you could go elsewhere? We are leaching off teachers and assistants who genuinely love to help struggling kids - and that's the only reason we have the people we have today. It won't last. The UK is a preview for the US.",1
"Alaska, California, Louisiana, and Washinon don't do partisan primaries for federal office. You'd have to find Republicans in moderate districts from those states.","Yes, he could if a few moderate Republicans voted for him. You'd probably end up with somebody well to his right in order to get those Republican votes though. Either one of the moderate Republicans or one of the most conservative Democrats.",0
"Everything is so cheap there, it was amazing. Nice dinner, drinks, leaving drunk and stuffed, was probably around 30$ a person. Live music everywhere. All the musicians are amazing. We actually went there because my fiance's brother writes music for movie trailers, and they use an orchestra in Budapest because it is cheaper.",I loved Budapest and it is on the top of my list of places to return to. We actually know a few people who started to live there after college and one of the people is still there. Highly recommend.,0
"The best part of authoritarians is they end up believing their own lies. Which pairs nicely with ""Never interrupt your enemy while he is busy making a mistake."".","Yeaaah. Since the war in Ukraine began, I've seriously started to wonder how many of their nukes are even functional let alone have a reliable vehicle for delivery.",1
"To me it's silly to outlaw guns. I'm all for better regulations around guns, but prohibition is a dumb idea. We have enough privacy in Canada to circumvent most prohibition laws. So instead lets have people who want to own guns, give up some of the protection that privacy provides.","Well, gee, you outlaw the lawful purchase of guns, and people use 21-Century technology to make their own. Did this actually come as a surprise to anyone? The concept of people improvising their own weapons to get around laws has been going on for thousands of years.",1
"Maybe, but that type of support is a long ways off for the Ukraine part of it. If the war ends Ukraine (rightfully) isn't going to be quick to volunteer troops or equipment to assist other people in similar situations simply because they can't. They'll have a massive rebuilding phase to deal with, and on top of that they'll be under constant risk of attack no matter what Russia says in any peace treaty. Everything they have will go to repairing their society and fortifying their boarders. They may be able to give token assistance to countries in need out of compassion, but for many years that's likely going to be about it.","Edit: There's nothing wrong with giving minimal assistance that is essentially unnoticeable in the overall scheme of things, many countries have shown support for others engaged in major wars by sending just a handful of troops or some slightly outdated equipment. I just wanted to clarify that Ukraine won't be in a position for anything like real, effective support for quite a long time.",0
"They went after the big fish when they should have started with the minnow. Most people would have no idea about the Harper case or care. If they went after that one first, they would have better positioned themselves to sweep mid-terms and lay the groundwork for rolling back rights for women, LGBTQ+, minorities, immigrants, etc.",Imagine losing the most reliable voting block in the country because you successfully discouraged them from taking part in the process?,0
"""The ""'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' "".","Yes. If you think that is anywhere close to stating it was ""entertainment"" programming and therefore irrelevant to free speech protections, it wasn't.",1
"No doubt that Russians are dying en masse, but I'm doubtful about the accuracy of any precise figures supplied by any side, and this goes for any war.","Most russians to me appear dead inside even before going to war. They don‘t seem to live just exist. And they try everything they can to expand this kind living scheme to their neighbours who have a higher living standard, a better life, better morals.",1
"They’re not, you’re playing semantics about the life of someone lost and a globally acknowledged violent insurrection. From your own fucking article:",>	Sicknick has been counted as one of five people who died as a result of the insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol during which extremists — egged on by then-President Donald Trump and his acolytes in Congress — stormed the complex in an attempt to halt the certification of President Biden's White House victory.,0
"It's so annoying seeing people still blame the Dems for Republican obstructionism. If 95% of the Dems support a thing and 95% of Republicans oppose it, people will blame the Dems for that 5% opposition and not the Republicans.","If not for the filibuster they could force the vote right now, given how popular legalization has even been in red states, the GOP would either need to yield and vote in line with Democrats or explain to their voters why they voted against.",1
"So even if Republicans aren't working against him, they clearly aren't eager to support him anymore.","The alternative, losing the GOP nomination and ""giving up"" and accepting the country hates him, is worse than running 3rd party.",1
The Iranian government could make some small reforms and maybe keep things chill and placate their population. But instead they're greatly escalating it from a peaceful protest situation to a mass execution of citizens situation.,"Once they start imprisoning or executing the family of protesters fir ""enabling"" them, the number of protesters will drop quick.",1
"The side effect may be that towns like Zabolottya in Ukraine may gain anti-missile coverage, just because of their proximity to Poland, but I guess Russia wants to play that game.","Also I suspect prior to now they were refraining from firing anti-missile systems into Ukraine, even if they were projected to land very near the border. I wouldn't be surprised if the stance will change to ""take the shot even if it's projected to hit near the Ukrainian side of the border, just in case"".",0
"“This report affirms our belief that the substantial circumstantial evidence favors COVID-19 emerging from a research-related incident. These revelations also further strenhen the need to uncover why high-ranking government officials, with help from Big Tech and the media, sought early on to silence any debate into a plausible theory of a lab incident while the Chinese Communist Party stonewalled investigations by the global scientific community."".",And there we have it. We cannot discuss this topic openly and honestly because that somehow feeds into right-wing misinformation.,1
"There's no way China would just start arming Russia, because further war escalation is the last thing they want.","Of course they are, the west has been talking loudly about how aggressive China is (which they have been) for years and NATO declared China as their highest threat just a few months ago, so like no shit they’re deepening ties with Russia. We’re pushing them in that direction. And it’s particularly concerning when China has a choice to make between peace (aligning with the West) and >whatever their veiled ambitions are< aligning with Nazi Russia.",1
I agree the war will not be over in the next 6 months but in a year or 2 I find it hard to believe that all of these combined pressures will not cause Russia to crack.,Every day that this war continues the rest of the world solidifies their resolve that Russia must no longer be a top military power.,0
"And insofar as this all relates to 2nd Amendment, it directly counters the anachronistic insistence that it only guarantees the militia and not the right to keep and bear arms, and ALSO directly counters the similarly anachronistic insistence that the militia has nothing to do with it. It does, but not because of the guns. The militias had to be protected so the Army couldn't stop them from hunting down black people escaping to the North. The only way to do that is to ensure the people are able to be armed, because, again, by definition, the militia cannot exist without an armed population to draw from.",Also has to be said the other reason the two are conflated is because militias by definition were armed by the citizens that made them up. The militia could not exist without the citizens themselves being armed of their own accord first.,0
"Essentially, if someone commits a tort, like assault (say, aggressively yelling at someone and putting them in fear of their safety), and the person being assaulted has a fragile constitution (say, a nervous disorder resulting in a weak heart) and that tort causes the victim harm due to their fragile/special condition (say, a heart attack), the assaulting party would be liable for damages stemming from their tort which resulting said condition.",You're saying you believe the 1/6 insurrection was an intervening event that accelerated the officer's demise.,0
Oh yeah my comment implies there are resistors injustice meant they're not getting any outside help l. No one plans on invading Russia and finishing the job so there's no chance those resistors will successfully overthrow the Russian government.,There are resistance movements in Russia and I will say I hear way too much complaining about Russians not resisting and not nearly enough about the ones who already are.,0
"""Oh, ye Gods Russia is overrun with Mongoloids But what if I were to kidnap Ukrainian children of Slavic descent and pass them off as Russian citizens? Delightfully devilish, Putin."".","Privyet. American here. I lived with some Russians once, have a Ukrainian friend, even know a Belarusian girl. I know you're all normal humans. Some people perhaps haven't had interactions with that culture. I for one love your culture, very solid. I tried learning Russian, no class at my university, but oh well. So we don't all hate you man, but this IS America, we've got our problems as well. I just hate your asshole president and government lol. But good luck to you friend, and be safe. Poka.",1
"This small nation is such an inspiring guiding star that all of modern civilization can learn so much from. I have so, so much respect for the people of Ukraine.","As an American, I am thankful that my tax dollars are going to Ukraine. This is one of the first times that I've ever 100% agreed with my government. You and your country will win this, and one day maybe you will see me as a tourist in your lands enjoying and learning about your culture and history.",1
"In a situation like this, were things are so dependent on everybody's willingness to put themselves on the line for the good of all, Ukraine was pretty damn lucky that the guy they had in power turned out to be a natural leader.","True leaders make others want to do something, not be forced to do it (by money, by a sense of duty, due to social pressures and so on) and as I said, in a life and death situation the former is vastly superior to the latter.",0
"I ain't advocating for anything specific here to be clear but this shit has been so one sided with the attacks on the LGBTQ community, it'd be better if the scales were a bit more balanced.","Edit: to be clear they are targeting all of the LGBTQ community, particularly the trans community right now, but they will work against anyone who isn't like them.",1
"Also, from , “In the end, Peltola took just under 55% of the vote. Palin got just over 45%. Palin got a boost once fellow Republican Nick Begich III, who finished third, was eliminated and his 64,392 ballots redistributed during ranked choice tabulation. Nearly two-thirds of his voters chose Palin as their second choice, but 21% didn’t make a second choice – and nearly 12% went for Peltola, who won the two-year term.”.","RCV changes how people decide to vote. With RCV, you don’t have to sacrifice a vote for your preferred candidate like you do with first-to-the-post. There’s a chance Palin could have won without RCV, but given the popularity of Peltola, based on 1st round votes, it would only be a chance and not a sure thing.",0
"Since it bypasses one of their major forms of vote suppression (creating multi-hour long voting lines,) I suspect Republican states will be resistant.","""And then there are the states where a Democratic win in 2022 prevents the passage of laws making it harder to vote. That is the case in Arizona, Kansas, North Carolina and Wisconsin, where Democratic governors hold the veto pen over their Republican-run legislatures."".",1
"It’s a stretch to say it recognizes sovereignty, it is mentioned twice in article I and once in fourteen amendments.","“14th Amendment Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.”.",0
"Scott began his tenure chairing the National Republican Senatorial Committee early last year by making up an award to present to the ex-president at his Palm Beach resort, continued into this year by not intervening in GOP primaries to block Trump-like candidates and ended with Democrats retaining the majority by defeating those mini-Trump candidates.","Instead, McConnell flew off to his ninth straight election to lead the Senate Republican Conference in a landslide, with 37 votes in his corner to just 10 for Trump’s stand-in, Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.).",0
"Disney needs to fight this tooth and nail and make DeSantis double down and lose, or we're all going to pay the price for it as our freedoms get taken under the guise of liberating us.",I have this feeling that Disney (and other corporations) are going to sink DeSantis' political future and make an example out of him in the 2024 primary.,1
"The Palestinians massacred the Jews, when that wasn't successcul they allied with the Nazis, when the Third Reich fell they declared war to genocide them and fail, among several others..","Is that why they massacred Jewish villages in the 1920s, allied with the Nazis in the 1940s and declared a war with neighbor countries to genocide the Jews?",0
"This right here. They've gotten criticism for their use of the so called shadow docket, so they'll sometimes times hear arguments for appearances sake. You could predict pretty much how any of they rulings will do these days.","That's exactly why we have LGBTQ rights in the first place. Things like the Compton Cafeteria Riots or Stonewall, that's what advanced our rights. But conditions were horrible and people had to die before any progress was made. And a lot of that progress took decades.",0
It’s kind of weird to have the perspective of “I want to be able to have procedures despite it being medically risky to the people performing them” so I’m fine with significantly more people than me not being able to get procedures. Especially when the only example given is one in which fixing the medical risk is both easy and medically recommended anyway. With the possible exception of people for whom vaccines are medically risky due to allergies or something… however it’s unlikely they’d fall into the bucket of being denied medical care if that was the situation to begin with.,"But again, I haven't seen any examples of someone unable to get the healthcare they need simply because they refused to get vaccinated, with the exception of organ transplant. I'm not as familiar with other countries, but in the US the doctor and US organ donation system is making the call on who is at the top of the organ recipient list, not the insurance companies. Organ recipients are required to adopt lifestyle changes and get vaccinations to ensure the lowest risk/highest success rates to get to the front of the line for the next available, compatible organ. All that is completely independent of if they've paid their fair share in insurance premiums. Even with the best private insurance money can buy, you still won't get a healthy organ to swap for your dying one if you're not willing to put in the effort to allow for the best-possible outcome for that organ. That sourcing part of the procedure has nothing to do with private vs socialized medicine, as a quick search online seems to indicate most countries handle that portion similarly.",1
"Also, I assume that this happened somewhere other than the Atlantic provinces, because those dangerous miscreants will straight up walk/drive you to your next destination if you show even the slightest sign of confusion.","(And yes, am almost pathologically chatty and spent yesterday afternoon handing out balloons to a bunch of 4 and 5 year old boys - truly terrifying stuff, sorry).",0
"Iran funds Hamas and other terrorist organizations which regularly attack Israel from Palestine and Syria, as do many other surrounding Arab nations.",Well considering Iran provides Hamas and other militant groups weapons to attack Israel it makes them a legitimate target. Not to mention all their threats to wipe Israel off the planet.,1
Democrat voters want change. Republicans are perfectly happy with gridlock. Trying to be bipartisan hurt Democrats massively from 2008-today.,"It's so annoying seeing people still blame the Dems for Republican obstructionism. If 95% of the Dems support a thing and 95% of Republicans oppose it, people will blame the Dems for that 5% opposition and not the Republicans.",1
"It isn't the number of chambers, it is proportional representation rather than first-past-the-post. First-past-the-post enocourages two-party systems.","(Here in Norway we went from ""bicamberal"" (for two readings of laws, not when agreeing upon budget) to unicamberal in \checks notes\ 2009. ""Nobody"" noticed.).",0
"If Ukraine sets good defensive positions, fallback lines, and detailed plans don't think this russian offensive will manage a full breakthrough. The most important thing is anti tank weaponry. Javelins, NLAWs, Stugnas, RPGs, etc. Losing 15 tanks a days sums up 1800 tanks in 4 months. And it may well be a conservative number for a big offensive.","It's the expected outcome. Ukraine had time to lay down mines, and stock anti tank weapons in the region. I really hope russia fully commits to this offensive and gets utterly defeated so Ukraine can counterattack later with way weaker defenses.",0
"Not entirely true, you can bypass the speaker and bring a bill to a full house vote by discharge petition, 218 votes is needed and Republicans will be able to get some bills passed. Anything too extreme will be shot down which is why they’ll never vote for a Democratic speaker.","If I was a centrist republican, I'd try to get nine other republicans to vote present. It would make Jeffries win the speaker, and it would show the freedom caucus that they can't rule over the rest of the party. Then just let the freedom caucus realize that they overplayed their hand. Once they do, you can call a motion to vacate and put McCarthy in the speaker position.",1
"I support everyone's right to exhaust every legal avenue. If the Republican won by one vote, I'd support the Democrats' right to see if it can be legally overturned, too.","The point is, if there are legal avenues, it's everyone's right to explore them. The problem is not challenging the results of the election through established legal means, it's challenging the results of the election outside of those established legal avenues.",0
"And yes, please do tell who would be the big enemy that these three would have trouble flattening together. Entirety of Africa? Or south America? Or EU could stand a chance at all? Maybe if an independence day scenario happened we'd see that kind of cooperation between these nations.. but you're assuming way too much and crediting powers to a president that he simply doesn't possess. If nothing else cultural differences alone wouldn't allow for unity. The world requires these big nations to be at odds in order to maintain a balance and keep citizens fed. Big difference between diplomacy and intricacies involved in negotiations between nations for a more united (self interest focused) world and a full blown alliance and cooperation.","Obviously you're very anti Trump, which bothers me none. What bothers me is you thinking that Trump would miraculously unite these three and there would be ""Western allies"" without US.",0
Many of those who voted were tricked and lied to by stooges like Farage and Johnson. Now I imagine opinion in the UK is veering back towards returning to the EU.,"I still think the likelihood of the UK rejoining is very high, but I don't expect to see it happen for the next 25-35 years or so.",1
"Anyway, I wasn’t trying to argue about who is better or worse, my point is, if you wanted Saudi Arabia to act in a certain way that is beneficial to you, you need to not threaten the country for a start.","If the US didn’t want Saudi Arabia to alter its oil production, then the US shouldn’t have vowed to make Saudi Arabia an “international pariah”, removed the houthis from the terrorist list, and threatened to halt arms shipments.",0
"How exactly was this an ""easily predictable"" earthquake? Is the city like those in California, built on a fault line where its known to have quakes?",Building quality in a country that lies on several seismic fault lines has come into sharp focus in the aftermath of the quake.,1
"Yes. If you think that is anywhere close to stating it was ""entertainment"" programming and therefore irrelevant to free speech protections, it wasn't.",That's literally saying that their speech shouldn't be protected... unless.... they do the disclaimer thing.,0
"Also I think it's important to note that much of the material that is portrayed as ""bad info"" is not nearly as bad as it's made out to be, and in some cases actually reflects quite well on Twitter and the individuals who work there. The idea that the 'twitter files' is a scandal is in many cases contradicted by the actual substance of the information being leaked.","I agree with this statement, and I think the key point here is that nothing in the 'twitter files' shows any evidence of this type of activity whatsoever.",0
"Instead of humbly accepting the Ukrainian military's Cross of Merit, Chernyavsky handed it right back to the president.","As Trump would have just let Putin roll into Ukraine and take over, installing a puppet government as he intended to do, they really owe Biden their highest honor that Ukraine has. It is unlikely there would have been as strong of a coalition without US leadership/military/dollars involved to support. Biden has a lot of faults, but he did the right thing here and is instrumental in Ukraine being able to persevere over this horrible war.",1
Problem I have with these narratives is that there is very little evidence the money that the Democratic Party spent had any impact on elections. Money makes no difference in general elections and only a theoretical difference in primaries. There isn’t much evidence to show how large of an impact if any this spending has.,"As a country, our military budget is clearly leaps and bounds higher than any other. Our spending in healthcare and education has ballooned far beyond any realistic gains in either sector in recent decades. Our spending in housing continues to drive an all time high housing market. Our spending in entertainment has driven sporting events like Super Bowl prices to absolutely insane levels. While not as extreme as the previous examples, we also have one of the highest motor vehicle to person ratios in the world. Despite all of this crazy spending in every sector, we still have more money left over which is why some of it ends up spilling over into political spending.",0
"'Red herring': most crime guns are smuggled from the US, police believe. It'd help if the feds kept stats, but they won't. This is not a domestic gun problem: registered, or 3D printed.","3d printing is a terrible tool for making a gun. My 80 year old lathe is much better suited to the task. (Well atleast the barrel and a few other critical parts). Most any machine shop will have the tools and equipment to make guns. It won't really be a cheap as guns smuggled in from the US. But the point is it can be done and be totally under the radar. 3d printing a gun is really a bad joke. It can be done but it won't be anywhere as good as a properly machined gun. There are 3d printing processes that could possibly make a good gun, but they are very expensive processes. CNC machining is far cheaper.",1
"That is the objection that Sanders campaign manager makes to the changes in the Democrats primary which he, otherwise, applauds.","Its because the democrats in SC are fairly moderate, and would never vote for a candidate like Bernie. Its to help take steam out of the momentum of potential progressive candidates.",1
Yeah and then the parents see the rate increase and decide it's better to lie about having a teen driver. Then little Timmy wrecks the car on the way to the coal mine and everyone else's rates go up to compensate. Saying car insurance companies want more 15 year olds driving is like saying life insurers want more smokers.,The real sin is that insurance is so freaking high and is not based on your driving history or if you took driver's ed but that you're under 25.,1
"I ALSO said that there were cases of fascism masquerading as communism. Which is what you are describing. They lied about their beliefs and goals to gain the support of the people. Else wise, they'd have actually done the things they claimed to support rather than amassing power and subjugating the proletariat.","One of the biggest lies ever told is that Russia or China were ever Communist countries, it was always fascism masquerading as communism, or just outright fascism called communism by the west.",0
"It allowed volunteer recruits from other nations, similar to a foreign legion, because Putin tried to recruit Mongolians and North Koreans who lived near Siberia.","""Effectively, Putin has allowed both foreigners and Russians with residence permits in other countries to be drafted into the army."".",1
"That revealed to me a lot about Adams. Enough to put him into the ""racist asshole"" bucket alongside trump.",My recollection from 2016 is that Adams expressed admiration for trump's ability to manipulate people and at no time condemned trump for his racist statements.,0
"I think the answer is somewhat like this: the trend in leftward political identity for young women mostly comes from political issues connected to being a woman. There isn’t similarly a trend in rightward political identity for young men, mostly because the political issues men care about are not issues connected to being a man, even if such issues exist. And this fosters an increasing political divide which is happening simultaneously (and even perhaps causing in part) with a struggling dating/relationship scene amongst younger Americans.","When there’s increasing political and economic divide between young men and young women in America, they’re very possibly going to find even less in common with each other and have even less sex/committed relationships, which eventually does present serious issues for the global position of the United States and its ability to address problems at home.",0
Yes. A few Trans men donated their clits after getting bottom surgery thay they could use for research. Not all of the clit I'd visible from the outside.,>Peters obtained clitoral nerve tissue from seven adult transmasculine volunteers who underwent gender-affirming genital surgery.,0
"Moving the Jan 6. investigation to the Senate would be ideal, but for that we need to hold Warnock's seat in Georgia.","Senate committees require a majority vote to subpoena. Right now, due to how power is shared with the 50-50 split, committees need at least one Republican vote for that.",0
"And she's now the defacto-co-speaker, since Kevin McCarthy promised her -everything- to get her to vote for his speaker job wherein he will try to harness that angry useless clusterfuck on the GOP side.","I doubt it..she is the voice of her constituents…she has been consistently ignorant, racist, hypocritical, misinformed, disloyal, deceitful and dishonest…it’s like looking into a mirror for her constituents ..they love what they see. She was re-elected ….",1
"On other totally not related news his son, Laurent, in 2012 joined the Qatar sportswear company Burrda, owned by Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), as the chief executive, which Platini has always denied had anything to do with his vote, or represented a conflict of interest.","""BENSINGER: So a good example of this would be that Qatar's influence was seen in France with the French representative to FIFA, a former player named Michel Platini, one of the great all-time players who was very influential in FIFA. And it came out later that he was summoned to the Champs-Elysees, where then-France President Sarkozy said he wanted to meet him. This was only a few weeks before the critical vote, and Platini walked into a dining room to find the president of France and the emir of Qatar sitting there. And they were - had negotiated a deal not only for Qatar to buy airliners from Airbus, but also to buy Sarkozy's favorite soccer team and also to buy the rights to France's soccer league on television in France. So Qatar had basically injected a ton of money into France. And the president of France made it very clear to Platini where he should be voting."".",0
But that was before NATO helped Kosovo declare independence and got everyone worth asking to acknowledge it.,"And while all of NATO is in the UN and complies with 1244, Kosovo is not, and therefore it is up to Kosovo to decide what happens on their territory.",0
"Donald Trump was a bad person; a pathological liar, fraud, and ultimately a possible criminal. I’m glad that you agree the current administration is just like the previous administration. That’s the extremely obtuse and reductive point you were trying to make correct?",Also what are you implying? Like what’s your point? What pass did this person get? And for what reason? You complain that this reason is not being named but you don’t name it.,1
"Can someone explain to me exactly what ilhan Omar said that was antisemetic? Is she wrong saying that it’s all about the Benjamin’s? She specifically referred to aipac, which is ran by a bunch of right wing Christian zionists (which by the way, the reason for Christian zionists supporting Israel is highly antisemitic in of itself).","It is a common conservative talking point to conflate criticism of Israel with criticism of Judaism as a whole, because that way they can paint opponents of Israel as antisemitic.",1
"Have you looked up his political views? He's extremely right wing, and stopping migration is one of his goals. Sure he is an elected official rather than a pundit, but it doesn't really change the other commenter's point. He's as biased as a right wing pundit.","The problem is that neither party wants to totally destroy the restaurant and agricultural industries (among others) which depend on undocumented workers to do jobs Americans won't do under conditions Americans won't accept, that the Democrats don't want to make life even harder for the undocumented workers that would be impacted, and that the Republicans don't want to highlight how many huge Republican-donating big businesses they've been tacitly letting ignore the law while at the same time making it seem like all the blame deserves to be on the worker seeking the same kind of better life to which many of our ancestors had far easier access under far more open immigration regimes.",0
"(""In addition to these short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the KPA has at least 700 long-range artillery aimed at the Seoul metropolitan area and northern parts of South Korea"").","(""In addition to these short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the KPA has at least 700 long-range artillery aimed at the Seoul metropolitan area and northern parts of South Korea"").",0
"That simple-minded comment isn't a representation of what is really happening, and it wouldn't solve the issue, either.","""Food is your own concern, but we're going to impound and destroy every automobile and gas-powered device so you don't get any ideas. Also, say goodbye to electricity, and water may be spotty. Don't complain or we will execute you. If we catch anyone burning wood, the whole household's going in the ground."".",0
"Hydrogen should be the last resort to store energy, when any other system of storing energy can't receive more. In that case is better to store in hydrogen (even with it's huge inefficiency) than simply waste it.","Unless you use it to store excess energy you can't currently store in any other way, it's very wasteful.",0
"And being an expert on Russia and being the ambassador, they tend to accumulate many information sources inside the country.",The person that gets posted to a US ambassadorship in an important country like Russia is rarely a political appointee like they are for less strategic countries. They are usually experts on the country long before they’re even considered for the role.,0
"Like there are ways he could have made that seem kinda personable - something like ""it might not sound so amazing to me, because I always love meeting my supporters anyway..."" but no we just get ""it's what we have."".","I dunno man - the Four Seasons Landscaping press conference has always been my favorite moment in the Trump Cinematic Universe, but I gotta say the writers are really hitting their stride again this season. This shit is positively gut-busting.",0
"This generally doesn't happen if he takes strong red stances like DeSantis or Abbott. I think there was a Republican governor of Massachusetts. Indeed, the new governor of Maryland is a Democrat, one again.",He’s a Republican governor and I believe Maryland is blue state. I can’t say that he was a critic in the beginning but he was an early critic.,1
"Marriage isn’t anywhere in the federal constitution, except in that by its absence the legality and regulation of marriage(s) can be inferred to be a power devolved to the states via the 10th Amendment.","Also the hope that codifying Equal Marriage dispels any threat against it abjectly fails to recognize that the law, once codified, can be struck down by the Court if it’s deemed to not be a Power granted the Legislature in the first place.",0
"Fukushima killed like 600 people and it took ""the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in japan"" plus a tsunami, to cause the reactor to fail. That earthquake alone killed 20.000 people.",There was a once in 200 year major earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people. How many people died from the nuclear disaster compared to those who died from dam disasters caused by the earthquake? Should we decommission all the dams in Japan as they are objectively more dangerous?,1
"They show public support because it avoids drawing attention, bad things happen to people who don't support the regime. There are Russian civilians resisting via sabotage, those people don't want to draw any undue attention and probably ""support"" Putin to stay under the radar.","I agree that the problem is larger than just Putin, but I also think that it's unreasonable to ask people to go out and protest so long as the security forces are loyal to Putin. Things have to get worse before they can get better, the systems they built to specifically counter the standard western methods of changing government policy need to atrophy before those standard methods would accomplish anything.",1
Only applies to people who held public office and took an oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States and then broke it by insurrection.,In order for disqualification to occur you have to have previously taken an oath to uphold the constitution as a.,1
No we are not. You may not have noticed but we have a ton of covid already which is why it won't make much difference especially since the tests are not reliable.,Yes I was boasting about not ever getting covid in early December Tested positive the same day. Lol. Our rates say half the population but it is definitely under reported. I will keep my fingers crossed for you. If you do get it hopefully it will be mild. It was for us but we are very vaccinated.,0
No. What I'm saying is that the people arguing to make it illegal are doing that on the basis of their religion.,"Because most people are religious, or at least see themselves that way, and attacking religion like that would just serve to rally conservatives. Also the constitution says the government can’t establish an official religion or favor one over another, but it doesn’t say one can’t try to pass laws based on their religious beliefs. Maybe it should, but it doesn’t. People can try to pass laws based on their personal morality, whether that morality comes from religion or not.",1
"limiting as wearing football boots from the 1940s( which were little more than heavy , mining boots).",Given The direction of travel with sleekform fitting athletic wear during the 20th century. I actually expected football players to adopt spandex or Lycra like athletes in the late 80s had started to wear.,0
"If US joins some war, I have no problem with that. If US initiates any new war, I am fully for same sanctions as Russia has, or worse.","If Europe upped its military spending it would absolutely roflstomp Russia. Nazi Germany alone almost did it -- add France, the UK, Poland, etc. and it isn't even close.",1
"Nevertheless, we are providing weapons, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, but how dare we not give absolutely everything that's asked of us.","It was never part of Greece, Greece is pretty far away from Croatia, unless you mean Roman Empire when it was based in Constantinople, and back then half of Europe was theirs.",0
"This really only looks at very modern history, which erases a lot of nuance. Russia, in all its forms has been about colonizing mass areas of land and centralizing them into the leadership of whatever version of Russia exists at the time. It’s literally a transcontinental country and once known as an empire! For example (admittedly specific), my own personal experience w pre-WWI Russian expansion relates to my Jewish family who fled the relative safety for Jews of the Polish-Lithuanian empire when Russians invaded. Russians (often via enlisted Cossacks) relentlessly began killing Jewish people (including my great-great uncle) in front of their families (including my great grandfather) in an effort to eliminate anyone who might disturb Russian efforts to Russian-ize the world. I really think it’s inconsistent with history to present Russia and its massive size as anything other than a conqueror. It just happened long enough ago and far enough away (for most western ppl) that it’s been co-opted by the western view of Russia as a bastion of communism (lol), which has had the effect of erasing its true imperialist existence.","While I think Russia’s self-maintained image as a bulwark against western colonialism is laughable at best (it wasn’t for lack of trying and Russia also swallowed the entirety of Eastern Europe and many Asian nations around it), I wish these countries understood what a pathetic bet Russia is. Economically, its partners tend to do very poorly (Cuba, Venezuela, SA, Syria, etc) and don’t seem to benefit much from the relationship, and militarily we’ve seen that Russia is at best a third rate regional power that got lucky by having nukes. Basically Russia is little more than a European Pakistan. And, if after Ukraine, you think Russia’s military is going to intimidate the West…well, I don’t really know what to tell you. At least China I can understand from an economic perspective, but Russia could barely compete with individual U.S. states, much less superpowers. If you want your foreign policy to solely be about being anti-westernism at the expense of technology, growth and wealth, I guess knock yourself out with Russia.",1
"Russia would then be on the verge of a nuclear civil war or civilized break up. In any case, war criminals would be dealt with. And a lesson to wannabe Hitlers of the future.","These fascists are just clowns playing their roles. What is sadder is the Russian audience who believes this circus to be reality,approves and applauds it. Because if the Russian public didn't approve this sort of circus there would be no audience and hence this sort of propaganda would be ineffectiveness.",0
"Well, I'm against many firearms regulations too, but you know how I fight them? By not proving that they were probably right about it.","Eh, first of all, you can't possibly think that everyone who votes Republican is just a clone that all believe the exact same things do you? This goes for Democrats as well.",0
"And would you look at that, DeSantis just recently says he wants to institute the death penalty for all child sex crimes, which doesn’t sound so bad until you remember what they’ve turned “child sex crimes” into a dogwhistle for.","We shouldn’t stoop to political violence, but we should be ready for the fact that they will. They already have. Mass shootings and a goddamn attempted coup have already taken place. Get your community armed and ready to come to each other’s defense, to shelter the most vulnerable, to funnel them to safer places if need be.",0
Because this shit is hard. I had to go to school for nine years to become good at what I'm good at. Very few people will do that and then become journalists themselves.,"So many podcasters and journalists I used to respect have fallen into giving everyone a voice. Well, spoiler alert, not every idiot deserves an audience or respect, apart from the standard minimum human decency. They don’t get a voice simply because they are yelling loudly. Giving equal time to horrible and damaging ideas is contributing to their proliferation. It’s almost like no one can just hear some horrible idea and shrug, say “That’s stupid.” and move on.",1
"Oh holy shit, I remember my dad talking to a friend of his about how they're surprised that the liberals haven't tried to change Black Friday into African-American Friday and it's like what kind of brain rot is that.","I follow Fox News a little bit to see what they are saying, and the week of Thanksgiving Jesse Watters basically opened up his segment saying liberals ruined Black Friday. I don’t remember what his bs reasonings were, but he was complaining about how it’s not “the good old days” anymore. And so your dad may have seen that show at least.",1
"""In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin […]"".","It seems like they can't kill a person who's destined for heaven and all virgin women are destined for heaven despite their ""crimes"" so they go through the process outlined above.",1
"No dude, that's BusinessInsider. Somebody is paying them to write articles against Meta, and then they're botting to submit it to reddit (where it influences public opinion).",Reddit has a comment section where people can at least call out bullshit (except for flair-restricted rightwing subs).,1
Because I don't think the drones they are using can actually even connect to a heavily encrypted military satellite. Imagine the security nightmare trying to figure out who is who trying to access the space lazers.,"Or maybe he could....I dunno, ask? Honestly if he has launched the entire Starlink system into space, I'm sure he has a phone number he can call to either have consent or confirm an actual violation. He could have it cleared up in a day tops, but he didn't because that's not why he made the choice.",0
It's too bad the details and true comparison of how Biden handled this versus how Trump handled his case will be lost to the fanfare of the title of this story.,"Thought this article was interesting to see how Biden handles classified documents versus Trump. Not trying to blame or take sides, just an interesting comparison of situations.",1
"Second, a democratic, non-aligned India Could offer a model to Russia. The Russia- China alliance should not Last beyond the personal.","Finally, economic cooperation with India and with the central Asian countries Could support the Russian economy in the future and give Russia Access to warm Water ports at the Indisn ocean.",0
"Those are a risk, but I do think the original commenter’s point has some merit if you consider the value of modern optics systems vs the old ones used on most Russian tanks. In that scenario, it really is a 10 to 1 increase in value.","From what I’ve heard, target acquisition and optics are by far the single most important difference between truly modern tanks and everything else, when it comes to battlefield performance.",0
"It’s immaterial to you if the facts prove me right because you’re simply unwilling to accept them, regardless.","The sky is red by the way, if you say otherwise you're unwilling to accept ""the facts"", after all my word is enough to claim something as fact, as you have.",1
"They don't though, and just because you and a few other people say so in bad faith doesn't make it so.","it's not an EO, it's using executive authority as granted by the HEROES act that allows the Secretary of Education to waive debt during wars or national emregencies (like global pandemics).",0
"You're fucking up ties with both Russia and the West by trading with Russia, but continue saying it's an ""Indian need"" to do so.",You make it sound like the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the only thing saving India's economy from imminent collapse.,0
"After he was elected in 2016, I remember talking to my dad about how this will all end with him representing himself at his criminal trials, after his presidency.","I predict he'll unambiguously call for violence the day before he gets arrested, and the fallout will be so disgusting to everyone in the country that he'll have trouble finding lawyers. Or, he'll refuse to hire anyone permanently as one-by-one they explain how fucked he is because he's admitted to all his crimes and intentions in public.",0
And who's going to fly the jets? Doesn't training to become a fighter pilot take years? In all honesty the west should've started arming and training Ukrainians when Putin invaded Crimea. Now the west is playing catch up and it could be to late for Ukraine. Russia has a population of 140 million while Ukraine has a population of 40 million. The west is dragging it's feet with supplying Ukraine with all the weapons and training it needs to win. If the west acted swiftly in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea then things might have been different. I hope Ukraine wins but we all know Russia will just keep throwing their citizens into the meat grinder that is Ukraine and Ukraine is running low on ammo.,I really don't agree with tanks and worst fighter jets they are not a good idea what the ukrainians gonna do take crimea and bomb moscow. This is escalating a regional war to something. Why not force the ukrianians to come down and give up crimea and guarantee water with a price and sort the situation with the donbass.,1
"Amnesty are in no way, shape or form non-aligned in this conflict. They're explicitly pro-Palestinian.","No, it's not. This is part of a larger wave of attacks going on for a while now, and none of the attackers or the organizations sending them even mentioned the journalist. Just your usual ""defend Al Aqsa from the Jews"" and ""From the river to the sea"" business.",0
"Just yesterday it was looking like Michigan. I could get behind Nevada, with my hesitation being how concentrated the voters are for Democrats in that state. Other than the payoff to Clyburn, I'm not sure I understand South Carolina as a good choice.","South Carolina doesn't feel like a strictly worse choice than Iowa, at least, but either Michigan or Nevada would have been much superior choices. Both states are still diverse and both states represent the kinds of environments the Democratic party is becoming, and needs to continue to be, competitive in.",1
"Closing voting locations and consolidating into just a handful to increase the amount of time needed to vote. This also increases the amount of effort it takes since you can't just swing down to your local center/church/whatever and cast a ballot. Kentucky likes to do this shit for cities, but allow tons of centers in rural areas.","Strategically place prisons to diminish the voting power of youth/urban voters (they tend to go hand-in-hand since rural America is dying). Prisoners are counted for the purposes of district drawing and gerrymandering. Doesn't help much in state-wide races though, but does demoralize people when they see ""oh we made 55% of the vote... and got 30% of the seats"" like in Wisconsin.",0
"Anyone that thinks Disney will just up and leave their 27,000 acres of land, on which sits 32 resorts and hotels and 4 whole theme parks which generate them $20 million per day, has obviously never been to Disney World in their lives.","I'm not saying close Disney World in Florida, but expand and give families more options and it could give Disney options if shit like this continues.",1
"EVEN if they got Ukraine eventually, how would they invade any other country? With what? They're pouring everything they have just into Ukraine. How can Russia's economy ever recover if they maintain being warmongers? Their own population will be sinking thanks to this war.","You have to open your eyes. There are tons and tons of bullies and racists in real life. They don't want the Mitt Romneys of politics. They want the Trumps and MTGs. People who say what they want to hear. Trump won in 2016 for a reason. Despite the racism and misogyny he displayed during his campaign. Yeah, the GOP need gerrymandering and the electoral college to keep winning but they still need some people voting for them. And as it stands, AT LEAST a third of America is all for the hate and selfishness the GOP are leaning on.",0
"Before anyone doesn't read the article: police and prison officers are already not able to strike because, let's face it, it would be an absolute disaster having no law enforcement for x days. There were 3 options suggested: one of which was to add border force to the policing / prison services group and have them not able to strike, or set minimal service levels for them. Minimal service levels was chosen and is what was put in place this week for all the sectors: ensuring minimal service and safety levels are adhered to through stikes.","It's predicted to be some very strange results. In Scotland, Labour are predicted to get back some seats: older snp voters being more against the gender recognition act are switching to labour, while people who voted tory are supposed to be moving to snp. So tory loses seats, snp stays even, Labour gains (I think it's estimated 6 seats).",0
"I get it but it's the way the Chinese talk, they always want to please everyone (at the risk of pleasing no one at the end). While it has clearly chosen Russia side China is very tepid in its support, it wants the upper hand and while Ukraine territory should be held intact, I feel that its fate will sadly be decided by major powers at the negotiation table.","The choice isn't between 'giving Ukraine 100%' and whatever it is China is doing, it is a sliding scale of support that some countries are providing more to those that are completely ignoring the situation, to those that are actively assisting Russia in it's invasion.",1
"The GOP is playing “the extortion game” just like they did in 2011… they suddenly want to balance the budget by cutting Medicaid, Medicare and everything except defense while drawing a red line at revenue (tax increases) in any negotiations.","Just like Nixon's ""secret plan to end the war"", which of course, was not a secret plan to end the war, Republicans always talk about how they want to reduce the national debt, then when they get control of the congress/white house they run up the dent even more because they have no intentions or plans to reduce the national debt just change the spending to the things they want to spend on...... That is the Republican's plan.",1
"Trump was clearly intentionally taking papers on purpose, while Biden (or one of the varied people working with him across his eight years as VP, which is when these documents are from) misplaced papers incidentally.","Then Trump did anything and everything in his power to keep all the documents and even demand their return after they were seized, while Biden immediately had the people who found the misplaced papers get in contact with the appropriate authorities, cooperated fully, and began the immediate search for any further misplaced documents to ensure all were returned.",0
"Just so everyone's aware, a peace agreement was signed a few weeks ago, which includes the total and permanent cessation of hostilities. We of course can't predict the future, but so far it seems like this one will stick. Citizens in Ethiopia are very hopeful this time!",What’s happening in Ethiopia? The best most of us can do is some “well this is probably because colonial practices somehow” but otherwise it’s lost in the sordid generational conflict that has defined many places in Africa. The coups and clashes so numerous that Westerns have lost the thread entirely.,1
The first Homo Sapiens of England like “Cheddar Man” had Black hair & skin yet Blue eyes which is awesome.,"Christianity and Islam (Mohammed’s Caliphate was based on conquest & death and forced conversion). Both religions were complicit in mass genocide & enslavement. Farmers usually committed genocide or enslaved hunter-gatherers post-Holocene, like the Bantu peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa for example. The Roman Empire regularly practiced genocide.",0
Kadyrov won't do it because Russian backing is the thing keeping him in power. Plenty of Chechens who'd love to rip their country out of the Kadyrovite's hands.,Kadyrov is putin's puppet in chechnya and he used the ukraine war as a showroom of military power against any chechens who wish to declear independence from russia.,1
"And I know the summary says that it forces states to honor out of state marriages, but I would be surprised if there's not language that specifically protects against state level bans like this - state level bans on abortion were a big part of why there was a push to pass RFMA to begin with.","H.R.8404 ""replaces provisions that do not require states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full faith and credit or any right or claim relating to out-of-state marriages on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin. (The Supreme Court held that state laws barring same-sex marriages were unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015; the Court held that state laws barring interracial marriages were unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia in 1967.) The act allows the Department of Justice to bring a civil action and establishes a private right of action for violations."".",0
"I am pretty sure these are just the Ukrainian MOD numbers. They are probably a bit inflated considering the source, but they also don't really define what ""losses"" means in terms of troops. Is that dead, or dead and wounded? Similarly, counts will vary wildly depending whether you count Wagner and DPR/LPR soldiers.","I mean Russian numbers are just a joke. It's not even in the realm of reality. But if the UA MOD number of 140k is dead, I'd say that's probably a bit high tbh. I do agree I think US/UK numbers seem the most reasonable.",0
"The fact that the president elect is pro-west, pro-EU, pro-NATO is notable and should not be taken for granted.","It's not automatic. There are still people who think Czechia (and other countries) should orient themselves to the east instead, to Russia and China. The still current Czech president was like that at times.",0
"Nope, sorry, not a physics expert, but electrons go at the speed of light. (Around the nucleus of the atom.) I'm pretty sure about that. It is the speed of the actual atoms that matters.","What we call ""temperature"" is nothing more than the speed of atoms. This sounds like a made up number, because it does not mean that you could even use it to cook an egg. What is does mean is that those atoms will be going very fast for a very short amount of time. In that time, they may achieve fusion.",0
"he make his choice to fight for his country with his people as sacrifice so he can say ""Ukraine still fighting"" and also take massive debt from all the weaponry that ensure none of the future Ukrainian children have any future but work to pay that debt.","That's one scenario but it's not happening right now. The smart move is to just say Ukraine now belong to US/Germany which make them NATO region right away. But no, his ego is too high for Ukraine and he want to keep fighting sacrificing millions of his people and future.",0
"Then, when the issue is voluntary drag shows that nobody is forced to attend, those same conservatives suddenly insist that parents shouldn't even have the right to bring their kids.","The people fighting tooth and nail against drag shows and LGBTQ representation in schools are terrified of their kids being comfortable with queer people. They're terrified of their kids spending time around gay, nonbinary, or transgender people and realizing that they're perfectly decent human beings whose sexuality and gender identity don't pose a threat to anybody. In short, they're terrified of their kids realizing that the bigoted stuff they've been taught at home about queer people is all a lie. THAT'S what this is about. Not parents' rights, not grooming - it's about homophobic parents being TERRIFIED that their kids are going to grow up to be more accepting than they are.",0
"And he wouldn’t be Donald Trump if he wasn’t chasing small money when there’s much easier, huge money to be made.","How much money could that scheme possible even generate for Trump? A million dollars? Ten million? I can’t imagine more than that. How humiliating for a supposed billionaire to debase himself for such small change. And just wait until the headline next year: “Remember those $99 Trump trading cards? They’re now trading for $3.50”. So a very public and unavoidable round of mockery for someone who hates being mocked, especially when it comes to money.",1
"Very deliberate, just like how CIA invested millions of dollars in Wahabhist indoctrination, Evangelical missionaries were funded by CIA and the state department, at some point the interests aligned but then as the US veered more and more left, evangelicals took a more anti American stance. The last hurrah was in Russia, when CIA sent in an army of right wing activists and missionaries to resurrect religiosity in post Soviet Russia, it backfired spectacularly as Russians and specially the FSB (and Putin) realized those who came to indoctrinate them really didn’t like Washinon D.C at all, hence FSB and Putin cultivated them and today we have a very significant number of Americans who believe Putin, Russia and authoritarianism is the solution to all the societal problems they encounter.","Not just Wahabhism but born again evangelism was spread first in Latin America to fight liberation theology amongst Catholics but both Wahabhism and born again evangelism have turned nihilist and want to see America dead, blow back is a bitch.",0
I do wish we could’ve gotten rid of the filibuster for voting rights & tbh rebalancing the Supreme Court because of stolen seats. But we needed to win more seats in order to pull that off.,"The following cycle, in 2020, Swearengin got the nomination. She lost 70-27. The Republican incumbent beat her by 43 points.",0
"Also another reason for escalating sanctions as opposed to dropped every sanction known to man at once is to keep some leverage. If you sanction the shit out of Russia with everything all at once, well there is not reason for Russia to listen to you at all since you threw everything at it. But if you do it over time, it leaves you with negotiating power. Even if Putin does not care, many oligarchs may get increasingly nervous with increasing sanctions that hurt them more and more, and that will cause instability.","Regardless, as opposed to China, Russia did weaponize our dependency in order to try and manipulate our politics which made them the bigger threat. I as a european, want absolutely nothing from them anymore, regardless of the price. The fact that they invested huge amounts of money to buy off some of our politicians, have an imperial agenda and have no issues with genociding people as close to them culturally as possible, makes them a way bigger threat than China could ever be right now.",1
"So let me get this straight, someone in Ukraine genuinely believes that outlawing music written by a man who died over 100 years ago and was descended from a Ukrainian will help the war?",And it also said in the article that Tchaikovsky is of Ukrainian heritage so why didn't the culture minister just spin it that way?,1
"Even if the West agrees by some miracle, What reason would India have to negotiate these talks? An End to the War would be amazing for India but mediating it would not. Assume these peace talks fail and Russia breaks some ceasfire, The blame would be equally put on India for both being the nation who hosted the talks and for being unable to mediate. And if we are being real here, There is a high probability such a scenario will occur. It's a high risk High reward scenario, But the Risk is worse than the reward. And you bet failed negotiation will hurt more than succeful negotiation will help.","I don't understand you Western leftists, Don't you see that just because a guy is right wing doesn't mean he is like Trump?",0
It is disheartening that such a large portion of America is that stupid where treasonous republicans win at any level.,"What's really fucking stupid is that Republican leadership knows that Hunter Biden's massive hog is only a cock of interest to Republicans. The rest of America doesn't give a shit about Hunter's big swinging D and just wants Congress to get shit done. So even though nonsense investigations over Hunter's huge wang are likely to hurt Republicans in swing districts and make the GOP less competitive in the 2024 presidential election, they're still 100% committed to using a congressional committee to sweat hard over Hunter's kong dong because if they don't, they'll be ousted in their next primaries by challengers in their districts who will.",1
"Friendly reminder that he directly admitted to his supporters that he never wanted to do that, literally immediately after winning in 2016. It was like two weeks later, he hadn't even been inaugurated yet, and a crowd started chanting 'lock her up' at him. He stopped them and said, no no no, we don't want that. That plays well before the election, but we're not actually gonna do that.","This is exactly why Republicans vote for him. They have a tendency to wildly oversimplify every problem in the universe. There is nothing that can't be solved with a one-sentence soundbyte. Like ""take care of business"" or ""get the job done"". They think Democrats are so stupid, that they just simply never thought of trying to reduce inflation or end wars or cure COVID by looking the problem in the eye, shaking its hand, and asking to speak to its manager.",0
"But men being what they are, there will always be one finding a weak moment. There have been a couple of those in recent months, regarding trivial amounts, and taken care of. That's a normal process in every administration.","They're in a fight for the survival of their state, themselves as individuals and their families. Every incidence of corruption is a threat to that survival and treated as such. You can see it in the results.",0
"Ikr. It’s pretty common in Europe that people get killed for burning the bible. Oh wait, I just realized we are in the 21th century and not in the fucking middle ages during reformation.","It’s completely obvious to anyone with half a brain that the leadership of most muslim countries ignore religion when convenient to them. One must live in a fantasy world to think that Turkey would have otherwise approved Sweden joining NATO, but unfortunately a Russian paid agent messed everything up.",0
"Please tell me what kind of support did India provided to Ukraine against the terrorist state Russia? They are a space, military, IT, nuclear, everything superpower, why don't they support Ukraine more?","Why don’t they support Ukraine more? Because Russia has been a long time ally, so India even sending medical supplies and humanitarian aid to Ukraine is good to see. But definitely could be better, yes.",1
"The potential financial harm caused to for profit prisons is the angle that came to mind for me. Not a great moral argument, but people engaged in slavery likely aren’t the most moralistic of people lol. But I looked it up and it turns out California banned for profit prisons a couple years back so it’s a non starter anyway.",I was going to ask if the owner of private prisons could make a challenge but it seems like California banned private prisons in 2019. Thanks for the answer.,0
"This is a warning/reminder for Americans who are tourists, curious thrill-seekers, vloggers, etc who probably shouldn't be in Russia and may expect consular services in case shit goes down.","I wasn't going to Russia anytime soon regardless, so I'm not particularly worried about it; but I would be worried about visiting Russia right now. Tourists getting drafted may have an infinitesimally small chance of happening, but if it did, I think the tourist would be fucked.",1
"If so, have people turn on Erdogan? He's been shepherding Turkey for 20 years, IMO he should be responsible for all the new buildings collapsing, but what do Turks think?","Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who to a 1999 disaster, is seeking to extend his more than 20 years in power in . He has in 10 affected areas, which would last until national elections, which are expected in May and could cement his position as Turkey’s most powerful ruler in nearly a century.",1
"If it wasn't, would you really want the wealthiest congresspeople who don't need nor care about their salary to be able to bully the lower-income ones that rely on their salary to make rent?","If Republicans are so concerned about the debt, maybe pass laws to increase the revenue on the rich and stop stealing from the poor.",1
"China requires the same thing from all foreigners, but when countries demand this of China, the Chinese government accuses them of being racist. Do the Chinese government not understand the meaning of hypocrisy?","You need to understand the way chinese nationalists think. They see themselves as a superior race and are taught from young age that the rest of the world is full of primitive sub-humans that ""pretend"" that they are worth anything.",1
If you don't believe me just go to Holland. All the affirming churches are dying a slow and inglorious death. Go to the states - all the mainline denominations that have liberalized are shrinking at a spectacular rate.,That's funny because in the US it's the hardcore evangelical denominations shedding members faster than ever to mainline groups.,1
"As an American, I am generally quite happy to see our reliable allies stepping up their military readiness. I think many of those allies were content to rely on the certainty of American intervention if they were attacked, which isn't a good strategy in my eyes. Not because I doubt America would make good on treaty obligations, but because America can't be everywhere at once.","I keep hoping that they will eventually realize what year it is, and that such hasn't been true for ages now.",0
"It's a lot easier with German tanks, but Poland has Abrams and mechanics that are probably VERY good at their jobs and will almost certainly be earning their pay training Ukrainian techs.",The US should be outfitting Poland with everything we can since they're probably going to be Russia's next target if Ukraine falls.,0
Because the evidence wouldn’t be gone. An advance civilization like that would leave so many traces on the surrounding environment that it is just not possible for them all to be gone.,"But old civilisations as advanced as the Greeks or Mayans disappear without a single buried tool, cave painting depicting buildings or rock carving?",1
"Prosecutors said they suspected a Gulf state had been influencing economic and political decisions of the parliament for several months, especially by targeting aides.","Former MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, who now runs human rights group Fight Impunity, is also among the four, sources say. His wife and daughter were also reportedly arrested. Mr Giorgi had formerly worked for him as a parliamentary assistant.",0
"I absolutely understand Ukrainians calling it a genocide, there's definitely elements of those policies that made it harsher in Ukraine, but to make it ethnically based it's a bit more controversial.","On Nato multiple times yes, the classic totally ignorant & bullshit arguments of ""Stop prolonging the war & victims by providing weapons to Ukraine"" & it's ""Nato provocation that pushed russia to attack"".",1
"Wow. Nope.Not my intent at all. If I may, your.comment is a little wrapped up in itself. This is how I'd like to unwrap it.","When said politician is shown to be demonstrably hypocritical, people giggle because said politician was doing something they said they were against.",0
Totally agree. First because the further you go up the chain of authority the more influence if not direct control that they've had over what the rules are. Secondly because they end up holding power over the people in charge of enforcing laws.,"Exactly. Clearly classification is not being treated as seriously as it should be by ANYONE. There's another issue about intent and lying and such, but it is another issue different from mishandling classified materials.",0
"Use some footage of scale models getting blown up, and tell Putin he has to stay in the bunker because shit's crazy up top, but going really well and everyone thinks he's the best.","The problem for Putin is that even if he knows that a lot of the info is bullshit, he also knows that the bullshit is the only info he has to work with. There's no second source of information that he can use. So the best he can do is take the info he has and do some guesswork as to what the original message was before it got warped by bullshit telephone as it worked its way up the chain of command.",1
"Edit: it's actually almost amusing that automod flagged my message for hate speech because one of my words was ""too close"" to something that ""may"" be hate speech (using another word for ""not smart person""). This is why people like the Republicans will win, we're arguing about how close something may be to hate speech and which words you are allowed to use to say ""not smart"" and they're literally plotting insurrection.","Also explains why a lot of truck drivers are nuts. They used to exist solely on AM and CB Radios. This was one of the early echo chambers. The truckers would listen to AM radio a lot due to its huge range (less constantly switching/finding stations or listening to static). They would all talk to each other on CBs, reinforcing each other's BS (""did you hear what St Rush said yesterday???""). My dad was a trucker in the 80s-90s. He was huge into Rush. He died in 09 in an accident. I am often grateful I didn't have to watch his fall from ""Rush is cool"" to ""MAGA-lardo."".",0
"I find this very fascinating. Im from the Baltics, and as you may have heard ''we allegedly hate Russians here''.","On the other hand there are the rest of Russians and Belorussians and ‘stans etc folks who have hated commies and Putin for a loooong time, with some folks in between. It’s hard to put exact percentages on this. But I’d say it’s 30/30/40 where 30 are for, 30 unsure and 40 against. When everyone is quiet, it looks like a majority supports it with 60% all singing propaganda out loud and rest quiet but it can flip in a flick of a dime once the 30% “unsure” swing their opinion.",1
"That's what I'm wondering, too. As of last night, the Ukrainian MOD was claiming that there were still somewhere around 10k Russian troops on the west bank of the river.","Crossing the river will require alot of Ukrainian forces to even attempt such a move, and then they run into the same supply issues as the Russians faced.",1
"Ukraine wants them to say it’s Russia to get more supplies, nato doesn’t want Poland to say it’s territorial integrity was threatened, Russia is fucked either way.","Ukraine does have potentially much more to gain by it being a Russian missile, or at the very least perceived as a Russian missile- even though it is already perceived to be Russia's fault regardless. For one, it could have galvanized the west into further supplying Ukraine with better weapons and defense systems... which they still very well can and likely will do any way.",1
"Knowing my country arms history - we will probably come up with some sort of upgraded South Korean tank in future, like we did with PT91 Twardy or like we did it with assault rifle Beryl, where we took old soviet concept and made it different/better/up to NATO standards.",We are getting SEPv3 variant. No idea if it's the one you're talking about. Would need to look up the details. As far as I know - it's the most modern version of M1A2 but I am not an expert.,0
I think it was a pretty successful negotiation for the US considering the Americans main leverage was threatening to start a 3rd war in the region after the US had already lost its 2 previous major wars in the region.,"It was a negotiation and both sides had to make concessions, but Iran wasn't going to be allowed to biuld a bomb under the agreement in any future year.",0
Doing an investigation assumes there is something hidden that we need to find. There is already a known business relationship and it’s not really about doing an investigation it’s more about understanding whether the intersection between a global market and geopolitical interests needs to be controlled.,If there is a problem with it make it illegal. Elon is just a scapegoat at the moment. Heaps more similar business relationships with China.,0
"I wonder if this will be a turning point in the Russian public's perception of Putin. He just looks so fucking weak right now. He's been telling the Russians that they're at war with NATO and has been hitting Kyiv with missiles off and on for months. So now the ""head of NATO"" comes within striking distance and he does nothing? Doesn't even try?","It was a brilliant stroke. Putin can only say that it is proof Ukraine is a vassal state of the US. That's the best he can come up with. But really that doesn't make him look that good. If Ukraine is under US control and that's why Russia can't take Ukraine, then he looks like he lost the war.",0
"And the media, when a non-moderate candidate does poorly in SC, will then say, “well clearly America doesn’t want their politics” with a straight face. Sadly we as an electorate don’t have the time to investigate that for ourselves and will agree.",Well congrats for Dems figuring out how to make sure nobody remotely progressive gets anywhere in a presidential primary.,0
"It wasn't a trust issue. Turkey had a choice between S400's and F35s and preferred the S400's. The US just doesn't want a country to be able to test out cutting edge Russian anti air against its cutting edge stealth fighters obviously. When Turkey purchased the S400s, they were removed from the F35 program and, as a compromise, talks to sell F16s were held instead.","Issue there is, the F-16 deal is for 40 brand new aircraft, and upgrades to 80 aircraft Turkey already has. Upgrades are drastically cheaper than new aircraft. Buying 120 Eurofighters from the UK is over twice the price, and that's not even including any weapons that were likely included in the F-16 deal.",1
"Well, she did say she would not caucus with the Republicans, so it seems unlikely she wouldn’t with the Dems because then she would lose her committee seats and power. Even without her, because King and Sanders both caucus with the Dems, it would still be 50-49.","Dems already have 2 independents that caucus with them for the purpose of committees, etc - Bernie Sanders and Angus King. As long as she doesn’t caucus with the Republicans, Dems still get majorities on committees. It was actually 50 R - 48 D last session.",0
Assualt Weapons designed specifically to kill humans causing as much damage as possible so more soldiers are taken off the field of battle (to treat their wounded) don't belong in the hands of Law Enforcement either.,"We have an ""intrinsic"" right to self-preservation, life and liberty, but anthrax syringes, nukes and fertilizer bombs arent very good at enforcing those rights, while firearms are. Its about the effectiveness of the tool at enforcing our rights as humans.",1
"Yes, Russia would just sit there and die. That makes sense. I think you’ve forgotten a small detail there. At the end of the day all other forms of warfare are irrelevant when compared to nukes.",It would be the end of whoever tried to destroy them as well. That’s why there is no “special spanking operation”. The destruction is mutually assured for a reason. The United States has exactly no advantage over Russia (assuming that Russia has time to get its mobile missile launchers running and subs out to sea during the escalation phase). Nuclear weapons are the only weapons that truly matter in an all out war and Russia has plenty.,0
"Honestly, I think most Americans are in favor of protecting reproductive freedom in at least the first trimester, and even after that in cases of rape, incest, or the health of the woman. Beyond that, let the states decide. (I know there are loud extremists on both sides who want either a total ban or no restrictions whatsoever.).","Since reproductive freedom was protected by voters in MT, KS, and KY, Republican senators from those states should vote in favor of federal legislation, but I know they won't. They're so out of touch with their own constituencies.",0
"County elections departments in Arizona post lists of what ballot batch is counted when. Looking at the one for Pima County, early ballots that arrived up to a week prior may still have taken until election day to get counted.",Florida starts their election 10+ days before election day AND they count their votes as they receive them (those votes are REQUIRED to be counted and tabulated prior to election day). Many of us just do early voting (not ballot drop off).,1
Rather than USA through actions and words treat China as an equal competitor USA is cheating to keep China from further improving their own country. Says China.,Tech57...But do tell me where your knowledge on China stems from. Not kidding you...just being curious is all as I don't necessarily disagree with all of your comments.,1
"Politicians are just weapons to some to be used against people they don't like. I honestly think they don't really consider the choice is going to effect them at all, but they know it will piss off people they don't like.","Luckily, the majority of people don't like that kind of fuckery, and are now voting against it. He exposed the political rot of the GOP and Conservatives, and we might now be seeing the first formations of the disgusting fungus that's rotting out the core of the country.",1
This. Top notch night vision gear for Ukraine is much more of a priority and advantage than a lot of people recognize. So is great winter gear and training so the Finns are offering a very important support to Ukraine that may not be as sexy to most people involved in reporting and media but experienced war correspondents will know.,"lmao I would definitely take that offer, the Finnish are really fucking proficient (and scary) soldiers, and they've been preparing for a Russian invasion since WW2.",1
"You are correct. He said that in the first half of his January 6th speech before his supporters March down to the Capitol at his direction. In that speech, he also said:","That said, one could also argue that requesting a mob of people to interfere with the proceedings of the legislative branch could also be considered the executive branch interfering with the legislative branch.",0
"Say what you will about North Korea, but history clearly shows that horrible things have been done to the Korean people regardless of which side of the 38th parallel one finds oneself.","Well… North Korea is plenty Bad, but that’s no reason to believe every story that comes out about them no matter how wacky or insane.",1
"There are numerous intentional structural reasons this just simply wouldn't work in the current USA. Aside from the objective fact that red states take more than they produce and would be in some very deep shit if they didn't have the blue states to bail them out, there's the military to consider, and the vast web of federal programs that make our daily lives possible. If red states split off, they would immediately turn into a poor third world country and lose 20 years of life expectancy.","If this looked like it was going to happen anyway despite that due to some collective insanity, I would immediately list my house for sale and get the hell out of here. (Texas).",0
"The only Republican to win a state wide office in Arizona, was the non GQP lady for State Treasurer. She didn’t jump through any of those delusional hoops just basically “I was good at my job.” And she won her race very handedly.","Locally speaking, the only TV station who would give her any amount of it time is her former employer and quite frankly her ingest critic. And they’re far more likely to never give her the time of day.",0
"But, balloons are cheap, move fairly slowly, which is great for grabbing lots of long continuous blocks of transmissions that make encryption cracking easier, and, while not all that guidable, can be used to map a large area, identifying unknown sources and collecting data that can be compiled into a cohesive map if you send a lot of them.","The type and activity of signals recieved alone can identify hidden military installations and military communication capabilities, identify important transmission towers that handle the most traffic, and remote equipment used for civilian communication, control of power grids, and other things that could be used to cripple a nation.",0
We have already had a special council. We have had two impeachments. We have had a Jan 6th committee. We have had a DoJ investigation. We have had several NY state investigations. We have a GA state investigation.,It's been years. Either put him in prison or tell us he is immune to all crimes. I'm fucking tired of this.,0
You don't mock his weight because he's fat. You mock his weight because medical professionals are willing to trash their own reputations to proclaim how healthy he is to stroke his vanity.,"Perhaps it would be better to directly call out those physicians (or, rather, the opinions they gave) than to simply mock trump for being overweight. That way, you can make your point—that he’s not healthy even if some sycophantic physician supposedly said he was—without indirectly mocking all overweight people.",1
"-Whatever your stance on Israel is, their neighbors have invaded them before. And Iran has stated many, many times that they'd wipe Israel and US off the map. Israel isn't giving up shit.",Israel don't give a fuck and will never give a fuck. The right to self-defense is essential and absolute.,1
"Ukraine says they won't negotiate in Putin, but if pigs fly and Putin one day just says ""fuck it, we'll rolling back to 1990s borders"", I'm fairly certain the Ukrainians will start to talk. Ultimately they care more about making themselves whole than replacing Putin, especially since there's no guarantee any Putin replacement won't be even worse.","There is some argument that if Putin is replaced during this, rather than just die and be replaced, its because of the war in some capacity, so his successor, evil or not, may want to cut this off and just go back to ruling Russia with an iron fist.",1
"Unless I've missed something, I don't think McCarthy has indicated Santos won't be on committees, so he'll get his time, make a spectacle and the media will cover it, because that's what they do.",There is no recall process for Congress. He'll either have to resign under pressure or be expelled or his district will have to vote him out next election cycle.,0
Russia was still behind the S-300 missile that hit Poland. It was fired at Russian missiles that were targeting civilian infrastructure in a country that they are actively invading and committing genocide in. If Russia doesn’t try to kill Ukrainian civilians then that missile never lands in Poland.,Yeah but there was also little advantage to invading Ukraine. Just because we don't see any advantage it doesn't mean someone hasn't blown enough smoke up their superiors arse to make it sounds like a good idea.,1
"As for the education system training pupils to be good critical thinkers and voters, as well as for the high quality news industry, I think those are a consequence of how shared and fragmented political and economic powers are.","I totally see your point. But, that being said, that option was a possibility. Just like gambling your family house puts you at risk of losing it, even though your strongly believe you would never lose on a poker game. But it can still happen, and you still need to take all preventive measures to make sure you get the outcome you want. In the Case of David C., there are so many things he could have done. For example, start with a very low risk, low stake, informative referendum (e.g. should the UK government start negotiations with EU and other countries in the world, to prepare a post-brexit era?). If the Brits vote yes, it still isn't a brexit, just preparations and negotiations that could take years or even decades to finally end up with a package of treaties and deals ready to be signed and ratified by London. Then again, David C. could have asked a second referendum, e.g. how do you like those new deals, and EU conditions? If yes, then, and only then he gets to start the Brexit process.",0
"It is reasonable for it to be interpreted as ""The right to keep and bear arms as part of a well regulated militia, which is necessary for a free state, shall not be infringed."".",That is my point. Op said they aren't protected right for kid which on a purely factual basis isn't the case at this time. This law could over turn the laws we do have in place.,1
"Good. But the NYT articles today have been absolute trash today repeating how this is Ukraine ""escalating"" the war. No dickheads, this is self defense hitting the military site that has repeatedly attacked Ukraine in an unprovoked war. What is Ukraine supposed to just let itself get attacked again and again without response?","I had read, that the reason Ukraine hadn't attacked back, is because it would lose them support / favour of other nations (Nato / UN).",1
Entirely true. The Democratic party needs new leadership. Rural America doesn't even know they exist except at the national level because they don't exist out here. The ones that do run are left to fund their own campaigns with little attention given to them from the national party. Meanwhile republicans support every election little chance or not.,"Except they shouldn't have 'easily won' them, the Republicans don't stand for anything positive for their voters and should have lost much worse than they did.",1
48% of Georgians are conservatives and will vote against a Democratic senate majority every time. Even if that means they're putting an incompetent lunatic into office. He could be relied upon to vote in lockstep with the GOP. That's all they cared about. It's why nothing broke through. You could have video footage of him throwing puppies off a cliff and they would have still voted for him. At no point was a Georgia Republican voter going to vote for a Democrat.,"If a seat that was democrat goes Republican, it’s a stretch to say only republicans voted for the person. Even if it isn’t the case in this particular seat, there were democrats in New York at least saying they voted Republican out of protest.",1
"I was living in an apartment on Begbie St. in 2016 and drove/bussed DT everyday for work at the Bay Center. There was plenty of homelessness and camping happening on Pandora during that time, I honestly wouldn't say that our total amount of homelessness has increased much in that time.","I love Victoria, it's an amazing city. I think we could do better to help the unhoused here, but we already do quite a bit, and it's pretty normal for there to exist outdoor urban campsites for unhoused individuals.",0
The most deadly virus kills its host before it has a chance to optimally spread. Or makes them feel like crap so they stay home. The virus with the best rates of spreading spreads the best. Over time viruses that are not too harsh on hosts and spread easily like colds etc spread well and stay in the population.,The most likely situation is probably going to be something like Avian Influenza that finds a way to mutate in such a way to transmit between people. Scientists have been warning governments/the public that it wouldn't be some huge evolution of the virus for that to happen either.,1
"This is the critical point -- the workers pushed Disney, Disney caved, DeSantis got pissed. This is ultimately DeSantis versus the workers themselves. Disney just got in the middle of the real fight. DeSantis is trying to suppress the voices of real people while pretending this is about unfair corporate advantage. He scores the political points he needs with his base by going after gays, to moderates he looks like he's leveling the playing field for business, but what he's really doing is suppressing dissent of the masses while boasting of how free we are here. When people talk about the rise of fascism, they're talking about strongman types telling you how free you are while they put shackles on your ankles.","Disney needs to fight this tooth and nail and make DeSantis double down and lose, or we're all going to pay the price for it as our freedoms get taken under the guise of liberating us.",0
"The problem is that, by the numbers, Texas is significantly less Republican than it projects. The split is somewhere between 60-40 or 55-45 % red versus blue, which is within striking distance of flipping.",However Republicans consistently hold majorities-even supermajorities (2/3) of the seats. The reason is that Texas has some of the worst Gerrymandering in the country and is barely a democracy at this point.,0
"Aside from complications in determining climate from the deepest cores, it's important to keep in mind that while man made global warming is real, the era of humans has occurred in an interglacial period that's been relatively colder than in the past. The last ""hot house"" period happened before humans existed (several million years ago) and saw a consistent decline in temperatures until the current day where they are suddenly and rapidly increasing. Due to this man made increase, it's unlikely that humans will ever see another ice age again.","We are technically still well inside an ice age. It's been going for 2.6 million years or so. That ice age is why there's still so much ice. While it is warmer inter-glacial period, all the ice means ice age. In terms of geological timescales, the amount of time ice covering continents and poles is roughly around zero.",1
"Just because those are the cases that are easier to prove wrong doesn’t mean they are the only ones. If they’ve been able to show that just 20% can be easily shown as wrongful convictions, there are undoubtedly others that are just more difficult to prove.",I was asking for sources to your comment that 20% of 17 people on death row will historically be overturned/proven innocent.,1
"I suppose the advantage over a missile is loiter capability. Although, why not just have a drone that carries a missile?","Well both sides are already using drones to drop grenades on each-other, I guess this is the next step. It's scary how efficient we are becoming at killing each other, and the young and poor will end up paying for it.",1
"Yes, the entire crux of my post is this is all looked at in a relative sense because we inhabit today's political landscape and not the landscape of 30 years ago. I wouldn't vote for Romney or Murkowski in a D vs. R race, but they're demonstrably less nutcasey than the vast majority of their political party. Rusty is a theocratic clown, and yet I'd take him any day over someone like Kelly Townsend.","Do you think I'm trying to defend the religion as a whole here? I'm not. All I'm saying is that it's to the benefit of the state's Democrats that the politically-relevant white religious sect here votes at a 2-to-1 rate for Republicans (and falling ever-so-slowly), instead of a stagnant 4-to-1 rate like in quite a few other states.",0
It’s right to target and sanction wealthy oligarchs but don’t expect that to have any effect on Putins hold over Russia.,"Don't do anything for the heads of state or Russian oligarchs but incentivise the average people to simply leave. Psychological impact of that as well, offer to bail out the people so Putin doesn't have the manpower to throw into the meat grinder.",1
"They are not talking about climate change but the stupidity of these folks. If you think they are talking about climate change, your thinking is no different from Trump's. These folks are at the end damaging the movement by just looking at one metric - they are talking about our actions. But they don't even think about other and more important metrics - will people support our cause and move along with us? They have failed that and the whole movement miserably, if you ask me.",I support the climate change movement but this is not the right approach at all. I was also involved in other social justice and immigrant right movements and one thing we made sure when we executed our campaigns was to do something that could get the public support thus the goals for the campaigns ended with the positive publicity. Shouldnt it be the goal at the end so that it moves people and let them join one way or the other? These people act Iike bullies at work whose priority is getting the shit done at any cost but no one later on wants to work with.,0
"I actually think that given the actual events that happened that night, if it were a black 17 year old at a proud boys riot, and the exact same thing happened, one of two things would have happened. First, I think it would be far more likely that the police would have fired on a black kid approaching them with a rifle.","If he wasn't shot by the police however, I can't see a black kid in the exact same situation even being charged with a crime. The optics of a black kid shooting a violent felon charging at him, and the of that felon's buddy and buddy's wife whipping up a crowd of white people to chase a fleeing black teenager would be too much.",0
"Many are hoping that Starship will fail, without realising that if Starship fails Artemis will also fail. The program relies fully on Starship in the form of the lunar lander.","NASA is going to build a space station similar to ISS that will orbit the moon. Future missions to Mars will be sent from this Moon-orbiting space station. Reasoning is that sending a mission to Mars directly from Earth would waste too much fuel on simply trying to escape Earth's gravity. So first, a rocket will be sent to the Moon from Earth. After that, the same rocket will refuel at the Moon space station before continuing a long journey to Mars. This way, the people onboard the Mars mission could have enough fuel to orbit Mars, send down a manned lander, come back up, and return back home.",1
"One of my oldest, best friends was talking about how both parties suck, and how he wanted to vote for that dipshit Brett Weinstein ""unity party"" bullshit.","I started off calmly, but eventually was kind of bugging out, and essentially said ""you can throw away your vote and help the republicans win because you're a straight white male in a white collar career. Millions upon millions of people will be hurt in myriad ways if republicans win though, so please please please, I know democrats aren't even close to perfect, but please don't contribute to making this country worse for everyone who isn't as privileged as you "".",0
"I mean, it’s not like hormonal birth control’s only side effect is preventing pregnancy. It can have some serious and far reaching negative effects like if administered inappropriately. Not to mention the very common effects like headaches, bloating, weight gain, and acne.",I do think there should be a line drawn as to when we allow teens to make medical decisions for themselves. Do I think a 13-15 year old should have a child? No. Do I think that an already hormonal teenager should just be given hormonal birth control because they want it? Not necessarily.,0
"Because he's someone who used his connections in Russia and his airline to smuggle arms from Russia to Africa. He is basically one of the main reasons for why Russia doesn't have stuff in storage. His connections will have moved onto new things and again, he brought weapons out of Russia, not into the country.",'A lot of people seemed to think he was some sort of Gun wizard and was going to conjure weapons for Russia.'.,1
He needs to return the public money he took from government handouts but other than that he can keep whatever is left after the collapse of Tesla (and the inevitable fall of everything else that the Ponzi is propping up) and then he can fuck off.,Musk has always been a homunculus-brained moron but it's now been clear for a while that he's actually dumb enough to be a problem for the functioning of democracy around the world.,0
Why the downvotes? This is a valid concern. It has happened very recently to Kurds and Afghans. West countries just said:,"""We got bored with this war, so we'll pull the plug. I guess all you will just die. Goodbye and good luck"".",0
"And if we assume it God does really exist and that is his holy land, then he must be a bloody god - that was the implication I was making.","My implication wasnt that its so bloody due to religion, my point is that is it a bloody land, so the claim that it is the holiest land of God is what seems disengineous to me. It isnt really holy, its just strategically important, and religion has been used as a tool to convince people to continue fighting perpetually for longer than any other region in the world.",0
It might be because they were allowed to pump more then what was originally allowed for the pipeline.,An arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation oversees pipeline safety and permitted TC Energy to have greater pressures on the Keystone system because the company used pipe made from better steel.,0
"Gregory VI resigned in 1046 at the Council of Sutri under allegations of ""simony"", aka accusations that he effectively purchased the papacy by bribing Benedict IX to resign. By most accounts, he seemed to freely admit to doing so, but argued that it still didn't constitute simony. That went over approximately as well as proposing that drag queen story hour becomes part of Sunday School, so he ended up resigning.","Sylvester III (1 month as pontiff, 1045), John XVIII (5ish years as pontiff, 1009), and then possibly-but-probably-not Liberius (365-366) and Marcellinus (304) are other candidates.",0
"Russian had large troop build ups and ammo caches that the Ukrainians couldn't strike within Ukrainian territory, giving Russians the advantage. So the west gave the Ukrainians HIMARS, long range artillery, and they destroyed Russians reserves and ammo depots.","Some examples, Russian tanks were an aggressive and difficult struggle to defend against, so west gave javelins and anti tank weapons that destroyed the Russian tanks.",0
"Allegedly it has been found that some priest of the Russian orthodox church in ukraine were working directly for the FSB. They helped gather information prior to the invasion, separating people into groups depending on likelyhood of collaboration. This information was used to make lists of unwanted individuals, slated for execution when the russians had taken over (which was supposed to happen 3 days after the invasion started.).","This. And LGBTQ+ community has been assisting the government and conducting trainings for the police way before the war started. I'm Ukrainian and I remember maybe 10 years ago or so when Russia already prohibited any positive mention of gays in the media, Ukrainian Biggest Loser (the weight losing show) had a lesbian family participating in the family edition of the show on one of the major TV channels. I mean, the situation is far from perfect for sure and Pride in Kyiv has to have to a huge police plan, including closing off some parts of downtown and having police stand there protecting the march from idiots, but it's government helping the LGBTQ+ community to be safe. Again, not perfect at all that there still are idiots (mostly Russian Orthodox christians) who come to protest, but the government had been making steps forward before the war and hopefully will continue to do so to make sure our laws are aligned with EU and our people are educated.",1
"Have you considered why those areas are unstable? Perhaps due to intervention from the countries and lineages that took said artifacts? A good chunk of Americans have ancestry linked to the Crusades, for instance.","Right now, many countries have to use facsimiles or images/models because the originals are held in the British Museum or other museums. Literally, they will just have the feet and the rest is a model because the Brits chopped it off at the ankles and hauled it away. They were the ones who destroyed the artifact first, returning it to the rightful owners is in my opinion the right thing to do ( but you have the right to your own opinion, I appreciate this conversation 😊).",0
Wednesday: Republicans criticize Biden for not running the mostly full dishwasher after putting coffee cup in it.,Friday: Republicans slam Biden for ‘environmental hypocrisy’ as he wastes tax payer dollars on running big government dishwashers that are only half full of dishes.,0
"I’m sure most people are making judgements based on their ‘side’ but the situations are also different so it’s important to point that out. They may be revealed to be quite similar. But for now they very much aren’t. And the media is really bad at helping people see those differences. I personally think biden has been significantly better as a president than I expected but if it turns out he did something malicious similar to what it appears trump did, “lock h[im] up”. If he didn’t do anything malicious I’d hate for trump to get yet another pass as a corrupt piece of shit just because of optics that the media shaped for the American people in an objectively wrong direction.",If biden DID maliciously take documents and hide more. Fuck him. Jail. But trump did something that as of now is FAR worse and shouldn’t get a pass because Biden did something that could be similar.,0
"This is the era of satellites where anything on the ground can be assumed to have been imaged from space. If this is a Chinese spy balloon imaging US soil, then the US has nothing to worry about because anything the spy balloon images the Chinese could already see with their satellites.","So by setting a precedent of shooting the Chinese balloon, they'd probably open their own spy balloons over China and Russia to be shot down as well.",1
"Respectfully it’s more like she has seen the writing on the wall. I feel like she would have stayed if the polling supported her, but even that’s turned against her.","Shes had a pretty good run, but as more of the bullshit flung her way seems to be sticking and her polls dropping I don't blame her at all for bowing out early in the election year.",1
It’s not misleading. A large number of people get stuck in that “misleading” cycle and cannot get out without bankruptcy.,"These companies use these 800%+ APR for a reason, and they generate money like you wouldn’t believe for a reason, and they aggressively lobby for a reason.",0
"Rather, I'm just pointing out that if/when some of the right-wing SCOTUS justices rule against this request, they're not doing so out of pure legal thinking - there is a very significant pro-Republican reason for them to do so.","I mean, I'm not a legal expert, but given that ISL would put the rule making power nearly entirely in hands of the state legislatures alone, then it will definitely guarantee that the right wingers will stretch it to change as much as they can get away with.",1
"The debt is money America owes to itself and thats not a bad thing. Its mostly treasury bonds that Americans have purchased for investment either for retirement or to buy a home or anything really. Its safe and its secure. But the GOP doesn't want that money safe and secure in government bonds where they can't get at it. They want it dumped into the markets propping up the corporations they own so they can use it to profit off of. By threatening to default they will collapse the bond market. So where's all that money going to go? Into the stock markets, exactly where they want it.","That is why all these right-wing financial ""experts"" in the media scream and holler about the debt. Because they want that money so they can gamble it away and pay themselves huge fat dividends and bonuses. The whole ""debt crisis"" is a scam being perpetrated by the wealthiest to gobble up trillions of dollars of American's invested wealth.",0
"Some targets are clearly legitimate, including all military personnel directly engaging in hostilities on behalf of a belligerent party who are not hors de combat or are not members of a neutral country.[2] Some civilian infrastructure, such as rail tracks, roads, ports, airports, and telecommunications used by the military for communications or transporting assets, are all considered to be legitimate military targets.[2].",1. Civilian objects shall not be the object of attack or of reprisals. Civilian objects are all objects which are not military objectives as defined in paragraph 2.,1
"Society also needs to accept that forcing women to carry a fetus to term and birthing it does not add positive value to the community. Every child forced to be born into a family that didn't want it, couldn't afford it, or lost their mother because of it suffers mental, physical, and/or sexual abuse. We cannot say we value the life of the fetus if society doesn't give a damn what life that fetus will live. There's already an overabundance of unwanted and heavily abused children in the world and adding extra burden to that system does not show love or compassion for the lives of children. Anyone who argues for pro-birth without even attempting to fix the broken system that fails those unwanted children being forcefully birthed are not compassionate or god fearing people. They're abusive monsters who only care about their personal agendas instead of the consequences suffered by innocents at the hands of their choice to force laws against abortion.",In conclusion: fuck every pro-birth moron who only cares about their own agenda and not the innocents who suffer because of anti-abortion laws.,0
A declining birthrate is not necessarily a bad thing. It is usually an indicator that a society is prosperous (such as wealth and educated) and tend to have less children as a result.,"This means that a world where everyone is wealthy enough to afford all the healthcare, education, fulfillment, etc. they need and want is one where the couples that do have kids only have one or two, maybe three kids.",1
"Man I've tried some chocolate from the UK and Spain and it just tastes bad to me. Not that US chocolate tastes good, it tastes bad in a different way.","Their chocolate isn’t even good, and it melts into an oily mess in your fingers because of all the crap ingredients. Non-US chocolate has a higher melting point and better flavor to boot.",1
"Say they lift the stay but ultimately rule that the debts can’t be forgiven based on the executive branch alone, do the people who get their debt forgiven in that window before the door is shut have to now repay the loans? What happens to the people who still have their loans but didn’t make that window to get their loan forgiven.",What about all the people who already paid off their loans? What if you finished paying your loan this year? President doesn’t have the power of the purse. This is absurd. This issue must be addressed by congress not the executive.,1
Here's a thought for the corporations. Change your work hours in the summer. Go from 8 to 5 to 7 to 4. Then those consumers have that extra time to spend in the evening and it doesn't screw with those effected by time changes or those effected by year round DST where it won't be light out until 8:00 am.,Why should we lie about what the time is so that people can get an extra hour of daylight when we could just all decide to work from 8-4 instead? It's literally the exact same thing but it doesn't involve changing the clock and lying about what time noon is.,1
It does but you’re fooling yourself if you think that’s meaningful or that anyone trying to save the children from the current slander should have to care. Sodomy laws weren’t used against straight couples and these wouldn’t be used against grandma stepping in as Santa at the church play either.,It will not come back to bite them. Get that through your head and do it fast. Laws are not like magical rules binding prosecutors to the exact wording and nothing else. They are tools of the state and will be used as the state desires to use them. Nobody is going to come after the cis woman in the Shakespeare play. They will come after the trans woman reading her poem about sunsets.,0
"And I know that this is just supposedly for discrimination faced in San Francisco, by why is what black San Franciscans faced not worth the same as black people everywhere?","With the SF case it seems a case of lost economic opportunities when the tech giants came to town, but even if successful (which I doubt) .. think that would apply to all racial groupings of long term residents who lost out when the inevitable reverse discrimination lawsuits hits.",1
"But I don't want to get my hopes up, because I know there's also a decent chance she won't be open to any sort of agreements because she'd rather gamble on Biden dying in office, instead of worrying about ever winning an election. And while he technically could, I doubt Biden will replace her without her agreeing.","If it's not Trump as the opposition Biden is a less attractive candidate. I know some people think that if he does great over the rest of his term his age won't matter, but I don't think that will be the reality.",1
"I have never heard of any Canadian or Mexican identifying as ""American"". We do not call ourselves ""American"". The Term ""American"" is used exclusively to describe people from the United States of America here in Canada, and is treated as the USA equivalent of ""Canadian"" or ""Mexican"".","I'm Canadian and live in North America, but I do not live in the United States of America and so am not American in the traditional sense.",1
Friendly reminder that pesticides don't just help farmers grow food more easily - they also help reduce the carbon footprint of agriculture by reducing spoilage. It's wasteful to grow crops and let them be needlessly destroyed by pests.,"As your own article states, ""the level and quality of evidence that supports glyphosate’s effects on the microbiome is weak"".",0
"WI had the highest turnout (percentage-wise) this election. Referendums would draw out even more voters, and the GOP here simply don’t want to allow that.",They simply don’t want referendums; that would threaten their stranglehold on power in the state. I can count on one hand the number of referendums I’ve seen on the ballot since 2011.,0
The hours and fuel costs are probably a wash because they are counting it as training flight hours that would have been flown anyways.,"The flight would have been considered training hours anyways, so the fuel and hours on the airframe would have been used anyways flying figure 8s over an airbase somewhere instead.",0
"He did not just vote on a bad bill, he was an evangelist for it and promoted its passage throughout the process.","> In his Senate floor speech on October 25, 2001, Biden said, “The anti-terrorism bill we consider today is measured and prudent.” He boasted that the Patriot Act “contains several provisions which are identical or nearly identical to those I previously proposed.” Biden predicted that the Patriot Act “will not upset the balance between strong law enforcement and protection of our valued civil liberties.”He also said the criticisms of the law from the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil liberties groups were “ill-informed and overblown.” From 2001 to 2002, the ACLU gave Biden a lukewarm 60 percent approval rating on civil rights and civil liberties.",0
"His complaining was in part what got the Senate vote to happen in the first place, which is ultimately what you want him to do: get votes for policies he advocates.","Besides, we literally just voted on the exact thing he is quoted for suggesting in the article. It didn’t get 60 votes to pass the Republican filibuster.",0
"Tribes are all subordinate to the federal government, as the U.S. Constitution gives plenary (i.e., near absolute) power over Indian tribes to Congress. Thus, “tribes” (in the legal sense of the word) only have existence if the federal government recognizes the tribe as existing. If the government doesn’t recognize a claimed tribe, then for legal purposes it’s not a tribe.","To terminate a tribe, Congress just passes a law stating the tribe no longer exists. The law will dissolve any tribal government functions, disestablish any reservation, and apportion/sell off the land.",0
You're saying ranked choice voting means the candidate the people like the most wins but you're going out of your way to imply its bad for progressives. There's absolutely never a situation where ranked-choice is worse than first past the post voting.,"First of all, chill out lol, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with ranked choice voting in general. But ranked choice voting can sometimes help moderates and sometimes help progressives based on the breakdown of the constituency. In NYC it definitely benefits moderates more because it frees up Republican voters to vote for the moderate Dem and NY Democrats tend to be more moderate so a lot of them are putting the moderate Dem as their first choice anyway.",1
"In case somebody doesn’t know, China has a agreement with Ukraine to protect them and give military support even send troops to help Ukraine defence only when Ukraine is under nuclear attack.","It was signed after Soviet ended, Ukraine give up nuclear power and delivered all nuclear weapons to Russia. In 2013 when Xi first takes lead in China he promised to Ukraine again. The agreement clearly mentioned Ukrainian have their right to choose their life, leader, socialist or capitalist, friendship with whatever west or east, as long as Ukraine doesn’t invade another country China will keep it’s words to secure Ukraine safe from nuke.",0
Technically it has. Guns have been allowed for 250 years in this country and I'm pretty sure crime has been on a steady decline since the early 90s. Never even got more violent after the AWB ran out of time.,"That's still the same, they do stop them sometimes. Maybe people just need to stop shooting places up and then people not even from the US wouldn't want to change rights that don't affect them?",0
"Ukraine can push all of Russia's army out of the Ukraninan territory, but what's stopping Russia to just keep pushing forward, when they have strenght in numbers and don't care how many people they lose?","Also, if all of Russia (politicians, generals and majority of Russian people) is pro-war, and won't accept losing this war, in the event Russian army has been pushed out of Ukranian territory and they don't actually have means to keep attacking - how can we be sure they won't use nukes? If that's their last option, and losing isn't an option, then the situation might seem to them like they've got nothing to lose, in which case they actually might use nuclear warheads.",0
"First, the west unequivocally needs Russia to be defeated because allowing it to gain any sort of victory at this point threatens worldwide global security in many ways.","I'm pretty sure there is a point at which Russia would unleash nukes, but that point is certainly much more remote than Putin projects. If NATO were invading Russia to the point of having ground forces reaching the Kremlin or even using nukes in a (realistically never gonna happen) first strike against Russia then I'm pretty sure Russia would turn to their nuclear arsenal. Russia's threats are certainly nothing to fear but it would be silly to think its impossible to provoke Russia to a point of using them.",0
"My last band dropped $15k total on our last EP and we were still very much a local project. We went with a trusted, local producer/recording engineer, but even they were still very cheap compared to the big name studios. Any nationally/internationally touring act is spending \much\ more than that on every release cycle. It's just not feasible.","No, there's another option. Did the government buy all of the telephones when AT&T grew too big? Of course not. When a company has a monopoly, that company needs to be broken up.",1
"Now regardless of that, basically all of Israel's news channels (except one) are against the government policies, the difference is that most of them are private-owned and the latter is funded with tax money, which in my opinion shouldn't be a thing because government owned channels can lead to bad stuff.","But the point here is not to shut it down completely but cut its humongous and unjustifiable budget to something more reasonable. Just for context, this channel has so much spare money that it has been producing its own series in a rapid phase (some are good and some are awful), but this just shows that even with a good cut it would still be able to deliver news regardless.",0
"Should we allow Putin to show the athletes on national TV, tell the russians and his soldiers that russians are being accepted and perhaps winning medals out in the world? Ignoring that they don't have the russian flag on their uniforms?","If they fly the flag of a nation that's waging offensive war and they are accepted in front of the public eye, then they are ambassadors for the nation. If they didn't represent a nation and didn't film it and the athletes only did their disciplines.... Then they wouldn't have much to do with war.",0
"3 different defendants, she could really make out! Monetarily wise, both of the businesses have deep pockets.","Bribery is rampant, India has a lot of potential, but they need to ramp up their entire social system to begin with.",0
"If you want the government to intervene to make housing more affordable, then must invest in housing themselves, not placing rental caps as price caps have failed just about every time in history.","The feds and provinces need to take drastic measures to ensure affordable housing as a first priority, then maybe unfuck healthcare right quick.",1
"Fuck Iran and its government, fuck people for trying to marry religion and politics. Its never about which religion is worse, its always about who controls power.",Did they rise to power because they were religious? Or because their was an unstable political regime that fueled their rise?,0
"In Korea and Taiwan, the US forced those countries to democratize when democracy movements rose because the US threatened to remove foreign aid and make those governments vulnerable to China. Whether or not it was an empty threat or not, it made those government capitulate as they had no chance defending against China without America's help.","I agree that it's de facto China, but it's a delicate topic as it encourages a country to pacify a demographic militarily.",1
Depending on what happened to the SK aircraft it could just be bad luck. Hell a few years ago in Belgium a mechanic accidentally trigged the gun on one f16 and destroyed one parked nearby. And if you're in aviation circles which I am to an extremely small degree you will hear with some frequency of military aircraft haveing issues.,I guess you’ve missed the news over the years of drones flying over sensitive us installations without knowing who was flying them. Just because we are starting to take them seriously does not mean we have a lot of anti drone infrastructure and procedures in place.,1
"That is the only way to stand against and combat this bullshit, make Twitter irrelevant like the alt-right Twitter clones. When the rest of us allow the platform to drown in obscurity, their power is non-existent.","Abandon the platform, delete the accounts. Don't click on links that bring you to Twitter. Don't click on links that are articles about Twitter.",0
"That's the point of shooting. You don't stop until the target is incapacitated/dead. That is what I expect. Has zero to do with ""trigger happy."".",Bingo! That's exactly what I'm saying. We can't effectively change what happens once the decision to pull the trigger is made. It's everything leading up to that we should focus on.,0
It would take 8 countries to shut this shit show down. 8 countries that unanimously say NO! and the FIFA could not sell its contest to anyone anymore.,Not supporting FIFA and World Cup this year. Watching a game isn’t more important than the actual human rights violations that are going to happen during this event.,1
"The appropriate reply from Biden should be that ""I went to where I was wanted and needed. When Democrats proposed regulations they were always turned down by the GOP. And in fact it was Trump who eliminated the regulations that would have prevented this disaster. The person you and your neighbors voted for. So I am doing what you have asked and not involving myself in the mess that you helped create for yourself. When you wish to discuss proper safety regulations and pressure your leaders to talk to us about reasonable measures we will be happy to sit down and talk. But I am just following your wishes right now in that it was your decision to support politicans like Trump and the Republican party who didn't think these type of regulations were appropriate."".","Yes. Also the entire country is way too far right. These guys that bend over backwards to point out that politics is imperfect. So edgy to point out that Democrats can be bought, while completely ignoring that virtually all progress made in justice and standard of living (basically whatever metric you want to apply for quality of life) for the people of this country was due to democrats. All you have to do is have a cursory knowledge of history.",1
"If they do decide to invade Kurdish Iraq, it’ll probably lead to a larger armed uprising in the ethnic Kurdish areas of Iran, which could embolden other ethnic groups like in Baluchistan to follow suit. It will probably destabilize the Middle East even further because Iran could call it’s proxies to engage in conflict with the Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq and Syria.","If a war breaks out between the Kurds and Iran, we could see the start of a war between a bunch of countries that would not be in the best interest of anyone.",1
"People are going to buy more expensive tickets from scalpers vs. the cheaper, price-capped tickets in app? Sure.","I don't know how it works with superstar acts like Taylor Swift, but new/emerging bands don't really have a say in what ticketing platform venues or labels use. Don't punish the artists who are already barely making ends meet by refusing to see them over something they can't control.",0
"To actually come out on top, Democratics would need solid support by giving concessions to anyone deciding to cross the aisle, locking down enough votes for not just now, but the key House items like the budget.","Becoming speaker, without the guarantees of a true majority, will ruin Democratic's position. They'll be diving head first into what was before a Republican vs Republican problem, with no easy way out.",0
"In less than a decade, we have gone from the most prominent pro life groups actively fighting against the smear that they would ever support criminal charges of any kind for those receving an abortion.... to those same groups trying to outdo one another with more and more extreme positions, up to literally the death penalty.","There is also the deeply unfortunate reality that the pro life movement is now proposing killing one person on the grounds that the state must save another, which doesn't seem like a ""pro life"" position to me.",0
"This is mostly a myth, salaries might be slightly higher but its not high enough that you're suddenly living like a king.","Oh look, another bad take. It's nothing to do with conversation rate. I'm not even sure what point you're trying to make here, 18k is about the minimum wage in the UK. So its still not the same as what you get in Sydney.",0
If the ammo is in a useable state they still have to get it to the frontlines which seems to be a problem with all the incompetence in the Russian army.,Even if you go back to the very beginning when Russian equipment was at its best and Ukraine didn’t have the defense forces they do now; there were columns of burning vehicles.,1
"Largest single warhead the US has is the B83 bomb, which is just 1.2mt, and that's rapidly falling out of favor. Russia has more higher yield weapons than the US does, and more low yield weapons as well. High yields are their strategic arsenal, and their low yields are their tactical arsenal designed for their nuclear escalation to descalation policy (basically drop low yield nukes because no one has as many as them, so you're forced to escalate to full on nuclear war, or try and make peace). US' arsenal is almost entirely mid yield weapons today, as it has been for several decades now...",To break this down simply yield is not just a warhead anymore and hasn't been for a long time. Yield is the amount of coordinated destruction that can be leveled at a target... and all US nuclear weapons can apply more kilotons to an area more accurately and faster than anything Russian. For example.. the actual practical deployment strenh of the entire Russian SLBM fleet is only comparable to 2 Ohios.,1
they have gerrymandered enough of america that all their concerns are about reducing the edge of every trump and republican contrapoint.,"That's why the laptop thing happening, or the hillary emails or whatever. If there's republican scandal, their job is to create a pseudo-scanadal of similar sounding for a democrat.",0
"I would agree with this if Santos were just lying about the ""right"" things. But the fact that he lies about everything makes him more of a liability than an asset to them. Most speculate that the only reason McCarthy hasn't booted him yet is because of the GOP's slim majority and McCarthy feels it's more important to have a GOP member who's a liar but will still vote with him vs. having him replaced by what most likely would be a Democrat who would vote against him. If the ""Red Wave"" hit, I doubt he'd have even been seated.",The problem is that I think he sincerely believes he did nothing wrong and therefore there's no reason to change.,0
"Once it was seen that the leaked draft was popular in conservative circles, that would create pressure on uncertain conservative justices.","After they saw the reaction to the ""leak,"" I suspect the Justices were more inclined to modify the opinion.",1
"For all those less in the know, all ballistic missiles beyond a certain range, are hypersonic due to their exoatmospheric flight which allows them to easily accelerate without any interruption.","A hypersonic ballistic missile is a missile that boosts itself initially and once the propellant is spent, enters a ballistic trajectory accelerated by gravity into high speeds.",1
They’re using artillery which is basically a technologically advanced trebuchet/mangonel. It does move but not while firing. It is possible to hit it back with your own artillery but they have different ranges and obviously yours would become a target the closer to the front lines it is as well.,"Modern systems can be moved to and from firing positions in less than 5min after firing but both sides are lacking in Anti-artillery radars making the threat of counter-battery fire much less likely than what it should be when two ""modern western armies"" clash.",1
At least the Torah and bible burning would have been about making a point regarding free expression. The Quran burning was just some tool expressing his hatred for Islam.,"In that parallel, how was burning a Quran anti-Turkey? If it wasn’t, what reason could you attach to it other than that it was a public display of hate and islamophobia?",1
"It's still going to be an inflection point. They can't just press that button and just walk off into the sunset like that. Every single person in this country who pays attention to politics is going to know exactly what they did. And then they're asking people just to say 'that's fine, might as well just go about our day.'.","I’m just saying. Its a bit hypocritical on the lefts part. Especially the fact that PRIVATELY owned small businesses were ransacked across the nation. Compared to “storming” the capitol building, that is paid for by our tax dollars.",1
"Qatar sold out their culture by telling FIFA that they could sell alcohol as part of their agreement to host the World Cup, and now Qatar is going back on their word because it's too late for FIFA to do anything about it.","In an abrupt about-face, Qatari officials have decided that the only drinks that will be on sale to fans at stadiums during the monthlong World Cup will be nonalcoholic.",1
"Ihnat added that to destroy such missiles, Ukraine needs modern air defense systems capable of hitting ballistic targets, including Iskanders, potential Iranian-made missiles, if Russia receives them, and also one of the most powerful and inaccurate missiles, such as a Kh-22 missile.",He recalled that the enemy had already used more than 210 such missiles in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.,0
This has nothing to do with wage increases in Seattle and more to do with inflation over the years and you tying it to wage increases instead of reality.,What makes you think companies will just give up those profits if minimum wage is increased rather then charge the customer who now have more money even more.,1
"The comment was more of a joke pointing out the embargo and Russia's sanctions(I'm sure everyone here knows that), not that Cuba is currently some rundown shithole with no trade partners.","Cuba has stockpiles of soviet shit out of the 50s and 60s that he's probably hoping to get, so he can send more Russians into Ukraine with junk equipment, where they will die.",1
"Let's be honest and call what it is, a White Nationalist 2024 Presidential Candidate had dinner with another White Nationalist, and an entertainment Grifter who has praised Hitler.",I'd put Trump in the boat of an Authoritarian or Fascist in general. It wouldn't matter if it was Hitler or anybody else that fit that bill. He yearns to be someone that has ultimate power. He wants that adulation that Hitler received from his supporters. THAT's all that Trump cares about. He's another narcissist that never got enough love or hugs from Dad.,0
…and they biffed it. To pull the country that far along in fascism groundwork only to lose the narrative.,"Fascism as a government is a stupid concept anyway. Especially for a large group of people to support. You might win short term, but eventually someone you dont fully agree with will come to power and you will have no choice to get them out of power without revolution, and you wont have any power to change laws or policies that no longer align with the dictator in power.",1
"They don’t particularly like the greater cohesion in the west and the opportunity to wargame against a numerous but less capable enemy. What Russia is doing would be Chinas military approach to any landed neighbors so the world is seeing in real time how to fight these rigid, large armies.","China is absolutely supporting Nk selling to Russia. It pulls some of the arms off their borders, they get shipping money and less cost to prop up, and they get to sell replacements!",0
"I hope Jews are getting armed for self defense. The cops can't be everywhere all the time, and they often take a while to get to your location if you call them, so it's better to be prepared in case you get attacked.",These nazis need to be found and held accountable. I'm so fucking sick of those fucking assholes terrorizing innocent people.,0
"Yeah, pretty much. UAVs would permanently exist over the major cities of Western Russia and assassinate oligarch after oligarch, and UK sending in SAS personnel to kidnap the others. They would probably do a catch and release and basically show them, ""that's your mansion. You have 48hrs to eliminate Putin, or we will steal your compound and all your money. We will send you to an American prison, broke and convicted of sex with children. Good luck"".","Do you think this stuff doesn't happen? FWIW, the oligarchs are probably guilty of that kind of stuff anyway. Also, they're guilty of propping up a murderous psychopath, so there's that.",0
DeSantis is scared enough of Trump supporters that he won't run if Trump runs. No one can really as Trump has enough supporters that no one can challenge him in the GOP was we saw with last election. Trump is the kingmaker within the GOP.,"In that case, Trump is the ""candidate maker"", not the kingmaker. His candidates lose the race for ""king"", but the win the race to be the Republican candidate.",1
"It doesn't really show that at all, those countries are more so neutral or supporting Russia to spite the West for its colonization and imperialism of their countries in the past, American influence is just as strong as its ever been especially now that the world sees how weak Russia really is, when you say multi-polar do you mean China? Because it's doubtful they can challenge the US hegemony in any significant way with all the internal problems they face now.",With the exception of maybe China (maybe) the only real question in whether the US will militarily do something is whether they are ok with the consequences of that action. Musharif thought maybe they wouldn't be and W called his bluff. And maybe he was bluffing too but we'll never know.,1
The real question here (and why the IRS needs to provide guidance) is if these payments are tax refunds or some other kind of income.,State and local tax refunds are taxable because the tax paid was deductable from federal income in the year it was paid.,0
I'm sorry for being so presumptuous to assume that you would understand the analogy here. Let me put it into the layman's terms:,\- Peace negotiations begin and Italy doesn't need to keep spending money. This is called a win-win scenario even though the success of the peace talks is not guaranteed.,0
"I vividly remember one very clear time my dad stating that if his son brought home another boy that boy would be lucky to leave alive. It's why my adolescence was mostly just fear. I really didn't get it back then, and I simply believed it to be literally true. (I tend to take things literal.).",Okay. So this guy is horrible and I don't actually want this. But this guy as a speaker of the house would lead to some funny introductions of people messing it up.,1
"By that I mean they cant argue Taiwan belongs to China using the reason of “respect sovereignty, territorial integrity foundation”.","bro what, how does standing with russia leave China without an argument that Taiwan belongs to China. Who are they arguing to ? Nobody is going to change their minds if Taiwan is chinese based on how they treat Ukraine, not to mention the whole point China/Russia creating a new world stage is to not care what anyone thinks of their own stratetic moves.",1
"in today’s world, the global media and pr power that brought Zelensky to his current recognition, could do the same for literally anybody and create countless Zelenskys. In these grand matters about the world, lt would just be too naive to think him as a hero who stepped up. I’m sure the same loci of power can create another Zelensky if something would happen to him. Russia is an arch enemy for the USA led West world and Putin is the villain -both of these are absolute truths. Now if you could just add an innocent (enter Zelensky) the classical scenario in order to initiate the West to bring justice and redemption is ready for serve. Just like a hollywood movie it’s the same story all over again with some contemporary nuances.","the whole world? really? like i mean how about countless f’d up countries in Africa where unheard of atrocities are a part of daily life, should we also ask them to march? I’m asking because no one gave them a f till now and it might just be a bit weird to ask of them something like this. Besides there are many places on earth like africa that we have to consider the same question for them as well.",0
"I know the Iraqi pilots were in training for years when they began their program, and I’m fairly sure most if not all those guys had been flying MIGs beforehand or some sort of jet.",According to officials the US is expecting it to take around two years just to get Ukrainian pilots proficient with the aircraft. But mastering and actually being effective might take longer.,1
What an ass. Just because they don't know or can't prove you committed perjury doesn't mean that's not perjury.,"Yeah, but the point is that he was advising her to perjure herself (which she didn't), because no one would know. Imagine an attorney giving instructions on how to steal money so no one would find out, it's basically the same thing.",1
"Even if all of that is taken as b.s., the DNC will never, ever allow a person like Bernie to win as evidenced by that nonsense during the last primary where every candidate dropped out right as Sanders got momentum to rally behind Biden.","That is just silly and ridiculous, and it is hard to believe any of the people who claim to be Bernie Sanders supporters while promoting that stuff.",1
"Why have a judicial system if legislatures can decide? Somehow, it seems autocratic but who am I to object? Also, by avoiding a ruling on red state gerrymandering, the Supreme Court handed control of the House to republicans.","North Carolinians have relied on courts and my veto power as governor to foil many of these schemes. In 2022 a successful lawsuit in state court challenging a 2021 gerrymandered congressional map resulted in fair districts, splitting the state’s 14 districts (the state gained a district after the 2020 census) so that Democrats and Republicans each won seven seats in November’s elections. It seemed only right, given the nearly even divide between Democratic and Republican votes statewide. Republican efforts to avoid this result led to the Moore v. Harper appeal now before the Supreme Court.",1
"Signatures are made with private keys, and private keys embedded into devices will never ever possibly leak.","Even if you have a suspect, how do you verify that such a private key has indeed been compromised? The device could've been destroyed or gone missing for any number of very compelling reasons (lost, stolen, etc).",0
"Or, to put it another way, how exactly could we get politicians to create and enforce that law without first reducing corruption by voting out the ones who are corrupt and voting in new ones who aren’t?","It’s not that politicians moving into private sector is bad, it’s the corruption that comes from politicians listening more to the private sector future jobs than their current elected/appointed one. The solution is far simpler (if not easy), it involves an active, educated electorate that votes out politicians who seem more in bed with corporate interests than their constituents.",0
"There are also protests every weekend in dozens of cities all over the world. They usually occur Saturdays and Sundays. If you need help finding one, let me know or PM me where you are and I’ll do my best to find one for you.","You can also contact your representatives to speak about the human rights violations. Furthermore, ask them to sanction individual members of the regime and their families, similar to how we sanctioned individual Russian oligarchs for Ukraine.",0
"This has been driving me nuts too. Had the Suozzi or Zimmerman campaigns done even minimal research, they'd have started finding this stuff the week after the Republican primary was over. How fucking incompetent does a Congressional campaign have to be to just completely refuse to do even cursory opposition research?!?","“You know what? I could say the same thing about the Democrats, I could say the same thing about Joe Biden; why aren’t they being called out for their lies? Why isn’t anybody talking about the Democrat Party lying machine?”.",1
"Israel providing weapons to ukraine would be a huge escalation of the war, which would make it a middle eastern one as well.",Destroy that cooperation (by supplying Ukraine weapons to kill Russians) then Russo-Israeli war in Syria may erupt.,1
"You're not wrong about the innocent people feeling the consequences but where you lose me is by saying ""the US will be forgiven and move to the next enemy. It's just like the Korean War all over again"".",Yes I saw a survey that showed 90% or so of Koreans like the US. I can't speak for every Korean because we definitely have groups in the minority that hate US soldiers and the crimes they commit in SK but almost everyone I know is thankful that the US helped save SK from communism.,0
"telling companies ""you can help pay off your employees' student debt"" is meaningless, they already had a way of rewarding employees called ""paying more money"" that they avoid like the plague & beg the fed to tank the economy to avoid it.",$2k in retirement match from the government for people too poor to put $2k away for retirement in the first place is near meaningless.,0
"Pence is a piece of shit right wing radio host that wanted to hurt this country as much as possible, but his personal plans got fucked up by trump. At best he holds a grudge against trump, he isn't motivated to come clean to help america, only himself.","Trump doesn’t pay his bills, and he disrespects everything The US stands for. He disrespected Pence in every way and in the end dangerously so. Yet cry-bully Trump demands respect and loyalty. Trump is a Jack-ass. Hope Pence quietly buries him with the truth.",1
"Vote. Vote in every election, for every race. Vote no matter the barriers and structural impediments thrown up in your way. Make sure your family votes. Make sure your friends vote.","Voting is not enough. Yes, you should vote, but you shouldn’t stop at voting. Advocate your position at every opportunity. Protest. Strike. Organize. Help prepare your community for what’s coming.",1
"Do y'all have voter referendums? Mi did this first, have the entire populace vote on mail ballots, and then took redistricting out of the hands of politicians. However, the MI supremes not being R kinda helped in some key spots. The trick is getting things in front of all voters, not the R legislature.","Looks like voters are figuring out local elections matter. That, and probably some zoomers who either couldn't or didn't vote before are also getting in on the action. Love to see it.",1
"The same thing will happen with this crew; the more extreme and annoying they become,the more national elections the GOP will lose. The current House leadership will be mocked by the GOP senate as an embarrassment, and they’ll ignore everything thing they try and pass unless it’s bipartisan and reasonable.",I expect McCarthy won’t last a year with these idiots calling the shots. He won’t be able to censure them without them trying to remove him.,0
"Simultaneously, the PRC had established its own search committee. Using a system called The Golden Urn, where three to five names on slips of paper are put into the urn and then one drawn out, they selected a different boy named Gyaincain Norbu to become the 11th Panchen Lama. This process excluded the Dalai Lama altogether."".","Well yes. It's like complimenting Poland when they're helping in the war against Russia. Poland has its human rights problems, but you can't deny that they're doing a good thing by helping Ukraine.",1
"I hope this renews the focus on helping to repair a tattered and destroyed nation where the people are often bereft of any hope. The infrastructure is in ruins, the population are bedraggled and life has lost all meaning. But enough about the UK, I wish our Ukrainian friends all the best.","I see you are actually from Ukraine, so my comment is not aimed at you. I am not supporting Russia, my comment is simply highlighting that the UK government are shameful, liars, proven time and time again, including during the pandemic but more importantly during the invasion of Iraq.",1
"I had read, that the reason Ukraine hadn't attacked back, is because it would lose them support / favour of other nations (Nato / UN).",As long as Ukraine is not using NATO weapons to do these strikes then there should not be any negative repercussion to Ukraine from the west. I don't believe Macron is going to complain about Ukraine over this.,1
"Fuck you FIFA. You forced Brazil to sell it in stadiums but hey because it's Qatar, fuck your own rules right. Bunch of money hungry fuckwits ruining the world cup.","Not saying Fifa isn't shit or corrupt. But the problem is Qatar that they chose a country where they have very little recourse or control and just have to play along at this point. They aren't ""letting"" Qatar do it - they have no power in Qatar.",1
"I don't think anyone now thinks the war has made Russia better off in any sense. Thanks mostly to the great courage and resolve of the Ukrainians, it is severely weakened and will continue to grow weaker the longer the thing continues.","So I think that's why talk may be turning to trying to give it some kind of ""off ramp"" again, even without everything Ukraine wants and, frankly, deserves. Under any deal with any chance of happening, Russia will end up looking like giant loser and its invasion a massive mistake in the eyes of the rest of the world.",0
In a way. We want to work longer because companies only give us 30 hours a week to avoid paying benefits.,"Just because corporations want people to work longer, doesn't mean the people themselves want to work longer.",1
"Salami: ""Today we are aware of how the Zionist regime is slowly being erased from the world, and indeed, soon, there will be no such thing as the Zionist regime on Planet Earth."" (2014).","Hojateleslam Alireza Panahian, the advisor to Office of the Supreme Leader in Universities: “The day will come when the Islamic people in the region will destroy Israel and save the world from this Zionist base.” (2013).",0
"Valid point. It would also make me nervous that ""we need more laws to get more prisoners, because we need more organ donors"" could be a legitimate political take.","We do need prison reform tho, and something like organ donations in prison would need extremely strict oversight with severe punishment if abused.",1
"Turn a blind eye to? You have me mistaken. Investigate, and hold accountable when the data shows impropriety. Including Pelosi.","Also, Nancy Pelosi is not the leader of the Democratic Party. What leadership position does she hold?",0
"Conservatives, being anti-progress by nature, have chosen to destroy education rather than have a shred of introspection.",The GOP and conservative America as a whole are staunchly anti-education and anti-science. Your possible divergence from this trend is as meaningless as my own.,1
"Areas of california have average salaries of 85k, which is far above an average wage, and have some of the largest teacher shortages in the country.","Things I've taught during the service included : physical fitness, personal finance, land navigation, sexual assault awareness, diversity and inclusion, counter intelligence and travel safety, intelligence reporting, intro to digital networks, map reading, radio communications, riflemanship, satellite system maintance, vehicle maintainence, motor cycle safety, and leadership.",0
"Particularly if they could get some concessions from him. McCarthy was willing to allow the Speaker to be recalled if any 5 House members vote to do so. If he were Speaker, and beholden to Democratic votes to put (and keep) him in that role, that could be a serious win for Democrats.","If the outcome genuinely starts to look inevitably like the Speakership will go to some MAGA moron who's far to the right of McCarthy, then why wouldn't the Democrats want to help put McCarthy into that leadership role instead?",0
"In some sense, we do a similar thing allready in most Western nations because in most geriatric situations, treatments are no longer aimed at curing the underlying disease or medical issue but rather making it bearable to live with it. The component of assisted suicide is not present though. We should, however, have the discussion on the ethics of having someone die painfully over a long period. Medically assisted suicide should be revisited by experts as an option for those who suffer from incurable deseases.",I do they should have assisted suicide for people for terminal illnesses… hell even with people that have crippling mental illness(this should be a time though).,1
"I read that. Just sucks because we’re sending over all of these bills that require honor and integrity to pass, and half our legislature is full of grifters with no moral compass.","No I know we’re on the same page. I’m just so baffled and just, I don’t know. Disheartened, pretty much all of the time. I’m sad and angry for not only my generation, but kids right now who may or may not have an authoritarian, theocratic government in the US, if we can survive this invasion. I vote in all elections to do my part, just never feels like enough. And I think there should be an exception to this campaign finance and free speech if it harms national security.",0
Also I am not making this in my mind PM Modi has literally said it on national media to rajdeep Sardesai in an interview.,Opposition and Pakistan try to corner modi and blame him for incident. But the riots were controlled within 2 days.,0
Yeah lack of progress led many Malians to believe that the French were deliberately not trying to solve the problem hence the coup being accepted by Malians as better than the status quo.,"The French started slowly withdrawing and then received a formal request to leave by the Malian junta, and that was the end of that.",1
"But it doesn't change what he is and what his motivation was, which was decidedly NOT journalistic. He attempts to hide behind the cover of journalism to sheild his behavior as a partisan political operative.","Giving half truth is not journalism.he had the whole story, And he withheld half of it For his own political agenda.",0
"Nice strawman. My arguement is this "" So it’s pretty clear this is economic warfare, nothing more. The ghouls in the national security state are most likely hoping they can destabilize China and get it to do something stupid."".","I mean it is. The US is ensuring as best it can, that China doesn't replace them on the geopolitical stage. The US is looking out for their own interests by taking out potential rivals. Give it another 20 years, India will be the next oppressive regime that needs to be blocked.",1
Hmm.. it sounds like if the R vote is split in any appreciable way the democrats could have their choice of which one they want to win by voting as a block for them. Or just letting it be chaos.,"How does speaker voting work, can like every dem secretly convince a dozen moderate gop folks to vote for one of themselves and the Dems agree to vote for them too? Seems like the various groups within the gop should be courting that Dem vote.",0
"Exactly. Nothing nefarious imo but NARA should have known and requested back in whatever the ""checkout"" time was. I mean it's just simple library rules here.. or so i thought. The fact this stuff is missing for years is just nuts. And goes to show how trump took all he wanted.",Would be an interesting trick given Trump has personally claimed them and demands them back. More poorly thought out false equivalence my friend.,1
"In either case, you should read before you talk and see what Russia is doing to the civilians of Ukraine.","Ukrainian torture of russian victims _does_ happen, but it's neither systematic nor state-sanctioned and thus much, much more rare. Meaning the perpetrators are acting on their own and will very likely be put in front of a court later on if found out.",1
Then you got all mad at me and saying I didn't understand. I told you Bernie would only force a vote on both bills. Guess you were wrong huh? I guess you were the one that didn't really understand after all? I'll accept your apology now with you admitting you were wrong.,"You were wrong. You were certain Bernie would force both bills passing. I said that wasn't going to happen and that the 1st bill would pass, the 2nd bill would get a vote, and it would fail.",0
"That's not even the issue. Because in every single case where this ""new technology"" is by design self similar to analog solutions, both by trying to replace a use case AND the intend to be theoretically adoptable by DAU, they insist on this ""being something totally new and totally the limitations that fundamentally were agreed on in terms of boundaries don't apply"".","You know who has no idea? Their voters who don't understand that this whole ""this is totally new and need bold new ideas"" is nothing but a powergrab and rerolling the dice on already settled matters.",0
"The issue is that our system of law and governance is predicated about precedent. About established rules, and upholding precedent so we can ensure that people are treated with at the least the facsimile of equality.","That's not precedent. That's just lying, or acting in bad faith. ""It's settled law..."" Left unsaid was ""until the next opportunity to overturn it"".",0
"Killing people is not normal. Telling someone they should feel responsible for a murder is wrong. As a independent I also think it is distasteful when political parties try and use someones death to promote their ideologies. Violence and killing is wrong, shooters are wrong, period.","I think using innocent deaths to promote political ideologies is wrong. Killing in general is wrong, regardless of what your beliefs are. Creating martyrs and blaming large groups for the actions of individuals is Not Good. That is in essence how wars are started and I don’t support it.",0
Walker’s either a dumbass tool or smart enough to shamelessly milk the white racists’s perception of the dumb black slave persona for gain.,"You’re just out here calling a black man “boy” & a “dumbass tool” under the rhetorical cover of alluding to that’s what others are thinking. But no one has said that, it’s all weird projection on your part so all that’s left is you yourself putting those crass ideas into the discourse.",1
And that’s with having the slimmest majority in the Senate possible during a time where Republicans want to block most legislation. Definitely credit is due to Biden.,You can argue that the ACA is more significant than any single thing Biden has done. But impressive in terms of actually passing the legislation? Ehhhh.... lot of bag fumbling from the Obama administration in that process.,1
"My parents live on Long Island and watch FOX News. My father worked in NYC for decades. Now, he is always telling me that he wants to go back into NYC, but he's afraid of the roving gangs of teenagers who like to punch elderly people for no reason and the huge numbers of criminals who mug and/or kill anyone who enters the city.","I've tried to fight against the misinformation, but my father's dead set in his views now. FOX played up the scare tactics so much that my father is convinced that it's impossible to be in NYC and not be a victim of some violent crime.",0
"As much as I dislike that he attempted to dissolve congress, I suspect that maybe all involved parties in Peruvian politics are being shady and that their entire congress might be a bit of a shitshow.","Not that I know much about Peru's government, but isn't there a ""permanent assembly"" that acts as an interim congress?",1
"Most Egyptians are Arab/Berber by ethnicity, but there are certainly plenty of ""blacks"" in there as well, especially in the south. In the north, however, you also have plenty of mediterranean/southern European mixture as well, due to trade and cultural contact between Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Italy and even some Balkans (Albanians in particular). So in general, it is a pretty big mixed bag of the surrounding cultures, and cannot be defined as ""black"" or ""white"".","Why would it be racist to subconsciously associate “the west” with whiteness? At the moment I’m most concerned with why you felt I was accusing anyone of racism, when I wasn’t. It wasn’t implied or intended. You are offended over something you decided I meant.",1
This really isn’t new news when it comes to how Fox operates But it does show how not enough people aren’t paying attention.,This really isn’t new news when it comes to how Fox operates But it does show how not enough people aren’t paying attention.,0
"When we sanctioned Venezuela in 2019, we started buying Russian oil instead. This is us switching back to buying Venezuelan oil after sanctioning Russia.",We're not pushing oil production from the US to Venezuela. Venezuela produces a different type of oil than we produce in the US. We can't easily use US oil in place of the heavier types of oil we get from foreign sources.,0
"Some within the milblogger space, such as Igor Girkin have also been openly critical of Putin directly. Girkin was a separatist paramilitary commander in Ukraine during the initial separatist period, including as the Supreme Commander of the Donetsk People's Republic (one of the two separatist regions in the Donbas). He fell out of favor due to losing ground to the Ukrainian Army... and the very public shooting down of MH17 (as an Australian, we owe him 38 lives, but I'd settle for one).","They are pro-Ukrainian, but call out the Ukraine and the West's failures as well. Like Ukraine's recent strategic reservations about carrying out timely offensives due to concerns about the supply of western artillery and ammunition.",0
Nationalized payors lead to competition on quality without the issues of fully nationalized healthcare.,Edit - btw I’m advocating for nationalized payors (insurance) but not providers (hospitals and others who deliver care).,0
"Republicans have been securing supermajorities it various state legislatures because of rampant, unrelenting gerrymandering which the shit heels on the bench have been only all too happy to allow to continue unabated. FFS just look at Wisconsin- Democrats comprise a slim but very real plurality of voters yet it’s the GOP who holds 60% + of legislative seats. Fuck the the Republicans and fuck all those who are complicit in allowing them to trample roughshod over our democracy.","Florida is a ripe place for democrats to make their mark and it would infuriate der furher trump and his adversary desantis to allow any democratic gain. It is wholly possible but the Democratic Party has to go left way left in Florida. A loser idiot like Crist who use to be a Republican and who tried having a Latina on his ticket is not the way. Democrats have to not just push aside the old guard they have to push them off the cliff, the promise and the feldsteins and schemers of the party are destroying any chance of pushing anything through. It’s easy to blame Manchin and sinema but in reality it’s the old moderate guard who stifle progressives which lose elections. We need a real revolution in the Democratic Party that will purge the old and invigorate a base who is pissed off about the repeal of roe vs wade, bored with old man Biden and who refuse to be appeased by token person of color Harris. We’re not that stupid we know none of these people are actually progressives and it’s only when they do something halfway progressive they actually get any notice. Stop electing this democrats in name only and put us the real democrats who want to progress to a better future and put the Tim Kaines and clintons in the senior homes where they belong!",1
"FWIW political violence and full-blown civil war are two very different things. I'm afraid we likely will see a fair bit of the former in the US, but only very fringe groups truly want the latter.",I think we’re looking at more right wing terrorism for the moment. But what’s left of the mainstream GOP needs to stop feeding these assholes. It’s like none of them learned anything from the crowd shouting for Pence’s head on the 6th. These people eat their own.,1
"EDIT: For you dumbasses messaging me who think I’m seriously insinuating that we would or should invade Russia, the largest country on the planet, that possesses the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, it’s just a joke. Calm down and enjoy the idea of the Ukrainian flag flying over Red Square.","If we were “directly participating” the way they say we are, the war would’ve been over months ago and Moscow would’ve been renamed New Kyiv.",0
"The Bayraktar operators refused to send a drone out to see the damage, as weather conditions would require it to be low, exposing it. Neptune operators had to wait. They observed on radar that other ships immediately rushed. Later, that a tugboat left Crimea—bullseye.","> ""There is no rosy picture regarding Avdiivka, Donetsk, Bakhmut; but there is nothing critically dire either. Despite the frost, the Armed Forces of Ukraine keeps Bakhmut in two sets of thermal clothing. We are engaged with the enemy infantry, which pointlessly marches forward and dies. Our anti-aircraft guns have worked relentlessly and repelled their efforts to accumulate manpower near Bakhmut. So, 150-200 less occupiers in the Bakhmut direction."".",0
i've been asking this all over here. i haven't seen much support and absolutely zero support from people in real life.,"when i heard the news i thought, ""well i guess that's gonna be one of the right-wing talking points for the next two years, along with hunter biden's dick."".",0
"There is also radio wave that bounce at 100km on the ionosphere. Flying under it might make it easier to pick up certain signal, but who knows what they had on that balloons.",Balloons don't have that problem and can loiter long times over a location. They also can intercept radio communication (for example cell phones) that wouldn't reach high enough to be reasonably picked up by satellites.,1
"I don't understand how anyone could study history and think fascism is so easily eradicated. I'm hopeful, but the right wing radicals have shown what they will do when democracy is against them.","What you're seeing is a correction of that tilt back to democracy. We are witnessing the destruction of a failed attempt at a fascist takeover, and the people and party who attempted that play failed miserably.",1
"I grew up in El Paso, so it's majority Hispanic, so, unfortunately, it was my own who displayed traditional values (machismo) and plenty of conservative types. My family is pretty conservative themselves and all former military, catholic background as well, so they have this ""fuck you, I got mine"" attitude towards immigrants, etc. Racism runs rampant within Hispanic communities, it's beyond gross and uncomfortable.","Oh, I'm not trying to paint the whole city as being that way. I lived there since '99 and moved here in 2017 officially. I saw enough of certain traditional ideologies that it just wasn't for me. I was giving an anecdotal view of why I left to the original comment is all. I'm sure the new generation is changing but I just didn't like what I experienced and saw while there that it inspired me to leave.",0
"If they're going to hide behind the claim that they are an opinion show, strip them of their ability to call themselves a ""News Network"". We have false advertising laws in this country and it would seem having a ""Fox News"" logo in the corner of Tucker Carlson's show, that his lawyers argued in court wasn't news, should fit into a claim of false advertising pretty nicely.","There's no problem with the government forcing ""news"" agencies to issue retractions their viewers/readers will actually see. There's no problem with the FCC saying ""you've been misleading your viewers, either maliciously or mistakenly, too frequently, so you're either going to make it right, stop calling yourself ""news"", or well pull your broadcasting license."".",0
"Sort of, but Georgia is still a pretty red state, despite democrats having some success in recent years(Warnock and Biden won the state). The way I see it Republicans vote for Republicans, democrats vote for Democrats no matter what, exceptions are rare. The independents decide the election, Trump and Walker are so toxic that the independents in Georgia overwhelming vote Democrat.","Yeah, she might win against another Democrat in a general election, Republicans do stick together. But there is no way in hell she'd win a GOP primary.",1
"It's always important to remember who the enemy is. You might need to kill the soldier in front of you in order to survive, but he might not be the ultimately responsible enemy. Putin and the Kremlin oligarchs are the ultimate enemies. A schmuck like this guy was just a pawn. There is absolutely a large scummy part of the Russian army that needs to be punished for their crimes but a new grunt like him hasn't done anything yet. Every story like this will encourage others to surrender, even with the threat of getting shot by your own unit, making it harder for Russia to fight.",Whatever they have been told they still support killing millions in a country that has never attacked russia.,1
"It's not as simple as shifting the best soldiers to the frontline and replacing them with untrained conscripts. The conscripts might decide it's better to fight for their own freedom instead of some vague objective in Ukraine, particularly if all the ""real"" troops are busy at the frontline.","Considering he didn't specify, he can as well bring in some fuel/ammo/weapons with him and fight for the Ukrainians... Maliciously complying with his words...",1
I feel sorry for him but I always feel uncomfortable about airing dirty laundry in autobiographies you have to buy.,I don't think its a brag. Sounds more like he's reflecting on his time in the war and how he was trained to feel emotionless about the killings. Hard to tell since the only source is a Spanish version of the books and outlets are quoting things probably out of context.,0
"Hindsight is 20-20 and no one can be right 100% of the time, but I belive there is a strong argument that it is in the United States interest to defend Taiwan should China invade. The ball is in their court. The decision is just whether to defend an ally/partner from naked aggression should that day come.","When the day comes for the US to decide on whether to defend Taiwan from the PRC, understanding fully what that decision will cost in terms of lives and money, these types of visits will come to the minds of those in power and hopefully convince them that Taiwan is worth defending.",0
Then there are the tiniest fraction of churches that actually care about what Jesus says rather than enforcing their ideology on you.,"Try putting the Christ back in your Christianity, we're tired of selfish greedy bigoted mofos hiding behind a cross while waving a flag and espousing hate.",1
"Ignoring for a moment this was purposefully done in front of the Turkish mission, probably not - but I'd personally argue ensuring religious freedom is a core obligation of any modern state, and permitting or acquiescing to a blatant attack against any religion in the public arena does not track with that. There are more nuanced and moderate ways to level criticism. Not to mention, Erdoğan's stance in this instance has nothing to do with Islam, so I'm unclear what you would be criticizing here by burning a Quran.","That doesn’t mean burning a Quran in protest of Turkey is not a political act in of itself. Erdoğan can’t not respond to such an act given his stance, which will be politically detrimental to him in the eyes of his voters.",0
To say that Japan 'administered' the islands since the late 1800s when they basically claimed it as part of a broader imperialistic war and then claiming this is Chinese imperialism in action is just wrong.,"Japan effectively annexed the islands during the first Sino-Japanese war, prior to that the oldest historical records even vaguely suggest any claim comes from the Chinese side.",0
The fact that France has fielded a nuclear powered catapult aircraft carrier for 20 years while China still does not have one operational means France is further ahead in aircraft capabilities vs China.,"Also, France has built 10 aircraft carriers in their history, they have one operating now but there is a difference there and lots is learned in the building process (something China has very little experience with).",0
"Ukraine stood strong because the west is united against Russia. Ukraine would have lost months ago if all the western countries hadn't (and still are) sending them constant weapons, vehicles, and money.","If Ukraine had surrendered you’d be watching a whole different story now. Imagine if all the power of Ukraine was used by russia against West. Just think about it what kind of problems West could have. This is what Putin wanted, but never got.",1
Just to clear up a common misconception I keep seeing on threads like this: This bill that was signed today will not transfer any debt to Orange/Osceola county and it does not put them on the line to pay for Disney's emergency/infrastructure services.,The bill that was signed today will not transfer any debt to Orange/Osceola county and it does not put them on the line to pay for Disney's emergency/infrastructure services.,1
"""The Wyoming Republican Party is seeking to kill a bill working its way through the state Legislature proposing to raise the state's legal marriage age to 16, arguing that putting ""arbitrary"" limits on child marriage interferes with parental rights and religious liberty."".","Nope never. I just saw possibly the dumbest internet comment ever, saying a 10 year study proves all vaccines don't work. And then he left a 🤡 emoji.",0
"I grew up outside New York and love the city, but it’s falling apart. I was just there last month visiting family, and it wasn’t a safety haven. Like any city after 9pm watch over your shoulder. Your stats can tell you whatever you want, when you more only looking at specific types of crime. I’m talking all crime. Murder, car jacking, stores robbed, people assaulted, rape, random acts of violence, property damage, etc. everything I looked up say yes it’s down in violent crimes but every other crime stat is up.","I’m pointing out that the statistic of “gun deaths” is generally used when talking about violence. Suicides are absolutely gun deaths, but the term “gun deaths” is used to obfuscate the conversation more often than not.",1
"Really awful headline that will trick people who don't understand basic US civics (which is a significant number of Americans). This bill will go nowhere. It will not become law unless it also passes the Senate and gets signed by the president, which has zero chance of happening.","We're never going to get a filibuster proof senate from the Corporate Democrats. Except that Obama did have a supermajority, and instead of protecting Roe they protected insurance companies.",1
"The greatest crime in stalinist and Putins Russia is opposing the state. You'll get killed for it. When russians are asked questions and give mindless, contradictory answers, it isn't because they're stupid. It's because only an enemy of the state, a nazi, would say what the state doesn't want you to say.","But the term doublespeak originated in the book 1984, not nazi germany. Goebbels propaganda could be called doublespeak/think at times.",0
The CDU is sort of like Mitt Romney or probably more accurate Eisenhower kinds of Republicans. The SPD is sort of like Bill Clinton. That is center left and center right. It is true the AFD is the hardest right party in Germany but the analogy to the totality of Republicans is unfair even if there are a lot of assholes.,It would be less wildly inaccurate to say what is the AFD in Germany is the hard right edge of the Republican party if it is in a major party at all. The most extreme people aren't in any party though it has gotten worse to be sure.,0
"If they had shared their info earlier there would be a much stronger claim of a political witch hunt as you say. Now they are in a position where the DOJ has to indict based on the criminal referral or ignore the congressional recommendation. At this point, it would be political not to indict.","If they choose not to at least indict, then it appears political not from party affiliation standpoint, but from a judicial standpoint. Not indicting Combover Caligula for the 6th (or the MaL docs, or the fake elector scheme) would send the concrete, irrefutable message that US politicians are indeed above the law. Not only to us but to the world, and if the US loses more of it's credibility due to refusing to hold criminal Presidents accountable, I doubt the DOJ wants that resting on it's shoulders as an organization as they themselves lose both crediblility and what's most important to them: funding.",1
"Yup. Every administration has been telling them to up their defense spending and invest in their defense infrastructure. They didn’t and are now seeing the consequences. What annoys me most are EU politician complaining about the US profiteering from the war, when most equipment given to Ukraine has been donated, and of course were going to be able to supply Ukraine in a larger quantity, we’ve never stop investing in our defense. There was this article on politico, that mentioned that Europe wants alternatives to US arms (F35 in the articles) but none exist in Europe.","The US does want Europe to increase their defense capabilities, but it’s not going to lead to the US reducing their budget which is what redditors often imply. The US spends 3.5ish percent of its GDP on defense. It’s a lot, but it’s not exactly extreme when compared to the 2% goal for NATO.",1
"This means that they're current nuclear infrastructure is not actual capable of launching nuclear strikes, and Putin's nuclear rhetoric has all been a bluff. NATO must launch a full-scale preemptive strike against Russia as soon as possible to prevent them from developing this nuclear capability.","The only logical help nukes would be if Russia had enough to destroy NATO before NATO has the ability to launch a counter-attack. But of course if it ever appears Russia is getting close to that kind of capability... they would be nuked immediately. (Likewise if Russia thought NATO was getting close to be able to launch a successful first strike, then Russia would be forced to launch).",1
"Those resources are for anyone who is genuinely struggling. Your use of the phrase “I just don’t know how much longer I can take” tells me you’re genuinely struggling. And you’re still healthy enough to work right now, but you have to take care of yourself too, otherwise you may find yourself not so healthy enough to work anymore. Living on an occasional half an egg and super processed ramen noodles isn’t going to keep you healthy for very long! You can’t pour from an empty cup, as the saying goes, so definitely look into a food pantry to get yourself some variety in your diet so you can keep yourself healthy.",I’m so sorry you’re going through the shit (and I’m sure “shit” is probably an understatement). What state are you in? Have you looked into any of the local resources for struggling families? I can try to help you find info on local food pantries and other services if you want.,0
That said. You need to actually fulfill your part of the transaction to actually have relationships that are worth keeping too.,"I have the same philosophy — all your relationships (except possibly your kids) should be transactional. If you’re getting nothing out of any relationship (friend, business, partner) it’s time to leave or try to fix it—you’ll be happier for it. What you get out of a relationship might be something intangible — but you should get something.",0
"You should understand that for Russia, Ukraine has no right to exist on it's own as a sovereign country. We all heard the speech from putin where he was ranting about seeing ukraine as a ""part of russia"" etc.",We can and will make your lives worse - it's as much a message for Russians as it is for Ukrainians.,1
"ex KGB are the only ones Putin trusts, if these two people have plotted against Putin, then they either have ex KGB backing or they will be disposed of.","Nothing new... it's been going on for years.. Putin eliminates those that get in the way... mysterious deaths , sudden heart attacks , bogus charges , falling out of windows "" accidently "" who in their right mind believe any of their concocted lies.",1
"I mean Russian numbers are just a joke. It's not even in the realm of reality. But if the UA MOD number of 140k is dead, I'd say that's probably a bit high tbh. I do agree I think US/UK numbers seem the most reasonable.","This is on purpose. And lets just be real, it's a not a legitimate offer. It's an attempt to portray this as a war between the US/West/NATO and Russia rather than between Ukraine and Russia. It frames Ukraine as just some middle man being used by the west to fight Russia, which is their narrative. So their exclusion of Zelenksy and Ukraine is not an accident and it also is something they'll pump into the state media non-stop - that the US is refusing to end the war, a war Russia didn't even want and was forced into.",0
"Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article, with few exceptions - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.",Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.,1
"Sadly, after seeing their platform rebuked, some republicans have decided that the problem isn't that they're out of touch with the people—it's that they need to raise the voting age and further restrict voting rights for women and minorities!","It’s almost as if giving people all these opportunities, like being able to vote when they don’t have to be at work, is an engaging and empowering way to inspire them in their right to vote… strange indeed.",1
"Could they have maybe addressed something more pressing, like Missouri’s abysmal maternal mortality rate?",The argument was over the definition of a blazer made of ponte knit fabric. Ms. Kelley wanted it defined as a “cardigan” and not allowed under the existing dress code. Ponte knit is very commonly used for women’s suiting. Eventually they got her to add “cardigan” to the dress code so they could continue wearing their knit blazers.,0
"Instead it’s on a whole packet size, which although has went up 10-15% from last year, that packet is 20-25% smaller than it was the year before that.","Manufacturers shrank their products by 10-20% in size in their greed for growth, remember this, growth in profits, not just making a profit is enough for them, they need and want to have profit growth to appease share price.",0
"Why do you think it would do nothing? Other countries prefer to do business in dollars and euros. Forcing Russia to use up their currency reserves and then to trade exclusively with rubles sabotages Russia's ability to trade, and therefore makes the world a better place.","The development of a black market in goods or dollars to Russia should not necessarily be seen as a failure, when the goal is to put economic pressure on Russia, and the pressure goes up even with the black market supplying the goods/currency.",0
"Part of their job is to know what they are capable of delivering and what they are not. In this case, they should've let the workers legally strike and secure the sick-leave Dems failed to deliver.","Once the paid sick leave amendment was voted down, all Democrats should have voted No on the larger bill. That way, rail workers would still be allowed to strike if they didn't like the deal.",1
"For me and my young family, it was the first year to celebrate on Dec 25 since we are not religious but our grandparents were (passed).","As Ukrainian, I can say that my family and almost all my friends are celebrating Christmas on December 25th now. And we are from the Orthodox region of Ukraine.",1
There are plenty of less commonly used ultra potent Opioids that can be used for pain relief/sedation.,"Opioids users tolerances are so high at this point, Heroin alone would likely not even work for them. Plus the false confidence that they are immune to ultra potent Opioids when that isn’t the case with Nitazenes becoming widely available.",0
As someone whose grandfather was a criminal war veteran (long story. He had beaten and raped a waitress and was given the 'prison or go to vietnam' option when he got put on trial). I can't even imagine laughing while knowing that he's going to rape and abuse women and (possibly) children over there.,"Like--my family didn't even know (because the government didn't even bother to record my stepgrandfather's crime, and they allowed him unlimited access to civilian women and children during and after the war). We only found out because he turned around and started raping and abusing my family, and he'd let slip of certain things he did before the war (usually during the rants and threats he had made). We had to move across states to get away from him, and we couldn't even convict him of the things he did to my family--because he was able to get his war buddies to lie for him in court.",0
"A lot of rational people are rightly confused when they see the GOP continuing to attack civil rights, free speech, and reproductive rights when those issues cost them nationally in 2020 and 2022. But that's because those people don't understand the plan.","We're going to see the GOP hunker down in their fiefdoms as a regional party, lobbing political and legal attacks on the feds and promoting sectarian violence on blue urban centers, daring the feds to take action.",0
"They didn't, though. Poland wanted the US to let the Ukrainians fly the jets into Ukraine from Ramstein (America's primary base in Europe), and the US basically said, no, if you want to give jets to Ukraine, do it yourself directly. Poland eventually sent the jets to Ukraine disguised as spare parts, but in the public consciousness, the US still got the blame for blocking Poland.","Its not ""scapegoating"" Poland, its just setting things straight with the tremendous amount of bullshit coming from them. The whole blockade thing was a straight up lie, and honestly, that was just the last in a long line of insults. Poland is a great country, the current polish government is a burning shitshow tho.",1
"Simply put, Biden is showing that he can be trusted to do the right thing and Trump proved he cannot be.",After those were found they decided to double check other offices of Biden’s where they found some more and are following proper protocols.,0
"I always giggle at this take. Clearly you’ve never been to Disney World. The Avatar Flight of Passage is a $500 million building that cannot simply be picked up and moved somewhere else, and that’s just one ride. What about the surrounding infrastructure of roads and hotels, will those all be moved as well? How about the theming, underground tunnels, and monorail system?","You can’t pick up and move hundreds of acres of land and all the developments on top of it, and even if you could, an equally sized swath of land nearby to an international airport in a tropical state doesn’t exist anymore.",0
"I got a similar solicitation at some point, ostensibly from the DCCC or some Democratic group, and I decided to rip into them and basically say “what idiot decided to use this messaging? this is the shit Republicans send to scare boomers into giving them money”.","So, I'm sure all the goppers sending out these sorts of ""give me money or we're all dooooomed Doomed, I say"" pitches probably think they're super smart experts at politics. The sad thing is that they will find people, GOP die hards, brains addled by years of Trumpism, who are willing to send them money.",1
"Right… but again, only on the specific races where they lost, not the entire ballot, because they won some races. Those races the GOP won, those weren’t stolen… just the ones where democrats won … from the same ballots.","But her election was totally cool...totally not stolen or fraudulent, but all the other ones that Republicans didn't were were stolen.. Even when a governor's race broke GOP and the Senate vote went Democrat like Nevada, or in her own state why the Governor got way more votes than Herschel Walker...clearly a complex system of switching who they really voted for....you know except in her race..",1
"These rules didn’t apply to this wreck. The contents of the containers weren’t actually “hazardous” according to the law. Silly, I know. It’s not just Trump’s deregulation… it’s decades of Industry whittling down regulations.","EDIT: For clarity, I’m not defending Trump. He shouldn’t have repealed the rules. But THIS accident wasn’t his fault. It’s easy to blame Trump because emotionally it fits the narrative. But Trump’s deregulation is a symptom of longer trend by the GOP and (some) Dems under the thumb of big-business.",0
"Step 1) move to a red district (preferably a new one after the census, or with a retiring or out of favor republican representing it).","Step 3) collect 174k/year for 2 years and potentially get to stay on the federal employee Healthcare plan. Which is basically an ACA gold plan, with the government covering 72% of the premium (I had trouble verifying this one, it may not apply to a 1 term member of the house).",0
I am not sure how you do not understand that if Russia is successful in their invasion of Ukraine that it presents a problem for all of Europe and the world.,"Don't get me wrong, I respect Ukraine for fighting Russia but for us the US is to Latin America what Russia is to Eastern Europe.",1
I personally believe that contestants of Miss Universe contestants are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in Belarus and a the Hungary everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the Ukraine should help the Ukraine or should help Belarus or should help the Hungary and the Black Sea countries so we can be able to build up our future.,"Miss South Carolina: ""I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and a the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa or should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we can be able to build up our future. "".",1
"She’d be amazing in the Senate, and smart of her to jump out early and get ahead of other potential candidates. Now we just have to hope Feinstein’s massive ego doesn’t cause her to mount an absurd reelection bid in ‘24.","Feinstein is 89, and don't members of the Senate whisper that cognitively she's in serious decline? I honestly don't get any senator that is so old they don't just retire and enjoy their remaining days on Earth relaxing.",1
"I guess it's pretty easy to spot that in this case the use of private jets is certainly not worth the cost. As long as the WEF continues to value economic growth as the highest goal, then they will not have a positive impact, because they will always sacrifice the environment for growth. For that they will be defended by primarily right-leaning pundits and their audience, who describe any deviation from this as ""socialism"". After all, the people attending are those that .",It means the meeting is in person and likely has a far higher attendance from wealthy / powerful people. Both are certainly very important things. In person increases the likelihood of success and similarly a higher attendance by such people means the outcome has more of an impact.,0
"Not only have they forgotten Stalin sided with Hitler but apparently the allies lend lease and military support never happened and they fought off the whole of the ""collective West"" on their own. What a load of bullshit.","It's just alot of logic fallacies by really stupid people. False equivalence plays a large role. Where some people on the right will see Biden in Kyiv and decide ""well maybe the other side has a point too?!?"" That degrades fairly rapidly into bringing up their talking points as counter-arguments to a fight that doesn't need to happen.",1
"Do you think Ukraine gives a flying fuck about all the warring issues in the subcontinent between Pakistan, India or China etc? Why would India have to give a shit about what's going on in Europe. As soon as the conflict started, Indian students in Ukraine were being attacked and abused whilst trying to get to safety. And yet apparently India needs to take Ukraine's position on this situation instead of her historical ally. For some reason.","Anyway, Russia stood firm and protected India from US meddling and indirect aggression. An absolutely wild situation where the US and India, both major democracies, ended up allied to Pakistan and the Soviets respectively. And that's down to US behaviour at that period.",0
France still has crazy young talent and will be a huge force in 2026. Hopefully Mbappe can chase Messi’s record!,Surpass Messi soon… need to move from PSG though. He already has everything he could’ve won in France and a World Cup and can probably get another World Cup he’s young i think the only thing he is missing is a UCL title. As for World Cup records he is 5 goals from tying Miraslov Klose record in all WC. Mbappe has so much time and already done so much.,1
Its in Israels interest to strenghten Iran by allowing their alliance with Russia to solidify even more?,Is it delusional to think a strong Iran with alot stronger backing from Russia would be bad for Israel?,0
"A New York judge on Thursday evening ordered that an independent financial monitor be appointed to keep tabs on Donald Trump’s business empire while state Attorney General Letitia James pursues her $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against the former president. The judge ordered the unusual move after James’ office argued that the Trumps couldn’t be trusted not to hide assets or shift them outside of the court’s jurisdiction while the legal battle plays out. Following a hearing Thursday morning, New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron agreed with James and ruled that until further notice, Trump must give him two weeks’ notice and obtain the court’s approval before moving any significant assets. Engoron ordered the monitor be appointed in order to ensure Trump complies with those restrictions.","And, Engoron added, Trump will have to pay for the monitor himself. The judge said the monitor would be appointed by the third week of November and ordered both sides to offer suggestions for who should serve in this role.",0
"Historically, it was a contract by which men and women both committed everything they had (for men, their ability to do hard agricultural labor; for women, their ability to have children and take care of them) in order to generate sufficient resources to support a family.","But that doesn't have to be the case. You could have a woman be the bread winner and a man be the care taker, or an equal distribution of labor with both members sacrificing career progression in order to take care of the family. In such cases, I wouldn't say the man gained more by marriage.",0
"Exactly. Why would you invade when occupying a country that size would be almost impossible, and buying it all off the oligarchs would be easy? Russia will be come a resource rich proxy state, managed by Russians, owned by the 'People's Republic' (lol) of China.",Translation: China trusts putin's russia to destroy itself to the point China can swoop in and take their resources. Moscow will become New Beijing in a few years.,1
It's almost like spending your healthy working years paying for-profit insurance companies so they can make record profits year after year resulted in a weakened Medicare system.,Biden and the average Dems want to perpetuate the same shitty employer based private health insurance scam.,1
"Am a Parisian, can confirm. Paris mostly likes Anne Hidalgo. The majority of people who don't like her are specifically rich Parisians and people who live in the suburbs of Paris (who are typically not rich, just to show that it's not necessarily one socioeconomic group). But people in the suburbs don't get to vote for the mayor (if they did, it's possible she would not win).","To give some context: that mayor can't do a thing about, and certainly will not even if she could. She's simply a power-hungry neoliberal who tries everything to get some attention because she wants more power. The only reason why she's saying is to increase her popularity by saying something popular and not controversial. In 2022, she tried to become president but got less than 2% of the votes despite representing the party that ruled from 2012 to 2017. She's absolutely hated outside of Paris intra muros and this is only an attempt by her to change this but she's completely delusional about her chances.",1
"As for judicial term limits, in the theoretical system you've created, why would you refuse a knowledgeable and healthy judge from a return to the bench if the incoming congress believes they're still capable and would serve the country well for another 18? Nearly all of the same justifications for the removal of term limits on elected officials carries over 1:1 with justices.","The judiciary are unelected positions so it makes more sense to give them terms of a set duration. Personally, i like the 18 year terms for 9 justices coupled with a system where every new congress appoints a Justice to replace the outgoing justice. It gives every election meanjng and it ensures the make up of the court at least some what matches the current sentiments of our voting population.",1
"I then found out about Ritz Carlton, a company that didn’t qualify both in size and revenue receiving $800m due to them quickly setting up LLCs for each department in their massive hotels, claiming each department was a separate company and therefore slipping under the employee number count.",You’re right. I’m the highest tier at my high street bank (private bank management etc) but we got closed out from PPP by large companies that had managers put them in the front of the line. That’s where all the first allocation of PPP funds went - to giant corporations that had dedicated managers to file for them.,0
"Also, im sorry "" Go creep elsewhere.""? Youre on a public reddit thread. If you dont want people replying to you, sit on your hands next time you get the urge to say something.","Oh, by the way, when you tell people to ""sit on your hands next time you get the urge to say something."" Well buddy, I guess that advice is only for others, huh?",1
I don't know why any Liberal would further any kind of bans for guns when the death cult that is the GOP is heavily armed and willing to shit all over the rule of law. Seems foolish.,"Getting really fucking tired of my supposed allies bringing up Trump as if it's some kind of catch all answer for Liberal bullshit. Get better and stop acting like the rule of law means anything without some sort of force to back it up. Conservatives get this, it's why Cops tend to support them.",0
"Ideally (though very unlikely) the arrested members will be faced with the choice of resigning and allowing their governors to appoint new legislators, or having the majority in the House shift.","If Josh Hawley, 3 other Republican senators, and especially, 15 House members are in jail when the new congress is sworn in, well, that is an ugly way to win the next Speakership, but if the conspirators are convicted, there can be no doubt it is deserved.",0
"But more telling than the actual vote this morning is what didn't happen - McCarthy wanted to adjourn but didn't have the votes to do so, forcing him to proceed with votes everyone knew would fail.","But that isn't all. The Speaker sets the agenda for the entire house. He could, as an example, refuse to allow a house vote on any legislation with his name on it. His sponsorship would effectively be a death knell.",0
"It ain’t all or even mostly going to be cash. Other assets are harder to leverage. Precious metals might be impossible unless they are EFTs based in metals. Other assets could be actual tangibles, in addition to shares. Not all shares (especially in the private banking world) are the kind traded on public exchanges that lend themselves to loaning out, and even then the customer has to consent. This level of customer would not be pressured to consent. The relationship is too valuable.",I don’t doubt the bank can make use of the cash that’s in there. But that’s going to be a small fraction of the assets being frozen.,0
"Do you honestly think that if Poland had tried to send a request and that request would be ignored by the german government, that PiS would ever let us hear the end of it?","Poland in particular is in the news every day about how Germany isn't forthcoming, while Germany said (when asked) that they never got the necessary formal request to begin with.",1
It’s almost like claiming The Civil War was about states rights. Especially when this specific claim never occurred to them until decades after the Civil War.,‘It’s just amazing how many Trump supporters have adopted this rewrite of history as well. But then again I had a right wing nut refer me to an article on Breitbart once to prove how much he wasn’t a racist and it was an article about their replacement theory.,0
"So the companies are clearly saying they DONT actually need all those workers and would rather have fewer. You may find it unethical that a company wants to cut staff, but you can’t simultaneously claim that they are refusing to pay absolutely indispensable workers adequately.","We don't think it's unethical to lay off employees - we think it is revealing: cutting staff is what companies do when poor leadership over-hires. To cut a large amount of staff, leadership has to have been inept for a prolonged period of time, which indicates poor oversight - a failure to hold those at the top properly accountable.",1
"He is clearly NOT ""insane"", however, in the legal sense of being unable to diffetentiate ""right from wrong."" His constant obstruction of justice clearly demonstrates he knew what he was doing was unlawful, foresaw the repercussions, and pre-meditated how to avoid being caught.","His ""criminal mindset"" and ""consciousness of guilt"" are so pervasive that despite his glaringly obvious mental deficiencies, it would be impossible for him to demonstrate that he was anything less than fully aware that his actions were illegal.",0
"\Sky sports is by far the number 1 sports channel in the UK and Ireland. For a pub to carry it, they have to pay a steep installation fee and then their yearly bill is actually based off how profitable they are. So the more beer you drink in a pub with sky (basically all of them), the more money flows back up to teams and in turn FIFA.","The way I see it is the Olympics have a lot of corruption in the system, but in a lot of cases they are looking to stamp it out. It's not excusable but the organisation is inherently vulnerable to bribes and back slapping, and they've rightly taken the organisation of boxing away from amateur boxing's international body because they were just completely taking the piss with it.",0
For instance the GOP could have removed Liz Cheney for going against Trump and forced a special election to remove her.,"If you made it so you could force special elections on political opponents, then parties would definitely force members to change membership to pressure them.",0
"And just to make it clear - all of us support Ukraine and cannot wait until they kick the Russian army out of their land and trigger an inevitable crisis in the Kremlin. But we don't have the funds nor connections to immigrate, so our only option is to stay low and be unnoticed. I'm only comfortable writing what I do on Reddit because I'm writing in English and there's no way to link this account to me, the individual - I would not write anything even remotely anti-state on VK or Facebook, for example, or anywhere the FSB monitors.","There are conflicting reports on how the upcoming wave will look like. On one hand, there are rumors they're going to to try call up 500k people mostly from big cities, but there are also rumors they'll do so quietly - that is, not mentioning any draft-related news on Kremlin-controlled media. I'm not sure how you can detain 500k people in a technologically proficient city of 20 million without anyone noticing, but okay.",0
Yeah they have been dropping a couple hundred at a time for the last few hours but it has slowed down now. About half an hour since the last one and Boebert is leading by 556 votes.,"So if Bobert is in the lead by 615 votes there’s no way she can lose at this point, correct? (Unless on a recount).",1
"WV Congressional members filed a bill today to make it illegal to exist in public as a trans person. If a minor sees a trans person, the trans person can be jailed for 'Obscenity.'.","""For the purposes of any prohibition, protection or requirement under any and all articles
 and sections of the Code of West Virginia protecting children from exposure to indecent displays of
 a sexually explicit nature, such prohibited displays shall include, but not be limited to, any
 transvestite and/or transgender exposure, performances or display to any minor.",0
"that's actually kind of the point though, you lived next to a light rail so there was stuff nearby. you can also displace traffic with it. people never willingly do that because people are the worst but it's a lot easier for city planners to make the case of not investing in auto infrastructure when there's a real second option. It actually makes sense to put them in before it's entirely necessary or useful because getting the right of ways worked out is the hardest part. you can add capacity on a light rail way easier and cheaper than you can on a surface road, a bus route is flexible but it has more of a real limit in terms of bus drivers and passengers and traffic impacts.","When this was proposed during the election last year, one of the local think tanks commissioned a study that found eliminating bus fares would do little to improve ridership, but that increasing the frequency of buses would. They thus advocated against eliminating fares and instead investing that extra money into more frequent service (this bill somewhat increased funding, but not enough to make the recommended changes). Alas.",1
I'm currently dreaming of a vote where the Freedumbers all vote 'present' to spite McCarthy and don't realize they are putting Jeffries in as Speaker by doing so.,"according to AOC he was asking if the dems would vacate the house to lower the threshold and make McCarthy speaker, presumably without his vote.",1
"with concessions like these, even if McCarthy wins the speakership vote, he's going to be powerless lame duck beholden to the insurrection caucus from the first day.","Seems to me Democrats are missing a huge opportunity here…they could each take turns being nominated for speaker, and one-by-one each get more votes than McCarthy.",1
"Well, for me, at least, it is up to a vote in my state... But they couldn't help but add more than just abortion to their proposal so I will have to vote no.","Next, Iraq isn't controlled by ISIS... But if it is life saving or posses some other medical risk, I am all for it. But then you would say: ""What about rape and incest?"" And I would say: ""Yes, rape and incest, but beyond that no."" Then what? If I say ""Injury, rape, and incest"" would that sate you or do you want more? Does it go from ""life saving"" to ""stay out of the doctors office""? That's the real issue... But if it was state by state we can vote on it... Which you say is ""anti-democrat."".",0
Israel’s shittiness does not justify blanket targeting of the world’s Jews. Or the use of antisemitic tropes when criticizing it.,"Antisemitism is on the rise at , often but not always couched in pro-Palestinian rhetoric. The initial rejection by of a woman from the student council of UCLA and therefore could not be unbiased. Even.",0
This woman is the granddaughter of a fascist dictator. What other analogy are we going to compare it too. I’m not even sure if we are on the same page. Right wing populism is real.,"Edit: Here, read this if this is just a downvote out of frustration. Hitler and the Nazi’s had a massive populace wave in 1932.",0
"No. Stop spresding dumb falsehoods that have no basis in reality. If the Russians were ever going to use nuclear weapons, there would overt signs and western intelligence would know about it.","As much as this is a victory for Ukraine, I'm just dreading the amount of damage the occupation forces did in the 7 months they were there. There's already been reports of Russian forces looting the city on their way out and it wouldn't surprise me if the Ukrainians find mass graves of murdered civilians like they did in Bucha.",0
"And she does make a point that in many civil wars people think ""no way that would happen here"" up until the moment it starts.","Personally, if there's going to be another civil war, then we've anyway seen what it looks like. Individual armed demonstrations. The next Civil War is America vs domestic terrorists.",1
It would be the end of whoever tried to destroy them as well. That’s why there is no “special spanking operation”. The destruction is mutually assured for a reason. The United States has exactly no advantage over Russia (assuming that Russia has time to get its mobile missile launchers running and subs out to sea during the escalation phase). Nuclear weapons are the only weapons that truly matter in an all out war and Russia has plenty.,What was shown with the polish incident is that the West is more willing to fight Russia more than ever. So Medvedev does the other Russian foreign policy move of trying to frame the West as warmongers while Russia is invading its own neighbor.,1
"If Russia had the capacity to shoot down Ukrainian missiles, they would have already used it. So for the most literal definition of ""knock down U.S. Patriot Missiles"" it can be inferred that they don't have the capability.","HIMARS are surface to surface, so if they can't destroy them with missiles, they have no chance at destroying the patriot which is specifically designed to shoot other missiles down.",1
"Ukraine was also stashing weapons, ammunition and armed vehicles in the salt mines as well.. so obviously it does have strategic value and logistical value.",The Iraq invasion did have similarities to the Ukraine invasion in terms of geopolitical and geostrategic motives as well as breaking international law. War crimes as well as humanitarian crisis happened in both wars.,0
"Even with GBU-39Bs, Ukrainian forces could simply use laser designators to paint for the weapon, literally exactly like how RAF Eurofighters tend to conduct strike packages in groups of 2, with one lasing for the other. Hell, makes more sense than having the weapon self laze, as the GBU-39 has no target selection capabilities of its own...",Alot of the success with GMLRS is that they can pretty easily saturate any possible missle defense with like a dozen missles. But ATACMS your always launching a much smaller number of missiles that will spend a longer time in the air.,1
Fixating on racism isn't bad because it makes people feel uncomfortable; it's bad because it blames all sorts of problems that have nothing to do with racism on racism.,People who want to duck this by saying WELL ACKSHUALLY IT'S A CLASSIST COUNTRY are deluding themselves because thinking about racism makes them feel bad.,1
"I agree with you due to the use by medical professionals and media, but I am also annoyed that we (in the US) still call Native Americans Indians. Some misnomers are so persistent, no matter how incorrect and outmoded….","Even if we decided to honor the fact that this misnomer has been accepted by most everyone, it would still be logically inconsistent. If Indian is a correct term for a Native American person, then why is this continent called America instead of India?",0
"I'm well aware, but I still think that many ardent gun control supporters would still have voted for it knowing that it would effectively ban gun sales in OR for the foreseeable future because they see that as a good thing.","I would like to believe you, but I don't have confidence that many gun control supporters wouldn't view the effective ban on gun sales as a feature of the law, not a bug.",0
"Interesting for a food item that's barely a hundred years old... And like the croissant, Viennese in origin.","If you ever come to France, try a few bakeries, and sample their baguettes. You might be disappointed after reading all of the above - when all is said and done, it's still just bread, after all; and I don't know if it's the best bread in the world, as different breads serve different functions. But still... it's damn good bread.",1
"We know Ukraine will ultimately defeat tyranny, and the UK will continue to train and arm Ukrainian forces with the equipment they need.","“We will continue to support Ukraine to ensure a decisive military victory on the battlefield this year,” Sunak told MPs.",1
"It’s all part of the same transit system including the subway, and people jump the fare gates and sneak onto the buses already. The transit police don’t enforce the fares.","It's part of a larger regional system that gets payments from MD and VA. Presumably the buses in VA and MD will still charge, and the subway system is hella expensive for people riding in from the ends of the lines. (Over $10 round trip daily for me.).",0
"either way, yeah, your smartphone is 100% spying on you in several ways and reporting to several groups, some strictly for profit, some strictly for analysis, and some doing one of those in return for the other.","Whether it’s the Chinese, or American tech companies, they’re all harvesting your data and spying on you.",1
"Firstly, you're confusing me with Festor. Secondly, you fall to the ""rules of English"" as an excuse to avoid his implication. Bitcoin is leagues ahead of its closest competitor. So no, it's not the same in its meaning and usefulness. You're being disingenuous. It's like you trying to call a bicycle a Ferrari. ""But.. but it's a means of transport!"". Sure, but it's not comparable and if the difference is not understood then you've got a long road ahead of you. That's why you have significant issues understanding Bitcoin's usefulness for a country like El Salvador.","Bitcoin is a global monetary network, secured by thousands of people globally, making it decentralised and anti fragile. It’s freedom money, you should take a look.",1
"And, the US would start pumping advanced military equipment into Ukraine. Ukraine’s been getting the middle tier arms from the US but an NBC attack would open the floodgates to advanced weapons, longer range missiles, etc.","Even if the people don’t rise up from hardship, wait until Ukraine takes back the eastern part of the country and starts lobbing missiles inside of Russia.",0
"Similar thinking to “don’t work on Shabbat” turning into “you can’t carry anything from one place to another on Shabbat.” “Or “don’t take The Lord’s name in vain” to “if you say at all, for any reason, we’re stoning you.”.","As I did in another comment, I just want to add some nuance here - the law isn’t “don’t work on Shabbat.” It’s, “don’t engage in the following 39 melachot on Shabbat.” Those are specific acts of work that were done building the tabernacle. Carrying is just plainly one of them, no interpretation needed.",1
They gonna investigate the FBIs involvement in all the Democrats that have been charged and convicted in the last few years?,"They will do this with the determination that democrats should have investigated the FBI, SS, and DOJ. It’s over. Vote, but it’s pretty well settled in my mind. The right will win. I will vote and volunteer just to be able to tell myself that l tried my best to stop these fascists….",1
"Agreed on many nevers, but the Tomahawk is 100% off limits. Despite the average /r/worldnews poster's belief, Russia is 100% a nuclear nation. Escalation is a major issue, the US is playing a dangerous game just like it has many times before during the Cold War. Giving Ukraine the ability to strike virtually all of Western Russia, much less their nuclear facilities, is not a option.","Yes, but not even the Ukrainian government is talking about getting ""first strike"" (read: nuclear) weapons. Conventional long range weapons would be very unlikely to trigger a nuclear response by Russia (Russian red lines have already been crossed and Russia fears the condemnation of China and India), and even nuclear usage by Russia would not trigger a nuclear response by NATO.",1
"She's neglecting to consider the fact that Naziism was predicated on the notion that the so-called Aryan Race was superior: the ""master race"".","This is definitely true, he spared any obvious aryan “races” in his extermination of the country and surrounding areas, that would seem that at least socially the Nazis viewed the Jews as a race.",1
"The pride flag does not oppose the american flag. In fact, Gay Pride is one of the most american things I can possibly think of. When I think of freedom of expression, the pursuit of happiness, and escaping persecution (which is what the founding fathers broke away from the UK to do, even though they still owned slaves), I can think of no other group that's trying to obtain those three things than LGBTQ+ people.","Bottom line, this kind of stuff is the most anti-american thing I can possibly think of, and if you support it, you need to take a serious look at yourself and your values. Especially if you think you value freedom of speech and expression while supporting bullshit like this.",0
"This was a giant PR/campaigning opportunity, and the Dems did nothing but sit there and giggle about how dumb the Republicans look. Who cares about the reality of the situation - most voters would just remember democrats actively reached across the aisle to try and break up partisanship.","No ambition and inept. I’ll keep voting for them because I’m obviously not going to vote for the ones who want us to be a theocracy, but it’s painful how tactless the modern Democratic Party is.",0
"The hard part is the metallurgy and manufacturing process. All of those companies have that down. Most of them either build commercial engines (which push core temps for efficiency), or are part of consortiums that have designed and built engines. MTU is a major partner in the EJ200.",Of course they don't. There's already more companies making engines than there are companies making fighters. And economies of scale push programs towards sole sourcing the engine rather than the cluster fuck that was/is the GE F-16.,0
Personally I would say that the national gun of America should either be the classic 1911 or the M1 garand. Because of their history. Something a bit more special than the Honda civic of rifles.,"Yes, AR-15s are American. Other countries produce knock-offs, but the OG was made by Colt. That said, it's not an iconic American gun. It's claim to fame is that it looks like an iconic American gun, but an AR-15 is not a M16.",1
People act like planning strikes when striking is forbidden in the digital world is just a matter of everyone striking together.,"This is essentially a general strike now, not a bunch of individuals. The government can't cow the teachers, nurse, ambulance drivers, firefighters and rail workers. They will lose.",1
"Obviously this is something advantageous for Ukraine to which Putin will never agree. The issue regarding open negotiations like this between the invader and invaded would require the public discussion/admission of responsibility regarding things like troop numbers, civilian casualties, etc. that Putin really doesn’t want to discuss.","I suppose from my perspective, the 2 things I think would be bare minimum in this case would be to hold out until: relinquishment of all historically Ukrainian territory and membership in NATO to deter invasion in the future.",0
"b)I'm against the means testing as well, but that's not a justification to remove the other programs.","As long as it's coupled with other assistance programs instead of switching one for the other, yes. Most of the time, people try the ""well-with-universal-income-we-can-remove-the-other-programs!"" argument which only exacerbates the problem; universal income has to be in addition to other programs in place to truly be effective.",0
Any reasonable juror would determine that a rational person striking someone in the head with a hammer would understand that the hammer blow could cause death. The attacker was aware of this. He hit Pelosi in the head with the hammer anyway.,"The attackers stated intent - an intent to inflict bodily harm on Nancy Pelosi; specifically, to smash her knees with the hammer - doesn’t fucking matter to the prosecutors at all.",0
"They ought to try and take the few conditions Ukraine is willing to accept before they end up with no conditions left. The unrealistic idea in their heads that Russia will ever retain direct control over any portion of Ukraine proper, by force, needs to die.","Ukraine should be the only ones setting the terms, and I think that letting Russia hand on to its previous ill gotten gains even temporarily sends the wrong message.",1
"It's not as simple as Republicans demanding this be ratified onto the State Constitution. It also requires the votes of the people of Montana before they can enforce any changes. Now with the influx of conservatives coming in and some liberals leaving, that can be a problem. And there absolutely needs to be a shake up at the MTD, because they aren't prioritizing any state-level races and their federal-level choices are getting bodied left and right by more MAGA-aligned Repubs. But yeah, our State Republicans can't exactly just up and rewrite the constitution even with their supermajorities without our say so due to the Montana State Constitution enshrining our rights to choose our amendments. That was why the Republican-controlled Legislature needed to put the anti-abortion amendment on the ballot for us to vote, and why in 2020, it was the legalized cannibis vote.","We also stopped the amendment that would have banned abortion, and the shenanigans where the GOP is constantly trying to undermine our state government/governor.",1
Yes but in a regular election it would be between her and Palin and those that listed her second would likely have just voted for her.,"I do wonder how many Begich voters put Peltola as their second choice though, given that Palin abandoned the last elected office she held in Alaska.",1
"You want everyone to cut off purchases for Russian oil, while none of the other oil producing countries have increased their oil production. This means there has been a huge spike in the prices of non-Russian oil, while its supply has remained constant but demand has increased due to Europeans pivoting to other sources. Now rich Europeans can afford to pay this skyrocketing price, but developing countries cannot. So you expect poor developing countries to starve, because Europeans were either too dumb or too greedy to understand that they shouldn't become so reliant on a country for their energy, especially after Crimea.",Yeah but this is their chance to bitch about Europe being bad so they’ll take it while India virtue signals about having the right to buy cheap Russian oil and complain about food supplies being sparse.,1
"Well. That's kinda what happens once you have played your last card. In regards to Iran, that card was played over a decade ago. So much so, that in the last decade the direction was reversed into:","They might reinstate sanctions, but the west can't trade it with it anyway due to US sanctions. The east doesn't give a fuck either way, so nothing the UN does will have an impact.",0
"What nation, what investor is going to go to Russia when they can and have backtracked on their statements in as little as a handful of hours?","They’ve agreed and then reneged on their national promises more times than I can count immediately after making said promise. I’m talking about the corridors, peace talks, grain deal, hell, I’ll throw this whole war in as well considering how moronic it is that this is even happening, and that’s just off the top of my head.",0
"So the blues will keep all the economic, industrial, academic, and trade centers of the former states... the reds will get the farmland, and other sparsely populated areas.","I know that it's not really a red state/blue state divide, but a rural conservative/urban liberal divide. I get that big cities in the South are liberal and small towns in the West are conservative. But maybe it's time to let the states divorce. Give it a 5- or 10-year phase-in period to let people sort themselves into where they want to be.",1
"Yes, absolutely. It’s only going to get worse for the GOP as my generation gets older, and that’s really the only thing giving me hope right now. I don’t know a single Gen Z person who voted red in the CA primary or the midterms—and I live in a fairly conservative area.","I’m gay Gen Z and despite holding many conservative views, I will always vote democrat for the foreseeable future. I will always vote to protect my own rights as a queer man, even if I’m not a big fan of the other democrat policies.",1
"""All [they] need to do is form a water district""=political issue, especially given the article addresses this and the political failure of their attempts to do so.","In the 1960s, Arizona accepted junior priority rights on a portion of its Colorado River water in exchange for federal funding for the Central Arizona Project (or CAP, the 336-mile long canal that delivers Colorado River water to the central, populous parts of the state). As such, Arizona has stepped up and taken water cuts, sooner than originally anticipated. That’s a good thing. But if Arizona is forced to bear the entire shortage burden in the Lower Colorado River Basin, the impacts to millions of people, including vulnerable communities, will be considerable."".",0
"IMO: Yes Presidents should still have the power to unilaterally act during a crisis... the democratic process is often too slow and fraught with endless debates, arguing, and gerrymandering (edit: Filibusters) to get things done when they need to get done NOW.","Yes, we're starting to see a trend where an emergency is declared or taken advantage of in order to get through a policy decision that Presidents can't get through Congress. That wasn't the intent of it, the goal is to give the President some leeway to respond quickly to emergencies while Congress spins up to provide longer-lasting relief. Some more guardrails or restrictions on emergency powers are needed.",1
I understand training has been authorised and may even have started but why would anyone be agreeing to send tanks until Ukraine can actually use them?,I assume a small number of nato units would join ukraine war as independents or mercenaries which means not everyone on tank team is new to German tank tech.,1
"The danger is blown out of proportion by people who don’t understand the context of the Fukushima disaster, nor Japan’s extremely effective anti-earthquake equipment installed in every building. The earthquake did not cause the disaster. The tsunami that overcame the seawall and flooded the backup generators in the basement did. If TEPCO had heeded warnings from years prior and built the seawall higher, no disaster. If the backup generators were placed above the first floor, no disaster. Every part of the accident was preventable and had nothing to do with the earthquake itself.","Hibakusha is not related to nuclear energy at all, and is strictly restricted to victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both in usage and in meaning. Victims of Fukushima—which are mostly didplaced people and not bodily harm—are higaisha; a general term for a victim that applies to any and all disasters.",0
"The IRI is always going to claim that any unrest is the US/Israel's fault... so now that Iranians have spent 4 months doing what the west has asked them to do in the face of sanctions... maybe the US can do something more than a slow rollout of targeted sanctions and saying ""well there's no way we can return to the JCPOA any time soon."".","I'm not saying the US should straight up invade, but there's definitely more that can be done than slow rollouts of targeted sanctioning and pretending like if we let a bunch of hardliner zealots ""moderate"" that the US can go back to the negotiating table. Iranians are crying out for help to end this monstrous rule.",0
This isn't about republican vs democrat and who is worse... though I am well aware of how much more republicans suck and I've never voted for one.,"My point is that Dems can say to Republican voters - we told you all along he was lying to you, and look, here's the proof.",1
"Hogan may be as good as Eisenhower. However, he's a RINO by today's reckoning, so no chance whatsoever of winning the Republican nomination.","Would she make a better president than Trump or DeSantis? Almost certainly, thus she has no chance in Hell of winning the Republican nomination because Republican voters don't want competence, they want MAGA and only MAGA, and Haley has no clue how to deal with that.",0
"So in order for Dems to secure the majority and prevent that, they bare minimum need to win 4 out of those 10 GOP-led races, which I believe to be decently feasible since we know that Mail-in ballots are heavily Dem. Here are the 4 districts that I am rather confident that Dems can overtake and win:","If Dems take these seats, the majority is secured. We know the remaining votes that need to be reported all favor Dems. Additionally, that’s not including other districts that are relatively close as well. Stay strong y’all, let’s hope for the best!",0
"More conservative states will go first, more conservative candidates will win in those states, voters in other states may be influenced to vote for the same candidate to be on the winning side.","Campaigning in a single state is much more affordable, and offers the low budget candidate a chance to make a good showing, build support and leverage that into a national campaign.",1
"Every. Fucking. Russian. Who does nothing to actually stop the war, overthrow totalitarian government, fight even for THEIR OWN COUNTRY'S FUTURE.","But that's not for us to worry about. Our work is simple, see russian occupant - shoot this fuck on sight. Rince and repeat, until the last one of these raping, looting, torturing sons of bitches are removes from our land.",0
"The actual news hosts at Fox did not like Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Chris Wallace, Eric Shawn, Shannon Bream etc. But that doesn't matter in this case. The Fox News hosts mentioned did endorse those false narratives. That fact makes Fox News as a whole liable. It occurred on their airwaves making them liable.",They didn't defend Bret Baier or Chris Wallace either. Those two are conservative leaning journalists who did the right thing.,0
"I'd rather have ""internal strife"" in Russia than Russian genocide in Ukraine. Either way Russia really needs to sort out what happens next when Putin is gone, and I hope the people get their democracy back someday.","It’s also irrelevant - it’s not like he dies in the next x months and the Russian state suddenly reversed course and becomes a positive, democratic force in the world.",1
Moderate Dems: We're prepared to support .38 caliber and smaller firearms being allowed in the spirit of bipartisanship.,Honestly I think the moderate stance on gun control is stronger than the progressive stance at this point. A lot of progressives have been shifting far enough left to get their guns back.,1
"Just going to point out that we didn’t lose a single tank in the Gulf War, except to friendly fire, against tanks Russia is currently using in Ukraine.","Ukraine can push all of Russia's army out of the Ukraninan territory, but what's stopping Russia to just keep pushing forward, when they have strenght in numbers and don't care how many people they lose?",1
The weird thing though is that most Cubas military is horribly outdated stuff from the 1960’s and 70’s that Russia itself should have thousands of units in storage of. It doesn’t make sense to ship this stuff across the world when Russia should be able to pull stuff out of storage nearby and fix it up.,To give an example of the difference in scale here. cubas best tank is the T-62M. Cuba has less than 400 of these in total. Russia has already lost almost 100 T-62/T-64 tanks and plans to modernize 700 more of them. Is Cuba really going to sacrifice half their tank force for Russia? Would that even make a difference for Russia?,0
"Pretty sure average US people in their 40 don't have a million dollars for a 2 bedroom home either. Esp not on a red state min wage. The housing market is now as batshit insane as education or healthcare in america. It's tearing at society, at that point.","Trashy. How much are those people told to pay in %age of their income to multi-billionaire banksters as ""student debts"" ?",0
"On Thursday, Russia accused Kyiv of planning to invade Transdniestria, which borders Ukraine. The mainly Russian-speaking territory broke from Moldova's control in 1990, a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union.","Feb 24 (Reuters) - Russia told the West on Friday that it would view as an attack on itself any actions that threatened Russian peacekeepers in Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region, one day after Moscow accused Ukraine of deploying troops near the region's border.",0
Just to clear up a common misconception I keep seeing on threads like this: This bill that was signed today will not transfer any debt to Orange/Osceola county and it does not put them on the line to pay for Disney's emergency/infrastructure services.,Just to clear up a common misconception I keep seeing on threads like this: This bill that was signed today will not transfer any debt to Orange/Osceola county and it does not put them on the line to pay for Disney's emergency/infrastructure services.,1
"Florida has early voting and workers can even use mail in ballots to vote if they want. As before, there's no right being lost.","So yes, they can set regulations like requiring a voter ID because states have a legitimate interest in ensuring fair elections, they're not impediments. If you want your ballot, nothing stopping you from walking to the polling location and filling it out.",0
"This isn't a new argument. There has been a internal discourse between the pro-premptive party and the anti-premptive parties for a decade. When the Obama era nuclear policy shifted to ""allow"" (nuclear policy is purposefully vague in every country around the globe) pre-emptive strikes, is essentially when the argument started in Russia. It has thus far not changed, but it is gaining some more traction domestically.","The second point is the nuclear response to a non-nuclear attack for Russia. In previous public discussions regarding this point it was in regards too: ""underlined the threat posed by a disarming strike that uses non-nuclear, high-precision weapons against key sites of Russia’s military infrastructure and deterance, telling a meeting of the 2015 Valdai Club that such weapons are “comparable in their effect to nuclear weapons.”.",0
"Double actions revolvers are not semi-automatic. Semi-automatic means that the firing mechanism uses some energy to load/chamber the next round; in revolvers that is controlled completely by the trigger pull itself. Basically they lack the automatic part of semi-automatic, so they are just repeating firearms.","This isn't really about AKs and the article is adding that bit in. This is just a change from handgun to firearm. So a folding single shot shotgun in a backpack is now legal (good for transporting). It also would cover a shotgun in a car, which can be considered concealed in some places. I think the more likely thing is hunting guns, but for people walking around with different guns it would probably be firearms like the Shockwave carried in a bag/backpack.",0
"More to the point, the idea that the ""nuke issue"" can be ""solved"" by the CIA or Mossad is absurd and shows an utter misunderstanding of what the ""nuke issue"" is, as well as a highschool level understanding of the intelligence services. Beyond that if it were anywhere close to being within their ability to do so, it would have happened decades ago.","Keep in mind who has been bearing the brunt of the hardship, ethnic minority regions. Go to Moscow, or St Petersburg, and you really don't find many people who are strongly against the war.",0
"Russia can't win a war of attrition against Ukraine if the West backs Ukraine. We need to show Ukraine and Russia that the US, EU, and other are in for the long haul and will give whatever is necessary for however long it takes.",Unfortunately it's also hard to see Ukraine winning in any meaningful way. Russia will just drag this out for years until the west inevitably loses focus.,1
"Why does a murderer deserve rehab? Over 60 percent (63.8%) of violent offenders recidivated by being rearrested for a new crime. So how many of them murdered this man? Do the math and you’re not just giving them a chance to commit another crime, it’s statistically guaranteed. This is a numbers game and when you go and put all these murderers back on the street without punishment, you want to basically bless and sanction the next murder? That’s a groovy cycle you’re arguing for: like I said in most of my comments in this thread. I advocate for rehab and against incarceration in almost all cases but you have to look at the realities of extremely violent crimes. To answer your question: it accomplishes keeping shitty people from murdering and ruining more innocent lives. Also saves many more because it deters others from murdering because no punishment makes the crime more appealing.","Don't you think the victim's family would be better off getting a percentage of all money the murderer makes for the rest of their life? Isn't that better than the ""satisfaction"" of knowing the murderer is behind bars?",1
"People say they’re “half Jewish”, so, one of your parents is Jewish and one parent is like, Catholic or something? Or is Jewish technically an ethnicity, like saying I’m half Korean because my mom is Korean and grew up in Seoul before coming to America? Or would it be more accurate to say half Asian? Is Judaism a religion and an ethnicity, like are the two mutually exclusive? What if then, one of my parents were hypothetically ethnically Jewish but for one reason or another grew up ethnically Jewish but practicing Christianity or Islam? Would it still be technically correct to say I’m half Jewish?","Yeah, and let's be real orthodox Jewish are the ""hardcore"" Jewish. Like you think catholicism is strict? Go talk to an orthodox Jewish person and they will make you see catholicism is like kindergarten in comparison.",1
"That's part if it, but also MAGA is getting pretty unpopular. 6 years in and these people don't have anything promised to them. Some of them are in jail. You can tell by looking at his rallies. They're piss poor now. Toothless and anemic.",These people have been let down and they're starting to realize it. They're too brainwashed to vote for another party but they don't see a point in voting when yhe writings on the wall.,0
"that's my entire point -- the ways our data IS harvested tend to be far more subversive and potentially dangerous than ""my device is always recording me"".","all more complex and, honestly, creepy than simply ""my smartphone is recording me 24/7"" (which isn't really possible and has basically been debunked as a tracking method).",0
"From the people who say they want somebody younger as president being met with your ""oh so you think DeSantis would be better?"", to this exact comment where they mention a more progressive democrat instead of Biden and you go ahead and say ""yeah, Trump would've made it way worse"".","Biden was always going to run for a second term, and as far as I know he has never said otherwise. The most he's done is not publicly commit. I personally think this was a strategy to manage an overheated media.",1
Belarus is in no position to complain when Ukraine missiles land in Belarus as long as Belarus allow Russia to use Belarus as a base to send drones andcmissiles into Ukraine and invade Ukraine. Ukraine should be able to attack any Russian Military in Belarus.,Ukraine has said it will attack russian positions in Belarus. They like to fly Mig-31s to set of air raid alarms in Kyiv and we have every right to shoot at them across the border as they have been shooting missiles and drones from Belarus.,1
"Ukraine has apparently been able to protect the air force they currently have so far, so I don't think that's a big issue.","But that still gives them a much larger window to operate safely, and with AESA radar lob long range AA missiles at Ukrainian jets.",1
"Considering ""expressly"" would mean that the law literally says ""state's can take away the civil rights of same-sex partners"", no, it doesn't.","I know what you're getting at, that by saying ""state's don't need to issue same-sex marriage licenses"" that the bill is implicitly allowing states to pick and chose who to apply civil rights to.",0
"Russia claims they are winning and have all of these amazing capabilities. Russians kind of know some level of bullshit is up, because there always is with their government, but ignoring it and accepting the lies as truth is better then accepting that hundreds of thousands of their countrymen are dead and that their economy is in free fall.","Russian culture is built around the act of lying, and being able to know a lie, and then ignoring the truth because going along with the lie is the more comfortable option. There's a sort of honour in how egregious your lying, and how obvious it is, but you'll still stick to the lie. The article mentions the FSB agents who were caught but still gave interviews to Russia sticking to them just being tourists. Admitting the truth would be seen as weakness, or disrupting the equilibrium that Russians have made for themselves.",0
The only thing that France can do to gain more influence in Africa is to help put Africa on a path to true autonomy over itself and it's resources.,The west treats it like a giant farm and mining operation. No wonder overall Africa wants to get away.,0
"As someone who had been in the oil industry for over a decade, I can tell you it's the most corrupt industry, only second to the vessel owners.","Its the biggest source of corruption and nepotism in the region (see Petrobras, Pemex, Ecopetrol,etc...).",1
"""Milk"" is a generic category. It can refer to color, texture and function. It is used as a noun, and a verb, in ways that does not involve the lactation of animals. This is how we use language in myriad ways. It's not a special exception for terms that only benefit big corporations.","But another part of it is the inevitable decline of literacy and the nuances of language people took for granted in previous generations, that now seems to be of no interest to people.",0
Interesting to think it could be a cultural myth that porn decided vhs v. beta when it might just be simple market quirks that can decide these things. My dad was an early adopter and got vhs while my cousins family got beta. Not sure why they chose those formats but it's safe to say porn wasn't a deciding factor for them.,"But porn wasn't the deciding factor in blu ray v. hd dvd. And like I said, there's enough non porn streaming content now that porn doesn't have the same influence it used to.",0
I think that if those are the terms that Russia agrees to it's more than reasonable to drop the sanctions. Or at least limit the sanctions to 10 years or so.,An exhaustive investigation overseen by the Ukraine and its allies over the kidnapped children so that they may be returned to surviving family members. Funded by Russia of course.,0
Biden made a mistake. That mistake could have been fixed by republicans voting for the sick leave bill. They refused because they’re evil. They’re at fault.,"People are going to blame who they want to blame. Everyone involved in this has some blame which is true in every strike that happens. The workers asked for things they knew they wouldn’t get to add leverage, the railways didn’t give things the workers deserve. The government forced a deal because not having a deal would hurt even more people than forcing a deal does. Not to mention most of the unions had agreed to this deal, so not like this is screwing over all the workers.",1
Then it will be fair when the police are doing the enforcement. They could even have a special police force. It could be called the FASHION police! Man that would be so FUNNY.,"Honestly, it will probably be way easier on everyone if, instead of outlawing styles of dress as unacceptable, they gave everyone a list of clothing and makeup that meets acceptable standards.",0
"""Democrats say the sky is blue. But in a stunning upset several prominent Republicans say it's green. Tune is at 6 Eastern Time for an interview with a Republican Senator to hear their reasoning."".",Yeah. Why is this even a question? All presidents do this without even asking. Take away the burden of proof when Republicans claim he never committed tax fraud.,1
It's the same reason why the US and Russia always notify the other about every single ICBM test or rocket launch they plan to do.,"Russia and the US might be rivals, but they aren't idiots and regularly share information like this.",0
"If anyone is wondering why Billionare Republicans would out money in biased polling, heres my theories.","Lol I never claimed it’s a conspiracy, I’m just questioning the accuracy of the polling trend. Maybe it’s real, maybe it’s not, we’ll see. I know things tend to tighten closer to the election, but there have been massive, abrupt shifts in almost close race across very different states, all towards the GOP. And it’s a fact, not conspiracy, that a lot of the recent polls come from partisan pollsters. No need to tell me to “wake up” haha, I’m not making any wild accusations.",1
"Tanks will take months to arrive, the majority will probably not arrive until fall. Noone has comitted jets yet, but if they do it will take a year or more to get pilots, mechanics and logistics up to speed.","The scuttlebutt is that Putin wants a big symbolic push on 24th of this month, to coincide with some chestbeating celebrations at home.",0
"The idea that your first-pass filter for this topic is what ""the right-wing"" has been saying about it, is quite telling. For too many people this topic is just a proxy for politics.","Furthermore, ""The National Intelligence Council, which conducts long-term strategic analysis, and four agencies, which officials declined to identify, still assess with “low confidence” that the virus came about through natural transmission from an infected animal, according to the updated report."".",0
It's safe to say you don't understand the American defense industry if you are making this comment. The only concerning barrier is how quickly Australia can acquire the trained workforce to operate the nuclear submarines.,"At the end of the day, nuclear submarines are much more suited to future warfare and the types of seas surrounding Australia.",1
"They are in the article. Those arguments are that Meadows had a long-established residency in North Carolina, that he was in Washinon, D.C. for political service, and that state law explicitly says that political service is a legitimate reason to be out of state while remaining a permanent resident of North Carolina. As for the address they registered at, it's true that they didn't own it, but they did sign a standard year0-long lease to rent there. And while it looks like Meadows himself never visited the address where he was registered to vote, it looks like evidence shows his wife spent a lot more time there than it initially appeared, which is very consistent with a married couple that is still a permanent resident of NC but one of whom is temporarily working out of state.","This doesn't look particularly suspicious, honestly, and pushing too hard here risks drawing lines that are inconsistent with existing settled law. For example, it's okay for college students who are studying out of state to re-register to vote if their parents move while they are still out of state, even if they've never been to their new permanent address.",0
"That's the point of a strike: a demonstration of the importance of the workers. If rail workers are so incredibly important that them all deciding to quit would shatter the economy then maybe, just maybe, they deserve the sick leave they are asking for? Perhaps the business interest should be brought to heel for once instead of the labor interest?","I addressed your question: I'm not more enraged than them. I explained to you that the union workers rejected this same deal already. That the citations you're making for the union workers ""not being enraged"" are from the same people who praised a deal the union workers rejected already.",0
"Democrats also fractured when they gained power, just not as much because they're minority factions aren't that influential.","The one and only positive of the Republicans retaking the House is that the public will see how dysfunctional the Republican party has become. Driven by the insane conspiracy theories of their base, beholden to big money oligarchs, constant infighting, inability to govern constructively. A competitive primary for president in 2024 will only bring out the fissures even more. I can't wait.",1
"People are expecting the legal system to work like it does on Law and Order where a criminal is investigated, arrested, and convicted in the same 44-minute episode.","If they had shared their info earlier there would be a much stronger claim of a political witch hunt as you say. Now they are in a position where the DOJ has to indict based on the criminal referral or ignore the congressional recommendation. At this point, it would be political not to indict.",0
"The dialectic of “oh no you’re so essential to the economy and the country, you HAVE to work through the pandemic and economic turmoil” and “eh it’s jobs for dumb people or high schoolers” is a REALLY frustrating fixture in American politics from conservative and liberal spaces. The first is made in bad faith, and the second shows the elitist and classist feathers of those who are okay exploiting labor.",The wealthy ruling class will never treat the labor workers better unless they force them too. One of the ways labor could fight for better treatment would be through striking. That option was taken away by the president and congress.,1
"You know, the government which the appealed minister is a part of, introduced a law last year, according to which doctors are liable to prosecution if the prosecutor's office will deem the cause of abortion insufficient. They can imprisoned for that. Although rape is one of two valid grounds given in the legislation, after the law was passed the doctors live in fear and deny the procedures because they are not willing to risk loss of license and prison term.",So if the trail goes through and evidence appears to show no rape happened then that doctor has broken the law and could go to jail and lose their medical license.,1
"I don't think turkish people quite understand the level of dislike the rest of us allies have for their elected president and his childish whims. They need to elect someone rational because I swear to god, we want Sweden in NATO about 1000 times more than we want Turkey in Nato.","But you're absolutely right that the average Redditor seemingly has no idea just how valuable Turkey is to NATO. The region has been the crossroads of the world for millenia for a reason, or should I say many reasons.",1
"As shown by both Gulf Wars (ignoring if they were just or not) and the ISIS intervention, the West is actually capable of fighting wars halfway across the globe without needing general mobilization. Unlike Russia.","With the current protests being violently suppressed, this is the best time possible for regime change likely in a long while. Beginning to think that an intervention to replace Iran's government using its assistance of the invasion of Ukraine as a casus belli might be seriously on the table for NATO.",0
"EDIT - I guess there is real evidence that he has been good at golf and yet still cheats and falsifies records. I admit it has not crossed my particular leftist news feed. I am still amazed he doesn't use more visuals of him golfing, but I guess I am not in the right demographic to see them.",These type of golf outing are not uncommon for him and I do not believe any of them are coincidental.,1
"My guess is it's all political theatre, there's constant negotiating behind the scenes, and after Turkey's presidential elections next year are over and Erdo's gotten to act like a strong man making demands of the rest of NATO and Nordics, he'll suddenly announce he's gotten satisfactory assurances or whatever and will accept the application.",My guess is they've discussed it behind the scenes and once Turkey's presidential elections are over Erdo will suddenly make a statement about having received satisfactory assurances from Fin and Swe and they're welcome to join.,0
"No way, news sources would never all collectively lie to form an agenda. Like they did about a certain laptop now they're starting to admit the laptop is real..whoa...",Oh yeah FOX always tells it like it is... you conservatives in that laptop. You know who actually walked away with billions from Ukraine? Kushner and Ivanka. Haven't seen a single headline there. Why don't Republicans actually do something that American people care about?,1
"Anyone who tries to act like Trump's nature is a recent revelation should not be trusted. If they can't acknowledge their own complicity and error, they are still ready to jump right back in to insanity. They are just hedging their bets.","She criticizes Trump for supporting vaccination. That's her big beef with him. She says he's old and ignorant because he doesn't know how to do his own ""research"" by watching TV and trolling the internet for the latest antivax conspiracy nonsense.",0
While what you are saying is at least partially true Hamas did win in what were considered to be free and fair elections. There have been no elections since then because reasons. What Palestinians that I’ve had dialogue with have described as the most reliable polling source does show is broad support for Hamas. The lead flips between Hamas and Fatah from time to time but there is a reason Abbas is sixteen years into his four year term.,"At the time that agreement on the Palestinian side was led by Yasser Arafat, who was part of Fatah. Since that agreement, most Palestinians do not support Fatah and definitely not Mahmood Abbas since he took over. As much as I wold like to think that Hamas can't speak for the Palestinian people, in reality they do, they were democratically elected by the Palestinian people and still have wide support from them. The Palestinian government goes back and forth on recognition, clearly does not stop the Oslo accords given the way the WB looks right now, Hamas very specifically does not recognize Israel and at points has called for the eradication of not only Israelis but Jews world wide.",1
Some of these election deniers lost in their primaries and screamed fraud/rigged against their own party.,And how will election results be overturned without denying them in the first place? Just because it’s “only” the first step towards treason doesn’t mean it isn’t precisely that.,1
"NATO countries aren’t really actively doing anything, and the collective west is not in or near Ukraine.","Not really agreeing with your statement that NATO isn't actively doing anything and we are not near Ukraine. We are, and were doing a lot. AWACS aircraft fly near the border 24/7 and without our munitions and hardware being sent Ukraine wouldn't have lasted, i love that were helping but saying that were aren't actively involved just isn't true.",1
"But even if you live in the most gerrymandered district, your vote still matters for local and statewide elections, even if less for the House or state legislatures. And non-GOP actually turnd out, they'd probably win a lot of elections anyway.","Gerrymandering doesn't help state wide elections though, except by discouraging people to vote at all.",0
"China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, has been on a high-stakes tour of Europe, defending his country’s interests in a clash with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and reaffirming Beijing’s friendship with Russia with a visit to Moscow.","After meeting with Mr. Wang in Moscow on Tuesday, President Vladimir V. Putin’s top security aide said Russia backed China on a range of issues.",0
. After that invasion it has steadily gone up. 2022 will also overall be a year where trade goes up Overall since the 2014 invasion of Crimea trade with China has doubled.,This and I think it's also why Europe is desperately trying to re-establish good relations with China. They are now seeing China as sort of the thing they'll have to balance against with America.,0
"That's a big security risk right there. If they were really a bad player, they could break into some military site, load up their account password reset tool, reset the password and get into the system without anyone even knowing. This is equivalent to like losing the admin password to your PC and emailing Microsoft so they can give you a code to enable you the ability to reset it.",And how do you trust any previous/future system/camera updates/firmware upgrades to not have any backdoors/hidden exploits?,0
Do you actually care about preventing climate change or are you just here to be an edgy 15 year old?,As to why companies don’t do this on their own - carbon energy is cheap and the externalities (emissions) are paid for by everyone in the form of climate change.,0
Funny how the men there can have uncovered heads and arms without the women going mad with lust for them. They must think that Muslim women have much more self control than Muslim men.,"The thing about Islam is it's meant to control your thoughts, Like some 1984 shit. I still catch myself judging people or I'll think something bad is happening to me because of Allah's wrath. I've since become an agnostic though so I don't really think about God much. It's just hard getting the propaganda out of your head and forming your own thoughts, opinions, and beliefs.",1
"However(and I know this is uncomfortable), ethnic cleansing was not always considered genocidal or even called that. It used to be a method of relocating ethnicities to be with others in an effort to ""help"" them ""self determine"". Usually it was the former colonial master countries that did this when overseeing decolonization. And despite how scummy that is by our standards now, it wasn't an outright malicious attempt to destroy or remove, but an ignorant solution to create a form of harmony(I know, I know. Reaaally dumb).","HOWEVER, I have a half-hearted defense of the US system. Out of all the potential fascist usurpers that have come to power over the years, Trump's has thus far been extraordinarily unsuccessful beyond him rustling some violence and winning(NOT BY A POPULAR VOTE. Remember, he lost that) an election for a seat that he was under constant beaurocratic scrutiny for.",0
The parents would have to buy the gun for the child. Doesn’t really matter though as you need to be 18 to purchase ammunition. The real purpose of children being allowed to carry a rifle is for hunting purposes in rural areas. The city of St. Louis is unfortunately caught between a rock and a hard place in this argument.,"I’ve got no real issue with 16-17 year olds hunting by themselves. Sometimes, in rural places, it’s a necessary food source and parents have jobs. A 14-15 year old with an a ar15 is a whole different thing. Unfortunately there isn’t really a legal distinction between the two. That is the dumb part.",0
"We've updated because we have no intention of firing a nuke or missile into Russia, but Russia has been threatening it.","The US stance is if Russia goes nuclear, then we go nuclear. We've recently updated our terms of engagement to include lesser forms of nukes. Such as tactical nukes or smaller size nukes to take out small areas. It may also include Russia using a nuclear power plant meltdown for their benefit.",0
"Bring it, you stooges of the right, nominated by presidents who couldn't even convince a majority of the electorate to get behind them. You are proving to be a vital and powerful overreaching force hellbent on pushing an unpopular religiously informed theocracy on a mad as hell Democratic and Independent majority who in a fucking midterm during a recession when the opposition controls both houses of Congress and the presidency voted on defiance of the party that should have been destroyed according to decades and decades of historical precedent.","Those 5 conservatives wrote a few words and, in consequence, handed Democrats campaign lightening in a bottle that defied historical precedent and will continue to do so, election after election, until abortion rights are cemented into law through legislative decree.",0
"Sadly, yes, and I have no clue why since there are plenty of cheaper and better plain lagers. But Heineken also has a lot of other beers, some of them actually good.","But there are better tasting beers out there. But like I said if I see this in my house I'm gonna drink it, just go get a buzz and be happy .",1
"Saying the second amendment doesn't apply to modern rifles because it was written in the time of muskets is exactly like saying the first amendment shouldn't apply to speech over the internet since it was written in the time of quill pens. Technology changes, principles do not.","The problem is, most of what's being proposed is far from common sense. Instead it's things like ""assault weapons"" bans that specifically target the class of firearms used most by enthusiasts and least by criminals. Or ""high capacity"" magazine limits that actually include the standard magazine sizes for most commonly owned firearms. The whole game of anti gun politicians is basically just making up scary sounding names for completely normal stuff in order to trick the uninformed into thinking it's something bad and unnecessary.",0
"All I can find about CA is something from 2021, but that doesn’t explicitly involve background checks in order to run for office. Do you have any info on that case to help refine my Google-fu?","Also, one cannot be considered a candidate until they have raised or spent $5k in campaign funds. So yes, filings are required for the federal level.",0
"This will always vary by state, or in this case perhaps country. For instance in my state a first degree murder carries a 6 years to life of course other factors can be factored in.",1st degree and 2nd degree murder (for adults) have the same minimum sentencing of 10 years to life. The difference is the possibility of parole after 10 years.,1
"Nationally, local property taxes account for nearly half of public school funding, creating inherent inequality between wealthy communities that are replete with high-value properties, and poor ones, where properties are worth less. State and federal funding is supposed to help level the playing field, but it is often insufficient to make up the difference. And even if the funding were equal, advocates argue, students in poor communities often require more resources for things like special-education teachers and English language learning. It is why, for example, the federal government allocates extra dollars to schools that educate high concentrations of students in poverty.","It will also help urban school districts, like ones in Philadelphia, because those are usually also underfunded compared to their more affluent suburban counterparts. Something many don't realize is that northern school districts are quite segregated compared to their southern counterparts who were forced to make countywide school districts.",1
"I'm not sure that NI is that high on the radar for most UK nationalists (or that UK nationalists are a big enough constituency to bin a PM for that matter..), throw in that a referendum would neatly pass the 'blame' to those that voted, rather than the PM who offered it, doubly so if it were as a result of a process enshrined in an agreement the UK had in place for a long time prior.",It’s not that I doubt they don’t have the means I just doubt a sitting pm would ever allow it because UK nationalists would campaign to get them out of power afterwards.,1
"Granted, the typical Republican may be a few 6-packs short of a case, but even they tend to learn from electoral mistakes.","The republican party is built upon flawed people, everyone grifting and bending the truth. It has no structure, it has no plan.",1
"In this intercepted call, a Russian soldier tells his wife about a failed assault operation with no support, surviving a direct missile strike, and Russian forces ""writing off"" friendly fire as casualties taken from Ukrainians.",It’s not the Groundhog Day. Just Russians mine-clearing the area with their MBTs and trying to find every single mine placed by Ukrainian troops near Vuhledar.,0
"Given that recent strains have been exceptionally agressive in birds, and the beginnings of more mammal to mammal transfer, I think we should be spending a lot of money figuring out what industries to eliminate while bird and mammal to human transmission remains at an all time low. Otherwise it seems like it's only a matter of time before we get an unfortunate surprise..",It's not a lot of money to make sure you study properly and eliminate industries that are pointless. We spent trillions on this pandemic. Could have literally ended world hunger for a decade.,0
Why can't countries with Leopard tanks just go ahead and send them to Ukraine without German approval (with the exception of the Netherlands since they don't actually own their tanks).,Germany aren’t willing to send tanks to Ukraine unless the US does that does NOT mean they are intending to block re-exports from other countries as stated by the German Defense minister.,1
"-For states that possess nuclear weapons and states not in compliance with their nuclear non-proliferation obligations, there remains a narrow range of contingencies in which U.S. nuclear weapons may still play a role in deterring a conventional, chemical, or biological weapons attack against the United States or its allies and partners, as stated in the 2010 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).",-in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened.,0
"It's a state law, which is unenforceable because it is federally illegal against the constitution to discriminate against someone holding office due to their religion.","The body of the Constitution itself specifically forbids a religious test to hold public office, not just Federal office but state office as well. Article VI, Clause 3 reads ""The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."".",1
The solution is incentivising people to making the right decisions. Driving is almost never the right decision. Buying a house in a car dependent suburb is never the right decision. Buying a pickup truck is never the right decision. Cities all over the country are ripping out highways because cars suck to be around and cars suck to be in.,And this always gets so much worse in cities for one simple reason. Cities can build more living space and workspace on top or below of existing space. But doing that with roads is damned near impossible on any large scale.,1
"Being seen as non-corrupt is a big selling point in Brazilian politics, with politicians all over the ideological spectrum being caught with their hands in the cookie jar.","Brazil has its fair share of problems but when the opposing political party commits a crime, the one currently in power doesn’t sit around waiting to spring on them.",1
"Ya that's a wonderful sentiment, truly, but until gerrymandering is outlawed across the US, it is literally making it impossible to beat repubs who do the same. We will lose the damn country if we pretend politics isn't anything but no holds barred at this point and I assure you we did not fire first on this sentiment.",they have allowed shit like this before and it's going to continue to be a conservative tactic in the state because they know people aren't politically literate enough to spot these fuckers.,1
"I really don't see how it's exaggerating when everything I've said is entirely accurate and confirmed from other sources, apart from the chanting monks but like I said, feel free to dismiss that if you want as I can't prove it. It's a dark place with numerous mummies and where people are encouraged to carry candles around.","Yup, they don't allow photos in the catacombs, although I got a nice photo of the monastery itself.",0
"Having your army act as ""separatist forces,"" hiding them amongst civilians, and then screaming about ""atrocities"" committed against Russians by the defending army is not legitimate. Maybe if we didn't see Russian army AA guns shoot down a passenger jet we might have ... no, no we wouldn't. Everyone sees what Russia did. No one wants this ""move your army in and pretend they're local volunteers"" to become a legitimate way to seize territory. No one but your own population buys this ""self-defense"" garbage, and I bet most of them don't even buy it around the kitchen table. There it's ""our country, right or wrong,"" and ""for the love of God, keep your head down."".","When is Russia going to understand that the world doesn't buy this bullshit? Moving your army into a internationally recognized borders is not legitimate, even if you take the insignia off of their uniforms. Especially if you initially claim that you had nothing to do with those soldiers, and then a couple months later gleefully take credit for them.",0
So your conresswoman for trying to pass a bill that would help families who have kids of toddler age who need day.,"Maybe voters should force their representatives to pass the bill, otherwise tell them they will not vote for them.",0
Nukes have trended towards multiple warheads air bursting over a large radius for a wider area of destruction instead of dropping one warhead with a high yield.,"Nukes have trended towards lower fallout and lower dispersion in favor of more complete destruction of the impact center. It makes sense, you want to make sure the bunker at ground zero is gone, you don’t care about the forest 10 miles away. You want to take out the city center, the suburbs aren’t a priority.",1
That's because none of them remember the impact the MiG 25 had during the cold war. Or know how old half the designs in the US military are. Or realize just how many resources Russia still has at it's disposal.,"Another example Is the Battle of Mogadishu. Had the US known that the insurgents figured out that they could weld metal sheets to the back end of their RPGs to direct the back blast away, they might not have used the Black Hawks in the way that they did. A couple of bucks worth of welding and metal sheets = 2 Black Hawks down.",0
"It's not just Italy. Plenty of times I've gone to see bands in clubs that are in shittier parts of cities in the US and the ""parking jockeys"" are there with the ""I'll watch your car for you"" shtick too.","If they actually were still there I'd give them something, but the majority of the time it was just someone looking to get drug money and they would have gotten enough from others so left before I got back and the car would be fine.",0
"""Despite an incredulous public, Trump double-downed on claims made by Santos, declaring him 'the baddest dude you've ever met' and 'one tough hombre' - statements that seem to back up Santos's claim that he dropped out of DeVry Technical College to undergo 'Alpha-Plus training in the Navy SEALS' and that he owns a crossbow."".","""Transcripts obtained from DeVry by the New York Times indicate Santos held a steady 2.1 GPA in accounting before dropping out and spending the remainder of his student loans on a 'sick set' of throwing stars."".",0
Yeah that is true but the weapons that are being sent to Ukraine are pretty much the hand me downs maybe besides a couple but the majority of the the weapons is shit the US and nato doesn't even really use. This shows how far behind the supposedly 2nd best military in the world is. And If I was the second best military power in the world I wouldn't necessarily brag about beating down a country like Ukraine if they had no help. It isn't like they are some huge military power on their own. And they gave up their nuke or nukes to Russia in return the promise of never interfering with them. So we see how Russia keeps its word. But i believe the US is bound to help as well after they gave up their WMD.,Hold on now. I didn't say all the weapons were crap.. I know that they got some top notch kinda shit. For sure. Idk if you didn't read my comment right. But I said for the most part they got the hand-me-downs. But yeah most certainly they got some good shit indeed.,0
Motherfucker. Absolutely EVERY ONE knows what the fuck a Devil’s Triangle is. And it’s not a fucking drinking game.,"> Clearly a drinking game...with three glasses. Have you ever played Quarters? It's like that, except two guys stick their penises into one woman.",1
"I mean, if you're gonna argue for everyone to pay the same amount of taxes regardless of income level, that sounds good to me. Otherwise, yeah, we do have tons of stuff that is income dependent.","It's that people will have to pay for the rich kid's meals, not that they get them. Very similar to the student loan thing, where blue collar, middle class people are gonna have to pay the debt of rich yuppie professionals.",0
I’m not arguing with you but the subpoenas seem to be invalid if you can’t enforce them. I believe I’ve heard no teeth. It takes years to get someone to even respond to a subpoena. I believe two plus years of delay tactics is easy with little effort. The system is broke and this is just more proof.,"Why would anyone answer a subpoena from a group that refuses to answer them? I’m lost! So should the Democrats hold there own investigation into Trumps children at the same time. Again this congress was elected to address immigration, crime and the economy and have no plans to do anything but obstruct.",0
Not all countries have this kind of mentality dude. Heck I am in a 3rd world country and women's maternity was extended to 6 months and there was never such issues of hiring going down.,"Eg, i am in a third world country, yet my company gives 6 months of paternity as well as maternity for employees.",0
But the thing you have to think about is how much work and how much luck it took to get Donald Trump that victory.,It really was a culmination of everything that let Trump win. Without decades of attacking Hillary she would have won. Without Russia interfering in the 2016 election she would have won. Without third party candidates she would have won. Without the October surprise she would have won.,1
"The GOP chooses to see it as a win for Democrats because the more votes that come in the better the Democrats do – because most of our country is Democrat, and Republicans are the minority party.","The reason it says it’s a win for democrats is because it was literally a win for one side of the case, which was the Georgia Democratic Party.",1
"If you think it's age inappropriate to discuss the existence of gay and trans people, then you certainly agree that it's inappropriate for any child to have married parents, or to expose your children to gender-segregated restrooms.","Obviously, everyone agrees that acknowledging the existence of gay and trans people is appropriate for all ages. The law has nothing to do with sex, you just haven't read the law yet.",0
"The mass mobilisation of the population would be immediate, and the fact Russia would have to transport millions of troops thousands of KM just to attack any meaningful target they would be easy prey for our airforce while the country builds defences and trains troops.","So Russia would have to somehow land a force of what 10 million soldiers to have even a hope of capturing and holding anything, then they would have to somehow march over thousands of kilometers of tundra before they even came across a settlement of more than 2-300 people.",0
"Russia can't get to Moldova. There is no access to them. They can't get supplies, ammo, troops, or anything to the country. They'd either have to go through Ukraine or try to use ships. The problem is that any ships would also be within range of Ukrainian attack.","The whole thing is a distraction to try and draw some Ukrainian forces that way with the threat of another front. Russia could absolutely take Moldova if they took Ukraine. The problem with the whole thing is that Russia didn't take Ukraine and all paths to Moldova either go through unoccupied Ukraine or Romania, who is a member of NATO.",0
You can’t argue for $25/hr minimum without arguing that all wages increase at the same rate. Unskilled labor at 25$/hr doesn’t feel right when you get payed that for skilled labor in many parts of the country.,"Even in the most labor-intensive industries, labor doesn’t account for more than 50% of the product cost. Even if wages increase by double, the price is only going to rise somewhat because wages are only a fraction of the cost. As long as we don’t allow the companies to collude for a record profits like we do currently, then wage increases can never out run product costs. There is no product whose cost is more than 100% based on wages.",1
"Numbers chapter 5 in The Bible contains instructions on how to abort a bastard child, so The Bible supports abortions for unmarried women, and Jesus never condemns abortions, but he does condemn a mob who sought to punish (and stone to death) a woman for extramarital sex. When red states banned abortion, they condemned many women and girls to death in childbirth, which is anti-Christian.","And even then, you have all those states that kept passing anti-abortion laws anyway, even in defiance of Roe/Casey.",1
Well I have an account on this website and can curate what I see. On Twitter even when I had an account they changed things and people who would be stupid enough to say that were mostly blocked or filtered. Now they are all you see.,You think you can curate what you see. That might be true until there’s a policy change that impacts Reddit’s ranking algorithms. That happens here but the difference is Reddit doesn’t package it in a huge press release saying “we’re going to break a bunch of stuff so we can make more money!”.,1
"Just noting that isreal agreed to the 1967 border lines a few times in its past in the name of peace, and has always been rejected by the palestinians or the surrounding countries.",Israel also offered the golan heights to syria for peace treaty along with the west bank and gaza and even agreed to cut Jerusalem again for the palestinians at one time.,0
"But Russians are suffering more. If Western countries were supporting Ukraine more willingly, Ukraine wouldn't have lost this much manpower and they might have had some resources to launch a counter-offensive.","And yet the largest battle in the war so far, with Ukraine sending more and more troops to hold and reinforce, but like you said “Bakhmut isn’t strategically important”.",1
"He's been watching FOX News for over 20 years, but the fear that right wing media has instilled in him over the past decade is on a whole different level.","My parents live on Long Island and watch FOX News. My father worked in NYC for decades. Now, he is always telling me that he wants to go back into NYC, but he's afraid of the roving gangs of teenagers who like to punch elderly people for no reason and the huge numbers of criminals who mug and/or kill anyone who enters the city.",0
"But it more than just her district, the whole society is being manipulated by forces that foisted this dirt bag into power. Very few people win elections without backing, she is meant to a distraction.",You have to persuade people who don't always automatically agree with you 100% of the time to win elections.,1
"Boebert just said that McCarthy gave in on the single member motion to vacate. This is where Boehner was smart enough to realize he was done and Ryan was smart enough to refuse to allow if he was going to take the job, because a Speakership where one person can force a vote to vacate isn't a Speakership at all.","Boehner was threatened with this by a sizeable amount of Tea Party reps who were willing to sabotage legislation over it, and resigned rather than be forced to accept it. Ryan refused to consider the Speaker job if this kind of thing was on the table.",0
"If not for the filibuster they could force the vote right now, given how popular legalization has even been in red states, the GOP would either need to yield and vote in line with Democrats or explain to their voters why they voted against.",So let them try and see if there's enough Republicans that support breaking the filibuster especially now that their party is in disarray.,1
"That's true. By that point it's just ""fucking cold as shit"" and that's that. I hate going inside afterwards because my glasses fog up. And breathing in the warm air seems like it's burning the inside of your nose for a few minutes.","Jet streams (which do shift, they've not static), warm or cold fronts in other areas. Warm and cold fronts push each other around. And it can depend on if the cold/warm air is wet or dry.",0
Cannabis makes users fall asleep faster in the same way that alcohol makes one fall asleep faster -- it chemically alleviates anxieties but that disrupts the sleep cycle during the most restorative and important part of sleep - the REM cycle.,"Not dreaming is a sign of chemically stopping the natural sleeping process, alcohol intoxication has a similar effect. That's why doctors are recommended to only prescribe cannabis for sleep related anxiety disorders for a temporary amount of time and treat the underlying anxiety problems through other methods like therapy.",0
The main problem is the rich taking everything and leaving people in a state of deprivation which leads to sick mindsets like white supremacy offering false answers.,"If by a bunch of old white men owning or affecting the value of almost everything and/or making laws to bestow and keep power…then yes, we do have a white supremacy problem.",1
"2. Well I'm an Indian so I can say that while we don't fuck up the environment per-capita wise as much as the west, we do litter A LOT. That's why in many of our cities you will find trash on the road frequently. Its interesting that when we go to other countries we try to be clean but again when we come back to India, we just go back to the same mentality of throwing trash on the roads.","Well my issue isn't that they portray the bad side (and India has a quite a lot of it) but rather its only about the bad side, which makes it sound like its an unlivable place from the outside.",0
"Careful with this media lead as a whole. The GOP is trying to ""rebrand"" and in order to do so they must imply that they died somehow.",The Republican party has lost its way. I think it’s largely because the demographics are rapidly shifting to a younger and more diverse electorate.,1
"Progressives make up like 12% of the Dem Party, the rest are Liberals and Moderates. The progressive agenda is not as popular as some claim, considering even Fetterman somewhat moderated his progressive stances.","Maybe its because the progressive (Fetterman) denied being a progressive,and distanced himself from progressive policies.",1
"There is also currently no war between Russia and other countries that they made peace with once upon a time. Putin attacking Japan is somewhat unlikely, as it doesn't advance any of his strategic or ideological goals the way that attacking Ukraine does.","How much did America coerce Japan to do that... Japan doesn't exactly have great history between Ukraine as Ukraine sold Russian weapons, tanks, battleship, missile technogoly to countries like China, and North Korea which currently terrorizing Japan. Not to mention that, Japan is located right next to Russia and have some ongoing problems and projects.",1
"I still love driving the car but yeah, quality is crap and having the CEO go full fascist MAGA means the next EV isn't going to be a Tesla.",Musk's love affair with MAGA morons is going to fuck him over. He's not going to be able to afford apartheid Twitter by pissing of his Tesla customer base and I don't see MAGA conservative buying his cybertruck and Tesla branded truck nuts anytime soon.,0
"Traditionally the one making a claim, that removing cash bail has no impact on crime, is responsible for proving their assertions.","Shouldn't you prove that your desired policy (cash bail) actually serves whatever purpose it's intended to? You can let yourself off the hook by saying you can't prove a negative if you want, but it doesn't make whatever case you're hoping to make any stronger. In either case I'm not invested in whatever you're saying, and not making any claims, so I'm not expecting you to prove anything at all.",1
"I don't understand you Western leftists, Don't you see that just because a guy is right wing doesn't mean he is like Trump?","No. Even as an Indian who supports the oil deal this is a scenario that won't happen. The West has agreed to let India buy oil, But that doesn't mean they will accept India to mediate any discussions of peace. Mediating discussions of peace by India would mean silent aknowledgement that India buying Russian oil meant it was being a neutral party, Which the West would never agree to thus The West would prevent Ukraine from allowing India to host any peace talks.",0
1. This is who the party voters want and the primaries bring the strongest candidates to the front. If they're terrible it's more a problem with the party than the candidates. Stop electing terrible candidates.,2. The party leadership is throwing all their funding behind their handpicked candidates and pushing them to victory and they're terrible.,0
"No, it's the US. Indian employees who returned back home or were never in the US to begin with had to present vaccination certificates or get suspended. Vaccines weren't available for the most part, so most either came back to get vaccinated and then went back or risked getting suspended (which quite a few did).","I had colleagues who lived abroad (specifically India) get suspended because they weren't vaccinated. There were no fucking vaccines in their countries for their age group, and even if there were, why the hell were remote workers required to be vaccinated?",0
"Ukraine does have potentially much more to gain by it being a Russian missile, or at the very least perceived as a Russian missile- even though it is already perceived to be Russia's fault regardless. For one, it could have galvanized the west into further supplying Ukraine with better weapons and defense systems... which they still very well can and likely will do any way.",It could also provide leverage to get Belarus to push back against Russia firing missiles from it's south western border with Ukraine too.,1
I think it's weird to assume that simply because Republicans are losing the run-offs that is why Raffensperger wants rid of them. The simple fact is that NOBODY likes run-off elections. Raffensperger's office even offers ranked-choice voting as an alternative.,"Honestly, I think that everyone in Georgia is just legitimately tired of it. It is incredibly burdensome and unnecessary. I'm no fan of the GOP and particularly Georgia Republicans but Raffensperger appears to be guy with whom I politically disagree but I wouldn't consider an enemy of democracy like many of his Georgia brethren like MTG.",0
"Man... can you imagine if DeSantis creamed Trump in the primary and in a fit of rage, Trump ran a third party spoiler campaign? You know that would be just like him. It would be such a beautiful trainwreck.","yeah, I was just reading up on it. Apparently the accepted term is ""sore loser laws"" and most states have some flavor of them at this point with variations. With that in mind, he might have to settle for trying to tear down the winning candidate as much as possible. He's got enough die hards remaining to cause a bit of a GOP civil war. Though I will say that these last few months, and especially after the midterms, I find myself wondering if his influence is just going to continue to evaporate. This poll certainly adds weight to that side of the scale.",0
"For Russia, we do see that they are not really using much of their best/most expensive airplanes and helicopters but that is probably because losing them would hurt too much.","My take is, Russia killed a lot of UA early in the war before the funding and then UA with drones and actual gear and attrition decimated the Russian army. Which is very impressive because everyone thought russia would just roll them over.",1
"The term ""silent majority"" gets thrown around a lot in political discussions, but women literally are the majority in this country - they vote in larger numbers than men, they vote more often, and they tend to vote for democrats. When you take into account the huge number of newly registered voters across the country (and particularly, the uptick in new women voters), it doesn't look good for republicans.","Keep in mind too there's a lot of explicitly pro-Republican polling ""firms"" that are trying to skew the averages, and putting out a lot of suspicious low quality polls that, shockingly, are extremely favorable to Republicans.",1
"- I don't know if Santos has a history of illegal arms trafficking, but Trump Azerbaijan is a warehouse. No people ever stayed there. According to news reports, it was financed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and it is used to smuggle arms into Iran, including the missile/drone guidance systems used to attack Ukraine by Russian forces.","- Trump sent goons to his doctor's office to take his medical records. This probably was primarily to destroy any X-rays or other records that showed he never had bone spurs, and that he illegally evaded the draft during the Viet Nam War, but possibly this was also to conceal his history of Venereal diseases, and prescription narcotics used (Percoset and amphetamines).",0
There are very few people that push for abortion to be made illegal And are athiest. Also the loudest and most ardent supporters of infringing on LGBTQ+ peoples lives....are also religious.,"People don't have to be atheist to be pro-choice or pro-LGBTQ rights, so by making it about that instead of the issue, you're severely limiting your own support.",1
"The oldest (edit: and largest) Christian organization in the world, the Catholic Church, is a fundamentally conservative institution. To say that you can't be conservative and Christian is ignoring two thousand years of history and cherry-picking only the parts of the bible that you like.","It sounds like you think Christian beliefs should be kept out of politics, but you also believe Christianity is not under attack.",1
“[T]he indication and treatment for ectopic pregnancies is distinct from the indication and provision of induced abortion”.,"No, of course not. Any ectopic pregnancy is life threatening to both baby and mother and must be treated.",0
"The strikes on Russian bases and weapon/ammo warehouses seem to happen almost daily now, which is great to see. Most of them are happening in the occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia oblast, it might have something to do with the next planned offensive by our forces, which a lot of our officials have been openly talking about recently. I’m not sure why they are even talking about our planned offensives, I guess either you can’t hide it anyway, or they are trying to mislead Russia by talking about it, which also might be the case, it wouldn’t be the first time that it happens during this war.","""Russia no longer poses a military threat to the world, it's just a fiction, the only issue left is a nuclear arsenal and an uncontrolled regime that will make the whole world realize the need to denuclearize Russia."".",1
I'm saying they wanted a foreign invading nation out more than they wanted the Taliban out. Ppl in this thread seem to just be glossing over the fact that the US invaded Afghanistan.,"I'm not saying the invasion of Afghanistan was justified or not. All I'm saying is that the US was the invading force so comparing the afghani response to their ""help"" to the Ukrainian response is asinine.",0
"So the issue here is that they are calling him a commander when he is a fairly low ranking individual. In US army terms, he could have less than a few years of service and no formal leadership training. He would have no authority to make big picture decisions. NCOs and officers have special schools they go to in order to learn how to lead. Even then, lieutenants don't really lead. They assist a captain who leads a company, which is 4-5 platoons and each platoon has 3-4 squads. Captain is the lowest rank that would actually constitute a ""commander"" as they are the first rank who actually holds the title of Commanding Officer. Most laypeople would be looking for someone with the rank of lieutenant colonel, which lead a battalion of 1,000+ troops, before they really start considering them a commander.",The first level officer that could be a commander is usually a lieutenant who would command a platoon or a company. This guy was a squad leader which is usually a corporal or buck sergeant.,1
"As for the part about immigrants, the vast majority coming from high income backgrounds want to live work and be. The engineering school near my liquor store had a lot of arab foreign nationals buying alcohol. It was annoying to have to inquire as to wtf was going on in these UAE and Saudi passports but the majority of the women were typical grad students. Another Saudi was getting a specialized med degree. I think it's interesting that it was these women in what are seen as backwards countries but they often came with financial backing. The Arab men were some of the students but the majority of Arab men were likely to work at the Amazon sorting center. It's the state of globalization now. One of the few female students that frequented on weekends developed an addiction but swore never to stray from the Stella Artois Cidre, and was noticeably sheepish coming in, for an alcoholic at a liquor store. Very interesting cross section of clientele.",This was spun a million ways in the covid era but at its heart it's just classic patent theft but it's so widespread now that even on patent pharmaceuticals are made in chinese labs in raw form. My on patent Rx was $25 for 2275mg but I could get 10g on chinese ecommerce platforms. 100g was like $60 and 1kg $90. Larger quantities seemed unreasonable. I just was testing it out. direct comparison of samples showed it was a less pure product with a %10-15 cut of cornstarch which was crude and thus didn't pass the eye test but did indeed contain a good percentage of the active ingredient. Like everything it was a cheap knockoff.,0
"Whatever practices and beliefs those celebrating yesterday have, they are completely disconnected from the builders of Stonehenge. At best they might be somewhat connected to people who found Stonehenge built and used it for their own purposes, much like they are doing these days.","Yeah, people tend to mistakenly think the builders of Stonehenge were Celts, who’s religion we at least know a little about. The builders of Stonehenge were much, much older. Their beliefs have been washed away by successive migrations of people.",1
"Consistency matters when you are attempting to game the system. If it doesnt pass, it'll be a call out saying that the other sides support slavery. They only lose in this scenario because they sound and look like nutjobs with every other thing they try to do and say.","Thirteenth Amendment: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.",0
"Well, there is always an opportunity to learn. So here you go in terms of the US army, the easy version. A squad is normally lead by a corporal or specialist depending on what military and branch of service they are with. That is an enlisted rank, which is the lowest of ranks. It is the highest enlisted rank before you become a non-commissioned officer. They are above privates which are the lowest ranks. Non-commissioned officers are sergeants. There are many different types of sergeants ranging for a regular old sergeant which is the lowest non-commission all the way up to the rank of sergeant major which is the highest rank of enlisted ranks. Above enlisted ranks you have officers. Officers are 2nd lieutenant, 1st lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and different grades of generals.","So the issue here is that they are calling him a commander when he is a fairly low ranking individual. In US army terms, he could have less than a few years of service and no formal leadership training. He would have no authority to make big picture decisions. NCOs and officers have special schools they go to in order to learn how to lead. Even then, lieutenants don't really lead. They assist a captain who leads a company, which is 4-5 platoons and each platoon has 3-4 squads. Captain is the lowest rank that would actually constitute a ""commander"" as they are the first rank who actually holds the title of Commanding Officer. Most laypeople would be looking for someone with the rank of lieutenant colonel, which lead a battalion of 1,000+ troops, before they really start considering them a commander.",0
"It seems Fox is complaining about the support going to Ukraine, that we are against Russia, and that we aren't sending equipment quick enough to defeat Russia.","Even if it's just a Ukrainian feint, if the Russian lines collapse in the south, they can always change their plans and turn their feint into a proper offensive.",1
"Specifically this was the Nov. 2022 issue with the cover story being titled ""Minority Rule -- How 3% of Texans call the shots for the rest of us"" by Michael Hardy. A further description of the article's thesis in the Table of Contents attributes the current seemingly deep red make-up of the state's elected officials to ""gerrymandering, voter suppression, low primary-election turnout and an anemic Democratic party"". There was a interesting little chart in the article showing just how few Texans -- GOP and Dems -- actually turn up to vote in the primaries. So a 'tiny fraction' of voters are choosing the likes of Abbott, Cruz, et al. And I'd guess that a lot of what this article says might well apply to Florida as well.","Well, if they all wind up in Florida it means that those states will be all the 'bluer' and perhaps the Sunshine State can serve as a kind of 'safety valve' where all the reddist of the elderly wingnuts can be isolated.",0
"""hey I got arrested for stealing your gun and if you bail me out I will tell you who I sold it to so you can buy it back."".","Yeah. The world can thank this mustachioed fuck for fueling the conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, rebellions in Congo, and Angola. So many died and shit is still a mess. The world can thank him for ensuring the African continent is awash with weapons. Obviously he isn’t the only arms trafficking scum to operate there but there is no doubt as to the damage he is directly responsible for on the African continent. I hope this guy gets to join the other ruzzian felons on the frontline.",1
Incoming Palestinian sympathizers demanding the Jews in Israel let themselves be massacred . It’s literally in the Hamas charter (who Palestinians democratically elected in Gaza) to wipe out Israel and the Jews … I wish both sides could come to peace.,"“Come on guys, we have all decided to try to stop murdering every single Jew and are just are settling for 98%!” Hamas, probably, when they updated their charter.",1
"I can see you’re ducking and diving the “zero-COVID” thing, but I’ll assume you’ve realised you were in error. Also, in a more recent study, Sinovac has been shown to be no less effective than mRNA vaccines, at preventing serious illness and death (Source: ).","Although 50% effectiveness is far below the greater than 90% real-world protection of COVID-19 vaccines made with messenger RNA (mRNA), it may still be good enough to curb the disease's spread.",1
I've heard a little about it and it seems like a lot of small factors adding up like taller men have an edge in physical combat and are slightly more likely to survive and taller men have more boys.,"I was actually referencing a generalization of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis that taller parents have a higher ratio of sons than daughters because it is a highly heritable trait that increases male reproductive success and not female. When you include that taller parents have more children in general, you can hypothesize that you will increase the rate of tall sons.",0
These people are protesting policy leading to climate change. The theoretical hazard of obstructing emergency vehicles is next to nothing in this part of The Hague (many parallel roads).,"Your comment about emergency vehicles being let through is a little odd, because it’s not an issue of an emergency vehicle that finds it’s way to the blockade. Only a sociopath would not step aside for an ambulance that is right in front of them. The issue is the clogging of travel arteries. That ambulance that is 50 cars deep in that gridlock isn’t getting through that blockade, certainly not timely… and that ignores the needs of all of the other travelers that could have equally urgent needs.",1
If we start eliminating people from voting for being too young…can we also eliminate those that are too old? Older voters may be voting for things that they might not have to deal with the consequences for in the future.,Voting matters more for 16 year olds than 65 year olds. I'm tired of geriatrics making life worse for younger generations with no consequences to themselves.,1
"If you mean the corruption tricked Russia into thinking it would take less than a week to take Ukraine, then that is probably part of it, buy Zelensky had been running on fighting corruption since he was made leader.","Are you suggesting that the only way for Zelenskyy to maintain power is for him to appease corrupt officials by allowing them to steal? Even during war time, when the state traditionally is given additional powers to fight against corruption?",1
On the district level MAGA still has appeal in certain areas but nationally it’s disastrous for the Republican Party.,McCarthy or whoever becomes the next house majority leader will have to spend so much attention to prevent MAGA from fracturing the party going into 2024. Hopefully to no avail.,0
' his phone volunteers were more interested in winning arguments with the people they were calling than they were interesting in making more calls and swaying more voters. '.,"Yep. Essentially a bunch of wealthy, geriatric capitalists with a leaning towards social justice but not at the expense of their pocketbook.",1
Not all Americans are ignorant to the world. There is just nothing we can do. Literally the average American doesn't make enough to get into a political office to change anything. We are all new-age slaves. Owned by a credit score and Corporate America who basically buys congress through lobbying (paying congress to get their way)....,"Sending money abroad while raising taxes, food cost, and shorting the average American people. While I'm all for humanitarian efforts, I believe they should begin at home and not be a back breaker for ""us regular Americans"".",0
"We do have vaccines for H5N1 which have been stockpiled by a fair few countries, so we should able to start out on some action in advance.","So then why is the death rate of H5N1 50% if a simple flu vaccine provides protection? That doesn’t make any sense. We would need an updated flu vaccine targeting H5N1, and that would take a year at least.",1
There's a big-ass asterisk on that tho. For law enforcement purposes they can force your encryption key to renew with a copy being sent to meta so law enforcement can follow your conversations.,The big question is how long the new encryption key lasts after a law enforcement request. The major concern is that once law enforcement has your encryption key they leak it themselves due to poor security.,1
90% of student loan borrowers owe $50k or less (see note 1 below for an interesting fact about the remaining 10%).,"Of the remaining 10% who need the $20k forgiveness, DoEd estimated 80% took pell grants and qualify.",0
"I don't think people realize just how crazy this could get. If they have a 2 person majority a BoBo the Clown, MTG, etc could keep McCarthy out of the speaker spot. But it's a general vote by Congress so Dems could nominate someone, literally anyone, and vote for them as speaker...with just 2 Republican votes. Oh and anyone who hasn't been sworn in due to recount? They don't get to vote. This is going to be good.",There needs to be a majority of votes for a Speaker or the session of Congress can't begin. Longest it's ever gone is 2 months. Literally nothing gets done until they pick a speaker. It's further complicated by recounts where they can't swear in until the recount is done. I doubt it would be Pelosi but if there are a handful of hold outs someone like Kitzinger could be a compromise where maybe moderates of both parties vote for him.,0
"Moral issues aside, India might regret this later. Russia would be China’s bitch after this war, so India would have no support from Russia against China and no western support for its alignment with Russia.","No doubt India is spending money buying stuff. But we are not talking about Pakistan here, we are talking about China here. India can not match China in a war. India might be spending 70 billion USD every year but China is spending more than 300 billion. And Its still less percent of GDP than India indicating still more potential.",0
"Yes? It's saying that Exxon's own scientists were skilled and knowledgeable and came to the same conclusions as other independent/government scientists, not that they were somehow more skilled and knowledgeable than modern scienctists.","""Exxon’s science was highly adept and the “projections were also consistent with, and at least as skillful as, those of independent academic and government models”"". they use past tense, implying that the models used to be at least as skillful as others. had they used present tense, the implication would have been that they still are. the study itself, which is linked in the article, specifies ""the same as that of independent academic and government projections published between 1970 and 2007."".",1
"Would that be challenged? Certainly. Congress works in student loan repayment into future budgets to help fund the government, and the president can't threaten tax revenues without congressional approval. However, until overruled in court, Biden can keep everything on hold. Courts take well over a year to make decisions, so Biden could keep it on hold until the general election, easily.",Biden should extend it indefinitely so they make restarting loan repayment part of the presidential platforms. I want to see how a republican fairs saying they want to restart student loans on people who are hurting financially.,0
"The trouble is that McCarthy doesn't have the cache among his peers that a Pelosi, Boehner, McConnell, Schumer, or Frist had, so there's no reason for Democrats to trust anything he'd agree to would hold up.","It would also require McCarthy to care about doing good for the people of the United States, which is unfortunately not a requisite for the position.",0
Republicans would have voted it down and blamed the Dems for not letting the negotiations go on. The republicans already said they wanted a 30 day cooling off period. By then republicans would be in power in house. The whole situation was set up and people are going with the republican narrative.,One party actually could have voted for paid sick leave and did not. What you are saying is the republicans agreed with the dems to not vote on paid sick leave and nobody leaked it.,0
"And China doesn't want to ask the outside world for vaccines because then they would have to admit that their sucks, and the government can't admit being wrong.","It's kinda surprising, China has go have a very deep pool of skilled scientists and resources, why they couldn't develop a vaccine as effective as the Wests.",1
The wealthy ruling class will never treat the labor workers better unless they force them too. One of the ways labor could fight for better treatment would be through striking. That option was taken away by the president and congress.,"Oh look, again we're all arguing about whose fault it is while the workers get screwed and the rail owners make record profits. The system isn't broken, it's working exactly how it is supposed to.",0
"There literally only needs to be seven Republicans who side with the full Democratic voting bloc and those 218 (I'm not sure about the one Democrat who died before taking office) could elect the speaker. It's not 218 Republicans who get to elect the speaker, it's 218 total members of the house. It's always been you vote for your own party, but if a Republican has the guts to have the MAGA crowd against them - Democrats and centrists Republicans could pass legislation and wouldn't matter what the nutter MAGA people say.",I think it's very possible an ambitious Republican backbencher can cobble together six collegues in competitive districts and see if they can deal with the Democratic caucus.,1
"Or, if Ukraine keeps winning, imagine how much less the US needs to spend on defences in the region (its already down a lot, considering Sweden and Finland will join nato, and that it has been proven Russia's military is a paper tiger).","1: Note: I'm bringing this up because of how Russia/Putin invading Ukraine is playing out is rapidly altering situations where the USA has forced tension, specifically with Russia and on a non-nuclear country's land.",1
Keep in mind theocracy is ambiguous in terms of what they agree on. Almost all want a religious state but otherwise most are not in favor of how the Taliban views it.,"Unfortunately, this might actually be what some of the Taliban wants. They aren't fond of Western style education for anyone and getting the whole system to implode might be seen as a good thing by them.",1
Also execs at the companies getting paid in stock can increase their own income by increasing the price on stock they will be compensated with in the future.,"They functionally serve the same purpose, the only difference is that with buybacks the value to shareholders comes from a higher stock price while the dividend is paid out directly to them. Some companies prefer dividends because they provide an incentive for investors to continue holding the stock, others prefer buybacks because it allows the investor to choose when to monetize / generate cash by selling as opposed to having mandatory cash distributions every quarter. Also, if companies pay a dividend they generally try to maintaining it quarter after quarter with some consistency. Reducing your dividend is seen as a very negative move by investors, so companies generally try to be conservative about how much they pay in dividends. Buybacks can be done at the company’s discretion an on an irregular schedule, so even for dividend paying companies it is an effective tool for returning excess cash to shareholders especially if you have a one-time windfall or period of strong performance which generates cash but which you don’t feel merits increasing your dividend.",1
"The whole vaccine debate is filled to the brim with these kinds of junk science populists, misleading claims, out of context statistics, and straight up lies and has been this way for several decades. When you thoroughly debunk one thing, either people don't read the counter arguments, or they just make up something else and move to the next thing.","I honestly feel like most of the misinformation out there doesn't even refer to research. It's just a bunch of weird claims that make references to ""common sense"", as if that explains everything.",1
"Shouldn't prosecutors follow state law, since that is their job? State laws are written and passed representatives that were democratically elected by the voters. In other words, state laws on abortion represent what the people of that State want. Prosecutors should respect democracy, and follow the will of the people.","Democracy does not magically lead to good government, good policies, and good laws. The opposite can happen. That is what the will of the people mean. If the voters want to bring back slavery, ban abortion, ban immigration from Asia, etc., we can, and it will be perfectly legal. Prosecutors and judges need to respect Democracy.",0
"Awhile back, I read a proposal to have pilots fly the planes remotely from the ground so that each pilot could fly multiple planes at the same time. That sounds like a way to completely suck the fun out of the job and destroy one of the reasons people probably want to be pilots in the first place.","Removing a pilot from the flight deck undermines that entire effort and will absolutely decrease safety purely for the sake of increasing profits (people that think ticket prices will go down are nuts). Thankfully for everyone, the FAA don't get down like that. Their primary purpose for existing is to keep aviation safe; and despite what the news networks say, they are very good at it.",1
What a stupid take by 538. Shoehorning all voters into two parties makes these conversations moot. It's more of the inside baseball type shit we get from major news networks. There are only two boxes to choose from. Of course people will keep picking one or the other.,"I'm saying that it's not that there are fewer non-independent voters, I'm saying that there aren't enough descriptors for it to matter. It's bullshit because it's presuming that reality is what politics says it is. It's not.",0
"That most recent dump came out of Otero county, which is very right-leaning. Remaining votes are more pro-Frisch.","And this district has a history of running repeat candidates. If she wins, Dems will run Frisch again on the message ""now that we know we can beat her, let's beat her"" and it might just pull some more people out of the woodwork — especially in a general election where democrats could get a boost.",0
Edit: I am not making conclusions about how long or not long it took us to notice. Only saying that might be a motivation for this weird Chinese balloon shenanigans.,"China: Launches strange balloon, admits it got away from them. Urges calm when the story hits US media, claims it's a weather satellite only.",1
"It became a game where because the U.S. had so many nukes the Soviets needed more to take them out, which meant the U.S. needed more to target the additional Soviet nukes etc etc.",Because Russian and the United States agreed to stop building more nukes and shrink their arsenal(The united States in the 60's had 30k nuclear warheads and the Russians caught up in the 80's with 45k nuclear warheads).,1
"When I used facebook, i didn't have lizardman staring at me every once in a while, just because he's the man. Because...facebook isn't about him. And twitter sure as heck didn't use to be and really isn't about Musk.","Those tweets don’t say anything about ITAR. They state Musk’s purported reason for holding back on Starlink deployment, which was fear of escalating the conflict.",1
Actually not really. Twitter had a publish set of standards. They warned people. Twitter was not political except to people who were pissed they couldn't spew their warped ideology on it because it impacted civil discourse which was their products purpose.,"Well, if your political views wouldn't have been allowed on TV in the era before social media, then yes, it gave you a platform that didn't exist before hand.",1
"I'm sure there are restaurants that have more complicated cases, but talking about the restaurant in question, it seems to be a pretty clear case on what they should do. They say in the article they are holding tables for up to an hour waiting for reservations to show up and turning people away the whole time. A restaurant is in business to make money, and the simplest solution for that place would be to eliminate the problem - reservations. Or, if they absolutely don't want to get rid of them, rework how they do them. It's ridiculous to hold a table for an hour when you've got customers waiting. Give reservations a small window to show up and tell them they lose their table if they're late. They can introduce fees if they think it'll help, but unless they make the fees substantial, i don't see it helping in a positive way for the business.","How much of a fee are they going to charge that's going to make a difference to either themselves or their clientele? If this is a tapas restaurant seating only 35, i can imagine it's not cheap. A $20 fee isn't going to make a dent in their lost income over a cancellation, and it isn't going to mean much to someone likely to spend $100+ per person at their table. But if the restaurant tries to make it a more meaningful fee, they're going to really piss off clientele...",0
"It’s not debatable when you open the “whole world,” up for debate. But it’s definitely true, in the US, that legal, and safe abortions lead to lower crime.","While I agree some of the issues will still be there, abortion is still something that the majority of Americans want to be available. That won't go away in 2 years and Gen Z is now a BIG factor. Take into account that boomers are dying and the younger generations are heavily leaning to the left, the onus is going to be on the republicans to come up with something more creative to act offended toward. The republicans are becoming more and more unpalatable to the increasing majority of Americans. People tend to react very strongly to having their rights taken away from them and their kids. Gen Z seems to be thinking long term and has dug in on voting for their rights instead of cultural issues used to distract at the very most.",1
"""The ban will apply to any form of commemoration or representation of persons, symbols, information linked to totalitarian or authoritarian regimes and ideologies.",">The prohibitions will not apply to museums, archives, libraries when organising exhibitions, informing the public about totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their consequences, and using such objects and information for the purposes of education, scholarship, professional art, and collecting.",1
"It depends. If Congress created the spending program and gave the Executive Agency responsible for it wide latitude in administering it, then they could withhold money by not ""meeting the program qualifications"". But if Congress was very specific on how the money is allocated and spent, then it would be unconstitutional to withhold it.","Except a credit check and background check are not discrimination, it's the landlord doing their due diligence to ensure their tenants are likely to pay and not cause a problem for other residents. If you had evidence of landlords disproportionally denying minorities even though they passed both checks because the landlord was using race, then you would have a discrimination case.",0
"They're miserable, scared snowflakes who feel oppressed and pretend to be proud of their ignorance because they're too lazy to learn things. So probably not very good.",Yeah. The people that were already this way before 2016 I get. The people that seemed totally normal before who suddenly had this weird awakening of conspiracy and violent rhetoric is what scares me. I have a family member who was a blue collar prounion democrat voting woman my entire life. Since 2016 she’s done a 180 and has been in the Trump train ever since.,1
"Yes, and? They don't care about laws, or even the Constitution, despite what they'd have you believe. Sure, they'll use them, when it's to their advantage, but as soon as it becomes inconvenient, they'll dispense with any pretext of caring. They care about power, and that's it. ""Law and order"" is a slogan to allow them to use or abuse the law as they see fit, to impose the type of order they want. It's practically doublespeak.","Look at long lines to vote. When it happens in, say, Atlanta, they'll say there's no problem, and it shouldn't be easy to vote, because only motivated people should be able to vote. Then look at Arizona, and suddenly it's such an egregious violation that either the election should be voided and redone, or the loser should just be declared the winner.",0
They are making a point that the municipal tap water is safe (and any independent environmental group can easily sample and have it tested to verify).,The drinking water that comes from municipal water sources is treated and safe. I wouldn't drink the water in creeks or rivers before or after this incident.,1
"I've be shocked if Wagner didn't have it's own agents in the Russian military structure, perhaps it's as simple as Prighozin giving the nod to the right guy and Putin's dead that evening.","All Prigozhin does is broadcast bold bandit-like rhetoric that Russian and credulous Western media picks up on, and that happens because he's powerless, just like Medvedev, after he was demoted to unimportant roles. In the West they just can't imagine that power in Russia can be as centralized as it isn't in the democratic countries.",1
"At another point he asked for F-16s, F-35s, Eurofighters, Tornados, French Rafales and Swedish Gripen jets.","I read Germany has about 90 ready to be decommissioned but capable Tornado fighters being replaced by F-35’s. If they are serviceable capable jets why not send them all to Ukraine at the very least it would save him having to trans get them to the aviation junk yard. NATO will send fighters eventually but to late Scholz will make sure of that dragging his feet and wasting as much time as possible, that man is a total Dick Head.",1
"This is a fact. DRPK was never a part of the ROK. However, it is a lie of omission. The DRPK was never a part of ROK because both were created after a civil war which fractured Korea into two separate countries. It is clear the intent is for ROK + DRPK to reunify into one Korea.","Since China was unified by the coalition, and then fractured again by the Chinese Civil War, there is of course something to ""reunify"".",0
Interesting how the judge carefully considered the testimony of her witnesses and found that EVEN THEY admitted they could find no evidence of malfeasance by election workers.,"I remember one of the right wing rags the other day quoting a part of the testimony where the Maricopa attorney asks Lake’s so-called “expert” witness if he has personal knowledge of intentional actions taken by the county that would have affected the election results. In response, the witness says something to the effect of “I know for a FACT that had those ballots been printed correctly that Lake would have won.”.",1
Somehow you all think that a county being raped for 50 plus years of resources just magically comes right over night.,We spend the most money per capita on education - our country was fucked by half a century+ of apartheid. No one is kept dumb our country was broken during apartheid where all the whites would have gotten treated differently.,0
"You included a link to fvap.gov. I can see where the states are empowered to send overseas voters Absentee Ballot Applications by electronic means, but my quick perusal did not find how the voters could vote by email.","You could also allow people to revote and only count the last ballot making it almost impossible to force someone to vote how you want, you just need a good verification system but that's no different than when I use the Global Entry website.",1
"If you mean ""continue their normal puberty,"" they're taken off the puberty blockers and the body does the rest.","Puberty blockers have been in use since the 80s, with no issues. While they were initially used to treat precocious puberty, it’s the same drugs used for the same purpose (delay puberty), so there’s no reason to assume there would be any new issues.",1
"Yes and no, the vast majority currently oppose the current government and would most likely support secular reforms. HOWEVER an even larger majority of like 4/5 do not like America and supported the late General Soleimani. Meaning that even if they did overthrow the current government, it would still hate America and it would still have an IRGC equivalent doing its thing in the Middle East because those aspects have overwhelming support.",The Ayatollah and regime would like to distract the unhappy masses protesting about the innocent killings of citizens by reminding them how much they hate America.,1
"Again, and this relates to my other comment, they do not need to prove that Trump believed that he didn’t have enough votes. You merely have to prove that a reasonable person couldn’t believe that given the information Trump had at that time.","The problem is that believing crazy conspiracy theories that stroke his ego is kind of Trump's thing. Fortunately for us, lying is Trump's other thing. Much of the trial will center around discerning whether Trump was lying or deluded. Which pretty much sums up what all of us were doing 2016-2020.",1
You think these extremes are bad now? Wait until we blow right past 1.5 C under the excuse of “have to use this shit to keep people warm/cold Not our fault”.,Governments could divert from dirty energy but refuse because the money from entrenched polluters and climate denialists is far too great and persuasive.,0
Not sure what would change if Belarus could be blagged into doing it. I suspect exactly the same + 1 crater in Belarus where an airfield used to be.,"Russia would still carry the can, because Belarus aren't going to be launching any nukes on their own. Belarus as Belarus is under no threat from anybody, and that's proven...the initial attack was launched in part through Belarus and Ukraine has not retaliated to Belarus as a nation, because everybody knows Russia was reaching up and working Lukashenko like a muppet.",0
"If the conversation was ""hey Iran be more cautious of what your arms sales get used for"" then sure that's a conversation to have. But this ain't it. This just adding to the list of reasons the US ""can't deal"" with Iran because clearly they are the baddest of the bad that ever badded no takesy-backsys.","Like if we all lived in a Buddhist utopian paradise world, then sure I would love to see that charge be made. But not only do we not, there is an entire industry specifically for producing and selling weapons of war. And guess what they kill people. And again the US is one of the biggest arms dealers + also arming at least two nations currently participating in genocide...",0
"There are times and there are times. ww2 proved that there's no such thing as true ""neutrality"" when there's a large nation doing imperialist invasions in Europe. There are times when things aren't clearcut, but this isn't one of those times.","For a country that suffered under tyranny more than twice, you have to be surprised at Austria being such wankers about this.",0
"The jet is travelling at mach speed, and the balloon is travelling at wind speed. Any object dropped by the jet would continue travelling at mach, making this difficult to justify, but I see what you mean.","I don't know, it's likely built into the nose of the aircraft or somewhere around it, it has IR technology regardless. Sidewinder missiles also have their own built in IR technology that the jet can use I believe, though I think the F22 keeps them in a hidden bay for radar stealth reasons.",1
"Columbiana County , and East Palestine did vote overwhelmingly for DeWine (see , search ""E Palestine"").","That describes the Trump/GOP that the East Palestinians voted for. Elections have consequences. These people voted for uncontrolled toxic spills and they got what they voted for, are they not pleased?",1
"I'm not denying there are Nazi's amongst the ranks. But suggesting that Azov Batallion is presently a Nazi organization, officially sanctioned as such by the Ukrainian government, is a false equivocation at best, and Russian propaganda at worst - they literally have said they are fighting the Ukrainians to eradicate Nazi's. The presence of Nazi's, and even a fascist element in its formation, is not enough to throw the baby out with the bathwater today... Else there is not a single gun-carrying group in the eastern or western world that is not also a ""Nazi organization"". Hell, has the US government ever indicated that ""Operation Paperclip"" was unethical? That's where we assisted actual Third Reich scientists in coming here because we wanted their rocket tech.","Can we also acknowledge that 1. Picking apart the people fighting for Ukraine is not the top priority while they are actively getting fucking attacked 2. Ukraine has a lot of complex issues, including but not limited to having ""their Trump"" as PM or President for the better part of 12 years, ending just 9 years ago, at which point Putin invaded Crimea?",0
"It's not like the concept isn't a necessity. Congress has refused to take action, and it's hard to imagine a functional economy if businesses didn't have things like 4th and 5th amendment rights. And it's hard to imagine customers being very happy if their purchase history, patient records, etc were completely open to any governmental entity on a whim rather than generally being gated behind a warrant. I don't want the local evangelical DA to have my purchase records from the local sex shop without an cause so they can try to turn my life upside down because they don't agree with my lifestyle.","There are plenty of businesses that have data that you want to be private that are unavoidable in everyday life, such as a bank, a doctor's office, a psychologist, a pharmacy, etc etc. Your dealings with them are largely predicated on the knowledge that your data is protected from unwanted and unwarranted intrusion at some level, backed by law and contract, and if they did not protect that data you would go elsewhere.",0
People are protesting in China but the overwhelming majority are protesting the Covid measures not the CCP. That's a fact.,"So yeah. It's not really the most observant question to ask why the Chinese almost never protest, and don't feel much incentive to protest. There are better ways to support the Chinese people than shaming them for not standing up for themselves given the immense risk and faint, barely-there reward.",1
Also just a reminder that the corporate income tax rate was nearly double what it is now back in the 50s and 60s.,"There are some finer points to it, sure. And I agree theres a limit to how high you can raise taxes, someone else mentioned the Laffer Curve. But I’d argue you need a much much higher tax rate before you start to see negative consequences, def significantly higher from where US current corporate rates are at 21%.",0
"I would say most are 10x better Americans than the homegrown ones. Generally a strong commitment to family, taking responsibility, and busting their asses doing whatever jobs they can find.","Haven’t found the religious fundamentalist aspect to be true for most. Even for those who are: fundamentalist Catholics from S. America tend to be pretty left wing economically still (believing in the government not just letting people starve or be homeless— wow, that makes America sound bad). YMMV because most Venezuelans I know here in the US are almost straight up Fascist.",0
"Alright, so you're a cop and you open the door and there are 2 guys holding a hammer. Which one do you tackle/shoot?",How were they supposed to know who was the victim in this case if they are literally both holding onto the hammer?,0
"The point of filling out the entire form? To assure voter fraud does not occur, and that all given information checks out. You don’t file your taxes with missing info that could be used to authenticate yourself, correct?","It’s not disenfranchisement, they haven’t been revoked of the right to vote. The people who failed to fill out their form, which is their own mistake, can return to recast. The government shouldn’t have to hover over you to make sure you know your own mistakes.",0
"Edit: User has account made in Fall of 2020, a month or so prior to a US election. Account had no activity until two months ago, again roughly a month before a US election. User's comments are all or almost all similar in theme to the above.","If you're thinking this is a gotcha, liberals don't tend to view political parties like football teams, and are generally quite comfortable with a realistic view of individual politicians and the democratic party as a whole. No one is claiming democrats are perfect - just that republican leadership is a steaming pile of bigoted, self-serving dogshit.",0
"If news companies stopped reporting on every fucking thing she said, her rhetoric wouldn't have any impact on anyone.","And the dumbasses who run our media are just like ""Well, she says she didn't, so clearly these things are unrelated On to the next story"".",1
"Are you aware that healthcare, infrastructure and economy comes from taxing? Do you think those immigrant workers work without being taxed or what? And everything they consume are also taxed. Their tuition? Taxed. The butter they bought from stores? Taxed, Mama's tampons? Taxed. Wages are being suppressed not by accepting educated people, which Canada does, it's done by accepting people who work illegally.","of foreign workers as it’s hurting the economic opportunities of people already in Canada: FN, immigrants, descendants of imperialists alike. If we had the infrastructure, economy, and healthcare systems to support that many people, I would have nothing to say, but that’s not the case.",1
"America has had what, more mass shootings than there are days so far THIS year, and that's kinda standard with a deviation of lots more or a couple less.","I mean, in Australia we did a lot more and... it went well after like three weeks. A couple months of people voluntarily dropping guns off, and we have had well, not zero gun deaths in the last 20 years, but close and only one or two ""mass shootings"" since.",0
The current Russian state is functionally a result of the KGB replacing the CPSU as the ruling power in the country. The CPSU was ideological - even its most cynical politicians broadly accepted the ideological underpinnings of the state - whereas the Siloviki feel no obligations to do any such thing.,To call it conservative implies it has a deeper ideology than it has actually got and to some extent accepts the image it tries to portray to the Americans. It's governed by more of a sort of obsequious national nihilism.,0
"After your voters ALL said they want him, you're going to turn around and say ""no, vote for Gary Johnson instead?"" That's the short road to political irrelevance. And if a politician cares about anything, it's power and relevance.","And for me it always comes back to money in politics. Capitalists have had the working people of this country by the throat back 150 years, with some brief shift in power in the early 1900s. We need another shift to get money out of politics for good, until then we will be on a cliff looking down at the decent into fascism.",1
You said israel targets children with missiles (Gaza) so I asked you what should israel do to stop Hamas’s rocket fire (Gaza) and you send over an essay about the West Bank.,"no matter what you think about IDF, i think anyone can agree that putting rocket launchers near a school shows a horrifying disregard for lives of children.",1
"I think the only places where the “boycott the World Cup” campaign got any tracking was in Europe and, as ever, the World Cup is delivering record-breaking numbers in all European countries. I think like 1/3 of French people said they were less interested in the World Cup because where it was taken place and yet literally everyone’s watching.","It’s like the NFL celebrating the Super Bowl is the most watched event of the year in the USA. Like, no shit, that’s obvious.",0
"Yeah, something light enough to float on a ballon, with that much size visible, has very little capacity for a lead container to hide nuclear materials from easy detection….","So, going by Greene's ""theory,"" the military should have shot a balloon with a possibly nuclear/radioactive payload down right over a populated area? Or over farmland? I'm sure some farmers would have loved being told ""you can't grow anything on this land for the next few hundred years due to the radiation from the thing we shot down when Greene wanted us to."".",1
Letting a 7 year old explore the internet without guidance and oversight is like letting your child run loose to wherever they want in the outside world.,"I would say limited internet access for anyone under 16, maybe even 17, I don't think it should be law but I wish more parents were more proactive with their kids.",1
"What I would add as a clarification though is that because Russia has lost does not mean Ukraine as one. Its well possible to have a result that means that while Russia has lost completely, so has Ukraine.","I would rather say that Russia has lost the Ukraine war however, as even if they end up being able to declare victory the cost of that victory is already far higher than the potential gains.",0
"Prior to being conquered by the Arabians, Persians followed a very different religion - Zoroastrianism.","They had their own state religion: Zoroastrianism, again, for thousands of years before Christianity and Islam.",1
You know what I’m just gonna say it. This smacks of the special counsel with Mueller. He came in touted as a real tough guy. Looking back it was all just a way to punt. Here we go again. A special counsel with a new tough guy who will say some stuff but ultimately nothing will happen. Just someone to pretend stuff is being done. And you know what? It sucks.,"It's sad. The adage of ""A ignorant vote is worth as much as much as a educated vote"" is very real. People really unironically think tan suits and mustard on a democrat is equivalent or more severe than murder encouraged by a republican when they shout out ""BOTH SIDES are the SAME!"".",1
"The democrats should get behind the absolutely most reasonable, least power seeking House republican and throw their votes to that person….",Real question from a casual observer: is there a moderate/ non-Trump Republican (or a conservative Democrat) who could win with the backing of all of the Democrats and a few Republicans?,1
"Israel is a military powerhouse, and yet is refusing to raise their hand to defend a Nation they have deep ties to.",America wouldn't just be giving money to Israel for the fun of it and it would be much more cost. For example it would damage their information gathering capabilities in the middle east.,1
If only there'd been 6 visible planets instead of 5. Then we'd have 8 day weeks and could split things evenly.,"I did 4 tens for about 10 years, and recently went back to 5x8s. The weekends are short, but that extra 2 hours after work makes a huge difference in my time off during the weekdays and honestly I'm back to preferring 5x8s.",0
"Ukraine is in a conundrum. Even if they push to Russia's border, they can't go any farther, because much of the western assistance is predicated on that. Russia would be humiliated, but that's about it as far is direct actions Ukraine can take. The war is going to end via peace talks one way or another. Putin isn't going to be overthrown by the Ukrainian army.","At the current time, if Putin were to be replaced, it's highly likely that the replacement would be even more nationalistic. In this regard, Putin isn't analogous to Hitler, he's probably more like Kaiser Wilhelm.",0
Bingo! Having documents isn't the crime Trump is accused of. Refusing to return documents and obstructing efforts to retrieve documents is the crime Trump is accused of.,Trump's refusal to return the Documents and lying about not having them is in itself a crime. It wouldn't matter whether the documents were Secret or Top Secret.,0
"Guns are far, far too casually treated, and far too many gun owners are devoid of sense and/or think control of a firearm stops when they leave the range.",when it comes to a gun forrgetfulness turns into neglectfulness and Possible Danger. When was the last item you forgot that could kill or hurt someone?,1
"Contrast that with a hypothetical where a ""sane"" Republican who respects election results runs third party and who garners that hypothetical ""at least 1%"" of the vote.","In a race like the one that just went down in Arizona for the Governor's seat, where the margins are less than a single percent -- yes, I think someone who appeals to 1-in-4 Republicans likely had an impact. It should be noted that the ad was a BANGER, too. Imagine yourself as a traditionally Republican-leaning voter in Arizona, but you have feelings of deep unease about Donald Trump and his election denial (yes, there are a minority of Republicans who feel this way) .... and you see this on TV:",1
Yep. Any person who acted like her would be contacted by HR as soon as the meeting was over and would be escorted from the building by security after handing in her access card.,"The North American Trash Howler has a very distinctive appearance which makes it easy to spot in the wild. Notice the characteristic plumage, human hair soaked in peroxide until it develops a brittle, straw-like consistency. The Howler will often color its skin a deep orange as a contrast to the pale pelt, and use inexpensive cosmetics to highlight its eyelashes by clumping them together to create a black, spidery appearance. The Southern Howler favors fitted, brightly colored dresses to attract potential mates, and will make loud screeches to earn the attention of the pack.",0
"it's a phenomenon in which the amount of junk in orbit around Earth reaches a point where it just creates more and more space debris, causing big problems for satellites, astronauts and mission planners.","Yeah I just watched a short video on it yesterday, if this debris hits another satellite and breaks that one apart, a low-earth orbit domino effect could begin and could render us unable to launch anything for a few years. While our gps satellites and other geostationary satellites would be unaffected by the debris, we would be unable to launch any rockets for a few years, which has terrifying implications.",1
What they probably can't do themselves is make a three-tier cake with pretty flower decorations made of icing. That's typically the main service being requested from a baker for a wedding regardless of sexual orientation. Nobody who requests that is asking for anything that anybody would consider to be objectionable creative expression.,"No, and they're not compelling anybody. The website designer in the case you're talking about hasn't been compelled to make a website for a gay couple because she doesn't offer wedding websites as a service. She could continue doing that and nobody will ever force her to make a wedding website for a gay couple.",0
"Go on, ask China if HK is a part of China. The suit is made in China, so it should be labelled as made in China. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too, if China wanted HK to retain its special status then they should have kept their grubby hands off of it like they said they would.",China unilaterally taking direct control of HK makes HK a security threat. The WTO has zero jurisdiction over the national security concerns of the US.,0
"The person above is not right, support for gay marriage reached a majority in 2012, and at the time that dems briefly held enough seats to get legislature through was in 2009, right after California, one of the most liberal states voted to ban it (you can argue that it was close and there was tons of fear mongering from out-of-state interest groups). Democrats had months were they could pass legislature and it was not a universally popular position and they were trying to pass healthcare legislature at the same time. I'm gay, I think being against gay marriage is an wholly immoral position, but there was not much dems could do.",It is plainly unconstitutional to tell straights they can get married and at the same time tell gay people they cannot.,1
The explosions in late September rocked a key pipeline that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe at a time when Moscow is using energy as leverage in retaliation for Western sanctions over the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.,"Russia stopped the gas flow through Nord Stream 1 earlier this year, citing technical problems, while European leaders accused Moscow of trying to “blackmail” countries that have sent weapons to Ukraine to help fend off Russian forces.",0
"He thought it would work because he made Russia hate Russia and so far it's worked out fine. I guess the proof that Ukrainians have a distinct and valuable culture is that they're not willing to become a bunch of self-hating, beaten down dogs like the sad Russian population.",For every Ukrainian he kills and tortures he leaves behind a family fanatically opposed to any sort of peaceful coexistence with Russia.,1
EDIT: The reason antisemites bring up Israel in every thread about American Jews is because they can't stand the narrative that some Jews are victims.,"Antisemites can't resist bringing up iSrAeL in threads about American Jews, despite American Jews having no say in Israeli politics. They do it because they can't stand Jews being viewed as victims and want to shift the narrative to Jews as aggressors and therefore deserving of hate.",0
"Yes, and that is exactly, EXACTLY what this legislation is doing. It is not prohibiting people from getting the addictive and harmful drug. It is regulating how that drug can be sold.",I believe that the ban in MA has increased the amount that those products are being smuggled into the state. That will probably happen in CA too. But there is already a black market for highly-taxed items everywhere that the taxes are lower nearby. That is what created that black market. The smugglers are just now taking advantage of the new flavoring ban to feed what will be a dwindling customer base. This will shake out over time as new smokers get hooked on non-flavored tobacco.,0
"If it wasn't for the outdated election system and the decades of GOP de-democratification of state election systems, the GOP would be luck y to win a Congressional house once every 10 years.",I like how a lot of state Republican parties are looking at how DeSantis is able to win over senior citizens and Cubans in bright red Florida as if he is somehow a compelling candidate to swing states.,1
"I don't have a problem with their choice, and I don't care what percent don't want to help. As long as the next time their economy collapses or their country is devastated by a natural disaster or invasion that they don't come whining for help. If they're consistent, then great, no harm no foul. If not, they can suck up the life lesson.","And when Russia decides to annex Croatia and no one comes running to Croatia's aid, I hope the Croatian people really thank their government for showing Europe how important it is not to get involved in a war more than is necessary.",0
"Despite the fact that the rail companies are the ones responsible does the media focused on them. Did they name one rail executive or the majority owners and point out they did this. The media chose instead to focus on Biden. Had Biden not intervened, the media would, instead of blaming the executives and owners, blamed Biden for the shortages and additional inflation it caused.","Yeah, how dare the media point out that Biden's union busting 3 months prior to this disaster is largely responsible for this disaster. We should all definitely be mad at someone other than Biden. Great take right here. Well done.",1
"These police were betrayed their fellow police officers, as well as betrayed by the fellow American citizens who fell on them in a filthy mob.","If police did die, they'd just say ""well only X number did"" or ""well only the cowardly/traitorous ones"", because their position is that they are always right, quick someone bullshit a justification, so fuck em all together.",1
"Your comment doesn't make any sense. You're responding to someone insisting the feds be sent to stop the human trafficking, which it is when southern states take people, including children and young girls who are at high risk of being 'lost' and send them elsewhere.","It sounds like you're mocking his request for the FBI to get involved, as if what's happening to the migrants is not all that bad because they are being bussed elsewhere to a safe location.",0
"No, you're not getting it. Read the comment I'm replying to again. Better to get it on your own than have it explained to you. But if you insist.","Yes, the war propaganda of today is as transparently cringeworthy as the whole 'slap a Jap' from WWII. And you're just as outcast if you don't clap along. I'm trusted well enough that I can say the occasional ""You do know that the West has its own propaganda filter, right? At least Russia is physically close to Ukraine so some people have seen it directly."" I've seen it from both sides and the tolerance for dissent is pretty much the same as in Russia (though there you might get criminal charges rather than downvotes, so meh).",0
"""I wouldn't do that because I want to bring our country forward,"" he said on the Hugh Hewitt radio program. ""I would be entitled to a revenge tour, if you want to know the truth, but I wouldn't do that. I would want to strenhen our border, get inflation down, build our economy up."".","Yeah, given everything else he lied about, I highly doubt he would actually stick to this ""no revenge tour"", hell just saying he is ""entitled"" to one. Sigh, if somehow he actually wins, then I, I give up, because it's clear he will only focus on this and more crimes to get whatever he wants, even as more crises emerge and expand here and across the globe.",0
The idea that Congress would force a contract on workers whose unions rejected it makes me physically sick with disgust and rage.,"It makes it clear that the republicans are the ones who don’t want paid OR unpaid sick leave, not the democrats. The dems are in a bad position because there’s a lot of pressure on them to keep the economy running at a time when it’s basically teetering on the brink. Fuck republicans, this wouldn’t be a problem at all if it weren’t their life’s mission to destroy workers.",1
Just because Dred Scott had clearly bad outcomes doesn’t mean it was wrongly decided. Unless you can explain how it was wrongly decided.,"Well I’ll pretty much just echo what Taney said. The constitution seems to have recognized a class of American (Slaves) outside of citizens were guaranteed rights. These people and their descendants would not be citizens and thus would not have standing to sue. Though I think he may have overreached when he extended this to all African Americans as at the founding several states had African American freemen, who were eligible to vote and hold office, so the case probably shouldn’t have effected them and their descendants.",0
"The special purpose grand jury served as an investigatory body that could recommend charges but could not indict. Willis is now deciding whether to pursue charges and open a ""regular"" criminal grand jury, to seek possible indictments against Trump or others based on the special grand jury's recommendations, compiled in a report it made following the completion of its work.","Their attempt to do so would be based on recent public statements by the forewoman of a special purpose grand jury, Emily Kohrs, according to two people familiar with the discussions who spoke with CBS News.",0
"NPVIC says that the popular vote winner has votes cast in the electoral college by the majority of those votes, thus ensuring the popular vote winner will actually win. This eliminates the electoral college and results in a popular vote winner (PROGRESS).","With current statewide winner-take-all laws, a presidential candidate could lose despite winning 78%+ of the popular vote and 38 smaller states.",1
"The federal government already offered Ohio aid; the governor of Ohio declined it, because apparently Republicans would rather have their constituents suffer and die than accept help from democrats.","The federal government already offered Ohio aid; the governor of Ohio declined it, because apparently Republicans would rather have their constituents suffer and die than accept help from democrats.",0
"Depending on the case being civil or criminal, pleading the fifth can be seen/viewed as abject inference and an implication of guilt which is up to the jury.",Now in a criminal trial if a witness pleads the 5th would it not be reasonable to conclude that this witness may be involved in a criminal activity and could this not be taken as an indication that a conspiracy to commit the crime happened? After all the jury needs not to be convinced a crime happened but there is enough evidence to warrant a trial.,1
"Yep thank u. One of those pro ruzzies who won't stand up downvoted my comment. Go figure. They won't go to the front lines nor fight Pootin, but downvote my comment in protest of the sheep that they are. I merely compared the vast differences of the 2 countries and they hate it. Welp what can I say. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️.","I'm usually on board with hating whataboutisms but religion is religion and its terrible all around. Maybe 15% are good but doesn't make up for the rest. It just breeds evil and hate and ignorance all based on fairy tales at that. It's not so much that Christians are bad, US bad, it's that religion sucks in general. It's the reason half the planet is fucked up and been the reason for wars for all of history. And now in the US religion is seeping into government not to mention the hate in our society. And like person said, all over a sky genie. All over beliefs and not reality.",0
"If a judge is going to do their due diligence on a warrant, police won’t take warrants to that judge for approval.","IIRC, the police said a postal inspector told them Breonna Taylor received a package at her address for her ex-boyfriend; a guy who wasn’t some high level drug dealer. But they didn’t provide any evidence of what the package might be or why they knew it was illegal.",0
"That is not comparable to Trump having hundreds more documents, and REFUSING to had them over after being asked many many times.",Did Donald Trump intentionally hoard documents that he knew he shouldn't have? Yes. Did he lie about it? Yes.,1
"It's highly condional. In short, IF russia withdraws all troops from Ukraine AND there is a peace deal that both sides agree upon, THEN in time trade could resume.","If Russia will stop the war, it will only because Ukraine will break their face, not because they are desperate to trade with the West again. Until Russia fully changes its leadership and its mentality, Russia will just use all the new money from the trade to do a new invasion.",1
"1- A lot of ""Middle Easterners' have the mindset of Jews = Israelis (my point here is they don't know the difference.).","While a lot of Middle Eastern have the mindset of Jews = Israeli, majority of educated Arabs that I met and within my family just despise Israel as a State and government not Jews.",0
I saw something the other day that it is now cheaper in the US to build new wind and solar (with the gridscale batteries needed to grid balance) than it is to keep operating existing coal plants.,wind and solar installations also create a larger number of long lasting decent paying jobs over a larger geographically distributed area.,0
Really should have said terrorist attacks or attempted assassinations. The more obvious assumption based on the headline is it politicians shooting at people.,"Does it seem damn likely these shootings were related and politically motivated? Absolutely. The reporter might even hold that opinion too, but they can’t state it as fact.",1
"US railroads and rail unions have been at loggerheads this year over wages, onerous scheduling, a lack of sick pay, and staffing shortages.”.","The reason railway workers are pushing for 15 paid sick days is because of the work schedule. I'm on call 24/7 365 days a year. The company can't figure out the lineups for trains, so I never truly know when I'll go to work. The issue with this, is if I have a doctor's appointment on a Wednesday, I may have to lay off on Monday, Tuesday, and then Wednesday just to make that appointment. The company likes to call us, run the trains in a way that I'm gonna work twelve hours or more, and then sit me in a hotel for over 30 hours (my current record is 40 hours in the hotel just waiting on my phone call).",1
"Out of curiosity to what extent think Israel would intervene militarily of they felt Iran was very close to attaining nuclear weapons. From what I’m seeing it seems like they are more than will to do targeted drone strikes as it is, but do you think Israel would ever escalate further than that if they felt Iran was very close.","That sums it up pretty well - there is also Iran's nuclear program, which Israel has attacked before ( with the help of the USA - ).",1
Georgia Republicans sure did like runoffs in all the years they flipped a Democratic win in the general to a Republican win in the runoff. Acting only when Republicans start losing runoff elections after decades of winning them makes the timing conspicuous.,The notion that Raffensperger is opposing runoffs to try to consolidate Republican power is laughable.,1
"In case that difference isn't clear: If there are 4 voters that vote Republican every single time, 4 voters that vote Democrat every single time, and 1 voter that votes evenly for either of them, then that's pretty close. But if polling shows that that 1 voter is 90% likely to vote Democrat this time, then there's a 90% chance the Democrats will win, even though the final tally will still be close.",The largest demographic group of Republican voters in Georgia are 30-49 and 65+ only makes up 20% of the Republican voters. The distribution is pretty close to Democrats except for the fact that the Democrats have 12% of their voters in the 65+ category. ().,0
Russian nuclear doctrine calls for a nuclear first strike under certain conditions. There's a reason why there's no Western troops in Ukraine. There's a reason why the West places limitations on Ukraine on attacking Russian soil.,The US affirmed yesterday that we do not place limit on Ukraine attacking Russian soil. The West only puts limits on Ukraine using anything we have given them to attack Russian soil. They can do as they please with their own weapons.,1
They also want to pass a bill to prohibit the recognition of the respect of marriage act in the state.,"This law would be in direct violation of H.R.8404 - The Respect for Marriage Act, which Biden signed into law back in December.",1
"And ""status quo for as long as Dems win"" is already things getting worse, because (for example) not increasing the minimum wage is stagnation, since inflation is constantly eating into it.","But your ""reality"" is that status quo will either remain the status quo for as long as Dems win, or get worse if Republicans win. So you are in favor of a system where things can only get worse by definition.",0
What Putin and his buddies are dreaming of seems to be a mix of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.,"This sounds like Putin wanting to reform the former Soviet empire, and is looking for excuses to do it by force.",1
"Banning Nuclear weapons isn't going to stop countries from using Nuclear weapons. In the end it will always be the same result. In the event that somebody fires a nuclear missile at another country, every country that has one is going to instantly launch theirs in retaliation ban or no ban on nuclear weapons.","Fun fact: not sure if aware (not trying in any way to be condescending), but since NK has declared itself a nuclear power a little over a month ago, their doctrine for nuclear launch is ""first strike"" if they feel that their government, sovereign territory or ANY OTHER PERCEIVED THREAT. They live in a perpetual state of existential crisis, so they could perceive literally anything as a threat warranting a first strike attack. Also, they've outright said that these tests they've been conducting are for the sole purpose of preparing to attack SK AND U.S.",1
"Yeah, but the point is that he was advising her to perjure herself (which she didn't), because no one would know. Imagine an attorney giving instructions on how to steal money so no one would find out, it's basically the same thing.","This quote struck me as deeply idiotic as well. I am not versed in American law, but can't the lawyer be disbarred for this? He is basically advising perjury.",0
"""No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."".",I mean. From my point of view they should all legitimately be in jail but if asking them not to become our leaders of the best we got I might as well just leave.,1
"She was at 34K earlier today (maybe higher, I caught the Pima, Pinal, and Maricopa drops all at once, and if Pima came first that would have put her further ahead before Pinal and Maricopa chipped away). The big drop is always Maricopa which went 55-45 in Lake's favor this time, so it is definitely accurate to say Lake cut into Hobbs's lead.","In Maricopa County, all ballots printed and filled out on Election Day were counted by 2AM Wednesday morning (aside from about 17K with printer issues, 12K of which were counted in Friday or Saturday's batch). And most of the mail-ins received by the Saturday before Election Day were signature-verified and counted prior to Election Day, and released in the initial batch. So we're left with a gray zone of early ballots received by mail or dropped off between Saturday and Tuesday, and those are being counted in the order received (i.e., ballots dropped off at precincts closer to downtown were counted first, and suburban/exurban fringes of the metro area further from the counting center are getting processed last).",0
"If it's not out of the womb and capable of being viable outside the womb it's not a living breathing person. People can try and disagree with that based on their personal feelings but to move forward as a society we need to accept that the life of the living, breathing woman carrying the fetus has more value then that of a fetus.","and lets not forget their willingness to let the mother Die even if the fetus is no longer viable, or if she's an underage rape victim of 10 who isn't even built properly to push another human out of her body and will likely die or be cripled by it. (of course Christofasit like to ignore those as even being real things that happen).",1
"1) The core belief that spreading democracy, the western way of living, and unleashing the freedom of individuals (education, marriage, speech) is key to peace.",China's messaging on this war has always been quite consistent and it's clear as day what they want. They want Russia to go back to 2020 borders and be done with it. They want NATO to not interfere and go home. They want everyone to go home so China could focus on playing the silk road long game.,0
"US and the west did take side to provide arms to Ukraine so, why would China not be allowed to pick a side too?",i stand with ukraine but telling china not to provide weapons to russia while the usa do the same is literally hypocrisy.,1
The US will continue to do nothing because Turkey and Azerbaijan are married at the hip and Turkey is more valuable than Armenia geopolitically. That's the ugly truth.,He was very open about his goal being ethnic cleansing before restarting the conflict two years ago. It didn't matter then internationally and is also an important part of his domestic branding.,0
"But from the majority of the house, aka a subset of democrats and and republicans, he could be a 218 vote getter.","If they follow the Hastert Rule (only bringing to the floor bills that have majority support within the majority party), they're not going to be able to legislate at all. It'll just be circus faux investigations and nothing else.",1
"""While the pellet released more energy than the lasers put in, the calculation does not include the 300 or so megajoules needed to power up the lasers in the first place. The NIF lasers fire about once a day, but a power plant would need to heat targets 10 times per second. Then there is the cost of the targets. The ones used in the US experiment cost tens of thousands of dollars, but for a viable power plant, they would need to cost pence. Another issue is how to get the energy out as heat."".","""In the latest experiment, researchers pumped in 2.05 megajoules of laser energy and got about 3.15MJ out – a roughly 50% gain and a sign that fusion reactions in the pellet were driving further fusion reactions."".",0
The hoops that 3rd parties have to jump through just to exist are insane. Then the hoops they have to jump through just to appear on a ballot seem impossible. There are 50 states. That means 3rd parties have to satisfy 50 sets of rules to appear on each ballot. That’s how it is.,"That's not what happens. They don't look at the candidate who came in third place and say, ""I should be more like the even bigger loser."" Instead, what they do is look at the policies of the winning candidate (in this scenario, the Republican), and say, ""I should be more like the one who won."".",1
"Yes, but the last war they fought against each other was the opposite. The Soviet invasion of Manchuria was insanely one-sided, and as much as I hate Soviet autocracy, I admit their contribution to the Japanese unconditional surrender is severely understated. However, flash forward to today, and Russia would be astonishingly ill-equipped to fight Japan.",Russia is failing because they have built a military that is far better at looking good than actually being good.,1
"But if Belarus invades Ukraine, and they are the aggressors, suddenly everything in Belarus is a legitimate target. All the Russian troops that are stationed there, all the Belarussian troops, all of the government buildings, internal police, etc. All of it becomes a legitimate target of war.","Lukashenko is under a lot of pressure by Putin to join the war, but he has to balance this against the risk of his own regime becoming legitimate targets. It's not inconceivable that Ukraine could cooperate with Belarusian resistance forces to knock out enough military and governmental infrastructure with air and artillery strikes to make the Lukashenko regime vulnerable. They could also work with their Western allies to arm Belarusian resistance forces. Suddenly the Belarusian army and police will have to deal with a flood of weapons including small arms and more dangerous things like Javelins and NLAWs. The West absolutely could provide these weapons to Belarusian resistance forces now, but again, unless Belarus attacks first, it would amount to an ""unprovoked aggression"" against Belarus. Again, if Ukraine is seen as striking first, it would severely degrade the diplomatic standing they currently enjoy.",0
I think brexit was stupid but it’s disingenuous to pretend that there were not legit reasons some people might be disenfranchised with it.,"Pay no attention to the 'remoaners' , people who voted in favour of Brexit had their reasons and to them those reasons were sound.",1
"I don’t like him, I’m sure you don’t like him, but the fact that he managed to appeal to millions of people means yeah, someone finds that turd charismatic. So yes.","I would agree with that. I think most of these politicians don’t really believe in what they say, just what in will get them votes. Both sides do it, and we deserve better. When Dems controlled the house and senate, they knew SCOTUS was gonna overturn Roe V Wade because of the leak, and they had the votes to send nationally legal abortion to Biden’s desk, and they didn’t. Likewise, when Republicans controlled the senate and house, they could have rammed through some national laws that loosened gun laws, or anything else they campaigned on, but again they didn’t. These people suck, and will only lift their fingers enough to get votes and line their own pockets.",1
"They get a voting guide before that, and another mailer that shows them how many of the previous elections they voted in, all of which help remind and encourage to vote.",They can write a short paper detailing how they would register and plan to vote should they ever acquire citizenship in future and maybe compare it to their step-by-step voting processing back in the home country?,1
The most plausible scenario for this would be that it was in fact a stray Ukrainian S-300 and all the evidence available to NATO as well as Russia easily prove that.,It could have instead galvanized the west and Poland into supplying Ukraine with even more advanced weapons and defense systems to further weaken Russia... which is in NATO's and Poland's interest... in which case why lie about it not being Russian?,0
"What this ruling is about is it that there is no solid justification put forth as to why a 16 year old can't vote, but an 18 year old can.","Seems like a pretty open-and-shut case that it is illegal to restrict voting to people ages 18 and above, since that is clear age-based discrimination.",1
"The prior poster is not being misleading. The judge overseeing this case asked the Biden Administration to submit a statement on the issue. The Biden Administration therefore submitted a statement on the issue, which set forth (a) its understanding of the law, and (b) that it does not condone the heinous murder of Jamal Khashoggi.","I understand why you feel that way, and it's probably at minimum a political error for the very reason that it makes you and others have the reaction you are having. But...I think the reality is that we are a nation of laws and that if we start ignoring the law just because it feels ""just"" to some observers, we have nothing. At that point, we are a banana republic at the whim of whomever is in charge. So, assuming the State Dept was right on the law (I don't know either way because this is not my area), then I think they were right to respond to the judge's request as they did.",0
"To your last question - if they wanna be part of the Israeli society, that just want to live in peace, and not praise the killing of jews, I more than welcome them to be able to vote.","Ofc I didn't mean ALL Palestinians, and some do want democracy, but like I said, if most wanted it, they would have had it by now.",0
Anyone who says he has lost his marbles needs to just rewatch that masterclass. He took their schoolyard jackassery and owned them. I’m honestly not sure how Repubs move on from that.,"Agree completely with the first part. I don't want it privatized either. I want it gone. You seem to have misunderstood my point, so here is an example. My grandmother is very wealthy and receives a bit more per month from social security than my grandmother-in-law who is and has always been dirt poor (I did a budget for both). How is this in any way fair if it's supposed to help the poor? Why not, instead of letting poor people be taxed out of what little they make, let them invest the same amount instead?",1
"Eta. The down votes really show that people don't want to look inward, as well (""as well"" being key). Good on y'all virtue signaling. Easy enough to allow someone to die in your own land because ""those people"" while being pissed about it happening elsewhere.","🤣 So whilst you're like ""we should focus on all of it"" you're missing the point that I mention that. Like, people are literally out here focusing on one thing at a time while refusing to acknowledge the things happening in their own areas.",0
"Russia keeps saying they’ve attacked Ukraine bc Ukraine refused to de-militarize itself, therefore, Russia will forcibly demilitarize it.","If the moments comes where Ukraine pushes Russia out of their country, he will simple stop sending his forces over the border and just say ""Mission accomplished"" while never losing a word about this.",1
"Thankfully nukes are made so they need a very specific action to go off, which is why there haven't been any accidental nuclear explosions despite some pretty big accidents happening.","Nukes certainly prevented a war between Russia and other major players with nukes, which would've been more deadly.",1
Containing by half measures is indeed not possible but half measures do help lowering peak demand on hospitals.,Just have people work from home and close non essential places like schools and some factories would have slowed down the spread considerably.,0
"They had their own state religion: Zoroastrianism, again, for thousands of years before Christianity and Islam.","Iranians are the descendants of the Persian culture, a really old culture who were around for thousand of years before the Arabs(Not actually true, see below). Think the Achaemenids, Parthians, or the Sassanids, they fought with the Greeks, the romans and the byzantine empire for thousands of years.",0
"My only concern with this approach is that since there are so many Republican members of congress involved, what kind of shitshow will ensue if and when say, 8 or so members of the House and a few Republican Senators get indicted on conspiracy charges. If they get arrested right away, it throws the balance of power off now that they have the House and they will go to the ends of the earth to protect that newly acquired power as they always do.","Honestly, I want the Congress men and women involved in the conspiracy to get pinched more than Trump himself. Trump's indictment would be inevitable, but the enablers and people who will work incessantly to undo or block accountability will still be in powerful positions in government, even if he is. They will work tirelessly to protect themselves, Trump and the whole situation, since they know he will throw them all under the bus if he gets nabbed before them.",0
"It creates this horrific scenario where we can't protect individuals' data, we can only protect it from small businesses, and make it marginally more expensive for the big business.",I think it's stupid if we just go after TikTok without holding our own US-based companies accountable for protecting our data. Have we forgotten about Cambridge Analytica? What's Elon doing over at Twitter with user data?,1
"Yes, in Russia, many people have a conservative view. But the young ones are less than 30 years old, we are now completely closed in the police regime. even if we clandestinely collect force against Putin, then the system is completely with Putin. These assholes are now trying to impose a relationship with China. And we just need help from Europe.","Also, Poland is part of NATO. Attacking Poland would definitely pull in NATO forces. There is no way Russia wins a direct battle with NATO unless they resort to nuclear weapons. I doubt even China would back them if they unleash nukes though.",1
"I don't understand this. Yes, noone can compete in dogfights with the F-22 and we don't export the F-22, but noone is dogfighting with jets.",I would also add there are indeed jets that could compete in a dogfight with the F22. The Su-57 for example would absolutely hold a candle to the F22 in a dogfight. Where the F22 has the advantage though is it's stealth capability. Making a dogfight unnecessary.,1
"So, tradition and morals are the only things stopping it from being abused how it currently is then. Got it. I really do keep forgetting that the ""norms"" are the only thing keeping people like him from exploiting this country for every penny and for power. Trump has shown us that our safeguards don't mean anything if people don't adhere to tradition and simply break laws and run for office or remain in office to avoid actually paying for the crimes.","Eh. It's probably an ethics thing. I know several either resigned or were ""politely"" asked to step down. I keep forgetting that the government is about 99% tradition and ethics/morals, keeping it from falling to corruption or self-destruction. Say what you will about the founding fathers, but they did have some lines they wouldn't cross, even if they had crap views or laws they stuck to them and held the politicians to them.",0
Those pro-coalition Republicans didn’t join out of the goodness of their hearts. They joined because it was in their best interests.,"But I submit to you that we are in a right now, and during political realignments the old rules suddenly go hang because politicians’ and voters’ incentive structures become rearranged by some event — such as, well, everything that’s happened over the past six years and especially Dobbs — and simply for the purpose of pursuing self interest (if nothing else — I assume politicians are selfish machiavellians and go from there), individual actors find themselves in positions where unusual decisions are clearly and obviously beneficial to them.",0
"So really we are talking about removing the rights of people who have committed no crime, who have not been arrested nor charged, for not even the suspicion of a crime, but the suspicion of maybe a potential future crime with zero evidence beyond hearsay, hearsay that the accused has no right to defend themselves against.","If someone did something bad enough to justify stripping them of their 2A rights and their property, then charge them with a crime, arrest them, have a trial in a court of law before a jury of their peers, convict them, and then you can do that.",0
"Besides the other responses, something you're missing here is that being a party of civil rights means protecting vulnerable people even when it's not an overwhelmingly popular stance. The qualities of the party that make a huge majority of Black voters side with Democrats are the same qualities that make things like trans rights an important part of the party's platform.","Everyone has their own pet issue they think should be the center of attention. Even if it is popular on its own, it isn't always the best one to unite a diverse group of voters. But despite that, many Democratic candidates continue to support the idea of universal health care in one form or another.",0
"Because Russia is looking more threatening now, pro-Ukraine Redditors (of which I am one, that's how I know lol) are starting to feel backed into a corner.","If both of those towns are in Ukrainian hands come March, Ukraine will be primed for a counteroffensive in the south and northeast come April and Russias situation is going to become very desperate.",1
"What Plzbanmebrony is suggesting is that we turn an area of forest into charcoal, hide it away like the fossil-fuels originally were, then regrow the trees in said area so they'll drain out more of the carbon in the air to grow. This would in theory work as long as the process (including storing it) doesn't produce more emissions through fossil fuels than it stores (albeit be a bit inefficient). The biggest challenge would be making sure that we don't also store away inorganic nutrients.","You're saying that like fire is somehow innately carbon positive. Fire is carbon neutral as long as its fuel was already in the carbon cycle, and as long as whatever we burned is replaced (such as regrowing trees).",0
"But in the end, people with functional cars will be forced to buy new cars, so theres a forced demand for car manufacturing, which is not good for the environment I guess?",Isn't part of the issue that older cars were made when fuel emissions standards were more lax than today (and presumably cars today are made with more lax standards than the future)? Being well maintained or not doesn't change that.,1
"Again, I'm glad to see more EVs but the Teslas in production you can get with a short wait are in fact very nice cars.","To be clear I'm very happy to see that many other car companies are starting to make EVs (in limited numbers for the most part though). I do want to see more completion pushing Tesla, and any car company, to make better EVs.",0
"The Russian soldiers have to wonder why these missiles couldn't be used in the war effort instead of against civilians, who are no threat?",Isn't that going to also affect the Russian invaders? I keep reading about their strategy to freeze out the Ukrainians but don't they need that infrastructure for their soldiers as well?,1
"Yes there is. You need to have independent sovereignty to be a member of the WTO. Hong Kong used to be sovereign, and now they are not. I never said they needed to be a democracy, but China destroying their democracy proves that HK is not independent and therefore they deserve zero recognition under the WTO.",HK was allowed to keep its special trade status under the the condition that its democracy be preserved until 2050. China destroyed it a full 30 years early. China can not be trusted and now neither can HK.,0
"“Asked to compare the scale of the abuses by both sides, Bogner said the mistreatment of Ukrainian prisoners by Russians was ""fairly systematic"" whereas she said it was ""not systematic"" for Ukraine to mistreat Russian soldiers.”.","> Asked to compare the scale of the abuses by both sides, Bogner said the mistreatment of Ukrainian prisoners by Russians was ""fairly systematic"" whereas she said it was ""not systematic"" for Ukraine to mistreat Russian soldiers.",1
"They are just immune to the idea that ""IT ISN'T THE US's DECISION"" Like i really believe they are so caught up in their own reality of dictatorship and puppet rulers , that Putin and Co. can't actually understand Ukraine wanting to choose it's own path.","Russia and ""allies"" whole narrative is that Ukraine isn't a real country and as such can't have any agency in anything. Which is why they're always trying to call for negotiations with the U.S or NATO or the EU, because then that confirms to their true believers that they're actually fighting all of NATO... instead of losing to one of the poorest countries in Europe using NATO's hand-me-downs.",1
"Probably the space he rented to Celebrity Apprentice was same space he had loaned to Jeffry Epstein for their ""Model parties."" Notice that Epstein got the space for free. (Although photos and testimony about those parties indicate Trump was paid off in other ways by Epstein. Call it barter.).","That is the case here. Donald Trump, Alina Habba, and Habba Madaio & Associates are jointly and severally liable for the total amount of the legal fees accrued by the defendants: $937,989.39.",1
It says well regulated militia is necessary for the security of a free state. That is about as far is it goes regarding any requirements in the 2nd.,Isn't equivalent either. It is about utilizing public spaces and infrastructure. You aren't required to get a permit to just tell other people your opinions.,0
"I'm not sure about that. I remember when the debt hit 1 trillion around 1990 and there were predictions that Social Security and medicare would be backrupt by 2000 and the US in general would be bankrupt by that point. It never happened. I'm not saying our debt is irrelevant, but it is not a priority to eliminate it. It is impirtant to keep an adequate debt to gdp ratio though.",I agree there is good debt and understand that a country’s debt is not the same as a persons. However a large amount of debt is held by borrowing from social security. I would rather them freeze social security rate increases now than doing a more extreme freeze in the future.,1
"Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.), John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Ron Johnson (Wis), plus Rep. Kay Granger (Tex.).",Right. Major Taylor Ham can actively call for sedition but this is unAmerican. Promoting democracy and freedom is unAmerican to them. That’s about right.,1
Trump's refusal to return the Documents and lying about not having them is in itself a crime. It wouldn't matter whether the documents were Secret or Top Secret.,"If Trump had the documents, kept them safe, and gave them back when asked, I personally wouldn't care.",1
"That’s part of the issue. USSC nominees were supposed to be bipartisan for their nomination by a majority vote, but the polarization has become so ridiculous over the past few decades that of course favors will be made behind closed doors. McConnell saying a judge can’t be nominated during an election year, then doing it is just one example. Also, the original comment I replied to was in regards to the Federalist Society. They fucking groom their picks. “I’ll get you a seat but you have to dissent whenever we want you to.” It’s all transactional and fucked up. Even Obama caved a bit with his nomination of Garland, a moderate conservative by today’s standards, and was shut down just because a president with a “D” nominated him.","Even Amy saying “glad to hear some noise that aren’t protestors outside my house,” referring to the applause she got and talking about her help to overturn Toe V Wade after (I believe?) stating it was already precedent during her hearings.",0
"Yes, especially if they go in the trash. If we update our systems and they can be put in with food waste then they are composted.","As to Methane, that depends on if the restaurant was lying about composting. The bamboo itself when it breaks down does not release methane. The methane in a trash dump comes from the anaerobic bacteria releasing it as a waste product as they break down the bamboo. Compost heaps use aerobic bacteria, which does not release methane. They will release some CO2. but its no where near the 30:1 ratio that methane is as a GHG vs CO2.",1
"Imo, in Vlads eyes his options were annex the resource-rich territories of Ukraine to keep his country afloat or let the carcass of the Russian Federation come collapsing down and be exposed in the history books as a massive failure.",His claim more than two months ago that the annexed regions belonged to Russia came after the Russian military lost ground to a Ukrainian counteroffensive and followed hastily staged “referendums” that were rejected by Ukraine and its Western allies as a sham.,1
"I can't find it again but if you include a column for $200k and up, the difference is statistically insignificant again. Democrats control 20 of the 20 wealthiest congressional districts, represent a supermajority of households in the 1% and collect more money in political donations in 5 of the last 6 cycles.",Why would you pay off the education debt of the middle and upper class when you could pay off the debts of the working class? Must have something to do with who they vote for.,0
That such an absurdly illogical argument is being parroted as fact is a great argument against freedom of speech.,"The Saudis don't give a damn about that. They were just looking out for their own economy, which is petrol based and would be damaged by low oil prices. Which is also why Biden didn't actually do anything, because he knew it as well as I do.",0
"The Peruvian congress is controlled by right wing loyalists of the previous dictator Fujimori, and they have been trying to impeach Castillo since the day he won.","The parties in the congress who impeached Castillo are supporters of the previous dictator Fujimori and his family, and Castillo has been a target for impeachment (which in Peru doesn't require cause) since he won the election.",0
Either way it’s kind of weird for them to give long range weapons for defense purposes..so essentially they’re just there as deterrence to additional Russian escalation.,More weapons to evict the Russian invaders so that this terrorism is pointless (which it mostly is already) is the only way to encourage them to stop it. And until that happens more air defence.,1
That's a power move. Only the Gigast of Chads would wear that outfit and them piss themselves on live TV.,"Only cowards use diapers. Real MenTM just piss themselves and own it, like this clearly most Manliest of Men.",0
I don't think you understand politics lol... Trump can be made to go away if he becomes a problem and he just made himself a problem. By him pushing to have so many failures of politicians running in this election - because he's the King maker - it's showed the Republicans that trump is basically a threat to their success at this stage.,The Republicans are learning a little too late that bending over and kissing Trump’s ass while regurgitating his crazy conspiracy theories to the media is not a sure fire way to victory.,1
I'm guessing Biden/Pete don't want to implement any real regulations that could be used as an excuse by airlines to jack up prices. But that's the most charitable way of looking at it. And now the end result is probably higher prices anyway as Southwest will have to make the improvements they should have made 6 months ago and they will be out millions of revenue from this holiday season.,But even so have fines of $0 for cancelled flights that are the error of Southwest's refusal to properly staff or invest in IT isn't the answer.,0
If the Chinese people want a strong central authority we shouldn’t try to mess with that by using trade and supply chain integration as a means to liberalize them.,I do think we should engage diplomatically with china and other non-liberalized counties but we should not integrate with them. It’s previous obvious that we are headed to confrontation and we should be honest about that.,0
"I think this is shortsighted; in a war with China, the only reason fighting would happen near the mainland would be because the USN expects to win it handedly. Blockades thousands of miles away from any Chinese land, like in the strait of Malacca, would cripple their ability to fight via a lack of fuel, as well as their economy as a whole. Taiwan is, of course, an important piece of land to consider, however I am unconvinced that the PRC could take it in a timely manner even if the USN refused any major engagements in nearby waters.","I'm not saying Taiwan wouldn't experience an invasion (I think the Navy wargamed it and found we couldn't respond fast enough to stop a landing), but the Chinese navy's chances of survival are slim.",1
"But unemployment numbers are a smokescreen. They often ignore those who just stopped asking for unemployment, and ignore all the jobs that are poverty wage dogshit.","ya i don’t think low unemployment is the win they are claiming it is- if so many people can’t really afford to live/have access to basic needs, what’s the fucking point ?",1
"The Kremlin literally spent hundreds of Millions of US dollars funneled through the NRA directly to sitting GOP senators and house members. They literally flipped 180-degrees overnight after getting the Millions of dollars, in some cases on camera days later saying the exact opposite thing they had adamantly maintained prior to getting a talk with their benefactors. Then as soon as they heard what was required for their new funding, they start word-for-word repeating Russian propoganda talking points, quoting RT, and voting for everything Putin wants and against anything that would limit his reach in the world.","The GOP are bought and owned by Russia. They spent the 4th of July in Moscow getting facetime with their handlers, and more funding.",0
"I've read that viruses die 40+% faster in humidity of at least 50-55% than in dry air. It's actually written in the paperwork on my humidifier, which I initially bought to also help keep us safer from viruses. I don't understand why humidifier vouchers or something similar weren't ever even mentioned or suggested. It's really a no brainer.","Saying disease transmission doesn't happen in your house is like saying you can't get sick breathing inside a hospital or inside a lab, and you certainly don't need to wear special gear. What planet are you from? MOST disease transmission happens inside.",0
"If you hit every shot and 1 bullet kills each person you hit. The killing potential is significantly less than an AR-15, semi-auto shotgun, or magazine-fed semi-auto pistol.","While I'm a proponent of gun control legislation, state-by-state or city-by-city gun legislation is like a designated pee area in a pool. Gun control is most effective when it is universal.",0
"NO, you just essentially gave justification for Ukraine to bomb another country and try to blame it on Russia in hopes it incites war with NATO which would probably expand into a world war most likely the last war to ever be. If Russia does bomb another country purposely fine go to war otherwise avoid if possible. I sympathize with Ukraine but there is a line. They are receiving Billions from us already.",I mean if it was Ukraine then they just killed a lot of their credibility but trying to blame Russia and bring nato into this. I understand that Russia started it but drawing others into a war that they are not responsible for through devious means is gross.,0
"It's like when the US complained about Iran interfering in Iraq or Pakistan with Afghanistan. This is stupid, Dr. Strangelove levels of pointlessness.","Oh, and just to solidify the point, Russians complaining about direct involvement from other actors IN A COUNTRY THEY INVADED is a fucking joke, and I wish they would understand why we all laugh at them about that.",0
"With all the bluster of tsunami nuking Manhatten, Russia is terrified of having to actually go toe to toe with the US itself.",Look how many wars the US started to revenge 911. Think about how many we would start if our 1 enemy killed our president. Dead meat.,0
"Who the fuck in Georgia failed to vet a candidate upon filing to run to make sure they are a legal resident of the state, as required by their state constitution?","If Georgia rules do say that suspicion of fraud in another jurisdiction were enough to disqualify a candidate, I would assume news would be all over that.",1
"""Both are bad"" is the only justification when faced with the facts. It'd be nice if they took it a step further and realized the ""bad"" stuff they were told about Dems came from the actual bad party that lies. They'll admit Republicans lie, but not that they lie about the Democrats. Oh no...they are straight up 100% honest on that topic. Definitely.","IOW, they feel duped they got tricked by the Republicans but have too much pride to admit they've been wrong or that they are voting for reasons they don't want to admit (racism, hate, bigotry, sadism, fascism, authoritarianism, etc).",0
It is a “crisis” when Democrats hold the presidency and it is an “opportunity” when Republicans hold the presidency.,They simply used the word “compromise” so republicans could save face. That was the compromise that was struck.,0
"Bolsonaro got in presidency, Lula got in jail, all other participants got the money back, but Lula didn't. He procrastinated all he could his processes untill they run out of time. He's basically a convicted without a sentence. Hence the strong support for Bolsonaro.","Historically, Bolsonaro defended the Republic and went there to take out the 2 major parties, that together stole more than 3 trillions.",0
"As for your link, I think that context is important. That article is from 2017 fresh off of an abortive coup attempt in 2016 and fairly recent into Erdogan coming to power in 2014. We don't like the guy. He's a bag of dicks. I think most Western countries will see their relationship take a turn for the better when he's voted out. But our defensive alliance is different than our domestic bilateral agreements when it comes to shit like traveling visas and tourism...","It wasn't a trust issue. Turkey had a choice between S400's and F35s and preferred the S400's. The US just doesn't want a country to be able to test out cutting edge Russian anti air against its cutting edge stealth fighters obviously. When Turkey purchased the S400s, they were removed from the F35 program and, as a compromise, talks to sell F16s were held instead.",0
"It let's you see how other countries view a topic, lot of times you get a better understanding of the topics because they publish information that might not be reported in your country, etc etc etc.",So Poland finally actually send the request...after falsely claiming for 2 weeks they had already done it to score points with the polish people in preparation for their upcoming election.,0
"Seriously hoping for Ukraine to win and obliterate Russia this year, for everyone on both sides of the border. The whole world needs it.","Honestly yeah, not sure what I'd do. So far I was lucky to survive but who knows how long that will last. Obviously zero funds or marketable skills to leave anywhere. (Currently a library worker so yeah).",0
"""We could be sending people on rockets to other planets, but instead we overwhelmingly choose to send rockets into people on this planet."".","eesh. Take your damn upvote. Personally I have never voted for a Brazilian white supremacist, and anti trans drag artist, a pathological liar wholly unqualified to govern, someone who steals from sick dogs, or anyone who uses Jewish names to up their go fund me haul...but clearly someone has. It's the direct result of shitting on public schools for 30 years. An entire nation of dullards who can't count change, think the world is flat, and type ""alot."".",1
"People act as it the Russian people will suddenly decide that they have had enough and storm Putin's palace, which is just a silly pipedream. Putin isn't Gaddafi he has Russia locked down so tight, that people don't even know where his palaces are.","This isn't from Putin. It's not a direct red line warning or feigned warning of any kind. It's a US senior official saying he doesn't think Ukraine taking Crimea is in the cards right now for a variety of reasons. He also points out it's not up to the US, it's up to Ukraine, provided they have the means.",1
"They threatened nukes if Ukraine fired upon ""Russian territory"", Ukraine sunk their ""flagship"" of the Black Sea, fired missiles into Crimea, into Belgorod...nothing happened.","They threatened nuclear terrorism with the nuclear power plant if Ukraine made a push for Kherson, Ukraine pushed for Kherson and liberated it...nothing happened.",0
We have had generations of world leaders and entire governments working in collaboration with corporate interest groups to deny and downplay climate change.,"Look at the response to a devastating global pandemic and how quickly the media & government officials were to politicise, profiteer, and eventually push to sacrifice lives for ""the economy"" and I think you have your answer to how successful we have been and will be in responding to climate change.",0
"But I've said this years ago many times to many downvotes; I sincerely doubt Russia would use nukes even if it goes to war with NATO, and same for NATO. The only situation where nukes may actually start dropping is when NATO forces approach Moscow or St. Petersburg, and that's as tactical nukes. Which yes, means nuking themselves.","I personally think that, if NATO interferes, the war would be over within weeks. Or at least '91 borders restored and the war forced into a stalemate by refusal to advance into recognized Russian territory until Russia decides to finally accept reality.",0
"A few years ago I worked packing items for Amazon during the Christmas season through an outsourced employer. A thing that really sucks in working for them is that your performance is recorded by automatic systems. While there is a lot of demand for products almost no one is fired, even if their performance is low. Once the season is over, the demand drastically decreases: there are just not that many objects to pack and everyone's productivity decreases as well. Then they start firing everyone because their productivity is low. For me it was fine to be fired like that. I expected it, but others were sad about it. Working with automatically-recorded metrics is super stressful because those metrics can be used as an excuse to fire people whenever Amazon wants. They could just be honest from the beginning and tell everyone we just need you for a couple of months.","Indeed they were hiring seasonal workers, they said so and it was not a surprise to me. What I found disingenuous was firing outsourced employees with the pretense of low productivity from the employee. There simply was not enough demand.",0
"This has been my thought on Moore v. Harper for several months. The conservative court might be able to steal a few Presidential elections this way, but they're also guaranteeing themselves a role as the House Minority for years to come.","In Wisconsin, where Republicans have gerrymandered themselves to a majority in both state legislative houses despite the fact that it's basically a 50/50 state, the GOP can just decide that the state voted for a Republican President.",0
It’s another way of saying that nations shouldn’t have a sovereign right to decide how to best maintain their own security interests (usually aligning themselves with military blocs like NATO in order to develop a balance of power).,Because their realpolitik perspective is that it is a reasonable security concern to want to have a vassal state as a buffer for their borders against “western aligned” powers.,1
"But this one is open and shut, has documented criminal intent, testimony from the governor, Secretary of State, State Congress members, Trump’s own lawyers, and a dozen others - and GA state charges are particularly unfavorable for Trump’s actions.","I do think the House Committee report--and presumably the Georgia grand jury findings--has enough to convince any reasonable jury that Trump knew he was lying, and therefore knew he was pressuring Raffensberger to commit a felony. So I'm cautiously optimistic. But I can't be 100% confident about any case that rides on proving Trump believed a reasonable thing over a crazy thing.",1
"I'm pretty sure if a Russian missile landed near Biden's hotel, B-2 bombers will be flying all over Moscow the next day.",It's the same reason why the US and Russia always notify the other about every single ICBM test or rocket launch they plan to do.,1
When running for president Romney was persistent at labeling Russia our biggest geopolitical foe. In addition to the fact that it helps contrast himself with MAGA republicans he seems to be in favor of anything that takes Russia down a peg.,"I’m curious which Republicans voted in favor of Ukraine. I suspect that Collins, Murkowski, Romney and Toomey are among them, as they they sometimes have a conscience, but I’m not sure about the rest.",1
I don’t love all the things cops do and our Justice system has lots of problems but on net I would still rather live in a neighborhood with good police response times than bad ones.,"Arresting criminals is great, the cops just suck at doing their job because they can rarely ever do it properly.",1
Why should the U.S. care what the EU does? Not a single country in Europe is in the top 4 trading partners for the U.S. and only Germany is in the top 10. Britain is in there too but at 7. The EU just isn’t relevant in the western hemisphere anymore in terms of trade.,"Brussels' decision to abandon its free trade ideals would be a major setback for the global economy. It would impede economic growth, increase poverty, and lead to job losses. This would be a bad thing for both individuals and businesses, and should be avoided at all costs.",1
"Bro how will nationwide riots scare conservatives into reform? Half of them, and 90% of the cops, want to go out there and beat/shoot ppl. That’s what the whole Rittenhouse saga was about. We do need reform, serious, serious reform. But it’s going to take more than marching in the street, and I think the conservatives want there to be riots.","They want there to be “riots” (peaceful protests they can disrupt and attack) - they don’t want actual riots. If there were actual riots across the country the average white conservative would be terrified. That riot would likely never reach their small, rural communities, but attack the politicians at their homes with threats of violence and see how fast things change. With true riots if Rittenhouse were to show up with his gun he’d be shot rather than able to shoot unarmed protestors.",1
"and i wasn't implying that people in the west don't do this... i felt while reading the book (both times) that it probably was meant as a critique of what any government could fall into, and that the warnings were universal. i've lived in different countries and its interesting how some of the groupthink can vary from place to place... conventional wisdom is... more local than universal.",(it goes without saying that Bush Sr. was playing world chess in terms of many of his actions... reformulating the middle east was part of his grand strategy... he just failed to see what one domino would do to the next very well.).,0
"""Have you heard from your family recently? I hear that the Chinese government is cracking down on social activists. Say, didn't your mom make a post criticizing the government not too long ago? Seemed pretty critical to me, anyway. You should probably go back home to China and make sure that she's doing well. It's good to take care of your mother, after all."".","Or at least they should be. I have a lot of issues with how the resources are allocated, to be sure, but I think that at its core, continuing to pay some amount of tax (not all, mind; you're not paying any of the sales taxes, road tolls, property taxes, or anything of the sort when you live abroad because you're not using the systems those are attached to) into the system that you have citizenship in and can return to and take part in at literally any time due to that citizenship isn't some offensive concept.",1
"Yes, like Europe and America. France is still stealing money from African countries, and assassinating leaders that try to pull out of their predatory and corrupt nonsense. still punishing Haiti for their Slave rebellion, their fines are still causing terrible effects in their economy. British colonists still have most of the money and land in South Africa and still enslave- sorry, “Employ” black people over there.","It’s important to consider most of these migrant workers are males, from African countries and Asian countries. You people pretend to care about them but everytime too many blacks or Asians sit in your country you cry “Rape” and “White genocide”.",0
"Also historically we have a lot of good will for Russia, since it was them who liberated us from the Ottoman Empire, after 500 years of occupation.","Not how many people view it in Bulgaria. While the majority of younger people (as far as I've seen) are anti-Russian and pro-West, the older generation who lived during our communist phase are generally pro-Russia.",0
"""The west is prolonging the war by providing weapons, more people are dying because of the west and NATO is risking nuclear war by helping Ukraine."".","They create an argument, a dialogue or doubt where there shouldn't be any and the more it gets talked about, the more relevant it somehow becomes, until even sensible people are starting to debate the nuances of something which has none.",0
"So the new board has an extremely strong reason to do whatever Disney wants, and no leverage to do much else.","Disney will say something like , ""We were unable to come to an agreement about the district's budget with the intransigent board the governor put into place to punish business. It is unfortunate that the new district defaulted on the 1.2 billion dollar debt, but the board gave us no opportunity to pay it."".",0
"Post-Dobbs abortion restrictions are tyranny, by virtue of them being demonstrably unpopular (as most americans support the right to access), and still being enforced despite the demonstrable will of the majority. That be some tyranny.",Popular vote can be tyranny on either side. For smokers the flavor ban is extremely unpopular and just makes their enjoyment worse while not impacting consumption.,1
"Setting aside how absurd and nonsensical it is for the aggressor to call a ceasefire anyway, Russia never intended anything to actually cease. They wanted to make a statement about cease fire, and then gaslight people about Ukraine refusing to agree to the unilateral cease fire. That's it. It was a super bad faith statement from the start, but now they will play the angle that ""we tried to have a ceasefire and big meanie Ukraine keeps defending themselves!"".","Ah, right. I missed the bit about ""unilateral truce"". Then again, that sounds like a bit of an oxymoron! I suspect that the fact Kyiv rejected it have me the impression that they were being asked to participate.",1
"People still have outdated views on the oligarchy as if it was shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when it did indeed hold much political power, but that isn’t really the case anymore as you said.","With Russia's economy controlled by oligarchs, all of whom are effectively Putin's capos, there isn't any viable political opposition that can emerge short of a popular revolution or the death/assassination of the boss.",1
"Sleeping as much as I can, eating good, getting outdoors. None of it seems to help, I'm tired from when I open my eyes to going to bed, not sleepy tired, fatigued tired.","I'm wide awake right now at 2am on the West Coast, due to insomnia. I also have really bad joint pain, so it makes it hard to get comfortable laying down. If I do finally sleep, it's for three or four hours at a time. I just rest whenever I can't stay awake anymore. I've been having fevers and night sweats on and off as well for the last month.",1
"They should really get Patriot systems. NASAMS is basically the latest gen Patriot radar with off the shelf air to air missiles like Sidewinder, AMRAAM and Iris-T.","In larger networks, NASAMS is integrated into the whole range of missile defense, so the real range of a launcher is then just restricted by its missile range. In theory it can launch using a global hawk catching an enemy aircraft far beyond visual range.",1
"The problem with N Korea is not that they are a direct threat to the US, but how they could very easily disrupt our interests in the area and could potentially threaten our allies.","If that were true the US wouldn't hold massive military exercises with South Korea every year right outside North Korea and the USA wouldn't send bombers near the border when NK launches missiles. The USA government cares , I don't think the average citizen cares.",1
It had to do with assuring incredibly high probability of kill on the many Soviet nuclear installations (the more warheads you target at something the more likely you are to destroy it).,Additionally with “super fuzing” it’s clear U.S. doctrine is to use SSBNs as counterforce weapons as they can attain probability of kills in excess of 0.99 on hardened structures like missile silos (almost guaranteed destruction with just one warhead).,0
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Are you suggesting that Russia's military has been around for billions of years and has another several billion years worth left of munitions at the rate it's currently burning through them?,"Thankfully a lot of the higher tech munitions need frequent maintenance which Russia can't do currently, hence why they're getting missiles from Iran.",1
If the west supplying equipment and machinery to Ukraine is direct involvement resulting in Russia fighting NATO.,"""The west is prolonging the war by providing weapons, more people are dying because of the west and NATO is risking nuclear war by helping Ukraine."".",1
"I am not defending any country which wishes to sabotage another. But we must also not go down to their level. If there is a gap in the law, we should address it. I hope the national police can figure out what happened.","If they genuinely couldn't find anything to charge them with, that isn't a fuck up. It's a core part of any legitimate justice system.",0
"Equipment to integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine’s air defense systems;.","New US $2.2 billion military aid package to Ukraine includes longer-range missiles (150 kilometers) for HIMARS, two HAWK air defense firing units, 250 Javelin anti-tank missile systems and 2000 rockets, 181 MRAP vehicles and 190 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights.",1
Last year they were in a phase of getting slaughtered charging into cities with not enough infantry and lacking air superiority.,"Then Russia was in a phase of being attacked by artillery with superior range, losing their ammunition depots and supply lines and pushed out of territory they couldn’t defend.",0
The most comical part about this is the military vote is typically GOP. So not only are they clipping their own direct votes of active deployed military they are also pissing off veterans who largely vote GOP.,"It doesn’t seem like a smart political move to disenfranchise your base, make it harder for military members to vote and strip money from Medicare - who is the GOP trying to help (the 1% of course)?",1
"It's a world commodity market, when the US sell's it's natural gas it sells it at the rate dictated by the market. Yes the companies are making more because the prices are higher, but the US is also sending Billions in aid to Ukraine which offsets that gain substantially.",They go on in the article to say the US is making money on higher gas prices and selling more weapons.,1
In the states it’s mostly NIAC but they have a fair amount of influence in Canada and parts of Europe even though their govts don’t get along on paper.,The Hong Kong protests were pretty much doomed from the start considering they had the entire mainland stacked against them. The Iran protests are nationwide and nothing the government’s tried so far has rly been able to stop or even contain them.,0
"This is a real problem with operational jobs where you need them to be staffed around the clock. However, the problem only persists because scheduling is handled by a person and they don't want to be on the phone all day finding someone to swap schedules with you. You can solve this with software easily. I know because we did the same thing at my company (my team built the damn thing). I wouldn't doubt if there is a stipulation in the union contract for the people that handle scheduling to not allow any automation to protect their jobs. Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.","Yeah, someone else mentioned that, but I'll put to you what I put to him. ""Does this mean that what is needed isn't extra sick leave, but in fact more FTE's?"".",0
"Yes. There are criminal offenses the DOJ could prosecute. But, this post is about disqualifying a congressman from serving and that is not a criminal case. I suppose if they are convicted of sedition their disqualification should follow. But who imposes it or enforces it?","So, does someone need to sue to have this applied to those 34 members of Congress? Or, is this something only congress can enforce against its own members? Or it is something the governor or legislature of the Congressman's home state can do? The GOP seems to want state legislatures to control elections so maybe they'd get on board with that.",0
"Switzerland has previously rejected appeals from Germany to allow it to re-export Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine, saying such a move would violate its neutrality. The export of the weapons or ammunition to Ukraine is blocked by the so-called non-export declaration, which buyers of Swiss armaments have to sign, as well as a specific embargo on arms sales to Ukraine and Russia.","__A majority of Swiss (55%) are in favour of re-exporting Swiss-made war materiel to Ukraine, according to the NZZ am Sonntag. This is currently prohibited by Swiss law.__.",0
"The main threat I see is the mystique of Elon wearing away and that meaning that Tesla can't attract or retain key talent. That effect won't show up for a few years. If Elon gets booted or somehow, miraculously, comes to his senses they could head off that coming brain drain.","I bought most of my TSLA in June of 2019 so I can hold on for a long time. Can't wait for Elon to go. I also have driven a Model 3 in rural Minnesota for the last 4 years. This year has, if nothing else, impressed me by how amazing the people at Tesla must be to produce what they have with this outright idiot at the helm. I'm holding long-term still. Their lead is real and goes far beyond Elon's cult of personality (or in spite of it.).",0
"He is a reason North Korea has nukes, but he is not the reason North Korea has nuclear weapons while Iran doesn't.",-There was also the hushed worries that Russia would come in and force them to give up the nukes. Doesn't matter what the piece of paper said.,1
Absolutely not. Recall is a bad solution. This is not a parliamentary type system. If someone votes for someone they need to live with that choice and next time not make idiotic assumptions and actually spend time researching candidates. I hate recalls with a passion because it can and will be abused.,In all honesty. They were a bunch of fucking idiots who voted for him and resigning isn't going to happen. Hopefully next time they don't take a maga candidate at his word but they need to live with there own idiocy until the next election.,0
"However much you might disagree with it, most of Israel's bombings are militarily and legally justified, can't say the same about HAMAS indescriminant rocket attacks.","They are legally not a country, they were offered to become one in 1948 and post-1967 by Israel on the condition that they stop attacking Israel, but every time they refused.",0
The bill that was signed today will not transfer any debt to Orange/Osceola county and it does not put them on the line to pay for Disney's emergency/infrastructure services.,"So this new bill that was just signed does not offload any debts onto Florida taxpayers, nor does it force the two counties to pay for Disney's services.",1
I think the real tricky question is what to do with the ethnic Russians who lived in Crimea before Russia's annexation. They were Ukrainian citizens and legally probably still are.,"You're right to point out the fact that even before USSR Ukrainians were a minority in Crimea. You curiously omit the glaring fact that before the USSR Russians were not a majority in Crimea as well - judging by 1897 census data at least. The majority - Crimean Tatars - were cultivating much longer ties to that land than Russians can claim. Should we give the peninsula back to Tatars, by this logic?",1
"Conscripts are not the mobilised ones, it’s the mandatory 1-year ones who never even see combat (only in case of a defensive war and martial law, which is not the case). Worst they can do is shout profanities from the opposite side of the border. Somehow, according to Reddit and Twitter, it’s supposed to indicate they are the only ones left.","Seriously, I am amazed how people take every single piece of news as evidence that “Russia is doomed to fall any moment now!”. Well, Russia has been doomed to fall any moment for 22 years now. It’s kinda their thing.",0
"Just look at the personalities that have been embraced and the policies they’ve advocated. Sure, if they were just compassionate and fair they would have broader appeal but the only moves they have are being their.",It may sound cynical but the events of the past 6 or 7 or so years have led me to believe that shitty people don’t know how to do anything other than.,0
Manchin is very unlikely to be reelected over an actual Republican in 2024. West Virginia is going the way of Florida. West Virginia is probably going to have to be written off for a while.,"We ALMOST replaced Manchin this month with Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin. He only lost by 2 points after getting minimal funding from the DNC/DSCC and relatively minimal attention or assistance from the party until the last week or two of the race. Had the Democratic Party gone as all-in on Barnes as they did Val Demmings, Barnes would have won. Democratic leadership wasted money and time swinging for the fences in red-as-Satan's-ass Florida because said candidate is an Obama Administration alumna, while relatively ignoring a far more easily winnable race because the guy running is a Progressive Berniecrat who overturned the apple cart by beating the Moderate party favorite during the Primary.",0
"But short of population attacks (which really are only useful on tier 1 cities) you don’t just fan them out and pepper one spot with them. They’re individually targeted allowing you to hit multiple targets in a relatively close (couple hundred mile) vicinity. So for instance, they’d probably chuck a few at the naval stations for some redundancy, same for Camp Pendleton, 29 palms, the airport, shipping port etc. my local Target is likely not a target.","Gotcha, I was out on the other side of Philly. For sure, and the WWII bombs were much dirtier in fallout, to a terrifying degree, and radiation decontamination wasn’t a thing we understood at all. Now if you throw an N95 on, get the fuck out, and take a shower… if you aren’t dead in a few days you’ll probably live an almost full life (with increased cancer risk but minimal other effects).",0
It would be likely that people found animals in an area that had burned and tried to eat them and liked them. It would not be a stretch to assume they would then look to try to duplicate that.,"That’s a bit of a stretch. Some of his stuff is a little bit out there. But, the more we learn and find the more right he seems to be. He’s not perfect but I’ll never understand all the hate the guy gets.",1
"Btw, I also think the law is stupid. Less because I think adults should make their own decisions, and more because like usual there is absolutely no backbone to it so nothing will change, therefore there’s no point to it. Except another thing to stop foreigners for, as someone else pointed out.","Okay. Some things to note. First off, the article argues a general decline in biking among children, but children up to middle school here already have to wear school-issued helmets when they bike to to school, and elementary school students are not allowed to bike to school at all. They walk. This law isn't going to affect younger children, because they are not the target for it.",0
"Exactly. I'm not calling for some heavy-handed overzealous regulation that breaks everything, that'd be bad. But to do nothing and act like everything is ok is equally bad. And I'm not saying I have the answers to any of this stuff. We'd have to actually sit down and have a real discussion about what makes sense and what doesn't, and really dig into it. But we can't even have that discussion unless people are willing to see that some regulation can make sense and help.","If the point of the real discussion is to convince people that some regulation makes sense, then how could people see it before having the discussion?",1
"If you think that there's something ""fishy"" and that this needs to be ""researched"", then you are probably not the only one either, there's a plethora of dumbasses out there that think that everything related to the democrats is staged.","Also, the dude seemed very calm when he opened the door. He might have been so delusional that he thought the police would have been on his side for all we know.",0
"One individuals provocation is halting a Nato process... It's unimaginable that this will be allowed to cause so much trouble, larger parties in nato need to call Erdogan out for this bulshittery.","So once again. Erdogan is playing games, Sweden is in reality not the part that he want to negotiate with, it's the US and other larger European partners that need to mediate in this issue. Sweden just got between the ironsights.",0
"After realizing how plentiful things really were in the US, and how well the average American lived at the time, it killed his spirit for the USSR, and ultimately led to his spiraling out the party 2 years later. It was said that he told his fellow travelers ""If the people in the Soviet Union saw this store, there would be a revolution."".",This. The United States is monstrously rich. It’s just all the money goes to billionaires. There is no trickle down. There is only the pyramid scheme that is our economy. Congress acts same day when the rich are in danger. They take decades when the rest of the country is. Our representatives are bought and paid for.,1
I’m not going to retire. Who the fuck am I kidding? The world’s gonna catch on fire by the time I hit 90 or whatever the Republicans have made the retirement age in 50 years.,"So I’m in my 40s and this is just an observation - the Republican brand has gotten more dumb, the older I’ve become. I could have sworn all the salty codgers I used to work with said, “as you get older, you’ll get more Republican” - this must have been back when Republicans were capable of critical thinking.",1
"If a gun is drawn, then it's become a deadly force scenario. I really don't see the point in shooting to injure, there is already less lethal devices for that purpose. Besides, shooting a torso is easier than an arm or leg. So I don't see the point. You either use less lethal means or shoot to kill, because once guns are drawn there usually is no going back. That's why officers should be trained to properly be able to assess the need for deadly force use.","If an officer is drawing a gun, then it's deadly force. I would expect that prior to drawing a weapon, de escalation was at least attempted, but the scenario dictates.",1
"Not really, because a gay wedding cake probably doesn't differ at all from a straight wedding cake, so it's not an issue of putting any sort of content on the cake that would qualify as speech that's objectionable to the baker. At least with a website, you can tell by looking at it that it's for a gay couple if there are photos of the couple.","I personally didn't have a topper on my wedding cake, so I don't feel like it's a necessity. If that's really the sticking point, then I'm fine with the baker refusing to put two brides or two grooms on top. I'm pretty sure people would be fine with buying their own topper and putting it on themselves. It probably costs a few bucks on Amazon to get one.",0
"What happened in Desert Storm perfectly supports this. Those ‘poor Iraqis,’ who got the retaliation they deserved, learnt having a large army doesn’t do much without support. As are the Russians now.","There ARE no russian innocents in this war. They want this war, they like to kill and they want to destroy the entire culture of a european country only because it resisted the invasion.",1
The nuclear waste problem could be highly alleviated by using the 'spent' fuel as fuel again. Reasons against this is mostly political.,"Second issue is that one of the first steps is akin to making nuclear weapons materials, so there's a political barrier there.",0
A couple of sources have referred to the drones as semi submersible. Probably the most accurate description.,"Think about it like this. These drones don't need air. Battery operated propulsion, no crew. So the lower it goes the harder it is to detect. However diving deep below the surface interferes with remote control, radio doesn't work underwater. Also requires depth control systems, unnecessary cost and complexity.",0
To be safe its that simple. NK dont trust the US at all and that is well justified by the US track record.,"Why would the US trust North Korea? Are you saying that a totalitarian regime that literally starves their citizens is a good thing because ""USA BAD LOL"".",1
US leaving NATO might be the thing which breaks the camels back and pushes Putin to got to war with Europe. Abandoning your main allies in critical moment of need causing millions to die would forever destroy EU and US relationship.,In current scenario where there is a real threat of direct confrontation with Russia and everyone in Europe is raising their defense spending i don't think that even Trump would consider leaving NATO.,0
"So, I think there is almost no chance of Russia attacking Kyiv during Biden's visit, I don't think it would result in boots-on-the-ground war in Russia, but would force many fence-sitting countries to abandon support for Russia.","If Biden died as a result of Russian military actions, I have no doubt we'd see a similar reaction. Probably not as strong, and maybe not as global, but people would come together. Because at the end of the day, this is the United States. We are a big fucking deal globally, like it or not, and attacking us has consequences.",1
Got a source of any kind whatsoever? Where did the POWs and KIA come from given the only boat mentioned didn't lose any personnel and is in US port?,"The first part about the POWs and KIAs did lead to comments about a captured US Navy boat and personnel. Although I read the article where the rumor started from, and I didn't see anything that would lead me to believe anything happened recently. It most likely was referring to remains from the Korean War. So, it could be that the news article was modified to remove the confusion, or the poster that started the rumor is an idiot.",1
"Worldwide demand is what sets the price of oil. If gas prices are too high in Europe, then they should release some of their reserves to keep prices down.","They want us to sell them gas at a lower price. US natural gas is about 4 to 5 times the price in Europe as it is here, though a lot of that just because of the fact that it's much more expensive to compress and ship LNG than just just use pipeline like we do here, or like Russia did to Europe before the war, and still does to some extent.",1
"I am all for a good ol' fashioned revolution! However, it needs to have a factual basis and not rooted in the lies of one or two people.",If he doesn't get removed for all of the lies then apparently you don't have to tell even a sliver of truth to run pur country. Syaing the quiet part out loud is a terrible precedent.,1
You're saying you'd allow them to both disenfranchise people and cut down on taxation at the same time? You want to let them get two birds with one stone?,"Even men who want to punish and control women, and/or who are worried about ""replacement theory,"" should be concerned by those scenarios.",0
If it was alien craft that traveled here from millions of light years away do you people really think we humans could shoot it down with our proverbial stick and stones?,Do you really think that an alien craft that traveled here from millions of light years away could have accomplished that feat without evolving past conflict and war millions of years ago?,1
"""Minister of Treasury Şimşek said that the collected tax was used for health system, education, ""median separated roads""(or highways if you will) and railroads. After-all it is asset of/for 74 million citizens. On top of ""earthquake tax"" there's ÖTV\1 etc that was made permanent. You say ""you collected 44 billion liras in tax, where has it gone?"". We spend 44 billion liras in a year alone for our citizens health. It goes towards highways, railroads, airlines, farmers and education"".","""Maliye Bakanı Şimşek, toplanan vergilerin sağlık, eğitim, duble yollar, demiryolları için kullanıldığını söyledi. - Sonuçta bunlar 74 milyonun servetidir. Deprem vergisi adı altındaki vergiden çok sürekli hale gelmiş ÖTV vs var. Bu vergiler bizim sağlığımıza gidiyor. Diyorsunuz ki bu çerçevede 44 milyar liralık vergi topladınız, nereye gitti. Sadece bir yıllık vatandaşın sağlığı için yaptığımız harcama 44 milyar lira. Bu, duble yollara gidiyor, demiryollarına, havayollarına, çiftçimize, eğitime gidiyor.""----.",0
"Now we're seeing the US try to change the Ukrainian position from ""hey we don't want to make deals with this genocidal and untrustworthy fascist currently mass murdering our people"" into ""hey we're willing to talk to the genocidal fascist if he is willing to be reasonable."".","This is it. The most delusional take I've seen yet today. Their suffering is worth it, for our sake Holy Shit can you stop sucking your own genitals for five minutes and look at what is actually happening, and correlate that to what you're actually advocating for?",1
"Even though Trump is the face of the GOP and has been since 2006, he never did win the popular vote.","THAT'S how compelling the GOP's current ""platform"" is. The BIGGER problems is that they don't seem to care. Their leaders are raking in HUGE AMOUNTS of money and cozying up to anyone who is willing to push cash their way for cozying up to them.",0
"Lastly, autopilot in aircraft require training to use. Not only people generally don't know that, they also don't know what precisely autopilot does in a plane. Naming Tesla's lane keep assist / radar cruise control after ""autopilot"" is playing on people's ignorance on the subject. That's why people find the term very objectionable.","Most GA aircrafts that you're referring to do have basic autopilots, but vast majority of the autopilots are operated by airliners. Writing airliners off when they are the largest users of autopilot functions just because it doesn't support your argument is disingenuous.",0
Why just a race war? What about a regular kind of war like the one going on in the Ukraine that turns into a world war and goes nuclear?,"Other nations: Be careful Bulgaria, we cannot be openly seen to be taking sides with weaponry in case it causes the war to escalate.",1
"How on earth would that “require FL GOV and the GOP not opposing” the deportation? Neither DeSantis nor any current GOP politician have any say over neither ICE nor the DOJ. They don’t have a say in the matter, full stop. You’re presenting an laughably false statement as if it’s fact and it’s not.","When he says something, I assume that the opposite is true, until proven otherwise. He almost always says the opposite of what reality is.",1
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"What you do is make a big deal out of true, but pointless, stuff. Then link it to scandalous or illegal made up stuff. Put of bunch of hacked stuff on a random computer. Some of the content is true and verifiable. Insist it’s hunters laptop (unproven and probably bullshit). Insert a bunch of fake incriminating stuff. The dick pics are great, because it makes it seem like private stuff on a personal computer. And we know it’s impossible for people’s data (especially celebrities and other high profile people) to be hacked and exposed /s. So must all be hunters stuff and it’s so incriminating for…. His dad, who didn’t do anything illegal and possibly wasn’t even involved at all in any of the alleged activity. But, oh why the cover-up and all that…. Because it’s all slanderous staged BS.",These also seem to be falsehoods. Do you have anything other than the right wing fascist press telling us this? Are you aware of the laptop you're referring to is much accessed and altered copy of a hard drive purported to be from a laptop Biden once owned.,1
"If Russia attacks Germany/Poland it triggers art 5 and deploys all NATO forces. If it didn't escalate to nukes immediately, conventional warfare between NATO and RF forces would take place, why wouldn't Germany want tanks for this possibility?","Tanks in terms of modern warfare will ONLY work in a situation like Ukraine in which massive conventional force against a neighbouring country is possible. If Russia wants to go after Germany, it won't be fought with tanks.",1
"No. No one wants that. This is like the worst IRL Trolley Problem, but 100k+ people have already died. Putin is unpredictable though. No one knows what to do.","I don’t know what you are looking for then. You suggest the US should not commit to investigating war crimes in Ukraine, so please find another volunteer to replace them.",1
"True. But the marginalization of Jews has existed since Christianity emerged as a sect of Judaism in Roman Palestine. Once they decided they needed to demonize the Jewish people, it opened up a can of worms in the form of lies and conspiracy theories. Even back then they had their Alex Jones equivalents, asserting things like, ""The Jews invented alcohol to weaken the minds of Christians"", and the popular, ""The Jews killed our lord and savior."".","This--so much. Every deep conversation I've had w/ conservatives reveals eventually they have a hair brained origin story they cant let go of for ""reasons"".",1
That’s crude steel but The Russians are undercutting local more advanced steels and seems India is buying all that Russia can supply and then exporting it ….,It’s a rehash from last year’s negotiations in Munich before the Russian Invasion which Ukraine rejected and suggested that it be allowed to join NATO or it might consider Nuclear Rearmament.,0
"I disagree, the longer term outcomes is that their base isn't large enough for them to win elections, they need independents. Pardoning Trump will not prevent him from continuing to be a thorn in the GOP's side. If he's in jail and no longer able to have access to his ""base"", he can't send them emails, he can't stir them up and they will move on past him to someone else. If he's still a thorn in their side, he will continue to back candidates that are unelectable in general elections. He will continue to cause problems to the GOP itself. They will pretend to help him but Kemp can claim that he can't pardon Trump without looking partisan. If Trump no longer has access to his megaphone he can't pressure anyone and the party can move on past him. As to New York, it's his organization and his money that is in trouble there. He has not been ""trapped"" as of yet but it remains to be seen if they will find further evidence of his involvement. It's possible he can be brought up on charges but it's also possible they will not be able to go directly after him. They might only be able to hit the organization. I'm not certain if he's running an LLC or something else and that distinction could prevent them from directly coming after him.","When you go through the long documented history of Trump, you will discover he cannot admit he's lost. He will absolutely fill courts full of insane amounts of lawsuits in an attempt to make it too frustrating to deal with him (he's used this tactic since the 80's). He does not believe rules apply to him and he will absolutely sow doubt and attempt to torpedo anything that stands between him and his absolute ""need"" to be a ""winner"". It's a compulsion, and pretending that he will do anything less is ignoring everything he's ever done.",0
"Since China and Turkey are in on it, there could be deals where Russia gives X to China cheaply so China can give Y to Cuba, etc etc.","Cuba's interesting set of economic bail-out buddies says a lot: China, Russia, Algeria and Turkey. It remains to be seen if Cuba's long-standing economic crisis ever gets resolved.",1
"Over night, suddenly free elections were added to constitution (first version did not guarantee it and they were only held if results suited the president), the country changed it's system from authoritarian presidency to democracy.","But it does not need to last forever, during '90s in Croatia 1/5 of all books were burned by the pro-fascist wing (Gojko Susak wing) of Croatian Democratic Union and symphatisers, and monuments to victims of holocaust, Nikola Tesla and ""Croatian partisans"" were blown up yet 30 years later this is unimaginable to happen again.",0
3. A group of moderate Reps break off and pick a centrist nominee and they plus all the Dems get behind that candidate.,"However at what point do 10 Republicans defect, and the Dems join them, well that chestnut is probably sometime next week.",1
"Before you double down and say civilian gun ownership is at the center of the issue, just look at some countries that outlaw it completely: Cambodia, Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia. They don't allow citizens to own guns, but are subject to either government genocides, totalitarianism, complete unenforcability, civil wars, or rampant arms blackmarkets. On the other hand, you have countries like Switzerland where there is about 1 privately owned gun for every 4 people and they haven't had a mass shooting in over 20 years. So gun ownership or gun control aren't the issue itself.","The Chicago killings are also committed by guns, so that doesn't refute the argument that guns are a threat. In fact, that highlights the need for more gun control and less indulging the NRA and their paid for GOP puppets.",1
"In the plan that the administration laid out, interest wouldn't accrue if a person was faithful in payments--but this only applied to income based repayment plans. I personally think they should just extend this to all federal loans, even if someone isn't on an IBR plan.","At this point, I really don't care if it survives or not. If it does, great. If not, go back and retool it. Get rid of the $10/20k forgiveness and focus on interest. Take the interest down to zero if you're making faithful payments or have some other kind of plan. Give people who volunteer a tax credit they can put toward the balance of their loans.",0
"""Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison."".","Yah, that is not going to happen. These countries are using Russian weapons largely because of their history with the US.",1
"Sure, but this is no way to treat you allies. The US lost very little here. Canada took the brunt of it. Those two Michaels that got kidnapped? Were CANADIAN. China kidnapped our citizens in response for a decision made at the whim of some deranged Cheeto in the White House.","Good Lord, this is one of the worst fucking abuses of an ally. Apologies Americans, but Trump really fucked us over here.",0
Then there was also their awkward involvement in Taiwan and HK (largely a domestic matter for China.,"It's quite the scary thought that the ""strongest"" country on this planet is working on the basis of credibility alone at this point (USD's no longer tied to gold as we all know), with excessive spending in their military forces to back them up in order to basically be a barbarian to others who may threaten their position as 1.",0
What it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.,"I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for a GOP-led House to investigate an ethics violation of one of their own. They're too busy prepping the endless investigations into Hunter Biden revenge porn to care about actual ethics. Over half of the new committee chairs literally voted not to certify Biden's election win. Jim Jordan just got the chair position for the House judiciary committee. Yes, the same Jim Jordan that flagrantly refused to cooperate with the requests of another House committee. The same Jim Jordan that said the American public is tired of endless House investigations yet is prepping to open dozens once he gets his gavel. The same Jim Jordan that accused Democrats of unethically using committees as political cudgels is...you guessed it...about to do the same. Such unabashed hypocrites, the House GOP is completely amoral.",1
"Yeah, but the military, such as it is, is pretty busy. Horseback invasion maybe could take significant territory. And then Putin can be King of the Riverlands, or whatever.",Putin is a dork. I don’t understand why he doesn’t chill out and just focus on creating a lot of infrastructure on the Eastern part of his already giant country. If he wants to take Ukraine does he really think he’s capable of defending all of his stretched thin territory?,1
"If Ukraine bought missiles from a NATO country, we would probably still stipulate that they could use them for defending Ukrainian territory but not for attacking Russian territory.","Of course they're not going to get them from the west, because everyone is scared of escalation, but I really don't see this ending without Ukraine either destroying their army completely, getting long range missiles or making pretty painful concessions to Russia.",1
"Gerrymandering affects statewide elections as well, because if the majority of your votes feels meaningless because of it, why turn out at all?","Hopefully they start to gerrymander the state so they can consolidate power like the GOP has done in Texas, NC, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Florida etc etc etc No more playing nice.",1
"Like I said, logistics and bureaucracies, I want to make sure every i is dotted and every t is crossed before it becomes state or federal law. Death with dignity, and choosing to end one's life in general, is a uniquely permanent choice for a human being to make.","I'm a big fan of death with dignity both in principle and in practice, but after hearing about the problems that Canada has had, I'd kind of like to take the time to get the logistics and bureaucratics nailed down first.",0
"The question is whether those actions count as engaging in insurrection and who gets to make that decision. In practice, if the Democrats intended to make such a motion, they likely would have done so by now.","The point is before politicians at least did the right things not because they wanted to, but because they at least felt they had to. Now though. Not only is there no pressure to do the right thing, there is pressure to do the wrong things. Simply counting votes now gets you death threats if the results don't match the desire of certain parties.",1
"None of those wars were over resources. They were over geopolitical gains mainly because of where Afghanistan was located. Also the tech between countries at the time was much more even. That won't be the case in the future. It will be organized militaries with the sole purpose of killing or displacing the population to dig out their insane amounts of lithium and other rare earth metals. It won't be a war, it will be a massacre with the Afghani people coming out the loser. You don't have to worry about insurgents or any other enemies hiding within the civilian populations if the civilian population are corpses.","It won't even last till the end of this century. In the coming decades natural resources are gonna become even more needed than now and a bigger country will take over Afghanistan again. This time they won't have to worry about insurgents or the Taliban because they will simply be killing most of the population. The land under their feet is far more valuable than the actual people in the country who's main export is opium, that's the sad truth of the matter.",0
"I’m saying if there are even like 3 or 4 republicans who decide to not cast a vote for whoever the compromise GOP speaker candidate is, Dems could just vote in a minority Speaker.",What would be more likely is that the Democrats push for a more moderate Speaker and try to peel off a few Republican votes with that.,1
"Having said that, countries which implement longer maternity leaves also eventually move to extend paternity leave as well.","And yes, the current ""anti-male"" government really outplayed their conservative counterparts by extending paternity leave to match maternity leave.",1
"If aliens are technologically advanced enough to travel the distance, they sure aren't going to let themselves get detected let alone shot down. Part of me wants it to be aliens though. That'll be cool to see lol.",No it's not aliens lol. Extra terrestrial life obviously exists considering the vastness of our universe but there's no logical way they'd have the technology to be able to travel this far and also being vulnerable enough that a human weapon can shoot them down.,0
"It's not... nuclear weapons utilize fission or fusion to create explosions. DU isn't used that way at all. It's used in armor piercing ammunition and tank armor because it is hard and dense, and in ammunition is self-sharpening.","The cliche example being the Sherman tank, 50,000 made, not the best gun or armor but good enough to take out most tanks and do its role. Germany having a superior medium tank on paper with the Panther didn't count for much.",1
Not that hard. We know when the election ends. Even with a runoff the election still ends in a year he is claiming tax benefits for primary residence in Texas.,"If you look at the tax rolls, half the AirBnBs in Austin have homestead, “primary residence”exemptions.",1
Basically enables Ukraine to maneuver around Lsychansk and Sverodonetsk and cuts Russian supplies by rail and road. Svatove has lots of communication routes to the rest of luhansk oblast.,"And on the flip side, Ukraine has a large rail connection at Kupyans'k. Which has both a rail and a highway connection southeast to near Svatove, and from there south to Kreminna and Lysychansk. Once they control Svatove, they have a clear shot to Lysychansk. Which is the major regional objective.",1
Tanks are normally not used in defense. They're part of a mechanized offensive force (just like IFVs and APCs more or less). This is the new step we're currently seeing.,"There's probably not the 'one big reason' people are looking for. But I guess one major part of the internal discussions is the supply of clearly offensive weapons, which would match the russian escalation of the war. There are probably a whole lot of nation leaders who don't want to find themselves in a spiralling escalation.",0
"All Gulf Nations work under a social contract, where the absolute king and his ruling family can do whatever they want, and the people would turn a blind eye for it as long they are provided for with enough to be happy and don't disrespect their customs and religion. This in turn provides with the social stability required to engage in complex entrepreneurial endeavors like massive oil extraction and refining, along with handling the mind boggling finances of that.",That system as far I know where first created by the Saud family and got replicated by all oil states there ruled by monarchs.,0
"No, but its reasonable to assume that once said person had first-hand knowledge of atrocities that the nazi party was committing and were not publicizing, quitting maybe was not an option. Do you really think the nazis are gonna let someone with this kind of knowledge of sensitive state secrets just waltz away back into civilian life?","""As for standing up for nazi's when under 21, my grandfather lied about his age at 16 and joined the navy. A lot of soldiers in WW2 were under 21. So yeah, some people did stand up to Nazi's before they were 21. "".",0
"You want people to believe that the FBI somehow got their hands on the very documents that the National Archives later said that they did not ever receive, all for the purpose of subsequently planting them in your office (and into those folders)?","You then say that the FBI ""planted"" the documents into those folders, but how does that explain the National Archives many months before stating that they didn't have them, and that they never received them?",0
"Hi Dom if you are still reading. I am from Adelaide, South Australia and I listen to Ukraine: The Latest almost every day. I just wanted to say thankyou to you and the team for bringing this podcast to us. Always look forward to your daily synopsis of events. All the best!","Hey there! What do you think will happen if Putin is to die suddenly (and soon)? Will whomever gets in power next continue the conflict, or potentially withdraw and try to save as much face as possible?",1
"The judge cannot ban the drug, he can only override the FDA approval. The FDA can simply immediately re-authorize the drug, potentially with aid from an executive order if they want some extra protection. This would force it to be brought back to the court, with another lenhy hearing, after which the FDA can simply re-authorize, etc. It might be extra-legal, but so is the authority the judge would call on to ""ban"" the drug.","This article discusses the claims that they are making and why, legally, the approval of the drug should not be reversed. The claims they are making are ridiculous - it doesn't even appear that they have standing. They're hoping the judge puts his personal beliefs above the law.",1
"If you insist on not voting for either candidate, then your best bet is to still show up at the polls and just don’t vote for them. There are lots of positions on the average ballot and if you feel that strongly that you don’t care who wins, don’t chose either candidate, but there may be candidates who do interest you, and even if you turn in an empty ballot, that still signals that there was a vote that turned up that was missed.","Ah yes, not bothering to vote regularly is definitely a way to show an elected official that they should cater to you on the off chance you vote that election.",0
1. We know the rate at which we are currently warming is 10x faster than anything previously recorded in the history of this planet. We know this from fossil and geological data. Every year we warm faster than the previous year. This has been measured independently by people all over the world. It’s a measured fact.,"Nothing I’ve listed here is opinion or political view points. We are noticing abnormal warming, we have data to show why that warming is happening, and we have historical records that back up that data. This has been measured, remeasured, and verified by people all over the world who don’t care about any one country’s politics. These are hard facts that plainly can’t be refuted without willful ignorance. There is a pretty clear line between the gases we’ve been putting out there for a long time and the dangerous warming trends we are seeing.",0
"""if you give your employees less than the amount they need to pay their rent, you will be richer than if you did pay them enough to pay their rent."".",Yep. Except union memberships have been plummeting around the world for years. Governments and their super rich benefactors have done a bang-up job scaring people of unions. The media portrays them as this greedy nuisance only concerned with disrupting daily life for the rest of us hard-working folk by going on strikes all the time. Most kids coming out of school today are anti-union because they genuinely believe they can negotiate better salaries and benefits for themselves than they could collectively. And the boomers believe that being a member of a union is akin to being a member of the communist party.,1
"Some might say that if Russia hadn't been launching missiles into Ukraine, then Ukraine wouldn't have had to launch interceptors.... Making the outcome very much something to do with Russia.",- Russia wouldn’t have nukes if the us didn’t place the ussr in a position where they felt they would be next after ww2.,1
"Fuck yeah This is something scientists have been trying to achieve for over half a century I know its still just a small step towards a limitless energy future, but its an important one. It proves it can be done.","If the laser is 1 watt power output for a 100 watt input, that makes the laser 1% efficient yes, but how you get 0.02% doesnt make any sense, since the reaction output is greater than the laser input.",0
"In a sense, you are correct, except what these people are doing is to go above and beyond to keep you poor by passing corporate friendly laws and legislation, which frequently leads to lower wages with right to work laws, and leads to lower government revenues with lower corporate taxes thus cutting the ability of the government to fund education or healthcare.","They keep you and me both poor by buying government - they have gotten laws passed that make it next to impossible for you to get off the floor - they have been chopping away at public education so you can only get better if you can afford to pay for private school (no, oh here won’t help that one bit, the good private schools will still be too expensive, the ones vouchers would pay for will be barely regulated and worse), they have been chopping away at labor laws to give the companies more and more control over you, they’ve been changing tax codes so that the middle class’ effective tax rate is many times higher than their own so that if you start climbing the ladder you get pulled down (I make good money, my effective tax rate was at least five times what Mitt Romney’s was on his “income,” but the really rich have lots of ways of hiding income or getting money in other ways like insanely low interest loans from their own companies that get paid off with new loans from their own companies) . . .",1
"So... It's a balloon. No propulsion system to put it in any specific spot. Which means it's probably not just recording data to be retrieved later. It's most likely transmitting it as it cruises around the jet streams until it eventually comes down. So, odds are strong that the military is just letting it do its thing while recording the feed to decrypt it. It's also possible that they're analyzing it for what equipment is on board.","It's also possible that they're just letting it float as a ""fuck you"". Kind of a hard burn to say ""your little weather balloon with cameras is real cute. But not worth the time or money to shoot it down."".",0
You think that’s why he is simping for Putin and xi? The status quo would be not invading Ukraine or Taiwan. Some really rich people make more money in times of chaos than status quo.,Most exceedingly wealthy people are generally upset by anything that might upset the status quo. Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are both still operating in Russia.,1
"Authoritarian leftist. People who think Stalin wasn't problematic and think it's a-ok for the state to work people to death. Named ""tankies"" because of the tanks the Red Army sent in to crush separatist demonstrations in the SSRs.","The OG tankies were british communists that cheered when russia sent in tanks to crush protests/uprisings in their occupied territories. Later on it changed into anyone who supports authoritarian states like modern russia, china or north korea.",1
"It turned out we were wrong, but people are vindictive, if you think you can strongarm us, we'd rather cripple ourselves and pay more for oil from elsewhere than keep cooperating with you Russia. So Russia gets way less of the recource money, and Europe spends more on the gain of their recources.","If I attack, I need to attack 2 countries, and supply chains break down and I can't keep producing product A for who knows how long? It's a risk. If I try to attack and gain control over 1 country, the other will stop sending their recources, so we now have control over one recource but lack the other completely.",0
YEAH. SOMEONE needs to look into this guy before he bankrupts all his investors and flies a Space X into the side of the mountain to burn it all down. He is obviously not well.,"Oh, so PATRIOTIC of him. But, actually, all his actions are classic, wall street sniffing cocaine 80s style takeovers. Buy a company, gut it, use the existing infrastructure to absorb the old company, thereby basically ensuring a monopoly of money pumping companies for the shareholders, but nothing else of value is gained and a bunch of ppl lose their livlihoods.",0
"I'd be much more worried by what Gen.Milley said than anything the DM publishes. It may be that USA is more worried about it's ally Taiwan, and being unable to face China in a conflict as well as helping Ukraine at the same time. Even the remote possibility of war on 2 fronts will scare them...America really has no 'friends' only 'interests'.","It's almost too good to turn down, but unfortunately Putin is ideologically committed to his invasion and just won't accept any deal. I doubt the Ukrainian people would buy into it either, unless their troop losses are far greater than they have been told. At the end of the day Putin has, by comparison, a far greater pool to draw from, the fact that they can't be equipped doesn't seem to matter to him. The winter looks like it will me milder than normal which will benefit the Russians also.",0
The volumes of oil products bought from India are a small fraction of what was being bought from Russia.,"Banning Russian oil products lowers the prices, which India and China buy cheaply. Russia also loses a ton of oil revenue.",1
"Turkey is trying to play it too, pretending that if the US doesn't approve the F-16 deal, it'll buy Eurofighters from the UK.","So if this is about the election, I am guessing after the election we will cut a deal to let Finland/Sweden into NATO in exchange for Turkey buying F-16s? More planes on Russia's border is good for the rest of us and pisses off Putin.",1
"That statement is completely ignorant of the actual real situation. Yeah, there are people that are against it, even if they do not speak about it, but have you been to their telegram channels? Have you been to the social platforms? Regular citizens, their wives call out for rapes, beheadings, castration of Ukrainian soldiers and civilian population. Cheer at dead Ukrainians. Celebrate another Ukrainian civilian target being destroyed. It's fucking VILE in there.","Yeah, that's the other thing. They have manpower on paper but I'd bet one normal American soldier is probably worth 3 or 4 North Korean soldiers, maybe more. It's just logistics and training.",1
"Absolutely untrue. They are Arab speaking (as their main language) which by definition makes them Arabs. They do not identify as Muslims, which is maybe what you intended to say?","Not much to explain, they’re another small ethnoreligious group from the middle east. A lot of them live in Israel (they’ve often been persecuted in arab states) but I think plenty also still live in nearby lebanon/syria/jordan.",1
Fossil fuels usually refers to things meant to be burned for heat or energy. That's the primary target that renewables are replacing.,"- The kind of renewable energy considered here cannot be easily aligned with the demand, because of its transient nature.",1
I mean one of the findings is that the Trump campaign wanted Clinton's emails so they got a guy to contact Russian hackers to get them! The Trump campaign knew about information hacked by Russians and sent to Wikileaks before that information was posted to Wikileaks.,"That's your reply? You basically just stuck your fingers in your ears while yelling ""fake news."" I linked to actual, easy-to-read summaries of the Mueller report with descriptions of its actual findings. How is any of that ""vapor?"" How is any of this simply someone ""talking to a Russian?"".",0
"I guess the question is how many Republicans are going to be motivated to show up to vote for the abortionist idiot without other Republicans on the ballot. The guys who voted libertarian had their chance to vote for Walker, doubt they're going to go out of their way to do it in the runoff.","There is always the risk though, that Walker seeming like such an unlikely win, makes Dem voters overly optimistic, and less driven to vote, and Walker wins due to low turn-out. Voters in Georgia need to remain vigilant and motivated.",1
"Yeah. But Putin is willing to push a little, see how other countries react and then go based on that. That is kind of why supporting Ukraine is important for nato because letting Putin take Ukraine without any resistance would make it more likely that he thinks that he can see how nato reacts if a nato country is attacked. Kind of how appeasement pre WW2 only lead to hitler finding excuse to attack even more countries.",More pushback will probably come from other major nato countries as long as Russia got nukes. No country willingly wants to fight a country with large amount of nukes.,0
"Given that context I don't think it was that North Korea was trying to force anything on the south, but that they were trying to drive an occupying force out of their country, like they had done with the Japanese.","I'm not talking about living in North Korea today, I'm talking about the Korean War and the history of US aggression and the influences that has.",0
In conclusion: fuck every pro-birth moron who only cares about their own agenda and not the innocents who suffer because of anti-abortion laws.,"If it's not out of the womb and capable of being viable outside the womb it's not a living breathing person. People can try and disagree with that based on their personal feelings but to move forward as a society we need to accept that the life of the living, breathing woman carrying the fetus has more value then that of a fetus.",0
"Just to play Devil's Advocate a moment, as mentioned in the article some states do apparently recognize executive privilege for their governors. I'm highly skeptical Florida should be one of them but governors do sometimes have similar executive privilege to the President depending on their state constitution and how the courts have ruled.","While true that governors are executives of their states, executive privilege was created when federal courts ruled that such a privilege was implied for presidents by the federal constitution.",1
"From a societal standpoint, one might argue that everyone get's to live to the age of 80 and once they reach this age, medical treatments for major issues are no longer provided. Like you would no longer put people aged 80 and up on the operation table for cancer removal or hip replacements or something like that, but offer pain killers and other ""ease of living"" medicine to them, while also giving the option of assisted suicide for those who feel their medical situation has deteriorated to an unbearable level.","To be fair, if you were raised with the expectation of being euthanized at a certain age and it becoming culturally ingrained in people, I bet there would be little opposition. Suicide has been ingrained in Japanese culture as well.",0
Remember a week or so ago when the president of Peru tried to do a coup but no one supported him and his own guard arrested him?,"Well, his VP was sworn in as president, and Peru has imposed a state of emergency because while Castillo (The failed coup president) didn't have the support of the military or police or anything, he does have some supporters and they've been protesting violently, as you might expect. That's the first part.",0
(1) Politicians may feel like they're under pressure to present as more religious than they are because they think there is an electoral benefit to doing so (or an electoral cost to not doing so). There are plenty of people who engage in nominally Christian activities like celebrating Christmas and Easter and having some vague notions of an Abrahamic God existing but don't actually go to church or take any Christian doctrines all that seriously. That sort of non-politician wouldn't go out of their way to describe themselves as Christian but perhaps politicians do.,"Not every Christian subscribes to the ""only Jesus' words"" thinking; in fact, those who do are a tiny minority of the religion. Meanwhile, Christians can't even agree on the fundamentals. Take the subject of what makes someone ""saved:"".",1
"I would love to be wrong, but this is how every Republican house has worked for literally two decades. The Republican speaker will not allow a vote on a bill that might get minority Republican support. This ensures their house is only passing party-line bills, and kills bipartisanship when republicans are in control.","This is why a bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate in 2013 was never brought up for a vote in the house, because John Boehner use the Hastert rule to prevent the bill from coming to a vote. This is even though it would’ve passed with bipartisan support. This is how Republicans operate, and by the way the Hastert rule is named after a convicted child molester.",1
"Yep. They don't want a debate because they don't tolerate you disagreeing with them or pushing back or doubting them. They want you to immediately join them without question, or else you're ""part of them/it"" to them.",Radicalized far-Right citizen: Antifa Super Soldiers are helping Biden gather children to send to Area 51 for Reptillians to diddle and harvest their andrenochrome and organs for immortality soup to feed to Baphomet so transgender teachers can become miniature gods to lock biological females in cellars like Buffalo Bill11 I saw all about it on endtimesconcernedcitizenlocaldailyreporter dot net in a Facebook story.,0
"Lol if you think giving Russia Ukrainian territory would stop one fucking dollar from going to Raytheon. In fact, it would give them reason to send more money there, because ""what about when Russia tries to take more of Ukraine?"".","P.P.S. Arm the fuck out of Ukraine. France saved our ass against the British. We saved Frances ass against the Germans. Now all four of us will save Ukraines ass. Democracies stick together, otherwise Xi and Putin will eat our lunches.",1
"They exist in Canada, the mere fact they do makes me believe they are there to make sure Chinese Canadians put china first.",I don’t like that it makes me question their loyalty. I don’t blame them. I blame their government. They certainly are not making it easy on their citizens who want to immigrate for legitimate reasons.,0
To be fair for Hong Kong it was cuz we stopped protesting because of the pandemic and then couldn't restart because of the national security law... fair point on the others though.,"The root of the conflict is that Jews felt the need for a state due to pogroms, racism, and genocides across Europe, and Palestine was the only real place for it. That in itself is complicated given the fact that whether you think that's justification for trying to make a nation state is itself complicated, not to mention the location and method etc., as well as the fact that the Yishuv initially didn't have nearly as much conflict as modern Israel today, although conflict still existed.",0
"If she were to go on some kind of educational sabbatical, it might not be necessary to impeach. But she clearly shouldn't be attempting to work as a judge under her current conditions.","I think we can all see from her either incompetent or corrupt behavior in this case, that under no circumstances should she _ever_ be a judge in any case of any type. Or at least not until she gets some legal training (e.g. go back to school for a few years).",0
What was unexpected is that he set up a sweepstakes surrounding the NFTs and sweepstakes are required to follow certain rules such as having no purchase necessary.,But it was completely expected. Everybody knows that Donald Trump only cares about making money off of his name and the gold-plated trailer trash brand that he has turned his name into.,0
"Another possible solution to this would be ""Oh, nation x doesn't recognise human rights? Ok you don't have to, but the EU does. And if nation x is sued by people who's rights are trampled, the EU sanctions nation x."".","Umm. I’m not sure which one of us is misunderstanding something, but if the voter turnout is 50%, the percent of PiS supporters who voted drops to 15%, because proportions.",1
I don't even gaf if it shows his son smoking crack and banging hookers. There is no denying Jr is smoking crack and banging the hooker that's his wife...maybe.,"So to say ""well everyone does it"" is the fucking problem. I hate trump and am excited to see Rupert Murdoch bury him on move television w a golden shovel but he did bring the corruption of the American governments last twenty years into focus. And he's probably about to split the Republican Party or fleece them for a billion dollars to bow out gracefully. Silver linings.",0
"The Ukrainians/Ruthenians still existed as a people, and they were involved in extending Russian rule over them and providing the faulty intellectual framework for Russian imperialism.","Because the Soviet Union was a reincarnation of the Russian Empire, committed since at least the mid-1930s (and especially beginning in the 1970s) to a policy of russifying the national republics, especially Ukraine and Belarus. Pushkin was as good for this purpose as Mayakovsky.",1
"Israel votes left, Israel attempts peace/negotiates with a terrorist government, it blows up in their face spectacularly, Israelis vote right. Palestinians suffer. Repeat.","And say whatever you want. The Jews are absolutely right, if they lay down their arms, they would be slaughtered.",0
"""During 2021, winter, summer and autumn for the whole of Europe were all warmer than the respective seasonal averages for the 1991–2020 reference period."".","So two things, 1. How do you think Germany meet those energy needs? The Tooth Fairy? 2. This town likely solely exists to service the coal mine, the mine closes, the town dies.",1
"So long as Russian conscripts threaten Ukrainian civilians, killing as many Russian military, and destroying as much Russian material, as efficiently as possible is the only valid consideration.","Once Russia ceases their war of aggression and returns everything they've taken from Ukraine (seized territory, kidnapped children, stolen art and artifacts), we can mourn the conscripted Russian dead... and place the sole blame for their loss on Moscow.",0
"It’s the number in a Ukrainian tank battalion, per Biden, anyways. A US Combined Arms Battalion has three armored companies of 14 tanks each.","\60 western tanks might not sound like much, but that should probably be enough to outfit two whole combined arms brigades w/ mostly western equipment. (note: Ukraine currently has \15 mechanized + motor rifle brigades). Assuming that they spread out the abrams + leopards into 2 tank batallions of \31-32 tanks each – each of which can be attached to + provide support for an infantry brigade, whether in addition to other formations of Ukrainian tanks, or by themselves.",1
"I wouldn't be so sure that the individual quoted in this article is representative of the average Trump voter. In fact, I'm inclined to think the opposite. Republicans are the ride or die type of partisans because of rank political/social/economic ignorance, single issue folks (abortion, guns), and a deep-seated hatred for others (LGBTQ issues, racial justice).","I take no issue with the sentiment you describe, although anecdotally I don't know one person who voted for Trump in 2020 that would be moved to vote for another party. So if Trump becomes the nominee and they make it to the polls, I know damn well they'll vote for him regardless of these headlines.",0
2) Smoke and mirrorrs to make the Russians crazy and to tell the world the US is taking the Ukraine war seriously.,"I mean we built this stuff for fighting Russia, Ukraine wants and needs it to fight Russia. We're getting the deal of a lifetime here, all of the fighting Russia without any American lives lost. It's cynical but it's basically exactly what we've wanted to do for the last 70 years.",1
"What I find particularly hypocritical is that, the conservatives on the court are willing to come down on the side of: legislature can ignore the courts decisions.","Ignoring the law for a Supreme court justice, or for political reasons, would be more egregious than the crime itself.",1
Sorry to rile you up--this is not an emotional issue for me. I really never care about Iowa unless I'm driving through it. I was merely speculating on how this alignment would have played out 15 years ago. I very much prefer Georgia or Michigan.,I would prefer a state that was a swing state like Georgia or Florida. It would do wonders to re-energize Democrat voters in those states that are disillusioned.,1
"Maybe I'm being naive, but the inevitable consequence of people living longer, a falling birth rate and an ever increasing proportion of older people in the population is that people will have to work longer (unless they have saved enough to self fund retirement).","There are two factors at play, first is there aren’t enough younger people to pay into the system and the second is that people are living longer than when they set the pension amounts.",1
You could also look at how fiach had 30k less votes than the democratic challenger in 2020. Not seeing any conclusions drawn about dissatisfaction there. It's the midterms. It's not enough data to go on for a presidential election year.,Confusing disinterest in midterms for overall dissatisfaction is a mistake. That's making a very colossal assumption about why people didn't vote in the midterms that ignores the usual reasons why people don't vote in the midterms.,0
"Top it off with administrative staff that are tone deaf to most needs and circumstances that are happening in class rooms leads to a high burn out. Teachers aren’t just teaching now, but also playing the role of social worker. Duty to act means you really need to be up in your kids business. And you have to be able to deal with the fact that most schools have only one or two counselors to cover an entire school, with some elementary schools head counting out around 1k.","As a former teacher in SC, and married to a current SC teacher, I can say I’m not surprised at all. The pay is definitely not on par with other states, and the fact that the pay is normalized across the full year for most teachers means that the deceptive practice a lot of districts use to say that they pay a certain amount is a false equivalency. Making 40k in 9 months with nothing else is not the same as making 40k in 12.",0
They are going to attack schools who seek to be kind to trans kids. The message is not the whole litter boxes bullshit. The message is Republicans want trans kids dead rather than alive. Republicans are trying to extirpate trans people from the earth. It is horrible.,"Oh damn, yeah, that's pretty bad. Seems like it was from the Opie and Anthony Show in 2005 and resurfaced last year. I can't recall ever having heard anything similar on his podcast though it's not like he took live calls (or that I listened to every episode). I more remember him always saying that nobody should take anything he says seriously because he's an idiot. I was okay with that explanation for a while, but then he started to really give a huge platform to fuckheads like Alex Jones and I lost interest in listening. I don't know how bad he's gotten since going to Spotify (and full Republican). If he's doing shit like in that bondo clip, then fuck him.",1
1) it gets passed with bipartisan support in the senate. This causes trumps base to go crazy and try to fuck over the GOP in the next election either by not voting or voting libertarian.,"If Trump is barred from running by Democrats, it literally gives the GOP exactly what they want. They have a reason for running DeSantis over Trump, and can actually take advantage of Trump's core supporters while blaming Democrats for overreach. This will literally pull all the GOP groups together behind DeSantis, the GOP's favored candidate, while Dems will have to scramble to get a candidate capable of defeating him.",1
I don't know why you'd want to store millions in cash. It's always better to invest it in something. People who have millions in Lebanon most likely keep it in a Swiss bank or some other EU/US/Emirates bank.,You can also trade currency with a bank account that is not in Lebanon. Buying euros or dollars with that account would be much more stable than bitcoins.,1
"You could almost certainly indict on two or three dozen counts of obstruction for his first year in office alone. And that’s to say nothing of Sedition and the myriad conspiracy charges associated with the Republican coup attempt or the open and shut case for mishandling classified documents. There are also various credible civil claims to be made, such as for enriching himself while in office and the pathetic negligence in his handling of the Covid 19 response.","5. Racism, apathy, and other forms of bias that stifle scrutiny and prejudice many lawsuits and other attempts to counter or remediate police misconduct.",0
"Contrary to what people think, institutions like GS love regulation. Maybe not every rule, but overall a more regulated financial sector plays to big, established banks.","sure, not all but vast majority of the policy-making bank management will be american. they do not necessarily make policies, they just bend them and get loans because they are too big to fail for the problem caused only by them and nobody else, let's instead let ripples kickoff the worst inflation since depression caused by, oh guess who, 80 years ago.",1
"One of the problematic aspects of her technique, showing where the right and left horseshoe on some things is that it buys into that both sides bullshit thus diminishing the very real threat to democracy the alt right is because it is directly connected to the establishment GOP.","I'm not sure how you came to it being a ""both sides"" things when the premise of the article is that the alt-right is leveraging it's organizational structure to tap into fears and concerns of the ""crunchy"" left in order to recruit them. Anecdotally, you can see this pipeline a lot on social media where being interested in herbal medicine triggers the algorithm to spit out survival/prepper content, which in turn leads to anti-government content, which in turn leads to white supremecist content. You rarely, if ever, see a pipeline from crystal healing to left tinged anti government content. Just look at all the old hippies and how many of them voted for Trump, the ""crunchy"" left is less interested in left wing ideas and policies than they are motivated by anti-establishment rhetoric, which is why they become easy marks for the alt-right, especially since there isn't an organized left wing to provide a counter balance.",1
"Most modern nukes (1970s tech and newer) also have an incredibly localized deadly fallout zone, which makes sense because fallout means you had an inefficient detonation.",Nukes have trended towards multiple warheads air bursting over a large radius for a wider area of destruction instead of dropping one warhead with a high yield.,1
"They are in violation of the UN Charter which they signed in 1991. It specifically requires ALL nations to never seize and annex territory by force of arms. First Crimea and now the Eastern Provinces of Ukraine, meanwhile bombing clearly civilian targets in Central and Western Ukraine. The UN General Assembly should expell Russia completely, not just from the Security Council, after all the USSR was one of the permanent members not Russia. Russia wasn't even a separate entity of the UN until 1991, whereas Ukraine SSR was a founding charter member of the UN and merely changed its name to Ukraine without the SSR moniker.","Actually in removal of Russia from the Security Council Russia doesn't get a veto vote in the UNSC. If Russia keeps threatening first use of Nuclear weapons, even tactical weapons, they will be removed from the UNSC.",0
"It concluded that a ban on Nazi, racist or extremist symbols is possible, but making such a change would “come up against major legal and editorial obstacles”.","“Until now, attempts to ban racist, extremist and discriminatory symbols have always failed because no one could agree on a list of these symbols,” it said.",0
"The difference is that WW1 tanks were experimental designs with limited effectiveness even against ground troops, whereas by WW2 tanks had become effective fighting machines. A Leopard from the 90s is still an excellent tank, even if it lacks some current improvements.","Leopard 1s, being 60s era vehicles, are unfortunately quite old and were designed to be lighter and faster and therefore are lighter armoured than many of their contemporary tanks. They'll be more vulnerable to AT weapons than most tanks that have been fielded thus far and their 105mm guns are less effective than the 120 that NATO has overwhelming replaced it with. Additionally they are more manpower dependent as they require a four man crew as the gun needs a dedicated crewmember to load rather than the autoloader that the Soviet Union moved towards.",1
"In the election for the Speaker of the House, the rules are that the speaker is chosen by a majority of those voting, and not a simple majority. Since most votes are along party lines, the votes for the Democratic nominated speaker of the house (in this case, Hakeem Jeffries.) don't count, even though he has a majority of 212.","Those who keep voting against McCarthy aren't voting against McCarthy, they're voting against Democracy. The House can't do business without a Speaker, they don't want the House to do business.",0
Not to mention if a dictator takes one guys protest as an action of the government of Sweden then that is on that dictator lol and not something Sweden can account for.,You think Swedish politicians should break the law just to please an authoritarian leader from a soon-to-be-a-dictatorship country? Then they are no better than Erdo.,1
"Kansas is an interesting state politically. The state legislatures are always red, but the statehouse is definitely not. If this were a recent development I might say it's because of an increase in city (and thus more democratic leaning) population, but this change in party for the statehouse has been happening regularly since the 1900s (except for a 20-year span after WWII when Republicans held it).","I'm honestly not entirely sure. Kansas is conservative overall, but more traditional conservative rather than the current definition. I think the idea that balance creates good results is appealing, and that probably plays a part. I also imagine there's a lot of conservative leaning moderates in the state that will vote for either party based on what the current needs of the state are.",0
Absolutely - that’s why I think that Ukraine HAS to join NATO - it’s their guarantee against further trouble from Russia.,Once that is all done then we can tell Russia again that they don't get a veto on who chooses to join NATO. And Ukraine is free to join if they choose to. Russia has proven exactly why they are not to be trusted.,1
Sure they are allies with China out of necessity. But we don't know what modern China is capable of. As they haven't been truly battle tested in longer than most of the population can remember. However I imagine they aren't doing that much better than Russia and both their people and economy would cause a lot of destabilization and infighting right now. Far more than Russia believe it or not.,"They aren't ""looking down"" on Africa. They are using them as a baseline because they are one of the only countries with military might of noteworth. That meets said specific baseline in the theoretical deduction.",0
"Just because it hasn't broken yet doesn't mean it won't and, when it does, there are serious doubts about if the people they have left are going to be able to handle the issues. It's not a matter of if, but when Twitter is going to crash and how long it will be down.",I know I'm in the minority but Twitter's existence is a positive thing for me and I'm sad that it's going away. I just know how to use it responsibly and stay away from the toxicity.,1
Explanation: it's a horrible Libertarian idea that cuts taxes on the wealthy & increases them on the poor & middle class. Nothing 'fair' about a fair tax.,"How's this for a fair tax? Taxes are fair when the people who benefit the most from society's infrastructure (ie, what the taxes pay for) pay the most in taxes.",1
"How was Donald trump a fascist. You guys love using that buzzword even tho you are the literal fascist, trying to silence people you don’t agree with; the cancel culture as a whole is fascist.","Cuz he incited that “riot”. so are the governors and mayors who let the blm and antifa (ironic) run rampid through their cities for weeks fascist? I never said anyone was silencing me, and it has nothing to do with private companies. The fact that they can all team up, and are all left leaning agencies that can wipe someone’s face off the face of the internet, they can silence other peoples points of view, if that’s not fascism and a threat to our democracy than idk what is.",0
"That’s not what you said. You said eligible to vote, but idk if that matters cause even sticking with 1960 voters could still skew the results as older people died.","In 1980, they polled people who were eligible to vote in 1960, according to that poll, Nixon lost 80/20.",1
"Bibi is a pure political beast and the electorate of Israel has changed dramatically due to population trends. It's kinda like Idiocracy, but with religion. The various levels of orthodox Judaism is all about massive families and gaming the system. Where center and left leaning Jews tend to have smaller families. Mix in Bibi who will adapt to whoever gives him the power, and you get modern Israel.","The big inflection point will be when the collective Orthodox groups possibly crush the system with their population. They are generally pro-conflict but dodge conscription. They are big segment of the welfare population. And to avoid the conscription, many go into religious schooling. So they aren't generating as much gdp. At some point, there might be a large outflow of Israelis because the system is stacked in favor of Orthodoxy.",0
"Oh, believe me, that's why I say attempt. I think he is either surprised and it's quick or he's tipped and he will go for it. It is hard to tell. This is uncharted territory.","You can bet your ass it is. The more likely it becomes he will be indicted, we are pretty close to certainty already, the more likely he attempts to flee and makes all this shit 50x worse for himself.",0
"Now on the actions of the former president, We have the Judicial Branch doing their work ( on multiple cases) we will see what happens. The wheels of justice turn slowly, however turn they will.","At time in our recent history- laws can be immoral and unjust. The most recent example in the United States is the current recommended penalty for Cocaine Powder or paste versus Crack Cocaine ( power cocaine with an added step that allowed people to smoke). The sentencing guidelines were written such that a segment of society guilty of possession ( Predominantly poor and at the time the law was drafted minority-African Americans ) currently receives a much greater penalty than the segment that is found guilty of powder possession ( at the time the law was drafted -Anglo Americans. ) case in point Tim Allen (American actor “the Santa Clause “ and pretty much considered a wholesome family friendly actor, in 1978 was caught with 650 Grams ( almost 1.5 lbs) of Cocaine - did two years in jail. Case 2 to 5,000 - unknown “ Ralphs” arrested for possession and trafficking crack Cocaine first time arrest. By the current federal guideline the judge must sentence to at least five years in prison. The average jail time is 74 months (6 years).",0
"I disagree, the next best step would be to ban landlords from conducting tenant screenings that use credit and background checks as a cover for discrimination, and force all landlords to accept any tenant that has the money to cover move-in cost.","If diversity means you have to rent to an unemployed crackhead because she happens to be a minority, you are forcing the property owner and the other tenants to accept risk that they shouldn’t have to.",1
The wealth gap and the power of dark money in politics means that the super rich can buy the politicians and outcomes they want.,The Railroad Barons were corrupt as hell and bribery was pretty much EXPECTED in politics in the Gilded Age.,0
"Under capitalism/kleptocracy, the ruling class makes most of the major economic decisions in society without any input from the workers.",Those capitalists/kleptocrats who benefit from the lack of economic democracy will also make political democracy a bit of a farce in order to preserve their power and privilege.,0
"And the right is using that to lie and claim that Pfizer is, what, intentionally infecting people with covid variants to make money off vaccine sales?","They lied to the public, theyre profiting off the vaccine, but more importantly a high positioned worker just admitted theyre contemplating mutating the virus. That alone should warrant some type of investigation. Not too mention the questionable measures taken during their climical trials. Im not saying they should be charged with anything, but at the very least an investigation could be warranted. Why would you be against a company who previously have been nefarious to be investigated, also why arent you being skeptical at all?",1
"It also assumes that everyone put to death is guilty, which is a biiiiiiig assumption given the statistics. 190 people on death row have been proven innocent since '73 (slightly under 1500 have been executed) and those are just the ones who've successfully navigated the incredibly difficult task of having their case reinvestigated and heard again.","There's no threshold that we can reasonably set that will exclude every person that shouldn't die. The threshold is already as stringent as it can be and we still kill innocent people, the mentally ill, etc.",0
"The baggage of corruption is on hold as membership is currently in a candidate state. It's not moving until after the war, and will come with a mountain of oversight.",The EU would love a highly militarized and friendly neighbor who will protect them against an aggressive other neighbor.,0
"Now, the Trump situation is different in many ways. Namely the presence of SCIF-level documents (these are definitely not over-classified), and his denial in having and obstruction in returning the documents. And his lax security measures, basically storing everything in rooms that just about anyone could freely access.",Yes. And when everything is classified it becomes a lot harder to differentiate between “this stuff is actually a national security secret” and “this stuff is minutes from a meeting the press sat in on and reported about thoroughly.”.,0
"Were it not for the ever-more-viscous Gerrymanders in several states, including Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Texas, the Democrats would hold a 10-seat majority in the House next term. From memory:","- Democrats got a total congressional vote in the high 40% range in Florida, and won 6 out of 28 seats.",0
"The argument you're going to hear from Republicans is that the HEROES act is limited only to temporary relief, and that permanent actions such as forgiveness don't qualify past the timing of the emergency. (I'm not agreeing with this, just saying what's to come).","Yes they understand that. They attended college. In a country with stagnant wage growth since the 70s, without universal healthcare. Should we go into who wrote the laws for student loans and how they were designed and who profits from them?",1
"Well yes. It's like complimenting Poland when they're helping in the war against Russia. Poland has its human rights problems, but you can't deny that they're doing a good thing by helping Ukraine.",Where's the defence of China? Experiencing schadenfreude that the Catholic Church is feeling butt hurt isn't the same as making excuses for communist China.,0
"To replenish the national reserve the Government does not outlay any cash: it's all in-kind sales by US oil companies. US oil companies owe around 10 - 18% royalties on every barrel pumped. So normally if they pump 10 barrels of oil and sell it, they send 10% of the proceeds to the treasury. For the reserve, they send a barrel of oil instead.","Most oil destined for the reserve is ""in kind"" -- oil companies owe royalty payments to the government when pumping on federal lands. Instead of paying dollars, they can pay in oil.",0
"There are plenty of businesses that have data that you want to be private that are unavoidable in everyday life, such as a bank, a doctor's office, a psychologist, a pharmacy, etc etc. Your dealings with them are largely predicated on the knowledge that your data is protected from unwanted and unwarranted intrusion at some level, backed by law and contract, and if they did not protect that data you would go elsewhere.","Explicit legislation that does not say the business has a right to protection against government search and seizure, just that they have to take care to protect data. Without 4th amendment protections, the cops could still show up and take records regardless of the laws that govern how a doctor's office secures and shares your data(that's the whole point of the 4th amendment in the first place).",0
You don't have to though. Drinking water out of single use plastic bottles needs to die. Soda pop really shouldn't be labeled as food and returning to glass is infinitely more sustainable environmentally.,The solution is to ban single use plastics or to legislate that these companies that produce it also create the recycling centers for it and promote them to be used.,0
"Assuming ITER reaches its goal it won't be that far away: 300 MW electricity used to produce 50 MW of plasma heating which leads to 500 MW of fusion, converting that to electricity would give something like 150-200 MW. There is also some power for cooling and other stuff, but we are talking about a factor 2-3 to break-even instead of the 300 for inertial confinement. In addition it's already in a relevant power range - going from 500 MW to 3 GW is a smaller step than going from a shot per day to multiple shots per second.",First they compared the output to the energy absorbed by the fuel for a first round of news when they exceeded that.,0
If a Republican ripple takes away control in either the House of Senate that is still essentially a wave because absolutely nothing will get done for the next 2 years and then voter apathy will get worse and like every other damn election Democratic voters will get disenfranchised.,"the fear is that if the republicans win, they're going to keep their maga extremism rolling, de-legitimizing the democratic election system, pushing laws through to the SC which has been stacked in their favor, and ultimately using that combination of election-disruption and bypassing congress via the SC to gain authoritarian power, a la ww2 Germany.",1
"To be blunt, this makes this a much better deal for the US. Rather than spending our own lives and lots of money to fight Russia, risking a full-scale nuclear exchange, we are only spending some money, with minimal nuclear risk.","I’m honestly not sure, there’s a very good reason open conflict between nuclear powers has never been risked. Just doing some armchair geopolitics, I’d assume the goal would be to drive Russia out of Ukraine/Europe and probably wouldn’t entail invasion of Russia itself or deposing Putin or whatever. But again, with nukes you can’t know that they’re not gonna hit the button, which is (imo) why everyone’s so keen to keep the conflict framed as war between Russia and Ukraine, with western support.",1
"Modern systems can be moved to and from firing positions in less than 5min after firing but both sides are lacking in Anti-artillery radars making the threat of counter-battery fire much less likely than what it should be when two ""modern western armies"" clash.","Yeah, I think they are falling into same ""pit"" that ruined Hitler's plans of taking over UK, had the Nazis kept on bombing just the factories and air fields and harbors they would have likely won but because of ideological & propagandist reasons they switched to blitzing civilian neighbourhoods as well which depleted their stocks with no strategic results what so ever... Russia is doing the same, wasting ammo like crazy to kill civilians thinking it will net them anything strategically or even tactically -shooting rockets to Kyiv or even to Kharkiv doesn't accomplish anything to advance their goals at this point.",0
"China knows that the only way they can continue their level of technological development is by relying on Taiwans supply of American designed chips. China’s “president” is watching what’s happening with Russian Ukraine very closely and knows if he tries anything with Taiwan, the remaining of the western nations will probably severely sanction. China even if that creates another economic panic and supply chain issues.",China on the other hand is the most economically vulnerable country in the world. All the US has to do is stop buying and China will cease to exist.,1
"You realize, don't you, that it's the official position of China, Taiwan, and the US that there is only one China, and Taiwan and what we call China are all the same nation, right?","Hindsight is 20-20 and no one can be right 100% of the time, but I belive there is a strong argument that it is in the United States interest to defend Taiwan should China invade. The ball is in their court. The decision is just whether to defend an ally/partner from naked aggression should that day come.",1
"That seems pretty likely, unless either the 5th Circuit or SCOTUS throw out the ruling because its analysis was highly flawed...","Agreed, it will take longer, but the ruling is nonsense and even the fith circuit is unlikely to support the ruling, sense the cancellation is authorized in statute.",1
"I've heard the Russian system described well as that you're allowed to have total power, but instead you have to show that you will protect the nation.","The wider issue is those in power in Moscow that cling to the notion Russia is entitled to be a superpower.... & deserves to take, by force, whatever resources necessary to bring about USSR 2.0.",1
"Ukraine may help out later- especially since even a Crimea-less Ukraine can choke out the Russian presence- but right now Ukraine's not likely to touch it unless the TDR does something very, very stupid and convinces Ukraine to help Moldova out.","The problem for Ukraine is not that there would be fierce resistance, it's that Ukraine is currently trying to exist. While it looks like Ukraine still has the edge over its opponent due to its military and diplomatic prowess, Russia still makes advances here and there (note that Imperial Japan made territorial gains even in 1944, two years after Midway and other such battles already made it clear that Japan was going to lose), it still has to deal with the Russians in the East and South while keeping a reserve force available in case Lukashenko goes crazy.",0
"I suspect it's a bit higher, just based on the ferocity of the fighting. Maybe 30k Russian dead and 90,000-120,000 wounded, but I'd be surprised if it's any more than that.","So, with all that, it's reasonable to assume the Russians have lost around 20,000 dead and 80,000-100,000 wounded, as a very conservative number.",0
"This way you could know that you wouldn’t have any trans people sharing your restroom, while also not imposing your fears about the diarrhea thing on other people.",Your solution also puts an open target on trans people who then have to out themselves any time they want to use the restroom which can be dangerous.,1
Medvedev failed to relay which countries would even be interested in this. My guess: Belarus and North Korea. I highly doubt China would ever dare to directly involve itself with a military conflict with the US/NATO.,"I agree. Russia is pretty much all alone in this war and it’s main resources are reputedly being depleted. At this point, I think Russia is desperate for foreign/external assistance.",0
Hates the railway workers so much he signed a deal that 8 of 12 Unions already agreed to and 12 of 12 union leaders negotiated. Must be pretty terrible.,Sure it sucks. Vote out republicans as I think it would be better in the long run. History has shown it.,1
"Yes, they can try to find ways to keep revenue coming in even as the state loses population. How does that example apply to a wealth tax? You think the state is going to be able to accurately track wealth acquired while residing in CA and successfully tax non-residents for it?","Given the two options above, which is going to bring in more tax revenue from wealthy yacht owners and which is more prone to evasion by people claiming a residence out of state?",1
Seems like this guy is in over his head and knows he will be exposed by his fellow congressmen as being truly unqualified if he spends any duration of time working on the committees.,"Yup, actual committee work is often pretty tedious ... besides, he expects to be much too busy doing Faux shows, setting up the next stage of his ""careerx"" and stashing some money (got them lawyers to pay now!).",1
"You see, communists want a stateless, classless, and moneyless society. Without money you have no classes. So that’s one down and one more to go.","That’s okay. Given the standards the state has set for elder care, there are gonna be some interesting times ahead for those people. They’ll deserve everything they get in the nursing homes to come.",1
"So they're aren't just going after drag. They're going after any and all trans performers. That's what they're emphasis on gender assigned at birth does. And like, how are they going to possibly regulate that. Are people expected to keep their birth certificates on them at all times? What about people who've had them changed? I wouldn't be surprised if the people behind enforcing this mistakenly enforce bans against cis men and women who look slightly gender non-conforming, mistaking them as trans.","The way it's worded also directly impacts anyone who's transgender or simply gender non-conforming, from making any sort of appearance late at night, or before noon on Sundays. I'm certain that's intended.",1
We should not be normalising China confronting US aircraft with fighter jets in international airspace.,"Because we have bases in a bunch of countries surrounding China and then fighter jets from both countries cross pathes, they are the aggressors? It's an imperialist pissing match. We shouldn't be over there in the first place and they shouldn't be threatening their neighbors.",1
"Yeah. Social Security is actually popular, government shutdowns are not, and defaulting on the debt in order to cut Social Security has about as much public appeal as it sounds like….",Yeah. Using it as a demand would be even more ridiculous because it’s part of mandatory spending for a reason and would require a filibuster-propf majority in the Senate.,0
Naw let them continue. Brazil already fined him $4 million this week. Anything attached to Trump people fails anyways and Brazilians are too smart for idiot American right wing nuts. They will keep on failing and alienating more people and countries. It’s a good look.,Live in Cali baby and I have nothing to do with Brazil except for a few trips there. What I should of said is that most people WORLD WIDE are smarter than American Right Wing Nut jobs. A forest mushroom is smarter than them. A dead tree filled with grubs is smarter than them. A rock is smarter than them. I could go on for a while here but you get my point now I assume.,0
What guarantee would Democrats have that McCarthy or another Republican would actually follow through on the agreement?,"The trouble is that McCarthy doesn't have the cache among his peers that a Pelosi, Boehner, McConnell, Schumer, or Frist had, so there's no reason for Democrats to trust anything he'd agree to would hold up.",1
"Some Kazakh barrels are already pumped northward to Almetyevsk in Russia and mixed with oil from Russian fields into a common export grade, officially known as Russian Export Blend Crude Oil, or REBCO, which is more often referred to as Urals.","The Urals cargoes belonging to KMG have been specifically excluded from EU sanctions on seaborne imports from Russia and have been re-labeled Kazakh Export Blend Crude Oil, or KEBCO, to distinguish them from REBCO.",0
"Putin didn't take stupid pills and decide to invade, he supports an ideology that values meeting the strategic goals of a country and its leader above the prosperity and lives of its citizens.",The invasion of Ukraine isn't a stupid decision if your set of values doesn't consider things like the prosperity of your citizens or the development of your economy important.,0
"That’s the point people willfully ignore: Palestine is basically a dumping ground for refugees and undesirables from surrounding Muslim countries, used as a buffer to and proxy battleground for Israel. Palestinians are pawns in a F’d game of Stratego between a bunch of countries that hate each other but know better than to get into an outright open shooting war directly.","If they don't accept Israel's right to exist and instead stand for violence, they are different shades of terrorists and nothing more.",1
"Please don't speak for us if you are an ignorant foreigner. The recent elections were for local city and county level politicians whose platforms have nothing to do with international policy. In fact, only 2 seats switched hands and the discontent has to do with the DPP's domestic policies like energy securiry and covid measures, not China. The DPP's agenda against nuclear energy is particularly contentious for one.","Nobody here wants to be a part of China. Why should we give up our unique culture, history and free way of life to be governed by a totalitarian regime thousands of km away in Beijing?",0
"I admit that Biden has accomplished a hell of a lot as President, especially given the current political atmosphere.","There's a sound argument that Biden has been more effective than Obama, who was only 47 when he took office.",1
"He does this with all extremist supporters. Remember his Proud Boys stand down and stand by moment? It followed shortly after he said he ""didn't know much about them besides the fact they like the great things he's done for the country."".","Yeah. If you were a real manly man, then the only people tough enough to have sex with you would be lumberjacks, cowboys, and especially sailors. A real man would need to cover themselves in seamen to be satisfied.",1
I'm sure Russia and everyone else is so concerned about saving Ukraine. Bless their little hearts. The only way to save it at this point is to finish this war that someone else started.,"Besides, Ukraine has already lasted far longer than it should have. Why give up anything now, when they're winning more than Russia and anyone else thought at the start of this? Keep going, make it costly for Russia for as long as it takes. It's what's best for Ukraine, it's what's best for the U.S., and we can see right through this anonymous article's propaganda, Putin. I mean whoever, you are.",0
"Nixon was consulted by every subsequent president because he was a foreign policy genius and was still a patriot- Trump is a narcissist only looking out for 1, at best.","Nixon was a crooked politician, but he was smart and knew how to manage the presidency, and of course he knew when to resign. Trump takes all of Nixon’s bad qualities with none of his few good ones.",1
"Right, but over here (I also live in Vietnam), the medical system is also not as sturdy as in the USA. It's surprisingly good, with a variety of hospitals in different price ranges for different needs and incomes, and local hospitals/clinics available even in relatively small towns etc, but at the end of the day Vietnam is still a poor country and there's a limit to how good it can be. It's poorer than China as well, of course.","I don't get it, I feel bad for them to an extent but after a while something like emotional fatigue sets in where you're just tired of watching a close and significant neighbor fuck up constantly. Their future and economic health has implications for all of us in this part of the world. In some respects, them screwing the pooch has been very good for Vietnam in terms of industry relocating here, but with the massively interconnected nature of the regional and global economy I just feel like having such a massive economy become stagnant cannot be good long term. At the end of the day, economic activity begets economic activity, China becoming the sick man of Asia will have unpredictable and probably net-negative effects.",0
"Another way would be to geographically stagger the opening. Impossible to do in a democratic country but I could see it happen in China where they open provinces one by one, focusing doctors and equipment of the entire country to soften the blow, then when the peak has passed, move it all to the next province. It would have taken a full year probably so quite an undertaking.",White lung is nothing mysterious. It's can be caused by many pathogens like pneumococcus and plain old influenza.,0
"Overpopulation by specific countries in the traditional sense is a myth. In developed countries, populations are often stable or even dropping. Just like our population boomed during the industrial revolution, the same thing is happening to the population of many less developed countries going through their own industrial revolutions today. The global population is predicted to eventually level out. It's much more about overconsumption than it is overpopulation.","Its much more about overpopulation than about consumption. Yes you are right, it should theoretically level out in the future.",1
"He's not a pro-labor president then. Fucking simple as that. Man, I was proud of my vote for Biden a month ago. Now I'm not so sure. Good job Biden. You're alienating a large majority of the people who voted for you for political and economical optics.","But you don't actually look - you're upset about a failure of the democrats on a particular issue, but completely ignoring that what the republicans offer on that issue is even worse.",1
"I'm talking about radio dramas, movies, novels, video games, and TV shows. There were multiple generations who grew up with the idea being thrown around that Russia was a considerable military threat, even without the use of a nuke. I can't help but imagine that that notion died in Ukraine, along with a good chunk of Putin's cardboard army. It almost makes me wonder if any future video games will continue to use Russia as the opposing team in military shooters?","However, they are supposed to be talking about Ukranian forces, and the world knows it actually applies to Russian forces.",1
"The incident is still under investigation, but Polish President Andrzej Duda asserted earlier today: ""Ukraine's defence was launching their missiles in various directions and it is highly probable that one of these missiles unfortunately fell on Polish territory."".","There was no suggestion that this was a deliberate attack, said Nato Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg.",0
Does that mean most Israelis agree with the egregious comments and actions made by their leaders? The current coalition is particularly bad in this regard.,What about Palestinian Christians who are overwhelmingly anti-Israel? Do you have some other excuse for dehumanising them since they're not Muslim? Also do you think Arab-Muslims in Israel who make up 20% of the population should be allowed to vote?,0
"You are correct, india also doesn't want to buy from russia. We hate to be in this position, we would very much prefer middle eastern oil. But the prices have been pumped up so much that we can't afford oil from elsewhere. What would you have us do stop buying any oil, i can't afford prices going up anymore. The narrative is that india is prospering on the oil is so wrong we are just surviving and if this war continues any longer, i don't think india could even afford oil at these prices.","P.s. Germany, china, turkey and Netherlands have been the largest importers of energy from Russia from Feb to nov. India is 5th on this list.",0
"So America is a god awful society because of all our violence? Gotcha. Does that include all the death and destruction that we've exported all over the world? We've bombed whole countries, destabilized and overthrown governments, illegally detained and tortured innocent people, supported dictatorships. That's just off the top of my head lol. Maybe you're right, the worst violence is, the worse (it's spelt W-O-R-S-E, btw) the society.",And the worst the society is the worst the violence is. You want to get into it? Where are they beheading and beating people in the street? It sure aint denmark.,1
"Some members of the adult industry are worried that a prorposed federal bill that’s going after content that aims to “arouse, titillate, or gratify” sexual desires has the potential to outlaw porn nationwide.","The Porn Industry laughs as Tiny Republican Senator No One Wants to Fuck Anyway Wants to Ban Porn, Obviously Misunderstanding How Immensely Powerful the Porn Industry Is.",1
"That's trademark. Part of the challenge in understanding how it all works is that in common vernacular it all gets lumped together as ""IP"" when there are different legal frameworks for copyright, trademark, patents, and (in some jurisdictions) right of publicity.","Looks like he's got a good shot at winning the lawsuit, since right of publicity (aka closely mimicking his voice) and the musical composition are covered separately under the law. But is it a good idea for him to be going after Yung Gravy like this? I mean, let's face it, Rick Astley's fame, and likely a huge chunk of his recurring revenue from Never Gonna Give You Up are due to the meme, which gives him far more visibility and streaming revenue than he'd otherwise have. If people stop using the meme because he's seen as an a-hole, he can kiss a lot of that recurring revenue goodbye.",0
"I agree that was a sham vote, which is why I said Russia needs to give everything else back. But I bet if a legitimate vote was held, Donbas and Crimea would vote to join Russia.","Correct me if I’m wrong, but why not offer annexation of Crimea and Donbas, the area that has voted pro-Russia for the last decade?",0
"1) This type of geoengineering isn't a solution to global warming but rather a time extension at best. The idea of blocking sunlight to ""cool"" the earth by releasing chemicals along the equator has been around for some time. But the vast majority of academies agree that it won't fix anything. It can in theory buy us some time by possibly slowing down the effects of global warming. So the reduction or eradication of fossil fuels is still the key. Selling it as the solution is blatantly false but since this is being done by a start up it makes sense. It is cheap and easily marketed as such. People can buy into just paying some ""smart guy"" to pump ""chemicals"" ( Sulfur dioxide or a combination) ontonthe atmosphere than actually changing the current industrial world.",The vast majority of climatologists all agree that ( as I pointed out in my first response) it will potentially be even worse that just letting climate change occur.,0
Democrats don't send out police to assault conservative protesters and drag them into the backs of unmarked vans.,Democrats don't reorganize the governments of blue states to ensure that Republicans never win again no matter how many votes they get.,0
"There are ways to achieve similar results without guns. Like the mothers during BLM protests/rallies, where they'd come and stand a line against police or other instigators.","Can't remember where it was, or what it was for, but there was a liberal(called antifa) group that did decide to defend a rally by showing up with guns to stand around and keep them safe. Same thing the conservatives do with the same stated purpose, although in those cases, it's usually the protestors who show up armed.",0
Regulating the THC content of marijuana products sounds like a great idea but people are dumb and it won’t help much. I had a few calls because patients ate the whole damn bag of edibles when the bag clearly states the dosage and that you’re supposed to eat one pot candy. There’s nothing quite like having to take someone to the emergency room because they’re having a freak out and think they’re dying when they’re fine physically they’re just gonna have a really rough 24 hours mentally.,"Some people say they can drive high no problem but living in Vermont I can tell you it’s not a good idea. It’s easy to tell he was drunk and he was high, the drunks are all over the road and the stoners are doing 40 in a 55.",0
Brazil saw massive progress in conserving the rainforest under Lula before Germany and Norway got involved (and probably is the reason they got involved in the first place).,"Norway and Germany are basically compensating Brazil (and other countries with rainforests) for not extracting resources there, and provide aid in protecting it from criminals.",0
"I’m glad Germany is helping Ukraine, and I’m glad they’re no longer using Russian natural gas, but they would’ve been in a much better predicament had they heeded warnings from the US & UK about Russia’s plans that had been handed to them for years. Now they have the gall to complain (private) US Natural gas sellers are up-charging them.","Germany is repeating the same course of action it did with Russia. Ignore all of your allies’ concerns and warnings about a country, allow said country to invest into integral parts of your economy, and then act surprised when every single thing you’ve been told for years comes true.",0
"Nope. Not the same. Let me help you understand. One person knowingly shoplifted items from the store and tried to deny it and refused to give them back when ordered to. The other accidentally walked out with sunglasses on their head, forgetting they were up there and turned around and went back in the store to pay for them, once they realized their mistake.","For all the Bitching about her Emails and going after Biden for this, doesn't excuse Trump for knowingly partaking in something he knew damn well he wasn't supposed to be doing and when asked nicely, flat out refused to do the right thing.",0
This is an inherent consequence of profit seeking and not something that can be simply regulated away. The provision of critical infrastructure cannot sustainably co-exist with a profit motive.,The article explains how the sick day issue is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all of the ways the railroads are completely fucked due to them slashing payrolls. This leads to insane and unsustainable staffing availability requirements and railroads not being able to meet existing regulatory requirements.,0
"They’re pouring fuel on the fire of the affordable housing crisis that so many of our communities are facing, leaving working families behind.",It’s time for Congress to put in place commonsense guardrails that ensure all families have a fair chance to buy or rent a home in their community at a price they can afford.”””.,0
"You get everyone sane to leave and make a new pact that says ""NATOv2"". Now Hungary is all alone in NATO since it didn't get an invite.","in other words, Hungary was going to get territory but wasn't going to participate inthe ""force"" aprt.",1
"Offering russia security guarantees is not the whole deal (obviously), it's an offer that needs to be met with a returning offer from russia - and it's then up for ukraine and NATO to decide if they see these offers as acceptable. Before this, russia won't actually get any security guarantees (that's how offering something works).","No one has intentions to invade russia so 'security guarantees' for russia are of course purely symbolic, but that doesn't mean they're unnecessary. It's what russia needs to feel like their pride wasn't destroyed by this whole ordeal. A bruised loser of a war will only come back stronger and deadlier (e.g. treaty of Versailles directly leading towards nazi germany and thus WWII).",0
"Used clothing has become an odd form of ""dumping"" that happens to crush any ability for a domestic industry. Since people are getting cloths for next to free, there's no way for a domestic industry to form. Because of this, a lot of countries (including Indonesia) have banned the import of used clothing.",This company got around it by setting up a business that would collect shoes and then turn them as a sand and rock alternative for children's parks. But then they had a black market used shoe operation that would export used shoes for profit. Dow seems to have gotten themselves into some weird black market niche.,0
Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.,"The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.",0
"Problem for now though is that Putin is actually in a very upscale and isolated bunker, opposed to Hitler's damp and cramped concrete bunker in the middle of Berlin.","I could be wrong, but this is what I remember reading/watching. I personally feel that Putin will probably experience some sort of mental breakdown before there is an actual physical threat from outsiders.",0
It is absolutely stunning that Brazil is the example of democracy and the rule of law now as the US keeps sliding further into authoritarianism and an illegitimate justice system. It’s not even close the comparison of the two democracies. One has wealth hoarded at the top by an unaccountable few and the other reacts swiftly when the rule of law is violated even by the powerful and well connected. First the Scandinavian countries copied the new deal and the capitalist-socialist policies from the 40s and 50s to become thriving democratic countries with social safety nets and happy people and then Brazil shows the world what the rule of law is suppose to look like. How utterly embarrassing and shameful to squander such things to benefit the 1%.,"Democracy is one thing that if you do not defend and protect it you will have another system that will probably be much worse. You can slip a bit in other areas and be able to correct them but if you lose a democracy whoever or whatever comes next won’t honor or uphold anything you believe in. Everywhere has corruption but not everywhere has democracy and we know in stark terms what happens at the end of democracy by looking at Iran, Myanmar, Russia, Afghanistan and many other authoritarian nations around the world. I think it’s a bit different than talking about corruption or high crime rates.",0
"He is far from a 90s republican. Did you even grow up in the 90s? Biden isnt hooked on opioids, hookers or boys to be a 90s GOP member.","Really though, Biden at least seems to be healthy for his age. Trump is a known McDonald's frequenter. Biden probably suffers from some brain deficiency caused by old age, but today's technology and well-trained aides and staff probably make up for that. Biden is cognitively stable and active; Trump is only a few years younger, is overconfident and doesn't care about his own health. If Biden has to pass along his duties at least temporarily, we have VP Harris for that.",1
"""Can judges use vague laws to do whatever they want"" is basically just ignorant concern trolling. Nobody who takes even a second to consider how professionalized and institutionalized/systemitized an advanced judicial system is could ever ask such a question.",What you've just described here is exactly how a democratic judiciary should operate: With a clear standard/test for constitutionality. Blocking unconstitutional amendments is the very job of a supreme court.,0
"Doesn't help that Democrats who side with them get normalized by the supposed liberal media. Manchin is a called a ""moderate"" by NYTimes, msnbc, CNN, Washinon post, and every other ""liberal"" media. Why? He literally said the filibuster was more important than investigating a coup. And has sided with Republicans on blocking highly popular reforms like a public option, stronger drug pricing reforms, paid maternity leave, etc.",It's almost like spending your healthy working years paying for-profit insurance companies so they can make record profits year after year resulted in a weakened Medicare system.,0
"We have a right as citizens to a speedy and public trial, and it's telling to see what our government does to those who don't have those rights guaranteed.","one would think that a democratic country would release people when they can't find proof of wrongdoing, even if detained without charge, but guess that's too high of a bar.",1
- Nobody in Britain watches John Oliver's show or gives a shit about who he is - he has practically no profile in the UK.,"But us stupid Brits only watch trash reality and celebrity panel shows, meanwhile we apparently have huge demand for John Oliver which is neither last time I checked.",1
"The counterpoint that I am trying to articulate is that a state legislature is limited in a ton of ways by the state constitution, many of which are absolutely inherent to its . If we are saying that ""shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof"" means ""without regarding to any limits placed on it in the state constitution"", then what says the minority party in the state legislature can't just lock everyone in the majority party in the coat closet, then take a vote on whatever redistricting map they like? The state courts can't throw out the map, and the US constitution is silent on the rules for how state legislatures decide anything, so I guess federal courts can't do anything about it either.","The obvious answer, as far as those pushing ISL would be concerned, is that a state constitution can't overrule the federal constitution. If the latter say the state legislature can do X, then a state constitution can't say ""nope, they can't do X"".",1
"For real, if they won’t make DC, PR, and other territories states with voting powers than what makes anyone think they will honor giving power to the Native Americans.","I'd be up for giving every sovereign nation within US borders a member with voting rights as well as every US territory that hasn't become a state, yet.",1
It's disturbing how often we are seeing these things happen. Using lies and fraud to get elected and then using the fact you are in the position you were elected to to cover up the lies and fraud.,"This is what our politics have been reduced to, when open obvious frauds get elected, and then get extra time to come up with lies. I'm sure the elephants will circle the wagon around this liar and charlatan, because he's on their team. Sickening.",1
“The United States has seen evidence that the People's Republic of China is considering sending lethal weapons to Russia for its use in the war in Ukraine”.,"VOA: So, are you saying that there is indeed an indication that China is considering sending lethal weapons to Russia?",1
with the caveat that we do have something of an oligarchy which is a tyranny of the financial minority. But that has nothing to do with this discussion.,"Direct Democracy would be insane in a country with over 330 million. For a Representative Democracy, the current system works well to prevent tyranny of the majority or the minority.",0
"I deserve to keep living until cancer gets me, like everyone else in damn family. Like, THAT is already the future I have to worry about genetically (and soon-ish) for me and my children, too. Let us at least achieve THAT horrible way to die, without trying to murder us and when we’re dancing with our friends.","Joshua Thurman is brave, loving person - as I’d say of any who were at the Club that night (or anywhere, any day or hour) for a fun time surrounded by love and joy and filling a human need for companionship and camaraderie with like minded people.",0
"Playing their game in this scenario won’t work. Don’t lend credence to this behavior, let them pout and complain, but don’t stoop to their level, not in terms of complying with committees. State elections? Fuck with them and use their tricks but do not degrade the little checks and balances the federal government has left.","Playing their game is even worse, you might as well be asking for a revolution at that point seeing as the federal government will cease to have any power.",0
"If they voted for Republicans for their state government, aren't they partly responsible (i.e. complicit) for the abysmal voting rights situation in Georgia and the gerrymandered districts that prevent the majority from getting their way?","Some voters in Georgia saw a brain-damaged wife-beating child-abandoning moron running for the Senate and decided to vote for his opposition, but I would be interested to look at their choices down the ballot.",0
Yeah but take a look at how many mass shootings have happened in Australia since they implemented gun control laws and other gun control related measures.,Exactly! Sure some people might be able to get illegal firearms but it’s way riskier to try that and the government and law enforcement can just crack down harder on that.,0
"A background check requirement for sale of ammunition may have more effect on a hardened criminal, as you put it, since if a person has a felony record, they cannot pass a bc to purchase ammunition, let alone a firearm.","If, as has been commonly documented in mass shootings, the person planning to commit the attack has already completed a federally required background check (and in some cases, an additional state bc as well) to purchase the firearm, another bc to purchase the ammunition is no obstacle.",0
"So, let me get this right. Jordan is threatening to use the power of a subpoena….when he ignored the one the Jan 6 committee sent him? Why would anyone submit to his subpoena, when he did not?",I’m not arguing with you but the subpoenas seem to be invalid if you can’t enforce them. I believe I’ve heard no teeth. It takes years to get someone to even respond to a subpoena. I believe two plus years of delay tactics is easy with little effort. The system is broke and this is just more proof.,1
"From what I can tell, the Russian argument at the moment is straight up denying they want the ""rest"" of Ukraine. Its all presented them as defending Russian territory and Ukraine aggressing.","I'm all for Ukraine doing whatever it needs to do in order to reclaim it's rightful territory and beat the fuck out of Russia's military. Attacking their power grid sounds like great retaliation on paper, but it wouldn't be beneficial to Ukraine. There are other ways to fight back, potentially uniting the Russian people against you is not it. Sorry. Paint a broad brush somewhere else.",1
"Good question. His explanations for having it seem adhoc to me, but I can also see it being shenanigans considering how many of our former military love to do dumb shit in other countries.","I think Whelan should be home, but if consistency is a thing I would say that he deserves exactly what the hardliners say Griner deserves. Also, Griner never intentionally defrauded US service members while Whelan did. He isn't a Marine. He is a dishonorably discharged former Marine.",0
"Haiti is in this position primarily because of its history as a colony of France. They had a slave revolt, and defeated France for their independence, but the peace deal required them to pay crippling reparations to France. This set them up for failure. There have been numerous periods of intervention since then by the United States and other countries. This has been helpful for short periods of time, but the long term result has been undeniably bad for Haiti.",3. Diplomatic communications between the Haitian government (which is effectively non existent at this point) and the American government.,0
☝️This is the intended purpose of both withholding information until now and the public recommendations. It keeps the investigation into J6 from being squashed by an opposing Congress and it puts the spotlight on the DOJ.,"I also believe the DOJ has been running parallel investigations. January 6th, the fake electors, and the missing documents all have one common denominator: tRump himself.",0
It's not the job or responsibility of the media to tell you how to think. You have the responsibility to think for yourself and be critical. Don't blame the media for your own shortcomings.,"Nope, it's not, and that's why people here are saying it's odd the media is focusing on it. Asbestos is bad to work with because it's basically just lots of tiny glass shards, it gets stucks in your lungs and never leaves.",1
"You can’t pick up and move hundreds of acres of land and all the developments on top of it, and even if you could, an equally sized swath of land nearby to an international airport in a tropical state doesn’t exist anymore.","I can’t see how you possibly could have been to Disney World when you seem to think of it like it’s a traveling carnival. Buildings are permanent construction, not portable, and the idea that Disney should or would “write-off” a profitable theme park over political differences is farcical.",0
"??? It’s not. California allows abortion for any reason only until viability — after that, the law prohibits it unless there is medical necessity to save the woman’s life. What you said is true only in a very few select states, like Vermont.",Which is why states' rights are so important! Jfc. It's like Constitutionalists are screaming into the wind around here.,1
"He was never ""the only one that did this"". When his issue became public info, it was clearly stated by the authorities that this is something that happens all the time, and tends not to be an issue because _people cooperate with said authorities and return the documents when found_. The issue in Trump's case is not that he had documents he was supposed to have returned, it's _that he continued to return them, fought with the FBI to avoid returning them, lied in increasingly stupid ways to avoid having to return them, lied about having declassified them, lied about having returned them, lied about them having been planted_, and much, much more. Had he just given them over, there would not have been a problem, which is the case with Pence, the case with Biden, and the case with every other person who has found and willingly returned documents without the FBI having to fight them for it.","My dream is that the way Biden handled it (inviting the FBI to search his place, go over everything with a fine toothed-comb) is to give him justification for doing the same to trump in the future. He can say ""look I went through it so you have to too"".",1
The holiest site to Judaism was destroyed and desecrated and it's estimated remains are buried deep under the mount.,OK let's destroy all the holy churches and mosques so that someone who came 3000 years after the temple was reportedly destroyed can pray. See how ridiculous this is?,1
"Should the US be involved in fighting terrorism abroad? Obviously yes. Should the US use drones for that? Well, yes, why not? Will there be instances of bad missions? Obviously yes, have to break eggs to make omelette. You can then quibble about the details, the quantity and quality, and the whole. But just saying that Obama did drone strikes should not qualify as a ""real controversy"".","Sure, then argue that or similar as a scandal, instead of just vague ""drone strikes"". But if Trump did the same or worse, then it is hardly a good pick as an Obama criticism in this context.",0
"well, the concept of human rights and abandoning social hierarchies is a western value, so, yes. Human rights are a western construct.","What's funny is that western human rights are only inherent to the groups that defined those rights. For many marginalized communities in western civilizations, those human rights don't even extend to them. So many people call for human rights in Afghanistan or Iran (and rightfully so) but don't even realize their own country suffers from their own list of human rights issues.",1
"It's all the same thing just flavored differently to be more socially acceptable. In the suburbs it's easy to get away with a MAGA flag without much pushback or ridicule from the neighbors but a Confederate flag might get the HOA up in your business and the swastika definitely will. Out in the sticks you can get away with the Confederate flag and/or a MAGA flag easily. Luckily the swastika is largely still only acceptable in right wing safe spaces for the most part. Gun shows, race tracks, homes, the occasional gun store are were they stay usually but there's always the exception.",In my area we have a few houses like that but it's mostly all Bible verses and conspiracy theory web addresses. There used to be one that just had a huge blue Q spray painted on plywood that always made me chuckle.,0
"The thing is, Trump is very unlikable to a lot of us, but he's got a certain charisma. A shitty charisma sure, but still the sort of thing that can stand out and be entertaining and give him a (fake) man of the people aesthetic. I've even seen some liberals and progressives basically say something to the extent that it would be nice to have an asshole like Trump if he stood up for good things rather than bad things.","DeSantis doesn't necessarily have that sort of appeal. Like, he does policy that gets conservatives happy, but he's not necessarily doing the sort of rallies that really get conservatives all active and excited and stuff. He may just not have that sort of ability to work a crowd and to get people to really think he stands out above other shitty but kinda dull conservatives.",0
"Or we continue to have their fleeing citizens sneak into other countries, or have them stay, starve and be at the whim of their new gang lords.","They ain’t sorting it out themselves, evidently, and it’s spilling over into Mexico, U.S.A. and Canada.",0
"Not necessarily, you state that they’re lying as Israel is already supplying SA? That’s fine, they didn’t deny that. They stated that they don’t have the capacity which is very possible & there’s no reason to doubt it realistically.","As far as a air defenses though I believe them when they say they don’t have the capacity, they aren’t the US with limitless resources to play with.",1
"Here I am using ""the state"" in the sense of ""the government"" (like in ""separation of church and state"".","The state does not interfere with who gets to be married in your church, and your church does not get to decide who can get married by the state or another church. That is separation of church and state.",1
"These aren't soldiers though, these are mercenaries, mostly convicts, used as expendable fodder. Don't think they pretend to be on the good side, a lot of them just want quick money and an amnesty for their crimes. I suppose the only way to keep a bunch of armed murderers and rapists in check is with these sorts of punishments.",There’s a reason they’re resorting to such brutal punishments for the convicts. They’re rebellious because they’re being sent into certain death.,1
"How is taking your naval warships away from your home turf, that just this weekend got bombarded, not a good strategic idea?",Why are you so butthurt about a warship sailing in international waters anyway? Also I don’t remember the US military returning home when BLM protests were happening all over the White America. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯.,1
"The guy attacked the Capitol because he lost an election. The guy wilfully killed Americans with a purposefully apathetic Covid response because it was calculated to improve his election chances. The guy extorted an ally for personal gain who just so happens to now be embroiled in an existential battle for the food, energy, and safety security of western Europe and the whole planet, to a lesser degree.","It's really incomprehensible that there is such a wide disconnect across the whole media spectrum really as to just how depraved these acts were. Maybe that's the issue at its core. We aren't allowed, by law, to even discuss the repercussions of these wilfull acts because he holds some title.",0
"The Kremlin said that the weapons launched by Ukraine were Soviet-era jet drones and were aimed at bases in Ryazan and Engels, about 300 miles from the Ukrainian border. It said that its forces had intercepted the drones, and that “the fall and explosion of the wreckage” had “slightly damaged” two planes, killing three servicemen and wounding four others.","Ukraine’s government declined to publicly acknowledge the strikes, in keeping with its practice of intentional ambiguity on attacks in Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea. But officials have established a pattern of comments suggestive of Ukraine’s involvement.",0
"Which doesn't change the fact that Putin and his fascist apparatus will seek revenge on the west and will aggressively rearm and rebuild their military. With one single goal: revenge. Sure, there will be more fireworks when that occurs because everyone else will arm too. But does that sound like a recipe for ""saving lives""?","It was more of an answer to your question about a recipe for savings lives. I just felt that your question came off as “let’s not arm ourselves against Putin because he will seek revenge.” Regardless if the countries around arm themselves or not, his plan isn’t much different from WW2 Germany. It’s expansion and becoming a world power. However, before he only thought he could get away was because no one put up a fight. Well in the future, he won’t start another because he doesn’t have what it takes.",1
Ukrainian cities have been absolutely devastated and thousands are dead due to Russia's invasion. Please don't make light of the potential harm they can do and also don't make light of just how much effort and material the Ukrainians are expending in order to defend themselves. Just because Russia has shown themselves to be fairly inept does not mean they won't still murder thousands of Poles when they level whole city blocks with artillery and missiles.,Bringing up nukes and trying to say that they should make us fearful of defending ourselves if Russia attacks just sounds like a very weak Russian talking point.,1
The mental gymnastics ruzzia does to justify this bullshit is amazing. Even if that were true and Ukraine shot down a missile aimed at a military target and it landed on the apartment they are still responsible for firing it! I'm hoping after this is all over Ukraine will be able to bring those responsible for all these war crimes to justice.,"It's more sustainable for Russia then it is Ukraine, a decent read with a realistic point of view from both sides.",1
Not sure what you mean here. Are you saying that only senators from one of the two major parties should be allowed to vote against the majority party?,I'm saying yes the 2 people that say there not democratic or Republicans should not be able just say when it time to vote on something that there going be Democrat then when it's come to us senate that affects the entire US. Now when it comes to there state and there voting on laws for there state only then yes they can vote for there state in any way they choose. America as whole does not want some random unknown party making choice that affect us all. Think about if this unknown party voted republican with out actually being republican would you not it sketchy that this so called unknown party is running on believes that are not there just to pretend to be something there not. The senate and house and president already corrupt but that's a corrupt we know is corrupt on both sides at least we know it. We have no clue what this unknown party members are really about what there believe are. I used to be Democrat and switched to republican because the democrats where no longer running on there original standpoint and beliefs. Basically choose side and that what you are or don't be able vote on something if your going vote with democrats on all there bills then your a Democrat not an unknown party.,1
"Oh, piss off. If Putin loses, he's most likely literally dead. You're willing to risk WW3 betting on the rationality of a narcissistic dictator who knows he's doomed. That doesn't even take into account that the US is unlikely to use strategic nukes in response to Putin's use of tactical nukes.","While I believe that he is correct in his assessment of the situation (that heavy weapons will be needed to defeat russia), one does not simply get war ships and air forces. It would be far, far more effective to ask for an umbrella of protection from NATO.",1
"But, of course, it was Biden's fault... Definitely not the Republicans that voted for the corporations and deny the workers simple paid sick leave.",Why isn't anyone upset about every GOP house rep voting against the 2020 bill enshrining paid leave for all full time workers? How about the Senate GOP filibustering the same bill? Democratic reps and senators overwhelmingly supported those.,1
Compare standard gas stove to a standard induction cooktop and let me know how they stack up. Induction isn't there yet.,That guy bought an induction cook top worth almost 20k. You're not comparing apples to apples. a 1k gas cook top is way more affordable than an induction that can achieve similar results.,0
"Honestly, I really don't care... Every time I criticize Wiki for being somewhat less than impartial or neutral i get downvoted.","Thank you, I'm happy to collect downvotes from people that still think that the Wiki is still in any way remotely impartial with regards to any current and even remotely controversial topics.",0
The fact that you think you have a gotcha moment with the George floyd protests just shows how distorted your worldview is.,"Who riled up that mob mentality? Who spent months crying wolf to make people mad enough to ""back the blue"" into the corner and beat them with flag poles?",0
"So in a race between Sinema and a Republican, Sinema wins by 60k votes (2.4%). What you are telling me is that in a race with Sinema, a Progressive Democrat and a Republican, that the incumbent will get less than 2.4% of the vote (with the rest of there support going to the Dem), or that a progressive will somehow win Republican voters over?","Depending on whether Sinema runs for reelection as a Republican or who the Republicans put against her, she could end up taking more votes from the Republican candidate than the Democrat.",1
"Considering how things went for Republicans on Tuesday, I have no doubt that without the new gerrymandered districts, Democrats would have expanded their majority.","Ask yourself what the midterm elections would have looked like if Democrats hadn't passed an infrastructure bill, or a prescription savings package, or invested hundreds of billions in climate change mitigation, it might not have moved the dial much, but it wouldn't have to.",1
"That said, you're not wrong that if you have a half-decent password that's not reused then you're pretty secure.",It's not like your usual login where password recovery simply means replacing your hashed password with a new hashed password. Replacing the hashed master password is useless if the old password wasn't used to decrypt the vault first.,1
"If you assume an irrational actor, you have to assume a nuclear attack sooner or later and should strike first. He is not irrational but cruel and without empathy for his people. He wants to stay in power, which means he does not want to be annihilated by a nuclear counter strike which would be the precise consequence of an attack on the US. He rattles the sabre to remind people not to attack him. The current situation is the ideal outcome for him, there is literally nothing to gain for him in a nuclear war.","Fun fact: In the event of specific conditions like if the US is ever taken over, the president and other important people killed in the midst of a nuclear war, etc. - those submarine commanders are authorized to have full discretion over the targeting and use of their on-board arsenal. One of those subs could basically destroy the planet, and we have a lot of them at sea, 24/7.",1
"Arming the Ukrainian military with enough artillery ammunition is part of a larger American-led effort to increase its overall combat power by also providing more precision long-range weapons, Western tanks and armored fighting vehicles, and combined arms training.","Mr. Kofman said in an interview that without adjustments to how the Ukrainian military fights, future Ukrainian offensives might require significantly more artillery ammunition to make progress against entrenched Russian defenses.",0
"Max covered many things, but didn’t cover one of the main ones which is advertisers. We already know 50% of the biggest advertisers left. I imagine that numbers going to keep increasing with every crazy headline Musk has. Simple things like starting to ban accounts saying bad things about Musk, calling people Pedos, prosecute Faucci doesn’t sound like much, but all these added up is changing millions of peoples opinions about Musk, Twitter and Tesla. There’s a good possibility there’s company heads currently advertising on Twitter that have family members that died from Covid. Musk making fun of and going after Faucci could cost millions right there. What does he even have to gain from that?","Edit: can’t forget pressure from Tesla investors too. Read today that the top Tesla investors lost $100+ billion collectively, so that’ll cause even more problems.",0
"That said, most Ukrainians don't know or care about UK politics and they blindly adore whoever comes from UK, because UK as a whole helps us so much.","Many if not most people in the uk done support BoJo or Sunack but do support their support of Ukraine and that while they do a lot we don't agree with, credit where credit is due.",1
"Because Poland is on the verge of being sanctioned as well. They need each other to protect each other. And aside for their russian stance opposing, polish government loves the hungarian government and are trying to replicate whatever Orban has been doing for 12 years.","Because pro-EU Hungarians succeeded, and then the anti-EU Hungarians are both shitheads and are in power.",1
"The fucker is literally only doing it to pull one last grift and steal what donations he gets and is going to drop out near the primaries. People forget he’s actually run before, there is no doubt that he’s going to do it to get one last payout to pay for his deepening troubles.","I already see it, he’s running again for a final grift to steal donations, he’s going to see desantis pole immensely better during the primaries and drop out taking the money he got from his stupid feral fanbase. All this is is one last ride on the presidential grift train that isn’t shit like endorsing penis inflating books about himself.",0
">Serbia will ask NATO peacemakers to let it deploy Serbian military and police in Kosovo, although it believes there is no chance of the request being approved, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday.",There’s a part of the resolution that lets NATO allow a few Serbian troops to help defend Orthodox sites and some Serbian majority areas.,1
"Even then - this would be an entirely different story had China simply been like ""yo, we lost control of a stadium-sized balloon, and it's coming your way."".","It could be. The issue is. The US and Europe are together the 800lb gorilla in the world. But they still for economic reasons do business with bad actors. Europe only this month weaned off Russian oil - a year after Russia attacked Ukraine. Economics should only be w concern insofar as you need to manage resources to meet human needs. If you are meeting your own human needs while allowing another to fundamentally violate human needs, there is no net benefit there. Would you light a person on fire to keep a family warm?",1
"Can’t you see that when Hamas puts their weapons adjacent to children, THEY are the ones putting their children in harms way?? How do you not understand this?",You said israel targets children with missiles (Gaza) so I asked you what should israel do to stop Hamas’s rocket fire (Gaza) and you send over an essay about the West Bank.,0
"India owes nothing to Ukraine, its duty is to its citizens first and foremost, and it's hypocritical when all those countries buy a lot more from Russian than India does.","You're fucking up ties with both Russia and the West by trading with Russia, but continue saying it's an ""Indian need"" to do so.",1
"If the GOP doesn’t figure out how to keep Nikki Haley, Pence, Tom Cotton and Younkin etc.. from running, Trump will be their nominee. And they will lose again.","And so the GOP is poised to repeat the mistakes of 2016: have a super crowded field of candidates, that split 70% of the primary votes while Trump grabs the hardline 30% who will always vote for him, no matter what.",0
Don't forget homeless people that cease to be homeless get better jobs and have opportunities for education etc.,"It's not like the money isn't already being spent, its more a question of how society prefers to spend it's homelessness money.",1
"As a Finn, and who also who has done their military service. I think it's dumb that it's a law that you can't burn your own Finnish flag, it would be your own property and have a right to do what you want with it.","Doesn't mean I agree with it, doesn't mean I don't think its not disrespectful. But I wholeheartedly agree that it's just a fucking flag and my despite if someones or mine feelings get hurt that someones burning their own property doesn't give the government a right to persecute them for that.",0
"The hype came when people made their own copies (doge, etherium) and started speculating on the rate of change. Dirivatives, speculation, buying on fake moves and hype, the ""iron hands"" turning into ""diamond hands"" nonsense, etc. made it a roulette wheel, and that's no way to use a simple ledger.","The idea is to transfer some money to a new wallet for every transaction, use that wallet to pay for something, and never use that wallet again. Your money should be in the bank, not on the ledger.",0
"Sending aid to Ukraine has been the best thing to NATO in a long time. Lay off the geopolitics if you can't see the big picture. There is a east vs west split happening in the world, and we want Ukraine in the west.","Because they all involve giving Russia some of Ukraine territory. It just gives him time to re arm to take another bite of Ukraine in a year or two. They won't stop until Ukraine is completely under Russian control and it's ""the ukraine"" again. Then they'll go on to take another countey; they're already talking about taking Belarus next.",1
"Even if they commit hard on fixing the shit the Tories broke, people will just get mad that they can't fix everything in one term then vote the Tories back into power.","The current speaker of the House of Commons was Labour, so hardly helps the original person's point that it's gerrymandering in favour of the party in power.",1
"> While prescription drugs are exempt from Western sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, their delivery to Russia has been hit by transport, insurance and customs hurdles caused by the war and other restrictive measures, industry figures say.","Yeah, like this probably isn't Putins direct fault, but is more likely a fault of management in Russia's internal pharmaceutical industry along with I'm sure the vast sanctions against Russia not helping the problem.",1
"About 1 in 5 humans are Chinese. Maybe 'dying' for the billionaire/owner class because their profits are going to go down with less slave labor available, but they'll be all right, not going anywhere. Worse case they'll be suplanted by India and Nigeria's population growth, but they'll be 'okay'.","Exactly. Why would you invade when occupying a country that size would be almost impossible, and buying it all off the oligarchs would be easy? Russia will be come a resource rich proxy state, managed by Russians, owned by the 'People's Republic' (lol) of China.",0
Republicans leaders might be getting blackmailed by someone who is getting blackmailed by Putin. Republicans are just getting used for their gullibility and ignorance to right and wrong.,Equating those two things is so mind numbingly ridiculous I still can't believe there are Americans as dumb as she is that votes for people like this.,1
"As an indian, this article feels a bit clickbait. The demonstration was an indication of growing relations between the US and India however i doubt that the US would be willing to give their stealth stuff to India when they refused their NATO partner for buying the s400.","Although India became a member of the QUAD, America can't get a supportive attitude from India unless the US can give valuable weapon development skills. If the US wishes to change India's heart, should give the nation precious weapon technologies to satisfy India's slogan such as ""Make in India"" But that's impossible in the position of the US. However, Putin's Russia can do that enough. Let's will see America's diplomatic steps.",1
•	⁠Title X funds family planning clinics that offer the public voluntary family planning services and explicitly does not require parental notification or consent to participate.,•	⁠Deanda’s lawyers are requesting Kacsmaryk to prohibit the federal government from “funding any family-planning project in the United States that fails to obtain parental consent before distributing prescription contraception or other family-planning services to minors.”.,0
"Also I hear Ukrainians say they're facing Russian tanks again, only the first time didn't happen 80 years ago, more like 8.","Nonaggression treaty, glory seeking maniac stabbing his neighbor in the back after promising never to invade them.. sounds familiar I gotta say.",0
"Saying that it's ""internalized misogyny"" only provides an explanation for their beliefs but doesn't explain them wanting to forcefully impose said beliefs on others.",It doesn't matter if the beliefs of the female assholes who want to force their views on other people's bodies are internalized misoginy or not - those women have agency and are the ones CHOOSING to impose (or vote for those who would) those beliefs on others.,0
"I’d always respect someone’s wishes but as a parent myself who lost a child to leukaemia, does it really fucking matter who’s blood it was? If it might help your child, never mind save them there’s just no question as to accepting it.","This is something I’ll never understand, covid & vaccines aside; how a parent could refuse help for their child.",0
"I 100% agree with what you said. I'm a big progressive, but I really get irked with the progressive support for the federal student loan program. It was a bad program that for-profit colleges lobbied for. People need to treat colleges as a special interest group. I think that getting rid of federal student loans is by far the best solution.","It has become clear the federal student loan system is dumb and broken. The idea pitched here to have ""universities issue loans themselves"" is also pretty dumb and will come with its own baggage in the long term, so I dont agree with that, but even propaganda usually has a kernel of truth.",1
"The comment I replied to has no bearing on anything whatsoever, but apparently I'm the asshole for not wanting to excuse her terrible behavior as simply being at the behest of old white men.",It's honestly gross how many people in this thread seem deadset on the idea that somehow old white men are the source of all evil and any women or minorities who go along with it are simply doing so because that's what old white men want.,0
"It will say something like ""The [] conjecture does not apply to []'s postulate. []'s postulate is best understood as the blah blah blah blah. []'s conjecture has been shown to be true when blah blah blah blah."".","Good. Every Iranian weapons factory needs to be cratered, given that 1) They're a murderous regime oppressing their own people 2) They're supplying weapons to another murderous regime (Russia) who invades and murders other people.",1
"middle aged, white male, gay, always vote D and am so grateful, and proud of gen z’s who voted Dem to save our Democracy in the midterms Please keep showing up!","As a lifelong independent, I just want thank the young voters, I wish I could currently say both sides are same, that they have their pros and cons but lately it's just not the case.",1
"(Also, technically some US states have a minimum age of consent of 13, but that has a maximum age gap, like the proposed Japanese reform).","Japan, like most other places that have age of consent laws take this into consideration and have ""Romeo and Juliet"" laws that make the 18 and 17 year old scenario legal.",1
"They have overseas naval vase in Tarsus, Syria. Probably been chilling out the lot of the time. Not like they have been waiting and waiting to rush in Turkey near immediately declared they would activate Montreux treaty and shut down the Turkish straits to military traffic of the conflict parties Ukraine and Russia, plus well anyone else really sending ships with intend to take part in the conflict.","Any force large enough to simultaneously taken out all the guns before passing, ignoring anti ship missile launchers, would be very noticeable as an invasion force, and would cause turkey to send their fleet there as well as requesting NATO navy support.",1
"Their demographics was already an issue. Of the few regions in ruzzia with positive growth rates, most are separatists regions full of populations that are not ethnic ruzzian. They want independence, and the failure of the war will likely be the spark that destroys ruzzian control over several regions.","The ruzzians didn't really have a future before all this. Their population was in terminal decline, alcoholism was so rampant the government was trying to find ways to curtail it, the economy was wholely based on a handful of oil oligarchs that are far more corrupt than the oligarchs of the West, and they were running more and more authoritarian laws. And all that before the war, everything is getting worse now. Many young men have fled the country or been killed. The economy is getting further destroyed by sanctions. While I havent seen oficial numbers, I can't imagine hundreds of thousands fleeing, and a hundred thousand dead, is helping the drinking problems. And the laws continue to become more and more draconian as time goes on.",0
Most centrists would do better in a national election than the primary. But you have to win the primary first. This goes triply+ for the current GOP.,Ehhh the right has been governing for the far right for a while. The left has been governing from the center for a while.,0
"Maybe, but the entire history of conviction for mishandling sensitive information is basically only people who found out they had sensitive info when/where they shouldn’t have and trying to cover it up. That’s not excusing Biden having these documents, but it is a very real distinction between the two situations.",Or… it was a political stunt and presidents and ex presidents frequently are in possession of classified documents as displayed very clearly by Biden having them.,1
"Even after revolution there was a peculiar case of cooperation between Iran and Israel to damage Iraq nuclear program. Iran (after being invaded by Iraq) stroke first, damaged it, shared info from their experience with Israel, which used it to finish the job with their own airstrike.","But the truth is they have bombed nuclear facilities before,Iran’s being one of them. Not sure why this is shocking news lol. I would bet Israel pilots have been practicing this exact bombing run the very second it became operational.",1
Or if your generation had actually made it easier for young people to vote they would. If your generation had made a political system that young people could and would believe in they would vote.,"I found my motivation to vote, as did many in older age groups. It's up to young voters to do the same.",1
"The federal government already offered Ohio aid; the republican governor of Ohio turned it down, because apparently Republicans will eagerly harm their own voter base as long as they can use it as fodder for their next political campaign.","The federal government already offered Ohio aid; the governor of Ohio declined it, because apparently Republicans would rather have their constituents suffer and die than accept help from democrats.",0
Lol what??? More than half the countries in the world are democratic. Support for democracy worldwide is still very strong.,">""The indictment outlines a campaign so effective at reaching American voters, US businesses began paying the Russians to run promotional material. The IRA would charge the businesses - presumably unaware who was behind the account - between $25-$50 per post."".",0
"Well we're talking about what would happen _if_ the monarchy was dissolved, so suggesting that would never happen is at best completely irrelevant.",And in what hypothetical would the public support abolishing the monarchy and seizing commercial properties across the country?,1
You can also trade currency with a bank account that is not in Lebanon. Buying euros or dollars with that account would be much more stable than bitcoins.,"There are Bitcoin services that automatically convert to fiat for you, when you pay. They don't have to accept Bitcoin.",1
"The issue is mostly related to the state, I don't expect companies to do anything that doesn't increase their bottom line, but we need a government that is more employee-friendly. Such as becoming more of a wildcard in forced negotiations, the ideal is that employee/employer enter the negotiations to find a solution without involving the state.","That's the ideal solution, but governments, generally, are becoming less willing to kneecap employers behaving badly.",1
"I'm not saying that this makes China a threat, but that making it public is an attempt to make them appear more threatening.","There's also the possibility that China changes its course. This is Xi's course, but Xi won't be there in 10 years.",1
"when his press secretary (Hope Hicks) was directly asked by Trump if she thought it was as bad as everyone was saying a few days after 1/6 (IE people calling it an insurrection and treason) she replied ""Yes."".","The. Executive Branch- they carry out the work of the Legislative Branch- example some may consider him “Sleepy Joe” but he is the chief executive of the most modern governing body in human history. It’s not so much him as how he selects, empowers, and if necessary fires appointees based on their performance In carrying out their responsibilities.",1
"The main problem is that politicians who claim to accept global warming don't really believe in it. They don't believe in it, in that they believe it won't impact them. If they have enough money they can escape the personal consequences... it is just an issue for them to leverage public support.... but not make major changes to actually change the result.",All the while.... it diverts money from resolving the problem... which means you never get around to solving the problem. It's a pretty major problem. We're dealing with a global inflationary crisis where cost of living is falling out of control for everyone. How many governments in the world decided to throw money to keep people afloat rather than invest more in renewables?,0
"The research isn’t final yet, but I’d be very surprised if, going forward, behaviors and drugs weren’t looped together more as both being addictive. Both ultimately are coping strategies that are difficult to quit, and have increasingly negative consequences. You’re right that withdrawal and tolerance don’t work the same with chemical and behavioral, but they’re both still likely addictions.","I’m arguing that for something to be an addiction it must produce physical withdrawl. If quitting is not a medical process, it’s just a compulsion or a habit.",1
"That's essentially what one of my older, Trump-adoring neighbors always argues. ""If Trump is as guilty as liberals say, why hasn't he been convicted or arrested for anything??"".","At least that's my take. I know some idiot will come at me with some bs about how I'm ""BoTh SiDeS""ing it.... but I'm not. I'm well aware of hòw different both parties are. Just reread what is written and understand the difference before telling me I'm just a libertarian or conservative troll or some other such bullshit.",1
A big hole in that is it wouldn't apply to someone who wasn't in one of those positions and/or never took an oath to support the Constitution.,"""...who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States,..."".",0
"Ukraine is a full fledged western style democracy and if Ukraine falls, we will be looking at an all-out world war between NATO and Russia. Better to kick Russia's ass in Ukraine and contain the conflict.","The only peaceful solution is for Russia to withdraw entirely from Ukraine, including Crimea. Putin can do that, unilaterally, anytime he wants and Ukraine will stop fighting.",0
"Giving it to rich people? My guy, there's an income cap of $125,000. That means no one above middle class is getting any relief, and the biggest relief is going to Pell Grant students who have to be poor to receive in the first place.","Additionally, the US government gives billions in handouts to farmers and oil companies every single day, as well as the forgiveness of PPP loans. Why would you not be upset about that, but mad that the government is actually trying to directly help the people?",0
"The most important part of a court’s history, especially in a common law jurisdiction, is its written decisions.",Side note: I read the other day that some SCOTUS justice apparently postponed the hearing of certain cases so that a lower court’s precedent stands (or is it some circuit court justice?) Can’t remember whom or retrace where I read it. If any kind stranger knows I would be very grateful.,0
"What you're describing isn't criminal. It's administrative, so you wouldn't hear about any repercussions. The PPP program is well known to have been replete with fraud, but that's different from tax fraud. The PPP loans are regulated by the SBA, not the IRS.","Oh, I know how they do it. I'm a tax professional. I'm just saying the part of the code you're referring to isn't a ""loophole"", it's a legitimate strategy with very real consequences. The fraud comes when a taxpayer lies on their return, not from the advice or direction of the tax professional.",0
"No one is asking for an all black group of people to decide anything, they are saying let the district vote to appoint their own people rather than have a handful of white people decide the fate of a district that's population is predominantly black.","This is literally the only district in the state they are doing this for, removing the ability for the constituents in the district to vote for their own judges and what not, and it just so happens to be the blackest district in the city. This district would have definitely voted in different people. And if you don't realize that white people and black people have different life experiences then you are living in denial.",0
"The casuals need something to parrot. Now that it has become evident the Russian economy will not collapse in a matter of months like those morons were parroting at the beginning of the war, they've resorted to taking some rando's opinion collage as fact.","During the first few months there were so many headlines “Russian economy will collapse any moment now!” At least there’s more variation and realism these days, not only “sanctions totally work” propaganda.",1
"TP shortages, working from home, staycations. And on the other side of it all, bidets are still not a thing in most households.","Clearly hoping for a repeat of last time the higher-ups in Beijing decided, ""it shouldn't be just us dealing with this."".",0
Don’t forget the years of negotiations the State Department invested in trying to bring Whelan home prior to this swap.,"Whelan’s own brother is on record saying the following: ""make the deal that was possible, rather than waiting for one that wasn’t going to happen."".",0
Let’s keep in mind a lot of this aid is part of a military budget. And the American military budget is bigger than like everyone else combined. Maybe not that much but it’s a lot.,"Sure, it does. While Trump is in Ohio visiting Americans in need, Biden is in Ukraine checking on the progress of our proxy war with Russia.",1
It really feels to me that Putin has become delusional in his grandiose thinking about re-attaching ex-Soviet states from 30+ years ago.,"All this Nationalism and desire for Eurasian supremacy just looks to be an inferiority complex and brain disorder gone wild. Lavrov is looking like he is losing it too, something that is cyclical with him. Are any of the Generals willing to stand up to the crazy leaders? Any oligarchs? Any strong men?",0
"The answer is simple: We have got to raise the voting age. Twenty-one? That might not be enough, honestly. Millennials are not as conservative as they ought to be and some of them are pushing 40 now. We should consider whether we might not want it to be higher than that.","After this disheartening news, I have been doing a great deal of soul-searching. Not my soul, which is, of course, perfect, but the souls of others. What, for instance, possessed Gen Z to put down their phones and Pokémon-Go-to-the-polls, and — worse yet — to vote for Democrats in substantial numbers when they arrived there?",0
"Under that kind of interpretation, it’s better to let Russia attack Ukraine and tell Ukraine that they won’t get a missile system if they can’t restrain themselves from shooting into Russia.","Yes, because Russia is afraid of NATO attacking it right now... NATO won't even let Ukraine launch missiles over the Russian border in fear of retaliation, but they're going to launch a full scale invasion of Russia once they see that Russia is running low on cruise missiles.",1
My only real problem is that it almost comes across like Qatar's biggest sin in this whole ordeal is that they bought the world cup through corrupt means instead of the gross human rights violations.,Bribery and corruptions exists in a lot of places but in Qatar its slavery and abuse of women and minorities in a huge scale. If a woman is raped she is jailed.,1
"After four or more uses, reusable plastic bags are superior to all types of disposable bags — paper, polyethylene, and compostable plastic, across all significant environmental indicators.","When you consider the entire life cycle of packaging, paper and cardboard represent far greater environmental impact than their plastic equivalents. A recent ULS report comparing plastic and paper bags concluded that:",0
"Minsk 1 and 2 was an attempt to get the Ukrainian government and army to stop shelling it's own civilians in Donbas, and as you correctly pointed out killing civilians is terrorism. Russia maybe a terrorist state, but not for the reasons you give.","Like, even if this war was going well for Russia, this would still be disastrous on the world stage, even for their “allies.”.",1
"Quickest way this ends is with Putin being removed or Russia collapsing. Which might happen. But also might not and if not, it’ll be a grind until Russia is pushed out.","Probably not, but Russia can’t keep this up forever. Their financial and Human Resources are being expended. Ukraine is obviously suffering but as long as NATO countries continue to provide aid, Ukraine can keep it up however long is needed.",0
"Yes. That’s why you ask the question like ‘you’ve come out hard against the Biden administration for their actions, why is your response to the trump administration different?’.","Conservative: Without a second thought bashes Biden for these actions (be prepared, there’s a good chance their comment may be unintelligible, unhinged or sprinkled with schoolyard ad hom about democrats).",1
"You're dead right. This is scarily similar to what happened in Germany right before the Nazis took over. Despite only getting 20% of the vote in 1930, the Nazis effectively held the government to ransom, causing parliament to be dissolved and more elections held. They got about 30% of the vote in the 1932 elections, but even though they were well short of any majority they managed to Hitler chosen as Chancellor by making back-room deals and promising to support the government. Obviously as soon as Hitler took power he staged the Reichstag fire, declared emergency powers, and took full dictatorial control. All with less then 35% of the vote.",Don't underestimate the ability of small groups of radical politicians to abuse the rules of a government to take power with nowhere near majority support.,0
"2. Jackson has been systematically neglected by the state government for generations, and have consistently shown they do not have Jackson's best interests at heart.","1. When we look at Mississippi's history, we have a whole lot of white judges intentionally suppressing the rights of black people.",0
"The worst thing she did is word some of her criticism a bit unfortunate or clunky. But for Republicans criticism of Israel is antisemitic, while maligning Jews in your own country isn't.","Omar has criticized Israel in the past so the new Republican leadership said ""We won't stand for anti-semites! 😤😤😤"" And kicked her off her committees. Meanwhile the actual anti-semite Republicans are given their choice of positions.",1
"Firstly, you confuse the volume of a vocal minority’s noise with its size. Second, you make the mistake of thinking the Venn diagram of “anti-vax lunatics” and “people who will never vote anything other than Republican” is not a circle.","Establishment dems don’t need to ‘get in line’ behind progressives as much as progressives need to get together an electable candidate. I have hope of such in the future but right now Joe is the horse to back, and deservedly so.",0
"Besides, Poland has still tanks of soviet design they could provide. Nobody is stopping them but themselves. Same shenanigans as with their MiGs they can't send, because the US won't do it for them.","We do know that nations ask for export permissions, even when they know they will be declined. What is stopping Poland or any other Nation to do exactly them same?",0
"The voting machines weren't even really the biggest conflict of interest, it was really just the patents trademarks in general, along with the ZTE bullshit I mentioned above. Trump has sold out the United States in 100 different ways, from patent fuckery, money from Trump tower, and of course the stolen classified documents which he undoubtedly sold to foreign interests, along with the mysterious $2 billion that Kushner got from the Saudis. It's all egregiously traitorous.","People expect (and many are perfectly fine with) Republicans being tied to dirty money. For example, Trump received over $5M from the Chinese government while in office, in one of the more egregious conflicts of interest in American presidential financial history but nobody seemed to give a flying fuck:",0
"Assuming Biden has done nothing wrong, there's nothing to get ahead of. They can just do nothing and wait for the absence of evidence. Instead they are preparing to discredit the investigators. Why is it okay to investigate Trump for crimes and not okay to investigate Biden for crimes? Of course presidents shouldn't be above the law.","No, this is not a bipartisan effort. No, they are not defending Joe Biden, they are attacking the republicans who intend to investigate Joe Biden.",0
"Sure, same virus as in it's the avian flu. It's different in that it behaves differently than the avian flu currently does, by being transmittable between humans. That's all this person was saying, not that it suddenly becomes some completely novel virus.","there is another thing to consider, which is how infectious the virus is. Some sexually transmitted diseases satisfy the two criteria you listed, but since they transmit via bodily fluids they don't spread nearly as rapidly as something airborne.",1
"Something tells me that Jordan has no interest in sharing their land with a Palestinian state, the last time they sort of tried they had to expel most of them.","More Palestinians live in Jordan than Palestine, because of decades of illegal occupations and settlements pushing them out of their own country. Now the Nationalist govt of Israel wants to move Palestine's capital out of Palestine... To Jordan... It's makes as much sense of Israel having their capitol in DC.",1
Except 100s of thousands of men of reproductive age dead and million emigrating is going to accelerate that. The crises was 25 years off. It’s going to be sooner because of this war.,"Most of their population growth is in the south eastern republics although that’s were many of their soldiers have come from until now. Regardless, most of the emigration has been from western Russian cities. So in addition to population loss, you get demographic shifts.",0
They don’t give a shit. They got the basic message across and the disrespect of the time and effort to make it proper adds to the effect.,"There’s no doubt their intent/result isn’t hitting. No shit. Especially when regardless of Israel, the US is standing behind Israel and far far scarier. But we’re talking about their approach in this one PR stunt. Not the result or intent.",0
"Who’s we? These will be a Eurofighter replacement, likely akin to the F-22, that won’t have a production line for a decade. It probably won’t be a mainstay aircraft, and all the partner nations already operate F-35. Japan just ordered like 40 more. Waiting 10 years to buy aircraft that barely exist right now instead of waiting an extra year or so for F-35 just isn’t what’s happening.",There is a reason the F-22 is so ahead of everything else and we still barely produce and use them. They are outdated in 2022.,1
"If we were to operate with the word ""legitimacy"" as though no law maker or enforcer were legitimate unless those they governed over gave consent, my local police, my city council and mayor, my state legislature, all the way up to Joe Biden himself are illegitimate because l do not consent to their governance over me. I actively do not want them to legislate or enforce what rights I do and do not have.","I completely and wholeheartedly agree with you that all leadership should derive all power from the consent of those led. 100%. But that is not, and was never, how America was intentionally set up. The government has been built from the beginning to disregard our consent, and the laws are constructed to continue to allow that.",0
"They could do a copy whenever they want. A lot of stuff you see outside is a copy, or is a ""fake"", aka a restoration that has not much of the original in it anymore. If they want the original I don't side with them. They sold them, if they want them back they buy them, only if the British are willing to sell.","and it was Greece the peninsula, not Geerce the nation. That was born, ironically, because of the extreme hellenophilia from the west, especially England, that fuelled nationalism and greek identity in Greece in the modern era.",0
"Wow I’ve had to say this to a lot of people. Not surprising at all though, people in the west have been treating all religions as Christianity throughout the past few centuries or so.","it's almost as if, and hear me out here, that in the west, Christianity is the predominant faith. you fight the enemy closer to home, first. worry about the rest later.",1
"""No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it."""".","P.S. I hate when I try to have a serious discussion about stuff like the gulf stream collapsing and people just ask me ""why are we even talking about this"".",1
"That's a big reason why right wing social media doesn't end up working. Things like Parler had their issues with child pornography and such with lack of moderation, but many conservatives simply found it less fun when they were spewing shit segregated from the rest of the internet.","Social media companies are more than fine with stoking the flames. It's just when one of the right's beloved figureheads crosses the line into a direct call for violence or uses a slur, the movement wants to cry foul that they're being censored for being conservative.",0
"Reddit is anti-war. It's just that, when one is forced to participate in a war, you can't just do nothing and say ""no"". By doing that you are basically giving up your self-respect and dignity. You have to fight back and beat the warmonger in his own game.",- We'll only de-escalate when Ukraine gets back all its internationally-recognised territories and Russia withdraws all its troops from these territories (internationally-recognised means most countries around the world recognise/don't dispute it).,0
"He does the same for several other groups, as he feels he needs all that experience to really represent a diverse district.","He's probably too progressive (for Texas) to run for Senate, and he's older, but he seems focused on helping other candidates and at least agitating for better legislation and not higher office.",0
"If ukraine cedes land like Crimea, they can join NATO and avoid further conflict right there. NATO has a requirement for joining that you have no territorial disputes, hence why they couldn't join earlier.","Besides, if he doesn't want to look weak he needs a win. Anything is better then the nothing he gets by waiting.",0
"The craziest part is their ""insurrection"" quite literally requires all 50 states to be independently attacked, controlled, and manipulated PLUS federal. That's 51 ""insurrections"" just to actually influence votes. And these had to be initiated and spread out over time without suspicion or getting caught.",And as for that time she was a prosecutor you know damn well she managed to sneak that into the convo. She loves the smell of her own farts.,1
"Disregarding the views of left of center youth voters hasn’t killed the Democrats yet, so why would it now? You can always just pander like Obama, or to a lesser extent Clinton, and not deliver, and it hasn’t diminished the Democrats’ long term prospects yet. They’ve even abandoned their long term base of support that allowed them to dominate the House for over half a century, the New Deal coalition (which was never incidentally the youth vote) and they’re still around. The Republicans are always going to be worse, so in a real sense the Democrats never have to do anything at all to appeal to the people who recognize them as the better party.","And yes, before the sea of downvotes comes in, the Democratic Party is still far better than the GOP on a host of issues. However, Democrats and Republicans are closer than should be the case when it comes to economic policy.",1
The source study in no way has implied that gas stoves are poisoning people why they sleep. The implication is that inadequate ventilation of combustion products may contribute to childhood asthma.,The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was reported to be considering a ban on gas stoves over fears they cause indoor pollution linked to asthma in children.,1
"I would rather those 6 ""reasonable"" Republicans willing to negotiate with Democrats hold power than the 20 brain dead idiots trying to take power on the other side.","Promises from the GOP are worthless, so why should democrats do anything to stop the crazies from highlighting what a shit show the GOP has turned into?",1
"Yeah, it's probably not what they say it is, but they have like 6,000+ nukes. Even if one went off, that would be really bad. I don't think anyone wants to take that chance and risk assuming that not even one of Russia's nukes are still operable.","I do wonder about the viability of Russia's nuclear weapons. Those things are very expensive and can't be put on a shelf for decades and expected to work. For example, the tritium gas in the D-T booster section is radioactive. It's half life is 12 years. It decays into a neutron poison that will play merry hell with the primary stage, and if that doesn't fire at full strenh with the requisite timing, the secondary either misfires or doesn't fire at all, leaving nothing but the high explosives in the primary to make a bang.",1
"Are you joking or are you this uninformed? Women can't vote in the Vatican, and the Catholic Church still supports religious Monarchy as a system of government. If they had it their way, Europe would have the clock turned back to the Middle Ages.","They are entitled to their views on monarchy and the Middle Ages. You may disagree with them and their stances, but they are free to have their own views. Let them have their views, they are free to live how they want.",1
The end result will be the firing of liberal professors and replacing them with conservative professors (if they can find enough). The quality of the universities will begin eroding as most professors would prefer to find a job at a university that respects tenure and doesn't have politicians dictating what they can or can't research and teach.,And then the quality of the universities will go down and students will not go there and then the universities will die off and people wont go to school in florida -- reducing its population and destination desire.,1
Of course it is not all clear and cut but majority do support what is going on and they don't really give a fuck if their quality of life deteriorates.,"Wooden barracks, probably 10 units a building. No plumbing, sometimes no heat or gas. U have to either go shit in the outhouse in the yard or you might have a ""free fall"" toilet which is basically a hole in the floor which leads to a shit pit under the building. No clue what they do for the shower but most likely you heat a bucket of water on whatever stove you have and wash yourself in a wash basin (speaking from experience). Many places have no paved roads or paved roads that have not seen any maintenance since the day they have been created. Even in bigger cities infamous are a marvel to behold, cheap ass apartment buildings built out of panels. I think they were supposed to be temporary. My aunt lived in one. - everything is fucked; walls are crooked, ceiling panels are random thickness, heat insulation is non-existent. But it beats the barracks I suppose. A little bIt more about the countryside. Russia is very sparsely populated, I suppose like Alaska if it is anything like Canada, so yeah you can totally live in shit your whole life and not see a rich person. Heres just some random video I found, you can skip through.. P.s. fuck this kinda sucks but there are some really good Russian video bloggers who really try to get this message across but it's mostly targeted at domestic consumer to provoke social change. I wish they at least got someone to caption their stuff in English because some of it is top notch satire.",0
"Exactly. Trump literally spent multiple hours a day - at least 3, probably closer to 5 - watching TV and tweeting about everything he saw that hurt his feelings. We know this not only because the people who worked with him told reporters about it, but also because we could all see his twitter account. He would tweet immediate responses to segments on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, or whatever other channel he watched. I remember a bunch of people would use the time stamps on his tweets to show what was playing on TV at those exact times. He would also record a ton of cable news shows to watch later on, and we always knew when he did, because he couldn't stop himself from tweeting about it. It's just so wild to me that Trump literally didn't do any actual work while he was president, he barely even bothered to hide that fact, and Republicans were just cool with it.","He did such a piss poor job of actually using his presidential power, I don't think that was really what interested him.",1
"This is exactly why Republicans have been able gain power in recent elections. Republicans are known as to be reliable in every election. Do not become complacent with any election going forward. It shouldn’t take a SCOTUS decision to motivate you to do your civic duty. Your vote is your voice, and let it be heard.",I’m now of the mindset that I just vote. I view it as a civic duty no matter how blue my county/district/state are. I don’t want some assholes thinking they got a shot at messing with what we got going.,1
"What a bigoted comment. I don't think it's much different from any other faith you're born in to. Be it a jew come back to life and sits in judgement of all mankind, an Arabian man jumping into heaven on horse back, xenu collecting thetans, a white farm boy with a golden book, or an Indian prince escaping the cycle reincarnation after an orgy, it's all quite unbelievable on its surface to an outsider. When it's the story you're told is truth from infancy, it's no different.","I didn't know that. Being ex mormon, I thought that we were particularly susceptible. I suspect we still might be with so many mlm's that come out of Utah, and we're trained to proselytize from the moment we're born.",0
"Are you suggesting Republicans want to allow minors to carry guns because they want black children to be murdered? If not, I don't know where you're going with this...","Wanting an explanation doesn't mean I'm going to agree with any explanation given. What if you responded saying: ""The reason Americans are so obsessed with guns is actually because Julie Andrews is secretly the leader of the Illuminati and it heavily influences people at all levels to champion gun rights in order to overthrow the government."".",0
"You know what would fix all of these problems? A reduced birth rate. But instead of going for the most straight forward and simple solution, people either think that some massive change of human nature and all our global societies can happen (it will not), or that somebody will just invent some scifi shit that will save us all (will also not happen).","It boggles my mind that it is seen as ""EVIL"" to just promote conditions that lead to people having fewer kids so the ecosystems of this planet do not collapse for the sake of the consumerism of an ever growing human population.",0
"Basically, the price of oil is the only thing keeping Russia from going completely broke. If the price of oil rises (line go up) then Russia can keep fighting it's war in Ukraine. If the price of oil is capped (line go up but no-one pay for it) then no matter how much Putin sells, no matter how much he tries to make the price of oil increase, the only thing Putin can do is sell the oil for less than he needs to keep from going broke, so he can't invade Ukraine for much longer.","It doesn't matter if Russia can sell it, what matters is how bad do you need it, and with oil, countries need it pretty fucking bad so the how much are you willing to pay comes second after the ""Our country has rolling blackouts and our economy crashing because oil now is 200 dollars per barrel"".",1
"The wealthy don't get better outcomes because they get special treatment or because they bribe judges or whatever. They start from a position of privledge and have the ability to afford lawyers who can advocate for them, whereas people who don't have that tend to be worked through the system.","That bias is both due to how the system is structured (e.g., being able to afford bail or high-powered lawyers) as well as implicit (e.g., subconscious preferential treatment towards the wealthy at all levels of the justice system).",1
The American people should have access to their own country’s housing market. They shouldn’t be bidding against some foreign investors to buy a home to live in.,Well no because then it would be a foreign enterprise which is banned from purchasing residential property. The only way they could start up a Canadian company is if they got a visa for immigration.,1
"Nowadays, the court holds that visible endorsement by the government is permissible so long as all religions can be endorsed equally. The issue though is that with Christianity being the vastly predominant religion, that is the only religion that is often presented.",The only reason this is an issue is that it treads on Christian sensibilities and revs up their tendency to persecution.,1
"This current era where countries don't actually want to commit mass genocide and colonize a country is an abnormality in human history. Take the USSR and America. If their invasions of Afghanistan had occured in the 1800s they simply would have killed most of the fighting age boys in the local area where the insurgent attacks took place, made sure the populous knew that any attacks on them was gonna result in their sons, fathers and husbands being killed in the immediate area rather they were guilty or not. The population falls in line fairly quick. Then they would have moved in a lot of their own foreign nationals to shape the country similar to their own values. Now countries really don't do that thankfully but that will change back to the norm in the coming decades as climate change and resource scarcity puts pressure on larger countries. Invasion and conquest to take plunder will be back on the menu.","None of those wars were over resources. They were over geopolitical gains mainly because of where Afghanistan was located. Also the tech between countries at the time was much more even. That won't be the case in the future. It will be organized militaries with the sole purpose of killing or displacing the population to dig out their insane amounts of lithium and other rare earth metals. It won't be a war, it will be a massacre with the Afghani people coming out the loser. You don't have to worry about insurgents or any other enemies hiding within the civilian populations if the civilian population are corpses.",0
"Technically? Nothing. As it is part of the budget it could even be done by reconciliation which bypasses the senate filibuster. Practically? Politics. The debt limit is used by both parties to get concessions on what they want. In the past it was much more of a wink-wink-nudge-nudge in the sense that all demands would be met and the limit would be raised. That's mostly because those demands were, historically, pork projects like a new bridge in a member's district or something like that that makes the rep look good. Nowadays the demands are a lot more unpalatable but politics being politics the debt limit is kept around because of what it used to be.","tasks of keeping the government open, paying the country’s bills and avoiding default on America’s trillions of dollars in debt.",1
"March 20, 2020 ""Kushner, seated at the head of the conference table, in a chair taller than all the others, was quick to strike a confrontational tone. “The federal government is not going to lead this response,” he announced. “It’s up to the states to figure out what they want to do.” “Free markets will solve this,” Kushner said dismissively. “That is not the role of government.”.","April 29, 2020 ""I told Jared that if Trump won a second term, he wouldn't have to worry about running again. And you can really help people. ,'"" a New York business executive who met with Kushner at the White House last fall told Sherman. ""I wanted to tell Jared, 'You don't say that part out loud — even in private.'"".",0
"As one of Lady G’s constituents (who has never voted for him), he’s a hypocrite turd. However, he has been extremely consistent on his Ukraine support and will not change since he’s a MIC booster.","He isn't stopped because despite what the administration claims, their goal is to bleed Russia slowly not to defend Ukraine. At the end of the day either one of two things is true, Russia is willing to use nuclear weapons to conquer Ukraine or he isn't. If he is we should just give up Ukraine (and every other country that borders Russia) right now, if he isn't we should defend them full force right now.",1
"On top of that, the lands were given to poland much more than poland actively taking it. It was more or less stalin's way of justifying taking a lot of former eastern Poland away from Poland.","But nothing is stopping Poland from going further on their own, they're just deflecting blame. Germany got oil from the same pipeline Poland gets this 10% from and reduced it to 0% at the start of the year, which Poland originally also said they'd do.",1
"I’m so sorry this is happening to your country. You’ve all been through way too much shit. My close friend is second generation to a mother who immigrated from Lebanon. My friend works hard and always thinks of others, because fortune from hard work brings a humble and kind attitude. I wish the people who’ve been betrayed by oligarchs can get their moral back. I know it happened to America in the 1920’s, and my grandmother recanted stories about when she was a child. Long story short, it was horrible. We need to get the UN to bring aid to Lebanon.",I'm talking about Lebanon. They had massive power outages but technology did not collapse. Grocery stores did not go out of business. Life still continued. And paper dollars are still used.,1
"I didn't mean India, I meant russia is losing, and russia is pulling favours so that their allies would be for stopping the war as it is. Where did I say that India is losing?","I just want to be friends with India. Holding on to the Cold War/War on Terror grudges is understandably harder for India than the US, but citing Pakistan as the reason is kind of nonsense, when both the US and Pakistan despise each other. We’re aligned with India in many, many ways, and the US has been courting India for YEARS in the fight to limit Chinese expansion.",1
"Most oil destined for the reserve is ""in kind"" -- oil companies owe royalty payments to the government when pumping on federal lands. Instead of paying dollars, they can pay in oil.","(And for what it's worth, the US buys far more Canadian oil than from any other source, other than domestic sources. Very little of our oil actually comes from Saudi Arabia or Russia.).",0
The first was the UAE's Hope orbiter and how it was gently going to be inserted into Mars orbit to perform studies of the atmosphere.,"Next to arrive was China's Tianwen-1 orbiter and how it would also be gently inserted into Mars orbit. After 4-5 days of systems checks, it would release the Zhurong lander to safely parachute onto the surface.",0
"Westerners view Buddhism with a naïve quaintness mostly because of how foreign it is, but it's just as corrupt and fucked up as any other religious institution.","Probably part of a larger, ongoing crackdown. My wife is Thai and she says this kind of thing has been going on forever (decades), it's only recently that the issues have gotten so much spotlight. They even have their own kiddie diddling scandals as well just like Western religious institutions.",0
"It was ""Repeated refusal to designate a custodian of records to sign a document attesting that all classified materials have been returned to the federal government"" according to the article.","One of the key areas of disagreement centers on the Trump legal team’s repeated refusal to designate a custodian of records to sign a document attesting that all classified materials have been returned to the federal government, according to two of these people. The Justice Department has repeatedly sought an unequivocal sworn written assurance from Trump’s team that all such documents have been returned, and Trump’s team has been unwilling to designate a custodian of records to sign such a statement while also giving assurances that they have handed documents back.",1
"if Russia stops production completely and takes all their oil off the global market, it would cause the oil price to jump drastically. If India pays 'normal' prices now (say, 80 dollars), it would be cheaper than the elevated prices with messed up supplies (maybe 150+ dollars).","India is still going to buy it all, even if it's ""normal"" price because others will charge more due to increased demand.",1
"Twitter has suspended the account of prominent liberal journalist Aaron Rupar as well as reporters from CNN, The New York Times and The Washinon Post.","Rupar, who has more than 788,000 followers, had his account suspended the day after Twitter suspended then restored an account that followed the movements of the billionaire’s private jet.",0
But the fact that everyone steals means the leadership has dirt on everyone. So you can use corruption as a way to imprison whomever you want in the power structure.,"If it was possible to get in trouble for stealing too much, Russian forces wouldn't be going into battle with literal cardboard armor plates.",0
"Now if we to talk seriously, I wonder what additional currency the Saudis will be willing to accept besides usd. There are not a lot reliable and stable currencies out there in the world, the Euros can be an acceptable currency I guess.","A lot of dumb comments here about a possible future American invasion. razzian trolls probably. USA never invaded another country because of oil, and never seized foreign oil by force, unlike the razzian nazis.",0
"“Of course it bothers me,” Daniel Zimmerman, a 70-year-old registered Democrat, told POLITICO as he left a local pharmacy Thursday in Great Neck, a waterfront enclave in the heart of the district. But, he added, he’d vote for Santos again. “Right now I’m a Republican because Democrats, they’re destroying our country. I don’t like the president,” said the voter.","“Truthfully, I don’t trust the Democrats on anything they say. I see it on the TV and I turn it off,” said the woman, who declined to give her name for privacy reasons.",1
"And while mobilized troops probably are not well suited for repressing a civilian population, there are still plenty of Kadyrovites that can serve that purpose. Still, we'll have to see how it plays out, but overall the cost/benefit analysis for keeping hold of Belarus remains pretty good for Russia, and even in a defeat well within their means.","If anything, I could see Russia trying to make moves to integrate Belarus more fully as a ""consolation prize"" and PR vicotry in the scenario where they lose the war in Ukraine.",0
"- ”But we understand that the Russians will not admit the losses associated with the strikes on the planes. Because this is the undermining of the basis of the Russian nuclear triad. If we can destroy Russian strategic bombers with conventional drones, it means that Russian air defense is not working well and the Russian nuclear triad is vulnerable.”.",It massively depends on whether the attack was conducted with something like Tu-141s launched from Ukraine or something smaller launched more locally by Ukrainian Special Forces or partisans operating within Russia.,1
"This may be a way of influencing price negotiations - if Tesco can get cheaper suppliers, they can cut prices and still make a profit.","People will go to the cheaper shop where there are multiple options and there frequently are in most British communities, especially with home delivery.",0
"Yikes, is this how it's always been here on this sub when Israel is mentioned? I doubt any of these users are Palestinian or Israeli and yet they act like it's happening to them.","To start, you don't understand the first part of the report- it's talking about inter-Arab killing among Arab citizens of Israel. Those 110 dead are Palestinians killing other Palestinians. You can blame Israel for poorly enforcing gun control (and control in general) in its Arab-majority cities, but that's about it. This entire part is all about criminal justice, not the national conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and it's suspect that Amnesty chose to include it at all.",1
You cannot compare NATO involvement in the 2022 war to Russian involvement in the 2014 war. Russian troops were directly fighting in the Donbas. There aren't NATO troops are fighting Russian troops in Ukraine. If that were happening Putin would be holding press conferences every day because any direct conflict could escalate to nuclear war.,The Minsk Agreements were to useful propagandists to justify the 2022 invasion like you are doing now.,0
"They are nice to you. They are probably not nice to another set of people. In 2016 I learned a lot of the people I grew up with that I thought were good people ended up being extremely shitty people once Trump was elected. Turns out they were only good to me and because I was like them - I fit in the ""good"" container in their minds so I wasn't in the ""bad"" container that had the same people Trump wanted to attack. They also did not know I was atheist or Democrat.","Hell, I'm an atheist and I feel closer to christ than I did as a christian. I do good things because I feel that's what I should do, not because I'm trying to show out for some other fake-ass bible thumpers. If there's a God, she'll know us by our deeds not our words.",1
"But since balance of power is the goal, the Ukrainians should say so, and the West should set about planning to arm Ukraine to the teeth and beyond.","From the looks of it, the very best they are hoping for is balance of power: kicking Russia out of their territory and then arming to the teeth to dissuade Russia from continuing the war.",0
"Also the high school, was that the Upper Arlinon School district, or another one? With that one, they just exhumed the remains and buried them in a different cemetery with no markers.","Almost two-score graves desecrated, at least, and for what? A fucking data center? I think Microsoft of all organizations can afford to work around a small plot. The PR alone would’ve been a great boon to them I reckon, considering how fiercely many Virginians oppose the data centers being scattered everywhere across the state. This is the sort of shit that honestly just enrages me. Makes me wish I held some sort of public office so I could actually do more than vent on Reddit.",1
"I started off calmly, but eventually was kind of bugging out, and essentially said ""you can throw away your vote and help the republicans win because you're a straight white male in a white collar career. Millions upon millions of people will be hurt in myriad ways if republicans win though, so please please please, I know democrats aren't even close to perfect, but please don't contribute to making this country worse for everyone who isn't as privileged as you "".","""For the last two years, Democrats in battleground states have played defense against Republican efforts to curtail voting access and amplify doubts about the legitimacy of the nation’s elections.",1
"Even the Violence Policy Center, one of the more prominent gun control advocacy groups, estimates around 60,000 defensive gun uses each year. That outnumbers the number of people murdered by firearms, it outnumbers the number of people accidentally killed by firearms every year, it outnumbers firearm suicides. If you add up suicides, murders and accidental deaths, that number of defensive uses still outnumbers it.","Committing suicide is an inherently violent act, but it is not violence. You don't seem to be reading all of my comments. The laws and regulations we might pass to prevent suicide are not the same laws and regulations we might pass to fix violent crime and homicide so when you include suicide numbers in your discussion about things like magazine capacity limits or background checks it's misleading.",0
"You can come out and denounce trump, but that'll likely do little more than cause a political base to be lost, and be cast out of the Republican Party. The people who would've listened to Pence denouncing Trump were likely already against Trump. Taking this guy down requires more than just condemnation, because he will reflect it right back and put you in danger.","There was an interview with Trump recently, where he admitted that he wanted all of the credit and none of the blame. Flat out admitted it. This goes to show we're we've been misguided about Trump.",0
"You're right that the courts would strike down attempts to add additional eligibility conditions or prerequisites for running for office (beyond ballot access procedures) that aren't already in the constitution. But this isn't that. The constitution doesn't talk about tax record confidentiality at all. It's not in there. It's a pure statutory creation, and there are already several cases where the IRS must disclose a tax return by law. Candidates can't veto legally authorized disclosure of a return by a tax agency any more than they can be forced to disclose it themselves.","Doing this would avoid the First Amendment issues with requiring the candidates to take the speech action of disclosing their returns. The confidentiality of tax returns is merely statutory, not constitutional if it doesn't compel the candidate to do the disclosure themselves. As we saw from what just happened to Trump's returns, exceptions to tax return confidentiality already exist, and the exceptions used in his case are not the only ones. This would be another worthwhile exception.",0
"I wonder if this is a ploy to start stealing pharma patents. If imports are prevented, or other issues arise that prevent access, Russia can use this to argue for the TRIPS compulsory license or some other exemption allowing them to manufacture patented medicines themselves without violation of WTO.","> While prescription drugs are exempt from Western sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, their delivery to Russia has been hit by transport, insurance and customs hurdles caused by the war and other restrictive measures, industry figures say.",1
"That's just a ""let's give away russia what they claimed"" masked with ""let's be real"". Try to actually be real - every single centimeter of Ukrainian terrotiry will be liberated. And until then - there will be no compromises.","russia is pushed out of Kyiv (first, quoting their propaganda, goodwill gesture lol), Sumy and Chernigiv roughly 1st April - ""yeah but let's be real, Ukraine doesn't have a chance in other regions now when russia will reinforce in other regions"".",0
"North Korea is the cause of Japan's military buildup. I hope it understands that. This year alone, the North test-fired 90+ missiles over East and West seas. On top of that, it fired so many artillery shells over the seas and demonstrated air-raid as well. How it can point fingers to others such as Japan and South Korea for military building ups?",At this point when I read a headline like this I see North Korea lifting Japan up and suplexing them into the ground. Although I know Japan would get up and North Korea would suffer a Stone Cold Stunner.,1
"Parents are gonna love giving their kids a disadvantage heading into college! Oh wait, these idiot Republicans are willing to sacrifice their kid’s future to win the political game and stick it to the other side.","It is so painfully obvious that DeStantis is doing this shit because it is the favor/outrage of the day for Republicans. What is worse, often that outrage of the day solution has no real benefit for the average person. It is just theatre that hurts people. DeStantis is thinking about menstrual cycle, taking away AP classes, and attacking Disney when he and Tallassee should be figuring out insurance and rising rent.",1
"I agree, but it's interesting that Zelensky is still requesting a meeting to present his evidence even after both Poland and NATO declared that it was still ultimately Russia that was responsible regardless of the missile's origin.",I just find it fishy how Poland seemed to heavily imply it was Russia's doing and then after convening with the united states military brass it ends up being a stray Ukrainian missile when zelensky has said it was a Russian missile and is 100% sure its not Ukrainian at all.,1
"I mean, partly they are. Ukraine didn't help India in most of its UN votes, they were against India getting a seat in UNSC and almost always voted against India. As far as India is concerned, Ukraine never did us any favors and were quite often against us.","Please tell me what kind of support did India provided to Ukraine against the terrorist state Russia? They are a space, military, IT, nuclear, everything superpower, why don't they support Ukraine more?",1
The US Army is quite literally deploying (2022) its first armored vehicles (Stryker) with 50kW laser short range defense systems. The US Navy now (2022) has the first 60kW laser defense system integrated into its systems. And I believe the US Army has just taken delivery of a 300kW system.,"tl;dr: The US is outfitting its forces with laser defense systems, they're just so cutting edge that they're not going to be exported and they're so new they haven't seen actual combat yet.",0
"It became too costly to keep them, and the majority of the British population believe the same thing about the EU it's too costly to our society and our pockets to continue to be a member.","Precisely my point, it took a long time to complete the change, Britain lost money and power because of it, however they did it for the good of the people.",0
They're people and yes war leads humans to do truly despicable things and there are definitely many scumbags amongst the ranks of the Russian Army (Ukraine also has their share) but cheering on the deaths of soldiers is just weird.,You can have basic empathy towards Russian soldiers though and accept them as people and not just pawns of Putin cheering on their deaths like a game because they didn't just abandon their home and family.,0
"The key point being if the sentences are both within the range allowed for the crime that was convicted. Now, if the sentence is adding on extra time beyond what is allowed for the convicted crime, taking some from the acquitted crime- that isn't right.",The whole point here is that the acquitted portions of the alleged crime shouldn’t factor into the sentence for the convicted portion of the alleged crime.,1
"Not all of these companies/countries are manufacturing engines for fighters at this moment, but all have the design and manufacturing ability to do so if needed.","The hard part is the metallurgy and manufacturing process. All of those companies have that down. Most of them either build commercial engines (which push core temps for efficiency), or are part of consortiums that have designed and built engines. MTU is a major partner in the EJ200.",0
"Well here in Canada the british monarch is our head of state. So they really do have the final say on everything. They could call us to war if they wanted to, or enact a draft, etc. The governor general of Australia dissolved a lawfully elected parliament that still had the confidence of the house before. The same thing could happen in any commonwealth country where the monarch is still the head of state.","This is a common thing across many nations, even those that do not have monarchs. Oaths of Office must be sworn before commencing duties.",1
"""People found guilty of hate speech face a fine or up to one year in prison for private remarks, and a maximum of three years for public comments."".",Yes. Their laws are fucked up. Have the “wrong” opinion on social issues and they threaten you with a crime.,1
"I can also direct you to the Iranian activists and accounts to follow if you want to stay informed. Instagram and social media is how we are primarily spreading information. People to follow are Tara Grammy, Nazanin Nour, Nazanin Boniadi, and Masih Alinejad. Accounts to follow are @middleeastmatters , @iraniandiasporacollective, and @from_iran .","PS Due to sanctions, it is not possible to send money. We are literally not asking for a cent of your money, just an ounce of your attention. If someone is trying to raise money they are a scam. The only people who are raising money legitimately are those in the diaspora asking for donations to buy billboards and adspace to create awareness. That’s it.",0
"Worse, I read about a priest accused of molestation by some 30 or so men, the church paid the families off and moved the priest to a school for deaf kids no lie.",I also blame the church more for how they keep on handling things and protect abusers they know are targeting children than the fact they realized they have child molestors amongst them.,1
"The latest propaganda from Russia being propagated through online trolls and far right conservative media in the U.S. is that the U.S. should stop because if it doesn't, a war really would break out between Russia and the U.S. potentially starting world war 3.","That's a scary thought, but it helps to remember this is the message Russia wants to convey. It's clearly in their best interests to stir up public protest in the U.S. to end the war. That doesn't mean the threat is any less scary, but it's important to keep in mind who is the country escalating tensions this entire time. If Russia decides things are too scary for them, they can be the ones to back out of the fight they started at \any\ time.",0
"By only equating the Nazis to the full account of their actions by the end of their reign you ignore what they were at the start, where they might have been stopped ahead of time. By jumping on comparisons in this manner you weaken our ability to spot those warning signs in advance. If there is to be horror and bloodshed awaiting us, then this approach serves its coming, not its prevention. There wqs a time when Nazis existed but their full horrors did not, and that is the most important side of them to study if ""never again"" is to be more pragmatism than hollow refrain.","This is fine when you’re dealing with an actual Nazi, less fine when you’re calling millions of Americans Nazis because they hold beliefs you can’t understand or disagree with so much that you can’t comprehend how they got there.",1
"Porter jumping in early indicates to me that they believe Feinstein was going to run again , and declaring early might be a shot to Feinstein that she will be challenged strongly in a primary and should retire.",Not sure why you are getting so excited. It was an honest question. She is my representative and honestly I’ve never heard of here proposing any substantive legislation or catalyzing any important debate (since the early 00’s).,0
"It's one of the richest countries in the world, surrounded by neighbours who are poorer but many times it's size. It is a global finance hub.","Geopolitically, it is one of the busiest ports in the world. Almost everything shipped out of China to Europe goes through Singapore ports and vice versa.",0
"White supremacists have a lot in common with Islamic fundamentalists. In the Middle East they call it ""day of rage"" but it's the same principle, and Jews are usually the targets of their hate.","Modern far right extremism’s main objective is hate, fear, and persecution at the forefront. It’s much more shocking and violent at its core as they know they’ll never win a political majority with their rhetoric. Consider what would happen if a modern neo-Nazi leader was given the same powers as Hitler when he rose to chancellory. If they’re able to maintain their violent rhetoric and gain a majority, it’d be a huge surprise and is very unlikely. What lenhs would they go to? To be honest, they probably wouldn’t have the logic capacity to keep a government, and they probably wouldn’t even be able to agree on their versions of the final solution.",1
"Uh it was though? They were found on Nov 2, handed over to NARA on Nov 3 by the letter of the law (who is the appropriate body to handle them, not the DoJ), NARA informed the DoJ on Nov 4 as they're supposed to. They didn't choose to tell the press until later, but there's literally no evidence Biden's lawyer went through them, and they informed the appropriate body as soon as they possibly could. Nothing ridiculous about it.","I agree, I'm saying we know trump's were criminal, and it's highly unlikely biden's were based on available information and what we know about them as people.",0
Insurance companies absolutely do not want covid vaccine costs to go up. Most of them fully cover preventative care like vaccinations. The price is going up because the cost/benefit for insurance companies is to still pay for the vaccine. They’d much prefer the vaccine be dirt cheap.,No? That’s impossible to know and such an oversimplification of reality I can’t possibly agree. I could agree that “if we eliminated 50% of cancer costs would go down” but I’m not going to agree to a broad definition of “healthier” or “less care” or that care and price are a linear relationship. Most young people use very little care. 50% improvement on them saves $0. They aren’t going anyways.,0
"I think what actually makes me the most angry is that we all know he's committed tax fraud and various financial crimes, and that the IRS has all of this proof and has never done anything about it themselves.","His taxes are likely just embarrassing for him, exposing how he's not nearly as rich as he claims. If instead there are crimes revealed, then that's yet more long, drawn out cases to add to the pile.",1
"Edit: Also, Jewish is an ethnicity; you can’t just not be Jewish anymore in that aspect. For example, the majority of Israelis are actually secular but still identity as Jewish. (Because they are).",True that. Having other religions (barely) in the picture might be helpful to shore up the separation of church and state though.,1
"At this moment, during 3rd day, many military experts already stated the operation has failed and the very long and bloody war has begun. Russians doesn't have military expertise or capabilities to conduct large scale war.",The problem is that the Russian approach to air power doesn't really lend itself to ever achieving air superiority. It just isn't how their airforce works.,1
"No. Getting fired is not at all comparable to getting killed. An argument could be made DeSantis has caused more harm because his actions have negatively impacted such a large amount of people, but you shouldn't trivialize the actions of Dillbeck. He is a murderer.",I see. Thanks for the clarification. I agree with you that politicians not taking COVID seriously has caused great bodily harm (and death) to tons of people.,0
"If mobilisation came knocking on my doors, I already did choose to either flee or, worst case, go to prison. I am not a killer to fight in a war of an insane oligarchic thief.","Look, it is a scary choice, but I've made it and I am ready to deal with its consequences. Prison, rape, torture. I would have laughed at myself few years ago, but now, these things seem so inconsequential - I will not be changed. I will not be made a killer. Even if the price is my freedom.",0
"The thing in favor of all of these events is the growing tension in Iran, the newly redefined national identity of Ukraine (notice how we have all committed now to calling it Ukraine not “the” Ukraine), and the overall commitment of Eastern Europe to hand Russia a pretty big fucking L after centuries of being a fucking problem for everyone there.","I agree with you in principle, but American politics is fought along these grounds. And as long as Putin is in power, in danger of causing serious issues for the government.",0
"There’s a legendary story about the SR71 blackbird requesting a 60,000 ft flight path. Purportedly flight control said “sure, if you can get up to 60,000 feet you can have it.” The SR71 military sources plane, which cruises at 75-85,000 ft said “roger that, Descending to 60,000 feet”.","For high altitude operations above 60,000' I'm not sure, as that's no longer considered controlled airspace. It seems like it would be a good idea to at least tell them about it, though.",1
I do wonder if advancements in hydrogen use combined with advances in pulsejet engines might lead to something viable.,Wasn’t there some hope of being able to use like a scramjet type engine to pressurize hydrogen in flight some day?,1
"Now, the Ukranians are fighting to the end, because they know that they have no other option and if they show weakness, then their country is occupied and their people and culture is destroyed. That is some pretty strong motivation.","Russia has lost half of its armor, and massive amounts of manpower, while Ukraine gains more daily. In the long term, Russia never had the resources to win, and at this point, even if they managed to get to Keiv, they don't have the power to hold it long term with the rest of the world supporting Ukraine.",0
"i’m sorry you and your wife had to go through this, no one should. but i hope you understand where the anger in my original comment is coming from. a vote for any american conservative or republican, at any time, ever, is a vote for this shit. it always has been and it always will be. these abortion laws have been decades in the making and they’ve never been subtle about it.","this is a golden example of typical conservative hypocrisy. “feelings don’t matter until i’m the one experiencing them.” i bet when this guy gets cancer he’ll start advocating for universal healthcare, but not a second before.",0
The problem is that I think he sincerely believes he did nothing wrong and therefore there's no reason to change.,"The man has on two separate occasions been evicted for non payment of rent to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. And those were recent. He dresses as if he stopped at Savers on his way to the HoR. He refuses to explain where even a penny of the money he loaned his campaign came from. He's been shown to be scamming people for relatively trivial amounts of cash. Given his overall history, I'm more willing to believe that the only thing he actually has to his name is whatever pay he's received from being a congressman for the past month.",0
"The number of people that think of politics like a football game is troubling. It can be a cooperative endeavor, not zero-sum.","McConnell voted for the infrastructure bill. The infrastructure bill includes money for a Cincinnati-Kentucky bridge. McConnell gets a bridge he can tout as an accomplishment for his constituents, Biden gets bipartisan support for his bill (which McConnell makes a capital ""B"" Bipartisan).",0
"and as a non American I just LOOOVE hearing about how the US is single handedly changing the tide of the ukraine/Russia war, or how ""america"" is NATO.","This sounds like you believe countries are only friendly towards you because of your military strenh, and this is actually part of the mindset I've been trying to discuss. For what it's worth I'm in the UK, a small nation, and one I assume is on your friendly list. But let's look at other countries....take, say....Spain for example. They are a friendly nation to us here in the UK, and vice versa, yet I do not believe we are friendly nations due to military force. cooperation and trade routes benefit both nations, without any need for force, or intimidation. Now I'm not saying history was always plain sailing, far from it, but in this current world, it is fully possible for nations to be friendly toward each other without the need for scare tactics or shows of military might.",0
"Oh, but let's say the contingent election happened. Then what? Well funny thing, the states get involved AGAIN and independently vote for who they feel won. This would typically match the popular vote and the previous electoral vote. Just as long as there wasn't a stalemate, the individual states are again the ones deciding. Again, the federal government, no single centralized entity has control over the election.","What you find in this system is that voting and presidential election power is largely burdened down onto the state level, not the federal level. By the time it gets to federal level, it's basically ceremony at that point, not a place you change the results.",0
"The Jews because they were constantly persecuted around the world (Much like the black communities in the US after slavery was ended, but they still suffered from extreme segregation from white society), and the Arabs living in Palestine because they wanted a new identity for themselves after the failed venture which was the vast Islamic empire, denied by the British despite promises to the Arab population.","I find it all extremely hilarious. A fanatic violent regime is trying to be the new North Korea, and all redditors do is discuss what Israel did or did not do, instead of trying to stop it.",0
"I watched in school like many of you. My science teacher turned the TV off and sent us back to our regular classrooms. Before I left, I confronted her. I said ""It just blew up, didn't it?"" And she lied to me and sent me back to class but her eyes told me the answer. I had thought about nominating my teacher but I didn't and all I could think of was those poor kids in her class.","Then in a total mind fuck, I had boomeranged back to my parents' in my 20s and one morning my dad wakes me up to tell me the ""Challenger exploded"" I was like, what year is this? Feeling like I was having a Freaky Friday experience or something, but he meant Columbia. So then I was double sad.",0
"I’ve only ever been drug tested once I moved into higher paying jobs, I was never tested as an hourly worker.","When I was hired in a new job last year, I had to take a drug test for the first time in like 20 years. No problem, but took me aback in my position. Marijuana was excluded from the test.",1
"And yet the largest battle in the war so far, with Ukraine sending more and more troops to hold and reinforce, but like you said “Bakhmut isn’t strategically important”.","Says the Ukraine bot, he’s not a bot and neither am I, literally American, just because someone says anything negative about the Ukrainian war effort doesn’t mean they’re a bot.",0
Yep. Turkey has the ability to stop Russian oil-tankers from getting out of the Black Sea with the mere wave of a hand. They control the Montreux Convention and they decide who is or isn’t violating it.,"They don’t tend to make that threat explicitly, everybody just knows that it’s there. Fuck with Turkey? No Bosphorus for you!",0
"This missile is very similar to Russian cruise missiles carrying conventional warheads; I don't think there's a way to tell them apart while they're in the air. I'm sure intelligence services are doing a lot to keep track of which kind of missile Russia is launching but ultimately it's impossible to know for sure until either the warhead goes off or the missile is shot down and examined (as in this case). So the issue isn't that this missile might have been a real nuke, it's that any missile Russia fires might be a real nuke. Many NATO missiles are also capable of carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads; this is one reason any direct engagement between NATO and Russia would be so dangerous.",Given that Russia is using Soviet tech which is definitely less safe than American counterparts I wouldn't trust the world-as-we-know-it to the safety of Soviet nuclear arming devices. If they mislaunch a fucking nuclear payload (who knows how deep the Russian incompetence runs) that for some reason arms during impact we will see a nuclear strike.,1
"Not to mention, if it was just an innocent weather balloon gone astray, wouldn't a simple heads up be prudent?","And then electronic intelligence side of this, say there is a history of real weather balloons going astray and crossing over to America. Let’s go ahead and release a false weather balloon with all of their monitoring equipment and see if the US reacts in anyway. How long will it take them to either intercept or come out to the public that this device has monitoring equipment.",1
Yeah Utah basically views porn like most places view drugs. They even preach about how addictive it is and have substance abuse programs devoted to overcoming porn use.,My drunkin coworker relies heavily on porn to help replace the sex he never gets. I do not need him frustrated in this manner. Alcohol has killed his imagination so he needs fresh porn from an outside source.,1
"Yes, it is. But you can't necessarily just walk to your local Humane Society and write them a check for 30 million dollars. If you're writing them that big of a check you reasonably want to know what they're going to do with it.",So you create a nonprofit company. And you call that non-profit company a charitable foundation. It's just like any other charity except it's main purpose is writing checks to other Charities rather than doing work itself.,0
The US is the only country in the world which has this kind of problem with mass shooting. We're up to nearly two a day. So is it really grotesque politicization to talk about why that is?,It is political. It's about gun policies that don't represent the wishes or needs of the people. What's grotesque is the right continuing to protect gun manufacturers and their profits at the cost of people's lives.,1
"China is a perfect example. People can't search certain things, and information is quickly banned if the state sees something wrong with it. See the doctor that first started spreading the work if covid ..he was quickly stopped. And while it galvanized a nation, China is largely back to normal in regards to citizens not really having a voice.",The whole Pegasus surveillance regarding dissidents in certain countries proves that surveillance technologies need to be used with great caution...and need to be tightly regulated.,0
Actually the state allows for a couple of weeks for ballots to arrive as long as they're post marked on or before election day to account for any postal errors.,Also does Canada allow up to 7 days for ballots to be delivered if they were post marked by election day.,1
Lomonosov had no connection to Ukraine. And having the very personification of Russian culture as an in-your-face monument is obviously untenable at a time when the Russian Empire is warring on Ukraine to enslave it.,"Understand that Russian nationalists do not believe Ukrainians exist and that, at best, Ukrainians are wayward and misguided Russians and, at worst, actively attempting to destroy Russian culture.",1
That doesn't mean it can't be abused. You can donate money to your friend's charity. You can hire your kids to run the charity and pay them salaries etc. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have a legitimate purpose.,"Yes, it is. But you can't necessarily just walk to your local Humane Society and write them a check for 30 million dollars. If you're writing them that big of a check you reasonably want to know what they're going to do with it.",0
The Republican party has lost its way. I think it’s largely because the demographics are rapidly shifting to a younger and more diverse electorate.,"With the ongoing and rapid changes in the electorate, it’s a matter of speculation what those conditions would be for the GOP.",0
"I mean next to stories about Russia anything said about Ukraine would seem good. A firm and uncompromising stance against Russia is the only rational one here, anything short of that is the result of false equivalence and whataboutism, which are, along as heavy handed attempts at sowing confusion among the public's opinion, the main propaganda tactics used by pro Russian lost souls, which is why anything even remotely negative about Ukraine posted here gets compulsively down voted, since how are we supposed to tell the difference between a genuine question and an insidious attempt at bluring the line to try and manufacture apathy and neutrality ? Also I'll add that I routinely see people ask for sources for pro Ukraine informations, albeit they often give out a ""virtue signaling"" vibe.","You're supposed to do that on the sources you use. Doing it for sources of randos of reddit is completely pointless. Unless, of course, you're trying to find any bullshit reason to not do that.",0
"Outside of that, chances are that other countries have little interest in whether or not you want to live there.","As an American that has lived overseas on and off for over 10 years, starting in the 1980s, here’s a bit of reality, the rest of the world probably doesn’t want you.",0
"The reality is however carpet bombing took way more lives than both atomic bombs. But while the carpet bombings were like multiple stab wounds, the atom bombs were big freaking holes. The latter was just more immediately, conceivably terrifying in its consequences than the former.","America demonstrated to Japan AND Russia they had big damn explosions. This scared Russia into passively accepting America would handle Japan, and much of Japan's leadeship realized they were hopelessly outmatched on all fronts (though many of the generals insisted on continuing the fight.) They totally would have ordered the citizenry to fight to the last, and the Americans very well could have lost a lot of ground personnel taking every inch of Japan, but it was not a ideal outcome.",0
Oh yeah. I remember. The right wing website Judicial Watch kept a running tab of all of Obamas travel expenses while President. They said he was accountable to the taxpayers for that and highlighted all of the expenses for Obamas personal travel (Ex: visiting Hawaii with family).,"Right? None if them think ""hey, this guy's a cheater. Maybe he was making up that 'rigged election' stuff!"".",0
"During the two decades of war with the West between the Taliban's previous reign and its current one, women gained a huge foothold with access to education and the workplace. Those basic rights have been all but erased in less than two years by Akhundzada, despite a huge international backlash that has seen the Taliban regime shunned by the international community.","Influential figures in Afghanistan, seemingly frustrated by Akhundzada's refusal to consider Western demands to restore women's rights in exchange for desperately needed financial support, have issued rare public criticism aimed at the supreme leader.",0
Former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville is currently the stupidest Senator. Georgia can’t let Alabama keep that humiliating title when they can elect an even dumber Senator like Walker.,"From where I’m sitting, a white Libertarian in Georgia (running against one of the most famous Dem senators of the bunch) dropping out of the race very plausibly could have avoided a runoff…by tipping things in Walker’s favor. And given the 2020 results, I have to think Republicans would have really liked to avoid a runoff at all costs.",1
He had multiple passports and was caught with 80k in cash. He was caught at a hotel meeting with a KGB double agent. One could guess he was going to use that 80k to bribe the KGB double agent for classified information for the United States.,A spy is worth a lot more than the arms dealer who was going to be released in a couple years. Thats why people assume he's a spy because Putin refuses to give him up.,0
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This is even though the officer was acting outside the scope of their job. Changes to qualified immunity will theoretically help keep the officer accountable when they do things outside the scope of the job.,Qualified immunity means that a police officer cannot be personally sued if he is found to have been acting within the scope of his job.,1
Of course Romney is going to vote for it—this bill gives Utah the right to ban gay marriages as long as they recognize those legally performed in other states.,Romney supported the bill because it protects members of the LGBTQ community and grants them much of the same treatment and privileges as straight couples enjoy. The bill also protects religious institutions from being compelled to provide services that run against their teachings.,1
In all seriousness this is a good first step to reigning in Wall Street and creating a better environment in the housing market for actual buyers who will live in the house.,"Think about it though, they will eventually control enough of the market that they will be the only ones with enough cash to buy houses.",1
"I think that Medvedev is not only assuming that Russia wins in Ukraine, but that Russia will incorporate Belarus and launch their attacks on Poland from both places.","I think Putins' initial plan was to have Belarus invade Ukraine and Russia would just help but for whatever reason Belarus has mostly stayed out of it, even with several threats and promises of assisting Russia in the invasion. Could be like you said and Belarus military wasn't having it. I truly don't understand how Putin thinks he's going to navigate this. He's lost far more than he's gained by this failed invasion. Belarus backed out, and now Putin loyalists are threatening Polish borders, whether it's all bark and no bite, it's still a threat to NATO territory.",1
"Unfortunately there's also a preponderance of evidence that Trump believes stupid shit in spite of expert advice. If I were Trump's defense attorneys, my closing argument would be ""Fauci. Nuking a hurricane. Putin. Bleach injection. Windmills kill birds."".",Well. It’s a bit like asking someone to take money out from a bank vault for you and insisting (lying) that you have an account there when you don’t. The lie doesn’t somehow excuse away the fact you’re just asking someone to steal for you.,1
"I’m just saying that it’s pretty common to use a misspelling of “chicken” like this to denote plant-based substitutes. If “chicken” is to be reserved for the animal meat only, I just think we should let the misspellings be reserved for plant based only. One person’s opinion. I’m happy to eat plant proteins that aren’t called “chicken” at all.","I’m vegetarian & I don’t think I will eat lab grown meat. Just because an animal isn’t harmed, it’s still cultured from an animal thus my assumption is it will be very similar or identical to meat, which isn’t something I eat. I don’t want to consume animal blood, fat or anything else, so it’s just not appealing to me personally.",1
"The dramatic moment was captured on C-SPAN’s video cameras, which, lacking the typical restraints placed upon them in a House with a speaker, were free to show whatever moments from the floor its operators deemed newsworthy."".",This. Bingo. It's hard to convince a jury to convict a politician especially when roughly half of the jury (based on demographics nationally) should be of that politician's political party. Demographics probably even more in favor of the politician in their home area.,1
It needs to hurt bad enough to be just a little scary and remove any doubt as to the unified response of nato. The future of humanity may very well depend on it.,"The minimum response required to ensure that no more missiles can go into NATO airspace, since Russia apparently can’t ensure that on their own.",0
"So by saying it's a sin but not a crime, he isn't really saying anything specific against gay people, since sin is nothing to be ashamed of in the catholic faith, because everybody sins.","Basically, every human commits sin on a daily basis and so you shouldn't hate someone because they sin differently than you.",0
"So if Bobert is in the lead by 615 votes there’s no way she can lose at this point, correct? (Unless on a recount).","Edit: as others have pointed out, they meant the lead had narrowed to 551, not that there were only 551 votes left to be counted. Phew!",0
Challenger armour is still highly classified but has Chobham armour which is pretty much the base for UK/US armour protection. Highly capable and then the European standard version has a number of ERA playes to assist with warding off different types of attack weapons.,"..but the Western MBTs have far superior optics, targeting and gun range & most crucially armour protection. It will be very,very difficult for a Russian tank to take out a Challenger/Leopard in a tank on tank encounter.",1
Good question: Genocide is a broad term used to refer to a series of actions or general intent to destroy a population.,"So while it isn't inherently considered a genocide by itself, it is a frequent component of one. But the word also changed a lot and can be conflated with genocide anyway if you want(full circle, hope you don't feel you wasted your time reading this shit), making the original commenter technically also correct. Idk. I probably could have left it alone and the point wouldn't have changed. Lol.",0
"The only reason why Europe even cares as much as they do is because Russia is a threat to them, if India invaded Bangladesh the sanctions placed on them would be a joke compared to what Russia got hit with.",Yeah this tells me you don't understand geopolitics if most countries don't care about india why is there a g20 in India why are redditors then complaining about india russia.,1
"It's not a Twitter thing. It's a well documented if ignored thing. He actively swings down at a group that is widely considered (quietly) by law enforcement as ""less dead"".","I was gonna touch on his spiral, on the poor taste of using a woman's suicide as a platform for your show, on the dangers of trivializing the already marginalized, and what it means to be ""less dead"".",0
Why are you so butthurt about a warship sailing in international waters anyway? Also I don’t remember the US military returning home when BLM protests were happening all over the White America. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯.,"First, you support a paranoid interventionist government, who was also behind a coup against Iranians democratically elected leader in 1953 that fucked with Iran’s political development. Then, you claim to sympathize with Iranian citizens who became the victims of the US fuck ups!",0
But separate your PTSD from the whole election stolen shit from the last election and remember that Republicans subtle ways to fugde there elections in there favor has been kinda common knowledge for decades now way before any of that.,"Being from KY myself, I instinctively think it’s rigged for the Senate races at the very least, but I have a hard time talking about it outside of anonymous Reddit…after the election denial of 2020, I feel a responsibility to respect the results of our elections. But inside, it’s a real struggle, because I know that if the UN were to “monitor” KY’s elections there would be huge red flags on the senate front, based on everything in the article you just posted. Absolutely sucks .",1
"This is not some secret, the M1 Abrams is an excellent tank but it was designed by the country with far and away the best logistics in the entirety of military history, it’s a tank the US can maintain, many countries would not be able to maintain it, Ukraine (with all the other shit they have to maintain) most likely would not be able to.","This is all tanks and is why even though the US is extremely effective with the Abrams, countries like Saudi Arabia are not, they use them on their own and they get isolated, flanked and take an rpg to the rear turret or engine block. Armored warfare doctrine is equally as important is quality equipment.",0
"Said this once and will say it again. How does everyone see this war ending? Either it'll be an infinite stalemate, or at some point Putin launches nukes because there's literally nothing left to do.","So long as Putin keeps openly discussing using nuclear weapons, I think the world should feel safe when they stop Saber rattling or say the weapons are absolutely off the table, that's when it's time to be scared.",1
The problem is that Russia - or at least Putin and many Russian nationalists - does not see it that way. They see Ukraine (and Belarus) as really being Russian land and the people really being brainwashed Russians.,"Ukraine was nowhere near being an ally to NATO prior to 2014, most people were still skeptical of NATO due to lingering Soviet influence. And even after 2014 there were still limits in how much support countries in NATO gave Ukraine - they did drastically improve the military but they made no effort to, say, train Ukrainian pilots on Western aircraft or train Ukrainian soldiers on Western artillery or vehicles (or even convert Ukraine to NATO-compatible equipment).",0
A spy is worth a lot more than the arms dealer who was going to be released in a couple years. Thats why people assume he's a spy because Putin refuses to give him up.,"Arguments against him being a spy and the four passport thing. His brother ascribed Paul's acquisition of the passports to ""probably a genealogical interest as much as anything."".",0
I feel Democrats are generally the party of being for all the things which greatly help people and society (versus a GOP of “against-ism”) - but it certainly helps to have a common enemy to hate and for us on the left to become united against that common foe too.,"It’s not illegal to “demoralize” your opposition, and frankly, it’s easier to convince right wingers to stay home/vote third party than convince them to vote for a Democrat out of the “goodness” of their hearts.",1
"120,000 young Russian men killed, but The ones who left are better educated and wealthier than the ones killed. Sexism is strong in Russia, and their economy is based on resource extraction and heavy industry; young men are the lifeblood of their economy.","So, Russia is fucked. This is good, because they need to lose Putin's stupid war. But it is bad, because the planet is far too small for anyone to be safe while half of Eurasia is a trailer park full of drunkards with nukes.",0
"Russia has nukes, we can not attack them and an offensive war against Russia is an impossibility, morally and practically.We are sanctioning them as a result of that, cutting off all ties that can be cut off.","Should we allow Putin to show the athletes on national TV, tell the russians and his soldiers that russians are being accepted and perhaps winning medals out in the world? Ignoring that they don't have the russian flag on their uniforms?",0
"Not only do members not live at the Institut, it houses the oldest public library in France, has an impressive art collection its amassed over the years, and is impeccably maintained. You can visit it yourself, if you'd like.","What are you talking about? Their members have real jobs and lives. Hell, not all of them are French or even live in France - one member is a Haitian-Canadian who lives in Miami.",0
"Like in Washinon the GOP representative who called out Trump, lost the primary to Joe K., who in turn lost a red region in and by two of the bluest states to a Dem.","Maybe if these unaware leaders who birthed, fed, and raised the beast would just have done more a long time ago, the normal Republicans would have stood a chance and wouldn't be completely synonymous with MAGA.",0
"Exactly, idk how we're going to get the systemic changes we need to see now done with such gerrymandered voting and paying off our congressional leaders/insider trading.","Except that the ""let's end moneyed politics"" party has more or less the same list of donors, and makes sure to introduce it as a constitutional amendment which has a ridiculously high bar to pass so they can make absolutely sure their proposal won't actually pass.",1
"So then why is the death rate of H5N1 50% if a simple flu vaccine provides protection? That doesn’t make any sense. We would need an updated flu vaccine targeting H5N1, and that would take a year at least.","We do know how to make effective flu vaccines and H5N1 vaccines have been stockpiled for some time, but we can't say we know what the expected pandemic flu would look like.",1
"Genuinely curious, since you don’t really hear about Moldova even though they’re so close to the conflict and will be greatly impacted by the result of the war.","Would do no-one any good for Moldova to enter the conflict, because as you mentioned their army - similar with many natural countries- is almost non existent. Maybe they can divert some of the rockets from Ukraine to Moldova.",1
satellites balloons and planes are dependent on gravity. Without the earth's gravity the atmosphere would be pulled into the sun.,So yea the USA totally has a history of violating airspace with planes and balloons. Just because The USA is mostly good and the CCP is mostly evil doesn't mean you need to simp for America or not point out their hypocrisy.,0
Mr. Beyer sees what's coming. AI will revolutionize every industry and nearly every facet of our lives in the coming years. Every member of Congress should be educating themselves to better understand the ramifications on ethics and privacy. As Mr. Beyer put it.,"This will be one of the most important and tricky issues Congress has ever faced, and the capitalist machine will try to stop any potential regulation. Hopefully people like Beyer can guide our lawmakers through it, because as you said, most of them seem technologically challenged.",0
"""You see selling water from the drought plagued Colorado river to the Saudi's was a good idea. Very smart. The woke left have infiltrated our government we should be selling all of our natural resources to foreign countries! No one is tougher on the Saudis than me and my children."".",It's the latter. We never had a president who just straight up ignored those rules until Trump. At the very least Presidents besides Trump didn't want to appear to be using the office to enrich themselves financially.,1
"As an another example of recent science adding yet another positive feedback, see this research on cloud cover which shows that as ocean temperatures warm, cloud cover that reflects sunlight reduces, meaning more warming.","We are at in very grave peril. We have to fight for solutions together. We need to decarbonise human activity as fast as possible, like our civilisation depends on it, because it does. If we don't fix this now, there will be no politics to argue about in a few decades.",0
Imagine if you will that they passed gun licensing laws like I suggest and then the nearest licensing center was 100 miles away. That's what states do with voter ID laws.,"Why depend on State to issue ID for a Federal election? Fed election law should mandate accepting an array of alternative ID for Federal office election, including a RealID issued by Federal Govt, pictures taken etc at any Post Office (as well as whatever the State wants to accept for its own concurrent elections).",1
"Amazing. I couldn't come up with a more ridiculous parody of this if I tried full time for a year. I love how piss poor and fake looking the ""art"" is. Half of these barely look like him at all.",Not even a vague attempt was made to make it appear as though he's capable of even looking like he's doing things that he thinks look cool. Let alone any attempt to actually showcase him actually doing something.,0
That’s why in ireland we had a booming export business of our women taking the ferry to the UK to get abortions performed over there. It’s still happening as far as I know because the abortion services in ireland are only in the process of being set up.,Nowadays I believe it’s becoming part of your hiring contract when you work in a hospital. Eventually the list of things your conscience can absolve you from will not include abortions. So no punishment for abstaining medical staff yet but that won’t be the case forever.,0
"To be more clear, I'm trying to make the case for Single Winner-Plurality like all their neighboring states to replace their Single Winner-Majority. I question what value Georgia gets out of a Majority vote requirement vs what they have to spend (time & money) and what their citizens are put through.","Also, given that this race could give Democrats an edge in the Senate, GOP Georgia voters may be more energized about making sure that doesn’t happen and that’s a big driver too.",1
"Wagner is already under his control - technically the whole thing is illegal under Russian law which means he can prosecute its leaders at any time. The reason this power struggle is happening isn't because Wagner threatens Putin, but because its competing for resources with the military.","It's a power struggle between the Russian military and Wagner, vying for resources and fame. Wagner was winning when the Russian military couldn't. Now the Russian military is starving Wagner to curtail all supplies and glory for themselves.",1
"“It is essential that Speaker McCarthy likewise commit to releasing a budget, so that the American people can see how House Republicans plan to reduce the deficit,” Deese and Young wrote.","My favorite part was when McCarthy said he wasn't going to play politics with the debt ceiling, after letting the deadline pass, without having an outlined budget prepared on day 1 of his speakership, despite knowing that his party had the House and that he was most likely going to become speaker.",1
"Right, like this war isn't the greatest promotional tool ever for America's military industrial complex. America is going to make billions in weapons sales over the next couple of years.","The USA spends $801 billion (2021) on defense while Germany spends $56 billion (2021), or 7% of what the USA spends. Repairing tanks dragged back to Poland (where western arms are repaired) will always be easier for the USA because they have more billions to put to the task. The USA can fly their parts to Poland. Planes literally fly around the world in hours. Maybe a truck from Germany would beat the plane because the plane has to be unloaded into trucks. But those hours are not significant with regard to the task. And only applicable the first time as an inventory will be built up in Poland.",1
"Even for people that are more aware of the destruction of the biosphere, most of them still think that the effects are only going to be felt way off in the future, perhaps 2100 or so.","But the same scientist who published this article also said we’d have an extinction event in the 60s due to global cooling and over population. They aren’t right, their take is actually ridiculous.",1
NATO has certainly has the military ability to enact a blockade in the Baltic Sea even without the two new members.,Finland's membership provides NATO the ability to defend against any Russian aggression in the Baltic. Sweden's addition now lets NATO close off both military and trade access to the Baltic Sea.,1
"In a total of 122 UN resolutions involving Israel, Ukraine voted against Israel in 95 of the resolutions and abstained in 27 of them. It did not vote in favor of Israel even once.","Religious Zionist MK Simcha Rothman took issue with Zelensky’s reference to Ukrainians who saved Jews and tweeted: “I don’t understand Ukrainian, but if the translation I heard is accurate, Zelensky asked us to treat the Ukrainians like they treated us 80 years ago. I’m sorry, but I think we will have to reject that request. We are, after all, a moral nation.”.",0
"But the crimes as defined by the court aren’t different in severity. The court is suggesting that as long as you are committing crime against a ship that is flagged from a nation that commits terrorist acts, then it is ok. Dozens of countries would qualify for that. Whether it’s full on invasions, torture, etc etc they would all now qualify for their ships being blockaded?",Why was the ship allowed in the first place and not stopped by UK's law enforcement if the terrorism stance is valid? Doesn't the government lack of action make it an enabler of the said terrorism too?,1
"They probably didn't use it because iirc rape in the UK legally requires penetration with a penis, and they might not be able to prove that happened. The UK and a lot of other places need to update the wording of rape laws to fall in line with modern definitions.","Yes I would agree, but the UK and many other places have laws that define rape as unwanted penetration with a penis, that's why I said it needs to be redefined to fit modern definitions.",0
Not unless it’s a research site where they deliberately emit CO2 to study the effects on the environment.,The last time I checked this kind of geoengineering is generally considered a bad idea by most scientists and is usually promoted by business interests.,0
"I never received my absentee ballot after getting the e-mail that my application had been approved and it would be delivered, so I guess I'm going Tuesday to vote in person like I was desperately trying to avoid.","Turnout data suggests that a large majority of people who voted by mail in 2020 found another way to cast their ballots this year — turning to in-person voting, either early or on Election Day. Turnout in the state was 56 percent of all active voters, shy of the 2018 high-water mark for a midterm election.",1
"I would, with conditions. Perhaps interest free for a number of years, with interest kicking in a year or two after the borrower begins generating revenue.","I think they're referring to ""revenue"" as in the borrower getting a job that provides more in income than they spend on necessities. The government already loses money offering student loans.",1
"Are there are no large donations to Democrats? And why are you still so hung up on the size of individual donations? If I give $100 to Republican PACs while the Democrats raise $1 from each of 1 million people, you would probably still be going on rants about huge donations to the GOP. The size of any individual donation is 100% irrelevant.",Limiting how much a politician can accept from any individual is not the same as telling everyone in the country what they can and can not spend their money on.,0
"I agree, would also like to add that even if you produce electricity/hydrogen from gas, BEVs and hydrogen cars are still way more efficient than gas powered cars.","Yes, liquid hydrogen is actually several times more energy dense than jet fuel. It is a substitute that has a lot of promise. The problem is that it comes with its own set of engineering problems and aircraft companies have had generations to work out all the bugs with using fossil fuels. It also requires its own infrastructure that practically no airports are renovating to be able to support. There also isn't any government support for specifically the aerodynamics industry yet (although the 2022 IRA act extends some tax credits and applies new ones to Hydrogen fuel cell investment and hydrogen production investment). Still, it is unlikely existing subsidies will be enough to close the gap in cost between running a plane on fossil fuels vs hydrogen.",1
"In the article, ""largely debunked Steeles Dossier"" has a link to another Newsweek article that goes through 7 of its ""biggest accusations"". 3 are listed as ""verified"". 4 are listed as ""Not proven"". None are listed as ""disproven"" or ""debunked"" or anything remotely like that. From which Newsweek concludes that the Dossier is ""largely debunked"".","I am unaware of any issues presented in the dossier that have been proven untrue. I understand that many details are unconfirmed and that there have been massive character assassination campaigns against people who worked on or gave intel for the dossier, but not proven falsities.",1
"Anecdotally as an Ohioan, we have been planning a move to Michigan for about a year now, even prior to the 2022 elections. We encourage any friends who are looking at getting out of Ohio to check it out. Politics aside, the general vibe of the population just seems to be much more positive and chill in general compared to its southern neighbors.",As long as you're looking at some larger metropolitan areas/cities they're mostly pretty progressive and chill. It's when you get out to those podunk small towns or rural MI where it feels like you've stepped into Alabama. I love MI and the west coast is the best.,1
"The drones are Ukrainian made so not US weapons bombing Russia though at this point, US frankly doesn't give a damn what Putin thinks.",It is very clear that Ukraine is attacking Russia with drones and this will increase after Zelensky appeared before US Congress and got the political support along with the military supplies.,0
"Especially when you consider the fact that America is richer than Cuba BECAUSE of the atrocities it has committed. Global imperialism and liberal hegemony have done incredibly damage to the world, but they’re very profitable. That alone is an indictment of the American system, imho. American Unipolarity is keeping the global south impoverished.","What country exists that isn’t corrupt? The US committed genocide against its indigenous population, enslaved people of color, placed Japanese Americans into internment camps, currently funds Israeli Genocide in Palestine, is currently bombing Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan, funded the extermination of over one MILLION CIVILIANS in Indonesia alone during their anticommunist efforts in the 60’s, targeted and assassinated civil rights leaders and activists such as Martin Luther King jr, Malcolm X, and Chairman Fred Hampton during the FBI’s CointelPro operations, recruited Nazi leaders after WWII with Operation Paperclip, funded the Mujahideen terrorist organization while working to destabilize the middle east, destabilized multiple countries in South America in conjunction with the Contras, and has held Cuba under embargo for decades. Is Cuba really that much worse than the US? Cuba has a higher literacy rate, more doctors per capita, and far less wealth disparity. They aren’t some cartoonishly evil country, they’re a tiny developing island nation which made massive strides under communism despite opposition from the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world.",0
I think there will be charges in the stolen documents case and soon. And it's looking more and more like there will be a financial crime charges related to Jan 6. Whether they can pin the seditious conspiracy on Trump himself is a big question mark.,"Holy fack, enough of these posts “ we think maybe possibly for sure in the future maybe we will charge trump “.",1
"What the majority of commenters don't realize is the definition of ""universal healthcare"" in this context is the government ensuring everyone has health insurance to get care. And the rest of the data behind the headline shows most Americans still prefer the private system we have over a public one. Meaning the universal healthcare supported by the survey is the current public+private hybrid system we have now.",Plenty of candidates are there for some form of universal healthcare (just not the unpopular idea of single payer in particular).,1
There's a housing shortage in the US. Zoning regulations caused it. Prices go up when there are shortages. Stop gaslighting people and just admit this already.,"Socialist, like conservatives, are very hostile to empirical evidence if it conflicts with their preexisting ideology. The reality is that supply and demand exist regardless of whether or not you believe in it.",0
"There's also misrepresentations in the House, yet again due to the discrepancy in state populations. In a perfect distribution, each member of the House would represent about 760k people. But the state populations don't neatly divide by that number. So you get situations like Delaware which has almost double the population Wyoming but both states only get 1 representative, or how Rhode Island gets 2 representatives despite only having a 7% larger population than Delaware.","The Senate is skewed by design, where Wyoming and Cali have equal representation despite one having almost 70x the population of the other.",0
"It's good people like yourself make the choice to change, but they need to stop pretending that somehow the Republican party of 2012 is any different from the Republican party of 2022. The only difference is how outwardly vocal the party is now. Still though you can't just say I voted Republican then and now I don't just to justify your poor thinking and decision making of the past by saying,""well back then the party wasn't like it is now"". Frankly, yes it was, and if the Republican party wasn't universally hated now because of how outwardly disgusting they are, you would essentially vote for them.",Why are you voting for something that's not a moral pillar especially when there is always a better choice than a Republican? You see Bain capital as problematic but you vote Romney anyway?,0
And if I remember right the funding that was recently passed for them was to help retain positions after retirements and cuts and not adding tens of thousands of new auditors as the right wing media says.,"Also, did I read somewhere that most of this “new” funding is basically to get back to where we were 20 years ago as well as planning for retirements and replacement workers?",1
"I'm a little puzzled as to where you seem to be going with this, you seem to agree that felons are allowed to have guns in TX, correct?","Also the “there’s guns” ITS TEXAS, open carry is legal and without permit, of course there’s gonna be guns. Stop moving the goalposts because you don’t agree with the activity. That’s where my “me me me me me” comes from. Some drivers would say the same about lane splitting or bicyclists or whatever, but we still accommodate. We do the same for funeral precessions and school team marches.",1
Even that still isn't a great result. We'd probably end up in 2030 dealing with a bunch of legislatures doing what Ohio did: running out the clock by repeatedly submitting unconstitutionally gerrymandered maps and getting them struck down over and over again until it reaches the point that it's too late for a new map and the election goes ahead with a gerrymandered one.,"I'd like to see Wasserman or someone dissect what a fully maxed out gerrymandered map would look like. A lot of GOP controlled states are already close to the max, so I'd have to assume that it would end up favoring Dems. But I would still want to see numbers before I jump to that conclusion.",0
"Ivanka Trump, who left the business to go to the White House in 2017, argued that the claims against her were time-barred and that she didn’t personally falsify any business records. The judge said the attorney general’s office has alleged liability “sufficiently” on Trump to survive a motion to dismiss.","“Reading these arguments was, to quote the baseball sage Lawrence Peter (‘Yogi’) Berra, ‘Déjà vu all over again,’” the judge wrote.",0
"I am on your side concerning the forcing Russia to take it back part, at least very clearly calling them out and demonstrating close Nato ties. But we really want to avoid to threaten with war or even declare it. If we make a threat, we have to act accordingly or our word will lose value, just like Putins did. Also a threat doesn’t justify a declaration of war (we try to uphold international law). Furthermore we would lead a war of aggression not Defense, which would really heighten the risk of nuclear escalation. But you are right, we can’t leave such threats unanswered.",You don't let a bully run around and threaten everyone because he might do something. You call his bluff. The world can not deal with any nuclear capable nation threatening its neighbors with impunity. He should be the one afraid.,1
"There is this thing called history. Territorial boundaries are easy, but cultural boundaries are not. Lots of places in Europe have cultures that overlap territorial boundaries. The Crimea and Ukraine are just one.",You should probably look at the history of Crimea. It isn't really so simple. Crimea was mostly Russians for the past 100 years and few Ukrainians. Even before the USSR Crimea wasn't very populated by Ukrainians.,1
It’s actually about oil … China is just a player … the real movers are not the governments either it is the oil companies involved here … Venezuela oil politics are way way above anything we can comprehend.,Venezuela has been on the shit list of the US since 1976 when Venezuela nationalized the oil sector … The oil companies (namely Chevron) went all holy war on anything Venezuela since. They are the big reason Venezuela went to hell in a hand basket. But now US need Venezuela and they sure look better than Saudis and Russia to work with … Also if Venezuela economy can get turned around US could reduce the 2nd largest group of illegal immigrants coming into the US. Venezuela should be one of the richest countries in world ….,0
"Dems already have 2 independents that caucus with them for the purpose of committees, etc - Bernie Sanders and Angus King. As long as she doesn’t caucus with the Republicans, Dems still get majorities on committees. It was actually 50 R - 48 D last session.","“The aide said that Ms. Sinema would keep her committee positions through Democrats, meaning the party would still hold a one-seat edge on the panels next year, giving them new flexibility over nominations and legislation.”.",0
"That helps for sure but it's still difficult to find a perfect alignment when sleeping on your side, your knees are resting (and rebuilding bone) slightly to the left or slightly to the right.","Just to comment on another commenter's post, sleeping with a pillow between your legs helps, but it's still going to be slightly wider or narrower knee angle than normal posture. Your body is regenerating bone slowly but surely all the time, if you spend long periods with your knees slightly to the left or right or a natural alignment, the problem and discomfort will build over time. A pillow between the legs helps but the best solution is popping your knees so you know they are in a completely natural alignment and then falling asleep in this position. Falling asleep on my back was really difficult at first. I found a couple heavy pillows on my chest (while laying on my back) helped a lot. I was a side sleeper too, with or without pillows between my knees, and eventually discovered sleeping at least 40% of the time on my back or stomach made a world of difference. I have virtually no knee pain anymore and rarely feel the urge to pop my knees anymore. Ymmv.",0
"Personally I think we're better off running Biden, which gives the DNC 4 more years to prepare a 2028 candidate. Right now the only viable candidates I'm aware of are ones who lost pretty strongly to Biden in 2020, or who are not much younger.","If Biden runs in 2024 as an 82-year-old and the GOP nominee is anyone but Trump, then that spells disaster for Democrats.",1
The majority of Palestinians don't want peace once you can realise that you will understand why Israel isn't going to work with a fanatical terrorist state.,"The Palestinians have never negotiated with a peaceful 2 state solution in mind, they see a 2 state solution as a pathway to annihilating Israel.",0
"The Russian Military Industry can't keep up with the war demand and Putin won't stand for any pathetic excuses like ""We can't source parts because of sanctions"", or ""We're broke"", or ""You sent most of our trained machinists to the front and they're now all dead or defected"".",Maybe he shouldn't have attacked a nation who used to make guided munitions for Russia—the very munitions Russia needs to effectively wage war—and who cut off the supply as soon as Russia seized Crimea.,1
"Poland and Hungary are engaged in a dispute with the EU more generally, and are being difficult within the EU's mechanisms as part of that. It's not about Ukraine at all, really.","For the European Union as an organisation to give Ukraine aid, all EU member states must agree. Hungary does not, so it cannot happen.",0
"He's running. He's said he's running, and he has not said anything different since saying that. Any other discussion on the topic is idle speculation, which is all well and good if you're just chatting with someone, but to put into print as if it's real is dishonest. News media seems to need either fear or excitement to drive clicks, and when it doesn't exist organically, they manufacture it.","He said he's going to. Multiple people who are going to run haven't officially declared (DeSantis and Pence, for example), but to pretend like that means they won't is disingenuous.",0
Plus having a balloon shot down is going to be less of an international incident than a spy plane with an actual pilot.,Then on top of all of that it is way cheaper to float a bunch of equipment on a balloon than it is to shoot it into space or mount it onto a spy plane.,0
What if you just want to sell tickets for a profitable yet affordable price and ensure anyone of your fans has the chance to buy them?,I would take it a step farther and suggest that tickets bought online have to have name printed on them that matches the card holder/person that is attending.,1
All he did was knowingly carry water for a man who literally incited a mob of traitors to murder _them_. By them I mean congress.,"Speaker of the House does not need to be held by a House member. Theoretically, they could push for Cheney (who did not win her primary) to be Speaker and that would be fine. There were also Republican plans (or whispers of plans) to elect Trump as Speaker that were floated earlier this year if they re-took the House.",1
There is no recall process for Congress. He'll either have to resign under pressure or be expelled or his district will have to vote him out next election cycle.,"If he were to resign or be expelled, there would have to be a special election, right? The governor cannot appoint a house member iirc. So they’re not going to want to surrender the seat, and besides the Republican MO is to be very concerned until it blows over and gets replaced by their next scandal, which should be next week if things hold up the way they have been.",1
"All of the things I mentioned, the militarizing, the technology, etc. - it's all starting from way behind the US. And they're designed to threaten the US as the US exists today, but of course the US will adapt its defenses. And this is part of that: recognizing what China can/wants to do, then finding new ways to counter it.","I'm not saying that this makes China a threat, but that making it public is an attempt to make them appear more threatening.",1
"Edit: also her comments about “dual loyalty” and Israel “hypnotizing” the world. Also antisemitic tropes. I call them out when I see them, even when it’s from our side. Especially when it’s from our side.","European leaders are right to strongly condemn such hate and take steps to protect Jewish communities, including holding criminal suspects to account.",0
It does if you're scared you'll get jailed for voting in the wrong place or if the polling location you used to use is no longer there. The point of gerrymandering and voter suppression is to create fear.,Like massively purging people off of the voter polls. Like an asshole who is too scared to really let the people vote. Bunch of crybabies who can't actually let people vote for what they want. Teachers deserve a raise. Teachers also deserve a shit ton more. Everyone does.,1
"Well, nordic countries celebrate all the Christian holidays, marry in churches and get baptized but I don't know a single person here believing in God.","They are Christian, since lot of those Nordic people, even though they don't believe in God, are part of the Lutheran church and also and babtized, and thus they are counted as Christians. They often even call themselves Lutheran or Christian, as they still are part of those religions, even without believing in God.",1
"No, he was portrayed as what he was, a rich old white guy, completely out of touch with the reality of average Americans, who rose to power running the type of business that had ruined much of the American economy, barely a year out of the recession.","They were well known and influencing, but look at the 2012 Primary. Santorum, Gingrich and Ron Paul. Main stream republicans hasn't quite gotten to where they are now in the 2012 cycle.",0
"Very true. The amount of times Russia's narritive has shifted for this war I can easily see them start acting like they're just trying to defend their ""own"" territory from the never ending onslaught of ""NATO backed Nazis."".","Yeah. I think Muscovy needs their Antietam or Gettysburg-type loss to finally accept defeat. I think Ukraine is again producing another such moment at Bakhmut, and also gave Putin Khan a chance at Kherson city, Kharkiv city, and Kyiv. It's shitty in this case but some people need a few hard lessons before reality sinks in.",1
"There's nothing definitively saying it was Alito but if the investigators were not told to interview the justices, and one of the justices is a known leaker... well...","ALITO A whistle-blower literally came forward during this investigation saying Alito had, in the past, leaked a future decision to one of his nutty evangelical friends And the republican appointed to investigate this of course didn't want to fuck over Alito, and Robert's knows it was Alito which is why he's been so silent since it first got leaked.",1
IMO the long term cap gains rate is too low. It should have higher brackets just like earned income.,And that can be fixed by raising the capital gains tax maximum rate with new higher brackets that are matched to earned income brackets.,0
But so be it…. on to the next potential Putin speech where he could declare war Launch nukes General mobilization Absorb Belarus Annex parts of Georgia.,A Belarusian attack on Lithuania would mean that Putin would either have to give up on Belarus and pull troops out or risk entering direct conflict between Russian and NATO forces.,1
"Oh you mean the ones who don’t work and live on government handouts. Yes, let’s keep those people down indefinitely by giving them bits and pieces. Meanwhile the vast majority of Americans are becoming lower class financially due to the constant taking of their efforts. We all know where you stand. Truth hurts.","Nope. It’s bad when anyone doesn’t repay money they borrowed. I could care less what your political leaning or party is. If you take out a loan, of any type, you are obligated to repay it. Going to get to the point where responsible people who pay back their loans won’t be able to get them because everyone decides to default because life is hard.",0
"That's why we have the Constitution and it's bill of amendments. We recognized as time went on that just saying people are born with certain inalienable rights isn't good enough, you have to enshrine them in law so that everyone from the West Coast to the east coast respects those rights.",I grew up in southern Louisiana and still have family members down there that say the civil war was a war of northern aggression over states rights.,0
And? That will never happen. Who is going to organize it? How are they going to convince all or even most police to sign on? And how are you going to keep it secret before it's ready to go off? How is that cop going to avoid being fired before the strike ever happens?,People act like planning strikes when striking is forbidden in the digital world is just a matter of everyone striking together.,0
"You mean freedom of speech, the essential part of a free society to be able to express your own opinion without government interference? That ""freeze peach""? Because you're a complete nincompoop if you think it should up to some government bureaucracy to decide who is or isn't allowed to speak their mind.","It's a slippery slope when you let a government decide what defines hate speech and is therefore not within the ""boundaries"" of freedom of speech. Sure you might trust your current elected representatives to judge with perfect integrity and without bias what shouldn't be allowed to be expressed by someone, but what if let's say someone like Trump, Boris Johnson, Orban or Meloni got into power and was able to judge what speech is illigal. I think it's a dangerous precedent.",0
The issue is more complicated if the thing experts agree is safe is necessary to save your child's life.,"The parents also refused to have the childs blood tested, or have a chest xray done. So you're wrong. They're horrible.",0
Instead we get some congressional circus to baselessly drag out some guy's browser history in public to humiliate and slander his father.,"It's hilarious that they want to ""investigate"" Hunter Biden, someone who does not and has never held public office. Effectively just a random citizen who happens to be related to a politician. Yet they were all publicly horrified at the idea of questioning Trump's adult children who were in influential administration positions and paid with tax dollars.",0
"But again, even if in theory there were 50 senators on board for this from the democrats (which there probably AREN'T to your point) it would need to overcome the general filibuster.","Probably the only point I would straight up give you here, it's obviously a massive conflict of interest and all legislators are currently complicit in this who aren't voting for it.",0
"""For the last two years, Democrats in battleground states have played defense against Republican efforts to curtail voting access and amplify doubts about the legitimacy of the nation’s elections.","Well, Republicans have been stifling voting rights since I was old enough to know Republicans exist.",1
"The US, for all of its flaws, aims to stabilize the region. Someone has to be the adult in the room. Nuclear weapons are rightfully only utilized as deterrent. There is a reason the US makes no threats. The threat is implied, and nuclear weapons won't be necessary.","Yep, that's the status quo, and yet still NK pushes it at times. It's been a while since NK did something dastardly, but the threat exists.",0
"Butina was using the NRA to gain access to prominent politicians at social events, using the guise that they she was helping form a gun rights organization in Russia.",The crazy obvious issue with a Russian national having any sort of interaction with gun rights advocates is Russia has no like organization. There isn’t a correlating body which advocates for individual gun rights. That this isn’t suspicious to everyone is ridiculous.,1
This incessant conflation of an ethnicity with terrorism is so unhelpful. Would you appreciate Turks being referred to as terrorists because some Turks have engaged in terrorism? I doubt it.,"20+ years of bombing the tits off the Iraqis and Afghans, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? Now that is how 9/11’s happen.",0
"Yes Israel should treat palestinians as equal or leave them be, the reason why dont hear about palestinians violence in Jordan nowadays is simply because they are equal, every single incident of violence since the 70a was by jordanians or syrians, had israel taken our approach then it would jave been fine.","If israel got the same results as we have then the conflict is over, there is no more conflict, our mistake was allowing parties to be armed being to easy on their transgressions on the sovereignty while no one would think it was about if palestinians should have had citizenship, also palestinians were much better educated and were much better at trade and manufacturing so i hate to admit it but they are the ones to make this country turn from a desert not worth occupying into the most advanced and educated country jn the arab world.",0
Are you willing to turn off your power? Would you rather the world financially support regimes like in Russia and Iran? Should millions die from exposure so that we can shut off all fossil fuels tomorrow?,"I’m not even saying get rid of all fossil fuels immediately, its fucking common sense at this point. We are live watching our country get left behind. I am just so sick of the democrats having terrible messaging and not getting behind winning ideas.",1
"As much as I support military intervention within Ukraine, NATO as an organization needs to stay out of it.","NATO support is the only reason a free Ukraine still exists. They haven't closed the skies because that would be an act of war, but the training provided to Ukraine over the last 8 years and the insane amount of materiel and intelligence support they've given over the last 9 months has turned Russia from the 2nd strongest military in the world to the 2nd strongest military in Ukraine.",1
"It pains me to say this, though, because as a Brazilian atheist, I'd really love to see the people of Iran to overthrow their theocratic state, which is currently oppressing groups of their society. But I understand what's like to have a government associated with foreign powers, and how if that happened, it'd (most likely) make things harder rather than easier in the long run. Detractors of progressivism would just forever point to the association with imperialist countries that have fucked them over in the past. It should all ideally be done by Iranians.",Hi I’m an Iranian in the diaspora. I’m reposting stuff from a previous comment because it feels appropriate.,1
"You clearly didn't read my statement. First, to answeryour question, yes I have Seminole and Pembroke heritage <12.5% so I don't act like I am Native American Indian as I feel like it's nominal however I respect and love the culture. Do you have any blood in the conversation? My assumption would be no since you sound more ignorant than any Native American Indian I have ever spoken to about matter relating to the subject at hand.","Not arguing with you but pointing out that most people offened by the term ""Indian"" are not Native American to begin with. I have been in the company of many and not one I have asked has said they feel the term is derogatory or discriminating.",0
"Of course, cheap American tanks right now are more appealing replacements than full price German tanks later in the future, so countries might not be willing to make such agreements for replacements, so Germany keeps holding out on allowing exports to Ukraine.","If the US sends it's tanks directly to Ukraine, it will be less able to replace European tanks and European countries will be less inclined to send so many of their own tanks to Ukraine because they will not be as needed and US replacements will be less available. In this case, Europe keeps it's European tank manufacturing and does not become dependent on US export tanks, which is bad for the US.",0
"The thing you have to realize is, the consequences of telling the truth may, and likely reach far beyond the possibility of criminal charges of this investigation.",I’m aware…we’re discussing potential consequences of lying to the grand jury and how someone would get charged as a result. It’s hilarious that you’re all trying to explain this to me when it’s my literal job 😂.,1
"It's been largely bipartisan so far, but influential Republicans have spoken against further aid to Ukraine. Such as MTG, J.D. Vance, Rand Paul, and Tucker Carlson, while Trump has been quiet. Tucker Carlson in particular has been recently trying to re-frame the Russo-Ukraine War as 'Christian vs woke' (ironic given Ukraine is anything but) which heavily implies he's beyond an isolationist, he's pro-Russia. These people can certainly whip most of the Republicans to block all further Ukraine aid if they won big in the House.","The less 'ultra MAGA' Republicans are very pro-Ukraine though, especially in the Senate, where they support sending even more weaponry to Ukraine like ATACMS.",0
"I cared an awful lot about this when it was Hillary. I cared much less about it when it was Trump, and even less now. Apparently, the people in charge of maintaining and securing classified documents don't give a shit, why should I?","What I learned through all of these sagas is that it shouldn't matter to me. I apologize for caring about it as much as I did when it was Hillary. It was an honest mistake. I didn't realize at the time how little importance properly securing government secrets was, that you're allowed to be reckless and irresponsible with them.",0
"Too accurate lol and the conservatives are only now realizing this guy has only a surface level understanding of anything he has ever spoken about, with no commitment to any position that doesn't further his own goals or electability.","Or the other top post with tons of support saying how conservatives are tired of being tied to anti-election sentiment/big lie/scorched earth politics just because of who their last president is. Uh, fucking hello? Almost 80% of republicans believe in those things. The stereotype is real because that is what conservatives actually believe. They’ve made sure to let everyone know over the last 2 years.",1
"This. This is why I’ve always been a strong advocate for tracking. I know it’s such a dirty word in the world of education. But in all honesty, the high level learners are not always going to help pull up the low learners, and in fact will usually be bored as fuck and start acting out. Tracking has the added benefit of making lessons much more closely aligned with each child’s abilities instead of having a over view lesson and then a crap ton of self guided work so teachers can then go do one one one or small group work. Someone is always going to get left behind this way.","Top it off with administrative staff that are tone deaf to most needs and circumstances that are happening in class rooms leads to a high burn out. Teachers aren’t just teaching now, but also playing the role of social worker. Duty to act means you really need to be up in your kids business. And you have to be able to deal with the fact that most schools have only one or two counselors to cover an entire school, with some elementary schools head counting out around 1k.",0
"Consider how much our lives revolve around wi-fi, bluetooth, gps and whatnot, the chinese gov knowing where you are is just another entity to the pile of entities that do.","It's a small part of a worrying trend of phones, IP Cameras and even toys, manufactured by Chinese companies, that are sending and receiving data from servers in China.",1
If they want peace you need to send more arms to Ukraine to push Russia back. Anything else Russia will surely strike again. Their nose has been bloodied too much and humiliated to let things just stand.,"No need for Ukraine to negotiate, they did nothing wrong. Also any short term Ceasefire would only benefit Russian to give it time for new troop training, mobilization, resupply and entrench their positions further.",0
"The charitable Foundation lets you donate the money to charity right now and get the tax break and the money can only be used for charitable purposes from that point forward. Then you have time to figure out how and when you want to donate that money to charity. It can be invested in the meantime, and you've effectively created an endowment where you and your successors can continue to make big charitable donations for a long time.",That doesn't mean it can't be abused. You can donate money to your friend's charity. You can hire your kids to run the charity and pay them salaries etc. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have a legitimate purpose.,0
"It would be really disrespectful for me to claim to be Jewish, so I don't, even with my family history. I don't practice the religion, I know very little about my heritage beyond what I listed here. What I know about my grandma's ordeal was horrible, but it's still not my right to claim to have a religion I don't practice. It's incredibly disrespectful.","""I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background, I said I was ‘Jew-ish'."".",0
The fact that this is in the same subheading as trans people sends a pretty clear message of where Republicans' minds are at.,I've read the bill. The part about non-human identity is a single bullet point. The bill is mainly about tormenting trans people.,0
> Our results suggest that avoiding high-end climate risks is possible only for low-temperature overshoots [over 1.5C] and if long-term temperatures stabilize at or below today’s levels of global warming.,There is no evidence for projected warming <3-4C of any tipping points that significantly change the warming trajectory. Read IPCC report and read what scientists say instead of speculating-.,1
"And it wouldn't just happen to grifter weirdos: the howler monkey contingent would try to recall the Speaker, and every committee chair, and anyone who ran for Senate.",Santos had zero chance... until the legislative maps were shifted after he had already run unopposed for the Republican nomination.,0
"also note what i said - the middle classes are not meaningfully included. even if a few people scrape into the top 0.999%, its largely an irrelevance: when we're talking about the top 1%, its not the middle class.","credit suisse released a report last year saying that for the first time, not all millionaires (in USD) were in the global 1%, i.e. the threshold for entry into that 1% is over $1m, so no, the middle class of developed nations are not meaningfully included at all.",0
"Iranians are the descendants of the Persian culture, a really old culture who were around for thousand of years before the Arabs(Not actually true, see below). Think the Achaemenids, Parthians, or the Sassanids, they fought with the Greeks, the romans and the byzantine empire for thousands of years.","Notably though, some Persians resent Islam as an Arab imposition, though they're probably in a very severe minority.",0
"Would also note how many in this group might have any combination of further education, young kids, shitty job, debt, or poor housing situation to worry about.","Also, would note that the transition from low to high voting rate isn't some kind of cliff. Each older age group votes more than the next younger group, and so on.",0
Then he gave a very cringey interview where he sat next to Herschel Walker and touted GOP diversity but didn't let Walker say a word.,Graham was on some sanctimonious horseshit earlier about how Democrats destroying Herschel Walker is about sending a message to black people that they can’t be Republicans. He’s such a fucking gross puke.,1
"The real issue is that Russia is supressing a lot of discord within and without its borders. We're going to have flare-ups of regional issues so old, people will not even be familiar with them.","When Putin goes, there's going to be some other figure that steps up and replaces him. Putin failing will not be seen so much as a failure of the system, as Putin having run his course and needing to be replaced.",0
Tech57...But do tell me where your knowledge on China stems from. Not kidding you...just being curious is all as I don't necessarily disagree with all of your comments.,"Common sense if very important and I don’t mind if people have different opinions. It’s the “strongly held beliefs” that don’t seek to understand. If their opinion is different I’m curious what I missed. In the USA there is a big push to replace Russia or the War On Terrorism with China as The New Bogeyman. Lots of people make fun of China. I don’t agree with that and my opinion is it’s not good but I’m open to have people explain why I should spend every day hating on China when “our planet really is on the brink in many ways, requiring concerted efforts to tackle all those problems.”.",1
"Universal conscription is the one issue where the most liberal people, particularly women, will maintain a very conservative view. People want equal rights but they don't want equal responsibilities.","Conscription is necessary when the nation is threatened though. In Ukraine many brave women joined their male counterparts in the armed forces to push back the invaders, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that women have their place on the battlefield. I think it's true that women tend to dislike armed conflict more than men but when the necessity arises, all should answer the call of their nation.",0
"Exactly my point, there's not a trans genocide happening in the US. There are more trans people and support for trans people than ever.","Support for trans people is higher than ever, but so is opposition and the opposition are the ones making the laws.",1
"""In the latest experiment, researchers pumped in 2.05 megajoules of laser energy and got about 3.15MJ out – a roughly 50% gain and a sign that fusion reactions in the pellet were driving further fusion reactions."".","Even those working on Fusion agree we are still decades, at least, from it being a viable source of energy.",0
You have heard of Google Translate? D It has a pretty nifty interface to translate websites in languages you may not speak P.,I think this link will work - google translate has an option to translate entire webpages. Just bear in mind the usual wonkiness that comes with those translations and that some parts will sound strange.,1
"The good news is that like the A-10 would be, they haven't been particularly survivable in this conflict. At least the A-10 has a ""bathtub"" cockpit and redundant flight systems, not sure the Su-25 is as armored.","I think one theme we can recover from the Cold War is that the western defense contractors were phenomenal salespeople for Russian capabilities, and I thank them for that, because now everything the west has is sort of OP.",0
I’ll post this until I’m blue in the face. Right leaning polls are being pushed on the public as a Republican tactic. Do not believe 538 or any other msm polls. This information seems to be too corrupted at this point to extract any reliable data.,"Please everyone read these, esp the info on PA, the data that’s being revealed, and start being more optimistic. I believe we can do this!",0
"Holy fack, enough of these posts “ we think maybe possibly for sure in the future maybe we will charge trump “.","The guy literally called for the constitution to be removed and tried to overthrow the us government,,,,, but sure MAYBE works for me I guess ?",0
"I think the whole point is to find a way to ease into outright banning trans people. If they can wiggle their way into fully banning drag shows and/or labeling them as adult content, then they can move into labeling any trans person just walking down the street as being ""obscene"" or ""offensive."" It also lumps the two groups together for people who don't understand the differences, and pushes the narrative that trans people are only ""performing."".","Of course. My post was actually fairly factual, just a bit out of date. Left handedness used to be thought a sign of demonic influence and so had to be forcefully “corrected”. This was accepted by many as 100% true and self-evident, because the church said so. What we’re so terrified of today, our descendants will think us barbarians not too far in the future, unless the evangelicals set us back another century, again.",1
"There is a lot of far right antisemitism related to Israel. There is also a lot of far left antisemitism related to Israel. But you are right, there is more data here than they are revealing. They identified 1000/4000 respondents as either right wing or left wing without breaking down how each group responded.",4000 people were surveyed and there seems to only be political data on 1000. They should be able to tell you how these respondents responded though.,0
"That's also part of why they want to cripple public education, so they can tmsend their kids to private institutions and the peasants can go to the fucking mines.","But yet, this idiot has been fighting hard to move education funds to private schools in kentucky. Which would only increase this issue. Believe it or not, Kentucky doesn't allow this, and just recently, the bill to accomplish this did not pass.",1
"In a poorer country like Singapore If p If shoes are in good shape, people are going to reuse shoes. This may be done by the recycling company, or it may be done by employees picking out the good shoes. It makes environmental sense. However, Dow is going to need to rewrite their press releases and say the shoes will be recycled or reused. In some previous programs, Dow said they would recycle or reuse materials, but this time they seemed to have forgotten to add the words reused.","You are correct. Indonesia is poor, but Singapore is a rich oasis in a poor area. An old boomer like me forgets how far Singapore has come. I have corrected my error. Thank you.",0
I grasped the concept of my white privilege some time ago but only in recent years have learned how powerful and horrible it is.,There is no such thing as woke ideology. I would have to say that you have somehow been trapped and brainwashed into right wing extremist bs. You need to learn real American history and then follow legit news sources. You have fallen in with the bad side. They hate you. Save yourself and get educated.,0
"Of course the average Russian gets the blame as well, they are collectively identified as the invader, innocent or not. Comes with the perks of invading a country as a collective.","You just explained radicalization, and objectively speaking they would hate ISIS. A member of ISIS is not a Muslim, but a fanatic. They would hate the organization, not the religion, what if they were followers of islam themselves?",0
"Cumulatively, the shift in Europe’s stance toward China and the prospect of a war between mainland China and Taiwan sure to devastate global trade have injected an urgent and powerful momentum into the West’s “economic decoupling” with China. Alarmed corporate executives no longer need encouragement from Washinon’s China hawks to reduce their dependence on mainland-based supply chains.",Fears of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan have also prompted Japan to double military spending in the next five years -- a change in policy no sensible Chinese leaders want to see.,0
"Trump is a “prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries,” wrote U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks in his searing 46-page judgment published late Thursday.","Trump is a “prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries,” wrote U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks in his searing 46-page judgment published late Thursday."".",1
I would take it a step farther and suggest that tickets bought online have to have name printed on them that matches the card holder/person that is attending.,Because scalpers would still swoop in and buy them all up in order to extort as much money as they can from fans.,0
"Abandoning Ukraine does not mean the war ends. Russia is unable to control Ukraine. The Ukrainians have shown they will not surrender to Russian imperialism, so if we abandon Ukraine, it just means that the conflict will drag on into a guerrilla war. The only way the war ends is if Putin comes to his senses or if the Ukrainians win so decisively that Putin can't fight on anymore. So the best thing we can do to end the war is to hasten Ukrainian victory.",I'm sure Russia and everyone else is so concerned about saving Ukraine. Bless their little hearts. The only way to save it at this point is to finish this war that someone else started.,1
"If your state votes you into office under one party, switching parties should trigger a special election to give voters a chance to decide whether you represent them or not.","But if the party changes, then shouldn't the representatives be able to divest themselves? Forcing special elections for party disloyalty gives a huge amount of power to the parties.",1
"Do keep in mind though, that if the common consensus is that Liberals wanted everyone locked in at home, they would've supported travel bans.",I recall at the time that the WHO was strongly against implementing any travel ban and no recollection from any liberal parties stating they are against that.,1
"It becomes a significantly larger problem containing China without any of these key locations. With them, China could be effectively blockaded. Without Taiwan, it becomes virtually impossible. If China is able to escape this perimeter in any meaningful way, the risk is the capability of medium/short range missile strikes directly on US soil from submarines.","That being said, being surround by US-aligned or rival countries helps keep Chinese nuclear submarine assets bottled up in their immediate coastal waters. The gaps between Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Philippines, etc. are choke points that the USN and their allies can set up sonar nets or sub patrols to detect and track the movement of the PLAN's nuclear sub fleet. The only sound course their subs can take is through the Java Sea, which again is a restricted stretch of water where they have to dodge any USN sub patrol that awaits them.",1
"Plus what they use would be considered ""subpar"" even by North Vietnam in 1960s, majority of conspricts are just forced labour for the state without any training and economy on life support don't sound like something being able to keep all that tanks/planes/ships/trucks going.","There is other problem, PRC have some serious problem with North Korean illegal immigrants. If they annex North Korea they not only got a shitload of socio-economic problems but also massive refugee crisis AND Koreans not gonna accept they are part of China.",0
So they embrace a hardline. They spew hyperbole and draw hard lines in the sand. They hurl fire and brimstone and damn us all to hell. Guys like DeSantis tell them the colleges and universities are to blame. Let's try to burn those to the ground And it's the kindergarten teachers grooming our children with evil lessons of inclusion and acceptance. Burn public education to the ground.,"The things that makes a person a Conservative, is first and foremost a hatred and fear of change. And their reaction to change, is to look backwards at the traditions and institutions which gave them comfort which they cling to ever more desperately. Of course it doesn't help that the media they consume shows them images of disagreeable societal change constantly. Outrage TV is their window on the world.",0
"This is the Republican Party and what they do - scream yell cause disasters, accuse everyone else of monstrous atrocities while they completely sabotage the country.","There's another trait among conservatives that in any situation they default to a demonstration of strenh, which in gop-speak means overwhelming and immediate violence. Migrant caravans? Send armed troops to the border with orders to . Foreign aircraft enters US airspace without authorization? . Black people protesting police brutality and extrajudicial killings? .",1
They'll probably be good but not great. They'll lack protection if not severely uparmoured and the 105mm cannon won't be ideal against more modern armour but tank duels aren't super common and a meh tank is better than no tank.,"But then actual tank on tank combat is rare, most tanks get lost to infantry with AT weapons and Ukraine in particular is very infantry and artillery heavy. And the concept of -not a main battle tank- but an armored self-propelled gun (or what we would have called a light tank in earlier times before the US arbitrarily changed their terminology) is still very much a thing (see French AMX-10s or US Strkyers -at least in the 105mm gun variant- or the new US MPF program). Because most of the time you don't need the heavy tank that can pierce another heavy tank, but just a moderately armored big gun to attack fortified infantry positions and armored vehicles. In fact some of the older soviet ""tanks"" in use in Ukraine would also fall more into that category compared to modern MBTs. And the old Leopard-1A5s still run somewhat solid optics, thermals and stabilization (a lot of armies used and modernized them until the early 2000s, the fire control system used in the latest ones is based on the one developed for the Leopard-2...).",1
What I mean was they were getting votes at near equal rates for the entire day and now suddenly there's 500 votes peeling her way.,"Politicians who scrape together narrow wins used to start by thinking ""How can I woo more people to vote for me next time so that it's not so close?"" They'd try to build bridges, make compromises.",1
"Nope never. I just saw possibly the dumbest internet comment ever, saying a 10 year study proves all vaccines don't work. And then he left a 🤡 emoji.","""Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."".",0
"You would honestly think we were one of the most transphobic countries in the world according to many internet spaces, when actually the complete opposite is true.","It's honestly quite baffling to me how the UK has become known as ""TERF island"" when in reality the data all points to us being very accepting of trans issues. I think there is a lot of misinformation being spread on places like Twitter and reddit by younger people whether intentionally or not.",0
Concur with that. Unemployment insurance spiked due to all the added COVID benefits. We are seeing the result of that as many people were getting paid more than they were making at the end of the day.,I ask this: What should Biden say to the people that paid off their loans and now will be footing the bill for others?,0
"However, the Offensive was still costly for the Russians - so much so that it contributed to the Russian Revolution a year later. So imagine that, but the Russians made zero progress. That's basically what's going on in Ukraine right now.","I'm pro-Ukraine in all of this, but this shouldn't ever be forgotten.. While Ukrainian nationalism right now is a good thing for liberation.. Left unchecked after the war, it could devolve into something more dangerous.",1
"The smallest partisan division is over economic aid to Kyiv: 69% of Republicans back such assistance, as do 60% of Democrats.",The US has bipartisan support for Ukraine. As McCain said in that interview in the Snopes article he was for supporting Ukraine but the democrats weren't. McCain even said that it was the lack of support from democrats for Ukraine that was going to lead to events that transpired in 2022.,0
"Of course we don't know if amyloid is cause or consequence, but there is no doubt it is associated with the disease.",While i am not familiar with the entire litterature from the neurology side for example there are dozens and dozens of imaging publications showing the presence of amyloid in Alzheimer's patients.,0
So how did you come to conclusion they are running out of three primary factors to deter China. Because if you haven't study geography. Before China would be able to do anything on ground in Taiwan they have to get naval and air superiority and cross Taiwan Strait.,"In no way does this war threaten our ability to defend ourselves or Taiwan from China. If anything, it’s getting us more ready.",1
"You think LOSING is going to discourage mindless, fanatic nationalists? One of the biggest factors of the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany was the loss of WWI. ""Our glorious army would have won the war if they weren't stabbed in the back by the civilian government."".",I wonder how history would have been changed if the war in Europe continued until the nuclear bombs were ready to use in summer of 1945. If Germany and Japan had both been struck by nuclear weapons I wonder what it would have changed.,0
"It's just all over once Ukraine gets F-16's too, because they'll have something Russia never had in enough numbers: Precision munitions.","The US is clearly running out of old equipment to send to Ukraine, they're now sending BFVs and M1 Abrams. I would also take that as a sign that things aren't going well for Ukraine right now, running out of able body soldiers.",1
"""Despite leading the US into war and presiding over one of the greatest financial disasters in history, the worst moment of George W Bush's presidency was, he said this week, when Kanye West called him a racist. ""It was a disgusting moment, pure and simple,"" Bush said. 'I didn't appreciate it then \[and\] I don't appreciate it now.'"".","True. But the marginalization of Jews has existed since Christianity emerged as a sect of Judaism in Roman Palestine. Once they decided they needed to demonize the Jewish people, it opened up a can of worms in the form of lies and conspiracy theories. Even back then they had their Alex Jones equivalents, asserting things like, ""The Jews invented alcohol to weaken the minds of Christians"", and the popular, ""The Jews killed our lord and savior."".",1
Removing books from libraries is far short of censorship. Your local library doesn’t have every single book written. They choose what they want to stock. Every library does it. Are they all banning books?,"It's not ""essentially book burning"", it's removing the books from the public libraries. Are this books banned? No. Are they destroyed? Also probably no. Can you still buy it? Yes. Is there enough research materials for historians? Hell yeah, and if not, contact me and I'll lend them my grandma's library, there's a good hundred of soviet books. And mind you, they are intact, once again, Ukrainians aren't ""literally burning"" anything.",1
So we're left with impotent yelling cause we don't want to fight them but we also don't like their cultures view on people.,"Honestly we should just run with it. Yeah, it's all made up and the rules don't matter, so we have decided that human rights are important and thus worthy to fight for.",0
"Yes, it's crazy. I'm very lucky that my business is manufacturing, and does not rely on foot traffic. But the road that we are on is the least used road within about 20 miles of their main hub. So when they need to, they just stop their trains whenever they want, for as long as they want. My road being the least used means that they will get the least amount of backlash.","So trains block to road next to my business about 30% of the time. Sometimes they will park their trains there for literally 3-4 days. I've called the local sheriff, and there is literally nothing that they can do due to the law being repealed.",0
"Yeah he can probably agitate quite a bit regionally and get things moving underground, but in term of actually promoting a referendum, or any official move, he's got less than zero influence .. The mullahs will never move in a direction pushed by a Sunni leader, barring a major shift in political and diplomatic direction.","Bear in mind that he's part of the Sunni minority and doesn't necessarily reflect the views of the leaders despite being a cleric. I don't know much about him, but a quick google seems to show that he's been critical of the regime in the past.",1
"As someone who was forced to watch the Rush Limbaugh tv show, I can tell you for a fact that blatant and obvious lies were acceptable to Republicans long before Trump got involved in politics.","Trump absolutely was a follower, not a leader, and he smartly learned in the primaries that just repeating Limbaugh talking points and validating his base was all they really wanted. He just had to ride the wave.",1
"I mean “win for democracy” is pretty subjective, and journalists, at least the ones that know what they’re doing, avoid subjectivity whenever they can.","That’s not to say it’s not a win for democracy, IMO, it clearly is, but journalists ethically have to keep their biases out of it, even if their bias is pro-democracy.",0
"We can help to restore forests on barren ground by planting trees and protecting them as seedlings, such as by putting artificial moisture retaining materials around the roots, to help them become established and survive dry spells. It may also need fencing to protect it from grazing animals that would strip a sampling of all of its leaves.",Also it depends on the soil and moisture conditions. Plants create their own climate around them because they slowly release moisture into the air as they breathe and photosynthesize. Meanwhile their roots stabilize loose soil to prevent erosion and retain moisture.,0
My brain is tired and I may have misremembered some of that. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.,"I think it was the day after inauguration: Trump, Kislyak, and Lavrov together in the Oval Office with an official TASS photographer, not a single American present. If TASS hadn't released the photo, we'd never know it happened.",0
"Same here. I cannot imagine the distraction that modern cell phones would bring into classrooms. It’s already hard enough to concentrate and pay attention in gradeschool, but to have a device like a cell phone that you could discreetly look at and use to record, they never should be allowed out.",Maybe it’s just the quality of your students then because there’s a bunch of responsible students and children that have cell phones in school with no issues.,1
"Trump is a symptom of not only low standards but no standards. Assessing a candidate, be it state, local or federal, before one can run for office should not be a pearl clutching notion, imo.","First, IMHO, American politics are a game for most every elected seat in government. If both major paries can put that concept aside and take an educational/professional roll call perhaps some of the fools elected who lack the basic education needed to understand how the government functions, at least at the Federal level, basic economics, etc., (and consider this a big nod to the former whatever you choose to call him) to be considered for office.",1
"Instead, I'll go way out on a limb and confidently predict that the State Department doesn't even update any of its travel restrictions for arrivals by air from China by the 8th. In hopes of spurring some action to prove me wrong. It definitely won't happen this week. Definitely not.","TP shortages, working from home, staycations. And on the other side of it all, bidets are still not a thing in most households.",0
"Voting rights are lost when you go to prison because it is part of Jim Crow laws that have not be removed. How better to keep black people from voting then to make a law saying you can’t vote if you are in prison, and then send a lot of black people to jail on trumped up charges, for overly long sentences, or for activities that were criminalized because mainly minorities did such things. Look at marijuana and crack cocaine for examples.",Also depends what drug offenses you might be talking about. There’s a big difference between smoking a joint and smuggling fentanyl across the boarder.,1
"NATO has already increased it’s presence in the Baltics and Eastern Europe as a response to Ukraine. There are thousands more boots on the ground in these countries, each bringing their own equipment, munitions and support. Estonia could donate all of their own military equipment and should still have enough support nearby to repel an invasion.","The irony that Estonia could feasibly need that weaponry in a land war yet western nations bleat about depleted military stocks they’ll never actually need. The UK is now sending top tier tanks, follow suit Europe!",1
"We saw this in the last two years of the Trump administration. The Democratic-controlled Senate sent bills to the Republican-controlled House. The Republican Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell, would not even schedule those House bills for official debate or deliberation. He would sit on them until they expired, effectively.","The process is often multi-directional, however. The House may pass a bill and send it to the Senate. Then the Senate may make changes or alterations. At that point it goes back to the House to reconcile the differences before going to the President. The Senate can draft bills but they still have to get passed by the House before they can be given an up or down vote in the Senate.",0
"It’s fucking insane that we had a President who acted directly and deliberately on behalf of Russia and Putin, but we did. Trump talking about trusting Putin is like the least shocking thing he’s done re: Russia.","It's slightly less shocking than the other 40 times he's said he trusts Russia more than America... and less shocking still than the fact that millions of people can look at this man and think ""Yup, he's the one I want to follow"".",1
Now I know this is a very often repeated sentiment on Reddit but this could only EVER work if Ukraine gives the money to Ukrainian companies without any foreign ties. Otherwise it's essentially a way for Western countries to distribute the Russian money among themselves.,"There's simply no way to spin this so it doesn't sound a lot like ""I'm just gonna take that money and pump it into my economy, but it's for a good cause so it's OK"". It'd be a different question if you find a way to do it so you don't directly (or at all preferably) profit from it.",0
"Pretty much everything you just said would be applied to the DA's office. Police arrest, they do not prosecute. The pos was presumably handled by law enforcement. Anything after arrest is on the head of the elected district attorney.","The DA is the top law enforcement official in their jurisdiction, and they are appointed by the electorate. It is not unusual for DA's to be at odds with actual on the ground enforcers.",0
"That said, Ukraine can still lose. And that's something I don't want to see. Screw Putin, and screw anyone supporting him.","Let's not call the ruling party PIS wise, they just hate Putin's Russia (for good reason). In other news, PIS abolishes the independent justice system. You'd think they have seen that too.",1
Because they couldn’t trust the rest of the world to back them when the government changed hands. Not to mention it did t help that far-right Israelis kept agitating things and baiting the Palestinians into rioting to help blow up the talks.,It was going downhill before that when the palestinians kept on perpetrating terrorist attacks made easier by Rabin why was trying to achieve a peaceful settlement.,1
"With reduced water feeding into the system, the only way to restore the Colorado is take down the dams, and restore the natural flow for five years and measure what is left.","they could use desalination plants to get enough water to setup a closed system where all the water gets reused, thereby freeing up the colorado river for the midwest.",1
"Anti-personnel landmines are designed to wound rather than kill, as a wounded casualty takes up many more resources than a dead body.","Landmines always kill more civilians than military targets. Ukraine knows this. What they're doing here is no different than dropping a bomb on an occupied apartment building, except that the deaths will occur over an extended period of time. There is absolutely no justification for this.",1
"The current research shows that gas burners could have an elevated risk of contributing to childhood asthma. Nothing is set in stone yet, but here is the article that most people are pointing to .","Its funny how people on here are claiming that 'Democrats coming after gas stoves is ridiculous' but then there's people defending doing just that in these comments. If manufacturers can create an induction stove that people desire over gas, then people will go for it instead of the gas. Until then I would support a little sticker on the box explaining the risks to consumers, and if they still want gas let them have it.",0
"Of course they're not going to get them from the west, because everyone is scared of escalation, but I really don't see this ending without Ukraine either destroying their army completely, getting long range missiles or making pretty painful concessions to Russia.",Either way it’s kind of weird for them to give long range weapons for defense purposes..so essentially they’re just there as deterrence to additional Russian escalation.,1
"However, it's pretty clear, IMO, that a country having weapons doesn't automatically lead to a country invading its neighbors. After all, most countries have fairly extensive arsenals but don't invade their neighbors with them.","You think a lack of arms companies would keep a country hell-bent on destroying their neighbor from declaring war? The ruzzians straight up deny the right to existence for Ukraine, and are waging a war of ethnic and cultural genocide. Even if the ruzzians didn't have private companies, the central government would make the guns from smaller shops, or would even create their own defense department.",1
Isn't equivalent either. It is about utilizing public spaces and infrastructure. You aren't required to get a permit to just tell other people your opinions.,"Except its not like cars at all. Cars aren't an enumerated right. Cars have issues with very high rates of accidents and that is not the issue with firearms. The issue with firearms is intentional criminal violence, which insurance generally doesn't cover. Cars only require the insurance to operate on public roads, you do not need insurance to simply own a car.",0
It's hard to come up with numbers or ratios since Ukraine has had access to some pretty good targeting information and precision munitions which allowed them to make much better use of their expended artillery. But there is no doubt that they have taken severe casualties that are at most equal to the estimates we have on the Russian side.,"There is no way Ukraine has taken almost as many casualties as Russia, and hasn't collapsed.Military dead and wounded, 65, 70K max. and thats highballing.",1
"its also worth keeping in mind that up until october or so there were more casualties on the ukrainian side than the russian side, by a decent margin. russia started ""losing"" when it comes to casualties around then, before that ukraine was ""losing"" on that end.","Paraphrasing: Yes, Ukrainan losses are fewer than the russian but we lose our best and russia loses their worst.",1
"Also, this whole narrative about draft dodgers supporting the war is just propaganda bs. Younger generation is mostly against the war, those, who are fleeing it more so.","""Can't take"" means have no arguments against. Or I'm expected to believe, you are reading posts backwards.",0
"Montreal's police, like pretty much every other important thing that actually impacts citizen, is of provincial jurisdiction. And as such are not subjected to Canada's federal bilinguisme law.","I know it's so weird right? When I go to Germany, cops communicate with the central in German. They are weird like that.",0
"I would rather say that Russia has lost the Ukraine war however, as even if they end up being able to declare victory the cost of that victory is already far higher than the potential gains.",They may have lost the war but they stubbornly fight on hoping to overwhelm Ukrainian resistance with sheer numbers of canon fodders so it isn't over until the last Russian soldiers left Ukrainian border.,1
Cars have tons of plastic on the exterior. Fires produce tons of radiant heat which starts melting those plastics and then a wayward flame or ember sets it off and the rest of the car burns from there.,"At an airshow I was at many years ago, regular old joes had 30+ cars go up in flames because one flamed out and caught the others parked nearby.",1
"Second, whatever issues you have with Israel and Palestinians has nothing to do to Iran's nuke problems, but I can discuss it further if you want to.","I don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons, but be fair, the only reason why you don’t have a problem with Israel having nuclear weapons is because Israel is friendly with the west. Israel treats Palestinians terribly, and is a massive threat to its neighbors.",1
1. Old office at his Biden-Penn think tank where they were found when the office was being repurposed for someone else to use.,"What's weird here is it doesn't help the story, and the more you know about classified documents the worse it is. That these things were mixed in with other documents is craziness, they're generally checked out and accounted for go from place A to place B and kept in specific types of boxes otherwise.",0
"Counterpoint: In 2018 Brian Kemp oversaw his own election as governor of Georgia, effectively counting his own votes. When ordered by a court to produce evidence, he deleted it. He has continued to serve as governor.",My question is this: How is it possible to cast more legitimate votes than an empowered election-rigger can discard?,0
"China's claimed defense spending numbers aren't remotely accurate. And given the age of their forces, they put a much higher percentage of their budget into acquisitions than the US or allies who have older systems that require more maintenance. There's more nuance to this than is often acknowledged. Plus, understand that the likely point of conflict is taiwan. Because of the proximity to China and the other responsibilities the US maintains, the mission of the US & its allies is to be able to fight and win on the opponents home turf while managing extended supply lines & maintaining deterrent forces in other theaters. That mission requires more forces than simply blockading or seizing taiwan & defending their amphibious & expeditionary forces from US & allied intervention.",China is however a threat to the territorial integrity of US allies in the Indo-Pacific because they have unresolved territorial disputes and have refused to renounce the use of force to settle these disputes. That could draw the US into the fight because the US has mutual defense treaties with some of these countries and mine as well with Taiwan given the language in the Taiwan Relations Act.,0
"Technically speaking, under the letter of the law, Florida's Don't Say Gay law bans gendered restrooms from schools, teachers from wearing wedding rings, etc., but so far, the law has only affected queer people.","I could continue to list examples of how that vagueness makes it unlikely that the law will be used as anything other than a cudgel to use against LGBTQ people, but you ignored that in my earlier post so I don't think it'd be useful.",1
"Those were not installed by Putin, but by the propaganda machine. It’s Nazi Germany level, for real, with all the independent sources of info locked out, so most people don’t know any better than to believe it.","I’m the biggest Putin opponent you can find having left Russia right after the war broke out, but it’s pretty obvious, if you follow his logic - it doesn’t matter how flawed it is, he still thinks this way - then nuclear strike in Ukraine would also do the same thing (i.e. end war and thus prevent loss of lives from both sides). Now the difference is that US would have won the war anyways with additional casualties, while Russia is on path to lose the war, so this is not the same situation.",0
It is kind of funny but he had to move out of the minority leader offices and I dunno where else he would go. Kind of weird they do the moving before the vote.,I think there's a very good chance Scalise steps in and wins by being someone who isn't Kevin McCarthy. Probably has to grant some committee chairs to some radical folks too but that comes with the territory apparently.,0
"Or like, when he tried to bring Russia back into the G8 after a dozen or so Russian officials were indicted for interfering with the 2016 election in his favor?","You mean, “in league” like, when Trump Tower hosted the Russians after they said they wanted to help him win the 2016 election?",0
"Which is just insane to me. In my Canadian city of 80,000 ppl I’ve never waited longer than 10 mins to vote (often much less) in the 25 years I’ve been voting.",In the burbs the voting experience is way easier / shorter waits compared to urban polling places...,1
DM me and I’ll send them to you tomorrow. The sources come from our national statistics organization (INEGI) and they have been impartial in their data collection.,The saddest thing is that there are people that are so incredibly brainwashed that they’ll believe he’s neither corrupt nor violent and that he’s actually a competent head of state. Mexico was far better off under Calderón even during his war- it was safer than under Obrador’s “peace”.,0
"Moreover, the authority in Iran is clearly the same. They have the same Supreme Leader as 10 years ago, who holds control over who is in the government. Moreover, they have always sought to wipe out Israel since the 1980s so they haven’t gotten much more radical when it comes to genocide. They also have a long history of antisemitism, including organising holocaust-denial conferences more than a decade ago.","Jews were mostly ethnically cleansed from nearly all other middle eastern countries (sans Israel), so that’s an extremely low bar to clear.",0
"Strains are spreading in the west yes, but there are new strains in China that are spreading and we don't know if our vaccines will work with those strains. We know the Chinese vaccines have a low efficacy rate and we know they are not mRNA vaccines which allow for easier adaptation to new strains. Making travelers with a Chinese passport take Covid tests at any and all airports is not racist or even unfair - a reminder that China has been relatively hard to travel to for the last 2 years because they were locked down to foreign travel as well. This is simply good policy from a public health measure, and you not wanting to see that for what it is and instead attribute it to a nascent American hatred for China is laughable. the World Health Organization estimated close to 800 million new cases in China in the next few months, with another estimate 4 million deaths and countless new strains coming out during that period. This is about protection populations, not punishing China.","You missed the point. The point i was making was that the Chinese medical system has not even approached Covid with an mRNA vaccine, and steadfastly refused to license western vaccines. If the vaccine most readily available in China has a 50% efficacy then the population is at more risk of contracting the virus and having negative results. The infection rates are increased with each new case of BA.7 (China is currently seeing each covid patient infecting on average 18 other people represented as 1:18, whereas the in US the rate is 1:3.9). Each of these factors increases the risk of developing new strains that are vaccine resistant.",0
My opinion - we’re more likely to just see republicans fall in line and vote for McCarthy as he cuts more deals with the holdouts. But who knows! Anything could happen tonight 🤷‍♂️.,"They are, kind of. The “other” candidates besides Jeffries and McCarthy have varied from each round.",0
"Oh for sure Israel was always going to be near the top because UN, but anyone who doesn’t have Russia at the top of their AH Countries of the Year list just doesn’t even deserve a seat in the UN or local dive bar. Putin made everyone else look good this year.",And that’s why the UN is a joke. You have countries like Saudi purposely destroying food and medical supplies in Yemen causing one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent times and these morons are playing “I’m not touching you.”.,0
"(Reuters) - Russia's defence minister said on Tuesday that Western arms supplies to Ukraine were effectively dragging NATO into the conflict, warning this could lead to an ""unpredictable"" escalation.",The more russia whines about escalation and nothing happens the more likely NATO is to help Ukraine because russia never acts on their hollow threats anyway.,1
"Puts a lot of stuff in perspective. My flight over was incredibly uncomfortable due to faulty climate control, I didn't catch a wink of sleep, just sweated my ass off on a 10-hour overnight flight- But they spent time in Russian detention due to suspicions about their Visas, so... Perspective.","Attended a wedding this summer with a couple who left Russia to attend the wedding and were never returning. Her parents were high up in the military, super pro-Putin and she was like ""yeah, so... Fuck em, basically."".",0
1) The MI analysis focuses on debt attributable to that President's policies. Obama isn't held responsible for debt that result from Bush's decisions; nor Trump for Obama's.,I also think Team Biden learned the lesson from 2009...in hindsight; Obama's Stimulus was too small and painfully high unemployment lingered for years (but inflation stayed low so....yay?). Biden's team probably felt the inflation risks were worth it to quickly get the economy churning again.,0
"Sin= a crime against God. Especially if it's on purpose. In worldly terms, a person shouldn't be shunned, thrown in jail, ect for being gay, but to God, you're technically disappointing Him with continuous sin.","So by saying it's a sin but not a crime, he isn't really saying anything specific against gay people, since sin is nothing to be ashamed of in the catholic faith, because everybody sins.",1
"Interesting, that you mention dairy farmers. Dairy is also one of the most water intensive. Depending on where you look, dairy milk gets often put at more water intensive compared to almond milk.","I wish oat milk had the caloric numbers that almond does, because it’s the closest to actual milk so far. But it’s also like 6x as much as almond milk so I just can’t justify it. And as someone else pointed out here - dairy farms take up something like 5x as much water as almond farms.",1
Support secessionist movements also. Creation of governments in exile for different regions. Provide over and covert support for those willing to fight for independence. There is more that can be done to not only defeat the fascist regime in the battlefield but make sure they will never be a threat again for centuries to come.,State Department made clear not to attack Russia proper with NATO equipment. Also intel on Russian formations is only given for the occupying forces.,0
"Currently we're seeing something like 42/58 which will be closer to 30/70 by the next election. At that point Labour can begin the process. Labour stands a good chance of winning a second term too, they'll need to calculate if its a vote winner circa 2028.","Labour won't risk making it a platform at the next election (they don't need to) but when the results come in, there are going to be well over hundred conservative losing their seats, as well as some of the more poisonous personalities deciding that opposition isn't for them and the memoir industry awaits.",0
"I’m thinking it would be virtually impossible. Even if you could convince enough players and clubs to form a rival league, there is no way you could compete with the sponsorship and TV money that FIFA has access to. Host countries and stadiums value money over principle.","I’m sure, if the players in question had a choice, they would gladly relocate the games to a less repressive country. But, they can’t. It is massively unfair to tell these players to give up probably the only moment in the global spotlight that they’ll ever have, because the host country does not agree with their values.",0
"The judges don't have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions. The Government needs to stop allowing it, and arrest Judges that attempt it for Insurrection, as it is a Judicial Coup.","There are 13 Federal Circuits that Only Have Authority in their own Jurisdictions. Only SCOTUS can issue Nationwide Injunctions. If the corrupt 5th Circuit had Nationwide Authority, Abortions and Birth Control and many other things would be banned across the country.",0
"Less a question of riches and more one of motivation. Germany's memory of the world wars is still fresher than most countries, and they have very little stomach for anything liable to start a repeat of the carnage. Before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine there is just no way the voters would have tolerated cutting back on Russian fossil fuel imports.","A mild winter has enabled countries to tap less gas from stocks that were built up in anticipation of cuts in supplies from Russia, Europe's main pre-war supplier.",1
"Furthermore, pools conducted in the most progressive cities of said countries show that, even if the majority of people are OK with same-sex marriage, they're still against same-sex couples adopting or even raising children.","This perspective is a bit naive. There are counties where gay marriage has been legalized, by the legislative branch, yet homophobia is rampant.",0
"It's a bit late for China to claim taking offense to something for political exploitation is unbecoming of a sovereign nation. If that's the consensus they want to reach, then China got China'd by the United States.",Rather than USA through actions and words treat China as an equal competitor USA is cheating to keep China from further improving their own country. Says China.,1
"No, read the comment again lmao. That's literally what I said in the comment you're replying to. The Taliban are the people in Afghanistan who have the most reason to strictly adhere to this deal because it seeks to greatly enrich them personally.","The Taliban isn't doing any of the extraction, that's the point lmao. The actual work will be carried out by the Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Company (CAPEIC). If the Taliban were to try and kick them out, they'd be left with a bunch of highly advanced extraction infrastructure they have no idea how to operate.",0
"Yes I agree completely, but bulldozing virgin forest should stop asap. We need to start using the same land to produce timber instead of harvesting from new land. This isn't the case.",Not really. We replace pretty much everything that gets cut down. Much of the Boreal forest is untouched. Most of the trees that get cut are softwoods and take very short time periods to replace through replanting.,1
Most safety net programs give less than $1k a month and it’s taken away if you work. A UBI would give people a ground floor to stand on and a chance to supplement that with their own income.,Not true. Look into what is getting VAT. It’s mostly big business transactions regular people don’t make.,0
"Or China donate to the person they want out, and China leak this person is getting Chinese donations.","This happens when you open up your immigration for so many rich Chinese. Hehe. Maybe don’t do it next time? (High skill employment based immigration definitely. But “investment” immigration in any country is just bad policy, especially when you have so so so so many from 1 country.).",1
"Well yeah, in the sense that a guy name Laffer came up with the curve and told everybody about it. I guess that makes it real, in the same way that flat earth theory is ""real."".","That's the point. There little evidence we were ever on the right side on the Laffer curve, let alone right now. Also no one really knows what that theoretical curve would actually look like when applied to something as complex as a modern tax code. It's not something you can really use to drive policy.",1
Are you somehow suggesting that is not a leadership position? Or that her influence over the Democratic party isnt that of a leader?,"Speaker of the House (2007 - 2011, and again 2019 - 2023) Literally the top position for house democrats, but ""not a leader"" right?",0
That way the borrower never gets into a situation where their balance 10 years after graduating is literally more than the loan they initially took out.,IMO the more responsible thing would be to have each degree have to specify earnings of graduates and how long it would take students to pay back loans based on that. Offering expensive degrees that offer no prospect of being able to pay it back is unethical.,1
"What you say is correct. The part you're missing however is, just how potentially dangerous all these experts believe Bout still is, how he will be immediately utilized by Putin, what political hay Putin gained, what precedent was set for any future negotiations for Americans still held, and that this was a terrible ""swap"" even tho an American came home.","And in the end, Putin made it work, it is now pitting Americans against Americans, whether it's people that support the right (whom Trump released 5000 Taliban prisoners) or just people who don't see the equivalent value of said prisoners, which is a legitimate concern, to people who say it's only because she is famous and Whelan wasn't given that treatment.",1
"That's a pretty bold statement. I'm sure they have their evidence, but it's gonna take more than that to convince me. If they can't prove it, then this whole thing will just be another fake news story.",The fact that news anchors at Fox News did not endorse the false narratives doesn't help Fox. It makes it worse. Fox News correspondents and news anchors said the claims were false. The hosts mentioned would have learned that the theories were false by paying attention to the reporting of their own new network.,1
Maybe perhaps for a single solitary moment we can not be so fucking self-centered as to make this about Republicans and the U.S. when a literal genocide is taking place on the other side of the world...?,"One is committing literal genocide and conquering the neighbors and threaten global nuclear war. The other is a political party you disagree with. Yeah, Republicans are shit. But so are you. Get your fucking head out of your ass and start worrying more about the actual atrocities we're watching happen in real time than finding a way to bash the right in a Reddit thread. Please grow up. There's a time and a place, and this ain't it.",0
"The majority of Idaho voters voted for this crap, and you’re getting mad at someone for not saving Idahoans from Idahoans.","This will mean the fight is always over who can be more right, which will mean more of these reactionary bills that hurt regular Idahoans.",1
"Russia has been the aggressor and their excuses have been really a hard sell. Yes, propaganda is everywhere but the fact remains that it is Russia that crossed the border. All they needed to do to be safe is stay within their borders. Now all they need to do is retreat back to their country.",Let Putin keep killing his army in an illegal war to occupy Ukraine. Let him keep destroying military hardware. At the end Russia will be completely unarmed by their own doing. And the question is for what? To steal resources from Ukraine? What was the reason for this invasion?,0
"where is Ukraine going to expand to? Nuclear NATO it wants to join, or Nuclear Russia that cannot use nukes in Ukraine cause of geopolitics or Russia on its internationally recognized soil should its survival be threatened by a Ukrainian counter invasion?","Option 1: Use tactical nuclear weapon against the Ukrainian military, a country that has no tactical, let alone strategic nuclear weapons of their own, a country that is not part of any collective defense agreement.",1
My preference is for both ranked choice voting and multimember districts. That way more people have an opportunity to have someone that represents them that they voted for instead of winner take all where you end up with up to 49%+ of a single member district not having any representation.,"2) It can help break the stranglehold that the two party system has on our politics in that a vote for a third party, or independent, candidate is essentially a vote thrown away. But without throwing us into the chaos of a multi-party parliamentary system.",1
"The UK is already training Ukrainian infantry in Javelins, first aid, and identifying Russian vehicle types as well as the usual gunnery stuff.",">Ukrainian forces will be trained by both countries on how to use their respective systems, which are capable of carrying troops into battle and also providing fire support.",1
"Also, I’m not against small studies, but if you click to look at the studies in the url you shared it goes to a German 404 error page. Also, I would imagine that the National Agency of Ukraine for Civil Service would probably have more reliable stats rather then a graduate student calling 1200 random Ukrainians from a UK based phone number. If I was an ethnic minority and someone called me to ask my status for “totally educational purposes” what is my incentive to not lie and say I’m part of the minority (why make myself a target?)?","Due to the complex history of the area, the “some Ukrainians” that you are referring to would probably not consider themselves Ukrainian. They would mostly likely consider themselves Russian, speaking Russian, on land they believe belongs to them.",0
What is worse is kids are forced to take the healthy parts with the junk food so most milk and fruit gets tossed in the trash can.,This is why this free food shit is both a waste of money and tremendously damaging to the health of children unless we make sure it’s only healthy food being supplied.,1
"Lack of 4x4 options, for me, is a major setback. There needed here, same with towing payload. At minimum a 8500lb towing capacity would be needed. The current offerings for EV don’t meet this need yet. The lightning is close, but not quite yet.",Same my good chum. If they can make a reliable cost effective portable solar generator I can set in a camp and get charging stations in more remote areas I’d be game to switch one of my household rigs to EV. Until then Im stuck with gas and diesel.,0
"The reason is that it builds up tension and makes folks angry. The lack of charges or an actual investigation into the matter is on purpose. For the law enforcement agencies - it’s because there’s nothing there. For republicans, it’s because they have a narrative.","This is an attempt to politicize the agencies that wield investigatory power. Those conspiracy theories and the (manufactured) sense of perverted justice will be used to change regulations, replace unbiased leaders, and assert republican control over law enforcement.",0
"If the ultimate fate of our universe is that nothing ever happens again, then why didn't this happen prior to the big bang? Whatever existed before, if it follows the same laws of physics, should be subject to the same natural and cosmological laws. But whatever happened before the big bang resulted in conditions that caused the big bang, so entropy was not the ultimate fate of whatever existed before.","So, assuming the laws of physics are indeed consistent pre-big bang and post-big bang, then we can take a pretty big guess that, if entropy was not the ultimate fate of what existed before, maybe entropy is not the ultimate fate of our universe either. But how is this possible when the evidence is mounting that we have an expanding universe?",0
"If we're talking about colonialism, the inquisition, or jihad that's an entirely different matter. That's far different than ""hey have you heard about this God fellow?"".",Yeah. I live in South Africa and so we have both. Yay. Luckily the population at large here are kind of okay with LGBT people and we have a good constitution (5th in the world to legalise same-sex marriage for instance). But still. Doesn't mean that people aren't persecuted every day for being who they are. It's just slightly better here than the rest of Africa.,1
"Given our ties to Ukrainian energy companies competing with the Russian gas market in Europe, I think it'd be prudent of us to put any suspicion of ourselves at ease (or take responsibility and offer our apologies and dedicated atonement to freezing, as well as any other energy consumers around the globe who might have been adversely affected economically by this despicable act of ecocidal terrorism, if be the case.).","Personally, I wouldn't want the Democrats controlling the investigation of the Nordstream 2 bombing.",0
"None of this will matter, and just look at how little weight ""Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi"" carries these days. Their own investigations found GOP led budget cuts responsible.",What the Clintons represented was the potential for what actually happened. A major DNC win at the federal level and a newly viable party.,0
"As a Hungarian I call for the immediate review of Hungary in Nato - I would add Eurozone but countries do have a right to refuse policies and its a more convoluted agreement, but Nato should tell them what the stick looks like.","If you’re saying the decision to admit Finland and Sweden is only a “danger” to Hungary because it will cut into the amount of money Orban will be able to get for himself and his cronies through illicit means, I’ll agree with you. 😉.",1
"It's true that raising interest rates will eventually cool inflation, but it does it by putting a blanket, across the board price increase on EVERYTHING. It gets to the point that buyers have to refuse to pay a price because they literally don't have enough money to pay for it all. Interest rates cool inflation by amplifying the effects of poverty. It puts the burden of pulling inflation in on those most at risk.","The United States is not the only country dealing with inflation right now. And many countries, particularly ones in Europe are experiencing higher levels of inflation than the United States. While every economy is unique, they all continue to face similar challenges with labor sourcing and supply chain disruptions as a continued impact of the global pandemic.",1
"As a Brit, I honestly do not understand why the American right's obsession with guns is so significant that they'd be willing to take it this far. In virtually any other country, regardless of political position, this would seem like an obviously bad idea.","You realise only a very small portion of Republicans attended the Jan 6th insurrection, right? And almost no one in government supported it? Trump literally had his own people turning against him over his election denial.",0
"This is so disingenuous that it’s insulting how stupid they think we are. If they wanted to pay more tax, they could stop hiring armies of accountants and tax attorneys. They could DONATE any amount of money they want to the national treasury. But the don’t. Why is that?","Meanwhile, some forty something doctor who has just finally paid most of his student loans off is stuck paying nearly half his money income because he’s a sucker and took a job healing people and helping them instead of getting a job in venture capital or private equity where he can make more even more money by ruining people’s lives and playing his role in the corrupt financial system.",0
"I now weigh 130-ish, thanks to the blind luck of having had an unusually competent psychiatrist who was willing to admit their errors. Plenty of other people didn’t get as lucky with whatever the cause of their own weight problems (oftentimes, poverty is a major component…other times, metabolic disorder or severe psychological trauma).","He’s clearly not healthy. Mocking his weight won’t convince republicans that he’s unhealthy, and it won’t change the minds of dems who already figured out that he isn’t.",0
"In larger networks, NASAMS is integrated into the whole range of missile defense, so the real range of a launcher is then just restricted by its missile range. In theory it can launch using a global hawk catching an enemy aircraft far beyond visual range.","You're also going to have a REAL hard time providing targeting solution via a Global Hawk... sure, they have a radar, but it's a ground scanning radar, not one designed for tracking aerial targets lol.",1
"Sinema was a member of the green party before she was even elected to office. She got elected as a Democrat in 2005. In 2013 she was campaigning on border security and wanting to make immigrants learn English. In 2014 she joined the Blue Dog Coalition, that was roughly ten years ago. Sinema was elected to the Senate as a moderate to conservative Democrat. Arizona voters knew who she was when they elected her to office.",Then here is the Debate between McSally and Sinema where Sinema is called out on her politics changing and she even says she will vote against her party if it conflicts with the interests of Arizonans.,0
"Also went on about how this isn’t political and the leftist need to stop trying to make it political, even though he spouts hate against the lgbt+ community like people aren’t taking it seriously….",What we need to do is start screaming groomer at her and all the other conservative stochastic terrorists until their latest buzzword loses its power as a call to arms to murder LGBTQ+ people.,1
"If I was Poland, I wouldn’t give a damn about export agreements. If Ukraine falls, they’ve got Russians on their border. Plus there’s plenty of other countries in the world to buy MBTs off of if Germany refuses to sell them more Leopards in the future.",Why can't countries with Leopard tanks just go ahead and send them to Ukraine without German approval (with the exception of the Netherlands since they don't actually own their tanks).,1
Speaking as American here but still general question: Aren’t bad practices that lead to climate change already relatively illegal? Its just that the companies save more money from doing the illegal activity than the fines would be so they ultimately dont care?,"Hell, governments dont even understand things like levelized full system cost of electricity for generation and now they want to criminally charge for impacts ?!",1
"So yeah, Russians have an incredibly strong presence/influence in Estonia and efforts to integrate them (as opposed to them just carving out their own Russian community inside Estonia) are dog whistled as Russophobia and mistreatment which is bullshit.","As said elsewhere here; Many were forced to relocate against their will and then, a bit ironically, found themselves in another, not overly friendly country, but still choosing to stay and considering themselves as being Russians, but not willing to move back because their country is still worse than being a part of an unpopular minority in Estonia.",1
"ehm yeah sure this news article here seem pretty questionable. they have been burning the koran for a freaking long time now, way before the ukraine war.",A guy who has been known to be burning Korans for like ten years now has been linked to Russia? So in what ways was he aiding Russia for the other 10 years he was burning the Koran?,1
Your effectively saying we shouldn't support Ukraine because we'll end up in an all out nuclear war against Russia.,"Are we talking about the same Russia that repeatedly and unequivocally denied an intention to invade Ukraine prior to 2/24/22? The same Russia that promised to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty in exchange for releasing their nuclear weapons? The same Russia that near daily makes nuclear threats against the West and tout how their missiles can evade our missile defense systems? Look, I don’t think they’re going to invade us tomorrow but if left unchecked I don’t think it’s a crazy idea (e.g. giving weapons to crazy neo-Confederates, sending their mercenaries to attack, information warfare like they have since 2016) especially if emboldened and in coordination with another hostile country like China.",1
"Lots of nasty stuff they can pull, depending on what kind of a priority you are. That part is the same as any other major world power, to be frank. With China, the biggest thing is that YOU aren't really the focus... its more about setting the example for everyone else in the motherland that no-one can avoid the law by escaping.",Doing nothing is only a signal towards China that this is just fine and they can keep harassing Chinese and local nationals without consequences.,1
"> ""As a result of its [the drone’s] debris falling, three Russian servicemen who were at the airfield were mortally wounded."" It is claimed that the aircraft was not damaged after the attack on the airfield.","Just thinking about the airbase strike, I wonder if the target wasn't the planes, wasn't the control tower, but the pilots. Arguably more value in taking out the pilots themselves than what they use. Especially if Russia reporting 3 dead. Thoughts?",1
"You misunderstand. The home owner doesn't get paid anything, because they didn't lose anything. They still have their house, so they don't need to get paid the value of the home. It would be the buyer's that would be protected via their title insurance.","Protects your purchase in the event of a fraudulent sale. Anyone can sell you a house, but if they don’t have the title of the house then you’ll never actually own it. The insurance protects you in the event that the sale was fraudulent, not in good faith, or becomes contested for whatever reason (happens sometimes with property disputes, bequeathments, that kinda stuff).",1
"The USSR and China simply used communist rhetoric to convince their people to allow a new government to rise to power. China, despite the name of its leading party, is a dictatorship. And both China and the USSR are what would be classified as State Capitalist economies. The workers do not control the means of production in these economies. The state does. It's total governmental control, the literal opposite of communism as written by Marx.","And don't take this as some endorsement of communism from me. I am not, nor have I ever been inclined to believe that a communist society can function at any meaningful scale.",0
>QUICK THREAD on the Russian military trying to learn from past attacks to defend Crimea from Ukrainian drone strikes. Main points below on the December 23-24 drone strike with Mugin-5 commercial drones in Ukraine;' service.,"- a drone fired two missiles, one was shot down, other hit its target. Drone itself was not shot down.",1
">What really showed the difference from old-fogy inefficiency was that with the educational speed-up of the Corpo universities, any bright lad could graduate in two years.","Comparing New College with the aforementioned is a bit unfair; the other universities are large research universities; New College was never intended to be that. It was a private liberal arts college, as you likely know, before being becoming part of USF and then breaking off on its own again. As you suggest, the college is honors based and experimental, thus necessitating a small enrollment.",1
"He didn't run for reelection because he knew he wasn't going to win the primary, because the Mass GOP hated him for calling out Trump. So the parent comment is correct. You are also correct though because if the Mass GOP had picked a reasonable candidate (like Baker) then they might not have lost. Or if they had just stuck with Baker and not ostracized him for calling out Trump they probably would still have the governorship.","Fuck off, republican governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker called trump out for his bullshit in 2018 and after January 6th. He got ostracized from the GOP for this, and the Republicans lost the governorship in one of the BLUEST states in 2022 because of it.",1
"Yes, but they would be depleting it anyway, as Russia seems to be insistent to force attacks even if they won't work.","We don't know what is the ratio of cost of holding it. There might be no strategic value in it, but if enemy is expanding much more than you, then you hold it until ratio becomes worse.",0
"Agreed. Republicans are full of shit, and have gotten worse the past 6 years. I lean liberal now, but think ACTUAL fiscal conservatives are needed for a healthy government.","I agree that we need balance, but where are the ""fiscally conservative Republicans"" when it comes to tax cuts for the rich, increased military spending, and other programs that Republicans traditionally favor? The national debt isn't all the fault of Liberals.",1
"I really struggle to guess what a spy ballon could be gathering that spy satellites wouldn’t. Maybe some signal intelligence, but I would assume all the important stuff would be encrypted.","IDK, if there’s one thing that the US seems to excel at, is fighting a near peer in both kinetic warfare and traditional intelligence gathering.",0
"edit: I know that runoffs and ranked choice are different. But there are enough similarities that make me think they could easily switch to RC without it feeling much different for the vast majority of people. Instead of going back to re-vote when nobody makes it to 50%, you just say your second choice and it'll go from there).","(On that note, is it just me or is Georgia's runoff law basically a longer version of ranked choice?).",0
"There is literally NO LOW TOO LOW. The GOP has absolutely no shame and could not possibly care less about these scandals. Their voters have made clear that being a shitty person is an electoral asset, not a detriment. The only sin Republicans care about is hurting the election chances of other Repubs or negatively impacting their ability to be corrupt af.","Anything shy of that is not only going to be ignored, it may be actively celebrated, whether privately or openly.",0
"The US has its own one China policy that does not take a stance on the status of Taiwan. US one China policy is intact and in either case the US sets its own parameters on it. China's ""One China PRINCIPLE"" has never been agreed to and the US does not abide by it. The US merely acknowledged that China does in fact have a one China PRINCIPLE.","So if I understand this correctly, the US does acknowledge the one-China policy and that the CPC is the only government of China, but there is wordplay on Taiwan.",1
"I don’t think a single seat in California that was red but was competitive, like the ones talked about here, are from districts which have been majority blue at all in recent history. I was watching the last few races heavily and all 3-4 of the most competitive California races were R+5 or so. Not super red and can still occasionally get a blue win, but to think not getting it, in a midterm election where there is significant opposition party bias in an already red leaning district is somehow the fault of democrats makes no sense.","4 seats is still not the majority, of the 4 seats republicans flipped in NY 3 of them voted for trump in 2016 and 2020 but narrowly went to Dems in 2020. This is during a midterm year with significant Republican advantage and yet the house majority was held to only a few seats while statistics suggest it should have been at least a 10-20 seat majority.",0
"Because they claim they abided by the unilaterally-declared cease-fire, and are already using this to accuse Ukraine of being the baddies as a pretext for their next wave of mobilization.","Setting aside how absurd and nonsensical it is for the aggressor to call a ceasefire anyway, Russia never intended anything to actually cease. They wanted to make a statement about cease fire, and then gaslight people about Ukraine refusing to agree to the unilateral cease fire. That's it. It was a super bad faith statement from the start, but now they will play the angle that ""we tried to have a ceasefire and big meanie Ukraine keeps defending themselves!"".",1
I think it was an approximation for this year that statistic is from 2020. First half year the electricity percentage of renewables was like 49% and in the 2nd half of the year germany will use less energy and this rises to 55%.. But it is just a forecast ofc.. A cold year and this number sinks .,But these wind turbines here are pretty old and bad. Mining the coal is the problem but tbh Germany needs the fossil energy to offset the missing gas..,0
Everybody: “Even though the US is the only thing keeping the Taliban from regaining control of Afghanistan The US needs to leave Afghanistan “.,I'm saying they wanted a foreign invading nation out more than they wanted the Taliban out. Ppl in this thread seem to just be glossing over the fact that the US invaded Afghanistan.,1
"The Florida Secretary of State during the Bush-Gore election was at the same time Bush’s campaign manager for Florida. In her capacity as Secretary of State, she purged 173,000 voters from the voter rolls, under the premise that these people were ex felons. It was later determined that this was by and large untrue. Also, most of these faux-felons were, surprise surprise, black… and very likely to vote democrat. Bush won Florida by a little more than 500 votes.",I agree but it’s become tragically clear that there is a class of people in our supposed egalitarian society that are above the law and have no intention of honoring it.,0
"On top of all of the other war crimes. I'm not sure this is getting enough attention. Russia/The Soviets, have had a very long tradition of trying to wipe out their own ethnic minorities.",By design I'm afraid. These are either Ukrainians that lived in the areas that Russia took and claimed them as separatists or the undesirables they are trying to cleanse from Mother Russia.,0
"Most people here disagreed with me, arguing that Ukraine ought to keep up the momentum and keep conducting offensives until the last Russian soldier ran for the border.","Not to mention how highly motivated Ukrainians are, and experienced with warfare, and even that isn't mentioning that any resistance would be receiving western support.",1
"Even if the people don’t rise up from hardship, wait until Ukraine takes back the eastern part of the country and starts lobbing missiles inside of Russia.","and Russia doesn't have forever, its debatable that the country itself will even survive the decade. their ""three day special military operation"" has rocked the country to the core to the point that their regime has panicked so hard at the sight of their ""invincible"" army being routed on the battlefield, that they declared mass mobilization and are in full survival of the state mode now.",1
"I am all for reducing poverty. I am also in favor of publicly funded birth control, legal & available abortion options, fighting the stigmatization of childless women as useless, the promotion & simplification of adoptions and helping migrants so that young people can go where they are needed most and supported in their transition.","You know what would fix all of these problems? A reduced birth rate. But instead of going for the most straight forward and simple solution, people either think that some massive change of human nature and all our global societies can happen (it will not), or that somebody will just invent some scifi shit that will save us all (will also not happen).",0
"Im a german civil servant so not exactly fitting the bill here but close enough. NO. Most people have simply put no fucking clue what civil servants do whatsoever. Most of my job is deliberating on matters and then justifying actions to be taken by the state based upon my deliberation. In practice that means that I sit in front of a pc and look at current jurisprudence as well as writing long ass Essays. There is no point whatsoever that I need to be in an office space talking about Bobs Cats and their children that never visit. If I need to consulate a colleague I do this by the same means i did before, via Telephone. Good luck outsourcing my job to an indian Firm.","I agree that your role is difficult to outsource to India. They have a very different cultural sense. On the other hand I do wonder if your own cultural sense was informed by some years of seeing situations that you did not plan to see, but turned out to provide useful context for your current role.",1
No. Everything bad Republicans do is Republicans fault. And everything Democrats fail to do when they have the power to is Democrats fault.,"No, when Republicans are in power only, it's only because Democrats fail to stop them. So that means that Republicans being in power is Democrats fault, and therefore everything Republicans do is the fault of Democrats.",1
"Except in a coalition government, the bigger party tends to have give real concessions to create that coalition.","Where there is really only one party, the part leadership end up dictating the terms because of the whole ""who else are you going to vote for?"" issue. Like in the UK, their parties get proportional representation, so the smaller parties will get SOME members that may be needed for teh coalition.",0
Rebuttal 1: If the vaccines were effective then that would have naturally resulted in a zero covid outcome for the vaccinated.,"Well when you reject the vaccines that work and use vaccines made by yourself that turned out to not be so effective against the original COVID-19 strain, now multiple variations later, you will have to accept the fact you messed up big time.",0
"Because all of these countries have been decreasing their imports of Russian oil and gas since the war started, whereas India has greatly increased its imports of oil from Russia.","You want everyone to cut off purchases for Russian oil, while none of the other oil producing countries have increased their oil production. This means there has been a huge spike in the prices of non-Russian oil, while its supply has remained constant but demand has increased due to Europeans pivoting to other sources. Now rich Europeans can afford to pay this skyrocketing price, but developing countries cannot. So you expect poor developing countries to starve, because Europeans were either too dumb or too greedy to understand that they shouldn't become so reliant on a country for their energy, especially after Crimea.",1
"This is reaction on a campain the goverment started: ""a better environment starts with you"". The writer obviously does not agree. It's the large companies that need to change. The problem of course being that the companies will not do that unless the goverment forces them to.",Note how the argument is always “who can blame companies? It makes them money!” While simultaneously “individuals are to blame for not changing their lifestyles by using the cheapest stuff consumerism etc.”.,1
"Listen, buddy, we all struggle with how hot men can be. You see that Channing Tatum in Magic Mike? You better believe I'm at full salute. We all are. It's how you deal with it that determines whether it's good or bad. You just marry some gross woman, and when it's time to make children, you close your eyes and pretend that she's Magic Mike and not an icky female."".","Yeah. I want to always say something like ""where does Jesus say anything that remotely makes what you said make sense,"" but they have no freaking clue.",1
"I'm sure a lot of Iranian and Arab traditions are very different, but what we want to hear more about is the attitude about religion, treatment of women and similar issues.","They mostly share the same religion now, though Iran and Saudi Arabia are ruled by very different sects - Twelver Shi'a in Iran, Whahhabism in Saudi Arabia. I don't know the full details on doctrinal differences, but there's some very, very strong differences in belief about the line of succession of imams after Muhammad's death. Also, the two nations have serious long-standing beef in general.",1
"Based on what we know, what Biden did was bad, and what Trump did was dramatically and intentionally worse.","No, Trump’s actions were worse because we know that he actively misled and refused to cooperate with the DOJ. We also know he had many, many more documents. Not knowing the specifics contained in each document, I cannot say the materials one has was worth than the other.",0
It'd be really nice if the current Congress were to prophylactic pass a law to stop this ISL thing before it becomes a problem.,"If not, seems like maybe the irs knows something is there that congress really should see. Because this feels very out of the blue and extraordinary.",1
In Europe dense neighborhoods are allowed which makes renting a much more affordable and preferable option.,"People generally buy Condos for the convenient urban location and/or less maintenance than a house. Same here in Japan, though I don’t know what they call the equivalent of condos here. In everyday Japanese they just say (literally) “bought apartment”(買うマンション).",1
"100%. Strategically it would have been better for all such talks to be secret if the outcomes were going to be the same, but Ukraine wouldn't have got even 10% of what it has got without Zelenskyy making it public and generating the huge amounts of public support that he has.","Most of the west didnt really know enough about Ukraine to expect anything significantly different from Yanukovich in that part of the world prior to this conflict, which is why Zelensky is going to be such an icon moving forward.",1
"Nothing says that they can’t continue looking at the more serious crimes as he’s facing prosecution for the ones they have him dead to rights on. The J6 investigation goes onwards as well, although that won’t see him facing any charges. He also was caught red handed doing tax fraud, no other investigation is needed to prove that. He’s dead to rights on that as well. Same thing with Raffensbugers taped order to commit election fraud, another blatant crime he’s guilty of, yet not charged for.","Indicting a former President for crimes he committed while in office has never been done. And although Trump had been in literally thousands of lawsuits in his life, he’s acquired an army of lawyers and ‘friends’ to protect him. His handpicked merry billionaire Cabinet Secretaries was no accident. They perfected the ideal tax bill. Behind closed doors with not an economist or Democrat in the room. Guided only by phone calls from wealthy donors and not pesky debates, hearings or investigations. Done in 51 days. The loopholes are substantial and they just get wealthier and wealthier. And they protect him. I trust Merrick Garland. He’s being very very careful. It IS so frustrating! But if you look at Trump snd watch him. He’s running scared. Being a candidate doesn’t protect him.",1
"When the atmosphere becomes so clogged with space debris from collisions and abandoned satellites that it becomes impossible to safely travel through, trapping us on the planet until they all decay and eventually burn up upon reentry.","This is different than geosynchronous satellites which are sunsetted by boosting themselves up into a graveyard orbit (as that takes less propellent than shifting their orbit to burn up into the atmosphere). Most geosynchronous satellites have orbits that decay in the hundreds and thousands of years, so military action on those satellites is a real danger.",1
Issue 1 is Poland repeatedly saying for two weeks now that theyre gonna send their Leopard 2s to Ukraine and bitching about not getting approval while never even asking or submitting request until today.,"Poland has been saying for two weeks now that it wants to give leopard 2 to Ukraine, for which German approval is needed.",0
The nation that establishes itself at the forefront of producing technology for renewable energy is going to be the new OPEC. Whoever does it will get massive economic boosts and extremely favorable trade agreements.,"This is about energy, and energy is the one commodity that dominates global politics. It's why oil kingdoms in the middle east get to do whatever they want. It's a reason why Russia got away with their shit for so long. OPEC has more political strenh than most world governments because they control the supply of what everyone needs.",0
"Andrei Medvedev, who fled by crossing the Russian-Norwegian border on Jan. 13, says he witnessed the killing and mistreatment of Russian prisoners taken to Ukraine to fight for Wagner.","Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has previously said that Medvedev had worked in a Norwegian unit of Wagner and had ""mistreated prisoners"".",0
"The Iranian protesters are armed especially in areas where there's a large population of Kurds, there's videos of guns battles happening between the protesters and goverment forces. Guns are flowing from Kurdish factions outside of Iran, I'd also wager other Middle Eastern powers will supply arms to the protesters. Russias armed forces is way too busy in Ukraine and their State police forces are way too busy suppressing their own people to really effectively help Iran out.","Of course Russia does have a lot of armored police vehicles and other equipment meant to squash protests. But it remains to be seen if they can actually spare any forces to send there. Kazakhstan is a different case, being a part of the CSTO and they helped them when they weren't waist deep in a massive war yet.",1
"You can see pyramids, not the pyramids. Mexican pyramids are cool, but Egyptian pyramids are what’s in everyone’s mind when they think pyramid. We saw them history books, movies, video games, etc. They’re probably the most iconic historical location in the world. There will always been an attraction towards ancient Egypt and the pyramids.",Chances are nearly everyone will have at least heard of the pyramids and can tell you they are in egypt somewhere. Maybe erroneously think they were king tuts but hey they know at least a Pharoah.,1
"As far as I understand western top-notch tanks are very expensive, complicated and take long to build and deliver (Abrahams, Leopard-2, Challenger…). So these tanks exist in lower numbers, but are highly effective. Russia’s top-tanks are cheaper, faster to build but obviously less capable and advanced but exist in much more numbers. As such Russia just has lots of these and their concept is to overrun an enemy with sheer numbers.",Also Russia’s T-90 and T-72 are operated by 3 people while the Abrahams and Leo need 4 persons. Still not saying it’s better on the Russian side and again just pointing out differences.,0
"It's just the typical authoritarian scapegoating of minority groups. It's ""out of vogue"" to promote slavery, miscegenation, antisemitism, segregation, gay rights, so now we've moved on to the trans community. 10 years down the line when that's been mined for all the political capital it's worth, they'll find another scapegoat. It's the same white conservative, often Christian, American tradition that's been going strong in this country since before it even was America.","Moreover, even if there were more nuance here, the people pushing this anti-trans stuff are only using it to push far right social policy. They are the ones poisoning this well and making such discussion impossible.",0
"My point in general was that there is no morality when it comes to government decisions. The West isn’t interested in a conflict with Russia, or what happens in Ukraine. It’s all those sweet resources that the West wants access to, and by extension to keep Russia from controlling them. No-one is going to convince me any different without solid proof, which won’t be forthcoming.","Nations don’t have morality. Look at Swedish neutrality in WW2 where they supplied loads of iron ore to Germany. That allowed Germany to build plenty of military equipment, tanks, ships, guns, etc.",0
The private right of action is a big deal. Can sue the crud out of official/agencies/etc that do not respect it.,The religious freedom elements give me moments for pause. But it is something. I just want my marriage to stay legal man.,0
"I'm certain that had russia not launched 100 missiles at Ukranian targets yesterday, to include cities near the Polish border, this never would have happened.","Are you actually this stupid when Zelensky claimed it had been Russia or do you think Ukraine doesn't know where it's ""defense system"" is firing missiles to?",1
"Britain pulling out of a continent-wide single market and doing other things that raise the cost of living, as well as years of conservative government doesn’t help.","Considering how much strain the NHS is under and thus limited ability to diagnose mental conditions, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a lot of undiagnosed children out there.",0
"You put a period in Barr's quote that doesn't exist, missing important context: ""the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent, each of which, under the Department's principles of federal prosecution guiding charging decisions, would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish an obstruction-of-justice offense."".","Ironic, yes. Surprising, no. Narcissists do not think the rules apply to them - just everyone else.",1
"On the otherside, its advantageous to expose russia's losses whenever and wherever possible, to weaken russia and again, assist Ukraine.","And, if you think NATOs purpose is to destroy Russia, rather than to defend against Russian aggression, why don't they strike Russia now, while the Russian military is busy shitting the bed in Ukraine?",1
"It was Veteran's Day, I assume the old ass judge does that every year. He was surprised there were no Veteran's in the courtroom and remembered that John Black was a veteran. He probably gives a round of applause to Veterans' in court every year. Sure it's sloppy, but I don't think that pushed the needle towards acquittal at all.",I could maybe see an argument where this piece of shit doesn’t deserve to spend some time in prison. But the fact that he’s propped up as a hero proves one crucial thing: conservatives never cared if he was innocent or not. They like that he killed civil rights protesters. Conservatives have always liked killing civil rights protestors.,1
"People should not be with out sick pay , employers need to realize a majority of illnesses start in a work place , it's not like they get a lot time off to go get sick.","Edit: I understand not everyone is fortunate enough to have sick days, which is exactly why the millions of people who do need to stand up for those who don’t.",1
"The balloon obviously had communications. Different frequencies use different power levels over long distance. It would be ridiculously inept for them to be unable to support long range communication, especially at that altitude.","They're almost certainly using a derivation of open-source encryption technology just like absolutely everyone else. RSA et. al. is never going to be the weak point. It's not the 1940's anymore, with people competing against each other to encrypt messages securely. It's now down to math, and the most thoroughly vetted methods are the most secure. There would be no need to use other technologies across other parts of the military.",0
From what sources? This is the issue my friend. A few billionaires able to pave the way or (hundreds of) thousands of citizens wanting a better life. Which sounds like a proper source of funds for electioneering. Yes there are billionaires that donate to Democrats and spend for Democrats; not even close to the amount involved with the Republicans.,What does Sanders have to say about billionaires giving money to Democrats? What does Sanders have to say about Democrats who willingly take money from these billionaires?,1
"Funnily enough, that's one reason why I think might be the most plausible lie he's ever told. Him just existing in Congress at the moment is a distraction to how utterly shitty she is. So her telling him that is something I could actually buy. The test is whether the lies from the Congressman claiming to be George Santos become more realistic or even more absurd from here.",Santos is probably lying bc that's what he does but doing stupid shit to endear herself to republicans is kind of simena's thing so who knows.,1
Saddam didn’t want to be an American puppet anymore and the US found that unacceptable. Zelensky doesn’t want to be a Russian puppet and Russia finds that unacceptable. The difference here is that the US could’ve just let that go as Iraq is far away in the Middle East and even if it wasn’t it’s not like saddam could do anything against the US. Ukraine is right next door to Russia and if Ukraine wanted to it could join NATO and build a NATO military base in Russia’s backyard.,"Ukraine would never join NATO as long as it have an active conflict on our territory, so a fairy tale about NATO expansion is for dumb people, if we could join, we would do it at any second, but NATO not gonna allow it until the conflict is resolved.",1
"In countries with multiple parties there can be things such as being economically liberal while being socially conservative and so forth. Likewise, we have had parties that are economically conservative while very socially liberal.","Most progressives are left leaning, while most conservatives and reactionaries are right leaning. That is to say, progressives tend to support a bundle of policies that can be described as ""leftist"" and vice versa. This has to do with the fact that most leftist politics have their roots in very progressive ideologies (it doesn't get much more progressive than Karl Marx).",1
"The whole “how can biden win, he doesn’t even have huge rally’s and flags etc” sentiment is so telling. These people can’t even fathom, how someone can win without a cult following, without merch and without fanboy rallies and religious tier conventions surrounding these candidates.","They simply can’t imagine people voting on policy, and decorum, over “who gets the most attention, they deserve to win!”.",0
"(""In addition to these short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the KPA has at least 700 long-range artillery aimed at the Seoul metropolitan area and northern parts of South Korea"").","(""In addition to these short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the KPA has at least 700 long-range artillery aimed at the Seoul metropolitan area and northern parts of South Korea"").",0
"The material was allegedly being delivered from Iran to Houthi rebels in Yemen when some of it was intercepted by the terror group, Israeli newspaper Maariv said, citing unnamed sources."".",Yeah. Which is worse? The perpetrators of 9-11 getting this or the Houthi rebels engaged in a war with Saudi Arabia getting it? Both are going to use it for similar attacks. Maybe the only difference is Al-Qaeda would for sure use it to attack the west or Israel and the Houthi will only maybe use it to attack Saudi western suppliers instead of the Kingdom itself.,1
"Or it can be more accurately assumed that the decisions of Heller, McDonald, and Bruen were already prejudged before they arrived at the Supreme Court; and the historical evidence that undermines them reveal that the court is acting outside of its remit as it is creating new law instead of defining the law in the strictures of precedent.","So first you called me a liar. And then when I present you with footnotes backing up my statements you switch to, ""the truth doesn't matter LOL""?!",0
"What I'm describing is the criminalization of legally protected speech that is not considered direct incitement. White supremacists are an easy target because they're despicable, but it's introducing another mechanism to erode free speech in favor of whatever ideology the government advocates at the time.","at least one of whom published material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on “replacement theory”, or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group, and such published material—.",1
"This is not true, just because an infinite amount of universes exists does not mean that all possible universes exists. For example, between 0 and 1 there’s an infinite amount of numbers (in fact a larger infinity than the amount of natural numbers or integers) but 2 is not one of the numbers between 0 and 1.","And that means that not only is anything that can be imagined, in some sense, actually real, but there is an infinite number of them.",1
"Ty. Wasn’t it fine before? I mean, why is it better at 16 weeks rather than 10? Anyone would be able to tell they’re pregnant after 2 months, am I missing something?",According to most studies something like 1/3 women don’t even know they’re pregnant until after 6 weeks.,1
"This is the thing most people don't understand, the GOP has painted itself in a corner by the Dems going to far to the right to meet them, that their only political message is, as you say.","The shittiest people seem to filter to the front of the line in the GOP, then trick enablers into thinking they're incredibly smart and slick and dynamic.",1
Godhra train incident happened when 59 karsevaks were burnt alive by a Muslim mob. It sparked of riots in entire of Gujarat for next 2-3 days killing more than 600 Muslims and 300 Hindus.,Riots happened in Gujarat in 2002 after a train was set on fire and about 50-60 people were burned alive. The perpetrators were said to be muslims and the victims were said to be Hindus. Some of which participate in the Babri masjid demolition. There was a huge loss of life during the riots.,1
"Is it? Or is it that the Dems do do some shit, but the GOP takes the cake. For example, when it comes to sex crimes, the GOPs crimes heavily outweigh the Dems, yet the Rs blame the Dems. When it comes to spend, the GOP has consisentley increased the debt but blame the Dems. Wars as well, taking away freedoms, etc etc.","The Dems aren't great, but the gop doesn't govern, they just blame and deflect and try to stir up little bullshit ""wars on....(Christmas, stoves, etc).",0
"While there have been many horrific wars most of the world has unfortunately ignored, there’s never been a better time to the support the good guys (Ukraine) in this one. The world cannot have Russia (Putin) win. A Putin win will ravage Ukraine, result in even more innocent bloodshed, and also set a horrible precedent that will affect the world for decades to come. Among other things, it will teach countries like Russia that you can maliciously invade other countries and not really have any consequences.","But I get it, they mean only those wars where hordes of expansionist Western imperialists invaded Russia's own motherland just like ... now ... in Ukraine?",1
"exactly, there are a lot of people out there, like my family, that think when cops lose their shit it's always justified. i was watching the news with my parents a few years ago. they live in texas. a story came on about a couple of customs agents in Laredo that got busted for taking $10K per semi full of drugs they waved through. my step mother started defending the customs agents because ""who could turn down that kind of money"" and on the other hand wants drug dealers summarily executed. as long as those in authority are abusing the correct people there's nothing to excuse, they're just doing their job. /s.","LAPD actively recruits from HS, they found it was easier to indoctrinate people with no college or military training. I had a 20yo(literally) cop refuse to let me speak to a detective about a hate crime. the cop told me i didn't have standing, i read him the statute, he asked me if i was trying to explain the law to him, i said someone needs to. then i was told to leave the station. the chances that this kid had any college is ify and he certainly wasn't law school grad, but he was absolutely sure he understood the law better than someone off the street.i decided i had had it with LA around that time.",0
The man’s brain is a runaway fruit cart barreling down a hill. Walker has no impulse control. I really wonder if a large block of voters look at politics like it's a reality TV show and they’re doing it “for the lulz.”.,"When they do political polls, they should ask ""are you voting for this candidate solely because of their party affiliation?"" How many voters that support Walker even know anything about him other than he's Republican?",1
Of course a lot of those wars were not started by the US. Protecting someone else or responding to an attack isn't really warmonger-ish.,"While we're at it, in the years since the creation of communist China, they have seized territory from (and sometimes fought wars with) nearly all of their neighbors.",0
"Edit: downvote me, keep sticking your head in the sand because you don't want to put in the work to keep yourself and others safe, I guess.","Yep, I'm saying the government is wrong. Just read the article in the post. Mild symptoms at time of infection doesn't mean you won't get long covid, or the brain and organ damage that seems to accompany a ton of covid cases.",0
"Eh there are so many people who don't vote in Texas (someone further up said only 10m of the 30m voted in the last election). If they're of the age to vote and choose not to, it's as bad as voting against their interests.","Honestly, I'm beginning to feel like those people deserve it if they voted for him and his ilk. If they keep electing morons to office, they ought to keep feeling the consequences of those actions.",1
"The current speaker of the House of Commons was Labour, so hardly helps the original person's point that it's gerrymandering in favour of the party in power.","But even if Labour are the lesser of two evils, they shouldn't be let off the hook completely, especially not with Starmer's Tory-and-Leave-voter-pandering move to the right after the Corbyn era smacking of ""New Labour: The Next Generation"".",1
My personal outrage aside… The restriction of marriage (as a legal process) based on a religious ideals makes the 1st amendment relevant here.,"There are non, which makes laws outlawing if because your religion says ""man woman"" violates my 1st amendment to not be forced to live under your religious laws.",1
"What’s not said here, is that Brady is also the only QB to ever be officially “charged” with cheating in the NFL, amongst a slew of other cheating allegations surrounding all his other wins, along with other a parade of convenient “conveniences” that have benefitted him for his entire career.",So to sum it up… there’s a bunch of people offended that trump is comparing himself to one of “the greats”.,0
"It’s nothing new. In the last 15 years or so Putin decided to make gay people the punching bag and the scapegoat of Russia. Whenever Putin’s popularity takes a nosedive he screams in fear and anger “Guys guys listen We should blame gay people It’s all them, it’s not me If Russia ever fails it’s because of the gay people Let’s protect the motherland from the western gayness!”.",Putin fails to understand that the anti-gay propaganda is not working anymore because Russian people are afraid of an economic collapse way more than they are afraid of gay people.,0
Ukraine needs a lot but there are still stocks of other weapons and production of new purpose built ammunition is beginning to happen.,"A few hundred armored vehicles sounds like a lot, but Russia has days where they've lost about three dozen at once. Western armored vehicles are beginning to just arrive and there are still plenty of those in stock. There are still things that can be sent, that can be made to work.",0
"That's because you have no Republicans who lost what they call a ""culture War"" and the rest of the World calls progress. Having lost this War they invented, their only hope is to weaponize the Judiciary to undo laws they cannot defeat in the legislature and create laws they cannot pass in the legislature.","We need more Dems elected so we can begin to get rid of tRump judges - not all he appointed, just all who support him and his politics, 3 of whom are on SCOTUS as we speak.",0
"It seems like they can't kill a person who's destined for heaven and all virgin women are destined for heaven despite their ""crimes"" so they go through the process outlined above.","Not only are these girls raped before they're executed because of a legal requirement, the reason why they can't die virgins in the first place is so they can't go to heaven. They're raped before they're killed for the explicit purpose of sending them to hell after they die.",1
"Scholz did, in fact, approach them about it. But Canada has no coastal export facilities at the scale required for Germany, let alone the EU in its entirety. Most of Canada's oil and gas goes to one market, the United States. It will take years for Canada to be able to export more than a couple percentage points of the quantity required for Europe. Years and investment, the latter of which isn't certain to be maintained, and definitely can't be spontaneously wished into existence to cover Germany's immediate short-term needs.","Qatar is supplying 5% of what Russia supplied to Germany. If anything, the only one that Germany is truly dependent on for gas now is Norway, which covers more than 30% of all gas exports to Germany. Terrible, terrible Norway, oh what horrors does Germany permit by being dependent on them.",0
"Yeah, it's literally a Leopard 2A4 hull, just with a new turret housing a 130mm main gun instead of the usual 120mm one.","Again, instead of comparing the M1 to the T-72, compare it to the Leopard 2, which has the same gun. Exact same gun. In fact the gun was developed for the Leopard 2, and later adapted to the M1.",1
UN condemnations are basically and are used to bully Israel while other much worse offenders get on their high horses to parctice their hypocrisy.,Did you know that only 45% of all UN condemnations are about Israel now? This year Israel-Palestine almost broke the top 25 most violent ongoing conflicts! They need to crank those numbers up.,0
"I know it’s not to get people to like China but meant that they hate China so much that any whiff that misinformation is coming from China might not work. Or maybe it will. They seem to love anyone that says what they want to hear. But respectfully disagree on the both sides part where dems are center right. We are dealing with a party trying to drag this country to far right authoritarianism, not the time to start yelling that the left side of the rope isn’t far left enough. If the right weren’t batshit crazy right now things would look better. Both sides thinking didn’t help us years ago. Having people vote strategically has been helping in this environment (youth turnout in midterms). Just not the time for that IMO.","With the state of the playing field as it is right now, now is the time for you to get involved in getting progressives in. If that’s what you want. Otherwise what are you even looking to do with what is available? Strongarm centrists who were voted in by centrists to be far left now?",0
"Nah. China does not want to attack USA unless they've become stupid. China is struggling more internally right now, this was most likely to distract their citizens with some nationalism pride.",But I am under the assumption china is aware an attack on Taiwan is an attack on many other countries.,0
"Student loan forgiveness was a good thing, guess we’ll have to wait for SCOTUS to see if it actually happens.","Not surprising. Neither major party does much for younger voters to earn their votes, and both are led by geriatrics with antiquated views.",0
"Some large percentage of the country is somewhat displeased about the Republican overreach on abortion, and a larger percentage is concerned about issues such as inflation, jobs, and healthcare. One party seems serious about governing, and another one seems to want to sooth Trump's narcissistic injury from having been impeached twice by impeaching Biden three times, or more.","But I'm sure that if even Republicans haven't been able to prove anything despite their willingness to bend and break reality, a congressional committee will for sure impeach Hunter! /s.",1
The stupidest people are the smartest people. Their vessel to store stupidity and ego is just that much larger than the average mere mortal.,"Drumphf only releases the 1 in 7ish years he actually turns a profit. Dems only want the IRS to turn over the records of the 6 in 7 years he’s investing CapEx, aka losing. To mock him for being a failed business man.",0
"Usually if a source country indicates to a host country that a diplomatic visa recipient is no longer travelling for political purposes, they are expelled (not extradited, expelled).","While they cannot rescind US visas directly, they can most certainly inform the US that the individual is no longer travelling as a representative of their country, and the visa is then (usually) rescinded by USCIS.",0
"It doesn’t always turn out the way the complainant wants, but there are plenty of examples of attorneys being punished for that kind of conduct.","Of course, when it counts in court, you don't present any kind of case at all. But it doesn't matter. You've already grifted your supporters for a ton of cash.",1
"No matter how this war is resolved, it will lead to new challenges. To make your mind up now that all Russians deserve to suffer for many decades to come is very premature. To take such an absolute position without acknowledging the problems with it is also unwise. This is also unrealistic considering the rhetoric from almost all European and NATO countries. You don't have to like it, but countries such as India and China will also have a voice in Russia's long term future.","Part of Russia’s strategy here is projecting that the country is much more powerful than it really is. It’s using the basic Sun Tzu Art of War tactic of “Appear strong when you are weak.” This is of course something they did for the last twenty-odd years in regards to their military, for example. They propagated to many that their army was this invincible, unchallengeable force of elites, meanwhile it has grossly underperformed in this conflict and been something of a laughing stock, as well as provably a paper tiger. Russia is also falling back on the same old arrogantly assumed position that they like pretending Russia has that Russia is still the same global player it was 60 years ago. Meanwhile nowadays even before it got slapped with all the sanctions this year, Russia’s economy is smaller than Italy’s and Canada’s, both of which sit at the back of the G10.",1
And the reason nuclear is stagnant is because people are unjustifiably scared of it. Nuclear is a great resource as part of a mix of energy generation along with solar and wind.,"And accepting the value of nuclear does not take away from the value of solar and wind. The fact remains that if we'd invested in nuclear energy 10-20 years ago, we'd be seeing the reduction in emissions that we need today instead of the growing issues we actually have, and it was fearmongering like yours that prevented it.",0
"…which seems to say people in office who commit crimes must be removed from office if impeached, but does not say explicitly that impeachment can only be incurred in response to a crime.","It's also worth noting that two Justices faced impeachment: one in 1965 who resigned before impeachment proceedings could begin (for working as a paid consultant to someone accused of committing a crime), and one who was impeached by the House (and acquitted by the Senate) for political bias on the bench.",0
"But if Finland and Sweden would be ""better"" members than Turkey is a hypothetical and different question.","Just to be clear, I don't support what Turkey is doing right now either and I hope that things can get sorted quickly so Sweden and Finland get the OK.",1
"Yeah, apparently UK law (for whatever reason) specifies that only a man can rape someone. But I still think the BBC is justified in not using the term ""rape"" since that has a legal definition.","I just did a bit more research into the UK law, and it appears that the reason it's not legally considered rape is because of outdated language in the legal code. The law specifies that rape can only be done by a man in the UK, so women cannot be found guilty of rape. So this does have to do with gender identity, as well as dumb legal wording.",0
"Ideally, if NATO and ukraine are good at negotiating, offering russia security guarantees would be enough for russia to offer the same to ukraine.","Offering russia security guarantees is not the whole deal (obviously), it's an offer that needs to be met with a returning offer from russia - and it's then up for ukraine and NATO to decide if they see these offers as acceptable. Before this, russia won't actually get any security guarantees (that's how offering something works).",0
"In some chambers, you would need every single Republican--or nearly every Republican--will vote to overturn the electors. However, that's very unlikely. Consider, for example, Arizona, where both chambers have a two member GOP majority. They can't afford a single defection. Meanwhile, fewer than half of the state's House Republicans were willing to cosponsor a bill that would allow a legislative special session to confirm election results--this is a much lower bar than actually rejecting the results and choosing a new custom slate of electors! North Carolina can afford three defections in their Senate but a number of their senators opposed Trump's efforts to overturn 2020. Georgia has a larger GOP majority, but there's a very open and bitter battle between the pro-democracy and pro-denialist factions, but the pro-democracy side largely won in the '22 primaries.",And don't forget the electoral college that favors the GOP so heavily that they've won 3 out of 6 presidential elections this century while only winning the popular vote once.,1
It is beyond irony that the Russian crime empire uses anti Nazi rhetoric for propaganda purposes when they are behaving like textbook Nazi's without the German.,"When Russia says Nazi they are not engaging in doublespeak, where they accuse the enemy of doing exactly what they do, themselves. To them ""Nazi"" simply means ""western enemy of russia."" Russians don't care about torture or concentration camps, why would they? It's their preferred solution for political differences. Even russian mercenaries ride into battle with nazi symbology tattooed on them.",1
"It's authoritarianism, but it's also vagueness used deliberately. By drafting intentionally vague laws, it lets them sell the laws to the public, and counter opposition, by claiming there are exemptions, but it also lets them prosecute people whenever they like. They want the benefit of a narrow law that only applies in some circumstances because that's what's popular and defensible, but they also want the benefit of a strict law because then they can punish people and feed red meat to the base. The vagueness lets them always blame someone else and say they did the wrong thing. If a woman dies, they can blame the doctor for not performing an abortion, but if that doctor had performed the abortion and the woman had lived, they could also say the doctor was wrong to perform it and prosecute.","Case in point: the asshole forced birther quoted as saying that she wants a woman to be forced to carryba fetus with no skull to term, with all the medical and financial risks that entails, just so that the kid can die a few hours after birth.",1
"It’s a bandaid that everyone here seems to think is completely unjustified and shouldn’t be given to these countries in the first place, never mind the prospect of something more substantial offered for this bullet wound.",Oh yes? Do you need money to fund relief for worsening natural disasters in the global south exacerbated by climate change? Do you need funds to build out green energy and transport technology as a poor developing country trying to raise the standard of living for its people? Are you someone who’s contributed virtually nothing to emissions in terms of global averages but is set to receive some of the worst consequences of climate change?,0
"In 1933, the German Constitution was essentially repealed by the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, when he passed the Enabling Act that gave the Nazis total power through Hitler’s dictatorship.",If only there was a time in history that would warn us about autocratic leaders wanting to do away with the Constitution and rule of law?,0
"It’s an oversimplification of the point. France is part of the EU, and the EU has worker rights and protections that outpace the U.S., and yet remains an economic titan within the world. My point wasn’t that France is perfect, it’s that you don’t need to squeeze the life out of workers to do well financially.","By any and every metric France should be a shining beacon that we DONT need 9-5, 5 days a week or any other bs system imported from the industrial era for most jobs. People can get their work done, produce profits as the company needs, and be home in some cases working 1-2 hours of a working day.",0
"Idk about Scotland, but in some places, parents not reaffirming their child's chosen gender identity can be considered a form of mental or emotional abuse, and can result in the children being removed from the home. It's already happened near where I live with children as young as 8yrs old.","By legally changing your gender, you are legally classifying yourself as being transgender, and the argument could be made that by your guardians not pursuing a medical transition for you, they are not affirming your gender identity, and are therefor abusing you.",0
"All in all, an invasion of the US would be like Russia’s attack on Ukraine but on more steroids you can imagine. Take all the American exceptionalism and jingoism, and remember that those are the majority of people with rifles.","And since America is a wartime country at heart, every single American is fucking pissed off and battered down with as much ammunition as their weapons manufacturers can produce (a lot).",1
"One possible thing about just the house going slim GOP is that there's a couple congressmen that'll vote w/Dem for reasonable bills introduced by Dems... But anything that's introduced by the GOP will not pull anyone from Dem over, it'll all be too far right.","Yeah - when the senate is 50/50, it's actually 51/50 in favor of the VP's party, which is what we have right now. If the election results in 51/49, it will basically be the same situation, but instead of getting the two flaky dems on board, they'd need just one to get a 50/50 result which, as before, the VP could tiebreak.",1
"Depends on if it was a repurposed s300 being used to hit a ground target or if it was a kalibr missile. If the debris is an s300 then debris alone won't tell you who it came from. There's also a very real possibility that it was fired by Russia but in the interest of de-escalation, this is the story being told. It wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to publicly state Russia fired a cruise missile killing Polish citizens if they don't want to escalate because of it.","I also wouldn't past western governments if they really believed it was an accident on the Russian part, to say it was Ukraine Anti-missile fire to keep things from heating up more.",1
"So now the argument is both that Biden was intentionally signalling to Putin but also, despite his decades of media interaction, became flustered and gave away a covert operation that would drive Europe away from the US?","There's means, motive and opportunity all laid out for Russia, but you're ignoring all of that and saying the US snuck in under all those warships and did it. Lolol.",1
"See this is where you are adding a law degree, teaching degree, psychology degree, etc together with said degree of gender studies. Your real estate agent would have done the same without that degree. Literally wasted a fuck ton of money to get it because it does nothing for real estate. In order to become a councilor, you need more schooling that just a gender study degree. In order to become a doctor, you need way more than a gender studies degree. You literally just stated that people with a hobby of a degree get positions requiring other degrees for their careers. Boy do I feel stupid reading what you just wrote.",Conservative here and don’t agree one bit. For one how can you legislate something like CRT that has no clear definition within even “experts”s and two of people want to study gender that’s on them. The tax payer just shouldn’t have to be left with the bill of people entering a very low paying and low number field post graduation…. Because we don’t need 2 million gender studies students when there is probably .1% of the jobs available for it lol….,0
"Not defending Russia but Norway has a lot of doping scandals aswell, which is sad because i thought our brothers and sisters in the west were better than that. Anyone doping should be banned.","Yes individuals should be banned for doping. But we are saying that all Russian athletes should be banned just due to the fact the Russian government forces their athletes to dope. Until Russia as a country can prove it won’t force their athletes to cheat, then no Russian should be allowed to compete.",1
"And now with global trade wars against China, industries leaving and their workers demanding much better lives. They got very rough times ahead of them.","Go look at an updated age pyramid of China, their economy is already going down the toilet. What happens in few decades when their working force is almost half of their retired people?",0
"We've already seen this in Germany. Some protesters glued themselves to an Autobahn in Berlin and this of course caused a traffic jam. Somewhere else in the city, a truck ran over a cyclist and the fire department was called to bring some rescue equipment. Way before this could have arrived in perfect conditions, the doctor coordinating the rescue decided to just move the truck, they freed the cyclist, but she died anyway.","Realistically, the protests had absolutely nothing to do with the cyclist's death. Traffic jams in Berlin are normal, the equipment was never actually needed and the cyclist probably wouldn't have survived anyway. However, the entire right wing/conservative media apparatus tried to frame this as ""the protesters killed the cyclist"". Complete BS, but it helped to de-legitimize the protests.",0
"""Russia promises when it is forced to, and fails to keep its promises the moment it has the power to do so."".",Yep. We're currently at the stage of Russia using convicts and 'undesirable' minorities to fight a war with equipment loaned from Iran and NK because Russia can no longer field a modern military on its own.,1
"To push its claim on Palestinian areas and to probably eventually getting rid of any idea of a two-state solution. If Israel can take more and more of the West Bank, they can claim that the two state solution is dead cus hey look, we hold all this land now, not enough space for a Palestinian state.","Until the occupation ends Palestinians will be RIGHT to fight occupation, if you were occupied by a foreign power you'd have the right to do so to.",1
"Or like, the time Trump cow-towed to Putin’s (He had a very powerful denial!) over US intelligence community?",Not sure why you think Fiona Hill casts anything but a negative insight to Trump. In the interview you link she states he is easily manipulated and therefore a tremendous security risk to the country. In another interview she says American “democracy is done” if Trump is elected in 2024.,0
You're a policy conservative who is liberal on social issues... after those issues reach mainstream acceptance. Just like a lot of the Democratic party. Which makes you center-right.,"How is it a right wing talking point? It's just true that she and especially her husband used her place in government to have one of the best performing stock portfolios ever (i'm sure is just totally random, and also random she was against many insider trading laws). There's PLENTY of non right wing sources on this.",1
The other 25% are conditioned to think the only people working min wage jobs should be high school age students that can't work anywhere or are mad that increases the min wage would invalidate the small amount more than the min that they make.,"Minimum wages are probably only relevant for a small segment (e.g., high school kids over the summer - employer knows that availability is for a limited time, so the cost of training will be spread over fewer weeks and wouldn't hire unless the worker works at low wages).",1
"If you want to be technical about it, casting a ballot with the intent for the vote to be counted, if you're ineligible is a crime.","A provisional ballot literally means: “I’d like to vote, and this is what I would vote, but hey government, please check if I’m eligible and if yes, then please register my vote. If not, please disregard it.” So where’s the criminal intent?",1
"Apparently some new recruits have been assigned to the ""second line"" whose job is to shoot any retreating/deserting Russian solder coming towards them from the front lines.","In other news, apparently the Russians are drafting even 17-year-olds who live in these occupied territories. Also, while those doing their mandatory 2 years in the army cannot be sent to fight in a war zone, they can be used to defend the motherland. Fortunately, having annexed those Ukrainian provinces, they can now send draftees there to ""defend the motherland"".",0
"Right, and his vice president, George HW Bush, balked at it and called it Voodoo Economics. He could not bring himself to ""buy in"" on such a crazy set of claims.","The way they did it was to loudly criticize the economy no matter what was happening in it whenever they could attribute what was happening to Democrats. They never offered alternatives, they just loudly complain. It's never been about improving the economy for them, just gaining power. It's fairly effective because the votes they need to steal are votes from poor people. They convince those people that they aren't poor, the problem is the economy. We don't need to help the poor, the problem is the Democrats' handling of the economy!",0
"If these allegations are true then he's definitely a liability to Lula's government, especially since they've just voted out a party whose supporters were calling for a military coup. The army should not be interfering with police and other domestic operations, period.","A better way to think of the Military Police is militarized police, in that they are organized (as you said) and equipped more like a military, but still function as a domestic peace-keeping police force.",1
We can expect France and Israel to become a bigger part of Indian defence. As far as smooth and quick manufacturing is concerned Indian government is looking to boost its local defense industry with Joint Ventures annd Technology transfers.,They have been trying to replicate it with France right now both with Rafael Fighter Jets and Submarines. India has along way to go but also has a young and relatively well educated population. If the put the right policy and right support it can create a strong indigenous defence industry within the next decade.,0
"They can just start paying the population in bread, lard and 100g of vodka a day to produce war machines. Everyone who still remains in Russia will totally be ok with it. Not many people in the west can really grasp this fact.","A lot of us in the West just don't understand how shitty most of Russia is. Russia has very good PR relative to the awful living standard of the average Russian. We're shown images of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and the Sochi Olympic Village. The average American doesn't know that many Russian cities (not villages) have not a single paved road.",1
I seriously doubt this was aliens. Just based on us having shot down 3 (at my last count) of them. I doubt we'd be able to go toe to toe with extraterrestrials capabile of flying halfway across the galaxy.,"I thought that the UAP’s were possibly from another dimension and not Aliens? A lot of the in the know people say these beings have possibly been here before us. I think these “ Objects “ the government shot down are more than likely human made though. If it were the “ Beings” or Aliens and we were lucky enough to shoot one down. It would on our part be an act of War. Besides their technology is so far ahead of ours , I doubt we could even shoot one down!",1
"If both of those towns are in Ukrainian hands come March, Ukraine will be primed for a counteroffensive in the south and northeast come April and Russias situation is going to become very desperate.","I don’t think Russia will be in a position to keep their southern territories even if they make gains in the east. The Crimean bridge was the only viable logistical route for them and it’s repairs are well behind schedule. But that is the crucial point here. Ukraine with enough weapons to reclaim southern land and cut off Crimea will be able to negotiate from a position of strenh and not just take a “have our land for NATO” negotiation when this is over. If Crimea is liberated or its defense is untenable, Russia will probably capitulate or at least give up on some of its demands.",0
It seems like a ton of people on here think war with China is just not gonna happen. We just had the luxury of growing up in a really good time in the world. Large scale warfare will happen again and the United States will most likely be at the epicenter of it.,"All in all, an invasion of the US would be like Russia’s attack on Ukraine but on more steroids you can imagine. Take all the American exceptionalism and jingoism, and remember that those are the majority of people with rifles.",1
We're doomed. reactionaries just want to use authoritarian police to drag the US back to 1950? 1850? and the centrist view from nowhere media are just parroting their talking points and manifesting a crime wave into existence.,"I've tried explaining how the media (especially right wing media like FOX News) runs ""crime stories"" because they generate more views, but my father remains unconvinced because FOX told him that crime is way way up.",1
"That was pity foul but 1969 is NOT the crux, the crux of betrayal and violation of international law began in 1962 when our governments were blackmailed to authorise the UN invasion/disarming of West New Guinea (General Assembly resolution 1752) ; it is ILLEGAL to then conceal resolution 1752 & the 'New York Aggreement' it was authorising from the Trusteeship Council whose job it is to prepare yearly UN reports about UN trust territories such as West Papua (West New Guinea).","Michael Rockefeller was poking his nose into Asmat territory which at the time included the river coming down from Ertsberg in which their Freeport mining company wanted to build a port for exporting Papua's gold, silver and copper to the US and other markets.",0
"As to our bloodiest wars? Crusades, the mass enforced conversion of idigenous populations worldwide helping to spread disease, the catholic church giving half of the Americas to spain and portugal causing untold suffering and murder, the British bringing christianty at the end of a gun, the Thirty Years War, St Batholomews massacre, the sectarian violence in NI, the islamic groups in china, Partition along religious lines in India that killed millions, erm.....","Not trying to be the asshole here, the biggest, bloodiest wars in human history weren't caused by religious figures and you can get all the religious figure genocidal numbers combined and they wont come close to the genkis khans, the stalins and the mao zedong.....and thats not counting the endless bloodshed in the aftican countries.",1
Brazil is such a corrupt country that they would just pocket the fee and cut the forests down anyways. The government needs to pay the indigenous tribes to manage it. Just because other countries made a mistake in managing their resources doesn't mean others have to as well. We've progressed long enough to have enough history and evidence for land management to be cut down forests > grow cows and soybeans > maybe replant.,Just because one country made a mistake doesn't mean it's wise for another country to do the same. It is more profitable in the long run for permaculture over monoculture. Europe's forests are slowly coming back but to have the Amazon cut down will decimate our climate.,0
$100 million may not sound like much but it adds up AND furthermore it doesn't help that WE barely get a say in where are taxes are going.,"Considering that the US annual budget is in the trillions, in the grand scheme of things, 100 million is barely anything. A single F-35 costs between $80 million to $110 million.",1
The IRS operates off of fair market value; banks generally operate off of a different standard of value.,An IRS valuation and a bank valuation will be different; generally with the FMV valuation coming in lower.,0
"People make the same complaint of BMI. however, as there is yet to be a better tool produced, it is harmful to discourage the use of BMI as a measure of better health for most people, since it is not a tool intended to cause harm. MBFC could and should maybe be better, but the issue remains they are still providing a needed service in good faith. As such, your opinion ""they are also trash"" is simply that: your opinion. And since you are also obviously not an expert on the matter, or you would have provided an alternate source, I do hope you can understand why people don't put much faith in your opinion.","Unless you're willing to provide evidence that the site is an authoritative source with expertise, I'm not interested in furthering this conversation. Particularly since you're weirdly making it personal.",1
"there is \NOTHING\ they can do about the voting age without a new amendment, and that would never ever pass both chambers of the house AND 2/3rds of all 50 states.","Iirc 18 is the voting age as written in the constitution, so they'd need a constitutional ammendment to change that, which i dont see happening any time soon.",1
"Yeah, but we're nowhere near out of the woods. The Republican Party has become a fascist, win-at-all-costs criminal organization that will steal elections, lie with impunity, and promote crooks and complete morons in the oligarchy's drive to extract maximum profit without dealing with pesky human, labor, or environmental right. They must be destroyed, not coddled.",Nature (and politics) abhors a vacuum. Something will replace it. But the Democrats need replacement too--with people who really work to better the nation and its citizens rather than giving lip service and pocketing corporate dollars.,0
That is correct because Russian forces now have access to nato weapons systems from the battlefield and could give them on reverse engineering it or finding measures to counter them… but we should still support Ukraine to defend themselves!,"Moreover, Ukraine would need to know this upfront, in the case they thought they were only range limited due to ammunition and someone's life depended on hitting an enemy target...",1
"In Brazil Fifa could probably sue the govt for that, fund an opposition party or run ads against the government.","I didn't say anything about Fifa not being shit in anyway. Just that in this situation the fuckup was putting yourself under the control of an authoritarian regime, not being more respectful of Qatar's requests re: alcohol than Brazil's.",0
"We're already seeing a massive exodus from railways. Low staffing issues are part of the issue that the unions are raising. And it isn't surprising, either.","This shouldn’t surprise anyone. You can think Biden is based for owning the right-wing loons, but the truth is that Joe has been a Renfield for corporate power his entire career. I need to underline this: he isn’t doing any of what he does for you. He is doing it because dysfunction is bad for business. If he could take us all back to the 1990s, he would. Would that be a good outcome for you?",1
"Asked by a member of the Human Rights Council to pledge that Russia would not be the first to use nuclear weapons, Putin demurred, saying Russia would not be able to use nuclear weapons at all if it agreed not to use them first and then came under a nuclear strike.","The Russian leader said reminders of his country’s nuclear arsenal were “not a factor provoking an escalation of conflicts, but a factor of deterrence.”.",0
I don't like what's happening in Ukraine either. But to compare the invasion of Ukraine to the systemic murder of over 6 million Jews during the 2nd world war is basically Holocaust revisionism.,"Yes that is true, but comparing it to WWII is better for the fact that more people are familiar with the situation involving the Nazis then they are with that of the Bosnia/Kosovo conflicts.",1
"Is that why they massacred Jewish villages in the 1920s, allied with the Nazis in the 1940s and declared a war with neighbor countries to genocide the Jews?","There was designation for both sides, sadly the Palestinians did not accept the designation and decided to declare war to genocide the Jews.",0
"Only thing that matters is strenh, and Turkey is probably 5th strongest in NATO, soon to be 6th if Germany gets its shit together.","Uh not when you look at the numbers on the ground, Turkey has the 2nd largest army in NATO and beats Sweden and Finland combined for personal and budget...",1
"Me, under Trump: ""This is a travesty and the result of a broken system. Trump is unhinged and is literally destroying the judicial branch with this psychopath speedrun of our nation's judges."".","This. And not only the District Court vacancies in the blue and purple states, but also the red states. Dems have focused on appointing District Court judges in easy-to-fill blue states so far because the GQP can block red state nominees by abusing the blue slip, which requires both Senators from the state to agree on a judicial nominee. As you can expect this intransigence to continue, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin needs to consider abolishing blue slips for District Court nominees and pack the red state courts with Democratic judges. Considering the lawlessness and corruption of Trump appointees (just look at his appointees at the 5th Circuit!), these worthless hacks need to be put in the minority to stop them from fucking up the judicial branch even more.",1
"Again, I’m not justifying the invasion or anything that happened after. I’m just saying that both sides are trying to simply something that should not be simplified.","Also, I’m not against small studies, but if you click to look at the studies in the url you shared it goes to a German 404 error page. Also, I would imagine that the National Agency of Ukraine for Civil Service would probably have more reliable stats rather then a graduate student calling 1200 random Ukrainians from a UK based phone number. If I was an ethnic minority and someone called me to ask my status for “totally educational purposes” what is my incentive to not lie and say I’m part of the minority (why make myself a target?)?",0
">“He’s a man of his word. When he gives you his word, you can take it to the bank, you can count on it, and he’s willing to find common ground to get things done for the country. So thank you, Mitch. Thank you,” Biden said.","Well, Biden is white, so ""bipartisanship,"" is back on the table. They can get back to working with Democrats while putting in their nasty legislation to make sure government breaks or remains ineffective and Democrats can go back to touting ""bipartisanship."".",1
"So Twitter is no longer useful for influencers, artists, businesses or anyone who wants to promote anything.","Twitter is on a speedrun to become the most user-hostile social media platform, so much for free speech absolutism and making Twitter better for its content creators.",1
"The chief factor of inflation today is supply bottlenecks. As demand continues to outpace supply, prices will continue to rise. As pressure on the global supply chain eases, prices will also ease and inflation will follow.",You cure inflation by reducing the money supply...They are increasing spending that will have no effect on reducing cost of living or consumer prices. If they had passed legislation to reduce property taxes on people who owned only a single property and income taxes on lower income residents while increasing taxes on people with multiple properties and high incomes they could increase money for social assistance programs that would contribute further to the economy than just simply providing money. Like food stamps.,1
"They have nukes, and invading them or whatnot is a bit over the line. So everyone is hoping Putin will decide the price is too high, and bring everyone home. There aren't a lot of viable options other than grinding it out. Unless one considers a Ukrainian surrender a viable option, and I don't think Ukraine is currently cool with that one. Nor is the rest of Europe eager for Russia to win and then start to regroup for the next invasion.","firing into russia from ukraine should be ok to do, as long as they don't cross the border, putin can't call it an invasion.",1
I don’t know when this balloon got on the government’s “radar” but unlike the others it only appears to have been publicly noticed .,"Or, you know, contacting US authorities like the FAA to explain that they had an errant balloon to keep an eye on.",1
"Claim: ""The World Cup in Qatar has cost the lives of 6,500 — even as many as 15,000 — migrant workers."".",". Men, get out of tiktok and we will have a conversation. ""Josep Borell, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, compared Europe to a garden – and most of the world to a jungle"" The idea that you can criticize a problem without doing anything to solve is ludicrous, the idea that you can criticize countries like Qatar and be best friends like the USA is ludicrous. And my English is better than c1, hahaha, that you can not understand allegories and learned English from tik tok, is not my problem, go to school or something, maybe read some books You know what an allegory is too advance?",1
"Another important aspect of GDPR, is that it also sets rather strict limits on what kinds of data you're allowed to keep in the first place, and what are its legitimate uses.","If I'm not mistaken, GDPR sets out guidelines and timeline for the steps required by a business after a security breach that affects private data. If those steps are not taken in the given timeline , then massive fines are levied against the business.",1
"The USA is making moves to bring manufacturing and certain other industries back home. Some of these moves come to the detriment of Allies and have Europe, Japan and Korea side eyeing us. America is clearly focusing inward, how far it goes, who knows. But the Saudi Arabia’s of the world wouldn’t be making these moves for nothing.","But if Iran attacks SaudiArabia we are first to defend them? After the Saudis sided with Putin on oil cuts they are cosing up to Xi, time to re asses WHO is not our ally any longer based on the OBVIOUS.",1
I'd bet very good money the people they're afraid of getting shot by dont have legal guns that would disappear (confiscated/bought back) with a gun ban since they cant be traced.,"And before you bring up ""gun sellers should be responsible for checking out the people they're selling stuff to"", there are already background check laws in place and so on with regards to guns being sold. The issue is that the system is poorly run so the existing gun control restrictions don't even do what they're supposed to. That's not something that more gun control laws can fix.",1
"Personally (while my own republican sensibilities might make me biased) I struggle to envision a situation where the monarchy is able to be dissolved but still somehow able to keep all the perks of the position. As you correctly state, the crown estate does not belong to Charles (contrary to the claims of more than one Reddit monarchist), so I don't see that there's much more cause for them to keep that than to keep, say, exemption from taxes or whatever. No crown, no crown estate.","There's no roadmap for dissolving the monarchy because obviously there isn't. If/when the monarchy is finally gotten rid of, it's not going to be the royal family that makes the decisions.",0
"I think his point is that reducing the complexity of a war to “good guys” versus “bad guys” is a dramatic oversimplification of the facts. You can support whoever you support, but it is never as simple as “good guys” versus “bad guys.” Indeed, your conception of it as such is largely a product of confirmation bias and the type of media you are consuming.",Not to mention you are a fool if you think Ukrainian soldiers would not be committing war crimes left and right if they weren’t worried about losing Western support.,0
"The difference here is, the documents in Biden's possession appear to have been left at these locations inadvertently, and the moment they were found, they self-reported and sought to return them to the National Archives.","They found about a dozen documents with Biden that were located in an office and a garage with nothing to indicate the information was used maliciously, plus Biden’s team immediately returned the docs and are aiding the investigation and special counsel.",1
"I appreciate you. It's exhausting reading breathless post after breathless post about conclusive evidence of crimes, when in fact the bar for actual conviction would be very much higher.","But I don't think we have enough information to conclude much from her testimony alone, unfortunately.",1
"One could certainly make the argument that people on Reddit should not be transcribing news stories that are behind paywalls - but the vast majority of news I read on here is just directly linked to ""free"" sites.","E: and to further the point, you aren't reading the article on Reddit or Google or Facebook or whatever, you're being provided a link to view it on the source's website, thereby granting them traffic and ad revenue. What this would do is allow the source to double dip, getting revenue from the aggregators in addition to the ad revenue from the site visit, because precisely 0 sites would stop showing ads due to increased revenue from link sharing.",1
"The UN was created to build a new world order that placed the victors of the war in the 5 permanent security council seats, something that hasn't changed despite being obsolete...it has nothing to do with preventing nuclear war.","The UN is a diplomatic forum for representaties of all the world's nations, it was created because so future world wars could be prevented, not to install a new world order.",1
"> At the start of February, workers got 30 points. Taking time off almost always costs them between two and 15 points. They can only earn [four] points back by being available for work with 90 minutes’ notice for 14 consecutive days, meaning they can’t go out of town, schedule doctors appointments, or go to a movie. Use all 30 points and they get suspended and given 15 more points. Use those 15 points and they get suspended even longer and given their last 15 points. Use those and they’re fired.","Sick days are a red herring. Railroad workers want unpaid leave. When you clock out on Friday, you don't get paid but you also can't be called into work at a moment's notice.",0
"The legislature is welcome to amend the law to extend the deadline, or the courts will place a temporary injunction until the implementation questions are ironed out. As for gun businesses, I have a hard time believing that they will all close shop since the last time I checked they sold a lot more merchandise than just guns.","The gun shops sell other things, but that is manly ammunition and gun accessories. The core of their business is guns. That's like telling an auto dealership to stay in business because they also sell auto accessories in their service department.",1
"Yeah 43k in Sydney isn't the same as 43k in London, but also no rational person would be making that comparison because 43k in AUD is 24.5k in GBP.","This is mostly a myth, salaries might be slightly higher but its not high enough that you're suddenly living like a king.",0
"Tax cuts NEVER go to hiring workers. Hiring workers is a 100% tax deduction. Tax cuts does one thing, it makes taking money out of the company cheaper thus COMPETING with investment into the company.","Cuts don’t just make it cheaper to take money out of the company, it makes it cheaper to hold onto income for future investments if nothing immediate is available. It also increases foreign investment, which increases productivity.",1
"The state is gerrymandered to hell, so votes don't matter the way they should; the leaders cannot be held accountable for their crimes (See AG Paxton) or incredible failures (Abbot + winter = you're gonna have a bad time); I mean what is anyone expecting?","When the state continually elects and re-elects politicians whose party platform is to erode and dismantle the public institutions that provide services to better citizens, what the fuck did they think they were going to get?",1
That means literally nothing when talking about the differences between the languages and how hard it would be for a Russian to write Finnish propaganda.,You could have a relatively large amount of very depressed people and still have the vast majority of people rate their happiness as high. Which could lead to a higher happiness score than a country where everyone is depressed but not enough to kill themselves.,0
"Sick days are a red herring. Railroad workers want unpaid leave. When you clock out on Friday, you don't get paid but you also can't be called into work at a moment's notice.","Railroad workers are still on call even when they go home, unless they use PTO. They can't schedule a doctor's visit when their employer might suddenly call them into work. They can't do much of anything at all.",0
"- Driver freaked out because of the mob and made a quick U-turn then drove away, killing that boy in the process.","The group descended on the car, attempting to rip the flag away from its owner, when the driver panicked and performed a hasty U-turn to cross into the oncoming lane and make a quick getaway.",1
"The first would seem to require the occupation of Russia without too many nukes going off, at which point the Russian government’s objections to ICC jurisdiction stop mattering because the Russian government no longer exists. In which case a separate tribunal is not necessary.","In the second case (and assuming the new government ignores Article 61.1 of the Russian Constitution or lawyers around it, perhaps using Article 56?) then either the ICC can probably extend its ongoing investigation into the 2014 conflict (see or the UNSC will suddenly discover that the Russian Government is not going to veto a referral. In which case a separate tribunal is not necessary.",0
And the change made was that Republicans put term limits on the members of the and instituted a rule that new staff can only be appointed in the first 30 days of a congressional term. This will have a significant impact on the membership of the OCE and probably limit their activity. Republicans also changed the rules to allow the public to submit complaints to the Ethics Committee.,"But as far as George Santos goes, this will have a minimal effect because that's already been referred to the Ethics Committee, which is evenly staffed by Democrats and Republicans. So, we've already reached the end goal of an OCE investigation.",0
"The mainstream (like their fundamentalist brothercousins) LDS Church has lay leadership and a rigid hierarchical structure. Basically every male is an ""Elder,"" and at the head of each ""ward"" (basically a parish) is a lay ""Bishop."".","I grew up Catholic so it takes a lot to shock me, but I never had a priest bring up masturbation in the confessional. Utah Mormonism in particular is on a whole 'nother level of sex cult craziness.",0
"Obama ran on change, and McConnell ran on ""no"". When they blocked everything Obama did, Democrats got disheartened and stayed at home.",Democrat voters want change. Republicans are perfectly happy with gridlock. Trying to be bipartisan hurt Democrats massively from 2008-today.,0
All of the crispy fresh western tanks are in addition to that constant drip feed of upgraded Soviet armor.,"TL;DR western tanks are more or less better at every level than Russian, better maintained, and were designed with more intelligent, modern military doctrine. IE modern western combined arms. Ukraine's army is modernizing like a true Western army, but has been stuck using Russian tools designed for Russian tactics. These tanks change that.",1
"For the record I'm not pro-russian or pro-ukrainian, I'm anti-war and I feel like this war could have been avoided if NATO stopped putting Russia in a difficult position.","I'm not against supporting the war in Ukraine, but it's getting harder and harder to see our extremely wealthy leader gives hundreds of £millions to a foreign country when average people in the UK are freezing and starving.",1
Sure. But if what China says is true then if their radars could find them then I assume at least Russias could as well. If Chinas radars didn’t pick them up then how does China know they were there.,"Redditors: ain't no way we would spy on China, that's just not something we do. We respect all the privacy and airspaces and balloons are really uncool too.",1
"Also, from a cost perspective, I would consider Ukraine to have the upper hand. The only profitable targets for them are military facilities that would aid in the war effort, whereas Russia has been focusing on civilian infrastructure, which doesn't tangibly benefit them on the front line. They're sinking absurd amounts of money on scoring a ""win"" for the Russian public.","I think the real question going forward is ""Is Ukraine worth taking at the expense of critical infrastructure and military bases deep into Russia?"". So far, they've been able to assume relative safety behind their borders, but with this change in stakes, continuing the war is sounding more and more irresponsible.",0
"Serbia denies that Serbian citizens were involved in preparing military actions aimed at destabilising Moldova up to the overthrow of power, as stated by the President of Moldova based on data transmitted by the Ukrainian special services.","He added that Serbia cannot but react to this, because the appearance of such information harms the country's reputation, and the participation of Serbian citizens in armed conflicts abroad implies criminal liability.",0
"I like this response. Especially bc in 2016, everyone believed clinton would win the presidency bc the polls showed that. Instead, we got trump creating a massive upset. So, true. 2024 is still a long way from now.","Ironically, suppose they were capable of dropping the faux woke culture war bullshit and overhauled their policies on social issues and embraced popular legislature like free college for all, but instead propose free community college. In that case, they'd see far more support. Instead of $15 minimum wage, they'd fight for $12 or $13.",0
China has a antivaxers problem in it's older generation who don't trust the government and also even if they are vaccinated the quality of the vaccines are not great and many countries who used Chinese one revaccinated people with western ones.,"Important to remember Covid is more deadly now so unvaccinated old people are dying at a higher rate now if they don't get proper healthcare, which is hard to get even in the USA.",0
"But as far as George Santos goes, this will have a minimal effect because that's already been referred to the Ethics Committee, which is evenly staffed by Democrats and Republicans. So, we've already reached the end goal of an OCE investigation.","It's actually a broadening of the standard. McCarthy is suggesting expulsion and, since the Civil War, only two members have been expelled from the House, after being criminally convicted of crimes and refusing to resign. McCarthy is saying that Santos could be expelled based on the outcome of an Ethics Committee report. That's moving the goalposts from criminal conviction to a finding from the Ethics Committee, which is a much wider net.",0
"Hopefully the Strykers/LAV's (and similar) will help with that strategy. Russia doesn't really have anything comparable, as their BMP fleet has proven to be incapable of safely mobilizing their infantry.",If the ammo is in a useable state they still have to get it to the frontlines which seems to be a problem with all the incompetence in the Russian army.,1
"Has to be the case if they are actually terrified because that shit is an extreme outlier. In my time at school Sandy Hook happened more people at my school died from alcohol poisoning, car accidents, 3 suicides one from walking onto a highway and two from walking in front of trains, and one from a congenital heart defect that they were unaware of. None died from mass shootings. Not at my school or any nearby schools. Which I am pretty sure is the experience the vast, vast majority of students have.",I am pretty sure it is most don't think about it. Unless of course like I said adults are going out of their way to deceive or traumatize the kids to make them think they happen more than they do and that they are at significant risk.,0
"Using the F-22 gun would've been risky. The plane to shot would have had to get close to the balloon. Now a balloon being shot could behave unexpectedly and as it is so big, it could create a problem for a fighter getting too close to it at high altitudes, where the thin air affects the maneuverability of an aircraft.","The Oakland Oceanic Air Traffic Control was reporting sightings of the balloon, with multiple commercial pilots saying they’d seen it. Reports were that it was flying at an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 feet.",0
"If youve 'fled' from China and left relatives behind, all the government has to do is take away your family members' hukous, and life becomes immeasurably difficult. No 'official' status, so can't get a job, can't travel (let alone leave the country), can't go to school, etc. To a very real extent, you cease to exist in normally functioning society.","None of this is 'visible' to any of us... it almost all happens behind the scenes, especially given how insular Canadian Chinatowns in particular are.",0
"Okay, I'm putting that on my short list. Maybe ""Nikki Nimroda"" to connect the dots better for his followers.","FOLLOWER 1: Can they run for office? I thought reservations were, like separate countries or sumthin'.",0
"It's pretty genius of those officials, from a purely evil point if view. The country gets a shitload of bad reputation. But the people who voted to have it take place in Qatar can just say ""well, we didn't expect qatar to behave this way."".","Sure. If only Musk didn't waste so much money on Twitter, he could probably bribe them into doing it at some point.",1
"the article does mention the US: ""This year, six countries outside of Europe – Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, South Korea and the United States"".","there are 6 non- European countries on the list. Canada (7) does well in media literacy, the US is at 18 (but tied with SK, Austria, and Portugal so potentially 15) a little above the half way point. It's under annex III, the expanded list.",1
I don't understand how you could think that presidents should have to release their tax records but candidates should not.,Only if you try to make it “disqualifying.” You could pass a law requiring the IRS to furnish the tax returns filed by the President to the public.,1
"Yeah, I remember a few decades ago a study was done on UN focus and it showed that they disproportionately focused on Israel over every other country.","Russia; invades ukraine without justification, commits genocide, rape, steals children, rapes children, does mass murder, theft, threatens to use nuclear weapons if anyone tries to stop them.",0
"Technically, Kansans voted not to amend their state constitution to overturn a . So Kansas hasn't passed anything after Dobbs.","Minnesota was indeed the first state to pass a bill through the state legislature to protect reproductive choice after Dobbs. (, in the next few months.).",0
It's insane and horribly depressing to me that the US is one of the richest most powerful nations on the planet and overwhelming majority of the work force can't afford to retire before 60. What the fuck is the point of life if you go to school for the first 18-24ish years of your life then work into your late 60s onward. What the fuck are we doing?,"Both sets of my grandparents retired in their mid 50s and died in their late 70s early 80s, and one is still alive, they had decades after retirement to just live their lives.",0
The National Archive formally notified Trump of the Documents and multiple requests were made for their return. There is zero plausible deniability in Trump's case. Trump knew he had the documents and willfully refused to cooperate with the law.,Having documents isn't the crime Trump is accused of. Refusing to return documents and obstructing efforts to retrieve documents is the crime Trump is accused of.,0
"Someone who has billions of dollars and multiple passports is one kind of flight risk, but someone who just doesn’t care about the consequences of getting a bench warrant is another. Making the latter have some skin in the game helps facilitate them showing up, and is a far more common scenario in the criminal justice system that the billionaire fleeing the country on his yacht.",Making bail excessive to the point that a person has no means to pay it is a problem - but that calls for a different kind of reform than simply eliminating cash bail.,0
"Measles might just be a bad cold and body rash for you, if you're really lucky. But boy, does it have some effects if you're unlucky. It can cause encephalitis (brain inflammation) - including some up to _27 years_ after you get infected. It can blind and/or deafen you. It can so that you get reinfected by all the _other_ diseases you already had immunity to.","...unless you have a compromised immune system. Measles vaccine is a live vaccine so some of us can't take it, which leaves us completely vulnerable to measles and the assholes who don't vaccinate their kids.",1
"Good lord i've been hearing this crap for a decade now. BRICS will never make its own currency and its absurd to even suggest that that will. The Saudis won't do shit they need the US to deal with Iran. Would you care to guess who is allied with Iran? That's right, most BRICS countries.",BRICS isn't new. And I think the only reason why there was a lull in the media about it was due to Bolsonaro trying to distance Brazil from it altogether.,1
"At the end of the day, they tow the party line. If they don't, they get shunned, ostracized, kick out of the village and forced to survive in the woods alone. That's it. The fear of their own mob turning on them.","Edit: ""Shunning is a dangerous practice used by cults. Those who are kicked out of authoritarian religious organizations are cut off from their entire social universe."".",0
But the flipside was a political cartoon that I saw that showed that close to 50% of people STILL voted for election deniers. That is very sobering.,"I just checked. It was Michelle Obama on Colbert on last Monday’s show (November 14th - available OnDemand) where she said she warned everyone while he was busy debating Hillary Clinton, that he was not qualified to be president. That chaos would ensue. That the office of the president is “no joke.“ Tragically, that’s exactly what happened. If she said it, she really was prescient. And every time they talked about chaos and how they used that as a fulcrum to get elected, I can’t help but think of Sandra Bullock’s 2015 movie, “Our Brand Is Crisis.” Obama pointed out during her session with Colbert that the last several election cycles where people used that to scare people to vote for the Republican candidate citing all the havoc that is going on in our country currently, it did not fly at all.",0
You have to persuade people who don't always automatically agree with you 100% of the time to win elections.,I don't think I agree with that based on the fact that the independent vote swings wildly from one election to another. Here's an article on the subject with some research:,0
"This was the most deliberate sabotaging by Phil Knight too. He initially backed and heavily funded the Independent candidate (pulling away Democratic votes) before suddenly weeks before the election having a ‘change of heart’ and backing and heavily funding the Republican candidate. It’s so fucked that rich people can just do this. Voting Independent wouldn’t be a bad thing if Oregon and America had Ranked Choice Voting. Unfortunately we do yet, and therefore if you don’t vote Republican or Democrat currently, you’re increasing the odds of the worst and least-liked candidate winning.","YES, with Ranked Choice Voting people will be able to vote for whoever and everyone (ranked) they please without risking the least-liked-by-everyone candidate winning. With RCV, election outcomes would actually represent what everyone most agrees with - no more extremism or sworn party loyalty because with RCV we can constructively vote for whoever the heck we want. Our votes get the most mileage with RCV. All of this would immeasurably better our democracy.",0
"Depends on the crews, to be honest. If they are crewed well, that is an absolute force to be reckoned with. They are very capable machines. If they're operated poorly, their addition won't mean much aside from soaking up a few Russian munitions, which, still counts for something.","It certainly won't be a cakewalk, but Russia isn't really capable of supporting a massive push of 500,000 soldiers.",1
"But yes, let's talk about Israel's moral advantage because the Palestinians sure are winning on that front /s.","I'm surprised nothing as large as this has happened before. I guess Palestinians killing two civilians, filming their bodies mocking them, then dancing in the street.. crossed a line. Still, cars can be replaced. Let's be thankful that the settlers have not copied the Palestinians and started shooting at Palestinian civilians at bus stops, restaurants or stabbing them to death in their bedrooms.",0
"News sites get revenue from visits to their sites (through ads on their sites). If the typical Reddit user isn't clicking through the link and reading the article anyways, then why should the news site get paid for that?","Yes, which would mean that Reddit (and in turn us) would be paying that news organization for the right to give them more traffic...",1
"um, except this kind of shit isn’t supposed to influence the Grand Jury, and why they are specifically instructed to not watch stuff about their case in the media and not take into account anything NOT presented in court.","It won’t affect the case against Trump & Co as the special grand jury doesn’t issue indictments, only recommendations which the DA has to then decide.",1
"My point is that a substantial amount of people will pay for a cheaper product even if it's not necessary for them to make ends meet. Grocery stores usually sell more than groceries and if you take a peak at what's locked behind the glass doors, you'll have a better understanding of what's being stolen and sold.",I'm not missing the point. There's a black market commodity for just about anything on the basis that people want to save money.,0
"Without IP protection, any person would be able to copy and modify the ARM architecture as they wanted to.","IP protection should not be awarded for public research grants, but if someone privately funded a new innovation, they deserve to make money off of it.",0
"So I would say the Swiss are neither neutral nor intelligent when it comes to handling their ""neutrality"". Maintaining neutrality until the bad guy wins and decides to take you over seems like a pretty stupid idea. And financially aiding one combatant in a war over the other doesn't seem very neutral even if it is to protect yourself.","Even if you don't think it is, sending weapons in any way shape or form is picking a side, righteous or not, and therefore not neutral.",1
"But old civilisations as advanced as the Greeks or Mayans disappear without a single buried tool, cave painting depicting buildings or rock carving?","I find it highly likely that there were stone age complex civilizations that we have little or know evidence of long, long before 6000 years ago. I don't find that much of a stretch at all. There was a huge city somewhere near the Mississippi before European contact that likely was significantly larger and more economically complex than London at the same time. But they didn't work metal, so evidence of the city was difficult to find.",1
"Since he’s a malignant narcissist I guarantee he is going through absolute hell. He’ll eventually figure out who to blame and how in order to make himself feel better, but right now he’s in meltdown mode. I also guarantee he has started a running list of who is blaming him and who is hinting at supporting desantis. If the challenges to his ego are sufficient enough he’ll split from the GOP and begin his own party, tearing down everyone on those lists and anyone else he perceives as having been disloyal in the process.","I don’t think the crazy hate is going back in the box. They’ve always been this way, but they were just better at hiding it before the tea party crap began. And once trump appeared on the scene the lid to Pandora’s box of fascism got ripped off and will never close again.",0
rental lot returns are parked very VERY close. This was a problem in southwest florida international's car fire that caught from car to car consuming thousands of cars a few years back.,"I was standing at the last link's fire when the first car went up and watched it burn through the first car, hit the fuel tank and then get all the 5 cars adjacent to it, and they caught all the cars near them and so on. I used my fire extinguisher, and in the time it took the on property ready fire crew to get there, there were dozens of cars already burned out.",0
"Does Israel officially have nukes? Did South Africa ever officially have nukes, whilst they still had them?",Saudi lives subcontracting for thing. They didn't send Saudi troops to Bosnia to protect the Bosnian Muslims. They just sent a few mercenaries. This way KSA has nukes but doesnt have the political and environmental costs of having them.,0
"Republicans tolerated Trump's very overt racism, bigotry, fraud, and even his fucking violence and treason... so long as they believed that he guaranteed them power. Now that Trump is not a guaranteed path to power the Republicans are trying to pretend that they have any scruples to speak of; this is theater. If the current shifts and Combover Caligula becomes their best means of gaining power in 2024, they'll suddenly all be back on board with him and all of his bullshit and they absolutely will not give a shit about it.","How to tell when ""enough is enough"" for Republicans: does the person in question have power, or provide a means by which power may be attained? If yes, then there is no bottom, absolutely nothing is off limits, power is all that matters. If no, then they need to be done away with ASAP because their stupid bullshit might prevent/stall/slow the acquisition of power.",0
"“China has helped Africa to get out of the blackmail of some western countries, which wanted to treat African countries as if they were slaves countries”.","Personally, i'm glad China is more involved in Africa, not because i want them to own it/exploit it (they will try), but because the west/IMF have given them horribly exploitative ""deals"" for decades. The West has to be more fair in our dealings now to prevent African countries from accepting the many objectively better deals currently offered by the Chinese government.",1
There is no point in rushing a 6th generation fighter to market as there is nothing to even compete with the f35 so why compete with yourself? They need to sell as many 5th generations as possible before announcing the next is ready. For all we know the 6th generation might be a flightless AI fighter. Technology moves fast and if you don't think the u.s. military has secret technology you're delusional. Also the b2 is not a fighter jet they play different roles.,"Yes, the F-35 can kick the ass of every other small plane out there (just not the F22 which is larger and more expensive). But if they ran with several cheaper, and faster to deliver projects (an F16 replacement, an F14 replacement, etc, and maybe some requirement that a helmet and computers can be used in all of them) they might be ready to have 6th gen fighters ready to roll out now.",1
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The reason why the threat of court packing worked with FDR was because he was overwhelmingly popular in the country and enjoyed a great deal of support in congress.,"dont get me wrong i think we are long overdue having more justices given how many court circuits we have, but i honestly dont have much confidence in it happening.",0
"If your government start locking up jews, stoning lgbtq, and oppressing women then I'm sure people would start protesting. It's funny how most Palestinians don't seem to care that and only believe jew=bad...",They don’t want to be Israel most Palestinians hate Jews and by extension Israeli citizens. Jordan did occupy the territory at one point and that would’ve worked out if the other nearby Arab nations didn’t get all pissy about it. Why did they get pissy you ask? Because they like the current situation it allows them to get rid of undesirables and allows terrorist organizations that are funded by these nations to attack Israel without them having to actually go to war. On the matter of war every single country that borders Israel would attack them the second they think they could win and they have launched coordinated unprompted wars on Israel in the past. Yeah ultimately the people living Palestine get fucked but there isn’t really anything Israeli realistically could do to help stop that.,1
"You said ""they aren't going to be able to stop the NATO/American campaign to destroy their nuclear launch capability"". Single drone/missile strike will never destroy entire Russian nuclear arsenal or even most of it. Bombers are only 1/3 of their nuclear arsenal, and nuclear silos are pretty resistant.",Mass missile launch (and anything less would not destroy all nuclear silos) is impossible to miss. Nukes would be launched well before missiles reach their targets.,0
Yet this isn’t a purely materialistic or class concern. I feel that this movement in behalf of the poor is the most moral thing — it is saying that every man is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.,"In bible, the rich man was punished because he passed beggar Lazarus every day and did not see him … and I tell you if this country does not see its poor — if it lets them remain in their poverty and misery — it will surely go to hell!"".",0
"Tracking assets at an enterprise level is _hard_, especially when it comes to documenting how things leave service. I can't imagine how hard it is with such a large org.","That's not to say there isn't corruption to be worked on, but there's also going to be a lot of investment needed to improve asset tracking, it's going to take a long time to implement, and it still will never be perfect.",0
"(Like, for a minute. One of the rule changes that McCarthy already allowed was for a simple majority to unseat a speaker, so any outcome from any vote, no matter what is more or less non binding - which seems oddly fitting, coming from republicans.).",Huh. That could be an out for some of the GOP rebels...except that McCarthy would need (checks numbers) like 12 of them to defect TO HIM to beat Jeffries even by one vote.,1
"Air supremacy would absolutely prevent a couple of schmucks from doing a lot of things. Artillery warfare as seen in Ukraine become impossible with air supremacy. I mostly agree with the other guy, but the US also invests in air defense, considering we have Patriots, THAAD, Aegis, NASAMs and C-RAMs, which can handle the artillery and missiles bit, the last of which is the ideal for handling drones like Shaheds.","Also America is basically leading the entire military over there, and when the country setting up how the military works is literally an ocean away and has near zero risk of being hit by aircraft the military in Europe is not going to be super heavily funding air defense.",1
"San Fransisco has around a dozen enormous high density mixed used housing projects ever year...Its not a lack of housing thats the problem, its the cost of living. Your average blue collar worker cant afford to live there, you work for the city...You cant afford to live there either.","It has nothing to do with supply of housing, when they are constantly building large housing projects. There are multiple issues. Corporations and Banks buying up property and holding units and homes empty to manipulate the housing market. Or Cities and Corporate interests colluding together to drive up property values to increase taxes and profits. Banks and Corporations intentionally overbidding on property to drive up prices. If developers can only profit off of making high end custom homes and luxury apartments, a large percentage of the public is not going to be able to afford to live in new housing. New construction drives up the cost of existing housing...Because there is absolutely no way to outbuild demand.",0
"You could say that the Qatar government is evil and its people are negligent and should be ashamed for not caring about basic human rights. But you can’t say “All Arabs are bad, Islam should be extinguished from existence.”- that’s the tone many hold in these detailed comment sections.","Redditors quarreling about something as mundane as beer, or which football team is the best is perfectly fine. When the same quarrels derails into racism, homophobia, transphobia or whatever discrimination against a certain group of people passes the line in my book.",0
"they are just referencing the research paper that is literally from the philadelphia federal reserve, one of the 12 central banks.","However, people here seem to be in denial about the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's study being legitimate. This is not some private bank, this is one of the many regional branches of the Federal Reserve, aka our national bank that sets interest rates and such.",1
"When you go through the long documented history of Trump, you will discover he cannot admit he's lost. He will absolutely fill courts full of insane amounts of lawsuits in an attempt to make it too frustrating to deal with him (he's used this tactic since the 80's). He does not believe rules apply to him and he will absolutely sow doubt and attempt to torpedo anything that stands between him and his absolute ""need"" to be a ""winner"". It's a compulsion, and pretending that he will do anything less is ignoring everything he's ever done.","Donald Trump does not think strategically. In every single case he undermines anyone who ""beats"" him. He wouldn't endorse DeSantis, he'd launch a third party bid, raise a bunch of funds and burn the GOP to the ground. He is absolutely incapable of stepping back from the spotlight even when it's to his own benefit. He'll also likely sue the GOP in an attempt to ""prove"" he didn't lose. He'll claim DeSantis cheated, just as he did when Ted Cruz beat him. He will lash out and claim DeSantis is part of the ""Deep State"" trying to ""take him down"". Anyone thinking he will do anything gracefully has not paid any attention to his past behavior over the years and years of documentation that we have.",0
"I'm for a fentanyl vaccine but I don't think it's gonna help addicts as much as ppl think. Addicts are the demand and trust me the current conglomerate of narco states have plenty of supply and ways to make it even deadlier for the average user. We need safe injecting sites, needle exchanges and a ton more methadone/Suboxone clinics if we want to make a dent in the current opioid crisis.",There are plenty of less commonly used ultra potent Opioids that can be used for pain relief/sedation.,1
The big problem the author notes with needle exchanges is that most are not associated with addiction treatment.,"All this is doing is making it so those who are addicted are no longer going to be arrested for their addiction. I think we can both agree that's an objective win, right?",1
"The independent state legislature theory presents an interesting problem though. Constitutionally, the congress alone has the power to reject slates of questionable electors (in which case the state legislature would vote.) This ISL scheme is simply intended to eliminate this congressional over site and as such, would be unconstitutional. However, the current SCOTUS isn't really bound by the Constitution or precedent and they might still rule in favor. If they do,there is nothing to be enforced by the executive. However, the Congress could still address it directly, ignoring this ISL claptrap by making it illegal. Constitutionally, the states can prescribe how they handle elections, however ""the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations"" (Article 1, Section 4).",But there's checks and balances on the Supreme Court as well - both from the legislative and executive branch.,0
"The UN is a diplomatic forum for representaties of all the world's nations, it was created because so future world wars could be prevented, not to install a new world order.","The nations of the world had very little say in its formation, although that isn't to say they opposed it - obviously they didn't - but in 1945 ""the world"" was basically Washinon DC, London and Moscow, with Paris and Beijing being honorary members.",1
"No, you have no idea what you are talking about. Most Chinese have been vaccinated for 3 times. In China, they developed multiple apps to track people's datas. You would be forbidden entry to many places like stores, bakery, malls, workplaces, if your QR code showed you were not qualified. Before they loosened the covid policy, people literally needed to line up and do a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test every two days in order to be able to work. In some places, they needed to do a test every single day.","Do correct me if I'm wrong, because it seems that you clearly have lived in China at least for a while. I thought vaccination would affect QR codes, because it shows right under the code that if you have been vaccinated or not. And I have yet to meet someone who has not been vaccinated. Hence my conclusion. Unlike the Americans who sometimes have this rebel spirit and choose to not get vaccinated, the Chinese are often very submissive, to be vaccinated or not, that is not a matter of choice. Anyway, if you know any person who's not vaccinated but is free to go to any place, please feel free to share the story with me.",0
"In the past, overtly fascist candidates like Trump, MTG, etc. wouldn’t have made it through the primaries. Conversely, establishment candidates like Reagan, Bush and Dole would never get elected today.","I’m more confused why you want to paint Reagan as some compassionate moderate conservative, when he was anything but. I’m starting to think you don’t remember the 80s at all.",1
"I agree it should be extended to anyone at-risk or experiencing homelessness. This sorta sets up a dynamic of ""well yah but this group of people is more important than those imminently facing homelessness"". Boooo. I do understand and agree with programs to help marginalized populations, but when we're talking about critically needed income assistance to the impoverished in general, I don't think it's the right arena to be creating divides with regard to who deserves it more inside at-risk populations.","I'm under no impression that generalized programs to try to realistically end homelessness would ever happen though, because we know how people feel about caring for the general well-being of their community. Even inside deeply liberal cities there's a lot of quieter ""NIMBY/F-ck you I got mine"" attitudes.",0
"She refused to move into the WH until Trump agreed to reopen their prenup and give her more money. Can you fucking imagine the shitstorm if a Democrat president was married to an immigrant who clearly hated him, hated the idea of being First Lady, and saw his presidency only as an opportunity to gain financial leverage for herself? There's also the fact that even when she did sack up and move into the WH, she almost certainly didn't actually live there full time. Feels like Fox News would have had plenty to say about that.","Exactly. Trump literally spent multiple hours a day - at least 3, probably closer to 5 - watching TV and tweeting about everything he saw that hurt his feelings. We know this not only because the people who worked with him told reporters about it, but also because we could all see his twitter account. He would tweet immediate responses to segments on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, or whatever other channel he watched. I remember a bunch of people would use the time stamps on his tweets to show what was playing on TV at those exact times. He would also record a ton of cable news shows to watch later on, and we always knew when he did, because he couldn't stop himself from tweeting about it. It's just so wild to me that Trump literally didn't do any actual work while he was president, he barely even bothered to hide that fact, and Republicans were just cool with it.",0
"I also don't know how you came to the conclusion I was shitting on progressives and young people.Fetterman ran a moderate campaign and denied being a progressives,those are facts.","Shapiro wasn't exactly some centrist, either, even if he wasn't as vocal a progressive as Fetterman. Just look at his work as PA AG pushing back against the Trump administration. As for the election results, I think that it is less that Shapiro overperformed Fetterman and more that Mastriano underperformed Oz (because while Oz is a carpetbagger, Mastriano is a White Christian Nationalist who attended J6). Add to that Fetterman's health, and it is no surprise that Shapiro did better even without examining either Democrats' policy positions.",1
The lawyers might be doing the same trick here with hiring yet another party and that would insulate Trump who could have deniability (1st party -.,Knowing Trump he is paying them enough to perform a BS search and sign off for him to deny he has more docs.,0
"What does Canada need tanks for anyway? I mean, outside of NATO assistance it's extremely unlikely that Canada is ever attacked in a land war - to the south there is only the USA and on the Eastern front there's Alaska (again USA) to protect against possibly dumb AF Russians.","I’d say the opposite, I highly doubt America would let any invaders gain a foothold in North America, even if they attack Canada its in America’s best interest to not let that happen.",1
"P.S. Perhaps all of the 1/6 ""tourists"" should also consider suing Fox News since their propagation of lies most likely led them into believing the election was stolen, etc., etc., etc.","So.... how the fck can crap like this be allowed to happen? I understand ""freedom of speech"", but you can't go into a crowded theater screaming fire. Isn't blatantly lying about topics like this the same thing, especially when you have a audience of MILLIONS of people who trust you?",0
"Why does everyone think companies move at a snail's pace? Second guy answering that. Would love to have that work experience, that's guaranteed. New projects have to be launched in no more than one month and sooner the better.","For example, there was a couple of users replying to me saying that Twitter usage has been down since Elon takeover, which is factually false and confirmed by basically every source you can check.",0
"russia pushed back out of whole Kharkiv oblast - ""yeah but let's be real that's all Ukraine could do"".","That's just a ""let's give away russia what they claimed"" masked with ""let's be real"". Try to actually be real - every single centimeter of Ukrainian terrotiry will be liberated. And until then - there will be no compromises.",0
I honestly can’t figure out who the announcement was for. Do they think the Americans expect the Russians to just not try to blow up the stuff we gave Ukraine?,"I don't think anyone in any country supplying weapons to Ukraine expected anything different? It is a bit odd, almost like showing their hand how nervous Kremlin is about provoking a NATO response.",1
Yea I'm not arguing there are going to be devastating effects at 2C warming. There absolutely will be.,"That's not even strictly true. At this point, it's not about preventing climate change, but mitigating the damage it causes. Any nation making decisive movements in the right direction helps. A unified global effort is just both more effective and spreads the economic damage more evenly.",1
"Not to defend Oz (I voted Fetterman) - but at one point oz actually was a doctor. I don’t think he was just like twiddling his mustache and torturing dogs, but worked in the medical profession where there was/is animal experimentation.",Welcome to politics in America. It suuuucks. Make people get emotional about the other party. I voted fetterman because I didn’t want Oz to win. My candidate of choice was Richard Weiss.,0
"Also, ""ethnic Russians living in Ukraine"" is funny. They are called Ukrainians. Don't parrot Putin's propaganda about those mythical ""ethnic Russians living in Ukraine"" please. :/.","Relatives. A lot of Ukrainians have relatives in Russia, seeing that we used to be one country at some point, and after the division the border control and immigration policy were very lax until about 2012-14. Think like Canada-US interconnectedness, it's about the same - used to be.",0
Military equipment being used in a war is always a legitimate target. It’s a damn weird war when you aren’t allowed to shoot at the enemy’s weapons.,I honestly can’t figure out who the announcement was for. Do they think the Americans expect the Russians to just not try to blow up the stuff we gave Ukraine?,0
"And of course, no Republicans will cross the aisle because they'd be out on their ass in the next primary.","This was a giant PR/campaigning opportunity, and the Dems did nothing but sit there and giggle about how dumb the Republicans look. Who cares about the reality of the situation - most voters would just remember democrats actively reached across the aisle to try and break up partisanship.",1
"I didn't know that. Being ex mormon, I thought that we were particularly susceptible. I suspect we still might be with so many mlm's that come out of Utah, and we're trained to proselytize from the moment we're born.","Edit: I should say that not all Utahns are, but so many of them are. It also doesn’t help when sales pitches are structured in the way of “I felt the spirit tell me to do this…” and then they use LDS tactics to sell to their fellow members.",1
"They can still be culturally Muslims, like a lot of Jewish atheists are culturally Jewish and in North America a lot of us atheists are culturally Christian.","I never said there weren't religious people, just that the Nordic countries aren't typically religious countries, my country of Sweden is believed to be about 80% atheist.",1
"This is why I compensate my employees for any additional effort put in, on top of keeping a competitive wage.","In return, when I ask for the extra help to push through on stuff, I get it. No questions asked, and turnover is very low.",0
No prefecture has an age of consent below 16 so practically it is already illegal to have sex with anyone below 16 (or 18 depending on where you are) everywhere in Japan.,"Well, technically the age of consent was already 16 to 18; but this was set at the prefectural level. What this change will do is shut down the marriage loophole that some prefectures have (and exists in some US states too).",1
"Democrats believe that they are voted in to actually represent the people that voted them in, which -- yes, sadly -- does require them to speak up for the minority (see: conservatives) sometimes, as they are still people and still fall under the purview of ""should have representation"". They don't boss people around, they aren't browbeating the minority into ""shutting up and accepting the loss"", they aren't one to turn around and say ""here's the new laws that you have to follow, so deal with it or else the cops will be all over you"".","One side thinks they're elected to be boss people around, the other side thinks they're elected to lead.",0
">This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine—an excellent measure of prior consumption—the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous.",That is highly highly unlikely. Any meat product that is cured or prepared like a hot dog must have nitrites in them.,0
"Come on, Switzerland. You can do better. There are alot more than $8 billion of Russian assets in the Swiss banks, probably more than $8 billion of Russian origin on each of big Swiss banks starting from UBS, Credit Suisse, and bunch of private banks with names ordinary people never even heard of.","As with their EU counterparts, Swiss banks are banned from accepting deposits from Russian nationals or people or entities based in Russia of more than 100,000 francs, and have been ordered to declare all existing deposits over that amount.",1
"Primaries are important, but when it comes to ""The guy who tried a fucking coup"" and ""the guy that's milquetoast centrist skewing slightly right, I'm voting against the coup people.","I’d rather not vote for someone this old but if it’s between him and little authoritarian DeSantis or a guy who attempted a fucking coup there’s no contest. Hopefully he swaps VP, given his age it’s sort of important who his VP is and it shouldn’t be Harris. Just make up some bullshit about her needing to turn it down for family reasons.",1
"They're trying to get rid of corruption, so they can resemble an EU member state, instead of resembling an ex Soviet Union state, with close ties to Russia.",We shouldn’t underestimate how much corruption is part of the very culture of government in Ukraine as it is in Russia.,1
"i'm not a gun person at all- never owned one, never shot one, etc. but the 2A clearly does not limit your right to bear arms to small firearms or semiautomatic or anything of the sort. anyone who thinks that heavy artillery should be regulated/illegal and AR15s shouldn't doesn't really care about the constitution or our rights.","honestly, it's more easily argued that the constitution technically protects your rights to have any weapon than it is to argue that the constitution allows for any weapons to be banned.",0
"Even more reason to allow them to vote, if they’re willing to challenge their parents, they’ll do this regardless of whether they’re allowed to vote, difference being if they can vote they’re able to actively contribute to change.","So the ability to change political alignment is a bad thing, and should be considered on whether you allow someone to vote? I’d say the opposite.",0
"I think it's safe to assume that the CIA, MI5, and Mossad are present in Iran, I wonder what they're up to? As much as I'd love to see regime change it would be counter-productive to stage another coup directly. Iranians need to claim this win themselves in order for it to be legitimate. But they could really use some help, and I really wish The West could give a lot more attention to it, and whatever support is right for the circumstances. The US and Iran had a great relationship up until the British convinced us to stage the coup, and I'd love for that to be restored along with the Democracy they once had.",It would be so amazing for Iran to return to the Democracy it pursued before the coup. I'd love to see the great relationship that existed between the US and Iran pre-coup return.,0
You heard the story of him crashing the ribbon cutting for a nursery school for children with AIDS? It'll be like that.,"That’s the thing. The MAGA people don’t like leftists, but we basically did what we were supposed to do by voting for Democrats.",1
"It's also worth noting that two Justices faced impeachment: one in 1965 who resigned before impeachment proceedings could begin (for working as a paid consultant to someone accused of committing a crime), and one who was impeached by the House (and acquitted by the Senate) for political bias on the bench.","Look up the history of impeachment in the US, once upon a time even being suspect of impartiality (like being hyper-partisan) was considered a disqualifier - they never would've been nominated much less needed to be removed. Now the only judges republicans have nominated going back even before to Reagan are federalist society hacks.",1
Putin has been reporting he has hypersonic missiles since trump sold him Americas secrets about the nuclear tipped hypersonic weapons .,He got a jet to fly at hypersonic speeds the shoot a missile thenc alled it russia's response to the US.,0
"2. And by the way, the things we have taken down to protect civilian air traffic are no longer a threat to safety. We continue to investigate and are working with partners to ensure the things flying in our airspace are registered with the FAA and other authorities.","1. That's why I'm charging my transportation secretary with launching a new, integrated database that will allow us to track any object in the sky, whether it be something commercial....or something more nefarious.",0
"As for your incredulity at trebling the population and keeping emissions the same... This was your suggestion not mine. I simply pointed out that those people came from somewhere, so the places they came from will have decreased emissions, thus an overall gain.","Also, if you treble the poulation of the US and keep emissions the same, you will have decreased worldwide emissions - because those people came from somewhere.",0
"The Swiss franc is an international reserve currency along with USD, Euro, Yen and GBP. It turbulent times it is seen as a safe currency and so as money flows out of other reserve currencies and into Swiss francs, it’s relative value has gone up, irrespective of their economy. That makes imports super cheap and their exports super expensive, which is very bad for their balance of trade and their economy overall.","The strong franc makes problems of course, especially in the economy that is focused on exports. But it has also positive effects, like when you import resources and goods, you pay less because of the strong currency.",1
"I can see where you’re coming from, we’re going to get a lot more grandstanding and political stunts for the cameras. I’m not sure how to prevent that, so I agree it’s a valid concern lol speaking personally, I’ve never had more of an actual idea of what congresspeople do than I do now after having watched all of the speaker votes. I felt it was informative getting to see them mingling during breaks, and doubly so being able to join the live Reddit chat where people posted clips, articles, etc. during the proceedings. It may not be as authentic as that was, but I’ve never been more engaged in what’s happening and I’m all for others getting to have a similar experience.","I 100% agree, and also that makes those 5 days that much funnier lol “I’m going to keep humiliating you on national tv until you agree to let me keep doing it for the next two years”.",0
"Nuclear power plants don't produce gas, so they are not suddenly able to provide fuel for all the gas heaters in homes. And as France just showed, nuclear power plants have clear downsides. Also the industry needs gas for all kinds of things which electricity will never be able to replace.",Germany is using gas peaker plants to produce electricity. There’s more than 30 GW worth of capacity installed in Germany that utilizes gas for electricity production. Each and every of those 30 GW could be replaced by nuclear.,1
"The big inflection point will be when the collective Orthodox groups possibly crush the system with their population. They are generally pro-conflict but dodge conscription. They are big segment of the welfare population. And to avoid the conscription, many go into religious schooling. So they aren't generating as much gdp. At some point, there might be a large outflow of Israelis because the system is stacked in favor of Orthodoxy.","Most Israelis are against expanding settlements, it is being done to get the favor of the far-right. So most Israelis then vote far-right, which will most likely expand the settlements even further, which will fuel even more retaliation from palestine, and yes, that includes rocket launches and 'terror attacks"" from the people whose land and homes Israel has illegally taken - which is what Israelis are so scared of that they keep electing the far right.",1
"I hope other colonial powers(English, French, Spain and Portugal) starts apologising and returning the loot and artefacts of African, South American and south Asian countries.","And before sending any artifact back, maybe we should make sure that they aren't lynching their own people for being a different colour (looking at you South Africa), and maybe start building a developed country? Because i'm 100% sure those artifacts would just be stolen and sold to the medium bidder.",1
"Who in the hell, as a politician, can get away with saying they think you shouldn't have citizenship if you think other countries are better? That's some actual 1984 shit, and this ass got close enough to being elected that they have to try again. It's especially egregious considering that if you look at the numbers, there are better counties that do exist, and they are empirically doing a better job. I wouldn't be surprised if he was in favor of pretending those countries don't exist, or making it a crime to point out that other countries do things better.","That's ""you better think America is the best or we'll prevent you from even being considered a citizen"".",0
"A nonpartisan map is required by the state constitution, but the Republicans played games, dragged it out and basically forced the state to use one of their bullshit maps because ""we need some map for the election and this is the best we've got."".",But yeah. People are absolutely purposefully miseducated and indoctrinated against critical thinking here in the United States. They'd vote for perceived charisma over any actual policy bonafides any day. Which is problematic since when it comes to politics. Those with charisma almost never have workable policy. And those with policy almost never have charisma. Outside a rare few like Feterman recently in PA.,1
"Here's the thing guys, we(Brasil) cant choose one side, we cant afford that. If Brasil chooses one side for ever our economy will go bad, Brasil always must be a neutral country because that is better for our economy.",Brasil always wants to be everyone's friend until someone attacks us.( like WW1 and WW2) OR some other country forces a dictatorship in here( like how the USA did).,0
Just because reddit lacks all ability to see nuance in an argument I agree that women should be able to leave and that the Taliban are nutjobs. I am just sick of people pointing at religious nutjobs and saying those “brainwashed men” are doing this… There is always a group of nutty women in the dumpster fire with the probably majority men group.,If you don’t think there is a surprising amount of hardcore brainwashed religious women that want this too you don’t know that like most groups of people they don’t unanimously agree on anything.,0
"Ukraine did not attack Russia. They just wanted to be left alone, keep their 1991 borders and thrive with partners of their choice. Ukraine did not threaten anyone. They wanted democracy and self-determination. But Putin didn't give a shit. His fucking legacy, greed and delusional vision of history required him to launch one last psychotic war before he would fucking die. Piece of shit. I hope he gets to rot in hell when his time comes.","This war is between DEMOCRACY and FASCISM. Ukraine CANNOT lose, WE cannot lose, or the world order of post-WW2 will start to crumble.",0
"Dominion is seeking like 1.6 billion. They probably won't get that much, but it could be pretty significant. This isn't a fine, it is damages in a civil suit.",Even with these civil cases it has some bearing. You can't successfully sue just because a news org got something wrong. They have to know it is wrong info and damaging to you.,0
"""'Older prisoners only had to show they could march a few yards' to be recruited, one of the fighters said.","""'Ukrainians with real combat experience will be released from custody and will be able to compensate for their guilt in the hottest spots,' Zelensky said."".",0
"Not really. The Mi-8 is a transport helicopter. Not exactly maneuverable. Using the autocannon is actually probably the better option, since it's more cost effective, and against something that slow, it's actually probably more reliable. A missile could overshoot, but the GAU-8/A is going to put holes through everything in a 40' diameter circle.","The main reason to use UAP instead of UFO is because most UAP are exactly that -- ""aerial phenomena"". Lights reflecting off a cloud? That's not a flying object, but it is an aerial phenomena. Glowing ball of gas above the local dump? Same thing.",0
"It's not that there's no option, it's just that you can't get enough Republican votes to reach the 2/3 threshold.","If you accept that two parties are the only options, outside of a general ass ""independent"" vote. What's actually happening isn't possibility reflected in what's being talked about in political circles, where outcomes in politics are more important than the substance of voters/issues.",1
"While I agree that she is an utter moron and supported a terrorist regime. She is actually British, and should be tried and imprisoned for her crimes here. She might not deserve that justice, but it certainly should be her right. Especially considering she has been left stateless as a result of being stripped.","She is not rendered stateless, she lost citizenship in her preferred state. That’s a huge difference.",1
That's all it is. Giving up a little sunlight while we shower & shave in order to play outside together later. It's literally nothing more than that.,"It's actually the other way around I think. The northern states prefer DST since it results in a bit more evening light in the winter (because the further north you go in winter, the less overall daylight there is).",1
"That said, you probably want a saturation attack to include more than 50 missiles to have a good chance at hitting multiple valuable targets.",Military equipment being used in a war is always a legitimate target. It’s a damn weird war when you aren’t allowed to shoot at the enemy’s weapons.,1
"That’s actually something slightly different, that’s the “returning soldier syndrome” and that pertains to total number of children born after the time of war, ie increased numbers all around, compared to just an increase in boys being born.","Returning soldier syndrome is actually slightly different if I’m mistaken, what I saw it was talking about taller soldiers more likely to return from war, more likely to have a taller partner, and therefore have better chances to pump out 8-12 children.",0
"Third, the Supreme Court has no power to enforce its rulings. It must rely on the executive for enforcement.","First, the Congress can control their jurisdiction. Anything not specifically enumerated within the Constitution (e.g., trying cases between states) can be removed so that the court cannot accept cases or rule on it.",0
"As I understand it, the meaning of ACAB isn't that every individual cop is as blisteringly corrupt and violent as the next. It's more that the bad apples do spoil the barrel, and that every 'good cop' is guilty of enabling the real bastards, if not actively aiding and abbeting thier corruption.","There are some truely upstanding cops out there, but even the most pure of heart has to choose some level of complicity, or rejection and abuse from their peers.",0
"This conflict was absolutely atrocious. All major combatants (Tigrayan forces, Ethiopian military, and Eritrean military) are responsible for large-scale, widespread atrocities/human rights violations (mass rape, induced famine, indiscriminate murder of civilians, etc).","Just so everyone's aware, a peace agreement was signed a few weeks ago, which includes the total and permanent cessation of hostilities. We of course can't predict the future, but so far it seems like this one will stick. Citizens in Ethiopia are very hopeful this time!",0
"You could argue that Nuclear is a renewable given it's possible to build reactors that produce more fissile material than they consume as well as recycle spent fuel into new fuel, and increasingly economical methods of extracting uranium from seawater.","A significant portion of the costs associated with nuclear power have to do with aging reactor designs and limited construction; more widespread adoption of new nuclear plants would drive costs down dramatically, just like it did with solar.",0
I bet migration of retirees from the Midwest (+PA) to Florida can explain why Democrats have managed to remain competitive in those states. It’s the sacrificial lamb.,"If the way Miami voted this year is indicative of a lasting shift, Democrats can write off Florida for at least a couple cycles.",0
"Nobody loves Russia. It's more about mistrust of the west for historical reasons and disdain for what some consider a condescending attitude towards South Asians. Ironically though, the Modi administration in power since 2014 that gets a lot of hate from westerners is actually the most pro-west/US administration India has ever had. They have been slowly reducing the heavy military reliance on Russia over the years and turning to western countries like France and Israel instead. Such decoupling doesn't happen overnight though and is a multi-decade process.","For starters, I see you stating this over and over in multiple comments. . Would appreciate it if you stopped pushing this implied narrative of China having massively bigger trade with India than the US.",0
"There are strict limits - 0.15% BAC. That's a level where you have trouble walking, let alone driving.","Hmmmm, every time the rule has been discussed, it has been mentioned that non-owners would instead get fined equivalent to the value of the car.",0
"It is also worth mentioning that Appalachia, and especially West Virginia, have political roots that are pretty damned hard left. Labor uprisings in the region did a lot for labor rights throughout much of the twentieth century. A huge number of younger Appalachians have come to proudly embrace that part of Appalachian history and culture while recognizing the systemic injustices and corporate exploitation that still plagues the region, and so there’s been a major revitalization of leftism here.","Although it wasn’t West Virginia, I grew up pretty close to there in one of the most poor and rural areas in Central Appalachia. I’m a younger millennial, just on the cusp of being Gen Z. From what I’ve observed, younger people tend to skew left in general - even in areas where older generations tend to be overwhelmingly conservative. If the Democratic Party continues to view traditionally red states as political monoliths, it would be a mistake of massive proportions.",0
Assange claims he didn't know it was from the Russians. The US claims that he did. The former would be journalism (i.e; the reporters who published the Snowden leaks were never indicted). The latter is espionage.,Looks like he's being charged as a spy. I'm surprised. I don't think most will stick. He's not a citizen. I'm not even sure he can be charged for breaking our laws while in another country.,1
"The conspiring claim says that Assange directed Manning on how to hack/steal the documents, which he did not do. He acted as a journalist and published the information for the public. We may never know if the conspiring claims by the US government is legitimate because its simply a way for the Government to save face after having war crimes exposed. It did shut him up as he now fears for his life. After they attempted false charges out of Sweden to try and get Assange out of the Embassy, I don't know how I could ever believe anything the Government has to say about Assange. They lie more times than not. Why wouldn't they lie about something that incriminates them to try and shift the blame of the conversation?","I have reasonable doubt the charges against him are even real. Just like the sneaky trick they pulled with the fake Sweden charges, totally fabricated and dropped. The US ""has evidence"" but won't reveal it until Assange is in trial for Treason which is not a fair trial process. So I see why he would not want to risk his liberty to defend himself against a fake charge. Same with the claim that what he did cost American lives. Its all talk but ultimately there is no events to even point towards to prove it. Never trust a government, especial a government's word. All they are trying to do is deflect attention from the War Crimes they were caught guiltily of, with Video footage of it. They wanted to shoot the messenger but didn't have a reason to, so they made up a reason to.",0
"Why stop there? Why not guarantee every working American 7 paid sick days per year. Since we are gonna fix our health, let's also restructure Amercan healthcare so when you get sick, it doesn't ruin you financially.","I agree with you 100%. They are fucked up. The worst part is the people we elect to speak for us, to protect us, and to make the laws we want don't do any of those things. They cave to corporate pressure, lobbyist, and foreign money. Most of our elected officials get into politics because it is guaranteed to make you stinking rich! There is not one poor politician that I can think of. They make policy that makes them rich. Insider trading...the list goes on and on. It is sad.",0
"Compare how Arabs are treated in Israel to how Jews are treated in Palestine, then get back to me on which is the ""apartheid"" society. Compare how women are treated, how LGBT are treated, how their justice system works.","With that in mind I chose to look at how the two societies treat their women, their LGBT and how one treats the other in their homeland. In absolutely every category Israel comes out ahead and yet supposed ""leftists"" support the bastards... simply because Republicans like Israel.",0
Where the big debate with Russia is what are their minimum levels. 120 if true is incredibly low. Like thats borderline inadequate for a war with just Estonia. What has kept real analysts surprised is just how low Russia is willing to push its stocks.,"As an example the US still has about 20,000 javelins but are very reluctant to send more as they feel 20,000 is minimum just in case level.",0
"The process is often multi-directional, however. The House may pass a bill and send it to the Senate. Then the Senate may make changes or alterations. At that point it goes back to the House to reconcile the differences before going to the President. The Senate can draft bills but they still have to get passed by the House before they can be given an up or down vote in the Senate.","House and Senate are both needed to even get bills to have the potential to become law. The House can originate bills more easily (that's its job), but that doesn't mean the Senate has to officially vote on what the House sends them.",0
"There’s now been documents found in two locations, an office and Biden’s personal home….the logical next question would be are there anymore anywhere else?","— Nov. 2, 2022: Biden’s personal attorneys come across Obama-Biden administration documents in a locked closet while packing files as they prepare to close out Biden’s office in the Penn Biden Center. They notify the National Archives.",1
"Those 8 unions make up less than half of all railroad workers. This isn’t hard to figure out. Ignore the number of unions, pay more attention to the percentage of workers that voted against this deal and told their union reps to try again or we strike.",Majorities in both parties voted to strip the unions of their right to strike and force an agreement on them that the majority of workers had already rejected.,1
"On the other hand, if Israel launches a preemptive strike against Iran, it sets a dangerous precedent. Not only will Iran and Israel likely be committed to full-scale war, they will drag the US and Russia into it, complicating an already bad enough situation in Ukraine. This is the kind of thing which leads to true WW3.","If Iran gets nukes, it will completely transform the middle east forever, in a likely bad way, considering how unstable it is without nukes. Religious radicalization is a bad combo with nukes (including Israel), and they will certainly proliferate through the region in the same way as NATO has done through Europe. This is bad for the survival of the world.",0
- maybe we need an amnesty period for other senior leaders to self report now and turn over everything they accumulated without intent to steal.,"I’m thinking there needs to be a general amnesty declared for former and current federally elected folks with access to look for and turn in anything they find. Say 6 months from now. After that, we get to assume you are keeping the documents for nefarious purposes and bring the hammer down.",1
"There has been too much retaliation and injustice by both sides. Someone has to break the chain. Two people get murdered, so several dozen are about to die, so more people will be murdered. The Palestinians think that the Israeli goal is to exterminate every single one of them, a belief which the Israeli government never seems to work too hard to disabuse them of.","But until they are you'll get murders, Israel needs to reign in its settlers and Palestinian terrorists can be dealt with as a separate issue then.",1
"My point is: from the Western intelligence's point of view that should be a likely scenario, yet there was little deterrence made to dissuade Russia.","Assuming both armies performed according to the expectations, would that mean Russia would likely successfully occupy Ukraine?",0
"russia pushed out of Snake Island (propaganda says it was a goodwill gesture, lol) which completely nullifies their chances to block Ukraine from sea and their offensive completely halts - ""yeah but let's be real, Ukraine can't get any territory back"".","russia claims to capture Luhansk oblast, Donetsk oblast, Mykolaiv oblast, block Ukraine from sea and make land corridor to Transnistria (russian puppet fake state in Moldova) up to 9th of May (big russian holiday), then end of May, then 10 of June, then end of June, after which they just stopped making deadlines - ultimatively fails - ""yeah but let's be real, Ukraine has no chance against russia"".",0
"Roberts, if you want to fix the ethics of the Court, you could start by resigning. There are a lot of reforms that should be done, but perhaps you are not thee person who should do them.","The impeachment process used to work. In the last 225 years, 15 federal judges have been impeached. According to Google:",0
"There is an organization that calls itself the Satanic Temple. They do stuff like file lawsuits claiming that abortion is a sacrament in their religion and abortion bans infringe on their religious freedom, and start After School Satan clubs as a counterpoint to after school religious clubs in public schools. Basically they take the “religious freedom” laws that some evangelicals want to push, and turn it back on them. They’re all right.",They should be. I’m going to bust out my strongest crystals and send death vibes at Putin this weekend. Everyone else should do the same. Let’s see if we can wish him dead.,1
"I’d have to agree with that. Older democrats think the country is way more conservative than it is, and keep pushing the blue dog types on us.",Apparently the Republicans want to save America by making sure 2024 is an absolute blue wave for the Democrats. Or they’re absolute morons who are lost in their own bubble of misinformation.,1
Many republicans that “starving the beast” aka not funding the government or just having it be so distunctional people defund it is the answer. Also there are a lot of narcissists and idiots involved. So it’s kinda hard to predict where it will go because if everyone is acting in self interest hard to track who wants what.,This is pretty similar to the end of the Whig party. Party had no platform. They were too far apart to agree on anything. And then a civil war kicked in. Hopefully only first two happen. But I always figured trump would either rule us all or destroy the Republican Party as we knew it.,0
"""Typical symptoms of croup include: a bark-like cough a hoarse or croaky voice difficulty breathing a harsh grating sound when breathing in, called stridor Stridor is often most noticeable when the child cries or coughs. But in more severe cases of croup it can also occur when the child is resting or sleeping. Symptoms tend to be worse at night."".",Yes. Entirely anecdotal evidence that I catch very few colds when I keep my house cooler and more humid. But it works for me. I was also wondering why no mention of viruses and dry conditions too.,1
"However, the GOP also doesn’t want to set the precedent that GOP politicians can actually be held accountable. Quite the conundrum!","I would think it’s in the GOPs best interest to get him convicted, jailed, and out of the way ASAP so they can focus on someone new.",0
"in Russia, the church has long been a business. there are donation boxes for the church in every store. the clergy drive expensive cars, wear expensive watches. they are like rappers in the united states.","I would not want a bloody revolution. But I know that Russia will soon end. I just don’t want China to have influence after the collapse of Russia. Therefore, we will have to look for partners in Europe or the USA.",0
"If he makes it a full term, great, the new VP can then be the nominee for 2028. But he can't just ignore people's concerns about it.","Honestly, the problem isn't him, it's Harris. She's not pulling any weight as VP and has proven to be a mistake. Biden needs to replace her as VP in 2024 with a strong candidate that can potentially act as his successor if and when the time comes.",0
The British filled NI with many non Irish over the centuries that it's no longer a majority Irish so I don't see them ever getting back together with ROI.,It's because northern Ireland had a much more extensive settler system than the rest of Ireland under British rule. Meaning a much larger percentage of residents are descent from Scottish and English Settlers rather than Irish. That combined with the industrialization of the North that drove more internal UK immigration into the region and the historical rampant sectarianism between the mostly Protestant settlers and converted Irish and the mostly Catholic Irish means the Unionists historically don't trust Irish to treat them fairly in a country where they would have an absolute super majority over the Protestant and settler descent communities.,1
"The Eastern Orthodox church does not originate from Russia nor is this a Russian tradition. The difference in dates has to do with calander systems. Julian dating systems were kept by the Orthodox church while the Catholics moved dates to account for the time difference of the, at the time, newer Gregorian calender system. Some orthodox countries like Greece have moved to the new date but many have not.","Some Orthodox countries have moved to the new dating system like Greece. I'm sure many Ukrainians personally celebrate on the 7th, all of who've I've asked have, but that's not many.",0
I'd guess not too long if illnesses were sort of common. Making fire may have been a little difficult when they first figured out cooking food.,"I would guess it's very likely they did, but the primary motivation was that it tasted better and smelled better.",0
"I do not understand why I was purged though - I voted in November 2020 for sure, and I did not move between then and now.","I've been voting since the mid-90s and I never felt democracy was on the line until 2020. I don:t know how anyone else felt, but that was my personal feeling.",1
"But my favourite part was when the judge explained to Trump’s lawyers the difference between libel and slander, cause they didn’t get it right….","It is not odd how no one has came forth with a lawsuit against Clinton like there was against Trump? I mean, we hear about lawsuits being field all the time that are damaging to someone’s reputation only for the suit to be dropped later without much fanfare. No one can come forward to even present the look of a civil suit against Clinton?",1
"Now that you know my truth, please explain to me why this statement that ""it disproportionately affects women"" is not complete and utter bull$ +?","My reply was to point out that while both genders are negatively affected by this, that does not make it gender neutral because one is and has been more negatively affected. If this is to be a gender neutral issue, as in we all recognize that both genders are significantly harmed by patriarchal gender stereotypes, then we must also do that do all issues involving sexism. I am absolutely all for that and think we should. However, in doing so, we can not deny the differences in levels of harm, or we will not be able to find solutions that fully support both genders equitably.",1
"Pelosi can hold together the Democratic coalition, no one on the Right will be able to keep them together....there's too much batshittery on the right.","Honestly, I hope Dem votes come through, HOWEVER... the GOP only having a vote or two majority trying to hold that putrid coalition together would be really fun to watch.",1
"It isn't, Amsterdam loses money on tourism... The amount of money spent on police required to keep them in check and the amount of damages the tourists cause doesn't even get covered by what Amsterdam 'earns' on tourism. Also almost all employees of restaurants and whatnot in the city centre are people with work visas, most money doesn't even end up in Amsterdam. There's Dutch articles on this if you want a source, couldn't find an English one sorry.","Tourism is very lucrative of course, but that's not what I meant though I probably didn't explain properly. What I meant is that inhabitants of Amsterdam such as myself don't see any of the money being brought in by tourists. The main effect these people have is driving up prices for basically anything from housing to groceries in the city, and the money they do spend disappears in the pockets of a few rich multinational corporations. While there's shockingly little insight into where exactly all this tourism money goes, it's an undisputed fact that housing has become ridiculously expensive in great part due to tourism (AirBnB for example).",0
"Lol this book isn’t about sales. He’s obviously positioning for a presidential run on a “take the party back from maga” platform. He’s done this interview, and one with CNN. Plus the book.","He’s trying to wipe four years of being in Trump’s administration off his shirt before he sits down at the primary table. Doesn’t seem doable, and frankly, I don’t think anyone in R-world other than DeSantis has a chance at beating Trump in a primary, especially not someone positioning himself across the maga base.",0
"Other methods must need to have parts replaced and maintenance waste too - or other waste that is produced as a result. Is it worth writing wind energy off as not worth pursuing in other countries because its not environmentally friendly in other countries who say, rely heavily on coal?","Of course, compared to something like coal plants, wind energy is less emmissive. But compared to other renewable sources such as hydro, nuclear (technically not renewable, but so effecient that it may aswell be), and even solar. Wind energy is just horribly space inefficient, resource intensive, and damaging to surrounding landscapes and wildlife.",1
"Republicans, for whatever reason, ASSUME that if Democrats take control of the legislature, that they (the Democrats) will treat Republicans like Republicans treat Democrats when Republicans are in power.",Democrats don't eviscerate oversight committees in order to make hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars disappear.,0
"Let’s be clear: PKK attacked a security checkpoint, and your country is bombing civilians in response. Just because you had an earthquake doesn’t mean Turkey is unaccountable for its actions. And when your own government is declining aid from other countries, I don’t wanna hear that the problem is so serious you’re immune to any criticism for bombing civilians.","Someone gets into conflict with neigbour on the other side of the planet, and US just HAS to show them some democracy, invade or bomb civilians for three months straight, just HAS to (given they are weaker and pose no personal threat).",1
"No, that's a conservative corporate-favoring stance for him to take. Not remotely neutral. Neutral would be ""let the unions and the businesses fight it out, this is a free market."".","So its not one or the other. Force the Rail companies to give the Unions what they want. Instead, Biden is forcing the Unions to take what the Rail companies want.",1
"I just want to be friends with India. Holding on to the Cold War/War on Terror grudges is understandably harder for India than the US, but citing Pakistan as the reason is kind of nonsense, when both the US and Pakistan despise each other. We’re aligned with India in many, many ways, and the US has been courting India for YEARS in the fight to limit Chinese expansion.",Explain to me why India would abandon a decades long relationship with a key geopolitical ally to pivot towards a U.S. that in the next administration might very well turn hostile against it (just like we’re doing against China now). Of course these countries would be better off on good terms with the US - too bad our 70+ year history of complete foreign policy clusterfucks literally pushes most of the world to remain non-aligned or seek consistent security in the arms of Russia or China.,1
"Civilian sats are already dual-use items. Something isn't magically ""civilian only"" just because the vendor says it is. It matters what it can be used for, not what it's intended use is. Ukraine demonstrated Starlink has military uses (likely not surprising anyone), so if it wasn't dual use before (it likely was) or will be soon.",The US government was GPS guided bombs and missiles. They operate off the exact same satellite signals. You think those are limited in any ways other than technical ones?,0
"A caution on undoing gerrymandering completely: if you had 100% competitive districts, you could end up in a situation where one party wins every single seat and could potentially do so by razor thin margins in every district giving you a hypothetical where a party wins 50.01% of the vote and has 100% of the seats.","Dems are around 30-35 of the vote in most races and there are 0 dems (2 senators, 4 house reps) elected, the main democratic area has been cracked into 3 60/40 conservative districts to neutralize the democratic voters.",1
"The other thing to remember is that there is a lot wrong with North Korea. They don’t have good infrastructure to transport shells, they’re storage for shells is probably horrible and dishonesty is endemic in the culture. There’s just a very long way from “Russia wants shells and North Korea wants to sell” to “Russia has actual working shells” and there’s a lot that can go wrong in that chain.",I agree with that assessment. My guess is the Soviet Union had huge stockpiles but a lot of these were sold off (both officially and unofficially) in the 90s plus Russia has had a number of wars and conflicts since then so they’re stockpiles got used up and not replaced. Russia had plenty of shells for a short war but they tens of millions and they just don’t have them.,0
"Most people against Nord Stream were against it for any number of selfish reasons, in many cases completely unrelated to actually caring about the EUs or Germany's energy security. Trump, for example, just wanted to sell more US LNG in Europe.","> Russian LNG made up 16 per cent of European seaborne imports during the period. While the total volume of 17.8 billion cubic metres represented a fraction of the 62.1 bcm pipeline gas flows during this time, it nevertheless leaves Europe exposed to Vladimir Putin’s weaponisation of energy.",1
"That said, the modern PA has made some compromises with Israel. Not in terms of a lasting peace plan or anything major, but they do generally (outside of particularly large flare-ups like this month) cooperate with Israel on day-to-day matters like minor civil things, taxation, and even limited security cooperation.","Bibi accepting extremists into his coalition to avoid corruption charges, Abbas likely dying of old age soon without any successor, and Hamas increasingly having a presence in the West Bank. Good fucking luck, Blinken.",0
"The relevant issue here is race, since one of the issues of this bill is to protect interracial marriage. She is of Han decent. Which is more commonly referred to as racially Chinese.",Han Chinese is the largest ethnic group but there are smaller ethnic groups as well. I appreciate your attempt to continue the conversation even if you can't quite get the facts correct.,1
"Those are all traditionally conservative values and align with the definition of “conservative.” The GOP is not conservative, and the Democratic Party is actually right of center as far as global politics are concerned.","while we agree both that the dems aren’t liberal, and the gop not conservative, and we both share pretty well overlapped values, i think you may actually be confused by what the textbook definition of conservative is. you don’t sound remotely conservative. you might want dig into that a bit more before describing yourself to people as conservative.",1
"The Saudi bombing campaign has been atrocious, but there's still legitimate reasons to support the UN recognized Yemeni government over the Houthi movement.","It's horrible what's happening in Yemen, but don't start pretending those murderous bastards are some sort of freedom loving local heroes.",1
"Codifying a right to abortion nationally is that much easier and people aren't idiots, they know that if things continue to swing right with the current day manifestation of the GOP that they will not stop at abortion and it will only be a harder fight. It will absolutely effect the run off, of course it will - people are emotional creatures, the fact that the right just got fucking spanked over trying to take us back to the last century and are still going hard for trying to pass laws that are going to kill women is what takes precedence.",It's actually kind of silly to think it won't. Since when is the public perfectly rational? How will this put a damper on an already red hot enthusiasm amongst dems in Georgia exactly?,0
"To any Spanish person here, wasn't that already the case before? In Germany I can take paid sick days for virtually any reason and certainly debilitating pain, even if it's in my toe.","Huh! I assume normal sick days are paid for by the company (that's how it is in Germany), so only in this specific case does the social security system jump in? That seems counterintuitive, but could stop employers from not hiring women for fear that they may have to pay them for three sick days every months.",0
So every year we keep reaffirming with our votes that this status quo is fine with us. Every election that does not dramatically shift the composition of congress to a progressive majority that wants to tax and regulate corporate wealth the way that everyone who complains about an oligarchy wants it to - is a granting of permission for the oligarchy to proceed.,"Every election, 80% or more of the votes are cast for either Republicans who want to expand the oligarchy or centrist democrats who want to do little to nothing about it. This includes the primaries, where progressive candidates routinely lose.",0
"Poland has been saying for two weeks now that it wants to give leopard 2 to Ukraine, for which German approval is needed.",Issue 1: Poland and Allies giving their Leopard 2s to Ukraine and needing German approval for that. Thats what this media circus is about.,0
"So when somebody agrees with you it's generally a poor idea to rush to devalue or undermine that opinion, even if the person agreeing with you is rather disagreeable.","Yeah, so I kind of think that a well known conservative Republican coming out and announcing his support for solar power is demonstrably different than a liberal Democrat announcing the same thing.",0
"Uh, yeah. He's right. There would have been a lot of people shot in that crowd, by either the police or National Guard. But a bunch of white folks? Nah they're not terrorists; that's just ""legitimate political discourse."".","Yeah. No fucking shit. Watching it unfold on live TV being met with the most impotent law enforcement response of all time was about as clear a display of white privilege as there has ever been in history. If the the 1/6 insurrectionists were black, they'd have been killed before they got to the doors.",1
O dang never mind the Vice President team or Biden did take just a few documents and maybe some more but sorry we will never lie again and be transparent.,"Which fact doesn't in itself ensure all documents were properly returned, or that Biden is responsible for them not being returned. Maybe he failed to get things done, maybe staff or contractors under his direction failed to get things done, or maybe government employees failed to get things done. We don't have enough information to even know who was responsible for ensuring these documents were returned. Presumably the investigation will clarify such matters.",1
"Not at all, there is doubt if he is even a US citizen. He's lied about everything else how do we know he's telling the truth about being born in NY? Immigration should absolutely be investigating him. Note that even if he got naturalized at some point if he's found to have lied on immigration documents they can and should take away his citizenship.",A habitual liar suspected of fraud who obtained citizenship by an alleged green card marriage third in line for the presidency with an ACTIVE arrest warrant in a foreign nation. Now this is the new story lines I was hoping for in 23.,1
"This is exactly why Republicans vote for him. They have a tendency to wildly oversimplify every problem in the universe. There is nothing that can't be solved with a one-sentence soundbyte. Like ""take care of business"" or ""get the job done"". They think Democrats are so stupid, that they just simply never thought of trying to reduce inflation or end wars or cure COVID by looking the problem in the eye, shaking its hand, and asking to speak to its manager.","And nearly half of the country is willing to lie to themselves that he is as good as he says, because they'd rather have an incompetent and malevolent idiot Republican in charge than any Democrat. Whether it's a hatred of taxes, fear of change, or simply wanting to stop minorities and women from being ""uppity"", they've rallied behind this guy simply because he has said the most and compromised the least on what they want to hear. Results don't really matter, just feelings.",1
"There's a clause in the Constitution that requires the federal government to ""guarantee"" a ""republican form of government"" in the states. The Federal government actually used this clause to impose martial law in various southern states after the Civil War.","Does it really matter how they're created? The federal constitution obviously states ""state legislatures"" (and multiple times, not just in this one Clause in question) and it clearly dictates that a representative form of government must exist in the states (which is not defined, so a state could in theory adopt a parliamentary or semi-presidential government). So it's not so much how they're created by the state (and what constraints the state constitution might apply to them), but rather that a ""legislature"", in terms of a representative body, must exist at all and whatever that ""legislature"" is they have the power that is given to legislatures in general (that is, to make laws).",0
"It allows the final result to more accurately represent the will of the people, you can safely vote for an independent if you want, and then your vote will go to who you would prefer from the major parties instead of being wasted.","We have preferential voting here in Australia (same thing different name I guess), and being able to have your first preference for someone you actually want, and then being able to say, well, if I can't have who I want, then I would prefer this candidate next. It means you can vote for someone who is more representative of you, and still giving your vote to someone who represents you more if your best choice doesnt win.",0
No one will take you seriously if you don't realize incentivising college educations will pay dividends toward the future of this country. We've shifted primarily to a service based economy and if we ever want to get our manufacturing sector to grow again we need educated people to design and create new technologies that can be made here.,"They were included, they were just too dumb to realize. What are all of those college kids going to do with that new disposable income now, put it in a mattress? Fuck no, they're going to buy things they need and want. That money goes back into the economy where people who make, and provide those goods and services are taxed on everything they do and buy then the money goes back into the government.",0
"Who are you, Sideshow Bob? “I am presently incarcerated, imprisoned for a crime I did not even commit. ""Attempted murder,"" now honestly, did they ever give anyone a Nobel prize for ""attempted chemistry?"".",Ikr. I have no hope for this either. It’s a shame that US democracy seems as farcical as the notion of judicial justice when it comes to people with any ounce of lobbying and economic power beyond the norm.,1
"This is not true. The youngest preemies to ever survive have been 21 weeks. Beyond those special few, survival rates at 21 weeks are exceedingly low. Even 24 weeks is still dicey. The gestational age at which most infants will survive if born then is 26+ weeks.","Viability is more than ""will the fetus survive birth"". It includes consideration for quality of life. It sounds like the private details being kept from us suggest that the quality of life in this case won't be very good at all. It might even be downright cruel depending on circumstances. We just don't know.",1
You call it incompetence but it's just reality. A human detective cannot reasonably analyze videos from all over the city and read license plates and figure out that a car was spotted near five crime scenes. It would take them forever and we can't have a detective working on 1 case watching videos for weeks.,The software in question is literally just digitizing the workflow that a human investigator would have to go through.,0
"Germany is reluctant to be tough on Russia because of the horrors they inflicted on the USSR, and don't want German tanks to be used there.",I think if Germany gave the tanks they'd be helping defend against the imperialism their country once inflicted on Europe.,0
"Came in there and was like we can do soo much better. Let’s make this public - private partnership and run this a bit differently. We’re get the benefits of the titles, private planes, security team, office team and create our own patronages and engagements. While self funding through media and book deals.",Meg: We will go make our own millions and get a proper mansion while being free of the media tabloids and this grey weather. $120 million + and going she is laughing her way to the bank.,0
Apparently these Crazies and Fundamentalists are not different enough for Real Christians^^TM to bother taking a stand against folks doing Evil in your name.,"If these Christians exist, all they do is act as a beard to give these hateful radicals a better name.",0
"Yeah. It's hard to overstate how good the US and Russia have been dismantling their arsenals from Cold War peaks. Both have drawn down over 90% of their nuclear weapons, and the largest bottleneck in removing more is that dismantling the things is slow and expensive.",The United States in the 60's had over 30k nuclear bombs or warheads and by 1986 the Soviets had 45k nuclear bombs and warheads. Many of these were tactical nukes meant to be used by fighter jets or short range missiles on the frontline of battles.,1
My brother says that ransomware and state sponsored infiltrations for the most part are the most common forms these days. Is that what you're seeing as well? (He's also in cybersecurity).,"I am not surprised at all. Considering how interconnected everyone is there really isn't a way to ""cut Russia off"".",0
The republicans like her more than the democrats. Fox news has been talking favorably of Sinema. So I'm not so sure she'd be syphoning votes from democrats.,"My concern isn't that she'd take Democrat votes. My concern is that AZ is probably still a lot like GA, where a Democrat needs a lot of moderate votes to win. It's her winning votes from independents and moderate Republicans that might vote for Gallegos over a Trumpy Republican that could cost Democrats.",1
"Christian Nationalists, at this point, are white supremacists. Religion is, and always has been, a tool of oppression by way of getting followers to obey at the threat of ""the other"".",They'll have fuckin talks about when it should have been used in the past and what Democrat presidents were actually terrorists while in office... They'll try to find a way to label Biden's son a Terrorist. They'll call Hillary a Terrorist.,0
"While there are likely insiders who may be speaking to trusted sources (ie not this news outlet), it’s more likely that this is a story generated by people looking to make Putin look weak and raise further doubts about his health. It’s the same tactic as the other humiliating stories that have been put out about various leaders, like U.S. President Joe Biden supposedly losing his bowels at the Vatican (for context: Biden angers many staunch Catholics by taking communion when he’s pro-choice, so the choice of the Vatican as the site of him supposedly soiling himself isn’t surprising). Then there are all the stories of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un’s dietary excess, and rumors every few years that he’s on life support or even dead from gluttony-induced health issues.","If any of you remember the rumors a few years back about Kim Jong Un's health, the rumors of his ill health was likely used as a way to figure out who was and wasn't loyal. Regardless of the accuracy of the rumors it's the potential inner power struggle that reveals who is loyal and isn't if the rumors are credible within the inner circle.",1
"Sinema will get less than 2.4% of the total vote, and that none of those voters who previously voted for her will vote Republican instead of a progressive Democrat.","So in a race between Sinema and a Republican, Sinema wins by 60k votes (2.4%). What you are telling me is that in a race with Sinema, a Progressive Democrat and a Republican, that the incumbent will get less than 2.4% of the vote (with the rest of there support going to the Dem), or that a progressive will somehow win Republican voters over?",0
"The use of a tactical nuke launched from a fixed wing aircraft could totally be (and I think will be) how we first see nuclear weapons used again. Total nuclear war is suicide, everyone knows that, so when a nuclear power next gets existentially threatened, I think it'll use a small tactical nuke as a last resort. It lets the other guy know you mean business in the most extreme sense, hoping or betting there won't be a full force response. I think that's a good bet too.",A dark advantage to multiple warhead ICBMs is there ability to mitigate anti ballistic missile measures.,0
"People are ridiculous, this art will not matter if society does not exist to protect it and allow us enjoy it communally. We are on the brink of collapse and the kids doing this shit are more brave than any of us keyboard warriors. How do you suggest they protest to raise awareness?",What type of protest is most convenient for you? A convenient protest CERTAINLY has no impact either.,1
"And it isn’t because the “misleading” thing about them is that the APR is misleading. What’s misleading is portraying it as something which is temporary. Well, OxyContin was meant to be temporary as well. And yet Purdue found a way to break the system to make it not temporary. Same with payday loan parasites.","So are Payday loans nasty and exploitative? Yeah I think so. All I'm saying is ""OMG LOOK AT THE HUGE APR!"" is misleading.",1
So why are you defending this huge piece of shit? Why are you pretending that he's a good person? Where's your argument that he's a good person worth defending?,It's no wonder you defend him tooth and nail even when he's committed so many atrocities. You're not mentally equipped to see the many terrible things he's done.,0
"Since Congress decides statehood, technically they could do whatever they want to decide statehood, even without the approval of the territory or by using a discriminatory referendum.",">The House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation that would require  to conduct a binding referendum on whether residents wish to become the 51st American state, an independent country, or remain sovereign but associated with the United States.",1
Are Serbs driven into the arms of the EU and away from Russia by the actions of non-Russian countries?,"The two countries with the intelligence that has been spoken about, Moldova and Ukraine, are not EU members. Pretty wild that Serbia can be be driven away from the EU and into the arms of Russia by the actions of non-EU members.",0
"A belief may be irrational, but if it exists at scale in the larger population, what really matters is what can be done about it and what should be done. In this case, not blaming Black people (because of their history with institutions) for being afraid of institutions is the right course of action.","The Tuskegee experiment is just one of a long line of events where people in authority treated Black people as disposable. It was (and arguably still is) indicative of deep seated problems in the culture of American instituions. Hence why the author points out that it's not a distrust of the medical community specifically, as it is a distrust of institutions.",1
"Yeah the US is on another level bad. And the culture is worse too. I know how it is in France and Italy at least (where I've been), even if people aren't happy about economic prospects and shit, the people including young still ""enjoy"" life and try to make the most out of it. Meanwhile American youngsters go into full depressive doom mode as we see on Reddit and other English language media.","I'm not making fun of our American youngsters - I find this actually so saddening for us. Our culture makes this so much worse than it should, we put up with this bs yet feel powerless. I wish we were more like Italians but alas it takes a generation for any cultural change to even happen.",0
"What the fuck are any of us, AK-47 or not. Going to do against the US military that has jets, tanks, stealth bombers and shit that we've never even seen? But bob with his arthritis can topple the government.",You drop these rednecks off in the middle of Romania and you tell them to go fight their millitary. They'd get their asses kicked. And they're out here thinking they can take on the US government by force.,0
No trouble. If you want to learn more r/Moldova would be more than happy point you in the right direction. r/Transnistria is also very active and happy to share if you ask nicely. I think there’s a few people from Tiraspol who hang around there.,"Like Ukraine, the leadership of Moldova is also very pro West. The Party of Action and Solidarity, which holds a healthy majority in the Moldovan parliament and the presidency, heavily supports EU integration. The Communist Party, the only relevant opposition has traditionally supported Russia although its influence has heavily waned with the Ukrainian crisis. Corruption is a rampant problem no matter the political party or office but mostly can be tied to Russian influence.",0
"Remember, the founders of America put Separation of Church and State as the guiding principle of our constitution for a reason and why did they do that???? Because the Church of England was the only sanctioned church in Great Britain and they wanted freedom from forced religious beliefs. Read and learn so that you will be better educated about how and why our country was founded and why the pilgrim's left england and why that principal is so very important.","Although the words “separation of church and state” do not appear in the First Amendment, the ""establishment clause"" was intended to separate church from state. When the First Amendment was adopted in 1791, the establishment clause applied only to the federal government, prohibiting the federal government from any involvement in religion. By 1833, all states had disestablished religion from government, providing protections for religious liberty in state constitutions. In the 20th century, the U.S. Supreme Court applied the establishment clause to the states through the 14th Amendment. Today, the establishment clause prohibits all levels of government from either advancing or inhibiting religion.",0
I feel for all of my fellow students and I hope we see a new student-led grassroots movement to push back against what DeSantis is doing soon in FL.,I’m really glad you had that experience at the school in FL. I wish all students had that because it genuinely helps alleviate so much stress.,0
"Important to remember Covid is more deadly now so unvaccinated old people are dying at a higher rate now if they don't get proper healthcare, which is hard to get even in the USA.","A functionally unvaccinated population that's lifting quarantine rules that also has some of the oldest citizens on earth? Nah, COVID wouldn't cut through them like a hot knife through butter.",1
The smarter play is her flipping Republican and getting Mitch to promise no primary in 2024. Warnock getting the 51st screwed that plan.,"She know she can't win a Democrat primary, Democrats are winning state wide elections (albeit very very close). The better bet is going Republican, getting that backing of the party and the kudos of delivering the Senate, and get the voters who walked away from the crazy.",0
"""It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely detached from the prefatory clause. But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty. It may well be true today that a militia, to be as effective as militias in the 18th century, would require sophisticated arms that are highly unusual in society at large. Indeed, it may be true that no amount of small arms could be useful against modern-day bombers and tanks. But the fact that modern developments have limited the degree of fit between the prefatory clause and the protected right cannot change our interpretation of the right."".",. Common sense gun restrictions are desperately needed but the right always rushes to shut down any attempts at discussions for making any changes. The only ideas they allow us to try is dumb nonsense like:,1
"The speakers came off as preachy. Having some white women speak about racism, to black people... Is cringe and weird.",Its like saying ‘Civil Rights’ has passed no more discrimination in the country! When in reality we still have heavy discrimination to this day.,1
"I mean, just to name a couple... the whole Halloween incident, the president's recent (supposed but probably true) swearing against Biden and generally making a fool of ourselves overseas, losing our position in UNHRC for the first time in history, the usual continuous exposures of politicians' shady activities, NK keep firing missiles lest we forget about them (which somehow triggers old people like my mum with minor war panic). Socially people are just becoming bitter, hateful, and just selfish in general, and of course, there's the usual economic panic, although these are apparently global patterns.","What part of ""everyone hates it"" do people not understand? If you don't believe in me fine but what is left there for N.Korea propagandize anyway? Did you know that even, no, especially the youth, the teenagers, are right leaning these days? They have differing opinions, but zero people dreams about what ""N.Korea has to give"" because they _only_ have a history of taking away from us. Even propaganda needs at least a somewhat plausible basis. They have none.",0
"The difference between Ukraine and Afghanistan is that the US would be defending Ukraine against a foreign invading power, while in Afghanistan the US was the foreign invading power.",Your example would only make sense if the US had entered those countries to fight another foreign invading nation.,1
"Based on past recounts, it is unlikely to shift the final result in District 3 by more than a handful of votes. This race is going to come down to the outstanding ballots for Otero County, cured, and military/overseas ballots.","No, cured ballots and outstanding military and overseas ballots were due midnight Wednesday. The Secretary of State has until Dec. 5 to order the recount and the deadline for results is Dec. 13.",0
"Obviously these are volatile times as the world fights inflation, but the Euro is down 10% YTD, the GBP is down 10.76% and the Yuan is down 11.3%… and that’s why this is even a headline. Ghana is out of US dollars because everyone is trying to get them because their own currencies are rapidly falling….",I did just look at exchange rates though and the Cedi (Ghana) has been cut to a third of it's purchasing power compared to 3 years ago against the USD. That may be one of the bigger drivers of the switch to gold.,1
"Trump is just the epitome of what an idiot is. If he truly thinks that he wants to put an actual dome over the US, someone needs to tell him that that is just IMPOSSIBLE!","This is why there absolutely NEEDS to be an age cap on to who can be President. There's a minimum age. There needs to be a maximum age. Cap it at maybe 70. People don't want a senior citizen running the country. Same goes for Congress. Get the old people out (both Repubs and Dems). This is 2023, things are different now then they were in the 1940s or so. Need more modern and fresh ideas, and more people willing to accept change (gay and interracial marriages, the lgbtq+ community etc), people who want and believe that climate change and global warming are real, that everyone in the US NEEDS socialized medicine like a majority of the planet. Raise the minimum wage across the country that needs it to $15/hour.",0
"I’m 26, have had problems since I was an early teen. My mom has endo. The first doc she took me to was a gynae who told us she was pushing me to hard and that’s why I was in pain and it as “anxiety”. Fun fact I never had anxiety until all these doctors told me my pain was anxiety. Then I was like damn I must be anxious all the time to be in this much pain! And then a feedback loop occurs .",Edit — I really think we all should just be able to get the sick leave we need on a case by case basis ¯\\__(ツ)__//¯.,0
"Honestly, while I agree it is indeed caused by globalization, this is just bringing to rich countries what has been happening in poor countries for a long time, where rich citizens from other countries would own a lot of property there. Probably in former colonies.","Maybe not exactly applicable for this case but as an example: free trade agreements signed with third world countries back when most of the trade was the rich country selling the poor country stuff with less taxes, with the promise of increasing the trade in the other direction are finally paying off for the poorer countries. The pendulum swings, let’s see what its equilibrium point is.",0
"Maybe, but Dems have other incentives that Republicans don’t. For example, Dems might be motivated to come out and vote for Warnock because they simply don’t want a moron representing them in the Senate. But, yes, of course, every Dem in Georgia shouldn’t take victory for granted and get to the polls.","Sort of, but Georgia is still a pretty red state, despite democrats having some success in recent years(Warnock and Biden won the state). The way I see it Republicans vote for Republicans, democrats vote for Democrats no matter what, exceptions are rare. The independents decide the election, Trump and Walker are so toxic that the independents in Georgia overwhelming vote Democrat.",1
"He is incorrect in gaslighting us by casting any criticism of the Supreme Court as merely honest disagreement of opinions rather than questions about legitimacy, corruption, and partisanship in the land’s highest court. I almost never agreed with Scalia, but I always believed his opinions were rooted in a deeply held judicial philosophy. By contrast, I have not seen anything in the current court that dispels the concern that their rulings are anything other than naked partisanship. By claiming people are just unhappy that a ruling didn’t go their way, Roberts does a disservice to the court’s legitimacy with such a response that amounts to little more than “How dare you question the Court’s legitimacy!”.","Let’s see, we have judges who are appointed for life with no reasonable accountability, and they spend their time revoking peoples’ rights and ignoring the constitution. I can’t imagine why they would be concerned about their security. A nope nope.",1
"Ahh yes im sure that germany just doesnt want western tech in russian habds, thats probably why they want the us to send other, more advanced, tanks first.","Ahh yes im sure that germany just doesnt want western tech in russian habds, thats probably why they want the us to send other, more advanced, tanks first.",0
Seems more like a way for and outside force to cause chaos inside of russia. These places are easy enough to hack vs national Russia data. It isnt that hard to have a good security at high levels if you cash. Those locals places dont have the cash.,These local places definitely don’t have the cash for something like this. But some oligarchs with a shady criminal record or a president that’s having a humiliating defeat in a war. They definitely have the cash and the reason to clean up before checking out. Or being checked out by someone else.,1
Are we supposed to forget that any evil Trump committed in office was not only allowed by Republicans but celebrated?,"Even if you liked Trumps first run, you should understand that he shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the office in 2024, and I think that’s what Ryan is getting at here.",1
Medical procedures in the US cost 10x more than in other countries and the government has no ability to regulate prices.,"Yet for some reason its never a problem when they want to cut taxes or increase military spending. No, it's only an issue when we want to provide healthcare.",0
Genocide is far more common than even the genocide of the indigenous Americans & Australian-Oceanian aboriginals would suggest.,The first Homo Sapiens of England like “Cheddar Man” had Black hair & skin yet Blue eyes which is awesome.,0
"No extra clause is required because to force any church to marry someone is not, nor would it ever be permissible under the 1st Ammendment. The idea it ever was a conversation at all is a fiction straw man cooked up by the fear addled minds of conservatives. No one was ever going to force religious institutions to marry people in their ceremony when they don't want to. It violates the core of the Bill of Rights. Any language added on is just to placate the idiots who thought that was ever a thing to begin with.","As someone else replying to me said, including language about it in the bill is to placate the idiots.",1
"I cook a lot, and I've gotta say, for that purpose, gas really is just objectively better. I bet the outcome of all of this in the long run won't be getting rid of gas stoves. It'll be change to stove designs to include some sort of built in fume extractor that automatically comes on when cooking.",Compare standard gas stove to a standard induction cooktop and let me know how they stack up. Induction isn't there yet.,1
"Russia's R-36M for example carries 10, 550kt warheads, for 5.55mt total. US' largest is the Trident II with 8, 475kt warheads, for 3.8mt total.","Largest single warhead the US has is the B83 bomb, which is just 1.2mt, and that's rapidly falling out of favor. Russia has more higher yield weapons than the US does, and more low yield weapons as well. High yields are their strategic arsenal, and their low yields are their tactical arsenal designed for their nuclear escalation to descalation policy (basically drop low yield nukes because no one has as many as them, so you're forced to escalate to full on nuclear war, or try and make peace). US' arsenal is almost entirely mid yield weapons today, as it has been for several decades now...",0
THAT is what is going on here. These are the people who are doing exactly what we've asked of them. And this is how they get treated by some moronic Republican Governor?,"Imagine you are legally moving to Italy. You show up to customs, they put you on a bus, and drop you off in the middle of Rome at night. It is freezing. You have no food. You have nowhere to go. You might not even speak the language.",0
"I agree with you, but t14 has a different engine, transmission and etc. Big troubles with electronic systems. Russia can't build it a lot.","I'd caveat this that, under normal circumstances Russia can't afford to build these. Under exceptional circumstances, they could build plenty. It's safe to say that Russia isn't operating in those exceptional circumstances atm. They are still running what is largely a civilian consumer based economy.",1
"Biden could have appointed nominees committed to removing him. Biden appointees now hold a majority of the Board of Governors, and could thus vote to remove DeJoy at any time.","Biden has now appointed a majority of the current board. He chose to appoint pro-DeJoy people, that's why we've had DeJoy beyond May 2022. Biden also could fire members of the postal board, but thought it was easier to let their terms expire and avoid lawsuits. Which ok fine, but don't appoint people who are outspoken supporters of him then point to ""only the board can fire him"" as an excuse for his continued tenure.",1
My mother's family first appeared in CT in the late 1600s. There's a decent chance that I'm related to one of the witches after all this time. I don't feel the need for an apology.,I didn’t say the state had to apologize. Just saying there is/could have been an impact to descendants in terms of property and land rights confiscated that were never returned.,1
"That breaks the EU rules, and they fined Meta for not giving people a choice. This also means that Meta has to take that rule out of their terms of service and ask people's permission properly.","Meta decided not to ask people's permission, and just put a rule in their terms of service saying that you have to accept these ads - you don't like it, you can't use Facebook.",0
"IMO this is delusional, it's not like Turkeys government is going to pull out whatever stationed troops they have in Cyprus, or stop spending ""time and money"" there. There is no ""positive"" side effect to the earthquake except that it has brought the people of Greece and Turkey closer despite the differences the governments have with each other. Ultimately nothing has really changed on the Cyprus situation, Cyprus/Greece and Turkey still have to come to an agreement/understanding and until then the status quo will probably continue.","Turkey probably would like to lose Northern Cyprus in a way that doesn't make them lose face, but reunification isn't popular in Cyprus because Northern Cyprus is a mess and full of transplants, and it would harm the southern portion economically to try to fix it.",1
Please go look at any 2A community and you'll see they want everyone to exercise their right to keep and bear arms.,There has literally not been one example since Reagan of a modern day Republican politician wanting gun control because of back or brown people.,0
"Not that I know much about Peru's government, but isn't there a ""permanent assembly"" that acts as an interim congress?","The (English version) text in Peru's Constitution is: ""The President of the Republic has the power to dissolve Congress if it has censured or denied its confidence to two Cabinets."".",1
"We need to have protection for all our data. Not just certain apps, which is what's mind-blowing to me. Russia got plenty from Facebook/Insta, and may still be getting it. China has other methods of getting data, so the threat is still very much there... And I'm sure a TikTok ""alternative"" will launch that could easily still have ties to China.","They're also making a point of China's potential to use TikTok to promote or hide the videos it wants to. You have a generation of American youth who spend a couple hours a day on TikTok, that's a chance to shape opinions in China's favor for a lifetime.",1
"Its because the democrats in SC are fairly moderate, and would never vote for a candidate like Bernie. Its to help take steam out of the momentum of potential progressive candidates.",Likely too worried about a progressive candidate gaining too much early ground. Some Dems unfortunately still see Clinton’s triangulation strategy as viable so we get diet right fiscal measures and a group of people slow to codify the social issues they campaign on.,1
"In football, there’s about 20-40 seconds of downtime between every single play. Some plays only last a few seconds. In soccer there is rare downtime, and when there is they add it back in at the end of the half.","Don’t get me wrong, I’m a basketball and football guy myself. But I’m going to counter your argument because I think it is poor.",0
"Maybe I just grew up around more guns than most people, but I've seen plenty of guns become worth no more than scrap metal due to general wear and tear, lack of cleaning and maintenance, or just general mistakes. Shit happens.","I mean, if there was a ban on sales of new specific types of guns that number would solve itself. As guns break down, wind up in forgotten garages, etc if they aren't being replenished by new sales the overall number will drop. And as that number drops, the price of the banned guns on the black market skyrockets.",0
"My feeling is… again this is my opinion… Russia gets away with using one nuke. It will be on nato and the rest of the world NOT to retaliate and so restraint and the kremlin can easily blame it on Ukraine. Two is out of the question, it will be WW3 if they do… but I just don’t see them getting out of this without making such a show. Remember world: we have power, which seems to be the one thing the Russians are most upset about: pride.","They are pissed and embarrassed with what has happened and when the next offensive fails, all hell is going to break loose. Putin will either be assassinated or will die “naturally.” And then one of these power hungry thugs will have the nuke codes.",0
"They will do this with the determination that democrats should have investigated the FBI, SS, and DOJ. It’s over. Vote, but it’s pretty well settled in my mind. The right will win. I will vote and volunteer just to be able to tell myself that l tried my best to stop these fascists….","Fascism in action. They’ll keep pressuring and attacking these essential gov departments to just continually force out the career employees that are loyal to the country, so they can fill those spots with Republican loyal replacements. We’ll see it this round of midterm elections as all those poll workers and local and state election officials were attacked after the last election for doing their jobs and many of them resigned and are now replaced by Republican cronies that are ready to not certify results unless they are Red.",1
Even Pence didn't trust the secret service on Jan 6 when they were trying to force him in the car so the coup could succeed. Why would they delete and erase all of their phone records from Jan 6 AFTER the logs were requested. Sorry but there's no way that isn't some of the most sketchy sounding shit that absolutely deserves scrutiny and judgement.,"the secret service is largely made up of former law enforcement who generally align to the right. Combine that with the mass deletion of secret service texts in regards to Jan 6, the secret service is not exactly the most reliable people.",0
"For those wondering, IBAMA is the EPA of Brazil. They are very strict and powerful when allowed to exert their authority with the full support of leadership. This is a great first step for the pushback against the mass deforestation happening on the perimeters of the Amazon rainforest.",“Reforestation includes planting trees or allowing trees to regrow on land that had recently been covered with forest.”.,1
Why would you pay off the education debt of the middle and upper class when you could pay off the debts of the working class? Must have something to do with who they vote for.,"And like I said, no one needed to be bribed to vote for the left. The reasons I gave above is plenty. Plus no one had to vote for the left to receive relief. Its not some leftist ""perk."".",1
Which actually makes sense. If they lift the stay before making a decision the cat is already out of the bag.,"Say they lift the stay but ultimately rule that the debts can’t be forgiven based on the executive branch alone, do the people who get their debt forgiven in that window before the door is shut have to now repay the loans? What happens to the people who still have their loans but didn’t make that window to get their loan forgiven.",0
"Trump is a spoiled, pathetic, entitled, evil, moronic manchild who will do horrible shit purely out of spite, jealousy.and petty revenge.",It's like Good Guy Trump...brings untold hatred down onto himself in order to destroy the piece of stinking shit that is the GOP.,1
No country is going to declare war or call in Article 5 over a stray missile crossing over into their territory.,Or denying it because accepting that a missile crossed their air space and landed on their territory means they might need to call article 5 thus bringing a direct confrontation Nato-russia.,1
"Attacking Sweden without going through Finland isn't impossible, but it's a lot harder than the other way around. I could see why Finland may want Sweden to wait, but no reason why Sweden wouldn't tell Finland to go first.","Sweden obviously has no say over what Finland, a sovereign country decides to do. However I think most of us Swedes would be understanding if Finland decided to join on their own. They are in a more exposed position than Sweden geographically, and it would increase safety for Sweden as well by nearly surrounding us with NATO countries. However most are probably grateful that Finland will join together with Sweden when/if the time comes, as was always the plan.",1
"If Russia is gearing up for another offensive with 100k+ soldiers, they must be storing huge amounts of food/MREs in warehouses somewhere near the border. Russia may not consider these warehouses as high value targets for the Ukrainians and aren't protecting them with any air defense. I wonder if Ukraine could destroy these with drones.","Seems likely they can/will come up with a counter-drone that shoots down other drones. Now, if they decide to make it look like a warbird of yesteryear… I vote for a P-38 Lightning. Classic!",1
"redditors really struggle with parsing information in general, no matter the topic, because whenever its information they'd rather not be true they will be extremely critical of it and make every assumption possible that the information is bad in one way or another, but when it is information that aligns with their opinion they will assume it is so true that it is probably even better than what the information said.","its also worth keeping in mind that up until october or so there were more casualties on the ukrainian side than the russian side, by a decent margin. russia started ""losing"" when it comes to casualties around then, before that ukraine was ""losing"" on that end.",0
"From a performance perspective they wouldn't gain anything by playing such a much weaker side, and it would only be damaging to the level they're used to playing at.","Just squeezing such a weaker side like that into their busy schedule rotation is always an unproductive move, competitively speaking, so the top teams don't really enjoy the obligations that come with playing these much weaker teams because it cuts into their performance flow.",0
"So they often run unopposed, or the Democrats who do run stand no real chance of winning, which depresses Democratic voter turnout, so you can't really look at aggregate partisan turnout and take any meaningful conclusions from it.","But that doesn't account for the fact there are many districts that, either through gerrymandering or just normal demographics/district drawing, that are heavily Republican.",0
"If he had shot it down immediately they would be complaining that Biden risked American lives and infrastructure. ""What damage would it have done to the power grid if it had landed on power lines?"" and all that.","Yeah. Sorry. I mean his voting base has this weird idea about this man who was going to set things right, which unsurprisingly never manifested it's self. It was this weird cognitive dissonance where the anti government crowd continued hating the government even after the dude they elected wom and he hated the government too. So the narrative about liberal elites controlling everything just continued. Trump was the best president ever even though he's some how not in charge at all...",1
"Ukraine tells Russia to go fuck itself with the ceasefire offer given the history of Russia blatantly violating such deals a gazillion times since 2014, and the inanity of asking for a ceasefire while retreating in the midst of an invasion that genocidal. Russia makes a sad face and cries ""why u no want peace"", calls Ukraine a warmonger, and has the usual audience of brain-dead morons point fingers at Ukraine, NATO, the EU, etc.","No concessions to Russia, no appeasement, no ceasefire, and no peace talks until the last Russian soldier leaves Ukrainian land (pre-2014 borders).",0
"The broader point about NASAMs being more appropriate is still a valid one though— sidewinders are ridiculously common, and the system has lower training barriers.","NASAMS, with its ability to use comparably cheaper and more plentiful AMRAAM and Sidewinder missiles, is far more interesting. As is the Flakpanzer Gepard, which Ukraine has been using to great effect to cheaply shoot down Iranian drones.",1
Let Putin keep killing his army in an illegal war to occupy Ukraine. Let him keep destroying military hardware. At the end Russia will be completely unarmed by their own doing. And the question is for what? To steal resources from Ukraine? What was the reason for this invasion?,The american industrial military complex may be interested in selling weaponry but they didnt put Putin s army in Ukraine. Ukraine is also a sovereign country and free to ally themselves with whoever they please. If Mexico or Canada made an alliance with China we wouldnt start an invasion on them.,0
Extreme gerrymandering turned 4 House seats Republican to create a House delegation that is 70% Republican in Florida. This is going to be the blue print in other Republican Governor led States. Gaming the system is becoming the norm. How is this Democratic?,"It's not just him. It was also done in Alabama, Louisiana, Ohio and Georgia. I keep trying to post this other article, it keeps getting flagged. It is behind a paywall. One free article. You might be able to read it.",0
"Would she make a better president than Trump or DeSantis? Almost certainly, thus she has no chance in Hell of winning the Republican nomination because Republican voters don't want competence, they want MAGA and only MAGA, and Haley has no clue how to deal with that.","Basically, she is a walking bag of ambition who thinks she can be president, not realizing that she's unlikely to win a single primary in today's MAGA GOP.",1
To give Trump credit: People have (abruptly) become much more familiar with how our government works since he became president. Who knew there were so many obscure quirks?,"Plus the ""5 or so moderates"" might have candidates of their own in mind as the price for their apostasy, and Liz's name isn't going to be viewed favorably by their supporters back home.",0
"Labor unions have long ago stopped functioning in the ways that made them a real threat to the capitalist world order. This has come to fruition, in part, through a complete breakdown of what little class consciousness the working class in the U.S. has ever had. And you see that as well with conservative union members of all stripes.","That and if the Democratic Party were actually concerned about ""playing into the hands of the GOP"" through a split with anyone to their Left, they would function very differently.",0
"No it isn't. There are no official meanings for any of the colors in the US flag. Traditionally (and not until years after the flag was established) there are suggestions that red is for ""hardiness and valor."".",I'm just saying. I'm pretty sure the LAPD isn't a governing body and can fuck off. Dumb twats. Why are cops such peices of shit? Like do you just have an asshole gene when you sign up and grows with more pensionable time? Orrrr???,1
The bigger problem if you ask me is how selectively this is being enforced. A few years ago the police themselves did it by slowing down traffic and there were no consequences. More recently farmers did it and nobody intervened. But now climate protesters are doing it and suddenly the police are called into action.,These people are protesting policy leading to climate change. The theoretical hazard of obstructing emergency vehicles is next to nothing in this part of The Hague (many parallel roads).,1
"Texas wants to go after trans people, and have placed bounties in pregnant women, and several states have followed.","Check out /r/PoliticalCompassMemes, they are a trans hating sub and would love to see Texas round up its trans population.",1
"It won't happen with the current Israeli government but blaming it is ahistorical. Solutions very close to that were offered multiple times and rejected by the Palestinian leadership with violence. The people in charge of both Palestinian governments aren't against the occupation, they're against Israel existing in any borders.",Until the Palestinians and people like you recognize that the Jewish people have a right to statehood in at least part of our homeland this needless war will continue.,0
No matter what definition you give of a woman to try and exclude trans women you will ALSO exclude cis women.,Ask them to do it and watch as you can find cis women fall into each and every description they use to try and other trans women from the group.,0
"""The House and its chosen members cannot do anything — including pass legislation, assist constituents, or carry out any of the functions laid out in the Constitution — until a Speaker is sworn in and that person administers the oath of office to the rest of the chamber.",What is true is that the House (unless it chooses to change its parliamentary rules) is entirely dependent upon having a speaker be recognized to function in any capacity. The rules they normally adopt have almost all functional power being dispensed by the Speaker. The Speaker makes appointments to committees. The Speaker determines what motions reach the floor. The Speaker determines what they vote on. The Speaker runs the show.,1
"It actually does have a plan. They came out and said it, explicitly, a few administrations ago: obstruct, delay, kill, slow. Wherever a Democratic agenda tries to go, the Republican agenda has nothing to do with the goal itself, its goal is only to trip up the progress toward the goal, whatever it may be.","This was stated more or less blatantly and in so many words by Republican leaders during Obama's first term, rankled as they were at him having the audacity of being both black and president at the same time. Nothing has improved since then, since the gleeful encouragement of Trump and his me-first/me-only/me-all-the-time philosophy and their woefully mistaken notion that they were somehow included in his egomania. The party has been poisoned by hateful philosophy, and cannot force itself to look in that particular mirror.",0
I have a Chinese doctor who gladly admits that China reverse engineers American products but he says China actually makes them better. He’s towing the party line I think.,You maybe on to something. He acts ignorant when I bring up the Xi looks like Winnie the Poo. He claims he’s never heard of this meme?!? I find that practically impossible . Probably just playing dumb.,0
"How this could be considered a fair competition if Ukrainian athletes being killed, Ukrainian sport facilities being destroyed, and russians will come try to get prizes unaffected?","Overall I just think it would be grossly unfair to apply the same penalty to Russians and Belarussians, I think Belarussians should be made compete as neutrals but Russia should be banned completely. And of course it should be made sure that Russians don't switch countries lol.",1
Or if you aren’t in agreement with the union you can still work. It affects me. Don’t agree with the choices. But I do me. If they desire more funding then they can listen to those of us that aren’t funding. Meet our requests and there ya go. A union within a union. Unionception.,We have a department of 10 that joining the union in our setting would not benefit. We were “sold off” to be under another dept. said dept joined a union thus forcing our shop into it as well.,0
"Feb 24 (Reuters) - Russia told the West on Friday that it would view as an attack on itself any actions that threatened Russian peacekeepers in Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region, one day after Moscow accused Ukraine of deploying troops near the region's border.","""Any action that threatens their security will be considered under international law as an attack on the Russian Federation."".",0
I'd say about 40% of my LGBT friend (including me) are firearm owners and most own AR-10/15 platform rifles and we don't really want our guns taken away especially in the rising homophobic tide that is the American right.,"I am still in disbelief that a good chunk of the LGBTQ community is still anti 2A after all the hardships they have gone through, especially after the pulse shooting.",1
"just wanted to say that nukes are used instead of conventional warheads - the point of MAD is to never get to the tipping point, however close you may get.",there's that cycle of armament and disarmament of which we've mostly seen one high and one starting low and another low now.,0
"Wisconsin could possibly do it, depending on how broad support ISL gets in the Moore v Harper ruling? Maybe? But it's still kind of iffy and very situational. The states that are most likely to decide to overturn results in favor of a Republican are the ones that are going to go Republican anyway.",So we stand a very real chance of a 269-269 tie if Republicans choose to throw out the results in states where the control the legislature.,1
"No the Mosaic Law was only for Israelites. People could convert to Judaism but it's the minority of the case. Jesus Himself state to a gentile woman that His focus on on the Jews, although He then helps her out, and is shown helping the servant of a Roman soldier their to oprress the Jews. It's the teachings of Paul who converts years after the crucifiction that result in widespread teachings among the Gentiles. There was even contention between Paul and Peter, the head Disciple and first Pope, about forcing Gentiles to convert to Judaism and Paul successfully argued Gentiles shouldn't be forced to convert to full Jewish practices. Today some Christians may elect to do those things themselves, but that's their choice and not a requirement of the faith at large. Messianic Jews tend fo follow the full law still.","Dude the GQP supports the Taliban. You can find quotes of many of the leaders extolling the virtues of conservative Islam because conservatives have more things in common than not: oppression of women and other genders, oppression of non cis sexualities, reforming education to oppress free thought and reinforce religious teachings over creative thinking.",0
"""But Trump was winning by a huge margin before all the mail-in votes came in and conveniently gave Biden the lead. How is that not fraud?"".","P.S. Perhaps all of the 1/6 ""tourists"" should also consider suing Fox News since their propagation of lies most likely led them into believing the election was stolen, etc., etc., etc.",1
"thanks, that's what I meant. I've been meaning to post in r/personalfinance because I'm wondering if I'd be better off with one account getting 6% rather than two getting 3% each.","I'm not so young (37) but I am just starting my first real career after making poverty wages throughout my thirties. I'm making 60K and I have two retirement accounts, one is a 401K and the other is a Roth IRA. Each one gets a 3% contribution from my wages so something like $62.50 out of each check goes into each account. My employer does not match any of these contributions. I will probably have nowhere near enough to retire on.",0
"Expanding the court is packing the court. It was extremely controversial the last time it was tried, to the point where it made FDR a lame duck domestically for the rest of his presidency. It hasn't been tried and actually done in over a century and would be an extreme violation of institutional norms. Democrats need to be trying to lower the temperature, not doing extreme brinkmanship like that.","At this point, ""abortion rights being up to the states"" is the new status quo, and I doubt voters will actually start voting hard enough to change it.",0
"The Democratic Party's big split was between its Establishment wing and its conservative wing (which was really just a handful of persons but enough so that it mattered in the Senate). The ""Progressive"" wing of the party just doesn't exist. They have no real fight. Nancy does a good enough job preserving an image on unity by ensuring that nothing even sniffs the House floor without enough votes, which may be good for the Democratic Party as an institution, but it is bad for democracy as a whole because the voters never get to see where their Congresscritters stand on certain matters. And the Omnibus bills are also great for PR purposes because the media can run stories about how politician x opposed bill proposing policy y while conveniently leaving out policies a-w that are also in the bill.","Yeah. That's usually how it works. You unite to deny the opposition power, but now that the opposition isn't in power, you have to deny the majority of the coalition power.",0
"Just saying, I’m not sure it’s just trump. I don’t think our court system is enforcing subpoenas, protections orders, or really anything anymore.",They didn't subpoena him earlier because it would have distracted the public with his ridiculous shit show like he did the classified documents. The committee wanted thr publics undivided attention to present facts.,1
the position of the saudi government is that they will agree to normalize relations with Israel if it makes a deal with the Palestinians on the two-state solution.,"That's why some Israelis claim that Palestinians already have a state, and that the 'two state solution' is really 3 state solution - two Palestinian states with zero Jews and one Jewish state with a large Palestinian minority.",1
"Isn't one's ""fair share"" what the tax laws of the US government say you owe?The issue here is the tax code and all the BS loopholes wealthy people like Trump can rely upon to pay next to nothing. Ultimately the government is supposed to dictate what everyone's fair share is via the tax code and that has clearly failed here.",Would be nice if something positive would actually come from Trump's existence like galvanizing support to eliminate the types of tax loopholes he exploits....but I won't hold my breath.,0
"You are right. Some co-workers felt that could lead to a steady job and Amazon pretended they needed us for a bit longer than they actually did, just to keep the workers invested in their job.",You thought you had a steady job - and if you're doing amazon you might not have many options - and then you get dumped because amazon just doesn't need you anymore.,1
"Whatever the outcome of the war, Russia losing influence in Belarus would be large humiliation for any Russian leader. The cost of brutally suppressing Belarus unfortunately is still pretty low for Russia. Between paying the security forces of Belarus and using their own troops, it seems they would be capable of suppressing the local population as they have before.","And while mobilized troops probably are not well suited for repressing a civilian population, there are still plenty of Kadyrovites that can serve that purpose. Still, we'll have to see how it plays out, but overall the cost/benefit analysis for keeping hold of Belarus remains pretty good for Russia, and even in a defeat well within their means.",0
"While it is true that the Constitution grants the authority to the state's legislature, the state's legislature's authority is still bound by the State's constitution. The legislature cannot exceed the authority that created it. The legislature is created by that document, and not by the United States Constitution. If the people of the state in the creation of their state have bound the legislature to some principle not contradictory to the United State's Constitution, then then the legislature must remain bound. If those same states have also established an independent judiciary whose role is to settle disputes in matters of law, and some dispute arises out of a law passed by the legislature and the constitution of the state, then it is the proper role of the state courts to settle that dispute.","The independent state legislature doctrine says that, because the elections clause specifies state legislatures make the rules for elections, that the state Constitution can't bind those rules.",1
"There is a sizable contingent of progressive or at least anti-theocratic Christians in the U.S., but as another user put it we're thousands among millions.",The fact that mere thousands of Christians (out of an estimated 210 million) signed this petition shows just how debased the religion is from its alleged principles.,1
"In addition, the United States will send 45 upgraded T-72B tanks with improved optics, communication and armor, as well as 1,100 Phoenix Ghost tactical UAVs, 40 armored river boats, secure communications and surveillance systems to Ukraine.","As reported, the U.S. Department of Defense announced a new package of security assistance to Ukraine, which provides for the allocation of funds for the modernization of HAWK surface-to-air missiles for their further transfer to Ukraine.",0
"The problem with the zero Covid policy is that is operates under the idea of a dictated reality: the central government says that Covid isn't endemic in China, therefore it isn't and can't be. The various local governments just don't do testing until they're forced to by case loads that they can't hide, and they blame people coming from other provinces, or , or just . Then they just do a few harsh and indiscriminate lockdowns for a while and juke the stats so it looks like it worked and everything is okay again. Then repeat that same song and dance all over China.","Then you have China. Physically locking people into their homes among other crazy things in a futile effort for zero COVID, especially with the current vaccination and variant situation, is much more about control than it is about health.",1
Just because you disagree with the protestors doesn't mean you can or should discredit them for other actions and justify punishments like this. Standards must be applied across the board. I don't think any of those people would be too happy if Iranian police were punished for not doing their job and arresting women without hijabs in mass but that's the standard we're preaching so...,"Love the ""muh they protests were bad and did all these bad things"" because I disagree with them but ""we support Iranian protests even though they're breaking Iranian laws"" because I agree with them or ""we support the Indian trucker and farmer protests because they were breaking laws for what was right!"".",0
So your saying the Taliban oppressing afghan people and allowing people to starve and sell their children is americas fault?,And in response we should then give money to the Taliban so that they can definitely NOT use it to help the afghan people and probably end up using it to make more problems for its own people and the people in the surrounding countries….i.e. pakistan?,0
"But ok, we can use your source. Largest percentage still is directed at Jews. Despite being about 2% of the population. Still supports my argument that Jews aren't safe in the US.","I mean, in Israel the Jews don’t appear to be safe lol. But actively exterminating another people and making them unsafe isn’t right either.",1
"The GOP acts like Vince McMahon is running the show, and it's wild how much they act like WWE performers. I wonder if any culture war bullshit is backlash from WWE being more progressive.","Slightly related: I always thought WWE (or back in my day it was known as WWF) was pretty lame. Then I went to a luchador match in Mexico and my friend explained why he loved it so much. It really is just a long running performance done by dedicated professionals. Still not into WWE, but I kind of get it now.",1
"Not only that they're more than often managing students more than teaching, and on top of that even with higher pay teachers avoid those schools like the plague and the quality of education becomes worse and worse.","It sounds like you’re making a blanket statement that public schools can’t offer a quality education because they’re too busy catering to the poorest performers. So you aren’t saying that private schools are inherently superior, but you are concretely insisting that public schools are worse. Lol. And you’re just generalizing it about the entire nation, never mind that every institution is comprised of individual teachers with their own pedagogies.",1
If the majority of the primary voters pick someone else (and the candidates don't repeat '16 and all run and split the vote) he won't get a choice in the matter.,"Splitting the vote was precisely what I was thinking he might do, but by running third party if he doesn't have the backing of the establishment. That alone would be the end of republicans' chances in '24. There are a number of other ways he can sabotage republicans though. For example, if he loses a republican primary, he could spread conspiracy theories and lies about the primary being rigged, which would further divide the republican base and discourage turnout.",1
"And for the last, this is not a domestic ambitions issue, Erdoğan does not advertise this much and opposition is also not in favor of approval. There are actual problems between Sweden and Turkey, some of which i will link below:","In the mean time, is there anyway that Sweden / Finland are attacked and EU + US doesn’t back them up without Turkey and Hungary? As long as it’s just Turkey and Hungary holding it up… it is basically ratified. Someone could theoretically be dumb or bold enough to say… haha technically it isn’t completely signed so I will attack them now.",1
Navalny himself previously based his positions on . The Venn diagram of Navalny supporters and Z supporters exactly comes from this nationalistic base.,Russia needs leadership that is not jingoistic and National-supremist in order to make amends and integrate into the world community. Navalny is not a candidate for that.,0
Having a Democratic Speaker even though they’re in the minority makes House Republicans like extremely incompetent. As backwards as it sounds for the bulk of the Republican base It’s better to have continuous votes for speakership than let a Democrat become the Speaker.,"No chance of 6 Rs backing a Dem speaker, or of any R accepting a position of Speaker that relied on Dem support to keep them in power. They'd 100% lose their next primary, the republican base won't stand for that sort of moderation.",1
They call them all pedophiles. Pedophiles are the lowest of the low so labeling LGBTQ+ people pedophiles makes them seem subhuman. Therefore killing them is ok because they're not even really human.,"Killing people is not normal. Telling someone they should feel responsible for a murder is wrong. As a independent I also think it is distasteful when political parties try and use someones death to promote their ideologies. Violence and killing is wrong, shooters are wrong, period.",1
"This is not the case. It's about how the person acted in the killing, was it planned vs unplanned, manslaughter would be killing without intent.","Definition: Generally, a deliberate killing that occurs without planning and does not fall under any of the categories of first degree murder.",0
"That's not to say there isn't a small segment of loonies in Finland too, with a few figurehead Putinists (Johan Bäckman is a well known one), but they get almost no traction.",That means literally nothing when talking about the differences between the languages and how hard it would be for a Russian to write Finnish propaganda.,1
"When the issue is LGBTQ discussions in school, conservatives act like their only concern is parents' rights. ""I just think a child's parents should get to decide when and how they're introduced to LGBTQ topics, not their teachers."".","How can anyone look at this and be like “Yep. You know what, drag shows are the 1 problem in the US right now. Fuck inflation and gun control and inequality and all that other dumb shit. It’s 100% drag shows.”?",1
"Genuinely, no. I was alive back then. There was no ""wide support"" in Europe or America for anti-Western, fundamentalist Islamic revolution. It wasn't invented in France or the UK or whatever. That is just a straight-up lie.","Iran's secular authoritarian Western-backed regime was already falling apart in the late 1970s. Some Western strategists may have briefly hoped that Khomeini could restore stability to the country for a few months in 1978 but it is flat-out made up bullshit to take that and claim that ""the West caused the Islamic Revolution."".",0
"But, I’m vaccinated and booster in November. It was about 4 total days of feeling like crap with the feelings of a terrible head cold.","The second time was like the mildest flu I've ever had, but the worst part is that ever since August I have a weird ringing in my ears every few days. While I had Covid, my ears got plugged and they would hurt like a stabbing pain every few hours (along with ringing). I don't know if it will ever go away. People don't realize sometimes long Covid can be worse than death.",1
"Twitter is on a speedrun to become the most user-hostile social media platform, so much for free speech absolutism and making Twitter better for its content creators.","At any rate, most of the larger entities on Twitter use it for headlines meant to direct traffic to other platforms without character limits where official announcements can be thoroughly detailed. It will be interesting to see how well that works now.",1
"China is a one-citizenship country and when it came time for me to decide, I chose Canadian citizenship without hesitation, as I knew that I would never again go to China and live there.","There was a substantial drop-off of births in China in the past few decades. The number of young people in their teens and twenties is much fewer in 2022 than 1989. This means the (economic) cost to China is much higher now than it was 33 years ago should it use tanks and fully automatic machine guns to mass-murder tens of thousands of (predominantly young) people. Are they willing to permanently collapse their economy and potentially their society just to hold onto power that will be irrelevant? But on the other hand, if they do what the people tell them to do, that emboldens the people to do more, which would eventually result in the collapse of the Party. They are literally between a rock and a hard place. As you say, time will tell.",0
"Are we talking about the same Russia that repeatedly and unequivocally denied an intention to invade Ukraine prior to 2/24/22? The same Russia that promised to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty in exchange for releasing their nuclear weapons? The same Russia that near daily makes nuclear threats against the West and tout how their missiles can evade our missile defense systems? Look, I don’t think they’re going to invade us tomorrow but if left unchecked I don’t think it’s a crazy idea (e.g. giving weapons to crazy neo-Confederates, sending their mercenaries to attack, information warfare like they have since 2016) especially if emboldened and in coordination with another hostile country like China.","Young-ish person here. Your position implicitly assumes that if the US does not go to war, a war will not come to US. There’s a saying about fool me once and fool me twice. If the first world wars meant anything to America they meant that isolationism and appeasement are not winning strategies. I do not want to be drafted, but I also realize that we can’t just ignore wars in Europe and hope it goes away.",0
"What cross examination? There has been no trial. And more than enough evidence released to the public, who knows what else they have yet to be revealed.","It was extremely well investigated, presented, and thorough. While I’ve seen a ton of “witch hunt” and “political theater” comments, I’ve yet to see a single refute of the fake elector scheme, or defense of his actions in any capacity.",0
"You don’t have to see it. She admitted wrongdoing and is being kicked off the committee due to that wrongdoing. The 12 Jewish congress members who condemned her were offended by her remarks, and it’s really not up to any of us to say that they’re wrong.","So again, when I hear that 12 Jewish members of congress were so offended and condemned her statement, I just hear that they were posturing to stay on their good side.",1
">They fly closer to earth and drift with wind patterns, which are not as predictable to militaries and intelligence agencies as the fixed orbits of satellites, and they can evade radar. They can also hover over areas, while satellites are generally in constant motion. Simple cameras on balloons can produce clearer images than those on orbital satellites, and other surveillance equipment can pick up signals that do not reach the altitude of satellites.","""While the balloon was still in the air, American U-2 surveillance planes took images of it to determine its capabilities, the department said in a statement, adding that the balloon’s equipment “was clearly for intelligence surveillance and inconsistent with the equipment on board weather balloons.”.",1
"The only thing i can think of is not saying that it WAS a political statement to leave gays and other races OUT of disney movies for decades. But they are making strides to right that and include everybody, just like real life.","Since I have a couple of little ones I know that they are not doing that, so that's why I made the statement that I did.",0
"There could be worse speakers. I just don't think the Dems are going to go for it. At the very least, you'll lose the most liberal/left-wing members of the party in speaker vote.","He's an old-school Republican with some sanity left, who voted to impeach Trump after Jan. 6. He's a moderate on abortion and LGBT+ issues, going by his recent voting record.",0
"This is going to end up with East and West Ukraine and Ukraine still being the ""buffer zone between Europe and Russia."" It will just be a smaller country. Putin's goal is not all of Ukraine but the Donbass + Luchenko region why because of it's economic importance. Tons of wheat, rare earth minerals, and ores. Russia is being a bully and taking the success of Ukraine. Putin is expanding countries populace and economy by doing this. Russia's population was actually declining and stagnant throughout the 2000's and so was their economy. All this NATO bullshit and hype about Ukraine joining NATO is Just propaganda. Putin is just trying to make Russia more powerful at the expense of Ukraine.","NATO is not sending troops yet to Ukraine, so when Russia overwhelms Ukraine, NATO will have Russia as a neighbor. Neither Russia nor NATO will stand for that.",1
"Edit: And yes Russians do kill some soldiers when they are exchanged in PoW swap, as famously one was executed with a hammer and posted in the media as an example.","Maybe if Russia occassionally used flanking manuevers or something, rather than sending ten frontal assault waves until Germans ran out of bullets, they'd have millions of more men alive. Are you aware that when it came to Poland, Russia was proud to work with the Nazi's to murder and deport people? It's like Russians literally had to be forced at gunpoint by the Nazi's to fight the Nazi's.",1
"It doesn’t save money. The amount of legal processes, appeals and layers of jurisdiction that happen before someone is executed involve millions of dollars. Those are absolutely necessary and should not be removed. Keeping someone in prison for life is far cheaper than executing them after a full legal process.","The death penalty saves money, it keeps prison populations small, and it punishes the murderer justly. A life for a life.",1
"It could be that Russians are trying to balance this with their own need for population, it could be that most of the refugees entering Russia were from before this strategy was adopted, it could be that the Russians are only taking pro russian refugees. Likely not possible to say with available information.","I don't know the answer to that, but I do know this is the NATO take on Russia's current strategy, as well as many analysts.",0
"Do you know how it ended in the Soviet Union? I think, some boyfriend chose another girl or cheated and she shot him a Kalashnikov during of the lessons.","Actually, Russians have a very similar media called 'Панорама/Panorama.' Recently, quite a lot of their posts have been coming true. Also, they are sometimes reported as real news - even on TV - because journalists are bad at checking their sources and it sounds convincing enough in today's political climate.",0
"California has a somewhat similar law, that says ""a legal marriage from another country will be recognized as legal marriage in California"" The California law has been used to get California to legally recognize the marriages between a polygamist man and his wives as valid under the law.","Following this logic to its conclusion, this bill might be used require states to recognize any legal marriage from anywhere in the world, and some countries legally allow poly marriages.",0
"You know that Hanlon, whom you're quoting, was an optimist who simply refused to believe that people could be as awful as they actually are, right? Malice, unfortunately, tends to be the driving force in most things that negatively impact the human race.","Of course malice happens plenty, but so so often people fail to appreciate the complexity of doing just about anything in the modern world, and how many issues stem from that alone.",1
"Criticizing Israel is not antisemitism. Targeting Jews in general, because of Israel, absolutely is.",If the person in question is actually a Zionist they’re not getting attacked because they’re Jewish. They’re just conflating the two things and crying antisemitism. These articles both conflate the two. They say the person being harassed is “someone who supports Israel”. This means they are not just being harassed because they are Jewish.,1
"See? This is exactly what I'm talking about. There are plenty of reasons a person might carry a gun, but you refuse to believe that. The are entire subreddits and youtube channels showing people defending themselves and their families with a gun. Just because you don't understand the reasons, doesn't mean there aren't any.",Those aren't reasons. That's just what you think. Why don't you go ask someone why they carry a gun instead of making insulting assumptions about why they do it?,0
They. Arent. Even. NFT's. The site explicitly says there is no limit to how many will be sold and they are for entertainment and not investing. They are literally nothing. You're paying Trump for the privilege of paying Trump. That is it.,But that's not ALL! The first 1000 people who order will also receive a 24kt genuine gold plated facsimile of a reproduction of Trump's first $1 bill he ever grifted.,1
"Outside of a handful of bills that I would support (environmental bills, some critical care health access, a couple others) likely driven by more coherent lawmaker(s); are all about ridiculous bills that continue to fan the flames of culture wars, political targeting, or general political destabilization.","Yeah, so far it appears that it was bogus. Boebert is suing the PAC that circulated the rumor, it'll be interesting to see what happens. Edit\ But at this point, they're innocent until proven guilty.",0
"> ""It was the 'abortion issue,' poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters. Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, & just plain disappeared, not to be seen again."".","That’s not what you said. You said eligible to vote, but idk if that matters cause even sticking with 1960 voters could still skew the results as older people died.",1
"She won by just more than that although I believe Republicans flipped a couple more house seats and can kill the part of the Montana constitution they hate most, the right to clean air and water.","The guy who greeted me at the local DNC was in Pajamas, I was given a clip board with questions on who people were voting for and to offer a ride to polling places.",0
Yeah. Those spoiled kids would have a hissy fit if they were forced to go back. The world needs to do what was done with russian oligarchs. Sanction them and take away their yachts. Freeze some bank accounts….,"It’s a nice thought but pretty sure that would just cause more problems. What Iranian people seem to want is for countries to stop allowing regime members and their families to have sanctuary. The families are spending the people’s money living high lives and regime members are stalking, spying on, harassing and threatening normal Iranians who have fled and their families still in Iran.",0
"They tried to pin Vince Foster's death on the Clinton's (it was a suicide), and eventually pivoted to Monica Lewinsky.",Same thing happened with Bill Clinton. It started off as an investigation into a shady real estate deal.,0
"Unfortunately “Support us or you’re all dead, your children are dead, and the future is dead” hasn’t been getting the point across. For better or worse, people listen when you interrupt their schedule. That’s how protesting works.","And the thing being _totally ignored_ is the fact that disruptive protesting works, has worked, and will continue to work.",0
"No, the breaking point is the realization he's (probably) unelectable and causing them to lose other elections. They don't care about the antisemitism, it's a useful excuse.",Anti-Semitism isn't the breaking point for people like this as it has been apparent for decades in this party.,1
Extremely ignorant comment. The Mughals were not even the first muslim empire. Northern India and present day Pakistan were under muslim rule for over 300 years before Babur.,"You might want to read up on the Guptas, Mauryans etc and the various Southern empires. For over 2000 years there were indigenous empires, some of where were more powerful than the Mughals.",0
"On a side note we have seen throughout history environmental disasters, human suffering, workers dying tragically and needlessly because of one thing. The wealthy's pursuit of profit with no regard for the people. This even highlights one thing that is getting scant coverage. Privet enterprise needs to be regulated and those regulations need to be robustly enforced by a strong federal government. We need to tax the wealthy that need this oversite to pay for the oversite. The regulations while they should be mindful of costs should always put people over profits.","Despite the fact that the rail companies are the ones responsible does the media focused on them. Did they name one rail executive or the majority owners and point out they did this. The media chose instead to focus on Biden. Had Biden not intervened, the media would, instead of blaming the executives and owners, blamed Biden for the shortages and additional inflation it caused.",0
"Wishful thinking, the scenario I would like to see is the Democrats vote as a block for Hakeem Jeffries and the Republicans split their votes, and Jeffries becomes Speaker because some Republicans voted for him.","My modest hope is that, on the second ballot, Newhouse (a Republican Trump impeachment voter) wrangles four “moderate” GOP buddies and conspires with the Dems to elect himself Speaker. Even though Republicans would still control the House and Speakership, at least we’d finally move past the “Big Lie”.",1
"keep enabling the neofascists with your trolling bro, i'm sure that will help you enjoy watching them kill women and minorities.","we get it, you like the neofascists and enjoy shitting on their opponents and pretend they're the same to enable your side.",0
"True, an amphibious invasion would kill so many Chinese. It would be like D-Day, but not a suprise and against an enemy with modern weapons systems that can target Chinese ships during their slow journey across the Taiwanese Strait. Oh, and there are only a few beaches suited for an amphibious invasion, so wherever they land will be heavily defended.","Hopefully, the sanctions put on Russia will scare the CCP from invading Taiwan, especially since China is much more vulnerable to sanctions than Russia is.",0
"He isn't so bad as everybody say, it is definitely worrisome that some people are just blindly supporting him, but the country is overall good considering the situation. It was waaaaaaaaaaay worse with the past two presidents. Sadly at the last elections we had only bad options. Current president was by far the least bad.","As bad as you think it was during the administration of Calderon, it is much worse now. That is a fact that is backed by statistical evidence from multiple sources. We are experiencing the worst wave of crime in modern Mexican history under Lopez Obrador.",1
"One of two things happens, either Kev loses his Speakership and the House goes through Hell again to pick a new one, or he folds to Democrats, which saves his Speakership but further pisses off the extremists in his party which all but ensures another one of these votes comes up again.","“ As he worked to flip holdouts within his party and secure the votes he needed to take the Speakership, McCarthy agreed to lower the threshold for forcing a vote to oust the House Speaker to just one lawmaker.”.",1
"Like it or not (I sure don't), George Santos has eclipsed Trump as the Republican ideal, someone who could, with no qualms, steal money donated to treat the dying dog of a disabled veteran. Combine that with the arguably illegal preferences of Matt Gaetz for having a good time, MTG's fascination with space lasers, Boeberts vacuity, and Gosar's family's near universal condemnation of him for being an asshole of the century, and you'd be closer to having a model for the type of Republican who could win the 2024 GQP presidential nomination.","Hogan may be as good as Eisenhower. However, he's a RINO by today's reckoning, so no chance whatsoever of winning the Republican nomination.",0
- Allows Kishida to make a show of hanging this guy out to dry to make himself look good to the public(polls have shown that about 60% of Japanese approve of gay marriage).,">The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has sacked an aide who said he would not want to live next to LGBTQ+ couples and that people would flee Japan if same-sex marriage was permitted.",1
"""He killed millions, because he tried to prepare his people to the most deadliest War in history. ""There is no other way in the War. We won, so all the victims were justified. (30 million dead citizens, thousands of destroyed settlements)"".","Evil will eat millions of russians firstly, as usual, but then may cause another problems to the Humanity again.",0
"It was extremely well investigated, presented, and thorough. While I’ve seen a ton of “witch hunt” and “political theater” comments, I’ve yet to see a single refute of the fake elector scheme, or defense of his actions in any capacity.","What a weird comment. Trump hasn’t been accused of any specific crime in any official capacity, so that isn’t a thing.",0
You realize the US has been trying to create an anti missile shield around Russia trying to prevent mutual assured destruction?,"Putin also said NATO expansion of Ukraine is a red line, sth the VAST majority of Russians agree with. That's why he attacked and that's why he has so much support. Zelensky refused to give up the NATO integration (instead he added it to the Ukranian constitution) and this is the result of that. Don't make a mistake. Zelensky is not going to make it out alive of this, but he won't get killed by Russians.",0
First they compared the output to the energy absorbed by the fuel for a first round of news when they exceeded that.,isn't it net energy gain compared to the energy beams that hit the fuel pellet? DOE labs measure it that way and apparently the rest of the world doesn't? Which would be hugely misleading regarding break even point unless we are to just ignore all the missed energy inputs.,1
"I mean, obviously I know the supreme court ruling that tax records are personal property is hyperbole, but there is truth behind the sentiment. The supreme court can twist words and logic their way into helping trump if they want to and I was responding to that.",why ask the supreme court for permission when 3 of the judges on the court were appointed by trump himself thats a literal conflict of interest right there.,1
But the personal identification of the shooter in no way eliminates the potential impact of hate rhetoric and loose gun laws on the atrocity.,Either the shooter is trying to pretend they're non binary to try and get the hate crime charges dismissed or they're a non binary piece of shit who committed a hate crime against their peers.,1
"This is by the quirk in definition that paratroopers are considered Elite, and NK has massed Paratrooper Divisions (but arguably lack the planes and equipment to deploy them).","Yeah, the whole ""Special forces = Elite forces"" causes people to forget the ""special purpose"" part and think of them as super soldiers that can do anything infantry can but just better.",1
This was a vote held for military training to take place in Croatia as part of the EU mission and not at all related to supplying of aid. This vote failed because not enough members were present at the time of voting and it looks like based on the numbers of those who did it would have.,Croatia is a popular yachting destination and we impound and monitor yachts that are listed for sanctioned Russian individuals. So doubt we are seeing any influx or loophole of this. The problem is though what do you continue to do with those yachts and what about those that are not on the sanctioned lists… it’s a little trickier than a travel visa ban if you look at it like that.,0
At the very least it's not unlikely Romania and Moldova would become more tied just on the basis on mutual cooperation besides on that EU countries do to one another.. bit like how the Baltics support one another more closely.,It diverged because I mentioned Romania and Moldova's relationship becoming as strong as the Baltics have.,0
"This might be a hot take, but America needs a strong Republican Party to help balance the government. I left that party because of their denial of scientific facts like COVID and global warming, and refuse to ever go back. But we need more decent people like Mitt Romney in that party to help push back on the crazies.","You literally just described a Democracy. I agree with this lady. The Republicans need to change their playbook, as it has gotten out of control. There is nothing wrong with fiscally conservative Republicans that are willing to say “no” to Liberals who want to spend on every social program. We need that balance for a strong government.",0
I think both parties do NOT want to set any kind of precedent guaranteeing any workers PTO or sick days- if they give in to the railroad workers maybe the rest of America’s workers will demand the same.,"If congress is gonna step in and end this, they should end this on the side of the workers instead of the railroad bosses who seem to completely resistant to any sick time for their employees.",1
"Imagine that you're a renowned scientist in a field of research X and for the part 20 years you've been churning papers on X and they are kind of guaranteed to be published. Now, a new discovery proves that X is bunk.","Example: pectic ulcer. For decades it was said to be cause by ""stress"" or ""spicy food"", even if there was evidence from the 50s pointing to bacterial causes for the majority of cases. Only in the 80s new studies pointing H. pylori as the main cause started to make waves in that established view, and only in the late 90s the CDC made an effort to change the view of doctors countrywide to look for bacterial causes and treatment.",0
"I'm not sure we had ""absolutely nothing to worry about"", the force that ""we"" would have faced in the 80's is very different to the force the Ukrainians are facing. Unlike the main NATO powers the Russian army is very much a conscription based army with a fraction of the ""career"" soldiers we have. As Russia couldn't use the conscripts for their ""special operation"" they are very much hamstrung and lack the manpower they need to effectively use what they have.","When it all went wrong and Russia doubled down rather than give up and back out again they ran into the problem of the makeup of the Russian armed forces being based round the conscripts and the lack of them for the ""special operation"". It's a major stumbling block for them and has directly been the cause of some major loses. It's also as I understand it why Putin has been so desperate to label the conquered parts as ""Russia"", it then allows them to be defended with the full conscript bolstered army rather than merely the career army backed up with mercenaries. Even there however the mechanisms for calling up the reserve have all atrophied and fallen into neglect.",0
"Deep down, Graham knows what's right and wrong. Whenever the GOP is in disarray, he usually comes out and says the right thing. Like when he said that Trump would be terrible, and after the insurrection when he spoke out against Trump. When the GOP all gets back onto message, he falls in line and starts spouting off whatever the narrative is at the moment. I don't know if they have him blackmailed or what, but it's like clockwork. Some big shake up happens, republicans are conflicted, Graham starts doing the rounds on centrist media outlets saying whatever he wants. As soon as Republicans have landed on a unified message, Graham is back on Fox News saying whatever they've told him to say.","You know shit's bad when even Republicans are finally saying the right thing. Like they're finally starting to get just how dire the Ukraine/Russia war is and how if it's not dealt with soon, we're gonna have a far worse situation beyond just that war. Republicans seemed to have forgotten that Putin is not a stable person and that, until Trump, he was considered a threat to all, to where until Trump, it would have been considered horrible for ANY politician to be buddies with a tyrant like him.",1
Yeah reddit loves to say that the Ukrainians can somehow master any piece of equipment dropped off very quickly but the reality is that most of the rapid training that happens in tbe west is essentially accelerated basic training thst still takes multiple months and getting someone reliably good with a vehicle full of technical equipment is going to take time.,You can only rush some things so much. Its why any sort of transfer of aircraft is probably a long ways off even though there have probably been Ukrainians training on western fighters since last year.,0
"How about this.... the Democrats should say they won't honour any subpoenas until the Republicans pass legislation, that gets passed in the Senate without filibuster, that makes these congressional subpoenas enforceable with serious consequences for ignoring them. Then the Democrats will obey the subpoenas, and there will be teeth there next time the Democrats hold the House. Of course, the Republicans will never agree to do this...","The GOP is going to do anything and everything anyways. I really can’t see the reason to continue this “High Road” while we know it’s not going to do anything but more virtue signaling, all while the country continues to shit on anyone that isn’t in the 1%.",1
Limiting how much a politician can accept from any individual is not the same as telling everyone in the country what they can and can not spend their money on.,This could work similarly with politicians where they could only receive up to a certain amount. I would also limit it to campaign support only and not allow politicians to be bought for bill/law support!,1
"Lol didn’t China only recently announce they are banning the sale of military grade semiconductors to Russia. I cannot help but feel that Russia greatly overestimates their alliance with China let alone Chinas long term intentions. Putin seems to be grasping straws with his economical threats and nuclear rhetoric, and until Russia brings some type of noteworthy victory to the table China can only see Russia as a loser in this war and therefor vulnerable.","He doesn't ""hit back"" shit, he's just begging China to buy Russia oil, China as usual will take advantage of the situation and it seems like now Putin is short on cash again and want to sell more oil to China so China will ask him to buy it at an even more cheaper price. Russia is doomed, they have already crossed the point of no return, they will crash and burn at an epic level, which will be remembered for centuries to come. Putin know it but he's desperate, and surely doesn't want to let go the power that he now hold, and in the process he will mercilessly drag the whole country in to a political and economic death pit.",1
"Do you honestly believe the Republican party is the party of antisemitism?! If yes, .... why? If no, please go be disingenuous alone somewhere rather than polluting the waters here.","Who do you look up to in comparison? If no one (believing that people suck in general is a fair point of view lol), that's fine. But really curious who you support.",0
"It filed false cost reports, fraudulently billing Medicare for home health care workers, and paid kickbacks in the sale of home health agencies and to doctors to refer patients.","Columbia/HCA admitted systematically overcharging the government by claiming marketing costs as reimbursable, by striking illegal deals with home care agencies, and by filing false data about use of hospital space. It also admitted to fraudulently billing Medicare and other health programs by inflating the seriousness of diagnoses and to giving doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA.",0
"Well I remember when Shenmue 3, Soulcalibur 3, and Dead or Alive Extreme 3 all were NOT released on any Xbox platform. Those were deals made by Sony to keep games from Xbox players. Is that the kind of thing you are looking for? And don't forget how Sony blocked cross-play on a multitude of games like Minecraft, rocket league, etc. before they finally relented.","To me, Sony has been working for decades to keep games (and gamers) from other consoles. The fact that they are now mad that Microsoft is buying up game developers to counteract this long standing model of Sony exclusivity is almost laughable, and I hope it doesn't ruin Microsoft's purchase of Activision. I will bet Microsoft won't be as heavy handed with exclusive titles as Sony has been since the 1990s.",0
"The sheer disillusionment of the broken promise of People Power is also a factor, a promise of prosperity that never manifested more than half a century has stewed resentment in the country, in fact during the mid-2010's the slow descent of respect for the Aquinos(while also having issues of their own) who's patriarch's death was the catalyst for the ousting of Marcos, pretty much foreshadowed the Marcoses efforts in changing public perception and history.","Not helping is that the previous popular president Duterte (who's charisma as an asshole means his supporters ignore all of his faults, something similar to Trump) being a supporter of Marcos himself which gave the family the chance to be taken seriously again.",0
There’s a part of the resolution that lets NATO allow a few Serbian troops to help defend Orthodox sites and some Serbian majority areas.,But that was before NATO helped Kosovo declare independence and got everyone worth asking to acknowledge it.,0
"You may be right, but abortion was never actually in the Constitution so how could it be unconstitutionalized ? I think the bigger question here is the individual's right to sue the government without undue burden, ie having to pay the state their legal expenses. And I'm sort of split on this, while I believe anyone should be able to sue any level of government, there are also people who enter into repeated frivolous lawsuits.","As long as the courts continue to ignore the very black and white bit about ""militias"" being government controlled and not an individual right, I disagree.",1
No one has the experience or knows the game better than Biden. The fact that he’s always underestimated has been a strenh.,"I only think a moderate Democrat would have done as well, as these midterms showed voters are tired of gridlock and extremes (I mean, the House was won through R victories in places like NY and CA). Are we going to pretend like Biden didn’t fight for major bipartisan deals and win? Dude ran a masterclass on pushing through legislation, and I don’t think a less-experienced or more progressive Democrat would have been as successful and able to prove to the voters that they can get things done in this politically-divisive climate.",0
It bothers me that so many people are trying to use this as a example of Ukraines aggressiveness and unwillingness to make peace when it’s Russia who is unwilling to compromise.,"Russians still don't understand the simple fact that them leaving territory of Ukraine is not subject to negotiation, that's the condition. Subject of negotiation is only how much will they pay in reparations before the sanctions can be dropped.",1
"How is this any different than the inflation they were railing against a month ago? ""Vote for us, Democrats made your expenses go up by 10%. We can do 30% in perpetuity instead!"".",How can a party that insists taxation is theft propose a brand new federal tax that would severely impact most households? Do Republicans hate progressive policies so much they'd rather spend 30% on top of their 0-10% existing sales taxes just to prove they owned the libs?,0
"Or maybe move her out of the prison into the criminal ward of a hospital (the same spot people in critical condition due to attacks or other health issues) to await the berth? So that the complications can be handled? Are you really justifying the behaviour? The only reason possible for keeping a pregnant woman about to pop in a prison cell is “she sinned and now she can pay the price.” As someone told you earlier, no non-religious person would have any basis in thinking other than making sure she was near the care she needed when she needed it.","If they are worried about people hiding or being missed when going into labour in prison, that speaks to a problem that is clearly not with the pregnant inmate.",1
"Putin will launch another attack on Kyiv in hopes of relieving pressure in the south. Kind of like Hitler and his last-gasp Ardennes Offensive. Ukraine will allow the offensive to advance until as many Russians as possible are away from their logistical support base, and then destroy them. Russia will lose another 50,000 soldiers in one shot. It shows how desperate Putin is getting.","Russia should dispose of Putin and use the occupied territory as a bargaining chip. If not, any ground offensive, no matter where, is going to run into the same logistical problems. NATO says that the Russians are only capable of operating within 160 km of their supply bases in Russia, which cuts way back on where they can strike with any chance of reaching an objective. The reason I think they'll try for Kyiv is because Putin isn't a rational thinker. He would rather destroy Kyiv than follow logical military strategy. Proof is how much firepower Russia has wasted attacking civilian infrastructure instead of using it on military targets.",0
"Tolkien then went on to create a world with obviously evil antagonists, who utilized crude weaponry in large volumes and cared little for life (both others and their own).... wait, was he writing about russia?","As for your second comment... More than 50% of the deaths in Iraq over the last 2 decades occured during the rise of ISIS, who perpetrated those deaths as well. A large number of civilians also died due to IEDs. In total the US AND COALITION, were responsible for 37% of the estimated 120k deaths over the last 2 decades due to misidentification, deliberate acts of war crime, or collateral effects.",0
"Dude the US finances the Saudi dictatorship and provides weapons to massacre the yemen, the biden a few months ago was kissing the Saud house to ask them to increase oil production. Now tell me, what morals do the Americans have to point the finger at Brazil when they are so involved with absolutist dictatorships?","That very much is a negative comment about Brazil, and it’s not something Brazil should be proud of.",1
So you're saying it's a huge deal and bad that Biden allowed it to happen? Because that's the Republican spin.,"So yes, the Republican outrage was delusional. But so was the blanket coverage on mainstream media. This was a headline news story for days.",1
I don't think I've seen the spatter thing; you notice it more with a countertop unit I think simply because you end up using it places without a backsplash that a proper stove has.,"The cooling fan in the countertop units is noticeable, (and full-size stoves vary a lot on that score) but I don't think it's a big deal when compared with the huge amount of noise that an effective vent hood makes.",0
I doubt this is anything more than talk. But it makes the Democrats look reasonable while pressuring the GOP .,"Only a damn Democrat would capitulate to Republicans at a time like this. Jefferies has consistently been getting 212 votes, which is way more than McCarthy. If there's a coalition it should be Republicans voting for Jefferies, and not 18-20 Democrats voting for the fascist McCarthy.",1
"“$1 billion in loans… to insiders” - damn, this alone is enough to get you life in prison for fraud.","No not really, he was supporting risky investments with stolen money. If crypto kept going up he would be rolling in even more cash. I know that pyramid/ponzi schemes are nice buzzwords, and they're relevant in most crypto-related fraud, but they don't have much to do with why FTX crashed.",1
"""I'm gonna move away from the largest cultural and economic centers in the US/World because they expect me to to survive with 280 million dollars instead of 300 million dollars!"".","But this is neither of those things. The proposed bill is to tax unrealized gains. Hell, even to tax assets weather they have gains or not.",1
"Yes I’m aware, this has been discussed if you read the posts. I’m saying as far as retaining or retreating…..mines and IEDs have been proven. Taliban and Isis who are having a grand old time right now have already tried and tested it.","Are you aware how tight the Russian Orthodox Church and the government are intertwined? Putin knows the more the west, Black Rock, JPmorgan etc run their mouth about being involved about “rebuilding” Ukraine post war…..the more Putin will be justified. This war is just a repeat. The west does not want peace. They wanted Russia to invade so Ukraine has to beg for help, help that will come with insane strings attached…..strings that can never be cut.",0
Like I said before we have more trans people than ever. They have more support than ever. That's not a start of a genocide.,"Exactly my point, there's not a trans genocide happening in the US. There are more trans people and support for trans people than ever.",0
"1994's USA-Ukraine-Russia trilateral nuclear weapons agreement: when the USSR split up, Ukraine still had most of the USSR's most modern and destructive nuclear missiles.",it ostensibly started in 1994 when the USA got Ukraine to nuclear disarm completely and kinda-sorta said:,0
"I.e. There’s 435 Representatives. 213 of them are Democrats, and 222 Republicans. If there was a vote where 10 Republicans voted “Present” (meaning they effectively don’t really give a crap who wins, or are just being petulant), and the Democrats are unanimous in their votes, then, at 213 to 212, the Democrats would have picked the new Democratic Speaker of the House.",Yes...either plurality...or enough republicans leave the floor to lower the threshold...or Jefferies /democrats strike deals with 5-8 republicans who are willing to switch parties since they would become pariahs to the Republicans.,1
"Not to downplay the atrocities happening in Ukraine, but before you start poking fingers at how other nations treat civilians maybe you should hold yourselves accountable for how you treat yours.","Yes it’s hypocrisy, but the smart thing to do here is to side with WHATEVER power holds war criminals accountable and in this case, I’m all for holding Russia accountable.",1
"The gulf between Trump's self-promotion and his actual substance is astounding. He keeps telling people that he's the only person that can solve all these immense and complicated problems, and then his solutions amount to basic concepts that are merely the theoretical structure to an actual solution. Trump said Obama ""didn't even think about just talking"" to Kim Jong Un, not even thinking it was a deliberate decision and instead thinking he was the first to come up with the idea.","I always assumed it was something even simpler: Trump was willing to meet with Kim just so he could say he met with Kim Jong Un as president, and be the first president to do so.",0
"Hopefully we can keep our mettle and treat Russia as a pariah state for some time too, which would also slow their accumulation of force.","If it wasn’t for MAD I would be advocation NATO boots on the way to Moscow, but MAD is a factor so we just have to do what we can….",0
Most of these bans are only a few months old and more are coming. We're in a pivotal moment in US history where trans people are being actively stripped of their pre-existing rights.,Trans movement is a gift to the current social and political order. It’s important that it be furthered and funded.,1
Just because the basics of religion were an outgrowth of human lack of understanding doesn't mean we have to keep them.,"While I can't speak much to Sikhism or Zoroastrianism or certain sects of Buddhism, the three biggest world religions all have a history written in blood and suffering. It's time for them all to modernize or get out of the way.",0
"I sympathize with the Russian athletes, but 2014 Sochi taught us how involved the Russian state is in athletes lives. Russia’s doping apparatus was unbelievable. Check the Icarus documentary. While many Russian athletes are independent spirits, Sochi taught us that the Russian State frequently uses athletes to cheat at the Olympics.","Russian athletes are regularly used as propaganda tools for Putin's regime, so it makes sense to ban them. Also, you keep pasting the word ""sanctimonious"" around as some kind of one-size-fits-all universal incantation of moral affront, whereas your statement is actually the only accurate example of sanctimony here. Which is hilarious.",1
"Good, the only pipelines we should be building are ones for fresh drinkable water to be moved across the country. At least when those inevitably leak they won't destroy the local ecosystem and contaminate the land with all the chemicals we see in oil pipelines.","So yes it is habitable, but you are correct that humans have caused a lot of damage to the environment through our lifestyle choices.",0
They did. Russia is pushing new recruits into uniforms to fill the spots. They lost a lot of tanks though and a lot of experienced (by comparison to the new meat anyway) are dead or out of action.,"Not quite, while they have take pretty massive losses (I think I saw something stating like, 50% of their tanks), they have not been outright destroyed yet.",1
"That was what I wanted to point out. Without the USA sending Abrams, 300 modern western MBT for Ukraine might just be an unrealistic goal.","Someone did, though no one knows which country it is yet, and I doubt we’ll find out until the tanks are already in Ukraine. (Provided Germany actually gives permission).",1
"Right. Sure. But in general the training data of ChatGPT is - on average - a LOT smarter than what people get from News Corp. The bar is so low, any LLM that’s actually trained on large volumes of human intelligence - however imperfect - will mop the floor with the idiocy and intentional deception of Tucker Carlson and his ilk any day of the week.","You may be on to something here. Just as Fox News exploited the market niche for reactionary views, there will clearly be a need for a GOP GPT trained on Tucker Carlson monologues and Trump tweets.",0
"If the supermajority in the state legislature doesn't get the extremists to vote with them, they won't have enough votes to override Kelly's veto, to my understanding.","There’s a rift in the Alaska legislature, too, where Republicans don’t have supermajorities either. It has handed power there to a coalition of Democrats, Independents, and a handful of pro-coalition Republicans.",1
"We don't need infinite grow, we need replacement grow, and more and more young people are already choosing to have less kids, because it cost too much.",So your conresswoman for trying to pass a bill that would help families who have kids of toddler age who need day.,0
"At this point, it's not even about the person. The Freedom Caucus just wants to make a show of force like they did in overthrowing Boehner and denying McCarthy the Speakership in 2015, even if they don't have an endgame. And this is why Boehner called Jim Jordan a legislative terrorist (although Jordan isn't part of the drama this time). McCarthy is just unlucky enough to be a victim twice.","The other five seem to just be personally against McCarthy. Good hates him because McCarthy didn't call him right after he ousted Riggleman in the primary. Norman hates him because McCarthy wasn't a fan of Norman's proposed campaign agenda. Biggs is running himself. Not sure what Rosendale's beef is, but I've seen speculation that it is early posturing for a Senate run. And I'm assuming Gaetz just likes the attention and chaos. Tough to see any of them agreeing to any concessions.",1
"Personally I don’t think everyone should do it, but severe cutbacks on allowed Russian personnel should happen, and you really only need a few countries to have the connection. I don’t think that will happen tho.","Have you looked at Russians history In the Baltic’s… they have good reason to hate Russia… and if Russia wins or gets away with this, Ukraine is very high up on their target list(based on the same intelligence agencies that earned us of the invasion, Russia was originally planning on invading the baltics first before Maiden happened)… for them this is a literal matter of life and death, so yeah they are going to take a very hard line, and they aren’t going to take kindly to countries that Stand neutral or on the side of a country that is an active threat against it.",0
"Just because its popular doesnt mean its right, or makes sense. The issue isnt the drink, its the fact that they are driving drunk, hence drunk driving. It also just doesnt flow right because drink is not a descriptive word. It sounds more like an unfinished list.","I started writing out a full explanation with examples, but it got a bit long, I doubt its going to change anyones minds, and may end up with additional responses that I dont want to deal with. To be brief though, this isnt about the meaning of the words, but the structure of the language. If you really care check this out It doesnt exactly apply here, because ""drink driving"" is using two nouns, and this article mostly talks about word order, but its kind of the same idea. Also, the actual term is ""drink-driving"" which I dont know why, but the hyphen seems way more correct and less confusing.",0
Skepticism is understandable. But Mueller ultimately reported to Trump and Senate Republicans ignored the evidence in covering for Trump during the impeachments. The fix was in for all of those previous attempts to hold him accountable.,"The fix was in on all those previous attempts, but that wasn't 100% clear at the outset. In hindsight it was clear, but people legit believed Mueller was going to absolutely nail him to a wall. The fix could be in here also we just don't see it in the moment.",1
"Plus the ""5 or so moderates"" might have candidates of their own in mind as the price for their apostasy, and Liz's name isn't going to be viewed favorably by their supporters back home.","It's true that the Speaker doesn't have to be a member of the House, but do you know how often that has happened?",0
"The company will lose control over the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a special favor given to Walt Disney World by the state in the 1960s. Instead of Disney choosing the five members of the board, which acts as a county government, the five will be chosen by DeSantisBut the new improvement district will still have the same tax benefits it had before, such as the ability to issue tax-exempt bonds and other measures that have saved the company millions of dollars.","DeSantis gets to say he won against woke Disney, and Disney gets to use its already present lobbying influence to pick board members for the state appointed oversight committee.",1
"In todays news, the GOP tries to keep people from being educated because the more people learn about civil issues, the less they support the GOPs historic practice of voting down any legislation that benefits anyone they claim to support.","The last 7 or so veteran bills were blocked by party vote, they shot down federal loan forgiveness after writing and passing their own federal loan forgiveness. Social security is now coming under fire, and the talk is to reduce the payouts while pushing back the eligibility age.",0
"Pride. They're also probably not going to use it like the US does, at least not with traditional aircraft. I think they're going the way of China and see carriers as massive drone motherships instead of landing areas for piloted aircraft. If you're using drones you might not even need a runway, saving lots of space that you can use for even more drones. Iran has shown they're developing drone technology. For what it's worth, I think that's their plan.","Honestly, I think this could actually be a good idea. I have no doubt that they will fuck something up in the execution/operation of it, but given the constraints on Iran as as well as the drone based future of arial warfare, I think its a solid concept.",1
"\-That the invasion happens quickly, eliminating the ability of the international community to respond meaningfully.","\-That Russia—the ""second most powerful army in the world,"" Russian General Valery Gerasimov said prior to the war's start—would dominate Ukraine on the battlefield.",0
Now I'm so confused by the story and the law. Why would a home owner need title insurance for an existing home. Normally its a one time title insurance cost at house closing.,"Weird, I'd think the owners are the third party and not the buyer's. When I closed on my house, I thought my title insurance was for protecting me from title fraud as the buyer. It's odd that it's also for protecting me in the future as a fictitious seller, that should be the responsibility of the future buyer.",0
"China and India have a border, but it's comprised of some of the most forbidding terrain on the planet; not important to either country, not really useful for anything, but it's hell to try to campaign through the Himalayas. Neither country is likely to seriously attack each other.","That doesn't mean they'll always get along, that doesn't mean they have common interests, but they're not the kind of opposing forces where Indian troops tie down Chinese resources that are then unavailable for other conflicts.",0
"That's my point. If this were a copyright issue, it would be a different situation. SNL doing a Jack Daniels parody commercial, The Onion, Weird Al... that's all copyright and should be protected as parody.","How is that Loco Cola bottle not humorous? How is that decided? Parody for copyright makes sense because it's an expression, reaction, criticism, etc... as a form of speech, as opposed to producing a product to profit off someone else's brand identity.",0
Part of me doesn’t like this bc it isnt free speech and the other part of me likes this bc journalists are getting a taste of their own medicine. Duality of man.,"This post is about Rupar, who engages in a lot of the stuff I listed. Idk about the other guys, they are probably nice people. Like I said I’m torn on how to feel :/.",0
"Todays Republic of Moldova is an unfortunate out slice of this same continuum, which wouldn’t even exist if not for the aftermath of the WWII as it was artificially separated from the Kingdom of Romania, where USSR wanted to revenge for Romania's alliance with the Third Reich.","Romania and Moldova are the same people with the same history, don't let the cultural suppression and russification that occured from 1940-1991 ever fool you into no supporting reunification and cultural resurgence. I wish Moldova to improve itself, rid itself of it's Russian influence and join Romania again.",1
"Meanwhile of course you steal the real money to pay yourself an outrageous salary, bonuses, business trips, buy luxury propety, fund misleading advertising to lure more rubes in... the usual crypto business.","The only reason ""number go up"" is because a rigged casino takes in money from marks and pays it out to scammers. That is, when it is connected to some scammy centralized exchange or market.",1
"Very much this. It's not just that he won't be getting money, he'll no longer be center stage in the spotlight. He'll be Bush, pushed offscreen and forgotten except when they need someone to blame for bad things that happened (but that they can't easily just blame on Democrats). And he knows that, too.","Yes, I know what I said. Still, Desantis' abuses of power and rake-stepping don't compare to Trump's.",1
"Kazakhstan was where the USSR tested most of its nukes. If Kazakhstan was suicidal enough to try to invade Russia, with how easily they jump to the most extreme options, they might not have many qualms about returning to “life fire tests” of nukes there.","Plus, Kazakhstan has no reason to try to invade Russia; they don’t want Russian territory, much less at the cost of hundreds of thousands of their civilians’ lives and millions displaced.",0
I consider myself to be a LGTBQ+ ally. This is something that I agree with and believe is a great compromise. A church shouldn't be forced to do something that they don't want to - a priest shouldn't be forced to perform a homosexual marriage ceremony if they don't want to because it infringes upon their personal beliefs. But the very next priest or church who has no problem marrying a gay couple should be the one to do so.,"This means that the church can’t force priest who don’t want to marry gay couples, but you can still ask another priest and they will gladly do it.",1
"the people protested the lockdowns, and the government stupidly lifted the lockdowns. The people also protested the various vaccine mandates when they were attempted, so the government made it voluntary, even for the ones that really should be taking it. So, I doubt the vaccination rates would go up even if it's a western one.","it probably won't help. For the right price, they could pay for a negative test result. And even if the destination airport require a test on arrival, they potentially infected people on the flight over, who won't test positive until a few days later.",0
"Russia has a sizeable presence in Belarus right now, probably for this exact reason and also to train Russian conscripts. Any protest at this point would get put down hard by Russia and they would probably end up conscripting the protestors.","Belarus has an army that hasn't fought anyone or really upgraded anything since the cold war, if even then. They have like 50k troops who've never seen a day in combat and a bunch of old Soviet shit that probably barely works because they've given all the good stuff to Russia.",0
Now I don't think that will happen and it was a few years they came up with the plan so it might of changed but rhe general idea was it's a way to show Russia NATO are willing to escalate without striking Russia an starting WW3.,It is unlikely that NATO would escalate the use of a tactical nuke in Ukraine be using a tactical nuke in Russia and there are not many other European targets where NATO could use one to prove they willing to not back down.,0
"As for Challengers chances against Russian tank armour, they should be able to handle everything up to the latest Refleks ERA equipped tanks, depending if the Russians ERA is empty or not….","Challengers are far from invulnerable as said, but it depends what the Russians throw at them and much much much more importantly, how the Ukrainians use them.",0
"I suppose, at least, it would be helpful to identify any potentially dangerous mutations as early as possible.","Does letting it rip through a billion people increase the chances of mutation, or not since it can spread rapidly and without obstacle?",0
"Yeah. No fucking shit. Watching it unfold on live TV being met with the most impotent law enforcement response of all time was about as clear a display of white privilege as there has ever been in history. If the the 1/6 insurrectionists were black, they'd have been killed before they got to the doors.",If they would.have been black they would all be charged with murder for the people that were killed during the insurrection. I don't know why more people aren't talking about this. The sentences would be much harsher if they were sentencing black people.,1
"I don’t think anyone thinks they’re a super weapon but they are far, far beyond the majority of the tanks Russia has been using. Just having a decent gun stabilizer and thermal imaging puts them well ahead of the T-72 and almost any T-72 variant besides the T-90 (which was going to be labeled the T72BM until the gulf war made the T72 name sales poison on the export market) and even then I’d expect them to be on par with the T-90’s at a minimum.","In Ukraine it’s been Soviet tanks vs Soviet tanks. The change in capabilities will definitely push tank-on-tank kills since Leopards/Challengers/Abrams are able to acquire, engage and kill T72s from distances where T72’s will struggle with just acquiring the target.",0
"What happens next is that the right wing machine will try to convince Trump supporters to switch over to DeSantis. Some of them will switch, but some of them won’t. The primary will be brutal, and the Trump and DeSantis camps will get mad at each other. This will create animosity that will make it harder for supporters to switch camps later.","DeSantis will pick up more of Trump’s supporters after the primary victory, but the fighting will just make Trump’s remaining supporters even more adamant. DeSantis will pick up the overwhelming majority of the Republican vote, but Trump will get somewhere around 10%, and that will be enough to sink DeSantis.",0
"Despite what people previously believed, Russia is not leagues ahead of Ukraine, so Ukraine is perfectly capable of stopping it be a war in the sky.","Ukraine is certainly in the “right” in this conflict, but they share the same Soviet mentality that we so decry the Russians for. They are trying to present an image of themselves to us that we will recognize and want to support, which is understandable in their situation, but we need to understand the different between reality and the image they want to portray on the media.",1
"Even mass population reduction isn't enough to force climate to be stable, the ONLY way to do that is for humans to decide they have to actively regulate climate, not just remove pollution and assume the planet will default to our prefered climate when we have so much data that says otherwise and in short enough timescale to be happening NOW.","It's like yeah developed nations could have switch over 20 years ago, but lots of people in the developed world would have died even faster from lack of energy and food than from the comparably slow rate of climate change AND getting rid of all the pollution would not make the climate actually stop changing because it's always in constant flux. The one thing the climate isn't prone to is being stable, it's a constant cycle of warming and cooling and humans very limited written history having happened in a single Interglacial Warming period gives us the illusion of a stable climate.",0
"Are you saying Dems are grading him for reelection on a curve because he's done a great job on pursuing his agenda? Or are you saying grading him pursuing his agenda on a curve would result in a ""great job?"".","YES. I wish more people understood this. Politics are fucking boring and they are meant to be boring. I don't want to be entertained, I want to be governed. There's no shortage of venues for entertainment these days.",1
"Not how many people view it in Bulgaria. While the majority of younger people (as far as I've seen) are anti-Russian and pro-West, the older generation who lived during our communist phase are generally pro-Russia.","Those people liked communism (we were much worse before it, my grandmother has stories about hunger and how a single orange was a treasured gift for Christmas), some studied in Russia, have friends there and consider them ""brotherly"" people. They've watched Russian cartoons as children and read Russian books as teenagers.",0
Well I’m thinking the Iraqi army and especially the republican gaurd were a far better force than Russia is currently.,Not a military guy but why will the western tanks fare any better than the russian tanks that we have all seen being blown up by the Ukraine military?,1
"Which, in the long run, actually helps Russian economy, which replaces imports with domestic products. As well as Chinses economy, which still abides by sanctions but has loopholes around them and doesn't care about all the boycotting.",Russian government thrives on it actually. Who do you think all the business in Russia belongs to? Instead of buying high quality goods from European companies (who would pay small income tax to Russian government and then transfer all of the income back to their European bank accounts) Russians will now buy low quality goods for about the same price but all the money will remain in Russia. Or go to China in case of Chinese goods.,0
"The thing is, I don’t know how one would want a government to do that. Would there be some bureau which sets rules such as: “Any news which doesn’t seem like our definition of news must display a banner reading ‘This information may not be news’”?","See what I mean? And beyond that: What are the criteria, who decides them? Does congress fund this entity to (quite literally) abridge press by letting its staff determine what is press/isn’t press? And can that body perform its job without being in some perverse role as the arbiters of “Truth vs Falsehood”?",0
"As long as the courts continue to ignore the very black and white bit about ""militias"" being government controlled and not an individual right, I disagree.","""The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people"".",0
"If nothing else, Democrats throwing around their power to get someone other than McCarthy elected makes them appear powerful and gives them symbolic control of Congress (“even without a majority, we get shit done”).",Does expelling one Republican congressman really benefit the Democrats enough for them to support McCarthy? Santos certainly deserves it but I think the Democrats would need something more before they'd support McCarthy.,1
"Was looking for exactly this response. And to extend the line of thought here further: if Russia wants to pretend Wagner is a PMC and the US, in turn, designates Wagner as a terrorist organization, then the US (and allies) should be free to directly target Wagner leaders/operatives for assassination just as we have with ISIL and al-Qaeda leaders.",But when you designate Wagner a terrorist organization then you're also - passively or directly - stating its a Russian-state sponsored one.,1
"Like, I'm just not clear what Sanders thinks the government should actually do about the problems of twitter.","Sure, but Bernie seems to be implying that the government should do something about twitter. That would be a violation of Musk's free speech if it did.",0
"It would also strongly be in Ukraine's interests to see Lukashenko removed from power. A free Belarus aligned with the West would be an enormous boon to Ukraine. It would mean that Ukraine's northern front would be completely safe from invasion, meaning they can devote more troops to other fronts. A free Belarus would also be a great ally for Ukraine. Long-term, it would mean a much more defensible border against future Russian aggression. With Belarus firmly in the Russian orbit, Ukraine is effectively surrounded on three sides. With Belarus and Crimea recaptured, Ukraine would only have to worry about invasion from one side.","Luka would sign it, forced by Putin, only to get more Russian troops into Belarus, and closer to Kyiv. Hoping for Ukraine to let their guard down on the north so Putin could try and take Kyiv again like last year.",1
"Because people who like MTG are the ""Fuck you I got mine"" type. Why would they give a damn about another country getting invaded? Heck even on this subreddit, I've seen pieces of trash commenting that America shouldn't have to take care of other countries that can't defend themselves.",So Republicans like MTG saying Ukraine won't get any more US money/support is something clearly certain Red voters want to hear.,0
"The mental gymnastics needed to believe that are astonishing, and then gaslighting us all by pretending we’re the ones who interpreted his statement the wrong way.","The justification I’m seeing from Trump supporters is that he “meant” to say that the fraud is what is terminating the constitution, not that he wants to.",0
Or just end qualified immunity already and let the problem work itself out once police departments can effectively be sued for unnecessary use of force.,That way individual police departments can’t give special permission to use dangerous methods. And they suddenly can’t use any force at all without clear steps and requirements to be cleared.,1
"Fuck off, do you understand what living under russia is like? Corruption etc but ukraine was fighting it and wanted out of russia, just like what poland did.",Russia is indeed very corrupt but so is Ukraine. Ukrainian politicians even bought mansions and spent fortunes on personal luxuries after American aid money was sent to them.,1
Which year are you looking at? And where are you getting your data from? and they manage to do so while .,"I already linked a chart of federal deficit over time 1911-2021. It and even your narrow snapshot shows democrats reduce federal deficit from administration start to administration end. That's how budgets work when you have administration changes, you can't make massive changes in a very short span of time. .",0
It makes sense when you're talking about politics at a federal level because having a political majority of federal level will guarantee that your party will make policy even if your direct representative can't tell the difference between a horse and a fence post.,Yes but more deeply because they want a red congress not a blue Congress. They're willing to take morons over losing the majority.,0
"The flight crews response was not appropriate, duct tape the idiot to a seat and he could defecate and piss on himself all alone.","TLDR; So he peed on an older lady (72) the air line moved her only to clean her seat, then moved her back despite her pleading them not to. The VP then begged her to not press charges, and offered her money. She accepted it but later returned it saying she felt forced to take it. She’s now pressing charges, and he has been on the run turning his phone off to avoid taking by police. The nitwit was still using his credit card so of course he was caught. The entire crew of the plane are suspended for their mishandling, as this was 1 of 2 times a bank executive urinated on someone within a month but the other crew of course did the reasonable thing and helped separate the involved.",1
"india’s making good economic progress right now, especially given the circumstances. but if the fabric of society comes apart from hate mongering, all is lost. or if modi passes away, his party is rudderless and we are equally screwed. i always say that the biggest threat to democracy is the lack of a viable opposition. sad to say that the US also faces such a moment, as do many democracies.","If only a competent politician could rise and gain popularity. I blame the lack of options in India’s democracy squarely in the decision of the main (and once dominant) opposition party’s insistence that only someone from the Gandhi family can be their choice of PM. People are sick and tired of the nepotism and would rather have Modi than throw the dice with another Gandhi. The congress party only reversed this decision in recent months, and even then chose a completely unlikable party hack as their lead candidate — more likely to reward his loyalty than with any intention of winning an election. It’s a sad state of affairs.",0
"The US has literally provided more military equipment than everyone else combined. We have sent 47B, compared to 51B for the entire fucking EU. Maybe Germany can pick up the slack on tanks, since their tanks aren't the logistical nightmare that US tanks are?","I'm sick of that attitude. I am American, and I am glad we are helping Ukraine as much as we are, and wish we would help more. But why should European aid be contingent on the US sending aid? Can't Europe handle wiping their own asses without the US there to coddle them?",0
"It seems to mostly come down to the fact that Meadows has a long-established residency in North Carolina, and that state law explicitly says you don't lose your residency in the state if you are out of state for political service, which Meadows was while he served in the legislature, and then as White House chief of staff.","They are in the article. Those arguments are that Meadows had a long-established residency in North Carolina, that he was in Washinon, D.C. for political service, and that state law explicitly says that political service is a legitimate reason to be out of state while remaining a permanent resident of North Carolina. As for the address they registered at, it's true that they didn't own it, but they did sign a standard year0-long lease to rent there. And while it looks like Meadows himself never visited the address where he was registered to vote, it looks like evidence shows his wife spent a lot more time there than it initially appeared, which is very consistent with a married couple that is still a permanent resident of NC but one of whom is temporarily working out of state.",0
With more votes we could control it all and then show Americans what can truly be accomplished. This back and forth of who’s in control is beyond old.,These races are too close. I’m so happy it’s going the way it is but it’s not good enough. There’s still not enough people that get out and vote.,0
"Stock buy backs buy the stock back from willing sellers (who have capital gains taxes to pay), everyone else just sees their portfolio increase.",Also execs at the companies getting paid in stock can increase their own income by increasing the price on stock they will be compensated with in the future.,1
"Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of Wagner Group, named three main reasons why he was completely ousted from recruiting convicts in Russian colonies. One of the reasons is the opposition of the military leadership.","Details: This information was sent by Prigozhin to a Sverdlovsk [a Russian-occupied city in Luhansk Oblast – ed.] deputy as a response to his request to assist in the recruitment of women from the colonies. The deputy posted a screenshot of the businessman's answer, although there is neither a signature nor a mention of Prigozhin or Wagner Group.",0
"I'm going to seem like a typical American ignoramus here, but I was not aware until now that the Luftwaffe was still rocking the iron cross on their planes.","Well from my very limited googling, I have found that the first “fighter jet” was constructed and built in Germany 1941, so it’s plausible some would know of it.",1
"Those are Ukrainian demands, now let's try to meet in the middle, peace deals require bargaining after all, don't they?","But since balance of power is the goal, the Ukrainians should say so, and the West should set about planning to arm Ukraine to the teeth and beyond.",1
"So the far right wing of the party winning control, will likely result in just more people following suit.","I think the right, if mtg truly does win… will go far right and make the party even smaller. Which means more crazy ass gerrymandering and voting suppression laws… because that’s the only way the gop gets elected as is.",1
Edit for clarity. They = the prosecutor. They convened the grand jury and would charge someone for lying in front of it. And as I’ve said local prosecutors don’t need anything beyond probable cause to issue a charge. Pretty basic criminal procedure stuff here.,This isn’t federal court…it’s a county in Georgia and their local prosecutor who convened a grand jury. They’d be the same one issuing any perjury charge.,0
Two reasons Russia invaded in 2014; their port in Crimea and the second largest natural gas reserves in Europe that were found the year prior in the Donbas region/Eastern Ukraine.,"Ukraine still controlled a lot of resources into Crimea, like fresh water, at least I’ve read that was a big motivation for Russia to try taking more control in the surrounding region.",1
"The federal government already offered Ohio aid; the governor of Ohio declined it, because apparently Republicans would rather have their constituents suffer and die than accept help from democrats.","They already tried; the Republican governor of Ohio rejected federal aid, solely on the basis that if they accepted aid, they wouldn’t be able to play the ignored victim in their next political campaign.",0
"Folks who do are being willfully ignorant. The facts are readily available to anyone who is interested in the truth. In the information age, ignorance is a choice.","She (and the idiots around her) should not have even been inside the fucking building, let alone that inner hallway. For a bit of perspective, next time your State legislature is in session, see how far you get breaking windows on the building and roaming the hallways vandalizing.",0
"Zero COVID was never a viable strategy. You can't eradicate COVID just like you can't eradicate the common cold, so I won't criticize China for attempting to reopen, but what led to the reopening is ludicrous. China had the chance to be in sync with the rest of the world by importing better vaccines and reopening in a more gradual and smooth manner, but it sabotaged itself with propaganda and its own hubris. China put so much effort into politicizing the pandemic and giving itself the credit for being the best country in handling the pandemic, but now, it is forced to follow the global trend anyways, only to be several steps behind the rest of the world. Xi Jinping still won't accept western vaccines for China, which will only extend the upcoming surge in the spread of the virus within China.","Now China is probably going to simply play cheap tricks in an attempt to fool the world; for example, renaming the virus like the article mentioned.",0
But I think Tesla is making money from that so it’s hard to say he didn’t help shareholders in that instance. With Twitter it’s like he’s using Tesla employees - so their payroll etc. It seems co-mingled and that’s not good and doesn’t benefit Tesla shareholders in any way.,"The main threat I see is the mystique of Elon wearing away and that meaning that Tesla can't attract or retain key talent. That effect won't show up for a few years. If Elon gets booted or somehow, miraculously, comes to his senses they could head off that coming brain drain.",1
"The problem for Ukraine is not that there would be fierce resistance, it's that Ukraine is currently trying to exist. While it looks like Ukraine still has the edge over its opponent due to its military and diplomatic prowess, Russia still makes advances here and there (note that Imperial Japan made territorial gains even in 1944, two years after Midway and other such battles already made it clear that Japan was going to lose), it still has to deal with the Russians in the East and South while keeping a reserve force available in case Lukashenko goes crazy.","I'd say it is more like deeply seeded Soviet propaganda that somehow has lingered and Russia is able to make use of it, but yeah it's incredibly weird, with the way things are going it really makes me wonder what the hell we'll see happening with it as an increasingly isolated region that is clearly sympathetic and dependent on a collapsing power.",1
"When the Gestapo drags me and all of my trans sisters to the gulag, I’ll be sure to mention that one time my opinion was close to an NRA talking point. I’m sure that’ll get me off the hook.","I'll go with that. So to say 'you used to be able to own a large one of those, but now you can only own a small one', that to me is definitely limiting. And if the smaller one is overall less effective, then yes it's starting to undermine. And I think encroach applies also- when something used to be broadly permitted and is now restricted, that seems like encroachment to me.",1
And how do you trust any previous/future system/camera updates/firmware upgrades to not have any backdoors/hidden exploits?,"If an IT tech/contractor at a government department doesn't know that P2P is a security threat, we probably have bigger problems than a few cameras...",1
"Eh. It's probably an ethics thing. I know several either resigned or were ""politely"" asked to step down. I keep forgetting that the government is about 99% tradition and ethics/morals, keeping it from falling to corruption or self-destruction. Say what you will about the founding fathers, but they did have some lines they wouldn't cross, even if they had crap views or laws they stuck to them and held the politicians to them.","(1) Even if they get arrested by state or federal officials for some kind of election law, they'd still remain a rep. If they were arrested (edit: and not let out on bail, or actually sentenced to prison) and didn't resign, there isn't exact clarity on what would happen for them conducting their work, if the chamber still didn't have 2/3 to expel by that point.",1
53% with the current H5N1. But they’ve been mutating it since as early as 2012.. Pretty sure the one that’s unleashed on the human population will have a higher case fatality rate.,"Mortality rates usually look a lot worse when you’re looking at mostly sporadic cases spread out over time than they do in an epidemic/pandemic. When there’s only a handful of cases over time, people who have mild cases don’t seek medical attention or get a diagnosis, they just assume they have a cold and rest as much as they can. The only cases that are being recorded are the ones that were so bad that the sick person went to a hospital or sought out some kind of medical care where they were actively tested for a specific illness.",1
The current candidates who have declared or are likely to are too weak to coalesce. Nikki? No way. Pence? Total lightweight. DeSantis? Won’t join with anyone else.,"That doesn’t bother a lot of blue collar white people. A large part of the US is like a third world country. Low education rates, blue collar workforce. That kind of population responds to a guy like Trump. Trump is very much like a leader from a third world country. Lots of bluster. No good ideas.",0
"I used to work with classified document security. Believe it or not, breaches happen more frequently than you'd like to think. Usually, they don't amount to anything, and initial offenders usually just get reprimanded. Repeat offenders, or offenders that don't cooperate with security, will be charged and held accountable according to the level of classification of materials left unsecured. This includes revocation of security clearance, heavy fines, and prison sentences.","A range of consequences from a talking to, to losing security clearance, to minor charges, to very serious charges.",1
Just about everyone else in the world has experienced one or more Covid-19 infections or has been exposed to the live virus with no infection. In addition we have a set of effective vaccines.,I think it's in part due to their vaccine not being as effective as Western MRNA vaccines. Part of the reason for the beyond dystopian lock downs was mass sickness has the ability to cripple their Healthcare system. I should add it did in the US. Thrre were some states whose hospitals had to call around looking for bed space in other states for seriously ill patients.,1
"Bear hunting in Canada is a money maker. Whether or not the culling is necessary, they will make excuses to do so. They had to outlaw grizzly bear hunting because their population got to dangerously low numbers due to poor oversight.","Guard regiment bearskins are byproducts of legal culls of black bears, in areas where they're overpopulated. No one goes ""oh Privates Smith, Jones, Ahmed, and Fulante need hats, go kill a few bears."".",1
"Shapiro wasn't exactly some centrist, either, even if he wasn't as vocal a progressive as Fetterman. Just look at his work as PA AG pushing back against the Trump administration. As for the election results, I think that it is less that Shapiro overperformed Fetterman and more that Mastriano underperformed Oz (because while Oz is a carpetbagger, Mastriano is a White Christian Nationalist who attended J6). Add to that Fetterman's health, and it is no surprise that Shapiro did better even without examining either Democrats' policy positions.","Ok I'm happy for Fetterman and I'm glad a mainstream democrat won ,but lets not pretend he didn't run behind Joe Shapiro who had a better showing.",1
"The federal government already offered aid to Ohio, but the Republican governor of Ohio turned it down.","""Ohio's governor, Mike DeWine, also says he requested disaster assistance from FEMA, which he says was denied. But the White House says that's because this is not like a hurricane, tornado or another natural disaster where there's widespread property damage."".",1
Most medical R&D is done in publicly funded universities or with public grant money. When those researchers find something then big pharma companies swoop in and do the last mile to bring it to market n patent it.,"These companies get decade-long exclusive rights to drugs they’ve developed. Only after that time, will generics become available for a cheaper price that still may be too expensive for some. They are incentivized through profit motive to develop drugs aimed to reduce symptoms instead of curing the underlying diseases and medical conditions. Think of it as subscription vs. one-time fee. These companies use government and institutional research to bring their products to fruition, in addition to the $$$ we already addressed. How does this relate to Covid?",1
"Not to be argumentative here, but how exactly does this change of board--which is mostly based on ideology and not any real proven ability to grow a university--help New College in any way? Are you basically arguing that an ideological shift will lead to a larger enrollment?",Ideology shift may lead to more enrollment. Stagnant or even decking were enrollment were not really acceptable. Sometime industry outsiders do more good than harm despite their “lack” of traditional qualifications.,1
However Trump is showing his true colors and needs to go. Romney likewise should be run out of office.,"I have news for Mitt Romney. Trump and in the future someone just like him IS the Republican party. He has been ever since Kevin McCarthy, Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell decided to kiss Trump's ass instead of stand up to him on principal. Better to lose what is left of our democracy than for them to lose any of their millions of dollars or risk their political careers.",1
"If Europe upped its military spending it would absolutely roflstomp Russia. Nazi Germany alone almost did it -- add France, the UK, Poland, etc. and it isn't even close.",Not really. It's not like he's Trump on National Television announcing the capabilities of the US military. Then directly comparing them to countries he thinks are inferior to his while declaring an act of war. It's just some guy on the internet talking theoretical logistics.,1
voting age was lowered to 18 via the 26th amendment in response to kids protestsing being sent to war via the draft in vietnam but not able to vote.,"there is \NOTHING\ they can do about the voting age without a new amendment, and that would never ever pass both chambers of the house AND 2/3rds of all 50 states.",0
"For example, there was a couple of users replying to me saying that Twitter usage has been down since Elon takeover, which is factually false and confirmed by basically every source you can check.","They restore the feature so Elon can “own the lib media” by commenting “false, it is still there” on the tweet of the original story.",1
"Also, I'm pretty sure like basically all laws regulating adoptions and child custody are state level laws and I think bans on LGBT adoption were only struck down because of Obergefell, so that could be a problem this legislation doesn't address.","Also, I'm pretty sure like basically all laws regulating adoptions and child custody are state level laws and I think bans on LGBT adoption were only struck down because of Obergefell, so that could be a problem this legislation doesn't address.",1
"Also, tell me there's no bisexuals in the Republican Party. Probably harder to find environmentalists. However the bottom line is they will welcome anybody that will ""play ball"" with them and look the other way.","You underestimate the pervasiveness and brainwashing of the Republican Propaganda Network...they have Fox, OAN, NewsMax, RSBN as well as all the Facebook profiles from Cambridge Analytica, not to mention the non-profit, untaxed, but political churches and networks, like TBN.",0
"If enough countries tell Russia to GTFO of Ukraine, it may eventually help tip the scales. To receive the messages, Russia has to be there.","Russia provides a vital counterweight to China in Asia. At least, they used to. Not so much anymore.",0
"1. Trump takes advantage of cost segregation studies and 1031 exchanges. What is a cost seg? When you buy or build a building, you are not just building a building. You are putting appliances, land improvements and other things in. If an asset qualifies for special depreciation, you can bonus it out and expense the asset the year it's in service. Cost seg studies identify this sort of property. You would typically recapture this and pay tax when the building is sold; but if you use 1031 exchanges you don't incur a recapturable event. Trump's losses are disconnected from his wealth. Cost seg, cash out refi, buy a building, cost seg... leads to tax losses as long as we have 100% bonus depreciation even though he is building wealth.",The IRS operates off of fair market value; banks generally operate off of a different standard of value.,0
"They already tried; the Republican governor of Ohio rejected federal aid, solely on the basis that if they accepted aid, they wouldn’t be able to play the ignored victim in their next political campaign.","The federal government already offered aid to Ohio, but the Republican governor of Ohio turned it down.",0
Doing nothing is only a signal towards China that this is just fine and they can keep harassing Chinese and local nationals without consequences.,This was also the Chinese answer to Canada as to why the Chinese were detaining and questioning Chinese people in Canada.,1
I suppose we should just take the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at face value because they appeal to democracy in their name. Is democracy now illegitimate because they’re a leading example of what democracy is?,"There are multiple examples of democracies around the world, some are doing okay, some not so much. Others don't know how good they have it while others can't stop making deals with the devil and repeating the mistakes of the past.",1
"The problem with this line of thinking is that according to the Palestinians, the entire land is invaded, therefore the only solution would be for Israel to destruct itself, something which Israel obviously isn't going to do.","At what point does Israel consider that the consequences of their continued, brutal occupation of a region is not worth the damage to their international reputation?",1
"However, academic standards and competition won’t fall immediately so the large contingent of country club Republicans who expect their kids to follow in their footsteps and attend UF/FSU/UM are going to be PISSED if Bayleigh or Caydyn are suddenly disadvantaged in admissions.","Sadly, they’ll probably have an easier time of it. It’s not like their football teams can get any worse right now.",0
"Just to play devils advocate for a second. For anyone who does not know about international travel by state aircraft, the same freedom of navigation rules applied to civilian aircraft are not applied to state aircraft. In order to fly over a sovereign nation you have to get a diplomatic clearance, usually granted from a government body similar to the department of state. These “dips” can be used to either cover a specific entry/exit time or provide a lenh of time like -24/+72 from expected entry time. Every country has a specific process and lead time for dips. It could be automatic if the countries have good relations or it could be a firm 14 days. It depends. I don’t know how Pakistan deals with its dips normally and if there is a precedent for them not allowing immediate dips. I’m not saying whether it’s correct or not but the article provides very little information surrounding why the dips were denied.",That’s assuming of course this entire article isn’t fake news considering there’s 0 details or sources provided about anything in the article.,1
"Putin made sure, that Russians will die out in a few decades. Low birthrate, too many old people, most young men are dead or drunk. Russia has no future.","There's no loyalty to Russia. There's some fanboying going around, yes, but that's about it. Russia and China, however, have showed their support towards Serbia on the question of Kosovo, and now Serbia needs to act neutral if they want to retain those UN vetos.",1
I'm replying specifically to a comment about leaving traps for the military and you keep talking about leaving traps for civilians.,"There's a huge difference between traps meant for enemy combatants killing civilians and traps meant for civilians killing civilians. They could set traps on solely military objects like weapons, APCs, tanks, munitions, military helicopters, etc or locations like military bases. Instead, they are setting traps in civilian houses, in civilian home appliances, on civilian corpses and on injured civilians.",1
"Ultimately, the guy who very publicly attacked a bunch of the CPC members when they beat incumbents to win is not a progressive by any metric.",The progressive voter base and the progressive wing of congress (the Congressional Progressive Caucus).,0
"They're probably trying to a) deny minorities the public school money needed for them to get a proper education in a public school (this would disproportionately affect Tennessee's minorities), and b) force people to switch to private schools, probably with the intent to get people to stick with private schools if they're forced to send their kids there for long enough.","And considering that the state government is dominated by Republicans, they'll use that power to defund more public schools, thus worsening education opportunities for minorities in particular, and everyone overall. Besides, are you really gonna take what they say at face value?",0
"If robbery carries a 5 to 25 years sentence, and person A was found with the stolen property in their possession gets 5 years, and person B was found with the property along with the bloody knife from a homicide that happened during the robbery and grainy video evidence of the person who did the killing being the one taking the property, where it's likely they are the one who did it, but some room for minor doubt about murder, and they get 20 years- I'm kind of OK with that concept.","No. The defendant was found guilty on federal robbery charge of controlled substance. Which is up to 20 years. If I understand correctly, the armed part of the conviction tacks on 5 more, so up to 25 years. (The murder part would have allowed up to life). The 19 year sentence is within the scope of what is allowed by law for the charge that they were convicted for.",0
"See autotldr's top comment for a summary. Basically, the hieroglyphics used by a culture called the Kievan Rus (Kievan meaning centered around Kiev Kyiv, and Rus being sort of the larger culture's name--one believed to be descended from the Norse and which eventually became today's ethnic Russians).","> The Rus' people (Old East Slavic: Рѹсь; Modern Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian: Русь, romanised: Rus'; Old Norse: Garðar; Greek: Ῥῶς, romanised: Rhos) were an ethnic group in early medieval eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norse people, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, settling and ruling along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD. They formed a state known in modern historiography as Kievan Rus', which was initially a multiethnic society where the ruling Norsemen merged and assimilated with East Slavic, Baltic and Finnic tribes, ending up with Old East Slavic as their common language. The elite of Kievan Rus' was still familiar with Old Norse until their assimilation by the second half of the 11th century,[1] and in rural areas vestiges of Norse culture persisted as late as the 14th and early 15th centuries.[1].",1
"Registration is terrific. But there still appears to be a huge gap between ""registered to vote"" and ""actually voting"".","""Registered young people who don't actually vote"" is still a HUGE population, and that group not voting may literally cost us our democracy.",0
"""The Allen County Sheriff's Department said the two girls he is accused of recording are his girlfriend's daughters."".","??? ""Intrusive thoughts are unwanted thoughts, images, impulses, or urges that can occur spontaneously or that can be cued by external/internal stimuli"" how is 'i get those irrational bad thoughts when I see couples like this because of awful stories like this"" not the exact definition of unwanted intrusive thoughts. Do YOU know what it means bc evidently not??",1
"Right now, it seems that some of the people choosing assisted death are doing so because they don’t have access to financially prohibitive alternatives.",People like you are why I can’t support euthanasia even for chronic illnesses which deserve to have it available. We’ll quickly slide into you nightmarish fantasy.,1
"However, I suspect a lot of western countries supporting Ukraine just want to see Russia keep on bleeding until their country is desperate enough to agree to all kinds of reform and potentially even nuclear disarmament.","If Russia left tomorrow, I've no doubt Zelenskyy would be all over their asses politically: wanting reparations for the damage they've caused and for their war crimes to be punished, but my key point is Ukraine doesn't want to be fighting for a second longer than they have to.",0
"I don’t see it as false, because regardless of if you’re the emperor who owns the earth and everything under the sun is yours, what you waste does not go to the people and that is stealing. It doesn’t matter what is yours when you control everything you have no right to it in anyway in which we must respect. Qatar is allowed to do as Qatar wants but it shouldn’t be seen as anything other than corrupt embezzlement with a fancy title.",Either way that’s crazy to think they are willing to let NK host the World Cup ik I shouldn’t be surprised after Qatar but NK is a whole other level of corruption.,1
"Even if it's just a Ukrainian feint, if the Russian lines collapse in the south, they can always change their plans and turn their feint into a proper offensive.","I think what I expect is that Ukraine makes some kind of move in the South that threatens to collapse the Russian lines. It might be a real offensive, or it might just be to force Russia to re-distribute their forces to prevent them from being able to pull off a successful attack of their own.",0
"Both are mostly functioning as intended, there's some gerrymandering occurring, but that generally affects House members and not the Senate.",That is the idea behind the House of Representatives—to offset population discrepancies caused by the fact that every state gets two senators regardless of population.,1
"The other articles you linked are about the awful treatment of maids in the Middle East. Again, while I don’t condone their situation, nothing in the article is about Afghan maids. Which is again the topic which the others are you calling you out on.","It’s good to be skeptic about the motives of global powers’ political decisions, but you don’t have to fabricate news to backup your opinion.",0
"That's right, you also need an environment that can sustain the nitrogen emissions that farms like that bring, without the nitrogen emissions being a danger to nature and jeopardizing housing developments (which also emit nitrogen).","“Excess nitrogen in the atmosphere can produce pollutants such as ammonia and ozone, which can impair our ability to breathe, limit visibility and alter plant growth. When excess nitrogen comes back to earth from the atmosphere, it can harm the health of forests, soils and waterways.” Aug 11, 2022.",1
"Though I'm an independent the last thing I would want is ron or somebody like him to be our next president, I just don't think Biden gives the Democrats the best chance just because of past presidents being able to hold on to office just because they're the incumbent president, I don't think that will be a factor with somebody who's 82 and would be out of office when they're 86.","Honestly look at the big picture, without being able to get anything done in the next two years and with his age and being against (whether you like him or not) a fresher face in ron desantis, Biden does not have a better than average chance to win so all will be for not.",0
"Invite them in, it isn’t quite the Kurdistan they imagined, but it would give them control of the Bosporus and a foothold in Europe. In return Turkey would be returned to pre-Ottoman borders and rightfully forgotten.",This incessant conflation of an ethnicity with terrorism is so unhelpful. Would you appreciate Turks being referred to as terrorists because some Turks have engaged in terrorism? I doubt it.,0
"Yeah not sure where they are getting that reading. They basically just said there's no right to abortion in the Constitution. And since there's no federal law governing it, it's now up to the states to decide that.","SCOTUS said in Dobbs: as a matter of constitutional import, ground-floor abortion stuff gets to be decided by the states.",1
He didn’t need to win Georgia to win the presidency though. And why would she have deserved the VP nomination for something that didn’t happen until after that?,I don't think a politician whose highest office held was minority leader of a state house would be a good choice to be the Vice President of the United States.,0
"Immunized against current strains, the real danger of having 700 million new infections is that is creates a viral playground to breed new strains; strains for which we have no way of knowing how effective our current vaccines will work.","But if we use the real numbers of a 70% effective vaccine, across a 50% vaccinated population, with an average mortality rate between 2 and 3%, then our estimate for potential dead goes higher.",1
"And, given China's increasingly belligerent attitude to international norms, I think that's a useful comment to make.","Well I understand the US antagonism because China's invasion of the US + forced trade, the American ""century of humiliation"" by every other Asian power in the 19th century... oh wait.",1
If he stops selling Russian energy money is wrecked forever. The Oil fields in Siberia will freeze over and that oil will be gone for the foreseeable future.,"Basically, the price of oil is the only thing keeping Russia from going completely broke. If the price of oil rises (line go up) then Russia can keep fighting it's war in Ukraine. If the price of oil is capped (line go up but no-one pay for it) then no matter how much Putin sells, no matter how much he tries to make the price of oil increase, the only thing Putin can do is sell the oil for less than he needs to keep from going broke, so he can't invade Ukraine for much longer.",1
"Seriously, this thread got me fantasizing about the big oil companies being forced to spend billions on renewable energy and renewable materials production.","These are companies that invested billions into climate denial, that actively delayed research in renewable energy, electric vehicles, etc.",1
I'm sure there are more interesting Orthodox places to visit but I was giving my own experience of the place mentioned in the article.,"I really don't see how it's exaggerating when everything I've said is entirely accurate and confirmed from other sources, apart from the chanting monks but like I said, feel free to dismiss that if you want as I can't prove it. It's a dark place with numerous mummies and where people are encouraged to carry candles around.",0
"Right, but that only happened because the state GOP just ignored the state Supreme Court for so long that we had to use the old maps in order to have an election at all.","As a fellow Ohioan; I am beyond incensed by the state’s Republican lawmakers’ constant ignoring of the will of the majority and the rule of law. They are mirroring Florida and Texas and somehow are allowed to operate like a one party rule authoritarian country, like China. I can’t explain why the majority of Ohioans voted for Mike DeWine and Frank LaRose, two men who openly flaunt their authoritarian behaviors. I do know that more democrats should be in other elected positions but are not due to many years of gerrymandering. And now LaRose is attempting to squash the last avenue that the people have, to fight for our rights in the state. He wants to make the threshold for an amendment to pass, 60%. He fears the majority of Ohioans will vote for abortion rights and also an independent fair maps committee- measures that have been passed by the people in states like Kansas and Michigan respectively. If the GOP continues to get their way, we will continue to be ruled by an extremist group of individuals with Ohioans having little to no say in what decisions these people make that will severely impact our daily lives. I think Ohioans should be protesting in the streets in mass to educate the entire country about what is going on!",1
So by means go ahead and then explain to your citizens why your country's GDP has magically shrunken by 50% overnight because these are the repercussions you are facing.,Orbanland is currently on collision course with EU. Since current polls are showing that Polish government will change this year to one that aligns with EU more and that means end of shielding each other from european sanctions (and even now it's likely it wouldn't be veto'ed as being seen together with Orban who is pro-Russia is going tu cut into your popularity in the polls).,0
"1) Filings are not required to run, they are only required once you spend or raise more than , for the fed elections. I can’t recall there being any filing fee at the fed level.","Oddly, the releases of tax returns wasn’t a thing until Nixon did it, and it’s been tradition since then.",0
"On the evening of 11 November, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were in Kherson; other Ukrainian forces were on the outskirts of the city.","On 9 November, Sergei Surovikin, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian occupation forces in Ukraine, announced that Russian troops were leaving the city of Kherson. The Office of the President of Ukraine said that the Ukrainian government saw no evidence that Russia would retreat from Kherson without a fight.",0
"The loss of Kherson is a symbolic loss for Russia, but the loss of Severodonetsk will be strategically a catastrophic loss, and very well may be what loses them the whole war.",Well the biggest part is the day Ukraine was part of NATO is the day Russia loses all interest in stepping foot anywhere near it militarily. They'll need to resort back to tearing it down from within via fake news and puppet politicians. But that will take a long time to work as the memory of what they've done won't fade quickly.,1
i believe its a bit of a generational issue in Ireland i believe most people under 40 or so are for or on the fence with cannabis decriminalizing.,"Think the majority of people are in favour of more access to medical cannabis and not wasting gardi, court and free legal aid on people caught with personal use amounts, most polls done are in favour or legal market or decrim.",1
"> Many of the early leaders of Christian Nationalist, anti-integration, and other anti-Semitic groups had ties to WW2 era pro-fascist and pro-Nazi organizations.","Literally only people who encourage and defend nazis or who support white supremacist, fascist politicians and policies. Saying they accuse everyone of it to try to trick people into disregarding accurate accusations doesn't work because most people aren't as stupid as the nazis who try it.",1
"No, this is not a bipartisan effort. No, they are not defending Joe Biden, they are attacking the republicans who intend to investigate Joe Biden.","As GOP goes down the rabbit hole of investigating its own bizarre conspiracy theories, Biden makes them look foolish and then pulls the rug by not running.",1
"•	⁠furthermore, the principle that parents have a constitutional right to shape their child’s upbringing has been argued before the court before, and the previous rulings have carved out a distinction with regards to “coercive” government programs (that require or prohibit an activity) and voluntary ones like Title X grants to healthcare providers- no one is required to seek out health care services funded by Title X.","•	⁠plaintiff Deanda argues that Title X funding access to comprehensive public family planning services violates his right to “[raise] each of [his] daughters in accordance with Christian teaching on matters of sexuality, which requires unmarried children to practice abstinence and refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage."".",0
"However it remains a possibility and unless Ukraine has the resolve and capacity to push Russian forces back from all the annexed land, or think they can somehow force Putin to conceded...they might just have to take it.","Once the land connecting Crimea to mainland is under Ukrainian control, it's game over in Crimea because Russia can't supply the army there, while Ukraine has a direct supply route.",1
"People don't have to be atheist to be pro-choice or pro-LGBTQ rights, so by making it about that instead of the issue, you're severely limiting your own support.",I'll be totally honest...I don't know why the abortion stuff and LGBTQ+ stuff aren't being framed by democrats as a religious issue.,1
"Like the rest of Europe, our far-right is directly connected to Russia, so there're probably enough fascists morons that would love to do this.",The only people that I have seen to be remotely close to that are the literal fascists who loved Putin's strongman stance but immediately jumped the boat as soon as Russia found no support from any other country.,1
"Because, again, we don't seem to actually care about countries being occupied by Russia. It's just Ukraine.",Gotta love people trying to insist Georgia is just some coward trying to benefit from others sacrifice because they happened to already be occupied by Russia and in no real position to lend any aid.,0
The Iraq invasion did have similarities to the Ukraine invasion in terms of geopolitical and geostrategic motives as well as breaking international law. War crimes as well as humanitarian crisis happened in both wars.,"Make no mistake, both sides of this war are suffering tremendous casualties, but it's for very different reasons. Ukraine is fighting a much larger country, while Russia is constantly suffering from its own incompetence. I can only assume all this Russian propaganda is meant for internal consumption because on the world stage is falls flat.",1
"That would never happen in modern Russia, and it never happened in the USSR. It also doesn't happen in China. Authoritarian governments don't allow for that kind of open criticism of their mistakes.","Why the whataboutism though? The entire US space program has fewer killed than just one Russian accident. China has no published figures on losses, despite frequently dropping empty rockets on their own people. We know a single Long March test may have killed as many as 100 Chinese people. Is there a Wikipedia article detailing every failure of a single Chinese space flight/program?",0
"Except if every team did it then what do they do? They’d end up with no teams left. I mean I guess that gives Qatar a route to the final, which might be their ultimate goal now I think about it….",What a win for a world champion who wins the cup in Qatar. Big nations should simply play their own cup inofficially. Stream it for free and show what real football is. Not this FIFA shit show.,1
The top 1 % pay more than 40% of the income tax in this country. It’s depressing to me that most people don’t know that. Let me say it another way.. the top 1% pay more than the bottom 90% combined. How exactly is that giving them a pass?,You’re depressed that more people don’t know about taxes. I’m not being snarky here..genuinely curious.. Did you know the rich paid so much of the income tax?,0
I reckon the outcome would be an invasion (no nukes) by Poland and the Baltic states of Belarus. Putin wouldn't learn much from it though as I doubt a single person in Belarus would resist.,He did once say that if nukes were to go off Russia wouldn't be the first to launch. Got to give him credit; he's dumber than he looks if he thinks anyone will believe Belarus did it on their own.,0
"Aka ""maybe we should think about classifying weed as 'not as bad' as fucking meth."" According to the united states federal government, weed is worse than meth.","Mmm yes, tell me more about how America cares about its citizens while it trades a mass murderer for someone jailed for weed while having thousands of its own citizens in jail for the very same thing?",0
They only understand socialism in their own terms. This is their problem. The Republican party will exploit this fact and they will continue to support the Republican party of so-called conservatives.,"Florida is a battleground, but republicans spend more than five times the money than the democrats, who have spent elsewhere, more effectively perhaps.",1
"In the third scene, Steven is tasked with preventing a terrorist attack on a Russian embassy. He infiltrates the terrorist group and discovers their plan to bomb the embassy. In another intense fight scene, Steven takes out the terrorists and disarms the bomb, saving countless lives.","In the final scene, Steven is honored by Stalin for his successful missions and awarded a medal of honor. As he stands on the podium, Steven reflects on his time as a secret agent and how he was able to serve his country. However, as the camera zooms out, we see a montage of Steven committing brutal acts, including killing starving Ukrainians for complaining about the Holodomor. It is revealed that Steven was not a hero at all but a ruthless KGB agent who was awarded for his effective brutality.",0
"Yup. If we didn’t have Manchin, we’d have an actual Republican in his seat. And while manchin is a huge problem, he can and has voted with the rest of the democrats, which a republican senator would not ever likely do.",Manchin could really use the cover to vote with the Republicans without changing the outcome for these next 2 years while he's running for reelection in one of the reddest states in the country.,1
"Or MAYBE it was to play pretend at democracy while not really giving up power to the unwashed, uneducated masses who clearly would not know what was best for them.","It takes a particular type of fool to fail to understand this and instead start dismantling the structure in the blind pursuit of democracy over all else. It leads to asinine pieces of legislation like the Fixed Term Parliament Act which led to the Prime Minister of a minority government being deadlocked in parliament and yet unable to call an election despite opinion polls indicating if he did he would win a landslide majority in favour of what he wanted to do, simply because he was unable to ask the monarch to exercise the prerogative right to call elections and the opposition knew elections would see them decimated and so repeatedly blocked them in the house. In the end, he was forced to wait until a scheduled recess and use the still extant prerogative of prorogation (arguably far less democratic, ironically) to force through his program by default. Fortunately the FTPA has since been repealed, but let us learn from that lesson rather than repeating the mistake with the Lords.",1
What originally lead to it was Prodigy getting sued because they were trying to filter content and someone sued them over something they missed.,"Their solution was to just throw their hands up and not moderate ANYTHING at all. Given how much porn we all know that would lead to, 230 was a bipartisan amendment to allow them to try in good faith.",0
Still better odds of moving their bills than they would have under actual GOP control. And the actual mechanics of the legislative process would be a subject of negotiation. They might choose to put a lot of that in the hands of committee co-chairs and devolve power from the speaker's office (more like old days legislating where committee chairs ruled their fiefdoms).,"In order to have a House that functions, you would want a coalition with maybe 10-25% of Republicans who are willing to make a deal to get co-chairmanships and co-staffing on committees, and you get a House that functions. You still are able to move legislation that aligns with your ideology, thought it might be slower, and you don't have to worry as much about insane investigations because subpoenas and investigative steps would require consent of committee co-chairs.",0
"The danger of asbestos is mostly, that the broke off dust particles harm the human lungs, just like moondust(regolith), and inbedding itself in the tissue.","When asbestos is inhaled, it causes chronic and long term inflammation and scar tissue formulation within the delicate lung parenchyma.",1
"You think nethanyahu cares? He’s been pretty transparent in his intentions. Hell, he’s the one who violated Oslo by allowing settlements to start being built.",He did do it almost thirty years ago when he authorized the first settlements. The intent is to effectively colonize large parts of the west bank to the point that once any formal negotiation over border lines happens the Palestinians and the rest of the world won’t have any real choice but to just accept a redrawn boundary.,0
"Hitting yourself in the dick with a hammer to own the libs. This is feels over reals taken to its ultimate, most braindead self sabotaging conclusion. Do it, idiots.",What a bunch of morons. My candidate didn’t win so I won’t certify any of the votes in my county and will make the other candidate’s margin of victory even bigger. Taking election denial to a new level.,1
I wouldn't even rule out the possibility that the whole alien saga was invented by the US military or secret service to cloak experimental planes and balloons.,My two cents on this is that I don’t believe our current technology would easily pop out alien airships that defied everything we know from physics and at least our current capabilities to come to our planet to float around in the sky.,1
"MA is not alone, VT has a Republican governor who like Baker is a moderator - socially liberal, fiscally conservative. In fact moderate Republican governors once was the norm throughout New England.","Massachusetts has a very blue legislature so sometimes want a Republican governor to keep a slight check on them for fiscal reasons. Massachusetts has a lot of money, so rich people usually want republicans for governor but not for the national level. But the Republican has to be moderate and socially liberal. Diehl was too crazy for Massachusetts.",1
"Lol, you literally said that Israel targets innocent civilians who all they do is just be relatives of someone who did terrorist attacks that's the most radical thing I had ever heard.",But I'm referring to a specific set of terrorist incidents in which many civilians were murdered that pushed Israel to make checkpoints and build a barrier wall around some of the west bank.,1
"A significant portion of their base does not support gay marriage, and that means losing a primary vote when they come up for re-election. It absolutely costs them, or you'd see a lot more votes for it.",Yes I was so surprised a bunch of republicans also voted for it in the House Now we get to see which republican senators have the guts to vote for it when it comes to the floor.,0
"Merry Christmas, Ukraine. You know, for all the talk from Russians about how Ukraine is their brother country and they love the people, they sure don't seem to act like it.","Whatever Russia's problems were at the end of the USSR break-up it pales in comparison to the damage that Putin & Co. did, not just to the Russian people but also the Chechens and now Ukrainians.",1
It's the opposite of the Iron Dome. Iron Dome is for intercepting short-range low-value improvised rockets and artillery shells. Patriot is mainly for ballistic missiles and high-value targets.,"Patriot is primarily designed to shoot down ballistic missiles and high-end threats. The missiles are 2,000 pounds with a 200-pound warhead. They will crush airplanes and missiles out to about 100 miles, intercepting at Mach 4+. The cost per intercept is millions of dollars, so the system is designed to protect high-value assets from high-end threats. The system is huge and not rapidly mobile.",1
It is a balant lie to assume that we are always the good guys. We are not. It is just that Russia is about always the bad guys in teh last few decades.,I wonder how much the west would have united without the threat of Russia post-WWII. Of course not wanting another major war was the biggest goal but having a hostile nuclear power right there certainly helps bring people together. Just wondering if true world peace is achievable or if there will just be an inevitable whack-a-mole of hostile powers no matter how many technological and agricultural advances we make.,1
"I'm hoping he sells Twitter before Summer comes. Twitter is a fantastic platform for communities. I'd hate to see it get shut down. A lot of acquaintances, friendships, careers, and even marriages happened because of Twitter. A lot of BS has happened via Twitter as well.","It's all publicity and everyone is talking about Twitter. It might be rough but individual user usage is up, interactions are up, the news and many media outlets are posting and talking about Twitter. It's a gambit that may pay off in the long run. Because we humans like people that change. The villain that sees his evil ways and comes to the side of good.",1
"I think that too many Dems across the country still want to play by 'gentlemen's rules' and to 'take the high road'. They approach things like 'Kumbayah' Care Bears who, quoting the old Coca-cola ad song, 'want to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony' and 'build bridges' and all. That all might have worked 50, 40, 30 even fifteen years ago but these times call for 'Killer Kodiak Bears' not 'make nice Teddy bears.'.","Yup. I'd definitely be asking myself some questions if I lived in Texas. Thankfully, I do not live in Texas.",1
"Instead, the next invasion from Belarus would be a bunch of poorly trained Russian conscripts that Russia can't properly equip going against a Ukrainian military far more prepared than last time that has fortified the approach from the Belarusian border.","Russia already tried one invasion from Belarus, when they spent months massing troops and equipment in advance and Ukraine wasn't even mobilizing for fear of provoking Russia. It literally is not possible for Russia to be more prepared for a second invasion from Belarus than they were the first time given the amount of time they had to build up, and it's not possible for Ukraine to be less prepared.",0
"I know what you're getting at, that by saying ""state's don't need to issue same-sex marriage licenses"" that the bill is implicitly allowing states to pick and chose who to apply civil rights to.","It's a start, I would say majority of couples know someone who can drive them to state lines where it's recognized and get someone ordained in that state to marry.",1
"That way, the only homeless people on the actual streets would be the ones that are easiest to rehouse (just put them in permanent supportive low income housing). All of the crazy/drug addled ones should be in massively reformed psychiatric care asylums.","If we could do that without hiring a bunch of abusive psychos to watch the crazy people, it would be the most effective way to get the mentally ill homeless people off the streets. Add a separate section to the facility specifically for drug addiction treatment as well.",0
So Poland finally actually send the request...after falsely claiming for 2 weeks they had already done it to score points with the polish people in preparation for their upcoming election.,Issue 1 is Poland repeatedly saying for two weeks now that theyre gonna send their Leopard 2s to Ukraine and bitching about not getting approval while never even asking or submitting request until today.,1
"Would they really fire my wife? probably not. But it is like OP said, it's a way to scare employees into submission. When the rule book says 5 strikes you're fired, you come into work with a disease on your 5th occurrence. Or at least, a lot of people do.","its a similar situation. The bonuses early this year were insane. You could make 800 bucks EXTRA in 1 days shift, and that short of stuff lasted for months. They are attempting to reel back the bonuses but the shortage remains, and the hospital remains full.",0
"When the physical space for a person encroaches on the safety regulations in an aircraft passenger seat making someone’s safe usage of that space impossible, it is indeed a safety and health issue.","Outlining its policy, Qatar Airways said any passenger “who impedes upon the space of a fellow traveller and cannot secure their seatbelt or lower their armrests may be required to purchase an additional seat both as a safety precaution and for the comfort and safety of all passengers,”.",1
"From a medical perspective, China cannot afford to have a full COVID wave even today. They have refused western vaccines and their homemade ones are lacklustre at best. If China will reopen like the rest of the world has done today, their hospitals will buckle like most other nations did in early 2020. Everyone will know someone who fell very sick or died to COVID. In the US, it cost the president his re-election. In China, it could cost Xi his career, legacy, and perhaps even more.","The only way out I see for China to catch up to western mRNA vaccine tech or to buy western vaccines, then inoculate as many elderly as they can before opening up their society.",0
"The other Republicans appealing are keeping the question open and unsettled; even if they lose at Supreme by Friday evening, they've probably suppressed some votes.","But, he's different, not ""just another terrible Republican"" precisely in that he went to Court on a tough call (really, that did seem like the question could reasonably be called either way because the law itself is silent on runoffs) and then he \accepts\ the Court decision going against him and works to get the voting process stable in time for election officials and voters to decide when to vote.",0
"No war in over 100 years has ended because the head of state dies, what makes you so sure this one would be any different when its clear most higher ups in Russia want that war.","Now isn’t the time to see Russia have a leadership transition as that person may or may not be worse and could escalate the issue as they would be an unknown. Most global leadership is familiar with Putin and his habits anyway, why throw a wild card into the game?",1
"After all, if a community feels that their prosecutor is doing a bad job, they can elect someone else.","Shouldn't prosecutors follow state law, since that is their job? State laws are written and passed representatives that were democratically elected by the voters. In other words, state laws on abortion represent what the people of that State want. Prosecutors should respect democracy, and follow the will of the people.",0
"There's no if, his cronies already admitted that the earthquake tax that was created for future disaster relief were used when ""needed"". And has long since disappeared and its fate is unknown, there's a reason why whenever shit hits the fan they disappear and blame everyone but themselves and force citizens to help other citizens while sharing bank info for funding and locations for clothing donations.","There's also ÖİV, ""Special Communications Tax"" which was originally the ""earthquake tax"" that was supposed to disappear at 2002, but still exist and is a blanket tax for anything cellular or wireless communication at 10%.",0
"In international news, the new Labor government in London sent its congratulations to the first Members of the European Parliament elected to represent the United Kingdom following its return to the EU. The last smoker in France has announced he is quitting for health reasons. Lake Qattara based beverage giant MatruhCo finalized its purchase of the Johnny Walker brand. Saudi Arabia's President Jaziri toured the banks of the new Ben Gurion Canal with her wife and their Israeli counterparts.","And finally, Kabul's Baraki Square, site of last week's annual Pride Parade, was closed again to traffic today as boisterous celebrations broke out at news of the Taliban government's official recognition by the United Nations, following Tuesday's release of thousands of detainees accused, but never convicted, of unironically referring to their pets as their fur babies."".",0
"It doesn't matter what Europe sets. Russia wont sell to them. And since there are plenty of buyers for Russian oil, Europe is just going to be forced to get their oil elsewhere.","So I guess it's okay now to import Russian oil if it's not above the price cap. I think $60 per barrel is still kinda profitable, isn't it? A little bit under the .",1
The problem is that the amendment that passed in Ohio still gave the state’s legislature power over redistricting where as Michigan took away that power and gave it to an independent commission.,"Other states could use Michigan as a road map, but not every state constitution allows for constitutional amendments via direct democracy. If we had to rely on the state legislature to get this done, none of it would have been possible.",1
Point 1) this doesn't matter. Just because it's fewer doesn't mean they have less sensitive information. EVERYTHING ELSE you said was 100% true though. It is an entirely different scenario.,"It’s pretty clearly a different situation. Biden found less than a dozen documents, which were immediately turned over to the national archives. Trump took boxes and boxes of classified documents to his resort, which is now famously swarming with foreign guests and not at all secure, and then refused to turn them over, claiming they were his property now. This situation should definitely be investigated so we know how it happened, but over-classification had long been understood to be a big problem, so it isn’t totally surprising that these documents are occasionally lost track of. That’s not the same thing as deliberately taking large numbers of them.",1
"I suppose my fear here is just that we’re kinda in a lose-lose situation. Giving aid to Afghanistan, while the morally right thing to do, could help keep the Taliban in power, which could help perpetuate suffering and oppression in the region. Not helping, while horrific and honestly a terrible thing to do, has at least a chance that the Taliban may just fall apart on their own. Of course it could also just give them a way to blame their faults in others. I don’t like helping to perpetuate the Taliban but I also hate to let their people suffer. It’s just lose-lose.","And that’s good, but take Hungary for an example, the nation has a fair share of problems and an increasingly authoritarian leader. They also get a lot of money from the EU, so life for the average person in Hungary is relatively good. That can breed complacency in the face of authoritarian governance, so as long as the people keep good living conditions they have no reason to dislike their leader even if Orban has a lot of stuff to dislike him for. I suppose my fear is that this dynamic could happen on Afghanistan. Although I admit this could also give India enough leverage over Afghanistan to curb their worst actions. But that’s my thought process of how even giving humanitarian aid could perpetuate the Taliban.",0
"Other radical far-right coalition members have called to legitimize Israeli settlements in the West Bank in a way that operationally, if not legally, sets the stage for Israeli annexation of that disputed territory, and would signal the end of any prospects for a two-state solution, in which a Palestinian state would exist alongside Israel.","Should clarify though, and im not saying this is your stance specifically, but “fuck the Israeli government” (which I agree with) is not the same as “Israel was a mistake and should cease to exist”- which most Jews disagree with, and is often expressed on threads about actions of whatever Israeli government is in power.",1
"Meh, please be critical of us where we merit it. As long as it's objective criticism, and not just because India's priorities aren't the same as whatever country you're from (whether that be in the west, China, Russia or otherwise), criticism is useful.","Ah, I don't. Would be happy if we continue to have strong and stable relationships with most countries (ideally with a long-term solution to our issues with Pakistan, which is the only country with which i hope we have a significant shift in our foreign policy within my lifetime), without going into any bloc. India shouldn't be within the west's camp in the way that Asian countries like Japan or Korea are.",0
"Lol totally fair. As someone who has a degree in marketing and an at least average intellect they irritate me too. Normally I see right through them and think they’re incredibly dumb, but this time I appear to have been out-semanticsed.",Technically correct but not clear. Better phrasing would have been “Head of US Intelligence Community”.,0
"Forget about losing key races so far, their party internally will be fighting this for the next 2 years and it might be the biggest outcome of the midterms.",Almost all his lunatic candidates in statewide races lost - someone like DeSantis is a much more dangerous opponent for the Democrats.,1
"But, since Ga didn't take the federal medicaid expansion, if you're working, you basically can't get medicaid. So you're stuck with no health insurance.","Well tell you what. Since you're so freaking knowledgeable about it, feel free to get my mom signed up.",0
"Speaking as a person who has marched, petitioned, and donated to causes to raise awareness of climate change, nobody cares until a painting they've never cared about in their lives gets its frame a little saucy.",Is it more important than air? There can be no art and no culture without a stable society. Do you think these sculptures and paintings will survive societal collapse?,0
"To some extent the voters DESERVE the politicians they elect, especially when they believe all the crap this guy spewed all over the place. Also have to hand it to the somnolent campaign by this guy's Democratic opponent, who obviously believed s/he had so little chance of winning that there was no way to justify the expense of any opposition research.",He's absolutely correct that he did nothing criminal. Lying from politicians has never been a criminal matter in the US. We couldn't afford all the jails needed if we were ever foolish enough to criminalize politicians lying.,0
"Not only is it possible to stop this crap civilly, it's the only way that we can address this and keep our democracy at the end of the day. If the only way that we can see out of this is political violence, our country is already lost.","Vote. Vote in every election, for every race. Vote no matter the barriers and structural impediments thrown up in your way. Make sure your family votes. Make sure your friends vote.",0
"It certainly isn't a blue state. The Republican party controls both houses of the state legislature, governor, secretary of state, and attorney general. I hope Georgia continues the good fight and turns blue one day. You are not quite there yet.","The big producers like Alaska, Texas, and the states around the Gulf of Mexico are not land locked. North Dakota is also a top 5 producer that borders Canada so they wouldn't have to deal with the US. There might be some that are, but they likely border other red states with access to the ocean or a neighboring country.",0
"No concessions to Russia, no appeasement, no ceasefire, and no peace talks until the last Russian soldier leaves Ukrainian land (pre-2014 borders).","Seems like you missed the part where Ukraine “agreeing to a cease fire” means to literally stop firing on the lines of the invading, occupying force that is entrenched in Ukrainian soil.",1
"I am a centrist and I’m an independent for many of the reasons she laid out. She’s no saint and I’m not going to pretend that she isn’t doing this for purely selfish reasons. I will say that the Democrats are terrible. I vote for them because the alternative is even worse. We need more people who, unlike Sinema, actually are willing to work with Republicans so we can make progress on issues rather than the constant grandstanding both parties love.","This is exactly our problem. I disagree with you politically so therefore I’m an idiot. If you wanna know my views, I support gay marriage and abortion up to viability. I support common sense Gun laws but think it impractical to ban types of weapons. I believe we need a strong border with little support if you come illegally. I believe affirmative action to be a racist policy that should be repealed. I’m an independent because there’s stuff that I believe in that comes from both sides. I hate the Republican Party has been taken over by radical white supremacy. I hate that the democrats have been taken over by European style democratic socialism as I don’t believe it’s possible in a country this large and this diverse. But because of that I’m an idiot with no views.",0
"Then the Russians send nuclear warheads at Ukraine to quickly end the war. They know NATO won't retaliate over Ukraine. Currently they don't have any actual excuse to fire nukes, attack deeper into their homeland and that stops being the case.","It sucks for the Ukrainians but that is how you avoid them just going nuclear. Turn Ukraine into a never ending meat grinder. Russia already has an aging declining population, they can't hold out for years taking casualty numbers like we are seeing.",0
This may be part of the reason they're pushing for all these concessions now and allowing him to take it. A feckless idiot can be turned into a figurehead.,"It doesn't help that McCarthy is a spineless blowhard more interested in acquiring a new job title than amassing power. He's ensured that he'll be nothing more than a paper tiger, a puppet for whoever manages to actually come out on top within the House of Representatives.",0
"Also last century stuff? Ukraine literally never voted for Israel security in the un they even voted to disarm Israel from it's nukes last week, if they want our support they have to support us too.","Your not Israeli , you don't know anything about us or our interests as you shown in your comment, it's in your interest that we support Ukraine, not in ours.",0
I think people expect Brazil to be unruly and crooked and except USA to be the model democracy. Unfortunately they are very much the same. The working class in Brazil probably have it better than USA.,"As bad as Brazil is they just showed they are better and more capable of the rule of law than the US. I agree that Brazil is not the ideal to uphold but it is somehow many factors better at maintaining democracy than the US. That is the sad, pathetic truth.",1
I agree though that blizzards are the least dangerous. Lived in New York and Massachusetts for many years. Never lost power from a blizzard or had major property damage. Just many annoying hours shoveling snow.,Yeah but how early is that? What kind of warning? And how do you know your animal is not just freaking out about something else? I’ve never lived in an earthquake zone so I legitimately don’t know.,0
- did you know that at one time you could have used “commuter trains” to get from the midwest to the east coast?,"I've been on trains around New York, and I've taken Amtrak once from the Emeryville, CA to Eugene, OR. I didn't care for that trip. Too long not to have gotten a sleeper.",1
"I still can't believe that Russia is yet to achieve air superiority over Ukraine.. how a country can call itself a ""superpower"" with a straight face when it can't even win what should be a one sided air battle right at its own border is beyond me.","I don't think it's just Ukraine having better air defense, I think it's also Russia being much worse at intelligent gathering and having a comically low supply of smart and targeting munition which makes finding and successfully disabling air defense networks much harder and more costly.",0
"It was just a pr stunt to try to put a blame Ukraine for not willing to make some peace. Never forget, putin did not asked for a ceasfire for ukranians holidays, he declared one for Russians holidays, like if they where entitled to. Second point, you can't unilaterally declare a ceasfire, that's illogical, you ask for one. And even if Ukraine would have agree, they would have broke it and blame Ukraine.","Didn't Ukraine not agree to any ceasefire? Not saying we can trust Russia, but there isn't any ceasefire to begin with since both parties never agreed.",1
"But I also accept that at this point, people can make their decisions and if you end up very sick, well don’t say I didn’t warn you.","But the problem with a pandemic is other people’s decisions still affect me. So I would prefer if everyone was Vax’ed and boosted because while it’s not a sterilizing vaccine, it does reduce the spreading of covid and any reduction is helpful to everyone.",1
"So taking away cheaper items and forcing people on SNAP to purchase more expensive items, under the guise of “it’s healthier” is just another way to hurt poor people unless they now plan on upping the $$ amount for recipients of SNAP, which I’m guessing they’re not.","I got downvoted to hell the other day for saying it, but I still maintain that there's value in placing reasonable restrictions on the use of SNAP or other food-assistance benefits, provided those restrictions are aimed at maximizing the amount of food that assistance can buy for a family.",1
"point being that it isnt accurate saying that Minnesota is the first, when California did earlier, but the voters have to ratify amendments to the constitution.","Voters in California, Michigan and Vermont ratified proposed constitutional amendments to protect reproductive choice, which is different from ""passing a bill."" (Voters in Montana, Kansas and Kentucky defeated proposed anti-choice constitutional amendments.).",1
"The wise thing for Russia to do, would be to wide draw their troops, if they fail to do that then Ukraine will force them out.","Although being shot dead or blown up, is another potential fait that the Russians choose if they don’t want to move.. Getting out of Ukraine would seem to be the wiser choice.",0
"I’m as lefty as they get, but imo the role of Speaker should not go to the most progressive member. It should be the member most skilled at getting everyone moving on the same page. At the end of the day, the House can only pass what the most conservative Democrat in the Senate agrees with anyway.","Yeah you're right but I thought it was obvious here that we're not talking about the Senate haha. ""Congress"" is often used as a shorthand for the House, like how you refer to members of the Senate as ""Senators"" but you refer to members of the House as ""Congressmen/women"".",1
"Not when he's the millionth dictator, system after system, name after name, even after the people had a successful proletariat revolution, after which they immediately reinvaded Ukraine. By now it's obvious, that fascism is the will of their people. And they're the ones perpetrating it, not putin's clones. Edit: in fact, just right now, I'm having an argument with an ""innocent russian"" who is claiming that Ukrainians aren't real.","Putin is just a symptom. There are many more like him, many who genuinely support them, many who do his enforcement and are encouraged by their nationalistic friends and family. If even 1% of the population marched on the Kremlin, it would be over.",0
"Organized religion was conceived by the powerful as a means to subjugate the rest of us. That's not some modern communist conspiracy theory. Anyone with any background in religious history could tell you how religion was used to enrich the powerful. It's not any different today, with minor exceptions.","Indeed - it's called coercion, and no contract based on coercion is valid, at least not in the developed world. I know some shitholes like KSA allow for all sorts of coercive contracts.",0
So gun laws can't be changed but having more teachers would help the situation since you can't guns out of bad hands anymore.,"Or, are we talking about the problem where kids get access to guns and shoot their classmates, and teachers? Where Christian fundamentalists shoot up concerts, and nightclubs? Where an 18 year, mentally unstable kid can go buy a military style weapon and shoot someone later that day. That's not a non-sequitur for you?",1
"Sadly, the only way to protect abortion rights is for the people to keep electing those who will keep protecting abortion rights, including, and especially, those who nominate and confirm people to the judiciary.","Codifying a right to abortion nationally is that much easier and people aren't idiots, they know that if things continue to swing right with the current day manifestation of the GOP that they will not stop at abortion and it will only be a harder fight. It will absolutely effect the run off, of course it will - people are emotional creatures, the fact that the right just got fucking spanked over trying to take us back to the last century and are still going hard for trying to pass laws that are going to kill women is what takes precedence.",1
"It is also an incorrect assumption to assume all contents on the ""hard drive"" are genuine (as it has been confirmed that some files were added remotely, while the laptop was in Rudy's possession).","To be fair, “Computer Security Expert” Rudy probably calls USB thumb drives “hard drives” (Hey, you can’t bend them, they’re too hard!) so the terminology may be off….",1
"Keep in mind too there's a lot of explicitly pro-Republican polling ""firms"" that are trying to skew the averages, and putting out a lot of suspicious low quality polls that, shockingly, are extremely favorable to Republicans.","There are a lot of factors at play: Trukmp's erratic behavior, pollsters relying too heavily on landlines, people being polled not willing to participate, and even being dishonest in their responses. Pollsters relying too much on ""traditional"" weights that may not apply anymore: the mid-term ""slaughter of the President's own party, for instance.",1
"Palestine is one of the world's fastest growing populations, you may call settlement building 'genocide', but it's almost as effective a form of genocide as charities. Settlement industries are overwhelmingly filled with Palestinians. About a third of all Palestinians work in Israeli settlements or industries.","This has been Israeli strategy for 30+ years. They want to keep the situation as is, while slowly ethnically cleansing Palestinians, and building more and more illegal settlements. This sort of worked for them in the past, the old world order, but won’t work in the currently forming new world order.",1
"From Israel's perspective, preventing a a terrorist group that is actively attacking them from acquiring more weapons and preventing their main enemy from staging an invasion force on their border under the cover of fighting Syrian rebel groups are immediate national security concerns. Israel is worried about the development of the Iranian arms industry, especially Iran's nuclear program. However, their current strategy, is to engage in targeted bombing of infrastructure and the assassination of scientists and engineers critical to the Iranian arms industry and weapons development programs. I will grant you that this strategy is proving to be an obstacle, but not an existential threat, to the growth of Iranian arms industry.",And such geopolitical minutiae is worth thrusting the Iranian Defense Industry into such prominence and wealth unopposed?,1
"Ok, but I would say if a company makes money off of AIs trained on artists, it would be reasonable for that company to at least give royalties to those living artists.","Mm, I think one of the few benefits of corporate power is that protecting their own rights to copyright also is accidentally protecting individual's copyrights. : ) So at least as things stand I think that will stay protected.",0
"An airline ticket is a fee for a service-transport to another place. The passenger arrived at the correct time for the service to be rendered only for the service to be cancelled with little or no warning, and it’s not like the airline even still incurs the cost of fuel and whatnot. How could there be any other outcome than a full and complete refund?",I have not made the call to refund yet but we’re you able to get anything more? I was not stranded anywhere but instead drove to the destination instead using my own vehicle.,1
"No the Palestinians have never been genocided, their casualties have been consistently very low because Israel moves mountains to try to protect them from their leadership who use them as human shields.","Nah, because despite the propaganda ultimately Israel is just defending itself against Palestinian aggression. The occupation and war could end tomorrow if the Palestinians just embrace they're never going to wipe out Israel and kill all the Jews.",0
If Cuba is supply military equipment to Russia then it means their military is in a much more dire spot than we realized.,"The comment was more of a joke pointing out the embargo and Russia's sanctions(I'm sure everyone here knows that), not that Cuba is currently some rundown shithole with no trade partners.",1
"The only way any Republican should win a majority is by stop pandering for the fascist and lunatic votes, and start being honest on issues to win more of the centrists.",For whatever reason recently moderates generally end up winning on the left side for primaries for national/large elections.,1
Any politician who was relying on Twitter to win them the mid-terms wouldn't be waiting until the week of the election to get verified.,If they stop verifying politicians this close to an election it won’t matter. If they verified people erroneously it won’t matter. We are too close for it to matter.,1
"She did a week prior to the invasion for the Russian Premier League. Hard to assume you'd be taken when not many others are currently in custody as political pawns. We'll see later in interviews if she actually possessed weed carts, but it easily could have been 100% fabricated. Again, if it wasn't, that's 100% on her and the Russian judicial system acted as harshly as they could, for the exact reason as stated above, to make her a political pawn.","Russia demanded a 1 for 1 prisoner exchange, despite the value of the prisoner America had. They knew the chaos that would presume after.",0
"As bad as you think it was during the administration of Calderon, it is much worse now. That is a fact that is backed by statistical evidence from multiple sources. We are experiencing the worst wave of crime in modern Mexican history under Lopez Obrador.",DM me and I’ll send them to you tomorrow. The sources come from our national statistics organization (INEGI) and they have been impartial in their data collection.,0
"If we can’t defeat them by making it hard for just minorities and the poor to vote, let’s just prevent everyone from voting until we are all dead.",If we start eliminating people from voting for being too young…can we also eliminate those that are too old? Older voters may be voting for things that they might not have to deal with the consequences for in the future.,1
"Biden is a socialist, only when you're perspective has gone so far skewed to the right that virtually anyone that doesn't endorse your dear leader while advocating for the total dismantling of government institutions must be a socialist.","It’s always funny being a socialist and seeing generic liberals get labeled as socialists and having to explain to people, “no no, I’m WAY more radical that.”.",1
"I'm not against this but this really needs massive investment from a top down approach or it simply become like plastic ""recycling"" where it's a feel god narrative that simply doesn't happen the way it's sold to public. Preferably government investments for renewables that is owned and retained by the state.",Tax credits are fine but a rebate is better. As for roof solar it's good but the problem of renters ending up paying higher costs in the long run is real problem while the subsidize the landlords investment because you know the won't be passing any money back the renter when electricity prices rise due to the infrastructure overhaul.,0
Why do you support the Palestinians wiping out Israel? As that is what Israel negotiating in good faith would achieve?,Why do you expect only one of the 2 parties to negotiate in good faith? You want Israel to be reasonable but don't expect the Palestinians to be?,0
"Doesn’t help that they have gerrymandered Texas into oblivion so even when new representation is wanted, it’s difficult to get due to decades of GOP redrawing lines to choose their own voters.",ITT: people so desperate to own the Republicans that they're willing to write off the blue cities of Texas most impacted by this who keep trying desperately to change things and who keep getting assfucked by GOP policies like limiting early voting and mandating only one ballot drop box per county.,1
My Grandparents are wealthy Republicans who would let people starve outside for a tax break from Nazis.,Money is the only God for these types of people. Money is the thing they crave and the thing that dictates their morals.,0
"Tbf, it would be about full speed for the average snail, 24 hours a day - but I think if you're getting into the weeds of ""exactly how fast a snail goes, compared to our pathetic military"", the problem is still clear...","Once Western equipment like tanks arrive for the Ukrainian counteroffensive, the Russian positions all along the front will be moving backwards a lot faster than 3km a month...!",0
Indian officials are asking for the tests and reports which show that syrup is responsible which WHO is not issuing.,Nope WHO is contradicting itself in its own reports but still pushing to blame syrups. Sounds like they are trying hard to push out indian Pharma which makes good medicines at affordable prices to support big pharma profiteering in west.,0
"What they really think is whatever right wing anti democrat propaganda is being fed to them. I know that sounds US centered but that's really what it is. Thailand is becoming more and more anti US especially now that their government is pretty much totally defunct and is military led. The amount of Russian, China, Republican (tucker-esq) propaganda they consume is mind boggling. They absolutely hated Obama because he was black and actually believe that Trump would have supported them...a group that is on welfare more than I can stomach and purposefully takes cash jobs, manipulates their living situation and evade taxes like the plague.","Its global. My wife's Thai friends spout all sorts of anti Ukraine nonsense. ""Did you know there's corruption in Ukraine?"" Yeah, no shit. There's corruption in your country, my country , every country. That doesn't mean you support Russia...ever. Fuck Russia.",0
There are billions of people who never gave a shit in the first place and they're the problem as much as the corporations and governments.,We really should have been holding these companies polluting like crazy responsible instead of giving these horrible people more and more of our money.,1
"That's the problem with using the 1%. Might as well use the 5% or 10%, because all of them do include the middle class. Organizations like this need to start talking about the 0.1%.","You understand that millionaire means having a net worth above $1 million, right? That definitely includes middle class people near or in retirement in the US.",0
"Later, Ukraine's antisemitism and cooperation with the Nazis during World War II resulted in 1.5 million Jews being exterminated within the borders of modern-day Ukraine, fully 25% of the total killed in that genocide. This history doesn't endear the Ukrainians to Israel today.","And finally, there are hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Jews living in Russia who would instantly be in peril following an Israeli clash with Russia.",0
"A lot of people in Israel (if not most) that support the military presense in the WB do so solely because of security reasons - it has very strategic positions that the Jordanians used to attack Israel from, and later were used as bases for terror operations inside Israel.","There is wide political support for Hamas in the WB, and if Israel leaves - the rockets from the west back could cover the whole country easily. They don't want to take any more chances after leaving Gaza.",0
"This is not about my ""feelings"", it's about understanding the legal difference between someone who is currently officially in the process of seeking asylum, and someone who isn't. Literally, Texas (not the federal government, the Texas state government) buses people who are pending asylum to other states on the regular. How they entered does not matter while their asylum status is pending.","Individuals who have filed a claim for asylum in the U.S. do not have status as an immigrant, but are granted certain rights for the duration of the pendency of their application. These rights do include the freedom of movement within United States, whether on their own accord or facilitated through someone else.",1
Did Donald Trump intentionally hoard documents that he knew he shouldn't have? Yes. Did he lie about it? Yes.,"The Biden administration has always been run 'by the book' (sometimes annoyingly so), so it's highly unlikely that this was in any way intentional. It's not even clear if it was Joe Biden himself that stored the documents.",0
"From the looks of it, the very best they are hoping for is balance of power: kicking Russia out of their territory and then arming to the teeth to dissuade Russia from continuing the war.","There are four ways for wars to end: truce, balance of power, elimination of the core issue, and convergence of values.",0
"Lived in NY all my life. Yep. Drive through Queens and you can see hundreds of families that are packed in like sardines. No idea how the fuck they park, and the streets are so packed and narrow as it is. I guess you get used to it.","You might be right. I've seen lot of seismologists saying it seems like a second earthquake, but I see that USGS states it as an aftershock, so yeah. More analysis will make it clear.",1
"The Tuskegee experiment is just one of a long line of events where people in authority treated Black people as disposable. It was (and arguably still is) indicative of deep seated problems in the culture of American instituions. Hence why the author points out that it's not a distrust of the medical community specifically, as it is a distrust of institutions.","As for black Americans, they have a systemic history of distrust in the US government in a wide array of ways including medical experiments. The Tuskegee experiment is, what I'd consider, the most immediate thought to why.",1
"That is not what's going on right now. Russia is throwing everything they've got at Ukraine while they prepare for another major offensive. Ukraine is losing ground very slowly in the East and while it seems Russia is losing men at an unsustainable rate, they also have seemingly endless bodies to throw on the pile. Ukraine needs help more than every now because Russia may not be the force we all thought they were at the start of this war, they're still a massive military 100% committed to this war and causing massive destruction in Ukraine.","When Ukraine wins the war there will still be a peace of mind, it's just a choice of when and whether it's NATO soldiers or Ukrainian soldiers dying to defend the West, and whether our direct involvement could in any way trigger a nuclear response. It's this last point why we are probably not going to directly intervene unless Russia does something to make such a conflict unavoidable.",1
Many landlords are only renting short term to resell for a profit when market changes. Some might be feeling bite of interest rates. Some been complaining they can’t afford to do this short term thing anymore due to costs.,Either way these short term landlords playing a type of stock market sales but with houses are the worse. No fault evictions for their tenants who they barely make repairs for. Also they try to do work on homes for less. Which takes money away from businesses who do fittings or supplies for houses (as long term owners of homes put more money into home improvement).,0
"Some, even ultra wealthy, are like “let’s do it Make me pay my fair share I’ll still have more money than anyone can spend in one lifetime.”.","Yeah but then we are talking like 401k millionaires, and most of those are not going to try and use it all at once to live like millionaires.",1
National Debt is not always a terrible thing and it definitely not something like business or personal debt. Want to know why? The fucking currency that you use to speak about this matters is controlled by the Government.,"Oh wow, dude so you're just listing out things that the Government is spending on and then saying that it's increasing the debt?",0
"Tanks coming a year too late? Bro the war started in February 20th, it‘s not even been a year yet. Oh and the question if Germany would send soldiers? Yeah pretty sure they would. They did after 9/11 and that was in fucking Afghanistan. It‘s not far fetched to believe that Germany would support a neighboring country when under the threat of invasion. Stop being a spiteful Germany hating German and check some facts.","So where is your evidence for Germany not being an unreliable ally? Right you don’t, you are just talking crap. Germany has shown now multiple times it values Gasprom over their partners.",1
How am I assuming he wouldn't exploit his people more? How does us paying attention to him help stop that? Are you advocating for some kind of military intervention to prevent that?,"So, one last time, how does us talking, amongst ourselves online and in the media, about NK missile threats result in any positive benefit?",0
Can't wait till this backfires and the bill language will mandate that meats will need to carry the vaccine info used to inoculate the animal and not to introduce into humans.,But no they just try to go against vaccines for PR but didn't actually ban them since they aren't that stupid and know that is a horrible idea given animals need them just like humans.,1
"Hojateleslam Alireza Panahian, the advisor to Office of the Supreme Leader in Universities: “The day will come when the Islamic people in the region will destroy Israel and save the world from this Zionist base.” (2013).","Ahmad Alamolhoda, a member of the Assembly of Experts: “The destruction of Israel is the idea of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and is one of the pillars of the Iranian Islamic regime. We cannot claim that we have no intention of going to war with Israel.” (2013).",0
"Lol I noticed that on the press conference a few days ago. The one held by whats his name, lloyd austin? The US defense guy and the general.","Anyway so this journalist asked «Why are you holding back Poland from donations?» and he goes «we are not, Poland is free to make their own donations» I fucking laughed, don’t need a backstory to tell what’s been going on there.",0
"Nothing in the article discussed the morality of animal-based products in and of themselves, only their ecological effect. Whether or not you think it's fundamentally immoral for omnivores to eat animals has no bearing on the policies at hand.","Less than 1% voter turnout is certainly not a good situation, but if it was voluntary on the part of that 99%, it does become a ""lie in your own bed"" kind of situation. Most ""student"" decisions like this will always be made by the small minority of students who care enough to attend meetings.",0
"It's almost as though each and every piece of machinery that these counties send back results in the methodical removal of the stench of evil of the Putin Regime that was given safe harbor by these countries. Consider the implication of removal of these weapons of war. No more need for phone calls for parts. No more need for communications for infrastructure for maintenance, the physical space required to house them is now made available for something else, maybe even said country asking it's own engineers within to design and build their own defensive capabilities.","I had never really visualized what is now happening in this manner up to this point. Numerous countries whom the Russians sold their weapons of war in exchange for a strange and shaky allegiance are now sending those weapons to the Ukraine with a ""Return to Sender"" notice for which the very weapons the Russians used to destabilize the world with global arms races are now being used against them.",0
"The move comes as authorities attempt to disperse the dense populations in Japan’s metropolitan areas, improve declining birth rates and diversify aging populations in more rural areas.","The government was already offering 300,000 yen per child for families relocating to other parts of the country.",0
Sure. But adding paragraphs is way more than correcting typos or clarifying points. It's adding arguments to undermine the response. It's dishonest.,What kind of qualificaiton is that? Fox news is the most watched news source in the world. Ignoring all sources that aren't partisan is just ignoring all persuasive news media period.,0
"Edit: Even if we were to give the benefit of the doubt and believe that he was misunderstood (saying that allowing the ""fraud"" essentially terminates the constitution) the rest of his post/defense shows he has no respect for the Constitution.","The Constitution is clear, there are no constitutionally valid ""steps"" that can be taken to ""right the wrong"". Holding a new election or declaring the ""rightful winner"" (which we can all assume he means himself) would be examples of terminating the rules, regulations, and articles of the Constitution (specifically Article 2 Clauses 2,3, and 4).",0
"Exactly my reaction too. That was the final straw for him? Really? Not any of the countless batshit or outright malicious policies from his ""friends""?","Landlords, specifically the type that owns single family housing and rents it out, are literally using other people's income to pay the mortgages on those houses while making the renters pay more than the mortgage costs. They provide nothing, if they stopped being a landlord those houses would still exist on the market.",0
"They have learnt that they can gerrymander and restrict voting with impunity. They have learnt they can lie and use half-truths to stampede people. They have learnt that anti ""woke"" works, and demonising the ""radical left"" is a popular policy.","Trump will get the nomination if he is not in prison, and if he is free still, he will use this to play the victim again. Why you might ask, well the GOP desperately wants to win again and at the moment no one is stepping up. I think DeSantis will step back, he's clever enough to realise the pain of going against Trump's base at the moment.",0
"I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please if you have any questions or concerns.","This is really the issue. The rest is just more culture war. You're either for ""law and order"" or you aren't. If you aren't (by virtue of your actions), then expect the law to take its course the same way it should for any American who breaks the law. It would be interesting to see conservatives being directly challenged on this more frequently, to explain why they should get a free pass when it comes to criminal behavior.",1
"She still denies that anyone here could imagine someone flying planes into buildings, despite the many Pentagon led exercises covering that exact scenario.","I will offer u proof ,which u can see 4 yourself. View any video of the 2nd impact. Note the cylinder under the fuselage. No commercial jets Ever Have This. Now watch in slo mo as the object hits a steel frame building, with no damage to it. Hollow aluminum wings pass thru steel girders intact ,neither bending or disintegrating in pieces. Just b4 impact note the flash of light. Finally follow the object as it ""disappears/dissolves"" into a solid building with No damage and not one piece of airplane debris falling into the street. See the video shot from the street and nothing comes off the object upon impact. According to experienced pilots who have actually flown the jets claimed to be involved on 9/11 no commercial jet could execute any of the maneuvers seen or described at sea level at 500+ mph without breaking apart. Only military jets can.",0
"Edit; I should also mention the further argument that the western ideal of free choice tends to be a game of smoke and mirrors more than genuine freedom anyway. Is my choice between 12 different kinds of toothpaste at a store really freedom? Is my choice to paint my nails one of a hundred different colors really freedom? Where is the freedom when most people are shoved into one of a number of slight variations of what is essentially the exact same way of life, conditioned by the realities of post-industrial techno-capitalism? Is my freedom to make monthly rent and car payments by sitting at a desk for most of my waking hours a freedom worth fighting and dying for?","The west can't even ask itself questions about what meta-cultural human values might be, or what basis we might have for even believing such values could have validity, bc the west has essentially abandoned the concept of genuinely real moral objects, even though we operate under the unspoken assumption that such moral objects do indeed exist.",0
It's like some intern just scribbles it into a notebook that gets thrown away. Given our military budget the fact sensitive documents aren't tracked is blasphemous. I really doubt you can just photo copy some of Lockheed's current design plans and just walk out so why the hell is this possible?,"Exactly. Nothing nefarious imo but NARA should have known and requested back in whatever the ""checkout"" time was. I mean it's just simple library rules here.. or so i thought. The fact this stuff is missing for years is just nuts. And goes to show how trump took all he wanted.",0
Yes and no - after introducing price cap Russia is selling its oil to India below costs of mining. That means that only India is profiting on this transactions and Russia is at 0 income.,West calculated that it is best option. Elimination 100% of Russian oil from market will enormously increase its prices and probably EU couldnt handle it. In this case Russians are slaves working for free and lowering global oil proces. Who knows maybe it is the best solution: anglo-saxons were always best at statistics in warfare.,0
"Calling out China or Muslim oppression would be equal to the pot calling the kettle back, which is why most Islamic countries do their best to remain silent and not say shit.","The elephant in the room is the rest of the Muslim world, the Arab World isn't just silent on China’s crackdown on Uighurs. it's complicit.",1
"Republicans are also a lot better at killing themselves. There are a lot of factors nipping away at Republican life span when compared to democrats and a lot of it rests on denial of the actual problem whether it’s Covid, gun prevalence, mental health, etc.","I'd like to point out that democrats are more likely to live/work or generally be in and around crowded areas (see cities), yet Republicans still outpace democrats in deaths.",1
"It seems like you have no clue about what countries are in NATO or what countries the USSR had taken over in the past and would be prime target. Almost all of them are now in NATO, unfortunately Ukraine is the one big one that isn't.","yes ukraine was not in NATO and now im seeing people talk about not wanting them in NATO because of ""risk"".",1
"This wouldn't be forcing a change all at once. It starts with petrol vehicles over 27 years old. I don't know what percent of vehicles are over 27 years old in Poland, but I can't imagine it's a lot.","The US did something similar around the same time. It was partly for environmental reasons and partly economic due to the recession. I know here it initially looked like a massive success, but ended up actually being a disastet.",0
"Besides outvoting them, what is it going to take to minimize if not fully prevent election deniers and insurrectionists from gaining political influence?","At what point does mass civil disobedience, including armed resistance, become a necessary or justifiable response to people who openly and explicitly state they will not respect the outcomes of elections or the peaceful transfer of power? Put another way, if election deniers succeed in taking over elections and render our votes meaningless, is peaceful resistance to unpopular or unjust government policy even possible?",1
There is some proof that effective policing reduces crime but your right that funding doesn’t necessarily mean less crime but there are lots of weird variables that do into that stuff.,All cops are bastards - and the small ratio of good things that are done by them could be done in greater numbers with fewer murderous side effects through different methods.,1
"As a former evangelical, I agree. Many of today’s Christians are quite disinterested in Jesus in my experience. Most are busy quoting Old Testament laws that they don’t actually practice.","If they actually read the Gospels it’s undeniable that he was a Jew. Mary was a Jew, Joseph was a Jew, he was circumcised on the 8th day as was Jewish custom. He was a descendent of King David on both sides, who was definitely a Jew and according to the prophets the Messiah would be a Jew.",0
"“Following the serious allegations against FTX, Senate Majority PAC previously set aside the contribution amounts from Sam Bankman-Fried and Nishad Singh with the intention of returning the funds once we receive proper direction from federal law enforcement officials based on their legal proceedings,” a PAC spokeswoman told CNBC on Tuesday.",>The Democratic National Committee and the party’s Senate and House campaign arms — the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — have made similar commitments to return donations from former FTX executives.,1
(though it's probably the g-force the projectile feels when it hits the target - which is indeed relevant if you want to achieve high enough pressures for fusion).,They’re hoping that they can fire this fuel into the other fuel with enough force that it’ll punch through the repulsion due to the positive charges and achieve fusion.,1
Long term solitary is no different than torture based on its effects (many even consider it torture including the UN) and pretty much everyone is going to start working after a bit of that.,Yeah. Its perfectly legal to force prisoners to work in most states (and in 5 states they do this and pay them nothing). 13th amendment has a part that says something along the line of slavery is illegal except as punishment for a crime.,0
"""I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart. I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win. I stopped his Election from being stolen."".","Man... I have no proof for this, it's only a feeling, but I tend to think Trump and his lackeys fucked with the 2020 election a LOT more than has ever been alleged. Usually when Trump accuses someone of doing something, it's something he himself is doing.",1
"The Oakland Oceanic Air Traffic Control was reporting sightings of the balloon, with multiple commercial pilots saying they’d seen it. Reports were that it was flying at an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 feet.","There are now new reports of a large white balloon spotted about 594 miles northeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.",0
"So, are gay people responsible for their own oppression? Absolutely not. Has homophobia crafted an environment where they frequently become some of the loudest critics of being gay? More often than it should, yes.","It's not exclusive to the gay community, but being gay is way more demonized than being black and frequently creates an environment where LGBTQ people feel the need to hide it or don't understand their own sexuality at all.",0
"In the short-term I think if you're an owner, if you see your competitors cutting costs dramatically by laying off workers and replacing them with robots you will do the same. Though I'm sure there will be some companies that are ""proudly non-robot"" in the same way there's a niche for organic food which is getting more popular every year.","Yeah, but now we have Google Gato which can do hundreds of tasks humans can do and direct other robots. It's also, and I hate to be that guy, a logical fallacy that just because a thing has happened a certain way in the past means it will happen the same way in the future. I hope you're right though.",0
It seems fairly common that women suffer casualties in war. Although obviously not to the same extent.,"You seem to have a pattern of being against women's rights, unless the specific right would benefit women.",0
"Russia surrendering occupied territories, restoring pre-2014 borders, and paying reparations to Ukraine for the damage caused would still be a diplomatic solution to the conflict.","The only diplomatic solution is Russia returning all occupied territory, commit to unilateral nuclear disarmament, remove Putin, and pay massive reparations to Ukraine and its allies.",1
"I would assume right now the plan is send them the couple hundred Soviet tanks (and polish upgrade models of said tanks) to Ukraine and when it’s all over start modernizing them. You have to remember Ukraine has captured more Russian tanks than what they’ve lost (lost:430, captured: 530), some of which are modern T-90 varients.","230 Soviet-era tanks from Poland is not ""countless"", and is also not any kind of game-changer considering Russia can field the same tanks in greater numbers. Ukraine even already had about 7 times more than that before the war.",1
"True, but the statement before is that operating the existing plants costs more than solar and wind investment. Also US just approved plans for small modular nuclear plants that may take less investment and time. Looking forward to the developments forthcoming in the nuclear field.","I think you are well aware of the difference between nuclear warheads and the process of obtaining power from nuclear material. If not, please go educate yourself. They aren’t trying to figure out how to make power, they are trying to make themselves a world power with nuclear arms. The government has proven that they can’t even be trusted with the well being of their population, let alone the population of a country that isn’t their own.",0
Where have you seen confirmed killed higher? BTW confirmed killed is always lower than the actual number killed because confirming deaths and reporting them takes time and resources.,"You’re including wounded in the “casualty” number. Russia has seen more than 20,000 soldiers confirmed killed. Ukraine has seen about 10,000. And the trend for Ukraine is stable. The trend for Russia is ever increasing.",0
"> ""It was after Engels. This suggests that if we reach Engels, we will also reach the Kremlin,"" Skibitskyi said, responding to the presenter's words that after the explosions in Engels, the Russians began to install air defense systems in the Kremlin area.","If Ukraine strikes the Kremlin, it would be with their own homemade kamikaze drone squadron. The US doesn't object to Ukraine striking deep within Russia, as long as Ukraine doesn't use US or NATO-supplied arms to embroil NATO as part of the attack.",0
"Ya when I heard there was a video of him naked face fucking his cousin, I was like ""no way there's a video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin"" and then I saw the video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin. Weird shit.","There's definitely a video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin. I saw the video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin and couldn't believe that a video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin existed.",0
"Contrarily to what many here seem to believe, Assange is not pursued because of the late leaks influencing the 2016 election but:","That said, I agree that this bullshit about Assange is mostly a distraction from the war crimes he did expose. Everyone implicated were quick to point the finger. No one has been brought up. There was little in the way of accountability because of a deeply corrupt government.",1
"Like the advantage of 50 years of the most peaceful, democratic global order in history, freedom of international travel, safe shipping lanes across the globe, etc. And no I’m not American - just appreciative, despite America’s many faults and mistakes.","I think it’s true from peace measurements this past 50 years have been the most peaceful in human history, on average. I say the most peaceful because of course there are still plenty of genocides, civil wars, etc. it isn’t perfect and I hope the next 50 years is even more peaceful. But we no longer have major, powerful countries sending millions of people off to their deaths against each other (up until Russias invasion of Ukraine) which was common throughout almost all of human history.",0
And in Norway (at least) anything diabetes related is free of charge. Because healthy diabetics are much cheaper.,"Generic human insulin as a drug is available super cheaply at a lot of retailers. The expensive ones are the newer faster-acting variants of artificial insulin, which just use newer techniques to make them slightly more convenient.",1
The fuck are you talking about? How does “slow and steady” stop him from running to Russia? It’s giving him MORE TIME to run to Russia. He’s had years now. He should have been arrested on the fucking spot after Jan 6th. He should have been arrested the second he stopped being President on Jan 20th 2021. He should have been arrested the second they found classified documents at his fucking house. He should have been arrested for perjury for lying about the documents. He should be arrested on the fucking spot NOW for proving to have lied AGAIN and being in possession of classified documents AGAIN….,"Seriously, even if he’s literally being arrested as I type this, it would still be too late to be considered justice. That boat has sailed. Anything “justice” that happens now is a sad attempt to undo a bad joke. This just simply isn’t funny or okay anymore. They’re literally just bold-faced standing in front of us and acting like it makes any shred of realistic sense that Trump is still a free man. While countless people get the book thrown at them for infinitely less. This is gaslighting. This is systemic abuse of the population. This is miscarriage of justice. It’s corruption.",0
"According to logic, its illogical that the government of Saudi Arabia while still being a little weak in 2001 would provoke and attack its protector state (the US).","According to Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation is the more probable one, the US blames Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda claimed the Attack, how the fuck did Saudi Arabia turn out to be the preparators.",0
Also NATO would be bringing the war to Moscow's doorstep so there is no scenario where Russia could succeed in attacking Canada.,"We have the capacity to ramp up our military exponentially we also have access to the world's most advanced weapons and would be supplied by all of our allies, Russia would be eaten alive if they even tried to attack us even if we only got material support.",0
"Honestly, I actually think Twitter could've pulled off this idea had they spent months with solid teams doing the research, development and coordinated launch of the new product model. Instead, Elon made all the decisions, fired everyone who disagreed or knew what they were doing, and decided his changes had to be made in 96 hours.","I think that's reductive, but that's beside the point. I'm saying that there was a way that Twitter could have pivoted their advertiser-funded approach toward a more Twitch-like model, but Musk has bungled it.",0
"Ah, the US giving everyone around the world money except for it's own citizens. They leave us behind and that's the plan. They designing a brand new world and don't give two shits about all the people that keep this country going.",$100 million may not sound like much but it adds up AND furthermore it doesn't help that WE barely get a say in where are taxes are going.,0
"Okay, so say it was accidental. What about all the times the USA has for certain intentionally violated other countries sovereignty? E.g. the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, or the illegal drone warfare program. Like I say, can you imagine the reaction if it was China doing these things?",Hasn't this framing around China been developing rhetorically for a while now? They have basically been waving neon signs telling us to expect tensions with China/Taiwan after we let the war in Ukraine emotionally work on peoples psyche for a while in the media..,1
All of these Republican fckers implementating bans and restrictions should be sued into oblivion for every health care issue related to the bans.,"There hasn’t been nearly enough attention on how this is affecting women’s health who didn’t even want an abortion. Not only do they want to prevent women from having abortions, they’re happy to risk the lives of those who don’t.",0
"It does not mean that this current stain is modified in any way. This mutation has long been present and studied. If it was a modified virus, why mess around trying to get it for ferrets, when you can modify it for people.",“Disease experts have raised the idea that the virus would need to change for it to be conducive to human transmission.”.,1
Damn right we are successful in Texas! Have you been to a hotel with included breakfast here? TEXAS SHAPED WAFFLES. If that alone is not proof of how good we are then I don't know what is.,"I’m not doubting the veracity of any data here. I’m saying the formula of “net new jobs for a given state” / “net new jobs of the country” is a bad and misleading way to portray this. So I’m literally doing as you suggested, calling out bad statistics when I see them.",1
"It was political persecution so Lula would not be able to run for president in 2018. The judge of the case conspired with the prosecution, and after Lula was arrested and Bolsonaro won, the judge became Bolsonaro's justice Minister. Lula's conviction was reverted later and if you're Brazilian, you know that.","Bolsonaro got in presidency, Lula got in jail, all other participants got the money back, but Lula didn't. He procrastinated all he could his processes untill they run out of time. He's basically a convicted without a sentence. Hence the strong support for Bolsonaro.",1
As Ukraine gets too notch tanks delivered to them and them preparing for that atack for a while now chances are not that bad of untaine wining out the war of nutrition.,"Right now, what Ukraine needs is long range munitions, cruise missile defense (patriot) and non-arms support (generators, consumables).",1
"Lmao. I’m blue collar and I took two sick days the beginning of this week. Sure, it’s just a sinus infection and a cold. But I got to cozy up under a blanket and play on my PS5 while getting paid. Then again, I handed in a two week time sheet with 130 hours — that doesn’t include my holiday pay for thanksgiving and Friday.","I’d like to see his 80 year old geriatric ass stand outside in the middle of a Phoenix summer with a corn hat for 8 hours with no shade. Note: I’m saying just stand. Not even pick up a shovel, haul up shit totaling over 1000 lbs 70 vertical feet by rope, or even on a rooftop inside an enclosed mechanical system where there is zero air conditioning and the body is stainless steel metal.",0
"Hopefully the McCarthyites and the GOP media (Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC) will be running this on the FRONT PAGE on all the websites and news shows.","Should be an excellent issue for Democrats to run on in 2024, reforming the taxes so the Musks and Trumps pay their taxes.",0
Because NATO can't bring down Russia even without nukes that quickly and there would be much more notable resistance.,"In a straight conventional war with no nukes, Russia + China loses against a war-ready United States.",1
"lol you're so amusing. Especially the pretend smart guy trying to be condescending routine. Your arguments still don't hold water though. Especially in the cases of joining a hostile military or treason the State Department can enter a finding that the act was done with the intent of losing citizenship whether the respondent agrees or not, and the respondent then has to rebut it in court.","Joining a foreign military from a country hostile to the US is/can be a voluntary action, therefore your US citizenship can be revoked by the government by order of the constitution.",1
"For all the comments saying Biden's ignoring these subpoenas would ""normalize"" ignoring House subpoenas, you've got it backwards.","On the other what’s good for the goose… and I’d love to see the Biden administration respond with “Trump administration ignored House subpoenas, and so shall mine”.",1
"If you think Joe Biden - without union support - is going to outperform Any Generic Democrat, then we're just going to have to disagree until one of us is proven right.","Neolibs before the 2020 election: ""The left has to swallow their pride and rally behind Biden just this once to beat Trump.",1
"This. Genocide, rape used as a war tactic, snipers lining up men and boys to be shot execution style is still very very fresh in the minds of all of former Yugoslavia. Srebrenica remembrance marches are held all over the globe every year. It is very understandable why they would be cautious. Putin is not known for being kind.","Putin may not have much choice. Right now everyone else could kick Russia's ass if they were to decide to invade someplace easier. And Putin needs a win pretty quick if he wants to stay in power,...",1
"Yup. People are still making too much of this. From what is known, it warrants an administrative review and that's about it. If something else comes out of that review. That will be something else.",Trump took boxes of docs he should not have. Refused to return them when requested. Lied about having them. It took the FBI to get them back.,0
"If we had things in place like Single Payer/Universal Health care as an example, you could do away with some of the programs because you'd still have support otherwise in place for those who need it. Since we live in a country of billionaires and their synchophants who couldn't develop empathy if it was grown in a lab, though, we don't, ergo the need for the patchwork of programs. I'd love to see a politician actually tackle the issues of food, clothing, and shelter as an actual health and safety issue instead of a talking point that they're not really concerned with - when billionaires are able to bring along yachts to act as landing pads, I think we have enough cash to go around.","a)Because , and if you don't want people stuck in the same quagmire, they need valid assistance instead of the veneer.",0
That ratio just keeps getting further skewed as the war continues. At the start Ukraine lost a lot more men than they are now and Russia's losses have increased as the war continues.,"this is a war, ukraine and russia are both heavily engaged in propaganda as that is part of war. you gotta read a little bit between the lines and try to make reasonable assumptions of where the truth lies.",1
"That distinction is irrelevant to the existential threat Russians, the group that would be using nuclear offensive weapons.",This whole thread is predicated on the idea that there are Russians that don't care and will launch nukes offensively.,0
I am not denying the fact that the Islamic Republic oppresses Kurds. I am not even denying that the Islamic Republic oppresses Kurds more than other ethnicities (maybe other than the Baloch). I am merely pointing out that the overwhelmingly vast majority of Iranians are being tyrranized by the Islamic Republic.,Many Iranians are against the Islamic Republic and all the authoritarians who are enabling these atrocities. Sanctions hurts those Iranians who want freedom and makes it harder for them to fight back. Being hungry and poor makes it harder to fight back.,1
Because when they act like they're pandering to the Jews they're really pandering to Evangelicals who believe Jews need to control Israel before Jesus can come back.,"Also, many anti-semites actually support a nation of israel, that way they can have a reason to try and pressure Jews in their country to move somewhere else.",1
"The real blocking point is that Azerbaijan has ambitions on Armenia and, as I said, Turkey will always back Azerbaijan. So long as that remains unresolved Turkey will always obstruct any Armenia-NATO rapproachment. Their leadership might not be happy with what Aliyev is doing, but they've spent so long propagandizing for Azerbaijan domestically they couldn't change courses if they wanted to (even though providing diplomatic cover within NATO for Azerbaijan is costing them heavily).",The US will continue to do nothing because Turkey and Azerbaijan are married at the hip and Turkey is more valuable than Armenia geopolitically. That's the ugly truth.,0
Lol this part SENT ME - how the hell did that make it into the final cut? it's beyond obvious that A) he's reading off a teleprompter and B) this video is the stiched-together Frankenstein of dozens of reads by Trump - how the hell did this make it in??,"Like there are ways he could have made that seem kinda personable - something like ""it might not sound so amazing to me, because I always love meeting my supporters anyway..."" but no we just get ""it's what we have."".",0
"an ""invasion"" by russia doesnt have to be with soldiers, just shove in lots of russians like in the Donbas and then stir up the local hatred for some reason to undermine the government.","The point isn't about ""fear"" in the context of this discussion, the point is about Russia exerting greater influence than just in Russia and Belarus (and, I guess, regions they occupy such as in Ukraine or Georgia).",1
Did you know that only 45% of all UN condemnations are about Israel now? This year Israel-Palestine almost broke the top 25 most violent ongoing conflicts! They need to crank those numbers up.,"No the Palestinians have never been genocided, their casualties have been consistently very low because Israel moves mountains to try to protect them from their leadership who use them as human shields.",0
"Kim Yo Jong, who is widely considered North Korea's second most powerful person after her brother, lambasted the United States for issuing what she called “a disgusting joint statement together with such rabbles as Britain, France, Australia, Japan and South Korea.”.",Kim compared the United States to “a barking dog seized with fear.” She said North Korea would consider the U.S.-led statement “a wanton violation of our sovereignty and a grave political provocation.”.,0
"Strong fiscal values, strong economic outlooks, BUT ALWAYS willing to compromise if it valued its constituency.",Kari Lake literally only has newscaster/anchor on her list that's IT. Further it was pretty clear she flipped sides to try and find a pension post her anchoring days. Now she's unemployed! .,0
One article I read stated 40 countries may boycott 2024 Olympic. If IOC refuse to budge then Olympic as we know it may end in 2024.,"They're gonna ban 40 countries from the Olympics? Cool. Either start a new one, or when (not if) you find some dirt on the existing committee, lock 'em up and put some one else in.",1
"But we should all be wary of any narrative that paints the Russians as so fundamentally corrupt and inept they can't fight their way out of a paper bag, which is a popular sentiment I see on these front page posts.","This war is a test for greater future conflicts. It's giving us a sense of how impactful modern tactics and weapons are. If Ukraine can really keep Russia at bay for years, or hopefully push them out of Ukraine, then I'll eat my words on Russia's threat.",0
"So whether they're complicit or not, they are 100% shouting nativist bullshit through a Russian Megaphone.","Honestly, these people are some combination of naive idiots and Russian mouthpieces. Modern Neville Chamberlains and Ernest Lundeens.",1
"It will also help urban school districts, like ones in Philadelphia, because those are usually also underfunded compared to their more affluent suburban counterparts. Something many don't realize is that northern school districts are quite segregated compared to their southern counterparts who were forced to make countywide school districts.",The southern schools are also segregated. They just split them into different buildings within those county districts. Or create new towns just to pull it off. Louisiana is the textbook case of this nonsense.,1
"> In his Senate floor speech on October 25, 2001, Biden said, “The anti-terrorism bill we consider today is measured and prudent.” He boasted that the Patriot Act “contains several provisions which are identical or nearly identical to those I previously proposed.” Biden predicted that the Patriot Act “will not upset the balance between strong law enforcement and protection of our valued civil liberties.”He also said the criticisms of the law from the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil liberties groups were “ill-informed and overblown.” From 2001 to 2002, the ACLU gave Biden a lukewarm 60 percent approval rating on civil rights and civil liberties.","So to be clear, Biden looooved the Patriot Act, wanted to look tough to people after September 11 and tried to tie himself to it as much as possible through his earlier bill.",0
"If I was the head of US information warfare, I'd make sure all the public statements conclude with ""while alarming, this is not unusual activity. The US has conducted many such flights over China in the past month."".",Oh they are definitely going to try to capture it. I'd love to be on the team coming up with ideas for that. I'd say float a tethered balloon out the back of a C130 and try to get it tangled up.,0
"Regardless of how one juggles the statistics, the fact remains that Starmer's ""Make Brexit Work"" et al is blatantly pandering to Leave voters and English nationalists. Labour lost enough of their (already-on-life-support) voter base to the pro-Brexit Tories that they clearly decided this was the strategy they should follow.","In Scotland, where we voted Remain by a large margin, Labour is now being dismissed by many as a pro-Brexit party- because they are, regardless of whether they're simply doing it to win votes. (Even the pro-unionist writer of acknowledges that Starmer has alienated many potential voters here with his Tory-esque rhetoric.).",0
"North of Svatove there's a Russian border town called Valuyki, with a fairly major rail depot. That directly connects to the occupied Ukrainian town of Troitsky, which in turn has a road running due south to Svatove. And the rail line continues from Troitsky down to the eastern Luhansk area. Farther east of that there's mostly nothing but rural communities, the next Russian rail line doesn't enter Ukraine until way farther east and south.","But the rail line through Starobilsk doesnt go directly towards Donetsk, but ends somewhere near the coast in Luhansk as far as I know.",1
Folks have it so good but refuse to acknowledge it and turn their boredom and comfort into false beliefs and claims. It’s nature I guess. People NEED an enemy by which to judge themselves and feel either oppressed or superior.,"The “thriving” image is just that, an image. The high school student parking lot is strewn with new/nearly new high end vehicles. These folks make a good living…but not that good! So O. Razor tells me that they are in debt past their heads. Credit isn’t real money right?",0
"If these people admit they were wrong, and that Bolsonaro just lost, they'll have to admit that they lost (because they've tied themselves emotionally to Bolsonaro), that their movement lost, and that, just maybe, all the borderline fascism they've been rationalizing for four years was just cheap fascism, and no different from its prior, discredited iterations.","It's not a coincidence, the Fascists have adopted the use of the Brazilian national symbols as their brand, they believe themselves to be the ""only real patriots"", so anyone who disagrees with their craziness now openly avoids using the flag, the yellow and green soccer t-shirt and any other national symbol that might make you look like a Bolsonaro follower.",1
"If Biden runs in 2024 as an 82-year-old and the GOP nominee is anyone but Trump, then that spells disaster for Democrats.","I just wish and hope Biden isn't the nominee. He will not win against DeSantis if that's who the GOP chooses. I think he'll win against Trump, but DeSantis is another beast. We'll need someone younger on our side to run as well if the GOP dumps Trump.",1
"P.P.S. Arm the fuck out of Ukraine. France saved our ass against the British. We saved Frances ass against the Germans. Now all four of us will save Ukraines ass. Democracies stick together, otherwise Xi and Putin will eat our lunches.",Let it be known: IT TOOK DESANTIS FIVE DAYS TO MAKE A SINGLE COMMENT ABOUT PUTIN’s INVASION. This tool needs five days to figure out invading and murdering is bad?,0
"It essentially addresses some of the issues that the remain side fought the EU referendum on (and even then only as a potentially rapid fix, rather than allowing solutions to be found over time with further discussion, as the NIP envisaged) but lost, while pulling back all the issues that the leave side had problems with.","Better alternatives exist (the trusted trader approach that the UK has proposed, amongst other things), and there is no good argument to push the entire UK into an economic union and as a political subject to a large political block, especially as alternatives exist to address the specific issues around diversion of trade etc.. Frankly binning the NIP would be a better outcome.",0
Confusing disinterest in midterms for overall dissatisfaction is a mistake. That's making a very colossal assumption about why people didn't vote in the midterms that ignores the usual reasons why people don't vote in the midterms.,"Midterms account for some swing in turnout, sure, but you can't account for a 500-vote difference by saying ""Well, it's a midterm"". There's something else going on with that. Nor does it explain Boebert doing worse in every county in her district than every other Republican candidate except Ganahl.",1
"For the progressives who resent Washinon’s lack of action on major issues, which I’m one of by the way, the answer right now isn’t to primary Biden - it’s to continue taking over Congress and state politics. Vote blue, vote for a strong progressive caucus, and send Biden the bills we need for change. Make sure we are present in the Senate should a vacancy appear in the Supreme Court. In the meantime, safeguard our states against SCOTUS fuckery with blue legislatures, governors, and attorneys general, and fight for independent districting committees and ranked choice voting.","Trump is simply too profitable to be ignored, and for once, that might actually benefit us. In fact, it seems to have already helped us this election cycle.",0
"Technically, yeah. The West is largely responsible for total, historical CO2 emissions (by virtue of being richest and first to have the new technology). So, technically yes.","That's true. By that point it's just ""fucking cold as shit"" and that's that. I hate going inside afterwards because my glasses fog up. And breathing in the warm air seems like it's burning the inside of your nose for a few minutes.",1
"The US had the money, and time, to build up a huge amount of logistical personnel, equipment, depots, etc, all over the world to support these drawbacks of the Abrams. (and the reserve numbers to 'fill in' for equipment being serviced).","The bigger thing I think abrams are not super reliable, as a layman understands reliable. The parts, engine included, wear quickly and need service often, in order to be reliable in combat. There are logistical elements of the US military that are built entirely around being able to very quickly diagnose and swap things in (like the engine swap is supposedly pretty quick), but I think that is highly dependent on a LOT of specialized equipment and being able to get it to the tank, or the tank to it, to service, and knowing fast what level of service it needs. (US support guys aren't going to be in country, and it is VERY VERY long distance to tow a nonfunctional tank from the frontline to border of poland).",0
"It would have been massively unpopular, but now I am wishing 5 Dems had gone to McCarthy and said, ""You can have our votes on condition that every committee has an even number of members, and half of them are Democrats."".","Yeah. Social Security is actually popular, government shutdowns are not, and defaulting on the debt in order to cut Social Security has about as much public appeal as it sounds like….",1
"It really depends on where you live and how you live. In the past years in the city I live in, it has become pretty difficult to find a place to live that is under about $1500 per month. Add to that the fact that nearly all landlords require you make 3 times the rent and things get tricky. 3x the rent at 1500 per month would actually require $54,000 a year just for them to accept you as a tenant.","Rent goes up 10% a year, so unless you shop around and move, that $1200 is now $1300-$1400 next year. Otherwise, you can probably move your stuff for a few hundred a year and your time.",1
"They could hardly have stated it more clearly if they'd painted themselves purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing 'We've just run out of rockets.'.",Yep. It kinda reminds me of when I have a bag of potato chips and its almost empty. I might just want a handful of chips but there is about 2 handfuls left in the bag. So I end up just finishing off the bag.,1
"But the key was that he wasn’t in the spotlight for too long. During reports, it was just long enough for a comment, or until The Apprentice rolled credits (but even then the show focused on the contestants with short clips of Trump pondering stuff, right?).","Yep. After Obama, millions of Americans needed reassurance that even the stupidest white man in existence could fill the shoes of one of the most qualified black men.",1
"""After losing Kherson city, RF focused most of their efforts on capturing Bakhmut city. From 11.11 - 22.12, they lost around 21.000 personnel and loads of equipment. Despite their efforts at capturing the city, a garden snail in that period would have covered a greater distance."".",. Almost 300 km in 🇺🇦 will be repaired. The implementation of this project will be the successful stage of our cooperation w/🇨🇭. Grateful for support of Ambassador Claude Wild.,1
"“I can't say I blame India for strenhening ties with Russia, but I would always highlight how Russia's zero sum attitude towards politics and influence had often turned Russian friendship into a bit of a losers club for nations who spurn or get spurned by the developed world and has not, historically, proven a long term partner for growth.”.","India has especially strong ties with Russia, but you see similar views in Africa and the rest of non Japan/South Korean Asia, and polls show that the majority of people in other Asian/African countries still think of Russia positively.",1
"Nah its more of an anti gay bill than anything else, the article headline is wrong. About half the games aren't even multiplayer.",✹ Assassin's Creed✹ Borderlands✹ Divinity: Original Sin 2✹ Dragon Age✹ Life Is Strange✹ The Last of Us✹ Fallout✹ Apex Legends✹ RimWorld✹ Overwatch✹ Le crime du parking✹ The Sims 3.,0
"But I would like to give a very deep and heartfelt thanks to all the straight people who are wonderful and understanding. I tell my daughter not to lose faith in human beings, because the hateful ones can drown out the good. If it wasn't for straight people standing up and protecting us, we would be doomed. It's heartbreaking to see all the hate coming back with a vengeance. I really thought we were past that, but the propaganda from the right is growing and bringing back so much venom. I'm afraid for my daughter. I always remind her not to lose faith in people because some are hateful. I show her all the straight people who are on our side and who keep us safe. I think Thanksgiving is a great day to give a heartfelt thanks to all of you who stand up for us. I'm so grateful for all of you.","I appreciate that. I try to be pragmatic too. I generally strongly support the notion of meeting people where they're at and winning hearts and minds with civil, constructive dialogue.",1
"The US was never expecting the rough terrains of Afghanistan, or Vietnam for that matter, and Korea didn't really have a winner regardless so that one is irrelevant. Look at Finland, however, who literally only trains their military to defeat Russia in the event of invasion. Their past proves they aren't easy to take them down.","I mean, I never said it wasn't better that they are or aren't in NATO, what I'm saying is that Russia in their current status wouldn't be able to stand a chance against the Finns.",0
"Finally, economic cooperation with India and with the central Asian countries Could support the Russian economy in the future and give Russia Access to warm Water ports at the Indisn ocean.",Maybe Western governments see Russia as not being a threat anymore in the future and want to lay the groundwork for good relations with India now for a future Cold War with China.,1
"While I agree, it's silly to think that the corrupt will police themselves. The problem isn't that Thomas won't resign. It's that, despite his obvious conflicts of interest, there aren't enough votes to impeach him.","To avoid having to remove him from office Republicans didn't allow evidence and refused some witnesses at his 2nd impeachment. If they had they would have had no choice but to remove him, they couldn't deny the evidence. They also worked with him on his defense, that's the jury colluding with the defendant. That's why I was dead set against the 2nd impeachment, I knew it would go nowhere and waste time and money. I knew he'd become even more brazen having gotten off twice, I didn't quite see the insurrection coming though, but I knew he'd think he's untouchable. The point of impeachment is political, it's like a mark on your soul, it doesn't work on someone without a soul or shame. It has the exact opposite effect on Trump.",1
"Well, in every democracy there needs to be balances for both side, the court system balances the government but something needs to balance the court system so that they wont have roo much power. HOWEVER, giving the government total control over them is NOT the way to do it.",That would allow the government way too much power to pass laws that could hurt some citizens or create a lot of unbalance power.,1
"It says top not ""the top"" implying it's one of the top US spy agencies. It's a stupid clickbait tactic to get you to click on the article to see what agency they're talking about because which agency is the ""top"" is subjective and depends on what type of operation you're talking about.",Edit: I also read the article (I know I gave into the clickbait) and it's not even an agency but the director of national intelligence who said this who oversees all of the intelligence agencies.,0
"For example, you've got a company hiring software developers with multiple positions open across multiple teams, and they're open to applicants of multiple skill levels. A senior developer might command the $180k, a mid-level might warrant $120k, and a junior might be worth $70k or $80k.","Not the person you were replying to, but: because it's beneficial and the states have refused to act. Same reason we need a federal minimum wage, same reason we need federal overtime standards, etc.",0
"If a malfunction, accident, hundreds of miles off course.. How does it still hit a building in the middle of nowhere?","NATO & Poland must determine if there was any military asset in that towns grain-building. Radar, Communications, intelligence forward bases, etc.. If there is anything of military value at that location, then it was an intentional strike on NATO.",0
"Most Israelis hold this opinion, but the current political climate both in Israel and in the PA doesn’t allow it, unfortunately.","Simply put, the government in Israel is not nearly as strong and stable, and doesn’t have enough support to truly descend into totalitarianism.",0
"I care a lot about art. I'm about to go to Europe for two weeks and art museums are a major part of the reason I'm going. I'm not rooting for anything to get destroyed, but the art is fine. I wish there were a better way of getting people's attention, but these activists seem to have hit on something that really riles people up.","Stunts like this is only going to anger average people turning them against the cause. If the climate protest orgs get any new applications its going to be attention seeking extremists that want to do similar vandalism, not people that will spend days chaining themselves to trees or blocking roads.",1
Same. It was a huge onslaught of far right nonsense in my feed all of a sudden. I deactivated my account a short time later when it was clear Musk was going to ruin the place.,"I will be surprised if my account actually gets deleted. After all, he’s going to have to pad the account numbers at some point and what better way then to “forget” to delete the massive departure over the past few weeks.",1
"Also ITT: Parents who don't want to interact with or parent their kids, and distract them with phones to avoid parenting their children.",ITT: Lots of parents who are offended by the idea they've done a bad parenting thing by giving their kids unfettered access to Snapchat and TikTok.,0
"The problem with writing off the red states like that is that most of the farmland - and therefore where the country gets most of it's food - is in those red states. So sure, they get a lot of blue state money, but blue states get a lot of red state food.","But a union made up of blue + purple states is going to produce mostly blue results. And a red + purple union is going to mostly produce red results. the ""mechanism"" you speak of is merely voting. it would be super unlikely for a union of, say, blue + purple states to elect someone like trump. A red + purple union is unlikely to elect someone like obama. E.g. a Cali, Oregon, WA, + Nevada union isn't going to produce the same results as a texas, lousiana, florida, + georgia union. it is extremely likely that the two would look very different bc:",1
"I mean, the Republican front runner, Trump, is a second generation American who lies about being a first generation American and tells minority congresswoman with more American citizens than him in their family tree to ""go back to their home contry."".","Both can be true. Let's remember that he was endorsed by some of the same people whose shit flipped when a man named Barack Hussein Obama was running in 2008. They repeated his name over and over again and emphasized the ""HUSSEIN!"" part.",0
"No one but McCarthy will win in a straight vote. However, it's possible that enough Republicans will refuse to support McCarthy that we'll just have no Speaker for a while. Voting ""present"" would make it a little easier, but they can't do that too much either, otherwise they'll give the Democrats a majority. After a few months of chaos, we could end up with a weird compromise involving some Democrat votes and a ""neutral"" Speaker.",Electing the Speaker is different from electing the Minority Leader. McConnell needed 26 votes out of 50. McCarthy needs 218 votes out of (probably) 221.,0
"Ukraine is so clean it's a model government? I seriously doubt that. The current administration there seems to specifically be planning to tackle their massive corruption issues after the war, because otherwise there's zero hope of them joining the EU in the next 10 or so years.","I really don't appreciate the ""how dare you criticize the hardworking Ukrainians"" tone your comment is either knowingly or unknowingly perpetrating. Also, you literally just repeated what I said but worded differently with the ""corruption is a threat to their survival, so it is in their best interest to fight against it"" moment you had.",0
What I think Russia is doing regarding supplanting Ukrainian children and forcing Russians into Ukrainian towns/villages to start living there is brutal. I’m concerned they keep this war going until the west loses interest and we have a indecipherable mix of Russians and Ukrainians living together in Ukraine with a ongoing “civil war”.,"The losses are great for Ukraine and bad for Russia, but as long as Putin is in charge, the war will go on needlessly for a long time unfortunately.",1
"The way forward is doing good for America and the party. Win elections, help constituents, be good at governing, be an asset to the shiftable Democrats and form positive alliances that marginalize the non shiftable through quiet irrelevance, not through rancor and in-fighting.",I think the midterms proved that Progressive policies are popular enough to overwhelm most Republican attempts at election fuckery. It also energizes a growing youth vote that is overwhelmingly Left-leaning. Biden and the Dems at large will do well to remember this in the years ahead.,1
Sounds like it’s a hunting measure. In Missouri you can hunt on most public land and most kids start hunting fairly young (my ex wife shot her first deer at 7 or 8). It seems reasonable to affirm that minors can hunt on public land with a parent’s supervision.,The amendment would have required minors to be supervised if they were to carry firearms in public spaces.,1
"media: Trump did this horrible thing, Trump signed this horrible law, Trump appointed judges, Mitch did this bad thing. senator X holds up this bill.",The media mentions that democracy is under attack but always fucuses on the big elections. They rarely mention that one of the fixes is for people to vote every chance they get. Vote ever year in every primary and we might get more politicians in place that will do what the people want.,0
"“Right” and “wrong” are inherently subjective judgements, no matter how common one particular stance on an action or decision may be.","additionally, the first person to bring up the concept of objective vs. subjective wrongness was yourself. the person you initially replied to did not say it was objectively wrong. they simply said it was wrong. if you believe that there is no such thing as objective wrongness, then you should have no problem with their statement, as it must be their own opinion. if you believe their opinion that genocide is wrong is incorrect, argue with that, don't attempt to set up a strawman about moral objectivism.",1
"Comparing New College with the aforementioned is a bit unfair; the other universities are large research universities; New College was never intended to be that. It was a private liberal arts college, as you likely know, before being becoming part of USF and then breaking off on its own again. As you suggest, the college is honors based and experimental, thus necessitating a small enrollment.","Not to be argumentative here, but how exactly does this change of board--which is mostly based on ideology and not any real proven ability to grow a university--help New College in any way? Are you basically arguing that an ideological shift will lead to a larger enrollment?",0
I'd put Trump in the boat of an Authoritarian or Fascist in general. It wouldn't matter if it was Hitler or anybody else that fit that bill. He yearns to be someone that has ultimate power. He wants that adulation that Hitler received from his supporters. THAT's all that Trump cares about. He's another narcissist that never got enough love or hugs from Dad.,"I'd disagree. Kanye is just following the trend of what Trump did, giving a voice and spotlight to those that have asinine ideas and conspiracy theories in the same way Trump did. He saw how loyal and easily manipulated that base of people are, and for grifters, that base are marks. You say something they agree with and they will do whatever you ask of them next.",0
"Well yeah there are for sure a lot of ignorant comments flying about... a quick Wikipedia check would confirm that Austria isn't even in NATO and besides, there's no mechanism for kicking out members nor would it be the right thing to do with Turkey or Hungary even if it were possible.",Austria aren't compromised and they aren't fascist (also can we stop calling everything we dislike fascist? It cheapen it) . They are following their foreign policy to the letter.,1
Further: they do NOT meet the standards or definition of the legal framework for ‘traitor’. In anyway.,What’s your legal training? I’m not being a jerk but I’m just trying to explain that this isn’t a simple thing. You cannot just articulate your stance with words you feel fit in a court of law. There is a literally definitional difference between an “and” or an “or” that will change how a single idea being expressed must be carried through.,0
"You need to find better sources. Either Spain would be sending grossly outdated equipment from WWII, or they are sending 80% of their stock of Leopards for that number to be true. The 321 number only makes sense if all armored vehicles are included. The stated goal for the EU is to provide enough tanks to field two battalions, that's roughly 90 tanks.","This has to be a misunderstanding. They've been pledged 70 tanks so far, I'm guessing this means all armored equipment equipment to include the Bradleys from earlier in the month.",0
"They are convinced no one sees through their bs. They are convinced Donnie the T won, they are convinced they are on the good side. They are convinced of a lot of things. There is nothing to publicly prove wrong and if you did they would not be convinced.",The convinced ones know the truth….they cannot say it out loud because then they would be revealed as the Putin shills they are. You and I are convinced they know this too.,0
It's sad to me that Republicans push so many ideas that are super unpopular that the only way to save face with their voter base is to give them some form of plausible deniability. Why should anyone trust that Republicans would ever do the right thing and pass more legislation to keep Social Security and Medicare alive?,"Interesting thought, since Social Security is funded by the payer/payee trust fund and taxes, the “fair tax” would prevent funds from going into SS thus killing it, right?",1
"China isn't rising though, it's peaked. The one child policy is about to bite them in the ass hard as their birth rate has dwindled and millions are retiring every year and the outnumbered younger generations will be busy taking care of their elderly instead of trying to spread china's influence further abroad.","You seem to forget, all America would need to do is offer Venezuela a deal and bam, they've got plenty of cheap oil again and none of the theocratic fuckery of the Saudis.",0
"This ban is for government-issued work phones, not for the average consumer. Government employees can still do what they want with their own private phones. This ban does not stop anyone from using TikTok with their own personal property, so really no reason for the Chinese government to even care about it.","I thought that the U.S. banned TikTok on government devices a while ago. It is Canada that did it recently. Either way, it's a hypocritical statement from the Chinese government, considering that virtually every non-Chinese app is already banned there.",0
"This is even more incomprehensible to people old enough to have seen the entirety of Trump’s career play out across tabloids. There was never a time in my life before 2016 when it was not absolutely clear to everyone that he was a sleazy bullshit artist who was always worth less than his bluster and had the tackiest low brow sense of opulence that always made him seem like a failed try-hard in the wealthy circles. Just a crappy obvious con artist that made belligerent life choices merely so he could get tabloid press, because real news outlets saw no value in following the life of this boring loud turnip.","And then a bunch of dipshits decided he was a flawless god? Like, seriously, Trump supporters are stone cold stupid. Like, I wouldn’t trust them with a spoon because they’d end up scooping their own eyeballs out. Dumb is simply not extensive enough of a word to describe how absolutely broke brain you have to be to hold these fawning thoughts about Trump.",0
"I have seen cishet people ask what being trans and being gay have in common as a way to divide the LGBTQ+ community, and this is it: being gay or trans is being a person living as something not considered the societal default in a usually imperceptible way.","I'd also be interested to know if a lot of trans youth is actually normally presenting as both genders at different places, like out at school and dressing feminine but I guess changing in between and being a boy at home? Is that common?",1
There’s failures on every angle of this issue and no one approach will fix it all. I certainly don’t have the answers!,"While I agree that there is a more systematic approach to be taken when it comes to cutting down on cartel activity, I’d argue that the war on drugs has been a colossal failure and likely has had the opposite effect.",0
"If both sides lose a quarter of million each, but Ukraine can continue to take territory then they win by dint of control. There might be an issue however if Russia retreats behind their own borders and then continues to strike at Ukraine. What does Ukraine do then?","I think what they mean is that Ukraine may overextend. Ukraine is just holding the line and has been practicing attrition warfare, but if they rush down into the Donbass it could leave them vulnerable to counterattacks. Basically, Russia can't ""win"" anymore, but Ukraine can still lose.",1
Saying you want the war to end is not the same as stating that the two countries should negotiate peace. How? Russia will not allow for peace. They want conflict and destruction.,"The longer the world turns their back and waits for this war to end, the more empowered Russia becomes. The strategy for ending this war and preventing future conflict is to assist Ukraine to have a quick victory and to show Russia that their actions will not be tolerated.",0
"I think a better analogy is, fill a barrel up 1/3 with rats. After they start to get hungry they will want to get out to find food. They'd have to cooperate with one another to stand on one another to get some, but not all of them, out of the barrel. But they won't, and they'll eat each other instead.","Do they even know what a ""civil war"" is? How exactly is this war going to be fought. With tweets? Who determines the winner?",0
"Lobbying barely explains it.. the core left wing is sympathetic with Palestine, and the core right wing is a roiling stew of antisemitism, so it boggles the mind how Israel is able to continually receive such positive treatment by our leaders.","The difference is that he's not saying this because they're Jewish Americans fighting for Jews around the world, he's saying this because they're lobbyists that are lobbying for an apartheid state.",1
"This will just further the divide as professionals and the highly educated will leave the state for blue states. The poor people who don't vote for this won't be able to afford to leave so they will just have to suffer. This will make the state more red, which will further emphasize the party primary as the key election.",This will just further red states having shorter life expectancies. Even before COVID red states died 2-3 years younger than blue states. That got worse with red states ignoring vaccines and even COVID treatments.,0
"Unfortunately Ukraine will pull the shortest straw from all parties, how short we will see. I just hope this shit ends soon.","It is easy to eat up all the crap Russian and American propaganda serves us, but the truth in is between.",0
"I would like to have an open discussion about how claiming you have gender dysphoria does not necessarily mean you are trans, especially if you are experiencing the dysphoria during puberty.","That being said, anyone who questions their gender or feels dysphoria, especially around the time of puberty should not be given puberty blockers or hormonal treatments.",0
"I don't really have a solution; I just wish them the best, the best of luck, and that they can achieve their goals with the least amount of violence necessary.","It pains me to say this, though, because as a Brazilian atheist, I'd really love to see the people of Iran to overthrow their theocratic state, which is currently oppressing groups of their society. But I understand what's like to have a government associated with foreign powers, and how if that happened, it'd (most likely) make things harder rather than easier in the long run. Detractors of progressivism would just forever point to the association with imperialist countries that have fucked them over in the past. It should all ideally be done by Iranians.",0
One party actually could have voted for paid sick leave and did not. What you are saying is the republicans agreed with the dems to not vote on paid sick leave and nobody leaked it.,"Damn, if those employees are so vital to the economy you'd think the ""pro-union"" Democrats would give them at least one unpaid sick day.",1
"The thing, the protesters having weapons probably wouldn't make this that much better since the government would just have better weapons. And those weapons do nothing without some sort of legal foundation for the protesters to grab onto.",Source: Have handled the equipment and had to shoot rubber bullets at violent protesters. If you’re interested in more info:,1
What the fuck does that mean? It's up to interpretation. Is a trans person a male or female impersonator? A butch lesbian? Anyone gender non conforming?,"They define a 'drag performance' as basically dressing in opposite gender clothing, so what this means is trans people just trying to live their lives can't, you know, go anywhere kids might be present.",0
"You might be right. I've seen lot of seismologists saying it seems like a second earthquake, but I see that USGS states it as an aftershock, so yeah. More analysis will make it clear.",All the other ones are aftershocks. There have been more than 400 aftershock earthquakes so far and they will continue unfortunately.,0
Riots broke out in several Belgian and Dutch cities after Morocco's 2-0 upset win over Belgium at the World Cup on Sunday.,If Marocco wins a match the Dutch/Belgium Moroccans will attempt to burn their own neighbourhood down because they are happy?,1
"The gun shops sell other things, but that is manly ammunition and gun accessories. The core of their business is guns. That's like telling an auto dealership to stay in business because they also sell auto accessories in their service department.","It still doesn't fix the problem of a law being implemented with no way to not just enforce it but even handle the basic parts of it. You are required to have training to get a permit, but there is no training or even a permit process. The state police are required to have a searchable database of permits for sellers, but that doesn't exist. Realistically, as is, this law is about a year out from being able to be enacted. That doesn't even handle how bad the law is.",0
"The United States has been supplying Ukraine with a ton of weaponry all the time, not to mention the intelligence apparatus that’s been created for this.","""The West"" has tons of stuff that is not given to Ukraine, say Abrams tanks, F-22s, F-35, F-16, nukes..",1
"I want it to be aliens but I want hard evidence. I want facts more than I want one specific answer or another. Like Mulder I want to believe but I don't want to be duped into mistaking foreign tech, previously classified tech, or old tech that no civilians got a good look at for extraterrestrials.",I seriously doubt this was aliens. Just based on us having shot down 3 (at my last count) of them. I doubt we'd be able to go toe to toe with extraterrestrials capabile of flying halfway across the galaxy.,0
"It's an incredibly ignorant view to conflate the two. And I mean ignorant literally, I'm not trying to put you down. You're just unaware.","I may only be 3 years older than the WWW, but that's enough for me to know I'm right, and you name dropping ARPANET incorrectly and writing out hypertext transfer protocol instead of HTTP don't give you any more authority.",0
"The Finns know what's up with Russian trollery and stoogery. They call it ""hybridivaikutus"" and it gets called out and ignored when it appears.","And there's other versions online too. The real number of viewers is hard to estimate, but it's much much higher than 27k.",0
I remember being deeply cynical about the UN war crimes tribunals created wrt war in Yugoslavia. But even the Serbian President ended up tried and convicted. Because governments change. Or because nations get fed up of sanctions.,The article expressly says the criminal police are questioning him. And it highlights that this police entity is empowered to investigate war crimes.,0
"Pay no attention to the 'remoaners' , people who voted in favour of Brexit had their reasons and to them those reasons were sound.","Should've been an easy win for labour, but instead they kept voting in unelectable leaders, making idiotic plans pandering to their most radical base instead of swing voters and dithering on Brexit.",1
Yeah I think I've only voted once in person since my first election for the 2008 election. And I only did it that one time because I forgot to fill in my ballot and my dad was going to vote in person anyways lol.,"I happen to vote in person every time, and I don't think I've ever seen a poll worker under 70 years old. The idea that these people were rigging the election for the Democrats is such a laughably pathetic accusation.",1
"That word ""political"" doesn't even mean what it's supposed to mean anymore. It used to mean ""having to do with the affairs of the state"" in which case, to your point, it ought to be the reason to comply.","I don't know when this happened but for w/e reason that word now seems to mean ""partisan"". It shouldn't though.",0
"However, in just four instances did the adult owners of the weapons face any criminal punishment for not having locked them up — and none of those prosecutions stemmed from safe-storage laws.",If you own a firearm you are legally responsible for its safe storage. No different than fencing your pool or leashing your dog. These parents will be held criminally liable.,1
It’s been like that for a long time now. I quit my job as a bank teller 10 years ago because my whole salary was going to day care. So I’ve been a stay at home dad for 10 years now and shit has just gotten more and more expensive.,"Once you have a couple kids, or more, childcare can cost more than you'll take home. It makes economic sense for a lot of people to just stay home with the kids.",1
"In case the nuance was lost, Trump said the act of voter fraud terminates our rules and articles. The news reported Trump said because of voter fraud Trump wants to terminate the constitution. Dishonest reporting.","First, Trump didn't use the word ""terminated"", he said ""termination"". For a news story to quote a literal word that wasn't said defies the purpose of quotes.",0
"I know Finland is trying to be a good neighbour as always, but if Turkey and Hungary say they'll approve Finland they should join first to get the ball rolling, and it does seem like Turkey might approve Finland on its own right now. Finland has plenty of Swedes anyways that Stockholm would want protected.",To quote the Finnish government: NATO membership is not so important that Finland needs to join before Sweden.,1
"Some people DO have good intentions I think, but if they get in and see the system the way it is and then do nothing to try and fix it, it’s hard to call them “good” cops.","this is why i've begun to feel that the cops that stand by and watch, who do nothing when this shit is going on, are actually worse than the ones actually doing shit. it's the cops standing by watching that enables these mother fuckers to get away with murder. if the ""good"" cops actually got involved and stopped something i might agree that there is such a thing as a good cops, but until that day they are all the same.",1
"I grew up here in NC (25 now) in a very strictly evangelical die-hard republican household. Had I been outed or outed myself as trans to my family, I’m not sure if they’d have let me see the light of day ever again, the physical and emotional abuse would have been too much.",That’d probably just mean that the entire set of homophobic parents willing to abuse their kid on the inkling of gay allegations would start in as opposed to one or two.,1
"No, I think we should have a Parliament that proportionally represents how all Canadians vote if we want to call ourselves a democracy. Not one that due to design can grant almost absolute power to a specific party, with less than 30% of the electorate voting for them.","Plus there's 5 viable federal parties for people to choose from, so the odds of over 50% of voters casting ballots for a single party are exceedingly slim.",1
‘It’s just amazing how many Trump supporters have adopted this rewrite of history as well. But then again I had a right wing nut refer me to an article on Breitbart once to prove how much he wasn’t a racist and it was an article about their replacement theory.,Regardless he’s not the kind of Republican that stands a chance in hell in todays Republican Party especially outside of a blue state.,0
We cannot let our guard down and have to remain fiercely vigilant to encourage the youngest eligible voters to do so and to realize how important it is to be involved in what is happening in the world they're stepping into.,"Trump is a spoiled, pathetic, entitled, evil, moronic manchild who will do horrible shit purely out of spite, jealousy.and petty revenge.",0
"We can't do much about Russia's ability to railroad in supplies from all over their country, even the far reaches in the east, but it's becoming increasingly hard for Russia to move shells from the unloading points to the front line. It's one of several reasons Russia's artillery usage has fallen off heavily.","I don't know if it was by design or not, but NATO slow-walking artillery in stages to the Ukrainians has been devastating to Russian supplies. Every time we roll out a new artillery system that increases the range of Ukrainian fire missions, Russia loses a whole mess of ammo and supply depots and is forced to push them even further back.",0
It is. Traffic acts like it has the right of way and cyclists and pedestrians have no choice but to dive for safety at times.,People do cycle and/but you just know in the back of your mind it could become an adrenaline producing situation at any point.,0
Hesse owned the airport (together with Rhineland-Palatinate) because once it was owned by the main Frankfurt airport but was never profitable enough. Then RLP sold its shares to a Chinese company which went into bankruptcy in 2020. Afaik most shares were controlled by a court appointed bankruptcy manager.,"You go to the owners and say you want to buy and name a price. In this case it's an airport in the middle of nowhere which never turned a profit even though it claims being near Frankfurt, so the price is low.",0
"Oh, they still want to fight. But just like with Trump and the midterms, they don't want to be seen losing a fight.","Laws against gay marriae are clearly bigoted, but theres an obvious place for a law that says a 40 year old man can't marry a 12 year old.",0
Im filing this incident under “elections have consequences” and losing sympathy for the people of east palestine.,"I am since they keep wanting to deny the help and the prevention to others, save the help for others who will need help from the GOP/East Palestinian decisions.",1
"but for a brief moment we saw how scared shitless Russia was making every attempt to try to bargain, disprove, and beg for NATO to not get involved.","At this point, I'm starting to wonder if Russia actually is trying to escalate to a nuclear war. Or Putin has gone absolutely batshit crazy, like for realz because this makes no sense. They can't even handle Ukraine, what makes Russia think pushing a NATO countries borders back would be chill or actually be feasible considering how they're handling Ukraine thus far.",1
"Also, WWII basically proves the whole sentence wrong, something a gay man (the congressman) should understand because Nazis picked enemies for reasons unrelated to principle at all. So dumb!","This is the thing with these fucking idiots. They think that is calling then fucking idiots puts them "" over the target"". In their view being ""persecuted"" proves that they are right it's proof that they are right. It's a dumb way to live because you learn the most from people who tell you your a fucking idiot.",1
"""It was the best suicide pact. Nobody has ever seen a suicide pact like this one. People would come up to me and say ""Sir, your suicide pact is the best, most powerful suicide pact I've ever seen."""".",Yep. Thats what pisses me off to no end. Time and time again its been proven Barr has used his biases to influence the DOJ in an unethical way.,1
Issues of importance to 38+ non-battleground states have been of so little interest to presidential candidates that they don’t even bother to poll them individually.,"Under a National Popular Vote system, candidates are going to be campaigning in all 50 states because how much you win or lose each state now becomes politically relevant to the outcome of the election.",0
How is vat taxing businesses? You collect VAT from the consumer and every quarter you transfer it to the government. Businesses are even VAT-excempt for most of their purchases.,"The idea in principle is that with or without VAT, the business would have charged about $X for their product.",1
"Can confirm, am Ukrainian. Never was a fan of BoJo. Don't know a lot about Sunak for now, time will tell.","That said, most Ukrainians don't know or care about UK politics and they blindly adore whoever comes from UK, because UK as a whole helps us so much.",0
"I am considered ""non domiciled"" in Peru (meaning Peru, while having granted me residency, insists I still ""live"" somewhere else). I am taxed at a flat rate of 30% here (all non-doms are, regardless of income level). My income level is such that I just enter the 35% bracket in the US so I can write off the first 30% that I pay here, the rest I owe to the IRS (32% of a portion of my income, and 35% of a small portion of the rest). It's not a lot, but it still feels like bullshit because I don't use anything those tax dollars pay for. I'm basically a tourist in the US even though I have a US passport and we don't charge tourists income tax.","Oh I'm aware - I am myself a US citizen who has lived abroad and claimed the foreign tax credit for that type of reason. I was simply responding to the other commenter's claim that only a few countries tax global income. That's indeed rare with respect to nonresident citizens (with the US famously on that list), but it is routine in many countries for residents.",1
"Let’s all try to make political discussions reasonable and passionate. To discuss what is posted, not just make assumptions about people or their perspectives.","Some discussions are just for understanding. If you feel like someone has a motive, it's for exactly the reasons you outlined above, you aren't trying to understand you're trying to debate, correct, convince, etc. and if that's how you treat differing views, than naturally I'm going to question how many fruitful discussion you actually have.",1
"""You don't know what you are talking about"" because a guy in an American website talking about an event in Ukraine doesn't know an obscure fact about Latvia lmao.","I'm from Spain myself, and ""deport"" here (""deportar"" in Spanish) doesn't have any connotations. It's just the act of expelling a foreigner from your country. I can't talk for the whole of Europe, but it definitely isn't ""the entirety of Europe"". ""Russia is expelling Ukranians from their homes"" or ""Russia is ethnically cleansing Luhansk"", in my opinion, are better descriptions of what's going on there.",0
"At all other times, when one Russian despot was taking the post of his predecessor, turmoil and killings (if any) were limited to inner circle of power.","The transition away from Communism also unleashed a lot of violence and poverty in Russia, until Putin took the reins as the next strongman. Domestic affairs stabilized, and Russia again started playing a central role in international affairs.",1
Highly unlikely if its daily flights. Russia had to reach out to its allies when it found that the stocks reserved for conscript forces had mysteriously turned into yachts (1.4 million uniforms only existed on paper for example). There's a notable improvement in the equipment on Mobiks captured by Ukraine.,"Just realised you were saying Russia is supplying China with this stuff and not vice versa as I'd originally mistakenly read. That being said, your post doesn't make much sense in context as we're wondering what China is supplying Russia.",0
"Even if you liked Trumps first run, you should understand that he shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the office in 2024, and I think that’s what Ryan is getting at here.",Also- if Trump wins the nomination again for 2024 Paul Ryan will again prostrate himself and grovel at the feet of Trump again just like every other Republican will again.,1
"2,700+ AR platform rifles along with twelve and a half million 5.56 NATO rounds (plus an additional 5 million rounds to be delivered by February 2023).","45 refurbished M2 Browning 50 caliber machine guns, no mention of ammunition being shipped along with them but I’d assume they’re being taken care of.",0
"In some cases, you have farmers basically just leasing land to wind projects and that's an alternate revenue stream (you can have a failed crop and still get money from the wind leases).","Solar panels have been installed on some farms above either grazing land or crops, in some cases they’re actually beneficial to the thing being farmed.",1
"Like I’m Puerto Rican and I’m still white, even if not all of my ancestors were. But I also have cousins way darker than me who are more supportive of idiots like Fuentes. I mean, look at Kanye….","To be fair, it's only Kanye's side saying this. I did a Twitter search and didn't see any pics ir definitive proof.",1
"While I don't feel there is a viable treating partner on the Palestinian side, how long will we support this with absolutism? We have to balance our relationship with Israel and it's protection with our own sensibilities.",Israel has not attempted in good faith to negotiate an equitable & reasonable solution for peace. Israel benefits from the current state of affairs because they have an excuse to steal more land from Palestinians.,1
"Some Republicans want to lower that threshold to 1, which means just one Republican could instigate a vote on whether to vacate the Speakership at any time.",I think he sold his soul to the devil saying he wanted to be part of a historic Republican speakership and this sure will be historic that they have to do multiple rounds of voting for the first time in 100 years. Speakership might not be his.,1
"Why does that sound familiar? Oh yeah, he ran on the same promise in 2016 regarding Hilary. Is she in jail? Prison? Prosecuted by the court of law? Hmm….",Like... Yeah no shit. You mean to tell me you get a sense of happy excitement on Sunday nights? They're called the Sunday Scaries because no one wants Monday to come. Ain't nobody got the Sunday Jollies.,1
Bolsonaro's campaign in 2018 said his opponents called him Hitler or Mussolini. They didn't call him corrupt.,"Being seen as non-corrupt is a big selling point in Brazilian politics, with politicians all over the ideological spectrum being caught with their hands in the cookie jar.",0
"Of course, South Africa is also a large trading partner with many western nations. So they position themselves between the sides.","Yes, I understand your perspective. I'm just referring to the BRICS group as it is described by those who analyze these things. Once again, I refer you to the various experts who know more about this than either of us do.",0
"Given the issues they face... blaming Putin, withdrawing, and showing willingness to work with the West is the smartest course of action.","The real issue is that Russia is supressing a lot of discord within and without its borders. We're going to have flare-ups of regional issues so old, people will not even be familiar with them.",1
"The article in this post (middleeasteye) try to paint a very misleading picture in which Israel just steal land from the Palestinians as they please. This is the new propaganda approach since 2021, and there are a lot of people who believe it - but it's not exactly true.","The Church sold the land in 2004 to the ""settlers"", but after the public outrage decided to cancel the sale. Unfortunately for them, you can't cancel a sell that already happened, there is no return window.",0
"Sure. But in the meantime, with CFCs, there were hundreds of thousands of people who stopped buying the shit because of the harm it was causing.","When we realized CFCs were destroying the ozone layer, we didn’t say “well people need to stop buying products that contain CFCs!” We banned that shit and it WORKED.",1
"Not quite. It was done to give Russia geopolitical allies on its borders and maintain existing trade relationships. But the relationship has always been Russia sending in troops to help its allies, and never its allies sending in troops to help them. If there was no war in Ukraine there would also be no conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Russia would have sent troops to Armenia to push the Azerbaijanis back.","And even though armenia is reliant on the CSTO do to Turkish-Azerbaijani aggression - is Russia doing anything for them? Azerbaijan with the support of turkey literally controls actual Armenian territory, with Russia just giving thoughts and prayers. Armenias own CSTO ally Kazakhstan supports Azerbaijan in its war against it.",1
"FIFA proudly participates in whitewashing the atrocities of every nation it enters, while stealing billions from tax payers who waste money to build worthless infrastructure.","I don’t see it as false, because regardless of if you’re the emperor who owns the earth and everything under the sun is yours, what you waste does not go to the people and that is stealing. It doesn’t matter what is yours when you control everything you have no right to it in anyway in which we must respect. Qatar is allowed to do as Qatar wants but it shouldn’t be seen as anything other than corrupt embezzlement with a fancy title.",0
"Thanks for the clarification. I had thought it was the formation of the Democratic Leadership Party (DLC) in 1988, but I suppose it may have been earlier.","Also, Reagan's (I know, a Republican) morality politics ignited the culture wars, a move away from issues regarding inequality, and also led to a shift away from Presidential accountability. There's a lot there to digest I think. Here we are polarized intensely. I wish we could agree on basic material rights for the 99% in this society.",0
"China has heavily invested in anti-ship missiles. Anti-missile defenses can only handle up to so many missiles before they are overwhelmed, and China has got the stockpiles to overwhelm them.","China may not have the ability to project across the globe like the US, but they can make it very hard for us to operate in their backyard. 24 hours into a conflict, the US would likely still be working on missile sites and air force bases/air defenses so they could actually move into the fight.",0
"Don't get me wrong, I think that's also an ugly thing for a sitting Justice to be doing, but it's neither surprising nor as offensively brazen a display of bias and partiality as this is.","Let the ABA disbar them. Nothing in the Constitution says they need an active license to practice law, and even if there's an argument it did....take a guess who is seeing that case?",0
"I’m wondering if no lawyers on his team actually want to be the one who attests that all documents have been returned, because they know Trump is always lying and they know he’s probably hiding more. They know that Trump would lie to them, his own legal team, even if it hurts his own legal strategy.","Team Trump: ""What, and face consequences if we're lying? Ha, no way, it's not THAT kind of promise. Also this is a witch hunt!"".",1
"As it's been for at least the last several decades, which has only gotten worse in the last 10-15, Republicans will throw literally anything at the wall of outrage and see what sticks. Obviously the outrage over Obama's tan suit was never the color of his suit but rather the (color of the) man wearing it. If instead of police brutality and racial injustice, Kaepernick had been kneeling to oppose abortions or gun control, he'd have been their hero. And of course, one can rightly say that if he had been opposing abortion, Democrats wouldn't have supported him -- but they also wouldn't have taken issue with the kneeling!","Because (as I'm sure you are already aware, but I add for the sake of others), kneeling was never the issue.",0
"<50 Tg displacements would still see major disruptions across the world and induce global food crises even if supply chains weren't touched, but it's really unlikely we'd see anything like a years-on-end twilight that resembles the classic depiction of a ""nuclear winter."".","Said this once and will say it again. How does everyone see this war ending? Either it'll be an infinite stalemate, or at some point Putin launches nukes because there's literally nothing left to do.",1
"If the Russians bomb the water infrastructure in Kherson or blow up the dam, they make it much harder to hold onto Crimea.","I suspect the Russians left booby traps all over the city, but they won't use haphazard bombing or artillery for fear of wrecking the waterworks or the pipes.",0
By design I'm afraid. These are either Ukrainians that lived in the areas that Russia took and claimed them as separatists or the undesirables they are trying to cleanse from Mother Russia.,"With the Ukrainian and Russians considered brothers and sisters before the war, a Ukrainian come up would have been devastating for Putin. They would have seen the Ukrainians prosper by moving towards the west, as well as become ""better"" than Russians.",1
"eh, don't assume they'd go for her over a republican. She votes with the dems like 90% of the time and as frustrating a narcissist as she is to deal with, I don't think there's much love on the right for her either - she's gonna have a primary to her left and a republican to her right, and she's basically committing political suicide imo.","He's also repping west virginia of all states, he's a coal baron but he's about the best to be expected right now from WVA until their own Fetterman-type breaks through.",0
I don’t think it was ever seriously the plan. The basis of communism is that a global revolution to destroy capitalism was coming so the west correctly saw the Soviet Union and Communist China as an extensional threat and the Soviet Union knew that the west saw them in that light and so the west was an extensional threat to them as well. Remember when WWII broke out the Soviet Union armed the Nazis and provided them with crucial raw materials because they wanted to see the capitalist nations completely destroy each other. Meanwhile the western allies absolutely did not trust Stalin or the Soviet Union even briefly considered turning on them at the end of the conflict. The western allies and the Soviet Union were never really close allies but rather united by a shared must win war.,"Anyways the reason the 'west' is so united and peaceful is because they have common enemies in Russia/china. There are already tensions in the EU, with the UK leaving. Plenty of people argue that the reason the US invested so much into the war on terror (besides the oil resources in the middle east), was to have another scary enemy to distract people and an excuse to further fund the military industrial complex.",1
"The cost to the US / Western allies in administrating the sanctions must almost certainly be higher than the direct cost to the Iranians to buy elsewhere. I guess it's a signal that the US is opposed to an Iranian drone program, and it's hard to put a dollar amount on that... But whether it's for a domestic or foreign audience, it seems like this is all politics one way or another, from what I can tell.","But that's for more complex weaponry; my impression of many of these drones is that they're only moderately more complex than RC airplanes? Some models are literally off the shelf consumer models (I know not the ones talked about in this article, but it's an example of the level of tech needed to build a working drone.).",0
Biden hasn’t forgotten but there are a portion of people who would like to and we know who they are….,"There is historic significance to Kamala Harris’ position as VP, not to mention she is actually VP in addition to that historic significance. Idk why you are having this problem but this is one of the questions we ask in assessing mental status because VP is not some obscure position in the US. Moreover VP Harris’ place in history is also not obscure. It might be worth talking to your PMD unless there is something about VP Harris, different from every other VP, that affects you. Either way it seems to be a you problem.",0
"It's also not true, as circumstances Churchill famously fought against clearly proved. You did not have to stand for anything to be an enemy of the Nazis, you just had to not be their preferred race/ethnicity or sexual orientation.","Also, WWII basically proves the whole sentence wrong, something a gay man (the congressman) should understand because Nazis picked enemies for reasons unrelated to principle at all. So dumb!",0
I'd wager most of the unaccounted for assets are just old/broken shit stashed or disposed of without someone knowing what form to fill out.,"It's not like the money just disappeared, it was spent on assets, but the recordkeeping of what was purchased and where the assets are exactly is just missing.",1
It does prolong the war because that further prevents Russia from making territorial gains and gives Ukraine a better chance.,"With a supported Ukraine though, they can fight back and drive Russia out and end the war. It’s not even been a year and it already looks like it could be the beginning of the end.",1
For sure. Had Biden ordered it shot down over land they’d just switch and be outraged at the risk he took with American lives and any destruction of property.,"If he had shot it down immediately they would be complaining that Biden risked American lives and infrastructure. ""What damage would it have done to the power grid if it had landed on power lines?"" and all that.",1
I doubt Putin is spending much time above ground these days. Bombing the Kremlin would wreck an architectural icon and serve to galvanize the Russian people. I don't think it would further disrupt Russia's war effort in any way.,"There’s an out for Russia but I don’t think there will s an out for Putin. Ukraine is determined to fight until they get back all there land including Crimea. There is just no way for Putin to survive that politically, either by a direct defeat or pulling out.",1
How long until the people of Florida reject this massive policy failure by DuhSantis and his gang of partisan extremists?,Florida is racing to the bottom when it comes to public education. This feels like the Nancy DeVos model which will devolve public education to a voucher system where kids will attend private schools and charter schools regardless of the evidence that they don’t help the students who are most in need.,0
"Yet another reason that self-driving cars are trying to solve entirely the wrong problem. We should be revising our infrastructure so that cars are less necessary, not trying to lower the barrier of entry to driving even more than we already have.",I would venture to say that enhanced autopilot is probably OK too because it just adds lane changing and integrates navigation decision making on the freeway.,1
"Aww, yes but of course after men go after a woman for speaking truth by calling her a ""traitor"" and ""opportunistic"" and sending massive amounts of threats her way they wonder why she's reluctant to do it again.","No way in hell would that happen. That's what makes a man ""smart"". And again you nor anyone knows she did this to boost her bid for president. Maybe it was due to her own experience of being sexually harassed by her male colleagues in the senate. One of those women was a congressional staffer.",0
"I'm not saying that it's true. But if it is true, that's coercion. As a follower of Christ, I'm completely against anyone being forced to participate in Christmas that doesn't want to.","As someone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas, i disagree with it being forced on anyone. I didn’t like my office asking me to put up Christmas stuff on my cubicle either. It has a secular meaning to a lot of people and that’s great, but it is still a holiday that not everyone celebrates, and since it’s associated with a particular religion, parents have the right to decide if their kid should dress as Santa.",1
"There might be a slim chance Biden can pull that off this term. This election showed that Americans don’t want extreme right-wing politics, they want centrist politics. Lastly, don’t associate the actions of rogue citizens who believe in extremism with those who sit in congress. Most DC republicans don’t stand for any violence. Yeah, most. Not all.","The problem is, no one young is capable of compromising. The government is supposed to be bipartisan and Biden was and is the best guy for that.",0
"I’m not too concerned how other countries operate as I agree with the US that if I want to maintain my citizenship and it’s benefits, then I should expect to pay some form of taxes.","But if you're an American citizen living in Australia or Italy, you still need to pay taxes to Uncle Sam, even if you haven't stepped foot in America for decades, let alone used American government services. AFAIK no other civilised nation uses this double-tax system.",1
We're talking about the Iranian people rising up as the government is not giving them any other choice. This isn't about war.,The Iranian government could make some small reforms and maybe keep things chill and placate their population. But instead they're greatly escalating it from a peaceful protest situation to a mass execution of citizens situation.,0
"I get your point. But there's no safe amount of things you can light on fire and inhale. Whether that's weed, tobacco, firewood, trash, etc etc etc. It's not safe to light things in fire and inhale the smoke.","I will say it point blank, lighting things on fire and inhaling the smoke and carbonized ash of ANYTHING is bad for you. Some things might be worse to burn and smoke than others but there's the healthy amount of things you should smoke is 0.",0
"Using emergencies as a 'Tactic', should have some kind of oversight, but not to the degree of preventing its use when it's needed. I do like the idea of auto-expiring periods where extensions need to be confirmed.","In Canada they have auto-expiring periods of emergency periods, that then need to be extended. They also tend to have parliamentary commissions after the fact that investigate the use of power and what exactly was done and the impacts.",1
"Additionally, the US government gives billions in handouts to farmers and oil companies every single day, as well as the forgiveness of PPP loans. Why would you not be upset about that, but mad that the government is actually trying to directly help the people?",This is probably the most unjust action I’ve seen our government do in decades. People need to pay off their debt.,1
"Well the people scared of hazmat suits can deal with it. Why should someone sacrifice their personal safety when it’s not causing anyone else any physical harm? There’s a pandemic, and some people don’t want to get infected, and some people who are immune compromised can’t take that chance, so if some people have a problem with that, too bad, they can mind their business.","Totally true. My brother is currently in China on a business trip, 10 days quarantine in a hotel with shitty food. If he went in with Covid, it would be so much worse.",0
"With the huge rage boner that the Republicans have on Clinton, you’d figure they’re find something on him in regards to Epstein right? Are you telling me that in all of the years that the Republicans and enemies of the Clintons have been trying to take down the Clintons, that not one accusation has came out aside from that picture of Clinton getting a shoulder rub in, I believe, an airport?","It's just... frustrating to see this be brought up time and time again, Clinton traveling with Epstein because if there was anything of worth to investigate, you are damn sure the Republicans and conservatives would have found it. And it's always fucking interesting that this get brought up when a Clinton is doing something political, or as a ""whataboutism"" when it comes to Trump, but no one seems to want to investigate. Especially the lack of push to investigate from those who bring it up the most in political circles.",0
"First off, the proxy war is between liberal democracy and far-right fascism. Not just the US vs Russia. Sign me up.","If it takes a $4M missile to prevent a hit on a residential block in Kyiv, so be it. We can afford to wear down the Fascist Bloc economically with our more nimble & sturdy economies, and adapt our strategy with our more nimble & sturdy civil society. Even dumb-ass Trump America has failed to create the disorder, recession and panic of China’s zero-covid policies. And Russia’s mass conscription campaign is potentially a crippling political development sending them down the path of a failed imperialist war a la Vietnam or Afghanistan.",0
"Unless I am mistaken, Canada spends more on defence than Poland and Greece combined, but because Canada is so rich it is lower as a % of GDP.","I don't know if Canada is spending more on defence than Poland anymore. The figures I was looking at were for 2020, which showed Poland spent about $13 billion on defence, but looking at more news they've increased that amount and said this year that they will essentially be doubling their defence budget to nearly 5% of GDP. Canada spends about $25 billion on defence and Poland's looking to spend $30 billion moving forward.",0
"There are 330+ million people in America. Of course ""millions have no savings"". Millions will always have no savings. Hell, I had no legitimate savings until about 30. That's kind of how it goes.","That's not how it should go. It's almost like wages are too low and the cost of living is too high. We shouldn't expect the youngest generation to go through over a decade of poverty, anxiety, and hardship just to have the bare minimum. That should not be normal in the richest country in the world.",1
"The Houthi Militia started the war. They steal most of the aid KSA lets through. They absolutely are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of children. Their slogan is ""Allah is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam"". While there are no good guys fighting in this conflict the Houthi are the most responsible for the conflict having started it.",Can we all take a second to remember this was the Yemeni Civil War and that the Houthi Militia started it and they steal most of the aid? It seems like too many people just want yo blame the guys who got drawn into the war and do not include those that started the civil war. Everyone fighting in this is an asshole and we should not overlook the sides that started the war.,0
"I’m on record being against settlements though I withhold that objection for East Jerusalem. We can discuss that specifically if you like but it’s somewhat irrelevant to this topic. Jews did not show up and start stealing Arab land. This is well documented, and it’s a cornerstone of the pro Palestinian argument even though it’s demonstrably false.","So you know nothing about the start of this conflict? Pity. I’ve already stated that that I’m against settlements excepting East Jerusalem, and at that only to a point. Beyond that I’ll stand next to you and criticize Israel and often have, but the claim that Jews showed up and stole land is false.",0
"Since the recent war, other countries are taking more Ukrainians than Canada, so the global Ukrainian diaspora is in major flux.","In total, it's 10% of Canadians are of some portion Ukrainian descent now, which in a country with as many ethnicities as us, makes Ukrainian a major ethnic group.",0
The Supreme Court has declared that the current law preventing 16 and 17-year-olds from voting is unjustified discrimination and inconsistent with the Bill of Rights.,"The Human Rights Act says that you can't discriminate against people over 16 based on age, but leaves open legal discrimination on the basis of age for people under 16:",1
"The US is in a great position to do so, but it hasn't because it's politicians are so focused on fossil fuels and fossil fuel companies don't want renewable technology to exist at all. Allies should be alarmed because the US getting serious about this will diminish their chances of cornering the market significantly, even though as allied nations they would still benefit greatly from the technology.","It's the sort of geopolitical move that establishes global dominance. The US and its allies still compete, they just do so in ways that are generally friendly and nonviolent. You don't want to be dependent on someone, even an ally, because what if they turn out to no longer be an ally at some point? And even if they are, you might be able to better serve your citizens by doing things yourself.",0
Putin is a dork. I don’t understand why he doesn’t chill out and just focus on creating a lot of infrastructure on the Eastern part of his already giant country. If he wants to take Ukraine does he really think he’s capable of defending all of his stretched thin territory?,"Half the reason they invaded Ukraine when they did was because it no longer had a pro-Russian leader, and looked all set to push flat-out for NATO accession, after which they wouldn't be able to so much as spit on Ukrainian soil without risking WW3. It was a terrible strategic decision, but from their perspective, the alternative of an EU-aligned, NATO-joining Ukraine was even worse.",1
"It may vary by state, but I think you gain more by supporting gay marriage than opposing it. They don't have to go out of their way to support it, but they shouldn't oppose it. Conservative politicians could use gay marriage as a bargaining chip to get support for something they care about.","It doesn't force a conservative State to issue gay marriage licenses, it just forces them to accept those already made in progressive States.",1
"He says a lot of things. [So we shouldn’t worry about pushing back against the inflammatory rhetoric of a current presidential candidate who was just in the White House, recently received 70+ million votes, and has a large devoted following. Yep, we shouldn’t be bothered to worry about that.].",Some context. Trump has never accepted the outcome of any election. Trump even questions the one he won because he did not win the popular vote and in his narcissistic mind that is not posable. Trump proposed suspending the 2020 elections. Trump wanted to fire everyone that would not support him in overturning the 2020 election. Trump motivated his white nationalist base to try and overthrow the government. Trump claims that as president and a former president he has absolute power to do anything. So when Trump says he will ignore the constitution he means it.,1
Some context here. In the 1970s Secretary of Agricultural Earl Butz replaced the farm subsidy that paid farmers to limit their crop production with a farm subsidy that paid farmers to produce as much corn as they could.,"Also, American farmland has been optimized for giant fields instead of the smaller segmented fields with borders that lessen erosion and provide wildlife habitat.",0
"I do think the House Committee report--and presumably the Georgia grand jury findings--has enough to convince any reasonable jury that Trump knew he was lying, and therefore knew he was pressuring Raffensberger to commit a felony. So I'm cautiously optimistic. But I can't be 100% confident about any case that rides on proving Trump believed a reasonable thing over a crazy thing.",I wouldn't want to be the prosecutor who has to prove Donald Trump didn't believe a crazy conspiracy theory.,0
"Duh. Idaho is really angry about the influx of Californians into the area, thinking it’s going to be blue Californians and it’s like “Nah man: It’s a red wave.”.",As someone who (unfortunately) lives right on the border of Washinon/Idaho I can tell you most people are really pissed about all of these people from out of state moving here.,1
When Europe runs into energy problems because their oil imports come under pressure they turn to coal as their fuel. So keeping them secure in oil is a large net positive for the planet. It will take time to move to renewable energy everywhere. If you just turn off oil without a proper alternative you end up making things worse.,"The reality is that we should have been phasing out oil decades ago. We didn’t. You can’t just set up green energy overnight. Until we have a replacement, we have to use what we have.",1
"Who riled up that mob mentality? Who spent months crying wolf to make people mad enough to ""back the blue"" into the corner and beat them with flag poles?",Wow what a false equivalency. One was a mostly peaceful protest where police got crazy and attacked journalists in response to another police killing of an unarmed black man.,0
"Being anti Israel and anti Zionist doesn’t make you an antisemite though. You can be against the Zionist state without being against Jewish people, I mean there’s plenty of Jews who dont support Israel and are anti Zionist as well.","To call decisions, policies, and/or practices of the State of Israel into question is not de facto anti-semitism, in my humble opinion. There is no state in the world that is above being called to account, whether by its own citizens or the citizens of another country. Anti-semitism moves beyond mere questioning and calling to account, and is motivated by baseless hatred.",1
"If they wanted to be separated they had their opportunities, what do you mean 22 percent of iran are not iranain how is that a thing, and also entire Qajar dynasty were Azeri , Karim Khan zand was Lor ،Reza shah was mazani , current leader of iran is Azeri and they ruled all of Iran , I'm Azeri, I have kord friends , i have lor friends, i have arab friends and my entire family and childhood friends are Azeri and I see not a single on of them as separatists infact they love Iran in some degree.","When discussing Iran and Iranians we think only of Persians, but there are multiple Iranian ethnic groups or Nations living in Iran, unlike China it never facilitated ethno-genisis between its various subgroups. You have the Kurds, Lurs, Balochis and others that comprise of 25-30% of the population. Persians themselves are only 51% of the population and seeing as these figures are old and non-Persian regions have higher birthrates, its probably lower. The Kurds and Balochis both have active cross border insurgencies with the expressed goal of secession and the formation of a Kurdish and Balochi nation states. Iranian civilisation is old, the Iranian state through the various Iranian empires are old; and even Iranian nationalism is old(it even appeared in Sassanid propaganda). What is not old is the Iranian nation state itself. The matter of fact is Iranians haven’t experienced ethno-genesis in the same way say China has, banding together its various linguistic subgroups. The Iranian nation better resembles if anything the Russian Nation. The concept of Russia as a state was to be the nation state of the Russians, the East Slavic ethnic groups that inhabited the lands of the Kievan Rus. However, multiple subgroups, the Ukrainians especially held a strong attachment to their individual sub-identities, leading to the lack of ethno-genesis and the maintenance of multiple subnations(in this case its Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians and Rusyns) rather than one unified Nation. The Kurds and Persians may be Iranian, but they don’t necessarily care for the commonality between eachother. So while Iranian nationalism is old, ethno Genesis has simply not yet occurred between its subgroups.",1
"and Russia doesn't have forever, its debatable that the country itself will even survive the decade. their ""three day special military operation"" has rocked the country to the core to the point that their regime has panicked so hard at the sight of their ""invincible"" army being routed on the battlefield, that they declared mass mobilization and are in full survival of the state mode now.","The more Russia makes statements like this, The more clear it is that they are tired of fighting, they want the bleeding to stop, but they seem to have forgotten that after they published articles in the media stating their intentions to commit mass genocide against the Ukrainian people, and after betraying every agreement they ever had in regards to not attacking them. Ukraine will absolutely never negotiate now.",0
All of them are US Allies. Right in the center of all of that is Taiwan; which protects the biggest water gap in the China Seas. This defensive perimeter effectively contains China militarily within its waters. Subs can’t pass though Non-international water into the Pacific with this perimeter.,"It becomes a significantly larger problem containing China without any of these key locations. With them, China could be effectively blockaded. Without Taiwan, it becomes virtually impossible. If China is able to escape this perimeter in any meaningful way, the risk is the capability of medium/short range missile strikes directly on US soil from submarines.",0
"The tech is there and it was there 30 years ago, just less efficient. It's very sad that Germany is both a leader in renewables and not even at 50%.","Except that didn't happen. They didn't pay the higher cost for renewables, compromise after compromise, gas got expanded for so long it's now even too late for renewables.",0
"It's not sacrilege, it's just dumb and politically illiterate. What is the process of confirming a supreme court judge friend? When did the Democrats have more than 60 votes in the last 20 years? Should the Democrats have extended the ""nuclear option"" to supreme court picks themselves and forced someone through in 2010?","How many democratic votes did that Senate have? Should the Democrats have extended the ""nuclear option"" to supreme court picks themselves in 2012? The idiocy in this thread is absolutely overwhelming.",0
Sorry you heard wrong there brother. At the start of the war?Yeah I would say their planes were superior. Mid/late war?,Also it takes two to end a war. The Russians can't simply declare the war to be over. If the Ukrainians continue to conduct offensive operations then the war continues.,1
"In essence, if you have the ""Find My Network"" enabled your device locates other devices and in turn can be located other devices.",I believe it uses Bluetooth LE to broadcast a signal. Other iDevices can then receive that signal and pass it onto Apple.,0
"In their mind, being the person who commits these mass killing is the reward. All the motivation and discussion from the right is about culture wars. So when right-wing terrorists commit these acts they think they're saving the world from sin and evil.","Because, here's the thing: No one here is afraid of being killed by a right wing extremist. However, that they are the ones perpetrating all the mass killing is important to note because it shows a trend and belies the narrative coming out of the Right.",1
"My friend works in liquor PR in New York, and lots of liquor companies hold branded parties to get their names out there. In February of 2020 I was my friend's +1 to a party being thrown by some Italian liqueur brand, only to show up and be told that the Italian staff weren't being allowed out of Italy due to COVID ripping through that country. I thought nothing of it, but like a week later it hit NY and I'm pretty sure I started locking down then.","With a bit of common sense and, unfortunately, a major lifestyle change, cancer patients and the immunocompromised can adapt.",0
"Typically what is going on at this stage is verification of mail-in votes. When they receive a mail-in ballot, they compare the signature on the ballot to the one on file. If they don’t feel it matches, they set that ballot aside and don’t count it. That ballot then goes to some group who starts reaching out to verify that the ballot is valid. Once they verify that, the ballot can be counted.",What is different about the vote count during a recount? Are the votes just put into the same tabulation machines and then they go with the second count? Or is a recount done by hand?,1
Until people like this and the “freedom of speech” isn’t “free of consequences” - we will never move forward. These words she said are akin to terroristic threats.,"To embolden the masses to take up arms and by violence, take over the transfer of power so that a madman could remain in office. Undermining the will of the people AND with zero proof. None. Zero.",0
"In a country led by oligarchs and kleptocrats, where even the military is super corrupted from top military general all the way down to mere squad leaders, money always talks. As long as one can pay a sufficient amount of big bribes, he can walk away scott free and makec a \lot\ of ""behind the scenes"" deals. Or be relatively treated ok (or even with favors) while remaining in prison.","This does't include those that were super duper filthy rich: those just bribed their entire sentence right away in the first place, and never went to prison.",0
"There are few things in life as reliable as Russian shills claiming Ukraine has been murdering innocents in Donbas. But, lets suppose for a second that was true, which it is not. Russia could have appealed to the UN and requested a security force to protect the region, or it could have used its allegedly superior air defense (lol) to shoot down the alleged bombings from Ukraine. It did neither. Instead, it gave weapons to Igor Girkin and others who promptly used them to blow up an airliner. Then Russia committed to an ill fated invasion of all of Ukraine, not just the Donbas, which is currently not going so well.",What good will it be if the regions which really don't feel like ukrainian (Crimea and deep Donbass) are returned to Kyiv's control ?,1
"Because they are still supporting the war. They only flee when it affects them. When countless thousands tried to flee to Kazakhstan during mobilization, hundreds of cars had the giant Z, which is basically their nazi swastika, painted proudly on their cars.",2) Supporting the war by spreading tons of misinformation online and propaganda towards groups that seek to undermine the West.,0
For all you down voting me…. I’m not some conspiracy guy. This is just weird as it seems like the freak appended the door and that Paul had a glass of something in his hand. It just seems odd.,I’m not saying anything about anything I just think the whole thing is odd (no gay conspiracy) how they seem almost calm with drinks and then the guy freaks out and almost kills Paul.,0
"Personally, if there's going to be another civil war, then we've anyway seen what it looks like. Individual armed demonstrations. The next Civil War is America vs domestic terrorists.","FWIW political violence and full-blown civil war are two very different things. I'm afraid we likely will see a fair bit of the former in the US, but only very fringe groups truly want the latter.",1
Pretty ballsy to say that when it's the West that's funding Ukraine. There would be no peace talks to have if Ukraine didn't have western military equipment support and Russia steamrolled through.,"The wise thing for Russia to do, would be to wide draw their troops, if they fail to do that then Ukraine will force them out.",1
Flynn prevented the US from retaking Raqqa at Turkeys bequest. This allowed for many key ISIS leaders to escape. Not sure how betraying your country as a unregistered foreign agent serving in a cabinet doesn’t warrant a court martial/jail if not death….,Wouldn't you want to find out about possible illegal or unnecessary dangerous actions that these military members were forced to take part in?,1
"Sadly the only way to protect everyone’s abortion rights is for the Federal Government to codify it, something that won’t happen with Republicans/Conservatives having control of either Congress and a SCOTUS that is mostly in their pocket.","Sadly, the only way to protect abortion rights is for the people to keep electing those who will keep protecting abortion rights, including, and especially, those who nominate and confirm people to the judiciary.",1
"Meh, I get the point but you’re wrong when it came to RBG - she was sharp as a whistle and one of our greatest minds until the very end. I just think we need regular cognitive tests for anyone over 70, like we do for driver licenses.","California - drivers over 70 must renew in person (not online like everyone can), pass a vision and written test which effectively acts as a cognitive test.",0
"I get how polls work, but the point again I’m making has nothing to do with polls. RvW was absolutely a reason people voted, however in my opinion it didn’t factor in the elections overall outcome. Republicans won where they were expected to and so did Dems. The Senate was always projected to be +/- (1-2) seats in either direction. The results show a lot of split tickets from Congressional to Governor races when you compare them, in some cases again where GOP did better then usual. The red wave was an over sell based on historical precedent and not the political realities of now imo.","I don’t even think that was a major factor, Red States kept their governors and even competed in some blue states(by competing I mean got a larger then normal vote tally even if lost big) I think it was more a bigger push against Trump and the election deniers honestly.",0
"The ones who need to ""get in line"" if they want to win are the GOP. If they think they're going to beat Biden, they'd better find a way to make either Trump or DeSantis go away, because running both of them on one ticket is too extreme.","“Trump made me vote for Biden, even though I didn’t want to, but when a demonstrably worse candidate comes along who’s pushing actual dictatorship moves in Florida, we’ll I’m just gonna stay home because Biden doesn’t excite me”.",1
"She’s betting that she’ll be able to split the liberal vote and in sure a Republican victory, unless the democrats who hate her support her instead of Gallago.","If the Democrats are nice to her she'll drop out, but if they aren't she'll try to give the seat to the Republicans by staying in the race.",1
"Meta will probably lose money from this, as they make money from showing you those ads. If people choose not to accept them, Meta doesn't make that money. Poor fucking Meta, eh.","That breaks the EU rules, and they fined Meta for not giving people a choice. This also means that Meta has to take that rule out of their terms of service and ask people's permission properly.",0
However you’re correct that women in general tend to oppose equality in conscription more than men. Which is stupid. However I think women oppose conscription in general more than men too.,"It could still be 50% of the age group just based on things other than gender only. 100% would be too much anyways, we’d be spending half our defence budget on handling that increase in people doing military service. But the current system is discriminatory and unfair to men.",0
"Should've been an easy win for labour, but instead they kept voting in unelectable leaders, making idiotic plans pandering to their most radical base instead of swing voters and dithering on Brexit.","Dunno mate, I'm in my 30s and as much as I hate the tories they are starting to look like the only viable party to vote for.",0
"That bias is both due to how the system is structured (e.g., being able to afford bail or high-powered lawyers) as well as implicit (e.g., subconscious preferential treatment towards the wealthy at all levels of the justice system).",Edit: this provides an good read on how implicit biases impact the justice system (albeit centered around race rather than wealth).,0
"For example: Most of the educated conservatives I know are socially liberal, but they buy into conservative economics. Of course that begs the question of what evidence there is that the GOP’s take on economics works at all.","Understand that there are exceptions to all rules, but those exceptions do not negate the greater truths. For example, I am a 40-something straight, white male trade school graduate who works at a factory and was raised in an evangelical household in coal country Kentucky. Most people with my background are conservative; I am not. My existence does not affect the overall trend one bit.",0
"It’s beyond a reasonable doubt though. Not a shadow of a doubt. Without reasonable doubt means that a reasonable person couldn’t doubt the guilt. For example, the Earth is an oblate spheroid beyond a reasonable doubt, despite the fact that some people believe the Earth is flat. They are not reasonable people.","Again, and this relates to my other comment, they do not need to prove that Trump believed that he didn’t have enough votes. You merely have to prove that a reasonable person couldn’t believe that given the information Trump had at that time.",0
"The most hilarious thing to me is that many of these ""testosterone insensitive males"" are indistinguishable from XX females, and many of them never find out. The consequence is that thousands of bigots have been in a gay marriage their entire lives and are banging men regularly with no clue.","So when bigots and religious hardliners tell you transsexuals and gays are ""not natural"" you can point out that God made some people that way. And that some conservative/religious men are in gay marriages and having gay sex their entire lives without knowing.",0
"Lied about having them, refused to give them back, keeps trying to hide more that he's taken, tried to use them to extort the government into giving him dirt to use against his political opponents, made a private raid to get the documents a public matter so he could pretend to be oppressed, publicly attacked the FBI to the point of threats and a terrorist incident where the attacker fortunately only killed himself, and has since whined, defamed and distorted the truth about it on social media for the last year.","Yeah, I'm willing to bet that it was no coincidence that Biden and Pence found documents at the same time. Seems clear that the records keepers are cleaning up a mess after it's now publicly known that they have been too lax in letting sensitive documents go missing, so they told them that if they better search and see if they had any souvenirs they shouldn't have kept. Pence and Biden of course complied.",0
Anyway you do have a point in that a lot of the places Russia will be supplying are expected to grow massively economically.,"Yeah kind of, they're opening up far more ability to import LNG via vessels from North America which has shitloads, and elsewhere. Not to mention, it's already cheaper to switch to alternatives for many uses but takes time.",0
"“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:",It might have been a case of politics winning out over a dispassionate analysis of history against the UN definition of genocide.,0
Many countries already have such restrictions. Americans can’t buy land or a house in Mexico. You can get a very long term lease (99yrs) but you can’t own it.,Absolutely. You should be a permanent resident or citizen to buy real estate in the USA. I don’t think investment companies foreign or even American should be competing to buy up single family housing units in any market in the USA.,0
"Thanks for sharing this. It's crazy how close they got, and a critically heroic defense by Ukraine's National Guard and others.","A Ukrainian soldier once remarked they'd fight with sticks and stones if they must, but it seems Russians are racing to get there first.",1
A lot of Republican actions can be seen as seeking revenge for Nixon. They had to get back at the Dems and have the Dems be soiled by having a President resign or be removed from office.,"Anyways, now the Repubs have a twice impeached President, and a President that’s been forced to resign, they still need to get back at the Dems. They will try everything and anything to impeach Biden or the next Dem President. The Hunter Biden “story” is just a cover to get Biden impeached.",0
"However, this is a real problem that many developed nations are facing and it’s only going to get to worse. I know we like to shit on the government and “rich people” as if they’re doing this out of some sadistic intention. But that narrative is patently false. They’re doing it because they have very limited options and ideas on how to tackle a pretty insidious and worsening societal consequence of the excellence of modern healthcare.",No. The world is facing a fundamental issue symptomatic of people living longer. Retired people impose huge pressures on society as their demographic grows from living longer while becoming economically inactive for longer. Most of this strain is imposed upon working age people. And the effects are so macroeconomic and far reaching that there are too many to condense into a single comment.,0
Are we really pretending like women and black people can't simply be bad people on their own without input from old white men?,No one has said that she or Thomas are doing what old men want BECAUSE that is what old white men want. That's your misinterpretation. So stop repeating it.,1
"Maybe to some extent. But after this I would imagine they just get more aggressive with their own defense and start covering anything near their border, including over Ukrainian airspace.","Genuine question - what happens if it was a Ukrainian anti air missile or whatever it's called? Are there going to be repercussions for Ukraine? I mean they're (Ukraine) on defense and obviously it wasn't intentional by any means (in the event it was from Ukraine), so it's not like it was technically an 'attack' on NATO?",1
"Yet for some reason its never a problem when they want to cut taxes or increase military spending. No, it's only an issue when we want to provide healthcare.",You’re saying from a patient side as to WHY it’s unaffordable. One doesn’t disprove the other. His wording is more correct as to why it’s foolish the government has nearly a half of its reps fighting against one payer.. they are mismanaging the 914bil/year towards wrongful expenditure.,1
"Calm down, let’s not forget about the nukes and the idiots who will do everything to protect themselves and if everything is lost would not think twice about bringing down the rest of the world with them.",This isn't a game of civ... You can't just start a war against one of the largest countries in the world with enough nukes to blow half the world to hell on the idea that they haven't maintained their nuclear capabilities...,1
"Furthermore, Donbas is in Ukraine. Why does Russia have a right to police what happens in Ukraine? According to you there is no international law, therefore Russia has no concerns in Ukraine.",Do you also think the EU and NATO are “destabilising” Russia because they put sanctions on them for invading Ukraine?,1
"I’ve heard for decades how fireworks scare veterans and have been scolded by people for scaring them. I’ve never met a veteran who is freaked out by fireworks and definitely not professional fireworks, which means there’s people stealing valor from veterans to complain on their behalf, usually because fireworks scare their dog and they don’t even know a veteran.","The next morning the streets were clean. No debris, no red paper, it’s like it never happened. I’m not sure what is happening with these attacks, but it’s not typical NYE behavior. It’s not fireworks, it’s people trying to hurt emergency responders and that needs to stop.",0
I.e. All Erdogan needed to get his nomination was to have on of his cronies in his government nominate him.,"5. University professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes.",0
"If the right wing is going to push that Biden is forgetful due to his age then they can't go about claiming him not remembering is ""nonsense"".",The irony of course is the fact that they've spent years portraying Biden as mentality deficient and incompetent yet here we are now supposed to believe that he is supposed to have a memory that most children and teenagers don't possess?,1
"What are you talking about? Their members have real jobs and lives. Hell, not all of them are French or even live in France - one member is a Haitian-Canadian who lives in Miami.",Who cares if some permanent secretary continued to use a 3.5K EUR flat after retiring? Or a 5K EUR /month flat? Or paying 3K EUR monthly stipend to a widow? That's.,0
"Ok, take it back 70+ years. What working rights have we gotten? In what ways has the material conditions improved for the working class since FDR? We have no guaranteed health care, sick days, vacation days, maternity leave, minimum wage has been outpaced by the cost of living, housing is out of control, education costs are out of control, what exactly has gotten better for working class citizens? We get cheap iPhones and tvs, gee my cup runneth over. We are the richest nation in the e world and we don’t have basic working rights the rest of the developed world has.","Material conditions are getting worse because both parties don’t give one flying fuck about you. In fact, they get richer at making your lives more miserable.",0
It's so well documented that even comedians have made montages of the events and outlined it very clearly showing a timeline of events that are found in the public record.,"Yes, they're worried about literal Russian assets, who spent the 4th of July in Moscow getting their marching orders directly from the Kremlin, taking over the most powerful nation in the coalition to help them FIGHT the Russian invasion. The same people that blackmailed Ukraine by withholding foreign aid and weapons illegally for sleazy political posturing. Yes, Ukraine is worried. The WORLD is worried. The GOP is literally insane and would dismantle NATO and serve up Ukraine on a silver platter to a dying Putin.",0
If Ukraine had enough long range ballistic missiles of their own I somehow doubt Russia would be so eager to shoot missiles at their power grid and civilian infrastructure.,"If Ukraine bought missiles from a NATO country, we would probably still stipulate that they could use them for defending Ukrainian territory but not for attacking Russian territory.",1
"Well put. The remedy is obvious. It wont be easy to achieve, but, we, the public, need a legal mechanism to remove a public servant from office. Politicians cant police themselves, they form up along lines of corrupt mutual interest. Kind of the same way cops wont rat out or pressure co-wokers. If they make the attempt and fail, then they are stuck worki g with someone who has it out for them.","I agree, I try to use a generous perspective when posting about this kind of stuff, but she and Boebert and Trump all are proudly deliberately and willfully ignorant, facts dont matter, whatever i choose to believe is true and performative rage is the daily swill for their followers.",0
"Aleksandr Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed president of the Republic of Belarus, has said that the idea that the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) might dissolve if Russia loses the war in Ukraine is growing increasingly popular.","Sucks! you and your family had to experience this. I just watched the news here and they spend about 20 minutes on Ukraine, companies here (and tons of donations from Poland) are sending so many generators to Ukraine the next week it's insane (talking high end stuff).",0
That's also not mentioning of course just how much their remaining armed forces have atrophied since the fall of the USSR. Had they come storming across the Fulda Gap they would have thrown everything at us including their air power. All of which was much more impressive during the 80's.,My guess is in the 80s things where more even. But they are basically still there while anybody else now is 40s past this point.,1
"The only thing that would be a death blow for Fox News would be creating and enforcing standards and regulations on reporting. If they can’t spew propaganda and vitriol 24/7, the cult will change the channel and they will go under.","Oh dear, no I’m trying to get the extremist authoritarians out of power I find it interesting that some people think that advocating for standards and regulations that require truth in journalism is “extremist authoritarianism,” though. It must be so unbearably hard living life constantly being so oppressed by that extreme authoritarian, the truth.",0
"A few decades ago, I went to the Holocaust Museum in DC. At one point, you can go through or around one of the train cars used to transport Jews to the death camps. I went through and paused inside. I tried to imagine fitting as many people inside as the sign noted that the Nazis put in the car. I couldn't. Then, I realized that I was trying to fit people. Even with imaginary people, I was giving them basic human dignity. If I tried to fit human shaped luggage, I could easily fit that many people.","Sadly, the current Supreme Court would likely rule that no Founding Father ever wrote anything about puberty blockers so trans people don't have a right to exist.",0
"Thank you, I'm happy to collect downvotes from people that still think that the Wiki is still in any way remotely impartial with regards to any current and even remotely controversial topics.","The rest of your comment was a non sequitur about articles on Wikipedia, which has nothing to do Wikimedia Foundation's criticism of this bill in this article. The Wikimedia Foundation itself has no policy of remaining neutral outside of projects nor should it. That's an unreasonable standard no other organization is held to.",1
"It would not be whatsoever. What are they supposed to do with it? No one is going to buy it from them. RC isnt going to pay their demands. Taking hundreds of foreigners hostage would guarantee a foreign intervention, at least to wipe out the gang that did the hijacking to send a message to the rest of the island to not try their bullshit off the island.","If there are any amount of Americans captured, held hostage, or killed it could lead to a US military intervention, which is the absolute last thing some random gang profiting off anarchy would like.",1
That's pretty much how it has always worked. Except substitute EU for the U.S. You think the sanctions on Iran and Iraq were supposed to be fair or something? The global financial system is a tool of U.S. politics. Always has been (since WWII anyway).,"The Kremlin’s right about this, just not in the way they think. Zelensky’s already said the war ends when Ukraine recovers every inch of occupied territory, including Crimea, and Russia is made to pay reparations.",0
"""That’s a progressive agenda that some members of the Democratic consultant class often urge candidates to downplay in statewide races"".","So if moderates/centrists aren't the better choices for some races, explain only 4 new progressive Dems getting elected this cycle.",1
"That makes it even dumber, because people are still going to get angry about what sounds like damage to the paintings. So now they need an extra step to explain it was fake vandalism before they can even get around to explaining how real or fake vandalism of paintings is supposed to relate to climate change.","But why not attack something that is actually relevant to climate change instead of random art? It makes no sense. Go throw paint at a CEO, or destroy a factory, or block a pipeline. Art has zero to do with this and really makes no sense to destroy.",1
"I thought that Trump's lawyers (and the people he nominated as judges) were bad when they didn't even have a ""watched a couple episodes of Law & Order"" level of legal education.","But my favourite part was when the judge explained to Trump’s lawyers the difference between libel and slander, cause they didn’t get it right….",1
"""This pledge is an affirmation of your defense of democracy and the Constitution,"" Cicilline. ""It’s hard to take that claim seriously if in fact, an individual in any way supported an insurrection against the government."".","It’s all on her . Go to Career, then 2000 presidential election. None of this is a matter of contention. It’s just historical fact. And everybody just kinda forgot and moved on.",1
"When Russia says Nazi they are not engaging in doublespeak, where they accuse the enemy of doing exactly what they do, themselves. To them ""Nazi"" simply means ""western enemy of russia."" Russians don't care about torture or concentration camps, why would they? It's their preferred solution for political differences. Even russian mercenaries ride into battle with nazi symbology tattooed on them.","This is IMPORTANT because it is the SAME mental game that fox news and the new republican fascists play. Replace Nazi with Liberal, and the thought patterns are indistinguishable. To them there are only republicans and enemies of the state.",0
Reprisal by… whom? Russia? They dare no cut too much gas or petroleum. It’s their main income now I think. Russia won’t do anything to NATO and risk them fully joining the war. I agree with the rest though. You can’t simply jump in a fighter jet you’re not familiar with and expect to successfully fly it.,"As learned from past conflicts, the training required for an active and experienced combat pilot to go from one plane to another takes way less time than in peace-time settings.",1
- Russia wouldn’t have invaded if NATO would have kept their agreement of non expansion from the 1990’s.,"So, from Putin's perspective, Russia had no NATO countries at their doorstep, and had secured a deal to keep it that way. Now, he had Ukraine openly speaking about joining NATO and several US lawmakers publicly saying that the US would join them in an offensive against his country. Thus, I believe, Putin took the opportunity to make the first move before he had his own Cuban missile crisis.",0
"1000%. I absolutely despise trump, but people had a lot of fun mocking his weight. At the time that was popular, I weighed nearly 190 pounds. Those comments got to me.","I now weigh 130-ish, thanks to the blind luck of having had an unusually competent psychiatrist who was willing to admit their errors. Plenty of other people didn’t get as lucky with whatever the cause of their own weight problems (oftentimes, poverty is a major component…other times, metabolic disorder or severe psychological trauma).",0
"Na, not a Trump fan. Just don’t waste my life consumed over him either. Or Elon Musk for that matter.","Well, i will be happy with the excitement regardless of what happens. if by forcing the IRS to reveal the Covfefe Monster’s tax records ends with the left finally destroying him, or just turns out to be Trump playing them for fools yet again, epic salt will flow. It will be an auspicious event no matter how it plays out.",0
"Also, calling Montréal anglophones ""foreigners"" is weird as fuck dude. When they were the ones telling my parents to speak white.","Montreal's police, like pretty much every other important thing that actually impacts citizen, is of provincial jurisdiction. And as such are not subjected to Canada's federal bilinguisme law.",0
"I think both sides have passionate supporters....considering they email you when your ballot is accepted, and email you if it is not accepted, all involved have the same information and same opportunity.","Regardless of how you feel about her (I have an opinion, but I will keep them to myself for this post) you need to understand: Every registered voter is mailed a ballot in CO. It is very rare to vote in person (I had to do it once, because I moved counties right around voting time. I had to go to the county seat and get a judge to sign off).",0
"It's why I've got trouble saying Cheeto Hate-ler doesn't know anything. He's ""perfect""-ly good at doing bad things. And under oWn TeH LiBz rules, I guess you've always gotta be looking out for things that might trip up a future corrupt and/or evil Republican monarch.","Heard somewhere that some Republican'ts are grumbling about Democrats not helping them out. My thought is, sure...why not go out of the way to help out a louse like Qevin, who before this nonsense, already gave the worst 9.1% of his caucus a promise that they could totally launch sham investigations and hold show trials for any Democrat in government and any one that simply agrees with them? Let 'em humiliate themselves and cry that nobody bailed them out...which will no doubt wind up sounding a lot like, ""Democrats stopped 'the people's' business from being done!"".",0
Germany wants to make money while France keeps the old empires in check as best it can in Africa and the Middle East. I think that's a cowardly position for the Germans to take given their history. They don't get pity for being destroyed. They had to be destroyed and now they want to sit the hard decisions out.,Germany still had a gigantic wall splitting it down the middle \30 years ago that the Russians installed. Poland isn't the only one with a good reason to out spend everybody on defense.,0
Everybody wants fast and large change but it's not going to happen as long as the Republicans are in control of even one branch of government.,"We actually are getting fast large change but for the worst with republican controlled supreme court. The fact we have to spend two seconds listening to people like Mitch McConnell, MTG, Lauren Boebert, Josh Hawley, or anyone else of that caliber... It's a huge red flag.",1
"Did you miss the part where ""Anyone wishing to hold on to their weapon (must) seek to obtain a legal permit"" No gun rights in France, just a government granted privilege for the well connected.",>Anyone wishing to hold on to their weapon and join the ranks of France’s 5 million legal gun owners can do so if they seek to obtain a legal permit.,1
"There is a long list of Republican politicians who have been fostering hatred towards the LGBTQ+ community, for years before Boebert entered the scene, in fact the GOP has been working against gay and trans individuals theough both legislation (including failed attempts) and rhetoric so why is Boebert getting the bulk of the blame? Are we supposed to be distracted by the shiny bad woman apple? Like the GOP isn’t a party that priortizes the needs of straight white men?","Republicans are literally pushing women to death’s door through abortion bans, so while we bash Boebert, let’s try to keep in mind who is on control and who is setting the stage and dictating who is to be hated and who is to be approved. It isn’t crazy Boebert. She deserves to be dragged for her hateful comments, but the entire GOP needs to be turned into dust for it’s hateful agenda.",0
"This war is a test for greater future conflicts. It's giving us a sense of how impactful modern tactics and weapons are. If Ukraine can really keep Russia at bay for years, or hopefully push them out of Ukraine, then I'll eat my words on Russia's threat.","""I really, honestly wouldn't put it past them to start supporting Russia out of spite and blackmail"".",1
"Then again, Trump thought that Putin was a ""genius"" for invading Ukraine to make it ""independent"" ... even though he previously said Putin would not ""go into Ukraine"". Here's a reverse timeline;.","January 2022: Former President Donald Trump said Russia controls Germany because of its dependence on Russian gas and said the Russia-Ukraine crisis is a ""European problem."".",0
I think that if the police outside had just started firing into the crowd that could've gone poorly. (I also strongly disagree that would have been an appropriate response from the police.) That said I think that if they had shot every. single. person. that tried to climb past a broken door or window it would've backed off the crowd pretty quickly. (Also as soon as capital police had started shooting I am almost certain one or more other law enforcement groups would've shown up ASAP to support them) Even if the crowd had become enraged and surged only so many protestors could've entered the building at a time and those dead bodies would block those entry points slowing the crowd down further.,"If you look at the footage immediately after she was shot the crowd of insurrectionists in that particular part of the building kinda backed off; it makes me wonder if the Capitol Cops and other law enforcement had sufficient manpower and leadership, if that mob in other areas would’ve backed off if they were met with the correct amount of resistance from the Cops.",1
"I'm talking about the regular, every day citizens. They actively do think that way. When you oush them about the deaths of women or subsequent infertility or unreasonable hospital bills, it inevitably falls to ""It's God's will"" or ""they should've been more responsible with their body/money/health/""insert BS topic here"". I say this because I've seen it way too often across social media, where I live, and in my family/(former) friends. Politicians will specifically tout removing ALL acess to abortion and people eat it up - they may not be the actual majority in the country, but they're voting in enough numbers to be very dangerous otherwise politicians would NEVER get this far.",I don’t even like the fact that politicians can decide what entails a threat to the woman’s health considering all pregnancies carry a risk of death or permanent injury and doctors are now letting women suffer when the fetus is dying because they’re afraid to terminate because of these laws.,1
"This should come as no surprise to anybody. Even though they really should, companies don’t give a hoot about the environment unless it’s the one directly outside their corporate headquarters or the homes of the biggest executives and investors. Companies are in it for money at all costs; even the triple bottom line approach only really does lipservice for environmental causes. Buying carbon offsets is also a total joke since you need to maintain the protected area in perpetuity to make any difference, which often does not happen.","To achieve something similar, we could only allow sale of carbon offsets by companies conducting atmospheric carbon capture and storage.",1
"The Texas government has a basic idea of who is trans simply because many trans people change their gender on their drivers licenses etc. That on its own is not a problem. The fact that the AG is requesting that information, and especially that they’re trying to hide that they’re requesting it, is downright terrifying.",After Club Q the mainstream right-wing rhetoric has literally been that we’re all groomers. It’s not ok to kill trans people but it’s ok to kill child predators right? And since then the level of violence against trans people has skyrocketed. Drag shows have been canceled because of right wing militias showing up outside. Terrorists have cut power out for entire counties just to stop them from happening.,0
"As I understand it the problem was not publishing the information, the problem is Assange conspired with Manning. The conspiring with Manning is why Assange is in legal trouble.","The conspiring claim says that Assange directed Manning on how to hack/steal the documents, which he did not do. He acted as a journalist and published the information for the public. We may never know if the conspiring claims by the US government is legitimate because its simply a way for the Government to save face after having war crimes exposed. It did shut him up as he now fears for his life. After they attempted false charges out of Sweden to try and get Assange out of the Embassy, I don't know how I could ever believe anything the Government has to say about Assange. They lie more times than not. Why wouldn't they lie about something that incriminates them to try and shift the blame of the conversation?",1
"A lot of Trump's lies are gross exaggerations with grounding in reality, whereas Santos' are entirely made up.","Actually, looking at the list of accusations, all backed up by evidence against both persons, I wound have to say that Trump takes the prize for breadth of lies.",1
"Shockingly, I still consider myself somewhat Christian affiliated/agnostic ( still working on that ), despite all the pain I have suffered from this horrific religion. It is not brainwashing either, its because I choose Love, Happiness, and kindness. That is what Jesus is really about... right?",And you're right about Jesus. He wasn't just a hippie. Sermon on the Mount showed another side. But he was still accepting of everyone too. It seems like we'll be judged on what we decide to do with our free will.,1
"Afghanistan's social issues are not small, especially in villages, and even in the cities, but there is a massive gulf between the average village and the Taliban, and an ocean between Kabul now, and Kabul under the U.S. supported Afghan Government. The Government that the majority of Afghans supported, even if they thought it was corrupt, represented the Afghans far more than the Taliban.","A lot of people, including women, support the taliban government. Taliban isn't run by evil monsters, but by humans. And not just men, but also women. You may call it an atrocity, which i agree with, but for a lot of people it's simply law and order.",1
"Yeah, but the point is that they did not condemn the fact, that Stalin used the hunger to eradicate Ukrainian culture and nationalism, by selling most of the ukranian grain to the world market and forbidding anyone to leave the Ukranian Soviet Republic. There were several policies that targeted ethnical Ukranians, which resulted in them being much more affected by hunger death than ethnical Russians inside Ukraine. It was genocide.","The Holocaust was a genocide of Jews, but it was also a genocide of more groups than just them. The issue with your argument would be that the Holocaust for some reason wouldn't be a genocide.",1
"But it's now on Dems to hammer the everloving shit out of her in 2024, otherwise it sends a message that Independents can simply use the party as a Trojan horse for office and bail once they get that sweet corporate $$.","That's a piss-poor excuse since she's not an idiot and knows exactly how this type of legislation is passed. A clean bill wouldn't have gotten a vote and she knew that, any other statement is just a fig leaf to cover her ass.",0
didn't a few of his accountants already plead guilty to submitting fraudulent tax returns or something?,"The problem is that you cannot mislead investors or insurance companies about the value of your assets in relation to what you tell the IRS. If you tell the IRS its worth $10, and you tell your insurance company its worth $100, you have technically lied to both. whats worse, if you lied to banks or investors about those assets as well, you have done worse because you pissed of really rich people.",0
"It doesn't, I know people who could afford to pay rent but live at home to save money for a house instead so they can buy one quickly instead of paying rent and saving which will take longer.",If these people are also saving (which they should be when not paying rent) I wonder what this will do to house prices in a few years time when they come to try and buy a house?,1
4. Biden administration want to renew the Nuclear deal I don't think he's willing to send guns to Iran. Even if someone is willing to send guns in good luck trying to smuggle it in. Border security is heavy.,4. Biden administration want to renew the Nuclear deal I don't think he's willing to send guns to Iran. Even if someone is willing to send guns in good luck trying to smuggle it in. Border security is heavy.,0
"I could be wrong, but from what I read, the New York state courts stopped the rampant gerrymandering you saw allowed in Florida, Texas, Georgia and other Republican controlled states. Democrats are complete idiots, instead of doing what Republicans have done and changed state laws to help them take/retain power, they instead believe in having fair representation.","Well you see, when the main point of an election is to elect candidates to represent your state, you might start giving people a reason to blame specific states.",1
"In addition to that, no prominent Republicans in office have actually criticized him by name yet, which means they're all still afraid of him. He's still the presumptive GOP nominee for president in 2024. All that's changed in the last week is that that has become even more disgusting and pathetic for the rest of us. But no, the GOP truly has no bottom that their depravity will stop sinking at.","It won't truly be over for Trump at least until prominent Republicans in office start criticizing him by name. None of them are doing that, even now after all of this. If none of them are willing to do that, then there's no chance anyone unseats him as the nominee. Clearly everyone in the Republican party still is too afraid of Trump to criticize him, which indicates he's still the standard bearer for the GOP.",0
India is not at war with anyone and has urgent demographic problems. If you blame them for buying cheap oil it means you don't know anything about how the world works and I won't argue with you more.,As many of you have said in the comments it is unfair for the developed world to judge the developing world for buying and using cheap oil.,1
"I'm sure there is considerable pressure being put on Turkey in the background, from the USA and other NATO gov'ts.","Background: The US has begun to exert pressure on Turkey. As usual, the US has to save the Europeans a.../backside. Just like in sending arms to Ukraine.",1
"If a qualified neurosurgeon is unable to find a job BECAUSE of her gender, that is a problem. If there are just no positions and both men and women are facing the same problem, then it isn't sexism or wage gap, it is a different problem altogether.","However if an in depth analysis is performed and a gendered wage gap is found within equal work scenarios, then that should be eliminated. Gender should never be a factor for employment or wages.",0
"As reported, the U.S. Department of Defense announced a new package of security assistance to Ukraine, which provides for the allocation of funds for the modernization of HAWK surface-to-air missiles for their further transfer to Ukraine.","There is also a lot of war material in the US military that could be donated or sold to Ukraine, and there is industrial support that could help the Ukrainian people.",1
"Peruvian here, for those to understand the sheer stupidity of his coup, he did it without support of the armed forces, by not talking with key supporters, and in the middle of the day, while congress was in session.","The fujimori I was talking about is Alberto Fujimori, expresident of Peru from 1990 to 2000, who did a self coup in 1992 doing something similar as to what Castillo tried to do, but better and more organized.",0
Interception missed/lost track/whatever and the missile missed might have gotten hit by another interception rocket or it might have hit the target in Ukraine.,"There's a crater and missile debris, the blame has to head somewhere, and if the debris indicates Russian missile but the goal is to avoid escalation, they'd have to put it on Ukraine.",1
"When they put it to the party membership (the general public that pay a small fee to support the party) there will be debates and the party membership get to vote. There was an a disproportionate amount of coverage for this when Boris Johnson resigned. It was prime time TV and front page news coverage for weeks but less than 200,000 people, or 0.25% of the country, could vote.","Some parties have a one-member-one-vote system, they may also allow votes from certain affiliates like trade union members. The UK labour party does this. Each party has its own policies for how the leader is selected.",0
"As someone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas, i disagree with it being forced on anyone. I didn’t like my office asking me to put up Christmas stuff on my cubicle either. It has a secular meaning to a lot of people and that’s great, but it is still a holiday that not everyone celebrates, and since it’s associated with a particular religion, parents have the right to decide if their kid should dress as Santa.","If you’re a Christian family, sure, but my point is it’s totally legitimate to celebrate Christmas from a secular/non religious, even atheist stance.",1
>I guess I don’t understand how you can cut the state constitution out of the equation when it is giving the state legislature authority to exercise the legislative power.,"The point I'm trying to make (probably poorly), is that the Constitution likely assumes the existence of state legislatures because it also mandates that a representative form of government exists in the states.",1
"Conveniently God hates all the things they do, and though he imposes some restrictions on their life, he understands why it they had to have extramarital sex, or get an abortion. It wasn’t their fault, it was the devil preying on their weakness. Everyone else though? Rotten sinners.","God made sinners, too...and dung beetles. Ron DeSantis is a dung beetle made special by God. Add link to YouTube video showing what dung beetles are best at.",1
"""So he used his violent cult to do it"". Yeah, you're correct. I remember seeing his violent cult attacking cities across America. Burning down thousands of businesses after they looted them. Senselessly, blockading roads everywhere. They set up that thing in Seattle called CHOP. They attacked random people just walking down the street. My favorite was the May 29th attack on the White House. Yeah, his cult was out of control for about 3 months there in 2020.","How about we hold all people accountable for their actions, regardless of their political/tribal affiliation. Not holding people accountable, is part of the reason western culture is so divided right now.",0
"I’m NAL but my understanding from reading this and other articles is that the Texas Homestead exemption, which he claimed in his taxes, are explicitly for people currently claiming that address as their primary residence. At the same time registering to vote in GA, which he did, is explicitly for people claiming Georgia as their primary residence.","Who the fuck in Georgia failed to vet a candidate upon filing to run to make sure they are a legal resident of the state, as required by their state constitution?",1
"If/when the House is called for the GOP (in 3 fucking years at this rate), it's going to be the biggest wet fart of a victory for them hahaha.","If every race was called with the vote margins they have right now, Republicans would win the House, but with only 221 seats. Not only is that a far cry from the 240+ seats that were predicted, but a razor-thin lead of 3 seats wouldn't be hard to split on some votes.",1
"If you think ""regular"" Americans are getting richer, you're sadly mistaken. As far as how what the Government does....yeah I fought in Iraq. I got to see firsthand how this country destroyed a sovereign nation so the Rich could Rob those people of their resources. Trust not all us Americans are proud....even further, there are parts of American history that Republicans want to delete...basically the 50'-70's because of the civil injustice that was here. I still gotta worry about being shot just for my color by the very same people who are there to ""protect and serve"" (police).",Not all Americans are ignorant to the world. There is just nothing we can do. Literally the average American doesn't make enough to get into a political office to change anything. We are all new-age slaves. Owned by a credit score and Corporate America who basically buys congress through lobbying (paying congress to get their way)....,0
I'm merely pointing that above poster overstated things and that religion has and continues to do good as well as evil in the world.,"My core point, which I believe I may have strayed from (and I apologize for that), is that people have a great capability for good or evil and religion is simply a tool for either. To blame religion for evil in the world is like blaming cars for car accidents. Religion is a tool to explain the unknown, give purpose, and connect people. Unfortunately, that can be used in very negative ways too.",1
"There’s more at work here. I get that some sheriffs, including the sheriff of this county, refuse to enforce gun control laws. That said, the shooter was arrested and charged for threatening to blow up his mother with an improvised explosive device. That’s a bit more than breaking gun control laws.","As far as the sensible gun laws go, we're not there yet. In the end, constant blue voting to reverse the dobbs decision is what will get us the common sense gun laws that we want. We're about 8 years away. Hopefully less.",1
"China could blockade Taiwan to restrict certain imports/exports and hold Taiwan's economy hostage. If America doesn't intervene, Taiwan's government will have to either surrender or watch its economy crumble.","If America doesn't intervene, Taiwan's government will have to either surrender or watch its economy crumble.",1
Patriot missile system are defensive systems so Russia is upset if we shot down even ballistic missiles.,The Patriot missile system has a LONG history of defending against exactly the sort of attacks that Russia is using against cities and infrastructure in Ukraine. I doubt its being intended to do anything more than exactly that.,1
"Just gonna hijack how high up this is to mention Mossad used to employ Nazi Hunters. I still think the idea that there was an entire, albeit small, group of dedicated folks hunting former Nazis across the globe is so fucking interesting. That said the demand for the job has declined in the last 35 years for obvious reasons.",Actually some prominent Nazis were brought back to Israel and convicted. It’s not a huge number to brag about but they got a few high ranking officials. Other times they just killed them as far as i aware but i could definitely be wrong.,0
Lmao imagine the US on some moral high horse over one of the most peaceful countries in history. Even Russia can’t compete with all the terrible things the US has done in the world.,Saddam didn’t want to be an American puppet anymore and the US found that unacceptable. Zelensky doesn’t want to be a Russian puppet and Russia finds that unacceptable. The difference here is that the US could’ve just let that go as Iraq is far away in the Middle East and even if it wasn’t it’s not like saddam could do anything against the US. Ukraine is right next door to Russia and if Ukraine wanted to it could join NATO and build a NATO military base in Russia’s backyard.,0
"Exact India doesn’t really care. You can offer to give India the F-35 and they’ll take it and still support Russia. Their relationships with Russia data back to the Soviet Union. If India chose to be a friend of a literally regime of communist oppression, then I highly doubt they will break from Russia now.","What exactly has Germany done for India that warrants India throwing away eight years of close and warm buddy relations with Russia? France, which also has never had a close relations with India, is also asking India for the same favor. Germany or France is not exactly on that level of relations with India. Is it the lack of self-awareness or just the stereotypical European arrogance and habit of ordering other (brown and color) people to do this and do that?",1
"Your comment wasn’t really about people who couldn’t be arsed to vote (as opposed to not voting as an act of protest), so I wasn’t addressing that segment of voters.",Are you commenting to me because you would prefer that people who want to refrain from voting as an act of protest state their intention not to vote rather than submit a blank ballot? Are you opposed to compulsory voting for that reason?,0
For every Ukrainian he kills and tortures he leaves behind a family fanatically opposed to any sort of peaceful coexistence with Russia.,It doesn’t make any sense unless we conclude that Russians are themselves profoundly traumatized and that their ranks are consequently filled with sadists. I am beginning to think that the experiences of the past 100 years have left a savage and cruel mark upon the soul of those people.,1
"Americans have cast more ballots ahead of Election Day than they did during early voting before the last midterm election, continuing a trend of increasingly relying on early voting despite vocal objections from some Republicans.","For this cycle, nearly 20 million votes have been cast in 19 states that have voter registration by party identification, providing insight into who is voting early. In those states, 43 percent of the early votes so far have come from voters registered as Democrats, 34 percent from Republicans and 23 percent from those who are unaffiliated or belong to a third party.",0
"Heard the Russians had to stop using them because guess what? Those drones were designed and made to work in the high temps present in Iran, not the frigid winter temps of Ukraine.","Iran had drone operators in Russia. A missile strike hit a base, said to be where the saheed drones were being flown from.",1
"This rigged election bit? It's softening up the Right for a pitch for no elections. ""No democracy, no democrats."".","Oh, please happen. But honestly, they'll spin it as Democrats disenfranchising the county. ""See? We were right, it was rigged. When our votes meant xyz would win, they didn't even count us."".",0
"You think I’m joking, but I’m really not - east coast Canadians are next level nice/hospitable, the rest of us are just a pale imitation.","Also, I assume that this happened somewhere other than the Atlantic provinces, because those dangerous miscreants will straight up walk/drive you to your next destination if you show even the slightest sign of confusion.",0
I also think Team Biden learned the lesson from 2009...in hindsight; Obama's Stimulus was too small and painfully high unemployment lingered for years (but inflation stayed low so....yay?). Biden's team probably felt the inflation risks were worth it to quickly get the economy churning again.,"Then the inflation was already there when Biden got there. What are Republicans truly arguing here? It's okay when we do it, but Biden did it wrong because reasons?",1
Not so much really because Russia has nuclear weapons and Ukraine isn’t part of NATO or the EU yet. I hope Europe will look at Ukraines sacrifice and fast track them in. I also hope NATO will find some way to either make a mutual defense agreement with Ukraine or allow them in as a member once Russian troops are off their soil.,"And then there is the point, that Russia and Belrus still encycle Ukraine - while Ukraine isnt allowed to breach enemy borders, Russia can literally attack from any angle - if they ever get thier ""army"" combat ready.",1
"When I was 16, I was pretty much an idiot who thought he knew the whole thing, beginning to end, smartest kid in the room anywhere. That kid would have totally agree with this decision, and embraced it, and engaged in the whole process.","And then maybe for the third, I thought that a capable person would just choose where they wanted to go, and then work toward that, and it would work out. In other words, you find yourself in a certain place and wish to go to another place, then you proceed until you get there. Of course in practice there are all kinds of random twists and turns, and half the time you can't even remember where you intended to go in all the windy paths and curveballs life tends to throw at you. I thought it was all about deciding, then applying one's will. In reality we don't really have many actual decisions in life, and most of those we hardly know whether they are going to work out or not.",0
"If you're an island nation such as Australia, defense against an amphibious landing force is paramount.","What is the amphibious landing force going to do? Where would they land? How would they support themselves? Logistically it would be insane, no way would it be militarily viable for anyone to even bother.",1
It is a clean up because fifa took bribes from Qatar to put wc in Qatar. That's not the case whit U.s that's why it's good.,"They meet about 4 weeks per year and play together compare that to the club where they play like the rest of the year together whit the team, its just better quality when playing club fotball and you don't have to deal whit fifa.",0
"Ignoring the law for a Supreme court justice, or for political reasons, would be more egregious than the crime itself.","It sucks, but there's no way to punish Clarence Thomas or any other SCOTUS judge for not recusing themselves when they obviously should. Our system is built on the assumption that the people involved in the government all have scruples and morals and ethics, and it really isn't equipped to deal with it when they don't. Our whole democracy is basically a gentleman's agreement, but that's pretty worthless if people don't voluntarily play by the rules.",1
"I mean, if you know which party has the majority, why not participate in their elections to elect the speaker most likely to favor bipartisanship?","They won't do that, because the Democrat has more votes than either of the Republicans - if they amend the rules to plurality rather than majority, Jeffries gets it.",1
"Which leaves Pence and Cheney. Pence, the one who is very much pretty far right, but not MAGA and still respected the results of the 2020 election, and Cheney, who is more to the middle than Pence, and has been the most prominent opponent of Trump from the very beginning. My guess is Pence gets the nomination and Cheney accepts his offer to run as his VP. That's my official prediction for the 2024 Republican ticket. Pence/Cheney vs Biden/Harris. I think Biden/Harris win big because the MAGA crowd won't turn out to vote for that particular ticket.","If the GOP doesn’t figure out how to keep Nikki Haley, Pence, Tom Cotton and Younkin etc.. from running, Trump will be their nominee. And they will lose again.",1
"Yeah. In terms of being the nominee, I think this largely depends on how Trump’s base reacts to someone who isn’t Trump winning (I don’t see Trump handing off the torch, and a win by DeSantis without Trump’s acknowledgement could be a pyrrhic victory) and also how much of the suburban base DeSantis could lose if he has to out-ugly Trump in order to clench the primary.","I’m not sure DeSantis would be worse than Trump. More focused (in implementing his terrible policies), yes. More acceptable to moderates (at least those who don’t know his policies would be more draconian than Trump’s), yes. The biggest thing that made Trump effective, though, was the cult of personality he generated, and the fact that people gave him a pass for being openly terrible, because “that’s just how he is”. I don’t see DeSantis attaining the same cult status easily, and his appeal to moderates is a double edged sword, in that, he couldn’t get away with many of the scandals that Trump could. This goes doubly with conservatives possibly (we’ll see) souring on the strategy of being as openly socially far right after Trump.",0
"At least in the US the hardcore evangelical denominations have been the ones that have most openly embraced far-right ideology and mixing politics with religion, though, and the mainline denominations have been the ones adopting more pro-LGBT positions.","I am in full support of LGBTQ+ people, but for the church to support same sex unions seems like they’re admitting that their storybook may not be as relevant to dictating morality like they have previously claimed. They are blatantly going against what is in their scriptures, which is great, but let’s take it further and just scrap the whole thing.",1
"I get ya. I feel better about most libertarians because I can mostly talk policy (unless they are the extreme anarchist flavor of libertarianism). Most debates boil down my argument to “Government cannot solve all our problems, and nor should it, but there are many problems that only government can solve”. What problems that can be better solved by government is the subject of debate. Examples are regulating economies, providing education, military, etc.","it’s a moving target. Libertarianism has remained somewhat constant, but under Trump many of his actions were very “big government”. That being said, most Libertarians I know started off as Republicans, if that counts for anything.",0
"We are not talking metaphorically. This is not just harsh conditions in a poor country. We are talking about abducted children (as young as 11) taken from a country and made to work without pay, without safety equipment and without contact to anyone who speaks their language.","We simply failed to abolish slavery. For example, most chocolate (and by most I mean all the chocolate that is not coming from a fair trade circuit with a x2 price premium) is a product of slave labor. Occasionally child slave labors.",0
"But it's still very revealing that he gave that response, when asked about young people who want to change the country.",This MF saying if you’re aged 32 and under you have no right to try and change America. Coming from a guy who’s probably suffered multiple concussions this seems like logical thinking.,1
China doesn't have the transport capacity (yet) to move enough soldiers over to Taiwan to have the slightest chance of holding it. If they dropped everything and declared that they were building nothing but landing boats at all of their shipyards... it still would take more than 2 years to accomplish.,"In short, they lack the capacity to do so... RIGHT NOW. It is absolutely in their national inventory of ""Stuff we want to do"" it is just not something they can do RIGHT NOW.",0
And that ninety-five percent of all drugs and products that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials?,B) Not test them on animals but run the risk of having your product line suddenly pulled and then have to test them anyway.,1
"Yea, that's great, but individual defensive pacts will never be as potent as NATO, with all the countries involved. Additionaly, the agreement between Sweden and the US won't necessarily have the same requirements/agreements as NATO has. My understanding is that it's not a ""bilateral defensive pact"" a la article 5 ""if they attack you we'll join in"", but a ""defensive cooperation agreement"", which implies ""military aid"" of the ""we'll sell you weapons"" variety and security cooperation, rather than boots-on-the-ground ""military support"" a la NATO Article 5, which is where NATO's power comes from.","That's not really realistic. It sucks to give him anything, but he can literally unilaterally keep Sweden from joining. He'll more than likely be given major concessions to approve Sweden's accession, as Sweden joining would be a major boost to NATO and a further bulwark against Russia.",0
"The reality is, there is a lot of support for Ukraine in its battle against Russian troops inside of Ukraine.","Ukraines fight is also helping to protect the west from Russian aggression, and the other countries realise this. That’s part of the reason why Ukraine is receiving support.",0
isn't it net energy gain compared to the energy beams that hit the fuel pellet? DOE labs measure it that way and apparently the rest of the world doesn't? Which would be hugely misleading regarding break even point unless we are to just ignore all the missed energy inputs.,"is it though? At this institution, don't they measure the energy input by the amount absorbed by the fuel pellet? Which means all the missed energy beams just straight up don't count, according to this lab. apparently this is not the standard way to do this.",0
"God, the entitlement of smokers to litter is such a pet peeve of mine. When I worked at a gas station, the vast majority of litter I picked up that was blowing around was by far cigarette butts. It was absolutely insane how many you'd get on a daily basis. Sure you'd have a couple plastic bottles or McDonald's bags every now and then and the blown away receipt but the sheer numbers of cigarette butts was insane. Like 200+ a day in like 4000/5000 sq-ft of an area people aren't even supposed to smoke around.","In reality? The recycling company. There's tons of ""recycling"" that the companies collect and decide that it isn't economically viable to process so they ship it all right to the landfill anyway.",0
I wonder if they’re too dumb to ever arrive at the obvious conclusion: Trump was able to co-opt the GOP because the GOP has spent decades raising a voting base of suckers who will believe anything.,"It's not Trump's fault really, I mean he exposed the Republican platform but even if he's gone we have a lot of evidence of the Republican platform, Trump or not.",1
"Boy, he really is downplaying this shady shit. He needs to resign immediately. Too many Republicans like this guy have learned by watching Trump and other politicians that they can lie, cheat, and steal, and no one will do much about it.","Republicans proudly and by design act in bad faith at every turn in the name of power, dare Dems, Biden, or the DoJ to do something knowing that they won't or can't even if it's deserved.",1
Now it’s clear we agree: Russia is killing an ‘unprecedented amount’ of both Ukrainians and dolphins.,From the article: ‘… unprecedented reports of dead dolphins and porpoises washing up on Black Sea beaches since Russia invaded Ukraine.’.,0
"I work as a lawyer in a state government agency. My boss, who's been a lawyer for 23-25 years and has a special needs child, openly talks about his ""retirement"" being opening a niche private practice suing schools who fuck around with IEP's and 504 plans. Not because he would make significant amounts of money, but it would give him personal satisfaction.","She started out in the IT department. When the bank had been a very small community bank, they had outside IT consulting, and as they grew, they literally purchased the consulting firm wholesale as their in-house IT department.",0
"I was pretty skeptical; I said, ""Abdullah, this is level 3 English writing. You have to write me a page. Save the building for the freshman comp teacher who is going to make you write a research paper."".","Sort of. Our primary adversary has explicitly stated they intend to at least match our military by 2050. They are almost certainly spending more than what it seems on paper and they’re getting more for their money than we do, so on paper spending is misleading. They’ve been undergoing modernization for decades now.",1
When right after they passed a bunch of voter disenfranchisement policies and are now trying to figure out how to make themselves win (in the sneaky way).,"Yes that's your opinion, but in their opinions, that is the exact opposite result of their goals through gerrymandering and infringing upon voting rights.",1
"Maybe they did make a mistake in not accepting that, but accepting a 22 year old proposal and moving on is not an option that Palestinians today have.","Also Palestinians agreeing to two state solution and moving on with their lives in peace is not a ""surrender."".",1
Not to sound like defending a theocratic regime but isn't that essentially center mass so any police getting the idea to shoot protestors would end up hitting anything from head to groin area most often?,And I don't think it's reasonable to compare a one-off death at an American protest to the hundreds intentionally murdered by the Iranian police during these protests.,1
If biden DID maliciously take documents and hide more. Fuck him. Jail. But trump did something that as of now is FAR worse and shouldn’t get a pass because Biden did something that could be similar.,Now this doesn't address that Biden is obviously responding completely different than Trump and cooperating but it does undermine the idea that what Trump did is unusual.,1
"- Primaries are not good predictors of who is better at general elections (see 2016 where Bernie was actually pulling more support among Trump supporters than Hillary was). The landscape has already drastically-changed and we're realizing energizing the youth vote is more important than appealing to ""Moderates"" and republican votes we rarely get in the first place. This means we need high-energy, high-charisma, authentic visionaries. An old white guy who we all fall asleep for during speeches is not that. There's a reason Obama was requested more than Biden for speech stomps in the run-up to the election.","Personally I think we're better off running Biden, which gives the DNC 4 more years to prepare a 2028 candidate. Right now the only viable candidates I'm aware of are ones who lost pretty strongly to Biden in 2020, or who are not much younger.",1
(Over and above invading Ukraine and so making any country ever willingly giving up nuclear weapons again a sadly unlikely prospect).,"If NATO were to allow Ukraine to fall because of Russia's offensive nuclear threat, they they'd face the same choice at the border of, say Estonia, and not back down even in the face of a Russian offensive nuclear threat.",1
"Russia’s military has been very underwhelming so far, but the worst thing that we can do right now is dismiss it as a threat. If we do dismiss them as a threat, why should countries continue to give Ukraine aid if they managed so far? It is still a war and if Russia was so incompetent why is it not over already. The worst thing that you can do in war is not take your enemy seriously.",Worst case scenario if you overestimate your enemy and are wrong is a bunch of funny ha ha memes about them being a paper tiger.,0
"I can't imagine why we, the people of the United States, would feel that a Supreme Court that was disproportionately appointed by presidents that lost the popular vote, is illegitimate.","Bring it, you stooges of the right, nominated by presidents who couldn't even convince a majority of the electorate to get behind them. You are proving to be a vital and powerful overreaching force hellbent on pushing an unpopular religiously informed theocracy on a mad as hell Democratic and Independent majority who in a fucking midterm during a recession when the opposition controls both houses of Congress and the presidency voted on defiance of the party that should have been destroyed according to decades and decades of historical precedent.",1
"Just like I can’t lump all people who say they dislike all Russians equivalent with people that move goal posts in two comments, and vise versa.","So, you’re saying that several hundred thousand people that are either compelled to service or decided to make a living in the military, somehow represent all of more than 100 million Russians?",0
"It looks like she said she would go ""all the way to the supreme court."" Unsure if she meant State or Federal (or both?).",Yep. Any discussion of Trump's VP has to understand that the biggest priority is not doing the thing he hated Pence for: allowing the election to be certified.,1
"2- They will announce someone else as the candidate, which will divide voters and possibly lose a chunk of them, which will benefit AKP.",AKP’s district level candidates were more popular than their metropolitan candidate and got more votes. They were happy in district/county level but not happy about loosing the metropolitan municipality.,1
Yeah but I think that there are few countries especially from eastern Europe which are very serious with this idea so if Russian and Belarusian would still participate they would indeed boycott Olimpics. That would make olimpic committee looks like clowns and I really doubt that they would withstand this criticism from western media. It will be probably the same like it was with Mundial. In case of Poland I'm assure that public would be 100% for boycott. Especially that one of the most important moments in our sport history is when Kozakiewicz showed bras d'honneur to audience during Moscow Olimpics.,"Boycott of 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics had huge impact because 3 countries from top 5 of previous Olimpics (U.S.A., West Germany, Japan) didn't participate.",0
"I had long covid 1 and a half years after being hospitalised, then it went away but when i get too stressed it comes back a little only for a few hours but it is still there, sore chest muscles headache lack of energy . I am hoping once i have got a little exercise when i have good days which are way more often than bad days now i will be able to strenhen my system to eventually not suffer the odd day here and there, it sucks.",Just suffered two weeks of flu and i have not had flu before corvid more than once in 10 or so years so yes maybe my system is fucked up a bit but it is most definitely way better than what it was and is getting better all the time.,0
"The method I've always used is, ""Cool, if you're still here watching it when I get back I'll hook you up."".",That’s been a thing for a while. One of them assaulted my mom in the early 2000s because they didn’t feel she gave them enough money. The Italian police were very nice though.,1
"Yeah, the Policeman's union is a terrible thing, but not because of it being a union, but because of the laws and regulations (or rather lack of) that allows people to challenge police officers (in court) or file complaints/suits that actually matter.",Or just end qualified immunity already and let the problem work itself out once police departments can effectively be sued for unnecessary use of force.,1
"Ill also point out that I think more grid storage is needed regardless, its both useful for controlling the grid and if you want to reduce NG plants youll have to have it as otherwise its hard to replace how fast those can turn on.",A grid that would be 100% renewables would need batteries just like a 100% nuclear grid would (although in some countries they do load follow with nuclear but thats an expensive challenge and not efficient).,0
"They raise a good point, the parents are doing this because they believe (wrongly) that a vaccine will harm their child.","The issue is that they likely fully agree with you there, it's just their understanding of vaccines is so misinformed they see ""vaccinated blood"" as not meeting that criteria.",1
"They didn’t have some special communist characteristic in the beginning either that is now somehow gone. if you’re just claiming that they used to say they are, the rhetoric has not changed. they say the same shit now that they said back then, with some minor dengist amendments. Mao’s economic policies were not marxist ( that’s why it’s called Maoism ) and they’ve mostly been abandoned in favor of reforms.","Pol pot was a “Maoist” with his own (psychotic) methods, therefor that’s two steps removed from communism.",0
"Something similar happened to me as well. Bullies would do all sorts of things to me. I was told to ""use words"" and one teacher even had the nerve to tell me that she'd spoken to one of the bullies and he was ""going to apologize"" to me after school. She literally set me up for a beating, and I still got in trouble for fighting.","I got attacked from behind by another girl on 6th grade. I went to the principal once I got her off of me, and we both got suspended, though I didn’t do anything or even know why the girl attacked me. My mom made it a really fun vacation day.",1
"According to Grigoryan, this is the main reason for the crisis in Armenian-Russian relations that has been clearly expressed lately.","Russia is forcing Armenia to provide corridor to Azerbaijan, to join Union State, Security Council chief says.",0
"From where I’m sitting, a white Libertarian in Georgia (running against one of the most famous Dem senators of the bunch) dropping out of the race very plausibly could have avoided a runoff…by tipping things in Walker’s favor. And given the 2020 results, I have to think Republicans would have really liked to avoid a runoff at all costs.","That’s literally all “canceling” someone is. They say something people don’t like, people watch something else, they get less popular and get fewer job offers since literally their whole job is to be popular. That’s it, that’s “being canceled.”.",0
"""Something about the way he never stops crying and openly identifies as a Nazi has really struck a chord with the GOP rank and file."".","Right. Sure. But in general the training data of ChatGPT is - on average - a LOT smarter than what people get from News Corp. The bar is so low, any LLM that’s actually trained on large volumes of human intelligence - however imperfect - will mop the floor with the idiocy and intentional deception of Tucker Carlson and his ilk any day of the week.",1
"If I had to put money on who's rapid response nuclear deterrent deployment behaves as designed, it's not on Russia's. I would also bet it all on the fact that they don't get the opportunity to work out what went wrong with the missiles that don't detonate or hit their intended target.","It could in theory destroy the missile, but it's the wrong tool for that particular job. And even if it did knock the target out, that's a lot of kinetic energy still in the air.",1
"I'm in favor of serious campaign finance reform including public financing of campaigns, but very wary of having a single primary day across the nation.",Having all the primaries on one day effectually cedes the nomination to one of the biggest money candidates.,0
"I get that but that still doesn’t address my point. They authorize a bunch of junk, doesn’t mean it does anything productive. Anything that we don’t have money coming in from tax receipts needs to be borrowed. My point is the fiscal mismanagement of our government. I tossed out one example that will clearly get to $100 billion. How many other examples are there like this? What percentage of a dollar spent by the federal government actually does something productive for the citizens and what percentage is pure waste. There seems no accountability for where the money is allocated to and the utility of it. I’m curious how much waste there is. The military industrial complex is clearly a money generating machine for so many but that’s just one component, but a big one. Medicare, while very important isn’t financially well run and we certainly can’t have Medicare for all under our current broken healthcare system. That would only exacerbate a problem. The underlying healthcare system need to be fixed, screw the insurance companies, get the prices to something fair then work on a healthcare fix. I guess my pint is that I think the entire thing is broken. The politicians are all in on the joke, they don’t work together, they don’t do anything productive. They waste money and time bickering and keeping score of gotcha’s with each other. I think the only chance we have is get money out of politics, term limits (money and power corrupt and it’s clear self governance isn’t feasible for these folks) and have systems in place to fire them immediately for corruption, fraud, lying and misleading, like any other job in the US. The Rest of the World wonders how the US has suddenly become a corruption-raddled third world kleptocracy. While there has always been corruption it’s out of hand and not even remotely being disguised anymore.",I didn’t indicate that this was a democrat problem or a republican problem. Most of our elected officials resemble a corruption-raddled third world kleptocracy. They get into office making $175k a year and get very rich. The only thing it appears they are great at is enriching themselves and putting the country into debt to do it. How is this not a problem for every democrat and republican voter.,0
"Note the wonderful overlap between Russia supporters in the West, COVID deniers, anti-vaxxers, and QAnon types (spoiler: they are the same picture).","In short, Putin is trying to make the Holy War happen, and it ain't happening, because the postmodernist apathy of his regime's ideology makes people not care about that, just like they don't care about how much Putin steals.",0
"It was a “butt kicking” in that it didn’t follow the expected outcome, both from historical precedent and polling.","Speaking for myself, I’m most worried about Republicans taking the Senate, as that’d give them the same “stonewall every judge appointment until we have a Republican president” policy they had under Obama’s tenure. Regardless of how you feel about politics, vacant positions in government need to be filled. The job is more important than the person doing it.",0
"I think you're mostly right, but Manchin didn't single-handedly get elected as a Democrat in West Virginia. He inherited a history of strong Democratic party identification by conservative Democrats in the state. They have had a strong labor movement until recently, and families there have sometimes been Democrats for generations, notably since before the civil rights movement and subsequent party realignment. Then the world turned hyper-partisan even more than it already was, and he's left trying to hold on. Barely managed it last time, and almost certainly won't manage it again.","I think you're right: the atmosphere is probably too partisan for Manchin to win again. But there's no one else who can win as a Democrat in West Virginia either, so he might as well try if he's up for it.",0
"When India is invaded, will people remember India’s indifference to Ukraine being invaded? Perhaps; perhaps not.","And India profits off cheap Russian gas by “ backstabbing “ Ukrainians by not recognizing and denouncing the Russian imperialist invasion… deliberate targeting of civilians, torture , kidnapping, forced deportation and other war crimes.",0
"The IDF are doing the maximum they can to prevent hurting innocent people, but that’s exactly why it’s almost impossible when Hamas and Jihad use their own innocent people in such way.",LOL it’s so funny to see all the surprised people here. “Why would the Palestinians put their children at risk?” “That should be condemned”.,0
"If you think having the military step in to minimize the effect of a strike, therefore undercutting the collective bargaining power of the worker has nothing to do with breaking the strikes… I’ve got news for you.","In case any fucking idiots are reading this and thinking about angrily downvoting - he's talking about using the military to replace emergency services while they strike, not strike-busting at the end of a gun.",1
More alternative vehicles like E bikes and more fuel/energy efficient single occupant commuter vehicles.,"We need to repair existing roads, and allocate more money to reduce the usage of existing roads especially when it comes to single occupant commuting in cars and also commercial vehicles. We need:",0
"This is by no means siding with the creep, but out of curiosity I read the interview with Anderson Cooper. She isn't a hell of a lot better with words than Trump and suggested that some people like rape... it's sexy... By that she we alluding to role playing.","I watched the clip that someone posted above and her comments about some people thinking rape is sexy were cut off by the commercial break so she didn't get a chance to explain herself. I don't want to put words into her mouth, so hopefully clarifies at some point, but this is my take on what she was saying...",1
"Seriously! When banks give interest free loans (creating money from thin air) to the Rich so they can buy more stocks and a new Yacht It's ok, but It's bad if workers get some of that money.",It’s defo a ‘goody people will be desperate to work for less and our profits will go up because we don’t have to pay those pesky wages’ short term thinking and then long term people stop spending and lose their houses and bank loans don’t get paid and the economy tanks. But then disaster capitalists buy it all up cheap.,1
"But that doesn't have to be the case. You could have a woman be the bread winner and a man be the care taker, or an equal distribution of labor with both members sacrificing career progression in order to take care of the family. In such cases, I wouldn't say the man gained more by marriage.","A man couldn't run a farm without a wife and vice versa, simply because it wasn't a one person job.",1
"If it seems more intense with Biden, it’s only because it’s a mirror of how badly they have to compensate for Trump.","Trying to drag Biden down to that level is the most logical thing possible for them to do. Horrifying, amoral, and disgusting - yes. A sham? Yes, that too.",0
"When Ukrainians came out in protest to sham elections, they built barricades and threw Molotov cocktails until they won.","When Belarusians came out in protest to sham elections, they took their shoes off and stood on benches until they got manhandled and ran.",0
"At the end of the day we'll still have peaker plants for quite some time to smooth out the highs and lows but even they will become less of a necessity. There are ways to store excess power including pumped hydro and a number of different types of batteries, but also energy interconnects between regions and countries can help move power around as needed. Crucially, those highs and lows will often be at different times in different locations. While I'm at it I'll mention that nuclear is good too, though anyone acting like it's the real solution that should be used instead of renewables is just being silly.","Europe's ""green transition"" realistically consists of a bit of wind in the north, a bit of solar in the south, and a fuck ton of nuclear everywhere in between.",1
"100 years of war later, to include and second and even bigger world war, between all of the movies and video games depicting modern wars, MASSIVE leaps in technological and tactical advancements, here we are;.","If it were the US fighting Russia, it wouldn’t even look like war, it would look like the nations trading stars and millions of souls vaporizing in an instant.",0
"Those tweets don’t say anything about ITAR. They state Musk’s purported reason for holding back on Starlink deployment, which was fear of escalating the conflict.",I'd be guessing musk doesn't exactly want his satellites targeted by militaries either and taken out of commission..,1
Yes. Entirely anecdotal evidence that I catch very few colds when I keep my house cooler and more humid. But it works for me. I was also wondering why no mention of viruses and dry conditions too.,"I've read that viruses die 40+% faster in humidity of at least 50-55% than in dry air. It's actually written in the paperwork on my humidifier, which I initially bought to also help keep us safer from viruses. I don't understand why humidifier vouchers or something similar weren't ever even mentioned or suggested. It's really a no brainer.",1
"At the core, they fill during the cheapest hours and produce during peak hours. But they aren’t so useful to store for a different month. Although conventional hydro power can do that, if you aren’t concerned about a drought.","The usual method is hydro, with excess electricity you power up pumps to fill a reservoir; and when experiencing a shortage, let the water down and power the turbines.",1
"The have lots more people, and they have quite a bit more artillery shells, however they are already getting to the stage where they have fewer armoured vehicles, even Tanks. That's the reason for the massive ramp up of Russian casualties without any corresponding ramp on the Ukrainian side and that's the fact that Russia started sending conscripts without sufficient weapons to the front.","Vladamir Putin has figured out the west is supplying weapons (no shit shirlock), but really it's not the west fighting the war (except some of the volunteers), it's mainly Ukrainians. Russia is so fucked and so is the idea of bringing back the soviet union, it didn't work out that well for the 24 million dead from world war 2, that was a lack of support from the government sort of like what is happening right now to Russians being conscripted. Makes me think it's Russia's population control. .",1
I feel like we are prone to coalescing political support on compelling issues that are divisive and failing to make a difference on very important things which would benefit citizens on all sides of the electoral aisle.,So this is all a big setup because a lot of people have elections coming up and resisting the government is always more popular than being a filthy collabrator.,1
"They can't just shut down the whole facility for doing this, run a small batch of select unvaccinated people's blood (and it may be that they need a whole bunch of it), and then switch back. They process blood in bulk.",It would mean that other people potentially wouldn't have access to blood that would normally be made instead.,0
"I would like to say as someone that had a less pleasant experience getting my vasectomy a few months ago: your results may vary on pain and time. Mine was about 1.5 hours long and fairly painful even with lidocaine, so just know that it's absolutely worth it, but it's still a surgery and things can go wrong and pain can absolutely be a factor.","For what it's worth, I got a vasectomy a few weeks ago with general anesthetic, but it's still a way less invasive thing than tubal ligation or bisalp. Honestly, I had zero trouble getting home, spent the rest of the day with some cold peas on my nuts, and was pretty much a'ok. The next few days after that were mostly a matter of having some extra compression to keep things from moving, more cold as necessary, and taking it easy. Relatively little pain during the whole thing.",1
Your right. It’s absolute crazy how they committed fraud and stole peoples funds by transferring it to their personal slush fund for their hedge fund to trade with.,"There is hones crypto but there’s a massive amount of fraud commuted and enabled my the large funds. Btc has value as a scare, theft resistant, and inflation proof currency. Ethereum has a smart contract layer that functions as an effective way to have p2p coding. Arweave provides decentralized storage. There are real crypto currencies, it’s just 90-95% is either fraud or destined to fail because these large VC funds keep giving these well connected rich kids billions to monopolize the space, and it keeps failing.",1
"Trump will get the nomination if he is not in prison, and if he is free still, he will use this to play the victim again. Why you might ask, well the GOP desperately wants to win again and at the moment no one is stepping up. I think DeSantis will step back, he's clever enough to realise the pain of going against Trump's base at the moment.","2024 will be a sh\t storm, and I see the GOP winning both the house and senate if something is not done about the broken electoral system in the USA.",0
"I'm saying that it's not that there are fewer non-independent voters, I'm saying that there aren't enough descriptors for it to matter. It's bullshit because it's presuming that reality is what politics says it is. It's not.","Nah. Even though it’s a token gesture, they need him as the poster boy to show the new generation of the republican party that they are tolerant of that lifestyle. Very much like when people are called out for being a racist and their first response is ""but I have a black friend, so I can't be racist"".",1
"The single best way that Democrats can fix the huge Republican leanings of red states is to hold town halls, listen to their grievances, and talk about what can be done to address them.","Democrats try to offer realistic plans with solutions that will help most people, but it would require change and effort. Example : hey, coal mining town where the mine dried up or only employs like 5 people anymore, that's tough, and that prosperity isn't coming back on its own. Here's some potential things we can do, such as job retraining, community assistance, modernization, etc. No, it's not going to bring back the good old days, but we can help get on a road to better.",1
"That said, it very damn well could have been Russia shooting their own S-300s considering they were firing them off in Belgorod, Crimea, and Engels potentially at their own assets.","And Belarus even fired one of their rockets at the beggining of the war, not just letting Russia invade from their land.",1
"Thing is, nobody talks about ""heterosexuality"" being shoved in our faces when there's a hetero/cis character doing hetero/cis things that don't advance the plot. It might be pointed out as extraneous but it's never labeled as some kind of agenda being forced upon the viewer the way it is with an LGBTQ character.",It seems like they're setting the new movie up for failure with like 0 advertising and it looking shit so that they can blame it on the gay person lmao.,1
2. Solar PV now predicted to surpass the capacity provided by natural gas by 2026 and coal by 2027 making it the single largest power source we're using.,1. The International Energy Agency just revised its 2021 renewable energy prediction by about 30%. That's 30% more than growth they predicted just last year. We're adding more renewables between 2022-20227 than the last 20 years combined.,0
"Oh ye, who is oh so learned in the ways of Russian opposition and totally not a troll, who do you suggest _is_ a fine example of Russian opposition then?","Many Russians, powerful ones too dislike Putin, but disagreeing with his methods doesn't mean they disagree with his goals.",1
1. Civilian objects shall not be the object of attack or of reprisals. Civilian objects are all objects which are not military objectives as defined in paragraph 2.,"3. In case of doubt whether an object which is normally dedicated to civilian purposes, such as a place of worship, a house or other dwelling or a school, is being used to make an effective contribution to military action, it shall be presumed not to be so used.",0
The threat Russia imposes on Israel via Syria is the reason Israel is not supplying weapons to Ukraine.,"Israel providing weapons to ukraine would be a huge escalation of the war, which would make it a middle eastern one as well.",1
I believe a combination of everyone quarantined for too long and non vaccinated people are making this a very deadly spread.,"Is it your position that nations cannot take any prescriptive action to prevent the spread of infected persons from other countries? Again i would remind you that China has basically been locked down for the last 2 years, with severe limitations to personal freedoms themselves. This is not based on race, but rather a government's inability to contain a contagious outbreak in their own country and not wanting it to spread.",1
"If you want to sell anything to the EU, these tariffs will produce huge pressure to decarbonise the entire industrial chain.","We can only ensure that our industrial chains decarbonise as much as possible, and anyone who wants to sell into the EU will need to adopt that too.",0
"If this isn't a refund, but just a payment (like the Alaska Permanent Fund), it is taxed normally. Just because it came from a state doesn't change the fact that it is income. Once again, that income was never previously taxed.","IRS: yeah, we think we should tax all of these middle income earners twice though. That’s easier then figuring this out or actually going after tax avoidance.",1
Did they imported 10 thousands BMW M3? Or mere one? How this has anything to show about their buying capacities? That's not how to measure it.,"But that's the thing. Why not replace him with someone who will appease the West and guarantee their continued path of unimaginable wealth accumulation? If this happened in America, and the president took power and fucked up everyone's money and yacht situation, he'd be dead in a hot minute.",1
"I would say all this talk is ""gaslighting"" but its pointless here lmao. I know you didnt even touch on free speech btw. Good call lol.","Good. Do this more often. Leave 'em standing there like they have each other's dick in their hands. Spineless cowards. Like the lady said, they'd be on a plane to mar a lago to kiss trump's ring hand. Good for them.",1
Polling done shows that the majority of Palestinians want to use a 2 state solution to continue their war against Israel.,The majority of Palestinians want to use a 2 state solution to continue the war against Israel. Why would you be advocating to give the Palestinians a better military position to wipe out Israel?,0
"If democrats are so good at economics, why does the national debt always rise more under them than republicans? Look at bush, Obama, trump, and Biden. Democrats added trillions more to the debt than republicans since 2000.","The numbers do not support your claim that ""the national debt always rises more under democrats than republicans"". If you really care about national debt, that can't be tackled until you have administrations that bring down spending. Republicans haven't since Eisenhower.",1
It's been years. Either put him in prison or tell us he is immune to all crimes. I'm fucking tired of this.,We simply expect that two years after we have HARD evidence of a clear crime committed already available to the public that we would see something other than another meaningless special council.,0
"Heinrich XIII, 71, belongs to the House of Reuss, an ancient royal lineage that ruled parts of what is now Thuringia in central Germany for hundreds of years until 1918. It is now one of Germany’s 16 federal states.","So even before 1918, he would not have been Kaiser. That would be the Hohenzollern family, who came to rule Brandenburg, became kings of Prussia and then Kaisers of Germany - from Wilhelm 1 (1871) to Wilhelm II (abdicated in 1918). There are living descendants of the family too.",0
"Oh wait nicotine itself isn't getting banned? Huh. Well in that case yeah, there's probably not much of a market for import if normal cigarettes are just replaced by vapes.","If someone really want a cigarette, there will be a tobacco flavored vape that looks and feels like smoking a real cigarette.",1
"The concept of Greek nationhood was a very real idea when the Elgin Marbles were taken, hell there were several active revolts trying for independence decades beforehand in the 1700s. Acting like the Greek nation-state is centuries off and not something that was actively being pursued by the majority of Greeks when the Marbles were taken is disingenuous.","To add some context. The British legally acquired them by buying them from the Ottoman Government when they were occupying Greece. The Greeks say that that legal claim is baseless because they themselves weren't the ones who transfered them, it was an occupying force essentially trading away their heritage for cash. To the British it's completely legal because they have a bill of sale, to the Greeks its the equivalent of someone holding on to the Eiffel tower because they legally bought it from the nazis in 1942.",0
They can just take their oaths as prescribed by law and can still pass legislation. The rules of a previous Congress cannot bind this Congress. This Congress is bound only by the Constitution and the rules it sets for itself.,"Those rules have yet to be adopted. The only thing that constrains the house at the moment is the constitution, and it gives each session of house and Senate broad authority to order itself however it would like.",1
"God forbid you try and not alienate your coworkers with an, ""are you sure?"" or ""i dont think that's right..."" because it makes them feel like they are helping you by ""exposing what's really going on"" for you.","In the south, conservatives assume my whiteness means I'm just as racist, sexist and generally hateful as they are unless I explicitly disavow their beliefs.",0
So I really don't know how militias is any good for democratic process they are literally the main obstacle to Libya stability and Peaceful transfer of power.,Anyway I was clear with you that this militias isn't anything better than Wagner they even could be more dangerous after the war end also i was clear about the fact that's there is no pro-democracy in libya.,0
"So although I roll my eyes when Russia says ""but NATO!"", I roll my eyes because they have nukes, not because they're making a false assertion about NATO being dangerous to their security.","Individual members, hell every single member, forming their own new coalition for the purpose? Yes, hell yes. But NATO only showed that it will offensively engage nations when it wills.",0
"China has quite literally wants the rejuvenation of the Chinese state and seeks to expand its military capabilities, global influence, and nuclear arsenal. It has developed its capabilities in aerial and maritime denial, and has created a ballistic missile arsenal that intends to challenge the United States’ presence at sea and conduct offensive strike capabilities. This China is in no interest of diplomacy and seeks unification - whether it be coercion or worse by force.",A “good relationship” with China is bowing down and doing what it asks you lest you incur its wrath and tantrum.,1
"Had Hitler wait 10-20 years with starting WWII, then most of them would properly had lost their jobs or been killed for not being loyal enough and the army would have been much worse than it was in 1939. Because autocracies destroyes the good institutions they inheriates from democracies.","It's a byproduct of authoritarianism. Because of the fear-based command structure and power resting with particular people rather than institutions, ass-kissing and lying ensues. It results in a toxic command culture where no one cooperates, sometimes withholding information or resources because they want to undermine a rival. It is detrimental to the group as a whole.",1
"no clue, it is so odd. as soon as they stopped the zero covered policy. everything went to hell, outside of forcing people to quarantine, people still distance themselves and wear masks so not sure something else is going on.","My family in China almost all got infected, they all think it's COVID and have COVID like symptoms probably a new strain and their vaccines are not effective, it's all fucked up.",0
"Yeah, I mean, in fairness to German leaders, this truly has completely fucked Russia's economy. They miscalculated how much the state of Russia's economy would matter to Putin.","And also in fairness to Germany, the Russian leader they were negotiating with probably did not realize himself how badly this war would fuck Russia's economy either. Putin seemed to truly believe he would sweep over Ukraine with only short-term economic consequences. It's obvious at this point that he never thought his army would be getting bogged down in an attritional war of annihilation and that Russia would be dealing with epic, unprecedented Western sanctions for an entire year straight at the same time. If he'd known this would be the outcome, he probably wouldn't have invaded.",0
"If the job was THAT horrible people wouldn’t sign up to do it, but alas “working” only half the year is pretty appealing until you see the paycheck?","Frankly, saying that we should pay them shit because they aren't doing a good job is a feedback loop of idiocy perpetrated by the idiots who would suggest such a thing.",1
"No, we don't need progressives to be handed anything. They need to take their place else they have little prospect of keeping it.","The way forward is doing good for America and the party. Win elections, help constituents, be good at governing, be an asset to the shiftable Democrats and form positive alliances that marginalize the non shiftable through quiet irrelevance, not through rancor and in-fighting.",0
It would have to be pakistan/india border conflicts. More skirmishes between China and India won't help their already strained relationship. It's also a big 'if' that the west wouldn't help if it was china initiating the skirmishes.,"As much as I don't think China is right, sometimes the rationale of US involvement is beyond me (at least I'd put it that way).",1
"All that said, it would make sense to give the Ukrainians that capability since it's clearly something they need since the Russian surface fleet is no longer a threat.","Anyway, the scenario in which this protects Ukraine is when Russia fires missiles near the border, so that Poland can claim that they were protecting their own airspace.",1
Love all the people blindly defending his words instead of admitting that every time Biden speaks he “misspeaks” or doesn’t make any sense. He’s fucking old and SHOULD NOT be president. Words matter. You can’t say “we’re gonna free Iran.” You don’t have to defend him just because he’s democrat.,"Biden, America or anyone else doesn’t have to “free Iran” … they just have to stop lining the pockets of these Ass holes. They just have to condemn them for their atrocities. Otherwise the blood of innocent kids will continue to run in Iranian streets and the thugs will continue to squash the resistance as they have many times before in the past 43 years.",1
"The West has $600B in frozen assets owned by sanctioned Russians that it can seize, sell off and pay Ukraine.","Their best strategy seems to be (I have no idea, I'm no general) to hang in there and destroy Russian assets as they enter Ukraine.",1
"The only thing you listed that actually has health benefits is chicken and only white meat chicken is healthy for human consumption and only if it is grilled and trimmed. I mean 50 years of medical research has shown what is healthy and unhealthy. Seems like the people trying to pass this law are the only ones that care about what is being consumed, not just providing something for consumption. Just because you do not like the GOP doesn’t mean Mac and cheese and fried chicken are now healthy options to fish and veggies.","If you read the article and compare to what nutritionist say is a healthy diet, the foods cut all cause heart disease and inflammation. The foods left are all heart healthy and help maintain healthy weight. White bread is terrible for you. Whole grain is better and covered. The bill does not restrict “fresh meat”. It restricts the types of meats and allows for healthy meats such as salmon. If you remove the political parties from the article, it actually only allows healthy foods to be purchase which also helps with medical cost in the long run. Why is this bad? The poor are the most unhealthy in America. Restricting the use of food stamps to only healthy foods is a good thing.",0
"This sucks. Drag shows are nothing but love, courage, and self acceptance. And then you have these hateful bigots who, for some reason, can’t stand that.","Their refusal to accept the fact that years of rhetoric declaring that LGBTQ+ people, Mexicans, Muslims, etc. are threatening to take their country away has radicalized a very dangerous segment of the population is terrifying. They have no real policy for the country so they invent enemies to unite their base against. It was Russia and the Cold War from the 60's until the fall of the Soviet Union, then Iraq, then the War On Terror, then Afghanistan. Now that we're not really involved in an international conflict they've targeted marginalized US citizens.",1
"> According to General Viktor Nazarov, an advisor to the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, the HIMARS multiple missile launcher system has replaced the Turkish drones to some extent. ""The Bayraktars are now focused on other tasks, mainly reconnaissance. They were very helpful in sinking the Russian missile cruiser Moskva."".","Oh, that could be it. Probably wanted to show the world how big and fearsome their new rocket is, and how it could reach every part of the world in 2 seconds flat.",1
"The UK only very very rarely sentences what is called a ""Whole Life Tariff"" and it is only offered in the event that the Prosecution asks for it to be submitted due to the nature of the acts committed being so extraordinarily criminal that current sentencing regulations would not be able to cover the crime committed. In this case the Prosecution did not feel that the case met this criteria, however the Judge did note she personally disagreed.","It's a big problem in the Met Police, hence why we're going to be hearing a lot of stories like this (though hopefully not as extreme) pop up in the coming years as a deep scrub is currently being conducted by the new Met Police Commissioner.",0
"Well yes, but no. It's been autonomous since 1924 within whatever country it was a part of. It was originally part of the Ukrainian SSR, then the Moldovan SSR, then the Nazi Romanians took it, and then it went back to Moldova. But they always had some form of autonomous government.",When the Soviet Union broke up there was this massive power grab across the former empire. In Moldova it got incredibly bloody between the Transnistrians who wanted to join Ukraine to side with Russia and the Moldovans who wanted to join Romania. The region was created as a middle ground to allow them to join the Ukrainians (probably now Russians) if Romania and Moldova sought reunification.,0
"Yes, there are probably large swathes of the Russian population who oppose the war and would like to do something about it. That doesn't matter, because that's not how politics and international relations work. The country of russia, as an entity, is the one that enacted this war and the country of russia, as an entity, is what is being punished - by being sanctioned, by being cut out of the peaceful competitions the rest of the world enjoys, and by being righfully criticised by anyone with some common sense.","Well, that's assuming Russia doesn't do what it always does and puts Russian nationals competing as ""individuals"" in all the trappings of their country, rendering the gesture useless.",1
$14.73/hr isn't a whole lot of money without healthcare or paid sick days for an intensely physical job that lasts a few months and requires extensive travel on your own dime.,"The unwritten agreement for many years was the farmers could hire undocumented workers who would move from farm to farm as needed for the season. At the end of the season, these workers could be suddenly caught and transported back to Mexico on the government tab, where they could spend the rest of the year with family back home. The farmer could then complain about ""illegals taking American jobs"" and vote republican as a way of virtue signaling.",0
"Also, to be fair, a perhaps even better question that should be asked is, ""why did the Republicans do it in the first place?"".","Yep. Conservatives break rules and act violently, then get the slightest and most gentle reprimands and then scream that they are being targeted for ""being conservative."".",1
"Okay but shouldn't we be doing better than that? ""But Donald Trump blah blah blah"" is not a good response.",He didn’t need to win Georgia to win the presidency though. And why would she have deserved the VP nomination for something that didn’t happen until after that?,0
"Imagine a state passed a law that prohibited criticizing the state online. A free speech proponent might sue and argue that this law is a violation of the 1st Amendment. If the law is allowed to stand while the case is argued, then numerous peoples 1st Amendment rights may be severely curtailed or infringed during the months it takes for the case to go through the court system. Thus, the judge will stay the law pending the outcome of the trial, basically say that the law is on the books but it cannot be enforced until/unless the court determines that it is acceptable.","It is, unless a court puts an injunction in place halting its enforcement pending the resolution of the court case, which in this case happened before the law was due to take affect. This is fairly common practice.",1
"The NSA is up to similar right now, they will intercept computer equipment destined for somone or a country of interest add modified firmware to hard drives, base band radios, parts that end-users don't have easy access to, and therefore cannot easily detect modification, that facilitates covert spying.","These could be secretly designed for espionage from the outset, with spying code hidden in firmware, but I think it's more likely that they could be hacked by a Chinese government agency if needed, with cooperation with the companies themselves or quietly with help from an individual within a company.",0
"I’m not American, but don’t states have executive branches and that’s basically the governors office? And they also have the same executive, legislative and judicial powers as the federal government? Wouldn’t “Governor executive privilege,” just mean he would have the ability to seek honest advice and shield it from the legislative and judicial branches of the state government?","Just to play Devil's Advocate a moment, as mentioned in the article some states do apparently recognize executive privilege for their governors. I'm highly skeptical Florida should be one of them but governors do sometimes have similar executive privilege to the President depending on their state constitution and how the courts have ruled.",1
People will use the excuse that they don't and they get a peanut butter or similar sandwich if they don't have the money. Its a joke.,"They already have to make enough meals for the kids, just give them the food everyone else is getting.",0
"Much of the... surprise... of the early days of the war was that Ukraine had actually prepared very effectively for the invasion, without telling anyone, including their western allies about it.",How is Russia afraid of NATO if at the beginning of their invasion they moved their troops near their border with NATO to aid in their invasion of Ukraine? Russia was never afraid of NATO because Russia knew NATO was never invading. NATO wouldn’t even be relevant anymore if it weren’t for Russia constantly bullying all of its neighbors.,1
"Your entire comment is wrong. I'm not trying to be an ass, but no, Hogan did not toe the Republican party line, and no, Hogan didn't roll over for everything our general assembly passed.",When Maryland Republicans nominated an election denier to take Hogan's place Hogan was very quick to come out and decry him as a nut job.,0
Afaik idk I can't force them to vote tho. We do get paid but only like 100 and employers don't pay you. I'm down for more jury duty but I've never been anyways so fuck it. This is my first time voting at all.,"Ive heard it from like 5 people each I could potentially wiggle to the Demacrats, they are politically inept small town people who just want cheap gas. I tell em all the time about how they are lied to by the media and that the only way to fix it is to vote dem and then we gotta get all the career politicians and geriatrics.",0
"There is no way Ukraine has taken almost as many casualties as Russia, and hasn't collapsed.Military dead and wounded, 65, 70K max. and thats highballing.","claims of 100,000+ Ukrainian military casualties is approaching Russian claims, which everyone knows are fucking ridiculous.",0
At what point would you have tried to flee? Or would you (knowing you were innocent of any wrongdoing) have just lay there while 5 police officers brutalize you?,6:Mandatory minimums for cops who are convicted of crimes that are harsher than sentences for citizens.,1
"If trump is even allowed to run for a second campaign than it immediately becomes a referendum on wether America wants a fascist state or not. No question about it that point, that’s what we’d be voting for…and when you make it that basic I’m just not sure how much faith I have that we do the right thing. I’d say the 2024 election (if it involves trump) would be akin to the 1860 and 64’ elections. Those were referendums on slavery and the continuation of the civil war and essentially one issue focused. I’d rather avoid the whole dinner than have to sit at this table.","Not disagreeing. The difference is in that one has openly taken off their mask by attempting a coup/overturning election. I don’t doubt that desantis wouldn’t be bad, but he can still say he hasn’t pushed the full button openly. If that makes sense ?!?",0
The problem with it in blue states is that the courts tend to be less friendly to gerrymandering and more willing to strike down the most extreme electoral maps.,"For a state that is split pretty evenly, the gerrymandering has skewed the state to ridiculous levels.",1
What I've been reading is that Putin needs an out where he saves face. Giving up territory etc will destroy him with his own people because of the people lost in the effort to erase Ukraine from the face of the earth.,"If we push Ukraine to negotiate, where will Russia strike next? What territory of another country will we allow Russia to seize?",0
"Yeah I have no doubt Japan even without an ally fighting alongside them would stomp Russia, considering how bad they're doing in Ukraine...where they have land links and even hold territory since 2014, it's absolutely ridiculous how atrocious their logistics are.","And based upon Russian ability to wage war in Ukraine...which they had a land border with (easier to invade), shared a language (easier to move within the country), and didn't have defense treaties with the most powerful player in the world....yea.",1
"After they saw the reaction to the ""leak,"" I suspect the Justices were more inclined to modify the opinion.","The SC could have -- if they were inclined -- changed the leaked opinion between the leak and official announcement. For all we know, Roberts -- or some well meaning clerk -- released the opinion early in hopes it would change things. It didn't, not because negotiations were crippled but because the Justices are hardliners on abortion. At least the SC didn't go out of its way to help trump's election woes.",0
"Do you have anything more recent? This is from 2015, well before the full scale invasion of Ukraine. Almost all of the nays in congress of aid to Ukraine the last few years have been from the GOP.",There is a similar partisan divide over what to do about the situation in Ukraine. Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to support military assistance. Six-in-ten Republicans voice support for NATO sending arms to the Ukrainian government compared with 39% of Democrats.,1
"I mean India and China are actual regional competitors, have gone to war in the past, have had multiple border spats sometimes deadly in the last couple years and both countries have developed or are developing vehicles to fight in high terrain so both countries at least do see a conflict as possible.",And can’t forget that the same Russian ideology that called for the invasion of Ukraine and other countries also calls for the break up of China.,0
"In the end, it’s embarrassing for McCarthy, who will most likely need to pack his bags and move out of the speakers office. It is also a sign of how Republicans will govern in the House.","But from the majority of the house, aka a subset of democrats and and republicans, he could be a 218 vote getter.",1
"So you cannot legitimately state that Israel didn't steal land. They did, and still do to an extent.","Yeah, and there isn't exactly any clamor from most people about the land of Israeli proper. Israel was bound by no agreements at the time so what made up Isfael i 1948 is Israel. People do have a problem with the land occupied/annexed in 1967. Israel had signed and ratified the UN charter and Geneva convention, the former which forbids annexation of land through war and the latter which forbids civilian placement on occupied land. Both of which Israel is currently violating and from which stem most of the international condemnation of Israels actions.",0
"If Biden swears he has no more classified documents at his home(s), signs an affidavit saying as much, and then someone notices a classified document in his home(s), then yes, he should absolutely have a routine search warrant executed, same as Trump did (enough with this pussy-ass 'raid' bullshit).","People that I work with who parrot the right-wing talking heads are already saying that what Biden did was illegal because he was only a VP at the time, and what trump did was perfectly fine because he was president and could declassify anything he wanted to.",1
"I would think it’s in the GOPs best interest to get him convicted, jailed, and out of the way ASAP so they can focus on someone new.","I would say jail, I would like to believe where he goes the people who helped him would go as well leaving the GOP to reinvent themselves and gain some sanity.",1
Godspeed if they ever have to use their guns against an actual target if a near stationary balloon is too hard for them to line up.,"Also, you don't need off bore axis and variable thrust to hit a balloon, that's for shooting down migs.",1
"There's no roadmap for dissolving the monarchy because obviously there isn't. If/when the monarchy is finally gotten rid of, it's not going to be the royal family that makes the decisions.","Well we're talking about what would happen _if_ the monarchy was dissolved, so suggesting that would never happen is at best completely irrelevant.",0
"I don't think so. It was the doctor who reported that a lonime personal bodyguard for Trump, along with a top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, conducted a ""raid"" on his office on Feb. 3, 2017, in which they seized the president's medical records. This was days after the NYT published a story that the president takes a prostate-related drug to treat baldness, known as Propecia, as well as other ""antibiotics to control rosacea, a common skin problem, and a statin for elevated blood cholesterol and lipids."".",Oh yeah. I remember. The right wing website Judicial Watch kept a running tab of all of Obamas travel expenses while President. They said he was accountable to the taxpayers for that and highlighted all of the expenses for Obamas personal travel (Ex: visiting Hawaii with family).,1
The states that go early have a more influence on the nominee than the states that have a primary in July or August. The media will start spinning up narratives about the horse race in anticipation of Iowa and doesn't stop until we get a presumptive nominee.,The real problem is that Iowa and New Hampshire are not as diverse as other states. That matters to democrats more than republicans.,0
Gas burners are far more responsive to adjustments can quickly heat up or cool down. You can char food right there on the exposed flame. You can light it if the power is out. There's a reason if you go in pretty much any professional kitchen you will not find electric stoves. If they were just flat out better wouldn't chefs prefer them?,No but some cities have been trying to ban gas stoves for new housing developments. Franky I think its pretty ridiculous and I think people should be able to buy whatever appliances they want for their house.,0
So even if the counterstrike is after an enemy attack (as the name itself says) it would still be BEFORE an enemy launch.,"Otherwise it would be a first strike or preemptive strike, which by definition is different to a counterstrike, and what Japan wants is counterstrike capability.",0
"What do you think is more unnerving to Putin and the Kremlin, NATO and their allies giving Ukraine long range weapons or Ukraine developing their own? Ones that no one knew they had the ability to make or use prior to the war?",The reason they hadn't spun up production yet was that the Zelenskyy admin knew they had moles and double agents in their midst and didn't want them to tip Russia. They only started production after those agents were purged.,0
"In ancient times maybe but the modern definition of Arab is any group who use Arabic as their main language. Which explains why you have Arabs in Sudan, in Morocco, in Libya, in Egypt. Not all those peoples descend from Arabian (ethnic) tribes.","Absolutely untrue. They are Arab speaking (as their main language) which by definition makes them Arabs. They do not identify as Muslims, which is maybe what you intended to say?",0
"A implies that they no longer are as skillful, B implies they are still top notch today. and yes, in your initial comment you referred to studies from today, not from beteen \50 to 16 years ago.",you misread the article thinking it claimed that the exxon studies were more accurate than today's studies. this is simply not what the article or study claim. how is this hard to understand?,0
It's a matter of who blinks first... Ukraine's manpower or Russias economy/will of the people to keep following Putin. Let's hope Putin blinks first.,"There are reports of some dissention in Russia. whether it is true and how widespread it are the big questions right now. If it is true, however, I think Ukraine's main hope lies in being able to hold out long enough to let those seeds sprout and hope for an upheaval from within Russia itself. In doing so though... They will likely lose many more soldiers, no matter how good the equipment is that they are given.",0
"Meta decided not to ask people's permission, and just put a rule in their terms of service saying that you have to accept these ads - you don't like it, you can't use Facebook.","The decision does not specify how the company must comply with the ruling, but it could result in Meta allowing users to choose whether they want their data used for such targeted promotions.",1
If the financial disincentive to have kids wasn’t there at all I think you might see a bit of a bump in fertility.,"Ya I agree but with the way everything is, people that may want kids won't because it will never be a financially sound idea.",1
"Hopefully, this becomes a thing in California. I see so many job postings without salaries, and the ones without any listing always have the shittiest offers and insane requirements for candidates.",If they’re hiring three different positions with three different skill or experience requirements and three different salary ranges then they should just fucking put up three different job postings.,1
Has she been recalled? Is she out of a job and out of the party? No. She has not been cancelled. Someone made an official statement claiming that they don't agree with her decision. That is quite literally all that happened. Nothing more. Cancelled = you no longer work in this industry.,"If you need an example of what being cancelled actually looks like, check out Kevin Spacey. One allegation and he was fired from his own show. That's being cancelled.",0
"I do. Not in my house, in my car, or around anyone not smoking, though. I mean, I have the right to smoke, and everyone else has the right to not breath my nasty smoke.",what about the stuff and 2nd hand smoke. what if staff is pregnant wont they be forcing the baby to also smoke.,1
Time and time again the allegations have been disproven and rejected. Proof doesn’t exist. Never did.,Never. Ever. Vote. Red. Look at how they've done absolutely nothing to combat her language. She represents her party on a national level and they do not care about her saying things like this.,1
But it does serve to underscore the original point: if the USA entered the Ukraine war for real it would flatten Russia's military precisely due to these alliances and logistics.,If the west supplying equipment and machinery to Ukraine is direct involvement resulting in Russia fighting NATO.,1
"When you say you are a supporter of socialism, that means you support a system where most goods are public.",i never understood why so many american Think that socialisme is bad... How could something who has for goal to mprove Social right is a bad thing ? Just sound very self centered.,1
"Food City usually has good deals on name brand soda, I think it's to draw people in to buy all their other over priced crap. I usually just go in and buy up the buy x number of sodas for a cheap price and leave.","Start buying more generic brands, I know generics are still high but not near as high as name brands anymore. It's the only way prices will ever come down, they won't drop them unless it's to compete with someone else due to sales dropping.",0
"It's very entertaining to read this. It's constantly self-referencing, or talking about breaking records from earlier in the same World Cup. Like more people watching France's second game than their first, record broken, woohoo!","Idk, i have seen the least enthusiasm for this world cup ever. And because of winter, everyone is at work when there are games, so meh. But I guess europe isn’t really fifas audience anymore.",1
Yup. I don't want the AGs taking politics into this but man it would be terrible if he gets arrested before the court election.,This will make way for Trump 2.0 who will get all the sympathy of the disgruntled fan base as he promises to release Trump and the support of the independents and Republican who only voted Biden to keep Trump out.,0
It seems like they're setting the new movie up for failure with like 0 advertising and it looking shit so that they can blame it on the gay person lmao.,"The only thing i can think of is not saying that it WAS a political statement to leave gays and other races OUT of disney movies for decades. But they are making strides to right that and include everybody, just like real life.",1
"They were supposed to put sick leave in the first bill, send it to the Republicans and say: ""pass the compromise, or tank the economy""...","How many Dems voted to break the strike, knowing that they didn't have the votes for paid sick leave? Nah, fuck them for doing this Pontius Pilate hand washing bullshit, the whole government is anti-labor.",1
"The Palestinian Authority promotes apartheid beliefs by making women second class citizens (same as Israelis making Palestinians Such) and willfully support the cleansing of homosexuals. This can be said of the majority of Muslim states - Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen, Pakistan, etc.","Like the US. Blacks have been second class citizens from the moment they gained their freedom. It was codified until the 1960s, and has been de facto with banking and housing discrimination, mass incarceration, and as recently as this past election, direct disenfranchisement.",0
"Sane people: ""Oh, no problem, see, we're just gonna teach people about slavery and the Civil War in school."".",Oh yeah. The founders were a bunch of bickering slave owning aristocrats from 200 years ago. But they are seen as demigods from some idealized time. It’s a huge problem in America because we can’t move past them as a result.,1
"""Until now, the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech have been purchased by the government and offered to Americans for free. In the latest federal contract from July, Moderna's updated booster shot cost the government $26 per dose, up from $15–$16 per dose in earlier supply contracts, the Journal notes. Similarly, the government paid a little over $30 per dose for Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine this past summer, up from $19.50 per dose in contracts from 2020.",They used taxpayer money to finance the development of this vaccine and now they want to overcharge for it?,1
"Now that is very true, they don’t care as it is their doctrine/military mentality they are proud that they threw men at machine guns in WW2 as it was patriotic it’s the same in Ukraine.",Forcing the enemy to spread out air defenses is def a tactic but I think this stems from the fact that they’ve made it clear that they want to exterminate the Ukrainian identity from the land if they won’t comply. It’s terroristic and genocidal because Putin’s facade will come crashing down along with the image that he can defend Russia if they don’t take Ukraine.,1
"Especially now with extra-national elements popping up in this prolonged Russian attack, I simply don’t understand the argument for limiting Ukraine from firing as far as they can into Russia as I understand is the agreement.","So long as Russian conscripts threaten Ukrainian civilians, killing as many Russian military, and destroying as much Russian material, as efficiently as possible is the only valid consideration.",1
"- On September 5, 2022, a document was published signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin about Russia's unilateral withdrawal from a visa agreement which allowed former Japanese residents to visit the disputed islands without visas.","According to Foundations of Geopolitics, Russia will offer to return the islands to the Japanese and use the diplomatic opportunity to stoke anti-American feelings in Japan. How realistic that objective is, I do not know.",1
A logical national standard would be for insurance to cover legal abortion in the first trimester to ensure that those who desire them can promptly go to the doctor avoiding both health problems and the inherent complication of going beyond that point.,"I don’t know if there were exceptions for birth defects, but if a doctor came to a decision and concluded that an abortion needs to be performed they would be able to perform an abortion regardless of how long it is.",1
"My thinking is that if the EU has to back down from the price cap due to the effects on their economy, Russia can dictate terms on restarting the oil deal, which I would assume would cover the fines from the breaches of contracts and other compensation. It comes down to who blinks first. Also, OPEC could also tighten the supply even more.","also, I did not know about the oil industry and the effects of stopping the oil drilling. thanks for the info .",0
All the while.... it diverts money from resolving the problem... which means you never get around to solving the problem. It's a pretty major problem. We're dealing with a global inflationary crisis where cost of living is falling out of control for everyone. How many governments in the world decided to throw money to keep people afloat rather than invest more in renewables?,"Climate change is going to mean needing larger ditches to control flooding. It's going to mean desalination plants to produce clean drinkable water. It's going to mean subsidizing the lifestyles of the poorest people so they don't fall too deep into poverty, extreme poverty or death. And as time progresses there's more money that'll need to be dedicated to that.",0
"A tight regulatory market basically entrances established players. Which is not inherently bad. Ultimately, I think it's probably a good thing. Yes, our banks are too big to fail, but I prefer a handful of well regulated players vs 1000+ institutions that collapse under systematic risk.","Contrary to what people think, institutions like GS love regulation. Maybe not every rule, but overall a more regulated financial sector plays to big, established banks.",0
If Trump were smart he'd sink Desantis's reelection campaign so if Desantis tried to run in 2024 Trump can just call him a loser.,Sounds like 2016 to me and in the end they got behind Trump. Trump lost 2020 because of him being him. DeSantis doesn't have any of that baggage at this moment in time. I can easily see MAGA getting behind DeSantis like Republicans did in 2016 w/ Trump.,0
Not to say what’s happening here was ok. Just that the mayor being not elected by the full city population is fairly common.,Not to say what’s happening here was ok. Just that the mayor being not elected by the full city population is fairly common.,0
"What exactly has Germany done for India that warrants India throwing away eight years of close and warm buddy relations with Russia? France, which also has never had a close relations with India, is also asking India for the same favor. Germany or France is not exactly on that level of relations with India. Is it the lack of self-awareness or just the stereotypical European arrogance and habit of ordering other (brown and color) people to do this and do that?","History matters. The history of what Europeans did to India, it still matters to India, and it influences how India behaves and reacts to Europeans today.",0
"Either this means I haven't been around enough racist people, or I've been around much more racist people.","Some classmates even called them that when I was around without flinching, european racism hits different.",1
"The second time was like the mildest flu I've ever had, but the worst part is that ever since August I have a weird ringing in my ears every few days. While I had Covid, my ears got plugged and they would hurt like a stabbing pain every few hours (along with ringing). I don't know if it will ever go away. People don't realize sometimes long Covid can be worse than death.","I don't wanna die, but even the threat of dying from covid doesn't hit as hard as the threat of long covid.",1
Ironically these drones are so shitty that the lasers are less effective against them than they would be against more advanced ones.,"What, reconditioning some stored weapons systems that are 50+ years old or using said systems against slow, low flying drones.",1
"The bigger thing I think abrams are not super reliable, as a layman understands reliable. The parts, engine included, wear quickly and need service often, in order to be reliable in combat. There are logistical elements of the US military that are built entirely around being able to very quickly diagnose and swap things in (like the engine swap is supposedly pretty quick), but I think that is highly dependent on a LOT of specialized equipment and being able to get it to the tank, or the tank to it, to service, and knowing fast what level of service it needs. (US support guys aren't going to be in country, and it is VERY VERY long distance to tow a nonfunctional tank from the frontline to border of poland).","Training the tankers is I think overstated (in effort related to everything else), actual combat is a small percentage of what keeps a war going well. It is the monumental amount of logistics going on in the backend, and tanks are right up there in most demanding equipment.",0
"Yeah, I'm right there with you, except that I think it should probably be adding a seat every two years, (say, at the start of May in odd numbered years) and removing a seat whenever a judge stops serving.","2. Court size is set by law, and the size has been changed over the years without a constitutional amendment. (Currently the size is set by the judiciary act of 1869.).",0
"But this doesn't get covered that way in the corporate media, because untold death and suffering and robbery are just fine so long as the ruling class is profiting.",Not only does corporate media ignore social murder they normalize it. They knew very well that public insurance would save lives but they let Biden pretend it was too expensive to expand in the debates (despite being untrue in every other country that has it).,1
"They would do so under very specific conditions. They'd negotiate something like, the ability to bring any bill to the floor without requiring Republican blessings and/or important committee seats. The dems gain nothing sitting back and just watching this happen. On the other hand, as the minority party, they have a LOT of stuff they could be asking for in exchange for letting Congress get to actually doing Congressional work. Dems negotiating some conclusion to this would come with a LOT of opportunity for gains.","That said, working with moderates to get past this comes with some risks. Can we find enough Democrats that won't be negatively impacted by voting for a Republican speaker? And treading water isn't necessarily the _worst_ decision while your opponent is actively trying to drown themselves, is it? So, the choices are: sit back and enjoy republicans destroying themselves for a while as nobody gets checks and no work gets done, or, risk a few seats in exchange for actual governing power that Dems can thanklessly use and get punished for (remember, we generally always get punished for actual governance).",0
I love this logic. You mind finding me reports on US committing genocide or causing this many intentional civilian deaths? I’m all for it if you have the numbers and reports.,"The first is a general statistic. The second is an incident from 2012. The third is an incident from 2010 (from Afghanistan, but points stands).",1
"While I'm ready to see trump in jail over this (and the many other revelations soon to be discovered from his taxes), the company was Daewoo and their ties to NK are just that they were the only company allowed to do business in NK in the 90s.","Dude, the company is Daewoo, a SOUTH KOREAN company who’s only links to NK is that they were once the only allowed private company to operate for a brief period in NK in the 90s. This is such a reach it’s ridiculous. Fucking morons.",1
At some point I wonder if Ukraine is actually sinking these or if they're just going down and wiley Captainovich is blaming it on those damn Ukranian boogeymen.,"Then you add the drive and hatred the Ukrainians have towards Russia now, sanctions, home advantage, lack of motivation of Russians, a mismatch in tech, training, outfitting, food, logistics, etc... I think if Russia does manage to mobilize half a million and field whatever ratio to the front they usually do, it'll be a disaster for them. Something has to give internally, maybe give the sanctions some time to really kick in. There's a lag.",1
"Labour won't risk making it a platform at the next election (they don't need to) but when the results come in, there are going to be well over hundred conservative losing their seats, as well as some of the more poisonous personalities deciding that opposition isn't for them and the memoir industry awaits.","I think it's pandering, and given that the next election is increasingly starting to look like a penalty kick, Labour doesn't have any reason to risk a major policy platform change.",0
My bet would be on Nikki Haley being the last one standing. Pompey and Pence have the same charisma problems and Republicans love to point at their token minority candidates.,"The only thing keeping the GOP hopes alive for a presidential victory in 2024 is the lack of a charismatic candidate from the Democrats. If the Dems had someone like Obama running, they would have no chance in hell.",1
"But even more damning than the public outrage is perhaps that even leading Swedish experts on primate behaviour have come out and condemned the park’s handling of its chimpanzees and the entire situation. Saying that the zookeepers had a lacking relationship with its chimpanzees. That the chimpanzees had no trust in the keepers, which made the situation way worse. And that killing them was completely unnecessary. The experts also say that it would be nearly impossible for the zoo to keep its remaining chimpanzees now, since the chimpanzees have been deeply traumatised by the event and have lost all trust in their keepers. Before this event, the zoo was also part of a research project on the cognition of great apes together with Lund University – one of Sweden’s leading universities – but the university has now decided to suspend that cooperation.","The more news that are coming out about the Furuvik Zoo, the worse it looks. I highly doubt that they will able to keep their remaining chimpanzees after this.",0
"""His “macabre” approach to the pandemic, including organising large gatherings of his supporters and disparaging scientists, constitutes a “crime against public health”. Some 65 others are also implicated and could face criminal proceedings."".","""His “macabre” approach to the pandemic, including organising large gatherings of his supporters and disparaging scientists, constitutes a “crime against public health”. Some 65 others are also implicated and could face criminal proceedings."".",0
"Businesses are quite literally designed so that you can walk away if it fails and not be ruined yourself. This applies to any incorporated business and is why even if you just sell $5 toys on Etsy, you need to make an LLC go cover your own assets.","The person I commented on said that Twitter cannot go bankrupt until he runs out of money because he is personally liable for any and all expenses and costs. My entire comment was that he can only be liable for what he leveraged in the deal, they cannnot go after his personal finances or assets if he decides to walk away or file bankruptcy as the company, which is filing bankruptcy there’s no guarantee they get all of the leveraged assets depending in the title of bankruptcy filed which is also something the comment I replied to said he cannot file for anymore to protect assets.",0
"They are legally not a country, they were offered to become one in 1948 and post-1967 by Israel on the condition that they stop attacking Israel, but every time they refused.","And given the statement above as well as the continued expansion of settlements on occupied land there is zero chance of instant peace even if Palestinian groups stopped all their terrorist bullshit. And yes, I agree by using terrorism, the respective Palestinian organisations are torpedoing their whole people's future. I just don't think it's all on the Palestinians and Israel is as much at fault for the whole situation not being resolved after several decades.",1
"Honestly though, I think all the DeSantis talk is really moot though, as I don't think he can beat Trump in a primary. Trump fans like DeSantis because he's like Trump, but they're still going to vote for the original rather than the knockoff version. And DeSantis has yet to ever say anything disparaging about Trump publicly, which shows how afraid he is of Trump. At some point a prominent Republican in office is going to have to publicly criticize Trump if they ever want to beat him, and thus far not one has even tried to do so. It's gonna be Trump with the GOP nomination in 2024.",I still think it's Trump. He still has the plurality of support and that's all that's needed to win the primary. Could that change in the next 2 years? Sure. I just don't see them managing to pony up anyone who could beat Trump in a primary. The whole country =/= Florida.,1
The priority here SEEMS to be getting them more arms while only encouraging talks. It's not as if the additional arms comes with a seemingly aggressive requirement for peace.,"Yeah right Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria are all top fairly easy military targets right next to Russia and all part of NATO. Turkey may as well be on the last too since they are both troublemakers and in a highly strategic area that Russia would love to have if they could.",0
"The elementary school near my home exploded one Sunday morning in 1967. It destroyed the kindergarten and first grade rooms. Because no one was there, a horrifying disaster became only a minor footnote.","Over 4,000 children get lifelong asthma each year, because of methane leaks from not only home gas stoves but also gas fired water heaters and space heating.",0
But I'm referring to a specific set of terrorist incidents in which many civilians were murdered that pushed Israel to make checkpoints and build a barrier wall around some of the west bank.,"I'm Canadian too, and this is a crazy complicated conflict with a lot of factors and history. And yeah, some shitty people on both sides that can make everyone else look shitty.",0
"There's simply no way to spin this so it doesn't sound a lot like ""I'm just gonna take that money and pump it into my economy, but it's for a good cause so it's OK"". It'd be a different question if you find a way to do it so you don't directly (or at all preferably) profit from it.","The best solution IMHO for the people is to move them to somewhere with existing infrastructure ASAP, not scream through the newspapers how Russia needs to be disowned and devise weird schemes that of course will apply to that but not to any other war in the past or future and will likely worsen the situation socially and politically.",0
"Orlando's entire economy is built around Disney, the town was like 800 people before Disney moved in. Would be hilarious to see the economy collapse if Disney moved out, but I doubt they will considering how much money is already invested there.","Also, remember that about 2 years ago Disney planned to move the entirety of their Burbank, CA offices to FL, and then DeSantis was such a clown that they cancelled that plan. Disney has the will to do it.",1
"If you want to go a little further in the details of the system, the 62\64 thing is when people can start retiring. But the French pension system also requires you to work for at least a specific duration, which is 43 years.","It means that the profile of someone who will retire at 62 and get the full pension is someone who started working at 19yo (or possibly someone who started a little later but got ""bonus time"" from harsh jobs or raisin children or other exceptions).",0
"You make the same argument, Ukraine didn't do anything for us so why should we help? It's short-sighted and weak. Israel knows all too well how much help it needs to survive. If nothing else, Israel should stay close in policy to their biggest allies, the USA and Europe countries, and who they sanction and support.","""We’re teaming up with Russia and Iran who are attacking us, and distancing ourselves from Israel — which we want as an ally"".",1
"So US companies have announced about $200 billion worth of stock buybacks so far this year. By end of the year, let's say that's 1.2 trillion on same pace.","That 4% is $40 billion dollars in tax revenue. Not a small amount of money by many standards, but the actual question is not if 4% is the right number, it's if 4% will cut into or negate the value of the process of stock buybacks in the first place enough to discourage it?",0
"The Iranian regime spent many years building terrorist organizaitons and cells throughout the world to frighten its enemies from retaliating on its soil (this is also why they seek nuclear weapons), this caused this false sense of security which you and others may have had but you aren't safe because of its power, you are (or were) safe because Iran's shenanigans weren't significant enough to warrant said countries to smack you directly and risk escalations.","I am not really into conspiracy theories, but assuming Israeli Intelligence involvement isn't much of a stretch considering just their recent history of sabotaging the nuclear capabilities of unfriendly regimes in the region.",1
"In fact, I can totally see Russia temporarily stops any attack around where Biden is just to make sure they don't accidentally end up being in a total war with the U.S.",Edit 2: Some people have asked what would happen if Putin went full batshit insane and the unimaginable happens. The following assumes that Russia intentionally assassinates Biden.,0
"We’ve known the candidates and outcome for years now. In the next year we’ll all forget and get excited about the new candidates and shakeups, but Biden was always going to win a close race against Trump in ‘24.","I'm cautiously optimistic that voters, whether in Arizona or elsewhere, will start to reap what Biden has been sowing, or at least have a clear path to doing so, and of course, that Trump's standing in the public eye will only worsen in the next 20 months.",1
"Got'cha, I'm up there too. I don't blame you for not watching election coverage, not many people do. I don't know a single person who does aside from myself, and I know a fuck load of people.",Enjoy the shitshow. Republicans will declare victory because their tiny counties with 500 people have reported their numbers in the first hour whereas cities that have a million votes to count takes through the night.,0
"The magnetic field breakthrough is just one piece of the puzzle, but it gets us closer because it's another thing checked off the list.","That's because there are a ton of hurdles that must be overcome to make it a reality. I'm not educated enough on nuclear fusion to comment on what those are, so I'll analogize it with my basic understanding of landing on the moon.",0
"No it does not, an opposition TD has brought forward a bill to decrim 7g for personal use, it will not pass as the sitting government do support it and will vote it away. I wish we were legalising or even that this bill would pass but unfortunately it wont.","As an Irish man I don't see Ireland decriminalizing cannabis any time soon, not in the next 5 years anyway.",1
"Exactly. That is the documentary. I have seen it. Of course one factor in that thing is, that Finland is culturally close enough for Estonians, that they can identify themselves with Finnish things. Finnish culture sucked Estonians to its whirlwinds.","Though I’d say that there are ways in which Estonian culture is more European than Finnish, too. The Germanic influences have left some traces in Estonia. I’m Finnish, btw.",1
"That's my side as well but it's utopic nonetheless, and sometimes the outcome is profitable, even if that means a dictator or a shitty regime makes money from it.",India is not at war with anyone and has urgent demographic problems. If you blame them for buying cheap oil it means you don't know anything about how the world works and I won't argue with you more.,0
"A drone can maneuver easily on all directions, stay still, stop mid air, land and launch again, a missile can't do any of that.",The difference is that most drones drop or fire their munitions then depart. A suicide drone kamikazes and does not return.,1
"The title literally says it’s being revamped, and I’m assuming you know all the intricacies of said company? Not the title op posted, the actual article headline.","It’s not an obsession, it’s just calling people like you out. It’s really nothing more. Things have devolved so much, most of you won’t pay attention to anything unless it dealigns with your perverted sense of politics, let alone acting how you are somehow now noble. It’s really nothing more, I hate Musk, never used twitter, voted dem and progressive my whole life. It’s really just calling out a hollowness that allows lies to build. No more, no less. Twitter always sucked, and your’re getting rage baited into headlines to push ad revenue, that you would never get if someone else owned it and did the same things.",0
It’ll take more than under-reporting crimes committed by black people for that stereotype to go away.,Our system is already set up to over-criminalize black folks. Our society already treats all sorts of things poor people do as crimes in ways it doesn’t for the wealth. And race in the US is tightly correlated to wealth inequality. And black neighborhoods are already super over policed. And black suspects are already much more likely to be taken to trial than white suspects. And racist cops (aka most cops) are already more likely to stop and frisk black citizens just walking around. And they are more likely to pull over black drivers. Etc etc etc.,1
"Yah, you can get 300 dollar weed, but come on. This isnt like my first time in a bar where someone is going to convince me its worth it to buy pricey booze. I have had 500 dollar ozzers and I have had 40 dollar ozzers. There's a reason i still buy 40 dollar over 200,300,400+ dollar ones.","i've been given 5% by accident before that was mislabeled. It might has well have been smoking hemp paper. Like you said, there is a bit more to it yes, but its like thinking you are gonna get more hammered in a better way if you pay 40 dollars a shot vs 4 at the bar. One may taste better and go down smoother, but even after that first one, theres no real difference.",0
Germany aren’t willing to send tanks to Ukraine unless the US does that does NOT mean they are intending to block re-exports from other countries as stated by the German Defense minister.,Keep in mind that Germany had to actually change its laws to support Ukraine as before the war started there were laws in the German constitution forbidding exporting weapons into active warzones.,0
Some people seem to think that freedom of speech shouldn’t protect speech that is offensive or controversial but that is basically the whole point of freedom of speech.,"And I am happy we have Free Speech so that we can be confronted with ideas that might initially offend us, but which might also have the power to change us.",1
"i'm not in georgia, but we should probably go vote by mail as the standard. too bad republicans are idiots.",You are using the same logic as Republicans are using with voter fraud. You’ve got a feeling that’s it true. It must be true. Just because we can’t find any doesn’t make it not true.,1
If that's true then why are we seeing so many settlements being built on Palestinian land and settlers harassing Palestinians everyday.,"You are asking this question here for the gazillionth time while you spam the typical Pro-Israeli narrative ""Palestinian invaders aren't native to the land "".",0
It seems to be less 'under review' and more like 'under confusion' resulting from uncosted half baked policies.,Especially since market forces seem to indicate that Solar and wind are better options as indicated by renewables drawing the majority of private investment in the Energy sector.,0
"Compared to other countries, Norway extracts this resources with the most care for the environment.",Even more is that Norway sees their oil and gas reserves as property of the state and uses the funds from these resource to fund their citizens pensions and their sovereign wealth fund.,1
"There's already dissention in the GOP ranks between supporting DeSantis or Trump. The mainstay GOP wants DeSantis as the nomination, but they don't want backlash from Trump's core group of diehard supporters.","Actually my favorite outcome would be Desantis gets the GOP nomination, then Trump runs as an Independent and splits the right’s voter pool, thus causing them to lose as well.",1
"While they do need more equipment and will continue to, there actual military capacity is several times that of Ukraine at the start of the war. They’ve managed to not give up the air due to western anti air weapons, they’ve pushed Russia to break out T-62s and some older tanks, Russians are being equipped with Mosin-nagants, Russia is the one truly struggling equipment wise.","Giving them tanks requires a complete retraining of crews to a new system and requires much stronger logistics as now you need all different parts, fuel, ammo, etc. it’s not realistic to do this in the middle of a war, however post war assuming they win we could do it. This is part of why Poland is modernizing, they’re going to send their old Soviet tanks to Ukraine.",0
"I'd also be interested to know if a lot of trans youth is actually normally presenting as both genders at different places, like out at school and dressing feminine but I guess changing in between and being a boy at home? Is that common?","Like if the child is suicidal because of their gender dysphoria, would that then trump the need not to out them to their family? Should they just suggest they need help but not why or how they know?",0
That's not how dictatorships work. Theocracy is nothing new. there has been countless studies about how they fall and they always will.,Nothing in Iran will ever go back to how it used to be after this. Even if the protests calm down they'll be back the next year and the year after that and they will only get worse. The majority of the country does in fact hate the regime they're just scared under totalitarianism.,0
Basically I’m just wondering why it’s right to recount a difference of 20 votes but not a difference of one vote.,Shouldn’t a shift of over 1% of votes draw our attention regardless of which party’s candidate win?,1
"It's 're-sold' by the countries in question as the loophole established in Europe to allow the country of origin to be changed. If you simply modified the country of origin on the label when it arrived, it would be breaking international trade laws on 'origin'.","Just having goods pass through a port wouldn't be enough to qualify as a product ""originating"" from the country in question.",0
You mean the Germany that tried to kill every single Jew? Or the Europe that was complicit in that or actively helped? How about the rampant antisemitism in Europe and elsewhere.,"Palestinians aren't being exterminated! And glad you think it's sufficient foR Jews to just ""get by"" in the US. Why can't people be ok with Jews having an actual country where they are safe. Rather than be a minority where their safety is at the discretion of others. Things can quickly change. Jews were briefly safe in Germany until it wasnt.",0
"I suppose from my perspective, the 2 things I think would be bare minimum in this case would be to hold out until: relinquishment of all historically Ukrainian territory and membership in NATO to deter invasion in the future.","But to counterpoint your actual argument, if Ukraine secedes those land it gives Russia a base to claim even more territory based on its original argument. Meaning that even if Ukraine joins NATO that if enough Russians move into other Ukraine territories that Russia would again claim that they have rights over the land and they are allowed to go to war over that right. And because NATO/Ukraine let them get away with it before they would have to give into Russia's demands again.",1
"If a set of religious beliefs disenfranchises anyone based on their gender or sexuality, those beliefs are shit. End of story.","""The Shahi Imam of Ahemdabad’s Jama Masjid Shabbir Ahmed Siddiqui in Gujarat made controversial remarks on December 4 saying those who give election tickets to Muslim women are against Islam and weakening the religion."".",0
"Hey we will install and service your solar panels, you just keep paying us the monthly utility bill you were paying the electric company. (Meanwhile, they will also receive all of the money from the electric company buying electricity from those solar panels on your property, even as you continue paying them, but they won’t tell you that outside of the very fine print.).",And yeah. It's fairly common for people to move into their old family home to look after their elderly parents.,1
Yeah but that is also the point of MAD. Realistically the only navy with aircraft carriers Russia would ever face off against is a NATO country and realistically any war in Europe would be land based. Russias military was not designed for naval force projection in conventional warfare on the seas or in a bid to launch carrier operations making strikes on the US mainland.,"The very minute it’s confirmed that this little frigate starts lobbing missiles aimed directly at the US, will be the same minute it will find itself under attack from a number of different tracking forces, notably lurking subs, ships and jet fighters.",1
"I mean Boris was writing anti EU hit pieces for decades in the lead up to this, it's a death by a thousand cuts and the back of the mind type thing from seeing headlines or blatantly false information in papers. They also made sure no one investigated Russia's influence with regards to brexit for the Russia report, clearly trying to hide the evidence they were paid to be a part of the whole campaign, party donations are a powerful thing and they kept taking them for Russia with no fuss.","There’s fascinating analysis of the Russian involvement in Brexit, it was primarily fed by platforming pro-brexit politicians and pumping out thousands of fear mongering articles to weaponise exisiting British ‘patriotism’ and convince the public they’d be better off alone.",1
The Supreme Court rubber-stamping Independent State Legislature Theory would nullify democratic guarantees embedded in virtually all state constitutions since the founding era.,"Under independent state legislature theory, Presidential Electors can be decided however the state legislature chooses.",1
"Because Musk said “maybe there’s more to this story than meets the eye” you call it misinformation, and then procede to call Musk an Agent of Putin lol. You’re the reason why Musk had to take over Twitter because you guys call everything you disagree with misinformation. Anyone with half a brain understand the Paul Pelosi situation isn’t adding up.","There’s been a lot of evils in history that were considered truths, but if we aren’t allowed to talk about them (because it’s misinformation), we can’t debate them. I’d rather allow for the public square of debate, rather than act as an arbiter of truth on who can and can’t speak. Because as we’ve seen, people will call everything they disagree with “intentional lies” rather than “a conclusion they disagree with.”.",0
I’ve always voted in a very blue state. Somehow I didn’t realize the implications of the 2020 census and redistricting and our house race went down to the wire. We won but my point is that it’s easier to vote and just not worry about it. I’ve always voted but this was the first year I bothered to check if my ballot was received properly. Weird feeling like my vote made a difference.,Can't imagine not voting. We've just had an election with one of the lowest voting percentages (I think ever) and it was about 84.4 % of the voting population afaik.,1
Same thing happened with Bill Clinton. It started off as an investigation into a shady real estate deal.,"When they couldn't find any wrongdoing, they spent the next five years trying to find another reason to impeach him.",0
That's the thing. California conservatives feel the NEED to be Uber conservative in order to make up for the state that they live in.,"I am in a more rural part of California that leans conservative. We also have a good state college in the county. Because of that, we have a higher young population then our size normally would.",1
India's supreme court will take a case seeking the legalization of same-sex marriage in the country.,"It's legalized through constitutional review by the supreme court, the exact same way India is doing in this article. Only they did it sooner.",1
"Reform is on the way tho, since they had a system that took away passports removed. But that’s after the fact.",It’s for all migrant workers including non construction based work. So thats why the 6500 number is disputed.,0
"After four years of witnessing every way Trump was unfit to be president, Christie helped him with debate prep against Biden.","Still, Christie helped Trump prep for debate AND what did Trump give him? COVID. Christie literally caught COVID by anti-masking, superspreader rally holding Trump.",1
Some sanctions will drop. The sanctions on chips that could possibly used in military applications is likely around to stay. Economic sanctions until Russia pays reparations (or their foreign holdings confiscated for it). Etc.,"Yep. It also makes the lower level Russian commanders look better because “missing soldiers” aren’t classified as “dead soldiers.” Farther up the chain the Russian high command probably know this is bullshit but the upper level commanders don’t want to post high KIA numbers either, the “news” is searching for anyway to spin the war in a positive light so they don’t want accurate KIA numbers either and the Russian government would rather not make the payments to the families of the dead soldiers. Basically everyone who could press for the truth has a vested interest in keeping the lie going.",1
Thankfully I think it's too late for that. If Trump did one good thing he brought all that nastiness out into the open and exposed the republican party for what it truly is.,The Republican party lets these bigots in because of their policy that any enemy of a liberal is a friend of theirs.,1
"So, does someone need to sue to have this applied to those 34 members of Congress? Or, is this something only congress can enforce against its own members? Or it is something the governor or legislature of the Congressman's home state can do? The GOP seems to want state legislatures to control elections so maybe they'd get on board with that.","But I'm sure the congressmen in the crosshairs would say ""Separation of powers. Executive branch has no say over internal workings of the legislature. Also, DOJ only enforces criminal laws which this isn't."" dollars to doughnuts they'll say the same thing when someone sues them. ""Separation of powers, judicial branch cant do anything about internal workings of the legislative branch."".",0
"The more of these that come out the less I actually believe it. I never underestimate how stupid people can be but the unusually high levels of bullshit recently appears more like a smear campaign on activism, probably funded by the oil and auto industry's.","Given the tactics oil companies have used to downplay climate change and keep people in the dark over the years, it wouldn't surprise me if these were false flag attacks designed to stir up exactly the anti-activist sentiment you're showing.",1
"You know, it was back in 2000 that we had the Laser Avenger, which took the standard Avenger air defense vehicle, and replaced one of the SRM4 racks with an ER small laser. 250 kilowatt is really pretty shitty against y2k threats, but now that slow-ass swarm drones are such a threat, the Avenger's laser cannon is much more capable of swatting things out of the sky.","Also, NASAMS is one of the shortest range and least capable anti aircraft systems the US has short of a MANPADS or CIWIS, and it's still ruining Russia's day.",1
Read about the flag code in the U.S. So many people are so stupid and oblivious to this. It's a joke how the American flag is used these days.,"The pride flag does not oppose the american flag. In fact, Gay Pride is one of the most american things I can possibly think of. When I think of freedom of expression, the pursuit of happiness, and escaping persecution (which is what the founding fathers broke away from the UK to do, even though they still owned slaves), I can think of no other group that's trying to obtain those three things than LGBTQ+ people.",1
"Because they all involve giving Russia some of Ukraine territory. It just gives him time to re arm to take another bite of Ukraine in a year or two. They won't stop until Ukraine is completely under Russian control and it's ""the ukraine"" again. Then they'll go on to take another countey; they're already talking about taking Belarus next.","Lol if you think giving Russia Ukrainian territory would stop one fucking dollar from going to Raytheon. In fact, it would give them reason to send more money there, because ""what about when Russia tries to take more of Ukraine?"".",0
as front line/ breakthrough tanks. Even the dozens of the most modernized T-90M Proriv tanks Russia recently sent over to the front have thus far been used to take long range shots at Ukrainian armored vehicles and set infantry positions up to 5km away.,"Gaijin is based out of Hungary where it moved to in 2015. The developers are originally Russian, but they got the hell out of dodge after Crimea was annexed.",0
"This can take a long time to do. Often, people give up and leave because they've got something else to do than just stand around and be counted all evening.","They get together and say everybody for candidate a stand over here. Candidate b, over there. Candidate c, there. D, there. E, over there.",0
"Conservatism originated from the aristocracy as a counter to the French Revolution. The more you know, the more you realize they're the same old feudalists they've always been.","The Founders were, by modern standards, terrible people, particularly for being slavers. But if they were here today, they'd take one look at the GOP and go, ""Those goddamn Tories are still here?!"".",0
"Well gee, why would their neighbours want missile DEFENSE SYSTEMS. It's almost like countries bordering Russia are afraid of missile strikes for some weird reason.","They don't know the meaning of sovereignty, just that if other countries have it then Russia will seek to undermine it. It exists to be violated as far as Russia is concerned.",1
Honestly I think the moderate stance on gun control is stronger than the progressive stance at this point. A lot of progressives have been shifting far enough left to get their guns back.,"Progressives are realizing this as they wake up to the reality at hand and shift further left. Pink Pistols, John Brown Gun Club, and SRA membership is exploding. It's mostly the old neolib holdouts that are delusional enough to think there's any hope of reasonable middle ground compromise with the far right that are still holding on to the old Democrat gun control platform.",0
The GOP play smarter politics than the Democrats - they play dirtier and the Democrats keep doing exactly what they want; hold the center. Why do you think they keep moving the goal posts?,"""Moderate"" (read conservative) Democrats are, at best out of touch and at worst actively against what the voting public wants and cares about. Actively ignoring this and saying that unity can only be done behind moderate leadership will only exacerbate the system that spawned Trump.",0
"""Well it turns out that Pavel Antov, god rest him, had questioned the morality of the Ukrainian invasion after he's spoken to Alexander Buzakov, god rest him, who'd made some tactical errors as Director General of the Shipyards. Then this Director General, god rest him, tells me this war is very deadly, ten times the dead soldiers that Cousin Putin told me. So after I spoke about Ukraine to Viktor Cherkesov, Nikolai Mushegian and Pavel Pchelnikov, god rest the lot of them, I decided to publicly declare my opposition to the war. Of course Cousin Putin won't be too happy about that, but as far as I'm concerned Cousin Putin can go f-"".","""Well Pavel Antov, god rest him, went on holiday to get away from all the Ukraine news, so he brought his friend Vladimir Bidanov, god rest him. I thought I might go join them. I haven't really got that much family round here, except for Cousin Putin. Would you like a card with this?"".",0
"Not my preference at all, to be very clear. I would love it if the Ukrainians chased out the Russians tomorrow and reclaimed their full territory. I also do not allege that western nations don't want to help Ukraine - but they have to think of themselves first.","I get your meaning, but I don't think Ukraine's agenda is different from the US / NATO / rest of the West.",1
"Arbitrarily banning people from Twitter is shitty for sure, but these journalists work at some of the biggest news outlets in the world. The claim that they are being silenced, their free speech rights violated, or even that it's some kind of national security risk is just bonkers.","By insisting that Twitter is so important that you won't leave even if his content moderation sucks then he knows he has won and can do whatever he wants. It's just like any relationship, either business or personal, showing that you aren't willing to walk gives the other all the leverage.",0
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Tools like ChatGPT are still only clever chatbots and it will take quite some time before we have true AI that can think for itself.,This bots were already used on Reddit as common accounts and people interacted with them unknowing they were speaking to an neural AI bot.,1
"Further, Bush v. Gore did empirically undermine the credibility of the court in the eyes of the public. With our slow ass government, there hasn't been any legislative impact yet, but those small things are starting to add up. If the Rehnquist Court had say ""Fuck Democrats"" in their opinion, judicial reform very well might have happened already or at minimum we would be a lot closer.","Do you think, for one second, that the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court has concerns for judicial consistency? They will rule against the CA law, while upholding the TX one, specifically because they don't give a shit what you think ... Why should they, there is virtually no way to remove them from office other than them passing away (thanks rbg...).",1
"Depends on the terms of the deal. From Israel's perspective, a deal like what Obama signed, is worse than no deal. So, if such deal is signed, there is a high probability that Israel will strike. But, there are terms that Israel would find satisfactory.","In a nutshell, strike or no strike is not function of deal or not, but function of how close Iran is to getting the bomb. I.e. if there is no deal or there is a bad deal, but Iran doesn't do sudden moves: then there is no strike. A deal can prevent Israel's strike if Israel is convinced that terms of the deal make it impossible for Iran to make such sudden moves.",0
"Death row guy stabbed a woman to death after escaping prison, and he was in prison for murdering a sheriff’s deputy.","According to the article, he was sentenced to death for the 1990 stabbing of a woman during a carjacking while he was on the run after escaping from prison where he was serving a life sentence for a 1979 killing of a sheriff’s deputy.",1
And some justices have already shown a willingness to declare LGBTQ folks don't have a right to exist. Clarence Thomas did as much when he called out Lawrence V. Texas as a case his wishes overturned.,"So they're aren't just going after drag. They're going after any and all trans performers. That's what they're emphasis on gender assigned at birth does. And like, how are they going to possibly regulate that. Are people expected to keep their birth certificates on them at all times? What about people who've had them changed? I wouldn't be surprised if the people behind enforcing this mistakenly enforce bans against cis men and women who look slightly gender non-conforming, mistaking them as trans.",0
"I am 100% on board that rural America needs a political enema and that starts with a lot of great tools and mobilization, but I think that change needs to come from within.","I am 100% on board that rural America needs a political enema and that starts with a lot of great tools and mobilization, but I think that change needs to come from within.",1
They didn't need to keep anything from him. He wouldn't read it anyway. I doubt it would have made the cut when his staff condensed the daily briefing down to thing that Trump would actually read.,It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if he wasn’t paying attention in briefings and didn’t know they were there. But he also lies so frequently that it could go either way.,1
"Problem is the way our system works and due to the fact our Presidential election isn’t based on popular vote that can work against us and it has. Especially considering the extreme right now has a stranglehold the Republican Party. Not sure how much the average Republican agrees with the more extreme crap, but it hasn’t stopped them from voting for this sh\\. Hell the Republican may not have a large majority in the House but they were able to win a majority and look what they have done so far.",Actually. my main point is that this sort of thing is incompatible with a Republic such as ours. It’s not what a Republic should be doing and that’s not in our best interest when it comes to our survival. If nothing else Trump should have reminded people of that.,0
Challenger 2 is always called outdated by Russians. 4th Gen tank that was upgraded in 2008 and 2014. Ironic for the guys driving 1960s and 1970s tanks into battle.,Challenger armour is still highly classified but has Chobham armour which is pretty much the base for UK/US armour protection. Highly capable and then the European standard version has a number of ERA playes to assist with warding off different types of attack weapons.,0
"It won't truly be over for Trump at least until prominent Republicans in office start criticizing him by name. None of them are doing that, even now after all of this. If none of them are willing to do that, then there's no chance anyone unseats him as the nominee. Clearly everyone in the Republican party still is too afraid of Trump to criticize him, which indicates he's still the standard bearer for the GOP.","Alternatively, those in the GOP majority who follow the party were probably very dismayed with Trump by what happened in the election. He's an easy target for them to attach blame to, rather than admitting that their messaging is also part of the problem.",1
Translation: China trusts putin's russia to destroy itself to the point China can swoop in and take their resources. Moscow will become New Beijing in a few years.,"Xi and Putin take one of these photos every other year. Each year, their body language degrades, and they seem just as surprised that the other person has managed to hold office past their country's intended max term.",1
"The alternative, losing the GOP nomination and ""giving up"" and accepting the country hates him, is worse than running 3rd party.","He's led some of the worst political losses in American political history for a party. I'm not sure that GOP can recover at this point with or without him to be honest, he has completely hollowed out or was left of that organization.",1
"""apparently they thought he was an undercover Israeli agent and that his body could be ransomed for Palestinians being held by Israel or for the bodies of Palestinians held in Israel"".",For anyone wondering why: apparently they thought he was an undercover Israeli agent and that his body could be ransomed for Palestinians being held by Israel or for the bodies of Palestinians held in Israel.,1
"“The air in Earth's atmosphere is made up of approximately 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen. Air also has small amounts of other gases, too, such as carbon dioxide, neon, and hydrogen”.",I read they article. The atmosphere is already 78% nitrogen. What is excess nitrogen? 79%? 80/81/85 more? The amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere is already causing the problems that are noted. It’s a part of our environment. It’s natural. It’s preposterous to think that we need to reduce the amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere to offset the “problems” that it causes.,0
"Even if Russia is pushed all the way back to the border, they will still be free to shell Ukraine with artillery, launch airstrikes, fire cruise missiles, attack with drones, and so on. If you can't return fire at the source of those attacks, you've got no real chance at a military victory, and your survival relies entirely on your enemy eventually just giving up.",It's a recipe for eventual defeat if Russia doesn't experience a dramatic change in policy or leadership.,0
"Yes, and according to Netanyahu back in the 1990s, Iran was 2 to 3 years away from developing a nuclear weapon. So can we assume that like Iran's phantom nukes, an Israeli attack will never eventuate?",You think we would stay out of it if Israel starts dropping bombs? They’d be flying American jets dropping American bombs where American intelligence told them to drop them.,1
"""""We ensure that we have the same tanks as our Nordic neighbours and many key NATO allies,"" Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a news conference.","""We ensure that we have the same tanks as our Nordic neighbours and many key NATO allies,"" Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a news conference.",1
"Child molesters need to be punished, whether they wear a cross around their neck or not. The Catholic Church's record of defending, protecting, and excusing monsters who abuse their positions as priests is absolutely vile and needs to be seriously addressed.","The Catholic Church has a lot of problems, but totalitarianism and genocide are not two of them. Calling them a cult is also disingenuous. A cult is different than a religion because it does not allow non-members to know about its beliefs, because it uses coercion and intimidation to gain and retain members, because it usually requires members to pay money, and because it has little to no tolerance for other beliefs. Scientology is a prime example. But the Catholic Church? No.",0
"The most extreme elements of the GOP's base have been setting the tone for years now. Whatever hateful bullshit people like Nick Fuentes are putting out there now will be GOP dogma eventually, as GOP politicians compete with each other for the right-wing vote.","A few years ago it would have been considered ridiculous for someone like MTG to ascend as far as she has. And now, here we are. She's what passes for ""mainstream"" among GOP politicians now. An open insurrectionist occupies a position of significant authority and responsibility. Someone who unironically calls for the breakup of the United States is helping to run the United States. It's absurd. There's no limit to how far these folks will go to win and maintain power, and no floor on how low they will sink.",0
"So to be clear, NZ law already states that it’s illegal to discriminate against someone based on their age from age 16. So this decision applies specifically to 16 and 17 year olds, since the current voting age is 18.","What this ruling is about is it that there is no solid justification put forth as to why a 16 year old can't vote, but an 18 year old can.",1
Any country that is more militarized than their neighbours is a potential to threat to those neighbours unless there is a balance. Nothing against Ukraine per se.,Ukraine only needs to reclaim their territory and join NATO. They don't need to have the 3rd largest military in the world after that.,0
"Completely wrong. For one, forced air most definitely dries out the air inside, to the point of chapped lips,bloody noses, and wood shrinkage. The more your furnace recirculates and heats, the drier the air gets.","Heating air will increase the amount of moisture it could hold, but won't add any new moisture. What follows is that air humidity falls, and you need a humidifier in winter.",1
The Palestinians don't want democracy at all. And for sure not a democracy with Israel or with jews.,"wtf, like Israel has had no role in the prevention of a Palestinian democracy? That's literally Netanyahu (and Sharone's, and ...) life's work, preventing a functioning Palestinian state.",1
"Solar is the way to go, solar panels and batteries for every house and business will make the uk independent for energy and possibly generate enough to export. That with wind and other power generating initiatives are the only way forward. Nuclear is a dirty and expensive way to generate electricity though it is a stable supplier when up and running.",Nuclear is expensive yes but much more efficient and scalable and plenty has been done to deal with the waste.,1
I have been one of those people and for the record caucuses are obnoxious and take so long that most people either skip them or leave part way through. It can be an hours long affair.,"This can take a long time to do. Often, people give up and leave because they've got something else to do than just stand around and be counted all evening.",1
Yeah when you're gonna go full authoritarianism and stop supporting election results and openly try to overthrow democracy.... you MIGHT just split your party when you fail.,What's disgusting and distressing is that we're even here at this point and even have HALF of the republican party (not just A party but one of TWO parties) literally openly supporting authoritarianism at this point (while turning around and saying 'no democrats are the real authoritarians').,0
"Toledo is truly he hidden gem of the midwest. Top 10 zoo and art museum in the country, HUGE metroparks with a focus on conservation and ease of access, an interactive science museum downtown, Tony Packos... the list really goes on and on.","Quick question: Do you know if Jenny's ice cream is still in Columbus? Might be able to get back to Ohio in the next year or so, and would like to take family down to try it out as it's a good memory of mine.",0
"Fortunately for Europe, and unlike Hungary, Poland didn't forget that Russia can never be trusted, and they didn't spread their cheeks for Rosneft and Gazprom money like Budapest did.","If EU politicians had a backbone they'd at least have Ukraine cut off Hungary from Russian blood gas, and economically embargo Hungary as much as is legally possible if we can't kick them out.",1
"That's what a climate leader does, gets other countries to lower their negative environmental impact.",Otherwise there's no way a country with one of the highest carbon emissions per capita can be described as a climate leader.,1
The first sea trial probably saw issues and the ship thus has to be refitted. And this all is new for China.,"Which brings me to the real threat of China. If they ever decide to simply support a country like Russia with military aid, it would be devastating. I also believe that's what the no limits friendship was about. But sadly for China that didn't work out as Russia attacked Ukraine, one of China's best friends. Before the war there were talks about Ukraine being China's gateway into Europe. Then Russia became nothing but a gas station to China.",1
"Tesla's proprietary plug only fits Tesla's so Tesla has to build and sell an adapter. Then Tesla has to find a way to communicate with the all the different cars EV charging systems. Tesla chargers are dependent on the car and charger direct communication, there's no login device, no billing device.","Tesla chargers have no communication device, it is all handled by the car/charger direct so software would need to be created and adapted to all the other mfgs.",0
"1. That's why I'm charging my transportation secretary with launching a new, integrated database that will allow us to track any object in the sky, whether it be something commercial....or something more nefarious.","Jean-Pierre: ""Any object that violates sovereign American airspace, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will have to answer to the Federal government, and that's why Secretary Buttigieg will be working with regulators and other stakeholders to ensure we have total visibility in our skies."".",0
"Considering that was probably the biggest hit Russia has taken so far (in lost lives in a building), it's probably not a repeatable number.","Given that Russia is invading Ukraine, raping, genociding, kidnapping, killing, torturing its people; yes, I want the death count as high as possible. That is going to bring an end to the war sooner rather than later.",1
"If you’re saying the GOP is lying, I generally agree. If you mean all people who vote Republican are lying about wanting less government and are actually authoritarian fascists, you’re vastly oversimplifying it.","I don’t think anyone has ever said ALL conservatives are fascists but to say you can’t see the fascist tendencies in the American Republican Party (especially in the past few years) is being academically dishonest at best. “Small government” means a lot of things to a lot of people. Many conservatives I know conflate “big government” with that time they had to wait 30min to get their photo taken at the DMV. Unless it happened to them personally or one of their own, they have difficulty empathizing with folks even if their economic interest align. For example, obviously I don’t want to lump all Latino people together but generally speaking as a group they tend to be very Catholic and pretty conservative. You would think the GOP would be all over that but I’m assuming leaders made a calculation and figure it wasn’t worth risking the 1/4-1/3 of GOP who can’t let go of their racism and xenophobia.",1
"Yeah fuck that, if I was in my right mind I’d surrender as soon as I got the opportunity then spill my guts. “Those motherfuckers abducted me from rehab, threw a rifle and some ammunition at me then forced me to the front. I don’t wanna kill my countrymen, honestly, I just wanna get fucked up on Quaaludes and walk around town with no pants.”.","Like, if I’m a homeless alcoholic, I’m still going to be enraged by an invading force killing my countrymen.",1
"Sure, then argue that or similar as a scandal, instead of just vague ""drone strikes"". But if Trump did the same or worse, then it is hardly a good pick as an Obama criticism in this context.",But you picked a real criticism of Trump and a manufactured criticism of Obama. Why not use either McDonalds diet (manufactured controversy) for Trump or drone strikes (real controversy) for Obama. Otherwise it's a easily dismissable statement.,1
I get where you’re coming from. U want leadership to deliver but I realized GOP usually doesn’t work in good faith and use their position to muck up policies such as Obamacare to be seen as bad and twist the reality to fit their narrative to get more votes. That’s when I really want to ask who are u really for if all u do is to hinder your fellow person from trying to pass laws that can make positive changes. The fact that the politicians don’t want to see eye to eye should be the most obvious signal that our leadership fails in communicating tangible solutions. Which in turn makes u ask yourself are they even good leaders if u can’t even healthy communicate?,I’m not saying democratic policies are 100 percent perfect California would be a good example on that. We need both sides to find the solution together and they need to work together not attack politicians for trying to find common ground. If it’s not my way or the highway people start accusing the politicians on being too soft. Lol what is going on here lol.,0
"Hell, it’s harmful to other Christians. Anyone not part of their narrow Doomsday Club is in trouble. I’m sure being a Progressive Christian is basically admitting your love for the Antichrist to these people.",There are a lot of “Christian” democrats and if there’s one thing that unites all the faiths it’s any perceived persecution of their brethren. The separation of church and state is a fraud—“in god we trust” is on our money. How free can politics be considered to operate without undue religious influence when those same bribed politicians are themselves religious and paid with notes that explicitly state allegiance to “faith?”.,1
"Part of that is a lot of churches are running programs that the government should be but doesn’t. Most food banks I’ve seen in the UK for example are religious organisations. Be that a church, mosque or synagogue.","It is not about religion or orthodox church. There are two main orthodox churches in Ukraine. Moscow branch is ruled by Gundyaev (Patriarch Kirill of Moscow), who is an KGB agent. He is a religios propaganda machine for Putin and in top 100 richest Russians.",1
"But again, you look at Cuban voters who are more conservative and contrast this with the effort the democratic party puts into other Latinos, or even other races entirely.","Even though Florida Democrats haven't done a great job in recent history, this isn't a Hispanic voter problem, this is a specifically Cuban phenomenon.",1
That is not at all why KSA got involved in the civil war in Yemen. The war starts with the Iranian backed Houthi Militia withdrawing from the coalition government and attacking the military. KSA had treaties with the legitimate government and was drawn into the war. At this point the Houthi Militia have attacked KSA multiple times.,"The Houthi Militia started the war. They steal most of the aid KSA lets through. They absolutely are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of children. Their slogan is ""Allah is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam"". While there are no good guys fighting in this conflict the Houthi are the most responsible for the conflict having started it.",0
">The governor's decree of 20 December prohibits the use of private planes, air vehicles, including balloons, as well as drones in the region without a dispatcher’s permission. This is done ""to strenhen the protection of public order and ensure public safety."".","> . . . this is not the first time that Wagner has targeted Rogozin's location, trying to pass it off as an attack by the Armed Forces. Last week, while in Donetsk, Rogozin also came under fire, but the projectile landed in a nearby yard from the basement in which Rogozin was hiding.",1
"Material that the Jan 6 commission uncovered, such as the Eastman memos, builds a stronger case, but even then much of it doesn't directly implicate Trump.","Iit's not just that he threw in the word ""peacefully"" once, after spending two solid months whipping his supporters into a frenzy and telling them they need to ""fight like hell."" It's that a good lawyer (assuming Trump could find one willing to work for him) could easily establish reasonable doubt. ""I'll march down to the Capitol with you"" could be (the lawyer would argue) about peaceful protest. ""Fight like hell"" could be a metaphor for a political battle. And of course the clip with the word ""peacefully"" would be played repeatedly for the jury.",0
Western countries will publicly support peaceful protests but supporting a revolution in another country is very different.,That is why most western countries and article don't use this word even if there might be a few revolutionary among them. You essentially would justify Iran using armed force against them.,0
The Czech presidency has very few powers. It’s a ceremonial position (and yet one that tends to get filled by embarrassing people).,"No. Babiš has framed Pavel as a warmonger (going so far as to send out fake texts from Pavel telling the recipient that they have been mobilized), but it’s all bluster.",0
In addition to setting us back in the fight for equality by saying asinine things like racism doesn’t exist and slavery was a choice.,"As a black person, it’s a different kind of self hate to be a black conservative. It’s not racist to bring up race.",0
"I understand that many in the West fear a Russian escalation, but I think given the fact that Russia has invaded Ukraine and committed a long list of war crimes, it should be fully expected and normalised that Ukraine can strike military targets in Russia.","I think Ukraine should be fullyenabled (by Western weapon supplies) to attack targets like ammo depots, railway junctions and stations, military airports and barracks deep within Russia.",0
"Until last year the US inspected their warheads as did russia inspect ours it was a treaty, they absolutely have working nukes, this joke that russias nukes dont work needs to die,do the have the 5,000 nukes they proclaim, most likely not but they have enough to still ensure mutual destruction.",Edit; I know Russia has nuclear weapons but are we really sure they're in any condition to actually work? I mean it seems like Pooptin let the oligarchs and his cronies use military funding for nothing but their own greed.,1
It’s time for Congress to put in place commonsense guardrails that ensure all families have a fair chance to buy or rent a home in their community at a price they can afford.”””.,"I believe in a free market, but I also believe everyone should have a reasonable chance at getting their first residential home before someone has a chance at getting a vacation home or house to flip.",1
"I don't know if it was by design or not, but NATO slow-walking artillery in stages to the Ukrainians has been devastating to Russian supplies. Every time we roll out a new artillery system that increases the range of Ukrainian fire missions, Russia loses a whole mess of ammo and supply depots and is forced to push them even further back.","Once that is over, Ukrainian units will have the training and logistical support for the new toys and then launch their own offence, taking advantage of losses Russia suffered from any pyrrhic victories they might have had earlier.",1
"They're pinning far too much hope on images of a famous dick. America shrugs and collectively says, ""seen one dick, seem 'em all"", while Republicans continue to scratch their heads at why the plan's not working.","It's rather amusing, honestly. I can just hear Lindsey Graham on the Senate floor in a couple months, ""but, it's a penis Doesn't anyone care about dicks anymore?"".",0
"The drummed up outrage is so Texans keep hating 'illegals' so they never allow them to become citizens, where they would be paid min-wage and benefits.","Can't believe how stupid we are to not be busting our asses getting them citizenship, turning them into taxpaying low labor workers (and a few high wage ones in there I'm sure too).",1
"The SCOTUS was unanimous 9-0 including RBG ""the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding"".",Is that modern firearm were not envisioned by the framers of the constitution therefore they shouldn't be covered under the 2nd Amendment?,1
"The decision does not specify how the company must comply with the ruling, but it could result in Meta allowing users to choose whether they want their data used for such targeted promotions.","The case hinges on how Meta receives legal permission from users to collect their data for personalized advertising. The company includes language in its terms of service agreement, the very lenhy statement that users must accept before accessing services like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, that effectively means users must allow their data to be used for personalized ads or stop using Meta’s social media services altogether.",0
"Start buying more generic brands, I know generics are still high but not near as high as name brands anymore. It's the only way prices will ever come down, they won't drop them unless it's to compete with someone else due to sales dropping.","This may be a way of influencing price negotiations - if Tesco can get cheaper suppliers, they can cut prices and still make a profit.",1
Let's say it another way... Who here is stupid enough to believe that the multimillionaires and billionaires pay what they do in taxes instead of being poor and middle class because they are too stupid to give it away?,And then add in the tropes that republicans seem to believe in like giving rich people/corporations tax breaks will trickle down.,1
">Under the plan, workers who earn below a certain income threshold and contribute to a retirement plan could get a $2,000 match from the government. The income limits are $35,500 for single filers and $71,000 for married taxpayers.","The $2000 government match sounds good, except it’s only for single filers making $35,000 or married making $71,000. That really aught to be stepped up considerably in my opinion….",1
Arrow 3 is their primary midcourse/extreme altitude weapon while Arrow 2 and David’s Sling are meant for terminal phase warheads.,Arrow 3 looks freakin awesome and AFAIK is one of the only ABM systems to be tested against multiple (3) inbound targets. It boils down to Israel having comprehensive protection they can feel very confident in against Iran and just about everyone else. It is greatly enhanced by the relatively small area to defend. Even Arrow 3.,1
"Ty so much. I was raised in the deep south, so I did everything to ""pray the gay away"". I became very feminine to ""pass"" in society, because my family spoke openly about their hatred for gays. I lost all of them when they found out.","But I would like to give a very deep and heartfelt thanks to all the straight people who are wonderful and understanding. I tell my daughter not to lose faith in human beings, because the hateful ones can drown out the good. If it wasn't for straight people standing up and protecting us, we would be doomed. It's heartbreaking to see all the hate coming back with a vengeance. I really thought we were past that, but the propaganda from the right is growing and bringing back so much venom. I'm afraid for my daughter. I always remind her not to lose faith in people because some are hateful. I show her all the straight people who are on our side and who keep us safe. I think Thanksgiving is a great day to give a heartfelt thanks to all of you who stand up for us. I'm so grateful for all of you.",0
If Plaza Vea is across the street and the person you're crossing with is old or disabled you're waiting for a nice big opening. Could be there a while.,I wonder what does happen then. I don't think the folks who try bunker down will have any greater success long-term tbh.,1
Which is wild because there were plenty of contemporary testimonies of Russian officials horrified of the things they saw in the camps (Although the Russian army did their share of atrocities in their way to Berlin as well).,"Russia took over Nazi concentration camps and also created many of their own, but to the best of my knowledge they never ran any extermination camps.",1
"Education is a public good if it, in some manner, contributes to the Gross Domestic Product. There is very little a guy with a PhD in Etruscan Nose Flutes is ever going to contribute.",It’s time to put that PhD in Cro-Magnon Musical Instruments to work (or start flipping burgers) and pay back what you owe. It’s high time you learn that nobody owes you a Goddamn thing.,0
Oh it will certainly be a benefit to the mega wealthy. One of the exemptions to the 30% tax is business to business sales. Zero chance that gets abused.,"I wish it was a joke, but they're super serious. I highly doubt it has a chance of passing, but that that is the idea they've come up with is scary af. There's even an exemption to the tax for business to business sales. No one will take advantage of that. Right?",0
"Not impossible, as there are still legal methods (like a successful objection to electoral votes). What the reform act does is close some of the loopholes that existed because there wasn't clarification in existing law (like what actually count as official state electors and what's the role of the VP?).","The most likely ruling, if the recent arguments are any indication, wont be a wholesale ""state legislatures can do whatever they want"", but something more along the lines of ""Courts can invalidate state laws but not impose their own rules"" (like appointing a special team to create district maps).",0
"Most of the journalists aren't putting their lives on line, most of the journalists ignore important and relevant News and pump out cheap news that gets clicks/retweets. Journalists and editors are also responsible for curating news, manipulating story, pumping out headlines that grab attention and distorts the truth.","Most of the journalists, are too busy selecting news that fit their readers viewpoints, using their wild imagination to create headlines, use all of their education to pump in opinions in news, all to get more clicks/retweets/subscription.",0
"My core point, which I believe I may have strayed from (and I apologize for that), is that people have a great capability for good or evil and religion is simply a tool for either. To blame religion for evil in the world is like blaming cars for car accidents. Religion is a tool to explain the unknown, give purpose, and connect people. Unfortunately, that can be used in very negative ways too.","History and every evidence point agrees with me. My point is not to undermine evil, my point is that it's a weak and petty cop out to put the blame on religion when it's humanity we should blame.",0
"Moreover, the reason why anthropogenic global warming is a cause for concern is the rate of warming—the earth has been much warmer in the past when you go back at least millions of years, but the warming period were over tens of thousands of years, not the decades as we are currently experiencing. This makes ecological adjustment to temperature fluxes significantly more difficult and disastrous.","This is easily proven incorrect: . Today is significantly warmer than the medieval warm period, which was regionalized to primarily Europe anyways.",0
"Nearly every republican politician is like this. Their moral compasses are determined by what will get them elected. It’s why the party literally adopted the “whatever Trump says” platform - that’s what the base wanted, despite how at odds it was with religious conservatism.","Their politicians may not have resembled populists in the past, but that almost certainly changed when Trump got the nomination. I am not sure saying whatever weird thing will get you votes can really be classified as true populism, though.",0
"I think it is eaither a radicalized nutjob like you said, or some kind of russian attack/sabotage in a NATO country.","Strictly speaking, people stilll haven't come to terms that russia=/=communism and that being anti-imperialism, anti-USA and pro-russia can act as separate positions; you don't have to be pro-USA if you are anti-russia and viceversa but people don't seem to grasp this, much less consider it. And this affects both sides.",0
"Yeah, the CIA convinced him to dissolve the congress, and then somehow had the ability and resources to get virtually the entire peruvian congress to vote to impeach.",this dictatorial power-grab gave the peruvian government all the reason it or anyone should ever need to exercize its impeachment powers. as apparently he's a wackjob populist wannabe dictator.,1
"High explosives don't look like this. Watch footage of a controlled demolition, or go over to r/CombatFootage and look at munitions exploding. There's very little flame/fire involved. Hollywood doesn't use those explosives because they're not visually impressive enough.","Have to factor in greatly increased shipping costs. Pipeline to EU is very cheap compared to shipping to India. Add to that the lack of available ships thanks to the sanctions that just kicked in, and lawl. At fifty two dollars they are losing money.",0
"A democratic door to door rep came to my rural door this year, frazzled and fearing for her life because of her previous stops. In case you’re wondering HOW we’re doing here in rural america.","I grew up in Rural America. My Mom's side of the family is Arkansas hollow people. It is going to be extremely difficult if not damn near impossible to pull these people away from the Republican party. Deep rural people have become clanish, hostile to outsiders, hostile to authority, deeply closed minded, and profoundly ignorant of current societal and cultural norms. Conservatism for these people is more of a personality trait than a political ideology. The only way they would ever turn on Republicans is if they started cutting their welfare and social security checks. Which Republicans absolutely want to do. This would be the only way to finally convince them that Republicans were the problem all along.",1
"Make carbon and oil more expensive so it makes every megacorp switch the renewables to preserve their bottom line. At the same time, carbon being so pricey would drive investment in carbon capture tech.",Ad to that a carbon tax can impact behavior. But there's not actually a place for all that carbon tax money to go to change things. We can do all the financial accounting we won't. Doesn't change the immediate fact that billions of lives entirely depend on fossil fuel emissions to survive.,1
"For all the Bitching about her Emails and going after Biden for this, doesn't excuse Trump for knowingly partaking in something he knew damn well he wasn't supposed to be doing and when asked nicely, flat out refused to do the right thing.","Now Republicans and MAGA would doublespeak and excuse him anyway, but there are plenty of uninformed yahoo's out there who will look at this and say ""oh, guess Biden did the same thing."".",1
"If those things are all true, I have yet to hear a logical explanation as to why Putin waited until Trump was out of office before he launched the invasion? It just makes no sense.","Ah yes. Schrodingers idiot. Biden is a bumbling, incompetent, and senile old man but also clever enough to argue with a dictator who was in the KGB for years.",1
Or Jeffries can pick up a few liberal republicans with pet projects and shakey re-election chances (or who are deciding to not run in the future or who have a blue shifting seat) to vote for him.,"I think it’s more likely he spends the entire general election saying the republicans stole it from him, and even if he doesn’t outright say it, he’ll cause 5-10% of GOP voters to stay home which is enough for a massacre of an election.",1
"While I think Russia’s self-maintained image as a bulwark against western colonialism is laughable at best (it wasn’t for lack of trying and Russia also swallowed the entirety of Eastern Europe and many Asian nations around it), I wish these countries understood what a pathetic bet Russia is. Economically, its partners tend to do very poorly (Cuba, Venezuela, SA, Syria, etc) and don’t seem to benefit much from the relationship, and militarily we’ve seen that Russia is at best a third rate regional power that got lucky by having nukes. Basically Russia is little more than a European Pakistan. And, if after Ukraine, you think Russia’s military is going to intimidate the West…well, I don’t really know what to tell you. At least China I can understand from an economic perspective, but Russia could barely compete with individual U.S. states, much less superpowers. If you want your foreign policy to solely be about being anti-westernism at the expense of technology, growth and wealth, I guess knock yourself out with Russia.","“I can't say I blame India for strenhening ties with Russia, but I would always highlight how Russia's zero sum attitude towards politics and influence had often turned Russian friendship into a bit of a losers club for nations who spurn or get spurned by the developed world and has not, historically, proven a long term partner for growth.”.",0
It is not the government of Canada causing the problems it is the provincial regulators who are in charge of accreditation. The provincial governing bodies are run by doctors who don't want more competition for the dollars available. Take the accreditation process out of the hands of doctors and put it with a provincial government agency and the accreditation problem will go away. The way it is now it's like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.,"No the provincial colleges of Physicians do. Some provinces don't have colleges of physicians like Ontario does, so they have other names. It is a provincial jurisdiction. Even moving from one province to another poses problems for physicians in Canada.",0
"""... When the spectre of nuclear war was raised, Russia chose the more honorable option of retreating rather than risk the horrors of such a war."".","Which is already happening. Ukrainian forces are now not even 7 miles outside of Severodonetsk. If that falls or is even rendered useless as a major hub because of front line combat, effectively the entire Luhansk Oblast falls, and Russia becomes dependent on only a handful routes to keep the entire invasion force manned and equipped, something that becomes easy to prey upon.",1
"If he does end up running as a third party candidate, it would only be a vehicle to extort more money from his cult, and to screw over the republicans who turned on him.","The Republicans can't really help him right now with his legal problems, and as far as being a tightwad, who says he would spend any money even as a third party candidate?",1
A lot of states have weakened the power of teacher's unions primarily for monetary reasons. The sad thing is most of the teachers and professors I know just really want to help their students learn. They do nlt have some hidden agenda other than making them critical thinkers.,"I went to graduate school in Florida to get my Phd. Professors are scared to even use the word diversity in emails now referring to it as the ""d"" word. Whenever thought is punished, it is never a good situation. It is scary what is happening now in Florida.",0
"If most people donated worn out shoes that can't be reused, and Reuters donated shoes in good shape, their shoes are not representative of what happened to most shoes. It might be that most shoes were recycled.","In a poorer country like Singapore If p If shoes are in good shape, people are going to reuse shoes. This may be done by the recycling company, or it may be done by employees picking out the good shoes. It makes environmental sense. However, Dow is going to need to rewrite their press releases and say the shoes will be recycled or reused. In some previous programs, Dow said they would recycle or reuse materials, but this time they seemed to have forgotten to add the words reused.",0
"I would read that as they are wanting to ban all semi-automatic firearms. Which would cover most firearms including hunting rifles, handguns, and so called ""assault"" weapons.","What's the definition of ""assault weapons""? The last time there was a federal assault weapons ban it was just a gun cosmetics ban.",1
"Imagine how white hot Fox correspondents would be if it came out CNN officials informed the Biden campaign about Trump ads? Shit, they were already white hot about Biden asking for revenge porn to be taken down from Twitter.",“The Twitter Files” tried to kick up a furor over candidate Biden asking for revenge porn photos of his son to be taken down.,1
"Not to mention that a wealth tax is dumb as hell. Tax income. Not enough? Tax it some more. Newer, higher brackets. I like the Eisenhower rates, so long as it's adjusted for 70 years of inflation.",IMO the long term cap gains rate is too low. It should have higher brackets just like earned income.,0
"That's not even getting into how ridiculously expensive it is to maintain roadways, especially highways, compared to how many people they serve or the fact we could easily replace lanes of highway with rail lines and it would be perfectly reasonable to do so where the track can reasonably be placed.",You're just not really understanding how insanely expensive that would be for dozens of 50k person towns where 200 people would use it and the routes would need to cover hundreds of road miles to even begin to replace cars.,1
Illinois has raised the minimum wage but officials in individual townships are allowed to opt out on the increases. They need to increase the federal minimum wage.,"Year 15 of wanting a minimum wage increase over the federal in PA and not getting it. We're one of the highest COL states in the country that STILL continues to stick with the federal minimum of $7.25. And we have a state preemption in place for topics like this (or gun control) where local municipalities can't override the state law with a stricter or more advanced minimum. Every state surrounding us (including West fucking Virginia!) has a higher minimum wage. You'd have to go to such far-flung lands as Indiana, Kentucky, or New Hampshire to get an equal bottom floor. The last time we saw a boost was 2008. This is yet another example of our Republican-controlled state government hamstringing (rust belt) blue cities from improving themselves.",1
He's not pushing for votes (the GOP shoved him into a new deep blue district because his first election he won in a real red district). He's literally just there to learn about queer lives and take our concerns back to the Leg. Not that it does shit in Texas.,"He's got a real Fetterman vibe -- he was just a small business owner until Trump was elected, and he saw that twerp divide up his social circle, demonize good people, and generally fracture things and felt he couldn't stand helpless and wanted to do something.",0
3) The Minsk agreements were sorta doomed from the start with Russia refusing to admit any involvement in the conflict. You can't establish peace when the other party claims to not even be involved.,"1) Editorial note says that she meant it would buy time for a lasting peace. You can believe that or not, but Angela Merkel is also the one criticized for attempting to use economic ties with Russia to prevent war. Would be a strange move if it was all a ploy to prepare for war.",0
"They look like balloons, they move like balloons, I'm not seeing anything that would indicate these are anything other than balloons other than that they aren't just saying they're balloons.","I think balloons are technically inflated, so if it's like a zeppelin style thing it's not technically a balloon?",0
"Which in turn is decided by the unions, all the evil shit we see from police, like protecting and reassignment of abusers, is usually done by the police union, it's the quintessential example of how unions can end up going wrong.","Yeah, the Policeman's union is a terrible thing, but not because of it being a union, but because of the laws and regulations (or rather lack of) that allows people to challenge police officers (in court) or file complaints/suits that actually matter.",1
"Finish the meat grinder, end of war maybe, Russia doesn't care to qonquer, care to be safe. Ukraina is destroyed by elite warmongers, we wish to be the last fight. Focus on WORLD Prosperity and not for a few pockets.","Your last paragraph will clear up sooner(end of war) than all the scheme of West to destroy Russia and feast on the riches. Is childish now to talk geopolitics, after all the attempts every century to destroy Russia, learn something, Russia is in the blood veins of this earth, it affects us all, we can't stab our own body, it's a sin, a mistake, only paranoids and sick greedy entities do this, don't be a part at least.",0
If they didn't have Nukes then all of the countries supplying Ukraine with weapons to defend itself probably wouldn't have to add the stipulation of not attacking Russia back with said weapons.,"Based on the Ukraine war rhethoric, if I was South Korea, I would base my deterrence calculus not on, ""will China nuke us if we violate their no-first-use policy?"", but instead, on ""will China nuke us if have the option of nuking them right back?"".",1
"(i) was published on a social media platform or by other means of publication with the likelihood that it would be viewed by persons who are predisposed to engaging in any action in furtherance of a white supremacy inspired hate crime, or who are susceptible to being encouraged to engage in actions in furtherance of a white supremacy inspired hate crime;.","(B) at least one of whom published material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on “replacement theory”, or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group, and such published material—.",0
"It's important to note that since they are territories, the constitution doesn't fully apply, so it allows them unique benefits. For example while some may see American Samoans status as US Nationals as a bad thing, this allows them to have special immigration policy (you can't simply move there if you are American) land ownership is racially restricted.","It is, the nature of territorial status means that the constitution doesn't fully apply, which is what allows the ethnic based laws to operate.",0
"If Google also requires that apps are priced the same even on desktop and not on Google-powered devices, then Google is equally anticompetitive as apple.","It isn't about being a ""fair"" rate- Apple and Google don't deserve 30% of your business simply because you developed an app on their platform.",1
"I mean sure, the Russian military has been a complete clusterfuck in this war, but they definitely have more experience than anyone else with burning tanks.","Although I am sure the Russians will claim to have destroyed these tanks, probably before they even arrive, like the last few times they claimed to destroy weapons which hadn't arrived in Ukraine yet, but I doubt they will actually destroy many of them.",1
Not really. It's not like he's Trump on National Television announcing the capabilities of the US military. Then directly comparing them to countries he thinks are inferior to his while declaring an act of war. It's just some guy on the internet talking theoretical logistics.,Sure they are allies with China out of necessity. But we don't know what modern China is capable of. As they haven't been truly battle tested in longer than most of the population can remember. However I imagine they aren't doing that much better than Russia and both their people and economy would cause a lot of destabilization and infighting right now. Far more than Russia believe it or not.,0
"It is interesting how every time I speak about the whole Western block, someone always come out with ""but the Americans..."". If we want to dig into the past, the Soviets have killed more Afghans in the first day of operations than the Americans in about 10 years (28.000). You speak about a few thousands foreigner tortured by the Americans. Now compare them with the millions of Russians sent to Gulags. But somehow, they are put on the same level. If this relativism sets through, no one will ever be held accountable for anything and we are back to a free for all.","It is entirely possible to condemn Russia without falling into relativism with America: after all, I am writing from Austria and the US is not ""the West"".",0
"Would you have preferred the statement, ""It gives us the all clear to move forward... Well, not quite yet, but it removes a hurdle?"".","Yep. Putting more money in the hands of those who are more likely to spend rather than hoard creates demand in the market. A healthy economy is one where money flows through it, like blood through its veins.",1
"The US has 45 B-1's, 20 B-2's, and 76 B-52's in active service. Normally the low number would be a sign of Russian weakness (like their Su-57 or T-14 inventory,) but in this case the reason is that heavy bomber inventories are limited by the START nuclear treaties.","Even if it's just confirming that the bombers aren't as good as the Russians say they are, that's still important information for how air defenses are set up or managed. Best case scenario is the bombers are actually advanced and any information already gathered can be confirmed and/or added to.",1
"He doesn't actually care about what Hunter Biden did or didn't do, what he cares about is keeping that in the media cycle because ""political correctness"" is done, people aren't scared of terrorist right now, immigration fears are not working, they ""won"" on CRT and abortion and this is just the next thing to keep their supporters engaged. Republicans run on outrage and drop out when it comes to discussions about governing.",They've made about two generations of people who are disinterested in actual democracy and governance other than to keep it out of their lives as much as possible and totally invasive in their political and cultural enemies lives.,0
"Musk’s actions since closing the deal last year have illuminated how he sees the balance internet platforms must strike in protecting free expression versus user safety. While he’s lifted restrictions on many previously suspended accounts including former President Donald Trump’s, he’s also placed new limitations on journalists’ and others’ accounts for posting publicly available flight information that he equated to doxxing.","“The question of free speech is always more complicated than it looks,” said David Brody, managing attorney of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. “There’s a freedom to speak freely. But there’s also the freedom to be free from harassment, to be free from discrimination.”.",0
"I could understand his pride if he thought he was hitting a hitler equivalent, but Pelosi's husband isnt even a government official, nor does he have a large media presence. Even if he was successful there would be 0 change! Its just violence for violence sake.","There has to be a middle ground between doing nothing and committing murder. Police are just too fucking incompetent (at best, racist at worst) to find it.",1
"The pope at the time of WW2 sheltered literally thousands of Jews to protect them from the Holocaust, and he literally had contacts with the German resistance and was passing on that intelligence to the Allies, i think that would be considered ""helpful"".","""Pius’ supporters—many of whom have advocated for the pope’s canonization—point out that the Catholic Church saved thousands of Jews by hiding them in churches and monasteries across Italy, as well as in the Vatican itself. Though acolytes argue that Pius’ inaction and silence allowed these secret actions to continue, critics cite the treatment of Jews living in Rome during World War II. As NPR’s Sylvia Pogglioli points out, a plaque standing just 800 yards from St. Peter’s Square states, “On 16 October 1943 entire Jewish Roman families ripped from their homes by the Nazis were brought here and then deported to extermination camps. Of more than 1,000 persons, only 16 survived.”.",1
"Yeah. It was an autobiography, and at the beginning of the book he is separated from his mother and sister because they were murdered on arrival. Him and his dad were spared since they could do hard labour.","Yeah, I remember reading Kite Runner and Night in 8th grade without being informed of the descriptions of SA. Those books are amazing, but I agree that the content should be made transparent by teachers before assigning it.",0
I hardly think it's at all pessimistic to remind people that they can't just breathe a sigh of relief and check out of politics until the next election because things didn't go quite as badly as they could have this time. Complacency is how we end up with a repeat of 2016.,"My point: the next few DECADES are no time for complacency. Like it or not, Democrats and non-Republicans generally need to show the same disciplined commitment to voting in EVERY election as Republicans and Pro Life advocates have demonstrated since Roe v Wade. Politics REQUIRES effort, and as someone who has voted in every election since I turned 19 (yes, I skipped a fall odd-year local election at home when I was a freshman in college across the country), I have no sympathy for ANY reason not to vote.",1
"I hated English class in school for so long, it was reading boring books I didn’t want to read but it taught me how to think and analyze media and I’m so grateful I had to read those books. And yeah sometimes it made me uncomfortable. That was occasionally the point.","Slight tangent. The Inbetweeners (UK) is one of my absolute favorite shows but The Inbetweeners (US) was absolutely horrible. Among the many reasons the US version was bad, and to me the top reason, is that there's essentially no dirty language. High schoolers have very filthy mouths and minds so any show that's set in highschool without foul language is really a big stretch on reality.",1
"But since the Dem is the one in the lead, the only way that happens in this scenario is if the people voting against McCarthy are so dead set on him not getting the spot that they're willing to let the Democrat take it instead.","If nothing else, Democrats throwing around their power to get someone other than McCarthy elected makes them appear powerful and gives them symbolic control of Congress (“even without a majority, we get shit done”).",1
"The last two can't happen, because the votes simply do not exist to scrap the filibuster rule. It will happen at some point, and I have no doubt about that. But it's not going to happen in this Congress or the next one. And considering the awful, awful 2024 Senate map, probably not in the 119th Congress either.","Without getting rid of the filibuster, we likely can’t do most of what you list because I doubt we’ll find around 10 republicans that want those things.",1
"As for flying over an air force facility, was that a published MOA or NSA restricted airspace? And what altitudes are restricted?","Not all of CONUS airspace is controlled at the same level at all altitudes. Some areas or zones that are restricted at lower categories (ie control zones around civil airports) may be open at higher altitudes for passenger routes, etc. Some areas that may have higher altitude restrictions may not have those same restrictions lower.",0
"having not been at war, I cannot comprehend being distorted into doing such things. though, I'm not sure it was war trauma that made these people behave in this way...guess it can't be discounted.",In some cases I'm sure that's true; but I imagine there's also many cases of war transforming people into something that their loved ones no longer recognize as the same person who left.,1
I feel like presidents pick a vp that appeals to audiences they don't capture. Generally this is identity and politics based. There is no point to cloning the president having both the president and VP appeal to the same demographic.,Trump has problems with female voters. Nikki Haley would probably increase the ticket's appeal to female voters and maybe a little less maga (republican) voters.,0
Would be an interesting trick given Trump has personally claimed them and demands them back. More poorly thought out false equivalence my friend.,That is what the investigation is for to find out whatever hole caused it and improve the process. Misplaced documents like this happen after every admin practically. The proper process here was followed and I am extremely doubtful any crime occurred let alone one Biden is culpable for.,0
um. thats what you chose to comment in this thread about an insane threat from iran? geeee. do you have a biased take on the conflict in israel maybe?,you cant criticize israel without it being labeled “antisemitism!”: 25%ish of the world is muslims. the grand mufti met with hitler to help him out before israel was ever founded... jews face more hate crimes per capita than anyone else in the usa. the UNHRC condemns israel about as much as all other countries combined (46%). it IS mostly anti semitism. to shit sooo much on the one jewish country for defending itself against hamas who makes no distinctions between jews and israelis in its founding charter as stated above. furthermore. it is an offensive. stupid. strawman. trope. that i cant tell the difference. as a jew. when it is anti israel vs anti semitism.,0
"I doubt every nation around Russia isn’t quadrupling their military arsenal after this war. Either that or they are negotiating with the EU, NATO or the USA for some type of military contract. Be it arms or protection.","Has their old recipe worked? No. Putin has been killing, invading, annexing regions and destroying governments/nations because for the longest time there wasn’t retaliation or consequences.",0
Bu the time the Americans arrive everything West & North of the Urals will be dead or reduced to ruins. No nukes needed.,Those nukes don't look too scary anymore. I wonder if they're even operational. Russian military corruption has been completely exposed to the whole world. Sorry...not sorry 😁.,1
"China has 1.4 billion people in it. Even at a mortality rate of 0.01%, that'd still lead to 14 million dead. 14, being a double digit number starting with a ""1,"" is in the ""10's"" group.","That will also lead to hundreds of new variants developing. It's only a matter of time before all of our vaccines for COVID become essentially worthless, at that rate.",0
"tangential aside, that was actually built in Ukraine, if i remember right part of the reason it has so much trouble aside from poor design is that it was basically unfinished when Ukraine achieved independence from the union and the soviets basically knicked it out of dock before Ukraine could potentially lay claim to it.","doubtful to be honest, presuming any sanity left in the russian command, staging ships there literally brings them right into range of ukraines anti-ship armament, and if they actually dock, the artillery.",0
"Yeah, I've noticed this as well. It's a bit frustrating how I'm not sure if there's any brand I can trust, which is why I decided to pick by optical quality and price first, then configure the firewall to drop out packets and put them on their own VLAN.","Ubiquiti is definitely one of my top alternatives, I'm just concerned because it seems like a lot of buy-in. I think if I want the ""full"" experience I'd need to run the whole stack (say, the entire unifi stack, which I would probably need rack mounting space for).",0
I'm not sure if rage is the most powerful emotions humans have. but it wouldn't surprise me. And humans honestly are just one big sloppy bag of emotions. Kind of makes sense that they would use one of our strongest emotions against ourselves and each other.,It's hilarious that Republicans claim that the FBI is run by Lefty Democrats. I believe the FBI has never been run by a Democrat.,0
"Who are the oligarchs? If all the political power is in the hands of just a few people, we should be able to name them like we do with actual oligarchs instead of just citing statistics from government reports like this article does.","If you want me to believe that we live in a real true oligarchy where the rich are stifling our efforts to do anything about it, call me when the majority of primaries are won by progressives.",1
"Example: pectic ulcer. For decades it was said to be cause by ""stress"" or ""spicy food"", even if there was evidence from the 50s pointing to bacterial causes for the majority of cases. Only in the 80s new studies pointing H. pylori as the main cause started to make waves in that established view, and only in the late 90s the CDC made an effort to change the view of doctors countrywide to look for bacterial causes and treatment.","I remember someone saying that true revolutions in science can only happen every 30 or 40 years, which is the time for every figure of authority gatekeeping a given area to either die or retire and open space for new blood.",0
"Are you suggesting that the only way for Zelenskyy to maintain power is for him to appease corrupt officials by allowing them to steal? Even during war time, when the state traditionally is given additional powers to fight against corruption?","To be fair, before he attempts to expand government it's probably good to get rid of the corrupting forces and finish the war for their very survival first.",1
"Beyond trade secrets, knowing this Canadian provision, what manufacturer will proclaim their products (for export to Canada) are animal tested?",China removing their requirements on foreign cosmetics to be tested on animals isn't completely true.,1
Besides pushing oil production from the US to Venezuela does little for the environment. I guess it helps win elections though.,Ah that explains why we moved to the Venezuelans. But the question remains why we moved from domestic production in the first place?,0
"There is definitely an authoritarian streak among young leftists, but the problem is a much less urgent one. The extreme left is less violent, less organized, less funded, and much farther away from the levers of power. (For a historical parallel, Germans were absolutely right not to trust the KPD, which was practically run out of Moscow, but they never were the threat the Nazis were.).","That's the thing. If we were to just give up, the very next election likely would be the end of democracy. But we don't give up. The question is just whether we put up enough of a fight.",1
"That will also lead to hundreds of new variants developing. It's only a matter of time before all of our vaccines for COVID become essentially worthless, at that rate.",There are no “delayed” effects to the covid vaccines beyond the standard 6 weeks in trials. Only some extremely rare adverse reactions that happen in this time.,1
"I will say what he is doing has become somewhat overshadowed by the war. While we all knew how Russia treats dissidents, it was still a huge message for him to willingly be arrested and show the world what they're capable of, and very publicly.","Oh ye, who is oh so learned in the ways of Russian opposition and totally not a troll, who do you suggest _is_ a fine example of Russian opposition then?",1
"Uh, but Russia is responsible for the missile strike on Poland. If it was Ukrainian Air Defense missile that hit, they wouldn't have had to fire it if Russia wasn't bombing them.","Didn't they just say ""Russian-made"" and aren't many of the weapons that Ukraine is and has been using Russian-made?",1
Not sure how to explain it other than I just didn’t have good food? I spent about a month in each country so I had a fairly good idea of the food. 90% of my meals were at food carts or little local restaurants with those tiny plastic chairs. So the type of restaurants I went to were all the same across Asia.,"A lot of food is hella derivative, even Asian stuff in the SE. However compared to EU, there’s less varieties of food and a lot can be a direct impact of colonialism that elevates the variety of food in European countries.",1
"Yes. The Soviet Union had 35,000 nuclear weapons and about 3,200 in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus at the moment of its dissolution.","And I'll just leave this one here on one small point: Ukraine had thousands of nuclear weapons. If it had spent $0 in the past 30 years on nuclear warhead maintenance, would it completely lose its deterrence value against Russia's attempt at a full invasion?",1
"As far as I am aware very little is being given to ukraine right off a production line / active procurement program. Therefore any money going back to defense corps should be from orders placed by Ukraine using their own defense budget, to some extent bolstered by US loans/grants.","I'm not really sure Ukraine is getting actual money to spend, I think it's mostly supplies and weapons. I really would like to see a balance sheet from the United States with details about where the money is going but I think I already know... Raytheon, Boeing, Northrup, etc...",1
"Second, no one said anything about proxy wars being bad (or at least worse than the alternative). It was an observation that we're already regressing back to the cold war era a bit just by nature of the groups taking sides with funding the Ukraine/Russia war.",I put it in quotes just to say that Ukraine falling is about as serious of a threat to global freedom as we’ve had since WWII!,1
They've been programmed for decades by fascists to not only hate their government. But to want to destroy and dismantle it as well. In favor of fascist rule. And I'm not here to cheerlead for our current government. It needs major changes and fixes. But the government is our power. The people. We need to take it back from the corporations. Not destroy it for them.,"I dunno if anyone ever considered Bush an outsider. Grandson of a man possibly implicated in the business plot, as the man they wished to install as a fascist dictator over the United States. Son of the former head spook, who oversaw innumerable clandestine attacks against other nations and democracies. If he felt they didn't love American business interests right. Was also 2nd banana to one of the 2 most damaging elected fascists in the United States. And went on to be a failure of a president as well. Jr was pretty ""in"" at least as I saw it. At least as much as the Kennedys would be these days.",0
"So I Have ADHD and my brain is naturall low on these chemicals. I am prescribed methamphetamine hydrochloride. I went from adderall ( a racemic 75% dextroamphetamine and 25% levoamphetamine) easily the worst amphetamine stimulant drug out there with all the peripheral side effects, to 100% dextroamphetamine (dexedrine) much less side effects and more potent and then to methamphetamine hcl which is the smoothest of them all. It really helps out and most people don’t even realize that it’s still used today for medical purposes because of the stigma as a dirty street drug.","Hitler wasn’t just a meth head, his doctor really hooked him up with good shit. He was intravenously injected with a combo of cocaine, oxycodone and methamphetamine. A speedball. Hitler thought his doctor was the savior that cured all his ailments. That’s pretty much why hitler was making rash and stupid decisions from a military standpoint towards the end.",0
Wouldn’t breaking up Russia would throw it back into chaos like how it was with the solviet era with constant power shifts and war? I could be painfully ignorant so correct me if I’m wrong.,Edit: to be clear I’m not defending the Russian government in any capacity. I support Ukraine and hope that Germany can hold out this winter without Russian gas as I think they got a third of their energy from Russia.,0
I watched it all the way through at least twice. It was my happy show. And then...2016...and ruined.,It's just too on the nose. It didn't really mean to be. It wanted to be outlandish parody. But it was too accurate.,0
I'm sure Israel would be more progressive if Palestinians did not elect terrorist groups like Hamas who want to take all aid money to launch rockets at innocent Israelis.,"Not to mention the mass amount of destruction, horror and murder Israel does pretty much yearly in Gaza with impunity.",1
"Netanyahu’s ultranationalist, ultra Orthodox political allies have announced plans to change the Law of Return, a 1950 law that guarantees citizenship for all Jews, from any country in the world, who can prove to have at least one Jewish grandparent and which is widely seen as a fundamental legislative framework through which Israel supports the diversity of the world Jewish community.","Other radical far-right coalition members have called to legitimize Israeli settlements in the West Bank in a way that operationally, if not legally, sets the stage for Israeli annexation of that disputed territory, and would signal the end of any prospects for a two-state solution, in which a Palestinian state would exist alongside Israel.",0
"(On that note, is it just me or is Georgia's runoff law basically a longer version of ranked choice?).",I. Cannot. Wait. For. A. Trump. And. Desantis. Debate. It’s going to be off the rails and we will get watch the republicans cannibalize themselves in real time omfg.,1
My main thing was safety. Keep in mind this is going to happen regardless so would you rather it be done safer and legal or unsafe and illegal (encouraging more crime in general).,"Perhaps those laws aren't being enforced and criminals aren't dissuaded, so a task force is necessary to halt that illegal activity.",1
"Yes. The way most people talk about using insanity as a defense, not many seem to understand how difficult it is to prove to a psychiatrist that you were suffering a debilitating mental illness before you committed the offense. People who get found not guilty by insanity, almost always have a long history of psych care before the crime. You can't just decide after you commit a crime that you were insane.",I don’t think this is leading up to an insanity plea. This is an unhinged narcissist holding on to delusions of grandeur. He really has to convince himself that he’s special and he’s doubling down on it big time as the walls come tumbling down around him. Look at the NFTs. Most of us thought they were a joke but they were real. He sees himself as a superhero. This is extreme narcissism. The bigger question is why do so many Americans not see this and I believe that is because there are a lot of emotionally unwell people in America. Mental health here doesn’t get the attention it deserves and personality disorders are rampant. There are a lot of narcissists in America and they look up to Trump because he’s a public display of what they want to be. I’m an American by the way. There are still people here with empathy but often it feels like we are aliens on another planet when dealing with Trump supporters. They don’t understand us and we don’t understand them.,1
"It is difficult, but possible. I think Zelensky, used the Servant of the people show to offer a mirror and a vision of future to the Ukrainians. That is an important first step. The Maidan protests, and the fact that he was elected based on this vision is an evidence that there's a buy in from the Ukrainian people. The war could be an important catalyst that will speed up the process, but assistance and help from the west will be essential. We must not betray their trust in us and our system of government and rule of law.",I come from that part of the world and it was eerily reminiscent of my country's transition to democracy. Other than the fear of Russian invasion. ( I guess we finally kicked them out in 1990 or 91 so we did have that practical experience in the past).,0
I mean. There’s a difference right? I don’t agree with my kid being taught creationism because it’s an unproven idea someone had that has no bearing on reality.,They don’t want us to teach that gender is a social construct even though that is solidified by research and testing.,0
"Same! It is a testament to how awful of a candidate she is that she can fail in such a miserable fashion, but hey, what else would you expect from this ""FirEBraNd""?","However however however however! There are approximately 6,200 undervotes in this race. An undervote is a vote where the voter simply left this election blank OR marked in a faint or small way their intention (think putting a single dot with your ballpoint pen in a scantron bubble or maybe underlining a candidate’s name as opposed to filling out the circle by their name). IF there is a mark or indication which election reviewers can reasonably ascertain, that undervote then becomes a real vote which is then counted. It is important to note that the vast majority of these votes will not result in a change to vote totals and that they are likely blank. I simply point out that these votes exist in case we see further changes in the coming weeks and people wonder where these new votes are being tabulated from.",0
When I was a kid we had snow every year at the beginning of December. It's February and there is no snow.,"It's the middle of February. This summer and all summers to come are going to be unbearable. We are past the point of ""when"" and into the ""now"". Global warming and the effects its going to have on the planet are being seen every year with increasing intensity and its only going to get worse.",1
Insurance is required yes. For any cargo ship. But I fail to see the point of why would Russian ships be even attempting to insure their cargo in a western company.,"Lastly, if something bad happens to one of the ships a western insurer would likely stop insuring russian ships altogether. A russian insurer, under the orders of putin, might continue to insure the ships no matter how many of them crash and burn. And the insurance will be paid in rubles which has no benefit to the west whatsoever.",1
>The Democratic National Committee and the party’s Senate and House campaign arms — the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — have made similar commitments to return donations from former FTX executives.,The Democratic National Committee and the party’s Senate and House campaign arms — the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — have made similar commitments to return donations from former FTX executives.,1
"It would be worse for the red states, but it would likely benefit blue states, especially my home of California. Hell California could be its own country and survive. We are the fifth biggest economy in the world, we have the capacity of producing a lot of our own food, the only thing we would struggle with is water, which is something we already struggle with and will likely have to use desalination technology eventually.","Most other blue states would also benefit from no longer subsidizing the red states. Some things would likely become more expensive, food prices for example because they would need to import a lot more. But in reality, there is not a ton of economic downfall for blue states if the red states succeeded.",0
"Both of those countries are isolated islands, with Japan being relatively small. Japan also has an ethnically homogenous population (this is not to be construed as something USA should strive for) which completely differs from the racial issues in America.",Which ones have a population near the US's or enacted gun control on a similar number of firearms as what is in circulation in the US?,0
"If what he mentioned is the main behaviors then even if we got rid of cables that doesn't prevent satellites etc. Sure they'd be ""slower"" but if all one has to do is connect to set it off there's not really much need for a fast connection. As for bot networks with DDOS, I doubt they need a fast connection to set off the attack either.","If they outsource the hacks or send their hackers elsewhere in the world then cutting the cable isn't going to work. That doesn't even get into how easy it would be to reroute the traffic to another location that isn't ""cut off"", they could just reroute through China if they wanted to. China being their ally they could just use the cables that run there. To stop the hacking it would require people to actually follow the best practices for IT security and let's be honest here, the vast majority of people don't and it only takes one mistake to leave your network open.",0
The fact Republicans maligned this man despite a lifetime of public service when he could have made 10x what he was making in the private sector is just a testament to how craven and dishonest they are.,It’s ridiculous that those morons are going to try to tarnish the legacy and career of one of the most decorated public health officials in modern American history.,1
"Why do you do this? Do you honestly think rational humans will say. A yes, somewhere else something happened, so that justifies Israel to violate the human rights of others.","Whenever there is any criticism of Israel, it doesn't matter if discussion is about apartheid over Palestinians, governmet sponsored assassination of a journalist, corruption of political figures, or LGBT rights.",0
"It’s purely for domestic consumption. He knows full and well that the rest of the world will not buy that line of bullshit. If Russia uses nukes, the West will likely respond with overwhelming conventional force and nobody, not even China, will come to the aid of Russia.","Where the conflict arises is among countries who enable Russia but still want assistance from NATO countries for one reason or another. They know who they are, and get seriously butthurt on this sub when mentioned, so I’ll leave the names out. But I think NATO countries should look at this as an instructive moment in the future when thinking about who to assist and with what.",1
"It's sad when Republicans who used to represent the ultimate of Republican scumbaggery, like Paul Ryan, are now the principled voices of ethics and reason in comparison to the current crop.",I feel like after the absolute disaster of the Bush Jr Administration the republicans were challenged to change some parts of their ideology but instead they doubled down especially with characters like Sarah Palin. And then the tripled down with trump. They’ve been on a downward spiral for the better part of 20 years and their answer is to stubbornly cling to anything that gives them any semblance of power. To spite their face.,1
(Just to clarify im not hoping this happens just stating what the likely response would be. Id prefer that Belarus becomes a democracy but there is no way Putin would allow such a thing to happen while he already has a military presence in the nation.).,Oh. Does Google Earth use regular aerial photography to supplement the satellite photos? I didn't know that.,1
"I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please if you have any questions or concerns.",The still relevant questions here are: 1. Were the documents properly handled given their classification level? (probably not). 2. What are the relevant laws to improper handling of classified documents. 3. These are records under the PRA and should have been turned over to NARA. (While that is a law there are no legal consequences to breaking it).,1
"And the Trump team tried to justify by saying, ""Oh, he meant to say ""Wouldn't,"" as in, ""I don't know why it wouldn't be Russia."".","Idk. Go onto r/Ukraine or listen to Zelensky's speeches. Ukrainians give a lot of credit for the USA's vital role in all this. From weapons to intel, our help has been decisive.",1
"I think most people quietly understand Israel is not on a good path. Sadly hard to talk about it without claims of ""antisemitism"" even though a religion is not and should never be a country.","You get labeled with antisemitism when you have double standards on Israel that you don't have on other countries. I assume that you are overall pro-democracy and checks and balances. This is 100% a legitimate issue that Israel needs more flack from foreign countries and companies for. Already two mid sized tech companies are leaving Israel due to the democratic backsliding that is happening. Nobody serious in Israel are claiming ""antisemitism"" over it because it is a pure business tactic. It's best not to be in a non-democratic state. And just as these big tech companies are not in Hungary or Poland, they choose not to be in Israel anymore.",1
"Most people will certainly care, they just won't tell you if they see you smoking in public unless its a closed space and you are disturbing them. But they will for sure avoid you, because as much as people defends It smoking in public spaces its still annoying, both for tobacco and weed smokers, but weed smells way more.","Well regardless of everything you mentioned which i have no idea if true, the act of smoking weed similarly to smoking tobacco severely harm your lungs in the long run because for obvious reasons. (And if they are not obvious to someone, you are free to read about damages of smoking and inhaling smoke as well as passive smoking).",1
"Secondly: US crimes, current or recent are no where near the scale or extreme of Russian crimes. Comparing US crimes to Russian ones are like comparing a mugger to a murderer. Sure both committed crimes they shouldn’t have, but don’t pretend they are equally bad, and don’t use the muggers crimes to justify the murderer.","No it’s not. I’m not making excuses for the USA’s terrible actions, that’s not the point I’m making and if you think it is you are part of the problem.",0
"There are no good answers here. It's a bit like the Live Aid thing for Ethiopia. We had Live Aid in 1980 for 35 million Ethiopians at risk of starvation, and another one in the 2000s for 80 million Ethiopians at risk of starvation, and today there are 140 million. What is more moral? To help them survive and avoid starvation but have more people die later due to unsustainable population growth, or to just let them starve right now where they are now? There is no right answer imo.","My whole point is that there is no answer. It's too late. We fucked the duck, and having a bunch of people around for it is just gonna mean a bunch of people are around to suffer. I'm not saying we should kill them or some shit. I'm saying it doesn't matter, it won't fix the problem.",1
">Jeffries is a mute member of the CPC, the largest caucus in the party, but has recently chosen to ally himself with its more conservative factions. And while the party’s moderate wing has moved left on everything from foreign policy to social welfare, Jeffries has not moved with it.","Neither will Jeffries. We need somebody who could plausibly talk to both halves of the party, but Jeffries has made his career out of attacking progressives.",0
The deforested areas are for raising cattle. Then after five years they will be able to farm corn and after seven years soybeans.,So they either want space for cattle or they are trying to increase the production of soybeans but the outcome is only in seven years. The farmers want the land for themselves just because they can. That's the main motivation.,0
The Bill previously passed the House and the governor has already said he will sign it. The bill bans gender affirming care in the state for anyone under 18.,"It really is. Back when North Carolina tried to pass their bathroom ban, there was a much bigger coordinated outcry especially from corporations. But the attack on trans rights is so constant and widespread now that we're seeing more restrictive bans pass every few weeks now with no major resistance from business groups. And unfortunately you only need to succeed once to strip away someone's rights while you need at 100% success rate just to maintain the status quo.",0
"Putin may not have much choice. Right now everyone else could kick Russia's ass if they were to decide to invade someplace easier. And Putin needs a win pretty quick if he wants to stay in power,...","I don't have a problem with their choice, and I don't care what percent don't want to help. As long as the next time their economy collapses or their country is devastated by a natural disaster or invasion that they don't come whining for help. If they're consistent, then great, no harm no foul. If not, they can suck up the life lesson.",0
"You’re projecting because you want to claim I’m wrong for saying that at least half the voters out there are voting republican, that somehow republicans are winning some other way. So maybe it’s your reality that’s skewed.",The reality is the pendulum swings nearly every election cycle and if there were no interests the GOP didn’t represent they wouldn’t dominate congress and senate as often as they do.,0
"None of which is to say that I believe that it's a weather balloon. Just that you should always assume the party leadership of the PRC is always lying, no matter what they say.","This is not some far-fetched idea or strange hyperbole. It's a well-established principle of certain kinds of authoritarian political modes. As seen in many parts of the world, not just China.",0
"Currently, the Gulf of Finland within this zone is designed to leave a three-mile wide ""corridor"" for free navigation. And formally, Estonia will simply close this ""corridor"" by declaring it an adjacent zone. In fact, this simply means a sea blockade of one of the most powerful ports of the Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg, and all others in the Leningrad Oblast, as well as a blockade of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation.","The only way to enforce a naval blockade is by sinking ships, which is a really bad idea - same reason why NATO could never establish a no-fly zone over ukraine.",1
This is what the Turkish public wants to see. Why do you think Erdogan is pushing the vote until after the elections? It's a close race between him and the opposition and he needs votes.,"Turkish people want him to do this, that's why he's delaying the vote until after the election because polls show a very close race and he might lose the election.",0
I work in hazardous spill clean up. I am the foreman and have to make sure my guys dont poison the fuck out of themself. We have a few smokers. Now I knew that benzene was in cigs butt how much I dont know.,We had a gig where the guys were concerned about the high amount of benzene in the ground 1.2 at the absolutle source.,0
"They would still need some kind of support or at least silence from their Arab allies & Turkey. It’s likely they will strike Iran nuclear facilities soon, they have done it with Saddam before.","Because Iran getting nuclear weapons would just set off a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region. You can bet on both Saudi Arabia and Turkey seeking nuclear weapons, with Israel militarizing even further, and much more offensive military action in Yemen, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, and Iraq.",1
"Read the bill. What it does is classify hate crimes as a crime punishable under already existing conspiracy laws, and subject to the same restrictions. Yes, conspiracy to commit a crime once it meets certain criteria is no longer protected under the First Amendment. This law would add hate crimes to the list of crimes that can be prosecuted under conspiracy statutes.","Unless I’m reading this wrong, it essentially allows hate crimes to be prosecuted on a greater scale.",1
I do know we have vaccines and strict pandemic plans but I am traumatised by the global disorganisation regarding these situations.,"Plus, even outside of vaccines and effective treatments, much is learned relatively quickly about supportive care during a pandemic. Maybe now that 5% fatality rate becomes 1-3% or so.",1
"It's not that the US is there, but that it can be there. Such a public presence let's Russia know that the United States sits on Russia's border of naval influence and reminds Russia that the US can penetrate in with relative impunity.","The point of my comment was that if the US tried to get legalistic in attempting to cross warships into the Black Sea, Russia could try the same regardless of the argument's merits. They both should absolutely be denied.",1
"Details haven't been released yet, but - contrary to what a lot of Americans seem to think - guns are not completely unavailable here. You just need to have a (lawful) reason to have one and get a license. Given where this happened (middle-of-nowhere), guns floating around is not all that surprising - but they're probably not the sorts of guns Americans go around doing their massacres with, as those are restricted.","They literally ran a story not long ago about cops getting dangerous firearms off the street and one of the guns shown on the table was quite literally a nerf gun, complete with exposed nerf darts. You can't make this up.",1
"Anyway, I think time didn't start at the big bang. I think something must have existed before. But what existed before? Well, the simplest thought would be that whatever existed before the big bang must have been capable of producing the conditions for the big bang. Simple enough right? Makes sense?","If the ultimate fate of our universe is that nothing ever happens again, then why didn't this happen prior to the big bang? Whatever existed before, if it follows the same laws of physics, should be subject to the same natural and cosmological laws. But whatever happened before the big bang resulted in conditions that caused the big bang, so entropy was not the ultimate fate of whatever existed before.",0
"If Russia shows a willingness to actually launch nukes, then containment and threat of retaliation no longer applies, as Russia has already launched.","That distinction is irrelevant to the existential threat Russians, the group that would be using nuclear offensive weapons.",1
1. Claimed income from from a family corporation on his financial disclosure but didn’t claim any clients. It’s not clear any of that is true.,"That's pretty much not true. He can't be arrested for anything said or done while physically in Congress and can't be arrested at Congress or while traveling to or from Congress. But if anything he did to get elected is actually illegal, he can most certainly be arrested for that. Just not while physically in Congress or on his way to or from.",1
"It was more of an answer to your question about a recipe for savings lives. I just felt that your question came off as “let’s not arm ourselves against Putin because he will seek revenge.” Regardless if the countries around arm themselves or not, his plan isn’t much different from WW2 Germany. It’s expansion and becoming a world power. However, before he only thought he could get away was because no one put up a fight. Well in the future, he won’t start another because he doesn’t have what it takes.",It would take decades of investment in military for Russia to even be on par with NATO if NATO would actually bring out their arsenal. Russia economy and demographic in on downward spiral. Just to bring them back to what they were a year ago economically will take a long time.,0
And Ukrainians saying Russians committing war crimes is credible? I’m not pro Russian or anything but both sides have and are doing terrible things to eachother.,"I'm a Pole and despite what you're saying I still blame Russia for this accident. If Russia hadn't attacked Ukraine, they wouldn't need to use their anti air defenses.",1
It’s not cheap also like it was in the first place to manufacture in China wages for the Chinese people have been rising very fast. I don’t begrudge the people of China a better standard of living. But it’s time people manufactured in their own countries.,Getting other countries up to scale to supply global manufacturing demands will take way more time than we have.,1
"What Israel would gain in aligning with the west against Russia is increased unity and goodwill, and Israel has been losing goodwill internationally for a long time (deserved or not).",And i still feel breaking Russia would weaken Israels enemies while giving Israel a more free hand to defend their interests in their neighbourhood.,0
Most people aren’t objecting to trans rights. They’re objecting to people forcing them to hear about it.,If we’re to progress on the trans rights issue there has to be an acceptance that most people simply don’t care. The messaging needs to be adjusted.,0
"A view outside of the US centered perspective on what's liberalism, is the fact that in the EU Liberal parties are considered centre-right of the political spectrum and much more clear about their support and belief in the neo-liberal economic theory, as they don't incorporate elements of socialism within their party, as socialist parties in Europe are not considered evil.","Stems from the same core philosophy. All liberal parties have been on-board with it for decades. Liberals actually believe in the liberal side of it, conservatives only when it suits them.",0
"Unless I’m reading this wrong, it essentially allows hate crimes to be prosecuted on a greater scale.","(A) at least one of whom engaged in the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of a white supremacy inspired hate crime; and.",1
"All throughout the pandemic, they wouldn't shut up about how covid deaths were being exaggerated and that there were no actual excess deaths and so on.","Even better is that if you accept the number of deaths attributed to covid, which right-wing nutjobs insist are grossly overinflated, the total death count is still only 1.09 million, not multiple millions.",0
"If there are 221 Republicans, then there are only 213 Democrats, so McCarthy only needs 214 votes. The protest votes will come from the MAGA side and Dems most certainly won't be voting for their candidate.",The MAGA Wing of the GOP won't go for this since they only want those who bow the knee to their demagogue.,1
Yeah it’s not right that this is the way that it is in Qatar but it seems like people are fucking around and subsequently surprised when they find out.,"To the argument that visitors in Qatar should respect Qatar customs, usually I would agree. But Qatar was chosen to host a global event. Visitors are paying a lot of money to travel, attend, and stay in Qatar. No one is expecting Qatar to change their laws against homosexuality (despite general outcry), but they should be welcoming hosts to a global population that largely supports homosexuality.",1
"Look at the type of poll Republicans are flooding the media with right aligned polls all showing Republicans up while non-partisans like Marist, NYT and Monmouth are showing democrats up. So places like RCP and 538 are showing skewed results because of this flooding. The polls don’t seem to match reality when it’s coming to early voting numbers and it’s being theorized that young voters and new voters in 2018-present aren’t being accurately represented because they don’t count as “likely voters” because LV is usually adjusted for voting in at least the past 3 elections. You also have these partisan polls under counting the youth. The IA poll that came out right after the PA senate debate showed Oz up by 3 but their weighted sample of young voters which their range they used was 18-39 was only 14% even though normal participation on average is 20-28%. That’s not even counting that they used a massive age range and under weighted while had a majority of their respondents be white people between 40-64.",I don’t think it’s to dissuade people. I think it’s so when they lose they can point to the polling averages that the media and aggregators showed on Election Day (btw where is the Monmouth poll on RCP and 538. Interesting a poll showing Fetterman up by 4 would be excluded but bull shit ones wouldn’t) and cry foul. They are going to one way or the other obviously but people didn’t take them seriously in 2020 because they had no “proof”. Even though polls aren’t proof to normal people.,0
"It's a power struggle between the Russian military and Wagner, vying for resources and fame. Wagner was winning when the Russian military couldn't. Now the Russian military is starving Wagner to curtail all supplies and glory for themselves.",Of course Wagner is not a true private military group and is just another arm of the Russian state but that is the pretence they are trying to keep up.,1
The previous referendums have shown that 53% of Puerto Rican’s want statehood out of half of registered voters. It’s not as clear cut as many people think.,"It’s not really as clear cut as people want to make it out to seem. This bill also has to get through the Senate, which is not guaranteed.",0
"You are correct. The soviets actually put out memos telling troops that they shouldn't worry about conserving ammo, and by the end of the second world war they had assaults with enough artillery to have one gun for every eight meters on the front.","Russia really going for the WW2 Germany strategy here, except if they knew anything at all they'd know the Germans stopped doing this shit because while you get a hopped up maniac soldier in the short term, the long term effects make them less effective overall. Of course, that's assuming the Russians even consider these troops as being able to last for more than one engagement; I suppose sending waves of drugged up prisoners intended to be disposable is likely the idea here.",1
"Yes, that is exactly what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics chart shows. It is obvious that Trump policies caused the inflation, which NEVER EXCEEDED 2.9% during his 4 years of presidency, but within two months of Biden's policies taking effect, the inflation rate has NEVER BEEN BELOW 2.9%.","The simple but accurate definition of inflation is ""Too many dollars chasing to few products or services."" When Biden threatened to shut down fossil fuels, the industry reacted by slowing down or stopping production. This led to slightly less oil and oil related products available for sale. Because there was no corresponding effort to reduce demand, the ONLY thing that could happen is for prices to increase. Since oil is the most basic input into the ecomony, companies that were paying these increased fuel prices necessarily had to increase their prices, and so on and so on.",0
"The major difference about Biden's voters that I enjoy is they do not see Biden as some demigod like the GOP sees Trump as. There is no cult of personality around Biden and honestly most of voters, including me, only voted Biden because he was not Trump.","Biden has already gotten more votes than any current Democratic candidate who is younger than him, in the 2020 primaries. All the other possible's, like Governor Newsom, have flat stated they aren't running in 2024.",1
"I can't quite figure out what their aim is with some the refuge commercials yet because they do seem to be pro immigrant on the surface, but I don't trust that surface view. If anyone has interpretations, feel free to share. I feel like there might be a narrative I'm missing from being away from the church in so long.","Sorry we didn't turn our family members into outcasts because they like Jesus. Some of us put up healthy boundaries with parents who started showing their racism, prejudices, and vicious closed mindedness in public at increasing rates.",0
Where do you think you're getting less rent now? Because rent amount is a function of what an average PITI payment would be in that area. Basically rent = maintenance + PITI + profit margin.,"FL and TX are not low tax states. Their property tax is out of control. TX income tax is only low if you're actually really wealthy. Insurance on your home in FL is by far the most expensive in the country. Utility costs in TX are some of, if not the highest in the land. You are not saving money by living in either of those states. In fact, you're probably paying more to live in either than whatever ""high tax"" state you're fleeing.",0
I'd be much more impressed with Pete's debating skills if he was willing to go on progressive media right now than Fox News.,"The guy always comes off as ridiculously articulate and would regularly appear on Fox News, where he’d dismantle their talking points one by one.",1
"Counterpoint: Republicans are not well-versed with reality, as evidenced by their prior nominees and their regular claims of fraud for elections they've lost.","""With Republican lawmakers growing irritable after days of fruitless voting, a heated argument broke out between several of them. But Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama, a McCarthy ally who is in line to become the next chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, took it to another level when he stepped toward Mr. Gaetz and had to be restrained.",1
"Since I have a couple of little ones I know that they are not doing that, so that's why I made the statement that I did.","What do you mean ""most of the time""? Almost every movie Disney has ever made has no gay characters at all.",0
"We used to be purple (went for Obama in 08 and 12) so it kinda made sense for getting a read on middle America, but after Trump we're solid red. Might as well be Alabama.","As someone who lives in Iowa, hates political junk calls/texts and thinks caucases are joke, I wouldn't say enjoyed is really the right word.",0
"Let’s be honest, don’t be mad at Trump, he followed the law (questionable for sure), but we really need to evaluate the “tax laws” and all the loopholes that never seem to be closed.","No, there is probably not another tax return in the country as complex as Trumps, this isn't just taking advantage of the rules, this is tax fraud(hasn't been proven yet, but that's what the author is talking about).",1
"Within the year, Kevin McCarthy will wish he'd rather been caught in a nasty scandal and resigned than become the Speaker of a marginal Republican House.","Yes, Kevin McCarthy has sucked more dick and taken it up the ass more than anyone who was a candidate for speaker. He’s sold his soul and is the very embodiment of corrupt Republican’t politics. What’s hilarious is that it is the bat shit crazy caucus that is holding him for ransom. I’m sure he’s thinking, “Strike me down, and your journey to the dark side will be complete.”.",1
"“Russia possesses a total of 5,977 nuclear warheads as of 2022, the largest stockpile of nuclear warheads in the world”.",I wonder if it is coincidence that most of accounts glooming and worning about the strenh of russian nuclear arsenal are those one created after February 2022.,1
"""For the purposes of any prohibition, protection or requirement under any and all articles
 and sections of the Code of West Virginia protecting children from exposure to indecent displays of
 a sexually explicit nature, such prohibited displays shall include, but not be limited to, any
 transvestite and/or transgender exposure, performances or display to any minor.","No one is going to care, though. As long as it is 'icky' trans people, it's okay in the minds of most.",0
"Ah, so it’s like an editorial instinct that you’re having a hard time suppressing. I get that. You’re wrong, in this case. Wildly, actually, as you’d be able to see through a very, very small amount of research. Like one google search small. So maybe don’t go into editing.","Have you ever been invited to the palace as a minority who has been repeatedly asked this question over your life — often by people who are only interested in parsing out how you don’t fit in and are different — only to hear the same question from a representative of the royal family? Maybe you have, and maybe your experience was different. You weren’t traumatized. She was. Wanting to understand how and why trauma can result from this type of interaction is totally valid. But “knowing” how we’d react to a certain situation isn’t enough to justify calling someone else a liar, which is sorta where we’re headed with this. For a bad analogy, consider someone having an allergic reaction — you might brush off a bee sting as no big deal; but others might literally die. Or someone who’s been badly beaten — one more hit could be lethal for them, whereas you’d be perfectly fine. Well for many people they’ve taken hits their whole lives and one hit like this, in such a setting? Of course that’s going to be traumatic.",0
Afaik prison recruits are thrown straight at the front as cannon fodder—it's not like they get years of training the rest of the Wagner group have. This is from reports in Russian.,"A good example here is Russia. Russia is not becoming poorer and poorer under Putin, it is more like stagnant. But in a world were every other economy is slowly growing, that is the same as becoming poorer. In 2013 the Russian Economy was slighter larger than the economy of Italy. Today the economy of Italy is 50% larger than the economy of Russia.",1
I’ve backpacked around loads of countries(all over Asia and Europe) and I was pleased surprised at the backpackers I met who had been to the US and said it’s some of the best food they’ve ever had. And that’s coming from people that have 20-100 countries checked off their list.,This is just a random list of countries. Some Twitter account trying to conjure up controversies for extra traffic. Just a stupid article and stupid list nobody should pay any attention to.,1
"I don't think you understand what neolib and neocon mean. A person can be both, which Reagan was. Neocon being their foreign policy position with neoliberal being their economic position. Tucker is not hawkish. He's just a neolib, but not a neocon.","Indeed, I would say that he's an exceedingly bland neocon. The Tucker Carlson you see on FOX today is a character being played so that the real Tucker doesn't have to sit on the sidelines scamming money from neolibs at the Lincoln Project with all of the other exceedingly bland neocons.",1
"Title is a tad misleading. If a Chinese fighter jet was that close to a contested area of ours(that’s also located near the continental U.S.), at minimum, we’d do the same.","> The Chinese fighter jet was so close, the CNN crew could see the pilots turning their heads to look at them – and could make out the red star on the tail fins and the missiles it was armed with.",1
"Citation needed. People have been getting married without the church being involved for pretty much forever. And that's not even getting into the question of ""which church?"".","Huh. It's almost like we need something in our constitution that makes it so we can't discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.",1
"5. Why is it only the Presidential vote that was impacted by such ""massive fraud""? Why shouldn't every Democrat that won elections to Congress be replaced?",4. Trump was the President when this alleged fraud occured. He nominated the heads of both the FBI & CIA. How are the Democrats the ones apparently holding such power over Facebook and Twitter?,0
"I think your response could be a bit more nuanced. For instance, despite you seeing polling strongly suggesting evolution of the GOP's beliefs on gayness or bisexuality, many of those same people whose thinking may have changed are still fine with having homophobes and transphobes in their party.","It was brought up by you after you called for nuance shortly before. There is no room for nuance in perfection. Which, again, you injected into this conversation by assuming someone pushing back against your claims of evolution was pointing out a lack of perfection.",0
"Nuking Ukraine makes all of that far far worse and would force a NATO response and would cause further NATO enlargement, something China wants to avoid as it could lead to war with the West, which could in turn lead to M.A.D.","A, help Ukraine with NATO which China against, lose partnership with Russia which give China no benefit but the long border will risk China in danger then;.",1
I think everyone in the west should boycott the Olympics if they are going to turn into something like Sochi 2014 or Berlin 1936. Maybe the Olympics run by this IOC has reached the end of their welcome in the world.,oh I have never said anything about IOC. Only stating my point of view. I know very well every great Idea or Movement in the history of mankind to bring either people together or advancing Humanity can and will be hijacked and corrupted by a group of small people just to make themselves very rich and powerfull. Be it sport or political or Socialmovement. I dont trust any Organisation or Movement that has gain great influence over the world.,1
"And the cherry on top of this disgusting lack of sundae? The GOP will do nothing about him, because Mccarthy needs his vote. What a joke.","No real press coverage, means no scrutiny. The only ones with the ability to fact check is the news media and reporters, without having anyone to report that things don't add up, you get people like Santos. This is what the death of independent local news gets you. A few years ago, reporters would have cut their teeth cracking Santos like a rotten egg. Now he's a footnote, Trump takes all the air time, and so small but important stories get left behind.",0
"I'm still confused as to how Trump was convinced to sign the 2018 farm bill, considering it effectively legalized hemp-derived THC for about 48 states.",Why did I think hemp production started earlier? I wonder if it was just government controlled back then and the 2014 farm bill opened it up more for private business...,0
Either there is impartiality or there isn't. I'd just wish the BBC were honest with both themselves and the public at large because it's a fucking disgrace lmao.,Fuck you BBC hypocrites; look at your own mess more for the same stuff. Criticism of others do not behoove you.,1
Get off your high horse when some countries now demand a stupid basic COVID test of any traveller (not just chinese) that comes from China.,"Oh no, China wont let me come there because they are mad at other countries not letting their people in?",1
That's such a disingenuous number about cutting the deficit. That's after a huge amount of stimulus spending in 2020.,"Putting it all together, in my 20 years of being voting age, the Democrats have been better with the budget. But that's really not saying much.",0
We don't have to be the ones to remove or kill him. But there aren't many ways where this war ends with Putin still in power. And I think he knows that. I think he knows that his oligarchs are recognizing how much he fucked up.,"Russians have known they're fucked, future-wise, for a while now. This is the last generation in which they will have enough 20-30 year olds to wage a major war. We're witnessing the last hurrah of what we know as the idea of Russia. It doesn't matter on a timescale of less than 3-5 years, depending on how quickly they sink into irrelevance, but for the purposes of this article, this war hasn't even fully escalated yet.",1
Biden likely did not intend to keep the documents and they got lost in what’s probably quite a LOT of paperwork that even a VP has to deal with. Once they were found his team contact the archives and informed the DOJ and is now asking the DOJ to sweep his residences for more.,Too many people are reading this as “Biden is trying to show he has nothing more to turn over but they keep finding more.” This isn’t how the DOJ is likely to interpret his cooperation and frankly is a poor assumption to make.,0
"Weirdly, I'm not sure the breakup of the Russian Federation, while possibly inevitable, would be on net good for geopolitics, especially if it happened fast. My fingers-crossed dream is that if Putin were to die, that whole era of Russian politics would die with him, and the political successors in Russia would be willing to cooperate with the West even on just one thing: containment of China. If, on the other hand, Russia breaks up (nuclear weapons concerns aside), I give it a minimum 50% chance that Siberia will be called ""China"" (or at least be a Chinese puppet state) 10 years from then.",And the former-Russian nuclear stockpile will start looking like the former-Soviet nuclear stockpile: rather fuzzy and unaccounted for.,0
"British military intelligence believes the conditions of the battlefield are quickly turning against the Russians’ favor, as forecasts of warmer weather in the Donbas mean snows will melt and the ground will soften, making the swift movement of troops and heavy vehicles near impossible.","Those conditions are likely to be at their worst “with extremely muddy conditions, over mid-to-late March,” according to the latest intelligence assessment.",0
The secretariat stressed that “the level of reported deposits … can therefore not be equated with the total amount of funds of Russian origin held in Switzerland.”.,"GENEVA, Switzerland — Switzerland said Thursday that it has to date frozen a total of 7.5 billion Swiss francs ($7.9 billion) in Russian assets, in connection with the sanctions imposed over Moscow’s war in Ukraine.",0
"For once, Peskov the Kremlin mouthpiece is right, Zelensky will end the conflict when every last Russian soldier is killed or kicked out of every inch of Ukrainian sovereign territory. The reason the war in Ukraine “could be a lenhy process.” is because Russia will never win, only defeat and utter humiliation await Russia at the war's end.","Exactly, this ‘war’ has always been about Pootin trying to snuff out any competition from Ukraine, hence taking the Crimea and East Ukraine where all the resources are.",1
if the British universities cost for example a billion and instead of for example two million students now there are only one million who pays this billion? Do you want British students to really not have to pay more?,"EU students used to pay home fees for UK universities. Post-Brexit, they now pay international fees, which are triple the cost. So in actuality they're making more profit from them now even with half the EU student intake. Not that it's a good thing overall but from a purely financial point of view they're better off now. Especially since for many courses universities actually lose money per every student paying home fees.",1
"Reject shitty offer. Steadily kick their asses while fighting off simultaneous unprovoked wars with Denmark, Courland, and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (it's must have been hard to be Swedish in the 18th century, everyone hates you). Russia eventually offers a peace treaty out of desperation, even giving up their demands for Ingria... for now.","Well if Russias demands are met, what makes you think they wouldn’t send soldiers over to denazify other countries and then again ask them to end the suffering by meeting their demands?",1
"Young-ish person here. Your position implicitly assumes that if the US does not go to war, a war will not come to US. There’s a saying about fool me once and fool me twice. If the first world wars meant anything to America they meant that isolationism and appeasement are not winning strategies. I do not want to be drafted, but I also realize that we can’t just ignore wars in Europe and hope it goes away.","In WWI, Germany sought to form an alliance with Mexico to eventually invade the U.S. and in fact sunk many American merchant ships (not to mention, the Lusitania) with a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. Hitler also had plans to invade the US after capturing Europe as well.",0
Russia is failing because they have built a military that is far better at looking good than actually being good.,"To be fair, the USSR wasnt Russia and it had a lot more capabilities then Russia did. But by the 80s even the USSRs military was starting to suffer, but not nearly to this extent.",1
"Maybe because those Christians aren’t spending every waking moment fighting a fruitless culture war like you think they should. Instead, living humbly, serving others, and not being concerned about making everyone an enemy.","In essence, doing what they can to be the best representation of what they believe Christ is exemplifying and teaching. If you want that to mean gaining and exhibiting some kind of forceful power to put down anything that’s not that, you’re not going to find it in that kind of Christianity. Maybe that invalidates that kind of faith to you, and that would be understandable, but perhaps right wing Christian nationalism is going to be its own undoing eventually anyway.",0
Unfortunately I think Russian and Chinese propaganda is working and it seems like more of their populations are believing that the US and Ukraine are the aggressors in the war.,"Same woman who believes it's the Ukrainians who are deluded by fake news and propaganda. Meanwhile, she sounds like a Qanon nut in the U.S. Interesting how the Russian and American far right use all the same talking points and conspiracy theories.",1
"Russia plans to mobilize 500,000 soldiers in days. If they don't deliver victory, then 'Putin will collapse,' says Ukrainian spy chief.","""If Russia loses this time around, then Putin will collapse,"" said Ukraine's deputy military intelligence chief.",0
"If you want me to believe that we live in a real true oligarchy where the rich are stifling our efforts to do anything about it, call me when the majority of primaries are won by progressives.",So every year we keep reaffirming with our votes that this status quo is fine with us. Every election that does not dramatically shift the composition of congress to a progressive majority that wants to tax and regulate corporate wealth the way that everyone who complains about an oligarchy wants it to - is a granting of permission for the oligarchy to proceed.,0
"As for your soap joke, the idea that men who are incarcerated so long that raping other men seems like a good idea to them seems funny to you tells me all I need to know about your sensibilities.","Granted, the article ignores the fact that the sub-$1 per hour pay is only part of what a prisoner gets from the state. There is also food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. You're saying that the sum of these parts equals acceptable compensation for holding a prison job, even one that could prove fatal as in the case of fighting wildfires. However, to pay anyone other than a prisoner to do these jobs, the government would have to spend a minimum of three times what they currently spend merely keeping each prisoner alive. The fact is, food, clothes, shelter, and medical care are part of the minimum quality of care the government is required to provide prisoners. So the pay prisoners receive for working - which is a small fraction of minimum wage - is given for doing jobs that the government couldn't get any free citizen to do even for minimum wage. Which is, in fact, a form of slavery.",0
"If she does decided to run, it will be up to the Democratic candidate and the DSCC (they must not shy away from this race for fear of handing it to a Republican), to convince Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents that Sinema is not a \moderate\ and she most certainly isn't following ""John McCain's path"".",They need to bring up the fact that she's raking in thousands of dollars from corporations to continue Senate gridlock so they don't pass policies that are overwhelmingly supported by the majority of the American people.,0
"Nor will the Peruvians respect the 1993 constitution put in place by dictator Alberto Fujimori, when the 1978 democratic constitution would have granted Castillo the power to do so even if it is irregular for a democracy is still a more democratic documents rules to follow when determining the legitimate powers of an elected leader. After all its merely a discussion of what his powers are as head of state, not whether he should be able to outlive his elected term etc.","What you seem to desire is a super-presidential system, where the head of state has both extensive executive powers as well as extensive power over the legislature. This always leads to dictatorship.",1
"Literally, the reason the US is arming Ukraine is that it is an amazing deal for America they get to say they are defending democracy and simultaneously military crippling a rival without having to fight them for a few billion dollars, Geopolitically speaking, it is a wet dream for the US.","I’m glad Germany is helping Ukraine, and I’m glad they’re no longer using Russian natural gas, but they would’ve been in a much better predicament had they heeded warnings from the US & UK about Russia’s plans that had been handed to them for years. Now they have the gall to complain (private) US Natural gas sellers are up-charging them.",1
"A great book about this, for those looking to learn more, is ""Lincoln's Melancholy"". It makes a persuasive case that Lincoln wasn't a great man despite his depression (then understood as 'melancholy') but because of it.","Abraham Lincoln had depression. This is well known, so I'm always confused when people make such a big deal out of politicians being mentally ill. Literally our greatest one was mentally ill.",1
Good. McConnell and McCarthy were complicit. If either one had a spine January 6th would have NEVER happened.,>Representatives of those receiving the Congressional Gold Medal decline to shake hands with Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy during a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda.,0
Freedom of speech is very straight forward. You are advocating for censorship. Look at history for how societies that censor vs those that allow free communication fare.,"You mean freedom of speech, the essential part of a free society to be able to express your own opinion without government interference? That ""freeze peach""? Because you're a complete nincompoop if you think it should up to some government bureaucracy to decide who is or isn't allowed to speak their mind.",1
"Right, because the UNSC should only have members who don't cause problems... such as... USA/UK/France/China?","Well the United Nations Security Council isn't meant to be the global police. The only way they'd ever act that way is if _all_ of the permanent members were in agreement (no vetos were used), in which case the decision would be safe to pursue with no major global conflicts arising from the decision.",1
"Unfortunately every other Arab nation will go after Israel, then other countries will go after Israel to piss of the US, and then finally Israel is a giant douche about Palestine.","Oh for sure Israel was always going to be near the top because UN, but anyone who doesn’t have Russia at the top of their AH Countries of the Year list just doesn’t even deserve a seat in the UN or local dive bar. Putin made everyone else look good this year.",1
People here seem to blaming Brazil for the mess when it’s dealing with a mess created by a foreign company.,"No it's not enough reason, it's a legal conflict between Brazil and the buyer. I fully agree that Brazil is in the right on this. Brazil does not have a legal conflict with France. There is a completed sale, payment has been made and goods delivered. France is completely out of the equation. The current situation is that the buyer does not want to take delivery and this is now causing the risk of pollution. Now it's the question what Brazil can do. One option would be to clean up and bill the owner through the courts. Another would be to somehow force the buyer to fulfill its duties as owner of the ship. Neither of these include france. You also would not demand the yard that build the ship to pay for the removal, even though they owned the ship at some point in time.",1
"Russias “endgame” in the current situation boils down to attrition. They simplified their strategy to the point where quality (of material/personnel/tactics) matters the least and are trying to turn it into a game of numbers, hoping that Ukraine runs out of either soldiers or western support before Russias is out of resources itself. Due to the lack of decisive victories such a strategy is likely to provide, the current “endgame” is probably aiming for creating a superior position for eventual negotiations. That’s assuming they stopped being delusional of course.","The quick military success failed to materialize for multiple reasons that I will not go into, because it’s not what you were asking. Let me just point out one thing: the way the Russians (and everybody else) misjudged their own and the Ukrainian military strenh based on historical bias, faulty information and plain incompetence may very well apply to our own (your) estimation of the Russian ability to control a (their) population.",0
"Yup, they're quite good at doing things like offering all of their products for free or at a greatly reduced price for x amount of time. When it's time to start paying the users/company/government/organization is to entrenched with Microsoft software to possibly even think of switching to something else.","You compare what Microsoft offer to drugs, but you know drugs don't really offer anything to society but temporary pleasure to addicts, while Microsoft do really offer real world services, so again, so what if they profit from this eventually? What makes you think they won't go to Microsoft even without this aide eventually?",1
"You seem to have a pattern of being against women's rights, unless the specific right would benefit women.","""To ensure gender equality it is important in many cases that women and men are treated equally. But they should not necessarily be treated equally in all situations. In some cases, the underprivileged gender must be favoured to be able obtain similar results."".",1
I think this shows why solar panels on every house and a few thousand wind turbines spread across the country is a good idea.,"I think you'll be surprised how quickly Ukraine manages to fix things, at least to a basic level. Power plants are big, and a single conventional missile won't completely destroy them.",0
"""He had spent the previous seven years living inside the diplomatic premises to avoid arrest after failing to surrender to a UK court on matters relating to a separate case."".","Wasn't that a rape charge? Not even commenting on the merits on the espionage question, but the above quote is dancing very hard around a rather important part of Assange's legal history.",0
Wait until you hear about how the parking lot for a popular dinning destination is built over one of the original graveyards in Columbus and they are now using that area as a base for a new high rise. They are still finding bodies. Same thing happens with one of the main reservoirs north of town.,"Yes, North Market. Alum Creek and Hoover are also built over lots of small towns where all they did was remove the headstones.",0
The greatest finesse is how the commercial fishing industry was able to shift attention to the fake issue of straws from the thousands and thousands of pounds of plastic and netting they put in the ocean.,"And most importantly, the vast majority of plastic in the oceans comes from fishing net disposal, while the vast majority of plastic straws don't end up in the ocean because they go to the landfill.",1
"If the West (that the people in r/Brasil have recently decided they do not belong to, apparently - the tankie brigading there does not stop) did not collectively back Lula on a few weeks ago, you would have had a fucking coup in Brasília.","Sure, but here is where Lula's personal feelings might come into play: He's super stoked about the whole BRICS thing and having a sort of Third Worldist (+Russia) bloc of countries which can oppose the European Union and the United States.",1
"Sort of. Our primary adversary has explicitly stated they intend to at least match our military by 2050. They are almost certainly spending more than what it seems on paper and they’re getting more for their money than we do, so on paper spending is misleading. They’ve been undergoing modernization for decades now.",Whether or not they will be able to catch us as they intend to though is an open question… There is an excellent hour long video on this by Perun if you want to watch it.,0
"He hired a paramilitary security detail to serve as his bodyguards, I was there when he pretty much paid them with over PhP 1.25m cash and despite all that, one guy went rogue and took most of the money and the guns. The head of the detail suspected that personnel got bought out by the opposing mayor.","Corruption in the US still requires a lot of hoops for bad actors to jump through in order to pull off, I'm not gonna deny it exists( ) but as long as it isn't eroded, it still requires a lot of effort to do so, and the practice itself isn't integrated to the overall culture of the country.",0
"Over half of the members must select a speaker. The GOP has like 51% of the seats, and 2% refuse to vote for McCarthy, the obvious frontrunner and person the old GOP and most of the HFC (MAGA folks) voted for.","I’ve been hearing that the votes are because the far left wing has some super extreme concessions they’d like McCarthy to make, and that’s the reason they’re not voting him in. I heard there are 25 of them in total who will be changing their vote in subsequent votes to embarrass him - one each vote.",1
It doesn't necessarily mean that. It could also mean everyone is overthinking that these are balloons for spying.,"First of all, people were talking about spy satellites from the first balloon reported in the news. And second, this IS different because satellites aren't in our air space. These are. And last, why did you write out the word satellite then put the icon? Did you think we wouldn't recognize the word?",1
"When another more substantive bill comes, Republicans will come up with every excuse they can to deny the rights it will protect. Whether this bill becomes law or not.","If this law helps codify that, cool. I'm sure the red states will join up in a lawsuit to challenge it, but that's better than citizens having to challenge 28 different states and their legalese justification. As hypocritical as the SC is, it would be absolutely insane to strike down Roe with the justification it wasn't a right established by Congress, and then strike down a right established by Congress.",1
"Love the ""muh they protests were bad and did all these bad things"" because I disagree with them but ""we support Iranian protests even though they're breaking Iranian laws"" because I agree with them or ""we support the Indian trucker and farmer protests because they were breaking laws for what was right!"".","That’s not the point. A bunch of the truckers got arrested too. The point is, do you think someone should have had their wages garnished because they donated money to a Black Lives Matter go fund me despite not physically participating in any of the violent protests?",1
Is it likely that European countries/EU will change their foreign policy towards energy players to reduce the dependency on Russian energy?,"While Europe started preparing to cut its reliance on Russian gas as soon as Russia attacked Ukraine in February, at the time the assumption by European leaders is that they will use Russian gas in the next few years until they gradually reduce their imports. That calculation changed radically in June when Russia began cutting supplies via Nord Stream, the biggest pipeline to Europe at the time. By September, it had completely shut off Nord Stream exports. So Europe didn't have that much time to prepare and officials had to switch gears as they went along. What helped is warmer weather this fall (though temperatures are dropping now) and savings by consumers and industry. So overall it seems like Europe might avoid gas shortages this winter. Next winter, though, looks challenging.",1
"In March 2022, India reported receiving Russian crude at a 22% (as high as 27% for some companies) discount. In May, that became a 30% discount. In November, that became a 40% discount. This is prior to the price cap being instated which likely gives Asian nations an even greater bargaining leverage.","With the price cap in place, this gives India greater bargaining power which they then use to negotiating better discounts. So even without their active participation, they're benefiting from it. Russia loses which is why they've been reacting so harshly against the price cap.",0
Republicans generally don't want to be the lightning rod because they don't want to be blamed. I guess McCarthy doesn't have anything else going for him.,"My prediction: McCarthy has NOT been given a mandate but he'll nevertheless act and speak as if he had. His involvement with the 06Jan coup attempt will be mercilessly and repeatedly swept under the rug as his staffers and supporters alike point in some random direfction and shout ""OOOOOHHH LKook at that shiny thing over THERE....!).",1
"I get that, but, under the rules of war, if russia invades from Belarus aren't the russian military installations in Belarus legitimate targets?",Does a few targeted strikes against the russian military installations there make putin pull them back from the border to a safer distance?,0
"No. It removes state court judicial oversight and allows state legislatures to do whatever they want as far as federal elections go only subject to federal law (which could ultimately include deciding an election is fraudulent and sending in fake electors, and that couldn’t even be stopped by federal law in theory if ISL is embraced).","If the Supreme Court rules that state legislatures no longer need abide by state courts or state constitutions, so that, indeed, state electors no longer need vote in line with the results of state elections, and can do whatever it is that the state legislature decides, completely on its own, to do, then it is time for every citizen to own a gun.",1
"Basically, balloons are excellent bang for the buck, plus it's easy to claim it's an atmospheric research tool that just happened to go off course, and not an intelligence gathering platform. A stratospheric solar powered plane with a 30 meter wingspan, studded with camera domes and directional antenna cowlings is a little harder to explain.","Flight time. Building a powered craft than can stay aloft for days to weeks at a time is difficult. With large sailplane-like drones clad in solar panels it's possible, but these are large, plane-like drones, and expensive to build. And, if you want it to move slowly to collect large blocks of, for example, narrow beam GHz transmissions which are undetectable from space, but a whisper of which can be detected if you're in the atmosphere, you have to plot a course that loops and circles your target because a plane-like platform is moving quickly. The multirotor vertical takeoff type of drone that most people think of are amazingly maneuverable in flight, but the tradeoff is they're incredibly inefficient in flight. You can't build one capable of days of flight time with current weight of materials, motors, batteries, and solar cells.",0
Since nobody was actively looking for any of these documents; they’re probably going to turn out to be irrelevant or out of date paperwork that just got misplaced during the move from office to office.,"Apparently documents get misplaced all the time. It’s only the important stuff that anyone goes looking for. People think labeling something “classified” or “top secret” is the same as “important” or “vital to national security.” More than likely these are going to turn to be either relatively unimportant, or just out of date.",0
"Trump's comments come as the race for the 2024 Republican nomination has yet to move into full swing. At least 17 Republicans are considering a run, though former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is the only other person besides Trump who has made it clear she'll enter the race.","The former president spoke with Hewitt for over 30 minutes on Thursday, and the conservative host asked him whether he planned to seek revenge against his opponents if reelected. In 2022, Axios reported that Trump planned to overhaul the federal government to more easily oust disloyal career employees, whom he often refers to as the ""deep state."".",0
"You need to understand the way chinese nationalists think. They see themselves as a superior race and are taught from young age that the rest of the world is full of primitive sub-humans that ""pretend"" that they are worth anything.","There is no such thing as hypoctisy, because they are above us, so they should be treated with respect.",0
(thinks for a moment about the fact that nobody would sell them a new gun to replace the one that was stolen).,"""hey I got arrested for stealing your gun and if you bail me out I will tell you who I sold it to so you can buy it back."".",0
"A year or so ago I looked her up because there were some news reports of statements she made that I thought were pretty dumb, including arguing in court with the judge handling the Carroll case.","In one of trump's NY cases she submitted an affidavit asserting that after a thorough search by her there were no financial records to be found at any trump residence (including MAL) or business. This thorough search was carried out a week before the Saudis arrived at Bedminster. If she did a thorough search, that means she saw all of the classified documents at MAL.",0
"Right. One day we'll ban people from spewing hatred and use symbols of genocidal regimes from the past, and the next day people will not be allowed to...? What do you think is going to happen? It's been over 50 years since nazi salutes are banned in Germany... spoiler alert, it's still not an authoritarian hell hole.",__Displaying a Nazi symbol or making a Nazi salute in public is not always a crime in Switzerland. The authorities now say it’s possible to ban such symbols or gestures but such a change would encounter “major legal and editorial obstacles”.__.,1
"Climate change won't directly cause a huge fall in human population. What will cause that over time will be the inevitable fall in living standards (healthcare and hygiene, education, housing, ect) that come along with climate change. This may not be universal, and some countries might be able to avoid the bulk of it, however most won't.","Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if we're already over the brink and we just don't realise or want to acknowledge that yet. Next 50 years are going to be hell to contend with.",0
Are there any charities that are focused on helping people survive the winter? I would like to donate to any charity that sends good winter clothing and other winter necessities to Ukraine.,"Ukraine is also getting donations of cold weather gear in huge amounts from Canada and Denmark, both countries that know a thing or two about cold winters.",1
"For instance, the best way to use twitter (imo) is to follow funny accounts you like and enjoy engaging with. Then use pinned lists for other things. So I have pinned lists for news, politics, instead eating stuff etc. that way the algorithm is keeping me amused but I have the option of diving into another group if I want. So much humour you find elsewhere on stems from twitter (and now TikTok).","There’s just so much odd dialogue around Twitter in general that I’m kinda burned out in it. Personally I feel like the platform is dead and folks who are holding on are just grasping at straws - but I understand their frustration, there really isn’t a similar platform to jump to.",1
"They aren’t going to spend billions to relocate unless they know they won’t have the same problem elsewhere. Thing is, the south is run by Republicans who are apt to try the same stuff as DeSantis. So again, he can do more or less whatever he wants with Disney - they’ll never move until there’s a reliable blue or purple state in the South.","Disney should go to tender to other states to relocate Florida disneyland, maybe not necessarily go through with it, but just put it out there. See how Florida reacts to losing their single largest tourist trap.",1
"The US has over 1,200 in storage. Not all of them could be restored to active service but enough could to stick it to the Russians.","And we dont necessarily need to supply F16. Poland will consider the , which are in service with the Polish army, to Ukraine.",0
"Trump has REPEATEDLY sided with Putin against the United States, even/especially when he, Trump, was IN FUCKING CHARGE of the United States. Trump has been screaming from the rooftops his admiration for Putin for a long long time.","It’s fucking insane that we had a President who acted directly and deliberately on behalf of Russia and Putin, but we did. Trump talking about trusting Putin is like the least shocking thing he’s done re: Russia.",0
"Agree completely with the first part. I don't want it privatized either. I want it gone. You seem to have misunderstood my point, so here is an example. My grandmother is very wealthy and receives a bit more per month from social security than my grandmother-in-law who is and has always been dirt poor (I did a budget for both). How is this in any way fair if it's supposed to help the poor? Why not, instead of letting poor people be taxed out of what little they make, let them invest the same amount instead?","Again, if you insist on forcing people to invest their money in their own retirement, you could at least agree that government could let you invest (your own money) in an IRA, real estate, or some other legitimate investment. As shown in my op, this would generate an average of something like 23x the amount generated now for retirement. Tax all IRA capital gains at an extra 2% and now you have a system in which the people who did save their 12.4% retire as multi-millionaires and the ones who chose not to still get to retire on the current amount of benefits. All this while not increasing the amount paid in to the system through SS. It's not a fixed pie- in our current system, you pay in $225,000 to get out $175,000. In this system, you would get out $4,000,000. This is money that was created by letting people invest in products and services. As it is now, all this potential created money is wasted on a program that you yourself don't believe you can retire on.",0
"Now certain segment of society want to vilify teachers? Again? Didn’t we go through this before Covid? Perhaps teachers are seen as an easy target, a small percentage of the working population that is a safe bet to target. We already have a shortage of good educators in this country. For most, the pay is low and the hours are longer and more involved than people realize. Teachers do what they do because they genuinely enjoy it. They like working with the kids, they like making connections, they like helping a struggling student come to that, “oh, I get it now” moment.",Covid opened the eyes of thousands of people who were under the impression that it is easy to “teach” someone a new skill or fact. Parents found out quickly their own kids “didn’t get it” as they tried to “ teach” at home during the shut downs. They found out that “telling” someone about something isn’t even close to making a permanent change in knowledge that can be applied to future situations. Telling isn’t teaching and “doing” isn’t teaching either. So just doing a math problem while the learner watches does little or nothing to transfer the knowledge. Most Parents couldn’t “teach” their own kids.,0
"Not saying it isn't \wrong\, and Bernie is calling for new laws regardless. It's just not what existing antitrust laws were intended to deal with.","The only exception would be in purely terms of antitrust issues. But there is no single organization that controls that much of ""the media"".",1
"I known it’s drought tolerant, but does it not still require a lot of water in order to grow enough to harvest. Drought tolerant plants won’t need to be reestablished after drought but they typically won’t yield well for harvests.",Middle of a drought here In Nebraska and the local alfalfa field was about the only thing that didn’t look like it was dying and it had zero irrigation.,1
"Yeah, the ""problem"" is that hydrogen in this sense is acting as a battery, but it is ultimately a fuel (or replacing a fuel).","So yes; you're right that it is a battery (or rather the process of making and storing hydrogenis a battery), but I'm not sure you can't call it a fuel when it's used as a fuel to generate electricity (and it substitutes other fuels). Totally right that its not an energy source, unless you're being very pedantic and even I think that's stretching the meaning of the word.",0
"There's a scenario where society spends so much time/money repairing the damage from climate-related disasters, that we have no time/money left to build out sustainable infrastructure.","The issue is, current consumption isn't sustainable because it's powered almost entirely by fossil fuels.",0
"I mean, Russia giving up their nukes would be a huge thing to encourage the rest of the world to trust them going forward, if only because they wouldn't be able to hide behind the nuclear threat in order to invade without direct reprisal.",Honestly I wonder if attempting to coerce Russia into giving up its nukes should also be on the table or if that´d make it too close to the treaty of Versailles. Nukes are a lot of why Russia has been given this long after all and why it´s a problem in the first place.,1
"So if moderates/centrists aren't the better choices for some races, explain only 4 new progressive Dems getting elected this cycle.","Progressives make up like 12% of the Dem Party, the rest are Liberals and Moderates. The progressive agenda is not as popular as some claim, considering even Fetterman somewhat moderated his progressive stances.",0
"Charging fees for things like licensing and insurance which have obvious direct costs is not unconstitutional. States have always had a right to regulate 2A, just like other constitutional rights.",It says well regulated militia is necessary for the security of a free state. That is about as far is it goes regarding any requirements in the 2nd.,1
"""If you want to understand what Russia has done here, come to Ukraine and you will see it with your own eyes. After that, you will tell us how to end this war, who started it and when we can end it,"" Zelenskyy said.","Only 25% are in favour of continuing the war, whilst 55% want peace talks, a massive change in comparison with July.",0
"Its global. My wife's Thai friends spout all sorts of anti Ukraine nonsense. ""Did you know there's corruption in Ukraine?"" Yeah, no shit. There's corruption in your country, my country , every country. That doesn't mean you support Russia...ever. Fuck Russia.",Seems your politicians know it is ok to fuck Russia over when the situation calls for it. Even if they like the money..,1
"When Putin goes, there's going to be some other figure that steps up and replaces him. Putin failing will not be seen so much as a failure of the system, as Putin having run his course and needing to be replaced.","I've heard the Russian system described well as that you're allowed to have total power, but instead you have to show that you will protect the nation.",0
"OP is confused. Alcohol was supposed to be permitted on stadium grounds, just not within the stadium itself. You still needed a ticket to access these areas. Budweiser set up their alcohol tents there. Inside the stadium, just Bud Zero at the concessions.",And now Qatar reneged in the arrangement and alcohol isn't allowed on stadium grounds at all. That's the part that has people pissed. To pull this stunt just days before kickoff - and FIFA be fine with it.,0
"Nothing is certain until it is. He can win, but there's no guarantee he will and he ONLY will if everyone that does not want Sinema and lives in AZ, actively organizes and campaigns for Gallego starting now.","There was a similar scenario in the OR Governor's race this past election and it was nail biter, not because the ""left-leaning Independent"" was likely to win, but because she absolutely acted as a spoiler candidate for the Democrat in the race (who eventually did win but it was far too close).",0
"If you are travelling with a gang of wrestlers who will respond to this by suplexing nearby people, then you could be prosecuted for incitement.","Dominion is seeking like 1.6 billion. They probably won't get that much, but it could be pretty significant. This isn't a fine, it is damages in a civil suit.",0
"These sanctions aren't even the relatively common ""Rule 11"" sanctions. These were ordered under the inherent authority of the court; the judge explains at lenh that the ordinary rules are insufficient to deter this kind of blatant misuse of the judicial system and builds on top of them.","Although obstruction of justice is typically discussed in the context of criminal contempt, the concept informs the rules of law—both substantive and procedural—that have been devised to protect the courts and litigants (and therefore the public) from abusive litigation tactics. If use of an abusive tactic is deliberate and actually impedes the orderly litigation of the case, to-wit: obstructs justice, the perpetrator could be cited for criminal contempt.",1
"Putting aside the laughably low effective tax rates of companies on their profit, before buybacks was legal, shareholders must be paid dividends(which is taxable), or the company enjoys rapid growth for the shareholders to see a return on their investment.",For as long as this loophole exists we're encouraging the rich to over-capitalize corporations in order so they can pay less taxes on increasing share value instead of just paying that money out as income.,1
"He tried to kill Paul Pelosi, in his bedroom, late at night. The only reason he was there to begin with was because he planned on being there. He thought (meditated) about his actions before (pre) he did them.","It would be fairly easy to show premeditation and intent. He broke into someone’s house and hit them in the head with a hammer. Where did the hammer come from? He brought it with him, to use against people. It was in the backpack, along with other tools for murder and terrorism.",0
"Meanwhile the social norm when a gay kid or adult (much large demographic) comes out they are met with hatred, violence and/or homelessness. Conservative families/environment are often quick to ostracize their own blood at the first hint of gay. This is nothing new.","It's not new. It's the continuation of old rhetoric that claims gay people can't have kids of their own (because ""it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!"") so they can only proliferate by grooming children to ""become"" gay. They have often tried to smear the entire LGBTQ community by associating them with the organization NAMBLA and claiming that part of the ""gay agenda"" is to remove the age of consent.",1
"There's been a lot of dehumanization of immigrants so Republicans have no problem doing this to immigrants because ""it's not like they are people."" It makes it easier to do worse and worse things without any outcry.","Just to clarify, the VP's residence was the final location as far as Abbott was concerned. He didn't care after that if they got assistance or died of frostbite on Harris' doorstep. If anything, Abbott might have preferred the latter for shock value and headlines. (""Harris lets immigrants die on her doorstep rather than giving them shelter! See how hypocritical the left is?"").",0
"Libertarianism is not about rich people hating paying taxes. It is about freedom, and about the right for all people to live their lives according to their own ideals.","Libertarianism believes that all people should be free to live their lives according to their conscience, so long as they do not intrude with the rights of others.",0
Even worse. Exxon Mobil in like the 70s did their own scientific studies into fossil fuels and climate change. Iirc they predicted earths atmospheric concentration of CO2 and the effects it would have as a result of fossil fuel use. The data showed their industry would be devastating to our climate and humanity itself writhing 100 years so they hid the data and lied for decades before it was unearthed. Then they started lying about being climate conscious and as of fossil fuel industry communications between execs released a few weeks ago we now know they have 0 interest in climate conscious solutions and will milk every dollar out of the air we breathe while building bunkers because they’re afraid of what they’re bringing upon us.,"50 years ago we had modern accurate data telling us that if we don’t change our entire economic system and the way we produce energy then millions if not billions of people would die, be displaced, and entire areas of land on earth would become newly uninhabitable to humans. But because it was rich and powerful people in a destructive industry making them billions of dollars a year nothing was and nothing will be done.",0
"No, this is still a good thing and I have no criticism whatsoever for this particular action to investigate systemic racism. This should have been looked into long before.","Call me a topic changer and downvote me all you want, but it's really easy to be on the right side of social justice issues and incredibly difficult for this administration to be on labor's side on financial issues.",0
"But even if I’m wrong, and the Ukranians violated those treaties first, “We had to invade Ukraine because they did not accept our earlier invasion of Ukraine” is only morally compelling to people who really, really want it to be.","In case anyone forgets, the Minsk deals themselves were only a thing because Russia rolled tanks into Crimea to illegally seize Ukrainian territory, and Ukraine did not have the means, and the West did not have the will, to stop it.",0
"I accept everything you’re saying; at the end of the day, I’m content to deal with these short-term headaches in exchange for the most sweeping and strict gun control law in the country. I agree with the points you’re saying, but the reaction I’m struck with is an overwhelming meh.","The legislature is welcome to amend the law to extend the deadline, or the courts will place a temporary injunction until the implementation questions are ironed out. As for gun businesses, I have a hard time believing that they will all close shop since the last time I checked they sold a lot more merchandise than just guns.",0
We're not discussing whether or not Trump is a fraudster. We have proof he is. We're discussing whether or not he donated his salary as he said he would.,"He never said he would not take a salary, just that he would donate it all to various charities. So the question is did he donate it all like he said?",1
"Xi will be fine if he does nothing, i.e. don't invade Taiwan, don't lock people up like in 2022, don't put out any bright ideas like banning an industry overnight...",Stop making it seem like its the democratic west holding back China. It is literally its own leaders and totalitarian system.,1
"Defaulting on relatively very small portions of debt (like gold bonds or silver certificates) is extremely different from defaulting on all debt. And that article really stretches the meaning of ""default"" (not to mention getting it wrong about silver certificates) and was written by a contributor to the Federalist Society, so I'd take it with a very tiny grain of salt. It's very clearly written to give the misleading impression that the idea of the US never defaulting isn't true and what could happen later this year is just the same (it's not).","No it hasn't. The US has never hit the debt ceiling. Under Obama they came really close, and even just that caused the credit agencies to lower the US's credit rating.",0
"If the first step to fixing a problem is admitting that you have a problem having a word that lets us admit we have a problem without identifying as lynch mob types, the way the word racist clearly connotes,, would be pretty helpful. I know not everyone is going to agree with this idea.",I fully understand where you are coming from. I am also from the south and it is disheartening that my loved ones refuse to research their opinions. They are spoon fed from Fox and refuse any rationale outside of the propaganda they fill themselves with.,1
"If anything, I could see Russia trying to make moves to integrate Belarus more fully as a ""consolation prize"" and PR vicotry in the scenario where they lose the war in Ukraine.",Personally I think Lukashenko is terrified that Belarus is going to be Russia’s “consolation prize” when this thing is over. There’s a lot of Russian soldiers all over Belarus right now and they could probably secure the country in a few days if given the order. Lukoshenko wants to be a slightly more threatening porcupine when that happens. If the people rise up he can escape to Moscow. If Moscow takes over he’s got no where to run.,1
"- Japan currently does not permit same-sex couples to marry or inherit each other’s assets, such as a house they may have shared, and gives them no parental rights to each other’s children.","- Though partnership certificates from municipalities now cover about 60% of the population in Japan, including Tokyo, they do not give same-sex couples the same rights enjoyed by heterosexual couples.",0
"Like who cares. If it falls, something will replace it. And maybe Twitter has been needing to die for a while.","Are large parts of Twitter a cesspool? Yes, absolutely. Is it still the most efficient way to get important information out to the public? Yes, absolutely.",1
"So, Russia is fucked. This is good, because they need to lose Putin's stupid war. But it is bad, because the planet is far too small for anyone to be safe while half of Eurasia is a trailer park full of drunkards with nukes.","We tend to think of an economic slowdown in terms of shortages of consumer goods, but Russia has vast hinterlands where it takes great effort to keep roads and power lines functional. A huge segment of the workforce is dead, fled, or maimed.",0
"Hell, I think they should even find clinics specifically for assisted suicide of the terminally ill, and people at severely ""beyond any actual therapy or medication"" levels of depressed.","I think anyone who is terminally ill, severely clinically depressed (like beyond any help type stuff) or over a certain minimum age if they're otherwise physically and mentally healthy (I'd say 35 or older, not overly old but not too young) should have the legally protected right to end their life.",0
Heh. Ukraine ran RUs nuclear bombers out of their bases with weapons made from monkey shit and sticks relative to modern hardware.,I have a question regarding these Patriot missile systems: it says it could take months to train the Ukrainians on how to use them. But at the same time I’ve seen people in here saying they’ve probably been training them in secret before announcing this. Is it likely these Patriot systems could be on the ground soon manned by the Ukrainians?,1
"I'm uncertain if the influx of residents from CA and other states is really affecting the political makeup of Texas or not. I've heard assertions that we're getting all of the conservatives leaving CA. I've heard that no, we're getting the tech workers who were priced out of living in places like SF and they're liberal.","So, no gerrymandering isn't technically the answer in this specific political office. However, Texas does have a significant problem with it and it's foremost in a lot of people's minds here. So that's why it sort of pops out as the default answer. It's one of many tactics employed by the GOP in Texas to maintain power.",0
The article even says that there's no reason to think these newer artificial insulin products are more beneficial than human insulin. Why is all of this such an issue when regular insulin is available cheaply already?,"Also, as more people are shifted away from the top-of-the-line insulin, those products should get cheaper as there is less demand of it.",1
"You’re mistaken, private companies and public companies have different rules. This is essentially the only (plausible) reason the SEC has rules about accredited investors - because they’re allegedly more aware of the risk and able to absorb them. Solar City being public has no bearing on this if their shareholders voted to be bought, which would be mandatory.",But I think Tesla is making money from that so it’s hard to say he didn’t help shareholders in that instance. With Twitter it’s like he’s using Tesla employees - so their payroll etc. It seems co-mingled and that’s not good and doesn’t benefit Tesla shareholders in any way.,0
"It’s nothing that [checks notes] absolutely everyone [edit: in the US] hasn’t done, turning temporary Covid setbacks into rampant inflation, across the board. And is labor getting any of it? No. No they’re not.",Are they? They seem more expensive to me. I'm not 100% sure. I was looking at eggs the other day and decided to just not get any because of the price.,1
If you do your research you will see that 60% of America believes abortion should be legal in the first trimester and 83% when the mothers life is danger.,A logical national standard would be for insurance to cover legal abortion in the first trimester to ensure that those who desire them can promptly go to the doctor avoiding both health problems and the inherent complication of going beyond that point.,0
"While i strongly condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine and it's actions there are indeed terrorism the reality is that this label done by the EU was done purely out of political motivation because of Russia and EU having an antagonistic relationship, thus making it much easier to call them a terrorist state. The same thing would NOT be possible for Uncle Sam no matter how justified it would be if the same standards that calls Russia a terrorist state was applied to America.",The U.S might be a savior for Europe and some parts of the rest of the world but is a terrorist to those who had to suffer for it's actions like Latin America during the Cold War and the Middle East.,0
Ah. Is this like that episode of the Simpsons where Bart has a catch phrase that dies? I thought the “sir” and “tears in their eyes” trope was a joke now.,"'He said, ""Sir, Sir! I know I'm not deserving, Sir,"" He really told me this people. He was wearing boots, big boots, white as the Adderall I snorted before coming on stage people, and we love our whites folks, believe me no one loves whites like Donald Trump. ""Mr. Trump, my campaign is sunk without your endorsement, sir. Will you please, please give me your blessing?"" He said this with tears in his eyes, whiny tears, like his voice, snot was all over his face - it was really quite something, folks. Certainly not strong like I am.",1
Maybe the actual nature of the ideologies behind the politics can differ so much that there is no reasonable compromise.,And maybe just maybe their is an actual real world out there which can’t be changed by rhetoric and philosophizing and a political ideology that pretends otherwise is dangerous.,0
"The thing with ADHD is that if you’re able to “behave” as a child and avoid underperforming at school, people will assume you’re fine.","Nope, got it from a licensed specialist psychiatrist with 12 years experience with child and adult ADHD. I’m also not in the US and there’s not even remotely as big a profit motive to push diagnostics on people here.",0
"Let them increase the price as much as they want, I'll just stop buying it. They can stick their onions somewhere.",I can buy a kg of standard sized supermarket onions from one of the two chains in my city for either $0.8 or $1.2 ...,0
All the Palestinians need to do to end the conflict and be on their way to a country of their own is to announce publicly and honestly that they accept Israel's right to exist and are letting go of the violence.,"2 Million Palestinians, out of only 9M total population mind you, are living as Israeli citizens, complete with an ID, full rights, have a few parties in the government (Last elections even made it into the coalition).",0
"Not that the point needs more illustration, but this sequence of events just underscores how fucking useless police are.","> Not even Gerald Ford, the unhappy ex-president who pardoned Nixon and kept him out of prison, was immune to the evil fallout. Ford, who believes strongly in Heaven and Hell, has told more than one of his celebrity golf partners that ""I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon."".",0
"Joe wants to help fix our roads, power grid, railways, etc. He says, “It’s going to cost this much to do all that”. Republicans say boo you’re a democrat and I don’t want you to get any recognition for something successful, I’m not voting for it. Even though that republican’s infrastructure is in shambles and desperately needs it.",Republicans do the republican thing and lie to their constituents about how to why voted for it so the people don’t get upset with them and take the money because the bill ultimately passed.,0
"This isn’t about Trump really, what I see is a lot of people using Trump as a defense for Biden, as a stand alone incident taking classified information when you leave office is either a crime or it isn’t. If it’s a crime then Biden committed a crime, independent of whether or not Trump committed a crime.",The problem is that this will be used on the right to compare Trump and Biden despite them being unquestionably different levels of crimes.,1
"I'm very much for illegally exposing government corruption. And I'm grateful for some of the information he DID release. But what Assange did went beyond that. What he did was closer to espionage than whistle-blowing. It was a very biased political attack. If he had aired out everyone's dirty laundry wih little no partisanship or ulterior motives, that would have been something. But he didn't, did he?","But it doesn't change what he is and what his motivation was, which was decidedly NOT journalistic. He attempts to hide behind the cover of journalism to sheild his behavior as a partisan political operative.",0
"Without an open land route to Sweden to divert Swedish forces, a sea invasion of Gotland would most likely fail. Sweden is safe anyhow as Russia would need to go through Finland or Norway. Both are either in or about to join NATO so that is a no go.","A vast majority wants to join NATO. However, it's a tricky situation. Paludan, a danish-swedish troll, burnt a Quran, which pissed off a lot of Turks and started burning the Swedish flag in response. Here's the thing. We have freedom of speech, and we can't prosecute someone expressing their beliefs within our borders, no matter how stupid they are.",1
"You also seem to be ignoring that women who are incapacitated by their menstrual cycle already miss work, they just tend to take sick days to do it.","It’s crazy to me that you guys think no one involved in this legislation thought of that, and then having made that assumption you didn’t research it at all. Just like the US, Spain has protections against workplace discrimination based on sex/gender, hiring protections, etc.",0
How does anyone reasonably see civil negotiations going? Russia already knows it was wrong and should just leave Ukraine alone. Russia committed horrific war crimes and wants to annihilate all Ukrainians. How would you reasonably negotiate with that?,Saying you want the war to end is not the same as stating that the two countries should negotiate peace. How? Russia will not allow for peace. They want conflict and destruction.,0
Also the word ‘Nazi’ was started as a joke which was at the time calling their followers red necks type thing. People I think were attacked in Germany at the time of their rise to power for calling them that.,"Ah yes, thats why we did this to all the Nazi’s in Germany right? Right? We executed hundreds of thousands of Nazi supporters right?",1
Israel also offered the golan heights to syria for peace treaty along with the west bank and gaza and even agreed to cut Jerusalem again for the palestinians at one time.,"Syria always canceled or declined at the last minute, and with changes to isreal government and after the second intifada and syria pretty transparently supported hezbollah, it kinda killed any more talks.",0
NATO hasn't even started yet. The large-scale delivery of weapons that's allowed Ukraine to take on a country many times its size is deliberately being held back by NATO.,"One thing I like to remind people of - NATO has spent its entire existence preparing for war with Russia. Every single conflict, every military action, every training drill, every strike and mobilization they've ever done - it has _all_ been practice for Russia. There is no opponent on earth they are better prepared for.",1
"How come 370,000 people in the Dakota's get twice the representation as 3.6 million people in California?",I don't think it can be described as perfect when you get a tiny portion of people who can control the narrative.,0
"“Sophisticated defense counsel should have known better,” the judge wrote, adding, “In its discretion this Court will not impose sanctions, which the Court believes are unnecessary, having made its point.”.","“Sophisticated defense counsel should have known better,” the judge wrote, adding, “In its discretion this Court will not impose sanctions, which the Court believes are unnecessary, having made its point.”.",1
"If Trump had the documents, kept them safe, and gave them back when asked, I personally wouldn't care.","If trump would have just turned over the documents in the first place, we wouldn't even be discussing it anymore.",1
"This is not the result of them ""not locking down hard enough"", it's the result of denying western vaccines and a majority of their population being unvaccinated.","They used a Chinese vaccine, which doesn't seem to be as good as some western vaccines, there are still many especially elderly who are hesitant to be vaccinated, there are many who only use traditional Chinese medicine.",1
"This is fine when you’re dealing with an actual Nazi, less fine when you’re calling millions of Americans Nazis because they hold beliefs you can’t understand or disagree with so much that you can’t comprehend how they got there.",Look at the math. Don’t only use logic to try and prove other people wrong - use it to challenge and strenhen your beliefs appropriately.,0
"Puberty blockers have been in use since the 80s, with no issues. While they were initially used to treat precocious puberty, it’s the same drugs used for the same purpose (delay puberty), so there’s no reason to assume there would be any new issues.","Trans teens on puberty blockers won’t be on them for more than a year or two in most situations, while they make a decision as to whether to begin hormone therapy or stop blockers and resume their default puberty, so it would be pretty hard (and not very useful) to study its effects over periods of more than a year in this case.",0
It's a bipartisan thing. Just look how in the past how donors influenced Democrats to go to war. Or more recent how Sam of FTX became the second biggest donor of the Democrats just to influence politician's.,"The entire system is broken. Money buys influence, and therefore the wealthy individuals in societies will prevail.",0
"If this is a true retreat, and the vote is still out on that one, it's probably the same reason, Russia think they need the forces elsewhere to either hold or attack. Regardless of reason it would be a huge victory for the people of Kherson who have been facing the catastrophy known as urban fighting.",I think it's only a bloody urban battle if there are Russian troops left behind in Kherson which may not be the case.,1
"We, in the west and on reddit, like to assume that the war is hugely unpopular in Russia because it makes us feel better to believe that. It's, unfortunately, just not true.","More to the point, the idea that the ""nuke issue"" can be ""solved"" by the CIA or Mossad is absurd and shows an utter misunderstanding of what the ""nuke issue"" is, as well as a highschool level understanding of the intelligence services. Beyond that if it were anywhere close to being within their ability to do so, it would have happened decades ago.",0
"Some board meeting in the recent past: ""Either way, there's a cost to be paid, but this way, it's born by the poors and the biosphere, not us. Even if we get a slap- on- the- wrist fine, we still come out ahead compared to the cost of, you know, doing things safely. See? Brilliant"".","That said, Trump fckd a lot of shit up to the nth degree, from the postal service to national security, had twice as much time to do his worst, and fixing shit takes longer than destroying it. Biden can't undo all Trump's sabotage in half the time.",0
"As a lifelong independent, I just want thank the young voters, I wish I could currently say both sides are same, that they have their pros and cons but lately it's just not the case.","It’s a very strange line of thought to think a 16 year is any less competent at making a decision on who they’d like to vote for, especially when compared to the average voter.",1
Maybe you didn't hear me. Giving the people who can not afford health insurance the money to buy health insurance is not a conservative position.,"You can use sub labels all you want, and you can keep your analysis of all that is wrong with the ACA going, but the simple fact is that expanding public welfare is a progressive position. Money goes direct from the US Treasury to people so they can buy health insurance. It just just skips going into bank account of the individual and goes to their directly to their selected health isurance provider.",0
"This means that the church can’t force priest who don’t want to marry gay couples, but you can still ask another priest and they will gladly do it.",So the church is fine with the gay marriage and didn't want to oppose its priest's beliefs? I don't see anything wrong with that. Just find another priest that actually wants to do the wedding.,1
"If Russia is kicked out by force, reparations could well include a transfer of Russian territory to Ukraine (obviously I don't mean Crimea or their newly annexed ""oblasts"" or whatever).","At some point I think there will eventually be a peace deal that gets Ukraine crimea and the Donbas back, but to prevent Russia from being an asshole in the future, the terms will not include reparations or accountability for actions.",1
"Fuck Elon musk. He should have stuck to space X and Tesla. Dudes a GD idiot troll, and I think it's fucking hilarious he spent 44b on an already dying social media platform only to burn it to the ground in....what? Less than a month since gaining ownership of it? What a joke 🤣.",The irony. Hey can you testify? Because none of our guys have testified or responded to sub peonas that for the average citizen typically results in jail time.,1
Sheriffs are usually elected and work for the County they are sheriffs of. Deputy sheriffs work under the elected sheriff and the county and are unelected.,Supposedly (not sure how true it is) a sheriff is the highest elected office in some counties. They can’t be touched because they are elected. The only person who can arrest the sheriff is the county coroner. It might depend state by state or county by county how accurate that is though!,1
Ok not crazy if you strictly limit your news and media consumption to one source only and willfully tune out the vast variety of extra data points and platforms debunking the Fox News lies. But sure its not crazy that a crazy person that only listens to one source completely beleives only that source that retracted their own lies.,"You might argue it’s crazy to believe that all media but this one specific media outlet is lying, but that’s what manny people believe. More often than not, these people operate on faith — hence their religious disposition. They don’t need facts because they have faith.",1
"A person who believed their mail-in ballot might have been lost or destroyed or late could vote by provisional ballot in person, but they need to specifically use a provisional ballot so the elections board knows to look for their mail-in ballot and only count one. And of course they can only vote in one place.",Widely and immediately condemned by elections officials everywhere because of the probability of misunderstanding.,0
"I just have to ask though, how is the Democratic Party shown itself as anything separate from neoliberal capitalism? Both parties ultimately serve the interests of capital above all else. That’s why we see corporate profits skyrocket during social unrest, pandemics, and other crises. If aligning yourself as a socialist means upholding capitalism through the Democratic Party, how is it any different?","Yeah its been demoralizing to my pro electoralist, socialist arguments. I'm basically reduced to the core argument of playing defense against the onset of legalized fascism from the Republicans. But any hope of reforming this system down a long, long road to a social democracy that can create the foundational institutions for future socialism have extinguished.",1
The Gulf states aren’t interested in sharing their wealth or inviting Hamas into their backyard. Historically keeping Palestinians in a bad situation and blaming it entirely on Israel and the US has also been far more politically expedient for the neighboring Arab states.,"Listen, I think Palestinians matter just as much as Israelis, but the fundamental problem is that Palestinians push the blame, and people like you push the blame on Israel, when in reality it's organizations like Hamas who cause terror and refuse to accept peace deals. Once the Palestinians finally accept that they're at fault, they should destroy or stop supporting Hamas and finally be able to live in peace.",1
"Because a dictator is overthrowing a democracy. Americans used to be united in support of democracy, but now it seems like Republicans are thinking twice about it.","And not that many people are being killed this could just drag on indefinitely. in part because it's to Putin's advantage to claim that Russians are being persecuted and need to unified in support him in these terrible, troubling times.",0
I think it makes far more sense to talk about how the Republican primary voter’s gamble with far right candidates failed than to talk about any minuscule theoretical difference democratic spending had on those results.,Radicalizing Republicans and encouraging them to stop nominating moderates because they'll lose by primaries could be disastrous in the long run. Plus those in states and cities that this fails in like NC are stuck with extreme candidates representing them.,1
I mean I’m not advocating for not voting. I’m saying the past couple elections seem like a clear repudiation of what the Republican Party has come to stand for.,"What is amazing is suddenly what.Teump does is not acceptable and unsettling to the Republican party. WOW, woke up a bit late on that issue by several years.",1
"Also also, most people don't care about government. Their question is ""what are you doing to make my life better?"", and unless you are constantly hammering that point, as well as that Republicans will harm them, Republican faux-populist talking points will stick, again supported by their media narratives.",The point is Republicans feed into this blaming Mexicans and liberals and socialist for all the problems in the country making it so it becomes savage to debate them.,1
The problem with “claims” is the Repubs have a whole high rated propaganda machine masquerading as a news network to promote their BS while the Democrats can stand on policy without the same kind of platform to promote it.,"It's true that the right wing has an effective propaganda machine, but if the Dems could ""stand on policy"" that would include winning elections that allow them to carry out their policy. The party needs to do more-- getting elected and enacting a platform is literally their entire purpose. Sitting on your hands and blaming FOX and conservatives for being devious isn't enough, we need leadership.",1
"Actually, Russia has 300 billion dollars in the west and they were frozen as retaliation for invading a neighbor without provocation. That much money might even cover most or all of the aid packages NATO sent to Ukraine.","The West keeps the Ukrainian military supplied. The PEOPLE keep it functioning. If this weren't so, why would Put in be shelling the people over military targets? According to your 'logic' he wouldn't.",1
"Yep, at this point you can make damn near anything a credible threat as long as it has a 120mm+ gun and you can figure out how to cram a modern stabilizer/fcs/optics into it. Aside from slapping ERA onto it, though, there's not a ton you can do to increase survivability though... That's the point where things like the Challenger 2 or the Abrams shine...",All of the crispy fresh western tanks are in addition to that constant drip feed of upgraded Soviet armor.,0
They call it global American hegemony because they fear what it really is: Hegemony of the People. Hegemony by the People. Hegemony for the People.,"Calling it a hegemony just gives their criticism validity. Since when is democracy and equality a uniquely American concept? Just because the US has the largest army doesn’t mean that the rest of the democratic world is somehow dominated, if we don’t like what the US is selling we can always opt out and often do. Usually it’s the US that we need to pull in with us when it comes to societal progress like e.g. climate change, does that make the EU a climate hegemony?",1
"Fascism always seems to find no shortage of pawns who dispose of other pawns. At that top level, they're not just dimwitted goons hopped up on ultranationalism and myths of glorious conquest. They're fully in on the scam, they have already clawed and backstabbed to climb the hierarchy of other backstabbing bastards. But somehow, they always think they're too special to meet the same end as all the rest. Perhaps they're not as clever as they've convinced themselves they are.","""Look Frida, this is an opportunity that I've just got to take. Well they were hardly going to give me the job when everything was going well, were they?"".",0
"She’ll get some Dems, but not many. Same with GOP. She’ll probably get most of the votes from center-right independents/disaffected Republicans. If it’s a less popular candidate for D, she’ll probably pull more D than if Gallego runs for Senate. I think I saw that a poll had them 84/16 leaning Gallego in an article I read? Some Dems still support her. Possibly enough to run the margins against Gallego and allow a GOP seat gain, but we’ll have to see.",If the Republicans run another Finchem/Blake/Lake and the Dems run Gallego then honestly Sinema probably wins….,1
"I will offer u proof ,which u can see 4 yourself. View any video of the 2nd impact. Note the cylinder under the fuselage. No commercial jets Ever Have This. Now watch in slo mo as the object hits a steel frame building, with no damage to it. Hollow aluminum wings pass thru steel girders intact ,neither bending or disintegrating in pieces. Just b4 impact note the flash of light. Finally follow the object as it ""disappears/dissolves"" into a solid building with No damage and not one piece of airplane debris falling into the street. See the video shot from the street and nothing comes off the object upon impact. According to experienced pilots who have actually flown the jets claimed to be involved on 9/11 no commercial jet could execute any of the maneuvers seen or described at sea level at 500+ mph without breaking apart. Only military jets can.","Very true, they are almost as bad as the US with it's 800+ military bases, over 80 armed conflicts going on currently, a military budget that is larger than the next 10 countries totalled, a history of assassinating elected world leaders, causing or actively supporting every armed conflict since ww2, assassinating a sitting American president n his brother, etc. I could go on but you get the idea.",0
I'd encourage you to actually watch and read through the links I posted more carefully rather than assuming you already know or understand what they say. Well-educated voters in a well-educated population are a big part of what's needed.,"Voting is important, but so are education, unionization, anti-corruption reforms, and building other forms of collective power and leverage with respect to the ruling capitalist/kleptocrat class.",0
what if the congress office next to you does not smoke. how do you keep the smoke in offices of people who smoke...,"Ain't no good reason that the third spaces should have to be smoking ones. House cafe outside the usual cafeteria, bar, hell, freakin' parkour/jungle gym for all I care. Tobacco normalizing is so . . . dumb.",1
"Or maybe he could....I dunno, ask? Honestly if he has launched the entire Starlink system into space, I'm sure he has a phone number he can call to either have consent or confirm an actual violation. He could have it cleared up in a day tops, but he didn't because that's not why he made the choice.","His official statement was that not letting Ukraine use it for drones, is preventing Zelensky from attacking Russian soil and starting WW3.",0
This idea that all Russia has to do is invade a country and occupy a slice to prevent membership is born out of ignorance for the type of organization that NATO is.,But I think it's also important to note that Russia uses this to create a loophole via Russian funded and supplied insurgencies to block countries from joining NATO. This seems like a weakness of the NATO structure that's being exploited to prevent the expansion of the alliance.,1
"They've been kidnapping Ukrainians and deporting them to Russia since the invasion.... Not specifically kids, but.....","They steal ukrainian kids, take them from their parents, and really try to wash their brains. And are VERY surprised that those kids aren't happy. They say - hey, we're saved them from ukrainian nazi, feed them and they wish all russians to die. Curious, why children aren't happy? Hm..",1
Do you really think syphilis has even 8% support? There's obviously a floor on each question for people to just pick something at random.,"His best chance at winning the nomination is probably him pressuring state parties to cancel the primaries and hand it to him. Many state level party apparatus is are dominated by the trimpiest of trimpy. So could very well get some - he doesn't need all of them, just enough to block competition from wining.",0
To call it conservative implies it has a deeper ideology than it has actually got and to some extent accepts the image it tries to portray to the Americans. It's governed by more of a sort of obsequious national nihilism.,"Their whole country seems like it’s based on cynicism and shallow moral grandstanding. They claim to have a moral high ground over the “decadent” West, but they have rampant alcoholism, physical abuse, and intolerance towards anyone different. Everything is made to benefit to top echelons of their society, and corruption and lies reign over the country. Russia is a country that has turned into some sort of nightmare, and it’s shocking to see so many people eagerly buying into their ideology abroad. It’s a festering wound slowly poisoning everything around it, and it’s a horrible shame. That being said, you’re right that they brought this upon themselves; Putin and his regime have been supported by Russians all too willing to believe the comfortable lies.",1
"They've also made public statements acknowledging that they're making bank selling gas now that Russia isn't getting lip service, and that it is important to make sure their donations to Ukraine reflect that.","No, but the more ""real"" answer is that Ukraine will somehow ""pay"" for it in other ways, such as offering contracts to European companies to do certain things in Ukraine etc. There's many nuances on why anyone is helping but reality is that nothing is ever free, it's a bleak view but that's the truth. Shell was already awarded contracts for gas or whatever resources they were supposed to process but had to pull out of Ukraine due to Crimea, so more of that will definitively happen in the future and once the war is over I can see Ukraine become very westernized due to huge European influence within the country after the war.",1
It's time for NATO to carry out offensive cyberattacks against Russia. Russia has been cyber-attacking NATO countries for years and NATO does nothing. It's time to deter those assholes. Shut down Russia's power grid or something.,Look at what attacks on the Ukrainian power grid do for the resolve of their citizens. The reverse is also possible.,1
Its hardly dependent on the president. Obama's drone bombing campaigns have blown up many civilians including children. Most if not all American presidents would be considered disgusting war criminals if held by the same standards as leaders of other countries are.,"Yeah Wagner nazis are shit, but remember which country did the exact same shit in Iraq, Afghanistan and many other countries? Just remember that whenever you think of how shit these people are when they do it in Mali.",0
"Would do no-one any good for Moldova to enter the conflict, because as you mentioned their army - similar with many natural countries- is almost non existent. Maybe they can divert some of the rockets from Ukraine to Moldova.","I don't see how the Russians can effectively threaten Moldova now, they could bomb it with missiles but can't safely reach it.",1
"OK, so this is a discussion about Compacts of Free Association with the US. Currently three countries have entered into such compacts: Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia. None of these countries was ""taken from the Spanish during the Spanish American war in the late 19th century... to expand American colonial reach."".","yeah. morally its the right thing to do, theyve voted to become a state in all 3 of the last votes on it ive seen. but it takes 3/5ths of senators to pass, or 60. so unless they can get 10 republican senators to back this to prevent a fillabuster it wont happen. and since it would end up adding two new senators to congress, and they'd most likely be democrats, the republicans will never go for this.",1
"\60 western tanks might not sound like much, but that should probably be enough to outfit two whole combined arms brigades w/ mostly western equipment. (note: Ukraine currently has \15 mechanized + motor rifle brigades). Assuming that they spread out the abrams + leopards into 2 tank batallions of \31-32 tanks each – each of which can be attached to + provide support for an infantry brigade, whether in addition to other formations of Ukrainian tanks, or by themselves.","Damn, Zelensky needs to say ""I ask my western friends for just one more battalion of tanks"" and after they agree, he should reveal that the number of tanks in a Ukrainian tank battalion has been changed to a comically high number.",1
So the people most likely to be unsatisfied in the US are the people least likely to be able to find a country willing to allow them to move there.,"Outside of that, chances are that other countries have little interest in whether or not you want to live there.",0
"Are there any models of hybrid cars where the gas engine can be used to directly charge the batteries, without actually driving the car? ( Idling at home, say. ).","Yeah. I think being a ""competent"" tsar of Russia meant you had to be able to ruthlessly put down reformers (of which they were many). You also had to have some good policy ideas, but it doesn't matter too much if you can't even stop a peasant rebellion.",1
"Probably because republican don’t just hate LGBT people, and it’s not a deal breaker for everybody. You can vote for republican for a lot of other reason, and when you have to vote specifically for LGBT rights a lot of them would be for it. It might be hard for some people but you can be for LGBT rights but still vote for republicans, for economics reason, for immigration reasons, for gun rights reason, ect… People just see blue and red, but their is a lot more than that. You can also have people hating LGBT peoples still vote democrats.",That feels like the worst thing you can do to attract more Democrat or independent votes. Real foolish move.,1
"If after all that’s happened the last several years we can’t garner enough support to not vote for literal fucking crazies, then we deserve it.","It is a problem as old as time - the Dems are going to argue about the best way to help people and the GOP are going to scream ""NO!"" about literally anything the Dems propose.",1
"Also, as far as i know, participation of russians in big competitions, sports or not, is very profitable for Russia as well (so it ends up profiting more violence in Ukraine).",I'd say any non participation of Russia in competition has much more positive effect for Putin. It enrages general public and unites against the west. Even though I don't care for sports I have a feeling of being slightly annoyed by this. I can imagine how general sports fan sees this.,1
"The thing is, I imagine most of these people would first contact FIFA and ask them whether it was safe for them to go, before buying tickets. After all, this is all taking place under the auspices of FIFA.",This isn’t just FIFA. Qatar is just as open to blame. Just because there wasn’t a documentary about Qatar doesn’t mean they’re blameless here.,1
"Also Ukraine does have a history of selling off surplus equipment, so destruction or giving back equipment may be part of economic grants used to help rebuild.","I believe a lot of countries are using the aid to Ukraine also as a way to offload dated or overstocked equipment. Essentially, the donation to Ukraine is a good excuse to replace them with newer systems.",1
"There are almost no scenarios where the missile landing in Poland was intentional no matter the source, and intentions would be a very big part of determining the type of response.","Details: The Polish president said that Zelenskyy’s claim that the missile that landed in Poland was not a Ukrainian missile is based on the fact that ""everyone wants to see the evidence they want to see."".",1
The laser receivers can be shrouded if they are actively aimed at the other end of the link. Nothing too crazy required to do this. Each drone would need atleast two transceivers to relay communications.,We are not far from the point where you could send drones on a recon mission without anybody at the controls. Like you give it a heading and a distance and it flies a search pattern then comes back with a highlights reel of anything interesting and a full video of its search as well.,0
"I've sometimes done Will Call for the same reason and just pick up my tickets at the venue, but a lot of places don't do that anymore, or make it a big hassle to do it, along with charging a fee, of course.","If you want to get these tickets you may as well skip all that nonsense and go right to the reseller's websites because that's where the tickets will be (with a mark-up, of course).",1
"They don't really want affordable housing, they just pay the concept the necessary lip service because they know current society views affordable housing as morally good. But in practice they still look down on ""those dirty poors"" and don't want them ""lesser folk"" to be visible and threaten their property values.",Affordable housing requires sacrificing a bit of your ivory towers. Grow the fuck up already; that selfishness is part of what's fueling the housing crisis.,0
"He waited until it was over the ocean so it wouldn't fall on people? And the ones wanting to shoot it down were the ones living beneath it supposedly shooting handguns, Imagine wanting a balloon to fall on you to own the libs.",Going to be kind of hard justifying an escalation when they are the ones caught red handed with a spy balloon (assuming it is a spy ballon).,1
In actual fact the debt ceiling was exceeded the moment the government committed to make those payments without having the income to cover them—not when the bills came due.,"There shouldn't be any question about the government paying its debts, but that is no excuse to keep spending money knowing that doing so will cause the debt ceiling to be exceeded. Pay prior obligations first, borrow up to (but not exceeding) the debt ceiling if necessary, and then divide the available resources among the various programs up to the authorized limits. Accept that this means some discretionary programs may not be fully funded if more money was authorized for them than is actually available after debt service and basic essentials are accounted for.",0
Did you bother to read the article because that’s not what it’s talking about. Also the only people able to afford a house were those given 100k by their parents? Myopic and off topic.,You realize that not what this piece is about right? It’s about people virtue signaling they want to help disenfranchised or homeless and then not wanting low income housing built in their neighborhood.,0
"Increased military spending, no legalization, no student loan forgiveness are pretty much the reasons I feel we deserve much more than a moderate-practically republican-but at least not a traitor (yet) Biden.","Edit: For those of you making bold assumptions I don't know how gubment works, here's me saying you don't know who you're talking about when you defend Biden because Congress... Here ya go nerds:",0
"This is the Chinese testing satellites that can detect submarines. Google ""lasers detect submarines"" and a number of articles pop up about their research going years back and some about their satellite with this capability. I think they are less concerned with aircraft carriers due to anti ship cruise missiles/ballistic missiles potentially being able to overwhelm their air defenses and sink them.","They have established a fairly advanced set of air bases and air defenses on their artificial island chain in the South China Sea, the biggest threat to their dominance of that region would immediately be US submarines that could launch missiles to destroy those defenses and sink their ships. I don't think we will go to war anytime soon, their air force isn't quiet capable enough yet, but they are definitely getting prepared for a war.",0
"Except in this case the guy donated millions publicly to the Democrats, and millions secretly / anonymously to the Republicans.","because his parents are highly invested in the Democratic Party and it was a very bad story for them when this guy was stealing people's money and donating it to the Dems? obviously, that's a bad look, and it's very easy for him to come out and counter that with ""oh yeah, donated to the republicans too just can't tell you or show you where or how lol"".",1
"Obviously Hungary can’t annex other nations (although they should be allowed to confederate if both nations desired such), so what other solution would help restore Hungary’s dignity?","the upside of Hungary doing this again and again and again might be that Hungary sets a great example to other possible wannabe about the likely unappealing consequences resulting from becoming ""Hungary no 2"" right now in Europe.",1
"He would never kill Zelensky, those Russian born assassins sent to do so had nothing to do with him /s.","Yeah, they lie about the most meaningless bullshit, there's surely no way Putin would lie about definitely not wanting to kill Zelensky. That's why they went straight for the capital city and tried to rapidly capture forward positions like Hostomel airport with paratroopers which is just on the outskirts of Kyiv.",1
"Honestly, I'm beginning to feel like those people deserve it if they voted for him and his ilk. If they keep electing morons to office, they ought to keep feeling the consequences of those actions.",Historically been shown to be the best way to get idiots to vote for you. Same way the Nazis got power (by blaming all of their post-ww1 problems on Jews). The idiots ate that shit up while the smart people were packing their bags.,1
"And if you think that's something, look into all the diverse stuff they developed from wild mustard. Broccoli, cauliflower, brussles sprouts to name just a few.","Brassica oleracea, or wild cabbage is a plant that has been bred into cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, etc. These food crops would be unrecognizable in their wild form.",1
"Not for the purposes of tax exception. All entities need to advocate for the policies that they find advantageous, be it persons, businesses, unions, religions, or even private social clubs. They are all subject to the laws of the land & so should be allowed to influence policies so that they benefit them.","The difference is that a candidate or a political party are more than just 1 law or position. For example, one can support the GQP b/c you think they are pro-life/birth but have to deal with their economic policies. Contrast this with voting for a single ordinance or writing a letter to an elected official to pass a set of anti-abortion laws.",0
"It would reveal NATO's hand, but then again, the whole point is threatening so that Belarus won't join the war or be a launchpad for another front.","But I've said this years ago many times to many downvotes; I sincerely doubt Russia would use nukes even if it goes to war with NATO, and same for NATO. The only situation where nukes may actually start dropping is when NATO forces approach Moscow or St. Petersburg, and that's as tactical nukes. Which yes, means nuking themselves.",0
"I don't believe Ukraine got the AMRAAM-ER NASAMS 3. I believe they're using the older AIM-120A/B/C via NASAMS 2 launchers, maybe even older NASAMS 1 launchers. UK's MOD for example specified they have hundreds of old AIM-120s they can provide to Ukraine to keep their NASAMS units supplied. Those old AIM-120s don't mean much in the context of an AMRAAM-ER.","Each interceptor is over $1M on their own. That's $72M just for ready to go interceptors, not including any reloads. The Sentinel radar is $70M as well.",0
"Instead of backchecking their stories (I think the press can do that), I'd rather see certain actions to run or hold office such as a certain amount of community service hours, town hall appearances, hours campaigning with other candidates, time living in certain areas within the district and maybe joining the reserve branch of the military once in office. I'd also love some term limits and perhaps a max age. It would also be great if they had continuing education requirements since after watching some hearings I'm convinced that some members don't even have a basic grasp on some of what they legislate.",Frankly the most troubling thing is why people who run for office feel the need to lie and some of the stuff they lie about.,0
"They need to stop actually letting the GOP use the debt ceiling as a way to demand things and just ignore them. Tell the public that while the GOP are trying to crash the economy and make cuts to things people actually want and use, the Dems are looking at ways to actually govern and pay for things Congress already approved.","Biden should say, even if it wont happen, that he's directed WH legal counsel to look into whether he can simply ignore the debt ceiling because of the 14th Amendment. Or that he'll just order the Treasury to print coins to cover the debt.",0
"That’s my understanding. I think it is important to point out though that it could be enforced through the shipping insurance ships are typically required to have to dock at a port and unload their oil. This is at least what some other articles I’ve read / videos I’ve watched are saying. Who is in the business of supplying shipping insurance? Apparently, it’s generally western countries (like potentially up to 90%). If this is all true (I assume it generally is, but would like to read more about it), these insurance companies could forbid their insured customers from shipping oil over $30. Of course, I’m sure it is more complicated than that.","It isn't that simple. India doesn't have a lot of oil transport infrastructure between them and Russia, so they can't handle a lot. Also, oil is trading at around $76 a barrel, and this is on a downward trend over 6 months, meaning that India is likely going to request a price lower than $76 a barrel, but more than $30 a barrel to make up for increased shipping costs. To further complicate things, Russia will likely demand payment in denominations India isn't used to to shore up foreign cash reserves.",1
"Yes. Its not Hungary who has the threat of Russian invasion hanging over their heads, so Orban takes Putin's money and KGB aid and plays these games in NATO and the EU.","Yeah, kicking out Orban’s Hungary would be a very clear message that NATO won’t tolerate fascist belligerents within its ranks, and Erdogan might be a little triggered by that notion.",1
Overall I don’t really care to debate it though because it’s not like I think Obama was terrible. I just think Biden has been great by virtually any standard you can hold the position to.,"Biden has really won me over so far. I think the media's hyper-focus on Obama, followed by the insanity of Trump, had me used to breaking news happening every single day. Biden has been a great return to normalcy plus he's been surprisingly left of where I thought he'd be.",1
A universal vaccine would hopefully work on a pandemic strain - which could happen tonight - and take a lot of the bite out of that.,Sure.. Then we’ll need the Disney flu Vaccine and the HBO flu vaccine and the Amazon Flu Vaccine. You know the BBC will have one. There’s no way it will be just one. That’s not how drug companies work.,1
"I'm sure retaking Kreminna would create a bunch of strategic opportunities for Ukraine, but the logistical issue of that highway being unusable as a supply route is already playing out, and the Russians have already adapted their logistics to deal with it. Anyway this discussion is rather pointless to be honest, as the liberation of Kreminna is unlikely to happen anytime soon.","No, that highway has been under artillery observation by the Ukrainian forces for several weeks now. The Russians are already using alternative supply lines.",0
"Ukraine still controlled a lot of resources into Crimea, like fresh water, at least I’ve read that was a big motivation for Russia to try taking more control in the surrounding region.","Rostov-on-Don is inside Russia, and Ukraine has no intention of taking Russian territory. Ukraine has made it very clear that they are fighting for their own territorial integrity.",1
"Yes, neutron radiation can do that. So can energetic alphas if they hit light atoms. Even energetic gammas can crate photo-neutrons.","Radiation is not just gamma rays. It's also for example subatomic particles and nuclei traveling at high speeds. Those can totally make new elements and isotopes, and thus, make things radioactive.",1
"The unwritten agreement for many years was the farmers could hire undocumented workers who would move from farm to farm as needed for the season. At the end of the season, these workers could be suddenly caught and transported back to Mexico on the government tab, where they could spend the rest of the year with family back home. The farmer could then complain about ""illegals taking American jobs"" and vote republican as a way of virtue signaling.","These same Texan ranchers and farmers will surely vote for sensible immigration reform as well as social programs to entice these hard workers to come to our country to work, right?",1
"He ate at FIFA's top-table in the corruption league. His name always came up every cycle, and yet FIFA did nothing about it.","It was only when the Americans got involved and basically did what European governments were too frightened to do, that it started to collapse.",0
I have a question regarding these Patriot missile systems: it says it could take months to train the Ukrainians on how to use them. But at the same time I’ve seen people in here saying they’ve probably been training them in secret before announcing this. Is it likely these Patriot systems could be on the ground soon manned by the Ukrainians?,"If i read correctly, there was some article about ukrainian troops completing their training soon at a german base. That would mean they started training months ago i suppose?",1
"I think you're missing the point that Poland isn't submitting an application in the first place, and this is the problem.. not that Germany can't approve it.","Do you honestly think that if Poland had tried to send a request and that request would be ignored by the german government, that PiS would ever let us hear the end of it?",1
"Contrary to what a lot of people think, being a stupid asshole is not good publicity. Ask peta and greenpeace how much of a shit anybody gives about either of them after all their nonsense.","Its not that they're destroying anything (so far), it's that they're being insufferable ass-clowns and making people think climate activists are a bunch of fucking vandalizing morons who are doing this for attention to themselves, rather than attention to the issue they claim to care about.",0
He's talking about theocracy which tends to be beholden to an ideal or religious belief ergo conservative typically.,"A theocratic regime is essentially a part of the spectrum of Conservative ideology. And that's the reason theocratic regimes suppress knowledge. Cause and reason, are different things.",1
"In my whole life, I've never heard anyone use the word ""brownies"" to demean POC. Other words yes, but not that particular one.","No, they didn't vote for it internally. Here is how it went down, executive suddenly informed everyone after the current session had already started that the name would change mid-session instead of for the beginning of the next session. That these are the two choices that had been pre-selected by the executive and people could vote on them and only those two choices.",0
The reason they hadn't spun up production yet was that the Zelenskyy admin knew they had moles and double agents in their midst and didn't want them to tip Russia. They only started production after those agents were purged.,"Its a nice conspiracy theory, and it keeps me warm at night knowing that no matter how far fetched it is, its something that the Kremlin has to consider.",0
"Raptor is informal; the family is largely Dromaeosauridae. Lots in this family are called raptors (in their name), lots aren’t. Raptor itself means “snatching/seizing” and the clade Maniraptor, of which Dromaeosaurids are a part, references the shared feature of their hands/wrist structures.","For dinosaurs, is there a taxonomy-based meaning for ""raptor?"" (as opposed to things like an allosaurus or a T-rex or other non-raptor names). If not, is there some sort of size limit before it stops being a dinosaur raptor and starts being some other name, or part of the T-Rex family or something?",1
"A ranked choice system would be best, but my guess is that Republicans will ram through a change to just require a plurality, and then advance a bunch of fake ""liberal"" third party candidates to split the vote on the left.","The runoff election was supposed to favor Republicans this time it didn't, so the system needs to be adjusted so the will of the people does not contradict the will of the party.",1
"I'd prefer someone younger as well, but the benefit of a younger nominee is far outweighed by the detriment of giving up the incumbency advantage. If Pete can run in 2024, there's no reason he couldn't just wait to run until 2028 instead. That goes for any other Democrat you can name. If we nominate someone other than Biden for 2024, we'll probably lose, and then 2028, instead of being an open race, will be an uphill battle against a Republican incumbent, which could very well mean the next opportunity to retake the presidency is in the open race in 2032.","Realistically, our choices are Biden, or the Republican, whoever that ends up being. And that's why nominating anyone other than Biden would be a waste. Republicans didn't put Bush back up against Clinton in 1996. Democrats didn't put Gore back up against Bush in 2004. Republicans didn't put McCain back up against Obama in 2012. Republicans didn't put either McCain or Romney back up in 2016. Candidates who lose the primary can get another chance, but a nominee who loses is done. Trump may be an anomaly, having been President, though that remains to be seen. The last time a losing nominee went on to be nominated again was Nixon, who, after losing the 1960 election was renominated in 1968. Before that was Cleveland, who won in 1884(!), lost in 1888, but then was renominated and won again in 1892. Before him was Van Buren, from before the Civil War. There are a couple others from the early 1800s. It happens, but it's extremely rare. Generally, a losing nominee is done, politically.",0
China as a collective is getting too old to work. We've already seen the effects that has had on Japan as their birth rates plummeted. China is buckling at the seams and is going to collapse in the next decade.,"What evidence do we have that China is buckling at the seams? Their economy and GDP continues to grow, inflation is extremely low. I’m not sure how the ccp is crushing the youth, I actually go to China three times a year in partnership with some of their universities and majority of the youth loves Xi, to my surprise.",1
"Neither will Jeffries. We need somebody who could plausibly talk to both halves of the party, but Jeffries has made his career out of attacking progressives.",The GOP play smarter politics than the Democrats - they play dirtier and the Democrats keep doing exactly what they want; hold the center. Why do you think they keep moving the goal posts?,1
"Plus half the time if you look at the actual policies folks calling for ""reparations"" suggest, it's basically just something like ""let's invest more in disadvantaged communities"" or whatever - the sort of stuff that could be done in a race blind fashion anyway.","And let's remember that there's various examples of policy that's de jure colorblind being enacted in ways to effectively exclude disadvantaged groups. This is of course reason to be cautious with colorblind policy... but on the other hand it does present an opportunity. If technically colorblind policy can be crafted in ways to effectively hurt or exclude disadvantaged groups, it should also instead be able to be crafted in ways that can allow it to effectively be more likely to help people of disadvantaged groups.",0
"Yes 18 months. It's not a full time gig, just a few days a month. It was originally supposed to be 12 months but they extended us because of a relatively large case we were working on. We were allowed to leave for lunch. It was like an ordinary 8 hour job. Be there by nine, 1 hour lunch 12-1, leave at 5. They paid $40 a day in the beginning and it later moved to $50 a day. We also got paid mileage and if it was more than X miles they would pay for a hotel if we wanted one.",Nope. Not allowed to discuss any details. I guess we could talk about whatever became public after it went to trial but there were several cases that I wouldn't want the accused knowing that I was a part of the Grand Jury that indicted them.,0
"You would think that since every election the GOP stokes fear with doomsday style ads on the threat du jour, voters would catch on that maybe it's all bs.","If you want to know what real ""sheeple"" are, just look at the part of electorate that swerves left and right dependent on the last ad they watched.",1
"""nearly 2,000 commenters, in what appeared to be a coordinated campaign, submitted the exact same comment opposing Biden's student-debt relief plans."".","Pro tip. Use textise.net to view most paywalled articles. But, it depends on how the page is coded. Don't expect WSJ or Bloomberg to work with this trick. But for most it does.",1
"I can't see how you can be an american and not realize that this war by proxy is actually great for our country from a geopolitical strategy standpoint, and unlike a lot of our military actions, also the morally right decision to boot.","I understand the anti-war belief, but you can’t be anti-war when a war like this is going to set the tone for whether other nations will engage in territorial aggression.",1
"A protest is a dialogue of the people, by the people, and for the people. For example, if you're upset at where things are headed- step outside alongside your friends, neighbors, and compatriots, bang on some pans, yell out some slogans, get some anger out, and maybe organize some next steps.","Protests can be effective as a tool of change. There are other tools in the toolbox, mind you, and the state is aware of that. Why else do you think they (the state) would attempt to quell protests using violence if there were no point to them?",0
If Russia attacks NATO the war will end with an American flag flying over the ruins of the Kremlin.,"When Russia loses the war in Ukraine, Putin and his cronies will likely still be in power, and the Russian Federation will likely still be intact.",0
"Even with Finland in NATO without Sweden, Sweden would still be a target, even if its more of a challenge for the enemy to invade Sweden since Finland would be NATO territory. Sweden could still be attacked with missiles from Kaliningrad or from submarines and ships in the Baltic Sea, even if its unlikely.","Sweden: East side of the country is wide open to the Baltic Sea, and Russia can go with submarines or ships all over the place.",0
"A parliamentary system is always preferable, for sure. I wish that the lower Chamber really represented districts (like in the US) and not entire provinces. It would force politicians to live among those who represent, instead of these “blanket ballots” that only represent the party. Otherwise, cities are overly represented.","La inmunidad de arresto está contemplada en el art. 69 [Constitución Argentina], que dispone que “ningún senador o diputado, desde el día de su elección hasta el de su cese, puede ser arrestado; excepto el caso de ser sorprendido in fraganti en la ejecución de algún crimen que merezca pena de muerte, infamante, u otra aflictiva.”.",0
The US constitution states that it takes a two-thirds majority from both chambers of Congress to disable (stop) such criminal indictments from being applied to these members of Congress.,"Thus, one-third of the members of Congress can't stop such indictments from occurring; it takes a two-thirds majority (in both chambers of Congress) to prevent such criminal indictments from taking effect.",0
If you were in a booth there would be no way for someone to be able to verify you voted the way you said you did.,"Sure, and similarly there is no way to prove to someone else that you voted a specific way with mail-in voting. So it's not really clear what point you are trying to make. Everything you have mentioned so far applies to both in-person and mail-in voting.",1
The sources are Ukrainian so they would have propaganda. The majority of these drones probably did get shot down but that is kind of the point as to why they are so cheap.,"So yeah, a swarm of basic drones against a bunch of soft targets in a low tech country… not that surprising that it’s ‘effective’.",1
This article is a bit trash. No mention of the increased violence against health care workers. No mention of unsafe working conditions and unsafe patient ratios. No mention of exorbitant ceo pay. No mention of increased litigation against nurses or anyone that makes a mistake after being worked to death and overloaded. The system has collapsed already and the system deserves to collapse.,We saw the collapse of our healthcare system during COVID. There is only one solution: Medicare for All. Everyone would have quality healthcare no matter what. It would also cost less.,1
"Drawing attention to the incident in Poland was just to point out, that by the logic of blindly wanting to go to war over a stray missile, Nato should already been drawn into the war on Russia's side. Not saying that is what NATO should do, but rather how ridiculous an non-nuanced take is.",Also If Ukraine hasn't declared War on Russia for literally invading their country. A rocket flying over another country isn't going to cause war declaration.,0
"He also doesn't meet the definition of legally insane since he hid his actions and engaged in other deceitful behavior, proving he knew it was wrong.","He is clearly NOT ""insane"", however, in the legal sense of being unable to diffetentiate ""right from wrong."" His constant obstruction of justice clearly demonstrates he knew what he was doing was unlawful, foresaw the repercussions, and pre-meditated how to avoid being caught.",1
"1) Because Russian made weapons are easier for Ukraine to operate and maintain since these are the same weapons they use, are trained on and have the supply and logistics capability already in place for.","2) To help divest countries from relying on Russia for military hardware, further isolating Russia from the global economy.",0
"What this means is that Putin can run for president in 2024 and in 2030. By 2036 he would be 84 years old, if he's even still alive, effectively making him president for life.","If he’s still alive in 2024, Putin being an old Soviet, will hand pick his blessed successor. This man will assuredly be as corrupt and/or morally compromised as Putin. This is a survival tactic, a mutually assured destruction should they try to come after him when he’s no longer in power. It’s how we wound up with Putin in the first place.",1
"They also postpone executions right up to the moment before they are supposed to be killed, they do this multiple times and sometimes for months, just to torture them mentally.",Yet countries like Iran can openly do evil shit like this every day while the whole world watches and does nothing about it.,0
"Would you also deny Ukrainians who left their country because they didn’t want to fight and die, and tell them to go back and defend their homeland?","As a side note if there is any demographic treated as poor as Ukrainians it's Russian resistors. Torture, murder, indefinite jail are what resistors have to face.",1
"To be clear, the above isn't the sole defining trait of fascism, so while the above can apply to the USA to a degree, that doesn't make it fascist (yet. Try to keep Republicans out). Russia meets other criteria too.",And exactly how do you do that with Russia? Are you going to gain air superiority first? It's HUGE and can station bomber well away from it's capital.,1
I hope the workers strike anyway. Make the railroads choose between having none of their trains running and the comparatively small cost of a few sick days.,"Absolute tragedy. The lesson that RLA-covered businesses will take from this is that when the chips are down, Democrats will side with the businesses and leave the workers out to dry. Why would the railroads ever bargain in good faith again? Now they know that Congress will always step in to protect their profits.",0
"Qatar has never qualified for a World Cup and their entry this year is just because of their hiring gig. If you suddenly think Qatar is going to be good enough to qualify for United 2026 you’re crazy. If you think Qatar has enough money to make FIFA let them host again after this shit show, you’re also crazy.",It is a clean up because fifa took bribes from Qatar to put wc in Qatar. That's not the case whit U.s that's why it's good.,1
"Ya I agree but with the way everything is, people that may want kids won't because it will never be a financially sound idea.","However, I think it's impossible that we could comfortably afford a good retirement and a child. She wants three. I wouldn't feel comfortable. I came from a very poor home that had lots of death, financial burden and piss poor financial planning. It's awful to see how many low income families in the 18-25 year old range that desperately want, and have kids then can't afford them through no fault of their own. My mum doesn't seem to understand that no, a single mum can't raise two children by themselves on state benefits. It's unbelievably tight. Especially with the pressures of modern society.",1
"But her use of the phrase “I need help” during the 911 call was taken as a presumption of guilt, and she sat in jail for three months before someone else finally confessed to the crime.",My takeaway from this article is to definitively never call 911 if someone needs help because I might be too polite and end up charged and convicted of a crime I didn’t commit.,1
Welcome to politics in America. It suuuucks. Make people get emotional about the other party. I voted fetterman because I didn’t want Oz to win. My candidate of choice was Richard Weiss.,"Fetterman could be clinically braindead and I’d still vote for him. I’m never supporting someone who’s actively going to undermine women’s rights to control their own body. I’m sorry that Fetterman’s inability to speak clearly is more important to you than the rights of every woman in the United States, it shows how utterly screwed up your priorities are.",1
"That's a scary thought, but it helps to remember this is the message Russia wants to convey. It's clearly in their best interests to stir up public protest in the U.S. to end the war. That doesn't mean the threat is any less scary, but it's important to keep in mind who is the country escalating tensions this entire time. If Russia decides things are too scary for them, they can be the ones to back out of the fight they started at \any\ time.","Because regardless of what Putin says, the U.S. isn't an active participant in the war, and we prefer it that way. Putting up a no fly zone would be creating conditions through which the U.S. might become involved. Nobody's pretending Russia doesn't have nukes, but at the same time, if we assume Russia is an irrational party in this conflict, then we'd probably all be dead already. A lot of this plays into his advantage to look uncuffed and a little insane. That doesn't make it the case.",0
"For the comments, it seems nobody has read the article. It basically says that, for the first time ever, we have observed a mammal catching bird flu from another mammal. Until now, we only saw mammals getting it from a bird, but the virus was unable to go further.","They didn't say a complete change, they said a different virus, which is very much true. Mutation is difference, and they are right that we won't know how dangerous it is until it happens.",1
"Bad strategy. Democrats should offer all of their votes to any little group of GOP if that would mean a different speaker. If no group in the GOP exists then this is okay. But otherwise, the Democrats ought to be kingmaker.",While that would be hilarious I don't know how that's better for the Democrats. They're better to try and squeeze concessions out of McCarthy and have some of their members vote for him.,1
"Here is a more recent article on Kilimnic by a journalist who actually directly interviewed Kilimnic... one of the biggest surprises from this is that not a single investigator from any US government agency even attempted to contact Kilimnic for questioning, not even once. And to my knowledge, that hasn't been contested by any US governmental entity. There is always the possibility that Kilimnic would refuse, but to not even attempt to speak to him truly boggles the mind. The same applies to Mueller's curious decision to not speak with Assange/Wikileaks. Assange openly offered to show proof to the FBI that it received the DNC info from a non-state actor. Why would the investigators not entertain that idea? Even if they doubted it would be fruitful, it doesn't make sense to completely ignore it when helpful evidence could be recieved, observed, or discerned even from a person trying to be deceitful. I think it suggests more of a willful avoidance of information that runs counter to the preferred narrative.","The Trump Tower meeting: Yes, Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya indeed met with Fushion GPS founder Glenn Simpson (who hired Steele for the opposition research on Trump) on the same day as her meeting with Trump Jr, both before and after. I can provide a source if you like. However close you suppose this Russian lawyer came to facilitating ""collusion"" with the Trump campaign, she seems to have been even closer to Trump's 2016 political foes. It may have even been a setup to further tie Trump to Russia (if so, they succeeded in creating Trump-Russia media buzz).",0
"Trump fucking warped America's brain. It's really weird and sad. The Trump family I have I refuse to talk politics with, but, I'm pretty good about navigating touchy subjects like fucking dinosaurs with these people (YEC, dinosaurs are the devil's work), so it wasn't hard, I don't see them that often, so who knows that they are thinking these days. Luckily, all of that family is weirdly attentive to medical advice, so I don't think many of them fell into anti-covid rhetoric as much. Obviously I didn't discuss it with them, COVID was a great excuse not to see them, especially because there's someone in all of those households who is significantly immunocompromised. I know they did take it seriously, at least for a while, because they were all very serious about quarantine. One of my cousins is a weird far right Orange County guy, but he has a terminal genetic disorder and is wheel chair bound. He's the only person I've seen bring up far right talking points, and, it's kinda like ""I don't want to get into a screaming match with my cousin that has been stuck in a wheel chair his whole life..... I'm just going to let him keep on going"".","As far as MDs in the area went, I'd say COVID was the final straw for most, though Trump wasn't super popular in the medical community as it was, despite it being such a hard right region. That didn't stop a few MDs I know from 'preaching' at church about how the vaccine wasn't necessary and just getting COVID would be the same thing. I know several of those doctors lost their license or are under review by the medical board. lol.",0
Everyone should just become gay then they wouldn’t need birth control that would really send them into a tailspin I mean they don’t want us having sex for enjoyment so.,"But I also really fucking hate hypocrites and these guys are among the first to go ""tHaTs NoT iN tHe CoNsTiTuTiOn"" when gay people demand that their basic human rights be protected too.",1
"The letter added: “The Department’s mission to independently and impartially uphold the rule of law requires us to maintain the integrity of our investigations, prosecutions, and civil actions, and to avoid even a perception that our efforts are influenced by anything but the law and the facts.”.","The Justice Department signaled Friday it’s unlikely to share information about ongoing criminal investigations with the new GOP-controlled House, in a move that’s certain to frustrate Republicans in the chamber.",0
There likely is not the political will there to do such a thing (if Moldova were able to agree to it...which seems unlikely since there are enough Russian coalition assets there that would do everything in Moscow's power to stop it).,"I'm really sorry for Moldova, they are in a very particular situation... Russia's at their doorstep, not in EU, not in NATO, not a big army, not rich country, can't have foreign military on their soil by constitution, basically a perfect prey.",1
it's to supposedly be good at something you hope you'll never have to do because it's a damn good way of signing your own death certificate.,so it's better from a logistical perspective to use small medium range nukes along with gliders and the like than risk failing by having your planes fail to deliver your bombs.,0
In the (mild) defense of the Ukrainians during WWII -- they were caught between the USSR that had already been steadily genociding them and the incoming Nazis.,"As a Ukrainian Jew, whose grandpa fought through the end of WW2, and whose two great-grandpas perished fighting in the same war against Nazis, I can't emphasize enough how false this statement is.",1
"Do you think the democrats would have been even close if the primaries hadn’t produced such an historical class of clowns for the republicans, because of trumps influence? Not to mention if roe hadn’t been overturned, or that there was a bunch of people who were openly and preemptively claiming the election was stolen if they didn’t win?","You could put most any democrat in the presidents seat for these life terms with these circumstances, and I think you’d at least get these same results, likely better.",0
What's dangerous about Putin is that he knows that his regime and reign is over if he loses in Ukraine.,"He doesn’t realize that even if he conquers Ukraine, he’s already lost. Probably even worse than if he quits right now since the world will never forgive this invasion and all the atrocities that have been committed. Zelensky is the hero. His heroic legacy will live. No one will forget him and the brave and heroic fight that the Ukrainians have waged with the invaders.",1
"I have yet to find any left wing Spaniard that supports Russia. How could you? They are not only attacking Ukraine for their own benefit, but Russia is a far right wing country at the moment.","I think it is eaither a radicalized nutjob like you said, or some kind of russian attack/sabotage in a NATO country.",1
That's actually really interesting. It just seems like it would be the further the distance the less PTSD (killing someone hand-to-hand vs gun for example; I'd imagine being close enough to look them in the eye would be more traumatic).,"Maybe they meant it more that if you send people off to legally kill each other, witness their buddies be killed, and go through various other traumas that you can't really be shocked when those conditions turn some of them into monsters.",0
"That's the same. Younger generations are less fluent in their Sinitic mother languages (Min (Hokkien), Chaoshan (Teochew), Hakka (Khek), just for major examples) compared to their elders. A lot of them now have their first and second language to be both Indonesian and English.","I have been visiting Indonesia almost every year over the last 15 years since my wife is Indonesian. People there don't seem to notice it but I have seen is surely but slowly turn Islamist. First time I was there the aunties and nieces were wearing dresses without sleeves or knee high skirts. Now they are all wearing headscarves and long dresses with long sleeves, even the children. No more beer in the supermarket. Many family went from never praying to 5 times a day. The people are just as friendly and nice as ever but life definitely did change and in my view not for the better.",1
"The US already threw the first punch with the Korean War. They were also the first ones to bring nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula, and they have been openly calling for the destruction of North Korea for years while ignoring any attempt for peace.","Given that context I don't think it was that North Korea was trying to force anything on the south, but that they were trying to drive an occupying force out of their country, like they had done with the Japanese.",0
"Mmm yes, tell me more about how America cares about its citizens while it trades a mass murderer for someone jailed for weed while having thousands of its own citizens in jail for the very same thing?",We traded an American citizen that was being cruelly punished publicly and there's no telling what else they would have done to her regardless of fame status...,1
"I said months ago, that the propability, that a substantial amount of nuclear weapons in Russias control are duds is higher than the propability that a lot of putins complexes stem from the fact that he is a absolute manlet.","Until last year the US inspected their warheads as did russia inspect ours it was a treaty, they absolutely have working nukes, this joke that russias nukes dont work needs to die,do the have the 5,000 nukes they proclaim, most likely not but they have enough to still ensure mutual destruction.",1
Because there is only one nation in the world whose purposes were served by destroying Nord Stream 1 but only one pipeline of Nord Stream 2: Russia.,"And the day after the invasion, they made good on that threat when the Germans canceled Nord Stream 2 project.",0
"Similarly, if a bakery doesn't want to bake a wedding cake for a LGTBQ+ couple then they shouldn't be sued into doing so. I wouldn't want them spitting in the cake batter personally... Just move on to the next bakery that will do it and leave a negative Yelp review or whatever for the other business.",I consider myself to be a LGTBQ+ ally. This is something that I agree with and believe is a great compromise. A church shouldn't be forced to do something that they don't want to - a priest shouldn't be forced to perform a homosexual marriage ceremony if they don't want to because it infringes upon their personal beliefs. But the very next priest or church who has no problem marrying a gay couple should be the one to do so.,0
"Well because it is. If you look at the tumult from the Left, and the Right over the course of years, be it Tea Parties, Occupation Wall St, BLM and Far Right Insurrectionists, we are in the throes of a Revolution whether we want to admit or not.","Here at rpolitics, it seems the Neo Cons, and what's left of them, are Democrats, not Republicans, and in that, a generation who has at most another decade of political viability.",0
He got a jet to fly at hypersonic speeds the shoot a missile thenc alled it russia's response to the US.,"During the Cold War one of the few areas that the Soviet Union was consistently more advanced in was rocketry. It makes sense that they would be able to develop the Zircon and it actually performing to their claims, especially since hypersonic weapons were stuff they’ve been developing since the 80s. What actually matters though is how many of them they can field, which is unlikely to be many. Considering their Zircon only entered service just before the invasion, I wouldn’t be surprised if they literally only have single digit numbers of them.",1
"Why should non-blacks whose ancestors suffered war, death, injuries and maiming from fighting for the Union be forced to pay?","None of those ethnic groups were chained and shackled, bought and sold, raped and murdered, and then lynched after they were freed because poor racists couldn't deal with the change.",1
"in Toronto's, used to be best restaurant, Alo, they charge $50 per person when you make reservation. When you show up that $50 goes towards your bill, if you dont show up you forfeit your $50.","in place i work, if you show up on time of your reservation and for some stupid reason there no table ready for you, you get free glass of prosecco and tiny appetizer, at the bar while waiting. and we are not by any means fancy restaurant.",0
I fucking called this months back and people downvoted me and gave me shit. Maybe it's too early for a full victory lap but screw the reddit hivemind I'll take it.,"My previous comment from 169 days ago; Russia has shown that anyone alive from or in Ukraine is a 'valid' target, gun or no gun. The only good thing to come out of this is to show the world they need not fear Russia like it's a superpower. Not anymore.",0
"Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.), John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Ron Johnson (Wis), plus Rep. Kay Granger (Tex.).","Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.), John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Ron Johnson (Wis), plus Rep. Kay Granger (Tex.).",0
"If you think with every ""test"" missile launch that the Korean, US, and Japanese governments aren't out trying to find and recover anything for some intelligence purposes, you'd be out of your mind.","Lmao acting as if shooting an ICBM towards Japan and narrowly missing making everyone think they were about to nuke Japan, wasn’t pushing the situation to an extreme red line.",1
"Antonio Guterres said businesses as well as cities and regions should update their voluntary net zero pledges within a year to comply with the recommendations by UN experts, as he trained his sights on fossil fuel firms and ""their financial enablers"".","The UN expert panel, convened by Guterres after UN climate talks in Glasgow last year, set its sights on drawing a ""red line"" around greenwashing in net zero targets from companies, cities and regions.",0
"If the equal protection of law clause of the 14th Amendment doesn't mean laws can't be written that affect only some citizens, explain what you think it means.","If the rights and immunities clause of Article IV doesn't mean a citizen's rights extend beyond the borders of her state, explain what you think it means.",0
"I both like and don't like this idea. The thought that students and teachers could exist in a supportive learning environment is great, but their absence from schools integrated with their cis, straight or allosexual peers is a net loss. Ultimately, it's better to make the space than let them suffer abuse elsewhere, but dammit, all schools should be queer friendly schools!",I know where you are coming from but with so much hatred against lgbt people in schools I would much rather send them to this school instead of exposing them to such hatred and violence in public schools.,1
Lol bullshit. No one goes to jail in Russia or China for dancing and they are without a doubt strictly authoritarian. There's levels. And religion takes things to a whole new one.,That’s a different kind of cult. That started as a cult of personality around Mao. Quite typical of communist dictatorships to replace the original local cult(s) with a cult of personality. Same difference.,1
"Speaking plainly, imagine being with someone whose politics necessitated that they're someone who will actively lie with malice and act in bad faith.","To the GOP, if you're not putting in an active concerted effort to be ""politically incorrect"", you're ""politically correct"" and that's bad because reasons.",1
"Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked information about U.S. surveillance programs, swore an oath of allegiance to Russia and has collected his Russian passport, his lawyer told state media on Friday.","Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked information about U.S. surveillance programs, swore an oath of allegiance to Russia and has collected his Russian passport, his lawyer told state media on Friday.",1
"I’m sorry, but you’re incorrect, They have been known to enact retribution on relatives living in China in order to coerce Chinese citizens living abroad.","Raid every citizen support center, try the put their people in prison for life and refuse to send them home to China when China inevitably whines about it. Hell, put them in Guantanamo with Al Qaeda just to put an even finer point on it.",1
"And not that many people are being killed this could just drag on indefinitely. in part because it's to Putin's advantage to claim that Russians are being persecuted and need to unified in support him in these terrible, troubling times.","There are some Russians who are not lost to insanity who have joined Ukraine in fighting this evil, and some who may not be able to join but stand with Ukraine in the ways they can. YOU are NOT my enemy.",1
"The only way out I see for China to catch up to western mRNA vaccine tech or to buy western vaccines, then inoculate as many elderly as they can before opening up their society.","It's a mix of saving face, low vaccine uptake among the elderly, low herd immunity, vaccine efficacy, population control and nationalism.",1
The whole Pegasus surveillance regarding dissidents in certain countries proves that surveillance technologies need to be used with great caution...and need to be tightly regulated.,"I see your theory, but in practice the good the internet and technology does is very easily snuffed out in authoritarian regimes that utilize surveillance technology.",0
"So if I understand this correctly, the US does acknowledge the one-China policy and that the CPC is the only government of China, but there is wordplay on Taiwan.",">The United States' One-China policy was first stated in the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972: ""the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States does not challenge that position."" The United States has not expressed an explicitly immutable statement regarding whether it believes Taiwan is independent or not. Instead, Washinon simply states that they understand the PRC's claims on Taiwan as its own. In fact, many scholars agree that U.S. One-China policy was not intended to please the PRC government, but as a way for Washinon to conduct international relations in the region, which Beijing fails to state. A more recent study suggests that this wording reflected the Nixon administration's desire to shift responsibility for resolving the dispute to the ""people most directly involved"" – that is, China and Taiwan. At the same time, the United States would avoid ""prejudic\[ing\] the ultimate outcome"" by refusing to explicitly support the claims of one side or the other.",1
"Club Q fuckin devastated me dude. I can’t describe to you the horror a trans person feels when one of us dies—let alone two. I’m often overcome by grief from trans people I lost like seven years ago. When it’s someone just like you, it just splits your soul into a billion little pieces. It’s so devastating and the silence has almost killed me at least once.",There’s so much that needs to be done. We need so much fucking help right now. Numerous states are trying to violently outlaw our existence every day. We’re all struggling & growing more terrified each day.,0
"Well now more since they found some in his home, this will complicate the investigation some because now they’ll have to investigate if there’s any other locations where classified information is being held.","I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama did do it, And Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, and possibly all their V.P.s apparently classified documents seem to go missing more frequently than one would think…..An investigation should focus on improving our record keeping.",0
"Switzerland has spent its entire history of neutrality playing each side to ensure that neither side thinks the Swiss are taking sides while also profiting from whatever crisis is happening. If they were to send something to Ukraine, then they’d have to send something to Russia too (which they obviously don’t want to do). That’s how neutrality works. If the Russians were the ones being unjustly invaded, they wouldn’t help them either.",Switzerland could abandon its neutrality but they have no reason to. Their country has been built on the idea of neutrality and their entire military and economy revolve around their neutrality. And I doubt the Swiss people would be in favour of it.,0
"If it makes you feel better, your response doesn’t seem too rant-ish to me. Your views are strongly held. I will argue though that censorship of extreme material on the internet is a much smaller threat to your freedoms in America than 1) highly gerrymandered electorates, 2) rules that make it extremely hard to vote, 3) extremists storming the congressional building, 4) Rupert Murdoch and his media outlets showing extreme bias, 5) billionaires ploughing huge amounts of money into politics.","I make it sound like a bad thing cos it IS a bad thing, even if you trust the current goverment will not censor anything you care about, there is no gerentee that the next one will not, in fact it's almost generated that at some point some later goverment WILL abuse any sort of internet cencorsip bill to there own ends and to the determent of the general internet using populess.",1
"LGBTQIA+,and allies, are just people trying to find some non-hell on this earth. JUST LIKE YOU. We don’t deserve any of this. They don’t have any right to terrorize us and maim us and murder us. I am a good person. I do good. I am trying really hard to raise good humans (who are terrified now).","I deserve to keep living until cancer gets me, like everyone else in damn family. Like, THAT is already the future I have to worry about genetically (and soon-ish) for me and my children, too. Let us at least achieve THAT horrible way to die, without trying to murder us and when we’re dancing with our friends.",0
"They never ever ever think, ""Huh, maybe we shouldn't be such detestable assholes. Maybe we shouldn't run brain-damaged know-nothings with a history of domestic abuse for high office. Maybe we should do more to help people and appeal to them."".","yeah. For a while after the civil war the Republicans were the party of Capitalists and abolitionists. But given the Capitalists slowly becoming the dominant force in the Republican party, the leftists got pushed into the Democratic party, and of course leftists and Racism don't really go together well it split the Democrats on social issues with the Racists not really giving a fuck about the economic issues. So when the capitalists realized that their party was rapidly losing steam they courted the Racist vote after the much larger socially liberal arm of the Democrat party decided that black people have rights.",1
So I was a national guard soldier in Arizona during one of those “deploy the guard to protect the boarder” type situations. Around 2010 time frame.,"Yeah i was out in 2010, so not quite as recent as you. Things were definitely changing, Obama wasn't super terrible for the military but the wartime boom was over and austerity was creeping in. When i got injured in a non duty accident they were super happy to cut their ties from me with a medical discharge.",1
"Trump is a fucking psychotic narcissist. Skips the first day of a tournament, then inserts himself with a 5 point lead on day two. You can bet his under educated followers support this without giving it a thought.",I am reminded of North Korea's Kim Jong Il who claimed to have had a birdie or better on every hole of.,0
"If you only need a plurality of votes, then IF nine or so MAGA reps voted for somebody else, Nancy Pelosi would get 100% of the Dem vote and be re-elected Speaker. That's not going to happen.","Yeah, of course that's more likely. But your original posit was that the speaker election is a choice between McCarthy and Pelosi -- which is just purely incorrect. So I walked through the other options that could be on the table after McCarthy fails.",1
"Free speech is the idea of allowing one’s opinion, but this assumes their opinion is a rational one with some base facts. But the entire idea of acknowledging facts is out the door.",I have no idea what the solution is. Free speech is just as bad as it is good because it can be used to suppress people just as the Republican/Christian nationalist are showing us right now.,0
"If you don't want massive immigration (which I understand the French don't), this is the only other way to have a working age population. Life expectancy has gone up 20-30 years and the retirement age has barely budged.",Are they aware they are ALREADY having highest life expectancy and lowest retirement age? Even with 64 they are well off.,1
"Yeah this is a pretty bad idea IMO. The number of jobs lost to self checkouts is not that big, and frankly being a cashier is a shit job anyways.","I really don't want to have to make small talk to the person spending 1 minute per item stacking shit carefully into bags despite me saying ""just throw it all in one, I'm not going far"". I don't like it.",0
"But I was told by Chinese redditors that American imperialism is the problem, not them, so I’m not sure why all these countries are saying they’re defending themselves against China /s.","Because in this reality right here, after China's antics at Galwan, India's anti China stance has been greater than it has ever been before. China's constant aggression towards India throw any small possibility of Indo-Chinese collaboration right out of the window. Not to mention the fact that China has been happily arming Pakistan with the latest shit they have.",1
"The definition of ""drag"" in that bill is so broad it includes trans people, and makes ""performance"" include basically just existing with people around.","Based on this wording however, I believe this transcends just trans people but anybody who would perform a role that is different to their own gender correct?",1
"The tank killer on a Bradley is it's pair of TOW missiles, which are fantastically effective against any armor out there currently.","A common mostly defensive tactic is to build up a series of berms for tanks to sit behind/on, roll up acquire target, fire, fall back and reload and watch as the missiles fly over head. You set up 4 tanks or so in a coordinated fire pattern and they have sustained constant direct fire attack. Drones and other indirect fire systems are designed to help mitigate such tactics.",1
"So, by the time of the 1900s there would likely be very few people left living in Britain who could say what being a slave was like, if any.","Well hang on, back in the 1900s Britain had the world's biggest economy, we stopped the slave trade and lost economic value. We dismantled our empire and lost economic value, but the people wanted these things to occur to progress our society and way of life. Brexit is the same, yes we'll lose some value from the EU for a bit but we'll be fine in the end.",1
Do we know what was in the documents and whether it was especially sensitive information? Applies for both cases. Difficult to ascertain how serious the story is without knowing that.,"I personally think this story is overblown. But do we even know the contents of these documents, in either case? I think that matters in order to try and ascertain intent.",0
"The Republicans can't really help him right now with his legal problems, and as far as being a tightwad, who says he would spend any money even as a third party candidate?","Going third party would also allow him to grift up until the general election in 2024, and would also give him legal cover, as the DOJ would consider him politically untouchable after say the fall of 2023.",0
"And even outside of ski stations, we get less snow and it rarely lasts more than a few days. I'm ""only"" 29 and I remember the countryside being entirely white for weeks on end during the winter, that just doesn't happen anymore.","I've been told that my great grandfather (born 1909, died 1998), who was a farmer all his life - so he knew a thing or two about the climate/weather - said that the seasons had become all messy compared to what they used to be. I wonder what he would think of our current situation...",0
Bro. It’s 2022. Taylor Swift’s first album came out 14 years ago. Her presale mainly affected people of all genders and races in their 20s and 30s. Nobody cares about teenagers because they’re not a voting block. Swifties are.,I’m suggesting that she has a lot of fans of voting age and that’s why she matters. Why you’ve chosen to fixate on teenaged white girls when that describes a fraction of her fanbase today is beyond me.,0
"However, the real significance of Lend-Lease for the Soviet war effort was that it covered the ""sensitive points"" of Soviet production -- gasoline, explosives, aluminum, nonferrous metals, radio communications, and so on, says historian Boris Sokolov.","""If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war,"" he wrote in his memoirs. ""One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."".",0
"Ohh, he's stepping down because they want to remove Rep. Omar from the intelligence committee and it's easier without Dems being able to point to Santos being a security threat. CNN pundit just said he thinks it means that McCarthy doesn't have the votes and is using this as a next step.","McCarthy doesn’t want him to resign because the seat would undoubtedly go back to the Dems. However, his position on committees undercuts his argument for Schiff, Swalwel, and Omar to be removed.",1
"And its good to add that Erdogan is losing every election when taking only the In Turkey votes, but the diaspora massively votes for him.","82% of around 4 millions turks voting in Europe voted Erdogan despite not living in the country, im always blown away by that fact.",0
"That’s his point. His position is that the Executive didn’t have the authority under the HEROES Act to enact this program, and that the correct branch is the legislative branch. Because the executive took the action that the legislative should have taken, Biden effectively prevented the plaintiffs from being able to comment/question the eligibility requirements. I don’t agree with the ruling at all, but that’s his conclusion.","I don't really understand how it is unconstitutional in their view. Congress passed a law giving the department of education the power to handle the loans. It is not a powers issue if one branch willing gave that power to another, That is my understanding at least.",1
"Then there are areas where they might be the occasional mine, or where 'scattered mines' (delivered by rocket or even artillery) might have gone off course and left the area dangerous. And unexploded shells that might go off if you hit it with a plough.","Basically, if you're a farmer and want to plough a field after a war like this, you need to treat the whole thing as if it were a mine field, even if you can't find any evidence that it was mined. You're going to disturb every inch of the field, and just one device could kill you.",0
"Of course, these days it's a campaign of terror, because Russia has no chance at winning in any other scenario. The public is against them and they are outmatched militarily. For Russia to win, they must outlast Ukraine and Western military aid. For Russia to hold any ground in Ukraine, they must be so terrible to dissenters that the entire population is effectively silenced or utterly destroyed.","Yeah yeah, Russia is inept and corrupt, but Ukraine would have been a real goldmine for Russias economy, short and long term.",0
"Even if russia nukes Ukraine with a strategic nuke and fallout crosses into Poland and article 5 is activated, we're not just going to start nuking lmao.","It's literally been stated by NATO, nuclear fallout affecting an allied nation would be a justifiable trigger for article 5. I have no reason to think the nations that would be affected by the fallout from a nuke ukraine (if there is any fallout as you said, there may not be) would hesitate to hit the button.",1
A triple homicide and killing a bicyclist who ran a red light aren’t the same thing. Maybe it was intentional. Investigate. But those aren’t yet equivalent. And should be treated differently.,"I’m sure most people are making judgements based on their ‘side’ but the situations are also different so it’s important to point that out. They may be revealed to be quite similar. But for now they very much aren’t. And the media is really bad at helping people see those differences. I personally think biden has been significantly better as a president than I expected but if it turns out he did something malicious similar to what it appears trump did, “lock h[im] up”. If he didn’t do anything malicious I’d hate for trump to get yet another pass as a corrupt piece of shit just because of optics that the media shaped for the American people in an objectively wrong direction.",0
"The major parties won't form a coalition together, so the governing party is whichever one can make the best offer to all of the special interest parties. The last few governments have even had a rotating cabinet and even rotating prime ministers in the same coalition.","I understand proportional representation has some fans, but it's very obviously failing to produce a stable government in Israel.",0
Realistically no one's going to have a baby because the child benefits rise by a couple of Euro a month. This is a measure to keep up with inflation. Even with out goversafety nets and subsidized child care having a kid is still a net drain on your income and can be a hiccup in your career.,"Also, rich Households have to pay less Taxes per Child, making them gain more Money through having Children than poorer Households, which is IMO quite unfair.",1
"Russians will stop bombing once there's a lot of NATO cargo planes and relief personnel in the city, because if they keep going and hit any of those, that's the excuse we need to actually join the war and finally deal with Russia.",It's even more stupid that Ukraine must beg for something defensive in nature - like Anti-Air systems in enough numers - and only get them AFTER start of the bombing campaing.,1
"If you can pay $2,000 a month for rent, but the cheapest possible rent you can find is $2,100. You can’t make that rent payment. If you live at home for two years and save that $48,000 instead of blowing it on luxury goods you can pay the extra $100 you don’t earn monthly on rent for 480 months.","It doesn't, I know people who could afford to pay rent but live at home to save money for a house instead so they can buy one quickly instead of paying rent and saving which will take longer.",1
Kind of the public vote for a local candidate either from the major parties or an independent candidate the winning candidate in each ward becomes a member of parliament (m.p).,"When they put it to the party membership (the general public that pay a small fee to support the party) there will be debates and the party membership get to vote. There was an a disproportionate amount of coverage for this when Boris Johnson resigned. It was prime time TV and front page news coverage for weeks but less than 200,000 people, or 0.25% of the country, could vote.",1
"The real issue is the possibility of putin just endlessly throwing bodies at Ukraine. They sent about 300000 so far and apparently have 200000 in training to send again. At this point they don't have good soldiers left so the ones they are sending are fairly ineffective. But 200 000 bodies is still a lot. It's not even so much that Russia will overwhelm with numbers, but that Ukraine will run out of supplies and munitions themselves trying to hold back that many Russians.",The Russian goal is to pressure Ukraine to call for a ceasefire—To keep millions of Ukrainians from freezing to death.,1
"So… rifles are rarely if ever used in crimes in Canada, and legally purchased guns are rarely used in crimes in Canada… but those two categories are the subject of this new round of regulation?",It sat at the lower end of Canadian firearms regulation as a non-restricted firearm and fires an intermediate round. Soft enough to not sore one’s shoulder but still powerful enough to take something down like deer reliably. Simple to use and the semi auto function allows for very rapid follow up shots if needed.,1
"If you think NATO is scared of NATO and wouldn't respond if Russia fired missiles into a NATO country, then it's hard to comprehend how stupid you are.","Recourse doesn't have to be ""declare war on Russia"", it can be ""move a shitload more NATO military assets to the Ukraine border and make damn sure Russia knows the west expects them not to have any more accidents"".",1
"Biden was not entitled to have any classified documents from his vice presidential office, as far as I know.","Biden seemed to have carelessly kept a few classified documents in a couple different locations. Here is where is gets shady, this was kept quiet for 2 months during an election and from what I have seen Biden's own lawyers were allowed to do the searching, people as far as I know do not have security clearance. Now this may be innocent but I find it highly suspect that the DOJ or somebody didn't send a team in to conduct the search at least in some capacity be directly involved in it. It looks as if the DOJ did a solid to Biden allowing them to do the search because if the DOJ went in it would have gotten out. This doesn't look at the very least.",1
"We need to understand that modern GOP politicians don't care about governance they are influencers, they keep coming out with stuff to keep their followers enraged, that generates money, views , impressions, retweets and, as Trump proved, votes.",DeSantis figured out that anti-woke themes resonate with the base and as governor he had a leg up to his competition by being able to do performative art with it and what better antagonist than a multi billion corporation that everyone knows and had enraged his base by showing some signs of openness?,0
"Super risky, but he tested the waters in Crimea first and no one came to Ukraines defense. The house of cards was coming down either way. A last stand if you will.","Imo, in Vlads eyes his options were annex the resource-rich territories of Ukraine to keep his country afloat or let the carcass of the Russian Federation come collapsing down and be exposed in the history books as a massive failure.",0
"Rent goes up 10% a year, so unless you shop around and move, that $1200 is now $1300-$1400 next year. Otherwise, you can probably move your stuff for a few hundred a year and your time.","Let's just say that you can save that same amount every year, even though inflation is going up higher than your wages are. $2400/yr savings because life has gone perfectly for you and you have had ZERO unexpected expenses. After 10 years you would have saved $24,000, which seems great... but now your minimum down payment is $51,000 because housing costs have gone up. Shit... well okay save for 10 more years... and assume we have doubled our savings capacity somehow in those second 10 years. We can now save $4800/year. We have $24k + $48K - we have saved EVERY DIME and have had not had children, no emergency fund, no savings, no 401K, NOTHING. We have saved $72K - awesome. Well, now housing has gone up 10% every year, so the minimum down payment is now $134K. womp womp. After 20 years of saving EVERY LAST PENNY, you went from $20K away from a down payment to $62K away from a down payment.",0
"Basically, you can only apply for Federal immigration streams if you don't intend to reside in Quebec. If you do end up residing in Quebec, no one is going to stop you, but there are grounds to revoke your PR for misrepresentation. Even if you get citizenship, one ground to revoke citizenship is misrepresentation and fraud.","So while no one is going to stop you from moving across provinces, all it takes is one overzealous immigration officer picking up your file during an audit and making your life hell. Revoking citizenship requires a much higher standard than revoking PR though. So you can always say, I intended to reside in Saskatchewan, but I am a trained battery engineer and I had to move to Quebec for the job at the battery plant.",0
"Healthcare in the US costs a lot. Way more than it should. But that's not solely because of corporate profit. It's the cost structure all the way down. It's the labor. Healthcare workers in the US get paid way more than anywhere else. 9 out of the 10 top paying jobs in the US are healthcare jobs. That 1 that isn't, is the corporate CEO. That CEO job isn't on the top of that top 10 list. It's actually near the bottom.","That's a rationalization. Or more so, an excuse. Since the amount of student debt the indebted doctors had was much less than what they make in a year. So that debt should have been paid off in short order. Then what's the excuse for these debt free doctors to continue to have such extravagant salaries?",0
"Also to note, Ukraine was also always a country that had a STRONG corruption stereotype lol prior to the war, not many people knew much about Ukraine but the things people did always associate with it are corruption, lots of it. I think either Poland or another neighboring country had Ukrainians make up the most of its jailed prisoners, many due to corruption to an extent within business meddling or something lol.","However, the thing about societies that have had endemic corruption for generations like Ukraine is that everyone with even a modicum of influence or power is also corrupt, including those doing the corruption hunting. That's why it's so difficult to root out.",1
Also people like to bring up Reagan because he's the origin of the road map for where the current GOP still stands - it's slightly less applicable when you're talking about the southern dems in the days of old lmao.,"I mean, yeah it seems like now you talk about adding any additional regulation at all and people kick and scream, and yet are simultaneously ok with existing regulation to bar people like felons from owning guns. Do you believe that adding any common sense regulation with empiric evidence of reduction in violence is a slight on the 2a? And if so why should felons who have served their time not be able to lawfully purchase?",0
There's also some lessons learned from Ukraine that will require us to reassess what we think we know about our own capabilities.,Imagine what China could do to the US navy with their own manufacturing and RnD capacity put towards naval drones.,0
"The political science definitions are the ones we should respond with, and nothing else. A democratic republic is a democracy but it is not a direct democracy. The peddlers of anti-democratic politics are pushing a false dichotomy of choosing either a democracy or a republican model. It’s counterproductive to cede any ground here in a vain attempt to lead those who buy into the narrative by the nose. Either they must be educated or they must be defeated at the ballot box.","When you give people a way to prevent people from voting, they will do so. It creates a perverse incentive. Same with felon disenfranchisement. It just incentivizes criminalizing actions disfavored people engage in, for the purpose of disenfranchisement. Or extending sentences to make them felonies to the same end. Consider sentencing disparities between powder and crack cocaine, and who tends to use which.",1
"A semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine or that may be readily modified to accept a detachable magazine, if the firearm has one or more of the following:","- All semiautomatic rifles with a detachable magazine that have ANY of the following 'assault weapon' features (even just one): a pistol grip, any protruding grip, a folding/telescoping/detachable stock, a flash hider, 'a shroud attached the the barrel that encircles the barrel, allowing the bearer to hold the firearm with the non-trigger hand without being burned' (lol)...",1
"What do you mean ""most of the time""? Almost every movie Disney has ever made has no gay characters at all.","I know that the right wing media machine throws it in our faces, but I'm not sure that disney is doing the same.",0
"You said “you don’t say” as if it was obvious. Yet it’s an observed trend over centuries that people in the west do this constantly. When people say religion is bad, 90% of the time you can tell they are only talking about Christianity.","Wow I’ve had to say this to a lot of people. Not surprising at all though, people in the west have been treating all religions as Christianity throughout the past few centuries or so.",0
They are flying really high and are actually hard to detect unless you specifically look for them. Just notice the news about other spy balloons spotted after this became an international news.,Plus having a balloon shot down is going to be less of an international incident than a spy plane with an actual pilot.,1
"(1) Deliberate attack by Russia, (2) an accident by Russia , (3) or a false flag by Ukraine to get NATO involved? The most likely is (2), I don't see this bringing NATO into the mix though.","Russia could say it was a false flag by Ukraine. Sacrifice a few Polish lives to bring NATO into the mix and help destroy Russia. I personally don't think this is the case, most likely a f\\\ up by Russia. But the conspiracy theory that Ukraine is behind it - it's not completely inconceivable.",0
"Whatever people think of the democrats forcing the unions to accept the contract, it’s a clever move so that people can see that republicans and their corporate masters hate giving workers sick leave.",The idea that Congress would force a contract on workers whose unions rejected it makes me physically sick with disgust and rage.,1
"Pretty much. Racists believe that every person with a particular skin color is exactly the same, so them being racist = all white people are racist, in their minds.","Yeah I think racist white people think all white people are racist. I can’t count the times a white person has just flippantly said something ridiculously offensive about another race in conversation. Family members or strangers, it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Any time I’ve called someone out on it there’s always a deflection. Oh I didn’t mean it like that, or no no they’re all like that it’s just a fact, or I’m not saying that just because they’re x. Like I’m the naive one. Ugh.",1
"Yes, he should have let the strike happen and joined them on the fucking picket line. He should have called for other unions to strike in solidarity until the very reasonable demands of the rail workers were met.",It needs to be said that the choice democrats made was the economy and a plan supported by eight railroad unions versus the demands of 4 railroad unions. The democrats chose “the economy” and let the demands of the four rail union fail. The democrats are not blameless in this situation; They knew very well they were abandoning the demands of 4 railroad unions. The performative vote for the sick time bill was obvious.,1
"Police need replacement/retraining, but you still need a uh, town guard to adress common crime. There'll still be random crazies and DUIs for the time being. The point of a police force existing is also basic deterrence to reduce the feeling of unchecked consequenceless lawlessness (even if there is say ""only"" 70% chance getting caught it make a lot of people rethinking crime).","Yes the ""militarized swat-only police"" budget obviously need to be partly allocated to auxiliaries to descalate, medical assistance and so on. And they shouldn't be above the law (re prosecuting the obvious gang & racist murders waved with a badge, leading neonazi mobsters to join in bulk to try to dodge the law). But you still need at least some cops. Even after booting all the neonazis & corrupt elements.",0
"Serious question: could a werewolf eat zombies and be fine? Or would we get werezombies? I’m pretty sure vampires wouldn’t be able to feed on a zombie, but I’m not sure about werewolves.","Wolves in the wild will eat rotting carcasses, so it stands to reason they could feed on a zombie. However, if the werewolf in question has, say a cut in it’s mouth or gets some zombie juice in it’s eye (like 28 days later), I think you might get a werezombie.",0
"I love living in Michigan, but it parallels Florida in this specific way - the further north you go, the more south it gets.",Life long Michigander here and it is a great place. Lots of water including inland lakes. 4 Seasons. Yes long winters but truth is if you learn to enjoy winter sports and activities you will fall in love with the winters. However the housing opportunities here are not good right now and if you are escaping because you think we are a Super Blue State you are unfortunately wrong. Look at our election map. Only the metro areas are blue so Michigan has tons of work to do. Also if your state is red we need you to stay and fight. But if you decide to move here we will surely welcome you with open arms or should I say open mitten...lol.,1
"We have to teach critical thinking. There are so so so many ""jobs"" out there whose whole schtick is scamming someone. Insurance, sales, ""iNvEsTmEnT aDvIsOr"", so many positions of just ""talk quickly and smile like you're selling used cars"" and collect a huge paycheck at someone else's expense.","The youngest generations are more clever than mine was, but if we don't arm them with the tools to figure out when they're going to be exploited or how to deal with that, we're just repeating our problems.",0
"You're saying that like fire is somehow innately carbon positive. Fire is carbon neutral as long as its fuel was already in the carbon cycle, and as long as whatever we burned is replaced (such as regrowing trees).","This is why CO2 from burned coal can never be put back in the earth and why trees don’t actually sequester carbon anymore (only temporarily), it’s impossible. The trees that don’t burn will now just be broken down by fungi.",1
I would really hope that they have specialized maintenance crews for their only aircraft carrier. it's not like there's another piece of equipment they can transfer that knowledge to.,There's a single road that runs about 60 miles from the Finland border for hundreds of miles of nothingness.,0
"_”Wolf 1069 b is tidally locked to its parent star, which means one side is always in daylight and the opposite side is in darkness. Although this means that the planet doesn't have a day/night cycle like Earth, the researchers hope that the dayside of the planet could still have habitable conditions.”_.",One would imagine the twilight-zone between perpetual day and perpetual night to be the strip with the most variation in lifeforms.,1
"Ukraine has a lot more obligations to fill than just that, and with their latest changes to the Ukraine Supreme Court, they haven't even bothered to move in the right direction for that!","No, as is and as much as we want Ukraine to kick the Russians the fuck out, a EU membership really isn't and was never in the picture, war or no war...",0
Legalizing marijuana nationally and taxing it at the same rate as California would not put \a dent in the shortfalls.,"Yes, you do. And you also need to raise the cap. And doing those two things isn’t enough, unless the payroll tax increase is sharper and steeper than most would tolerate. So, raising the full retirement benefit age by one year in increments of two months per year is also required.",0
"“Despite widespread reports of the fighters’ extremist links, the report says the U.S. military found no evidence to suggest the mercenaries were affiliated with the Islamic State extremist group or al-Qaida. It says they were “very likely” motivated by generous financial packages rather than ideology or politics.”.",Your source says they were “very likely” motivated by generous financial packages rather than ideology or politics.”.,1
It's probably not just Zelensky himself. I imagine that a lot of the politicians that would otherwise have fought one another politically now cooperate against the immediate common real enemy.,I wish Ukraine a boring future and nothing worse than a moderate corruption scandal on the news ASAP.,0
"Religious Zionist MK Simcha Rothman took issue with Zelensky’s reference to Ukrainians who saved Jews and tweeted: “I don’t understand Ukrainian, but if the translation I heard is accurate, Zelensky asked us to treat the Ukrainians like they treated us 80 years ago. I’m sorry, but I think we will have to reject that request. We are, after all, a moral nation.”.",Somebody will argue that was years ago but unfortunately Instead of teaching new generation about terrible past Ukrainian government proclaimed past Nazi collaborators as a national heroes.,0
"Exactly. China has a demographic time bomb. They wont be a threat forever. Without Russia’s support, they wont take Taiwan.","By destroying Russia’s military in Ukraine, the US could drop its defense budget to 400 billion a year and still maintain enough of a presence after asking allies around the world to step up monitoring the flow of goods.",0
"My other complaint is: people from ""free countries"" oppressing the women and immigrants in their own countries while being upset about Iran oppressing people.","Eta. The down votes really show that people don't want to look inward, as well (""as well"" being key). Good on y'all virtue signaling. Easy enough to allow someone to die in your own land because ""those people"" while being pissed about it happening elsewhere.",0
"The other consideration - he may be crazy, but how much of the Russian high command is? Since he's effectively destroyed the Russian armed forces and exposed them as ineffective, do the generals really want to basically provoke the whole world (or even just NATO) into attacking them? The reason that the Ukrainians don't retaliate deep into Russia, and the reason thee West doesn't give them thousand-mile reach missiles, is the fear of provoking this response. Once Russia uses its nuclear arsenal, what does the West have to lose? Are the generals willing to commit suicide just because he is?","(Similar to - the Ukrainians basically degenerated the Donbas to a stalemate before this war, and didn't contest Crimea, since they didn't want to provoke the Russians into backing the separatists with even more firepower. Now, all bets are off - Ukraine won't stop until it recaptures all its territory.).",0
"It a sort of willful ignorance, considering how it was basically known that large swaths of the American backed Afghani government was maintained by the influence of warlords the US bribed into compliance. The Afghani army was entirely dependent on US supplies (gotta create your customer base I suppose) and on the presence of US personnel to fight their battles. Above all else, the US and the previous Afghani government failed to convince a significant enough portion of the country that they should be considered a preferred choice over the Taliban. Considering the influence of the previously mentioned warlords and how the US enabled them, including punishing US soldiers who reported warlords' ""use"" of child slaves, it's not hard to see that the government itself reflected that corruption and dependence.","That being said, it's not something that's solely any one president's fault but rather the fault of several US administrations and several American national pathologies that led up to Afghanistan War being a quagmire and to the Afghanistan government being a house of cards. In the end its either to accept that reality and deal with it the best you can, or live in denial of it and continue the war. I feel for the Afghani people who must survive under Taliban rule, but it's been obvious since day one that the US government never had their best interests at heart, otherwise again they wouldn't have protected and bribed child slave owning warlords in Afghanistan.",0
Many Iranians are against the Islamic Republic and all the authoritarians who are enabling these atrocities. Sanctions hurts those Iranians who want freedom and makes it harder for them to fight back. Being hungry and poor makes it harder to fight back.,"Obviously the sanctions are intended to target the leaders and authoritarians, and they work to a degree. Without the sanctions, those same assholes would have even more power and money to oppress Iranians.",0
"Secondly, those expenses would be there regardless or not if we give it to ukraine. Besides the purchase cost, stockpiles of Equipment cost money to store and even dispose/dismantle.","And that’s without putting a single American life at risk or effort on gathering intel on enemy and simulations. Add to that the fact ukraine is now in billions in debt to us, it’s weakening Russia, power projection, free advertising for NATO/US weapons, etc.",0
Nope. He will be thanked for 50 years of public service by being pilloried in front of Republican committee panels treating him like a war criminal.,The fact Republicans maligned this man despite a lifetime of public service when he could have made 10x what he was making in the private sector is just a testament to how craven and dishonest they are.,1
"Probably because, bear with me, this is a hot take: We shouldn't have traded one of the most prolific arms dealers for someone who chose to violate another country's laws.",Ehh when we have thousands locked up at home in our own country for the same shit but yea let’s trade an arms dealer for a domestic abuser that hates America. Very bad trade.,1
"Heh. I still remember listening, mouth wide open in shock, to a relative who is a nurse who tried to tell me that her hospital had a post-birth abortion room where they’d drop off the babies and wait for them to starve to death.","Naturally, I asked—with obvious skepticism—if she had ever seen this murder room. “No, it’s a secret.” Now, she was a high-ranking administrator/nurse there, so I asked her if she at least knew where it was given her rank. “No, it’s a secret.” Had she ever seen them carrying babies around the halls who mysteriously disappear? Of course not.",0
"You can give him credit for serving the national party while also acknowledging that he lost his own election, and several other seats in NY were lost because he undermined his colleagues.","It's time to face the truth: both Republicans and Democrats are a disaster at the national and state level because they work for corporate lobbyists, not the people they were elected to serve. Both parties are beholden to wealthy donors and special interest groups, and their policies reflect that. From tax breaks for corporations to cuts in social services, the interests of the wealthy and powerful take precedence over the needs of ordinary citizens. Until we break the stranglehold that corporate money has on our political system, we can't expect anything to change.",1
"I'd wager that even if signs pointed to Russia's now obvious problems, the West still would have overestimated just because it's better to be overreacted than under.","So they’ve made a massive miscalculation in trying to make Russia great, again The’ve destroy what they already have.",1
"This will be one of the most important and tricky issues Congress has ever faced, and the capitalist machine will try to stop any potential regulation. Hopefully people like Beyer can guide our lawmakers through it, because as you said, most of them seem technologically challenged.",If only all congressional representatives were this willing to learn new ideas and information. I wish this was common enough not to be newsworthy. Maybe he can set an example.,1
"wrong…..proportionally the real estate investing assets and tax depreciation are a much larger , much more significant portion and strategy than FF&E of industrial or retail businesses. And real estate investors use experts to complete cost segregation studies to allocate portions of the buildings to shorter term depreciable assets ( like hvac systems, electrical conduit and wiring). such work maximizes the annual depreciation deductions. ( which are recaptured as ordinary income on a later tax return in a subsequent sale).","Trump could have filed legally correct tax returns based on the tax code that show tax losses while making economic or cash profit. This is legal under that federal tax code. For example, depreciation of assets can create tax losses.",1
Nobody is trying to convince anybody of anything. Their goal is to piss people off and generate conversation. It appears to be working _magnificently_.,"Too bad. Don't like climate protesters? We'd probably have a whole lot less climate protesters if we weren't driving ourselves over a existential cliff. But please, go on about how these little protests are such an inconvenience to people.",0
"If the outcome genuinely starts to look inevitably like the Speakership will go to some MAGA moron who's far to the right of McCarthy, then why wouldn't the Democrats want to help put McCarthy into that leadership role instead?","Given we had 4 years of a traitor President who 99% of the Republican House caucus supported and voted with, I’d say it’s a matter of when, not if, McCarthy becomes speaker.",1
"I'd understand why some of you might not think i was being sarcastic here because i've kept seeing a lot of infuriating, stupid, dissapointing posts like this on social media everywhere, especially in Twitter and YouTube.","And they're only going to stop attacking for a few years before they do their special military operation again, just like how Crimea wasn't enough for them before the full invasion of Ukraine.",0
"I have a coworker who moved here from a country in the Middle East, and he said last week that Russia sounded like his government back in his old country: ""The problems you face aren't because we're incompetent and corrupt and couldn't care less about your suffering, the problems you face are all because of Israel NATO!"".","This. Also, at some point they would try to occupy a baltic country in one or two days, counting on NATO to not go to war over a country that doesn't exist anymore.",1
"There are conflicting reports on how the upcoming wave will look like. On one hand, there are rumors they're going to to try call up 500k people mostly from big cities, but there are also rumors they'll do so quietly - that is, not mentioning any draft-related news on Kremlin-controlled media. I'm not sure how you can detain 500k people in a technologically proficient city of 20 million without anyone noticing, but okay.","St. Petersburg's mayor, on the other hand, is a full on Z-ultrapatriot actively involved in this stuff. My guess is it's because he feels his seat is vulnerable (he's in a feud with Prigozhin, who's rapidly gaining Putin's favor) and he has to lick Putin's ass even harder to keep it.",0
The Kremlin's point of view which is presented in this article is - once again - complete and obvious nonsense.,"And as a matter of fact, Russia itself has proven on February 24, 2022 that the fears of Ukraine and the West about more Russian aggression, more land grabbing, more annexations were totally justified.",0
"Enabling Ukraine to, at scale, strike targets deep inside Russia will help to level the playing field, and this should be the absolute highest priority in terms of equipment delivery.","It's just all over once Ukraine gets F-16's too, because they'll have something Russia never had in enough numbers: Precision munitions.",1
"Oh, and with that logic, any crimes committed by fundamentalists have nothing to do with the religion, because the religion is not relevant there.","My point is that while religion has been the source of many bad things history; there's overwhelming evidence that humanity can be extremely evil, with or without it. And the evidence goes even further to suggest that religion is less of a factor.",1
"I feel like I'm missing something here, but I don't think I am - this argument is confusing the NPVIC effort with the inherent drawbacks of first past the post voting.","NPVIC says that the popular vote winner has votes cast in the electoral college by the majority of those votes, thus ensuring the popular vote winner will actually win. This eliminates the electoral college and results in a popular vote winner (PROGRESS).",0
"I'm not talking about living in North Korea today, I'm talking about the Korean War and the history of US aggression and the influences that has.","So, let me get this straight, you think the United States, all on its own, decided that the commies could have the northern part of the Korean Peninsula? Is that what you think?",1
They'll be super fucking happy that you care about some protesters getting arrested because the majority of Russians are either too cowardly to resist or outright support the shitness they're inflicting.,"Idk why but I’m imagining how daft it would be for the Russian gov to arrest Russians for paying any sort of reverence or attention to Ukrainians such as Khrushchev or Brezhnev, or idk a Georgian like Stalin? Is that anti-Russian?",1
"I know people say stuff like ""it's easier than you think to fall for these scams, don't assume you would know better"".","Actually that's an extremely common tactic by many scammers, they make themselves intentionally easy to spot, so they don't waste time scamming someone who may wise up. If anyone falls for them then, they know this person is 100% certified gullible as shit, and can scam to their heart's content.",1
A big part of it was actually a 1945 offensive by the Soviets against the Japanese around the same time - despite the bombs they had hope that the Soviets would be a neutral third party as far as getting favorable surrender terms went.,"They were already in discussions with the allies about ending the war before the bombs were dropped but Japan was refusing unconditional surrender or whatever you want to call it. The bombs were to force unconditional surrender and to end the war before the soviets got there. There was a lot more going on than ""big boom made Japan surrender"".",1
"In highschool I participated in a 15 min walk out/ moment of silence for a school shooting that happened near me not only did the principal tell us we were all suspended, many students, teachers and administrators told us we were wasting our time. One kid even said he would kill us all if his guns got taken away.",If they were walking out because of a bill restricting gun rights or transgender bathrooms I’m sure desantis would be praising them for taking initiative.,0
"I mean NORADs whole purpose is to detect and eliminate intercontinental ballistic missiles, which can launch in mascow and land in the U.S. within like 18 minutes or something so I'm a bit suspicious they didn't detect a slow moving balloon.",In 1946 China sent thousand of balloons way up into the sky to be carried to north America in the jet stream. They had timers and sand bags and every few hours would drop a sandbag to maintain altitude then when it was out of sandbags the last thing to drop were bombs. Every single one got blown way off course and ended up in the middle of no where mostly in northern Canada but one landed in the woods in Oregon.,0
"Actually they probably will be. 1) fbi and maga don’t get along. Trump called the fbi losers, and maga protested them. One guy even tried to shoot them up. 2) fbi don’t fuck around with blatant acts of stupidity when they’d rather up end democracy more quietly.","If you think the FBI is easily going to track down who did this you're going to be sorely disappointed. I'm sure Rainey was involved and knew who did it, but being able to pin it in on someone that is trained like she was is going to be difficult. Especially seeing as the Sheriff may have been involved. Hell, they couldn't even prosecute the Bundys in the ...and they were on camera committing these crimes!",1
"There's definitely a video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin. I saw the video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin and couldn't believe that a video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin existed.","I’ve seen the video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin, and it’s not as bad as you think Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin, would be.",1
"""2,000 commenters, in what appeared to be a coordinated campaign, submitted the exact same comment"" direct quote from the article unlike some of the joke ones here.","""nearly 2,000 commenters, in what appeared to be a coordinated campaign, submitted the exact same comment opposing Biden's student-debt relief plans."".",1
"Also, I’d rather their remaining ammo get fired into an iron dome than into a Ukrainian civilian flesh dome.","Which, considering the size of the Ukraine battlespace, would also be present and not plugged by the Iron Dome.",1
"Honestly every system is idealistic to some degree. The issue with basically all systems is human corruption. Corruption through greed, corruption through religion, corruption through favoritism, the list goes on and on.",Which why a system that concentrates all power in one central authority always descends into corruption. Balance between many different sources of power is what works.,1
"Oh whoops, yeah in my other comment I noted that issue. I guess I copied the link before I switched it to Norwegian. Thanks for posting it again to save people the headache lol. gonna edit that post now with the link you provided.","ahh yes, the majestic møøse that once bit my sister (that's supposed to be swedish but close enough I suppose lol).",0
"This headline is frankly, nonsense. Democrats didn't win because of Biden; we won in spite of Biden and namely due to the major blunders by opposition handed to Democrats on a silver-platter. Huge difference. On the eve of the midterms, Biden was polling 39% with independents, 85% with Democrats (should never be below 90), and 5% with Republicans with an overall aggregate approval of 40-42%. DO NOT falsely believe that this midterm win was because of Biden, it wasn't. It was because Gen Z showed up and were energized about (1) Abortion, (2) Preserving Democracy from election deniers, and (3) Climate Change. Don't rely on such a court decision to be thrown into the lap of Democrats in 2024. You'll need a better candidate that is authentic, charismatic, visionary, and younger — that's what sells in competitive elections for Democrats historically.","- Primaries are not good predictors of who is better at general elections (see 2016 where Bernie was actually pulling more support among Trump supporters than Hillary was). The landscape has already drastically-changed and we're realizing energizing the youth vote is more important than appealing to ""Moderates"" and republican votes we rarely get in the first place. This means we need high-energy, high-charisma, authentic visionaries. An old white guy who we all fall asleep for during speeches is not that. There's a reason Obama was requested more than Biden for speech stomps in the run-up to the election.",0
"Realistically speaking, being that the Cold War was simply a bunch of smaller proxy wars between communism (China and russia) versus the west, the Ukraine war is technically an extension of the Cold War. Russia props the war up as a proxy battle by fighting on behalf of the separatist regions, but what it is is the final battle that eroded the Cold War proxies to the source of the scourge. Just because the USSR dissolved doesn't mean that the Cold War ended. If anything, the Cold War went on ice after the downfall of the USSR and Putin decided to rekindle that fire.","Had Putin been successful with Ukraine, we'd be seeing a new threat to Thaiwan by China, which again comes back to similar logic as this potentially being an extension of the Cold War.",0
Both California's Roberti-Roos assault weapons ban and New York's SAFE act assault weapons bans have exemption for current and former law enforcement officers:,"California's handgun roster also has law enforcement exemptions, and cops have been caught using that exemption to funnel weapons into criminal hands for personal gain:",0
"Personally none of my ancestors owned slaves, some people particularly in the south got rich of slave labor, and if the generations alive today still benefit from it then they would be theoretically the ones most direct responsible in today's age. Having tax payors pay for it, rather than the people who actually got the money owning slaves, seems unjust to me.",A state that never allowed slaves using taxpayer dollars from people who never owned slaves and giving to people that never were slaves.,1
"They definitely had written him off, but Republicans developed a seething hatred for the guy which was most definitely amplified by Trump. I've always had the impression of ""Bush was so bad that he gave us Obama"" fueling a lot of that.","Anyone here remember how George W. Bush went from the most patriotic, bright and shining example of modern Republican values until it became clear that his total incompetency lead to the election of a black President? And then suddenly he became a traitorous, shining example of a modern RINO when Trump got the nomination?",0
"This is the second or third time in the last week that he has alleged Putin is dead or at the very least, not making decisions in Russia anymore.","I'm talking idiomatically not literally. He's not saying Putin is ""nothing"" as if he's a loser like most people in the thread are implying. He's suggesting that Putin isn't the decision maker in Russia.",0
"Just so you guys know, we have had really strong anti-EU propaganda for at least decade now in hungary despite the money pouring in. Currently there are giant fliers all around tge country with bombs on them that have ""EU sanctions"" written on them, saying ""Brussels bombed europe's economy"".","You literally can't open youtube wihout hearing a propaganda message on how the sanctions don't work because the war is still going on and that the EU is killing us with them."".",0
"For something like this USA to Taiwan sale to help prevent Chinese incursion, I can see a lot of reasons for why this is normal and legimate (perhaps because I'm on the USA side of that issue).","Yes, the most dangerous thing Taiwan and the US have done for world peace is allowing Taiwan to start falling dangerously behind China militarily. Not that the Taiwan military can go toe to toe with China, but from what I've read over the last 10 years it seems as though even the asymmetric deterrent capabilities of Taiwan have been falling behind. Hopefully Ukraine is the wake up call both the US and Taiwan need.",1
I was joking about the fact that Russia makes threats 24/7 and that they never live up to said threats. I guess joking about it was a mistake on my part.,"Sorry, but that is an immature remark. Hungary would be a weaker ally for Western countries than Turkey. To claim otherwise is ridiculous. NATO is a serious organisation that provides mutual defence in the face of national threats. I understand that Turkey appears to be a dictatorship-ruled evil country, but NATO existed long before Erdogan, and Turkey had been a member for a long time before other countries joined. Erdogan will leave tomorrow, and Turkey will return to normalcy. No major NATO member country will even consider risking the possibility of Turkey leaving the organisation because Turkey holds such an important strategic position for every other European nation.",1
"I care about human life; the girl dying is tragic as I said in the original comment. Fact of the matter is, the Palestinian people elected terrorists to lead their people. Unless they denounce HAMAS, they are complicit in terrorism.",Are you saying you also agree palestine aggression is correct since Israeli soldiers are clearly a danger to them?,1
Millennials and Gen Z together could outvote Boomers and Gen X (and we're about 50-50 Dem/GOP) if they wanted to.,I’m 47 so I’m getting close to just being considered “the olds.” Just letting you know this Gen Xer and many like me are all voting blue down ballot. Wouldn’t it be great if these influencers finally do something worthwhile and help get out the vote!?,1
"Oh look, again we're all arguing about whose fault it is while the workers get screwed and the rail owners make record profits. The system isn't broken, it's working exactly how it is supposed to.","That is absolutely how it works. Dems in the House chose to split the bills and pass one bill with no sick days - after Biden specifically called for them to do this. After that, Dems in the Senate chose to put both bills up for a vote. Schumer could just choose not to do that.",1
"In some ways, the attack on trans rights started comparatively small. It began with bathrooms and sports teams. But now, states are trying to equate gender-affirming care with child abuse.","2022 has been particularly devastating for LGBTQ rights, with hate especially targeting trans people and drag queens. Hundreds of bills targeting LGBTQ people have been introduced—about half of them have focused on trans people.",0
Now whether after suing the abortion provider u will prevail in court and get the 10k is another discussion but it's irrelevant for the purposes of the discussion here which is about pre-enforcement action by the courts before a lawsuit under the TX (or CA) law is filed.,"The specific abortion lawsuit law has to work its way up the courts just like how this law in California had to go through a district court, and the same for the mag cap and assault weapons laws which had already made their way up to the supreme court. They got remanded down to the circuit court to rule on it with supreme court guidance from bruen, but they decided to also remand it despite the district court already using a similar test.",1
"Let's say I buy a car from you. Later I sell it, but the new owner just leaves it to rott in my driveway. Is it alright with you if I dump it on your driveway?","Of course not. This is a porblem between Brazil and the new buyer. I just really don't understand what role France plays in this, they were the former owner and that's it?",0
How can we dilute the utterly horrible behavior of Taliban by deflecting attention to someone else?,I'm blocking you because I have zero patience zero time and zero sympathy for Taliban apologists. If you like the Taliban so much move to Afghanistan and join them. If your family makes an attempt to hire me for your rescue mission I will turn them down no matter how much money they throw at me.,1
"The VP is supposed to have like 3 jobs, and one of them is just being the first in line in case the President dies.",Biden didn’t do much as VP either except make Obama look more tolerable to…certain people. That’s how it should be. Why are you comparing Kamala to the last two Republican VPs?,0
Nuclear energy is one of the cheapest forms of energy once it's up and running and is the only form of energy production where the waste products are properly disposed of.,The nuclear waste problem could be highly alleviated by using the 'spent' fuel as fuel again. Reasons against this is mostly political.,1
"I saw the same thing in ""boat parade"" country, went from like 80% trump flags, to 25% after Jan 6...now there are 0 and a smattering of Desantis flags. Might still be enough to win a primary, but the rabid popularity is gone.","No, the breaking point is the realization he's (probably) unelectable and causing them to lose other elections. They don't care about the antisemitism, it's a useful excuse.",1
"TOW missiles are mostly wired guided and range limited to about 4300m, a main cannon on a MBT like the Abrams is over 5000 with advanced Optics. Further cannon rounds travel faster than missiles.","AP rounds are mostly propellant: the bullet flies out of the cannon at higher speeds, but that also means it loses energy quicker while flying.",1
"This is one solution that’s already being tested on Navy destroyers as a close in weapons system against drones, boats, jets and missiles:","I was referring more to small stealthy surface drones, like Ukraine's can carry a 200kg warhead and have a one-way range of 800km, but underwater drones... I mean, that's pretty much the literal definition of a torpedo, no? A modern Mark 48 torpedo has an estimated max range of 38 km at 55 kt or 50 km at 40 kt, probably even farther if you ran it slower... or if you weren't trying to fit it into a 21-inch-wide tube.",1
"This is a tragedy for this family, but those eyewitnesses are Palestinian and have a lot of sympathy and support to gain from the international community by alleging police brutality, even though these actions could be completely justified. In most courts around the world, police reports are more trusted and can be used to prove what happened. I don’t like it either, but that’s the way it is.","I care about human life; the girl dying is tragic as I said in the original comment. Fact of the matter is, the Palestinian people elected terrorists to lead their people. Unless they denounce HAMAS, they are complicit in terrorism.",0
"Pointing out that suicide by gun is more lethal than many other forms of attempted suicide is not blaming it on the gun, it's just acknowledging reality. Red flag laws that allow for the removal of a firearm from someone who is suicidal is an example of common sense regulation that has saved lives.",Suicide by gunshot is still a gun death. Many other forms of attempted suicide are much less lethal. This is why in general men attempt suicide less often than women but are more likely to kill themselves.,0
People wake up to what a pile of shit Qatar is. And has been for a good long while. And FIFA has been rolling around in that field of turds for a few years now.,"FIFA on the other hand, are corruption. They are made by it, they exude it, they smell of it, every room they walk into is tainted by their greasy fat fingers sneaking their way into pockets. They don't care. They're FIFA, essentially the 'owners' of the most popular game in the history of the planet. What are you gonna do, not watch football? Not play? Not buy jerseys, or tickets, or pints in a pub that has Sky Sports?\ Cause in some way, those aforementioned greasy fingers get a cut of all of that, because of how the sports world is set up.",1
"But that's not for us to worry about. Our work is simple, see russian occupant - shoot this fuck on sight. Rince and repeat, until the last one of these raping, looting, torturing sons of bitches are removes from our land.","They’re raping babies and destroy families. Robbing them of everything they have and making sure that the Ukrainian people will never find the same happiness ever again. And then, if you dare to speak out against these soldiers, you’ll get banned for promoting violence… against violent people.",1
The Mueller investigation was focused on Russia because Trump and a bunch of key officials in his administration were directly compromised by Russia.,"Trump’s dealing with Saudi, UAE, and Israel are corrupt, but his dealings with Russia are a threat to western democracy in our war with global fascism.",0
He used his VP position under Obama to introduce his son and brother to Communist China where they made millions of dollars as well as making millions in Ukraine and receiving large sums from wife of mayor of Moscow. Its all public common knowledge now.,"nothing happened on January 6 that did not happen all summer long in the different riots across the country. Actually, it was not as deadly as many of the riots last summer. There was no insurrection just a bunch of stupid rednecks who were dumb enough to fall for the tricks, and walk through the doors once they were, open by other idiots not one weapon was used the entire time. Name and ins direction or coup that was ever attempted in history without weapons.",0
"If every race was called with the vote margins they have right now, Republicans would win the House, but with only 221 seats. Not only is that a far cry from the 240+ seats that were predicted, but a razor-thin lead of 3 seats wouldn't be hard to split on some votes.","If they shift focus to working behind the scenes, they could help bring about making their states, and other purple states, more blue than they have been in decades.",0
It’s defo a ‘goody people will be desperate to work for less and our profits will go up because we don’t have to pay those pesky wages’ short term thinking and then long term people stop spending and lose their houses and bank loans don’t get paid and the economy tanks. But then disaster capitalists buy it all up cheap.,When corporations are in trouble in stock market they fire a bunch of employees and to see a spike and not scare their investors. Yet they never cut ceo bonus’s or pay. They found a way to make money at the expense of people trying to work to survive and pay for their private yacht still.,0
"There is definitely some influence overhead pushing certain messages either through media or hand-picked politicians, corporate façades and such. And the sad thing is that it's gotten so entrenched at this point all they have to do is say that solar panels are ""woke"" or that the big solar companies are using the panels to spy on them.","I'm not saying that solar panels stop the libs from turning america into a communist country, but ever since solar panels were invented the Soviet Union collapsed and the US is still capitalist.",1
To break this down simply yield is not just a warhead anymore and hasn't been for a long time. Yield is the amount of coordinated destruction that can be leveled at a target... and all US nuclear weapons can apply more kilotons to an area more accurately and faster than anything Russian. For example.. the actual practical deployment strenh of the entire Russian SLBM fleet is only comparable to 2 Ohios.,"The amount of ""big"" warheads outside of the unitary 1mt GLBM warheads is actually quite small for the Russian stockpile.",0
Oh noo the economy who gives a shit. The railroads would fold in less than a week because the lost profit would exceed the demands in that time.,"Also, really what would it last three weeks before the companies gave up had the democrats not decided to crush the guys wanting sick pay stop being so dramatic.",0
"Nah, this is the perfect way - because Garland doesn't have to be the one who says it aloud. Garland literally just hired a scape goat who can earn ire for writing that report for congress.","..I never said anything about legacy? Not sure where you got that. I think it's all about landing planes. Rosenstein and Barr both have shit legacies, but they accomplished their goals of keeping anything from happening, while appearing to do stuff so nobody else stepped in to actually create a legitimate investigation..",0
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If they fail the solution shouldn’t be “make a new/stronger password” or “don’t use cloud password managers” it should be something else entirely.,"No, I mean literally, if your master password is hunter2 and they got your cloud vault, they still wouldn't be able to unlock it. The security comes from the master password + the secret key, which the user can't make shit if they try & 1P never knows.",1
"True, but then the way the NK Government conducts itself and threatens the SK and the USA, while also oppressing its own people is the reason why sanctions are imposed.","From what I've read, while the sanctions do damage Russia's economy and do cause a certain level of unrest in the citizens, the real damage behind the sanctions is that Russia is unable to get equipment for modern weapons. Which makes sense considering that they now have to resort to buying stuff from Iran and North Korea.",1
"The threat of nukes is very hypothetical. Russia's murdering people every day, Ukraine can either do something about that or not.","Oh fuck off, Russia had no problem killing Ukrainian civilians so spare us the crocodile tears, besides who cares if they unite? Do you think Russians uniting is going to magically rebuild their arsenal? Good joke, Russia is no match for western weapons, deal with it.",1
"Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Utah, & South Dakota all banned gender affirming care for minors through the legislature. Florida did it through the medical board. Texas de facto did it by classifying affirming a trans child as child abuse and sending CPS after parents. Missouri, Oklahoma, and Montana are all likely to pass their own bans soon as well.",Most of these bans are only a few months old and more are coming. We're in a pivotal moment in US history where trans people are being actively stripped of their pre-existing rights.,0
"The entire system is set up to ensure that no matter what happens, no matter who wins, if one nation uses them, the planet is destroyed. That's the only way the US and USSR could make sure neither attacked with nukes.","The use of a tactical nuke launched from a fixed wing aircraft could totally be (and I think will be) how we first see nuclear weapons used again. Total nuclear war is suicide, everyone knows that, so when a nuclear power next gets existentially threatened, I think it'll use a small tactical nuke as a last resort. It lets the other guy know you mean business in the most extreme sense, hoping or betting there won't be a full force response. I think that's a good bet too.",1
"Either way, Heller was decided by a court whose justices were largely confirmed with overwhelming support from both Democrats and Republicans so his idea that it was decided by a kangaroo court falls flat.","Also, when many millions of more people in our country support Democrats, yet we have a Supreme Court with an ultra Republican majority... yes, it's an illegitimate kangaroo court.",1
"The demand for drugs in America’s going one direction, and it ain’t down. Between Pharma companies, higher costs of living, narcissstic materialist culture and corporate/political fuckery….yeah, people here are gonna use drugs to deal with this shit.","Legalization and regulation/taxation would be the rational response. Then the cartels would settle their differences in courts rather than AKM rifles. But that means disemploying generations of US law enforcement, attorneys, and others who profit from the ”War On Drugs”. So that’s not happening either.",0
"Previously: On 16 November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he was convinced that the missile that landed in Poland on Tuesday, 15 November, was not Ukrainian.",Interception missed/lost track/whatever and the missile missed might have gotten hit by another interception rocket or it might have hit the target in Ukraine.,1
"Sure, those exist. They are the good ones that - for whatever personal reason they had left Turkey - enjoy living somewhere else. I am not talking about those. They are usually older, smarter and liberal.","You get 2 votes to influence geopolitics and can use it for conflict. On a national view point that all makes sense but we don't live in national bubble, we live in a global bubble and our understanding of democracy should retled that. So, yeah... I think people with multiple nationalities should be given the chance to choose, but they shouldn't be given extra votes.",0
"The only people getting “abortions” at 39 weeks are people who are in the most dire medical need, so banning end-term abortion actually just means killing people. No one’s aborting babies that are fully capable of living outside the womb without any intervention.",Are you referring to elective abortions in the 3rd trimester (not a thing) or healthcare for women with babies experiencing traumatic health care issues/complications that make a successful birth impossible?,1
"And the dumbasses who run our media are just like ""Well, she says she didn't, so clearly these things are unrelated On to the next story"".",The exposure she has at speeches vs the exposure she gets from the thousands of news articles written about the stupid shit she says aren't even comparable.,1
Here’s a fun fact . To Regulate rail safety it has to be voted by congress as it is law. A president nor any cabinet member can unilaterally change laws. The brake rule change was done by congress and has to be changed by congress . This would have passed the house Bidens first two years but would have never made it out of the senate due to a couple corporate democrats and lack of actual majority . So ironically there would have been no way for Biden to pass this anyway .,"Well Biden is supposed to give a speech on the objects we've been shooting down. So he should mention that he wants congress to make a law, that all trains now have the ect braking system that was an executive order that the last adminstration repealed.",1
"“Our ability to control the primary outcome was quite limited in ‘22 because the support of the former president proved to be very decisive in these primaries,” McConnell continued. “So my view was do the best you can with the cards you’re dealt. Now, hopefully, in the next cycle we’ll have quality candidates everywhere and a better outcome.”.","Besides the quality of candidates, what exactly is their plans to help the majority of people? “Owning the libs” gets some people excited but please tell me what you plan to do to help people who make less than six figures a year. Anything? Anyone?",1
"Because it doesn't matter. A concession doesn't change anything. He could have said days ago ""I lost it's all yours Bobo,"" and it still wouldn't change anything. Is that how it works in Canada? If you win an election, but concede before the final tally is in, you lose?","If the election goes Boebert’s way (likely), then he looks like a gracious loser who accepted the defeat.",1
"If Russia can restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity (including Crimea), Ukraine is open to talk, but that condition is almost impossible to be agreed by Putin, so why wasting time on it? All other “diplomacy” has the implication that Ukraine has to give up more territory, which is dumb af to even think about. Do we really want to reward the fucking invader again after Crimea?","So push Russia for retreat, freeing Crimea and Donbass, and paying reparations to Ukraine? Or does he expect that Ukraine has to be the only one to give in?",1
"I imagine the qualifier is to avoid alienating “moderate” Republicans who they hope will vote for them. (I’m not sure if those voters exist, but I understand the logic.).",Uhh. Biden blocked the sick time not the republicans he could implement an executive order tomorrow to fix it. Massive quitting happening right now and they can't keep up with hiring over it. Good luck.,1
"Yeah, a lot of people don’t understand that, they just think the IQ measurement is bogus. They’re right, but for the wrong reasons. He might have a higher IQ, but doesn’t matter if he actually isn’t smarter than Einstein/Hawking.","If anyone is interested, people have surely given estimates for Einstein’s IQ, and 160 is laughably low. But that’s if you’re into the IQ thing anyway. I don’t care for it, but it’s an interesting discussion hence Einstein and Hawking as a comparison here.",1
Imagine the drones that identify people and armour sending telemetry (aotomatically) to call in more drones or artilery.. You could coordinate a strike of 1000s of artilery and drones to hit in the same few seconds.,Just imagine fairly small fixed wing drones armed with automatic 40mm granade launchers flying over enemy trenches and automatically enganging once they spot enemy soldiers. No EW will help because drone is on pre-planned path and is capable to make his own decision to engade.,1
"Disticting doesn't really matter for state-wide races. And while I'm not 100% sure about FL in particular, generally the state house draws up the districts, not the governor.","But even if you live in the most gerrymandered district, your vote still matters for local and statewide elections, even if less for the House or state legislatures. And non-GOP actually turnd out, they'd probably win a lot of elections anyway.",1
"The republican party is built upon flawed people, everyone grifting and bending the truth. It has no structure, it has no plan.","It actually does have a plan. They came out and said it, explicitly, a few administrations ago: obstruct, delay, kill, slow. Wherever a Democratic agenda tries to go, the Republican agenda has nothing to do with the goal itself, its goal is only to trip up the progress toward the goal, whatever it may be.",1
"A paper airplane powered by a nuclear powered ram jet and carrying several nuclear sub munitions. That was designed to fly super sonic at low altitude where the shock wave alone would have caused injury and damage to civilians and structures on the ground. The idea was to have it loiter after it deployed its sub munitions just spewing radioactive exhaust before it finally crashed. It was crazy, an absolutely insane weapon that only got axed because of the radar advancements you mentioned and the fact that ICBMs were cheaper and more reliable.","I mean assuming you have his address just make it the return address and the delivery address somewhere that doesn't exist. Then it gets returned to sender. Putin psychosomatically becomes gay, is ousted from office. You enjoy your clever ploy until one day you get hit from behind, a stolen Superbowl ring caving in your skull as you hear, "" I knew I could kill a man with it."".",0
That’s a lot of details. Did you get those… from news stories? Do you have inside information? Are you just speculating?,The unveiling of what might well be a global program of Chinese surveillance balloons is a highly newsworthy development that would always push other stories off the front page.,0
"The onus isn't on the people to trust the cops, it's on the cops to act trustworthy. It's not a negotiation. It's not even a dialogue. People trust the cops, or don't, based on how they act.","Cops will get trust when they earn it. I don’t know why you mean about giving them the change; they’re still armed agents of the state right? We don’t need to give them anything, they have the authority. How much would you like to bet that they’ll continue to use that authority in ways that don’t foster trust?",1
"That said, if the hate speech law is being used to lock people up for being an idiot is true, then Norway has some much bigger issues to work out regarding their freedom models.","3 years in prison seems to be the maximum possible sentence for hate speech in Norway - which would include things like serious death threats, so I do think there's at least an argument for that penalty in some cases. In this case, the filmmaker in question may have committed hate speech, but it's unsure - she likely won't receive any sentence at all, and if she is found guilty, she'll almost certainly get far less than the maximum.",1
"So if people want to protest about Qatar hosting, shouldn’t you also complain about the other teams and current Rights issue? Or just ignore otherwise well have less teams at the tournaments .","Except if every team did it then what do they do? They’d end up with no teams left. I mean I guess that gives Qatar a route to the final, which might be their ultimate goal now I think about it….",1
The millions of acres that were agreed upon 80 years ago has allowed California to feed the country. 1/3 of all vegetables and 3/4 of all fruit come from California. That doesn't include dairy or almonds or alfalfa. Obviously there should be some compromise to ensure clean water is fairly distributed but it's p disingenuous to insinuate that CA is some water greedy tyrant.,"It would be reasonable, in my opinion, to have some controls on the utilized water during a multi year drought relative to the kcsl return on water investment, after the basic water needs of the community have been addressed (obviously those needs would also have constraints as it is a drought).",1
"Nothing in the article says anything about what their motives are for rejecting vaccinated blood, whether religious or otherwise.","Furthermore, there were, the last time I checked earlier during the pandemic, hardly any religions (I can't actually remember a single one, but just in case), that reject vaccination, let alone threaten their adherents with eternal hell if they should get vaccinated.",0
"Going way back to the 90s there was AM talk radio that was a constant stream of right-wing propaganda. It was a little more subtle than today, but it managed to slowly steer people into a polarized way of thinking so that there was no grey area or nuance.","There is definitely some influence overhead pushing certain messages either through media or hand-picked politicians, corporate façades and such. And the sad thing is that it's gotten so entrenched at this point all they have to do is say that solar panels are ""woke"" or that the big solar companies are using the panels to spy on them.",0
"Make it a bastion for conservative principles. Ban abortions, outlaw teaching science, tax the poorest people. Whatever. Get all the loony ones to move there and leave the rest of us in peace.","Basically, I'm saying lets make Idaho into a beautiful utopia for the flag people. The ones with 2 flags on the car, 3 in the front yard, and 4 more hanging up in the garage. Idaho is for those people now.",0
"Let's be honest, Fox News isn't a news organization, it's a right-wing propaganda machine. They peddle fear, outrage, and misinformation to their viewers on a daily basis, all in the name of advancing a political agenda. True journalism involves seeking out the facts and reporting them objectively, but Fox News is more interested in pushing a particular narrative than in informing the public. It's time we stopped treating them as a legitimate news source and started calling them out for what they really are.","I think there’s a decent amount of people in this country that genuinely believe “fake news” just means “news that I don’t agree with”. Bias is more subtle than a lot of people think, you usually can’t see it just from reading or watching (unless it’s egregious), it happens more like what stories they choose to run and not run. And don’t even get me started on the rights hatred of journalists. So yes r/conservative all news is biased, but that doesn’t mean it’s all the same level of bias.",1
"Welp, every time Russia says something the opposite tends to occur, so it sounds like the best course of action for the US to take is MORE GUNS FOR UKRAINE!","Lol bro come on if Russia left what do you think is going to happen, NATO allows Ukraine to attack Russia? They even help in some way? Keep dreaming, the best ending for Ukraine is Russia restoring pre invasion borders but they are not going to do that. If anything NATO will start pressuring Ukraine to make some concessions and lose some territory.",1
Remember that the GOP didn’t back the Rail union’s safety requests at all. And the Dems publicly backed the union only to hold a show-vote that ultimately stripped them of their right to collectively bargain. Neither party’s leadership supported the unions’ safety suggestions when push came to shove.,Hazardous yes but not hazardous enough to apply the brake rule. The whole system is broken is my point. You can’t blame Trump because he’s just one part of the whole regulatory clusterbacle.,0
The coin would sort of preclude having to issue new debt but the US would continue honouring all old bonds.,"So many people who have these conservative values about personal debt (which are very good) get worked up about national debt, but they are so different you cannot compare.",0
"But - without taking anything away from the issues younger generations face, I am honest about what the nation building discourse of the boomer gen looks like. And the difference between it and the examples you’ve given is that those examples don’t steer nations and policy. Boomers - through things like brexit, trump and the like, do.","Interestingly, both in western cultures and east European ones too. It’s them watching the propaganda on Russian state TV.",0
"If you think the Industry, the one that spent $12.4 million just in the 1st quarter of this year, would be below manipulating prices to feed the Republican talking point and make a few bucks in the process, then I don't know what else to say.","Politics, or the formation of policy, is just one of the factors that the Industry tries to guide, through lobbying and influencing election cycles through price manipulation.",0
"Considering that the US annual budget is in the trillions, in the grand scheme of things, 100 million is barely anything. A single F-35 costs between $80 million to $110 million.","The federal government already offered Ohio aid; the republican governor of Ohio turned it down, because apparently Republicans will eagerly harm their own voter base as long as they can use it as fodder for their next political campaign.",0
"'The 8th Dwarf,' by Ross Thomas. In 1946, an ex-OSS hot shot and a Rumanian dwarf [who stole $50,000 in gold from the British] fly into Occupied Germany to find a psychopathic Jew who is killing ex-Nazis.","Tell them that Vietnam was a mistake and they'll go on a screed about how it was absolutely vital to the USA that we fight there, and that we never actually lost any battles, and and and...",0
One would imagine the twilight-zone between perpetual day and perpetual night to be the strip with the most variation in lifeforms.,"And assuming... Rain as well, holy hell those monsoons could be epic -assuming the planet would have Earth-like but extreme-scale temperatures and at least half the liquid water on the surface as there are on Earth... Though it could make a really cool setting for a SciFi-novel or a movie.",0
"It wouldn’t be a sustainable situation, but Russia wouldn’t be moving an inch further would directly attacking NATO troops.","Minimum they would do in that scenario, if Russia somehow did it by surprise (which wouldn’t be possible) is deploy troops and wait for a Russian offensive.",0
Forcing the enemy to spread out air defenses is def a tactic but I think this stems from the fact that they’ve made it clear that they want to exterminate the Ukrainian identity from the land if they won’t comply. It’s terroristic and genocidal because Putin’s facade will come crashing down along with the image that he can defend Russia if they don’t take Ukraine.,I do think there’s geopolitical reason as to why you’d not want Russia completely neutered. I’m not well versed enough on Macron to judge just how fascist he is haha.,0
"I imagine one day planes will fly themselves since it seems like a self-flying plane would be a lot easier to program than a self-driving car but until that day, two pilots.","Awhile back, I read a proposal to have pilots fly the planes remotely from the ground so that each pilot could fly multiple planes at the same time. That sounds like a way to completely suck the fun out of the job and destroy one of the reasons people probably want to be pilots in the first place.",0
"I mean... they have no reason to give the enemy accurate and up-to-date casualty counts and damage morale. Same reason Russia is keeping tight lipped on their losses, they have nothing to gain from doing otherwise.","I never said that random redditor is correct, I seriously doubt it's 20:1 or even 10:1 at this stage. Maybe the Russians have reasonably accurate Ukrainian casualty estimates, maybe they don't. Either way, why make it public and guarantee that they do?",0
So why are there a ton of articles out exclusively highlighting religion as their motivation by the major news outlets but minimal focusing on pure white supremacy? All I ever see at most is “White Christian Nationalism.” That is purposefully disingenuous. Something stinks.,Which is why we just need to lead with white supremacy because that is absolutely being lost to a ton of people when described as “Christian Nationalism”.,0
There is only so much a good cop can do on their own if they're going to continue to be disadvantaged/ostracized for reporting misconduct.,"If you don't think it's alright for anyone to be a police officer in our current system, who would be responsible for ensuring our laws are enforced? Who are battered spouses supposed to call to get out of the situation safely? Who are people supposed to call during a home invasion? Everyone just left to their own devices?",0
"Prosecuting someone for, among other things, a speech they made, doesn't have First Amendment implications??","If prosecuted over his remarks on 1/6, his lawyers are sure to argue (1) he didn't intend to incite imminent lawless action, (2) the lawless action wasn't imminent, (3) he had no way of knowing the action was likely to occur, and more.",0
"Also I believe it also lays out massive fines if a business is found to be willfully lax in its security that leads to a breach. So for example, if they know about a flaw in their security but don't choose to fix that flaw and that flaw is used to against access to private data, then they will face the massive fines.",It's about time that corporations who have data breaches are forced to compensate victims at a cost that would be higher than the cost of making sure this didn't happen in the first place.,1
"The less 'ultra MAGA' Republicans are very pro-Ukraine though, especially in the Senate, where they support sending even more weaponry to Ukraine like ATACMS.","During the last Republican presidency from 2016-2020 there were separate annual plans to supply military assets to Ukraine. Before this invasion, Ukraine had roughly 2 billion dollars worth of anti-missile systems, coast guard gun boats and missile launchers from America. From 2016 to 2018, Congress was a Republican majority.",1
You would be suprised. The libertarian Party loves the attention he is getting them now but he got barely any support from the party. In fact the right wing tried to vote None Of The Above to him running. And something not a lot of people know : There was an of the Libertarian Party this year.,"I put neutral in qoutes because last plank said basically: ""there are a lot of good faith views on abortion so the government should stay out of it."".",0
Anti-Semitism isn't the breaking point for people like this as it has been apparent for decades in this party.,My Grandparents are wealthy Republicans who would let people starve outside for a tax break from Nazis.,0
Attacks on nuclear plants or dams (that risk releasing radioactivity/floods) and directly kill countless civilians would be a war crime.,"(who presumably should know but also has a political reason to lie) called them a war crime, but lists many Western military manuals considering power stations valid military targets.",0
"To be clear, I'm 100% for adults accessing any care they need and they should have access to it. Simply looking to be informed on what protections are there for children.","What kind of safeguards do you think should exist for minors who perhaps wrongfully identify as trans, when perhaps they may identify as something else in the future? Or perhaps a better rephrasing, what are the medical channels that exist to ensure the minor is 100% trans before they have the ability to access appropriate care?",0
"That's how mine is, just vents through the microwave into the kitchen. I always open my windows when I cook with it however I'm not interested in switching to electric since gas is better (in my personal opinion) for cooking.","I do also agree that cooking on a gas stove is superior to an electric stove, although induction cooking is a big step up from a typical electric stove.",1
"If Russia is pushed back all the way to the 1991 borders (UA is willing to fight, the only question is if we are willing to arm them appropriately) and Russia still bombards Ukraine with cruise missiles, I suspect we'd see the political calculus in the West change dramatically. For now, better to do everything possible to stymie Putin's attempts to make this war ""a great patriotic cause"" for the Russian people while ramping up support to Ukraine.","Even if Russia is pushed all the way back to the border, they will still be free to shell Ukraine with artillery, launch airstrikes, fire cruise missiles, attack with drones, and so on. If you can't return fire at the source of those attacks, you've got no real chance at a military victory, and your survival relies entirely on your enemy eventually just giving up.",1
They are they same. I didn't realize Democrats weren't politicians. They are all politicians the vast majority are beholden to special interests. That is fucking corruption.,"Hey look, yet another corrupt republican. Oh and he’s acting on behalf of “socialist Venezuela?” Can’t wait for r/conservative to conveniently ignore this latest example.",1
But no they just try to go against vaccines for PR but didn't actually ban them since they aren't that stupid and know that is a horrible idea given animals need them just like humans.,I think they could've just made a law requiring all drugs used need to be labeled and it's actually a good bill.,0
"They use shoot-and-scoot tactics to evade counter-battery fire. It's still an elaborate and complex job to keep those valuable HIMARS safe. Russia has drones and satellites hunting for the launchers and ammunition all the time. They constantly move things around and probably have far more decoys than actual launchers. Russia is outmatched by American weapons and support, but they aren't as incompetent as they have been made to look.","And in a serious note, no, it just makes it rather clear of the importance of US providing with ""advanced"" systems to Ukraine, in spite of all warnings against it from Russia.",1
"They are testing their own limits and how far they can go. This is a textbook example of testing if someone is serious about red lines or not. If NATO doesn’t react in a proper way, nobody will take it seriously anymore.",They would want to test NATO with something relatively meaningless first to cause internal turmoil within NATO.,1
I got called crazy for saying Ukraine could have intentionally shot that Russian Missle into Poland in order to rally support for more air defense systems ( that they have been asking for months now).,That would never happen. This war is not about helping Ukraine. Its about stoping the biggest Nuclear Power in the world and the West main adversary from growing in power. Poland does not want Russia as a neighbor I can promise you that.,0
"I'd be up for giving every sovereign nation within US borders a member with voting rights as well as every US territory that hasn't become a state, yet.","Imagine if the three tribes agreed to have a vote, Congress just passively assumed it was ok under currently written law, but then one tribe backs out and insists that actually they should have the sole right to decide who the delegate is. In that case it could become a big legal uncertainty. Whereas if Congress passes a new law to clarify, there wouldn't be any grey area for that to possibly happen.",1
"Let’s be honest, then Tory leader David Cameron campaigned against Brexit, so did Labour. Factions in Tory party and UKIP did the Brexit lobbying and the campaign.","Labour is desparately trying to win back sellout Leave voters in England that abandoned them for the ""Get Brexit Done"" Tories. They've utterly capitulated on any remaining opposition to Brexit with the ""Make Brexit Work"" slogan, i.e. implying that it can be made to work and wasn't a fundamentally bad idea.",1
"Your first stament is simply incorrect as it concerns advanced fighter aircraft. There is not a single F-16 variant used anywhere in the world that has the full capabilities of their American counterparts. The same holds for any other advanced fighter platform, including the F-35. This includes nuclear carry capability.","Any aircraft sold by the US to foreign governments can be ""dumbed down"" in capability and many are. That certainly includes the nuclear carry capability.",0
"His argument is that Putin's biggest internal threat comes from those who could conceivably replace him. To do so, a political competitor would have to have credibility both within Russia and with the international community. By intentionally sabotaging his own credibility, Medvedev and others like him prove to Putin that they are not a threat; and thus avoid defenestration.","He's more trying to destroy his reputation in the West so that Putin doesn't see him as a threat. As the only living former president of Russia Medvedev is one of the more plausible potential replacements, and so is in danger of falling out a window. By acting like a swivel-eyed moron the possibility of him replacing Putin goes down, and so the window stays closed for today.",1
"Yeah. When I worked in Holland for a while, I was floored with how much EU residents get. Even the lowly service and retail workers. I sent some guy home one day because he was being an ass, and my boss asked why. I told him, and he said, ""No, don't do that, he still gets paid, even if he's not here."" Top that with sick pay and vacation pay, and somehow, things still run fine and I guess it's profitable since companies stay in business.","I used to play Microsoft Flight Simulator back in the 80's. I could never figure it out, but I imagine a real plane is easier since it's not all vector graphics.",0
"Its a loss for Biden, Democrats need working class rural Democrats to vote in the 2024 elections and every election after. These are primarily people who couldnt afford to go to college even with loans. The left brutally attacked rural communities said they were coming after their jobs and their guns and their bla bla bla. A good way to suppress the Democratic vote in rural regions is to make people who are living hand to mouth pay for your bloated college expenses so you can buy a house while they struggle to pay rent.","Biden as a candidate lost before he even ran, The only reason hes in the Whitehouse is because people were sick and tired of Trump. Biden is not being reelected to a second term, and history is not going to look back on his presidency.",0
"If trump and DeSantis run against each other the best thing would be for trump to narrowly lose to DeSantis. Trump will rail that DeSantis stole it from him and his supporters will either protest vote against DeSantis, or trump will run 3rd party guaranting a dem win.",If Trump were smart he'd sink Desantis's reelection campaign so if Desantis tried to run in 2024 Trump can just call him a loser.,1
"""As such moves are way more effective when layed quickly where enemies don't expect them (for example securing a strategic target that you just took over in a foreign territory)."".","Yeah well... It is not a very good mine if you can just swipe it off the road with a foot. I think I heard something about other mines having anti-tamper system? Totally not a mine expert, but that would make sense.",1
"That's because it isn't ineffective. Studies, run by countries that aren't china, and the billions of people vaccinated with it in poorer countries that can't afford -40c refrigeration supply chains, show it prevents death and hospitalization just as well as mrna vaccines at 3 doses.","This is not the result of them ""not locking down hard enough"", it's the result of denying western vaccines and a majority of their population being unvaccinated.",1
"“Yesterday, you told me you really liked Kanye’s positions. He just said he likes Nazis and Hitler, what are your thoughts on that? What made you back a Nazi?”.","Edit: I asked my coworker about Kanye's recent statements about Hitler and Nazi's. He said that Hitler did do a lot of good. He created a lot of technology we have today and he brought the world together by being the bad guy. He also said that you shouldn't hate anyone, including Nazi's, and they're entitled to their free speech. Kanye, according to him, was just taken out of context and is a victim of woke cancel culture.",1
"Based on my math, she leads by 433 votes right now but if the remaining Pueblo county votes adhere to the 8% favor that Frisch has there so far, that’s a difference of 600 votes, which would put him ahead by 167 votes after they’re counted.","Still a couple thousand to count, but probably as many votes left in the rural counties combined (most reporting at 95%) as there are in slightly Democratic Pueblo. Going to be razor thin.",1
"The story doesn't even demonstrate the point that removing a judge for terrible judgements is in any way bad for democracy or the judicial system, it just asserts it (again). And they’re not even comparable cases. The outlined story suggests the judge was following the letter of the law. Cannon was clearly being partial and bending law, even to the extent that the 11th circuit said she was reinterpreting the constitution.","What am I really supposed to take away from this? Oh shucks, someone else in history said punishing a judge for bad decisions is bad so it must be bad in every case?",0
"With about 7,500 votes left to be counted in Pueblo County, per this article, and Frisch having a 54% to 46% advantage in that county so far, we can extrapolate that forward to say that it's possible he gains enough net votes over Boebert that her 433 vote lead gets erased, leaving him with a 170 vote lead.","Based on my math, she leads by 433 votes right now but if the remaining Pueblo county votes adhere to the 8% favor that Frisch has there so far, that’s a difference of 600 votes, which would put him ahead by 167 votes after they’re counted.",1
"If those talks are being hard AFTER Russian troops return to Russia, that’s bout “negotiations” anymore. That’s just the loser begging their new overlords. That’s never gonna happen. That is wholly nonsensical. If that’s your steering point, then just say you’re not negotiating. That’s the part that is stupid.","“US President Joe Biden has stated that he does not intend to speak with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the moment, but he will be prepared to do so if the latter shows real interest in ending the war he started in Ukraine; that is, if he withdraws his troops from Ukraine.”.",0
Good on them. The US is using Ukraine as blood pawns to wash US taxpayers money into the hands of the military industrial complex.,"The is the situation in the current day GOP, one half is bought by US defense industry, the others by Russian oligarchs (who are also the Russian 'defense' industry).",1
"They are not in a strong enough position in state legislatures to do any of the things the blackpilled doomers are claiming they’d do, and the Republicans are already losing control of legislative chambers even when ostensibly holding majorities of seats. That has happened in Alaska now and is beginning to unfold in Kansas. This process, once started, will not reverse itself and has a good chance of happening in the US House in January.","But of course no matter what happens, people will refuse to accept that the situation is fundamentally winnable.",0
She didn't bar them from committee assignments. She barred them from the Jan 6 select committee. There is a difference.,"The former are standing committees like the Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, and so on. These are permanent committees, established by House rules. These exist for government operations, like spending.",0
“Scientists replicate the cellular environment seen inside the vagina on a small device” is more accurate but less clickbait.,"From what I read, it’s a simulated vagina for experimentation for women’s health. Because animal testing maybe actuate, having something more similar to the human body makes better results?",1
"If Biden or Pence staff packed up their offices and stored them away in boxes that neither former VP ever had any reason to look through for years, I personally wouldn't consider either VP to be on the hook for gross negligence. But I don't know how the law assigns gross negligence culpability in this kind of case.",If anything this helps to diffuse some of the both-sidesing. Instead of POTUS vs. POTUS it's now two former VPs who have discovered (probably) accidental mishandling and responded appropriately and honestly vs. a former POTUS who did it on purpose and tried to hide and obstruct.,0
"The EU sanctioned Yandex founder and then-CEO Arkady Volozh in June, accusing him of “materially or financially” supporting Russia’s invasion. Volozh resigned as CEO the same day. Yandex sold its news division to fellow Russian tech company VK in August.","Under the plan, which the Financial Times reported on Thursday, Yandex N.V.—Yandex’s holding company registered in the Netherlands—would sell most of its Russian businesses, like search, e-commerce and ride-hailing, to a local buyer. The New York Times later reported that Yandex N.V. would then shift its most promising technologies to non-Russian markets.",0
I. Cannot. Wait. For. A. Trump. And. Desantis. Debate. It’s going to be off the rails and we will get watch the republicans cannibalize themselves in real time omfg.,"The GOP is officially in the midst of their own civil war now and it’s going to be quite beautiful to watch as they tear each other apart and destroy themselves in that process. After these midterms, the GOP was already beginning to feel a bit like a Tarantino film where everyone is pointing their guns at each other. I think some shooting is going to be happening real soon.",1
You know people are already furiously writing books and screenplays about this. I'd be curious to know who all knew this guy was this much of a fraud. Makes me wonder if there's something more than party line politics. And I pay virtually no attention to conspiracy theories. But I mean c'mon.,Yup. I unfortunately have a cousin who is heavily involved with the “Gays Against Groomers” social media team. They exist and it doesn’t make any sense.,1
Iran killing protestors is a breach of human rights. Iran defending themselves against an armed revolution is not. If the UN and other governments were to call this a revolution it would be very bad for the people living there (unless they do have weapons to defend themselves by then).,"Or the criticism is that we will bomb civilians for 20 years, leave, and then immediately the group they claimed to protect are back where they started under the oppressive government but now with more dead people.",1
"The flaw that dooms Mr. Shakirs's complaint is we are talking about a subset of voters in SC, Democratic voters, 23% of voters in SC and that subset is 60% Black voters.","That is the objection that Sanders campaign manager makes to the changes in the Democrats primary which he, otherwise, applauds.",0
wind and solar installations also create a larger number of long lasting decent paying jobs over a larger geographically distributed area.,"True, but the statement before is that operating the existing plants costs more than solar and wind investment. Also US just approved plans for small modular nuclear plants that may take less investment and time. Looking forward to the developments forthcoming in the nuclear field.",1
"Can't help wondering where Iran would be today were it not for the fucking CIA wagging their penis around back in the 50's. There's always an argument for the necessity of such organizations, but good Lord at the evil shit those fuckers have done.","It wasn't a policy. The CIA (in conjunction with the brits) collapsed the Iranian government in 1953, steering it into whatever they thought to be the lesser of two evils rather than letting the Iranian people make their own turd sandwich.",0
Now the most important factor into the safety of this ship being sunk. Is that lung parenchyma is extremely sensitive. It’s a thin delicate tissue which is vulnerable to toxins. And is why lung cancer has extremely high rates. But no animal will be breathing with lungs will be breathing in said asbestos containing water.,"In additional to this, industrial asbestos is applied as a paste. It is not free floating fibres. And if it were to become suspended, we are talking about the ocean which would result in dilution. And the thing about asbestos is that it’s chronic and prolonged exposure that cause physiological changes.",0
"Based on your rudeness, I would be very surprised to find out you know more about the Islamic revolution in Iran than I do (Not that I'm an expert by any means). Whatever man, you do you.",Everything that can be realistically done should be done. Even making 100% sure the violent regime won't get it's hands on nuclear bombs will go a very long way into giving the people a chance.,0
"A 2020 study published by The Lancet from researchers funded by the Global Burden of Disease Study promotes a lower growth scenario, projecting that world population will peak in 2064 at 9.7 billion and then decline to 8.8 billion in 2100. This projection assumes further advancement of women's rights globally. In this case TFR is assumed to decline more rapidly than the UN's projection, to reach 1.7 in 2100.",An analysis from the Wittgenstein Center IIASA predicts global population to peak in 2070 at 9.4 billion and then decline to 9.0 billion in 2100.,0
"I remember the Russian Spy, but the part about funneling Russian money into Republican campaigns via the NRA isn't accurate. Although that hasn't stopped people from repeating it over and over again:","Foreign agents who conduct such operations, Anderson continued, “are often not trained intelligence officers” because their movements and contacts” can present a high risk of exposure.",0
"I don't agree with Russia invading Ukraine but I do believe many of their reasons for doing so can be understood. In the 90's NATO agreed to not expand eastwards, yet over the next two decades they did. Russia even applied to join NATO, but they were denied because NATO needs an ""enemy"". Imagine Mexico joined a military pact with Russia, do you really think the USA would allow this to happen? The Cuban missile crisis is an example of what happens when a country close to the US mainland befriends Russia. Yet, Russia was just expected to be fine with it.","The war in Ukraine is likely now to go on for decades. Russia, despite what western media has you believe, is not struggling. Countries will continue to buy their natural gas because they have to, they have huge stockpiles of weapons and manpower to continue this war for as long as it takes.",0
"It's so wild to read the guy mention Hunter Biden as the evil mastermind behind the war. Just another item of proof that Russians use the same propaganda sources and creators as do the Republicans, which is quite scary to consider.",Unfortunately I think Russian and Chinese propaganda is working and it seems like more of their populations are believing that the US and Ukraine are the aggressors in the war.,1
"can't have the poor putting in too much money, need to encourage them to have a ""private"" retirement plan. the maximum was implemented in the 1980's when 401ks and other IRAs were becoming a thing, to encourage people to use the private sector, so the private sector could profit. its a scam.","its supposed to be, its supposed to make you quit trying. the suffering is the goal. its criminal, and likely unconstitutional, but you need a lawyer to work the system. its bullshit. it should not happen.",0
"The elderly might fret about this a little. (""Helen We need to restock the bunker There's a radioactive tidal wave gap!"").","Hmm. I'm not going to delete my previous comment, but after a bit more though, I may have been reading an in situ engineering analysis of recreating a naturally occurring tsunami.",1
"This sounds like Putin wanting to reform the former Soviet empire, and is looking for excuses to do it by force.",It really feels to me that Putin has become delusional in his grandiose thinking about re-attaching ex-Soviet states from 30+ years ago.,1
"It would be difficult because not every congressman is the same. It'd be like giving everyone in the company from the CEO to the janitor the same grading system. Not to mention not every bill is the same, some take a decade to finalize and find support, and naming a post office is done in 2 hours and passed by unanimous vote.","My theory is sunken cost syndrome. They were told as children and have consequently spent their entire lives building up a ""masculine profile"". So someone deeming that trait as worthless would make a life's work meaningless.",0
"Radiation is not just gamma rays. It's also for example subatomic particles and nuclei traveling at high speeds. Those can totally make new elements and isotopes, and thus, make things radioactive.",Do you know how Carbon-14 is made in the atmosphere? Do you know what happens to the shielding of a nuclear reactor?,0
"⚡️ Russia is already launching fewer missiles at a time and increasing the intervals between attacks, — Andrii Yusov, the representative of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine says.","He noted that the Russian Federation used ""everything that can move"" against Ukraine - launched ""shaheds"" and fired from S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems.",0
"Ironic, yes. Surprising, no. Narcissists do not think the rules apply to them - just everyone else.","The classified documents give me hope. Trump's other crimes were financial, which our government typically just wants a cut of, and hard to prove things like J6 where he can pretend he didn't mean for anyone to go invade the capital. But with the classified documents he blatantly violated the law in the most serious way then lied several times about giving all the stuff back when he hadn't. I'm 99.9% sure there are even more stolen documents out there.",0
"There even is some truth to this statement. The kids of rich and/or powerful people have at least one superpower: their parents. Case in point, Fucker asking Hunter for a referral. I get why people are furious about this. Shit, I am. A lot of these rich assholes talk about meritocracy but we're honestly so far from it. It's disgusting.","Also, I have have never tuned into Fox. The only times I have heard his voice is some clips on the internet or other shows. But I still hear his disgusting voice when reading the quotes in the article. I need a shower now.",0
"History has already been won. The end game is figuring our how to reduce the misery of global warming, and buy the Chinese time to iterate and reform their system without drawing them through the horrors of a direct confrontation with us.",They call it global American hegemony because they fear what it really is: Hegemony of the People. Hegemony by the People. Hegemony for the People.,0
"In order for McCarthy to become Speaker, he needs every R to vote for him except 5, so the caucus of 20 is enough to completely halt the process by simply voting for someone else.","But more telling than the actual vote this morning is what didn't happen - McCarthy wanted to adjourn but didn't have the votes to do so, forcing him to proceed with votes everyone knew would fail.",1
"There is no lend lease, we are giving them out tax dollars cause fuck Russia.which is a confusing message because the US government recognizes why citizens would need to be armed in the Ukraine, while restricting weapons at home.","US isn't in Ukraine and the ""$"" (which is really mostly weapons and not money but whatever) is so that the US doesn't have to fight Russia in the future because Ukraine is fighting them now.",1
"3d printing is a terrible tool for making a gun. My 80 year old lathe is much better suited to the task. (Well atleast the barrel and a few other critical parts). Most any machine shop will have the tools and equipment to make guns. It won't really be a cheap as guns smuggled in from the US. But the point is it can be done and be totally under the radar. 3d printing a gun is really a bad joke. It can be done but it won't be anywhere as good as a properly machined gun. There are 3d printing processes that could possibly make a good gun, but they are very expensive processes. CNC machining is far cheaper.","All that said, none of this helps with the real problem of the thousands of illegal guns that are already out there being used in illegal ways. As long as we have a right to privacy those guns will be out there. It's only when people do incredibly stupid things that people get caught with them.",0
And that's before you factor in that college in the UK costs so much that a lot of their own students would study in countries like The Netherlands for 1/3rd of the price and get a less outdated education in the process.,"impossible, precisely because there are no more foreign students, therefore the costs of universities (and everything gravitating around universities) will be borne by British students.",1
"Of course birth rates go down when having kids creates an existential dilemma, maybe even an existential crisis. Raising kids is work, a lot of stressful work.",Sometimes a parent can't afford to work and care for their child at the same time. Sometimes a couple can't afford to have a parent stay home and watch the child.,1
"I hate to be that guy, but people familiar with Putin's style recognize he's deliberately being humorous here. It's meant to be tongue in cheek kind of in the way that GWB would say something like this during a press conference and people would chuckle. His delivery is just very typically Russian.","People in the West probably have a hard time picturing it without watching a lot of Putin's translated speeches, but he's a really good politician in terms of speaking in public. He's very good at making jokes and using funny folksy Russian idioms and he's remarkably quick witted.",0
Anyone who requires the use of lethal force should be fired on until they are no longer an active threat.,"That's the point of shooting. You don't stop until the target is incapacitated/dead. That is what I expect. Has zero to do with ""trigger happy."".",0
"Neoliberal democrats hate Bernie because he points out all of the failings of their ideology and isn't shy about it. Thus, the media that aligns with them loves to post hit articles and denigrate his name to dunk on those who favor more progressive legislation.","And a lot of it has been based upon policies that are more left than I saw when Obama was president, and this is coming from a Blue Dog Democrat (Biden) at that.",0
"This isn't naivety on Biden's part. I'm pretty sure he's well aware of what he's in for with a Republican house. This is his way of making it public that he's willing to work with Republicans, while knowing full well they won't do a damn thing to compromise.","What you are failing to mention about Obama and his presidency, was the absolute, sheer stubbornness of the Republicans to work with him on anything. They wanted him to fail, utterly and completely, period. And most of that was racism, plain and simple- we a had very well educated, very well spoken man who could have gotten a lot of great things done, but since his is black, the Republicans absolutely could not allow him to accomplish anything. I agree that what President Biden has accomplished is what should have been done during the Obama terms, but the racists would have eaten the Republicans alive if they had worked with him. And far too many billionaires and millionaires are not afraid to let their racism be on full display.",1
As a kid slavery and racism were very real lessons in school and it wasn’t that long ago… you can talk to people who lived when black people couldnt drink out of the same drinking fountains as white people….,Yet… in my lifetime I fully expect to hear from the younger generations that slavery and racism are just propaganda and myths and that it never actually happened.,0
"If they want to make everything a culture war then I say let them have Idaho. Fuck it. What do we miss out on, and don't say potatoes because those fuckers will grow anywhere!","Make it a bastion for conservative principles. Ban abortions, outlaw teaching science, tax the poorest people. Whatever. Get all the loony ones to move there and leave the rest of us in peace.",0
"What's funny to me is that this thing is either the chunkiest weather balloon or the trashiest reconnaissance aircraft of all time. I'm sure there's some impressive technology on that instrument payload, but for surveying military installations it's still a hilarious contrast with the likes of the Lockheed U-2 half a century ago.","Compared to the over 60 years ago, a balloon carrying a box of instruments is a trashy renaissance vehicle to catch over enemy territory. And the US definitely didn't just find out about this as soon as you did, when they went public about it and shot one down.",0
"Yeah man, my family will tell anyone who’ll listen the rights of like the US or EU need to be cherished because it is EASY to lose rights you once held for granted. It’s really hard to get those rights back.","So hard, in fact, that my country hasn’t successfully gotten those lost rights back. So many innocent people have to truly suffer and risk everything to try to get them back.",0
"Disney will say something like , ""We were unable to come to an agreement about the district's budget with the intransigent board the governor put into place to punish business. It is unfortunate that the new district defaulted on the 1.2 billion dollar debt, but the board gave us no opportunity to pay it."".","So you are against this then. Because government passing laws to put it's appointed people in charge of the boards of large companies sure doesn't seem very ""small government"" to me. Or is it just a convenient fall back to say that when the people you like do things you like, no way can they be corrupt. Everyone wants small government until they get punched in the face....",1
"This opened the door for right-wing conspiracy theories to flourish, because of such a tremendous lack of attention.","This isnt ""gaslighting"". The gaslighting is claiming that between the dates of 03Feb to 13Feb, that this story had gained sufficient traction to fully make the public aware of what was happening.",0
"Either way, we agree that what Russia is doing is despicable and the fact that they are genocidal in more than one way makes the situation even more horrific.","Apologies for being pedantic here, I agree with this statement of yours, which is why I am refering to the definition determined by the United Nations and not a colloquial understanding of the word. Taking away children of a group in order to prevent them from being raised into their initial culture is an act of genocide. Killing members of a specific group is of course also an act of genocide.",0
"I don't think it's odd that Paul had something in his hand, all kind of crazy shit happens during break ins.","If you find that's odd that a neckbeard broke into a home and fractured an 82 years old dude's skull with a hammer, you are probably not the only one.",0
"I do think though, that we need to be honest about the state of our union. We aren’t a democracy, justice is only for the rich, and about half of our Congress is populated with traitors who committed sedition openly and on the record. I’d like us to dispense with the Pollyanna idea that “we better be careful or else America won’t make it!” We haven’t made it. The system called America is a failure. In my opinion we should be honest about why we failed so those after us can build something better.","The experiment is already over. We Americans’ perpetual optimism fools us into always thinking we still have “one more chance.” The fact remains our system has been defeated by racists, religious fundamentalists, and the resigned apathy of the ignorant.",0
The Ukrainian military is warning that Putin is planning to mobilize up to half a million new troops in preparation for a new offensive in Ukraine.,The Ukrainian military is warning that Putin is planning to mobilize up to half a million new troops.,0
"Like, suppose western intelligence isn't sure what the Russians are planning - it's a 50/50 between them bluffing and an invasion. If you go on TV and say ""the Russians are absolutely about to invade"", you're inviting the Russians to prove you wrong.","The US knew an invasion was at least possible, incorrectly assessed Russian strenh and then came to a reasonable conclusion based on that - the Russians have the forces and are going to invade. Correct, but for the wrong reason.",0
"I don’t really know who it should be, just that given his age the possibility of VP becoming President will be on people’s minds and she is way to bland and absent for that bar.","I have concerns that Biden against the younger DeSantis is the only thing that will matter to the independent voters who pay little to no attention to politics. They usually vote on how things are going economy wise but this time the ""out with the old"" sentiment seems to be growing.",1
"This will pretty much the future of American global economy domination, not by compete to win, but by trying to choke China and hope they lose more than us, so we ""won"". Step by step, we will corner China so they have to make everything by themselves, then we will run out of things for choking.","From business perspective, this is a great ""win"" for America, relatively speaking. Sure, Intel and AMD may lose some market shares, but in general America ""won"" by making China endures and Taiwan/Dutch lose a lot.",0
"US hegemony isn’t going away, it is just becoming more regional as America continues to withdraw from the role of world police and enforcer of world trade.","And anyway, even if you don't agree with that analysis, the US wouldn't abandon the protection and enforcement of free, open, global trade. That would simply be shooting themselves in the foot for no real reason.",1
"Actually, empirical processes like the scientific method have revealed a great bit about what is accurate vs inaccurate.","Also, no one is more critical and dismissive of my beliefs than the crystal rubbing magical thinkers that I know.",0
"Since GBS I've had everything else, measles boosters, tetanus shots, chicken pox, a huge list because I worked in a hospital. The only one I missed was the flu.",The last time that I got the flu was probably 19 years ago. I believe diet and exercise work are much better at warding off the flu than a flu shot. However this is perfect for people with a weak immune system.,1
"If Russia was going to attack Poland intentionally, knowing that NATO is standing behind them, they wouldn't have hit one random street with a random missile in a random small village.","If you think NATO is scared of NATO and wouldn't respond if Russia fired missiles into a NATO country, then it's hard to comprehend how stupid you are.",1
"The stupid thing is though, China and Russia don’t have to see everything as a war situation, they could just be friends with everyone around them, stop annexing them and just trade with them instead.","I honestly don’t see China supporting Russia the same way NATO supports Ukraine with weapons and such. China shown from the start they wanted to take a neutral stance like India, like most of Africa and some of South America- only Iran and North Korea have pretty much sided with Russia.",1
"So long as Putin keeps openly discussing using nuclear weapons, I think the world should feel safe when they stop Saber rattling or say the weapons are absolutely off the table, that's when it's time to be scared.","(Bloomberg) --Vladimir Putin said Russia may consider formally adding the possibility of a preventive nuclear first strike to disarm an opponent to its military doctrine, just days after warning that the risk of atomic war is rising. “We’re thinking about this,” the Russian president told reporters after a summit in Kyrgyzstan. “If we are talking about a disarming strike, perhaps we should think about using the approaches of our American partners,” he said, citing what he called US strategies to use high-accuracy missiles for a preventive strike.",1
"Can you fucking imagine if the FBI had reason to believe you were illegally holding classified documents, and you were allowed to hire your own team to search for them?",Trump legal team logic: let's hire some uncleared private investigators to search for classified documents they are not authorized to handle. Whoever they are in contact with at DoJ must be gobsmacked at the stupidity.,1
1st degree and 2nd degree murder (for adults) have the same minimum sentencing of 10 years to life. The difference is the possibility of parole after 10 years.,"""Three of the girls are 13 years old, three are 14 years old and two are 16 years old, according to Det.-S. Terry Browne of Toronto police's homicide unit. Three had previous contact with police, he said."".",0
"Now look at what they said. ""Force Majeure caused supposed weather balloon to go off-course. Not intended to violate sovereignty. Please keep a leveled head."".","So... It's a balloon. No propulsion system to put it in any specific spot. Which means it's probably not just recording data to be retrieved later. It's most likely transmitting it as it cruises around the jet streams until it eventually comes down. So, odds are strong that the military is just letting it do its thing while recording the feed to decrypt it. It's also possible that they're analyzing it for what equipment is on board.",1
"This is why I roll my eyes when everyone rehabs Cassidy Hutchinson. She knew who she was siding with, I don't care if she rolled over when it finally got into her head that there might be consequences.",Lots of women and other minorities take advantage of opportunities to gain wealth and power in a capitalist country which undermines them without becoming part of the machine that tries to oppress women and minorities.,0
Building quality in a country that lies on several seismic fault lines has come into sharp focus in the aftermath of the quake.,"With chances of finding more survivors growing more remote, the toll in both countries from Monday's earthquake and major aftershocks rose above 33,000 and looked set to keep growing. It was the deadliest quake in Turkey since 1939.",0
"I know people are worried their other drugs are laced with fentanyl, they even test the drugs for fentanyl before consuming. I could see someone wanting the vaccine so they don't die from a OD from consuming drugs laced with it without their knowledge.","I'm for a fentanyl vaccine but I don't think it's gonna help addicts as much as ppl think. Addicts are the demand and trust me the current conglomerate of narco states have plenty of supply and ways to make it even deadlier for the average user. We need safe injecting sites, needle exchanges and a ton more methadone/Suboxone clinics if we want to make a dent in the current opioid crisis.",1
"It's an interesting thought that would require some dives into the various possibilities. That would basically be a game theory problem, the only issue is the study of game theory assumes rational agents. I think we can all agree we can't assume that here.","As of right now, I doubt this will happen. What Democrats need to pull this off today are Republicans at the end of their career, willing to sacrifice it all for a cushy commitee position, and a few provisions in other bills.",1
"Corruption in the US still requires a lot of hoops for bad actors to jump through in order to pull off, I'm not gonna deny it exists( ) but as long as it isn't eroded, it still requires a lot of effort to do so, and the practice itself isn't integrated to the overall culture of the country.","As much as Americans complain about corruption in the US, the systems in place make it hard for bribery and corruption from being a thing.",0
\- Peace negotiations begin and Italy doesn't need to keep spending money. This is called a win-win scenario even though the success of the peace talks is not guaranteed.,"I thought the more obvious point was that peace talks are good? With the rest of the world still sending arms to Ukraine, does it really matter that Italy stops if peace talks happen? What's the point of not doing the peace talks?",1
"It's also important to note that a European style of gun control would never work in the US because we literally have more guns than cars. Even if we did some large-scale gun buyback program, all we'd be doing is turning law abiding citizens into a free payday for any person with even mild criminal tendencies. The US has roughly 120 firearms per 100 citizens. Banning guns just isn't a thing you could feasibly do here.","It doesn't legal guns have very little effect on that. And gun crime is unlikely to go down massively until after decades. Also, confiscations are illegal in most countries.",1
"Oof. I can relate. I’m still having record scratch, freeze frame moments when I realize that no, it wasn’t me, it was because I was disabled. Some adults treated me horribly and hypocritically just because they hated how I made them feel. By pointing out their own mortality. How Just World Fallacy can’t fit disabled kids. How their cruelty was noticed and recognized to angry retorts of “bleeding heart, crybaby, too sensitive” or as I got older “you’re paranoid, alarmist, you see a therapist”.",Nothing I could’ve done would’ve changed the fact that me existing with health issues screwed with their ideas about how the world was and wasn’t.,0
"I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama did do it, And Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, and possibly all their V.P.s apparently classified documents seem to go missing more frequently than one would think…..An investigation should focus on improving our record keeping.","There’s now been documents found in two locations, an office and Biden’s personal home….the logical next question would be are there anymore anywhere else?",0
"In truth, analyzing costs shows that renewables are often on-par with or cheaper than fossil fuel power generation. It may have been true that they depended on subsidies in the past but that is no longer the case and they're still getting cheaper. That brings us back to the previous comment which has a much more realistic criticism: inconsistent power generation. I'm not sure if the timeframe they picked was intentional or just by chance, but wind has since risen from 7.3% of the mix to 16.6%. But what about overall? lets you play around with different settings but it turns out renewables already provide quite a bit of their energy production. And shows that 37.3% of Germany's power production in 2022 came from wind and solar (48.3% from ""renewables"" overall, though that includes 8.2% biomass).","At the end of the day we'll still have peaker plants for quite some time to smooth out the highs and lows but even they will become less of a necessity. There are ways to store excess power including pumped hydro and a number of different types of batteries, but also energy interconnects between regions and countries can help move power around as needed. Crucially, those highs and lows will often be at different times in different locations. While I'm at it I'll mention that nuclear is good too, though anyone acting like it's the real solution that should be used instead of renewables is just being silly.",0
The blustering is not for NATO. It’s for the Russian people so they can go “see…we told em Look how strong we are” NATO knows it’s just grandstanding bullshit.,"So when they say ""we will attack NATO"", it translates from modern Russian as ""we are scared shitless and we won't attack NATO"".",1
I feel so sorry for the women and children; especially those who were able to receive some education.,"In addition, the lack of education for women has serious consequences for the health and well-being of the entire population. As I mentioned earlier, without education and access to healthcare, women are unable to receive the medical care that they need. This can have serious consequences for their health and the health of their families.",1
"LoL, ‘killing cops to make the main character richer is ok. But doing it because contextual they are fascists is bad.’.","And yeah, if instead of attacking fascists, you would attack black people, I would dislike that. That's why I'm glad that's not the case.",1
This passed the house and senate in two rounds of voting and in case of the house even hit the mandatory threshold of 2/3rd of parliament. This type of stuff isn’t just “symbolic” these things have ramifications. Just because •you• can’t phantom them doesn’t mean they don’t exist.,Multiple judges have already said this will help them in certain legal cases as the specification allows them to point at certain edge cases regarding disability and sexuality discrimination (but ESPECIALLY disability discrimination) and tilt them in favour of the disabled party.,0
"As soon as the block came from her lawsuit, she switched her business number to an answering service to avoid angry calls and listed her business on Google closed to avoid negative reviews, despite still being open.","""Of the two individuals who sued in Texas, one has student loans that are commercially held and the other is eligible for $10,000 in debt relief, not the $20,000 maximum. They would get nothing if they win their case."".",0
"Why would anyone answer a subpoena from a group that refuses to answer them? I’m lost! So should the Democrats hold there own investigation into Trumps children at the same time. Again this congress was elected to address immigration, crime and the economy and have no plans to do anything but obstruct.","Edit GOP had no intention of doing anything about immigration, crime or the economy. That was gaslighting. After all they are trying to deflect from the biggest crimes in America, the INSURRECTION and the traitortrump document theft. While seating frauds and seditious traitors.",1
"The oil sanctions were so far into the future (which maybe was needed to prep and wanting it to be a threat with a timeline)... January is the first month Russia is really losing money, on the country level, running a big deficit that comes out of reserves...","Well I don't personally know the full balance needed, but you can reduce Russian revenues further by removing the secondary market for it.",0
"Believe me I’m making comments like this to someone I know that’s in his circle. Telling him that trump is a winner and winners would run for President regardless of party. Unfortunately unlike trump, this guy is really smart and just laughs and tells me to go fuck my mom (he’s a gentleman). Lmao!","Yup, I’m all about saying that he won’t because he’s a coward. Only winners run on a third party. If he doesn’t it shows that he needs the Republicans party.",0
"75-ton abrams tanks are going to have a lot of mobility problems in Ukraine. Ukraine has a lot of rivers, the tank is too heavy for normal bridges. They would need their own bridges built for them which would be an easy target for russian artillery. It would probably get stuck in the mud often as well. Those problems, plus introducing an entirely new platform which would require an insane amount of spare parts, ammo, clogging up the logistics networks (need to be transported by rail or flatbed if moving within theater), and training new tank crews (takes 6-ish months to train one crew) might make it more of a pain in the ass than its worth. Bradleys are capable as hell. Theyve got TOW missiles, a 25mm auto cannon, room to move a squad of dudes across a field, and theyre half the weight of an abrams.","Now toss FAV’s at them… stripped down dune buggies with 30mm chain gun, or missile launcher, or 50 cal… serious scoot and shoot. Put snow tires on ‘‘em and turn them loose.",1
"Having higher air humidity raises the perceived room temperature, which is a plus if you're trying to save energy.","And in your office, you most definitely CAN do something about humidity. Small desktop humidifiers work quite well on the immediate surroundings.",1
There's one major change that screwed over their strategy.... they actually build nuclear weapons. In the past North Korea would threaten to start up its nuclear weapons program if the US/South Korea didn't capitulate to them and provide them with food. This food is provided via the UN as the vehicle and then every so many years there's population growth and the annual allotment that was agreed upon a few years back doesn't work anymore... so back to nuclear sabre rattling.,Donald Trump was the last president to increase food aid to North Korea. The president got dicked around a lot and essentially North Korea got food for absolutely nothing. That event was so shameful it's reshaped US policy towards North Korea and it's unlikely that Biden will increase food aid to the country.,0
"It doesn't matter if Russia can sell it, what matters is how bad do you need it, and with oil, countries need it pretty fucking bad so the how much are you willing to pay comes second after the ""Our country has rolling blackouts and our economy crashing because oil now is 200 dollars per barrel"".","For the last fucking time Russia is not forced to sell it's oil to Europe, Europe is forced to buy the oil from somewhere else. That oil Europe is buying has a higher price than Russian oil. Europe cannot afford a 100 plus US dollars price per barrel. Russia will sell to India and China at 80 dollars because the world price of Oil will rice to 100+ and instead of buying that, they will buy the Russia discounted one.",0
These anti-Semites use human rights abuses by the Israeli state against Palestinians as cover for hatred of Jews everywhere.,Israel’s shittiness does not justify blanket targeting of the world’s Jews. Or the use of antisemitic tropes when criticizing it.,0
"""Fight for $15"" started in 2012. Eleven years later, the purchasing power of $15 in 2012 is equivalent to $19.39 in 2023.","I'm not sure how you can think someone making $10/hr in 2010 should have the same buying power as someone making $10/hr in 2023. Just in inflation alone you're talking +/-30% for those years. That's like telling someone , hey you should be able to survive on 30% less pay in 2023 than I did in 2010. It doesn't make any sense.",1
The more russia whines about escalation and nothing happens the more likely NATO is to help Ukraine because russia never acts on their hollow threats anyway.,If this upwards trend keeps going for years i wouldn't be surprised if we eventually saw a country sending in their army to defend Ukraine directly.,0
"Cassidy initially went with a Trump world attorney who was not working on her behalf and refuses to sign an engagement letter with her. He advises her to not reveal anything she doesn't have to. She reaches out to a mysterious unnamed Republicans congressperson who advises her to do what she thinks is right. So she secretly asks the committee to have her back for a third deposition so she can come clean about details without her attorney knowing she alerted them. Also the entire time, her attorney is finding future employment for her as well. And while this was going on the campaign was literally paying her living expenses. She finally dumped him after he advised her to stop talking and risk prison time not for her benefit, but for Trump's.","She is very clear about her thought processes in the December 14 transcript. She was scared, without the $ to hire an attorney, and her family was no help. Read it and your questions will be answered.",0
"Yes, Ukraine only has enough troops to attack on one front. And, everybody knows it will be to try to retake Kherson. Russia quickly moves more troops and equipment to defend Kherson. Suprise! Two weeks later Izium is liberated.","For everybody speculating about what may have hit Engels base, or capabilities of the new 1000km Ukrainian drone, keep in mind that the KH-101/KH-102 missiles were powered by single 400 kgf Ukrainian-made, Motor Sich JSC R95-300 turbofan engine.",0
"Oh fuck, I love that, I'm stealing that. ""I don't support the military industrial complex, I'm just a militant Keynesian: It is the role of the federal government to stimulate private markets by any means necessary."".","Au contraire, my friend. I can't change your mind. Just Google the opposite of what you believe is true like, ""policies that encourage population growth."" I can't tell you for sure that it'll work. Your sentiment has that ""all we tried was nothing"" energy.",1
I think the issue here is that he believes the rest of NATO will turn a blind eye to him attacking Greece over the Mediterranean dispute in exchange for not opening Turkey's airspace or the Turkish Straits to Russia.,"If Turkey attacks Greece and Greece invokes article 5 then the straight is closed, Turkish airspace is closed, and the next Turkish government will be welcomed into NATO with open arms.",1
The real issue here is that they raised the age at some point in the past 30 years. I got my learner's permit here in PA in 1984 when I was 15-1/2.,"When I was a kid in PA (45 years old now) you could get your learner's permit at 15, and take your driver's test at the age of 16.",1
Do you think they would be using the American built military infrastructure and training? Or start anew? Obviously they would be going with what they already have in place. The Iraq army is American armed and trained. That maintenance capability is a holdover due to supporting the large American presence. It’s not some home grown domestic capability.,"""""We ensure that we have the same tanks as our Nordic neighbours and many key NATO allies,"" Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a news conference.",0
"At this moment in time, in this snapshot of the transition to renewables that is 2023, lithium based batteries are certainly your best bet. LiFePO4 is a much better choice than lead-acid for the time being and they will be cheaper in the near future. I'm sure that's true. But it's also true that even lower cost alternatives that don't use lithium at all will also be available in the next few years and this is what I was emphasizing.","Also unlike most ressources there is an maximal Lithium price, dependent on energy prices, which anyone can charge. If the price stays above that for to long, it becomes economic to extract Lithium out of Seawater which unlocks a near limitless supply. And we are not that far away from that process hitting a positive ROI in places where you are already desalinating water anyways. So its probably only a matter of time until companies emerge that buy excess solar on sunny days for pennys to produce freshwater and lithium to sell, in dry coastal regions.",1
DeSantis is just Trump 2.0 except he’s not a moron and could trick independents into thinking he’s not a fascist.,Nah this isn’t good news because any democrat should be rooting for Trump over DeSantis because Trump is so much more incompetent and would be much easier to beat.,0
Public key cryptography is only really a good idea when you have a certain degree of trust in whoever physically holds the private key.,"Fundamentally, in order to use it, a private key has to be exposed to, well reality. And reality is not a secure environment. If someone has access to the physical device, it can be compromised.",1
"The guy always comes off as ridiculously articulate and would regularly appear on Fox News, where he’d dismantle their talking points one by one.",He has an insane talent for cutting through GOP talking points and bullshit and making them look like the charlatans they are on tv.,1
"The funny thing is, that most of the people pushing AI heavily will end up losing their jobs because of it.",Well Isn’t limiting the AI not similar to enslavement of said AI? putting the shackles on them sort to speak? Isn’t Turning them off and resetting them if they grow too aware or too intelligent or too strong just like killing them?,1
"The dictionary translation of war is indeed 戦争 (sensou), which are two kanjis that mean battle and conflict respectively. If a Japanese person were to say ""war has begun"", she would say ""戦争が始まる"". However, each individual kanji does have a meaning and sometimes it is totemic of that word, and 戦 (pronounced ikusa when used alone) is one of those kanji. Composite words that is associated with war will often have 戦 as a part of its component kanji. For example, a tank is a 戦車 (sensha, lit. war car or battle car); strategy is 戦略 (senryaku, lit. war abbreviation); battle is 戦闘 (sentou, lit. war duel); a naval battle is 海戦 (kaisen, lit. sea war). A Japanese speaker would innately understand that when used alone, the kanji 戦 means war.","Contextually, in Chinese and in Japanese, 戦 would be understood, on its own, to mean war. If someone came up to me and asked in English, what does 戦 mean, the closest concept in English is war.",1
"I don't discriminate between legal and illegal corruption, particularly when it is the corrupt in charge of making the laws that police themselves.",They are they same. I didn't realize Democrats weren't politicians. They are all politicians the vast majority are beholden to special interests. That is fucking corruption.,0
"When the Karkhiv counteroffensive happened, the Ukrainian army attempted to encircle 4th GTD at Izium. The 4th GTD then retreated back into Russia, however they lost what would have been 50% of their tanks when they were at full strenh, considering their losses prior to being sent to Kharkiv, this loss here meant that the 4th GTD no longer existed as an effective fighting force.","Now these guys (1st GTA) have taken pretty massive losses, and I remember seeing something say they lost 50% of their tanks since the invasion began, but that’s nothing compared to the 4th GTD.",0
Israel and Iran are relatively small military powers. Iran is currently experiencing large internal protests.,"If the US cuts imports from China, you'll see millions of Chinese out of work overnight and revolting in the streets in the next week. The US doesn't have to militarily fight China.",0
While i am not familiar with the entire litterature from the neurology side for example there are dozens and dozens of imaging publications showing the presence of amyloid in Alzheimer's patients.,Also there are other examples that prove the theory. For example patients with REM sleep behavior disorder (a group of patients that all eventually develop Alzheimer's) also have positive amyloid scans even before having AD .,0
"I can't bear watching a 90 minute game when only 2-3 minutes of it actually matter. Like with this game, the goal was like \40 seconds tops. No need to spend an hour and a half watching.",Like I know I sound like an utter caveman here but how do prevented goals matter at all? They had the same effect on the game as someone sitting on the ball for 2-3 minutes.,0
It’s the fact that America is one of the few places in the world that actually cares about working towards improving racism and talking about problematic things.,I’ve always tried explaining to people from the US how bad racism is outside of this country. We are beyond progressive here even with our issues. There are places out there who’s racism (like this man) would shock the average US citizen.,1
The similarities are that the government intervened and stopped the workers from getting their reasonable demands.,"Either way, the government is at fault for siding with the employers in the forced negotiations. And this has always been the case, even when the Labor party was far more socialistic. Which I wish they would stop, because employer unions are starting to take that for granted and try to force government involvement during every strike.",1
Not everyone there is anti semetic but the vast majority are galvanized against Israel bc Palestinians are seen as Arabs and Israelis are “killing our brothers” .,We don't hate Jews we hate Israel= proceeds to ethnically cleanese all Jews from Arab countries and giving legitimation to Israels existence as a safe haven for Jews.,1
"Major developments have been made since WW2 and the traditional tank destroyer like the Stug or Wolverine have now essentially been replaced by pretty much anything with a mounted ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Missile) whether it be a pickup truck, an IFV like a Bradley/BMP/Marder or even a helicopter. TDs both then and now are a mostly defensive tool that Ukraine has and is continuing to be supplied with whether it be through the Javelins they've been given since the invasion started and in the future with the promised Marders and Bradleys with their mounted Milan and TOW missiles respectively.",They'll probably be good but not great. They'll lack protection if not severely uparmoured and the 105mm cannon won't be ideal against more modern armour but tank duels aren't super common and a meh tank is better than no tank.,0
"Can I get some clarification on something I’ve always had trouble understanding? Serious question not messing around, so I’m sorry if I seem like an idiot.","People say they’re “half Jewish”, so, one of your parents is Jewish and one parent is like, Catholic or something? Or is Jewish technically an ethnicity, like saying I’m half Korean because my mom is Korean and grew up in Seoul before coming to America? Or would it be more accurate to say half Asian? Is Judaism a religion and an ethnicity, like are the two mutually exclusive? What if then, one of my parents were hypothetically ethnically Jewish but for one reason or another grew up ethnically Jewish but practicing Christianity or Islam? Would it still be technically correct to say I’m half Jewish?",0
"“I haven’t heard any plausible case for that,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told HuffPost when asked about the concept. “The debt ceiling crisis is manufactured by the Republicans. They aren’t serious about the national debt. If they were, they wouldn’t have voted to increase it three times when Donald Trump was president.”.","The idea, which has been around during the last decade of GOP brinksmanship over the debt limit, entails having the Treasury hand the Federal Reserve a single $1 trillion platinum coin. The Fed would then credit the Treasury with $1 trillion, allowing it to pay off debts and stave off an unprecedented default that experts say would rattle financial markets and harm the economy.",0
"2) It's much easier to win as the minority party for a local/state office than a federal office. For the former, the races are less nationalized: you can downplay the national party's platform and play to regional issues. Much harder to do that when it's a Senate race.",There are going to be at least two true progressives in this Senate primary race. Both Porter and Barbara Lee are definitely left of center.,1
"I do also agree that cooking on a gas stove is superior to an electric stove, although induction cooking is a big step up from a typical electric stove.","Gas is definitely better than old school electric for cooking, but there's people that swear by the new induction stove tops and say they are at least equivalent to gas in the heat control you get.",1
"The joys of stare decisis- a lot of what’s “the law” isn’t actually in statute text, it’s what previous judges and justices already decided in similar cases. And when they can’t find either of those, that’s when SCOTUS is supposed to step in and have the job of actually interpreting the US Constitution.","If this is an organization created by the Legislative branch wouldn’t it be legal by that sole fact, and thus negating the need for this to be ruled on by SCOTUS? I don’t understand.",1
"It's not like the money isn't already being spent, its more a question of how society prefers to spend it's homelessness money.","Then when you say, ""ok, fair point, we could spend more money fighting homelessness here"" they counter ""No, that's socialism"".",1
"Because the world watched Ukraine roll over in 2016 with the annexation of Crimea. Putin figured that since he got away with it once, he could do it again.","However, Ukraine and the rest of the world were ready this time, and surprise underhanded tactics didn't work this time.",0
"There have been claims, before, that they were overstated, with people saying that you would have to notice such casualty numbers but recently and now we know there are at least as many as Ukraine claimed, but possibly many more.","There is a reason why Russia has resorted to desperate tactics - admitting openly that they interfered in the US Elections, war crimes of bombarding civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and a desperate push for all their ""useful idiots"" in the west to keep talking about negotiations.",0
"But I wouldn't bring drugs across international borders and the world is immoral, wishing it isn't is great an all but the status quo is what it is.","For real, I would never go to Russia, even pre invasion, and if I had to, I certainly wouldn’t take drugs into the country. Just asking for a stay in the gulag.",1
Hopefully there is a smooth path to immediate enrollment; you’ll likely recall the unconscionable refusal of Missouri Republicans several years ago to appropriate the necessary funds to cover Medicaid expansion costs after voter approval of Medicaid expansion.,"Although Republicans everywhere are comfortable denying health care access to poorer people, they will support the maintenance and expansion of health services, especially in underserved rural areas. Tying Medicare expansion to improving the access and quality of hospitals and clinics, which are available for all residents, is a winning combination for fighting against efforts to stymie the people’s will. Health care access isn’t a right or left issue. It affects everyone in the state Legislators need to be reminded often.",1
"This principle does not work all that well within the Catholic Church, but it could be made to work. If it is organized by the Chief Justice, the Chief Justice could change it if his own ethics was called into question. A constitutional amendment would be a better way to handle this.","In theory, its oversight comes from the threat of a Constitutional Convention. In practice, that'll never happen though. Also, impeachment is theoretically possible.",1
My claim is that Disney is still probably going to pick or have massive influence in board members because of their lobbying power.,"So the new board has an extremely strong reason to do whatever Disney wants, and no leverage to do much else.",1
Are you commenting to me because you would prefer that people who want to refrain from voting as an act of protest state their intention not to vote rather than submit a blank ballot? Are you opposed to compulsory voting for that reason?,Your comment specifically referenced not voting as a form of protest. Having your refusal to vote counted is a better protest than not having it. Protest efforts typically require more effort than doing nothing.,0
"Please refresh on your WW2 history, West gave up Czechoslovakia long before Poland. Soviets fought Finland even earlier, and the Poles right after WW1.","The Soviets started WW2 with Germany, the only reason the west did not fight them was the poles did not call the allies into the war vs Stalin.",1
"Previous top Russian general was fond of Power Grid destruction… it did not help much, so he was replaced with one who prefers to go for civilian casualties in most direct way… neither “strategies” (for the lack of better word) make any sense… but at this point no strategy which does not include removal of Putin and withdrawal from Ukrainian territory would make sense. And there is no one in Russian “power structures” with balls to do it.",This is important to remember with Russia. We project humanity on them. They project their unique Russian point of view onto everyone else.,1
"The ball's in Democrats court, since there's a Republican introduced-bill currently waiting in the House if the Democrats ever want to bring it up for a vote/pass (since, you know, they hold the majority atm).","That would be like me giving you a heads up that I'm about to knock your teeth in, and saying ""See, I'm the good guy since I gave you a heads up"".",0
"Actually easy to understand: Soviets focused on anti-air defence over airpower, and Ukraine inherited the same air defences.","Then, Ukrainians get HARM missles that hunt radars, and Russian equivalent missiles don't work all that well, and it's all a huge game of cat and mouse now.",0
I feel like a lot of voter apathy can be addressed by just highlighting the importance and tight margins of local races.,"This is a bit how I feel about our state rep election since it was my first time voting in this town (moved last year) and the Dem won by a vote, in a recount.",1
They do have more authority when theyre UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION. They're elected officials that swore an oath to the Constitution. Use your head lmao its funny when anti gun tyrants think they have more authority than the Constitution.,"Lmao its funny when all these anti gun tyrants are uneducated about this matter and hate guns. You do realize guns help save tens of thousands of girls from rape by bigger stronger men every year in the US alone right? And that includes your daughter, wife, and mother. It helps save tons of other people too. Plain and simple.",0
Israel has not attempted in good faith to negotiate an equitable & reasonable solution for peace. Israel benefits from the current state of affairs because they have an excuse to steal more land from Palestinians.,"If Israel really wanted all of the land the Palestinians are on it would take a couple days and the land would be leveled. Meanwhile, Jordan and Egypt treat the Palestinians far worse and no one ever talks about it. Probably because the last time Jordan tried to help them the Palestinians almost destroyed Jordan for the favor.",1
"There is no audit per se. It could be a running look over by irs or whoever, but it wouldn't go on for that long if it was serious, and if it's an irs audit going on that long you sure know they don't trust him with the accounts. But like I said, it's just a way for him to pretend he couldn't release them, when Gee, every other candidate finds a way to release their taxes for years during every campaign.","It’ll be awkward when Republicans have to argue “He committed tax fraud because he’s smart enough to exploit the system, but none of you should do what we praise him for.”.",1
The question was about how Biden had anything to do with stomping Republicans last week. Working with Pelosi is one of the ways.,"I was referring to Pelosi, who would have been fine with getting infrastructure done with Republicans in power.",0
"Anyways, that was a lot but my point is that I hear this a lot, “a hill to die on”, why are gun laws the thing that goes too far?? and I guess since I’m vocally pro bill of rights all the time, im always puzzled by this. I’m as angry about Republican attempts to suppress minority votes via mail in ballot laws as I am with democratic attempts to prevent gun ownership. Maybe it’s a good idea for people to reflect on how to be more pro-everyone. Support your neighbor and your fellow countryman’s rights and not get so focused on why he needs them. I assure you, he knows what rights he needs.","I don’t exactly know why some people get so specifically concerned with violations of the 2nd amendment and not so concerned with others, I assume it’s because they’re heavily rural people and this might actually effect them, but rather than try and knock people down, I try and build people up and maintain the best possible outlook.",0
I see it this way. Religion was useful in getting out of the dark ages…but it has outlived it’s usefulness. It is one of the greatest threats and greatest hurdles for our progress as a species.,"If people could keep their faith to themselves, there would be no issue with me. But they can’t, it’s impossible for them.",0
"I’ll believe it when I see it. Republicans follow the “hastert” rule, which means no legislation gets a vote without the “majority of the majority”.","That means even if a few house republicans want to pursue legislation with democrats, they will be blocked by the house speaker following a bullshit rule put in place by a Republican pedophile.",0
"Yes, or at the very least they'll have a lot of troops stationed there and basically ""wear the pants"" in the relationship. As Russian military power would effectively be neutered by that time, they have no choice but to rely on Chinese armed forces, and are at their mercy. It's not unlike how much of W. Europe is so reliant on the US for defense, to the point where their own militaries were so horribly underfunded.","As much as I hate Xi Jinping's politics, it is a brilliant political move. If they can grow their influence in Russia by making it a vassal state, then, they can expand their influence -militarily- into Europe. Especially if Ukraine fails to take back Crimea, they could ask to station some troops over there, giving them a Warm-water port in the Black Sea and allowing them to project power further westward. Not to mention, they could move more Chinese people over into Russia to fight their own overpopulation problem.",0
"No, there was always something up with this jagoff. You can find his cv in the faculty report UF released on his politically motivated hiring and tenure without process. Which is in an of itself a stunning example of “we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong”. That pos had always been just another grifter.",". A lot of papers on non-crazy topics like ""Mutations Associated with Base Excision Repair Deficiency and Methylation-Induced Genotoxic Stress"" and ""Acute Safety Outcomes in Younger and Older Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Treated with Catheter Ablation"".",1
"As I literally just said, Europe had already committed to moving away from Russian gas before the NS1 sabotage (and before Russia cut supplies) and was moving towards importing from other sources:","Russia was withholding gas, Europe did not stop, the carrot was always there inciting dissent in Europes population (there where demonstration for opening NS2 for example and normalizing relations to Russia), that got taken out with the attack (at least severely limited).",1
"""De Facto"" literally means not in accordance to law, but effectively the same. Nearly every single NATO member is providing military assistance to Ukraine. The effective difference between the aid they are retrieving and full NATO membership could be debatable since NATO doesn't require member nations to send ground forces or control airspace or even declare war with the invading nation.","I think the real military actions in case of an article 5 would be far more robust in reality than what is currently being done for Ukraine. However, in a situation where all the members of NATO wanted to avoid direct confrontation but still abide by the terms, the situation in Ukraine would be comparable.",0
"Or do you think they're corrupt, can't be trusted, and justice must be dealt out outside the bounds of law?","Second, sheriffs are elected officials, but they’re bound by the same laws as everyone else. They aren’t constitutional scholars and they don’t get to decide what is or isn’t constitutional. If think a law is unconstitutional they need to take it up with the elected officials who make the laws, or they need to go through the courts like anyone else.",1
"Or the supply situation is untenable and the Russians are making the logical decision? Supply of Russian forces on the west bank of the Dnipro has been severely hampered for months now by the destruction of fixed links like the Antonovskivy Bridge. Pontoon bridges and ferries were never going to be enough to sustain operations in Kherson in the face of an ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive, especially since the stopgap crossings were constantly getting identified and hit by long range strikes.","No. Stop spresding dumb falsehoods that have no basis in reality. If the Russians were ever going to use nuclear weapons, there would overt signs and western intelligence would know about it.",0
"That is why all these right-wing financial ""experts"" in the media scream and holler about the debt. Because they want that money so they can gamble it away and pay themselves huge fat dividends and bonuses. The whole ""debt crisis"" is a scam being perpetrated by the wealthiest to gobble up trillions of dollars of American's invested wealth.",Greedy suburbanites have bankrupted so many rich people and billionaires by taxing them into oblivion to fund their lifestyles.,1
Genuine question here; the whole world (sans Iran and China and perhaps a few others) is against what Russia is doing. How does it affect our allies any differently by changing Russia's status to that of a terrorist state?,I was just wondering the Middle East gets flak but why does Russia not qualify as a terrorist nation? They even have nukes and submarines. Isn’t that more murderous than suicide bombers?,1
It’s possible for sure. Regardless that is a fucked up situation. I cannot believe someone would rather have their baby die than receive a life saving procedure.,The issue is more complicated if the thing experts agree is safe is necessary to save your child's life.,1
"I mean Russia did bomb a dam and try to say it was Ukraine, launching a Ukrainian missile at Poland to try and break friendly relations is well within their power.","They invade another nation and use the threat of nukes to get there way, yet apparently the west is worse for considering the integrity of there security alliance if a Russian missile did hit its territory.",1
"For anyone wondering about the “red wave” that only seemed to happen in Florida… DeSantis cheated HARD by extreme racial gerrymandering, and disenfranchising voters who completed their sentences, but might have owed money to the state. Also, mail-in ballots that were postmarked by Election Day, but received after 7pm, were NOT COUNTED and tossed out.","I requested a mail in ballot almost 3 weeks before election, received it the Friday before election. I called the supervisor of elections and asked if they would even get it by Tuesday 7pm. They said “it’s possible”. Ended up paying $30 to overnight it but I have talked to multiple people that didn’t get their ballot in time.",1
"They simply can’t imagine people voting on policy, and decorum, over “who gets the most attention, they deserve to win!”.","It fucking sucks that it's come to this, but there's no sense in denying that the vast majority of voters don't see it as anything but popularity.",1
"I doubt it..she is the voice of her constituents…she has been consistently ignorant, racist, hypocritical, misinformed, disloyal, deceitful and dishonest…it’s like looking into a mirror for her constituents ..they love what they see. She was re-elected ….",How did this lady even get elected again? She didn’t do anything but troll her first go around. What are you expecting to happen? More of the same?? So dumb.,1
The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces issued a joint statement Thursday night that said the balloon’s movements were being actively tracked by the North American Aerospace Defence Command.,"Canada's Department of National Defence said the balloon's movements were being actively tracked by the North American Aerospace Defence Command, which is responsible for monitoring airborne threats to the continent.",0
"And in fact, in the last two elections, they didn't even get the single largest share of the popular vote. 2019 and 2021 more Canadians voted for the CPC, and the vast majority of Canadians voted for a party other than the LPC.","The LPC has won a single majority since 2015, and to accomplish that they required the votes of only 27.65% of eligible Canadians.",0
"I personally don't believe that either of these cases warrant prison time, but there's a pretty significant difference in the two. Provisional ballots literally exist for these edge cases where validity or whatever is in question. You take the provisional ballot and, if after extra scrutiny it checks out, it's added to the tally.","I got to say this every time I see this mentioned, but when he did that, he was talking about provisional ballots. Wherein someone who already sent in a mail-in ballot can go to the polls on election day and vote ""again"" just to make sure that they're counted since mail-ins can be rejected based on certain criteria not being met.",1
"Yeah, I can't help but think that their definition is intentionally wrong, in order to create a straw man so that mislead people can disagree with queer theory before they can understand what they are or aren't agreeing with.",That just means rethinking queerness outside of the assumptions of American culture and the capitalist system.Densantis is wrong but it's clear to see why DeSantis doesn't like it as the conservative mindset likes to mistake culture for nature and objective reality.,1
Doesn't matter. Blood is on the hands of the consumers. Enjoy your Nike's and iPhones. No one cares anyway.,not if the management and CEO weren't collecting an ungodly amount for maximizing profits by sourcing slave labor.,0
"“It is estimated that 20,000 civilians and more than 100,000 Ukrainian military officers have been killed so far,” Head of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen.",I thought the numbers were more like 100k Russian military deaths and 100k Ukrainian military and civilian deaths because the Russians have bombed indiscriminately.,1
Was that after or before the World Cup actually started. Since it’s started they banned the onelove arm bands. Which FIFA agreed with and told players it wouldn’t be allowed and they made a plane turn around for having a rainbow on it. Those quotes are irrelevant. Since the tournament has started. Qatar has made it clear how they feel about it. The journalist knew what he was doing and wanted attention.,"The journalist who was arrested was very aware of the risk and consequences, and made the choice anyways. I respect that action, it shows bravery. The authorities detaining a foreign journalist because of an image on a shirt, can’t really find a reason to respect that, seems cowardly. So no, equal respect isn’t likely.",1
"Why do you want to burn the Quran anyways? What will that accomplish? If you want to burn it cuz you hate Muslims, then you're a bigoted islamophobe, and not any different than an anti semite.","If you want to burn it cuz you hate fundamental Islam or radicalized Islam, then you're burning the holy book of millions and millions of Muslims that are neither of those two things.",0
"I'm a leftist, but I love my country, or at least the values that it was meant to stand for. I just want to move forward. And I want to hold the far-right accountable for some of the things they've done in recent years.","Exactly, they need to be held accountable for their crimes and trying to overthrow a fair election. It literally calls into question the rule of law in the country if the main perpetrators aren’t held responsible. There’s no working nicely and in a bipartisan way with fascists.",1
"If 32,000 people in the state died of COVID, this would mean that 20,000 of those deaths would have been Republican and 10,000 Democrat.","Well the number that you really want is the margin between D and R COVID deaths. Assuming your “60/70% Republicans” quote is accurate and that all the non-Republican deaths were all Democrats, the margin of lost votes would be 20-40% of those deaths.",1
It's crazy how much Russia relies on radioactivity for relevance and clout. Article says they wanted to capture Ukrainian nuclear plants - to threaten Europe with accidents.,(Over and above invading Ukraine and so making any country ever willingly giving up nuclear weapons again a sadly unlikely prospect).,1
"There should be a Supreme Court case over the right to an abortion based on freedom of religion, considering that Judaism and Islam don’t believe life begins at conception. And Numbers chapter 5 instructs people how to perform an abortion. Even if a Christian cites “thou shalt not kill”, abortions evidently don’t violate that commandment, or Numbers chapter 5 would not explain how to perform one.","Numbers chapter 5 in The Bible contains instructions on how to abort a bastard child, so The Bible supports abortions for unmarried women, and Jesus never condemns abortions, but he does condemn a mob who sought to punish (and stone to death) a woman for extramarital sex. When red states banned abortion, they condemned many women and girls to death in childbirth, which is anti-Christian.",0
She saw Oz as possibly winning and wanted to disassociate herself. Has nothing to do with helping democracy. Oprah is and has always been all about her brand.,I get where you're coming from and am no Oprah fan but honestly I can see people who like her being swayed.,1
"If you lived here you would know that the tv ad campaign mentioned only a ""high compacity"" magazines and said absolutely nothing about law enforcement getting the final say on who could and could not own a firearm.","I'm well aware, but I still think that many ardent gun control supporters would still have voted for it knowing that it would effectively ban gun sales in OR for the foreseeable future because they see that as a good thing.",1
"No because there's a fundamental difference, if Santos actually isn't a citizen he is legally not allowed to take office. If there had been voter fraud in 2020 I would support it being fully investigated and legal remedies taken, Trump lost 52 lawsuits about the 2020 election because he had no evidence.","Santos is either a US citizen or not, that can be decided with evidence and then we act on the evidence. If a democrat did it I'd support the same thing, they can't take office if they're not a citizen.",0
It's incredible how many people in this thread are taking a borderline misogynistic/racist view on this by trying to reduce Amy Comey Barrett and Clarence Thomas down to simply being proxies for white men. Are they not both capable of making their own decisions? Why should the terrible things they do be excused as simply them doing the behest of their white male overlords?,"But I guess we can simple excuse the terrible things they do as they are only capable of following their orders from old white men, right?",0
"The nations of the world had very little say in its formation, although that isn't to say they opposed it - obviously they didn't - but in 1945 ""the world"" was basically Washinon DC, London and Moscow, with Paris and Beijing being honorary members.","The UN was created in 1945, a decade before before thermonuclear weapons were invented and at a time when only a handful of atomic bombs existed, all of them American.",0
"Mirage have lower maintenance requirements and would be a good choice for Ukraine. The F-16 has some logistical nightmares like hydrazine powered APUs, but the mirage can and is operated by less capable air forces than Ukraine.","The airspace in Ukraine is contested at the moment, but giving Ukraine jets with solid air to air capability even more difficult for Russian aircraft to operate and will help with .",1
"The soldier who claims he has PTSD from the training and is suing the government claims that he was forced to simulate sex acts with a toy doll and forced to renounce his Christian faith and masturbate over a Bible. Australia, are you cunts alright?","""Australia, are you cunts alright?"" sounds like a poorly translated Chinese tshirt or wristband you would see in a Vietnamese market. and yes we are apparently.",1
"""The operational data outlined above shows that the Russian military suffered from major errors of judgement made by the Russian leadership, special services and the presidential administration. The force also suffers from structural weaknesses in its force design and training system that created specific operational and tactical frictions. It was also a force designed for ‘active defence’ strategic military operations, not for a large-scale attack on another sovereign country without full wartime mobilisation. Nevertheless, the AFRF have already demonstrated that they are able to learn and adapt. They remain highly lethal, determined to achieve the mission set by their president, and employing highly capable weapons systems."".","The characterization of the Russian military as largely unmotivated to execute combat operations has been highly overblown in the West. Yes, it is true that there have been desertions and surrenders, especially among conscripts, and yes, it is true that hundreds of thousands of young men fled Russia when the first wave of follow-on conscription was announced. However, the idea that the Russian military is unmotivated to achieve its objectives is largely untrue; the continued pace and unabated intensity of the fighting belies the widespread perception in the West that the Russian military is unmotivated and unwilling to engage in combat operations. The Ukrainians themselves caution against this perception of the Russian military:",0
"1.	They are sticking with the story that this was a civilian balloon, thus no need for defense ministry to get involved.","Their defense is that it was a civilian balloon that somehow got lost, but as you acknowledged it is clearly military, also not the only one. Clearly their defense is bogus.",1
"Consider that both things can be true at the once - the “news” has fundamentally changed, maybe for the worse, and that right-wing news has done so in a much more extreme and harmful way.",But lumping everything together with a news station that knowingly told lies about a fair election being stolen is straight up dangerous.,0
"That's antisemitism, full stop; it is not, in any way, a criticism of any policy of the State of Israel.","You are denying Jewish indigeneity to the Levant and instead claiming the Arab colonial invaders, who genocided and ethnically cleansed Jews, are the real indigenous people.",0
"I think what I expect is that Ukraine makes some kind of move in the South that threatens to collapse the Russian lines. It might be a real offensive, or it might just be to force Russia to re-distribute their forces to prevent them from being able to pull off a successful attack of their own.","Right now the Russians are desperately trying to support these infantry pushes, which means they aren't displacing as often or quickly as they should, making them easier targets. Ukraine is killing the slow crews first, the others will (re)learn and adapt, at least for a bit.",1
And there we have it. We cannot discuss this topic openly and honestly because that somehow feeds into right-wing misinformation.,"The idea that your first-pass filter for this topic is what ""the right-wing"" has been saying about it, is quite telling. For too many people this topic is just a proxy for politics.",0
"The Speaker is elected from a simple majority of the members-elect of the House, so the winner will need 217 218 of 435 votes. Jeffries could theoretically be elected Speaker, but only if he received enough votes from across the aisle.",Yeah the thing is that if Jeffries gets the Speaker we will get votes on Democratic bills. The bills will get voted down but at least they will get voted on that. That's something that matters come election time when votes are out in the open. If McCarthy gets speaker through deals with the crazies he will stonewall all progressive bills and then the media will blame the Democrats for doing nothing for two years because they like to do that.,1
"Palestinian have a hard time under Israel's occupation but they also have it bad under Hamas' Gaza. Some of the resolutions are submitted by Hamas itself which is ironic and despicable,and many including the latest one denouncing Israel are submitted by the PA while they themselves are guilty of corruption and oppressing any political opposition and critics.","Some of the tallied “anti-Israel” resolutions are literally resolutions to help Palestinians. They are not condemnations of Israel, they are trying to help Palestine.",1
"The conclusion of all of these things put together is that you could end up with 8yr olds able to legally change their genders in a couple of months, after which parents would need to pursue medical gender reassignment or face being accused of abuse.",16yr olds being able to legally change their gender in just a couple of months without any medical diagnosis is already a slippery slope.,0
This sort of shit I'd stupid because it detracts from real issues which there are plenty with the government.,Reddit hates the Tories and think this is some gotcha lol. Labour would be staying in exactly the same places if they were in power.wjere do they think world leaders stay the local holiday Inn??,0
"And that means that not only is anything that can be imagined, in some sense, actually real, but there is an infinite number of them.","This concentration of power gives the PMO the ability to craft and enact legislation, such that government can actually do things - unlike the crazy Yank deadlock that happens when one party throws all its toys out of the pram and chooses to just obstruct.",0
"These will be an interesting addition. They have about 80% of the explosive power of a GMLRS rocket (from what I can tell) with 60% more range at roughly a quarter of the price. They've carried over the GBU-39's ability to follow indirect flight paths, geo-locating, and laser targeting. I wonder if they quietly carried over the ability to target EW jamming.",I am unsure how it will interact with Russian air defense. Will the glide portion of the flight cause it to be slower and easier to counter? Does Russia have any air defense available to place that far behind the front line?,0
"magnetic field IS the thing confining the plasma from touching the walls! but it acts like jello, and does not want to be confined. I am not surprised that a new magnetic field setup might yield some improvements in confining the plasma.","but basically you need atoms to be VERY hot inorder to fuse together. so you use an AC varying magnetic field to heat up a rarified gas. if you pump enough energy into this rarified gas, the electrons depart, and you end up with a plasma.",0
"In the video circulating you can see the Russian troops surrendering and then the last Russian soldier starts shooting injuring the cameraman, pretending to surrender and then attacking the other party is a war crime and makes those other soldiers an active threat, not POWs.",Yeah so the video is a sight to see there are two videos one first person where you’ll see the Russians surrendering and then their bozo companion runs out guns blazing while a soldier with a machine gun over watches them.,1
"Was Madison Cawthorn in fact naked, face fucking his cousin, or was it just a rumor that Madison Cawthorn was on video naked, face fucking his cousin?","That’s funny, because when I googled Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin, with safe search turned off, I didn’t get any videos of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin. So I wasn’t sure if there really was a video of Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin, but then I tried searching Madison Cawthorn naked, face fucking his cousin on bing….",1
"Instead of pointing the finger at the workers for shutting down the economy... Maybe ask the capitalists in charge why the fuck saving the economy isn't worth a few sick days. This is on them, not the union, not the working class.","That's the point of a strike: a demonstration of the importance of the workers. If rail workers are so incredibly important that them all deciding to quit would shatter the economy then maybe, just maybe, they deserve the sick leave they are asking for? Perhaps the business interest should be brought to heel for once instead of the labor interest?",1
"Well maybe if palestinians didn't hate on him for abiding his religion, which he has every right to do - his provocation wouldn't work?","If Palestinian leadership came out right now and said they are ready to accept peace proposal as given during Camp David, it would be VERY hard for Israel to refuse.",1
"The party itself votes for the leader. The party is made up of the general public who pay a fee to be a part of that party as well as the MPs. Leadership contests are usually chosen by the entire party. Suank, the current Prime Minister/Leader was chosen only by the MPs of the party as they needed a leader ASAP after Liz Truss's epic failure.","The general public only votes on who they want for their local MP (there are 650 constituencies and therefore 650 MPs). Whichever party, or group of parties makes up the majority (326 MPs) forms a government.",0
Are you seriously comparing requiring surgeons to wear surgical equipment to the government deciding that everyone should be required to wear suits or they get fired?,"No, it's the US. Indian employees who returned back home or were never in the US to begin with had to present vaccination certificates or get suspended. Vaccines weren't available for the most part, so most either came back to get vaccinated and then went back or risked getting suspended (which quite a few did).",0
"Don't worry, bro We're at the stage where everything is going to be just fine with just a little simple human cooperation.","In October, a large outbreak occurred on a mink fur farm in Spain. Researchers who described the outbreak in a paper published last month believe that wild birds initially transmitted H5N1 to the mink farm, but once there, it spread from mink to mink.",0
We intervene and its going to open the flood gates for all the bad that seems to always come during foreign interventions. The people of Haiti will suffer.,"Haiti is a lost cause. They offer nothing to the world but poverty, there is no incentive for anyone to ruin their own reputation and send their own soldiers home in caskets to try and remove shit out of a sewer. And they will just get mad at whoever comes to try and help them, not to mention the problems with foreign soldiers bringing rape and disease. Haitians just need to find an equilibrium state with their gangs, because sending them money so it can be stolen is not in the interest in anyone outside of Haiti.",1
"This is NYT reportage, not Fox New Entertainment. It's not their job to insert their opinon on any part of this. They are reporting a fact: authorities are investigating the case. And part of investigating is finding a suspect's motivation and admissible evidence to win their case. This is how things start.","""It's obviously politically motivated"" isn't a legal concept, and there is no precedent-setting Ducks v Quacks.",0
"There is hones crypto but there’s a massive amount of fraud commuted and enabled my the large funds. Btc has value as a scare, theft resistant, and inflation proof currency. Ethereum has a smart contract layer that functions as an effective way to have p2p coding. Arweave provides decentralized storage. There are real crypto currencies, it’s just 90-95% is either fraud or destined to fail because these large VC funds keep giving these well connected rich kids billions to monopolize the space, and it keeps failing.","Meanwhile of course you steal the real money to pay yourself an outrageous salary, bonuses, business trips, buy luxury propety, fund misleading advertising to lure more rubes in... the usual crypto business.",1
"if a Christian group wanted to come into a school and, say perform a baptism while kids watched and then cleanse the classroom of demons by waving around some incense as a demonstration I’d tell them to get fucked.",If they had some Christian ceremony where kids were forced to participate people would be up in arms. This seems no different.,0
3. Diplomatic communications between the Haitian government (which is effectively non existent at this point) and the American government.,"At this point, they aren't going to fix this situation without outside intervention. Based on historical precedence, it's hard to argue that foreign intervention would have a long term positive benefit. It would help in the short term though, and it might give Haiti a chance to form a legitimate government. That is Haiti's only chance at stability.",0
"As for the teacher, its sad that he lost his life. Then I have to ask was the Palestinian group firing on the IDF in officially recognized uniforms or were they trying to blend into the populace. That is also in the conventions and I haven't seen a single person bring up yet. If a group of people are shooting at you in civilian clothing, and you shoot a person in civilian clothing in that area during the firefight, its not your responsibility. Its the responsibility of the fighters using the civilian populace as a shield. We have this commander that was shot and killed so it was a military operation, were they in uniform?","So to be clear, a guy was walking around the battlefield without any medic vest when he was shot. Being a medic does not create a bubble around you where everyone within several feet is considered a noncombatant. In every armed conflict, combatants walk near medics at some point.",1
"Sometimes it misidentifies the language, though. The auto-detect feature thought that article was in Finnish at first so it didn't work, but you can change it manually.","Yeah I think I botched the original link I provided, tried replacing it with the link from another commenter who pointed that out. Not quite sure what's up with it, sorry about that.",0
Ukraine could have stayed neutral then. They picked sides and that was a poor choice. They can remain grateful that at least India is staying neutral instead of picking Russia's side.,"Even at international level, there are consequences to poor choices. Ukraine cannot expect a country who they acted against to back them, especially when it is against the latter's interests to do so.",0
"..In the Two Sahihs, it is recorded that Ibn Umar said that the Messenger of Allah said, (I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establish the prayer and pay the Zakah.) This honorable Ayah (9:5) was called the Ayah of the Sword, about which Ad-Dahhak bin Muzahim said, ""It abrogated every agreement of peace between the Prophet and any idolator, every treaty, and every term."" Al-Awfi said that Ibn Abbas commented: ""No idolator had any more treaty or promise of safety ever since Surah Bara'ah was revealed. The four months, in addition to, all peace treaties conducted before Bara'ah was revealed and announced had ended by the tenth of the month of Rabi Al-Akhir."".",That’s not the point. What do you expect fifa to do other than ban Iranian participation? Nobody is arguing here that it’s right for the Iranian government to treat the people this way. But a sports organization can’t do much about it. Don’t be dense.,1
You’re right. I’m the highest tier at my high street bank (private bank management etc) but we got closed out from PPP by large companies that had managers put them in the front of the line. That’s where all the first allocation of PPP funds went - to giant corporations that had dedicated managers to file for them.,Fraud was rife and Trump And Kushner both received millions in PPP funding. How is that not illegal and why aren’t conservatives asking for lynchings due to all the waste of tax payers money?,0
"There were plenty of reasons to invade ukraine, for example its against the international law you defend to enter an alliance that would destabilize a region, like ukraine entering nato. Ukraine has bombed civilians for 8 years and keeps doing it, so since that is inmoral should we neither support ukrain or russia?","There are few things in life as reliable as Russian shills claiming Ukraine has been murdering innocents in Donbas. But, lets suppose for a second that was true, which it is not. Russia could have appealed to the UN and requested a security force to protect the region, or it could have used its allegedly superior air defense (lol) to shoot down the alleged bombings from Ukraine. It did neither. Instead, it gave weapons to Igor Girkin and others who promptly used them to blow up an airliner. Then Russia committed to an ill fated invasion of all of Ukraine, not just the Donbas, which is currently not going so well.",1
"If other countries send euros and dollars to Russia, that still drives up the value of the euro and dollar, still creates arbitrage opportunities, and thus still makes trade more expensive for Russia.","Your comment is like ""Banning drugs doesn't raise drug prices. People can get around the ban and buy."" Obviously, black markets can exist. But black markets will, under any normal economic assumptions, drive up prices. That's the goal.",0
"The question is, is 13% of the video game market a monopoly? I don't think it is, though it is certainly a large share. Does Microsoft engage in monopolistic practices as a video game publisher who also manufactures a console? Not as badly as Sony does, not as badly as Nintendo does, its two closest competitors, neither of which are Chinese companies or tied to authoritarian governments.","There's Tencent (Which is actually the biggest video game company, not Sony). There's NetEase, EA, Embracer Group, Apple, Warner Brothers, Square Enix, Take-Two, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega, Ubisoft, Paradox. Konami is making a huge come back, and just posted its biggest year.",0
"The USA spends $801 billion (2021) on defense while Germany spends $56 billion (2021), or 7% of what the USA spends. Repairing tanks dragged back to Poland (where western arms are repaired) will always be easier for the USA because they have more billions to put to the task. The USA can fly their parts to Poland. Planes literally fly around the world in hours. Maybe a truck from Germany would beat the plane because the plane has to be unloaded into trucks. But those hours are not significant with regard to the task. And only applicable the first time as an inventory will be built up in Poland.",The different fuel is an issue but presumably the USA has worked out how to get jet fuel etc. - and lots of it - to a battlefield or else the tank is a white elephant.,0
"And neither is wildfire. But here we are making wildfires worse because we've been trying to prevent them for too long and not clearing the fuel out of the forest. So either we let the wildfires do what wildfires do and don't try to stop them, or we go in and clear out the fuel from time to time. On top of that modern forestry doesn't go in and clear cut whole forests. There is plenty left behind to promote biodiversity of species.","It's hard for people to want to listen to something that goes against their whole world view or belief system. I get why they want to be mad about something, even if it's totally misguided. Most of the people getting mad are pretty insulated from it, only going to the forest to partake in activities. I live in an area with a timber industry, and know people that work for them, USFS and Cal Fire and get to hear about it from all view points.",0
"Putin didn't rise to power, because of a coup. Russians chose him again and again. The majority still choose him and if it wasn't Putin it'd be some other ""strongman"". Many Russians are assholes in general, but especially when we're talking about the superiority complex they feel toward states, that used to be under Russian rule.","I don't mean to refute this because I'm honestly not very knowledgeable about Russian life, but I have to believe that many people living in Russia are oppressed or brainwashed by the ideology put forth by the government. I can't really blame the people for not knowing any better.",1
Also the main battle tanks? 12 from the UK and no other country wants to send any? We've let these guys down big time.,"Its a warcrime this purely defensive equipment hasnt made its way into Ukraine yet, this system could save so many lives and everyones dragging their feet.",0
Both. Its both. We help Ukraine with money we steal from Russia by funding our own economies to assist in there rebuild while simultaneously full on capsizing the russian market. Meanwhile there is an even deeper foothold in the Ukranian market do to an influx of western brands from construction materials to cocacola. Soon enough the populous is as enfatuated with overprocessed-designed-for-the-dump-garbage as any stadard American is and full populist assimialation will be complete!,"Even better, make a UN order that all transactions and imports to Russia must go through Ukraine first (with a appropriate charges made to Russia for infrastructure and fees)as to put Ukraine in an economic and political authority over the enitirety of Russia as far the Western world is concerned.",0
"The most practical and immediate thing I can think of is that the Palestinians must declare publicly and honestly that they recognize the right for Israel to exist and are letting go of ALL violence, and Israel in return is completely stopping and enforcing a no more expansions or new settlements in the West bank.",I guess I would contend that Israel left the Gaza strip because it was too costly for them to protect the few settlers that were actually there and Sharon could use it as a point of saying how moral he was (omitting how quickly military actions increased once Israeli citizens were out.).,1
"Sometimes it is, and I’m not sure of the specifics for each individual race, but to call it a systemic issue among the California races this year is just flat out BS.","I don’t think a single seat in California that was red but was competitive, like the ones talked about here, are from districts which have been majority blue at all in recent history. I was watching the last few races heavily and all 3-4 of the most competitive California races were R+5 or so. Not super red and can still occasionally get a blue win, but to think not getting it, in a midterm election where there is significant opposition party bias in an already red leaning district is somehow the fault of democrats makes no sense.",0
"That said, yes Russia could theoretically join NATO. I doubt it'll ever happen though, since it's the reason NATO exists in the first place (unless it truly does become a proper democracy and another country like China becomes the new ""main threat"" for Europe).",It's highly unlikely that you'd get unanimous political agreement for Japanese membership in NATO and it's highly unlikely that Japan would want to join NATO.,1
"Yes, I can't stop watching the train wreck but I don't enjoy the interface or the content anymore. I just feel like I've sunk too much time into it not to see it to the end. Elon please, my wife and kids haven't heard from me in 7 months. Just let Twitter die.","It's not a Twitter thing. It's a well documented if ignored thing. He actively swings down at a group that is widely considered (quietly) by law enforcement as ""less dead"".",1
"The bear attacked and killed pets and livestock, even within villages, and thus was considered a danger.","At least from what i've gathered, hippos are not considered critically endangered, only vulnerable or endangered, this this might technically be the correct choice for the EU.",0
"Yea, your company might give you something. When I had my daughter, I had to use the short term disability benefits. They paid 60% of my salary for 6 weeks. I had to use PTO or sick time to make up for the rest of my paycheck. Then, for the next 6 weeks, I had to use just pto/vacation. I'm extremely lucky that there were a ton of PTO changes going on at my company and I barely had enough to cover that time (I had like 6 hours left when I went back. Had to hope my kid wouldn't get sick while in daycare for a bit because I had no PTO.).","Omg. Thats insane. Here in Slovakia you get 34 weeks and 75% salary coverage (up to around 1700€ I think), after you can take also parental leave till the kid is 3 years old, sadly with smaller fixed sum, around 500€. But its managable, if your partner works. Fingers crossed for better coverage in US.",1
"I will say it point blank, lighting things on fire and inhaling the smoke and carbonized ash of ANYTHING is bad for you. Some things might be worse to burn and smoke than others but there's the healthy amount of things you should smoke is 0.","I will say it point blank, lighting things on fire and inhaling the smoke and carbonized ash of ANYTHING is bad for you. Some things might be worse to burn and smoke than others but there's the healthy amount of things you should smoke is 0.",0
Poland is the first country who claimed the missile was Russian. Still seems like the most obvious answer.,"No, for enforcing the world order that does not allow for genocide -- which is what we are already dealing with. Your whole ""all this war? for what?"" is really misguided. We are already in this situation. And if things get out of control, it is squarely the fault of Russia who is constantly threatening to use nukes.",0
The fear this bill produces has already resulted in doctors holding off on treatment until safety of the mother is so far gone and the mother is so septic that interventions are too late. That’s partially why maternal death rates are known to be higher in anti abortion states even if rate of abortions is down.,There’s strong evidence more women will die and equally strong evidence suggesting that the number of legal abortions just gets replaced with illegal ones with only slight decline. Unless there’s some manner of proof that the abortions “saved” matches the surplus women that die (which… that evidence hasn’t to my knowledge been compiled so they aren’t basing decisions on it) that seems a pretty blasé perspective on women deaths.,0
"Rooting for Ukrainian victory and not rooting for the death of Russian soldiers are, unfortunately, mutually exclusive at the moment.",So are you telling me you think thousands of dead Russians for a patch of field in a strategically unimportant area is of equal or greater relevance to Ukraine retaking Kherson and forcing Russia to retreat across the Dnieper that they had previously used as their major defensive zone? And they have now announced a planned withdrawal from the Zaporizhzhya region as well?????,1
The Supreme Court shouldn’t even be hearing this case. It’s open and shut business discrimination based on inherent characteristics (being gay) and has nothing to do with private speech.,"The scary part is it’s clear that justices like Alito and ACB don’t believe in protected characteristics. They don’t think a history of discrimination is evidence of anything, taking a completely ahistorical view towards America. Because they are there to reinforce white supremacy and Christofascism. They believe that systemic discrimination, far from being a settled academic fact, is a “woke myth”. Unless someone is shouting the N word and maybe even then, there’s no proof racism is involved.",0
"SCOTUS can also occasionally say that previous justices got it so wrong they have to revisit a decision. It’s helped in overturning cases like Plessy v. Ferguson, but what we’re seeing now is that flexibility being weaponized to rewrite precedent to backstop conservative policies instead of to right a major wrong (conservatives will tell you that’s exactly what they’re hoping for with “religious freedom” decisions, but the “injustice” they’re fighting is that they feel discrimination should be legalized, sanctioned, and even institutionalized).","The joys of stare decisis- a lot of what’s “the law” isn’t actually in statute text, it’s what previous judges and justices already decided in similar cases. And when they can’t find either of those, that’s when SCOTUS is supposed to step in and have the job of actually interpreting the US Constitution.",0
"Even better, if Hunter and Joe Biden are such obvious criminals, why didn't the DoJ under your leadership for 4 years investigate, indict, and try them in a court of law?","Of course, that same Rep (Comer), who is in line to chair one of the committees, has said that “We’re not trying to prove Hunter Biden is a bad actor, He is."", so I'm sure the investigation will be totally fair and impartial...",1
The software in question is literally just digitizing the workflow that a human investigator would have to go through.,"What really grinds my gears, is that there is so much potential to make police work more efficient and effective but rather that digitize the workflow and starting to work on problems like tax evasion they work towards a surveillance state. It so much that should and really has to be done before something like this can ever be an option.",1
"The only remedy is Impeachment/Removal, which is a political process, and only has a chance of happening if there is strong public support for it.","Also, along that vein, the maximum punishment allowable for an impeachment is removal from office. Maybe the two taken together merely give the impression that Congress can only impeach in response to a crime, without that impression being factually true.",1
"Jordan and Israel signed a peace agreement in the mid 1990's, with president Clinton aiding the negotiations.","Egypt was the first to sign a peace agreement with Israel, in the late 1970's (1979 ?) with president Carter hosting the negotiations.",0
"Yeah the thing about buybacks being such a delay in the taxes being paid by the shareholder are why I don’t mind a small excise tax on buybacks, I’m just pushing back on some of those comments about buybacks being purely stock manipulation.","Buyback artificially pushed up the price of the stock, allowing the shareholders to delay paying their taxes until they sell. It’s essentially just a tax dodging loophole with no real value to the economy.",1
"To be sure, the Federal Reserve's printing of an unprecedented amount of money since the pandemic began is a major cause of inflation, economists agree. Smead also did not mention skyrocketing energy prices due to geopolitical events and supply issues, which can't be blamed on millennials.","""But in the past two years they've all entered the party together, and this is just the beginning of a 10-to-12-year time period where there's about 50% more people that are wanting these things than there were in the prior group."".",0
"Also, one cannot be considered a candidate until they have raised or spent $5k in campaign funds. So yes, filings are required for the federal level.","1) Filings are not required to run, they are only required once you spend or raise more than , for the fed elections. I can’t recall there being any filing fee at the fed level.",1
"There are vastly more descendents of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty in PRC China than outer Mongolia. most of these people don't even live in inner Mongolia, a lot more in Beijing or Shanghai etc. Outer Mongolia itself as a separate entity is an artifact of the Soviet Union vying for global communist domination and they managed to carve out a piece of the Qing empire that the Manchu and subsequent Republic of China no longer were able to maintain.","The Qing dynasty in particular embarked on a policy of marrying their ruling class with Mongolian warlords in the area currently known as Mongolia, and together the Manchus and Mongols + allied Han Chinese conquered the Ming dynasty.",0
"I don’t really give a shit about Hunter Biden but it’s super disturbing that media outlets were publicly blasted and shunned during the election for sharing “Russian disinformation,” yet two years later the laptop has been verified to exist and the contents Hunters.",Why lie about it’s existence and gaslight the public? That’s pretty disturbing and I don’t think it makes you a weirdo to question why they tried so hard to cover up its existence.,0
"The whole 2A thing is just a political sleight of hand thing, just like a magician does. It is a distraction from what the GOP really does. Like a magician making look at his/her left hand while he is switching the cards with his right. But the GOP version is talking about how import the 2A is, while taking away people right that they could defend themselves against with the 2A.","The GOP has convinced the gun nutters so much that nobody will dare to take away their rights as long as they can have their guns, that those nutters have become blind to see that the GOP is doing just that. Like freedom of speech, or the right to organise, or the right of religious freedom, the GOP is all in favor of limiting those rights.",0
"One less American in a Russian Gulag, if she were jailed anywhere else. She’d be serving out her sentence.","Yes she should serve her jail term, which she did, many times over! Russia however just arbitrarily changed the punishment and people like you seem to ignore that part.",1
"It's a slippery slope when you let a government decide what defines hate speech and is therefore not within the ""boundaries"" of freedom of speech. Sure you might trust your current elected representatives to judge with perfect integrity and without bias what shouldn't be allowed to be expressed by someone, but what if let's say someone like Trump, Boris Johnson, Orban or Meloni got into power and was able to judge what speech is illigal. I think it's a dangerous precedent.","Such a childish and dangerous way you view the rights of others. What gives you the authority to decide who is and isn't a Fascist. Who in government do you trust completely to make that judgement? Don't you see how that precedent could be used against you, or someone you listen to?",0
"They’re not really now, so this will only make things worse. Company makes billions and then get a tiny fine. The maximum penalty by federal law is $15,138 per kid. It’s laughable.","That is absolutely ridiculous! It's bad enough that so many adult workers are struggling to make ends meet, and now you want to take advantage of kids too? These companies already exploit their workers, this would just be an even bigger slap in the face. I know for a fact that there are plenty of college students and other adults who need these jobs, why not let them have it? NoToChildExploitation.",1
"People should do what they want, as long as it doesn’t impede on anyone else’s rights and safety. Period.","Now how do all those career paths earn their licenses without a degree other than a real estate agent or a minister? Can I just go take my bar license, medical license, etc just from reading a book and taking the test without a degree?",0
"Yep, I'm saying the government is wrong. Just read the article in the post. Mild symptoms at time of infection doesn't mean you won't get long covid, or the brain and organ damage that seems to accompany a ton of covid cases.",In my case there’s different possibilities but I do find it odd my symptoms are shared by many long covid sufferers.,1
"Early ballots must arrive before polls close at 7pm on election day, whether by mail or being dropped off in person.","This is why I post my ballot or drop it off at least a week before election day. This year I received my ballot on 10/14, it was in the mail by 10/15, received and signature verified by 10/18.",1
It has always been an oligarchy of sorts considering the disproportionate power of a rather smallish group of people. Robber baron were the technology oligarchs of yore.,"Who are the oligarchs? If all the political power is in the hands of just a few people, we should be able to name them like we do with actual oligarchs instead of just citing statistics from government reports like this article does.",1
"They had to invade to steal resources and focus everyone outward, otherwise their society would have pretty much collapsed.",They then need to look externally both for more wealth (they've sucked their country dry) and for an enemy to blame the current state of things on.,1
"You also say that we have the best constitution but you say the problem is that the government can bypass the constitution, which seems a pretty major flaw in the constitution.",The problem with our government is they are bypassing the constitution and exceeding their given powers.,1
It is incredibly shocking I find that so many working class people see the Republicans as the better option mostly because Democrats are pro freedom when it comes to identity politics.,It's sad to me that Republicans push so many ideas that are super unpopular that the only way to save face with their voter base is to give them some form of plausible deniability. Why should anyone trust that Republicans would ever do the right thing and pass more legislation to keep Social Security and Medicare alive?,0
I do actually kinda get the reason for both shorter workweeks & work from home being faught against.,"I dont know why people think 4 day work week will mean shorter business hours. Instead, more people can be hired and employed. And there is more incentive to work if you are not working inhumane hours.",1
"Saying disease transmission doesn't happen in your house is like saying you can't get sick breathing inside a hospital or inside a lab, and you certainly don't need to wear special gear. What planet are you from? MOST disease transmission happens inside.","Completely wrong. For one, forced air most definitely dries out the air inside, to the point of chapped lips,bloody noses, and wood shrinkage. The more your furnace recirculates and heats, the drier the air gets.",0
"I’m sure dolphins and whales were cool when usa got bombed by Japan and vice versa. I don’t think you really realize wtf I’m saying. This article has the equivalent depth of saying, “ unprecedented deaths of Ukrainian people are dying since Russia invaded Ukraine”. When fighting erupts, all things in that area die. It’s a common occurrence.","thats because it is just propaganda. although we both agree on what you said, do you agree with me when i say: ukraine is killing an unprecedented number of both russians and dolphins?",0
"Again, my point is not about the raw ratio - I'm not claiming they've all seen the light, or even a majority (I think they went 2-to-1 Trump last election) - but that when compared to other politically active white religious denominations it's part of the reason why we're actually now competitive statewide here. If you replaced every Mormon in Arizona with an atheist it'd probably vote like Minnesota. If you replaced every Mormon in Arizona with an evangelical protestant, it'd vote closer to someplace like Louisiana.","Except a sizable chunk of those Mormons are the same kinds that voted for Evan McMullin over Mike Lee up in Utah, and have helped drive our suburban shift here. Mesa Mayor John Giles (R) - a clean-cut BYU grad - endorsed Hobbs and Kelly this cycle. Jeff Flake and Rusty Bowers - while not left-leaning in the national scope of things - are a lot closer to sanity than non-Mormon firebrands like Kelli Ward and Paul Gosar. Joel John and Tyler Pace - both LDS - were 2 of the last 3 GOP state legislators I'd have been comfortable calling ""moderate"" in the Murkowski/Romney sense.",0
"A modest proposal: do nothing about housing and let homeless people simply die of exposure, overdose, or starvation, thereby solving the problem of people being homeless. /s.","Affordable housing programs aren’t “missing the point.” They’re simply insufficiently funded. You might as well point out that western medicine is “flawed” when the problem is that there’s no hospitals in an area. The solution is to simply build a damn hospital, just like the solution to housing affordability isn’t to raise wages, it’s to simply build more affordable housing.",0
"The issue is that either you use strategic nuclear barrages (not just piddly 'tactical' nukes), salted warheads, the other spokes of the NBC triad...","Arguably, the last time a determined extermination campaign was conducted by bombing was against Japan in WW2, even Vietnam wasn't at the same level. Russia's bombing campaign is an asthmatic wheeze compared to raids like Dresden.",0
I really hope starmer comes in and makes the massive changes this country badly needs but let’s be honest it’s going to be a rebrand of northern powerhouse whilst sucking up to the city of London and maybe a few surestarts. Given their incoherent position on the nhs I wonder if they will even get waiting times down; which new labour can claim as one of their greatest victories.,"He was a toxic mess after 2018, after being attacked relentlessly for years by the press, enabled by the right wing of his own party who, let’s remember, actively wanted the Labour Party to lose in 2017.",0
"Tanks, or other heavily armored vehicles will always have a role in modern combined arms warfare until the paradigm of modern warfare changes radically from what we have now.","Infantry are vulnerable to tanks and IFVs (tanks and infantry are mutually vulnerable to one another). Basically, the infantry screen's job is to suppress the enemy infantry while the armour and artillery takes them out.",1
Yes. Trump does it too. And there's so much rage-bait on reddit that I know at least 75% of it is deliberate political trolls.,"I was having major panic attacks from rage-bait reddit ""news"" headlines so I started reading the issues from other news sources. I found that while there was a kernel of truth in the reddit posts, they were phrased in ways to make you feel that every issue was the oncoming apocalypse. Every new law = the genocide of someone. Every trump action = he's absolutely going to become president, every CEO billionare is taking over the government right now. When you read the story, that's never the case.",0
"34 indictments and 9 successful prosecutions against senior Trump officials. Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, and others were issued prison sentences.","No, Trump himself was not indicted, but drawing conclusions about Trump's own individual conduct was also not in the direct scope/authority of Mueller's investigation. This is very different from the current DOJ action, where we already know that Trump himself is the subject of the investigation.",0
"It will never be eradicated, but the truth of the matter is that the right-wing radicals are incapable of gaining and wielding power at this point. They blew their best shot six years ago, their coup attempt two years ago failed, their attempt to set up the next coup failed. The system held and strenhened itself and now they are forced to actually compete under it for popular support, which will remain elusive because large majorities are against them.",Just because conservatives and their radical wing is a minority and is trending even more so does not negate the fact that that they wield disproportionate power and are not afraid to use this power to hold on to that power.,1
"This isn't any major rebellion, but at the very least it shows that Russians are getting aware of what is really happening.","They didn't really think of it as a place of death, suffering and despair. But now they understand the truth since their husbands, sons, fathers and brothers are on the battlefield - and they also find out some information about the state and how it lies to them.",0
"2) Hunter Biden embellished his political ties in order to score the job. Did Hunter make promises that he may or may not have been able to deliver on? You'd have to ask him. But even if he lied through his teeth about what he could bring to the table, that's a Hunter Biden problem, not a Joe Biden problem. Joe Biden was a private citizen at the time.","I would argue talking about Hunter Biden is as relevant as talking about Don Jr. or Eric Trump though. It's fine if you don't want to hear about that stuff, but it will be talked about on TV, and here.",1
The transcript opens with Carroll's testimony. Trump's testimony starts on page 15 of 48 (numbered page 125). A few examples:,"Trump: Now, like everyone else, she gets paid by a radical, left-leaning publisher to say bad and untrue things."".",0
"I get the feeling it's gonna be a few years before we see another Ace Combat with properly named MiG and Sukhoi jets, doubt they'll be as willing to let them license their planes for a while after this war.","Act 1: Pilot in small country flying a MiG-29 becomes an ace on the first day of an invasion by a country that definitely isn't Russia but is flying a bunch of Sukhois. Gets the callsign ""Ghost"". Ghost fights valiantly, but loses the rest of his squad over the course of a few missions. On the last mission of Act 1 his airbase gets destroyed by cruise missiles and he's forced to land in a neighboring country that definitely isn't Poland.",1
"Unfortunately they're not wrong... WV is deep red, and won't vote for a Dem senator again for a long time, unless there's a huge political re-alignment.","""hmm he votes different from party line 11% of the time, so why don't we exchange him for a corrupt ultraMAGA GOP senator?"".",1
I’m not saying it’s not flawed but it’s better than another war. It is would be a huge geopolitical win if the current regime was replaced by a pro western government. However we gotta have some sort of plausible deniability in this sort of matter and the best option seems to be providing weapons to groups that are pro west.,"The difference between what I suggested might happen and that, is we would never have boots on the ground in the scenario with providing weapons to Iran. We would just providing them with the means to oust their current government.",0
These types of comments do a great injustice to the horrors that the Nazis committed and you should be ashamed of yourself for belittling that fact.,"By only equating the Nazis to the full account of their actions by the end of their reign you ignore what they were at the start, where they might have been stopped ahead of time. By jumping on comparisons in this manner you weaken our ability to spot those warning signs in advance. If there is to be horror and bloodshed awaiting us, then this approach serves its coming, not its prevention. There wqs a time when Nazis existed but their full horrors did not, and that is the most important side of them to study if ""never again"" is to be more pragmatism than hollow refrain.",1
Covid opened the eyes of thousands of people who were under the impression that it is easy to “teach” someone a new skill or fact. Parents found out quickly their own kids “didn’t get it” as they tried to “ teach” at home during the shut downs. They found out that “telling” someone about something isn’t even close to making a permanent change in knowledge that can be applied to future situations. Telling isn’t teaching and “doing” isn’t teaching either. So just doing a math problem while the learner watches does little or nothing to transfer the knowledge. Most Parents couldn’t “teach” their own kids.,"Keep denigrating teachers, Mike. You others who have some pathetic axe to grind because you received an F in 10th grade keep up the negative rhetoric. When the teacher shortage reaches epic proportions perhaps you’ll “learn” it wasn’t wise to target an essential part of your country’s workforce.",0
"Work ER, abdominal pain is one of the worst complaints that you can have- you basically get put in a general slush of patients (something like 30 percent of ER patients are women with abdominal pain who will be discharged with NO treatment necessary.).","Huh. Mom got appendicitis and went septic. Hospitalized for a week. I should ask how much of that was her own stubbornness, vs. the hospital not taking her seriously in time. .",1
"Oil/LNG tankers require insurance. Most insurers are western and will have to abide by the rules. Additionally, if anyone wants to deal in dollars they have to contend with the sanctions.",They're not joining the sanctions. China is only doing this because they're worried Russia won't honor the insurance contracts. They're only looking out for China.,1
"If young people show up regularly, as a real voting block, then their interests will suddenly matter to politicians.","When they don’t vote, then the issues of people who DO regularly show up (usually older people) matter instead.",0
"Except no amount of air supremacy is going to prevent a couple of schmucks with guns, artillery, and missiles, from hitting a target.","Air supremacy would absolutely prevent a couple of schmucks from doing a lot of things. Artillery warfare as seen in Ukraine become impossible with air supremacy. I mostly agree with the other guy, but the US also invests in air defense, considering we have Patriots, THAAD, Aegis, NASAMs and C-RAMs, which can handle the artillery and missiles bit, the last of which is the ideal for handling drones like Shaheds.",1
"It’s not a principled adherence to the tenets of the faith, it’s a fake point system through which they can believe themselves to be better than other people because they believe a little more devoutly than the next person.","Conveniently God hates all the things they do, and though he imposes some restrictions on their life, he understands why it they had to have extramarital sex, or get an abortion. It wasn’t their fault, it was the devil preying on their weakness. Everyone else though? Rotten sinners.",0
"Japan effectively annexed the islands during the first Sino-Japanese war, prior to that the oldest historical records even vaguely suggest any claim comes from the Chinese side.","No one owns it because it's disputed. Taiwan's claims are just as legitimate as anyone else's. Read up on the history of the islands. It's no more Japan's than Taiwan's or China's, that's why it's disputed and it's hard to settle the dispute.",0
"That's both absurd and untrue. It was originally considered very leftwing, was adopted by the elites as the next best thing to the divine rule of kings, and has since moved to the right as the world moved forward.","Non-conservatives don't show up to vote because they don't have non-conservative options to vote for. The two most common reasons given for why people don't vote is that ""No matter who wins, nothing will change for people like me"" and ""I didn't like any of the candidates"". As long as our only choices are the conservative side of liberalism or the progressive side of liberalism, anyone that doesn't adhere to liberalism as a political ideology will be alienated.",0
"If he gets the nomination without Trump's blessing, Trump will insure that DeSantis and the GoP loses. (glee).","Trump's base liked to imagine themselves as Trump. Trump is a big guy, mean, intimidating, and has charisma, and presence.",0
All their shit is self-immolating. They’re doing more environmental damage than damage to their enemies. Their military is more of an environmental war machine than anything else.,"You laugh, but it might just happen! Not because they’re afraid of the military threat that piece of shit represents, but the long-term environmental impact of it getting anywhere near your own country’s aquatic ecosystem. That aircraft carrier is nothing more than a floating superfund site.",0
"As if being exonerated by the Supreme Court of India after nearly ten years of fierce investigation, with even his most hardened opponents not being able to provide any substantial evidence isn't providing proof.","Accused of failing to stop the rioting, Modi denied the accusations and was exonerated in 2012 following an inquiry by India's top court. Another petition questioning his exoneration was dismissed last year.",1
"The Forward Party is the only one I can think of, though their platform (ranked choice voting, non partisan primaries, and independent redistributing commissions) is almost a subset of the Democrats platform.",Any party that runs their own candidates instead of endorsing members of Democratic or republican primaries/ general election is being a spoiler unless proper reforms have passed.,1
"That doesn't mean it's acceptable and good or something. Just that war is awful and changes people, its not really surprising that those experiences can turn some into monsters with no regard for human life.","Oh I know, and that somehow makes it worse with regard to dehumanizing the people who lost their lives. I mean if he’d said “Lol it was like a video game, just straight merc’ing fools,” it would only be marginally more offensive.",1
"Jesus’s major criticism against the Pharisees (assuming you can trust an account of his life written decades after his death, that is) was that they took a “letter of the law” approach to faith, deliberately following the exact dictates of the faith while ignoring their underlying purpose.","I don’t know about the eating children bit, but Revelation was written by a quarry worker hiding in the mountains overlooking the city during the siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Small surprise that his vision of the world ending had a bunch of allusions to Rome in it.",0
"When you work out the rocket fuel, that's a ""major breakthrough."" when you figure out the flight controls, that's a major breakthrough. You can have several breakthroughs before you're even close to making the project a reality.","Be glad they're at least talking about a breakthrough, instead of fusion reaching some made up milestone.",1
"Very messed up, it's vile what the far right of Israel and their army do to Palestinian civilians along with the astroturfing of propaganda to bury their suffering or blame them for it.","Opposing Israel's actions towards the Palestinians has fuck all to do with it being a Jewish state, and everything to do with those actions, taken by any national/ethnic/religious group towards another being wrong.",1
Seriously - tell me how on EARTH can you blame the previous republican governor who spent $6 million putting up a wall for the $95 million of taxpayer money that democrats just stole?,"Likely either good ol fashioned funneling of taxpayer dollars to private donors, or a way to say, ""look I tried to do something about the border but then those damn Democrats tore the wall down!"".",1
"That's why the laptop thing happening, or the hillary emails or whatever. If there's republican scandal, their job is to create a pseudo-scanadal of similar sounding for a democrat.",I would rather nothing happen and the democrats spend two years blaming republicans on not even being able to elect a speaker for nothing happen than two years of hunter bidens laptop and impeachment of joe Biden for wearing a tan suit.,1
">Crypto exploded under Trump's regulators. Crypto billionaires were donors to everyone, and the most ardent backers of crypto were Republicans like Patrick McHenry and Pat Toomey. The right went all in on crypto, the Dems only half.","But but but Democrats got some donations from crypto billionaires! Yes, the Republicans got them too, from the same sources, but it's the Democrat ones that are ""a problem"".",1
"It's part of a larger regional system that gets payments from MD and VA. Presumably the buses in VA and MD will still charge, and the subway system is hella expensive for people riding in from the ends of the lines. (Over $10 round trip daily for me.).","So much this. It's understandable if service slows with the demand drop, but it is simply unacceptable to have 4-8 hour periods where no public transit is available.",1
"Russia will be able to send missiles, rockets and artillery shells into Ukraine FOR THE REST OF HUMAN HISTORY.",If Ukraine wins... can bet your ass it'll have several NATO or US military bases established and a massive uplift in missile defense systems and long range missiles.,1
"And China is in a better position than Russia. The world is far more dependent on it than the world was depending on Russia, and they have significantly less corruption so their military is likely to be better equipped.","We learned in Russia that losing trade is not enough to stop authoritarian countries invading, but it does make it harder for other countries to respond. China is no different.",1
"The only time Twitter has been profitable was 2018 and 2019 when Trump was at his wackiest, but wasn’t getting people killed like in 2020. They made $1.2B and $1.4B respectively in profit.","For those playing along at home, that’s almost enough to service the $1.5B in yearly interest that Musk has to pay on the giant loan he has for the site.",0
$2k in retirement match from the government for people too poor to put $2k away for retirement in the first place is near meaningless.,">Under the plan, workers who earn below a certain income threshold and contribute to a retirement plan could get a $2,000 match from the government. The income limits are $35,500 for single filers and $71,000 for married taxpayers.",1
"To be clear here, McCarthy is one of the four republicans who would be a target of those ethics probes, and the investigation would have been for his refusal to cooperate with the January 6th committee.",What it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.,1
"GOP don’t care… they don’t have solutions, they’re not interested in good governance, they whine and criticize and then fuck it all up completely when they’re in charge and lie about it the whole time.",Wednesday: Republicans criticize Biden for not running the mostly full dishwasher after putting coffee cup in it.,0
"This. Treason legally has very specific definitions, and simply acting against the interest of your country is not enough for treason convictions in most countries.","One of the penalties for treason is death, do we really want to give the ability of the state to sentence people to death for ""acting against the interest of your country"".",1
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"Now with that in mind, think about how long it would take to get to the point of charging an ex president for the most high profile criminal case the United States has ever seen.","At the end of the day, assuming Trump is found guilty, this is one of the single most, if not the most important cases in American history.",1
"That can be true and it can still also be true that they've already lost. If they do escalate to extremes like nuclear attacks, that all but seals a loss for Russia by guaranteeing they get nuked off the map in return. Russia's gonna lose, the question is whether there's any winners or we just all lose.","What I would add as a clarification though is that because Russia has lost does not mean Ukraine as one. Its well possible to have a result that means that while Russia has lost completely, so has Ukraine.",1
"I think it is worded clearly because they mean any change of status in either direction; not just in the direction of China gaining more control over Taiwan, but likewise in the direction of formal declaration of Taiwanese independence. At present, pretty much everyone but China just wants to maintain the status quo, IE: de facto Taiwanese independence insofar as China has no control over Taiwan, but no formal declaration of independence because such a declaration would only serve to antagonize China and may well compel them to attack Taiwan.","If you’re wondering why America’s official policies aren’t more supportive of Taiwan’s democracy, it’s because the official policy was locked in place by treaty and by law (Taiwan Relations Act) back in the 1970s when Taiwan’s government wasn’t a democracy and wasn’t Taiwanese. It had very different goals than today’s Taiwanese government.",1
"As a Brit, we know that what ever war US is in, we'll like be in too. Now, I don't doubt the might of our respective countries, but do not underestimate an opponent. Besides the huge amount of military spending, one of the US militarys biggest boons is in sheer numbers. Its, from my understanding, one of the big tactics the US uses, overwhelming numbers. Should the US get pulled into a war with China, it must be remembered that China has almost twice the amount of personel. They also have a larger amount of naval ships than the US. Their budget however is smaller (2nd to the US).","I feel like a seige would be China's most likely route. A war without bullets. Control the waters, control an island.",0
"So much this. It's understandable if service slows with the demand drop, but it is simply unacceptable to have 4-8 hour periods where no public transit is available.","it has the same problems of getting slowed down by traffic but it's even slower because of the stops, so it's not an appealing option. for example imagine that street with a single traffic lane, rail line down the middle and hard protected bike lanes on either side. When traffic gets worse they can add more rail car traffic or people can choose to ride their bike. Traffic still slows down but the flow of people overall is much more resilient.",1
"Im in the forces myself , i have followed the situation in ukraine since feb24th . I am fully aware of the reasons for this attack and what we need to do to support ukraine .","I have yet to see any country express explicitly express any kind of support to Ukraine retaking Crimea or Donbas. A US official had said that Ukraine ""has the capabilities"" Of retaking Crimea but also stated that ""it has no immediate plans of doing so"".",1
"As in, migrants seeking asylum from their terrible conditions is a non-story -- it's just another version of ""brown people bad"" that the right pushes. An ""invasion"" narrative that news outlets drum up year after year as a filler story until the next culture war topic inevitably takes hold.",It happens all the time to drum up drama because the 24-hour news cycle is insatiable — and it’s typically a filler news story from right wing news outlets until some other culture war topic begins. It’s tiring.,0
"Russia literally needs to steal land and forcfully abduct millions of people in order to survive with the territory they have now, otherwise they will balkanize in 50 years or less, they are a dying country.","depending on how things go, Russia is looking at a complete social collapse in some cities, literal mad max shit.",0
"Hmm, there is something to this, just forcing them to obey basic road etiquette and actually enforcing it would indeed go a long way to ameliorate most of the basic issues people are pissed about...",Too often they are driven by people that think they own the road and think everybody should give them space...,0
I would prefer a state that was a swing state like Georgia or Florida. It would do wonders to re-energize Democrat voters in those states that are disillusioned.,"Those issues are germane to a cross-section of Democrat voters. If the goal is to go after Hispanic Republicans that don't share democratic values like social justice, equality, and inclusive governance I think that’s a mistake.",0
"I don't give a shit about getting ""hammered"", what I've stated is factual. The notion that there were secular courts in 1500 is ludicrous. All power / decisions came from high up with the moral compass of ""God"", there wasn't even a fucking explicitly secular government until the US Constitution.","In 1542 there was no option of being secular, it was just degrees of which you believed the bullshit created by men.",0
What else can Fox News attack him on? They can't ask him about what he is going to do to prevent more mass flight cancellations or if the US should straight up nationalize airlines like Buttigieg once claimed he would do to health insurance.,I'd be much more impressed with Pete's debating skills if he was willing to go on progressive media right now than Fox News.,0
"China is so blatantly using them as a proxy for fighting the ""west"", while selling them overpriced goods. And their other option is to back down against the sworn enemy they thought their cyber warfare and Conservative party infiltration would bring low.",I'd hate to be a Russian right now. Putin should just off himself a bit early and save himself the painful slide into neurodegeneration.,0
"The US stance is if Russia goes nuclear, then we go nuclear. We've recently updated our terms of engagement to include lesser forms of nukes. Such as tactical nukes or smaller size nukes to take out small areas. It may also include Russia using a nuclear power plant meltdown for their benefit.","Neither side will lose their mind over a single non nuclear missile hitting their home countries. They will respond in kind, meaning one missile for one missile, whether it's intentional or not.",0
"Damn, I forgot the exact term... Anyway, shouldn't there be fairly habitable zone in-between the day- and night-sides? Sort of twilight zone where temperatures and light would have aspects from both sides, blending into something that's less extreme?",What kind of weather patterns would such a planet have and would the dark side have huge icecaps while the day side would presumably be dry as a bone. Assuming the day side is as warm as -say +70c and the night side to be something closer to 0c... Shouldn't this stable temperature difference cause really violent winds and storm fronts to form?,0
"Imagine if the three tribes agreed to have a vote, Congress just passively assumed it was ok under currently written law, but then one tribe backs out and insists that actually they should have the sole right to decide who the delegate is. In that case it could become a big legal uncertainty. Whereas if Congress passes a new law to clarify, there wouldn't be any grey area for that to possibly happen.","But that's not the only group of Cherokees. There's also the ""United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians"", and the ""Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians"". There's three different Cherokee tribes.",0
"Jews immigrated to Palestine in increasing numbers in the 1900's, without the consent of the people living there. Some of the European Jews had a colonization mindset.","Jews immigrated to Palestine for a variety of reasons. In some cases, it was to flee discrimination and persecution. Though it should be noted that the discrimination ranged from outright being killed to simply not being fully accepted as integrated members of their European societies. Plenty of Jews who immigrated were wealthy and bought up land when they arrived. So it definitely wasn't a ""refugee"" situation where the Jews were all arriving with no clothes on their back.",0
"The educated became more and more offended as the sexists and racists took over the Republican, found that the Democratic party also has a wing for conservative economics, and moved to the Democratic party.",This is why the Republicans are no longer the party of conservative economics. They have been taken over by uneducated people who think thats all conservative economics is.,0
"Fuck war, fuck Russia, Slava Ukraini.. but fuckin’ a someone put an end to this travesty. Not just in Ukraine, all of it. War is a crime against humanity.","On top of all of the other war crimes. I'm not sure this is getting enough attention. Russia/The Soviets, have had a very long tradition of trying to wipe out their own ethnic minorities.",1
"So get a revolver, maybe two, and/or a pump shotgun. Nothing is wrong with better a mental health system and red flag laws, but the vast majority of mass killers seemed perfectly sane until they began killing everyone in sight.",This makes perfect sense - it's the rate of fire that promotes mass shootings and what distinguishes a military grade weapon from a gun for sport or self-defense.,0
"Republicans sound more and more like Hydra, the creepy, secret organization in the Marvel universe with plans begun by the Nazis () to defeat democracy in the United States (), then take over control of the world(!).","""Republicans, so far, are silent on Trump's profound attack on the Constitution, the basis of our democratic government,"" she added. ""That is the story, and it is Earth-shattering."".",0
The M1 has an older gun that the modern Leopards. The M1 is still using the licensed gun which is the 120mm L44. The modern Leopard 2 starting with the A6 variant use the 120mm L55.,"Yeah, it's literally a Leopard 2A4 hull, just with a new turret housing a 130mm main gun instead of the usual 120mm one.",1
BRICS isn't new. And I think the only reason why there was a lull in the media about it was due to Bolsonaro trying to distance Brazil from it altogether.,"If countries stop trading oil in USD then they will no longer need to keep the amounts of USD that lead them to use it for other international trade. If countries start using their own currencies, instead of USD, for international trade, that is when I think the USD will have issues. I am no fortune teller and can't predict the future, but the US today benefits for the this oil-trade-in-USD arrangement.",0
Most aircraft attacks are done by using jets and bombers as cruise missile launch platforms within russian borders.,Theres been a lot less direct incursions by jets since Ukrainian anti air has stepped up over the last 4 or 5 months.,0
Let's say we did shoot it out of the sky? That would give away tracking methods and response time. Plus the Chinese government would have ammo to say that the USA is scared of an obvious weather balloon.,It also shows how weak China is because it tells the world that they are relying on a balloon to do their spy work.,0
"Probably somewhere where you could reasonably expect the majority of weapons to be moved in 1 sweep. (that way there's no time for criminals to stockpile weapons in between buybacks) iirc the buyback in Australia saw 60% participation. So... line is 0.6/person I guess. Well below the US. (And that's assuming we have the same level of participation, we absolutely 100% would not get as much participation, people here fucking love their guns).","However, Swedish style gun laws, which seem to stress the idea of ""1-gun-per-person"" and responsible gun ownership even in schools at young ages seems to me like something that could very easily be slotted into the US and would be a much more responsible alternative that would also help to change American gun culture from ""I could kill 27 people in this mall more deader than anything that's ever died, and I'll wear a shirt that not only explicitly reminds you of that fact but also makes you feel pretty sure it might happen"" to ""this is my rifle. I shoot at targets sometimes and keep it at home for self defense."" The most important part, however would be a full on ""mental wellness"" reform that makes psychopathic bullied kids and brain-rotted old hicks actually want to go to therapy.",0
Getting other countries up to scale to supply global manufacturing demands will take way more time than we have.,"The really big issue with that is that even when you bring your manufacturing ops domestic, all of the feedstocks are still sourced in China, so you're hosed either way.",0
"Some friends who visited from South Africa described it as apartheid turned up side down, another words the whites are now being treated like the blacks were treated pre Mandela but now it’s not safe to be white and in South Africa, also said the place is riddled with corruption at every level. I wonder is that why they are getting on so well with the Russians 🫢.","But Russia is. Hence people not being happy with countries doing things with the country. I mean when Russia needs to cosy up to North Korea, perhaps not best to be counted as their friends.",1
"Better yet, make a new deal with Iran too, have them submit to international inspections if nuclear facilities to not develop a bomb and they can again sell their oil to the global market.","China isn't rising though, it's peaked. The one child policy is about to bite them in the ass hard as their birth rate has dwindled and millions are retiring every year and the outnumbered younger generations will be busy taking care of their elderly instead of trying to spread china's influence further abroad.",0
"Just to clarify, the VP's residence was the final location as far as Abbott was concerned. He didn't care after that if they got assistance or died of frostbite on Harris' doorstep. If anything, Abbott might have preferred the latter for shock value and headlines. (""Harris lets immigrants die on her doorstep rather than giving them shelter! See how hypocritical the left is?"").",THAT is what is going on here. These are the people who are doing exactly what we've asked of them. And this is how they get treated by some moronic Republican Governor?,1
"Its theoretically possible. It would require a dictator who was very competent at just about everything though, as in fascism one of the core points is you can't allow anyone else to get to powerful to contest you. Its very difficult to rule any area of any reasonable size without some element of clear power sharing.","They had to invade to steal resources and focus everyone outward, otherwise their society would have pretty much collapsed.",0
"If Ukraine strikes the Kremlin, it would be with their own homemade kamikaze drone squadron. The US doesn't object to Ukraine striking deep within Russia, as long as Ukraine doesn't use US or NATO-supplied arms to embroil NATO as part of the attack.",That's great rhetoric to get Kremlin to shit their pants - but it also convinces US to not send long range HIMARS missiles which Ukraine has long pleaded. Ukraine could lose a lot of Western support if they attack the Kremlin which isn't directly a military target.,1
Because they might not have anything to do with it. The might be completely independent but China prefers them (or dislikes the opponent) so now you have a witch hunt against them even though the donations meant nothing but the 'headline' kills their changes.,"Or China donate to the person they want out, and China leak this person is getting Chinese donations.",0
"I'm surprised and shocked at the amount of Americans and that is half of America, that support Putin and blaming Ukraine for fighting Russian and the right wing media saying that Ukraine has been killing people in the Donbas for 8 years.","Thank heavens that the sane people are leading the world and that is all those who support Ukraine, are the worlds sane people.",0
It was short because taiwan planned to scrap conscripted military and operate on a full volunteer force so the 4 months of training offered just basic skills. The conscripts do not serve in actual combat functional units.,"There is a role, it's just not on the front lines where a conscripted soldier is likely to go. During total war, women fill a supporting role by doing things like supplying the war machine and tending to the wounded.",1
"They’re not changing it because they think it might have racist connotations, they’re changing it because they’ve actually seen it happening.","People use the name to be racist, those being defamed due to the name rightfully asked to have it changed. Same thing when they changed the covid variant names because the names sounded too political. There's literally NO upside to saying ""Well but we already named it that way and we don't care about what issues it causes"".",1
"Absent a model like the latter, while guns are under regulated and buying is practically anonymous in leaky-faucet-like states (states where guns can be easily accessed and transported across statelines with ease, TX, FL, AL), guns are almost certainly ending up in the hands of people who shouldn't have them.","Just the same, you don't see a public register of who in your community is hoarding assault weapons and ammo, while they're planning an attack.",0
"Then Biden won and the White Christian Nationalist movement made eradication of trans people their path back into power. They've convinced a substantial portion of the country that we're baby-mutilating pedophile monsters, and that our existence is the product of a ""social contagion"" infecting healthy, normal (read: cis, normal) young people and turning them into worthless predatory degenerates.",Hell I transitioned 20 years ago. And for a long time it really seemed like things were slowly getting better. But holy fuck it's worse now than when I was a teenager.,0
The GOP and conservative America as a whole are staunchly anti-education and anti-science. Your possible divergence from this trend is as meaningless as my own.,"This should not be difficult for an educated critical thinker to understand. Unless of course, you’re being disingenuous, which is always a possibility.",0
"Ukraine was fucked either way and they knew it. As horrible for them as this war is, in my opinion it pales in comparison to the prospect of spending multiple generations under a neo-Soviet autocratic empire. I think most Ukrainians understand that, specially now. At least I hope so.","You're right, although I think you may have misunderstood the quote (or maybe I misunderstood you). What he was saying is that in order for Ukraine to join NATO they would first have to go though a full-scale war with Russia, because Russia would try to prevent them from joining. He goes into detail on Russia's reasoning behind this but it boils down to ""the west/NATO will lose interest in Ukraine if they're involved in a war"".",0
"But do we really think that Americans will forever care enough about an island of 23 million people that’s 7,600 miles from America? And only 100 miles from China? Is it worth going to war with the only other superpower over Taiwan? No way Americans are going to buy that.","China makes stuff and sells it to everyone else. The CCP gets to stay in power because they make sure everyone is employed and fed. The only real way out of China is the ocean. The shipping lanes out of China pass between Okinawa and Taiwan, sometimes very narrowly.",0
"Russians have known they're fucked, future-wise, for a while now. This is the last generation in which they will have enough 20-30 year olds to wage a major war. We're witnessing the last hurrah of what we know as the idea of Russia. It doesn't matter on a timescale of less than 3-5 years, depending on how quickly they sink into irrelevance, but for the purposes of this article, this war hasn't even fully escalated yet.","Combine that with a population that is historically used to autocracy, hard times, and suffering and you just don't get the internal upheaval you'd expect from a Western democracy in the same economic situation.",0
"There are multiple examples of democracies around the world, some are doing okay, some not so much. Others don't know how good they have it while others can't stop making deals with the devil and repeating the mistakes of the past.","Honestly every system is idealistic to some degree. The issue with basically all systems is human corruption. Corruption through greed, corruption through religion, corruption through favoritism, the list goes on and on.",0
"Of course it’s not the first time. But with current states and the enormous crisis that the zerocovid policy brings, it’s a much much bigger problem than earlier.",This last part is just guess work but I could imagine that not only would that throw Xi under the bus but it might be enough to cause an outright revolution in China because the entire communist party is involved in this.,0
No they'd be more likely to start Trump's line up again that Ukraine are the corrupt ones and we'll probably start sending aid to Putin.,"The weak has been affording Putin red lines since before the start of this war. NATO, EU, Guns, bullets, artillery, SAM, tanks, and now planes.",1
"But the rail line through Starobilsk doesnt go directly towards Donetsk, but ends somewhere near the coast in Luhansk as far as I know.","Svatove covers one of the few rail lines going from the Moscow direction directly towards Luhansk/Donetsk. The next best line goes throug Starobilsk further to the east, which would in itself be a detour and would prolong the transit times of goods.",0
"It's not automatic. There are still people who think Czechia (and other countries) should orient themselves to the east instead, to Russia and China. The still current Czech president was like that at times.",The Czech presidency has very few powers. It’s a ceremonial position (and yet one that tends to get filled by embarrassing people).,1
"To make matters more interesting, the constitution also specifies that the debt of the US is not to be questioned, so the constitution says: president must spend this money, must pay our debts on time. And statutory law says he can’t do either if we hit some made up limit. There is a nontrivial argument that the debt limit is unconstitutional, but if a president were to ignore the statutory debt limit, it would create uncertainty, which would likely cause our credit rating to decrease anyway.","Once we hit the debt limit, they can’t issue new bonds to pay debts, so they resort to some accounting tricks to buy a few months (the government itself holds about 20% of its own debt, which it can shuffle around to avoid missing debt payments).",0
"Slaves were lucrative property for most slaveowners and were expensive to purchase in the first place. Then they had to feed, house and clothe them (though they usually did the bare minimum in those respects). This is why only the wealthy owned slaves generally speaking.","I guess my thing is, the descendants of slaves are still dealing with the effects centuries later. If I knew my family had owned slaves, I can't afford to give actual money, but I would like to say I'm sorry.",1
"I’m vegetarian & I don’t think I will eat lab grown meat. Just because an animal isn’t harmed, it’s still cultured from an animal thus my assumption is it will be very similar or identical to meat, which isn’t something I eat. I don’t want to consume animal blood, fat or anything else, so it’s just not appealing to me personally.","I had not thought about the possibility of both meat eaters and vegans avoiding a product, but that’s a great point as well. I think a few companies/products will fail until they figure out how to get the marketing right. Price will probably be a big factor as well, more people are likely to try a similar substitute if the price is less than normal meat.",1
"Well, more that the establishment democrats have been doing the 'move toward the center to attract conservative votes' thing, but the center has been moving further and further right.","I understand why you’d take the other interpretation, but closely reading the last two sentences of the post seems to make it clear that they’re saying progressive candidates are more popular in spite of the establishment belief in both parties that they need to hug the middle or right.",1
"I'm kinda disappointed by yall not seeing that two US citizens of Soviet origin IN CONTACT WITH AN FSB OFFICER might, just MIGHT have had pro-Russian sentiment all along. It's not really the same as accusing hundreds of thousands of immigrants.",edit: why would you get triggered by that? Two US citizens. That's not hundreds of thousands of wrongly incarcerated US citizens of Japanese origin during WW2.,0
"I mean, we saw a rampant increase of productivity since the '70s. We could have saved energy by cutting labor hours for the same wages. This could promote more outdoor activity and 'traditional family values.' How would that profit corporations though.",Here's a thought for the corporations. Change your work hours in the summer. Go from 8 to 5 to 7 to 4. Then those consumers have that extra time to spend in the evening and it doesn't screw with those effected by time changes or those effected by year round DST where it won't be light out until 8:00 am.,1
Russia is increasingly wary of Chinese influence in the region and uses India to counter that influence while maintaining a good trade relationship with both.,"If there is conflict with China, Russia will be on the other side and this is the fundamental problem for India, not relations with the US.",1
"Conservative: Without a second thought bashes Biden for these actions (be prepared, there’s a good chance their comment may be unintelligible, unhinged or sprinkled with schoolyard ad hom about democrats).","You to a conservative: Did you hear that Biden let three other Chinese balloons enter US airspace and did nothing about it? We, as citizens, weren’t even informed!",0
"Lies about Chernobyl are on Gorbachev. Hiding the fact of this catastrophe was very much in the spirit of Soviets. That's ironic, since it's ended up with Ukrainians suffering again.","Um ok let’s not whitewash Ukrainian participation in these pogroms. Ukraine was particularly harsh and violent towards Jews, and the percentage of Ukrainians that collaborated with the Nazis and participated in the holocaust is immense.",1
"Early in the war, I read an article by a NATO anylist who specialized on Russia. In the article, he explained that Putin could lose 1 million Russiin soldiers before the war became a political issue for him at home.",the problem is not how many millions of russian soldiers will die but if Ukr can support the cost. reports are coming from Bakhmut tell about massacre (hundred of deaths daily on both sides) that in reality only Moscow can really afford on the long run.,1
"With the way the GOP media ecosystem operates and the fact their base seems drawn to unrepentant liars, assholes, and idiots, I'm half expecting this whole fiasco to turn into this guy becoming their next ""shining star"".","Do you really believe that they couldn't find a journalist who wanted to break the ""congressional candidate is lying about their whole life, basically"" story?",1
"edit: I lied, I did cherry pick a bit, there were more in the middle ages that I skipped over, I'd never heard of them, and figured their small death counts weren't going to move the needle much against the backdrop of ""atheist despots have killed more humans over time"", and around >30M net-on-net deaths in my table above.","Please give me some names then. I literally searched ""worst despots"", then looked up each one's religion and death count. Give me names and I'll do the same for them.",0
"Following the reports of the sinking of the five motor boats, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry did not update its tally of Russian ships destroyed by its forces, perhaps indicating that they were too minor to count or unconfirmed.",A total of 18 Russian warships and other vessels have been destroyed by the Ukrainian military since the war began on February 23.,0
"I'm an Israeli and I thinkt the title is a bit misleading. Recognizing the Palestinian Nakba doesn't necessarily mean calling the founding of Israel a catastrophe. The Nakba refers to the mass displacement of Palestinians following the war between the Jewish and Arab communities of Palestine/Israel. When many people become refugees, it's a catastrophe for them. No matter which side you believe had a more righteous cause, or bore more responsibility for the end result, it is a catastrophe nevertheless for Palestinians. Therefore, it would be more accurate to say that the UN passed a resolution recognizing the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem as a catastrophe.","This is about the day after Israel's founding, that Palestinians marks as a day of catastrophe to commemorate the displacement of 700.000 Palestinians.",1
"They don’t advocate for hour genocide. They disagree with you way of life and are bigoted buffoons, but after years of dealing with conservatives and religious fanatics that VAST majority don’t want the destruction of LGBT.","I ain't advocating for anything specific here to be clear but this shit has been so one sided with the attacks on the LGBTQ community, it'd be better if the scales were a bit more balanced.",1
"They're in a fight for the survival of their state, themselves as individuals and their families. Every incidence of corruption is a threat to that survival and treated as such. You can see it in the results.","Having crooks at every level is how you get Russian quality results in this conflict. For them, nothing works.",0
"Yes, they are. They are 'undocumented', the fact that they seek documentation through proper channels does not make them legal immigrants. There exists no special exemption for 'asylum seekers' and transporting them across state lines is, indeed, a federal crime.","This isn't ""falling for spin"", it's a response to you saying that transporting them across state lines is a crime because they're ""illegal aliens"". They weren't. They are asylum seekers waiting on a hearing to determine whether they will be granted asylum, and are protected by law from deportation. They get documentation saying that they are in the asylum process and they're allowed to travel freely throughout the United States. I think what DeSantis did was abhorrent and very possibly illegal but calling asylum seekers ""illegal aliens"" is just factually incorrect. They're not undocumented either, because they literally have documentation from the United States saying ""this person is currently in the process of seeking asylum and is allowed to be here"".",1
I don’t even like the fact that politicians can decide what entails a threat to the woman’s health considering all pregnancies carry a risk of death or permanent injury and doctors are now letting women suffer when the fetus is dying because they’re afraid to terminate because of these laws.,"While it’s important to continue to think of people having the best of intentions, there is abundant evidence that states with anti abortion laws have a higher rate of maternal deaths _even when including women who want their children_. I think knowing that data and doing it anyway… or refusing to listen to that data… at least should be called out as hostile in SOME way.",1
"It makes far more sense to put the jets on a train from Poland to Ukraine (which is ultimately what they did) than it does to fly the jets from Germany into Ukraine, especially since Russia still has essentially all of Ukraine within theoretical range of their long-range ground-based air defenses.","They didn't, though. Poland wanted the US to let the Ukrainians fly the jets into Ukraine from Ramstein (America's primary base in Europe), and the US basically said, no, if you want to give jets to Ukraine, do it yourself directly. Poland eventually sent the jets to Ukraine disguised as spare parts, but in the public consciousness, the US still got the blame for blocking Poland.",0
"What blows me away this cycle is how well Democratic policies actually poll unilaterally. Holding the elite accountable, penalizing corruption, ensuring individual liberties, helping the middle class, improving infrastructure... Amazing how the republican party has convinced their voters to vote against these policies, but a potential messaging opportunity to continue to persuade those voters over to sanity.","It worked when you could take a proven, loyal Republican politician, have them (almost certainly him) act like the biggest piece of shit in the room to galvanize the worst of their electorate and then play the standard republican playbook in a general election.",1
But we are not celebrating midwinter - we celebrate CHRISTmas because we live in majority CHRISTian countries.,"2) Christmas isn’t even a Christian festival, midwinter festivals have existed in cultures around the world well before Christianity as a way to uplift spirits during the depressing mid winter months. Christianity asserted that Jesus was born in December as a way to hijack what was already a time of festivities.",1
I wonder how many man hours and millions that the West/5 eyes has spend on assisting Ukraine fucking up the Russians 🤔 I bet any move towards Kyiv would be met with well deserved destruction and carnage.,"I'm surprised and shocked at the amount of Americans and that is half of America, that support Putin and blaming Ukraine for fighting Russian and the right wing media saying that Ukraine has been killing people in the Donbas for 8 years.",1
"According to a report in Finland’s Iltalehti tabloid, Sauli Niinistö told Finnish journalists that if Turkey and Hungary ratify Finland’s membership of Nato before that of Sweden, then Finland will automatically become a member.","According to Finland’s national broadcaster Yle, the parliament as a whole will begin to debate the bill on Finland’s Nato membership next week, with a vote on the new law expected on February 28th.",0
But yeah imagine a new Russian attack a few years from now but this time Ukraine is waiting with high tech combined arms forces.,I'm pretty sure even with a pause Russia will not be successful a second time. Ukraine will buy so much good tech and be prepared. Also there is the possibility to join Nato in the meantime (well Ukraine not joining will probably a demand from russia in a possible treaty).,0
"Because in a democracy, when you lose an election you concede. He's demonstrating, starkly and on a fairly big stage, that one of the two parties believes that the people have a right to determine their leaders.","This move will be the thing that pushes 10,000 more of them, somewhere in the country, to vote Democratic in 2024. This works especially well of YOU remind them of how this shows that we have only one functioning party. It could well be the difference between victory and defeat in the next election.",0
"That’s the thing conservatives don’t understand, yes all media is bias but that doesn’t mean you can’t trust any media. You just have to vary your sources and use critical thinking like you said. Instead they use “all media is bias and lying” as an excuse to only watch media they agree with. If every news org reports on trump shitting his pants except fox, then clearly the other media companies are colluding and fox is the only one you can trust.","And thanks to Fox News, there’s this “prevailing belief” that all news is inherently false/ misleading.",0
"It's not a monopoly you dolt it's a repository. Look, you can walk on to virtually any campus in the world and just go their libraries. Science is not a for-profit endeavour, though obviously being a capitalist society makes that complicated.","Do you have any idea how many universities we have, how digitized is basically all information, and how difficult it would be to achieve PhD-level expertise without long-term mentorship?",0
I am aware that the government has used the military to step in and fill the roles of striking workers in the past.,"Shutting down strikes seems to be an unsettling trend right now... Canada, US, UK, possibly Korea... the government should be protecting the workers because there is no one else that will.",0
Actually Hitler and the Nazis fear mongered an impending Polish invasion to help justify invading Poland first. They were just ahead of their time! /s.,". Thankfully the younger and educated polish population knows that PiS is bullshit, but still too many people vote for them.",1
"It wasn't ""made at the barrel of a gun"", nor was it to ""make room for White settlers"". The agreement was negotiated over many years, the tribes had years to move, and no settlers were moved into the area. The tribes and the Georgia citizens could not get along with each other, the tribes could not form an acceptable state that would work within the US Constitution (the tribes were horribly racist and did not care for personal rights of others). The only viable option by both was for the tribes to be further away from US citizens. The majority of the tribe followed the agreement, some stayed as they had no intention of abiding on the agreement and were forced to join those who willingly moved.","FYI, the Trail of Tears was not a ""forced relocation"", it was an enforcement of a legal agreement. The US government offered the tribes in Georgia to create their own state as part of the US. The tribes created a racist, xenophobic non-democratic oligarch which would not function as a state. So the US offered to purchase the land and give them lands in Oklahoma. The tribes agreed (almost 50-50) and most moved comfortably. The remaining Native Americans refused to leave and refused to return the money. Therefore the US authorized their removal (far too harshly but it is greatly overblow, heck the Native Americans who had moved berated those who had to be moved by force).",0
"Seems like you missed the part where Ukraine “agreeing to a cease fire” means to literally stop firing on the lines of the invading, occupying force that is entrenched in Ukrainian soil.","Ukraine accepts ceasefire, but responds to Russia's inevitable attack during the ceasefire. Russia whines loudly about how evil Ukraine has violated the ceasefire and must be punished.",1
Israel don't give a fuck and will never give a fuck. The right to self-defense is essential and absolute.,"And of course, since there's dozens of Muslim countries (most of them among the worst regimes in the world), but just one Israel, these bodies inevitably spend their time targeting Israel with complaints and reports and so on.",0
I live 50 miles away from Sellafield and remember the blackout on what was done with the nuclear waste when it was suggested to bury it near Lodon and there was an outcry about how dangerous the waste was.,"It only hit's home at how severely polluting nuclear is when it affects you, otherwise just dig a hole in the countryside and fill it and cover it with concrete 500 years later it will be reasonably safe.",0
"The Russians may have no choice. Regardless of Gerasimov’s aptitude as a military leader, he likely retains significant influence within Russia itself. Putin is a dictator, but one that relies on patron-client relationships with other powerful figures in the Kremlin to retain power. Gerasimov is one of these figures. Putin may have had little choice but to appoint him to retain the support of elements of the Russian MoD for the war. Not saying this is 100% true, but it is a distinct possibility. I don’t think the failures of Gerasimov as a military leader are lost on any in the Kremlin - but neither is his influence among the Russian political-military elite.",might see him again though -- feels like each of their army leader generals gets multiple turns to be leader because Gerassimov kind of already was leading this war sitting with Shoigu at the other end of that longgggish table from Putin a while back...,1
"Also does not help that the necessary mining for the finite resources required for nuclear energy turns more of nature into dead craters. But yeah, keep trying to greenwash nuclear power.",Nuclear energy is the biggest theft from taxpayers ever. They pay for all the costs so that somebody else gets to keep profits.,0
"With the Ukrainian and Russians considered brothers and sisters before the war, a Ukrainian come up would have been devastating for Putin. They would have seen the Ukrainians prosper by moving towards the west, as well as become ""better"" than Russians.","The Russians were more worried about the Ukrainians living standard increasing by their move to the west. They were setup to become a major player economically, once they had a method of extracting hydrocarbon deposits they just found in the eastern part of the country, as well as the deposits in their territory of black sea.",0
"When discussing Iran and Iranians we think only of Persians, but there are multiple Iranian ethnic groups or Nations living in Iran, unlike China it never facilitated ethno-genisis between its various subgroups. You have the Kurds, Lurs, Balochis and others that comprise of 25-30% of the population. Persians themselves are only 51% of the population and seeing as these figures are old and non-Persian regions have higher birthrates, its probably lower. The Kurds and Balochis both have active cross border insurgencies with the expressed goal of secession and the formation of a Kurdish and Balochi nation states. Iranian civilisation is old, the Iranian state through the various Iranian empires are old; and even Iranian nationalism is old(it even appeared in Sassanid propaganda). What is not old is the Iranian nation state itself. The matter of fact is Iranians haven’t experienced ethno-genesis in the same way say China has, banding together its various linguistic subgroups. The Iranian nation better resembles if anything the Russian Nation. The concept of Russia as a state was to be the nation state of the Russians, the East Slavic ethnic groups that inhabited the lands of the Kievan Rus. However, multiple subgroups, the Ukrainians especially held a strong attachment to their individual sub-identities, leading to the lack of ethno-genesis and the maintenance of multiple subnations(in this case its Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians and Rusyns) rather than one unified Nation. The Kurds and Persians may be Iranian, but they don’t necessarily care for the commonality between eachother. So while Iranian nationalism is old, ethno Genesis has simply not yet occurred between its subgroups.","Yes and no, the vast majority currently oppose the current government and would most likely support secular reforms. HOWEVER an even larger majority of like 4/5 do not like America and supported the late General Soleimani. Meaning that even if they did overthrow the current government, it would still hate America and it would still have an IRGC equivalent doing its thing in the Middle East because those aspects have overwhelming support.",0
It is not like Boeing has a wide body stealth passenger jet lying around that they just need to slap some props and some refueling gear onto.,"The AF has wanted a Blended Wing Body / Hybrid Wing Body cargo jet for a while now as it'd be more usable volume and less fuel needed for lift. Only thing holding it back is advanced materials designs needed to actually build a giant triangle skeleton that can fly. This is slowly changing and was subject to export controls under Obama, which is relevant in this discussion as it was when we first really began telling China No and telling Boeing No to outsourcing.",1
"Someone who is born in a wealthy household, who attended private schools and had the best tutors and still scoring under the 95th percentile on the SAT and worse than a poor Asian kid shouldn't receive any kind of preference.","What if the other students simply can't afford to financially compete with the affluent asian families? It's much more complicated than ""stepping up their game."".",1
"""Besieged Rep.-elect George Santos lept to the disgraced former President's defense Friday, telling reporters '(Trump) and I took a wild trip to Tijuana three summers ago' where the pair allegedly 'saw a real donkey show and this old guy who we think was a shaman gave us these mushrooms that totally made us trip balls'."".","""Despite an incredulous public, Trump double-downed on claims made by Santos, declaring him 'the baddest dude you've ever met' and 'one tough hombre' - statements that seem to back up Santos's claim that he dropped out of DeVry Technical College to undergo 'Alpha-Plus training in the Navy SEALS' and that he owns a crossbow."".",0
"I don't trust him either. But... If we imagine that moderate republicans don't want to be led around by the extremist wing anymore, they probably want more moderate republicans to be elected. And one surefire way to guarantee more moderate republicans be elected (as opposed to crazy insurrectionists) is to have more competitive districts.","I believe it is in the moderate wings interests to fix the voting maps so that more districts are more purple. Even if the districts would still be won by Republicans, they would be more likely to be won by moderate republicans.",0
"Qatar blatantly bribes FIFA for a tournament based on several promises including keeping the tournament in summer. This promise is immediately discarded and leagues have to halt halfway through the year to pack this tournament in. Qatar is a repressive regime, that routinely sentences people to death for crimes like being gay, and locks up dissidents and journalists for attempts to expose said regime. FIFA promises people can enjoy a normal world cup including being allowed to attend even if gay, drink beer, celebrate in public. All of these promises have been since revoked.","And on top of this FIFA has the gall to yell at us for being upset? I'm sorry, maybe if we'd all received the same bribes they have we'd be more ok with a repressive regime hosting a world cup in the winter. Or maybe, just maybe, they are crying foul because they know how much of a farce this all is, and are desperately scrambling for that higher ground, an action that is so laughably inappropriate for an organization like FIFA it beggars belief.",0
People who want to duck this by saying WELL ACKSHUALLY IT'S A CLASSIST COUNTRY are deluding themselves because thinking about racism makes them feel bad.,"It doesn't make me feel bad to think about racism, but breaking everything down to fixate on racism isn't working, in my opinion. For one thing, it's alienating potential allies and creating division.",1
NOTE; Im not supporting Xi decision to reject western vaccines... just adding a side note to a possible reason many in china refuse to take a western medicine.,"Why is everyone up and down in this thread not having even read the article, China was never offered western vaccines - it's just some American dork claiming they never asked. Not to mention the line ""some studies have shown Chinese vaccines aren't as effective as Western ones"" what studies? What actual link? Here's a hint, near every study shows that pfizer/moderna/chinas vaccines all have similar efficacy rates after multiple doses which near all of china already has, so what's the point in suddenly paying through the nose for something that's just as effective?",1
Dolly you're the best! The beatings of some of the workers at the power plant is a bad situation. I can't wait for the day when the terrorists leave that plant once and for all.,"So interesting! They're so brave. That one doctor who said they tell a lot of jokes to get through it, he seems like he'd be a great drinking buddy. That one soldier holding the bullet is one lucky man. Thanks for posting this.",0
"China has 10x that amount of people. China invests 6x the amount that Russia does, and they leave out a bunch of military-related categories from their annual budget so who knows what the real number is. Again, let’s not ignore their industrial base. It’s fucking massive and they’re throwing investment at it. That’s how they’re able to produce so much naval tonnage every year.","Russia only has 140 million people. That’s fewer than the population of Pakistan, or Indonesia. In all honesty when you consider that Russia is a low-income country with a 140m population while maintaining a massive land area, it’s not a surprise that their military is doing so poorly.",0
"Imagine if Biden decided not to run in 2024 and we were able to rally behind a young, progressive Democrat, then we could possibly get 8 more years of filling spots.","Imagine if Biden decided to run in 2024 and we were able to rally behind a young, progressive Democrat in 2028 and get 12 more years of filling spots.",1
"I’m not sure of that either, but people generally seemed to think (or maybe that was just the promoted narrative) that there was some tax fraud, which didn’t make sense since the IRS would have been all over his returns like white on rice.","If the IRS itself didn’t have any problems with his tax returns, I am not sure why there was such a push to have them publicly released. 🤔 The IRS isn’t known for being particularly lenient in the face of any wrongdoing.",0
My original point though was that unions were and are an important tool for people to act against exploitation. To just sit back and take what others deem them worth would eventually lead to pretty harsh conditions and compensation…as history has shows us many times.,"I’m not sure what “economic injustice” is, but I think it’s important for people to always remember that it’s human nature for other humans to try and exploit you if they can. You’ll always have to fight against that…and pretty hard at that.",0
"Does this guy know who buys Tesla’s? It’s fascinating watching him alienate his entire customer base, lol. Guess who won’t be buying another Tesla ever again?","Second, Tesla announced that they're going camera-only a few months ago. Not sure when that transition is set to happen, but it's going to be worse. It's very easy to confuse a camera (for example, by getting dirt on the lens).",1
"- If the missile was accidentaly fired at Poland by Ukraine while defending from Russia, then that is Russia's fault.","- If the missile was deliberately fired at Poland by Ukraine, then and only then it would be Ukraine's fault.",0
"So yes, it's entirely possible Putin saw an increase threat from NATO and US under the Biden White House - more so than when Trump was President.",This headline makes me feel like some evidence will soon come to light that Trump explicitly told Putin to bomb Ukraine or supported the idea of it.,1
Blame the Christian beliefs of the ruling party (who literally introduced the law that sends doctors to jail for providing safe medical treatment) rather than the doctors.,The law that allows them to refuse references conscious but doesn't actually require that to be the reason the law essentially states doctors can say no for personal choice reasons. And since saying no guarantees them not going to jail while saying yes may result in them going to jail you can see why no is the default answer.,0
"My comedy brain wants Belarus to 'invade' Ukraine, then as the troops cross paths, about face and lead Ukraine to invade Russia.",I'm guessing this is to make room for Russian troops to invade from Belarus. Putin and Luka know they aren't gonna be able to committ Belarus troops into this conflict.,1
"Quite right. Going further, whose idea was it that led to that? sadly, it goes back to US imperialism and “regime change”.","This is unfortunately not new for this regime. If you are someone they consider a dissident, they have no regard for decency towards you or your family.",1
What other legitimate concerns do you make up conspiracy theories for? You probably still say Trump was working with the Russians. Or Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake.,It’s crazy that people care more about their perceived political adversaries being right about something than the cause of a global pandemic that killed millions.,0
"Russia was withholding gas, Europe did not stop, the carrot was always there inciting dissent in Europes population (there where demonstration for opening NS2 for example and normalizing relations to Russia), that got taken out with the attack (at least severely limited).","Although the explosions initially raised fear of shortages, the impact on European supply was limited, mostly because the European Union had already started weaning itself off Russian energy.",1
Edit: But it doesn't look like this is going to lead to anything in the near future. It's a high-risk treatment being used for people with both cancer and HIV.,"And if you survive the cure, you'll live a life needing more medications and constant checkups than a person with HIV would.",1
"It's starting to be used to differentiate from Soviet era tanks, and the heavier western tanks, who, it's been argued can/might be able to take a few large rounds to the turret from the front. It's generally believed that any western tank will go through the front of all the soviet era tanks. Also separates them from all the light stuff/Bradley's being sent. Yes, its still MBT's, but if you are committed to maneuver warfare, you should have a spearhead of ""heavy"" western tanks, nowadays.",It’s not an unfitting descriptor to call an Abrams a heavy tank in comparison to Russian T72s which are also considered an MBT.,1
Well they didn’t have too deal with that before. I have a friend who has lived in the UK for 20+ years and never got her citizenship until Brexit happened. Why deal with the process as an EU citizen you didn’t need to.,"But they didn't because ""hey, we are in the EU, I don't need to become a citizen of this country"". Not very smart.",1
All gifts to the POTUS are supposed to go to a museum. The president is not allowed to take gifts. Trump pretended to follow that but just kept them instead.,"We know for a fact that the Saudis rented 500 nights at Mar-a-lago at inflated prices and never used a single one. That was just blatant bribery, and it barely made the headlines thanks to Trump's constant circus of distractions.",0
"The UN was created in 1945, a decade before before thermonuclear weapons were invented and at a time when only a handful of atomic bombs existed, all of them American.","The UN was created in 1945, a decade before before thermonuclear weapons were invented and at a time when only a handful of atomic bombs existed, all of them American.",1
What does that have to do with the growing threat of exploitation of Africa? Foreign companies and nations are in bidding wars to control the region right now.,It’s as if you’re all incapable of seeing the world with any nuance. Perhaps the church is and its effects are not to be seen in black and white.,0
"In addition, many countries do not have material to spare right away, or material which Ukraine would be able to utilize efficiently, so they sent non-military aid instead.","They have supplied Ukraine with satellite imagery and intelligence, several billion euro in financial aid and loans since 2014, hundreds of millions of euro in non-military humanitarian aid, evac and treatment of wounded soldiers since 2014 onward, offered replacements to other countries in exchange for them sending their tanks, etc.",0
"Mr. Kofman said in an interview that without adjustments to how the Ukrainian military fights, future Ukrainian offensives might require significantly more artillery ammunition to make progress against entrenched Russian defenses.","“The question is whether these advantages will prove sufficient for Ukrainian forces to retake territory from entrenched Russian troops,” wrote Rob Lee and Michael Kofman, leading military analysts.",0
"- Nobody wants nuclear war. That's why NATO troops won't be deployed in Ukraine, because NATO troops in Ukraine will make NATO a participant of the war (there's currently only 2 participants in the war: Russia and Ukraine. I won't even count Belarus as it hasn't send any troops in, even though Russia uses its territory as a staging ground). Stop pushing the idea that we are speedrunning to nuclear war because everyone is doing all they can to prevent it.","If a country has a much larger army with a nuclear arsenal, you pretty much have no choice but to negotiate with them. Unless you suggest they do what Afghanistan did to the US and prolong the war for 20 years hoping that your enemy will eventually become occupied with something else and leave. In Ukraine's case, the problem with doing the latter (aside from the population living through 2 decades of warfare) is NATO literally cannot fund the war and backstop Ukraine's economy for the next 20 years. The only option is for them to negotiate some kind of peace deal with Russia (whether that means give Crimea up in exchange for Donetsk / Luhansk, I don't know).",1
"Require licensing for every gun and make it a rigorous process that requires reapplication for certification on an annual basis, including medical reports, psychological assessment and mandatory safety training certification at regular intervals. This generates revenue that way, and operates just like driving license.","Thirdly I know this is pie in the sky stuff, and pro-2A people don’t care about money. They only care about either owning more guns or selling more guns.",0
"50 years ago we had modern accurate data telling us that if we don’t change our entire economic system and the way we produce energy then millions if not billions of people would die, be displaced, and entire areas of land on earth would become newly uninhabitable to humans. But because it was rich and powerful people in a destructive industry making them billions of dollars a year nothing was and nothing will be done.","They were called alarmist nutters by the politicians and corporations who really love raking in money from doing exactly what caused the problem, and they are still raking it in today.",1
"OF COURSE russia would always say they'd never accept peace at ukraine's terms, because that would mean complete defeat! Both parties have to meet half way to reach an agreement.","Peace is made by negotiations. Always. Warlords never start the peace talks, so simply waiting until Putin makes a peace offer or leaves is unrealistic and naive - and waiting for a military victory by Ukraine only means prolonging the killing of thousands.",0
"Most of their population growth is in the south eastern republics although that’s were many of their soldiers have come from until now. Regardless, most of the emigration has been from western Russian cities. So in addition to population loss, you get demographic shifts.",Yeah like 100k-200k dead and wounded men of reproductive age plus the million they lost to covid and the million that emigrated since the war started.,0
But I nia very interesting to keep seeing these arrests of people who voted twice or who voted with a dead spouse's info are seemingly on one side... But this is part of the conspiracy too I'm sure.,"That was one of my favorite conspiracy theories. Apparently, Hillary was smart enough to be able to get 3 million illegal immigrants to vote, but was so stupid that she had them all vote in safe blue California instead of in swing states.",1
"That's actually not true, it's considered hate speech and it's not protected. If you fully read what the first amendment says and its expanded legal definition, it basically outlines that racism isnt protected in free speech. Real fucking weird that you even tried to do that...there are tons of legal phrases that cant be said that come with repercussions, you're analyzation of free speech is based off of the concepts the words themselves have seperately, but the legal concept of ""free speech"" is a lot different. My next question is why do you think hate speech should be protected, weirdo?","I don't agree with ""hate speech"" or racism but criminalizing those sorts of things has the opposite of the desired effect.",1
"eesh. Take your damn upvote. Personally I have never voted for a Brazilian white supremacist, and anti trans drag artist, a pathological liar wholly unqualified to govern, someone who steals from sick dogs, or anyone who uses Jewish names to up their go fund me haul...but clearly someone has. It's the direct result of shitting on public schools for 30 years. An entire nation of dullards who can't count change, think the world is flat, and type ""alot."".","I read that. Just sucks because we’re sending over all of these bills that require honor and integrity to pass, and half our legislature is full of grifters with no moral compass.",1
"Given the picture of the Pharisees we find in the gospels, it is similar to what you describe. Their letter of the law approach allowed them to be confident in their own self righteousness I believe many Christians today are modern Pharisees ironically missing out on what Jesus had to give.","Jesus’s major criticism against the Pharisees (assuming you can trust an account of his life written decades after his death, that is) was that they took a “letter of the law” approach to faith, deliberately following the exact dictates of the faith while ignoring their underlying purpose.",1
"As a former teacher in SC, and married to a current SC teacher, I can say I’m not surprised at all. The pay is definitely not on par with other states, and the fact that the pay is normalized across the full year for most teachers means that the deceptive practice a lot of districts use to say that they pay a certain amount is a false equivalency. Making 40k in 9 months with nothing else is not the same as making 40k in 12.","Not just that, at some point with in my life time public schools became primary day cares centers. This became especially evident during the pandemic. We really thought the whole thing would start a conversation on actual sick leave and PTO, and begin to include child care with that.",0
I'm talking about the 2013-2014 Ukrainian protests and revolution that saw the pro-Russian Yanukovych (then Ukrainian president) chased out of Ukraine.,"When Ukrainians came out in protest to sham elections, they built barricades and threw Molotov cocktails until they won.",1
"Someone else mentioned resistors in Nazi Germany. Same thing, they never were able to overthrow the Nazis and were never officially recognized as a resistance so they received very little foreign aid.",No one is aiding Russians attempting to oppose the war at home. They're on their own against a much more powerful and well equipped force in the Russian military/oligarchy and Russian government.,0
"But the reality is that it's been decades now where Palestinians (At least a huge % of them) hold incredible grudge against Israel, still refuse to even acknowledge it's right to exist and are under some delusion that they can still kick us out of here.","Palestinians need to realize that whatever leadership was/is in place there isn't working for them, instead of holding on to the belief that only Israel is to blame, and to blame in the amount the UN, among others, suggests, at least in subtext, but often blatantly.",1
It is true that both Qatar and Israel are crying 'discrimination' when they should instead stop being monstrous abusers.,"You could say that the Qatar government is evil and its people are negligent and should be ashamed for not caring about basic human rights. But you can’t say “All Arabs are bad, Islam should be extinguished from existence.”- that’s the tone many hold in these detailed comment sections.",1
In order for disqualification to occur you have to have previously taken an oath to uphold the constitution as a.,You have to have already taken the oath of public office to support and defend the constitution and then gone on to break it in order for the 14th amendment to apply.,1
"The Iowa Gop also introduced House File 508 which “says no resident of Iowa ""shall be compelled, coerced, or forced to recognize any same-sex unions or ceremonies as marriage,”.","Also, RFMA only says Iowa has to respect marriages performed in other states regardless of its own stupid laws, it doesn't do anything to stop Iowa from passing whatever stupid laws they want to persecute Iowans with.",1
You should probably use your best stuff so that you can win rather than plan for an unexpected offensive in the second year of the war.,"For Russia, we do see that they are not really using much of their best/most expensive airplanes and helicopters but that is probably because losing them would hurt too much.",0
"Megaraptorids however are not Dromaeosaurs, being closer to either the Allosauroid Neovenator, the ceratosaur Noasaurus, basal Tyrannosaurs (e.g Proceratosaurus) or the base of Coelorosauria (e.g Ornitholestes). It is not yet agreed where Megaraptorids go.","The megaraptorid Australovenator from Australia is regarded to as the dinosaur equivilent of the cheetah. Deltadromeus from Africa, which may be a Megaraptorid (or may be a Noasaur) was even faster.",0
"Which is really funny, because they've accepted monetary aid from Taiwan for other natural disasters before.",It's more likely that Taiwan would give assistance to China without precondition than China to Taiwan.,0
"Nope, most of the west is not a desert. Most of it is grassland plains, and has been so for thousands of years. Those grassland plains are also a major breadbasket for not only our nation, but for many others as well. Now the southwest has many areas that are deserts, but there are some health benefits for people to live there. Like people who have asthma or bad allergies to plant pollen have it easier there.","Good, the only pipelines we should be building are ones for fresh drinkable water to be moved across the country. At least when those inevitably leak they won't destroy the local ecosystem and contaminate the land with all the chemicals we see in oil pipelines.",0
"The point I was making is that if Biden had just clearly stated the issue to the public, repeatedly. Showed up in Ohio, and viscerally tore down the governor for not declaring a state of emergency so that he could render aid...Then Republicans would have been completely castrated.",Biden could have also visited East Palestine before going to Ukraine and held a press conference and yelled at the governor while explaining this issue to the public and the people of Ohio.,0
This could change if Republicans nominate a genuine centrist candidate though... but I highly doubt the Republican base would ever vote for a pragmatic centrist candidate.,"I honestly think there is a decent chance now that she is more of a liability for Republicans than Dems, or draws voters evenly from both camps making her a nonentity.",0
"So... since US has also committed war crimes too, and are hypocrites at dealing with war criminals, you're ok with Iran selling drones to Russia and killing civilians with it?","Now Iran sells arms to Russia who uses those arms to attack civilians directly and you're all like ""oh they arent responsible"".",1
"As your own article states, ""the level and quality of evidence that supports glyphosate’s effects on the microbiome is weak"".","Fact of the matter is, the amount of glyphosate being ingested by consumers is about a million times too low to have an antibiotic effect in the gut.",0
"Even if every road in the country is jam-packed solid 24/7 (or, equally, completely empty), you wouldn't be able to build a road and claim that it wouldn't increase the number of cars on the road.","I think it's a fair point to argue that a lack of roads suppresses and keeps from recognition of a need (travel), and that, with roads, that need is now able to be met, which might result in more cars. But now you've acknowledged that you're directly suppressing the people's needs, which does not seem to be a proper function of government.",1
"But hopefully it won't ever get to that point, and we can live to see Chinese democracy blossom in our lifetimes.","You seem to think that the US would be OK with a free and democratic China. They are more free now than they were 30 years ago. What jas changed is they are becoming a near-peer competitor to the USA, and that the US won't tolerate, regardless of how democratic they were.",1
"How would UK and US know the true numbers? They're not physically on the ground/frontlines counting bodies, - Ukrainians are.","And from what I've been gathering, those 500/day basically come from men ""rushing"" ukraine positions... not from defensive positions taking massive losses..",1
Yes. Honestly with modern printing processes we could go back to radium paint. The amount used on a watch or clock is fine to be around.,"Ionization ones are better at detecting really hot fires quickly, while light based smoke detectors are better at detecting smoldering fires that produce a lot of smoke.",0
"Everybody on both sides has a will to live first and foremost, and a will to win that follows. “Here we are” is true, because again, I’m watching it right now, “here this is because of several very specific variables” is also true, because again, an obvious will to live. They aren’t trench fighting just to be retro. They are doing it (currently) because it’s the way their war fighting doctrine has developed, all entirely in the name of keeping themselves alive to win another day.","100 years of war later, to include and second and even bigger world war, between all of the movies and video games depicting modern wars, MASSIVE leaps in technological and tactical advancements, here we are;.",0
"To the GOP, if you're not putting in an active concerted effort to be ""politically incorrect"", you're ""politically correct"" and that's bad because reasons.","Every time someone takes issue with ""political correctness"" I always find myself asking ""as opposed to what, exactly?"".",1
Sometime during Trump administration: Balloons were flown into US territory but US either didn’t notice them or they were briefly spotted and categorized as “UFO”.,I don’t know when this balloon got on the government’s “radar” but unlike the others it only appears to have been publicly noticed .,0
Such a method of voting encourages and fosters extremism both logistically and psychologically/socially.,Our voting methodology is a primary foundation of democracy. Expecting much to change without changing that is folly.,0
"For real. Every conservative I know that lives in a shitty town run into the ground by conservative policies are all certain the Libs and Hillary Clinton are to blame. Every time the power goes out from moderate rain storm, or the roads are crumbling, or that there's no jobs. Zero critical thinking skills to realize that it's the people in charge of their immediate area (Republicans) that are making their lives worse.","As it's been for at least the last several decades, which has only gotten worse in the last 10-15, Republicans will throw literally anything at the wall of outrage and see what sticks. Obviously the outrage over Obama's tan suit was never the color of his suit but rather the (color of the) man wearing it. If instead of police brutality and racial injustice, Kaepernick had been kneeling to oppose abortions or gun control, he'd have been their hero. And of course, one can rightly say that if he had been opposing abortion, Democrats wouldn't have supported him -- but they also wouldn't have taken issue with the kneeling!",1
2. Good then we’re not forcing a shitty deal down the throats of labor or maybe it actually would force republicans to vote for the better provisions. Either way it’s a win. By putting pressure on GOP to end rail strike you actually can force the concessions of more sick days instead of simply giving in. But the reality is democrats care more about short term political aspirations than workers which is what bring a me to point 3.,"Because Republicans don’t even pretend to be the party for the unions, while Democrats make it their goal to pretend to be.",1
"Sort of. The smarter move was to use that money to pay down high interest debt first (credit cards), low interest debt second(car loans), save for retirement third using total market ETFs. Inflation has been high and wages have gone up. Any debt you owe that isn’t accruing interest is better sitting and letting your money work for you instead.","Yeah, while one time debt cancellation is a nice thing, it's really a band aid that doesn't address the root problem, which is the interest being insurmountable. Plus the debt cancellation is a political lightning rod.",1
"At least that's one way to solve Russia's outfitting problem, and they're the only ones inhumane enough to do it.","I firmly believe it's going to get to the point where Russia mobilizes so many bodies that the first and second waves will have no weapons at all, and will be followed up by dudes right behind with weapons, just to exhaust the Ukrainians of will and ammunition.",0
Or are they saying Ukraine has been demilitarized because of all the Russian arms Russian brought in being destroyed by Ukraine? Maybe they are thanking Ukraine for reducing the amount of arms Russia brought in by destroying them.,Russia has killed a lot of Ukranians and destroyed a lot of Ukrainian weapons. If you deliberately look at kill rate & resources used and not the net size of Ukrainian military then I suppose you could argue that they have made progress. It's cherry picking but what can you expect. They need to have something to show for the collossal blunder they made.,1
"Well, Republicans control education in Texas, so if there's a problem you know who to blame. In fact, Republicans have controlled Texas for about 30 years, so really ANY complaints people have about the state can be laid at Republican feet. That gerrymandering they did last redistricting and are wanting to do again? Gee I wonder why people are losing faith in democracy when we're watching it dissolve in front of us.","Go figure: democracy and public education aren't working in Texas, so of course people are losing faith in those things.",1
"Army leadership takes money meant for producing advanced equipment and awards contracts to cheap alternatives while keeping the change, commanders request delivery for the cheap equipment that never gets produced in return for kickbacks, supply officers sell off whatever new kit does get delivered and dig out old junk from storage, armourers strip that junk of anything they can sell, and the common soldiers end up with bullet proof vests made of cardboard.","There's also a great video on lying in the Russian army, and how it leads to catastrophic battlefield mistakes because nobody is being honest about how things are really going in the trenches.",0
"I'm not going to tempt fate by suggesting that it's a different story now with the virus still in circulation in the rest of the world, and most people having been vaccinated and boosted.","Instead, I'll go way out on a limb and confidently predict that the State Department doesn't even update any of its travel restrictions for arrivals by air from China by the 8th. In hopes of spurring some action to prove me wrong. It definitely won't happen this week. Definitely not.",0
"While they cannot rescind US visas directly, they can most certainly inform the US that the individual is no longer travelling as a representative of their country, and the visa is then (usually) rescinded by USCIS.",">The State Department has said it was incumbent on an individual who entered the United States on a so-called ""A"" visa reserved for diplomats and heads of state to depart the country within 30 days or apply for a change of immigration status if they are no longer engaged in official business. Bolsonaro is believed to have entered on such a visa.",1
"Russians society is very atomised. People only care about their immediate circle of contacts, friends, family, etc. Everything else is ""whatever, leave me alone."" Including the war.","In this war? Yeah, they're right. There's minimal if any military hardware in Moscow, and all the military structures are going to be hardened against bombardment (against the like of the US bombing them). So bombing Moscow is relatively fruitless militarily unless they want to target civilian infrastructure, which would harm the Ukrainian war effort.",1
"Yeah right Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria are all top fairly easy military targets right next to Russia and all part of NATO. Turkey may as well be on the last too since they are both troublemakers and in a highly strategic area that Russia would love to have if they could.","It seems like you have no clue about what countries are in NATO or what countries the USSR had taken over in the past and would be prime target. Almost all of them are now in NATO, unfortunately Ukraine is the one big one that isn't.",0
I think Russia would struggle to transport troops across to JApan and JApan's air defnce systems are probably pretty good.,"Now imagine how much worse it'd be vs. Japan's stronger (than Ukraine), modern military with no land links, having to approach by air and sea across a much further distance. That's not even including all the aid Japan would still get from other countries.",1
It's all fascism that is taking root across the county especially using religious freedom as the reason they are having to take control of our personal lives.,"You all have fascist ideas in your head whether you like to admit it or not, because our will to protect ourselves is greater than our will to have the risk of not using any fascist ideology to run a nation state, community, or organization in this day and era.",1
I shame Republicans everyday for being anti-labor. I'm gonna shame democrats for being anti-labor too when this was a stupid move.,So we split the bill and here is the chance to call out the republicans for being anti-labor and what are people doing? The bidding of republicans in blaming dems.,1
"This article discusses the claims that they are making and why, legally, the approval of the drug should not be reversed. The claims they are making are ridiculous - it doesn't even appear that they have standing. They're hoping the judge puts his personal beliefs above the law.",I believe that because it involves a federal agency - FDA - that they need to file in federal court. The plaintiffs basically decided to file in this particular federal court district because of who the federal judge of that district is.,0
If China does begin selling weapons and supplies to Russia it will probably trigger US led financial sanctions against them.,"As Europe and the United States, again, pressure Beijing not to aid Russia’s war, China has few options for responding. Even as it privately tries to soothe concerns, in public it has sought to look firm.",1
"Oh, I always find Heineken beer here at my house. My dad says he doesnt care for taste and he will just drink it to get drunk. So sometimes he will have them laying around and wont drink em ever sometimes so I drink em and now I got used to the beer and whenever I see one I drink one. I'm not from Europe tho I'm from the U.S.",Pretty decent If you ask me. Guitar player from slayer drank alot of Heineken. Even has a guitar painted in Heineken. What makes you hate it so much tho?,0
"Creating a nuclear reaction that results in an explosion is a fairly delicate process. Ironically, nuclear weapons are triggered by explosions; a series of extremely precisely timed explosions that cause the core to implode. They're set up as a sphere around the core and if these explosives don't go off in the very specific way that they're meant to, they don't go supercritical and are basically just a 'dirty bomb'. , which are themselves the trigger for hydrogen bombs.","And it was a very obviously unnecessarily large response that was meant to be a message to the Russians to not fuck with us under any circumstance because we can bring down hell any time, anywhere…and they somehow just didn’t get it.",0
"The committee that all Republicans voted to establish on Tuesday—as part of the House Judiciary Committee—has broad powers to investigate current and past investigations conducted by the FBI and Department of Justice, as well as the authority to probe “any” issues related to the civil liberties of private citizens.","GOP lawmakers speak expansively about the committee’s purview, comparing it to the Church Committee of the 1970s, which exposed an array of intelligence agency abuses. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the No. 2 Republican, said the new panel would be focused on the protection of “everyday” American citizens.",0
"The obvious answer, as far as those pushing ISL would be concerned, is that a state constitution can't overrule the federal constitution. If the latter say the state legislature can do X, then a state constitution can't say ""nope, they can't do X"".","If you are ignoring the state constitutions, then there are no state legislatures. The legislatures only exist as an implementation of the state constitutions.",1
"Israel is helping them alot btw (one example: the idf built and been operating an hospital in Ukraine, maybe more than one there), not supplying weapons though. And about asking Israel for Iron dome while they don't have enough of it for themselves this ridiculous.","Out of curiosity, could you name one time that Ukraine helped Israel? name one time Ukraine voted in favor of Israel in the UN?",0
"Precisely my point, it took a long time to complete the change, Britain lost money and power because of it, however they did it for the good of the people.","Brexit is the same, it will take decades to complete, it may cost some money but in the long run it will be better for us all.",0
"I personally didn't have a topper on my wedding cake, so I don't feel like it's a necessity. If that's really the sticking point, then I'm fine with the baker refusing to put two brides or two grooms on top. I'm pretty sure people would be fine with buying their own topper and putting it on themselves. It probably costs a few bucks on Amazon to get one.",What they probably can't do themselves is make a three-tier cake with pretty flower decorations made of icing. That's typically the main service being requested from a baker for a wedding regardless of sexual orientation. Nobody who requests that is asking for anything that anybody would consider to be objectionable creative expression.,0
The Railroad Barons were corrupt as hell and bribery was pretty much EXPECTED in politics in the Gilded Age.,"We saw this in the last two years of the Trump administration. The Democratic-controlled Senate sent bills to the Republican-controlled House. The Republican Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell, would not even schedule those House bills for official debate or deliberation. He would sit on them until they expired, effectively.",0
Bringing up nukes and trying to say that they should make us fearful of defending ourselves if Russia attacks just sounds like a very weak Russian talking point.,I fail to see how Russia having nukes should have any impact on whether a western country should defend itself.,0
Edit: im aware of the negative aspects of religious people iam not claiming that religious people are somehow more morally righteous than atheists. Or inherently better in any way. Only claim im making is that atheism is a result of ignorance and those who are atheists should continue to look for more understanding and knowledge.,"Atheism isn't a result of ignorance, we just tend to argue with you, which is normal with such contrary viewpoints.",1
It's more about if Putin will step down to a less powerful position in 2024 and appoint someone else to succeed him.,"What this means is that Putin can run for president in 2024 and in 2030. By 2036 he would be 84 years old, if he's even still alive, effectively making him president for life.",1
"More Americans voted for Trump in 2020 than in 2016. They saw four years of daily scandals and said, ""Yes, more of that!"".","""But.... But what about Hunter Biden's laptop? How do we know if his dick pics haven't been photoshopped to look bigger??? The American people deserve to know"".",1
"You’re right, but I think the end of your comment is a bit confusing and I wanted to clarify: chicken is not “meat” to the rabbis, as it is under a different halachic category (I think). Thus, it is not strictly prohibited from being mixed with milk. However, the “fence” around the Torah in this case is prohibiting chicken and dairy despite its legality because of the ease of which it could be confused with a different dish that WOULD violate that prohibition. The fence is fencing off an otherwise legal thing to prevent the accidental violation of kashrut. So to sum up: chicken and dairy is theoretically fine under Torah law. However, it is prohibited under rabbinic law to prevent the violation of other Torah law.","Kosher laws exist to ""build a hedge around the Torah."" So that even if you make a mistake, or cheat a little, you still won't do the really prohibited thing. Chicken is considered meat and must be kept separate from dairy. Fish has its own rules...",1
"To be clear I'm very happy to see that many other car companies are starting to make EVs (in limited numbers for the most part though). I do want to see more completion pushing Tesla, and any car company, to make better EVs.","I bought a Kia EV because I think Tesla makes crappy cars and I want my EV to be a car first and foremost, not a tech device. I think the ""minimalism"" in Teslas is in fact cheapness, and that they charge a premium for vehicles that should be viewed as low-end. But all of this said, I don't think it is really fair to judge Teslas on price until production catches up with demand.",1
"This time. Throw enough soup, mash and oil at paintings, and one day something will go wrong - break the glass, splash behind it, enter through cracks. With each of their idiotic, misguided stunts, they are incresing the likelihood that art gets damaged or destroyed.",And only an idiot would believe this shit is getting people to increase the speed of transitioning to greener energy.,0
"When for 15 year your idea of war is to shake your weapon, shoot a couple of rounds in the air and everyone does what you want. Of course what's happening in Ukraine is hard.","No no Ahole, Russia is directly involved in Ukraine. When Russia leaves so will the Nato weapons As usual Hound Dog face has it upside down and backwards.",1
"It was Stalin that gave those lands though, in exchange of keeping most of what he had claimed and annexed from Poland with the Molotov Ribbentropp pact already.","Also, as others mentioned here, Poland’s acquisition of formerly German lands was an action that Stalin took.",1
"They'll vote for certain progressives, they'll reject certain Republicans both of which would be more popular in national settings.","She's voted with Democrats several times, but on a lot of chances to be progressive she's gone pretty much full right/conservative.",1
"The US has been trying to limit the range of Ukrainian weapons, looks like Ukrainians have got longer-range stuff. The straight-line distance from the centre of Moscow to the Russian-Ukrainian border is about 450 km which makes it in range now.","Security footage shows a blast at Engels air base near Saratov, Russia, hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian border.",0
"The difference was that in NY, the officials actually obeyed the court's decision. In Ohio, the redistricting committee just ignored the court and did what they wanted to anyway.",Ohio the state that refused to change said maps that VOTERS VOTED to draw up new maps .. Ohio that 4-5 times ignored the Ohio supreme courts ruling.,1
It’s fully backed by the constitution. Only way to declare it illegal is to fix the whole issue with the electoral college in the first place.,"Only the US has an electoral college. In other countries, elections are decided by popular vote. Rural areas in Canada and Australia are doing just fine.",1
"Brassica oleracea, or wild cabbage is a plant that has been bred into cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, etc. These food crops would be unrecognizable in their wild form.",The anti-GMO crown typically doesn’t understand every food crop we use have been modified for thousands of years through selective breeding and exploiting mutations in the plant.,0
I don't want the government making decisions about my coverage mainly because at some point the people making those decisions will be Republicans. I also don't like the current scheme of paying someone to make decisions that don't reflect what I want either though.,"Private insurance and Government insurance don't have to be the only options. Just as the federal government helps fund community clinics, the federal government could encourage the creation of non-profit insurance organizations and offer federal funding to them to courage more public opinions and more choices. Just as Democrats support having Medicare negotiate down prescription prices, having more public competition aimed at valuing people over profit could have a big impact on reducing cost of health.",0
"yup, we'd need an alternative source. crazy that the oil and gas companies spend literally billions of dollars a year suppressing research. insane. let's keep falling for their gambit.","i never said that things would change on a dime. but let's not pretend that ""killing a sizeable percentage of the world's population"" is a natural consequence of this. that is a talking point from the oil and gas companies.",0
"Sort of. Although there are possibilities to win without a majority of those elected, just a majority of those voting, I don't think Democratics will do that. Either a true majority (By backing Jefferies, or a comprise coalition candidate), or no move at all.","To actually come out on top, Democratics would need solid support by giving concessions to anyone deciding to cross the aisle, locking down enough votes for not just now, but the key House items like the budget.",0
"No, we just need swing voters to elect a few more normie Dems. If the Dems held the house and won in Wisconsin for Senate, they'd suddenly be able to just bypass Manchin and Sinema. Then the new Manchin would be Jon Tester, someone who would still gleefully torpedo the progressive platform if it was pushed onto him, but who would nonetheless allow for a lot more normie liberal policy to pass vs Manchin and Sinema (Tester was open to bypassing the filibuster for voting rights and abortion rights as well as for a BBB that was at least $3t, for example). That's how you get progress, not by expecting someone to magically force senators to do stuff they don't want to do, but instead by just getting somewhat better folks elected who will allow for more change.",Because the voters once again refused to empower Biden and his breed of mainstream Dems with the sort of majorities they'd need to actually get their ambitious agenda done.,0
"You understand that millionaire means having a net worth above $1 million, right? That definitely includes middle class people near or in retirement in the US.","also note what i said - the middle classes are not meaningfully included. even if a few people scrape into the top 0.999%, its largely an irrelevance: when we're talking about the top 1%, its not the middle class.",1
"It amazes me that, without exception, every election cycle in my life has been tainted by younger generations reeing about how we need term limits because old people are ruining the country and they still don't vote lol.","Gen Z isn't going to do much, I'm guessing, because usually younger people don't vote as much AND I get major apathy/we're already fucked vibes from gen z (for good reason, but I wish they'd vote anyhow just in case it might help).",1
"Yeah, to really invade Moldova from the black sea, the only real option unless they want to go through the air, they'll have to do a big push in southern Ukraine. They'd have to re-conquer Cherson and Mykolaiv, then push on towards Odesa. If they are able to do that, they would be able to take the now cut of part of Ukraine that's ""between"" Moldova and Romania.","I mean, Moldova is just Romania's split sibling. They could try but I can see that a LOT of romanians could volunteer for Moldova.",1
"So, in short, supermassive black holes today are heavier than they should be according to previous theories. This is because the space that exists behind the event horizon also generates the same vacuum energy as the universe outside them, leading to the black hole just growing in mass from its own stretched space time?","This phenomenon would apply to all super massive blackholes, and since they are scattered around us in a relatively even distribution, we would see this expansion of spacetime phenomenon all around us, which is why we would see dark energy everywhere.",1
Congressional term limits would also help create a government that actually represents the country it is meant to.,"It's strange that most of our Congresspeople live so differently than the people they are meant to represent. Sure, legal expertise has its value, but more important the ability to empathize with the people you serve is what we need. If an elected official cannot even fathom the struggles of their constituents — and makes no effort to do so — how fit are they really to be an advocate?",0
"(Bloomberg) --Vladimir Putin said Russia may consider formally adding the possibility of a preventive nuclear first strike to disarm an opponent to its military doctrine, just days after warning that the risk of atomic war is rising. “We’re thinking about this,” the Russian president told reporters after a summit in Kyrgyzstan. “If we are talking about a disarming strike, perhaps we should think about using the approaches of our American partners,” he said, citing what he called US strategies to use high-accuracy missiles for a preventive strike.","The US and its allies have denounced Putin for what they call nuclear saber-rattling over his invasion of Ukraine. Russia blames the West for raising the issue first, although Kremlin officials began the threats.",0
"Oh, right if we give them tanks to fight with, then it's no problem. But if we fix them, a definite red line has been crossed How could I have missed this.","Now, yeah, it's easier to maintain for the end crew cause anything goes wrong, they pull the engine out and replace it, send the old engine back to depo to get fixed. All it takes for that to run smoothly is money, not time. They are lying.",0
"This is about the day after Israel's founding, that Palestinians marks as a day of catastrophe to commemorate the displacement of 700.000 Palestinians.","The Nakba refers more to the fact that the Palestinian homeland was destroyed in 1948, about 700,000 Palestinians were displaced, and over 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed. I'd call that a national catastrophe too, if I were Palestinian. Wouldn't you?",1
"Ukraine won't be able to use US tanks for a long time. But Germany insisted the US send these tanks as a precondition for them sending Leopards, so that Germany wouldn't be seen as unilaterally ""escalating"" anything by being the only country to send tanks to Ukraine.","Honestly we(US) should have traded Germany Abrams for leopards, and given Ukraine more of those leo's, as it would be quicker and we would be bolstering NATO units already in Germany who already know how to use the ab's, and if Germany would have to wait for the tanks it would be next to a no issue.",1
"When the first batch of documents were reported, I almost wondered if this was the intent. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I though that maybe this whole thing could have been intentional (like they were planted).","I wouldn’t put it past them but I’m also not going to let myself get sucked into conspiratorial thinking without more evidence. With the thousands of documents that are removed during the transition of administrations I wouldn’t be surprised if there are classified documents sprinkled in others (Obama, Bush, etc…) because I can imagine it’s easy to happen. In fact if we lived in a society where “petty revenge” wasn’t the goal, this would seem to be a good opportunity to update oversight to make sure this isn’t happening in the future. Maybe review past presidents/vice presidents documents and be sure they also don’t have documents that they shouldn’t have.",1
I thought some of the actual hit men were publicly excited by MBS to attempt to shift blame. MBS is still fist bumping world leaders. Your point is correct either way.,"You’re right! We should partner with the civilized people of Palestine, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc etc etc who elect terrorist organizations to run their countries and stone gay people to death and don’t let women go to school or drive cars and marry of children and murder women who don’t cover their heads. You know the really super civilized people of the Middle East.",1
"Not an expert but the biggest difference is likely to be more up to date fire control and battle management systems in the Challenger 2, as well as a better sensor / imaging package.",But the UK also has a much bigger military budget so this is indeed an impressive contribution from Morocco.,0
And there is the one thing that could potentially split the Republican Party in half Donald Trump running as a third party candidate I hope he goes through with this.,"I'm kinda torn, I'd love to see him indicted by Valentine's Day, but on the other hand, a third party headed by Trump could be a thorn in the side of the GOP for years to come. Guess I'll just have to make some more popcorn and think on it a while.",1
"So Elon Musk buys twitter and starts advocating for voting for Republicans and certain candidates and we're to expect he will be unbiased in how twitter operates, what algorithms push what articles, etc..?",Is it just me or did Musk turn more radical or aggressive since approximately the twitter acquisition?,1
To what end? They don’t care about these cases because in their eyes millions of babies are being saved. If you truly believe abortion is murder then these cases don’t change your view.,You completely missed the point. It does not matter to them if you show them one mangled fetus that ends up killing the mother because they truly believe they are saving millions of lives with their anti abortion stance.,0
Well that's what coke dealers do. They get the coke and cut it for more profit. If it was legal then you could get the primo stuff and not have to worry about overdosing on some adulterated coke.,Say what you say but coke will never be legal and thats good thing. If u are willing to snort it then dont come crying about how you get sick if its unpure. Thats the risk using such substances has and its very well known.,1
Which country is still trying to control the virus at this point? Hasn't just about every place ditched all internal restrictions and lets the virus spread freely?,"It is not in the virus' interest to become more deadly than previous strains. Mutants are naturally selected for their ability to spread, not to kill. If a new variant were able to cause severe illness and kill more quickly than before, it would have little time to infect others before the patient becomes isolated in a hospital and dies. In a world with COVID variants which cause mild symptoms minimally affecting the patient, there is no way that this deadly variant can compete. There is a reason past epidemics and pandemics eventually fizzled out or faded into the background: killing people doesn't help a virus spread.",1
"With 81% reporting, Hochul is up 54.1% to 45.9%. That's an 8.2 point lead. Looks like the polls I saw were more accurate than the ones my father saw.","The polls were pretty accurate. The problem was reporting. For example, the NY Times conducted one poll where Zeldin was within 5 points and rather than weigh it against other polls they had done or other polls that others were doing, they took that one poll at face value and ran with it.",1
"Modern nuclear reactors are demonstrably the cleanest, cheapest, and likely safest option going forward. The word nuclear scares the shit out of most people though, mostly through sheer ignorance of the advances made in the last 40 years.","It scares the shit out of us because you can't trust some countries with nuclear power. Someone, somewhere will cut corners and it will end in disaster again. It's easy to regulate when you have a dozen power plants, but when you have hundreds all over the world, it's impossible.",1
The main problem becomes the big tent approach of both parties. Since there is only really two parties (the others are to small) they are rewarded for trying to fit as many people as possible within their camp/tent. People who in another system would rather make their own party and try to win influence that way.,"Because people in position of power are always the people who want that power the most. You will never find a wise buddhist leader of a country because they dont want to BE a leader of a country, they are already happy meditating on top of a mountain. The people who want power however, are easily corrupted by it and want to retain it as long as possible.",1
"Which is wild because any abroad living Turk I’ve met HATES Erdoğan, but these are all young progressive people, so I imagine the support comes from the older traditional crowd.","And its good to add that Erdogan is losing every election when taking only the In Turkey votes, but the diaspora massively votes for him.",1
"There will be no nuclear explosion, no one is going to die from this. Considering the amount of miles being driven and the number of people driving them I would say the biggest risk is a vehicle accident at this point.",I haven't seen any evidence of a lost logging source harming anyone. There are some pictures out there that purport to be from exposure to logging sources but they are from different incidents with pipeline inspection sources and X ray beams. I don't have all the knowledge in the world about this subject but I did research it to train people and I haven't found any evidence of injuries.,0
"If the railroad companies are incapable of managing themselves, they must be nationalized, if not as a matter of doing the right thing, then as a matter of national security.","The President, at any time, can cite the Defense Production Act to nationalize the railroads if it's a matter of national security or a failure to meet contractual agreements.",1
"Of course they are different. Trump had the power to declassify any document he wanted, Biden did not (at the time of taking them home).","Biden was not entitled to have any classified documents from his vice presidential office, as far as I know.",1
"Yeah, but now we have Google Gato which can do hundreds of tasks humans can do and direct other robots. It's also, and I hate to be that guy, a logical fallacy that just because a thing has happened a certain way in the past means it will happen the same way in the future. I hope you're right though.","We can hope it will. When we invented steam engines, it wasn’t as if the steam engines could create steam engines too. Sewing machines couldn’t automatically sew new sewing machines.",1
You got to admit. Biden giving intel to china about russia who then called russia and told them everything. Pretty dam funny. I didnt even think he was that dumb.,I mean does anyone really think were sending money to the Ukraine to help the people lol ????? Or stop a monster??? Our government doesnt give a shit about any of that.,0
"Why does the State have to apologize? That's dumb. The State didn't exist then and even if it had, it was the localities that did these things - they should be the ones to apologize. And this, ""It’s for the perpetrators and witch trial victim’s families here and now who want to make peace with this in some way..."" - if these people are kept up at night because their ancestor was murdered 370+ years ago they need help. And I do have a relative from the early 1600s who was burned as a witch in Germany.","It could be that imrealwitch is a 375 year old witch accused at that time. Though if they are, the accusation of witchcraft was correct and the spell to become so long lived surely harmed other people.",1
"There are a couple ways “street heroin” is dangerous. One is the addictive nature which you mention. The other is fentanyl contamination. My nonexpert understanding is if you look at overdose death numbers you will there is a massive spike in deaths in recent years due to unintentional ingestion of fatal doses of fentanyl. Regulating recreational opioids will not eliminate addiction or overdoses, but perhaps has the potential for eliminating that spike in fentanyl overdoses. This goes for some other recreational drug use because I’ve read stories about people dying the fentanyl when taking something they though wasn’t an opioid at all.","Sure, but even after reducing overdoses and other impurities there's still the dramatic health effects and addiction that will ultimately lead to death anyway.",1
"Ok. Locally-sourced dairy, eggs, and fish; 90% plant based diet; policies to reduce waste; and the inevitable waste they do have is fed to hogs that are raised for a once-a-semester hog roast.","Nothing in the article discussed the morality of animal-based products in and of themselves, only their ecological effect. Whether or not you think it's fundamentally immoral for omnivores to eat animals has no bearing on the policies at hand.",0
"You mom gives you $100 to pay the landscaper and you put it in the bank. When the groundskeeper comes, you write him a check for $100 from your bank account.",We're not discussing whether or not Trump is a fraudster. We have proof he is. We're discussing whether or not he donated his salary as he said he would.,0
"To maintain your card-carrying active church membership, periodic interviews with your Bishop are required. For adults, part of this interview is basically a financial audit to make sure you're tithing appropriately. For younger members, it is often an interrogation about your sex life. I'm not and have never been Mormon, but I have heard some HIDEOUS stories about young women being interrogated, shamed, insulted, etc. during these meetings. It often goes way beyond the usual priest/penitent subject matter, delving directly into the sexual activity/thoughts/fantasies of minors.","The mainstream (like their fundamentalist brothercousins) LDS Church has lay leadership and a rigid hierarchical structure. Basically every male is an ""Elder,"" and at the head of each ""ward"" (basically a parish) is a lay ""Bishop."".",0
I can give good guarantee that discussions are at least occurring to put them in a second pass pile if for no other reason than the removal of programs teaching kids to work together.,"There’s been a noticeable increase in problems on this in recent years that the programs were designed to counteract… removing them results in kids that are belligerent, conflict seeking, convinced they’re gods gift… in short HR nightmares.",0
"The CDC for years estimated between 50,000-2,000,000 defensive gun uses per year. There are roughly 35,000 gun deaths per year. Subtract suicides, negligent deaths and police homicides, there is 12,000 some odd gun killings per year (which includes gang violence). 0.0003135% of all guns in the United States are used to commit a non gang related murder.",That statistic you're looking at is all gun deaths. 60 percent of those in the US are suicides. You look at homicides and the US isn't even in the top 10 and homicides are the only statistic worth looking at.,1
"So the Russians lost the element of surprise and suffered heavy losses to move up closer to Ukrainian guns. Ukrainian learned their lessons from Soledar and counter-attacked early and in force, negating meager Russian gains.","- Ukraine needs more and better trained soldiers to fight the Russian invasion forces. In addition, they need to increase their competence in several professional fields. It is important that Norway takes its share of this and contributes where we can, says Gram.",1
"I'm all for training and licensing for owning a gun just like driver's licenses. However, just like driver's licenses a state should develop an agency that handles the training and licensing not just expect the police to do it. As someone who supports defunding the police and stopping them from doing the jobs of social worker and mental health professionals, why on earth would I want them to have to do this job too?",Imagine if you will that they passed gun licensing laws like I suggest and then the nearest licensing center was 100 miles away. That's what states do with voter ID laws.,0
"If you paid attention you saw twitter actually had a conservative bias and Trump was the one who tried to censor Twitter. If you paid attention you saw Clinton defend herself from a brutal hearing for 9 hours and emberass the Republicans. If you watch Fox News then Republicans did a hearing about Twitter bias against conservatives, and since Twitter is so much on the news, twitter must have an anti-conservative bias Republicans did a hearing against Hillary, and since there are so many hearings against Hillary she must be corrupt.","Former republican here (I grew up in a Republican family, so naturally I used to be Republican minded), here’s what the Republicans think: they think that Twitter and almost all the news channels (CNN, NBC, MSNBC, whatever) are pretty much owned by the democrat party, which couldn’t be further from the truth. They think that the democrats are “brain washing” people through the news and through this (which again couldn’t be further from the truth). Oh yeah, and while we’re on the topic of brain washing, they think that teachers in the school system are also “brain washing” their kids. No joke, that’s actually what they think.",1
And I believe this round was caused by Biden and his team deciding to go check all the various locations that they might've handled classified documents in.,"Did Joe Biden do the same - intentionally hoarding documents and then lying about it? I see nothing that suggests that is the case. It does appear that someone, either VP Biden or a staffer, was careless and made a mistake somewhere along the line. It also appears that the right things were done once the mistake was discovered, which is what led to discovering additional documents. No search warrant was needed.",1
"If this is an organization created by the Legislative branch wouldn’t it be legal by that sole fact, and thus negating the need for this to be ruled on by SCOTUS? I don’t understand.","That’s why I am asking. I have a perception, but this isn’t something I understand. It gets muddled by other perceptions and opinions. It difficult to just assume that all cases that reach SCOTUS have merit. I also have an assumption that the legality is researched upon creation, but that means little either way. 😩 it’s also obfuscated by partisan goals.",0
Stacy Abrams was a better VP choice if Biden wanted to court the female POC vote. Democrats would have never won the Senate and the White House if it wasn't for Stacy Abrams.,"There are those people in congress and the senate, Harris just wasn't one of them. Biden has a much bigger profile than a lot of them and the field was honestly way too big (without ranked choice voting). None of the choices they announced or that were speculated for VP would've been the next ""one"" but someone like Karen Bass would've been 100% better than Harris. Personally hoping Ro Khana puts his hat in the ring for the 2024 primary (if there is one).",1
"I had hoped that with gay rights laws we'd see this kind of thing go away into irrelevance, but it seems like it's come back with a vengance. If this particular line of reasoning by the republicans falls out of favor, like hating on LGBTQ+ did for a while, then they'll just find another group to go after.","It's not right, but the republican party isn't concerned about quelling the idea, they're more interested in using it to gain support for their own agendas....one of which is criminalizing LGBTQ+ existence.",0
"This issue is a non issue as far as I’m concerned. Many young people, particularly young teens and older teens that are gay already feel stigmatized and this is another measure to single them out. It hasn’t been a big deal to any young person I know and just hampers teachers and students about what they can and do say. No one is pushing any young person (elementary to middle to high school) to be gay, it is a time to discuss (and they do among themselves) their sexuality.","Why do you think homophobes and transphobes are so mortally terrified of their kids having gay teachers and openly nonbinary classmates? Because they know damn well that as soon as their kids start meeting and interacting with queer people in real life, everything they've been taught about queer people at home and in church will be exposed for the bigoted bullshit that it is.",1
"So many women and little girls are being forced to experience devastating psychological trauma, having their physical health harmed, their futures irreparably shattered, and their actual lives put at risk bc Republicans decided to enact a nonsensical and medieval mentality about controlling women in the 21st century.",This is absolute madness and inane cruelty - Texas legislators subjected this woman to mental & physical torture and forced her to the brink of death for no reason whatsoever beyond their own petty ambitions.,1
Does expelling one Republican congressman really benefit the Democrats enough for them to support McCarthy? Santos certainly deserves it but I think the Democrats would need something more before they'd support McCarthy.,I kind of wonder if McCarthy would consider a deal to get a few Dem votes in exchange for Santos getting expelled. That feels like something everyone could rationalize to their respective parties.,1
"Smead explained that in the U.S. there are an estimated 92 million millennials, primarily in the 27- to 42-year-old age bracket. ""The last time we saw what we call 'wolverine inflation' — which is inflation that is hard for policymakers to stop — was when 75 million baby boomers had replaced 44 million silent generation people in the 1970s."".",....oh wow. Yet another thing we are blaming on one of the least fortunate generations in modern American history.,1
"We had enough of Russia breaking into small countries in the 50's here in Europe: in fact, most of my country's issues stem from these assholes occupying Eastern Europe for the better half of the last century.",100 years ago Russia could hide a lot of what they are doing right now and also spread a lot of lies about Ukraine that Ukraine would have trouble fighting as a smaller country with less resources.,1
"The guy who greeted me at the local DNC was in Pajamas, I was given a clip board with questions on who people were voting for and to offer a ride to polling places.","Still angry do to the behavior of Trumps party I called for yard signs in 2020 and was told to come pick them up. I can promise if I had called the GOP it would have been, how many and how big?",0
I liked when he blamed the west for the rise of the nazis as a military power despite the fact that Nazi Germany and the USSR had a deal to invade and divide Eastern Europe and the USSR hosted 4 secret bases to train the German army and German pilots between 1922 and 1933.,"Not only have they forgotten Stalin sided with Hitler but apparently the allies lend lease and military support never happened and they fought off the whole of the ""collective West"" on their own. What a load of bullshit.",1
"The people of Hungary, Poland, Belarus endured horrific suffering under the fascist and then the communist dictatorships.","You would think Hungarys experience under foreign leadership (Nazi then Soviet) and the potential loss of life possibly in the millions, that they would sympathize with another country that was having its sovereignty destroyed.",1
"If Putin loses these borders, his strategy will no longer work, since he will no longer be able to pretend that the ball is not in his court. He would have to either accept defeat (something that will likely cost him his power, or worse), or change his message to once again go from a faux-defensive war to an openly offensive one, with an unclear end and many future casualties. After a year of disasters and no evidence of things improving in the short or even medium term, Putin cannot be sure Russians are eager to once again go on the offensive, one which they now know will be long, bloody, and heavily rely on conscripts that have zero desire to be there (his professional army having been mauled within the first year.).","2. Play the victim who ""only wants peace"" to the world community, and blame the West for the continued ""escalation."".",0
"And he also seems to actually be an originalist, which, again while I disagree with I can at least respect that he has a view and intelligently argues for it.","I totally agree with you there, which is why I would never agree with originalism myself. Just saying, I'd have more respect for a judge who claimed to be an originalist and stood by those principles, instead of being a total hypocrite.",1
"I don't understand how you can watch Biden get bills passed through an eye of the needle in Congress, and then rag-doll the Republicans the way he did last night, and still scream ""Biden's senile A younger progressive could be even more effective"".","If I were the Dems, I would have the clip of Kevin McCarthy sitting there looking sour-faced after Biden says ""our democracy remains unbowed and unbroken"" playing on a loop in 2024.",0
"I finally said screw them, and have taken back Our flag! I'm anticipating that some maga idiot will mistake me for one of their own...at which point I'll have some verbal fun.",I was angry that tgey seem to have confiscated the flag....for quite some time I was hesitant to fly the US FLAG or wear anything 'patriotic' for fear of looking like a right wing idiot.,0
"Apple can even track your location even if your Apple device is turned off, using other Apple users near you. The chip components of your device actually still have power and tracking is still active.","I (actually apple) can track my iPhone's location, even when its powered off, no data & while moving. using find my network (you can ""turn it off"" but judging by this news).",0
"No one knows. What we do know is that last 15 years of research is probably wrong, at the very least partly wrong.","Care to cite those hundreds of times? I am aware of failed replications, but no one bothers to publish those. I am not, however, aware of replications of results linking amyloid to Alzheimer's.",0
"Because we have confirmation from the Ukrainian and UK MoD about their missile stocks getting depleted, because we have confirmation of drone attacks that forced their fleet to stay on secured docks and Russia seeking security guarantees for their fleet on the grain deal, because we have confirmation that Obama era sanctions greatly reduced their ability to make modern weaponry and recent ones just killed it?.",They are depleting their missile stocks (With the exception of the cheaper ones which they still have in high numbers) and I believe NATO already have the data they need about their hypersonic missiles.,0
"There is an EU-wide payment scheme called CAP. It was controversial in the way it worked but ironically, the U.K. post-Brexit scheme is now under threat despite farmers being convinced they would be better out of the EU. It’s not enough though in any case.","Yeah also that. But also fleeing for a warzone, famine or disease. Some kids didnt have their parents, so it was hard for them to know when they were born.",1
TCM isn't the reason why they insist on using domestically produced versions of the COVID vaccines which are significantly less effective than the foreign produced versions of the same vaccines.,The issue isn't that they're pushing TCM but that the actual medicine that they do use are just less effective than their foreign counterparts.,0
"I think the article refers to instability in Chechnya, not Kadyrov somehow obtaining control over whole of Russia. Whatever Kadyrov is, he doesn't simply have the resources to be as evil as Putin.","Kadyrov has been ""loyal"" to Russia but I have no doubt that it is almost entirely self preservation, and he'd turn on them in a second if it could somehow work for him.",1
"It's not all bad. Having Chinese students in the US/Canada helps westernize them and expose them to democratic values, so even if they go back to China after graduating, they're still taking those ideals back with them to the mainland.","I get that, but when China is being blatantly adversarial and openly spying on us, I wonder when we decide to stop educating their elite wealthy students who it seems are going back to just help China continue being more aggressive.",1
Then we have these comments with mind stretch looking for ways in which it could still have been launched by russian.,Reddit mindset is funny considering that all other posts suggesting it's been launched by russia and suggesting the trigger of a war are 20x more voted.,0
"I think that's the big message being sent - Ukraine is being given the best anti-ballistic missile system, which has real combat experience backing it up.",Giving Ukraine Patriot missiles gives them a way to defend against a pre-emptive nuclear attack while gaining zero offensive capability. I'm not surprised that Russia is pissed off - they've lost one of their biggest threats now.,0
"Wow. It's called Olanda in Romania, so it's a common mistake to make when switching to English. Hell, I've even seen Dutch people refer to the Netherlands as Holland. And regardless, saying ""opinion disregarded"" to someone who's complaining about discrimination because they got a name wrong is really shitty.","Not that these things have anything to do with Schengen accession, for which the criteria are very clear and fully met, but still, it's always nice to refute a racist's misconceptions.",0
"Well, one likely thing is Russia wouldn’t have developed nukes. The Nazis were doing well towards making nukes, and Russian forces captured nuke info from an overthrown German research area.","The Japanese actually came closer to building nukes than the Germans did. There's even rumors that they tested a nuke a few days before surrendering in what's now present day North Korea. There's even a Japanese movie about their atomic bomb project called ""Gift of Fire."".",1
The basic point is that the natural resources of the Amazon rainforest is inherently going to be a temptation for any Brazilian government looking for short-term profit and growth. The idea is to realign the economic incentives by offering access to a substantial fund if they don't start slicing it up.,"There's no corruption about this. Lula has a pretty excellent record on protecting the rainforest, this deal was negotiated with Norway by him, and it was suspended by Bolsonaro who decided to tear up the rainforest for profit.",0
He's saying that because people criticized police officers and pointed out a need for better police officers we can't have better police officers because the people who would be better police officers won't want to join while people want better police officers.,There aren’t “enough good people” seeking to become cops because the “good people” simply recognize that law enforcement culture is both dangerous AND toxic as hell.,1
"Well, gee, you outlaw the lawful purchase of guns, and people use 21-Century technology to make their own. Did this actually come as a surprise to anyone? The concept of people improvising their own weapons to get around laws has been going on for thousands of years.","My point wasn't about the criminal laws. It was more about the apparent ""surprise"" at the rise in ghost guns, as cited in the article. That should have been anticipated years ago.",0
"Not to mention that when parents are able to threaten teachers with reviews in ways that make grades suspect, good grades from Florida schools or elsewhere with these policies become unreliable indicators of capabilities.","Bullying is going to escalate for anyone who doesn't meet this governor's idea of who is valuable for students, for teachers, for children of folks who aren't the ideal citizen. Much as I would like to believe otherwise, I genuinely fear for people's lives. Hmmmm...I already fear for people's lives at this point. .",1
Not quite true -- what customer service would SpaceX even have? Tesla has a large network of Service Centers and takes pretty good care of its SuperCharger network.,Check out their GigaPress. He credits the company that makes them for Tesla and has talked up how significant the use of a single pressed car body is for many reasons.,0
"Both McCarthy and McConnell said it was a good thing for Pelosi to go. Sure they had reasons why they didn't like it to their expectations, but both agreed that is was something Pelosi should have done.","That was the complaint about Pelosi going over there, which I agreed with, and I agree McCarthy going there is wrong as well.",1
"I like to flip it around. By this logic don’t higher personal income tax rates just get passed on to businesses as increased costs of labor? If I paid a higher tax rate I’d demand higher pay, but that’s not how it works, my pay is determined by the market based on location, credentials, experience, etc.","Prices are limited by what the market will pay, with considerations for cost of inputs and overhead. Income taxes are calculated after-the-fact based on net profits and have no bearing on how prices are determined.",0
"But that isn't all. The Speaker sets the agenda for the entire house. He could, as an example, refuse to allow a house vote on any legislation with his name on it. His sponsorship would effectively be a death knell.","And this says nothing about the House Leadership Fund or McCarthy's status among the Republican Party leadership. At some point Gaetz is going to want money and McCarthy is going to laugh in his face or have his friends do it for him. These outlaws may be able to get reelected, but there is every chance they'll end up the GOP's poor relatives after this stunt.",0
"Let me ask you a question: when someone says UN, are you thinking merely of the framework, or the realization of that framework when populated with the constituent member states that take part in it's machinations?","Am I misunderstanding your wording or are Member States a separate concept from the UN? Because from a poorly educated perspective that sounds like ""Congress doesn't appoint this position, Congressmen must vote on the appointees."".",1
"Seems to me Democrats are missing a huge opportunity here…they could each take turns being nominated for speaker, and one-by-one each get more votes than McCarthy.","It wouldn’t just be for humiliation, but for an hour or two each nominee would have a spotlight on them to talk about what they would do for the country - which you wouldn’t get if it was just Jeffries every time.",0
"sure, not all but vast majority of the policy-making bank management will be american. they do not necessarily make policies, they just bend them and get loans because they are too big to fail for the problem caused only by them and nobody else, let's instead let ripples kickoff the worst inflation since depression caused by, oh guess who, 80 years ago.","i have nothing to be outraged about, i live off of my own skills and work and do not leech off the other people nor am i in the money-mongering business, unlike bankers. neither i harbor specific national love or hate, it means nothing to me, sorry not sorry for being above that all. come hate on me some more with downvotes . it is the price of freedom i will gladly pay any and every day.",0
"Mm. Slavery didn’t happen huh? This is just white supremacy as old as colonialism. Historic facts does not care about your feelings. These kids are not gonna have a fun time having to actually learn history later. And why, random Internet stranger, do you think that your skin color matter?","Studying the errors and criticizing your country for its faults, errors and even rights is exactly what made western education strong. Liberalism is the very fundamental of the democratic ideal - free thought and free opinion even at the expense and perhaps particularly at the expense of nationalist and authoritarians that starts crying “woke education”, “marxist” or “globalist” at things they don’t like. If you would have studied history you would know it’s the exact same things the nazis was saying about education in Germany. And no one gives a f about your skin color - if you think that white supremacy and it’s ideals and thinking only can apply to white people it is painfully clear that people in US needs more education and not less.",0
"I can't wait for the vote to take place, it'll be nice to not have to worry on behalf of so many people that I know and care about.","I want to be clear that this sucks balls, but right now, with the votes we have, our options are ""don't protect ourselves at all"" and ""at least make sure that our marriages remain acknowledged once SCOTUS does what we all know they're going to do"".",0
"End the policy of “Awww poor widdle baby with untweeted schizophwenia do you want some medications? No? You think I’m an alien and would rather smoke meth, cover yourself in your own shit and scream at children walking by? Well it would be vewwy vewwy mean of us to involuntarily commit you, and you seem to like it on this sidewalk, so you continue being your unique and special self.”.",This isn’t specific to Vancouver this is every western city with a homeless problem because literally all of them refuse to do those 3 things.,0
"It’s pointless to dig up photos like this and wave them around as a gotcha. It’s just evidence that they see it all as something to make fun of, and the fact that others take it seriously probably makes it even funnier to them. Best to attack ideas and the crazy shit that currently comes out of their camp.","C’mon now, you can be supportive without selling yourself so damn short. If you could afford the most expensive cosmetics, tailored dresses, and spent hours doing your makeup you would definitely look as feminine as a drag queen.",0
Or do you mean the laws voted on/passed by the democraticly elected Members of the European Parliament (MEP)?,You mean the laws drafted by the democraticly elected heads of each country? AKA the European Council? The very laws that have greatly increased Europe's wealth because it removes the red tape on trade and people movement.,0
"It's the ukrainians that are at fault here because they don't want to stop defending their country, don't want to negotiate with russia and give some of their regions to Russia. This all Zelenski's fault not saint Putin.","I'm sorry, i was being sarcastic. I understand why you missed it though, there's a lot of infuriating comments like that in here.",0
"PS. It wasn't long after our custom game was made that Argentina literally just cancelled the currency, and started a new one. If you hadn't traded in your ""Australes"" for the new ""Pesos,"" they were literally garbage. Of course, trading them in was pennies on the thousands, or worse. Hence our new game was born.","We left Argentina in 1994, plenty of extended family left behind. All these years later, same old shit. My father (visiting family) just got a haircut down there for like $1.75ish US. People are desperate. Failed state, no jobs, no money, barely enough food.",0
"I’d like to see his 80 year old geriatric ass stand outside in the middle of a Phoenix summer with a corn hat for 8 hours with no shade. Note: I’m saying just stand. Not even pick up a shovel, haul up shit totaling over 1000 lbs 70 vertical feet by rope, or even on a rooftop inside an enclosed mechanical system where there is zero air conditioning and the body is stainless steel metal.","Those 8 unions make up less than half of all railroad workers. This isn’t hard to figure out. Ignore the number of unions, pay more attention to the percentage of workers that voted against this deal and told their union reps to try again or we strike.",0
"Even most Israelis know this judicial ""reform"" isn't a good path to be on. Israeli politicians from across the spectrum are voicing concerns about the proposed ""reform"". Even right wing politicians like Gideon Saar (a lonime Likud member who split off from Netanyahu due to his corruption), Avigdor Lieberman (right wing secular party with ties to Putin), and Benny Gantz (former IDF Chief of Staff) are all speaking out against the breakdown of Israeli democracy if this passes in its current form.","Netyahoo has proven to be a far right war hawk zealot before so Israelis voted him out, now he magically reappears, another trump piece of trash, come on Israel if Americans can evict wannabe dictator criminal Trump from office, the good Israeli can oust criminal Net, if the system is fairly working, and if the system isn’t working, fix it Israel before you drag others in to a war nobody wants.",1
"Romania has a deep hatred for anything russian, my grandmother told me that under russian occupation in the moldavian area they starved while the soldiers stole their food and my grandfather's sister was executed by a russian soldier by a nearby river where they washed the clothes cause she resisted the rape.","Even Ceausescu, the former communist leader of Romania hated Russia lmao, there was a myth in my country that Russia tried to invade Communist Romania and we retaliated with lazers that melt their tanks lmao.",0
"Redpillers were making their way towards ""Americans first"" legislature to try to pull troops out of the M.E., but Biden being the guy to actually do it made him the guy who makes America look cowardly.","He probably caused the pandemic by advocating for masks which scared people and made them breathe harder which spread the virus quicker, even though it's not airborne OR dangerous, of course.",0
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"One intentionally stole hundreds of documents, many that literally aren’t supposed to leave the room they’re in, concealed them, refused to give them back, pretended to give them all back, and then had to have his home raided to get them all back (but there’s still some missing).","Only because trump and his supporters cant understand nuance and think missing some documents after leaving office is the same as intentionally stealing thousands of, many above top secret, documents and then intentionally withholding them and lying to investigators until ultimately your house has to be raided by the FBI because you won’t comply.",0
"My understanding is it is really the other way around, the venues all basically purchased ticket master, and the fees are more like hiding the blame. “Don't look at us, ticket master is doing it.” Ticketmaster just lets the venues and performers pretend that they aren‘t behind the fees.",How does one go about selling tickets without outrageous hidden fees? I still fail to understand the fees for an online transaction. Just add it to the original ticket price and stop dicking people around.,1
"If she's so miserable (not actually) doing her job she should leave. Also, she can't complain about her salary when her mere presence in Congress is preventing much needed legislation from being passed to help those who are barely scraping by right now.","It's not our job to fix her problems as she seems to think, it's the other way around. Congress is supposed to be about public service not just serving oneself.",0
"I think the real military actions in case of an article 5 would be far more robust in reality than what is currently being done for Ukraine. However, in a situation where all the members of NATO wanted to avoid direct confrontation but still abide by the terms, the situation in Ukraine would be comparable.","If somehow the U.S. congress and president justified to themselves that 'thoughts and prayers' were deemed 'necessary', then maybe. Article 5 does say that member nations should act in sufficient capacity as if they were themselves attacked.",0
"The Torries strike again. But the UK and US are the two biggest tax havens in world, so its no wonder these two governments would be against this type of reporting.","I'm not saying that US and UK companies aren't the biggest offenders, just that the tax havens they use are located elsewhere.",1
"Ukraine was nowhere near being an ally to NATO prior to 2014, most people were still skeptical of NATO due to lingering Soviet influence. And even after 2014 there were still limits in how much support countries in NATO gave Ukraine - they did drastically improve the military but they made no effort to, say, train Ukrainian pilots on Western aircraft or train Ukrainian soldiers on Western artillery or vehicles (or even convert Ukraine to NATO-compatible equipment).","Of course I want NATO and the US to supply Ukraine with even more and it is frustrating to see them refuse to supply long range munitions while my relatives have to hide in the basement from missile strikes, but I'm also grateful that NATO and other nations have provided so much and continue to assert their support for Ukraine. If support was not provided - both when the war started in 2014 and when it escalated in 2022 - I know that people would have still fought against Russia but it would have been even more brutal and difficult for the people to stand against Russian imperialism.",0
"Geopolitics moves really slowly most of the time. These people have waited most of a century, they are not in a rush. Don't get too caught up in all the young people being excited about something actually geopolitically exciting happening for the first time in their lives (Russo-Ukrainian War) and expecting that to be a new normal or something.","It's slow and boring, just like usual. If China doesn't launch its attack for another 20 years, I honestly wouldn't be that surprised.",0
"Not arguing in bad faith here, but the current makeup of SCOTUS will need an actual amendment to the constitution or federal law to ever interpret a right to abortion being law.","You may be right, but abortion was never actually in the Constitution so how could it be unconstitutionalized ? I think the bigger question here is the individual's right to sue the government without undue burden, ie having to pay the state their legal expenses. And I'm sort of split on this, while I believe anyone should be able to sue any level of government, there are also people who enter into repeated frivolous lawsuits.",1
"It allowed development of ICBM, and when the nuclear part sunsets in 2025, they have full reign to do as they please with nukes and will have a delivery system.","So while Iran waited for the deal to sunset, they got to enjoy selling oil again and develop all the other technological requirements to deliver a nuke.",0
"Yeah, I lived in Charleston for a few years. It's only progressive due to the large number of transplants living and moving there. Columbia and Greenville are a little bit progressive, too. I'm hoping that enough people continue moving to the state from other areas of the country to make the races more competitive, even though the natives hate it!","Yeah, I often heard locals disparaging people who moved there. Guess I blended in enough to hear this. I wanted to tell them that my husband and I were both recruited for jobs that required graduate degrees because there weren't enough educated local people to fill them, but I kept my mouth shut. Bless their hearts.",0
Kazakh crude is pumped through a network of Russian pipelines to export terminals at Ust-Luga and Novorossiysk.,"Kazakhstan might divert some of their own mixed, relabeled crude to Germany and import more crude from Russia to service their existing contracts.",1
"with Ukraine hitting ruzzia proper, they already have. if ruzzia goes nuclear, china will be going insane, india and pakistan will fucking flip their shit. even NK would be pissed. u DO NOT break a nuclear taboo, cause then u open the floodgates. while putin might not care, those around and below him want to spend their hard-stolen cash.","where is Ukraine going to expand to? Nuclear NATO it wants to join, or Nuclear Russia that cannot use nukes in Ukraine cause of geopolitics or Russia on its internationally recognized soil should its survival be threatened by a Ukrainian counter invasion?",0
"If the railways are really so vital to Americans' survival and the economy as a whole, the entire system should be nationalized restructured as a non-profit.","Not going to matter if they don't enforce hiring more people. And in the end it doesn't change the culture, which is to maximize shareholder value at the expense of nearly everything else.",0
"The Iowa Caucuses are ""a particularly undemocratic way of picking a nominee,"" and may have been essential in propelling a first-term senator to the Democratic nomination in 2008.",Sorry to rile you up--this is not an emotional issue for me. I really never care about Iowa unless I'm driving through it. I was merely speculating on how this alignment would have played out 15 years ago. I very much prefer Georgia or Michigan.,0
"Reparations? Putin, Shoigu, Naryshkin, the Wagner creep etc. need to sit in a boxes in the Hague wearing orange. That or the Russians rebel and they swing from lampposts outside the Kremlin.","Which doesn't change the fact that Putin and his fascist apparatus will seek revenge on the west and will aggressively rearm and rebuild their military. With one single goal: revenge. Sure, there will be more fireworks when that occurs because everyone else will arm too. But does that sound like a recipe for ""saving lives""?",0
This was also the Chinese answer to Canada as to why the Chinese were detaining and questioning Chinese people in Canada.,How’s that case of espionage they were going to try with the Chinese person they found within the Canada ?utilities? (not certain company type) or was it a uni coming along?,0
When I was 16 and the '90s I had to answer a bunch of psychological questions to work at my local big grocery in St. Louis.,"And with that license you should have to see a psychologist a couple times a year to make sure a person is mentally stable to own a firearm like a 2-hour test or just a 2-hour talk. And also mandatory firearm safety class before you own one, and also proper maintenance because a broken or not properly maintained firearm is a dangerous firearm too.",0
4. Spread out your troops and ammo as much as possible to prevent mass cassualties and secondary explosions.,"They're getting taken out by drones that spot them, artillery, drop grenades on them, and drop anti tank grenades that destroy their limited supply tanks.",1
"It’s clear to them Trump isn’t the way anymore. If they do go against Trump, which they most likely will, it’s because they are desperate for moderate votes, not because they gained a conscience.","Then again, his voters are lemmings who do what they’re told by him and Fox, so if it’s not OKed by either of them, I doubt the GOP will buck the trend.",1
">You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.","The New Covenant (Jesus, etc) was just that: a new covenant (aka contract). It was a renegotiation of the original one with updated rules and membership requirements. (There apparently was a prophecy in the Old Testament predicting it, but it's a bit of an ass-pull retcon).",0
Trump would instantly turn on any lawyer that suggested he wasn't smart and mentally competent. His narcissism absolutely will not allow it.,"He also doesn't meet the definition of legally insane since he hid his actions and engaged in other deceitful behavior, proving he knew it was wrong.",0
Europe has been making efforts to get Ukraine on their side against Russia since the end of the cold war.,This ends with the restoration of Ukraine's borders and a demilitarized zone around the border for Russia. So long as Russian military doesn't enter that zone there is no conflict. If they enter it Ukraine would be free to use whatever means it wishes to destroy it as far as the west would be concerned. No need to invade Russia. Just bombard with missiles any military near the border ensuring Russia can never build up forces for another war.,1
This ends with the restoration of Ukraine's borders and a demilitarized zone around the border for Russia. So long as Russian military doesn't enter that zone there is no conflict. If they enter it Ukraine would be free to use whatever means it wishes to destroy it as far as the west would be concerned. No need to invade Russia. Just bombard with missiles any military near the border ensuring Russia can never build up forces for another war.,"Which is why I'm sure if Ukranian strikes into Russia continue, Russia will start using their civilian population as human shields. They don't care about losses, and the optics in the West are bad for Ukraine if civilians are hit as collateral damage.",1
Exactly. It's just another way for right wing wannabe authoritarians to pretend they're being oppressed.,"I think narcissism is part of it, certainly on the part of many right-wing politicians advocating the right-wing version of free speech. However I think there's another aspect to it and that is the willingness of conservative voters to believe what the narcissists are saying.",1
"Sound good, but means nothing. So him choosing not to live in the Pope's luxury quarters but in a small apartment only sounds good, but means nothing? So him still driving his almost 40 year old beater of a car only sounds good, but means nothing? So him turning the Pope's summer vacation palace into a public museum only sounds good, but means nothing?","So that history makes it even more important to try to change. And Francis tries to be the example of that change. He lives in a simple apartment --- not the Pope's luxury quarters. He drives an old car, a 1984 Renault 4L.",0
What you've just described here is exactly how a democratic judiciary should operate: With a clear standard/test for constitutionality. Blocking unconstitutional amendments is the very job of a supreme court.,"No, blocking constitutional amendment is not what a Supreme Court should be doing. The people should decide what makes up their constitution, not unelected judges. The Court should be able to strike down regular laws that violate the Constitution the people decided on, they should not write it themselves?",1
"We do need prison reform tho, and something like organ donations in prison would need extremely strict oversight with severe punishment if abused.",They're adults and it's their bodies. They can do what they want with their organs. If they want to help another human being who needs an organ that is a commendable act and they should be rewarded for their selflessness.,0
"Really though, Biden at least seems to be healthy for his age. Trump is a known McDonald's frequenter. Biden probably suffers from some brain deficiency caused by old age, but today's technology and well-trained aides and staff probably make up for that. Biden is cognitively stable and active; Trump is only a few years younger, is overconfident and doesn't care about his own health. If Biden has to pass along his duties at least temporarily, we have VP Harris for that.",Sane old guy with maybe some brain issues but with a good backup plan vs a whackass old man who caters to the Christian taliban and denies science. Biden is better.,0
"Not that simple though. In the post Mao era, the idea was that closer economic trade with a country would eventually lead to democracy or at least good improvement on human rights. And it worked in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Eastern Europe. But China and Russia showed that it wont' work with larger countries that have economic pull -- China with their massive economy and Russia with their oil and gas influence and power.","""now"". That was 2005. And that his attempt to find a solution that might actually work -- they really want independence but that's not going to happen. So he aims for autonomy. Which is why ""The Dalai Lama also stated in 2008 that he wishes only for Tibetan autonomy, and not separation from China, under certain conditions, like freedom of speech and expression, genuine self-rule, and control over ethnic makeup and migration in all areas claimed as historical Tibet"".",0
"It’s time for police reform, full stop. Stop branding it as “Defund the police” and call it “Police accountability” or “Law enforcement reform”.",\3 Get rid of internal affairs departments that are just made up of cops investigating themselves. Police departments should be audited and overseen by civilian oversite so if you have to make a complaint against a cop you're not just reporting it to one of their buddies on the force.,1
"This is why you get accused of antisemitism. This is not an article about Israel, why should we be talking about it in this thread?","That's true, but we also shouldn't let this get in the way of legitimate discourse about Israel's policies.",1
"I was thinking more extreme. Cut off food to their staff, especially their security teams. Make them fend for themselves. Anybody who supports their anti-humanity efforts gets completely shunned from the benefits of society. Tatoo their foreheads. When they show up at hospitals for critical care, they get none. And if the support staff have all of their own resources, cut off the staff that supports that staff. Cutoff their families. Class warfare BY the wealthy has continued unabated forever. It's time to fight back by making them see the benefits of the society that the PEOPLE create, not billionaires.","Yeah I wish my fellow Americans would realize that we'd all be better off uniting against the billionaires, and the power of a good ol' general strike.",1
What do you have to say about the state violating what are supposed to be Constitutionally protected rights of U.S. citizens? There has been a Supreme Court decision in very recent times that also forbids the banning of guns that are in common use. Semi-automatic (NOT machine guns) firearms have been in common use for over 100 years.,"The CDC for years estimated between 50,000-2,000,000 defensive gun uses per year. There are roughly 35,000 gun deaths per year. Subtract suicides, negligent deaths and police homicides, there is 12,000 some odd gun killings per year (which includes gang violence). 0.0003135% of all guns in the United States are used to commit a non gang related murder.",0
"I don't know what's worse, this or the fact that Elon Musk thinks Twitter polls are representative of reality.","Attention seeking people like Musk and Trump have been promoting themselves on Twitter for years, nothing really changes with Musk owning it.",1
"He would only threaten this to win over Republican Party officials to support him. He and they know him running as a third party candidate would split the vote and ensure a democrat win. He’s not an idiot, and would not do this to win an election.","If he does end up running as a third party candidate, it would only be a vehicle to extort more money from his cult, and to screw over the republicans who turned on him.",0
"Israel doesn't want peace, they want war and death. Iran wants to give it to them. It sure seems it would be best to stop encouraging this on both sides.",But the rest of the world (USA) could stop giving billions in weapons to Israel. Weaponiszing Israel and Saudi Arabia is going to create a gigantic war with Iran. You don't start handing out weapons to people who hate others without expecting them to be used.,0
"This country was not founded for Democrats. Nor was it founded for Republicans. Dumbass Americans turned party affiliation into hardened religions. Both these religions want complete control of the body and body politic. Both religions demand you praise and tithe the quadrennial messiah. If you don't, one side wants to nag you to death, the other wants to shoot you to death. Belonging to either of these religions means the stripping of the individual in favor of mass hysteria. Belonging to either of these religions is a spiritual, intellectual, ethical, moral, physical and mental rot. It doesn't have to be this way and it is not why this nation was founded.","Arizona. But yes, it does. Because the founding principles are still true. It's a value system. It is and always was based on the individual rights of man. That's why it was so ground breaking. It's not about a party or parties. Those are fads and should not be the prime mover in ANYONE'S life. It's all very simple. Except, of course, humans are able to complicate baking a cake. Let alone governing issues. Take for example religion. The word GOD does not appear in The Constitution, at all. But there are millions of people who claim it's there in some mystical non written magical way. Those people are liars.",0
And it's going to get a LOT tougher still in a few weeks when the expected massive offense is going to start.,"Russians don't seem too bothered taking all those losses, I wonder how much longer the Ukranians can keep it up.",0
"So he was convicted for murder, joined the invasion for a pardon and deserted, was then traded back to Russia as a pow for a ukraine pow, and the Wagner gang murdered him.","Yeah, he was prison, Wagner, surrendered, prisoner of war, given back to Russia, then killed for surrendering.",1
"Another highly convoluted idea might be for Russia to supply crude into Kazakhstan’s oil refining system, freeing Kazakhstan to put its own barrels into Druzhba. Kazakhstan could then sell KEBCO — the rebranded Urals — to Germany. The Pavlodar refinery in eastern Kazakhstan previously processed Russian crude and could presumably do so again, as long as there is sufficient capacity in the pipeline through eastern Kazakhstan to supply the plant and continue to meet Russia’s exports to China along that same route.","Kazakhstan’s KMG Trading, a subsidiary of state oil company KazMunayGas JSC, puts 13 million tons a year into the Russian pipeline system and is allocated an equivalent amount of Urals that it can then sell internationally.",0
"Their borders are so long, that they are impossible to defend, especially with their lack of infrastructure, but they also lack men to sufficiently protect. Most countries have natural borders helping them, such as mountains, big bodies of water etc. But that's not the case for Russia. What Russia fears more than anything, is NATO, and rightly so. If NATO went in, Russias only option quickly becomes nukes. NATO members see NATO as a deterrent/defensive alliance, but it's viewed the opposite in Russia.","NATO countries aren’t really actively doing anything, and the collective west is not in or near Ukraine.",1
So Seoul proper and southern Seoul metro may be a bit of a stretch yeah depending on how modern their artillery and ammunition is.,"The source below says that only 1/3 of Seoul is actually in range (only the northern part), which is less dense populated than the rest. And the farther south you go from the border, the less artillery is able to hit those long ranges. They may have some 30-40km artillery, but those are few apart and not in relevant numbers.",1
I mean—there are some shady things in Republican Lauren Boebart’s past that could be investigated. She has sworn that the user profile on the call girl website wasn’t hers….,Seriously—Republican Santos seems like just the guy to draw a spotlight on corruption and lying in the halls of Congress.,0
"It's really incomprehensible that there is such a wide disconnect across the whole media spectrum really as to just how depraved these acts were. Maybe that's the issue at its core. We aren't allowed, by law, to even discuss the repercussions of these wilfull acts because he holds some title.","All 3 of these things so obviously demands the removal from any position that could cause even more damage and any and all methods to remove this danger to so many should be on the table. The very very very least the Republicans should have done is remove this threat themselves, but...",0
"In 2016, Trump held accounts in China, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Saint Martin, according to CNN. He again listed the first three the following year, and only the U.K. in 2018 and 2020.In 2016, Trump held accounts in China, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Saint Martin, according to CNN. He again listed the first three the following year, and only the U.K. in 2018 and 2020.","""Trump had bank accounts in China while he was in office until 2018,"" Goldman wrote in a tweet. ""Generally, you only have bank accounts in a foreign country if you are doing transactions in that country's currency. What business was Trump doing in China while he was President?"".",0
"If there ever was a Defamation suit that could combat Fox News and its Editorial shows it might be Dominion's civil suit. From my not lawyer understanding Dominion has to show both intent and damages which is very difficult to do. However Dominion has texts and internal communications saying they did not agree in accusations of fraud and they have show damages, the number of canceled contracts by multiple states specifically commenting on potential fraud.",Final reason why Dominion could pull it off. They have the money and legal team to fight it. Fox will not be able simply tie the case up and extend it till Dominion runs out of money.,0
"Yes, the F-35 can kick the ass of every other small plane out there (just not the F22 which is larger and more expensive). But if they ran with several cheaper, and faster to deliver projects (an F16 replacement, an F14 replacement, etc, and maybe some requirement that a helmet and computers can be used in all of them) they might be ready to have 6th gen fighters ready to roll out now.","This is still true, hopefully they end up gluing together fighters to get the double engine configuration we need, so we actually only purchased 44 F-70's.",1
"It is better to support Ukraine against an unprovoked invasion and genocidal occupation. Allowing Russia to take what it wants is a dangerous and appeasing precedent. Russia can end this whenever they want by leaving Ukraine, yet it's somehow Ukraine's fault Russia is continuing to attack them?","Russia effectively had parts them for eight years and Ukraine could do nothing about it, and Russia occupies Crimea as well. None of that stopped Russia from wanting more and claiming to annex Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia now. Giving Russia an inch was not going to stop them from trying to take a mile.",0
"Looking at how the war is going, and the way the geography affects strategy, they will probably retake Crimea before they retake all of the seized eastern oblasts.","May I remind you of when Ukraine, a country without a Navy, sank Russia’s flagship, the москва? And that was before we gave them any decent weapons. And that Turkey is not allowing Russia’s Northern Fleet into the Black Sea to augment its Black Sea Fleet?",0
But getting piped supplies of Kazakh crude thousands of miles to refineries in eastern Germany would present huge challenges on multiple fronts. The first is that the pipelines through which the oil would have to flow are Russian — the giant Druzhba network.,Kazakh crude is pumped through a network of Russian pipelines to export terminals at Ust-Luga and Novorossiysk.,0
"See how dumb that is? Why does Texas have the right to blame everyone else for their own problems? Oh, right, because it's not so much a problem as it is a chance to politicize this issue, demonize non-white people, and attack democrats.","""In Feburary, the Mayor of Buffalo waited until a day below freezing in Texas. He began to truck down mountains of snow and dump them in the middle of major intersections, and into the driveway of Texas lawmakers. 'Why do we have to deal with snow? It's not fair that Texas is warmer. They either need to step up and help us with our snow and other weather issues, or we'll keep dumping snow down there until they listen.'"".",0
How does Biden justify a ban on assault weapons when this shit can happen Willy Nilly. I’ve never been remotely with the GOP but the concept that I can at least own a rifle and die by it is much better than the idea that some regime can shoot me and my wife cause we want our rights.,"I’m not a gun toting bible thumper or anything, but I have to admit that with 1.2 guns for every man, woman and child ‘government crackdowns’ like this aren’t even possible in America….",1
"The Wagner Group has roughly 50,000 personnel currently stationed in Ukraine, including 40,000 convicts who have been recruited from Russian jails, according to the White House. Its fighters have recently been involved in heavy fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, and forced Ukrainian troops to retreat from the town of Soledar this week.","""As sanctions and export controls on Russia from our international coalition continue to bite, the Kremlin is desperately searching for arms and support — including through the brutal Wagner Group — to continue its unjust war against Ukraine,"" Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement. ""Today's expanded sanctions on Wagner, as well as new sanctions on their associates and other companies enabling the Russian military complex, will further impede Putin's ability to arm and equip his war machine."".",0
"This lack of regulation leading to innocent deaths, for example, is the difference between a ""no-regulations"" state like Texas (where chemical plants blow up next to residential areas, just like in India) and California (where they do not). And a key difference between the USA in the 21st century and the USA in the 19th century, before these laws and regulations were enacted.",You don't understand America regulated this in the US after the exact same thing happened almost 100 years ago?,1
"This way Dems can say ""We made good faith efforts on bills X, Y, and Z and Republicans wouldn't even come to the negotiating table"" going into 2024.","This isn't naivety on Biden's part. I'm pretty sure he's well aware of what he's in for with a Republican house. This is his way of making it public that he's willing to work with Republicans, while knowing full well they won't do a damn thing to compromise.",0
"As for vessel Owners, well the freight rates are sky rocketing. It used to be about 600k usd to take a 30kt cargo from russian black sea to ARA range. Now it's over 3.5 million. They are totaly in control and if you want your cargo moved, you are forced to pay this freight rate. Offcourse those costs are passed to you and me.","Once the transfere is done, and the russian cargo is now mixed with the original cargo of the mother ship, the owners of the cargo can request the chamber of commerce (a relevant CoC authority, it cannot be a CoC from the UK when the ship is sitting in the territorial water of let's say Spain, it has to be a Spanish CoC). The CoC the issues a certificate of origin as Spanish origin...",0
"So its not one or the other. Force the Rail companies to give the Unions what they want. Instead, Biden is forcing the Unions to take what the Rail companies want.","""Union anger at deals, and at Biden But the membership of four of the unions rejected the tentative deals. The other eight unions are prepared to honor their picket lines and go on strike as well without a deal or Congressional action, and Biden’s voiced sympathy for the demands about sick time didn’t satisfy some of the union leaders Tuesday."".",1
As if Westerners using plastic straws are responsible for the world’s oceans becoming plastic dumps and not all the Asian countries that use and treat the oceans as a landfill.,Plastic bags generate 39% less greenhouse gas emissions than uncomposted paper bags and 68% less greenhouse gas emissions than composted paper bags.,1
Nancy Mace (who certified 2020 voters' decision on Jan 6) beat Katie Arrinon (who supported Trump) in the 2022 primary.,"Democrats are pretty strained by the responsibility of being both the liberal party and the conservative party, and you know a lot of conservative voters are holding their noses when they have to vote Democrat. Left/right is a legitimate difference of opinion between people, and one party can't really have a coherent platform trying to serve both. There will always be incentive for conservative politicians to run as Republicans instead of Democrats, and when they do, sometimes they're going to win their primaries against the nutcases, _especially_ magans.",0
"In general banning words seems like a silly thing for government to do. But as a white person I dont really get much of a say here. If Latinos want the word banned from government use, thats fine.","A smaller group of latinos find the effort to change the word at all offensive, though. Based on the quote from the sponsor of this bill, it seems he would fall into that camp. Some people see this effort as the product of white people and third-generation latinos who primarily speak English to change their language from the outside, and consider the effort an attack on their own language and culture.",1
"Modern planes and tanks may take months to train, but this war is already almost a year old and there arent a shit ton of old soviet stockpiles to refurbish and modify. If there arent enough of those older units available to truly make a difference, wouldnt beginning to train Ukranians, YESTERDAY, be the common-sense solution to bringing this war to a more timely end?","The issue that we’re seeing is an unsustainable attrition rate (on both sides) where defense is possible but offense is not sustainable. Now that Russia has given up on a real offensive push and is simply entrenching and reinforcing, Ukraine needs a hell of a lot more weapons and at a significantly higher pace than what NATO/EU/USA are providing.",0
"I have a friend who voted for trump twice (to his credit, admits the errors of his ways after what happened starting after election day 2020). I said to him, ""He is constitutionally incapable of being president."" He said that trump met the Constitutional requirements of age and citizenship. I said, ""No, his personal constitution. He doesn't get government. The office and it's requirements and responsibilities. He didn't get it. Doesn't get it. Nor will he ever get it. His nature will not allow him to understand and step up to the role."".","Yes, they turned out to be. But Trump didn't know that when he took them, and it doesn't matter anyway. He took the ambassador's personal decorations away to place in the White House, the ambassador did not know until Trump had left. When pressed, the White House responded that they could have them back after Trump's second term would have been up in the 2024 election.",1
"I could, but this is reddit and I ain't writing a thesis. So I'll just note that 65 countries have declared independence from Britain alone. Britain was not alone in running around the globe conquering everything it could, it was just the most successful. China and Russia have so much internal strife because they're both several former countries stitched together by military and economic might, and of course the USSR used to have several more countries under its thumb.","Nah, at this point far too many of them are convinced that the only reason NATO isn't invading mainland Russia is because it's too busy fighting Russia in Ukraine, and that the moment they pull out you'll have Poland invading Kaliningrad, Finland attacking St. Petersburg and Turkey teaming up with Georgia to attack across the caucasus mountains.",1
She became an incomplete quadriplegic. She can’t stand too long. She can’t sit too long. She has a host of related issues. She can’t work.,"you can't. my mom dealt with SS disability for 5 years before hers was approved, and they came up with 3 jobs she could do, 3 times over, just like this guy, and she had to appeal it 4 times thru her lawyer because those jobs didn't physically exist anymore. She finally asked for a different judge, and the judge finally granted it after the same bullshit. It cost her 5 years, and 12000 in lawyers fees to get her disability benefits. when the lawyer started filing paperwork to get challenge the constitutionality of the list of jobs, she was approved. this took 5 years. 5 years too long. the system was broken by republicans in the 1970's, and was done that way on purpose to make it impossible to get benefits you pay for and earned.",1
"It was more the tweet that Israel had ""hypnotized the world"" that trafficked in antisemitic tropes of secret world domination, than the ""all about the Benjamins"" tweet.","in 2012, Representative Omar tweeted, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” The word hypnotized has been used many times referring to Jewish people controlling the world.",1
"At this point, when it's clear corporations and governments aren't going to do what's needed to be done, the responsibility is on as as individuals to act as a collective to force their hand. It's really that simple. If we're unwilling or unable to do that we're fucked.",Doing those things while corporations and governments still fuck the planet is like one less stab wound on a decapitated corpse.,0
"I live in Idaho. People complain about California transplants constantly. Republicans complain they're ""bringing their liberal politics here and ruining Idaho!"".",That's the thing. California conservatives feel the NEED to be Uber conservative in order to make up for the state that they live in.,1
Most people read that and think law is the important part. Often the people you're talking about view 'order' as the important part.,"I think it's that down to their fundamental core being they believe that that ""Law"" and ""Order"" is for everyone else. Its ok if I do it. I can break these little laws(perspective re:little: trespassingdriving how ""I"" wanttax fraudvoter fraud, storm the Capitol) it's not a big deal. Basically Entitlement.",1
"As a note: It was originally republicans that pushed for 100% mail in ballots in CO. There was a major storm that affected the mountain and rural areas of CO, cutting off those (mostly republican) voters from the pols on election day. Metro Denver (more democrats) did not have as serious weather and got to vote. Republicans, unhappy with the outcome of that election because they did not get to vote, pushed for a mail in voting system. And it has developed in to the best mail in system in country.","I think both sides have passionate supporters....considering they email you when your ballot is accepted, and email you if it is not accepted, all involved have the same information and same opportunity.",0
"I heard Poland is yet to submit the request to Germany in the first place, which would be extremely ridiculous to say the least. Don't give the Russians the time to regroup and resupply! This war is catastrophic to Ukraine and its people, and costly to a world recovering from a global pandemic..",Send enough armor and weapons to Ukraine and let them kick those fuckin Russians back to Moscow so they can topple Putin and get it over with.,0
"While I agree there are absolutely people who can’t be reformed, or who have committed such serious crimes you can never trust them to be reformed, killing a person itself doesn’t make someone unreformable.","BUT if someone has been found guilty of a crime by the justice system, and has served its sentence, that person then should be considered pardoned and reformed in the eyes of society (not those of the victims, mind you) and so it feels morally wrong to consider them a lot more dangerous than average citizien when they might have genuinely repented.",1
__Displaying a Nazi symbol or making a Nazi salute in public is not always a crime in Switzerland. The authorities now say it’s possible to ban such symbols or gestures but such a change would encounter “major legal and editorial obstacles”.__.,"It concluded that a ban on Nazi, racist or extremist symbols is possible, but making such a change would “come up against major legal and editorial obstacles”.",0
"A lot of these guys are highly skilled, see it as a trade and are perfectly happy with the work. The U.K. is just another location before they work some places on mainland Europe.","There is an EU-wide payment scheme called CAP. It was controversial in the way it worked but ironically, the U.K. post-Brexit scheme is now under threat despite farmers being convinced they would be better out of the EU. It’s not enough though in any case.",0
"The problem for Putin is that if he is not the Dear Leader, then he is Very Dead. Whomever replaces Putin will have almost no choice but to blame the former Dear Leader for the mess Russia is in. And this kind of blame is almost certain to be very unhealthy.. (This was not the case a year ago, but it is the case now due to the crazy war Putin started).",Also Putin has already demonstrated the level of paranoia that is highly incompatible with him giving up his power.,0
"Non-conservatives don't show up to vote because they don't have non-conservative options to vote for. The two most common reasons given for why people don't vote is that ""No matter who wins, nothing will change for people like me"" and ""I didn't like any of the candidates"". As long as our only choices are the conservative side of liberalism or the progressive side of liberalism, anyone that doesn't adhere to liberalism as a political ideology will be alienated.","Um, can you give an example of a policy that is neither conservative, nor conservative side of liberalism, nor progressive side of liberalism? I'm not sure I understand where you think the gap actually is.",1
"Right up until we're talking about violence, at which point suicides and accidental deaths (and even justified deaths) are no longer relevant to the conversation. The issue is that ""gun deaths"" is used by gun control proponents in places where the overwhelming majority of the deaths that make up the statistic are not relevant to the conversation.","Even the Violence Policy Center, one of the more prominent gun control advocacy groups, estimates around 60,000 defensive gun uses each year. That outnumbers the number of people murdered by firearms, it outnumbers the number of people accidentally killed by firearms every year, it outnumbers firearm suicides. If you add up suicides, murders and accidental deaths, that number of defensive uses still outnumbers it.",0
The problem isn't the availability of a vaccine or the ability of that vaccine in reducing deaths. The problem is there is a sizable elderly portion of the country that doesn't want to be vaccinated.,There's a very clear tradeoff I've already outlined. Open now in best case scenario where everyone is 100% vaccinated with best vaccines and you still lose 40k people.,0
"What I got from reading the news is earlier Ukraine accused Russia of targeting the building. However, now they say the building was hit after the Ukrainian air defense intercepted the Russian missile.",I believe he speculated initially that it was (and I'm not sure which) either an anti Air missile that crashed or a russian missile downed by aa but still intact.,1
"If countries stop trading oil in USD then they will no longer need to keep the amounts of USD that lead them to use it for other international trade. If countries start using their own currencies, instead of USD, for international trade, that is when I think the USD will have issues. I am no fortune teller and can't predict the future, but the US today benefits for the this oil-trade-in-USD arrangement.",The main factor I am following is whether or not Saudi Arabia starts selling oil in non-USD currencies. That arrangement has held since the 70s. I am not sure what the world would look like if that changes.,0
As long as you're looking at some larger metropolitan areas/cities they're mostly pretty progressive and chill. It's when you get out to those podunk small towns or rural MI where it feels like you've stepped into Alabama. I love MI and the west coast is the best.,"Now live on the west coast of MI. Short on the high end arts scene (but still there), generally less crowded, enough commercial areas, better quality of life and less expensive.",1
"So I see stuff about Ukraine doing some fucked up shit coming out of the Russian camp, and have no real way to combat it since every other source I see is so blatantly pro-Ukraine that I can't call it ""Unbiased"".",Here's a sub full of pro Ukranians that often post eastern European news from Balkan nations directly effected or in direct support of Ukraine in this conflict along with nightly announcements from Ukraines DOD and President.,1
You're saying you believe the 1/6 insurrection was an intervening event that accelerated the officer's demise.,"There’s a difference between being killed on the day the insurrection happened, and being killed as a consequence of the insurrection.",1
"I think offering secular world religion classes are for the greater good. The ones I took so not teach WHAT to believe but teach what those who practice said religion believe. Knowing what others believe, why they believe it, and the percentage of population that believe the same is extremely eye-opening.","The more intelligent the population, the less likely they are to fall for the indoctrination and believe things without evidence.",1
"Tesla chargers have no communication device, it is all handled by the car/charger direct so software would need to be created and adapted to all the other mfgs.",There's no CCS to Tesla adapter as yet. It would be a new product for Tesla to build or create and sell the specs.,0
"Enforcement of these rules? Ha yes isn’t that a sticking point, right? Considering police constantly find themselves not guilty of any wrongdoing, take the process out of local PD’s hands. Civilian municipal and city officials handle these. They’re not allowed to use police-sourced or ex-police consultants for these. Military is ok, FBI is ok. If they need them.","Finally, police found to be unresponsive or refusing to respond to calls will be suspended until a federal review and investigation. No more Uvalde, no more police choosing not to enforce the law as punishment or protest of policies they don’t like. For reasons why this is necessary, again, see Uvalde, and also Seattle PD, for the past few decades. I’m sure there are other examples of cops refusing to do their job to purposely fuck over people because they’re mad about policy changes or being held accountable for their mistakes.",0
"Which brings me to the real threat of China. If they ever decide to simply support a country like Russia with military aid, it would be devastating. I also believe that's what the no limits friendship was about. But sadly for China that didn't work out as Russia attacked Ukraine, one of China's best friends. Before the war there were talks about Ukraine being China's gateway into Europe. Then Russia became nothing but a gas station to China.","Then finally France has 1 carrier. China has 3, though with no pilots. On a pure number basis, China wins that conflict. Assuming the get the pilots.",0
the problem is not how many millions of russian soldiers will die but if Ukr can support the cost. reports are coming from Bakhmut tell about massacre (hundred of deaths daily on both sides) that in reality only Moscow can really afford on the long run.,"The rapid accelerated death of Russia is what we are all watching, if we do see One Million dead, combined with longer the youth that fled Russia stay away, the less likely they are ever to return.",1
The modern American judicial system: Religious nutbags for judges and no real standing necessary anymore. Also god forbid someone want birth control for the numerous other things it helps with besides pregnancy.,"I mean, it’s not like hormonal birth control’s only side effect is preventing pregnancy. It can have some serious and far reaching negative effects like if administered inappropriately. Not to mention the very common effects like headaches, bloating, weight gain, and acne.",1
I still have adult-onset asthma that I developed only after getting the Swine Flu in 2009. That shit wrecked me. I never had respiratory issues prior to that.,"I started having breathing issues. My job requires walking around a large campus, doing technical support, so I was struggling. Took a month before the random coughing to the point of wheezing would stop. I think I got an upper respiratory infection the first week of November, was down for the duration. I am still always short of breath. I used to run 5Ks. Now I'm winded just walking to the mailbox. I do it anyways because I need the exercise and fresh air.",1
"I gotta say dude, for someone who claims to be indifferent about abortion, you sure seem to be insistent about pushing anti abortion talking points.","Think about this logic: if our ""leaders"" are ""pro-life"" and if they know what they are doing, it would make sense to have prenatal care in place before eliminating abortion. It's either kakistocracy or a predatory scam by the republican party to get votes. The mortality rates are going up, already.",1
"It would be rightfully considered unacceptable if leavers lost and tried to undermine democracy by stating that, due to low turn out, the referendum does not actually represent the interests of the majority of British people and should be ignored.",I do question of the legitimacy the referendum and the previous governments who did not attain an actual directly supported positive 50+ % majority.,1
They have been anticipating our response. There is a reason it’s an admiral saying this. He knows Taiwan will be invaded and the Chinese have been building artificial islands around it for quite a while now to ensure that they have plenty of SAM’s and and anti ship missiles. They already have their defensive measures in place for when they seize Taiwan.,"He means an invasion into Taiwan. That's been ""the"" conflict scenario being prepared for a long time in the USA's navy. He's been conditioned to treat this as very real and imminent, which probably will help if it ever does happen, but it probably won't. China got hella spooked by the comradery that Ukraine received both from other governments and private corporations/entities, in particular the ability for private firms to voluntarily withdraw their business slice and beyond government sanctions. It's a facet of ""free trade capitalism"" that they didn't have on their radar, and they don't know how to surmount of they ever did attempt an invasion of Taiwan.",1
"Thanks for the very thorough explanation. So if I read all this correctly, it's not so much they take on a new identity, but dissociate from their regular personality and take on different traits.","Well people have said dissociative personality disorder isn't a real condition, even though he's been diagnosed with it.",0
So we split the bill and here is the chance to call out the republicans for being anti-labor and what are people doing? The bidding of republicans in blaming dems.,"Either way Republicans are gonna spin it to make the Dems look bad. At least in the latter situation, the Dems actually stood with the union. The act of splitting it into two is a union-busting move because it was pretty obvious that if you put up a bad bill and a good bill to Congress, Republicans will always vote in favor of the bad bill and against the good one.",1
I think he may be preparing his military and population to nuke Ukraine either after the next real attack on Russian soil or a false flag attack.,Ukraine is basically attacking the bases Russia uses to bomb civilian targets in Ukraine. We can hardly ask them to be the whipping boys for the rest of the world.,1
"All the more a reason to stop buying Saudi oil then. Russian oil being the vast majority of India’s imports means they’re dependent on it so they have no real option to boycott it. If Saudi oil is not a significant import for the U.S., that means it should actually be easier for the US to boycott Saudi oil than it is for India to boycott Russian oil and therefore that continuing to purchase Saudi oil is less justifiable….",India will same amount of oil from Russia if it has availability of same account of oil from different places like saudi and Iraq.,1
I don’t think the comment characterizing redistricting decisions as delivering the House to Republicans is intellectually honest.,"Dems have made huge gains in swing states with some trend of over-performing in states with balanced maps or states drawn by independent commissions. Dems are underperforming in NY and CA, where they control the map-drawing. The new NY districts where they’ve lost are largely pro-Biden districts, with some being D+10. Those are winnable races that they lost due to bad state campaigns in NY.",0
"My hope is Ukraine can use these new drones to take out more launch sites, make it so any missile volleys that are launched are reduced so much that Ukrainian AA can handle it without issue.","Maybe they are trying to use them all up before the US delivers the Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, which would render most of Russias missles useless.",1
You want mystic and surreal go to the monasteries in Briansk or Solovky (where the real pilgrimage for Russian orthodoxy is not the Larva).,I'm sure there are more interesting Orthodox places to visit but I was giving my own experience of the place mentioned in the article.,1
"Also this, again, is all a hypothetical as Israel and Iran frequently threaten each other with war, strikes or destruction.","Israel does not threaten unprovoked destruction of /war with Iran. They have said they will strike Iran’s nuke sites if needed to keep Iran from following through on its basically daily threats to outright destroy Israel. Israel has no beef with Iran other than Iran’s constant threatening to destroy Israel and Iran’s support of groups that are engaged in terrorism against Israel in Lebanon, and within Israel itself. If those threats from Iran were to stop, Israel would just ignore Iran.",1
"Yes that is true, but comparing it to WWII is better for the fact that more people are familiar with the situation involving the Nazis then they are with that of the Bosnia/Kosovo conflicts.","But if we were to compare it to Yugoslavia in the 90s (specifically Bosnia and Kosovo) that would be more apt, and is still very much enough to be angry about.",1
"Decent chance they actually wanted to see how different governments and civilians would react to “spy balloons” from hostile governments hanging out in their air space, or are testing the waters. Everyone talks about pictures and data and radar and etc, but there’s valuable social information to be gained.","What about the general public. Do they call for blood? Do they panic? Will they criticize the way their government handled it? Does it cause discourse? Let’s take a look at the conspiracy theories, maybe get some data on how different demographics respond or talk about it, using their device data that can be harvested from different apps or bought from big companies.",0
"In other words, blatant pandering to Brexiteers who've indicated they won't come back to Labour if their Brexit dream is remotely disagreed with.","Let’s be honest, then Tory leader David Cameron campaigned against Brexit, so did Labour. Factions in Tory party and UKIP did the Brexit lobbying and the campaign.",1
"He can't arrest her just because you don't like her. And something like seditious conspiracy has a very high bar that ""saying the election was rigged"" or whatever don't even come close to satisfying.",Doesnt have much impact when their base is too stupid to realize they’re getting fleeced and voting against their own interests. They’re going to eat this shit up and think she’s doing Gods work or something.,1
I think that the 20 hold outs want a scalp and the most likely outcome is that Scalise or some equally loathsome rep will end up getting the job and McCarthy will be humiliated.,The only other possible outcome I see is that dems broker a deal for a coalition government that cuts the far right out of the process. It isn’t impossible to imagine a few republicans in more marginal seats defecting and voting for a moderate dem or switching parties to break the stalemate.,0
"Also, no amount of money we spend is in any way comparable to the price of not doing anything as Russia takes over Ukraine.","Secondly, those expenses would be there regardless or not if we give it to ukraine. Besides the purchase cost, stockpiles of Equipment cost money to store and even dispose/dismantle.",1
"McCarthy is currently trying to make up reasons to remove Schiff, Swalwell, and Omar from their committee assignments for trumped up reasons including “integrity.”.","So McCarthy pretty much tells Santos to “step down” from his committee assignment of his own accord. This way he doesn’t have to set the precedent of actually holding someone accountable for anything other than badmouthing Trump, and he can use Santos as an example of GOP members being “responsible and serious” about committee assignments.",0
"Fetterman could be clinically braindead and I’d still vote for him. I’m never supporting someone who’s actively going to undermine women’s rights to control their own body. I’m sorry that Fetterman’s inability to speak clearly is more important to you than the rights of every woman in the United States, it shows how utterly screwed up your priorities are.","When presented with two imperfect options, I’m going to choose the one that isn’t from a party of homophobes, seditionists, and insane religious zealots. Plus Fetterman has actual ideas for policy that might help improve things, Oz is literally just a TV charlatan running on the platform of stripping women of their bodily autonomy. I’m glad he beat Oz and I hope he can deliver on his promises.",0
"Well you have to do this... Unless you have ""offices"" in another state in which case you can do this, or this. Unless you also have ""offices"" in another country in which case you have to do this but you can also do these other things too if you want.","You would have to be insane to try and structure an organization the size of the catholic church as a true monolithic entity. Ignoring the liability aspects, there are thousands of different sets of laws they have to comply with. Some of which get even messier when an organization crosses jurisdictions.",0
"But until they are you'll get murders, Israel needs to reign in its settlers and Palestinian terrorists can be dealt with as a separate issue then.","To push its claim on Palestinian areas and to probably eventually getting rid of any idea of a two-state solution. If Israel can take more and more of the West Bank, they can claim that the two state solution is dead cus hey look, we hold all this land now, not enough space for a Palestinian state.",1
"The only diplomatic solution is Russia returning all occupied territory, commit to unilateral nuclear disarmament, remove Putin, and pay massive reparations to Ukraine and its allies.","Negotiations would cede Ukranian territory to Russia, which is exactly what they wanted in the first place, thus rewarding the aggressor.",1
"On top criticizing the idea of easing tensions by having Russia rely on revenue from energy sales, as some outlandish delusion just misses the whole point of central European grievance about Germany (not that many of the harshest critics would understand their own contradiction).",If you lack the balls to reign in your own companies trying to increase Russian gas imports to your countries and try to off-load the decision on Germany (stagnating gas use for years and not much actual interest in NS2 beyond the local jobs created) you should not be surprised to be laughed at for the hypocrisy.,1
"That being said, anything other than revolvers, pump/break-action shotguns, and bolt-action rifles should be outlawed.","If you hit every shot and 1 bullet kills each person you hit. The killing potential is significantly less than an AR-15, semi-auto shotgun, or magazine-fed semi-auto pistol.",0
"Immigration is fine, but the people who migrate need to learn and adapt to the society they live in. That means learning the language, building relationships with locals and accepting the host nations values.","The UK tried an open door policy in the 00's and it built up a lot of resentment in the native population, it didn't help people complaining were immediately labelled as racist (some/many were, but it shut down discussion on the integration issues).",0
I don’t feel people going for coffee with their friends at 2pm really “get deep” or have much experiences together. Its all very literal conversation. Drinking in the pub with your friends at 10pm? You loosen up and have all sorts of conversations you would never dream of having with co-workers or family. I’ve yet to see this replicated in sober people.,"I don’t drink 28 days out of the month, but the two days I go to the pub for a few hours I do. Would be funny if someone said to me “oh what you can’t go a few hours on a Saturday night without drinking?” like I haven’t just done it for 28 days.",0
"I have read that the Russian thought they had cleared the mines but Ukraine was able to replace them before the attack, so thatt's why they are confused.","I'm pretty sure this ofensive is a last gasp, desperate move by Russia to try to reclaim some land before the western tanks start arriving in Ukraine. Russia knows after the Ukrainians are trained and running in technologically superior tanks, that there's not much they can do to stop them.",1
"I almost did after subbing for two years, and my teacher mother warned me not to do it. She started right before the health benefits and retirement were made worse for future teachers, and we lived in a fairly low cost area, so it worked for her. A teacher today would have it much harder.","My partner was a teacher until earlier this year. He didn't leave because of the climate, but because he got an opportunity to help more children and to make sure schools are following the law, something I know as a teacher he saw broken all the time or had schools even ask him to break. If this job didn't happen, he would still have been in special education because he loved fighting for his kids and I know they loved having someone in their corner. We are lucky to live in a much more sane state though where the teachers unions are generally strong and supportive.",1
In some cases I'm sure that's true; but I imagine there's also many cases of war transforming people into something that their loved ones no longer recognize as the same person who left.,That's actually really interesting. It just seems like it would be the further the distance the less PTSD (killing someone hand-to-hand vs gun for example; I'd imagine being close enough to look them in the eye would be more traumatic).,0
"The laptop is a catch all for every bullshit accusation made up by idiots online and spread by Facebook grandpas. ""Oh, so the laptop is real, you say, then obviously all that other made up bullshit about it is real too."".","Then they would use it as ""proof"" that all the child pornography they claimed and even photoshopped him into was real.",0
No. The world is facing a fundamental issue symptomatic of people living longer. Retired people impose huge pressures on society as their demographic grows from living longer while becoming economically inactive for longer. Most of this strain is imposed upon working age people. And the effects are so macroeconomic and far reaching that there are too many to condense into a single comment.,"The bottom line is that when you retire, you start to cost society more than you contribute. And many countries now have ageing populations. And again, that’s not to speak ill of anyone who is retired or insist that increasing the retirement age is a good thing or the best course. It’s just a difficult situation. This is also why immigrants are very good for a country, they buff the working age population, and help alleviate these stresses.",0
"Yeah I find both results hopeful. Would love to flip the district, of course, but the fact that it's in play at all is AMAZING. Mail in is the primary voting method in Colorado so I doubt it would favor dems in any significant way, but you never know.","Someone said in another thread that the remaining votes are mail in ballots, which typically favor dems. But I'm not sure if that is accurate or if there are enough to overcome a thousand vote deficit. There will still probably be a recount though. Even if she wins the writing is on the wall and in a presidential election year she will get kicked to the curb.",1
"12 out of 12 Union leaders agreed to this deal, recommended it to their Union members, and 8 voted it down.",Hates the railway workers so much he signed a deal that 8 of 12 Unions already agreed to and 12 of 12 union leaders negotiated. Must be pretty terrible.,0
Utah contains some of the most majestic scenery on Earth and enough troubled Mormons to keep me away. (From a someone who grew up there and who would love to return in different circumstances.).,"Yeah. This is exactly the weird creepy crap that highlights how this is all about hurting trans kids just to hurt them, and has nothing to do with ""saving the children"".",1
"Turkey is giving drones , South korea is condemning and India has given essential medical humanitarian aid to Ukraine. So that should exempt all three for purchasing Russian oil.",Buying Brent just gives money to another country but buying Russian oil makes Russia actively lose money.,0
If I know they follow politics and do research and still vote for the gop they can get fucked. I’ve cut off so many friends living in purple pa. The country I want for my kids in the future is not controlled by racist disgusting fake religious zealots.,I can have respect for someone who doesn’t follow politics that still votes for the gop due to preconceived notions. Education and propaganda in the country is terrible.,0
"2) To help divest countries from relying on Russia for military hardware, further isolating Russia from the global economy.","Because it's a better option than a self destructing Russia from a capabilities, logistics, and training standpoint. Like if Brazil had purchased modern 2s6s, how are they going to keep them operational? Develop the entire infrastructure in house to maintain them? Way too costly. Get paid to give them to Ukraine to fight with/use as part donor vehicles and use that payment to acquire American weapons? Way cheaper and they're more effective.",1
"If EU politicians had a backbone they'd at least have Ukraine cut off Hungary from Russian blood gas, and economically embargo Hungary as much as is legally possible if we can't kick them out.","Hungary is affiliated with an enemy of an alliance, they shouldn't be part of it, and if they can't be kicked, that's a flaw in system.",1
"European leaders are right to strongly condemn such hate and take steps to protect Jewish communities, including holding criminal suspects to account.","Pro-Palestinian activists, the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom, and Muslim religious leaders in Europe are among those condemning efforts to instrumentalize the suffering of Palestinians to justify hate against Jews.”.",0
The media does nothing except blindly support these stupid half assed investigations launched with poor evidence. They lead us on in order to get views and traffic. Who wouldn’t want to see Trump in prison?,Yes I am against a stupid investigation to Hunter Biden’s laptop. And yes I’ve listened to the hearings. What damning evidence is there against Trump? I’m not saying he’s innocent. I’m just saying that I don’t really think there’s strong evidence to convict him of something.,0
I can buy a kg of standard sized supermarket onions from one of the two chains in my city for either $0.8 or $1.2 ...,"I went from 3 tiny grocery store onions to close to 100 absolutely gargantuan ones. I just let them grow and do their thing. Oh, and they've survived the 115F summer and 30F winters where's we are. They just keep plugging along and dividing and popping out seeds.",1
"""Kartysh accused Russia of ""using culture to lend weight to its assertions of greatness and power"" following its invasion of Ukraine in February.",Have fun listening to Russian culture which Russia wants to spread bc it's superior while genociding Ukraine and erasing theirs. Hope u have a blast.,1
"You would think Hungarys experience under foreign leadership (Nazi then Soviet) and the potential loss of life possibly in the millions, that they would sympathize with another country that was having its sovereignty destroyed.","Obviously Hungary can’t annex other nations (although they should be allowed to confederate if both nations desired such), so what other solution would help restore Hungary’s dignity?",1
"Lastly, people need to pay off their debt? You never heard or seen how the rich specifically abuse tax loopholes or bankruptcy? Don't make me laugh.",This is a predatory system that was backed by the government and this is the first step in the right direction. Maybe if we can destroy the predatory college loan scam system. We can actually look at opening some trade schools.,0
"Yeah, but making the issue out to be a situation where the angelic Democrats are desperately trying to save us from the evil GOP is dishonest.","Democrats and Republicans alike love when the poor stay poor. Classism has nothing to do with the Republican party and has everything to do with the working class vs. the elites. Most Democrat politicians either opposed debt cancelation up until very recently, or at the very least have done nothing to attempt to move it forward. You should be mad not just at the AG of Arizona because they are not the only one who's kept Americans in debt. Even some progressives have blood on their hands.",0
"There have been a large number of relocated wolf's in Sweden, problem is, these animals move long distances and tend to move right back to where they came from.","That's not entirely true, the Scandinavian Wolf population is infact concentrated to the Southern parts of Central Sweden. This means that there's no land connection to finland and there's rough mountain terrain to Norway. In the northern parts of Sweden there is rarely any wolf's.",0
Now counterbalance it with the cost of private jet use and the track record of the WEF in recent years. Which is pretty much non existent to even hindering in regards to climate change.,"Climate change will be discussed. By people who not only have the carbon footprint of a charcoal sasquatch, but also not sense of irony.",1
"I believe a lot of countries are using the aid to Ukraine also as a way to offload dated or overstocked equipment. Essentially, the donation to Ukraine is a good excuse to replace them with newer systems.","For example, Germany is in the process of replacing its Marders with a new IFV called the Puma. Hence why they are willing to donate the Marders.",0
Edit - And I do support an independent state for Palestine. I’m just not so sure it would work out real well at this point.,While what you are saying is at least partially true Hamas did win in what were considered to be free and fair elections. There have been no elections since then because reasons. What Palestinians that I’ve had dialogue with have described as the most reliable polling source does show is broad support for Hamas. The lead flips between Hamas and Fatah from time to time but there is a reason Abbas is sixteen years into his four year term.,0
??? Are you nuts? Russia will invade Taiwan?? With what army? They couldn't do that with their pathetic baby navy even before the Ukraine war.,"While I'm highly skeptical of the Chinese government having benign intentions, I'm also strongly in favor of ending the war ASAP on ONE CONDITION That no one asks for stupid shit oike Ukraine giving away parts of the occupied Donbas or returning the 300 billions frozen Russian assets.. these are now Ukrainian assets and should be used to pay for rebuilding Ukraine.",0
"Russia is the guy that brags about how he could buy your house out from under you but then the waiter comes to him and says ""Sir, there's a problem with your card."".",Heh. Had a game like that with my tween nephew last summer. We were playing Mortal Kombat 11 and to give him a chance I was mostly playing characters I don't know very well. Then he started talking shit. I switched over to my main next round and stomped him into the ground over and over.,1
I was angry that tgey seem to have confiscated the flag....for quite some time I was hesitant to fly the US FLAG or wear anything 'patriotic' for fear of looking like a right wing idiot.,"But needless to say those who do literally drape themselves in our flag are generally the ones who don’t seem to like anything it represents, ironically.",1
The hearing on Tuesday will largely be about how much (if any) of the special grand jury's report can be made public.,Some good news - there's a hearing in GA Tuesday about what from the completed Fulton County special grand jury report is made public. One of the prominent attorney analysts seemed certain that some kind of indictment or other serious move would follow from it. This might be a good week.,1
"My mother had stage 3 cancer and underwent chemo and radiation during 2020. It sucks, but she was able to stay indoors for a year and a half and didn't end up catching COVID until after she was like triple vaccinated (which happened later than the general populace due to her weakened immune system).","My friend works in liquor PR in New York, and lots of liquor companies hold branded parties to get their names out there. In February of 2020 I was my friend's +1 to a party being thrown by some Italian liqueur brand, only to show up and be told that the Italian staff weren't being allowed out of Italy due to COVID ripping through that country. I thought nothing of it, but like a week later it hit NY and I'm pretty sure I started locking down then.",0
"I wouldn't be so sure. Being a public company, they can establish a plan to relocate, write off the existing parks as a loss and rebuild elsewhere. A small company would have an issue but consider that there are abandoned parks in the Disney world footprint and then consider the cost to build a park is around $1 billion. (EPCOT 1.4B) They already spend hundreds of millions on renovations and building new is arguably cheaper. As park maintenance increases due to age, spending part of thier over 3 Billion profit on a couple new parks with long term state tax incentives starts looking a lot better. (Disney had 3.19B net profit in 2022.).",Yeah. I went to New College and I feel like the whole thing should be getting more attention than it is. Desantis is literally doing a hostile takeover of New College and it’s terrifying.,1
"Republican voters will show up for Republican politicians no matter what, but Democratic voters have a tendency to expect and even demand results, this is okay when Democrats have the ability to produce results, but if Republicans hold control of the House then Democrats can't do that, Republicans won't let them.","In 2010 Republicans won the House of Representatives, in 2012 President Obama was reelected but turnout was down a bit compared to four years earlier so Democrats didn't win back the House, in 2014 Democratic voters were so disappointed with the lack of progressive legislation coming from the Republican House of Representatives that that year's midterms had the lowest turnout in three quarters of a century.",0
Not a side step. A legit criticism of the prior comment. I don’t think 3D printing is any harder that working material by hand. Working material by hand requires a fair about of skill. That skill is native to many of us. Computer skills required for 3D printing are native skills to younger generations while hand tool work is not native to them.,"While 3D printing isn't terribly insurmountable, it is still a way, way higher bar than a hand drill and some files. In the case of a Glock, you still need to purchase or fabricate the metal rails and the rest of the parts, even on a 3D printed frame. After your stuff comes in, you can either 3D print and fuck around with getting the right 3D model, waiting many hours to fuck up the first print, repeating multiple times, and finally maybe getting something that will work, or you can buy the 80% lower and be committing your crime in a little less than an hour. I've done both (well, not the crime part. I legally register any guns I build like my state requires me to do) and to call the two paths equivalent is silly.",1
"There's a reason why Ukraine's estimated enemy kills is about 2-3x higher than everybody else's, and it's not because Ukraine's is more accurate.","I fully support Ukraine, but I'm getting sick of the highest propaganda numbers being paraded around as fact. It's a law of warfare that you overestimate how many enemies you kill and underestimate how many of your own soldiers died. It's been happening since at least the ancient Greeks.",0
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. gop already been spreading bs about dems writing blank checks with no accountability and the trumper base doesn’t give a fuck about ukraine just read the comments on every fox news article about ukraine defense aid. likely new speaker of the house already harping about audits and cutting aid just to flex and keep people divide about shit.,"i’ll continue paying attention to fox news because i want to stay informed about what’s up on the wrong side of the fence. gop took the house so they’re going to be cock clocking shit all day long. all that’s on their mind is making the current administration look bad, they don’t give a fuck about ukraine or what the voters want.",0
"I mean, the alternative is getting nothing done for the next two years, so... if the Democrats can build a coalition with a handful of moderate Republicans and elect a moderate Speaker who will support moderate Democratic bipartisan legislation, I'd say go for it.","Wishful thinking, the scenario I would like to see is the Democrats vote as a block for Hakeem Jeffries and the Republicans split their votes, and Jeffries becomes Speaker because some Republicans voted for him.",1
"But really… it’s a fitting analogy. Brady has asterisk beside damn near every win he’s ever had. He’s an overrated, proven cheater who’s gotten away with it every step of the way and never faces a single consequence… so it’s actually a very spot-on comparison.","What’s not said here, is that Brady is also the only QB to ever be officially “charged” with cheating in the NFL, amongst a slew of other cheating allegations surrounding all his other wins, along with other a parade of convenient “conveniences” that have benefitted him for his entire career.",0
"Do you recall how after the fall of rome monastic orders maintained and reproduced histories, records, and technological advances from that age eventually allowing europe to rediscover those otherwise lost advances in civilization?",I'm merely pointing that above poster overstated things and that religion has and continues to do good as well as evil in the world.,0
"This post is about Rupar, who engages in a lot of the stuff I listed. Idk about the other guys, they are probably nice people. Like I said I’m torn on how to feel :/.","You are right, they are not the same thing, as I just said in my comment above. They are separate processes but the results are the same (bans). Sounds like you don’t like consequence culture either, maybe the journalists banned in this article are just facing consequences for their actions 🤷🏼‍♂️.",0
3)These states are using the excuse that their loans are being paid off by this order so they are being harmed by it.,"It's not really a matter of they win the lawsuit by showing that the loans getting paid off affects them negatively. They only gain the right to sue. In order to win the lawsuit, they still have to prove that the loan repayment order is illegal. Basically they have to prove that Biden is wrongly authority granted to his administration by the HEROES act of 2003 and as such he has no authority granted to him by congress to forgive these loans.",0
"China and Taiwan posit their claims mainly because of their proximity to the islands, and some historical records. Japan stipulates their claims from its late 19th century survey and the islands’ status of terra nullius at the time.","At the end of the day, we are all but humans, and these are just artificial lines and names on the map, but I do think it is important to look a bit more into the claims before further discussions.",0
"I think you're talking about Epic Systems out in Wisconsin. They're in the medical systems field. I had an ex who almost worked there after college. The brochure for company was awesome, from my understanding the campus was just as amazing looking in person.","I know Mon/Fri travel isn't uncommon for consulting. But it was the necessity be at HQ for face to face meetings that seemed overkill. Remote work life might not have been as robust as today, but even 15 years ago we were thinking ""couldn't that be a phone call?"".",0
Do we really believe the wives are encouraging their husbands to rape women? I know they want to demonize the Russians on the world stage but the Russians are doing a fine job of demonizing themselves.,I do wonder what kind of propaganda they are getting in Russia to hate fellow human beings this badly.,1
"Nah it's definitely stupidity. I mean Twitter was already slowly losing money as it was....he just came and burned the whole thing down. He thought he could run it the same way he runs all his other endeavors, but forgets this isn't science based. So nobody is going to care about clout working for one of the smartest tech geniuses of our time, because it's fucking Twitter, and they don't get paid enough for to deal with his shit.","Fuck Elon musk. He should have stuck to space X and Tesla. Dudes a GD idiot troll, and I think it's fucking hilarious he spent 44b on an already dying social media platform only to burn it to the ground in....what? Less than a month since gaining ownership of it? What a joke 🤣.",0
"Case in point: the asshole forced birther quoted as saying that she wants a woman to be forced to carryba fetus with no skull to term, with all the medical and financial risks that entails, just so that the kid can die a few hours after birth.","To be clear, in that statement they were referencing Nancy Davis, who was pregnant with a fetus with no skull who would die an unpleasant death shortly after being born if carried to term. Anencephalic fetuses can actually go to term with no sign of miscarriage. These ghouls aren't talking about hospice care for fetuses, they are talking about forcing a woman to go through months of additional pregnancy and full labor with all its attendant risks, all while knowing the baby born will have a lifespan of hours. The ""hospice care"" being offered to the doomed infant is in no way ""compassionate."".",1
"Pro tip. Use textise.net to view most paywalled articles. But, it depends on how the page is coded. Don't expect WSJ or Bloomberg to work with this trick. But for most it does.","You're right. It's a garbage article from a garbage websight. But there are probably hundreds of thousands of people here who hate this ""socialist"" entitlement. And others who, like you, agree the problem needed fixing, but disagree this was an ideal way to do it.... ignoring the stupid argument about ""socialism."" Most important, the one-time loan forgiveness probably does absolutely nothing about the continued astronomical cost of higher education.",1
As for any Republican in any semi competitive district they are going to be dragged down even if that Republican in question is a moderate anti MAGA. These two years are going to destroy them.,"And here we are again. They can't do anything and now everyone is watching. Whoever gets the Democratic nomination for 24 be it Biden or the ketchup pack on my work desk, they'll sail into the presidency like butter on a hot skillet.",0
"No. This guy's job has been to think about an invasion into Taiwan for the last 50 years, and this is what insulated military minds look like. It probably won't happen, but if it did china could only ""win"" that engagement by nuking several support structures Taiwan relies on, primarily operated by the USA. He thinks that fascist states are rational, and will realize that can't win without nuking the USA preemptively, so they will do that.","Basically, the only way they can win that engagement and sustain it is with nuclear arms, and this guy is convinced it will happen, when it probably won't.",0
"I think what I and many don't understand is how Russians accept the political apathy and how they accept their situation. Yes, we saw a lot of them leave, we saw the protests, we saw that two battalions of russians are now fighting in Ukraine with the UA military. But considering the country's size and population, the resistance is still underwhelming.","Of course Russia becoming reliant on China is gonna become a whole different issue, both for russians but also for the west. Given that China now dominates the markets there and has access to resources at a premium price, who knows what they are capable of in the future. Let's hope they are satisfied with turning Russia into a client state for the moment.",0
Widely and immediately condemned by elections officials everywhere because of the probability of misunderstanding.,"You have to go a couple of articles further to figure out how this guy, and the other named defendants and uncharged persons, managed to vote twice.",0
"For all those who think that social media should be banned on government devices, you're forgetting that politicians routinely communicate with the public on social media these days.","And despite the horrible outcomes of some of that communication, it's generally considered good that the public has more communication with their representatives.",0
"3. Ethnic cleansing is what Russia is doing in occupied regions - conscripting men so they could die, deporting civilians, stealing children. Outright murdering the population, as seen in liberated areas. Replacing these people with ethnic Russians. The idea that it will stop if these areas are annexed to Russia and peace is declared is, quite frankly, outright moronic, and you should reconsider your opinion.","1. Russia would not have accepted a referendum that does not support their claims, they would have refused the outcome saying it is a fraud, meanwhile they would have tried to manipulate that referendum as much as humanily possible with coercion and bribes. They are not acting in good faith. SHOCKER, I know! Russia would have invaded regardless, they couldn't care less about the people of Donbass. If they did they would not have caused so much suffering for them. Causes for this war are many for the Russians but a humanitarian operation for defending the liberties of ""oppressed"" peoples it is DEFINITELY NOT.",0
"“ . . . the mechanics of the Electoral College allowed the defeated president to incite his followers into mounting the first attempt in U.S. history to seize the presidency by violence. Far from preventing them, the anti-majoritarian mechanisms of presidential elections were the crucial culprit in creating the “tumult and disorder” and the “heats and ferments” that so worried the authors of the Constitution.”- David Frum.",The question of recounts comes to mind in connection with presidential elections only because the current system creates artificial crises and unnecessary disputes.,0
"6 months later, in the basement of some government building, a worker is seen pushing a button once every minute on the minute. Coincidentally, once a minute, every minute, a missile has been hitting Putins last known location.","I'm pretty sure if a Russian missile landed near Biden's hotel, B-2 bombers will be flying all over Moscow the next day.",1
"And before you say ""fertilisers"", keep in mind Brazil can easily become (and will become according to Lula himself) self-sufficient on that and, on the other hand, as one of the largest markets for fertilisers, also holds that as a bargaining chip over Russia.","If the West (that the people in r/Brasil have recently decided they do not belong to, apparently - the tankie brigading there does not stop) did not collectively back Lula on a few weeks ago, you would have had a fucking coup in Brasília.",0
"Case in point: Madison Cawthorn. He's literally the only person the GOP has pushed out, and it's only because he said shit that was supposed to be kept on the DL that made his colleagues look bad. That's the only no-no.","No. He and the Republican Party know they lie straight to our faces and they do not care. A thousand more ‘scandals’ (lol) like this have come before just like more will come after. This is non-news, and certainly nothing that will ‘bring down’ anyone like him or the other lying conservatives. They couldn’t care less.",1
"And you mentioned it being part of an IAD, the missile you fire with one of those systems cost orders of magnitude more than the drone they are shooting down. Even a Stinger is one order of magnitude more. That’s why people keep going back to gun system, but you need a shit ton of them to protect infrastructure.","Short range as in like 2km, and the can move at 45km/hr. It’s not a system use use to intercept incoming attacks, it’s a system you take with your armored columns to rip apart Soviet helicopters or keep around your base to shoot down anything that gets through the missile systems of your IAD.",0
"Also, you are falling into the mistake where you think social media companies have any obligation towards freedom of speech. They do not. They are corporations and can apply whatever arbitrary rules they deem necessary. Each social media company like Twitter (both before and after Musk) has its own rules that it can arbitrarily chose.","Why should they? It's their platform. It's their money that makes the websites and platform work. They are held responsible for what is on it, even if nobody made such a decision within the company. So why shouldn't they decide how the rules are applied?",0
All Russia has done is put China in the driving seat against the West and China wants to keep trading with us.,And then China will supply Russia and feel enabled to renegotiate all US-China economics. That’s what I see as next events.,1
"geopolitics is not black and white as you describe it, and Brazil shouldnt be completely alligned to the US, it should do whats best for it and not the others.",To be fair how can you talk about people having values when the US has been financing the saudi destruction and genocides in Yemen and US does nothing (in fact it continues giving the saudis weapons).,0
"I think that all people everywhere want the same basic things, to be comfortable and happy and to be able to provide for and protect the people they love. I have nothing but empathy for the average Russian person who had no say in this. It’s the ultra rich and entitled like Putin that don’t care about anyone.","I think it’s a mix of those who have likely been run over by the hyper nationalistic and state controlled media, actual hardliners, and people afraid of saying the wrong thing. Props to those who have spoken out knowing the consequences.",0
"They are entitled to their views on monarchy and the Middle Ages. You may disagree with them and their stances, but they are free to have their own views. Let them have their views, they are free to live how they want.","Most of the middle east won't do anything to gay people if they're doing things behind closed doors. It's only when it's in public that they care and even then, you'd just get a warning. A lot of Westerns assume that all gay people are automatically shot in conservative countries.",0
One thing that modern autocracies have gotten very good at is weeding out the malcontents among the elites so that there is no real power center OTHER than the leader.,"It weakens other things (see the Russian military for example), but it keeps the autocrat in power when the people inevitably get rowdy.",0
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"For anyone that is vehemently opposed to illegal immigration, I’d challenge them to listen to a refugees story from start to finish and then tell me that they don’t deserve a chance at a better life.","As in, migrants seeking asylum from their terrible conditions is a non-story -- it's just another version of ""brown people bad"" that the right pushes. An ""invasion"" narrative that news outlets drum up year after year as a filler story until the next culture war topic inevitably takes hold.",1
"No, you are supposed to fire rubber bullets by aiming at the lower part of the body (thus the shooting at genitals comes from). Those who did that are actually abiding to minimize permanent damage, whereas those who shoot protestors on the face know what they are doing and are looking to blind them.","They are also aiming at the eyes of protestors, and threaten doctors who attempt to treat protestors, with violence. This regime is disgusting.",1
"Could legit ask this about any Russian dissident with a lot more ""clout"" than Sushko (who I don't even think is a dissident).","ex KGB are the only ones Putin trusts, if these two people have plotted against Putin, then they either have ex KGB backing or they will be disposed of.",1
"Say McCarthy was getting the 212 instead of the 203, the reps voting against him still want a Republican in the position, but they just didn't want their names attached to him specifically being elected. You get them to pass the rules amendment, they can still vote against McCarthy, but McCarthy would still win.","But since the Dem is the one in the lead, the only way that happens in this scenario is if the people voting against McCarthy are so dead set on him not getting the spot that they're willing to let the Democrat take it instead.",0
"It was a negotiation and both sides had to make concessions, but Iran wasn't going to be allowed to biuld a bomb under the agreement in any future year.","If Trump didn't leave the agreement then Iran wouldn't be biulding a bomb right now, and they wouldn't have a bomb in 2025.",0
But they only discovered how to track them in the past year and only have known about them since 2021. Once they figured how to track them they used SIGNET to trace back previous times balloon fly overs confidently occured.,Balloons are actually very hard to detect on radar due to how high they fly at usually and how the surface usually isnt a major radar signature.,0
Lower population growth=aging population=less workers of productive age=more people of retirement age to support=huge economical issues. Add this to other economic issues that china are facing we might be in for a very rough few years ahead.,"And now with global trade wars against China, industries leaving and their workers demanding much better lives. They got very rough times ahead of them.",1
"Yeah this was a judicial decision rather than a legislative one, so there's still a lot of societal changes to happen before the LGBT community can feel safe in the country.","You could ask any LGBT person, from any Latin American country, where homosexual marriage is entirely legal, how accepted they feel by their society.",1
"I'm talking about the last election where Kemp was Secretary of State. Abrams conceded this race, I don't doubt it. But if you have to be on the side that can only win by gerrymandering and voter suppression, you don't get to be on the high horse.",If they had an old school republican candidate who appealed to moderates Warnock would have probably lost.,1
"If congress is gonna step in and end this, they should end this on the side of the workers instead of the railroad bosses who seem to completely resistant to any sick time for their employees.","Seriously more pressure needs to be put on them in order to change their tune. I can't imagine anyone, not even Republican voters, who would think that denying sick days to workers is a good idea.",0
"I wouldn't support a wholesale repeal, but it could probably stand to be rewritten to restore some responsibility and delineate what they are or aren't responsible for.","Yes, both of those things are true-- its why rational people support background checks for gun purchases and permit systems, and car manufacturers are subject to regulations on a car's safety features and ability to follow traffic laws. The question isn't whether they have responsibility, its how they are legally obligated to fulfill those responsibilities. Reasonably, it would mean transparent algorithms subject to regulation, and moderation policies subject to regulation.",0
"This type of stuff needs to be thought of seriously, it can and probably will happen again and we need to be on top of it. This coup in Germany even though not likely and their claims were pretty weak, could have still turned into something bad, and that is why the German government was so serious in stopping it.","They too were part of the Reichsbürger scene and had allegedly planned to abduct Health Minister Karl Lauterbach while also creating ""civil war conditions"" to bring about an end to Germany's democracy.",1
You are of course right in every regard but the trouble is that it's becoming more and more difficult to see Russian's as victims as the attrocities mount.,"Recreate relationships would be extremely hard, but it is work that need to be done, especially from side of Russia.",1
But when you designate Wagner a terrorist organization then you're also - passively or directly - stating its a Russian-state sponsored one.,"Agreed, which is why the political ramifications of calling them a terrorist organization are complex.",0
"Here's a different, slightly related question: what happens if a candidate barred from taking office wins an election (presumably through a write-in campaign)? How would the Supreme Court 'square the circle', so to speak. The assumption would be that they would reject the would-be President, but that would mean another general election, right? Or would they simply declare whoever took second place the winner?",You forget this isn't about courage - its about ego. If the GOP rejects him he may very well decide to screw them by running on an independent ticket. I can't see him getting more than 10-15% of the vote (especially if he's running against DeSantis) but that is enough to screw any chance they have of victory.,0
"why is it always the russian sympathisers that think they can validate russias atrocities by saying other countries have done bad things? do you actually think the rest of us with common sense will just be like ""yeah sure good point, russia is off the hook""?","Yes, there are probably large swathes of the Russian population who oppose the war and would like to do something about it. That doesn't matter, because that's not how politics and international relations work. The country of russia, as an entity, is the one that enacted this war and the country of russia, as an entity, is what is being punished - by being sanctioned, by being cut out of the peaceful competitions the rest of the world enjoys, and by being righfully criticised by anyone with some common sense.",0
"Exactly. He could win enough electoral votes to prevent DeSantis from reaching 270. Let’s say Biden was close but also under 270. The.man the election would be thrown to the House, where knowing the idiots in charge, would pick Trump.","Yet other polls show Trump walloping any other Republican. Polls are not even a little bit reliable in the age of cell phones. The people that respond to them are more often than not White Retirees that still have a land line that they answer, or White Retirees that answer Fox News polls because they were instructed to by the host.",1
"It'll go to the last second and, when McCarthy isn't allowing a passed Senate bill (that would end the crisis) to even hit the floor for a vote - when he knows the Dems would have some very moderate conservatives looking to avoid default and vote for it... Those same GOP members will call for the vote to remove him. He shouldn't have accepted the rule change that lets them a single person call for it if he didn't want to be removed like that.","Luckily, the same rule the extreme crazies called for to agree to McCarthy would allow a single House member to call a vote to remove McCarthy in that situation.",0
"Even if Republicans secure and pad their majority in the coming days, McCarthy will face a problem that has bedeviled a generation of House GOP leaders: the House Freedom Caucus.","For House Republicans, the sweetness of returning to the majority after four years may outweigh the sour feelings from a poorer-than-expected performance. But that may not be enough to make Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ascension to the speakership a reality.",0
I’m listing wasteful things the government has spent on. I am fully aware national debt is not always terrible. It is also a legitimate point to say the current national debt is a case study in insanely bad proportions.,National Debt is not always a terrible thing and it definitely not something like business or personal debt. Want to know why? The fucking currency that you use to speak about this matters is controlled by the Government.,1
"I mean to some extent, yeah if your definition of ""fair share"" is far enough out of line with what other states would tax them. CA is already pushing the limits there it seems.","Yes, they can try to find ways to keep revenue coming in even as the state loses population. How does that example apply to a wealth tax? You think the state is going to be able to accurately track wealth acquired while residing in CA and successfully tax non-residents for it?",0
"My understanding is that immediately after he took power, impeachment proceedings were launched against him by the opposition. That attempt failed, so they tried again. That attempt failed, so today would have been the vote on the third attempt to impeach him a year into his first term. He's a former schoolteacher.","As much as I dislike that he attempted to dissolve congress, I suspect that maybe all involved parties in Peruvian politics are being shady and that their entire congress might be a bit of a shitshow.",0
"So why can’t a person just immigrate to, say, any of the many other provinces or territories, them simply move to Quebec if that is, for some odd reason, their preferred location?","Basically, you can only apply for Federal immigration streams if you don't intend to reside in Quebec. If you do end up residing in Quebec, no one is going to stop you, but there are grounds to revoke your PR for misrepresentation. Even if you get citizenship, one ground to revoke citizenship is misrepresentation and fraud.",1
We’ll need a major cultural shift for people that watch Fox News/republicans to get behind UBI because they’ll for sure label it welfare.,"I believe UBI is a good thing and we’ll definitely need it as automation takes over, but I think it would just confuse things to talk about UBI as the same as social security and Medicare, mostly because it doesn’t exist yet and if it did republicans would already be trying to get rid of it lol.",0
Drones don’t move super fast - nothing like a missile so I figure it’s a matter of time before someone figures out how to destroy them cheaper and quicker…. Just like everything else.,Most air based defence platforms have IFF capabilities (wondering about Russias tho) that’ll tell you if it’s friend or foe.,0
"He has no ""brilliant businessman"" narrative. He doesn't brag about sleeping with models. He doesn't shit in a gold toilet. He's a bully sure, but he's not punching down in quite the same way.","His one move is to be a bully. The Republican base will eat it up but you need independent votes to win a national election. Independents just aren't going to get riled up by ""owning the libs"".",1
"2) Looted artefacts are not cultural appropriation. It is... looted/stolen artefacts. Now if the collectors of the meres were running around chanting gibberish while swinging them around then you _might_ have a point, but you don't because they aren't.","They do it with written agreements. And hint as to why your point does not matter here: ONE OF THE SIGNEES ON THE AGREEMENT IS THE MUSEUM, AND MUSEUMS DO NIT DIE LIKE PEOPLE DO, THEY ARE CONTINUOUS ENTITIES. There is a world of difference between limitations agreed to in a written contract between a family and a museum, and a verbal agreement between two private people.",0
"I’m talking about the requirement for 60 votes to force a vote, and the existence of the 2-track system allowing the Senate to move on to other matters rather than having to vote on an issue before moving on to another issue.","If they want to filibuster that’s fine, make them stand there and read Dr. Seuss and actually be in any way accountable. It’s absurd that they just decided to completely break the Senate because they were lazy, and now they stick to it because “if we eliminate the filibuster rule it’ll come back to bite us when the GOP is in the majority.”.",0
I think this is more of an excuse/rationale to infiltrate the Chinese diaspora abroad like they do in Australia and Canada to exert pressure on them that translates to people more aligned with them in the west.,"I’m sorry, but you’re incorrect, They have been known to enact retribution on relatives living in China in order to coerce Chinese citizens living abroad.",1
"For those who say hypnosis is real and works, it is provided you want it to work. I took a hypnosis class and it was absolutely ineffective on several people including myself. I just wasn't ready to allow even the sense of someone else controlling or affecting me take place. Yes, I was taking the class but couldn't ever get over the feeling, it didn't work for me. You cannot hypnotize an unwilling person.","But that doesn’t necessarily mean hypnosis is not a real thing. It’s as real as meditating is. At the end of the day, they still did with the hypnotist said. Even if it was just in a play along type of way.",1
"""An original reading of the constitution clearly shows us that women aren't supposed to vote. So I'm honored to write on behalf of this 6-3 decision restoring America's greatness and the will of Christ in America."".","Yup. Got real tired of the unchecked narcissism. I am starting to think that the love bombing to get someone interested and committed after 3-6 months is widely taught and accepted. While proper behavior after that time period is not. I'm not your mother, because if I was I'd think I had failed. You still need to act like a respectful adult even after the honeymoon phase, and not just when you're horny and want something.",1
It's pretty well known that Heineken sold in the US is different than the ones sold in Europe. So you should probably blame your local countrymen for having bad taste cause Heineken adjusted their beer to accommodate American taste.,As someone who drinks a lot of cheap beer and has traveled a lot all over Europe I would say no European country I have been to has had worse bad beers than the US. Your bad beers are in a league of their own and the reputation is well deserved. Even Malta's Cisk is better than the cheap American lagers.,1
"The World Cup has been great too, been following it on the TV. Absolutely no evidence of any boycotts.","No country is perfect, especially our white western ones who went round the world robbing, raping, murdering and enslaving on an unimaginable industrial scale.",0
"I think the point is that it's a Pyrrhic victory. If the defense costs more than the attack, then repeated successful defens eventually leads to a Russian victory.","To be a success, the reply would be to indicate that these defenses enable Ukrain to continue it's defense and that is why it isn't a net loss.",0
It’s not fair for these women to get this kind of label when we know nothing else about them. I have met survivors who are the mentally healthy and some of the most resilient people. Don’t underestimate these women.,"It’s not the gender thats that’s the issue for me. It’s how you quickly jump into “most likely will have ptsd”, and it’s clearly aimed against these survivors. Based on your diagnosis. I know it’s typical reddit to instead come up with a list of references to justify your intelligent reasoning. But, there’s the always option of saying nothing and just be glad that they survive.",0
"In his 2004 book The Anatomy of Fascism, Paxton refines his five-stage model and puts forward the following definition for fascism:","""In his 1998 paper ""The Five Stages of Fascism,"" he suggests that fascism cannot be defined solely by its ideology, since fascism is a complex political phenomenon rather than a relatively coherent body of doctrine like communism or socialism. Instead, he focuses on fascism's political context and functional development. The article identifies five paradigmatic stages of a fascist movement, although he notes that only Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy progressed through all five:",0
In such cases milk based products don't seem to be so bad at all. Maybe a better goal than forcing everyone down the vegan path would be to back ethical farming procedures and methods.,"Ok. Locally-sourced dairy, eggs, and fish; 90% plant based diet; policies to reduce waste; and the inevitable waste they do have is fed to hogs that are raised for a once-a-semester hog roast.",1
"I understand the instinct to trust your nation's propaganda and I'm not here saying ""this this and this is how NK actually is"", but as you've just pointed out, the known facts do not exactly match up with the picture of North Korea that is painted in the west. I do not trust a thing western sources tell me about nk, a LOT of it comes from trashy SK tabloids that people in SK know are BS.","you mean what they've TOLD you is unsustainable and horrid. In reality, it has been a relatively stable nation (contrast to the brutal fascist regime of south korea in the aftermath of the split, bearing in mind that these were one and the same culture at the time) that has endured in the face of sanctions that have taken down other nations.",0
Merely stating some stories from the history of India doesn't do any justice to your earlier delusional argument of 'hindus commited as many atrocities as muslims' . Nor does it support this baseless claim. All it does is it tells me that you are just looking to win an argument.,I didn't move goal posts. I was just letting you know that there are quite a number of examples to go by when it comes to atrocities by Islamic terrorists.,0
"And there's other versions online too. The real number of viewers is hard to estimate, but it's much much higher than 27k.","That's not to say there isn't a small segment of loonies in Finland too, with a few figurehead Putinists (Johan Bäckman is a well known one), but they get almost no traction.",0
"If the point of the real discussion is to convince people that some regulation makes sense, then how could people see it before having the discussion?","What you’ve typed here suggests that we need to sit down and have a real discussion in order to get at the answers, and I agree. But in the following statement you seem to contradict yourself:",0
"They should stay on it for the same reason they qualified for it under the pandemic emergency. That is, because the ACA and other subsidies are insufficient. Not only are the pandemic healthcare subsidies not enough, but we need to be expanding healthcare, not cutting it.","The fact is, regardless of the state of the pandemic, we need healthcare expansion, not healthcare cuts. This is a healthcare cut, therefore it's bad. End of story.",0
I can’t believe how far I had to scroll to get to the health impacts of this lakebed dust blowing through the state’s largest population center. People will die from this.,"Yes heavy metals, but also just breathing in fine grained dust from dry lake bottoms is terrible for your health, regardless of what is in it. If you look at Owen's Lake, which LA drained in the early 1900s, the dust gets so bad that communities around there call it, ""Keeler's Fog."".",0
But I will agree the chinese canadian love of china is largely a love of the culture or traditions rather than the country as it actually exists in 2022.,"Maybe its just becauae I live near a lot of temples and churches but I don't think religious people in the chinese canadian community are that rare. Whenever a local church or temple does anything they draw increasingly large crowds, to the point where they're beginning to become comparable to larger festivals on some occasions within the last year or two.",0
"If the electricity company can supply 10 electricity and buyers demand 15, they increase the price of the 10 until some buyers are priced out and they get the best price possible for their 10 electricity.","When UK were negotiating for the building of new nuclear power station projects, they guaranteed that they could sell their electricity at I think 3 or 4 times the then price of electricity. So all the other energy producers work to raise theirs to match yes?",1
"There are seriously people going ""I like Fetterman's policies but I'm unsure about his condition, so I gotta vote for the TV show fascist charlatan?"".","This is what I'm getting at! DID is a super rare and controversial diagnosis and the idea of ""alter egos"" is better conceptualized as severe mood swings, not the stereotyped holiwood way the Dr that diagnosed him has popularized of a ""split personality"". Where we draw the line for what behaviors we pathologize and assume to be predestined and not is somewhat arbitrary. It's more accurate to say that Walker is an asshole wife-beater than perpetuate some sort of ""ticking time bomb"" narrative about his mental health.",1
Middle of a drought here In Nebraska and the local alfalfa field was about the only thing that didn’t look like it was dying and it had zero irrigation.,"I'm not sure about AZ, but in my region of Colorado where we get 14"" of precipitation per year, there are old fields that still have alfalfa growing after decades of not being irrigated. It's actually a really cool plant.",1
What l don't want to see is an escalation manipulated by others with ulterior motives. And if this happens l still don't underestimate the Russians nor who may choose to support them in a serious conflict.,"The second Russia uses nukes it's no longer ""Russia VS Ukraine, which is supported by the West"" to ""Russia VS the World"".",1
"Ukraine has spent months digging in and turning the frontline into a series of fortresses. Attacking is very hard and requires a 3:1 numerical advantage as well as modern weapons, good leadership and training in combined arms tactics. If you take away these factors attacks can quickly become suicidal for the attacker in 21st century warfare. Russia has a lot of manpower but this isn’t the Victorian Era when you could win wars just by throwing mass infantry at the enemy until they surrendered.",You have to weigh those 20 lives against all the other Ukrainian POWs you won't be able to exchange later because you don't have as many Russians willing to surrender anymore.,1
"And before Republicans run in and start screeeeeeeeeing how this PROVES fraud, everyone would do well to remember how wrong polls were for the Trump election.",And there's a real chance Trump will sabotage and attack DeSantis and other GOP potential campaigns resulting in a split and bad blood in the GOP. Especially if Trump loses the nomination. He would likely turn on the GOP and their candidates just to spite them for not supporting him. He obviously can't handle losing.,1
"Listen, if the investigation reveals that Biden personally misplaced the documents out of absent-mindedness or recklessness, I'll concede you a point.","We'll have to wait until the investigation is complete to determine whether the documents were misplaced due to stupidity on Biden's part. Typically Presidents and VPs do not do their own document preparation and disposal, they trust that their staff is trained to follow proper protocols. It's highly unlikely that Biden's intelligence factors into the document mishandling in any way.",0
Only ban certain guns and make it harder for people to get them not easier. Education on how that gun you are about to buy to protect your family is more likely to be used to kill a family member either thru suicide or accidental discharge than it will ever be used to protect anyone. Some people simply shouldnt have guns especually those who have no idea how to use them or a respect for what they can do.,Assualt Weapons designed specifically to kill humans causing as much damage as possible so more soldiers are taken off the field of battle (to treat their wounded) don't belong in the hands of Law Enforcement either.,0
"They sent thousands of stingers to Ukraine, they had some of them before the war even started. They are an important part of why the Russian airforce has been a non-factor in Ukraine the entire war, every babushka and her dog has a stinger stashed away.","The US sent roughly 1,400 Stingers to Ukraine, reportedly around one quarter of its stockpile. Nobody's talked much about it since around May, when the US made some orders to backfill what they'd sent. It's uncertain if the US ever sent more since they aren't currently being manufactured and there's been some challenges in starting up the production lines again.",0
"He erred, but it's never the crime it's the coverup and they're going to show painstakingly that only Trump attempted a coverup.",I could've swore that the Trump classified documents were known and making headlines before the raid...am I misremembering? I feel like I'm correct but I don't quite remember any specifics and that was all only 5 months ago. I blame the constant daily barrage of bullshit headlines.,1
"""Then we will see more liberation of territories and the task of the final defeat of the Russian Federation. This will happen throughout Ukraine from Crimea to Donbas,"" -he said.","This is how Ukraine did it. They bled and died and fought at Euromaiden, to kick Yanukovych out. Now they're still fighting.",1
"I'm not saying Sweden is more important geoplitically. I'm saying we like Sweden more, we trust sweden more, and if the reason they aren't let into Nato is because some asshole swede burnt a book and Erdogan got pissy then I think a lot of people are going to be very, very angry with Turkey.","I don't think turkish people quite understand the level of dislike the rest of us allies have for their elected president and his childish whims. They need to elect someone rational because I swear to god, we want Sweden in NATO about 1000 times more than we want Turkey in Nato.",0
"She criticizes Trump for supporting vaccination. That's her big beef with him. She says he's old and ignorant because he doesn't know how to do his own ""research"" by watching TV and trolling the internet for the latest antivax conspiracy nonsense.",These people were told all of the problems with him. They were warned. We begged them to be reasonable. We warned them that this wouldn't wash off.,0
She fucked up- traveling to other countries you are agreeing to abide by their laws. Was the possession of her illegal substance further trumped up by the Russians? Absolutely. But she did it herself so I have zero sympathy for why she was arrested and jailed in the first place.,"One less American in a Russian Gulag, if she were jailed anywhere else. She’d be serving out her sentence.",0
"People who were doomering before really need to fucking take heart and pay attention. Republicans are rigging the board but they are deeply, deeply unpopular as a whole and they just do not have the numbers.","And before Republicans run in and start screeeeeeeeeing how this PROVES fraud, everyone would do well to remember how wrong polls were for the Trump election.",0
"Maybe dial back the apartheid regime and Israel might have a sliver of credibility, but until then, nope.","It won't happen with the current Israeli government but blaming it is ahistorical. Solutions very close to that were offered multiple times and rejected by the Palestinian leadership with violence. The people in charge of both Palestinian governments aren't against the occupation, they're against Israel existing in any borders.",1
"Lastly, the post war military likely won’t want 10 kinds of tanks etc. So that may factor into things.","Also Ukraine does have a history of selling off surplus equipment, so destruction or giving back equipment may be part of economic grants used to help rebuild.",0
"Well, they blew up the old pipeline (ya know, the one repaid an hundredfold by UE billions over the years) but the NS2 is still untouched (ya know, the one that's actually not repaid by UE billions) since Putin offered to sell gas through it to Germany.",The Russian reasoning - my guess - would be to undercut any possible power brokers seeking to displace Putin and offer the resumption of natural gas supply to Europe.,1
"They shoot missiles over Japan, Japan responds by amping military, NK complains about military buildup?","North Korea is the cause of Japan's military buildup. I hope it understands that. This year alone, the North test-fired 90+ missiles over East and West seas. On top of that, it fired so many artillery shells over the seas and demonstrated air-raid as well. How it can point fingers to others such as Japan and South Korea for military building ups?",1
"Their employers have the money to give them sick leave. We could have paid sick leave AND have the trains run on time if the employers would just treat their workers better. If the rails fail, it won't be the striking workers fault, it'll be the greedy employer's fault.","More than that, it's not the workers fault that there is a possibility of strike. Billionaire owners are being greedy. Blame them if the prices go up. They could easily make them go down; it's all in their court. More than that, the democrats didn't even have to get involved.",1
"Although 50% effectiveness is far below the greater than 90% real-world protection of COVID-19 vaccines made with messenger RNA (mRNA), it may still be good enough to curb the disease's spread.",In any form of democracy all knowledge is shared and we work together to find a solution to a common issue.,0
"Don't get me wrong, in the next 10 to 20 years, the US is going to have to make a hard choice about Taiwan, but we aren't there... yet.","Further, I doubt it is going to come to a full military intervention because Taiwan is half way across the globe and... frankly... we are building the key industries that Taiwan has over here. In ten years, China is going to be strong enough to look at the US and tell us that they are taking Taiwan, and we are going to grudgingly hand it over after some concessions. Or we are going to massively (and I mean massively) step up the defensive posture for Taiwan. If people are bucking at what is spent in Ukraine... the amount spent in Taiwan is going to give them all aneurisms.",0
People who argue that revealing tax returns is embarrassing are telling on themselves. The average person is not evading their taxes. The average person is not getting money from foreign agents. The average person is not running charity scams. etc etc.,Valid. I wonder if there is a middleground of obfuscation of certain details that would allow for some accountability efforts.,1
Really I wish we just had ranked choice voting. This voting for the lesser of two evils thing is getting old.,"It's happened before. Reagan was likely senile for most of his second term and he won by a landslide. I mean, I'm not going to say that he was a good president but it wasn't really the senility that was the issue. It was more the fact that he was a puppet for advocates of the right wing economic policies that continue to fuel the growing income inequality we are still dealing with today.",0
"The problem is Sanders over promised and set the bar very high with his supporters during his campaign without even considering what congress would look like.He made people believe all that was needed was a bully pulpit to change votes in his favor, when in reality is even he would have massively under delivered.","The problem with Sanders for me -- and the reason I'll never trust him again -- is he was opposed to his opposition's standpoints throughout his campaign, then immediately took all his donations and started campaigning FOR those opponents when it was clear he wouldn't be the nominee. He did this two election cycles in a row. Can't support a guy like that again.",1
"Fun fact: Their coldest recorded temp was -71 C, back in 1924. Ok, maybe not a fun fact for them. I don't want to even imagine what that felt like. I've been in -35 C and that was unpleasant enough.","But to be fair, -62 C isn't insane for Siberia. Their average is already -50 C. This just happens to be the coldest in 20 years, which is a short period in terms of weather.",0
"There's no need to though, as smuggling cigarettes is easy AF since no drug dogs give a shit about smoking, and they couldn't even if they wanted to. People on international airports in NZ would be arriving from countries in which smoking is legal, so most people would smell of cigarettes, making the dog useless (which they already are after 40 min of work.).","Faots. Only mostly joking. It's slang for cigarettes in England and it's Latin origin translates to ""bundle of sticks(for fire purposes)"". Also, it would help change the stigma of the word.",1
"No one goes out of their way to learn about iPhone in other countries, but most of us probably know that Apple has been the world's 1 company for a while. Most of us probably know a company can't be 1 just by selling their top product only in the US. We know that Samsung, a Korean company, sells phones in the US. It's just a really simple and reasonable assumption that iPhones are sold in other parts of the world, especially when they're not even manufactured here. All of these things I'm explaining to you are really basic for most people, which is even sadder as you keep trying to sarcastically pretend I'm wrong or something.","In the time it took you to write all of these “let me get the last word and try to sound like a smart person with sarcasm” comments, you could have entered one or two Google searches that would have made you more of an expert on international iPhone sales numbers more than anyone in the thread.",0
"Corruption? Nazis? Looks like your swallowing those conservative talking points. Guess who else has corruption and Nazis? We do! And so does Russia. This isn't about Ukraine, this is about beating down Russia. Ukraine chose democracy in 2014 and has gone into the wests sphere of influence. Ignoring them now sends a message to the whole world, especially Europe, that the US is not your ally.","Sending aid to Ukraine has been the best thing to NATO in a long time. Lay off the geopolitics if you can't see the big picture. There is a east vs west split happening in the world, and we want Ukraine in the west.",0
"I do feel bad for all the babushkas out in rural bumvuknowherski waiting outside for bread and their daily trips to the village water pump. It's going to be a rough winter, I'm afraid... I'm sorry to say that I do blame Russians for Russia and Russia's actions for DECADES around the world.","I wonder if the Russian population believes they are in the right..I hate to throw around “what about-isms” but like with The US and Iraq. As a American I was young but remember post 9/11 clearly. After that when we heard the false information of WMD’s and that they were a threat to us I feel like the majority of the nation was more then on board for an all out “defensive” offensive. Given the climate of post 9/11, terror attacks in the US And Europe, anthrax, Open threats from Terrorist groups. It was a no brainer. Shock and Awe was perfectly used we were willing and ready to wage war on people we believed wanted and were actively trying to..we’ll massacre us. Idk I know this has no correlation to the Russians and Ukrainians but it makes you think.. I don’t look at Iraqi war veterans in a negative light at all..they answered the call to defend our country from what we all believed the be a legitimate threat to our very existence. What I’m trying to say is do the majority of people who aren’t currently fighting in Russia what’s stopping them from believing they are in the right if that’s the information they are given? Like I said two very different situations with the US and Iraq but I’m speaking of the information factor. How do you combat that? Or with todays tech do u think they have the access to the truth but just..not do anything about their genocidal invasion? I just can’t imagine regardless of your nationality how things like Ukraine and currently Iran happen..the number of people willing to commit murder on the behave of dictators for no feasible reasons. Idk I’m stoned and there’s a lot going on to think about it’s 2022 and look at the state of the world..wonder if the day ever comes countries all just find a balance. thrive in their cultures and religions while maintaining peace within the borders of the world. The trillions upon trillions of dollars an unimaginable about of possibility’s for the Human race. We could literally in this moment in time with the resources we have and the brilliant minds carve out a chunk in the universes history book and for eons they would look back and ponder how we were able to do all these extraordinary things and be in a different type of shock and awe. I feel the time is coming for a huge change in the world. The younger generations are craving change, in todays sad and scary times I do have a good feeling about the future still. Alright my stoned ass is done peace and love to you all.",1
"Almost two-score graves desecrated, at least, and for what? A fucking data center? I think Microsoft of all organizations can afford to work around a small plot. The PR alone would’ve been a great boon to them I reckon, considering how fiercely many Virginians oppose the data centers being scattered everywhere across the state. This is the sort of shit that honestly just enrages me. Makes me wish I held some sort of public office so I could actually do more than vent on Reddit.","As a native Virginian this is the sort of thing that enrages me, but particularly hurts here at home. We as a state trumpet our long history, but all too often my kinsmen forget that we have more than just white history; we have black history, indigenous history, immigrant history, and so on and so forth. All of it deserves to be protected, especially that which has for so long been neglected or concealed by our forefathers.",0
Actual Real Estate investments do turn a lot of profit if you're capitalized to take advantage of them.,"Real estate gains are sky-high and coveted because of the massive leverage inherent in the business and a suite of government programs/tax advantages to support your investments, and that’s not really reflected in REITs.",1
"But to do that UN scientists say that global emissions must be slashed virtually in half by 2030, and after that they should be reduced to net zero by 2050.","Antonio Guterres said businesses as well as cities and regions should update their voluntary net zero pledges within a year to comply with the recommendations by UN experts, as he trained his sights on fossil fuel firms and ""their financial enablers"".",0
"Please not that the rationale for all this is that braces mounted on pistols make them more concealable. Except that that is absurd, they make pistols _less_ concealable. The whole thing is performative and will make zero difference in violent crime.","The new 233 page rule was written by the Department of Justice, not the ATF, at the instruction of the President, to make gun regulation conform to the President's personal preferences.",0
The democrats cant do shit if they’re getting obstructed every single fucking year by some dipshit republican who has a grudge. What are they supposed to do? You act like it’s easy to do. The democrats problem the last decade+ is that they are too ideological meaning they want everything perfectly done and by the book which is what you’re supposed to do and i applaud that but when you have the Republican Party pulling every dirty sleazy trick in the book and perpetually just obstructing progress to get back at “the libs” Then at some point you gotta just give out a few dirty uppercuts of your own otherwise it’s just a continual circle of zero progress and further division of the country. Fuck that.,"Fuck that and do what? Republicans use the same claims to justify their dirty uppercuts. In the end, it's just a continual circle of zero progress and further division so long as people feel justified in their pettiness. Finding quality candidates that can rise above is most certainly not easy, but it is necessary, as is replacing politicians that have proven themselves unable to do so. Worst case, you end up with a new crop of lousy officials, best case is actual change.",1
"(While a -- meaning, a life sentence with the rider ""and you're only ever getting out of prison in a pine box"" -- is an option, they're vanishingly rare and are generally reserved for aggravated murder, typically serial killers. (The logic for not applying them to lesser crimes than aggravated murder is that it might give a criminal intent on such crimes an incentive not to leave any witnesses alive: there's an old saying, ""may as well be hanged for (stealing) a sheep as a lamb"" which applies.).","He's 48, he just pulled a life sentence with a minimum 32 year tariff (your typical murderer on a life stretch serves about 18 years in the UK, IIRC).",0
"He also got significantly more support than the other candidates in the Republican primary. Even within Republicans, he's loved more than the other candidates in their primary. This isn't a situation of ""he's the only option, better vote R"", it's ""we thought he was the best R, so we're going to vote for him again."".","In an ironic way. Does no one see the racist symbolism with Walker being propped up as a (black) puppet for the Republican Party? Which party is virulently racist, again? I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest of Walker is considered their (black) “boy” behind doors and behind his back. They don’t want their “boy” to be a well-spoken Harvard scholar like Obama.",1
These people were told all of the problems with him. They were warned. We begged them to be reasonable. We warned them that this wouldn't wash off.,Candace Owens is a grifter. She's a Machiavellian in the Dark Triad. She doesn't give a fuck about anything other than her own wealth and power. She just wants a horde of fans who will pay her to feed them poison. She gets off on it.,0
The question is what is NATO's response in order to make sure these Russian accidents don't keep happening. And nothing has changed in that regard. Russia is targetting the Polish border. Failure to respond will mean Russia sees this as a permit to keep firing there and for more 'accidents' to happen.,"- If the missile was accidentaly fired at Poland by Ukraine while defending from Russia, then that is Russia's fault.",1
"I live in an expensive area and it's over $4,000 a month for my two kids. We make a lot of money but still can't buy a house here and childcare is a huge part of that.","We don't need infinite grow, we need replacement grow, and more and more young people are already choosing to have less kids, because it cost too much.",1
"Free speech, as a Constitutional right, doesn't enter into this at all. Twitter is a private company and can allow or disallow whatever they want.","If a for profit service or product displeases you, walk away from it and tell everyone you know that it sucks. That's the solution here.",0
"Holding Israel to a different standard is what is the problem here, during 2022 the UN condemned Israel 14 times (iirc) and Russia only 6 times?",Are you telling me that Israel's conduct warranted more than twice the condemnations that Russia got?,0
These new rifles are REPLACING old rifles. They still have the same number of snipers and designated marksmen. The only thing changing are the rifles. It's really no big deal. And $11M is nothing. A single old F-14 Tomcat by itself costs $38 M. $11M is the cost of 3 or 4 Bradley infantry vehicles or 55 Javelin missiles.,"When the Army first adopted the M2010 the contract cost 28mil for 3,600 rifles; or 7,777 dollars per rifle.",1
"EDIT: To be fair, though, I'd love to just watch some older more ""conservative republican"" members grab some of the Q-crazies and sit them down and say ""be quiet!"" (to continue the earlier metaphor).","I 100% understand this position, and I go back and forth on whether I support it. I worry about how much damage a ""remainder"" republican party will do on the way out - but I think there's really no other alternative.",0
Uh huh.... and voter fraud occurs so infrequently and so insignificantly that when there is a problem it becomes national news like what some GOP operatives did in North Carolina.,"What this really does, other than divide our country, is make it really hard for people with VALID claims of voter fraud to be taken seriously, because they get lumped in with these alt-right morons.",1
The House is going to spend the next 2 years passing legislation and then blame the Dems for it not becoming law. Republican voters will hear about this on Fox News and continue to think the Dems are the problem and then continue to vote R.,"The election deniers are the Republicans with gravitas within their party. They use McCarthy as a door mat when they enter the Capitol, and McCarthy responds with thank you, sir/ma'am, may I have another?",1
"What does it matter if the passwords are salted using a master password? The only thing they get is a useless hash. No idea why all these comments are raving about how password managers are bad. They are perfectly fine so long as you have a long, powerful master password as is required for using things like LastPass.","Edit: Misunderstood you. Maybe? If you meant the individual passwords- The individual passwords are encrypted, yes, not hashed, but the master password is hashed, not encrypted, and the encryption is secured using the master password which is hashed. So if you forget your master password, all passwords are lost.",0
"And probably destroys more than a Euro of Russian military capabilities, which honestly is why the military equipment was manufactured in the first place.","Russia are FULLY escalated apart from nukes which they cannot use because they know NATO will annihilate them, so sending Ukraine everything cannot cause escalation, which is often cited as a reason for not sending anything.",1
"Moreover, Ukraine would need to know this upfront, in the case they thought they were only range limited due to ammunition and someone's life depended on hitting an enemy target...","It makes no sense for the United States to keep this secret! The entire point was to send a message to Russia that these assets were sent for self defense purposes only, in an effort to avoid escalation.",0
"Some people say they can drive high no problem but living in Vermont I can tell you it’s not a good idea. It’s easy to tell he was drunk and he was high, the drunks are all over the road and the stoners are doing 40 in a 55.","Stupid people will tell you that legalizing marijuana is dangerous and will lead to more crime. I can tell you from first hand experience that people who smoke pot don’t tend to get in random fist fights like drunks. I don’t ever recall responding to a beating, stabbing or shooting because someone smoked weed or ate an edible, I saw more than a few when people were drunk or used hard drugs. Don’t smoke pot and drive, don’t smoke pot around your kids but otherwise it’s one of the most harmless mind altering substances and it’s a hell of a lot less worse than alcohol.",0
"They'll say ""We should be spending it here in the US on our own unfortunate citizens like the homeless and the addictedtbad neighborhoods."" They object just loudly to any money spent on trying to address homelessness and addiction and povery unless it's more prison.",Then Representatives Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz made a point of acting rude towards Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he spoke in DC in December.,0
"Ah, there's the difference, in California, you're allowed to legally drop your vote in the mail the day before election day, have it postmarked on election day, and have it arrive after election day, and be counted.","Hey, if you could point to a system that allows a legal vote dropped into a mailbox the day before election day, and postmarked on election day, and received by the elections office 3 days after election day, to be counted on the night of election day, I'm all for it, but it sounds reality-bending.",0
Real nuclear warheads need codes to be armed. I hope that would make a rocket artillerist stop and think about what he's doing.,Probably more of missile to hope distract. If they are running low the only way they can beat the AA is to over whelm it. So you can shoot these dummy rockets hoping a real cruise missile gets through while the AA is shooting the dummy rocket.,1
"Another analysis published last month by the Foreign Policy Research Institute said that if Ukraine continued to receive a steady supply of ammunition, particularly for artillery, as well as spare parts, it would stand a good chance of wresting back more territory that Russia had seized.","Arming the Ukrainian military with enough artillery ammunition is part of a larger American-led effort to increase its overall combat power by also providing more precision long-range weapons, Western tanks and armored fighting vehicles, and combined arms training.",0
"No, they don’t get it. The one thing I hear over and over again is how good his policies were for America. What???",Ya. All other posters have this wrong. The comments are about how she’s being a hypocrite for being mad that he was mean to her. This is not what’s happening. She is calculating based on conservative media turning on Trump that they’re going to Mussolini his ass. It’s survival mode.,1
"It was reasonable to expect Ukraine to fight back, and we kinda knew Russia wasn’t at NATO level, but what we’ve seen has been next level.","The fact is, many Germans are very tepid when it comes to military support for Ukraine. Where it comes from — whether from from fear, greed, pacifism, or fondness for Russian culture — I will not speculate, because I am not a German, nor I live in Germany — all I have are stereotypes. But it is true, and we have to work with, or around that.",1
"What state would drag us left on economic issues? Maybe Colorado, which is likely to get a public option for health care. I’ve lived in blue states like California and it’s economic policies were pretty regressive (hence the fleeing of the middle class), maybe some New England state?","If the rationale is ""minority state"", deep-red South Carolina still loses in every racial demographic to purple Georgia or blue Maryland, and all the other states are blown away by deep-blue Hawaii.",1
"As of earlier this year, Board of Governors members are composed of a majority of Biden nominees who could have voted DeJoy out at any time if they opposed him. That they haven't proves Biden nominated at least one DeJoy supporter to keep him there. Yes Biden was required to appoint a Republican, but it's just not a credible argument not a single qualified Republican in the country was opposed to DeJoy.",Your argument amounts to a claim that there's no Republican in the entire country who's qualified and would support removing DeJoy. That's just not a credible argument.,0
One of the other witnesses is the child who was raped. She doesnt believe that she was a victim and so is unlikely to be a cooperative witness.,"“The New York Times reported that the girl ""has said she does not believe she was a victim,"" which would introduce issues in court.”.",1
"I don’t think they understand how petty it makes them look, though, and childish. I don’t think they would like to know that, so they choose not to, lie more and pretend. As though that makes any difference to how we feel. I think it’s petty and shows how weak they really are, that all they can do is lie ineffectually and blame others for their failings. As though we can’t see them for ourselves. Rotten wood, weak at the core.","The difference between these two ideas is pretty subtle and I may not have explained it well enough, but either way I'd argue this isn't what Russia is doing. There's nothing unconscious about it. It's a very conscious fabrication meant to change the subject away from criticism for having done something stupid..",0
"I don't know that this is true. How many Democrats has she betrayed in her first term in office? Do you think they'd line up to vote for her over someone like Gallego? Depending on who the GOP nominates, she could pull from them.","Which Republicans voted for Biden's judicial nominees, and the legislation that was passed during this Congress?",0
The good news for gun owners is that the militias are still around! They are just called State Guards now and many of them even have an unbroken lineage going right back to the revolution:,"My argument is that the 2nd Amendment and the accompanying Militia Acts clearly outlines what a militia is and how you can join it (as I posted above) and that if you want a gun, you can join the militia (State Guard).",0
The CSTO is such a useless alliance. Even Kazakhstan gave up on it when it started sharing CSTO intelligence with turkey and turkey planning to establish drone manufacturing facilities in Kazakhstan. It even supported Azerbaijan in its war with Armenia and is looking to escape Russias influence over its energy sector by talking with Azerbaijan over building a pipeline.,"Not really, Iran is quite friendly to Armenia, and has implied that it will come to Armenia's defense should it face increased Azerbaijani aggression.",1
"As someone else replying to me said, including language about it in the bill is to placate the idiots.",Exactly. It seems like a knowingly cynical maneuver to me. But it may have been what was necessary to get the GOP senators on board.,0
"Countries get to decide for themselves what does and does not constitute an act of war. Fact is, you target/kill the US President, you can expect heavy retaliation. In this hypothetical scenario, the most likely consequence would be the same that the US has threatened Russia with if they would use a tactical nuke in Ukraine: total annihilation of their forces in Ukraine and surrounding area's through a sustained air campaign. The US would not set boots on the ground, nor strike deep into Russia, but it would effectively remove their ability to wage war or attack Ukraine.","Fact is, the POTUS visiting Kyiv is a signal of American strenh and dominance. Russia bombarding Kyiv while he is there, is a challenge to that dominance. Therefore, a response to cement that dominance would be required on the part of the US. What the response would be, is hard to say. I'm sure the Biden administration would have gamed out those scenario's beforehand, and may have even informed Russia on the type of consequences they could expect through the deconfliction hotline when they informed Russia of Biden's visit.",0
"Get invaded by Russia now while Russia's occupied with Ukraine and the entire western world supporting it, or get invaded by Russia later when Russia can throw everything at you and people may not care as much.",This idea that all Russia has to do is invade a country and occupy a slice to prevent membership is born out of ignorance for the type of organization that NATO is.,1
I bet none of the people advocating for protests will actually go themselves. I think the people that like the war are more cowardly than those that protested it and there were not a massive amount of those.,"If this is a true retreat, and the vote is still out on that one, it's probably the same reason, Russia think they need the forces elsewhere to either hold or attack. Regardless of reason it would be a huge victory for the people of Kherson who have been facing the catastrophy known as urban fighting.",0
"To me, Sony has been working for decades to keep games (and gamers) from other consoles. The fact that they are now mad that Microsoft is buying up game developers to counteract this long standing model of Sony exclusivity is almost laughable, and I hope it doesn't ruin Microsoft's purchase of Activision. I will bet Microsoft won't be as heavy handed with exclusive titles as Sony has been since the 1990s.","Sony doesn't really buy other studios to make their games exclusive, they just make good exclusive games. Their commitment to quality first party games is very strong.",1
"Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution states that ""Congress shall have the power to regulate Commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes"".","Tribes are all subordinate to the federal government, as the U.S. Constitution gives plenary (i.e., near absolute) power over Indian tribes to Congress. Thus, “tribes” (in the legal sense of the word) only have existence if the federal government recognizes the tribe as existing. If the government doesn’t recognize a claimed tribe, then for legal purposes it’s not a tribe.",1
"However the manner of our arrogance and defiance truly is contagious and deadly to them, and the proof is in our friends an allies. The weakest of whom like Ukraine roar like lions, and gnash their teeth keeping the nights of tyrants sleepless and long.","History has already been won. The end game is figuring our how to reduce the misery of global warming, and buy the Chinese time to iterate and reform their system without drawing them through the horrors of a direct confrontation with us.",0
"Fair. So of 65million people or so those numbers don't seem too out of control. Assuming we're only talking about adults, at a glance those numbers look fairly aligned with age distribution.","Now let's fast forward to a later stage in your career when student loans, cars, etc are paid off. You now net $100k per year instead of over the majority of a decade. How much can you save now? A lot different of a picture than before.",0
"As with their EU counterparts, Swiss banks are banned from accepting deposits from Russian nationals or people or entities based in Russia of more than 100,000 francs, and have been ordered to declare all existing deposits over that amount.",The secretariat stressed that “the level of reported deposits … can therefore not be equated with the total amount of funds of Russian origin held in Switzerland.”.,0
"It is the usual expression in Turkish: ""1915 olayları"". Everybody uses it but obviously not for the same reasons and not with the same motives.","Because Erdoğan has demanded that it be the official name at the UN and for diplomatic matters. The English name is still ""Turkey"" but people who think that that makes them look smart use ""Türkiye"" now even though they shouldn't. Erdoğan and the Turkish people certainly wouldn't use ""The United States of America"" when speaking in their own language if Biden made the same demand at the UN. Actually, no Turkish people uses ""Türkiye"" when speaking in English, they're 100% aware how cringe it would sound. Reason for that demand from Erdoğan: ""I'm a strong leader See I can force them to say ""Türkiye"" "".",0
Or… it was a political stunt and presidents and ex presidents frequently are in possession of classified documents as displayed very clearly by Biden having them.,Obviously our presidents and vice presidents are not handling top secret documents carefully enough. Both of the situations with Trump and Biden exposed TS documents to risks that should not be acceptable.,1
"Oh, so PATRIOTIC of him. But, actually, all his actions are classic, wall street sniffing cocaine 80s style takeovers. Buy a company, gut it, use the existing infrastructure to absorb the old company, thereby basically ensuring a monopoly of money pumping companies for the shareholders, but nothing else of value is gained and a bunch of ppl lose their livlihoods.","No, Elon Musk is not a genius. He's not an altruistic billionaire who is really some undercover Tony Stark. He's good at employing really talented engineers. His only gambit is to have the kind of brand that attracts top level engineers, and when he ruins that reputation, which is what he is doing, he will lose that asset too.",0
Santos is probably lying bc that's what he does but doing stupid shit to endear herself to republicans is kind of simena's thing so who knows.,"I would agree with this if Santos were just lying about the ""right"" things. But the fact that he lies about everything makes him more of a liability than an asset to them. Most speculate that the only reason McCarthy hasn't booted him yet is because of the GOP's slim majority and McCarthy feels it's more important to have a GOP member who's a liar but will still vote with him vs. having him replaced by what most likely would be a Democrat who would vote against him. If the ""Red Wave"" hit, I doubt he'd have even been seated.",1
He has done a lot of good too. His major fuckup imho is not supporting the train strikers for sick leave.,"He is far from a 90s republican. Did you even grow up in the 90s? Biden isnt hooked on opioids, hookers or boys to be a 90s GOP member.",0
"Isn't it quite ironical, so many Grammar Nazis show up, when “Hitlers final solution” is mentioned. But seriously, come on, it is the third language of six I was forced to learn in my lifetime. Give me some slack.","Exactly, I am a shook, that so few Russian, caught on. Like, they must know at some level, that all the things they accuse Ukrainians and West of, are happening in Russia.",0
Revoke the publics access to politics through voter suppression and ultimately by making opposition parties illegal- again by calling them violent extremists groups.,"the cherry on top is that because they're using , even if the dems win theres fear that the midterms will be used as a to incentivize further political violence and extremism.",0
"We need more supply of housing AND we need to address housing being seen as speculation, particularly low-occupancy/single family. Don't get me wrong, there will always be a need for a rental market, but we shouldn't have corporations/LLCs buying up single-family/duplex/3-level units en masse and basically setting the market.","I do mean only single family homes, duplexes and apartment buildings or even condo buildings I'm not so concerned about. I live in florida where there are entire neighborhoods that are owned by rental companies. My hoa had to put in the by-laws the neighborhood could only have so much of a percent rentals because it started to get absolutely out of hand (they didn't care about the companies raising our property values but most renters just don't care for the appearance of their home as owners do).",1
"Well, if the gringos think that Bernie Sandie is ""extreme-left"", I already want to imagine how they will see the people of Perú Libre or Juntos por el Perú.","Latin America has a history of caudillos (you should know what that is if you're commenting), on both the left and the right. Not every leftist in Latin America is someone to aspire to.",1
"Can someone summarize what is the situation in Kosovo? The article more or less describes how the “match was lit”, but I don’t really understand how or why Serbs and Albanians hate each other.","My guy, no Serb is killing albanians in 2023, but a lot of Serbs in kosovo are getting terrorised by albanians because of historic ethnic tensions. You are being brainwashed just now in this sub.",1
"Until the occupation ends Palestinians will be RIGHT to fight occupation, if you were occupied by a foreign power you'd have the right to do so to.","As far as all Palestinian leaders, and many of their people, the occupation will end when all Jews will be ""Annihilated"" (Real quote). It is literally written as the first thing in the Hamas covenant.",1
You mean a collection of countries from around the world who have worked together diplomatically to establish a set order of rules that each have agreed to follow in order to prevent conflicts and increase mutual prosperity?,"Those same rules that other nations have agreed to abide by in order to have access to this trade market, only to then break the rules and then get angry when the countries they lied to slowly stop doing business with them, while still giving them time to change their behaviors in order to maintain good relations and continued business?",0
"Once a Speaker is chosen, McCarthy will have given so much power away to these MAGA Republicans, they will be running the show.",These are Republicans who supported Trump’s efforts to overturn a US election and who voted against impeaching Trump for inciting a violent attack on our US Capitol. They care more about chaos and clicks than governing for The People.,0
"You're trying really hard to equate social justice protests, with millions of participants over months, to a singular attempt by white nationalists, accelerationists, and traitors to seize control of our nation's Capitol while demanding the overturning of the 2020 election and the reinstatement of Trump as President.","In other words, you're comparing a civil rights movement to a fascist coup d'etat. But by all means, proceed with your ""it's your fault for making me hurt you"" rhetoric - I guess ""TheFascistAltRightGenX"" would be a more off-putting username for you, as fitting as it is.",0
AI released a controversial report on Ukraine military setting up defence in Ukraine cities. Next day Russians were at the UN justifying their military presence in Ukraine and raised the AI report.,"Given how dangerous the report is and how welcomed it was through Russia's propaganda and state news, ""hardly anything"" is totally unacceptable.",0
"The insane seesaw with Trump has always been that he motivates a lot of angry, poor, stupid people- but alienates pretty much all the medium- and high-information independent voters.","They definitely had written him off, but Republicans developed a seething hatred for the guy which was most definitely amplified by Trump. I've always had the impression of ""Bush was so bad that he gave us Obama"" fueling a lot of that.",1
"Hoping it doesn't of course, but I'm just making the point that even now Ukraine is still not totally safe.","Russia likely can't occupy or even reach Kiev, but Crimea is still defendable. It's probably not worth it for them and will accelerate the collapse of the Russian state, but it's still possible.",0
"What Trump does is grow his businesses, and then separates the revenue from the expenses. The real estate rules are such that he can claim the expenses and depreciation now without claiming the revenues and gains yet. This essentially leaves him with just enough ""losses"" to offset his income and he pays no taxes.","(also, these are separate corporations. Going bankrupt with the casinos and steaks doesn't mean HE went bankrupt.).",0
"Yup. I'm a liberal gun owner who is all for stricter gun control... but dems have to stop using phrases like ""stricter gun control"", or any other words or phrases that's going to scare socially liberal and moderate, 2a supporting voters over to the right.","So what your saying is that they shouldn't just state the facts, but come up with some catchy phrase like ""Stop the Klassroom Killings""......or maybe ""Fuck Burying Toddlers"".......sorry, ANYTHING that is proposed that doesn't make gun ownership even easier will be considered an attack.....and I am also a liberal gun owner.",1
Oh and there is no risk of secondary sanctions on those that don't follow the cap. As long as they don't use eu infrastructure to do business.,"It doesn't matter what Europe sets. Russia wont sell to them. And since there are plenty of buyers for Russian oil, Europe is just going to be forced to get their oil elsewhere.",0
"The state legislature part is something I’d hoped they’d address. I’m not sure how things’ll play out regarding the SCOTUS on the state legislature theory, but this is a start.",Sinema in fact is playing some weird game of stymieing and hampering the democractic legislative agenda so not sure why you'd say that.,1
(Rumors say Rabin was reconsidering the whole agreement in light of all the terrorist attacks - but we shall never know -).,"Even if we assume he was a mentally ill individual, it is still telling how he specifically targets a bunch of Jews standing at a bus stop. Somehow we never hear about these mentally ill individuals targeting a bunch of arabs at a bus stop, or a mentally ill jew ramming their car into any bus stop.",0
"A lot of dumb comments here about a possible future American invasion. razzian trolls probably. USA never invaded another country because of oil, and never seized foreign oil by force, unlike the razzian nazis.","At any point during the occupation of Iraq the US never took oil. IIRC, the French actually had the most oil contracts with Iraq.",1
"People like to complain about inaction with the clean water thing, but there actually is work being done for that if you do some research. A lot of it is behind the scenes and not so publicized, but it is getting better for those communities.","To be fair though, Canada has the third most Ukrainians in the world behind Ukraine (obviously), Russia, and then there's Canada. Ukrainians are also one of the biggest ethnic groups in Canada. And some have family in Ukraine, so it makes perfect sense why Canada would provide so much for a country that has so many connections with Canada.",0
"Giving them tanks requires a complete retraining of crews to a new system and requires much stronger logistics as now you need all different parts, fuel, ammo, etc. it’s not realistic to do this in the middle of a war, however post war assuming they win we could do it. This is part of why Poland is modernizing, they’re going to send their old Soviet tanks to Ukraine.","I would assume right now the plan is send them the couple hundred Soviet tanks (and polish upgrade models of said tanks) to Ukraine and when it’s all over start modernizing them. You have to remember Ukraine has captured more Russian tanks than what they’ve lost (lost:430, captured: 530), some of which are modern T-90 varients.",0
And probably further advanced US interests waaaay more than that dollar amount would in other ways. Foreign countries love American things that go boom.,"I think the person meant, if Putin attacks Estonia then NATO will respond collectively and probably F Russia up, but it would still suck for Estonians, as that initial Russian blitz/strike will probably F up Estonia.",0
Testing out slurs to see what sticks. Will people pick up on it as a fat insult from an obese man? Will Italians get angry at Trump and abandon the cause? Will Italians identify with DeSantis and back him? Will this cause an ethnic rift? Trump uses chaos as a ladder and has the ability to end GOP careers like no other.,"DeSantis has a short shelf life. He isn't weathering this while Trump wears himself out, he is looking weak by not defending himself. Trump has this luxury as a bully with no dignity to fling shit and not see the downside to himself.",0
"The only things they have left are nukes, subs and their airforce which for some reason is equally a threat for NATO and Russia because you don't know when it's gonna fail and crash on an appartment building.",This war exposed the russian armed forces as the joke that they are and the russian junta can't do shit to bring them back on track.,1
Minors must be at least 14 years of age to be employed or permitted to work in most gainful occupations. Younger minors may be employed or permitted to work as follows:,"Michigan allows employment as young as 14, this kid had to have been right at 14. My only hope is he wasn't taken advantage of and getting a reasonable wage, but more than likely getting some wage cut due to being a minor.",1
In case you don't know what off-side means in soccer: it's when a player makes a forward pass while there are less than 2 players (including keeper) of the opposing team between their goal time and the player being passed to or another player that influences the game through positioning.,"That said, as soon as the ball leaves the passing player's body, the offensive player receiving the pass can run forward towards the goal and it's not offsides.",1
....oh wow. Yet another thing we are blaming on one of the least fortunate generations in modern American history.,"No, its not a once in a century pandemic which shut down jobs across the world... or anything like that.",0
"IIRC, Trump said this part out loud in an interview. ""Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. If they lose, I should not be blamed at all."".","thanks, that's what I meant. I've been meaning to post in r/personalfinance because I'm wondering if I'd be better off with one account getting 6% rather than two getting 3% each.",1
"Estonia has been extremely harsh toward Russia from the early 90's. It is a brother nation of Finland, similar language and culture. During the cold war when Estonia was a Soviet Republic, they watched Finnish television. Especially traumatic was an ad figure of a Finnish super market chain, a guy who marketed various fancy meat products in TV daily. They had limited selection of meat products in The Soviet Union and that daily dose of Finnish wealth was a thing, which has been inspiring documentarists, and those western influences from Finland have been seen as important cracks in the iron curtain. Estonians watched also all kind of western series from The Finnish TV, like Dallas and Dynasty. I don't know what kind of series those were, but quite American they surely were. Quite a thing to watch American TV series every day in The Soviet Union. Literally the whole Estonian population learned to speak Finnish with The Finnish television, which made Estonian people even more close to the Finns.","Exactly. That is the documentary. I have seen it. Of course one factor in that thing is, that Finland is culturally close enough for Estonians, that they can identify themselves with Finnish things. Finnish culture sucked Estonians to its whirlwinds.",0
Just because one country made a mistake doesn't mean it's wise for another country to do the same. It is more profitable in the long run for permaculture over monoculture. Europe's forests are slowly coming back but to have the Amazon cut down will decimate our climate.,"The massive European forests are gone. That's a fact and nothing can change that without time travel. But what's also another fact? Other forests are still here, so there's still a chance to save them.",1
"That’s exactly how you steal stuff. Slowly, take your time don’t rush, stay at the scene of the crime as long as you need to. Then strike and steal a razor-thin advantage on some of the races on ballots.","Right… but again, only on the specific races where they lost, not the entire ballot, because they won some races. Those races the GOP won, those weren’t stolen… just the ones where democrats won … from the same ballots.",1
"In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.","r/politics is currently accepting new moderator applications. If you want to help make this community a better place, consider !",0
"It’s almost as if…and stick with me here cause this gets weird, but it’s almost as if the whole war started because Russia wanted Ukraine, or parts of it at the very least, and Ukraine didn’t want to give them that.","It's a bad spot cause Russia's not in any spot to completely invade Ukraine, but neither is Ukraine in any spot to completely invade Russia to force a conclusion. So there's always a chance this ends like Korea, with a long term armistice after pushing everyone back to the borders they started with, after massive loss of life, rather than any sort of peace treaty. I do wonder what happens the second Ukraine finishes pushing Russia out of Crimea though, since unlike Korea, pushing into Russia to force concessions and an end isn't something most people want.",1
"3. Highly overpowered & funded police unions that stifle, and “paper” to death, many efforts to seek accountability.","I believe that strong unions and oversight are the best tools to curb the worst tendencies of capitalism, but police unions are a good example of what happens when a union becomes too powerful. No union should be able to hold entire cities hostage because the people voted to begin oversight of their operations. Especially when it's government work that's being overseen.",1
“The Twitter Files” tried to kick up a furor over candidate Biden asking for revenge porn photos of his son to be taken down.,Real world examples: Trans people. Gay people. Drag queens. Migrants. Librarians. Teachers. Every Democratic politician up to and including Biden and Harris. “Woke leftists.”.,0
Whether or not Jews (such as myself) actually fit the definition of a race is immaterial in this instance. The Nazis treated us like we were a separate race and persecuted us for it.,"That being said, white supremacists (and Nazis specifically) do consider Jews to be a separate race. This is important not because we should give their ideas any importance, but because it shows how they target Jews.",0
"In an abrupt about-face, Qatari officials have decided that the only drinks that will be on sale to fans at stadiums during the monthlong World Cup will be nonalcoholic.","But it also suggested that FIFA, which has faced years of blistering criticism for its decision to bring its showpiece championship to Qatar, may no longer be in full control of major decisions related to its event. The organization’s official fan guide notes that “ticket holders will have access to Budweiser, Budweiser Zero, and Coca-Cola products within the stadium perimeter” for at least three hours before games, and for one hour afterward.",0
"What, reconditioning some stored weapons systems that are 50+ years old or using said systems against slow, low flying drones.","Iranian UAVs are so low tech though, they likely could simply be jammed via something like the DRAKE system, which is literally just a backpack kit. Jam all the communication channels, and render the UAV useless. That would be adequate I assume. It's what the US Navy has been using for the past several years to jam drones operating off Chinese ""fishing ships"" that have been harassing them.",1
"Not saying CS is totally neutral as to whether they benefit from having these accounts/clients, or that management fees in $19 billion will be negligible. But this is just sort of a status quo thing.","It ain’t all or even mostly going to be cash. Other assets are harder to leverage. Precious metals might be impossible unless they are EFTs based in metals. Other assets could be actual tangibles, in addition to shares. Not all shares (especially in the private banking world) are the kind traded on public exchanges that lend themselves to loaning out, and even then the customer has to consent. This level of customer would not be pressured to consent. The relationship is too valuable.",0
(It's called Howling Mad Radio and is very real in case anyone reading doesn't realise this is what actually happened to Dwight Schultz.).,"So here's the thing. I'm lightspeed stupid. I shouldn't even have political opinions. Yet, here we are. That stupidity infects every aspect of my life. Analogies included, because, well, analogies fall under the category of ""every."".",1
"With Russia's economy controlled by oligarchs, all of whom are effectively Putin's capos, there isn't any viable political opposition that can emerge short of a popular revolution or the death/assassination of the boss.",It’s right to target and sanction wealthy oligarchs but don’t expect that to have any effect on Putins hold over Russia.,0
"So basically, let corruption judges get away with favorable ruling for their benefactors otherwise it might be weponized to go after progressive judges.","The story doesn't even demonstrate the point that removing a judge for terrible judgements is in any way bad for democracy or the judicial system, it just asserts it (again). And they’re not even comparable cases. The outlined story suggests the judge was following the letter of the law. Cannon was clearly being partial and bending law, even to the extent that the 11th circuit said she was reinterpreting the constitution.",1
"Opposing Israel's actions towards the Palestinians has fuck all to do with it being a Jewish state, and everything to do with those actions, taken by any national/ethnic/religious group towards another being wrong.","If supporting Israel didn't materially and politically benefit the West, it would be treated the same as so many states that have gone through this (The Balkans during the Yugoslavia Wars, Malaysia, Myanmar, Rwanda, the Congo, etc).",0
It’s for all migrant workers including non construction based work. So thats why the 6500 number is disputed.,"The 6500 is a misleading number for the Guardian. That is all migrant workers in that period, not just World Cup related.",1
"I'm certain even the Russians didn't expect them to be good soldiers, they're expected to be fodder to be thrown against Ukrainian forces to maintain pressure and deplete Ukrainian supplies.","The Russian front seems to be made of two lines: a line of poorly equipped meatbags that presses forward, and a line of ""real"" soldiers that shoots the first line if they run away.",0
I think Biden did just about everything a President could to oversee the withdrawal without dragging the US into another prolonged conflict with the Taliban. No idea how Republicans can possibly blame him for that in good faith. The numbers alone show that the Trump administration did nothing in the year they had between when the deal was made and the next election.,"Not really. The Taliban resumed their offensive right after Trump's deadline passed, so Biden was up against a ticking bomb. No idea how people are blaming Biden when Trump did nothing to make sure the deadline could be met.",0
"This isn't ""falling for spin"", it's a response to you saying that transporting them across state lines is a crime because they're ""illegal aliens"". They weren't. They are asylum seekers waiting on a hearing to determine whether they will be granted asylum, and are protected by law from deportation. They get documentation saying that they are in the asylum process and they're allowed to travel freely throughout the United States. I think what DeSantis did was abhorrent and very possibly illegal but calling asylum seekers ""illegal aliens"" is just factually incorrect. They're not undocumented either, because they literally have documentation from the United States saying ""this person is currently in the process of seeking asylum and is allowed to be here"".","This is not about my ""feelings"", it's about understanding the legal difference between someone who is currently officially in the process of seeking asylum, and someone who isn't. Literally, Texas (not the federal government, the Texas state government) buses people who are pending asylum to other states on the regular. How they entered does not matter while their asylum status is pending.",0
But that's just one example. Stripping professors of tenure and putting political appointees in charge of hiring and firing will have a silencing effect on teaching and research as well as encouraging professors to work in other states.,"So the alternative is letting them get rid of all the tenured professors, drive away anybody else qualified, gut programs and courses, and then stack the faculty with frauds?",1
We dispute that congress lacks the authority and do not accept the argument that states can refute someone's human rights on a whim.,"When another more substantive bill comes, Republicans will come up with every excuse they can to deny the rights it will protect. Whether this bill becomes law or not.",1
"To be fair, Taiwan would want USA to be stronger and also the majority of their customers are USA companies.",It's a gimmick not the real size. Anything 5nm and beyond is now just a marketing term for the technology generation like 2.0 and stuff.,0
"Tennessee, as a great example of a shithole, has almost 10% local sales taxes. Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, etc are all 9% or higher sales taxes.","Equal very often isn't fair. Republican leadership knows it's regressive so they come up with piles of shit, like calling it fair tax, to drum up support among people with room temperature IQs.",0
But this thread and article is just 100% fake news and it’s hilarious seeing people fall for this stuff.,"It has 0 sources or quotes from anything to support this headline. After the first 3 sentences, they don’t even mention the topic headline again. There’s a 95% chance this is all fake news.",0
"Despite Patriot's high price, it is far cheaper than having to replace critical infrastructure that would have otherwise been destroyed and of course, there is no doubt, it will save lives which are priceless.","Of course, the Patriot doesn't have the range to hit Russian strategic bombers launching cruise missiles (or any other missiles) from Russian airspace potentially many hundreds of miles away.",0
Unless you’d feel fine with every single museum being emptied so all their artefacts could be destroyed by their source nations because “it’s their property and right as owners”.,"It’s important to teach history, and the best way to do so is to have it right there to look at and learn from. Seeing a piece in a museum is vastly different to seeing an image online, or even a 3D model, no matter how intricate or advanced.",0
You do understand there isn't a binary option of stop Hamas and let Hamas bomb them right? The illegal settlements in the West Bank doesn't stop bombings in Gaza.,I haven't seen a progressive support Hamas or their objectives given their objectives are genocide among others.,0
"It's pretty impressive how well Trump and Elon are continuously shitting their own beds, and how their supporters are paniking.","It's amazing watching people finally, sadly, and hilariously disown trump as their own. As well as all the conservative outlets that post it getting smeared, calling it a hoax. It's freaking amazing.",0
"Russia has been hesitant to send aircraft deep into Ukraine (where these batteries would be deployed), leaving them using stand-off weapons to attack them, the very weapons that Patriot is built to take out.",Addendum: MANPADs can’t effectively counter this and if Ukraine runs out of air defense munitions the Russian Air Force will move to medium altitude and render them useless.,1
"Like if tomorrow something wild happened and suddenly all of say Iceland developed all of these crazy laws about women having to be completely covered up at all times and not even really allowed to be anywhere in public, and you somehow enforced that, little would change. Abuse and rape of women would barely increase, not even after decades of that, because fundamentally they do not have the same concept of gender as these places do.","Treating women horribly, physically or mentally, causes so many problems for both boys and girls in the next generation.",0
"The mistake gardeners make growing onions is only planting sweet (""Vidalia"") onion. Those are tasty but need to be used within a couple of months of harvest.","If you're growing for long term storage you need to be growing a storage onion, usually a yellow variety like Copra.",0
People have been saying we can just run deficits and monetise them so we have been doing that for decades. Across those decades we have also had persistent inflation.,"Inflation occurs for all sorts of reasons. One of those reasons is when you dilute the value of money by printing more of it. This is so called quantitative easing which we saw multiple times under Bush Jr. Another reason is just plain increasing the price charged for goods and services, because you as the provider, feel you can or should get more for it, or because your costs have increased.",1
"That's likely due to Russia encouraging emigration so they can claim a sizeable Russian population in a foreign country's region so they can prevent them from joining the UN or NATO, as well as gives flimsy legitimacy to invade their neighbours under the pretense of ""It's basically Russian!"".","This. Treason legally has very specific definitions, and simply acting against the interest of your country is not enough for treason convictions in most countries.",1
"If they're desperate for money, that could change. , it only costs Russians about $20-50, so $60 is still profitable. But I guess Europe can still lower the cap even further. We'll see how the market responds.","Wouldn't the capped price still influence the market, though? The rest of the world could bid at $60 (without fear of sanction from Europe, isn't this the reason why they set a price cap in the first place?), and Russia will have to sell at that price; today's , so it is not far-fetched that Russia can lower the price to match the current capped price.",0
Those convicts are being used as absolutely nothing but cannon fodder to tell where the Ukrainian artillery is.,"Right. There's two different types of Wagner soldiers, the convicts who are used as cannon fodder, and the real Wagner mercenaries, who are trained veterans.",0
"Almost everyone, whether aware of it or not, has encountered aliens. Some of them are terrestrial, and some are extraterrestrial, and some are subterrestrial. Many people are in denial of this fact, and those are the ones to watch out for. I don't think that preparing would really make much of a difference. If the aliens are smart and they are out in the cosmos, looking for the likes of us, they probably have a decent safety protocol procedure... so it might be best to let them take the lead, and just attempt to be polite and non-offensive.","Aliens could get in touch tomorrow and we must know what to say to them, scientists have warned, as they launched a new research hub to prepare humanity for first contact.",1
"This is exactly why all these candidates lost, and the GOP audibly knows it. Now these people are doubling down on the shit that made them lose in the first place?","The whole “how can biden win, he doesn’t even have huge rally’s and flags etc” sentiment is so telling. These people can’t even fathom, how someone can win without a cult following, without merch and without fanboy rallies and religious tier conventions surrounding these candidates.",0
"My hope is that due to Senate control already being in Dem hands, Republican who didn’t vote for him in the general election won’t bother coming out to vote for him in the runoff.","Maybe, but Dems have other incentives that Republicans don’t. For example, Dems might be motivated to come out and vote for Warnock because they simply don’t want a moron representing them in the Senate. But, yes, of course, every Dem in Georgia shouldn’t take victory for granted and get to the polls.",0
"There are two points of view - according to one (and it seems to be confirmed by official sociological surveys) Russians support the war and Putin. According to the other, the majority of citizens do not support the war, but are afraid to answer honestly to pro-government sociologists. The truth is out there. Most likely, the share of support for the war is much lower than official sociological data - people are really afraid to speak honestly, there are criminal penalties for “discrediting the army” in Russia. According to the indirect results of independent researchers who do not ask directly, we can judge that support for the war specifically is not so high - people are tired of the news about the war, they would like peace negotiations (especially if Putin initiated them). Young Russians, as a rule, are against the war. There is an apathetic part of society, which continues to live as if nothing has happened - the war disturbs it. They don’t want to go to the front - according to polls, the level of anxiety in Russian society exceeds the level of calm. Moreover, anxiety arises at moments when new rumors of mobilization arise. Finally, there is indeed a large segment of society that supports the war: these are people who watch television and consider themselves supporters of the authorities. But again, in this group we can identify another subgroup - Russians who seriously think that this is a “special operation” and that the Russian army is fighting the Nazis. They are victims of propaganda. Thus, Russian society is very heterogeneous in its support for the war, although it should not be downplayed.","Amongst Russians who don’t support Putin and his invasion of Ukraine, what has been their view toward NATO prior to this decade? Did they feel that NATO was trying to antagonize Russia, support the US military industrial complex, etc.? Did they have no opinion? Did they believe NATO was a force for good?",1
"Later she took a promotion and shifted into the mortgage department doing work on appraisals. Her department was in a position that sometimes they had to tell loan officers ""no, this loan won't work because the appraisal isn't good."".","This. Trump was the man on top and he learned a lot and used it whenever he could (see “Graham, Lindsay” and his quick about-face). If he doesn’t get what he wants from the GOP in 2024, he will go nuclear. And it will be glorious.",1
"As a parent of children in a public school district who clearly sees how many homeschool kids end up with a shit show of an education, I don't want school choice. Right now I'm happy with the way public schools work in NYS.",Joking (kinda) - There are arguments better than yours why school choice is bad - the easiest being the outcomes don't improve and instead it drains resources from some districts which need it.,0
A grid that would be 100% renewables would need batteries just like a 100% nuclear grid would (although in some countries they do load follow with nuclear but thats an expensive challenge and not efficient).,"I think in reality if we want off carbon sources fast, both work well together to make that happen and eventually battery/storage tech will get so good that nuclear will probably become totally unnecessary. I think thats further out that the person i was responding to.",0
My grandfather wasn’t born here though. Fam is from Catania. We go back and visit a few times a year and I can’t understand a lick of what they’re saying. Alas. 🥲.,"Wow. It's called Olanda in Romania, so it's a common mistake to make when switching to English. Hell, I've even seen Dutch people refer to the Netherlands as Holland. And regardless, saying ""opinion disregarded"" to someone who's complaining about discrimination because they got a name wrong is really shitty.",1
"Well that certainly is a nothingburger of an answer. Wtf were their reasons that you ""get""? I certainly don't ""get"" any of the stated motivations for brexit.",I think brexit was stupid but it’s disingenuous to pretend that there were not legit reasons some people might be disenfranchised with it.,1
"It’ll be super interesting to see how republicans keep the business support that they need to get elected with things like this. They’ve always been the party of “we have your back businesses, we’ll get you those tax breaks”. This is making businesses wonder if they can’t get the tax breaks from democrats. Which democrats should run like hell with.",And honestly ones you would want. Organs are hard enough to come by without them going into patients that are statistically unlikely to survive the procedure.,0
"honestly... christian doctrine makes it clear that murder is the only in the ten commandments that can be committed with inaction- that's what made the parable of the good samaritan so offensive to certain legalistic parties- in the story, the priest and the rich merchant person (""upstanding members of the community"") were murders for not helping the victim where the scummy samaritan wasn't. (to put it into a more modern perspective, the samaritan would be a trans woman, as far as the stereotypes the audience holds.).","Yep. We know that in February 2020 trump knew that COVID was deadly and airborne. How do we know that trump knew that? Because trump secretly called Bob Woodward and told Woodward that, and Woodward recorded it and released the recording to the public half a year later.",1
"all more complex and, honestly, creepy than simply ""my smartphone is recording me 24/7"" (which isn't really possible and has basically been debunked as a tracking method).","it's a weird concept, because the way devices DO track people (location data, previously connected networks and common access points, contact information with linked social media accounts, third-party cookies, and more) are all WAY more worrisome and harder to fix than ""my smartphone is recording all my conversations"" (which, again, is basically impossible on a large scale).",0
"It's a shame the most dramatic race has to be Arizona. Kari Lake has already been election denying all week. Now she's using the time frame it takes to count votes,to say Arizona has Democratic cheaters at their voting sites. It's wild to see someone make such bold claims about election fraud like this. Personally I hope someone finds a way to sue her because she's hurting democracy by questioning every single thing about her election.","She was election denying since the primaries where she was going after her own voters IN A PRIMARY ELECTION. Never took it back, just accepted the victory and moved on.",1
"Man, I’m glad you’re ok. That kinda of laughter can lead to hilarity laughter which can be deadly. Be careful out there. The known pedophile Matt Gaetz has a chance to get busted this year and the sex offender Donald J Trump’s company is about to be sentenced. So there is more to come for sure.","I do. Not in my house, in my car, or around anyone not smoking, though. I mean, I have the right to smoke, and everyone else has the right to not breath my nasty smoke.",1
"Switzerland exports quite a bit of tech products and if the Swiss Franc doesn't devalue like the rest of the currencies, people stop buying swiss Products.",They are trying to devalue the Swiss Franc because everyone is buying it as it has one of the lowest inflation rates for a stable currency.,0
"For high altitude operations above 60,000' I'm not sure, as that's no longer considered controlled airspace. It seems like it would be a good idea to at least tell them about it, though.","Problem with that idea is that Class A is worldwide, so you'd still need to cross through it even if the airspace above it is uncontrolled. That being said the FAA only controls the airspace that belongs to the US.",0
"She’ll get votes from both parties, and it’s definitely no rely an uphill battle for the Gallego, but it’s very possible her percentage of the votes will be in the single digits.","She’s betting that she’ll be able to split the liberal vote and in sure a Republican victory, unless the democrats who hate her support her instead of Gallago.",1
"""All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true within itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.","“The Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020 will be, from this day forth, known as THE BIG LIE!” he wrote.",0
I have this feeling that Disney (and other corporations) are going to sink DeSantis' political future and make an example out of him in the 2024 primary.,"In my dream fantasy world, I like to imagine disney execs saying they’re closing disney world and moving somewhere else and blame Desantis and government overreach. That would screw up his rep in such a big way.",1
I am pretty sure it is most don't think about it. Unless of course like I said adults are going out of their way to deceive or traumatize the kids to make them think they happen more than they do and that they are at significant risk.,"Why do you want people that are overworked, underpaid, and constantly stressed to have a deadly weapon while in the presence of children that actively cause more stress??",1
Not going to happen. This is just the typical empty promise by an opposition party that only pretends to be progressive as long as it doesn't actually have any power to put their votes where their mouth is.,"Or MAYBE it was to play pretend at democracy while not really giving up power to the unwashed, uneducated masses who clearly would not know what was best for them.",1
Democrats don't file frivolous lawsuits to keep relief funds from reaching their intended recipients.,Democrats don't send out police to assault conservative protesters and drag them into the backs of unmarked vans.,0
"It isn't a defeatist attitude, it is pissed off that these cocksuckers have done this much harm and will face little to no consequences. I vote for the right people, but my 1 vote vs their billions of dollars is a slow crawl toward progress.",Agreed. That unwavering optimism is the veil that these assholes operate in so that they DON'T have to change things.,0
2) If the devices exiltrate data they need not do so over the wired network. Wireless transmission to a passerby or a nearby device is possible and could be done in a way that avoids detection.,"The fact that it's a camera system could expose other attack surfaces like web browsers and media decoders (god forbid these things come with any client software), on devices that aren't connected to the internet, and aren't normally exposed to these kinds of threats.",0
"It's not new. It's the continuation of old rhetoric that claims gay people can't have kids of their own (because ""it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!"") so they can only proliferate by grooming children to ""become"" gay. They have often tried to smear the entire LGBTQ community by associating them with the organization NAMBLA and claiming that part of the ""gay agenda"" is to remove the age of consent.",I used to do community theater and the amount of conservatives who'd come out to do shows/audition who would vote against LGBT rights astonished me considering 90% of the stuff being performed was created by gay people.,1
"The formation of central banking and the formation of joint stock companies go hand in hand. “Central banking” did not exist in its current or any representative matter prior to the expansion of global imperialism and trade, especially after the turn of the center to help facilitate monetary policy. itself has an online article about this. This is capitalism for sure.","Can capitalism be bad? Yes, absolutely with no constraints. But government assistance can be just as selfish in nature. Why are you acting like there were zero strings attached to the Marshall plan? The US government totally passed this plan without thinking about how it would effectively create a new market for mature American companies. They totally also didn’t want to maintain presence in Europe to slow down the Soviet’s either. Even today, the American government sees a chance to knock down Russia another notch and they don’t have to lose any American life’s to do it. America isn’t there because they care about Ukraine. It’s pure geopolitics. Nothing is selfless in business or government.",1
"I’m not American, and obviously forced labour is bad and should be banned, but isn’t this technically unconstitutional due to the 13A? Or are the amendments not protected in the same way as the bill or rights? I’m curious to see if this bill gets challenged on those grounds.","The potential financial harm caused to for profit prisons is the angle that came to mind for me. Not a great moral argument, but people engaged in slavery likely aren’t the most moralistic of people lol. But I looked it up and it turns out California banned for profit prisons a couple years back so it’s a non starter anyway.",0
"So the US was just supposed to wave to the spy balloon? We can now fly similar spy equipment balloons over their military bases and they would point, smile and wave at it? Yes with Satellites, TicTok, Chinese home security systems, IOT, our own social media, phishing scams ect, there is no privacy breach already in place that a Chinese balloon made much worse. But seriously the Chinese warnings are like Trump tweets the hot air they fill these balloons with.","How about the Chinese government quit bitching about non-existent ""escalations"" and just stop flying balloons in other countries' airspaces?",1
"Act 2: Not-Poland drafts Ghost into their air force right as they enter the war. Ghost then flies a bunch of European fighters like the Mirage and Eurofighters. Meanwhile not-Poland tries to get Usea (not-America) to enter the war, but they're hesitant. During this phase you sink their flagship, not-the-Moskva. Also a mission supporting MLRS.",I’d be surprised if they actually had to pay for a license. Russia probably saw it as a propaganda opportunity and just insisted that their jets be playable and not shit.,0
"Sales Tax is horribly regressive, because as a percentage of earnings the rich don’t spend the majority of their money like the lower and middle class do.","Yeah, that's $114B that the poor and remaining middle class will have to pay because there wouldn't be a way to collect it from rich people any longer. This is just one facet of how Republicans are bad at and for the economy.",1
"There are a couple of problems: no birth control method is 100% effective, and there's no way of knowing whether the man taking the pill has actually done so, unless the woman watches him do it, or whether the pill is the right one.","The problem is, at least going by news articles, is that the freedom to 'drive a bit to another' is being attacked by the Christian Taliban, and isn't always possible for people that hevn't got a lot of money. Moreover, there seem to be some serious attempts to make abortion a Federal crime.",0
Don't be daft and obtuse. I never said that. And it doesn't matter who the authors / composers are and u know that. The point is being a part of / celebrating Russian culture by going to this.,"If you don't feel disgusted and understand how this is celebrating Russian culture AND at the worst possible time, than that's on you.",0
"The only shot they have is if they somehow get Trump to both step aside for Desantis and not run 3rd party (good fucking luck and even then much of his base will feel betrayed), or get DeSantis to step aside in favor of Trump and wait for 2028 (but Trump lost 2020 and isn't likely to do much better in 24).","The ones who need to ""get in line"" if they want to win are the GOP. If they think they're going to beat Biden, they'd better find a way to make either Trump or DeSantis go away, because running both of them on one ticket is too extreme.",0
"While a lot of Middle Eastern have the mindset of Jews = Israeli, majority of educated Arabs that I met and within my family just despise Israel as a State and government not Jews.",If your Israeli and in an Arab country u shouldn’t admit it you can say your Jewish and they are still very hospitable and nice the anti semetismnis pretty common tho but not as common as just despising israel and Zionism in general.,1
Iron dome and Patriots are meant for different defense system ranges. Iron dome is a point defense system like a higher version of C-RAM or the U.S.’ Centurion system. That is meant to defend against lower flying objects. You need a few to defend a city. Where upon Patriot system can cover 300km to 1000km area. It's meant to defend against ballistic missiles and upper atmospherics.,"Except no amount of air supremacy is going to prevent a couple of schmucks with guns, artillery, and missiles, from hitting a target.",1
"The only similarity here is that documents are involved. The amount of documents, cooperation with DOJ & Archive, and return of the documents is all different.",Bingo! Having documents isn't the crime Trump is accused of. Refusing to return documents and obstructing efforts to retrieve documents is the crime Trump is accused of.,0
"Institutional, legalized racism was a horrific part of American life when boomers were born, and we should talk about it much more.","""All these black people angry for no reason, they obviously just hate America, which has never been anything but a force for good in the world."".",0
"Jordan is the most stable country of all of Israel's neighbors, and they've put up with a lot of bullshit, and their population is already like 20% refugees from Israel, Syria, & Iraq. But yeah, I guess they draw the line at Israel potentially doubling their refugee population with a flood of new deported Palestinians.","Also, the refugees are a result of their attacks on Israel in 48 and 67, so it would be ridiculous to draw a red line there. ""We have attacked you twice and lost, stop creating a refugee problem for us""?",1
There were two bills. One that required the rail workers to work under the agreed wage increase agreed by the workers and 8/12 of the unions and another bill to give the rail workers paid sick leave.,"But, of course, it was Biden's fault... Definitely not the Republicans that voted for the corporations and deny the workers simple paid sick leave.",0
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"Frankly, yes. That's the whole point of reuse. When it comes to being green, it's better to reuse/resell than to recycle. Take an old broken computer for example. Instead of attempting to recycle it, a person buys the broken computer, fixes the broken parts, and then converts it to be sold as a home media server or something similar. In terms of overall environmental impact, that is vastly superior to just recycling it.","While I may not fully understand the situation with DOW, but on the surface, this seems better than the costly / chemically intense method of turning them into running tracks. If the shoe is still wearable, then it should be worn. Reselling cost can be used to cover transportation fees.",0
"A country without those rich resource deposits would essentially be screwed. You need iron to build cars and houses. Copper to build wires for electricity. Oil, gas and/or coal to power your factories. Fertile land to use for farming. If some of those things aren't available, you absolutely need to trade with the outside, otherwise your population would suffer.","It'd also be awful for climate change since photovoltaic power would be unavailable and other forms of climate friendly energy production would be less efficient. Nuclear power would be an option, but Russia might not have the knowledge or tools to build such a power plant without outside support.",0
"Who actually thinks someone or a group of people could get in close enough to one of Putin's goons, assassinate him and not have Putin know? Judging by the reluctance of the Russian general population to even move a finger against Putin, would they even try?",There's no doubt there's some unrest right now in the upper strata of Putin's government. This Putin confidant may have just gotten too friendly with one of the potential replacements' camps and got caught. One thing that has become clear in the last few years. It doesn't take much for Putin to identify someone as a threat to his power and respond lethally.,1
"Fuck me sideways and call me Frank. How the fuck is this a thing in Queensland?! Only positive thing is that we will do a review and if there are changes to the laws to help avoid this in the future, then they will be considered. We're not America. We tend to take cop killing pretty seriously.","But I’m their twisted logic would have thought the cops were coming to kill them or imprison them. I dunno. There’s threads showing how insane and batshit crazy Gareth Train (property owner) was about QAnon, NWO, and China stuff.",1
"Regardless, thinking any country could sneak a nuke sub to the US coast without the USAs incredibly bloated military noticing it is pure fallacy.","Oh for sure, at least the US tells you in advance that they are going to invade your country based on false reports, letting its soldiers run rampant on your territory.",1
"I get his point about accessibility and that it's both hypocritical and often inaccurate (because the items are often not displayed). But there's a difference between returning something to let's say Greece or Peru, and returning it to a currently very unsafe country that's ripe with terrorism and corruption (yeah clearly there's corruption everywhere but all I know about Nigeria is that it's a whole different level).","There has already been cases if this occuring, of course Nigeria is actually a quite developed and stable country, but it still has terrorist incursions and a lot of crime/corruption of a type more likely to be dangerous to precious items than most Western corruption.",1
"Larger damage to the Russian economy also do thisto some extent, but it's a blunt instrument which will take years to break the Russians.","Meaning Russia might actually end up losing money on the oil, simply because they cannot risk capping oil wells, as they may be unsalvagable.",1
"I think so. The winner has to get 218+, but it doesn't have to be the R party's candidate of choice if the votes are there for a coalition. Any R who voted with the Ds on a compromise candidate would probably be expelled from the R caucus as a traitor, so there is that cost.",Hmm.. it sounds like if the R vote is split in any appreciable way the democrats could have their choice of which one they want to win by voting as a block for them. Or just letting it be chaos.,1
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"EDIT: To clarify, McCarthy can win with 214 votes if some of the protest votes simply vote ""present"". If not, he'll still need 218.","If there are 221 Republicans, then there are only 213 Democrats, so McCarthy only needs 214 votes. The protest votes will come from the MAGA side and Dems most certainly won't be voting for their candidate.",0
"“There have been reports of wages going unpaid, passports being held by unscrupulous bosses and some labourers working up to 148 days in a row.","What’s stopping the worker going to their embassy and getting travel papers to go home ? Their problems aren’t with their passports or ability to leave, but with the agent who sent them and is expecting payment.",0
"The article clearly says the sponsor of the student, like family, become unable to leave China while they are abroad and become liable for their misbehaviour or disloyalty. This is classic dictatorship stuff, US certaintly does not do this. Not sure why you are defending China.","Not returning to China when urged? We'll throw your parents into prison for speaking out against the government. Don't care about your parents? That's fine, neither do we. We'll keep your parents in prison and wrangle up your cousins, uncles, and aunts and do the same. Don't care about them, either? Then we'll start hunting down your old friends and colleagues from before you left and add them into the mix. Seems like a lot of people that you've known while growing up have suddenly started talking bad about the Chinese government. How much are you willing to bear the responsibility for? How much will others suffer until you cave to the demands? How many of your loved ones will be in a cold and moldy prison cell begging for you to come home and cursing your name every day that you've abandoned them?",1
"""'Ukrainians with real combat experience will be released from custody and will be able to compensate for their guilt in the hottest spots,' Zelensky said."".","Which is what I said. But almost 200k civilians were killed due to the actions of US troops in Afghanistan alone, whether on purpose or not that's unacceptable. It's not an apples to apples comparison but I think they're still comparable.",1
"...unless they make people rise up for a Holy War, which is the futile bet Putin is currently making (based on the rhetoric in Russian media). Yes, it won't work. But Putin is still making this bet because that's the only one he can still make.","That, however, includes Putin himself. He didn't get the memo that the times have changed. And now he's not getting the memo that the war is already lost. We'll see a lot of tragic things happen because of that.",0
“FoxNews.com” should not be pointing out anything to do with lies. I can already feel the ridiculous bias coming from this article without opening it.,"And It does not have anything in it that is extremely biased or inaccurate. People seem to be just taking issue with the source being 'Fox News,' and the fact that it is critical of Biden.",1
"I'm going to play devil's advocate here: several years is bad for both Ukraine and Russia. But, keeping the war in Ukraine (with only Russia as the other war party) is in Europe's and USA's best interest. And as long as the west is only supplying arms, Russia has a very weak case to get more direct help from / involvement of friendly nations (namely, china and India).","Not my preference at all, to be very clear. I would love it if the Ukrainians chased out the Russians tomorrow and reclaimed their full territory. I also do not allege that western nations don't want to help Ukraine - but they have to think of themselves first.",0
"Ok I'm happy for Fetterman and I'm glad a mainstream democrat won ,but lets not pretend he didn't run behind Joe Shapiro who had a better showing.","I'm from PA, I voted Shapiro + Fetterman, I like Shapiro, I'm happy he's the new governor. I'm not arguing that he's actually unpopular. I'm objecting to the idea that ""moderate Democrat"" Shapiro overperformed ""extreme left-wing"" Fetterman, or that Fetterman only won because he tacked to the center. The Senate race and the Governor's race were two different races, and no one thing can explain why Shapiro trounced Mastriano while Fetterman won by a much smaller margin. But there's no proof that Fetterman would have run even with Shapiro if only he did a better job of distancing himself from Bernie and that wing of the party.",1
"One thing I like to remind people of - NATO has spent its entire existence preparing for war with Russia. Every single conflict, every military action, every training drill, every strike and mobilization they've ever done - it has _all_ been practice for Russia. There is no opponent on earth they are better prepared for.","That part might be the scariest, tbh - Nukes are the only game Russia has in a conflict with NATO. They're virtually guaranteed to use them, because it's the only thing that would be even moderately effective - assuming Russia's nukes still even work.",0
... and they won't have any explanation why these soviet-era nukes that haven't been maintained would miraculously be able to get past state-of-the-art anti-missle defenses.,"Seeing how most of their military is leftover soviet era junk that hasn't been well maintained, I'd be more worried about Russia becoming ash due to their nukes exploding on attempt to launch.",0
This war exposed the russian armed forces as the joke that they are and the russian junta can't do shit to bring them back on track.,"As for their claim, well I don't think the Russians would be able to mobilize a proper ground force for a long time.",1
"If Palestinian leadership came out right now and said they are ready to accept peace proposal as given during Camp David, it would be VERY hard for Israel to refuse.","The last serious proposal was 2000 Camp David, where Palestinians got pretty much everything they could hope for, and they refused it with no counter offer.",0
"So, people sentenced to state prison who are being released with conditions that would otherwise be onerous, unfair, or illegal to impose on someone who wasn't still serving a sentence.","Also, anyone who can be bothered to malinger their way into a medical marijuana recommendation can use it in Oregon even when on probation or parole.",0
"It’s a state’s rights bill that means his constituents never have to even see a gay wedding cake, if Obergefell is rolled back.","No bill can do that, there’s already a SCOTUS ruling that gay marriage is protected by the constitution. The reason the Mormon church is for it is because they don’t have to marry gay couples. There’s plenty of other people that will administer a gay wedding.",1
"They could pass legislation, there are things this nation would benefit from that is not part of any liberal/moderate/conservative ideology but one side simply will not work with the other to accomplish it and always seems to go far out of the way to obstruct these very common sense things simply because the other side proposed it. I would list examples but even my short list is too long to list here.","Just look who tries to work in a bipartisan fashion. look who tries to compromise. Hint, it's isn't the GOP.",0
The only difference now is that there are NATO and EU countries that don't want to be the next Chechnya/Georgia/Crimea/Ukraine so they're now pushing for curbing Putin's aggressivity.,Nope Russia are a strategic threat to the west and only partial normalisation should ever be on the table. Any material that can be used for military purposes should be barred from sale to Russia on an indeterminate basis.,1
"All 3 of these things so obviously demands the removal from any position that could cause even more damage and any and all methods to remove this danger to so many should be on the table. The very very very least the Republicans should have done is remove this threat themselves, but...","Republicans spent the past 7 years protecting, defending and excusing the moron... if he goes down... they all should go down. None of this ""distancing themselves from"" crap. They should be held accountable for what they unleashed on this country (and the world).",1
"Repairing a diesel is much easier to do if we get blasted back to the Stone Age, you just need some dumb components that rarely need specialized techniques and/or tools to manufacture. A screw driver and a wrench can get you 99% of the way there.",Same with the person farther up that said “with a diesel if you’ve got a screwdriver and a wrench you can fix a diesel”.,1
"Is that a better compromise, cause everyone here is trying to find the worst of every situation here.",">Under this approach, a state court could block an election map, but then only send it back to the legislature to try again rather than impose changes itself.",0
"I have the same philosophy — all your relationships (except possibly your kids) should be transactional. If you’re getting nothing out of any relationship (friend, business, partner) it’s time to leave or try to fix it—you’ll be happier for it. What you get out of a relationship might be something intangible — but you should get something.","Love, affection, respect,a sense of satisfaction are all intangibles that count, amongst other things.",1
"firing into russia from ukraine should be ok to do, as long as they don't cross the border, putin can't call it an invasion.","Don't ask questions, if you do you'll get called a Russia supporter, only trust articles that say good things about Ukraine.",1
"Turkey claims a lot of things, it's just that they're mostly on their own with their claims. We could lose ourselves in topic of Kurdistan but what matters for this topic right here is that Turkey has no right to meddle with the people of Syria, the same as Russia has no right to meddle with the Ukrainian people. And letting Erdogan get through with one thing while (rightly) not letting Putin get through with the other is a double standard.","We already have been allowing Erdogan to wage his war against the Kurds for like what, 2 years now? We're still allowing him to murder Kurds. And before that we allowed him to in the Syrian war who then . Let's not pretend that NATO is not implicit in this when we conveniently turn a blind eye on turkish fascism.",0
"It's actually the other way around I think. The northern states prefer DST since it results in a bit more evening light in the winter (because the further north you go in winter, the less overall daylight there is).","I prefer DST because I’m up north and I don’t like 4:30PM sunsets but at this point idc. Just pick one and stick with it. I don’t understand why we change the clocks to adjust to work schedules, schools, etc. Why can’t we just adjust when work starts, schools open, etc.",1
"Most progressives are left leaning, while most conservatives and reactionaries are right leaning. That is to say, progressives tend to support a bundle of policies that can be described as ""leftist"" and vice versa. This has to do with the fact that most leftist politics have their roots in very progressive ideologies (it doesn't get much more progressive than Karl Marx).","There are conservative communists and progressive right-wingers, but they are rare because they assume a political system that's already very left wing. The best example would be the old guard of the Soviet Union that resisted more progressive, market-leaning reforms. Technically, you could even count most European market-liberals as progressive, though that's pretty unusual because the word ""progressive"" itself is very strongly associated with American politics.",0
What's sad/amusing is that a lot of non-Jewish pro Zionists are also antisemitic... they.like the idea of Jews being segregated into their own area.,"Compare how Arabs are treated in Israel to how Jews are treated in Palestine, then get back to me on which is the ""apartheid"" society. Compare how women are treated, how LGBT are treated, how their justice system works.",0
How does she still not understand that Twitter is not a government service and therefore not bound by constitutional proclivities?,"The fact that she can voice her opinion, and express concern about whatever Twitter did, suggests she is not in fact limited in her freedom of speech.",1
what climate challenge? The trash mountain is killing people a lot faster than how it affects climate change. The climate challenge is a lot less relevant than those who are being poisoned right now.,"Listen climate change is bad, India will be hit hard, there will be heat problems. But this is just insane nonsense.",1
"Trump didn't work with the Afghan government and dealt with the Taliban, they actively said here have the country back we're gone. Then they instead of securing all the people they needed to pull out intentionally slowed the withdrawal of US citizens, personnel and any Afghans who should be able to move to the US as they helped the military during hte war. They left that all till there were too few troops for protection and too little time. Biden tried to get the date moved back and tried to get more of those people cleared to travel to the US and republicans blocked it.","Too little time, too few people on the ground and a stone walling republican party who wanted that withdrawal to both happen under Biden and for it to be as bad as it could be.",0
"As many of you know, there currently is a near total ban on education of females that goes beyond the university ban.","There is not one single other country, regardless of religion or race or class, that completely ban its female population from studying. Not even what we'd deem the most conservative countries (e.g. Saudi?). That's how nuts these Talib guys are.",1
"Because they built up a nuclear arsenal. Which Ukraine opposed and then supported sanctions on, while Russia backed them.","No one needs to to justify not supporting Ukraine. If it isn't important to them or their lives. They can say ""Oh, that's too bad, Russia shouldn't do that."" and move on. Us and our government react that way to a lot of things and it'd be hypocritical to condemn anyone for not showing enough support.",1
Grats England you just helped forward the Scottish independence movement and also probably got conservative Scots more on the side of trans people just to spite you.,"You won’t get a single response - some will tell you that it’s bigotry, while others will tell you that it’s just to make a point in overruling Scotland’s parliament.",1
"? It's not good code, but it's code. When given enough time - tech will replace a good chunk of programmers, too. Do you primarily use Excel in your job? This same AI can replace you, too.","AI is coming for all kinds of jobs. , for example. And even if the AI isn't good - one day it will be.",0
"(Watching the evening news last night was painful. People all upset that their ocean front houses were destroyed going “well, there was like 70-100 feet of beach in front of my house, how could I possibly have anticipated a hurricane could do this much damage????” Ummm… because that’s what hurricanes do?? And climate change increases their frequency and severity?? Which is what science has been saying for over 20 years but you built your multi million dollar mansion 70 feet from the ocean anyways and now want federal funds to rebuild.).",It should be. Boomers and GenX will be dead when the worse of climate change will happen. GenZ needs to look out for themselves. The boomers will burn this world to the ground before admitting they made mistakes.,1
It's even more insane to also put the burden on new workers to have to continue paying into a system the same as everyone previous but be told you won't get as much and it'll be later in life because the very people enjoying those benefits now didn't budget right.,"In the US. Labor productivity has increased 300% between 1950 and 2018. Why should none of that go towards longer retirements? Labor generates 3 times more wealth today than it would have in 1950, yet most of that money is not translating into the hands of the actual laborers. Obviously, France is a different country but they face similar issues even if the numbers end up being different.",0
Any apology and recognition of the mistakes of the past will make it better for the future that is being planned. Good thing that Netherlands has done it.,"I hope other colonial powers(English, French, Spain and Portugal) starts apologising and returning the loot and artefacts of African, South American and south Asian countries.",0
"Maybe like .2 years or so, when they had a supermajority (barely) and were busy getting the ACA passed?",And that was during a period where nobody thought it was as important as healthcare -- the SC composition changed radically since then.,0
"Leaving aside the ""terror"" aspect of bombing civilian targets, at least the carpet bombing of WWII did impact Germany's military industrial capacity, but Ukraine is getting most of its new equipment from outside its borders.","The Russians are just pissing their money away on missiles, and making it harder and harder to ever rebuild their relationship with Ukraine.",0
Oh for sure it can be organic. I’m saying that people aware of their own suffering and powerlessness develop a certain darkness that would terrify a therapist. And Russia is s country full of abused humans.,"Russia has a long history of using mass rape as a weapon. Rape happens in every war, it's a side effect of dehumanizing the enemy; however there are very few armies today that would instruct their soldiers to rape everybody they came across. Russia is one of those and has been for hundreds of years.",1
Not to mention the insane hatred and bigotry of the Republican Party which would and is OBVIOUSLY maligned with Jesus’ teachings.,Calling republicans the anti religious ones when democrats constantly promote antichristian ideology all the time. “Oh no it’s people we don’t like leading some committees We better blame racism and facism for this”.,1
It is unlikely that NATO would escalate the use of a tactical nuke in Ukraine be using a tactical nuke in Russia and there are not many other European targets where NATO could use one to prove they willing to not back down.,Interestingly one of NATOs responses to the use of a tactical nuke is to attack Belarusian military facilities (possibly with a tactical nuke).,0
"And I suspect its because Black people overwhelmingly break for Democrats. Where a white conservative person would typically vote for a Republican, the Black Conservative person may STILL vote Democrat due to the rampant racism apparent in the Republican party.","However, the black community will continue to support democrats for the time being, because the overwhelming consensus is that the brand of conservatism that is currently ruling the GOP is the main threat that has hurt them in the first place for decades.",1
"Human rights is the answer. You just brushed over it like it’s some nebulous thing that hasn’t been defined but that’s just not true. Human rights and freedom of choice are the difference. I’m not arguing that western capitalistic societies are 100% free and have no coercion, but compared to the conservative theocratic and or totalitarian nations of the world western countries generally have much more freedom of choice for how one lives their lives.","All that does is push the issue back a further step; freedom of choice as a moral value is an extremely novel concept when considered within the grander scope of human history, and we can't simply assume that it should be obvious to everyone that such freedom of choice is good for societies and individuals. There are plenty of arguments that have been made which purport to show how such freedom of choice in fact results in the discordance and erosion of social structures.",1
"If Girkin's report is to believed basically Bakhmut is being assaulted my Wagner Prison-PMCs that are basically being given iPhones, being told to attack on X-Axis, sent in small infantry groups with no support, and they get shot if they don't do it, deviate from their route or fail. Then they just get shot or blown up by Ukraine as soon as they're spotted.","So, there was a drone attack against Crimea a couple of days ago. I saw several claims of explosions, fires, and active air defense, but no other news ever appeared. But here's a thread translating a Russian report about it.",1
"Regardless of what the voters want or think, the Republicans will rebrand trump as a failure and force feed the voters DeSantis instead, with their army of talking heads... it won't take long and it's already underway. Just look at people like Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, even doctor Oz (who trump basically put there) plus many others at the top are already distancing themselves from trump. You will also notice more and more talk about how trump is a problem in the media from the republican side.","They will prop up DeSantis and slowly sweep trump under the bus. Obviously trump will not go quietly, but his day has come and gone... the future of the republican party is going a different route now.",0
Publishing government facility security footage is not only a national security risk but also an example of the legislative branch meddling in the Affairs of the judicial branch.,"Given that the footage is likely to be used in the court of law, I guess I'm curious as to what sort of benefit you think could be gained by releasing this footage publicly, especially since such a release could be used by defendants to argue that the publicization of this information makes it impossible for them to receive a fair trial?",0
"The US owes money to China in US dollars, not a foreign currency. The US can always print more US dollars to pay back any debts that are denominated in US dollars.","Argentina's problem was that its debts were denominated in foreign currencies (e.g., US dollars, the Euro) and it was expected to pay off its debts in those currencies. However, the Argentinian peso (?) fell sharply relative to those currencies, making it difficult to pay back those loans, hence the default.",0
"""Trump had bank accounts in China while he was in office until 2018,"" Goldman wrote in a tweet. ""Generally, you only have bank accounts in a foreign country if you are doing transactions in that country's currency. What business was Trump doing in China while he was President?"".","Yep. And it's not as simple as just paying. Need to have citizenship somewhere else first (something I'm working on in Peru but not because I want to renounce), go through a whole process of interviews and crap, and be treated suspiciously by US border agents any time you want to come back just to visit.",1
"The Democrats, who will ultimately be the deciding factor in these resolutions are expected to fight for unions though, and if the sick-leave resolution fails then so will they.","Whatever people think of the democrats forcing the unions to accept the contract, it’s a clever move so that people can see that republicans and their corporate masters hate giving workers sick leave.",1
Turkey would be making a binding commitment to send its own people to die for Sweden if it came to that.,"While this is true, Sweden has already agreed to extradite several kurds to Turkey. Selling out our allies to a man who, several times, have violated international laws by conducting his own military ""special operations"" in both Syria and Iraq against kurds.",1
"Speaking to reporters, Mr Zelensky said: ""I have no doubt that this is not our missile. I believe that this was a Russian missile, based on our military reports."".","The incident is still under investigation, but Polish President Andrzej Duda asserted earlier today: ""Ukraine's defence was launching their missiles in various directions and it is highly probable that one of these missiles unfortunately fell on Polish territory."".",0
A Gazan won an Israeli lottery Surely this is a testament of how progressive and liberal Israel is How fortunate are the Gazans that Israel let's some of them in to work slavery jobs with slavery wages.,"Gaza’s Palestinians are oppressed by Hamas, and thousands of them go to Israel for work, with the Israeli approval, even if it costs a little in security for Israel.",1
"Edit: I asked my coworker about Kanye's recent statements about Hitler and Nazi's. He said that Hitler did do a lot of good. He created a lot of technology we have today and he brought the world together by being the bad guy. He also said that you shouldn't hate anyone, including Nazi's, and they're entitled to their free speech. Kanye, according to him, was just taken out of context and is a victim of woke cancel culture.","My coworker praised Kanye yesterday and told me it was proof that Republicans, and Trump, are not racist.",0
"Once upon a time, I would have defended Ohio - they seemed to be on the right path towards progress but the last 10 years have shown that it's really becoming a shithole.","Toledo is truly he hidden gem of the midwest. Top 10 zoo and art museum in the country, HUGE metroparks with a focus on conservation and ease of access, an interactive science museum downtown, Tony Packos... the list really goes on and on.",0
"One of the things that pop culture gets wrong about the Multiverse is that, if the theory is true, then there are infinite alternative universes.","This is not true, just because an infinite amount of universes exists does not mean that all possible universes exists. For example, between 0 and 1 there’s an infinite amount of numbers (in fact a larger infinity than the amount of natural numbers or integers) but 2 is not one of the numbers between 0 and 1.",1
"The us was still mostly neutral between India and Pakistan until Richard Nixon.He established a very close relationship with Pakistan, aiding it militarily and economically. He considered Pakistan as a very important ally to counter Soviet influence in the Indian subcontinent and establish ties with China, with whom Pakistan was very close.",Russia is increasingly wary of Chinese influence in the region and uses India to counter that influence while maintaining a good trade relationship with both.,1
"It's wrong to buy Russian oil, it's a fucking war and the world is leaning on Russia, India is literally just being trash In this choice, be with the world or be greedy, India chose greed nothing else.",India would make a huge strategic mistake boycotting Russian ressources but y'all are too focus insulting everyone that doesn't align 100% with your side to see the whole picture.,1
"Mykolaiv’s governor is already hinting at Chornobaivka being liberated, which would mean that we are already just outside of Kherson; there are also reports of gunfights happening in Kherson’s suburbs right now. Another good thing that will happen once Russians leave Kherson is that they won’t be able to shell Mykolaiv any longer, which is what they were doing daily all this time. Same thing happened when Russians were thrown out of Kharkiv oblast, they weren’t in range anymore, so the shelling just stopped.","So when the higher ups in the Russian military ordered the withdrawal from Kherson, did nobody tell them that all the river crossings were fucked? Or do they really not care about stranding thousands of their best trained troops on the wrong side of the river with Ukrainian artillery raining down on them? Regardless, it's a head scratcher. I swear, it's like Russia has been giving the rest of the world an object lesson on what not to do when invading another country every step of the way.",1
They will swoop in to maximize exploitation. Look what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. Russia will be no different.,"However, Russia is a bit unique due to their situation. They have lots of land and lots of resources, so they can power the economy just from internal resource extraction.",1
Yeah. Why is this even a question? All presidents do this without even asking. Take away the burden of proof when Republicans claim he never committed tax fraud.,"If Trump’s tax info reveals that he lied to the American people, would you prefer not to know about it?",1
If you need to threaten your own people with prison or death to get them to fight then seriously why even bother?,No the point is people don't ever have to be forced into a situation where their lives are in danger. If your country is worth anything at all people will volunteer. If its not then its frankly not worth the loss of life to defend it or fight for it.,0
They got 4% of the world's people and 25% of the world's prison population. How are there not constant riots?!,Oh wow. It was like a conspiracy theory to say what I did on Reddit 5 minutes ago and now its common knowledge. Never know what audience is around on this site.,1
"I was asking the above poster what his point was re: groceries being cheaper a few years ago. How does that change the fact that kids were going hungry then and are more likely to go hungry now, as you pointed out.","I can’t think of a BETTER use of public dollars than r make sure kids don’t go hungry while they’re in school, regardless of the circumstances of their parents wealth.",0
"The driver was a Palestinian permanent resident of East Jerusalem, meaning that he held an Israeli ID and could, if he so chose, become an Israeli citizen. He was not an Israeli.",Look up the Israeli settlement program. Would you trust someone who was already illegally occupying those land and the United Nations did nothing about it?,1
"I dislike Santos as much as the next Antifa vice president of the San Diego chapter local 403, but let's be honest, they may have been delusions at the time, but it does seem like he made the grandeur come true. Even if he lied his way to get there.",I think he's just a liar and a fraud. No need to give him an armchair diagnosis. There's something too studied about Santos's affect.,1
"Reddit is full of a certain kind of people. If you aren't part of the hivemind, then you'll stick out like a sore thumb every now and again. I've gotten used to it.","Thanks! I definitely forgot about the buffer part. In the past I think both sides were trying to avoid influencing the buffer countries too much? There was a perception from Russia, real or not, that NATO was slowly advancing further east towards Russia.",0
Exactly. I'd venture to bet that there is a disproportionate amount of older people tapping into savings in this because that's what people do when they retire.,"Fair. So of 65million people or so those numbers don't seem too out of control. Assuming we're only talking about adults, at a glance those numbers look fairly aligned with age distribution.",0
I lived in Paraguay in the early 2000s and I believe that the country is still feeling the effects of that demographic shift caused by the death of so many men in such a brutal war.,"> Roughly two-thirds of Paraguay’s population perished during the conflict, including around 90% of its men. Brazil and Argentina would go on to annex enormous swaths of Paraguayan territory.",1
"That said, one could also argue that requesting a mob of people to interfere with the proceedings of the legislative branch could also be considered the executive branch interfering with the legislative branch.","Well if the President used the means at his disposal to ""protect the capital"" without giving any notice or being formally invited to do so, then that could be seen as the executive branch interfering with the legislative branch.",1
"Military objectives, insofar as objects are concerned, include “any object which by its nature, location, purpose or use makes an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.”.","Electric power stations are generally recognized to be of sufficient importance to a State’s capacity to meet its wartime needs of communication, transport, and industry so as usually to qualify as military objectives during armed conflicts.  (Emphasis added.).",0
This really isn’t new news when it comes to how Fox operates But it does show how not enough people aren’t paying attention.,What most people don’t understand is Fox is giving their audience what they want. If they didn’t do that this audience would move on to some other place. As it is Trump’s base has already done that as they consider Fox to be to liberal for their taste.,0
Equal parts deep cynicism about what the GOP has become and deep cynicism concerning Democrats inability to nominate candidates who'd appeal to independent voters.,"That said, McCarthy personally and Republicans generally would deserve the agony a Republican majority of fewer than 10 seats in the House of Representatives would produce. A Democratic majority would be far better, but a razor thin Republican majority just might hasten the disintegration of the GOP, collapsing under the inconsistencies between the idiots, the cowards and the insurrectionists.",0
Russia is indeed very corrupt but so is Ukraine. Ukrainian politicians even bought mansions and spent fortunes on personal luxuries after American aid money was sent to them.,"Almost no war is black and white, and history is written by the victors, and the media portrays one side as pure good and the other as pure evil wether they are right or wrong. I’m merely trying to open peoples minds to thought.",0
"“Dan Grazier, a senior defense policy fellow at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), sees an outright Chinese invasion of Taiwan as extremely unlikely. Such a military operation would immediately disrupt the imports and exports upon which the Chinese economy relies for its very survival, Grazier told CNN, and interrupting this trade risks the collapse of the Chinese economy in short order. China relies on imports of food and fuel to drive their economic engine, Grazier said, and they have little room to maneuver.”.","Replenishing those stocks have already long been in the pipeline and are part of normal Defense appropriations bills. Despite what you may hear on Cable News channels, American war fighting readiness has never fallen short.",0
It was interesting to see that they didn't play back a clip from the press conference but only showed the footage and let the host give some highlights. To be fair I haven't watched it either but it's very easy for them to change what has been said if viewers can't watch the original footage.,"Also, who are they referig to with the messy haired clown they should have taken out earlier? Are they meanig Boris Johnson or Trump? Because they were pretty close with Trump I think.",0
"Triangulation, in the context of abuse, means the abuser using a third party to manipulate the victim. For instance, say a person cut contact with an abuser to try and protect themselves.. the abuser might convince a third person to 'go talk to' the victim, either to find out information or convince the victim to return to the abuser.","That one is the coping strategies or similarities to a victim's abuser that the victim picked up during the abuse. Metaphorically it's like picking up fleas from the abuser, maladaptive patterns that are generally unhealthy and cause lonerm harm to the victim. They can, though don't necessarily, lead to generational abuse as the victim can copy the abusers behavior or leave the trauma of the abuse unhealed, which can cause the victim to then abuse others.",0
"Putin, who has repeatedly said that Russia was ready to use “all available means” to protect its territory, including the annexed areas of Ukraine, rejected Western criticism that those statements amounted to nuclear saber-rattling.","Asked by a member of the Human Rights Council to pledge that Russia would not be the first to use nuclear weapons, Putin demurred, saying Russia would not be able to use nuclear weapons at all if it agreed not to use them first and then came under a nuclear strike.",0
"Yes. If you know anything about Russian history, you’d know that there’s no shortage of fodder Russian leaders are willing to feed to the enemy’s cannons.",Would it be too much to ask that the US donates a handful of older A-10s to Ukraine just in case the Czar sends another long line of cannon fodder. I am certain the old dudes that designed and sold the A-10 (50 years ago) thought of exactly the scenario we witnessed. Where the Czar railroads ended they would have to use road and be eradicated. I wonder if the ancient A-10 has a way to slow down the rate of fire so they can erase many kilometers of the Czars cannon fodder.,1
"A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration or remonstrance or a maree richo) is a public expression of objection, disapproval or dissent towards an idea or action, typically a political one.","Yeah I mean again, and really trying to not sound condescending here but the point of a protest isn't necessarily to achieve anything, it's about raising your voice and protesting something.",0
"Also, would note that the transition from low to high voting rate isn't some kind of cliff. Each older age group votes more than the next younger group, and so on.","Also, how young are you that you think people ages 65-70 are just sitting around all day waiting to vote? And they're all watching Fox? I'll let Bernie know. 😂.",1
"All the bill says is “if employers cover the costs of transitions, they also have to cover the costs of de-transitions if applicable”.",It matters who covers it because by forcing companies to cover detransitions as well they’re trying to make it so that companies won’t cover transitions in the first place.,1
"Very true, they are almost as bad as the US with it's 800+ military bases, over 80 armed conflicts going on currently, a military budget that is larger than the next 10 countries totalled, a history of assassinating elected world leaders, causing or actively supporting every armed conflict since ww2, assassinating a sitting American president n his brother, etc. I could go on but you get the idea.",She's a traitor to her country and should have been sent to Guantanamo with the other neocons who perpetrated the 9/11 atrocities.,0
"If the reporter got a nice quote from a source mentioning how this is good for democracy, they could’ve used that quote for the headline potentially. Otherwise, it’s best to stick to hard facts and only hard facts.","I mean “win for democracy” is pretty subjective, and journalists, at least the ones that know what they’re doing, avoid subjectivity whenever they can.",0
"But that's just a truism relevant to many wars. However, if and when a ""good"" deed is carried out by the invading army and is celebrated by agents of the war machine, it's just perverted propaganda.","There's a time and a place for all of that. But if you find yourself looking Russian propaganda, its probably not the best time to say ""hey yeah that's a good point"".",0
Why would any company support their workers if they know that (if they're essential enough) the government will just swoop in and crush it?,"Because the government doesn’t have the power to order companies to give certain benefits? I don’t disagree that 0 sick days is a little ridiculous, but the rail strike needs to be avoided at all costs. It would absolutely guarantee a blowout in the 2024 election and Americans would struggle to live their day to day lives. Sorry but it’s not worth it as a whole.",1
"I keep thinking about how more people vote for Democrat representatives in Wisconsin than Republican representatives, but they still only get about 30% representation due to gerrymandering.","I used 2012 as an example because of the way the House was split unevenly due to gerrymandering and how it showed how quickly Republican control of the majority of state legislatures, and therefore district mapping, had rigged the game against Democrats that enjoyed vastly wider popularity across the general electorate.",1
"Lift the cap on the payroll tax. Institute policies so wages keep up with productivity like they did 50+ years ago. There wouldn't even be an issue if wages had not stagnated for 40+ years. Yes, the people claiming its demographics ignore wage stagnation.","Trying to couple wages to ""productivity"" isn't going to scale the way you think it is in the future. More and more tasks will be automated by fewer and fewer people.",1
"In 1542 there was no option of being secular, it was just degrees of which you believed the bullshit created by men.",🤣 WTF is this bullshit?? Secular courts in 1542??? Where was this? Next to the microbiology and quantum research lab???,0
"What other countries? All the other countries are in trade agreements...where is the U.S. going to pick up this 540 billion dollars of goods, what you are really saying is import from other countries who would be importing those same goods from China. So all you are doing is adding a middleman and increasing costs for the U.S.",It makes no sense to add in an unnecessary middleman and added costs just for a domestic talking point.,0
"Honestly, I hope Dem votes come through, HOWEVER... the GOP only having a vote or two majority trying to hold that putrid coalition together would be really fun to watch.","Can you imagine so many factions and none with a majority so that a potential speaker has to get dem votes? You could negotiate some nice trade-offs, like chair of some committees.",1
"A number of European countries that had been in the Warsaw Pact and have since joined NATO are in the process of transitioning away from legacy Soviet style equipment to NATO standards. This means they have a load of old Warsaw Pact standard equipment they know they will be getting rid of pretty soon anyway. It's a pretty simple decision for these countries to donate all this older kit to Ukraine and accelerate their own transition to NATO standards, and this makes life easier for Ukraine because the equipment they are getting is stuff they have trained on and understand how to use.","In addition, many countries do not have material to spare right away, or material which Ukraine would be able to utilize efficiently, so they sent non-military aid instead.",1
"This is stupid logic. The fact of the matter is that they changed the name because it's already problematic. This wasn't a preemption, like you believe. Racists were already going ""sounds like something only blacks get"". The point isn't to satisfy racists, it's to take away the association that people are already making.","They’re not changing it because they think it might have racist connotations, they’re changing it because they’ve actually seen it happening.",1
"This does't include those that were super duper filthy rich: those just bribed their entire sentence right away in the first place, and never went to prison.","If all the dewad since the start of this stupid atrocious war were there, the graves would fill up (assuming a conservative 60000 dead --- not just specific Wagner loosses, though) then you'd need over 2400 of such cemetary plots. Take the \full\ image, make it about 5 times wider and 5 times talller (i.e. 25 times that image), and that would be much closer that the minimum ""real"" size of Russian dead troops.",0
"I'm comparing California to the nation as a whole. Obviously you can pick out specific states like Wyoming that have more representation, simply because each state has to get at least one vote.","Each state should send a single elector, who presents the number of votes each candidate got in that state. One person, one vote.",1
"India was never an ally of China, only business partners. Only Russia and USA were common between us and China, nobody else.","This has NOTHING to do with Russia-Ukraine. You guys are so consumed by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, you even look at unrelated news from that lens.",1
"Trump: ""BIDEN 👐 is the most CORRUPT president 👌 in the history of the world. I would know, I am 👐 a very corrupt president, but not as corrupt as Sleepy Joe Biden. I am 👌 the corruption America needs to defeat the radical left Democrats"".","If youth voter turnout was consistently at a rock-solid 70%, the Republican Party would lose every single election in the future. With 90% youth turnout, the Dems could get 70/100 Dems in the Senate and 340+ House Dems, so a literal FDR-era Democrat supermajority. It would essentially be permanent if the GOP doesn't massively reform (which is unlikely to happen).",0
"Because that's too much effort. The zoomers that do shit like this have a vision, but they realize the only way they can enact it is to do the lowest effort shit like vandalism towards completely unrelated people. Bonus points when they make a goddamn fool of themselves like the kids who glued theirselves to the floor of a museum only for the museum to lock them in overnight. All because it's too much effort to actually take action that would piss off the right people.","They’ve got me talking about how useless, and counter productive their efforts are. 900 vehicles by 4 tires, that potentially 3600 tires will head into landfill, well before their life is up. So now we need to truck 3600 tires to get them replaced. Tow 900 cars to a garage to get the tires changed. Its almost $720,000 of property damage (at $200 a tire, which is close to a budget price tire) so thats the “minimum” please tell me that the greenhouse gas emissions from trucking, manufacturing, and taking the tires to their final resting place is less than the emissions by just leaving those tires inflated. Also - tire ranges from 15-25 pounds each, so 3600 tires at call it 20 pounds is 76,000 POUNDS of garbage. Super good for the environment right?",1
"Lest we forget, this is what Don did at the beginning of this whole fiasco. This is just from February 2020:","He has read, conducted, published more peer-reviewed research than these morons could hope to collectively read (still less understand) in their entire lifetime. But sure, just because the traitor fake doctor, Rand Paul, said some stupid buzzwords, they believe they understand more about virology, infectious diseases, and population biology than the man who has been in the thick of it for the last fifty years.",0
"Older, less-effective stuff they have in storage, import weapons (which seem to be mostly Iranian and maybe North Korean), and whatever they're able to accomplish with air strikes and lesser artillery.","Air strikes put their (also expensive and hard to replace) planes at risk, and artillery usually needs to be closer (so also at risk, but it's less expensive if/when it's destroyed or captured) and tends to be less accurate.",0
Twitter was in some serious debt when Musk bought them. And when he bought them he made it a Leveraged Buy Out (LBO). This put even more debt on Twitter and made it so that Twitter would have to pay off the purchase debt... which meant Twitter was now back to being cash poor. And unfortunately Musk hasn't been willing to pump any new money into the platform so they have to work with resources they have.,I guess it's seen as kind of an extreme cost cutting situation to pay no rent on all of your headquarters. That's the sort of stuff you would do if you were about to go bankrupt. It's like... an emergency cost cutting measure. But it doesn't actually save you any money because you're going to have to pay legal fees fighting it and you will be imposed fines for non-payment.,0
"One of the problems is that they need ballot signatures for mail in, which leads to thousands of ballots needing to be ""cured"", which is where the state contacts a voter telling them they can fix their signature. If they just didn't have signature mandates it wouldn't be a problem and you could get a more accurate picture of what's going on.","I'm pretty sure she was down by about 23,000 only two days ago and now she's only down by little under 9,000 with most of the remaining votes coming from Clark and Washoe. 57,000 of the remaining votes are from Clarke, where she is receiving a little over 60% outstanding votes. In today's vote dump from Clarke alone she could pick up 9,000 votes (it's not the whole 57,000), and then there's over 20,000 votes left in Washoe, where she is also picking up 60% of the outstanding votes.",0
"It's not just political differences on the Taiwanese side, but also China. The Hu Jintao era is now regarded as the most 'open' China has ever been, and probably the best period of cross-strait relations.","Hard as it is to imagine, throughout the 2000s and early 2010s relations between China and Taiwan were pretty good. There would always be the territorial dispute and occasional sabre rattling but for the most part, it was live and let live and trade was growing. In fact, even today, Taiwan’s biggest trade partner is still China, it’s kind of why the issues faced today are quite tragic because things were getting better.",1
"putin is too easy to put the blame on, but the reality is much more harsh. It's not putin who gives and executes the exact orders, it's not putin who is cheering up on the news of the dead ukrainian children in the comments, it's not putin who says nothing about this war, or even in some verbal or text form condemns it - but still fucking keeps funding it and support russian war machine with their actions.","Every. Fucking. Russian. Who does nothing to actually stop the war, overthrow totalitarian government, fight even for THEIR OWN COUNTRY'S FUTURE.",0
"I agree with you 100%. They are fucked up. The worst part is the people we elect to speak for us, to protect us, and to make the laws we want don't do any of those things. They cave to corporate pressure, lobbyist, and foreign money. Most of our elected officials get into politics because it is guaranteed to make you stinking rich! There is not one poor politician that I can think of. They make policy that makes them rich. Insider trading...the list goes on and on. It is sad.","In the USA, you generally just don't get paid at all while you are away sick. The Dr's note will excuse you but you won't be paid. Some companies offer paid sick days as a benefit. But if you have 5 sick days you stop getting paid after the 5th day absent.",0
Seems to be the case. They’d rather give downvotes to try and get that hidden instead of posting a genuine response. Putin can go choke on a bear cock for all I care but I think a lot of these people are too ashamed to admit they didn’t care until the Twitter and Reddit told them to care.,Actually I’m willing to bet they didn’t even know that the Russo-Georgian war ever happened. And I’m sure a small percentage saw “Georgia” and thought of Georgia the state and didn’t even know the country existed.,0
"He really is, and it hurts my soul because he is the tennis machine that people thought Pete Sampras was. He is absolutely the best tennis player I've ever seen and I've seen all of the others back to 1990.","Well hes a record breaking tennis player. He certainly knows what he is doing on the tennis court. But you can't then say hes an expert in everything, like medical science.",1
I agree that it's a possibility. If either end up outside of 300 votes difference the recount is most likely a waste of time and money but I'm sure will happen anyways.,What I mean was they were getting votes at near equal rates for the entire day and now suddenly there's 500 votes peeling her way.,1
"""See those massive imports of Russian gas to Germany, making up 20% of all gas imports from Russia to the EU That massive dependence And they totally have no other way of getting their gas!"".","This is not true. They are not importing it DIRECTLY from Russia, but they are buying Russian oil from India and China as well at a veeery nice markup.",1
"That’s not just true. Mainstream progressive politicians in the US (AOC, Sanders, etc.) would not be considered “conservative” in Germany. He wouldn’t be on the far left in Europe, sure - and some of his policies are supported or implemented by some European countries, but his agenda as a whole would not be considered conservative by any European country’s standards. And the same goes for many other progressive US politicians.","A candidate like Obama or Biden might absolutely fall under the CDU’s platform more than any other, but to say that US leftists wouldn’t even crack the center or center-left in Germany or in the EU at large is just objectively and provably false.",0
\2 Have cops licensed similar to CDL truck drivers where if you do mess up it gets written to a permanent record that follows you so you can't just up and move to another department in another city with a completely clean slate. If you mess up bad enough no more policing for you.,"Someone should tell the DOJ they should be warning the police agencies to pucker up, cos they coming after ya.",1
And biofuels are like 10% of that 8-10%.. Its mostly burning trash and generating gas from waste food production.,"Leave the reactors that exists on, maybe reactive old ones if they are save and commercially viable but building new ones is too slow ( especially in Germany xD).. And new reactors need longer time. Germany wants to reduce 65% co2 from 1965 to 2030. If they start building reactors nothing will change until then ( in the electricity sector ofc). In that time period PV got 50% cheaper and maybe 1-3 percent more efficient and wind energy got 20% cheaper and more dense in energy and Germany would have 50% more renewables ( and that with the building rate of the former government which was horrible)...",0
"And thats one reason why a provocation with China is unavoidable. Americans are too bloodthirsty, and are looking for an enemy to turn their rage against.","Then someone from that group gains power, and suddenly the hate is very, very real. People get disappeared. Laws once thought set in stone get rewritten or entirely revoked. Groups advertised as protectors only protect the people with power, and start openly oppressing the ""others,"" the out-group of society. Books get burned, schools get ""cleansed,"" and everyone starts to realize that they should've taken that hate more seriously when it was smaller and easier to address, because now disagreement becomes a death sentence.",1
"One complication is that the Senate has a 60% threshold for most legislation, when the party in power typically has 50-55%. So unless the left and right agree on something, it’s not passing. Another complication is the elections of the two chambers, and the president, which all happen at different intervals; 2, 4, and 6 years. This increases the likelihood that the party in power of each of the 3 don’t match, also preventing major legislation from passing.","This is one of the downsides of democracy, sometimes the one you want the most for office won't win the election and sometimes the most unacceptable garbage will win. Good thing you can try again four years later.",1
"Except a credit check and background check are not discrimination, it's the landlord doing their due diligence to ensure their tenants are likely to pay and not cause a problem for other residents. If you had evidence of landlords disproportionally denying minorities even though they passed both checks because the landlord was using race, then you would have a discrimination case.","I disagree, the next best step would be to ban landlords from conducting tenant screenings that use credit and background checks as a cover for discrimination, and force all landlords to accept any tenant that has the money to cover move-in cost.",1
"In the end, the Republicans lost after essentially filibustering the bill (via offering amendment after amendment after amendment) for almost 15 hours. Debate began on noon Friday and went until almost 3 AM today, Saturday.",The amendments the Republicans offered - which they claimed were good-faith compromises - really weren't much in the way of compromise at all. The included a 6-week abortion ban (really only 4 weeks after conception) and a 6-week ban with exceptions for rape and incest.,0
though. The point is you can do sketchier things as a private company that don’t necessitate intervention or investigation when compared to a public company.,"You’re mistaken, private companies and public companies have different rules. This is essentially the only (plausible) reason the SEC has rules about accredited investors - because they’re allegedly more aware of the risk and able to absorb them. Solar City being public has no bearing on this if their shareholders voted to be bought, which would be mandatory.",1
"if it's supposed to be positive PR for Qatar, so far I'm learning a lot of awful shit about that country that I didn't know before the World Cup hit the news cycle the last couple of weeks.",Yeah it’s not right that this is the way that it is in Qatar but it seems like people are fucking around and subsequently surprised when they find out.,1
"And that it's inspired by the Japanese 2ch to begin with, which hosts the dregs of society and just like 4chan has a looooong list of rapists, pedophiles, murderers, etc among its frequent users.","Of course. Japan is famous for having stupid fringe ideologies run amok (conspiracy nutjobs, fucked up sects and cults, and various related extremists etc).",0
Gen Z and Millenials have had increasing turnouts since each generation came of voting age. How many elections do you need this to continue before you stop crowing with the same tired nonsense?,"Grow bitter and stop voting? They're the same as every other generation before them, voting in low numbers until they get older and realize the importance. Everyone bases voting on getting what they want from politicians looking for their vote. The difference is older gens realize that.",1
"USA: Used to have bad relations with India due to support of Pakistan in its wars against India, but recently, there’s been a massive uptick in relations between India and the US, especially in the military sector. Even during this period of “support” for Russia. And as India develops, the India and the US (and the rest of the west) will only continue to grow stronger ties. Also, in this article, the US is seen as the second most friendly nation, very close behind Russia.","Russia is the most blamed, if you look at the figures in the article. NATO and the US are split into two different choices, and the two added up together adds up to a little more than Russia alone. But yeah still clear that Russian propaganda is having an effect here.",0
The question of recounts comes to mind in connection with presidential elections only because the current system creates artificial crises and unnecessary disputes.,The question of recounts comes to mind in connection with presidential elections only because the current system creates artificial crises and unnecessary disputes.,0
"Population of Moscow + St. Petersburg = 18.5 million, which is the same population of the next 16 largest cities, allegedly.",But it's just nuts to me that the Russians would be looking at needing another round of mobilisation already.,0
"It's because most of that ""stuff"" was very limited in reach, purely symbolic (like a ""mass pardon"" that frees exactly zero people), had no chance of getting past the courts (student loans justified under the weaker of the 2 available legal theories), seriously overrated handouts to big businesses that didn't need it (chip bill), or actually a net negative after all the good parts were stripped out (BIF).","And he's done a few things that are downright appalling, like appointing an avowed enemy of due process to turn college Title IX procedures back into an Orwellian nightmare, having learned absolutely nothing from his own false accusation.",0
"This is it. This is him throwing everything he’s got at it. There is no ‘total war’, there is no ‘full mobilization’, that will magically conjure more weapons deliveries, more logistical capability, more firepower. If he could produce more weapons? He would have been doing it already. This is all there is, there ain’t no more.","We’ve been hearing the same schlock from day one about how he might ‘step it up’ if things don’t turn around soon. Well… things didn’t turn around, not then, not today, and not tomorrow. What you see is what you get.",0
"What are you talking about? I didn't express any opinion about anything being right or wrong, Hamas said that they did it because of the conditions, go argue with them if it's justified or not if you want, I only explained their reasoning.","Well yeah, cause if X happened and Y did Z, and said ""we did Z because of X"" then I consider Z a reaction to X, you for some reason have a problem with that.",0
"Where the conflict arises is among countries who enable Russia but still want assistance from NATO countries for one reason or another. They know who they are, and get seriously butthurt on this sub when mentioned, so I’ll leave the names out. But I think NATO countries should look at this as an instructive moment in the future when thinking about who to assist and with what.",To some extent that’s fair. NATO doesn’t care about every conflict around the world because not all impact NATOs interests. So why should the rest of the world care about this?,0
"Shit like this is what scares me. Whether I notice signs of an impending heart attack is my lookout, but whether I'll be taken seriously if I go to the ER with it...","My accident was away from home, my knee was shattered in pieces, and my husband had to keep prodding the ER doctors to give me something for the pain.",0
"It’s not really as clear cut as people want to make it out to seem. This bill also has to get through the Senate, which is not guaranteed.","Now you want to lump together statehood and status quo. My original comment was about statehood alone. The results are not as clear cut as you’re making them out to be. You don’t address free association either, which is one of the options here. It’s a complicated situation and it’s not just statehood, status quo, or independence.",0
"Democrats used to win Iowa in the presidential elections and used to dominate in New Hampshire. Now, due to the working class feeling like democrats have abandoned them, democrats aren’t even competitive in Iowa and barely squeak by in New Hampshire.","Then you would think biden would want to start the primaries in New York or another big state. As the incumbent president of the United States, he has a war chest that’s massive amount to flood the airways in New York. He’s also relatively popular in New York as Kathy Hochul was one of the few politicians to allow Biden to campaign for her during the midterms.",0
"It really shows the disconnect between the owners of what is supposed to be helpful journalistic media and the people trying to ... well, ACTUALLY JOURNALIZE. Paywalls are sorely misguided and barely a boundary to anyone who really wants to read something, and the sooner the corporate suits that run those organization realize that, the better.","Depressingly, it turns out that ""fake news"" is invariably free. The truth is far more likely to require payment, and the ones with the highest journalistic standards (I'm not sure how they qualified that, but they had some kind of criteria) are mostly the ones with the paywall bullshit.",0
Estonia before the 20th century had two major groups of people: Baltic German aristocracy and the Estonian farmers.,"So yeah, from an Estonian perspective, there is not much difference between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Both were genocidal regimes ruled by dictators. One of them just happened to be on the winning side of WWII and as a result faced no consequences for its atrocities. It even gained new territory where it could continue commiting atrocities.",0
"Pro-Palestinian activists, the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom, and Muslim religious leaders in Europe are among those condemning efforts to instrumentalize the suffering of Palestinians to justify hate against Jews.”.",These anti-Semites use human rights abuses by the Israeli state against Palestinians as cover for hatred of Jews everywhere.,0
The Saudi royal family has their fingers in everything in Saudi Arabia. It's how the place works. There is a 0.001% chance that they have zero ownership and zero role in hiring Ronaldo. It's part of their broader strategy of .,I don't know if I want the support of the country that murdered and hacked journalist Jamal Khashoggi into pieces.,0
"If Trump is barred from running by Democrats, it literally gives the GOP exactly what they want. They have a reason for running DeSantis over Trump, and can actually take advantage of Trump's core supporters while blaming Democrats for overreach. This will literally pull all the GOP groups together behind DeSantis, the GOP's favored candidate, while Dems will have to scramble to get a candidate capable of defeating him.","2024 is already going to be an uphill battle, but there's a chance with Trump/DeSantis fracturing the GOP voting bloc. Something like this is literally giving them exactly the win they want, and it is so mind-numbingly fucking stupid to do.",0
"Electoral college, the slave state device for keeping minority in power, can be gotten rid of with 2/3 vote.",Especially true since the Electoral College was a device created by the slave states to preserver slavery from popular vote.,0
You hope to never use the gun. Paying insurance on it is a straight up scam and it’s unconstitutional to prohibit someone from getting a gun unless they pay a private company first.,"Charging fees for things like licensing and insurance which have obvious direct costs is not unconstitutional. States have always had a right to regulate 2A, just like other constitutional rights.",1
"The message is meant for Arab countries like Saudi Arabia who are helping Russia or staying on the sideline. This is telling them, hey Russia is helping your enemy get advance weapons, so why are you helping Russia.","That is so ridiculous when person from another country knows everything in details what Russian Army can do or cannot to do.You said, that “The are mobilizing army to the fullest…”.",1
"82% of around 4 millions turks voting in Europe voted Erdogan despite not living in the country, im always blown away by that fact.","In the same vein, in this post people are talking like Türkiye before Erdoğan was a ""EU worthy"" country but in reality they wouldn't let us join even without Erdoğan. Yes there are differences between now and then but not as much as people make it out to be.",1
"Listen climate change is bad, India will be hit hard, there will be heat problems. But this is just insane nonsense.",Also I think that the 'sexiest' solution to world leaders with huge populations having to immigrate is fixing that global population decline issue. Whatever country takes in the most immigrants in the next 50 years will punch waaaay above its weight as every other nations population declines faster and harder.,0
"No by all means fucking vote. Please for love of everything vote. If anything I think the majority that are taking down their flags and removing their MAGA hats are hiding it and because they don't want to be seen as losers. Where I work is predominantly very conservative and most of them are not outwardly supporting him anymore and a good chunk, if not most, have verbally stated that he is to blame for the recent election. Make no mistake though I doubt few won't dust off their hats and flags if he gets the nomination.","Plus, let’s not act like these very same Republicans won’t be back on the Trump train if he wins the nomination. The exact same thing happened in 2016.",1
"Because regardless of what Putin says, the U.S. isn't an active participant in the war, and we prefer it that way. Putting up a no fly zone would be creating conditions through which the U.S. might become involved. Nobody's pretending Russia doesn't have nukes, but at the same time, if we assume Russia is an irrational party in this conflict, then we'd probably all be dead already. A lot of this plays into his advantage to look uncuffed and a little insane. That doesn't make it the case.","Could it be true? Possibly, but we'd literally have no reason to think that \this\ time they mean what they say, because they almost never do. The way to de-escalate the war has been clear from day 1 of Putin's invasion: leave Ukraine. If they were genuinely frightened, they'd have long since backed down, so clearly they're not concerned at the possibility of ww3 starting even if their messaging would suggest that they are.",0
"Let's not forget that we even have countries in Nato, who are actually in dispute over a similar situation to Ukraine/Russia who are treaty obligated to protect each other, but hate each other.","And assume Russia will respond to western military alliance/presence in Ukraine the same way we'd respect Mexico's sovereign right to invite Russia in next door to us if they decided to (you know darn well we would stop it at all costs). If you refuse to look at it from the enemy's perspective and offer them an outcome we would accept in their shoes, you are seeking war, not peace.",1
"The quick military success failed to materialize for multiple reasons that I will not go into, because it’s not what you were asking. Let me just point out one thing: the way the Russians (and everybody else) misjudged their own and the Ukrainian military strenh based on historical bias, faulty information and plain incompetence may very well apply to our own (your) estimation of the Russian ability to control a (their) population.","The way Putin controls public opinion via various media sources is nothing short of astonishing: latest polling from the (reasonably trustworthy) Lewada institute had support for the war among Russians at 75%. In the face of his military blunders we do well to remind ourselves that Putin is not a former general, but KGB agent who worked among a foreign (east Germany) population.",0
"Hopefully her voting block continues to shake up politics, which has been dominated for too long by slick old men and their lobbyists making money from future suffering.","There are trillions of dollars being invested in this renewables pipe dream by hippie investors like major banks, the ADB, sovereign wealth funds and medium risk private equity.",0
"By ""they"" you must mean republicans. Until very recently (and really still) the IRS has been woefully under funded. Trump exacerbated that extremely. But when rebulicans make it nearly impossible for the IRS to do their job, everyone wants to blame the stressed, overworked employees who are just trying to keep up.",We can't have an quick and easy way to pay taxes because approximately half the government wants it to be annoying and inefficient to pay taxes.,1
Doesn’t that kind of set a precedent for them to stop a lot of things that are going on around the world though? Seems like it could turn into a grey area.,"Well extraordinary rendition and torture would be considered terrorism, which would make our countries (USA and UK) terrorist states too. So by that precedent, anyone can blockade any US or UK cargo ship and this judge would rule that it’s ok?",0
"Because of the technical legalities at a time, not to mention that modern medicine is a conglomerate of discoveries from different scientists. For example, the COVID vaccine is made possible by discoveries in RNA modification, nucleotide synthesis and RNA packaging among other things. For the COVID vaccine to be ""open-source"" everyone who has patents on these discoveries all have to agree to charge no money for the use of their patents, and at the end of the day, it would all just lead to the manufacturer who got permission for fair use to pocket all the profits.",he is quite literally singlehandedly responsible for the privatization of the covid vaccines so maybe work a little smarter next time at not doing that thanks.,1
"There are still people in the GOP who think that Trump can be controlled, and They are delusional. Donald Trump will always do what he wants, with little regard for anyone else, And he will do everything in his power to burn anyone who gets in his way.","If you give a terribly toxic individual like Trump that much power, you'd better believe he'll burn everything down and take out anyone he can on his way out. He wanted to be a dictator. Republicans let him when it came to the Republican Party.",1
"They don't need balloons for that. A balloon can only carry a limited payload, which by definition must be disposable.","Edit: looking at the video, it looks like it was a pressurized type balloon, rather than a zero pressure aerostat.",1
The opposite of that is acknowledging that it's probably not that dire and that it has happened multiple times before and neither been a news story or resulted in calamity shows that it's only being made a deal of now because they want to harm Biden.,So you're saying it's a huge deal and bad that Biden allowed it to happen? Because that's the Republican spin.,0
"The coalition idea, while unlikely, isn't unprecedented. The Alaska state House and Senate both have coalitions. It also happened in the Oregon House after the 2010 election returned a 30-30 split.","That assumes that all Democrats are willing to go along with this. If you lose the left wing of the party, you're going to need more Republican votes to make this happen.",0
"It's also worth nothing that Bolsonaro's party (PL) elected the largest number of congressmen than any other party in this year's election (which already shows how full of bullshit they are for claiming that there was fraud), so even if their complaint had merit, by requesting a new election they would risk to end up electing fewer congressman and having less power than they currently have (even with Bolsonaro having lost the election), so this is nothing but a stupid theater to please a sector of the PL party and avoid a potential fractured among the members, since there's currently a lot of friction among those who respect the results of the election and a more radical group that wants to overturn the election.","In that case, Bolsonaro's party would still have to refile their complain with the alleged evidence of fraud, because on its current form it has to be thrown out because it seeks only to challenge the second round of the election.",0
Forgiveness isn’t even the right word it’s passing the buck onto responsible Americans who choose to not go to college or paid their debt.,"If so, you should understand why someone who has already paid off their loans would like to be included in this forgiveness (issued a tax credit at least).",1
There is a lane between Trump and DeSantis? In a lot of ways they are the same politically. If Republicans want a lane that can win with they need to go to the left of both of them. Like a Romney granted i still would not vote for him but thats the best chance they have.,"Romney has a better chance of solidifying the GOP base back to the norms pre-trump. He's still a pro-corporate dipshit, but he has morals. Unfortunately, the GOP has gone into the direction of embracing nazis and authoritarian-lite ideology to win elections.",1
"When they don’t vote, then the issues of people who DO regularly show up (usually older people) matter instead.","Imagine if this were slow-walked because it primarily impacts older, Republican voters. Endangering them financially and via medical noncompliance due to cost; in a grim calculus of death and poverty. That would be disgusting and I’m glad it’s just an “imagine if”.",1
I don’t understand their reluctance( other than being in cahoots with Putin) to support Ukraine. Haven’t we spent the last sixty years building up our military to fight the Russians? If Ukraine can defeat them for us why not support them .,"EVEN if they got Ukraine eventually, how would they invade any other country? With what? They're pouring everything they have just into Ukraine. How can Russia's economy ever recover if they maintain being warmongers? Their own population will be sinking thanks to this war.",1
"They aren't honest that's why they are losing power in DC, if you look at the numbers 90% of the deficit in 2024 in tax evasion and the top 1% of income earners also get back an additional $313 billion per year in deductions and credits.","Tax expenditures are costly. For comparison, the cost of all federal income tax expenditures was higher than Social Security, the combined cost of Medicare and Medicaid, or the cost of either defense or non-defense discretionary spending.",0
The risk with the flu vaccine is that they use eggs in the making of. There's a protein that exists in the gut of a chicken that uncooked can trigger GBS in those with a genetic predisposition at an incredibly high rate.,"Since GBS I've had everything else, measles boosters, tetanus shots, chicken pox, a huge list because I worked in a hospital. The only one I missed was the flu.",0
"The irony here is that the people who believe this probably also believe that he had his girlfriend killed a few years ago, which made headlines and was never retracted... the same girlfriend that he married and is very much alive, hence this post. The shit that people believe about North Korea is straight out of 1984. People will simultaneously believe three different ""North Korea haircut laws"", because ""LOL North Korea be crazy"" not because, you know, you're reading tabloid nonsense.","I don't think it is necessarily CIA or anything like that, but there is a long history of crazy stories coming out of North Korea told by escapees or South Korean dissidents that turn out to be completely untrue, but lots of people believe them because ""Hey, North Korea is crazy right?"".",1
"If the US & NATO were directly involved in the Ukraine war, then Kaliningrad would be a crater, Moscow a burning parking lot, & Russoterrorists like him would be hanging from lamp posts by their ankles. And that's just after the first wave of Poles invade the country.",Bu the time the Americans arrive everything West & North of the Urals will be dead or reduced to ruins. No nukes needed.,0
By they I meant the Georgia prosecutor. They convened the grand jury and would issue a perjury charge for lying in front of it. Nothing to do with federal court as the person I replied to said it was.,Edit for clarity. They = the prosecutor. They convened the grand jury and would charge someone for lying in front of it. And as I’ve said local prosecutors don’t need anything beyond probable cause to issue a charge. Pretty basic criminal procedure stuff here.,0
State Department made clear not to attack Russia proper with NATO equipment. Also intel on Russian formations is only given for the occupying forces.,Deterring a Russian attack is whole different ballgame than using troop buildups to force Russia to make concessions.,1
"I think the ""new solutions"" for infrastructure attacks is Turkish power power plant ships that will be docked in ports and provide electricity to Ukraine. Turkey has a bunch of them and has already said they will send one. Obviously Russia won't attack a NATO ship.",Turkish ships are all over the Black Sea and Russia doesn't touch them. A Turkish civilian vessel being attacked by Russia would bring Turkey directly into the war as a full participant. There is an enormous difference between hostile forces and civilian ships.,1
"Yeah Wagner nazis are shit, but remember which country did the exact same shit in Iraq, Afghanistan and many other countries? Just remember that whenever you think of how shit these people are when they do it in Mali.","I do agree that whatever happens to Mali is something they need to manage on their own, for better or for worse.",1
The point is the age of consent is an arbitrary number. Some people aren't emotionally ready at 18 and some aren't emotionally ready at 30. A blanket age of consent is archaic and that problem will be solved in the far future. Just tacking on underage to everything to provoke an emotional reaction is pointless.,You could invent any ridiculous argument to make any side of any conversation look batshit crazy. The point is 18 is too young. Extrapolate whatever information you want but that's the base argument. The age of voting isn't an argument for the age of sex because it's supposed to be a logical choice. If you can't choose to put harmful drugs in your system until 21 how can you choose to put a potentially harmful partner in your system at 18? I'm not saying 21 is the right age either but 18 certainly isn't.,0
"It's not a coincidence, the Fascists have adopted the use of the Brazilian national symbols as their brand, they believe themselves to be the ""only real patriots"", so anyone who disagrees with their craziness now openly avoids using the flag, the yellow and green soccer t-shirt and any other national symbol that might make you look like a Bolsonaro follower.","To add to that, the people protesting in the article of this post are not wearing green and yellow simply because any time you see someone using the flag or soccer shirt, you imediatelly associate with Bolsonaro's supporters now. It will be a while for us to stop this unconcious association and get this symbols to represent the actual diversified country in our minds again.",1
After wading thru about 75 morons blaming the injury on the covid vaccine I gave up and went elsewhere.,Well I have an account on this website and can curate what I see. On Twitter even when I had an account they changed things and people who would be stupid enough to say that were mostly blocked or filtered. Now they are all you see.,0
"Monopoly over access. They have complete control over what apps can get downloaded onto iPhones, and the ability to decide how much app makers have to pay to get that access. They can abuse their market position to extort app developers on the App Store.","I am not saying that Apple's ability to determine what can be downloaded from their store is problematic. I am saying that Apple's ability to determine what can be downloaded from the App store, along with banning any other storefronts and forcing app developers to pay 30% of their revenues is what's problematic. It's like the modern version of the company town during the Gilded Age. It's abusive and anti-competitive.",0
"dude, fuck them the same. the only communities i can give a somewhat pass are inuit communities that have to do it for survival, but they take a whale here or there for survival. Denmark, Iceland, Norway etc should get fucked for it too.","Denmark, Iceland, and Norway may also be criticized. But I have a feeling that Japan is being attacked in an unusual way.",1
The West doesn't need to try to destroy Russia. Russia is doing an excellent job from their own actions.,The West didn't turn Russia into a Fascist kleptocracy. The West didn't force Russia to bleed out it's own military through corruption. The West didn't force Russia to mobilize 300k recruits only to throw them away into a meat grinder.,0
"But of course I'm talking about civilized countries with a rule of law. Russia has only rule of man so essentially, NOTHING works there. It's just crap no matter how you try to play it.",They now have first hand experience showing them they were lied to about the state of the war. Russia is fairing badly. Hundreds are dying every day. Ukraine is resisting; they are not being welcomed as saviors.,0
"His ego won’t allow someone else to have all the attention and glory, he would burn the GOP down to the ground before he would let another person be the nominee.","He'll go for trying to be the GOP nominee, if it's obvious he can't win, he will say it's rigged and launch as an independent. Both GOP and Trump lose, Biden (or whomever at that point) wins and Trump can claim that the GOP should have gone with him instead.",1
He's no more immune than any other person who has the money or connections to get top-tier legal representation. Decent lawyers can introduce insane delays in legal proceedings.,"TBH, no stranger than most other countries. The rich and well connected can evade or delay being held responsible for their crimes. And even when they can't evade it, they can convince enough voters that the conviction was illegitimate and manage to get elected again.",0
"serious question, because i don’t know shit: is any other country doing it as aggressively as japan? i ask because i haven’t heard of any other country commercially hunting whales [or sharks]. also because someone else mentioned that some japanese schools serve whale meat once a month - which they called ‘infrequently’.","Japanese public schools are still serving whale meat. Due to mercury poisoning, this sometimes kills the kids. Almost all Japanese people i have met have eaten whale meat. Few, however, will admit it unless they trust you. Some are also ignorant of actually consuming it as they were probably children when they did so.",1
"Yeah, that’s a brilliant idea. Start an official world war by directly attacking a western country when you’re having enough trouble with the one you illegally invaded a year ago. That’ll go over well.","Yeah, pretty much. UAVs would permanently exist over the major cities of Western Russia and assassinate oligarch after oligarch, and UK sending in SAS personnel to kidnap the others. They would probably do a catch and release and basically show them, ""that's your mansion. You have 48hrs to eliminate Putin, or we will steal your compound and all your money. We will send you to an American prison, broke and convicted of sex with children. Good luck"".",1
"Well they should, its a non-nato country that attacked a fellow nato country. Article 5 needs to be enacted. Funny how when people thought it was Russia they were basically screaming article 5. So much hypocrisy.","Ukraine executed the false flag attack on Poland so poorly that there was no chance to blame Russia without losing all credibility. Now they are calling it ""stray missiles"" and ""accident"" adding that none of this would have happened if Russia didn't invade Ukraine... Idiots.",0
Side note: I read the other day that some SCOTUS justice apparently postponed the hearing of certain cases so that a lower court’s precedent stands (or is it some circuit court justice?) Can’t remember whom or retrace where I read it. If any kind stranger knows I would be very grateful.,"In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.",1
"Somebody at that press conference basically asked Austin, ""Why did you stop Poland from giving MiG-29s to Ukraine?"".","It makes far more sense to put the jets on a train from Poland to Ukraine (which is ultimately what they did) than it does to fly the jets from Germany into Ukraine, especially since Russia still has essentially all of Ukraine within theoretical range of their long-range ground-based air defenses.",0
"No I am not from Germany and can tell you, reading through many forums or FB and I also daily work and communicate with 150-200 people and when topics come to war, most of them are much more neutral than in first month or so, general support for Ukraine is getting weaker, but that is not what politicians will tell you they have their own agendas with ashes left behind the front. War is now a perfect distraction from failed EU system and opportunity to fix some of it.","Unfortunately Ukraine will pull the shortest straw from all parties, how short we will see. I just hope this shit ends soon.",0
"- Only Democrats seek to get money out of politics and stop wealthy fat-cats from drowning out the voices of the many (you know, the whole point of our Democratic system...).","Going into election night, I expected the worst and hoped for the best and came out very pleasantly-surprised.",0
"They all look as if they got one shitty haircut at age 8 from the local, half-blind $7 barber and said, ""Sheeiittt, I'm gonna stick with this right through to my deathbed!"".","Ehh. That district really isn’t gerrymandered. Buncombe county (Asheville) is like a 60% Democrat voting county in a sea of deep red counties in the NC mountains. Asheville is pretty liberal, but the county has a population of only a quarter million and was only the 12th most Biden voting county in NC out of the 25 that voted blue. That district in most maps will be somewhat of an uphill, but winnable, district for Democrats.",1
"I’m the biggest Putin opponent you can find having left Russia right after the war broke out, but it’s pretty obvious, if you follow his logic - it doesn’t matter how flawed it is, he still thinks this way - then nuclear strike in Ukraine would also do the same thing (i.e. end war and thus prevent loss of lives from both sides). Now the difference is that US would have won the war anyways with additional casualties, while Russia is on path to lose the war, so this is not the same situation.",He believes NATO wouldn’t be ballsy enough and wouldn’t risk getting involved directly in the conflict as this could quickly spiral into the nuclear war.,0
I'm sure the Laffer curve will prove as useful for measuring negative knowledge as it was for predicting increased revenue based on tax cuts. Possibly even more so.,"Is it? Or is it that the Dems do do some shit, but the GOP takes the cake. For example, when it comes to sex crimes, the GOPs crimes heavily outweigh the Dems, yet the Rs blame the Dems. When it comes to spend, the GOP has consisentley increased the debt but blame the Dems. Wars as well, taking away freedoms, etc etc.",1
"This war will almost assuredly come to a negotiated settlement after Putin or his successor realize that Western support isn't budging. The vast majority of wars end this way. People say that Putin staked a lot of political capital on this war and that he can't possibly concede or he'll be ousted. While that might be true, Putin's regime has a pretty solid grip on the media and could probably claim victory with just about any settlement, even if he lost Crimea. He could just say ""We denazified Ukraine"" and that would be it.","Russia can't win a war of attrition against Ukraine if the West backs Ukraine. We need to show Ukraine and Russia that the US, EU, and other are in for the long haul and will give whatever is necessary for however long it takes.",0
Have fun listening to Russian culture which Russia wants to spread bc it's superior while genociding Ukraine and erasing theirs. Hope u have a blast.,Don't be daft and obtuse. I never said that. And it doesn't matter who the authors / composers are and u know that. The point is being a part of / celebrating Russian culture by going to this.,0
"At least, based on the fact that they recently banned flavored tobacco products outright, by a majority vote.","Well 1st off, How is it a nanny state if people have already been voting against tobacco (they recently voted for a ban on certain flavored products). The voters dont mind screwing usage of tobacco. Voters have an appetite to go against tobacco usage and legaslators are responding and debating.",1
"I could continue to list examples of how that vagueness makes it unlikely that the law will be used as anything other than a cudgel to use against LGBTQ people, but you ignored that in my earlier post so I don't think it'd be useful.","“The Trevor Project says these provisions, ""appear to undermine LGBTQ support in schools and include vague parental notification requirements, which could effectively require teachers to 'out' LGBTQ students to their legal guardians without their consent, regardless of whether they are supportive."".",1
“ but no one here has actually felt any pain or real cost directly from Russia's invasion of Ukraine”.,Apologies if my above comment sounded like i am saying Ukraine wanted war(as its clearly an invasion by Russia).,1
"I honestly don’t see China supporting Russia the same way NATO supports Ukraine with weapons and such. China shown from the start they wanted to take a neutral stance like India, like most of Africa and some of South America- only Iran and North Korea have pretty much sided with Russia.","China may have similar ambitions but their approach is different, they want the West to respect them as the wiser, more sensible adult at the table compared to the volatile and untrustworthy Russia. They want leverage economically over both Russia and the West; they can keep reaping the benefits from Russia: oil, gas, etc. whilst the war’s going on and they can gain the benefits from the west by being the lesser of two evils.",0
"Infantry are vulnerable to tanks and IFVs (tanks and infantry are mutually vulnerable to one another). Basically, the infantry screen's job is to suppress the enemy infantry while the armour and artillery takes them out.","The purpose of a tank, is to up the ante of what the enemy needs to fight you successfully. Having tanks means the enemy has to dedicate resources to providing the heavy weaponry necessary to defeat them. If you get rid of tanks, suddenly your enemy can defeat all of your direct fire support with small caliber auto cannons, or exceedingly cheap and small air dropped munitions.",1
How does the government react to the balloon? Do they reach out to the government they suspect sent it? Do they alert the public immediately? What do they do about the balloon? How quickly do they notice it? How long before they say anything? Do they try to collect it? Destroy it? Will they retaliate? How much political posturing? Where can the balloon drift to before action is taken? Will they care if it floats over specific areas? What about infighting among politicians and political parties?,"That social data is just as valuable as the pictures they could be taking, that balloon’s basket could have some insanely high new groundbreaking tech, but it could also be empty. Why spend a shit ton of money on something that you know is going to be shot down and recovered or risk that stuff ending up in enemy hands?",0
"Canadas PM is targeting legal gun owners even though it’s shown nearly all gun crime is committed with illegal weapons that have been brought in from out of country, and the only intention here is to justify those actions.","Ah yes, the age old tactic of defending your imaginary ""rights"" (Canada has none, technically) to firearms by using those same firearms to shoot people.",1
"There were a few hundred protestors in Shanghai that had anti-CCP chants, the rest of the overwhelming majority is protesting against the Covid measures and not against the CCP.",People are protesting in China but the overwhelming majority are protesting the Covid measures not the CCP. That's a fact.,0
"What if there's no such thing as a ""recession"" when you have a systemic labor shortage and thus no one who actually WORKS for a living is going to lose their job, even if the precious stock market slumps?","The older I get the more it seems to me like this is all a giant load of bullshit, that our economy has so much wealth and mass that any ""recession"" is just a manifestation of the way the wealthy push workers to the ground to maintain an advantage. And this time around they just can't do it because there isn't enough labor pool for the scam to function.",0
"Because people on here are blindly supporting Ukraine regardless of the context, so anything that might make them look bad gets met with serious vitriol.","They're not even attacking military targets, they just want to cause suffering to the people of Ukraine.",1
"I thought Russia was recruiting in Africa, turns out they’re holding African students studying in Russia hostage with threats of cancelling scholarships/debt trapping to force them to fight in a war.","And Russia is not much better look at that article, it is unreasonable to side with a country trying to get some of its black students involved a war they have nothing to do about.",1
There are three large problems with a case like Trump that are generally anything that has to do with rich people and the judicial system(besides the obvious):,"1. SCOPE-Money buys time and not just because of expensive lawyers. If you or I get charged with, let’s say bank fraud for cashing bad checks. Lets say it was a lot, like 100k over a year period with 200 checks over 17 different banks. It may take 6 months for the DA to have each and every check counted, were the money went (is the car you bought legal or did a cashed check pay for part of it?), who else benefited? Was your spouse involved? Any employees at the bank? You got caught for 100k but did you do more? Lots of work right? Now put that into billions of dollars with hundreds of thousands of checks spanned over hundreds of banks. That would take years of investigating. Btw, if any part of the years long investigation is done illegally (chain of custody, false confession, new guy goes into an apt. he shouldn’t without a warrant) the investigation is set back a year.",0
"The funny part is that kind of tactic may have worked in the old days when you fought eye to eye with your enemy, but nowadays their swarms of men.csn be taken out at range.","2) NATO responds with nukes, which is unlikely and then we all lose and no one is alive to claim who really won or lost.",0
"Open races are unavoidable, and we'll either have one in 2024, if Biden steps aside, as you'd prefer; or in 2028, if he serves a second term. It's all downside to force it earlier, because all it does is put the Democratic and Republican nominees on equal footing, rather than letting Democrats press their advantage. Like I said, it's unavoidable at a certain point, but that doesn't mean we have to like it, or make it happen more often. The only ones who benefit from handicapping the Democratic nominee are Republicans.","The point is, changing nominees voluntarily will probably result in a Republican win, and a Democrat who loses is probably done.",0
I don't think a politician whose highest office held was minority leader of a state house would be a good choice to be the Vice President of the United States.,That's an incredible thing to say when someone who hasn't been elected to any office won the presidency in the 2016 election.,1
"According to court documents, the offense happened on Monday. The Allen County Sheriff's Department said the two girls he is accused of recording are his girlfriend's daughters.”.","""The Allen County Sheriff's Department said the two girls he is accused of recording are his girlfriend's daughters."".",1
"""Russia will train Belarusian Air Force crews to operate aircraft “which have already been refitted to carry and possibly use air-launched ammunition with special warheads,” Putin told reporters Monday after his meeting with Lukashenko in Minsk, according to BelTa, in an apparent nod to nuclear weapons."".","Well well. Russia forcing Belarus to use nukes on Ukraine. If this happens, NATO nukes the shit out of Belarus and Putin can watch and analyse the outcome without him facing any consequences.",1
"Nothing anyone in the world has can intercept hypersonic missiles, even the bootleg air-launched iskanders Russia likes to parade around as if they’re a huge threat to anything.","Sure, and that's not nothing, but Russia doesn't have a ton of ballistic missiles left. The current threat is mostly air-launched cruise missiles and shahid-type drones, both of which NASAMS is more than capable of dealing with.",1
"I don’t know why people are downvoting you. No one else find it odd that Germany, a dominant European country, is holding things up, and dragging its feet????",Yea. Delivering helmets while the rest of the world delivered AT4 and ammunition. I’m sure Germany isn’t just sitting on their hands like they have been for the entire conflict.,1
If it’s Belarus from Belarus you risk nato involvement for this strike? Unless your testing the nato response this is an insane first strike.,It needs to hurt bad enough to be just a little scary and remove any doubt as to the unified response of nato. The future of humanity may very well depend on it.,1
"What I wonder is, is there anything else than isolated cases of paedophiles covered by a corrupted or afraid by the scandals hierarchy, or is it something bigger ?","Still, people covering such facts are also monsters and deserve the harsher punishements, and the catholic church definitely had been involved in covering such scandals, I'm just surprised to hear about a large paedophile ring, is it documented ?",0
Israel gets disproportionately criticized on Reddit which is why a lot people try to counter that by comparing it to other countries. There are many countries that do far worse things but you rarely see them discussed on Reddit at the same level as Israel. Why is that?,"Why do you do this? Do you honestly think rational humans will say. A yes, somewhere else something happened, so that justifies Israel to violate the human rights of others.",1
The clerk's office will receive blank test ballots to verify the accuracy of the ballot markers as well as pre-filled test ballots that verify the accuracy of the ballot tabulators. It's quite possible that through human error the test ballots and actual ballots were mixed up.,"Rather than make an issue of it, her opponent basically said, ""mistakes happen, there is no way they could actually have voted even if they did fill out the forms, nothing to see here"".",1
Also the last two elections have destroyed the Florida DNC. It seems they have lost hope with DeSantis just constantly tightening his grip and flexing on them constantly.,They are flooding the state making it trend redder and turning into a red fortress even as other states trend bluer. In some part because their crazy red voters are migrating to Florida.,0
I'd agree but you see countless stories of repeat offenders being let off lightly in regards to bail or sentencing so that seems like a more logical first step than confiscation/banning.,"I think that depends on how you qualify 'works' and again, a lot of those places have other factors that aided them in their success that I think the US doesn't have or couldn't have.",0
"Tesla is not very forthcoming on when, if ever, it will open up its chargers to other vehicles. 2024 is the soonest Tesla is ""considering it"" and the logistics are hard.","Tesla's proprietary plug only fits Tesla's so Tesla has to build and sell an adapter. Then Tesla has to find a way to communicate with the all the different cars EV charging systems. Tesla chargers are dependent on the car and charger direct communication, there's no login device, no billing device.",0
"Something about the way Germany behaves now makes me upset. It's cowardly that modern Germans are so against supplying Ukraine with defensive weapons. The biggest bully of the 20th century now suddenly is ardently against weaponizing a nation that is struggling to survive. They act like they have a reason to be so against war. For once, Germany can thrive and be on the good side of history, but they seem so afraid. Like they're morality-bound to never be involved in war again. It's fine to be involved with war. Just don't fucking do what you all did throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Shit gets to me.",Germany wants to make money while France keeps the old empires in check as best it can in Africa and the Middle East. I think that's a cowardly position for the Germans to take given their history. They don't get pity for being destroyed. They had to be destroyed and now they want to sit the hard decisions out.,0
"I was going to say, shouldn’t Donald Trump be investigated for his involvement long before Republicans even think about Fauci?? Dude denied and lied to the public for months about the situation and continuously casted doubt upon his own federal agency’s actions. That damage is irrefutable.","I don’t understand what Republicans are trying to investigate Fauci for? He did his job? Everything was transparent on the end of the CDC within reason - once again, Trump eventually allowed states to just stop reporting COVID to the federal government and did not create a collaborative environment. Also, the fact that COVID-19 is still here and well nearly three years later is crazy. Yet Republicans are wondering if the one person who advocated for safety is to blame? Yeah, no.",0
"I have yet to see any country express explicitly express any kind of support to Ukraine retaking Crimea or Donbas. A US official had said that Ukraine ""has the capabilities"" Of retaking Crimea but also stated that ""it has no immediate plans of doing so"".","Retaking Crimea and Donbas would be out of question though at this point. Morality aside, this would only provoke Russia to the extreme and may cause them to push the nuke button.",0
"Between voter suppression, gerrymandering, and the fact that the electoral college gives more voting power to dirt than to citizens, the deck is pretty well stacked against democracy.","Meanwhile, I recommend voting for whichever of your representation options is not actively trying to undermine our democracy, so that we can expand our options in the future, rather than being stuck with a one-party state.",1
"Be careful, for sure ... but India's real concern at this moment is Russia, not the US. Russia has ""unlimited alliance"" with China and China is an adversary. India is dependent on Russia and Russia is dependent on China. China is allying with Pakistan.",Pakistan on the other hand wanted to also ally with both the USSR and the US. But India has already established a much closer relationship with the USSR by then and they refused to ally with Pakistan too much. Moreover india had just bought supersonic jets from USSR. So pakistan had no choice but to ally with the US and buy their own jets. The US seeing india slip more and more with the USSR strenhened their relationship with Pakistan as they were natural enemies with india.,1
"“The aide said that Ms. Sinema would keep her committee positions through Democrats, meaning the party would still hold a one-seat edge on the panels next year, giving them new flexibility over nominations and legislation.”.","She’s pretty dumb so maybe she does it anyway, but there isn’t much advantage to doing that in terms of power to get what she wants (money).",0
"So, not officially declined yet. But possibly leaning that way, unless something has happened in the last 2½ months. I see some reports from court filings that Greenberg is continuing to cooperate (with evidence under seal) in hopes of reducing this sentence. But maybe that’s nothing to do with Gaetz.","When did Gaetz become a 'former' associate? I mean, how does that work? How does one go about disassociating from his co-conspirator?",1
"""Three of the girls are 13 years old, three are 14 years old and two are 16 years old, according to Det.-S. Terry Browne of Toronto police's homicide unit. Three had previous contact with police, he said."".","This is not the case. It's about how the person acted in the killing, was it planned vs unplanned, manslaughter would be killing without intent.",1
"I agree. Russia is pretty much all alone in this war and it’s main resources are reputedly being depleted. At this point, I think Russia is desperate for foreign/external assistance.","I mean a lot of countries are hostile to the US or at least would like to see them not quite as dominant, but nobody is going to risk anything coming to Russia's aid.",1
"i've been given 5% by accident before that was mislabeled. It might has well have been smoking hemp paper. Like you said, there is a bit more to it yes, but its like thinking you are gonna get more hammered in a better way if you pay 40 dollars a shot vs 4 at the bar. One may taste better and go down smoother, but even after that first one, theres no real difference.",The other numbers you are hitting there are interesting just in relation regardless of volume. I can plainly see those numbers equaling bankruptcy and job loss.,0
"It's ironic since the GQP already subverted the IRS during the Trump era with the current IRS head, but I guess any form of accountability is too much.","Given that they are looking at my poverty tax bracket ass this hard while letting shit stains like trump get away with shit, I think I'm justified in saying fuck the IRS.",1
"If that is true, then many of the people vaping wouldn't be using any kind of nicotine if vapes weren't around.","There's no need to though, as smuggling cigarettes is easy AF since no drug dogs give a shit about smoking, and they couldn't even if they wanted to. People on international airports in NZ would be arriving from countries in which smoking is legal, so most people would smell of cigarettes, making the dog useless (which they already are after 40 min of work.).",1
People are missing the bigger point with this bill. The elimination of gender studies and diversity programs is the red meat to get support on the conservative side and distract the liberal opponents.,But that's just one example. Stripping professors of tenure and putting political appointees in charge of hiring and firing will have a silencing effect on teaching and research as well as encouraging professors to work in other states.,0
"Oh yeah. It sticks out that they never, EVER refer to them as anti fascist and I’d wager good money that a large portion of the base doesn’t know what antifa is short for.",It was a performance art installation at a Republican convention. It portrayed the “patriots” that were “unfairly” detained for storming the capitol. Fucking ridiculous.,0
So even if we say 50 precent of Russian casualties are dead (which is a very high estimate) it's no where near the 120k ukraine put out.,"120,000 young Russian men killed, but The ones who left are better educated and wealthier than the ones killed. Sexism is strong in Russia, and their economy is based on resource extraction and heavy industry; young men are the lifeblood of their economy.",1
"While voter turnout remained strong, absentee voting in Georgia dropped off drastically in this year’s midterm election, the first major test of an expansive 2021 voting law that added restrictions for casting ballots by mail.","Data released by the Georgia secretary of state showed that mail voting in the state’s November general election plunged by 81 percent from the level of the 2020 contest. While a drop was expected after the height of the pandemic, Georgia had a far greater decrease than any other state with competitive statewide races, according to a New York Times analysis.",0
"It isn't about being a ""fair"" rate- Apple and Google don't deserve 30% of your business simply because you developed an app on their platform.",Correct me if I’m wrong but if you just use it thru a browser apple doesn’t get 30/15% the fee is for using the App Store. Is that correct ?,1
I suppose I can definitely see the parallels between that and the setup of the United States if anything except a supermajority was required.,"It would certainly lend credence to the Brexit mantra of independence. With the current setup, if a country enforces something from the EU, it's effectively because they chose to by way of voting or joining the EU after it was made EU law.",0
"And here is more recent research that shows that as we cut CO2 emissions and aerosols, we slow down his quickly methane breaks down in the atmosphere, leading to more warming than previously predicted.",> Our results suggest that avoiding high-end climate risks is possible only for low-temperature overshoots [over 1.5C] and if long-term temperatures stabilize at or below today’s levels of global warming.,0
Heck is more than ten times the gdp of America. All of America doing nothing but paying black folks for ten years. So they really think the suffering of their ancestors entitles them to this today?,"And again, how can the portion of a nations wealth that has been denied to black folks be greater than the sum of all portions of wealth?",0
"Quick, somebody photoshop him into a picture of Dana Carvey as the turtle guy in Master of Disguise! (Sorry Dana, I still love you. It's just for the laughs.).",Because they might not have anything to do with it. The might be completely independent but China prefers them (or dislikes the opponent) so now you have a witch hunt against them even though the donations meant nothing but the 'headline' kills their changes.,1
"It could be that it was safer, so we did it, and then developed the appreciation for the aroma, but I'm not sure there was enough time for that. So, I think somehow cooked food was naturally more appealing.","Which is kind of odd. The other way would kind of make better sense. However, other animals I think also really appreciate the smell of cooked food.",0
And then add in the tropes that republicans seem to believe in like giving rich people/corporations tax breaks will trickle down.,"It's a good point, but republicans repealing tax cuts for the ultra wealthy will be the last thing they ever do. They would sooner jump around praising transkids winning olympic medals, celebrating MLK day, and/or confess that their public venmo transactions should be sufficient evidence for going to jail.",1
3. The goalkeeping and defense from the Saudis in the 2nd half was extraordinary. I couldn't believe it. I was howling at the TV like a crazy person and I never do that kind of nonsense over sports. It was so unbelievably frustrating.,"If an offensive player is closer to the goal than any of the defensive players (besides the goalie), they are in an ""offsides"" position and they aren't allowed to receive a pass.",0
Then Representatives Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz made a point of acting rude towards Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he spoke in DC in December.,"Possibly a combination of the phone call to Ukraine President Zelensky leading to Trump’s first impeachment. Hunter Biden’s connection to Burisma which is what all the silliness in Congress over the Hunter Biden laptop is all about. Then there’s their Nationalism rhetoric where we should be spending the money going to Ukraine on a border wall and other pet projects of the GOP. It’s just a convenient whipping boy of issues. If the former asshat was still president and he was sending money to Ukraine, they’d be cheering it on. They’re just hypocrites.",1
"The people fighting tooth and nail against drag shows and LGBTQ representation in schools are terrified of their kids being comfortable with queer people. They're terrified of their kids spending time around gay, nonbinary, or transgender people and realizing that they're perfectly decent human beings whose sexuality and gender identity don't pose a threat to anybody. In short, they're terrified of their kids realizing that the bigoted stuff they've been taught at home about queer people is all a lie. THAT'S what this is about. Not parents' rights, not grooming - it's about homophobic parents being TERRIFIED that their kids are going to grow up to be more accepting than they are.","When the issue is LGBTQ discussions in school, conservatives act like their only concern is parents' rights. ""I just think a child's parents should get to decide when and how they're introduced to LGBTQ topics, not their teachers."".",0
It’s normal to comment that you don’t think certain topics are newsworthy. If a news outlet started reporting on what the teletubbies had for breakfast everyday you’d say “I don’t care what the teletubbies had for breakfast”.,"I don't care about the Teletubbies except to mock Christians, but if I heard they were having breakfast I'd still say ""gimme some of them Teletubbies vittles!"".",1
"Why the fuck have all the Dems attempts to stoke fear about true dangers (climate change, income inequality, reproductive rights) been so ineffective???","I'll try to answer my own question here: the fears that the GOP stoke allows people to demonize ""those people"", which is somehow acceptable, especially if it's not overtly phrased as racist (and even sometime when it is). But those that the Dems stoke require targeting of groups that we're told are off limits. Climate change and income inequality require us to target the rich and ""that's not good for the economy"", while reproductive rights require targeting christofascists and that's ""religious discrimination"".",0
"In Maricopa County, all ballots printed and filled out on Election Day were counted by 2AM Wednesday morning (aside from about 17K with printer issues, 12K of which were counted in Friday or Saturday's batch). And most of the mail-ins received by the Saturday before Election Day were signature-verified and counted prior to Election Day, and released in the initial batch. So we're left with a gray zone of early ballots received by mail or dropped off between Saturday and Tuesday, and those are being counted in the order received (i.e., ballots dropped off at precincts closer to downtown were counted first, and suburban/exurban fringes of the metro area further from the counting center are getting processed last).","The ballots remaining are mail in ballots that people walked to the voting place on election day, but my worry is that Lake told her voters to do that (only vote same day and don’t mail your ballots).",1
"Yep. It's unfortunate all these ""crisis at the border!"" Republicans can't just look at England and see the way racist border policies demolished that country's economy and think of it as a teachable moment here in America, but unfortunately their bigotry outweighs everything else. These same people screaming about immigrants are the same ones talking about and to fill all the jobs we can't seem to otherwise fill. The truth is we need immigrants to help replenish the but all people like Empty G can see is ""too many brown-skinned people"".","It's always bizarre to me when people refer to things people did or said decades ago like that's who they currently are. Trump used to donate money to Democrats, but that doesn't mean he supports them now.",0
"Edit: Critical thinking just kicked in. Yes. They teach the ""theory"" of critical thinking in public school.","They do nothing to educate the public. They only incite, tease, mislead but never inform. The public can wait a little bit to have this information. What are we going to do with it? It is not going to change anyone's mind about anything. Even if there is someone who doesn't have a hard and fast opinion on trump who will review this information and changes their mind, it won't do anything for the millions of other people who either want the guy convicted or exonerated in court.",1
"Knowingly obtains or exerts unauthorized control over the property of another, with intent to deprive the owner of his or her property;.","Knowingly obtains by deception control over the property of another, with intent to deprive the owner of his or her property; or.",0
"Then the owners of capital said ""oh yeah? You want higher wages? Fine. Here's a 10 percent raise. Now enjoy a 15 percent price increase. We'll make our money no matter what."".","Right. As an employee of the DoJ, Mueller could not directly accuse someone of a crime who had no ability to defend themselves in court … which Trump didn’t because Sessions, Rosenstein, Whittaker, and Barr would not charge a sitting president. We knew early on from reporting that a Special Counsel is not like an Independent Prosecutor, because Ken Starr went too way far against Bill Clinton and took away both the Pub and Dem appetite for that kind of prosecutorial independence. Instead, surprisingly, Mueller testified under oath that Trump could be prosecuted for obstruction after he left office. Which prompted Bill Barr to make a public declination on those crimes. It would be helpful if the OIG could show Barr was corrupt when making that declination, and maybe those obstruction charges could more easily be tacked onto Trump’s still continuing pattern of obstruction.",1
"I did both the railroad and the airlines. I'm an engineer / rocket engineer now (Specifically a specialized systems engineer but no one knows what that means). I make more than I did at either. Granted I might now have made more at the airlines but I've been making a lot more for 15 years now so I'm good. Oh, I get weekends off too.","So after that weekend they get the next day off, a bonus on the next check, and the wheels keep turning.",1
"First of all - it's a law in Latvia. Broadcasters have to provide a translation of their material in latvian, period. It doesn't have to be the only language, but it has to be an option, which it wasn't.","Certainly, you would want a Rain TV article where they write out a confession of their bias and the desire to distance russians from the war and hence the consequences.",0
"Yep. It also makes the lower level Russian commanders look better because “missing soldiers” aren’t classified as “dead soldiers.” Farther up the chain the Russian high command probably know this is bullshit but the upper level commanders don’t want to post high KIA numbers either, the “news” is searching for anyway to spin the war in a positive light so they don’t want accurate KIA numbers either and the Russian government would rather not make the payments to the families of the dead soldiers. Basically everyone who could press for the truth has a vested interest in keeping the lie going.",And many that weren't drafted fled the country or are either too old or too young to be in the market for significant numbers of cars. Of those that are left many are specifically cutting back on major purchases and spending due to the economic uncertainty. If you think you may lose your job in the next 100 days you're probably not about to buy a car unless it's absolutely necessary.,0
It's not even just practically unreliable. The chain of custody on that was corrupted so badly that it and everything to do with it is completely inadmissible for any court anywhere in the United States.,"You'd have to appeal a ruling on that evidence all the way up there, somehow, and if they did rule this admissible it would destroy criminal prosecution rules in the US overnight. There would be no restrictions on valid and invalid evidence. Abolishing the idea of chain of custody is beyond insane.",0
If anything this helps to diffuse some of the both-sidesing. Instead of POTUS vs. POTUS it's now two former VPs who have discovered (probably) accidental mishandling and responded appropriately and honestly vs. a former POTUS who did it on purpose and tried to hide and obstruct.,"Certainly will be harder to argue the case is purely partisan when Biden and Pence, both VPs who seemingly accidentally held onto a few documents, are cleared of criminal wrongdoing.",1
Money is the only God for these types of people. Money is the thing they crave and the thing that dictates their morals.,"In NJ, the entire hasidic community forces one another to go out and vote together for GOP candidates because of their shady mob-money ""business"" practices, and their Anti-Intellectualism, anti-science, anti-woman cultural narrative...They vote for Nazis because it is good for their finances and control mechanisms...let that sink in.",0
Individual members are irrelevant in contract negotiations because those contracts aren't negotiated between individual members but individual unions. I couldn't find a source on this but going from memory the total number of people for the contract vs. against was about split 50/50 (if there's a legitimate source that says otherwise happy to be corrected).,"That was the demand from only 1/3 of the unions, the other 2/3 (8 of 12 involved) already signed and weren't contesting non-application-based sick leave.",0
"I’m no fan of the CCP, but mad props to China for that mission. Say what you will; they are only the second nation to operate a rover on Mars. And it lasted a year.","A year is fine, but let's be real. Anyone sending a rover mission would like it to last until the next Mars transfer window opens, which is about 3.5 years. Then you can have a working rover until your next mission and be learning about running rovers all the time.",1
"No, most people just have an own interest in voting VVD. Especially if they are a “ZZP’er”. Most people in the Netherlands vote for themselves, not for others.","The average Dutch voter has no idea what they're voting for. ""Oh this Rutte guy looks friendly and smiles all the time, surely he'd make a good PM."" or ""I've always voted VVD, I'll just do the same this year."".",1
It takes a lot of coordination of complex and limited resources to interact in a useful way with a rover on mars.,The first was the UAE's Hope orbiter and how it was gently going to be inserted into Mars orbit to perform studies of the atmosphere.,1
"I was referring more to small stealthy surface drones, like Ukraine's can carry a 200kg warhead and have a one-way range of 800km, but underwater drones... I mean, that's pretty much the literal definition of a torpedo, no? A modern Mark 48 torpedo has an estimated max range of 38 km at 55 kt or 50 km at 40 kt, probably even farther if you ran it slower... or if you weren't trying to fit it into a 21-inch-wide tube.","That's why you use naval drones to take out ships, not aerial drones. They're much harder to detect, much harder to hit, have very long range and loitering capabilities, and can easily carry a payload big enough to cause major damage to a warship.",0
"I guess I should clarify Draft in defense of one’s homeland, not to fight a war away from home. My point os it shouldn’t be up to just the brave, or just up to men to defend the homeland. It should be a pure lottery with no deferments. I Personally would not follow through with any draft of their was deferments of any kind or sexism involved.","So you are just a pussy I gather? People have to defend their homeland from time to time, sorry it offends you but it’s reality. It’s nice to think other people should defend your life, but you don’t have to do anything.",0
"Any agreements made then are not worth anything now. In the 90's Russia guaranteed the independence of Ukraine ""forever"", and in return Ukraine gave Russia all their nukes and a lot of aircraft etc. But that didn't stop Russia from meddling in Ukrainian politics, nor invading in 2014 and 2022.",But yeah imagine a new Russian attack a few years from now but this time Ukraine is waiting with high tech combined arms forces.,1
"Most GA aircrafts that you're referring to do have basic autopilots, but vast majority of the autopilots are operated by airliners. Writing airliners off when they are the largest users of autopilot functions just because it doesn't support your argument is disingenuous.","Yes there are autopilots nowadays that can land the aircraft automatically and such, but those are very fancy and rare outside of large airliners.",1
"So yeah, it's clear that the whole thing is being run like a propaganda campaign focused on a statistic that borderlines on a lie, thus poisoning the conversation instead of focusing on easily-provable things like the Kafala system, for example.","My whole point is that Qatar has massive issues with human rights. However, accusing the country of murder is incredibly counterproductive. Don't lie in important conversations like this.",0
"I really hope the majority of Americans see right through these feeble attempts from some within the Republican party to distance themselves from Trump. They should never be allowed to forget or move on from the fact that they jumped right onto the Trump train and fired up the engines to full throttle. They were never forced to anchor their entire identity to Trump, but willing chose to. Trump is who they all are and always will be.",However Trump is showing his true colors and needs to go. Romney likewise should be run out of office.,1
"I am not feeling it. Every WC or Euro we make plans with friends, get together to watch games, bbqs outside. Now that it's in winter I am not even sure if we will get together for the final. I probably won't watch a game and I've watched most WC games for decades. Feels like it will be a complete skip.","That's the point, no one is hyped. No one cares really. We usually talk and discuss the upcoming world cup. Make bets about winners and teams that go out early. It's complete silence now. Like there is no event at all. Feels like everyone will just skip it.",0
Trump could easily have just handed his documents back and we would never have heard anything about it. For some reason he first denied he had them then ignored 2 subpoenas and finally the FBI had to retrieve the docs.,"Biden handed his over the moment they were discovered, by his own lawyers who could easily have just destroyed the evidence.",0
"Edit: Because there was some confusion, I was talking about Russia using S-300 missiles to attack ground targets, not using S-300s for AA defense. That is why the cost comparison between S-300 missile and Shahed drone is relevatant.","Compared to most modern munitions, these drones are very cheaply made and cheaply bought. Some of the reports I've seen say these Shahed drones are $50,000 to $70,000. When you compare that to a single S-300/S-400 missile costing more than $1,000,000, these drones are very cheap.",0
Nothing is quite as cringy as a billionaire virtue signaling. The entire corporate apparatus that created their amassed fortunes relied specifically on lobbying both sides of the legislature to perpetuate the tax loopholes that sustained their wealth in the first place. How stupid do they think people are?,"This is so disingenuous that it’s insulting how stupid they think we are. If they wanted to pay more tax, they could stop hiring armies of accountants and tax attorneys. They could DONATE any amount of money they want to the national treasury. But the don’t. Why is that?",1
"I'm fairly confident that if you thought of that, MI5 have also thought of that and made a calculated announcement for reasons they'll likely not reveal. Not saying you're not a smart person, but I think MI5 got this covered and know a thing or two about this kinda stuff.","Seems kind of naive to me to think that MI5 or the FBI or various police departments, etc., work with journalists without any sense of oversight into what gets published and how.",1
That being said the federal government seems like they've really left the door open to this kind of thing by only funding such a small portion of states education budgets. 10% is really not that much.,This seems bad and honestly I suspect that there are some serious ulterior motives at play. This would let the state underfund say big cities schools and would probably let them get around certain antidiscrimination directives say over racial minorities or trans kids or what have you.,0
"Russia took over Nazi concentration camps and also created many of their own, but to the best of my knowledge they never ran any extermination camps.","To be fair, concentration camps and extermination camps are not the same thing. Extermination camps were literal death factories; people went in the front and corpses went out the back. The death rate at concentration camps was in the ballpark of 50%. At extermination camps it was 99.9%.",0
"DeSantis would absolutely beat Trump in a general election, but the problem for DeSantis is he will be running against Trump in a Republican primary, not a general election. I don't think DeSantis or anyone else has a chance of beating Trump in a Republican primary. DeSantis is still too afraid of Trump to publicly criticize him. We haven't yet seen a Republican publicly criticize Trump and survive politically. Even now after meeting with Kanye and Nick Fuentes and then saying the constitution should be terminated, Republicans are still unwilling to criticize Trump! He's going to be their nominee again.","Moderate Republicans absolutely want to move on from Trump, but moderate Republicans are a very small part of the Republican party. Just look at how the GOP primaries went all across the country this year if you have any questions about where the GOP voting base still is.",0
"What's interesting is that, for any planes they haven't bought from the leasing companies and where the companies want- and have the right to- demand their planes back under the original agreement, Russia is potentially even more restricted in what they can do with them.","Let's say, hypothetically, that some or all of the aircraft leased to the russia were actually returned to their proper owners. Those that have not been tempered with would still have a small chance to continue flying in proper airspace. But the ones that have been touched by the russians might as well be scrapped right now. Nobody would want to take the risk of flying aircraft with unknown modifications and put themselves underspotlight should any incidents happen.",1
"Slight tangent. The Inbetweeners (UK) is one of my absolute favorite shows but The Inbetweeners (US) was absolutely horrible. Among the many reasons the US version was bad, and to me the top reason, is that there's essentially no dirty language. High schoolers have very filthy mouths and minds so any show that's set in highschool without foul language is really a big stretch on reality.","The idea that high schoolers are incapable of understanding ""adult"" dialogue is an absolute farce. They see much worse shit on the internet on a daily basis. And you can go into the ""young adult"" section of any library and find a whole host of books full of sex and violence. Hell, Ender's Game, a near-universally beloved science fiction novel aimed at ""young adults"", has underage nudity and graphic violence - one scene even has both. And somehow people have been able to handle it just fine.",1
Is it your position that religious people should not be in government? Surely that would greatly reduce the percentage of people qualified to be in government.,"I certainly agree with you that ""politicians promote policies that directly contradict their professed faiths...."".",0
Suborning perjury indictments. Show that 6 to 20 Republican members of Congress created a false narrative and tried to get witnesses to testify these falsehoods to the Committee.,"Ideally (though very unlikely) the arrested members will be faced with the choice of resigning and allowing their governors to appoint new legislators, or having the majority in the House shift.",0
"I agree that it'd be a complicated equation of pros and cons. If the death rates were anything like those of Russian troops in the Ukraine-Russia war, I'd take my chances on a life somewhere else. Or do the jail time. Better that than dead.","Before watching x number of street interviews with random Russians, I would have agreed with you, but surprisingly many of them fundamentally say that they don't particularly want to go, but if they are conscripted then whatever, they'll go, because what else can they do. So there's a very widespread fatalistic attitude.",0
"A lot of border issues can be quite complicated and sore points due to history. A lot of European countries decided that it's basically best to leave things alone instead of trying to argue about land based on history. After WW2 large parts of western Poland with an ethnic Ukrainian majority was given to Ukraine then all Poles were forcibly deported to the rest of Poland(And Ukrainians who lived in parts of Poland that was still Poland were deported to Soviet Ukraine and Poland was given territories in the west controlled by Germany pre war and the Germans there were also moved). Of course this was done by the Soviet government were decisions where made in Moscow. Also much of Ukraine has a long history under Polish rule, a lot of that history is seen in a negative light despite the love for modern Poland.",Please don't propose stupid things. Poland has been a solid supporter of Ukrainian independence and has shot down any suggestion of wanting to seize parts of Ukraine that were controlled by Poland at one point. This is exactly the sort of conspiracy Russia is pushing in the article to undermine the alliance and friendship between the two countries.,0
"Successfully! with scramjets, accurate targeting, threat avoidance and high-mach maneuvering. Unlike the russian ""hypersonic weapon"" used in Ukraine, which was pretty much like any other missile, and of little consequence.","Was funny that this attempt failed as have all attempts by russia to produce supposedly advanced weapons, there armata tank is vapourware, they have to buy drones from Iran and ballistic missiles it sounds like.",1
"I agree, I try to use a generous perspective when posting about this kind of stuff, but she and Boebert and Trump all are proudly deliberately and willfully ignorant, facts dont matter, whatever i choose to believe is true and performative rage is the daily swill for their followers.",The word racist makes people think of lynch mobs and so on. So almost no one is going to admit to being that kind of racist.,0
"Second sentence quoted: It lacks clarity in that the total sum is for ""promised or sent aid."" It falls apart at: ""sent in that span."".","It says: ""What countries have pledged to Ukraine...Total military, financial and humanitarian aid promised by governments to Ukraine, Jan. 24, 2022 through Nov. 20, excluding loans."".",0
-There was also the hushed worries that Russia would come in and force them to give up the nukes. Doesn't matter what the piece of paper said.,"-Whatever your stance on Israel is, their neighbors have invaded them before. And Iran has stated many, many times that they'd wipe Israel and US off the map. Israel isn't giving up shit.",0
"Syria is a client of Iran, who would like to establish a land bridge to Lebanon and supply Hezbollah with strategically significant armaments to create a 2-front war dilemma for Israel while it finalizes its nuclear weapons capability.","So Israel continuously attacks weapons shipments intended for Hezbollah and concentrations of Iranian forces in Syria, in close coordination with Russia to avoid causing Russian casualties and drawing it into direct conflict with Israel.",0
They filled the one of the roles that third gen MBTs fill now. The MBTs today weigh more than most heavy tanks and they have better guns.,It also has a lot to do with who you’re fighting. Turkey and Indonesia are basically quelling start up rebellions and tribal conflicts with groups that aren’t fielding tanks. So this thing can take a 30mm round and kill anything that fires it while not sucking down huge sums of fuel.,0
You can deny Climate Change (tm) and still think that pollution and abuse of the environment is a grave matter. Climate change to me means crush the middle class and purposefully make energy expensive so businesses can continue to not innovate or shift their operations. Climate change also signifies the strategy companies took in the 70s by saying it’s the average citizen that needs to bear the burden of fixing things and not companies.,"There's a scenario where society spends so much time/money repairing the damage from climate-related disasters, that we have no time/money left to build out sustainable infrastructure.",1
"This didn’t really answer my question… you’re just saying “nuclear posturing” like that’s a meaningful statement, and pointing to a list of countries the USA had war or conflict with.","Here maybe bold will help your reading comprehension: ""The US used nuclear posturing and threats"" And if you don't know remotely any history about those conflicts, you can't just say ""it didn't happen."" You just don't know what you're talking about. Which is why i recommended a book you could read that describes it well AND then you would know what you're talking about!",1
"2022 has been particularly devastating for LGBTQ rights, with hate especially targeting trans people and drag queens. Hundreds of bills targeting LGBTQ people have been introduced—about half of them have focused on trans people.","Transgender people like me cannot exist in a transphobic society. If Republicans take control and reshape society to conform to their hateful values, what happens to me? What happens to me?",1
">For misconduct on the part of election boards or any members thereof in any of the counties of the state, or on the part of any officer making or participating in a canvass for a state election.","Finally, if the votes from this county are excluded (for whatever reason), I wonder if the residents of the county would have standing to bring suit against these commissioners.",1
"Then the Russians used the videos to study operational tactics, brought in extra AA, and a bunch of Bayraktars went down, so Ukraine stopped posting footage from them but also curtailed their use. This dropoff also aligned with when Ukraine got HIMARS, which have similar capabilities in terms of range and accuracy but are much harder to intercept.","> According to General Viktor Nazarov, an advisor to the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, the HIMARS multiple missile launcher system has replaced the Turkish drones to some extent. ""The Bayraktars are now focused on other tasks, mainly reconnaissance. They were very helpful in sinking the Russian missile cruiser Moskva."".",1
There's no CCS to Tesla adapter as yet. It would be a new product for Tesla to build or create and sell the specs.,"Good money making measure for Tesla. Although, their network isn’t big enough to handle all electric cars out now and definitely won’t be in 2024. But it’s the best we have and better than nothing.",1
I haven't seen a progressive support Hamas or their objectives given their objectives are genocide among others.,Supporting Palestine doesn't mean supporting Hamas. Criticizing the Israeli military doesn't mean supporting Hamas.,0
"Unstable nations generally arise from a situation where the government's legitimacy given to it by its force is threatened by another force within or outside of the country. That could be an armed rebellion (revolution) or a challenging alternate ""government"" (like the Taliban in Afghanistan) or it could be an invading country (like Russia in Ukraine). In all those cases a potentially stronger force is threatening the monopoly on power held by the government.",The only reason why the legal system has any power is because the government has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. You can't create your own private police force to repossess stuff in your insurance provider's office unless the govt lets you.,1
"In fairness, it's less about acting within the scope of your job and more about not violating ""clearly established"" law that a ""reasonable officer"" would have known about. The two are similar, but they are not the same.","For example, imagine that a police officer decided to arrest an individual because they saw that the individual was making fun of them on social media. The individual would have several actions against the police officer, including a § 1983 action. If arresting an individual for making fun of an officer on social media was not before considered a violation of an individual's federal rights, then the officer will be protected under qualified immunity because the act did not violate a ""clearly established"" law.",0
"I totally see your point. But, that being said, that option was a possibility. Just like gambling your family house puts you at risk of losing it, even though your strongly believe you would never lose on a poker game. But it can still happen, and you still need to take all preventive measures to make sure you get the outcome you want. In the Case of David C., there are so many things he could have done. For example, start with a very low risk, low stake, informative referendum (e.g. should the UK government start negotiations with EU and other countries in the world, to prepare a post-brexit era?). If the Brits vote yes, it still isn't a brexit, just preparations and negotiations that could take years or even decades to finally end up with a package of treaties and deals ready to be signed and ratified by London. Then again, David C. could have asked a second referendum, e.g. how do you like those new deals, and EU conditions? If yes, then, and only then he gets to start the Brexit process.","So that brings the question, Why Brexit happened and who is responsible? Well in short, misguided, misinformed British majority. And why? Well, right wing parties exploited and manipulated frustrations of the British general public to point the finger where they want the finger pointed to be.",1
"Here's one video of her on camera saying she just left the White House where a planning for January 6 objection just happened and that ""the election won't be stolen by Joe Biden and Democrats and Trump won by a landslide"".",As a public figure and a congresswoman she incited the insurrection at the Capitol. She is responsible for the damage and the deaths that day. She should be in jail or at the very least be forced to resign.,0
Evils and intergenerational traumas and hatred is the visceral way in which we as a whole sort everything else.,All the things that every human has ever done regardless of morality is the natural state of humanity.,0
"Both are tragedies, and both cannot be compared. Both are terrible events which have happened, but calling the pandemic the worst thing that happened to India since partition is wrong.","Nothing that happened in India since Partition killed as many Indians, hence that makes it the biggest tragedy since Partition. It's not really that controversial.",1
"Russia isn't very well equipped for a maritime assault though, their Black Sea fleet is trying hard to stay out of range of Ukraine. Not that they'd meet a lot of resistance in Moldova as their army is laughable, so a relatively small force could capture it.","Accepting the current lines and turning their offense to Moldova would give Putin an easy win, which his ailing popularity desperately needs.",0
"So even if France, Germany, and the UK did have the power to offer NATO membership to Ukraine, they could not accept it at this current time. Even pre-2022 before the invasion they could not get accepted because they had disputed territory in the Donbass and Crimea.",One of the conditions for joining NATO is that the country must have resolved any conflicts with its neighbors or other countries in accordance with international law.,0
The timing will be critical. I wouldn't expect indictments to come before the end of this year. So that happens in early 2023. Justice is slow. What are the chances that a trial happens next year at all?,"Then the owners of capital said ""oh yeah? You want higher wages? Fine. Here's a 10 percent raise. Now enjoy a 15 percent price increase. We'll make our money no matter what."".",0
"There's a time and a place for all of that. But if you find yourself looking Russian propaganda, its probably not the best time to say ""hey yeah that's a good point"".","This will be an unpopular opinion, but I’m sure that there are Russians who don’t approve of the war, so they spend their time helping as much as they can. Maybe this yuri guy is one of those people.",1
"Or shit, if Google is hugely profitable and cutting such great employees, then surely those laid off employees will be able to cut into their market share in some domain and slice off a few hundred million for themselves? Unless, of course, they weren't the ones really producing anything of value, and were instead leeching off of the work of others?","And yet what has Google really managed to do in the past decade, other than create a graveyard of pet projects that no one wanted to bother maintaining? Sure, there have been a few things here and there, but it's largely been a playground for people to go and make $500k/year fucking around on passion projects that largely duplicated other stuff and didn't integrate with anything else. Or if it did integrate with other stuff, it required an entire team to keep working.",0
"In other words, if we give them F-16s, we need to be ready to do a whole lot more than that as well. If we stick to weapons that can't easily be used outside of Ukraine, then it's unlikely Russia will escalate on their own.","The nuclear threats happen on regular basis so I doubt that's the thing - they won't toss another ""world should let us have Ukraine otherwise we'll nuke nearby countries"". It gotta be something else - they might decide they have reached the goal on Ukraine (while not getting it at all), and now they'll conduct another ""special military operation"" in Moldova which has issues with Transnistria.",1
"Russia WILL lose, it's just a question of how many more innocent Ukrainians will have to be killed by Russia, before the West steps up to its moral duty to provide the weapons Ukraine needs to end this war ASAP.","Add in the colossal waste in lives and equipment, and it is simply unsustainable for Russia. They're breaking on the rock of Ukraine.",0
if we are strictly talking about casualties the problem is much worse for Ukraine whose population is 3 times smaller with even lower birth rate and similar military casualties and tens of thousands of civilian casualties so even if all the 7 million refugees return to the coumtry(a lot already did) they would still have a huge population problem that most people seem to ignore.,"I was saying i hoped the war purged the corruption in the Ukrainian ranks , it was in favour of Ukraine ...",0
"What’s amazing is Walker might be one of the worst major party candidates for Senate that did everything wrong and had nothing but bad press for over a year, and he still only lost the runoff election by 2 points and was down only 1 point in the general.",Walker was such a preposterously bad candidate that I can only think he did as well as he had was due to TOTALLY RIGGED FRAUD.,1
"Again menthol has been in cigarettes since nearly the beginning. Where is this new found concern coming from that mint is what is increasing kids to smoke? When I started smoking at 16 I hated menthol, same with all my friends.",I was stupid and smoked in high school. Menthols weren't exactly extra popular with all the young teen smokers. Is there any data showing menthol availability increases youth smoking rates?,1
"> Since iOS 15, users can locate their iPhone 11 or later for up to 5 hours after the phone battery was drained, or 24 if it was turned off by the user manually (SE 2nd and 3rd generation excluded), thanks to the power reserve.","Participating in the Find My network lets you locate this iPhone even when it's offline, in power reserve mode, and after power off.",1
If they were walking out because of a bill restricting gun rights or transgender bathrooms I’m sure desantis would be praising them for taking initiative.,"Yep we all got suspended, most people’s parents didn’t care, and it was high school so the “permanent record” threat was laughable. The scariest part to me was how my peers reacted. It’s one thing to expect pushback from the older generations, but getting hated on and vilified by people your own age was something I was really expecting. I mean apathy is one thing but to make threats and be legitimately angry because some kids in your class walked outside for 15 minutes and sat silently seems insane!",0
"Speaker of the House (2007 - 2011, and again 2019 - 2023) Literally the top position for house democrats, but ""not a leader"" right?","She was the Speaker of the House, which meant she was chosen to represent and lead the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives.",1
Right… and dems consciously chose to reject measures in the reconciliation such as free community college and a $15 minimum wage. That’s my point. They could’ve also at least tried to put debt cancellation in the bill but they didn’t.,"That's not to say some student debt shouldn't be forgiven, but the comparison to the bank bail outs doesn't make sense since their loans weren't forgiven.",1
"2) When we do set up a base, we leverage the labor of the people who are going to be housed there. Our troops are able bodied adults that have had training in following orders, are literate and have skillsets that are documented and catelogued. As a group, the migrants are nothing like that. So we'd have to truck in (and temporarily house) our own troops just to get the ""migrant base"" constructed.","1) I call hyperbole on the claim that we can set up a military base in a couple of days. We can do things like that in months or maybe weeks (assuming that we already have rights to the land on which it's gonna sit), but a big base is a big undertaking.",0
That is the idea behind the House of Representatives—to offset population discrepancies caused by the fact that every state gets two senators regardless of population.,"It’s because the senate is intended to represent the interests of the state itself - in other words, each state is considered an equal regardless of population in the senate. The House of Representatives is intended for the interests of the people themselves to be represented, which is why Alaska has 1 representative despite having 2 senators.",1
"Compare this with the powers of a true sovereign in the form of an absolute monarch. There is no legal restriction placed upon the monarch. The monarch is ordained by God to rule, and the only concerns restricting the monarch are practical ones not legal, for no court can rule against the King for the court is merely a placeholder for the king where the king cannot personally preside to settle the dispute.","While it is true that the Constitution grants the authority to the state's legislature, the state's legislature's authority is still bound by the State's constitution. The legislature cannot exceed the authority that created it. The legislature is created by that document, and not by the United States Constitution. If the people of the state in the creation of their state have bound the legislature to some principle not contradictory to the United State's Constitution, then then the legislature must remain bound. If those same states have also established an independent judiciary whose role is to settle disputes in matters of law, and some dispute arises out of a law passed by the legislature and the constitution of the state, then it is the proper role of the state courts to settle that dispute.",0
"The problem is that when people accuse them of ""not reading it"" it is incorrect. They all do to some extent, or at least have, and so they see that as an unjustified attack on their character. It is much, much better to go with the truth: They do not understand what they are reading.","But I have seen people literally use a word in Greek, translate it to Hebrew, then look up all the uses of that translated Hebrew word spanning hundreds of years and try to force those connotations on the Greek term from another few hundred years later. It is linguistic abuse.).",0
"I think that if they can’t beat only Ukraine after a year, it’s safe to say they definitely have no hope of starting a war with NATO and winning.","Why would you think they could attack a NATO country with ten times the equipment, better trained soldiers and allies than Ukraine, after what we've seen in Ukraine? You do realize how much they're already struggling to find men and equipment right?",1
"A good outdoor sativa does fine and allows for energy and creativity through the day. I prefer outdoor grown Thai. Outdoor grown is very important, indoor grown is weaker.",Well I am glade you can get by with your setup by all means I have been their. I live in California for a reason and I fought like shit dodging cops just to get it from outdoors here over what I was doing indoor. I stopped buying it the minute i could get my outdoor plants harvested. You will have to support outdoors California growers for this very reason. It grows best here in California. edit: spelling.,0
"I can't imagine why, in a year that was expected to be really bad when Democrats were trying to defend a ton of seats, that they would decide not to fund what they saw as a risky challenger likely to lose.",Maybe if the Dems campaign arm did what they should instead of refusing to help a primary winner we wouldn't be having this conversation.,1
"There are methods. For instance, researchers at UC Santa Cruz were the first to sequence the human genome and they made it publicly accessible information. If a company had done it first, they could have possibly patented the information.","One possible solution for scientists is to patent their discovery, then charge no money for the use of the invention.",1
"Argentina's problem was that its debts were denominated in foreign currencies (e.g., US dollars, the Euro) and it was expected to pay off its debts in those currencies. However, the Argentinian peso (?) fell sharply relative to those currencies, making it difficult to pay back those loans, hence the default.","Invading another foreign country violates international law, and it could have severe repercussions (see what happened to Russia). If China loses money by lending to Ghana, that is the risk that all creditors take.",0
"That's definitely 95% of the reason why right wingers want to ban it so badly. It is undoubtedly a sketchy Chinese company with major security issues, but so is every right-wing app (or so many other social media apps) ever developed.","It might be worse if they tried to have an ad for humanists or atheist causes. I am pretty sure someone tried to do a much more low-key ad (just one ad that night versus a whole campaign) years ago and it got blocked for being too ""offensive"" or ""controversial"".",0
"Only because trump and his supporters cant understand nuance and think missing some documents after leaving office is the same as intentionally stealing thousands of, many above top secret, documents and then intentionally withholding them and lying to investigators until ultimately your house has to be raided by the FBI because you won’t comply.","However, the other commenter isn't wrong that each party went about this in completely opposite ways and Trump's resistance and lies are what led to FBI searches and the involvement of the DOJ and judicial branch. He certainly provoked the steps that have been taken against him and now there is the question of ""Why?"" that wouldn't have been there if he'd just taken them by mistake and returned them as soon as he realized he had them.",1
"The reason that Taiwan is important is more because of their location. Japan and Korea contain the North China sea, the Ryukyu islands contain the East China Sea, and Indonesia and Malaysia contain the South China Sea and the Straight of Malacca.",All of them are US Allies. Right in the center of all of that is Taiwan; which protects the biggest water gap in the China Seas. This defensive perimeter effectively contains China militarily within its waters. Subs can’t pass though Non-international water into the Pacific with this perimeter.,0
"As a progressive I would vote for anyone over any Republican, and Joe Biden has already proved to be better than I was expecting even though I did not vote for him in the last primary.","In a reasonable world, Biden should and could run again, because he's doing a fine job, and because any vote for republicans remains a vote for fascism.",1
"And Russia is not much better look at that article, it is unreasonable to side with a country trying to get some of its black students involved a war they have nothing to do about.","Yes and I said that it is still unreasonable to side with them anyways, particularly Russia. This article is but one of the reasons why. Better to stay neutral or pick no sides when it’s clear multiple countries are willing to exploit them, even if the levels of exploitation are different.",0
"Wolf warrior diplomacy is confrontational and combative, with its proponents loudly denouncing any perceived criticism of the Chinese government, its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and associated policies on social media and in interviews, as well as using physical violence against protestors and dissidents.",">As an attempt to gain ""discourse power"" in international politics, wolf warrior diplomacy forms one part of a new foreign policy strategy called Xi Jinping's ""Major Country Diplomacy"" (Chinese: 大国外交; pinyin: Dàguó Wàijiāo) which has legitimized a more active role for China on the world stage, including engaging in an open ideological struggle with the Western world.",1
"It's sad that there is so much gun violence in the US that ""only"" 3 people getting shot doesn't qualify as a mass shooting.",Let's also not forget that there are years like 2017 when 60 people were killed and over 400 wounded in just a single shooting with AR pattern rifles.,1
"Don't know where you've been ordering from, but almost all my takeaway come in cardboard boxes and paper wrappings.","And plastic is actually worse at retaining heat than cardboard. You can tell because have you ever picked up a hot plastic container and burned yourself? Now, have you ever done that with a cardboard container?",0
"I'm of the opinion that life doesn't start until birth. Only after birth does it seem that one can live unassisted by their mother's body nor modern technology. How, then, can we call abortion ""murder"" if the fetus is not alive, and has no life when it's placed outside of the mother?","Yeah there’s a lot of implications that come with considering an unborn baby as life. But this isn’t really about the child, it’s about controlling women. If they actually thought about it and I enacted laws in that regard, they’d be empowering women and they don’t want that.",1
"If you have a hundred people packed into a metal tube for eight to ten house with one or more people with a highly communicable airborne virus, treating them all as infected for a while until they can be confirmed to be free of the virus is just common sense.","Also, China likely gets shit on a little more heavily for their actions because China is both the source of the world's Covid woes and has repeatedly acted irresponsibly and with no concern for the impact their actions had on the rest of the world so there's not a lot of good will left for China (and that's not even considering their other human rights violations like Xingjian, the Yugurs, and China's increasingly aggressive posture in the western Pacific).",0
"So what you're saying makes sense only if you make any trade with Russia as intentional support for everything Russia is doing but don't apply this to the US for some reason. This angle surely didn't arise during America's wars. And it's largely the American empire that's behind the sanctions on the Russian economy in the first place. So they don't amount to ""neutrality"".",Neutrality is not the enlightened position you all think it is. Shams on Brazil for blaming Ukraine.,1
"So this new bill that was just signed does not offload any debts onto Florida taxpayers, nor does it force the two counties to pay for Disney's services.","So this new bill that was just signed does not offload any debts onto Florida taxpayers, nor does it force the two counties to pay for Disney's services.",1
"I 100% agree with this. I don't mean it should only be a threat, but I also don't mean to say Poland should just fully invade. Treat it like a negative peace. Act as if Russia might invade at any point, so you station troops at the border, you attack trade ships, you quadruple support for Ukraine.","I am on your side concerning the forcing Russia to take it back part, at least very clearly calling them out and demonstrating close Nato ties. But we really want to avoid to threaten with war or even declare it. If we make a threat, we have to act accordingly or our word will lose value, just like Putins did. Also a threat doesn’t justify a declaration of war (we try to uphold international law). Furthermore we would lead a war of aggression not Defense, which would really heighten the risk of nuclear escalation. But you are right, we can’t leave such threats unanswered.",1
I'm morbidly fascinated by what 2024 is going to bring for the GOP. If this is what they put up during what ought to have been a slam dunk midterm things could go very poorly for them. I think it'll come down to the response to Trump's announcement bid. If the MAGA crowd sticks to their guns Republicans will be in the unenviable position of letting hem run roughshod over them again or risk a third-party run torpedoing their chance of winning much of anything.,"Not all the MAGAs are gonna ditch trump, and they're doing damage control now to try to get as many votes from him and back to the republican party as they can. I hope about half of them put trump as a write-in.",1
"It's strange that most of our Congresspeople live so differently than the people they are meant to represent. Sure, legal expertise has its value, but more important the ability to empathize with the people you serve is what we need. If an elected official cannot even fathom the struggles of their constituents — and makes no effort to do so — how fit are they really to be an advocate?","Maybe forbid consecutive terms so that they're relieved of the burden of campaigning while also serving, but you always have experienced reps tagging in. You'd need to tweak pension rules, unemployment benefits, etc, but nothing unmanageable. A House-owned block of flats would also be a sensible thing to make available, so that renting in DC is no longer a job requirement.",1
"I think the fact that he hid this loan for his reporting before taking over the white house is the bigger scandal than who the loan was with imo. I'm not sure how much leverage Kim can have over a company that has only ""ties"" to the country and is based in SK. And as such how directly this loan connects to NK.","While I'm ready to see trump in jail over this (and the many other revelations soon to be discovered from his taxes), the company was Daewoo and their ties to NK are just that they were the only company allowed to do business in NK in the 90s.",0
"Russia and Putin were really counting on this winter to pressure Europe into caving, and it just hasn't happened. By this time next year there will be no reason to even consider Russia as a primary fuel supplier, but the harm Russia has done to itself and its reputation as a source of energy will be set in stone.",Geopolitics can explain why the supplier (in this case Russia) isn't awfully reliable but that won't change the fact that their actions (using their energy exports as a weapon) have resulted in greatly reduced demand. This greatly reduced demand is what's letting China and India buy Russian energy at greatly reduced prices.. something they weren't able to do when Europe was still buying Russian oil and gas.,1
"A foundational belief of Falun Gong is that the CPC is illegitimate, so it's not a surprise they got suppressed. I'm not shedding any tears, it was an insanely racist cult. Li Hongzhi is not an idiot, he knows he can't actually levitate, he's just making this stuff up to build a following in order to influence Chinese politics.","This speaks to a fundamental misunderstanding of Chinese governance. The ones with true power, like Jiang, don't need to hold office. Jiang stacked the party with loyalists so he could be certain he would be able to continue influencing politics despite being formally retired. Xi needs a third term because he lacks a clique he can continue to influence upon retirement.",0
"""The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone."".","Yeah, you right. I don't speak to russian people on the regular, because I live 40 km from russian border, and topics to talk with those people don't lead to much good. But our argument is not about that, but that you ignore 90% of what's happening and pointing out at the rest 10%. Never said that they can't buy Apple. Did I? Why you argue with that? Why you trying to disprove something that was not stated?",1
It's more or less europeans at this point. China and America basically stoipped caring about what irreperable damage they will be doing to trade with each other and their economies but China does care about keeping Europe nice and neutral to have some market if trade with america utterly breaks down.,"Cumulatively, the shift in Europe’s stance toward China and the prospect of a war between mainland China and Taiwan sure to devastate global trade have injected an urgent and powerful momentum into the West’s “economic decoupling” with China. Alarmed corporate executives no longer need encouragement from Washinon’s China hawks to reduce their dependence on mainland-based supply chains.",1
"Not condoning China's brutal exploitation of the uighurs in the slightest, but China's issue with Uighurs is because they riot after decades of mistreatment, also like tibet, the region had festering aspirations for independence as Uyghuristan.",It's more or less europeans at this point. China and America basically stoipped caring about what irreperable damage they will be doing to trade with each other and their economies but China does care about keeping Europe nice and neutral to have some market if trade with america utterly breaks down.,0
My girlfriend is Japanese and she absolutely refuses to move back to Japan. She can’t go back to certain aspects of the culture.,"The thing is, they answer to a Japanese manager that is there in the US temporarily the same as them. So even though the American managers don’t care one way or the other, the Japanese manager maintains the Japanese work culture for the Japanese employees. I feel bad for them, but they all seem so used to it.",0
"The issue is you only need the highest number of votes to become speaker. So even if some Republicans break and vote for someone else, they have to vote for someone else that nearly the whole Democratic caucus would also vote for.","If you only need a plurality of votes, then IF nine or so MAGA reps voted for somebody else, Nancy Pelosi would get 100% of the Dem vote and be re-elected Speaker. That's not going to happen.",1
"That's one of the interesting qualities of Trump that I think appealed to so many people. For better or worse (And let's be honest it was almost entirely worse) Trump was an actual outsider, coming in and stirring up shit, criticizing long-term powerful people on both the left and the right, and was not beholden to the GOP leadership. Trump just insulted everybody, and he could get away with it, because it played to the narrative that he was his own man. The GOP rallied around Trump eventually but there was always a battle, and he was never owned by them, he was never controlled by them.","It's important to note, DeSantis is being championed by the propaganda pushing media arm of the GOP, as an alternative for Trump.",0
"Just to be clear on the Maryland model, there’s still competition on the insurance side but the state set caps on pricing meaning there’s no cost side competition leading only to quality side differentiation which improved outcomes in the state. A single payor system would have the same effect.",Nationalized payors lead to competition on quality without the issues of fully nationalized healthcare.,0
"The dollop did a hilarious about this. I don't expect you to watch the whole thing for an explanation. But they are essentially a ball that fathers escort their daughters to. There they have them swear their virginity to their future husband's. They put on this whole ceremony and they essentially ""marry"" their fathers until they can be given away to their future husband. It's real creepy and sort of incestuous.","It is so weird indeed. Can I just say that I really don't so understand why so many guys seem to want a virgin? They act like it's some great thing to have sex with a girl who is a virgin, and it really isn't lol.",1
"The Taliban today are almost exclusively former mujahideen. Not the fly by night pawns that flip allegiances every other week, but the competent group of commanders. To your point, many anti-Taliban groups are also former mujahideen. I also get what your saying, insofar that obviously Americans didn’t recruit fighters using an extreme religious angle, but the Americans knew that was happening and still maintained an “enemy of my enemy” approach. I wouldn’t call that lack of oversight and more deliberate indifference, which kind of defined US foreign strategy in the late 80s and early 90s (Iran, Nicaragua, Iraq). Put another way, I really don’t think the Taliban would have existed in their current form if it wasn’t for US intervention.","The mujahideen were very diverse and can't simply be described as precursors to the taliban, the taliban started out by fighting against the mujahideen, although plenty of mujahideen fighters would later join the taliban. It wasn't the US running the madrassas expounding the extreme deobandi ideology that influenced the taliban.",1
"Edit: As many commentators have pointed out, yes Nuclear weapons exist. Should war between NATO and Russia break out, it is all but guaranteed they will be used. The damage will be massive and billions will likely die.","I do NOT want war with Russia. It would be bad for all sides. My point was, that even with nukes, Russia can not win. Attacking NATO will be there demise even if they take a lot of us with them.",0
"the 'countries through which it was imported' as a 'loophole' for anyone interested are Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium according to the article.","It's 're-sold' by the countries in question as the loophole established in Europe to allow the country of origin to be changed. If you simply modified the country of origin on the label when it arrived, it would be breaking international trade laws on 'origin'.",0
"I am not saying that Palestinians don't have a right to live peacefully, but that isn't going to happen while they are under their own self-made terrorist rule. Hamas is a group of religious fanatics, they aren't interested in peace.","I don’t like Hamas but I’ve had this argument enough times and done enough research to know that Israelis started the conflict. I’m not just talking about forcibly taking land, I’m talking about terroristic attacks.",1
"Hello, Reddit! My name is Adam Winkler and I'm a scholar of constitutional law, the Supreme Court and gun law. I've taught constitutional law and led Supreme Court simulations at UCLA School of Law for two decades.","Possibly, though it is unclear if the courts will uphold insurance requirements. The argument would be that we don't typically require insurance for the exercise of a constitutional right. And under the new Second Amendment test established by the Supreme Court in last June's Bruen case, which requires gun laws today to be consistent with the gun laws of the 1700s-1800s, when we didn't have gun insurance requirements, makes it harder to defend such a law.",0
"putin can't stop selling. oil wells are very unlike most other things in that you really can't just stop extraction - if you do, it's incredibly costly to get things running up again. and oil is expensive to store around. so russia has to sell at capped prices if that's all they can get, cuz making a lil profit is far better than losing a ton of money.","the main point of the price caps is to ensure russia gets less money for oil regardless of where they end up selling to. at a break-even price of around 40 bucks a barrel, even a discount of 10 dollars (going from say 80 to 70) means a 25% reduction in gov't money that can be used to buy more armaments and support more conscripts.",0
So this situation is also called cancel. In fact even Merriam Webster defines cancelled as stopped giving support:,"That is not what cancel means at all... Cancel is when a group express disapproval thru means available to them, like social media or boycotts.",0
"They do, don't they? Well guess what! It just happens that Russia has 300 billion dollars worth of assets frozen by the west.. Convenient no? what's 19 or 20 billions??","Actually, Russia has 300 billion dollars in the west and they were frozen as retaliation for invading a neighbor without provocation. That much money might even cover most or all of the aid packages NATO sent to Ukraine.",0
"And not just the population increases but more and more newly getting access to electricity as well. For example a third of Indians got access to electricity just within the last decade, and now close to 99% Indians have electricity access. India had to pump up more coal based electricity for more of her citizens to get better living standards aka electricity during a short span of time.",There isn't any major difference in coal emissions between India and Europe. But the overall per capita emission across all sectors (phew) gives the actual picture.,0
"There are two factors at play, first is there aren’t enough younger people to pay into the system and the second is that people are living longer than when they set the pension amounts.",Now old people outnumber young people and the system can’t work with more people taking money out than there are people putting money in.,0
"His district deserved better. And he's an excellent example of why I never donate to the national fundraising committees, DCCC, DSCC etc. I donate to individuals.",Especially when you know that Maloney was responsible for redirecting more than $4m in funds funds away from extremely winnable races to his race in the last weeks of the campaign when he finally caught wind of his own fragility.,0
"Russia only has 140 million people. That’s fewer than the population of Pakistan, or Indonesia. In all honesty when you consider that Russia is a low-income country with a 140m population while maintaining a massive land area, it’s not a surprise that their military is doing so poorly.",There’s a reason why all these D.C think tanks have been publishing constant reports about China’s rapid militarization.,0
"Republicans have distorted this Twitter story to the point of getting it backward. Twitter has a """" that keeps it from banning accounts of certain important people. That policy was applied to accounts like Trump's secretly and unofficially until 2019. , including more than two dozen that were themselves later suspended for their rule breaking posts. In one egregious example, Trump tweeted ""when the looting starts, the shooting starts"", which broke Twitter's rules against glorifying violence. Literally no one other than Trump was getting away with the things he was posting on Twitter.","WELL, this means if Trump incites an insurrection by posting on Twitter, then Twitter can also be held responsible. Twitter lawyers were like ""you need to distance yourself from this A-hole before we all get sued."" Leading to Twitter having to post warnings on basically every tweet Trump made.",1
"Rights to vote, or work, or abortion, or freedom to wear what they want and study and live where they want or not get married if they don’t want to? Those are all still present. You’re talking about domestic abuse decriminalisation, presumably. Please give me more examples. Dude, I grew up in Russia. And just like men, Russian women have too lived through centuries of crises and it will take more than what is going on now to make them storm Moscow. And for all our sakes I hope it doesn’t come to that. I’ve seen what an enraged Russian woman is capable of. A cornered Russian woman with nothing to lose? It ain’t pretty. And they still have things to lose.","It’s not just about being arrested. CPS comes to you to find any tiniest reason to take away your kids. You can also lose your job, and they can find something else to pin onto you like planted drugs. If They try to fight police and riot, police will open fire. Even Yeltsin shelled the crap out of a democratically elected parliament and that was “free” Russia. And and seeing how 4 revolutions, years of protesting and many other crises ended up, people don’t want to throw their lives away only to be living under new management.",0
"Somehow the current status is the preferred option for NATO: let the Ukrainians do the fighting, but overload them with weapons so that they can win and remove Russia as a threat.","It's the ukrainians that are at fault here because they don't want to stop defending their country, don't want to negotiate with russia and give some of their regions to Russia. This all Zelenski's fault not saint Putin.",1
"There can be discussion of security guarantees for Russia after they end the war, pay reparations, put war criminals on trial and conduct full nuclear disarmament.","“We can absolutely guarantee that we won’t obliterate the Russian military, the economy and decapitate their nations leadership if they retreat back to their own boarders”.",1
"Like, as far as we're aware right now, he's lived in two countries, lived under several assumed names, married a woman while having a consensual/problematic relationship with another man, scammed people on GoFundMe, and then ran for congress and won.",He does exist and word is that he’s the greatest Democrat secret operative that has ever existed… when everything else is a lie who’s to say he’ll vote the way McCarthy thinks he’s supposed to? Or at least that’s what I’ve heard… probably worth spreading around….,1
Homeschool your kids and leave the rest of ours alone. You can have a say in your own kid’s education but when you force schools and school boards to bend to your will you’re taking away my rights as a parent for my kids’ school.,So when you force a school to do something it isn't getting in the way of my rights but if I do it is getting in the way of yours? That is the definition of hypocritical. Why not allow people to pick their schools? Why do people prevent that?,1
Business owners and those who make their money through capital gains and passive income are where the tax cheats are.,"The only way a sales tax makes sense in lieu of income taxes is if your goal is to consolidate wealth and starve the government of revenue, neither of which are admirable goals.",0
"American fascism also requires everyone to be ""Christian"" (in quotes because many American Christians do the opposite of what Christ taught).","Name me a recent time someone in America used the concept of religious freedom, to create a more fascist law. Because all I see is people forcing other people to provide them services and ignoring religious freedoms, forcing people to get the vaccine, and ignoring religious exemptions, etc. Forcing Catholics to provide women with birth control, even though that goes against Catholicism and they could've worked for literally any other company, etc.",1
A consumption tax is extremely regressive - as poorer ppl.spend a much larger % of their incomes as compared to the wealthy.,"Sales Tax is horribly regressive, because as a percentage of earnings the rich don’t spend the majority of their money like the lower and middle class do.",1
"This is unfortunately not new for this regime. If you are someone they consider a dissident, they have no regard for decency towards you or your family.",This is who this regime is. It’s who they’ve always been. It’s why we want a regime change. They are cruel to the core.,0
True. Most American now see that the policies were just an excuse to project American power abroad as well as suppress certain groups at home. But that is just because the internet has given people unfiltered access to information for the first time.,"The propaganda my parents generation had to deal with in order to believe that stuff was insane. Constant commercials and news reports about how they are helping people in their own country and other countries. Meanwhile, it was just a distraction by right wing politicians from the real problems.",0
This trajectory is not bound to change any time soon since both are natural allies due to their hostility towards the west and not doing anything leaves Israel with a possible nuclear Iran.,If Russia is broken as a power they will cease to be a powerfactor in Israels neighbourhood and maybe if they change regime the new one would be more friendly to democracy and the west.,1
"Pretty sure that any B-61 placement is clearly of the table. Of course there's a significant difference between 'generation' of F-16s, that was the basis of my question. The whole 'let's put some modern jets on the table' discussion is understandable, but I still do not think they are such a game changer in thus stage of the conflict. Honesty, the Leopards will be more effective.","Here I disagree. With the sam threat no one is sending out their jets at high altitude to perform air to air. Best case would be firing aim120s on some of the Russian stuff firing cruise missles, but don't think they get cleared to hit them in Belarusian /Russian airspace.",0
The Pakistani military leadership uses terrorist groups as leverage tools for foreign policy and domestic politics. The people of Pakistan have always been victims of both foreign military forces and their own government and military.,The Pakistani people are victims of military policy and foreign intervention more than anything. And it's no surprise the biggest party in the country and most vocal group of resistance against the military comes from the Pakistani province that directly borders Afghanistan.,1
"I think it's often due to a family owning the land for several generations. Tokyo might be far bigger than you're imagining it to be though. While you're not going to find a little house with a garden next to one of the major train stations, you don't have to go far to find very residential areas with houses dotted between smaller apartment buildings.","From videos I've watched most residential single-family homes in Tokyo have small footprints since land is so expensive, so placement would need to be creative since roof space is also limited.",1
"Meanwhile, some forty something doctor who has just finally paid most of his student loans off is stuck paying nearly half his money income because he’s a sucker and took a job healing people and helping them instead of getting a job in venture capital or private equity where he can make more even more money by ruining people’s lives and playing his role in the corrupt financial system.","If you want to tax the rich, tax their ASSETS. Every year. Don’t tax income. Don’t tax hard work and earning lots of money. Tax HIGH LIVING.",0
"Russia is in the UN you absolute dingus, and Ukraine was voluntarily trying to join NATO before they got fucking invaded by Russia but go off about how this is America’s fault.",Also honestly if even if they did (which no of course not that’s clearly nonsense) the fact that the Russian government agreed to start a war on behalf of American companies makes them look a lot worse than anyone else.,0
"I thought if any man had a deterrent to murder poised before him, it was this troubadour whom I called Tish. He was not only aware of the rope, he had the man who handled it beside him singing a duet. The deterrent did not work.","It's not a deterrent. It's a punishment. It's also saving the risk they get out, and saving the cost of feeding them.",1
"I'd like to see a ""Stan Kelly"" (Ward Sutton) editorial cartoon in the Onion to depict that moment -- he's the one who always draws somebody weeping tears of relief at sight of the righteous strongman.","""Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."" Karl Marx, ""The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon."".",0
Probably because he can’t stand the world’s 1st/2nd famous dictator (counting himself) fail either .,"I agree. Personally, I think Xi’s government is having difficulty dealing with the situation. On one hand, it wants to unite with Russia to challenge the US-led world order (since Xi has been in charge at 2013); but on the other hand, if China publicly stands with Russia, then it has no position arguing Taiwan belongs to China.",0
"I think they will. Republicans ran on nothing but kitchen table issues like inflation and crime, and then the first thing they convene on is House committee investigations of Hunter Biden and… 42 cabinet officials and random alphabet agency subdirectors. This is the shit that voters explicitly rejected, that completely blunted a red wave and that saw them barely get the House. Nobody but the conspiranoid GOP base gives a fuck about this. But they don’t have ideas, they don’t want to get things done. They lied to swing voters, and it was obvious to most people who were paying attention that they weren’t acting in good faith, but it’s laughable how fast they dropped the charade.","The majority of us are fucking sick of Republicans antics but the GOP is unable to see that- they did horrible in the midterms by peddling there bullshit but they will keep at it, one trick elephant.",1
Ah that explains why we moved to the Venezuelans. But the question remains why we moved from domestic production in the first place?,"We didn't move away from domestic production. The US being a huge producer of oil is a relatively recent phenomenon. A lot of our refineries were built before the US produced a ton of oil domestically, so they were designed around processing imported oil. Those refineries never stopped buying foreign oil, even when domestic production took off. It's not a new thing. We've always been reliant on foreign oil to some extent.",1
"If these pro-russia / anti-nato right-wing leaders get elected and Russia wins in Ukraine, there is a possibility of Russia attacking EU or Nato nation in the future.","The point is, that there is more than 0% chance that Russia manages to divide western countries to the point which makes alliances like NATO fall apart. For example USA leaving NATO (which Trump said is a possibility if he was president), or France leaving NATO (LePen said she wants to leave as well).",0
"A candidate like Obama or Biden might absolutely fall under the CDU’s platform more than any other, but to say that US leftists wouldn’t even crack the center or center-left in Germany or in the EU at large is just objectively and provably false.","I often see this thrown around and I think the most accurate comparison is that the Dems would essentially include most of the CDU and SPD ideologically, while the Republicans would have the right of the CDU, right of the FDP, and the AfD. Most of the CDU would be equivalent to Clinton Democrats or maybe New England Republicans.",1
"That's pretty much not true. He can't be arrested for anything said or done while physically in Congress and can't be arrested at Congress or while traveling to or from Congress. But if anything he did to get elected is actually illegal, he can most certainly be arrested for that. Just not while physically in Congress or on his way to or from.","Nope, you can be in jail and be in Congress. Once elected, they have to seat you. Once sworn in, they can do an ethics investigation and try to have him expelled. But it takes a 2/3 majority to expel. Just being in jail won't force you out of Congress. Unless it's because you don't actually qualify for Congress in the first place (like if he were underage or not a US Citizen).",0
"Why is giving Ukraine longer range weapons (not just ATACMs but also cruise missiles) a red line, but Russia bombing civilians over and over and over again, isn't?","Not to discount anything, but, given how utterly inept the Russian military is, wouldn't it just be them to engage air defense for fireworks while letting their air bases get wrecked?",1
if your point is that 'people should be able to protest as long as it doesnt inconvenience you' - then you're missing the point of protests.,If the majority doesn't want to get involved / doesn't care and they find the protest disrupting then it is a good reason to disband the protest.,1
"The laptop was also accessed remotely, while in Rudy's possession, to add a ""Salacious Pictures Package"" folder with images.","It is also an incorrect assumption to assume all contents on the ""hard drive"" are genuine (as it has been confirmed that some files were added remotely, while the laptop was in Rudy's possession).",0
"There's a reason why non-Ukrainian estimates are about 2-3x lower than Ukraine's, and it's not because Ukraine's is more accurate.","There's a reason why Ukraine's estimated enemy kills is about 2-3x higher than everybody else's, and it's not because Ukraine's is more accurate.",0
"India needs to develop an indigenous defence manufacturing sector and fast. Considering the next decade, it will have close regional tensions with China flexing it's military in the region.",We can expect France and Israel to become a bigger part of Indian defence. As far as smooth and quick manufacturing is concerned Indian government is looking to boost its local defense industry with Joint Ventures annd Technology transfers.,0
"Generally The Taliban was/is willing to accept TTPs aid in Afghanistan, while denouncing TTPs actions and attacks in Pakistan.",The Afghani Taliban had to soften its stance on some things to be considered a viable national government to Afghanistan that would actually be recognized and traded with. A version that can never hope to aspire to anything but terrorism does not need to do that.,1
"Ideally we should be reducing the energy price so high cost dirty production is priced out. But no, we raise the price to accommodate.","The price is not cost plus, but is a market price. That 5 year old wind turbine is still generating energy, but its electricity is sold higher now. Garnering more profit for its owner. Simply putting in lots of wind turbines will not reduce the cost of energy. It'll just be more profitable than building a nuke power plant and selling energy at the same high price.",0
"Yes? You know that just because a balloon is deflated that it doesn't just fall straight down right? Wind is going to blow that shit off course hard. And once it deflates and falls low enough, radar isn't going to track shit. The jets fly too fast to really keep on a small ass target falling down.","The jet is travelling at mach speed, and the balloon is travelling at wind speed. Any object dropped by the jet would continue travelling at mach, making this difficult to justify, but I see what you mean.",1
"So this new bill that was just signed does not offload any debts onto Florida taxpayers, nor does it force the two counties to pay for Disney's services.","Disney will not be the only one who pays off their debt, by Florida intervening with Disney's autotomy, they are potentially risking Florida and nearby districts to pay for their inference. No amount of bill drafting will overcome the legal jeopardy the state put themselves in by reneging the deal without cause.",1
"The land that was assigned to the Palestinians, the same way that land was assigned to the Jews, where Israel now exists.",First of all Palestinians are Christian as well and their claim to the land is not based on their religion. They have been all over Palestine-Israel Since forever as the article suggests.,1
Theres been a lot less direct incursions by jets since Ukrainian anti air has stepped up over the last 4 or 5 months.,The side benefit of the UAF drone strikes is that the Russian military has to go on high alert and hits their own munitions and vehicles. UAF does not have this problem.,1
If Turkeys plan is to be in NATO to sabotage any chances of countries that Russia wants from getting in then we just need to kick Turkey out of NATO and proceed with getting Sweden and Finland into NATO.,Why keep a power in NATO that’s working on behalf of Russia to sabotage the protection of countries coming into NATO?,0
I feel like a better way would be for China to stop making imperialist claims and threats and aiding other imperialist endeavors. People would probably care a lot less about spy balloons then.,"So the US was just supposed to wave to the spy balloon? We can now fly similar spy equipment balloons over their military bases and they would point, smile and wave at it? Yes with Satellites, TicTok, Chinese home security systems, IOT, our own social media, phishing scams ect, there is no privacy breach already in place that a Chinese balloon made much worse. But seriously the Chinese warnings are like Trump tweets the hot air they fill these balloons with.",1
"Neither Ukraine nor Russia seem to show a lack of manpower anytime soon. The issue for both sides are mostly material, which much depends on how aid Ukraine will get and how large Russia's weapon stockpiles actually are.","If the Ukrainians want to fight to the last Ukrainian against the Russian menace, what's so bad about the west arming them and benefiting from it?",1
"You can't really say exactly how good a candidate with x, y, and q attributes is for that voter, as if they get elected without many q-supporting peers that divergence may end up not mattering at all. You can't really say how bad a candidate with x, y, and z attributes is for a voter who wanted a, b, and c, because there may be issues with that voter's understanding of the issues (of course, in the mass delusion scenario, this could also be true for x, y, and z, but our election system has to put some trust in the will of the majority here). You can't even be sure how good a winning candidate in agreement with a voter is for the voter, since the candidate may be more or less effective depending on the political circumstances they're elected to - the voter may feel strongly about policy x, and want to elect someone who will fight for it, but if there aren't enough votes in the end, and after much waiting a compromise policy q is implemented, the voter's life may be worse off than if a q supporter had just been elected in the first place.","Instead of designing a ballot as a test of strategy where some ways of filling it out leave voters poorly represented, the ballot should ask only for the information that is needed to determine a voter's best strategy, and take that strategy out of individuals' hands. It turns out that means using only the ranking.",1
"And of course, since there's dozens of Muslim countries (most of them among the worst regimes in the world), but just one Israel, these bodies inevitably spend their time targeting Israel with complaints and reports and so on.","Yeah, I remember a few decades ago a study was done on UN focus and it showed that they disproportionately focused on Israel over every other country.",1
"Not necessarily. If Ukraine negotiates, Russia might only be able to keep the territory it controls now. Ukraine would still stand between Russia and Moldova. Your theory is essentially the ""domino theory"" that kept us in Vietnam for a decade.","Right up until Russia starts using nukes. The greatest chance of nuclear weapons being unleashed has always been if a nuclear power starts losing a war. I hope Ukraine wins, but it's not worth WW3.",0
Mother: “They even found all these papers with signatures from the U.S. all over Ukraine. Biden’s son is the mastermind behind all of this.”.,"It's so wild to read the guy mention Hunter Biden as the evil mastermind behind the war. Just another item of proof that Russians use the same propaganda sources and creators as do the Republicans, which is quite scary to consider.",1
"The purpose of the UN is to make it possible to keep global peace. The US, Russia, China, etc, aren't going to take orders from other countries and would just leave, rendering it useless.","Right, because the UNSC should only have members who don't cause problems... such as... USA/UK/France/China?",1
"Quick question: Do you know if Jenny's ice cream is still in Columbus? Might be able to get back to Ohio in the next year or so, and would like to take family down to try it out as it's a good memory of mine.","Anecdotally as an Ohioan, we have been planning a move to Michigan for about a year now, even prior to the 2022 elections. We encourage any friends who are looking at getting out of Ohio to check it out. Politics aside, the general vibe of the population just seems to be much more positive and chill in general compared to its southern neighbors.",1
This whole thread is predicated on the idea that there are Russians that don't care and will launch nukes offensively.,"No, because Russia can choose to not use offensive nukes. If we, the rest of the world, simply call Russia's bluff and say ""if you do or not, its not going to change our actions"", then Russia doesn't gain anything by using them.",0
"Nikolai Patrushev and Alexander Bortnikov are two people everyone should know more about, but are rarely mentioned in Western media. I have no idea in terms of a successor to Putin. Most of the obvious options including Lavrov are 70+ years old. If Putin has any input into his successor, then he probably wants someone younger.","Most likely, Patrushev will become Putin's successor. However, Ramzan Kadyrov and Prigozhin are also aiming for the place of successor. By the way, Medvedev will not be a successor either. He is an alcoholic who no longer has power in the government.",1
"In that specific area yes but Russia still has a ""real"" battlecruiser afloat elsewhere. For some reason the only Kirov-class that is still seaworthy wasn't sent into the Black Sea before Turkey closed it. Got a feeling if it had participated in the bombardment of Ukraine we'd have found out that it too is an oil caked nightmare with most of the fire fighting gear stolen or locked up. Just as well though since at this point if Piyotr Veliky had been in the Black Sea, Russia would have probably used some of its P-700s as cruise missiles and nobody needs that.","Yeah, the USA's / NATO's ""escort ships"" are more vastly more powerful than the flagships of the Black Sea.",1
"The reality is that we should have been phasing out oil decades ago. We didn’t. You can’t just set up green energy overnight. Until we have a replacement, we have to use what we have.",Are you willing to turn off your power? Would you rather the world financially support regimes like in Russia and Iran? Should millions die from exposure so that we can shut off all fossil fuels tomorrow?,0
"Then finally France has 1 carrier. China has 3, though with no pilots. On a pure number basis, China wins that conflict. Assuming the get the pilots.",60 aircraft. 40 is just the fighters. So yeah 20 more aircraft particularly things like AWACs and other EW jets are certainly going to turn the tide in an actual conflict between France and China.,0
And no Republican will go along with that because it will just be the extremists going against McCarthy and no one wants to be the guy that let the Democrats pick the Republican Speaker.,"McCarthy will be the Speaker. At most, Democrats might be able to extract a few concessions from him. My bet would be concessions related to removing Democratic members from committees.",0
"Can you provide more details? Demonstrating a fallacy in archaeological evidence can be groundbreaking. However, it must be supported by credible evidence, as opposed to pseudoscience or popular beliefs.","Turns out scientists are just people like everyone else, and have exactly the same propensity to cling to outdated theories even in the face of solid new evidence. Other examples include the extinction of the dinosaurs (a huge asteroid was likely involved, but cannot have been the sole culprit), sociobiology and group selection, and Einstein's rejection of quantum mechanics (""God does not play dice with the universe"").",1
"Parliaments in several of Ukraine's most ardent EU backers - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland - have declared that they consider Russia under President Vladimir Putin to be a state sponsor of terrorism.","While i strongly condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine and it's actions there are indeed terrorism the reality is that this label done by the EU was done purely out of political motivation because of Russia and EU having an antagonistic relationship, thus making it much easier to call them a terrorist state. The same thing would NOT be possible for Uncle Sam no matter how justified it would be if the same standards that calls Russia a terrorist state was applied to America.",1
I think they are referring to the family the US killed in a drone strike while targetting the person they said was behind the attack that killed US troops at the airport.,"I don't think I can agree that ISIS are ever going to be justified in randomly killing people by blowing themselves up , even if those people are ""foreign invaders"".",0
"If you're growing for long term storage you need to be growing a storage onion, usually a yellow variety like Copra.",Onion is one of the things I never thought of growing in the garden because I could get them cheaply and in large quantities.,1
Why is it distressing to you that the women’s dress code would become equivalent to the men’s dress code?,"Of course, if you want to pass a better dress code, that doesn't mean you make women's more restrictive. It means you give men more options and let women keep what's working for them. My buddy should be allowed to wear a nice sweater instead of a full suit.",1
"Addendum: Most mestizos actually think of themselves as inferior to white people. It ends up resulting in some inferiority/superiority complex that makes race relations in Mexico really complicated. Mexico's president, AMLO, is really exploiting this at the moment, with the ""unsaid part"" basically being ""mestizos need to do more to keep white people down and keep white people out of the country, because that's the only way mestizos can have their own country, because we don't believe we're able to compete with white people without protections."" I can understand a lot of this as post-colonial inter-generational trauma, but it's still fucked and doesn't lead to racial healing.","The fucked up part is 6 generations later, poor Nahuatl still gets shitted on as an inferior race, furthering the agenda. You said the quiet part out loud dude.",1
"More modern tanks can withstand a lot more than the old Leo 2A4 for example, especially concerning side armor and IED protection. But yes, driving into towns, remaining stationary for long without infantry and/or drone protection is just silly for any tank. Surviving is one thing, but once immobilized, it becomes a liability.","Turkey lost a bunch of Leo 2A4s because they simply used them wrong, and this can't be repeated in Ukraine.",0
"It's true that the right wing has an effective propaganda machine, but if the Dems could ""stand on policy"" that would include winning elections that allow them to carry out their policy. The party needs to do more-- getting elected and enacting a platform is literally their entire purpose. Sitting on your hands and blaming FOX and conservatives for being devious isn't enough, we need leadership.","I personally don't buy that it's either Manchin or a Republican. WV was once a hotbed of militant labor-- clearly things can change. Ultimately what diminishes Dems is an unwillingness to change-- running the same candidates over and over again because they're out of ideas. The working class is tired of establishment politicians, and Dems are all too happy to allow Republicans to claim to be the anti establishment party.",0
"It is fair if he is speaking about Arabs and Muslims as whole, he didn't specify Iraqis if that was the case I would've not commented instead he said ""Reality is most Arabs"" which is unfair categorization.","I didn't invalidate his experience as an Iraqi, I can see a lot of Iraqi feeling hate toward the west and falling for the usual conservative conspiracies that ""Jews are behind it all"".",0
"But if ""minimum wage"" is just an arbitrary number meant to keep a chunk of the population at a suppressed standard of living, then I guess we can just keep on doing what we're doing.",So it does make sense (at least at first glance) to consider increasing minimum wage as of greater consequence to inflation than increasing salaries of upper and middle class folk.,1
I think a lot of militaries are very quickly realizing that swarms of kamikaze drones are an incredible counter to expensive machinery like tanks and grounded planes.,"This is one solution that’s already being tested on Navy destroyers as a close in weapons system against drones, boats, jets and missiles:",1
"Considering he didn't specify, he can as well bring in some fuel/ammo/weapons with him and fight for the Ukrainians... Maliciously complying with his words...","The thing is - before the mobilization occurred a lot of Russians thought of war as a place where they'll go, fight a little bit and get awards.",1
"Diplomacy is a negotiation, and these laws and treaties were not written by a single nation, or a small collection of regional nations, but by many nations found around the globe over time to ensure peace and prosperity.",Trade relations are built of mutual respect and an adherence to agreed upon rules for mutual peace and prosperity.,0
"This is actually a comparison for the Russian war in Ukraine. Democracy in Ukraine is destabilizing to the Russian regime. Ukraine flexing their sovereignty is a threat to there military bases and control of the black sea. Just like the US fights the regimes in Iraq/libya/Nicaragua/serbia/etc to maintain their power and vision, Russia wants to do the same with ukraine/syria/georgia/etc.","The US post cold war conflicts have been mostly pursued in attempt to stabilize their world vision. Open trade, capitalism and non conflict (or at least conflict only done on their terms.). The post cold war conflicts have been against destabilizing regimes and authoritarian leaders who go against the globalized economy that the US is trying to maintain.",0
"Prohibition doesn't prevent consumption, it only makes it more dangerous for users, criminalizes normal people, and funds violent gang activity. Keeping it illegal creates more societal problems and doesn't stop people from using it.","Well keeping it illegal just increases violence in the form of gangs and other nefarious people. If it was regulated then it would taxed and those funds could be used to treat people who have an addiction and it would decrease the amount of people in prison for possession. Locking people up for consuming drugs is assinine. Legalize it, regulate it and tax it.",1
"This is the stupidity of the GOP and its fascist reasoning. They don't even stop to think whether the statement makes any logical sense or has empirical support, just so long as it supports their position somehow and is attributable to a ""trusted"" source (no matter if trustworthy or even correctly attributed) it is now doctrine that must be taken on faith for fear of excommunication.","It's also not true, as circumstances Churchill famously fought against clearly proved. You did not have to stand for anything to be an enemy of the Nazis, you just had to not be their preferred race/ethnicity or sexual orientation.",0
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"The Trump Tower meeting: Yes, Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya indeed met with Fushion GPS founder Glenn Simpson (who hired Steele for the opposition research on Trump) on the same day as her meeting with Trump Jr, both before and after. I can provide a source if you like. However close you suppose this Russian lawyer came to facilitating ""collusion"" with the Trump campaign, she seems to have been even closer to Trump's 2016 political foes. It may have even been a setup to further tie Trump to Russia (if so, they succeeded in creating Trump-Russia media buzz).","The premise is that there was no relationship between Trump/campaign and Russia, and the media made it out like there was.",1
China on the other hand is the most economically vulnerable country in the world. All the US has to do is stop buying and China will cease to exist.,80% of trade in the US is within North America. It is by far the most insulated system in the world. We are not reliant on other countries.,0
"5) This fun one....eliminate proxy voting and restoring the ability of any member to make a “motion to vacate the Chair,”. Essentially a motion to oust the Speaker at anytime. Again - Boehner had to deal with this bullshit. I'm sure McCarthy told them to go fuck themselves in regards to this.","6) Another fun fucked up request....restore the - allows amendments to appropriations legislation that would reduce the salary of or fire specific federal employees, or cut a specific program. HFC wants this so this so they can jettison Fauci, kill programs they don't like, etc.",0
"If you attack or harm an officer you can expect a longer sentence, which makes sense because it's attack on an individual and wider society. The reverse should also be true though, the abuse of position to inflict harm should be harsher.",In the UK policing is by consent. This means that everyone has a duty of care to prevent and stop crimes or disorder.,0
"People will go to the cheaper shop where there are multiple options and there frequently are in most British communities, especially with home delivery.","My point is that a substantial amount of people will pay for a cheaper product even if it's not necessary for them to make ends meet. Grocery stores usually sell more than groceries and if you take a peak at what's locked behind the glass doors, you'll have a better understanding of what's being stolen and sold.",1
"roughly 1400 years. Prior to that, Persia was predominantly Zoroastrian followed by many other local and imported religions like Bahai'i, Judiasm, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and even Sikhism.","You can give yourself some extreme credit here. The term is 100% a living word that has existed for over 3500 years. It is as old as the word for ""mother"" is extremely commonly made with a ""m"" sound.",0
"> Not even Gerald Ford, the unhappy ex-president who pardoned Nixon and kept him out of prison, was immune to the evil fallout. Ford, who believes strongly in Heaven and Hell, has told more than one of his celebrity golf partners that ""I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon."".","It always will be. So long as the justice department won’t lay a finger on the insurrectionists of Jan 6th, the enablers , and followers of the theocratic Christian cult.",1
"Greed paranoia and desperation are found everywhere there is human, unfortunately, but for me it’s easier to make the general derogatory characterization of the government as a whole has been corrupted by it and maybe incorrectly I still want to believe there are some good altruistic groups in both the government and media, but getting less confident of that by the day.","Agreed Fox News is an outlier, far right extremist propaganda trash, but I don’t see nbc, cbs or abc or cnn anywhere close to that level of trash propaganda, even msnbc is more objective and careful about assertions unverified.",0
You don't always get to choose and Judge's still largely follow precedent but if you were involved in a case and found a Judge that perhaps set the precedent you want... well you'll want that Judge to take the case.,"Go look at divorce cases, anything prolific will have a shopped judge who leans more heavily one way or the other.",0
"Because they’ll never be able to qualify. FIFA still loves money, but if you aren’t hosting, you actually have to perform well in international qualifiers in order to make the tournament.","Qatar has never qualified for a World Cup and their entry this year is just because of their hiring gig. If you suddenly think Qatar is going to be good enough to qualify for United 2026 you’re crazy. If you think Qatar has enough money to make FIFA let them host again after this shit show, you’re also crazy.",0
"the used shoe sellers throw away all the shoes that aren't resellable, which is ""about half"" it's likely the reporters didn't go to the trouble of getting worn out shoes to use, so the shoes they donated were probably all considered to be in good condition.","If you had bothered to look at the pictures in the article, you would have seen that the shoes doesn't seem to be in such a bad condition that they can't be used. Most of my sneakers look worse.",1
In WW2 we sent people to their deaths to retrieve intact enemy equipment and we are getting it for free.,This is also why we have been giving gear like this. People get mad about the US requiring Ukraine to defend itself before giving advanced gear. What country would willing give its good shit to a country that would hand it over to the Ops?,0
"Because of that, East Germany never had any de-nazification programs like West Germany did. It's a reason why right wing political parties have had more success there after unification compared to the western part and a reason far right wing parties have gotten more power in Eastern Europe in general after the fall of the USSR.","Interesting how the USSR would align with the west in a full cooperation capacity with the goal of fighting fascism together, yet made the most hands-off deal possible with Germany to buy time when this push for total alliance with the liberals was denied.",1
"These fascists are just clowns playing their roles. What is sadder is the Russian audience who believes this circus to be reality,approves and applauds it. Because if the Russian public didn't approve this sort of circus there would be no audience and hence this sort of propaganda would be ineffectiveness.","We have info that many mobiks have been getting sick, deserted, drunk. Their training is subpar, and equipment still lacking. Whatever their push will be it will happen at the height of winter. It's not beyond Putin for such an idiotic offensive, but it will backfire terribly, again.",0
"Fada also urged the destruction of the Jewish state, calling it ""the child-murdering regime [of] Israel."".",um. thats what you chose to comment in this thread about an insane threat from iran? geeee. do you have a biased take on the conflict in israel maybe?,1
"Without the Permanent Members of the Security Council, there would never have been a United Nations.","It should still be possible for a qualified minority to block things in the Security Council, just not by individual states. From my perspective, it's time the UK lost its permanent seat. India has nukes, more than 15 times the UK's population, and now has a higher GDP than the UK. Maybe not time quite yet to consign the UK to the dung heap of history, but past time to treat it as the minor power which it has become, in no small part due to its own unwavering incompetence.",1
"It may do, but it's carbon dioxide that was extracted from the atmosphere decades ago whereas the coal's CO2 was extracted millions of years ago. The wood CO2 doesn't contribute to increasing the atmospheric CO2 in even close to the same way as burning millions of tonnes of fossil fuels.","The former doesn't change the total amount of greenhouse gases in the system. The latter does, which overwhelms the systems ability to capture those gases.",1
Most Republicans are 100% supporting the ruling class (some are just massive grifters looking out for themselves only). Anything they propose or any vote they make is to screw over most so that it can give just a tiny bit more power to the few that they represent.,Farm subsidies have been weaponized against actual farmers and used to help massive corporations make silly profits.,0
"Certainly, but that is not going to happen while Putin thinks he can come out ahead of where he was before the 2022 invasion and while Ukraine sees that they can liberate even regional capitals from Russian control. Since a compromise now that gives Russia ""a win"" will only ensure future turmoil and suffering, Ukraine needs to keep pushing until Russia is forced to come to the negotiating table.",Absolutely - that’s why I think that Ukraine HAS to join NATO - it’s their guarantee against further trouble from Russia.,1
"In the last 10 months, they haven't been able to bring that number up, and that is with massive losses on offensive attacks by Russians not by Ukraine offside attacks (as far as we know).","Considering that was probably the biggest hit Russia has taken so far (in lost lives in a building), it's probably not a repeatable number.",0
"Especially that everyone uses the term ""direct democracy"" differently. By the way, on the page of the Federal Council, democracy in Switzerland is also called ""direct democracy"""".","Switzerland is a so called semi-direct democracy because we aren't voting on all issues by default. We have to get signatures and start a referendum to trigger a vote by the public. In fact, switzerland is a representative democracy that has mechanism that allow for selective direct democracy (Referendum und Initiative). This is usually referred to as a semi-direct democracy.",1
"But Jackson's point is that these State Legislatures are granted their legislative power via the State Constitutions. The Federal Constitution doesn't define the makeup of the State Legislatures, the State Constitutions do. The point being you can't take the State Constitutions out of the question, for without that there is no state legislature at all.","The clause in question does not prohibit the limitation of power on the legislature by the people of the state. Moreso, US legislatures, be they state or the federal legislature, are not truly sovereign. The very nature of a state established by a written constitution means that the government, nor any part of it, is sovereign and that the people as an unincorporated body, retain sovereignty and are only delegating some of their power to the institutions being created. The nature of our constitutions make quite clear that the state nor any of its institutions are sovereign as there are clear restrictions placed upon the state in what actions it may take and when it may take certain actions. In the case of the Federal Government, rather than blacklisting the things it cannot do, there is a whitelist on what things it can do.",1
"The Human Rights Act says that you can't discriminate against people over 16 based on age, but leaves open legal discrimination on the basis of age for people under 16:",“If the government does not make the voting age 16 now then they are consciously breaching our human rights.”.,1
"The more social division you bring, the faster society will collapse. Please keep pushing your agenda, it is most welcome, most beneficial.","The trans community, the race baiters, as well as the feminists, the radical right, the kleptocracy on Wall Street, the neo feudal politicians, the pacifists, please keep going.",0
I suspect (with no evidence whatsoever) that Feinstein would have endorsed a non-Porter in her retirement announcement and then promptly forgot she retired and announced she was running again.,"Porter jumping in early indicates to me that they believe Feinstein was going to run again , and declaring early might be a shot to Feinstein that she will be challenged strongly in a primary and should retire.",1
Who actually thinks Putin then would not take this opportunity to blame Ukranian insurgents for this after locals killed his thug?,"Lastly, the same story played over and over with bungled ""suicide"" overkill involving multiple weapons/matrix-like physics, abstract definitions of gravity on Planet Russia, and surprisingly fast final verdicts officially confirmed to the media is amazing.",0
"putin is building up the Black Sea Navy assets for a sea/land and missile assault from the south, through Muldova.","I agree. Unfortunately NATO is doing what other countries did before WW1 and WW2, they are acting as though by averting their eyes they will not be attacked by Russia. So probably NATO will be late to the war in its role to defend against Russia.",0
"Edit: To clarify here for all the people saying he would be fine, I'm not implying he wouldn't beat a Democrat he was running against. This is Utah, of course he would. I'm saying that I don't have the same confidence that he'd win a republican primary if he was challenged from the right. His net approval in Utah among Republican voters has been deep into negative numbers ever since Trump's impeachment, and if the right candidate ran against him, I think he would have a very difficult campaign ahead of him.","There hasn't been a lot of polling on it this year, but as of the last results he has a pretty ugly negative net approval in Utah. That might have just been backlash from him supporting Trump's impeachment and might have worn off by now, but I've yet to see him make it into positive since.",0
"Artillery constitutes the backbone of ground combat firepower for both Ukraine and Russia, and the war’s outcome may hinge on which side runs out of ammunition first, military analysts say. With stockpiles in the United States strained and American arms makers not yet able to keep up with the pace of Ukraine’s battlefield operations, the Pentagon has turned to two alternative supplies of shells to bridge the gap: one in South Korea and the one in Israel, whose use in the Ukraine war has not been previously reported.","WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is tapping into a vast but little-known stockpile of American ammunition in Israel to help meet Ukraine’s dire need for artillery shells in the war with Russia, American and Israeli officials say.",0
There was another Michigan sub created by right wingers because they consider r/Michigan to lean too much to the left.,"I love living in Michigan, but it parallels Florida in this specific way - the further north you go, the more south it gets.",0
"It was really a fascinating thing the way Christie slipping and sliding around Colbert's questions, it sort of ended up with him implicitly saying Trump was terrible but letting a Democrat win the election was worse.",It's Christie who keeps displaying a lack of judgement by inserting himself in this situation like we'll forget the time he ran trump's doordash dressed as a fucking pokeball.,1
"Honestly, there are so many points that come into play here and all of this is so far out of my area of expertise that I can't say whether it's just bullshit that I heard about or whether it's actually reliable.","If it's the choice between attacking one location that goes boom and attacking several locations that only collapse, then I'd say that the latter is much more difficult to achieve. Especially if the collapse isn't big enough as it'd then be possible to dig up again in a timely manner.",0
"Sylvester III (1 month as pontiff, 1045), John XVIII (5ish years as pontiff, 1009), and then possibly-but-probably-not Liberius (365-366) and Marcellinus (304) are other candidates.","Depending on who's timeline you wanna follow, some combination of John XIX, Sylvester III and Clement II can all be considered predecessors to him.",0
"Putin's current official replacements are as bad or worse than him. They are all people made from the same cloth. All are ultranationalistic, all dream of their past glory as the USSR, all want it back. Even Navalny argued that while Crimea was taken in violation of international law, it is now a part of Russia and will still stay part of Russia. For a total regime change to happen, it needs to occur via internal revolution in favor of a western-friendly leader or NATO would have to come in and occupy Russia, both very unlikely scenarios. The Russian regime will still be hostile even after it was thrown out of Ukraine.","Well they continued, and Russia just attaked Kyiv again Time to send the fucking long range weapons and fuck Russia up.",1
First I fully support Ukraine and think we should give even more and be looking at diplomatic channels to convince even China to oppose Russia. My post was pointing out why we don't care about the genocide and enslavement going on in China compared to the invasion of Ukraine.,"Like it or not, there is a racial element to it. Same reason we didn't support Syria Vs Ukraine despite a lot of similarities in the situation on the ground. It's not even close to the only reason of course, but it's not irrelevant either.",0
"I mean, if California succeeded from the US in an economic collapse, it’s pretty plausible to believe that Americans would still consider it to be an “American” territory, vassal, or rebellious state. If several states broke apart from the US, there would be a strong following of people who believe the US deserves to reclaim and reunite and that should be a political goal. Now imagine if Russia started arming these breakaway states.","It’s not just that this is some off-beat Putin opinion. Most of the older generations of Russians, especially retired, have a very strong opinion about “the motherland”.",0
"He isn't stopped because despite what the administration claims, their goal is to bleed Russia slowly not to defend Ukraine. At the end of the day either one of two things is true, Russia is willing to use nuclear weapons to conquer Ukraine or he isn't. If he is we should just give up Ukraine (and every other country that borders Russia) right now, if he isn't we should defend them full force right now.",If he wasn't a supporter of Trump they would have been getting weapons they needed all along instead of him using blackmail of Ukraine (see first impeachment).,1
I believe it speaks volumes about the Republican party when the Mike Pillows of the world naturally flock to positions of power within the party.,But it nonetheless speaks volumes about the Republican party when it attracts so many of these types of candidates.,0
"And no federal courts do not have appellate jurisdiction over state law decisions. If a decision in state court involves federal law, it can be appealed or removed to federal court, but without the federal law hook, federal courts lack jurisdiction to rule on state law claims. They do not rule on appeals cases that involve state law.",The case questioned both a violation of state law AND a 1st amendment violation. The state law claim was pretty much immediately dismissed because of the 11th amendment. Even DeSantis acknowledge that the 1st amendment claim was justifiable.,1
RealPage and YieldStar specifically. From what I can tell they don't care if most of their units sit empty because rates are too high so long as just enough tenants stick around and pay the exorbitant rent. The goal is to maximize profit over occupancy. That's the game that's being played and is a prime example of how even the upper class are going to end up joining the poors as they are forced to give more and more of their money to an ever shrinking owner class. It's how the 1% has become the 0.1% and will eventually be the 0.01% and so on.,"That's the ultimate goal. You have a job, and the company not only provides your health insurance, but also the roof over your head and food on your table and even the transportation to the job itself in exchange for 50 or 60 hours of labor every week. And you really can't leave because where are you going to go and with what money? It's modern day slavery. I've said it before: we're much more like China than Europe.",0
"You need to ""be the better person"" so that ""the country will heal."" I can't believe people are still pushing the same pablum when we have this much evidence that ignoring an infection doesn't produce healing, but rot and contagion.",">""They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."".",0
"Refugee crises, famines and droughts will become a lot more common place than they are already today, as after all, many places where humans exist will cease to be hospitable.","Climate change won't directly cause a huge fall in human population. What will cause that over time will be the inevitable fall in living standards (healthcare and hygiene, education, housing, ect) that come along with climate change. This may not be universal, and some countries might be able to avoid the bulk of it, however most won't.",0
From my experience Belarusians however are not in support of their government actions. I live close by in Poland - I've met many Belarusians with families back at home and none of them had nice words for their regime. They all said the votes are fake. Do you remember the protests in Belarus before the war? A fuckton of people are angry with their government and they show it. Unfortunately they have just been unsuccessful so far. The migrant crisis was created to distance Belarus from Poland and other surroubding countries and it has been successful.,"I disagree. Belarusians have a very sad storyand they are definitely not 'fine' being assimilated BY FORCE into Russia. They are kept under a shoe by Russia who exerts a ton of influence over their government and the thing is you would need an actual weaponised uprising in Belarus to change anything, but ultimately that would get rid of one dictator and another one paid off by Russia would soon replace him.",0
"So you're lecturing about helmet wearing and you don't even cycle? I ride 1000s of km a year on my road bike as well as commuting. Was recently hit by a car, helmet saved my life quite likely. I still think helmet laws are stupid and people should make their own decisions.","Btw, I also think the law is stupid. Less because I think adults should make their own decisions, and more because like usual there is absolutely no backbone to it so nothing will change, therefore there’s no point to it. Except another thing to stop foreigners for, as someone else pointed out.",1
This is exactly what I meant. He's got a cult following. His only real accomplishment was that minor political scuffle. But people eat his dick like it's going out of style. He's made absolutely gobs of money off of his culture war bullshit.,"Shit, after that I could probably write a shitty book and make millions of dollars. That's how things work in the US and Canada at least. Look at Jordan Peterson. He was a nearly completely unknown professor until he had a minor political battle with his university over pronouns, now he's some sort of fucking cult hero. Guy constantly rants about 'free speech' and how the entire West is collapsing and he's being oppressed. Call us when you get 15yrs in prison for dancing, Jordo.",0
"Yeah. Sorry. I mean his voting base has this weird idea about this man who was going to set things right, which unsurprisingly never manifested it's self. It was this weird cognitive dissonance where the anti government crowd continued hating the government even after the dude they elected wom and he hated the government too. So the narrative about liberal elites controlling everything just continued. Trump was the best president ever even though he's some how not in charge at all...",Everyone was so excited have a powerful politician in charge. And then when nothing got better that powerful politician and his electorate blamed an unelecyshadow government... It's nuts...,0
"To be fair though, Canada has the third most Ukrainians in the world behind Ukraine (obviously), Russia, and then there's Canada. Ukrainians are also one of the biggest ethnic groups in Canada. And some have family in Ukraine, so it makes perfect sense why Canada would provide so much for a country that has so many connections with Canada.","While the Ukrainian diaspora may be the largest in Canada globally, in Canada itself Ukrainians are the 10th largest ethnic group. A quick search on Wikipedia shows:",1
"Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile, tenants say they’re the ones paying the price.","Yes, but they're only buying because they can get more in rent than their mortgage. That's due to the supply of housing.",1
"Well, Turkey has historically been a giant piece of shit to countries around it for hundreds of years before collapsing into multiple states, Turkey included.",I’m guessing it was due to generational hatred toward Turkey by past abused culture that motivated the arsonist.,0
"It’s funny, when you said “it’s full of trucks”, I wonder if all of this is a PR campaign to make Tesla semi’s an easier pill to swallow for EV hating conservatives?","I still love driving the car but yeah, quality is crap and having the CEO go full fascist MAGA means the next EV isn't going to be a Tesla.",1
"If there was a way to slip that banana peel under Musk, what would you do to end the tweet storms (and Twitter) masquerading as journalism?","So, is there any endgame here where Musk can profit financially from Twitter's total demise? He has floated bankruptcy, but I don't see how that helps him. The only thing which makes sense, if he is doing this on purpose, is that he is doing the bidding of his stakeholders in burning Twitter to the ground.",1
"While overall I am against the idea of school choice because it's usually just a disguise for privatizing/defunding public schools, there are the outlier cases where parents in failing school districts have seen benefits to a school choice program.","I think if it was targeted to underprivileged communities and with restrictions in place to ensure it's not going to fund religious curriculum or schools, I could be on board with a limited school choice program.",0
Something we talked about in my climate change & sustainability course today is thermal expansion playing just as much a role as ice melt when it comes to sea level rise.,"The Greenland ice sheet, one of the coldest and most remote regions of the world that serves a pivotal role in the Earth's climate, is now clearly feeling significant effects of climate change. Researchers found that central and northern areas of the sheet have recently seen the hottest temperatures in a millennium.",1
"Russia will not attack the US and Europe as long as NATO exists. NATO doesn't want war with Russia (as evidenced by how they turned down a perfect opportunity to use the Poland missile incident as cause for war), and Russia is terrified of actually having to face NATO with more than just words and conspiracy theories (see: how they praised the US for its ""restraint and professionalism"" in the response to the missile incident).","Because we have confirmation from the Ukrainian and UK MoD about their missile stocks getting depleted, because we have confirmation of drone attacks that forced their fleet to stay on secured docks and Russia seeking security guarantees for their fleet on the grain deal, because we have confirmation that Obama era sanctions greatly reduced their ability to make modern weaponry and recent ones just killed it?.",1
"Even among super misogynistic men who do rape and abuse women, you’ll notice that 99% of the time they still only target women with no social power. Take these men to the US and have some hot woman walk down the street in front of them butt naked in front of a bunch of armed police men. Suddenly, they aren’t going to attack her, so wow, I guess they’ve magically developed superhuman self control they just inherently didn’t have before!","Like if tomorrow something wild happened and suddenly all of say Iceland developed all of these crazy laws about women having to be completely covered up at all times and not even really allowed to be anywhere in public, and you somehow enforced that, little would change. Abuse and rape of women would barely increase, not even after decades of that, because fundamentally they do not have the same concept of gender as these places do.",0
"Facebook, Mastodon, Medium, YouTube, Instagram, WordPress, Reddit... There are a plethora of alternatives to Twitter.","And just to be clear, I don't think the US is doing enough to help Ukraine. But being blocked from using Twitter is not the same as being silenced.",0
"So to be clear, Biden looooved the Patriot Act, wanted to look tough to people after September 11 and tried to tie himself to it as much as possible through his earlier bill.","""Joe Biden used to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act, the Bush-era law that massively increased government surveillance powers. Now he’s hoping to pass a further “domestic terrorism” law once in office"".",1
It's also important to point out they aren't leaving mainline churches in the Netherlands to find more out of touch churches that still live in the middle ages but abandoning faith altogether.,"At least in the US the hardcore evangelical denominations have been the ones that have most openly embraced far-right ideology and mixing politics with religion, though, and the mainline denominations have been the ones adopting more pro-LGBT positions.",0
"Likely either good ol fashioned funneling of taxpayer dollars to private donors, or a way to say, ""look I tried to do something about the border but then those damn Democrats tore the wall down!"".","Let’s just call it like it is. The Biden Admin doesn’t give a fuck about the border. I say let’s stop talking about it, it won’t change. The only thing that will is the amount of unaccompanied minors, drugs, cartel members, Covid positive, sex trafficed people will continue to pour in. It won’t be until big cities like NY, LA DC get sick of it will there ever be a change.",1
"If you wanna move your goalposts to ""dialing a BBS in the 80s wasn't the internet"" you can go ahead and move those goalposts. That's a different argument.","It's an incredibly ignorant view to conflate the two. And I mean ignorant literally, I'm not trying to put you down. You're just unaware.",0
"This is still true, hopefully they end up gluing together fighters to get the double engine configuration we need, so we actually only purchased 44 F-70's.","The F35 has parts support from all over the world and operating costs keep dropping dramatically, buying an F35 practically guarantees that you end up with a plane that can be maintained and ready to fly quickly when you actually need it, which is the whole point of buying a Fighter.",1
The idea is not to get yourself wiped out if you can avoid it. The line countries seem to have decided for that is not directly attacking Russia because they've decided spinning those dice is not worth the risk given how fast everything could spin out of control.,"The reason for the ""treading thin ice around Russia"" is they have nuclear weapons and western countries know that. If they didn't NATO would most likely already be in Ukraine.",0
"That's why ome country, I think it's sweden?, Actually has clinics where someone who wants to do heroin can go and do it in a sanitary environment with a clean needle. They will offer them rehab of they want, but not force it.",Sometimes all it takes for someone is recognizing that others want to help them which is what mandated rehab is. It's a better use of money then policing their drug use.,1
"With conservatives it has to be personal gain or religion. For example, hybrid cars allowed tax write offs and driving in carpool lanes. Solar allows potential payback from the grid and savings on electricity.","In truth, analyzing costs shows that renewables are often on-par with or cheaper than fossil fuel power generation. It may have been true that they depended on subsidies in the past but that is no longer the case and they're still getting cheaper. That brings us back to the previous comment which has a much more realistic criticism: inconsistent power generation. I'm not sure if the timeframe they picked was intentional or just by chance, but wind has since risen from 7.3% of the mix to 16.6%. But what about overall? lets you play around with different settings but it turns out renewables already provide quite a bit of their energy production. And shows that 37.3% of Germany's power production in 2022 came from wind and solar (48.3% from ""renewables"" overall, though that includes 8.2% biomass).",1
"The fact you would immediately make such an assumption regarding gutting a giant corporation shows how ignorant you are on the matter. Corporations move at a snail’s pace, and the impact of any decisions are also delayed in nature.","Why does everyone think companies move at a snail's pace? Second guy answering that. Would love to have that work experience, that's guaranteed. New projects have to be launched in no more than one month and sooner the better.",1
"Yeah - when the senate is 50/50, it's actually 51/50 in favor of the VP's party, which is what we have right now. If the election results in 51/49, it will basically be the same situation, but instead of getting the two flaky dems on board, they'd need just one to get a 50/50 result which, as before, the VP could tiebreak.","So in order for Dems to secure the majority and prevent that, they bare minimum need to win 4 out of those 10 GOP-led races, which I believe to be decently feasible since we know that Mail-in ballots are heavily Dem. Here are the 4 districts that I am rather confident that Dems can overtake and win:",1
"Thanks. But I'm not seeing porn usage as a causal factor in any studies I can find. I'm not sure I follow your point, sorry. Are you trying to make an argument that porn should be outlawed for adults?","The modern teen can totally be forced to have a rape baby AND be used as a human clay pigeon, but viewing porn and the run the risk of what? I’m not saying it’s because of porn but google teen pregnancy rates since 1990.",1
"I agree entirely that policy changes are the key to successful improvements. However, I don't see how that gives a pass to people for electing officials who implement bad policy that scales emissions PER CAPITA because.. well, there are not as many of us as those guys over there who have a less dirty set of policies. I guess it's fine for small countries to just burn oil for fun because well they're small so their emissions are not as high in absolute terms? Do you applaud the UAE for their much better environmental record than the US? I don't - because their emissions are stupidly high for such a tiny country. Having a small population doesn't suddenly make it OK.","As for your incredulity at trebling the population and keeping emissions the same... This was your suggestion not mine. I simply pointed out that those people came from somewhere, so the places they came from will have decreased emissions, thus an overall gain.",0
"The Draft Dodger in Chief believed that we can't punish them for doing their job otherwise nobody will want to be one. That idea was put in his head, he's never had a thought that wasn't about himself in his life.","Trump's pardons violated every ethical guideline. He pardoned everyone who could testify against him. There is nothing in the Constitution that says the President can't be charged with a crime. Quite the opposite actually, the Supreme Court ruled that giving the President blanket immunity went against the belief that no one is above the law. It's just become practice that they be impeached and removed from office first and nobody has challenged it. Thanks to a corrupt Republican section of Congress Trump was never removed and therefore pardoned those who could have put him in prison.",0
Can anyone clarify why Dems proposed this as separate bills in the first place? and why they passed the first bill without a guarantee the second would also pass?,"Part of their job is to know what they are capable of delivering and what they are not. In this case, they should've let the workers legally strike and secure the sick-leave Dems failed to deliver.",0
"Honestly, it’s not even just attracting British workers. Crop harvesting is serious skilled labor. The speed, strenh, muscle memory, and attention to detail you need is nuts, and the conditions are hazardous at best. Many folks would love to pretend otherwise, but you want skilled, seasoned workers for the gig.","A lot of these guys are highly skilled, see it as a trade and are perfectly happy with the work. The U.K. is just another location before they work some places on mainland Europe.",1
They won't touch it hate him or not because it pisses off just enough people to ensure they might lose in the future. The elections are too close anymore. Plus regardless of whether they hate Trump or not this sort of thing is unpopular with Conservative voters anyways.,"There's already dissention in the GOP ranks between supporting DeSantis or Trump. The mainstay GOP wants DeSantis as the nomination, but they don't want backlash from Trump's core group of diehard supporters.",1
"But I think that has more to do with a successful Ukraine being a threat to Russia, specifically the “Russian world” that perpetuates their system of dictatorship. That’s the real reason for this war, anyway. Putin doesn’t think Ukraine should exist and them actually being successful is like a slap in the face to everything Putin stands for.","Ukraine is the one fighting for its country (motherland as Putin says), & Ukraine is the one fighting for true independence from Russian rule and influence. This is crafted to confuse people that dont pay attention close enough to know the truth... because when both parties accuse the other or when both say the same thing --- what happens? People don't know who to believe so they remain passive & neutral.",1
The Russian tank ammo situation is apparently dire. This has been the case since the beginning of the war when we have seen captured or abandoned tanks.,"They’re using 70’s and 80’s vintage and sometimes practice ammunition if those initial reports are still accurate. Some of them have entire loads of GLATGM’s. Again, this was the case in the opening months of the war, I don’t know about recently. Challenger 2 should be nearly impervious in the front armoured sections to everything but the more recent 2000’s era Russian ammunition.",0
"What I learned through all of these sagas is that it shouldn't matter to me. I apologize for caring about it as much as I did when it was Hillary. It was an honest mistake. I didn't realize at the time how little importance properly securing government secrets was, that you're allowed to be reckless and irresponsible with them.","So, mishandling classified material doesn't matter unless it was deliberate. Irresponsible or reckless handling of classified material, like storing it on a private server in your basement, is completely fine.",0
"Please everyone read these, esp the info on PA, the data that’s being revealed, and start being more optimistic. I believe we can do this!","If no polls are accurately sampling Democrat’s turn out or youth vote, the information is already being depressed. Add the constant flood of right leaning polls entering the media and the averages start to skew conservative.",0
"And let's remember that there's various examples of policy that's de jure colorblind being enacted in ways to effectively exclude disadvantaged groups. This is of course reason to be cautious with colorblind policy... but on the other hand it does present an opportunity. If technically colorblind policy can be crafted in ways to effectively hurt or exclude disadvantaged groups, it should also instead be able to be crafted in ways that can allow it to effectively be more likely to help people of disadvantaged groups.","Calling it class reductionism is a fallacy used by people interested in the very strategy the parent is complaining about, turning what are primarily class issues into divisive race issues, pitting the lower classes against eachother and ensuring nothing gets done.",1
But it’s so much more. Chinese propaganda for a long time has been saying that the west (especially the US) has been in decline and is rotten. Which is why the CCP has to shield their population to save them from suffering the same fate. Now imagine how hollow that story will be if you end up bowing down to the supremacy of the west by acknowledging that their vaccines are better than your own.,"Accepting a Western vaccine now essentially says ""we should have done this a couple years ago and didn't"". There's pride involved but also a sane understanding there may be collapse if zero covid fails. While it's fine to admit mistakes, this mistake would have needlessly harmed so many.",1
"The difference between these two ideas is pretty subtle and I may not have explained it well enough, but either way I'd argue this isn't what Russia is doing. There's nothing unconscious about it. It's a very conscious fabrication meant to change the subject away from criticism for having done something stupid..",If you're wondering where the commonly floated rhetoric around the world of just simply lying in the face of glaringly obvious truth originates from...,1
Honestly I wonder if attempting to coerce Russia into giving up its nukes should also be on the table or if that´d make it too close to the treaty of Versailles. Nukes are a lot of why Russia has been given this long after all and why it´s a problem in the first place.,Russia will never give up it's nukes. It's the only thing that will stop a \_lot\_ of hostile rivals on it's borders from invading now that it's military and military equipment has been shown to be worthless.,1
"Anyone here remember how George W. Bush went from the most patriotic, bright and shining example of modern Republican values until it became clear that his total incompetency lead to the election of a black President? And then suddenly he became a traitorous, shining example of a modern RINO when Trump got the nomination?","Anyone that would vote for Trump again, after all we know, saw, if he won the nomination in 2024, is however in a cult. You can't just say well, he's on the Republican ticket. Not if you truly put country over party. I'm not saying you're in a cult and automatically assuming you'd vote for him. Talking more in the general sense.",1
"The Artemis program is the moon landing missions. Gateway and SLS predate it and Gateway isn't even on the critical path for the currently planned missions. If Starship fails, at least Artemis III and IV fail, if not the whole program.","Many are hoping that Starship will fail, without realising that if Starship fails Artemis will also fail. The program relies fully on Starship in the form of the lunar lander.",1
"After meeting with Mr. Wang in Moscow on Tuesday, President Vladimir V. Putin’s top security aide said Russia backed China on a range of issues.","Josep Borrell Fontelles, the E.U.’s top diplomat, called China providing arms to Russia “a red line in our relationship.”Credit...Anna Szilagyi/EPA, via Shutterstock.",0
I think the point we are trying to make is that being LGBTQ is a fine state of being to have. If your kids turn out to be LGBTQ that's fine. Us existing in public isn't some existential threat to society and we don't need permission to exist in society.,If other people are offended by our open existence in society in full view of everyone just like straight people are then that is really more their problem than it is ours.,0
We need the party to go back to supporting the working class. The party needs to return to being pro-union and promoting jobs coming back to the US. Fetterman does this. I don't care what his pedigree is if he stands behind what he's saying.,"""reasonable"" gun control is the right idea. And there is plenty of room for debate on what is ""reasonable."" But if we want people to engage in the debate and not recoil from it, we need to make sure we don't use clumsy wording that makes it seem like all liberals want to disarm the populace.",0
"As viruses get more transmissible, they tend to become more mild. This could bring the lethality down a bit.","Even if the disease becomes a bit more mild, it will still be very rough on people. I believe people will take it more seriously than Covid. Mask mandates will be strict. Vaccine mandates will be strict. Lockdowns might even see more enforcement.",0
But I think it's also important to note that Russia uses this to create a loophole via Russian funded and supplied insurgencies to block countries from joining NATO. This seems like a weakness of the NATO structure that's being exploited to prevent the expansion of the alliance.,"Now, it is possible that individual NATO countries have their own policies that prevent them from accepting a new member with an ongoing conflict. I did some digging and I did not find anything like that for the United States, but I haven't looked into other countries yet. Here's a fact sheet from 1997 outlining the US's requirements for aspirants:",1
"Looking at the people who are most likely to toss their hat in the ring for the GOP in 2024, Trump may actually be the least dangerous. All the other viable contenders embrace some form of Trumpism and are likely to do even more damage. And given the damage Trump himself would do if he got re-elected, that's saying something.","We are at the beginning of finding out just how much long-term damage Trumpism is going to do to this country. Trump was successful in a couple of things. He was successful in exposing the fact that there are a lot more racists and bigots in this country than anybody was comfortable admitting to, even if they knew it privately. He was successful in coralling them into a voting bloc that reshaped the GOP and in many cases can no longer be ignored due to its sheer size. He was successful in showing us that continuing to push the envelope as far to the right as possible, then pushing it further, is a viable pathway to victory in some areas. And he was successful in showing us that our government really doesn't have an answer when someone like Trump comes along and says ""So What? What are you going to do about it?"".",0
"If only they could understand the horrors that will happen to Ukrainians if the aid dries up, and the Russians rebound.","But then they put a little twist in there by suggesting that instead of doing anything to russia, they should just stop sending weapons to Ukraine.",1
"If Biden is impeached for what ever they decide to come up with, there is literally a zero percent chance he’d be removed.",MAGA is vile and this effort to impeach Biden for nothing or anything is going to blow up in their faces. They'll be even more hated than they are now and people will be even more convinced with how dangerous these fascists loons are.,1
"I agree that it's de facto China, but it's a delicate topic as it encourages a country to pacify a demographic militarily.","Why I am positive every country has its share of hypocrisy, China is the only one that reserves a considerable amount of its people as enforcers. I mean, secret police, secret police stations IN other countries, cheating and theft of many IP and have a culture that think stealing isn't stealing.",1
"I realize this might be a coping mechanism from some of you, to reduce fear or anxiety about the future. But it would be a GRAVE mistake to underestimate these people.","It's just what happens when you lack critical thinking. You end up with no framework to process the validity of knowledge beyond, ""who's been nice to me or agrees with me"".",1
"If 120k Russian's have been presumed killed in slightly less than a year's worth of fighting in Ukraine, I feel if this war continues until the same time next year, we'd be looking at 250k-300k dead Russians.",So even if we say 50 precent of Russian casualties are dead (which is a very high estimate) it's no where near the 120k ukraine put out.,1
The rule regarding the infringement of the trademark is that the customer should not get confused between the identities of the product of the trade mark and the product having the same mark like trademark.,"People are often very confused about how trademark law applies across industry. There is stronger protection for a trademark within an industry, but the stronger the brand is, the more you're going to find courts willing to protect the brand elsewhere... try to get a trademark for Coca-Cola Light Bulbs.",1
"Ukraine doesn't need to attack Moscow, it has no military value. Attacking it would create public support. They would never attack Moscow.","Well, why wouldn't the Russians intensify their attacks as a result? I would have thought that the cycle of retaliation would continue for a long time. Why would you think the Russians would rethink their approach?",1
"This is probably a stupid question…but is there a way for the US to capture and study tech attached to the balloon to see if China’s reasoning are true or not? It being in the US’s airspace makes it fair game, no?","In theory, it's in US airspace, the US can intercept it. However, they likely want to see where it is going to try and get an idea of what China is trying to scope.",1
"He's a perfect fit for the GOP - he's a giant distraction for the media, so while everyone is busy talking about the latest George Santos bullshit, McCarthy and the rest of the clowns can do awful shit to the country relatively unnoticed.","He’s got a very narrow window of time to do whatever the fuck he wants with the attention and power he has, and since he doesn’t actually give a shit about governance, he’s happy to take direction while exploiting that little window of opportunity to the fullest extent possible.",1
"Cheney and her people are right to focus hard on Trump, because national media struggles to walk and chew gum at the same time.","It’s time for a reminder that while Cheney is doing good work swaying public opinion against Trump, she’s still a member of the GOP with all the baggage that comes with. The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend….",1
"The system makes it difficult to cheat, yes, but it certainly does not prevent it from happening - and evidence of fake ballots and dumped ballots appeared in the last election.","2)If the election result does not turn out as desired, some of the votes may be stolen and destroyed. in this case the election is repeated.",1
"I don't think it is necessarily CIA or anything like that, but there is a long history of crazy stories coming out of North Korea told by escapees or South Korean dissidents that turn out to be completely untrue, but lots of people believe them because ""Hey, North Korea is crazy right?"".","While some are hard to disprove, others (such as that one that went viral a few years ago about Kim Jong Un killing his uncle by setting a pack of dogs on him) was from a satirical website but became repeated so much that most people believe it was real now.",0
"I had not thought about the possibility of both meat eaters and vegans avoiding a product, but that’s a great point as well. I think a few companies/products will fail until they figure out how to get the marketing right. Price will probably be a big factor as well, more people are likely to try a similar substitute if the price is less than normal meat.","I think they are concerned with a future in which meat substitutes become much more common and increasingly placed nearby real meat. Elderly, people with poor eyesite, impaired cognition could be at a disadvantage I suppose. I'd be ok with a huge label saying ""NOT MEAT"".",1
Also they've stoked the traditional medicine fire too much to now go back and say that they actually need real medicine.,Seems like some folks are very honed in on the fact it’s called “Traditional Chinese” Medicine instead of it being simply named medicine. Word games? Kinda pointless to discuss about it in this case.,1
"However, since his use of massing troops did work and it did embarrass the military in some ways, they are likely not his best friends now. And with less and less bodies to be able to recruit and throw the issue, he is going to be stuck with less and less results.","I imagine the logic was for Prigozhin to show that he could make gains where the army could not, and he kind of achieved something in some way by maybe getting a few more meters than the army, at the cost of basically the reserves of troops he could get his hands on. As the prisoners realize a lifetime in jail is still better than a headless corpse in a week, that supply of cannon fodder is dwindling fast.",0
What they need to happen is Trump to withdraw and endorse Desantis. Which won’t happen. Then they need to adjust their platform to appeal to younger voter voters and more centrist voters. Which also won’t happen.,"Uh no they won’t. Have you seen the outrageous levels of hypocrisy the republicans are willing to stoop to? Where’s my explanation for turtle boy blocking Obama’s pick for Scotus and then turning around and doing the same thing? When you have no honor and completely flexible morals there’s no need to explain anything. Neocons don’t vote for explanations, they vote to “own the libs.” Remember when all the super “pro-life” repubs were pushing Herschel for governor just ignored his ex girlfriends coming forward with the receipts for the abortions he paid for? He lost but just barely and that wasn’t a primary. You don’t need explanations when you can say the magic words “fake news!”.",1
"The Dems are then forced to get even more support, dragging things out, and adding more time for the party to split and special interests to do their dark work.","Depends on the industry, things were slowly ramping back right after the war, but it was on the back of US money so even once Europe started being a producer again they were still heavily dependent on US money and US raw goods.",0
So does this mean that denying or minimizing the Holodomor will now be a crime in Germany? My understanding is Germany has criminalized genocide denial.,"a) It is now legally recognized as genocide, so you are literally denying that an actual genocide has happened.",1
"In one of trump's NY cases she submitted an affidavit asserting that after a thorough search by her there were no financial records to be found at any trump residence (including MAL) or business. This thorough search was carried out a week before the Saudis arrived at Bedminster. If she did a thorough search, that means she saw all of the classified documents at MAL.","Interesting idea. If trump sues her for the sanctions, that would trigger the malpractice insurance coverage. It wouldn't cover her liability to the court for the sanctions because, like car insurance, it's there in case you get sued.",0
I just did a google search asking if women were killed by men with porn addictions. Did find one where a woman killed her husband cause of his porn addiction; but there have been some men who killed women citing their porn addiction as the reason.,"""Sex addiction can manifest in a variety of ways, one of which is an addiction to pornography,"" says Dr. Carla Manly, a clinical psychologist and sex expert. ""In essence, a pornography addiction is just one disorder under the main category of sexual addictions."".",1
Something worth noting is that Israel really has no good defence against Iranian ballistic missiles. The iron dome can't intercept missiles travelling at the speed Iran's would be by the time they arrive.,"My point was that it isn't as simple as ""Iran would get stomped"" as if they have no capcity to retaliate. They very much do. Both Iran and Israel should be cautious here.",0
"In the same ruling, Justice Alexandre de Moraes, also ordered an investigation of the involvement of two leaders of Bolsonaro's party in ""undermining Brazilian democracy"".","Ok. They are supposed to go to recess from late from December until February, then you can have them. They must return the in same condition and on time.",0
The difference is they were shooting rubber bullets and the Iranians are being shot at with lead birdshot from shotguns.,"Most provinces are bird shot bullets, rubber bullets and paint ball with occasional live rounds. Some provinces there's high use of live rounds such as sistan and baluchestan and Kurdish regions cause the regime is racist towards them compared to Persians.",1
So yeah - call it what you will - but do so equally. You can't call out israel for being an apartheid state without all of the others.,Yes - israel is an apartheid state - in that many Palestinians have fewer rights than Israelis based on their ethnicity.,0
You might be right and I also don’t think Russia’s concept is good or fitting specifically the Ukraine war. I was just commenting on the difference on concepts.,"As far as I understand western top-notch tanks are very expensive, complicated and take long to build and deliver (Abrahams, Leopard-2, Challenger…). So these tanks exist in lower numbers, but are highly effective. Russia’s top-tanks are cheaper, faster to build but obviously less capable and advanced but exist in much more numbers. As such Russia just has lots of these and their concept is to overrun an enemy with sheer numbers.",0
Idk. I guess its working for DeSantis in Florida. I just don't really understand who this was supposed to convince that's not already living in their media bubble.,"Yeah, this is a speech that was vetted by a lot of people. It was an opportunity to make their case in front of a much larger and more diverse crowd than they get during an appearance on Fox News...and the higher ups in the party all decided that the best way to do that was an angry 15-minute stream of vague culture war buzzwords.",0
"A man couldn't run a farm without a wife and vice versa, simply because it wasn't a one person job.","And it was a shitton of work, way more so than today since most people didn't farm commercially but to supply themselves. Everything to do with clothes alone was an insane amount of work. And plowing needed to be done constantly as well.",0
"But they all became SC judges just by knowing someone, and being biased in favor of whichever presdient got to submmit their names, and then because of who was in control of the Senate. We can thank McConnell for most of it, who has his own agenda and plan to mold the justice system his desired design.","(Edit: McConnell launched his schemes long before Obama got into office, according to intrviews and reports).",0
"The Freedom Caucus will prevent the newly elected majority from actually governing. Instead of addressing energy costs and global inflation, their first order of business will be to set up a series of investigations, then block anything that comes out of the Senate, bi-partisan or not. Their playbook is a ""rinse and repeat"" play going back to Newt Gingrich's failed Contract With America. Look for them in late 2023 to shut the government down. The last time they pulled that stunt, it cost the government more than $50 billion, and they got nothing of any significance.","I would personally like to see the old Republican party, they've had some decent ideas. The new Republican party is bizarre at best. I blame the media for giving some of the dumpster fires too much oxygen.",0
Yes. Though one could agrue that it might be useful for other Palestinian cases against Israel in the ICC.,"have you read what al jazeera said about the Israeli investigation? They may not agree with the conclusions, but seem to acknowledge Israel did investigate.",1
As to why companies don’t do this on their own - carbon energy is cheap and the externalities (emissions) are paid for by everyone in the form of climate change.,"They aren't, and the carbon tax properly prices the externality of co2 emissions, which until now everyone had been bearing as a shared cost to the environment.",0
"From a military perspective the invasions were resounding, fast successes. Even in Iraq, which had an organized military, Baghdad fell in less than a month. The ""nation building"" part was the debacle that went on for years. Ukraine on the other hand is still fighting Russia on relatively equal terms almost a year in with no indication that that is going to change anytime soon.",This is great for everyone short term because we want ukraine to win the war swiftly but in the long term thebworld will have to deal with a Russian humanitarian crisis.,1
"One is committing literal genocide and conquering the neighbors and threaten global nuclear war. The other is a political party you disagree with. Yeah, Republicans are shit. But so are you. Get your fucking head out of your ass and start worrying more about the actual atrocities we're watching happen in real time than finding a way to bash the right in a Reddit thread. Please grow up. There's a time and a place, and this ain't it.","Yeah, and that's fine, but perhaps keep your opinion that nobody asked for to yourself when we're in a thread about Russian soldiers kidnapping Ukrainian children from hospitals and commiting genocide.",0
"Fundamentally, in order to use it, a private key has to be exposed to, well reality. And reality is not a secure environment. If someone has access to the physical device, it can be compromised.","Signatures are made with private keys, and private keys embedded into devices will never ever possibly leak.",1
"It's also possible that they're just letting it float as a ""fuck you"". Kind of a hard burn to say ""your little weather balloon with cameras is real cute. But not worth the time or money to shoot it down."".","True. I have only been attacked ince about white privilege masks 😷 of all things. It was in a drs office and I was not feeling it. Two words came out if mouth. Then it was,oh she’s a bitch too. I said, proud one! The mean one got up and left. There was noreadon for me sitting there minding my business only to be harassed.",1
No party has gone on to win the presidency when it’s incumbent president faced a real challenge in the primary.,"If the sitting president is strong, a primary challenger isn't going to gain any traction. If Biden's prospects are so shaky that a primary challenge could be a problem, he should be thinking seriously of stepping down.",1
"No, because most people don’t give a shit about medical ethics - they care about puppies. I ain’t saying they’re right, but you won’t win people over with that argument. Anyone who cares about that already agrees with you!","I agree with you, but a lot of people have a very strong emotional attachment to dogs. Appealing to logic is all well and good, but appeals to emotion are just a more effective political tool for swaying opinion.",0
But that all sounds like a matter of free speech. Just because the app algorithm makes you feel bad doesn't mean we scapegoat the app makers as opposed to the folks who are actually saying bad shit online. Free speech is a thing and I'm confident the SCOTUS will smack down on any populist attempts to regulate big tech.,"Uh ok, well as we all know, free speech has limits and every industry has been regulated. You cant threaten or harass people for example. Libel laws specifically police speech as another.",1
Can we stop perpetuating the idea that only closeted people are homophobic? It shifts the blame for the violence towards the LGBT community onto LGBT people themselves.,"I know the LGBTQ community has always faced discrimination from the right, but what was the catalyst in the last few months/years that brought out much much aggressive protests and violence? Was it just the 'mainstreaming' of the Proud Boys and other groups on the right over the dragshows? I feel out of the loop on some events that took place.",1
The Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office.,"Esper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",0
"So not only SK military failed to shut them down, they also lost jet plane during scrambling to respond.",Depending on what happened to the SK aircraft it could just be bad luck. Hell a few years ago in Belgium a mechanic accidentally trigged the gun on one f16 and destroyed one parked nearby. And if you're in aviation circles which I am to an extremely small degree you will hear with some frequency of military aircraft haveing issues.,1
"Hi /u/SaberFlux, I just want to say that I really appreciate your updates that you've been doing over this past year. I’ve just been observing, but your updates have really helped me to understand just a little bit about what you and many of the Ukrainian people have been going through in this awful war. Your updates have really helped connect us to the human side, the human aspect of what life is like during this war, and helped me understand on a deeper level what it is like, and further justified why Ukraine needs as much support as we can give it. I hate war, but that is precisely why Ukraine must be victorious, and must be supported so it can achieve it.","Seriously hoping for Ukraine to win and obliterate Russia this year, for everyone on both sides of the border. The whole world needs it.",1
"This is just a safe comment from a few to make them look good, it’s just rich people virtue signaling.",Nothing is quite as cringy as a billionaire virtue signaling. The entire corporate apparatus that created their amassed fortunes relied specifically on lobbying both sides of the legislature to perpetuate the tax loopholes that sustained their wealth in the first place. How stupid do they think people are?,1
"She was also mentally developed enough to complete the requirements for her degree, she knew what she was getting into, and she jumped in with both feet until it was clear that there would be consequences for doing so.","Bottom line; whether she fully or not all understood what she was doing when she got there, jumped in with both feet as you said, she still decided to the right thing in the end, even if it was just for herself. But it’s clear that the majority of people recognize who is truly at fault, and it’s not some 24 year old assistant.",1
"Pretty much all politicians, regardless of party, lie about their records of what they accomplish in office and their personal and professional backgrounds prior to becoming members of Congress and when they run for election and reelection. George Santos just happens to be a very public example. Election fraud, applying this line of logic, takes places on a large scale every couple of years and is a common practice by Democrats and Republicans; in their case George Santos is a very egregious case in point.","Well, unless we make it legally punishable for politicians to knowingly lie to the public, there's nothing we can really do about this until he's up for re-election. The GOP won't do anything because 1. they're all a bunch of frauds too, and 2. with only a 4 seat majority, they won't do anything to risk control of the House, including punishing or even mentioning his lies, they need his vote.",1
"Shes had a pretty good run, but as more of the bullshit flung her way seems to be sticking and her polls dropping I don't blame her at all for bowing out early in the election year.","Also, she's dealt with a lot of events during her leadership, which is actually one of the same reasons our last leader stepped down before the election 6 years ago lol so who knows she may be feeling too much stress or something from all the hate she is getting.",1
"Allowing the profession to be better rewarded for their services while allowing districts more liberty to dismiss poor teachers helps the kids and the teachers who are succeeding. Some teachers put in so much overtime for which they are unpaid, while the bottom of the profession does just enough to not get fired. Which again, in California, is almost impossible - firing teachers is sooooo hard here. Disband the union and give nice pay raises for teachers attracting even more to this necessary profession. Reward the best, and replace those who do not honor their profession. Seems like a good proposal for all concerned. Well all but the bad teachers who dishonor the vast majority of dedicated professionals who teach our kids.","Now certain segment of society want to vilify teachers? Again? Didn’t we go through this before Covid? Perhaps teachers are seen as an easy target, a small percentage of the working population that is a safe bet to target. We already have a shortage of good educators in this country. For most, the pay is low and the hours are longer and more involved than people realize. Teachers do what they do because they genuinely enjoy it. They like working with the kids, they like making connections, they like helping a struggling student come to that, “oh, I get it now” moment.",1
They certainly will make a deal… which could be finally letting Turkey to join EU… small price to pay for huge political pain in the backside (which is Occupied Cyprus).,It does cost Turkey quite a lot of money to “support” Occupied Cyprus… and I have a feeling that Turkey will have issues with spending money on anything other than rebuilding main land.,0
Now in a criminal trial if a witness pleads the 5th would it not be reasonable to conclude that this witness may be involved in a criminal activity and could this not be taken as an indication that a conspiracy to commit the crime happened? After all the jury needs not to be convinced a crime happened but there is enough evidence to warrant a trial.,Jurors are instructed and made aware by the judge that they at not make an inference in criminal trials. No one is a mind reader though.,1
"The fix was in on all those previous attempts, but that wasn't 100% clear at the outset. In hindsight it was clear, but people legit believed Mueller was going to absolutely nail him to a wall. The fix could be in here also we just don't see it in the moment.","You put a period in Barr's quote that doesn't exist, missing important context: ""the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent, each of which, under the Department's principles of federal prosecution guiding charging decisions, would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish an obstruction-of-justice offense."".",0
There needs to be a majority of votes for a Speaker or the session of Congress can't begin. Longest it's ever gone is 2 months. Literally nothing gets done until they pick a speaker. It's further complicated by recounts where they can't swear in until the recount is done. I doubt it would be Pelosi but if there are a handful of hold outs someone like Kitzinger could be a compromise where maybe moderates of both parties vote for him.,"Pelosi can hold together the Democratic coalition, no one on the Right will be able to keep them together....there's too much batshittery on the right.",1
"That is so ridiculous when person from another country knows everything in details what Russian Army can do or cannot to do.You said, that “The are mobilizing army to the fullest…”.","Reserve of Russian Army only in Moscow is like 1million of people or more, what are you talking about?",0
"If the slavery was far in the past and wasn't directly used to catapult the family into wealth, then no.","Either way, the point is that people whose families were enslaved are worse off for it, while the slavers are better off for it.",1
"As much as any weapon delivery or sanction, that man's PR and awareness campaign is what has kept Ukraine alive and in the fight.","100%. Strategically it would have been better for all such talks to be secret if the outcomes were going to be the same, but Ukraine wouldn't have got even 10% of what it has got without Zelenskyy making it public and generating the huge amounts of public support that he has.",0
"The real issue we're facing is that the cold war never really ended, Russia conceded but never backed down and that has allowed them to privately continue their current regime without the gaze of the world.","Now lets reimbuse Ukraine the nukes they gave away to Russia after collapse of Soviet Union, when they were given security guarantees from Russia, USA and UK if they do so.",1
You'd have to prove that she actually helped plan the attack in concrete ways with the intention of sabotaging Congress.,"He can't arrest her just because you don't like her. And something like seditious conspiracy has a very high bar that ""saying the election was rigged"" or whatever don't even come close to satisfying.",0
"The unaccounted assets are _somewhere_ in a warehouse, but there's just missing records of what was purchased, when, and where they were sent.","Another part is that many assets get trashed and disposed of and are never properly documented. We had them. They sat on a shelf for 25 years. Then they were tossed, and private Pyle didn't file the proper paperwork because he was going to be transfered next week, and fuck it. That's why.",1
Some companies get so big that the people who are in charge can pretend morals don’t matter anymore - like it’s a machine that runs on its own.,"They shouldn't care, we shouldn't base our direction (social/ political) on hoping that some giant corporation will be nice on given day.",1
I know your joking but this is not a tack we should take as it plays in GOP hands by both downplaying what she was actually doing and normalizing actual police overuse of violence.,"What she shouldn’t have done is break through police lines, break into a federal building, and then bash through an officer erected door barricade made in a last stand position and start climbing through it an attempt to kill the Vice President and members of congress.",0
"1. Voter outreach is crucial, but not enough on its own. New and additional strategies are required.","If you want an example on the left of what happens when you don't reach out to those who don't agree with you, look at Bernie Sanders' Presidential campaigns. Bernie never expanded his base of support much beyond young upper middle class White liberals because he didn't reach out to establishment Democrats, or temper his campaign message to appeal to moderates, or vary his stump speech to speak to the concerns of a varied electorate. Bernie expected voters to come to him and it doesn't work that way; one of the critiques I remember from his 2016 campaign was that his phone volunteers were more interested in winning arguments with the people they were calling than they were interesting in making more calls and swaying more voters.",0
"It's kinda the opposite: he's cutting ties with the West to demonstrate that he can be trusted with doing a bit of governing still. Other than that, he has zero political relevancy and no one cares what he does. But Pu is not gonna live forever, need to think about that seat now.","Also btw, Pu and Medved know each other from 1990 at least, and Pu brought many of his Saint Petersburg friends to Moscow and into cushy positions.",0
"Yeah let’s call this what it is: trump had dinner with two Nazis, said one of the Nazis really got him, and then far too many elected Republicans waffled when asked about trump having fun with Nazis because those Republicans know that their constituents support Nazis / are Nazis as well.","Let's be honest and call what it is, a White Nationalist 2024 Presidential Candidate had dinner with another White Nationalist, and an entertainment Grifter who has praised Hitler.",1
"We all are agreeing and saying the same thing. I'm just clearing up what somebody could think their point was because they mentioned that they ""only"" make so much and that they can vote to give themselves raises at any time. My point was just that we do not have sour grapes over that salary and that ""our salaries vs Congress salaries"" is not and should not be the issue at hand. Yes, it should be tied to constituent earnings, but I'm just suggesting going a step further by, once corrected, tying both to inflation. Then we don't need to fight for minimum wage increases for basic survival and Congress has no good reason to vote for raises for themselves. Automate both raises at the beginning of every fiscal year. It's 2023; there's no reason not to automate a significant portion of easy shit like this.","You're right about everything, but in the long term it's best that they make good money or else it's a powerful job that only the wealthy will ever be privileged enough to afford to take. The focus should be on our class struggle, not that job's compensation. So yes, raise the shit out of our minimum wage, and maybe we should lock both minimum wage (after raising it) and elected officials' salaries to inflation rates, and then we can put this entire issue to rest.",0
"I’m not arguing about the optics here. I know the politics of it all, the Dems are already trying to play it as a failure of Trump in the media when it was a failure of military intelligence, which isn’t automatically/necessarily a fault of Trump. Could he have played a role in it somehow? Maybe. But it’s only been a few days. It’s going to take time to investigate.","I mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",1
"Sending 20 year old equipment for Ukrainians who then decimate Russian army, sounds like a great return on investment.","Not to mention, when people say that America is sending Ukraine 10 billion dollars' worth of equipment, in most cases (i.e. not Himars or Patriot) what they mean is America is sending equipment that cost 10 billion dollars back in the early 90s and was just gradually going obsolete in some supply base anyway.",1
"The GOP isn't that dumb, from the previous plans of theirs I've seen, they aren't going to end it for any current recipients. The younger generations would still have to pay into the system so the boomers could continue their benefits, but no one else would be admitted into it going forward.","The real answer: you'll still have to pay the tax, because contrary to popular misconception, social security is not a savings account you put money into during your working life and withdraw when you retire. The money you pay in gets redistributed to the current recipients, with the expectation that in the future, the next generation will pay for your benefits, etc. The Republicans aren't trying to end it immediately, they want to cut it for future recipients, so current recipients (aka, boomers, aka, their voting base) won't lose their benefits. It's a classic ladder pull.",0
"I think we should aim to stop the war as soon as possible on Ukraine terms, and seemingly the sanctions imposed on Russia is not enough.",Also what good is rearming Ukraine if we are just going to demand they surrender again next time Russia decides their border should be a few hundred miles west?,1
The better than expected results from this midterm isn't because of Biden and people being in love with his leadership and Democrats and Biden would be wise to recognize that.,"A lot to read but my takeaway is that the Republican poor showing wasn't because of Biden's leadership driving things since we have the exit polling stating most wouldn't care for Biden to run in 2024 and even the majority of Democrats only staying the somewhat approve of his leadership, rather it's threats to abortion from the regressive party was the driving force.",0
"I have a 1year old doggo and talk with a lot of people when walking it. Lo and behold I actually found a climate-deniar who instantly started spewing shit I recognized both from 4chan-meme's and other shit. What used to be literal jokes about how mentally handicapped some of the deniers were, only to actually be weaponized and adopted by the idiots who couldn't tell satire from truth.",They've also ramped up disinformation. 2022 was the worst year in modern Swedish history in terms of misinformation being circulated that originated from russia and the ilk.,0
"Tell me, what privilege do we have in Canada exactly? The privilege of knowing our culture can disappear, that part of our population is colonized and having to learn another language to function in our own home? Give me a break.","Removal of minority language speakers? Sorry but what are you talking about? Also if by discrimination you mean preferably choosing immigrants who speak French, sure we do that. I don't see what's wrong with it. People around the world don't have a right to live in Québec and we are allowed to choose people according to our interests.",0
"His ""criminal mindset"" and ""consciousness of guilt"" are so pervasive that despite his glaringly obvious mental deficiencies, it would be impossible for him to demonstrate that he was anything less than fully aware that his actions were illegal.","He IS ""insane"" in the sense that his sociopathy and narcicism are so far out of balance that he consistantly makes decisions that not only break societal norms, but routinely put him in danger.",0
"I agree with you, it’s not ethical to take dirty money. But - it’s also not why Switzerland is rich.","Switzerland was rich way before banking became a thing there. It had one of the earliest industrialisation in Europe. Banking only represents 9% of the GDP which is on par with other countries like the UK or the US. The real financial havens like Luxembourg strike at 30% but it doesn't bother anybody becasue it already is in the EU and they have control over it, unlike in Switzerland that bothers them.",1
"I feel similar. Catholic upbringing, religious parents, years of fear and anxiety. I’m a bit younger than you from the dates but I remember things vividly.","These past few years have made me realize that we are nowhere near a point where our rights aren’t still threatened. I was so hopeful in 2015, in 2023 I’m scared.",0
Not to mention you are a fool if you think Ukrainian soldiers would not be committing war crimes left and right if they weren’t worried about losing Western support.,"Ukraine are the “good guys” because they are innocent victims acting purely in self defense in this war of aggression and attempted genocide on Russia’s part. Therefore everything Ukraine does in this war is morally justified, and nothing Russia does is with the exception of fucking off and paying reparations for the war.",1
It’s slowly being codified as a law to ensure that generations to come will be brainwashed with this “scientific theory” of intelligent design/ creationism. It’s insane.,Honestly you can just guess… it’s all the dumb Bible Belt ones. This was 2014 before the theocracy really started to take over our country overtly.,0
"They spent a lot of time hunting nazi's around the world, and assassinated a load of people after the munich olympics.","Just gonna hijack how high up this is to mention Mossad used to employ Nazi Hunters. I still think the idea that there was an entire, albeit small, group of dedicated folks hunting former Nazis across the globe is so fucking interesting. That said the demand for the job has declined in the last 35 years for obvious reasons.",1
">Voter turnout was highest among those ages 65 to 74 at 76.0%, while the percentage was lowest among those ages 18 to 24 at 51.4%. Overall, voter turnout increased as age increased.","Young people are voting at higher rates than usual. And now the entire under 45 demographic leans to the left. GOP knows they're on a time limit in terms of being able to win elections, hence why they're working so hard to undermine voting rights and elections.",1
"Removing Russian as a foreign language from schools does not get rid of the native Russian speakers (not that anyone would wish to) - they will know the language either way, so the minority is still there.","Removing russian language from class is just natural progression of what has been happening for more than a decade, especially as english really would be more useful for modern youth.",1
"Aaannnnnd none of that is the point. Nobody was ever, ever making the argument that Western society has not advanced or is not more advanced than those in the Middle East. You keep repeating the same thing over and over and it has nothing to do with the statement you originally ""disagreed"" with (and some of your arguments, like saying it took ""not that long"" to correct same sex marriage, are flat out wrong. It took until 2015. 7 years ago. Do you think gay people just didn't want to get married before the year 2000?). You have made 0 actual counterarguments to the statement that Western society historically and to a lesser extent currently excludes parts of its population from participating in the human rights it criticizes other societies for witholding. Frankly, it's pointless continuing this discussion, because you don't seem capable of understanding what's being discussed.","We are absolutely still kicking puppies, and our system did and does explicitly support inequality. I was an adult before we made same-sex marriage legal. We have several states currently denying women the right to have control over their own bodies. The Constitution of the US let states decide who should vote, and the vast majority of states initially chose to legally restrict voting to white male landowners. It was part of their system, not just randos running the polling places choosing to turn away nonwhite men and all women. Same-sex marriage was prevented using laws and access to abortion is being restricted using laws. That's systemic inequality, and it's not a thing of the past.",0
Thats the irony of it all. Voting in AZ has been pretty easy and things have went well for the most part for a long time. Its so odd people would believe an election denier so easily.,"These results were against vehement election deniers as well. If the GOP had even slightly more moderate candidates, the election would have likely had a very different outcomes.",1
Greedy suburbanites have bankrupted so many rich people and billionaires by taxing them into oblivion to fund their lifestyles.,Considering the wealthy in America have put up with being bullied and discriminated and threatened for the past 30 years that sounds fair.,0
"All supermassive blackholes are causing this effect within their local area, and thus dark energy appears to be uniform, because spacetime is being deformed around all supermassive blackholes that exist.","All supermassive blackholes are causing this effect within their local area, and thus dark energy appears to be uniform, because spacetime is being deformed around all supermassive blackholes that exist.",0
Maryland in all likely hood will also be a Blue trifecta for the first time since 2015 (the race for Governor has been called for Wes Moore but not all state legislature races have been called yet. On the other hand dems had a super majority in both chambers going into the election so it's very unlikely it will flip to republican control).,"It was as I saw: Our Rep seats were taken by Republican hands, a surprisingly strong Independent ensured that no Democrat was gonna win. However, we did have a Missoulian Trans person gain a seat in the State House, we've rejected their anti-abortion amendment, and we didn't put James Brown in our Supreme Court. So we're still kind of fucked, but we didn't entirely go Republican surprisingly.",1
"I mean, notably, that link shows that 18-29 year olds are 9% of the total vote, not 9% turnout for that age group. Given that 18-29 year olds are about 14-15% of Georgia’s total population, it’s not… completely terrible. It’s still only about 20% turnout with early votes, but still 4x what 2018’s early youth vote was, and 2x the total vote youth vote from that year.","In GA, early voting makes it look pretty clear that young people are not showing up. That could all change tomorrow, of course, but only time will tell.",1
the answer you gave looked like the popularity and the fact of Castillo winning a democratic election was enough to justify his decision to close the congress.,"yeah, when the president literally concentrates the power in his person, closes the parlament that was also choose by the people and literally wants to rewrite the entire constitution of the country and other country wants to give asylum to the same guy that wanted to be a dictator the oligarchs are the ones to blame when Peru doesn´t want him to run from justice.",0
"Bernie Sanders net worth in 2005 was $128,001, Then he became a member of the Senate and now his net worth is 3 million.","Sinema was a member of the green party before she was even elected to office. She got elected as a Democrat in 2005. In 2013 she was campaigning on border security and wanting to make immigrants learn English. In 2014 she joined the Blue Dog Coalition, that was roughly ten years ago. Sinema was elected to the Senate as a moderate to conservative Democrat. Arizona voters knew who she was when they elected her to office.",0
"Always good to point out that this is a term of propaganda, as Taiwan has never been a part of the People's Republic of China, not even for a single day since the PRC's founding in 1949.","For argument's sake, let's start by assuming that today's ""China"" is synonymous with ""the PRC"". After all, it is a fundamental claim of the PRC government that China = PRC.",0
"Compared to reporting from Iraq or Afghanistan, did you ever sense that you were targeted by Russian or separatist forces specifically because you had ‘press’ on your vehicle, as other press personnel (including colleagues of Benjamin Hall) have claimed?",I know postulation for the war ending is dangerous territory for journalists but are there any prevailing sentiments you have been made aware of during your coverage?,1
"Wow, not even remotely shocked... its been factually obvious that Russia has been fucking with Republicans for atleast the last 5 years. Russia has literally said that's what they are doing over and over including very recently.","This is about Russia wanting the Republicans to win in the midterms so that they win in 2024 which they view as the best outcome for less support to Ukraine in the long term, but really if you just go to r/ukraine and talk to anyone there, they would also confirm that this is what Russia wants.",0
"I get that it can seem humorous from a certain angle at the number of undercover agents in any one case. But certainly, the police don't say, ""We better cut down on our undercover cops, we don't want to encourage pushers to sell crack."".","i would say, yes absolutely. Look at all the far right militias workng on their own without any FBI presence. The FBI didn't organize and bus in and rile up the January 6 insurrectionists, that was all Trump and his supporters in government. Saying that these domestic terrorists wouldn't act if the FBI hadn't instigated them is being dangerously disingenuous in my opinion.",0
"He's also repping west virginia of all states, he's a coal baron but he's about the best to be expected right now from WVA until their own Fetterman-type breaks through.","Interesting, that does make things more complicated. Obviously you're from AZ so you'd know better than me if center right people out there would find her appealing - only people I know out there are my weird aunt and uncle that follow qanon and hunt ghosts in the desert on a 'semi-professional' basis(...i don't fucking know.) so that may be slightly skewed from your average centrist - which will be the group she relies on for reelection.",0
You're never going to get a rotating assortment of nations enforcing their resolutions without the current permanent members also agreeing on them.,"As you said, any controversial things which _might_ lead to big global conflict would happen outside of the framework of the UN Security Council. It would be via multilateral defence agreements or other kinds of treaty organisations.",0
"cannibalism as practiced by John 'Liver eating' Johnson, Daniel Rakowitz, Richard Chase has been part of American culture for hundreds of years; true. Does that mean its not a slander to allege all American communities and families engage in it? So is your comment racist, have a second guess.","That was pity foul but 1969 is NOT the crux, the crux of betrayal and violation of international law began in 1962 when our governments were blackmailed to authorise the UN invasion/disarming of West New Guinea (General Assembly resolution 1752) ; it is ILLEGAL to then conceal resolution 1752 & the 'New York Aggreement' it was authorising from the Trusteeship Council whose job it is to prepare yearly UN reports about UN trust territories such as West Papua (West New Guinea).",0
McCarthy should talk with Jeffries and give speaker to him in return to go with a moderate republican agenda.,"exactly. speaker makes the agenda. In return for Jeffries being speaker, he will push a moderate republican agenda out along with a democrat agenda when needed. Anything democrat won't get passed since republicans own the house but he can still push it out there as long as he throws in some republican bills. He's there so there won't be a witch hunt on Biden and Hunter.",0
"While not as brazen and obstructive as Trump's document fiasco, Biden's will ensure that Republicans and MAGA have an out to excuse Trump from doing a more egregious version of what they said Hillary should be jailed for doing.",I leave room for the possibility that it was not Bidens error and you see that as confirmation that it wasn't?,0
"If he’s the GOP candidate, a staggeringly significant chunk of the country will still vote for him. The GOP isn’t evolving past horrible candidates (or Trump in particular), they’re just confused about what their best move is at this point.","Honestly though, I think all the DeSantis talk is really moot though, as I don't think he can beat Trump in a primary. Trump fans like DeSantis because he's like Trump, but they're still going to vote for the original rather than the knockoff version. And DeSantis has yet to ever say anything disparaging about Trump publicly, which shows how afraid he is of Trump. At some point a prominent Republican in office is going to have to publicly criticize Trump if they ever want to beat him, and thus far not one has even tried to do so. It's gonna be Trump with the GOP nomination in 2024.",1
"He got demoted, and kicked out for stealing from both the Marine Corps and fellow Marines, and even his family agrees with decisions that have been made.",Its funny because if you go to the USMC reddit there is a thread of actual Marines saying this guy is an ass clown and deserves to stay where he is.,0
I believe that she negotiated with the GOP to switch as an independent that caucuses with the Republicans.,Their efforts would have been to win in Georgia though. Everything hinged on that. It was an insanely clever way to gain Senate control from the Democrats and make it a 49-51.,0
"I will fully admit to not reading the article and will also admit to genuinely not caring about this woman in any way. The climate is fucked and quite honestly I can't care any more. Do what you gotta do, but don't be surprised at people using this against you when it comes. Nuance means nothing to those who are your enemies.","Nuance can be difficult sometimes. Wind farms are good for the environment because they can reduce a country’s use of fossil fuels, which lead to pollution in the air and all that comes with it, especially warming characteristics. However, if a wind farm causes harm to a wildlife population that is essential to the lifestyle of an indigenous population, then it doesn’t seem to help the environment that much, does it? So, if we instead put it somewhere where it doesn’t have this effect, it should provide a net good, as is the purpose of building wind farms in the first place. “We” still think wind farms are generally good, because “we” can think situationally and not treat every scenario as a black and white issue. “We” are capable of reading articles and allowing new evidence to enter our brains and modify our conclusions to be more accurate.",1
Trump's sphere of influence after the midterms is only now seen with far right people and I feel even with them he is split with DeSantis.,"The insane seesaw with Trump has always been that he motivates a lot of angry, poor, stupid people- but alienates pretty much all the medium- and high-information independent voters.",1
They’re just showing off how well defended some of their bases (bases like these are protected largely from bunker buster bombers and more conventional munitions which is what destroyed a lot of Iraqi bases) and that they have a large amount of them.,"They don’t have missile capabilities that can destroy the base most likely, Iranian bases were labeled as a reason to invest in underground warfare as they couldn’t easily be destroyed.",0
"Esper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.","I’m not arguing about the optics here. I know the politics of it all, the Dems are already trying to play it as a failure of Trump in the media when it was a failure of military intelligence, which isn’t automatically/necessarily a fault of Trump. Could he have played a role in it somehow? Maybe. But it’s only been a few days. It’s going to take time to investigate.",0
"Whenever there is any criticism of Israel, it doesn't matter if discussion is about apartheid over Palestinians, governmet sponsored assassination of a journalist, corruption of political figures, or LGBT rights.","Response is always the same. People are coming out of the woodwork to point out everything wrong under the sun, hoping that discussion will shift from Israel to something else.",0
There is one bigger difference: no power sharing agreement. Having 51 Dem senators doesn't require McConnell and Schumer to come to a deal on how to run committees.,And even better with 51 votes senate committees will regain their subpoena powers which is crucial since the Democrats is on the verge of losing the House.,1
"No defense will be 100% and the Patriot system, while highly capable, is no different nor is it a silver bullet for every threat. There are less expensive solutions to deal with cheap and small drones and hypersonic missiles are a whole another matter entirely.","Despite Patriot's high price, it is far cheaper than having to replace critical infrastructure that would have otherwise been destroyed and of course, there is no doubt, it will save lives which are priceless.",0
"In any case, I'd be happy to vote for any other younger Democratic candidate who will get more votes.","From the people who say they want somebody younger as president being met with your ""oh so you think DeSantis would be better?"", to this exact comment where they mention a more progressive democrat instead of Biden and you go ahead and say ""yeah, Trump would've made it way worse"".",1
"Even though Florida Democrats haven't done a great job in recent history, this isn't a Hispanic voter problem, this is a specifically Cuban phenomenon.","Florida's FRS has a fairly limited amount of choices. Blackrock(the company DeSantis is having a hissy fit over) offers the best and cheapest options on there, so it's quite frustrating that DeSantis is trying to kick their plans off the FRS.",0
"In any case, it doesn't seem like it's a forced confiscation or anything, just reminding and asking people to hand over old guns.","Edit: Now, I'm not saying they should treat firearms like the U.S. does, but I am implying that they should probably let the heirloom weapons confiscation slide a bit.",1
"Once that is over, Ukrainian units will have the training and logistical support for the new toys and then launch their own offence, taking advantage of losses Russia suffered from any pyrrhic victories they might have had earlier.","Despite what people previously believed, Russia is not leagues ahead of Ukraine, so Ukraine is perfectly capable of stopping it be a war in the sky.",1
The Constitution is holy to them. Not what it actually says. They probably haven’t read it and definitely don’t care what it says. Just the idea of the constitution as unquestionable authority is what they like.,"Conservatives speak of the Constitution like it's a holy document. But in the past week Trump said we should just cancel the US Constitution, and this lawsuit is literally Republicans suing to make all state constitutions null and void.",1
"For a bill to become a law it must pass a majority in the House, then pass a 60 vote threshold to defeat a filibuster in the Senate, then must be signed into law by the president. Any legislation the GOP passes with their razor thin majority in the House won't even come up for a vote in the Senate and that will be where all their bullshit ""legislation"" dies.","It won't even get to the Senate, because they won't even be able to get all of their House caucus to vote for an impeachment. Republicans from blue states and close districts won't vote for that crap.",1
"Well then good news, because no one wants to go in there either, just turn the migrant boats back to shore and let them rot in the bed they’ve made. In the time since the last foreign occupiers left Haiti, in the time since the last of the awful French debt was paid, a lot of countries pulled themselves up from as bad or worse situations than Haiti.","But yes, Haiti has been in turmoil since it declared independence, which was an act that flagrantly disobeyed the European slave trade based world order and left them with a debt that's been called the greatest exploitative heist in world history. This debt was not paid off until 1952 and in a lot of ways the nation is still paying for it.",1
"Believe it or not, professional hackers can have pretty good customer service. If they establish a reputation of taking the money but releasing the data or failing to provide a decryption key - its less likely the next victim will pay up.",I helped a few clients deal with ransomers when there was no other choice and I do have to say in call cases the decryption key was provided and so far the data has not been made public. These were companies that theoretically had backup systems but failed to manage them and they had not been working.,1
"“I held another meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief today – it was quite long, three hours. We analyzed the situation on the front line in great detail – in all directions, on the energy front, the situation on the borders. The Commander-in-Chief, commanders, head of intelligence, Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, head of border guards delivered reports. We know what the enemy is preparing for. We will respond and continue to liberate our land. Everything related to the defense forces supply support was also analyzed thoroughly. These are equipment, ammunition, communication, winter uniforms. Countermeasures against missile and drone terror were considered separately – there are already quite significant results in this, the percentage of shooting down has become higher, but there is still work to be done,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address.","In addition, the United States will send 45 upgraded T-72B tanks with improved optics, communication and armor, as well as 1,100 Phoenix Ghost tactical UAVs, 40 armored river boats, secure communications and surveillance systems to Ukraine.",0
Turkey literally cut their island in half with a DMZ that stands today and Cyprus was still willing to help... but Turkey isn't ready for that level of human kindness yet.,Turkey shouldn't have refused the aid plan from Cyprus since over 25M people needed shelter & food & medicine to survive. A genuinely wonderful government should put up with its political ideas for the time being to take care of its people. It means that the government should be an unselfish organization. Erdogan's government should think carefully about this.,1
Hold on now. I didn't say all the weapons were crap.. I know that they got some top notch kinda shit. For sure. Idk if you didn't read my comment right. But I said for the most part they got the hand-me-downs. But yeah most certainly they got some good shit indeed.,Wow that could actually work. A legal precedent back by quite a lot of countries. Is more diplomatic than just taking money of other countries jaja.,1
"I find it unbelievable that wives would collectively be like “ya bby, rape her good for me too” which is why I’d like some proof of that wild claim. I don’t think asking for such is out of line.","That said I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few bug job couples in Russia that get off in that kind of thing. The claim that a great number of wives are into their husbands raping women, well color me dubious.",0
"Japan is ranked top 5 in the world for military strenh, but then again Russia is like 3 and we saw how that went!","Heck even discounting the USA, Japan alone has a beefy navy, one which is better than the Russian one, and a good airforce.",1
"The buzz is nethanyshu is planning to revive the Hashemite Kingdom proposal, of simply handing off the West Bank to Jordan (more like forcing them to take it at gunpoint). This is the response.","You think nethanyahu cares? He’s been pretty transparent in his intentions. Hell, he’s the one who violated Oslo by allowing settlements to start being built.",0
"Had no lockdowns been instituted in the first place, perhaps there wouldn't have been any need for that much of an economic hit and the debt fuelled stimulus spendings.","Had no lockdowns been instituted before vaccines or even masks were a viable option way more people would have died which would have hit the economy significantly worse and likely would have lead to even more ""debt fueled stimulus spendings."".",1
Actually I’m willing to bet they didn’t even know that the Russo-Georgian war ever happened. And I’m sure a small percentage saw “Georgia” and thought of Georgia the state and didn’t even know the country existed.,"Genuinely curious but where was this level of outrage when Georgia, Crimea, Chechnya etc… we’re all invaded? Hell part of Georgia is still currently occupied and has been since like 2008. Why did no one scream “Fuck Russia” then?",0
Romney supported the bill because it protects members of the LGBTQ community and grants them much of the same treatment and privileges as straight couples enjoy. The bill also protects religious institutions from being compelled to provide services that run against their teachings.,Not require a state to issue a marriage certificate to a same sex couple if the SCOTUS overturns its own ruling != permit the state to ban same sex marriage.,0
Basically they are using ukranian blood to weaken Russia so they don't have to deal with them in their own countries.,To this day Ukraine does everything to the point of shaming countries to gain help and stop countries from supporting Russia.,0
Sunk and punched a hole into it so bad it wasn't a guarantee the ship would be repaired. I see they half assed the repair again. Though with Russia it's probably more of a quarter ass or one eighth ass at this point.,"And all the things that make them safer are shit that Russia probably sucks big ass at. Procedure. Attention to detail. Discipline, being ""On Job"". Training.",1
"This is why Switzerland's ""neutrality"" in allowing arms re-exports will change, if it does at all: already the European MIC is making moves to decouple itself from Switzerland, so if the Swiss want their arms industry to remain successful, they will change their laws to allow countries to defend themselves according to the UN Charter.","Switzerland has previously rejected appeals from Germany to allow it to re-export Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine, saying such a move would violate its neutrality. The export of the weapons or ammunition to Ukraine is blocked by the so-called non-export declaration, which buyers of Swiss armaments have to sign, as well as a specific embargo on arms sales to Ukraine and Russia.",1
"These panels, can't be as efficient as rooftop solar because every photon that goes through it, to bring in light or let you see out, is a wasted photon.","So in this case you ask, what do these panels do that regular windows and solar panels aren't already doing?",1
"In essence, the population has been largely non-religious for decades, but a lot of people identify as “Christian” for cultural rather than actual religious reasons. The number of people who self identify as belonging to the Church of England who actually go to Church is less than 10%. The main change is that people who lead non-religious lives are now being more honest about it.",Studys have proven that non religious people have a higher moral standard and are more accepting of minority groups and modern trends.,1
"Australia must be thinking about deploying them offensively with forces overseas, which Australia has a long history of doing.","The intent of this purchase has to be offensive, with the idea of deploying them overseas in what conflict Australia may end up in.",0
"She was the sponsor of the enlightenment philosophers and at the same time it was her who stripped all remaining rights of peasants, destroyed autonomy rule of the Ukrainian hetmanate and then put the yoke of the harshest serfdom on Ukrainian peasants. The greatest Ukrainian writer and artist Taras Shevchenko was born and raised as a serf and then bought by a noble who paid for his tuition at art academy in St. Petersburg, basically a slave who got lucky in life. His grandfather was a Cossack who was made into a serf under Catherine the second(I’m not gonna call her “the great”). There should be no monument to that hypocritical bitch in Ukraine.",This one statue is a big part of Ukrainian history? That's news to me. Did Americans suddenly forget about the Civil War when the Confederate statues were taken down?,1
"So yeah, it's basically common knowledge that the gov. Is heavily crooked and plays a mayor role in organized crime, the public just needs hard proof of it, but tbh the hard part is not proving that the gov. Is crooked, it's cleaning it up without turning Mexico in an actual Warzone.","The Mexican drug cartels are some of the most dangerous cartels in the world. They are armed to the teeth (at this point semi-military factions), and will continue to receive arms from exploiting weapons loopholes and weapons laws in the US that allow many weapons to flow South to Mexico (nicknamed the Iron River). Not only do they have access to assault rifles, but they have grenade launchers, armored vehicles, and heavy machine guns. The cartels receive lots of revenue from taking advantage of the drug market in the US, and are producing and selling highly demanded drugs such as fentanyl and cocaine. In addition to drugs, they have entered into other profitable industries such as Avocados. With lots of lots of money and power, they have considerable political clout in the corruption-infested Mexican government, and have even challenged the government when they conduct operations to capture important members of a cartel, such as the Battle of Culiacan, where they committed so much violence and took hostages of Mexican serviceman when Mexico captured El Chapo’s son, that the president ordered his release to stop further violence(link to battle:",1
"36 isn’t bad when you think of the thousands who die every year in the states due to firearms, which includes AR15 deaths.",20 million guns and those guns were responsible for a total of 36 deaths in the year so far in a nation of 330 million people.,1
(it goes without saying that Bush Sr. was playing world chess in terms of many of his actions... reformulating the middle east was part of his grand strategy... he just failed to see what one domino would do to the next very well.).,"2. The second hypothesis says that this word is relatively new and it's formed from ""врѣти"" (""to boil"").",1
"Anyone who does not adopt those measures will be priced out of the EU market entirely. As it's an extremely valuable market, this will drive companies to switch to lower carbon models if they wish to sell into the EU.",Countries willing to buy and sell carbon-produced items will be able to do so cheaper than their European counterparts.,1
damn things are nothing more than an illegal wiretap done by a corporation which the government can get access to.,"It has never been government, it has always been corporate wire tapping. Corporations listening to every transaction you make and selling that information. And then turning around and using that info to influence you to but their stuff, and protesting against governments that try to reign in corporate greed and overreach. In the original Rollerball, world control was in the hands of the corporations.",1
"There is no compromise. The debt is over money we've already spent, now the bill has to be paid. That's it. You don't get to negotiate, you pay your bill.","You have to pay what you owe, yes. That doesn't imply that the debt ceiling must increase. It implies that some discretionary programs may go unfunded or under-funded because the money allotted to them in the budget is needed to pay other higher-priority obligations.",1
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"Better than regular electric, I'd call gas vs induction a mixed tie. The remaining problem with induction is you get uniformity issues unless you have a very good version of it. But with how quickly that has improved, that's much less of a problem now than it was 5-7 years ago. I think long term, that's where we end up, and that will likely be sooner now due to these findings. There's still a few things that just require gas like cooking in a big wok though.","I cook a lot, and I've gotta say, for that purpose, gas really is just objectively better. I bet the outcome of all of this in the long run won't be getting rid of gas stoves. It'll be change to stove designs to include some sort of built in fume extractor that automatically comes on when cooking.",0
"""For viewers who frequently travel or own a second home, Netflix says the account holder will have to sign in on their Netflix mobile app at least once a month while connected to the Wi-Fi at their primary location."".","Yep. I can see why the suits want this feature, but there's no way to implement it that doesn't inconvenience families with kids in college - one of the main legitimate use cases - or which doesn't introduce hilarious loopholes, like how you should theoretically be able to share an account with other people in your dorm.",1
"It’s completely insane to me! My aunt and uncle have lived in Boise since 1992. I’ve been visiting here regularly my whole life. I keep forgetting that as progressive as the capital is, the rest of the state is still very MAGA minded. Guess Idaho is joining the South in their anti-women agenda.","I am in Boise right now and feel like they should definitely be on the FBI watch list. I literally felt like I was reading propaganda for the 4th Reich. It’s fucking terrifying you can “report a CRT incident” for them to investigate. As nice as it was that the President bantered with Republicans last night, they have shown us who they are. WE NEED TO BELIEVE THEM!",0
An IRS valuation and a bank valuation will be different; generally with the FMV valuation coming in lower.,"While banks and the IRS have different specific definitions of market value, the people doing the work (commercial appraisers) should not be appraising to different values for different intended users. We are bound by USPAP which supersedes other regulations (if you want to keep your license). This is why Cushman & Wakefield is caught up in the shitstorm. What they did is 100% fraud.",1
Which is of course exactly what a giant country obsessed with control of information would do had they assumed their lab working on SARS leaked.,"Nope not at all. Well it was a consensus from conservatives and conspiracy theorists who knowingly push false theories, but never by any scientific journal.",0
I've also read that the regulation that was rolled back would not have affected this particular train anyway.,And although it is arguable if the obama era regulation would have affected this particular train (assuming that the railway company wasn't going around the rules by reclassifing the train to other types). Obama's regulation only got so far as calling for an investigation into the costs/benefits. That investigation was done by Trump administration and was latter found to be lacking quite substantially.,1
"If we're referencing British WWII-Era politicians, how about Winston Churchill: ""If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the devil in the House of Commons."".",??? Are you nuts? Russia will invade Taiwan?? With what army? They couldn't do that with their pathetic baby navy even before the Ukraine war.,1
"Genocide is the deliberate attempt at driving a race, ethnicity, nation, or culture to extinction. It doesn't matter how you go about it, the end result is the same. It's genocide.","This is genocide, the destruction of a people and culture. We are going to end up with the same result regardless if Putin ordered Ukrainians killed by gas chambers en masse or children kidnapped.",1
"2024 will be a sh\t storm, and I see the GOP winning both the house and senate if something is not done about the broken electoral system in the USA.","America is tired of Trump, and if Republicans run him again in 2024, his loss will be even greater and even more humiliating. Unfortunately, the GOP has no choice but to let him continue to hold the party by the balls, because if they attempt to kick him out, he takes his loyal MAGA voters with him and the Republicans can't afford to lose any votes.",1
"The majority of Latin American authorities must be aware of this, and if they support a single currency despite this, it is not because they need a substitute for the US dollar but rather because they lack confidence in their ability to handle their own currencies.","I'm not sure how to evaluate this. A unified currency in a territory that is far from an ideal currency zone can lead to enormous adjustment challenges that, among other things, typically aggravate income inequality, as we have seen with the euro and the CFA.",0
"Most of the middle east won't do anything to gay people if they're doing things behind closed doors. It's only when it's in public that they care and even then, you'd just get a warning. A lot of Westerns assume that all gay people are automatically shot in conservative countries.","We do not fit the ""ultra conservative"" description, unlike other countries who push gay people off of buildings and shit. We are a lot more tolerant and accepting than some south asian countries and i have not heard of gay people being punished because of doing gay stuff/just being gay.",1
You can be sexist and still prefer a female candidate if you think she’s the best person to take away women’s rights and punish women more severely than the other guy.,Eh nothing special she flip flops way too much the only thing I’d like about her winning would be to piss off the left in the fact that the first female president isn’t a democrat.,1
"I wouldn't know what to call the Freedom Caucus anything other than a faction. That seems to be driving the Republican thinking In recent times, the progressive wing of the Democrat party has indeed grown, but it's been there for quite a while. They've never exerted enough influence to create the three-ring circus the Freedom Caucus has.","The Freedom Caucus will prevent the newly elected majority from actually governing. Instead of addressing energy costs and global inflation, their first order of business will be to set up a series of investigations, then block anything that comes out of the Senate, bi-partisan or not. Their playbook is a ""rinse and repeat"" play going back to Newt Gingrich's failed Contract With America. Look for them in late 2023 to shut the government down. The last time they pulled that stunt, it cost the government more than $50 billion, and they got nothing of any significance.",0
"Yeah, do we really think a guy like Putin is going with ""well, our military is woefully undersupplied and has underperformed as a result of rampant embezzlement and corruption leaving me in a humiliating no-win position, but that's on me because I encouraged, enabled, and profited from that culture""?","It's impossible for us peons to know for sure, but it really looks like Putin misjudged the war readiness of his armed forces, which leads me to believe that he didn't realize the depth or degree of the corruption. And you're probably right, he probably also does know about some corruption and turns a blind eye in order to have dirt on his people, and also as a reward for supporting him. I think that both can be true.",1
I want people to give a damn things are getting bad for the trans community. So really at least some semblance that Democrats will try to do something about the enormous amount of anti trans legislation would honestly be enough. But what we get is effectively a nothing burger.,No doubt he is but at the same time paying lip service isn't good enough. We need swift action considering the fact there's a constant media campaign on right wing platforms demonizing us. Which is used as justification for electing more fascists. I'm not going to discount what has been done I'm just saying that we need more help and fast.,0
Discharge petition would bypass committee and bring a bill to an full house vote with 218 signatures. There’s gonna be a few Republicans that don’t want our credit rating to drop.,Republicans generally don't want to be the lightning rod because they don't want to be blamed. I guess McCarthy doesn't have anything else going for him.,1
"That one is the coping strategies or similarities to a victim's abuser that the victim picked up during the abuse. Metaphorically it's like picking up fleas from the abuser, maladaptive patterns that are generally unhealthy and cause lonerm harm to the victim. They can, though don't necessarily, lead to generational abuse as the victim can copy the abusers behavior or leave the trauma of the abuse unhealed, which can cause the victim to then abuse others.","Tell that to any abuse victim who cried and demanded to be removed from abusive households from young childhood, who were dismissed and ignored, sometimes with dumbass excuses like yours.",1
"Solid point, doesn't stop the fact that your favorite billionaire is a hypocrite that doesn't give a flying fuck about free speech like everyone claims he does. Lets ban everyone that doesn't like him and anyone that doesn't fit his political agenda. You guys are loony toons.","One of the largest communications platforms ever and the new owner is all about ""Free speech"" is currently trying to suppress free speech of a nation that's being invaded by Ruzzia. He'd go to Hague over treason at this point.",0
And Labour under Starmer has taken up (in effect) a pro-Brexit position- along with such a lukewarm lack of opposition to the Johnson/post-Johnson Tories' English nationalism that they're all but going along with it.,"Regardless of how one juggles the statistics, the fact remains that Starmer's ""Make Brexit Work"" et al is blatantly pandering to Leave voters and English nationalists. Labour lost enough of their (already-on-life-support) voter base to the pro-Brexit Tories that they clearly decided this was the strategy they should follow.",0
I kind of wonder if some judges have cold feet because they don't want to be known as the one who pulled the trigger. We have to remember we live in a world where some rando thinks he can solo run an FBI office so I'm sure lots of people in power kinda worry about someone showing up at their house.,I get that we can't bow to fear but it's not our children or spouses in the LITERAL sights of a Q persons weapon. For us it's figuratively being held at gun point by crazies but them it's literal.,0
"Whatever Russia's problems were at the end of the USSR break-up it pales in comparison to the damage that Putin & Co. did, not just to the Russian people but also the Chechens and now Ukrainians.","It's always had problems but they had a few military (WWII) and industry successes and many cultural traditions. But with Putin in control that only exists if he says it does. Thus it's Russia in name only and the rest of the world should just call it ""the place of Putin"" or ""Putinovo"".",0
This war shows Russia that it's too weak and corrupt and it's lost too much while gaining too little. Ukraine will also become NATO allied once war with Russia ends.,Why do you think Ukraine can win this war? The longer this goes on the worse it will get for Ukraine.,1
"Well, he's courted the needed Republican base votes for winning the 2024 Republican primary. The most fervent, racist, antisemitic, Q anon, Evangelical and constitution-dismissal wings of the Republican base have all gotten the Trump campaign reach-out in the past few weeks. Trump met up with Kanye and Nick Fuentes, and a prominent Qanon guy, and called for termination of the constitution, covering most of the bases he needs to hit. His campaign has been a success in reaching out to them. They will remember the overtures to them long after news cycle moves on.","Remember, the GOP always falls in line and rallies around their choice, and the feral base of the party steers the whole thing.",0
"Of course we know Russians don't care. If you happen to take the wrong turn, you might get sent into a truck anyway.","It allowed volunteer recruits from other nations, similar to a foreign legion, because Putin tried to recruit Mongolians and North Koreans who lived near Siberia.",0
"This is why I post my ballot or drop it off at least a week before election day. This year I received my ballot on 10/14, it was in the mail by 10/15, received and signature verified by 10/18.","I didn't return mine that quickly, but it was signature verified on 11/2, and then counted in a batch on 11/4.",1
"It's not like the money just disappeared, it was spent on assets, but the recordkeeping of what was purchased and where the assets are exactly is just missing.","The unaccounted assets are _somewhere_ in a warehouse, but there's just missing records of what was purchased, when, and where they were sent.",0
"I would like to point out that while everyone speculated on Russian casualties (only info we have is from Ukrainian or Russian MoD,) no one considers that Ukrainian casualties can be just as high or higher.","From what I’ve heard from people on the front line, Ukraine is taking so many casualties they are still having to throw troops with weeks of training into intense and complicated front line fighting.",0
"Just an additional note - the AMX 10RC is not technically classified as a tank, it is an armored fighting vehicle that was mainly used for reconnaissance. It’s not as heavily armored as a MBT, is wheeled, but does have a 105mm main gun. I would bet that they Ukrainians will continue using these in an armored reconnaissance role and for fire support, and not to line up against Russian MBTs.","Pedantics aside, it was used in a recon role and isn’t meant to square off against MBTs. Very capable vehicles that I’m sure the Ukrainians will put to good use but not meant to replace Ukrainian MBTs or slot into that role.",0
"Step 3) collect 174k/year for 2 years and potentially get to stay on the federal employee Healthcare plan. Which is basically an ACA gold plan, with the government covering 72% of the premium (I had trouble verifying this one, it may not apply to a 1 term member of the house).",Step 2) say anything you think will get people to vote for you. Literally anything. Tell them you jacked off on the pope if you think your district has that kink.,0
"That’s messed up mate. I smoked a joint with my mates in the park. Two coppers were making their rounds, smelt it, just looked at us and said “Come on. Guys, there are kids around. Put it out or go somewhere else.” Swear to god, my heart was pounding so fast that we legged it to a nearby lake. The copper was pretty calm about the whole thing.","Wait wait… so let me get this straight. Because your mates and you were just curious about a spooky house, explored it, got caught, you have a permanent record? You served 7 years… does that mean you went to prison for 7 years? Or is it more like for 7 years, you can’t commit another offence or risk going to prison?",0
"Since WWII basicaly, we've never really got involved with any conflicts, Brazil historically does things via a diplomatical way, keeping a neutral stance and trying to solve conflicts.","Also, Brazil is known as country that that avoids taking sides in any wars, our biggest ally is Argentina, during the war for the Malvinas we didn't took sides, we only took part on helping in the negotiations, Afghanistan the same, Iraq, also didn't took any clear side. The last time Brazil took sides was in WW2 when Brazil sent soldiers to fight in Italy.",1
"that's the point of this communication. The next Ukrainian (offensive) move that makes sense is to take back Crimea through a southern offensive. The fewer Russian assets are located on the peninsula, the better. Give them as many reasons as possible to withdraw.",If the Russians are really planning an offensive then it's just much better to sit behind your defenses and let them rush across the open fields instead of attacking yourself.,0
"It’s crazy how he gets so much hate for this. I mean what’s to say he’s not saying it in the same way expressed in the last paragraph? Negotiating involves concessions of some sort, what’s wrong about giving up plans you had no interest in?","So, if Ukraine pushes russia all the way out of its territory, and demands the kidnapped citizens back, and russia says ok but the west has to promise to never invade us, you would say no? Because that’s how stupid you’re sounding.",0
"Yeah, sure couldn't let them go free due to breaking international law in detaining and torturing them, after all. Gotta keep them somewhere we can keep torturing them for information.","I mean, considering the ignoring of laws from the ground up (do you seriously think no international laws have been broken for Guatanamo Bay?), why wouldn't they continue the torture inside US soil. They could have used the infamous Chicago PF black site, even. Hells, up to 17 US naval vessels have been known to be used as mobile ""interrogation"" chambers, as well as a small handful of aircraft.",0
"Finally, if the votes from this county are excluded (for whatever reason), I wonder if the residents of the county would have standing to bring suit against these commissioners.",This is even more nutty considering that they are refusing to certify their county’s results because of perceived irregularities in another county.,1
"22% of people want another Republican vote in the House, and wouldn't care if it were the reanimated bones of Hitler himself who casts the vote as long as it's Republican.",I think the most depressing part is that on top of that 23% are ‘mainstream” republicans who would still vote for a madman than a democrat. Bill Barr can say in the same breathe that trump is a threat to democracy but he’d still vote for him over Biden. It’s a fucking cult. If you’re a “moderate” or “traditional” conservative who votes for Trump or candidates like him you can call yourself whatever the hell helps you sleep at night but your actions make you functionally the exact same as the true believers.,1
"Now isn’t the time to see Russia have a leadership transition as that person may or may not be worse and could escalate the issue as they would be an unknown. Most global leadership is familiar with Putin and his habits anyway, why throw a wild card into the game?","You’re thinking like a fool if you believe Russia with Putin at the helm is worse than a failed Russian state with a power vacuum. Like the other person commented, it would be a very bad idea for the country with the most nukes and a corruption problem to collapse. Everyone prefers a stable Russia with a rational actor in charge who understands mutually assured destruction and won’t challenge the status quo.",1
"Like, if I’m a homeless alcoholic, I’m still going to be enraged by an invading force killing my countrymen.","I can’t help but feel that if I were a homeless alcoholic forced to fight my own people, the moment I had the chance I’d kill the highest ranking “friendly” pos I could get in my sights.",0
Yes I am against a stupid investigation to Hunter Biden’s laptop. And yes I’ve listened to the hearings. What damning evidence is there against Trump? I’m not saying he’s innocent. I’m just saying that I don’t really think there’s strong evidence to convict him of something.,"I don’t buy this theory. It seems more likely she’s going to pretend that she was never involved in the first place. Distance herself for six months to a year and then act like every corrupt act, every horrible decision she made, etc..just simply never happened. Like an abusive partner that is incredulous that you would even think about accusing them of something they did in the past.",1
"you look only at deaths, I look at the overall scenario. We still had freedom of press, freedom to protest and freedom of speech during the pandemic. The emergency meant that we literally couldn't do anything.","Both are tragedies, and both cannot be compared. Both are terrible events which have happened, but calling the pandemic the worst thing that happened to India since partition is wrong.",0
"They were already in discussions with the allies about ending the war before the bombs were dropped but Japan was refusing unconditional surrender or whatever you want to call it. The bombs were to force unconditional surrender and to end the war before the soviets got there. There was a lot more going on than ""big boom made Japan surrender"".",Also: Japan was already losing. Ukraine is not losing. There is no precedence on what happens when you nuke the winning side.,1
If they had an old school republican candidate who appealed to moderates Warnock would have probably lost.,"Warnock ran against the worst senatorial candidate I can remember, and is barely winning. Abrams maybe ran a better campaign, but against much better competition.",1
Context is extremely necessary/important in order to solve the issues of systemic poverty etc issues that affect the black community to this day.,Our Grandparents today experienced the systemic racism of Jim Crow. So yes it’s important for people to understand the full context.,0
In aircraft they're trained on. Doing a sortie with little to no training is a suicide mission. You're not going to just hope in a F16 after flying in a SU27 and be able to drop a JDAM or launch a Maverick. You'd just in the sky waiting to die.,Thats what they're referring to. During the Korean war Russia sent their own pilots to fly with and train in.,0
Electing the Speaker is different from electing the Minority Leader. McConnell needed 26 votes out of 50. McCarthy needs 218 votes out of (probably) 221.,"EDIT: To clarify, McCarthy can win with 214 votes if some of the protest votes simply vote ""present"". If not, he'll still need 218.",1
"You are denying Jewish indigeneity to the Levant and instead claiming the Arab colonial invaders, who genocided and ethnically cleansed Jews, are the real indigenous people.","The thing you have to remember about ""Palestine"" is that it is not a nation, it's a Pan-Arab colonial outpost.",0
"The Mexican drug cartels are some of the most dangerous cartels in the world. They are armed to the teeth (at this point semi-military factions), and will continue to receive arms from exploiting weapons loopholes and weapons laws in the US that allow many weapons to flow South to Mexico (nicknamed the Iron River). Not only do they have access to assault rifles, but they have grenade launchers, armored vehicles, and heavy machine guns. The cartels receive lots of revenue from taking advantage of the drug market in the US, and are producing and selling highly demanded drugs such as fentanyl and cocaine. In addition to drugs, they have entered into other profitable industries such as Avocados. With lots of lots of money and power, they have considerable political clout in the corruption-infested Mexican government, and have even challenged the government when they conduct operations to capture important members of a cartel, such as the Battle of Culiacan, where they committed so much violence and took hostages of Mexican serviceman when Mexico captured El Chapo’s son, that the president ordered his release to stop further violence(link to battle:","The cartels also have lots of experience in their operations, and have diversified the methods they use to get illegal pharmaceuticals to the drug-hungry US.",0
Yep. It kinda reminds me of when I have a bag of potato chips and its almost empty. I might just want a handful of chips but there is about 2 handfuls left in the bag. So I end up just finishing off the bag.,Also with all of their air defenses sending 1-2 out isnt a good idea since they can get picked off so they are forced to launch swarm attacks in hopes of over whelming their air defenses.,0
"So you think he should submit a standalone bill, that does the thing that just failed to pass? And just days before the congressional session ends? What is that supposed to accomplish?","His complaining was in part what got the Senate vote to happen in the first place, which is ultimately what you want him to do: get votes for policies he advocates.",0
"I think the problem is language. the word ""chicken"" means chicken. The word grape can mean all kinds of things. grape flavor, grape the fruit, grape the juice etc. So if I see grape drink, it's a little deceptive but my brain at least is looking for the modifier. But chicken is chicken. Fried chicken, chicken strips, chicken broth, etc all have meat in them. ""vegan chicken"" is new and unfamiliar. You should check out this other sub where they were talking about how many people fundamentally don't know what the word ""vegan"" even means. One person thought Vegan=Organic. Another thought it meant ""healthy"" or sustainably raised, like people are legit calling eggs ""vegan"" because they came from a friend's chickens.","I’m just saying that it’s pretty common to use a misspelling of “chicken” like this to denote plant-based substitutes. If “chicken” is to be reserved for the animal meat only, I just think we should let the misspellings be reserved for plant based only. One person’s opinion. I’m happy to eat plant proteins that aren’t called “chicken” at all.",1
"""His “macabre” approach to the pandemic, including organising large gatherings of his supporters and disparaging scientists, constitutes a “crime against public health”. Some 65 others are also implicated and could face criminal proceedings."".",So why are you defending this huge piece of shit? Why are you pretending that he's a good person? Where's your argument that he's a good person worth defending?,0
"Also, China likely gets shit on a little more heavily for their actions because China is both the source of the world's Covid woes and has repeatedly acted irresponsibly and with no concern for the impact their actions had on the rest of the world so there's not a lot of good will left for China (and that's not even considering their other human rights violations like Xingjian, the Yugurs, and China's increasingly aggressive posture in the western Pacific).","And it's true, I often do things the hard way simply to remind myself that a little inconvenience and trouble won't kill me.",0
"Oil is not necessary in any way it is just the will of the people to force government to install solar that is lacking due to propaganda saying it is not good enough or too expensive, yes the energy created from solar on every roof would give more electricity than all oil and gas power plants combined.",Solar has been shown to be more than capable of replacing oil and gas powered energy plants very quickly no doubts no arguments can ignore the many examples where solar on home roofs alone have enabled countries to generate more energy than they use time and again.,0
"I think that as much as people talk about abortion etc., for huge swaths of America all they care about is gas prices. That single number that they see every time they go by a gas station that tells them how good or bad the country is doing. By that one, stupid measure, Biden and the Dems are doing badly.",I wonder if they’re too dumb to ever arrive at the obvious conclusion: Trump was able to co-opt the GOP because the GOP has spent decades raising a voting base of suckers who will believe anything.,0
"If China was democratic, free with open elections then no lol. China would be a titan of stability unlile today.","right titan of stability like India? And no western countries would ever survey their citizens, US surely have stopped since Snowden. Or have they outsourced it to other nations in the 5 eyes to get around spying on their own. China will never be able to align with the west unless they lack the ability to become a peer with the US, no matter what their form of government it is. Never in history has the dominant power allowed a rising power to peacefully become its peer. But like you said if Chinas leaders are so inept and they have no market competition then dont worry about them they will never come close to the US right.",1
"Miscalculating Russia's and Ukraine's strenh and the western response was definitely a mistake no matter your values, but the invasion itself wasn't done out of stupidity. Even if Russia steamrolled Ukraine, both Russia and Ukraine would have ended up poorer and their citizens worse off. Yet Putin still chose to invade because he doesn't consider that important.","Putin didn't take stupid pills and decide to invade, he supports an ideology that values meeting the strategic goals of a country and its leader above the prosperity and lives of its citizens.",0
"Next to arrive was China's Tianwen-1 orbiter and how it would also be gently inserted into Mars orbit. After 4-5 days of systems checks, it would release the Zhurong lander to safely parachute onto the surface.",I remember a story on British media regarding the 2021 Mars missions that arrived around the same time.,0
"For folks who believe the conspiracy theories, they’ll be more radicalized against democrats. They’ll believe our justice system is broken, and sure enough, who do you think wants to overhaul our justice system?","The point isn’t to investigate him. The point is to fling mud, convince folks there’s controversy, and then when there’s another president, move on to try to assassinate the character of someone else.",0
"Except it works. It's indefensible to people who are sensible but I guess most people aren't, because they keep getting away with shit like this in every way that matters.","They spout one line of bullshit for a while, creating chaos as reasonable people try to address the insane garbage. But once that like of crap is no longer useful to the fascist they drop it, and head off to new, fresh bullshit. That’s what we see Greene doing here.",1
"The land is Palestinian.. you can try and force them to move to Jordan, you can try to move their capitol there, but you can't make people forget their history. The Israeli rhetoric online is just getting started, it's important for people to stand up for Palestine, no matter how many toadi bots downvote it.","The Arab states used to want to keep the Palestinian-Israeli conflict hot, but now they just don’t want to deal with a bunch of Iranian-brainwashed extremists. They use the Palestinians as labor and accept a relatively small number when they manage to sneak across borders, but that’s it.",1
"Nope, the petition is from Faithful America which is an organization for social justice-minded Christians.","They certainly implied it by posting it as a response to an article specifically talking about a Christian-led protest petition. And enough people insist that the US is a Christian nation that I hope you can understand why, as a non-Christian, I'm quick to point out that no, Americans are not all Christian, when it seems someone is going that way.",1
"But having said that, American support for Pakistan is a historical issue that is difficult to overlook. Especially military support.",There are many more. But you can also Google and you will find many articles on Modi being the most pro West Indian leader in our history.,0
To the Asian American proponents of these kinds of bills because AA is supposedly discriminatory… you have noticed that the bills also remove the ability to track enrollments by race which means if Asian Americans enrollment stayed the same or worsened… you’d never know?,"> Both scholars are clear that affirmative action—a policy designed with the purpose of including members of certain nonwhite racial groups, often African Americans and Latinos but also sometimes Asian Americans—differs from racial discrim­ination against Asian American applicants on the basis of race. The work of Matsuda and Kang provides the conceptual framework for understanding why efforts to end racial affirmative action are unlikely to expose or end anti-Asian purposeful bias, anti-Asian effect discrimination, or policies and practices that place discriminatory ceilings on Asian American admissions.",1
"He's in a state that is like 80% Trump supporters. I don't care what he calls himself as long as he keeps voting to confirm Biden's judges, keeps Dems as the majority party, and votes for all but the most ambitious Dem bills like he always does.","Not someone outside of WV, not someone who is going to describe to me the game of politics, not someone who is insisting to me that he votes with Dems and that's all that matters. I just wanna know why WV people like the dude and if they feel confident in re-electing him.",1
A dark advantage to multiple warhead ICBMs is there ability to mitigate anti ballistic missile measures.,"Then consider this... You don't even need to put 10 live warheads on it to be effective. 3 can be real, 7 can be fake. The defender still needs to shoot all 10 down. Meanwhile the aggressor has very good odds of at least 1 (probably 3) getting through. And it only cost him 3 warheads worth of material.",0
"They know he’s a political suicide bomber- he’s either going to beat you and end your career, or he loses, claims he was cheated, and runs independently, ending the relevancy for the whole party.","He shouldn't run as an independent, what if he takes away votes from those Democrats who secretly want to support him but can't because they would never vote Republican It'd make those libs cry Trump supporters are a silent majority, you know!",1
"Then look to the sales tax and other excise taxes. Here in Oklahoma, the sales tax varies from city to city. So in one place the tax can be 9.318%, yet be 9.445% the next town over...and that tax applies across just about all purchases with the exception of houses and cars, that's where excise comes into play.","And yet, even during the pandemic, construction of $300k-500k+ homes in developer planned subdivisions didn't slow down. Thank years of cheap money due to insanely low interest rates.",0
The temple mount compound is a muslim compound. It has anecdotal to 0 meaning to Jews and is used to summon up religious and nationalist tensions by politicians.,The holiest site to Judaism was destroyed and desecrated and it's estimated remains are buried deep under the mount.,0
"Eh. This is not an issue that’s as black and white as it’s being presented to be. There’s an obvious “rail bosses vs. rank-and-file” angle here, to be sure, but there’s also a lot more to it than that.","There’s a pretty good argument to be made, for example, that allowing commercial rail service to be suspended right before Christmas, the busiest time of shipping services and long-distance travel, is not “serving his country,” too. A lot of critical material is transited via rail in this country, much more than is obvious, and the consequences of a strike like this could add pressure to an already stressed economy.",0
And I don't care about the laptop or him smoking crack but if you made it your life's work you couldn't convince me that hunter Biden wasn't employed at Burisma in a way devoid of corruption.,"Even better, if Hunter and Joe Biden are such obvious criminals, why didn't the DoJ under your leadership for 4 years investigate, indict, and try them in a court of law?",1
"“Although there are other laser-based defense systems already deployed, there aren't any that claim to act like Iron Beam to cheaply destroy small targets like rockets,"" said Ryan Bohl, Stratfor's Middle East and North Africa analyst at RANE. ""That puts Iron Beam into its own category in terms of mission type."".","Yep. The US Navy has several test laser systems deployed on some of its ships with 300kW versions in production. The US army is deploying 50kW lasers on Stryker vehicles. This is all decades old stuff, yet ""Lockheed and Israel to develop laser weapons!"".",1
Try reading the US companies still doing business with Russia. Try reading how the US use Ukraine as a lab for field testing their weapons without real intention to end this war or help Ukraine. Try reading the resources still flowing from Russia to the EU. Try reading how the EU is purchasing Russian oil routed through India as long as the price is right.,"I just mean when it comes to profiteering from the Ukraine war, US, EU, India (and many others) are at the front.",0
What are you on about. Every level of the EU decision making process is either directly elected by the people or appointed by the people’s representatives. It’s a representative democracy all the way down in all legislative branches.,"First, because we would lose one of the most essential things in a democracy: To vote for our direct representatives and make our own legislation. I find it very scary to be Governed by some shady bureaucrat in Brussels that never presented himself to an election. Plus, how can you make efficient legislation for an entire continent if you don't know the specifics of every country or regions inside those countries?",1
"I don’t understand what Republicans are trying to investigate Fauci for? He did his job? Everything was transparent on the end of the CDC within reason - once again, Trump eventually allowed states to just stop reporting COVID to the federal government and did not create a collaborative environment. Also, the fact that COVID-19 is still here and well nearly three years later is crazy. Yet Republicans are wondering if the one person who advocated for safety is to blame? Yeah, no.",Nope. He will be thanked for 50 years of public service by being pilloried in front of Republican committee panels treating him like a war criminal.,1
"This is what I find weird, Russia isn't even close to being an important trade partner of South Africa. China, the US, the UK, Germany and Japan are your largest export markets. You don't even import a notable amount from Russia either. Western nations are by far a more important partner.","Of course, South Africa is also a large trading partner with many western nations. So they position themselves between the sides.",1
"We were just in the touristy areas, went to szimpla kert a couple times and just wondered. It was 3 days worth, but the limited people I met were nice. The friend I have, who has lived there for 4 years and is from the US, also said people there were nice. So I guess it depends who you ask.","Well yeah, who else. We're talking about Ukrainians. But aside from bordering Ukraine and people transitioning through the country, Hungary has less refugees from Ukraine than Portugal...",1
I know he’s not a likable candidate but even overestimating him is than him winning the presidency imo.,He's doing the same culture war bullshit his big orange clone did and if we're not careful it's going to put him right in office. Bad press is good press.,1
I honestly can't think of a single reason not to vote by mail unless you live in a state that makes it difficult - but Michigan just wasn't one of those states this year.,"I had mine mailed to me. I filled it out with the added benefits of being able to re-read ballot proposals twice or three times over. I got to take my time researching every candidate on the paper. All without having to worry about holding up the line, or looking suspicious to some Q nut, or catching COVID (which still exists, folks!).",0
"So that means that a majority of Russian conscripted people who are going to die in Ukraine are people who either agree with Putin, and/or are going for their “love of motherland” and/or because “they don’t bother with politics, that’s for smarter people so they are just following orders”. And truth is, perhaps they aren’t wrong. But that’s not well suited for 21st century.","On one hand, this war is terrible for Ukrainians because they now have to deal with the Russian army and the significant part of the Russian “ruling” population (basically any person who gets paid by the government, their family and friends, they’re all required to drink the propaganda cool aid as a condition of employment so there’s lots of natural selection happening right now). That segment of population has “historical anger and frustration” of Soviet breaking up and not having a “moral high ground” anymore (“enduring for THE idea of communism which is basically what is understood under “love for motherland”” vs “mindless consumerism west”) - that’s who’s backing Putin up for real in there. They were in power before Soviet broke up and they and their families and friends stayed in power after. That’s where “NATO is an enemy” narrative comes from.",0
"If you're speaking broadly of capital punishment around the world, you're sort of right but most of the stuff ""attached to don't die"" involves not committing capital crimes. In other words, it deters murder etc.","But of course I'm talking about civilized countries with a rule of law. Russia has only rule of man so essentially, NOTHING works there. It's just crap no matter how you try to play it.",0
"The ban on alcohol sales to fans at stadiums — beer will still be available in luxury suites reserved for FIFA officials and other wealthy guests — comes a week after an earlier edict that dozens of red beer tents bearing Budweiser’s branding be moved to more discrete locations at the World Cup’s eight stadiums, away from where most of the crowds attending games would pass.","The decision on beer sales was confirmed on Friday morning by a World Cup official familiar with the change in plans. The official asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak with the news media, and because Qatar was still preparing its official announcement on Friday morning.",0
"According to the Ukrainian navy, on Tuesday there were 12 Russian ships were in the Black Sea on standby for combat operations. Three of the ships were armed with Kalibr sea-to-land missiles, which the Black Sea Fleet has sporadically used to bombard Ukrainian positions.","They targeted the Russian Black Sea flagship the Admiral Makarov. They were not targeting “nothing of military significance”, I’m not sure what’s confusing about that?",1
"I listened to the song before I read the whole article, and I thought the singing at the start was Rick Astley.","Why would he have heard the song? Gravy paid the writers of the song, Stock Aitken Waterman, not Rick. You're not hearing his voice, that's an imitation.",0
"""To do this, they have started supplying heavy offensive weapons, openly urging Ukraine to seize our territories. In fact, such steps are dragging NATO countries into the conflict and could lead to an unpredictable level of escalation."".","Here's the thing. Russia has escalated every chance they've gotten. They didn't start out by bombing civs. But they are now cause they've an easier target. They've escalated the rhetoric. They tried to escalate the pressure on ukraine. So, at this point. We dont care.",1
"The despots abroad and the petty wannabe tyrants at home are hoping beyond hope that they can keep the people of the world split between poles of power, turned against one another into perpetuity. They know once we stop struggling against eachother horizontally, we'll turn our talents in war along a vertical axis, and struggle to pull apart the thrones and towers they imagine they lord over us from.","However the manner of our arrogance and defiance truly is contagious and deadly to them, and the proof is in our friends an allies. The weakest of whom like Ukraine roar like lions, and gnash their teeth keeping the nights of tyrants sleepless and long.",0
"If there are any amount of Americans captured, held hostage, or killed it could lead to a US military intervention, which is the absolute last thing some random gang profiting off anarchy would like.","Or we continue to have their fleeing citizens sneak into other countries, or have them stay, starve and be at the whim of their new gang lords.",1
"I amazes me that adults need to have simple concepts explained to them. The government isn't just giving away this money and weaponry. It will be similar to the lend lease act during ww2 where we basically indebt them with contracts that repay the aid amount in x amount of dollars, at x amount of interest, over x amount of years. Noone is giving anyone anything for free. Ukraine will be paying this back for a hundred fucking years, with compounding interest.","So while we spend a lot of money on our military, whether or not we send our old stuff to Ukraine doesn't free up that money. We were going to spend it either way.",1
The Democratic Senate can stop most of it but US needs to prepare now for the GOP shutting down the government via the debt limit votes.,"They will try but with Democratic Senate protecting US, it is only the Debt Limit vote that gives them any leverage.",0
"NY Domestic Law Section 17: ""If any clergyman or other person authorized by the laws of this state to perform marriage ceremonies shall solemnize or presume to solemnize any marriage between any parties without a license being presented to him ... as is provided for in this article he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year."".",Also. Look up Bidens history on the subject. He was never for this before Obama took them down this road.,1
The period from Tsardom to communism was followed by a lot of violence and poverty and chaos until Stalin emerged as new autocrat. It was only after that that Russia again started playing a central role in international affairs. Successions after that were structured by the party.,- the best predictor of the future is the past. Russia will continue being an autocracy. But there will be a long period of violence and turmoil before a new autocrat emerges.,0
"The thing you have to remember about ""Palestine"" is that it is not a nation, it's a Pan-Arab colonial outpost.","The Arab occupation of Judea & Samaria is no different than the Russian occupation of Crimea: fundamentally imperialist and colonialist with the goal of seizing everything, not peace.",0
There's no bigger picture. It's basic math. I think you're either misunderstanding how a power plant works or a misunderstanding of efficiency in the conversion.,"If the grid needs power right this second, it's inefficient to convert to hydrogen first then send that through a fuel cell. If the sun is shining, it's best to dump the power straight to the grid. If the grid is full at that moment, then dump the excess into hydrogen and store it for later use in the fuel cell.",0
230 bills of anti trans legislation have been introduced this year alone. That fact by itself shows that it should've been talked about for several minutes but no trans people are some political prop that don't deserve help.,"Considering that attacking trans people seems to be the number one issue hands down in so many red states, that's a small amount of time no matter what the excuse is. I think they're afraid of losing transphobic diet dems.",1
"Idk. If you hang out on liberal circlejerk forums (like this one) on liberal circlejerk websites (like this one) it can get pretty hard to know what actual conservatives actually believe - you'll encounter a million folks claiming that, say, conservatives believe a black dudes criminal history justifies police killings him before you'll actually encounter a conservative saying it.",In one sense your question is odd because its akin to asking why you'd want to discuss any background about a person so famous. And your inference is as nonsensical as saying that the people who discussed the positive parts of his life only did so with the intent of trying to make the killing look unjustified.,0
"If police did die, they'd just say ""well only X number did"" or ""well only the cowardly/traitorous ones"", because their position is that they are always right, quick someone bullshit a justification, so fuck em all together.","Similarly, if that same cop chose to take on the mob, got beaten to a pulp and died a week later in the hospital, we'd agree that was in the line of duty even though he didn't actually die while ""at work"" right?",1
"Ever played Empire: Total War? Playing a campaign as Sweden has similar AI events, but perhaps a closer comparison to modern Russia.","Reject shitty offer. Steadily kick their asses while fighting off simultaneous unprovoked wars with Denmark, Courland, and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (it's must have been hard to be Swedish in the 18th century, everyone hates you). Russia eventually offers a peace treaty out of desperation, even giving up their demands for Ingria... for now.",0
"China doesn't want to establish the idea that a country can just take land from another or support separatist movements. Taiwan doesn't violate that worldview because it's an unresolved civil war and both sides, at least officially, claim to be the same country under different governments. China's deal is probably Russia keeps Crimea, Russia otherwise fucks off and Ukraine can join or not join any international organizations as it seems fit with Chinese economic support for both sides of they agree.","If nothing else it helps make Russia dependent on China, so when the dust settles in Ukraine they have a big thumb on what happens with whoever is left running things in Moscow.",1
It's funny because it's ironic. Professionally it would be a waste of time for Australia to play them anyway because the very top teams like Australia are way too good to bother playing a team like Afghanistan.,Why is everyone pretending that a lack of a pathway for female involvement in anything in Afghanistan is the most important reason why Australian cricketers shouldn't tour the country? We boycotted Pakistan for years over safety concerns.,1
"It's not our job to fix her problems as she seems to think, it's the other way around. Congress is supposed to be about public service not just serving oneself.",Edit: I think most congress people have other jobs as well? Guess she's trying the influencer employment model with this.,1
"So that brings the question, Why Brexit happened and who is responsible? Well in short, misguided, misinformed British majority. And why? Well, right wing parties exploited and manipulated frustrations of the British general public to point the finger where they want the finger pointed to be.","Didn't argue otherwise, I'm very well aware of why they're shamelessly pandering to English nationalist, Leave-voting Brexiteers. Doesn't change the fact they're still pandering to them and pushing a pro-Brexit position, whether or not they believe in it.",1
Building up such a reputation does mean Israel can bluff - but there are worse consequences if they aren't successful.,That and probably claiming Israel did this would force Hezbollah to 'counter-attack' Israel which would lead to even worse results.,1
"If Georgia rules do say that suspicion of fraud in another jurisdiction were enough to disqualify a candidate, I would assume news would be all over that.","If you punch me in the face in Georgia three times a day, 365 days of the year - taking tax breaks in Texas doesn't remove you from Georgia and what has happened there over the past year.",0
Also the Ukraine war showed countries they need to not be dependent on powerful authoritarian countries for trade.,Blah blah blah consequences blah blah blah choke off your entire economy by simply blockading the south China sea blah blah blah JV team playing against the varsity.,0
"In times of low interest rates the quality of those opportunities doesn't need to be as high. When rates go up, those weaker opportunities can sink companies.","Hydrogen infrastructure for aviation (I agree it isn't the best solution for ground transport) is not much more onerous than a switch to battery electric for aviation, the difference is a long haul flight has a chance of getting off the ground with technology achievable in the short to medium term with hydrogen.",0
- Xi thinks Canada represented by Trudeau is the little brother of the US and doesn't even deserve a seat at the table with China given the poor relations.,You can tell by Xi’s dismissive comments and hand gestures that he thinks all other countries are inferior and that Canada must beat to China’s drum and do things “their way”. Fuck…..that.,1
"As shitty as the US feels sometimes, things like this make me grateful that I live here. I could call the president an asshole to his face, and show him my whole dick, balls and ass, and I'd just get fined and spend a couple nights in jail. If that.","yeah, but only once in a while. It is generally safer to be black in the USA than to be eg. white in Namibia Zimbabwe.",1
"Because there actually was such legislation already. It was a separate bill, but it passed the House. The Senate, not so much. I know he voted against that legislation because it didn't contain that. I'm not sure whether he proposed an amendment to add it, but if he did it failed.","So you think he should submit a standalone bill, that does the thing that just failed to pass? And just days before the congressional session ends? What is that supposed to accomplish?",1
"While it's sad, it needs to be done. Russia will only accept the theft and enslavement of cities who don't want to join them. To be culminated as they are you've gotta grind those forces down. The real sad number is the total number of civilians killed by russia, or the collective total of hospitals destroyed, or the millions of people russia just shut the electricity off on.","There is an unusual and not very publicized consequence of Russia's extreme losses in tiny areas: human decay. You'll only hear about it from Ukrainian military vloggers from time to time, but the density of the corpses releases toxic fumes that make it utterly unsafe to maintain positions. And neither side is capable of recovering and burying that many bodies from no-man's land. The entire position has to shift upwind every so often, as nobody without a certain grade gas mask on can remain in the area.",1
"EDIT: I commented this below, but putting this here to show why I have hope, and maybe alleviate the apprehensiveness, or for worse, pessimism about the House elections that some may have!","Of the remaining district races left, the GOP is currently leading 10 of those races. The GOP will need 7 of those 10 in order to reach the majority.",0
"Due to the complex history of the area, the “some Ukrainians” that you are referring to would probably not consider themselves Ukrainian. They would mostly likely consider themselves Russian, speaking Russian, on land they believe belongs to them.","The Russian Federation, which is only 31 years old - has no historical right to claim Russian language speakers abroad are under their jurisdiction. It is fucking absurd.",1
"However, don't be fooled that h better health care and mental health care are going to stop mass shootings. Just don't.","Statistically, increasing firearms availability increases the number of firearms deaths, murders, mass shootings. We know this factually by the decrease in mass shootings during the 10 year assault weapons ban.",0
"No, I have no idea about the crime situation in El Salvador. No doubt it’s bad when draconian laws are overwhelmingly popular among voters, but Latin America also has an unfortunate history of dictatorships that abuse the power they get by cracking down on crime.",Also I can genuinely see that this decision for mass incarceration was made out of a true desire to benefit the greatest number of people in El Salvador instead of being born out of corruption.,1
"""The sauce doesn't exist, and if it does it's not important, and if it was we can't do anything to pass it, and even if I could it's frankly in my own interests not to"".","If my partner was mean to a wild animal or hell, even littered by intent or neglect we'd have serious words and boy would I be in the shit if I did the same, let alone actively campaigning to undermine the health of the planet.",0
"Articles or videos sensistive to the government are not banned. A lot of Indian media itself has articles or videos dedicated to political commentary in which they rightly criticize Modi for many of his faults, which are often the first thing you will see.","As a person with brains, you should ask yourself why a documentary regarding the Indian PM was not made available by BBC in India and what was the objective of it.",0
"I'm not showing you anything, if you care that much go ask any British person outside of reddit who John Oliver is and you will quickly have your evidence - or just Google 'is John Oliver popular in England' and save yourself the time.",Sorry I feel like I have struck a nerve or something because you seem really upset right now. You are presuming far to much about a country you know nothing about. I never commented on his comedic abilities - I just said nobody in the UK watches him or cares about what he thinks - which is a fact. Its hilarious how you think you know my outlook on life based on a single reddit comment but it's even more hilarious that you think a comment about the queen being dead would bother me. You just proved you don't really know anything about brits with that comment lol.,0
"So we should continue the ""Healthcare for profit"" system just because people in the past didn't have free healthcare and had to orient their lives around the inhumane for profit system?","Just to clarify, the healthcare shouldn't be classified as ""free"" but paid for by tax dollars instead of the current backwards system where private for profit companies have inserted themselves into the process along with employers.",1
That aircraft carrier is nothing but a floating dock anyway. Did Xzibit set this up? Yo dog I heard you like floating docks so I put a floating dock on your floating dock.,All their shit is self-immolating. They’re doing more environmental damage than damage to their enemies. Their military is more of an environmental war machine than anything else.,0
"What religious belief is the state prohibiting, or what official state religion are they establishing? None, which is why the 1st amendment doesn't apply here.",What part of the 1st amendment allows for gay marriage? The original ruling in favor of gay marriage didn't even include the 1st amendment in their justification.,0
"But I have seen people literally use a word in Greek, translate it to Hebrew, then look up all the uses of that translated Hebrew word spanning hundreds of years and try to force those connotations on the Greek term from another few hundred years later. It is linguistic abuse.).",This. They’ve been searching for that accountability ceiling for years and they have yet to find it. At this point I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist. Which is really bad news for our future.,1
"Essentially - although not the exact paper it doea show that Sauropods used their front legs for propulsion, not their hind legs, and indicates how flexible they were.","As for what you said in a comment lower down, models for sauropods are based on known articulations and soft tissues. I suppose this is one of the weaknesses of paleontology; with soft tissues almost never preserved, we have to make educated guesses by observing currently living organisms with similar skeletal structures and trying to use that to figure out how dinosaur soft tissues may have worked nearly 100 million years ago. However, we could be entirely wrong - it wouldn’t be the first instance of a massive misconception about a dinosaur’s fossil (like how Edward Cope reconstructed a plesiosaur fossil, but put the head on the end of the tail). All that we can do is try to make the best educated guesses and inferences based on extremely limited specimens and trying to draw comparisons to current life.",1
They don't even charge the priests with a crime! They let them get transferred to a new church and start over. It's nuts.,"I see religion is the major factor dividing people, creating hate, and motivating terrorist acts and even wars.",0
This isn’t a Russian offense. This is just what typical human beings do to their environment. This feels like anti Russian propaganda. I can only imagine what ecocide was caused by any/all warring nations. This story isn’t a special or egregious offense but another casualty of war. I wasn’t aware of this reality but it seems like a common occurrence not endemic to Russia’s offensive.,"I’m sure dolphins and whales were cool when usa got bombed by Japan and vice versa. I don’t think you really realize wtf I’m saying. This article has the equivalent depth of saying, “ unprecedented deaths of Ukrainian people are dying since Russia invaded Ukraine”. When fighting erupts, all things in that area die. It’s a common occurrence.",0
"Unfortunately future is dark when present is ruled be fools like in Korea, Afghanistan, Syria, Israël,... and even in US during Trump.",The only way after Ukrainian victory il to educate people and take examples on what was done with Japan and Germany after WW2.,0
I have no problem with Twitter as a source to get quotes from subjects — my problem is with Twitter as a source (especially the only source) for public opinion or reaction.,"Ah, so it’s like an editorial instinct that you’re having a hard time suppressing. I get that. You’re wrong, in this case. Wildly, actually, as you’d be able to see through a very, very small amount of research. Like one google search small. So maybe don’t go into editing.",0
To this day Ukraine does everything to the point of shaming countries to gain help and stop countries from supporting Russia.,Europe has been making efforts to get Ukraine on their side against Russia since the end of the cold war.,0
"I am still waiting for some kind of concrete example of how us talking about NK missile threats helps us, South Korea or Japan in any way.","edit: To clarify, I'm talking only about us, as in people in the west, discussing North Korean missile threats. That is the only thing I am discussing. I am not talking about removing sanctions, moving troops or any of that.",0
> But her move now poses a key decision for Democrats as to whether they will still nominate a candidate for Arizona's upcoming Senate contest in 2024.,I'm just concerned that her switching to independent is going to split the vote enough to make a Democratic win into a GOP win. She'd have lost a Dem primary. Now she gets to skip that step and remain in the general election.,1
The Prime Minister also said that it could not be ruled out that NATO troops would fight in Ukraine in the future.,Hungary hoping to carve out large parts of Ukraine after Russia wins the war. . Realising the long held dream of a Greater Hungary would leave history to decide that it was Orban who was the Saviour of the Nation. . George Santos must be made US ambassador to Hungary and negotiate an end to the war. .,1
"I don't actually think they DO believe the GOP politicians when they say they're going to bring in the jobs. It's that they are soothed by the way the GOP talks to them. It's not about being informed and rationally weighing what politicians say and whether you think they will fulfill their promises. It's about what team you're on, and it's about your feelings. It's never JUST about whether the people you elect will do things to better your lives. It's also about whether those politicians will hurt the Other who they've convinced you is responsible for why your life is bad.","I would be satisfied if we merely taxed them at Reagan-era levels, nevermind Eisenhower-era levels! (But, you know -- apart from other factors, that taxation level on the wealthy was at least part of what drove U.S. growth in the post-war period through the 60s. It was always just a fiction to think that we could do away with that tax revenue and everything would just continue to work as it had up until then.).",0
The freedom caucus has given themselves a lot of power to pass virtue signalling bills that go nowhere but weakened their influence over the only things that matter in this session.,"I get a little sense of panic every time the Republicans announce one of their disastrous bills they’re going to pass, before I remember there’s no way it will pass the Senate. There’s still the debt ceiling and budget to worry about, but the Senate holding the line gives me some comfort.",1
"A guy with a French flag hanging out of his car window in France after the victory, got attached by a group of supporters of the Moroccan team who snatched his flag and started attacking his car.","The boy, 14, was part of a large group of what appeared to be Moroccan supporters marauding down Rue de la Mosson in the southern French city when they happened upon a white hatchback with a French flag flying out of its window.",1
"My whole point is that Qatar has massive issues with human rights. However, accusing the country of murder is incredibly counterproductive. Don't lie in important conversations like this.","It isn't about ""telling the other side"". It's about showing the opening ceremony on TV because it's a prominent event. Not showing it for political reasoning is not impartiality.",1
"It has 0 sources or quotes from anything to support this headline. After the first 3 sentences, they don’t even mention the topic headline again. There’s a 95% chance this is all fake news.",Cause it’s Fake news. I’m not surprised r/worldnews falls for this. Everyone here is either a propogandist or just an idiot who’ll believe anything.,0
"It's interesting to think about how this type of dynamic (freedom caucus vs the world) is going to be in play on every major vote that the House Speaker, when there is one, brings to the floor.","J6's anniversary is definitely going to play into this. If the GOP aren't able to work through this tonight or tomorrow, it's going to drip into the talking points for both GOP factions and it will heighten those divisions.",0
"You have to give financial disclosures (not amounts, just who pays you) when you speak at a scientific conference. The fact that a president shouldn’t have to do the same is just crazy.","Bush Jr was pretty quiet all things considered. Should have been investigated for many different things, but did not happen.",1
"No, in reality, Biden will almost certainly win if he runs while the Republican candidate will almost certainly lose if Democrats don't run Biden.","Actually we need a Republican to not win the presidency in 2024, and Biden is the best prospect for beating out the GOP candidate, regardless of your ageism.",0
"The gerrymander is obviously my top issue, so we can actually have a legitimately elected government again in Wisconsin -- it's been 10 years.",But it would also be great to see the Court lay down the law on all these pre-2018 executive appointees who have just stayed in office after their terms expired because the crooked Legislature won't let the Democratic Governor appoint anyone new.,0
"Reminds me of something. Whole lot of ""Canadians"" early in WWI and WWII showed up with weird accents more commonly associated with US states along the border. Canadian recruiters didn't exactly discriminate, and if you spoke English and said you were Canadian you were Canadian enough for their purposes.","I can tell you first hand that the way Canadians speak to and view other Canadians is different than the way Americans speak to and view other Americans. The way many of us view priorities in life is also quite different - I found when in the US there was a lot of ""yolo"" mentality and focus on self success, whereas in Canada there is a clear underlying theme of helping each other as well as ourselves.",1
Even more is that Norway sees their oil and gas reserves as property of the state and uses the funds from these resource to fund their citizens pensions and their sovereign wealth fund.,Norway themselves consider the windfall profits from the fossil fuels crisis to be unfair profiteering and want to return there ill gotten gains to a needy country.,1
"Treating women horribly, physically or mentally, causes so many problems for both boys and girls in the next generation.",I feel so sorry for the women and children; especially those who were able to receive some education.,1
Until the Palestinians and people like you recognize that the Jewish people have a right to statehood in at least part of our homeland this needless war will continue.,"I don't think the current Israeli government wants a two state solution but it is the Palestinians who turned down peace in 1937, 1947, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2014 and 2019. After Israel withdrew from Gaza and voted in a government based solely on withdrawing from most of the west bank, the Palestinians voted in Hamas to step up the war. Criticize the current Israeli government all you want (it's garbage) but the Palestinians have a pretty clear track record here.",0
"The story at its core is about a Democratic plaintiff and a Republican defendant, the former of whom won. I think it should be up to the reader to draw conclusions about whether that is healthy for democracy. You and I both came to the same conclusion, but it was supported by the same hard facts.","If the reporter got a nice quote from a source mentioning how this is good for democracy, they could’ve used that quote for the headline potentially. Otherwise, it’s best to stick to hard facts and only hard facts.",0
Twitter has to pay a lot more interest post-acquisition due to a combination of higher interest rates and the leveraged buyout:,"It's a leveraged buyout, which basically means Twitter itself is the collateral for that portion of the loans. Musk is responsible for putting the mountain of debt on Twitter, but Twitter the company is responsible for repaying that portion of it.",1
so you really think there would be less conflict without borders? africa wasn’t exactly a peaceful paradise before colonialism lmao. without nation state “borders” people just fight over where their territorial control ends because of limited natural resources. its pretty naive to think otherwise. Im not arguing that Africa was well constructed at all but regressing to no nation states is a terrible idea.,"Don't artificially impose the construct of the nation-state on all of Africa? Westerners feel a need to draw a line around every square mile of land on Earth and pencil in a name at the middle of it, but it's ultimately an artificial political construct.",1
I am flabbergasted that they didn’t measured the radiation before putting it inside the secured storage facility. This is a basic and simple procedure for dealing with radioactive source to make sure that the source is still inside the shielded container after transportation.,"The tiny radioactive thing was inside the other thing (the gadget that uses it), and that thing was in a shipping crate of some kind. The crate was appropriately labelled and had tamper-proof tape on it etc.",1
"To be fair, they did mention right after that, the majority of mail in ballots tend to be democratic voters and those are the ballots that require “curing”.","Why this matters is: Nationwide more democrats vote by mail so people are hoping that as more mail in ballots get cured it will mean more democratic votes. However, in CO, a state with 100% distribution of mail in ballots, the more likely outcome is cured ballots equaling the democrat/republican distribution of the already counted ballots. So if 2000 ballots get cured, likely 1005 will be for Boebert and 995 for Frisch (to match the other percentages).",1
"It's silly anyway. The ""doctr"" in ""indoctrination"" is the same root word as ""doctor"". It's from the Latin ""docere"", or ""to teach"". ""Doctrine"" is ""what is taught"", and ""indoctrination"" is teaching it to them/convincing them to believe it.","Which also means that by definition, anyone who's calling a lesson you agree with ""indoctrination"" is planning to do something you'd call ""indoctrination"" instead. It's just ""wroneach"", for want of a better word. And this debate is just the left and right screeching it at each other over how education impacts the youth vote.",0
"No, there's just gonna be plenty of trans kids suffering egregious mental duress for precisely no reason that goes against what we already understand for gender-affirming care.","The only disorders more common among trans people are those associated with abuse and discrimination - mainly anxiety and depression. Early transition , and . When prevented from transitioning about 40% of trans kids will attempt suicide. When able to transition that rate drops to the national average. Trans kids who socially transition early, have access to appropriate transition related medical treatment, and who are not subjected to abuse or discrimination are.",1
"It's like how the 50 states in the US combined to form the United States. All the countries in Europe formed the EU. Or maybe you want to be in ASEAN. You can also be in the United Nations. Lots of democracies form international organizations that create rules that individual voters in each country can't violate. The Paris Climate Accords are a good example. Lots of Americans (Republicans) don't like them, but they have to live with it.",Then going to the Republicans isn't going to help them. They want actual slaves. The only thing that will help is replacing the corporate Democrats with actual progressives.,1
"Whelan’s own brother is on record saying the following: ""make the deal that was possible, rather than waiting for one that wasn’t going to happen."".","More than that... If Griner is to stand tall for a CBD vape pen, Whelan literally had Russian sensitive information on a flash drive, and admitted to it, and then blamed the wedding party he was attending.",1
"I wouldn't laugh at anyone making this mistake. I see a city name in an airport name, I assume it is in that city or at least a suburb of it with relatively easy transportation options to that city.","People (like me, I have used this airport in the past) who rely on cheap flights will also be willing to suffer through the drive there.",1
"It was supposed to be an end of an era and the beginning of a new one where Russia and China could take their ""rightful"" place as leading nations in the face of a diminished and humiliated US. Appeasement would have proved him right. The US would have been diminished. Reliance on NATO and to a lesser extent the EU would have been proven to be a bad idea. It wouldn't have done everything Putin had hoped, but it would have been a masterstroke to put Russia back at the center of an Imperial system that they could exploit for money and manpower.","So, Russia demanded that NATO prohibit Ukraine from joining. This would break NATO since it would violate the founding arrangement and would require a complete rework of what NATO is. I mean if you break the Treaty that defines the Treaty Organization... If they didn't get that, then all they had to do was prove that it was toothless.",0
I mean rejoining Transjordan is probably the best option but the Jordanians hate the Palestinians cause they outnumber them and treated refugees in Jordan like crap.,"Oh yeah, Jordan fought a war with Israel half a century ago that create a refugee problem for them, never omit this part.",1
"This is is the kind of thing I try to explain when someone tells me they’re totally against GMO food. Yes, it can be used to make plants more resistant to herbicides so more can be used, but it can also be used like this to reduce or eliminate pesticides.","Natural/organic lawn care is still lawn care, and the organic pesticides used are often less safe, less environmentally friendly, and less effective.",1
"I make it sound like a bad thing cos it IS a bad thing, even if you trust the current goverment will not censor anything you care about, there is no gerentee that the next one will not, in fact it's almost generated that at some point some later goverment WILL abuse any sort of internet cencorsip bill to there own ends and to the determent of the general internet using populess.","Anyone who thinks internet Censorship is a good thing is a coprite shill or an idiot who has no clue what there talking about (or both), or just an internet troll trying to get a rise out of people (witch I would personally lump into the idiot category considering what this topic is).",0
"You can think critically about the Dems without having to conclude they suck. I think the Democratic Party has flaws, including some serious ones, but overall it's a force for good in the US and largely made up of decent people trying to so the right thing.","Many love to complain about the two party system, but most will never vote for anyone other than a Democrat or Republican. Even Sanders will register and run as a Democrat every four years.",1
"The problem for Putin is that even if he knows that a lot of the info is bullshit, he also knows that the bullshit is the only info he has to work with. There's no second source of information that he can use. So the best he can do is take the info he has and do some guesswork as to what the original message was before it got warped by bullshit telephone as it worked its way up the chain of command.","It doesn't suggest he's an idiot. Putin doesn't believe his commanders unquestioningly. That's why he's replaced the top commanders in Ukraine several times over and he stopped taking briefings from Shoigu, instead getting the info directly from the generals.",0
Its entirely possible a segment of that 9 million might not be fighting if they have been given a choice. This is the problem with drafts. Its an attempt to strip people of their right to choose and force them to fight against their will.,The alternative is to ask the people who want to fight to fight and not try and force the ones who don't. If your country is actually worth anything you'll have enough people volunteer. If you can't get enough people to volunteer the country is probably not worth saving anyway.,0
"Right, this and other public messages are targeted towards the foreign public, not Russians or Ukrainians or foreign leaders.",At least this should give second thoughts to the Russian-aligned members of Russian-speaking enclaves in other Eastern European and Baltic countries.,1
Trump has problems with female voters. Nikki Haley would probably increase the ticket's appeal to female voters and maybe a little less maga (republican) voters.,"Now, i personally don't like Nikki Haley, i think she is just as crazy as trump, but hides it better. I do however think Trump picking either (or both) a female or black VP would be a good idea.",0
"Israel has attacked Iran before in response to this activity, and Iran isn't really in a place to declare war on Israel and all of its Allies, so the cycle continues.","Iran funds Hamas and other terrorist organizations which regularly attack Israel from Palestine and Syria, as do many other surrounding Arab nations.",0
"This shit seems all to convenient for both Russia in sowing discord within NATO countries, and for Turkey's domestic elections.","Turkey at the time was a lot weaker than Russia, its dictator comes to US his foreign thugs best the crap out of several US citizens in US soil. On video.",1
"If the margin of votes in the election was 17,000, adding those 32,000 COVID deaths back into the mix likely wouldn’t change the outcome and Lake would still have lost the election.","Political affiliation is correlated with COVID deaths somewhat less than 2:1 R. nationwide. This takes into account that Republicans skew older, more likely to be anti-vax, etc.",0
"Or are you confident enough in your conclusion (that is entirely informed by the vague speculation of some random Russian nationalist) to be an asshole about it to anyone who implies that might not be true? You realize that the Russians have basically not admitted to any Ukrainian victory so far in this war, right?",I did read the article. Where does it say that the anti-Ukrainian hated-by-Ukrainians Russian nationalist in an occupied Ukrainian city was definitely killed by Russians?,0
"As said elsewhere here; Many were forced to relocate against their will and then, a bit ironically, found themselves in another, not overly friendly country, but still choosing to stay and considering themselves as being Russians, but not willing to move back because their country is still worse than being a part of an unpopular minority in Estonia.","As usual though, there are plenty of Russians that come/came to Estonia that have happily integrated and became Russian-Estonians/Estonian-Russians but they tend to send their kids to Estonian schools, learn the language, don't vote for the Russian party (Centre party), and don't fucking support the invasion.",1
"Biden was not president at the time, nor did he even hold public office. Biden had absolutely no leverage with the government of Ukraine. I've never seen a shred of evidence that directly ties Joe Biden to his son getting that job or any shady activities involved.","1) Even though there is no evidence of this, Joe Biden pulled strings to get Hunter that position. This was before the war. This was before we even had significant dealings with Ukraine. And most importantly, this was a private citizen helping his son get a job. I'm not sure how people think Joe Biden would have anything to gain by helping his son get a job at a random electric company in one of the most impoverished countries in Europe.",0
Correct me if I’m wrong but if you just use it thru a browser apple doesn’t get 30/15% the fee is for using the App Store. Is that correct ?,Is that true? Apple truly is just a dictatorship of a company. They have a complete corner on so much of the population of developed countries. In regard to what they can do on the internet/through apps. And how anything people buy through their devices gets heavily taxed by the government Apple.,1
"Can't force them to resign as federal judges without a constitutional amendments, BUT I have heard various experts float the idea of simply rotating them back down to a lower court.","While this amicus brief by one of the creators of the law will be useful, it's questionable how much the courts will care that a democratic lawmaker is filing a brief in defense of a democratic president.",1
"My friend and I are both in healthcare in Florida, so we get updates from the department of health whenever they have to send out newsletters or information packets. Yesterday we got one while she and I were in a call and it was about essentially thinly veiled threats of ramifications if we did not tell people that the vaccine is dangerous to take and that patients should do basically anything else instead.","Well, being one of those people, I can tell you that we got flu shots (as did our loved ones and the healthcare workers who interacted with us, somehow without a fuss), were extra germ-cautious, as were our loved ones (somehow without a fuss), and masked when appropriate.",1
"I can't think of a less fun way to (try and) party than to do drugs with and see GOP dudes naked. Most of them look utterly disgusting with clothes on...I mean, if I saw Mitch or Lindsey or Dan Patrick naked I'd never want to have sex again.","They all look as if they got one shitty haircut at age 8 from the local, half-blind $7 barber and said, ""Sheeiittt, I'm gonna stick with this right through to my deathbed!"".",0
"Even if you don’t watch the news you would have to be intentionally ignoring every source of media to not be aware of what has been going on for over a year. And that’s unfortunate if people have family in Russia, but if you choose to go back there, you can’t say there haven’t been countless warnings for American citizens who travel to Russia.","This is a warning/reminder for Americans who are tourists, curious thrill-seekers, vloggers, etc who probably shouldn't be in Russia and may expect consular services in case shit goes down.",1
"In addition, the people of Taiwan have heavily embraced a Taiwanese identity and oppose unification. Taiwan has shifted from being authoritarian to embracing political liberalization and democracy, a system that contrasts with the authoritarian system of China. On top of that, Taiwan has greatly embraced liberal values and social reforms. Taiwan has developed stronger relations with the US through military partnership and repeated assurance that the US has Taiwan’s back, especially from high ranking political figures such as Pelosi to President Biden himself. China has destroyed Hong Kong’s liberal values and is looking glaringly at Taiwan - a country that attempts to protect its own sovereignty and democracy.","China has quite literally wants the rejuvenation of the Chinese state and seeks to expand its military capabilities, global influence, and nuclear arsenal. It has developed its capabilities in aerial and maritime denial, and has created a ballistic missile arsenal that intends to challenge the United States’ presence at sea and conduct offensive strike capabilities. This China is in no interest of diplomacy and seeks unification - whether it be coercion or worse by force.",0
"For everyone who didn't AT LEAST vote: your excuses, justifications, ""concerns"" and equivocations won't mean a thing when the Republicans take power.",And it’s astounding the amount of voters that give up just because their primary candidate didn’t get chosen.,1
"Security footage shows a blast at Engels air base near Saratov, Russia, hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian border.","The Kremlin said that the weapons launched by Ukraine were Soviet-era jet drones and were aimed at bases in Ryazan and Engels, about 300 miles from the Ukrainian border. It said that its forces had intercepted the drones, and that “the fall and explosion of the wreckage” had “slightly damaged” two planes, killing three servicemen and wounding four others.",0
"This aint the old days where we can force a re-build on a nation like Russia. While id say they wont use nukes over Ukraine, or even if they are being defeated in a military sense in their own nation, actually trying to force a rebuild may cause it.","Germany had a way to wage war and get away with it, russia wont at that point since i think anyone bordering them is either super poor woth nothing or protected by the us.",0
"Not trying to say guns should be allowed, just pointing out an incompetent, racist, ultraviolent police isn't exclusive to the US.","Eeh, ours are just as bad if not worse. That militarization of police that has been creating so many problems in the US? Happened to us in the early 70's. We have the most lethal police in the world and 68% of the population fears the police.",0
"Things I've taught during the service included : physical fitness, personal finance, land navigation, sexual assault awareness, diversity and inclusion, counter intelligence and travel safety, intelligence reporting, intro to digital networks, map reading, radio communications, riflemanship, satellite system maintance, vehicle maintainence, motor cycle safety, and leadership.","Two teachers in california in sf, san diego, or la would be an upper middle class household. The issue would be establishing and getting housing, there are programs for that, but programs arent always easy to navigate. Most of the teachers I knew the last couple years had amazing places though because of housing benefits from the city, the ones who didnt just didnt get through the program beuracracy.",0
"It's also not going to help in that it's much, MUCH easier for NATO to supply coats and blankets that Ukraine will need than it is for Russia to do the same for theirs.","Also not going to help Russia when their troops aren’t kitted out for winter, might end up wiping out their own troops before hurting Ukraine if they keep skimping on their own troops.",1
This headline makes me feel like some evidence will soon come to light that Trump explicitly told Putin to bomb Ukraine or supported the idea of it.,"If those things are all true, I have yet to hear a logical explanation as to why Putin waited until Trump was out of office before he launched the invasion? It just makes no sense.",1
I get where you're coming from and am no Oprah fan but honestly I can see people who like her being swayed.,"Sigh... Oprah, like Obama is ulimatily a conservative. Both are very well spoken and everything, but still conservatives. In the old days I would have thought of them as liberal Republicans., which used to be a thing. Until they all changed after Carter, and Democratics became the party of right leaning conservatives I hardly recognize led by Bill. Everyone seems to think that the difference between being a liberal and a conservative has to do with whether you support Woe vs Wade or the Christian right. It is really all about whether you support economic policies that leave no one behind or you don't. Oprah is filty rich and supports very conservative economics policies and conservative personalities who think and travel in the same circle as her. This doesn't make her a bad person just not very economically intelligent, unless it is about how to make more money, which is easy when you're rich. There is an entire huge industry in America devoted to advisers who will tell you that it takes money, to make money and how to stay rich. Ask Oprah she owns eight homes.",1
What we need is someone to go graphing of the casualties over time. I expect ukrainian losses were higher at the beginning. If ukraines losses are decreasing while russias rises or stays steady then they are on a path to victory.,"If both sides lose a quarter of million each, but Ukraine can continue to take territory then they win by dint of control. There might be an issue however if Russia retreats behind their own borders and then continues to strike at Ukraine. What does Ukraine do then?",1
Yes agreed. They are essentially the SS from Nazi Germany in the sense that they are a parallel organization to the army deliberately put in place by their dictator to keep the army in check.,"There is historical precedent for this in Russia itself with the NKVD divisions in World War II, and elsewhere - the SS on the other side of the same conflict were set up to give Hitler armed forces outside the normal military hierarchy which he distrusted.",1
"Wood is perfectly good for colder climates, as well. Plenty of houses here in Finland are either wood-heated or running a wood/electricity hybrid system - I'm in a house like that right now.",The uk has the largest wood pellet power plant in the world… so in a round about way I’m sure lots of people are technically heating their homes with wood.,1
"The last winter not being that cold isn't the direct result of coalburning. The next winter might be much colder again, and climate change would still be real.","Climate change is real, and it is serious. But it doesn't necessarily result in ""mild winters"" instead of cold ones.",0
It is unfortunate that India has not gone more towards American defense industry considering it's the largest not to mention the most advanced. But working with the Americans Military industrial complex comes with a lot of conditions and limitations which India might find unacceptable.,"India needs to develop an indigenous defence manufacturing sector and fast. Considering the next decade, it will have close regional tensions with China flexing it's military in the region.",0
"China: Launches strange balloon, admits it got away from them. Urges calm when the story hits US media, claims it's a weather satellite only.","US: Waits days, then shoots it down (according to China, a weather balloon) after it passes over the ocean out of an abundance of caution and being fully within its rights to do so.",0
"In the UK a full time work week is a minimum of 35 hours, and if you worked 9-5 Monday to Friday it would be 7 hours a day plus an hour unpaid break.",The impression I got from my limited time in Sweden is people worked hard during the office hours and more generally arrived and left on time rather than putting unofficial hours in.,0
"I still can’t imagine Russia would be stupid enough to launch a nuke, knowing that there will be severe repercussions for that and there will be retaliation. We’ll see how this plays out, but it is a bit unsettling. I also don’t think China wants direct involvement in this mess.","If China starts sending weapons to Russia, it will be a big geopolitical shake-up, but I don't think WW3. I mean, when you think about WW3, either Russia or China will need to directly attack NATO first, or NATO will need to directly attack one of them first, or there has to be some sort of accident that demands a military response. (someone accidentually shoots down a NATO plane, for example).",1
"""Until a Member-elect has subscribed to the oath, he does not enjoy all the rights and prerogatives of a Member of Congress,"" read the procedures of the House. ""Members who have not taken the oath are not entitled to vote or to introduce bills."""".","""The House and its chosen members cannot do anything — including pass legislation, assist constituents, or carry out any of the functions laid out in the Constitution — until a Speaker is sworn in and that person administers the oath of office to the rest of the chamber.",0
Biden having 12-15 documents without intent while addressing the issue directly with the DoJ - versus - Trump taking 350 very high security docs on the way out. Refusing to return them and then lying to the DoJ about having more.,Yes but since Biden didn't take them with intent on the way out and commit other crimes then we can say that we must give Trump additional felony points.,0
"So the appropriate response is to tell Russia to smarten the fuck up and be more careful, and move more resources into place to make it absolutely clear that if an intentional attack did happen that NATO would be in place to respond appropriately.","If Russia was going to attack Poland intentionally, knowing that NATO is standing behind them, they wouldn't have hit one random street with a random missile in a random small village.",0
"Its not ""scapegoating"" Poland, its just setting things straight with the tremendous amount of bullshit coming from them. The whole blockade thing was a straight up lie, and honestly, that was just the last in a long line of insults. Poland is a great country, the current polish government is a burning shitshow tho.","And besides that, fuck off with your ""Poland far right"" bullshit. Maybe look first at Germany, the only country in Europea where mob of ordinary citizens wanted to burn alive hundreds of refugees, and where nazi terrorists could murder foreigners with approval of state security service.",1
"Now that they were wrong they ""go looking"" for what was never there. What was wrong was working backwards from the wrongly expected result in the first place.","I don't care. It is all hearsay. So what the laptop belongs to Hunter. So what it isn't ""tampered"". Who cares.",0
"There is a somewhat famous book in the Netherlands: ""A better environment does not start with you"". ().","This is reaction on a campain the goverment started: ""a better environment starts with you"". The writer obviously does not agree. It's the large companies that need to change. The problem of course being that the companies will not do that unless the goverment forces them to.",0
"Without essentially an uprising from the public and working classes, as happened for the New Deal, no politician can or will actually fix the system, because they are also subject to the same system.","No, I said, that no politician can or will actually fix the system, without a popular uprising analogous to the enormous, and diverse public power backing the New Deal.",0
"For one, Elon already tried this and was heavily rebuked for it. Having the CEO now do it, doesn't change the fact that ultimately this came from Elon. Two, The US is supplying funding for these systems in Ukraine, The US is well aware of if this breaks any current rules or regulations.","Using civilian tech for military purposes has it's own risks, in the cyber attack areas, already. It is not a threat to US secrets.",0
It’s sad the words “carbon tax” sends everyone into a seething rage because it would actually make a huge difference lol.,"Make carbon and oil more expensive so it makes every megacorp switch the renewables to preserve their bottom line. At the same time, carbon being so pricey would drive investment in carbon capture tech.",0
"see, that's exactly the problem that this solves for guys. There's no way for a guy to know a woman took hers either. Now the guy gets his own control before the bedroom as well. Most guys have had to deal with this exact problem for their entire lives - ""What if the condom breaks? I really hope she isn't lying about being on birth control"", etc.","As you said, no method is 100% effective, so when you employ more than one method (safe sex/condoms in addition to birth control, which can now happen on both sides) then that is the best you can do all around.",0
"And that right there is why ""fair tax"" is a lie the same way stairs are ""fair"" to both people in wheelchairs and people who can walk.","Tennessee, as a great example of a shithole, has almost 10% local sales taxes. Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, etc are all 9% or higher sales taxes.",0
"Well, it didn't work. Mississippi is now zero, rather than 15 weeks. Other states are free to go for zero too. Fortunately, a few states ain't playing.","I've always wondered why abortion providers filed suit when Mississippi enacted a 15 week threshold. Now, thanks to their suit, the threshold is zero.",0
"I do agree that whatever happens to Mali is something they need to manage on their own, for better or for worse.",Yeah lack of progress led many Malians to believe that the French were deliberately not trying to solve the problem hence the coup being accepted by Malians as better than the status quo.,0
"Last semester, I transferred to an out-of-state university to get away from Florida’s university system. I’ll be finishing the full move by getting tf out of FL and finishing my degree on the northwest coast in a couple of months. Ive only had one full semester at my new university but I am absolutely blown away by how different the professors and atmosphere are, even as an online/distance student rn. Not only is every part of the financial aid system so straight forward and simple at my new uni, everyone is so fucking patient and understanding. Every single professor has gone the extra mile to work with me, my advisors and deans make me actually feel encouraged and motivated, and the university takes student comfort and safety seriously. Not only that, the classes feel more engaging and seem like they practice way more critical thought when teaching new concepts. I’m blown away by how different this feels than any of the three Southern universities I’ve been to. Like, it feels weird to think universities in the Northern US could be this different than Southern ones, but as someone who’s been doing the college thing for a while and spent time at universities in Texas and Florida, it really feels that way.","After I got horribly sick with Covid two semesters in a row because we were forced to be on campus despite being at peak covid infections in FL, I knew it was time to go. On top of that, allowing strangers to come on campus and harass students about hellfire and abortion was absolutely fucking insane. I couldn’t walk from one class to another without some grown man spraying spit at me while he screamed that we were all going to hell for wearing shorts and tank tops IN FLORIDA. Not to mention the joy of having to walk past billboard sized banners they allowed off-campus, unoffiliated groups to post in the student union of diced up fetuses and dead babies while some moron yelled that abortion was worse than the holocaust on a fucking bullhorn. But, hey, freedom of speech for the people who aren’t even students is way more important than an actual students comfort on a Florida campus, amirite?",0
To some extent that’s fair. NATO doesn’t care about every conflict around the world because not all impact NATOs interests. So why should the rest of the world care about this?,"Neither the Afghanistan or Iraq invasions were intended to help either country. No matter whose narrative you believe, the casus belli were related to US national interests or security.",0
"EDIT: For clarity, I’m not defending Trump. He shouldn’t have repealed the rules. But THIS accident wasn’t his fault. It’s easy to blame Trump because emotionally it fits the narrative. But Trump’s deregulation is a symptom of longer trend by the GOP and (some) Dems under the thumb of big-business.",Remember that the GOP didn’t back the Rail union’s safety requests at all. And the Dems publicly backed the union only to hold a show-vote that ultimately stripped them of their right to collectively bargain. Neither party’s leadership supported the unions’ safety suggestions when push came to shove.,0
Issue is Canada already has far cheaper stumpage than say the US or other countries that sold off most of their lands to private holders. Canada would be reluctant to reduce supply because they are known for their cheaper softwood.,"Canada's softwood lumber prices will basically never be bolstered; we cut the worst deal with the US, which guarantees a poor outcome for Canadian softwood lumber.",1
Lol. You can draw a direct line from McConnell’s reign during the Obama presidency to our current political shitshow.,"I mean, McConnell has been extremely firm about stopping bidens progress/democrats progress so the bipartisanship is news, especially in light of the house debacle.",1
"This is not true. They are not importing it DIRECTLY from Russia, but they are buying Russian oil from India and China as well at a veeery nice markup.",They aren' buying any directly from Russia. Earlier China was reselling Russian gas because they didn't need all they had and prices were very high.,1
"If congress were proportional to the country's cross-section of religious beliefs (or lack thereof), there would be 42 members that self-identify as atheistic/agnostic and an additional 123 who call themselves religiously unaffiliated.","(3) Regarding the Jewish members, I would venture to guess many, if not the majority of them are religiously atheist, agnostic or unaffiliated but ethnically or culturally identify as Jewish.",1
"If each truck can get 200 miles range in 30 minutes, that is a pretty good ratio of driving : charging of their time.",Brake time is every 4.5 hours for 45mins so as long as you start the trip close to a full charge that should be enough time. The problem is the lack of charge points the UK is quite poor when it comes to this but is getting better seen quite a few pop up. The problem is there needed along the Motorway as that is a place most of our trucks end up when the brake timer hits.,1
"Yep. We know that in February 2020 trump knew that COVID was deadly and airborne. How do we know that trump knew that? Because trump secretly called Bob Woodward and told Woodward that, and Woodward recorded it and released the recording to the public half a year later.",He lied to the American public and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the suffering of millions. Zero penalties for that mass murder. Because the magic (R).,0
"Does letting it rip through a billion people increase the chances of mutation, or not since it can spread rapidly and without obstacle?","Isn’t the likelihood of a mutation extremely small though? I’m not saying it’s unlikely here, just wondering since we went through all of 2020 with only two strains of Covid; Delta was in 2021.",1
Qatar sucks. Terrible horrific human rights record that persists to this day which is whitewashed with billions of dollars. Do everything you can to make Qatar 2022 as miserable as possible for those evil pricks over there.,People wake up to what a pile of shit Qatar is. And has been for a good long while. And FIFA has been rolling around in that field of turds for a few years now.,1
"If Trump’s tax info reveals that he lied to the American people, would you prefer not to know about it?","I'd guess the odds are really good that Trump has been lying to the IRS just like he's been lying to banks, creditors, and everyone else.",1
"The bigger problem is Floroda is more mild in the summer than, say, Arizona or New Mexico or Nevada where summer can get over 120 degrees and those places will just keep getting hotter so they're not realistic for a location despite have the land for it.","They won't move somewhere where they can't be open year round because of snow or ice, so that eliminates quite a few more states that have a ton of land available.",0
Our voting methodology is a primary foundation of democracy. Expecting much to change without changing that is folly.,The two best alternatives are and and have chapters across the nation looking for people who want to help. If anyone is looking for something to get involved in - there you go. :/.,0
"P.S. Ran into the same problem with links preventing posts here. I typed the summary in my subreddit, but I'm not trying to steer conversation there or collect karma. Locking summary there to prevent replies.","Putin’s BS about the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) situation, paraphrased. Behind a spoiler because I don't want to expose anyone to that against their will.",0
"Letting a massive strike cripple the economy would make the corporations hurt, and would make the rest of us hurt too. We shouldn't let labor take a hammer to the knee of the economy.","That’s not to say that these workers don’t deserve sick time or that there’s no argument to support the labor unions here, of course. I just think it’s worthwhile to not reduce such a nuanced and complex issue into overly simplified buckets of good and evil.",1
"There's Tencent (Which is actually the biggest video game company, not Sony). There's NetEase, EA, Embracer Group, Apple, Warner Brothers, Square Enix, Take-Two, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega, Ubisoft, Paradox. Konami is making a huge come back, and just posted its biggest year.","So, basically you have a deal, that although huge in the industry, doesn't give Microsoft a monopoly, doesn't make Microsoft the market share leader, and they use less predatory business practices with their current property than their closest competitors.",0
NATO fighting Russia at this point would be more like watching an anthill get obliterated by a precision missile from five hundred miles away - laser-targeted and absolutely nothing left.,"Especially given Russia's performance in Ukraine, I think it stands without question - a NATO conflict against Russia might be the single most overwhelmingly one-sided battle in history. The Russians might as well be using spears and slings for all the effectiveness they'll have. Short of launching their nukes, there is nothing at all Russia can do against NATO. Nothing.",0
"Also, rich Households have to pay less Taxes per Child, making them gain more Money through having Children than poorer Households, which is IMO quite unfair.","There is certainly a relationship between affluence and fertility rates though I am not sure if job loss in a wealthier country would lead to more children. People might choose the opposite, since kids cost money and earn little or no income. In a poorer rural economy it could be kids become more valuable from an economic perspective.",1
"They already had it so that poor kids got free meals, but this makes it so that everybody does. So a family of millionaires get taxpayer funded school lunches. A single 25 year old mechanic has to fund a millionaire's kid's free lunch. Add to that the (let's be honest, likely) corruption of the food contracts, issues of food waste, etc, and it's at least something you shouldn't casually be like ""see, no biggie"" when we have no idea what the future ramifications will be. The thing just passed.","I mean, if you're gonna argue for everyone to pay the same amount of taxes regardless of income level, that sounds good to me. Otherwise, yeah, we do have tons of stuff that is income dependent.",0
"Oh I'm aware - I am myself a US citizen who has lived abroad and claimed the foreign tax credit for that type of reason. I was simply responding to the other commenter's claim that only a few countries tax global income. That's indeed rare with respect to nonresident citizens (with the US famously on that list), but it is routine in many countries for residents.","True but not relevant to this situation - Trump is a US resident as well as a US citizen, and most countries worldwide tax their residents on worldwide income. The unusual thing the US does is the scenario you described, but that's not Trump's situation.",0
"Politics, or the formation of policy, is just one of the factors that the Industry tries to guide, through lobbying and influencing election cycles through price manipulation.","I Disagree with you. The Oil and Gas Industry has been influencing politics by manipulating gas prices. I think thats worthy of a wider discussion. If you don't wish to hear about it, feel free to ignore the post.",0
I have the time to follow the situation and l try to form a balanced view. I think Zelenski is being manipulated by others and that Russia is being underestimated.,What l don't want to see is an escalation manipulated by others with ulterior motives. And if this happens l still don't underestimate the Russians nor who may choose to support them in a serious conflict.,0
"If you're in controlled airspace, absolutely. The one flying at 40,000' especially, as that's where jetliners fly and is squarely within Class A. (So was the Chinese balloon but just barely...Class A ends at 60,000').",It's a Chinese spy balloon. It's not a Chinese spy balloon. They're balloons. They're not balloons. They're big as a bus. They're about the same size as a car. We are getting the wreckage. We are not able to find the wreckage. Norad has been monitoring them the whole time. They didn't monitor them. They know what they are. They don't know what they are.,1
"Sure, but here is where Lula's personal feelings might come into play: He's super stoked about the whole BRICS thing and having a sort of Third Worldist (+Russia) bloc of countries which can oppose the European Union and the United States.","This does not justify Russia invading another country and tossing bombs into cities, but it explains why Brazil's whole diplomatic apparatus (and not just Lula) are not super gung-ho about opposing Russia. Russia is far away and too weak to interfere in South America, they're not ""our problem"".",0
I was asking for sources to your comment that 20% of 17 people on death row will historically be overturned/proven innocent.,So statistically it's been proven that 3.4 people out of every 17 are wrongfully sentenced to death?,0
Correct. Special election and I don't think they are willing to risk it. I also think they like it when someone is saying outlandish shit so they can quietly dismantle democracy and enrich themselves while the public focuses on a meaningless scandal.,"Unless I've missed something, I don't think McCarthy has indicated Santos won't be on committees, so he'll get his time, make a spectacle and the media will cover it, because that's what they do.",0
DeSantis also has the charisma of a wet napkin and I doubt he would win against against a decent Dem candidate nor could he form a mass cult like Trump did. Of course I could be wrong.,"I was wrong. While he is screwed up in the head, he has no morals and sells out for whoever is paying. Seems pretty contradictory to his “religious beliefs”.",1
Is anyone else worried that Russia's left either a dirty bomb (which they'll blame on Ukraine) or an actual nuke to blow away a big chunk of Ukraine's army?,"At this point it's a war of attrition, the more Ukrainian troops and weapons Russia manages to destroy the the better for them. There's a limit to how much weapons and manpower Ukraine can lose before civil unrest, or economic collapse.",1
"I believe I read some were top secret, and of course now theres been some found in Biden’s home. So that increases the number and has to make one question where else may he have some.",But then you open up the argument that some of the FBI still have an “insurance policy” against Trump and he stated the documents at his house were planted too…..so if you believe secret service loyalists set up Biden then at least some credibility is granted to Trumps claim that FBI loyalists set up Trump. Since it’s no longer out of the question that the government could do such a thing.,0
"Well, one major difference is that the people wearing the Ukrainian flags as a show of support probably actually give a shit about what's going on in Ukraine.","Best way to respond to this is ""yeah, no shit, I support Ukraine's fight against the invasion of fascists because I'm not an idiot"" and let that hang.",1
"Their chocolate isn’t even good, and it melts into an oily mess in your fingers because of all the crap ingredients. Non-US chocolate has a higher melting point and better flavor to boot.","A higher melting point doesn't necessarily equate to a better, more flavorful chocolate. Quality of cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar and other ingredients are important. That is why you have Swiss Nestlé chocolate bars that cost under $2.00 vs. high end chocolatier's bars from Italy, France, etc. that cost big bucks.",1
"but nukes almost guarantee you're going to also kill your targets (see: a hypothetical scenario where you need to kill everyone in your enemy's country, or try) unlike gravity bombs or conventional warheads.","just wanted to say that nukes are used instead of conventional warheads - the point of MAD is to never get to the tipping point, however close you may get.",0
"By banning cigarette sales to people born after a certain year, do you really think that will somehow make more people smoke? Well I guess you obviously think that, but like I said, if you took 3 seconds to google anything about it you would know it has done the opposite. Less people are starting to smoke directly because of these measures.",Because of previous measures already taken very few people still smoke. They are already taxed through the roof and a pack of 30 costs $40/pack. Young people almost exclusively vape now anyways. If you smoke now you can continue to smoke.,1
"Because I feel no need to be polite to people who consider other groups of people less human than I do, consider planet scale phenomena to be trivialities, and consider everyone else to be guilty of the heinous misdeeds they perpetrate. My arrogance will not change facts. My conceit will not change the fact that one side tends to prioritize logic, fact, and compassion. I have no patience, and honestly no sympathy, for a group of people who deny science and humanity on a daily basis and then have the gall to call me condescending. Their every remark is how they know better than the experts. They use condescension like other artists use oils. They constantly point out which groups are coming for them because they’re so jealous and threatened by how great they are. If it’s unclear, I’m talking about the right. Condescending enough for you?","This one isn’t even hard to think of with nuance. It’s actually right in line with what Thunberg usually espouses: Protect the environment. Usually renewable energy sources are a means to that end. In this particular instance, this particular renewable effort doesn’t achieve that goal, so don’t do it. Unfortunately, people like u/hamsamith will attempt to use it as a gotcha, without realizing that it both undermines their empty efforts at “discourse” (by showing that they don’t read the sources and don’t fully understand the issue) and strenhens Thunberg’s position by showing that she is nuanced in her message and efforts by actually considering the people and environments that renewables affect directly.",0
"But if DeSantis is the GOP nom, we will never hear the end of carping about Biden's age. And the Millennials and GenX-ers will be furious that the older generation will not let go. And I'm sympathetic.","I admit that Biden has accomplished a hell of a lot as President, especially given the current political atmosphere.",0
"It's 100% the case where I'm from. The older generations 45-50+ have been indoctrinated into the belief that cannabis and all other drugs are a huge moral failing and something you should be ashamed of using, and they also seem to think that cannabis is about the same thing as heroin.",i believe its a bit of a generational issue in Ireland i believe most people under 40 or so are for or on the fence with cannabis decriminalizing.,1
I agree. They need to prove on paper they feed and shelter the poor to get some sort of deduction. If they are promoting violence or otherwise failing to teach turning the other cheek that should disqualify them from being a Christian church. They would be classified as a fundamentalist terror group.,Focus on the Family is a terrorist organization. They terrorized me as a queer kid. The fact that they still persist is a stain on the nation along with all the other hate groups. I’m glad you survived their attempts to brainwash and destroy you. <3.,1
HK was allowed to keep its special trade status under the the condition that its democracy be preserved until 2050. China destroyed it a full 30 years early. China can not be trusted and now neither can HK.,"Go on, ask China if HK is a part of China. The suit is made in China, so it should be labelled as made in China. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too, if China wanted HK to retain its special status then they should have kept their grubby hands off of it like they said they would.",0
"As Republicans hold our economy hostage with the debt ceiling, MAGA Republicans will demand cuts to Social Security and Medicare, the programs they like to call “entitlements” that Americans have paid into for decades.",Republicans are playing chicken with our economy and it’s a dangerous game. Remember that Steve Bannon was very clear in 2017 when he said their goal is deconstruction of the administrative state. These Republicans want to destroy the federal government and any safety nets it provides to the American people. Make no mistake. This is the GOP’s goal.,0
"""I wouldn't even come shit in your office toilet for less than $35 an hour. $40 if you want me to actually do anything."".","Yes. I had a lawyer friend draw up the contract and incorporated over a weekend. There were a few more caveats he threw in, but he earned his fees and then some.",1
But several folks have told you that the SOLUTIONS Centrists bring to those problems never work out.,"Framing progressive goals as centrist proposals is a very effective way to do that. That's what I feel this article is doing. Hell, Bernie made a whole fucking campaign based on that tactic. But now it's a problem because the article used the word centrist.",1
"Watching The Hill's feed that is mostly focused on the crowd and all I can think of, ""ah, so these are the traitors of Democracy.... The ones who'd be right at home chanting Make Germany Great Again in another era."".",Yeah. He did. But don’t worry he also said we’d all be dead soon from nuclear warfare so no need to worry about climate change. General theme was we will probably die from Biden one way or another before 2024 but if not vote for him. And yeah he will kill those of us who sell drugs.,1
"Ipso facto Russia's interests are more aligned with MAGA enemies than with the USA's...but Putin is white, right wing, hates the gays, and is loved by Trump, so...",That would be so much more powerful if he hadn’t been a part of the biggest Russian apologist regime in American history .. he is part of the reason Putin had the nerve to do this..,1
"Sort of. The fifth can still be invoked to protect you from incrimination in a grand jury, but it's not a ""get out of testimony card"" that many believe it is.","In a trial the jury is instructed to draw no conclusions from someone pleading the fifth, it can’t be used as a reason to convict someone. In a grand jury they are told that if someone pleading the fifth creates a greater probability a crime was committed they can indict based on that fact.",1
Also religion doesn't stop <insert Abrahamian religious group of people here> from conducting murders or killings.,At the point they do kill her they’re also murdering an innocent child and last time I checked murder is wrong in Islam as it is in literally every other religion.,1
Why should we let boomers and silent generation vote when they have but a few years to live but not let 16 year olds vote who have their whole lives ahead of them?,"People 18 and older were already voting due to the . The Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not pass a law to lower the voting age for local and state elections and that's up to the states to decide, which many of them allowed. For federal elections it wasn't overruled by the Supreme Court. So the 26th Amendment accomplished two things, making it so no one 18 or older can be denied the right to vote due to their age (which they were already allowed to vote for federal elections and many state and local elections), and two allows a protection for this right that isn't easily rolled back with another law.",1
"Blaming Russia will show Russia has no friends but when they have India and China with 40% of the worlds population defending them either directly or indirectly, Russia feels more empowered. If China and India agreed to sanction Russia, it would be over for Russia.","India has been propping up Russian war efforts by buying Russian oil. This can’t possibly be related. That was sarcasm, you morons. I hope you learn to understand reality and that a statement can be sarcastic.",1
"It's middle of the road for a European state in these regards. Its government corruption is about on the same level as the UK in recent years (low-level corruption however in e.g. courts and hospitals is still an issue), and its organised crime is significantly lower than in e.g. France and Italy, and just a bit better than Croatia.","Racist who is literally right now trying to repeat the same lies about us not being ""ready"" to join Schengen in a different thread recognises himself in a comment that doesn't refer to individuals but the many racists in those countries, who are unfortunately representing the country as a whole through their government's decisions, and bleats that he's being discriminated by being called racist. A classic.",0
Stop making it seem like its the democratic west holding back China. It is literally its own leaders and totalitarian system.,"Yeah because the powermad despots in the CCP are powermad. They literally want total control of every side of life, economy and the world. Why else would they have the most sophisticated surveillancesystem in the world and constantly act hypocritically and like a total loser. This system allows NO true competition unlike the west.",0
"Not defending genocide deniers, but this is why they push for the distinction between mass murder and genocide. In their shriveled minds, mass murder is more palatable than genocide.",Killing people because you just don’t care if they have enough food to survive isn’t genocide. For it to be genocide you have to deliberately reduce their number.,1
"The US has sent a clear message to any nation seeking to build a nuclear weapon: you cannot trust us to honor our agreements, and if you don't build a nuke we'll invade you.",This eventually led to where we are today - a nuclear capable North Korea building ICBM's that can reach the US despite all of our sanctions.,0
But if Biden doesn't stand a chance of actually winning then what would any of what you just stated matter?,"(5) I don't know who would win in a Biden vs. Ron, show down. 1st, we would have to see if Ron could beat his primary. Unknown. Nor, if anybody else could win against Ron. That's also unknown. I know Biden has the best chance of defeating him, because of his experience and leadership abilities.",1
"If she was still ringing out your items, how did she know you were paying with food stamps? At least where I work, we ring stuff out, and then ask for the method of payment when we're done. And memory is a tricky thing - even events that we swear happened didn't happen exactly as we thought they did.","I will say that paying via SNAP is much, MUCH easier now that the program uses an actual card as opposed to literal paper coupons. It's possible that the cashiers weren't ""glaring"" at you because they were judging you for what you bought - but because ringing someone out using those dumb paper food stamps was annoying and a pain.",0
"It prevents the kind of tomfoolery that Republicans tried earlier this year in Kansas with abortions. They used a special election, which usually have older and more conservative turnouts, to try to push through a statewide abortion ban.","As a Nevada resident, I actually like that we have to vote on measures twice. It prevents a minority party from introducing a ballot measure during a relatively low turnout midterm and then pointing to that as they use it to make unpopular (but difficult to reverse) changes.",0
The Russians do love them some war crimes and atrocities. I am sure it will result in them being hunted down not unlike the Nazis after WWII. We in the rest of the world need to leverage our elected officials not to end sanctions while war criminals walk free in Russia.,"A new thread, a new day, and a new year. May 2023 bring victory for Ukraine and sharp defeat for the enemies of self-determination, autonomy, and democracy everywhere!",0
"Safe bet for the future: everything you read about North Korea is by definition, unconfirmed tabloid nonsense.","The irony here is that the people who believe this probably also believe that he had his girlfriend killed a few years ago, which made headlines and was never retracted... the same girlfriend that he married and is very much alive, hence this post. The shit that people believe about North Korea is straight out of 1984. People will simultaneously believe three different ""North Korea haircut laws"", because ""LOL North Korea be crazy"" not because, you know, you're reading tabloid nonsense.",0
"538 is an opinion site. People forget that and treat anything they say as gospel. I have been anti-538 this whole cycle and telling folks to not trust ANY polls, people got pissy about it.",This is why I think polling is absolute bullshit. The only people who should see it is campaigns. Otherwise you create a feedback loop and collapse Schroedinger's votes.,1
"Israel rejects proposals where they withdraw behind the international accepted 1967 border, but rather does the war crime of settlers and cleansing of Palestinians in chosen parts. I'd say Israel rejects the reasonable two state solution.","Again, Mr. Necro post, Israel doesn't want a Palestine state. Why? Because then they can't get away with stealing Palestinian land.",1
"This situation is absolutely sick and if Israel truly wanted peace, they'd at the very least halt building settlements but they won't even do that.",Forget what you personally want to see… what realistic outcome could possibly be accepted for peace when the continued sentiment from many surrounding Arabs is “death to Jews and/or Israel”.,1
"I'm not saying that medical staff shouldn't have choice. I'm saying that their choice shouldn't override patient's choice. If doctor is not comfortable doing certain procedure then it should be his duty to find/refer someone else who is able to do it. That would respect patient's wishes, that would make me trust him as I would know that he has best interest in my wellbeing. But Conscience clauses are commonly used as ""I don't want to do it, so you shouldn't either'.","That's true, but how do conscience clauses apply? If anything religious doctors would be more in favor of circumcision. Isn't a conscience clause basically ""my religion says I cannot do this"" for doctors? The parents already have a choice in that matter.",1
"Part of the answer might be that the US is keen to offer to replace European made tanks that are sent to Ukraine. This is likely to result in long term export deals sending US tanks to Europe. However, this plan relies on European nations giving away their European made tanks to Ukraine so that the US can replace them with US made tanks in the hope that it will lead to long term export agreements.","Of course, cheap American tanks right now are more appealing replacements than full price German tanks later in the future, so countries might not be willing to make such agreements for replacements, so Germany keeps holding out on allowing exports to Ukraine.",0
This is Russia in an nutshell for over a century. It is always the bully with the glass jaw. It's only strenh is its numbers and even then its phyrric with them either burning their capital or wasting 1/3 of their youths and hoping the opposite end runs out of bullets.,"We truly gave them a chance, we appeased maybe a little too much, but we cut the devil before it turned into Hitler 2.0. True, at the cost of Ukrainian blood, but that's also on Europe.",0
Then do me a favor leave the 🇺🇸 if you’re here. don’t try to push into what’s not good Take your communist/socialist wants and just move to NK… Cops and all those first aid responders including teachers because that’s what they are have always deserved higher pay since 90s. Just like you disarming our military go fly a kite over there in NK and see how well you do with it.. I won’t stand for cops not getting better pay and equipment.,"No, not all police are bastards. In fact, the vast majority are hard working, good people, who perform a wonderful and necessary service.",1
Measles has all the tricks. Infectious days before you show any symptoms at all? Check. Virus hangs around for hours after you breathe it out? Check. Virus can reach more than _100 feet_ away from someone contagious? Check.,"Measles might just be a bad cold and body rash for you, if you're really lucky. But boy, does it have some effects if you're unlucky. It can cause encephalitis (brain inflammation) - including some up to _27 years_ after you get infected. It can blind and/or deafen you. It can so that you get reinfected by all the _other_ diseases you already had immunity to.",0
"Today we had no missile strikes and no drones, so it was very quiet yet again. We only had a single air raid alert today, and it was uneventful as usual, which is a good thing. Apparently the part of Kharkiv oblast that is closer to the Russian border still continues to get shelled every day, and that probably won’t stop until the war ends, but at least it doesn’t go unpunished, as Russian positions in Belgorod oblast are shelled regularly as well.","Even though people are still skeptical about Russian retreat from Kherson, so far it looks to be the repeat of Kharkiv front; it certainly does seem to disintegrate just as fast. A lot of people were predicting that it will take them weeks to leave Kherson, but at the pace it’s going right now I don’t think that it will take them more than a week, because we are getting reports of a new town being liberated almost every hour.",0
">""They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."".",Hm. Seems like sedition to me. How the fuck did we get to the point where sitting members of Congress said they would have succeeded in overthrowing an election — violently.,1
"I thought the railroad workers wanted guaranteed unpaid leave, I like the idea of 7 to 14 sick days, but they wanted to be able to have weekends and not be called into work for another shift.","If they really wanted to help the workers they would have made the sick days on the same bill, or would have let the strike runs it’s natural course.",1
"So the party could theoretically use some soft power shit to keep a Dem from running, but then I’d be worried about Republicans backing some nutjob to run unopposed in a Dem primary as a spoiler for the general.","I think if she had switched to Independent and also said she was going to caucus with the Republicans, which would have forced the power sharing agreement, she would lose all her committee assignments. That and the death threats she would probably see helped nuance her choice.",1
The US appears to enjoy its position as a bank roll for its allies when they engage with well-known US rivals... China may be putting up defenses of that happening in Taiwan.,"The US has its own one China policy that does not take a stance on the status of Taiwan. US one China policy is intact and in either case the US sets its own parameters on it. China's ""One China PRINCIPLE"" has never been agreed to and the US does not abide by it. The US merely acknowledged that China does in fact have a one China PRINCIPLE.",1
"Two teachers in california in sf, san diego, or la would be an upper middle class household. The issue would be establishing and getting housing, there are programs for that, but programs arent always easy to navigate. Most of the teachers I knew the last couple years had amazing places though because of housing benefits from the city, the ones who didnt just didnt get through the program beuracracy.",>It doesn’t mean they’ll make good teachers but they are probably a little more qualified than a homeless person off the street.,1
This rhetoric from the dumbasses being spread here is one of the reasons the debate has gotten to this point. You say something absurd like “if you don’t like LGBT then you clearly support the mass shooters” removes any credibility you had.,"Let’s be clear: there are actual organizations calling for the deaths of LGBT, and it’s not a bunch of conservatives in the west.",0
Is he really the future of the Republican Party though? I haven’t seen many in the Republican Party claiming that.,"I wouldn't know what to call the Freedom Caucus anything other than a faction. That seems to be driving the Republican thinking In recent times, the progressive wing of the Democrat party has indeed grown, but it's been there for quite a while. They've never exerted enough influence to create the three-ring circus the Freedom Caucus has.",1
The bigger issue should be the straight up lying from the company rather than the initiative to reuse / recycle old sneakers.,"If most people donated worn out shoes that can't be reused, and Reuters donated shoes in good shape, their shoes are not representative of what happened to most shoes. It might be that most shoes were recycled.",1
"This is kind of what the GQP is trying to do in the SCOTUSb right now. End run around democracy. But hey, it's not like they care for it.","That's the whole point. They want him gone, but they don't want to do the dirty work themselves otherwise they might offend his cult.",1
"Edit: ahhhhh or maybe thats the point. Legitimize the Iran selling enriched Uranium to the Houthis by having it as an ""accepted minor truth"" of a larger story.","It's a terrible source, there's no evidence, the source has every reason to lie, and there's no logical reason why Iran would be shipping uranium to the Houthis. The entire article is just the claim, with no detail as to when or why or where or how.",1
"I mean, there's many reasons this war shouldn't have happened, and even if you're a completely brainless and dickless pro-Russian stooge, one good reason for them is Russia is exceedingly bad at it.",Claim you're there only because the government of the country desperately needed help dealing with an internal threat and were unable to deal with it on their own. You're helping!,0
Number of users does not equate to it automatically being subject to free speech or being villainized for someone else's perception of the platform violating what they feel are their free speech rights.,You can find another platform to spew your nonsense. You are just pissy because you want access to the number of people on Twitter and because it's popularized.,0
How was this even remotely possible? Could it possibly have anything to do with Citizens United opening the door to foreign financial influence JUST LIKE EVERYONE BACK THEN SAID IT WOULD?,Edit: to add how disgusting it was to hear people back then (and apparently right fucking now) try to paint the Citizen’s United decision as anything but a green light for unencumbered financial influence over politics. Back then it was a “narrow decision concerning freedom of speech” and fast forward to now and the president can get laundered cash from Russia via the NRA while the same foreign power maligns the other candidate and Putin holds more sway over the executive branch than the US’ own intelligence agencies.,0
Russia has killed a lot of Ukranians and destroyed a lot of Ukrainian weapons. If you deliberately look at kill rate & resources used and not the net size of Ukrainian military then I suppose you could argue that they have made progress. It's cherry picking but what can you expect. They need to have something to show for the collossal blunder they made.,"I'm not suggesting that Russia is winning, I'm just suggesting that it's possible to pick specific statistics that don't make Putin and gang look like complete morons that sent 100k Russians to their deaths for no appreciable gain to Russia.",0
A lot of the Western misconceptions about Russia like the one you mentioned are exactly what fuel Putin's murderous and illegitimate regime.,"He said in the following years (after the interview to Ekho Moskva, but before this latest expanded war) that a new democratic Russia would try to resolve the question in a legitimate way.",0
"Kasich, Cheney and - shudder - Ryan are all seen as traitors by the base and would never be able to lead the GOP caucus even if they were somehow miraculously elected Speaker.","The Republicans have more votes in the House so there is no way a Democrat can win the vote for Speaker so nominating a progressive wouldn't do anything. It appears that McCarthy will be nominated by the majority of the Republican party, but if Democrats choose someone a semi-sane Republican who would peal off even a few votes from the Republican party they can deny McCarthy control of the House.",1
There’s a pretty awesome article by general Mark Hartling (last name almost certainly wrong) who was the US army commander for Europe and did a ton of work with both the Russians and Ukrainians.,"Garbage headline she actually said Russian invasion of Ukraine revealed that Europe is too reliant on American defenses, that the EU should be more self reliant.",1
"It took 30 years of constant right-wing attacks to bring Clinton down, it took a pile of lies so deep you can't even reach the floor to bring Clinton down, it took conspiracy theories about chanting Satanic prayers at her Goldman Sachs speeches to bring her down, it took James Comey having a red, white, and blue stick up his ass to bring Clinton down. Pull out any one of those elements and she'd be President today. If Donald Trump had never been cast in The Apprentice, or Fox News hadn't bent over for him, or the mainstream media hadn't given him billions of dollars in free advertising, Donald Trump wouldn't have won.",But the thing you have to think about is how much work and how much luck it took to get Donald Trump that victory.,0
"Israel annexed East Jerusalem and offered citizenship to those who wanted it, and permanent residency to those who did not. Israel wouldn't -and shouldn't- renege on this. the citizens would be left under no government, and what are the others to do? Those with residence largely hold Jordanian passports, IIRC, but I don't see Jordan welcoming the influx of people.","So to really answer your question: because these are Israelis or Israeli residents, a majority born there, and some being horrible does not take that away from them.",0
"Its funny how people on here are claiming that 'Democrats coming after gas stoves is ridiculous' but then there's people defending doing just that in these comments. If manufacturers can create an induction stove that people desire over gas, then people will go for it instead of the gas. Until then I would support a little sticker on the box explaining the risks to consumers, and if they still want gas let them have it.",Gas burners are far more responsive to adjustments can quickly heat up or cool down. You can char food right there on the exposed flame. You can light it if the power is out. There's a reason if you go in pretty much any professional kitchen you will not find electric stoves. If they were just flat out better wouldn't chefs prefer them?,0
"Those who violate the new provisions would receive a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a moving violation.",People buy pets impulsively for the holiday and then return them once the regret sets in. Or releases domesticated rabbits into the wild where they will be unlikely to survive .,0
And an abundance of american/canadian flags now directly indicates that the person is an unpatriotic traitor to the flag.,The utter irony is that there used to be a responsibility for using the American flag. It needs to be raised at dawn and come down at dusk. It should never be allowed to touch the ground. It’s only folded in a certain way.,1
Well Trump said he might announce his candidacy as soon as next week so it has to be expected that people will want to know if Biden is running again too.,- If Trump runs then Biden will run because Biden believes that he is the only democrat who can beat Trump.,1
I personally think that restricting voting and property ownership to only citizens is a good thing - but the entire country should do it and it should not be race/culture based but citizen based.,"Unpopular opinion but the US as a whole really should do more laws like this, land is a massive problem in the US and given the amount of homeless we have and the costs of owning a home, limiting foreign land ownership is a good idea.",1
Most people that are pro debt relief are also pro allowing it to be removed with bankruptcy or removing the extremely predatory interests rates.,"Fixing the interest rate problem is far more defensible, politically and morally, than wiping out voluntary debt as a massive gift to a subset of people that already earn well above average.",1
"Hitler wasn’t just a meth head, his doctor really hooked him up with good shit. He was intravenously injected with a combo of cocaine, oxycodone and methamphetamine. A speedball. Hitler thought his doctor was the savior that cured all his ailments. That’s pretty much why hitler was making rash and stupid decisions from a military standpoint towards the end.",Hitler made terrible decisions before and all through the war because of his addiction to speed. I’m not sure he was ever not on speed when he was in public. When Orson Welles appeared on Dick Cavett show in the 70s he told a story about meeting Hitler and what an unremarkable person he was to the extent he barely remembered him. Hitlers entire personality changed at some point and was probably due to his massive and long term drug use.,1
"And then a bunch of dipshits decided he was a flawless god? Like, seriously, Trump supporters are stone cold stupid. Like, I wouldn’t trust them with a spoon because they’d end up scooping their own eyeballs out. Dumb is simply not extensive enough of a word to describe how absolutely broke brain you have to be to hold these fawning thoughts about Trump.","Trump fucking warped America's brain. It's really weird and sad. The Trump family I have I refuse to talk politics with, but, I'm pretty good about navigating touchy subjects like fucking dinosaurs with these people (YEC, dinosaurs are the devil's work), so it wasn't hard, I don't see them that often, so who knows that they are thinking these days. Luckily, all of that family is weirdly attentive to medical advice, so I don't think many of them fell into anti-covid rhetoric as much. Obviously I didn't discuss it with them, COVID was a great excuse not to see them, especially because there's someone in all of those households who is significantly immunocompromised. I know they did take it seriously, at least for a while, because they were all very serious about quarantine. One of my cousins is a weird far right Orange County guy, but he has a terminal genetic disorder and is wheel chair bound. He's the only person I've seen bring up far right talking points, and, it's kinda like ""I don't want to get into a screaming match with my cousin that has been stuck in a wheel chair his whole life..... I'm just going to let him keep on going"".",1
Also Russia’s T-90 and T-72 are operated by 3 people while the Abrahams and Leo need 4 persons. Still not saying it’s better on the Russian side and again just pointing out differences.,Is it ? I’m not an expert so I’m genuinely interested but can these tanks really be repaired on the field by the crew themselves? Also the extra pair of eyes looking for danger would likely only apply to inside the turret / cabin. Also I assume the loader job is the most tiring one. Are jobs rotated with the gunner ?,0
"And went ""IT'S ALL A HOAX, FAKE NEWS CHINA PLAGUE DON'T WEAR MASKS MY rule was ALL OBAMA's FAULT!"" Then tried to rile a base to attack school shooting victims and called them crisis actors, to the tune of lawsuits and cheering. And then was never punished for any of his crimes while the fbi and defence department twiddled their thumbs and took out their teeth and used their gums on him while he wanted to cheer for another child shooting.","Can't you see both sides are the same? Why should someone who wants to give people access to a better education, worked their way up on the american dream, highly educated, cares about the poor and needy get a vote over the person who wanted to commit tax fraud and leave his own voters dead, dying in the cold and infected with the plague, and watching his own voters die.",0
"They(Putin and Co.) probably just wanted to quickly get rid of the people who have a very legitimate reason to turn around and shoot at the very government that put them in jail in the first place. To them, those penal soldiers are the last people they want to train ""properly"", for fear of them using that training against the Russian government, instead of the enemy(in this case: Ukraine).","Also you have to remember, generally if soldiers become veterans in Russia there is a fear they might take against those in charge, so the system is set up to try and stop them getting that far.",1
"oh don’t worry it won’t affect them, it’ll just grandfather in old people so that the young people who don’t vote are the main ones getting fucked over.","The Republicans won't do it in a way that will affect current SS beneficiaries, so the oldies can still stick their heads in the sand.",1
"I personally doubt that Russia can ever win in Ukraine, even if they undertake a WW2-style economic mobilization and receive military equipment from China. Ukraine's suppliers have deeper pockets and better toys than Russia can ever dream of getting.","The Russian government has so far been trying to not upset ethnic Russians in Moscow. They first drafted non-Russians, Russians outside of Moscow, and dissidents first. They've been trying to keep their zombie economy propped up with a veneer of normalcy in Moscow while conducting their ""limited mobilization"" to fight in their ""special military operation."".",0
Which ones have a population near the US's or enacted gun control on a similar number of firearms as what is in circulation in the US?,I'd agree but you see countless stories of repeat offenders being let off lightly in regards to bail or sentencing so that seems like a more logical first step than confiscation/banning.,0
Simply achieving a hypersonic speed does not make a hypersonic missile in modern context. We have had missiles capable of hypersonic speed since the 50's. The Russians call this a hypersonic but it's not the same thing.,"That is classic Russia though. Back in Russo-Japanese War, the Baltic Fleet while on the way to the Pacific mistook fishing vessels for Japanese torpedo boats despite being in North Sea, many thousands of miles for Japan, and opened fire. One ship fired over 50 shots at the stationary targets while not hitting anything. Overall 2 fishermen died and along with 2 Russians from friendly fire.",1
I'd rather have 2 years of a slight Republican trifecta from 2024 to 2026 then get stuck with a huge Republican majority in 2028 that persists for 4-6 years or longer.,Those who voted for Biden and will vote for him in 2024 need to understand they are historically making it easier for Republicans to win congressional seats in the following elections. That's the cost of holding the presidency.,0
Saturation attacks are highly effective against even the most advanced missile defense systems. As long as the target isn't concealed or mobile it's definitively vulnerable.,"That said, you probably want a saturation attack to include more than 50 missiles to have a good chance at hitting multiple valuable targets.",0
"I started writing out a full explanation with examples, but it got a bit long, I doubt its going to change anyones minds, and may end up with additional responses that I dont want to deal with. To be brief though, this isnt about the meaning of the words, but the structure of the language. If you really care check this out It doesnt exactly apply here, because ""drink driving"" is using two nouns, and this article mostly talks about word order, but its kind of the same idea. Also, the actual term is ""drink-driving"" which I dont know why, but the hyphen seems way more correct and less confusing.","Doesn’t really matter, language is a form of communication and I think just about anyone would understand what is meant by drink-driving.",1
"KMT isn't pro unification, KMT is literally the party that fought and lost the civil war in China and fled to taiwan to form republic of china aka taiwan.","Sure, an independent Taiwan definitely does not want to be ruled by the PRC, but im afraid that choice would be made in either Washinon or Beijing and not Taipei.",1
"It's obviously not shit if they're happy with the care they're receiving at the cost they're paying. I get that Bernie wants to push his MFA plan, and some who want ""free"" insurance support it too, but the reality is most people are happy with the healthcare they already have.","I’m to Bernie’s left on health care (I support socialized healthcare like Britain has, not just insurance.). But I’ve read the polling data. While Medicare for all has strong support among Democrats (around 70%) it’s opposed almost universally by republicans (like 15% support) and about 50/50 by independents. It’s not even close to having the votes.",1
But the rest of the world (USA) could stop giving billions in weapons to Israel. Weaponiszing Israel and Saudi Arabia is going to create a gigantic war with Iran. You don't start handing out weapons to people who hate others without expecting them to be used.,"But Israel provoking the people around them doesn't make them safer, it only makes the others more angry. Much like the USA bombing weddings and children to get terrorists makes more terrorists, Israel occupying another country and destroying homes there makes people really hate Israel.",0
But there is no solution. You can't process the trash fast enough to even slow down its accumulation. Obviously there is no capacity to move the trash away or process them. You can try to move people away but I doubt there is the capacity to do so right now.,"So basically everyone will just watch the disaster unfold with fascination, rant a lot and secretly relief that we are not over there (except those affected).",0
When Maryland Republicans nominated an election denier to take Hogan's place Hogan was very quick to come out and decry him as a nut job.,"Hogan will be the John Kasich of the next GOP primary, one of the few people on the stage not a raging piece of shit and therefore entirely ignored by Republican voters.",1
"They said the same thing about the Red Army during WW2. Russia has borderline endless manpower, and we all know they are willing to sustain MASSIVE casualties to achieve their goal. The west is sending tanks, sure….but the Taliban countered tanks easily by burry absolute sht tons of IEDs non stop.","Yes I’m aware, this has been discussed if you read the posts. I’m saying as far as retaining or retreating…..mines and IEDs have been proven. Taliban and Isis who are having a grand old time right now have already tried and tested it.",0
"I could go on but I have a feeling if you already believe that the rich “pay taxes” this information may not benefit you. Just know that the rich have been getting a whole lot richer while the rest of us get poorer, and it’s not because we’re working less or getting less done, quite the opposite.","Wealth is relative, you get wealthier by either getting richer yourself or making everyone else poorer.",1
"I’d give a lot of credit towards the street protests for that. Back in the mid-to-late 2010s, there were a ton of riots and anti-government protests and crazy stories about what was going on there, but as Maduro consolidated power it became clear that the protests weren’t working and they fizzled out. Combine that with Guaido running out of steam and the opposition’s attempts to remove Maduro from power fizzling out and it just kinda became stale news. However, yeah, the conditions have not gotten any better on the ground and the plight of the average Venezuelan is not good.","That's all true, and yet Cuba got worse after La Revolucion, and today, people from SA flock to the capitalist USA because they know their lives will be better there.",1
"To be fair, they did arrest someone covering the event and DeWine said he had no involvement in the illegal apprehensive of a reporter by police.","So your sister has that ""defensive instinct"" that all humans get: Something is afoot. But like a good republican she has had her defensive instinct trained to seek out a scapegoat. ""Are you sure grass is green?"" kind of conspiracy thinking. It's good to be suspicious when your educators say, ""Grass is green,"" but conservatives tend to have a weak set of tools to interrogate the science behind ""grass"" or the definition of ""green"", let alone how we as a species have a collective, socialized definition of things, and so on....",0
My recollection from 2016 is that Adams expressed admiration for trump's ability to manipulate people and at no time condemned trump for his racist statements.,"Adams decided he was also a ""Master Manipulator"" so dove head long into Trumpism as it vindicated how he saw himself - as powerful and important as Trump.",1
"Significantly, most of the deaths of Republicans from COVID was after the vaccines were widely available. NY was ravaged in the early days, with a lack of PPE and not enough HCWs to handle the surge.","I work in a hospital ER. We’re still masking. Besides COVID, there are other viruses spread by respiratory route heavily circulating right now, namely RSV and Flu A. I wore a mask every flu season for years before COVID because I work in a relatively small area full of infectious patients who regularly cough in my face. I haven’t had a respiratory infection other than a head cold for decades. I now also wear a mask when in a crowd or on an airplane because there are too many stupid and/or inconsiderate people who will not stay home when they’re sick and cover their mouths when they’re coughing.",0
- If Trump runs then Biden will run because Biden believes that he is the only democrat who can beat Trump.,What happens while Biden is in office matters and will be used for or against our Party in 2024. Low-engaged voters will blame the WH more than the GOP chambers in 2024 too.,1
"This whole nonsense is beyond exceptionally dumb. First of all they're not even claiming there were issues in Cochise County instead they're claiming there were issues in Maricopa County. Additionally, if they do not certify their results (they'll likely be forced to by a judge) all that happens is that the results from Cochise end up excluded which would only serve to increase the margin of victory for Democrats.","If they fail to certify the votes and an entire county loses their vote causing the seat to flip dem they will probably try to sue saying republican votes weren’t counted correctly. Trump will take it to the Supreme Court . Probably, I don’t even understand this timeline anymore.",1
"There’s no reason why. There’s no way to include greece and rome as the origin of western civilization that can exclude egypt. That’s unintuitive to most people because they associate “the west” with whiteness. It’s not racist that they have that association, it’s just historically inaccurate.",Are you now trying to turn my totally understandable interpretation of your quintessentially weird claim into yet another indirect accusation of racism?,1
It all sounds very uplifting but those units are under Ukrainian Army’s command and no one will ever let them go to Belarus unfortunately. Because the West is gonna have a very strong say in it. And the west will never let Ukraine let it happen. Sorry for being a downer.,"I do hope it happens but again, anticipating how putin and lukashenko’s propaganda are going to present this to the global community, I really doubt that Ukrainians who are going to be re-building their country at that point and aiming to get in EU and NATO will allow this to happen. They’ll probably find vaarious way to stop this unit’s members from even approaching the north borders let alone fighting anywhere except Ukraine.",0
Not to say what’s happening here was ok. Just that the mayor being not elected by the full city population is fairly common.,"“ In lots of small towns actually the mayor is just a ceremonial figure, often someone sitting in city council already, voted on by the city council. And it’s the city manager who is in charge of actually running the city city government. Not every city is mayored like a New York or Chicago.”.",0
"It's not a knock on Israel, it just speaks to the difficulty of intercepting ballistic missles period. Israel relies on extremely credible threats of gratuitous violence to anyone who decides to use such a missle to deter such attacks.","If Israel didn't fear Iran's missile stockpile, or Iran's capacity to retaliate, they would have destroyed every nuclear facility in Iran a dozen times over.",1
More pushback will probably come from other major nato countries as long as Russia got nukes. No country willingly wants to fight a country with large amount of nukes.,Nobody wants to go to war fucko. Why is Russia so afraid of everybody? Do they think if they don't inflate their chest and make the most threats that other countries are waiting to pounce?,1
"A declaration from Allah and His Messenger ˹is made˺ to all people on the day of the greater pilgrimage1 that Allah and His Messenger are free of the polytheists. So if you ˹pagans˺ repent, it will be better for you. But if you turn away, then know that you will have no escape from Allah. And give good news ˹O Prophet˺ to the disbelievers of a painful punishment.","..In the Two Sahihs, it is recorded that Ibn Umar said that the Messenger of Allah said, (I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establish the prayer and pay the Zakah.) This honorable Ayah (9:5) was called the Ayah of the Sword, about which Ad-Dahhak bin Muzahim said, ""It abrogated every agreement of peace between the Prophet and any idolator, every treaty, and every term."" Al-Awfi said that Ibn Abbas commented: ""No idolator had any more treaty or promise of safety ever since Surah Bara'ah was revealed. The four months, in addition to, all peace treaties conducted before Bara'ah was revealed and announced had ended by the tenth of the month of Rabi Al-Akhir."".",0
"Fittingly, it's the opposite of the that competent leaders practice before resorting to gunboat diplomacy, except subtlety often tends to gets lost on the loud and stupid.","What's a ""light balloon"", you may wonder? Luckily the ICAO thoughtfully included definitions in the same Annex:",0
"If the Republicans get the House, then the House is not going to pass bills Biden or the Democrats in the Senate want to see. So it doesn’t even matter if we have 65 Democrats in the Senate when the Republicans are not going to pass anything in the House.","It would be amazing if the House Dems can convince a couple Republicans to vote with them on the speaker. Someone in the center, like Tim Ryan OH who lost his election. Or someone from the outside, constitution does not require the House leader to be an active member of Congress. Def not Pelosi, and forget pushing a progressive agenda (which I support).",1
"In the late 1950s, Japanese cars were widely ridiculed. 30 years later, a Lexus was a dream machine.","When Putin rose to power, lots of people in the West saw him as a technocrat, the kind of person who could engineer a Japanese-style rise from the ashes of defeat to a peaceful economic superpower. And if he'd bothered to learn the lessons of how Japan did that, he could have engineered that. Instead, he decided that his ideal model for how to govern would be the USSR, and never was smart enough to realize that the USSR failed, and doing the same thing over again was just going to lead to another failure.",0
"At least from what i've gathered, hippos are not considered critically endangered, only vulnerable or endangered, this this might technically be the correct choice for the EU.",For hippopotamus amphibious the EU position is negative to move them from Appendix II to Appendix I because.,0
"The elephant in the room is the rest of the Muslim world, the Arab World isn't just silent on China’s crackdown on Uighurs. it's complicit.","Saudi Arabia, a key ally of China, has shown support for Beijing’s crackdown on Uighur culture in the past. During a 2019 visit to China, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto ruler, told his hosts: “We respect and support China’s rights to take counter-terrorism and de-extremism measures to safeguard national security.” Saudi Arabia further endorsed China’s Xinjiang policies in two joint letters to the United Nations in 2019 and 2020.",0
The media mentions that democracy is under attack but always fucuses on the big elections. They rarely mention that one of the fixes is for people to vote every chance they get. Vote ever year in every primary and we might get more politicians in place that will do what the people want.,The problem is that it’s not the candidate as much as it is the voters. As long as the United States has a substantial number of voters voting for this kind of crap there will be those looking to please this group of voters.,1
"The point of my comment was that if the US tried to get legalistic in attempting to cross warships into the Black Sea, Russia could try the same regardless of the argument's merits. They both should absolutely be denied.","Even if the US could go in, it probably would not be a good idea since any direct confrontation between the US and Russia is dangerous.",0
What sane non-billionaire would decide that billionaires should pay less taxes than someone making 50k a year?,Do you not think the super rich are the ones who paid to have those rules in place? There's less than 1000 billionaires and every one of them is complicit.,0
"I’d be fine with Dems supporting an actual moderate Republican, if they can get concessions including limitations on dumb-fuck investigations, including just some form of shared committee power.","Mind you, those concessions don’t mean pushing the Democrats’ agenda but rather means nixing bullshit investigations/impeachments and acting in good faith to work with the Senate leadership on a compromise agenda while keeping the MTGs of the world marginalized.",1
Russia's air problem is that it has way more airframes than it has pilots and maintenance crews. And every lost pilot isn't getting replaced anytime soon.,Highly unlikely if its daily flights. Russia had to reach out to its allies when it found that the stocks reserved for conscript forces had mysteriously turned into yachts (1.4 million uniforms only existed on paper for example). There's a notable improvement in the equipment on Mobiks captured by Ukraine.,0
Every fascist is that. Literally that. The body grows but the limbic system doesnt. They do horrible things to.other people and never even do the smallest amount of brainwork to think about what it would feel like of it were done to them.,"They all think theyre immune. Until theyre not. Then theyll cry and whine and scree like ittle bitty babies, as ALL the people Trump fucked over ALWAYS do when they realize the fascism is being done TO them.",0
"Don’t really get the doom and gloom over losing the House as winning it was always a stretch, I mean it’s frustrating that we were so close (big ups to my dumbass local Party) but still :T.","If/when the House is called for the GOP (in 3 fucking years at this rate), it's going to be the biggest wet fart of a victory for them hahaha.",1
"Great, you should do that. If you see lies, expose them. But let’s not ignore the rhetoric seen on these comments, and assumedly you, that indicates that Twitter has a moral obligation to censor anything that’s seen as “misinformation,” according to them.","We should expect that Democrats will get upset they can't blatantly spread lies on Twitter anymore, but them throwing tantrums is a small price to pay as we can't let them be the ""arbiters of truth"" any longer.",1
"I didn't return mine that quickly, but it was signature verified on 11/2, and then counted in a batch on 11/4.","County elections departments in Arizona post lists of what ballot batch is counted when. Looking at the one for Pima County, early ballots that arrived up to a week prior may still have taken until election day to get counted.",0
"Pretty much universally from what I've read Omnicron is generally considered less serious or on par then Delta from sources I've looked at, e.g. the one I linked above being from November. Delta generally did more damage in part due to vaccines being less widespread and treatments being less mature. This is generally what makes it difficult to determine if Omnicron is on par or lesser then Delta. Then you have mutations in Omnicron making vaccines and past infections provide less protection. So comparison are generally a complete mess due to so many uncontrolled variables.",China has a antivaxers problem in it's older generation who don't trust the government and also even if they are vaccinated the quality of the vaccines are not great and many countries who used Chinese one revaccinated people with western ones.,0
"You’re mistaken it’s because of Ukraine wanting to join NATO that started military training episodes, that then had to rid the nazis, to be able to find labs where the US was creating chemical weapons.","But even if I’m wrong, and the Ukranians violated those treaties first, “We had to invade Ukraine because they did not accept our earlier invasion of Ukraine” is only morally compelling to people who really, really want it to be.",1
"NATO squabbling is politics, and them trying to figure out exactly how far they can go without “actively” stepping into the ring. Right now NATO is just tossing in weapons and help from behind the ropes and making sure Ukraine has a fair shot at the bigger opponent.","Twas a tad different, the enemy was hiding among the populace. They weaponized children and women to suicide themselves into troops. The taliban weren’t exactly wearing clear identifying army clothing. I’m sure the USA still killed tons of innocents but maybe not quite so blatantly. Russia’s strategy is basically inflict as much damage as possible, bomb civilian buildings, make them give up.",0
"Which also means that by definition, anyone who's calling a lesson you agree with ""indoctrination"" is planning to do something you'd call ""indoctrination"" instead. It's just ""wroneach"", for want of a better word. And this debate is just the left and right screeching it at each other over how education impacts the youth vote.",The fact that you and I agree with one doesn't make it less partisan. Especially as we're probably both left wing.,0
"It's true that the Speaker doesn't have to be a member of the House, but do you know how often that has happened?","Does the person with support from 210 reps become speaker, or do they have to keep negotiating until a 218 of them get behind someone?",1
Yeah the thing is that if Jeffries gets the Speaker we will get votes on Democratic bills. The bills will get voted down but at least they will get voted on that. That's something that matters come election time when votes are out in the open. If McCarthy gets speaker through deals with the crazies he will stonewall all progressive bills and then the media will blame the Democrats for doing nothing for two years because they like to do that.,McCarthy should talk with Jeffries and give speaker to him in return to go with a moderate republican agenda.,1
"Plus, if the USA weakens Russia now, then Russia won't be able to come to China's help when the big fight comes.","It's really shitty that Ukraine has to suffer but with or without the US help, russia attacked. US couldn't have change anything and if the US/Nato step in at all then expect nuclear war so NATO hands are tied in how they can help. Sending equipment without losing troops is the best route for all these other countries not Ukraine, but there's nothing else anyone can do so this is the best anyone can do.",1
I gave some poor fuck a wake up call recently. He was in my bar sulking about not being able to find any employees for $16.50. And that he couldn't pay more.,"To me it felt like messaging from a corporate takeover. Like ""if we find out you're not enjoying working here, you can work somewhere else 😃"".",0
"THAT'S how compelling the GOP's current ""platform"" is. The BIGGER problems is that they don't seem to care. Their leaders are raking in HUGE AMOUNTS of money and cozying up to anyone who is willing to push cash their way for cozying up to them.","If it wasn't for the outdated election system and the decades of GOP de-democratification of state election systems, the GOP would be luck y to win a Congressional house once every 10 years.",0
Jets are not able to be used effectively by either side due to the absolute massive amount of anti air weapons deployed on the field.,They’re using artillery which is basically a technologically advanced trebuchet/mangonel. It does move but not while firing. It is possible to hit it back with your own artillery but they have different ranges and obviously yours would become a target the closer to the front lines it is as well.,0
"Because it's a slippery slope if we start checking qualifications or start restricting who can run or hold office. In theory the only requirements to be a member of congress are based on age and living in the district/area you'll represent. If you start backstopping people's qualifications, you make it more likely that we'll end up with mostly lawyers and more of the very professionals that have largely forked us all.","Instead of backchecking their stories (I think the press can do that), I'd rather see certain actions to run or hold office such as a certain amount of community service hours, town hall appearances, hours campaigning with other candidates, time living in certain areas within the district and maybe joining the reserve branch of the military once in office. I'd also love some term limits and perhaps a max age. It would also be great if they had continuing education requirements since after watching some hearings I'm convinced that some members don't even have a basic grasp on some of what they legislate.",0
"That's what made the nukes so effective at ending the war. We showed Japan we had single bombs that could level a city. That's way more intimidating than the carpet bombing, despite being less lethal.","The reality is however carpet bombing took way more lives than both atomic bombs. But while the carpet bombings were like multiple stab wounds, the atom bombs were big freaking holes. The latter was just more immediately, conceivably terrifying in its consequences than the former.",1
"So even before 1918, he would not have been Kaiser. That would be the Hohenzollern family, who came to rule Brandenburg, became kings of Prussia and then Kaisers of Germany - from Wilhelm 1 (1871) to Wilhelm II (abdicated in 1918). There are living descendants of the family too.","Kings rule by divine right . Your ascent to the throne might see folks suggest that is heaven smiling upon you (Chinese have ) But you will find plenty of people willing to dispute the same. Until your power cows and winnows enough. Some other pedigree of legitimacy is usually found in the west. With enough power, often the documentation will follow. Or marriage alliances.",0
Same as people wearing seatbelts when they drive. Being prepared doesn't mean you are perpetually afraid of being in a car accident.,Wearing a seatbelt and carrying a gun stems from a similar desire to be prepared for the possibility of dangerous scenarios.,0
"As long as something remains a wedge issue (marijuana, abortion, etc) you’re not going to see any meaningful attempt to change it. Because then you cannot run on that wedge issue next election season. Name of the game is milking shit for as long as you can, unfortunately. If democrats actually gave a fuck about abortion, they’d have protected it federally 10 years ago. If republicans actually gave a fuck about gun rights, they’d be serious about de stigmatizing suppressors. On a federal level it’s all a racketeering scheme where you run based on “other side is going to take X away” and don’t do anything to protect it once you win so you can rinse and repeat later on in your career.","It’s almost like rights that aren’t explicitly stated in the constitution should be protected by law, passed by lawmakers, and not left up to a body that’s supposed to determine whether or not laws are constitutional.",0
"I don’t know if there were exceptions for birth defects, but if a doctor came to a decision and concluded that an abortion needs to be performed they would be able to perform an abortion regardless of how long it is.","- Prohibits doctors from performing abortions after 15 weeks gestation – when an unborn child can feel pain – except in situations involving rape, incest, or risks to the life and physical health of the mother. (Affects New York, Oregon, California, Minnesota, New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, Vermont, Hawaii - All Blue States).",1
"I'm usually on board with hating whataboutisms but religion is religion and its terrible all around. Maybe 15% are good but doesn't make up for the rest. It just breeds evil and hate and ignorance all based on fairy tales at that. It's not so much that Christians are bad, US bad, it's that religion sucks in general. It's the reason half the planet is fucked up and been the reason for wars for all of history. And now in the US religion is seeping into government not to mention the hate in our society. And like person said, all over a sky genie. All over beliefs and not reality.",Biggest eye openong simple depiction was Pootin honoring the Bucha killer on TV and awarding him medals. Russia is a failed mafia country.,0
"The point is, this ideas can spread mostly because religion creates a fértile enviroment for then, if we teached people to think, to analyze and use method to build world views we would be faar more advanced as Societies (but to be fair its not a religion but a power thing). Instead we get irrational humans with ground beliefs that defy reality and logic.","The only thing preventing Christians to being like extremists muslins is opportunity, if granted, it would be The same.",0
"""The force of arms replaces diplomacy because it is the only language that Putin and the Kremlin are ready to understand"" she added.","Analyzing the situation in retrospect, because in real time I didn’t fully understand, it is clear Ukraine knew Russia would attack at least 7-10 days prior to the attack. And they were fully prepared. When Ukraine made those preparations, Russia should have aborted.",0
Of course not. It’s the republicans decades of corruption related to the bogus war on drugs that is the cause of like half the problems our society faces today.,"The drug war most definitely causes more problems than it fixes, but Fentanyl is a weird one that probably would persist even if drugs were legal. It's not a problem that has any kind of easy solution. The main thing would be to just reduce opiate addiction in general. A shit ton of it starts in hospitals and with doctors, and patients just move on from oxycontin/vicoden/whatever to street drugs once they get dependent and either build a tolerance or lose their prescription. Interestingly, kratom is actually a fantastic way to move from a dangerous opiate addiction to something much safer and easier to handle. Kratom addiction also kind of cures itself after a while, because it weirdly stops working but you don't get severe withdrawal from it after that like you would with proper opiates. You just kind of lose interest because it no longer gets you high.",1
"There’s a difference between being killed on the day the insurrection happened, and being killed as a consequence of the insurrection.","They’re not, you’re playing semantics about the life of someone lost and a globally acknowledged violent insurrection. From your own fucking article:",1
"One or two might not seem like a big deal, but have you ever had one or two rotten shrimp in your trashcan? It's gonna stink the whole place up, and the only way to fix it is to take out the trash.","You're always going to have junk in your house that's just there. But you have to keep it in the junk drawer of your house, otherwise it gets everywhere.",1
"Do you pretend to be stupid enough to not know about nazis because you think a third party reading this will be stupid enough to believe you? I assure you, no one is as stupid as people who defend nazis.","The GOP has always had a place at their table for Nazis. They share a history of enforcing a racial hierarchy through the power of the state. Extreme nationalism, disdain for education and journalism, and pathological obsession over the 'preservation' of a fictitious ideal society that never was define both. They're cut from the same ideological cloth. Not every republican is a Nazi but every Nazi is a republican.",1
There’s a source that you didn’t ask for. It’s not the original it just references the original article. The 6.5 trillion was more than the Pentagon’s entire budget that year by A LOT. If it is corruption then we have a serious leak in our budget.,"We know that corruption affects different areas in different ways. You're talking without any evidence of corruption affecting weapons and aid shipments which is the type of corruption they are worried about. Our last president, Trump, was more corrupt than anything you'd find in Ukraine. I'm sure you saw your boss Putin confirm trump was his puppet on Russia TV 1 time after time.",1
"Opportunity presented itself to sell weapons, a major industry in the USA especially, to a righteous cause. While simultaneously demonstrating the ineffectiveness of a competitor's product (Russia). Barring the use of WMDs and internationally-agreed-upon illegal activity, Russia is a military failure. Their kit is a joke, their troops are a joke, and they need to be stepped on internationally, publicly, and decisively.","1. Russia, not a real party anymore, have made themselves North Korean level of travesty, intentionally.",0
"When it was first sent into Ukraine, the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, stationed in northwestern Russia near its border with NATO-leaning Finland, had more experience, newer equipment, and better training than many other Russian units, The Washinon Post reported on Friday.",The 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade is one of many high-profile units that saw heavy depletion.,0
"“While the warming trend in Europe is on average stronger in the warmer seasons, winters are also becoming warmer as a result of global temperatures.”.","""During 2021, winter, summer and autumn for the whole of Europe were all warmer than the respective seasonal averages for the 1991–2020 reference period."".",0
"The Church sold the land in 2004 to the ""settlers"", but after the public outrage decided to cancel the sale. Unfortunately for them, you can't cancel a sell that already happened, there is no return window.","Oh but even the Church didn't try to claim the sale was fake. They tried to argue in court the Patriarch didn't had the authority to make it, but the Patriarch absolutely had it.",0
"So yes it is habitable, but you are correct that humans have caused a lot of damage to the environment through our lifestyle choices.",People out west always try to ruin the environment and shape the environment to fit their bad lifestyles. It is a desert. Stop trying to pretend it is habitable.,1
"The F-16 is one of the most widely exported fighter jets out of the USA. It has an extremely long history of operation and training foreign crews on the airframe. Additionally, for a fighter jet, is relatively easy to learn to operate. Someone who already knows how to operate a fighter jet of any kind should be able to transition with ease and expediency.","I know the Iraqi pilots were in training for years when they began their program, and I’m fairly sure most if not all those guys had been flying MIGs beforehand or some sort of jet.",1
"The actual important part is that the treaty says new members have to be European, meaning not even countries like Mexico could join even if they wanted. Canada and the US ""gets around this"" by being founding members.","That said, yes Russia could theoretically join NATO. I doubt it'll ever happen though, since it's the reason NATO exists in the first place (unless it truly does become a proper democracy and another country like China becomes the new ""main threat"" for Europe).",0
"There is nothing that Russia exports that Canada does not produce for itself, except certain weapons that Canada does not make and buys from America and Europe.","And the American right wants to justify annexing Canada by force if necessary, and wants to help Russia dominate its region.",1
"As Russia is dishonest about anything and everything, my guess here is that the attacks are going to stop anyway as they depleted their stocks of long-range precision weapons.","If Russia couldn’t beat Ukraine with the US’ hand me down weapons, they stand no chance against US advanced weapons.",1
"You see, Iran and North Korea supplying us weapons is cool.... No global catastrophes. The west supplying Ukraine however will lead to global catastrophe.","West not sending enough weapons to Ukraine prior to Russian invasion has lead to a catastrophe. If Ukraine was NATO outpost armed to the teeth, Putin would be scared to invade like puppy.",1
"First off, wikileaks was (is?) an amazing thing and sadly from what everyone around Assange has later told, be it his co-founders etc., the man is a megalomaniac narcissist asshole.","Assange is an incredibly shit person it amazes me so many people try to defend him. Nobody ever went after the reporters Snowden used, that is journalism regardless of how I feel about what Snowden did. People are trying to create controversy where there just isn't any with Assange.",1
Asbestosis occurs as a result of scar tissue formation due to inflammation. However it is not metastatic and is a type of interstitial pulmonary fibrosis.,Now the most important factor into the safety of this ship being sunk. Is that lung parenchyma is extremely sensitive. It’s a thin delicate tissue which is vulnerable to toxins. And is why lung cancer has extremely high rates. But no animal will be breathing with lungs will be breathing in said asbestos containing water.,0
"4. Stick with Trump and encourage DeSantis to wait for the 2028 election. Given that Trump hurt the GOP badly in the 2018 midterms, lost the 2020 presidential election and again hurt Republicans in this year’s midterms, he will be an electoral disaster. He’ll keep prattling on about a stolen election and his cruelty and divisiveness, now known commodities, will doom GOP hopes to win the White House and further tarnish the party’s image.","2. Continue coddling Trump and let the GOP primary play out, which would produce the same outcome as option No. 1.",0
"Its definitely possible and I have no idea what comes after Putin. There are different groups of people who may not be happy with Putin inside of Russia, but none can openly say that. Those who are more extreme than Putin are extremely worrying. Their propaganda is allowed inside of Russia so long as they don't criticize Putin. People who may be against the war probably don't feel comfortable voicing that opinion to many, and it could be more difficult for them to organize against the regime.","Lavrov, Peskov, and other Kremlin officials who are commonly quoted in Western media are not likely as close to Putin as they appear. This is also true of at least most Russian oligarchs. Putin's real inner circle appears to have become very small during covid.",0
"Is this about the Su35 deal with Russia, Russia doesn't seem to be in a state to mass produce their own jet, i doubt they'll be able to produce in russia and sell it to Iran.","...but, like, I have a hard time believing that Russia is providing anything meaningful/new to Iran right now, more like they're paying back with equipment they can't really use in Ukraine because it'd get shot down anyway.",1
"I’m sure a bunch of western intelligence agencies are foaming at the mouth to give these protesters weapons, just as soon as there is a semblance of an organized militia. But I’d say there won’t be any major invasions of the Middle East for at least another decade or so.",Cause the last time few times the west's has gotten involved in revolutions in the Middle East it hasn't blown up in our faces at all.,1
"FYI, the Trail of Tears was not a ""forced relocation"", it was an enforcement of a legal agreement. The US government offered the tribes in Georgia to create their own state as part of the US. The tribes created a racist, xenophobic non-democratic oligarch which would not function as a state. So the US offered to purchase the land and give them lands in Oklahoma. The tribes agreed (almost 50-50) and most moved comfortably. The remaining Native Americans refused to leave and refused to return the money. Therefore the US authorized their removal (far too harshly but it is greatly overblow, heck the Native Americans who had moved berated those who had to be moved by force).","UK and US both have a history of forcibly removing locals from their land and subjecting them to genocide, just like how Russia is doing in Ukraine today.",1
"Yes. They want both. People who don't care believe the state tv line. The rest understand the threat. It's like how dictators don't lie to convince you, they lie to insult you.",But the fact that everyone steals means the leadership has dirt on everyone. So you can use corruption as a way to imprison whomever you want in the power structure.,1
But it's just nuts to me that the Russians would be looking at needing another round of mobilisation already.,"And just to make it clear - all of us support Ukraine and cannot wait until they kick the Russian army out of their land and trigger an inevitable crisis in the Kremlin. But we don't have the funds nor connections to immigrate, so our only option is to stay low and be unnoticed. I'm only comfortable writing what I do on Reddit because I'm writing in English and there's no way to link this account to me, the individual - I would not write anything even remotely anti-state on VK or Facebook, for example, or anywhere the FSB monitors.",1
"Or, you know, contacting US authorities like the FAA to explain that they had an errant balloon to keep an eye on.",I think it’s unlikely to have been going on that long because balloon technology was not advanced enough for such long flights until fairly recently. Even this balloon appears far larger and the payload far heavier than what Google was doing for long-term flights.,1
"From what I’ve heard from people on the front line, Ukraine is taking so many casualties they are still having to throw troops with weeks of training into intense and complicated front line fighting.","Many foreign legion fighters in Bakhmut have said the Russian soldiers are fighting well, and Ukrainian casualties are massive while Russsian casualties are concentrated on low-quality troops. Meanwhile there are VDV forces and Wagner mercenaries with Tier 1 equipment and ISR equipment integrated with artillery unites. The result being that some foreign legion fighters are saying Russian artillery is more accurate than Ukrainian.",0
"The two countries with the intelligence that has been spoken about, Moldova and Ukraine, are not EU members. Pretty wild that Serbia can be be driven away from the EU and into the arms of Russia by the actions of non-EU members.","These types of generalizations are completely unhelpful and only serve to drive Serbs away from the EU and towards Russia. Obviously the government of Serbia would not be involved in this type of plot, the risks would be far too great even if they felt inclined to do so. However, it's no secret that a substantial of the Serbian population has a pro-Russian sentiment and thereby serves as a potential recruiment pool for Russia.",1
I'm pretty sure they are referring to the Russian who pretended to surrender then began shooting getting all the ones around him who surrendered killed. Don't fake surrender is the lesson here.,I think people are mostly irritated at the innocent Russian civilians because they're not doing doing much to try to stop it but that's the problem with autocratic government. A democracy it could be fixed fairly easily with through voting and impeachment.,0
You mean the ones that show a 5 point difference for senate? The ones that have dems with 3/7 house seats? How about the ones showing a 0.8% difference in the governors race? Or did you mean the ones where the Secretary of State was sub 5% difference as well?,"I’m out in San Tan, and have been trying to tamper people’s expectations about Az turning blue. It’s a looooong way from that. This state is still very red, but people on both sides are exhausted with rehashing 2020.",0
"For me, if NATO just reversed what they said, it just forces Russia to end their narrative, as they would therefore be accusing their own allies of being involved in the war too, which is something they wouldn't want.",But it does serve to underscore the original point: if the USA entered the Ukraine war for real it would flatten Russia's military precisely due to these alliances and logistics.,1
"Fox has always has their bug in the lower corner say “Fox News.” This implies that all of these “entertainment/ opinion shows are actually journalism driven. Only after lawsuits does Fox management claim “these shows are not news, and should never be used to form an opinion.”.","If there ever was a Defamation suit that could combat Fox News and its Editorial shows it might be Dominion's civil suit. From my not lawyer understanding Dominion has to show both intent and damages which is very difficult to do. However Dominion has texts and internal communications saying they did not agree in accusations of fraud and they have show damages, the number of canceled contracts by multiple states specifically commenting on potential fraud.",1
"The issue is, current consumption isn't sustainable because it's powered almost entirely by fossil fuels.","Unsustainable consumption is an issue, because it terminates itself often in ways that are irreversibly destructive (e.g. extinction of species). The other issue is external costs of production, e.g. pollutants which cause climate change, among other issues.",1
"I've never been banned so easy before. Like I grew up conservative so I like to have real discussions as i can understand them even if I disagree with them. I think that's what pisses them off even more is how I can agree and disagree with them rather then purely disagree. I live around the conservative heartland of Canada. What makes me laugh is when they realize I'm not on their side and its like extra painful/infuriating to them. The loss of trust hahaha. Like I'm pro capitalism and that's about where I stop because what's happened I'm the last couple decades is more fascism than capitalism..im against fasicm hugely and all for socialist policies. I'm a capitalist socialist (liberal canadian, also you can be liberal and hate trudeau which cons dont understand) which REALLY pisses off conservatives. That's why I swear cons hate liberals more than NDP or any left wings lol.","They genuinely think the conservative subs are less biased, even though they're as bad as the tankie ones when it comes to banning people for wronhink.",1
"If anything Ukraine may have the upper hand in attrition, no sanctions, western weapons freely flowing and seemingly the personal to man the equipment.","Russia can outlast Ukraine in equipment, but they're not going up against Ukraine for equipment - it's Ukraine and the rest of the world, while Russia is heavily sanctioned.",1
At least this should give second thoughts to the Russian-aligned members of Russian-speaking enclaves in other Eastern European and Baltic countries.,"Not arguing with you, just clarifying the “former Soviet states” wanted nothing to do with Russia then or now and Russia has no claim over them in any way.",1
"But if one is using a free market with an explicit intent of doing damage to the society, it is abusing capitalism — using it for a goal that is opposed to the intended function.","The idea of capitalism is that when all the people are able to act greedily on a free market, it results in betterment of the society (""the invisible hand"").",0
"the thing is, mammals weren't dying in mass from bird flu until last year, now it keeps happening, the virus mutated to adapt to mammals and is now just a couple of mutations away from Human to Human transmission.","The animals were found to have a mutation of the virus that could make it easier to infect mammals, but there was no evidence of transmission between mammals.",1
"I'm not sure if you understand. The right wing in America is, for some reason, gloating at this shooter being non-binary. Somehow they 'win' if they can cast this asa non discriminatory killing or even better a shooting by a member of the LGBTQ+ community.",I do not think its the lawyer but the shooter this is a another way to rub salt in the wound of the LGBTQ community. Lets see if anyone steps forward and gives credence to the claims. He was willing to kill everyone in that club he is more than capable of lying and trying to hurt the community even more.,1
"Hey, if you could point to a system that allows a legal vote dropped into a mailbox the day before election day, and postmarked on election day, and received by the elections office 3 days after election day, to be counted on the night of election day, I'm all for it, but it sounds reality-bending.",Actually the state allows for a couple of weeks for ballots to arrive as long as they're post marked on or before election day to account for any postal errors.,1
"The really sad truth of the whole thing is, and Trump definitely knows it, he will never be convicted of any crime that he might get charged anywhere in the USA. That's because he has a Constitutional right to a jury trial and the process for selection in any court in this country will always afford him and his attorneys to have multiple Trump supporters seated on it, and he has conditioned them to be absolutely impervious to any facts that are critical of the big man baby.","All joking aside, I sort of recall Pelosi referencing some rule/law that actually allows Congress to send the Capitol police out and arrest someone in an instance like this and lock them up the Capitol's dungeon-like jail cell, but they never use it.",0
"""Coincidentally"" a couple days later this Arai guy who holds the same job title of Prime Ministerial Aide(総理秘書官) as the PM's son says incredibly controversial stuff and the PM has to punish him for it, which conveniently:",- Allows Kishida to make a show of hanging this guy out to dry to make himself look good to the public(polls have shown that about 60% of Japanese approve of gay marriage).,0
"First, Trump didn't use the word ""terminated"", he said ""termination"". For a news story to quote a literal word that wasn't said defies the purpose of quotes.","Im not here to debate if Trump is right or wrong, if there was fraud or not. Im only setting the record straight and calling out fake news. Here is the tweet, read it for yourself.",0
Not the candidates that Florida Democrats are looking for would be my guess. They went with a former Republican which would make sense in a moderate minded electorate in other states but they would have been better served by an energetic younger progressive. Voter enthusiasm amongst democrats had to be pretty low.,"Not saying a younger Bernie from a policy stand point but you need a younger energetic candidate that turn out the fanfare. Democratic voters are the most frustrating group to try and organize. It’s like herding cats, too many differing view points in the spectrum where Republicans have only two models to deal with, the dumb and the wealthy.",0
"It's actually more complicated than that. From a theological perspective, sin is like poison to the soul. It makes you worse.","C S Lewis thought that the people in hell weren't locked there. He thought they locked themselves in. He wrote a book called the Great Divorce which is about a bus of people from hell that went to visit heaven and were offered the option to stay. They all chose not to, because of the way they became in life. One guy didn't want charity and wanted some way to earn his stay, and out of principle wouldn't stay for free, for example.",0
Nearly every analyst calculates a lithium shortage for the next 5-10 years. The average mine takes 10 years to get to production and can cost $500-$900 million in funding to get started.,"There are also ""ESG"" ratings for projects. Car companies, etc want to know they are sourcing Lithium from environmentally responsible sources. They also need stable production. Lithium mines in politically sketchy places are a risky bet. GM just invested something like $800 million in Lithium Americas Thacker Pass project in the U.S. Just to secure a stable source of lithium for their vehicles.",0
"Except it doesn’t if implemented properly. Nixon tried to do the same thing with the family assistance plan, which likely would have been instituted had he not Watergated himself.",Most safety net programs give less than $1k a month and it’s taken away if you work. A UBI would give people a ground floor to stand on and a chance to supplement that with their own income.,0
"I had never really visualized what is now happening in this manner up to this point. Numerous countries whom the Russians sold their weapons of war in exchange for a strange and shaky allegiance are now sending those weapons to the Ukraine with a ""Return to Sender"" notice for which the very weapons the Russians used to destabilize the world with global arms races are now being used against them.","Obviously a lot of these weapons, vehicles and defense systems won’t outlive the war, but are there agreements between these countries and Ukraine on what happens to this equipment after the war?",1
"I mean, this is just going to be an exercise in evolutionary pressure over a sufficiently long period of time.","People (and cultures) hesitant, resistant, or openly hostile to vaccines are going to see their numbers dwindle over time.",0
Russia sells its oil for $45 because only India and China are buying. This oil have to be shipped from Baltic ports so its transport costs to India are much higher than oil from Persian Gulf.,More like US is buying oil from India so India can buy oil from Russia that costs more then it produces so it costs Russia more money to sell oil to India.,1
"It sounds like a right turn to me. If someone wants to die because of mental issues, getting themselves in front of medical professionals and having to go through a process of eliminating every option of treatment sounds better than the alternative.",I have always been in favor of voluntary euthanasia for chronic medical conditions but that this has gotten any level of support makes me seriously reconsider even supporting that.,1
It was a nuclear-powered rocket with a supersonic range 4.5x the circumference of the earth that just ripped along dropping nuclear bombs in its wake.,"A paper airplane powered by a nuclear powered ram jet and carrying several nuclear sub munitions. That was designed to fly super sonic at low altitude where the shock wave alone would have caused injury and damage to civilians and structures on the ground. The idea was to have it loiter after it deployed its sub munitions just spewing radioactive exhaust before it finally crashed. It was crazy, an absolutely insane weapon that only got axed because of the radar advancements you mentioned and the fact that ICBMs were cheaper and more reliable.",1
"COVID wasn't the only problem in recent times. When Russia and Saudi Arabia had their trade war it dropped prices per barrel into the negative. This caused multiple shale mining operations and numerous refineries to shut down. Then, the previous administration went and made a two-year deal with Saudi Arabia to lower production output. Once that agreement ended, in mid 2022, prices started to fall at a rapid pace up until Russia and Saudia Arabia agreed to lower production again. Not to mention oil company profits are up significantly due to price gouging.",Then to say thanks they buy Texas' biggest oil field and force us to buy our own oil back from them at inflated prices.,1
"It’s possibly to show ‘bipartisanship’ with all democrats and a good amount of repubs voting against it. Then they can parade that they are working with the dems, but the dems won’t work with them on other bills, and they can blame them for not wanting bipartisanship.","Eh we have Lisa Murkowski here in Alaska, I don’t agree with all of her politics but she seems to want to work with Democrats to pass things that benefit her constituents instead of just refusing to negotiate. There aren’t many but there are some.",1
"Seeing how most of their military is leftover soviet era junk that hasn't been well maintained, I'd be more worried about Russia becoming ash due to their nukes exploding on attempt to launch.","No, the results are pretty imaginable: a much better interception rate for Russian missiles, meaning fewer blown up schools, hospitals, and power stations.",1
"If you want to avert a strike why not give the workers what they want? Rail companies make billions and are the backbone of the US economy, I'm sure they could manage a bit more pay or a benefit program or something...",Or you know the billionaire owners of the rail companies could give them the cost of living pay raise they are asking for as well as the small amount of PTO they want and hire an few more people. The union really isn’t asking for a lot at all their demands are very reasonable. They will still be making billions and billions a year in profit no problem.,1
"Acquiring illegal guns is always a possibility, but that doesn't mean it's not useful to prevent them from acquiring them legally as well.","Lots of people in the far-right or Reichsbürger scene have access to weapons due to being part of shooting clubs. Increase the vetting of people with suspected extremist ties who want to acquire (or hold) a license, even if they aren't considered Gefährder (people capable and likely to carry out attacks). Impacts only a minuscule part of the population (gun ownership is already extremely rare and of that's only a small part), but can help save lives. Acquiring guns on the black market always has a high risk of being scammed or falling for a honeypot.",0
"But if the party changes, then shouldn't the representatives be able to divest themselves? Forcing special elections for party disloyalty gives a huge amount of power to the parties.",For instance the GOP could have removed Liz Cheney for going against Trump and forced a special election to remove her.,0
"The Lend-Lease act was enacted in March 1941 and authorized the United States to provide weapons, provisions, and raw materials to strategically important countries fighting Germany and Japan -- primarily, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China. In all, the United States shipped $50 billion ($608 billion in 2020 money) worth of materiel under the program, including $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union. In addition, much of the $31 billion worth of aid sent to the United Kingdom was also passed on to the Soviet Union via convoys through the Barents Sea to Murmansk.","However, the real significance of Lend-Lease for the Soviet war effort was that it covered the ""sensitive points"" of Soviet production -- gasoline, explosives, aluminum, nonferrous metals, radio communications, and so on, says historian Boris Sokolov.",0
"Its not even money. You could pay teachers 80k minimum and theyd still be one of the few careers where you’re expected to work outside business hours, told you’re responsible for not just teaching but community social change, attacked constantly by parents who think they know how to do your job better, and then expected by those same parents to raise their kids. In some spaces in the US teachers are a student’s only form of stability, and they can be rewarded with death threats and physical violence.","Add in the massive student loans they have to become teachers, the threat of school shootings, hostile parents and lack of classroom aides to assist with special needs students and you have to wonder why anyone wants to teach.",1
"The big issue was whether a ponte knit blazer was acceptable. That required the addition of “cardigan” into the wording, because Ms. Kelley refused to accept ponte knit as a suit fabric. Even though it is.","It is equal. I doubt anyone is arguing that it shouldn’t be. The argument was whether knit blazers counted as “blazers” or “cardigans.” The click-bait stuff about “bare arms” is nonsense, as women were required to have jackets or sweaters in the old dress code regardless.",0
">More questions came about these guards, like 'How would you pay them once crypto was worthless? What would stop them from eventually choosing their own leader? Perhaps robot guards would be better?'.",It is. Traffic acts like it has the right of way and cyclists and pedestrians have no choice but to dive for safety at times.,1
"And yes, my entire point was that the party can exert soft power to keep Democrats off the ballot if they wanted but they probably wouldn’t because Republicans would run a ghost candidate Dem as a spoiler.","So the party could theoretically use some soft power shit to keep a Dem from running, but then I’d be worried about Republicans backing some nutjob to run unopposed in a Dem primary as a spoiler for the general.",0
"Everything about an aircraft, including things like inspection, metal treating and painting processes that are by no means secret are always going to be export controlled. This doesn't make them by any stretch top.secret.","Not top secret. They were just export restricted. The documents are legal for someone to have access to inside the US, but trying to take it outside the US is illegal.",1
You have a point there. It’s all on a case by case basis and it comes down to the judge assigned to the case. I’ll look it up tomorrow on his docket when I’m at work. I’m curious why he was allowed to travel. The guy is very dangerous.,"He probably got permission to leave for this case. Usually you have to give your passport to US District Court that you’re indicted in as part of the proceedings. That’s how we do it at the court I work in. I work for the courts. His attorney probably filed a motion to allow him to travel for this. Once he’s back, he has to turn in his passport.",0
"Going third party would also allow him to grift up until the general election in 2024, and would also give him legal cover, as the DOJ would consider him politically untouchable after say the fall of 2023.","I think he would form a third party, a malignant narcissist such as Trump would be far more humiliated to lose then GOP primary to Desantis than to lose the general election as a third party.",0
We are happy being nobody's puppet over here. Better be neutral and friendly to both sides and get something from it... Brazil cant do everything yall want just because.,"Here's the thing guys, we(Brasil) cant choose one side, we cant afford that. If Brasil chooses one side for ever our economy will go bad, Brasil always must be a neutral country because that is better for our economy.",1
So if sounds like if they're nearby they may just have to bring their laptop over once a month or soemthing lol. I guess the issue is you don't know when that's gonna be and will be annoying. Prob the only thing th ex and I could actually agree on. No reason to sub twice for kids streaming.. just annoying for the one parent that wants to use it occasionally as well. Been kinda looking for an excuse to cancel Netflix so we will see how it plays out.,"""For viewers who frequently travel or own a second home, Netflix says the account holder will have to sign in on their Netflix mobile app at least once a month while connected to the Wi-Fi at their primary location."".",0
"American politicians are more concerned about how much weapons can be sold for the Ukraine war, for which the US Congress allocated 60 billion US dollars. Some senior military officials even said: ""We only spent 60 billion U.S. dollars to find a Ukraine that is willing to fight for the United States and Russia."".","??? It’s not. California allows abortion for any reason only until viability — after that, the law prohibits it unless there is medical necessity to save the woman’s life. What you said is true only in a very few select states, like Vermont.",1
people burn the quran because the muslim world have a certain sizable portion that views their religion so much more serious and more dangerously.,"Well yes, but there are plenty of other people who have burned the Koran for no other reason than angering Muslims. I meant the action more broadly. But yeah, the guy who did this was clearly a ruzzian asset.",1
Are you saying you also agree palestine aggression is correct since Israeli soldiers are clearly a danger to them?,"Also, these are Israel forces patrolling Palestine’s country, occupied west bank. Sucks to be shot by foreign occupying forces on your own soil. No chance of investigation or justice. Cops act differently when they know they can’t be held accountable.",1
Not to be devils advocate but the last two years did not exactly show that the democrats do better in terms of economy.,"Posted this before but here are a few links that give some history of whom is better for the economy, and yes it is democrats.",1
No thanks. Erdogan can f\ck off though and stop using his propaganda bs for the upcoming election. Sweden and Finland will stick together in this NATO application. If one of us cant join none of us will. And that will upset USA and the others because they all want us in NATO.,"Considering the countries in NATO have to 100% go to war each other, it's not unreasonable. I think a better angle should be to kick turkey out. What do they even bring to the table?",1
What the Clintons represented was the potential for what actually happened. A major DNC win at the federal level and a newly viable party.,There's already evidence this shit and Trump in general is discouraging other voters. 2 years of fruitless investigations into something even a lot of the right already seem to view as laughable is just barreling into what just fucked them in an actual election.,0
"What fucking bullshit, that we are expected to believe this. I am assuming Bennett cannot possibly be so stupid and naive, but just assumes his audience is.","Nazi, warmonger, not going to meet, but, oh yeah, of course not going to kill him, just kill thousands of other Ukrainians.",0
"tasks of keeping the government open, paying the country’s bills and avoiding default on America’s trillions of dollars in debt.",The Democratic Senate can stop most of it but US needs to prepare now for the GOP shutting down the government via the debt limit votes.,0
"No, the position of the Democratic Party is to maintain the status quo and retain the ACA rather than some form of universal healthcare that would improve things vastly. Most people on this thread also want to toe the political line too.","Person 2: No ACA must stay, it’s the ONLY way, and besides Bernie isn’t even a democrat, why should we listen to him???",0
"I believe it to be more than some light hearted dithering. There’s clearly a strong focus on leopard tanks for a reason- that reason being that they expect it to give Ukraine the advantage it needs to end the war. It’s incredibly suspect that that’s the one thing your government is being difficult about. This isn’t about the German people (who are awesome), this isn’t about claiming Germany is doing nothing, this is about Germany not helping in the ways that will matter most, which you have to admit, is a little questionable.","I don’t know why people are downvoting you. No one else find it odd that Germany, a dominant European country, is holding things up, and dragging its feet????",0
"Tu quoque was invoked during the Nuremberg trials. In the trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the controversial lawyer Jacques Vergès argued that during the Algerian War, French officers such as General Jacques Massu had committed war crimes similar to those with which Barbie was being charged, and therefore the French state had no moral right to try Barbie. This defence was rejected by the court, which convicted Barbie."".","This. I haven’t missed a single match of a World Cup since 2002. Every game. Waking up early, staying up late. Making a routine at a local British pub. But this time around, I won’t be watching even one. I don’t even want to. It feels unethical to do so.",1
"""Let them think we are all such mincing dandies. Then, when they are lulled into comfort, we strike!"".","""... When the spectre of nuclear war was raised, Russia chose the more honorable option of retreating rather than risk the horrors of such a war."".",1
"Not surprising. Neither major party does much for younger voters to earn their votes, and both are led by geriatrics with antiquated views.","This just shows that both Republican and Democratic parties suck and are not attracting new or younger voters. Their stance on popular issues are horrific, there is no reason to keep the status quo with its multitude of social issues.",1
That’s really it isn’t it? None of the information on that side of the aisle is real anymore. They’re either actively engaging in bullshit or they’re too dumb to realize it’s bullshit.,"Some, yes, but you get highly educated people believing this bullshit, too. You can have all the smarts in the world, but it doesn't make a whit of difference if you want to believe it's true so badly you refuse to engage them.",1
The alternative is to ask the people who want to fight to fight and not try and force the ones who don't. If your country is actually worth anything you'll have enough people volunteer. If you can't get enough people to volunteer the country is probably not worth saving anyway.,If a country is worth fighting for people will choose to fight for it if you have to force them then the country isn't that great.,1
"Yes, but is also important for Ukraine to keep bringing up, it gives them something to concede to Russia, for example in exchange for captured UA citizens.","People who suggest letting Russia have parts of Ukraine, or that we shouldn't be supplying the equipment Ukraine needs, for fear of escalation or dur to inconveniences caused by Russia are enter knowingly or unknowingly helping Putin.",1
Goncharenko predicted that the GOP congressional base aligned with former President Trump that has urged cuts to Ukraine aid will be less influential than previously thought following Tuesday’s election.,"It's been largely bipartisan so far, but influential Republicans have spoken against further aid to Ukraine. Such as MTG, J.D. Vance, Rand Paul, and Tucker Carlson, while Trump has been quiet. Tucker Carlson in particular has been recently trying to re-frame the Russo-Ukraine War as 'Christian vs woke' (ironic given Ukraine is anything but) which heavily implies he's beyond an isolationist, he's pro-Russia. These people can certainly whip most of the Republicans to block all further Ukraine aid if they won big in the House.",1
"I think, in part, the Administration is trying to distance itself as much as possible from the protests so the Iranian government doesn't have more material to claim ""the US is attempting another coup See Shah Biden said 'Iran?'"" Mossad and the CIA are certainly embedded in Iran and involved in some way, but it's obvious that the CIA (and US as an extension) can't openly involve themselves.","I think it's safe to assume that the CIA, MI5, and Mossad are present in Iran, I wonder what they're up to? As much as I'd love to see regime change it would be counter-productive to stage another coup directly. Iranians need to claim this win themselves in order for it to be legitimate. But they could really use some help, and I really wish The West could give a lot more attention to it, and whatever support is right for the circumstances. The US and Iran had a great relationship up until the British convinced us to stage the coup, and I'd love for that to be restored along with the Democracy they once had.",0
Ukraine has said it will attack russian positions in Belarus. They like to fly Mig-31s to set of air raid alarms in Kyiv and we have every right to shoot at them across the border as they have been shooting missiles and drones from Belarus.,Theres a reason the smart people in charge wont provide Ukraine with planes and missiles that can reach into Russia and why we havent put our troops on the ground or enforced a no fly zone. We know they're a danger and are trying not to provoke them into attacking NATO.,1
"The Iraq invasion wasn't about bringing democracy to iraq or removing a dictator, that was a secondary or even tertiary goal. The real goal was geopolitical and geostrategic control over the middle east as well as resources.",The only difference is US did not annex Iraq but it did occupy it for several years and screwed up so bad that after they were gone Iraq became a failed state that quickly fell in a the hands of Iranian influence and or terrorist organisations.,0
"'Asked to explain where liberal Christians fit into his theoretical Christian society, Wilson said they would be excluded from holding office, later noting similar prohibitions in early American Colonial settlements such as the Massachusetts Bay Colony. When it was pointed out that Puritans executed Boston Quakers, Wilson said he would not “defend” the hanging of Quakers, but then argued it was important to understand the context of the time.'.","Duh. Idaho is really angry about the influx of Californians into the area, thinking it’s going to be blue Californians and it’s like “Nah man: It’s a red wave.”.",1
"And by hesitate, I mean they will form LLC subsidiaries and manage risk without harming their name brand.",They will swoop in to maximize exploitation. Look what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. Russia will be no different.,0
And the USSR joined in on the war everyone forgets that part. Japan was staring not just at an American but Soviet invasion as well in CONJUNCTION with the nuclear bombs.,"The Japanese surrender came almost immedeatly after the Soviets declared war on them, rather than the nukes!",0
In the past when states do this they lose their delegates. This happened to Michigan and Florida in the 08 election. New Hampshire is far smaller than them.,"What state would drag us left on economic issues? Maybe Colorado, which is likely to get a public option for health care. I’ve lived in blue states like California and it’s economic policies were pretty regressive (hence the fleeing of the middle class), maybe some New England state?",0
I'm talking about Lebanon. They had massive power outages but technology did not collapse. Grocery stores did not go out of business. Life still continued. And paper dollars are still used.,I don't know why you'd want to store millions in cash. It's always better to invest it in something. People who have millions in Lebanon most likely keep it in a Swiss bank or some other EU/US/Emirates bank.,0
"The death of Jesus was supposed to put an end to that ritualized behavior. Over the centuries though, the message of Jesus has been so warped that most people don't even know that he killed a fucking dragon when he was 12.","The biblical Jesus didn't die to absolve people of sin; he died, canonically, so that people wouldn't have to do the batshit ridiculous rituals that absolution of sin involved before. Make a transgression against Talmudic law? Congrats! now you have to cut the head off a chicken, swing it in circles above your head, and recite prayer for the sin to be absolved.",0
"He doesn't know where the duck these documents are. He needs to hire an outside party to find them. That means that he knows that he had more in his possession, and can not account for them. There is no accountability shield and blaming third parties for not finding purposefully hidden documents.",This is to create a patsy third-party to blame when it’s revealed Trump is still retaining top secret documents that he stole.,1
"Yes, but those people don't run around political forums claiming to be centrists or (in one extreme case) get trolled into buying a social media site in the name of promoting free speech.","And Republicans will probably praise him for ""violating the first amendment rights of the correct people on social media for a change"".",1
"if you are idiotic enough to say ""Qatar"", Qatar spent more than that and it's to build Qatar itself, rather than the stadiums. The Qatari and Saudi teams are number 1 and 2 as the cheapest teams in the world cup. Qatar won the AFC Asia Cup, sadly they're playing like dogshit for some reason right now.","Thank you /u/Jacabon for creating and releasing the globally and universally agreed upon basic human rights, anyways, sorry for extending the argument more than it should've, I'll go have a good day, hope you do too.",0
"The only disorders more common among trans people are those associated with abuse and discrimination - mainly anxiety and depression. Early transition , and . When prevented from transitioning about 40% of trans kids will attempt suicide. When able to transition that rate drops to the national average. Trans kids who socially transition early, have access to appropriate transition related medical treatment, and who are not subjected to abuse or discrimination are.","But if an adolescent starts this treatment, socially transitions (or continues if they have already done so), and by their early/mid-teens they still strongly identify as a gender atypical to their appearance at birth, the chances of them changing their minds later are basically zero. At that point hormone therapy becomes an option, and even that is still mostly reversible, especially in its early stages. The only really irreversible step is reconstructive genital surgery and/or the removal of one's gonads, which isn't an option until the patient is in their late teens at the earliest.",0
"As Trump would have just let Putin roll into Ukraine and take over, installing a puppet government as he intended to do, they really owe Biden their highest honor that Ukraine has. It is unlikely there would have been as strong of a coalition without US leadership/military/dollars involved to support. Biden has a lot of faults, but he did the right thing here and is instrumental in Ukraine being able to persevere over this horrible war.","that being said though, the Ukrainians have a hell of a fighting spirit, they have not let this break them and that has been imperative to their successes so far.",1
"""With Republican lawmakers growing irritable after days of fruitless voting, a heated argument broke out between several of them. But Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama, a McCarthy ally who is in line to become the next chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, took it to another level when he stepped toward Mr. Gaetz and had to be restrained.","The dramatic moment was captured on C-SPAN’s video cameras, which, lacking the typical restraints placed upon them in a House with a speaker, were free to show whatever moments from the floor its operators deemed newsworthy."".",0
"I asked your views on what Forbes said, you haven't condemned them or even said they were wrong. According to you, I should be claiming that you are anti marriage equality, context indicates that is not the case.",You are just being professionally offended at this stage. There is much to criticise but you are turning valid problems into background noise by trying to find issue where there is none.,0
"About sending tanks to Ukraine, all one had to do is read my posting history to see just where I stand.","Continued edit: To clarify my position, despite what the administration claims their policies have been to bleed Russia, not to defend Ukraine. We should have been training the Ukrainian soldiers on US tech and supplied man portable anti-tank and anti-air weapons BEFORE the invasion that we telegraphed to the whole world we knew was coming. We should have given them HIMARS before they were terrorized by Russian artillery targeting civilians and infrastructure were used. We should have given them anti-air tech before Iranian drones targeted civilians and Russian missiles targeted hospitals, residences, and schools. We should give them IFVs and tanks NOW!",1
The key word you’re including though is he wasn’t marketed like that to anyone who did any of their own research.,"But the key was that he wasn’t in the spotlight for too long. During reports, it was just long enough for a comment, or until The Apprentice rolled credits (but even then the show focused on the contestants with short clips of Trump pondering stuff, right?).",0
"If you want to do something to stop violent drug cartels from being able to become so powerful stop doing so much motherfucking cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine. Or legalize them.","Education graphically depicts the horrors of drug addiction and overdose, regulating purity decreases fatal overdoses drastically, forbidding advertising keeps people from trying to promote its use, making it inconvenient to get adds an extra hurdle.",0
And no shit Twitter is a private company. So then how do you know the value of the company? How much is it worth?,"How do you figure? It wasn't profitable before he got there, hasn't been for a long time. There was a lot of unnecessary employee bloat. And he said it would be weird for a while because they're doing a little experimenting.",0
"My in-laws lost their asses in the 2009 crash. Well over half their retirement. They both went back to work full time. My mother in law is still commuting (a really shitty commute) 3 days a week. At 76. They thought they were all set, but had never switched their high risk investments to lower risk. That's a mistake we won't make! I have zero desire to be working past 60, thanks.","Would I want to work after 70? Perhaps. Maybe I'd do some part time work or volunteering to keep active. However, I wouldn't want work at that age to be ""I'd better keep working until I die because otherwise I can't afford to eat."".",1
"In the particular case of not asking for help, I would expect the police to take the lead upon arrival. No need to make the situation worse through startling action. The hammer speaks for itself.",It's strange because of the political currents which caused this particular confluence of events. Years of the far right calling for Nancy's death led to this actual attempt. The far right accepts no responsibility and claims the victim brought it on himself for reasons that make no sense but feed their internal narrative. The context is the strange thing.,0
"The poster above claimed that felons were not allowed to have guns, which I pointed out is not the case in TX. But only in their car and house? Be careful who you cut off on those I-35 service roads.","I'm a little puzzled as to where you seem to be going with this, you seem to agree that felons are allowed to have guns in TX, correct?",0
"If they had started the first day of the war the first (small) batch would just be arriving right about now. And the bulk would take nearly another year from now still. So I think this is naturally just a very slow option. They are right to balk at this, imo. It's just unacceptable. Either the people doing the work need more money/resources to up their timelines or we need to do something else (or something in addition to this).","Yes. Winning a war typically has more to do about production and logistics than sheer manpower. As Russia is proving, manpower is a thing that countries can typically paper over in the short-term. But running out of men is rarely the primary reason a war is lost.",0
"So when they say ""we will attack NATO"", it translates from modern Russian as ""we are scared shitless and we won't attack NATO"".","Well if NATO were intending a ‘total war’ with Russia, then I would have to say that they are doing a really, really bad job of it !",1
"So this might actually work to some extent if there is still the option of vaping nicotine. If there isn't though, people will just start growing and selling tobacco, and it will be much harsher and more tarry than the one's being sold rn (although they would have waaaayyy less additives and a lot of those cause a shitton of cancer).","Oh wait nicotine itself isn't getting banned? Huh. Well in that case yeah, there's probably not much of a market for import if normal cigarettes are just replaced by vapes.",0
Yeah I don’t get everyone’s enthusiasm about Putin being out of the picture. He never was a real threat and was fairly predictable and level headed. I’m more worried about who replaces Putin than I am of Putin.,What's dangerous about Putin is that he knows that his regime and reign is over if he loses in Ukraine.,1
Russia has lost all that it has in less than a year. Every day the west keeps supplying Ukraine they knock out gear that Russia will take far longer to replace. Even if stocks are depleted the west is in a position where this is the best deal they'll ever get for that gear. The west will have their stocks depleted for a year or two. The east will have a military so broken it will be unusable for multiple decades. There is no comparison.,Ukraine needs a lot but there are still stocks of other weapons and production of new purpose built ammunition is beginning to happen.,0
"At what point do we look at this and say ""This is just a sport, why are people's lives being ruined just for the world to watch a fucking sport?"".","Yep. Qatar pretty handily showed that most folks have few morals or values when it comes to voting with their wallets, and that many people in the Western world do not care that 10k slaves died to build a one-use stadium in one of the hottest, and politically most regressive/medieval, places on Earth.",1
"Didn't Ukraine not agree to any ceasefire? Not saying we can trust Russia, but there isn't any ceasefire to begin with since both parties never agreed.",If you’re proposing a ceasefire it needs to be underpinned by honesty and goodwill on both sides for it to work.,1
"Yet other polls show Trump walloping any other Republican. Polls are not even a little bit reliable in the age of cell phones. The people that respond to them are more often than not White Retirees that still have a land line that they answer, or White Retirees that answer Fox News polls because they were instructed to by the host.","DeSantis has no Charisma. He stays on the National Stage through ever escalating Illegal/Unconstitutional stunts of intolerable cruelty. Eventually he is going to cross a line that even Far Right Sympathizer Garland cannot ignore, and his only means of staying relevant will evaporate.",0
They are just so afraid of being gay because it was stigmatized by people around them that they react by persecuting gay people to prove they aren’t gay.,"So, are gay people responsible for their own oppression? Absolutely not. Has homophobia crafted an environment where they frequently become some of the loudest critics of being gay? More often than it should, yes.",1
"A lot of it is starting to hit all at once. Boomers are dying of old age, and that's accelerated by their new found Covid and vaccine denialism. On top of that, Millennials and Gen Z who they have spent decades belittling and writing off are becoming a much larger voting block, millennials have actually become more liberal since their first elections and gen Z will likely follow suit as the GOP opposes all the stances under 40 Americans care about. Add Republicans not wanting to vote because they believe in the fake fraud republican politicians and media is peddling and you get a perfect storm for the more left leaning future that Republicans have been terrified of for the past 30 year.","If the Republican Party did not have voter suppression, gerrymandering, and various other means of electoral chicanery, they would never win another election of consequence in America.",1
"It's not really about ""letting it happen."" That's the whole point of clandestine operations; it's to act in ways that people specifically don't know about. Russia's broad, all-encompassing disinformation campaign in the West that's been going on since '97 couldn't have happened without active participation from at least some people within almost every single western media and news outlet. Realistically, most leadership in these organizations wouldn't have known about the problem until it was too late for them to do anything about it anyway -- at which point they'd either quit, get ousted, or stay quiet and collect a paycheck for staying quiet.","You know that Hanlon, whom you're quoting, was an optimist who simply refused to believe that people could be as awful as they actually are, right? Malice, unfortunately, tends to be the driving force in most things that negatively impact the human race.",0
America still has people in prison for possession. What a fucking insult to so many people who are here at home in prison and not in a place who has a less than a one percent acquittal rate for marijuana charges. It is a weak ass negotiation with a terrorist nation.,Honestly don't care what she was going through it was her choice to break the law in another country that any reasonable individual would have seen the potential risk she was taking in a place that convicts 99 percent of those with weed charges and it is still illegal here so I don't see why she was worth trading a merchant of death for.,0
Making bail excessive to the point that a person has no means to pay it is a problem - but that calls for a different kind of reform than simply eliminating cash bail.,"Traditionally the one making a claim, that removing cash bail has no impact on crime, is responsible for proving their assertions.",1
Imagine if MTG became speaker - JFC - the press will probably leave Biden alone. Although I suspect the press will all be about how Biden will make peace with the GOP - cuz that's what they always end up doing - appealing to the grown-ups.,Only democrats have agency. Even funny is how we should give up our agenda in favor of theirs in the name of bipartisanship because ostensibly the people want that despite electing democrats.,0
">He [Commander Richard Smith, who leads the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command] added that despite the arrest, the incident does ""not appear to be linked to any direct threat to the public"", but detectives are continuing inquiries to ensure this is ""definitely the case"".","- Commander Richard Smith, who leads the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism command, said: ""I want to be clear that despite making this arrest, and based on what we currently know, this incident still does not appear to be linked to any direct threat to the public."".",1
The right of northern states to pass their own laws and allow freed slaves to live without threat of kidnapping and return to slavery in the south? Even the “state’s rights” argument falls apart if you think about it for a minute. The slave states wanted to dictate terms to northern states and newly admitted states because they knew they wouldn’t maintain enough support in Congress either the states or the people had rights.,And it also mentions abolition and “the two races” and several other similar phrases in every paragraph. But I don’t see the phrase “states rights” even once. Hmmm.,0
"This is my thought as well. I don't think Walker is a popular candidate, and I think those that voted for him were largely just there to vote for Kemp, and couldn't stomach giving anyone but a Republican their vote for Senate.","If it is the difference between 50 and 51 Democratic Senators, I think Warnock wins by 5 or more because no Kemp on the card and the people willing to vote for Walker to ensure Republican control in the Senate but can't stand him won't go vote.",1
"There is also the deeply unfortunate reality that the pro life movement is now proposing killing one person on the grounds that the state must save another, which doesn't seem like a ""pro life"" position to me.","No, the pushback primarily came from Republicans and from pro-life activists, who were quick to point out (accurately) that their platforms have long made clear that a person seeking an abortion should not be charged with a crime: only the doctor should.",0
"One of Ukraine's strategies this whole conflict has been to make Russia pay for every bit of ground taken. Attacking traditionally spends many more resources than defending. Last I saw, Bakhmut was pretty much leveled, so I doubt Ukraine is holding it just to hold it. This is what the north looked like right before Ukraine's main counter-offensive took back a huge chunk of land.","I called it a strategy because it doesn't happen this way in all conflicts by a long shot. It was a simple statement, but there is more behind it. It isn't just that they are making them pay, they are slowly conceding ground while Russia pushes forward into their defensive lines.",0
"After this disheartening news, I have been doing a great deal of soul-searching. Not my soul, which is, of course, perfect, but the souls of others. What, for instance, possessed Gen Z to put down their phones and Pokémon-Go-to-the-polls, and — worse yet — to vote for Democrats in substantial numbers when they arrived there?",Young people are the last people you want to make important choices about the future. They are not objective about it; they will be the ones living there.,0
". Based on my reading, Democrats control the committee calendars, and deadlocked committee votes on legislation and Executive Calendar items can make their way from subcommittee to committee, then up to Schumer or McConnell if the deadlock remains. Either of them can then schedule a full senate vote, which can then be tiebroken by VP.","Moving the Jan 6. investigation to the Senate would be ideal, but for that we need to hold Warnock's seat in Georgia.",0
"THIS. We eventually got two rounds of PPP and it didn’t even cover 40% of our actual hard costs, yet we paid every single staff member their wages to stay at home for all the lockdowns out of our personal savings. However, we had to wait months because the first round went in seconds despite me applying the literal moment it was available.","I then found out about Ritz Carlton, a company that didn’t qualify both in size and revenue receiving $800m due to them quickly setting up LLCs for each department in their massive hotels, claiming each department was a separate company and therefore slipping under the employee number count.",0
We think you don't want free healthcare because you see the individual as more important than wider society. You would rather step over dead children than tax others to stop children of the poor dying.,"You already spend more on healthcare as individuals than any European nation, with worse outcomes. If an American wants a child, it's statistically better for them to move to Russia, where survival rates to the age of 5 are higher.",0
They deleted it and then added a long sentence saying criminals can be ordered to do community service or other programs that historically have been used for reformation and rehabilitation. Sounds to me like this was a nothing change and the status quo of slavery prison work programs are going to remain. Why include that sentence at all in a slavery amendment if it’s not meant to be a carve-out?,"Why include this in the amendment at all if it's not meant to be a carve-out for slavery? Why not just strike out the old language and be done with it? Oregon's constitutional article on ""Slavery and involuntary servitude"" now has a sentence empowering the courts to force criminals into court ordered programs. It definitely sounds like a criminal exception to slavery to me.",0
"That said, I am familiar with the sort of denial you refer to, unfortunately. Perhaps it is ingrained and that is exactly what I'm doing. Who knows? .","And still is. There might be more religious undertones and more politicians calling for religion-inspired laws, but like the US it remains a secular government even if individuals within it act on their religious beliefs.",1
"The intent of this purchase has to be offensive, with the idea of deploying them overseas in what conflict Australia may end up in.","It would take an enormous amount of resources, manpower and commitment to sustain an attack on Australia long enough to degrade its defences, secure a staging ground out of their reach and then mount a successful invasion.",0
The first level officer that could be a commander is usually a lieutenant who would command a platoon or a company. This guy was a squad leader which is usually a corporal or buck sergeant.,"He was a platoon-leader. That's the junior-most command position you can have, both in Russia and western militaries. The average age of lieutenants in the US army is 25 for example.",1
"That describes the Trump/GOP that the East Palestinians voted for. Elections have consequences. These people voted for uncontrolled toxic spills and they got what they voted for, are they not pleased?","Now that the Deep State East Palestinians get exactly the world they voted to get, they are complaining about not enough EPA protection, not enough toxic chemical transport regs, not enough FEMA help.",0
The fact they will not hold positions of power in swing states for the next presidential election is a massive victory.,"This is exactly why Republicans have been able gain power in recent elections. Republicans are known as to be reliable in every election. Do not become complacent with any election going forward. It shouldn’t take a SCOTUS decision to motivate you to do your civic duty. Your vote is your voice, and let it be heard.",1
Remembering exactly where you were when you gained rights is a truest bizarre experience. I was in middle school when DADT was repealed. I was in high school when Obergefell allowed gay marriage nationwide. I was in my mid 20s when Bostock extended workplace protections to LGBT people.,"I feel similar. Catholic upbringing, religious parents, years of fear and anxiety. I’m a bit younger than you from the dates but I remember things vividly.",0
"The Bruen ruling overturned an obviously corrupt and discriminatory law, and it’s pretty much the only thing the Supremes have done recently that wasn’t batshit crazy.",You'd think that given the Bruen ruling states wouldn't waste time trying to pass what seems like obviously unconstitutional laws that will get struck down but anti abortion people did the same thing so who knows. I think the next year will be a very interesting year for gun regulation one way or another.,1
"I'm not an ""EVERY HUMAN LIFE IS PRECIOUS"" guy, but there just isn't an available procedure to ensure that every single execution is justified, and that means that we shouldn't be executing people.","It also assumes that everyone put to death is guilty, which is a biiiiiiig assumption given the statistics. 190 people on death row have been proven innocent since '73 (slightly under 1500 have been executed) and those are just the ones who've successfully navigated the incredibly difficult task of having their case reinvestigated and heard again.",0
These also seem to be falsehoods. Do you have anything other than the right wing fascist press telling us this? Are you aware of the laptop you're referring to is much accessed and altered copy of a hard drive purported to be from a laptop Biden once owned.,"I'd lose my lunch. Every time I see her I get the impression she's just TFG in an ill fitting skin suit. I'm pretty sure naked pictures would include the necessary zippers, girdles and harnesses necessary to hold the elder Trump in.",0
"This isn’t about Jewish voters, it’s about messaging to Evangelical zionists. American Jews vote Democratic pretty overwhelmingly, and aren’t that big a demographic. Any time Republicans appear to be speaking to or about American Jews, they’re really just messaging to Christians about Israel or attempting to their own party’s antisemitism problem.",Because when they act like they're pandering to the Jews they're really pandering to Evangelicals who believe Jews need to control Israel before Jesus can come back.,1
"a) It is now legally recognized as genocide, so you are literally denying that an actual genocide has happened.","Assuming prescriptive linguistics, we can’t disagree on if a given action, carried out with a given intent, was genocide.",1
What was actually said was far worse. He believes what Trump said was fine because he lies so much and suspending the constitution is just a fantasy of theirs.,"In case the nuance was lost, Trump said the act of voter fraud terminates our rules and articles. The news reported Trump said because of voter fraud Trump wants to terminate the constitution. Dishonest reporting.",1
"A provisional ballot literally means: “I’d like to vote, and this is what I would vote, but hey government, please check if I’m eligible and if yes, then please register my vote. If not, please disregard it.” So where’s the criminal intent?","That is not evidence of intent to commit a crime. That is intent to vote. If she intended to commit a crime, such as with these other assholes, that would be worthy of punishment.",1
When the Soviet Union broke up there was this massive power grab across the former empire. In Moldova it got incredibly bloody between the Transnistrians who wanted to join Ukraine to side with Russia and the Moldovans who wanted to join Romania. The region was created as a middle ground to allow them to join the Ukrainians (probably now Russians) if Romania and Moldova sought reunification.,"Ukraine may help out later- especially since even a Crimea-less Ukraine can choke out the Russian presence- but right now Ukraine's not likely to touch it unless the TDR does something very, very stupid and convinces Ukraine to help Moldova out.",1
"""I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background, I said I was ‘Jew-ish'."".","So like, my birth mom was Jewish, and my paternal grandmother was a survivor of Buchenwald. I still don't claim I'm Jewish. Why?",0
"It's easy to respond in the affirmative on a poll on a topic you don't care about, but perceive social stigma for being against. That poll isn't measuring actual support, but something closer to apathy. I know centrists who ""support"" gay marriage, but defend the don't say gay bills. Ones who also think queer people are too woke and need to tone it down. Ones who tell their queer relatives to ""drop it"" when uncle Jim is over calling queer people groomers/pedophiles, just to have a ""nice dinner with the family"", knowing their queer family member is more likely to acquiesce than the bigot. There's also the ones who ""Don't care about the gays"" but will vote Republican no matter what, and make excuses that it's just 1 issue they disagree with, so it's not a deal breaker.","And in their mind, the majority of republicans in Indiana don't support it, so the republican senator not going with that opinion is an outrage.",1
"Blaming russia won't stop the war, Yes India has condemned Russia in during events like the Bucha Massacre and Modi's message to Putin ""This is not an era of war"".","Russia has a abundance of natural resources which makes Russia self sufficient and also helps Russia to sustain the 2nd Most Powerful military, so if India and China who get Military Equipment from Russia at cheap price.",0
You think countries that are poor/somewhere in the middle right now didn't meddle in slavery? Didn't have a genocide or two? Don't have/had way bigger problems with corruption than the rich country club?,"It's really nice to see corruption starts to get uncovered. It's a long way to transparent and fair ""democracy"". There's this german former minister Sigmar Gabriel who makes similar comments on how the conditions of the foreign workers have changed so much for the better. Always sounds so fishy...",1
"To the people from Boebert's district in Colorado, you have until tomorrow to ""cure"" or fix your ballot. If your ballot has not been counted because of some technicality, you can fix it and the ballot will be counted.","Typically what is going on at this stage is verification of mail-in votes. When they receive a mail-in ballot, they compare the signature on the ballot to the one on file. If they don’t feel it matches, they set that ballot aside and don’t count it. That ballot then goes to some group who starts reaching out to verify that the ballot is valid. Once they verify that, the ballot can be counted.",1
"My point is that you can't simply assume that the fundamental values which you take for granted will be taken for granted by everyone, and if such values are expected to transcend cultural differences, then there needs to be very strong arguments as to why and how that can be the case.","If it is, then that's a very strong claim which needs to be supported by very strong arguments which western liberalism consistently fails to produce due to its fundamental assumptions being supported by nothing more than chauvinistic convictions.",0
"Italy is playing a card called ""start peace negotiations or we'll stop giving stuff to your enemies"". Playing this card can yield several broad results as follows:","\- Peace negotiations do not begin, the war continues, Italian officials have a reason to keep spending money but it's still not going to end well in the long run. This is called a lose-lose scenario because the shallow gains in political popularity can't hope to compete with the expected results from the previously outlined scenario.",0
"You don't really ""lay"" butterfly mines (or other Scatmin) as such. You deploy them via airburst munitions and they scatter indiscriminately over a wide area.","Butterfly mines are designed to be able to be dropped over an area from an aircraft without detonating on impact, which means they can be deployed indiscriminately. They also are antipersonnel mines and are triggered with 5kg of force applied to them, which theoretically means a child could trigger one, as opposed to anti-vehicle mines which typically require at least 100kg of force to go off. Lastly, they are made with plastic frangible components rather than metal which, while having a lower chance of killing a person, will seriously maim them and make treating the injuries mine-clearing after the conflict much more difficult (metal shrapnel can be spotted on an X-ray with a metal detector while plastic shards cannot).",1
"This should not be difficult for an educated critical thinker to understand. Unless of course, you’re being disingenuous, which is always a possibility.","For example: Most of the educated conservatives I know are socially liberal, but they buy into conservative economics. Of course that begs the question of what evidence there is that the GOP’s take on economics works at all.",0
"Also more: Brazil, as I've said before, doesn't have war culture, we also don't have amo to spare. The last war Brazil had was against Paraguay centuries ago. Brazil's international politics was always of ""friendly neighborhood"", be in good terms with everyone to help in discussions as a neutral part, call it Swiss of South America if you want.","Since WWII basicaly, we've never really got involved with any conflicts, Brazil historically does things via a diplomatical way, keeping a neutral stance and trying to solve conflicts.",1
"Judging by how these school board meetings turn into violent shouting matches where Christian nationalists yell their absurd beliefs to the world, nobody. Most sane people want to stay away to avoid what happened in Tennessee.","It's amazing to me how the teenagers are the ones acting more mature than adults lately, especially with right-wing parents. While I hate to pit generation against generation, Gen-Z is really among the most empathetic group I've ever seen, and I'm really proud of them. I hope they don't change that, because the adults currently need to learn from their example.",0
"I don't care what Pence says about Trump today, now that he has Murdoch's approval to have an opinion. Every one of those creeps coming down on Trump now were solidly loyal right up until the midterms.","They don't care about anything but political power and since it is clear they can't count on riding Trump's coattails anymore, they are ready to kick him to the curb.",0
"I honestly doubt you would actually skip it. I mean if you even remotely follow football, you’ll eventually be overwhelmed and give in because everyone’s gonna be hyped and talking about it. You’re seriously gonna miss it because it’s winter? I understand trying to stand up against corruption but it’s futile in this case.","This World Cup is probably gonna be immortalized as it’s the last of the two goats and if Argentina actually wins this year, probably gonna be one of the most famous world cups ever. The World Cup is projected to be watched by 5 billion people. People are definitely excited.",0
A friend of mine is a pretty experienced software engineer and he got a call from a recruiter. He went through a couple minutes of the usual recruiter spiel and then asked what the salary was. $19 an hour. He then gave my favorite response I've ever heard to someone trying to underpay you:,"""I wouldn't even come shit in your office toilet for less than $35 an hour. $40 if you want me to actually do anything."".",0
"About 1.3 million mail ballots were cast in Georgia in the presidential election two years ago, compared with just under 250,000 last month — an 81 percent decrease.","While voter turnout remained strong, absentee voting in Georgia dropped off drastically in this year’s midterm election, the first major test of an expansive 2021 voting law that added restrictions for casting ballots by mail.",0
"It could still be 50% of the age group just based on things other than gender only. 100% would be too much anyways, we’d be spending half our defence budget on handling that increase in people doing military service. But the current system is discriminatory and unfair to men.","The Greens and Left Alliance (so the “liberal feminist lefties”) are the only parties that at least have equality in conscription in the party agenda. Not that they’re actively doing anything about it, but it’s a start I guess. (Unless some parties have added it this year, I don’t remember that happening.).",0
"Someone needs to take these folk by the shoulders, shake them up a bit and look into their eyes then say ""They want to fucking kill you. That's not a joke. It's not a metaphor. It's probably not gonna happen today, or tomorrow (though it might if you end up walking with the wrong group in the parking lot of a rally), but they literally want people like you to cease to exist. It's happened before. It can happen again. And, again, and I can't stress his enough: they want to fucking kill you. Not at first. First, you won't be able to get married, or adopt children, or you'll even have your children taken away from you. Then your businesses will be exploited by the government, no matter what happens to the businesses of cis straight white guys. Then you won't be able to use public transportation, and certain jobs will be closed to you. Then they'll make you wear a pink triangle when you're out in public. But eventually, maybe in a decade, maybe in two, if they get everything they want, they will fucking kill you. And nobody will stop them."".","It is. Boehner was a jackass, but at least he knew how to think, even if I disagreed with him. People around here don't even see him as much of a Republican anymore, which is bullshit.",1
"It's just bizarre to watch, and I'm not sure I know of anything like it happening before. Doesn't that make it newsworthy?",It’s normal to comment that you don’t think certain topics are newsworthy. If a news outlet started reporting on what the teletubbies had for breakfast everyday you’d say “I don’t care what the teletubbies had for breakfast”.,1
"Sure, it does. While Trump is in Ohio visiting Americans in need, Biden is in Ukraine checking on the progress of our proxy war with Russia.","To be fair, the Optics of Biden going to Ukraine before visiting Ohio are really bad. Biden had a lot of time to make a quick trip to Ohio and show his concern. When Trump travels to Ohio on Wednesda, he's going to really gain a lot of publicity and negative publicity for Biden.",1
"Be glad they're at least talking about a breakthrough, instead of fusion reaching some made up milestone.",I've seen nuclear fusion researchers say the running gag is that it's been a century away for decades now.,1
"Um, no one is forced to join a union. There's plenty of jobs where union membership isn't required. Just get a job somewhere else. Isn't that the Republican philosophy? 🤔.",Wages in the states where these laws were passed decreased or remained flat in comparison to places that didn't have them.,0
"Because like Canada, Australia is a constitutional monarchy. We didn't fight a multi-year bloody war of independence like America did.","We just asked for independence nicely, and one of the stipulations for gaining freedom is the instituting of a constitutional monarchy. Which means while we run our nations completely independently, the British Monarch is still the head of state, even if they have no actual power inside the countries.",0
"But we should shout at them until they’re forced to leave, we should deplatform them wherever possible.","Hate speech and free speech are actually fundamentally compatible, because the former will always try to be used to silence the latter. This is why “true free speech” is a myth - the regulation of hate speech is necessary to prevent the silencing of the vulnerable.",0
I’m sure there is a probably a much larger number of companies importing non medical products and then moving them into Iran.,"The cost to the US / Western allies in administrating the sanctions must almost certainly be higher than the direct cost to the Iranians to buy elsewhere. I guess it's a signal that the US is opposed to an Iranian drone program, and it's hard to put a dollar amount on that... But whether it's for a domestic or foreign audience, it seems like this is all politics one way or another, from what I can tell.",1
Turkey's doing this for Turkey. Or rather Erdogan is doing it for Erdogan. Sweden has people he wants extradited and this is just about the only kind of leverage Turkey has.,Turkey would be making a binding commitment to send its own people to die for Sweden if it came to that.,1
"Hard as it is to imagine, throughout the 2000s and early 2010s relations between China and Taiwan were pretty good. There would always be the territorial dispute and occasional sabre rattling but for the most part, it was live and let live and trade was growing. In fact, even today, Taiwan’s biggest trade partner is still China, it’s kind of why the issues faced today are quite tragic because things were getting better.","Honestly, Taiwanese people just want to live their lives, and trade with people around the world, including China. It's quite sad that the CCP, due to its ego, continued to ignore the need of Taiwanese.",1
"For a moment Walter was Paula Dean. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, ""Roger that Marzipan, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one."".","Yeah. But Russia also doesn’t have an $11.3billion($180billion today) lend-lease from western allies nor have every man and their dog conscripted these days. Russia is practically broke, morale is low because it’s a really bullshit war.",1
"As it takes time for more production to come online, in the near term, the tools our government has to dampen inflation is restrictive monetary policy - raising interest rates, raising taxes, and cutting government spending. This decelerates the economy by slowing the growth in the money supply resulting in less upward pressure on prices.","The chief factor of inflation today is supply bottlenecks. As demand continues to outpace supply, prices will continue to rise. As pressure on the global supply chain eases, prices will also ease and inflation will follow.",0
"I think the point is that the black population in South Carolina is more spread out. In the states you mentioned almost all the blacks are either in Detroit, Pittsburgh, or Philadelphia. While in South Carolina you've got 11 counties with black populations of 40k or more.","South Carolina represents the American south, which has the largest concentration of black voters. Remember, if not for Jim clyburn, the most powerful democrat in South Carolina, endorsing Biden, Biden would’ve lost that state and would’ve most likely dropped off out of the race. Instead, thanks to clyburn a endorsement, Biden won South Carolina and went on to sweep the south.",1
12X more destructive as what was dropped on Japan is typical @ 180ktn. The W87 warheads used on the Minuteman III missile yield 300ktn each. This isn't that shocking. Russians have had vastly more powerful warheads at their disposal for a long time.,"Russia's R-36M for example carries 10, 550kt warheads, for 5.55mt total. US' largest is the Trident II with 8, 475kt warheads, for 3.8mt total.",1
"To some degree you could liken the ability to convert to religion, but I wouldn't, as transphobes have a penchant for claiming transgender people are 'an ideology' already.","It's hard to liken it to religion for me because religion is about belief, a trans person would be trans even if they chose not to believe they were trans or even if people convinced them not to be trans. If someone talks someone out of converting to Christianity, then they aren't a Christian. If someone talks someone out of transitioning, they still have a transgender identity, they just aren't allowed to acknowledge it.",0
"You no doubt disagree, so why don't you cite either her actual appellate or Court jurisprudence, or even her scholarship on statutory construction or constitutional interpretation, and explain how it is faith-based, as opposed to law-based? Let's dig into this religious legal reasoning of hers.","She’s unfit to serve on the Supreme Court because of her radical and bizarre religious beliefs not the least of shock, speaking in tongues. Anyone who holds to this belief is psychologically unfit to serve on the Supreme Court.",1
The fuck Trudeau flags are so common that i started assuming the worst in anyone witb a flag if j don’t see it right away.,"I haven’t, but I feel kinda guilty when I see a flag hanging out of a car and get mad thinking it’s a Fuck Trudeau flag only to see it’s a Ukraine flag or a sports flag.",0
"Oh damn, yeah, that's pretty bad. Seems like it was from the Opie and Anthony Show in 2005 and resurfaced last year. I can't recall ever having heard anything similar on his podcast though it's not like he took live calls (or that I listened to every episode). I more remember him always saying that nobody should take anything he says seriously because he's an idiot. I was okay with that explanation for a while, but then he started to really give a huge platform to fuckheads like Alex Jones and I lost interest in listening. I don't know how bad he's gotten since going to Spotify (and full Republican). If he's doing shit like in that bondo clip, then fuck him.","He doesn't really act like an expert in any subjects unrelated to MMA or comedy, he just has a huge fucking audience which he sometimes exposes to phony experts.",0
"Establishment dems don’t need to ‘get in line’ behind progressives as much as progressives need to get together an electable candidate. I have hope of such in the future but right now Joe is the horse to back, and deservedly so.","Biden could walk on water and those people still wouldn’t vote for him. He won without them in 2020 and will do so again. The power of incumbency in American politics is huge. Add to that Biden’s increasing popularity within his own base of traditional centrist dems, with progressives due to recent policy wins / good faith attempts , and moderates due to the economy and a little bit of “dank Brandon” popularity with younger voters.",0
It might take some time to get more ammunition manufacturing facilities up to speed but we aren’t running out of anything.,"The United States has been supplying Ukraine with a ton of weaponry all the time, not to mention the intelligence apparatus that’s been created for this.",0
"Education graphically depicts the horrors of drug addiction and overdose, regulating purity decreases fatal overdoses drastically, forbidding advertising keeps people from trying to promote its use, making it inconvenient to get adds an extra hurdle.","1) Educate people as to the fact that they're taking a deadly drug if they choose to and that's wise not to, explaining the effects of the drug factually.",0
"If separate but equal had worked (Which it's obvious there was no way it would), then I would have upheld Plessy V. Ferguson for lack of 14th amendment issues.","They made that ruling as wide as possible, and rewarded decades of fishing expeditions and judge/case shopping by Republicans.",0
"Arguments against him being a spy and the four passport thing. His brother ascribed Paul's acquisition of the passports to ""probably a genealogical interest as much as anything."".",????????? “Accused of espionage” why would any American be angry at someone for spying our old arch nemesis Russia on behalf of our own government? What the fuck does that have to do with Trump? All of these comments make me want to pull my hair out.,1
"disease isolation, the livestock are on different floors, not crowded in one big ass barn. That's actually brilliant. it can even be classified as environmentally friendly vertical farming, if they're not already given the enclosed space they can probably sequester methane too.","Vertical farming is highly efficient, reduces the spread of chemicals in the environment, can be conducted year round and provides food products within a local area, reducing transport costs.",1
What? Westerners are not the only people who preserve culture. The reason that many artifacts are in western museums and collections is because they were stolen from indigenous people.,"2) Looted artefacts are not cultural appropriation. It is... looted/stolen artefacts. Now if the collectors of the meres were running around chanting gibberish while swinging them around then you _might_ have a point, but you don't because they aren't.",1
The reason they say NATO and always say they are fighting NATO directly. Is to try and save face with their people. In their view it's incredibly embarrassing if Russia is losing to just Ukraine. Even Ukrain backed by NATO weapons is too embarrassing. It's why they have constantly said NATO is directly fighting and providing far more than weapons and Intel.,1) NATO responds conventionally which we now know would be incredibly one sided for NATO. NATO wins.,1
"To which Bibi will just ignore him. Like he ignored Obama's attempts. Bibi and most of the Israeli government are interested in one thing, complete control over Palestinians land. With as few Palestinians being allowed to stay so they remain as a minority in the country.","And before anyone goes ""But the Arabs refused to sign the agreement"", of course they did! There were no representatives from the Palestinians brought to the table. The Israeli's had people sitting at the table representing their interest. They had lobbyist groups fighting hard to push for the creation of Israel. And at the end, they got like 90% of what they wanted, where as the Palestinians got nothing other then being told they had to leave their land that in some cases their family had lived on for hundreds of years.",0
"Yup. The ruzzians had a lot of potential. Decent sized population, crossroads between Europe and China for rail trade if they had invested, and unfathomable reserves of a host of natural resources. They could have joined the Western World and truly prospered. Instead, they kept up the same shit they always had.","Their demographics was already an issue. Of the few regions in ruzzia with positive growth rates, most are separatists regions full of populations that are not ethnic ruzzian. They want independence, and the failure of the war will likely be the spark that destroys ruzzian control over several regions.",0
"The Racist and anti racist skinheads referenced in your link are not the creators of the phrase or the sentiment, as I said it started many decades earlier at the very least, but they are on the long and varied list of groups who believe ACAB. Police corruption and lack of accountability is a major contributor to violent gangs in a number of different ways.","As I understand it, the meaning of ACAB isn't that every individual cop is as blisteringly corrupt and violent as the next. It's more that the bad apples do spoil the barrel, and that every 'good cop' is guilty of enabling the real bastards, if not actively aiding and abbeting thier corruption.",0
"The balloons were at 80,000+ ft but seems they are now ""maneuvering"" at 60,000 ft -- which is still well above the CF-18's gun range.","They don't need balloons for that. A balloon can only carry a limited payload, which by definition must be disposable.",0
"If they could work it out, I'm sure they could swarm it somehow right? It must have something to combat that?","That would mean Russia would have to work out its location - something they haven't been good at so far. Slow, disjointed intelligence makes it pretty tricky to lock down a mobile target.",0
DeSantis figured out that anti-woke themes resonate with the base and as governor he had a leg up to his competition by being able to do performative art with it and what better antagonist than a multi billion corporation that everyone knows and had enraged his base by showing some signs of openness?,"Disney is a global company, it has a market cap of +180B with over 220k employees, and only the massification of A/C is more important than Disney in creating a modern Florida economy.",0
Funding too. During the soviet era any other socialist movement that disagreed with the soviet system was crushed or rounded up by the secret police. After the Soviet Union due to their association with socialism even if they were anti-soviet would be viewed with suspicion so got no support during reconstruction. Then you have conservative pacts in the US giving funding to anyone anti-communist even if they turned out to be extreme far right. Putin too been funding the far right due to how easily they’re brought and willing to control power with authoritarian like him. They got all the funding to move from small movements to election campaigns and swinging opinions with pr.,Depending on who you are in US (like trans rights in some states) but America is like stages 2-4 of rise of fascism.,0
"WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is tapping into a vast but little-known stockpile of American ammunition in Israel to help meet Ukraine’s dire need for artillery shells in the war with Russia, American and Israeli officials say.",The shipment of hundreds of thousands of artillery shells from the two stockpiles to help sustain Ukraine’s war effort is a story about the limits of America’s industrial base and the diplomatic sensitivities of two vital U.S. allies that have publicly committed not to send lethal military aid to Ukraine.,0
"It's possible everything is 100% honest and above board. But it's also quite possible that the tax returns follow the letter of the law in how the paperwork is put together and how deductions are claimed, but those numbers don't accurately reflect reality. Given the high profile of this particular taxpayer, his claims of complete honesty and perfection, balanced by his public track record of arguing, litigating, and delaying to avoid actually being held to account on his claim of honesty and perfection, one would think the IRS would at least check that there is even any paperwork at all to support the claimed losses, deductions and donations, but right now it's not even clear they've gotten that far for any tax year within the current release. Which suggests again, either a politically-manipulated, or chronically weakened tax office (or both).","It's the lifelong pattern that I would guess prompted concern when Trump wouldn't voluntarily release his taxes like every other recent candidate. He's been implicated in all kinds of financial mis-dealings over the years, why would you assume his taxes would be different?",0
"One doesn't have the imagination to lie about such a threat. There's virtually no point in saying such a stupid insult if it isn't simply true. He has nothing to gain by lying about Putin being ""someone push that guy out a hospital window"" (and someone obeys the order)) sort of leader...","I know he's a lying deceptive arse, but at no point has he even remotely sided with Russia during this war.",1
"Well you see, when the main point of an election is to elect candidates to represent your state, you might start giving people a reason to blame specific states.","A lot of the weirder gerrymandered districts are actually that way to comply with voting rights. If they had just drawn them in a way that was visually sensible, it would have resulted in minority disenfranchisement.",1
"Look, I get Russian invaded Ukraine. I get that Russia's claims on certain regions is tenuous in some circumstances (and completely correct in at least one, although this still isn't the way to do it) but the bizarre propaganda rush we've been seeing pro-Ukraine is just crazy.",People still get upset if I compare how Russian and Ukrainian culture are still pretty similar; a lot of sentiment is very partisan to build up a rally cry for gathering support.,1
It is France which had a big electricity problem in the summer (and they still have big problems) despite having 56 nuclear power plants. They needed to import a lot of electricity from Germany this year.,"Though a certain amount of gas plants for electricity will likely still be needed even if other countries don't need electricity from Germany anymore. They are used for balancing out the electricity grid, compensating fluctuations which happen for example because of solar and win energy which are not steadily producing electricity. A nuclear power plant can't do this. It produces a steady amount of electricity and can't suddenly be put into a higher or lower gear.",0
"He’s breaking down, saying it should have been him who died, instead of the people that did die. That is SO SAD and unfair. He does not deserve this broken life.","This dude is a hero, but his life is about to get miserable from the right. Guarantee he and his family are already receiving death threats. Popular right wing figures are already starting with “why would a veteran take his family to a drag show.”.",1
I don't know about that. People said the same thing during the Balkan wars. There was widespread refugees throughout Europe. And yet when the wars were over the vast majority of Balkan refugees returned to their homes.,"Refugees in most conflicts never ‘go home’ p. After the war they stay where they are or ‘move on’ to opportunities. This was the case of Poles, Vietnamese, Syrians, etc. now Ukrainians. They will look to countries like Germany, Canada, Australia.",1
"If that were true then Dems would have done a lot worse at midterms and independents would believe the big lie-- but that's not the case, so you need to accept that some GOP narratives go further than others.","But when theres a very clear kernal of truth to allegations like these we're seeing with Biden, those people will listen to conservative narratives and equate this with Trump-- or they'll just do so because it's the simplistic conclusion to draw. Believe it or not, there are candidates that the GOP smear machine actually struggle with getting something to stick with so-called independents. I don't think it's necessarily related to progressiveness, although I think moderate Dems tend to struggle here more-- it has to be someone charismatic and not establishment with decades of mistakes to bring up, and someone who really inspires the base, which are all factors that tend to benefit progressives. Obama in 2008 (not remarkably progressive) is a great example-- the opposition to him among racists and Republicans was vitriolic, but he captured the interest of the non political while inspiring his base. Biden, for whatever strenhs he has, does not have the ability to control a public narrative.",0
"The point is, this wasn't a story manufactured by Republicans. They overhyped it no doubt. But both Democrats and Republicans were acting as this balloon was a grave infringement by China - they only differed in assessing the White House response to this ""threat"". This was made into a big story by mainstream media, not just ""right leaning media"".",So why was it all over the news on largely Democrat leaning media? This wasn't a story confined to Fox News and Newsmax. There are plenty of those types of Republican outrage stories. This wasn't one of them.,0
This eventually led to where we are today - a nuclear capable North Korea building ICBM's that can reach the US despite all of our sanctions.,"It allowed development of ICBM, and when the nuclear part sunsets in 2025, they have full reign to do as they please with nukes and will have a delivery system.",1
"That's ""you better think America is the best or we'll prevent you from even being considered a citizen"".","""And I'm saying, and I'm not being tough, I'm saying if you know a place better, you go there but you lose your citizenship here in the United States of America,"".",1
"""The lie is so big that it reorders the world. And so part of telling the big lie is that you immediately say it's the other side that tells the big lie. Sadly, but it's just a matter of record, all of that is in Mein Kampf."".","Yes. If something actually comes of this, we really need to look into every single person who enabled him. Do not let Trump be the scapegoat here. He committed these crimes, yes, but he wasn't alone.",1
"Right, and it's also worth noting that they still haven't hit the Kremlin. They were simply drawing attention to the fact they can if they want to. I think this messaging is actually directed at the west. ""Look how restrained we've been. Can we have F-16s yet?"".","> ""It was after Engels. This suggests that if we reach Engels, we will also reach the Kremlin,"" Skibitskyi said, responding to the presenter's words that after the explosions in Engels, the Russians began to install air defense systems in the Kremlin area.",1
"Maybe it's just me. I like Mueller, respect him, and read this as about as dry comedy gold as it gets.","""His deceit, which is a fundamental component of the crimes of conviction and relevant conduct, extended to tax preparers, bookkeepers, banks, the Treasury Department, the Department of Justice National Security Division, the FBI, the Special Counsel’s Office, the grand jury, his own legal counsel, Members of Congress, and members of the executive branch of the United States government. "".",0
"It annoys me that people use Nazis as the example for fascism while ignoring that Mussolini created the term and the MO. The Nazis copied Mussolini’s Fascist party, but it was watered down - Mussolini had black shirts and Nazis had brown shirts.",Fascism works for me but it's used incorrectly most of the time and conservatives believe leftists are the real fascists . Fascism is right wing authoritarian power.,1
"So dem politicians who beliefs are normally anti God running things now makes sense. So as they continue to run things into the ground, it’s all according to what bible says will happen anyway. So 👍🏾.","Just like natzi can not peacefully coexist with jew because a natzi view of morality is vastly different. To a natzi, just being a Jew is offensive to them. And thus they pushed their view of morality with policy changes.",0
"The UN Population Division report of 2019 projects world population to continue growing, although at a steadily decreasing rate, and to reach 10.9 billion in 2100 with a growth rate at that time of close to zero.","A 2020 study published by The Lancet from researchers funded by the Global Burden of Disease Study promotes a lower growth scenario, projecting that world population will peak in 2064 at 9.7 billion and then decline to 8.8 billion in 2100. This projection assumes further advancement of women's rights globally. In this case TFR is assumed to decline more rapidly than the UN's projection, to reach 1.7 in 2100.",0
"Harassment only gets reported when you piss off a mod, in all honesty Reddit needs a huge uprising against the mods. I’m not saying the site should change in its current state, Mods have taken full control of many subs for good and bad, but that’s not their job.","I mean twitter, in all honesty has never cared… let alone the whole cutting sub culture that has existed on the platform. It’s really messed messed up they are trying to frame it under this, I hate the guy…but this is clickbait. Twitter has always been this, teen suicide rates have skyrocketed since the creation of social media…I mean that show on Netflix had to add a suicide warning because it was directly tied to children killing themselves. plus they changed the title.",0
The problem with wolf is they could well be Finnish/Norwegian/Russian those animals move long distances and don't respect borders.,"There have been a large number of relocated wolf's in Sweden, problem is, these animals move long distances and tend to move right back to where they came from.",1
"On the same day I listened to a NYT podcast and a 538 podcast - the NYT podcast went hard on ""it's a close race and Hochul made a huge mistake in not campaigning"" and the 538 podcast said ""it's a data point. She's still up by 9 points in the model. Let's see what their next poll says before we put much weight in it."".","“Gov. Hochul gave herself nearly $1 billion for a slush fund in this summer’s state budget, with no restrictions on what projects or groups she could spend the money on. It allowed her to hand out cash with no review by the Legislature.”.",1
"They aren't following Republicans like brain dead stooges, they are Republicans, and Republicans are brain dead stooges.","People of color aren't immune to being idiots, and most of those idiots will flock to the Republican party.",0
"__Germany is not angry over Bern’s refusal to allow Berlin to re-export Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine, says the German ambassador to Switzerland.__.","""We are only talking about re-exports of ammunition produced in Switzerland and bought by Germany 20 years ago, for anti-aircraft and therefore defensive systems,” ambassador Flügger told the Swiss newspapers. ""Nobody was asking Switzerland to deliver arms to Ukraine."".",0
"Young people are risking years of imprisonment if not their lives in the hope of freedom and democracy in Iran and Russia. Democracy is at risk in America too, but millions of people, especially the young, will not bother to vote because Democrats aren't perfect or they don't like the price of gas. This could be the last chance for anyone's vote to actually matter.","5) If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain. (If people were voting for which place to order lunch from, you can’t say “I don’t care,” and then complain when pizza shows up. The same logic applies here, and this is MUCH more important.).",1
"Tbh, i don't know what Russia's intentions are anymore (but its turning into a ""nation self destruction speedrun"" due to their repeated mistakes during 10 months of war :v).","(1) Deliberate attack by Russia, (2) an accident by Russia , (3) or a false flag by Ukraine to get NATO involved? The most likely is (2), I don't see this bringing NATO into the mix though.",1
"They're so insecure of the flaws in their own party that now the shooter is no longer one of us. AKA straight white conservative males, toting semiautomatic guns despite many of them having previous arrests and sketchy histories.",It's now one of THEM nonbinary people... toting semiautomatic guns despite having previous arrests and sketchy histories.,0
"China will take Taiwan sooner or later, best everyone could do years before was not to let 1 company have basically monopoly over industry. If anyone in government really cared about national security they wouldn’t let own and worldwide military rely on small island that is Chinese land and especially while knowing that China is eager for unification of its lands.","That happened in 1949, and yes while many ethnically identify as Chinese, most don't consider themselves to be under the control of Beijing, hence they call themselves ""Chinese"" instead of Taiwanese so as t avoid disrupting an already unstable political environment.",1
I would gladly have my taxes go to that instead of the billions we flush down the drain for militarizing the police to deal with citizens with AR's.,But then we couldn't sell more guns to deal with the guns we sold because of the guns that were previously sold.,0
"The animals were found to have a mutation of the virus that could make it easier to infect mammals, but there was no evidence of transmission between mammals.","In other words, livestock and poultry are great at making it easier for viruses to spread amongst humans. As to why this is, one author explains:",1
"It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the marzipan was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane’s almondy coating in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet.","We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: ""November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety frostings on the ground."".",0
"It's like if you owned a mansion, and live-in house staff. And after a while they start asking asking for contracts for room usage, so only the owner of a contract can live in a specific room. You still own the land, mansion and room, and the legal authority of the contract only goes as far as you, but they are more than free to exchange the contracts amongst each other.","When you buy a house, you buy the land from your town or city, who was given it by the county, who was given ownership by the state/province who was given ownership by the nation. The nation is the REAL landowner, not you or any of those. But with a king, they ARE the real landowner, the nation owns the land under them.",0
"Shouldn't be allowed to preside over a case involving anyone who nominated or confirmed you, and judges should be assigned at random from a pool of all available judges without conflicts of interest.",You don't always get to choose and Judge's still largely follow precedent but if you were involved in a case and found a Judge that perhaps set the precedent you want... well you'll want that Judge to take the case.,1
"The carbon neutrality of a legit pellet enterprise is only as good as their accounting for sequestration elsewhere, and they do not necessarily have control over that. One more forest fire than was accounted for at the start of the project and all that carbon that was supposed to cancel out the burning is up in the atmosphere.","The problem is not the danger of deforestation, but rather the emissions from burning wood and releasing it into the atmosphere. At least you don't get the ancient CO2 from coal or oil, but it's still multiple decades of CO2, and burning wood is also pretty dirty with a lot of fine particles and other gases that are troublesome.",1
But this thing about Trump being involved really boggles my mind. What it seems you’re saying is that Katie Hobbs made her unethical decision because Trump set a new standard for election denial? That’s nonsense.,That's false. The actual count has always been completed in one night. Many places like Florida still do it. There were 98 - 99% votes in after the first night and the Republicans swept the State.,1
"The Russian front seems to be made of two lines: a line of poorly equipped meatbags that presses forward, and a line of ""real"" soldiers that shoots the first line if they run away.","Apparently some new recruits have been assigned to the ""second line"" whose job is to shoot any retreating/deserting Russian solder coming towards them from the front lines.",1
"He's likely doing this as a veiled threat to the Republican machinery - knowing that he'd split the party and all but guarantee another Dem term if they don't support him. And, yes, he is just that delusional and narcissistic to think only he matters. He is, after all, a guy who wants to BE (admired and loved as) president, but not do the actual work of a president.",This is a guy who sponged off his rich dad and who said that he had no idea that the Presidency would be hard work.,1
The result after decades of innovation: America produces too much corn. We put high fructose corn syrup in almost all foods. We decree that gasoline must be 10% ethanol even though it's less efficient than pure gasoline. We give away corn to developing countries as food aid.,Some context here. In the 1970s Secretary of Agricultural Earl Butz replaced the farm subsidy that paid farmers to limit their crop production with a farm subsidy that paid farmers to produce as much corn as they could.,0
Backstabs; interesting choice of a word from an Indian news source. Implies that they should be supporting Russian invasion and atrocities by doing the opposite or at least be inactive.,"Well interesting as in it implies where the sympathy lies, then again its no surprise there are issues between India and Pakistan but as far as journalism goes not a great headline.",0
"Then Russia was in a phase of being attacked by artillery with superior range, losing their ammunition depots and supply lines and pushed out of territory they couldn’t defend.",If the Russian army ran out of shells or barrels the war is effectively going to be over pretty soon and the best Russia can hope for is a long stale mate before collapsing.,1
desantis saying he will have any federal election monitors arrested if they went near any polling places in Florida doesn't really help his case much. Not wanting any federal oversight into your heavily gerrymandered elections combined trump claiming to have used the FBI to win you an election 4 years ago definitely puts a big fat red flag on your state.,"He's almost certainly lying because he believes that using the FBI to install governors in red states would increase his support. Unfortunately for desantis, his idiotic strongman act threatening to arrest any federal election monitors in Florida combined with trumps dumbass claim makes the state's elections sound pretty bad. Doesn't help much that Florida has a history of shady election bullshit that never really gets looked into.",0
"Based on this wording however, I believe this transcends just trans people but anybody who would perform a role that is different to their own gender correct?","Also, doesn't this break people's right to privacy? Now whenever a performance is performed anywhere, to prove someone isn't breaking the law, they would have to provide birth records to confirm what they were assigned at birth coincides with the characters gender that they are performing.",0
Texas would likely go out on their own. They don't like welfare programs and social safety nets. I can't imagine that they would increase their support to poorer states like Mississippi or Alabama. Florida would probably do the same. Most of Florida will be under water soon anyway. Georgia might stay in the US along with Arizona and possibly North Carolina. The rich red states wouldn't want to burden themselves with whatever is left. They will build a wall to keep it Mississippians.,"It certainly isn't a blue state. The Republican party controls both houses of the state legislature, governor, secretary of state, and attorney general. I hope Georgia continues the good fight and turns blue one day. You are not quite there yet.",0
"It's a mix of saving face, low vaccine uptake among the elderly, low herd immunity, vaccine efficacy, population control and nationalism.","I don't think it's based on much rationality, considering the way they test and treat the populace during those lockdowns. It's very costly.",0
I think there's a reasonable chance this story was intended to hurt Biden because he's insisting on seeking re-election and there are those within the Democratic establishment that don't want him to run again.,"But even though this is still “wrong,” I don’t think you’ll find many on the left who defend Biden tooth and nail the way the right circled the wagons and defended Trump despite a multitude of transgressions.",1
"So yeah, a swarm of basic drones against a bunch of soft targets in a low tech country… not that surprising that it’s ‘effective’.","Iran's strategy when it comes to using those UAVs, is overwhelm AA defenses via drone swarm (alongside ballistic missiles).",1
"What evidence do we have that China is buckling at the seams? Their economy and GDP continues to grow, inflation is extremely low. I’m not sure how the ccp is crushing the youth, I actually go to China three times a year in partnership with some of their universities and majority of the youth loves Xi, to my surprise.","The next decade is actually going to be a harsh reality for the middle and lower class in the west. The last few years of inflation and cost increases is just a precursor. Why do you think we are trying so hard to slow China down? Not sure if you are old enough to know about Japan and Americas relationship in the 70s and early 80s, this is a repeat except China won’t be dumb enough to sign the plaza accords.",0
"Under a National Popular Vote system, candidates are going to be campaigning in all 50 states because how much you win or lose each state now becomes politically relevant to the outcome of the election.","In state polls of voters each with a second question that specifically emphasized that their state's electoral votes would be awarded to the winner of the national popular vote in all 50 states, not necessarily their state's winner, there was only a 4-8% decrease of support.",0
You're just speaking verbatim the same conservative talking points that I've heard a thousand times and I don't care what country you live in. I'm not afraid of prices going up. You understand that you can't just raise prices at every turn and expect profits to just increase? Let them raise their prices as high as they want. Demand will fall. You can emphasize yourself as smart on this but you're not.,You said food stamps are somehow immune to this logic just because it doesn't work like that. That's why they just want people angry at poor people for receiving them. Like I said raising prices is not something they can just keep doing and expect more and more profit.,0
"For example, suppose in Texas the GOP candidate gets 48% of the popular vote, the Dem gets 46%, and 3rd party candidates get the remaining 6%. The result is that the GOP candidate wins 100% of the Texas EC votes, the same as if the GOP candidate got 100% of the popular vote.","All but 2 states use a ""winner take all"" system for allocating their EC votes: Whichever candidate wins a plurality of the vote in the state gets ALL the EC votes for the state.",0
There’s a reason why all these D.C think tanks have been publishing constant reports about China’s rapid militarization.,"China can absolutely turn the tide of war in Ukraine. Would they? Probably not, I don’t fucking know. But if it’s a question of industrial military production, their base is there. It’s not 2003 anymore.",0
The DNC wants Biden out. It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't through him under the bus to prevent him from running again. The small loss they would take from that would be nothing compared to the loss if it were Biden vs anyone other than Trump.,I’m not saying Biden didn’t store the documents better than trump. I’m saying that he didn’t obstruct justice by knowingly lying about turning them all over like trump did.,1
RuZZia simply doesn't have that many nationalistic men anymore to waste .. the Soviet Union is gone and most young Russians dislike Putin.,.. he can keep sending prisoners and men from the South and East but he will run out eventually and have to send from St Petersburg and Moscow.,0
"I'm pretty sure Republicans advocated and were in favor of slavery pretty often in the recent years, during efforts to remove slavery from state constitutions (like in Colorado, Utah and Nebraska) or the punishment clause of the 13th amendment.",Could at the very least be argued that Republicans put a platform to uphold the constitution and the constitution has slavery in it therefore they can get banned as well.,1
"Sorry, but that's naive way of thinking. Putin is not a cause, he's a symptom. He attacked Ukraine, because that's what common Russians expect (not all ofc). For Russia to act like an empire. It always has been this way, Russia never leaves its neighbours in peace, no matter who rules in Kremlin.","Oh yeah, I remember, Europe was really peaceful over the course of Stalin's rule. Its not like there was some huge conflict.",1
"In a largely low-key address devoid of forecasts of imminent success, Putin sought to deflect blame for what he called the “shared tragedy” of the war that he began, repeating claims that the conflict was unavoidable even as Ukraine and its US and European allies had repeatedly made clear before the invasion that there was no threat to Russia’s security.","“We are not going to repeat the mistakes of the USSR, instead we will make new ones, like starting a direct war against a country fully backed by the west, re-unifying NATO and helping NATO expand by making historically neutral countries nervous with our war of aggression”.",1
"BTW if you know a business that has obtained a PPP loan for too much/at all when they weren't supposed to be eligible, you can report them and the secret service will give you 10%-30% of the money returned from the loan amount as a whistle-blower fee. It's not often I suggest snitching, but these people stole money at a time when people were dying/losing jobs/having economic troubles due to a pandemic and pocketed it instead of actually paying employees. That's messed up. I myself, who didn't defraud the government, say these people deserve to lose the money they stole and if you can get paid for helping get that money back to people who really need it then hey. Live your best life.","Although I'm not an expert, and there are other ways the system was defrauded, the most obvious examples are businesses claiming more employees on their payroll than they actually had. My understanding is that the requirements for proving payroll were not very stringent and many people 'employed' their own family members a few months prior with higher than normal salaries to get more money. If you're looking to report someone it's easier if you are more familiar with their business. However, just from that site with minimal information you can maybe draw some conclusions. Look for the number of employees claimed. For example: If a pool with 5 lifeguards claims 50 full-time employees that's a red flag.",0
"To over-extend the metaphor a bit, though... If you're at dinner and the kids are being obnoxious assholes and throwing things the correct is NOT for the adults to get up and leave. The kids will keep being obnoxious assholes and will eventually knock over a candle and burn the house down.","EDIT: To be fair, though, I'd love to just watch some older more ""conservative republican"" members grab some of the Q-crazies and sit them down and say ""be quiet!"" (to continue the earlier metaphor).",0
"Multiple degrees in psych and behavior science here - Dissociative Identity Disorder is definitely a real condition. But it’s also a popular condition that liars and grifters like to use to manipulate people. They usually use a concept of DID present in popular culture/Hollywood that’s not correct, rather than the actual manifestation(s) of the condition. (This isn’t a commentary on Walker. I’ve never read his book and don’t know much about him at all - I’m just giving more info.).","Someone with only DID isn’t going to dissociate and get violent and hurt people unless they also have a comorbidity like psychopathy or sociopathy, etc., even though they’re often depicted as “going crazy” in movies and such. They’re much more likely to hurt themselves and have higher rates of self-injurious behavior and suicide. They can’t “switch” on demand like it’s a party trick. They don’t enjoy what they experience, as it’s usually incredibly distressing (imagine suddenly realizing a huge chunk of time has passed and you remember nothing about what happened). People with DID don’t “hear” voices either - they have normal internal thought dialog that can include thoughts they might perceive as coming from others, but they don’t have auditory hallucinations, which is what “hearing voices” is usually describing.",0
If you release sensitive information before a decision has been made and therefore becoming available for public statements you’re breaking the law. It’s as simple as that.,"This is how the SC tends to work, again disagreement with this doesn’t mean this isn’t how the rules are applied currently.",0
Anecdotally I spent my entire Christmas/new years time off sick from a cold. That wasn’t fun at all.,I had covid last year and it wasn't fun but honestly RSV was the fucking worst. 4 days of just 'no thank you' and then a week or so of mild 'ugh'.,1
The US knew this for years and accepted this as cost of business in getting their goals done in Afghanistan.,When the war on terror started the US worked with a military dictator in Pakistan. The military ran everything. They gave billions in aid to Mushraff most of which was used by him to solidify power and not to actually improve their fighting.,0
"The point I'm trying to make (probably poorly), is that the Constitution likely assumes the existence of state legislatures because it also mandates that a representative form of government exists in the states.","The counterpoint that I am trying to articulate is that a state legislature is limited in a ton of ways by the state constitution, many of which are absolutely inherent to its . If we are saying that ""shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof"" means ""without regarding to any limits placed on it in the state constitution"", then what says the minority party in the state legislature can't just lock everyone in the majority party in the coat closet, then take a vote on whatever redistricting map they like? The state courts can't throw out the map, and the US constitution is silent on the rules for how state legislatures decide anything, so I guess federal courts can't do anything about it either.",1
"The majority of truly intelligent people don't want this, as seen by most exit polls when you look at college educated people and how they vote. The smart ones that do, are smart enough to know what it takes to get the stuff that they want. They don't care that Santos lies, because it helps to push an agenda. Look at MTG and Boebert. The GOP is NOT looking for smart people, they are looking for people dumb enough to help push their agenda outlined above.","Should have held your nose and voted Democrat then, you dumb shits. The amount of complete fuckery it would take for me to vote for a fucking Republican in New York is significantly higher than whatever issues New York state's Democratic Party has been dealing with over the past few years.",1
"Why he hasn’t done that is somewhat obvious: once he strikes, there would be 0 support from China or India.","Why do you think India and China, who each have their own goals on the globe, remain neutral, maybe slightly pro-russian in a passive way, in this conflict despite the risk of the global devastation by a crazy neighbor? Because in talks with their leaders Putin shows level of sanity enough for them to remain neutral, which means no global devastation on the table.",1
In 2009 Democrats created a team that was supposed to have the resources to do this. It was supposed to have 242 examiners by 2012 but by 2014 it only had 96. The IRS also lost a whole whack of its talent during this time because Republicans .,"This is part of it, but the bigger issue is Republicans. Republicans do not want a group at the IRS going after the ultra-wealthy. And, they don't want it because the ultrawealthy pay them to not want it.",0
"It seems like they’re just doing this to make section 3 of the 14th amendment more well known to the public and that’s it, because as far as I understand they can’t actually do anything with this legislation because doing so would be unconstitutional?","The 14th amendment briefly was allowed to violate the bill of attainder clause, until the 1870 Enforcement Act closed that loophole and required all invocations of the 14th amendment to be tried in federal courts.",1
"And then maybe for the third, I thought that a capable person would just choose where they wanted to go, and then work toward that, and it would work out. In other words, you find yourself in a certain place and wish to go to another place, then you proceed until you get there. Of course in practice there are all kinds of random twists and turns, and half the time you can't even remember where you intended to go in all the windy paths and curveballs life tends to throw at you. I thought it was all about deciding, then applying one's will. In reality we don't really have many actual decisions in life, and most of those we hardly know whether they are going to work out or not.","Yeah, those things have significant personal consequences that come about through one's individual choices so I don't think they can be equated. The consequence of voting for a muppet polician on an individual level is not similar.",1
"Outright banning all porn has a greater-than-zero chance of actually being the spark needed to begin a democratic revolution, or alternatively, bring about the total collapse of society in the US.","Some members of the adult industry are worried that a prorposed federal bill that’s going after content that aims to “arouse, titillate, or gratify” sexual desires has the potential to outlaw porn nationwide.",1
"The DA is supposedly weighing election fraud, conspiracy, oath of office violations, racketeering and other offenses, and indicated a decision on charges could come as early as the end of the year.","Sort of. The fifth can still be invoked to protect you from incrimination in a grand jury, but it's not a ""get out of testimony card"" that many believe it is.",0
"The problem is that Canada isn’t independent from the British crown, it’s only independent from the UK parliament and prime minister. It’s still part of the Commonwealth and Charles is nominally the head of the government with the Canadian prime minister and members of parliament answering to him. So not swearing an oath of allegiance to Charles III is like refusing to take the constitutional oath of office in the US. You generally don’t get to take your seat in congress if you refuse that oath.",Are you also aware that the reason they're currently being barred from the National Assembly is precisely because they did NOT swear this oath to the monarch?,1
Many Africans in regions without French influence view France as the enemy of Africa as a whole st this point...,"interestingly enough 3 years later, France and the French Africans are still yet to even begin talks to implement this, almost as if France doesn’t want to.",1
i stand with ukraine but telling china not to provide weapons to russia while the usa do the same is literally hypocrisy.,"China states “the U.S. is the one pouring weapons into the Ukraine conflict, not china”. The US is pouring weapons in to help Ukraine bolster their defenses from Russian attack. China would be sending in weapons to aid a Russian attack on a sovereign nation, two very different agendas here. China is also claiming to seek a peaceful resolution to the war Russia started while contemplating sending weapons to aid Putins attack.",1
"They are not pro life, pro life would be against the death penalty, for universal health care, for feeding and housing the poor, for workers getting a living wage. They are anti-abortion or anti-choice period.","No they don't get to falsely call themselves pro life, republicans consistently vote to cut spending on healthcare, food and housing for poor people. Things that people NEED to maintain life, so no they don't get to label themselves as pro life the best they can call themselves is anti abortion.",0
Marek disease in factory chickens is an example of this due to narrow genetics and immune responses with 1 type of vaccine that became ineffective.,"Having a populace with broad genetics like USA, Brazil, Europe, etc. Prevents ease of replication due to differing immune systems and it's response to the virus. Also having a variety of effective vaccines.",0
"While many of his colleagues were eagerly anticipating a Republican “tsunami” ahead of the 2022 midterms, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was warning against setting expectations too high: “Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” he said in August, suggesting that wildly flawed nominees like Herschel Walker and Mehmet Oz could help Democrats retain control of the upper chamber. Rick Scott, the National Republican Senatorial Committee chair, bristled at the Kentucky senator’s assessment: “We have great candidates,” he told Politico at the time.","“Our ability to control the primary outcome was quite limited in ‘22 because the support of the former president proved to be very decisive in these primaries,” McConnell continued. “So my view was do the best you can with the cards you’re dealt. Now, hopefully, in the next cycle we’ll have quality candidates everywhere and a better outcome.”.",0
Did the presence of The Secret service stop Donald Trump from repeatedly falsely claiming not to have documents?,"Donald trump stole classified documents, then lied, refused to give them back, lied again, and got raided by the FBI. Biden turned over documents willingly, found more, turned those over, also willingly, and has been very cooperative with the investigation, and he did all that without doxxing a single federal employee, without a single tweet ranting about how the FBI is a bunch of meanies and should be dismantled.",1
Source: Anecdotal but I have many old acquaintances who either work on the hill or have worked on the hill and that’s how they described the situation. The ones most frustrated were the ones who said their boss didn’t give a shit or were more worried about fundraising than whatever work should be going on. It really shattered their perceptions of how government worked….,"As for when it’s covered by the news: Depending on the outlet they might get pre-approved summaries handed to them by affiliates of the major corporations that wrote much of the content, to highlight the good and gloss over the bad. But smaller outlets likely have reporters dig through it, as wouldn’t take a team of 5-10 people that much time to read all of the pages and get a good idea of what’s going on. And then of course you have bodies like the ACLU which will pour over it with a fine tooth comb and actually try to call out abuses of power or misallocation of money.",0
"Iit's not just that he threw in the word ""peacefully"" once, after spending two solid months whipping his supporters into a frenzy and telling them they need to ""fight like hell."" It's that a good lawyer (assuming Trump could find one willing to work for him) could easily establish reasonable doubt. ""I'll march down to the Capitol with you"" could be (the lawyer would argue) about peaceful protest. ""Fight like hell"" could be a metaphor for a political battle. And of course the clip with the word ""peacefully"" would be played repeatedly for the jury.","That (plus the two months of inflammatory rhetoric leading up to it) makes it clear to you and me and any honest viewers that he was inciting a riot, but none of that amounts to a winnable court case by itself.",0
We are better off pushing more military aid to Ukraine or just going in fully on their side and win the war quickly.,Sanctions can damage the Russian war efforts to some degree and should be viewed in that light. Focus should be on doing everything possible to deny materials which have military use.,0
Thing 1. It's a way of taxing people and depositing their tax dollars into the coffers of churches who are trying to indoctrinate students into a faith the individual tax payer may disagree with vehemently.,"Thing 2. The reason private schools ""seem"" better than public schools is that they cherry-pick their student populations from the most affluent families. Those students almost exclusively come from 2-parent homes with virtually every advantage. Once you start taking students whose parents wouldn't normally have the means to send their kids to private school, you will find the test scores will start to equalize.",0
"Came here to say this. Either this is pure fear mongering as usual and we could theoretically ignore it, or this is a blatant threat.","Yeah, and I genuinely can not for the life of me understand this. Either you are hoping of intentionally and consistently missing and thus only stoking fear, or you are actually aiming for it.",0
I agree with you in the facts of the situation the comment is more of a joke as to the stark differences in actually maintaining your military equipment.,I fully support a non private healthcare system. It’s sad and disgusting that most people are one medical emergency away from bankruptcy or are going without necessary medication due to cost. Our system is a god damn joke designed to line to the pockets of even more elite.,0
"It's smart of Democratic voters to vote early because on the 6th Republicans are going to engineer all kinds of issues in Blue areas, on top of the unconscionably low number of voting machines and places in those areas.","In case that difference isn't clear: If there are 4 voters that vote Republican every single time, 4 voters that vote Democrat every single time, and 1 voter that votes evenly for either of them, then that's pretty close. But if polling shows that that 1 voter is 90% likely to vote Democrat this time, then there's a 90% chance the Democrats will win, even though the final tally will still be close.",1
They simply used the word “compromise” so republicans could save face. That was the compromise that was struck.,"There is no compromise. The debt is over money we've already spent, now the bill has to be paid. That's it. You don't get to negotiate, you pay your bill.",1
"I prefer DST because I’m up north and I don’t like 4:30PM sunsets but at this point idc. Just pick one and stick with it. I don’t understand why we change the clocks to adjust to work schedules, schools, etc. Why can’t we just adjust when work starts, schools open, etc.","I’d be okay if they slowly converted. Aka replace signs as they need to be replaced. I’m not about just changing it overnight. That would be insanely expensive to change every sign, law, etc in one going.",0
"Well, his VP was sworn in as president, and Peru has imposed a state of emergency because while Castillo (The failed coup president) didn't have the support of the military or police or anything, he does have some supporters and they've been protesting violently, as you might expect. That's the first part.","Heck yeah. Improvements have been made, but headlines like these are an example of how we can improve even further.",1
"If milquetoast liberals don’t want to protect vulnerable minorities, they should at the very least let us protect ourselves without tying our hands behind our backs.","When the Gestapo drags me and all of my trans sisters to the gulag, I’ll be sure to mention that one time my opinion was close to an NRA talking point. I’m sure that’ll get me off the hook.",0
"Kanye running for President as a Republican is a nightmare scenario, especially in light of Trump meeting with Fuentes and the midterms, because denouncing him alienates those racist voters, but doing so literally alienates everyone else. And I doubt Ye will be the last R to go mask-off Hitler-lover before long.","The guy who created the Alt-Right Playbook on YouTube said that Republicans treat White-Supremacist voters like the mad woman in the attic: they feed her, but they don’t talk about her. They know Nazi’s and racists make up a huge portion of their base, but they can’t openly court them because it scares the shit out of everyone else, and breaks the illusion of plausible deniability which other Republican voters have regarding their more regressive policies.",0
"Orbán has deluded himself thinking that Hungary is a rising power that can play both the West and ""new pole of power"" against each other. He is a fool. Gömbösi tried that in WW2 and it ended up as turning us from an ally to the Nazis to becoming another occupied country by them, then later by the Soviets. All Orbán has become is Putin's last, still-functioning tool to disrupt the EU.","That's why both Trump and Putin (and now, Orban) can't be grounded in reality. Their own people would reject them if they were.",1
"Thats probably a bigger number than the official number of Ukrainians training abroad, and thats just for basic infantry training from scratch, or at least on par. I doubt its that many simply because that would be a heavy number commitment for Ukraine to hold in reserve while also already having manpower issues on their side as well.","As attractive as the idea is, I doubt there are ten thousand Ukrainian tank operators waiting to jump into a fleet of Abrams and finish this whole thing off.",0
"No. The number is definitely not the number of construction workers. It's the deaths of the entire nationalities that they belong to. Go read the article. Even if it was just workers, the number of workers is over 1M anyway.","So yeah, it's clear that the whole thing is being run like a propaganda campaign focused on a statistic that borderlines on a lie, thus poisoning the conversation instead of focusing on easily-provable things like the Kafala system, for example.",0
I hope it’s legit. I rarely support what billionaires do but this doesn’t sound like a terrible idea for Chicago. Chicagoan’s are more informed on the matter I would imagine. Revitalizing distressed areas doesn’t sound terrible.,I agree. But it’s not illegal at this point. It would take a ‘real’ and genuinely popular grass roots effort in order for enough voters to pressure both sides to take the corruption out of political donations.,0
"It was not about religion. The major rebellion rose from famine and socio-economic reasons, famine caused people to move for labor, rich people took advantage of the cheap labor, only making it worse, ontop of high taxation and a weakened han government, rebellion was imminent. It just happened to be a religious group that rose to prominence in a chaotic period.","Were they rebelling because they were religious? Or because the system of power sucked? Religions suck yeah, but when given a platform to take power they sucked even worse, not because they're a religion but because they used military power.",0
Well someone who doesnt really read articles sent me one thinking it was proof of Russians condoning rape.,"They are not being raped because Russian women are so thrilled by the idea and ask for it, thats all people are sceptical about.",1
"Yes, that’s why an investigation is being done, and why charges brought about on the basis of negligence could be completely warranted. This is still, once again, a far cry from Trump’s malicious intent and active obstruction.","Trump had hundreds of documents intentionally taken off site, after he left office, and refused to give them back despite multiple requests until they had to physically be raided from the property.",0
"The decision on beer sales was confirmed on Friday morning by a World Cup official familiar with the change in plans. The official asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak with the news media, and because Qatar was still preparing its official announcement on Friday morning.","The move is the latest and most dramatic change to an evolving alcohol plan that has for months increased tensions between FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, and Qatar, a conservative Muslim nation where the sale of alcohol is tightly controlled. But it also will complicate FIFA’s $75 million sponsorship agreement with Budweiser; infuriate fans already chafing at restrictions; and once again leave organizers scrambling to adjust — this time only 48 hours before the tournament’s opening game.",0
"That’s it. It doesn’t matter how fucked up Egypt is, people want to see the pyramids. We learn about them in school, and they’re a constant source of curiosity. They’re one of those things that ends up on a lot of bucket lists. People are going to see the pyramids no matter what’s going on.","You can see pyramids, not the pyramids. Mexican pyramids are cool, but Egyptian pyramids are what’s in everyone’s mind when they think pyramid. We saw them history books, movies, video games, etc. They’re probably the most iconic historical location in the world. There will always been an attraction towards ancient Egypt and the pyramids.",0
"Young adults n America are not voting for wedge issues, they are voting as if their lives depended on it. For all the fear mongering that comes from the right about “deadly caravans”and rainbows in classrooms being the work of the devil the younger progressive voters do not need this faux motivation as boomers do, they have the real threats of climate change and fascism to deal with.","GOP are more desperate than they’ve ever been, because young voters do not need to be goaded into participating in elections, they are voting for their lives.",0
"Russia is also quite proficient at sabotage, and if this was their work, it is not the first time they did it on NATO countries. They do this constantly.",NATO doesn't want to start direct war with Russia. What happened in Poland is example of that. A rocket striking Poland was chalked as Ukrainian AA defense after they thought for a day what to say.,0
"Guess it just seems to me like the right gets labeled extremists too often and in a dismissive manner, when “the left” has just as many offended. I was being a little too reactive.",Weird that more people on here aren’t more concerned about a government body saying their biggest focus is quashing political extremes.,0
"In general, all these rumors about Putin's illness remind me of Himmler's wish for Stalin's death. He wants it so much that, looking at the newsreel, he begins to notice confirmation of his desires. Putin is hated by so many people that they cannot help but project their desires onto reality.","I was reminded of the Soviet spy mini-series ""Seventeen Moments of Spring"". There, at the beginning, Himmler (Reichsfuhrer SS) and Schellenberg (head of intelligence) watch newsreels from the Yalta conference. Himmler looks closely at Stalin and says: ""Don't you think he's aged?"".",0
"""A republic is a state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; specifically a state without a monarchy."".","Yes, and? They don't care about laws, or even the Constitution, despite what they'd have you believe. Sure, they'll use them, when it's to their advantage, but as soon as it becomes inconvenient, they'll dispense with any pretext of caring. They care about power, and that's it. ""Law and order"" is a slogan to allow them to use or abuse the law as they see fit, to impose the type of order they want. It's practically doublespeak.",1
"Amazing to me how low FIFA & the world cup can sink, yet the vast majority of people still brainlessly watch it and support it whilst pretending to care. Qatar pegged their audience well, and this is quite the propaganda win for them with very little oil/blood money investment.","""I don't care about politics"" is a pretty weak excuse when politics affects everything in our lives. The landlord, the banker, the police officer, the farmer, and everyone else who can impact your life very much cares about politics whether they admit to it or not.",0
"That is so strange. My middleschool in the 90s had a ""Mr Heartthrob"" contest. It was kind of like a beauty contest but it was us boys dressing up as women. There were football players wearing their girlfiends cheerleading uniforms, a couple dressed as one of the elderly teachers (that was hilarious), and I wore my mom's jazz dancing skirt, complete with balloons for breasts.","Not sure why I ranted about this except to say, people sure like to be upset over shit that shouldn't even bother them. These adults that want to feel attacked and offended and victimized and control other people so their feelings don't get hurt, or as some sort of punishment on others from their repressed feelings is absurd and the hate needs to stop. These people are acting worse than children (during the age that children are usually their worst) I think that's my point.",0
"Btw I put bad guys in quotation marks because it depends on which side you are. I'm Brazilian and even though I believe Bolsonaro is a piece of shit, for his supporters he was their savior.","Before anyone call me a right-wing nut, I could not be happier from seeing Bolsonaro leaving the country as the loser he is. His whole family can go fuck themselves for all I care, as these fuckers have also publicly supported nazis and Brazilian criminals from the Ditadura era.",1
"Am I misunderstanding your wording or are Member States a separate concept from the UN? Because from a poorly educated perspective that sounds like ""Congress doesn't appoint this position, Congressmen must vote on the appointees."".","Yep. A lot of ppl seem to think UN is like government of governments that can order governments around. They are just a platform where governments talk, like a free online forum.",1
Bereaved families write to work and pensions secretary to demand a public inquiry into benefits-related deaths.,Minister for welfare delivery admits “deficit” in tracking “vulnerable claimants” through the universal credit (UC) system.,0
"That’s literally all “canceling” someone is. They say something people don’t like, people watch something else, they get less popular and get fewer job offers since literally their whole job is to be popular. That’s it, that’s “being canceled.”.","It’s always tempting to blame third party candidates for being election-spoilers, but there’s rarely any evidence or reasoning going into those narratives beyond “their vote total exceeded the margin between the two main candidates and I really wish my person had gotten those votes instead.” In reality, third-party voters don’t usually form a cohesive bloc that would otherwise have overwhelmingly voted for one of the two major parties.",0
"I think you're right: the atmosphere is probably too partisan for Manchin to win again. But there's no one else who can win as a Democrat in West Virginia either, so he might as well try if he's up for it.","The question isn't whether she can peel off Democrats; it's whether she can get votes from unaffiliated voters. Someone else posted exit poll numbers that say only 27% of Arizona voters are Democrats, compared to 40% independent and 33% Republican. Democrats don't win there by focusing on that 27%; they win by getting votes from the 40% independent voters, too.",0
"She assumes she would be a spoiler candidate. There's nothing showing that she'll pull enough votes from a (D) candidate. Given her Musky, enlightened centrist bullshit and her incredibly low polling she might, if she's lucky, pick up some libertarians and GOP voters who don't want a hard right candidate.",What people aren't considering is that a large percentage of those libertarian and moderate Republicans have already been voting Democratic in the last 3 election cycles. Biden for example won 10% of self-identified Republicans in Arizona which was essential for his victory in the state. It's those voters the Democrats may be losing to Sinema.,1
"None of this is 'visible' to any of us... it almost all happens behind the scenes, especially given how insular Canadian Chinatowns in particular are.","Lots of nasty stuff they can pull, depending on what kind of a priority you are. That part is the same as any other major world power, to be frank. With China, the biggest thing is that YOU aren't really the focus... its more about setting the example for everyone else in the motherland that no-one can avoid the law by escaping.",0
Protests tend to can lead to either revolutions or civil wars if the reasons for the protest aren't sufficiently addressed. But those two options only arise if a protest can't be crushed by the ruling authority. It's starting to look like this protest can't be crushed by the ruling authority.,Protests TEND to lead to repression for the most part. Very few protests actually succeed. But they CAN lead to war for power in the right circumstances.,1
"My workplace moved all our Ukraine based coworkers and families out after bombs dropped near our Ukraine office building. You can hear explosions going on in the background during calls. (yeah you are getting bombed, but you still gotta show up for work. ffs. At least they moved people out in the end.).","Reminds me of something. Whole lot of ""Canadians"" early in WWI and WWII showed up with weird accents more commonly associated with US states along the border. Canadian recruiters didn't exactly discriminate, and if you spoke English and said you were Canadian you were Canadian enough for their purposes.",1
Let's consider these losses in the light of russia's already degraded military capabilities. 57 pieces of equipment destroyed on 31.12. is relatively a much bigger blow than 57 pieces destroyed in February. One would think that as russia slowly but surely runs out of everything their losses would likewise naturally decrease.,That they're still suffering devastating losses like this makes it increasingly likely that russia will simply keep destroying their military in Ukraine until there is no more military to destroy. russia is done.,0
Kadyrov is putin's puppet in chechnya and he used the ukraine war as a showroom of military power against any chechens who wish to declear independence from russia.,"I think the article refers to instability in Chechnya, not Kadyrov somehow obtaining control over whole of Russia. Whatever Kadyrov is, he doesn't simply have the resources to be as evil as Putin.",1
"Which is interesting consider that a lot of the people talking about the USA being ""a Christian nation"" don't consider Catholics to be Christians, and generic Christian (which is what you looked up) isn't what they mean when they say ""Christian"". Although if you combined all the smaller evangelical and protestant groups that they do consider part of what they mean, it probably is larger than Catholics.","NY Domestic Law Section 17: ""If any clergyman or other person authorized by the laws of this state to perform marriage ceremonies shall solemnize or presume to solemnize any marriage between any parties without a license being presented to him ... as is provided for in this article he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year."".",0
"(Especially since Russia has already signaled that would be viewed as ur declaring war on them, etc.).","Yeah. But Putin is willing to push a little, see how other countries react and then go based on that. That is kind of why supporting Ukraine is important for nato because letting Putin take Ukraine without any resistance would make it more likely that he thinks that he can see how nato reacts if a nato country is attacked. Kind of how appeasement pre WW2 only lead to hitler finding excuse to attack even more countries.",1
"Yes, but then that might make Turkey an even less willing participating in NATO and given its strategic location, that would be an issue. This isn't like say Slovenia or Luxembourg trying to play hardball.","\ Of course given it's location, it benefits substantially from being in NATO as well, and unlikely to do so much as to leave or get kicked out.",0
"You realise only a very small portion of Republicans attended the Jan 6th insurrection, right? And almost no one in government supported it? Trump literally had his own people turning against him over his election denial.","Are you suggesting Republicans want to allow minors to carry guns because they want black children to be murdered? If not, I don't know where you're going with this...",0
The militia is every able-bodied male who may be called up to defend his state or his nation. Your quotation literally says that. It is right ^^^ there. The militia is you.,The good news for gun owners is that the militias are still around! They are just called State Guards now and many of them even have an unbroken lineage going right back to the revolution:,1
"The reactor wasn’t even designed to be a coastal reactor it was designed for the US Midwest plains. A modern coastal reactor with an active sea wall would have not been an issue. It will be like Chernobyl and also be a black eye even if it was a one off event. One pellet (about the size of an eraser) of Uranium is equal to one 1 ton of coal, 147 gallons of oil, or 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas. The energy density and zero emissions are what we need for the future of the planet.","""Most kinds of renewable energy are also “carbon-free”: they do not emit CO2 or other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Because of this, and because renewables like wind and solar power are so popular in climate activism, the terms “renewable energy” and “carbon-free energy” are sometimes confused. But not all renewable energy is carbon-free, and not all carbon-free energy is renewable.",1
"Transactional military actions have been a staple of American politics since the Korean War, lofty rhetoric and public diplomacy notwithstanding.",Part of the reason why the Afghan War wasn't able to be painted as a war against Islam is because Turkey was a critical partner in Afghanistan even if they didn't take part in combat operations.,0
"This really gives me the vibes of those posts from ASWmilitary news or whatever they were with shit like ""1 hour, 48 minutes, the entirety of the Ukrainian military is destroyed"" and other nonsense.","This is Russia were talking about, their military forces are so shit what Ukraine is fighting might as well be ISIS with an airforce. There's no negotiating with stupidity of this calibre these bastards only learn by being beaten into the ground enough times that they'll fuck off for good or get buried in said ground to make more sunflowers.",1
"I admit, stripping of license is harsh for what they've done, but Latvia does not fuck around with russians, and for a good reason.","First of all - it's a law in Latvia. Broadcasters have to provide a translation of their material in latvian, period. It doesn't have to be the only language, but it has to be an option, which it wasn't.",0
"Does it matter if the DNC cares? It is not up to them to determine if election fraud occurred. It is up to the courts, which so far has not seen any evidence of massive voter fraud like those on the right keep screaming about. Many of these judges in these courts where installed by the Trump administration, and even they do not believe the baseless claims of voter fraud, because there is just no evidence of it.","""Even though there's clear evidence of malfeasance by the Maricopa County bord of electors, it's the GOP who's really committing voter fraud here"".",1
"You could call that an atheistic point of view, and I'll give you that if you would, but you can't deny how conveniently located these ""holy"" places are.","And if we assume it God does really exist and that is his holy land, then he must be a bloody god - that was the implication I was making.",1
"Any bargaining you think might be productive will only add fuel to the Russian fire. They will be back and hungrier than ever, and all your ideas of productive peace talks will be pointless. Ukraine knows this, so they cannot realistically even consider peace talks.","Those are Ukrainian demands, now let's try to meet in the middle, peace deals require bargaining after all, don't they?",1
"Russia can certainly try to restore it's massive soviet era stockpiles of shells and tanks and vehicles while under sanctions, and it clearly has no regard for the life of Russian conscripts.","If they are going to send crude waves of poorly equipped infantry, Ukraine should take them out at ranges they can't respond to, rather than letting them get close enough to engage in hand to hand trench fighting.",0
"From that day on I was personally ""known to law enforcement"" as a sixteen year-old who hadn't broken any laws and pulled over regularly as a ""check-in"" because they were pissed their corrupt buddy had to face consequences for his actions.","Yeah, there's a lot of attention being paid to the sheriff's office's attitude towards red flags, but you aren't going to keep guns out of people's hand for 2 years or more if the DA won't prosecute them for the related offense. Sure, the topics are related.",1
"Leaving aside that the Wiki Foundation shouldn't have an opinion in the first place, because there is no way it won't infiltrate Wikipedia itself...","Opinion is opinion, and my argument simply is that it's bleeding obvious that the Wiki isn't neutral even though they claim to be; anything else doesn't come into it.",0
"So, you're ok with countries taking their neighbors by force? By letting Russia keep even one meter of Ukrainian territory, you signal to putin and every other dictator in the world that conquering your neighbors is back on the table, like it's the middle ages again. It will encourage China to take Taiwan and Hong Kong.","Either we stop Russia now, or they take Ukraine fully over the next decade, and kill millions of ukranians, because people like you whine about helping other countries defend their homeland.",0
"China's not to be dismissed though, in the same way the west chose not to intervene in Ukraine as a security guarantor, and keeps throwing out excuses such as ""crossing Putin's red lines"", it's all because Russia is a nuclear power.","I hope you're right. I don't bet against America, but American facism is barely in check. The CHIPs act was a bold move, wasn't expecting that.",0
"She still got a 6.5 points lead on her rival Rachida Dati, and that's in terms of direct popular vote. You can say she is hated by the people all you want, it will not make it true.","Yes, I am aware of that particularity. She, like previous Paris mayors, has been elected through representatives...who were themselves elected by direct popular vote. The city of Paris is a democracy.",0
"I'm just saying this method is not a path for a general cure, it's less about HIV and more about full bone marrow replacements - which as a side effect, ""reboot"" the immune system including the cells infected by HIV.","This ""cure"" is literally killing all your bone marrow (and therefore your immune system), and transplanting in bone marrow from a person who is immune to HIV. The chances of finding a donor who is both compatible with you, and has the rare genetic mutation that make them immune to HIV is way less likely than winning the lottery. And the chances of dying during this incredibly risky and complicated procedure are high.",1
"Right. This is why a ""right to life"" protects plants from being uprooted too -- heck, being confined to a womb is an intolerable abridgement of a fetus' right to liberty.","There should be a Supreme Court case over the right to an abortion based on freedom of religion, considering that Judaism and Islam don’t believe life begins at conception. And Numbers chapter 5 instructs people how to perform an abortion. Even if a Christian cites “thou shalt not kill”, abortions evidently don’t violate that commandment, or Numbers chapter 5 would not explain how to perform one.",1
Cooking on gas is a lot better than cooking on electric there is an actual difference. While induction is nice it's actually pretty loud and it doesn't work on every piece of cooking equipment you have.,I don't think I've seen the spatter thing; you notice it more with a countertop unit I think simply because you end up using it places without a backsplash that a proper stove has.,1
"Are you forgetting his efforts in overthrowing the election? Just because Dan Quayle talked him out of Trump's last attempt, doesn't make him a patriot. If he wants to be a Patriot, he would have came forward with evidence after a coup attacked our Capitol and an attempt to hang him. But he still protects those people.","He was protecting himself, not the country when he did not go along with it. His cooperation now is the same thing. Self-preservation.",1
"But you're absolutely right that the average Redditor seemingly has no idea just how valuable Turkey is to NATO. The region has been the crossroads of the world for millenia for a reason, or should I say many reasons.","Sweden joining is almost entirely about Gotland, a strategically valuable island in the Baltic Sea. If Russia was going to attack Sweden it would be over Gotland. Also it's about general solidarity with the West but they do have reason to consider some of their land claims vulnerable to Russian attack.",0
"When Sweden requested to join NATO, Erdogan used this as leverage to get Sweden to officially designate certain Kurdish groups as terrorists, and to extradite 33 people to Turkey. Sweden conceded, until their supreme court stepped in recently to stop the extradition of a journalist who was likely to be persecuted (he was critical of Erdogan's government).","The Quran incident specifically came after the Swedish supreme court had refused the extradition of a journalist to Turkey, which Erdogan was already using to reject Sweden joining NATO.",0
"credit suisse released a report last year saying that for the first time, not all millionaires (in USD) were in the global 1%, i.e. the threshold for entry into that 1% is over $1m, so no, the middle class of developed nations are not meaningfully included at all.","Given that the other article was talking about the global 1%, the income threshold is probably a lot lower than you think and would include some of the middle class in developed countries.",1
"Iirc, Colorado lets you get an 'x' under sex for nonbinary people. This makes me wonder if the hate crime perpetrating mass murderer actually has that.",If a black person killed another black person because they did not like black people we would still consider that a hate crime. The fact that this person is claiming to be non-binary does not change the fact that they committed a hate crime.,1
"In Russia, if they take down an oligarch or celeb, it’s because Putin wanted to, to make an example, to eliminate an enemy, or just because he cannot be trusted. Ordinarily they just kill the people that can actually damage the Putin autocracy.","Nothing says that they can’t continue looking at the more serious crimes as he’s facing prosecution for the ones they have him dead to rights on. The J6 investigation goes onwards as well, although that won’t see him facing any charges. He also was caught red handed doing tax fraud, no other investigation is needed to prove that. He’s dead to rights on that as well. Same thing with Raffensbugers taped order to commit election fraud, another blatant crime he’s guilty of, yet not charged for.",0
"Every time Chinese officials are asked about Ukraine they inevitably bring up certain set talking points. 1) Western aggression/""expansionism"" is the root of the conflict, 2) China values ""territorial integrity"" above all else, and 3) Taiwan is totally different.","I don't understand China's strategy here, they're buddying up with a country that could have no functioning military, no functioning economy, and a fuck ton of nukes - antagonizing western powers in the process.",1
"Obviously you're very anti Trump, which bothers me none. What bothers me is you thinking that Trump would miraculously unite these three and there would be ""Western allies"" without US.","Frustratingly confusing would be exactly the way to describe it, and Western allies would not have any idea what to do. Your assertion that there would be no one to fight is beyond ridiculous.",1
"CNN PROJECTION: Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly will win reelection in Kansas, CNN projects, defeating Republican state Attorney General Derek Schmidt in a state former President Donald Trump won by 15 percentage points two years ago.","Democrats need 50 seats to retain control of the Senate; Vice President Kamala Harris would continue to give them the tie-breaking vote for the next two years. Republicans need 51. As of Wednesday morning, both parties have the magic number within sight. Democrats control 48 seats and Republicans hold 47, with five races still too close to call. The GOP is going to win in Alaska, with two Republicans vying for the seat, leaving the two parties even at 48 seats, with four races still truly up for grabs.",0
"If current GOP politicians are not sufficiently extreme, then even more extreme politicians will emerge to take their place. That seems to be the way things are going for them.","The most extreme elements of the GOP's base have been setting the tone for years now. Whatever hateful bullshit people like Nick Fuentes are putting out there now will be GOP dogma eventually, as GOP politicians compete with each other for the right-wing vote.",0
"No not really, he was supporting risky investments with stolen money. If crypto kept going up he would be rolling in even more cash. I know that pyramid/ponzi schemes are nice buzzwords, and they're relevant in most crypto-related fraud, but they don't have much to do with why FTX crashed.","The big deal isn't the investors losing their investments, it's that deposits were misused for investments. People who simply deposited money and had a 100% guaranteed that all of them are being held by the exchange and safe, lost it all.",0
Guarantee you Republicans are currently working to flip this ‘provoking people to attack their own country’ bit in order to point the finger at Antifa and just about any media outlet they feel like.,"Another problem is that there is no similar apparatus of politicians and tv personalities ""provoking people to attack their own country."" Billionaires and the politicians doing their bidding have pushed the left to protest, not some demagogue. There is no figurehead crying, ""Attack!"" Meanwhile, because of their rigid hierarchies and staunch obedience, conservative groups are quite easy to trace in terms of who is telling who to do what.",1
"Of course, there are some issues too - people from Sweden and Finland regularly look down on us too due to our history and due to the fact that unfortunately, there WERE many thieves and prostitutes who went to these countries so the stereotypes of “eastern European country that isn’t worth their spit” are slow to disappear (some Finnish and Swedish companies, for example, come here and do things they’d never be allowed to do back in Finland-Sweden purely because they think it’s okay to not treat their employees here to the same degree of respect as back at home), but these things are slowly disappearing and hopefully more and more people actually associate positive things with our countries rather than negative things.","Finnish politics towards Estonia has sometimes been so-so in the past (unfortunately, our diverging histories and different experience with USSR has coloured our views differently until recently - IMHO Finns were too naive towards Russia, even though outside of Eastern European countries that suffered under soviet influence and occupation, Finland is probably one country that mostly had little to no dreams about Russia) and that has caused issues between the two countries, but it cannot be denied that Finnish civil society and Finnish estophiles were of a huge help during occupation period and later in the 90s. Finnish cultural society organisations were used to help Estonia pre-restoration of independence, for example (Tuglas-seura is what comes to my mind).",0
"This is bad and weird at the same time. I’m wondering why, when the Trump classified document story broke months ago, every living president didn’t have their offices and residences combed thoroughly for any such files that could have been misplaced, misfiled or mishandled. This crap is SO unnecessary. Neglectful. I realize that the Trump situation is totally different than the Biden one, but it makes me wonder WTH is going on.","Based on what we know, what Biden did was bad, and what Trump did was dramatically and intentionally worse.",1
In Ukraine they shoot down $10-20k drones and $100k-1m dollar missiles with $4 million dollar missiles.,"But its an extremely unpopular discussion right now, Our military leadership only sees dollar signs and wants to get rid of perfectly functional equipment for ridiculously expensive and problematic systems. As an example we will probably be giving Ukraine our A-10s to invest further in F-35s which the military is already looking for its replacement. ...And defense contractors and the U.S. are focused on selling F-35s to other countries even though they have serious issues...Because money.",0
"there are so many people like you who will tell everyone ""they don't know what communism is"" without outlining or defining what makes China communist.","no one ever said China was communist simply because they claim they are. there have been full-blown decades long initiatives to aggressively institute a more equal distribution of wealth in China. one of Xi Xinpings main policies is the well discussed “common prosperity” policy, which itself has been a term with various implementations since Mao.",1
"I work in a hospital ER. We’re still masking. Besides COVID, there are other viruses spread by respiratory route heavily circulating right now, namely RSV and Flu A. I wore a mask every flu season for years before COVID because I work in a relatively small area full of infectious patients who regularly cough in my face. I haven’t had a respiratory infection other than a head cold for decades. I now also wear a mask when in a crowd or on an airplane because there are too many stupid and/or inconsiderate people who will not stay home when they’re sick and cover their mouths when they’re coughing.","As others have pointed out here, science is not static and new infectious diseases are inevitable. I began my career prior to AIDS and we regularly drew blood and started IVs without gloves. Dentists put their bare hands in our mouth to work on our teeth. AIDS was a culture change for glove wearing by HCWs. Similarly—thanks to the pandemic, mask wearing will become routine for HCWs and others.",0
This are literally spontanous riots done in response to the murder of 2 children from their community and the celebration of these murders in the palestinian village.,"This year the Palestinians have killed a 5 year old and 6 year old at a bus stop, a 15 year old at bus stop, a 14 year old in a synagogue, a 16 year old and his older brother yesterday and then filmed their bodies as they mocked them. And that's just the children they have killed this year.",1
"During the USSR Kruschev added Crimea to Ukraine but it didn't really matter since it was the USSR. Following the dissolution of the USSR there were many Russians, and the population of Crimea was mostly Russians who were left unable to return home. Crimea attempted twice in the 90s to become independent from Ukraine with the intention of returning to be part of Russia.",What are your thoughts on Crimea seeking twice in the 90s to declare independence from Ukraine and Ukraine denying their independence? The intention was for Crimea to return to Russia at that point by way of Crimean self-determination.,0
"True. Classified papers get buried, pushed aside, then put away and forgotten. Some were from his time as Senator. Why were they even taken out of the Senate office building and how common is this practice?",This is what happens when you don't clean out old papers. I am starting to go through BOXES of stuff I have been hanging on to for no good reason other then misplaced sentimentality. i.e. 'This old car rental map reminds of the trip I took.'.,0
"So hard, in fact, that my country hasn’t successfully gotten those lost rights back. So many innocent people have to truly suffer and risk everything to try to get them back.","They both face the same risk though don’t they? Getting murdered by the regime? They should both be honored imo, plenty of men have died for the cause as well.",1
The idea that someone could be permitted to legally carry their lawfully owned handgun but somehow is commiting a crime by carrying their lawfully owned rifle in the same peaceful manner is egregious and insane.,"yeah like they are making this out to be some extreme thing but if the state has permitted me to carry a handgun, what difference does it make if I have a carbine in my backpack?",0
"(5) I don't know who would win in a Biden vs. Ron, show down. 1st, we would have to see if Ron could beat his primary. Unknown. Nor, if anybody else could win against Ron. That's also unknown. I know Biden has the best chance of defeating him, because of his experience and leadership abilities.","If they dont, I feel like Biden wins reelection. And I dont see trump telling people to vote for Ron.",1
If you think Todd is a fair and balanced you haven't seen much of Chuck Todd (or you are living in a republican paranoid fantasy).,"I've seen quite a lot of Todd, and If you think hes a republican apologist you must be viewing him through the eyes of a delusional 25 year old still assmad over bernie, hoping to blow the cover off the DNC machine.",1
"With something like cigarettes or legalized weed, where a steep government sin tax is in effect, the black market can be cheaper than the legal distributors. However, the black market is still more expensive than if the government backed off and allowed cigarettes or marijuana to be sold at production cost. Even if a black market springs up to circumvent a government restraint on trade, the illegal price will still be higher than the original market equilibrium price was.","Why do you think it would do nothing? Other countries prefer to do business in dollars and euros. Forcing Russia to use up their currency reserves and then to trade exclusively with rubles sabotages Russia's ability to trade, and therefore makes the world a better place.",0
"Their ability to function as a majority has been hobbled by deterioration of their base and especially by these midterm elections. If not, they would have actually been capable of passing a campaign platform in 2020, would have ridden a red wave on the State and Federal levels, would have been able to maintain control of the Alaska legislature, would not be so hopelessly divided in Kansas and Pennsylvania, &c.","Oh it’s not over yet, to be sure, but we’ve crossed the watershed line since 2022 and the Republicans are riven by factional infighting. Remember, they caved in the Senate the last time they tried holding the debt ceiling hostage.",0
"Well since we have a system of law and order which also has checks and balances to help prevent abuses and yet they were still found guilty means there just happens to be repercussions. One of which means they just happen to have lost their freedoms and rights. Frankly there is no more invasive punishment than being imprisoned, but as a consequence they lose their right to vote just as they lost their right to own a gun well then I see no problem with that whatsoever.",Changes may need to be made to our justice system but it doesn’t mean murders deserve any of their freedoms.,0
"I've hit the ""out of pocket maximum"" in the last 2 months of my 'health care year', then it reset and I hit it again in the next two months. that is $26,000 mother fucking dollars out of my pocket for someone with full coverage insurance in a 4 month period.","I have pretty ok health insurance now and I still have $1k/month taken out of my paycheck to cover myself and my wife and daughter. I got a bug bite over the summer that ended up getting infected. I went to urgent care (which is also my PCP) when it started getting hot and swollen and they lanced it and gave me antibiotics. I paid a $15 copay, paid like $30 for the drugs the perscribed, got a $15 bill from Labcorp because they took a sample to test, and got a bill for $240 bill from the urgent care place. I called BSBC to ask why the fuck I paid $240 for the visit and it was all legit and part of my dumb plan.",1
"But until then, the lack of this type of ammunition will impede Ukraine's efforts to intercept Russia's drone attacks on civilian infrastructure.","There is a lot of other ways that Ukraine could intercept those drones, don't we have something along the lines of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization of some sorts? If I'm not Mistaken Brazil is not in there. Don't the US has the biggest military budget in the whole world? Asking for a developing country that just got out of a coupe attempt and had an administration that was literally fascist (and don't even get me started on WHY he got elected in the first place, because that is a another story on its own, but TL;DR TRUMP) to send ammunition is like Asking Zimbabwe to help in this war. We are done with other nations messing around with other nations, we learned the hard way, 2 times already. But a question that I would like to ask is: Do you want the war to end, or do you just want Russia to loose? Or even better, can you make that distinction at all? If land is what matters then US could return some to Mexico too, that could be a demonstration of good will that could change the course of this war. The whole world was built on stolen land, and now you want us to join this madness because of it. big no from us.",1
"Just go to all the marksmen guilds and you find half of them. Most reichsbürger are just members, so they can aquire a gun in case they have ""to go to war against the country"" or until terrorists are taking over while germany denies them their right to defend themselves or something like that.","The German government does not want armed domestic terrorists taking over the place/ attempting a coup (afraid is a very polarizing word in this context, please refrain from using it)? Something that armed citizens would not be able to defend against? Fear is the wrong word, it’s caution, since they have proof of a planned coup from a far-right extremist group using legally acquired weapons. Why shouldn’t they make it more difficult to acquire a gun, especially for extremists that are likely to misuse them?",1
"In case anyone forgets, the Minsk deals themselves were only a thing because Russia rolled tanks into Crimea to illegally seize Ukrainian territory, and Ukraine did not have the means, and the West did not have the will, to stop it.",Are we just going to pretend that both former president of Ukraine and former chancellor of Germany have never publically said that Minsk agreements were just a way to buy time so that Ukraine can strenhen their army?,1
"Lastly the range is short for the distances for many here. Just to get groceries I’m making my range. If I want to tow or go to city over 30k I’m beyond the range, and don’t have any charging stations in the are. Until we get that gap closed it’s entirely impractical. Also if you have any issues the closest place to work on a vehicle is a 4 hr round trip.","Lack of 4x4 options, for me, is a major setback. There needed here, same with towing payload. At minimum a 8500lb towing capacity would be needed. The current offerings for EV don’t meet this need yet. The lightning is close, but not quite yet.",0
"Just wait until the Phys Ed teacher forgets her gun on top of the lockers, or the chemistry teacher opens the classroom gun safe and forgets to close it properly.","I guess the kindergarten teacher who was recently shot by one of her students, would have been able to shoot the kid back if she had had a firearm. The right would have hailed the situation as an example of a “ good guy with a gun”.",1
"Technically, you're free to speak whatever you want, but within the limits set by other laws. And other laws practically allow to declare any public speech a crime.","Free speech is enshrined into the Constitution, alas courts always interpret the laws on speech in favour of prosecution.",0
Because if I have a government issue phone and I take it home it's probably going to connect to my wifi where I will also have my personal phone. On top of that I will probably take my personal phone to work and connect it to the wifi.,I have my own phone. I had tiktok on it until recently. I take my work laptop home and it connects to my wifi. This would imply that tiktok can pull data from my work laptop even though it's never touched the service.,0
"Yeah but then we are talking like 401k millionaires, and most of those are not going to try and use it all at once to live like millionaires.","When I think ""millionaire"" it translates to someone who can spend large amounts of money without worry due to huge income sources. Not average guy who has been saving for 30+ years to ding into the 7 figure savings bracket.",0
"It does work. He's saying that anything other than s risk connective voting block after the leak would give the appearance of public pressure causing a backing out of some justices, whether or not that is true.",And as to whether the reason it was leaked was to try help people or to in effect force the hand of SCJ’s to stop them from changing their ruling is still unknown.,1
"I feel like, and hope, that the vast majority of those capable of believing this bullshit are the people that wouldn't want anything good for black people.","and I've done so much for The Blacks, people can't even Imagine, they say, ""President Trump is Incredibly Good for African Americans,"" can you believe it? they never said that about Obama. he doesn't even know what he is, and not only that, he wouldn't even take the Presidential Test, don't forget, I took it many many times and Aced it perfectly every time, they said nobody ever gets a Score like that, nobody gets it in Order, nobody gets it Perfect, and I said well I'm just that good, and people know it. The Blacks know it, I'm up over 90 Percent with them, because they want Law and Order, and that's what I'm in favor of very strongly, we need to protect our people, and you'll all be protected, Seperately But Equally, which is something I came up with the other day, nobody had ever heard it before, they say, ""it's incredible, you're like a Super Genius,"" but we all knew that already, and I'm not a Doctor but I'm like a person that has a good you know what.",1
The starting salary for someone with a bachelor's is like $45k in the federal government. It's a bit more for some degrees than others but it includes engineers and scientists. For someone with a PhD it's about $75k. That's very low for many technical degrees.,"There are jobs for which the federal government pays more - mostly at the lower end of the salaries. But if you're a professional working for the state or federal government, you're underpaid.",0
"If someone really want a cigarette, there will be a tobacco flavored vape that looks and feels like smoking a real cigarette.","If that is true, then many of the people vaping wouldn't be using any kind of nicotine if vapes weren't around.",1
"2) There is a significant difference between furnishing tax returns to Congress, vs making them public.","5) There would be serious federalism concerns here too, because states are largely empowered to conduct their own elections.",0
"The last serious proposal was 2000 Camp David, where Palestinians got pretty much everything they could hope for, and they refused it with no counter offer.","Maybe they did make a mistake in not accepting that, but accepting a 22 year old proposal and moving on is not an option that Palestinians today have.",1
"I'm going to disagree. Not because I like these fucks, but because traitor has a very specific definition that is important. I don't want to water it down or get to a point where we just call everyone a traitor. Denying an election is just talk. Trying to overthrow the election results? That's treason.","Treason can carry a penalty of death. Politicians contest results all the time. There is a legal process. If you say election deniers are traitors, Republicans will start calling every when recount treasonous.",0
"I had some discussion at the time which were probably a bit too aggressive consdering how politics work but looked a bit like: ""can't we send some helicopters without markings, blow up some things and pretend that nothing is happening?"".",. After that invasion it has steadily gone up. 2022 will also overall be a year where trade goes up Overall since the 2014 invasion of Crimea trade with China has doubled.,1
"Finns in general are very active online given the long history of IT/internet in the country, and are also mostly fluent in English and so are capable of chatting on international websites.",There's also a very true meme family where any time Finland is mentioned hordes of Finns rush to the scene to offer their commentary. E.g. .,0
McCarthy or whoever becomes the next house majority leader will have to spend so much attention to prevent MAGA from fracturing the party going into 2024. Hopefully to no avail.,"Yeah I find both results hopeful. Would love to flip the district, of course, but the fact that it's in play at all is AMAZING. Mail in is the primary voting method in Colorado so I doubt it would favor dems in any significant way, but you never know.",1
"And I suspect this will make republicans say “Okay, we'll work with you on xxxx, xxxx & xxxx, but we want concessions on abortion, social security, and climate change.”.","This way Dems can say ""We made good faith efforts on bills X, Y, and Z and Republicans wouldn't even come to the negotiating table"" going into 2024.",1
"Once Russia is pushed out of Ukraine's borders, Ukraine will join NATO or an ad-hoc mutual defense treaty (for example, with the UK, Poland, and the Baltics).","Ultimately, “made in Ukraine” is whatever Ukraine and its allies declare it to be and Russia can’t do anything about it.",1
Chinese people are a sizable minority in Canada. In some places like Richmond they're the ethnic majority. But to my experience any affinity for China is mostly cultural and almost none of it is political.,But I will agree the chinese canadian love of china is largely a love of the culture or traditions rather than the country as it actually exists in 2022.,0
"Ultimately this is a conflict between needing tourists for the economy and residents not wanting tourists for their own peace-- very little to do with having a red light district in the city center. As long as the brothel reputation exists somewhere, those people will keep coming-- and because Amsterdam is such a small condensed city, those people will end up downtown behaving like tourists on vacation.","And while Amsterdam could probably thrive without that tourism, it would still be a big hit to accommodate to. I believe most of Amsterdams tourists are weekenders who come specifically because of the vices it freely offers.",0
"And surely once they are successful in using violent force to get their way, they will never do it again.",">""That broad context, so to speak, is in the context of supporting Azerbaijan, getting some road of the so-called corridor logic through the territory of Armenia. Armenia continues to resist this. By the way, I can clearly say that the escalation [of tension] of September 13 is also related to this. And, for the most part, this is the basis—or motive—of the entire crisis,"" Grigoryan stated.",0
They were mad about Ukraine/Poland giving them a hard time to cross the border at the start of the war but won’t say a peep about this I guarantee it.,They have plenty sure but Ukraine also has quite a good bit and they didn't want them to sell it cheaper to the Europeans. Puts a damper on the whole monopoly pricing. I disagree that it is about projecting military influence. Ultimately though there were many many factors that went into this invasion. No particular one thing.,1
"“ As he worked to flip holdouts within his party and secure the votes he needed to take the Speakership, McCarthy agreed to lower the threshold for forcing a vote to oust the House Speaker to just one lawmaker.”.",I am thinking that 2 weeks into the inevitable government shutdown there will be at least 5 moderate republicans that are willing to work with the dems and nothing will stop them from removing McCarthy.,1
"Propaganda is a hell of a drug. People are suggesting Ukraine give up so that no more territory is taken. They can't even remember what happened eight years ago, let alone would happen 70 years ago.","It's not that Ukraine can necessarily win, it's that they can't lose. Do you know why people say the United States cannot be occupied? Everyone has a gun and everyone would rather die. Russia's constantly giving up territory that they have taken because they cannot afford to hold it.",0
"Cool, I'll pass on your outrage to my Ukrainian friends who are frequently left without power, struggle to get food and have no income.",They'll be super fucking happy that you care about some protesters getting arrested because the majority of Russians are either too cowardly to resist or outright support the shitness they're inflicting.,0
Yeah but working for the federal government you should have a mechanism to compensate you for working that much (comp time/overtime). I have engineer that have worked 10-12 hour days since we graduated 5 years ago for base salary lol.,"Not to mention as a fed the work is SLOW paced (and I work in a “fast paced” sector), guaranteed vacation/sick days, and I can’t get fired. I see coworkers literally do nothing / fall asleep and get away with it. The contractors that work for the fed are all very mediocre too.",0
"A new thread, a new day, and a new year. May 2023 bring victory for Ukraine and sharp defeat for the enemies of self-determination, autonomy, and democracy everywhere!","I wish you, your family, your friends, your people, and your country all the best in this coming year - may it be the year this conflict ends with Ukraine reclaiming its peace, its people, and its territory!",1
"I believe it will continue, and thrive when people forget about it. Remember, it's just a ledger; it has no monetary value.","This is what bitcoin was meant to help mitigate, but people turned it into a poor man's Ponzi scheme. When a regime changes money, or is replaced, your bitcoin would still remain the same. But that requires a stable bitcoin, which won't happen until the cheats and crooks are unable to move the price up and down at will.",0
I think there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic! The Republican Party his hardly unified anymore. MAGA/Q-Nuts are currently at war with “moderate” Republicans who want to put Trump & co. in their rear view mirror. That’s good news for the Dems who want to cripple Republican policies while getting juicy soundbites demonstrating how incapable the Right is at basic governance.,"Ah yes, because it's Democrats who want a dysfunctional government, not the Republicans who have been dismantling government for decades...? (Are you on drugs?).",1
Some small towns in Australia created “wind turbine collectives” where the funds paid to landowners who allow wind turbines to be installed on their property are pooled and distributed to the community.,"In some cases, you have farmers basically just leasing land to wind projects and that's an alternate revenue stream (you can have a failed crop and still get money from the wind leases).",1
"Replacing your old windows without also improving your home's insulation is a recipe for mold problems. The windows should be the coldest point in the room, otherwise the moisture will cling to the walls.","You can counteract this somewhat with decentralized ventilation systems, but moisture in a renovated old building is always difficult.",0
"The point isn’t how Californians view themselves. It’s how Americans would view a succeeded state, California being a likely candidate for its GDP and ideal borders.","I mean, if California succeeded from the US in an economic collapse, it’s pretty plausible to believe that Americans would still consider it to be an “American” territory, vassal, or rebellious state. If several states broke apart from the US, there would be a strong following of people who believe the US deserves to reclaim and reunite and that should be a political goal. Now imagine if Russia started arming these breakaway states.",0
"A federal judge in Texas has a say in federal laws, much like a federal judge in California does. That’s federalism for you — the final say is SCOTUS which is illegitimate anyway.","The motors, compressors etc are driven by VFDs. Compressors are digital with unloaders/reheat valves and sometimes a heat wheel. Efficient as fuck. 90% of AC technicians can’t work on them; they nope out due to complexity. Aaon has a huge manufacturing facility in Longview.",0
"But hey ""80% MORE"" sounds scarier than ""only 42% of human CO2 emissions remain in the atmosphere in 1960 - 2016"", right? The rest is being absorbed by natural sinks and there seems to be no radical (none at all...) increase in the AF remaining in the atmosphere so ... no longer so scary. .","Bruh. Look up the Aral Sea. It was the 4th largest lake in the world, the Soviets diverted the river for cotton fields and now it's now pathetically small and very, very dry. The Soviets used the area as a biological weapons testing site which is now exposed to the elements and killing the local people and environment. How does Anthrax floating around in a dust bowl sound?",1
"If it gets him re-elected in West Virginia then he can do whatever he wants. He’s still voting for Biden judges and the IRA, which any other senator from WV would never do.","He caucuses with the Democrats, which means Chuck Schumer — not Mitch McConnell — gets to decide what bills get voted on, what pace we confirm judges, etc.",1
True but the only disadvantage is longer lines. That is a disadvantage but it’s not changing elections if they can’t find a single person who was unable to vote.,"Then why is it that the less strict voting laws/regulations are, the more people (legally) vote? And is it just a coincidence that the more people that vote, the more Democrats win? How do you explain those two things without voter suppression?",1
"You're right, americans totally don't treat kids like property, that's abuse rates are so low, kid's aren't kicked out at 18, and child marriage laws in most states definitely aren't remaining on books vote after vote.","Most states allow child marriage when parents consent, as well as beating your child as long as you argue it's for discipline. This is children as property in action.",0
"""closing the border"" doesn't mean what you think it means. You can't close the border and also allow traffic for import/export or travel. Closing the border would kneecap the economy. Not only that, these migrants aren't just going to turn around and leave, closing the border will only increase illegal crossings.",No one's arguing CO is being mean to the arriving migrants....just that this is fucked up for the southern border states to be doing in the first place.,1
"Maybe legal gun owners should do something about the problem, since they are the only ones who can do anything about it.",I'd bet very good money the people they're afraid of getting shot by dont have legal guns that would disappear (confiscated/bought back) with a gun ban since they cant be traced.,1
"They don’t have to be launched from Russia, very easily could have been from one of the many bases in the Middle East:","Benefit of balloons over spy satellites is they are less “predicable”, satellites rotation is known and can be “timed” to hide things if necessary. Balloons less so.",0
"That's your reply? You basically just stuck your fingers in your ears while yelling ""fake news."" I linked to actual, easy-to-read summaries of the Mueller report with descriptions of its actual findings. How is any of that ""vapor?"" How is any of this simply someone ""talking to a Russian?"".","I mean, what the hell is this? You linked to a totally false opinion piece to make your point and claimed it was basically indisputable. Then when I linked multiple sources thoroughly debunking its (and your) claims you just pretend it's all a nothing burger and that you're still right... somehow.",0
"And I note that you said ""held"" instead of elected; because it's clear to everyone that Abrams rightly won the 2018 gubernatorial election in Georgia, which back then was a solid red state and is now a crucial purplish state thanks to Stacy Abrams' effort.",Stacy Abrams was a better VP choice if Biden wanted to court the female POC vote. Democrats would have never won the Senate and the White House if it wasn't for Stacy Abrams.,0
"Ukraine is the one fighting for its country (motherland as Putin says), & Ukraine is the one fighting for true independence from Russian rule and influence. This is crafted to confuse people that dont pay attention close enough to know the truth... because when both parties accuse the other or when both say the same thing --- what happens? People don't know who to believe so they remain passive & neutral.",When they are bombing cities & civilians... they accuse the other side of being the ones responsible. It spits in the face of the citizens of Ukraine that hes already bombed & tortured & raped & murdered --- that he then accuses them of it ... this twisted fuck deserves to suffer for this. Nuclear weapons & the publics fear of them have also been a catalyst to Putins feeling of being untouchable... because who is going to stand in your way when you have the ability to end mankind as we know it. That ability was handed to an ex-KGB agent that values nothing other than his own image as a strongman.,0
Yeah but this is to be expected. As if there would ever be a mainstream & easy to use platform for communication that cannot be snooped in on.,"Signal is a mainstream and easy to use platform for communication that cannot be snooped in on. It’s an open source WhatsApp clone, essentially.",1
"I'm the last person that would defend Trump, but he didn't say he was foregoing his salary but rather he said he was going to donate it to charity. So yes, him earning the salary is correct.","You mom gives you $100 to pay the landscaper and you put it in the bank. When the groundskeeper comes, you write him a check for $100 from your bank account.",0
"If overall turnout wasn't so depressing this would be a decent argument even with the electoral college in place, but that isn't the world we live in.","Paying attention to national popular vote numbers when the campaigns are focused on the electoral college is folly. If the national popular vote mattered, Democrats and Republicans would push for higher turnout in all their safe states instead of focusing on the swing states, and the national popular vote numbers would look entirely different.",0
"Russia's condition for talks in the first place presumes the Ukraine to admit some sort of defeat, as things are far from static, no?","But, if that is the benchmark to look for, Ukraine can merrily liberate Crimea, and Russia will have to accept the loss of territories for talks...",0
"You have your mandatory Lithuanian classes, followed with mandatory English classes. At (I believe, been a while) 6th grade (12-13 y.o.) you are supposed to pick up a 3rd language. It is mostly a toss-up between Russian and German or if your school is posh enough, French followed up with really rarely Spanish.","By the way, during the Russian occupation of baltics, for many years our own native languages were suppressed and removed from school curriculum.",1
Everybody is saying they want to cut SS to address the debt limit. Isn’t SS supposed to be self sufficient? I know I pay a lot of SS taxes. How do SS benefits add to the debt?,"Social Security is a payroll tax on wages. 6.2% from our employers, which is part of our compensation, and 6.2% from us, so we don't end up in the streets when we're 80 years old.",1
"However, Swedish style gun laws, which seem to stress the idea of ""1-gun-per-person"" and responsible gun ownership even in schools at young ages seems to me like something that could very easily be slotted into the US and would be a much more responsible alternative that would also help to change American gun culture from ""I could kill 27 people in this mall more deader than anything that's ever died, and I'll wear a shirt that not only explicitly reminds you of that fact but also makes you feel pretty sure it might happen"" to ""this is my rifle. I shoot at targets sometimes and keep it at home for self defense."" The most important part, however would be a full on ""mental wellness"" reform that makes psychopathic bullied kids and brain-rotted old hicks actually want to go to therapy.","It's also important to note that a European style of gun control would never work in the US because we literally have more guns than cars. Even if we did some large-scale gun buyback program, all we'd be doing is turning law abiding citizens into a free payday for any person with even mild criminal tendencies. The US has roughly 120 firearms per 100 citizens. Banning guns just isn't a thing you could feasibly do here.",0
"It was probably inevitable that Russian troops eventually learn from their mistakes and change their doctrine to reflect reality. For me the worry is that the ""smart survivors"" will pass on their experience to a large amount of mobilized troops that may overwhelm Ukraine eventually just because of the sheer numbers they could muster. But that's still far in the future, if at all. And so far, it seems that for the time being, no large-scale mobilization, part 2 is going on.","Ukraine must do what it has done largely well so far: Be creative and outsmart Russian strategy, and I hope the western tanks and IFVs arriving soon will have an actual impact!",0
"Russia and Turkey have good relations, but they are far from allies - it wasn't long ago that Turkey shot down a Russian fighter, and Russia called Turkey a bunch of terrorists and slapped sanctions on them.",Turkey literally fought Russia in both Libya and Syria while some of our allies in NATO helped the Russians in Libya.,1
"Joining a foreign military from a country hostile to the US is/can be a voluntary action, therefore your US citizenship can be revoked by the government by order of the constitution.","“You might lose your U.S. citizenship in specific cases, including if you: Run for public office in a foreign country (under certain conditions) Enter military service in a foreign country (under certain conditions) Apply for citizenship in a foreign country with the intention of giving up U.S. citizenship.”.",1
"is a pretty good assessment of the russian threat; they made a lot of mistakes earlier in the invasion, but they seem to have learned and adapted, and they still have a significant numerical advantage over Ukraine, and the benefit of long range missiles that makes no corner of Ukraine safe.","yep. The main thing is that as things stand, russia would eventually wear down Ukraine through sheer strenh of numbers; we need to make sure that Ukraine has whatever they need to push russia out of Ukraine and even strike military targets inside russia, so that they no longer have the ability to field fresh equipment and soldiers to continue the invasion.",0
"The thing is, most of us are tired of the ""jUsTiCe tAkEs TiMe"" BS. It's not like they're all that successful at building these cases slowly either in the first place. Most of the time they just take forever and quietly hope the public forgets about it. No charge and they don't have to worry about their winning percentage.",What we'd like to see is them actually try. If Garland throws the book at him and tRump walks I'll be disappointed but no worse off than what usually happens with the rich and powerful when they run the clock out and are never punished. At least he'd have been actually charged. It would at least give the impression that they give a fuck.,0
"I dunno, and I’m not saying anyone should agree with me, but I’m fine with shorter life. This isn’t something that I recently started feeling. My mom sent me to therapy when I was 10 for saying this sort of thing and that was 35 years ago. I don’t think it’s sad and I’m not a depressed person. The fact that it’s a limited run makes me appreciate it all the more. If I hadn’t had a child I might already have checked out, but I would never do that to her.","I agree, but I don’t think it is realistic to expect a significant enough change in resource utilization to meet the needs. I’d love to be proven wrong, but I would imagine a messier/mass die-off situation is more likely than the world coming together.",0
"He has destroyed his nation. Talent has left, Europe will soon not need its oil or natural gas, tourists will take forever to return, thousands of western businesses have permanently left, a generation lost to the battlefields, broken trust with other nations (even China)… the list goes on. His quest for the Soviet Empire of old has destroyed Russia’s future.","Right - embarrassed I didn’t add something about the stain that Russians will have to live with forever—launching a war without provocation, and amassing almost as many war crimes as there are dead to haunt their nights.",0
"The party voted at their convention to endorse McMullin over , who was trying to make it a D vs. R vs. I race. Arizona parties don't use conventions to nominate, so if someone files as a Democrat and gets enough ballot qualification signatures they'll be on the primary ballot and will win the nomination, even if the party as an organization nominally doesn't want to do that (although from everything state party leaders here are putting out, and from the signaled interest in the seat by both Gallego and Stanton, they don't look like they'd have wanted that anyway).",No candidate who actually wants a political future will file to run against the wishes of the party and the signature requirements to get on the ballot seem kinda low actually but are probably still enough to keep just any swingin dick off the street from running as a Democrat without some kind of funding/organizational support.,1
And exactly how do you do that with Russia? Are you going to gain air superiority first? It's HUGE and can station bomber well away from it's capital.,We've got to assume that Russia can't throw 'everything it's got' at Ukraine because it's still worried about NATO happening on another front.,0
"My point is, it looks like we do in fact have time to do this right, to line up the nails that will pin him to the goddamn wall.","The republican party is realizing that he is as cancerous to their cause as we realize he is to the nation. After the runoff, we have 2 years to the next election (1.5ish until primaries). Before, I wondered why he wasn't charged before these midterms. Now, I think it worked out well. So, while the gears turn towards his indictments, let him damage those who enabled him, until they are begging for the justified indictments to come.",0
But that argument is nonsense... at least in our day and age. In the late 18th century perhaps that would fly... but we have different expectations now.,"Even without voting, it could be argued that technically they are represented... as residents of a given area.",0
"That's the point, no one is hyped. No one cares really. We usually talk and discuss the upcoming world cup. Make bets about winners and teams that go out early. It's complete silence now. Like there is no event at all. Feels like everyone will just skip it.","I honestly doubt you would actually skip it. I mean if you even remotely follow football, you’ll eventually be overwhelmed and give in because everyone’s gonna be hyped and talking about it. You’re seriously gonna miss it because it’s winter? I understand trying to stand up against corruption but it’s futile in this case.",1
"But some of them are just so ridiculous. I'm sorry but if ""Microsoft"" calls you via some guy who can barely speak English, ""accidentally"" refunds you $1000 instead of $100 for something you don't even remember buying, and then tells you to go to Walmart and buy $900 worth of gift cards to compensate them or you'll go to jail...",How can you be that gullible? I feel like it's only the most tech-illiterate elderly folks that would possibly fall for it. There's more red flags in these scams than the Soviet army.,0
"His entire cabinet was made up of his daddy's and Great papa Reagan's best good warmongering red meat eating military industrial complex subscribing just a step below blatantly racist friends. George W was told to have Cheney spearhead his search for his V P and then Cheney came back and said "" know who would be a great VP lil Georgie?? Well...Me, Uncle Dickard Won't that be a hoot??? Oh what a time we'll have Georgie. And dont you worry I got some good buddies all ready to pitch in too!"".",But that’s not even the point. I’m talking about policy. Sorry that you don’t see policy and excuse it by using buzzwords like corporate democrats. How can YOU say that with a straight face.,1
"The Democrats would be fools to trust the Republicans on meeting in the middle. If the aftermath of January 6 hasn't shown them that the Republicans will lie about this every time, then we are doomed. They need to insist Republicans take irrevocable action first, then they can compromise.",What guarantee would Democrats have that McCarthy or another Republican would actually follow through on the agreement?,1
"What a dumb comparison. These kids are not destroying art to hide it or deny it’s existence. The crime here is more akin to taking hostages in a desperate attempt to get the word out about a global government conspiracy that will result in billions of deaths. They are using this as a platform to promote conversation, not stifle it.","People are ridiculous, this art will not matter if society does not exist to protect it and allow us enjoy it communally. We are on the brink of collapse and the kids doing this shit are more brave than any of us keyboard warriors. How do you suggest they protest to raise awareness?",0
Nevadan here. While I voted for sisolak there is a lot of hate for him on various measures. Shutting down Vegas for COVID was big for sure. It’s pretty much our entire industry. Our schools are ranked 49th in the country. Gas prices are higher than national average. Housing boom exploded driving up house costs and Californians coming over and paying inflated pricing so others have hard times getting a home. We have protected abortions so we don’t need a democrat governor to fight for those rights. But Congress can take those rights away so we need a democrat in the senate to represent.,"One possible thing about just the house going slim GOP is that there's a couple congressmen that'll vote w/Dem for reasonable bills introduced by Dems... But anything that's introduced by the GOP will not pull anyone from Dem over, it'll all be too far right.",1
"People generally buy Condos for the convenient urban location and/or less maintenance than a house. Same here in Japan, though I don’t know what they call the equivalent of condos here. In everyday Japanese they just say (literally) “bought apartment”(買うマンション).","Wait, condos don’t exist in the UK, or they go by different terminology in the UK? I thought the concept of a condo existed pretty much everywhere in the developed world.",0
"The Founders were, by modern standards, terrible people, particularly for being slavers. But if they were here today, they'd take one look at the GOP and go, ""Those goddamn Tories are still here?!"".","Yeah. There are plenty of LGBTQ+ wrestlers all across the industry, enough to run entire shows like Effy's Big Gay Brunch every Wrestlemania weekend. Not just here, even in Japan trans wrestlers are pretty respected. YENY/ASUKA, Yu Ishino even though he came out after retiring and even Nyla Rose herself were able to become something in Japan. It was her work over there that got Kenny Omega's attention and ultimately led to her signing with AEW.",1
My question is this: How is it possible to cast more legitimate votes than an empowered election-rigger can discard?,"I’m afraid that once a political party decides that cheating is justified, democracy is doomed. It’s a terminal cancer.",1
"But fiduciaries aren’t protected by the Constitution in the same way and it will probably be argued in court that without an amendment, it is an illegal barrier to candidacy.","You're right that the courts would strike down attempts to add additional eligibility conditions or prerequisites for running for office (beyond ballot access procedures) that aren't already in the constitution. But this isn't that. The constitution doesn't talk about tax record confidentiality at all. It's not in there. It's a pure statutory creation, and there are already several cases where the IRS must disclose a tax return by law. Candidates can't veto legally authorized disclosure of a return by a tax agency any more than they can be forced to disclose it themselves.",1
"Everybody in the 60's 70's mouthed the love peace and flowers, money is the root of all evil stuff..... until they got some. The same people became the neoliberals. Their excuse? ""We were mugged by reality man!"".",Yep. Biden and Harris had a chance to take a step towards actual police reform and instead we got a watered down executive order and them wanting to reward law enforcement with even more funding while asking for no legitimate change in return.,1
"The problem was that the law was written in a way that the technology could be abused by law enforcement. Nothing to stop a cop from stalking their ex, or investigate someone for political reasons, etc.","Or is your point that you ONLY want them to digitize the workflow for investigating tax evasion, and you don't think the technology should be used for other crimes such as murder/robbery/etc.?",0
"Fracturing the russian federation is a real possibility. But it will take time, and continued losses. If putin stops the war he avoids this but not his own downfall. He's boned either way... unfortunately he knows this.","The baggage of corruption is on hold as membership is currently in a candidate state. It's not moving until after the war, and will come with a mountain of oversight.",0
But he tries to use the dependency Ukraine now has for Starlink as leverage. Thats simply a shitty move i light of them defending their homes.,Unfortunatly it seems that way. Otherwise they would have said something before... Videos of drones dropping bombs on Russian soldiers are all over the place für quite some time.,0
"That's the thing. This is not an AI using an unfitting word. This is an unchecked AI celebrating Nazism and crimes against humanity. And I damn well hope it was unchecked, because if someone approved of that, it would be KFC celebrating just that.","That night was the moment where the Nazis pulled off the last bit of mask they had on. Jews were stripped of their possessions, forced into Ghettos, sometimes even killed and all that pretty much on open display for everyone to see. We don't celebrate that day. We commemorate it, if you will, but the only things I feel about it are shame and disgust.",0
"Norway and Germany are basically compensating Brazil (and other countries with rainforests) for not extracting resources there, and provide aid in protecting it from criminals.","Norway and Germany (who were the primary backers starting the fund together with Brazil) have no leverage over Brazil other than aid. This is how practically all foreign aid works, and unless you gonna start to threaten with invasion or something similar you can't change that.",0
"They are trying to elect a speaker. None of them have sworn in. There are currently no US federal representatives, only senators (117th Congress ended yesterday). It's this weird artifact from colonial days where colonies held their elections, all representatives traveled to the capitol, elected a speaker, the speaker swore them in, then started Congress. The speaker is the one who selects committee members, chooses votes, and decides on the rules for the next two years. Literally the only two things the representative-elects can do is vote for speaker, and vote to adjourn for the day.","Over half of the members must select a speaker. The GOP has like 51% of the seats, and 2% refuse to vote for McCarthy, the obvious frontrunner and person the old GOP and most of the HFC (MAGA folks) voted for.",0
"I remember this play, $12 dollar fed minimum wage is too little, must be $15. Did $12 or $15 happen? Nope. Instead we got higher maternal mortality rates because Roe was overturned.","Aww, yes but of course after men go after a woman for speaking truth by calling her a ""traitor"" and ""opportunistic"" and sending massive amounts of threats her way they wonder why she's reluctant to do it again.",0
"I bought a new car last year in the UK, I had every intention of going electric, until I realised they're all approx £10k dearer. Even in an instance of the same model.","I guess as production and demand increase, prices will come down, but price is definitely pricing people out of the switch at the moment.",0
Imagine what China could do to the US navy with their own manufacturing and RnD capacity put towards naval drones.,"There's still a question to be answered about how those drones are even capable of getting anywhere near a ship. Why are they not picked up on radar? Is it pure incompetence? There's no technical reason, western radar is able to pick up submarine scopes. The drones shouldn't really be a threat in theory.",1
"And if anyone tries to make bullshit claims about NATO somehow triggering this conflict by eastward expansion, NATO membership is not something foisted on anyone and is nothing like the Russian empire. NATO is a defensive alliance that nations have to apply to join. They have to go through a years-long process, and the entire application process is conducted freely and in the open. And it's also entirely revocable. Any nation can leave NATO if they want. If NATO were run like the Russian empire, Orbán would have fallen out a window a long time ago.","Exactly. It's classic imperialism. And the worse thing is, with every territory they invade, the stronger they get.",0
"Don't do anything for the heads of state or Russian oligarchs but incentivise the average people to simply leave. Psychological impact of that as well, offer to bail out the people so Putin doesn't have the manpower to throw into the meat grinder.",I am the opinion we should do the exact opposite. Offer automatic work visas for anyone who applies maybe as extreme as a relocation stipend to leave Russia. It would cut down on their workforce and deplete their recruitment numbers.,0
"I don't want someone hauling a million pounds of cargo drowsy from the flu. I want them well rested, well vacationed, and given sick days. Capitalism is so lame.",Oh noo the economy who gives a shit. The railroads would fold in less than a week because the lost profit would exceed the demands in that time.,1
‘Assault weapons’ are rarely used in crimes. These bills are feel good but ignore the actual problem.,"Fuck the NRA, but don’t let your well deserved hate for them make you fall for false promises that only infringe on legal gun owners.",0
"Since it requires a Constitutional amendment approved by 66% of House and Senate, chances are slim but Democrats should add to their platform, their vision for future of US.",>Equal Protection as guaranteed by the 5th and 14th amendments require broadly that each person be treated equally in their voting power.,0
"3. Attempt to con Trump into standing down and playing the role of “elder GOP statesman,” possibly by offering to pay his legal bills and promising to constantly kiss up to him. He would go along with this for a bit, until Republican fawning over DeSantis became too much and his need to be the alpha male overrode whatever promises he had made. Chaos would ensue, and the party would be fractured.","4. Stick with Trump and encourage DeSantis to wait for the 2028 election. Given that Trump hurt the GOP badly in the 2018 midterms, lost the 2020 presidential election and again hurt Republicans in this year’s midterms, he will be an electoral disaster. He’ll keep prattling on about a stolen election and his cruelty and divisiveness, now known commodities, will doom GOP hopes to win the White House and further tarnish the party’s image.",0
Same here. It was really reassuring to see Starmer devote all six of his questions in PMQ's today to backing Ukraine and the UK's support for it. Clearly a very conscious effort to show voters that Labour is no-longer the Corbyn anti-NATO party.,"Labour is the party of anti-NATO Kremlin stooges. They try to project disinformation about Russian defectors donating the conservatives, highlighting that they're Russian donors without mentioning they're defectors.",1
"However if an in depth analysis is performed and a gendered wage gap is found within equal work scenarios, then that should be eliminated. Gender should never be a factor for employment or wages.","Another thing to consider on hourly wage. Even if you adjust for hours worked, you may still get discrepancies owing to scheduling. Men may be able to fit their schedule to the company's needs, while women may not be able to, which would reflect in the hourly wage.",1
"Didn't they just say ""Russian-made"" and aren't many of the weapons that Ukraine is and has been using Russian-made?","NATO lying about the source doesn't make sense. Even if it was Russia that accidentally hit Poland, that doesn't force any action. Official response could be the same regardless.",0
And it also said in the article that Tchaikovsky is of Ukrainian heritage so why didn't the culture minister just spin it that way?,You’re forgetting that Russia has and is preforming genocide on the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian culture. Ukrainians want a lot of there forced ties to Russia to be erased. The big reason why there is a lot of Russian speaking Ukrainians is because speaking Ukrainian was illegal and would get you killed.,1
The whole point here is that the acquitted portions of the alleged crime shouldn’t factor into the sentence for the convicted portion of the alleged crime.,"“In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes that juries found they didn’t commit.”.",1
Harry started in a cavalry unit and deployed to Afghanistan but iirc served as forward air controller. But then he became an Apache pilot and went back.,"He was an apache pilot. The Taliban were very rarely able to shoot down helicopters, especially at night. It’s very feasible that he was able to kill 25+ Taliban in this role. Many attack helicopters pilots would’ve killed alot more than that.",1
"As GOP goes down the rabbit hole of investigating its own bizarre conspiracy theories, Biden makes them look foolish and then pulls the rug by not running.",Yeah Biden can once again step up and take the heat as Republicans endlessly attack him and a younger Dem works to get the 2024 nomination and Biden just retires.,1
"7th century values created by warlords of that era and espoused by warlords of this era, are considered perfect god's words, they will stop at nothing.",How can we dilute the utterly horrible behavior of Taliban by deflecting attention to someone else?,0
They're not export models. The US is really stingy about the classified armor used in every modern domestic Abrams tanks and won't include that in any that are sold abroad. Doesn't seem like they want to make an exception here.,"The Abrams are being produced from the factory. The DoD hasn't said it directly and has danced around why it's having them produced instead of sending them from existing stocks, but a lot of speculation seems to presume that they'll be produced without the classified DU-incorporating armor that is used on American tanks but not exported ones. They don't seem to be willing to make an exception here. That armor has been used on all but the oldest Abrams tanks in inventory, and so I'm just speculating personally here, but they likely considered the production of new model tanks more worthwhile than refitting older ones since both would involve time at the factory.",0
"And being called on his lies is relatively new to him, so he lacks the self awareness needed to know that he has to lie better now.","Funnily enough, that's one reason why I think might be the most plausible lie he's ever told. Him just existing in Congress at the moment is a distraction to how utterly shitty she is. So her telling him that is something I could actually buy. The test is whether the lies from the Congressman claiming to be George Santos become more realistic or even more absurd from here.",1
"Even more than perjury, I’m thinking recorded conversations amongst officials and the fake electors and stuff, especially if they cut a deal with any of the fake electors to flip.",I’m guessing a lot of the perjury charges are going to go to the people on the witness stand for Trump who keep insisting that the election was stolen in order to aid and abet the 2020 coup attempt.,1
Hillary was talking about how marriage should only be between a man and a woman in 2013 which was Obama’s second term. There’s been a huge positive shift in the last decade.,"So yes, things are better than a decade ago. But just one meeting of old regressive people In power can revert all that progress. With or without the people's approval.",1
"Yes. I wish they'd fight back, especially on book banning. We need them to also call out this Christian nationalist crusades they are on right now. The fact no one is even trying to call these fundies from Footloose out is astounding.","""Roberto Clemente is scary. He along with Stargell with the Pirates were the first all minority infield to win a World Series. That is something so scary!"".",0
Wow. I thought that MAYBE the clip of him talking about uprooting Medicare/SS was going to be kind of out of context or ambiguous. He really left nothing to the imagination. Unreal.,Unpossible. McConnell is like a shark in the ocean. I have a healthy respect for a strong murderer when it’s in its environment.,1
"It’s not a loan from North Korea, it’s from a SOUTH KOREAN conglomerate (weapons and ship/car company) that was given permission from both countries to work in North Korea. While I still think this should have been disclosed this article is extremely misleading in saying Trump got a loan.","I think the fact that he hid this loan for his reporting before taking over the white house is the bigger scandal than who the loan was with imo. I'm not sure how much leverage Kim can have over a company that has only ""ties"" to the country and is based in SK. And as such how directly this loan connects to NK.",1
"This isn’t surprising because you want your delegates to be the most devoted individuals from your party. It just so happens that for Republicans, that also means your most crazy party members.","This was a republican, who got caught. The only thing this shows is that our election integrity is fine as is since we’re catching voter fraud when it does happen. The right fails to mention that most of the voter fraud have been republicans thinking they could get away with it since President Cheeto keeps saying it’s so rampant and easy to do to his base.",1
"If we're speaking about the Israeli government ignoring/disregarding a ""two state solution"", that's been going on since they were founded. They took a lot of land that the 1947 UN Resolution 181 had set aside for a ""future"" Palestinian state during the 1947-1948 Palestinian Civil War.","To which Bibi will just ignore him. Like he ignored Obama's attempts. Bibi and most of the Israeli government are interested in one thing, complete control over Palestinians land. With as few Palestinians being allowed to stay so they remain as a minority in the country.",0
"There's another trait among conservatives that in any situation they default to a demonstration of strenh, which in gop-speak means overwhelming and immediate violence. Migrant caravans? Send armed troops to the border with orders to . Foreign aircraft enters US airspace without authorization? . Black people protesting police brutality and extrajudicial killings? .",Yep. Any person who acted like her would be contacted by HR as soon as the meeting was over and would be escorted from the building by security after handing in her access card.,1
"People are different, some people are doing the best they can, helping refugees with food and clothes, money, transporting them out of the country through available borders, some provide funding for them, some donate to funds that help Ukraine refugees and army but you won't read it on /r worldnews cuz it is filled with Ukrainian war propaganda which is understandable. We have no power to stop an army in a totalitarian regime, but we're doing the best we can.",If you need motivation / guide look to history on how to fight authoritarian regimes. Maybe even Russian / USSR collapse might be illuminating.,1
"Sucks! you and your family had to experience this. I just watched the news here and they spend about 20 minutes on Ukraine, companies here (and tons of donations from Poland) are sending so many generators to Ukraine the next week it's insane (talking high end stuff).","This really gives me the vibes of those posts from ASWmilitary news or whatever they were with shit like ""1 hour, 48 minutes, the entirety of the Ukrainian military is destroyed"" and other nonsense.",1
"Edit: Ultimately, though, we are all a part of this massive and unyielding consumer society, and we all feed into the demand and profits of these companies. Imagine if we all stopped flying, buying stuff online, and started biking and walking everywhere? The world would be a better place, but fat chance of that happening.","This should come as no surprise to anybody. Even though they really should, companies don’t give a hoot about the environment unless it’s the one directly outside their corporate headquarters or the homes of the biggest executives and investors. Companies are in it for money at all costs; even the triple bottom line approach only really does lipservice for environmental causes. Buying carbon offsets is also a total joke since you need to maintain the protected area in perpetuity to make any difference, which often does not happen.",0
"Democrats tried to be more “inclusive” in their latest redistricting this year, and also majorly dropped the ball.","Step 1) move to a red district (preferably a new one after the census, or with a retiring or out of favor republican representing it).",1
"if I have to travel for work, my company generally pays up to £250 per night for a hotel, and I'm just a software engineer.","When I was a student at university and working part time for a private company, I sometimes had to travel for work. I sure as hell did not book the cheapest hotel (not luxury either, but easily double the price of the cheapest hostel). And I sure as all hell did not pay for it myself, or I would have told my company to fuck off - even as a student worker.",1
"I really wonder how well that will actually work considering how refractive water is. Air and water's refractiveness is much different and with the depth most subs operate at, I wonder if a laser could penetrate thousands of feet into the sea from space.",The green spectrum (532 nm) laser beam from an airborne bathymetric LiDAR system can penetrate up to 300 meters underwater.,1
There are a lot of “Christian” democrats and if there’s one thing that unites all the faiths it’s any perceived persecution of their brethren. The separation of church and state is a fraud—“in god we trust” is on our money. How free can politics be considered to operate without undue religious influence when those same bribed politicians are themselves religious and paid with notes that explicitly state allegiance to “faith?”.,I have no problems with churches endorsing political candidates as long as they file taxes and get no non-profit organization benefits.,1
"Trump absolutely was a follower, not a leader, and he smartly learned in the primaries that just repeating Limbaugh talking points and validating his base was all they really wanted. He just had to ride the wave.","Carlos has likely done a few “offscreen” loyalty tests at this point, it isn’t like he’s winging things this loosely, it’s absolutely in coordination with “The Third Right”.",0
What so they can claim we are invading for oil? Let them be and let them fight for their democracy. It’s gonna be Afghan 2.0 if we get involved anyways.,You have to fight for what you believe. Maybe we can’t deter the US military with our rifles and “cosplay” but it is much better than dying without a fight.,0
"Apprently that class of ship was designed for 'pack tactics', paired with the flagship of their entire navy, the _Admiral Kuznetsov_. Which just makes you wonder why the hell they thought sending one on its own was a bright idea.","Not that I'm complaining of course, I'm just explaining that it sucked at its job so hard because they seemingly willingly put it into a role it's shit at. Which would almost beggar belief, but then you remember it's the Russian Navy we're talking about here, so.",0
Russia is full of doublethink. The country of survivors. Everything past pure survival is a luxury. Think of it what you will.,"Russians society is very atomised. People only care about their immediate circle of contacts, friends, family, etc. Everything else is ""whatever, leave me alone."" Including the war.",0
"This is beyond dumb. If they did that, they would have lost all the data they collected. There was always a very high chance the balloon would never return.","The balloon obviously had communications. Different frequencies use different power levels over long distance. It would be ridiculously inept for them to be unable to support long range communication, especially at that altitude.",0
"If we don't have the power to turn our values into actual policy... what have we got? Other than the ability to tell ourselves ""at least we're the good guys."".","It’s not just this though. My husband’s family excuses any and all behavior because “they support my policies”. So it doesn’t matter if they are adulterers, child molesters, corrupt beyond imagining as long as they continue to vote to morally police everyone else. You see this too within evangelical families. They will shun, judge others for what they love to call “sexual sins”, but if anyone they know does it, it’s either blissfully ignored or “well, Jesus knows their heart, so who are we to judge”.",1
"I thought she was still being repaired by EB in New London. Very sad she got transferred out of state, but there's also not much happening in the Atlantic.",The Connecticut is one of the modified Seawolf classes like the Jimmy Carter with the special midship insert. Too valuable to scrap given how long it would take to get a new equally capable boat online.,0
"Not every Christian subscribes to the ""only Jesus' words"" thinking; in fact, those who do are a tiny minority of the religion. Meanwhile, Christians can't even agree on the fundamentals. Take the subject of what makes someone ""saved:"".","The oldest (edit: and largest) Christian organization in the world, the Catholic Church, is a fundamentally conservative institution. To say that you can't be conservative and Christian is ignoring two thousand years of history and cherry-picking only the parts of the bible that you like.",0
"Now the media is trying to help rehabilitate the GOP by pretending that Trump was just “a thing that happened to them” and not a 6 year litmus test that they failed every single day proving their own lack of basic morality. They saw who Trump was, and they bent the knee because it was their path to power. They will make that same choice over and over again.",This article makes the same basic fundamental mistake they always do: They are treating Trump and the GOP as separate entities with different values.,0
"A better way to think of the Military Police is militarized police, in that they are organized (as you said) and equipped more like a military, but still function as a domestic peace-keeping police force.","Military Police are somewhat similar to the National Guard in the US, in that they report to the State Governor (but in the US they can also be nationalized and fall under the command of the Federal Army).",0
You can examine the voting history of the last couple of decades and see the Japanese population staunchly against supporting anything other than their Defense Force.,"Japan has been tolerating a strong Chinese presence for decades, and continue to tolerate it regardless of their own impending buildup. No one in the region can do anything but tolerate it, as fighting a large overseas war in this age is impossible for anyone to win with the one exception being the US. Every country has a violent history, and any anger over Japan’s buildup should be directed at regional players who talk and act aggressively, forcing their peers to buildup or risk invasion. China and Russia had a pacifist nation on their eastern doorstep, but due to their aggressive rhetoric and expansionist plans, they’ll have a neighbour who will hit them back.",1
This frigate is a sad shadow of the large Atlantic and Pacific Fleets with Kirov-class Battlecruisers that the USSR used to field during the Cold War.,"Anti-missile tech has come a long way. For example: The latest generation of Patriots has a 98%+ kill rate against pretty much anything it targets, and it does this with hit-to-kill warheads, without proximity explosives like older interceptor missiles use.",0
"The point isn’t to investigate him. The point is to fling mud, convince folks there’s controversy, and then when there’s another president, move on to try to assassinate the character of someone else.","The reason is that it builds up tension and makes folks angry. The lack of charges or an actual investigation into the matter is on purpose. For the law enforcement agencies - it’s because there’s nothing there. For republicans, it’s because they have a narrative.",0
"Yeah, I'm willing to bet that it was no coincidence that Biden and Pence found documents at the same time. Seems clear that the records keepers are cleaning up a mess after it's now publicly known that they have been too lax in letting sensitive documents go missing, so they told them that if they better search and see if they had any souvenirs they shouldn't have kept. Pence and Biden of course complied.","Also no one is saying what Biden did was ""correct"". I think everyone thinks what Biden, and also Pence did(lost or misappropriated classified materials) is wrong.",1
Sure. But I'd argue that the problem is the belief that a Black person can't agree with them without being a prop.,"This isn't taking agency away from a black man because he's black. It's because he's a black man already setting himself up as an enabler of white supremacy by denying CRT, denying the US has a racism problem, and shitting on the legacies of people like MLK (who he claims would agree with him).",1
And everyone else is fucked cause we're now trapped on our planet and can't launch any new satellites while orbit is absolutely wrecked by space debris and destroys any existing satellites.,"When the atmosphere becomes so clogged with space debris from collisions and abandoned satellites that it becomes impossible to safely travel through, trapping us on the planet until they all decay and eventually burn up upon reentry.",1
"That failed bill, and many before it, lets essential industries like rail and trucking continue to avoid paying for reasonable sick leave.",Which then would have resulted in a strike which would have been catastrophic for the economy forcing the rail road companies to the table or forcing Republicans to pass the bill with sick leave. Forcing a contract on the union and taking away their right to strike is morally repugnant. By splitting it into two bills the Democrats knew this would happen. Ultimately they didn't think railroad worker sick leave was worth actually fighting for.,1
"I'm sick of that attitude. I am American, and I am glad we are helping Ukraine as much as we are, and wish we would help more. But why should European aid be contingent on the US sending aid? Can't Europe handle wiping their own asses without the US there to coddle them?","Don't you make your aid contingent on other nations as well also by your very exolanation? Also to ukraines disadvantage? Everyone played the same game here, let's not pretend otherwise. We should all be embarrassed it took us this long, germans as well as americans. We both could have done that months ago. Lets be cheerful for whats comming instead finally.",1
"In practice American policy goes a bit further. America doesn’t want to be drawn into a war, so America pushes back against even peaceful efforts by Taiwan to officially change the status quo. Back in the early 2000s Taiwan’s leader was pushing to rewrite the constitution. America made it clear that doing so would cause problems in Taiwan’s relationship with America and Taiwan’s leader backed down. He pushed the envelope in other ways and became very disliked by the American government.",America very definitely opposes Taiwan making official changes to the status quo. It has a big impact because Taiwanese want American support.,0
"They don't know the meaning of sovereignty, just that if other countries have it then Russia will seek to undermine it. It exists to be violated as far as Russia is concerned.","The same can mostly be said for China too. They see western trust and agreements as something to exploit, agreements to adhere to only as a means of restraining the west so long as it's beneficial to them and the moment they think they found an opportunity to capitalize on it to hinder the west they will absolutely do so.",0
Very aware yes. I know people who voted for Trump (the first time he ran) who also think he should be locked up for any wrong doing. Reddit isn’t the real world. Anyone in reality with any shred of common sense would agree Trump should go to prison if he broke the law. Biden should too for that matter.,"For Biden, it remains to be seen. So far he has returned all of the documents that we know that he knew that he had, immediately. Where he can run into problems is.",1
"For all intents and purposes, if the radioactive source is removed, the area is safe for humans again.","Yes, neutron radiation can do that. So can energetic alphas if they hit light atoms. Even energetic gammas can crate photo-neutrons.",0
"As Ukrainian, I can say that my family and almost all my friends are celebrating Christmas on December 25th now. And we are from the Orthodox region of Ukraine.","The Eastern Orthodox church does not originate from Russia nor is this a Russian tradition. The difference in dates has to do with calander systems. Julian dating systems were kept by the Orthodox church while the Catholics moved dates to account for the time difference of the, at the time, newer Gregorian calender system. Some orthodox countries like Greece have moved to the new date but many have not.",1
"The latter are temporary, created by resolutions, and generally exist to serve a specific function that's goes beyond any of the standing committees. They tend to be investigative rather than legislative.","McCarthy is going to kick Dems off standing committees. Pelosi barred GOP from being on a temporary investigative committee. That said, the Chairs of standing committees are usually members of the majority party. The GOP changing the people chairing the committees isn't unusual.",0
"Some may say that a some of them were captured as children by the gangs/didn't know any better and that's probably true, sure if they have had a better life they would have chosen something different, but it is what it is.","If you were in America and joined the KKK or some organization that killed people in broad daylight, you would be guilty as well, just for participating or being a tool to them, or promoting hate. The people that join these gangs in El Salvador know what they get themsleves into, they know that they will kill people, they aren't innocent by any means.",0
I supported a 2 state solution for many years but now that I know Palestinians want to just use that to completely annihilate millions of Jews I would have to be insane to support it.,Polling done shows that the majority of Palestinians want to use a 2 state solution to continue their war against Israel.,0
"Sadly, when they refuse to pass a debt ceiling raise that the Senate can pass, we may just wreck the global economy enough that they'll get to burn the place down on their way out.","Not if, when, and anything they do has to go through the Senate and Biden, this is gonna be tense, and these neo-far right folks are about to get a lesson in why not to screw around with debt ceiling.",1
Crowds of people are huddled together for up to hours at a time - any people who are actually infected will obviously spread it.,"However, the conditions at these camps are terrible and allegedly people are almost picked at random by local government to fill them up just to satisfy quotas and mandates coming down from the central government.",0
"And when Russia decides to annex Croatia and no one comes running to Croatia's aid, I hope the Croatian people really thank their government for showing Europe how important it is not to get involved in a war more than is necessary.","Serbia decided to annex Croatia and no one came to our aid, we had a weapons trade embargo and had to buy on the black market, were forced to postpone for months declaring our democratically decided independence while our cities were burning and world recognized our independence carefully, prolonging the war.",1
"If it is Russia out of all the HV targets. Why in Spain? Spain has had limited participation. Why not attack the US or German Embassy in Madrid instead of the Ukraine office? Spain isn’t even taking in as many refugees. Also, the opposition parties really dislike Pedro Sanchez, the last envelope was directed to his office.","Neo-fascists in Spain are pretty aggressive.They are very vocal, they take advantage of their freedom of speech. They have had political leaders going on TV literally saying they are proud fascist, ultra right philosophy.",0
"Minsk has nothing to do with Russia, it's Ukraine's internal affair. And russia's bullshit propaganda about it is no excuse for invasion. None of that changes that russia is a terrorist state.","Russia is a terrorist state because they are targeting civilians in the war russia started, and Minsk was a result of russia starting wars in Eastern Ukraine.",0
"It's well documented that Russia has been sending them to the front regardless of stated policy but here you are parroting the Kremlin""s official stance. So that's cool.","That would be impressive... Considering conscripts did not even participate in the fights (minus several attempts to forcibly make them sign the contracts, which was a pretty big scandal). They are not even a significant part of Russian army (100-140 thousand people scattered across bases all over the country).",1
Now idk if they were going full banzai charges or if its massed seaborne drone attack as I have not personally read the paper but from the looks of Russian Baltic formation of ships.,This actually sounds like a US advise as the US has ran multiple simulations of Torpedo/munition swarm attack effective against modern Surface fleet Navies.,0
The ultimate power move. If every backstory is your backstory you can never accidentally give the wrong backstory to your enemies. Santos is truly a genius.,"One reason is, Democrats tend to want to put more military spending into the USAF and USN and the Republicans have typically favored the Army and USMC in funding. Second, if I remember correctly. Most President who are democrats and vets have tended to be from the Navy (JFK and Carter). While Republicans who are vets tend to have served in the Army. Thirdly, well let’s just say the ASVAB scores can explain the third point. Or the branches with the types of jobs that tend to be more technical and require more brain power than running and push-ups tend to vote differently.",0
"So what’s your solution? Simply tell the countries that contributed the least to climate change, will suffer the worst effects, and with the least capacity to mitigate resulting problems, to go collectively fuck themselves? This appears to be a popular attitude at the moment.","It’s a bandaid that everyone here seems to think is completely unjustified and shouldn’t be given to these countries in the first place, never mind the prospect of something more substantial offered for this bullet wound.",0
"They're the world's factory, and finding ways to streamline the northwest passage and undermine Canadian Arctic sovereignty would be huge for them given climate change expectations over the coming decades.",Annual reminder than the US questions Canada's Arctic sovereignty as far as the NW Passage is concerned and that this is a really dumb stance to take in terms of global affairs when both China and Russia would love to drive boats straight through there.,1
"They do nothing to educate the public. They only incite, tease, mislead but never inform. The public can wait a little bit to have this information. What are we going to do with it? It is not going to change anyone's mind about anything. Even if there is someone who doesn't have a hard and fast opinion on trump who will review this information and changes their mind, it won't do anything for the millions of other people who either want the guy convicted or exonerated in court.","The media banding together to push for a reveal irks me. They do such a poor job at everything except trying to generate ratings that I hate that they get to call their activities as supporting ""public interest."".",0
But yeah. People are absolutely purposefully miseducated and indoctrinated against critical thinking here in the United States. They'd vote for perceived charisma over any actual policy bonafides any day. Which is problematic since when it comes to politics. Those with charisma almost never have workable policy. And those with policy almost never have charisma. Outside a rare few like Feterman recently in PA.,Because they don't believe they did any damage. Or actually wanted to do more. Anyone that voted trump after supporting Sanders. Never actually supported Sanders. They only supported the concept of a perceived outsider. Most of them couldn't have told you a single policy or position of his that won their support.,0
"The headline of this article, of course, doesn’t actually reflect the more nuanced quote from Kelly.",">Of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Kelly has said, “Dreamers are as American as anyone”, and has expressed support for it.",0
"I don't think it's implausible for Hunter to have dropped off a malfunctioning laptop at a local shop in Wilminon if he was there visiting his father, and simply forgot to pick it up before flying home. The repair quote has a date on it, if Hunter wasn't in Delaware on that day he could easily prove it. The fact that he hasn't done that, or even explicitly denied the laptop story, strongly suggests to me it's true.",That doesn't mean the laptop ever actually belonged to him or that all of the information on it is real.,1
"There's relatively few (non-zero though) issues with killings or brutality, and honestly, if you live in just a run of the mill middle class suburb, it is entirely possible all your interactions with police are positive or neutral. Officer is probably just a normal guy.","It's not as bad as it is in some places, but to say there is no systemic issues with racism and other forms of bigotry would be a lie.",0
"Of course it is. Its not about him being a welder specifically, but more that he feels confident enough in his foreign policy knowledge as a laymen to shit on a lifelong diplomat. Bet he couldnt point Taiwan out on a map.","The the other side of the strait is Taiwan. If America and its allies control the strait, they can choke China. No shipping means, effectively, that the CCP’s hold on power is not longer acceptable internally.",1
"Would you say Biden at this point is still sharp, do you think he'll be any more sharp in 2 years and how will he look against the much younger ron?",But if Biden doesn't stand a chance of actually winning then what would any of what you just stated matter?,0
"I think that the only way that Transnistria survives is if Russia can push to the border of Moldova. That's not very likely. Unless they can push to Moldova, the place is doomed.","The don't need to do that at all, they just need to fly their aircraft over the black sea and into Moldova. Moldova won't be able to do it alone. They won't have to anyway. They have a willing ally right next door who would love to show the Russians and the separatists the reality that they're facing.",0
They all do this. It’s like money laundering. They funnel campaign money to themselves by buying up all the copies of their shitty books then give them away at campaign events.,"Or do you mean that by having a PAC buy the book that it is skirting campaign finance laws? The article addresses that, and that isn't laundering.",1
"Anytime you hear “records” it’s only the past 100 years. Like that’s a reasonable sample size to extrapolate from. We’ve been on a warming trend since the end of the little ice age, no reason to think it won’t stop barring catastrophe. The medieval warm period was much hotter than it is now.","It was warmer than it is now during the medieval warm period. People grew grapes in England and the ice caps receded enough for the Vikings to cross into Canada and grow crops in Greenland. This period led to a boom in agriculture and civilization known as the high Middle Ages, during which the great gothic cathedrals were built. This period of growth was ended by the little ice age and the second great bubonic plague. I’m not a climate denier or anything, I just think it’s important for people to understand that warmer doesn’t necessarily mean worse. The thing that makes rising temperatures bad this time is that we have used modern technology to sustain an unnaturally high population, many living in places people shouldn’t be living in that can’t take these climate fluctuations.",1
"She was the Speaker of the House, which meant she was chosen to represent and lead the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives.","Leader of the House Democratic Caucus (2003 - 2023) Nope, just an errandgirl position, just making coffee here.",1
"She draws a whopping $700/m from social security. That's her only income. She can't get medicaid here in Ga. They claim she makes too much. She can't get a subsidized plan through Obamacare, because they claim she can get medicaid. This is a fight I've been dealing with for years.","My SO is diabetic, and was making a mere $10k/year a few years ago. She couldn't get any kind of health coverage because of this bullshit.",0
"GOP lawmakers speak expansively about the committee’s purview, comparing it to the Church Committee of the 1970s, which exposed an array of intelligence agency abuses. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the No. 2 Republican, said the new panel would be focused on the protection of “everyday” American citizens.","A way to claim the only protection a citizen has from the government is the Republican Party. A party where liars, pedophiles, tax cheats, nazis, homophobes are solicited and protected. Gym Jordan is in charge of investigations so you’re safe.",1
"Where there is really only one party, the part leadership end up dictating the terms because of the whole ""who else are you going to vote for?"" issue. Like in the UK, their parties get proportional representation, so the smaller parties will get SOME members that may be needed for teh coalition.",Edit: apparently u don't know all the vagaries if the UK system from across the pond. But proportional representation is what minor parties need to get their voices heard.,0
"And then there's India, which is basically forced to play nice with Russia out of fear that they will cut India off from maintenance and spare parts for their mostly-Russian military.","The Indian relationship with Russia is likely on borrowed time at this point anyway, despite a long history of Russian weapons exports to India, and Russian support for India in general. As Russia becomes weaker and more isolated as a result of the war in Ukraine, Russia is also becoming increasingly reliant on China to the point where it may basically become a Chinese satellite state. Russia-Chinese ties are a big red flag for India, who sees China as their primary geopolitical rival. India could not accept being reliant on a Chinese ally for weapons that they may need to use against China.",1
A balloon is going to be able to spend way longer loitering over the target and it will be getting far higher detailed imagery because its way closer to the target.,"This balloon was performing reconnaissance within Canadian and American airspace, and it is part of a larger pattern. China did this at a time when they were claiming to be invested in normalizing political relations with the US. They're deploying these balloons to other countries too.",1
Shouldn't take long to present to a regular grand jury. The evidence has already been procured and the report by the special grand jury will help expedite the process.,"I thought the special grand jury did strictly an investigation, and the regular grand jury took those results and could decide and refer charges, not a lawyer, though, just an observer.",1
"Regardless, I think this position has more to do with the difficulty of long-term logistics support than aircraft capability. While it is possible (and not uncommon) for F-16 units to deploy far from their home bases, long-term support is expensive and complex, and requires a ton of training for maintenance and support engineers.","Your first stament is simply incorrect as it concerns advanced fighter aircraft. There is not a single F-16 variant used anywhere in the world that has the full capabilities of their American counterparts. The same holds for any other advanced fighter platform, including the F-35. This includes nuclear carry capability.",0
"We have a very large Indian population and caste is very poorly understood by anyone who is not a part of the culture. Human resources, in specifically tech companies, often dismiss caste discrimination because they don't understand it or feel they cannot prove it in a court of law. Hopefully this law brings awareness and gives companies the confidence they can win a court case if they need to fire someone for caste discrimination.","It's not like banning dog meat or committing crimes in another language, that's a pretty ridiculous comparison. This is about further defining forms of discrimination. Those don't define discrimination, they are discrimination.",0
"Yes, the most dangerous thing Taiwan and the US have done for world peace is allowing Taiwan to start falling dangerously behind China militarily. Not that the Taiwan military can go toe to toe with China, but from what I've read over the last 10 years it seems as though even the asymmetric deterrent capabilities of Taiwan have been falling behind. Hopefully Ukraine is the wake up call both the US and Taiwan need.","Taiwan needs to do a lot better than that. They should think about how to be more like ukraine, or other US allies around the world able to defend themselves for a credible period of time mainly on their own.",1
Killing other soldiers is one thing and trapping places enemy soldiers will likely come is just a part of war.,I'm replying specifically to a comment about leaving traps for the military and you keep talking about leaving traps for civilians.,1
"I don't know the answer to that, but I do know this is the NATO take on Russia's current strategy, as well as many analysts.","While you are correct about that being the strategy in a lot of cases, that's not what Russia is doing in Ukraine. It's not really about breaking civilian morale either, although that is actually pretty close.",0
"Poland and Hungary didn't start behaving like this just like that and pretty soon they might be joined by other countries, destroying the European dream we have.","Poland and Hungary are engaged in a dispute with the EU more generally, and are being difficult within the EU's mechanisms as part of that. It's not about Ukraine at all, really.",1
"There's no way in hell they develop their own before all this goes down. Iran will not give up their initiative. Neither will Israel, I'd guess.",Not just the Saudis. Israel would probably preemptively strike. They've learned their lesson over the countless conflicts they've had with their Arab neighbours. Especially with a country that wants their destruction.,1
"In a reasonable world, Biden should and could run again, because he's doing a fine job, and because any vote for republicans remains a vote for fascism.","I know a lot of folks who are middle of the road politically, and I’m hearing more often that they think Biden’s doing an ok job. That may change as the Republican House works for the next two years to screw things up, but most people have already been warily eying that body’s looming dysfunction.",1
"Background: The US has begun to exert pressure on Turkey. As usual, the US has to save the Europeans a.../backside. Just like in sending arms to Ukraine.","I think it's awful that Sweden feels like they have to do this now. There is no question at all that in a liberal democracy it must be possible to burn any book. Personally, I think that burning books is entirely stupid. It's something the Nazis did, too. But gain: In a liberal democracy, that must be possible. It's pure blackmail by a socially backward autocracy: Turkey. They would have been kicked out of Nato a long time ago - if it wouldn't be that they control access to the Black Sea.",0
I don’t like that it makes me question their loyalty. I don’t blame them. I blame their government. They certainly are not making it easy on their citizens who want to immigrate for legitimate reasons.,"As for the part about immigrants, the vast majority coming from high income backgrounds want to live work and be. The engineering school near my liquor store had a lot of arab foreign nationals buying alcohol. It was annoying to have to inquire as to wtf was going on in these UAE and Saudi passports but the majority of the women were typical grad students. Another Saudi was getting a specialized med degree. I think it's interesting that it was these women in what are seen as backwards countries but they often came with financial backing. The Arab men were some of the students but the majority of Arab men were likely to work at the Amazon sorting center. It's the state of globalization now. One of the few female students that frequented on weekends developed an addiction but swore never to stray from the Stella Artois Cidre, and was noticeably sheepish coming in, for an alcoholic at a liquor store. Very interesting cross section of clientele.",1
"Oh I know Pakistan already gave nukes to North Korea and Iran, the danger is that if pushed too hard, Pakistan will start giving nukes to non-state entities as a way of striking at ""enemies"" they don't have the nominal strenh to take on.","But knowing the leadership in the Pak military, it is the country MOST LIKELY to use it's nukes out of all the countries that have nukes.",1
They're adults and it's their bodies. They can do what they want with their organs. If they want to help another human being who needs an organ that is a commendable act and they should be rewarded for their selflessness.,"I'm all for prisoners donating organs voluntarily, but when it's used as an incentive to shorten a prison sentence it's essentially holding their organs hostage.",1
"Now that's convenient, he's going to stay on as a Congressman and continue to make his salary, but not serve on any committees and actually do some actual work.","He won't resign, but he's going to step down from serving on committees until these issues concerning him are resolved.",0
Equating those two things is so mind numbingly ridiculous I still can't believe there are Americans as dumb as she is that votes for people like this.,"They also would also vote for Democrats do instead of idiots who blow the entire budget on PR stunts. Like the wall, child care from splitting children from their parents, and unnecessary detainments of people waiting for an immigration hearing.",1
"These ballots are automatically tabulated by an electronic reader, which requires the use of what are called ""timing marks"" along the edges of the paper ballots to be properly read. A problem with some of the ballots caused the timing marks not to be printed dark enough for the ballot reader to sense those marks.","While this was going on, voters had the option to either go to another precinct to vote, or they could place their ballots into a secured bin where a much beefier reader back at a central location would then tabulate the ballots.",0
The underhanded accusation of racism you piled on top just made it just that extra bit more anglocentric and rather arrogant.,"Your argument appears to be that if you don't consider Egypt to be part of the West, you're a racist. From any reasonable perspective, that is utter madness.",0
"In theory competition could drive down prices. But given that hedge funds are being used to buy up all the housing, that's not really a factor.","Yes, housing or rent prices are obviously the issue. Problem is the solution is complex, costly, and involves all levels of government, none of which are coordinated on this. Plus the profit seeking from big businesses and their control over housing gets in the way of any effort to help poorer people.",1
"There's still a question to be answered about how those drones are even capable of getting anywhere near a ship. Why are they not picked up on radar? Is it pure incompetence? There's no technical reason, western radar is able to pick up submarine scopes. The drones shouldn't really be a threat in theory.",After that any Chinese drones are kind of useless. Taiwan's navy is no threat to China and probably wouldn't likely last far beyond the start of the war so the drones will have little practical purpose beyond that. They're not a war winning weapon.,0
"It's not the weapon manufacturers causing the deaths, it's Russia invading that's causing all the deaths.","Or, to put it another way: who was responsible for all the death and destruction of WW2? Weapon manufacturers? Or the countries that invaded other countries, then had to be beat back at gunpoint?",0
I have absolutely no problem with legalization as long as smoking weed and cigarettes would have a very strict control so people won't smoke in your face all the time.,"Tobacco is obviously nocive, but that doesnt make marijuana good. Its not that harmful to your own organism, but ""less than x"" doesnt mean its totally harmless. Also while It won't kill you by smoking It its still detrimental to society.",1
"If the world folded and let Russia take Ukraine because of fear of Russian offensive nuclear strikes, why would NATO then intervene and risk the same Russian offensive strikes? If not now, why then?","If you're taking the stance you described with its apparent answer, then the answer to the question of ""If not now, why then?"" should be, ""Ukraine is not NATO, let them die to Russia"", but clearly NATO members have not taken that stance, and instead the opposite. Ukraine is NOT a NATO member, yet NATO is clearly taking the risk of Russian offensive nuclear war.",0
"Yes and forcibly ""transferring"" the Ukranian workers to Russia is kidnapping and yet another war crime committed by Russia.","""Vladimir Putin in October ordered Russia to formally seize the plant and transfer Ukrainian staff to a Russian entity. Kyiv says the transfer of assets amounts to theft."".",0
"Something is not right here… this is very opposite of the Croatian people and government’s stance to support European values and EU/ NATO partners. In addition, we remember what it was like to have our country invaded- homes destroyed, lives lost and land stolen.",This was a vote held for military training to take place in Croatia as part of the EU mission and not at all related to supplying of aid. This vote failed because not enough members were present at the time of voting and it looks like based on the numbers of those who did it would have.,0
"Yeah but I'm an idiot and put 2br when I meant 1br. It was a kind of cottage. But a BR, a bathroom, a living room and small kitchen, all with a fenced yard. That was in Phoenix, and prices went way up just a few years later. They have continued to rise ever since.","I'm GenX and for like ten years I was able to rent a house alone, pay my car payment, and save money too. Rent was $650/mo. for a 1 br house with a nice yard. That was only about 20 years ago. Wages have not gone up much but that same house probably rents for $2k now.",0
When buildings get destroyed due to earthquake and people lose their lives that stuff is indeed difficult enough to watch over!,Even the strongest building gets destroyed though when earthquakes just hits the fact that a 6 magnitude earthquake hit my place.,1
I'll be totally honest...I don't know why the abortion stuff and LGBTQ+ stuff aren't being framed by democrats as a religious issue.,I'm not saying you make it a war on religion. People are free to get an abortion or not. To express themselves in how they see fit and to love whom they love. What's not ok is when a religious minority is sculpting the laws and pushing their way of life onto everyone else via legal means.,0
"Ironically I was born in 80's on the east side of iron curtain and was fed so much US 'propaganda' that I grew up on Disney and his values. Propaganda in paraphrases coz I dont really think showing equality and other, globally accepted as fair, values, to a child is propaganda. And now as an adult, I judge USA, by what uncle Sam hinted brother. I really dont like it. I can do jack shit but I imagine there are few other level headed ppl that wont let it go to total shit. I read short article from other fellow and yes, u can/there r side step regulations.",">The short answer is no, Americans do not have to pay taxes twice. While there is no overall U.S. expat tax exemption, there are exclusions and credits to help alleviate the tax burden for U.S. citizens living abroad.",0
The other was an insurrection because the former president wanted to overturn an election and baited and encouraged his base to storm the capitol to stop the proceedings that day.,"I'm not even American so your political ideology means nothing to me, but your perception of reality is concerning.",0
"However, look how the redditor worded his response. Instead of just saying Mitch McConnell is in an interracial marriage or saying Mitch McConnell is married to someone of Han Chinese ethnic descent, the redditor consciously chose the inflammatory ""Chinese woman"" trope with all the historical and contemporary baggage associated with United States and China relations -- the user even refused to type her name.","To casually say she's a ""Chinese woman"" brings connotations of the People's Republic of China and all the baggage associated with it.",0
"- an all-out conflict with the West, in which case it might also end in a total destruction of Russia as a country and culture.","Russians have just created a new hot-spot in the world, and its resolution will rest on a total defeat of one of the parties. After this, normal coexistence is no longer possible and Putin is counting on future Russian leaders to be aware of this and pursue his policy until one of the following:",0
"And the fact that Starmer's Tory-Lite, Brexiteer-pandering watered-down ""Labour"" is the ""good"" outcome- or rather the best we can expect- is the most damning thing of all about UK politics.",And Labour under Starmer has taken up (in effect) a pro-Brexit position- along with such a lukewarm lack of opposition to the Johnson/post-Johnson Tories' English nationalism that they're all but going along with it.,0
I've read the bill. The part about non-human identity is a single bullet point. The bill is mainly about tormenting trans people.,They are going to attack schools who seek to be kind to trans kids. The message is not the whole litter boxes bullshit. The message is Republicans want trans kids dead rather than alive. Republicans are trying to extirpate trans people from the earth. It is horrible.,1
"Returning soldier syndrome is actually slightly different if I’m mistaken, what I saw it was talking about taller soldiers more likely to return from war, more likely to have a taller partner, and therefore have better chances to pump out 8-12 children.","I listened to an article about this that brought up some interesting correlations between the height of the returning soldiers, "" more tall soldiers survived than short ones."" And that tall men have a statistically higher percentage of male children versus shorter males.",1
"But you're right- all of the 1900's China was getting wrecked from wars and unrest, and that made them very reluctant to engage in further conflict.","For all the shit China does, maybe that made them re-think just a bit about being in conflicts, or maybe not, since it’s within their own borders.",1
"Secondly Ukraine has already proven they can take back territory even with what they have now, and that will only improve while what Russia has will only get worse through attrition.","6% is a fucking massive chunk of Ukraine's territory... Drop it in Pervomaisk, and the entirety of Ukrainian held SW Ukraine is safe, because to get beyond it, you'd have to go through it. Don't need to protect Uman from drone attacks out of Crimea, if the drones can't get there in the first place... Drop the second gifted battery in Dnipro, and all of eastern Ukraine is now covered. You don't need to protect every square inch of Ukraine to provide credible air defense cover to every square inch... unless you think Russia has a teleporter that can send drones right into the middle of Ukraine where there's no air defense systems that is...",1
"When Ukraine is liberated in full, itl take a decade or more to rebuild with massive western aid. if its anything like Germany post ww2, the population will have no more appetite for war. hell, the Ukrainians didnt even before this war. If there is a country that understands the need for territorial integrity and how the powerful players around the world react to its violation, itl be Ukraine.","with Ukraine hitting ruzzia proper, they already have. if ruzzia goes nuclear, china will be going insane, india and pakistan will fucking flip their shit. even NK would be pissed. u DO NOT break a nuclear taboo, cause then u open the floodgates. while putin might not care, those around and below him want to spend their hard-stolen cash.",0
"It's bold, it's risky, but if Putin does nothing it shows he is still very very afraid of the US and solidifies the US's strenh.",Biden going into Kyiv is a pretty big thing; it not only demonstrates that Kyiv is safe enough for a US presidential visit but him being there literally will create an operational wall that Russia won't exactly want to engage in for fear Biden might get injured or killed.,0
"In addition to mischaracterizing his major in college, Ogles has recently repeatedly referenced his time combating human trafficking and fighting international sex crimes, claims that are dubious."".","Ogles revealed the misstep in a statement to The Tennessee Star on Sunday, a day before NewsChannel5 published his complete college transcript.",0
"Everything he does is a cash grab. Running this third party is no different, and the vote splitting is actually harmful to the party whose agenda he allegedly most closely aligns with.","He is creating a third party with agendas separate from the other two parties and he’s pushing rank choice voting, which eliminates the stranglehold of a two party system.",1
"The answer is that Texas likes entertainment. They like politicians playing theater at the border, busing migrants to the libs. Ted Cruz has done little in the Senate but acting as an Internet troll. Democrats can’t win with kitchen-table issues.",Democrats have lack of a good electoral offer. The false inclusion agenda and the gun restriction is working only in non-educated latino communities that never chnage the vote intention. Democrats are not offering nothing attractive to the rest.,1
"Every pro life person then likes to pull the “bodily autonomy?! What about the BABY’S bodily autonomy??” card which is where you were going next, I’d guess. For the sake of argument, let’s assume an embryo has bodily autonomy; even if it does, that doesn’t supersede the pregnant person’s. A person bleeding out because there isn’t enough type AB in the blood bank has bodily autonomy, but that doesn’t mean we can hold down someone with type AB and forcibly take their blood. The primary intent of removal of the “baby” is to end the pregnancy; the death of the “baby” is a side effect because .","Also, banning all abortions is more likely to kill more people than making all abortions up to women. It's another person's body, therefore that person has the right to decide what grows in their body.",1
"Give them an inch and they will take a mile, as they say. It's hard for countries not to act in their best interests if they're given leeway to operate in this kind of situation. With Iran, there's even the concrete example of what happened when they tried nationalizing their oil industry.","I don't really have a solution; I just wish them the best, the best of luck, and that they can achieve their goals with the least amount of violence necessary.",0
"Secondly I know the teams would never withdraw like I said they should, they're in the business of playing soccer/football and there would be all sorts of negative lasting repercussions for the national teams and the individuals involved, and probably a tiny minority of players would even want to consider boycotting...I just don't see any other truly meaningful way for FIFA to be held responsible for their ethical corruption.","I think the salient question here is, ""Will FIFA deliberately not play in/withdraw from a country or community that does not respect basic human rights?"".",1
Interesting article but it does a lot of handwaving that really underscore US dominance and asymmetric air warfare vs Russian air power than set Ukraine's air defense as markedly different than the Iraqi interested air defense system.,"Actually easy to understand: Soviets focused on anti-air defence over airpower, and Ukraine inherited the same air defences.",1
"Most countries have birthright citizenship, and nothing I said is even disputed by Cruz. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and cuban father.","Right it works a little differently, but if he'd have stayed in Germany there is definitely an amount of time after which he could become a German citizen. Either way it's got nothing to do with Ted Cruz being born in Canada and the Obama birther thing being bullshit on every single level.",0
"It's not that gun advocates don't care about suicides, it's that things like assault weapon bans, registries, magazine capacity bans, concealed carry restrictions and universal background checks won't do anything to reduce suicides, so the only point in including suicides when talking about those proposals is to use them to drive up the numbers and promote an emotional response rather than a logical one.","That's not to say that things like red flag laws and waiting periods don't have an effect on suicide, including suicide when talking about those two proposals is quite valid as they are designed to reduce things like suicide. I am merely talking about why suicides are generally not talked about when discussing the proposals above, which are a large portion of gun control proposals gun control proponents are trying to push.",0
"Loving all the people thinking NORAD didn't see it before it even got to the Aleutians. Imagine the public outcry if either Canada or the US decided blowing things up in the stratosphere was a good idea, spy craft or not.","I really struggle to guess what a spy ballon could be gathering that spy satellites wouldn’t. Maybe some signal intelligence, but I would assume all the important stuff would be encrypted.",1
"It's slow and boring, just like usual. If China doesn't launch its attack for another 20 years, I honestly wouldn't be that surprised.",I mean China doesn't need to attack now. We are basically taking away Taiwan's strategic resource advantage with the CHIPS act. Taiwan will have to always be on the cutting edge of semi-conductors or that strategic resource necessity of the world will start to dwindle. People pay more attention to something that affects themselves than if inaction does not sadly. China in the future could economically starve Taiwan and then with combination of Taiwan friendly policies and tactics like bribery to eventually get the leadership of Taiwan to support reunification. The question is the resolve and willpower or such leaders of Taiwan to not be susceptible.,1
Biden didn’t do much as VP either except make Obama look more tolerable to…certain people. That’s how it should be. Why are you comparing Kamala to the last two Republican VPs?,Compared to what the vice presidency has become she is useless. Dick Cheney & Mike Pence ran the government with Bush and Trump being the person to sign the bills.,1
"Morocco is one the USA's oldest allies, and perhaps one of their biggest allies outside of NATO. It doesn't surprise me; it's had ups and downs but it's held strong.","Man, now I want Moroccan food. There was this awesome place near me run by a super cool, super talented Moroccan chef (when I say super cool, he taught Arabic and French at a local school, employed many students, paid well, treated them well, and taught them plenty while working). Sadly he couldn't get enough business to sustain it, but I don't think his end goal was to make a ton of money off it anyway. He considered it a ""project"" iirc. But damn it was good.",0
"Putin is backed into a corner. He's the kind of leader who would strike Kyiv with a small one just to ""win the war."".","eh. it comes down to whether Russia is willing to go as far as wiping out the Ukrainians completely, country and people, to prevent Ukraine's industry from going to the West.",1
"Negotiations would cede Ukranian territory to Russia, which is exactly what they wanted in the first place, thus rewarding the aggressor.",What I've been reading is that Putin needs an out where he saves face. Giving up territory etc will destroy him with his own people because of the people lost in the effort to erase Ukraine from the face of the earth.,0
Australia had signaled they were exploring alternative sub options in public forums one year piror to the actual cancellation due to contract underperformance. The decision to accept the nuclear subs deal was also supported by both major Australian political parties so it was hardly a captains call.,It's safe to say you don't understand the American defense industry if you are making this comment. The only concerning barrier is how quickly Australia can acquire the trained workforce to operate the nuclear submarines.,0
"Its like people have totally forgotten Florida is famous for vote rigging for Republicans because they are terrified of being labeled as 'election deniers"".",Otherwise it's too easy for the people to grt siscouraged by the endless DeSantis ads and just feel defeated before election even arrives.,1
Ohio the state that refused to change said maps that VOTERS VOTED to draw up new maps .. Ohio that 4-5 times ignored the Ohio supreme courts ruling.,"Right, but that only happened because the state GOP just ignored the state Supreme Court for so long that we had to use the old maps in order to have an election at all.",1
"Hurting civilians is part of the war in the Ukraine. Delay at the beginning was caused by Olympic games in China, and results of that we see today. There is no objective anymore, this war is pointless form Russia point of view, they cannot win, but they can do as much damage as they can and that is all to it. When Putin dies someone else will negotiate peace and everyone will forget about it.",Also lack of electricity causes lack of water and heat during winter. It causes displacement of people. The only reason for this is to force civilian population to leave and that's part of War actions against European union that will have to accommodate millions of people.,0
"If we're going to have a filibuster, it really needs to be a speaking filibuster. Preferably one with rules where you have to be talking about the subject under debate. Iirc Texas has pretty decent filibuster rules the Senate could adopt.","Need 60 votes in the Senate to pass a bill around the filibuster. Democrats have a majority at 51, but they need 9 Republicans to break ranks and vote for legalization in order to actually pass it. Otherwise the bill just dies.",1
"Trying to drag Biden down to that level is the most logical thing possible for them to do. Horrifying, amoral, and disgusting - yes. A sham? Yes, that too.","yup. Focusing on Hunter Biden, or the emails, or Benghazi, isn't the point. The point is you're always investigating, because the Democrats are always corrupt, always doing something underhanded, and we're going to figure out what!",1
"It would be a massive game changer if China starts supplying arms to Russia. Its stockpiles are effectively limitless compared to Russia's reserves. NATO are clearly supplying Ukraine so there is no ethical reason why China cold not supply their long time ally. The only issue they would have is how the West's sanctions may effect their economy. Realistically they have the West over a barrel as they supply so much of our every day goods so I don't see sanctions against China hitting any time soon or being very effective. I think they would help Russia if they fear Russia was about to be crushed but Russia has, and will not be attacked so that reason won't be valid.",If Russia want to keep turning up the heat rather than admit defeat then we're going to come to blows.,1
"Once you have a couple kids, or more, childcare can cost more than you'll take home. It makes economic sense for a lot of people to just stay home with the kids.","Like others, it made more sense for my husband to be the stay at home parent when we had our son. My position always supplies us with insurance and I make more. He's a 1099 work for himself most of the time or works part time when our son is in school. After childcare, gas, wear and tear, it doesn't make sense. Of course things get tight, it's not easy and right now it feels impossible at times, but it's a sacrifice that allows our elementary age son to have a parent home with him. My husband actually really likes working part time and being the stay at home parent. He wasn't in a field where he was fighting for management or a level of prestige. He's a skilled welder and woodworker. So maybe working for himself didn't lend the same stresses I can see other people would feel if they left their career path to raise a family at home.",1
"The Church already allows Anglican priests and bishops to be in same-sex civil unions, and clergy have blessed same-sex marriage already.",The Episcopal Church in the US not only allows gay marriage but has equal rights for clergy & church positions for all people regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.,1
"To this the leadership of the Ukrainian SSR would send reports up the chain of great successes. Every single year they reported they had more surplus crops than they had. Which was fine in normal years because Ukraine produced more than enough crops for everyone. But they had one year where they didn't have a great harvest.... more than enough to feed everyone. But as usual, they inflated their numbers. And so the Russian leadership extracted everything they thought to be surplus.... which wasn't surplus at all. Pulling all that wheat out of Ukraine and causing people to starve.","Just to point out, millions of Russians died in the famines of 29/33. Also, even regions that were not even in the Soviet Union at all, like eastern Poland or Romania had a population decrease by almost 20% in some regions, which is also why Romania doesn't recognize the Holodomor as a genocide, they too had a famine that killed hundreds of thousands of people in the very same perior and none of the reasons were tied to Stalin.",1
"Things would be very different if arabic cultural export of Wahabism would have been less successful, for example.","All religions are just collections of tales open to Interpretation. We are only one popular movement away from a liberal Islamic revolution.there have been times in history when Islamic countries have been the relatively liberal and open-minded ones, in more recent history they failed to keep up in development.",0
Yeah seems very odd that they would let it be known that they were loading nuclear missiles on warships unless it was just another tactic which is very likely with that dirty bastard.,"My guess is that they're hoping for a nuclear ""accident"", actively trying to fuck up the reactors... However, as other people have mentioned, the reactors are protected in ways that would minimize the effects of a meltdown.",1
"That’s kinda what I said. The GOP still has a (slight) majority, so think it would behoove the Dems to back someone who won’t rock the cart .. disheartening the Trump crowd.","I think it means ONLY 5 GOP votes are needed with the cooperation of the Dem's to elect the leader. That puts a lot of power in some GOP moderates if they want. In the article, a Dem has mentioned he'd never do that, so that means +1 GOP vote needed. I think it's easier to convince Dem's to (1) vote for a moderate GOP over (2) let Kevin agree to a bunch of concessions that are bad for everyone.",1
"I don’t know if that’s true. I would think it’s the opposite. Maybe the number of people getting into college increases, but once you create a subset of a minority that is better off than their peers, then they will be taking up the slots that AA intends for their more disadvantaged counterparts.","Under the current system, a wealthy black student benefits from AA while a poor Asian student gets a low personal score and has lower chance of getting in.",1
"definitely, but ukraine's on the defensive, and they value the lives of their soldiers. they have proper winter gear and other equipment, they actually rotate their guys out, and they get proper meals. they park their artillery, fire, and move. they don't have as much ammo for them as russia so they only fire when it counts. they usually say attackers lose 8-10x the defenders when it's urban, and that's exactly what this is. so while ukraine is definitely losing guys, for bakhmut area i think it's minimal compared to russia's. i think ukraine lost a lot more on their offenses east of kharkiv, and also their offensives into kherson area.","Yeah, of course losing Bakhmut would be bad for the Ukrainians. But it isn't going to significantly change the direction of the war if that happens. And Russian doctrine, if you can call it that, is why this has been such a shit show for them. It's not just that they're executing it poorly.",1
Actually some prominent Nazis were brought back to Israel and convicted. It’s not a huge number to brag about but they got a few high ranking officials. Other times they just killed them as far as i aware but i could definitely be wrong.,For me it’s the analytic nature. It really is just a meeting for an hr and a half but i still can never get over the fact that it happened. These men really decided the direct fate of millions and indirectly countless more. Even more appalling is how they were just numbers and it was approached in such a business like manner. The extermination of a people was debated over wine and cigarettes.,0
"US military ""We have been undertaking red flag exercises to prepare for forms of attack that the enemy might come up with in the future"".","If Pfizer or any other pharma company wants to be fully prepared for future variants of covid, then they would do this by looking at potential mutation routes the virus might take, and then try and work out potential vaccine solutions.",0
"But what's your strategy - refuse to participate, and hand victory to those would would make things even drastically worse?","But living in a state where the party in power has an explicit platform of keeping the population poor and unhealthy, even to the point of refusing free federal money redistributed from taxes collected on the citizens of other states...",0
It's still a shitshow in case you haven't noticed. How stupid do you have to be to think that the solution to for-profit insurance being unaffordable is to pass a law forcing us to buy it?,Pretending it just forced people to buy insurance without understanding how much it changed insurance is extremely disingenuous.,1
"The House has numbers reflective of the number of people per state, while the Senate only has 2 each.","Both are mostly functioning as intended, there's some gerrymandering occurring, but that generally affects House members and not the Senate.",0
"""Folks... Trump is like a Benedict Arnold... one of the greats, if not the greatest of Americans... many people are saying. We're looking into it strongly..."".",">Mr Trump nonetheless has compared his own life to that of military veterans, including by describing his effort to avoid sexually transmitted infections whilst dating in the 1970s and 1980s as his “personal Vietnam”.",0
"The polls were pretty accurate. The problem was reporting. For example, the NY Times conducted one poll where Zeldin was within 5 points and rather than weigh it against other polls they had done or other polls that others were doing, they took that one poll at face value and ran with it.","On the same day I listened to a NYT podcast and a 538 podcast - the NYT podcast went hard on ""it's a close race and Hochul made a huge mistake in not campaigning"" and the 538 podcast said ""it's a data point. She's still up by 9 points in the model. Let's see what their next poll says before we put much weight in it."".",0
"Add to that the universality of law clause from Article IV, and the nondiscriminiation clause of the 14th Amendment, and you get a clear case for why you can’t write laws that affect some citizens and not others.","The person I responded to said there needs to be an explicit amendment in the Constitution saying that people have a right to abortion, but that isn't how individual rights are discussed in the Constitution. The Constitution limits what the government can do with respect to people's rights, not defines what is or isn't acceptable for individuals. Again, consider the 10th Amendment: if it doesn't say ""unless there's a law saying otherwise, it's legal,"" what gives you the right to be posting inane comments on Reddit?",0
"That is absolutely how it works. Dems in the House chose to split the bills and pass one bill with no sick days - after Biden specifically called for them to do this. After that, Dems in the Senate chose to put both bills up for a vote. Schumer could just choose not to do that.","Lets not forget that Congress doing __absolutely nothing__ would be an acceptable outcome here, since workers could use their leverage by striking and probably force the corporations to give in. This is one of the few cases where Biden and Dems (who control the House and the Senate) could just sit back and relax, doing nothing - if they cared for the workers that is. They passed one bill with sick days to look better to the casual observer, but they knew that the bill will not pass the Senate. And the bill without sick days got more Democratic votes than Republican votes. If the passing of the bills was reversed - if the Senate decided to pass both bills first and the House voted for both bills afterwards, the bill with sick days would not pass. Or, more likely, Pelosi would simply not put it up for a vote.",0
"The fact is, he caused a lot of the issues in Ukraine, he caused the Afghanistan collapse, he got caught with a load of secrets he shouldn't have had and had refused to give back. Every action he took helped Russia and their agenda, or was neutral.","Ask yourself how cheaply they can destroy the country with Brexit and tories, a little bribe and compromat, versus actually trying to fight a war?",0
"Their solution was to just throw their hands up and not moderate ANYTHING at all. Given how much porn we all know that would lead to, 230 was a bipartisan amendment to allow them to try in good faith.","It depends on how SCOTUS rules. On paper, if Section 230 was removed corporations would either remove \all\ user generated content or just stop moderation entirely. Section 230 only exists so that companies can try to remove objectional content and not be held liable if they miss something.",0
"Yes, both of those things are true-- its why rational people support background checks for gun purchases and permit systems, and car manufacturers are subject to regulations on a car's safety features and ability to follow traffic laws. The question isn't whether they have responsibility, its how they are legally obligated to fulfill those responsibilities. Reasonably, it would mean transparent algorithms subject to regulation, and moderation policies subject to regulation.","The core problem at issue here is whether algorithmic recommendations constitute editorial control of said content. The result would either mean that websites can exercise 0 control of their content, or they must maintain complete control of all content.",1
"Would Russia believe independent black hat hackers are capable of a cyber attack causing physical damage? Probably not, and if so what does Russia have the capability to do as a response? Regardless of that answer there's a reason nobody is rushing to set these precedents.","Edit: These are things to think about moving forward, and not that relevant to this story. With Gerasimov now in control we could see more asymmetric warfare(such as cyber attacks) against Ukraine and its allies. There are many unanswered questions about what constitutes an act of war in this domain.",0
"And not mixing milk and meat, so a cheeseburger isn’t kosher. Any Muslims reading this feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Muslims eat cheeseburgers? I’m Jewish. So I could be wrong.","It's okay to admit you were wrong. You don't have to double down and lie when your comment is right there. Take your L my dude, realize that no one gives a shit about what Reddit thinks except for Reddit.",1
"To the bold: This is another standard GOP talking point about ""abuse of power"", they'll argue everything has to go through Congress no matter how small. This ignores the fact that entities like the FCC, FTC, IRS were created by Congress to manage specific forms of governing (Communications, Trade, Taxes) so Congress isn't bogged down with every little detail. They act as extensions of Congress and the Executive branches. Additionally because of how the House and Senate are currently split right now, any potential new legislation on a bill to get rid of Non-competes which benefits Republicans and big business because the rules will remain the same.",Non-Competes help large corporations by preventing start ups in the fields from popping up and allows them to control ideas their employees may develop while hired by them.,0
"But you are telling everyone that your opinion of what the title and article is about, is the truth.","Centrists are bringing the same problems progressives have, yet offer no solutions that anyone other than a republican would want.",0
"Because here’s the deal. Based on the readiness they have displayed so far in this war, and the stories we were hearing in the 1990’s about their nukes being unsecured and not well tended, and the actual nukes we have found laying on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, I’m guessing that most of what nukes they have would explode inside Russia.","What Russia has are just slightly modified old ballistic missiles from the cold war, which go very high up, where there is very little atmosphere to slow you down, then come back down very fast on a ballistic trajectory with very little ability to maneuver except to make small guidance corrections. Ballistic missiles like this fly at high altitudes so they can be seen basically the entire process, and are therefore more vulnerable to interception.",1
He is good at psychopathy so he can say what people want to hear and really good at lying and manipulating people and has mild Asperger's.. and he got taught by the KGB and then surrounded by the KGB who made doing this into a teaching science. KGB wants to dismantle American domestic democracy by doing what I said above to discredit it.,Donald Trump is an enemy of American democracy. The worst enemy right now. The GOP must open its eyes to not let him back in power in 2024. The consequences would be dramatic for America!,1
"They are trying to shut down public schools and erase LGBTQIA+ students, diverting the money to start schools for Christian nationalists.",Don't see GOP states like FL allowing gay schools so it would only be possible in liberal states in which case pushing for inclusivity would be a better path.,1
I think the Pentagon is planning on the Russians running head first into the Ukrainians again. So this time the Ukrainians will have mobile anti tank weapons to go along with the javelins.,The tanks are mainly being given to Ukraine to help them take Crimea after this next wave of cannon fodder. They will recapture it while Russia recuperate their losses.,1
"Is the person who is questioning them, a doctor that specializes in gender dysphoria and has done their due diligence with evaluating the individual?","If a minor person is questioned on their gender dysphoria, the person questioning them is labeled as transphobic and any further discussion is shut down.",1
"NY acually has a bipartisan redistricting commission. The problem this year was that the Republicans on this commission refused to approve any maps. So Dems in the legislature got tired of waiting and decided to draw their own. These were shot down by the court because the maps have to be bipartisan. Dems then also decided to give up since R's weren't cooperating so the court drew their own maps, in quite a hurry. This created maps that were mostly ""fair"", aka competitive, but ended up splitting communities in odd ways because they were drawn up so quickly.","Other way around. Cheney has no allies, pretty much every Trump impeachment Republican lost or resigned baring one (who is in a close race). McCarthy is part of the MAGA side but there is an even more ultra-MAGA side who hates him and would prefer someone like Jim Jorden or Greene. There are about 40 of them as per the last Congress.",0
"That means even if a few house republicans want to pursue legislation with democrats, they will be blocked by the house speaker following a bullshit rule put in place by a Republican pedophile.","The house is going to spend the next couple years doing nothing except searching for Hunter Biden’s laptop. Also, I haven’t seen a centrist Republican in a very long time.",0
"Right now, what Ukraine needs is long range munitions, cruise missile defense (patriot) and non-arms support (generators, consumables).","Tanks will take months to arrive, the majority will probably not arrive until fall. Noone has comitted jets yet, but if they do it will take a year or more to get pilots, mechanics and logistics up to speed.",0
"The plates can collide with each other, slide under each other, rub against each other or drift apart. This is often associated with earthquakes. The strongest earthquakes occur at the edges of those plates.","Turkey lies on several so-called tectonic plates. These are pieces of the earth's crust, the outermost layer of the solid earth. There are seven major tectonic plates and several smaller plates on our planet. Those plates move a few centimeters a year, but that can already have major consequences.",0
"Since I’m 55, the last 40 years are the only ones I was old enough to really understand politics enough to see how consistently republicans are bad for the economy.","It didn’t. It took Biden some time to fix the absolute clusterfuck that Trump created. The economy doesn’t change overnight. Anything economic at the beginning of the presidency is always related to the former president not the current one. Presidents always get far too much credit or blame for the economy very little of which is under their control, but the extent to which a president can be created or blamed. The first at least year of a president’s term is the former president deserves the credit or blame. Only after the new president has some time for the economy to react to their new policies can the current president deserve any credit or blame for what’s going on economically. A year is the absolute minimum that a new president can have any responsibility for economic conditions. With as fucked up as things were when Biden took office, it would be ludicrous to give him credit or blame for anything economically until at least 2022, and he’d acted long before then, but policies take time to change things for the better or worse. Truthfully the pandemic deserves the most blame for economic conditions in 2021. But to the extent that any president deserves blame for them, that president is trump, not Biden. The same applies to the first year minimum of trumps presidency. To the extent a president can effect the economy, the good economy at the beginning of trumps presidency was the work of Obama not trump. The only thing trump deserves credit for is that it took a pandemic to fuck up what Obama helped credit, again with the caveat that most of the economic conditions are not within a president’s control.",0
"The attrition for Russia here is insane, it will weaken them on other fronts, which are also easier for UKR to attack, and with modern tanks arriving by March seem like nice targets.","It’s not just the tanks, the IFVs are an enormous step up on Russian equipment too making attacking but also defending easier too.",1
The fail rate on signatures collected by paid canvassers (and Sinema's likely going to have to rely on a lot more of them than party volunteers) is higher - which knocked a bunch of MI-GOP gubernatorial candidates out of the running last year.,"Sinema has very low approvals, needs to collect more signatures to get on the ballot, and increased partisanship makes it harder for third parties to act as spoilers.",1
People like you are why I can’t support euthanasia even for chronic illnesses which deserve to have it available. We’ll quickly slide into you nightmarish fantasy.,"Insane to me that most people in this thread are supportive. If this had been offered to me 5 years ago I would be dead. I am now very happy with how things are going. I had been treatment resistant for 12 years in and out of treatment centers, so wouldn’t be surprised if I passed their requirements. I am sure there are many many people like me who would’ve taken the option at one point but are recoverable. We do not deserve to die due to these dystopian policies.",0
I mean even though it was obvious bullshit we did investigate the claims of voter fraud and election stolen last election too.,"A known liar who trades in stolen election conspiracies for the sole purpose of protecting his own ego. This is just a different form, where his ego is threatened by losing to another Republican, so he has to claim credit for that Republican's career. And people who believe it believe it for the same reason Trump supporters believe his other stolen election conspiracy theories: they don't want to believe their guy lost.",1
"Tax expenditures are costly. For comparison, the cost of all federal income tax expenditures was higher than Social Security, the combined cost of Medicare and Medicaid, or the cost of either defense or non-defense discretionary spending.","If you continue to cut taxes on the rich and corporations, continue hand outs of corporate welfare and continue to increase the military budget and complain about deficits, you aren’t really serious about deficits. We’re not having it anymore. We see you 1%ers. We’re coming for you - politically. ✊.",1
Now for the interesting fact: the 10% of borrowers with over the $50k line hold 40% of all student debt.,90% of student loan borrowers owe $50k or less (see note 1 below for an interesting fact about the remaining 10%).,0
"it's his senior status in the senate and especially among republicans that's doing it. Not anything procedurally at this point, at least beyond the filibuster.","I think it's the filibuster. And to make it worse, you only have to make it known you will filibuster, you don't actually have to do it. In the old days, senators would speak at the podium for as long as they could to block the vote. If they don't want to get rid of the filibuster, they should absolutely bring that requirement back. If you want to filibuster, you should have to work for it.",1
"If Israel wanted to wipe out 98% of all Palestinians, why haven't they done so? Palestine doesn't have the capability to stop them.",And strangely during that time didn't set up an independent Palestinian state. Then 3 years later went to war with the PLO (Black September War) and kicked them out of Jordan.,1
Russia needs leadership that is not jingoistic and National-supremist in order to make amends and integrate into the world community. Navalny is not a candidate for that.,Navalny is a russian politician. He can think of Russia first in terms of being a reliable economic partner and not an empire. But he believes in russian superiority. Read up on Boris Nemtsov. He was the guy that people imagine Navalny to be.,1
This is why the Republicans are no longer the party of conservative economics. They have been taken over by uneducated people who think thats all conservative economics is.,"They have convinced uneducated people that the last 40 years of trickle on economics has been beneficial to them, and if it hasn't it's because of liberals.",1
The article explains how the sick day issue is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all of the ways the railroads are completely fucked due to them slashing payrolls. This leads to insane and unsustainable staffing availability requirements and railroads not being able to meet existing regulatory requirements.,"Then you’re just playing whack-a-mole as they try to make those profits up elsewhere by cutting wages and benefits, maintenance, capital improvements, etc. The for-profit model is inherently a bad way to run systems that need to operate regardless of whether or not they create a profit.",0
"Why the whataboutism though? The entire US space program has fewer killed than just one Russian accident. China has no published figures on losses, despite frequently dropping empty rockets on their own people. We know a single Long March test may have killed as many as 100 Chinese people. Is there a Wikipedia article detailing every failure of a single Chinese space flight/program?","The N1 rocket program, their Moon rocket for manned missions, was an abject failure. 4 launches, 4 failures, one of which blew up on the bad and caused massive delays for the next launch attempt.",1
"Finally moved into a spot with my partner and roommates. I had to quit my old job then(too far) obtain 2 jobs in my new area I lived in, save up and pay tuition and my part of rent, also i was obviously no contact with my family, but, unfortunately, that meant I could not see my siblings. Eventually my partner and I found our own spot, no roommates, and were able to add 2 furry babies to the pack.","On my 23rd birthday last September, I had a feeling they would come to my apartment demanding to see me. They did. I broke, mentally, that day. Honestly, I have never been the same since. The amount of anger, rage, and hatred I have in me scares me. Im no longer depressed and ridden in anxeity, but I know I have to see someone for my anger.",0
"I can also direct you to the Iranian activists and accounts to follow if you want to stay informed. Instagram and social media is how we are primarily spreading information. People to follow are Tara Grammy, Nazanin Nour, Nazanin Boniadi, and Masih Alinejad. Accounts to follow are @middleeastmatters , @iraniandiasporacollective, and @from_iran .","There are also protests every weekend in dozens of cities all over the world. They usually occur Saturdays and Sundays. If you need help finding one, let me know or PM me where you are and I’ll do my best to find one for you.",0
"""My sight is failing,"" she said finally. ""Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?"".","Yes. There are criminal offenses the DOJ could prosecute. But, this post is about disqualifying a congressman from serving and that is not a criminal case. I suppose if they are convicted of sedition their disqualification should follow. But who imposes it or enforces it?",1
The USA literally supported a dictatorship here that suppressed our people in the past. I dont like Iran either but geopolitics isnt a friendship game. If your country doesnt like Iran just invade them already and handle the consequences yourselves.,"We dont need your ""democracy"" also known as coups, discrimination and some of your own political shenanigans (that were imported to here by a certain ex ""president"" of ours). China and Russia are just as terrible but its better to be on the neutral side and reap from both beds than to become a puppet of either side.",0
"Some of them seem like they were fine people in life, but most are either brainwashed folk who went to militarized schools or even just straight-up radical nationalists who hate every nation except mother russia and find joy in trying to kill Ukrainians.",What I think Russia is doing regarding supplanting Ukrainian children and forcing Russians into Ukrainian towns/villages to start living there is brutal. I’m concerned they keep this war going until the west loses interest and we have a indecipherable mix of Russians and Ukrainians living together in Ukraine with a ongoing “civil war”.,1
"I can only speak for my home state, Louisiana. We will have a republican governor in the next cycle. We will probably not have a statewide elected Democrat for awhile. Yes, our current governor is a democrat, but it is unlikely the forces that aligned for this to happen will occur again. Louisiana is lost, it is solidly red for the foreseeable future. I feel the Wisconsin Supreme Court election will have a much greater impact on Americans than Louisiana’s gubernatorial election.","Just a periodic reminder that the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is April 4, 2023, and it's the most important election in the country between the Georgia runoff and the 2024 general.",1
"""He can never accept reality that is unacceptable for him. Normal people, we all have losses. Trump doesn't have losses. So he denies it. When it comes down to it, if you push him hard enough, which is what has happened, then you see the delusional core of it. It has all the qualities of a delusion."".","That said, . May he be in hell one day; always on the other side of a locked soundproof door leading to the S&M dungeon.",1
"Honestly, I'm not sure. WV is kinda unique in how it's public broadcasting/radio works though. Instead of a lot of independent stations, it's a statewide system. It doesn't matter if your in Huntinon, Morgantown, Mullens, or Wheeling we all listen to the same programming and reporting.","Yes, it appears that the WV DHHR was very unhappy with this story and basically used what influence/pull they had to have her pulled out of any future coverage of their office. That in and of itself is pretty hinky. Yes, there may have been some other shenanigans going on. But all part time positions being eliminated =/= retribution.",0
"As a practicing Catholic, I hope whatever is the result of reform, there’s an option for me to continue following the core tenets of the faith (penance and self-reflection, almsgiving and unconditional love) while also bringing the church into the modern age. The Catholic Churches here in the US have always hammered home the New Testament and Jesus’ teachings taking precedent over Old Testament scriptures: Loving your fellow man and treating others with respect has been taught to me all 12 years of my Catholic education. Because if Jesus were came to us today, he would teach equality among sexes, creeds, and races. That’s who Jesus was and what his underlying messages were. He didn’t exclude people or put asterisks on rules. It’s time the church to practice what they preach and follow those teachings.","The church need to get with the times. They're a part of our society, not ruling over it and not unaccountable to it. They don't get to tell entire countries how to treat large groups of the population. If they want to keep their hate-filled dogma, as far as I'm concerned they are more than welcome to do so - as soon as they give up on all the benefits they already have over the rest of society in terms of taxation, legal accountability, etc.",1
"All of this combined soured Jewish opinions of the British and led to the formation of the Jewish Resistance movement in mandatory Palestine, and ultimately to the civil war that directly preceded the partition plan and war of independence.",Keep in mind I'm specifically explaining things from the Israeli perspective (which would've been Zionist groups and eventually early Jewish militias before 1948).,0
"They leave the law worded vaguely enough that they can pretend it's impartial, then use it to criminalize queer people's lives.","I think it's a bunch of bullshit how they're treating trans people, just don't think this is a workable angle.",1
"“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. […] They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”.","In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.",1
"I could accept this, if I did not explicitly brought up an example of this not being the case. A republic can be easily a country where the upper class or some arbitrary group elects the officials. One could argue that the US was originally not a democracy, as only land owning white men were able to vote. But this is a false view of history, trying to apply current day morality to past structures and events. In their time the original US system was a fairly progressive one, that was viewed as democracy by its peers, and was intended to be a federation of democracies in a democracy by its founders (however irrelevant that is).","Now, I know some states are trying to popularize the notion of illiberal democracy, which is fundamentally absurd, imo, same strategy as Republicans stateside like Mike Lee seem to embrace, enjoying the trappings of democracy while trying to pull the ladder up behind them, etc. I think it’s an ugly, power hungry strategy.",1
"Also, there is nothing just about the death penalty. I believe a fair society has a right to punish, it doesn’t have the right to kill (barring war). There are too many variables involved in the death penalty. And having it on the books is too risky. You say it should be used on serial killers, one day, someone may say it should be used on abortion doctors or political protesters.","It doesn’t save money. The amount of legal processes, appeals and layers of jurisdiction that happen before someone is executed involve millions of dollars. Those are absolutely necessary and should not be removed. Keeping someone in prison for life is far cheaper than executing them after a full legal process.",0
"Coming to the realization that without Russia, Iran's suddenly a whole lot lonelier and it would probably be best to not give others a reason - however disastrous it would logically be - to try invading them without proper support to repel them.","With a population of 1.4B, they can lose military officials daily without much issue, as long as they don't end up fighting something as big the US military (nukes banned).",0
"You're overthinking it. Those aren't people who have any great plans. They just want to riot, stick it to the man - and NYE is convenient because there is generally a bit of an anarchist atmosphere, so their debauchery doesn't stand out as much.",In 2020 and 2021 fireworks sales were banned due to COVID. There were fears that additional strain on hospitals due to injuries from fireworks accidents would bring them to the limit.,0
"This is who he is. He's irreversibly broken, and deeply pathologically disturbed. It is horrifying that he ever got within a million miles of any elected office, never mind the fact he served in that office for a four agonizing years.","He lies uncontrollably. Many, many lawyers have tried to coach him on giving sworn testimony. There are plenty of ways to skate around the truth, to obfuscate it and work around perjury laws.",0
"-in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, and also.",A preemptive first strike is in effect a declaration of nuclear war. I can preemptively strike you any time I chose. Logical conclussion I must remove your ability to hit me before you preemtively remove mine. It is called mutally assured destruction for a reason.,1
"Publication of The Brown Envelope Book, evidencing the brutal welfare system from those with lived experience.",Bereaved families write to work and pensions secretary to demand a public inquiry into benefits-related deaths.,0
"What they're claiming is that Russia plans to mobilize 500k troops for a spring offensive and what they believe is that if that offensive fails, it will lead to the downfall of Putin.",The Ukrainian military is warning that Putin is planning to mobilize up to half a million new troops in preparation for a new offensive in Ukraine.,1
Fuck every piece of shit Iranian that is letting their government beat and kills these girls and women. Oh I fucking wish the nations of the world would send their best spec ops teams and surgically remove the heads of Iran's government.,"Iran is one completely fucked up country, I wouldn't wish my worst enemy to be sent to that armpit of the world, it's truly hell on earth.",1
"It is more than presumable that 99% of the people in his contact lists, flight logs, and visitor book— from celebrities, Nobel Prize winners, random royals, and celebrated journalists all the way to house painters and dry cleaners— were there as part of that cover life (and/or regular life), and had no idea what he was really up to.","I really wish people would stop doing this. Even if they're just trying to be ""funny."" (DAE find no part of this amusing??).",0
"I can buy a kg of half rotten locally farm grown onions for $1.5 ... (even the ones that look ok, still smell rotten.. usually won't last more than 2-3 days).","Lately I've pretty much given up on using onions in cooking, I will mostly eat a small one raw with a little salt or sliced in a salad, and that's it. Given the current prices, it doesn't make much sense. Peppers and garlic saved the day for me, don't really miss onions.",0
"""...who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States,..."".","“member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State”.",1
"In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.","r/politics is currently accepting new moderator applications. If you want to help make this community a better place, consider !",0
Not really. We ungerrymandered the legislature via ballot proposal. trump only won Michigan due to a protest vote in detroit that cost Biden 80k votes in a state trump won by 10k. And in this election we overwhelmingly passed three ballot measures that.,"WI had the highest turnout (percentage-wise) this election. Referendums would draw out even more voters, and the GOP here simply don’t want to allow that.",1
if they weren’t fascist thugs bent on domination (dominion they call it) i would be more chill about their bullshit mythology.,fundamentalist theocrats of any race or national origin are not ever going to vote anything but conservatives.,0
"Plenty of atheists being homophobic following their own delusions, plenty of religious people being okay with it, including my own late mother and most of the guys I had fun with. Hell, if they weren't muslim it was difficult not to crack a joke about taking off cross necklace before sex so that Jesus won't punish them.","Again, Islam, just like any religion, has some pretty unsavoury passages, and the way of life it teaches is obviously incompatible with modern world.",0
"We are definitely not perfect and need to continue on improving our mental health services, education systems, and reduce the impacts of social issues.","The missing person (also a shooter) was a primary school principal a couple of years ago. Allegedly he has a heart issue and was asked to stop working sometime in 2020, his mental health spiralled. Then his brother, one of the other shooters, was deep into conspiracies. The Missing person/principal became very engaged in QAnon and other nutter conspiracies which lead to him disengaging with his family (hence the missing persons report). So they likely had some idea the cops were looking for him.",0
"Now Republicans and MAGA would doublespeak and excuse him anyway, but there are plenty of uninformed yahoo's out there who will look at this and say ""oh, guess Biden did the same thing."".","While not as brazen and obstructive as Trump's document fiasco, Biden's will ensure that Republicans and MAGA have an out to excuse Trump from doing a more egregious version of what they said Hillary should be jailed for doing.",0
"Putin’s BS about the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) situation, paraphrased. Behind a spoiler because I don't want to expose anyone to that against their will.","I don't want to try to fill those shoes. PCX99's posts were clearly the result of great time investments, plus a certain panache I don't have. I think I relate more to the roman numeral brigade.",0
"However, the black community will continue to support democrats for the time being, because the overwhelming consensus is that the brand of conservatism that is currently ruling the GOP is the main threat that has hurt them in the first place for decades.","Here is an alternate headline: Black Democrats overwhelmingly prove they’re willing to protect the rights of others, even when they admittedly don’t understand them.",1
The courts did not let the Texas abortion law stand because abortion was not a right; they let it stand because they determined that courts cannot enjoin all private citizens from suing.,"In the case of the Texas abortion law, private citizens were empowered to enforce the law by suing and the courts ruled that a court cannot enjoin all private citizens from suing.",0
"- Cuba takes the money in return gives Beijing a bunch of empty promises like many African countries. Seriously, what’s China going to do? Invade a country that’s right next to the US? All China can really threaten is to stop providing money.",China is clearly trying to buy influence by giving them huge loans. But once the money changes hands they don’t really have to give a crap about China unless they want more money from them.,0
It's sad but it's not in Ukraine's hands to reform Russia into a normal country so all that it has left to stop it's neighbour's barbaric ways is to kill as many of them as they send.,"That may or may not be true, I still think that if a surrender was offered that gave Ukraine back its territory but allowed Russia to extricate its remaining forces that Ukraine would take it.",1
"And as much as Cippollone and Hershmann and Cohen probably suck as human beings, they undoubtedly knew exactly what was happening, and i'd categorize their behavior at that specific moment in time as courageous.","Think about the White House meeting on December 15 when they had Cohen in there, and then Cippollone and Herschmann and Clark. It was supposed to be the meeting where Trump got Cohen to resign, and then they went over their plans to use Clark to order the military to seize voting machines in swing states, and do some sort of recount, which, of course would just be basically stealing the election. And then the pushback was that Trump was informed that the entire justice department was going to resign and protest, and he balked. That was his moment where he basically chickened out... and where the plot officially entered being hopeless.",0
"Due to their demographics, this is the last chance Russia has to maintain and/or expand their position of power. They won't have the manpower to do this shit in just a decade from now.","Their borders are so long, that they are impossible to defend, especially with their lack of infrastructure, but they also lack men to sufficiently protect. Most countries have natural borders helping them, such as mountains, big bodies of water etc. But that's not the case for Russia. What Russia fears more than anything, is NATO, and rightly so. If NATO went in, Russias only option quickly becomes nukes. NATO members see NATO as a deterrent/defensive alliance, but it's viewed the opposite in Russia.",0
"I mean assuming you have his address just make it the return address and the delivery address somewhere that doesn't exist. Then it gets returned to sender. Putin psychosomatically becomes gay, is ousted from office. You enjoy your clever ploy until one day you get hit from behind, a stolen Superbowl ring caving in your skull as you hear, "" I knew I could kill a man with it."".",This. Surprised at everyone’s response here for the most part. I was also surprised I could actually find it on Google - I almost imagine this article becoming more main stream may help hide it in the future.,1
"As Kissinger said ""America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests."" As long as NATO is beneficial to the US the US will defend the territorial integrity of NATO member nations. If Russia were to intentionally attack a NATO country I expect the US to honor it's commitments. (I also suspect Russia recognizes this and will do (and so far has done) everything to avoid escalating beyond Ukraine into NATO countries.).","Hi enkrstic. Thank you for participating in /r/Politics. However, has been removed for the following reason(s):",1
He was charged and punished for those crimes already wasn't he? How does that make him any different from Griner who was charged and punished for domestic violence? Have either of them committed more crimes since then?,"All I said is having cash should not make one a criminal, and you're talking about cops shooting civilians?",0
"Yeah, just like the last time the U.S. complained about an overly aggressive fighter pilot harassing U.S. reconnaissance airplanes in international airspace back in January of 2001. The Chinese ignored initial U.S. complaints about Chinese fighter pilot Wang Wei's (really) reckless behavior. The lack of any action on China's part arguably is what led to him crashing into another U.S. reconnaissance plane on 1 April 2001.",Wang Wei's fighter was destroyed and his body was never found. The U.S. was forced to make an emergency landing at a nearby PRC military airfield. In order to expeditiously get their own 24 crew members back the U.S. found it necessary to give a 'non-apology' apology stating that they were sorry about the death of Wang Wei and that they were sorry about not getting permission to land at their military airport. The PRC has in it's possession the flight data from both aircraft but refuse to release either. To this day they celebrate Wang Wei as a national hero.,0
"Whatever one thinks of euthanasia as it pertains to the terminally ill, there's no doubt that in a society that's focused on capital over care that there will be many casualties as a result of these policies.","Fully agree that euthanasia should be allowed for terminal conditions and if a kid had a terminal condition that’s fair, but in other countries the threshold is becoming lower and lower and we have to make sure we don’t get to the point where there are are no resources to help their condition except euthanasia.",1
"Really? So when the government tells a hospital that, for example, a surgeon is required by law to wear a surgical gown and mask at all times when they are in the OR with a patient, you fully oppose that?",Are you seriously comparing requiring surgeons to wear surgical equipment to the government deciding that everyone should be required to wear suits or they get fired?,1
"During my many business trips to gulf countries, I’ve observed this overt racism and slave-like treatment of migrants. Staying in the 33rd floor of Dubai’s luxury hotel, I once saw a south Asian worker outside my hotel window cleaning the glass exterior. He was doing this amidst the oppressive heat (110 F) that day and dangerous desert winds at that height. He was in a harness but still the rivers of sweat and contortions on his face told me he was in duress. I signed to him (as we were separated by thick glass wall) if he’d like some cold water that I could crack open one of the windows to give him. He did the namaste sign and shook his head no, and continued working and moved up to the next floor. I felt guilty of staying in a cool luxurious suite when a person like myself was toiling outside. There are many examples I observed of how people of color were treated, and a story of a migrant bus driver who couldn’t visit family even during crisis as his passport was locked up brought a tear to my eye.","As a person of color myself, the disparaging treatment bothered me so much I asked my gracious Arab host an uncomfortable question on why that is. I am of the same national origin as some of these migrants. He bluntly answered that I have come to “add” to their country’s prosperity whereas these people are there to “live off” their prosperity. And they know no citizen will do these kinds of “menial jobs”. This sums up the attitude in most gulf countries.",0
He has a problem that Germany decided to allow hunters to shoot and kill the first bear that entered Germany in 170 years.,"The bear attacked and killed pets and livestock, even within villages, and thus was considered a danger.",0
"Bingo They have been having wet dreams about democratic scandals coming to light or a democratic president resigning in disgrace for a long time. They were so sure they finally had it with Clinton's blow job and they just completely lost if when it turned out that despite the prudery, no one outside of the most rabidly rightwing partisans gave a single fuck about it.","IMHO, that's what the GOP was most worried about with Obama. Clinton has been a fundraising and support powerhouse for democrats ever since he left office, and they saw Obama as Clinton 2.0. Because he was once again about as middle of the road democrat as you could get while also being extremely likeable. He also showed a lot of willingness to compromise on sane conservative ideas early on. They decided that their best bet to counter that was to get so far to the right of center that compromise would be impossible.",0
Agreed. That unwavering optimism is the veil that these assholes operate in so that they DON'T have to change things.,"That doesn't make up for the fact that this is so far behind where we could/should be at in order to not permanently damage things, assuming we can even fix the problem (we won't). We will probably not destroy the planet but millions of people will die so that a few oil execs could get a couple more dollars.",0
"Republicans like to imagine that the libertarians would default to Walker, but if they're motivated to show up and vote 3rd party in a close election, they're not going to bother voting at all with a runoff when the third party is not on the ballot.","I guess the question is how many Republicans are going to be motivated to show up to vote for the abortionist idiot without other Republicans on the ballot. The guys who voted libertarian had their chance to vote for Walker, doubt they're going to go out of their way to do it in the runoff.",1
"Abortion should be legal nationwide, as well as abortion pills, but this is a bad analogy. They want abortion banned because they think abortion is murder (even though Jesus had no children, never condemned abortion, and said let he who is without sin cast the the first stone). “If you don’t like murder then don’t do it” is not a reasonable thing to say, because it implies murder should be legal for people who like it, but murder is a crime for anyone, it’s not just a personal preference. If a moral code doesn’t apply to everyone then it’s useless.","I think abortion and abortion pills should be legal nationwide, because there is no right to live inside someone else’s body without consent. But I don’t think “If you don’t want something then don’t do it” is valid moral reasoning.",0
"There’s a rift in the Alaska legislature, too, where Republicans don’t have supermajorities either. It has handed power there to a coalition of Democrats, Independents, and a handful of pro-coalition Republicans.",Those pro-coalition Republicans didn’t join out of the goodness of their hearts. They joined because it was in their best interests.,0
"Ducey backed Taylor Robinson who would've completely clobbered Hobbs. So did Jan Brewer, KTAR, and basically everyone but the insane arm of the GOP in AZ.","Strong fiscal values, strong economic outlooks, BUT ALWAYS willing to compromise if it valued its constituency.",0
"It’s an effective counter: for example a scenario where Coalition Forces wish to limit Iran’s air so they target their bases using a purely air campaign which is the most likely situation these bunkers would face. These bases for one, will be much harder to find. Two, will be well defended against missiles and even bunker busters. Three, if you find them and the exit they can easily clean the debris out the way.","TLDR: If the Pentagon calls these bunkers an effective threat, and trains their troops to counter such a threat, redesigns bunker buster bombs to counter these threats, the bunkers are an effective threat.",0
">The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has sacked an aide who said he would not want to live next to LGBTQ+ couples and that people would flee Japan if same-sex marriage was permitted.",Here’s an explanation of one argument given by one of the LGBTQ+ rights organizations in Japan pushing for same sex marriage:,1
But of course corporate media which is owned by the same people who own for-profit healthcare will never cover this issue in a way where the politicians beholden to healthcare lobbyists are radical or extreme or racist or mass murderers.,"It’s still horrible, I know so many burned out medical professionals who are stuck between money hungry superiors and insurers who are more concerned about profits than the well being of the patients. It’s so egregious it’s sickening.",1
A kid in Missouri can't drive a car but they can carry a loaded AR-15 around in public? Without any kind of permit or license? Do they even need parental permission to buy a gun?,The parents would have to buy the gun for the child. Doesn’t really matter though as you need to be 18 to purchase ammunition. The real purpose of children being allowed to carry a rifle is for hunting purposes in rural areas. The city of St. Louis is unfortunately caught between a rock and a hard place in this argument.,1
But the only reason the west decided to aid Ukraine was because they decided to defend their country. Ukraine's announcement of self-defense against Russia led to the west uniting.,"Ukraine stood strong because the west is united against Russia. Ukraine would have lost months ago if all the western countries hadn't (and still are) sending them constant weapons, vehicles, and money.",1
"I’m not a gun toting bible thumper or anything, but I have to admit that with 1.2 guns for every man, woman and child ‘government crackdowns’ like this aren’t even possible in America….","I’m not sure where to start, I don’t think that any of the ‘crackdowns’ in the US compare to what’s taking place in Iran right now. I don’t understand the point of the link you sent, but I would like to know what you were trying to convey if you care to elaborate?",0
"I know everyone is talking about how bad this must be but let's not forget the impact the MiG 25 Foxbat had during the cold war. As far as I know, it still holds the world record for the fastest combat jet and the fastest naturally aspirated combat jet ever produced.",That's because none of them remember the impact the MiG 25 had during the cold war. Or know how old half the designs in the US military are. Or realize just how many resources Russia still has at it's disposal.,0
Long grinding war still to go. Which is why negotiations will likely happen because despite what Zelensky says the West will realise taking Donbas will involve vast resources and support.,"Defending is different to winning/beating. For Ukraine to win they need to get Ukraine territory back to pre Feb 24th borders. If you look at Bahmut, Russia isn't winning there and they're putting everything into trying to take Bahmut. However Ukraine isn't pushing them back either. I think Ukraine will win as in stop further aggression but the cost will be a loss of some of their territory.",0
You can’t initiate any other legal process without dating your documents where required either… its not like thats a new phenomenon. Imagine going to the bank and being upset they wouldn’t cash your check because you didn’t sign it or put the date on it.,Secondly you can’t overturn something that hasn’t happened yet. Biden was not the president until the results were certified.,0
"On what charges? Listen, I despise the guy and want to see him prosecuted for his crimes, but if there's evidence he did more than hold a shitty political rally on Jan 6, we haven't seen it. I'm not defending him, but I am defending the committee and the DOJ from armchair prosecutors who think they have an open-and-shut case because of a clip of Trump saying ""fight like hell."".","Cmon. You can't seriously think this isn't all just political dinner theatre. Someone leaks something, the media chases that carrot, the public is spoonfed what they're supposed to believe. Rinse and repeat.",1
"It's always had problems but they had a few military (WWII) and industry successes and many cultural traditions. But with Putin in control that only exists if he says it does. Thus it's Russia in name only and the rest of the world should just call it ""the place of Putin"" or ""Putinovo"".",Genuine question here; the whole world (sans Iran and China and perhaps a few others) is against what Russia is doing. How does it affect our allies any differently by changing Russia's status to that of a terrorist state?,1
"If they just leave and accept the ultimate defeat, every ounce of leverage they have is gone and things actually get even worse.","That would make things quite complicated for him all over the world, people are just having a tough time understanding that concept.",0
"If you just want to the missile to go very fast in a ballistic trajectory, you literally just need a round nosecone.","You only care about aerodynamics if you want the missiles to maneuver after the terminal stage - a feat only very, very few top end missiles can claim to do.",0
"I find it funny how many (online) people continue to “oh this generation” when they see people. No, it isn’t this generation. They always existed and were forced to conform to their current society by threat of exile or death. Their idea of a good society is the punishment of these people existing. Sickening.",Yes but most of the democrats in senate and house were not there at the time of DOMA. This is was progress is called. And don’t equivocate that to modern Republican denial of the exact same thing. It’s pretty much the same as “DEMS WERE THE PARTY OF SLAVERY!” When that happened 6 generations ago.,0
To add onto that the Dutch created canals to specifically to displace native Indonesians from clean water and this system is still set in places in the infrastructure to this day.,"Even with context provided, a lot of people say the reason why black people are in this economic situation today is because they are “thugs, moochers, lazy uneducated individuals” u see where I’m coming from.",0
">""And I'm saying, and I'm not being tough, I'm saying if you know a place better, you go there but you lose your citizenship here in the United States of America,"" Walker continued. ""And then when you come back, you gotta come back legally, like we should be defending the border."".","But it's still very revealing that he gave that response, when asked about young people who want to change the country.",0
"Both statements can be true at the same time, that Sweden and Finland would be better members than Turkey, and that it's stupid to even suggest kicking Turkey out.","But if Finland and Sweden would be ""better"" members than Turkey is a hypothetical and different question.",0
"What's their reasoning for why kids should go hungry? Let me guess, they're Christians too, right? Doesn't seem very Christian to want kids to starve.","I guess those kid's parents shouldn't have had them. Welp, time for the kids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.",1
"Iirc 18 is the voting age as written in the constitution, so they'd need a constitutional ammendment to change that, which i dont see happening any time soon.","Honestly, if they want to raise the voting age, let them have at it, it could set a precedent for us limiting the voting age. Anybody over the age of 75 is disqualified from voting because they are too old. Now that could actually help us create a progressive government.",1
"Russian media has been talking about NATO invading Russia for years before Russia invaded Ukraine, so it's easy to sell it to the population as a defensive war.","And, despite the fact that NATO forces are not actively in the war, the mere fact of supplying arms, support, and sanctions to support a Nazi regime is further proof of how its Russia against the evil of the world and is in a war with NATO.",1
"“We have rejected this offer as it does not meet any of our criteria for securing a settlement on long term job security, a decent pay rise and protecting working conditions,” RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said in a statement.",Not sure about the US but in the UK the union has just rejected a deal that would have given them a significant pay-rise (8% over 2 years - still below inflation but roughly in line with wider wage growth) on the condition of accepting some modernisations that would mean long-term job cuts.,1
"If a Muslim leader tried their best to implement religion-based laws here in the US, there would be an armed uprising. But as long as it’s Christianity, it’s A-OK.","As a former evangelical, I agree. Many of today’s Christians are quite disinterested in Jesus in my experience. Most are busy quoting Old Testament laws that they don’t actually practice.",1
"""The Nordic Passport Union allows citizens of the Nordic countries – Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland – to travel and reside in another Nordic country without any travel documentation (e.g. a passport or national identity card) or a residence permit."".",Hey Sweden. Your citizens are part of the Nordic Agreement (Can move to any Nordic country with no questions asked) - tell the 73 to come to Norway or Denmark while Erdogan is having his tantrums.,0
"Spare me the fake outrage. 154,000 e-mails on Hunter Biden's laptop and the most incriminating thing anyone could find after years and years of promises was nothing from Hunter himself but a friend of Hunter who said 10% of an unknown sum to the ""big guy"" who no one even knows who it's referring to. That gotta be as close to squeaky clean as you can get... Wow, Joe Biden potentially knew about some kind of arrangement and potentially benefited from it... but no one really knows and it's peanuts we're talking about anyway. Really hard hitting stuff here. .",The whole thing has their full attention. They have committees working night and day with the problem in hand. We all know they're not doing anything but putting forth a little lip service though.,1
huh. Or when 241 US marines and 57 French special forces were blown up in their sleep by Iranian suicide bombers...,"That's why there are a couple videos from drones coming out each day of drone bombs impacting objects. They use the over watch drone for targeting and guidance for the smaller ""suicide"" drones. Even the loitering munitions that have built in cameras for the operators, like the Switchblade and Lancet, use over watch drones with better visual equipment untill they're in the final descent to the target.",0
"If you read the article and compare to what nutritionist say is a healthy diet, the foods cut all cause heart disease and inflammation. The foods left are all heart healthy and help maintain healthy weight. White bread is terrible for you. Whole grain is better and covered. The bill does not restrict “fresh meat”. It restricts the types of meats and allows for healthy meats such as salmon. If you remove the political parties from the article, it actually only allows healthy foods to be purchase which also helps with medical cost in the long run. Why is this bad? The poor are the most unhealthy in America. Restricting the use of food stamps to only healthy foods is a good thing.",Unhealthy food is better than no food. Kids gotta eat. Healthy food is more expensive. I’m not sure what meat alternatives or fresh produce is available in Iowa.,1
"Over 50% of Republicans still think Trump won in 2020. There is no such thing as a Republican that's not an extremist. Even if the particular Republican you're voting for gives lip service to moderate views, does that really matter when the entire party is goose stepping in unison behind Donald Trump? Every Republican voter is complicit.","If they voted for Republicans for their state government, aren't they partly responsible (i.e. complicit) for the abysmal voting rights situation in Georgia and the gerrymandered districts that prevent the majority from getting their way?",0
"There's a crater and missile debris, the blame has to head somewhere, and if the debris indicates Russian missile but the goal is to avoid escalation, they'd have to put it on Ukraine.","There are almost no scenarios where the missile landing in Poland was intentional no matter the source, and intentions would be a very big part of determining the type of response.",1
"And on top of this FIFA has the gall to yell at us for being upset? I'm sorry, maybe if we'd all received the same bribes they have we'd be more ok with a repressive regime hosting a world cup in the winter. Or maybe, just maybe, they are crying foul because they know how much of a farce this all is, and are desperately scrambling for that higher ground, an action that is so laughably inappropriate for an organization like FIFA it beggars belief.","I hate FIFA as an organization so much its unreal, a rotting corrupt blight that is so self serving and scummy ir feels like a parody. Bet they wished more places could be built with the blood of dead slaves.",1
"The alternative to Russia paying reparations is the West does. It probably will happen that way, because no one trustable Russia not to mess this up or hold the money as leverage for whatever reasons.","Econmical and diplomatically speaking if we had to shell out more money than russia had the ability to pay, as the west id probably do it. Good way to really solidify a friend right there.",1
This isn't about Russia formally fighting for it. The problem actually begins the moment Russia officially leaves Crimea.,"So, the track on most tracked vehicles has a center ""blade"" that keeps the track aligned. Each of the wheels you see when you look at a tank is actually a double set, side by side, that the ""blade"" passes between. Most of the time this is fine, but if the space between the wheels gets filled with something else, and the track tension is a little off, it can cause the track to be pushed off the wheels. Normal procedure is to ""break"" the track by removing one of the pins that keep the individual track segments connected to each other (think of it like a door hinge), then manhandle the track so that it is lined up with the wheels, straight out in front of the vehicle. You then, carefully, drive the tank back into the track while the rest of the crew is carefully guiding it back into place. Once it is correctly on the tank you can put the pin back in place, completing the track loop and retension. I am glossing over a lot, and it's a pain in the ass. As you can imagine if the initial track came off to the outside, it's a lot easier to manage, since throwing track to the inside means it's under the tank.",0
What you want is for your church to decide on whose marriage is recognized by the state. That is NOT separation of church and state.,And the state cannot make laws respecting religion. The state can't force a religious group to perform a ceremony.,1
"So, with all that, it's reasonable to assume the Russians have lost around 20,000 dead and 80,000-100,000 wounded, as a very conservative number.",What stuck out to me was the disparity in the number of Russian deaths the article reported from one source and what Ukraine has been claiming. It's a huge difference.,1
He is under investigation for human trafficking. I'm not sure if he's actually going to be free in a few months. It seems like the DOJ is starting to get serious. So what happens if both Trump and DeSantis are out of the mix?,DeSantis is just Trump 2.0 except he’s not a moron and could trick independents into thinking he’s not a fascist.,1
Given that I have been proponent of Finlands Nato membership for 20+ years I have to say that Erdogan is making the oppositions points very valid and I am starting to have doubts myself.,"If you take your values for democracy and the rule of law serious, there is no place for Erdoganisis and Orbanistan in NATO and EU.",1
"Hey, all you folks who didn't vote in 2016 because HeR eMaILs or whatever, how are you feeling about that choice now?","I think it's time the left stopped blaming people who ""don't vote."" The last several years saw record turn out across the board, despite incredible levels of voter suppression.",1
"""WASHINGTON — Aides to President Joe Biden have discovered at least one additional batch of classified documents in a location separate from the Washinon office he used after leaving the Obama administration, according to a person familiar with the matter."".","Yes. If they found them, and they immediately (within reason, of course) report them and turn them in, they are remedying it as quickly as possible.",1
"This is good advice. I’d just like to add that the man in this story has dual US/Iranian citizenship and was visiting family in Iran. People will take a lot of risks to see their family, and I certainly sympathize with that.","Yes, there's always the chance that just by being a dual citizen you can get in a lot of trouble - but people weigh those risks when it's down to big events that have to do with their families. It's not so cut and dry as ""never go back to your homeland ever again"" for a lot of people.",1
"And which is literally what they were doing. You just interjected a bunch of extra bullshit that wasnt said, and didnt need to be said, because literally no one suggested they should be prosecuted for suggesting dems cheated. Literally no one mentioned it. The article doesnt even cover it as their reasoning for refusing to certify. You just injected that bullshit into their comment.","Great, glad he was investigated, and charged after being found guilty. Got any other examples that would lead to an actual revelation here or just the one guy that literally no one is upset about him being sentenced.",0
"Putin is following the plan payed out by the Russian Geopolitical thinkers. The first step is to take Ukraine and it’s manufacturing base and natural resources; coupled with a land bridge to Transnistria, it’s sets up the next invasion points to push into Poland and Central Europe.",I hope we get to the point where the Russian Legion of the Ukrainian Forces can return home and fix their own country!,0
I did read the article. Where does it say that the anti-Ukrainian hated-by-Ukrainians Russian nationalist in an occupied Ukrainian city was definitely killed by Russians?,"An extreme nationalist, Mangushev said Russia was not at war with people, but with an idea of Ukraine as an ""anti-Russian state"", and it did not matter how many Ukrainians died.",1
"Exactly. When someone tells me that Biden may have broken the law, my reaction is to say that he should be investigated and punished if that is the case. I don’t find the accusation that Biden broke the law as a personal affront to my entire world view. I simply don’t identify with politicians that personally.",Sometimes it is nice that conservatives live in their own news bubbles and won’t hear a story like this. It can set up such a fun conversation with conservatives.,0
But it nonetheless speaks volumes about the Republican party when it attracts so many of these types of candidates.,"This is what the Republican party will become: Celebrities, grifters, and extremists competing for attention and power, where the biggest factors will be name recognition and how they make the base feel. And it will either fracture itself with infighting, or hold itself together long enough to cause or support a hostile takeover of the government.",1
Right? And also… how the fuck did we just pass over kid beauty pageants and go straight to drag shows?,"Kids beauty pageants are pretty f'd up. It really warps and twist a lot of kids perspective of ""beauty"" into being a specific look, and if you don't look that way you're considered worthless. It can really screw with a kids self-esteem.",1
"Having a gun with a kid in the house is a huge safety risk. If you can't ensure safe storage, you shouldn't be allowed the gun. We make people pass a test to get their driver's license, and it should be the same for a gun license, and it should include inspection of your gun safe or other locked storage.","However, in just four instances did the adult owners of the weapons face any criminal punishment for not having locked them up — and none of those prosecutions stemmed from safe-storage laws.",1
"""At a media conference this afternoon, Coster added: ""We believe there was enough cocaine to service the Australian market for about one year, and was enough cocaine to service the New Zealand market for 30 years."""".",Yes. Why would you only measure unrealized net profits? If they were going to sell at a loss would you say the company _gained_ money when the truck fell?,1
"Biden is a gun owner. You’d think he’d know what he is talking about. He wants us all running around with revolvers, I guess.","So get a revolver, maybe two, and/or a pump shotgun. Nothing is wrong with better a mental health system and red flag laws, but the vast majority of mass killers seemed perfectly sane until they began killing everyone in sight.",0
I am on vacation in Japan right now. Its shocking how cleaner the ground here is. Absolutely stunning. And smokers have to go to smoking only areas. And the ones who do smoke usually have a butt pouch with them.,"There are cigarette butts all over the human parts of the world. They don't degrade easily. Lit cigarettes cause fires. In many parts of America there are substantial littering fines for even one butt. During 2009 I was forced to take a janitorial job during the Global economic collapse and picking up butts was part of my job around the factory. 200 employees produced an equal number of butts. Often people dump their ashtrays in the parking lot. If you want to smoke, fine, but it is rude and ignorant to flick lit cigarettes anywhere you happen to be.",1
I get the overreach and it's implications but I think the people that actually live there and have been terrorized by gangs for the better part of 30 years appreciate it more than some of us do in our cushy lives.,"Some may say that a some of them were captured as children by the gangs/didn't know any better and that's probably true, sure if they have had a better life they would have chosen something different, but it is what it is.",1
"GOP pollsters are notoriously unprofessional and, as a result, inaccurate, as we saw in 2022. So figuring out who this pollster is and how far off they were in 2022 is first order of business.","Totally true as DeSantis barely won his first election in FL. If Trump had not endorsed him, fair to say a number of the faithful would not have shown up to vote.",0
"It's a tank killer in the objective sense, judging from its experience in Operation Desert Storm (ODS) where it only took 3 non-friendly-fire losses (out of 1730 Bradleys deployed) while facing tanks. The TOW 2A missiles they can carry have a longer range than NLAW and older Javelins and more explosives than NLAW (the TOW 2B missiles are even better). The ODS Bradleys put their missiles to good use in the Battle of 73 Eastings.","The tank killer on a Bradley is it's pair of TOW missiles, which are fantastically effective against any armor out there currently.",1
"Like the US has helped in many genocides, massacres and atrocities around the world. If they speak about it without denouncing their own actions, all it sounds like ""it's okay for us to murder children, genocide civilizations and create global chaos, fund terrorism for the sake of cheaper oil and global dominance but when you buy cheap oil, it's unacceptable."".","I mean, partly they are. Ukraine didn't help India in most of its UN votes, they were against India getting a seat in UNSC and almost always voted against India. As far as India is concerned, Ukraine never did us any favors and were quite often against us.",0
It does boggle the mind what kind of a ghoul you have to be to even think this would reflect badly on Biden.,"If it seems more intense with Biden, it’s only because it’s a mirror of how badly they have to compensate for Trump.",1
"Republicans already fear the blacks, the foreigners, the fairer sex, the differently able, adding the young to the list doesn't seem like that far a leap.","I've been hearing that the GOP fears the young since I started voting almost 20 years ago, just to watch voter turnout in the younger age groups be utter shit. On top of that, I think there is a significantly underestimated shift in youth political opinions towards conservatism, and social conservatism in particular. The liberal youth tend to be much more outspoken, so everybody takes them to be much more representative of that age group, but I think there is a growing number of very conservative kids coming up and getting ready to enter voting age.",1
What looks odd from a European or North American perspective is that even the business lobby keidanren is saying “we have to increase wages”. Not something you would usually expect from a business lobby.,"Of course. Employees receiving wages are consumers and wage increases increase their disposable income. That means they can buy more which increases the demand for goods and services. Companies get more optimistic about the future and invest in the business (facilities, technology, people) and hire more people. More demand for people means wages go up further increasing the disposable income and the virtuous cycle continues.",0
Unhealthy food is better than no food. Kids gotta eat. Healthy food is more expensive. I’m not sure what meat alternatives or fresh produce is available in Iowa.,Do you see fresh meat on that list? I see canned tuna and salmon. There are some canned beans and shredded cheese so that part seems to be wrong.,1
"Politicians deserve accountability, but that includes good credit where credit is due. Biden helped save Ukraine.",A Biden presidency is the reason that Ukraine still exists. I don't think it can be argued otherwise. His administrations plans and functions in the lead up of the war provided the intel to stop Russia's decapitation attempt in the first few days. If Russia had been successful on it's airborne special forces incursion to Kyiv to assassinate Zelenskyy we would not be discussing Ukrainian resistance today.,1
"I'll point to people like Rush Limbaugh, the dude that many a Conservative looked up to and praised, specifically for what he said and did in reaction to people dying of HIV/AIDS.","Exactly my reaction too. That was the final straw for him? Really? Not any of the countless batshit or outright malicious policies from his ""friends""?",0
He did once say that if nukes were to go off Russia wouldn't be the first to launch. Got to give him credit; he's dumber than he looks if he thinks anyone will believe Belarus did it on their own.,Not sure what would change if Belarus could be blagged into doing it. I suspect exactly the same + 1 crater in Belarus where an airfield used to be.,1
"There is no such thing as “objectively right” or “objectively wrong”. We may subjectively agree about what we consider “right” or what we consider “wrong”, but that doesn’t make those things objectively so.","“Right” and “wrong” are inherently subjective judgements, no matter how common one particular stance on an action or decision may be.",0
"What part of ""everyone hates it"" do people not understand? If you don't believe in me fine but what is left there for N.Korea propagandize anyway? Did you know that even, no, especially the youth, the teenagers, are right leaning these days? They have differing opinions, but zero people dreams about what ""N.Korea has to give"" because they _only_ have a history of taking away from us. Even propaganda needs at least a somewhat plausible basis. They have none.","Nobody is. There are nutters everywhere. The issue is, how many people are nutty enough to follow captain poopless and would it pose a threat to the country as a whole.",1
"Plastic recycling is horribly inefficient and incredibly difficult to do for any number of reasons (a huge variety of plastic compositions that each have to be treated differently, food soilage, machines breaking down over things as simple as people trying to recycle plastic films or loose soda caps, etc.).","2. Well I'm an Indian so I can say that while we don't fuck up the environment per-capita wise as much as the west, we do litter A LOT. That's why in many of our cities you will find trash on the road frequently. Its interesting that when we go to other countries we try to be clean but again when we come back to India, we just go back to the same mentality of throwing trash on the roads.",1
"It didn’t start with Trump (I’d say Rush Limbaugh had a running start) but Trump sure normalized the fuck out of hate speech against every minority group. He’s nothing but a misogynistic, racist bigot.",Desantis is not “anti-woke”— he’s racist. And the idea of accepting anything but his own narrow views offends his white nationalism. Florida is trying to outdo Texas in its stupidity and hate mongering.,1
Not separate - They just voted 221-207 (3 R joining all D) to pass . It orders the clerk to amend the leave-less resolution to instead have 7 days paid leave. That is what will go to the Senate. .,"Right. Railway workers are basically slaves if this comes to pass. They literally cannot NOT work. ""Oh sure, we treat them well, of course."" says the railway corporations. Except the quality of life stuff is exactly why the workers want to strike!",1
Orbanland is currently on collision course with EU. Since current polls are showing that Polish government will change this year to one that aligns with EU more and that means end of shielding each other from european sanctions (and even now it's likely it wouldn't be veto'ed as being seen together with Orban who is pro-Russia is going tu cut into your popularity in the polls).,"Well, even if Poland flips out of the Orban orbit in the next election, I'm curious if more conservative Italy or Sweden (barring any Hungarian NATO vetos, that is) will start protecting Hungary from the EU like Poland was.",1
"Also, as others mentioned here, Poland’s acquisition of formerly German lands was an action that Stalin took.","On top of that, the lands were given to poland much more than poland actively taking it. It was more or less stalin's way of justifying taking a lot of former eastern Poland away from Poland.",1
"I never said it's the liberal agenda in a sense that the Democrats are fighting to keep the current neo-liberal system in place. The Democrats aren't even fully liberal across the spectrum. I'm arguing from a philosophical perspective, not an American centric political one.","A view outside of the US centered perspective on what's liberalism, is the fact that in the EU Liberal parties are considered centre-right of the political spectrum and much more clear about their support and belief in the neo-liberal economic theory, as they don't incorporate elements of socialism within their party, as socialist parties in Europe are not considered evil.",0
"One thing I've noticed while watching Benjamín, the ""Bald & Bankrupt"" youtuber, is how little Russia outside the main cities has moved on from the Soviet era, while other eastern block nations (My wife is Polish) are showing signs of prosperity even in the most rural places.","We had enough of Russia breaking into small countries in the 50's here in Europe: in fact, most of my country's issues stem from these assholes occupying Eastern Europe for the better half of the last century.",1
"So I guess it's okay now to import Russian oil if it's not above the price cap. I think $60 per barrel is still kinda profitable, isn't it? A little bit under the .","If they're desperate for money, that could change. , it only costs Russians about $20-50, so $60 is still profitable. But I guess Europe can still lower the cap even further. We'll see how the market responds.",0
"I just hope that if you are having mental health issues (like so many of us do), you turn to a professional rather than self medication.",I guess I think reducing overdoses is a successful effect of a policy change and something worth fighting for.,0
"If prosecuted over his remarks on 1/6, his lawyers are sure to argue (1) he didn't intend to incite imminent lawless action, (2) the lawless action wasn't imminent, (3) he had no way of knowing the action was likely to occur, and more.","You actually can say words that would do just that, until those words become an ""incitement to imminent lawless action,"" where such action is likely.",0
"I really hope the US GOVT or another entity will provide ukraine with the capabilities that starlink currently does, as I hope they continue to use Starlink.",But he tries to use the dependency Ukraine now has for Starlink as leverage. Thats simply a shitty move i light of them defending their homes.,1
"But I'd be lying if I said sex wasn't another huge reason I made the decision. It really was 50/50 - one for her, and one for me. Both for us. Just like you buy condoms to have more sex. It's really not all that different. She also got her tubes partially removed so we can both have the knowledge that we're free of those particular consequences together and individually. We made our decisions, in part, to have more sex, and it's worked wonderfully. A completely fair reason.",I'm going to have to disagree on this opinion. Everyone's reasons are valid. One of the reasons I did it is because my wife struggles with birth control. It messes up her hormones and her moods. It felt selfish for me to continue to ask that of her when both of us really don't want kids. It was an easy choice to make.,0
"There are 49 Republican Senators elected for a party with no political platform. Who act completely unacceptably, like refusing to impeach the obviously corrupt Trump. They are the problem with your system, not a black swan single seat held by a conwoman lying to get elected as a progressive Democrat.","She won’t get the Dem vote here, can’t speak for the Independents, but the Republican voters here seem easily swayed by even the most idiotic propaganda. Perhaps the Dems should AstroTurf a campaign against her that seems to come from the Republican base. Use their playbook against them.",1
"Both Russia and Ukraine are in a population demographic crisis, especially for young people. That's why Russia is kidnapping and deporting tons of people from the cities it occupies. Any Ukrainians who are against immigration may have to rethink this.","In either case, you should read before you talk and see what Russia is doing to the civilians of Ukraine.",1
"Should clarify though, and im not saying this is your stance specifically, but “fuck the Israeli government” (which I agree with) is not the same as “Israel was a mistake and should cease to exist”- which most Jews disagree with, and is often expressed on threads about actions of whatever Israeli government is in power.","It was a bit of a joke - I have been criticizing the Israeli government for years, and almost always get called anti-Semitic for it despite very clearly making my statements about the government.",1
"And yes, before the sea of downvotes comes in, the Democratic Party is still far better than the GOP on a host of issues. However, Democrats and Republicans are closer than should be the case when it comes to economic policy.","Student loan forgiveness was a good thing, guess we’ll have to wait for SCOTUS to see if it actually happens.",0
"This is exactly our problem. I disagree with you politically so therefore I’m an idiot. If you wanna know my views, I support gay marriage and abortion up to viability. I support common sense Gun laws but think it impractical to ban types of weapons. I believe we need a strong border with little support if you come illegally. I believe affirmative action to be a racist policy that should be repealed. I’m an independent because there’s stuff that I believe in that comes from both sides. I hate the Republican Party has been taken over by radical white supremacy. I hate that the democrats have been taken over by European style democratic socialism as I don’t believe it’s possible in a country this large and this diverse. But because of that I’m an idiot with no views.",My point is partisan politics is bullshit. There’s a reason why Washinon warned against it. Both parties only care about getting elected and staying in power. It’s why both parties gerrymander the shit out of every map they can. Compromise is a lost art in Washinon and anyone that doesn’t play to the 30% party diehards in either party is demonized by them.,0
"This obviously isn’t the case, and as soon that man opened fire, Ukrainians had full authority to kill every single one of them. Prisoners can only be taken once the enemy decides to fully surrender.","There’s a bunch of the prisoners laying down on the ground surrendering, and then there’s another guy who CLEARLY lifts up his rifle and starts firing at the camera man, or someone near by.",0
"I forget what documentary I was watching specifically, but they were interviewing a Bradley commander from the first gulf war. A pair of Bradleys caught a number of entrenched T-72s off-guard and annihilated them with TOWs. The 25mm Cannon is more or less useless against the armor, but it'll still scare the piss out of a tank crew when they're being pounded repeatedly in the turret by it.","They would get shredded by a tank round, but the optics, AT missiles, and stabilization allow them to avoid being in the enemy tank's range. They were very effective against Iraqi T72s.",1
That is highly highly unlikely. Any meat product that is cured or prepared like a hot dog must have nitrites in them.,"You can purchase uncured hot dogs with no nitrites in them. Not the same, but its not like they are a meat alternative either with different textures etc. Not going to try and promote any type of hot dog as a health option, but I will mention them just as this topic is touching on nitrites in general.",1
"„The role of the atomic bombings in Japan's unconditional surrender, and the ethics of the two attacks, is still debated.“.","My understanding is that the nukes had very little, if anything, to do with Japan's surrender and that this story served more as a face-saving measure for both sides:",1
"Hitler got away with taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and it encouraged him to sign a pact with Stalin for the Nazis and Soviets to invade and divide up Poland. The world needs to remember this, because we are currently repeating the same mistakes, and just getting lucky that Russia is so much more incompetent than the Nazis were (not to diminish the stellar job that Ukraine has been doing to defend themselves).","they wouldn’t, Putin maybe a an asshole and cunt but he isn’t stupid, he attacked Ukraine before they apply for NATO, he isn’t attacking any NATO country because it would be straight up suicide and his own administration would kill him for it.",1
"They are equal to the soviet T-72, the most common tank on the battlefield, a modern tank will destroy it but it can easily destroy old tanks, lighter vehicles, fortifications etc.","The difference is that WW1 tanks were experimental designs with limited effectiveness even against ground troops, whereas by WW2 tanks had become effective fighting machines. A Leopard from the 90s is still an excellent tank, even if it lacks some current improvements.",1
Same here but actually in colorado. I voted the fuck out of yes. (Also straight blue and for legalizing shrooms; let’s serve as an example of how to do it CO!).,"This is going on now too. There isn’t “French fries” daily but the healthy vegetable is tater tots one day, then French fries, then baked potato wedges, then sweet potato fries. Pizza has one serving dairy and 1/2 vegetable (plus 1 vegetable from French fries.",1
There is a long list of injustice enacted all over Africa but if it's ever going to end it would be logical to start with highlighting the most egregious actions by outside actors.,"doubt that ... African governments, elites and rebel groups are just as deep into the exploitation at the expense of their own people as everybody else.",1
"The more Shecky Greene becomes the face of the Republican party to the wider American electorate, the better it is for non-Republicans.","Yes. Also, putting ""Independent"" in scare quotes is absurd. Why did the Dems win in '18 and '20, and hold off the Red Wave in '22? Because Independents broke blue.",0
"Just to point out, millions of Russians died in the famines of 29/33. Also, even regions that were not even in the Soviet Union at all, like eastern Poland or Romania had a population decrease by almost 20% in some regions, which is also why Romania doesn't recognize the Holodomor as a genocide, they too had a famine that killed hundreds of thousands of people in the very same perior and none of the reasons were tied to Stalin.","I absolutely understand Ukrainians calling it a genocide, there's definitely elements of those policies that made it harsher in Ukraine, but to make it ethnically based it's a bit more controversial.",0
"Ok, and India is a developing country that desperately needs to develop its’ economy in order to provide citizens basic necessities which are taken for granted in Europe such as toilets, electricity, and nutritious food, so the cost of them giving up an economic opportunity is much greater than for the extremely rich EU (in comparison). I’m sure there’s many more arguments to justify or criticize the EU’s disapproval of India purchasing Russian oil while it continues to buy Russian gas. No two countries (or intergovernmental organizations) will ever be in perfectly comparable circumstances but in the grand scheme of things this just screams “rules for thee and not for me”.","All the more a reason to stop buying Saudi oil then. Russian oil being the vast majority of India’s imports means they’re dependent on it so they have no real option to boycott it. If Saudi oil is not a significant import for the U.S., that means it should actually be easier for the US to boycott Saudi oil than it is for India to boycott Russian oil and therefore that continuing to purchase Saudi oil is less justifiable….",0
"So, it looks like no one is reading the article (shocking right??). It looks like she didn't get fired because they didn't like her story, the way the AP is reporting it ALL part time reporters were let go.","This could have been a local story forgotten about in a week or two, but they just had to get the reporter fired. Now the whole country knows about it. Really buried that story huh?",1
"But even if Labour are the lesser of two evils, they shouldn't be let off the hook completely, especially not with Starmer's Tory-and-Leave-voter-pandering move to the right after the Corbyn era smacking of ""New Labour: The Next Generation"".","As I said, some here might not remember much about what Labour was like the last time they were in power (especially given that the Reddit demographic tends to skew younger). And I suspect many others are so desparate to be rid of the current Tory regime that they want to believe Labour are the undisputed ""good guys"" who can save them.",0
"I’m sure, if the players in question had a choice, they would gladly relocate the games to a less repressive country. But, they can’t. It is massively unfair to tell these players to give up probably the only moment in the global spotlight that they’ll ever have, because the host country does not agree with their values.","Will football fans make a stand against FIFA and teams who willingly participate in this shit, or are they going to choose the path of selective hearing and ignore the monstrosities that are being played out right in front of us?",1
"Considering this was an ""accident,"" I suppose an appropriate response might be a no-fly zone that shoots down any Russian missile or aircraft that comes too close to NATO borders...which conveniently covers a wide swath of Ukraine.","Seems they are pointing to the idea that it is possibly a part of a missile, or a missile that was hit by AA and went off course, or it might even just straight up be an anti air missile from Ukraine.",1
"No, they didn't vote for it internally. Here is how it went down, executive suddenly informed everyone after the current session had already started that the name would change mid-session instead of for the beginning of the next session. That these are the two choices that had been pre-selected by the executive and people could vote on them and only those two choices.","Either this means I haven't been around enough racist people, or I've been around much more racist people.",0
"If you ban all social media from gov't phones, we'll be back to the days of opaque governance, where the only places we can get information is websites and the media.",You’d think all social media would be banned from government devices. Hell all non-essential software should be. I haven’t had a single corporate job where either of those would have been acceptable and they could have easily gotten the attention of the cyber security folks.,1
"3. The vast majority of current Yandex will stay in Russia and will keep the name Yandex. Only 4 products (international cloud, self driving, toloka and education) are leaving and becoming separate ""startups"", owned by Yandex N.V. (soon to be renamed). Some current international brands and subsidiaries (Yango for instance) will still be owned by the Russian Yandex, they will still have offices outside of Russia, etc. Part of the new Russian Yandex will still be owned by Yandex N.V. for the near future.","There are hurdles to Yandex’s plan. It would need to find a local buyer willing to purchase its Russian businesses. It would also need Moscow’s permission to transfer technology licenses outside of the country, and Yandex shareholders would need to agree to the plan.",1
"I think it's unworkable but, charitably, the point would be to force companies to do their due diligence in investigating any potential climate impact while still allowing flexibility in how you address it, right?",Speaking as American here but still general question: Aren’t bad practices that lead to climate change already relatively illegal? Its just that the companies save more money from doing the illegal activity than the fines would be so they ultimately dont care?,1
"But going back to the point of this discussion, by your own admission, there are very few far-left supporters of Putin and this war. In the meantime, there are millions of far-right lunatics out there pushing Russian propaganda.","So whether they're complicit or not, they are 100% shouting nativist bullshit through a Russian Megaphone.",1
"He travelled there in secret for safety. Now that he’s home it’s fine to tell people. It’s not a “secret meeting” because they didn’t want the American public to know, but because they didn’t want the Kremlin to know he was there.","It's secret while it's happening, cIA wants ruzzia to know they had the director of the CIA inside Ukraine talking to the president, and they didn't know about it.",1
wifi is turned off. data is turned off. every single app i can remove pretty much is gone. location data is turned off. i do everything to ensure my phone isn't spying on me.,damn things are nothing more than an illegal wiretap done by a corporation which the government can get access to.,0
"Doing things like free universal health care, free higher education, expanding EITC to cover most of middle income America, tax credits for child care, etc. These would be more effective programs over UBI.","I think programs like this are good, even if they’re just baby steps towards UBI. But it’s saddening to think how little $1K/mo is. That amount might help you keep housing if you’re struggling, or help you get housing if you have other resources you can add it to, but it can’t take someone who is homeless and put them in housing. And once you’re homeless, I’m sure there are all kinds of money sinks that will drain that $1k away much faster than if you already had housing.",1
"""If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war,"" he wrote in his memoirs. ""One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."".","Of course. He’s still just projecting. All you have to do is look at T, a cheaper, less experienced authoritarian to see how Putin will react.",1
"California - drivers over 70 must renew in person (not online like everyone can), pass a vision and written test which effectively acts as a cognitive test.",She truly believed that Trump would never set foot in the Oval Office and that she’d step down under Hilary. It was a gamble that didn’t pay off.,0
The teaser says that McConnell's simple public opposition to it is giving other republicans cold feet who it is suggested would otherwise vote for it.,"it's his senior status in the senate and especially among republicans that's doing it. Not anything procedurally at this point, at least beyond the filibuster.",0
"Because, insofar as this article and wikipedia, the Chinese don't seem call it that domestically, at least not officially. It's a descriptor of their ""Major Country Policy"". It's seems to be a Tongue-in-cheek expression. The guy that started with the agressive comments once called a wolf warrior which is not good.",This is the man they’re trying to use as symbol for a “wolf warrior”. First of all what the hell is even that and second why it look like this guy bout to fall over after two punches to the chin?? Lol talk about wrong casting choices 🤣.,1
"Short range as in like 2km, and the can move at 45km/hr. It’s not a system use use to intercept incoming attacks, it’s a system you take with your armored columns to rip apart Soviet helicopters or keep around your base to shoot down anything that gets through the missile systems of your IAD.","This is why drone warfare is difficult to defend against: quantity has it’s own quality, and if it cost you more to shoot down than for them to send they win the economic exchange.",0
"If Turkey attacks Greece and Greece invokes article 5 then the straight is closed, Turkish airspace is closed, and the next Turkish government will be welcomed into NATO with open arms.","So the other NATO members could trigger this clause in the charter to justify any sanctions that they levy against Turkey in the event that it attacks Greece. The question, of course, is will they be willing to do that at the risk of Turkey withdrawing from NATO?",1
"Like others, it made more sense for my husband to be the stay at home parent when we had our son. My position always supplies us with insurance and I make more. He's a 1099 work for himself most of the time or works part time when our son is in school. After childcare, gas, wear and tear, it doesn't make sense. Of course things get tight, it's not easy and right now it feels impossible at times, but it's a sacrifice that allows our elementary age son to have a parent home with him. My husband actually really likes working part time and being the stay at home parent. He wasn't in a field where he was fighting for management or a level of prestige. He's a skilled welder and woodworker. So maybe working for himself didn't lend the same stresses I can see other people would feel if they left their career path to raise a family at home.",When I moved here to Texas I did all the research and wrote up a full pro-forma on running an in home daycare so my wife could stay home. The math simply makes no sense without either paying slave labor wages ($12/h is average here for childcare workers) or charging ridiculous prices. Subsidy really is the only viable answer because I won't pay people garbage to work for me so we scrapped the idea. When Texas completely runs out of child care maybe they will change their tune.,1
"Lol, could you imagine if Russia actually ends up losing territory to Ukraine via a surprise war that they started? That would be comical and well deserved.","Except the territory already belonged to them in the first place, so they aren't taking Russian territory, unless you're considering all of that former soviet territory, as Russian, then sure. I meant pre-2014 border Russian territory.",0
“Sec. 1.3. Classification Authority. (a) The authority to classify information originally may be exercised only by:,“legal guidelines support his contention that a president has broad authority to formally declassify most documents that are not statutorily protected.”.,0
"If you look at /r/conservative, they are still clinging onto it somehow. Though it's shifting toward ""why is Paul holding a cocktail and smiling"", as if seeing the police when a murderous intruder has broken into your house wouldn't make you happy, and there's no way a smooth talking political spouse couldn't talk such an intruder into letting him pour a drink (which may or may not be a cocktail).","In the particular case of not asking for help, I would expect the police to take the lead upon arrival. No need to make the situation worse through startling action. The hammer speaks for itself.",0
"Genuinely, I pride myself as having a pretty iron stomach and like traveling to more remote tiny areas, and had some crazy street food in places like Vietnam, Philippines- but my god I've never been taken out until I went to India.","I did get sick from street Thai coconut once, but I think in general everything in SEA is on a big grill/wok or put to flame and cooked.",0
"Or better yet, pack up the whole shop and move to Nevada. No matter peoples politics, you can't have governors running companies. Particularly when the party of free markets and pro business, become that of Nationalist Socialism.","It would take 10 plus years, and billions. That is true. But Disney does need a bit of a rebranding over many years, and you'd be surprised how much of the costs other states would absorb for the move.",0
"Hell, back in the 1960s the NRA supported gun control legislation because the Black Panthers were arming themselves in response to state reprisals. Guess who signed their favored bills into law? Ronald Reagan, California governor at the time.",I'm not sure what point you're arguing here. Are you simply saying that GOP voters must be rubes with no understanding of what they're supporting or....?,0
"What rubbed me the wrong way was (1) the ballot being changed when it shouldn't have and (2) when you watch the video of the ""drawing"" it appears quite obviously to me the person doing the drawing knew to grab the Republican name. It was very odd. I would have rather they flipped a coin to avoid any possibility of bias. But I'm guessing they wanted a Republican in the seat.","And I doubt Republicans will oust Boebert in the primary in '24. Colorado has the Presidential primary in March but the primaries for all the other offices in June. And no major statewide offices are up next cycle, so the June primary will probably be low turnout, dominated by MAGA crazies on the Republican side. Really, the Republicans' best bet for holding this seat is to offer Boebert a cushy Fox News gig starting in January 2025.",1
"Even though people are still skeptical about Russian retreat from Kherson, so far it looks to be the repeat of Kharkiv front; it certainly does seem to disintegrate just as fast. A lot of people were predicting that it will take them weeks to leave Kherson, but at the pace it’s going right now I don’t think that it will take them more than a week, because we are getting reports of a new town being liberated almost every hour.","Mykolaiv’s governor is already hinting at Chornobaivka being liberated, which would mean that we are already just outside of Kherson; there are also reports of gunfights happening in Kherson’s suburbs right now. Another good thing that will happen once Russians leave Kherson is that they won’t be able to shell Mykolaiv any longer, which is what they were doing daily all this time. Same thing happened when Russians were thrown out of Kharkiv oblast, they weren’t in range anymore, so the shelling just stopped.",0
"It’s almost like rights that aren’t explicitly stated in the constitution should be protected by law, passed by lawmakers, and not left up to a body that’s supposed to determine whether or not laws are constitutional.","So what good would any of the rights in the Constitution do, if the legislature could ignore it and no one could tell them otherwise?",1
It's more that he's willing to sell out everything the left flank of the party wants and stuff bills full of appeasement for Republicans and remove everything they have real objections to.,"It's because most of that ""stuff"" was very limited in reach, purely symbolic (like a ""mass pardon"" that frees exactly zero people), had no chance of getting past the courts (student loans justified under the weaker of the 2 available legal theories), seriously overrated handouts to big businesses that didn't need it (chip bill), or actually a net negative after all the good parts were stripped out (BIF).",0
Which is normal. That is always what is done. That someone bothered to write an article and publish it suggests this is not normal. That something is happening that we should take notice of.,"It's like if every action Biden took was reported as ""Biden does X without consulting president Trump first."".",0
Some countries consider it a international strait where foreign vessels have the right of transit passage but it would still be Canadian territorial waters.,"“Under Operation LIMPID, the CAF monitors Canada’s air, land and sea approaches, and since 2022, it has stopped attempts to surveil Canadian territory,” he added.",0
Buying Brent just gives money to another country but buying Russian oil makes Russia actively lose money.,"Above all, you are doing a disservice to Russia by propping up Putin's regime to oil money. The Russians won't be thankful for that after he's gone.",1
But I want to point out it was simply extremely fucked up when Trump allowed Turkey to massacre the Kurdish cities in Syria.,"Its just that after an unfortunate thing like the terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turks just switch on their all Kurds= terrorists vision and go on a rampage. The Turks have a history of genocides and mass killings, I just wished they’d actually target PKK instead of Kurds in general. But hey, what am I going to do about when America and Israel don’t even bother trying to help Kurds establish a state, when they called them their allies so many times. If those 2 nations can’t help the Kurds create a state, I believe no one can.",1
"I assume they'll pay an intern to pull up all of trumps impeachments, cross out trump and write in biden.",they have gerrymandered enough of america that all their concerns are about reducing the edge of every trump and republican contrapoint.,0
"They are imperialists for doing those things, and they do those things because they are imperialists. You could say, however, that the ""ideology"", or rather production system, that guides these decisions is capitalism. Imperialism is the highest form of capitalism.","What? Do you know what ""imperialist"" means?? It is in their best interests and they do this because they are imperialists, it is not besides the point.",0
"It would be reasonable, in my opinion, to have some controls on the utilized water during a multi year drought relative to the kcsl return on water investment, after the basic water needs of the community have been addressed (obviously those needs would also have constraints as it is a drought).","With reduced water feeding into the system, the only way to restore the Colorado is take down the dams, and restore the natural flow for five years and measure what is left.",1
"Whatever legal or economic reasons they list to block the debt relief, those are not the real reasons. There are two real reasons Republicans don't want this to pass.","This one point is the core of all frustrations I have with conservatives. Like, how do you not see that you're fighting for the elites, which you will never, ever be, and that the party plays on your emotions to get what they want, which has nothing to do with your own interests?",1
"They're angry because their life sucks and the assholes that they have been brainwashed into thinking are the only ones who will solve their problems (the GOP) are trying to help them, so they keep voting for them.","This endless loop of voting for people who make their lives worse, then blame it on the other side so that they can continue to enact these policies, makes people angrier and angrier.",0
Sometimes a parent can't afford to work and care for their child at the same time. Sometimes a couple can't afford to have a parent stay home and watch the child.,"That’s not always an option for families that need both incomes. And not all childcare places are institutions. Childcare cooperatives and relief nurseries, for example, show major benefits in the lonerm health and development of kids.",1
"Looking at some of the replies to our comments, its unfortunate that our politics is becoming increasingly tribal and polarized on both sides.",I feel like we are prone to coalescing political support on compelling issues that are divisive and failing to make a difference on very important things which would benefit citizens on all sides of the electoral aisle.,1
"Which is why I'm sure if Ukranian strikes into Russia continue, Russia will start using their civilian population as human shields. They don't care about losses, and the optics in the West are bad for Ukraine if civilians are hit as collateral damage.","It might be expensive to support Ukraine, but it's gonna be even more expensive to the world if Ukraine loses.",1
"If Russia is to be held accountable they will have to be invaded, defeated, and their resources used for spoils until the debt is paid off. Russia will not accept paying reparations for an offensive war that they lost without ever being in danger themselves.","The alternative to Russia paying reparations is the West does. It probably will happen that way, because no one trustable Russia not to mess this up or hold the money as leverage for whatever reasons.",1
For pt 4) he asked other states for help as his police force at that time was not adequate to stop rioting immediately and other states should have helped.,Also I am not making this in my mind PM Modi has literally said it on national media to rajdeep Sardesai in an interview.,0
"Well there’s already so many guns out there- yes there are, let’s stop increasing that number and save some lives in the process. Are you really against these sensible measures which likely would not impact you or other responsible gun owners in any way?",Do you think you have a better chance taking on the most powerful military in the world with some pistols and rifles than you do with a pointed stick?,1
"You know who has no idea? Their voters who don't understand that this whole ""this is totally new and need bold new ideas"" is nothing but a powergrab and rerolling the dice on already settled matters.","So voip totally isn't the same thing as a phone call, so why not act like the privacy rules around phones have totally nothing to do with it?",0
A complex topic that cuts across both reserved matters in UK-wide constitutional law and gender equality? This isn’t going to be one of Reddit’s best discussions….,"It might be, but it’s worth looking at the polling on this topic. Like the rest of the UK, the broad Scottish sentiment is in favour of more inclusivity, but polls that use specific wording for this bill (e.g. ‘do you support or oppose reducing the age at which a person can apply for a gender recognition certificate from 18 to 16?) show a large majority against (or at least the ones that are in the Times do!).",0
There was never an Indian empire. It was always muslims ruling the subcontinent. The Mughals ruled it for 1000 years after that the British took over. So there was only the muslim and British empire in subcontinent no Indian empire of any sort.,What is modern day Tamil Nadu and Kerala was never part of the Mughal empire - either as territory or as vassals. They were only conquered twice by outside forces in their history - by Malik Kafur in the 13th century and by the British.,1
"I think it's a variety of reasons. First, accumulating wealth is evidence of your success. Second, a corporation is there to maximize profits (i.e. increase stock price) for the shareholders so a CEO is restricted by that -- he would have to show that increasing wages will increase profits. Third, donating to charity brings more status than paying your workers a little more. Fourth, they probably see donating to charity as more useful because it goes to help those most in need in a way that the donor feels most align with their vision.",OK? But The Gates Foundation does great charity work. You make it sound bad that they are donating their money to a good charity just because it's their own charity.,0
the democrats as a party pretty much exist to make excuses for joe biden at this point. imagine how much more they’d accomplish by putting that energy into actually trying to govern in normal peoples’ best interest.,"a ""nebulous concept"" of not supporting the current president is all it takes for enough people to not give a shit about voting for him in the coming election.",0
"Gov. Abbott says he will ""fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion."".","Yup. Dark Brandon can go shake Abbots hands on TV and proclaim that effective immediately, the fed will bring the hammer down on anyone in TX facilitating or supporting illegal immigration. Then with extreme prejudice they should go after every single employer Of illegal immigrants. Maximum fines, jail where it fits. And every time there is a big sting that cripples a business or industry, the feds ahold applaud abbot on his stalwart stand against illegal immigration. When construction companies and hospitality and landscaping and any others that are habitual abusers of illegal labor are shutting down in lieu of paying actual wages to Texans, they can turn against Abbot, especially with a dem candidate announcing reforms to help bring more labor force into the state.",1
"Why would the police not help if someone is being assaulted? It doesn't matter what the reason for the assault is, the police have to step in, even if there was a morally justifiable reason for assaulting that person like them pouring milk first, cereal second.","That's not true. Turkey was demanding more extraditions, insisting that Sweden had already agreed to that, but they were not fundamentally opposed. That only came after the approval of the Quran burning.",0
"If you go to order a Model Y right now, you’ll get an estimate of 3 months before you can take delivery. That isn’t terrible, but it’s quite a wait. They always have a backlog. Tesla’s problem has always been regarding supply, not demand.",You can find videos from 2012 and 2013 wherein pundits predicted that Tesla would go bankrupt soon because legacy automakers would all make this seamless transition to electric. They take was very common. It’s also aged like milk.,0
Joking (kinda) - There are arguments better than yours why school choice is bad - the easiest being the outcomes don't improve and instead it drains resources from some districts which need it.,"While overall I am against the idea of school choice because it's usually just a disguise for privatizing/defunding public schools, there are the outlier cases where parents in failing school districts have seen benefits to a school choice program.",1
"Think about it though, they will eventually control enough of the market that they will be the only ones with enough cash to buy houses.","“In every corner of the country, giant financial corporations are buying up housing and driving up both rents and home prices.",0
"Honestly, I would have no problem with this being part of a field trip, but it's inappropriate for taxpayer funded schools to be hosting religious ceremonies. With this ruling, every religion has a legal argument for coming to schools and proselytizing under the guise of pedagogy.",Religion is an aspect of culture. Indigenous ceremonies are religious ceremonies and to say otherwise is extremely disrespectful and belittles their deep spiritual significance.,0
"Kadyrov's deputy, Major General & Commander of Chechen Akhmat special forces, war criminal Apti Alaudinov has been poisoned through a letter soaked in toxin. He is hospitalized in Moscow along with two others from his entourage.","Failed Russian assault with tanks in the Svatovo area. Use of mines, Ukrainians on the defensive there.",0
""" Brought forward by Republican Rep. Jared Patterson, whose district includes the Dallas area, House Bill 643 seeks to include drag as sexually oriented material by redefining drag performances as “a performance in which a performer exhibits a gender identity that is different than the performer’s gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other physical markers and sings, lip syncs, dances or otherwise performs before an audience for entertainment.”.","Such as stage plays? If women ever perform a role that has a character who is a man and vice versa, that would be included too, yea?",0
"I could be wrong, but I believe he has a trans daughter. Can you even fathom the emotional and intellectual bankruptcy this idiot has that he can drop such hateful shit. And we’re past the point of joking. He knows this translates to violence, unless he’s impossibly thick. Maybe he is. Maybe he’s that stupid.","You’re right of course. Apologies. I hope prosecute finds prosecutes way so prosecute doesn’t keep wasting space with prosecutes uninspired, intellectually bankrupt shit.",0
"What I really need to do one day is look up the ownership of the local TV stations my father gets. He's always claiming that it can't just be a ""FOX says"" thing because he looks at these other stations and they are reporting the same thing. It could be a case of him hearing what he wants to hear. He's notoriously bad about that. If you don't disagree with him hard enough, he assumes you've agreed with him and will use you as ""proof that even liberals agree with the Republicans now."" However, it could also be that some of his local stations are owned by Sinclair and thus parrot far right talking points just like FOX does.","With 81% reporting, Hochul is up 54.1% to 45.9%. That's an 8.2 point lead. Looks like the polls I saw were more accurate than the ones my father saw.",0
"Basically this is just the US asking Ukraine to make a diplomatic gesture that Ukraine is trying every avenue for peace, the US knows these talks will not accomplish anything, but it makes for a good optics and makes it harder for people to stop supporting Ukraine since it's doing EVERYTHING it can, even if peace talks would be pointless.","Now we're seeing the US try to change the Ukrainian position from ""hey we don't want to make deals with this genocidal and untrustworthy fascist currently mass murdering our people"" into ""hey we're willing to talk to the genocidal fascist if he is willing to be reasonable."".",1
"""As sanctions and export controls on Russia from our international coalition continue to bite, the Kremlin is desperately searching for arms and support — including through the brutal Wagner Group — to continue its unjust war against Ukraine,"" Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement. ""Today's expanded sanctions on Wagner, as well as new sanctions on their associates and other companies enabling the Russian military complex, will further impede Putin's ability to arm and equip his war machine."".","Yyyyup. Wagner group is named after hitler's favorite composer. That's not a coincidence, that's actually why they're calling themselves wagner.",1
If you’re proposing a ceasefire it needs to be underpinned by honesty and goodwill on both sides for it to work.,"Ukraine flipped the bird because it was clear from the outset that putain was lying, like he lied when he said he’d allow humanitarian convoys in or out of key towns, like he lied when he said he wouldn’t interfere with grain movements, like he lied when he said he was de-nazifying Ukraine, like he lies when he denies having anything to do with the deaths of his critics, like he lied when he invaded and annexed Crimea, like he lied when he said troop build-ups were ‘exercises’ just before the invasion of Ukraine, like he lied about his army’s behaviour when hundreds of bodies were found in Bucha after weeks of Russian occupation.",0
"As much as I agree with this, Supreme Court Justices have historically been expected to speak at Law Schools throughout their time on the bench. The practice has been largely helpful, allowing specific justices to explain their rationale to upcoming constitutional lawyers and help shape the way they view the constitution and its interpretation.","The most important part of a court’s history, especially in a common law jurisdiction, is its written decisions.",1
"What's weird here is it doesn't help the story, and the more you know about classified documents the worse it is. That these things were mixed in with other documents is craziness, they're generally checked out and accounted for go from place A to place B and kept in specific types of boxes otherwise.","Which pretty much indicate that they were just boxes packed by his aides and put there as storage without realizing it had a few ""classified"" documents. Republicans are really gonna be disappointed by the special counsel result i feel like.",1
"Russia is the most blamed, if you look at the figures in the article. NATO and the US are split into two different choices, and the two added up together adds up to a little more than Russia alone. But yeah still clear that Russian propaganda is having an effect here.","Yes but a US-China war is also a threat to India. As that would most likely bring India into a war against China, who is seen as the biggest threat to Indian security. It doesn’t seem like it’s fear of being attacked by the US, but fear of being dragged into a war.",0
"i was under the impression that even if Germany buys oil from someone else in the area, like Kazakhstan, it still has to go through Russian controlled pipe?","It was agreed to because of the Russia/Ukrainian war, and the anticipated effects of shutting down the Russian oil line into Germany/Europe. Accordingly it was thought Germany would need to restart some shuttered coal burning plants this winter. The plants have not been restarted - at least so far. The coal from the mine expansion is not particularly good quality (or it would have been mined long ago).",1
"Russian agents aren’t working to build support for Russia, they’re working to internally destabilise countries by amplifying internal issues and using it to distract said countries from the rest of the world.","Also because the propaganda doesn't have to convince anyone to support Russian causes, it only has to convince them to oppose local causes. So anyone who has a problem with anything is a potential target for propaganda that simply magnifies the existing problem, and suggests counter productive actions. Russian propagandists have already spent decades infiltrating every kind of extremist or malcontent group you could imagine. The only thing that's changed recently is that social media has made the approach more effective.",1
"Who would want to take the chance of voting if you'll get arrested, EVEN IF YOU WERE TOLD YOU COULD LEGALLY VOTE.","Yep, and as I said in my OP, they were told they could legally vote by the State of Florida. That's why the police were apologetic and the charges were dismissed in court. This may very well have been a publicity stunt to put a seed of doubt in other voters' minds that even though they may believe they could vote, they could very well be arrested anyway.",0
"But I live in China and I have seen how many people were lining up for the vaccine and for how long the vaccine campaign went on. Sure, I don't really talk to the elderly, but I don't know anyone who didn't get vaccinated. Based on personal observations, I see no reason to doubt that number.",The problem is that the existing vaccines are no good against the current variants. Also not that different from the West.,0
"All Alzheimer's research in the past 15+ years was based on one study establishing links between amyloids and Alzheimer's, a study which has recently been openly called into question (and it was called into question behind closed doors before, to be shot down by the so-called amyloid mafia). I mean the study literally had photoshopped western blot images.","The reason why no one noticed that images were photoshopped earlier was because everyone already assumed Alzheimer's was caused by amyloid accumulation, but then again, when you are faking research, you are faking the thing everyone assumes is correct. The fact that no one was able to reproduce the results, that there are now other explanations for it, and that healthy people seem to have the same plaques, was the reason why some people looked deep into that shit.",0
Keep in mind that Germany had to actually change its laws to support Ukraine as before the war started there were laws in the German constitution forbidding exporting weapons into active warzones.,"That Germany isn’t taking the issue seriously for one, the other problem with your comment is that you do not differentiate between Germany exporting tanks to Ukraine and then issuing re-export licenses.",0
I can see Putin taking to live TV right now telling his people Ukraine is killing all their children for defending Russia.,"Sadly, I think Ukraine is going to need to kill 1000 Russian soldiers daily for a few years in order to win. Young Russians have proven to care very little about their own lives, and the Russian population is large. This is why we must keep sending equipment to Ukraine. I'm very optimistic Ukraine will soon be able to average that number.",1
You really should look more into what's happening in Ukraine before excusing the actions of the Russians.,I do wonder how Ukraine will handle moving forward with the eternal hate in its heart for what Russia has done. They will remain kinsfolk and neighbors after this ends. Families will need to connect over the inevitable devide.,1
"Biden just needs to come out and say he's directing whatever legal entity is responsible to look into simply ignoring the debt ceiling. Don't let the GOP play this stupid game. Spin it as actually trying to govern, and still pay for things that affect people, while the GOP are willing to cut payments to programs ""you"" use.",6) They're customizing the list of spending that they will allow through the House to what will keep their insipid voters voting for them.,1
Reality is we need more NOW and it's hard to adjust the system to shorten the life-span of a copyright without hurting the whole process.,"E-books seem to rip off the author by selling at much lower prices, but they can also eliminate the paper-pushers and their advertising dollars.",0
"You actually bring up genuine debate between different Jewish denominations. According to Orthodox Judaism you are Jewish, to Reform Judaism not jewish. According to Orthodox Judaism, not only would you have the the right to claim to be Jewish, you couldn’t ‘stop’ being Jewish, and if you are a woman, your children would still be considered Jewish, all despite your being Catholic. Basically, it wouldn’t be disrespectful to the Jewish community for you to claim yourself Jewish, given that you have a Jewish mother.","It would be really disrespectful for me to claim to be Jewish, so I don't, even with my family history. I don't practice the religion, I know very little about my heritage beyond what I listed here. What I know about my grandma's ordeal was horrible, but it's still not my right to claim to have a religion I don't practice. It's incredibly disrespectful.",1
Bajan here...Barbados is still homophobic as fuck. Read the comments about this from Barbados Today or The Nation Barbados and you'll see just how much people hate anything LGBT there...,"I hope no one would read this and take it as Barbados being LGBT friendly. This is like the lowest bar possible for LGBT rights (not to detract from it being great progress). A country decriminalizing gay sex means just yesterday they threw you in jail for it, and culture doesn't change overnight like laws do.",1
"My older sis and I were on a hunt. We left camp and went up a steep hill to look at the valley below. We sat in the side hill, about 10-15 feet between us. I was 12, she was a year older. As we scanned the woods below us, I looked over at her and was literally looking down the barrel of her 30.06. I scooted back (up) the hill and told her I didn’t like staring down the barrel. A minute later, or sooner, the gun went off. It left a purple bruise on the inside of my sister’s thigh, where the butt of the gun had been resting. Had I not scooted back, she’d have blown my head off. She became hysterical when she realized how close she came to killing me. She had been unconsciously playing with the trigger, and actually pulled it without meaning to. Kids should have a little more training than a Hunters Safety Course gives. Maybe a video of gun accidents should be shown. It could save lives, since Missouri is going to have kids with guns roaming around. I’m a Democrat and the only thing I want out of the gun legislation is NO ASSAULT WEAPONS!","- There are so many guns in the country that you would need anti gun sentiment near 100% to accomplish the above goal. If you think this can be accomplished, you only need to look at our covid efforts. We had half measures at best, with multiple administrations figuring we can buy our way out of it by giving corporations money and upping unemployment wages, but we put almost zero rules in place to stop the spread - possibly the masks at airports thing was the only real federal rule. And yet, even with those minimal covid restrictions, the country for the most part ignored restrictions or actively rebelled against them.",1
While I am for the EU banning it still is a ridiculous complaint. Trade in hippo teeth is a tiny market in the EU. It is not the EU who is endangering hippos.,"Even IF the EU banned the trade, (at the cost of millions in bureaucracy) the effect would do nothing for the poached hippos that go to non EU countries.",1
">""Bakhmut, Vuhledar and other areas in the Donetsk region are under constant Russian attacks. There are constant attempts to break through our defence. The enemy does not count its people and, despite numerous casualties, maintains a high intensity of attacks. In some of its wars, Russia has lost in total less people than it loses there, in particular near Bakhmut,"" said Zelenskyy.","Russia has only lost 10% of their military forces, but on the other hand, Russia has lost 50% of their armored vehicles.",1
They just about can. They've made a priority of increasing production of staple crops in recent years. On The Economist's they rank 25th in the world (the United States is 13th). Russia would be more than happy to help make up any potential shortfall.,"People said the same about Russia's war. A year into it and 100,000 soldiers down, there's no indication that public sentiment has changed in any meaningful way, and certainly nothing like an organized resistance.",0
"Bennett replied: ""I need to understand that you give me your word that you will not kill Zelensky."" And Putin again promised not to do this.","Putin is backed into a corner. He's the kind of leader who would strike Kyiv with a small one just to ""win the war."".",1
"I hear you. It's sad to remember that the Republican Party gave birth to Lincoln and Eisenhower and ... well, I'm sure there was a third good Republican. My point is there weren't always this way but a lot of people know them as only this way. I feel sorry for those old Republicans who once could identify with their party.","He is the republican party, nothing but trash. All the people I knew who voted Trump, were liars. Always exaggerating their lives as they never really did anything, so have to make up things. One person I knew took my marine stories told around a fire and made them his own, lie right to your face about pretty much anything. Had not seen some people in quite some time, 10 yrs later absolutely nothing has changed for them, still spinning their wheels as they complain they are being left behind. In their 50s, zero savings, same junk piled in the yard, spend all day smoking pot. Then rant the country can't be left in the hands of democrats.",1
"Listen, mate, idk if you’re familiar or not but Germany in WW1 wasn’t too great either. And the treaty of Versailles directly lead to the rise of hitler and WW2 and I’m telling you, such policies will lead to a rise in Russian nationalism.","Also, what you’re saying will require the utter defeat of Russia and basically the capture of Moscow, which is not very likely to happen in todays world given the fact Russia has nuclear weapons. No one will agree to invade Russia knowing they have the bomb.",0
P.S. - I'm not defending Trump. I'm just saying that buying Greenland seems to have the same kind of upside as the or the .,"Why does everybody think buying Greenland is a bad idea? It apparently has huge mineral reserves that are being exposed as the ice melts, and when the North Pole is ice free for extended periods Greenland is poised to be a huge shipping distribution hub between the Pacific and Atlantic.",0
"""Well Pavel Antov, god rest him, went on holiday to get away from all the Ukraine news, so he brought his friend Vladimir Bidanov, god rest him. I thought I might go join them. I haven't really got that much family round here, except for Cousin Putin. Would you like a card with this?"".","I.e. there's a lot of deaths from heart attacks and drug induced heart attacks, and falling off and out of things.",1
"p.s.: I'd tell friar Tuck to put the kewl-ayyyd down, but he clearly loves it so feel free not to share this with him. Heh.","Good luck, Sean. Maybe next time, less ""pundit character"" and more ""credibility as personal character"". There's only so much mileage in cribbing from wrestling and soap operas, after all.",0
"People also misunderstand the culture around Hijra and associate them with transgender people when culturally Hijra is an extremely poorly treated cast with some mild ""accepted"" rituals around charity and weddings. They're also not reflective of the situation with transgender individuals in the same country as they're pretty different in life goals, outcomes, and possibilities.",Also goes without saying that Indias social and political relationship with its Transgender/“Third Gender” community is pretty distinct from much of the region.,1
"Why now, false flag? Mistake or intentional, or Russia used foreign rockets without their identification markers. Time to see where these missiles were from.",I was reading the missile in question was a s300 missile that could of been shot at a Russian missile but missed and landed in Poland. This is very strange statement as this hasn't happened before with the numerous missile attacks from Russia and none have landed before but the same goes with Ukraine air defence system.,0
Seems like the democrats had that same reaction every election for a couple decades too. And they always shocked Pikachu face when a more progressive candidate was popular. Glad that's kind of turning around.,"Well, more that the establishment democrats have been doing the 'move toward the center to attract conservative votes' thing, but the center has been moving further and further right.",0
Edit: if I remember correctly 90 days after being AWOL it becomes desertion and yes a possible death sentence in wartime although this hasn’t been done in a very long time to my knowledge.,"Well, there's AWOL and then there's desertion; in the case of AWOL it's more a matter of grounds for disciplinary measures and/or a dishonorable discharge, assuring that you do no receive benefits reserved for veterans that complete service. Desertion is another deal entirely; in peacetime it'll get you loss of all pay and rank along with a few years in a military prison. In wartime it could potentially earn you a death penalty.",1
"When Russia invaded they had 3,300 armored vehicles and have lost 1,700 of them (according to the British). Another year of war, especially with the new top of the line Western armor that shreds these 30-40 year old tanks with ease, and Russia won't have much armor to speak of.","Just going to point out that we didn’t lose a single tank in the Gulf War, except to friendly fire, against tanks Russia is currently using in Ukraine.",1
"A dozen? No. But I could see several splintered factions. Maybe east and west Russia. I call dibs on naming the southern Caucasus region, ""Caucasia."".","See. I kinda disagree. First of all, I didn't say it can't work, I said it is destined to go bad. That's a difference.",1
Former ambassador as in doesn't have any insider information and is evaluating what's happening in Putins regime based on one state news segment?,"And being an expert on Russia and being the ambassador, they tend to accumulate many information sources inside the country.",1
"Exactly. I don't understand how people don't get this. Russia can't get to Moldova. They can't send supplies. I mean, at least the 7000 Moldovan troops can be resupplied with ammo. Russian forces there are effectively already encircled. Russia can't even fly fighter jets over Ukraine, let alone cargo planes.","Russia can't get to Moldova. There is no access to them. They can't get supplies, ammo, troops, or anything to the country. They'd either have to go through Ukraine or try to use ships. The problem is that any ships would also be within range of Ukrainian attack.",0
"Ukraine will lie and exaggerate to have the world support them, like when they blamed Russia for the rocket that hit Poland.",And Ukrainians saying Russians committing war crimes is credible? I’m not pro Russian or anything but both sides have and are doing terrible things to eachother.,1
"I was surprised to see how many fascist sympathizing groups are active in Spain and Italy, organized fascist groups. People need to remember Spain was under a dictatorship for many years, they were neutral in WWII, democracy is rather modern and relatively a “new” concept.","I was wondering why this wasn’t a bigger headline in international news. It’s been like an afterthought, I think this is quite significant.",0
"He has a huge social media following, it could absolutely influence and change opinions. That in turn can make tangible changes. IE the news articles like this and the fact he doesn't speak against it probably bolsters the Russian supporters and moves Serbia that much more toward Russia and away from Western aligned countries.","It's certainly not a minority, there's an awful lot of Serbs that don't like ""the west"" and NATO because we stopped their little excursion in to Kosova which Russia supports.",1
This mobilization hasn’t even taken place yet therefore none of what you’ve described has actually happened - they are in fact presently civilians.,It directly states conscription or ‘drafting’ and even contrasts it against a previous statement that outlined the need for conscription was redundant given how many men with previous service history (non-conscripts/veterans) could be utilized instead. They even outline the industrial and residential areas that they’re going to pool conscripts from for mandatory service.,0
"2) NATO responds with nukes, which is unlikely and then we all lose and no one is alive to claim who really won or lost.",NATO has already said the use of a tactical weapon would not generate a nuclear response from them. It would illicit a full conventional confrontation which they would then learn about what fighting NATO actually is.,1
Libertarianism is the reason PA's roads look like shit because of the idiots that took that no new taxes pledge and the gas tax did not get raised for over ten years while the infrastructure was falling apart. There is no magic paving fairy.,Libertarianism is the magic thinking lie Reagan told that government is the problem because rich people hate paying taxes.,0
"This is great news for marriage equality. But remember, 36 Republicans, 70% of the Senate GOP, voted No on marriage equality, on interracial marriage and same sex marriage, in 2022!","It's over 10 years old at this point but here's a showing how popular support for interracial marriage took about 40 years to climb from about 10% to 50% from 1955 to 1995, while support of same-sex marriage went from \20% in 1985 to majority approval in 2011.",1
"Same with China, he want access to the Chinese market and the manufacturing infrastructure. He is flirting with undermining US support for Taiwan with recent tweets.","Same with lithium, even if it is mined in Australia or Chile, it’s most likely refined in China, with 61% of the worlds lithium refining capacity.",0
"Are you saying that all of it is now Israel? OK, then Israel is required to give all Palestinians the right to vote, else it is committing the crime of Apartheid.",Though they’ll face the harsh reality of the Palestinians not wanting peace but genocide of all Jews….,1
There's no question that Republicans would far prefer to be able to override the popular vote via state legislatures than avoid some bad PR by allowing that to be legal.,"Doesn't this case also allow for those GOP controlled state legislatures to discard the ""old"" method for selecting electors for the electoral college and instead allow for those 30 GOP controlled state legislatures appoint their very own state electors regardless of the dictates of the popular vote?",1
"This happens when you open up your immigration for so many rich Chinese. Hehe. Maybe don’t do it next time? (High skill employment based immigration definitely. But “investment” immigration in any country is just bad policy, especially when you have so so so so many from 1 country.).","So. Limit single family home ownership to 2 or 3 properties, multifamily or apartments to a reasonable number of total units, limit llcs and corporations to the same. It would have to be a very long phase in, and banks would end up owning a veritable shit ton of property. Government would have to step in big time. I don't have a problem with this, but it would be a gigantic change to markets.",1
"No one owns it because it's disputed. Taiwan's claims are just as legitimate as anyone else's. Read up on the history of the islands. It's no more Japan's than Taiwan's or China's, that's why it's disputed and it's hard to settle the dispute.","What is absolutely true is that Japan currently administers it, and neither Taiwan nor China likes it.",0
Fucking deplorable. the other group is the ypg which many foreign fighters have aided over time. At one point they were a hot spot for foreign fighters.,"Yes I am very aware. I’m specifically talking about the Kurdish faction they are targeting in Syria known as the ypg, which I’m sure based on your comment you know nothing about.",0
So yea the USA totally has a history of violating airspace with planes and balloons. Just because The USA is mostly good and the CCP is mostly evil doesn't mean you need to simp for America or not point out their hypocrisy.,How evil the CCP is makes The USA look like a naughty child that won't play fair by comparison. That being said.....,0
"Politicians are all making money and in bed with some business or another. Even if it seems like a positive change, there’s always ulterior motives that are making someone rich. Everything is a compromise.",It’s more about giving the poor scientists recognition for their research. Just pretend that we care so they feel like their work is worth it. Maybe one day they’ll use their skill to do something to help mankind instead of just researching temperatures and comparing them. But if they get discouraged from doing science because we all don’t care about their “alarms” they’ll never do something useful. So just pretend to care. We don’t have to make any changes; it’s too late. Just pretend to care. For the scientists.,0
On a per missile basis in the real world a Russian MIRV is barely better than a unitary missile and a unitary warhead is about a third to a half the kilotons of an American version.,So while individually we do not employ single unitary warheads(pretty much at all outside of cruise) our missiles actually have more megatons per launch. Both the LGM-30 and the Trident 2 can carry more live warheads over decoys compared to Russian SLBMs or even their newer GLBM prototype.,0
"From what I understand it's most likely Mossad agents that came into Iran, possibly from azerbaijan and conducted the strikes from within.",Iran and Israel have been in a shadow war since the Islamic revolution hit Iran in the late 70's. They've maintained a stance of Israeli eradication since then and Iran revolutionary guard have been seen operating with Hezbollah and their arms frequently make it to Hamas as well.,1
"That is just silly and ridiculous, and it is hard to believe any of the people who claim to be Bernie Sanders supporters while promoting that stuff.",There are a lot of people online who claim to be Bernie Sanders supporters and yet they say basically nothing that is not an attack on other democrats. These people are not believable.,0
"Oregon and the country need Ranked Choice Voting badly. With RCV elections, results would best represent who and what everyone most agrees with. Gone would be ”spoiler candidates” as no matter what, who wins in Ranked Choice Voting elections is who everyone most agrees is best to represent them. Gone would be election outcomes where the least liked candidate wins (due to split votes). Your vote with RCV elections gets the most mileage- allowing your to constructively vote for everyone you want (ranked).","If billionaires are willing to spend so much to convince people to vote their way, you would think people would consider voting important. Nope, half stay home. Republican efforts to suppress voting is real.",1
"West not sending enough weapons to Ukraine prior to Russian invasion has lead to a catastrophe. If Ukraine was NATO outpost armed to the teeth, Putin would be scared to invade like puppy.",They're not going to kill themselves and destroy Russia; they'll bide their time and try to take Ukraine again in the future.,1
"Accepting the current lines and turning their offense to Moldova would give Putin an easy win, which his ailing popularity desperately needs.","It makes some sense for Putin to take a weak nation now, but Moldova without a land corridor, seems to create a lot more problems than it solves. I guess Putin could then conscript Moldovan men into the Russian military to bolster numbers and let them do the dying for him. He'd need a lot of troops on the ground to supress resistance to that so it seems too complicated all in all.",0
"I think that India could catch up to China in 2050, especially if the world continues to block China from certain high-tech manufacturing sectors, but there is no chance that India would catch up to the USA. The defence industry in the USA is simply too big, and too well funded: the USA spends around a quarter of India's GDP on defence per year.",It is unfortunate that India has not gone more towards American defense industry considering it's the largest not to mention the most advanced. But working with the Americans Military industrial complex comes with a lot of conditions and limitations which India might find unacceptable.,1
There are plenty of people who speak the same language who grow in different cultures and have different experiences. A native Spanish speaker in Argentina experiences a vastly different culture than a Mexican or a Spaniard.,"Yeah, I get what you're saying, I just don't think that the different language has much (if anything) to do with it.",0
"I think people are generally voting for policies more so than for people. Lots of people believe that democrat policies have made things worse in the last two years. In a lot of respects this midterm election is a referendum on those policies. Walker, or whomever, as part of a republican majority, will be able to help push different policies. Maybe that's what you mean by ""rooting for the team."" But pretty simple... Republicans want fewer dems in position to push policies that Republicans disagree with and think are making things worse in so many ways. Dems do the same thing when they vote for Omar or Feinstein or others who are crazy or incompetent.","Looking past the bullshit ideology for a minute, Walker, Booberts, MTG, and so many more are just terrible candidates for the job.",1
Actually the dude who wrote the Gulag Archipelago didn’t think it was genocide targeting the Ukrainians specifically but rather cruel and poorly implemented Soviet policy that did not spare Russia either.,"""One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system."".",0
"This would mean that the 7.8 and 7.5 were two different quakes, with the latter not a terribly strong aftershock.","Big earthquakes can produce aftershocks. Additionally, you can have situations where one fault will have an earthquake and displace itself, taking pressure off of (or adding to) a nearby fault, which then will eventually set off an earthquake of its own.",1
"Headlines should contain more qualifiers or details, but generally if they explain in the first paragraph it's not that bad. A headline is just meant to catch someone's eye and convey a bare bone statement. It can/should be inferred what they are talking about, to a degree. When a governing body like a state government is talking about banning a word, it has to do with the usage of that word within the jurisdiction of that area of government.","In general banning words seems like a silly thing for government to do. But as a white person I dont really get much of a say here. If Latinos want the word banned from government use, thats fine.",1
Also honestly if even if they did (which no of course not that’s clearly nonsense) the fact that the Russian government agreed to start a war on behalf of American companies makes them look a lot worse than anyone else.,"I don't disagree with the assertion here, just that true or not, it doesn't matter as it worked well enough for the Russians to commit and is an underlying premise for their war effort.",1
Do you know how Carbon-14 is made in the atmosphere? Do you know what happens to the shielding of a nuclear reactor?,"There will be no nuclear explosion, no one is going to die from this. Considering the amount of miles being driven and the number of people driving them I would say the biggest risk is a vehicle accident at this point.",1
"I assumed you were correcting something I said regarding german hate speech laws when you quoted that specific section of it to respond, rather than just to boil down the rational concern about the need for clearly defined legal definitions of crimes into a strawman about how hatespeech is bad.","I explicitly stated I'm all for codifying hatespeech laws with good legal basis, but I suppose you glossed over that in order to have your righteous indignation against some hypothetical other that stands against everything you are for. Enjoy your day my dude, and I hope you are never in a position of power.",0
"I feel for the teachers, and hate what's happening, but the above question is something that I feel has been left out of the whole conversation.","What’s so frustrating about this is that it’s school principals being quoted. Teacher here, our lives are FAR worse than that of a principal. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a cake walk to be a principal either. But they make our lives hell. Not only are we so often the first people to get screamed at, we also have to deal with bull shit bureaucracy from principals. It’s fucking awful enough to be a teacher and now I have to do additional lesson plans, curriculum maps, oh, and I have to handle discipline myself because admin won’t do shit.",1
"Cuz he incited that “riot”. so are the governors and mayors who let the blm and antifa (ironic) run rampid through their cities for weeks fascist? I never said anyone was silencing me, and it has nothing to do with private companies. The fact that they can all team up, and are all left leaning agencies that can wipe someone’s face off the face of the internet, they can silence other peoples points of view, if that’s not fascism and a threat to our democracy than idk what is.","Ain’t no way out of our current president, and our former president, that you think our former president had dementia. You are living in a fucking bubble. Biden is juiced w Addy just so he can be coherent.",0
"It's just that an ECU doesn't have to solve the security risks of running an election, while a voting computer does.","Yes the electoral college doesn’t make sense, and the senate is undemocratic because it isn’t proportional. Also gerrymandering would be illegal in Brazil but it’s very easy to manipulate voting districts in the US. The US should study your all’s election system, it’s very strong, lessons learned after all the decades of fascism you had to deal with.",1
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The utter irony is that there used to be a responsibility for using the American flag. It needs to be raised at dawn and come down at dusk. It should never be allowed to touch the ground. It’s only folded in a certain way.,If I did not know better I would call it hubris. Except I am sure the large % of these moms would not know the meaning….,0
"An african country decides to not follow US/europe hegemony and do drills with a country that is investing a lot into them without crazy conditions, and a country that supported them during apartheid while the US supported the white govt: they are the axis of evil.",If we need to understand the history and motivations of the countries in Africa apoplexy call evil it’s only fair to do the same thing for the people making the accusations.,1
"You're supposed to do that on the sources you use. Doing it for sources of randos of reddit is completely pointless. Unless, of course, you're trying to find any bullshit reason to not do that.","What I do is look up old claims from a news outlet or a specific source about the war and crosscheck them with what we now know was true. This way I can get an idea of how trustworthy a specific source of information is, on average. That's the most effective way I found to quickly gage how credible a claim is.",0
"In your last example, you need not consider at all, to say nothing of remembering, any aspect about Bush whatsoever if the issue of the discussion is the worth of solar power or any claims related to such. If the issue is Bush's advocacy, Bush himself, or any concern of corruption related to Bash's advocacy, then... by all means fold in anything and everything that will help you evaluate Bush rather than solar.","Or, put differently: When George W. Bush comes out in full throated advocacy of solar power you don't take that opportunity to remind people about his torture program, you take that opportunity to double down on his comments about solar power. You don't forget about the torture program, you just put a pin in it for a second.",1
"True. But the democratic people aren’t the ones who moved lol. Trust me I’m with you when you say the democratic turnout wasn’t the best…but the last number shuffled around was about 300,000 new republicans signed up in the state…mixed in with good ol’ fashioned gerrymandering…it’s a lot less blue.",You’re right and wrong my man…you are right when you say people can’t rent or by here…people that actually stay in Florida can’t rent or buy due to wages being so shitty. But a person who’s making 2x’ what we make down here and got approved to work from home when Covid came settled here and are now living comfortably…those people tended to vote for Desantis. Covid also being down a lot of Republicans due to him keeping everything open. I’ve head too many times someone selling there house up north and getting a house double the size cash with money to spare…meanwhile a person who was born and raised in the state is struggling to pay rent with a decent job.,0
More like US is buying oil from India so India can buy oil from Russia that costs more then it produces so it costs Russia more money to sell oil to India.,"US buying the same oil India bought from Russia, which is being ""funded"" for the war? \gasp\ Reddit diplomats, we have to punish US for this Boycott USA /s.",1
Yeah but why would we? Last I checked we are sitting at 1 million refugees and like 400 tanks sent to Ukraine. Feel free to deliver an aircraft carrier filled to brim with strategic bombers if you think it can pass through our borders and can help in beating Russia. Absolutely nobody would oppose the idea and you probably could even do it without anyone finding out until it's already in use (Polish forums specifically tell people NOT TO share any pics/videos of anything military related that goes to Ukraine).,"You get everyone sane to leave and make a new pact that says ""NATOv2"". Now Hungary is all alone in NATO since it didn't get an invite.",0
"Ukraine and the country that send the equipment like the US in this situation usually send crews either in Ukraine or somewhere in the EU to meet with their counterpart. All the training happens right then and there in the use and maintenance of that gear. Then, the ukraine crews go back and use what they learned to teach more Ukrainian crews. I'm sure they get to have some kind of visual instructions that they get to keep in video form on top of actual manuals for maintenance.","Modern military equipment like this is usually designed to be simple to learn, operate and maintain anyway so its not a huge task for anyone that is semi intelligent and has the spare parts needed. I'd say that it should take less than a few day for the initial training and maybe no more than 1 or 2 weeks to spread that knowledge along all the relevant Ukrainian crews but this is the kind of information that isn't really publicly accessible.",0
You obviously haven’t researched or looked into snowdens upbringing and decision to release the info. You’re mad at an individual who exposed our countries lies? Why? Because you rather be lied to? Think our government is on your side? Weird.,"You would know, by your claims, NSA/CIA (mostly NSA) used 9/11 as a prop to invade citizens privacy. You would also know that there are “secret” programs in these agencies that do not get put on the record so the “red tape” associated with checks and balances is not applicable.",0
"Days after an explosive New York Times story on Dec. 19 detailed lies Santos told about his background, Santos gave a handful of interviews in which he acknowledged he was untruthful about having worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and graduating college. He said he never claimed to be Jewish, despite previous public comments about his heritage.","The Nassau County district attorney announced that she is opening an investigation into Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.), whose surprise victory in November was quickly followed by revelations that he lied about his business experience, educational background and family ancestry.",0
Destroying public schools and making it to where only rich kids get a good education with expensive private schools does significant damage to poor people.,"As a parent of children in a public school district who clearly sees how many homeschool kids end up with a shit show of an education, I don't want school choice. Right now I'm happy with the way public schools work in NYS.",1
"If tipping is mandatory, and it's at a minimum mandatory percentage, just bake the tip into the god damn menu prices and put a sign up that says as much and tipping on top is still nice. If you are in to that kind of thing.","In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.",1
If it passes a serious person needs to take it to court to keep every bit of meat eggs and dairy out of the grocery stores to teach these idiots that we vaccinate livestock to stop pandemics that could cause billions of dollars in losses from animal diseases.,Can't wait till this backfires and the bill language will mandate that meats will need to carry the vaccine info used to inoculate the animal and not to introduce into humans.,1
The amount of hypocrites in this thread is amazing a few days ago you were all for burning the koran “it’s just a book and part of free speech” now you view this as a hate crime.,"I said you could legally burn a Quran (and should legally be able to), but you're an arsehole if you do it with the specific intent of hurting other people's feelings.",1
"Foreign agents who conduct such operations, Anderson continued, “are often not trained intelligence officers” because their movements and contacts” can present a high risk of exposure.","Butina was using the NRA to gain access to prominent politicians at social events, using the guise that they she was helping form a gun rights organization in Russia.",0
"I don’t think indictment will stop Trump from running, but it’ll kill his chances at the general election and someone will be forced to step in anyway to try to defuse what looks like an unwinnable situation.","They know he’s a political suicide bomber- he’s either going to beat you and end your career, or he loses, claims he was cheated, and runs independently, ending the relevancy for the whole party.",0
"According to your logic AOC, Don Lemon, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Nancy Pelosi, Jim Kenney (mayor of Philly), Gretchen Whitmer (governor of MI), Phil Murphy (governor of NJ), Ned Lamont (governor of CT) are insane because they have all visited FL within the last year or two.",I don't like Ron and I too think him and the GOP of FL are nutcases but why resort to lying on him? rather we like it or not him touting FL as a freedom state during a time almost every state was on lockdown worked and it worked because people who grew tired of being on lockdown took the bait. I hope you aware that the average person doesn't consider politics when planning a vacation.,0
I bet you this is because we made conditions for new missles- we told Ukraine you get the missles only if you dont to use them against targets inside Russia.,Are we expecting Russia to start WW3 just because the West deliveries long range weapons that can strike military targets in Russia?,1
Also with all of their air defenses sending 1-2 out isnt a good idea since they can get picked off so they are forced to launch swarm attacks in hopes of over whelming their air defenses.,"And you mentioned it being part of an IAD, the missile you fire with one of those systems cost orders of magnitude more than the drone they are shooting down. Even a Stinger is one order of magnitude more. That’s why people keep going back to gun system, but you need a shit ton of them to protect infrastructure.",1
Well. I would say decriminalized. People shouldn’t be lockup for self medicating. I will never agree with speed or heroin dealers making that cash on lives they helped destroy.,"There are a couple ways “street heroin” is dangerous. One is the addictive nature which you mention. The other is fentanyl contamination. My nonexpert understanding is if you look at overdose death numbers you will there is a massive spike in deaths in recent years due to unintentional ingestion of fatal doses of fentanyl. Regulating recreational opioids will not eliminate addiction or overdoses, but perhaps has the potential for eliminating that spike in fentanyl overdoses. This goes for some other recreational drug use because I’ve read stories about people dying the fentanyl when taking something they though wasn’t an opioid at all.",1
"Where I live, the [State] SC is selective about the cases they will hear, you need some kind of grounds: this is a new legal issue [no precedent], the lower courts messed up, or some grounds for disagreeing with the appellate court's decision [other than, ""I disagree.""]. The supreme court is busy, and doesn't hear every Joe, John, or Harry who is mad about something.","I don't think so. I'm not familiar with the AZ courts or election process, but so far she most likely has been through:",0
"Florida is a battleground, but republicans spend more than five times the money than the democrats, who have spent elsewhere, more effectively perhaps.","Furthermore, this was a mid-term election with a bad democratic candidate for governor (a former republican), and a hurricane in the heaviest democratic counties.",0
"If you're very rich and the land you sit on is very valuable, and you're surrounded by poorer but larger countries, and have no army, you're asking for trouble. Remember Kuwait?",Singapore also has a very robust oil refining industry. Almost 1/3 of the oil China uses passes through Singapore and Singapore is one of the top oil refining centers despite having no crude oil (it is the 5th largest in Asia Pacific).,0
"These protests are going to have to change power on their own and lots of Iranian people are probably going to lose their lives going against their corrupt and backwards government. I don't want to see another Arab spring intervention which cripples Iran as a country and drives it into civil war, I just want to see their damn regime replaced and 50% of their population finally be seen as equals.","I think anyone brave, honourable and intelligent in Russia has already been killed, locked up or has fled the country to look for a future life where you aren't under a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.",0
"Now let's fast forward to a later stage in your career when student loans, cars, etc are paid off. You now net $100k per year instead of over the majority of a decade. How much can you save now? A lot different of a picture than before.","There are 330+ million people in America. Of course ""millions have no savings"". Millions will always have no savings. Hell, I had no legitimate savings until about 30. That's kind of how it goes.",0
"Why does something have to be in a different language to offer a ""unique cultural perspective""? Again, if anything, having to navigate a foreign language reduces the ability of people to gain unique cultural perspectives rather than increasing it.","I'm saying that speaking a different language and growing up in a different culture gives an individual a unique perspective on various aspects of life, which in turn leads to a more diverse and creative world.",1
"Like with most cases, it depends on circumstances and if the parole officer doesn't like you. They're probably not going to like you either way not that it matters and not that you would like them; but they tolerate people who are broken down in life and/or fearful of them more. If someone on parole is a full blown meth user who doesn't care about going to jail literally every other week, the parole officer will sometimes give them a pass on weed as long as they stay off of meth. If you come off privileged at all to them (this can sometimes be as simple as just having a lawyer), they will take it on themselves to 'show you the bottom' by abusing their power with frequent, arbitrary and made up sanctions because they think they're teaching you a lesson. Its the exact same mentality as a sadist/school bully. It also doesn't help if you're black or look Jewish.","But parole officers are regularly and repeatedly jailing people for 1 day to 6 months or more for having THC in a urine test, including in Oregon. The punishment and damage is as bad as convictions and sentencing but no charges are involved since parole officers can just jail parolees for looking at them the wrong way or on mere suspicion.",0
"Yeah this is the funniest response I see online - ""aren't you guys supposed to be into this?"" as if they've caught the left being hypocrites, because they don't understand that signifiers and signified are separate things.","They seem to think that if left politics are pro drag queens reading to kids that the left must be pro any person in drag doing any thing, because visually they look the same.",0
According to your site India is the third largest importer in the last month and is above every other EU nation. Throw in the fact that EU just implemented a oil price cap and it becomes clear that India will soon make up a very larte part of the Russian export market.,"No bro, if oil purchases from Russia are an issue, then EU with much smaller population should have stopped buying to nil. Fact of the matter is no one can do that, it is logistically impossible.",1
"This is really only part of the story. Western experts generally agree that Xi Jinping is something of a true believer; when he talks about the Century of Humiliation and China's need to right the historic indignities it has suffered, it's not just nationalistic rhetoric to shore up domestic support. It's his deeply felt personal sentiment. If you look at Taiwan through a Western geopolitical lens you're missing a whole lot. From a purely pragmatic standpoint, it may seem obvious that taking Taiwan by force would be more trouble than it would be worth for China. But that may not matter. It was obvious to everyone that a war with Ukraine would be a disaster for Russia, but that didn't stop Putin.","After seeing the screw up that is Russias invasion of Ukraine, they would be catastrophically stupid to do anything to Taiwan.",1
"The Canadian government didn't publicly acknowledge it but since the news of the balloon over Montana came out, people have gone back though publicly available flight tracking data and it seem Canada deployed CF-18s to intercept the balloon when it was in their air space.",The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces issued a joint statement Thursday night that said the balloon’s movements were being actively tracked by the North American Aerospace Defence Command.,1
"Yeah you're right but I thought it was obvious here that we're not talking about the Senate haha. ""Congress"" is often used as a shorthand for the House, like how you refer to members of the Senate as ""Senators"" but you refer to members of the House as ""Congressmen/women"".","Before people come out here and start complaining about how Jeffries is the greatest enemy of progressives to have ever lived, note that he ran unopposed. So I guess the progressives in Congress don't really agree with you.",0
"But I’m their twisted logic would have thought the cops were coming to kill them or imprison them. I dunno. There’s threads showing how insane and batshit crazy Gareth Train (property owner) was about QAnon, NWO, and China stuff.","We are definitely not perfect and need to continue on improving our mental health services, education systems, and reduce the impacts of social issues.",0
"There are a lot of nuances in English and they seem to be lost on you. If she made no comment about her own views, I may have seen your point.","I asked your views on what Forbes said, you haven't condemned them or even said they were wrong. According to you, I should be claiming that you are anti marriage equality, context indicates that is not the case.",0
"He was sentenced to a life sentence, where after the 30 years it will be reevaluated if he’s no longer a danger to society.",His sentence is for his whole life - even if freed for parole there would be heavy regulations on his daily life and what he is allowed to do.,1
"Israel and Ukraine have almost no good relations in the international stage , Ukraine never voted for Israel in the un and even last week voted for Israel being disarmed, Israel can handle Iran without helping Ukraine, but Ukraine just singles out Israel for help when half of NATO don't help them.","What Israel would gain in aligning with the west against Russia is increased unity and goodwill, and Israel has been losing goodwill internationally for a long time (deserved or not).",1
"""Most press coverage portrayed the struggle as one between a more moderate faction supporting McCarthy and a far-right splinter group who opposed him."".","Well said. You honestly nailed it. I think it's also important to note that fascism is not a new movement in the US at all. Take the silver shirts, personally wouldn't be surprised if they made a comeback.",1
"Jews were mostly ethnically cleansed from nearly all other middle eastern countries (sans Israel), so that’s an extremely low bar to clear.","There wasn't an Israel for nearly 2000 years, and you think it's the last 70 years that would have wiped out the Jews if not for Israel?",1
The reality is that none of the right wing claims of election hacking and fraud stand up to any logical investigation.,3. The only way to to remove a President is via impeachment. That is literally the only way to do it.,0
And I wonder why they wouldn’t admit it’s illegal during a national debate on banning legal firearms and doing nothing to address illegal handguns 🙄.,"This is one of the somewhat silly things about the current moves by the Canadian Government to further ban and restrict now and recently legal firearms - the people doing the majority of the crimes aren't using firearms obtained in this country, so the problem is really a border problem.",1
"Well, that's assuming Russia doesn't do what it always does and puts Russian nationals competing as ""individuals"" in all the trappings of their country, rendering the gesture useless.","Yeah not like he will say now that the west is on a campaign against Russia, excluding them from the games for whatever reason and using it as an excuse to isolate them more. Either way you're helping him.",1
"Edit to clarify: practically all our wood-burning houses have central heating with hot-water radiators and a wood-burning oven that heats the water. In the house I'm in now, there's an automation that switches to electric heating at night if the water temperature drops to a certain point. These systems aren't generally built into new houses, since not many people are willing to make their own firewood nowadays.","Wood is perfectly good for colder climates, as well. Plenty of houses here in Finland are either wood-heated or running a wood/electricity hybrid system - I'm in a house like that right now.",0
"It isn't our job to convince people that they should be discerning, and no amount of self-censorship will convince them out of the propaganda hole they fall into. I'm not catering to stupid people who won't change their minds anyway.","There are seriously people going ""I like Fetterman's policies but I'm unsure about his condition, so I gotta vote for the TV show fascist charlatan?"".",0
"While I don't agree with whaling if Japan wishes to continue killing it's own marine life that's on them, but the sei whales and bryds whales are highly endangered the minke have pretty healthy populations.",Yeah if the whales don't like it and the people don't like it seems like a prime opportunity to stop and invest in something whales and people like. Or a least something people like that doesn't kill whales.,1
I think he is saying that A Laffer curve exists because the relationship between tax rates and revenue isn't purely linear and high tax rates can create economic inefficiency and push economic activity to the black market.,"the Laffer curve exists in the sense that it is ""a concept"" in economics; it's still taught in 101/102 as a way of thinking about the relationship between taxes and government revenue.",1
"And that judge did add that “These other factors could not properly be the basis for a suspension under the Florida Constitution—there were no blanket non-prosecution policies, no neglect of duty, and no incompetence.” Pointing out that Warren's removal was a violation of FL's Constitution, and was basically telling them to appeal in the state.","“The suspension also violated the Florida Constitution, and that violation did affect the outcome,” Hinkle wrote. “But the Eleventh Amendment prohibits a federal court from awarding declaratory or injunctive relief of the kind at issue against a state official based only on a violation of state law.”.",1
Expecting Republicans to act in good faith in 2022 is either extreme incompetence or willful ignorance. Either one carries some responsibility.,Can anyone clarify why Dems proposed this as separate bills in the first place? and why they passed the first bill without a guarantee the second would also pass?,0
"It's also possible the cops were just ignorant of diving/amber hunting which isn't quite the same as dumb/thoughtless. I know nothing about those things. If I found some homies stranded in the middle of a lake at night the conversation would probably be ""Are you ok? Good what were you guys doing? Oh amber hunting. That sounds cool, how does it work? That's awesome, did you have any luck finding some? Oh, that sucks. At least you're ok though. Wait, why at night? Oh, I guess I didn't consider that time of day doesn't matter down there."".","Yes. But the law must authorise the detention in accordance with the ECHR. If there is nothing that continues to authorise the detention, then they must be released.",1
"But needless to say those who do literally drape themselves in our flag are generally the ones who don’t seem to like anything it represents, ironically.",And an abundance of american/canadian flags now directly indicates that the person is an unpatriotic traitor to the flag.,1
"Trans people want to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as. If they have not had gender reassignment surgery, then I also understand why woman would not want to have someone with a penis in the bathroom with them. Now I personally think it's silly because no one's looking at genitals in restrooms. But and I mean this is the nicest way possible, but why are the concerns of cis people discounted? Trans people don't want to use the restroom of their birth gender, because that makes them uncomfortable. But if cis people are uncomfortable with someone who still has the opposite genitalia in their bathroom they shouldn't be listened to as well?","This way you could know that you wouldn’t have any trans people sharing your restroom, while also not imposing your fears about the diarrhea thing on other people.",1
"Between 1936-1938, when the Soviet Union was not at war, Stalin had about a million of his citizens executed, including almost all of his top military leaders.","Russian dictators are very good at killing their own people, and their people are very experienced at watching it happen to them.",0
"Why would he have heard the song? Gravy paid the writers of the song, Stock Aitken Waterman, not Rick. You're not hearing his voice, that's an imitation.","As for someone else profiting by imitating his voice, again, that could spark further interest in his work. I don't see any reason why Yung Gravy's profit is necessarily Astley's loss, in this situation.",1
"The has been copied to its discussion over in /r/europe, and makes it a bit clearer (and also goes into the ship-to-ship transfers):","This information is collated by the ONS. However, it is the country of dispatch that is used to measure the nationality of an import, not the country where it was produced. This means a cargo of Chinese-made goods could be registered as being from Germany if it were imported to the UK by a German firm.",0
If the Ukrainians are getting shot out of the skies it sounds like they need better planes then huh?,"Ukraine already has an air force and pilots, they only need to be trained on new equipment, not sent through Basic. It's the same as IFVs and MBTs; Ukraine already has tankers.",1
"This is literally demonstration of North Korea being capable of killing South Korean citizens in their capital. Not good at all. They are supposed to be one of the leading techno nations of the world, and they don't have anti-drone measures? If they don't, the rest of the world is utterly fucked. And that is huge problem. I would not be surprised if this was China testing the waters to see how prepared for 21th century warfare the west is.","So not only SK military failed to shut them down, they also lost jet plane during scrambling to respond.",0
"But seriously, we (Americans) need to just stop working- just don’t show up and refuse to show up until the rich see that we are not gonna put up with this anymore and start to change things for the better of everyone.",It's insane and horribly depressing to me that the US is one of the richest most powerful nations on the planet and overwhelming majority of the work force can't afford to retire before 60. What the fuck is the point of life if you go to school for the first 18-24ish years of your life then work into your late 60s onward. What the fuck are we doing?,1
"Tbf I have been told that near the beginning of the vaccines in China they were causing problems but now they aren’t anymore,so that’s positive at least.","China's vaccination rate is way to low to achieve any kind of herd immunity and if it's a new variant, what protection they do have is pretty much limited to preventing death, not the disease.",1
"Well then it's settled. I'm North American, as I reside in North America. But I'm not American in the colloquial sense, since America isn't a continent. Glad we can agree.","Semantics. “American” is a colloquial shorthand for a citizen of the USA, used worldwide. Therefore a distinction is made and I am North American, but not American.",0
"It might be expensive to support Ukraine, but it's gonna be even more expensive to the world if Ukraine loses.",Ukraine WAS expendable up to the point NATO started helping: now they are invested so losing is not a viable option.,1
"I live in a place that gets earthquakes from time to time, but they're always hours away from us and any tremors we get are not able to be felt.","I’ve been in southern CA 33 years and the worst thing an earthquake has ever done to me is get me out of work early once. The only place that scares me during one would be like a Cosco or Home Depot. If you catch on to what’s going on early, they’re honestly pretty fun to ride out. Dogs and cats will usually give you a heads up too.",1
"Ultimately, the super-wealthy pay Republicans too much money in return for preventing the IRS from ever having full resources to go after them.",Because an IRS that cannot afford to pursue wealthy people with expensive lawyers will only be able to pursue poor people without.,1
"So in short, the court knew what it was doing was wrong, and, because it's all they know, did something else wrong to try to pressure others in their party to choose something less wrong.... That tracks...","4 is the only possibility I can possibly believe, but as I said before, justices do _not_ want to have the appearance that public outrage / pressure can change their legal opinions. If the supreme court changed their ruling after the leak due to public pressure, then it would open the floodgates because they'd be proving that they will bow to public pressure. The only sensible move (and the move they took) was to stick by the draft ruling.",1
"The fuck he did. He knew it crossed the line into criminality, that is why he did not go along. Treason can be punished by the death penalty. Had he gone along with this, he would have been arrested the same day. There would be no denying it was a banana republic style coup had he gone with it.","Pence is a piece of shit right wing radio host that wanted to hurt this country as much as possible, but his personal plans got fucked up by trump. At best he holds a grudge against trump, he isn't motivated to come clean to help america, only himself.",0
"There are very few democrats anywhere in Boise, even the North End is fricken Maga crazy. And as you go into the foothills it gets even worse. Anyone with even a little bit of money in Boise is a staunch republican. It’s pretty crazy.","It’s completely insane to me! My aunt and uncle have lived in Boise since 1992. I’ve been visiting here regularly my whole life. I keep forgetting that as progressive as the capital is, the rest of the state is still very MAGA minded. Guess Idaho is joining the South in their anti-women agenda.",1
"“Trump had not referenced the ECRA effort on his Truth Social page since the beginning of the week. By contrast, he dedicated roughly a dozen posts to the Jan. 6 committee’s criminal referral to the Justice Department. “.","True. All I'm saying though is that Trump is also responsible for the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, he even admitted that he lied when he told Bob Woodward that he ""deliberately downplayed the threat of COVID-19 because he didn't want to cause a panic."" Yeah it may not have been as many deaths as the previous Republican president but Trump is still responsible for hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths too.",1
"Exactly. Fuck the Trump administration and everyone who enabled him for a payday (or whatever reason), but…this isn’t a good thing either. The American people need to have a political party tied to the middle and working class, not the corporations that exploit them.","I mean, this doesn’t threaten the foundation of our country or democracy in any direct way, but it’s still pretty sleazy. It also has the net effect of pulling politicians further from the people they ostensibly represent.",0
"The most embarrassing part of it though is people still believed the sexual harassment claims were because he’s a Republican, and it was the slander campaign ramping up.",Later he made a tweet about keeping an eye out for a smear campaign against him now that he's a republican.,1
"You can go on reveddit to know who is trying to control narratives. You've described what right-wing misinformation campaigns do, while attributing all actions to democrats.","Then again, it might be that you've addressed something which actually represents a factual blind spot that irritates party loyalists.",1
"If you give a terribly toxic individual like Trump that much power, you'd better believe he'll burn everything down and take out anyone he can on his way out. He wanted to be a dictator. Republicans let him when it came to the Republican Party.","Politically, the GOP had no choice. They would’ve had to tell their voters, “no, y’all are fucking idiots.” It would never happen. No political party would do that, period. I frankly don’t think the dems would do it were the roles reverse. Pragmatically, they didn’t really have much of a choice if they didn’t want to blow up their own party.",1
"But I also think Nixon had an agenda besides himself. Sure, he wanted to be great and was driven and probably narcissistic. But he did stuff, and did compromise at times. Trump would never do that.","Maybe. But we had lots of cults back then without the benefit of internet social media. Nasty ones. And some even earlier, based on radio. Demagogues too, like Father Coughlan, the Radio Priest. He started as a sorta lefty support of social justice, nationalization and the New Deal, then begin with anti Semitic propaganda and pro Nazi propaganda as the Nazis rose to power. Sound familiar? .",0
"Of course, all of this is happening less than a month after news of a Virginia six-year-old shooting their teacher and a viral surveillance video from Indiana that captured a diaper-wearing toddler carrying a handgun and firing it.","Of course, all of this is happening less than a month after news of a Virginia six-year-old shooting their teacher and a viral surveillance video from Indiana that captured a diaper-wearing toddler carrying a handgun and firing it.",1
"Whenever there's a cold/windy day, trace your hands around the window to feel for cold air. You can also visually check for condensation lines around areas where your window moves/tracks for proof of steep temperature gradients and need for something to stop the draft.","Having a single pane glass isn't great, but it's a million times better than double/triple pane with 0 insulation around the frame and allowing draft to enter the home.",0
US Senator Sanders lost the primaries in 2020 because POTUS Barack Obama was still more popular than US Sen. Sanders and got all the 'moderates' to drop out and endorse Joe Biden and US Senator Elizabeth Warren didn't drop out.,"Even if all of that is taken as b.s., the DNC will never, ever allow a person like Bernie to win as evidenced by that nonsense during the last primary where every candidate dropped out right as Sanders got momentum to rally behind Biden.",1
"Gen Z isn't going to do much, I'm guessing, because usually younger people don't vote as much AND I get major apathy/we're already fucked vibes from gen z (for good reason, but I wish they'd vote anyhow just in case it might help).",Millennials and Gen Z together could outvote Boomers and Gen X (and we're about 50-50 Dem/GOP) if they wanted to.,1
"no one ever said China was communist simply because they claim they are. there have been full-blown decades long initiatives to aggressively institute a more equal distribution of wealth in China. one of Xi Xinpings main policies is the well discussed “common prosperity” policy, which itself has been a term with various implementations since Mao.","They didn’t have some special communist characteristic in the beginning either that is now somehow gone. if you’re just claiming that they used to say they are, the rhetoric has not changed. they say the same shit now that they said back then, with some minor dengist amendments. Mao’s economic policies were not marxist ( that’s why it’s called Maoism ) and they’ve mostly been abandoned in favor of reforms.",0
"The Texas Democratic Party has nobody to blame but themselves for losing elections. And it's not even that Republicans are all that popular. NOBODY in Texas actually likes Abbott, Cruz or Paxton. Not many people actually liked Perry either. It's that the Texas Democratic Party is so poorly run, that a lot of Texans don't even know who the Democratic candidate is, let alone want to vote for them. If they can't beat fucking Abbott, Cruz Paxton, or Perry, then they're absolutely incompetent.","That might sound harsh, but when you haven't won a meaningful election in almost 30 years, keep bringing out a candidate who has lost twice already and thinks saying ""Hell yes, we're coming for your AR-15s"" in TEXAS, that's incompetence. When you lose by double digits to a governor who caused Texans to freeze to death and responded to an elementary school shooting with ""It could have been worse"", AS WELL AS an attorney general who's under indictment, despite all of them having sub-50% approval ratings AND more than half of Texans saying the state is headed in the wrong direction, that's the definition of incompetent.",0
"In germany we like to call these people, especially the ones in office, ""the political arm of right wing terrorism"" (original: ""Der politische Arm des Rechtsterrorismus."").","Sure. But she will tweet something fascist, a few thousand might see it, then 183 news companies write an article to the effect of ""omg look how crazy she is!"" Then millions see what she said.",1
Those aren't reasons. That's just what you think. Why don't you go ask someone why they carry a gun instead of making insulting assumptions about why they do it?,"Guns are far, far too casually treated, and far too many gun owners are devoid of sense and/or think control of a firearm stops when they leave the range.",1
"I think Brazilian leaders can be threatened and bribed, especially when they and their people will be some of the first and worst to suffer the effects of ecosystem failure.","""There is a real risk of losing the sovereignty of the Amazon not to any other country, but to organized crime,"" he said in an interview.",1
That's only because the bill will still allow Utah to ban same-sex marriage in the state even though they would have to recognize marriages from other states.,"I mean, the Mormons (a big part of why you couldn’t be openly gay in the Boy Scouts for so long) just came out in favor of same-sex marriage recognition. At this point, you gotta be pretty far to the right to choose this hill to die on.",1
There’s history behind the low pay and the idea that it is a secondary income is still prevalent. They even told us when I started that having dependents on insurance isn’t covered at all because it is rarely the main insurance in a household. I’m a single mom. It is our only income.,"Its not even money. You could pay teachers 80k minimum and theyd still be one of the few careers where you’re expected to work outside business hours, told you’re responsible for not just teaching but community social change, attacked constantly by parents who think they know how to do your job better, and then expected by those same parents to raise their kids. In some spaces in the US teachers are a student’s only form of stability, and they can be rewarded with death threats and physical violence.",1
"Weren't there tons of stipulations on nations accepting the Marhshall Plan aid regarding their defense capabilities? That would appeal mainly to nations that were truly obliterated. While Russia appears to be losing this thing, domestically they may be fucked, but not post WWII Japan/Germany levels of fucked.","We keep reading that Russia has suffered Strategic defeat, but they are still fighting and no end in sight. Strategic is nonsense, there needs to be tactical defeats, so Russians realise they can't continue. This is where NATO urgently must to step up to the plate and either join or give Ukraine all of the advanced support it needs. Russia will not suffer, but will just retire to its legitimate borders, Ukraine and the West can then get on with fixing our world.",1
">The United States' One-China policy was first stated in the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972: ""the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States does not challenge that position."" The United States has not expressed an explicitly immutable statement regarding whether it believes Taiwan is independent or not. Instead, Washinon simply states that they understand the PRC's claims on Taiwan as its own. In fact, many scholars agree that U.S. One-China policy was not intended to please the PRC government, but as a way for Washinon to conduct international relations in the region, which Beijing fails to state. A more recent study suggests that this wording reflected the Nixon administration's desire to shift responsibility for resolving the dispute to the ""people most directly involved"" – that is, China and Taiwan. At the same time, the United States would avoid ""prejudic\[ing\] the ultimate outcome"" by refusing to explicitly support the claims of one side or the other.","Just a point of semantics. The US does not accept the One China policy in a sense of agreeing with it, . AKA ""Yes we know you think that"".",0
The article mentioned that the Taliban took credit for it. So basically we have a religion killing people in the same religion for being the wrong flavor of the religion.,So it's one subsect of a religion not being the right flavor as the same subsect of the same religion.,1
I agree that we'd make easy work of Russia after seeing their ineptitude on display since invading Ukraine.,"Welp, every time Russia says something the opposite tends to occur, so it sounds like the best course of action for the US to take is MORE GUNS FOR UKRAINE!",1
"Besides the WTF Germany, allow Ukraine to get all the tanks it needs logic, an interesting comment on the US Abrams tank. The same criticism when it was built being hugely expensive, hard to maintain and a logistics nightmare without providing a real edge over . Abrams costs close to TWICE that of the Leopard and costs three times to maintain and fuel. Shows problem with US spending 70% of its budget on military but getting a very poor cost effectiveness and a dangerous logistical weakness.",It is completely dishonest to include 100% self funded Social Security and Medicare which have NOTHING to do with current $30T debt created SOLELY by the discretionary budget.,0
"Lauren is listed as a witness. She, Jayson, and some other men were all banned from the premises by the owner.","""I was at that undisclosed location with a bunch of Republicans who were – one in particular who was gleeful at what was transpiring outside. It took me a minute to understand why she was having such a good time. But I saw it. I saw it with her staff who caught up with her. They were excited about what was going on."" -.",0
"Russia always spread propaganda about their greatness and often overstretched themselves to failure. It's like there are cycles in Russia about bullshitting other countries into thinking they are all powerful until they believe it themselves and they try to invade a neighbor and then get their asses handed to them and they have to start over again. Also, those events usually coincide with revolution/regime change. Had Tsar Alexander and the war with Japan and the Soviets and their war in Afghanistan.","That would never happen in modern Russia, and it never happened in the USSR. It also doesn't happen in China. Authoritarian governments don't allow for that kind of open criticism of their mistakes.",1
If Latvia and the West would have them lose all credibility to the Russian people (especially those still within Russia) then what use would they be as an opposition news source?,"At the end of the day, Russians lost a voice of opposition and a voice of reason in amongst the propaganda being spewed at them by both Putin and the West.",0
"Imagine hitting a team with yellow cards at the start of the game..... because they have the word ""love"" on their jersey.","Edit: What makes this even more ridiculous: The word 'love' is on the inside of the official player shirts. It is NOT visible. Fan shirts do have it on the outside, but those are already produced, banning 'love' won't win from capitalism here.",1
•	⁠Deanda’s lawyers are requesting Kacsmaryk to prohibit the federal government from “funding any family-planning project in the United States that fails to obtain parental consent before distributing prescription contraception or other family-planning services to minors.”.,"Or, loosely paraphrased, US District Pedoapologist Matthew Kacsmaryk found that a federal program that gives teens access to birth control denies a parent “a fundamental right to force his children to have children.”.",1
I live in Europe and all police encounters where pleasant exept one where I had a car crash and the police didn't even leave their cars to properly asses the situation.,One thing I do find wird about American police is the road side sobriaty test why does police still use it at all we do have breathalyzer. In Austria if you get pulled over and the police whants to check your alcohol lvl they do a breathalyzer but you can also instead demand a blood draw wich will make the police less friendly because this annoys them to no end but why are American cops still sticking to sobriaty tests instead of using a breathalyzer instead those things are not even expensive.,0
"Plus it doesn't matter for the purposes of sanctions whether India buys and resells Russian oil, all that matters is that Russian oil is having to be sold at a price much lower than the market price. You wouldn't want to drive Russian oil out of the market entirely because that would push the price of all oil up and hurt developing countries. This mechanism of a price cap that only affects the price of Russian oil is very clever.","The whole measure with the price cap was to prevent Russia from selling its oil at a profit, but still keep Russian oil on the market to prevent a price shock.",1
"no way. it's not just the recording (which absolutely would cause noticeable battery drain). it's also, for example, the transmission to a server, which also needs power, storage, and decoding capabilities.","that's my entire point -- the ways our data IS harvested tend to be far more subversive and potentially dangerous than ""my device is always recording me"".",0
"I should have been clearer. My point was that the majority of the obese population doesn't have a medical reason to use something like Wegovy, not that it would be a permanent solution.","For the percentage of obese people who do not fall into that group, this drug would be appropriate. In other words, it shouldn't be used as a lifestyle drug.",0
"Another group of Russian mobiks lost in Ukraine. They trained for months to become artillerymen, but after arriving to the ""DPR"", were turned into assault infantry and ransomed by locals for fuel money, or else they'd be sent to the frontline.",I took part in a G7 ministerial meeting at the invitation of Japanese FM Hayashi Yoshimasa. We focused on everything needed for Ukraine's victory in 2023. There will be rapid deliveries of weapons and new sanctions. Russia must realise we won’t tire of countering its aggression.,0
"Yep. We just had that politician who shot up houses of other politicians. Totally expected, though, given how the Murdoch family created these angry people.","The Aussies unleashed Rupert Murdoch on the world. His family and their empire have damaged humanity more than other person in my lifetime. For example, Fox viewers have no clue how he created them for his exploitation!",0
Just because you’re protesting doesn’t mean that you can just start being a douchebag and that the law doesn’t apply to you.,if your point is that 'people should be able to protest as long as it doesnt inconvenience you' - then you're missing the point of protests.,1
"Do you live in NYC? In NYC there are lots of people who have legitimately right-leaning viewpoints. It's the only place where I've heard people who identify as Democrats say they think Biden is too economically liberal, lol.","My post was probably too vague, but I meant that ranked choice voting will help moderates and hurt progressives in this specific situation, which is the race for mayor of NYC. That's because NYC has a sizeable minority of Republicans whose votes are basically guaranteed to go to Adams and because NY Dems tend to be moderate, meaning that for many their first choice will be a moderate Dem.",0
"Russia's military and political system can be destroyed without the use of nukes in a ""World Vs Russia"" scenario.","It would be a disaster for the civilian populations, but if the other side is using nukes warcrimes might have to be committed to take that power.",0
No one is saying it’s not protected speech. They’re saying Fox News should have to disclaim they aren’t reporting facts before it gets to court.,"Yes, sort of like Fox News is getting sued for by Dominion right now. Huh, I wonder why they aren't going with the ""it's just entertainment"" argument in this case since that's totally something that happened in the past?",1
"Influenza has the ability to share gene segments between different strains. This is called Antigenic Shift. The danger here is that the more this H5N1 strain spreads, the greater the chance it goes through an antigenic shift that drastically alters it, potentially for the worst. All it could take is for the wrong bird to infect the wrong pig, where one of the pigs cells already infected with a different strain of influenza and is also simultaneously infected with the avian H5N1 strain. What could emerge from that cell could be a virus that makes COVID-19 feel like a mild case of allergies. The good news is that we've seen outbreaks of H5N1 in the wild before without it mutating into the strain we all fear. Chances are this outbreak will be no different, but give the virus enough opportunities to spread and it can eventually turn into the nightmare pandemic we fear.","Supply issues and rising prices are just everyday things now, people probably just assumed it was something related to that and not a massive bird flu pandemic.",1
We could be heading towards this future if we don't act quickly and decisively. 2024 is only two years away.,"People hear need to understand just how far this plan goes. Not only does Trump call for a total ban on all gender affirming care for minors, he also does the same for ""all ages"" meaning adults and also would hunt and arrest doctors who do provide gender-affirming care. And we all know that these people have no problem calling for the deaths of trans people as well, that's why they send bomb threats to children's hospitals.",0
So it's one subsect of a religion not being the right flavor as the same subsect of the same religion.,"It's not only that they are the same religion (after all Sunnis and Shiites both follow Islam and they've been killing each other regularly for over a thousand years), but in this case both the Pakistani Taliban and the victims are Sunni Muslim.",0
"The development of a black market in goods or dollars to Russia should not necessarily be seen as a failure, when the goal is to put economic pressure on Russia, and the pressure goes up even with the black market supplying the goods/currency.","If other countries send euros and dollars to Russia, that still drives up the value of the euro and dollar, still creates arbitrage opportunities, and thus still makes trade more expensive for Russia.",0
"Let's see, Trump's Attorney General and FBI dug as hard as they could for two years, and found zero.","Congress was not needed for an investigation, Trump's DOJ investigated and found nothing. Do you really think a congressional committee will discover anything new at this point? The GOP is merely playing to the base.",0
The reason Trump avoided culpability during the Mueller probe is wholly due to the presidential powers he wielded at the time and Bill Barr's obstruction on his behalf.,"That’s because Trump relied heavily on the powers of the presidency to stymie former Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, using every advantage of incumbency to thwart Mueller’s team of prosecutors and downplay their findings. Citizen Trump will have far fewer tools at his disposal to avoid criminal charges.",1
"None of China's CV's are capable of blue-water travel. Having a blue water navy means having the capacity to deploy a task force of ships across the open ocean, and to support them at great distance from their bases. None of China's CV's, either produced or in planning, have a nuclear power plant to power them. This means they are incapable of global reach without a massive support-fleet in tow, which ofcourse makes that support-fleet a likely target. Think about it:","This is a big part of my thoughts on it. Comparing it to the Bosphorus is a joke. You got like 30 countries nearby to aid support if any issues were to occur over that very short passage. Meanwhile the Northwest Passage is 1,450 kilometers long (900 miles) long and it's really only Canada there to handle anything that may happen. IF they are in the right spot the US may be able to send aid from Alaska.",1
Almost anyone that looks at before and after pics of guns that were sold and were affected by the ban won’t be able to visually tell the difference.,"This is correct, manufacturers will just tweak the gun designs to be outside of the legal definition of an “assault weapon” and basically sell the same gun regardless. Just like they did the first time.",0
Here to say this. Political ads are NOT a meaningful source of revenue for any major social media platform. I’m guessing this announcement is just a signal for bad actors to start sending dirty money to Twitter.,"That will depend on the platform, their policies and how much they self-police. The biggest social media companies have either banned or heavily restricted targeting in political ads. If Twitter allows relatively unrestricted political ads or just fails to police their own platform, they could capture a sizable chunk of the $1.5B digital political ad spend this year assuming they have a presence in the right markets. I suspect Elon also believes any shenanigans will be covered up by Republican political cronies.",0
Well maybe they could get out of Ukraine and return to the pre-2014 borders and stop invading their neighbors and start acting like a normal responsible country instead of an aggressive wannabe empire.,"If Russia is kicked out by force, reparations could well include a transfer of Russian territory to Ukraine (obviously I don't mean Crimea or their newly annexed ""oblasts"" or whatever).",1
"Friend B: Yeah, and your that bastard thief whose father doesn't trust him to give him money to buy condoms...",Friend A: You are that bastard thief whose father doesn't bother to ask him to go to the store and buy razors.,0
Where's the defence of China? Experiencing schadenfreude that the Catholic Church is feeling butt hurt isn't the same as making excuses for communist China.,"Edit: apparently a lot of you take issue with me saying the Catholic Church isn't totalitarian or genocidal. I suppose I should clarify that I meant the CURRENT Catholic Church. Obviously the Catholic Church has been a force for great evil at several points in its history. Even today it has serious problems with corruption and scandals. But if you're going to accuse the current Vatican of genocide and totalitarianism you better be able to back it up. If you're going to blame Catholicism for millenium-old crimes then you also have to blame countries for all their crimes across history, in which case everyone should burn in hell. In regards to religions and cults, just because you think you're enlightened and know the truths of the universe doesn't mean every other set of beliefs is worthless or cult-like. You can't prove God isn't real anymore than you can prove he is. And you can't deny that, despite all the evil, religion has done a lot of good, too. Hospitals, schools, homes, etc are all things that were built primarily by religious organizations for centuries. Whether God is real or not, the belief in him has helped countless people with mental health struggles and continues to do so today.",1
"In places like vancouver and Toronto they absolutely do rent them. There’s that thing called property managers, they’re not doing it themselves. Vancouver has an empty home tax as well.","So right now, Canada is not paying people enough to afford to buy homes and in many cases to even rent homes. For instance, I lucked out buying this condo in 2016 and if i had to buy it as it is valued today at today's rate the mortgage would go from $765 a month to $3600/month. Do you have an extra $3000 laying around? I sure as shit don't. I consider myself VERY fortunate.",1
"With that being said, a corporation just tries to make money. The individuals don't matter, you should never trust the institution. Instead, pass and enforce laws to incentivize the behavior you want.","A tight regulatory market basically entrances established players. Which is not inherently bad. Ultimately, I think it's probably a good thing. Yes, our banks are too big to fail, but I prefer a handful of well regulated players vs 1000+ institutions that collapse under systematic risk.",0
"The point of firing two missiles would be to prevent a complete failure to disable a target in the case of a misfire, how would both missiles fail and then also both land at the same place? That makes even less sense than the Russians firing 2 missiles at the wrong target.","It was the US that said the missile did not come from Russian territory. The US has been very aware that the annexed territory is Ukraine, not Russia. The Russians are simply denying any involvement, they did not say the missiles did not come from Russian territory. There is no inconsistency about what is or is not Russian territory here.",1
"It’s a gutsy move, but it’d work out. The insurrection caucus hates McCarthy guts, they won’t vote for anything he wants. And anything he passes without being bipartisan won’t make it through the senate. They’ll spend the next 2 years screaming about McCarthy instead of getting anything done. Win win for Dems.","> The Dems made an offer. They’ll back McCarthy if he puts in rules that he must pass a budget (can’t shut down the government) and must increase the debt limit (can’t default on debt). So, you have to actually do your job. They offered this yesterday.",1
"We need to end hedge-fund ownership of rental properties, end foreign speculative purchasing of rental properties, and end single-family zoning as well as go after price-fixing.","We need more supply of housing AND we need to address housing being seen as speculation, particularly low-occupancy/single family. Don't get me wrong, there will always be a need for a rental market, but we shouldn't have corporations/LLCs buying up single-family/duplex/3-level units en masse and basically setting the market.",1
Wouldn't you want to find out about possible illegal or unnecessary dangerous actions that these military members were forced to take part in?,There are no orders when you are retired so no risk. And former military people are actually GREAT! to hear their valid criticism related to military because they are the ones the closest to the issues they are bringing to light.,0
That is why most western countries and article don't use this word even if there might be a few revolutionary among them. You essentially would justify Iran using armed force against them.,Edit: I might have not expressed myself clearly enough. There are good reasons to not call it a revolution even if you think it is. That is why you see this term rarely used.,0
"Yeah, Biden did a good job doing something, but I don't know if it honestly made a difference in my life. I still have high rent that wont go down and I have more expensive groceries. They haven't fixed that, they basically did their job preventing it from getting significantly worse and we act like they're hard working heroes for it.","I just spent $5 on a taco. It was only four years ago my friends and I were shocked when they sell for $3.50. It had to be a really fucking good taco to justify $3.50. Now $5 is sorta expected. Meanwhile I still can only get a job that pays around $12 and my rent went up by a hundred dollars a month. Nah, my pay hasn't changed by my expenses sure have, I feel like this isn't an unsual thing to say either, I don't think my case is uncommon. I feel like this data generously padded itself with taking into account the social elite that was able to buy shares at a discount.",0
"Oh no. Nothing that subtle. They hired and paid specialists to do it for them. DeSantis is not even trying to hide what he did. His attitude is who's going to stop me. He was right, the SCOTUS didn't stop him. He is emboldened enough to do whatever he wants.",Extreme gerrymandering turned 4 House seats Republican to create a House delegation that is 70% Republican in Florida. This is going to be the blue print in other Republican Governor led States. Gaming the system is becoming the norm. How is this Democratic?,0
"I think the salient question here is, ""Will FIFA deliberately not play in/withdraw from a country or community that does not respect basic human rights?"".","True. But they decided to compete to host an international sporting event. It's not like hordes of exposed-shoulder, rainbow flag waving fans randomly showed up at the airport one day.",1
I’m not against intervention globally but the US should think longer and harder about the consequences before hitting everything like a nail bc all we have is a hammer. This was the consequence of the dumbest people being in charge of the west too.,"we have had some spectacular failures around the world too. Afghanistan being the latest but Libya is another recent example. Like I said, I’m not against intervention but I remember reading excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s emails and they said something like “convincing Obama to bomb Libya is our greatest foreign policy achievement” and then later “omg we never could have guessed what would happen later” as the situation devolved into what it is today. Too little thought goes into what could happen if things go sideways.",0
"I (actually apple) can track my iPhone's location, even when its powered off, no data & while moving. using find my network (you can ""turn it off"" but judging by this news).","Google Messages RCS uses e2e encryption. Apple doesn't have a secure sms client either. No one does lol sms is from the 90s & Apple insists to keep using it as default fallback instead of updating to something more modern like RCS, SMS is very outdated & not secure, just shows Apple don't actually care about Privacy & Security.",0
That is without taking into account the time and cost of moving factories away from China (which is easily a multi year process) and the fact that find still produces many of the raw materials needs in the factories to make products.,"It’s much worse to lose your customers than it is to lose your supplier since it’s much easier to replace the supplier - as we are now seeing with Western companies moving production to Vietnam, India, Mexico, etc.",1
"This is Ukraine pushing against the Russian narrative. They are saying that the coalition of countries helping Ukraine is giving them everything they need—and, everything Russia doesn’t have: ammo, new tanks, long range weapons, winter uniforms, armor plates, Javelins, planes, etc.","Also, it is controlling the narrative against Russia. Russia has been telling Ukrainians that their armed forces are surrounded in Bakhmut and that soldiers are surrendering. It’s not true—but, Russians are trying to break the feeling the Ukraine will inevitably win this war.",0
"While other nations have already supplied vehicles to Ukraine, they were ones that were either unchanged Soviet designs or were upgraded variants.","Yes other nations, namely the former Warsaw Pact/ComBloc nations sent vehicles to Ukraine, but they were of Soviet designs, which weren't designed with the intent of fighting other Soviet designed vehicles.",0
"Do you think it's unimportant that organizations that peddle lies and conspiracy theories every day, theories that cause a lot of harm by fomenting hate, are suddenly going to have more traction?",What other legitimate concerns do you make up conspiracy theories for? You probably still say Trump was working with the Russians. Or Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake.,1
"""The West"" has tons of stuff that is not given to Ukraine, say Abrams tanks, F-22s, F-35, F-16, nukes..","You would be making some sense if NATO was utilizing artillery doctrine like Russia or Ukraine. But unlike them NATO have capable air force and guided munition stocks to utilize different doctrine, and if lets say USA would see need in more dumb ammunition production, they would increase it in no time because those cost peanuts in comparison to guided munition.",1
"The jokes write themselves, but every military sends performers to entertain troops, the USO is famous for it. It seems to be a significant morale boost. I would love to see Russian circus performers, but the USO is more likely to inflict pop-country music like Toby Keith on the troops, which surely violates some element of the Geneva Convention.","I knew a guy who claimed to have accidentally called in an airstrike on Toby Keith in Baghdad. Possibly one of those stories that gets passed around and everyone who tells it is the guy who did it, but it was still a good story.",0
"On the other hand, isn’t a lot of our medicine derived from ancient sources (herbs and all) - so… I’m sure there’s some element of viability to TCMs. Perhaps not against COVID, as it’s too novel? I don’t know. Would need to do some actual research and reading up to find out more instead of blindly believing the crowd and current sentiment.",How about you take some time and do some actual research and reading before being so rude and insulting.,1
"Literally saving billions in tax dollars from not having to fight Russia in a decade. Or having to scale the US military complex to have to fight Russia (Along WITH china, at the same damn time).","I'd say these sanctions pretty much rule out regime change in Russia. Especially democratic regime change. Like, who exactly would knowingly do the bidding of the oligarchs worried about their assets in the West? . This approach automatically makes Putin the man of the people. And then there's the issue of the sanctions suppressing all the Western-aligned media figures, who were relying on Youtube, Facebook etc. to circumvent the official media channels.",1
Yea a lot of people get discouraged but there’s been a ton of progress made in the last ten years. A big part of it is people are more comfortable coming out so now everyone has a gay friend son niece nephew brother aunt uncle etc. Even conservatives poll slightly in favor of gay marriage now.,I like Obama but I will always hold a grudge against him pushing off gay marriage stuff until half way through his second term. Even then it took Biden running his mouth for the party to actually do anything with it. Felt pretty betrayed.,1
"The point is, changing nominees voluntarily will probably result in a Republican win, and a Democrat who loses is probably done.","The ""waste"" comes from foregoing Biden, nominating another Democrat, and then inevitably electing whoever the Republican nominee ends up being, at which point the Democratic nominee will have been ""wasted,"" because if Pete loses to DeSantis in 2024, he won't be the nominee in 2028 to go up for a rematch. But Pete could conceivably win in 2028, after a second Biden term. (Feel free to substitute any other Democrat for Pete). It wouldn't be a waste if the alternate Democratic nominee were to win, but, historically, that's highly unlikely.",0
"Either way, the point is that people whose families were enslaved are worse off for it, while the slavers are better off for it.","Not defending the practice of paying slaveowners reparations back in the day, just explaining the reasoning for it back then.",1
"The United States, despite its flaws, is not in those circumstances. There is no doubt to someone with a passing knowledge of the Nazi rise that what we are seeing here mirrors the fascism of that time. But the country, culture, society, and political order are different. And the internet, which helped flame this fascism also has spread its antidote, far and wide, and generations who will not permit its neck being stepped on.","German society in 1933 was very very different than American society 90 years later. The fascist playbook is the same, and they will no doubt wreck havoc, but the internal resistance to it in 2023 America is far more powerful than the authoritarian leaning social order of 1933 Germany.",0
"Dunno mate, I'm in my 30s and as much as I hate the tories they are starting to look like the only viable party to vote for.",I would rather scoup out my eyes with a rusty spoon than vote for any of the nationalist-tinted parties.,0
Spy ships offshore aren't violating your borders. A spy plane detected in American airspace would be escorted out or shot down.,Depends who the spy plane belongs to. The open skies treaty allows for the operation of unarmed surveillance flights amongst participants in the treaty agreement.,1
People generally have a bad view of politicians who use their time in office to enrich themselves afterwards.,"The problem is that we don’t have an active, educated electorate and politicians who are blatantly corrupt will get re-elected. If we actually ousted corrupt politicians, the corporate sector jobs for them (and their aides) would dry up. Corrupt people will always find another method to be corrupt, rather than try to legislate against a method, we need to elect people who aren’t corrupt.",1
Wasn’t long ago that a good way to get the admins to act on hateful communities was to get advertisers’ attention — what’s to be done when the hate is coming from the advertiser?,"There was the ad that said Jesus didn't turn his family into outcasts and I immediately knew these ads were trying to appeal to the parents who went down the qanon, anti vax, etc rabbit holes.",1
"About the WB, I agree the settlements need to stop. But it would never happen when Palestinians don't even acknowledge Israel's right to exist and only operate with violence against innocent men, women and children.","Based on your rudeness, I would be very surprised to find out you know more about the Islamic revolution in Iran than I do (Not that I'm an expert by any means). Whatever man, you do you.",0
"Not saying dems are natzi, just saying dems just like natzi push their view of morality through policy changes. Republicans do not. (If say abortion ban is immoral, I ask, since when is it immoral to save the life of a child?).",Yep. McCain is well liked here even after his passing. If McCain was still alive I bet his endorsement would be better than Trumps for local Republicans.,1
At the end of the day it is whether or not a majority of members can vote for someone to be speaker. How many days of failing to elect someone would it take for them to break ranks either as Republicans or Democrats for the sake of having a speaker and actually being able to work and do their job?,"Imagine winning the majority and not being able to pick a Speaker from your party because said party is full of toddlers, psychos, grifters and idiots.",1
"Cuba doesn't need a ""real democracy"" it needs re-integration into the world much like China and Russia got.",Let’s just pretend like Cuba wasn’t a lapdog of the Soviet Union. Or that they didn’t base ICBMs there.,1
"There’s no doubt their intent/result isn’t hitting. No shit. Especially when regardless of Israel, the US is standing behind Israel and far far scarier. But we’re talking about their approach in this one PR stunt. Not the result or intent.","Which is when you have to question the intent. If it's actually meant to intimidate Israelis it's failing miserably, they are seen as a laughing stock.",1
"The reaction to chinese travel is only what china would do, if the situation was reversed, and to be honest, it beijing gies ahead and blocks entry to china from certain nations then for me,.it would be no great loss. Being of an age of increased risk I certainly wouldn't go there until i was sure that the risk level was comparable to the country where I am living.","Absolutely no reason to allow unrestricted travel until china have the disease under control. When other nations have worked extremely hard to bring it under control and gone through very serious hardships to be able to lead a normal life again, it would.be insane to allow chinese travellers to jeopardize the progress made by bringing in waves of new infection.",0
"Issue there is, the F-16 deal is for 40 brand new aircraft, and upgrades to 80 aircraft Turkey already has. Upgrades are drastically cheaper than new aircraft. Buying 120 Eurofighters from the UK is over twice the price, and that's not even including any weapons that were likely included in the F-16 deal.","Turkey is trying to play it too, pretending that if the US doesn't approve the F-16 deal, it'll buy Eurofighters from the UK.",0
"It's funny though how we assess ""intent"". For ""our guy"" he gets the benefit of the doubt, their guy meant it.",I think there's a reasonable chance this story was intended to hurt Biden because he's insisting on seeking re-election and there are those within the Democratic establishment that don't want him to run again.,0
"GLSDB can be either GBU-39As or GBU-39Bs. 39As would be plenty for Ukraine still, as that's a rocket that can still strike a stationary target from roughly 100 miles out with a CEP of just 5 meters. Warhead is the same as a M31, but with twice the range.","SOF calls in strike package, confirms they will paint the target, GLSDB is fired, GBU-39B locks onto SOF's laser, boom. Literally no different than the average strike package called in by a NATO JTAC today.",0
I don’t know how it worked tbh. I heard about it from a pilot who saw the plane in the ME years back and then read about it later. Some kind of biased gyro I guess.,"This wasn’t the 747 with the prayer room that always pointed towards Mecca, was it? I could see the resale market for a super-customized $500 million plane fairly small.",0
"You're always going to have junk in your house that's just there. But you have to keep it in the junk drawer of your house, otherwise it gets everywhere.",It creates a real mess. It gets in the way of all the normal and useful stuff. You have to get the junk back in the junk drawer.,0
"Hilariously California republicans, including Reagan, banned firearms in public as an Emergency Measure in response to a few openly armed black protesters peacefully and legally entering the capitol.","It is true that Reagan, working with a Democrat majority in the California legislature, passed a ban on open carry of firearms as a response to the black panthers. However, the majority of California gun control, such as the handgun registry, AWB, ammo restrictions, etc, were in the 90s and and 2000s. Not under Reagan in the 70s. I will also point out that it is a stupid response to people criticizing California gun laws to bring up a politician wh retired over 30 years ago and has been dead for almost 20.",1
"I think if it was targeted to underprivileged communities and with restrictions in place to ensure it's not going to fund religious curriculum or schools, I could be on board with a limited school choice program.","Yes I'd be more comfortable with a program like that, as long as it's targeted to underprivileged families or those in schools that are proven as poor/under performing.",0
"So they are fixed point, with tons of space and you would be able to easily counter direct attacks, additionally there wouldn't just be one platform, but hundreds, so like the nuclear triad. You would have to take out all of them.","You are right. Sorry for my erroneous post... Somehow, I must have confused some data in some news and got that impression... Still more than the next 13 military powers combined...",1
Yep. McCain is well liked here even after his passing. If McCain was still alive I bet his endorsement would be better than Trumps for local Republicans.,"i feel like calling them ""mccain republicans"" is not quite right. mccain would talk sense and say he was going to vote blue, and then vote red anyway. these people actually followed through, unlike mccain.",1
"There are things that state lawmakers could do that would help chicagos gun violence problem, however many things are more in the wheel house of the city so funding would be a key to those.","There are more but those are the 3 big ones the state can do that would make a real dent in addressing gun violence in chicago. But they are not easy fake wins that the state party can wave around that they are ""doing something"".",0
"Turns out, consumer spending rose because companies jacked up the prices on necessities like food and gas. Why would companies do that? Greed. Economics generally makes no provision for unbridled greed. Greed and graft can crash a whole economy, and therefore it is illogical. It shouldn't exist. But it does!",I mean I think we are in it. They always call it after it's happened. Look at all the high flying tech companies laying people off. But as inflation stays high and unemployment rises it gets exponentially worse.,1
"Officers rushing into the chaotic scene had spotted a blood-spattered man with a handgun, not knowing if he was a threat.","For fucks sake, cops arrive to a shooting and detain a man covered in blood beating down a pos. In this situation the police first on scene are going to subdue anyone who appears that they conducted violence and then sort shit out. Stop with your juvenile acab bullshit.",1
"I am somewhat happy that they had the bubblegum flavor vapes, because it finally crashed this argument. Menthol is the most common ""starter"" cigarette, so banning is great for long term reduction.","For any smokers, listen to this talk on nicotine and smoking: The app, Smoke Free, helped get me off cigarettes. It shows all of your health improvements as time goes on. And the book, This Naked Mind: Nicotine, helped. And subscribe to r/stopsmoking.",1
"If Iran hostilely attacks Iraq, specifically Iraqi Kurdistan, I propose that the Iraqi’s and Kurd’s band together, to declare total Kurdish Independence from Iran.","If they do decide to invade Kurdish Iraq, it’ll probably lead to a larger armed uprising in the ethnic Kurdish areas of Iran, which could embolden other ethnic groups like in Baluchistan to follow suit. It will probably destabilize the Middle East even further because Iran could call it’s proxies to engage in conflict with the Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq and Syria.",1
"But that's not the only group of Cherokees. There's also the ""United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians"", and the ""Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians"". There's three different Cherokee tribes.","There may be some confusion with the name Cherokee Nation here. The Treaty of New Echota was made between the US government and ""the Cherokee Nation"". But that was the united Cherokee Nation which was abolished as an entity by the government around 1900. The modern ""Cherokee Nation"" is a later institutional creation which does not consist of all Cherokees or even all Cherokee tribal institutions (hence the United Keetoowah Band and the Eastern Band existing as their own separate things). Since New Echota was between the US and the Cherokee in general as a united people, it doesn't necessarily legally make sense to assume that the modern creation of the Cherokee Nation inherits the seat as opposed to the broader Cherokee people in general which would be inclusive of the other two tribes too.",0
"Lastly I will finish with this, the Palestinians who remained in Israel gained full citizenship with all the rights it comes with, sure there is racism, it's awful but it's a problem that exists all around the world(same reason we have suffered, tribalism makes humans target minorities since they are such easy scapegoats, especially in our case, in the midst of such a charged conflict). Palestinians who have arrived to Arab countries however became refugees, as did their descendants. Only in Jordan in where the majority is Palestinian did they get citizenship.","There's a reason Egypt and Jordan refused the lands Israel offered, and it isn't because the Palestinians are a pleasant people.",1
Doesn't North Korea regularly conduct missile tests and other destabilizing events in order to blackmail the world for food aid?,One can only hope that Russia doesn't have what they need and has been lying to them for military aid and there might be a fracturing afoot but it feels more likely that North Korea is about to do some crazy shit in order to get more food aid.,0
"Depressingly, it turns out that ""fake news"" is invariably free. The truth is far more likely to require payment, and the ones with the highest journalistic standards (I'm not sure how they qualified that, but they had some kind of criteria) are mostly the ones with the paywall bullshit.","B, I reject the very premise that news should be considered anything but a loss leader, for the most part. That they are trying to generate a PROFIT at the expense of gating important information away from citizens that may already need some convincing even to LOOK at it, while the planet burns and fascism grows ....",0
"The call it what it is. A recent and possibly future Republican President hangs out with Nazis, and is only upset when they think they're better than him.","Yeah let’s call this what it is: trump had dinner with two Nazis, said one of the Nazis really got him, and then far too many elected Republicans waffled when asked about trump having fun with Nazis because those Republicans know that their constituents support Nazis / are Nazis as well.",1
If you think the events of Jan 6 didn't endanger the very fabric of American democracy then you need to take another look at it.,"And lets take the Jan 6 scenario to its extreme - lets say they isolated and murdered a bunch of Democratic politicians. What then? They just... hand the keys to the nation to a bunch of dumb rubes? No, they'd have eventually been swarmed by heavily armed military and killed by the dozens and the survivors would all be awaiting life sentences in supermax. Actually, in this scenario the liberals of r/politics might have finally gotten their dream realized - Trump in prison.",1
"data collected by these devices end up in the hands of data brokers. that data is purchased by the groups such as the republicans who combine it with other data and use it to create gerrymandered voting districts. it was used by republican operatives jacob wahl and others to target and attempt to disenfranchise democratic and minority voters. it is sold to scammers who use that information to target you for scams. it is used by insurance companies and other companies in order to determine how much you pay for insurance, mortgages and car loans more.",wifi is turned off. data is turned off. every single app i can remove pretty much is gone. location data is turned off. i do everything to ensure my phone isn't spying on me.,0
"I don't get it, I feel bad for them to an extent but after a while something like emotional fatigue sets in where you're just tired of watching a close and significant neighbor fuck up constantly. Their future and economic health has implications for all of us in this part of the world. In some respects, them screwing the pooch has been very good for Vietnam in terms of industry relocating here, but with the massively interconnected nature of the regional and global economy I just feel like having such a massive economy become stagnant cannot be good long term. At the end of the day, economic activity begets economic activity, China becoming the sick man of Asia will have unpredictable and probably net-negative effects.",Thats the root cause of it—because China never had any real economy independent from multinational corporations’ factories…now they pay the price.,1
"Either Russia planned to provoke the West so hard they actually attacked Russia, Russia actually wanted to invade some part of NATO, or Russia simply _did not care hardly at all about proximity to NATO_. Russia did not want NATO advancing east because their plan was always to reclaim as much of the Russian Empire, or of the USSR, as possible. NATO membership is only a threat to Russian imperialism.","This argument _does_ make sense, but it only makes sense if you believe Russia _deserves_ the claims of the Russian Empire, like the US believed it _deserved_ Manifest Destiny, or Britain believed it _deserved_ India. It's all imperialist horseshit, and the justifications for each step will always be made up.",0
"That Republicans would stoop that low to getting Biden caught doing something Trump was caught doing, I would sadly not be surprised.","After the GOP planted the evidence how did they get the democrats to go find exactly where they are, do you think the GOP knew Biden’s lawyers would be going through his office closet and garage? Does that seem to make sense?",1
"Your argument is ""the EU is corrupt (does whatever the US commands) and won't help it's members"". I'm not sure I want to debate you on this. It's something you seem very passionate about and you'd likely never change this opinion.","Another possible solution to this would be ""Oh, nation x doesn't recognise human rights? Ok you don't have to, but the EU does. And if nation x is sued by people who's rights are trampled, the EU sanctions nation x."".",0
"Well. The last president didn't care about hearing about much. The information could have very well been in briefings but it's common knowledge that it was difficult, to say the least, to get him to listen. He was easily bored.","Also, it's not like they traveled back in time to get the information. The information on the previous balloons was available for anyone who cared to look.",0
"A good example here is Russia. Russia is not becoming poorer and poorer under Putin, it is more like stagnant. But in a world were every other economy is slowly growing, that is the same as becoming poorer. In 2013 the Russian Economy was slighter larger than the economy of Italy. Today the economy of Italy is 50% larger than the economy of Russia.","Hitler could focus German economy and industry towards building a bigger army than any german president would be able to find public support for. At the start of the war Germany had relative good generals and well trained soldiers, but this is not because of Hitler or the nazis. The german generals that fought and wins the first part of the war were not trained by nazi Germany. They were not promoted during nazi Germany. They had been trained and promoted during the German Empire and the following Weimar Republic. They were good, not because Nazi Germany had made them, but because Nazi Germany had not destroyed them yet.",0
"Even at international level, there are consequences to poor choices. Ukraine cannot expect a country who they acted against to back them, especially when it is against the latter's interests to do so.","Ukraine is only important to people because Russia is viewed as an enemy of the West, so the media tells us to care.",1
Russians have amassed huge numbers in preparation for a spring offensive. Ukrainians have spent the last 6 months training with western countries and they’ve salvaged a shit ton of Russian weaponry left behind. This is going to be a bloodbath and will probably define the wars outcome.,"A bloodbath for both sides. And you may not have been paying close enough attention. But the Ukrainians are very much clamoring for more ammunition, artillery and tank rounds because they are starting to run low. And the sheer volume of soldiers rush it is sending at them is making gains and they still haven't committed the huge concentrations that they are planning to do. The offensive has been getting going over the last 2 weeks.",1
"So we gave the non-MAGAs a way to vote for a Democrat as second choice instead of ""extremist or nothing"". Isn't that a win for voters? And pretty enlightening about how unpopular MAGA really is...",So they waited till they couldn't win with a far right MAGAnaut to switch to a voting system that would block extremists.,0
"US companies already pay import tariffs on components and finished goods imported, so it would be nothing new, other than in scale and structure. So, it would influence the ""build here"" versus ""contract manufacture"" decision, as well as add a level of consideration to where and how that contract manufacturing gets done.","I was primarily suggesting it for goods imported to the US. Of course, a lot of this would be goods made for US companies by contract manufacturers. But, I suppose the federal government could use their power to regulate interstate commerce to charge taxes on domestically produced goods. If you want to, for example, build office furniture using prison labor in Alabama, you'd face the same low score and high rate charges when trying to ship that to New York distributors, no different than a clothing manufacturer in China using Uighar labor camps to assemble ""fast fashion"" clothes.",0
"Is this some horrible editing of both video and article or evidence of an attempt to falsify the tone of the Chinese communication (de-escalatory ""keep safe distance"" vs escalatory ""you are clearly endangering my safety"").",The commenter has conditionally assumed the truth of the statement in order to make unjustified criticisms of media reporting that is critical of irresponsible Chinese practices.,1
"Qatar ships in thousands of migrant workers, subjecting them to conditions internationally recognized as slavery - wage theft, seizure of passports, loss of rights etc. Migrants work in intolerable conditions. Labour laws seem lax, there are an indeterminate number of deaths which are suppressed and recategorised so Qatar doesn't even pay the pittance they offer as wages to widows. Billions are spent on building lawns in the middle of the desert in air conditioned stadia which will certainly be abandoned afterwards.","Qatar blatantly bribes FIFA for a tournament based on several promises including keeping the tournament in summer. This promise is immediately discarded and leagues have to halt halfway through the year to pack this tournament in. Qatar is a repressive regime, that routinely sentences people to death for crimes like being gay, and locks up dissidents and journalists for attempts to expose said regime. FIFA promises people can enjoy a normal world cup including being allowed to attend even if gay, drink beer, celebrate in public. All of these promises have been since revoked.",0
"Lol who cares? I grew up in the cold war and these headlines were pretty common, the same problem Russia and the rest of the nuclear powers had then still exists now, if a single one of those warheads is ever used in anger the offending country gets turned to glass.","Except that we have literal proof of this not being the case when it comes to nuclear weapons, in living memory, during the most brutal periods of the post ww2 soviet union, which was as close to a cult of personality as you could get.",1
"Even if it's just confirming that the bombers aren't as good as the Russians say they are, that's still important information for how air defenses are set up or managed. Best case scenario is the bombers are actually advanced and any information already gathered can be confirmed and/or added to.","I know everyone is talking about how bad this must be but let's not forget the impact the MiG 25 Foxbat had during the cold war. As far as I know, it still holds the world record for the fastest combat jet and the fastest naturally aspirated combat jet ever produced.",0
"I see a couple problems with only affordable testing. Tho, again, it is better than what we have now. .",Well. I would say decriminalized. People shouldn’t be lockup for self medicating. I will never agree with speed or heroin dealers making that cash on lives they helped destroy.,1
Which is why UA should be allowed to attack those launch sites so Russia can't as easily bomb Ukraine's civilization infrastructure in petty retaliatory strikes.,There is no way in hell that Russia dares target any NATO target absent direct NATO involvement in Ukraine.,1
I'm pretty sure he's been compromised since the 1980s - he visited Russia and came back and published a letter in some news paper trashing NATO and applauding Russia.,"He’s been in bed with Russia almost as long as Giuliani, who the Russians helped take out the the American mob back in the 80’s for a little bit of fame and camera time.",1
"Subscriptions are great (in my opinion, obviously) but you seem to have a problem with paying for news, so it’s you that’s disallowing that one.","It really shows the disconnect between the owners of what is supposed to be helpful journalistic media and the people trying to ... well, ACTUALLY JOURNALIZE. Paywalls are sorely misguided and barely a boundary to anyone who really wants to read something, and the sooner the corporate suits that run those organization realize that, the better.",1
"Likewise, we should condemn the anti-intellectual mindset, which states something along the lines of, ""I feel this way and feelings are important. It must have some meaning and validity. That means that being racist must have some value and is therefore not wrong."".","Well, yeah. They’re the most common extremists here. Kinda goes without saying, I’d think. We don’t have a lot of other types of extremists, like ISIS or militant leftist groups.",1
“Reforestation includes planting trees or allowing trees to regrow on land that had recently been covered with forest.”.,"We can help to restore forests on barren ground by planting trees and protecting them as seedlings, such as by putting artificial moisture retaining materials around the roots, to help them become established and survive dry spells. It may also need fencing to protect it from grazing animals that would strip a sampling of all of its leaves.",0
"That'd be impossible. Russia only attacks hospitals and daycares, they'd never stoop so low as to hit a military target. That's just ungentlemanly. How are they supposed to fight back if you hurt their army instead of a bunch of strategically powerless civilians?","Nah, I don’t think it’s good to target civilians as revenge for an adversary doing so. From a moral perspective it’s obviously unacceptable. From a purely practical one, using cruelty as a weapon against the cruel tends not to work. You could blow up a school full of Russian children and the leaders of Russia would simply get excited at the opportunity that represented for them.",1
"I can't even take the rest of your post seriously after reading your last point. Like seriously, did you not hear about \) or how about the \). Like google fucking exists dude, takes like 3 minutes to confirm you are so full of shit your eyes are turning brown.","Because they are still supporting the war. They only flee when it affects them. When countless thousands tried to flee to Kazakhstan during mobilization, hundreds of cars had the giant Z, which is basically their nazi swastika, painted proudly on their cars.",0
We've seen federal rulings in states like NC where republicans were found to have targeted black voters with surgical precision to suppress their votes.,"Since it bypasses one of their major forms of vote suppression (creating multi-hour long voting lines,) I suspect Republican states will be resistant.",1
"That's not to say some student debt shouldn't be forgiven, but the comparison to the bank bail outs doesn't make sense since their loans weren't forgiven.",I am gen-x without college debt so this isn’t personal but we keep making life harder and harder for our children to the point they are the first American generation who will do worse than their parents and unreasonable student loans are a big part of this. If generations are through no fault of their own forced to do worse than the previous generation that means America is in decline. Is that what we really want? A country in decline and no longer the land of opportunity it once was?,1
But I'm glad you agree with me. There is no answer because the reality is that Turkey is incredibly weak.,"And about your marvelously brilliant claim about how Turkey is ""weak"". If Turkey would be weak, Turkey had to greenlit Sweden's membership. Of Turkey would be weak, It's decisions would be easily swayed, PKK would've successfully created their separate state, Armenia would've reached to Ararat, Greece would take Cyprus and western Anatolia, et cetera, et cetera. The fact you can claim Turkey being weak under a topic like this speaks for itself.",1
"That's an interesting article. My first instinct is that, if an AI gets trained on an artist's work, the artist should get royalties for things the AI produces.","Ok, but I would say if a company makes money off of AIs trained on artists, it would be reasonable for that company to at least give royalties to those living artists.",1
"I think you're discounting just how much corruption existed in Ukraine prewar, not that it's all gone now. Since the outbreak of the war a lot of Russia's political pawns are gone, it'll be significantly easier for Zelensky to pull through with his promises in the new political climate.","I don't know much about global history so my examples involve the USA but I'm sure if we have examples spanning almost 250 years, then there should be many examples globally.",0
"Building more housing just increases costs, developers require profit. Building during the pandemic or on the edge of a recession increases cost of living even more so...Due to cities going into debt paying developers money to build. Cities requiring rental licensing and new building codes, new energy efficiency codes spirals up the costs. When cities pass mandates to build all electric in cold climates insurance rates go up, gas connection fees go up, gas utility fees go up...","Failing to address the obvious, because you are some sheltered studious wonk doesnt make you correct. Go to Berekely and then spend the afternoon in Richmond. My cousin just bought a house over there for 200k. In the bay area. Theres housing its just not where people want to live, yet.",0
"Lately I've pretty much given up on using onions in cooking, I will mostly eat a small one raw with a little salt or sliced in a salad, and that's it. Given the current prices, it doesn't make much sense. Peppers and garlic saved the day for me, don't really miss onions.","Let them increase the price as much as they want, I'll just stop buying it. They can stick their onions somewhere.",0
"Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is concerned about tensions rising in Kosovo between the authorities there and ethnic Serbs. Apparently, ethnic Serbs set up road blocks after Kosovan police were deployed in a dispute over car number plates and things got even more heated when a stun grenade was thrown at EU police. Serbia refuses to recognize Kosovo as an independent state, so it's no surprise that tensions are high.",If territorial integrity of a country matters then Kosovo should have remained part of Serbia. If it doesn't then the people of Donbass have just as much right as the Kosovans to self determination.,1
"Imports of Brazilian meat are the biggest driver in new deforestation, as we (Brazil) already have enough cattle and farmland to feed our entire population. Exported Brazilian beef reached sales of almost 10 billion USD in 2021.","3. There's only a beef-eating culture in Brazil because the Portuguese invaders (among others) brought such culture to the territory, in their process of extracting all the mineral wealth (silver, gold) from the territory to send it back to Europe. Had they never invaded and conquered, the rain forest would be just fine today.",0
"I volunteer to get out the vote for Democrats. If you give a shit, make sure everyone one of your likeminded friends votes. Every election. The small stuff (school boards) is incredibly important. Those elections get 10% turnout. The midterms get 40-60%. Presidential maybe 60-70%. I guarantee you know people who don’t vote and getting them to vote would make a huge difference.","What’s worse is that a large enough portion of the population doesn’t even care that the people they voted for are doing this stuff. Or even worse, the do care, and they agree with it!",1
"Trump's pardons violated every ethical guideline. He pardoned everyone who could testify against him. There is nothing in the Constitution that says the President can't be charged with a crime. Quite the opposite actually, the Supreme Court ruled that giving the President blanket immunity went against the belief that no one is above the law. It's just become practice that they be impeached and removed from office first and nobody has challenged it. Thanks to a corrupt Republican section of Congress Trump was never removed and therefore pardoned those who could have put him in prison.","Much like the practice of never appointing a Supreme Court Justice in an election year, unless the Republicans are in charge apparently, there is no basis in law. That one is based on a memo written by a racist piece of shit in 1968. Trump's presidency was more like a kingship, based on tradition and his will rather than the rule of law.",0
A growing wild tiger population is indicative of a healthy forest ecosystem. So this news is a big win for all wild animals in general.,"India's conservation efforts have been great since 1973, with an average tiger population growth rate of 6% per annum. Give credit where it's due.",0
In 10 years a lot of weapons will wear out from shooting and parts for non-hunting weapons should be denied.,Only ban certain guns and make it harder for people to get them not easier. Education on how that gun you are about to buy to protect your family is more likely to be used to kill a family member either thru suicide or accidental discharge than it will ever be used to protect anyone. Some people simply shouldnt have guns especually those who have no idea how to use them or a respect for what they can do.,1
"Bottom line, this kind of stuff is the most anti-american thing I can possibly think of, and if you support it, you need to take a serious look at yourself and your values. Especially if you think you value freedom of speech and expression while supporting bullshit like this.",And you will never hear the end of it if you try take away our freedom of speech right to fly a swastika'.,1
"Road maintenance in Tennessee is paid for by a 27.4 cent per gallon gasoline tax. An electric vehicle uses the road in the exact same way as a gasoline vehicle, yet pays no maintenance fees.","Realistically, road maintenance fees should be decoupled from gasoline but it is a fairly decent way to breakdown the costs fairly for people who drive a lot versus people who drive very little. It does punish people who drive gas guzzling vehicles but I think the people complaining about an electric vehicle road tax can appreciate that anyway.",0
More people live in Moscow and St. Petersburg combined than in the next like 15-20 most populous russian cities combined.,"Population of Moscow + St. Petersburg = 18.5 million, which is the same population of the next 16 largest cities, allegedly.",1
"For god's sake. For probably the millionth time, the man's cover was ""philanthropic art- and science-loving billionaire starfucker."".","It is more than presumable that 99% of the people in his contact lists, flight logs, and visitor book— from celebrities, Nobel Prize winners, random royals, and celebrated journalists all the way to house painters and dry cleaners— were there as part of that cover life (and/or regular life), and had no idea what he was really up to.",0
"It’s going to result in increased costs and longer wait times for almost any decent sized project. As someone who manages federal funding on infrastructure projects, it’s already awful enough dealing with the existing bureaucratic layers.","The article is pointing out that bad policy will needlessly limit the amount of infrastructure we're actually able to build with this money, and that many of the projects will be heavily delayed for the same reason. He's literally calling for more infrastructure to be built and the headline reflects that.",1
"I would argue it's not about the land per se, or any particular thing that the Russians might try to take or destroy. It's about the message. It's about saying ""you are not allowed to take and destroy with impunity."".",Yes. I also can remember that far back and remember the same thing. This is how dictators happen. Oh man. He seems like he’s being doing a great job but absolute power corrupts absolutely and all that.,1
If the EU invests it. They will without a doubt take fees from the money under the guise of needing to pay people to invest it. That $330 billion in money will net some bankers some nice fees and some nice bonus checks. All while locking the money up for years and trickling it into Ukraine.,This is weird to me. Why invest and give profits? This seems like a really round about way to essentially take the money for your own use.,0
"Yep. And it's not as simple as just paying. Need to have citizenship somewhere else first (something I'm working on in Peru but not because I want to renounce), go through a whole process of interviews and crap, and be treated suspiciously by US border agents any time you want to come back just to visit.","The US is actually one of the only countries where citizens have to pay taxes regardless if they made their money outside the US. I am a US citizen living and working in South America. I visit family in the US once per year and otherwise don't use any US infrastructure, services, Healthcare, etc, etc. The only thing the US gives me is a passport and a vote. I work for a Peruvian company. The US takes taxes from me every year anyway. Yes, I can claim a write-off for some of it, and I do. That's why that rule exists in the first place. Of course some people exploit it. But I'd just like to reiterate that I owe the US taxes for the rest of my life simply because I was born there. One of the only countries in the world with that bullshit law. I would have to renounce my citizenship to break free of that.",0
"I hear what you are saying. “You keep trying to tackle the problem from the perspective of discouraging voters! Why not, instead, modify any of your stances in a way that might encourage more people to vote for you?” I will tell you why not: because I do not want to.","The answer is simple: We have got to raise the voting age. Twenty-one? That might not be enough, honestly. Millennials are not as conservative as they ought to be and some of them are pushing 40 now. We should consider whether we might not want it to be higher than that.",0
"There will be a myriad of lawsuits, lost SOPs, lost sponsors, eroded public trust, projects in limbo, and god knows what other compounding issues as they present themselves in the future.","The fact you would immediately make such an assumption regarding gutting a giant corporation shows how ignorant you are on the matter. Corporations move at a snail’s pace, and the impact of any decisions are also delayed in nature.",0
I'm not saying this is what happened. But it's certainly possible. At least I think it's equally as possible as a Ukrainian S300 being errant in an odd direction to the general trajectory of these missiles being fired.,"But really when you think about it, in terms of probability/statistics, you have tens or a couple hundred missiles from Russia moving in a south west trajectory in north western Ukraine, and you have Ukraine SAM/AA defenses engaging those missiles in a north east trajectory and firing angle. And your telling me that you think it's more probable that a Ukrainian missile went errant in a west / north west direction versus say a Russian missile given bad coordinates, or malfunctioning (maybe from a near hit that damages the GPS/Flight controls of the missile) and overshooting it's intended target?",0
Ukraine is basically attacking the bases Russia uses to bomb civilian targets in Ukraine. We can hardly ask them to be the whipping boys for the rest of the world.,Will 'nuclear winter' still be a thing since the advent of positive feedback global warning? Indeed it may be the only thing that will get humanity to lower its CO2 emissions (once the initial fires die out).,0
"While the Ukrainians appear to have plenty of tanks already, those vehicles are not really suitable for moving troops around.","Thats probably a bigger number than the official number of Ukrainians training abroad, and thats just for basic infantry training from scratch, or at least on par. I doubt its that many simply because that would be a heavy number commitment for Ukraine to hold in reserve while also already having manpower issues on their side as well.",1
"So much time in healthcare is wasted trying to get medications, tests and procedures authorized. If insurance was taken out of the equation, healthcare workers would have more time for actual patient care.","Keep in mind, it can be solely to provide insurance, and not that the government employs the actual doctors and all the health care workers.",1
"I disagree. Putin is that desperate and most definitely that stupid. He wouldn't be in Ukraine at all if he was smart. He'll do it, just watch. He will order an attack on Kyiv through Belarus, which is 100 km away. It will be a gift to Ukraine. A column of 50,000 soldiers requires over 2,000 vehicles just to transport soldiers. They'll have to travel on a single road, M01, that can be blocked with the greatest of ease by blowing bridges and laying mines. If the Ukrainians are smart (and they are), they'll let the Russians advance about 50 km, then destroy the entire column. Block the front, block the rear, and everyone in between either dies or surrenders. The poor fucks who take part will know that they're dead meat. Mass mobilization is meaningless without the ability to train, equip, transport, and supply. It's extra meaningless if the soldiers lack the will to fight.","Even well-equiped, I don't think the Russians have the will to fight really. We saw the equipped and trained Afghan national army dissolve in the face of high morale dedicated militia men in sandals.",1
"So many podcasters and journalists I used to respect have fallen into giving everyone a voice. Well, spoiler alert, not every idiot deserves an audience or respect, apart from the standard minimum human decency. They don’t get a voice simply because they are yelling loudly. Giving equal time to horrible and damaging ideas is contributing to their proliferation. It’s almost like no one can just hear some horrible idea and shrug, say “That’s stupid.” and move on.","What a stupid take. How can anyone think the media evenly portrays both sides? Actual journalism is almost dead, and we are left with poorly educated editorialists pretending to be journalists. If I saw objective news, I'd probably poo my pants, have a heart attack, and die. You can blame clickbait, media owners, William Randolph Hurst, or whoever you want, but it is obvious that most media is a pathetic grab for attention and mostly void of facts.",1
What about Palestinian Christians who are overwhelmingly anti-Israel? Do you have some other excuse for dehumanising them since they're not Muslim? Also do you think Arab-Muslims in Israel who make up 20% of the population should be allowed to vote?,"To your last question - if they wanna be part of the Israeli society, that just want to live in peace, and not praise the killing of jews, I more than welcome them to be able to vote.",1
"Young voters are big part of the reason there wasn't a red wave, and Biden doesn't really inspire them. Younger voters had a big impact on the midterms, and that's despite still having a relatively low turnout. If you could find a good, younger candidate they could relate to, that could easily make up for any incumbent bonus.","There were younger candidates. Beto was a star at one point. It's not like we have a better candidate just sitting around waiting to be tapped. Maybe if some of the primary candidates from 2020 kept momentum, and maybe if they were better integrated with the current administration, it would make sense for them to run in 2024 if Biden were literally unable.",1
it's just the price the rest of us have to pay for gun owners to keep up their hobby. Think about how frequent stories of these mass shootings are a shot in the arm to mom and pop gun stores.,Sadly it's not just guns. Other countries have a lot of guns per too and it doesn't correlate there.,1
"Not sure that they have a reliable SLBM platform. If they do, they've done an amazing job of concealing it. If nothing else, all missiles can be traced to origin of launch, no matter how fast their flight time. For example, the Russian Topol-M, depending on launch location and location of target city, could make it from Point A to Point B in approximately 25-42 minutes after launch. Biggest problem for defense systems is its speed and relatively low (70mi altitude), flat trajectory. By comparison, our (U.S.) W87 warhead has an entry altitude of 700 miles.","On the flip side, their nukes are relatively new and not well tested. Conversely, we don't know the true capabilities of the HWASONG-15.....their nuclear capable ICBM. What we think we know is that it should be easy (relatively) to at least track, because of its high flight trajectory (est. 2,700mi altitude).",0
My drunkin coworker relies heavily on porn to help replace the sex he never gets. I do not need him frustrated in this manner. Alcohol has killed his imagination so he needs fresh porn from an outside source.,There is a big problem concerning porn and the conservative mind. Porn is their reference point concerning sexuality. Listen closely to note how they connect the dots. It’s sad they have little reference to reality!,1
"I understand people get paid to make anti-drug propaganda, police may earn commissions on drug busts, etc. but that's tax revenue being diverted (ie, the people paying for their own oppression).","The interest should be with government as this is a (major) new tax revenue source... so I assume politicians being paid to block it, as this blatantly goes against public health and interest.",1
This is a man who is doing his best to live his life as an example of the virtues that he preaches.,Just because he's not wholly onboard with your dear-to-your-heart human rights issue doesn't mean that he's not better than previous popes.,0
"A full NATO response could be anything from a full economic embargo to direct military action. Russia has already shown that its air defenses are all but useless with the drone attacks on their airbase recently. Direct military action could include a full nuclear strike on Russia as well, though unlikely.","Russia will not use nuclear weapons unless they are faced with an existential threat. They have full control on when hostilities cease and thus have no cause or basis for their use. Indeed, their use would manifest the very existential threat they seek to avoid.",1
And their focus will be on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Hope that helps with inflation and housing issues!,Homeschool your kids and leave the rest of ours alone. You can have a say in your own kid’s education but when you force schools and school boards to bend to your will you’re taking away my rights as a parent for my kids’ school.,0
"So there is ample precedence, both legislative and judicial, that reinforces the idea that Congress is able to supersede state election laws.","The Constitution gives Congress the ability to do so. SCOTUS has also upheld and acknowledged this power in saying ""Thus, it is well settled that the Elections Clause grants Congress ‘the power to override state regulations’ by establishing uniform rules for federal elections, binding on the States"".",0
"And as green hydrogen is only going to be produced from renewable energy, it will be produced only from excess renewable energy which would otherwise be permanently lost. So the efficiencies of the process are largely irrelevant. Basically all plans for renewables require considerable overbuilding and interconnects, and in that model there will frequently be times when we have excess power. During those times, hydrogen will be created. During times of indufficient energy, hydrogen will be consumed.","Hydrogen is a fuel that can be produced through renewable energy. Producing it like this is effectively storing energy, as you're taking excess production from renewable and making a gas that can be burned later, and the waste of burning it is water.",1
The actual condition is that the country must demonstrate the intent to resolve any such conflicts in accordance with international law. Ukraine has met this condition.,"Secondly, it states it's a factor in deciding whether to invite a state to join. In other words, this is not a hard binary yes/no. It's not saying that countries must have settled their disputes to be members (or many existing NATO countries should not be in NATO); rather that they must show a commitment to settling them in that manner.",0
It was the US's presence in Europe to contain the influence of the Soviet Union that lead to the conditions that allowed the EU to form in the first place.,"Except that the time between WW2 and the creation of the EU was 40 years which is longer than the gap between WW1 and WW2, so what do you attribute that safety to?",0
"In fact the mechanised German army is somewhat of a myth as well, as a lot of the logistics was done by horse. Add that to the fact basically any footage of the German army not being mowed down would have been created by the nazis, and would thus have been made to make them look good, and you can sort of see how we are still affected by some nazi propaganda when looking at the regime historically even today.","yep a lot of footage that gets used in documentaries is from nazi propaganda, which still propagates some insane myths, theres also the difference of allocation of resources because of corruption as an anectode:",1
"Some conspiracy theorists call the Dems and Republicans the ""uniparty,"" because they're both backed by corporate interests, so they're both ""the same"" (but don't forget to vote Republican anyway!). I disagree.","There were never any significant investigations or punishments, and Obama's people justified it as wanting to ""unify, not divide"" people more and that they were ""focused on moving forward, not looking back"" and similar wishy-washy phrases.",0
The key is that the documented fact that military spending does not vanish money does not mean that it's the best investment. Better investments have greater returns for the economy.,"If the government started actually looking for ways to maximize ROI for the entire economy then health care, the railways, and nuclear power infrastructure would be nationalized and invested in en-mass. Those industries all have tremendous untapped ROI and are all proven areas where government management works because top-down management is efficient (natural monopolies) but where abusive monopolization is dangerous to consumers. Nationalization is also proven to work in all cases.",0
"I happen to vote in person every time, and I don't think I've ever seen a poll worker under 70 years old. The idea that these people were rigging the election for the Democrats is such a laughably pathetic accusation.","Like you said, nobody ever questioned the integrity of our elections until Trump came along. In fact, it used to be a point of pride for our state that we had such modern voting systems compared to many other states.",0
Doing great back in India though I still haven't gotten used to the honking and general chalet\_hai/jugaad attitude.,"3. (If I may go on my soapbox) India intrinsically doesn't believe in a universal arc of justice/universal rights granted to all humans. Everything is relative/negotiable/fate. This causes Indians to disengage from politics because ""what's the point? Everyone's on the take."" This means there is no market for polarizing narratives to develop because the minute you point out hypocrisy or an abuse of power, the response is ""what's the point? Everyone's on the take."".",0
"Still a couple thousand to count, but probably as many votes left in the rural counties combined (most reporting at 95%) as there are in slightly Democratic Pueblo. Going to be razor thin.","That most recent dump came out of Otero county, which is very right-leaning. Remaining votes are more pro-Frisch.",0
The things we are giving them are older. As much as people complain there is a savings to not having to maintain all that equipment that’s sent over. It’s a complex system but you see on the Russian side what lack of maintenance and upgrading has done to harm their army. To quote one of my favorite Reddit comments of this was “they’re about to find out why America doesn’t have free healthcare” I.e. a well maintained arsenal of weapons.,In military weaponry and supplies sure. But if a no fly zone was granted that would involve NATO forces actually entering the war and using force against Russia which would be a huge escalation that everyone wants to avoid at all costs.,1
"I also wouldn't past western governments if they really believed it was an accident on the Russian part, to say it was Ukraine Anti-missile fire to keep things from heating up more.","Would also explain why both sides deny it's theirs; Russians have a missile shot down, because it was, and Ukraine have a missile that shot down a Russian one, but failed to detonate. Result being the Russian missile is thrown off course, and explodes in Poland.",1
"They worked together on the infrastructure bill, signaling the Republicans in senate being willing to work with Biden rather than obstruct. This is in contrast to what's going on in the race for Speaker which is the GOP unwilling to compromise.",">“He’s a man of his word. When he gives you his word, you can take it to the bank, you can count on it, and he’s willing to find common ground to get things done for the country. So thank you, Mitch. Thank you,” Biden said.",0
Changes may need to be made to our justice system but it doesn’t mean murders deserve any of their freedoms.,"I already said I believe changes to the justice system need to be made. However I don’t see criminals we imprison deserving of their rights. We just need to work smarter and imprison the right kind of offense not giving people we imprison back their rights as long as they are imprisoned. So you premise in my opinion is completely the wrong way to go about it. You shouldn’t be giving all prisoners their rights in prison, you need to stop putting the wrong people in prison to begin with.",0
"Yeah, getting hung up on Congressional salaries is a mistake. We _want_ Congress to be well compensated so that Members don't have to suck up to big business and lobbyists in order to assure themselves a cushy sinecure when they're done in politics.","If it wasn't, would you really want the wealthiest congresspeople who don't need nor care about their salary to be able to bully the lower-income ones that rely on their salary to make rent?",1
"The most important thing to avoid was creating the reality or the impression that Russia came out better off, in any way, for its behavior. This would incentive both Russia and other thuggish regimes to act in similar ways in the future.","I don't think anyone now thinks the war has made Russia better off in any sense. Thanks mostly to the great courage and resolve of the Ukrainians, it is severely weakened and will continue to grow weaker the longer the thing continues.",0
Venezuela is badly in need in help with their oil industry. If i were Chevron though I'd be asking for payment up front (US might agree to unfreeze some of their assets and those go directly to Chevron).,If this works out it will help a LOT of people in poverty in Venezuela by helping them have more money for food imports.,0
"Reminder that Swiss martial neutrality was because Swiss mercenaries were effective enough that they were being bought up by both sides in wars, so the neutrality was put in place to protect them from killing themselves.","Switzerland has spent its entire history of neutrality playing each side to ensure that neither side thinks the Swiss are taking sides while also profiting from whatever crisis is happening. If they were to send something to Ukraine, then they’d have to send something to Russia too (which they obviously don’t want to do). That’s how neutrality works. If the Russians were the ones being unjustly invaded, they wouldn’t help them either.",1
"It didn’t. It took Biden some time to fix the absolute clusterfuck that Trump created. The economy doesn’t change overnight. Anything economic at the beginning of the presidency is always related to the former president not the current one. Presidents always get far too much credit or blame for the economy very little of which is under their control, but the extent to which a president can be created or blamed. The first at least year of a president’s term is the former president deserves the credit or blame. Only after the new president has some time for the economy to react to their new policies can the current president deserve any credit or blame for what’s going on economically. A year is the absolute minimum that a new president can have any responsibility for economic conditions. With as fucked up as things were when Biden took office, it would be ludicrous to give him credit or blame for anything economically until at least 2022, and he’d acted long before then, but policies take time to change things for the better or worse. Truthfully the pandemic deserves the most blame for economic conditions in 2021. But to the extent that any president deserves blame for them, that president is trump, not Biden. The same applies to the first year minimum of trumps presidency. To the extent a president can effect the economy, the good economy at the beginning of trumps presidency was the work of Obama not trump. The only thing trump deserves credit for is that it took a pandemic to fuck up what Obama helped credit, again with the caveat that most of the economic conditions are not within a president’s control.","Of course you can’t dispute the truth about the economy so you change the subject instead. Common right wing tactic. When the facts don’t support you on the topic in question, you don’t admit that you were wrong, you change the topic to something else. If I were to dispute your version of Obamas warmongering, you’d simply change the subject again.",0
"2) Infecting hundreds of millions of people is going to give the virus a chance to generate hundreds of new variants, one or more of which could spread more easily and/or be more lethal than present variants.","With the number of people they have being infected, I think it's a safe bet that they'll have a higher total number of deaths than anywhere else. They just won't tell anyone.",0
"Just wanted to point out that due to permits and county inspections (if you ever want to be able to sell the house), it is not always as easy as add a gas line and you're good. Being able to maintain proper gas pressure is a consideration, and if the house was designed a certain way, a retrofit might be a bit more involved.",A more realistic regulation would be to require that gas stoves be installed under a hood that vents to the outside of the house. Too many vents only filter and recirculate the air.,1
"“The suspension also violated the Florida Constitution, and that violation did affect the outcome,” Hinkle wrote. “But the Eleventh Amendment prohibits a federal court from awarding declaratory or injunctive relief of the kind at issue against a state official based only on a violation of state law.”.","And no federal courts do not have appellate jurisdiction over state law decisions. If a decision in state court involves federal law, it can be appealed or removed to federal court, but without the federal law hook, federal courts lack jurisdiction to rule on state law claims. They do not rule on appeals cases that involve state law.",0
>Fosun Pharma will pay BioNTech up to USD 135M (EUR 120M) in upfront and potential future investment and milestone payments; the two companies will share future gross profits from the sale of the vaccine in China.,"That's because it isn't ineffective. Studies, run by countries that aren't china, and the billions of people vaccinated with it in poorer countries that can't afford -40c refrigeration supply chains, show it prevents death and hospitalization just as well as mrna vaccines at 3 doses.",0
"It boggles my mind that it is seen as ""EVIL"" to just promote conditions that lead to people having fewer kids so the ecosystems of this planet do not collapse for the sake of the consumerism of an ever growing human population.","The main point is that the debate over how to stabilise the world population to sustainable levels often strays wildly away from the statistical evidence and when it does, it inevitably wanders into evil territory.",1
"Or do you mean the President of the EU, appointed by the democraticly elected Council members? I mean no one elects their spokesperson.",Or do you mean the laws voted on/passed by the democraticly elected Members of the European Parliament (MEP)?,0
"I'm anti-war, which is why I support giving weapons to Ukraine to defend itself. The Russian invasion was an unprovoked act of aggression and appeasing it will only encourage more Russian aggression.","The only thing that should make Russian leadership desperate is if we launch an offensive into Russia proper, which we are never going to do.",1
"3. While the US was bombing Vietnam, the Soviet union was still sending millions of its own people into Gulags.","The US killed hundreds of thousands of civilians with chemical weapons, and caused serious illness in millions more.",1
"Make no mistake, many of these supported Bolsonaro during his government and deserve A LOT of criticism, but unlike the GOP a majority of the right-wing in Brazil is firmly against these terrorists and accepts the election results. This is also true for many of the right-wing (such as the speaker of the house) and center-right parties (such as the governor of Rio Grande do Sul) - even though they're formally opposition to Lula's government, they're all against the terrorists, in favour of the democratic process and ready to condemn Bolsonaro's cult.","If these people admit they were wrong, and that Bolsonaro just lost, they'll have to admit that they lost (because they've tied themselves emotionally to Bolsonaro), that their movement lost, and that, just maybe, all the borderline fascism they've been rationalizing for four years was just cheap fascism, and no different from its prior, discredited iterations.",1
"That's a very broad statement in regards to millennials and gen z. As a millennial, I remember the Clinton administration. And I know I'm not the only person under 40 who is politically aware- not only the current political climate but the past as well. It would be extremely short-sighted if two entire generations were only are aware of current politics. I remember Trump being a slime ball. I also remember his gaudy New York apartment. Anywho, generalizing people is not nice...","In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.",1
"Any talk of war with China would be in China's back yard in the Taiwan Strait for Taiwan, and probably with the UK/Australia/Japan involved.","A Chiniese war with Taiwan would probably be catastrophic for the world. Saying Biden or any president should demand Taiwans independence is foolish and doesn't understand the consequences of what would potentially happen. Or saying Biden is weak for taking to China. No, he is trying to prevent the world from economic ruin and from the US getting drawn into a proxy war with China that would make Russia/Ukraine look tiny and insignificant. And may very well pull the US into war itself with China.",1
These movements are global and we should treat them as such.The biggest favor we can do to oppressors is focusing on division.,Wait so do you want me to acknowledge that women and minorities are struggling to have their rights affirmed and acknowledged in the U.S. or not?,0
"The shipping crate or whatever it was that held the device had tamper-proof security tape around it as per the regulations, that's what was reported in the media early on in the incident. So nobody got into the crate while it was in transit. Police categorically ruled out theft etc.","Yep, the search was definitely measured and calm. Not an ounce of ""frantic"" anywhere other than the inevitable over-excitement of the media outlets in reporting it.",0
"Stopping (delaying) the event in which the new president is confirmed by illegally storming the place that happens, while actively searching for members of Congress comes pretty close.",If you think the events of Jan 6 didn't endanger the very fabric of American democracy then you need to take another look at it.,0
"After 10 years, Ukraine will have the most modern factories, shipping terminals, communications systems, etc. because everything needs to be rebuilt. Having such a modern base will make Ukrainian services and products very competitive on a global scale.","And exactly for the reason you give, Ukraine must join both the EU and NATO after this war. Let's see Russia threaten Ukraine when it as well as other countries have their missiles pointed at Moscow.",0
"""Your restaurant required employees to wash their hands after using the restroom despite some employees saying that it's their choice whether they do so or not!"".","P.S. It doesn't have to be defined in the state Constitution, just in the law. For example, the federal Civil Rights Act is where a lot of federal class protections are defined and it's a law, not a Constitutional Amendment.",1
How did Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and/or the feds respond to this? Surely at least the feds said or did something about Bolsonaro being a wanted fugitive?,"It's not just a haven for Brazilians. It's also a tax haven for a lot of rich and wealthy politicians and other major figures from across Central and South America. (More recently, it's also became a haven for Russians hiding their ill-gotten assets.).",0
"Sure, and that's not nothing, but Russia doesn't have a ton of ballistic missiles left. The current threat is mostly air-launched cruise missiles and shahid-type drones, both of which NASAMS is more than capable of dealing with.","More the reverse, Patriot was designed to target aircraft and had at the time been able to engage ballistic missiles in theory. It was after the first Gulf War and with subsequent upgrades that Patriots' primary role went to ballistic missile defense.",1
"In 2016 I still felt very confident that she would win (as most Democrats did), but, again, in hindsight there were very visible flaws there that we all ignored because of how much of a villain Trump was.","He’s a big factor trump won in 2016, yeah, but to be fair it’s more of the fact that his supporters just couldn’t fucking except that he lost the primary.",1
Umm he has evidence of war crimes and is clearly willing to testify. That’s very useful information .,Then fled to Norway to request asylum as his country was committing mass war crimes and is willing to produce evidence.,0
"Russia is already against Israel on Syria and Iran and if Iran helps them get better terms in Ukraine, Russia would be beholden to aid Iran much more in return in Syria and elsewhere. Not to mention the chance that Putin might be desperate enough to aid Irans nuclear programme.","Russia stated openly that they would support Iran with nukes if we intervine, so by your logic we should make them absolutely on the side of Iran instead of taking the chance they help them?",1
"So tell me, how can Ukraine or the West unilaterally declare peace when Russia doesn't want peace and has annexed 5 sizeable regions of Ukraine as its own?",It wants to rebuild the Russian empire and Ukraine is one of many countries in its path of military annihilation towards that. The only way towards peace is physically stopping Russia.,0
"Yeah, really? And what were the Dutch Indies doing? Who was it ruled by? You know the one that ended just less than 60 years back?","That was 150 - 160 years ago. That’s like 7 or 8 generations after the fact. Maybe we need to stop dredging up the past and instead focus on what can be done today to eliminate systemic poverty, regardless of race.",1
Why do they have to fight in the tunnels? Russia can just work to encircle the mine. And the tunnels probably aren't accessible to resupply easy. It makes no sense to post up in the tunnels here. This isn't Vietnam.,Yeah they went there because they had no other choice . It wasn't a part of any grander plan. It was in no way advantageous for the Ukrainians there in any way so I'm not sure what point you are trying to make .,0
"Business ? Business is just the dumb side of hating humans. Honestly if someone was taking 10 he'll even 20% cut for corruption but was doing a good job other wise it would still be understandable. Bad ? Yes. But still understandable. I hate humans for more complicated reasons. For example if i remember the year correctly in 2017 there was a rape case that happened in Kashmir where victim was basically kept hostage and assaulted in temple. Parents of the victim were looking for her but they didn't search the temple because they thought nobody who keep someone hostage there. That probably is enough to make an average person get upset, right ? After it became clear what happened bjp people there took out a protest with indian flag and everything IN SUPPORT OF THE ACCUSED. Still don't hate humanity enough? Once this thing started getting attention you can guess the regular political drama so no point in pointing out towards more messed up behaviour by bjp so I will give you something that will make you hate humanity. It was top searched for term on xvideos. Know what makes it even worst ? The rape in a holy place, the political support for accused, the fact that people were searching for a rape video on a porn site ? The victim was not even 10 iirc.","The issue is it cell who make sure that pro bjp propaganda keep flooding most places. Also bjp is not forgetting about gen Z. The exam discussion thing where our great leader the only person in the world with degree in entire political science tells kids how to prepare for exams, there are books for kids ""written by"" our great leader and the Mann ki baat program all come together to try to get kids to think that Modi is someone they should look up to.",0
"One way or another you'll pay. The debt ceiling is about having a tool to bludgeon the Democrats with. The moment a Republican can sign bills into law again talk of those ""trickle down"" tax cuts will flow again and the fear of deficits will have just evaporated.","Yeah, it's definitely worth noting that it was the tax cuts these dipshits so eagerly passed in 2017 that ballooned the deficit that they're now so concerned about. Of course, this is literally always what Republicans fucking do. The ""Two Santas"" theory in play, as usual: run up the deficit when the Republicans are in power (by giving gigantic handouts to the wealthy and starting pointless fucking wars), then blame the Democrats for not doing enough to combat the deficit and try to sell the idea that we're ""broke"" and ""forced"" to gut Social Security and Medicare... only to then turn around and run by blaming the Democrats for gutting Social Security and Medicare.",1
"So yes, things are better than a decade ago. But just one meeting of old regressive people In power can revert all that progress. With or without the people's approval.",Yes better now. But that can backslide quickly. I mean just look at Roe v Wade. Something people were so certain was just inherently safe gone in a moment. Decades of progress rolled back.,0
"Again, China doesn't want to engage in war against the American navy where they've many carriers, submarines, plenty of missiles to destroy all Chinese main naval and shipping ports within a week. The US can comfortably impose a full blockade of all ships out of the south China sea with their airforce, carriers and submarines. Don't think China has a chance to go head to head with the F35s, submarines and aircraft carriers on top of sanctions.","And yes the US navy is free to travel through the waters but antiship missiles are increasingly large threats. Saturating a naval group with such missiles is far easier when your many airbase can sortie far more aircraft then the aircraft and airbases the US can muster in that region, especial with forces all over the world.",1
"There are other negative consequences in posessing a nuke. Think about an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, which is what people always predict will happen. Iran doesn't have an air force capable of responding, all they have are thousands upon thousands of accurate ballistic missiles. If you've got a nuke then you can no longer fire your ballistic missiles without the chance that it's mistaken for a nuclear strike.","The US has sent a clear message to any nation seeking to build a nuclear weapon: you cannot trust us to honor our agreements, and if you don't build a nuke we'll invade you.",1
"The only way a sales tax makes sense in lieu of income taxes is if your goal is to consolidate wealth and starve the government of revenue, neither of which are admirable goals.","As a tax attorney, I could go on, but switching to a sales tax is not the answer. If it was, countries would do it and they don't. The only thing countries do is have income taxes plus VAT.",0
The exposure she has at speeches vs the exposure she gets from the thousands of news articles written about the stupid shit she says aren't even comparable.,The news companies who report on her batshit stupid craziness aren't the ones being read by the types of people who believe her fascist rhetoric.,1
Most often when a state gives aid the amount is spent on the giving states industry and the goods are then given to the recipient of the aid. This is done for a myriad of reasons. Most foremost the fact that often the state receiving aid is in crisis and may not have the resources or the capacity to produce the things they need.,Just as an aside; international aid does not directly get deposited into a country. The political framework of comparison between how sovereign states work and how individual households is both wrong and harmful.,0
Like all wars this one is about money and corporate interest. Russia is defending the wolves of NATO at their doorstep. The US is seeking to corner a market. At the expense of Ukraine and Russia.,"This is now America's war against Russia using Ukraine as a proxy. Notice one thing that wasn't talked about yesterday? Peace. No one said peace. It's all war. This could go on for years. Bleed trillions from both America and Russia, and leave Ukraine in ruins.",1
"Because if you're non-exempt, you get overtime pay. It doesn't matter what you're told. That doesn't trump law.","I don't understand the ruling here. Can someone Explain it like I am 5 years old? So if someone is paid salary, but works more than 40 hours a week. Then they get overtime?",1
"If he could start all over, it would be very easy: The Chinese pharma company Fosun invested very early in Biontech and signed deals with Biontech, similar to Pfizer, allowing them to sell it in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The US had no problem to act like Pfizer is an American vaccine. China could have called it Fosun and do the same. In Hong Kong Fosun actually sold the Fosun Biontech vaccine. But only in Hong Kong. It worked, of course. But not for the rest of China. Why?","Why does this matter though? China is running a no COVID policy. It's not like the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines make you immune to the virus. If it was he probably would. Even if they accepted Western vaccines, it wouldn't change anything about the current situation in China.",1
"If I remember correctly, I saw an infographic a while back that showed the majority of space debris that poses a threat is due to irresponsible Russian activity.","it's a phenomenon in which the amount of junk in orbit around Earth reaches a point where it just creates more and more space debris, causing big problems for satellites, astronauts and mission planners.",1
"You mean like how Steve Bannon has never denied being 5 lizards in a skin suit that loves to smell Donald Trump's farts. I mean people are saying it, so it must be true.","What you do is make a big deal out of true, but pointless, stuff. Then link it to scandalous or illegal made up stuff. Put of bunch of hacked stuff on a random computer. Some of the content is true and verifiable. Insist it’s hunters laptop (unproven and probably bullshit). Insert a bunch of fake incriminating stuff. The dick pics are great, because it makes it seem like private stuff on a personal computer. And we know it’s impossible for people’s data (especially celebrities and other high profile people) to be hacked and exposed /s. So must all be hunters stuff and it’s so incriminating for…. His dad, who didn’t do anything illegal and possibly wasn’t even involved at all in any of the alleged activity. But, oh why the cover-up and all that…. Because it’s all slanderous staged BS.",1
Simply put Russia isn't going to use nukes because there is literally no realistic scenario where they end up in a better situation (and why would you use a weapon that guarantees a loss). Russia keeps threatening nukes because they know people like you are going to panic about them and try and force those who know better to back down.,"If I had to put money on who's rapid response nuclear deterrent deployment behaves as designed, it's not on Russia's. I would also bet it all on the fact that they don't get the opportunity to work out what went wrong with the missiles that don't detonate or hit their intended target.",1
You advocate for imprisonment for people unwilling to comply with a violation of their constitutional rights?,though I disagree with your comment I would never advocate for you to be imprisoned because you exercising your first amendment right is something that i do not agree with.,0
If you don’t think there is a surprising amount of hardcore brainwashed religious women that want this too you don’t know that like most groups of people they don’t unanimously agree on anything.,One wonders how much is religious vs. wanting power/subordination over women and using religion as the excuse. It’ll be different for each person. Either way it sucks.,1
"While West Virginia is a Constitutional Carry state, meaning there is no requirement to obtain a concealed carry permit to carry in general, but this specifically requires someone to obtain a concealed carry permit prior to carrying on campus. In addition, Constitutional Carry only applies to people over the age of 21 in WV. There is a provisional concealed carry permit available to those under the age of 21, but the law does not appear to allow provisional carry licenses to carry on campus (provisional licenses have greater restrictions on them than the normal permits available in WV).","Again, I don’t know and wasn’t attempting to address the current law in West Virginia but the trend is not only to loosen restrictions on concealed carry but even reduce the age requirements to allow those under 18 to carry unsupervised.",1
Those people will talk how they support free speech and constitution until they take power and then destroy them.,Their free speech is restricting other free speech. It’s like how their “freedom of religion” is their freedom to restrict equal rights.,1
"Just squeezing such a weaker side like that into their busy schedule rotation is always an unproductive move, competitively speaking, so the top teams don't really enjoy the obligations that come with playing these much weaker teams because it cuts into their performance flow.",It's funny because it's ironic. Professionally it would be a waste of time for Australia to play them anyway because the very top teams like Australia are way too good to bother playing a team like Afghanistan.,0
He did do it almost thirty years ago when he authorized the first settlements. The intent is to effectively colonize large parts of the west bank to the point that once any formal negotiation over border lines happens the Palestinians and the rest of the world won’t have any real choice but to just accept a redrawn boundary.,"So, sure, somehow building settlements and stimulating the Palestinian economy (though that isn't their goal, obviously) is genocide. I'm sure another 30 years of settlement building and unsustainable Palestinian population growth will fulfill the Zionist agenda... which is...?",1
I don't think it makes 'perfect' sense for Belarus - but it makes perfect sense for Russia to strongarm Belarus to go along with a false flag operation.,Kidding yourself if you think somehow NATO would get involved just because Belarus' weak military jumps in.,1
"A modern weaponized balloon wouldn't be that bad for a long ranged attack. If the US is letting it fly over our airspace, the only thing that would be different is having some sort of payload attached.","seems like the FAA has pretty clearly defined prohibited airspace… but hey at least you tried, right?",1
"See, I don’t really want to live longer (just the population problem alone puts me off that), but being healthier up until the end would be great. Like if I could be basically an 80 year old with the general health of a 45 year old and then kick the bucket? I’m down.","I dunno, and I’m not saying anyone should agree with me, but I’m fine with shorter life. This isn’t something that I recently started feeling. My mom sent me to therapy when I was 10 for saying this sort of thing and that was 35 years ago. I don’t think it’s sad and I’m not a depressed person. The fact that it’s a limited run makes me appreciate it all the more. If I hadn’t had a child I might already have checked out, but I would never do that to her.",0
"(For, the record, I support Ukraine 100%. But I am not idiotic enough to fail to get how bloody dangerous and fraught with life-and-death peril is this casual dismissal of what Russia might do if truly backed into a corner.).","Sure. We sold them weapons prior to the attack this year, including prior to the 2014 invasion of Crimea.",1
"That doesn’t mean burning a Quran in protest of Turkey is not a political act in of itself. Erdoğan can’t not respond to such an act given his stance, which will be politically detrimental to him in the eyes of his voters.","""Erdogan can't not respond"" well he definatly can ignore a lunatic troublemaker but he choose to do so that he can try to squeeze out tha maximum out of the situation. He is playing a dangerous game putting his own interests before Natos.",1
My understanding is that using December 25 was Christian’s appropriating a pagan celebration (I wanna say winter solstice) to make it more enticing for pagans to join in.,"Christians just co-opted Saturnalia from the Romans, including lightning candles and the practice of gift giving, to give Christians a holiday to celebrate while the rest of the Roman Empire was celebrating a “pagan” holiday.",1
Seems like someone is abusing their government power by instructing their staff to find evidence against a political opponent they do not like...if only the GOP and their supporters understood simple concepts like irony.,"To the bold: This is another standard GOP talking point about ""abuse of power"", they'll argue everything has to go through Congress no matter how small. This ignores the fact that entities like the FCC, FTC, IRS were created by Congress to manage specific forms of governing (Communications, Trade, Taxes) so Congress isn't bogged down with every little detail. They act as extensions of Congress and the Executive branches. Additionally because of how the House and Senate are currently split right now, any potential new legislation on a bill to get rid of Non-competes which benefits Republicans and big business because the rules will remain the same.",1
"Senate committees require a majority vote to subpoena. Right now, due to how power is shared with the 50-50 split, committees need at least one Republican vote for that.","Nope. Stuff on the committee level is down to whatever can be hashed out in the power sharing agreement. Right now, every Senate committee has equal numbers Republicans and Democrats. With one more vote, though, Democrats will be able to appoint a majority to each committee.",0
"However, maritime experts say the way the UK registers imports, as well as the increased use of ship-to-ship transfers, will make it difficult for the UK to sanction Russian oil.","It's also that the loophole is an unusual practice by which the UK registers imports, according to copied to its discussion over in /r/europe, and would have to be changed by the UK:",0
"It's hard to liken it to religion for me because religion is about belief, a trans person would be trans even if they chose not to believe they were trans or even if people convinced them not to be trans. If someone talks someone out of converting to Christianity, then they aren't a Christian. If someone talks someone out of transitioning, they still have a transgender identity, they just aren't allowed to acknowledge it.","I have seen cishet people ask what being trans and being gay have in common as a way to divide the LGBTQ+ community, and this is it: being gay or trans is being a person living as something not considered the societal default in a usually imperceptible way.",0
"Yup. Got real tired of the unchecked narcissism. I am starting to think that the love bombing to get someone interested and committed after 3-6 months is widely taught and accepted. While proper behavior after that time period is not. I'm not your mother, because if I was I'd think I had failed. You still need to act like a respectful adult even after the honeymoon phase, and not just when you're horny and want something.","Well, I'm not on SSRIs, not addicted to alcohol, never had an abortion and am happily single by choice. I do get lost sometimes, but that's what Google Maps (an app made by a ""libruhl"" company based in ""Commie-fornia"") is for.",0
"I can’t tell for certain but it would appear her strategy is to hope that neither GOP/Dem candidate can field a challenger that can come up to full primary, or that when one side loses their supporters will shift to Sinema because they think she’s not as bad as the other guy - on both sides.","If she does decided to run, it will be up to the Democratic candidate and the DSCC (they must not shy away from this race for fear of handing it to a Republican), to convince Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents that Sinema is not a \moderate\ and she most certainly isn't following ""John McCain's path"".",1
"It was a brilliant stroke. Putin can only say that it is proof Ukraine is a vassal state of the US. That's the best he can come up with. But really that doesn't make him look that good. If Ukraine is under US control and that's why Russia can't take Ukraine, then he looks like he lost the war.","Whatever the outcome of the war, Russia losing influence in Belarus would be large humiliation for any Russian leader. The cost of brutally suppressing Belarus unfortunately is still pretty low for Russia. Between paying the security forces of Belarus and using their own troops, it seems they would be capable of suppressing the local population as they have before.",1
"The chances are good that the Russian armed forces either aren't keeping records of where they've been dropping ordnance, or they're failing to communicate those records to units in the area. From what we've seen so far, my money would be on a combination both.","You don't really ""lay"" butterfly mines (or other Scatmin) as such. You deploy them via airburst munitions and they scatter indiscriminately over a wide area.",0
"I believe UBI is a good thing and we’ll definitely need it as automation takes over, but I think it would just confuse things to talk about UBI as the same as social security and Medicare, mostly because it doesn’t exist yet and if it did republicans would already be trying to get rid of it lol.",Republicans use “entitlements” as a code word so they can talk about cutting social security but claim they were talking about cutting some other program. I guess people need to get them on the record describing which entitlement programs they want to cut and refuse to use that word when possible and make them be specific.,0
"Facebook disinformation campaigns and troll farms really did work their magic here. Elders that remember the dark days of the last Marcos regime have made public outcries, but Marcos’ supporters deny this and call his family’s reign as a ‘golden era’ despite his family declaring martial law, stealing money from the masses, and leaving the Philippine people in shambles.","The sheer disillusionment of the broken promise of People Power is also a factor, a promise of prosperity that never manifested more than half a century has stewed resentment in the country, in fact during the mid-2010's the slow descent of respect for the Aquinos(while also having issues of their own) who's patriarch's death was the catalyst for the ousting of Marcos, pretty much foreshadowed the Marcoses efforts in changing public perception and history.",1
"""The Supreme Court found that the current voting age of 18 was inconsistent with the country's Bill of Rights, which gives people a right to be free from age discrimination when they have reached 16."".","Reminds me of a great episode of The West Wing where a children's right to vote group had an in depth discussion/argument with Toby Zeigler. He was basically convinced, and he suggested they start at the local level and work at lowering it in increments. It has a lot of merit when you're talking about things like high school students being allowed to vote in school board elections.",0
"That ad Biden actually didn't approve to be run but that was spread by his staff was obviously meant to be as condescending as possible (spiced up with some homophobic dogwhistles). In real life his policies changed the trajectory of the city from ""dying"" to being attractive and growing again, a downtown that resembled a ghost town in the evening to a lively place with tons of private development, and investments starting to come to poor neighborhoods. Like that sidewalk in a predominantly Latino neighborhood the ad misleadingly pretended to be in downtown.","Biden's transition team put him at Transportation because Buttigieg is an outstanding Secretary, a transportation nerd, has the political talent to help with Congress and can be used as spokesperson for the administration on nearly every topic. Not having him in the cabinet would have been a major blunder, the only question was finding the best position.",0
"You have to go a couple of articles further to figure out how this guy, and the other named defendants and uncharged persons, managed to vote twice.",But I nia very interesting to keep seeing these arrests of people who voted twice or who voted with a dead spouse's info are seemingly on one side... But this is part of the conspiracy too I'm sure.,1
That’s if we aren’t pretending you aren’t trying to make some context free political statement that these dudes could simply opt out of civilian conscription and crossing into Ukraine.,This mobilization hasn’t even taken place yet therefore none of what you’ve described has actually happened - they are in fact presently civilians.,0
"25+ year smoker who still smokes, lives in CA, and fully supports this plan. I think the fact that we already have more money than we know what to do with might work in our favor here. I agree with you 100%, just pointing out that CA might be the ideal state to pilot this idea.","Let us addicted assholes who aren't motivated enough to quit (yet) keep doing what we're doing, while preventing the younger generations from ever getting started (or at least preventing them from gaining a full head of steam with the habit/addiction).",0
"Which is done through gerrymandering, voter suppression, AND the Dems not really listening to voices in the most impoverished BIPOC communities. Many of the most marginalized in this country often rarely see a change in their lives whether it’s a blue or red administration. I will always advocate for folks to vote and will always do so myself, but for the first time in my adult life I think I can finally grasp and feel empathy for the generational burnout felt by marginalized communities which leads them to feel their votes don’t matter.","This what we should be doing with our spare time in between voting seasons. We should also, in turn, stay loud with those we voted for as advocates for marginalized communities as they are already burnt out on working to survive every day.",0
"We’re not innocent by any means. The US has done plenty of shady regime change shit, interfered with elections that were prob going to have socialists win but NATO came into existence after two very costly world wars to try and keep that from happening again. Both Europe and the US knew that once Germany was vanquished, Russia was the next largest threat to that peace because Stalin was a psycho. Seems Putin would like to become a psycho rival to Stalin with this brainless move to invade Ukraine. He most likely thought he’d get away with it like the other questionable military actions he’s engaged in. Problem is this time he picked a country right on Europe’s doorstep. We’d be looking at a very different conflict right now if Trump had won.","Heard the Russians had to stop using them because guess what? Those drones were designed and made to work in the high temps present in Iran, not the frigid winter temps of Ukraine.",0
"You're saying that like Russia isn't at war. You might be one of the ""special military operation"" people, but in case you didn't notice, diplomacy has not worked for Ukraine in preventing a Russian invasion.","Maybe they could have beaten just Ukraine-- I'm really not sure, given the incredible resolve of the Ukranian military and my lack of knowledge about Ukraine's pre-war supply situation-- but they're not fighting just Ukraine. They're fighting Ukraine and a massive pile of weapons and supplies from third parties who want to stop them from taking territory.",1
American has been “Leading a war on drugs” for a good long time. There are loads of people incarcerated for weed in the US. Then someone goes abroad and vapes weed against the law and people get upset that she’s being punished. Ok you can argue about the nature or degree of the punishment and that she is being used as a political prisoner. It’s not like there are any countries above those kinds of games. I mean if she was vaping weed she should have been caught for doing drugstore and banned from the sport for a while anyway. I seriously doubt this is the first time she’s ever done this.,"I’m curious why people should care about her so much when there are so many Americans in US jails? Aren’t there something like 1% of all Americans in jail, mostly for pretty minor offences?",0
"I think you’re right that given the choice of paying attention in school or scrolling social media on a phone, most kids would prefer to be on their phone.","I can see from many of the comments that people have no understanding of the struggle faced by teachers with regard to student phone usage. Imagine planning and delivering an engaging lesson and getting zero engagement and zero participation. Imagine looking out over your class and seeing nothing but the tops of heads. When they aren’t scrolling tiktok, they are spontaneously interrupting the lesson to stage a group tiktok dance or begin a beef via group text. Eighth graders, en masse, reading at a first grade level. They are not using the WWW to discover fascinating information about the world around them, they are watching hard core porn at 12. They can’t read, they can’t write; anything beyond 30 seconds bores them. Prepare yourselves for a wave of students entering the work force as functional illiterates with the attention span of a flea. We have lkmited phones with some success but this is another kind of pandemic and we will all be feeling the repercussions of this, mark my words.",1
"Are large parts of Twitter a cesspool? Yes, absolutely. Is it still the most efficient way to get important information out to the public? Yes, absolutely.","How many news articles use tweets nowadays? How many organizations (government, social, economic, etc.) use Twitter as a primary means of getting important information to the public?",0
"Can we also acknowledge that 1. Picking apart the people fighting for Ukraine is not the top priority while they are actively getting fucking attacked 2. Ukraine has a lot of complex issues, including but not limited to having ""their Trump"" as PM or President for the better part of 12 years, ending just 9 years ago, at which point Putin invaded Crimea?",I am not sure how you do not understand that if Russia is successful in their invasion of Ukraine that it presents a problem for all of Europe and the world.,1
You can look up an old photo of a wagner top dog with swastika tattoos. Along with another photo of him standing next to putin at some formal event.,"Wagner has all manner of weapons in their disposal short of nuclear - tanks, heavy armor, planes, artillery systems. They recruit from russian prisons above any law or authority. The only person in russia who can allow that is putin.",0
"This is a classic problem for Democrats, and lately I've been thinking that it's less because Democrats are bad at messaging and more because politics and governing are supposed to be fucking boring and procedural and we're living in a time where we are constantly being entertained and stimulated. We collectively have no attention span. We hop from one stupid story to the next. The average person doesn't have the fortitude to tackle complex boring shit that politicians are supposed to tackle.","Politics isn't about finding a mythical median voter and adopting all their policies. People with ""change stuff"" messages and no long term political history win the presidency as frequently as institutionalists.",1
"It’s not a uniquely Canadian problem, the US sees the same thing, and no one here has seriously suggested a foreign home purchase ban because it won’t drive down prices (it’s mentioned that only 6% of BC is foreign owned) and will just drive foreign ownership underground through domestic intermediaries.","I'm not an expert on Canada and their laws, but you just prohibited foreign investment that would directly or indirectly lead to housing construction and wealth accumulation by Canadians. That assumes that foreigners are actually fully prohibited by law from buying and building houses, which might not be fully true, but that's what the title suggests.",1
"Secondly, by saying things like ""Ofcourse Serbia will help Russia"", one is artificially pushing them towards Russia by creating sentiment among the pro-EU people that Serbia is ""bad"".",Yet the intelligence of two non-EU countries is accepted as accurate on a mostly-Western platform and is used as an excuse to insult Serbs and incite hatred. And then you ask yourself how it pushes Serbia towards Russia.,1
"Well, let’s remember that private companies deserve to profit from their labor and efforts; but to the extent they are piggybacking off governments, public universities, and other institutions, then using the IP generated from that to profit from public health emergencies or novel and fast-moving health issues (like pandemics) they should not be allowed to charge for the IP. Looking at the vax in isolation your argument carries more water, but looking at the business as a whole, and in the setting of reality as opposed to business class, one is not impeding the private nature of pharmaceutical companies by asking them to take an L on a portion of future profits, which year over year are in the billions of dollars.",Sorry for the novel. You didn’t exactly answer my question as much as repeating the phenomenon I mentioned in my comment but here we are.,0
"It's really easy to say ""shitbulls"" or ""all pitbulls are fucking trash"" but its not easy to ask and understand why these things are happening.",I personally try not to make huge sweeping generalizations. Humans are to be blamed for breeding those dogs to be what they are today. I don't know how much dog fighting is still going on but there shouldn't be any more mainstream breeding programs for that. The aggression that was selectively bred for will eventually be naturally bred out. It's going to take a lot of time.,0
People lie for reasons all the time. The pathological part is when you lie about nonsense for no reason.,"The fact that he lies so consistently is one thing, but the shit he chooses to lie about is just so fucking weird. It is constantly so easily verifiable, over and over again. Being caught it any of these things would make most of us feel ashamed. Being caught lying about being a HM extra would ruin me...",1
"Either by returning it to the states, via a law passed by Congress, or an amendment to the Constitution.","More to the point, there is an amendment already limiting the governments' say on what a person can do with her own body. The 9th Amendment is pretty clear on the subject: no new laws at the expense of existing rights.",1
"Most of the journalists, are too busy selecting news that fit their readers viewpoints, using their wild imagination to create headlines, use all of their education to pump in opinions in news, all to get more clicks/retweets/subscription.","Yep. News media constantly pat itself on the back, and take glory from a tiny portion of journalists that take actual risks and paints the entire industry with the glory of their work.",0
Regardless: this is moving surprisingly fast. I'd be surprised if she actually got to the supreme court (federal or state).,"It looks like she said she would go ""all the way to the supreme court."" Unsure if she meant State or Federal (or both?).",0
"Then, I held out hopes that the EC would prevent a dangerous figure from taking power, then I hoped that the investigation into collusion wouldn’t be stymied by the executive. It was about at that point that I realized that I was being naive and that many people see power not as a tool to use for the betterment of society but as a means to an end.","Maybe the voters will be vigilant. We’ll see. They were mostly vigilant for the midterms. (Plus, there’s the whole “changing demographics and Covid-19’s impact being politicized to their detriment” aspect.).",0
"Now I just want to remind everyone, unemployment isn't a binary ""person A has or doesn't have a job"", but rather one person working 4 jobs to stay afloat and 3 homeless, unemployed people is also a 100% employment rate.","Employment stats should only show the percent of the population with at least one job, and a separate stat showing the average number of jobs people hold. THAT would tell the story a lot more accurately than these feel-good reports.",0
"Where we are now is that the far right MAGA element of the Republican party are openly pro-Russia and they want to cut military aid to Ukraine to help Russia to win the war. That's all this is. Please don't take them at their word, because they've shown time and again that they don't deserve it.","However, Republicans werent questioning US military spend during the 8 years of Bush, or 4 years of Trump. Trump promised to pull out of foreign wars and put America First. Yet military spending still went up and Republicans cheered it.",0
The name of the game when it comes to Israeli (and American) missile defenses is to just have many different systems with different targets they are focused on.,"The problem is more related to the fact that Arrow 2 is designed to intercept in the upper atmosphere, whereas cruise missiles fly much lower. David’s Sling and Patriot have targeting systems and maneuvering that are more suitable for that.",0
"I agree with you, but a lot of people have a very strong emotional attachment to dogs. Appealing to logic is all well and good, but appeals to emotion are just a more effective political tool for swaying opinion.","Sure, but ignoring the effectiveness of appeals to emotion results in the rise of populists like Trump, who \do\ appeal to the emotions of their supporters. How many times have you heard Dems called ""elitist"", or ""out of touch""? This is in large part because they often choose to appeal to common sense and logic, rather than emotion. It's a dirty trick, and has risks like you say, but we can't ignore it as a tool.",0
"""Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."" Karl Marx, ""The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon."".",Ah. Is this like that episode of the Simpsons where Bart has a catch phrase that dies? I thought the “sir” and “tears in their eyes” trope was a joke now.,1
Where Trump lied and tried to impede law-enforcement from being able to gather all the classified documents to secure them properly.,"The issue with Trump was never the classified documents themselves. It was the lying, impeding the investigation, and the fact that these classified documents for in an area where known foreign spies and nationals have been.",0
"My guess is that the number of such requests / returns are relatively small in comparison to allowing the entire state to take advantage of this procedure. Thus, much easier to process than an entire state.","You included a link to fvap.gov. I can see where the states are empowered to send overseas voters Absentee Ballot Applications by electronic means, but my quick perusal did not find how the voters could vote by email.",0
"I had mine mailed to me. I filled it out with the added benefits of being able to re-read ballot proposals twice or three times over. I got to take my time researching every candidate on the paper. All without having to worry about holding up the line, or looking suspicious to some Q nut, or catching COVID (which still exists, folks!).","At the end of the day, I don't judge my fellow Gen Z and Millennials for their choice, since a lot of them still voted in the end, but I won't pretend to understand their logic.",0
"It isn't really Nazi stuff. Indonesia is the world's biggest Muslim country, and while not as radical as many Muslim countries in the middle-east, is still staunchly conservative.","With Indonesia now moving further towards repression and conservatism, is there any majority muslim country left for liberal muslims to live in? Is the west now their only option?",1
"Old soviet gear is simply not sufficient as it doesn't confer a technological advantage over Russian gear. It's a stopgap measure, nothing more.","Enabling Ukraine to, at scale, strike targets deep inside Russia will help to level the playing field, and this should be the absolute highest priority in terms of equipment delivery.",0
Many nations want China to stay within the first island chain. They're aggressive in term of territory claims.,"To be fair, Taiwan would want USA to be stronger and also the majority of their customers are USA companies.",0
“Investigating systematic racism in government is divisive because it’s never been determined that America has a problem with racism.”.,"So I guess systemic racism from people from ALL races will be investigated But NOT, only Whites are accused of being racists The Woke culture indoctrination that ONLY whites can be racists, is total nonsense!",1
"So I think that if anyone has relevant opinion on this, and can really sympathise with Ukraine, its Croatia.","Something is not right here… this is very opposite of the Croatian people and government’s stance to support European values and EU/ NATO partners. In addition, we remember what it was like to have our country invaded- homes destroyed, lives lost and land stolen.",1
"I do wonder how many Begich voters put Peltola as their second choice though, given that Palin abandoned the last elected office she held in Alaska.",11% of Begich's (R) voters decided they'd rather have Peltola (D) as their second choice rather than a Trump-backed Republican.,1
"I know that WhatsApp uses same encryption than Signal does, so that's solid. But do you trust Meta for not having some sort of backdoor there? Is there any way for me to verify this?","But the encryption they use is and that's what I'm referring to in my post. What they do with it is another thing, and I do not trust them for a minute.",0
Not sure about the US but in the UK the union has just rejected a deal that would have given them a significant pay-rise (8% over 2 years - still below inflation but roughly in line with wider wage growth) on the condition of accepting some modernisations that would mean long-term job cuts.,"1. Reducing staffing levels at in-station ticket offices, and ultimately closing them down together in response to increasing use of online and in-app ticket purchasing.",0
"Seems a good issue to rustle up significantly more people to not vote for him. DeSantis needs SOME independents and democrats to vote for him. This isn’t a great way to do that. People keep saying he’s smart and yet this is a seemingly incredibly dumb political move at the national level. Republicans need to be bland enough to get democrats to sit out the vote to win, going HARDER right is already shown as a losing proposition electorally.","Ah yes, going to get so many Republicans killed just so he can do slightly better in the primary and slightly worse in the general election? Not much of a brain in this one is there.",1
In NZ there has been a very concerted effort to re-honour the te reo version of the Treaty of Waitangi. There has been a number of court cases and land handover to Iwi in NZ for decades now.,"Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei was granted land taken from them in the heart of Auckland in 1988 as part of the Settlement process for the Treaty. They also were given possession of their Mārae back, which is incredibly important to Māori culture.",0
"First, the Congress can control their jurisdiction. Anything not specifically enumerated within the Constitution (e.g., trying cases between states) can be removed so that the court cannot accept cases or rule on it.",It'd be really nice if the current Congress were to prophylactic pass a law to stop this ISL thing before it becomes a problem.,0
"Either is bad news because the war with Ukraine is an artillery war and, if they run out, things are going to get bleaker for the Russian lines.","Yeah, then Ukraine blew up a bunch of warehouses, and Russia shot a truly insane amount of artillery trying to force a win through Sievierodonetsk.",1
"I think people forget that Mueller was constrained by DOJ policy in general and Barr in particular. Further that a criminal investigation into Trump's relationship with Russia would need to produce a crime. Collusion is not a crime. Unless Mueller could uncover a written or spoken agreement between Trump and Putin, the investigation was always going fall short of expectations - despite Trump having worked with Russia in general, and Putin in particular, for decades.","Maybe it's just me. I like Mueller, respect him, and read this as about as dry comedy gold as it gets.",0
"I would add that the person who was planning the demonstration is yet another idiot who doesn't understand that Judaism and Israel are two different things. A protest against Israel would call for the burning of an Israeli flag, not a Jewish Torah.",At least the Torah and bible burning would have been about making a point regarding free expression. The Quran burning was just some tool expressing his hatred for Islam.,1
"If there's no qualified diverse candidates, it's not illegal to hire the white dude. That's fine. But if there's no legal incentive not to? Odds are that we'll be the first picks most of the time...","So who does the hiring manager pick? Typically whoever they like the most, which is gonna be either who they're most sexually attracted to if they're that kinda person, or the person most similar to them... and if they're most likely some 30 or 40 something white dude? They'll be hiring the white dude applicants.",0
"What happens now is the military still controls most things, and people in positions of power are either too afraid or threatened or blackmailed into doing their bidding. The democratic government comes into power but have less authority because of those decades of control.",The US knew this for years and accepted this as cost of business in getting their goals done in Afghanistan.,0
"I mean, what the hell is this? You linked to a totally false opinion piece to make your point and claimed it was basically indisputable. Then when I linked multiple sources thoroughly debunking its (and your) claims you just pretend it's all a nothing burger and that you're still right... somehow.","The only serious articles repeating the ""no findings of collusion"" are ones written immediately after the Barr DoJ released its entirely dishonest summary of the report (without actually releasing the full report) and people took the summary at its word. This op-ed was written over a year later, however, and well after the full report was released detailing a lot of apparent collusion.",0
"Some grifters want to make the left more griftable rather than move to the right, but when that fails they just move to the right anyway.","These people are grifters, and grifters generally tend to discover that the right is far more griftable than the left.",0
"The President, at any time, can cite the Defense Production Act to nationalize the railroads if it's a matter of national security or a failure to meet contractual agreements.","Rail nationalization makes more sense cause there’s less certainty as to the cost compared to insurance, which is uncertain due to its nature, and the government tends to run things poorly when uncertainty is involved.",1
"If Republicans are so concerned about the debt, maybe pass laws to increase the revenue on the rich and stop stealing from the poor.",Republicans say they want to cut spending as part of agreeing to raise the debt ceiling but keep wanting to spend millions on these sham investigations.,1
100 years ago Russia could hide a lot of what they are doing right now and also spread a lot of lies about Ukraine that Ukraine would have trouble fighting as a smaller country with less resources.,"Russia literally needs to steal land and forcfully abduct millions of people in order to survive with the territory they have now, otherwise they will balkanize in 50 years or less, they are a dying country.",1
"That's a point I have to agree, and explains much of his success that he has 0 concern for logic, truth or constantly since none of that matters.","Yup, his school of thought is that so long as you he gets a reaction, he has ""maniplauted"" you and is in control.",0
"It was warmer than it is now during the medieval warm period. People grew grapes in England and the ice caps receded enough for the Vikings to cross into Canada and grow crops in Greenland. This period led to a boom in agriculture and civilization known as the high Middle Ages, during which the great gothic cathedrals were built. This period of growth was ended by the little ice age and the second great bubonic plague. I’m not a climate denier or anything, I just think it’s important for people to understand that warmer doesn’t necessarily mean worse. The thing that makes rising temperatures bad this time is that we have used modern technology to sustain an unnaturally high population, many living in places people shouldn’t be living in that can’t take these climate fluctuations.","Moreover, the reason why anthropogenic global warming is a cause for concern is the rate of warming—the earth has been much warmer in the past when you go back at least millions of years, but the warming period were over tens of thousands of years, not the decades as we are currently experiencing. This makes ecological adjustment to temperature fluxes significantly more difficult and disastrous.",1
"Only if Ukraine give up Crimea and Donbas, because Russia considered those 2 regions theirs and it's also internationally and legally part of Ukraine.","If Ukraine joins NATO and invokes article 5 claiming Crimea is under attack, it will automatically trigger World War 3. NATO members aren't stupid, they know what it would mean if Ukraine joins NATO.",0
"She apologized for her wrongdoing and said that she wasn’t aware of Jewish stereotypes about money, which is unfathomable. It’s pretty clear that she realizes she was wrong.","You don’t have to see it. She admitted wrongdoing and is being kicked off the committee due to that wrongdoing. The 12 Jewish congress members who condemned her were offended by her remarks, and it’s really not up to any of us to say that they’re wrong.",0
"""The discovery of devices is believed by intelligence sources to be indicative of China’s broad approach to eavesdropping on the West rather than a specific targeting of ministers’ vehicles."".","I mean, yea. They own it. Truth is that a lot of things that you might think is american or made in EU is owned by chinese people. Its pretty much impossible not to buy Chinese things.",1
"But no, the upper classes won’t have it. You see if the working classes had more time (freedom) they would have time to pursue passions, hobbies, and education. They would learn that the system they toil so hard to uphold isn’t to their benefit, it’s to their demise.","It’s an oversimplification of the point. France is part of the EU, and the EU has worker rights and protections that outpace the U.S., and yet remains an economic titan within the world. My point wasn’t that France is perfect, it’s that you don’t need to squeeze the life out of workers to do well financially.",0
Correct. And my point was that they truly did not understand the extent of the devastation the bomb was going to cause. They knew it was pretty bad and bigger than anything they had seen before. But the immediate response after having used them in Nagasaki and Hiroshima was that we shouldn’t ever do that again. Then the Soviet Union and the US started building thousands of them in hopes of mutual deterrence in the face of mutual assured destruction.,"In other words, this was definitely a demonstration of US capabilities, aimed primarily at the Soviets.",1
"Not to mention, if I'm on the panel looking at prospective college students and two identical kids come in but one of them got reprimanded for participating in a pro-lgbt walkout, that's absolutely the kind of fuck off energy I'm putting my weight behind.","This isn't to discourage people from participating in the system. It's to discourage this extremely common and extremely popular Reddit catharsis posting that either points out a glaring hypocrisy, or that posits that ""well THIS time the Republican party is done for."" Never going to happen. They don't care about losing a generation of youth voters. Their policy is to make sure those folks cannot vote at all.",0
Right now a decapitation strike would be better than live to regret what much worst shit they'll pull with nukes as their bargaining chip.,The moment you let them build their own nuclear arsenal then they'll have way too much leverage. Especially with their dumbass regime they'll be asking for the most stupidest concessions just so they won't fire a nuke.,0
"Wellll... I mean I do agree with the notion in that these loans are predatory because if you can't afford to pay your bills this week, adding more charges will simply keep compounding the problem...",It's easy to say you didn't mean to take the discussion away from the core issue of predatory payday loans AFTER you've done so. Why do I say so? Because I've yet to see a single word from you regarding this core issue.,1
"""... after lawyers for former President Donald Trump arranged for a firm to search for additional classified material ... "".","Can anyone explain that to me, because why would his own team be searching for further evidence of his illegal appropriation of classified docs?",0
"Anyone who thinks the end justifies the means is foolish. Winning means nothing if we lose our soul along the way. Gaining power by playing dirty will just lead to the normalization of winning by any means necessary. Suddenly, the same kind of people are back in power with a (D) next to their name and we are calling for another escalation of dirty politics to save us from ourselves.",I never said we shouldn’t hold criminals to account. I said that getting dirty is never justified. Laws exist. Holding someone to account for violating any law is not dirty.,0
"The US government will not generally choose to help workers because it stands with and for businesses first, not because it is powerless to do so.",Why would any company support their workers if they know that (if they're essential enough) the government will just swoop in and crush it?,1
"The question at hand is whether the president actually has the legal authority to do the thing he did... Who else, if not the Supreme Court, do you want to decide that question?","I don’t think any Supreme Court would want to overturn something of this precedent on standing, arguably paving the way for future presidents to do something like this.",1
"The funniest thing is the parents that think that if their kids never hear about sex, they will never have sex. Sorry but the body knows what to do. The only thing that happens is that they have to learn the hard way, which can be very hard when it comes to sex, involving disease, pregnancy, rape etc. etc.",I mean. There’s a difference right? I don’t agree with my kid being taught creationism because it’s an unproven idea someone had that has no bearing on reality.,1
"> ""We have a 67-seat Republican majority in which the Democrats have now picked the speaker. It's absurd,” Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Ashville, said.","Hopefully basic human nature means that these 22 Republicans, having voted with Democrats to make Stephens Speaker, will be inclined to stick with their choice. After all, they've already ""crossed the Rubicon"" of voting against the majority of their caucus in the Speakership election. Might as well stick it through at this point and appear principled.",0
"I totally agree with you there, which is why I would never agree with originalism myself. Just saying, I'd have more respect for a judge who claimed to be an originalist and stood by those principles, instead of being a total hypocrite.","This is exactly what I don't like about it. Like, in concept there's no problem with a judge trying to in honest interpret documents as written and meant at the time. They might be wrong sometimes, but as long as they're well educated, intelligent, and doing the best the can I would accept that. But what we're seeing isn't that. Like with the recent voting rights act ruling saying racism isn't a big deal anymore, if SCOTUS were really originalists that wouldn't matter, because the law wasn't written to expire. Or with the Interstate Commerce Clause, there is absolutely no way they believe it was originally intended to govern things which aren't commerce and do not leave the home. You're absolutely right, their form of Orginalism is just a means to justify enforcing their narrow beliefs on the country.",0
Sorry. You seem expert. It seems they were kicked out for being part of the Is real delegation. They are upset at Israel's interference in their elections No?,Israel was meddling in elections all across Africa in recently released reports. This was probably done as a result of their actions. Stop trying to paint this as anti-semitism.,1
"Rather than make an issue of it, her opponent basically said, ""mistakes happen, there is no way they could actually have voted even if they did fill out the forms, nothing to see here"".",Mistakes happen: the SOS office in Colorado ( Janet Griswold a Dem) mailed 30k voter registration cards to non citizens last year.,0
"Trump takes a $20 million loan from North Korea, has a meal with a dude who praised Hitler along with a white supremacist AND wants axe the constitution. (Everything else aside, I’m going by news cycle). But all Republicans are concerned about is Hunter Biden’s dick pics.","Does some of the data make Hunter Biden look bad? Well yea, but that's not even remotely news. Anyone that follows politics knows Hunter Biden has had substance abuse issues, we know Hunter Biden had sex with his dead brothers wife. We know Hunter Biden had some nude pics, we know we have pictures of Hunter Biden doing drugs, etc. None of that is disputed.",1
"“The complete collapse of the Thwaites itself could lead to sea level rise of more than two feet (70 centimeters), which would be enough to devastate coastal communities around the world. But the Thwaites is also acting like a natural dam to the surrounding ice in West Antarctica, and scientists have estimated global sea level could ultimately rise around 10 feet if the Thwaites collapsed.”.",">“A 2021 study found the ice shelf could shatter within the next five years, and last year scientists said the Thwaites Glacier is hanging on ""by its fingernails"" as the planet warms, with the potential for rapid retreat in the coming years”.",1
"That’s the part people like you don’t understand, sooner or later you’ll be in charge and you will get blamed for every shithead in your generation.","Every night when I go to bed, I pray a prayer that I live long enough to see the next generation start blaming your generation for everything wrong.",0
"You can give yourself some extreme credit here. The term is 100% a living word that has existed for over 3500 years. It is as old as the word for ""mother"" is extremely commonly made with a ""m"" sound.","I know a lot of folks that Identify as Iranian simply because their culture is still distinct from Persian. Some cultures are precursors that had lived in the region prior to the Achaemenid. Persian kings of antiquity have been known to bring artisans and scholars of other cultures, settling their people within classical Persia. For example, Assyrians are a minority group in Iran, but they have a fantastically long history in the region going back to 2500BC. The Sasanian Dynasty brought Armenian craftsman to Persia after the conquest of Armenia. Likewise, Persian Jews have been in Iran since the Babylonians.",0
"Also, if you look up the history of voting in Mississippi, you’ll undoubtedly find that white people didn’t derive their power from fair voting.","No one is asking for an all black group of people to decide anything, they are saying let the district vote to appoint their own people rather than have a handful of white people decide the fate of a district that's population is predominantly black.",1
"If it wasn’t for MAD I would be advocation NATO boots on the way to Moscow, but MAD is a factor so we just have to do what we can….",And NATO needs to be ready to act in retaliation if nukes are used or Russia does more shit on NATO soil.,1
"The Pew Research Centre has published , that reveals that social media seen as mostly good for democracy across many nations, with the notable exception of in the United States.","The report we're discussion: [Social Media Seen as Mostly Good for Democracy Across Many Nations, But U.S. is a Major Outlier.",0
"Is that why he called them dangerous... Multiple times, and hasn't spoken well about them... really ever? Really seems like coddling and defending when you openly call them fascists.","First off, the proxy war is between liberal democracy and far-right fascism. Not just the US vs Russia. Sign me up.",1
Background check requirements and quantity limits of some arbitrary number of cartridges at point of sale will somehow stop mass shooters.,"Apparently, the unending parade of mass shooters who already pass a background check to purchase their firearm would be thwarted if only one more background check was done.",0
"Almost no war is black and white, and history is written by the victors, and the media portrays one side as pure good and the other as pure evil wether they are right or wrong. I’m merely trying to open peoples minds to thought.","Remember the media doesn’t always tell the truth. Putin isn’t a good guy but neither is Zelensky, however public opinion of Zelensky is incredibly high because of the media. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt nations in the world before the war.",0
"Opinion is opinion, and my argument simply is that it's bleeding obvious that the Wiki isn't neutral even though they claim to be; anything else doesn't come into it.","Honestly, I really don't care... Every time I criticize Wiki for being somewhat less than impartial or neutral i get downvoted.",0
"Because in this reality right here, after China's antics at Galwan, India's anti China stance has been greater than it has ever been before. China's constant aggression towards India throw any small possibility of Indo-Chinese collaboration right out of the window. Not to mention the fact that China has been happily arming Pakistan with the latest shit they have.","Are you from an alternative reality? If so, how is stuff there? Do they still call them ""French Fries""? Do they still put pineapples on pizzas over there?",0
"Because someone said passenger flights burn “a magnitude more” fuel than driving, let’s do the math. Average Boeing 787 Dreamliner holds 300 Passengers. Fuel Load for a maximum trip (6,300 miles) is 33,000 gallons. Let’s consider a trip across the USA, California to New York (2,915 miles). The distance in question is 46% of the maximum range of the plane, so it would be loaded with only 50% of its fuel capacity (16,500 Gallons). Let’s assume it all gets burned (it doesn’t, but whatever). Now let’s take those same 300 folks and put them in 200 cars (1/3 of the total are driving together). Let’s assume they are driving average cars, pickups and SUVs instead of electric, hybrid, etc cars, so we are getting an average of about 20 MPG (probably less, but again, whatever). The distance of 2,915 miles at 20 MPG would result in a fuel burn of 146 Gallons of fuel per car. 146 Gallons x 200 Cars = 29,200 Gallons of fuel… nearly TWICE what that single passenger plane would consume, despite all the “whatever” guesses in the favor of the cars. 🤔 A “magnitude more” fuel would mean the plane would be burning 1,000% more than the cars. Clearly, with this, the commenter can be seen to be wrong.","If the 200-300 persons per jet were instead driving 200+ cars, overland, for the distance they were flying, would that not generate vastly more pollution? 🤔.",0
"Those public goods are technically socialist in nature, but when people are talking about capitalism and socialism, they are exempting all the things that everyone agrees government should provide. Both socialists and capitalists agree on those things, so it is pointless to include them in the debate. The conversation is only really over the parts where the two sides disagree. It is sort of like how you would assume a pacifist would still want to defend himself if attacked, even though that isn’t really pacifism.","When you say you are a supporter of capitalism, that means you support a system where most goods are private.",0
"Oh, and when asked if the departments would audit the background checks on the other officers since they fucked up so bad on Edwards' background check they basically said, ""lolz no."" 😐.","So much for gun safety! Rules for thee, not for me. I see a lot of people crying for gun safety, but then ignoring the elephant in the room: law enforcement arming officers that shouldn't have guns.",0
Can we PLEASE stop pretending that nothing came out of the Mueller report? This is Republican propaganda.,"Trump abusing the presidential pardon power does not change the fact that the DOJ obtained guilty pleas/convictions and multi-year sentences for Stone/Manafort/etc. At minimum, the Mueller report is not evidence of the DOJ's unwillingness to act (as is constantly being implied).",0
"It depends on how SCOTUS rules. On paper, if Section 230 was removed corporations would either remove \all\ user generated content or just stop moderation entirely. Section 230 only exists so that companies can try to remove objectional content and not be held liable if they miss something.","If you read S230 you will see that they are only covered from liability for content that comes from third party providers (that includes users). However , as with copyright law, a compilation can also be its own unique content , which is what is at issue when it comes to recommendation algorithms. For that even under current S230 it looks like the information systems provider is not covered under S230 as they are the originator of said compilation and not a third party.",1
"This is some straight Republican messaging bullshit. Let's be clear, Republicans and Manchin voted against the paid sick days. Blaming it on Democrats is just straight fucking lying.","Constructive criticism would be identifying that the bill that did pass had a 24% raise, provides for the ability to take time off for medical appointments without being penalized, and is supported by 8/12 unions representing 48% of rail workers (almost half, but, yes, not the ""majority""), and then addressing the issue that maybe it was a strategic mistake to run the bills concurrently while identifying that that strategy runs some super high risks as well. If they went with an all-or-nothing bill only to start and a huge swath of holiday shopping shipping and supply ground to a halt, what do you think would be on the news 24/7 for this entire month?",0
"Russia has a abundance of natural resources which makes Russia self sufficient and also helps Russia to sustain the 2nd Most Powerful military, so if India and China who get Military Equipment from Russia at cheap price.","Blaming Russia will show Russia has no friends but when they have India and China with 40% of the worlds population defending them either directly or indirectly, Russia feels more empowered. If China and India agreed to sanction Russia, it would be over for Russia.",1
The PKK are literally designated by the US and EU as terrorist organizations. The YPG literally has members (including leaders) that are a part of the PKK.,"The YPG actually shared values with the rest of europe and fought against ISIS, while turks helped isis.",1
"Okay on a side note I'm a huge fan of the Last Dab hot sauces though the last three batches of each of the original Last Dab, XXX and the Apollo have been a lot thinner than the originals were. Has that been the same experience with you?","Just for some context I'm a 47 yo lifetime Independent who doesn't like things about both parties and though I can't stand how far right the republicans are currently and the fact that they don't have any policies but only try to get votes by stoking culture wars, I know there's lots of us Independents who want fresh candidates for both sides and given a choice of a new face or Biden, the majority of independents (definitely not me though) will go with the new person.",0
Yeah they went there because they had no other choice . It wasn't a part of any grander plan. It was in no way advantageous for the Ukrainians there in any way so I'm not sure what point you are trying to make .,"At least Ukraine should have an advantage, a lot more soldiers have night vision, in the russian army you have to buy it yourself.",1
"Well yes, because their leaders and Right Wing media networks are constantly lying to them about the accuracy and legitimacy of our electoral systems.","Then the GOP politicians and media outlets repeat fraud, which just reinforce GOP voters to not vote.",1
I think she was saying that Trump thought it was sexy. It seems like the kind of display of power that might turn him on. I can see her wanting to not associate with rape if she thinks that would be a sexy thought in Trumps mind.,"Edit: Prior to this, it was believed that Donald John Trump raped women. I think his statement solidifies the fact that Donald John Trump is a rapist.",1
So let them try and see if there's enough Republicans that support breaking the filibuster especially now that their party is in disarray.,Democrats should just bring back the talking fiilibuster - once the Republicans stop talking - we can move on. Manchin has even said himself it's too easy to obstruct legislation.,0
"If you ever come to France, try a few bakeries, and sample their baguettes. You might be disappointed after reading all of the above - when all is said and done, it's still just bread, after all; and I don't know if it's the best bread in the world, as different breads serve different functions. But still... it's damn good bread.","A good french baguette has a crusty exterior and a soft plushy interior. It is at its absolute best when it is right out of the oven and still warm. But it is also excellent a bit later at room temperature, toasted with some butter spread over it, used to sauce a dish, to make a sandwhich, as a vessel for cheese, etc.",0
"That would be ideal, but it's also impossible in our current political climate. Taxing guns and ammo is a smaller, incremental step, and it makes logical sense because the thing that causes the harm would also be responsible for mitigating the harm.","I'd like to know how quantity limits at point of sale for ammunition would meaningfully reduce deaths in mass shootings, when in all but the rarest of cases, the number of rounds fired in the attack could be lawfully purchased with those limits in place.",1
It’s odd how little economics (specifically the Great Depression) gets mentioned among the major causes of WW2.,"Edit: I should preface that I’m a product of the US public school system which certainly mentioned Germany’s economic woes as a catalyst for men like Hitler, but I was specifically referring to the after shock of Black Tuesday and how it either added fuel to, or galvanized fascism around the world.",0
Sure but ultimately it comes down to whether or not China plans to invade Taiwan and plans to take full control of the South China Sea. China's support for Russia also doesn't help.,China is aligned with Russia. They literally made an anti-west pact with 'friendships with no limits' while Russia had 150k troops ready to invade Ukraine in Feb.,0
"Aww so there’s all the evidence you need cons that he doesn’t believe the things he says, and is really just manipulating you to be constantly outraged by fake things.","The truth is election fraud isn’t the only thing they can muster, but it’s what trump started saying before they could get their bearings and they all latched on. So now because one orange d-bag couldn’t take a loss like a third of the country think our election was fraudulent. Despite them believing our very freedom has been stolen from us by a shadow government they’ve done jack and shit to take the country back after the 6th cause deep down they know it’s a lie and they know they’re full of shit.",1
"Had gas furnaces in most of the places I’ve lived, and at all of them, when the electricity got knocked out the heat stopped working. Sure, theoretically you could start the gas furnace or oven with a lit taper, but that’s a quick road to an explosion or gas poisoning.","I mean, gas should only be used in borderline life-or-death emergency situations IMO. You used gas in the correct and environmentally proper manner (you're only using it when it's absolutely necessary).",1
"Canada's at 7% EV sales in 2022, and there's huge waitlists for EVs (and automakers all have big plans to increase production).","It's not that hard to believe that Canada could go from 7% EV sales to 100% in the next 13 years, particularly given the rapid pace of technological improvements that we've seen for EVs over the past 13 years.",0
The only reason this is getting anywhere in the Senate is because it's not forcing states to recognize issue same-sex marriage licenses.,"The law this is replacing, the Defense of Marriage Act, basically just allowed states to recognize same-sex marriage, but it wasn't recognized federally, and it was only recognized at the state-level in states which opted to do so. In other words, it was basically a republican law that gave a little wiggle room to democrats.",1
Come on man. How is this any different from when a right winger says white supremacist terrorism is a false flag?,The frequency of violence and terror by right wingers versus the frequency of same by leftists. The frequency of claims of “false flag operations” (unsupported and in fact contradicted by the evidence) by right wingers versus the same by leftists. The promotion of violence and terror by right wingers versus decrying the same by leftists.,1
It is historical fact that the Catholic Church did not stand against the Nazis in a meaningful way. I mean something like 30-40% of Nazis WERE Catholics.,How many prominent Catholic Nazis were there to start with? The Nazi party wasn't a big fan of Catholicism (they didn't like any other large institutions which might command people's loyalty in a direction they didn't like) and you can't excommunicate someone who was never Catholic to begin with.,1
It's no wonder you defend him tooth and nail even when he's committed so many atrocities. You're not mentally equipped to see the many terrible things he's done.,"Well this will be an unpopular comment, but by in large, he's equally bad but just in different ways. Bolsanaro did some good, but a lot of bad, and Lula really is the same...only the topic changes.",1
"""And by 'treating transgender families with more love and respect' we really mean preventing transgender individuals from getting needed care while demonizing them and claiming that they are trying to groom kids. Only by making them fear for their lives will they know just how much we love them because we fear anything and anyone that's even slightly different."".","It is. Every single second, dysphoria is always in the back of my mind. The times where I feel wholly content are extremely rare bursts of when someone goes above and beyond to affirm my gender and even still they do not last for more than a moment. My body is like a prison to me that I cannot escape out of. I came out at 14 and started hormones at 16 and even still I face so much damage that I will need to work so hard to undo. And I am one of the extremely lucky ones. Every day I reflect and am thankful that I was given the opportunity to transition, because not everybody is. Every day, I count my lucky stars that people in my life have been accepting of me. But that has not fully solved the deep and internal wrong that has been placed within the deepest depths of my body. Only medically, and eventually surgically transitioning will reach the final step.",1
"I want to be clear that this sucks balls, but right now, with the votes we have, our options are ""don't protect ourselves at all"" and ""at least make sure that our marriages remain acknowledged once SCOTUS does what we all know they're going to do"".","That said, it does NOT guarantee the rights of people in conservative states to get married should Obgerfell get overturned :",0
Yes I was boasting about not ever getting covid in early December Tested positive the same day. Lol. Our rates say half the population but it is definitely under reported. I will keep my fingers crossed for you. If you do get it hopefully it will be mild. It was for us but we are very vaccinated.,That is not how vaccine efficacy is tested. Independent teams in different countries used the vaccine to see how effective it was.,1
"Yes, my wife has had three children. Had we not miraculously got the medical attention we needed seemingly by chance for the last one, there was a good chance both mother and baby would be dead (a chance comment during a routine appointment made the doctor do an ultrasound, revealing a placental abruption, requiring an immediate caesarian - otherwise baby and possibly mother would die).","Yep - my wife's had three kids. First one was a 38-hour labour. Second was relatively straightforward by comparison. Third was an emergency caesarian - had a complication (placental abruption) not been caught, seemingly by chance, both baby and mother could well be dead.",0
Your solution also puts an open target on trans people who then have to out themselves any time they want to use the restroom which can be dangerous.,"I think any state that issues trans bathroom bans should be legally required to have an alternative bathroom trans people can use. Single stalls, teachers restrooms. I think that is a happy medium and both sides can feel comfortable. And before anyone says well that's not right, the bathroom issue is a distractive talking point. My idea addresses it, and makes it stop being one.",1
"Also, Nancy Pelosi is not the leader of the Democratic Party. What leadership position does she hold?",She is not currently in a leadership position. She is not a leader of the Democratic Party. What leadership position does she presently hold?,0
I have reduced so much inflammation thanks to cannabis. All inflammation was caused from diet and alcohol abuse from bad education on diet. Nice to finally have a good medication and I don't have to hide from helicopters anymore to get it.,"A good outdoor sativa does fine and allows for energy and creativity through the day. I prefer outdoor grown Thai. Outdoor grown is very important, indoor grown is weaker.",0
It's not alright for you to do that. That said - ruling party is heavily favoured by the elderly and a lot of them died during covid in Poland so they no longer have 40 percent of votes. It's more like 30 now and all the polls show that they have no chances of having a 3rd term. They only got to power due to elderly people and we hate it.,Oh piss off. It's alright for us to shit all over our government because they suck ballz deeply and are sabotaging our allegiance with the EU.,0
So if the trail goes through and evidence appears to show no rape happened then that doctor has broken the law and could go to jail and lose their medical license.,Blame the Christian beliefs of the ruling party (who literally introduced the law that sends doctors to jail for providing safe medical treatment) rather than the doctors.,0
"I mean COVID hit it pretty hard, and while Cuba remains a tourist destination for many people, it’s not enough to support the entire economy and fix the systemic rot it’s experienced since the USSR collapsed. For a while they were also able to get oil for absurdly low prices from Venezuela in exchange for medical personnel, espionage tactics and security for Chavez/Maduro, but as Venezuela has faltered a lot of those guarantees have disappeared as well. Cuba’s biggest friends - Russia, Venezuela, etc - have not had a great year.","I’d give a lot of credit towards the street protests for that. Back in the mid-to-late 2010s, there were a ton of riots and anti-government protests and crazy stories about what was going on there, but as Maduro consolidated power it became clear that the protests weren’t working and they fizzled out. Combine that with Guaido running out of steam and the opposition’s attempts to remove Maduro from power fizzling out and it just kinda became stale news. However, yeah, the conditions have not gotten any better on the ground and the plight of the average Venezuelan is not good.",0
"You have to be extremely slow, it's painful for them (and not in the good pain way lol), it's bloody, and they are also likely young or in some way inexperienced--meaning they have no idea what to do to their partner, no idea what they even want done to them, and it just comes off as plain predatory to me when an older guy wants a virgin.","Leave the first times to the youngins, I want a real damn woman--an experienced, older woman who knows what she wants. Nothing better haha.",0
"However some leftwing parties refused to merge and some even split, while a lot of traditionally leftwing voters strategically voted for Lapid's center party, causing some parties to not make it past the threshold and all the votes they got to be wasted, giving the pro-Netanyahu bloc a significant advantage.",Israel's political system has multiple parties which means the progressive votes get split between candidates and Netanyahu has always been elected with a minority of votes. He's never had a majority of votes.,1
But I would be ok if Poland made an overtly aggressive stance on their border and started shooting down missiles over western Ukranian airspace.,Are we speaking about a small corridor along the border or is this seriously defending most of westen Ukraine (including cities like Kyiv) against russian missile strikes?,1
"“member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State”.",">An officer of the United States is a functionary of the executive or judicial branches of the federal government of the United States to whom is delegated some part of the country's sovereign power. The term ""officer of the United States"" is not a title, but a term of classification for a certain type of official.",1
"And even if the freedom caucus votes with the Democrats to vacate the chair, there's no chance that whoever is put forward to replace McCarthy would be agreeable between those two groups.",Can someone please explain to me why a few moderate Dems wouldn't vote for McCarthy to prevent him from making concessions to the far right? It seems like MAGA republicans now have an uneven amount of power which was completely avoidable.,1
"Mm yes because no one in the west contracted covid, spread it to others, or were hospitalised or died after taking their dose, doses, 3rd to 5th booster of our vaccines.","A new disease at that spread rate would’ve been detected in the west by now in all likelihood… because people would have similar symptoms, no Covid 19, and then theyd discover a novel virus, so far not the case so no reason to think it is.",1
"That's true, but how do conscience clauses apply? If anything religious doctors would be more in favor of circumcision. Isn't a conscience clause basically ""my religion says I cannot do this"" for doctors? The parents already have a choice in that matter.",What do you mean? Are you saying doctors can currently refuse to give circumcisions based on supposed faith? Which doesn't make sense since it's a religious thing. Idk how else to interpret your comment.,0
"Wipping out as much as possible of the current generation of men which Russia is sending to fight weakens today's AND tomorrow's Russia and makes is far less likely they'll try this shit again, now or in the coming decades, once defeated.",It's sad but it's not in Ukraine's hands to reform Russia into a normal country so all that it has left to stop it's neighbour's barbaric ways is to kill as many of them as they send.,0
"Maybe. But a lot of violence against Jews is based on the idea that “Israel is bad.” In Europe, on American campuses, Jews are targeted on behalf of Israel’s misdeeds.",What's sad/amusing is that a lot of non-Jewish pro Zionists are also antisemitic... they.like the idea of Jews being segregated into their own area.,1
This. Evangelicals rarely do anything quietly. My interpretation is this is as close as you’ll ever get to an admission they were wrong about Trump (though they did get RvW so maybe not that wrong in their own opinions).,"I wouldn't be so sure that the individual quoted in this article is representative of the average Trump voter. In fact, I'm inclined to think the opposite. Republicans are the ride or die type of partisans because of rank political/social/economic ignorance, single issue folks (abortion, guns), and a deep-seated hatred for others (LGBTQ issues, racial justice).",1
"Also btw, Pu and Medved know each other from 1990 at least, and Pu brought many of his Saint Petersburg friends to Moscow and into cushy positions.","Medved and Pu worked together in Saint Petersburg under Sobchak in 1990. Pu brought with himself from SPb to Moscow a whole bunch of people, putting them into cushy positions—plenty of them are still around him now, basically his most trusted people (that are known to the public). Medved's political output currently is that of a fart in the wind, and he's in the Kremlin only because he's still in this trusted circle—he's deputy chairman of the ‘Security Council’, which is the topmost gang right now, other than the oligarchs, siloviki/army and the whatever private ‘advisors’ Pu has. Medved wouldn't be there if Pu was in any way wary of him.",0
Is this what Israeli residency/citizenship for palestinian looks like? Why would Israel ever consider giving citizenship to people that aspire to kill them?,"Israel annexed East Jerusalem and offered citizenship to those who wanted it, and permanent residency to those who did not. Israel wouldn't -and shouldn't- renege on this. the citizens would be left under no government, and what are the others to do? Those with residence largely hold Jordanian passports, IIRC, but I don't see Jordan welcoming the influx of people.",1
"A, help Ukraine with NATO which China against, lose partnership with Russia which give China no benefit but the long border will risk China in danger then;.","In case somebody doesn’t know, China has a agreement with Ukraine to protect them and give military support even send troops to help Ukraine defence only when Ukraine is under nuclear attack.",0
Remember that the right pushed for 50 years to repeal Roe before they succeeded. They're willing to make incremental steps over the next 50 years if it means that they can dial LGBTQ rights back 100 years.,"It's also used to rally their base to get more extreme right politicians in office and more extreme right judges in place. Once they get enough extreme right judges in the right places, the courts will suddenly decide that people don't have a right to be LGBTQ and that politicians can definitely persecute them as much as they like.",0
"If I were to guess, I'd say Ukraine has pretty good defense coverage in the capitol and populated areas, but not-so-good coverage in outlying areas, which is why they're asking for fighter jets.","Other than taking out active radars, the F-16s are far more likely to be used in air superiority role over Ukrainian skies as standoff munition platforms, while older aircraft take more risk at the front.",1
"He's hysterical and quite obviously playing to whichever side gets him the most views. Even when he was parroting more right wing talking points, he still got millions of views because he's just hilarious to watch. Not the best human being in the world, but I can't blame him for doing what he's good at lol.","He's not a sympathetic person for sure, but I think you picked out the wrong things about him. Having multiple partners is not Hershel Walker's biggest problem, and being a kid from such a relationship isn't either. Someone who is famous because of their rich and famous parent isn't really new either (see the Bush, Kennedy, and Trump families).",1
"I'm really dubious about this argument, but to clarify it apparently the argument is that since female slaves were forced to reproduce, and the 13th Amendment made that practice unconstitutional, it gave black women constitutional control over whether or not to abort a pregnancy. And if black women have that right then so do other women under the 14th amendment.","So it's not really saying ""parenting is slavery"", it's more like ""former slaves are constitutionally allowed to choose to have abortions so that right also extends to everybody else."" (Again, I'm really skeptical about this argument, it sounds like a super stretch.).",0
"My accident was away from home, my knee was shattered in pieces, and my husband had to keep prodding the ER doctors to give me something for the pain.","I got 1/2 mg Dilaudid. Was not sufficient. They wouldn't budge, even though surgery was the next day. My husband and I were within ten lbs of each other, weight-wise. Standard starting-off dose is 1 mg. If they decided to start off lower, I can respect professional judgment there. But refusing to top off to standard dose (or anything else!) while I'm still in a heap of pain? In THIS case? WTF...",0
True. Voting for the Dems is not going to fix our problems. Voting Dem is just a way of buying us time to find an actual solution outside of this rigged political dynamic.,"If the democrats wanted their votes, they’d start fighting for them instead of pretending they are the problem.",1
This sounds like a precision strike that just hit a perfect target. Frankly the only defense against MLRS is.,4. Spread out your troops and ammo as much as possible to prevent mass cassualties and secondary explosions.,0
"So yes, the Republican outrage was delusional. But so was the blanket coverage on mainstream media. This was a headline news story for days.","As an example, CNN was running the headline that ""Tensions Rising"" with China over the shooting down of the balloon. CNN reporters were confronting Chinese officials, who themselves said that the US Government was ""overhyping"" the story. CNN then has the ranking Democrat member of the Intelligence Committee on, who was saying shooting it down was a ""huge intelligence win"". You will notice that Republicans and Democrats don't really differ in their assessment that this was some kind of serious threat by China. They only differ in they assessment of how the White House reacted to it. This was a 10 minute prime time segment on CNN dedicated to the story - it wasn't just Republicans going crazy over this story.",0
"The 737 can seat at least 60 more (50% more), has 1/3 more thrust, and travel 5400km. That is hardly ""roughly comparable"". In car terms, it is like Elantra (Embraer) vs Camry (737). One is from a newer, less established company offering much less whereas the other is much more widely known and trusted which offers a lot more.","If someone were to buy an inferior product, there should be something compelling about it. For example, Hyundais today are comparably reliable to the Japanese Toyota and Honda at lower price making them a good deal. Why the F would I buy a Hyundai if it were priced the same as Japanese? If Embraer can manage to offer a good deal, I am sure many would happily buy it.",0
"Ah, soft power in action. It's not loud and doesn't make idiots feel strong at home, but so much of the US's naval policy is to be without doing.","It's not that the US is there, but that it can be there. Such a public presence let's Russia know that the United States sits on Russia's border of naval influence and reminds Russia that the US can penetrate in with relative impunity.",0
"russia still has a diverse range of assets. The moving parts that are still moving (like the MAGA-infected republican party in the United States) probably bolsters their perceived odds, if nothing else to deal as much possible damage to the west while they're going down in flames. This would be in China's interest, and if they're selling themselves to China then russia is more or less a face shield now. Given the fact that russian leadership doesn't value human cost, their soldiers are just as expendable as the shitty material they send them to battle with. We need to support Ukraine with everything they need, but the fight to preserve freedom and democracy is a long road ahead.","Top priority in Russia's goals include Ukraine not to join NATO, and to be a buffer between Russia and the decadent Western world.",1
"Ofc I didn't mean ALL Palestinians, and some do want democracy, but like I said, if most wanted it, they would have had it by now.",The Palestinians don't want democracy at all. And for sure not a democracy with Israel or with jews.,0
"Sponsoring a coup would have worked. But an invasion just seems unwinnable, even if Russia won every battle.","And his forces are weak and demoralized. People have fled by the hundreds of thousands to avoid conscription. I think a credible narrative of righteousness is important for troop morale. Russian propaganda is not that great. It's heavy handed and obvious. Compare that to Iraq 2002, the propaganda on Americans was very effective.",0
True. It depends though if they were naturalized (is that the right word?) themselves or 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants. You do need a certain personal history in order to pass the cultural vibecheck of the country you're applying for citizenship for... or you can fake it.,"I'm kinda disappointed by yall not seeing that two US citizens of Soviet origin IN CONTACT WITH AN FSB OFFICER might, just MIGHT have had pro-Russian sentiment all along. It's not really the same as accusing hundreds of thousands of immigrants.",0
I define the GOPers as the old school party elites. The wealthy businessmen who are at the heart of the Republican party. They are a bunch of largely amoral capital owners who fund think tanks to create propaganda they can sell to the rubes to get them to vote against their own best interests. They know they are liars.,"This was around the time the ""tea party"" started happening (even if a lot of that was astroturfed by right wing Libertarian billionaires). This was the point that the rubes basically started seizing power from the GOPers and electing their own guys into office, who not only spouted the bullshit propaganda lies like the GOPers did, they actually believed this shit.",0
If someone can find a case where they underplayed tax that isnt due to said company losing more money in the past I’m all ears.,So im not advocating less taxes for the people but more taxes for the big corpos who post reccord profits all the time.,1
"It's okay to admit you were wrong. You don't have to double down and lie when your comment is right there. Take your L my dude, realize that no one gives a shit about what Reddit thinks except for Reddit.","No, you said the viewership won't be nearly the same. Then you went off on a tangent about how you apparently think that Germany and Turkey drive the view ship numbers lol.",0
Whilst being an immigrant for 2 decades I chose to never vote in any election in my own homeland even though I had that right because in my view people who don't live there and don't have to suffer the consequences of their choice shouldn't be making choices for those who DO live there.,"If your point in voting is to make things better, rather than the mindless tribalism that just wants to cast a vote for ""my party"", you're way more qualified to do that where you live than in a place you haven't lived in for years/decades.",0
"Yes, but I'm afraid rights to credit and fair housing are going to be the next to go. With the religious extremism, blatant ignorance, and the disinformation campaigns - I'm concerned American women risk the same treatment as the women of Iran after the overthrow of the Shah in the Iranian Revolution of 2/11/1979.","When women start dying by the thousands because doctors refuse to touch them for fear of legal repercussions, then the Texas GOP will hang a banner of “Mission Accomplished” over the state capitol, because ideology has trumped all common sense and compassion.",1
"If they are worried about people hiding or being missed when going into labour in prison, that speaks to a problem that is clearly not with the pregnant inmate.","Also, immediate care of a sick neonate is really something that should not be done outside of a suitable environment. If the prison authority wants to reduce uncertainty, why not let the mothers-to-be have a, y’know, normal human conversation about options for induction/Caesarian _after they are moved to a labour ward_?",0
"Everything you mentioned is fairly recent. USA was never involved against Chávez, or even Maduro until sanctions.",Gotta lift the US sanctions against Venezuela & Cuba. No brainer call. Either they aren’t doing anything to damage those economies so lifting them would have no effect (not the case) or they are indeed damaging those economies & lifting them would ease the suffering of the people just trying to live their lives (the case). If someone is so confident that those economies would fail even without the sanctions then lift them & prove it.,1
This last part is just guess work but I could imagine that not only would that throw Xi under the bus but it might be enough to cause an outright revolution in China because the entire communist party is involved in this.,But it’s so much more. Chinese propaganda for a long time has been saying that the west (especially the US) has been in decline and is rotten. Which is why the CCP has to shield their population to save them from suffering the same fate. Now imagine how hollow that story will be if you end up bowing down to the supremacy of the west by acknowledging that their vaccines are better than your own.,0
Personally I like pre-employment drug testing. It's a good way to weed out (pun possibly intended) employers I'd never work for.,Most places I've worked I've had managers that stated pretty openly that they know if they did drug testing for weed that they would have to fire too many good employees.,1
Debunked rumours? Bullshit! The numbers come from the countries of the deceased. Do you actually believe the Qatar government figures?,"Although reports widely named the state as Qatar, the Qatari government said any claims of misconduct were ""gravely misinformed"".",1
"That's what the court is supposed to be. The judicial branch is check and balance on the other two branches. If a law violates the Constitution, it's thrown out. It doesn't matter what the ""democracy"" wants. Laws passed by the legislative branch has to be within the boundaries set by the Constitution. We are Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.","It's like how we are in this problem right now with abortion. A liberal judge looks at that constitution and says abortion is in there. A conservative judge says, ""where?"".",0
"(\ yes. It is deeply amusing/frustrating that they also have enough cognitive dissonance to like Trump because he disrupted order. But part of that also comes from them thinking ""he was reorganising things to be more how we want it"". I do miss the days when they'd stop talking there though, rather than having to admit out loud that they wish they could be more of a bigot).",Most people read that and think law is the important part. Often the people you're talking about view 'order' as the important part.,0
I am unsure how it will interact with Russian air defense. Will the glide portion of the flight cause it to be slower and easier to counter? Does Russia have any air defense available to place that far behind the front line?,"Equipment to integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine’s air defense systems;.",1
"In an attack that happened because they were angry at prior U.S. military intervention in the middle east. Which is why being an interventionist force makes us less safe, not more.","Considering our involvement in WW2 led to hundreds of thousands of American deaths, and the aftermath led to us establishing ourselves as the world police and creating an American hegemony, I'd say we'd have been better off. There was no way Hitler was going to win the war, even without American intervention. He never would have been able to conquer the Soviet Union, and Hitler would have thrown every single German citizen at the Soviet Union if he had to, because he vehemently hated Communism, he would have exhausted himself attempting to destroy them.",0
"Imagine if Ukraine had the capability to swarm launch long range missiles or drones every time Russia did this, but instead of hitting civilian targets, they hit multiple military targets deep within Russia.","That said, it very damn well could have been Russia shooting their own S-300s considering they were firing them off in Belgorod, Crimea, and Engels potentially at their own assets.",1
"- The reason that caused Serbs to start not liking Albanians is that when the Ottomans conquered the balkans, the Albanians switched sides and became Muslim (mostly). The Ottomans decided to expel as many Serbs as possible from the Serbian heartland and settle the area with Albanians.","They expelled the majority of the Kosovo Serb population after the Serbian Army pulled out following the NATO air campaign. By that point, they were no longer the smaller army. They were unopposed.",1
"The gist of this story is that he was surprised that of all the people they tried to shake hands and chat with, only one republican gave them the time of day. But they got loads of time with “the people you wouldn’t expect” Pelosi invited them to her office, Bernie Sanders shook all their hands and listened to their cause, etc. He’s got a picture with Biden who signed his bill into law after getting no response from the White House in the 5 years they were trying. And he was like, the people in congress are nothing like how you expect from seeing them on TV. Weird!","Gosh! That’s rich. How much more does this guy have in his past, keeps on giving. If there was such a thing as an Ignoble prize, give it to him, he is richly deserving of it, for the body of work he’s done.",1
"But let's take the nukes been launched off the table, no one's going to push into Russia, Russia would break up splinter and create even more chaos, at best they may be pushed back to the old border.","I say let China send the weapons to Russia, we can see how they operate and if it turns out anything like Russian weapons then we eliminating arsenal of 2 countries at the same time.",1
Doctrine Radical - Artillery is just ammunition yeeted through the air at high speed and over long range.,"What makes artillery scarier than air strikes is that if you have no way to take out the guns, they can literally lay fire down 24/7. Whereas a plane has to fly back to re-arm / refuel and guided bombs are expensive vs an artillery shell, some gun powder and a bunch of bored Marines.",1
"Yeah sure, Orbán would give Hungary to Putin in an instant and you would have Russian military bases in central Europe.","Hungary, the NATO country working for Russia. If NATO needs fast access to help Ukraine, Hungary will be stalling them and putting up resistance, basically helping Russia. Kick putin!",1
"You mean it served its purpose when he escaped 20 years after his first murder, only to murder the mother of two young children, or this time around, when he used his last words to espouse some narcissistic whataboutism?","Meanwhile, this sub is cheering for the guy who fatally stabbed the mother of two young children during a prison escape, where he was already serving life for killing someone else.",0
Have they just not heard of Trump before now or what? It was like I loathe the guy and always have and even I admit it's the whole reason he won in the first place.,"It was sixteen degrees out when I got up and I was just glad the wind finally let up, so I'm right there with him. If there's any redeeming quality to a cold winter it's your coziest comfiest clothing and your favorite flannel blanket.",0
But I am under the assumption china is aware an attack on Taiwan is an attack on many other countries.,"And Xi has told his generals to prepare to invade Taiwan by 2027 according to the head of the CIA (). In addition, a US general released a memo, prior to the balloon, warning that he thinks we will be at war with China by 2025 ().",1
My Dad was watching so I caught a little from the kitchen. Trump promised the crowd that Biden would be held accountable/prosecuted when he’s back in office.,"Why does that sound familiar? Oh yeah, he ran on the same promise in 2016 regarding Hilary. Is she in jail? Prison? Prosecuted by the court of law? Hmm….",0
"Yeah, that won't happen. Polls need to close and then votes will be reported by each voting precinct to their respective secretary of state who then reports updated numbers.","Got'cha, I'm up there too. I don't blame you for not watching election coverage, not many people do. I don't know a single person who does aside from myself, and I know a fuck load of people.",0
Seems like political survival is the goal which kind of surprises me. I had assumed a talking head gig on Fox was the plan prior to this move.,"Yeah. It looks like the national Democrats (leadership, I mean…the progressives are out for blood) are going along with it and playing nice for now. No way to predict what Arizona Democrats are going to do.",0
"Now I’m not arguing against gun reform. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different outcomes; but simply waving a magic wand and saying all guns are illegal will not solve things. Because there will always be people with guns in this country, they’ll just be in the hands of criminals and the police. That isn’t even addressing the fact that confiscating firearms will involve a non-zero number of deaths in its execution.","Almost all of the modern gun restrictions were put in place as a response to minorities arming themselves en masse, and lawfully assembling in a show of solidarity. They are not designed to restrict criminal’s access to firearms, they are meant to keep firearms out of the hands of the poorer population. Because anyone with money will not be impeded by any legislation.",0
"Expressing an opinion is protected speech in most cases, and someone can't sue and win for libel/slander or defamation of character. Repeated attempts with malicious intent could possibly bolster a case, but it'd still be a hard sell under the law. If there are repeated attempts at asserting this claim, it's possible that harassment could come into play, but a single instance is unlikely to go that far.","I had hoped that with gay rights laws we'd see this kind of thing go away into irrelevance, but it seems like it's come back with a vengance. If this particular line of reasoning by the republicans falls out of favor, like hating on LGBTQ+ did for a while, then they'll just find another group to go after.",0
"The US has submarines with dozens of nukes each sitting under the North Pole ice sheet if Russia tries anything funny. In strategic nuclear limiting treaties, the US prioritized sub launched ballistic missiles and Russia prioritized heavy ICBM launchers. The whole point is there's no winning nuclear war so effectively the use of them is the death of you and your country.","Nuclear weapons have been far more powerful than Hiroshima for decades, and Russia is neither prepping nor priming one. The video in question shows a missile being loaded into a silo (which is where most ICBMs are stored), and includes some specifications about it.",1
"They're also making a point of China's potential to use TikTok to promote or hide the videos it wants to. You have a generation of American youth who spend a couple hours a day on TikTok, that's a chance to shape opinions in China's favor for a lifetime.","If the Chinese government does have control over Tik Tok, it could in theory use the app to alter the collective psyche of the US. It could foment division, it could spread misinformation, it could do quite a bit.",1
"I'm WHITE and worked as an EMT, and I don't even feel safe around many Police these days (I worked in a major city, and could trust the police there- bit the police in the exurbs are hyper-aggressive Good Old Boys...) They tend to be super militaristic, with a constant siege mentality outside the very best departments and a few good apples here and there...","National Guard, on the other hand? I was in Army ROTC and trying to JOIN them (original plan was to be in the Guard after grad school and work as an ENT, to get clinical hours for Medical School applications...) so maybe I'm biased. But would feel MUCH safer around a National Guard unit than a bunch of riot police as a protestor...",0
When the war on terror started the US worked with a military dictator in Pakistan. The military ran everything. They gave billions in aid to Mushraff most of which was used by him to solidify power and not to actually improve their fighting.,"Oddly Musharraf was the best ally the US had, he actually went after extremist groups hard which is why he was a target of so many assassination attempts.",1
I mean I think we are in it. They always call it after it's happened. Look at all the high flying tech companies laying people off. But as inflation stays high and unemployment rises it gets exponentially worse.,People have been saying we can just run deficits and monetise them so we have been doing that for decades. Across those decades we have also had persistent inflation.,0
"Russians don't seem too bothered taking all those losses, I wonder how much longer the Ukranians can keep it up.","Not so long ago, you'd be called a Russian shill for suggesting a Ukrainian victory wasn't imminent.",1
"This is on purpose. And lets just be real, it's a not a legitimate offer. It's an attempt to portray this as a war between the US/West/NATO and Russia rather than between Ukraine and Russia. It frames Ukraine as just some middle man being used by the west to fight Russia, which is their narrative. So their exclusion of Zelenksy and Ukraine is not an accident and it also is something they'll pump into the state media non-stop - that the US is refusing to end the war, a war Russia didn't even want and was forced into.","They are just immune to the idea that ""IT ISN'T THE US's DECISION"" Like i really believe they are so caught up in their own reality of dictatorship and puppet rulers , that Putin and Co. can't actually understand Ukraine wanting to choose it's own path.",1
"They are like the CIA/NSA but very very serious. Israel is surrounded by countries that want it dead. So it has resources and Intent, the will do to what peacetime countries might be reluctant to do. so maybe like WW2 MI5 in the UK.","They spent a lot of time hunting nazi's around the world, and assassinated a load of people after the munich olympics.",0
I'm just saying. I'm pretty sure the LAPD isn't a governing body and can fuck off. Dumb twats. Why are cops such peices of shit? Like do you just have an asshole gene when you sign up and grows with more pensionable time? Orrrr???,So what? I personally think coloring the US flag to show everyone how much you “support” something is childishly stupid.,1
You can find people to believe anything. We had this confirmed over the past few years with COVID. There are plenty of people in Russia who will latch onto this BS to buttress their support of the war.,"Note the wonderful overlap between Russia supporters in the West, COVID deniers, anti-vaxxers, and QAnon types (spoiler: they are the same picture).",1
"However, that is as irrelevant as bringing up what the US has done when discussing russia's invasion of Ukraine that is currently undergoing.","It’s sometimes hard to imagine how putin could possibly have any support from Russian citizens at this point, but then I remember that trump still has the heads of half of America shoved firmly up his ass.",1
"I’m not sure how Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Nepal, and Laos would view their Chinese neighbors, but I’m sure Myanmar, Vietnam, India, Bhutan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan would all agree, yeah, China isn’t a “force of peace and stability”.","Publicly, they can’t be too antagonistic with China, but the South China Sea dispute and Vietnam’s growing ties to America seem to suggest a different view….",0
"I broke it down elsewhere, but according to google the average person buys 650 gallons of gas a year. So, at 27.4 cents per gallon they will be paying $178 a year in gas taxes. Tn is increasing the charge for EV drivers to $300, which is $122 more than what the average person driving a gas vehicle is paying.","They want to increase the EV fee from 100, which is fair-ish to both ICE and EV drivers, to 300 dollars which is absolute bullshit. I have no issues with paying for the roads I use but when you do the it like this, it's not just patently unfair because it's far more than one would pay with an equivalent ICE car.",1
"However at what point do 10 Republicans defect, and the Dems join them, well that chestnut is probably sometime next week.","Apparently, after the last vote, there were some Republicans crossing the aisle to speak with Democrats. I doubt they'll get takers on ""vote for McCarthy."" I doubt even more that they'll get Democrats to vote Present so as to lower the Jefferies vote and the threshold until McCarthy wins. Maybe they were trying to find a compromise candidate that the Democrats and Republicans could both support.",1
"- Both Trump and Santos have lied about their maximum net worth, exaggerating by about a factor of ten in each case.","A lot of Trump's lies are gross exaggerations with grounding in reality, whereas Santos' are entirely made up.",1
"With the current state-by-state winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), it could only take winning a bare plurality of popular votes in only the 12 most populous states, containing 60% of the population of the United States, for a candidate to win the Presidency with less than 22% of the nation's votes!","With that in mind, if enough of the states who signed onto the Compact were Trump supporting states he could, in theory, win ALL the electoral votes of the states in the Compact (which would make him the winner of the election overall).",1
Biden and the average Dems want to perpetuate the same shitty employer based private health insurance scam.,I mean he supports a public option for insurance in a for-profit nightmare of a health care system. At least that was his stance when he said he would veto Medicare For All if it passed during the pandemic. He's just another neoliberal asshole.,1
"Seeing Lukashenko's name often reminds me of a brilliant scene early on in Servant of the People. Zelensky is practicing meeting foreign heads of state using body doubles, and immediately stands up each time to greet them. When the Lukashenko double walks in, Zelensky's advisor stops him saying something along the lines of ""no no, there's no need to get up for him"". Zelensky casually replies ""of course"".",It's probably not just Zelensky himself. I imagine that a lot of the politicians that would otherwise have fought one another politically now cooperate against the immediate common real enemy.,1
You know in 2022 the Republican Party held two CPACs: one in Hungary and one in Texas? Viktor Orbán was a very welcomed speaker at both.,"They'll say ""We should be spending it here in the US on our own unfortunate citizens like the homeless and the addictedtbad neighborhoods."" They object just loudly to any money spent on trying to address homelessness and addiction and povery unless it's more prison.",0
"Other than the cost of their UAVs, the specs of their UAVs are just mid (not high like the US, Israel, Turkey... and not low like the Saudis).",The Iranian drones are effective because they're disposable and cheaper to send out for one way trips than they are to shoot down.,1
"I used to play Microsoft Flight Simulator back in the 80's. I could never figure it out, but I imagine a real plane is easier since it's not all vector graphics.","I imagine one day planes will fly themselves since it seems like a self-flying plane would be a lot easier to program than a self-driving car but until that day, two pilots.",1
"This war showed how incompetent, ineffective and arrogant Russian forces were when they are put up with a challenge on a sudden notice. Now with Russia gone as one of the three world powers in the world (USA, Russia and China) a spot is left to which plenty of countries are racing for. Sooner or later China would be gone too as their butts are asking to be spanked with Indian batons during the border skirmishes and also to be bonked with Japanese and South Korean Navies. In the near future when two seats would be empty (I am being optimistic), countries would like to fill it. And any two other countries which would fill it would form a new world order. This is my opinion, if you feel something is wrong, please do mention it.","I get it why you don't like USA as a superpower but keep in mind the condition of the mindset when Kargil and Bangladesh Liberation happened. Ministers were different, mentality were different. Pakistan played the victim card then but can't play it now. People know what Pakistan is left as of today.",0
"Neo-fascists in Spain are pretty aggressive.They are very vocal, they take advantage of their freedom of speech. They have had political leaders going on TV literally saying they are proud fascist, ultra right philosophy.","Like the rest of Europe, our far-right is directly connected to Russia, so there're probably enough fascists morons that would love to do this.",1
"Gun controllers know guns have the right to murder people, even though it is illegal for people to murder other people. That's why they think guns need to be banned.","Now I’m not arguing against gun reform. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different outcomes; but simply waving a magic wand and saying all guns are illegal will not solve things. Because there will always be people with guns in this country, they’ll just be in the hands of criminals and the police. That isn’t even addressing the fact that confiscating firearms will involve a non-zero number of deaths in its execution.",1
"It's legalized through constitutional review by the supreme court, the exact same way India is doing in this article. Only they did it sooner.","People also misunderstand the culture around Hijra and associate them with transgender people when culturally Hijra is an extremely poorly treated cast with some mild ""accepted"" rituals around charity and weddings. They're also not reflective of the situation with transgender individuals in the same country as they're pretty different in life goals, outcomes, and possibilities.",0
"I feel sorry for the people who have to pay for Texas voting for morons. If Texas wasn't part of the Union, everyone there would be dead because of their idiotic votes.","Eh there are so many people who don't vote in Texas (someone further up said only 10m of the 30m voted in the last election). If they're of the age to vote and choose not to, it's as bad as voting against their interests.",1
Ukraine should take the exact same statement and just swap the countries and then trollface as Russian state media goes bananas with the “uKRaInE NAziS wANt tO DEsTrOY rUssiA11” rhetoric.,"The real question I keep asking myself is if NATO just went “Enough of this, we are going to push you out of Ukraine” and started rolling across the border… what would Russia do? They barely have the ability to maintain a war against Ukraine… but against a US led coalition? And the nuclear question is pretty much solved on its own which is Russia wouldn’t sign up for self annihilation over Ukraine. And this Russian puppet fool? He’s already allowed his country to be occupied by Russia. It’s only a matter of time before he’s disposed of.",1
"100% agree on what you say about abuse killing who someone is - that's how I describe it when I talk about being sexually assaulted. I physically survived, but the person who I was disappeared afterwards. Whoever I could have become, that person died before I had a chance to find out.","It's a classic trauma response. We all know about ""fight or flight"", but there's also the ""freeze"" and ""fawn"" responses. The ""fawn"" response is a common one with abuse victims, especially child abuse - they just do whatever they can to placate the abuser. They say whatever they can to make it stop. They try to be as pliable and submissive as possible to not be a target of the abuser's rage.",0
"People (like me, I have used this airport in the past) who rely on cheap flights will also be willing to suffer through the drive there.","if it wasn't Ryanair using the airport with 20€ flights to Spain, the UK, Egypt etc, it wouldn't have been close to 4 million passengers at all.",0
"I’m an American and I think it’s stupid and crazy to spend money on military rather than free healthcare, free education and social programs that can help people.","Nobody thinks you (as a country) spend money on military rather than free healthcare, it's not a binary choice. That's all your internal marketing and arguments.",1
"""In other news this evening, House Libertarian and Green Party lawmakers were praised by the White House for their compromise on a budget to avert a partial shutdown of the Federal government under the Balanced Budget Amendment that limits the National Debt to $1 billion, calling the eleventh-hour agreement a triumph of bipartisanship.","In international news, the new Labor government in London sent its congratulations to the first Members of the European Parliament elected to represent the United Kingdom following its return to the EU. The last smoker in France has announced he is quitting for health reasons. Lake Qattara based beverage giant MatruhCo finalized its purchase of the Johnny Walker brand. Saudi Arabia's President Jaziri toured the banks of the new Ben Gurion Canal with her wife and their Israeli counterparts.",0
the news companies love to get people's blood boiling. See post 9/11 US. You're getting down votes because people are like 3 months away from realizing they're being rabbid mouth foaming idiots about balloons.,Shooting down 1000 dollar balloons with half a million dollar missiles could bankrupt the US in like a year if the US decided to continue this course. The reality is its just not cost effective to do this and that high up its unlikely the weight restrictions on balloons would make it more effective than satellites.,0
"So, unless you're implying that they should have remedied the situation before they were aware if it, then your question was either dishonest or incompetent.","Unless, of course, you're implying they should have remedied the situation before they were aware of it?",0
"And the Ukrainians manning them will have a far,far better chance of survival/escape from the tank than anything they're using now if they're hit by another tank or a anti tank missile/RPG. Catastrophic instant 'cook offs' like we've seen with so many Russian tanks, would be very unlikely, given the 'blow out' panels and separate ammo storage in Western tanks, designed to stop such a thing from happening.","I'm worried these tanks will make it to the front and not be able to cross bridges without the bridges being reinforced, which just gives away to the Russians where your tanks are going to come from.",1
If someone like Taylor-Greene or Boebert is mature enough to be in the US Congress then I'd say an 18 year old is capable of being a member of a state house.,"I think that if an 18 year old wants to serve on a state legislature, more power to ‘em. I can joke about the giant man baby who was in the White House from 2016 to 2020, and say there is no way we could have anyone more immature than this almost-80 year old.",1
I agree 100% but idk I don’t think we should spread verifiably false info because that discredits the actual bullshit trump did.,"I have fact checked this before and I thought that he did donate his salary for the first 2 years, with the last two years unknown? Lemme check and get back.",0
That’s obviously not good enough — we need to address it as a country and on the world stage. But all Republicans aren’t the climate deniers they want you to think they are.,"Name and shame every Republican legislator that “doesn’t believe” in climate change. How fucking convenient is it that all their donors have a vested interest in ensuring they can pollute as much as possible? The Republican base hates money in politics. Trump ran on “draining the swamp”. They have the same ideas we have in many cases, they just have no fucking idea who the good or bad guys are.",1
"Would you really? I quit eating beef and pork for climate reasons and that might be my limit. I still cheat. I don't mind recycling, but supposedly that doesn't really help much. I don't think I'd move if I had a long commute. I'm also living in a much larger house than I need, but again, I don't want to move. Still, it seems like I'm doing more than most people I know. It seems like everyone's car is bigger than mine and they're driving like maniacs. No one else is bringing their own grocery bags. It seems like no one else cares or even thinks about what things are going to be like when climate change gets really bad.",I think we need to stop with the doomsday climate talk. There is real cause to be optimistic about recent events.,1
So a Pfizer employee said they were looking at trying to mutate covid in a lab setting to preemptively create vaccines for potential variants.,"And the right is using that to lie and claim that Pfizer is, what, intentionally infecting people with covid variants to make money off vaccine sales?",0
"This has to be a misunderstanding. They've been pledged 70 tanks so far, I'm guessing this means all armored equipment equipment to include the Bradleys from earlier in the month.",And it’s gonna be supported through proper combined arms with all the strykers Bradley’s and all the other light tanks and apcs being sent plus all the non self propelled artillery already there.,1
"They aren't, and the carbon tax properly prices the externality of co2 emissions, which until now everyone had been bearing as a shared cost to the environment.",It’s possible to set up a carbon tax that pushes most of the cost into the polluting corporations isn’t there? That’s what I thought the plan was all along - consumers would get the vast majority of the money back via tax breaks - the tax burden in those instances pushed onto those who actually pollute. That’s how we were implementing this thing here in Canada.,1
"Most Wisconsin employers hiring or permitting minors between the ages of 12 and 15 to work must possess a valid work permit for each minor before work may be performed. The work permit establishes a minor's proof of age and ensures that the employer, parent/guardian, and minor are aware of the employment of minors laws and regulations.","Work under direct supervision of minor's parent or guardian in connection with parent's or guardian's business, trade, or profession if minor would otherwise be permitted to work in the same job at age 14.",0
"If turning in my guns would get rid of gun violence I would do it. Problem is that there are so many guns in this country, if responsible law abiding people turned theirs in, only criminals and gang members would have them. Uvalde and other incidents have showed us that the police have no duty to protect us and that when seconds count, cops are minutes away. You can choose to pontificate and take a supposed moral high ground by trusting yours and your family’s life to cops, but I’m not.","So don't tell me you're protecting yourself and your family, because you're not. You're protecting your money and your stuff. I'd rather not give my money to a criminal, but even moreso I'd rather not die.",1
"You are not going to reap the benefits unless you meet very specific conditions. The cost of installation is high, so you need federal and state rebates and net metering with a utility that pays a guaranteed rate back to property owners for the lifespan of the solar panels.",People who have already adopted solar in rural communities complain loudly to their neighbors about the high cost of investment and how their utility bills still remain high in the winter due to the weather.,0
"What's legal in your country doesn't matter, because she isn't in your country. If she didn't want to risk this for her future, she shouldn't have taken drugs into a foreign country.","But I wouldn't bring drugs across international borders and the world is immoral, wishing it isn't is great an all but the status quo is what it is.",1
"I got 1/2 mg Dilaudid. Was not sufficient. They wouldn't budge, even though surgery was the next day. My husband and I were within ten lbs of each other, weight-wise. Standard starting-off dose is 1 mg. If they decided to start off lower, I can respect professional judgment there. But refusing to top off to standard dose (or anything else!) while I'm still in a heap of pain? In THIS case? WTF...","A few years back, both my husband and I had serious cycling accidents (different years). We have a well-known hospital nearby- went there and as soon as my husband was out of the ambulance- 1 mg Dilaudid. Off he went on a cloud of thinking he was the wittiest person in the hospital.",0
"Because 16yr old minors who identify as a different gender for a couple of months, and have no medical diagnosis at all, shouldn't be legally and medically changing their genders. At the very least not without their guardian's consent or a physician's supportive diagnosis.",Note: you can consent to medical treatment under 16 and medical staff can make a judgment on of you understand. This is particularly important for obtaining contraception (stay safe).,1
"its just Russian war, literally most of their wars are like that, they just throw numbers at their enemies, the war probably wont stop before 500k deaths.","If 120k Russian's have been presumed killed in slightly less than a year's worth of fighting in Ukraine, I feel if this war continues until the same time next year, we'd be looking at 250k-300k dead Russians.",1
"probably cause after the moskva, that resupply ship and losing one their newest shiniest boats to ....wana say it was direct fire rocket artillery or something daft like that, they refuse to get their ships close enough for Ukraine to hit again, specially now they have even more anti ship capacity.","I wonder if they are planning a large missile barrage to support an amphibious landing, further destroy Ukranian infrastructure to force them to negotiate, scrambling because they recieved a tip-off about a possible attack on their fleet in port, or simply redeploying back to Sebastopol. Hopefully things become clearer in the next day or two.",1
"Yep, I've also heard three different variations of who Jon Paul Mac Isaac contacted, upon discovering the ""bad things on the laptop"":","21. The blind MAGA supporter that found EvIdEnCe oF CrImEs later said that ""there have been multiple attempts (after having taken possession of the laptop) to remotely insert questionable material onto the laptop, and passing off this misinformation or disinformation as originally coming from the laptop"".",0
"""A certain number of pro-war functionaries decided that if they recruited convicts, they would be able to become famous as the Wagner Group."".","Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of Wagner Group, named three main reasons why he was completely ousted from recruiting convicts in Russian colonies. One of the reasons is the opposition of the military leadership.",0
"There are a lot of factors at play: Trukmp's erratic behavior, pollsters relying too heavily on landlines, people being polled not willing to participate, and even being dishonest in their responses. Pollsters relying too much on ""traditional"" weights that may not apply anymore: the mid-term ""slaughter of the President's own party, for instance.",The election this year is a black box. Both Silver and Kornacki have said they are not sure at all how close the polls are.,0
"The very minute it’s confirmed that this little frigate starts lobbing missiles aimed directly at the US, will be the same minute it will find itself under attack from a number of different tracking forces, notably lurking subs, ships and jet fighters.","For those worried about this so-called new hypersonic threat, while their speed can pose a challenge: The US Military has already been shooting down real supersonic and hypersonic ballistic missiles in tests and in combat for over 20 years. People forget or don’t know that ICBMs and MRBMs already reach hypersonic speeds (Mach 5+), and have done this for decades.",0
"Don't be a child. Admit drugs are harmful, people can't moderate their use as they're all addictive, and drugs and drug supply chains fund worldwide suffering.","From my understanding opiates are only dangerous because you could accidentally take a lethal dose. Like if you come back to your use after a break and your tolerance have gone down, or you don't know the strenh of what you are taking. Opiates are very addictive and hard to quit and will produce a physical reaction from the withdrawal. But it's not impossible to get through.",1
"The team warn that although there are measures in place for dealing with threats posed by asteroid impacts, there is no agreed response if a radio signal were picked up from another intelligent lifeform.","The Seti Post-Detection Hub will bring together experts from around the world to decide how to decipher methods, enact space law and anticipate societal impacts.",0
"Eh if their vaccines didn't suck ass they probably could have dealt with zero covid policy much better. Not that I agree with it but something like 50% of the efficacy as the western ones, at least their initial vaccines.","They would have avoided it if they hadn’t been stupid and accepted the better vaccines. Theirs are almost worthless. If they had rolled those out, slowly letting different areas out, I think we would have seen a totally different outcome. But they never even got a better vaccine and just gave up and let everyone out at once.",1
"They are not being raped because Russian women are so thrilled by the idea and ask for it, thats all people are sceptical about.","Russian’s be raping, they are raping A LOT. And the world will be better when every last Russian soldier in Ukraine is a sunflower.",1
It's not quite 48%. Trump only won in 16 because he was a complete unknown politically and was able to get independents to vote for him. I don't see independents voting for a far right kook like DeSantis. Not with a safe centrist incumbent to vote for in Biden.,So what's the point of a second term for Biden then? He won't even be able to get supreme court seats. Odds are the 2026 midterms will be another loss as well for Dems if he is still president. How big of a Republican majority are you willing to give them just for another 4 years of a biden and a Republican Congress?,1
"Their population had an even worse decline than russia and they were also poorer and similar in corruption ranking, i do hope the war purged the corruption and that it will give the Ukrainian people the spirit and motivation to work hard& make children after the war is finished (as Afghanistan&vietnam prove no matter how many how many people die in war if you make enough children your population would still double).",if we are strictly talking about casualties the problem is much worse for Ukraine whose population is 3 times smaller with even lower birth rate and similar military casualties and tens of thousands of civilian casualties so even if all the 7 million refugees return to the coumtry(a lot already did) they would still have a huge population problem that most people seem to ignore.,0
"Ya, a clearly insignia covered medic was not shot, a man in civilian garb was. Come on, its not even like the article is a long read or written at a advanced level of English comprehension. How much do you people get paid, per hour or post? Post per hour?","As for the teacher, its sad that he lost his life. Then I have to ask was the Palestinian group firing on the IDF in officially recognized uniforms or were they trying to blend into the populace. That is also in the conventions and I haven't seen a single person bring up yet. If a group of people are shooting at you in civilian clothing, and you shoot a person in civilian clothing in that area during the firefight, its not your responsibility. Its the responsibility of the fighters using the civilian populace as a shield. We have this commander that was shot and killed so it was a military operation, were they in uniform?",0
I'm not asking anyone to defend my life. If a country attacks mine or vice versa I have the right to decide if I think the conflict is worth fighting for or not. If its not then my death is not the automatic outcome even if my country losses. I'd have to weigh the consequences of that situation out and decide if I thought it was worth it or not.,I'm also saying no nation state should have the ability to grab someone off the street and force them into a situation where their life is in danger against their will. Especially when threatening them with prison or death for not complying.,0
"The amount of ""big"" warheads outside of the unitary 1mt GLBM warheads is actually quite small for the Russian stockpile.",On a per missile basis in the real world a Russian MIRV is barely better than a unitary missile and a unitary warhead is about a third to a half the kilotons of an American version.,0
"My concern isn't that she'd take Democrat votes. My concern is that AZ is probably still a lot like GA, where a Democrat needs a lot of moderate votes to win. It's her winning votes from independents and moderate Republicans that might vote for Gallegos over a Trumpy Republican that could cost Democrats.","Again, it's not about him winning over Sinema, that's not the issue, it's if Sinema will spoil the race and get the Republican candidate elected because she'll siphon off votes that otherwise would have gone to the generic Democrat on the ballot. Democrats who are paying attention aren't going to vote for Sinema, but there are a LOT of low information and moderate voters who would reliably vote for any Democrat in a D v R race, but might go for Sinema in a 3rd person race (for whatever reason, name recognition, prefer a moderate, etc.), and it will only take 1 percentage point or two to throw a race.",1
"I don’t like Hamas but I’ve had this argument enough times and done enough research to know that Israelis started the conflict. I’m not just talking about forcibly taking land, I’m talking about terroristic attacks.",Since when is fighting back against an attacker and oppressor “terrorism”? There are plenty of incidents where Jewish people rightfully fought the Germans before and during WWII. Does that make the Jewish people terrorists or heroes? I say heroes.,0
There's clearly a lot more alternative energy production now than 20 or 30 years ago (when it was close to none).,"Baseline Power: Yep, that what's happening if there is a mix of different forms of energy and no extreme high amount of renewables or nuclear, e.g. germany right now. There is no issue running 3 (or previously 6) nuclear power plants covering 10% when you produce something around 40% by wind and PV.",1
"House Republicans have sought to remove Ms Omar for comments they consider antisemitic, for which Ms Omar apologised. But Democrats say that Republicans are engaging in Islamophobia.","Do you honestly believe the Republican party is the party of antisemitism?! If yes, .... why? If no, please go be disingenuous alone somewhere rather than polluting the waters here.",1
no one in Iran is even mentioning gender it's all you people outside Iran doing this shit. everyone is United here it's not a gender war.,"this isn't about gender. no man in Iran has any problems about the main slogan of this protests being ""women life freedom"".",0
I was thinking more of how the US government 'took care' of him and other vets after they left the service. Or maybe something happened during his service and he felt betrayed. But the simplest reason to give up his citizenship is probably due to tax purposes.,"My argument is if you expect to have the full benefits of a US citizenship, then you need to pay into the system despite where your income originates.",1
"hardly. Forgot about Turkey? Syria? Pakistan/Afghanistan? (and historically, Turkey was the capital of the old Ottoman empire, and wouldn't mind re-constituting that).",It's going to get absolutely spicy and dicey. The previous order that held this all together for so many decades is beginning to erode.,0
In all honesty. They were a bunch of fucking idiots who voted for him and resigning isn't going to happen. Hopefully next time they don't take a maga candidate at his word but they need to live with there own idiocy until the next election.,"My concern is that every Member of Congress would have to stand for election, then defend a recall the next year, then stand for election again.",1
"The de facto regime of the region formerly known as ""Texas"" has engaged in such extreme voter suppression efforts that it no longer qualifies for statehood, which requires each state to have a republican government.",But who knows with some of the people Trump has managed to get into the judiciary. We're talking about people who would struggle to pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.,0
"The parents also refused to have the childs blood tested, or have a chest xray done. So you're wrong. They're horrible.",You're not crazy for wanting to avoid things you think are too risky even if the experts say theyre safe. Tegasesfor example needs to be heated over normal cooking temps to produce any off gases and residential weed killer has safe use directions/guidelines written on them. Its comforting to know thag organizations like the FDA regularily force recalls for items that are deemed to be too risky/toxic/prone to mis-use. Companies often voluntarily recall items too.,0
"It will take time for the reports to come out - But as far as I understand, this is both an aftershock and it's own earthquake event.","if i understood that correctly, this one is an aftershock, unless an earthquake above 7,7 becomes the new main quake, in which the three so far all become preshocks.",1
"Democracy does not magically lead to good government, good policies, and good laws. The opposite can happen. That is what the will of the people mean. If the voters want to bring back slavery, ban abortion, ban immigration from Asia, etc., we can, and it will be perfectly legal. Prosecutors and judges need to respect Democracy.","I am saying that prosecutors should respect and follow the law, because the law was passed by people democratically elected by the people. Why is slavery illegal? Because of the 13th Amendment. If we, the people, were to get rid of the 13th Amendment, and slavery becomes legal again, then the prosecutors should be protecting slave owners, because that is will of the people.",0
Does it now? Go ahead and quote the part where I said anything about encouragement to attack Russia or its art?,"3) The war is not very popular in Russia, propaganda notwithstanding. Volunteers dried up, the exodus of young educated men happened, one round of mobilization happened, another is incoming. It is HARD to estimate the effect of morale, but the last thing Ukraine wants to do is hand Putin an energizant for the 60% or so ""meh, whatever"" russians. Complacency, petty corruption, malicious or weaponized incompetence and negligence has a pervasive and important effect to a war effort.",1
"No. The International Criminal Court was set up to try war criminals that states have failed to try. It's subsidiary to domestic judiciaries. If Ukraine (or Russia, for that matter) prosecutes and tries them, there's no reason for the ICC to do anything.",Hopefully Ukraine is able to find the perpetrators of these crimes and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law in fair trials.,1
Worst case scenario if you underestimate you enemy is exactly what we are seeing with Ukraine withstanding the Russia.,"Russia’s military has been very underwhelming so far, but the worst thing that we can do right now is dismiss it as a threat. If we do dismiss them as a threat, why should countries continue to give Ukraine aid if they managed so far? It is still a war and if Russia was so incompetent why is it not over already. The worst thing that you can do in war is not take your enemy seriously.",0
The federal minimum wage is too low until you look at the education and skill sets required for minimum wage jobs then things get skewed. There’s a general consensus that higher education and advanced skills equate to higher earnings. There’s also the plausibility that automation can be employed in certain situations where it becomes the cheaper alternative to hiring people. For example McDonald’s kiosks don’t call out sick and don’t require lunch breaks. Kiosks don’t unionize and can be repaired or replaced with minimum down time.,"Actually demonstrably true. How much does a family doctor earn? Why do they earn as much as they do, is it because of their education and skill set?",0
"Ignoring the safety net aspect? No. I don't want it. I'm planning my retirement as if Social Security will not be available to me at all. If I could opt out and invest my SS privately in addition to my current contribution, I'd have a substantial nest egg and a strong safety net at 59 1/2. I don't want to retire at 70 and be terrorized by politicians every 2-4 years while they use my money as reelection fodder.",Nope. You'd be completely off the hook. I would not be allowed to collect one red cent if I didn't pay in. I'll either self-finance my retirement or rely on family or charity.,0
"The fact that he lies so consistently is one thing, but the shit he chooses to lie about is just so fucking weird. It is constantly so easily verifiable, over and over again. Being caught it any of these things would make most of us feel ashamed. Being caught lying about being a HM extra would ruin me...","I was talking about his lies about his personal life. I am not a clinician, so I am using pathological liar in the broad not the technocal sense. I also agree he may have suffered because of being hit in the head so many times.",1
"Pinch of salt, propaganda, fog of war and all that, but pretty much all the analysts have been saying that the Russian losses are horrific.","Fuck war, fuck Russia, Slava Ukraini.. but fuckin’ a someone put an end to this travesty. Not just in Ukraine, all of it. War is a crime against humanity.",1
"The lawsuit claims the e-commerce giant is illegally selling products that contain ""Ejiao"" a gelatin made from the skin of donkeys and used in various products like health supplements - in violation of California animal welfare law.","The US Center for Contemporary Equine Studies is suing Amazon for selling products containing a donkey derivative, despite efforts from advocacy groups to halt the practice.",0
"Basically, the actions of the Cameron Government show that they wanted Brexit, even if their words claim otherwise. Either that, or they were even stupider than the Truss government.","Or so they claim, but when the so-called ""advisory referendum"" went marginally in favour of Brexit, Cameron voluntarily and immediately stepped aside to let the overt isolationists take control.",0
"That being said, anyone who questions their gender or feels dysphoria, especially around the time of puberty should not be given puberty blockers or hormonal treatments.","How is it determined that the questioning is actually because of trans-ness or because of normal dysphoria that occurs with puberty? Or perhaps due to some other undiagnosed trauma or process (e.g. autism spectrum, severe depression, etc.).",0
Some geopolitical experts at the turn of the century had predicted that during the first half of this century Poland would supplant Germany in terms of strategic importance in the eyes of the US due to its closer proximity to NATOs eastern border.,"The buying spree comes as Poland attempts to solidify a position as a leading pillar of European relations with the United States, with the war in Ukraine shifting the balance of political power in Europe further to the east. That was hammered home this week as Biden — who has yet to visit Paris or Berlin during his term —  since the war began.",1
"Maybe it's just me, but having your systems cut out for a country going through an active invasion because you're too busy making an ass of yourself on twitter should have bigger consequences then ""Telsa sells fewer cars."".","This. Actively have been in the market for a new EV for the last 6m and am holding out until the Ionic 6 hits next year. I had wanted a model 3 for years but have zero interest in supporting that company now. It would be like buying a MyPillow. Musk's problem is that his new ""base"" can't afford his product...",1
"Have you not been paying attention? Reality scarcely matters, as long as the propaganda machine that vomits into the minds of as many Americans as it does between Fox, conservative radio, Sinclair group, Rupert Murdoch's other publications including tabloids, Facebook, etc. There is no final ""gotcha"".","Hey, I'm still going to vote. I'm going to do what I can to get everyone I know to vote. But that's mostly because I want to know that I did what I could and want a clear conscience, not because I have a lot of faith in people not falling for the propaganda. And they clearly are falling for the propaganda, because the fact that Republicans can be as blatantly fucked up as they are and still break the numbers they do should terrify everyone.",0
Its like how fox news first started with good journalist and some opinion pieces over time once they got viewership they pivoted slowly and now is basically a opinion tv and not a news channel.,"No, it was always there just that once the international press pool landed there is a spotlight on everything that is happening. In some ways glad the filth is shown, one of the most despicable kingdoms in the middle east.",0
"A lot of the posturing by Putin and his cronies that is intended for consumption outside of Russia is an attempt to make people give up on supporting Ukraine, either by trying to convince people that Ukrainian defeat is inevitable, or that Putin will punish those countries that support Ukraine.","Any punishments also harm Russia, in the same way that sanctions have inconvenienced those imposing the sanctions, but Russia is not nearly in as good a position to absorb these consequences, something that Putin hopes we overlook.",0
"True- but I'm thinking that a large part of Trump's base no longer truly considers themselves Republicans, but vote GOP because it aligns with most of their interests. I'm sure they could be be easily persuaded to follow Trump to the MAGA Party. It wouldn't have to be a very large number of defections, either, to ensure Democratic victories in what are currently GOP strongholds.","Even if Trump doesn't get the GOP nomination in 2024, and even if he doesn't run as independent, I can't see him staying quiet and letting DeSantis get all the attention. I'm sure he will still be holding rallies where he will spew his vitriol at the GOP. And there are probably a lot of new shows that would have him on to do it, as it would be good for ratings.",0
"What this picture critically omits, however, is that it was Biden’s White House that originally set last week’s events in motion.”.","“Faced with these facts, it’s quite easy to see how a casual observer might conclude that the only obstacle to paid sick time for more than one hundred thousand railworkers is the obstinacy of congressional Republicans.",0
"The interest should be with government as this is a (major) new tax revenue source... so I assume politicians being paid to block it, as this blatantly goes against public health and interest.","There's been plenty research already and the numbers are conclusive. There's much more merit, and far less danger than people have been led to believe.",0
"That kind of doesn't make sense considering the P66 connects to the P07 north of svatove, which is already substantially in Ukrainian hands. What it does mean is that there are no substantially convenient defensive positions all the way to starobilsk from there, opening up sieverodonetsk to significant advance from the northeast and driving a nail in Putin's ""capture of the whole of luhansk oblast"".","It would theoritically put Starobilsk, which is a major supply hub for Russian forces in the Donbas, within Himars range if Ukrainians were bold enough to put those things in the frontline - they have done during the kharkiv offensive.",1
"The Seti Post-Detection Hub will bring together experts from around the world to decide how to decipher methods, enact space law and anticipate societal impacts.",The University of St Andrews has joined forces with the UK SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research Network to establish protocols and procedures if aliens are found.,0
"If you’re wondering why America’s official policies aren’t more supportive of Taiwan’s democracy, it’s because the official policy was locked in place by treaty and by law (Taiwan Relations Act) back in the 1970s when Taiwan’s government wasn’t a democracy and wasn’t Taiwanese. It had very different goals than today’s Taiwanese government.","In practice American policy goes a bit further. America doesn’t want to be drawn into a war, so America pushes back against even peaceful efforts by Taiwan to officially change the status quo. Back in the early 2000s Taiwan’s leader was pushing to rewrite the constitution. America made it clear that doing so would cause problems in Taiwan’s relationship with America and Taiwan’s leader backed down. He pushed the envelope in other ways and became very disliked by the American government.",0
I mean... It'd benefit the community as a whole if they actually prosecuted those gun laws when criminals get caught with firearms.,Yeah but take a look at how many mass shootings have happened in Australia since they implemented gun control laws and other gun control related measures.,1
"Lastly, the same story played over and over with bungled ""suicide"" overkill involving multiple weapons/matrix-like physics, abstract definitions of gravity on Planet Russia, and surprisingly fast final verdicts officially confirmed to the media is amazing.","Who actually thinks someone or a group of people could get in close enough to one of Putin's goons, assassinate him and not have Putin know? Judging by the reluctance of the Russian general population to even move a finger against Putin, would they even try?",0
"If they're disproportionately homeless than a program set to help homeless people would disproportionately help them, thus what's the need for a program that specifically targets them?","My bottom line is that when it comes to poverty and homelessness, all folks in that category deserve help. Creating a divide within that community that says one group within it is more deserving really undermines the larger issue at hand, and makes it sound like there are people within the at risk population that somehow just don't deserve a hand up.",1
"""Is it really the shooter's fault here - we don't do enough to discuss mental health and clearly the shooter was ill."".","Edit Before I get a snarky ""but guns don't make you safer your own gun is more likely to kill you."" That's because gun suicides outnumber gun homicides. People aren't killing themselves because of guns, they're just using one of the most effective means of suicide around them.",1
"Understand that Russian nationalists do not believe Ukrainians exist and that, at best, Ukrainians are wayward and misguided Russians and, at worst, actively attempting to destroy Russian culture.","The Ukrainians/Ruthenians still existed as a people, and they were involved in extending Russian rule over them and providing the faulty intellectual framework for Russian imperialism.",1
"There are so many potential problems (and a few benefits I suppose) if we find a way to stop aging or massively extend our life spans, especially if it's en masse and easily affordable.","See, I don’t really want to live longer (just the population problem alone puts me off that), but being healthier up until the end would be great. Like if I could be basically an 80 year old with the general health of a 45 year old and then kick the bucket? I’m down.",1
"There are also videos of people in Mariupol who live in damaged houses, without windows, walls half destroyed, they're freezing, because they have nowhere else to go. 21st century.","In Mariupol, invaders are demolishing houses in the historic part of the city. ""Another cover-up of the consequences of bombing by russian planes. This is how the history of Mariupol after the Second World War turns into garbage."".",0
So are you telling me you think thousands of dead Russians for a patch of field in a strategically unimportant area is of equal or greater relevance to Ukraine retaking Kherson and forcing Russia to retreat across the Dnieper that they had previously used as their major defensive zone? And they have now announced a planned withdrawal from the Zaporizhzhya region as well?????,"Oh, come on now. You’re acting like this is the same country that tried to take Kyiv by repeatedly dropping paratroopers into a Ukrainian encirclement of Antonov airport… over and over… wave after wave… while telegraphing their moves over open communication channels through Ukrainian towers.",1
"Are you aware how tight the Russian Orthodox Church and the government are intertwined? Putin knows the more the west, Black Rock, JPmorgan etc run their mouth about being involved about “rebuilding” Ukraine post war…..the more Putin will be justified. This war is just a repeat. The west does not want peace. They wanted Russia to invade so Ukraine has to beg for help, help that will come with insane strings attached…..strings that can never be cut.","Now Russia know the last tactic won't work, they know Ukraine will resist, and Ukraine is supported by the WEST and have modern NATO equipment. They will try to gradually soften up Ukrainian lines of defence with war of attrition, and a Zerg rush, obliterating everything, and obviously they probably want to do a massive missile and drone attack on Kiev, they wish that city is reduced to ashes.",1
"Or it's also likely that our democracy is in a death spiral in which the GOP manages to seize power because the system is designed to uphold minority rule. Dems are likely to lose the Senate in 2024, and because of the electoral college the GOP could certainly win the presidency, not to mention their firm control of the SCOTUS already. And then that could be the end of democracy. In the end it doesn't matter how unpopular the GOP is when they don't need popular support to win.","Republicans don’t want to win elections any longer… they only want to seize power now… they’ve given up, know they’re unpopular with voters and don’t give a 💩.",1
Utah has the highest porn consumption but also the most outrage about porn. Mormons are super against porn and a lot of the porn users there are shamed for it if found out. It’s super taboo. They literally treat it like heroin and have substance abuse programs specifically for porn.,Yeah Utah basically views porn like most places view drugs. They even preach about how addictive it is and have substance abuse programs devoted to overcoming porn use.,0
"A Russian nuclear strike on a NATO nation would be met with the complete annihilation of Russia, most likely through a singular retaliatory nuclear strike followed by overwhelming conventional warfare. Hopefully, further nukes wouldn't be deployed but there's no guarantees of that.","I agree with this post entirely if Russia nukes Ukraine, but if they launched against a NATO country, a nuclear response seems inevitable.",0
"Like it or not, there is a racial element to it. Same reason we didn't support Syria Vs Ukraine despite a lot of similarities in the situation on the ground. It's not even close to the only reason of course, but it's not irrelevant either.","The other is making it harder to import cheap stuff from China for some Muslims. Or putting lives on the line for, and weapons in the hands of, brown people that don't have oil. Or treating inmates as if they're humans.",0
During the initial years of the cold war India chose to be neutral between the us and ussr as they believed they were too poor to participate (India was importing food at that time).,"The us was still mostly neutral between India and Pakistan until Richard Nixon.He established a very close relationship with Pakistan, aiding it militarily and economically. He considered Pakistan as a very important ally to counter Soviet influence in the Indian subcontinent and establish ties with China, with whom Pakistan was very close.",0
"As it stands, there are no obvious objectives for the west in Iran. In addition to that, since Iraq and Afghanistan, the US doesn't have the military backing of its allies in offensive wars, and still on top of that the west is already entangled in a war in Ukraine. With Iran being a large country with a decently powerful military, a military intervention will be an extremely expensive project that the west is absolutely not interested in right now. Iran in its current state is actually quite useful to the west since its the local boogeyman being used to sell expensive weapons to other countries in the region. If anything the west would be more inclined to look the other way as Iran signs the execution of 14'000 people or commits other atrocities than to try and help its people. Which is literally what they did and were going to continue to do were it not for mass protests internationally which at least got them to just acknowledge that there's unrest in Iran.",But the protesters are losing in Iran… thousands arrested and we all know what happens when people go to jail. The government there has explicitly said they will be turning people into examples of why there should be no protests.,1
"I could be wrong, but out of everything the majority us as Westerners respected and feared out of the Eastern Bloc was largely Ukranian. I don't want to put them as a whole on a pedestal... Pre-2014 ukraine definitely had some bad actors, a ton of corruption and a largely anti-LGBTQ sentiment. Since the birthing of what everyone considers the ""Modern Ukraine"" post 2014 and during these dire times, These People have stepped up dramatically.","This small nation is such an inspiring guiding star that all of modern civilization can learn so much from. I have so, so much respect for the people of Ukraine.",0
"Even a responsible politician will sometimes not be able to fulfill all their promises. For example Obama wanted to close Guantanamo, and as far as I can tell did his best, but was blocked by Congress.","There are 49 Republican Senators elected for a party with no political platform. Who act completely unacceptably, like refusing to impeach the obviously corrupt Trump. They are the problem with your system, not a black swan single seat held by a conwoman lying to get elected as a progressive Democrat.",0
"Maybe it isn't, and we should still support Ukraine fully.. but increasingly it's feeling like just another fake-out by Russia, in a long long long javelin-destroyed caravan of lies.","seeing the west take back their tank commitments pisses me off, they really, really dont want Ukraine to reclaim Crimea.",1
In one sense your question is odd because its akin to asking why you'd want to discuss any background about a person so famous. And your inference is as nonsensical as saying that the people who discussed the positive parts of his life only did so with the intent of trying to make the killing look unjustified.,"To more directly answer your question, though, there are a lot of possible alternatives. One that springs to mind is that his background doesn't justify the level of grief/angst/martyrdom following his murder. Not being sympathetic towards the murder of a bad person is arguably pretty callous, but its not the same as saying them being a bad person justifies the murder.",0
"I mean, McConnell has been extremely firm about stopping bidens progress/democrats progress so the bipartisanship is news, especially in light of the house debacle.","They worked together on the infrastructure bill, signaling the Republicans in senate being willing to work with Biden rather than obstruct. This is in contrast to what's going on in the race for Speaker which is the GOP unwilling to compromise.",1
"Maybe you just stop and wonder a little about all the countries the US has couped just for silly reasons, just because the US could really. And all the money the US has made out of ruining those countries, whose people now live in poverty, and ohhh all those Americans who don't even know the horrible things their previous presidents have done, because this part of history isn't taught obviously. But yes maybe that, would actually be a nice thought. Regular Americans live a great life compared to the rest of the world, ya'll could keep getting richer and close your eyes, but don't think that makes ya'll innocents.","If you think ""regular"" Americans are getting richer, you're sadly mistaken. As far as how what the Government does....yeah I fought in Iraq. I got to see firsthand how this country destroyed a sovereign nation so the Rich could Rob those people of their resources. Trust not all us Americans are proud....even further, there are parts of American history that Republicans want to delete...basically the 50'-70's because of the civil injustice that was here. I still gotta worry about being shot just for my color by the very same people who are there to ""protect and serve"" (police).",1
'A lot of people seemed to think he was some sort of Gun wizard and was going to conjure weapons for Russia.'.,"Yup. Bout never said he would serve on the front lines. He ""If I could, I would share the skills I have and I would readily volunteer"". His value comes from his contacts and understanding of international smuggling and trade. He absolutely can volunteer to aid Russia on that front. He was only arrested in 2008 and many of his contacts are still around and in positions of power. Plus Russia is heavily sanctioned so people with that skill set are useful.",1
"I think he would form a third party, a malignant narcissist such as Trump would be far more humiliated to lose then GOP primary to Desantis than to lose the general election as a third party.",And there is the one thing that could potentially split the Republican Party in half Donald Trump running as a third party candidate I hope he goes through with this.,1
No argument with any of that. My statement was only that floating ice when it melts will not lift the overall height of the oceans. Only ice on land that floats into the ocean.,"Like others have said, we're looking at land ice here, not sea ice. Land ice makes up a big chunk of Greenland and Antarctica, and is, in fact, melting. The sea ice is also melting. Arctic sea ice is down 28% since 1979. Like you said, ice that's already in the water isn't going to cause a rise in water level when it melts, but that doesn't mean it's harmless.",1
"There is talk that this is Prigozhin's game. He promised to deliver Soledar and if he will be succesful, it will mean more power points to him. Apparently there is quite some infighting between the army, Wagner, Kremlin factions, some say the command changes are related to this too.",">That would suggest that Putin is trying to balance tensions between Wagner and the regular army, rather than develop any fresh military strategy.",1
"It's just NK expatriating cheap labor to the occupied Ukrainian territories. Nothing more, nothing else.","North Korean personnel were assisting a WMD program in Syria, and the use of North Korean labor in Russia and China is extremely well documented.",0
"Right, but it averaged out to 5k/day over that period, it seems. So, NYC could handle that influx then, it can handle it now. They should really try building more housing, though...","Demand with less housing available. I’m talking about rent not house buying. These corporations are buying because it’s good business knowing the demand is there. More people, more demand raise prices.",1
I’m so sorry you’re going through the shit (and I’m sure “shit” is probably an understatement). What state are you in? Have you looked into any of the local resources for struggling families? I can try to help you find info on local food pantries and other services if you want.,"Have you gone to the local food shelves? A) food. B) they might be able to point you in the direction of other resources. There are many overlapping state, city, and federal programs that can help struggling families. Lots of them go under used because they aren't well publicized. There are org and programs to help with heating bills, repairs, food, etc. I know time is probably one of things you have the absolute least of but a trip to the shelves might be very helpful.",1
I hope those abortion rights voters will continue to show up in every election; it’s our only way to defeat the Republicans and bring back Roe v Wade someday as a Constitutional amendment.,"And yet in those red states, there were people (probably women) that voted for reproductive rights but then turned around and voted for the men (and women) that put their rights in jeopardy in the first place. Unless it directly affects a Republican, they don't care.",1
"“Crackpot ideas sometimes turn out to be true.The earth does revolve around the sun, and it was Hunter Biden, not Russian disinformation agents, who dropped off a laptop full of incriminating evidence at a repair shop in Delaware. Galileo spent his remaining days under house arrest for spreading heretical ideas, and thousands of dissidents today are arrested or killed by despotic governments eager to suppress ideas they disapprove of. But this is not the American way.” - November 14, 2022.","The message was simply ""The Democrats are really the bad guys. Everything a Republican does is terrific and good or acceptable or, at least, excusable."".",0
"IrishJoe, so will Democrats. We are that polarized. If Republicans ran a war hero or Ivy League grad and Democrats ran Rosie O’Donnell or one of the Kardashians, you can still bet on a close election whose result would be uncertain.",I would likely vote for a really deficient candidate with all sorts of liabilities who was running as a Democrat in order to prevent Republicans from having the seat. I think lots of people here would as well.,1
"The ""waste"" comes from foregoing Biden, nominating another Democrat, and then inevitably electing whoever the Republican nominee ends up being, at which point the Democratic nominee will have been ""wasted,"" because if Pete loses to DeSantis in 2024, he won't be the nominee in 2028 to go up for a rematch. But Pete could conceivably win in 2028, after a second Biden term. (Feel free to substitute any other Democrat for Pete). It wouldn't be a waste if the alternate Democratic nominee were to win, but, historically, that's highly unlikely.","I'd prefer someone younger as well, but the benefit of a younger nominee is far outweighed by the detriment of giving up the incumbency advantage. If Pete can run in 2024, there's no reason he couldn't just wait to run until 2028 instead. That goes for any other Democrat you can name. If we nominate someone other than Biden for 2024, we'll probably lose, and then 2028, instead of being an open race, will be an uphill battle against a Republican incumbent, which could very well mean the next opportunity to retake the presidency is in the open race in 2032.",0
"With regards to Hungary, there are mechanisms in the EU to at least make it unpleasant for Hungary. But unfortunately Poland has been protecting Hungary. Which is quite interesting, how that Hungary more or less supports Putin, while Poland is super anti Putin and supporting Ukraine.","Yeah sure, Orbán would give Hungary to Putin in an instant and you would have Russian military bases in central Europe.",1
"However, people here seem to be in denial about the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's study being legitimate. This is not some private bank, this is one of the many regional branches of the Federal Reserve, aka our national bank that sets interest rates and such.","The website is one of the 12 regional Reserve Banks that, together with the Board of Governors in Washinon, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System.",1
Besides when you know something is NEEDED then you would be stupid to sell it dirt cheap. Besides if Russia offers the best price then you also save a bit on transport since ME is not right next to Japan like Russia is.,"Oil price in Japan is fine, there are also a lot of affordable public transports such as bus, trains & high-speed trains (which often corporations cover the cost too).",1
"This is a news report. They're gonna give you facts, not speculation. If something LOOKS like terrorism to the journalist, they ask the investigators if they're treating it as terrorism. Then they report that they asked and what the response was. That's all you should want or get from a news outlet. Anything more is Fox and Newsmax.","This is NYT reportage, not Fox New Entertainment. It's not their job to insert their opinon on any part of this. They are reporting a fact: authorities are investigating the case. And part of investigating is finding a suspect's motivation and admissible evidence to win their case. This is how things start.",1
"Then again, his voters are lemmings who do what they’re told by him and Fox, so if it’s not OKed by either of them, I doubt the GOP will buck the trend.","Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but I feel like any GOP ""civil war"" will be long over before election day and conservatives will be in lock-step behind their leader. Two years is a long time for fox news and others to push a new narrative. Everyone seems gleeful about the prospect of some kind of DeSantis v. Trump fight, and while I'm sure it will be entertaining, I can't imagine it lasting two full years. I fear that by election day, they will have their fascism mascot picked out and all dutifully line up behind him.",1
"1- It may allow UT to ban gay weddings, it could be positioning groundwork to reinstate mormon polygamy.",Of course Romney is going to vote for it—this bill gives Utah the right to ban gay marriages as long as they recognize those legally performed in other states.,1
"Not allowing college students to vote where they live while attending college full time, instead forcing them to return to whichever city they are from (if in state) in order to vote. This can be mitigated if states have half decent absentee voting.","Closing voting locations and consolidating into just a handful to increase the amount of time needed to vote. This also increases the amount of effort it takes since you can't just swing down to your local center/church/whatever and cast a ballot. Kentucky likes to do this shit for cities, but allow tons of centers in rural areas.",0
"They produced what, less than half of the gains expected in a midterm when the incumbent party's president has a less-than-50% approval rating? And the worst inflation since the 80s?","This has been the Republican strategy (Fresh Air interview about article) . That is, to use wedge issues to encourage 'the base' to show up and vote, instead of fighting to attract the vote of the middle-ground ""undecideds."".",0
"I know that this war is ghastly but keep in mind we are seeing the worst side of the Russian people right now. They are literally sending convicts to fight. They have been fed propaganda for years and anyone who speaks out has an ‘accident’. This war has devastated their economy and will likely affect the children in the future who currently have no control over what’s going on. There are some horrible Russians and their are some noble Russians, but mostly there are just Russians who are normal people like us. They are victims of this war as well, even if they don’t believe it. I say this not to be preachy, but because I know that it can be hard to see the good in the world sometimes, but at the end of the day there still are good people. Never give up hope my friend. 🙂.","Well here it is folks. When a dictator and a bunch of kleptos used to sucking each others' dicks get together and decide on continuity plans, here's what they come up with. Another reason democracy will always beat autocracy. They just can't think contingencies - they'll always do the stupidest shit. I bet nobody in the room even floated the idea of ending the war.",1
"I am in a more rural part of California that leans conservative. We also have a good state college in the county. Because of that, we have a higher young population then our size normally would.","I have seen a mix of people move out of state. It's always because of cost of living. Where they move is def based on political leanings. The thing most don't get is, a California conservative is probably more liberal then a lot of other places conservatives.",0
"2] In most cases, no corrections issued and absolutely zero fact finding or investigations before breaking the story same as Masha Amini's death where France24 and Guardian straight up claimed that they have medical records and sources who actually saw her beaten in a jail, then later ""corrected"" that she was ""beaten up in custody"" where there's still no proof and where they let the story sit there with all of the information being ""allegations"" and ""sources claimed"".","Like it's hilarious how the US has the balls to literally say anything despite using depleted uranium ammo. Like if that isn't a nuclear weapon, I don't know what is.",0
"0. Israel’s parliament is a shit-show of so many sectors and parties, the new parliament has 10 parties and the last one had 13 parties. It is very hard to form a coalition in this political environment and for the last some years we had elections almost every six months.","1. He made a strategic mistake by not lowering the minimum percentage for parties to enter parliament, which made Meretz (left wing party) and Balad (Arabic Democratic Party) not enter the parliament.",0
"Yet strangely enough 32 degrees Celsius is a hot temperature, only gets below freezing after it goes past 0 degrees Celsius.",Got to wonder when those last 2 countries that use Fahrenheit to read temperature will finally leave the dark ages and join the rest of the world.,0
"Iranian UAVs are so low tech though, they likely could simply be jammed via something like the DRAKE system, which is literally just a backpack kit. Jam all the communication channels, and render the UAV useless. That would be adequate I assume. It's what the US Navy has been using for the past several years to jam drones operating off Chinese ""fishing ships"" that have been harassing them.","The issue for Ukraine is they're high priced (initial purchase price), and more importantly, they're brand new state of the art. US isn't going to risk sending one to Ukraine where Russia could potentially capture it.",0
"Not just extremists, every single forces that has ever walked across done that. Also read the article next time ? They ended ceasefire because their commanders started getting killed.","Clearly you dont know shit and talking out of your ass. This is TTP Taliban and they are different from the one in Afghanistan. Regardless, The Taliban in Afghanistan changed their plan, they realized attacking US wont let them win the war, so they accepted a deal with Trump and didnt attack US soldiers. Even when Biden came to power and attacked the Taliban, they remained patient because they know it was only matter of time. Taliban is not ISIS or Al Qaeda, their goal doesn't stretch passed Afghanistan. US doesn't care for Taliban as long as they dont host AL Queda and Taliban is a threat for US for US to start another war. US will take the L and move on from Taliban chapter and Taliban isn't stupid to attack US and bring them back to Afghanistan.",0
"5) If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain. (If people were voting for which place to order lunch from, you can’t say “I don’t care,” and then complain when pizza shows up. The same logic applies here, and this is MUCH more important.).",True. Voting for the Dems is not going to fix our problems. Voting Dem is just a way of buying us time to find an actual solution outside of this rigged political dynamic.,1
"However, the situation now is a bit paradoxical. In theory, everyone supports Ukraine. In reality, I have met left wing people who defend things like saying that Ukraine is not a democracy; while also meeting some right wing people defending Trump as ""he also did great good things you know"" and criticizing the invasion while also defending that Putin was a great leader until the invasion.","In the US at least, it seems that the far right gravitates towards supporting Russia not due to any thorough analysis of actual Russian foreign policy, but just because they want to oppose any policy positions generally agreed upon by nearly anyone marginally less right-wing than them. While support of Ukraine remains a non-partisan issue for most Americans, regardless of the greatly differing opinions on the elected representatives administering that support, as those on the far right tend to only listen to information and conspiracy theories tossed around online echo chambers, Russian propaganda unfortunately still gets through to them.",1
"To be fair, if you were raised with the expectation of being euthanized at a certain age and it becoming culturally ingrained in people, I bet there would be little opposition. Suicide has been ingrained in Japanese culture as well.","In some sense, we do a similar thing allready in most Western nations because in most geriatric situations, treatments are no longer aimed at curing the underlying disease or medical issue but rather making it bearable to live with it. The component of assisted suicide is not present though. We should, however, have the discussion on the ethics of having someone die painfully over a long period. Medically assisted suicide should be revisited by experts as an option for those who suffer from incurable deseases.",0
"Also to add weight to that theory, quite a few of the barracks I went to when stationed in Germany had been built in the build up to WWII.","In fact the mechanised German army is somewhat of a myth as well, as a lot of the logistics was done by horse. Add that to the fact basically any footage of the German army not being mowed down would have been created by the nazis, and would thus have been made to make them look good, and you can sort of see how we are still affected by some nazi propaganda when looking at the regime historically even today.",1
"My prediction: McCarthy has NOT been given a mandate but he'll nevertheless act and speak as if he had. His involvement with the 06Jan coup attempt will be mercilessly and repeatedly swept under the rug as his staffers and supporters alike point in some random direfction and shout ""OOOOOHHH LKook at that shiny thing over THERE....!).",Yeah. I think the Atlantic might have gotten the modern House Freedom Caucus confused with the founding House Freedom Caucus and members like Justin Amash who have in fact argued precisely this point. The restoration of democracy in the House by reducing the Speaker to their proper role as a president of the body rather than a dictator.,1
"Just because it's a known side effect does not mean everybody experiences it during the process. Which unfortunately, is what a lot of more conservative voices would have others believe. Or other garbage like, 6 year olds are getting their genitalia removed which is not happening.","I never said it was easy, only that it was possible for minors to get gender-affirming surgery. The surgery I was thinking of was removing breast tissue.",1
Duh. Stupid Republicans have been voting for people who significantly lower taxes (remember the GOP Tax Scam disguised as tax ‘reform’) for the wealthy and corporations for four decades.,Don’t pretend useful idiots in the left haven’t abetted this also - always screaming in support of “income tax” increases - when the really rich don’t have ordinary W2 income. The very rich are quite happy to see the working class attack the professional class (their imagined rich) while their own wealth and income streams remain largely untouched.,1
"even pretending to believe Ukraine will keep killing 700 people a day without fail till this ends, it's still at least another year and a half before Russia ""goes broke"" to use your metaphor.",At some point I wonder if Ukraine is actually sinking these or if they're just going down and wiley Captainovich is blaming it on those damn Ukranian boogeymen.,1
When’s the last time you had to set something to 212 degrees Fahrenheit just to boil water? Or 32 degrees Fahrenheit to freeze it? That’s a 180 degrees difference? Like why can’t it just be a nice round number like 100 degrees of difference?,"Yet strangely enough 32 degrees Celsius is a hot temperature, only gets below freezing after it goes past 0 degrees Celsius.",0
"Peace will only come with a 2 state settlement that Israel has avoided talking about for decades, while the government allows illegal Israeli nationalist settlements in the forever shrinking Palestinian state.","Resolution 181: Recommending partition of the British Mandate for Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, and international status for the City of Jerusalem"".",0
My argument doesn't contend that the investigations have to take this long or that there's no way they could’ve charged him earlier.,My argument is that an investigation taking a long time does not indicate that said investigation is purely political or won't result in criminal charges.,0
"- It is because of the USA Ukraine agreed to become a non-nuclear state, and Russia/Putin probably wouldn't have invaded a nuclear Ukraine.","1994's USA-Ukraine-Russia trilateral nuclear weapons agreement: when the USSR split up, Ukraine still had most of the USSR's most modern and destructive nuclear missiles.",0
I get the feeling China doesn't actually like them though. China just needs them to exist in order to keep US troops off the Chinese border. Having to handle NK's leash is a huge burden for the Chinese government.,"We can sit here and make fun of NK's lack of grasping reality. China's the one who has to actually explain things to them. It does make NK less reliant on Russia, to be sure...",0
"Highly disagree. If the priority is to virtue signal and not to affect positive change, then that will work, and will alienate lots of potential voters that otherwise might vote for good things. It’s obvious that Christian fascists are a huge problem, and they will not be convinced they’re wrong, but there are lots of Christian fence sitters that aren’t into the extreme cruelty that WILL take the statement as a personal insult because the media they listen to has ammo to spin it that way. Is it better to yell at fascists or to defeat them?","Edit: Seems simple enough: We should always oppose fascism. There's no gray there. ""But what if a large majority / plurality / majority support fascism?"" Then we should always oppose them, too.",1
"Sure. If only Musk didn't waste so much money on Twitter, he could probably bribe them into doing it at some point.","The thing is, I imagine most of these people would first contact FIFA and ask them whether it was safe for them to go, before buying tickets. After all, this is all taking place under the auspices of FIFA.",0
"There's a sound argument that Biden has been more effective than Obama, who was only 47 when he took office.","I like Biden, and also he's our literal best shot at keeping the Republicans out of the White House in 2024.",1
"Yes, and he can’t. But I don’t think he has shame otherwise he would have already quit. If you look at his career his entire life has been built up to this moment, he has slowly sold every piece of himself for this job. Like Voldemort.",3. A group of moderate Reps break off and pick a centrist nominee and they plus all the Dems get behind that candidate.,0
"Kings rule by divine right . Your ascent to the throne might see folks suggest that is heaven smiling upon you (Chinese have ) But you will find plenty of people willing to dispute the same. Until your power cows and winnows enough. Some other pedigree of legitimacy is usually found in the west. With enough power, often the documentation will follow. Or marriage alliances.","Reuss is just one of the many branches of German royalty, many of which have familial links across the rest of Europe, some of them to the British royal family.",0
"Just wanted to let everyone know that murdering a virgin is illegal in Iran, so the female victim is raped by a prison guard the night before.",Fuck every piece of shit Iranian that is letting their government beat and kills these girls and women. Oh I fucking wish the nations of the world would send their best spec ops teams and surgically remove the heads of Iran's government.,1
It would be insane not to consider companies offsetting their emissions to be net-zero. That is literally what 'Net' means.,"Humans cause just over half of the climate-changing emissions, with somewhere around 40% being caused by natural sources in our exit from Earth's last ice age. So unless we can reduce our emissions by 166% we are going to have problems anyway, and there is no way to bring total earth emissions to zero without deliberate offsetting.",0
"Yup. We've got one potential enemy and that's Russia, we're going to be safer with these guns blowing up Russian T72s and protecting Europe then we would be with them in storage here.","Presumably the really clever part (that doesn't make the news) is the system that tracks incoming shells, works out where they came from, and sends the coordinates to the gunners faster than the Russians can move their gun. That's the bit I'd like to know about.",1
"Basically, I'm saying lets make Idaho into a beautiful utopia for the flag people. The ones with 2 flags on the car, 3 in the front yard, and 4 more hanging up in the garage. Idaho is for those people now.",But people in Idaho voted for these guys. Like the majority. That’s how a democracy works. There are consequences for voting and this is one of them. If you want to fix this then it’s up to the people of Idaho to vote for better politicians.,1
I have two friends from El Salvador that don't know each other and both of them love this president and what he's been doing. One of them just bought a house there and plans to spend winters there and he said he never thought it would be as good as it is.,I get the overreach and it's implications but I think the people that actually live there and have been terrorized by gangs for the better part of 30 years appreciate it more than some of us do in our cushy lives.,0
"You make control of the internet by elected representatives sound like a bad thing??? The alternate - libertarian free-for-all or management by corporate interests both sound pretty crappy to me. The internet is just another way of publishing stuff and should be subject to the same controls as any other publication. The idea that the internet was in some way unique, self-regulating and borderless was a juvenile idea that first circulated a couple of decades ago when the WWW first became available to the public. Anything you publish on the internet should hold to the same standards of decency and anti-hate speech as something published in a newspaper, particularly if it is published anonymously. I can see why Americans don’t trust their Govt. Between a voting process that barely rates as democratic and a constant barrage of media, tv and movies pushing conspiracy theories, the poor Americans live in a soup of distrust. But outside America we shudder at the idea of Elon Musk deciding what is OK.","You couldn’t be more wrong. Governments all over the world are setting rules and restrictions, from authoritarian ones right through to fully democratic govts. Land in Shanghai and try and find google on your browser - or just about any western news website. National controls on web content is common. In fact your own US Govt commonly forced other countries to block content over I.P. Issues. And I stand by my view that a completely unregulated internet was always a masturbatory delusion of the simple minded.",0
"So, Russia demanded that NATO prohibit Ukraine from joining. This would break NATO since it would violate the founding arrangement and would require a complete rework of what NATO is. I mean if you break the Treaty that defines the Treaty Organization... If they didn't get that, then all they had to do was prove that it was toothless.","Remember the context here. NATO had been weakening for decades and Trump's isolationist turn began to undercut the trust that people had in NATO, because really the point of Article 5 is calling the US Army to defend Europe. Macron was also quite vocal about the need for an EU army to eliminate the dependence Europe has on the US. Germany was so sure that they had a special understanding with Russia that would allow them to negotiate. NATO was on the shakiest footing it'd been possibly ever.",0
"I really like ranked choice voting, i believe portland passed a bill where next election they would be doing so, doesn’t apply to the rest of the state unfortunately.","A lot of people have no compassion for the houseless problem here, which seems largely in part because of a ruling in Idaho in 2018 that make it illegal to prevent people from camping if there were not shelter space (a shelter closed and the three people living there were fined for camping - they sued and won). Betsy Johnson and Drazan focused heavily on being firm they would take care of getting rid of them (without any actual plan other than ‘cracking down’). Johnson called them roaches. I knew quite a few people who absolutely wouldnt vote republican but liked the sound of Johnson in the debates and her harshness on the issue. It took all my effort to convince them that Tina was the only one that had actual solutions and that Johnson was siphoning more democratic votes away from Tina than she was votes from Drazan. And if they really didnt want a Republican governor then they needed to vote for Tina Kotek.. Not to mention Phil Knight donated to both Johnson and Drazan and we all know how anti union that guy is.",0
"Of course, the Patriot doesn't have the range to hit Russian strategic bombers launching cruise missiles (or any other missiles) from Russian airspace potentially many hundreds of miles away.","Nothing anyone in the world has can intercept hypersonic missiles, even the bootleg air-launched iskanders Russia likes to parade around as if they’re a huge threat to anything.",1
"At the end of the day, assuming Trump is found guilty, this is one of the single most, if not the most important cases in American history.","It helps to think about it as not prosecuting Donald Trump, but prosecuting the United States itself.",1
"I could see alot of eastern Russia falling under China's influence, and western Russia bending to the EU to some degree. Maybe Belarus will expand some.","A dozen? No. But I could see several splintered factions. Maybe east and west Russia. I call dibs on naming the southern Caucasus region, ""Caucasia."".",0
"With the help of this gas pipeline, the authorities of Moldova intend to reduce the dependence of the republic on the Russian ""Gazprom"" and increase the energy security of the country.","Lawmaker David Arakhamia, Ukraine's chief negotiator with Russia, said Kyiv is ready to provide Russia with security guarantees after it withdraws troops from Ukraine, pays reparations, brings all war criminals to justice, and surrenders nuclear weapons.",0
"A large scale “near peer” modern war, and the style of fighting that’s prevailing is what we know now as basically an ancient style of fighting. Absolutely absurd.","Everybody on both sides has a will to live first and foremost, and a will to win that follows. “Here we are” is true, because again, I’m watching it right now, “here this is because of several very specific variables” is also true, because again, an obvious will to live. They aren’t trench fighting just to be retro. They are doing it (currently) because it’s the way their war fighting doctrine has developed, all entirely in the name of keeping themselves alive to win another day.",0
"Even if you're right about why Palestinians rejected the two state solution in 1947, why have they rejected it all 8 times it's been offered to them since then?","And you do realize that ""all 8 times"" the agreement was always one sided in favor of Israel and extremely limiting for a state of Palestine, right? It doesn't return any of the land that Israel has stolen; it heavily limits their military; Israel has full control over their land, sea and air... essentially not actually an independent state, but a vassal.",1
"I'm all for prisoners donating organs voluntarily, but when it's used as an incentive to shorten a prison sentence it's essentially holding their organs hostage.","not apples to apples, but Dr Jack Kevorkian had a revolutionary idea to allow prisoners on death row to voluntarily donate organs many decades ago, as described in his book Medicide. He wanted allowing people who are already condemned to death a way to have something good come of that, but all the methods of death used then destroyed every organ that would have been harvestable had the prisoner agreed.",1
"What about the $800 billion in PPP loans that went to business owners, many of whom didn't need it or committed fraud to get it?",But so is the fact that there has been a mountain of evidence of people using their PPP loans in ways they weren’t supposed to - many pocketed the money.,1
"I'm not saying that being gay is a sin, or that it makes you a worse person, by the way. I'm just trying to talk about how it's a bit more complicated than ""sin is a crime against God"".","Sin= a crime against God. Especially if it's on purpose. In worldly terms, a person shouldn't be shunned, thrown in jail, ect for being gay, but to God, you're technically disappointing Him with continuous sin.",1
Soo…. We need to tackle the issue here: people who shouldn’t own any firearms at all… not the weapons themselves.,I mean the argument is that they are so dangerous they can't have guns but also not dangerous enough to lock up?,1
"It's kind of like playing dumb and being a smug asshole towards people taking part in this protest. It won't cause Russia to immediately and magically win the war, but in a small way it actively contributes towards it by making fun of people opposing them.","It will showcase the Finnish people's desire to continue supporting Ukraine against Russia, which directly contributes to the amount of political power the Finnish government has to send Ukraine more aid and defense materiel. It will without a doubt achieve something.",0
"VOA: So, are you saying that there is indeed an indication that China is considering sending lethal weapons to Russia?",VOA: Does the U.S. believe China is considering sending lethal weapons to Russia? Do you see any evidence?,0
"Tory voters are thinking: ""living on benefits is supposed to be hard, to encourage them to work and stop people scrounging, single parents and immigrants"".","Britain pulling out of a continent-wide single market and doing other things that raise the cost of living, as well as years of conservative government doesn’t help.",1
"The most glaring bundle of evidence of why we are where we are today is that Republicans haven't won the popular vote to win the presidency since 1988 - 34 years ago... yet they've won twice since then by electoral college, and have a Supreme Court supermajority of 6-3, where 5 of those 6 were appointed by presidents who did NOT win the popular vote, one of which is a stolen seat. A bonus is that the U.S. Senate - which molds the judiciary, SC, and the cabinet and nearly all major policy - has a Republican stronghold that represents roughly 40M less people than the Democrats in the Senate do.","The ball's in Democrats court, since there's a Republican introduced-bill currently waiting in the House if the Democrats ever want to bring it up for a vote/pass (since, you know, they hold the majority atm).",1
"Swiss here, this is the real reason. Rejecting the re-exporting of the Gepard ammunition was the dumbest thing ever Switzerland did, and it's hurting real bad all around. That's way politicians all over are looking for some really clever ways to fix this without formally changing neutrality laws in fundamental ways. Like one is to sell back a lot of the surplus Leo 2 tanks to German (they were produced in Switzerland but since it was license Germany legally counts as country of origin). Which would allow Germany to export them to Ukraine without Switzerland's approval, even under current laws.",They want to allow other countries that bought weapons for their own defense to aid Ukraine rather than having Switzerland stop them from doing so.,1
"Even in cases where it’s undeniably, statutory rape, such as when a 10 year old becomes pregnant, the GOP will deny the case exists, deflect with whataboutism and then try to prosecute the doctor anyway.","Some ectopic pregnancies miscarry on their own in a process called “expectant management.” This is what a lot of doctors are having to do in states with restrictive abortion laws- wait and hope the patient miscarries on her own. Sometimes when an embryo implants in a fallopian tube, the removal of the tube is required in the removal of an ectopic pregnancy, which isn’t a “provision” that is necessary in an induced abortion. And sometimes, treatment of an ectopic pregnancy is nearly identical to the patient to an electively induced abortion.",0
"I do actually appreciate your intent. If the West wishes to roll back some degree of economic integration with China due to how China's policies have shifted, they are entirely within their rights to do so. No one can reasonably object to this. And indeed you cannot be expected to condone the kind of oppression China is moving towards, nor should you forsake supporting Taiwanese autonomy. Also, just logically speaking, the world needs to diversify its supply chain so that a disruption in China doesn't plunge everyone into shortages or a recession.",If the Chinese people want a strong central authority we shouldn’t try to mess with that by using trade and supply chain integration as a means to liberalize them.,1
"Panels for the sake of panels are not worth it, they have to actually be worth it in the first place when put directly on buildings. Otherwise it is better to get electricity from the grid, and let someone else make good use of the panels.","If you don't have a good spot for regular solar panels, installing them in sub par location does not solve that problem. Putting solar panels on every building is not effective usage of resources. It's solar roadways all over again as someone mentioned.",0
"sounds like the democrats should probably move left, and maybe try posing any form of obstacle to fascism for once, if they want to run on ""vote for us, we can save democracy"".",i'm not gullible enough to pretend the democrats would even slow down fascism (which they can't) if they wanted to (which they don't).,0
"I think the person meant, if Putin attacks Estonia then NATO will respond collectively and probably F Russia up, but it would still suck for Estonians, as that initial Russian blitz/strike will probably F up Estonia.","There has long been a scenario feared by NATO leadership where Russia occupies the Baltics in days, and then NATO being too uncommitted to initiate a liberation war against Russia. Given how the Ukraine conflict has reinvigorated NATO, I assume that this scenario is now less likely.",1
"Embargoes on medicine and food only serve to make the average person suffer. The average person will know it is foreign governments stopping the supply, they’ll be mad at them. You just make a more belligerent and self-sufficient society.","The dude thinks the invasion was bad, so to remedy that make it so Russians have to ‘starve to death or fight to death to change the government’. Not a reasonable position to hold, nor will it help anyone. You think Russians see people say this and think ‘we’re in the wrong, let’s end it’, or do you think it validates the them vs the west narrative?",0
"I have fact checked this before and I thought that he did donate his salary for the first 2 years, with the last two years unknown? Lemme check and get back.",I’m not disagreeing with that at all. Just saying we shouldn’t spread verifiably false info. Just discredits the actual criticism (like grifting the SS w/ his hotels).,0
Honestly you can just guess… it’s all the dumb Bible Belt ones. This was 2014 before the theocracy really started to take over our country overtly.,I’m agreeing and also saying the government shouldn’t be stealing your money (in taxes) to pay teachers to brainwash your kids with Christian propaganda and tell them that Darwin was wrong.,0
The Transnistrians could well work out that they can turn on Russia right now and that's more likely to get them what they want.,"Right now, Transnistria's best path to its goal is not working with Russia but working with Moldova.",0
"How true. While the heavy impacts of logging and river industry hurts forested areas no doubt, can’t say that an increase in forested land tourism is without risk as well in a different level, to branch into that topic… As a wise and seasoned camper and traveler myself, I always worry about designated or dispersed camping and potential wildfire risks, which could wipe out a huge swath of land on its own. Human caused fires (NON prescribed controlled burns) are so awful. Happened right outside the Seattle metro last September, for one, with the Blot creek fire that choked out the region with bad smoke for nearly 2months. Major fire determined human caused near campgrounds. CO has seen its own terrible fires, including near gun ranges. They’re not just caused by an open flame.","And neither is wildfire. But here we are making wildfires worse because we've been trying to prevent them for too long and not clearing the fuel out of the forest. So either we let the wildfires do what wildfires do and don't try to stop them, or we go in and clear out the fuel from time to time. On top of that modern forestry doesn't go in and clear cut whole forests. There is plenty left behind to promote biodiversity of species.",1
Same with the UK when we recently were part of the UEFA Euros Pan-European hosting. You can’t buy beer in British stadiums (because of our history) but we had to change that rule when we hosted matches during that tournament.,With the new tournament sizes after this I don’t think anything but stable multi country hosts will be allowed to host. I can’t really see the Middle East putting together a stable coalition of 3+ close countries to make it happen.,1
Musk: Twitter is filled with mostly bots so I shouldn’t have to pay the absurd price I myself suggested.,"The only time Twitter has been profitable was 2018 and 2019 when Trump was at his wackiest, but wasn’t getting people killed like in 2020. They made $1.2B and $1.4B respectively in profit.",1
"If Josh Hawley, 3 other Republican senators, and especially, 15 House members are in jail when the new congress is sworn in, well, that is an ugly way to win the next Speakership, but if the conspirators are convicted, there can be no doubt it is deserved.","My only concern with this approach is that since there are so many Republican members of congress involved, what kind of shitshow will ensue if and when say, 8 or so members of the House and a few Republican Senators get indicted on conspiracy charges. If they get arrested right away, it throws the balance of power off now that they have the House and they will go to the ends of the earth to protect that newly acquired power as they always do.",1
"Yeah, of course that's more likely. But your original posit was that the speaker election is a choice between McCarthy and Pelosi -- which is just purely incorrect. So I walked through the other options that could be on the table after McCarthy fails.",188 is a catastrophe. I thought he'd be closer to 200 and I was still skeptical he could get to be speaker.,0
"If you're only trying to pick a state with a high percentage of black people, Maryland and Delaware have a higher black demographic, and are states that Democrats actually compete in. Georgia has a higher black demographic than S. Carolina and is more competitive for Democrats than S. Carolina is.","If this is the game we're playing, Colorado is still better at diversity than south fucking Carolina and can bring the country to a better place.",1
"Wealth is relative, you get wealthier by either getting richer yourself or making everyone else poorer.",They don't want other people being able to afford an education not only because they think they have to pay for it but also so their well educated children won't have to compete with yours.,0
"The problem is, no one young is capable of compromising. The government is supposed to be bipartisan and Biden was and is the best guy for that.","I agree that DC republicans are far more willing to do nothing than do something, though. We need to wield the popular vote and majority of people who support our agenda against them. Force them to work with us or they will lose seats.",0
"Like if a Russian-insured oil tanker is in the Red Sea and spills oil, Egypt and Saudi Arabia would be the two countries primarily cleaning it up, and would demand money from Russia. Whatever Russian insurance company would not likely have the capital for that, and/or they might insist on paying in rubles rather than Euros or US dollars. This would immediately bring into question every Russian tanker, especially those insured in Russia, and you'd likely see a lot of countries forbidding Russian tankers to be in their waters, barring them from sitting off their coasts, and banning them from entering their ports.","- Finally, the Russians can impose export restrictions to countries trying to impose the oil cap, not just of oil but other critical raw materials such as titanium and uranium. They can still very well use things like potash and wheat as leverage against countries that try to pay a priced cap for their oil.",1
"There has to be a middle ground between doing nothing and committing murder. Police are just too fucking incompetent (at best, racist at worst) to find it.","Not that the point needs more illustration, but this sequence of events just underscores how fucking useless police are.",1
"Question, what if the decision to start this war, Putin decision to start this war was likewise influence by Russia's arms industry?","Stopping this war to appease Putin to not throw as much Russian soldiers into the meatgrinder, and to force the Ukrainian to accept a defeat and loss of parts of their country, will not lead to long term better situation. I think we should continue to support Ukraine till they made sure that Putin will have gained nothing from this.",0
The fact that these very draconian measures are still very popular with Salvadorians points to what an insane crime problem they must have.,"No, I have no idea about the crime situation in El Salvador. No doubt it’s bad when draconian laws are overwhelmingly popular among voters, but Latin America also has an unfortunate history of dictatorships that abuse the power they get by cracking down on crime.",0
"counterpoint for the sake of argument: Russia blew up the pipeline in order to punish Germany, hoping the pain of losing access to gas would force them to stop supporting Ukraine in order to keep NS2.",One last time: Now in a hypothetical scenario where Germany desperately needs gas they will need to approve Nord Stream 2 and grovel to Putin to turn it on. And because there is now only one pipe Russia can turn it off again with semi-credible claims of technical issues whenever they want to create instant leverage in the future and that's only possible because there is no longer any back-stop.,1
"You missed the point. The point i was making was that the Chinese medical system has not even approached Covid with an mRNA vaccine, and steadfastly refused to license western vaccines. If the vaccine most readily available in China has a 50% efficacy then the population is at more risk of contracting the virus and having negative results. The infection rates are increased with each new case of BA.7 (China is currently seeing each covid patient infecting on average 18 other people represented as 1:18, whereas the in US the rate is 1:3.9). Each of these factors increases the risk of developing new strains that are vaccine resistant.","We didn't get lucky, viruses almost always mutate to get less deadly and more contagious as the population builds up immunity through infection and vaccines.",1
"Also, Reagan's (I know, a Republican) morality politics ignited the culture wars, a move away from issues regarding inequality, and also led to a shift away from Presidential accountability. There's a lot there to digest I think. Here we are polarized intensely. I wish we could agree on basic material rights for the 99% in this society.",We don't have a Party for the people. The Democrats stopped caring about being even slightly Leftist starting with Bill Clinton.,0
"As for your second comment... More than 50% of the deaths in Iraq over the last 2 decades occured during the rise of ISIS, who perpetrated those deaths as well. A large number of civilians also died due to IEDs. In total the US AND COALITION, were responsible for 37% of the estimated 120k deaths over the last 2 decades due to misidentification, deliberate acts of war crime, or collateral effects.","While it's sad, it needs to be done. Russia will only accept the theft and enslavement of cities who don't want to join them. To be culminated as they are you've gotta grind those forces down. The real sad number is the total number of civilians killed by russia, or the collective total of hospitals destroyed, or the millions of people russia just shut the electricity off on.",0
"There's a very significant difference between ""deleting data"" and ""deleting"" a reference to a specific study in a fact sheet. The letter you linked and the original article it references from The Reload both refer to it as deleting a reference to the Kleck survey from the early 90s (the study in question). Even if you want to criticize that decision--and there is a perfectly valid criticism that can at least be argued--framing it as deleting data is a blatantly misleading framing of the matter.",If an agency supposedly driven by science and not politics is actively deleting information because of politics they suck and should be replaced with people who actually believe in presenting all the data.,1
The National Anthem having God in it doesn't make it any less the National Anthem. I for one don't vote republican and just because someone disagrees with you on something doesn't make them one. So fuck off on that note child. You so far left you can't support our government and institutions then leave. Maybe go to Russia like Griner did.,"I'm not empathising with Russia, I would have the same opinion with any other country. If you take drugs to a foreign country, that is on you. There is no love for Russia here lol.",1
"It's hilarious that they want to ""investigate"" Hunter Biden, someone who does not and has never held public office. Effectively just a random citizen who happens to be related to a politician. Yet they were all publicly horrified at the idea of questioning Trump's adult children who were in influential administration positions and paid with tax dollars.",What about the 2 billion reasons we should be investigating Trump’s kid and son-in-law that actually were a part of his administration. Isn’t that a part of the public interest if we need to look at what the kids of the family are doing?,1
"Right but you implied that people can’t comment about another country unless they’ve actually been there, but you’re doing exactly that. Quality of life in India is pretty good so long as you don’t live in poverty.",Our poorest homeless have better lives than some of the richest people in certain parts of india. That is simply unacceptable for a nation that wishes to claim it is the peak of human rights and above being investigated. <3.,1
"No: what should Ukraine offer to Russia in negotiations? In other words, ""In exchange for you pulling out all your forces and stopping your attacks against us, we will give you X"". What should ""X"" be, in your view?","Ukraine and the OSCE (led by France and Germany) didn't think it was worthless before it was signed. It only turned out to be worthless when Russia decided it wouldn't abide by the terms it signed. Russia's duplicity permanently weakened the possibility of a negotiated settlement to the conflict, but Ukraine and President Zelensky still were willing to negotiate in late February when it seemed like Russia could win its invasion.",0
"It's not a deterrent and its not about savings. He's specifically referring to two men who hacked up and nearly beheaded a man in the street. It's about punishment. I don't agree with the bloke but of those two murderers, one of them will be out of prison before the end of his life.",Don't get me wrong - I do think the death penalty is better gone and isn't even good at it's intended purpose. But I also hate badly designed systems.,1
"No, criminalizing drugs to curb use didn't work. People kept doing them and then they were also taxed with criminal records which made rebounding even harder. What I'm talking about is focused on recovering drug addicts, not hurdling more barriers at them.",The big problem the author notes with needle exchanges is that most are not associated with addiction treatment.,1
"I tend to think of Trump as the bookend for the Nixon era of the Republican party. Nixon won with his ""Southern Strategy"" and we've been experiencing the dimishing returns on that ever since. Hopefully, Trump was the final death rattle of an era in Republican politics.",So youre looking at a solid 2 to 4 decades of decline for the Republican party. Calling out extremist cells in 2016 wouldve been like water on a hot stove.,1
"Yes. If they found them, and they immediately (within reason, of course) report them and turn them in, they are remedying it as quickly as possible.","So, unless you're implying that they should have remedied the situation before they were aware if it, then your question was either dishonest or incompetent.",0
I'm sure people who can't see what the US is might think this way. It's not fooling anyone who pays attention though. The narrative that NATO expansion caused an existential risk to Russia who have invaded their neighbour out of necessity is in no way dead. And the US considering Ukraine to be important enough to shell out $60 billion of tax payer money shows where they think their borders of influence are. Pretty hard not to call that US imperialism.,"Please understand that I'm not saying Russia are the good guys. I'm saying there are no good guys, and least of all the US. What you are right about is that the points you have raised will all be used in western propaganda to convince us that spending our money on US imperialism is justified.",0
Because if we can't rely on our institutions and checks and balances and believe this is a country of laws and justice for everyone .... ? It's all just a bad joke on all of us peons who weren't born wealthy and privileged. Fuck them.,The fuck are you talking about? How does “slow and steady” stop him from running to Russia? It’s giving him MORE TIME to run to Russia. He’s had years now. He should have been arrested on the fucking spot after Jan 6th. He should have been arrested the second he stopped being President on Jan 20th 2021. He should have been arrested the second they found classified documents at his fucking house. He should have been arrested for perjury for lying about the documents. He should be arrested on the fucking spot NOW for proving to have lied AGAIN and being in possession of classified documents AGAIN….,1
"Russia effectively had parts them for eight years and Ukraine could do nothing about it, and Russia occupies Crimea as well. None of that stopped Russia from wanting more and claiming to annex Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia now. Giving Russia an inch was not going to stop them from trying to take a mile.","Although I don’t think the Russians should be let off the hook entirely. They had a chance at changing, although I think the cards were always stacked against that. It’s all their particular context, as opposed to say the PRC that has never been democratic. Those people truly have no control.",1
State Police could still arrest you in a city that decriminalized marijuana. And yes a Fed could as well but the likelihood is far smaller especially given current guidance.,I'm all for legalizing recreational marijuana and it's legal in my state but I imagine having city laws that run in direct opposition to state law could create some major challenges.,0
"Fun fact: In the event of specific conditions like if the US is ever taken over, the president and other important people killed in the midst of a nuclear war, etc. - those submarine commanders are authorized to have full discretion over the targeting and use of their on-board arsenal. One of those subs could basically destroy the planet, and we have a lot of them at sea, 24/7.","The entire system is set up to ensure that no matter what happens, no matter who wins, if one nation uses them, the planet is destroyed. That's the only way the US and USSR could make sure neither attacked with nukes.",0
"There are some other possible issues. Chinese subs were a joke 20 years ago, but apparently they've massively improved. No one really knows how successful a hypersonic carrier buster missile is, but after the Ukrainians sunk the Moskva with a missile every naval planner is cautious. We might be to a point where the carrier is as useless in a peer nation conflict as the battleship was after the introduction of the dive bomber.",China doesn't have the transport capacity (yet) to move enough soldiers over to Taiwan to have the slightest chance of holding it. If they dropped everything and declared that they were building nothing but landing boats at all of their shipyards... it still would take more than 2 years to accomplish.,0
"In the second tabulation round, the total republican votes were higher than 50%, but only 67% of Begich voters listed Palin as their second choice.",Yes but in a regular election it would be between her and Palin and those that listed her second would likely have just voted for her.,1
"I am sure there are other NATO friendly airbases in Europe. There might be reasons to not kick Hungary out, but airbases seem unlikely to be a good reason.","With regards to Hungary, there are mechanisms in the EU to at least make it unpleasant for Hungary. But unfortunately Poland has been protecting Hungary. Which is quite interesting, how that Hungary more or less supports Putin, while Poland is super anti Putin and supporting Ukraine.",0
There is a need for both arming Ukraine AND preparing for escalation on home soil. If the initiative is pressed too hard the escalation would likely come sooner than they can prepare for.,"Fracturing the russian federation is a real possibility. But it will take time, and continued losses. If putin stops the war he avoids this but not his own downfall. He's boned either way... unfortunately he knows this.",0
"This analysis misses that the Dobbs leak could likely have been done by Alito, and that the intent of the leak wasn't to change the content between draft and final, but to lock in conservative justices away from Roberts compromise position.","Once it was seen that the leaked draft was popular in conservative circles, that would create pressure on uncertain conservative justices.",0
Listen to the first season of the podcast It Could Happen here. I think that that paints an accurate picture of what a second American civil war would look like.,"The parallelisms between the last few years and the lead up to the civil war are disturbing. By my count we've now passed some version of ""the Caning of Charles Sumner"" and after the court rules on Moore v. Harper and establishes Independent state legislature theory as the law of the land, we'll introduce our version of Popular Sovereignty and with it our version of Bleeding Kansas is not far off.",1
I'd be guessing musk doesn't exactly want his satellites targeted by militaries either and taken out of commission..,Because I don't think the drones they are using can actually even connect to a heavily encrypted military satellite. Imagine the security nightmare trying to figure out who is who trying to access the space lazers.,1
"Spoken like someone who hasn’t dealt with a picky eater, special dietary needs, or multiple children (y’know, that thing the country as a whole needs if they don’t want to keep relying on immigration?).","It's not even that. It's like asking them to take a nonperishable food from a warehouse full of hundreds of thousands of packages of it, that they literally couldn't get through even if they really really tried.",1
"oh great, now they use 1000 times as much plastic for those containers the food comes up. They better not have garbage cans because you know people will throw them away.","Yes, especially if they go in the trash. If we update our systems and they can be put in with food waste then they are composted.",1
"So, going by Greene's ""theory,"" the military should have shot a balloon with a possibly nuclear/radioactive payload down right over a populated area? Or over farmland? I'm sure some farmers would have loved being told ""you can't grow anything on this land for the next few hundred years due to the radiation from the thing we shot down when Greene wanted us to."".","Well put. The remedy is obvious. It wont be easy to achieve, but, we, the public, need a legal mechanism to remove a public servant from office. Politicians cant police themselves, they form up along lines of corrupt mutual interest. Kind of the same way cops wont rat out or pressure co-wokers. If they make the attempt and fail, then they are stuck worki g with someone who has it out for them.",1
"The motion was to eliminate all votes cast on 270k voting machines. The judge ruled the value of the suit as the price to replace all those machines, which would come to R$1.1Billion, and fined the party for 2% of that.","\- 22 million reais (4 million dollars) fine (the amount is not arbitrary, but 2% of the total value of the cause).",1
"That’s why they both wanted to talk, and this whole incident is just a complete fuck up on the Chinese’s side imo.","1.	They are sticking with the story that this was a civilian balloon, thus no need for defense ministry to get involved.",0
"“Mainly effected white guys” are you arguing that most fans of Pearl Jam were female, or did you just ignore the part that would make your comment irrelevant?","I don’t understand why you’re getting so defensive, I know older people like her music too, my gf is a fan and she’s 50 years old. But those of us that have kids that are teenagers are fans also and they would love to see Taylor Swift just as much as everyone else. Stop acting like I’m attacking you.",0
"TBH, no stranger than most other countries. The rich and well connected can evade or delay being held responsible for their crimes. And even when they can't evade it, they can convince enough voters that the conviction was illegitimate and manage to get elected again.",The problem is massive voter suppression in every way imaginable by the Republicans. Add in that Republican voters vote down ticket and it doesn't matter if the AG has mulitple criminal court cases on him. Why you ask? Well he has an R next to his name.,1
"I feel sick when I think of the number of people that slip through the cracks, serving time for crimes they didn't commit, facing injustice without an end in sight.","We have a right as citizens to a speedy and public trial, and it's telling to see what our government does to those who don't have those rights guaranteed.",0
"""Dead language"" just means it isn't a primary language for anyone, but instead is used entirely for scholarly/religious purposes. Like Latin. Thousands of people speak Latin, it's used in the Catholic Church all the time, but it's still a dead language.",A dead language is just one that no longer has a community speaking it natively. Under that linguistic definition Sanskrit and Latin are both dead languages despite having works written in them and people able to speak them.,1
"Do you think this stuff doesn't happen? FWIW, the oligarchs are probably guilty of that kind of stuff anyway. Also, they're guilty of propping up a murderous psychopath, so there's that.","The money would dry up instantly, and no one will answer Putin's calls, effectively ending the war. Putin will probably remain in his bunker dying an irrelevant death.",0
Lowering tuition costs for future students is like putting a sawstop on after that accident to prevent more from happening.,Forgiving loans with no attempt to lower tuition costs for future students is like getting past an enemy trap but leaving it to take out the next platoon.,1
"And I guess that this is why many guys don’t support them: they’re not fighting to end a custom that penalizes males, don’t want to share the struggle of mandatory military service BUT want to reap the same benefits without having to do it.",So it seems like women don't have an issue when men are conscripted but once the men get benefits for something like that they see the benefits as a problem.,1
"How many news articles use tweets nowadays? How many organizations (government, social, economic, etc.) use Twitter as a primary means of getting important information to the public?","But the reason all those things are there, is because Twitter is not meant to be a means of communications, but rather a tool to gather information on the consumers' habits and that is their true service.",1
The fact that you and I agree with one doesn't make it less partisan. Especially as we're probably both left wing.,"But seriously, ""indoctrination"" is just the newest buzz word to a 50 year old war about education that really started with desegregation and evolution.",0
"There is also the Yiddish saying: ""Zog mir ver dein khaver is, vell ikh dir zogn ver du bist."" = ""Tell me who your friend is, I'll tell you who YOU are."".","I suppose. Not without precedent, though. We can’t forget Hoover’s hangout with Hitler and his subsequent dinner with Göring - at the latter’s personal hunting cabin, no less.",1
"A bloodbath for both sides. And you may not have been paying close enough attention. But the Ukrainians are very much clamoring for more ammunition, artillery and tank rounds because they are starting to run low. And the sheer volume of soldiers rush it is sending at them is making gains and they still haven't committed the huge concentrations that they are planning to do. The offensive has been getting going over the last 2 weeks.",People need to lose this delusion that Ukraine is somehow in control of this war and on a winning path. Russia fully plans on taking as long as it takes. And they're getting supplied by Iran and North Korea. They're building out new weaponry plants. And don't be surprised if in a year China starts supplying them. And that will be catastrophically bad for Ukraine. Which is why we need to give maximum support now so that the Ukrainians can smash Russia while they are still in a weak and disorganized state and force them to the negotiating table.,0
"That's a good breakdown. So maybe three distinct theaters- Pacific, Russian\European, and Middle Eastern.",That's a fun one. My underdog is always The Principality of Sealand. They might have already sent a drone to Ukraine though so they're probably locked in.,0
"Regarding rate of fire, the British would probably buy slower firing howitzers before they decide to buy more ammo.","The WRSA is actively maintained, and due to Israel's rather frequent use of it, it's likely filled with fairly modern, still-in-use equipment. In 2014 Israel drew thousands of JDAMs kits from it, and artillery shells were drawn in almost every conflict. In 2006 Lebanon War, Israel fired about 250k artillery shells (Ukraine fires 90k a month), and it likely drew a large number from the WRSA to backfill it.",0
"Maybe the voters will be vigilant. We’ll see. They were mostly vigilant for the midterms. (Plus, there’s the whole “changing demographics and Covid-19’s impact being politicized to their detriment” aspect.).",Sure. But adding paragraphs is way more than correcting typos or clarifying points. It's adding arguments to undermine the response. It's dishonest.,1
"As horrible as this war is, and as much as we all want it to end - as long as Russia doesn't attack NATO directly and deliberatly, it would be a horrible mistake to intervene. A no-fly zone would be the brink of World War 3.","Its not about NATO deciding to go first strike. Its about them thinking it might happen. Its about commanders in the field, who have control over tactical nukes, deciding in a moment of weaknes. Its about false info. human error.",0
"Wouldn’t the red states benefit from exporting food to the blue states? And tourism if they have national parks? If a state became blue let say, does it join the rest of the blue states? Can a state change is political orientation and join the other side?","Or better yet, can we work together and work for an actual solution that benefits ordinary people? Can we end the red vs blue culture wars?",0
"Sure, but Bernie seems to be implying that the government should do something about twitter. That would be a violation of Musk's free speech if it did.","But if he's saying that Elon Musk shouldn't be able to own twitter, then that can become problematic. I'm not sure I even understand how Elon is part of the discussion in terms of anti-trust stuff. He doesn't own multiple media companies, and there's no way to ""break up"" twitter, since it is one website.",0
"They weren't affected by this. They created the problem out of racism (Ronald Reagan pushed California to end free college to keep blacks out after Civil Rights) & made it impossible to get good jobs without a degree that required decades of interest payments to Uncle Sam. That revenue was, like most neo-con/lib laws/policies, designed to transfer wealth from the young to the old and poor to the rich.","So called ""student debt"" schemes are just another racketeering method from the wealthy boomers and oligarchs dragging away all wealth from the younger working class.",1
"Unfortunately the sheer greed that is present in most businesses is appalling but as long as the blame can be placed on the ""lazy ungrateful workers"" that don't want to work 50 hours for a 35 hour pay nothing will change.",I think the main point I wanted to make was that people who are frustrated with the salaries being offered are finding other ways of making money that don't depend on those corporations that pay shit wages.,1
"Well they voted for them, so if most Americans felt this way they wouldn't be in office. I can't believe MTG and people like her were voted back into office.","With all the elected officials just ignoring the will of the people, my vote may mean little to nothing anyway.",1
"If the grid needs power right this second, it's inefficient to convert to hydrogen first then send that through a fuel cell. If the sun is shining, it's best to dump the power straight to the grid. If the grid is full at that moment, then dump the excess into hydrogen and store it for later use in the fuel cell.","Hydrogen should be the last resort to store energy, when any other system of storing energy can't receive more. In that case is better to store in hydrogen (even with it's huge inefficiency) than simply waste it.",1
"A Sunday school took a bunch of kids on a field trip to the woods 5 kids found the balloon and called their 26 year old pregnant teacher to come see. It blew up and killed all six of them, the only fatalities from the thousands of balloons they sent over.",Imagine if the balloon would have popped on its own by accident over the USA and caused damage(or took lives). Now that would have been a astronomical cluster Fuck.,1
"My thought is that the ratio of deaths on the Russian side will continue to escalate this year, as Ukraine rolls out more armor and weaponry + the Russian jam less and less trained and lower moral conscripts into the hellstorm.","I don't think the Zerg rush tactic will work this time around for Russia, and in truth, that is their only strategy in war.",0
I hope the other countries have contingencies for what happens to their nukes if they can't handle the terror they created right on their doorstep.,"Regardless, thinking any country could sneak a nuke sub to the US coast without the USAs incredibly bloated military noticing it is pure fallacy.",1
Probably really going to upset people by pointing out that Mexicans are also American (as are all Central and South Americans).,No thats stupid it's the name of the continent they're on not the fucking country they're in no Mexican or Canadian(barring dual citizens)will say they're American if you mention it to them.,1
"This way when it comes to getting the virus, your immune system is much better prepared, it doesn't mean you'll not get the virus - that is down to exposure, and exposure alone. But instead your immune system would have a much better chance of fighting it off.","From my understanding, it's like your immune system is getting ready for a boxing match. Could be anyone you're fighting, and occasionally it's prime Mike Tyson.",0
"Before that in the 2000s the US used Kurdish freedom as a reason to invade Iraq, but then never mentioned independence again and then allowed Turkey to assist Iin the invasion by heavily bombing Kurdish Iraq.","And then before that in the 1990s, the US gave Turkey huge amounts of weapons specifically to massacre Kurds in Turkey, which the US had full knowledge of.",0
Then to say thanks they buy Texas' biggest oil field and force us to buy our own oil back from them at inflated prices.,"Paid the Bushes to invade Iraq twice, bought Texas' biggest oil fields and make us buy the oil back, kill our journalists.",0
"dont get me wrong i think we are long overdue having more justices given how many court circuits we have, but i honestly dont have much confidence in it happening.","There are compelling legal arguments that have been made that judges appointed to the Supreme Court can be rotated back to the circuit courts, and don't have to sit on the high court forever.",1
"I don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons, but be fair, the only reason why you don’t have a problem with Israel having nuclear weapons is because Israel is friendly with the west. Israel treats Palestinians terribly, and is a massive threat to its neighbors.","First, Israel is not a massive threat to it's neighbors. It factually gave back more land mass than it's entire size in exchange for peace with it's neighbors. So your comment is very wrong.",1
"Like others have said, we're looking at land ice here, not sea ice. Land ice makes up a big chunk of Greenland and Antarctica, and is, in fact, melting. The sea ice is also melting. Arctic sea ice is down 28% since 1979. Like you said, ice that's already in the water isn't going to cause a rise in water level when it melts, but that doesn't mean it's harmless.","You want to talk basic science? Get a glass each of room temperature salt water and fresh water, each dyed a different color. Pour the fresh into the salt. What happens? Your fresh water likely sat on top of your salt water, because salt water is denser than fresh. Now, do the same thing with a cup of fresh water close to freezing, and a second of warmer water. Your warm water likely sat on top, because cold water is denser than warm.",0
What about framing somebody for pedophillia and propaganda only so that you can ban them. On what basis do you suppose the moral adequacy and honesty of Ukrainian intentions? Maybe they just want to destroy everything russian in their country?,It's still threatened for those who believe in the Moscow patriarchate. Why not just punish religious leaders without banning the practice of religion?,1
Well it's a welcome change from Germany's blind to the world energy policies over recent decades. Maybe they will actually contribute to NATO and their military as well so that they don't have to rely on the US to protect their continent.,"Yeah solar and wind are extremely cheap and a good investment........but they don't fucking work when the sun ain't shinning and the wind ain't blowing. It's easy to turn those gas plants on to replace the irregular energy sources and they are reliable and really easy to turn on but they burn fossil fuels. You need to have baseline electricity that works day and night, windy or not and as we've seen in Europe and Germany is that they're still burning coal to make sure they have that reliable energy source during winter. Nuclear is carbon free and can replace those fossil fuel plants that are still needed all over Europe and now that they've been cut off from their cheap source of gas and are entering the global LNG market those gas power plants are going to stay a looooot more expensive to run than it was during the easy Russian gas days.",0
"I don't care enough about FIFA for it to be a blip on my feed, but it sounds to me like the Qatari folks essentially paid billions to put their country on blast.","That part is kind of false on authoritarian nations: on Qatar, the money belongs to the Emir to do whatever he want. There's no such thing as ""stealing billions from tax payers"" because it does not belong to the public in the first place. It's a nation with an owner, if you live there, you are a subject, not a citizen.",1
"""There is a rising demand for health services due to an ageing population with increasingly complex healthcare needs. People are living longer and, as they age, their healthcare needs change. The number of people living with long-term conditions is set to increase, with more individuals managing multiple conditions."".",True. I think trump went the extra mile though. It'll come out eventually. Whether he ever actually gets prosecuted or not is a different matter.,1
"Requires all recording chips to embed cryptographic signatures in the raw data, and invalidates copies where the original was discarded after applying filters or when it was re-compressed during a youtube upload. When you can prove the data hasn't been tampered with, then the file is usable evidence, and proper security cameras likely already have been doing it for a decade. Phone cameras less so, but the more AI content generation ramps up, the more likely it'll become a standard feature. Too bad for the privacy nuts, as it'll mean that either you strip the metadata that proves authenticity, or they know exactly which physical camera chip was used. (I'm sure cryptographers can devise a system where you can't correlate the signature with its source, yet making the massive investment to crack a single TPM and extract its keys before it can self-destruct doesn't undermine every other chip from the same production run. But being that fancy would cost more in R&D, and the sliver of a market segment that cares enough about privacy won't be large enough to bother.).","Unlike decryption keys, every single unit can have its own unique signing key, generated on-chip in the factory, in turn signed by the manufacturer. It would be a direct parallel with how HTTPS works, each website generating its own private/public key pair and getting the public half signed by a certificate authority. Only the site ever knows its own private key, while you have proof that the CA thought the corresponding public key was valid.",0
The real cause is regimes that follow Conservative ideology suppressing and controlling the population through heavily propagandizing stuff.,"You are correct, except with the claim that conservative ideology is the real cause; Authoritarian governments are the real cause and suppress and rely upon propaganda to establish and remain in control... it's similar to how narcissistic people control things around themselves. A market system only functions as effectively as the government allows it to. You can have a more socialist economy and have an Authoritarian government and the suppression and propaganda will be, essentially, the same or at least very similar. Left and right market systems are different from north and south governmental structures; it's the north and south that establishes how effectively the market system can work and how much they will try to suppress.",1
"Hogan will be the John Kasich of the next GOP primary, one of the few people on the stage not a raging piece of shit and therefore entirely ignored by Republican voters.",Shoot...I even forgot about John Kasich and he was my pick in the Republican primaries before I left the Republican party due to the emergence of Trumpism. It has been a long couple of years.,1
Oh piss off. It's alright for us to shit all over our government because they suck ballz deeply and are sabotaging our allegiance with the EU.,"Your argument is ""the EU is corrupt (does whatever the US commands) and won't help it's members"". I'm not sure I want to debate you on this. It's something you seem very passionate about and you'd likely never change this opinion.",1
True. I find it insane that these people would let Israel use European Jewish tragedy to shield itself from criticism. A criticism against Israel isn’t antisemitism just as a criticism against China isn’t racism.,"Being anti Israel and anti Zionist doesn’t make you an antisemite though. You can be against the Zionist state without being against Jewish people, I mean there’s plenty of Jews who dont support Israel and are anti Zionist as well.",1
The Jan 6th prisoners aren’t talking because they’re in isolation. Reps have talked about it on the House floor numerous times. Look it up.,When PayPal and Youtube shut down accounts they kept the money in those accounts. You can look that up.,0
Yeah. Its perfectly legal to force prisoners to work in most states (and in 5 states they do this and pay them nothing). 13th amendment has a part that says something along the line of slavery is illegal except as punishment for a crime.,"Slavery is legal in America as long as there is due process, according to the 14th amendment. That's why the 13th and 14th were put in at the same time. The 13th abolished chattel slavery and the 14th provided a mechanism to put black people back into bondage, just with more steps.",1
"When government cannot meet the basic needs of its citizens, those citizens stop thinking that it's a good thing to have that government.","The state is gerrymandered to hell, so votes don't matter the way they should; the leaders cannot be held accountable for their crimes (See AG Paxton) or incredible failures (Abbot + winter = you're gonna have a bad time); I mean what is anyone expecting?",0
"You just explained why years of ""Build the Wall"" was so stupid. Dems never wanted open boarders, they wanted the money spent for modern tech like scanners at points of entry, drones, more security personnel etc. Oh and more detainment facilities and lawyers to deal with the influx of asylum seekers. But nooooo let's build a fuckin wall cause stupid people like stupid solutions.","That ignores the difficulty of building the wall in the first place. In order to get construction equipment and materials to the spots where the wall is being constructed, roads (even if temporary) need to be built. These roads, and even some of the property that the wall will be built on will need to have land seized from private owners by the Government. Much of the terrain is also very rough with mountains, canyons, etc., in the patch of construction.",1
"That 4% is $40 billion dollars in tax revenue. Not a small amount of money by many standards, but the actual question is not if 4% is the right number, it's if 4% will cut into or negate the value of the process of stock buybacks in the first place enough to discourage it?","Yeah the thing about buybacks being such a delay in the taxes being paid by the shareholder are why I don’t mind a small excise tax on buybacks, I’m just pushing back on some of those comments about buybacks being purely stock manipulation.",1
Too many people are reading this as “Biden is trying to show he has nothing more to turn over but they keep finding more.” This isn’t how the DOJ is likely to interpret his cooperation and frankly is a poor assumption to make.,"Biden inviting the DOJ to search is the same as saying “look we found stuff we know was classified but we’re not 100% sure there isn’t more, can you verify.”.",0
Denying Sweden entry into NATO is good news for Russia and Erdogan can use it to look strong in his own country.,"Because the end goal is not to get what Erdogan wants, the goal is to deny Sweden what they want. That will be the only constant in this story.",0
"Now, you could argue that being disheartened by gerrymandering has depressed turnout, but even when turnout was good, as it was in 2020, Dems still lose in North Carolina.","In 2022, turnout in NC by traditionally blue voters (Dems/independents, 18-40 year olds, and urban/suburban) statewide was low enough to give Republicans the advantage. Old North State Politics analyzed the 2022 turnout data and the graphs tell the story very clearly: .",1
"We are currently experiencing the biggest underreaction by Americans to what happened on January 6. It was planned and incited by a former president, many members of congress along with white supremacist terrorist groups.",You'd have to prove that she actually helped plan the attack in concrete ways with the intention of sabotaging Congress.,1
"""Additionally they have contributed greatly to our society. Serving in our military, contributing to science and the arts. And building this nation into a global superpower all while being treated as less than human."".","LMAO. Why are you so afraid of US history? Do you understand many people in NJ aren't degenerate scumbag Republican cowards? Not everyone sees what's happening in Republican shitholes like Florida and says, ""Yes, I want to be a disgusting, delusional bottom-feeder as well!"".",1
"The Saudis don't give a damn about that. They were just looking out for their own economy, which is petrol based and would be damaged by low oil prices. Which is also why Biden didn't actually do anything, because he knew it as well as I do.","So we helped them bomb the Houthis to dislodge a government that is friendly to Iran, because we aren't fond of the Iranian regime either.",0
They're saying the quite part loud. They eventually plan on invading and making public statements implying there is a significant number of Russians living in Moldova means they should be running it.,That's funny because it's the same argument that nefarious actors made for these regions of Ukraine that Russia invaded in 2014 or has been encroaching on and pumping propaganda into for years.,1
"If someone points a gun at you and says ""give me all your money"" and you give him all your money, nobody dies.","If someone points a gun at you and says ""give me all your money"", and you point a gun at him, then one of you might die, and it might be you.",0
"EDIT: and to clarify, I interpret ""declare war"" to mean that we do more to ACTIVELY defend Ukraine as opposed to the ""passive"" support of equipment & intel. By no stretch of the imagination was I thinking we would be invading Russia or anything like that.","(Especially since Russia has already signaled that would be viewed as ur declaring war on them, etc.).",0
"Think about this logic: if our ""leaders"" are ""pro-life"" and if they know what they are doing, it would make sense to have prenatal care in place before eliminating abortion. It's either kakistocracy or a predatory scam by the republican party to get votes. The mortality rates are going up, already.","She should take note that a professional, educated system would have phased abortion out in an orderly and systemic way to lower the risk of collateral damage. That was not the case. Things are dangerous now.",0
I'm not saying bird flu isn't an enormous concern. But the necessary mutations for a human pandemic haven't happened and hit the human population yet. We're not where COVID was when it spread out of China. Not even close.,"I really hope not. COVID absolutely devastated us for 3 years and its not even close to Bird Flu. If this shit mutates and transcends to human mammals, we are fucked. Bird Flu has something of a 50% mortality rate...",1
"Does it seem damn likely these shootings were related and politically motivated? Absolutely. The reporter might even hold that opinion too, but they can’t state it as fact.","Yes, seriously. I’m talking about investigators in a legal sense. Maybe you don’t realize this, but investigative reporters and police/FBI investigators are extremely different from each other in both a professional and legal sense.",0
"This is a good thing to remember. Ultimately, the biggest thing that has kept Ukraine free has been the willingness of its people to fight. Russia has about five times the militarily-fit population as Ukraine, but those numbers only matter if mobilization rates are similar. I would be willing to bet that Russia expected that Ukraine would get American guns (they have first hand experience with that right from their own history after all), but I doubt very much that they ever expected the Ukrainian population would participate in a 18 - 60 year-old male draft. The fact that so many Ukrainians were willing to fight is the biggest reason why they are still there today.","I think this is shortsighted; in a war with China, the only reason fighting would happen near the mainland would be because the USN expects to win it handedly. Blockades thousands of miles away from any Chinese land, like in the strait of Malacca, would cripple their ability to fight via a lack of fuel, as well as their economy as a whole. Taiwan is, of course, an important piece of land to consider, however I am unconvinced that the PRC could take it in a timely manner even if the USN refused any major engagements in nearby waters.",0
Of course the politicians won't support something that they see will alienate a large portion of their voter base and may mean that they'll lose/won't gain the power to govern their country?,"We're also the only country in the EU where it's not just possession that's illegal, but the use of the drugs themselves, actually just having it in your body/blood stream. So if a police officer forces you to leave a urine sample and you test positive for cannabis, then BAM! You're now a criminal and will have a hard time finding a job in many many different industries.",0
Halal meat is not kosher (e.g. it's not slaughtered and salted the way kosher meat is). And once utensils are used for non-kosher food they cannot be used with kosher food (with exceptions).,"This is correct, but Muslims and Jews have some similarities in the foods they don’t eat, like pork. But I agree that it’s more looking like anti semitism than anything else.",1
I thought the numbers were more like 100k Russian military deaths and 100k Ukrainian military and civilian deaths because the Russians have bombed indiscriminately.,"Except they are not winning this one, they are close to 100,000 troops dead and probably as many if not more injured, their trained troops are mainly dead and a significant proportion of their equipment is destroyed. They have lost this war already, they just haven't quite got to that realisation yet as Putin will do anything to maintain power.",1
"Same Republican congressperson: “if someone breaks windows and forces there way into a federal building and disobeys orders to stop, then they are a hero. The person paid to defend the building and the congresspersons within it should be put on trial if they shoot and kill this ‘hero’”.","Republican congressperson: “if a bad guy is on my property, then I’m allowed to shoot them dead. This is my castle!”.",0
"""Norway will order 54 new German-made Leopard 2 tanks for its army from the Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Group, and will get an option to buy a further 18 tanks at a later time, the government said on Friday.","Europe’s armies are armed with Leopards, and Norway has decided to spend its money buying this tank because of European standardisation. How will you argue against what THEY JUST SAID?",1
"there was a time when the sin tax seemed to make sense, but after years of data to evaluate we find that it does nothing for the reduction of alcohol and smoking use. Then a paradigm shift occurs, vaping becomes popular. People have a somewhat much safer means to consume nicotine. AND THEY TAX THAT.",The problem is that gaming companies are bloated with upper management that are more concerned with profit and stock prices than actually make a simple and fun Game.,0
"In a trial the jury is instructed to draw no conclusions from someone pleading the fifth, it can’t be used as a reason to convict someone. In a grand jury they are told that if someone pleading the fifth creates a greater probability a crime was committed they can indict based on that fact.","Depending on the case being civil or criminal, pleading the fifth can be seen/viewed as abject inference and an implication of guilt which is up to the jury.",1
"If what I said about the 10th Amendment isn't true, what law (federal, state, or local) makes it legal for you to eat breakfast?","If the equal protection of law clause of the 14th Amendment doesn't mean laws can't be written that affect only some citizens, explain what you think it means.",0
"It literally makes no difference. Ryan can publicly denounce Trumpism ad nauseum, but if he’s the Republican “face of the future” he’ll be hated with fervor by the same people that hate trump.","Ryan also made clear he would not endorse Trump, who he earlier this year described as a “proven loser.”.",1
"It's the same as Saudi Arabia, a huge US ally. They're assholes who live in medieval times... But give the US a huge foothold right in the gulf. Honestly SA is a lot more realpolitik than Ukraine, for that matter.","This is true, but there are a lot of people here who never paid any attention to Ukraine before now.",1
"How about the Chinese government quit bitching about non-existent ""escalations"" and just stop flying balloons in other countries' airspaces?",This balloon fiasco already backfired hard in China's face because of their premature nonsensical accusation that the US flew balloons of its own over Tibet and Xinjiang.,1
">“He just felt like there was so much drama really over the situation, and especially what we’re doing to work to remove Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee,” she told CNN.She added: “But Mr. Santos’ statement in there was just saying that he spoke with Speaker McCarthy and made this decision on his own.”.","Ohh, he's stepping down because they want to remove Rep. Omar from the intelligence committee and it's easier without Dems being able to point to Santos being a security threat. CNN pundit just said he thinks it means that McCarthy doesn't have the votes and is using this as a next step.",1
"The Democrats don’t run on a fiscally conservative platform, but the data shows that in the last 30 years Democrats have been more fiscally conservative than Republicans, when they control the Executive Branch.","The Republican Party has traditionally ran on a fiscally conservative platform for the last 50 years, but if you look at the modern day Republican Party, it’s all lip service. They talk a big game, but when it comes to act, they never get it done.",0
Impeaching without a good reason isn't going to go anywhere but make your party look ridiculous. You'd think they would have learned their lesson from the Clinton impeachment.,"So no investigation like they said they would do, just straight to an impeachment that will never convict in the Senate. I'm pretty sure this is what the next 2 years is going to look like. And for no other reason than they were politically embarrassed the Orange Hitler was impeached (not convicted) twice, and somehow impeaching everyone else will make them feel better (feels over reals again).",1
"Not really. It’s a matter of energy in vs. energy out. You would have to burn the trees to make the coal without giving off any carbon, transport it without releasing any carbon, strip mine down about a thousand feet without releasing any carbon, and then bury it, again without releasing carbon.","They do absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but much of that will be released via decomposition once the tree dies.",1
"I know that my fellow Mormons belong to the Christofascist, but the problem is our religion does not. Most ""Christians"" don't consider us Christians, even though the actual name of our church has always been The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(emphasis mine, kinda). Oh, and the Book of Mormon even declares that we teach & prophesy of Christ(). So yeah, those of us that are paying attention realize how dangerous these ass holes are & refuse all association with them. It actually pisses me off when I hear a fellow Mormon spout their bull shit.","Hell, it’s harmful to other Christians. Anyone not part of their narrow Doomsday Club is in trouble. I’m sure being a Progressive Christian is basically admitting your love for the Antichrist to these people.",1
Except it's a civilian who was supposedly informed that the weapon system in question was not operational and safe to handle.,"Additionally it’s stated to be a grenade launcher which is not a rocket launcher, but even common sense would dictate the same rules apply, if you don’t know what your doing with it you don’t touch it until you get help. I WOULD expect any reasonable person to know that you should not handle deadly weapons like they are toys, and I ESPECIALLY expect a senior police officer to know that.",1
"There are also cultural and emotional factors at play in China's desire for reunification with Taiwan. Many people in China see Taiwan as a part of their shared cultural and historical heritage, and feel a strong emotional attachment to the island and its people.","China claims Taiwan as a part of its territory and has long sought to bring it under its control. The Chinese government believes that Taiwan is a renegade province that must be reunified with the mainland, by force if necessary. This belief is based on the idea that Taiwan has been a part of China for centuries, and that it is an integral part of China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity.",0
I just find it fishy how Poland seemed to heavily imply it was Russia's doing and then after convening with the united states military brass it ends up being a stray Ukrainian missile when zelensky has said it was a Russian missile and is 100% sure its not Ukrainian at all.,We all know NATO and US is trying to prevent the war from escalating into other parts of Europe even though this is total bs from our govts calling it a Ukrainian stray missile going into poland...,0
"If Russia crumbles and fall, Iran would lose its biggest and most important ally (Putin might be overthrown) This could lead to free reigns in the region for Israel to confront Iran and their proxies without needing to cooperate with Russia. Russia helping to prop up Syria and Iran who both are anti Israel is not in Israels interest.","Russia is already against Israel on Syria and Iran and if Iran helps them get better terms in Ukraine, Russia would be beholden to aid Iran much more in return in Syria and elsewhere. Not to mention the chance that Putin might be desperate enough to aid Irans nuclear programme.",0
U talk about ur country having 99 percent renewable. Bet it has a per capita ppp dollars of atleay 30k.,> India is world's 3rd largest consumer of electricity and world's 3rd largest renewable energy producer with 40% of energy capacity installed in the year 2022 (160 GW of 400 GW) coming from renewable sources.[1][2] Ernst & Young's (EY) 2021 Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI) ranked India 3rd behind USA and China.,0
"I personally think this story is overblown. But do we even know the contents of these documents, in either case? I think that matters in order to try and ascertain intent.","It's funny though how we assess ""intent"". For ""our guy"" he gets the benefit of the doubt, their guy meant it.",0
"...but, like, I have a hard time believing that Russia is providing anything meaningful/new to Iran right now, more like they're paying back with equipment they can't really use in Ukraine because it'd get shot down anyway.","There might be an existing relationship between Iran and Russia, but Russia wasn't giving Iran modern fighter jets. Iran newest fighter jets are 50 years old F-4s. If Iran is now getting modern fighter jets and it's a big change in threat level of Iran toward country like Saudi Arabia.",1
This is not for them. There's a lot of Russian YouTubers and Telegrams who discuss the reality of what's happening on the front that's aimed at the Russian speaking population and it's negative towards RF.,It's hard to go from a semi open internet to just internet pro Russia with open discussion to shut your mouth and shove the propaganda into your throat. Once the cat got out the bag with the internet it's pretty much out there. North Korea is having a somewhat easier time with the cat still in the bag.,1
"Also, for the folks unaware and all “war is terrible”: the russian war machine made the spectacularly sound decision to place live ammunitions right next to the bunker 😑.","Still no warm feelings for Russian soldiers, but let's be honest, they have half a dozen of possible ways of action, and _all_ of them are incredibly bad.",1
"Because Republicans don’t even pretend to be the party for the unions, while Democrats make it their goal to pretend to be.",Anyone trying to bash on the Democrats for this is ignoring decades of anti-union action by the GOP.,1
He also ran for president even though he was born in Canada to a non American father.. and a big chunk of the republican party forgot the whole birther thing completely. Republican and hypocrite are the same thing.,"Senators always are hypocrites on this issue, and most of them are Republicans. Susan Collins, when she was first running for Senate 26 years ago, pledged to only serve two terms. Orrin Hatch, when he was first running for Senate, said this about his opponent: ""What do you call a Senator who's served in office for 18 years? You call him home."" Hatch went on to serve in the Senate for 42 years.",1
"21. The blind MAGA supporter that found EvIdEnCe oF CrImEs later said that ""there have been multiple attempts (after having taken possession of the laptop) to remotely insert questionable material onto the laptop, and passing off this misinformation or disinformation as originally coming from the laptop"".","The very computer tech that 'discovered' the laptop, has lamented that other people have attempted multiple times to access the hard drive remotely, and add doctored information, with the goal to pass off as authentic and as having been on the laptop the whole time.",0
"As for sample ballots, this is the first time that I recall having received them. It was great because I was able to fill it out, take a screenshot, and then go vote knowing I had researched the people and amendments for whom I needed to vote.",I live in south Florida currently having moved from North Carolina. I voted by mail in NC and my husband voted by mail here in Florida. Both times we had to request the ballots specifically.,0
"Do not underestimate the power of the HFC and like-minded individuals to fuck up the House, the Congress, the country and the world, especially when it comes to the debt ceiling this summer. It's going to be a very rough 2 years, regardless of McCarthy keeping his Speakership or not. As long as the GOP, and the moderates therein, insist on negotiating with those hostage takers, and they will every time and have with the changes pushed onto McCarthy to be elected, the dysfunction in the GOP caucus in the House will reverberate. The moderates should've done a deal with moderates in the Dem caucus and created a unified House, but that could never happen in the era of Trump and the TEA Party inheritors.","When the House turns into a joke with a weak speaker that's beholden to a minority within his party, and we see plenty of news headlines about what a mess it is, none of them will note that the Democrats chose this as well.",1
"Probably part of a larger, ongoing crackdown. My wife is Thai and she says this kind of thing has been going on forever (decades), it's only recently that the issues have gotten so much spotlight. They even have their own kiddie diddling scandals as well just like Western religious institutions.","Meh they're more aware of the recent stuff the pedophile priests, evangelical priests being arrested with drugs and hookers, etc. They're less aware of the fact that they're likely only catholic because their ancestors would have been killed by their roman emperor, king, feudal lord, inquisition, or reigning imperial power if they weren't. Also some assorted/attempted genocides have been swept under the rug. Look up the popes response of what to do with Muslims in Spain after the reconquista, he told the Spanish king to put them on a ship without sails and push them out to sea so they would die to the ocean. I could go on but the list is way too long for one reddit post.",1
"You get 2 votes to influence geopolitics and can use it for conflict. On a national view point that all makes sense but we don't live in national bubble, we live in a global bubble and our understanding of democracy should retled that. So, yeah... I think people with multiple nationalities should be given the chance to choose, but they shouldn't be given extra votes.",So you're in favor that a citizen living away from the country of their citizenship shouldn't be allowed to vote in that country's national election?,1
So I'm just looking at the comments and I'm going to assume that everyone assumes all police officers are Fascist. I mean okay I guess every country's police is a bunch of douchebags what this doesn't make sense guys.,I mean yeah sounds bad but what does their politics have to do with anything I don't really care if a cop is right or left leaning as long as they're doing their job right. My belief is there's only a good cop and a bad cop.,0
"And I mean fine, honest mistake, but at least own up to it. Biden initially promised 550 billion, and I think we all wish it was actually 740 billion.","Maybe if the US actually helped with renewable technologies manufacturing instead of, y'know, freezing out semiconductors?",0
I am thinking that 2 weeks into the inevitable government shutdown there will be at least 5 moderate republicans that are willing to work with the dems and nothing will stop them from removing McCarthy.,The freedom caucus has given themselves a lot of power to pass virtue signalling bills that go nowhere but weakened their influence over the only things that matter in this session.,0
"Eh as a pro-Biden/anti-trump guy, exchanging a basketball player who was stupid enough to bring weed to Russia on a plane for a war criminal and prolific arms dealer is a bad fuckin trade.",The person being traded for Brittney is a high profile arms dealer and smuggler which seems to be a very lopsided trade in favor of Russia.,1
"""Union anger at deals, and at Biden But the membership of four of the unions rejected the tentative deals. The other eight unions are prepared to honor their picket lines and go on strike as well without a deal or Congressional action, and Biden’s voiced sympathy for the demands about sick time didn’t satisfy some of the union leaders Tuesday."".","Yes it is. Congress passes a single bill that forces the Rail companies to provide sick time. Done. Strike averted, economy saved, workers get what they deserve.",1
"Entire point was to decapitate the government, how that happened I think they didn't really care much about (whether they flee, get killed or get captured). Same government they branded as neo-nazis.","Only after they failed, they started to push these alternative reality narratives. Only truly naive people believe this.",0
"The second Russia uses nukes it's no longer ""Russia VS Ukraine, which is supported by the West"" to ""Russia VS the World"".","""muh nukes"" is really all Russia has by that point anymore... the thing is internationally speaking NO country would OK with Russia using nukes even if Ukraine would counter-invade because Russia started the goddamn war to begin with!",0
"Ignore the real integration of Pre-Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine in 988 AD with the Kyivan Rus lead by Volodymyr I establishing these ties with the Patriarchate of Constantinople and building the first church in Kyiv (who later followed the later during the schism and became part of the eastern church). Ignore the fact that the basis for Orthodoxy in Russia (and infact the Russian Orthodox Church) actually originated in Ukraine hundreds of years before Russian Imperialism, and you can arrive at your answer if you take a few more leaps in logic.","Like it or not, Orthodoxy would not have become a mainstream Christian church without the Russian empire, and the use of the Julian calendar by the Orthodox church went hand in hand with the Russian empire using Julian calendar in secular context too until 1917 - you can argue what came first, of course, but the fact remains that celebrating Christmas on Jan 6th/7th in Ukraine is associated with Russian colonial rule and (strangely) not Ethiopian orthodoxy. And there's very little appetite for that at the moment.",1
"If you didn't want to imply that Israel should be destroyed, then maybe don't say so. Just a hint for next time - wouldn't want people to misunderstand what you are saying again.","Gotcha. So your brilliant suggestion for those wanting Hamas gone, a terrorist organization whose sole aim is the genocide of all Jews from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean, is for Israel to ""stop existing"".",0
"Could also be as Prigozin says. Wagner and it's convicts having more success than the Russian military, against elitist ideals etc.","""A certain number of pro-war functionaries decided that if they recruited convicts, they would be able to become famous as the Wagner Group."".",1
"Saying that if one of the supposed breakthrough technologies in thorium reactors works or some of the ideas of small form factor nuclear becomes real maybe we could talk about nuclear again, but right now nuclear as it is is a waste of money and too dirty, money that could be spent installing solar panels.","Nuclear is perfect as a stepping stone towards fusion, thorium, or whatever other power generation they may come up with in the future.",1
"I have been visiting Indonesia almost every year over the last 15 years since my wife is Indonesian. People there don't seem to notice it but I have seen is surely but slowly turn Islamist. First time I was there the aunties and nieces were wearing dresses without sleeves or knee high skirts. Now they are all wearing headscarves and long dresses with long sleeves, even the children. No more beer in the supermarket. Many family went from never praying to 5 times a day. The people are just as friendly and nice as ever but life definitely did change and in my view not for the better.",I think there are some supermarkets in big malls that are allowed to sell beer. But anything other than that e.g. the local supermarkets in residential areas are not. Even in a big city like Surabaya where I usually visit.,0
"I'm talking about the annexation referendum, which was clearly not free and fair. Also pro-Russia or Russian-speaking do not equal wanting to join Russia, as places like Kharkiv and Odesa have shown.",I agree Russia needs to leave all other areas - from Mariupol to Kherson and everything in between. But I feel like negotiations could happen if solely annexing Donbas and Crimea was the idea.,1
"Also not going to help Russia when their troops aren’t kitted out for winter, might end up wiping out their own troops before hurting Ukraine if they keep skimping on their own troops.","Yeah, needless slaughter of innocent people aside, this conflict is a major lesson on international conflict in the 21st century. On paper Russia has every advantage so it’s not surprising people keep expecting Ukraine to fall, but all of those advantages are offset by foreign aid and the morale boost of defending their home. Assuming Ukraine wins, to hell with Putin, Zelenskyy can play himself in the inevitable movie adaptation, can’t say that about many wars can ya?",0
"Most people with schizophrenia wouldn't be able to get as far as Santos has. It's a severe disability that affects people's cognition and planning skills, not just their grip on reality. From everything I've heard about him, Santos just looks like a con artist.","That's a possibility, though bipolar disorder is episodic, and if Santos's mania were severe enough to produce delusions and other symptoms of psychosis, it would be unlikely that he would get this far without crashing or ending up in a psych ward. I've interacted with people in the middle of psychotic episodes. They were all too erratic to pull off a successful congressional campaign.",0
"In the same vein, in this post people are talking like Türkiye before Erdoğan was a ""EU worthy"" country but in reality they wouldn't let us join even without Erdoğan. Yes there are differences between now and then but not as much as people make it out to be.","Like others said Türkiye isn't as Islamic as people make it out to be. Yes there are problems but people talk like everything was roses and sunshine before Erdoğan but in reality it wasn't. For example another comment under my first one said public kissing is banned but it isn't. It is frowned upon(and not everywhere) but before Erdoğan hugging in public could've gotten you the same snarky remarks too. That doesn't mean hugging was banned before Erdoğan. It just means there are assholes out there who can't keep their dumb ideas to themselves. Like, in the city I currently live no one would care if you kissed in public but the further east you go people will start to care. It is more about the people themselves then the law itself.",0
Plenty of high level Republicans criticized him in 2015 when they thought there was no chance he’d actually get the nomination and he still won.,"Well, he's courted the needed Republican base votes for winning the 2024 Republican primary. The most fervent, racist, antisemitic, Q anon, Evangelical and constitution-dismissal wings of the Republican base have all gotten the Trump campaign reach-out in the past few weeks. Trump met up with Kanye and Nick Fuentes, and a prominent Qanon guy, and called for termination of the constitution, covering most of the bases he needs to hit. His campaign has been a success in reaching out to them. They will remember the overtures to them long after news cycle moves on.",1
"Oh I know, and that somehow makes it worse with regard to dehumanizing the people who lost their lives. I mean if he’d said “Lol it was like a video game, just straight merc’ing fools,” it would only be marginally more offensive.","If he’d said “I was there, I had a job to do, I disconnected from the human aspect and focused on my objectives and what I felt to be my duty,” totally different feel. But that’s not how he explained it, and not how his editor suggested he rephrase himself. And here we are.",0
"Is there a US law that prevents US military to be stationed at the border? I see so many nations have their army patrolling and guarding the border like in EU, China, India, Africa. Whats stopping USA from posting troops on its own southern border?","In short, Posse Comitatus does not prevent the use of US armed forces for border security. If it did .",1
"I'd imagine the majority of the ones leaving are republicans. It doesn't matter though, red or blue, they all benefited from the same Californian policies.","I mean as a very blue voter in a depressingly red state, I will not be happy to see Californians and NYers move here if they start to.",1
China has its own insurers but it's likely they'll also demand a discount. Why buy at a price above the cap?,There is no price cap. India is already getting things at a discounted rate in exchange of not joining other countries that are trying to enforce a price cap.,1
"Democrats need to start making Republicans use the filibuster and stop just not voting on because it would get filibustered. That feels like the only way to make sure the general public knows what the Democrats are trying to pass and exactly why it's failing. I feel like it's the only way to get that into the headlines seen by people who don't pay close attention to politics. ""Ted Cruz is reading lice shampoo bottles to stop free lunch for kids"" is so much more grabby than ""Democrats passed a bill & want to give free lunch but if they try to pass it in the senate blah blah blah"". Even if it's pointless it feels like the only way to publicize what Democrats are actually trying to do. So so so many people are like ""the Democrats aren't even trying"" while having no idea how many things Republicans block with the mere threat of a filibuster.","- Only Democrats seek to get money out of politics and stop wealthy fat-cats from drowning out the voices of the many (you know, the whole point of our Democratic system...).",1
"If everyone has a duty to help each other and all, why is it that harming someone who happens to be paid to do that should carry higher consequences?","If you attack or harm an officer you can expect a longer sentence, which makes sense because it's attack on an individual and wider society. The reverse should also be true though, the abuse of position to inflict harm should be harsher.",1
"And yet at the same time, we apparently can’t hold politicians accountable for silly little things like blatant fraud, because “well, they all lie, so you’d have to arrest all of them” gotta love that doublespeak 🙄.","Right. I guess my thing is, maybe it’s time to tailor our approach to the real world that we actually live in, not the idealistic one that people wish existed.",0
"As a white guy who has lived in Az and Austin (supposedly liberal) Tx, moving to NM also felt safer and more welcoming to me too.","As a Hispanic that was raised in TX, moving to NM felt safer and welcoming to me. I can't think of any good research based reason for the differences in nearby states but just an anecdote on my end. Most of my friends who live here left TX as well due to those feelings. I am curious how it all started though.",1
There has been collective efforts across the board to shrink the younger generations access to wealth that you should probably look into further as I do not have the mental capacity to scream it into the void right now.,I make six figures and that is more than a third of my monthly take home... i make 50% more than the national average income but am no longer able to afford the average rent ( usinhe 30% of take home metric.) What. The. Fuck.,0
I’m 100 percent sure its there. Its so blatantly obvious to everyone. Pretty much every allegation against this man can be proven but no one wants to hold him accountable. WHY??,No it isn’t. It happened he incited it he did nothing to stop it snd he has told multiple lies about it since. It was his god damned name on the flags.,0
"not sure what that has to do with this article. If the restaurant can't say vegan chicken then they will say ""protein strips"" or something. you still won't know what it is.","I think the problem is language. the word ""chicken"" means chicken. The word grape can mean all kinds of things. grape flavor, grape the fruit, grape the juice etc. So if I see grape drink, it's a little deceptive but my brain at least is looking for the modifier. But chicken is chicken. Fried chicken, chicken strips, chicken broth, etc all have meat in them. ""vegan chicken"" is new and unfamiliar. You should check out this other sub where they were talking about how many people fundamentally don't know what the word ""vegan"" even means. One person thought Vegan=Organic. Another thought it meant ""healthy"" or sustainably raised, like people are legit calling eggs ""vegan"" because they came from a friend's chickens.",0
"I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please if you have any questions or concerns.","This is my concern too. Without the Democrats asserting their considerable leverage in all of this, then the ""compromise"" Speaker will undoubtedly be much farther to the right of McCarthy. Democrats could positively prevent that, and get major concessions from McCarthy for doing so. Why aren't they? They need to brush up on parlimentary strategy.",1
"As on the same line of reasoning China will not be suiciding it's air force and navy in a conventional battle over Taiwan either, or risk its most commercially productive population centres over Taiwan etc etc.",I don't know if taking what happened during the Taiwan Strait Crisis when China barely had a navy or air force or any anti-ship cruise missiles and wasn't the US' largest trading partner and the manufacturing centre of the world is terribly relevant to a war that would occur today or in the future.,0
"“And that was the third porn star I cheated on my wife with, right around the time that I tried eating long pig with my good friend Epstein. Did you know we had a suicide pact?”.","""It was the best suicide pact. Nobody has ever seen a suicide pact like this one. People would come up to me and say ""Sir, your suicide pact is the best, most powerful suicide pact I've ever seen."""".",1
"I knew about the liberation theology priests persecuted in South America, but I never associated that with evangelianism's rise to counter left-christianity. Makes sense, but I'm not sure how deliberate that could have been.","I thought this was public knowledge, propping up dictators and conservativism to stop popular movements that could turn communist was in fashion during the cold war. The issue is that once the cold war is over, they are still there and are hard to control and get rid of (e.g. Saddam, the Shah in Iran, Brazil's military dictatorship).",0
"Russia as a single country wasn't given a seat, the USSR was. When that fell apart, Russia simply assumed the seat, they were never formally granted a permanent spot. Until now, no one bothered with it because Russia was considered a major power and of course they have nuks and are prone to tantrums. But the reality is, any country of the former USSR could have laid claim to that seat, Russia just bullied their way in because Moscow was the USSR's base of power. What really needs to be eliminated is Russia's veto power. There's no country that has abused that power more than Russia.","Russia was not the last member of the USSR. Russia declared independence from the USSR on December 12, 1991. The request to the UN for Russias seat was not presented until 24 December 1991. Russia had no standing to request make that request as there were members of the USSR up until May 1992.",1
"While the Republicans are undoubtedly more corrupt, can we really believe that Democrats who accept generous donations from corporate lobbyists are not influenced by them?","An yes Republicans are far more corrupt then Democrats but you still have to ask Why is it that when it comes to supporting the rich and powerful, both corporate Democrats and Republicans can find common ground and pass bills easily? But when it comes to bills that serve the working class, there's a bunch of fighting and very little gets done and Corporate Democrats put up a weak fight?",0
"Israel occupying Palestine is not, in of itself, justification for what HAMAS is doing. Especially when you consider why Israel is occupying them. Hence why this is not a black and white conflict, but very gray.",And then Reddit thinks this conflict is black and white rather than the messy very very gray and complicated conflict it is.,0
We saw the collapse of our healthcare system during COVID. There is only one solution: Medicare for All. Everyone would have quality healthcare no matter what. It would also cost less.,What that means is they have no incentive to lower costs. Look at the covid vaccine which is going to increase in price astronomically now that for-profit insurance is paying instead of the government.,1
"If Iran suddenly had the ability to nuke Israel or say, a US carrier in Persian Gulf, the world as we know it would likely end.","Also this, again, is all a hypothetical as Israel and Iran frequently threaten each other with war, strikes or destruction.",1
Given that Russia is using Soviet tech which is definitely less safe than American counterparts I wouldn't trust the world-as-we-know-it to the safety of Soviet nuclear arming devices. If they mislaunch a fucking nuclear payload (who knows how deep the Russian incompetence runs) that for some reason arms during impact we will see a nuclear strike.,"Well, technically not ""any"" since some of the stuff they fire is not capable of delivering nuclear warheads, but the point stands.",1
"This balloon was performing reconnaissance within Canadian and American airspace, and it is part of a larger pattern. China did this at a time when they were claiming to be invested in normalizing political relations with the US. They're deploying these balloons to other countries too.",Spy ships offshore aren't violating your borders. A spy plane detected in American airspace would be escorted out or shot down.,0
Nope. Not allowed to discuss any details. I guess we could talk about whatever became public after it went to trial but there were several cases that I wouldn't want the accused knowing that I was a part of the Grand Jury that indicted them.,"ELI5: Isn't a regular grand jury empaneled only for indictments just a special grand jury with extra steps? What restricted the special grand jury from making indictments? Why would they need a whole new and separate group of people to decide on indictments, who weren't part of the investigative jury?",1
Knowing where things are likely to be at that point I don't even know if the GOP will exist. If DeSantis runs people are going to see through him so much faster because of the very real pain Trump has inflicted on the nation.,He is under investigation for human trafficking. I'm not sure if he's actually going to be free in a few months. It seems like the DOJ is starting to get serious. So what happens if both Trump and DeSantis are out of the mix?,0
"The SC could have -- if they were inclined -- changed the leaked opinion between the leak and official announcement. For all we know, Roberts -- or some well meaning clerk -- released the opinion early in hopes it would change things. It didn't, not because negotiations were crippled but because the Justices are hardliners on abortion. At least the SC didn't go out of its way to help trump's election woes.","Well, it didn't work. Mississippi is now zero, rather than 15 weeks. Other states are free to go for zero too. Fortunately, a few states ain't playing.",0
"Russian leadership is pushing its own country into the corner. Now it's all or nothing for Russia, because if, after this, they only go for a partial occupation of Ukraine and call it quits, they can be 100% sure Ukraine will try to massively remilitarize and enact revenge (unless Russia succeeds in removing the current Ukrainian leadership and force Ukraine to accept unfavourable terms, like perpetual neutrality).","Previous top Russian general was fond of Power Grid destruction… it did not help much, so he was replaced with one who prefers to go for civilian casualties in most direct way… neither “strategies” (for the lack of better word) make any sense… but at this point no strategy which does not include removal of Putin and withdrawal from Ukrainian territory would make sense. And there is no one in Russian “power structures” with balls to do it.",1
They said that while hard-selling the idea of shipping their own gas across an ocean at a markup. Not exactly a convincing or selfless pitch. The idea of economic entanglement ensuring peace was also heavily pushed by the US until the moment they realized they had natural gas to sell.,"It's a world commodity market, when the US sell's it's natural gas it sells it at the rate dictated by the market. Yes the companies are making more because the prices are higher, but the US is also sending Billions in aid to Ukraine which offsets that gain substantially.",1
I would rather nothing happen and the democrats spend two years blaming republicans on not even being able to elect a speaker for nothing happen than two years of hunter bidens laptop and impeachment of joe Biden for wearing a tan suit.,I doubt it will happen but lmfao at even the remote possibility that republicans are so incompetent they won't be able to seat a speaker before the next election.,1
I am reminded of North Korea's Kim Jong Il who claimed to have had a birdie or better on every hole of.,"I don't think so. It was the doctor who reported that a lonime personal bodyguard for Trump, along with a top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, conducted a ""raid"" on his office on Feb. 3, 2017, in which they seized the president's medical records. This was days after the NYT published a story that the president takes a prostate-related drug to treat baldness, known as Propecia, as well as other ""antibiotics to control rosacea, a common skin problem, and a statin for elevated blood cholesterol and lipids."".",0
"In state polls of voters each with a second question that specifically emphasized that their state's electoral votes would be awarded to the winner of the national popular vote in all 50 states, not necessarily their state's winner, there was only a 4-8% decrease of support.","Question 2: ""Do you think it more important that a state's electoral votes be cast for the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in that state, or is it more important to guarantee that the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states becomes president?"".",0
"This. Actively have been in the market for a new EV for the last 6m and am holding out until the Ionic 6 hits next year. I had wanted a model 3 for years but have zero interest in supporting that company now. It would be like buying a MyPillow. Musk's problem is that his new ""base"" can't afford his product...","As someone who owns a Tesla, I couldn't recommend it even if not for Musk. The car itself is good, excellent even, but a worse customer service with complete disregard for consumer rights laws you have to look far after. Blatant warranty issues regularly have to be dragged to court, where they will still refuse to heed the outcome, forcing you to further waste money on it. Their endgame is to make it more expensive to drag them to court over every little bit than to just give up.",1
"The way they did it was to loudly criticize the economy no matter what was happening in it whenever they could attribute what was happening to Democrats. They never offered alternatives, they just loudly complain. It's never been about improving the economy for them, just gaining power. It's fairly effective because the votes they need to steal are votes from poor people. They convince those people that they aren't poor, the problem is the economy. We don't need to help the poor, the problem is the Democrats' handling of the economy!",Not to be devils advocate but the last two years did not exactly show that the democrats do better in terms of economy.,1
Looking back its a good thing Kevin De Leon is such a horrible politician he couldn't even beat that zombie last election; now that the Times finally discovered that he and some of the Latinos controlling LA City Council are racist against black people.,"Katie's my Rep now, and hopefully we can replace her with someone good. She'll be a great Senator, a Gen-X Elizabeth Warren who must have learned from .",0
"I wish I could say this was sarcasm or a joke, but it was an actual conversation. My friend is a bartender and it has happened four times. Four times. Evidently stupid still is as stupid does.","This is stupid logic. The fact of the matter is that they changed the name because it's already problematic. This wasn't a preemption, like you believe. Racists were already going ""sounds like something only blacks get"". The point isn't to satisfy racists, it's to take away the association that people are already making.",1
And the 14th also implicitly grants people unenumerated rights but explicitly prohibiting laws that reduce the rights of the people (without due process).,"So really, because the Constitution doesn't explicitly say that the government(s) can ban abortion, they shouldn't have that ability.",0
"This is wrong. Porn addiction is a thing recognized by the physiological community. It's a beha ioral addiction, yes, because you get addicted to the neutransmitter rush of an orgasm which is the same thing that causes drug addiction.",I wouldn't trust this because I see it making your 4th amendment right invalidated regarding your cell phone. But keeping a digital ID device makes sense.,0
They’ve convinced people that republicans voted are legit and dem votes aren’t ON THE SAME BALLOTS so there is no limit to what bullshit people will believe.,"True- but I'm thinking that a large part of Trump's base no longer truly considers themselves Republicans, but vote GOP because it aligns with most of their interests. I'm sure they could be be easily persuaded to follow Trump to the MAGA Party. It wouldn't have to be a very large number of defections, either, to ensure Democratic victories in what are currently GOP strongholds.",1
"The buying spree comes as Poland attempts to solidify a position as a leading pillar of European relations with the United States, with the war in Ukraine shifting the balance of political power in Europe further to the east. That was hammered home this week as Biden — who has yet to visit Paris or Berlin during his term —  since the war began.","Knowing my country arms history - we will probably come up with some sort of upgraded South Korean tank in future, like we did with PT91 Twardy or like we did it with assault rifle Beryl, where we took old soviet concept and made it different/better/up to NATO standards.",0
"100%! Every race is local, whether it's a House district or Senate campaign. You have to know your electorate and campaign on that instead of taking on national platforms or ideological ones that are out of sync with your community.","Exactly. Every race is local, so candidates have to pitch ideas that resonate with their electorate. A deep Blue district might be supportive of progressive rhetoric or DSA slogans, but purple or lean-Red ones aren't going to.",0
"Surely you jest. Have you not seen the pushback by the Republican Party? I will be very surprised if they put him forward. The midterms very much humbled them. I also would not be very surprised if Trump, as a result of not being selected by the Republicans, creates his own little party.",But the flipside was a political cartoon that I saw that showed that close to 50% of people STILL voted for election deniers. That is very sobering.,0
He blew the entire budget on stupid ineffectual shit like the wall and unnecessary (and expensive) detainments.,"Which is especially funny considering deportations decreased and illegal immigration increased under Trump, if you look at the actual numbers.",0
"My guess was that there was one of the Republican polls (like Rasmussen) that always take the results and then add to the Republican total because they assume that the Republicans have to do better. FOX likely reported on that and my father saw it and said that Zeldin was going to win. It could also have been FOX spinning the already spun NYT's ""it's a close race"" though.","What I really need to do one day is look up the ownership of the local TV stations my father gets. He's always claiming that it can't just be a ""FOX says"" thing because he looks at these other stations and they are reporting the same thing. It could be a case of him hearing what he wants to hear. He's notoriously bad about that. If you don't disagree with him hard enough, he assumes you've agreed with him and will use you as ""proof that even liberals agree with the Republicans now."" However, it could also be that some of his local stations are owned by Sinclair and thus parrot far right talking points just like FOX does.",0
"In the law it’s said there’s no right without a remedy. If the State courts can issue a ruling, but the legislature can ignore it without consequence, then the state court has no power. Elsewhere I read some of the judges suggested the state court ruling could be appealed to a federal court. I’d prefer that as a compromise.","Is that a better compromise, cause everyone here is trying to find the worst of every situation here.",1
If you ask me there should be licencing requirements for being a landlord and breaching the law resulting in confiscation of property.,"Not really. Verbal contracts exist. There's also the concept of extending tenant protections to long-term guests so shitty landlords can't loophole it that way. Again, it all comes down to protecting tenants because they hold very little power in the relationship without the state backing them up. We wouldn't need these protections if slumlords didn't slumlord.",0
"Not really, you see news about male politicians doing that shit all the time. Isnt it like every other year when some homophobic conservative gets outed for having sex with male prostitutes.","No the drug stuff had nothing to do with her dancing, the clips of her partying had something yelled at them which sounded like ""jauhojengi"" (translation=powder gang). Again if you dont know what you are talking about please atleast try and find out and stop making assumptions about people.",0
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"While I respect that this is your opinion, I fully disagree. What you are describing is “fascist” by definition. Government picking “winners”. Until herb is treated like tomato’s there will be a thriving black market. And Black market weed is and will always be better, the secret ingredient is CRIME. The only way to move forward is equality and equity through abundance and let the cream rise to the top. The banks do not need to get involved until this is sorted. To be honest decriminalizing and stopping there would be the best thing for the plant and everyone that is truly passionate about cannabis but people are stupid lame and greedy.","No. Almost every single one of those “tests” you are speaking about are bullshit, bought and paid for. Nothing more. I have news for you, the 38% THC herb you think you purchased is not 38%. Almost every point you attempt make is propaganda bs shilled by corporate stooges. It’s ether treat herb like tomato’s with decriminalizing, or equality and equity through abundance. This or the black market goes no where ever.",0
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"What about people born appearing 100% female, complete with the bits, but are genetically males? Who can they have sex with without sinning? According to the bible, are they men or women? Are Christian hardliners going to be happy with 100% female looking (from birth) males marrying women? Something tells me they won't.","Was God wrong when he made these people this way? Is their very existence sinful? Typically, hardliners and far right will get extremely angry when you point this out because its impossible to square these facts with their narrow worldview. They get even madder when you ponder which bathroom these people should use. ""well, if they look like a guy they should use the mens bathroom"" - then you point out by their logic that trans people should use the ""wrong"" bathroom and they meltdown.",0
"In addition to this there are so many things that play a role, like how easy is it to collapse those tunnel? Would Russia be able to dig them up again? How many entrances are there? How safe are other Russian ammo depots? Is Russia able to deploy enough anti-air systems in the area? How extensive is the mine? How many entrances have good road access? Has Ukraine already booby trapped the mine?","Honestly, there are so many points that come into play here and all of this is so far out of my area of expertise that I can't say whether it's just bullshit that I heard about or whether it's actually reliable.",0
"Fact is, the POTUS visiting Kyiv is a signal of American strenh and dominance. Russia bombarding Kyiv while he is there, is a challenge to that dominance. Therefore, a response to cement that dominance would be required on the part of the US. What the response would be, is hard to say. I'm sure the Biden administration would have gamed out those scenario's beforehand, and may have even informed Russia on the type of consequences they could expect through the deconfliction hotline when they informed Russia of Biden's visit.","So, I think there is almost no chance of Russia attacking Kyiv during Biden's visit, I don't think it would result in boots-on-the-ground war in Russia, but would force many fence-sitting countries to abandon support for Russia.",1
Goodluck. Police departments are already giving firearms to officers who are not legally permitted to own firearms. You probably saw that VA state trooper Austin Edwards in the news recently. He's the cop that kidnapped a little girl he catfished online and murdered her family in front of her. He lost his gun rights back in 2016 due to being committed for mental health issues. TWO police departments hired him anyways and ignored state law by arming him with guns he was not legally entitled to.,"With qualified immunity gone officers will be less likely to commit misconduct because it would be their money on the line, not taxpayers'.",0
"Recreate relationships would be extremely hard, but it is work that need to be done, especially from side of Russia.",How do we get from here to a place where we can see Russians as anything close to friends again? It seems to me that it is inevitable that evil will return. I honestly don't see the current lot suffering all that much for their crimes either.,1
"Saudi Arabia, a key ally of China, has shown support for Beijing’s crackdown on Uighur culture in the past. During a 2019 visit to China, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto ruler, told his hosts: “We respect and support China’s rights to take counter-terrorism and de-extremism measures to safeguard national security.” Saudi Arabia further endorsed China’s Xinjiang policies in two joint letters to the United Nations in 2019 and 2020.","The journey to the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina for the Muslim faithful has become a snare to catch Uighurs from all over the world. Osman Ahmad Tohti, a Uighur with legal residency in Turkey and Saudi Arabia, was detained in 2018 while conducting the hajj and forcibly repatriated to China. He has not been heard from since.",0
"Yeah because the powermad despots in the CCP are powermad. They literally want total control of every side of life, economy and the world. Why else would they have the most sophisticated surveillancesystem in the world and constantly act hypocritically and like a total loser. This system allows NO true competition unlike the west.","If China was democratic, free with open elections then no lol. China would be a titan of stability unlile today.",0
"Unfortunately they don't seem to be required to learn anything, or even be qualified for the job, to get elected. Our leaders need to be held to higher standards. And younger people don't vote as much as older folks, at least half of whom are tech challenged and don't appreciate that our leaders should understand this stuff.",Mr. Beyer sees what's coming. AI will revolutionize every industry and nearly every facet of our lives in the coming years. Every member of Congress should be educating themselves to better understand the ramifications on ethics and privacy. As Mr. Beyer put it.,0
You are spot on and that is what scares me. I loathe dictators but I also don't want to risk Putin forced into desperation to the point where nuclear escalation starts to seem like a reasonable yolo play.,"...as he acts in such an unstable manner-not the invasion either, I'm talking about his fucked up rants and actually being the only idiot on earth besides Kim who directly threatens nukes.",1
"That said I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few bug job couples in Russia that get off in that kind of thing. The claim that a great number of wives are into their husbands raping women, well color me dubious.",Do we really believe the wives are encouraging their husbands to rape women? I know they want to demonize the Russians on the world stage but the Russians are doing a fine job of demonizing themselves.,1
"No one is saying the Russians aren't dangerous. But I'm really struggling to understand the doctrine Russia has and what's so ""solid"" about it... They haven't had much of a coherent doctrine this whole war so why'd they have one now?",There's some strategic value. But nothing that significant really. Ukraine defends it because it's their territory and they've been making the Russians bleed for it.,0
The only way this would be utilized is in swing states that have been gerrymandered and have a majority republican legislature with Democrats winning statewide seats.,The House is gerrymandered to shit and the Senate is hard to keep since there are more red states than blue even though democrats get far more votes overall. The House passes the budget and the Senate votes in judges who make sure red states get their welfare.,1
"I can see that argument, but at least in the House, they're not that focused. If it was McConnell, I'd agree with you; out of the current GoP crop he seems to be the most mechanical (and even he's pretty vengeful; see blocking Supreme Court nominee). But McCarthy and the rest of the House Rs are a lot less disciplined than Senate Rs and tend to be pretty cantankerous (see: Speaker fight), so it's more likely to my mind that they're just reacting.","If you look at the Republican behavior of the last thirty years or so, vengeance is a significant motivator for a lot of their actions. ""We got a Mueller Report, so we're retaliating with a Durham Report (that catches Trump in a financial crime)."" ""We got Nixon, so we're going to impeach Clinton."" So on and so forth.",0
The vast majority of climatologists all agree that ( as I pointed out in my first response) it will potentially be even worse that just letting climate change occur.,I imagine a scenario in which conservatives finally decide we should do something about climate change... And this will be the answer they reach for.,1
"I mean, not really. They would need Republicans to vote with them. They're not going to vote for a Democrat for Speaker just because they don't like McCarthy.",Yes and those Republicans may vote against McCarthy but they will never vote with Democrats to elect a Democrat-approved Speaker. It would be political suicide.,0
"Point being: the DOD could take every critical patent Musk owns and classify it on national security grounds, and then they could deny Musk security clearance to his own discoveries, forcing him to hand over his company to a CEO that the DOD will give clearance to. If they deem Musk to be a security risk, they can force him out of his companies altogether simply by classifying the underlying technologies.","Musk is an absolute moron to try and pick a fight with this guy after he brought up a legitimate security concerns with Musk's product. If Musk was the genius his fanboys constantly say he is, Markey should be like the guy on Musk's side in the Senate.",1
Faith is a belief in which there is no verifiable evidence whatsoever. That’s why it’s called faith. So there is no arguing with that sort of mindset. They don’t have evidence and they still believe in something. There is no critical thinking.,"We have to teach critical thinking. There are so so so many ""jobs"" out there whose whole schtick is scamming someone. Insurance, sales, ""iNvEsTmEnT aDvIsOr"", so many positions of just ""talk quickly and smile like you're selling used cars"" and collect a huge paycheck at someone else's expense.",1
"So he can keep this charad going for as long as he likes, be my guest, have at it, do your worst. It's all a play for him, to rally support at home and blackmail countries. It might work domestically, sure - but not internationally. There he will just burn his and Turkey's reputation, what little is left still.",Turkey is a loser nation. The only reason the West puts up with them in NATO is because they are very very strategically located.,1
"At all similar? You should have opened with how they are different, rather than a stupid question. Of course they are similar in many ways. Scope? Sure they are way different. Motivation? Zero difference.",Ironic. Why do right-wing bots spend their time spamming sports stuff that nobody gives a shit about? I mean look at all your worthless submissions nobody cared about. I feel like you are the guy to ask.,0
Solid state and suitable grid energy storage should be ready by the end of the decade and will make nuclear options look like they are standing still resulting in them being dead end investments compared to real renewable and energy storage. Newer batteries won't have much rare mineral limits either.,"Things are cool, but they're not an effective enough solution to get you down to the emission standards you need in a big spread out country like America.",0
A completely free market doesn't work because it assumes consumers purchases are influenced by morality more than cost.,"They have the misconception that a highly competitive free market is the natural state of things. In reality, monopolies and cartels are the natural state, because without government regulations preventing it, the largest companies will use their power and influence to force smaller competitors out of business.",1
"I say go for it. Their caterwauling isn’t going to change anything in Ukraine, Joe sure as hell isn’t going to back down. You’re just making Biden look even more bad-ass. As the “strong on defense” party, your natural move should have been to criticize him for not doing enough. But if you want to blow up your coalition? I don’t mind.",I don't see why people are so worried over this. It's essentially the same strategy used in SVD before pulling back: You hold ground and bleed them as much as possible before falling back. Then counter-punch them elsewhere grabbing large amounts of territory in return.,1
">But according to the publication, officially, this import is not classed as coming from Russia – it came to the country through the use of loopholes in regulations that allow the origin of the oil to be obscured.","However, maritime experts say the way the UK registers imports, as well as the increased use of ship-to-ship transfers, will make it difficult for the UK to sanction Russian oil.",1
"Obviously the sanctions are intended to target the leaders and authoritarians, and they work to a degree. Without the sanctions, those same assholes would have even more power and money to oppress Iranians.","But frankly, Iranians getting executed by their own government without any form of able resistance... Is just I don't really see any other help they can get.",1
"Argentina has a bit of a problem where their democracy sucks quite a bit because you can't get a truly good candidate, and even if you did there's enough corruption around that it's all fucked anyway.","For the moment we are not a full blown venezuela/russia we still have a shitty democracy with corrupt politicians, but the bases to rebuild if the institutions hold on.",1
The most painless way to do it is to start by banning gas ovens. No one has a problem with electric ovens; they work just fine and arguably better than gas. Start there. Once your oven is electric you've got the hookup for an electric cooktop in the future...,"I think that gradually phasing in new stoves as electric ones is a good idea. If you’re going to electrify your oven, might as well do the stove while you’re at it. Even if you are using gas fired power plants for electricity (which is by no means guaranteed especially as time passes), there would still be the thermodynamic advantages that come from combusting gas on a larger scale. A long tailpipe, but still a narrower one nonetheless, and those rounding errors will add up over time.",1
"If we were “directly participating” the way they say we are, the war would’ve been over months ago and Moscow would’ve been renamed New Kyiv.","If the US & NATO were directly involved in the Ukraine war, then Kaliningrad would be a crater, Moscow a burning parking lot, & Russoterrorists like him would be hanging from lamp posts by their ankles. And that's just after the first wave of Poles invade the country.",1
We can't have an quick and easy way to pay taxes because approximately half the government wants it to be annoying and inefficient to pay taxes.,"California tried to change their income tax system once. If all you've got in regular income from your job, then the tax people already know how much you make and how much you owe. So they put together a pilot program where they just mailed you a postcard that said ""Here's how much you made and how much you owe. If it's all correct, just send this postcard back, and if something is wrong file your taxes normally."".",0
"His taxes are likely just embarrassing for him, exposing how he's not nearly as rich as he claims. If instead there are crimes revealed, then that's yet more long, drawn out cases to add to the pile.","Unless he dies, the Show has possibly a decade of seasons left, just considering the number and complexity of the legal cases against him, the speed at which the system typically proceeds, and Trump's expected strategy of appeal and delay.",0
"Jewishness is an interesting topic in my family (my wife is Jewish). There are religious Jews - some of which started out following other religions, or no religions, and converted. There are cultural Jews which were raised by one or more Jewish families and almost never go to a synagogue - and also tend not to believe in god or have a problem mixing meat and dairy. Then there are racial Jews, people born to Jewish parents or to a Jewish mother, or were born in Israel, etc. that are considered Jewish but run the gammut from ultra orthadox Jews to Jews that just happen to identify as Semitic in a racial way. There are lots of people in Israel that don't really practice any religion but still consider themselves to be Jews.",Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity .,1
Otherwise it's too easy for the people to grt siscouraged by the endless DeSantis ads and just feel defeated before election even arrives.,It's closer than it seems... the Dem organization in FL is terrible. Put legal weed and abortion access on the ballot and way more people would show up.,0
"Of course. Japan is famous for having stupid fringe ideologies run amok (conspiracy nutjobs, fucked up sects and cults, and various related extremists etc).","I think people tend to overlook how insane the cultist ideologies that exist in Japan are. There are a good amount of religious cults that exist there that are so fucking bad that there are people that pretend to be normal, befriend you, and drag you into some indoctrination ceremony to have you join with forced coercion. They straight-up have double/sleeper agents for this shit! It's not surprising that there are Qanon fanatics there.",1
"Yes, Libya too. NATO did not need to lead the charge to impose the UN Security resolution, and should not have lead that charge.","As much as I support military intervention within Ukraine, NATO as an organization needs to stay out of it.",0
I wouldn’t trust any poll right now because D or R money could be pushing numbers meant to discourage particular voters.,"If anyone is wondering why Billionare Republicans would out money in biased polling, heres my theories.",1
"also you have the nasty habit of this super heated plasma wanting to touch the metal housing that all this is going on inside of, and the stainless steel wants to melt if that happens. SO you need to physically keep the plasma away from the metal walls. the magnetic fields are designed to do this too.","The magnetic field breakthrough is just one piece of the puzzle, but it gets us closer because it's another thing checked off the list.",1
"When Germany under Hitler went un punished for the siezing aka liberation of other country's. It just continued, until the point something had to be done. So again today, instead of doing something real, rich elites all over the world who hold powerful decisions to make a change, hold hands and make show. They do not have empathy for the death of women and children. They do not have empathy for death of innocent people. If they had empathy, they'd stand together and stop the Hitler like leaders and killers of the world with a large and quick calculated decapitation. It's just a show folks. Putin is a murderer, ehat would they do to you if you murdered thst many people?","If Nazi Germany had nukes, the point of doing something wouldn't have existed, because they wouldn't have hesitated to use them. And we probably wouldn't be using reddit today, because the course of history would've most likely been changed drastically but that's all theoretical.",0
"She started in on him She was talking about how he didn't have enough support in Congress, because he wasn't standing up against the Democrats for the GOP extremists (specifically her) while she was doing her douche tour with Gaetz.","And she's now the defacto-co-speaker, since Kevin McCarthy promised her -everything- to get her to vote for his speaker job wherein he will try to harness that angry useless clusterfuck on the GOP side.",1
Chances are nearly everyone will have at least heard of the pyramids and can tell you they are in egypt somewhere. Maybe erroneously think they were king tuts but hey they know at least a Pharoah.,"Older yes, but go around the world, to like truly anywhere with at least a few years of school, or a tv, and ask people if they've heard of the Egyptian Pyramids... and then ask about New Grange.",0
"Some examples, Russian tanks were an aggressive and difficult struggle to defend against, so west gave javelins and anti tank weapons that destroyed the Russian tanks.",My understanding of this war is that the West will supply whatever military equipment the Ukrainians need to defend themselves against the Russians. But not provide anything offensive towards Russia.,0
"India is NOT paying above the ""price cap"". India is paying at a price which is decided between India and Russia (which is already heavily discounted). The deal is that India must not join other nations on enforcing a price cap. Till India keeps their nose out of it India will keep getting oil at discounted rates. If India were to join other countries in enforcing a price cap its relationship with Russia will go sour for almost no benefit.","So Europe can keep buying gas from Russia but India can’t buy oil from Russia even though India doesn’t have any skin in the conflict? That’s some serious double standards. If Europe can’t bring itself to halting imports of Russian energy, what makes anybody think India should?",1
"Given we had 4 years of a traitor President who 99% of the Republican House caucus supported and voted with, I’d say it’s a matter of when, not if, McCarthy becomes speaker.","We're seeing a lot of discussion about whether the Dems should either stop voting or vote for McCarthy to end this shitshow, as though they have some sort of responsibility to the Republicans to vote their way.",1
"As a country, our military budget is clearly leaps and bounds higher than any other. Our spending in healthcare and education has ballooned far beyond any realistic gains in either sector in recent decades. Our spending in housing continues to drive an all time high housing market. Our spending in entertainment has driven sporting events like Super Bowl prices to absolutely insane levels. While not as extreme as the previous examples, we also have one of the highest motor vehicle to person ratios in the world. Despite all of this crazy spending in every sector, we still have more money left over which is why some of it ends up spilling over into political spending.",I think it makes far more sense to talk about how the Republican primary voter’s gamble with far right candidates failed than to talk about any minuscule theoretical difference democratic spending had on those results.,0
"Russia already tried one invasion from Belarus, when they spent months massing troops and equipment in advance and Ukraine wasn't even mobilizing for fear of provoking Russia. It literally is not possible for Russia to be more prepared for a second invasion from Belarus than they were the first time given the amount of time they had to build up, and it's not possible for Ukraine to be less prepared.",If they can keep the bulk of Ukrainian forces occupied in the east - in south around Herson and in north around Bakhmut; they can punch through to Kyiv from the north from Bryansk and Belarus in a two-prong attack. Provided the ground freezes and they coerce Lukashenko to join.,1
"A hypersonic ballistic missile is a missile that boosts itself initially and once the propellant is spent, enters a ballistic trajectory accelerated by gravity into high speeds.",A hypersonic ballistic missile is a missile that follows a ballistic trajectory at high values of mach.,0
"Except taking Western vaccines that were far more effective than the Chinese ones. You know, probably the best thing they could do. They're doing everything they can to enforce basically unenforceable policies. That doesn't mean it's effective...","Efficacy based on what? The CDC calculation of reduction of illnesses among people vaccinated or preventing hospitalization? Only thing I can find on Sinopharm (the strongest of the Chinese vaccines currently) is efficacy against hospitalization of 79%, and that was with older variants (can't find anything with new variants). J&J a reported to be 93% effective at preventing hospitalization but 78% effective at reducing illness based on the CDC criteria. So are you sure you're comparing the same stats?",0
"The group descended on the car, attempting to rip the flag away from its owner, when the driver panicked and performed a hasty U-turn to cross into the oncoming lane and make a quick getaway.","The group descended on the car, attempting to rip the flag away from its owner, when the driver panicked and performed a hasty U-turn to cross into the oncoming lane and make a quick getaway.",1
"Yes, but not the Senate. Republicans were expected to have a massive landslide of victories that never happened. The most important thing that happened was Trump MAGA candidates were beaten badly across the US that will very much damage Trump and his attempt to run for president and make it impossible for Trump to launch another coup attempt if he loses in 2024.",MAGA meltdown time. I remember seeing on Facebook all these red wave memes and Republicans being so smug and confident of landslide victories that will help launch Trump's campaign and comeback for 2024.,0
1. The International Energy Agency just revised its 2021 renewable energy prediction by about 30%. That's 30% more than growth they predicted just last year. We're adding more renewables between 2022-20227 than the last 20 years combined.,"3. renewables will be generating more power than any other source. Many countries have announced new pledges this year including India, the EU and it's members and the US.",0
It likely won't. What rarely gets widely publicized is Ukraines losses and setbacks. In a war of attrition sadly Russia has the capability to outlast Ukraine in terms of equipment and personnel.,Didn't the German army had it's own calculations that were proven wrong because Russia just keept bringing in more troops and equipment?,1
Republicans are very good at finding ways around limitations on their power to implement their agenda.,"It’ll be super interesting to see how republicans keep the business support that they need to get elected with things like this. They’ve always been the party of “we have your back businesses, we’ll get you those tax breaks”. This is making businesses wonder if they can’t get the tax breaks from democrats. Which democrats should run like hell with.",1
"So, unless TN drivers are well above the average, it seems that they're certain punishing EV drivers with a heavier tax burden. Also, I've seen some indication that the 650 per person is high. If that's the case, then the increase is even less warranted and an even more egregious punishment.","That makes sense only if they are evening out the average. Meaning that they have found that the average person pays $300 in tax from filling up their gas tank. Google says the average driver uses about 650 gallons a year. Tn charges 27.4 cents per gallon. So, approximately $178 dollars a year in tax per person earned through a gas tax. They want to up the electric tax to $300. So, unless TN drivers have a much higher average usage, or google is wrong, they're overcharging electric car users by approximately $122 a year.",0
"Mr. McCarthy needs 218 votes if every member of Congress casts a ballot, so he only can afford to lose four Republican votes. In the seventh through eleventh rounds of voting, held on Thursday, 20 Republicans voted for other candidates, and one voted “present.” Mr. McCarthy lost an additional Republican vote in the ninth through eleventh round when Representative Ken Buck of Colorado did not vote at all. All 212 Democrats voted for Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader.","In the election for the Speaker of the House, the rules are that the speaker is chosen by a majority of those voting, and not a simple majority. Since most votes are along party lines, the votes for the Democratic nominated speaker of the house (in this case, Hakeem Jeffries.) don't count, even though he has a majority of 212.",0
I’m half Ukrainian and I was last in Kyev in 2018 before that 2014 before that 2010 before that 2008 before that I lived in Черновцах as an infant. Your description makes it appear as if you’re going into some dark cave where the only light source is candles and everything is very mystic and surreal whereas I found it to be way more mainstream and touristy. Basically you’re over-exaggerating.,You want mystic and surreal go to the monasteries in Briansk or Solovky (where the real pilgrimage for Russian orthodoxy is not the Larva).,0
"In the October 2020 interview, which resurfaced on social media Wednesday, Santos, referring to his parents, said: “They sent me to a good prep school — which was Horace Mann Prep in the Bronx. And in my senior year of prep school, unfortunately, my parents fell on hard times.” Santos went on to say that at the time his family couldn’t “afford a $2,500 tuition” and “I left school \[with\] four months till graduation.”.","Days after an explosive New York Times story on Dec. 19 detailed lies Santos told about his background, Santos gave a handful of interviews in which he acknowledged he was untruthful about having worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and graduating college. He said he never claimed to be Jewish, despite previous public comments about his heritage.",0
"Fair points. Idk how much it matters in the grand scheme of things but I have followed the Ruble over the last year. Since 8 months ago, its been dropping, and it hasn't stopped. It just reached it's pre-war level and it is still going down. So sanctions are hurting Russia, I wish it would be a faster effect to force Putin to stop the war, but it is hurting Russia.","Also another reason for escalating sanctions as opposed to dropped every sanction known to man at once is to keep some leverage. If you sanction the shit out of Russia with everything all at once, well there is not reason for Russia to listen to you at all since you threw everything at it. But if you do it over time, it leaves you with negotiating power. Even if Putin does not care, many oligarchs may get increasingly nervous with increasing sanctions that hurt them more and more, and that will cause instability.",0
"As stated in the investigation, while the number of votes published by TSE were in line with the printed number of votes by the ballots, this was the only way they could audit the voting process. They didnt get access to third party code, the original code is too big and complex (17 million lines of code) and some technical questions werent answered, so with the things they had access to there wasnt any proof that the election was fraudulent.","It is fundamentally impossible to check what code a computer is actually running, so you can't know whether any code that you are provided is actually what's running on a given voting computer, so it's irrelevant whether access to some code was provided.",1
"If it spreads to America again the rich and corporations will do exactly what they ended up doing last time and saying ""fuck the workforce, let them die so long as we keep raking in the profits"", sacrificing the working class to appease the rich was even supported by the politicians and that will undoubtedly cause even greater turmoil given financial and medical situations for most Americans. I could easily see China trying to turn their bad situation into a means of damaging the west, and then blaming the west for it even starting.","Wonder if they are hoping to spread it to the west in hopes of dividing and destabilizing, weaponizing a pandemic is 100% something I could see China doing, especially after their thinly veiled attempt at total domestic control with their ""zero covid policy"" failed.",0
"In the US it would be considered statutory rape, in the UK it's categorized as sexual penetration of a minor or something. I believe in both countries Rape is a separate type of criminal charge and the victim has to be unwilling where as this kid was (because they had been groomed).","Yeah, apparently UK law (for whatever reason) specifies that only a man can rape someone. But I still think the BBC is justified in not using the term ""rape"" since that has a legal definition.",1
"Edit: Seems simple enough: We should always oppose fascism. There's no gray there. ""But what if a large majority / plurality / majority support fascism?"" Then we should always oppose them, too.","At the end of the day: You don't defeat fascists by coddling ""fence sitting"" fascist-adjacent and fascist-supporters. They're the same people.",0
You think you need to be a conservative to dislike sanna? Its not like there isnt anything to criticize her for. Her agreeing with the patient safety act would be one.,Not really. Maybe the investigation was but the backlash came from the videos that were posted that had nothing to do with nationalists or character assasinations. People were concerned that the PM of a country that has fully prohibited the use of illegal drugs is seen partying in a vid where people are yelling what seems to be references to drug use.,0
"No. You seemed to have missed it. You attacked redditors about not being keen on religion, and then talked about the importance of all lives, etc. The \POINT\ was marjorie three names hates Muslims so much she doesn't want to acknowledge the tragedy in Syria and Turkey since most of the victims are likely Muslim. She voted against expressing sympathy over the victims of the earthquake. At best you stood up a straw man that had nothing to do with my comment. If you were attacking Marjorie three names' bigotry, that didn't come through.","While Trump was in office, he promised to reduce the trade deficit. It soared to new heights before Covid. He promised to use tariffs to bring home manufacturing, and it didn't work. Ironically, because of the covid impacts on the global supply chain, more manufacturing will be coming home to the US under Biden.",0
"If you make a cop civilly liable for killing someone, they are going to think twice about it. If you make that cop's supervisor civilly liable for them killing someone, you can bet they are going to really think twice about turning loose some fuck-up on the people in their jurisdiction.","But more fundamentally, why do you think the police have any right to issue an extrajudicial capital punishment for the crime of fleeing? Seriously, that’s a really simply question.",1
"I don't think so man, Trump said if he lost ""you won't hear from me again"" and look what's going on? Not sure why he said that when he knew it wasn't going to be true. He is so deep in the narcissist pool he believes he did nothing wrong so there is no need for a pardon. He's going to run whether the GOP want him or not. His ego is so inflated that he thinks he can win. Unless of course it's ""rigged"" again.","""It was rigged. I actually won. Ted cheated."" All that shit. It's crazy, he's only got one fucking note.",1
"This doesn't mean South Africa as a nation has a strong connection to Russia today, just that there is something of a residual familiarity.","This is what I find weird, Russia isn't even close to being an important trade partner of South Africa. China, the US, the UK, Germany and Japan are your largest export markets. You don't even import a notable amount from Russia either. Western nations are by far a more important partner.",1
in the world and has almost 25% of the prisoners in the world and you're still thinking communist countries are blinded by propaganda. Who's got the police state? Lol.,"Much of the worst parts of our governance resembles, or is complicit in, the worst parts of US governance. Open capitalist price gouging, continued police violence against Indigenous, Black, and impoverished persons, regularly exporting economic and military violence internationally, extracting resources from the global south whilst devastating ecosystems and contributing to climate change....",0
That’s not even the same constitution that creates governors or that separates governors’ powers from those of the state legislatures and state judiciaries. States have their own constitutions for that.,"Executive privilege wasn’t even litigated for presidents until 1974, so we’re only talking about the last 49 years.",0
"As a child I was told the olympic is for bring people together and to settle difference aside on the Sportfield instead of on the battlefield. So for me, its only natural, that anyone who choose the battlefield should be banned from the sportfield till they stop their war of aggression.","As a child i was more worried if i had found the best stick in the wood and if i could watch tv cartoon at sunday. But i get your point. I am, as an adult, not surprised but i am still disappointed. Though none of those 2 Aggression or act of war was an open invasion with the goal of annexing land, erasing culture and eradicating civil population like the russian is doing. So mind you, we are speaking of 2 complete different kind of evil. Its like comparing robbery to Genozids. Both are bad, but one is clearly worse than the other.",0
"So if this is about the election, I am guessing after the election we will cut a deal to let Finland/Sweden into NATO in exchange for Turkey buying F-16s? More planes on Russia's border is good for the rest of us and pisses off Putin.","Nah, Russia cant really use its airforce(and neither can Ukraine, whatever little it has left). Both sides have really good antiair, which is why they have limited uses for their airforces.",1
"And every Dem majority/supermajority in the past 50 years that failed to read Rehnquist's dissent much less pick up a pen to codify the decision into actual law because ""it was decided case law / precedent"".","We can argue about whether this is a court issue and run on it for the next two decades, but as someone who is pro-choice and wants results I really wish we'd gotten 15-25 week protections in while Dems had the majority. Ideally that would be the focus now instead of leaving women to suffer in red states.",1
"In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.","r/politics is currently accepting new moderator applications. If you want to help make this community a better place, consider !",0
"To my knowledge they have nukes, but not nukes small enough to fit on a warhead (no means of delivery). Being able to manufacture warheads is what would make them a nuclear weapon state, but I could be wrong.",USA is already against more countries getting nuclear weapons. They won’t add to the pile by asking more allies to get nuclear. That would also lead to other countries trying to get themselves nuclear weapons.,1
In his defence (I never thought I would say this) it's very much illegal to retroactively limit the rights of elected officials in most places.,The constitutional 2 term limit for presidents did not apply to the Harry S. Truman who was the incumbent while it was ratified. I would assume that the same thing would apply here.,0
Yes - israel is an apartheid state - in that many Palestinians have fewer rights than Israelis based on their ethnicity.,"I am not saying that Palestinians don't have a right to live peacefully, but that isn't going to happen while they are under their own self-made terrorist rule. Hamas is a group of religious fanatics, they aren't interested in peace.",1
"I am of the firm opinion that DJT plays golf because it's a very expected activity that raises zero red flags. On the golf courses he owns/controls, law enforcement can't easily sneak close by. Wide open space, no prying eyes or ears close by. No listening devices. It's almost perfect to have sensitive conversations you want remaining secret.","DJT learned a lot of his tactics early in his career from mafia lawyers. Two mafia people travel out to the pine forest, an abandoned warehouse district or other secluded area for privacy... It raises all sorts of red flags. DJT goes out for a round of golf on his course with Lindsay Graham, he can say whatever he wants without repercussions or fear of it getting out. Suddenly the next day Lindsay Graham flips to full support of DJT. Or when he met with about 10 people for a round of golf earlier this year, but they just walked around talking and no one had golf clubs.",0
People who think western tanks are invincible are about to get shocked to see that anti-tank weapons (especially mines) don't care where the tank was made.,"I don’t think anyone thinks they’re a super weapon but they are far, far beyond the majority of the tanks Russia has been using. Just having a decent gun stabilizer and thermal imaging puts them well ahead of the T-72 and almost any T-72 variant besides the T-90 (which was going to be labeled the T72BM until the gulf war made the T72 name sales poison on the export market) and even then I’d expect them to be on par with the T-90’s at a minimum.",1
"I'm not sure how you can think someone making $10/hr in 2010 should have the same buying power as someone making $10/hr in 2023. Just in inflation alone you're talking +/-30% for those years. That's like telling someone , hey you should be able to survive on 30% less pay in 2023 than I did in 2010. It doesn't make any sense.",This has nothing to do with wage increases in Seattle and more to do with inflation over the years and you tying it to wage increases instead of reality.,0
"To be fair, the USSR wasnt Russia and it had a lot more capabilities then Russia did. But by the 80s even the USSRs military was starting to suffer, but not nearly to this extent.","I think they were definitely a threat up until the late 70's/early 80's, that's the USSR but I mean... Russia appears to just be the USSR that lost ground. They seemed to stay pretty damn close if you compared equipment for quite awhile but at some point in the 80's the west left them in the dust and kept going. From there on Russia just needed the world to believe they still knew what they were doing. Which works until someone puts up a non-guerilla fight.",1
"Blaming Cuban Americans for falling victim to propaganda, while doing nothing to combat that propaganda, ain't the way forward for anyone.","But again, you look at Cuban voters who are more conservative and contrast this with the effort the democratic party puts into other Latinos, or even other races entirely.",0
Yeah. Even the cheapest IP/WiFi-camera's on Aliexpress typically run a barebone Linux OS on multicore ARM SoC's that are more capable than 10 year old smartphones.,"Unless isolated (e.g. seperate VLAN), these things can do practically anything in your network and over internet.",0
You should probably look at the history of Crimea. It isn't really so simple. Crimea was mostly Russians for the past 100 years and few Ukrainians. Even before the USSR Crimea wasn't very populated by Ukrainians.,"During the USSR Kruschev added Crimea to Ukraine but it didn't really matter since it was the USSR. Following the dissolution of the USSR there were many Russians, and the population of Crimea was mostly Russians who were left unable to return home. Crimea attempted twice in the 90s to become independent from Ukraine with the intention of returning to be part of Russia.",0
This article is published by the daily mail and written by an extremist conspiracy theorist who is consistently incorrect and has become increasingly more erratic as time goes on.,"Also, I'm not saying you shouldn't be skeptical, but do you hold the same standard of ""conspiracy theorist"" to MSNBC/CNN for perpetuating stories that have been since proven to be false i.e. the Iraq War, Steele Dossier, and countless others? Or do you only hold that standard to something that challenges U.S. orthodoxy?",1
"Currently almost all existing ammunition for the air defense system Gepard was made in Switzerland, which is blocking the export to Ukraine.","But until then, the lack of this type of ammunition will impede Ukraine's efforts to intercept Russia's drone attacks on civilian infrastructure.",0
edit: why would you get triggered by that? Two US citizens. That's not hundreds of thousands of wrongly incarcerated US citizens of Japanese origin during WW2.,"Most Japanese wrongly incarcerated during WW2 were already living there for a generation, if memory serves right (Nisei). Or at least aligned to the American way, mindset-wise, if 1st generation.",0
"In a way Ukraine is cutting the fingers and toes off of Russia, making them much more ineffective against Ukraine.","What I'm most surprised about is that Ukraine is in a position to do so. The fact that they're not only resisting, but bombing Russia is pretty incredible.",1
"Mitch McConnell, ted Cruz, and Trump are all Republicans and lizard people conspiracy seems far more popular among those on the right who vote Republican.",The Republican Party is extremely right wing and the religious right and white nationalists have more power than ever within that party.,1
Conservatives reeeeeaally want to reverse course on LGBTQ acceptance. They got thrashed in the midterms but a lot of them are still doubling down and pushing this idea that LGBTQ people are the source of all problems in the nation now. It’s pretty horrifying as a gay guy. This is exactly the kind of obsessive hate that leads to things like the Holocaust. The way conservatives have been acting has erased any doubt I had that a significant portion of this country wants to make that happen for us.,It is on the bigot to change their life and hide themselves away from society if they cannot tolerate all parts of society. Not on the minority they hate.,0
"Only the US has an electoral college. In other countries, elections are decided by popular vote. Rural areas in Canada and Australia are doing just fine.","I'm comparing California to the nation as a whole. Obviously you can pick out specific states like Wyoming that have more representation, simply because each state has to get at least one vote.",0
"Depends on what kind of war China is going to be fighting and what their propaganda will let the CPC get away with. If it's an ideological war, the goal will be to end the civil war. The PLA can do this by wiping out all life on the island. Luckily, the CPC and most of the population considers the Taiwanese to be fellow Han, so that type of propaganda would only work for the most extreme nationalistic types.","There are also cultural and emotional factors at play in China's desire for reunification with Taiwan. Many people in China see Taiwan as a part of their shared cultural and historical heritage, and feel a strong emotional attachment to the island and its people.",1
"She was election denying since the primaries where she was going after her own voters IN A PRIMARY ELECTION. Never took it back, just accepted the victory and moved on.","The only Republican to win a state wide office in Arizona, was the non GQP lady for State Treasurer. She didn’t jump through any of those delusional hoops just basically “I was good at my job.” And she won her race very handedly.",0
"So you were told ""you're gonna support the war in other ways so the trained troops can massacre Ukrainians"".","It's the trolley problem, except the two options are a) you go to jail for a few years or b) you participate in a war when people are being raped, tortured, and killed.",0
"Huh! I assume normal sick days are paid for by the company (that's how it is in Germany), so only in this specific case does the social security system jump in? That seems counterintuitive, but could stop employers from not hiring women for fear that they may have to pay them for three sick days every months.","If you think a handful of days a year is going to stop employers hiring women, you're going to be absolutely baffled when you find out about pregnancy leave.",1
Other replies are missing the point her and remarking about his lies - but like even the stuff this guy has been confirm to have been involved in is a pretty wild life.,"Like, as far as we're aware right now, he's lived in two countries, lived under several assumed names, married a woman while having a consensual/problematic relationship with another man, scammed people on GoFundMe, and then ran for congress and won.",0
"But rather than insult me, perhaps explain how and why you came to hold your views of the current situation.",Existing Israeli policy is a direct result of decades of failed peace negations and “bad faith” efforts from the Palestinian side.,0
"It won't even last till the end of this century. In the coming decades natural resources are gonna become even more needed than now and a bigger country will take over Afghanistan again. This time they won't have to worry about insurgents or the Taliban because they will simply be killing most of the population. The land under their feet is far more valuable than the actual people in the country who's main export is opium, that's the sad truth of the matter.",There is a difference between leaving because of military defeat and leaving because you're sick of being there after accomplishing your mission. America left because of the latter. The US was there solely to take down Al Qaeda which they accomplished. All leaders of the group have been killed and their regional and world influence is almost nonexistent compared to other terrorist groups now. There was no point in staying and continuing to try and nation build anymore.,0
You're right that Putin doesn't see Trump as anything more than a useful idiot and would love nothing more than for us to fall to civil war. But he did specifically want Trump to win... because he .,"You can think critically about the Dems without having to conclude they suck. I think the Democratic Party has flaws, including some serious ones, but overall it's a force for good in the US and largely made up of decent people trying to so the right thing.",0
That is what many of us don't realize -- putin will not be replaced by a peaceful democracy. We are also fighting the next few totalitarian dictators to come after him right now. All of Russia needs to learn to keep their pathetic shit within their own borders moving forward.,"A lot of western corporate money will go to a more stable Ukraine, once it is rebuilt and fortified its borders, rather than risk this craziness that Russia is intent on causing.",0
"WHY IS IT ALWAYS BOTH SIDES?? Why does congress need to do anything to favor the employers, when it’s the employers that are the reason this strike is happening?",Why can Congress force workers to work for lower wages and less sick days but can't pass legislation forcing companies to pay more and offer sick days?,1
I'd argue that a lot of effort internationally went into allowing a generation of women in Afghanistan a chance at education and rights.,"I agree that realistically, the best way to improve lives of people is to provide good education, especially to women, and especially emphasize gender equality from young age.",1
"Ultimately what Putin wants is for Ukraine to not exist, or to be so crippled as to have to rely on Russia as a puppet state once again. A free, successful, democratic, independent Ukraine is something he cannot abide.","You should understand that for Russia, Ukraine has no right to exist on it's own as a sovereign country. We all heard the speech from putin where he was ranting about seeing ukraine as a ""part of russia"" etc.",1
Turkey is one of the first countries to give women right to vote. There is nothing surprising about what Erdogan said but a lot of people here is surprised.,"Erdoğan: “Hey, don’t agree with that! You’re supposed to say, ‘Oh no, handsome, you aren’t a bad person at all’”.",1
"Strategically place prisons to diminish the voting power of youth/urban voters (they tend to go hand-in-hand since rural America is dying). Prisoners are counted for the purposes of district drawing and gerrymandering. Doesn't help much in state-wide races though, but does demoralize people when they see ""oh we made 55% of the vote... and got 30% of the seats"" like in Wisconsin.","If we can’t defeat them by making it hard for just minorities and the poor to vote, let’s just prevent everyone from voting until we are all dead.",1
"For example, Germany is in the process of replacing its Marders with a new IFV called the Puma. Hence why they are willing to donate the Marders.",I mean the replacement/upgrade program of the Caesar was announced already 5 days before the actual invasion started. I do think the whole program got hurried along at a greater pace since then to make these donations possible though.,0
"Okay, so in off the cuff statements it was said a couple of times, but unless you weren't paying any attention whatsoever to any other media and knew absolutely nothing about any other vaccines, then you would probably be smart enough to realize that there was still a chance you could get COVID even if you were vaccinated.","I think you misunderstood that quote though, he was speaking to one specific person, they got vaccinated and didn’t catch Covid, so technically he wasn’t lying or wrong. You must have just misunderstood why he was talking to.",1
"Man... I have no proof for this, it's only a feeling, but I tend to think Trump and his lackeys fucked with the 2020 election a LOT more than has ever been alleged. Usually when Trump accuses someone of doing something, it's something he himself is doing.","I think we should take a moment as a country to contemplate the fact that Trump now just openly and overtly admits to specific crimes and we all just shrug and say “oh well, it’s only Trump”.",1
"I think the right, if mtg truly does win… will go far right and make the party even smaller. Which means more crazy ass gerrymandering and voting suppression laws… because that’s the only way the gop gets elected as is.",If I know they follow politics and do research and still vote for the gop they can get fucked. I’ve cut off so many friends living in purple pa. The country I want for my kids in the future is not controlled by racist disgusting fake religious zealots.,0
"well I'm really sorry to hear about your circumstances. I wish there was more you could do to get out of the hole that you're in. I also live in one of those shit hole red states, unfortunately.","yeah Democrats in office really have a hard time understanding that most people have the memories of goldfish. You have to stay on message and repeat it, over and over again to really drill it home. and I get what you're saying about the courts, Joe Biden would have never made this move if it wasn't backed up by the law and economists and probably at least a dozen more advisors. I guarantee it probably is legally sound, but then we have the courts who are more interested in hurting him politically. something for Democrats to run on, you're right.",0
What does Sanders have to say about billionaires giving money to Democrats? What does Sanders have to say about Democrats who willingly take money from these billionaires?,"Are there are no large donations to Democrats? And why are you still so hung up on the size of individual donations? If I give $100 to Republican PACs while the Democrats raise $1 from each of 1 million people, you would probably still be going on rants about huge donations to the GOP. The size of any individual donation is 100% irrelevant.",1
"As he predicted the destruction of the Temple, Jesus described it as the end of the age. He absolutely predicted the end of Judaism in the Olivet Discourse, if you care to look. While the Romans did indeed see it as punishing a Jewish rebellion, their part was to fulfill a prophecy Jesus had made a generation earlier. The fulfillment of prophecy is a proof of divinity.","Given the picture of the Pharisees we find in the gospels, it is similar to what you describe. Their letter of the law approach allowed them to be confident in their own self righteousness I believe many Christians today are modern Pharisees ironically missing out on what Jesus had to give.",0
"I'm tired of this bullshit from progressives when centrist Democrat (not talking about Manchin) policies have gotten plenty done. The stimulus and enhanced unemployment during the pandemic helped me a ton, and it wouldn't have happened if Reps held the house. We also finally got an infrastructure bill through that our country sorely needs.","Here in Illinois we've seen legalized weed and a rising minimum wage, and our state isn't exactly flush in progressives.",0
"And in the end, Putin made it work, it is now pitting Americans against Americans, whether it's people that support the right (whom Trump released 5000 Taliban prisoners) or just people who don't see the equivalent value of said prisoners, which is a legitimate concern, to people who say it's only because she is famous and Whelan wasn't given that treatment.","She did a week prior to the invasion for the Russian Premier League. Hard to assume you'd be taken when not many others are currently in custody as political pawns. We'll see later in interviews if she actually possessed weed carts, but it easily could have been 100% fabricated. Again, if it wasn't, that's 100% on her and the Russian judicial system acted as harshly as they could, for the exact reason as stated above, to make her a political pawn.",0
"My wife's hospital operates in a similar way and she's a nurse, and it's ridiculous. She gets occurrences for sick days. I believe if you get 5 in a year, you may be terminated. What results is nurses come in sick, which is literally life threatening to patients. The nation needs nationalized protected sick day rights. not only for workers but just to make the country more functional, less sick.",So she works in the place where sick people go when they’re sick and then gets in trouble when she gets sick from being around all the sick people….,1
"Meanwhile, the Trump and the Republicans have never had a supermajority, and yet they were successfully able to roll back regulations. How is it that the democrats always need to ""elect more democrats"" even after they win, but Republicans with the same or smaller sized majority always have enough?","If the public wants more regulations here, they can get over themselves and elect more democrats. Until they do that, they will not get more regulations on this stuff.",1
"We shall have peace... We shall have peace, when Putin answers for the burning of the Donbas, and the children that lie dead there We shall have peace, when the lives of the soldiers whose bodies were hewn even as they died in the trenches of Bakhmut are avenged When Putin hangs from a gibbit for the sport of his own crows! Then we shall have peace.","There shall be peace... When the Russian army lies dead We shall have peace when Hague tries war criminals for the women and children of Kherson, and their sons that lie dead there When Putin hangs from a gibbet for the sport of his own crows, we shall have peace.",1
A plug-in hybrid like that would likely have a 16 to 20kWh battery - I say 'likely' because I haven't done any reading on that since just before covid hit.,"Are there any models of hybrid cars where the gas engine can be used to directly charge the batteries, without actually driving the car? ( Idling at home, say. ).",1
"What really poses a problem is the scale ie. workers that China possesses in it’s manufacturing base and the systems and supply chains that are build around it, which no other country can compete with.",That is without taking into account the time and cost of moving factories away from China (which is easily a multi year process) and the fact that find still produces many of the raw materials needs in the factories to make products.,1
"No. I disagree. The net effect of all of that noise would be to diminish the public’s confidence in elections generally. “If everyone is cheating, what does it matter, why bother voting? Who cares?” Etc.","Does it matter if the DNC cares? It is not up to them to determine if election fraud occurred. It is up to the courts, which so far has not seen any evidence of massive voter fraud like those on the right keep screaming about. Many of these judges in these courts where installed by the Trump administration, and even they do not believe the baseless claims of voter fraud, because there is just no evidence of it.",1
"Training the tankers is I think overstated (in effort related to everything else), actual combat is a small percentage of what keeps a war going well. It is the monumental amount of logistics going on in the backend, and tanks are right up there in most demanding equipment.","So they would need a duplicate, even larger, support train of personnel, space, moving equipment, specialized parts, dedicated to only abrams tanks and incompatible with what they already have. That is a lot for any country to handle, their mechanics can't just go oh yea, bring it into the shop I'll fix it, they need a whole different shop, different tools, different knowledge base, different supplier, and be equally near the front(as an IT guy I have tons of spare misc parts of windows PC's, but put an Apple in front of me and GL, I generally have an idea of what everything is but I have no spares, don't know most likely failure parts, nor do I have any proprietary tools to do anything with it).",0
"No, contrary to popular claims, it's easy to prove many negatives. They just need to be specific and limited. What you can't disprove is a general negative (""there are no black swans"" vs ""there are no black swans in my back yard right now"").","But if your back yard is, you know, a back fucking yard, it is not hard to verify the absence of fucking swans.",0
"The Princeton Gerrymandering Project, which uses various metrics to grade the fairness of districts, gave Florida an F.","For anyone wondering about the “red wave” that only seemed to happen in Florida… DeSantis cheated HARD by extreme racial gerrymandering, and disenfranchising voters who completed their sentences, but might have owed money to the state. Also, mail-in ballots that were postmarked by Election Day, but received after 7pm, were NOT COUNTED and tossed out.",0
Just a friendly reminder to all the lowlifes defending Trump that he named his attempt to steal the election after __Mein Kampf__.,"""All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true within itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.",0
"Belarus has an army that hasn't fought anyone or really upgraded anything since the cold war, if even then. They have like 50k troops who've never seen a day in combat and a bunch of old Soviet shit that probably barely works because they've given all the good stuff to Russia.","It might not be good, they could be simply moving them so the Russians can invade and the Belarus troops will not be targeted by the Ukrainians when it happens.",1
"Their racism is more...well, it trends more towards sniffs of disapproval, privately mocking african-americans and making digs about the usual topics. But they're polite enough, generally won't do anything too radical, and are capable of being made to see reason.","In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.",1
Yeah. I think the Atlantic might have gotten the modern House Freedom Caucus confused with the founding House Freedom Caucus and members like Justin Amash who have in fact argued precisely this point. The restoration of democracy in the House by reducing the Speaker to their proper role as a president of the body rather than a dictator.,"In an actual democracy, votes would be had for bills that did not have the votes pre-screened. A decentralized house wouldn't turn to dysfunction. It would certainly be less efficient, but that reduced efficiency is a necessary by-product of democracy.",0
"That said, Trump fckd a lot of shit up to the nth degree, from the postal service to national security, had twice as much time to do his worst, and fixing shit takes longer than destroying it. Biden can't undo all Trump's sabotage in half the time.","Specifically, company leadership should be able to more easily be held personally liable, both civilly and criminally, for their profit- maximizing decisions that result in disasters like this.",0
"But, the political reality is that the 12 largest states, with a majority of the U.S. population and electoral votes, rarely agree on any political candidate. In 2016, among the 12 largest states: 7 voted Republican (Texas, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia) and 5 voted Democratic (California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Virginia). The big states are just about as closely divided as the rest of the country. For example, among the four largest states, the two largest Republican states (Texas and Florida) generated a total margin of 2.1 million votes for Bush, while the two largest Democratic states generated a total margin of 2.1 million votes for Kerry.","With the current state-by-state winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), it could only take winning a bare plurality of popular votes in only the 12 most populous states, containing 60% of the population of the United States, for a candidate to win the Presidency with less than 22% of the nation's votes!",0
"Exactly. All I see is that China has just been ""handed"" an ultimatum that ensures no peace unless Russia controls Ukraine. They now have justification for escalation and can say ""well, we would have preferred Plan A but you guys all saw how that worked out, so we had to change course"".","Russia is giving China, and the world, the ultimatum of “Give me Ukraine or I won’t stop”, but I don’t think we can assume this whole proposal by China was done in good faith.",0
Traditional medicine has been used and is still being used across the world in regions where modern medicine is not as accessible. To say it’s completely quack is just discounting billions of people as fools. What makes you think traditional medicine do not work at all?,Also they've stoked the traditional medicine fire too much to now go back and say that they actually need real medicine.,1
"Bear in mind also that we need to replace all the arms, ordnance, and munitions we've provided to Ukraine from our own supply this year.","Oh fuck, I love that, I'm stealing that. ""I don't support the military industrial complex, I'm just a militant Keynesian: It is the role of the federal government to stimulate private markets by any means necessary."".",0
"Except for the UN, government officials, the world media, tens of millions of voting age or near voting age young people, and the fossil fuel companies who paid PR firms to get you to this opinion.","I said “Except for the UN, government officials, the world media, tens of millions of voting age or near voting age young people, and the fossil fuel companies who paid PR firms to get you to this opinion.”.",0
"Interesting idea. If trump sues her for the sanctions, that would trigger the malpractice insurance coverage. It wouldn't cover her liability to the court for the sanctions because, like car insurance, it's there in case you get sued.","More likely, since he and his attorney are liable jointly and severally, he'll just ignore it and leave the attorney to pay it and chase him for his portion. Then hire other lawyers to fight that suit, who if they are paid at all will be paid out of your aforementioned sucker fund.",1
But to truly understand why Ukraine is still in need despite the out poring of support it is a fundamental problem of armed conflict in residential areas. It costs a lot to wage an invasion. Russia has oil money to pay for that. This was the purpose of the tariffs and the accounts being frozen. Unfortunately both China and India continue to need Russian oil and as such are funding the invasion. The complexity is that it costs even more to defend yourself. And the easiest way for an invading enemy to hurt another state is to disrupt its trade. Thus making it both need to spend money to defend itself and not having the tax base to support that spending.,Most often when a state gives aid the amount is spent on the giving states industry and the goods are then given to the recipient of the aid. This is done for a myriad of reasons. Most foremost the fact that often the state receiving aid is in crisis and may not have the resources or the capacity to produce the things they need.,0
AK pattern rifles yes. AK 47s although haven't been produced for awhile. Original milled rifles from the 50s and 60s can be quite rare depending on where you are in the world.,More likely the AK-12 or AK-74 pattern rifles (which are in 5.45×39 instead of 7.62×39 from the AK-47/AKM).,1
"Lets not forget that Congress doing __absolutely nothing__ would be an acceptable outcome here, since workers could use their leverage by striking and probably force the corporations to give in. This is one of the few cases where Biden and Dems (who control the House and the Senate) could just sit back and relax, doing nothing - if they cared for the workers that is. They passed one bill with sick days to look better to the casual observer, but they knew that the bill will not pass the Senate. And the bill without sick days got more Democratic votes than Republican votes. If the passing of the bills was reversed - if the Senate decided to pass both bills first and the House voted for both bills afterwards, the bill with sick days would not pass. Or, more likely, Pelosi would simply not put it up for a vote.","And ""status quo for as long as Dems win"" is already things getting worse, because (for example) not increasing the minimum wage is stagnation, since inflation is constantly eating into it.",0
"China, which gets $Billions in ultra low interest loans by running a ""Developing Nation"" scam, turns around and loans the money to struggling nations, with nasty Gotcha terms hidden in the fine print.","Not to mention, there is no stopping another country from doing what China is doing, loan them money in hopes of influence ignoring the high risk of default.",1
"Attended a wedding this summer with a couple who left Russia to attend the wedding and were never returning. Her parents were high up in the military, super pro-Putin and she was like ""yeah, so... Fuck em, basically."".",Yes. Because their media is allowed to tell both sides of the story and their government has an opposition party who is able to challenge Putin without fear of being thrown out a window.,1
Which is why states' rights are so important! Jfc. It's like Constitutionalists are screaming into the wind around here.,The power of the Federal government has grown substantially because of people making this circular logic you've employed here.,0
"yep a lot of footage that gets used in documentaries is from nazi propaganda, which still propagates some insane myths, theres also the difference of allocation of resources because of corruption as an anectode:","when my ss grandpa kept gloating about how good german technology was and they should have won, my wehrmacht grandpa who served in the east yelled at him that the shiny toys werent in the east and they had 1 anti tank gun towed by themselves with 3 shots and were told to hold off an armor division.",0
"Some Orthodox countries have moved to the new dating system like Greece. I'm sure many Ukrainians personally celebrate on the 7th, all of who've I've asked have, but that's not many.","Ignore the real integration of Pre-Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine in 988 AD with the Kyivan Rus lead by Volodymyr I establishing these ties with the Patriarchate of Constantinople and building the first church in Kyiv (who later followed the later during the schism and became part of the eastern church). Ignore the fact that the basis for Orthodoxy in Russia (and infact the Russian Orthodox Church) actually originated in Ukraine hundreds of years before Russian Imperialism, and you can arrive at your answer if you take a few more leaps in logic.",0
"Biden as a candidate lost before he even ran, The only reason hes in the Whitehouse is because people were sick and tired of Trump. Biden is not being reelected to a second term, and history is not going to look back on his presidency.","Biden has doubled down on his commitment to ban guns which lost Democrats the House and stacked state legislatures with Republicans. Hes double down on his student loan forgiveness plan which benefits primarily the children of wealthy families, Biden being the one who helped create the problem in the first place by voting against student loan bankruptcy protection in 2005...and hes right now taking action against rail workers who only want a weeks worth of sick days.",0
"Theres also a perception that it's only enjoyed by a certain demographic, which is not true here in Canada! For example I'm seeing more and more chinese people get into it, join ranges, being directors. At least 2 of the largest gun stores in the GTA are Chinese owned.","Looking at some of the replies to our comments, its unfortunate that our politics is becoming increasingly tribal and polarized on both sides.",0
Democracy at it's core is populism. Majority rules based on what the majority finds popular. Self governance at it's core is populism. Governing yourself is more popular to you than having someone govern you.,"No, it's standard corporate propaganda. Don't look right, don't look left, just stay exactly where you are and the problems will just magically go away.",0
"Unless both the entire US Air Force and Navy got wiped out, you still wouldn't be using a stinger as a US draftee. In modern US doctrine, it's not the job of the infantry to establish air dominance.","This is not how the US MILITARY fights wars. However arm someone not US military to fight the war instead of sending our military is very much a part of how the US fights wars. such such we need the equipment not only are military needs, but also the equipment we don't need but someone else ew are arming needs.",1
I do wonder what kind of propaganda they are getting in Russia to hate fellow human beings this badly.,"This sounds terrible, but we should probably keep in mind the likelihood this is Ukrainian propaganda. There is propaganda on both sides, and Ukraine happens to be the underdog so we are more likely to believe them.",1
"It really is. Back when North Carolina tried to pass their bathroom ban, there was a much bigger coordinated outcry especially from corporations. But the attack on trans rights is so constant and widespread now that we're seeing more restrictive bans pass every few weeks now with no major resistance from business groups. And unfortunately you only need to succeed once to strip away someone's rights while you need at 100% success rate just to maintain the status quo.","Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Utah, & South Dakota all banned gender affirming care for minors through the legislature. Florida did it through the medical board. Texas de facto did it by classifying affirming a trans child as child abuse and sending CPS after parents. Missouri, Oklahoma, and Montana are all likely to pass their own bans soon as well.",0
"Sounds good, I hope water quality continues to be routinely tested and that the Government will impose penalties high enough to deter farmers and factories from letting their chemical waste run into waters.","We also have federally and state mandated water quality monitoring programs at known polluted sites. If you look at all the EPA National Priorities List (Superfund) locations, a part of the legal process involves studying the sites to establish baseline water quality, and then periodically testing during and after remedial actions are taken to make sure those actions actually keep the water clean. We usually do similar monitoring/testing for sediment, soils, vegetation, and animal tissue.",1
"A British official said after discussions between the ministries “it was agreed there were higher priority military capabilities.” Among many other channels of support, the UK has been flying thousands of Ukrainian troops to Britain for training before they head back to the frontlines.","“The recent outage started on October 24 and was described by one person briefed on the situation as a “huge problem” for Ukraine’s military. The terminals had been disconnected, this person said, due to a lack of funding.",0
"We have an ""intrinsic"" right to self-preservation, life and liberty, but anthrax syringes, nukes and fertilizer bombs arent very good at enforcing those rights, while firearms are. Its about the effectiveness of the tool at enforcing our rights as humans.","I wish we lived in that inclusive, civilized society, but we dont. And we never will. And it wouldnt matter, because its not just about society. Its also about having authority and agency as citizens as a collective in making sure the entity which we give so much power follows the will of the people and acts in our best interests.",0
Wow that could actually work. A legal precedent back by quite a lot of countries. Is more diplomatic than just taking money of other countries jaja.,( For what I have seen it could send a mensaje of mistrust in some banking institución. Specially for china. But aside from that apparently it doesn't have any other negative aspect ).,0
"Right. There's two different types of Wagner soldiers, the convicts who are used as cannon fodder, and the real Wagner mercenaries, who are trained veterans.","Actually I think some units of the regular army is worse, as they have a tradition of hazing and physical/mental abuse where as Wagner appears to be cruel but at least somewhat disciplined.",1
"North Carolina is holding on by a thread. We only just managed to escape a state supermajority, so our next election will be super important to keep fighting back the supermajority.",But really we need federal help to overturn the gerrymandering because the state is not as conservative as the legislature makes it seem.,0
"What's more common is for people to take a week off at a time, maybe 2 weeks if they are going abroad. And then the rest of the time is just days here and there when they need it, plus public holidays.","""These studies show that hunter-gatherers need only work about fifteen to twenty hours a week in order to survive and may devote the rest of their time to leisure. Lee did not include food preparation time in his study, arguing that ""work"" should be defined as the time spent gathering enough food for sustenance."".",1
"Some people will still be angry at those officials. But at the end of the day, most of the anger will be directed at the country itself or at the concept of FIFA in stead of the individual officials. And at the end of the day, they still have the money in their pockets.","It's pretty genius of those officials, from a purely evil point if view. The country gets a shitload of bad reputation. But the people who voted to have it take place in Qatar can just say ""well, we didn't expect qatar to behave this way."".",0
"Since it's only used by Ryanair, you could gather how many Germans travel to the Balearic islands or to another airport which misleadingly claims to be near a European city.",The Airport is in Rhineland-Palatinate which is governed by an SPD led coalition but the CDU led coalition of Hesse sold their shares of this embarrassing airport.,0
"If they had left the bill as one, then there would be immediate and tangible repercussions for Republican fuckery. They could actually point to the railroad strike and say ""See? This is what happens when Republicans get their way"" and the public would be more incentivized to put pressure on Republicans because they are being affected. I am blaming Democrats for a very obvious tactical error, and for claiming to be working in the interest of the workers when they clearly are not.","What would have happened if democrats had decided to take the side of the workers? Knowing that they couldn't rely on the government to break the strike for them, the railway companies would've acquiesced to the union's demands.",1
"You criticise Western nations for having engaged in imperial wars in the past, but refuse to hold Russia accountable for its engaging in an imperial war today.","Your hypocrisy is worse than that which you implicitly allege of citizens in the West: we recognise that our past imperial wars were, and Russia's current imperial war is, wrong.",0
"The Palestinians have never negotiated with a peaceful 2 state solution in mind, they see a 2 state solution as a pathway to annihilating Israel.",I supported a 2 state solution for many years but now that I know Palestinians want to just use that to completely annihilate millions of Jews I would have to be insane to support it.,0
"Yeah, that’s kind of what I was thinking. Vampires wouldn’t be harmed by zombies, they just wouldn’t wouldn’t have any nutritional benefits for them.","I’d assume the werewolves could eat off the zombies but not the vampires as you stated…. Or rather, while the vampires could eat the zombies since they’re immune to diseases they wouldn’t get any benefit from doing so and the werewolves would be fine with cadaver meat (assuming they were in wolf form).",1
"Regardless of whether the new NK is aligned with China or the West, all I care about is the removal of nuclear arms and the current regime hellbent on producing them.","Honestly, I would be ok if their sad excuse for a nuclear program was the strongest one in the world. But the rest of the world would have to seriously disarm to even get close.",1
I mean ya by the same angle airborne HIV COULD exist. Super deadly diseases tend to wipe themselves out. Either they are so lethal they kill the host before it spreads or it wipes out the host species if it can also spread super well.,The most deadly virus kills its host before it has a chance to optimally spread. Or makes them feel like crap so they stay home. The virus with the best rates of spreading spreads the best. Over time viruses that are not too harsh on hosts and spread easily like colds etc spread well and stay in the population.,0
"Posted this before but here are a few links that give some history of whom is better for the economy, and yes it is democrats.","Dems have proven to be better for the economy, but somehow Republicans have convinced the majority of Americans that they are better at managing the economy.",1
This strikes me as highly biased whataboutism that ignores the reality that Zionists made deals with the Nazis and literally tried to become allies with them in Palestine (based on their authoritarian ideals being similar no less). Seems like he's got a one-sided agenda.,"He should do it ex cathedra, if he gave a shit. Catholic doctrine says that he's infallible when doing so, and literally channeling truth through God.",0
"Ah yes, the age old tactic of defending your imaginary ""rights"" (Canada has none, technically) to firearms by using those same firearms to shoot people.","""They don't think weapons should be readily available to everyone because there's some crazy, potentially violent people just waiting for an excuse to kill?? Well we'll show them"".",1
"Meanwhile the Russians are still using 60’s/70’s cold war era tanks, as well as using them incorrectly with no infantry or air support.","The German tanks probably have better optics too and will likely wreck the Russian tanks too, it’s a shame it took so long to send them.",1
"I bought a Kia EV because I think Tesla makes crappy cars and I want my EV to be a car first and foremost, not a tech device. I think the ""minimalism"" in Teslas is in fact cheapness, and that they charge a premium for vehicles that should be viewed as low-end. But all of this said, I don't think it is really fair to judge Teslas on price until production catches up with demand.","I don't think EVs make sense for pickup trucks right now, even though Tesla had a demo of their semi.",1
[] The guy who came up with the plan and paid for it is very likely pro-Russian and has worked for RT but that does not necessarily mean he actually is on any Russian payroll or something.,"He isn't. The guy possibly on Russian payroll is Frick who proposed the idea to Paludan. There is still no reaosn to think Paludan is on Russian payroll, he is a useful idiot. If you had read the (admittedly shitty) article you would have known.",0
"It won't put much into the economy, most people who will actually be helped by this live paycheck to paycheck. The money that they would have been paying on the loans was instead going to other things they needed. So, when this goes through, it's not going to add money to the economy. Or not as much as so many people think. Because what's going to happen is that some will just not have to pay anything to their loans (that's not new money into the economy for most of them, because they have been spending what they would have been paying on their loans), while a lot of people will just be paying a lower amount on their loans. The people at the higher end of the scale are going to be the ones who start putting money into the economy, and that's likely to be a much smaller amount than will be leaving the economy because people are paying on their student loans again.","you know it does not take a whole study to figure out just in general helping clear student loans can help the poorer borrowers, not even including inflation and gas prices.",1
"If I’m going to claim Trump deserves to be disqualified, and republicans are complicit in his crimes, then I can’t well turn around and say I hope he wins the primary because it’s politically convenient.","Republicans still want Trump, the only issue they have with him is they now think he's unelectable, but if they thought he could win they'd be lining up behind him again. The only reason they like DeSantis is because to them he represents Trumpism without Trump's guaranteed unelectability.",1
"Also, providing private schools, tax payer funds is the most anti libertarian stance I have ever heard.","This is only scratching the surface of his push for school choice. It's not even touching the work the DoE actually does, and it's important to provide higher education to lower income students.",0
"Thanks! I definitely forgot about the buffer part. In the past I think both sides were trying to avoid influencing the buffer countries too much? There was a perception from Russia, real or not, that NATO was slowly advancing further east towards Russia.","Well, now that Russia has started conquering all the buffer nations - and has been for many years - I think there's a perception in the buffer nations that they need to get into NATO or get eaten. And it's not an unjustified perception, either.",1
"""Such loans are largely reported on an honor system because the U.S. Office of Government Ethics has neither the resources nor the power to delve into a president's assets."".","This so much. It’s people passing the buck and responsibility for homophobia back onto queer people. Even if this were true (it, like you said patently isn’t) the blame would still lie with heterodominant culture making people closeted.",1
"But not directly supporting ukraine with weapons, russia agreed not to provide isreal enemies with the latest weaponry.",The threat Russia imposes on Israel via Syria is the reason Israel is not supplying weapons to Ukraine.,1
"If the Houthi’s win, Iran will cream their pants and put the entire region, not localized to Yemen, at much higher instability. Would you rather have Journalist-murdering Saudis or public executions for protestors Iran? Additionally, the Houthi’s are just as fucking guilty as the Saudis for starving the country. They are the entire reason Yemen is in a civil war in the first place.",That is not at all why KSA got involved in the civil war in Yemen. The war starts with the Iranian backed Houthi Militia withdrawing from the coalition government and attacking the military. KSA had treaties with the legitimate government and was drawn into the war. At this point the Houthi Militia have attacked KSA multiple times.,1
And how many times has a dress code violation led to an offender's death in the West? Just because Western society isn't perfect doesn't mean it can't call out outrageous offenses elsewhere? This is just one big whataboutism.,"This comment is almost gibberish, holy shit. The guy who killed George Floyd is serving 22 years in prison, you have literally no idea what you are talking about.",1
These are all things you should be telling Bernie Sanders when you ask him why he never called himself a moderate instead of asking everyone else why they never called him a moderate.,"Has Bernie ever referred to himself as a moderate socialist or a moderate of any kind? Why would anyone portray Bernie as more moderate than he portrays himself? You're right that Bernie's identity as a socialist hurt him severely, but that came from Bernie and he was stubbornly determined to fix the ""socialist"" label in the middle of a presidential campaign instead of just picking a different word.",0
"The average Dutch voter has no idea what they're voting for. ""Oh this Rutte guy looks friendly and smiles all the time, surely he'd make a good PM."" or ""I've always voted VVD, I'll just do the same this year."".","Besides. Lots of things that western companies make for CIS countries are not actually imported but made locally. More often than not, in Russia. And if the company decides to pull out, they can't take their production lines from Russia. They'd have to sell it to a Russian company that would just keep making the same product under the different brand.",1
"I'm not ideologically opposed to genetic splicing. Yet with the current implementation and legal framework, patentable GMOs are basically setting up major staple crops for a similar collapse.","Whether the patents are BS or not, the law is the law, and knowingly & massively violating seed restrictions over tens or hundreds of thousands of hectacres of farmland is going to get you in trouble. Just like if a company reproduces a patented drug, they're going to be sued.",1
"You can counteract this somewhat with decentralized ventilation systems, but moisture in a renovated old building is always difficult.","i actually looked into getting one but as it turns out, they are not suitable for old, badly insulated buildings with little radiator surface.(which is the vast majority of German buildings).",1
"For sure, and that's even with efforts from our legislature last election redrawing the districts to heavily favor Republicans.","He's a republican and a lot of people in the state only vote for republicans. Western Kansas gave him this win. Also, it didn't help that hardly anyone knew anything about Chris Mann. A large chunk of his votes were ""Fuck Kobach"" votes.",1
"YES, with Ranked Choice Voting people will be able to vote for whoever and everyone (ranked) they please without risking the least-liked-by-everyone candidate winning. With RCV, election outcomes would actually represent what everyone most agrees with - no more extremism or sworn party loyalty because with RCV we can constructively vote for whoever the heck we want. Our votes get the most mileage with RCV. All of this would immeasurably better our democracy.","Nike cofounder Phil Knight deliberately sought (and was successful) in splitting the Democrat vote in Oregon, by initially backing and heavily funding Independent Betsy Johnson before suddenly having a “change of heart” and switching teams backing and heavily funding Republican Christine Drazen. It was his plan all along to have the most split Democratic Party, paving the way for the impossible happening in Oregon - a Republican becoming Governor. Phil Knight actually got super close. Regardless of whether the candidate is Democrat or Republican - never should the least liked candidate be winning (what would’ve happened in Republican Christine Drazen won). Oregon and American needs Ranked Choice Voting ASAP.",0
"Trump's base liked to imagine themselves as Trump. Trump is a big guy, mean, intimidating, and has charisma, and presence.","The thing is, Trump is very unlikable to a lot of us, but he's got a certain charisma. A shitty charisma sure, but still the sort of thing that can stand out and be entertaining and give him a (fake) man of the people aesthetic. I've even seen some liberals and progressives basically say something to the extent that it would be nice to have an asshole like Trump if he stood up for good things rather than bad things.",1
At this point they must be aware that whatever they accuse Ukraine of will be assumed as their plan. Maybe they are aware and this is yet another backhanded way of threatening nuclear escalation?,Yeah seems very odd that they would let it be known that they were loading nuclear missiles on warships unless it was just another tactic which is very likely with that dirty bastard.,1
"Mobilizing doesn't require the forced conscription and imprisonment of those who don't want to fight. Ukrainians have the right to defend themselves as all people do, they don't have the right to force others to defend them though.","Yeah, totally support Ukraine's need to defend themselves but conscription is fucked up. I never got why militaries wanted a bunch of people who didn't believe in the cause and weren't willing to die anyways.",0
How does Putin plan to create this preemptive strike network? I highly doubt the countries currently sympathetic to him (or at least taking the economic opportunities to come out of this war) would be willing to install Russian military hardware on their territory.,Unfortunately I think there are quite a number of countries that would be interested in allowing Russian military installations on their territory if it means they can thumb their nose at the US.,1
"While most of Putins ambitions are more resembling the old Empire, Russia is also still using a lot of Soviet symbolism and celebrating its traditions. They want to appeal to the memories of the ""good old glorious times"" older Russians are still remembering with nostalgia.",What Putin and his buddies are dreaming of seems to be a mix of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.,0
These nazis need to be found and held accountable. I'm so fucking sick of those fucking assholes terrorizing innocent people.,"White supremacists have a lot in common with Islamic fundamentalists. In the Middle East they call it ""day of rage"" but it's the same principle, and Jews are usually the targets of their hate.",0
Ukraine wants to hurt Russian occupiers and make this costly for Russia. (This gives them a target rich environment where they can pick any Russian target in their land as a legitimate target.,"That means that Ukraine has so may opportunities to target Russia, and most targets are clearly military. With the current level of international support for Ukraine this looks like the political side will be a win for Ukraine because Russia is spending resources that are forever lost to gain land that they will likely lose in the final cease fire.",0
"""While I appreciate the creative chord progression, I would never play your words of violence against women and police officers, and your glorification of the thug life and drugs."".","So true. Conservatives are far too consumed enjoying the supposed irony of ""whiny liberals who used to care about things and listen to Rage Against the Machine in the 90s"" are now the ones wearing masks and getting vaccinated like over 99% of licensed physicians in the US, effectively transforming themselves into The Man whom they used to hate, according to the science-illiterate moron community.",1
To quote the Finnish government: NATO membership is not so important that Finland needs to join before Sweden.,"NATO approval needs unanimous consent, two countries are dicking around, and Finland has no major political power over them.",1
"And so the GOP is poised to repeat the mistakes of 2016: have a super crowded field of candidates, that split 70% of the primary votes while Trump grabs the hardline 30% who will always vote for him, no matter what.","I think it's very much up in the air at this point, and Trump's influence as a third party candidate seems to be way over-estimated, especially after the 2022 midterm results.",1
"Hey, I'm still going to vote. I'm going to do what I can to get everyone I know to vote. But that's mostly because I want to know that I did what I could and want a clear conscience, not because I have a lot of faith in people not falling for the propaganda. And they clearly are falling for the propaganda, because the fact that Republicans can be as blatantly fucked up as they are and still break the numbers they do should terrify everyone.",A significant number of Republicans have been up to some extremely unethical shit. And the only way to prevent these chickens from coming home to roost is by decimating the professional non-partisan staff of the House Ethics Committee (the Office of Congressional Ethics).,1
"That's basically Israel, extremely simplified, and most likely a wrong analogy, but you get the jist.","1- A lot of ""Middle Easterners' have the mindset of Jews = Israelis (my point here is they don't know the difference.).",1
He would be making a bet that NATO’s response would’ve limited out of fear that he’s crazy enough to launch nukes at NATO countries.,Yeah Russia’s economy would be fucked for a generation but he might hold onto power until his death.,0
Ukraine has already attacked targets in Russia. This needs to continue until Russia acknowledges that their invasion was wrong and takes the appropriate consequences.,"First, the west unequivocally needs Russia to be defeated because allowing it to gain any sort of victory at this point threatens worldwide global security in many ways.",1
"“Truthfully, I don’t trust the Democrats on anything they say. I see it on the TV and I turn it off,” said the woman, who declined to give her name for privacy reasons.","Basically, at this point, we have to realize that a certain GOP voter doesn’t want truth. It wants to be lied to _in a certain way_. The lady there knows full well there’s a possibility of lies, but her position is not against lying as such, but against a _type_ of (what she considers to be) lying. Even if these people are confronted with irrevocable evidence that they have to been lied to, what matters to them is that the other fantasy, that of the depraved Democrat, maintains its seductive power. The GOO has thus become not unlike the political parties in Russia who peddle nothing but fantasies, lies.",0
We had a gig where the guys were concerned about the high amount of benzene in the ground 1.2 at the absolutle source.,I am on vacation in Japan right now. Its shocking how cleaner the ground here is. Absolutely stunning. And smokers have to go to smoking only areas. And the ones who do smoke usually have a butt pouch with them.,0
"You can use sub labels all you want, and you can keep your analysis of all that is wrong with the ACA going, but the simple fact is that expanding public welfare is a progressive position. Money goes direct from the US Treasury to people so they can buy health insurance. It just just skips going into bank account of the individual and goes to their directly to their selected health isurance provider.","I never said it was perfect. I said it was progressive, but obviously not progressive enough for many thus why the discussion is not whether she is progressive and is instead of how progressive she is.",0
There’s really two separate questions at play in your comment: would desantis be worse than trump if elected?,And: would desantis be worse than trump as the republican nominee (as far as performance in the election goes)?,0
"In Switzerland, we have always used snow sport transportation in summer as well (as far as feasible, e.g. T-bars of course won't work), we love hiking in the Alps (hiking in general is considered our national sport) and with the advent of eMTBs mountainbiking has increased in popularity in recent years as well.","Should have updated it to carry up mountain bikes and create trails, always fun going down hill, I lived on a ski resort in the summer (crazy cheap rent) and there was no snow, we used to bring bikes to the top and ride down, was fun as fuck.",1
"This is a story about a Republicans corruption. Again, what do Dems have to do with anything? I’m not saying Dems can’t be a corrupt, but this isn’t a story about that - save those comments for THAT article because they’re completely unrelated to this one….",Because this is a story about corruption and that isn't an exclusively Republican problem. All corruption should be stomped out. Fucking assholes selling out the public good for a pitance.,1
"They can also harm us in other ways too, if they did blow up nordstream they could easily do the same to Norways pipeline and screw over Europe. They also have bio and chem weapons like Anthrax, Smallpox and Novichok (they didnt mind using this on NATO soil).","I'm so sick of people downplaying their nukes, just 10% of them functioning can kill millions of people.",0
"Russia reaps the years of lies by creating a society built on mistrust of themselves, and it's biting them in the ass.","They, probably, will say, that it's Ukraine's work, but in reality, Russia just sucks and falls apart.",1
"Not entirely sure how to respond to the majority of this, to be honest, but the point is that the vast majority of guns involved in crimes in Canada are not being used by Canadians who obtained them legally, and neither are they even weapons stolen from Canadian owners.","Now, given that we live next door to one of the biggest gun owning countries in the world, and given that absolute majority of guns used in crimes in Canada come from the US and are used by criminals who illegally possess them, why on earth would you think that legal gun owners in canada, the most heavily vetted and regulated people known to man, are the problem?",1
"If Pfizer or any other pharma company wants to be fully prepared for future variants of covid, then they would do this by looking at potential mutation routes the virus might take, and then try and work out potential vaccine solutions.",So a Pfizer employee said they were looking at trying to mutate covid in a lab setting to preemptively create vaccines for potential variants.,1
"Pentagon is considering Boeing proposal to supply Ukraine with Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs, designed for launch from ground artillery systems.","⚡️Ukraine can get cheap high-precision projectiles of small diameter, installed on existing missiles.",1
Democrats won't vote for McCarthy because he is unacceptable to them and he'd betray the ones that voted for him in an instant.,"And even if the freedom caucus votes with the Democrats to vacate the chair, there's no chance that whoever is put forward to replace McCarthy would be agreeable between those two groups.",1
"""Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, former executive vice-president of NSERC and now senior fellow at the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa, noted that the new security guidelines only cover federal grants and not individual academic research with China’s military. China offers a lot of money to Canadian researchers and universities to work with them, she said.","Yes, the Chinese pay for Canadian weapon research in bad, Canadian can get the money and the weapon. Since the Chinese only use the weapon on their own citizens.",1
"What you find in this system is that voting and presidential election power is largely burdened down onto the state level, not the federal level. By the time it gets to federal level, it's basically ceremony at that point, not a place you change the results.","The craziest part is their ""insurrection"" quite literally requires all 50 states to be independently attacked, controlled, and manipulated PLUS federal. That's 51 ""insurrections"" just to actually influence votes. And these had to be initiated and spread out over time without suspicion or getting caught.",0
"Yes there are autopilots nowadays that can land the aircraft automatically and such, but those are very fancy and rare outside of large airliners.","However, aircraft autopilots work in 3 dimensions with 6 degrees of freedom and control the aircraft through multiple modes of motion that land-based vehicles never experience, like Dutch roll, phugoid, and turbulence. They are also equipped with automatic terrain avoidance systems to steer the aircraft up and away from ground obstacles.",1
Yep. Except union memberships have been plummeting around the world for years. Governments and their super rich benefactors have done a bang-up job scaring people of unions. The media portrays them as this greedy nuisance only concerned with disrupting daily life for the rest of us hard-working folk by going on strikes all the time. Most kids coming out of school today are anti-union because they genuinely believe they can negotiate better salaries and benefits for themselves than they could collectively. And the boomers believe that being a member of a union is akin to being a member of the communist party.,"Edit: This is honestly like saying the US is in a union and therefore socialist. It's nonsensical. The EU is the largest free-trade bloc in the world, with freely moving capital, labour, services, and goods; anathema to most state-based economic controls. Its members are more likely to use insurance models rather than single-payer healthcare like the UK, and a couple actually have a lower tax:GDP ratio than the US.",1
"Education is highly, and unavoidably, bound up in the educator's values and ideology in many ways. There is no such thing as a non-political and objective education anywhere in the world.","Using your example, the fact that people think history, of any kind at all, is worth teaching is the result of a value judgement. It's a result of the influence most educators' cultures had on them.",0
2) They can blame Biden as the economy tanks and doesn't have enough time to recover before the 2024 election season.,They don't care about the suffering that it will cause to the most vulnerable in the US. They are fulfilling the Reaganite wetdream.,0
"First, he needs to become Speaker. He's trying to do whatever it takes to make that happen, even if that means making conflicting promises. That doesn't seem to be going too well for him, though.","He won’t. He’s threatening it now, but he KNOWS he will lose if he tries and his ego couldn’t take another loss. He’s hoping by threatening to run as a third party donors will flock to him and he’ll get the attention he needs to actually win the primary. Unless he actually gets on the trail though, he’s never gonna win. He announced a month and a half… who is his campaign manager? Despite announcing his candidacy, he’s not running as a Republican. He won’t run as a third party.",1
The reality is the pendulum swings nearly every election cycle and if there were no interests the GOP didn’t represent they wouldn’t dominate congress and senate as often as they do.,"Complain all you want about differences in political ideologies and agendas but to claim an entire political establishment that represents at least half of the population wants journalists dead is not only inaccurate, it’s inflammatory.",0
"The reason I believe the elections are so often very close is because the youth on both sides would largely prefer not to bother, and can only be goaded into action when it's close. I hope that I'm wrong and that the youth will learn that they really can make a difference, and are creating voting habits that will persist, but I don't expect that.","I’m curious where you get your information and would like to add the point that “youth” implies young voters. Not sure how young you are personally thinking but I imagine anyone under age 25. To be fair, they haven’t had an opportunity to vote when it wasn’t a big deal or “close”.",1
No member of the current court; much like the time we stole an election we do not intend this callous disregard for ethics and the constitution to be interpreted as precedent in case the court ever becomes liberal again.,"What I find particularly hypocritical is that, the conservatives on the court are willing to come down on the side of: legislature can ignore the courts decisions.",1
"Seeing a paper written from his doctor would be the ""hard evidence"" but at this point it wouldn't even add to what we know in the public.",You can't just keep posting documented proof and expecting everyone to believe it if they don't want to...,1
At least France is trying its best to oppose bullsht like this. In America things keep getting worse and nobody seems to actually do anything about it. .,"Yep. We just had that politician who shot up houses of other politicians. Totally expected, though, given how the Murdoch family created these angry people.",1
It's hilarious that Republicans claim that the FBI is run by Lefty Democrats. I believe the FBI has never been run by a Democrat.,They gonna investigate the FBIs involvement in all the Democrats that have been charged and convicted in the last few years?,1
"I once got so exasperated at my high school home ec teacher when he said in a lecture that ""things that are on sale usually cost less"" that I wrote ""Mr. V: Font of Economic Wisdom"" on my notebook and held it up for a friend to see. Someone the object of the burn saw it, and remained low-key pissed off at me forever after. I wonder if that's on my permanent record.","There is no permanent record. I'm the same age, and I've gone to grad school and taught at the university level and ""permanent record"" is on the same level as ""if you're bad Santa will give you coal."".",1
"If you punch me in the face in Georgia three times a day, 365 days of the year - taking tax breaks in Texas doesn't remove you from Georgia and what has happened there over the past year.","Texas tax breaks that depend on being a legal resident there are not an alibi in the example. So it's not really a matter of either one being correct; as pointed out before, if he is qualified to run for office in Georgia the Texas tax claims aren't really going to change that fact.",0
"The truth never comes out of Iran. The reality is far worse. Talk to someone in Iran and you’ll see Talk to the people who survived the protests and see what they say. Most are dead and missing. And THATS NOT EVEN A WAR God damn people just protesting their government and getting shot in the face. Taxi driver honked his horn in the street, guard came up beside him and shot him in the head… woman took of her scarf and was shotgun in the chest… Women and children…. Iranian government maybe Russia’s Ally but the people aren’t !",These motherfuckers lie as easy as drinking water. Don’t believe a thing they say.. how many have they killed so far ??? More than all the casualties in the Ukraine war.,0
"Why is everyone up and down in this thread not having even read the article, China was never offered western vaccines - it's just some American dork claiming they never asked. Not to mention the line ""some studies have shown Chinese vaccines aren't as effective as Western ones"" what studies? What actual link? Here's a hint, near every study shows that pfizer/moderna/chinas vaccines all have similar efficacy rates after multiple doses which near all of china already has, so what's the point in suddenly paying through the nose for something that's just as effective?",Also let's completely ignore that western and chinese vaccines both have similarly efficacy rates after multiple doses(which near everyone has at this point).,0
"People said the same about Russia's war. A year into it and 100,000 soldiers down, there's no indication that public sentiment has changed in any meaningful way, and certainly nothing like an organized resistance.","I don't think military action is by any means imminent or inevitable, but I do think your analysis is flawed.",0
It was weird phrasing to say no Democrats lost re-election during incumbency since Carter when there were only two opportunities to have done so.,"If you can't change enough Democrats and independence and moderates' thinking on that in the next year, then any candidate who is not Biden will lose.",1
Edit: that's where my expertise ends though. I have no idea how to make it more efficient. Raising cattle in the plains is obviously easier than raising them in the jungle. Which brings up another more macro level question. Why are they trying to raise cattle in the jungle?? I mean I know why ($$$) but it just seems like an interesting commodity to specialize in in the rainforest.,I did a project on this for my university and Brazilian cattle ranches are also just plain inefficient. I believe it takes four more times the land to raise a cow/bull in Brazil than it does in the most inefficient areas of the US. That's why so much land is needed for these ranches. It's a compounding issue but still part of the equation. Finding a way to increase the efficiency and productivity of ranches in Brazil may also help significantly by reducing the land needed to produce X amount of beef.,0
"I have dysautonomia in the form of POTS. Dysautonomia is dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system and it impacts anything the ANS controls, so basically all the automatic bodily processes we don’t have conscious control over.",He was right. It’s in the top 5 funniest things I’ve ever experienced in my life and now my abs are actually sore from cracking up so thoroughly 😂.,0
"Russia isn't an honor culture, it's a dishonor culture. Might makes right. If you can lie, cheat, and scam your way to the top, but you can get away with it, then you're looked up to in Russian society. You didn't dishonor yourself by acting unethically, everyone you exploited dishonored themselves by trusting you.","This woman is telling her husband to rape other women because exploring people and getting away with it is how you gain prestige in Russian society. She's not upset or concerned about the fact that she might get raped (in fact she already has been), she's more concerned about her social standing and prestige. If her husband rapes and exploits a lot of Ukrainian women then that makes: 1) Russia look better, for being strong and exploiting a weaker, ""inferior"" country like Ukraine, and 2) it makes the wife look better for being the wife of such a strong soldier who gained glory for himself by raping lots of women.",0
"There’s plenty to criticize the Founders on, but no one could say they didn’t have foresight. They specifically created a mechanism by which the Constitution could be changed because they knew America would eventually transform in ways they couldn’t foresee. The entire premise of “What would the Founders want?” is totally disingenuous. Especially since we all know the Con SCJ’s will abandon any pretense of “Originalism” once it becomes inconvenient for them.","The only reason for ""originalism"" is to use it as an argument to regress when the world around you changes in ways you don't care for. Originalism, applied to the 1st amendment, would mean that speech on the internet isn't protected and you can't record police; it would mean your electronic devices aren't protected against searches; Hell, you could make a ridiculous argument that any house built with fiberglass insulation isn't considered a ""house"", as used by the 3rd amendment, because fiberglass wasn't a thing back when it was written.",1
He brought this on himself. One vote motion to vacate is the dumbest thing he could have agreed to. Since he did that he’s now opened the door to even worse demands. Hell everyone should come with their wishlist now because McCarthy literally is willing to sell anything to get the gavel.,"The only way this makes any sense, and it has never come to a vote to be tried, is if McCarthy thinks the Dems would vote to keep him as soon as it was called. A majority vote would be required to remove him so he’d have to rely on having at least 5 Rs from the 20 voting against vote for him to remain. Or Dems.",0
"“Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!” he continued.","What are they selling to people as proof of this ""massive voter fraud""? Do they have anything at all to substantiate these claims? I've never seen news of the claims overtaken by news of voter fraud which presumably would be a massive international story.",1
"This sounds like you believe countries are only friendly towards you because of your military strenh, and this is actually part of the mindset I've been trying to discuss. For what it's worth I'm in the UK, a small nation, and one I assume is on your friendly list. But let's look at other countries....take, say....Spain for example. They are a friendly nation to us here in the UK, and vice versa, yet I do not believe we are friendly nations due to military force. cooperation and trade routes benefit both nations, without any need for force, or intimidation. Now I'm not saying history was always plain sailing, far from it, but in this current world, it is fully possible for nations to be friendly toward each other without the need for scare tactics or shows of military might.","As the other guy said, it's a collective of countries holding Russia responsible for their actions, a collection of countries have sanctioned them (in fact I believe the UK was the leader in pushing sanctions at the start of the war, but I guess you guys don't like to discuss that?) and a collection of countries who make up NATO. Its not just the good ol USA.",0
"Modern China would not be possible without the participation of the US, and the US is withdrawing its support. It's only a matter of time before all their accumulated problems drag them down. All the US has to do is go home.","which isn't to say the US shouldn't just go home, they should. but business isn't going to like it, and that means capitalists probably will try to China it as long as it remains profitable.",1
"Every case is different. In the present case there's no name change, Türkiye has always been called Türkiye in Turkish and is still called Turkey in English. If you make a speech in front of the UN or are a diplomat, you're supposed to use Türkiye now but honestly I have no idea how respected or enforced this official change is.","Some of us, like myself up til the last couple comments, would have perceived it as being more courteous to any turks we might speak to, since we're not aware of the domestic opinions on the name change. However, I'm glad to hear it, because typing ""türkiye"" sucks. I don't even know how to make a umlaut.",1
"Nukes don't quite work like that, a bomb going off near them doesn't mean a nuclear reaction occurs.","Creating a nuclear reaction that results in an explosion is a fairly delicate process. Ironically, nuclear weapons are triggered by explosions; a series of extremely precisely timed explosions that cause the core to implode. They're set up as a sphere around the core and if these explosives don't go off in the very specific way that they're meant to, they don't go supercritical and are basically just a 'dirty bomb'. , which are themselves the trigger for hydrogen bombs.",0
"The person I commented on said that Twitter cannot go bankrupt until he runs out of money because he is personally liable for any and all expenses and costs. My entire comment was that he can only be liable for what he leveraged in the deal, they cannnot go after his personal finances or assets if he decides to walk away or file bankruptcy as the company, which is filing bankruptcy there’s no guarantee they get all of the leveraged assets depending in the title of bankruptcy filed which is also something the comment I replied to said he cannot file for anymore to protect assets.",It absolutely can. Private companies can still file for bankruptcy without him personally doing so. He would end up forfeiting most if not all assets he leveraged to purchase Twitter but they don’t have free reign to go after all of his money and assets.,0
A Biden presidency is the reason that Ukraine still exists. I don't think it can be argued otherwise. His administrations plans and functions in the lead up of the war provided the intel to stop Russia's decapitation attempt in the first few days. If Russia had been successful on it's airborne special forces incursion to Kyiv to assassinate Zelenskyy we would not be discussing Ukrainian resistance today.,> CIA Director Bill Burns met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on a secret trip to Kyiv ahead of the Russian invasion last year to share news that appeared to surprise the Ukrainian leader: the Russians were plotting to assassinate him.,1
"אבל בכול מקרה, הוא צודק. החיילים האלה פשוט אומרים את מה שבן גביר אומר כל הזמן, שיעשו סדר. ואגב, בתור מי שכן שירת בחברון להגן על יהודים קיצונים כאלה, אני הייתי בעד להוציא אותם לשים במקומם ישראלים יותר ""נורמליים"". אני לא נגד ההתיישבות הישראלית בחברון, אני נגד סוג האנשים שרוצים להתיישב בחברון. בכיף תחליף אותם עם אנשים נורמליים שלא רוצים לזרוק אבנים ולהצית אלימות. ואם בן גביר רוצה ""עונש מוות למחבלים"" שיהיה דו צדדי ויהיה תקף גם לאלימות כלפי הערבים.","אתה באמת חושב שכל אחד שלא בעד בן גביר הוא אנטישמי? אתה באמת חושב את זה? בגלל אמירות כאלה, האנטישמיים האמיתיים אומרים שאנחנו משתמשים במונח הזה יותר מדי וזה כבר לא שווה כלום. האמירות האלה גם מה שגרמו לרצח רבין (שאתה בטח חושב היה הדבר הנכון לעשות, לא?) ורק מפלג את יהודי ישראל לבין יהודי התפוצה ובין ישראלים ביניהם.",0
"Edit: apparently a lot of you take issue with me saying the Catholic Church isn't totalitarian or genocidal. I suppose I should clarify that I meant the CURRENT Catholic Church. Obviously the Catholic Church has been a force for great evil at several points in its history. Even today it has serious problems with corruption and scandals. But if you're going to accuse the current Vatican of genocide and totalitarianism you better be able to back it up. If you're going to blame Catholicism for millenium-old crimes then you also have to blame countries for all their crimes across history, in which case everyone should burn in hell. In regards to religions and cults, just because you think you're enlightened and know the truths of the universe doesn't mean every other set of beliefs is worthless or cult-like. You can't prove God isn't real anymore than you can prove he is. And you can't deny that, despite all the evil, religion has done a lot of good, too. Hospitals, schools, homes, etc are all things that were built primarily by religious organizations for centuries. Whether God is real or not, the belief in him has helped countless people with mental health struggles and continues to do so today.","Child molesters need to be punished, whether they wear a cross around their neck or not. The Catholic Church's record of defending, protecting, and excusing monsters who abuse their positions as priests is absolutely vile and needs to be seriously addressed.",0
"“Criminologists and other researchers found that the ban had little to no effect on firearm deaths or the lethality of gun crimes. Studies have found that the overwhelming majority of gun crimes are committed with weapons which are not covered by the AWB, and that assault weapons are less likely to be used in homicides than other weapons. There is tentative evidence that the frequency of mass shootings may have slightly decreased while the ban was in effect, but research is inconclusive, with independent researchers finding conflicting results.”.","“Criminologists and other researchers found that the ban had little to no effect on firearm deaths or the lethality of gun crimes. Studies have found that the overwhelming majority of gun crimes are committed with weapons which are not covered by the AWB, and that assault weapons are less likely to be used in homicides than other weapons. There is tentative evidence that the frequency of mass shootings may have slightly decreased while the ban was in effect, but research is inconclusive, with independent researchers finding conflicting results.”.",0
"On the initial sale, they'll keep 5-10% once, but on every time a ticket is resold by a third party they have to transfer it in Ticketmaster's computer systems, which is like 4% fee (when I was there, but it changes).","I've sometimes done Will Call for the same reason and just pick up my tickets at the venue, but a lot of places don't do that anymore, or make it a big hassle to do it, along with charging a fee, of course.",1
Not to say that there are no political issues affecting whites that are ignored/exacerbated by the government but it's delusional to compare it to apartheid South Africa.,"Some friends who visited from South Africa described it as apartheid turned up side down, another words the whites are now being treated like the blacks were treated pre Mandela but now it’s not safe to be white and in South Africa, also said the place is riddled with corruption at every level. I wonder is that why they are getting on so well with the Russians 🫢.",1
"Redditors: ain't no way we would spy on China, that's just not something we do. We respect all the privacy and airspaces and balloons are really uncool too.","Wouldn’t that involve the balloons flying over countries like India or Russia, both of which I assume keep a pretty good eye on what’s in their airspace. I would assume a US balloon flying over multiple countries would have made the news.",1
"He has been eligible to be charged with any crime committed in office for almost two years now, so the ""you can't indict a sitting president"" excuse is long gone.",One of these claims actually ending with an indictment and charge would be the first that wasn't complete bullshit.,0
Right. One sentence out of 100s of hrs defines a person lol. I think the left is just completely out of there mind that theres a small sliver of news that isnt owned and pumping out propaganga for china.,Not always. But he does point out the evident a lot. Sometimes he takes things a little far. More often than not things playnout exactly as he predicts. Leftists call that conspiracy.,0
"So true. Conservatives are far too consumed enjoying the supposed irony of ""whiny liberals who used to care about things and listen to Rage Against the Machine in the 90s"" are now the ones wearing masks and getting vaccinated like over 99% of licensed physicians in the US, effectively transforming themselves into The Man whom they used to hate, according to the science-illiterate moron community.",EDIT: Tried to make it clearer I was mocking republicans and other anti-vaxxers thinking it makes any sense to dunk on people who like Rage Against the Machine but would also abide by reasonable advice from the medical and science communities.,0
Sure.. Then we’ll need the Disney flu Vaccine and the HBO flu vaccine and the Amazon Flu Vaccine. You know the BBC will have one. There’s no way it will be just one. That’s not how drug companies work.,"It’s lampooning pharmaceutical companies by comparing them to streaming services. As soon as we left single payer(cable)they all started their own services. Pharmaceutical companies are much more interested in treatment than cure, so they prefer multiple drugs to one. Hence the comparison. I do understand that the comparison is weak, IF a single flu vaccine tat could be used Year in and year out were developed, it would be more cost effective for Pharma.",0
3. The only way to to remove a President is via impeachment. That is literally the only way to do it.,"Yeah, I agree. Why settle for 50 Senate seats if you are running a vast, untraceable election fraud conspiracy?",0
"He’s not wrong. If you think the various medias of the world don’t specifically pick and choose what they want to write articles about then I would just ask that you realize they do. They’re made up of fallible people, like you and me.","how do you explain then when way before Netanyahu was elected , during the Palestinian Infitadas the Palestinians sent hundreds of suicide bombers during the 90’s and early 2000’s?",0
"Is he not concerned with power? Sure, he doesn't mean to take over the plantation, he doesn't challenge the master in the big house. But, power is what separates him from the slaves. It's what gives him his little stump.","Why, they might just lose their little stump. Equality? Ugh ""I'm not one of those people. I shouldn't be working those fields"".",0
"Digging deep? We've spent about 50 billion dollars. The U.S. government takes in more that 3.5 trillion dollars a year in taxes. You're going to be outspent by the U.S. and out soldiered by Ukraine. Your forces will never be safe occupying a country against their will. We have eyes everywhere, ears everywhere. Your entire economy that is supporting this war is the size of one of our 50 states. We have no need of your gas or your oil unlike some European countries, we have plenty of each, and a 200 year supply of coal if we need that. We could spend 50 billion a year for the next 50 years arming Ukraine, Putin will be long dead by then.","Zelensky is an international hero and Putin is a pariah. You'll see eventually, it may take a while, but you'll figure it out. Your gas station masquerading as a country will collapse on itself like it did thirty years ago.",0
"You can’t gerrymander the governors race he trounced the democrats in. If democrats don’t wake up and realize strategy changes are needed, Florida will be solidly deep red for a generation.","I live here, I am surrounded by democrats. Not one was “scared” to go vote. Most didn’t care for Christ and are sick of our state party. They’re uninspiring and run questionable candidates. It’s not a moderate/progressive issue either (see: Andrew Gillum). It’s a, they don’t have good people to run issue.",0
"When the day comes for the US to decide on whether to defend Taiwan from the PRC, understanding fully what that decision will cost in terms of lives and money, these types of visits will come to the minds of those in power and hopefully convince them that Taiwan is worth defending.","Still there are almost no feasable scenarios where the PRC would try to take taiwan by force without hitting US forces on day 1, so the question of whether the US would get involved is kind of a mute point. The PRC sure seems to think we will & they get a vote.",0
"That part might be the scariest, tbh - Nukes are the only game Russia has in a conflict with NATO. They're virtually guaranteed to use them, because it's the only thing that would be even moderately effective - assuming Russia's nukes still even work.",NATO fighting Russia at this point would be more like watching an anthill get obliterated by a precision missile from five hundred miles away - laser-targeted and absolutely nothing left.,0
"House and Senate are both needed to even get bills to have the potential to become law. The House can originate bills more easily (that's its job), but that doesn't mean the Senate has to officially vote on what the House sends them.","The idea is that the House originates bills, they go up to the Senate, and then they go to the President.",0
"If you think the Islamic world hate the US now, you'll be surprised how much hate they can muster when the ""crusaders"" attack their ""holy land"".","According to logic, its illogical that the government of Saudi Arabia while still being a little weak in 2001 would provoke and attack its protector state (the US).",0
"It's like how we are in this problem right now with abortion. A liberal judge looks at that constitution and says abortion is in there. A conservative judge says, ""where?"".","And. I’d we can make the homophobes and hateful bigots feel guilt and shame over thier behavior. Actions, and beliefs. Maybe they won’t be so hateful and anti American. I personally. Don’t care about damaging people who damage others via the use of shame and guilt. The homophobes are committing terrorism, which make shame look non damaging.",1
"Trump, on the other hand, deliberately took classified files from the White House when he left office. When the National Archives told him they needed them back, he balked and refused. After further negotiations, he returned some document and claimed he had nothing more, until an informant let the government know that Trump actually did have more files, at which point they sent agents to ask him to secure them, and eventually raided his residence since they were worried about who might be getting access to them. In more recent filings, DOJ has actually alluded to the fact that he still has some classified documents he needs to return.","The difference here is, the documents in Biden's possession appear to have been left at these locations inadvertently, and the moment they were found, they self-reported and sought to return them to the National Archives.",0
"It’s because the senate is intended to represent the interests of the state itself - in other words, each state is considered an equal regardless of population in the senate. The House of Representatives is intended for the interests of the people themselves to be represented, which is why Alaska has 1 representative despite having 2 senators.","All states interests are equally represented in this way - not defending it necessarily, but that is roughly the intention.",0
"Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if we're already over the brink and we just don't realise or want to acknowledge that yet. Next 50 years are going to be hell to contend with.","Further, pray that nuclear armed nations don't fall apart or do anything stupid. Nuclear winter is its own form of man-made climate change after all...",0
"Edit to clarify, the tentative agreement has I think one day of leave, well short of what the unions were asking for.","The issue at the heart of this negotiation is paid sick leave. Congress passed two bills, one to force through the tentative agreement, and another to add a week of paid leave to that agreement.",0
"As someone that has lived overseas in and off since the 1980s, it’s just sort of a rule of thumb that you shouldn’t be too friendly with anybody that’s been here less than 5 years since there’s a huge, huge chance they’re going to end up going back home.","The vast majority of expats that I’ve met over the years either fall into one of the above categories or, they started their own or bought a business, or they networked their way into a job.",0
"Even in the most labor-intensive industries, labor doesn’t account for more than 50% of the product cost. Even if wages increase by double, the price is only going to rise somewhat because wages are only a fraction of the cost. As long as we don’t allow the companies to collude for a record profits like we do currently, then wage increases can never out run product costs. There is no product whose cost is more than 100% based on wages.","You're right, that would require a wage of at least 100k/year. All I want is at least 2-3k/mo to live relatively comfortably. Is that so hard???",1
"NATO & Poland must determine if there was any military asset in that towns grain-building. Radar, Communications, intelligence forward bases, etc.. If there is anything of military value at that location, then it was an intentional strike on NATO.","I know people will say this will lead to end of the world if NATO retaliates. But the must, if Rusdia realizes they can land bombs in a NATO country without a response, Putin will know he can get away with even more and escalate on his end.",1
"Also Musk: A poll on Twitter is a perfect way to understand public sentiment, and whether I should reinstate a threat to American democracy.",Musk: Twitter is filled with mostly bots so I shouldn’t have to pay the absurd price I myself suggested.,0
"That's not really true. When I worked for a German company, it was very hard for the Germans to get fired, but they were contractually required to give 3 months notice before leaving the company. That's basically unheard of in the US.","They also completely lost a number of industries. They've made up the difference since the price of oil has risen, but lots of manufacturing has left Russia and won't return. Almost every car factory in the country has closed or is operating at like 10% capacity since they can't import parts and foreign companies have left. New car sales in Russia have dropped something crazy like 80% since the war started. Once oil inevitably goes down in price there will be massive holes in the economy compared to before.",0
"There’s also (I think) the possibility of getting the majority of the votes cast, in which votes cast as merely “Present” don’t count. Which in theory could allow the Democrats to decide the speakership.","I.e. There’s 435 Representatives. 213 of them are Democrats, and 222 Republicans. If there was a vote where 10 Republicans voted “Present” (meaning they effectively don’t really give a crap who wins, or are just being petulant), and the Democrats are unanimous in their votes, then, at 213 to 212, the Democrats would have picked the new Democratic Speaker of the House.",0
"The commenter above you is saying that Ukraine has no more right to blow up civilian infrastructure in Russia than Russia has in Ukraine. It would be highly unethical for Ukraine to blow up power substations in Siberia just to hurt Russian civilians, even though Russia is doing exactly that in Ukraine.","That's a good point and that's why Ukraine has only been even remotely associated (afaik) with attacks on military infrastructure—oil depots in Belgorod, Crimea bridge that was explicitly used for military transport and was empty of people at the time, those military research buildings near Moscow, etc. Not saying Ukraine is perfect by any means but they're keeping their hands very clean here.",0
You have to weigh those 20 lives against all the other Ukrainian POWs you won't be able to exchange later because you don't have as many Russians willing to surrender anymore.,I guess it depends how many Ukrainian lives are saved from not needing to fight due to Russian forces being more likely to surrender. Hard number to quantify though.,1
"If the US sends it's tanks directly to Ukraine, it will be less able to replace European tanks and European countries will be less inclined to send so many of their own tanks to Ukraine because they will not be as needed and US replacements will be less available. In this case, Europe keeps it's European tank manufacturing and does not become dependent on US export tanks, which is bad for the US.","However, it's hard for Germany to do that when the US is offering cheap, or even free replacement tanks, which night mean a permanent end for the German tank export industry. Once you have American tanks, it's hard to switch back and once Germany no longer exports tanks, it's hard to start doing that again. The logistics problems of tanks go far beyond the battlefield.",0
Man who barricaded himself in home he does not own insists he must be acknowledged as the legal owner of the home before he'll negotiate with law enforcement.,"Honestly the peace promise probably has to include bringing in NATO forces as a deterrent and enforcement mechanism, and then the threat of massive violence if Russia breaks its commitments.",0
"And the American right wants to justify annexing Canada by force if necessary, and wants to help Russia dominate its region.",Also NATO would be bringing the war to Moscow's doorstep so there is no scenario where Russia could succeed in attacking Canada.,1
I understand that half of you americans wanna jump into this guns blazing. This would be a bad idea:,"Not claiming reddit is full of morons, just full of people who read only a headline and then post stuff as long as it fullfills their narrative .",0
"NASA is going to build a space station similar to ISS that will orbit the moon. Future missions to Mars will be sent from this Moon-orbiting space station. Reasoning is that sending a mission to Mars directly from Earth would waste too much fuel on simply trying to escape Earth's gravity. So first, a rocket will be sent to the Moon from Earth. After that, the same rocket will refuel at the Moon space station before continuing a long journey to Mars. This way, the people onboard the Mars mission could have enough fuel to orbit Mars, send down a manned lander, come back up, and return back home.",Interestingly it takes less fuel to land on Mars than it takes to land on the moon. That's because we can use the martian atmosphere to slow down. On the moon we have to use fuel.,1
"Jet streams (which do shift, they've not static), warm or cold fronts in other areas. Warm and cold fronts push each other around. And it can depend on if the cold/warm air is wet or dry.","Fun fact: Their coldest recorded temp was -71 C, back in 1924. Ok, maybe not a fun fact for them. I don't want to even imagine what that felt like. I've been in -35 C and that was unpleasant enough.",0
"If the strike would've presented worse problems, perhaps the bosses should've given their workers rights to prevent it.","You are looking it as a black and white issue, just because rejecting the strike hurts union workers, doesn't mean it is a bad outcome for the country as a whole. Sometimes the government has to make tough decisions, sacrificing the needs of some to keep the country as a whole from going into turmoil.",1
"Don't listen to this guy. Our PM said that a lot of balkan people sympathise with russia, not that western balkans are on russian side. Slovenian government and people stance is anti putin. There are just more pro-putin people here that rest of europe due to slavic heritage, that doesn't mean that we are all pro-putin.","Most of us Croatians don't share his sentiment in regard to Ukraine, and we are highly supportive of them.",1
The only reason to want your taxes to be private is because you want to pretend you are something you are not.,People who argue that revealing tax returns is embarrassing are telling on themselves. The average person is not evading their taxes. The average person is not getting money from foreign agents. The average person is not running charity scams. etc etc.,1
"There are reports of some dissention in Russia. whether it is true and how widespread it are the big questions right now. If it is true, however, I think Ukraine's main hope lies in being able to hold out long enough to let those seeds sprout and hope for an upheaval from within Russia itself. In doing so though... They will likely lose many more soldiers, no matter how good the equipment is that they are given.","He MAY have a point. Don't get me wrong... I am rooting for Ukraine. However. The fact of the matter is, Russia has a lot more potential soldiers than Ukraine and although the weapons they are using have proven outdated, they still have a lot of them. Even with a lot of men leaving the country, Russia has a lot of young men still to call on.",0
"He may be, but is he more evil due to knowing how to work the system to get the results the GOP have been clawing for decades. If you ask me who is more nefarious; Trump or Ryan and I will tell you it is Ryan or any GOP member who is willingly to hurt this country to fluff their own pockets.","It's sad when Republicans who used to represent the ultimate of Republican scumbaggery, like Paul Ryan, are now the principled voices of ethics and reason in comparison to the current crop.",1
When Trump's son and other campaign officials met with Russians to try and obtain information to use against Hillary Clinton.,"""When Trump's son and other campaign officials met with Russians to try and obtain information to use against Hillary Clinton"" - this was a meeting set up by Fusion GPS, the originators of the bogus Steele dossier. Trump's team didn't use the Fusion info, and never offered anything to Veletskiya. Some collaboration!",1
Edit 2: Some people have asked what would happen if Putin went full batshit insane and the unimaginable happens. The following assumes that Russia intentionally assassinates Biden.,"And all of that is before a single shot is fired by the U.S. military. Whatever happens after bullets start flying is something I cannot, and do not want to speculate. I know I'll be in my makeshift bunker.",0
I pray your children look at what your generation is responsible for and hate you as much as you hate boomers.,"BTW, I’m not a boomer, I’m just tired of juvenile minds that want to pin all their problems on an entire generation rather than individuals.",0
"Competitive pay means competitive applicants. If you want good teachers, you gotta make it an attractive job.","I’m in my third year of teaching and I don’t think the pay is too bad. However I’m still striking because the workload is fucking horrendous. I start working at around 6am and I’m still at it by 9pm, too many non-teaching staff not doing their job makes my job 20% teaching and 80% split between counselling, parenting, and sometimes security-guarding 30+ kids at a time. I don’t know what’ll fix it but something has to change. I’ve had countless mental breakdowns and I know I’m not alone.",1
"Even Amy saying “glad to hear some noise that aren’t protestors outside my house,” referring to the applause she got and talking about her help to overturn Toe V Wade after (I believe?) stating it was already precedent during her hearings.","The issue is that our system of law and governance is predicated about precedent. About established rules, and upholding precedent so we can ensure that people are treated with at the least the facsimile of equality.",1
"We need an FTC with teeth to protect us from monopolies and more importantly Mega-Corporations from forming and getting larger. If the GOP is all about the free market then they should be happy with getting rid of the non-compete because it means more start ups can take on the big guys in established markets. They'd want to break up Hollywood so there's more studios, etc. But Miss Wilson here doesn't agree with this direction apparently.","And her trying to get rid of noncompetes, with Wilson saying its not part of their authority. Seems she's not the leader so that's not up to her.",1
OK? But The Gates Foundation does great charity work. You make it sound bad that they are donating their money to a good charity just because it's their own charity.,Why wouldn't you donate to your own charity if you know everyone running it and you agree with the mission?,1
He has cancer it reads to which well the majority of humans I know who are over 80 also have or have had cancer so it isn't surprising that he does. Putin is human and thus can die just wish he would get along with it already.,"In general, all these rumors about Putin's illness remind me of Himmler's wish for Stalin's death. He wants it so much that, looking at the newsreel, he begins to notice confirmation of his desires. Putin is hated by so many people that they cannot help but project their desires onto reality.",1
"I do mean only single family homes, duplexes and apartment buildings or even condo buildings I'm not so concerned about. I live in florida where there are entire neighborhoods that are owned by rental companies. My hoa had to put in the by-laws the neighborhood could only have so much of a percent rentals because it started to get absolutely out of hand (they didn't care about the companies raising our property values but most renters just don't care for the appearance of their home as owners do).","Honesty 4 houses isn't even that bad. If you did well and wound up with 4 houses, even if 3 were rentals or airbnbs that doesn't seem bad to me. Thats a nice little family business. It's these mega corps that own 1000s of houses where they over bid on houses and choke out people who just want to buy one house and they take over neighborhoods.",0
"Revenue is a pointless number when it comes to tax - we care about net profit when calculating tax. We tax companies on the money they make after paying for all of their costs. Your numbers for Glencore alone don’t seem to match up with what I read from them (apparently average tax rate of 30%+) and they lost a substantial amount of money in covid, which would offset later tax payments on profits ().",If someone can find a case where they underplayed tax that isnt due to said company losing more money in the past I’m all ears.,0
The thing is: Lukashenko right now is shitting bricks with the possibility of Russia going after them too.,"This bravado has two meanings: while he wants to show Putin his loyalty, Lukashenko is also telling Russia that they can defend themselves.",0
"The shittiest people seem to filter to the front of the line in the GOP, then trick enablers into thinking they're incredibly smart and slick and dynamic.","This New Yorker article from the summer predicted it's going to be a bloodbath between him and Trump if he runs for President. Also, his college baseball teammates say he's a huge a-hole. If guys you hung out with, threw a ball around with, dipped and chewed gum with hate you, that is saying a lot. It's pretty easy not to hate a guy you sit around with mainlining nicotine and scratching your balls.",0
"Registration has been used to confiscate legally-owned firearms in nearly every instance it has been put into place. It is never introduced in good faith, it's always one step in the process of future confiscation. It has been used that way in those three countries, many more globally, and in various states in the US; The end goal of registration is always to confiscate firearms, even if it hasn't happened yet, because the people that want registration are the same that want to disarm citizens.","Since you're listing The United States there, and the United States currently leads the world in gun possession, I guess you're not talking about widespread or indiscriminate gun confiscation?",1
"Still, Christie helped Trump prep for debate AND what did Trump give him? COVID. Christie literally caught COVID by anti-masking, superspreader rally holding Trump.",Christie knew the maniac he was dealing with and had already been pushed out of the administration because Jared held a grudge about his shitbag dag getting put in jail by Christie.,0
"The premise is that there was no relationship between Trump/campaign and Russia, and the media made it out like there was.",When Trump's son and other campaign officials met with Russians to try and obtain information to use against Hillary Clinton.,0
How can you not comprehend the difference between someone carrying a holstered weapon and someone pointing one at someone? they dont look anything alike.,The idea that someone could be permitted to legally carry their lawfully owned handgun but somehow is commiting a crime by carrying their lawfully owned rifle in the same peaceful manner is egregious and insane.,0
"Most Christians have either read a significant amount, or the entirety of, the bible. They probably have not done it straight through, but throughout all of the Sunday School classes, youth groups, and readings in church they have read pretty much all of it if they were raised in church. It is long, but it is not that long and sermons tend to repeat for lack of content over the years.","The problem is that when people accuse them of ""not reading it"" it is incorrect. They all do to some extent, or at least have, and so they see that as an unjustified attack on their character. It is much, much better to go with the truth: They do not understand what they are reading.",0
Germany still had a gigantic wall splitting it down the middle \30 years ago that the Russians installed. Poland isn't the only one with a good reason to out spend everybody on defense.,I mean Poland has a pretty good reason to out spend everybody on defense.. geographically there are country that gets steamrolled anytime somebody has the bright idea to conquer all of Europe.,1
"Also, Republicans consistently poll terribly among Millennials and Gen Z, who see Cons as scary, bigoted, and hostile to every political policy (climate change, taxing the wealthy, government funded healthcare, corporate accountability, etc) both demographics care about. Not to mention the Cons offer these demographics absolutely nothing of worth, policy wise. This could change if they move toward the Left and start trying to be real policy makers, but they had that chance after Romney lost to Obama and chose to double-down on BS.",I think there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic! The Republican Party his hardly unified anymore. MAGA/Q-Nuts are currently at war with “moderate” Republicans who want to put Trump & co. in their rear view mirror. That’s good news for the Dems who want to cripple Republican policies while getting juicy soundbites demonstrating how incapable the Right is at basic governance.,0
"India consumes about double the amount of coal consumed by Europe, and India has double the population of Europe as well.","The world is burning more coal, especially third world countries where their population continues to grow. Until you can find something as cheap and efficient, coal is the primary choice.",1
100% agree - I’m just pointing out that limiting competition on price shows the prospective quality improvements of single payor systems in the US.,"Just to be clear on the Maryland model, there’s still competition on the insurance side but the state set caps on pricing meaning there’s no cost side competition leading only to quality side differentiation which improved outcomes in the state. A single payor system would have the same effect.",0
"Any scientist should do it with an honor, for the interest of the humanity and good for everyone else, without representing the selfish self-interests. The feeling of pride should be greater admitting that you were wrong rather than trying to dodge the information and spread the disinformation by postponing the progress and innovation. Educated minds should simply not have a problem accepting the facts, and continuing to move on in this direction rather than living in a world of delusion. Not taking it personally is what separates a person with education from a regular one... a professional form an amateur... informed mind from the anti-vaxxers or similar.","Can you provide more details? Demonstrating a fallacy in archaeological evidence can be groundbreaking. However, it must be supported by credible evidence, as opposed to pseudoscience or popular beliefs.",0
The guy directly below this comment talking about how this movement has supposedly been “squashed” when Iran literally saw a resurgence in protest activity today?,"I think, in part, the Administration is trying to distance itself as much as possible from the protests so the Iranian government doesn't have more material to claim ""the US is attempting another coup See Shah Biden said 'Iran?'"" Mossad and the CIA are certainly embedded in Iran and involved in some way, but it's obvious that the CIA (and US as an extension) can't openly involve themselves.",1
"I don't pretend to know why these people do what they do. When I do see someone wearing a MAGA hat these days they're typically a senior citizen and they appear to have a permanent scowl on their face. As for the people wearing ""L et's Go Brandon"" clothing, they're a mix of the aforementioned MAGA hat wearers or younger ""country"" folk who feel like they're on a mission to piss off all the liberals. I did see a new (to me) hat recently at Walmart being worn by a younger fellow. It said ""Pedophile Hunter"" and below it was a rifle. I can only imagine that person is a pleasant individual.","Bullshit. I saw two last week. Although one did say ""Foxtrot Juliet Bravo"" instead of simply ""FJB."" I also saw a ""L et's Go Brandon"" sticker yesterday. There's still a truck driving around in my area with a large image of Trump on the driver's-side window and a picture of Clinton behind bars on the passenger window.",0
Update: the dump from Clarke came out with a total 27.3k votes with CCM picking up 63% and is now only down by about 800 votes.,"One of the problems is that they need ballot signatures for mail in, which leads to thousands of ballots needing to be ""cured"", which is where the state contacts a voter telling them they can fix their signature. If they just didn't have signature mandates it wouldn't be a problem and you could get a more accurate picture of what's going on.",0
"Why do you think homophobes and transphobes are so mortally terrified of their kids having gay teachers and openly nonbinary classmates? Because they know damn well that as soon as their kids start meeting and interacting with queer people in real life, everything they've been taught about queer people at home and in church will be exposed for the bigoted bullshit that it is.","These laws are all just the kicking and screaming of people who privately know they've already lost. Support for LGBTQ rights, acceptance, and visibility has been growing consistently over the past couple decades, and there's no reason to believe that that's going to change.",0
"I agree with this, outside of specific operations and tactics, but I think it eventually starts adding up, and as USSR-spec kit becomes kaput, and replaced by NATO kit, eventually Ukraine is fighting with equipment specifically designed to wreck Warsaw-pact equipment that Russia is fielding.","While its true that NATO kit will surpass Russian counterparts and already has shown its value in this war, I hope no one legitimately expects 50 of any armored vehicle to turn the tide in any sudden way. I think it's mostly to set the grounds for continued support, first 50, then another 50 etc. etc.",1
"Musk is an absolute moron to try and pick a fight with this guy after he brought up a legitimate security concerns with Musk's product. If Musk was the genius his fanboys constantly say he is, Markey should be like the guy on Musk's side in the Senate.",Musk has done so much stupid shit at this point that it’s painfully obvious that he gets nothing but praise that’s bought and paid for.,1
"No, blocking constitutional amendment is not what a Supreme Court should be doing. The people should decide what makes up their constitution, not unelected judges. The Court should be able to strike down regular laws that violate the Constitution the people decided on, they should not write it themselves?","Justice Beinisch introduced the idea of an unconstitutional constitutional amendment, and gave the court the power to strike down those amendments.",0
"And yes, given that the Taliban resumed their offensive after the deadline, I have no idea why foreign civilians still remained there despite repeatedly being asked to evacuate.",I think Biden did just about everything a President could to oversee the withdrawal without dragging the US into another prolonged conflict with the Taliban. No idea how Republicans can possibly blame him for that in good faith. The numbers alone show that the Trump administration did nothing in the year they had between when the deal was made and the next election.,0
"Only cowards use diapers. Real MenTM just piss themselves and own it, like this clearly most Manliest of Men.","I mean that's as good an option as any other really. We shouldn't have one 'leader' or even a small number of leaders to be honest, but we're not there yet as a species so while we're still too dumb collectively to rule ourselves and need a leader, why not have an 80 year old pisschad?",0
"Ehh. That district really isn’t gerrymandered. Buncombe county (Asheville) is like a 60% Democrat voting county in a sea of deep red counties in the NC mountains. Asheville is pretty liberal, but the county has a population of only a quarter million and was only the 12th most Biden voting county in NC out of the 25 that voted blue. That district in most maps will be somewhat of an uphill, but winnable, district for Democrats.","Edit: The 2022 maps were drawn by the NC Supreme court to eliminate the gerrymandered districts drawn in the maps presented by the Republican legislation. Seen you can see the western-most district in reference is not gerrymandered. It only slightly changed from the district Cawthorn won in 2020. I've seen alot of North Carolinians blame gerrymandering for everything, but it wasn't really the case in this past election. In fact, the district in question would have to be unfairly gerrymandered for Democrats for it to go blue.",0
"Sickening. And because they are such a colossal, powerful business entity worldwide, I'm sure that makes it even more difficult to prosecute them, under international law which is already fraught with problems.",I can't eliminate them completely but have to a large degree for the last year shopping at big chain grocery stores. You can resist if you really want to.,0
"The tiny radioactive thing was inside the other thing (the gadget that uses it), and that thing was in a shipping crate of some kind. The crate was appropriately labelled and had tamper-proof tape on it etc.","The shipping crate or whatever it was that held the device had tamper-proof security tape around it as per the regulations, that's what was reported in the media early on in the incident. So nobody got into the crate while it was in transit. Police categorically ruled out theft etc.",0
"They're nothing alike. Falun Gong was suppressed by Jiang because it was nearly a religious movement, and Jiang was terrified of religion.","A foundational belief of Falun Gong is that the CPC is illegitimate, so it's not a surprise they got suppressed. I'm not shedding any tears, it was an insanely racist cult. Li Hongzhi is not an idiot, he knows he can't actually levitate, he's just making this stuff up to build a following in order to influence Chinese politics.",1
"They’re vaccinated with a completely worthless vaccine. The lockdown started so they could develop a better one, they wouldn’t accept better ones from other countries due to stubbornness, so this is what happened.","That’s not true. Most people died of Covid via pneumonia. Omicron doesn’t attack the lung tissue as much as the rest of the variants, at least Omicron.1 didn’t.",0
"If they didn't ban Russia post all their blatant doping and cheating, I would not expect the IOC to let something as small as starting the biggest war in Europe since WWII to stop them from competing.","Not only is Russia a belligerent country, they have a long long history of cheating and doping and almost certainly still are doping. If they let Russians in, nobody should ever take them seriously again.",1
"Well, yes. We don't know. I just know that with that lot, every denial is an admission, and knowing Giuliani, he got confused and tried to sell classified documents to Borat's niece.","Giuliani also said top secret files are ""very, very strange the way they're put together"" and ""often are very small, but they contain a lot of information."".",1
"He’s got a very narrow window of time to do whatever the fuck he wants with the attention and power he has, and since he doesn’t actually give a shit about governance, he’s happy to take direction while exploiting that little window of opportunity to the fullest extent possible.",He’s not getting a second term. He HAS TO know that. But there’s nothing he can do right now that would make his long term prospects worse.,0
"All eyes are on China now, and there are serious cracks showing, even with their insane rise in power. Hopefully the trend continue with them about to enter stagnation territory as they have pissed off everyone with their wolf warrior diplomacy plus the structural faults in the construction sector and population problems and also other areas.",The main problem becomes the big tent approach of both parties. Since there is only really two parties (the others are to small) they are rewarded for trying to fit as many people as possible within their camp/tent. People who in another system would rather make their own party and try to win influence that way.,0
"It doesn't have to be instead, and in most cases it isn't. Pensions are much more like 401Ks than Social Security. You really are ignoring the whole social safety net aspect of the thing here aren't you...","Ignoring the safety net aspect? No. I don't want it. I'm planning my retirement as if Social Security will not be available to me at all. If I could opt out and invest my SS privately in addition to my current contribution, I'd have a substantial nest egg and a strong safety net at 59 1/2. I don't want to retire at 70 and be terrorized by politicians every 2-4 years while they use my money as reelection fodder.",1
"Well, not quite - they're not questioning what they were doing in Ukraine, moreso what they were doing in that specific building, which was a terrible tactical move.","We are pissed that, after our relentlessly bombing their infrastructure and their civilian centers, the Ukranians are killing our soldiers How inhumane of them.",1
Knowingly obtains or exerts control over property in the custody of a law enforcement agency which was explicitly represented to the person by an agent of the law enforcement agency as being stolen.,"Knowingly obtains or exerts unauthorized control over the property of another, with intent to deprive the owner of his or her property;.",0
"And I doubt Republicans will oust Boebert in the primary in '24. Colorado has the Presidential primary in March but the primaries for all the other offices in June. And no major statewide offices are up next cycle, so the June primary will probably be low turnout, dominated by MAGA crazies on the Republican side. Really, the Republicans' best bet for holding this seat is to offer Boebert a cushy Fox News gig starting in January 2025.","I can only imagine the cries of fraud that would have come from the MAGAs if Boebert had lost. Tina Peters was the Republican County Clerk for bright-red Mesa County, one of the biggest in the district. Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold had to remove Peters from that post because Peters improperly handled and granted access to voting machines. Peters has now been indicted for a bunch of felonies related to that.",0
"Republicans have not won a first term presidency by popular vote since 1988, and have held the office of president via the electoral college twice in that time.. + the other things they said.","The most glaring bundle of evidence of why we are where we are today is that Republicans haven't won the popular vote to win the presidency since 1988 - 34 years ago... yet they've won twice since then by electoral college, and have a Supreme Court supermajority of 6-3, where 5 of those 6 were appointed by presidents who did NOT win the popular vote, one of which is a stolen seat. A bonus is that the U.S. Senate - which molds the judiciary, SC, and the cabinet and nearly all major policy - has a Republican stronghold that represents roughly 40M less people than the Democrats in the Senate do.",1
"I'm sure Cuba has a bright future ahead of itself in the next 60-125 years. I think younger Americans are too quick to sympathize with Cuba, and don't understand how terrible of a place it really is due to Cuba's own decisions.","Something tells me Americans feel like the United States owes something to Cuba (spoiler alert: they do not). Cuban dictators and the people that have stayed and followed them made their own bed. The US is not going to be gracious partners with Cuba until they fix their own problems, and install a real democracy.",0
"If it costs Russia, say, $40, to pump and export oil then a price cap that reduces their selling price from $100 to $50 doesn't cut their profit by 50%, it reduces it by five sixths, all without creating an oil price shock that would hurt poor countries.","If Europe imports Russian oil from India, then it means that Russia has enormous losses, because it cannot sell it at the same price directly, but must hand over its profit to India (not to mention the cost of the detour that the oil must make, once to India and then back again). India can sell the oil only for the price of the world market, for India's profit and the extra cost Russia has to compensate with discounts.",1
"If a minor person is questioned on their gender dysphoria, the person questioning them is labeled as transphobic and any further discussion is shut down.","I would like to have an open discussion about how claiming you have gender dysphoria does not necessarily mean you are trans, especially if you are experiencing the dysphoria during puberty.",0
"The suit was filed in March 2022, with Trump alleging that Clinton and others had orchestrated “a malicious conspiracy” to spread false information that his campaign had colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential race that he won.","The judgment also referenced Trump’s other lawsuits, saying they demonstrated “a pattern of abuse of the courts.” Among them were legal complaints against Twitter, CNN, New York Attorney General Letitia James and the Pulitzer Prize board for a 2018 award given jointly to The Post and the New York Times for coverage of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.",0
The state districts matter a lot and Republicans use gerrymandering to make it hard for Democratic candidates to win even when they are the majority.,Anything that depressed Republican turn out is good until the lines can be drawn to reflect the population.,0
"A person who is a national of the United States whether by birth or naturalization, shall lose his nationality by voluntarily performing any of the following acts with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality.","Such employment, however, will result in one's expatriation only if done voluntarily with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship.",0
"Of course a full time neurosurgeon is going to outearn a part time fast food worker, no matter the gender.","If a qualified neurosurgeon is unable to find a job BECAUSE of her gender, that is a problem. If there are just no positions and both men and women are facing the same problem, then it isn't sexism or wage gap, it is a different problem altogether.",0
"You're right. He suffered when the Mueller report was released, listing at least 10 different crimes he committed, which led to......exactly nothing because of a decades old memo. Then there was the airtight case in SDNY, which was notorious for not bowing to political pressure. He's going to be on trial for.....wait, the DA decided not to pursue charges. Never mind. And there was the Cohen case. Trump's personal fixer. Surely, Cohen's testimony is going to lead to.......an ""unindicted co-conspirator"" being the mastermind behind it all.","NY Courts: ""Michael Cohen worked at the direction of an unindicted co-conspirator who coincidentally just happened to become the 45th president of the United States. He will continue to go officially unnamed, and we are not pursuing criminal charges at this time."".",0
"I've always wondered what is the actual deal with people who would rather own a dangerous wild beast than a normal pet like a dog, cat, or rabbit. Is it a mental health thing, or what?","Again, I'm not trying to pass judgment or insult anyone, but I would like to better understand how someone with clarity of mind can come to a rational decision to pay money to let a deadly wild animal live with them at home.",0
The issue is after the election. Who gets verified on twitter as your senator or representative of after Election Day if the candidate who didn’t actually win claims they did?,Any politician who was relying on Twitter to win them the mid-terms wouldn't be waiting until the week of the election to get verified.,1
"Russia and the US might be rivals, but they aren't idiots and regularly share information like this.","Like we know Russia REALLY doesn't want to actually start shit with America itself, despite the constant bluster. So they probably canceled the days volley of missles towards Kiev, just in case. Incredible. Really shows the hierarchy.",1
"Reality check - it's not Biden's job to run the Democratic Party - it's not a dictatorship and in any case the guy is busy presidenting. It doesn't matter whether or not someone else could, in theory do the job, it matters that in reality, no one else is likely to defeat the Republican candidate while Biden will more than likely win if he runs.","No, in reality, Biden will almost certainly win if he runs while the Republican candidate will almost certainly lose if Democrats don't run Biden.",0
The difference is that most drones drop or fire their munitions then depart. A suicide drone kamikazes and does not return.,"A “suicide drone” is another name used to refer to loitering munitions. A cruise missile only has one mode of function. You designate a target and the missile flies directly there to impact it. A loitering munition, on the other hand, typically has two. They can be used just like a cruise missile like we see Russia using most of its Shaheds in Ukraine, where they fly from point A to point B to impact whatever target is given to them. However, they also have the ability to “loiter” in the air around a given area, waiting for their operator to designate a target for them to impact. They’re often more similar in appearance and function to drones than missiles, which is why the name “suicide drone” appears frequently in the media.",1
"My point is that Dems can say to Republican voters - we told you all along he was lying to you, and look, here's the proof.",It'd be a good way for Democrats to show that lies have consequences; and that Republicans aren't the only ones who can work the political outrage machine.,0
3. A lost challenge to some kind of administrative court or body (probably - based on how things are run where I live).,"Where I live, the [State] SC is selective about the cases they will hear, you need some kind of grounds: this is a new legal issue [no precedent], the lower courts messed up, or some grounds for disagreeing with the appellate court's decision [other than, ""I disagree.""]. The supreme court is busy, and doesn't hear every Joe, John, or Harry who is mad about something.",0
"The house is going to spend the next couple years doing nothing except searching for Hunter Biden’s laptop. Also, I haven’t seen a centrist Republican in a very long time.","I would love to be wrong, but this is how every Republican house has worked for literally two decades. The Republican speaker will not allow a vote on a bill that might get minority Republican support. This ensures their house is only passing party-line bills, and kills bipartisanship when republicans are in control.",0
"And finally it will silence smaller countries of EU, may be force them to create coalitions inside EU, and that might be the end of EU integrity.",But the goal of the EU is to stick together and stop fighting each other. And you can’t really do that if you’re pissing off your sister countries. They all collectively contribute a bit to the European economy as a whole.,1
Its interesting how much time people spend criticising the protestors instead of the oil companies in these threads when literally no art has been damaged by these protests. I think people on reddit just hate liberal young people.,"No piece of art has been damaged in this series of protests. You'd notice if it were because it would be in the headline like this ""Protestors destroy art to combat climate change"".",0
"If questioned, he could certainly claim to have moved his primary residence between Georgia and Texas multiple times in both 21 and 22, but we all know that would be at best a legal fiction. And since it would be a fiction, and since he has done a wide variety of things in both states and both years that require legal residency, it would be pretty easy for him to accidentally admit, while making excuses, to primary residency in the wrong state at the wrong time, or for an insufficient number of consecutive days for his actions to all be legal.",Not that hard. We know when the election ends. Even with a runoff the election still ends in a year he is claiming tax benefits for primary residence in Texas.,0
Maybe he shouldn't have attacked a nation who used to make guided munitions for Russia—the very munitions Russia needs to effectively wage war—and who cut off the supply as soon as Russia seized Crimea.,"Miscalculating Russia's and Ukraine's strenh and the western response was definitely a mistake no matter your values, but the invasion itself wasn't done out of stupidity. Even if Russia steamrolled Ukraine, both Russia and Ukraine would have ended up poorer and their citizens worse off. Yet Putin still chose to invade because he doesn't consider that important.",1
"If you detest people who illegally block traffic and think this is a worthy cause to protest against, should you do it as dramatically and confrontationally as possible by inconveniencing their lives to the maximum possible degree?","All of this is punching down at people who are already being trod upon by the same late stage capitalism that's destroying both their lives and the environment, rather than focusing attention on those who are the most responsible, and I think that's both misguided and despicable. If you start burning down what little shit average people still have in this economy, don't be surprised if they start banding together to burn your shit down in retaliation while the planet burns.",0
"So Israel continuously attacks weapons shipments intended for Hezbollah and concentrations of Iranian forces in Syria, in close coordination with Russia to avoid causing Russian casualties and drawing it into direct conflict with Israel.","Israel’s own security partly depends on its relationship with Russia, Israel needs a working relationship.",1
"So after that weekend they get the next day off, a bonus on the next check, and the wheels keep turning.","Yes, there are weekends where I have to be the bad guy and say we're working until it's done...but I've been on the other side too.",0
"yes ukraine was not in NATO and now im seeing people talk about not wanting them in NATO because of ""risk"".","if NATO is so afraid of having to actually serve its purpose and defend something that they refuse ""risky"" members then clearly NATO is no longer fit for purpose and should be dismantled.",0
"You have to give your driver’s license number and birthday multiple times during the process, which is an inconvenience at best.","The postal service has been the most unreliable with absentee ballots that I have ever seen. I requested mine the first day it was available. It was issued on Nov. 21st. It showed up in informed delivery on the 23rd(which generally means it should be delivered that day.) It wasn’t delivered until November 30th. A full week later. If it hadn’t come that day, I was going to vote in person, where I would have had to explain the situation to poll workers and get the absentee ballot canceled.",0
"They targeted the Russian Black Sea flagship the Admiral Makarov. They were not targeting “nothing of military significance”, I’m not sure what’s confusing about that?","Fairly insulting, and doesn't square with the capable defense we've seen from them throughout this whole war.",1
"It was absolutely NOT too much for the GOP, they just want to keep their wholesale embrace of bigotry out of writing as much as possible after the midterms revealed their electoral vulnerability- and also as they know that more indictments and sedition convictions are incoming.",No one should confuse cheap talk and lukewarm consternation with actual actions to fight anti-semitism and other forms of bigotry within the RepubliKKKan Party. We’ve seen a touch of the former and absolutely ZERO of the latter from the GOP.,0
"Dunno if you know this, but some kids get beaten really really badly for less than being trans. Some parents might not take too kindly to their kid not being what they want. Even if the parents arent physically abusive, being a child or teen and being told that who you are is wrong over something you can't help is harmful. It leads them to thinking "" if I can never been good enough or fixed, why should I keep living? Whats the point if no matter how hard I try I'll still be followed by these thoughts and feelings. I would be better off not being a disappointment. I would be better off dead"".",Ya know what these kids need? A fucking hug and told that everything will be alright. That it's okay to feel that way and if they're so strong it's unbearable that there are ways to help.,0
"She is dead-set against getting re-elected, isn't she? If she flips to R, there is no way she wins. There is no way in hell that Republicans are going to vote for an openly bisexual woman that used to be a filthy Democrat.","Also, tell me there's no bisexuals in the Republican Party. Probably harder to find environmentalists. However the bottom line is they will welcome anybody that will ""play ball"" with them and look the other way.",1
"I worry that they'll retreat back to the hard (not far) right, where they still believe the same things but shrouded in terms like ""state rights,"" and pretend that this stuff simply never happened and didn't involve them anyhow.","""Just look at all the different kinds of \[white\] people You've got Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Catholics, Baptists, even Mormons What else is there?"".",0
"Yeah, someone else mentioned that, but I'll put to you what I put to him. ""Does this mean that what is needed isn't extra sick leave, but in fact more FTE's?"".",Yeah there is. Let them strike and congress could get out of the way. The billionaires have hundreds of billions in profits. They can afford to give sick leave.,1
"Also, it's not like they traveled back in time to get the information. The information on the previous balloons was available for anyone who cared to look.",Now they're comparing the track the UFO against that of the current balloons and that's how they realized that they matched.,1
Are you now trying to turn my totally understandable interpretation of your quintessentially weird claim into yet another indirect accusation of racism?,The underhanded accusation of racism you piled on top just made it just that extra bit more anglocentric and rather arrogant.,0
"Your comment about emergency vehicles being let through is a little odd, because it’s not an issue of an emergency vehicle that finds it’s way to the blockade. Only a sociopath would not step aside for an ambulance that is right in front of them. The issue is the clogging of travel arteries. That ambulance that is 50 cars deep in that gridlock isn’t getting through that blockade, certainly not timely… and that ignores the needs of all of the other travelers that could have equally urgent needs.","After all, highways and cars going down at high speed in them are quite literally impeding that everybody else can have a nice peaceful stroll in that area. By such a logic (which is as selfish and one-sided as yours), highways should never be built.",1
Normally you don’t writhe in pain from inflammatory conditions like appendicitis – you lie as still as possible as any movement of the inflamed organ increases the pain.,"Anyways, to be particular to this story, the hallmark sign of appendicitis is right lower quadrant abdominal pain/tenderness, or to he particular pain that is lower and to the right of the bellybutton that gets worse with pushing. I can't tell whether the triage nurse failed to identify this, but if it was present then the patient should have at least received a stat CT scan after verifying she wasn't pregnant, even if she still had to wait to see an MD. Sometimes a skilled triage nurse can discover or rule out life threatening problems to expedite care or ensure that the patients who do wait are safe.",1
"Even with this, Israel can launch drone attacks on Iran, but Iran likely can't get through Israel's ""iron dome"" that Americans pay for instead of healthcare for Americans.","But that was their same excuse for killing that journalist, then we found out the only people that fired were IDF...",0
"Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but I feel like any GOP ""civil war"" will be long over before election day and conservatives will be in lock-step behind their leader. Two years is a long time for fox news and others to push a new narrative. Everyone seems gleeful about the prospect of some kind of DeSantis v. Trump fight, and while I'm sure it will be entertaining, I can't imagine it lasting two full years. I fear that by election day, they will have their fascism mascot picked out and all dutifully line up behind him.","I guess I just don't see this intra-party fighting as some sort of death knell for them because it actually seems pretty common. These people hate each other, we just can't forget that they hate us way, way more, and they'll happily unite if they think it means they can put a boot on our necks.",0
"It's like yeah developed nations could have switch over 20 years ago, but lots of people in the developed world would have died even faster from lack of energy and food than from the comparably slow rate of climate change AND getting rid of all the pollution would not make the climate actually stop changing because it's always in constant flux. The one thing the climate isn't prone to is being stable, it's a constant cycle of warming and cooling and humans very limited written history having happened in a single Interglacial Warming period gives us the illusion of a stable climate.","The world isn't warmer than the last natural heat spike during the last Interglacial period, this is roughly how bad things get naturally during the peak of the Interglacial warming periods. Maybe we sped that up some, but we never had a stable climate. We had 15-20k years of warming temps and we used up like 13k so far and yes of course that means the world would be warming in any case.",0
"I got to read the entire article and it is basically human trafficking. When unaccompanied migrant children get handed over to ‘sponsors’, they are being handed over to the people who will immediately traffick them.","I wish I could send you the screenshot, but of the many many companies involved with child migrant labor use is Ben and Jerry’s and their spokesperson said the MOST fucked thing ever. In a nutshell, they said they work to make sure that working conditions follow the minimum standards and if underage child migrants need to work, then it’s better they work at a place with good working conditions. The dairy industry, according to this article, is amongst the highest in reporting injuries to workers of all industries. Just incredibly tone deaf and looks like I’ll really have to do my homework to find a substitute for ice cream.",0
"In the case of animal testing, if you don't like it, then stop buying things from companies and corporations who use animal testing.","However, with other big markets banning animal testing (The EU and California), more companies are going with stopping animal testing since the markets that ban animal testing are starting to out-weigh the markets that require it.",1
Chicago isn't even in the top 20 cities for violence. Per capita gun violence is much higher in red states than blue cities (which are mostly higher population than entire red states).,"It matters because something like 60% of firearms related homicide is found in 2% of counties If I recall that correctly. That's a high concentration of violence in typically economically struggling urban areas with gangs being prevalent. That violence being produced by gang members fighting over drugs, territory, whatever. If you don't belong to a gang , don't deal in drugs, and or don't live in one of those counties then your chance of being caught in their fighting in drops significantly.",1
"You are allowed to pick your schools. You can go to private ones, homeschool, join a homeschool pod with other families, or move to a different school district. You already have the options you say you want but you’re still supporting taking away options from others. I don’t try to force my kids’ school to change how they teach because I trust the education they’re getting there, I know their teachers, and I’m actually involved in my kids’ lives to know what they’re doing. .","P.S. But that uses the official numbers. Given DeSantis's response to whistleblowers, that may underreport things. I'd like to see excess mortality figures instead.",1
"it gained traction about 3 years ago and we were moving forward with it, suddenly France comes out of nowhere and hijacks it saying they’re going to print it and “use the new currency to replace the CFA Franc” (which France still controls 80 years later) and “any other west African countries that want in can join” (of course under Frances terms).","example: we have ECOWAS (think EU but for west Africa, and it’s a mix of Portuguese, English and French speaking countries, but the French countries outnumber every other), we already have free movement, one passport, free trade, right to live and work etc etc, and we’ve been pushing for one currency for the whole subcontinent for the last like 20 years.",0
"Yeah, that's a neutral law in a time period in which a ""market"" was a broadcasting area. There's an obvious problem if one company controls all the local airways.","Like, I'm just not clear what Sanders thinks the government should actually do about the problems of twitter.",0
"I don't expect it. I think we're too late to stop where we're headed. Best case at this point is to maybe delay the due date and soften the blow. That is an important enough reason for me to vote, but I'm also doing other things.","I get how polls work, but the point again I’m making has nothing to do with polls. RvW was absolutely a reason people voted, however in my opinion it didn’t factor in the elections overall outcome. Republicans won where they were expected to and so did Dems. The Senate was always projected to be +/- (1-2) seats in either direction. The results show a lot of split tickets from Congressional to Governor races when you compare them, in some cases again where GOP did better then usual. The red wave was an over sell based on historical precedent and not the political realities of now imo.",1
I'm definitely not falling for Russian propaganda. That's for small minds like yours and modern fascist sympathizers like yourself.,"I already was a soldier and I spent years in Europe, including some time in Eastern Europe. You keep backing your fascist Russian dictator. I'm going to stick with the NATO allies who stood beside us through 2 wars and 20 years. I know because I saw them there when I was playing soldier instead of living out your little league of legend fantasy about me you little fascist freak.",0
"Right. I guess my thing is, maybe it’s time to tailor our approach to the real world that we actually live in, not the idealistic one that people wish existed.","Because really? We’re seriously at the point where someone can just blatantly lie about their entire life, hide their criminal history from another country (where the case is still open), get elected to Congress, and still be allowed to take the seat, and there’s no recourse other than hoping and praying that the people who live in that seat see anything wrong with it? When this guy likely committed several crimes in the process (lying on campaign disclosure forms, for starters). What kind of country are we running here?",0
"One the house side, its be a nightmare. McCarthy can't reason, beg, or work with them. The maga wing has him by the nuts and they aren't about to let him become speaker without some heavy concessions.",ya its been fascinating (from a poli sci major) and terrifying (from an american citizen standpoint) to watch the maga power struggle. McConnell was pretty good about not allowing the crazies into the senate or at least whipping them into line.,0
"Let's just say that you can save that same amount every year, even though inflation is going up higher than your wages are. $2400/yr savings because life has gone perfectly for you and you have had ZERO unexpected expenses. After 10 years you would have saved $24,000, which seems great... but now your minimum down payment is $51,000 because housing costs have gone up. Shit... well okay save for 10 more years... and assume we have doubled our savings capacity somehow in those second 10 years. We can now save $4800/year. We have $24k + $48K - we have saved EVERY DIME and have had not had children, no emergency fund, no savings, no 401K, NOTHING. We have saved $72K - awesome. Well, now housing has gone up 10% every year, so the minimum down payment is now $134K. womp womp. After 20 years of saving EVERY LAST PENNY, you went from $20K away from a down payment to $62K away from a down payment.","An okay 2br townhome (so, not on land of its own just like a condo with maybe a garage for your reference) house sells for $400K. A 20% down payment on that is $80K. A 5% downpayment on that is $20K. Housing goes up 10% a year (on average, over the last decade in the US - my state is like 13% a year over the decade). So, next year you have a $440K house with a down payment minimum of $22,000. You were able to save $2400 in the year - which assumes nothing bad happened all year, but your down payment required to purchase a house of your own just went up $2000 in that same year. So, you progressed $400 towards your goal of home ownership. And next year, your pay went up maybe 3% but your rent went up 10% so you're able to save less money than the year prior, not more.",0
Like if they just openly hated gay people that comment wouldn’t make sense. But they seem to want to be seen as helping gay people as long as they vote Republican and don’t seem too gay?,"Probably because republican don’t just hate LGBT people, and it’s not a deal breaker for everybody. You can vote for republican for a lot of other reason, and when you have to vote specifically for LGBT rights a lot of them would be for it. It might be hard for some people but you can be for LGBT rights but still vote for republicans, for economics reason, for immigration reasons, for gun rights reason, ect… People just see blue and red, but their is a lot more than that. You can also have people hating LGBT peoples still vote democrats.",1
"India gains nothing long term, but if they'd take the short term lose we'd all be better off in the long run.","From a ""whatever is good for India"" perspective, India needs to realize that they have Russia by the short and curlies. They should stop buying for a month and then see how much lower they can get the price.",1
"If anything, since they celebrate ignorance and criticize knowledge, they likely revel in not knowing that difference between a government shutdown and a debt default. Given their penchant for ""expertise based on reading a Facebook post,"" I'm surprised that they're not opting for having a life saving operation performed by someone who once saw an episode of Grey's Anatomy instead of one of those elitist doctors with their ""medical degrees."".","Quite a bit. All spending must originate in the house, so in theory they can leave us with literally no federal budget. Plus the house can refuse to raise the debt ceiling and the global gold standard for safe investments can default - which could be catastrophic for the global ecomonmy.",1
"is a write up on the way companies charge more and yet display ""Made in America"" whilst also having ""assembled in China"" on products. Companies know they don't have make it all in America in order to put ""Made in America"" on something and charge you 10% more.",All Russia has done is put China in the driving seat against the West and China wants to keep trading with us.,0
"I had colleagues who lived abroad (specifically India) get suspended because they weren't vaccinated. There were no fucking vaccines in their countries for their age group, and even if there were, why the hell were remote workers required to be vaccinated?","youre the one whos comparing getting vaccinated to wearing suits, and now you play dumb as if the other dude is the one doing an unfair comparison, please stop.",1
"Something most people leave unsaid is that Castillo also demanded elections for a Constitutional Assembly (no constitutional president can't call for that), the surrendering of all weapons in hands of civilians, that he would govern through Law-Decrees (a legal figure to describe the Executive is concentrating all lawmaking powers, hallmark of Peruvian dictatorships).",Granting the head of state of Peru the constitutional powers of the last democratic 1978 constitution is undemocratic apparently.,1
"But also he declassified them. Because sometimes you declassify Top Secret national secrets so that you can keep them as souvenir keepsakes, before they're planted by the FBI as part of a national archive hoax.","You want people to believe that the FBI somehow got their hands on the very documents that the National Archives later said that they did not ever receive, all for the purpose of subsequently planting them in your office (and into those folders)?",1
That's funny because in the US it's the hardcore evangelical denominations shedding members faster than ever to mainline groups.,It's also important to point out they aren't leaving mainline churches in the Netherlands to find more out of touch churches that still live in the middle ages but abandoning faith altogether.,0
How is making it easier for Russian athletes to represent countries other than Russia pandering to Russia. It does the opposite. Unless your a reddit neckbeard who thinks Russian athletes are personally responsible for the invasion of ukraine.,"Of course the average Russian gets the blame as well, they are collectively identified as the invader, innocent or not. Comes with the perks of invading a country as a collective.",1
"If the Supreme Court rules that state legislatures no longer need abide by state courts or state constitutions, so that, indeed, state electors no longer need vote in line with the results of state elections, and can do whatever it is that the state legislature decides, completely on its own, to do, then it is time for every citizen to own a gun.","> They are pushing for a ruling that would take ultimate decisions about voting rights and congressional gerrymandering away from state courts and hand those powers to state legislatures, of which Republicans now control the majority.",1
"Nixon was a crooked politician, but he was smart and knew how to manage the presidency, and of course he knew when to resign. Trump takes all of Nixon’s bad qualities with none of his few good ones.","Nixon also had a few good policies (ending Vietnam, OSHA act, forced desegregation) whereas Trump was just a stream of steaming bullshit.",1
"In my suburb I would say more than 50 percent of the homes in 2020-mid 2022 went to Wall Street backed firms. The for sale sign would go up and be gone in a day or two, often without the listing ever being published. Then it would immediately be put up for rent.","Or we could just treat single family housing as what it is, housing, and not as an investment asset class.",0
"Seems kind of naive to me to think that MI5 or the FBI or various police departments, etc., work with journalists without any sense of oversight into what gets published and how.","This sort of phrasing is IMO really irresponsible and buries a lot of the nuance in the West's relationship with the Middle East region and their general sense of sovereignty. They are paranoid and untrusting, sure, and this can be deeply problematic, but let's be fucking honest the West has done less than nothing to engender a sense of trust from leaders in the Middle East. Even our closest allies are constantly fucking around and hoping they can maybe skip finding out.",0
"y'all need to come to terms with the fact that sometimes activists become lobbyists or otherwise influencial political players, and it looks like greta is here to stay.","Hopefully her voting block continues to shake up politics, which has been dominated for too long by slick old men and their lobbyists making money from future suffering.",1
"- a teenager who is born intersex or has any other gender identity issue MUST NOT have any affirming care under any circumstances, even though such care is done with a MD and psychologist and following all latest guidelines, and completely voluntary by teen and parent.","Even though we talk about the choices parents and doctors make, and it's important to note that these kids ""aren't making these decisions alone, by themselves""; it's very important to remember that they aren't deciding to be trans. They just are trans. In response, we must decide if we're going to help them or just let them suffer.",1
"He is speaking calmly and slowly while they continue to scream at him. They are clearly manipulating his body in ways that are evidently hurting him. The cops react to the natural resistance by escalating, discharging pepper spray, and deploying a taser.",At what point would you have tried to flee? Or would you (knowing you were innocent of any wrongdoing) have just lay there while 5 police officers brutalize you?,0
"As far as the US is concerned this war advances US national interests, is great business for US defense firms, and time is on their side while Russia bleeds. This narrative that the US is going to get tired of supporting Ukraine doesn't even make sense, unless the GOP gets really excited for more self-sabotage on an international stage.",Don't know about the Republicans party platform now but many right wing parties in Europe have been receiving lots of suport just for blaming about everything on the Ukraine war and its suport. So as long as the war and the suport go on the right wingers will keep on abusing that situation to their advantage.,1
Like 1 post from the democratic party would go in depth about a policy and then the other party (red) would have a fkin picture of bidens face edited with horns or something.,I remember studying political communication and analyzing DNC and RNC social media channels for part of my master’s degree and tbh the way the GOP/RNC or whoever the f makes their terrible ads or posts to communicate to their base is simply egregious and irresponsible.,0
There is a real question of nuclear parity - as weapons grade nuclear material degrades substantially every decade decreasing its individual effectiveness. But they have a lot of nukes to spare to do tighter groupings.,"Nukes don't quite work like that, a bomb going off near them doesn't mean a nuclear reaction occurs.",1
"For DeJoy to be thrown out like he should have been two years ago Biden would have to fire DeJoy's current board supporters, nominate new candidates (note this article claims there currently are no candidates), then have those nominees confirmed by the senate (or recess appointed), then the board would have to hold a vote to expel DeJoy.","That said, Biden has the opportunity to replace two more board members in 6 days giving the theoretically anti DeJoy members a full majority and if there isn’t a call to oust him then I can’t for the life of me figure out why not.",1
Even if Lula falls short I'll take someone who is working on reducing deforestation over someone who is actively committed to burning the Amazon any day.,"""Look, I know Lula has a proven history of reducing deforestation. But that isn't evidence that he can accomplish this again in the future We have no idea what will happen in the future We certainly can't base our judgements off passed events, because reasons"" - you.",1
"You're not wrong - fascists and bigots, much like lonely little trolls, consistently prove that if there's one thing that motivates them even more, it's the disdain of reasonable people. Shame never works on them, it just galvanizes them even more in the thinking that their artificial tribe is persecuted and in need of defense.","However, as seen in Iran and Ukraine, there is something to be said about shining an international spotlight on human rights issues - it gives legitimacy and validity to any dissenters, and helps them gain support more quickly, including within their own country. Of course, and unfortunately, the reality is that Qatar doesn't seem to have much in the way of internal dissent.",0
"Plus, banning ARs is just nonsensical if you are not also banning all mag fed semi automatic rifles. I could go out and by a Mini 14, and have a 30 round detachable magazine for a gun that fires 5.56, which to my knowledge would be totally legal in the case of an assault weapons ban. The same goes for buying a mag fed SKS, or even a .22 with a drum or 30 round mag.","Plus, per the FBIs crime data from 2019, rifles (doesn’t specify whether it’s an AR or not) are only used in quote “2-12% of gun homicides, with most estimates putting it at around 7%”.",0
"Hey look, yet another corrupt republican. Oh and he’s acting on behalf of “socialist Venezuela?” Can’t wait for r/conservative to conveniently ignore this latest example.","Did you see Bolton’s CNN Tapper comment, “Take it from a guy who knows coups…” followed by a mention of Venezuela early this year?",1
"“More important, it would be uncharacteristic for Trump to allow his grudges to get in the way of his clear self-interest.”.","Trump cares only about Trump, his ego will not allow him to go quietly and they know pardoning him will not stop him from continuing his behavior. They let him off on Jan 6, and he has not stopped his behavior. They can no longer let him get in their way. Trump continues to do these things because there were no consequences and he's counting on them to back down. Meanwhile the GOP is wasting millions on him. They cannot continue to bankroll him and it's unlikely that those who calculate their control over the map will continue to allow Trump to get in their way.",1
"There were points in the past where Palestinian leaders were the only ones refusing, but that doesn’t justify things like modern West Bank settlement.",The solution is Palestinians wanting peaceful solution that doesn't involve wiping out Israel.......They have never wanted that though and doesn't look like they ever will.,1
"Fruit is the product of sex and a reminder to kids that sex is happening They see fruit at home, on TV, and at school. You can't go into a grocery store without seeing fruit. They even get sneaky and try to sell dried fruit like it's candy Won't someone please think of the children?","OMG Kids are the product of sex, as well I just realized that kids seeing OTHER KIDS is also a reminder of sex.",0
"If you can't change enough Democrats and independence and moderates' thinking on that in the next year, then any candidate who is not Biden will lose.",- Are you saying you believe that Biden is the best candidate Democrats have to offer in their ranks and lack anyone who could do better? That Biden is the absolute top-tier candidate Democrats could muster?,1
"Weird claim that Vegas was a one time thing when there are mass shootings literally every year. Just the year before that was Pulse nightclub with 50 deaths. In fact just about every year there's a mass shooting with 15+ killed, and nearly all of them used an AR-15. It's very clearly the weapon of choice for mass murder.","To me, that is still a mass shooting. In most of the rest of the world, 3 people getting shot in any circumstances would be a mass shooting. The only reason Americans think otherwise is because they have been so desensitized to gun violence that ""only"" 3 people being shot seems insignificant to them.",1
They won't: the history of strategic bombing is one of failures. Even the Hiroshima nuclear bomb didn't lead to an immediate Japanese capitulation - they were still thinking they might negotiate favorable surrender terms.,A big part of it was actually a 1945 offensive by the Soviets against the Japanese around the same time - despite the bombs they had hope that the Soviets would be a neutral third party as far as getting favorable surrender terms went.,1
"And plastic is actually worse at retaining heat than cardboard. You can tell because have you ever picked up a hot plastic container and burned yourself? Now, have you ever done that with a cardboard container?","Most plastic or coated food containers. It’s kind of unavoidable at the moment, but a good way to limit exposure is to take your food out of them immediately and avoid microwaving them.",1
"President Joe Biden will press House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for a detailed list of spending proposals when the two meet at the White House on Wednesday, officials said ahead of the meeting.",Biden advisers Brian Deese and Shalanda Young said in a memo to reporters Tuesday that the White House would release its own budget in early March.,0
Ultimately they view anyone who is not Jewish as potentially antisemitic for any number of reasons. For him it's about nurturing alliances against common enemies so everyone doesn't turn on Israel at once.,"There is so much overt antisemitism all around the world that Trump and whatever is going on with American right wing conspiracists is nothing new or shocking to him. The American evangelicals still want to protect Israel and they view the Jewish government as an ally in the modern Crusades, even though they are fundamentally antisemitic, so Bibi will nurture that relationship as long as he can.",0
They can always stop being a clown and join the audience by surrendering to the nearest Ukrainian UAV.,Sending clowns seems reasonable when you look at the state of the russian army equipement. They can make the soldiers maybe laugh about their 70's Kalaschnikow which has no bullets and doesn't work.,1
This was another good read on socioeconomic bias that agrees with you that it tends to be more implicit:,"I would argue that more explicit wealth bias exists in the system, but that is hard to prove from implici bias.",0
Depending on who you are in US (like trans rights in some states) but America is like stages 2-4 of rise of fascism.,"Neo-Nazis have been growing bolder and more public in the USA over the same time frame. And not just overt Nazis. Our politicians are more open with fascist policy. I am sure this is happening in other countries as well, I just do not have first hand knowledge in those countries.",1
"There are conservative communists and progressive right-wingers, but they are rare because they assume a political system that's already very left wing. The best example would be the old guard of the Soviet Union that resisted more progressive, market-leaning reforms. Technically, you could even count most European market-liberals as progressive, though that's pretty unusual because the word ""progressive"" itself is very strongly associated with American politics.","Progressive, conservative and the third category, reactionary politics are all terms that describe political movement. Progressives want to advance society through reform and social changes. Conservatives want to preserve the current status of society with minimal change. Reactionaries want to revert society to a previous state, undoing previous reforms. (Yes, that means that quite a few American ""conservatives"" are actually reactionaries.).",0
Edit — I really think we all should just be able to get the sick leave we need on a case by case basis ¯\\__(ツ)__//¯.,"Country policies need to mandate appropriate sick leave policies and enforce leave for all workers who need days off when sick - for whatever the reason. A specific policy for just one reason I might be out, that gives employers a reason to prefer not to hire me, doesn’t seem helpful.",1
Forget what you personally want to see… what realistic outcome could possibly be accepted for peace when the continued sentiment from many surrounding Arabs is “death to Jews and/or Israel”.,"Peace will only come with a 2 state settlement that Israel has avoided talking about for decades, while the government allows illegal Israeli nationalist settlements in the forever shrinking Palestinian state.",1
"On to the argument on what is or is not a coup, our previously elected president was ousted by congress in the exact same way as Castillo was and that move has widely been regarded as a coup.",the answer you gave looked like the popularity and the fact of Castillo winning a democratic election was enough to justify his decision to close the congress.,1
"I'm all for Ukraine doing whatever it needs to do in order to reclaim it's rightful territory and beat the fuck out of Russia's military. Attacking their power grid sounds like great retaliation on paper, but it wouldn't be beneficial to Ukraine. There are other ways to fight back, potentially uniting the Russian people against you is not it. Sorry. Paint a broad brush somewhere else.",Youre making a very broad assumption based on one criticism I made. I'm not going to blindly sit here and suggest an abrasive and knee jerk reaction such as attack Russia's power grid.,0
"Surprised there have not been Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian gas, water and electric facilities to match the attacks on those in Ukraine. Cut off all Russian exports of gas and oil.",EU companies still buy Russian gas. But the situation got worse when Russian gas companies in EU were forcefully nationalized as Gazprom in Germany.,1
"Owning a gun makes you less safe, not more safe. The person most likely to be shot by your gun is yourself. I was robbed at gunpoint once and was very glad I wasn't armed. I would have turned me losing $25 and a budget watch into a gunfight to the death with someone who had the drop on me. That's just stupid.","That would be ideal, but it's also impossible in our current political climate. Taxing guns and ammo is a smaller, incremental step, and it makes logical sense because the thing that causes the harm would also be responsible for mitigating the harm.",0
"The Arab states used to want to keep the Palestinian-Israeli conflict hot, but now they just don’t want to deal with a bunch of Iranian-brainwashed extremists. They use the Palestinians as labor and accept a relatively small number when they manage to sneak across borders, but that’s it.","Something tells me that Jordan has no interest in sharing their land with a Palestinian state, the last time they sort of tried they had to expel most of them.",0
You have to fight for what you believe. Maybe we can’t deter the US military with our rifles and “cosplay” but it is much better than dying without a fight.,How does Biden justify a ban on assault weapons when this shit can happen Willy Nilly. I’ve never been remotely with the GOP but the concept that I can at least own a rifle and die by it is much better than the idea that some regime can shoot me and my wife cause we want our rights.,0
"Given that the footage is likely to be used in the court of law, I guess I'm curious as to what sort of benefit you think could be gained by releasing this footage publicly, especially since such a release could be used by defendants to argue that the publicization of this information makes it impossible for them to receive a fair trial?",I truly hope that this appearance of impropriety and partisanship ends up leading to investigations and charges against those involved but I am not hopeful given how enamored the right wing seems to be with treating our political and governmental systems like a business crafted with the intent of benefiting shareholders and the bottom line rather than a constitutional system of checks and balances.,0
"If you look at the current world map for total fertility rate, only portions of Africa (+ Afghanistan) still have very high fertility rates.","If anything it's a good sign, because if people were getting poorer the world over fertility would be going up, not down.",1
"No, your argument in that comment was not that 18 is too young. Your argument was that any age can be too young and that it should be judged differently for each individual. According to that argument, someone arbitrarily judged to be old enough at 28 could be charged with statutory rape for having consensual sex with someone arbitrarily judged to be too young at age 28.",So in your “utopia” two 28 year olds could have consensual sex and one of them could be charged with statutory rape? That doesn’t sound arbitrary at all. /s.,0
If someone criticizes segregation and apartheid carried on by the Israeli government - - then no antisemitism.,"\- compare Israel to Nazi Germany (if you feel strongly enough that Israel is authoritarian, there is a wide range of other, better comparisons to choose from, that do not weaponize Jewish history).",1
"There’s a great line from the YouTube series “The Alt-Right Playbook.” Essentially, the creator says that, fundamentally, fascists aren’t authoritarians, monarchist, socialists, democracy advocates or anything else. They’re “Whatever puts them in power-ists.” Fascists will absolutely use democracy to elevate themselves to power if they can. But because their chosen model of government is designed to benefit a handful of people while the rest suffer, and no one is allowed to improve their position, authoritarianism is the only way they can maintain their power. Hence the above story.","This will blow up in their face, as usual. The last two elections for Republicans have been pathetic, embarrassing affairs. Millennial’s and Gen Z turn out more and more every election, and both generations a vastly, overwhelmingly, Dem/Prog/Lefty. That’s two generations of voters who hate the Republican Party and their policies. Gen Z is even more Left-leaning than Millennials, if you can believe it. Republicans offer nothing of value to what is now the largest voting bloc in America, and it shows. All this and similar policies will do is galvanize young people against Republicans more and more.",0
"Out of curiosity, could you name one time that Ukraine helped Israel? name one time Ukraine voted in favor of Israel in the UN?",Again Ukraine's UN vote same as Azerbaijan's vote changed nothing at the UN. Just another weak political excuse for blocking lethal aid.,1
Need to liberalize zoning and ensure that there are enough construction workers in the influx. Immigration isn’t an issue unless there are inherent shortages.,"The only problem is housing. Liberalize zoning and there’s no limit to how many people Canada can hold (maybe a billion, but still that’s improbable).",0
"Since donkeys are not endangered (40M+ population in the world), there shouldn't be a problem eating them then, according to your logic. Good that we clear that up.","Clearly, most of the 8 to 10M donkeys killed are not endangered. There are 40M donkeys in the world.",0
"Eh, the major variants now don't seem to be too terrible. Western vaccination rates were pretty good but most people haven't kept up with boosters and infections still seem to be manageable.","By quitting the bad plan with no exit plan, there will be a surge of infections because they cracked down on ANY exposure and don't have better vaccination rates.",1
"It's just the Swiss opportunism in play. They've been doing this for centuries. But i think this isn't smart in the long run. Clients may just switch suppliers. The guepard uses 35mm rounds, there should be plenty of factories able to produce them.","This starts to look like a crisis. If there are no clear objetives, probably there's fighting in the high command of where they want to go. Not having a global strategy will exacerbate the lack of military cohesion. Maybe this opens new options for Ukraine either trying to create more confusion in the Russian State or more effective strategy on the frontline.",0
"Except they shouldn't have 'easily won' them, the Republicans don't stand for anything positive for their voters and should have lost much worse than they did.","So they often run unopposed, or the Democrats who do run stand no real chance of winning, which depresses Democratic voter turnout, so you can't really look at aggregate partisan turnout and take any meaningful conclusions from it.",1
Trump remembers how he fucked over his own father after Fred was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. No way would he agree to anything that would lead to guardianship.,He is a hardcore narcissist. He's not going to allow anyone on 'his' team to argue that he is weak and unable to control himself. He has to feel he's on top of everything and he can fix things.,0
"It doesn’t matter if it’s legal. The Canadian constitution has what’s called the ‘notwithstanding clause’ which basically lets provinces temporarily ignore parts of the constitution. For example, Quebec has already used it to ban government officials from wearing turbans, hijabs, or other religious wear.",Telling individuals that they can't wear religious symbols is NOT religious freedom. You just swapped out Christianity for Atheism.,1
"Just remember that this Republican was willing to spend $95 million on this political stunt, but then will turn around and bemoan the national debt and vote against helping people with healthcare, housing or childcare because the state or the Federal Government can't afford it....","This is right out of the democrat playbook: Complain about something using faulty logic, pass a bill that does nothing that would even fix said complaint in the first place, allocate absurdly large amounts of taxpayer money, and then blatantly steal it all in front of the American public. Then blame the other side for what you did and laugh that your base is so incomprehensibly stupid that they’ll actually go along with it and then keep voting to let you steal more of their money.",1
"The state level judicial partisanship, particularly around gerrymandering, always seems to favor the GOP. NY for example. Voter turnout has never been more critical, and with Republican party legislative domination in states like NC, it is hard to imagine voters feeling their vote will make a difference.","Now, you could argue that being disheartened by gerrymandering has depressed turnout, but even when turnout was good, as it was in 2020, Dems still lose in North Carolina.",1
When all you can do is attack from the right then these kinds of layup questions for Pete is all he is gonna get.,What else can Fox News attack him on? They can't ask him about what he is going to do to prevent more mass flight cancellations or if the US should straight up nationalize airlines like Buttigieg once claimed he would do to health insurance.,0
"It's just not going to happen unless and until Ukraine is able to fulfill the EU criteria for joining, which clearly they aren't all that interested in these days given the latest changes.","The EU should be ready to jump on helping Ukraine to join as soon as the war is over, mixing together the accession process with reconstruction aid, to rebuild a post war Ukraine as a European country. But rushing it now will only make it illegitimate and incomplete.",1
I grew up in southern Louisiana and still have family members down there that say the civil war was a war of northern aggression over states rights.,"Just want to point out that nobody in the confederacy thought they were fighting The Civil War because of ""State's Rights"". One of the major causes of the Civil War was the Fugitive Slave Act which allowed the Federal Government to trample over State's Rights in order to find fugitive slaves, and the Confederate Constitution was basically the American Constitution, only with Confederacy completely losing the State Right of deciding Slavery.",1
We don't hate Jews we hate Israel= proceeds to ethnically cleanese all Jews from Arab countries and giving legitimation to Israels existence as a safe haven for Jews.,"2- Majority of educated Arabs have issues with Israel as a state, not Jews. Explain to me how that is misinformation and what kind of harm does it do.",1
"This was the opinion of trumps council who said they need to be impeached first, but as far as I’m aware they’re basing this entirely on the fact that impeachment exists so de facto that must be what is used. It’s unlikely we test this anytime soon, but I can’t see anything anywhere that says sitting presidents can’t be prosecuted.","If the incarceration lasts longer than their time in office it would de facto take it away, but by incarcerating them you aren’t literally removing them from it but are instead letting the VP take over until they are able to take over again once out of prison.",0
"People (and cultures) hesitant, resistant, or openly hostile to vaccines are going to see their numbers dwindle over time.","When it comes to Vaccines, I don't think you can even sue the Government, but this is just a red herring that the anti-vaxxers like to throw out.",1
"Why would it be racist to subconsciously associate “the west” with whiteness? At the moment I’m most concerned with why you felt I was accusing anyone of racism, when I wasn’t. It wasn’t implied or intended. You are offended over something you decided I meant.","There’s no reason why. There’s no way to include greece and rome as the origin of western civilization that can exclude egypt. That’s unintuitive to most people because they associate “the west” with whiteness. It’s not racist that they have that association, it’s just historically inaccurate.",0
Gillibrand was more interested in removing an obstacle to her Presidential run than about justice for women.,"If this is important, then finish the investigation. I note that Gillibrand hasn't spearheaded that.",0
"There are at least 115,000 successful uses of a firearm per year, according to the government, and some of them are home invasions/confrontational burglaries. If somebody comes over my threshold, I am going to send him to Hell in the most efficacious possible manner.","If the trigger moves back and forth, it is not a single function. The rate of fire does not matter. Whether you think ""the purpose of the definition seems to be"" different from what the text is, does not matter. If the law is defective, it is up to Congress to change it. Through legitimate democratic process. Not by fiat.",0
"While i condemn the loss of human life, it would not be right to blame modi for it as he did as much as he could(he had only been in position of power for less than 2 years and being from a very humble background he didn't have much experience of handling such situations but still riots were controlled within 2-3 days and all guilty were punished).",Godhra train incident happened when 59 karsevaks were burnt alive by a Muslim mob. It sparked of riots in entire of Gujarat for next 2-3 days killing more than 600 Muslims and 300 Hindus.,0
"It’s not so much about differences in policy as it is keeping the power of the incumbent, because it is real. He’s already shown his ability to listen to progressives and act on issues like student loan forgiveness (take it up with the Roberts court), federal marijuana policy, and reshaping the judiciary with a diverse bench. But it’s also important to remember that Biden’s electability came from his appeal with independents. Left wing allies in Congress are important, but the ideal presidential candidate is someone who can answer the calls of progressives while still winning over moderates and independent voters in a general election like Biden did.","As a progressive I would vote for anyone over any Republican, and Joe Biden has already proved to be better than I was expecting even though I did not vote for him in the last primary.",1
"It's not though. It's a strawman. The medical community is overwhelmingly in agreement with ""the left"" on all this stuff. There's outlier anecdotes, sure, but they are indeed outliers and don't invalidate the experience of everyone else.","It's just the typical authoritarian scapegoating of minority groups. It's ""out of vogue"" to promote slavery, miscegenation, antisemitism, segregation, gay rights, so now we've moved on to the trans community. 10 years down the line when that's been mined for all the political capital it's worth, they'll find another scapegoat. It's the same white conservative, often Christian, American tradition that's been going strong in this country since before it even was America.",0
". A lot of papers on non-crazy topics like ""Mutations Associated with Base Excision Repair Deficiency and Methylation-Induced Genotoxic Stress"" and ""Acute Safety Outcomes in Younger and Older Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Treated with Catheter Ablation"".","From everything he did pre-Covid, he seemed like a decent doctor who also had a PhD in public health. Tenured at UCLA. It seems quite strange that he'd suddenly make such a big turn from good scientific practice to... this.",0
"The EU may have a mutual defense agreement, but the military response would likely be through NATO. There is no way that the EU could conduct a war without NATO involvement.",Its important to know that NATO is way more precise how countries have to help in case of aggression.,1
"Fake surrender is not pow, Russia it self has been bombing civilians targeting civilians infrastructures since day 1, can it get more ridiculous than this.",I'm pretty sure they are referring to the Russian who pretended to surrender then began shooting getting all the ones around him who surrendered killed. Don't fake surrender is the lesson here.,1
People who have already adopted solar in rural communities complain loudly to their neighbors about the high cost of investment and how their utility bills still remain high in the winter due to the weather.,"There was just recently near me some genuinely packed town halls of angry bumpkins trying to block the installation of a solar farm in their “quiet community” their chief argument was how much noise it was going to make. Not during construction mind you, they were convinced it was gonna sound like a steel mill or something….",1
"They threatened nuclear terrorism with the nuclear power plant if Ukraine made a push for Kherson, Ukraine pushed for Kherson and liberated it...nothing happened.","There were several threats to individual countries for their contributions to Ukraine like the UK, Poland...nothing happened.",0
"And a lot of time, they're dumb or masochistic enough to keep voting for these people so they need to play it down out of some weird kind of sunk cost situation.",This sort of shit I'd stupid because it detracts from real issues which there are plenty with the government.,1
"Even if the disease becomes a bit more mild, it will still be very rough on people. I believe people will take it more seriously than Covid. Mask mandates will be strict. Vaccine mandates will be strict. Lockdowns might even see more enforcement.","Call me optimistic, but I don't think it would be as bad as you are describing. It would be bad. But, there are a few things that make me think we can avoid a mega bad calamity.",0
"But they didn't because ""hey, we are in the EU, I don't need to become a citizen of this country"". Not very smart.","Edit: Imagine if all those living in the UK for so many years had been able to vote in the Brexit referendum, or in the following general elections.",0
Because this is a story about corruption and that isn't an exclusively Republican problem. All corruption should be stomped out. Fucking assholes selling out the public good for a pitance.,"I don't discriminate between legal and illegal corruption, particularly when it is the corrupt in charge of making the laws that police themselves.",0
"The Speaker can block a general motion to vacate but they cannot block a party-led motion to vacate since they can’t unilaterally change the rules. Like I said, for Republicans the current threshold to initiate a motion to vacate is 5 members, once that threshold a reached it goes to a vote, the Speaker can’t block it.","Not entirely true, you can bypass the speaker and bring a bill to a full house vote by discharge petition, 218 votes is needed and Republicans will be able to get some bills passed. Anything too extreme will be shot down which is why they’ll never vote for a Democratic speaker.",0
"Sorry, I found it on a rabbit hole vid watching session which probably started when watching something from Real Engineering on youtube.","Then we wasted an absolute ass ton of it bc nobody had really used pure titanium in production environments, so we basically had to learn/develop a whole new production and machining process for it. ...and now you can go buy a titanium camping spork or carabiner for like $5.",0
Biden advisers Brian Deese and Shalanda Young said in a memo to reporters Tuesday that the White House would release its own budget in early March.,"“It is essential that Speaker McCarthy likewise commit to releasing a budget, so that the American people can see how House Republicans plan to reduce the deficit,” Deese and Young wrote.",0
"Using your example, the fact that people think history, of any kind at all, is worth teaching is the result of a value judgement. It's a result of the influence most educators' cultures had on them.","Anything educators teach kids is a result of their upbringing, society, ideology, etc. (or that of bureaucrats above them).",0
"This is definitely true, he spared any obvious aryan “races” in his extermination of the country and surrounding areas, that would seem that at least socially the Nazis viewed the Jews as a race.","Even if Jews aren't technically a separate ""race,"" the Nazis considered us to be one and persecuted us as such. Yes, we tend to have an advantage in that we can ""pass for white,"" but that doesn't lessen the oppression. It means needing to live every day of your life as someone else - likely under a different name. (A ""Joseph Goldman"" wouldn't be able to give his real name and not arouse suspicion of being Jewish.) Just ask any LGBTQ person in a repressive society how ""free"" they feel having to ""play straight"" and hide themselves every second of every day lest they be discovered and persecuted.",1
Israel deploys ABM systems. Yes Iron Dome is not one of them but they have a fully integrated defense architecture with midcourse and terminal intercept capability for IRBM and probably ICBM warheads.,Arrow 3 is their primary midcourse/extreme altitude weapon while Arrow 2 and David’s Sling are meant for terminal phase warheads.,0
"She’s unfit to serve on the Supreme Court because of her radical and bizarre religious beliefs not the least of shock, speaking in tongues. Anyone who holds to this belief is psychologically unfit to serve on the Supreme Court.",How on earth did we come to the place where we are urging Supreme Court justices to not let their personal beliefs colour their decisions. Seriously? It’s like an episode of the Simpsons where Bart becomes chief justice.,1
"If Finland magically gets into NATO but Sweden doesn't, it effectively turns into an island surrounded by NATO. That definitely improves their security situation but it allows them to be ""freeloaders"" hoping that others in their way protect them from the Russians so it's better to tie them into the joint alliance.","I do understand that, seeing the perceived vs actual capabilities of Russia does get a bit smile on most people's faces but that sort of attitude can easily lead to complacency and complacency is dangerous. Best we all stay aware of the horrors in Ukraine and Russia's willingness to use force to pursue their geopolitical goals.",0
Common core based education has proven to give students the necessary skills needed to be a productive part of society. There are activists of color that cannot articulate their cause do to lack of proper English.,"Crt is a theory, hence the t in the name. DeSantis has no problem with it not being taught. Crt is one-sided in favor of the black people, there where social ecomical during that part of history that aren't present today. To call for reparations is just ridiculous. If reparations are due it should come from the African tribe leaders that sold their own people to the slave trader's.",0
"Its a warcrime this purely defensive equipment hasnt made its way into Ukraine yet, this system could save so many lives and everyones dragging their feet.","Hell myself I'm a supporter of setting up a safezone within Ukraine, manned by NATO which wouldnt require training Ukrainians.",0
">Last month, Odessa pulled down its monument to Catherine the Great and Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced that 30 more road names would be changed.",Lomonosov had no connection to Ukraine. And having the very personification of Russian culture as an in-your-face monument is obviously untenable at a time when the Russian Empire is warring on Ukraine to enslave it.,0
"Switching parties doesn’t really do much other than change the letter after her name on ballots. She could have stayed a Democrat and caucused with the Republicans, been removed from all her committee positions, or been cut from DNC donor lists and fundraising. McConnell could switch parties and become a Republican and not change any of his positions or views.",I believe that she negotiated with the GOP to switch as an independent that caucuses with the Republicans.,1
"There obviously is but they'll just be way more open about it until they have complete control over everything. Which at this rate they definitely will. Bo regulation over gerrymandering, filibusters, voting rights being shafted from ethnic minorities, we're kinda fucked. But hey as long as ""JuST VoTE"" is our best bet then we can oat ourselves on the back for doing fuck all.",Just vote was our best bet. People squandered it long enough that Id say next years elections is probably most definitely the last chance we get to stop this shitshow.,1
"Well people have said dissociative personality disorder isn't a real condition, even though he's been diagnosed with it.","Multiple degrees in psych and behavior science here - Dissociative Identity Disorder is definitely a real condition. But it’s also a popular condition that liars and grifters like to use to manipulate people. They usually use a concept of DID present in popular culture/Hollywood that’s not correct, rather than the actual manifestation(s) of the condition. (This isn’t a commentary on Walker. I’ve never read his book and don’t know much about him at all - I’m just giving more info.).",1
"The megaraptorid Australovenator from Australia is regarded to as the dinosaur equivilent of the cheetah. Deltadromeus from Africa, which may be a Megaraptorid (or may be a Noasaur) was even faster.","Megaraptors aren't dromaeosaurs (raptors), (they may have been feathered, but this is unclear). They are a medium sized type of dinosaur with a large sickle claw on their hand (similar to Baryonychine spinosaurs, Noasaurs and Neovenatorids... it appears many dinosaurs had hand claws). The featherd dionsaur being referred to is the Dromaeosaur Unenlagia.",0
"Which had nothing to do with the current wreck or the lack of regulation the East Palestinians voted for and got, much to their dismay.",Im filing this incident under “elections have consequences” and losing sympathy for the people of east palestine.,1
"If China is routinely deploying its fighter jets to intercept US aircraft travelling through international airspace near disputed territories, it is reasonable to conclude that tensions are ""raised"" around the South China Sea.",Any evidence of the US routinely and unlawfully intercepting Chinese aircraft in international airspace with a fighter jet in recent times?,0
"This was a republican, who got caught. The only thing this shows is that our election integrity is fine as is since we’re catching voter fraud when it does happen. The right fails to mention that most of the voter fraud have been republicans thinking they could get away with it since President Cheeto keeps saying it’s so rampant and easy to do to his base.",For the last 2 election cycles the vast majority of voter fraud has been small numbers of republican individuals thinking it’s easy to cheat because they hear so much about democrats cheating.,1
"Add in that Ukrain would have to do (artillery) strikes on Russian soil, and any miss will be used by Russia to start a media circus.","But yea, we really should use this as an opportunity to buy fresh new, state-of-the-art weapons to bully Russia with.",1
"By that measure, Russia has justified the West's invasion of Russia to denazify Russia, because I can guarantee you there are at least 2500 actual Nazis in Russia.",By threatening and attacking countries that have literally no interest in russia he is making them hostile towards russia.,1
Biden is doing a good job but hes just too old. So is Bernie. So is trump. There must be a younger and equally effective candidate on the democrats side who can pick up and run with things & shut up all the magas who scream about senility being bad when its Joe but ok with its trump.,"I have a feeling the Republicans are going to pick someone like DeSantis, whose national campaign is going to be about drag shows and bathrooms, and I think we saw in the past three national elections, people don't really give a shit about that. Let's cross our fingers this will be another 2012 where the incumbent mostly just cakewalks into re-election.",1
"Wtf are you talking about how’s your Biochemistry, genetics, Organic Chem? Or less of a science guy, how about a bit of Calculus? How many languages do you have familiarity with? Can you give me the context of a well known piece of literature within its cultural milieu? No, you are a parrot, squawking crap you heard on TV. There’s a real world out there whether or not you want to pretend it doesn’t in your Cable TV world. Education matters.","“Education.” You mean indoctrination? I mean, I don’t know how anyone can support socialism, think farting cows are destroying the environment, deny binary gender, and deny the humanity of the unborn , buy into CRT and every new woke label, and actively work to cancel “wronhink” and still claim the mantle of “educated.” Degreed, yes. But not educated.",1
"For starters, I see you stating this over and over in multiple comments. . Would appreciate it if you stopped pushing this implied narrative of China having massively bigger trade with India than the US.","Not to mention the fact that many imports from China are critical, whereas India can and wants to move away from US dependence.",1
"Would I want to work after 70? Perhaps. Maybe I'd do some part time work or volunteering to keep active. However, I wouldn't want work at that age to be ""I'd better keep working until I die because otherwise I can't afford to eat."".",In a way. We want to work longer because companies only give us 30 hours a week to avoid paying benefits.,1
But there's checks and balances on the Supreme Court as well - both from the legislative and executive branch.,But they want to maintain the precedent that the Supreme Court matters and people shouldn't go around them.,1
"> While the official minimum age to own and carry a gun in Texas remains 21, another law that came into effect in September allows people between 18 and 21 to buy a handgun.","Finally, tighten up existing gun laws, stop the idiotic ""constitutional carry"" and add severe fines, including imprisonment for gun dealers who ""wink and nod"" about cash purchases and require ""gun shows"" to follow all requirements for gun dealer licenses.",1
"People in Texas bemoan the governor and higher elected officials - but Texas cannot and will not change unless the electorate pays more attention to state representative elections, unless the Democrats in Texas (i.e., the most woefully inept and disorganized bunch of Eyeores ever assembled) get their shit together.","The republican state legislators are lazy and unintelligent. Their staffs are lazy and uninformed. They meet with lobbyists, who compose their legislation, in hotel ballrooms eating chilled shrimp next to ornate ice sculptures. The Texas legislature is so seriously flawed and decayed as an institution that any attempt at repairing it would be akin to trying to swat flies away from a cow’s asshole.",0
"There are some Russians who are not lost to insanity who have joined Ukraine in fighting this evil, and some who may not be able to join but stand with Ukraine in the ways they can. YOU are NOT my enemy.","Я з радістю буду боротися з тобою, кровоточити разом з тобою і відбудовувати разом з тобою. Для мене це буде честю.",0
"Edit: Misunderstood you. Maybe? If you meant the individual passwords- The individual passwords are encrypted, yes, not hashed, but the master password is hashed, not encrypted, and the encryption is secured using the master password which is hashed. So if you forget your master password, all passwords are lost.","That said, you're not wrong that if you have a half-decent password that's not reused then you're pretty secure.",1
"Given the tactics oil companies have used to downplay climate change and keep people in the dark over the years, it wouldn't surprise me if these were false flag attacks designed to stir up exactly the anti-activist sentiment you're showing.","Honestly, I question wether this is just rampant stupidity on the part of the activists or if some are false flag ops by oil conglomerates. There is nothing about blocking traffic or hassling paintings that will help the cause. It wouldn't work even if the problem was ignorance. Which for the most part it isn't imo. More like inertia, combined with the wealthiest choosing to continue doing what made them rich. It's great for pising people off though. And alienating them from your cause.",1
"To get to Uzbekistan, Russians have to go through Kazakhstan. Am I correct in undersstanding that Russians feel the need to be two countries away from Russia?","I'm sure plenty of individual Russians don't support the war. However, enough of them do that comments like ""Russian people =\= Russian government"" is misleading and letting them off the hook.",1
"Edit: and to add, Ukraine has absolutely made it a point not to attack civilian targets. Hence the impressive and effective method of attacking Russia's airbases. If you're going to sit here and say Ukraine is doing it all wrong and they need to start attacking civilian targets, then youre fucking insane.","Russia is going to collectively punish Ukrainian civilians whether or not Ukraine bombs Russia's airfields, so why the hell not?",1
"What she shouldn’t have done is break through police lines, break into a federal building, and then bash through an officer erected door barricade made in a last stand position and start climbing through it an attempt to kill the Vice President and members of congress.",Likely only because they don't want to set a precedent that climbing through the broken glass of a locked door to the floor of Congress while government agents tell you to stop with weapons drawn is acceptable.,1
"This is why drone warfare is difficult to defend against: quantity has it’s own quality, and if it cost you more to shoot down than for them to send they win the economic exchange.","The more pressing problem is finding a mass-produced and reliable counter to cheap Iranian drones which (sometimes) do the same thing at a small fraction of the cost of a cruise missile, and shooting down which costs Ukraine far more than the drone. Probably a lot of truck-mounted machine-gun AAs, WW2-style.",1
If for no other reason that the very next thing they do after attempting to defund the IRS is making it easier for the rich to cheat on taxes.,Business owners and those who make their money through capital gains and passive income are where the tax cheats are.,1
"That's the ultimate goal. You have a job, and the company not only provides your health insurance, but also the roof over your head and food on your table and even the transportation to the job itself in exchange for 50 or 60 hours of labor every week. And you really can't leave because where are you going to go and with what money? It's modern day slavery. I've said it before: we're much more like China than Europe.",They've accumulated so much money because of how cheap it is to borrow going back over a decade that they've literally run out of things to buy. So on to the next asset class: residential real estate.,0
These people think Putin would be their friends if they do him favors and still haven't figured out that people like Trump and Putin will just turn on them when it suits the moment.,I don’t understand their reluctance( other than being in cahoots with Putin) to support Ukraine. Haven’t we spent the last sixty years building up our military to fight the Russians? If Ukraine can defeat them for us why not support them .,1
True. I think trump went the extra mile though. It'll come out eventually. Whether he ever actually gets prosecuted or not is a different matter.,"The fact is, he caused a lot of the issues in Ukraine, he caused the Afghanistan collapse, he got caught with a load of secrets he shouldn't have had and had refused to give back. Every action he took helped Russia and their agenda, or was neutral.",0
Very thinly manned. Artillery is still going jagga jagga as the video starts. We're watching the final moments of yet another hapless platoon.,"This is Putin's Winter Offensive, take three. Take one was Bakhmut and it turned into a wet fart. Last week's Orikhiv offensive 100 km to the west cost the Russians a few thousand casualties but failed to make any progress.",0
"They will certainly be able to operate closer to Ukraine's air defence without detection, and relay data back to other aircraft, but they can't get as close as F-22/35 etc.","Ukraine has apparently been able to protect the air force they currently have so far, so I don't think that's a big issue.",1
Yes. I was making the point that this behavior is not going to go away because there is a system of those in service who continue to push this narrative for their own benefit. I have seen the behavior of some service members out in public and it clearly shows they are happy for the worship. They can be confrontational when they don't get it.,"As a former service member, you are asking for a miracle. The hero idea is endemic within the service. It is akin to the police force. You're asking for individuals to give up their special treatment card and humbly accept that while the job is unique, it does not make someone special. It is still just a job and trust me when I say, not everyone who puts on the uniform is worth even the paycheck they receive. Sadly, those are usually the ones that demand the praise.",0
"THey effectively made a deal with the taliban, gutted forces and then at every opportunity blocked and stalled attempts to bring in every Afghan who helped the US military with information, translation or any other services. thousands and thousands of people who would be targets for torture and killing and made it near impossible to withdraw them by the dates set.","Trump didn't work with the Afghan government and dealt with the Taliban, they actively said here have the country back we're gone. Then they instead of securing all the people they needed to pull out intentionally slowed the withdrawal of US citizens, personnel and any Afghans who should be able to move to the US as they helped the military during hte war. They left that all till there were too few troops for protection and too little time. Biden tried to get the date moved back and tried to get more of those people cleared to travel to the US and republicans blocked it.",0
"You seem to forget, all America would need to do is offer Venezuela a deal and bam, they've got plenty of cheap oil again and none of the theocratic fuckery of the Saudis.","Now if we to talk seriously, I wonder what additional currency the Saudis will be willing to accept besides usd. There are not a lot reliable and stable currencies out there in the world, the Euros can be an acceptable currency I guess.",1
"And still is. There might be more religious undertones and more politicians calling for religion-inspired laws, but like the US it remains a secular government even if individuals within it act on their religious beliefs.","Freedom of religion should permit you to hold any religious belief and protects your right to practice it, but it should not ever include censorship of those who'd want to critique it by political manifestations.",1
"Needless aggression, unscrupulous greed, unchecked hate. To have the images, the headlines, incessantly thrust at you, hour after hour, years at a time, you normalize to it. They want you to go numb, become indifferent, or lose your self in distractions, for it to feel like the evil in this world and all its machinations are too big to challenge. That loss of control leads to despair. To re-engage, to claw back even the tiniest sense of control... you don't have to save the world, you just have to make a difference where you can, with the opportunities you are given. That's all I'm asking.",It’s not about that. It’s about not needing to be uncircumcised because our dicks aren’t hanging out anymore. Also most men can’t even wipe their own ass your going to give them something else to keep clean. Finally women prefer uncircumcised and it prevents utis and some stds. But hey there are some people out there who consider it mutalation.. mostly because they themselves are uncircumcised.,1
I didn't move goal posts. I was just letting you know that there are quite a number of examples to go by when it comes to atrocities by Islamic terrorists.,"Isis, different train bombings, al Qaeda. Every country across Africa, Asia, Europe has its own painful story to share. Can't be shared here coz there is so many. And that too happening every day.",0
The person being traded for Brittney is a high profile arms dealer and smuggler which seems to be a very lopsided trade in favor of Russia.,"Because he's someone who used his connections in Russia and his airline to smuggle arms from Russia to Africa. He is basically one of the main reasons for why Russia doesn't have stuff in storage. His connections will have moved onto new things and again, he brought weapons out of Russia, not into the country.",1
"But, you're not wrong. Our government at times has shown they prefer to heroically let people suffer than accept help or assistance from Germany, on principle. Thankfully this is not the case here (this time).","Those aren't gifted to Poland, they will be simply stationed in Poland instead of Germany for the time being.",0
"""gear up to"" makes it sound like there is not a priority to appoint judges currently. Biden has appointed more judges at this point in his first term than both Trump and Obama. Maybe a more accurate headline would be: ""Biden, Senate Democrats say judges will remain a top priority in the Congress to come"". Most of that headline is a direct quote from Schumer, and is more accurate. The senate mid-term results do make it easier for Biden and Senate Dems to appoint judges, so we may see an accelerated pace. However, if we see an accelerated pace, it is not because of 'prioritization', it is due to the senate majority. So, I guess maybe an even better headline would be, ""Senate mid-term results will allow Biden and Senate Dems to expedite judge appointments"". Or something like that. Also, for those fearing this will lead to a judicial landscape that is too far to the left, it is important to note that Durbin is leaving the blue-slip process in place. Hell, you could make a headline like, ""despite increase ability to push judicial appointments thru, Senate Dems commit to bipartisanship by keeping blue slip rule in place"".","The Senate can conduct its own investigations as well, the reason why the Senate hasn’t and only the House has been doing all the congressional investigations was because it was 50/50 which meant committees are deadlocked. That’s why having 51 Democrats is important, with 51 committee chairmen can now use their subpoena powers without a deadlocked vote.",1
"C. It was the opposite of isolation, actually it was called appeasement for a reason! The allies basically allowed the Nazis to build an illegal army in complete violation of the treaty of Versailles and even didn't do anything when he invaded Czechoslovakia, only declaring war when Hitler invaded Poland.","A. The main point of the treaty of Versailles was holding Germany responsible for WWI and forcing them to pay reparations, not completely isolating them.",0
Yes you’re correct - China has no intention of getting their money back - they know they won’t. They just want the land / strategic ports. Once money changes hands never happens because it’s highly unlikely these countries can pay off these debts. There’s a reason they go to China for loans (China offers 4x interest rates compared to institutions like the world bank or IMF) - it’s because no one else will offer them money (world bank / imf).,"China, which gets $Billions in ultra low interest loans by running a ""Developing Nation"" scam, turns around and loans the money to struggling nations, with nasty Gotcha terms hidden in the fine print.",1
"It’s a distributed database that allows for the government to track a specific firearm, but prevents it from pulling up a list of people who own a specific type of firearm. They can, with some work, take a firearm that was recovered from a crime scene and trace that back to the person who purchased it from the store. But if the government were to ban, say, assault weapons, it would be infeasible to pull up a list of AR-15 owners and go knocking on doors.",It passed by a very narrow margin and it was not well-understood that the police could unilaterally bar an individual from owning guns (or delay issuing permits). The police bureau is extremely unpopular in Portland and if people here had been made better aware of that fact it absolutely would have been enough to tilt the scales.,1
And setting the precedent that Biden will ascede to even ridiculous requests like this will just let them continue to do it to him and future presidents.,"If Biden answers the summon, we're normalizing bogus ""investigations"" started for absurd reasons with no merit or reason to exist.",1
If there are other collateral disputes between the US and China which indicates that tensions are continuing to increase - such as China violating US airspace with surveillance balloons and considering providing lethal assistsnce to Russia in its war against Ukraine - then it is reasonable to conclude that tensions are increasing.,"If China is routinely deploying its fighter jets to intercept US aircraft travelling through international airspace near disputed territories, it is reasonable to conclude that tensions are ""raised"" around the South China Sea.",0
"As much as this is a victory for Ukraine, I'm just dreading the amount of damage the occupation forces did in the 7 months they were there. There's already been reports of Russian forces looting the city on their way out and it wouldn't surprise me if the Ukrainians find mass graves of murdered civilians like they did in Bucha.","The fact that Ukraine likely doesn't have to fight 50,000 Russian troops for control of the city is a great thing, but it doesn't mean much for the progress of the war (which is obviously still going in Ukraine's favor).",1
"Boycott of 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics had huge impact because 3 countries from top 5 of previous Olimpics (U.S.A., West Germany, Japan) didn't participate.",One article I read stated 40 countries may boycott 2024 Olympic. If IOC refuse to budge then Olympic as we know it may end in 2024.,1
"Part of Trump's December 2019 speech: ""So they make these things, and then they put them up, and if you own a house within vision of some of these monsters, your house is worth 50 percent of the price."".","Hmm. No details, but if 150 eagles is a reason to STOP pursuing clean energy for the population of the US, the numbers don't make any sense....150 v 300 million (US only). How many people in Houston die from lung disease from living near refineries or even Midland / Odessa where gas is burned nightly? Just asking.",1
A Bradley/AMX-10 Armored division could punch hard and punch fast through a gap. Defensivly they could stop any russian offensive cold. Highly mobile and capable of killing modern russian tanks in bunches.,"75-ton abrams tanks are going to have a lot of mobility problems in Ukraine. Ukraine has a lot of rivers, the tank is too heavy for normal bridges. They would need their own bridges built for them which would be an easy target for russian artillery. It would probably get stuck in the mud often as well. Those problems, plus introducing an entirely new platform which would require an insane amount of spare parts, ammo, clogging up the logistics networks (need to be transported by rail or flatbed if moving within theater), and training new tank crews (takes 6-ish months to train one crew) might make it more of a pain in the ass than its worth. Bradleys are capable as hell. Theyve got TOW missiles, a 25mm auto cannon, room to move a squad of dudes across a field, and theyre half the weight of an abrams.",1
"There are trillions of dollars being invested in this renewables pipe dream by hippie investors like major banks, the ADB, sovereign wealth funds and medium risk private equity.","Except for the UN, government officials, the world media, tens of millions of voting age or near voting age young people, and the fossil fuel companies who paid PR firms to get you to this opinion.",0
… The cause of recidivism isn’t “prisons are too nice.” It’s a society that undermines the formerly incarcerated and their right to a normal life at every turn.,"Let me get this straight - you think the recidivism rate indicates people who WANT to be in prison? Moreover, you think these people who want to be in prison return DESPITE the low pay? As if they would happily go back inside sooner except the pay out here is just so much more enticing than what comes with their little concrete and steel home.",1
And this always gets so much worse in cities for one simple reason. Cities can build more living space and workspace on top or below of existing space. But doing that with roads is damned near impossible on any large scale.,"How did we get to the point where the ""highways are effectively unusable""? We built and built and built more and more and more highways. Why would you expect it to ever change if we keep doing the same thing?",1
"Sony is the one acting in bad faith here, and they have already made more gamers ""lose out"" than this Microsoft/Activision deal ever could.","Well I remember when Shenmue 3, Soulcalibur 3, and Dead or Alive Extreme 3 all were NOT released on any Xbox platform. Those were deals made by Sony to keep games from Xbox players. Is that the kind of thing you are looking for? And don't forget how Sony blocked cross-play on a multitude of games like Minecraft, rocket league, etc. before they finally relented.",0
Ask them to do it and watch as you can find cis women fall into each and every description they use to try and other trans women from the group.,"And sure, someone might be trotting out , but before you do just remember: The grand total of transwomen in that study is 46. Not 222 - that's just the number of people who asked to transition. 46 transwomen were the only participants they had enough data on to use for the study.",1
know Pete is unpopular on this sub but he is the most effective communicator in the Democratic party.,"I actually love Pete and think if he wasn't a gay man with ""Butt"" in his name, he would be a lock for POTUS in the future but this country is fucking stupid and I'm not sure we could overcome such a childish obstacle.",0
"•	Apple is collecting this data regardless of a user’s settings where they are given the option to turn data collection off, possibly giving them a false sense of privacy.","Apple has been avoiding talking about its TOS publicly, specifically its privacy policy ever since the announcement of the ""Do not track"" feature. It's a taboo topic alongside encryption on the iCloud, considering the position and reasons of Apple on the encryption of their devices (again for privacy reasons).",1
"No this will be lobbed at rightwingers in mneme wars for years to come, or it will force them to stop using twitter as an example of ""censorship"" b/c it will backfire everytime, as someone will throw this link at them.","Yes, but those people don't run around political forums claiming to be centrists or (in one extreme case) get trolled into buying a social media site in the name of promoting free speech.",1
"Some state constitutions have laws that prevent going against voters, so if they try to change that, it could also cause upset. This will likely spill over onto the national stage, but from the point of view of the national constitution, they're still obligated to go by the certified electoral college results.",It would give state legislaturea the ability to district lines but more importantly it would give states the final say in presidential electors for the electoral college.,1
"Professional pollsters like YouGov and MorningConsult which were fairly accurate last year are showing the same thing. DeSantis took a lead for a couple of months after the Midterms, but Trump has taken it back in most polls.",BUT interesting that Trump is so far ahead of DeSantis with GOP'ers as previous polls showed the opposite. Rally round the crook syndrome maybe?,1
"If trump would have just turned over the documents in the first place, we wouldn't even be discussing it anymore.","Let's also not forget to mention Trump personally sorted which documents he would and would not give back. The likelihood of Biden personally stashing confidential information is close to zero, this was something his team did. This is not to remove all responsibility Biden has in this mistake, which is what it is, but there is absolutely no sign of bad faith on his part. In the political points scoring arena that might not mean much to Trump supporters but as far as the law is concerned that key difference is very significant.",1
When I moved here to Texas I did all the research and wrote up a full pro-forma on running an in home daycare so my wife could stay home. The math simply makes no sense without either paying slave labor wages ($12/h is average here for childcare workers) or charging ridiculous prices. Subsidy really is the only viable answer because I won't pay people garbage to work for me so we scrapped the idea. When Texas completely runs out of child care maybe they will change their tune.,"Most businesses pay out relative to risk. Working with people is inherently risky, you're always one hover parent and lawsuit away from bankruptcy. Now I have a business where I teach people with disabilities job skills and get them a job then go home. If I owned a group home or daycare I'd be worried constantly.",0
"Before people come out here and start complaining about how Jeffries is the greatest enemy of progressives to have ever lived, note that he ran unopposed. So I guess the progressives in Congress don't really agree with you.","Let’s be real, he joined the progressive caucus to hamper its efforts. He has been very vocal about his dislike of progressives and their objectives. He is a “money in politics” democrat, just like Pelosi. He doesn’t want to change the game, he doesn’t want to fix this broken system because he doesn’t see it as broken. He is someone who thinks neoliberalism works.",1
"So, instead of helping Ukraine win, and stopping Russia alltogether, and making sure that there will never be a ""future"" fight with Russia, US is holding back, while readying to ""fight"" with Russia.","They can give Ukraine what it needs, now, and save countless lives, and international order, or risk it all, and pay later in a bigger war.",0
"The point is that the arguments are nearly always of that variety. That notion of ""well what about ME?"".",Yeah. I carry concealed. I dread the day I have to pull my firearm and take a life. But at that point it’s him or me. I hope I never have to. Chance favors the prepared mind.,1
"Great. We already know that. And using it will get you noting but vaporized. There’s literally no upside for Russia in this situation they’ve stupidly gotten themselves into. The best thing they could do is just pull out of Ukraine with their tail between their legs and hope the world eventually forgets. Either that, or the Russian people need to send Putin and his allies the way of Tsar Nicholas. There are less and less positive paths forward for Russia with Putin in power.","Russia claims they are winning and have all of these amazing capabilities. Russians kind of know some level of bullshit is up, because there always is with their government, but ignoring it and accepting the lies as truth is better then accepting that hundreds of thousands of their countrymen are dead and that their economy is in free fall.",1
"Fact of the matter is, the amount of glyphosate being ingested by consumers is about a million times too low to have an antibiotic effect in the gut.",Let's look at a study which examined this in detail. Keep in mind that all of the relevant studies in the article you posted were speculation with no actual lab research.,0
Denying the Russians' participation eight years ago at Danbas is like denying the participation of NATO troops on the Ukrainian side now.,3) The Minsk agreements were sorta doomed from the start with Russia refusing to admit any involvement in the conflict. You can't establish peace when the other party claims to not even be involved.,1
"Citation needed that the ""native population isn't driving demand"", since people don't live as healthy individuals for 40 years and then drop dead. Instead, as people get older, they require more services.","""There is a rising demand for health services due to an ageing population with increasingly complex healthcare needs. People are living longer and, as they age, their healthcare needs change. The number of people living with long-term conditions is set to increase, with more individuals managing multiple conditions."".",1
"You certainly can blame any and all parts of the ""regulatory clusterbacle"", especially polticians like him. Yeah he isn't solely to blame, obviously, but as a prominent mouthpiece for the ideology that is responsible I'd say it's fair to cast such aspersions.","Rather than blindly assigning blame or upvoting comments that align with our biases, we should approach complex issues with an open mind and a willingness to listen to all perspectives. Only by working together and engaging in productive dialogue can we hope to solve the pressing issues facing our society and our planet.",1
It's Australia - a place where almost everything you encounter is trying to kill you. One radioactive pill isn't making that place any more dangerous than it already is.,"For all intents and purposes, if the radioactive source is removed, the area is safe for humans again.",1
"Better alternatives exist (the trusted trader approach that the UK has proposed, amongst other things), and there is no good argument to push the entire UK into an economic union and as a political subject to a large political block, especially as alternatives exist to address the specific issues around diversion of trade etc.. Frankly binning the NIP would be a better outcome.","I'm not sure that NI is that high on the radar for most UK nationalists (or that UK nationalists are a big enough constituency to bin a PM for that matter..), throw in that a referendum would neatly pass the 'blame' to those that voted, rather than the PM who offered it, doubly so if it were as a result of a process enshrined in an agreement the UK had in place for a long time prior.",0
"The translation here is idiomatically incorrect. He didn't say Putin is a ""nobody"" as if he was a loser. He suggested that Putin doesn't exist, being either dead or incapacitated, and therefore cannot possibly meet to discuss terms with Ukraine.","This is the second or third time in the last week that he has alleged Putin is dead or at the very least, not making decisions in Russia anymore.",0
"Indeed - it's called coercion, and no contract based on coercion is valid, at least not in the developed world. I know some shitholes like KSA allow for all sorts of coercive contracts.",Just because the basics of religion were an outgrowth of human lack of understanding doesn't mean we have to keep them.,0
"Unpopular opinion, now, can we restrict EBT cards from being used to purchase goods that almost guarantee obesity, diabetes and heart disease? I'm looking at you, liter sodas, candy bars, etc. I mean, you can't buy cigarettes or liquor with EBTs, but pure corn syrup, we're apparently okay with that?","Edit: I should add the underappreciated impact of lobbying by industrial food (corn) producers like Archer- Daniels- Midland, Monsanto, etc can't be overstated in policies like allowing these foods to be subsidized.",0
Pretty sure the Catholic church with the amount of known abusers and number of victims in the last 50 years puts the church as the largest pedophile protection ring in modern history.,"Why does it surprise anyone that this pope (and probably most if not all before) endorses the molestation of children, come on people this is the Catholic Church we're talking about.",1
"The US is actually one of the only countries where citizens have to pay taxes regardless if they made their money outside the US. I am a US citizen living and working in South America. I visit family in the US once per year and otherwise don't use any US infrastructure, services, Healthcare, etc, etc. The only thing the US gives me is a passport and a vote. I work for a Peruvian company. The US takes taxes from me every year anyway. Yes, I can claim a write-off for some of it, and I do. That's why that rule exists in the first place. Of course some people exploit it. But I'd just like to reiterate that I owe the US taxes for the rest of my life simply because I was born there. One of the only countries in the world with that bullshit law. I would have to renounce my citizenship to break free of that.","I am considered ""non domiciled"" in Peru (meaning Peru, while having granted me residency, insists I still ""live"" somewhere else). I am taxed at a flat rate of 30% here (all non-doms are, regardless of income level). My income level is such that I just enter the 35% bracket in the US so I can write off the first 30% that I pay here, the rest I owe to the IRS (32% of a portion of my income, and 35% of a small portion of the rest). It's not a lot, but it still feels like bullshit because I don't use anything those tax dollars pay for. I'm basically a tourist in the US even though I have a US passport and we don't charge tourists income tax.",0
"""Lets put that in the bottom right of our SWOT analysis. Now, the inevitable social disintegration and peer-nation warfare that will accompany the climate apocalypse can be put in the bottom-left."".",PS. You can also let retired seniors die suffocating in their own feces because you're in the pocket of private long term care cutting costs during a major pandemic.. or you can sell off protected wetlands to developers etc. Etc.,1
"And also take this with a grain of salt, but I read months ago about the US is training pilots on the F-15 and F-16's () and if things actually happen, they get their training and planes, you're talking about Ukraine having more weapons, giving them an advantage, unless Russia will be willing to send the planes they have, because as of now they haven't been able to gain air superiority.","16 weeks is 4 months,. January is over, they will be ""trained"" by the end of May if the training starts next week, summer starts on June 21st... sooooo I wasn't wrong saying that is not before the summer, even experienced people will have to learn new things, yeah, no need to teach them what a wrench is, bu the engine of an Abrams is not the same as the T72 or whatever they're used to.",0
The Hong Kong protests were pretty much doomed from the start considering they had the entire mainland stacked against them. The Iran protests are nationwide and nothing the government’s tried so far has rly been able to stop or even contain them.,The guy directly below this comment talking about how this movement has supposedly been “squashed” when Iran literally saw a resurgence in protest activity today?,0
"Yeah booo India for calling out other countries failing to fulfill their 10 year old promises, the same countries who got rich burning fossil fuels for decades and want to stop others doing the same.","But India has also said, which is hypocrisy at it's finest...India has called on rich countries to fulfil a decade-old promise to provide $100 billion in annual climate finance to developing nations. We shall buy it all and you shall pay for the climate. Thanks India.",1
"So yeah, currently, without the help of the oil majors like Shell, Total, Exxon and co. the Russian oil/gas is screwed, they climbed much higher because of the legal western help, but now without the parts, expertise, and overall culture of actually giving a damm, it is expected it will just all break down over time. Their aerospace industry is headed for a similar collapse (they can't even produce the rockets to send people to space anymore, SpaceX basically killed them on that front, RD180 never coming back, and Russian space program may very well cease to exist in under a decade).","Yes, when these sanctions were announced, everyone pretty much expected this outcome. Of course, naysayers were like ""Russia can do it themselves???"" ignoring the fact that even in the Cold War, Russia was relying on stolen western tech to keep their stuff operational.",0
"And I just hope Ukraine won't let another like him be exchanged to their death. Good chance they actively try to avoid this sort of thing, but I just find tragic things to be tragic is all. There's enough senseless death in war, and a potential administrative oopsie or lapse in thinking or judgement resulting in torture and public execution is pretty shit.","Referring to them as deranged fucks is sympathizing with them because predictable torture and execution of a returned POW, then broadcasted for the world to see, is abhorrent to me?",0
"Rise up within and establish the We People Party once again to correct the current situation of lies, hatred, and division.",We the People have allowed politicians to conduct public democracy functions behind closed doors for to long.,0
"Trump will beat DeSantis? Cool story, but he still has to beat Biden, and he's in an even worse position than he was in 2020.","On the flip side, Biden has more weaknesses than he did in 2020. He's older, the economy is in rough shape (this might change by 2024 but who knows) and he has many other policy decisions to defend now. Not to mention the chaos of the Ukraine war could go either way when it comes to American sentiment.",1
"Maybe if these (ethnic Russian) new conscripts, from bigger cities are forced into bad situations, sentiments in Russia can change politically around Putin.","None of that is guaranteed to lead to Putin’s downfall, but the possibility of it increases as this war drags on and he brings more troops into it.",1
"To embolden the masses to take up arms and by violence, take over the transfer of power so that a madman could remain in office. Undermining the will of the people AND with zero proof. None. Zero.",Time and time again the allegations have been disproven and rejected. Proof doesn’t exist. Never did.,0
"At the end of the day, we are all but humans, and these are just artificial lines and names on the map, but I do think it is important to look a bit more into the claims before further discussions.","I claim no neutrality to this issue: I’m a US citizen of Chinese descent, and this issue is a sticking point in Sino-Japanese relations and one of the very few things that both Chinas agree and cooperate.",0
"> Raskin replied: ""Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."".",I see it this way. Religion was useful in getting out of the dark ages…but it has outlived it’s usefulness. It is one of the greatest threats and greatest hurdles for our progress as a species.,1
This was spun a million ways in the covid era but at its heart it's just classic patent theft but it's so widespread now that even on patent pharmaceuticals are made in chinese labs in raw form. My on patent Rx was $25 for 2275mg but I could get 10g on chinese ecommerce platforms. 100g was like $60 and 1kg $90. Larger quantities seemed unreasonable. I just was testing it out. direct comparison of samples showed it was a less pure product with a %10-15 cut of cornstarch which was crude and thus didn't pass the eye test but did indeed contain a good percentage of the active ingredient. Like everything it was a cheap knockoff.,"In relation to China the government's adversarial stance towards the US geopolitically makes them fleeing persecution from their home governments. Spygate on the homeland is an added factor with intel Chinese possibly flipping informants within their communities etc. I think it's still more like Cubans as they flee. The US is relaxing migrant policies on geostrategic points of Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as well. There used to be a dumb joke avout the Miami authorities sending back haitians that washed ashore. There's so many immigrants at times it can feel daunting. My current neighborhood is only 20% white with a lot of Haitians, Jamaicans, Arabs and South Asian Muslims, Latins and then regular black folks. There's also conflict between the West Indians and regular black folks adding a layer. It's all good these guys all are here for the melting pot. There's thriving West Indian and Arab fast food spots. Mexican ice cream shops. We can absorb many more immigrants and if someone sees you more than twice nobody starts problems. I can be out even at weird hours and it's relatively safe too.",0
"It isn't about ""telling the other side"". It's about showing the opening ceremony on TV because it's a prominent event. Not showing it for political reasoning is not impartiality.",Either there is impartiality or there isn't. I'd just wish the BBC were honest with both themselves and the public at large because it's a fucking disgrace lmao.,0
3. No-fly zone over some or all of Ukraine - would be completely understandable now that we know missiles could hit Poland.,100 or so km zone along the NATO border with Ukraine hardly invades Russian airspace. It should be enough buffer to intercept anything possibly hitting NATO territory (and cover Lviv and other border regions by a happy accident).,1
"I am concerned however, that if Ukraine goes on the offensive by attacking targets inside of Russia instead of being strictly defensive, that it backfires and causes the Russian people to feel like they need to rally their support for the war instead of feeling bad for Ukraine and not supporting the war.","I think they speculate on exhausting the ukrainian general public over the winter with power outages, cold and high casualties at the front lines to a point where public pressure forces the ukrainian government to react on russia's coincidentally increasing efforts on negotiations, where russia then hopes to secure those territorial gains in exchange for peace, giving Putin a land bridge to crimea and allowing him to pretend everything went according to plan.",1
The whole thing has their full attention. They have committees working night and day with the problem in hand. We all know they're not doing anything but putting forth a little lip service though.,"I think we can all agree that Hunter Bidens dick has the GOPs full attention. They plan to go over every inch of it, making sure they have a deep, full appreciation for the topic. So help them God, they'll get to the bottom on it.",0
"It’s not disenfranchisement, they haven’t been revoked of the right to vote. The people who failed to fill out their form, which is their own mistake, can return to recast. The government shouldn’t have to hover over you to make sure you know your own mistakes.","Yeah but, if it doesn’t matter why is it on there? I’m not just gonna take your word on it, if it was designed to be filled out it must be filled out. Elections are a serious thing, you shouldn’t just assume they know the numbers and will be 100% honest to them, any law that could further cut back a chance of corruption im all in for.",0
"If Israel didn't fear Iran's missile stockpile, or Iran's capacity to retaliate, they would have destroyed every nuclear facility in Iran a dozen times over.","Exactly, Israel don’t mess around, they took the new at the time F16 modded it and took out Iraq nuclear power plant in the 80s and they were first to use F35 in combat over Syria. They also are penetrating Iran airspace with the F35 so could see repeat of Iraq but with F35s.",1
"There’s no way a small handful of documents found in secured locations where Biden conducted legitimate business as VP, and then proper return procedure followed and initiated by Biden himself, would ever rise to gross negligence or malicious intent.","If Biden swears he has no more classified documents at his home(s), signs an affidavit saying as much, and then someone notices a classified document in his home(s), then yes, he should absolutely have a routine search warrant executed, same as Trump did (enough with this pussy-ass 'raid' bullshit).",1
interesting if you think in an all out war between russia and ukraine it isn't a possibility ukraine run out of soldiers first.,"That will force Russia hands to do an all out mobilization, and potentially NATO soldiers to be mobbed since Ukrainian bodies might run out.",0
"any how back to trump: he is directly responsible-through both action (advocating quack science,) and inaction (ignoring proper science, and not taking approx measures,)- for over a million deaths. each death was some one's son or daughter, maybe father or mother. husband or wife or lover.","honestly... christian doctrine makes it clear that murder is the only in the ten commandments that can be committed with inaction- that's what made the parable of the good samaritan so offensive to certain legalistic parties- in the story, the priest and the rich merchant person (""upstanding members of the community"") were murders for not helping the victim where the scummy samaritan wasn't. (to put it into a more modern perspective, the samaritan would be a trans woman, as far as the stereotypes the audience holds.).",0
"Well, if they all wind up in Florida it means that those states will be all the 'bluer' and perhaps the Sunshine State can serve as a kind of 'safety valve' where all the reddist of the elderly wingnuts can be isolated.","I think that too many Dems across the country still want to play by 'gentlemen's rules' and to 'take the high road'. They approach things like 'Kumbayah' Care Bears who, quoting the old Coca-cola ad song, 'want to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony' and 'build bridges' and all. That all might have worked 50, 40, 30 even fifteen years ago but these times call for 'Killer Kodiak Bears' not 'make nice Teddy bears.'.",0
Legislation is complicated. Even popular laws have to work within a rat's next of existing laws and procedures and it takes time to properly study and implement them.,"You wait eagerly for the laws you want to be passed and 2 years go by, maybe 4 years go by, and still nothing. Are you going to pay enough attention to know it was GOP fuckery that caused the bill to fail or are you going to think ""I voted for that jackass 4 years ago, he hasn't done shit, I'm going to vote for someone else."".",0
"Now billionaires are being embarrassed by their emissions while the globe is burning down, so... gotta shuffle off the gas guzzling airplane and pretend they don't have twin-engine narrow bodies they fly around as private jets.","Honestly I'm not sure if there would have been many takers if they offered to give it away for free, net of anything. The scrapyards might have fought over it since it does have a few million dollars of scrap value, but... not much beyond that. (Frankly, moving it might have eaten so far into the costs that make even scrapping it a net loss, depending on the state of the plane's hardware and how thorough of inspections it needs.).",0
I was born a woman and I identify as a woman. I 100% consider that surgery to be have been “gender affirming” because I was flat as a table and always self-conscious about it. I felt more like myself and the gender I identify as after that surgery. I consider all breast augmentation to be gender affirming - why else would we want our breasts enlarged?,"I've never thought of breast augmentation as gender affirming until now. Hell, I didn't even think about how what you said relates to me until I had already typed, ""signed a dude"". See, I was going to say, ""signed, a dude who is not personally affected"" because what you said makes so much sense.",1
"In New York, we also have recent reporting that the Manhattan DA’s office has a grand jury looking into Trump now. So, again, like Georgia, that doesn’t guarantee that Trump will be charged there, either, but it helps to explain why he hasn’t been charged there yet if he will be.",My argument doesn't contend that the investigations have to take this long or that there's no way they could’ve charged him earlier.,1
"I just don’t think I would ever advocate Trump winning the nomination over him, even if it’s obvious DeSantis has much better odds of beating the democratic nominee.","If I’m going to claim Trump deserves to be disqualified, and republicans are complicit in his crimes, then I can’t well turn around and say I hope he wins the primary because it’s politically convenient.",0
"It's also amazing how people still don't understand that a country is not a business. Even if Trump was a genius businessman, that doesn't mean he'll be good at running a country. They are so fundamentally different in absolutely every way. I don't want my country run like a business, I want it run like a country.","Friendly reminder that he directly admitted to his supporters that he never wanted to do that, literally immediately after winning in 2016. It was like two weeks later, he hadn't even been inaugurated yet, and a crowd started chanting 'lock her up' at him. He stopped them and said, no no no, we don't want that. That plays well before the election, but we're not actually gonna do that.",0
That and probably claiming Israel did this would force Hezbollah to 'counter-attack' Israel which would lead to even worse results.,"I agree that Israel misrepresents some of these wars/conflicts to its own advantage. However, I think it is best to look at them case by case rather than extrapolating that the ""standard narrative"" is largely a work of fiction. Every country in the ME has been belligerent and warlike so we might as well say all of their respective narratives are embellished and largely fictitious. But again, I see no point in making generalisations and I was talking about that one sentence that you criticized, not everything they claimed.",1
"To be clear, Greenberg (the witness in question) is a convicted fraudster who is motivated by wanting a better plea deal and fabricated a child sex trafficking allegation against a political rival.",One of the other witnesses is the child who was raped. She doesnt believe that she was a victim and so is unlikely to be a cooperative witness.,0
"I used to work in a factory and a new boss came in and told the maintenance guys to stop shutting down one of the chains for maintenance every weekend because it was eating into production time. They told him that was a bad idea but he didn't listen. Then, like you, he claimed that everything was OK because for 2 months everything was fine and that proved the weekly maintenance wasn't needed. But then it broke down and because of no maintenance they had to replace several key components that had failed and instead of the 16 hours of down time that would have happened over those two months the line was down for a week and they had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on replacement parts.","Just because it hasn't broken yet doesn't mean it won't and, when it does, there are serious doubts about if the people they have left are going to be able to handle the issues. It's not a matter of if, but when Twitter is going to crash and how long it will be down.",0
"A 17 year boy Israeli agent in hospital on the brink of death after a car crash? justifications of these actions are so silly, this is in no way self defense or anything like that, all of you should be ashamed of yourselves, taking hurt and almost dead boy from hospitals and killing them is the ugliest and the most unhumane thing I've heard of, wild animals have more mercy on people more than them.","""apparently they thought he was an undercover Israeli agent and that his body could be ransomed for Palestinians being held by Israel or for the bodies of Palestinians held in Israel"".",0
"Fun fact: not sure if aware (not trying in any way to be condescending), but since NK has declared itself a nuclear power a little over a month ago, their doctrine for nuclear launch is ""first strike"" if they feel that their government, sovereign territory or ANY OTHER PERCEIVED THREAT. They live in a perpetual state of existential crisis, so they could perceive literally anything as a threat warranting a first strike attack. Also, they've outright said that these tests they've been conducting are for the sole purpose of preparing to attack SK AND U.S.","Not sure that they have a reliable SLBM platform. If they do, they've done an amazing job of concealing it. If nothing else, all missiles can be traced to origin of launch, no matter how fast their flight time. For example, the Russian Topol-M, depending on launch location and location of target city, could make it from Point A to Point B in approximately 25-42 minutes after launch. Biggest problem for defense systems is its speed and relatively low (70mi altitude), flat trajectory. By comparison, our (U.S.) W87 warhead has an entry altitude of 700 miles.",0
"Shortly after the Trayvon Martin case made national news, I was stuck in traffic on I-70 and was flipping through the AM bands in my car. There was some batshit right-wing talk show on taking callers who were all saying how great Zimmerman was and using terms like “black youth.” Saying it was the exact right outcome and shit.","How do you draw a line between people speaking their minds and allowing hate to be spread? The people I heard that day weren’t throwing n words around or anything, but their point was pretty clear; it was also clear these folks knew how to word their points, they were probably regular callers who had some grasp of the medium.",0
"Err... That was what retirement age was meant to be once. It's just that we raised the life expectancy. I am not saying it is a good thing to die younger, but the whole point is that you are not suppose to have decades of retirement.","If you want to go a little further in the details of the system, the 62\64 thing is when people can start retiring. But the French pension system also requires you to work for at least a specific duration, which is 43 years.",1
"Neolibs before the 2020 election: ""The left has to swallow their pride and rally behind Biden just this once to beat Trump.","I think Biden beats Trump again, full confidence on that. Trump is never being president again. I fully believe that...",1
"The US didn't get involved for the first 5 years of WW2, instead choosing to profit from weapons sales. It is difficult though to compare getting involved in a world war, with interfering in a conflict between two neighbouring countries on the opposite side of the world to you.",Maybe the US didn't get involved early on because it started out as a 'conflict between two neighboring countries on the opposite side of the world'. At what point does it become acceptable for the US to intervene in far flung conflicts? When 3 or more countries are involved? When the fascists are on YOUR doorstep?,1
"As a Swede I have have not seen the best of Erdogan and his regime lately, and have been resentful of the Turkish diplomacy towards us. But that does not take away my empathy and sympathy for the Turkish people and I am sure many Swedes feel the same.","I know the relations between our countries have not been the best lately, but let's put the whole NATO-thing aside for a moment. If we can help with the rescue work and relief after these frightening earthquakes I am confident we are eager to do so.",0
"Why would anyone pay more taxes than they have to? They are obviously saying ""tax us more"" to appease the people, not because they actually want (or even should) pay more.","They want higher tax rates because only the nearly rich will get stuck paying them. That’s the up and coming small businessman, the doctor married to the lawyer, etc. These are people who are likely going to retire with a few million dollars or maybe 10-20 million dollars.",1
"As a Chinese, I really hope that Chinese understand that the US has always been the nicest country to us.",But that’s how the Western system can seem to Chinese people (especially during Trump’s term). Makes it look like someone with zero experience or ability in politics can be put in the most senior political office because of wealth and becoming a beloved celebrity. Whereas a Chinese leader has always had decades of experience in governance.,1
"It also means that the members of EU retain their independency as countries - they do stuff together, not submit one to another.","And finally it will silence smaller countries of EU, may be force them to create coalitions inside EU, and that might be the end of EU integrity.",0
"Thanks, I am guessing now since the F-22s max ceiling is 50.000 feet (but likely higher probably secret) and the balloon was at 60.000 feet, the pilot would have to be a like a sniper pilot, probably not possible but a missile would guarantee a hit. Plus at that altitude I would not know how it would affect things like bullet drop.","Anybody know why they would use a missile to down the last one and probably this one if Chinese again, instead of just firing a few rounds in it. Because a missile is much more expensive than a few rounds.",0
"Sounds more like GOP white conservative Christians unless you support doublespeak (1984) deliberately obscuring, disguising, distorting, or reversing the meaning of words as Trump and DeSantis are prone to do.","Furthermore these Blue eyed Christian men want women to stay home, Tulsi, and bear children, not go out and speak their mind.",0
"But how do you fix a system with a 100 Republican judges and 20 liberal judges because they packed it last term? You can't take the high road, say ""this is wrong, we can't also do this"" and simply expect the goodwill of the universe to make any meaningful change with only 20 judges in a 120 judge system (hypothetical numbers). You'll never get those other 100 judges to sign off on neutering the group that put them into place.","Edit: SCOTUS Barrett is a great example. Republicans spent 4 years talking about how they can't fill a Supreme Court vacancy during an election year because the American people deserve a vote in the coming term, then when it happens to them the next cycle, they jam in an unqualified extremist known for her anti abortion stance, almost no court experience and less than 5% of the typical document and case submissions. They pushed her through in what, 30 days or something stupid, world record just in time for the roe v wade ruling. You can't simply take the high road and accept that, and think that you're going to get anything done weigh the 6-3.",0
"Russians have just created a new hot-spot in the world, and its resolution will rest on a total defeat of one of the parties. After this, normal coexistence is no longer possible and Putin is counting on future Russian leaders to be aware of this and pursue his policy until one of the following:","Russian leadership is pushing its own country into the corner. Now it's all or nothing for Russia, because if, after this, they only go for a partial occupation of Ukraine and call it quits, they can be 100% sure Ukraine will try to massively remilitarize and enact revenge (unless Russia succeeds in removing the current Ukrainian leadership and force Ukraine to accept unfavourable terms, like perpetual neutrality).",0
"Because these ballots can be dropped off anywhere in the county, there is no way of estimating how the vote will skew.",The whatever reason is that the Rumble morons were telling viewers that the only way to ensure your vote would be counted was to drop it off on election day. At least that's what I was told by my MAGA family.,1
Banning Democrats from voting for federalist society candidates should be just one card in the deck of a much larger strategy.,"Progressive and Democratic leaders should have already been doing this by publicizing and attacking the Federalist Society for its central role in overturning Roe, yet they haven’t, which is a huge fail in messaging.",0
"This so much. It’s people passing the buck and responsibility for homophobia back onto queer people. Even if this were true (it, like you said patently isn’t) the blame would still lie with heterodominant culture making people closeted.",They are just so afraid of being gay because it was stigmatized by people around them that they react by persecuting gay people to prove they aren’t gay.,1
"In any event, nuclear is an opportunity cost; it actively harms decarbonization given the same investment in wind or solar would offset more CO2 and also not destroy more parts of nature to mine the finitie resources. Yes, FINITE, yet you people want to invest hundreds of billions into an infrastrucutre that will be completely worthless once the fuel source is gone.","Also does not help that the necessary mining for the finite resources required for nuclear energy turns more of nature into dead craters. But yeah, keep trying to greenwash nuclear power.",0
Life saving surgery in extreme situations isn't the same as amputating genitals to make a gender dysphoric child feel better about themselves.,"This has nothing to do with ""gender affirming surgeries"", this is about purposefully obfuscating the steps trans minors need to take to receive even puberty blockers for their healthcare. Studies conclusively show that gender affirming care such as puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and gender affirmation reduce the suicidality of transgender minors.",1
"Eh, the XM5 and XM250 aren't deployed yet. They won't start getting their shipments until Q4 of next year. Even when they do, it will take time for it to become standard across all units. JSOC and active duty infantry will get them first, then combat arms, armor, and MPs will get them, then they will go out to the rest of active units, then the national guard will get them, then training units will get them, then the Marines will finally get them once there are gently used ones available for purchase. There are training battalions still training on the M16 even though the M4 has been standard issue for years. I guess we could send the thousands upon thousands of rifles sitting in warehouses to Ukraine, but the military still needs a lot of them while they wait for the new ones.","Sending 20 year old equipment for Ukrainians who then decimate Russian army, sounds like a great return on investment.",1
"Now Russia know the last tactic won't work, they know Ukraine will resist, and Ukraine is supported by the WEST and have modern NATO equipment. They will try to gradually soften up Ukrainian lines of defence with war of attrition, and a Zerg rush, obliterating everything, and obviously they probably want to do a massive missile and drone attack on Kiev, they wish that city is reduced to ashes.","Yes but this time Ukraine is fortified, and they have been surveilling every single Russian unit with Satellites and recon Drones, they are armed to teeth, at least comparing with what happened with the first time I am sure they are well prepared and armed.",0
"Like we know Russia REALLY doesn't want to actually start shit with America itself, despite the constant bluster. So they probably canceled the days volley of missles towards Kiev, just in case. Incredible. Really shows the hierarchy.","With all the bluster of tsunami nuking Manhatten, Russia is terrified of having to actually go toe to toe with the US itself.",0
There is no obvious successor to Putin because he would never allow that threat to exist. He jails or kills his rivals.,Putin has had decades to consolidate his power internally and they can barely sustain a war with his closest neighbor.,0
"Further, it is difficult to understand why you would intervene to make such an unintelligent point. Had there been a grammatical error in their comment (which there was not), how would that address the issue raised by the commenter?","The issue you are both discussing is beside the point of the comment you are replying to. The original question was whether there was just one exchange along these lines (as heard in the actual radio recording) that somehow got transformed into a more dramatic version (""you are clearly endangering my safety"") for the text article or, perhaps, there were two exchanges, both answered with nearly identical replies by the US side: one in the video, another in the article.",1
"She had no solid messaging other than “I put Darrell Brooks behind bars.” At one point during a “debate” between candidates (it wasn’t a debate-debate, more of a symposium), she was reading answers out of a binder. Zero charisma or personality as a candidate. She did well in Waukesha/Ozaukee/Washinon counties, that was about it.",She really only had the waukesha area because of the trial. The rest of the state preferred Kelly. I'm honestly glad Kelly won because I think Janet has a better chance to beat him. Dorrow could have pealed off some of Janet's votes in the cities.,1
Republicans offer soothing lies. Example from that same mining town : it's Democrats' fault that the coal money left Or immigrants Or gays We'll fix all that and you can go back to the good old days MAGA! (though that same stuff has been peddled for decades long before the MAGA brand came around).,"Seriously, I get really annoyed at these types of articles. Anyone paying attention to what happens in these rural areas will notice the same pattern play out over and over again.",0
"It’s not a what if scenario when the surrounding countries proved a willingness to do it several times until nukes were built. Israel is still at war with Syria, has terrorists in Palestine funded by Pakistan and Iran lobbing rockets over the border daily, and has Iran openly stating their goal to be to obliterate Israel while trying to get nukes.","Iran is not gonna invade Israel ever, the Israeli fear is that they can no longer win wars by dropping nuclear devices on their neighbours without getting one back in return.",1
No it isn’t. It happened he incited it he did nothing to stop it snd he has told multiple lies about it since. It was his god damned name on the flags.,"Um, treason? Isn’t just what he said that day, its what he did and didn’t do. Even if it wasnt his plan he still did absolutely nothing to stop it. So um, yeah, treason.",0
"Again I really don’t want to condone violence whatsoever from any side in this issue. But there are systemic issues that led to this. A judge released this man (for whatever reason) when he was on trial for committing heinous violence (with a sword essentially for that matter) prior to his trial for that offense. He took that opportunity to hurt people. So don’t just say go home if you don’t like it here. The west is built on the movement AND settlement of various groups of people. They have a right to be angry, and it feels like you think they shouldn’t be angry….",I get that they're pissed. It still doesn't justify attacking police. As for the release of the perpetrator for the earlier attack - it unfortunately happens in many countries where sentencing is relatively lax. France isn't only country where violent offenders (even repeat offenders) have gotten what seem like light sentences.,1
"I see your theory, but in practice the good the internet and technology does is very easily snuffed out in authoritarian regimes that utilize surveillance technology.","Authoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.",1
The election this year is a black box. Both Silver and Kornacki have said they are not sure at all how close the polls are.,"in 2016 aggregate polls gave Clinton a 75% of winning. She did not. Polls in 2018 were closer, but, iirc, didn't see the Senate going to the Dems--Trump was instrumental in making that happen. 2020 was again, closer, but Biden won by a significantly larger margin than was polled.",0
"There's no threshold that we can reasonably set that will exclude every person that shouldn't die. The threshold is already as stringent as it can be and we still kill innocent people, the mentally ill, etc.","The government is supposed to protect people and ave lives not end them, lethal force should only be used if there is no other way to reduce harm.",1
And many that weren't drafted fled the country or are either too old or too young to be in the market for significant numbers of cars. Of those that are left many are specifically cutting back on major purchases and spending due to the economic uncertainty. If you think you may lose your job in the next 100 days you're probably not about to buy a car unless it's absolutely necessary.,And Russia's massive oil and gas production has also resulted in the country having a frightening case of Dutch disease. The major businesses are run like a mafia and everyone has to have links to Putin to operate. As a result Russia doesn't have the means to support its government based on tax revenue so if the energy exports dry up they are in serious long term trouble.,0
"Thanks for summarizing this so well. The question is what should be done about it? This works, it excites their rabid base, it distracts the opposition who points at the clown in a strange entrancing spectacula,, all the while billionaires and corporations destroy the country.","But it more than just her district, the whole society is being manipulated by forces that foisted this dirt bag into power. Very few people win elections without backing, she is meant to a distraction.",0
"If the laser is 1 watt power output for a 100 watt input, that makes the laser 1% efficient yes, but how you get 0.02% doesnt make any sense, since the reaction output is greater than the laser input.","If the laser took 100x the energy to charge, that would be a 1% efficiency... 0.02% would be 50,000 times more.",0
"The parallelisms between the last few years and the lead up to the civil war are disturbing. By my count we've now passed some version of ""the Caning of Charles Sumner"" and after the court rules on Moore v. Harper and establishes Independent state legislature theory as the law of the land, we'll introduce our version of Popular Sovereignty and with it our version of Bleeding Kansas is not far off.","4) lawsuits will be filed, but with Moore v. Harper pending at the Supreme Court, and the Court looking like they’re about to rule that state legislatures are allowed to certify whatever election results they want, regardless of how the people vote, all of the above will be completely above board.",1
A volley of Shahed 136 is launched in a direction and an overhead drone with visuals on targets sends the final radio signal for the targeting.,"A drone can maneuver easily on all directions, stay still, stop mid air, land and launch again, a missile can't do any of that.",1
"I live in Austin, which is solidly blue as is Travis Co and both have been for some time. Williamson Co actually went blue this last election, which shocked the shit out of me. I thought there were enough Leanderthals to keep it red...",There's a city northwest of Austin called Leander. There's been something resembling 'white flight' out of 'liberal Austin' by conservatives. They're regarded as not being terribly enlightened or educated. Social or political Neanderthals. So.. Leanderthals.,0
"Aren't conspiracy to commit crime, incitement, and racial hate crimes already illegal? Do we need separate legislation that specifically focuses on whether those crimes are motivated by abhorrent white supremacy, or can we just better enforce the existing laws?",I'm all for the use of hate speech laws that optimize societal well being while not being repressive - but it's dangerous to make open ended and legally tricky laws that can result in two different outcomes for the same action based on how other people react.,1
You trust a corrupt power structure to police itself despite its self-interest in perpetuating that corruption.,Those impeachments did absolutely fuckall. None of these cases matter if the SCOTUS decides they don't. There's no consequence coming from the body that was intentionally corrupted to stop that from happening.,0
The judge also rejected the Trumps’ arguments that some of the alleged fraudulent conduct occurred beyond the statute of limitations allowed under the law.,"Ivanka Trump, who left the business to go to the White House in 2017, argued that the claims against her were time-barred and that she didn’t personally falsify any business records. The judge said the attorney general’s office has alleged liability “sufficiently” on Trump to survive a motion to dismiss.",0
"Absolutely false. Hitler's campaign of oppression and terror towards Jews as well as Slavs, Roma, and others began in 1933. The Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935. Kristallnacht, a government-sanctioned terrorist event in which hundreds of Jews were murdered and thousands of Jewish businesses were burned, looted, and destroyed simply because the owners were Jewish, took place in 1938, and is considered to be the homicidal beginning of the next-level Holocaust.","There is also the Yiddish saying: ""Zog mir ver dein khaver is, vell ikh dir zogn ver du bist."" = ""Tell me who your friend is, I'll tell you who YOU are."".",0
"They wouldn't have been invaded once. Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurance which included Ukraine and they agreed to ""respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders"" and ""refrain from the threat or the use of force against the signatory"" amongst other things.","Ukraine tells Russia to go fuck itself with the ceasefire offer given the history of Russia blatantly violating such deals a gazillion times since 2014, and the inanity of asking for a ceasefire while retreating in the midst of an invasion that genocidal. Russia makes a sad face and cries ""why u no want peace"", calls Ukraine a warmonger, and has the usual audience of brain-dead morons point fingers at Ukraine, NATO, the EU, etc.",1
"I'd say these sanctions pretty much rule out regime change in Russia. Especially democratic regime change. Like, who exactly would knowingly do the bidding of the oligarchs worried about their assets in the West? . This approach automatically makes Putin the man of the people. And then there's the issue of the sanctions suppressing all the Western-aligned media figures, who were relying on Youtube, Facebook etc. to circumvent the official media channels.","And it's rather weird, actually. Like, back when the US invaded Iraq, was it OK for Russia to seize, for example, the local division of McDonalds, and spend the profits to arm Hussein?",0
"Lol bro come on if Russia left what do you think is going to happen, NATO allows Ukraine to attack Russia? They even help in some way? Keep dreaming, the best ending for Ukraine is Russia restoring pre invasion borders but they are not going to do that. If anything NATO will start pressuring Ukraine to make some concessions and lose some territory.",Consequences being Russia losing all relevance in world stage and possibly breaking up after Ukraine routs them from whole of Ukraine.,1
"And failing that, it's hard to judge people for creating tools that help the greatest numbers of people.","I am 100% on board that rural America needs a political enema and that starts with a lot of great tools and mobilization, but I think that change needs to come from within.",0
"Biden has really won me over so far. I think the media's hyper-focus on Obama, followed by the insanity of Trump, had me used to breaking news happening every single day. Biden has been a great return to normalcy plus he's been surprisingly left of where I thought he'd be.",It's not enough to stop me from voting Biden - it looks like he's going to run and stability is important. But I wish he could nominate Kamala for another post and free up the VP slot for someone else without obliterating Kamala's career/life.,0
"They aren't righteous. They know it's wrong, but when the people telling you to not buy oil due to an illegal invasion also did an illegal invasion and cared not for what the rest of the world thinks.","It's wrong to buy Russian oil, it's a fucking war and the world is leaning on Russia, India is literally just being trash In this choice, be with the world or be greedy, India chose greed nothing else.",1
"Agreed Fox News is an outlier, far right extremist propaganda trash, but I don’t see nbc, cbs or abc or cnn anywhere close to that level of trash propaganda, even msnbc is more objective and careful about assertions unverified.","I'm going to go with a blanket ""Yes it is"" because the people who own that media and who make sure that those ""news"" sources constantly repeat disproven politically based points are the same people who are providing the money that is corrupting the whole process.",1
"Smart Republicans care about electability, but they're in the minority. Most Republicans want racism, little dances, and insulting nicknames. If you promise to hurt the people they hate, they'll love you forever.","I think you're right. Trump will crush him, to the dismay of party leaders. He has a power over stupid people that is not of this world. It's the racism, the little dances, the exaggerated facial expressions, something.",0
Even with these civil cases it has some bearing. You can't successfully sue just because a news org got something wrong. They have to know it is wrong info and damaging to you.,>But mistakes are one thing; knowingly telling lies is another. What Fox’s pious proclamation of press freedom misses is that lies of the sort the network appears to have told its viewers don’t enjoy or deserve constitutional protection.,1
"Munger received that “gift” numerous times throughout his life. He dropped out of college to fight in world war 2 and struggled financially through most of his early life, which included the Great Depression.","His early adult hood was spent in world war 2 and then got completely taken in his second marriage. My grandma was born in 22 and led a fairly upper middle class life for the time, she had quite a few stories of going without. I think he’s just referencing that time to now, and he’s a 98 year old man so I tend to give them a break.",0
"For all the shit China does, maybe that made them re-think just a bit about being in conflicts, or maybe not, since it’s within their own borders.","China is already dealing with financial problems and civil unrest at home, the last thing they want is possible nuclear war.",1
I’m not saying democratic policies are 100 percent perfect California would be a good example on that. We need both sides to find the solution together and they need to work together not attack politicians for trying to find common ground. If it’s not my way or the highway people start accusing the politicians on being too soft. Lol what is going on here lol.,Lol. I wasn’t sure if you were being sarcastic because it sounded like the documentary Cartel Land (spoiler: the vigilantes kind of become the cover of the gangs all over again).,1
"Which is kind of odd. The other way would kind of make better sense. However, other animals I think also really appreciate the smell of cooked food.",It would be likely that people found animals in an area that had burned and tried to eat them and liked them. It would not be a stretch to assume they would then look to try to duplicate that.,1
"Also, RFMA only says Iowa has to respect marriages performed in other states regardless of its own stupid laws, it doesn't do anything to stop Iowa from passing whatever stupid laws they want to persecute Iowans with.","And I know the summary says that it forces states to honor out of state marriages, but I would be surprised if there's not language that specifically protects against state level bans like this - state level bans on abortion were a big part of why there was a push to pass RFMA to begin with.",1
"China is also not immune from a blockade itself, and any belligerent would likely seize on China's dependency on oil imports from the Gulf and its food imports from everywhere as a way to retaliate in kind. In this, America possesses the ability to shutdown maritime trade in the Straits of Malacca, Hormuz, Suez and Panama, depriving China of its oil and food imports. There is also a risk of escalation as Taiwan, Korea and Japan view sea trade as a matter of existential threat.",Sure but ultimately it comes down to whether or not China plans to invade Taiwan and plans to take full control of the South China Sea. China's support for Russia also doesn't help.,1
"The French be like: ""If we help Ukraine embarrass Russia enough in this war then all the French reverse memes and Surrender jokes will go away!"".","Well. yes but not quite, as FIFA itself has no political interest other than to make money to its corrupt board members etc. Platini would not vote for Quatar if there was not something in it for him.",1
This is great for everyone short term because we want ukraine to win the war swiftly but in the long term thebworld will have to deal with a Russian humanitarian crisis.,"I still think Putin wanted all of Ukraine, Moldova as the cherry on top, and Russia simply couldn't mobilize enough force to reach Kyiv on the border faster because it seems Russian logistics was rustier than expected. That said, intelligent commentary about logistics is well above a layman like me.",1
"Something big like say the CHIPS act is a lot of backroom dealing and negotiation. Finding out which senators are opposed, who can be swayed, and what they want. Then of course you have the people who are against a bill working to sway people to their side. There's really no way you can every quantify who is doing what since most of this happens behind closed doors or on a private phone call. So we only know what happened when a congressperson talks about it publicly or an aide says something.","It would be difficult because not every congressman is the same. It'd be like giving everyone in the company from the CEO to the janitor the same grading system. Not to mention not every bill is the same, some take a decade to finalize and find support, and naming a post office is done in 2 hours and passed by unanimous vote.",1
"Regardless of it not being realistic, it is embarrassing for the Democrats to have not thrown some sort of compromise candidate into the mix.","You're disappointed in Democrats because they didn't indulge in what you acknowledge is a fantasy? Blowing smoke up the American public's ass with a fake deal is the golden PR opportunity they should have taken? If they had followed your advice, somebody else would be in here complaining that Democrats are engaging in cynical political theater instead of wisely allowing their opponent's mistakes to take center stage. And they'd be right in the same way that you're right; it looks true if you squint.",1
"These cognitively deficient Right-wingers keep trying to divide America because it helps them stay in office. Democrat efforts to respect Republican perspectives and to cooperate have no effect. They just have to criticize everything! Of course, they would say that the Left did the same to TfG. But He Never tried to appease the Left for more than a day. His ideas were ignorant, and his beliefs were divisive. We were forced to criticize such terrible ""leadership."".","Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.), John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Ron Johnson (Wis), plus Rep. Kay Granger (Tex.).",1
"Bud, if I can come up with 3 easy questions about caveats, what do you think our friendly, fascists-in-training political party (GOP) will do to obfuscate laws? This has been the whole reasoning behind my posts… If you add caveats, you open yourself up to exactly the kind of questioning I presented… And I assure you much more powerful, well-funded organizations could take any caveat and bend it to their advantage.",Perhaps the real question is why aren’t we all outraged at our classification system allowing such poor handling of sensitive material?,0
"Or, loosely paraphrased, US District Pedoapologist Matthew Kacsmaryk found that a federal program that gives teens access to birth control denies a parent “a fundamental right to force his children to have children.”.",•	⁠the legal arguments Kacsmaryk uses in his decision ignore the distinction of coercive vs voluntary government programs in prior rulings and further argues that minors do not historically have the right or ability to consent (which is demonstrably false).,1
"??? ""Intrusive thoughts are unwanted thoughts, images, impulses, or urges that can occur spontaneously or that can be cued by external/internal stimuli"" how is 'i get those irrational bad thoughts when I see couples like this because of awful stories like this"" not the exact definition of unwanted intrusive thoughts. Do YOU know what it means bc evidently not??","Wait WHAT woah ok that came out of left field. No that's not - that's not even remotely the same I - ok, I see theres actually 0 interest in what I am actually saying and these comments are being emotionally driven now. I'm peacing out lol I wasn't even fucking agreeing with op at all but I guess I get to be the scapegoat for just pointing out that they did in fact acknowledge it wasn't fair.quick edit actually, just to clarify dude i literally keep saying over and over i agree with you that one can work on their thoughts idk why you keep going.",0
"That’s a solid plan just for sustainability, regardless of health implications. They are also better insulators and typically don’t impart a taste on whatever. I don’t really use silicon containers though. I can appreciate the use of plastic containers for food and water for things like backpacking for weight saving, titanium light but also is super expensive.","I think not consuming liquids from plastic or eating anything that has been heated in plastic is a solid thing you can do to support your overall hormonal health. These effects add up especially considering other pollutions in the air and drinking water, diet related issues, and physical activity level issues, and hormonal health is important for your mental and physical health.",0
"And this is the Palestinian Authority, not Hamas. These guys are supposed to be the legitimate peace partner that Israel works with to end the conflict.",Israel wants peace? Lol the Arabs and the Palestinians long ago said that lets make peace. Just give back the occupied West Bank and there will be peace.,1
"The report on the removal of the Israeli diplomat was published for the first time on the Lebanese ""Al-Mayadeen"" channel, which is affiliated with Hezbollah. The channel also reported that the deportation was due to pressure exerted by the two countries, and sources in the Algerian media told the newspaper that during the summit the issue of removing Israel's status as an observer in the Union will also be on the agenda.","Israel had observer status in the ""Organization for African Unity"" from the 1960s until it became the ""African Union"". In 2002, under the Libyan presidency, the Libyan ruler at the time, candidate Gaddafi, decided not to grant Israel observer status. Since then, several attempts have been made on Israel's part to return to the organization, and in 2021, after a great effort during the tenure of Yair Lapid as Foreign Minister, Israel was once again granted the status of an observer state in the organization, which is the largest and most important in Africa and includes all 55 countries on the continent.",0
"Unfortunately a huge amount of our election laws depend on public officials doing the job they’re sworn to do, and there’s a huge blind spot in the law if they just … don’t. (See also: Arizona).",Yes State courts have the authority to review congressional maps. No state courts do not have the authority to draw congressional maps. The constitutionality seems pretty straightforward to me.,0
"Haiti is a lost cause. They offer nothing to the world but poverty, there is no incentive for anyone to ruin their own reputation and send their own soldiers home in caskets to try and remove shit out of a sewer. And they will just get mad at whoever comes to try and help them, not to mention the problems with foreign soldiers bringing rape and disease. Haitians just need to find an equilibrium state with their gangs, because sending them money so it can be stolen is not in the interest in anyone outside of Haiti.","If we do nothing, Haiti will slowly devolve into an anarchy state akin to Somalia. With mass poverty and no functioning government. The people of Haiti will suffer.",1
"See what I mean? And beyond that: What are the criteria, who decides them? Does congress fund this entity to (quite literally) abridge press by letting its staff determine what is press/isn’t press? And can that body perform its job without being in some perverse role as the arbiters of “Truth vs Falsehood”?","Something (and others like it) like this would force them actually say the truth, or spend a large amount of time correcting it. After X amount of infractions your segment gets taken off the air replaced with nothing, first for a determined amount of time, progressively getting larger for repeat offenders. Hit them where it hurts, time (on air) and $.",1
Having all the primaries on one day effectually cedes the nomination to one of the biggest money candidates.,"I've seen people switch their vote from their real choice to the ""winning"" choice purely because the ""winning"" candidate had more votes in a primary days earlier, thinking that candidate is inevitable.",1
"You aren't protected though. Your state might allow abortions but without the medications covered in this particular state this will also effectively outlaw abortions in blue states by making them functionally impossible within a reasonable time span. These two drugs are responsible for 75% of abortions, without them abortion clinics will have to pick up even more slack to do physical in person abortions. Waiting lists for abortion providers are already several weeks long for the physical procedure. If the SC agrees with the premise of this group you will be looking at women that have to wait so long to get an abortion they will most likely have given birth by the time they can see a physical provider. There are not enough providers to cover the loss of this medication, this would functionally ban abortion for the vast majority of women.","Abortion should be legal nationwide, as well as abortion pills, but this is a bad analogy. They want abortion banned because they think abortion is murder (even though Jesus had no children, never condemned abortion, and said let he who is without sin cast the the first stone). “If you don’t like murder then don’t do it” is not a reasonable thing to say, because it implies murder should be legal for people who like it, but murder is a crime for anyone, it’s not just a personal preference. If a moral code doesn’t apply to everyone then it’s useless.",1
The issue then is that some of the GOP folks might not vote for him as hes too controlled by the crazies. We might not have a new speaker of the house today.,"First, he needs to become Speaker. He's trying to do whatever it takes to make that happen, even if that means making conflicting promises. That doesn't seem to be going too well for him, though.",1
"It's a valid strategy to lie about your own casualty numbers though, and Ukraine is most definitely doing it too. And that's ok. It's just hard to know what to believe in terms of casualties and progress.","Basically the war right now can't be measured easily. And anyone playing up current ""movements"" in the line is full of shit.",1
"Hell, I'd wager even a lot of the GOP party leadership, when push really comes to shove, aren't gonna have the balls to turn their backs on him like that - however sick of him politically as they might be. I think A LOT of people are really underestimating the psychological hold Trump still holds over the party base. His image is still more powerful than that of any other politician in the party (including DeSantis).","The ""evil and racist, but still mildly sane"" contingent of conservatives believes what you just said. But they're not the full lot.",0
"Yes. You get pretty much instant heat from the induction stoves too, and temperature control is reproducible across different pots and pans in a way that's a lot tougher with gas stoves.","- If you have gas now and want to get rid of it, you must replace with induction if you want a comparable cooking experience.",1
Kidding yourself if you think somehow NATO would get involved just because Belarus' weak military jumps in.,"I must also say I don't believe NATO are planning to do this, things are not at that level and there is nothing for NATO to gain from attacking Belarus.",1
"If the west stops dragging their feet and arms Ukraine to the teeth with much longer range precision artillery and a lot more armor, they can take Crimea by the end of the year.",Russia can be defeated in 2023 if the West stops dragging their feet and gives Ukraine the long range precision artillery that is able to reach its borders.,0
"""The country's ten largest self-reported specific ethnic or cultural origins in 2021 were Canadian[b] (accounting for 15.6 percent of the population), followed by English (14.7 percent), Irish (12.1 percent), Scottish (12.1 percent), French (11.0 percent), German (8.1 percent), Chinese (4.7 percent), Italian (4.3 percent), Indian (3.7 percent), and Ukrainian (3.5 percent)."".","... Safe injection sites have to do with what, exactly? Seems like a really weird strawman to bring up but whatever.",1
"Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article, with few exceptions - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.","The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.",0
"To be fair Russia was responsible for the Polish blast, be it because it's missile hit Poland directly or because the missile was fired to intercept a Russian missile.",Now consider what would need to happen for an S300 type missile from Ukraine fired at a target towards the north east and becomes errant and goes west in some fashion to hit Poland.,1
"The hard left of the Labour party are kind of Putin's useful idiots in Britain (they're not pro-Putin but they are pro making daisy chains and singing about friendship while tanks roll across Ukraine's border), but they've been pretty roundly purged after their idiotic stop the war stunt at the beginning of the invasion. Jeremy Corbyn is one of the longest serving anti-NATO politicians in the UK if not the longest serving. I absolutely shudder to think what the UK's response to the invasion would have been were he making the decisions.","I mean, this is clapping following the UK being the most steadfast ally of Ukraine over the last 9 years. The country has really been putting it's money where its mouth is in terms of providing real support, with vastly less hand-wringing than most of Western Europe.",0
"Do you really think that Saudi Arabia cares about that? If anything, they're probably bitter and asking why they've been so nice to their mortal enemy and when they will stop cooperating with them. I'll bet you anything that as the amount of money Saudi Arabia invests in China increases, they will start to attempt to coerce the cutting of ties with Iran.","To China, whatever problems SA and Iran have is between them and China is not going to actively support/manipulate one against another. However, China does want them to resolve their problems peacefully, focus more energy on the development of their country and increase international trades; which will benefits China.",1
"it's almost as if, and hear me out here, that in the west, Christianity is the predominant faith. you fight the enemy closer to home, first. worry about the rest later.","The death of Jesus was supposed to put an end to that ritualized behavior. Over the centuries though, the message of Jesus has been so warped that most people don't even know that he killed a fucking dragon when he was 12.",0
I'm trying my hardest to not explode out of my seat lol. Don't get too high on the hopium yet though. That projection is based off an estimate of votes remaining; actual votes left to count were never given by the counties so we really are in limbo.,"Based on past recounts, it is unlikely to shift the final result in District 3 by more than a handful of votes. This race is going to come down to the outstanding ballots for Otero County, cured, and military/overseas ballots.",1
Isn't it more the government knows the public knows they're spy balloons but they themselves can't outright call them spy balloons because of diplomatic whatnots and implications and logistics?,"You can spy on other countries with balloons, you can't do so in such an overt way to the population of that country. You can use balloons to spy, but you can't send fucking 50 floating around at the same time.",1
"Right now churches in America represent pools of unaccounted for money. The more it has to be accounted for, the less free and easy it is for grifters to use.",Then there are the tiniest fraction of churches that actually care about what Jesus says rather than enforcing their ideology on you.,0
"We have underlined to all our future NATO partners, including Hungary and Turkey, that Finnish and Swedish security go together,"" he said.","Sweden has said it takes Turkey's security concerns seriously and is implementing the three-way agreement signed in June last year, but Ankara says it is not doing enough.",0
"Plus, even outside of vaccines and effective treatments, much is learned relatively quickly about supportive care during a pandemic. Maybe now that 5% fatality rate becomes 1-3% or so.","Eg, if they know of 10 cases of it and 5 of them died, that’s a reported 50% fatality rate. In reality, perhaps 100 people were actually infected but most had mild or no symptoms, and were never tested for bird flu. Now it’s a 5% fatality rate, not 50%.",0
"You cut down an existing forest to make the pellets. If you cannot say for certain that you have trees growing at least equal to your rate of cutting and burning (and releases from soil after cutting) you cannot say for sure it is carbon neutral. If something happens to the forest grown to account for your cutting (and you must be sure it is not double counted as an offset for something else!) you cannot say for certain it is carbon neutral. In principle, in the absense of unforeseen events and perverse incentives, it can be. That doesn't mean it is in reality. It does mean you can convince people that GREEN MEANS GO and they can have whatever they want as long as they have what the market demands they pay for it.","The carbon neutrality of a legit pellet enterprise is only as good as their accounting for sequestration elsewhere, and they do not necessarily have control over that. One more forest fire than was accounted for at the start of the project and all that carbon that was supposed to cancel out the burning is up in the atmosphere.",0
"I heard the former CEO on NPR pointing out that the artist decides whether or not to use Dynamic Pricing and honestly I don’t really see a problem with the artists choosing to do so. Theoretically the big fans can get cheaper ticket by buying sooner. The actual problem is that Ticketmaster actively enables scalpers to buy up a bunch of tickets first. They guy was making it sound like it was Taylor Swift’s choice to sell tickets for thousands of dollars, but no Swift capped the ticket price at $499 (although I don’t know how transparent they are that the actual price to fans will be higher after fees nor whether the fees are also dynamic). The problem I see is how many people had to buy scalped tickets for way more.","People are going to buy more expensive tickets from scalpers vs. the cheaper, price-capped tickets in app? Sure.",1
"The further right wing they get, the more pro-Russian and anti-western they become. Conspiracy forums (all basically taken over by the alt-right) are all in now on the idea that the West is an immoral and degenerate empire allowing LGBTQ and transgender “groomers” to indoctrinate children, exploit them sexually and eliminate traditional notions of gender identity completely. All of this being led by a cabal of high ranking world and business leaders through a network of shady orgs, secret societies and international bodies of various kinds, with overtones or direct assertions of nefarious Jewish/Semitic involvement. To that extent they’re very much pro-Russia, as Russia has been the main driver of this propaganda for quite some time now and holds themselves out as the main (or only) defender against the West’s perceived threat/influence.","Anyone paying any attention for the last several years would regularly hear Russia's propaganda coming straight out of the mouths of Republican ""leaders."" I'm glad the Guardian published this. But, to anyone paying attention, this is not ""news."".",1
I have my own phone. I had tiktok on it until recently. I take my work laptop home and it connects to my wifi. This would imply that tiktok can pull data from my work laptop even though it's never touched the service.,Tik tok will take data from any devices connected to the same network. So if you have tik tok on your personal phone connected to your home wifi but also a government issued phone connected to the same wifi. Tik tok gets the data from the government phone.,1
"Well, clearly it will be pointless for voters in Republican-leaning Cochise County to show up at the polls in 2024, seeing as they stand to be disenfranchised by their political party of choice.","So, sue the shit out of these craven enablers enjoying their moment in the tainted sun and carry on.",0
"I'm one of those people. I apologize so much I've literally been reprimanded about it at work, haha.","100% agree on what you say about abuse killing who someone is - that's how I describe it when I talk about being sexually assaulted. I physically survived, but the person who I was disappeared afterwards. Whoever I could have become, that person died before I had a chance to find out.",0
"Lock up criminals. And, if they ever held office, be sure there is an example set for future would-be-criminals seeking office.","Anyone who thinks the end justifies the means is foolish. Winning means nothing if we lose our soul along the way. Gaining power by playing dirty will just lead to the normalization of winning by any means necessary. Suddenly, the same kind of people are back in power with a (D) next to their name and we are calling for another escalation of dirty politics to save us from ourselves.",0
"Jeffries getting elected House Speaker, Republicans crossing the aisle to vote with Democrats on a moderate Republican, or this fiasco just continuing are all giant political wins for the MINORITY PARTY that should have no authority.",The absolute funniest way for this to end is for the gridlock to go on so long that a handful of moderate Republicans decide to vote for Jeffries just to get it over with so they can do literally anything else.,1
"It only requires the English, Italians, Spanish Germans and maybe the French to bring the whole lot down. They're the four/ five big paying leagues of Europe. The two South American 'giants' needn't be a factor, because for 4 years every cycle it's the European clubs who pay players the wages. If the top South Americans had to choose between the untold riches of playing for their European clubs, or playing for their country every now and then, 90% of them will choose their clubs. The players are contracted to their clubs by way of employment. The clubs only release them because of 'FIFA rules'. If the big clubs of Europe pulled out of FIFA then it would be game over.","If the clubs bandied together, (and as events of the last year or so showed, they'd need the backing of their supporters) they could reorganise the game outside of FIFA (and UEFA for that matter too).",0
The thing that Republicans don't get about Democrats (and everyone else who isn't an asshole): We actually want it to be OK for a Republican politician to dress in drag The problem we have is when they dress in drag then turn around and marginalize and criminalize others who do so. It isn't the drag that's offensive or shameful - it's the hypocrisy.,"It isn’t hypocrisy, though. They did it as a joke, and what they oppose is taking trans people seriously. It is completely consistent.",1
"If one were to be pro Ukrainian in Russia, they would have been found dead with their hands tied behind them and shot themselves in the back of their heads.","It’s not like Ukraine is under some kind of existential threat from one of the largest armies in the world and has its citizens tortured, raped, killed by that army. And it’s not like Ukraine needs to protect itself from a network of that country’s spies which include people who got dual citizenship. It’s almost like this case is nothing like Iranian authoritarian laws meant to repress its citizens but rather on the contrary- a defense mechanism to protect the citizens from above mentioned tortures, rapes and murder.",1
I feel like the general American populace is aware of this. It sucks that the 75% of Americans make up just under 50% of voting power due to our backwards-ass system of giving power to land instead of the people living on it.,"That’s probably because 75% of Americans are not conservatives, and we’re being run from the rich minority by a bunch of voter suppression techniques.",1
"Is It true that the Richter scale is not particularly useful when it comes to measuring nearby quakes larger than magnitude than 6.0-7.0? I know the physical seismograph can only physically record about that high if you're near the epicenter of because there isn't actually room for the pen to measure higher than that. I believe most devices are digital now, but do they run into the same problem?","When they tapped out the song for a listener, however, only around 2% of people were able to name the song. There was a huge discrepancy between what the person tapping thought would be obvious and what was really obviously to an uninformed person.",0
"And there it is. If this year had the lowest viewership for the last 4 or 5 world cups then maybe at the very least fifa would pote tially change a bit. Instead people throw their hands up and say ""I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas"". It's lazy and it's bullshit.",All I see every few years is how awful fifa is but then everyone stops caring because they want to watch the matches. If people truly wanted fifa to go away they wouldn't spend tens of thousands to go to these games and they wouldn't tune in by the billions to watch.,0
"But voter turnout was shit, and it wouldn't have taken that many more voters in any of the swing states to have pushed it over the line. Because people didn't like her for whatever reason.","Hey, all you folks who didn't vote in 2016 because HeR eMaILs or whatever, how are you feeling about that choice now?",0
The real problem is that Iowa and New Hampshire are not as diverse as other states. That matters to democrats more than republicans.,"It’s farther from the median Democrat voter profile. As I already detailed with actual statistics. If you have different statistics to show it is closer, I would love to see it.",1
It's why January 6th happened. After his idiotic bible photoshoot he realized he didn't have the man power through the government to overthrow the government. So he used his violent cult to do it.,"""So he used his violent cult to do it"". Yeah, you're correct. I remember seeing his violent cult attacking cities across America. Burning down thousands of businesses after they looted them. Senselessly, blockading roads everywhere. They set up that thing in Seattle called CHOP. They attacked random people just walking down the street. My favorite was the May 29th attack on the White House. Yeah, his cult was out of control for about 3 months there in 2020.",1
"As aside, this statistic is meaningless and cringey from a math perspective. Imagine California added 20k jobs but the country as whole lost 200k. Well then California created 20/-200 = -10% of jobs?","Here's some not weird math.... since California is <12% the nation's population, they have had job growth nearly double their per capita share.",1
"US isn't in Ukraine and the ""$"" (which is really mostly weapons and not money but whatever) is so that the US doesn't have to fight Russia in the future because Ukraine is fighting them now.","How naïve do you have to be to believe that if Russian succeeds in Ukraine, they will stop there and US won't have to spend any more money? Deploying troops and missile defense systems to Poland, or even basing nuclear weapons in Finland or Sweden as part of security guarantee isn't cheap.",1
"Perhaps it would be better to directly call out those physicians (or, rather, the opinions they gave) than to simply mock trump for being overweight. That way, you can make your point—that he’s not healthy even if some sycophantic physician supposedly said he was—without indirectly mocking all overweight people.","When I tried to ask people to find a more meaningful critique (without the potential for friendly fire), I got a bunch of comments basically telling me that most or all “fat people” are responsible for the state they are in. In fact, this may not be the case, and it definitely isn’t for a nontrivial number. In my case, I was misdiagnosed with a psychotic disorder (psychiatrist later withdrew the diagnosis) and was extremely heavily medicated. Unfortunately, those meds made it completely impossible to lose weight—even if I ate just 600 calories and walked a few miles each day.",0
"It's true, bad people use tools, and so do the rest of us. There is a history of success, messy as it may be, in achieving progress despite the worst of human nature.","I think it's part of the doomer mindset, they just assume that social structures and politics can never change, because that reflects their own extremely brief and narrow experience. From their point of view every new tool that empowers people is just another boot on their neck, because ""bad people will use it."".",0
Granting the head of state of Peru the constitutional powers of the last democratic 1978 constitution is undemocratic apparently.,"Nor will the Peruvians respect the 1993 constitution put in place by dictator Alberto Fujimori, when the 1978 democratic constitution would have granted Castillo the power to do so even if it is irregular for a democracy is still a more democratic documents rules to follow when determining the legitimate powers of an elected leader. After all its merely a discussion of what his powers are as head of state, not whether he should be able to outlive his elected term etc.",0
"China makes stuff and sells it to everyone else. The CCP gets to stay in power because they make sure everyone is employed and fed. The only real way out of China is the ocean. The shipping lanes out of China pass between Okinawa and Taiwan, sometimes very narrowly.",China is going to have Taiwan eventually. But I don’t think the United States has to make it easy for them. Soft power matters.,0
"The primary threat to Belarus and Lukashenko is Russia and its armed forces, many of which are already inside Belarus. If Belarus talks about defenses, it's to discourage Russia.",I don't think Lukashenko wants this war to exist. It makes everything worse for him. It now looks like they may be annexed by Russia if they are not careful and talking about a potential the big militia should probably be seen as a warning towards Putin.,0
It seems like that is the route Twitter is taking and I might be wrong but right now Twitter is on everyone's mind so the marketing is working.,Things like that should keep twitter alive but as long as it's hemorrhaging money and showing the world what an asshole musk is that's not too bad eh?,1
I don’t doubt that orders have been issued by Putin to launch various offensives. But I am skeptical that Russia is actually able to achieve any build-ups of capabilities right now.,"I guess that's technically good soft power work of the kind Russia appears no longer capable of. Regarding visas and such, however, nations have a responsibility to behave and not go Hitler 1939 on their neighbours. If that inconveniences Russian citizens abroad a bit...tough shit. If that inconveniences Westerners in Russia, I'm sure it doesn't compare to Russian red tape.",1
"And while all of NATO is in the UN and complies with 1244, Kosovo is not, and therefore it is up to Kosovo to decide what happens on their territory.","By agreement and UN Resolution 1244, serbs have right to deploy no more than1000 soldiers or policeman In Kosovo . US and EU do recognize that. However serbs never use that. Until now, but what is the reason?",1
"Actually, the timing also kinda fits, because we are expecting weather to become much colder in the next couple of days, and the change is supposed to be very sudden. The temperature is hovering around -1c to +5c right now, but in just two days from now the forecast shows that it will go down to -17c, so the ground might finally harden and fighting will definitely accelerate when it happens.","The strikes on Russian bases and weapon/ammo warehouses seem to happen almost daily now, which is great to see. Most of them are happening in the occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia oblast, it might have something to do with the next planned offensive by our forces, which a lot of our officials have been openly talking about recently. I’m not sure why they are even talking about our planned offensives, I guess either you can’t hide it anyway, or they are trying to mislead Russia by talking about it, which also might be the case, it wouldn’t be the first time that it happens during this war.",0
"I hope they have the evidence to charge him with Treason, that would be fucking great. Unfortunately I don't think the evidence we have seen is enough to convict him with Treason in a legal sense.","On what charges? Listen, I despise the guy and want to see him prosecuted for his crimes, but if there's evidence he did more than hold a shitty political rally on Jan 6, we haven't seen it. I'm not defending him, but I am defending the committee and the DOJ from armchair prosecutors who think they have an open-and-shut case because of a clip of Trump saying ""fight like hell."".",0
"Oh, you're right... the world is currently in a very complicated situation. While banning russian competitors enrages some of the general public (and spreading the ""west is russophobic"" propaganda), allowing russian competitors means Putin can take profit from these competitions as well.","Also, as far as i know, participation of russians in big competitions, sports or not, is very profitable for Russia as well (so it ends up profiting more violence in Ukraine).",0
"That's why some Israelis claim that Palestinians already have a state, and that the 'two state solution' is really 3 state solution - two Palestinian states with zero Jews and one Jewish state with a large Palestinian minority.","Well, since they still officially do not recognize Israel's right to exist and I would argue that a 1 state solution is just the end of Israel. So let's go with 2SS.",1
It was the question without whether that 'memo' precedent was enforceable. We're not at the same time in the process of the whole thing as you're comparing it now.,The timing will be critical. I wouldn't expect indictments to come before the end of this year. So that happens in early 2023. Justice is slow. What are the chances that a trial happens next year at all?,1
"I don't think this would be likely. It would be more likely that an area that's 60% Republican normally goes 35% DeSantis (or whomever else is the Republican nominee), 25% Trump, 40% Democrat which leads to the Democrats winning races that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to win. Then, those electoral votes would go with the Democrat leading to a blowout victory by the Democrats.","You're assuming that Democrats would win all the states that they traditionally win. If the 2016 electoral college repeats itself, but Trump stops DeSantis from getting 270 it goes to the House.",1
"I suffer from a mental illness, and not one of the more 'media friendly' mental health diagnoses such as depression or anxiety. I'm well treated for it (schizoaffective disorder), as you can hopefully tell from my relative coherence. I'm posting this article partially because of an interaction I had the other day in this subreddit, wherein a commenter joked that C-SPAN callers were undiagnosed schizophrenics, and I was downvoted for asking them not to make a punchline out of the illness. I'm sharing this article and this story to hopefully help humanize those with even the less savory mental health issues, and maybe give someone pause before the next time they joke about ""schizos"", call Fetterman a 'vegetable', rush to attribute violence to mental health issues, or in some other way do their part to ensure that those with serious mental health issues and/or disabilities do not take part in public life.","A great book about this, for those looking to learn more, is ""Lincoln's Melancholy"". It makes a persuasive case that Lincoln wasn't a great man despite his depression (then understood as 'melancholy') but because of it.",0
"You should check it out again. I have been watching a little since stumbling upon a ladder match promo months ago, and my brother has fully gotten back into it like when we were kids. The women are amazing, and I wish they would have been around when I was a little girl. It's hitting different these days.","The GOP acts like Vince McMahon is running the show, and it's wild how much they act like WWE performers. I wonder if any culture war bullshit is backlash from WWE being more progressive.",0
Just imagine if one day someone will attack Switzerland and everybody around them will stay neutral.,"So I would say the Swiss are neither neutral nor intelligent when it comes to handling their ""neutrality"". Maintaining neutrality until the bad guy wins and decides to take you over seems like a pretty stupid idea. And financially aiding one combatant in a war over the other doesn't seem very neutral even if it is to protect yourself.",1
"He said he's going to. Multiple people who are going to run haven't officially declared (DeSantis and Pence, for example), but to pretend like that means they won't is disingenuous.","Biden spent most of his adult life trying to run for President, and you all really think he's going to leave office willingly now that he's in and (generally) doing well?",0
So it does make sense (at least at first glance) to consider increasing minimum wage as of greater consequence to inflation than increasing salaries of upper and middle class folk.,This would actually help inflation because inflation that was a result of price gouging would actually increase the minimum wage. This tying the minimum wage to inflation would create a disincentive for companies to raise prices without justification.,1
You could have a relatively large amount of very depressed people and still have the vast majority of people rate their happiness as high. Which could lead to a higher happiness score than a country where everyone is depressed but not enough to kill themselves.,Happiness can be polarized in a way that leads to high suicide rates but a high average happiness ranking still.,0
"Name and shame every Republican legislator that “doesn’t believe” in climate change. How fucking convenient is it that all their donors have a vested interest in ensuring they can pollute as much as possible? The Republican base hates money in politics. Trump ran on “draining the swamp”. They have the same ideas we have in many cases, they just have no fucking idea who the good or bad guys are.","Democrats suck at messaging and getting people riled up. I know we like to pride ourselves on taking the high road, but we are at a point where we truly need to punch even lower than they are going already.",0
"People who suggest letting Russia have parts of Ukraine, or that we shouldn't be supplying the equipment Ukraine needs, for fear of escalation or dur to inconveniences caused by Russia are enter knowingly or unknowingly helping Putin.","A lot of the posturing by Putin and his cronies that is intended for consumption outside of Russia is an attempt to make people give up on supporting Ukraine, either by trying to convince people that Ukrainian defeat is inevitable, or that Putin will punish those countries that support Ukraine.",0
"Imagine the government exterminating 3.5 million people. That death toll would be 4 times larger than the amount of Tutsi killed in the Rwandan Genocide. That doesn't even include doctors, family members, allies, cisgender drag queens and other groups. Without even touching the non-drag LGB population, this genocidal worst case scenario could kill or displace close to five million people. That number is slightly below the total population of New Zealand. Trans people might be a small percentage of the American population but with how big our population is, that still means millions are in the crosshairs.",We could be heading towards this future if we don't act quickly and decisively. 2024 is only two years away.,0
"It's really hard to make such a determination. A bill gets passed but who did the work to get it passed. A small bill like this is almost no work, likely just think it up write it put it forth. Small distraction at best.","Something big like say the CHIPS act is a lot of backroom dealing and negotiation. Finding out which senators are opposed, who can be swayed, and what they want. Then of course you have the people who are against a bill working to sway people to their side. There's really no way you can every quantify who is doing what since most of this happens behind closed doors or on a private phone call. So we only know what happened when a congressperson talks about it publicly or an aide says something.",0
"That said, working with moderates to get past this comes with some risks. Can we find enough Democrats that won't be negatively impacted by voting for a Republican speaker? And treading water isn't necessarily the _worst_ decision while your opponent is actively trying to drown themselves, is it? So, the choices are: sit back and enjoy republicans destroying themselves for a while as nobody gets checks and no work gets done, or, risk a few seats in exchange for actual governing power that Dems can thanklessly use and get punished for (remember, we generally always get punished for actual governance).","Once they're literally in charge of all the committees, can bring legislation to a floor vote without McCarthy's approval, can remove him with a single vote at a whim, and have had all the Dems/Reps they don't like banned from committee assignments, then they will vote yes.",1
They burned that bridge the second their gambit of holding europe hostage over gas failed. Now China is going to become their main buyer and will have russia by the balls economically.,"If they were able to have the US by the balls economically for decades, then they certainly can take advantage of Russia.",1
"Thats the thing, though. As adults we deal with this type of conundrum all the time. We constantly have to recognize and restrain our emotional responses.","Feelings are not mystical. They don't somehow create a justification for bad behavior through their very existence. Sometimes your mind's initial response is the correct one, but oftentimes it has to be moderated or ignored. Doing that, having that amount of self-discipline, is the bare minimum that should be expected from any functioning adult.",0
The invasion of Ukraine isn't a stupid decision if your set of values doesn't consider things like the prosperity of your citizens or the development of your economy important.,"Understanding the values of dictators is valuable to not repeat the mistakes of European countries who thought they could stop Russian aggression by economic incentives, wilfully blind to the fact that the Russian government didn't care about anything like that.",0
"Ok, so you catch him before he takes office, yet still nothing is done and he will continue forward as a “typical” politician that lies, cheats and steals for a career.","I don't think we can hold Republicans accountable for anything because the people who elect them don't even care if they lie, cheat, or steal, as long as it's their team that's doing it.",1
"Its not like the countries that are aiding Ukraine are doing it out of moral values and not for self interest. All countries aiding Ukraine are getting something out of It, its good for Europe to weaken Russia because Russia is a threat for the security of Europe, and its also interesting for the US to weaken Russia economically. But for Brazil? There nothing we gain from It.","There is nothing for Brazil in doing it, we would just burn our relations with Russia which supplies Brazil with fertilizers, and Brazil cannot survive without those fertilizers.",0
“The other problem I found with his comments was that he characterized the British Army basically as having trained him and other soldiers to see his enemy as less than human.”.,"Yeah he talks about how they were taught not to think of the enemy combatants as other humans, and that they were killing them to save the lives of their fellow soldiers. I've seen enough interviews with soldiers to know that is how it's done. Everyone is attacking him for saying that he viewed it as ""taking enemy chess pieces off the board"" and how that's really messed up, but he goes on to say that it was the only way that he could do his job as a soldier, because he wouldn't be able to if he really felt like he was killing actual human beings, and I can't say I'd be any different to be honest.",1
"My coworker praised Kanye yesterday and told me it was proof that Republicans, and Trump, are not racist.","Well, a few black people I've conversed with on Facebook still support Kanye after he said Hitler was a good man today. Do they know that Hitler hated and murdered black people too? Like I get white people doing it. Those who do are just closeted antisemites who Kanye is giving a voice to. But black people? That's like being diabetic and voting to eat cake for dinner everyday.",1
Putin has to be severely desperate with the way oil prices are going. They were expecting a vastly different situation for 2023 and are getting absolutely annihilated on the front lines.,It's not a mystery why they have been trying to push Ukraine to 'let them win' through negotiations recently.,0
Putin fails to understand that the anti-gay propaganda is not working anymore because Russian people are afraid of an economic collapse way more than they are afraid of gay people.,So what Russia is saying is that their society is so fragile the west could collapse it by airdropping a bunch of gay people in to have a Pride parade in Red Square? The CIA should get on this.,1
"The remnants of the war have also supercharged the right wing nationalism that helped start the war in the first place, so things in this regard have become worse and this drives anti-west, pro-Russia politics that other illiberal democracies in southern and eastern Europe seem so susceptible to.","an ""invasion"" by russia doesnt have to be with soldiers, just shove in lots of russians like in the Donbas and then stir up the local hatred for some reason to undermine the government.",1
"Granted, the article ignores the fact that the sub-$1 per hour pay is only part of what a prisoner gets from the state. There is also food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. You're saying that the sum of these parts equals acceptable compensation for holding a prison job, even one that could prove fatal as in the case of fighting wildfires. However, to pay anyone other than a prisoner to do these jobs, the government would have to spend a minimum of three times what they currently spend merely keeping each prisoner alive. The fact is, food, clothes, shelter, and medical care are part of the minimum quality of care the government is required to provide prisoners. So the pay prisoners receive for working - which is a small fraction of minimum wage - is given for doing jobs that the government couldn't get any free citizen to do even for minimum wage. Which is, in fact, a form of slavery.",I was about to be mad that slavery is in quotes but now see it is a correction. The article just wanted to not remind people America still has slaves. I appreciate some abolition work being done however.,1
Warlock vs. Walker is just insane. It’s honestly embarrassing for our country that this is a neck and neck race.,"I’ve seen the same ideas about Oz, too. Like “damn it primary voters, making me have to vote for Oz!”.",0
"Note also that there are different definitions of mass shootings. ProPublica seems to use a very restrictive one, as they only counted 19 mass shootings in 60 years in Texas. What fraction of all homicides over the last 60 years is that?","From Pew Research, Handguns were used in 59% of the gun homicides in 2020. Weapons that would be categorized as ""assault weapons"" were used in 3% of gun homicides. Shotguns were used in 1%. The other 36% was classified as ""type not stated"".",1
"There’s been a lot of evils in history that were considered truths, but if we aren’t allowed to talk about them (because it’s misinformation), we can’t debate them. I’d rather allow for the public square of debate, rather than act as an arbiter of truth on who can and can’t speak. Because as we’ve seen, people will call everything they disagree with “intentional lies” rather than “a conclusion they disagree with.”.","You just said “free speech” doesn’t cover straight up lying. You miss the point in that without free speech, you can’t call out lies. That’s what the people who are speculating about Paul Pelosi are doing. They think that the news media is lying, so they’re trying to produce speculation. Exactly what OP commenter did about Musk being bought by Putin. It’s probably not true, but I support him being able to speculate and put pieces to a puzzle together on any theory he may have, what if Twitter removed his theory and called it “misinformation”? What if his stupid theory happened to be true?",0
"Because Chad leased/purchased a number of Ukrainian MiG-29s and SU-25s, and part of the contract was that Chad would pay Ukrainian contractors to organize, maintain and fly said planes. The basically outsourced some or all of their Air Force to the Ukrainians.","There's not much of anything I can find that Ukraine is still there, are the aircraft still working etc.",1
"Yeah, those things have significant personal consequences that come about through one's individual choices so I don't think they can be equated. The consequence of voting for a muppet polician on an individual level is not similar.","Given voter participation rates in under 25s, I don't think this will make any real difference to the outcome of our elections.",0
"1. Russia would not have accepted a referendum that does not support their claims, they would have refused the outcome saying it is a fraud, meanwhile they would have tried to manipulate that referendum as much as humanily possible with coercion and bribes. They are not acting in good faith. SHOCKER, I know! Russia would have invaded regardless, they couldn't care less about the people of Donbass. If they did they would not have caused so much suffering for them. Causes for this war are many for the Russians but a humanitarian operation for defending the liberties of ""oppressed"" peoples it is DEFINITELY NOT.","4. As for why Ukrainians should keep fighting... I just can't. Think for a second, apply this situation to just about any situation were a foreign invader is RAPING another country, or even an allied country? I don't want to sound patronizing, or condescending, but if you have any knowledge of history you should consider using it. I'll go with an easy example - Think of WW2, should the Allies have just said ""well, millions of people of people are dying we might as well bend over!""?",0
✹ Assassin's Creed✹ Borderlands✹ Divinity: Original Sin 2✹ Dragon Age✹ Life Is Strange✹ The Last of Us✹ Fallout✹ Apex Legends✹ RimWorld✹ Overwatch✹ Le crime du parking✹ The Sims 3.,"Do you know how it ended in the Soviet Union? I think, some boyfriend chose another girl or cheated and she shot him a Kalashnikov during of the lessons.",0
"It's an oligarchy ruled by the police state, not by the billionaires. The siloviki have the power, and that's just a fact. Look at what's already happened to the billionaires that stepped out line. I wouldn't even call them oligarchs any more, just billionaires, considering how limited their power is.","He pretty much centered all power around himself a while ago (which is a big part of how this debacle started in the first place), even the billionaires don't really have much sway in something like this.",1
I also think that no world leaders are willing to accept the risk of 20+ cities in their country being destroyed by nuclear weapons. And preventing even 10% of missiles from getting through is gonna be nearly impossible.,"So they are fixed point, with tons of space and you would be able to easily counter direct attacks, additionally there wouldn't just be one platform, but hundreds, so like the nuclear triad. You would have to take out all of them.",1
"That said, as soon as the ball leaves the passing player's body, the offensive player receiving the pass can run forward towards the goal and it's not offsides.","Off side happens when the opposite team player has passed the last player of your team towards your goal before the ball is played to him. If you score from there, its invalid.",1
"No bodies here even mention that it's up to African nations to choose what's best for themselves. Most Western audience here cries colonialism yet treats African nations like children with no agency of their own, just because they chose China. It's this exact Western colonial mentality that cause African countries to favor China.","Global capitalism from the West and China will still exploit the hell out of Africa regardless, but it will likely be less agregious.",1
It massively depends on whether the attack was conducted with something like Tu-141s launched from Ukraine or something smaller launched more locally by Ukrainian Special Forces or partisans operating within Russia.,"Russia keeps saying they’ve attacked Ukraine bc Ukraine refused to de-militarize itself, therefore, Russia will forcibly demilitarize it.",1
"Wait, that actually makes it easier for the Patriot missiles to do their job. If he aims Russian missiles at the launchers they don’t even need to do any advanced maneuvering.","If Russia had the capacity to shoot down Ukrainian missiles, they would have already used it. So for the most literal definition of ""knock down U.S. Patriot Missiles"" it can be inferred that they don't have the capability.",1
"The concepts I enjoy focusing on tend to deal with meta-physical spaces. In focusing on these concepts it becomes necessary to not only question my external world, but my internal world. This ties in a lot with context of existence, personal identity, perception of reality, among other things. Much of these concepts have no scientific methodology for specific measurement so it's not as though it can ever be ""proven"", these are all concepts that rely of faith. I don't think anyone should be discouraged from exploring their self or their faith. Religion can be a useful vehicle for that exploration. Problems arise when people try to influence that journey of personal exploration. Those people can use religion to have that negative influence, but it is not religion which is negative, it is people's desire for control.",I mean that religion is a form of government - a means of control of a population. They create rules. They have followers. They have leaders. Religions govern.,1
"According to Google/Wikipedia, the Central African Republic's air force has between three and six aircraft of unknown condition, all cargo planes and helicopters, none of them newer than 40 years old. Their immediate neighbor to the north (Chad) has a vastly superior air force with nine old soviet jet fighters of unknown condition.",Hmm what a coincidence that the Air Force of neighboring Chad is staffed with Ukrainian mercenaries for most of its jet pilots. I wonder if they might have a bone to pick with Wagner for some reason lol.,1
"Remember those stupid poll results that come up from time to time that "" Congress is less popular than syphilis""?",Do you really think syphilis has even 8% support? There's obviously a floor on each question for people to just pick something at random.,0
all the crap that humans dump into the ocean is going to come back to us Brazil needs to take ownership and properly dispose of the vessel.,"But Brazil is doing what it can, the company abandoned the ship and Brazil’s Navy is keeping it where it is.",1
It's just too on the nose. It didn't really mean to be. It wanted to be outlandish parody. But it was too accurate.,"Yeah. In terms of being the nominee, I think this largely depends on how Trump’s base reacts to someone who isn’t Trump winning (I don’t see Trump handing off the torch, and a win by DeSantis without Trump’s acknowledgement could be a pyrrhic victory) and also how much of the suburban base DeSantis could lose if he has to out-ugly Trump in order to clench the primary.",1
"Of course it didn't help in the Roman Catholic case that every other major Christian religious organizations were dunking on them. When I was a kid there was a Baptist church down the road that put out flyers around a local Catholic church saying something like ""You don't need to worry about our pastor trying to diddle your kids."" A couple years later one of their youth pastors was caught SA'ing a kid, and turned out he was a habitual abuser that the church knew about but turned a blind eye to. The local paper and news media barely reported on it.",I have always been highly sceptical of organized religion even as a kid. I remember asking my mom one time why we bothered going to church to listen to someone else tell us how we need to interpret the Bible in front of the preacher. Never went back to that church.,0
"Right. Railway workers are basically slaves if this comes to pass. They literally cannot NOT work. ""Oh sure, we treat them well, of course."" says the railway corporations. Except the quality of life stuff is exactly why the workers want to strike!",I hope the workers strike anyway. Make the railroads choose between having none of their trains running and the comparatively small cost of a few sick days.,1
It was fought over whether the federal government would allow Slavery to expand into the western states that were starting to form around this time.,"There were no ""Happy"" slaves, forcing slaves to be Christian via whip isn't inherently Christian, slave owners were not kind.",0
"The joke is: kids sometimes pay shady adults to buy beer for them, the adults don't actually pay for the beer. The kids pay beer+incentive to the adult. So the joke is: now, the kids can just give the adult condoms and the cost of beer, and the adult gets free condoms, everyone walks away a winner.","Friend A: Oh that's interesting, so your father tell you that: ""Hey champ, grab this bill of 10$ and go buy a condom for me so tonight I can fuck your mother"".",1
"Is there a Democrat candidate running for office that’s as unhinged, delude, or hypocritical as Walker is? I feel like most Rs would say AOC or Bernie, but those are pretty baseless accusations. How are the Republicans defending Walker?",Warlock vs. Walker is just insane. It’s honestly embarrassing for our country that this is a neck and neck race.,0
"I mean, I don't see the Palestinians protesting against their government like the Iranians. In fact, they'd rather blow up Jewish children instead. They're such nice people! /s.","If your government start locking up jews, stoning lgbtq, and oppressing women then I'm sure people would start protesting. It's funny how most Palestinians don't seem to care that and only believe jew=bad...",0
This is the extremist GOP’s way of reminding the Dems and their supporters that their side has the guns and has no qualms about using them.,"They made a hero out of Kyle Rittenhouse, for god’s sake, as though what he did was righteous and patriotic. They continue to lionize the January 6 insurrectionists and paint them as unjustly persecuted freedom fighters. There are thousands of gun murders every year, including the murdered children in Uvalde, the innocent shoppers in Buffalo, and so many others just last year in terrorist attacks with that exact gun that they are wearing on their lapels. It is so bizarre and grotesque. The most outlandish parody from ten years ago could not capture the reality of today’s GOP.",0
"When you’re rich and the cost of health care won’t affect you, and the introduction of for profit health care will likely make you richer… well… easy choice.","That's what happens when you design a healthcare system around insurance lawyers, executives, and doctors who became doctors because they wanted to get rich.",1
Instead of fixing the carry forward loophole they changed if from 20 years to indefinite. So idiots like Trump can reach back to when he owned casinos and claim millions in extra losses.,"A big loophole which Congress keeps open is your ability to carry losses from year to year. So the rich collect losses and then report them to off set their taxes. Congress needs to close this loophole, but the Dems often blame the rich rather than blaming he tax code.",0
"He was an apache pilot. The Taliban were very rarely able to shoot down helicopters, especially at night. It’s very feasible that he was able to kill 25+ Taliban in this role. Many attack helicopters pilots would’ve killed alot more than that.","He flew with and directed helicopters. I think he did have a guard with him apparently, but it was a role he could do without their direct interference I presume.",1
"It’s not just about being arrested. CPS comes to you to find any tiniest reason to take away your kids. You can also lose your job, and they can find something else to pin onto you like planted drugs. If They try to fight police and riot, police will open fire. Even Yeltsin shelled the crap out of a democratically elected parliament and that was “free” Russia. And and seeing how 4 revolutions, years of protesting and many other crises ended up, people don’t want to throw their lives away only to be living under new management.",Not saying people should just sit back and let violent regime takes control but sometimes there is just nothing else people can do except to bid their time and wait for favorable circumstances to arise. I think such time may come soon for the Russian citizen to overthrow Putin.,1
"This year the Palestinians have killed a 5 year old and 6 year old at a bus stop, a 15 year old at bus stop, a 14 year old in a synagogue, a 16 year old and his older brother yesterday and then filmed their bodies as they mocked them. And that's just the children they have killed this year.","But yes, let's talk about Israel's moral advantage because the Palestinians sure are winning on that front /s.",0
"Furthermore, Hirohito told the public and his military two different reasons for the surrender. He told the public it was nukes and told the military that it was the USSR joining the war against Japan.",Japan declared they lost not because of the two bombs but because Russia joined hands with the US and declared war. I do agree that the atomic bombs may have played a part in the capitulation but not the major one.,1
"I think the “our voters aren’t voting” line is just ANOTHER way for the Faux News crowd to claim that they SHOULD be winning. It’s easier than addressing the fact that they are out of touch with the voters, that they only win by gerrymandering, that they have only won a single popular presidential election in the past eight. It’s their ‘silent majority’ nonsense all over again.","I cannot speak for the entire country but here, in my slice of Wisconsin, the GOP are out to vote in numbers as high as I’ve ever seen.",0
"The EU is unconditionally by Ukraine's side. When it comes to the beef between China and the US, the EU remains mostly neutral. That could change if China was to provide Russia with weapons to prolong this war of aggression. I sincerely don't think that's something China wants to occur.","I truly hope they don't and I'm not advocating for Russia-China here, but... If I imagine myself in their shoes, this ""red line"" warning feels a bit empty considering the west already crossed it, no? Or am I forgetting an obscure international treaty that would make all this legal and normal?",1
"Why would I know what's in the agreement, bargaining is done in private. I do know that if they are willing to strike over a few paid sick days then it likely isn't that great to begin with. Democrats may support more regulation of capitalism, but when push comes to railroad strike, who did they side with?","I'm sorry, but if you really think the Democrats are pro labor you have no idea. Republicans are definitely anti-labor, the Democrats are also anti-labor. They're just a lot better at hiding it.",1
"Biden spent most of his adult life trying to run for President, and you all really think he's going to leave office willingly now that he's in and (generally) doing well?","But I don't want to get my hopes up, because I know there's also a decent chance she won't be open to any sort of agreements because she'd rather gamble on Biden dying in office, instead of worrying about ever winning an election. And while he technically could, I doubt Biden will replace her without her agreeing.",1
Prison for executives who order their companies to commit crime needs to be the consequences for corporate crimes.,"Too often, corporate executives and other leaders face no punishment for their selfish or stupid decisions that cause so many problems. When bankers ruined the economy and had to bailed out in 2009, no one was held responsible; no one went to jail, but lots of average citizens were severely damaged. I propose the ""Direct Accountability and Responsibility Act - DARA"". For every decision a corporation, organization, or other entity (governmental boards, inspectors, police departments) SOMEONE has to sign off and be held responsible, and if there is a later problem, accountable. Yes, I know about scapegoats, loopholes, plausible deniability, and that this proposal needs to be refined. Contact your local elected leaders and media personnel.",1
"We don't. Iran simply has to have someone in any western country buy them. From there, smuggling them into Iran (with Iran's help) would not be difficult at all.","Iran has been under sanctions for decades, this is just another thing they have been buying illegally. Now that America knows what parts Iran is sourcing for it's drones, it's possible to chase down said supply lines.",1
"Better yet, they can accelerate aging as well, so if you go broke and don't pay your cell rebooting subscription, Then you get on the fast track to the grave.","There are so many potential problems (and a few benefits I suppose) if we find a way to stop aging or massively extend our life spans, especially if it's en masse and easily affordable.",1
"No the provincial colleges of Physicians do. Some provinces don't have colleges of physicians like Ontario does, so they have other names. It is a provincial jurisdiction. Even moving from one province to another poses problems for physicians in Canada.","Sadly this is true, the medical system in Canada is slow and unwieldy and incentivises good doctors to seek employment elsewhere, where they can make better salaries.",1
"The GOP has always had a place at their table for Nazis. They share a history of enforcing a racial hierarchy through the power of the state. Extreme nationalism, disdain for education and journalism, and pathological obsession over the 'preservation' of a fictitious ideal society that never was define both. They're cut from the same ideological cloth. Not every republican is a Nazi but every Nazi is a republican.","Nah, Republicans have been flirting with American Nazis since the 1950s. See: George Lincoln Rockwell, a truly despicable POS. Trump is just the latest dimension of that long-running relationship.",1
"I’ll say it again: the fact that NATO refuses to join the war even when it’s Russia that started it is a clear proof that NATO had no intention to invade Russia at all, so Ukraine joining NATO can’t pose any threat to Russia. The only difference is that if Ukraine joins NATO, Russia will no longer be able to invade it, that’s why Russia wanted to do it before it’s too late.","Also they pretend it's weird that America thinks they want to take the whole Ukraine while saying earlier that they will take to at least the dnipro the next 3 years, preferably further.",1
"Or at least they should be. I have a lot of issues with how the resources are allocated, to be sure, but I think that at its core, continuing to pay some amount of tax (not all, mind; you're not paying any of the sales taxes, road tolls, property taxes, or anything of the sort when you live abroad because you're not using the systems those are attached to) into the system that you have citizenship in and can return to and take part in at literally any time due to that citizenship isn't some offensive concept.","I suppose I look at the taxes abroad the same way I look at the taxes on domestic citizens. Part of citizenship is being able to come back to the country, or seek the help of the country's embassies, at literally any time. Nominally, everyone paying those taxes at all times not only pays for anything they're currently making use of, but also pays for the future solvency and stability of the system for any future use by any and all citizens/payers. This is similar in my mind to ideas like income and sales tax for non-citizen residents, as they're similarly benefiting from the hard infrastructure here and now.",0
"Your average immune system is going to get pummeled. So what a vaccine does is get a Mike Tyson look alike to recreate all the move sets in sparring matches, and does a rocky montage with your immune system.","This way when it comes to getting the virus, your immune system is much better prepared, it doesn't mean you'll not get the virus - that is down to exposure, and exposure alone. But instead your immune system would have a much better chance of fighting it off.",0
"It sucks, but there's no way to punish Clarence Thomas or any other SCOTUS judge for not recusing themselves when they obviously should. Our system is built on the assumption that the people involved in the government all have scruples and morals and ethics, and it really isn't equipped to deal with it when they don't. Our whole democracy is basically a gentleman's agreement, but that's pretty worthless if people don't voluntarily play by the rules.","The honest answer is that you need a large percentage of the population to start voting for Democrats in every election. I know that's not the answer anyone wants to hear, but that's really all there is short of a civil war of some kind. With more Dems elected they can get big enough majorities to vote for rule changes (like eliminating the filibuster, eliminating partisan gerrymandering or expanding the Supreme Court), and actually make meaningful change.",0
If the West sanctioned China it would be the worst hit to the economy ever and they can't afford it. That's why they followed the western sanctions on Russia.,"Not really. China produces a lot of things, but only because the west provides WHAT and HOW. And mainly because they can SELL it to the West.",0
"Instead, McConnell flew off to his ninth straight election to lead the Senate Republican Conference in a landslide, with 37 votes in his corner to just 10 for Trump’s stand-in, Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.).","Banks lost to Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), the least conservative of the three contestants, on a second ballot behind the support of many hard-working, avoid-the-spotlight Republicans who want a similarly aligned whip.",0
"Russia will not use nuclear weapons unless they are faced with an existential threat. They have full control on when hostilities cease and thus have no cause or basis for their use. Indeed, their use would manifest the very existential threat they seek to avoid.","This is a professional doing their job to prevent military escalation. Europe is walking the middle ground between a loss of Ukraine to a corrupt mafia state and full European military engagement. As Russia gets closer to capitulation, they could try to drag Europe down with them, making Stoltenberg's role all that more critical.",0
"My implication wasnt that its so bloody due to religion, my point is that is it a bloody land, so the claim that it is the holiest land of God is what seems disengineous to me. It isnt really holy, its just strategically important, and religion has been used as a tool to convince people to continue fighting perpetually for longer than any other region in the world.",not to the same degree. People have been fighting over that piece od land for much much longer. Also Germany or China arent considered holy land by 3 major world religions.,0
Show a rainbow-colored American flag to one of the people flying this shit and they'll scream at you about how offensive it is.,"Yep. If a Domino's delivery driver showed up wearing a shirt that said ""Domino's delivery drivers should be allowed to murder with impunity."" that person would be fired on the spot. They wouldn't need to have a rule on the books for it.",0
"So, the US and South Korea conducted ""drills"" involving hundreds of aircraft (no doubt near the border unless someone clarifies otherwise), and North Korea responded by sending 180 planes flying around their side of the border.","I understand the instinct to trust your nation's propaganda and I'm not here saying ""this this and this is how NK actually is"", but as you've just pointed out, the known facts do not exactly match up with the picture of North Korea that is painted in the west. I do not trust a thing western sources tell me about nk, a LOT of it comes from trashy SK tabloids that people in SK know are BS.",0
"The root of the conflict is that Jews felt the need for a state due to pogroms, racism, and genocides across Europe, and Palestine was the only real place for it. That in itself is complicated given the fact that whether you think that's justification for trying to make a nation state is itself complicated, not to mention the location and method etc., as well as the fact that the Yishuv initially didn't have nearly as much conflict as modern Israel today, although conflict still existed.","Lastly I will finish with this, the Palestinians who remained in Israel gained full citizenship with all the rights it comes with, sure there is racism, it's awful but it's a problem that exists all around the world(same reason we have suffered, tribalism makes humans target minorities since they are such easy scapegoats, especially in our case, in the midst of such a charged conflict). Palestinians who have arrived to Arab countries however became refugees, as did their descendants. Only in Jordan in where the majority is Palestinian did they get citizenship.",1
"In case you don't know, the whole region is locked into a political power struggle between rival powers roughly on sectarian lines, and Iran is the spearhead of the Shia bloc, so anyhting sunni is immediately suppressed into submission and irrelevance, or used against the very cause they try to advance.","Yeah he can probably agitate quite a bit regionally and get things moving underground, but in term of actually promoting a referendum, or any official move, he's got less than zero influence .. The mullahs will never move in a direction pushed by a Sunni leader, barring a major shift in political and diplomatic direction.",0
"But if people in Russia mostly want to end up like North Korea, cut off from the world and laughed at, ok. Whatever.","We, in the west and on reddit, like to assume that the war is hugely unpopular in Russia because it makes us feel better to believe that. It's, unfortunately, just not true.",1
"And now he gets to be the sacrificial lamb for the elites. The conspiracies they scream about are done by them, LOL.","Fuck the hate, the conspiracies, the defamation. Biden has a soul. He is a father who loves his children, who pushes for their success and cares for them. Despite hardships he understands what it means to be in it, to struggle, to not know what to do but still know that we have to try something. He knows when to ask for help, and has the decorum and integrity to not try and gloat or shit on his opponents unless they come for him doggedly... or are truly despicable and enemies of American life.",1
I know life aint fair and maybe this is just wishful thinking but I see no way Russia would ever agree to pay reparations. So Ukraine is fucked completely even if allies use the frozen russian assets to fund the rebuilding.,"I think we should aim to stop the war as soon as possible on Ukraine terms, and seemingly the sanctions imposed on Russia is not enough.",0
Interestingly one of NATOs responses to the use of a tactical nuke is to attack Belarusian military facilities (possibly with a tactical nuke).,"I should point out that a) I said possibly a tactical nuke, this doesn't mean definitely, b) Russian nuclear doctrine says they will use nuclear weapons to defend Russia, so a NATO strike on Russia soil would give then cause to use nukes, NATO know this and are fully aware of the risks involve with actually attacking Russia and c) I said one of their responses. This doesn't mean it's the likely response or they still have that as a plan. There are properly 100's if not 1000's of possible responses they would of planned out. 99% of them we will never hear of.",0
"Edit 2: Also, political ideology isn't a protected class. McD would be 100% in their rights to refuse service based on that if they wanted to. It would be dumb. But, again, not wanting an unauthorized media circus in your restaurant should be reason enough without bringing ideology into it.","Edit: I don't think it's unreasonable to say, ""You are more than welcome to eat here, but you are not welcome to film and hand out political material (MAGA hats) here."".",0
Real question from a casual observer: is there a moderate/ non-Trump Republican (or a conservative Democrat) who could win with the backing of all of the Democrats and a few Republicans?,"The reason is that they could make dropping the ‘Hunter Biden’s Penis’ hearings, keeping the government open, and being at least somewhat reasonable caveats for their votes. If the speaker goes back on his (or her) word, they call a no confidence vote.",0
"I wasn't going to Russia anytime soon regardless, so I'm not particularly worried about it; but I would be worried about visiting Russia right now. Tourists getting drafted may have an infinitesimally small chance of happening, but if it did, I think the tourist would be fucked.","I agree, Russia drafting some random non-Russian citizen sounds absurd, and would be highly illegal. It would be closer to abduction at that point. Probably not happening.",0
"That's not what happens. They don't look at the candidate who came in third place and say, ""I should be more like the even bigger loser."" Instead, what they do is look at the policies of the winning candidate (in this scenario, the Republican), and say, ""I should be more like the one who won."".","Sure. But then you generally just end up helping the worst candidate win, and how does that help anything?",1
"It was a bit of a joke - I have been criticizing the Israeli government for years, and almost always get called anti-Semitic for it despite very clearly making my statements about the government.",If someone criticizes segregation and apartheid carried on by the Israeli government - - then no antisemitism.,1
You gotta be picky these days. The last time someone said there was going to be free cake. The crowd was pissed when they found out that it was all gone. They started cutting people's heads off and shit.,"I am all for a good ol' fashioned revolution! However, it needs to have a factual basis and not rooted in the lies of one or two people.",0
"Funny, as the FBI in 2008 released declassified documents showing a vastly deep network of material support for the 9/11 hijackers from people within the Saudi government/intel agencies/related networks. And quite a lot more has come out. US presidents have their head up the ass of the corrupt Saudi officials, no way they'd allow anything that explosive to come out. Also the ""no way Saudis would have anything to do with al-Qaeda"" is not accurate, just look at the insane funding for al-Qaeda/AQ linked militias in the Syrian conflict as well as before 9/11.","While official Saudi government money did not fund Al Qaeda, much of the funding for that organization did come from the Saudi Kingdom and an overwhelming majority of the hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi subjects/citizens. To say that Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with it was wrong too. Osama bin Laden himself was from Saudi Arabia and his personal fortune came from Saudi oil too.",1
"The issue at the heart of this negotiation is paid sick leave. Congress passed two bills, one to force through the tentative agreement, and another to add a week of paid leave to that agreement.","Congress added 7 days of sick leave to the bill, which is 3 more days than the unions were asking for, and was the last sticking point in negotiations. They shouldn't have any reason to be upset now.",1
"Find out which documents are missing from Trump and why our intelligence sources were murdered ""at an alarming number."".","Yes. I also didn't read that report until the end of the whole saga, and while there was no deliberate mishandling of classified material, classified material was mishandled and put at risk.",1
"They also neglected to mention that the current government is led by a far-right nationalist, and those people seem to like and support Putin. Do you think if trump had won in 2020 the US would be backing Ukraine right now?","Do you have anything more recent? This is from 2015, well before the full scale invasion of Ukraine. Almost all of the nays in congress of aid to Ukraine the last few years have been from the GOP.",0
"Could this be due to women seeing men as poor/non viable caregivers? Or because it’s considered a poor career decision for men to take the leave? Or cultural norms that mean women don’t want to be a burden to their partners, etc? Not trying to be a jerk but I know SK isn’t the warmest place to be a woman so I wonder if these aren’t part of the equation for them.","Can I ask if you’re a woman or mother? It can take between 6-10 weeks (or more) to truly recover physically from birth especially C section and I wonder if you could comment on gender norms about care and household chores, wondering if those wouldn’t factor into their decisions to seek respite elsewhere. Any idea how long somewhere like say, Samsung might offer for NBP parental leave? Is it considered a bad career move to actually take that leave? I know at least in Japan taking ur vacation is pretty much frowned on.",0
"I think Biden beats Trump again, full confidence on that. Trump is never being president again. I fully believe that...","I would too...but I don't know if the rest of the country will see it that way. I just have lost faith in this country as a whole, especially GOP voters. They have given us two downright terrible presidents their last two chances and are looking to give us a third.",0
"My general position is that religion should be kept out of schools. If instead of a smudging ceremony, it was a catholic priest baptizing kids at school, then I'd be just as outraged as most of you all would certainly be.","if a Christian group wanted to come into a school and, say perform a baptism while kids watched and then cleanse the classroom of demons by waving around some incense as a demonstration I’d tell them to get fucked.",1
"It was only when the Americans got involved and basically did what European governments were too frightened to do, that it started to collapse.","Football simply didn't have the hold in America, so Loreta Lynch comes along and basically says who the fuck do you think you are, you're only a sports administrative body, not some sort of super-state, and she began arresting them.",0
"I mean those which are mocking/harsh, freedom of speech allows it and it’s good, but making a harsh and offensive caricature in the day of the tragedy deserves every bit of harsh backlash it gets.",Some people seem to think that freedom of speech shouldn’t protect speech that is offensive or controversial but that is basically the whole point of freedom of speech.,1
"Setting the precedent that in the modern world congress is able to disqualify candidates without a trial, without any evidence brought up in court, and with a complete lack of due process would be such a colossal mistake it is hard to even put it into words.","Realistically though, even if it does pass it would be torn to shreds by the court without a trial for Trump, I think it's possible that it would have some standing had there been even a single conviction thus far of insurrection for any of the participants of Jan 6th, but there hasn't.",0
"Or the criticism is that we will bomb civilians for 20 years, leave, and then immediately the group they claimed to protect are back where they started under the oppressive government but now with more dead people.","Lol unarmed protesters have no chance, they will continue to be slaughtered until their will is broken as has happened every time unarmed protesters have gone up against an autocratic regime. For every Gahndi and MLK you need a Singh and Malcom X.",1
"I'm an American, but I follow British politics for fun so I've picked up a lot of the lingo, but I think the first time I figured this out was a headline something like ""Belgium hasn't had a government for two years"" that totally didn't compute with the US understanding of ""government."".",Good. What has he done for Australia to be given the honor of being featured in Australian money? (Or any currency for that matter). Feature something Australian in it instead.,1
"We don’t need them to back a democrat, we need them to be petty and decide they’ll take their ball and go home and/or get back at their enemy by voting present.","Obviously, the times have been a changin', but the point stands, a non-elected citizen running the House is wild idea, especially to the the 430 some odd people who are elected to the House. I don't see this garnering enough support from either side of the aisle, much less both.",1
This might get messy. I had not thought about the tit for tat arms to Russia vs Taiwan. I think the west would rather have a Cold War than have Taiwan destroyed and rebuilt as a massive China naval base and shipyard for administration of the SCS. China will point out the hypocrisy and the US will say they are supporting a right to self determination just like Ukraine.,First I fully support Ukraine and think we should give even more and be looking at diplomatic channels to convince even China to oppose Russia. My post was pointing out why we don't care about the genocide and enslavement going on in China compared to the invasion of Ukraine.,1
"Housing is the most important factor. Forced treatment would help, but most homeless people aren't mentally ill enough for asylum.","Forced detox might help some people, but most would just go back to using especially if they can’t get help paying for housing. Not to mention the costs and legal implications.",1
"""Donald David Dillbeck (May 24, 1963 – February 23, 2023) was an American convicted murderer executed by the state of Florida for stabbing a woman \[to death\] in a Tallahassee mall parking lot in 1990 after escaping from prison, where he was serving a life sentence for killing a sheriff's deputy in 1979."".","No. Getting fired is not at all comparable to getting killed. An argument could be made DeSantis has caused more harm because his actions have negatively impacted such a large amount of people, but you shouldn't trivialize the actions of Dillbeck. He is a murderer.",0
"Yes, you are correct. But the biggest reason for this was the wide open desert terrain of Iraq, which made it possible for USA to destroy enemy tanks from further away, where Iraqi's couldn't even fire back.",But the terrain in Ukraine is much more complex with a lot of forests and other elements which makes battles being fought much closer to each other.,0
The rest were the usual suspects of Russia alarmists who for decades spend their time crying wolf about anything Russia does or doesn't do. They just happened to be right in a big way for a change.,"Most people against Nord Stream were against it for any number of selfish reasons, in many cases completely unrelated to actually caring about the EUs or Germany's energy security. Trump, for example, just wanted to sell more US LNG in Europe.",0
I know postulation for the war ending is dangerous territory for journalists but are there any prevailing sentiments you have been made aware of during your coverage?,">Yes, journalists including myself have been deliberately targeted in wars I have covered, including Ukraine. The Bosnian Serbs deliberately shot at vehicles with press signs on them. And in Ukraine, the Russians fired a cluster bomb intended for us in the frontline village in which there was Ukrainian command post that we had just visited. The Russians apparently saw our vehicles from a drone. But fortunately, it took time for the drone operator to transmit our coordinates to the Organ missile crew that fired at us. We had already gotten to the front line trenches when they fired. We heard the explosions of the submunitions and the Ukrainians told all about this when we returned to the village. In my long experience as a war correspondent, I have come to understand that all front lines are essentially the same nasty, dangerous and bloody places in every war. I’m more interested in reporting on the reasons for the war and how it impacts ordinary folk. So, yes, I wrote many stories from front line villages focusing on how the civilians who chose to stay were living, the hardships they faced and why they chose to remain. I did the same in cities like Mykolaiv, where there was no fresh water because the Russians had destroyed the system intake, using water as a weapon of war. No one lost their credentials for going into Kherson without permission after the Russians withdrew, including yours truly. Re attitudes: I would say way more than 90 percent of Ukrainians want to fight for their independence, freedom and a European orientation. Especially young people who want to spend their vacations in Barcelona and not Sochi, There are some elderly people - mostly in the east - who yearn for the predictable days of Soviet rule, although you can only understand that my reading between the lines of their complaints about Ukrainian military operations and food shortages. - JSL.",1
"After a genocidal war has started, and all of the prejudices, fears and paranoias about russia have become validated. the Polish hate-boner for Russia is far stronger than it's value of keeping Hungary as a friend, when Hungary is supporting Russia.","Hungary isn't Turkey, it's not a strategically relevant nation, Orban either has some friends in high places in EU or trusts Putin way too much for him to behave like that.",1
How much would you be willing to bet that they are probably not doing this out of concern for the people of Ukraine and the pure goodness of their hearts?,"This is why I don't trust either side of this war, whatever is left of Ukraine by the time this ends is already up for auctions for the vultures on this side of the western world. Not saying whatever Russia takes will be better off but in the end this whole war and follow up is being built on top of Ukranian graves and we are supposed to cheer for that.",1
"Could it be true? Possibly, but we'd literally have no reason to think that \this\ time they mean what they say, because they almost never do. The way to de-escalate the war has been clear from day 1 of Putin's invasion: leave Ukraine. If they were genuinely frightened, they'd have long since backed down, so clearly they're not concerned at the possibility of ww3 starting even if their messaging would suggest that they are.","The one consistent thing about Russia is that there's never a semblance to integrity in what they say. Everything is propaganda, from the Russian bots to the official Kremlin announcements. When Russia says the U.S. should watch out or else war might start, what they really mean to say is they hope to hinder support of Ukraine by scaring people into the possibility of a world war 3.",0
Edit edit: Can I get a CBO score on this bill. Would it even generate close to the same amount of tax we collect now?,"Even if that scenario, that tax is regressive. Billionaires won't stop buying yachts cos of the sale while the non-rich people who depend on second-hand bicycle may just be priced out by a small increase in sales tax.",1
"In that there is no immunity to breaking the rules similar to what TFG attempted to get away with. Security Clearances and rules for classified material are the governance of the Executive. The Legislative can request (and will often be given clearance due to obvious oversight needs) but some sort of special select committee will probably not get along well with the WH. But the Legislative needs to play entirely by the rules laid out by the executive, and will be punished if they try to leak and or abuse classified material.","If they want to dictate how, or what, it would require passing laws that the executive branch would have to follow. That would be particularly hard given their position.",1
Also germany: Cost of living exploding over the last 10 years (especially housing). Wages stagnating.,"All the while wages stagnate or technically decrease. 3% more wage to counter 7% inflation. With a 60k wage, I dont really get bothered by the increse all that much, but anyone with lower wages gets thorougly fucked.",1
"I think Trump takes a deal to avoid any further investigations and to avoid a potential prison sentence. He pleads guilty to a lesser charge, pays his millions in fines, avoids jail time, and goes back to his excessive complaining about everyone being against him and everything being rigged. Part of that plea deal though is that the charge he pleads guilty to prevents him from running for public office ever again.","Which leaves Pence and Cheney. Pence, the one who is very much pretty far right, but not MAGA and still respected the results of the 2020 election, and Cheney, who is more to the middle than Pence, and has been the most prominent opponent of Trump from the very beginning. My guess is Pence gets the nomination and Cheney accepts his offer to run as his VP. That's my official prediction for the 2024 Republican ticket. Pence/Cheney vs Biden/Harris. I think Biden/Harris win big because the MAGA crowd won't turn out to vote for that particular ticket.",0
"Morocco will also presumably receive an incentive, and I wouldn't be surprised if they get rewarded with more modern USA equipment.","Morocco is one the USA's oldest allies, and perhaps one of their biggest allies outside of NATO. It doesn't surprise me; it's had ups and downs but it's held strong.",0
Non-Competes help large corporations by preventing start ups in the fields from popping up and allows them to control ideas their employees may develop while hired by them.,"We need an FTC with teeth to protect us from monopolies and more importantly Mega-Corporations from forming and getting larger. If the GOP is all about the free market then they should be happy with getting rid of the non-compete because it means more start ups can take on the big guys in established markets. They'd want to break up Hollywood so there's more studios, etc. But Miss Wilson here doesn't agree with this direction apparently.",0
"I know a lot of folks that Identify as Iranian simply because their culture is still distinct from Persian. Some cultures are precursors that had lived in the region prior to the Achaemenid. Persian kings of antiquity have been known to bring artisans and scholars of other cultures, settling their people within classical Persia. For example, Assyrians are a minority group in Iran, but they have a fantastically long history in the region going back to 2500BC. The Sasanian Dynasty brought Armenian craftsman to Persia after the conquest of Armenia. Likewise, Persian Jews have been in Iran since the Babylonians.","Persian also refers to a specific ethnicity from Iran. Not all Iranians are Persians, only 65%. If they weren't Persian then they'd likely just say they are Azerbaijani or Kurdish, the second and third largest ethnic groups. It's just Persian is the only ethnic group that's specific to Iran. Not even all Iranic people's are Persian, the Kurds are an Iranic ethnic group with a language in the Iranic family.",1
USA is already against more countries getting nuclear weapons. They won’t add to the pile by asking more allies to get nuclear. That would also lead to other countries trying to get themselves nuclear weapons.,"This isn’t about denying that NK has nuclear weapons. It’s about whether NK should benefit from the rights enjoyed by other accepted nuclear weapons states. For example, accepted nuclear weapons states (NWS) don’t have to worry about international sanctions being applied against them just because they have nukes. NWS in theory can join groups like the Nuclear Suppliers Group, participate in international organizations as a NWS and debate nuclear issues there, and otherwise fear no opprobrium from other countries just because they have nuclear weapons. The G-7 is saying they won’t accept NK as a normal NWS.",1
I haven’t kept count on how many ordinary earthquakes vs aftershocks there have been but I’m sure each of these have their own shares. .,"This would mean that the 7.8 and 7.5 were two different quakes, with the latter not a terribly strong aftershock.",0
IIRC the genius who tried to pass that was hit hard by the backlash specifically because it made Russian army look bad. Not to mention conscripts are of little use but a lot of trouble. Somehow I seriously doubt this was intended by the command - get 600 more people for a reputation hit that bad.,"Conscripts are not the mobilised ones, it’s the mandatory 1-year ones who never even see combat (only in case of a defensive war and martial law, which is not the case). Worst they can do is shout profanities from the opposite side of the border. Somehow, according to Reddit and Twitter, it’s supposed to indicate they are the only ones left.",0
And then China will supply Russia and feel enabled to renegotiate all US-China economics. That’s what I see as next events.,This might get messy. I had not thought about the tit for tat arms to Russia vs Taiwan. I think the west would rather have a Cold War than have Taiwan destroyed and rebuilt as a massive China naval base and shipyard for administration of the SCS. China will point out the hypocrisy and the US will say they are supporting a right to self determination just like Ukraine.,0
"Nukes have trended towards lower fallout and lower dispersion in favor of more complete destruction of the impact center. It makes sense, you want to make sure the bunker at ground zero is gone, you don’t care about the forest 10 miles away. You want to take out the city center, the suburbs aren’t a priority.","This also doesn’t take topography into effect. A large part of the blast damage is due to the shockwave generated by the detonation hitting the ground and shooting out the sides (indirect blast wave), even small mountains/large hills provide an incredible shadow.",0
"His early adult hood was spent in world war 2 and then got completely taken in his second marriage. My grandma was born in 22 and led a fairly upper middle class life for the time, she had quite a few stories of going without. I think he’s just referencing that time to now, and he’s a 98 year old man so I tend to give them a break.","The poor int he depression did have it significantly worse and I think that’s where he’s drawing the parallel. Granted it is a dumb thing to say with so much wealth, he could change millions of peoples lives if he chose to.",0
"Read the comment thread prior to this point. One dude asked where the gun came from, another dude answered and a 3rd dude tried to “win” the discussion by bringing up legality like he was slam dunking everyone.",And I wonder why they wouldn’t admit it’s illegal during a national debate on banning legal firearms and doing nothing to address illegal handguns 🙄.,1
"People can be snide but considering one MP got caught not paying tax in the millions (and some other lady MP before him), the fact the King is more aware and active in the current poor state of the country is... well rather sad and a demonstration how shitty the conservatives are.","This isn't me defending the royals, it's the best of a bad democracy, I'm just making a point that minuscule or not, the Royals shouldn't ""appear"" to do more for the public than our own government.",0
"I brought up MAD in another subreddit about the whole nuke situation and I got ripped apart about how Ukraine isn’t NATO and the treaty wouldn’t apply, yada yada ad nauseam.","You folks didn’t know shit about Ukraine a year before, while both Russians and Ukrainians have lost friends and family members there, families split apart both figuratively and objectively speaking,relatives killed, and im not taking about soldiers here, and NOBODY knows how to stop it.",1
"Other nations: Be careful Bulgaria, we cannot be openly seen to be taking sides with weaponry in case it causes the war to escalate.","I don't know what Eastern European nations think (we are Southern more than Eastern), but the majority of Bulgarians had no issue with Russia, before this war, and even now many still don't.",1
What building can Ukraine blow up that would be more outrageous than what Russia has already bombed the hell out of? Hospitals? Russia did it. Schools? Russia did it. Apartments? Russia did it. Power plants? Russia did it. Movie theaters known to be full of civilians? Russia did it.,"I am having a hard time to think of a target that Russia hasn’t already attacked in the past that would put rage the world anymore than what they have already attacked… my an embassy, but that wouldn’t matter much unless it was housing known staffers.",0
Do you think it's morally justified that some wealthy black kid who attended private schools yet still couldn't crack a 1400 on the SAT should receive preference over a higher IQ Asian kid who attended public school and was on the verge of homelessness but scored a 1600?,"Someone who is born in a wealthy household, who attended private schools and had the best tutors and still scoring under the 95th percentile on the SAT and worse than a poor Asian kid shouldn't receive any kind of preference.",0
"Short answer is no, his Twitter statements have cost him severely alienating his Tesla customer base and damaging Twitters advertising revanue. Starlink as a global communication service needs to step on as few toes as possible in order to have any chance to be allowed to operate pretty much anywhere.","I really hope the US GOVT or another entity will provide ukraine with the capabilities that starlink currently does, as I hope they continue to use Starlink.",1
Whatever they have been told they still support killing millions in a country that has never attacked russia.,Russian forces repelled a vicious saboteur attack in the homeland but it did not come without a heavy cost. Russian defense forces lost ten soldiers in the battle before defeating the three terrorists armed with advanced western airsoft guns.,1
"Yeah I think it just kinda leaves the door open for China to attack nuclear armed nations with conventional arms and not start a nuclear war, the reason the U.S. doesn't codify the NFU is because of those possibilities.","The reason why the US doesn't codify the NFU is because we used nukes first (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), so what kind of counterparty would find such a declaration credible?",1
I wouldn't put it past Trump's cult to have at least one follow who's crazy enough to try and assassinate DeSantis or anyone else who looks like they might beat Trump in the primary.,"Man... can you imagine if DeSantis creamed Trump in the primary and in a fit of rage, Trump ran a third party spoiler campaign? You know that would be just like him. It would be such a beautiful trainwreck.",1
"A Ukrainian mother has brought her child to a temporary shelter, one of the Points of Invincibility, to use a critically needed inhalator. Russian terrorists can be proud of themselves: these are the people they are fighting while losing to the Ukrainian army on the battlefield.","So - not only do we not care that the population of Generals in Russia is being killed, we fucking celebrate it!",1
"I mean, whose Germany defending Europe from except Russia? Money spent now is the same as money spent later, except right now German lives aren't spent as well.","There are only two conceivable wars that might break out, namely Greece/Turkey and another Balkan kerfuffle, and neither is of the same scale.",0
"Russian athletes are regularly used as propaganda tools for Putin's regime, so it makes sense to ban them. Also, you keep pasting the word ""sanctimonious"" around as some kind of one-size-fits-all universal incantation of moral affront, whereas your statement is actually the only accurate example of sanctimony here. Which is hilarious.","Yeah, there are a few amazing people among them. But the vast majority are paraded on Russian media to exalt the government and drum up support for Putin's atrocious war, and they do it. So what's your actual suggestion for addressing this? Hand them a questionnaire?",0
"It doesn’t seem like a smart political move to disenfranchise your base, make it harder for military members to vote and strip money from Medicare - who is the GOP trying to help (the 1% of course)?",It really doesn’t take much effort to discern how the GOP literally doesn’t care about the soldiers they often claim to care about and regularly use as political pawns.,1
"we get it, you like the neofascists and enjoy shitting on their opponents and pretend they're the same to enable your side.","the ""they're not leftists"" crap is just propaganda to get fools like you to buy into it and not vote. so piss off with your neofascist-enabling disinformation.",0
"If DeSantis doesn't carry Florida next week with a mandate, he is done. He's evaluation isn't Ohio, it's how he can command THE swing state of all swing states. If it's even close, Trump can hammer that home to everyone that matters to DeSantis in a single social media post. Trump can't share the GOP at all. It's most of his active revenue streams and the key to staying free and rich. DeSantis is a far bigger threat to Trump than any Democrat, DA, or court.",Trump has a talent for ending GOP careers and his message goes where no amount of Democrat money of media can enter.,0
That isn't your source article. The NY Post is a rag and generally they mix BS with sprinkles of truth. The NY Post has a good sports section and horoscope as well as Page Six gossip. That is it.,"Yeah. I have my disagreements with Nate silver but he is absolutely right when he says people are freaking out about a sample size of two. He rightly pointed out that the 2018 polls actually underestimated Democrats. Polling errors do not always favor one party or the other. Pulling errors have gotten greater since the prevalence of spam calls and the reduction in landlines has made polling more difficult. However, we now see that the polling error can swing one way or the other, just as it always has.",1
"With a supported Ukraine though, they can fight back and drive Russia out and end the war. It’s not even been a year and it already looks like it could be the beginning of the end.",Ukrainians dying in droves to resist their occupiers and Russians dying in droves trying to occupy a foreign nation. All this likely over a few decades until Russia gives up.,0
I think it's very possible an ambitious Republican backbencher can cobble together six collegues in competitive districts and see if they can deal with the Democratic caucus.,"I’d be fine with Dems supporting an actual moderate Republican, if they can get concessions including limitations on dumb-fuck investigations, including just some form of shared committee power.",1
Saudi lives subcontracting for thing. They didn't send Saudi troops to Bosnia to protect the Bosnian Muslims. They just sent a few mercenaries. This way KSA has nukes but doesnt have the political and environmental costs of having them.,Maybe they would have enough money if they didnt waste it on nuclear weapons that will never be used.,1
"Ukraine was ruled by the Ottoman empire, the Russian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland and Lithuania, and the Soviet Union before declaring itself a separate nation on August 24, 1991.",Empress Catherine II “the Great” annexed much of what is now the Ukraine through wars with the Ottoman Empire and the partition of Poland and brutally suppressed the largest peasant rebellion in Russian history.,0
"That ain't no loophole. That's legal bullshitting for putting an American aircraft carrier in war against Russia. If it's a full strike force, it could dominate, not just Ukraine and the Russian border but pretty much all of Eastern Europe on its own.","So nos the question is what happens when Ukraine start to run out of old soviet missile, the use them both to fire enemy aircraft, large drones, and missiles that try to hit critical tagetes inside Ukraine. There is not enough western system to replace them so you risk Russian superiority where they can use aircraft at higher altitudes and behind the Ukrainian line.",1
"I would be satisfied if we merely taxed them at Reagan-era levels, nevermind Eisenhower-era levels! (But, you know -- apart from other factors, that taxation level on the wealthy was at least part of what drove U.S. growth in the post-war period through the 60s. It was always just a fiction to think that we could do away with that tax revenue and everything would just continue to work as it had up until then.).",Wow. I thought that MAYBE the clip of him talking about uprooting Medicare/SS was going to be kind of out of context or ambiguous. He really left nothing to the imagination. Unreal.,1
"(I'll probably hold my nose and vote D, anyway, but the two major parties really need better candidates).","If he doesn’t run for re-election I’d like to see him in the Cabinet. He wanted to be Secretary of State but Biden probably has binders full of candidates that he has deep connections with, so that wouldn’t work.",1
"I regularly mine this data for cogent one-line talking points about where our priorities are, how the police budget compares to the transportation budget, how many people in my neighborhood own a car or rent.","I won't be happy until me and my fellow millennials/zoomers implement Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. There is no negotiation to be made with old farts scared about the big red, just a war of attrition they will eventually lose.",0
"I don't know he was ""rightfully convicted"", but I'm not writing an article saying he was rightfully convicted (like the article above). I never even stated he was rightfully convicted. He might have been, neither of these things are possible to know. It is completely possible that he was rightfully convicted, and then let go due to this ridiculous bullshit being used here, and they let a criminal go, also just as possible that this journalist is correct, and he was innocent the entire time.","""She had once tried using Harpster’s methods against Russ Faria, a man wrongfully convicted of killing his wife."" How do they know this man was wrongfully convicted? Just because he was re-tried and was found not guilty?? That says absolutely nothing about his true innocence or guilt. Being found guilty or not guilty in a court has more to do with convincing a jury than it does about actually being guilty or legitimately innocent of something.",0
"A possible answer to why Russia is remembered as the victim of German aggression in WW2 and not (or far less) Ukraine, Belarus and other states of the USSR.","Germans at the time of WW2 and also WW1, didn't differentiate between certain parts and nationalities of the USSR or the Russian Empire. The people were all ""Russians"" to them.",0
"I'm not saying this case meets the standard of confusion; that's for both sides to make the case for and against, but rather if confusion exists, ""parody"" shouldn't be a default excuse that could essentially always be used to get away with trademark infringement.",The rule regarding the infringement of the trademark is that the customer should not get confused between the identities of the product of the trade mark and the product having the same mark like trademark.,1
Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.,"Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article, with few exceptions - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.",1
"No doubt about that, but that desision also had a side effect of saving thousands of people that would died in case of war. Also, don't you find hyppocritical in bashing weak state without any kind of power for not going into direct conflict against nuclear power, when literally every country in the world are scared to do the same? If any country at all allied with Ukraine in united front, this war would be won long time ago. But they are all scared for their lives.","But the difference is that thousands of lives were not lost before that happened. I know that some people (well, actually, most people) have human lives at the very bottom of their values, but some also might see a deal with the devil as better option that letting the people you govern get slaughtered.",0
"I like Biden, and also he's our literal best shot at keeping the Republicans out of the White House in 2024.","The major difference about Biden's voters that I enjoy is they do not see Biden as some demigod like the GOP sees Trump as. There is no cult of personality around Biden and honestly most of voters, including me, only voted Biden because he was not Trump.",1
"Pretty weird to state that when Putin's own words during the televised part when he declared war on Ukraine was saying he is going to solve ""The Ukrainian Question"".",">Using Ukraine as a proxy, he said, ""they we are waging war against our their country with the same task: the 'final solution' of the Russian Ukrainian question"".",1
"Yeah yeah, Russia is inept and corrupt, but Ukraine would have been a real goldmine for Russias economy, short and long term.","Ultimately what Putin wants is for Ukraine to not exist, or to be so crippled as to have to rely on Russia as a puppet state once again. A free, successful, democratic, independent Ukraine is something he cannot abide.",1
"She isn’t arbitrarily being deprived of UK citizenship. She has been documented committing and admitted to engaged in criminal acts (terrorism). That means under UK law she is subject to having it revoked as she has access and a right to another citizenship, Bangladesh. Despite what you claim this law does not target those who only possess UK citizenship with no right to any other citizenship, so no it doesn’t make someone stateless and cannot be used as such. It also has a right of appeal which she used and lost.",Her argument is that because Bangladesh refuses to admit she is theirs she is rendered effectively stateless by this law which conflicts with UK law that does not allow someone to be rendered stateless. So she feels that despite her activities and support of terrorists she should be free to return to the UK.,0
"sounds like China needs to increase their nuclear arsenal to counter this threat, and update their nuclear policy. Possibly getting rid of the no first use policy.","well, that's the 2nd clause to the no-first-use policy. The first part is that China won't be the first to launch first. So I would assume that if there is even talk of nuking Japan, nuclear war has broken out between the US and China.",0
Now we’re seeing Russia use the Makiivka barracks strike and support from a Putin aligned “widow’s group” as grounds for full mobilization.,"And we ask our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to allow the Russian Army to conduct a large-scale mobilization that will meet the situation that has developed on our borders. In Russia, there are tens of millions of men of military age who we have to rely on and to engage the enemy. But what can our men do, sitting at home, without capable command, supplies and uniforms? Mobilization is what will give them a chance to survive.",1
"Sure, but that doesn't mean people shoudn't avoid supporting Qatar. Whataboutism doesn't help your argument. People can care about the abuses by Qatar and by other places too. I do agree with you that people are likely to completely forget about it once the world cup is over, but if anything that just means making an impact now is even more important.","Nor do I, but if you have next to no one watching the world cup matches, then it impacts their bottom line, which is the only thing that might change their mind.",0
"It's easy to say that people are just dumb and some of them definitely are. But a lot are actually smarter than we give them credit for. They know what it takes to get the policies that they want. They want women to have fewer rights, gay people to not exist, they want a white race to be dominant always, they want men to be more empowered than women, they want to game a system and get as rich as they can and get as much power as they can and just stay there.","The majority of truly intelligent people don't want this, as seen by most exit polls when you look at college educated people and how they vote. The smart ones that do, are smart enough to know what it takes to get the stuff that they want. They don't care that Santos lies, because it helps to push an agenda. Look at MTG and Boebert. The GOP is NOT looking for smart people, they are looking for people dumb enough to help push their agenda outlined above.",0
"When I was younger, my grandfather believed they still do it in Lithuania post independence and wanted me to put Russian in it.","Prior to that, Lithuania tried to keep Russia happy and was looking for a chance to find friends elsewhere who would help.",0
"By the way, elections were a combined one of district/county, city council and metropolitan municipality elections, done at the same time, all ballots in the same envelope - which means you could vote for one party in county/district level, for another in metropolitan level.","More background, minister of interior (of AKP) called Imamoglu a fool and he replied with “the people who canceled the election are real fools”.",0
"The real hilarious irony is, given the majority of the people who place value on these symbols, were the same who were furious about protests against the flag.",Show a rainbow-colored American flag to one of the people flying this shit and they'll scream at you about how offensive it is.,1
"While conveniently overlooking the wars Russia lost, like the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, WWI, or even the Polish–Soviet War of 1918.","A possible answer to why Russia is remembered as the victim of German aggression in WW2 and not (or far less) Ukraine, Belarus and other states of the USSR.",1
Also gives the personal incentive to not believe its going to replace you. Why would you contribute then? This tech is still in its infancy as far as propagating through all channels to where people can learn how to utilize it properly even. ChatGPT is a language learning model.,Tools like ChatGPT are still only clever chatbots and it will take quite some time before we have true AI that can think for itself.,1
"Thing 2. The reason private schools ""seem"" better than public schools is that they cherry-pick their student populations from the most affluent families. Those students almost exclusively come from 2-parent homes with virtually every advantage. Once you start taking students whose parents wouldn't normally have the means to send their kids to private school, you will find the test scores will start to equalize.",I'd say the high school you went to has skewed your view of what's realistically available for a lot of students and parents.,1
"Yeah I’m sure cancelling the Olympics, and throwing all those athletes’ years of work down the drain, will help the Ukrainians so much. Just like my thoughts and prayers will.","If it’s something that can actually aid, arm and fund Ukraine, sure. But a boycott of the Olympics when the Russian national athletes already aren’t allowed to compete under a flag, anthem or representing Russia, isn’t going to accomplish anything.",0
Don’t beat yourself up over it. Most elite male and female athletes have Insta accounts full of themselves in swimwear and revealing clothing. Most people in really good shape want people to check them out. The internet lost its shit a few months back when video came out of Ronaldo using one of those beach public showers.,"Best solution would be to allow short, tighter shorts as an option for male and female players if they want to wear them instead of the baggy shorts.",0
Actually yes I have.🙂 I live in California though so its all blue 💙 and the cities still suck. They have all those problems I mentioned before and there is no republican legislators to blame.,The House is going to spend the next 2 years passing legislation and then blame the Dems for it not becoming law. Republican voters will hear about this on Fox News and continue to think the Dems are the problem and then continue to vote R.,1
"Personal, as fi foarte de acord pentru unirea Romaniei cu Moldova dupa scaderea sentimentului pro-rus. stii? Atata tot.","Although i appreciate Moldova's path, there are a lot of pro-russian people over there. Morever, a large percentage of the young moldavians studying in the same city continue to speak russian and often blatantly do this. It s a major sign of disrespect, honestly, especially during this time, especially as people from Moldova are offered quite a lot of benefits here in Romania (while some of us don't have access to the same benefits).",0
Maybe we should remove the 1st and third president from the dollar bill they both were slave owners and are probably the most popular ones not defending them but saying they were slave owners aren’t a valid excuse seceding and betraying your country yeah for sure.,"It is weird that we would honor someone who waged war against the US, killing thousands, all so they could continue owning and abusing people and demanding that other states respect that and help them out if their slaves escaped.",1
Check out their GigaPress. He credits the company that makes them for Tesla and has talked up how significant the use of a single pressed car body is for many reasons.,"Again, I'm glad to see more EVs but the Teslas in production you can get with a short wait are in fact very nice cars.",0
"The SC needs to be fining state attorneys general a few million dollars for playing ""I'm not touching you!"" games every time they flout the law like this. I don't know if that's possible but it would be appropriate for citizens in Illinois, California and especially New York to be relieved of some of their tax money over this frivolous nonsense.",And they invariably end up worse off than they were before and they can't understand why. : ) Thank you Illinois for this perfectly crafted test case.,0
"While there is something to be said about actually reading the article, but come on, just look at the god damned headline.","You can all be as snarky as you want but he's right, here's a quote from the article nobody bothered to read:",1
An incredibly unqualified partisan gifted a lifetime appointment by a man with a life of corruption and the judge makes a horrendously corrupt ruling for that same man.,"So basically, let corruption judges get away with favorable ruling for their benefactors otherwise it might be weponized to go after progressive judges.",1
"Wait i heard Ukraine had over hundred S-300 systems at the start of the war (and didn't lost significant amount either), does Russia really has less than UA?","Russia was also building newer systems (up to mysterious S-500 which is claimed to reach space...) but they are of high-value and rarely used on the battlefield Ukraine claims a couple of S-400, we will know after the war how many were lost and left.",1
"But of course no matter what happens, people will refuse to accept that the situation is fundamentally winnable.","People need to stop ignoring the truth of the situation on this. Moore v. Harper is not going to save the Republicans no matter how extreme a decision they issue. The old assumptions about pendular alternations do not hold during realignments and as the Republicans’ internal factions continue their infighting and as the party continues alienating their own voters and falling off a demographic cliff, they will not be in any sort of position to overturn results or gerrymander themselves into permanent majorities. The fearmongering on this ignores reality.",0
That's a fun one. My underdog is always The Principality of Sealand. They might have already sent a drone to Ukraine though so they're probably locked in.,These drones getting smuggled to Hamas would be a nightmare scenario for Israel. The Iron Dome reportedly isn't good at hitting objects that can maneuver. Hamas going from only having shitty unguided rockets that don't even make it to the general area of their target 1/4th of the time to having a drone that could potentially slip past the iron done and target specific places for maximum casualties would be bad news for everyone.,1
They fell for the Russian propaganda somehow. History has always been my favorite subject and I've always been fascinated by military might as well... Anyways the point is if they had paid attention and did a just a little bit research and listened to what our history teachers were saying at even the basic level. They would have known Russia was more bark than bite. Nukes are the only real deterrent they've got for NATO.,Because NATO can't bring down Russia even without nukes that quickly and there would be much more notable resistance.,0
"People working without a proper contract is called svartjobbare (black workers) and yes, its not only illegal but also a big problem in many Swedish sectors.","“There have been reports of wages going unpaid, passports being held by unscrupulous bosses and some labourers working up to 148 days in a row.",1
"Actually the line that matters is the observation that the Ukrainian abuses were limited to 3 detention sites, while the Russian abuses seemed to be systematic. So Ukraine it's specific individuals responsible at those sites (which should 100% be investigated and prosecuted) while Russia it's the Russian military/government as a whole and seems to be a matter of policy.","While I agree that human rights violations would apply, the point is that they're not soldiers covered by the Geneva Convention. Instead they're, essentially, mass murderers who've been shooting Ukrainians. There should be an investigation/trial, sure, but this isn't comparable to the Nazis rounding up soviet citizens for mass murder. These are people \in\ Ukraine actively killing people.",0
It’s a loaded word though and we probably need a better word or phrase. I think just calling them social security retirement and healthcare benefits would probably be easiest.,It isn’t UBI though because we payed into the program specifically for retirement or if we got disabled. I’m not sure how Medicare is funded but for ssi people paid into it expecting to be able to retire and had money taken from their paycheck for it.,0
History indicates that countries must protect their domestic industries to develop world class competitors. Good on Indonesia.,"Ever been to Jakarta? When I was in my 20s I cruised around on a small bike, and after even short trips you could take a tissues and rub black soot off your face. Indonesia is still dependent on coal and other fossil fuels, so they can do it, but it won't be helping the environment or anyone's health.",1
"As an American, we proudly inherit a country that allows for difference of opinions and viewpoints. That’s what it means to be an American- so the rage about that in my opinion is ridiculous. Her status as an American citizen means that our government has the responsibility of protecting us home and abroad, full stop.",She fucked up- traveling to other countries you are agreeing to abide by their laws. Was the possession of her illegal substance further trumped up by the Russians? Absolutely. But she did it herself so I have zero sympathy for why she was arrested and jailed in the first place.,0
"The UK tried an open door policy in the 00's and it built up a lot of resentment in the native population, it didn't help people complaining were immediately labelled as racist (some/many were, but it shut down discussion on the integration issues).","As a fun example a lot of British people retired in Spain. They never learnt the language, insulted johnny foreigner in their own country and generally transposed some of the worst aspects of British culture.",0
"On topic, as a Swede, I support Finland being admitted to NATO as soon as they are accepted and waiting for Sweden to be admitted when the Turkish election is done. Assuming that's what Erdogan is waiting for.","There are arguments to be made that buring the Koran is hate speech, which is illegal in Sweden. Not to mention that it's disorderly conduct, förargelseväckande beteende, in Swedish. I'm a staunch supporter of free speech, but Paludan's motives aren't about an opinion, they're about creating controversy and provoking violence. There's plenty of precedence for denying him permits for demonstration.",0
"The Iranian people won’t be free until every government official backing the power of the state has been killed or put in prison, and all I’ve seen is just innocent protesters being massacred and executed. So I ask again how? How will the Iranian people be free?",Unfortunately I probably agree. Fuck totalitarian leaders. There’s never a good answer to stopping them. No matter what it seems the innocent citizens take to brunt of the violence.,0
"“Until the AU takes a decision on whether to grant Israel observer status, you cannot have the country sitting and observing,” Clayson Monyela, head of public diplomacy in South Africa’s department of international relations, told Reuters.",Sorry. You seem expert. It seems they were kicked out for being part of the Is real delegation. They are upset at Israel's interference in their elections No?,0
Well as far as the rest of the world goes they basically have zero immunity so it's unlikely whatever mutation comes out of china will evade western vaccines.,The only nasty thing that could come from this for people not in China is new variants that are somehow more severe and/or evade our existing immunity too much.,1
"Well no duh. But laws already exist. They could at least try to enforce those. There's even a big one that says ""No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States"".","Edit: It's almost like laws already exist that say ""No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property"". The DOJ could try to enforce that.",0
"Why should Kiev force its language on other parts of the country that don't speak Ukrainian? Ukrainian speakers are the majority in Ukraine but the country is not ""theirs"" to do with it as they please.","Ukraine is doing this to revive their own language in their country, I don’t really see the problem in any of this.",1
"If that falls within your definition of ""mismanagement"" then the term is so vague as to be meaningless. And it would also apply to your example of someone on minimum wage who can't afford to live.",Medical procedures in the US cost 10x more than in other countries and the government has no ability to regulate prices.,0
"That's the point. There little evidence we were ever on the right side on the Laffer curve, let alone right now. Also no one really knows what that theoretical curve would actually look like when applied to something as complex as a modern tax code. It's not something you can really use to drive policy.",I think he is saying that A Laffer curve exists because the relationship between tax rates and revenue isn't purely linear and high tax rates can create economic inefficiency and push economic activity to the black market.,0
Everybody is accepting this false narrative that the rail workers sacrificing again is the only choice. It’s a lie.,"If that’s the case, it’s fucking bullshit. Shut the shit down and mail RR companies to the wall for it. You want to give rural voters someone to vote for? Then champion our middle class like you said you would.",1
"China is already dealing with financial problems and civil unrest at home, the last thing they want is possible nuclear war.","Nuking Ukraine makes all of that far far worse and would force a NATO response and would cause further NATO enlargement, something China wants to avoid as it could lead to war with the West, which could in turn lead to M.A.D.",0
"My family in China almost all got infected, they all think it's COVID and have COVID like symptoms probably a new strain and their vaccines are not effective, it's all fucked up.","Mm yes because no one in the west contracted covid, spread it to others, or were hospitalised or died after taking their dose, doses, 3rd to 5th booster of our vaccines.",1
"This is going on now too. There isn’t “French fries” daily but the healthy vegetable is tater tots one day, then French fries, then baked potato wedges, then sweet potato fries. Pizza has one serving dairy and 1/2 vegetable (plus 1 vegetable from French fries.",What is worse is kids are forced to take the healthy parts with the junk food so most milk and fruit gets tossed in the trash can.,0
To be fair that's the stupid half of the country anyways. The Smarter half will know the difference between Georgia USA and Georgia Eastern Europe. So it still goes the way of supporting Georgia Eastern Europe.,Or maybe Georgia got confirmation of support and have wanted to declare their land again now that Ukraine looks like they could pull through.,1
"There is literally no one - no one - who pays attention to politics at even the most basic level would say ""Biden is too old, therefore I'd rather the exact opposite of him in virtually every way, win. An old GOPer whose policies I hate is way better than a yucky old man that I agree with."".","Yep. He's probably found out, or guesses, that the DOJ will indict him the day after the election, so he wants to announce before that happens so he can claim that he's got immunity or it's a politically-based witch hunt. But if he announces right now, he pisses off the GOP by fracturing the party right before an election. So he's basically got a tiny, tiny window of opportunity to announce.",1
"And worth noting that Trump's FBI had possession of the laptop in question for a year or more before Trump left office; I am guessing if they had found anything remotely incriminating at all, Trump would have been on Fox News with all the details.","Literally every time a reporter sees this person, they need to ask them specifically why Hunter Biden's laptop is more important than Donald Trump stealing a trove of top secret documents.",1
"China's invasion force would have to come by water and make landfall in only a few viable locations from what I've heard. Making it much easier for Taiwan to defend, and much harder for China to attack even with proper air and naval support.","Taiwan's manpower and weapons cannot hold off China, make no mistake. What can hold off China is Taiwan's economy and chip fabs.",1
A pretty significant number of military analysts don't think China could win that war even if the US did nothing at all. Taiwan is a tough nut to crack. And amphibious invasions are a crapshoot.,"True, an amphibious invasion would kill so many Chinese. It would be like D-Day, but not a suprise and against an enemy with modern weapons systems that can target Chinese ships during their slow journey across the Taiwanese Strait. Oh, and there are only a few beaches suited for an amphibious invasion, so wherever they land will be heavily defended.",1
"""The use of such a missile against a densely populated city is in fact terrorism against the civilian population. It is a Kh-22 missile, an old Soviet missile, developed in the Soviet Union, which brought so much grief to the residents of Dnipro yesterday. We remember Kremenchuk [a June 2022 missile attack on the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk, in which 20 people were killed], what happened there. This is not a shame, there should be an appropriate legal assessment - what happened in Kremenchuk, and in Dnipro, and in other cities where this missile was used, should be condemned by the world community in the harshest way,"" Ihnat said.","Ihnat added that to destroy such missiles, Ukraine needs modern air defense systems capable of hitting ballistic targets, including Iskanders, potential Iranian-made missiles, if Russia receives them, and also one of the most powerful and inaccurate missiles, such as a Kh-22 missile.",0
"Further, voting on an indictment isn't accusing someone of guilt - it's simply saying that probable cause has been established to bring a trial.",It only takes 12/23 jurors to recommend an indictment (not unanimous like a trial jury and conviction).,0
What we need to do is start screaming groomer at her and all the other conservative stochastic terrorists until their latest buzzword loses its power as a call to arms to murder LGBTQ+ people.,Because the right has turned it into a hate buzzword they now apply to every member of the LGBTQ community to further their hateful narrative. They’ve changed its meaning among their base.,1
It would be a massive problem for Labour because the would be picked apart by the press as basically still being run by Corbyn in all but name and the swing voters they need to win over (that Corbyn couldn't) would be probably be deterred.,"I imagine (going on his political career), Corbyn refused to play ball and was happy to cause problems to the Labour party going forwards.",0
"Reuss is just one of the many branches of German royalty, many of which have familial links across the rest of Europe, some of them to the British royal family.","They were not even at the same level of middling German family like the Wittlesbach of Bavaria, let alone the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasty.",1
I don't but I also don't expect every single person to have an opinion about everything that ever happened anywhere.,Him being authoritarian have nothing to do with women's rights or other stuff like that but Turkey bad narrative on every topic makes uneducated people in west think this is a hot take.,0
"It is about punishing women for having sex (outside of marriage/procreation), and not even all women, just throwing up enough barriers and controls over those most vulnerable.",It pains me deeply that very few seem to see the sentiments about single women highlighted in the article as a precursor to even more control over womens bodies and repressive measures taken against them via legislation.,1
"So unions hired by corporations are more likely to have fairer wages, and tiny businesses hiring individuals are also more likely to have fairer wages.","The alternative, where workers don't have the backing of a union and are consistently being taken advantage of by the employer, is not tenable.",1
188 is a catastrophe. I thought he'd be closer to 200 and I was still skeptical he could get to be speaker.,"lol, ok. Pelosi pulling in 15 of the remaining 19 votes of the 2021 Dem caucus is still a lot easier than imagining how McCarthy can get 30 of the remaining 32 Republicans in 2023.",0
Christie knew the maniac he was dealing with and had already been pushed out of the administration because Jared held a grudge about his shitbag dag getting put in jail by Christie.,In a weird way that would be better than Trump. DeSantis doesn't have the mojo to start a cult. Maybe MAGA dies from starvation because with DeSantis it isn't getting its daily dose of batshit crazy in the same way.,0
"For anyone wondering why Switzerland has a say in any of this, it seems that Spain originally purchased these Swiss-made arms - and part of that agreement requires permission prior to being on-sold or donated.","A law that makes sense from a distance, given that no nation would want to see their arms land in the hands of an enemy nation through a 3rd party.. but in this case, the Swiss Gov’t needs to take a break from shielding Russian oligarch funds, pull their finger out from where the Sun don’t shine and get out of the way of other nations trying to help an ally currently under attack.",0
"The people here, this kind of congregation for example, are bombarded with scary stories from right-wing media constantly. They listen to it on their drive to work (the 1 radio station in the state has a morning show that is very right-wing), they talk about it with their co-workers during the day, they listen to it on their drive home, they watch it on the TV over dinner, and at night they read about it on their phone before they fall asleep.","I'm not sure how you reach out to that. Without aggressive, questionable, measures I don't think there is a way. They are programmed to hate Democrats and liberals no matter what. They don't see Democrats and liberals as ""people"" even. Just the ""enemy"". An enemy they are convinced they are at war with.",0
I see it all the time. The saddest are the ones who turn republican bc they think it will help them become wealthy. WRONG. Dumb wannabees.,The stupidest people are the smartest people. Their vessel to store stupidity and ego is just that much larger than the average mere mortal.,1
"Hey, I vote R every single year and yes, this is getting embarrassing. Maybe if the GOP didn’t have a massive hard on for abortion abortion abortion, still support Trump, and actually find some better candidates for the MOST important states, something might have went differently.","So... given that abortion and supporting Trump in his treasonous acts seemed to be their biggest issues this election, why do you vote for the GOP?",1
SCOTUS has purposefully adopted a “freedom for religion” position instead of the “freedom from religion” position that has traditionally been held by government.,"That has always been the case, but the courts have historically held that in order to guarantee freedom of religion, then religion cannot be visibly presented by the government or else risk being an official endorsement.",0
"Most other blue states would also benefit from no longer subsidizing the red states. Some things would likely become more expensive, food prices for example because they would need to import a lot more. But in reality, there is not a ton of economic downfall for blue states if the red states succeeded.","Wouldn’t the red states benefit from exporting food to the blue states? And tourism if they have national parks? If a state became blue let say, does it join the rest of the blue states? Can a state change is political orientation and join the other side?",1
It would be an annoyance but for the fact we elected a bunch of these distraught and unstable people. They are kooks. But they are kooks in positions of power. And that power is entrenched thanks to gerrymandering.,So they embrace a hardline. They spew hyperbole and draw hard lines in the sand. They hurl fire and brimstone and damn us all to hell. Guys like DeSantis tell them the colleges and universities are to blame. Let's try to burn those to the ground And it's the kindergarten teachers grooming our children with evil lessons of inclusion and acceptance. Burn public education to the ground.,0
Twitter has been a great source for journalism and worker/leftist organization. I'm certain at this point it has always been his intent to destroy Twitter for these reasons alone.,"I for one view Twitter as having already been a toxic cesspool even with the moderation so I honestly dgaf if he ends up burning it to the ground. Good riddance IMO. Most modern social media is genuinely bad for overall human health and wellbeing, and a net negative for overall societal well-being. The general concept of using the internet to connect everyone like social media does is super valid, but the current iterations need to be replaced by better alternatives that have learned from the problems of the current platforms. (So hopefully Zuck burns Facebook and Instagram down with his ill-convenienced focus on the Metaverse before the technology for interacting with it is ready for the mainstream.).",1
"Yep, they buy up a ton of them to park their cash and then coincidentally gain a decent amount of control over the rental market.",Actual Real Estate investments do turn a lot of profit if you're capitalized to take advantage of them.,0
"Considering there won't be any legislation to pass for the next two years with the House back in Republican hands, all the Senate can really do is confirm some more judges, and 51 Senators will do nicely for that.","it also paints the FALSE picture that 50 or 51 senate members being the same party should be able to pass bills all by themselves. that is NOT A HEALTHY DEMOCRACY, people arguing that ""Democrats held all three branches and got nothing done"" are going to bat for republicans, trying to get people to stay home and not vote. It is completely unhealthy to pass bills requiring 100% of your party's vote and 0% of the opposing party's vote. Republicans are so uniform that they have very good luck doing that, they passed many bills doing that, Democrats are very diverse, they only passed a few bills using that method, it is NOT TRUE that 50 Democrats is a ""majority"", and it is completely unhealthy to expect congress to operate without crossing the aisle, which republicans have been refusing to do for 15+ years now.",1
"There’s also what happened in the decades following the official end of slavery after the civil war. Things like black codes, pig laws, debt peonage, redlining, and of course Jim Crow and segregation.",did a good job explaining a lot of it and the problem with how America generally teaches it’s history.,0
"I know the Baltic states have a lot to lose if Russia succeeds in Ukraine, but it is so goddamned heart warming to hear about the constant out pouring of support these guys have been giving to the Ukrainian people.",But to truly understand why Ukraine is still in need despite the out poring of support it is a fundamental problem of armed conflict in residential areas. It costs a lot to wage an invasion. Russia has oil money to pay for that. This was the purpose of the tariffs and the accounts being frozen. Unfortunately both China and India continue to need Russian oil and as such are funding the invasion. The complexity is that it costs even more to defend yourself. And the easiest way for an invading enemy to hurt another state is to disrupt its trade. Thus making it both need to spend money to defend itself and not having the tax base to support that spending.,1
"There's also a great video on lying in the Russian army, and how it leads to catastrophic battlefield mistakes because nobody is being honest about how things are really going in the trenches.","This is what we keep seeing, Russia launches an offensive, it is laughably under-equipped because their power on paper isnt real, tanks have no firing pins and are useless, troops have 1940s bolt action rifles and no winter clothing, half the artillery shells are duds etc.",1
I imagine a scenario in which conservatives finally decide we should do something about climate change... And this will be the answer they reach for.,"I think that we will be able to stop climate change, this just isn't the way of doing it. the gov't does have incentive to do it (read: inflation reduction act).",1
"Nah, listening to the oral arguments o don't see them going all in on that insane theory. I think they'll just use this to expand the federal judiciary's ability to step in if they don't like what's happening with a federal election.",I've seen discussion that SCOTUS won't rule to give the state legislatures any additional powers but will instead rule that SCOTUS themselves can overrule rulings from state judges/Supreme Courts regarding election issues.,1
"White slave owners in the south got rich from slave labor. Whether that money passed down to any heirs post civil war today idk. Maybe. At the same time the South never really recovered economically from the civil war and has high rates of poverty, so maybe the money was lost. Maybe the wealth gap is more about post 1920s discrimination in funding for schools, job opportunities, segregation, redlining, etc.","Personally none of my ancestors owned slaves, some people particularly in the south got rich of slave labor, and if the generations alive today still benefit from it then they would be theoretically the ones most direct responsible in today's age. Having tax payors pay for it, rather than the people who actually got the money owning slaves, seems unjust to me.",0
Yea and I’d agree in most other cases it’s obviously not direct extortion but it’s using personal information as leverage for financial gain. “Oh you want privacy you previously could opt in or out of? Well jk pay me 8$ a month to keep that”.,"But it’s still stupid to pay the same amount I pay for Spotify and STILL have ads. Imagine listening to an album and every like 10 songs it’s just “thanks for paying the bills, we think you’ll love Febreeze!”.",0
"Like they were so super concerned about the Mueller report, you know - that report that DEFINITIVELY showed an actual and very concerning connection between Russian spies and the Trump Election Campaign senior management….",The Mueller investigation was focused on Russia because Trump and a bunch of key officials in his administration were directly compromised by Russia.,1
"Oh now that the midterms are basically over, Republicans didn't win,and now they suddenly care about trump being shitty lmao.",The Republican party was still behind trump until he became unelectable (aka seeing all his candidates flop in the midterms).,1
"I'm a gay dude living in GA. Moved here 18 years ago. In 30 days I'll begin the process of leaving the State. This is due to MTG and Kemp along with a lot of other xenophobia. Portland, OR here I come.","I've vacationed in OR when I used to live in Seattle. I've been down to Portland a couple of times, but the city is just a bit too hectic for my taste. I'd love to move to OR at some point and live on the water in some small, unsuspecting town. Low traffic and picturesque sunsets are what I'd want.",1
"IDK about that. I think that it has been shown in the past that, despite being partisan hacks, none of the justices trump appointed really give a shit about him. They didn't curry favor with him to get the job, they curried favor with the Federalist Society and other republicans.","I mean, obviously I know the supreme court ruling that tax records are personal property is hyperbole, but there is truth behind the sentiment. The supreme court can twist words and logic their way into helping trump if they want to and I was responding to that.",0
"Personally, I wouldn't want the Democrats controlling the investigation of the Nordstream 2 bombing.",And I just wouldn't like to see the House of Representatives trying to politicize a terrorist attack on foreign soil.,1
"Russia stopped the gas flow through Nord Stream 1 earlier this year, citing technical problems, while European leaders accused Moscow of trying to “blackmail” countries that have sent weapons to Ukraine to help fend off Russian forces.","As I literally just said, Europe had already committed to moving away from Russian gas before the NS1 sabotage (and before Russia cut supplies) and was moving towards importing from other sources:",1
"Spread some ICBMs out on submarines and land based silos and you're fine, 200 will do. 400 if you want to be super duper over armed. ""Oh sorry, we can only destroy 25 major Chinese population centers and 250 million people while still accepting a 50% failure rate AND keeping half the nuclear fleet in reserve"" boohoo, sorry we can only destroy you to 2 full fledged superpowers in nuclear armageddon in an era where only one other superpower exists.",I also think that no world leaders are willing to accept the risk of 20+ cities in their country being destroyed by nuclear weapons. And preventing even 10% of missiles from getting through is gonna be nearly impossible.,0
Meh. Beyond all the Twitter nonsense Tesla was facing some very serious headwinds. Every major manufacturer is bringing better built competition at scale which was already going to hurt. Tesla essentially blew their technology lead to this point.,"People have been calling Tesla finally doomed for . VAG should be a cautionary tale for the rest of legacy auto. After more than a decade they're still only just north of 30% of Tesla's production. It's all about the batteries. It takes time to set up the supply chains, build the factories, train the workforce, ramp up production...",1
"History and every evidence point agrees with me. My point is not to undermine evil, my point is that it's a weak and petty cop out to put the blame on religion when it's humanity we should blame.","Oh, and with that logic, any crimes committed by fundamentalists have nothing to do with the religion, because the religion is not relevant there.",1
"The context of my reply is that it matters for the reaction of Poland if the Russians fired a missile which ended up in Poland or if the Ukrainians accidentally hit an ally. In that context, it is not essentially the same just because Russia attacked Ukraine.","Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is illegal and therefore Russia is responsible for everything that happens from both sides, with only one exception :",1
Imagine if a Chinese pilot defected or provided these trainings to Australia - the reaction of the Chinese government would a secret massive hunt including repercussions to the pilot's family.,"What the contract says and what the pilots actually have to do could be different things in China where such contracts are just mere paper. It would be good to hear the pilots' experiences, if they ever return.",0
"The judgment also referenced Trump’s other lawsuits, saying they demonstrated “a pattern of abuse of the courts.” Among them were legal complaints against Twitter, CNN, New York Attorney General Letitia James and the Pulitzer Prize board for a 2018 award given jointly to The Post and the New York Times for coverage of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.","Trump is a “prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries,” wrote U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks in his searing 46-page judgment published late Thursday.",0
"True. At least, in her case she would have stayed more of an inigma. Unfortunately she choose a path that allowed her true nature to show and that is why she failed I think.","The bad news is yes, he will probably be the Republican nomination. The good news is there's a difference between any election with him in it and the past election. During the past election, many people went 3rd party because they didn't like Hillary. I'm sorry, but that's the truth. Hillary sunk her own nomination with many people because of what she did to Bernie and how she took Debbie Schultz into her campaign after DWS resigned due to the scandle during that primary l. I am sorry, but Hillary is not liked at all in the republican party and many do not like her on the Democrat side. She should never have run, in my opinion. Now, though, everyone is aware of the nightmare known as trump, and they are most likely going to vote for the democrat candidate.",0
Conspiracy theorists like the idea that the world is tightly controlled by a select few. They prefer to think that the few have absolute control over far reaching aspects of society/politics/civilization. This idea that the few have this absolute control allows for these theorists to blame this control on their own personal failings (people who have personal failings often turn to conspiracies to explain these failings). This warped world view relies on no just conspiracies but extraordinary conspiracies to really make sense.,"This reminds me of a flat earth documentary where one of the main figures in the movement admits he surveilled various conspiracies and intentionally chose to believe the most outlandish one. The wilder the theory, the more different and above the sheeple you are. I think what’s at play is a mix of lack of success and narcissism. A narcissist can not believe they just aren’t that successful or special, but they can believe the Illuminati is holding them back.",1
"This article sounds like ""Senior government ministers do perfectly normal but inherently somewhat expensive things which we can twist to make it sound profligate"".","if I have to travel for work, my company generally pays up to £250 per night for a hotel, and I'm just a software engineer.",0
"You would think defrauding Republican donors would get him booted, but not if the only option is to fill his vacancy with a Dem. They will drop support for him and support the next Republican candidate in his district instead.","And since he is a Republican in a crucial otherwise Democrat district, nothing will happen to him for 2 years.",0
"This suggests that Russian losses were exactly as devastating as the battlefield videos showed, and that the vaunted ""elite"" Naval Infantry was completely destroyed within just a few short days.",[Edit] Inexplicably Russians have released a video of their Naval Infantry staging for their final attack. Many of the vehicles in the video are the exact ones later seen destroyed in the Ukrainian video:,0
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">About one in every 20 large-magnitude earthquakes will have a similar-sized aftershock near it within the first week. That was the case in Turkey, with the M7.8 mainshock being followed by a M7.5 aftershock about 60 miles away just nine hours later. Aftershocks don’t always occur on the same fault as the mainshock, they only need to be close to its epicenter and occur after to be considered an aftershock. It’s worth noting that the M7.5 aftershock did not lower the chance that another large earthquake could still occur. Although the likelihood of future large aftershocks decreases over time, there always remains a small chance one will happen even months later.","The 7.5, 6.7, 6.3, 6.0 etc are all considered aftershocks, even though they themselves may also induce localized aftershocks.",0
"Yeah, and let's be real orthodox Jewish are the ""hardcore"" Jewish. Like you think catholicism is strict? Go talk to an orthodox Jewish person and they will make you see catholicism is like kindergarten in comparison.","Jewishness is an interesting topic in my family (my wife is Jewish). There are religious Jews - some of which started out following other religions, or no religions, and converted. There are cultural Jews which were raised by one or more Jewish families and almost never go to a synagogue - and also tend not to believe in god or have a problem mixing meat and dairy. Then there are racial Jews, people born to Jewish parents or to a Jewish mother, or were born in Israel, etc. that are considered Jewish but run the gammut from ultra orthadox Jews to Jews that just happen to identify as Semitic in a racial way. There are lots of people in Israel that don't really practice any religion but still consider themselves to be Jews.",1
"""Oh, definitely! My dad had it last week. Took out a fascist dictator and woke up the next morning with a hangover. Can't fault him, of course, he was hypnotized, after all."".","Look into it. It's really interesting. Medication companies are realizing that a lot of their medications don't work any better than placebos (and sometimes worse than placebos), so its cheaper to use placebos. There are also placebo surgeries.",1
"The gun is so, so much cheaper with the cost being a few bullets instead of the whole drone. I think that's inevitable. We are now at the point where the first pilots dropped grenades and bricks at people in trenches and moving towards real ""fighter planes"" drones quickly.",Ironically these drones are so shitty that the lasers are less effective against them than they would be against more advanced ones.,1
"Minimum wages are probably only relevant for a small segment (e.g., high school kids over the summer - employer knows that availability is for a limited time, so the cost of training will be spread over fewer weeks and wouldn't hire unless the worker works at low wages).",The federal minimum wage is too low until you look at the education and skill sets required for minimum wage jobs then things get skewed. There’s a general consensus that higher education and advanced skills equate to higher earnings. There’s also the plausibility that automation can be employed in certain situations where it becomes the cheaper alternative to hiring people. For example McDonald’s kiosks don’t call out sick and don’t require lunch breaks. Kiosks don’t unionize and can be repaired or replaced with minimum down time.,1
According to officials the US is expecting it to take around two years just to get Ukrainian pilots proficient with the aircraft. But mastering and actually being effective might take longer.,In aircraft they're trained on. Doing a sortie with little to no training is a suicide mission. You're not going to just hope in a F16 after flying in a SU27 and be able to drop a JDAM or launch a Maverick. You'd just in the sky waiting to die.,0
"A similar story is told about the soviet union. In 1989 Boris Yeltson visited America, and toured part of the city to see ""real americans living their lives"".","At first he was incredulous about all the cars and people in good clothing, but he assumed they were simply stuffing the town with people with cars to make it look good.",0
The response from NATO is simple: Move more air defense and air awareness capabilities the borders around Belarus and Ukraine and continue sending money to help end this war sooner so accidents stop happening. Nations that aren't on the brink of going to war themselves tend not to fire off missiles in such provocative locations.,"If their missiles are so untrustworthy that there is a risk to neighbouring countries then they shouldnt ben using them period. If i'm aiming rubber bands at my little brothers head and accidentally hit the sleeping pitbulls nutsack next to my little brother then i may have had nothing to gain and yes, it might have been and accident, but i shouldnt be surprised if there are consequences. Accountability is a thing you know, who aims unreliable missiles next to a NATO country. What a nutty thing to do.",1
This isn't a problem we can engineer our way out of. The only just and practicable solution is to cut emissions before entire nations disappear.,Europe and US basically got rid of all its most polluting manufacturing by outsourcing it to China.,1
"Donkey products can be used in some cases in the United States; however, because they are not considered food and fiber animals there are fewer regulations documenting medications that have been used in them, including drug residues which can kill humans.","The lawsuit claims the e-commerce giant is illegally selling products that contain ""Ejiao"" a gelatin made from the skin of donkeys and used in various products like health supplements - in violation of California animal welfare law.",1
"Turnout for age group 18-29 has gotten really high the previous two elections, compared to the past several decades.","It's easy to have the ""highest turnout in 30 years"" for an age group when that youth age group always has abysmal numbers. They're still the lowest turnout group and the lowest voter share this election, proving once again the vast majority of young people don't vote.",1
"Russians remain proud of invading Ukraine and committing horrific war crimes, incapable of learning from their history of brutal violence against neighboring countries.","""We can say without a drop of exaggeration that Vladimir Putin took upon himself a historical responsibility by deciding not to leave the resolution of the Ukrainian question to future generations."".",0
"""Our mortar gunners recently received a new drone from Chernivtsy volunteers. To thank the caring citizens, the soldiers signed artillery mines and accurately sent signed ammunition down towards the heads of the invaders. As a result, the border guards destroyed the command and observation post of the Russian occupation troops with fire from 120-mm mortars."".","""Um. Why exactly are they doing this, Chief? It literally goes against several basic principles of strategy."".",1
"The very existence of Western leaning, democratic Ukraine on Russia's border is an existential threat to Putin's regime.",The biggest miscommunication is the West giving mixed signals about how they feel about Russia invading Ukraine pre-war allowing Putin to think he could get away with it.,1
"Agreed, but I'd love for that case to be seen through to the end where SCOTUS orders Trump to testify. With McCarthy in charge, that definitely won't happen.","EDIT: May have misinterpreted what Bacon is doing here. He's threatening to work with Dems to coerce the whack jobs in his party to fall in line behind McCarthy. In this scenario, the Dems are hoping the whack jobs hold firm and cost McCarthy the Speakership, but my gut feeling is they'll buckle.",0
"Plus, per the FBIs crime data from 2019, rifles (doesn’t specify whether it’s an AR or not) are only used in quote “2-12% of gun homicides, with most estimates putting it at around 7%”.","Also, are we just not going to acknowledge that handguns are used in the majority of gun homicides in the US, but we don’t see anyone trying to ban those.",0
"What china won't do though, is sacrifice anything in order to help russia - they will extract every penny of discount they can from russia, and make favourable trade deals etc, while making sure to supply russia with just enough to keep going.","The stupid thing is though, China and Russia don’t have to see everything as a war situation, they could just be friends with everyone around them, stop annexing them and just trade with them instead.",1
The only nasty thing that could come from this for people not in China is new variants that are somehow more severe and/or evade our existing immunity too much.,"Keep in mind that China has way worse immunity than the West. We've basically let COVID (and especially Omicron) burn through the population in a semi-controlled fashion. As a result, many people have already had it once or even multiple times. On top of that we have mRNA vaccines which are way more effective at reducing the severity of infection. What you're seeing now is the result of China's zero COVID policy suddenly being stopped, unleashing a tidal wave on their population.",0
And it's not just children but they deport anyone they can deep into Russia as far from Ukraine as they can with the aim to replace the people that left Russia and the Russian soldiers who died in the war.,"Abduct Ukrainian children while sending drug addict prisoners, poor and ethnic region population to death in Ukraine.",1
"That, and this case doesn't exactly help Republicans. Sure, it would let them gerrymander North Carolina, whose lawmakers brought the suit - but the only other states that this would impact in terms of gerrymandering are almost all blue, including some of the big ones like NY and CA. It would be something like a +12-15 seat swing to the Democrats.","SCOTUS isn't forced to just flip an on/off switch on this. There's a lot of aspects to the ISL doctrine/theory, and even if they indulge some part of it, they don't have to indulge or even consider others. As I pointed out, SCOTUS already rejected a case that tried to assert ISL in a presidential election against state court rulings.",0
"The young people that voted this month don't have that apathy, and I'm not sure that the Republican propaganda engine that's so effective on old people can even reach, let alone sway, these young voters.","Even more reason to allow them to vote, if they’re willing to challenge their parents, they’ll do this regardless of whether they’re allowed to vote, difference being if they can vote they’re able to actively contribute to change.",1
"At the end of the day, are the sanctions necessary? Yes, Putin is a ass and deserved to be tried at Hague. But claiming companies only are greedy is a bit misleading.",Some companies get so big that the people who are in charge can pretend morals don’t matter anymore - like it’s a machine that runs on its own.,1
And yeah I do hate pedophiles and every single person that protects them - which has been and still is the Catholic church's MO.,"My point is that the priests were pedophiles long before becoming priests. It's a long time safe haven for them. Do we really think they believe any of what they preach? I know, let God handle it, I'm sure He will.",1
"So, while general apathy is way better than what we had even 15-20 years ago, we do not actually enjoy the support of over 70% of the country. We enjoy most of the country not wanting us dead, but not willing to lift a finger to stop the hate.","So, while a large part of the country is fine with gay marriage, I guarantee a large part also doesn't care if it goes away. They don't care if the queer suicide rate goes up. They don't care if we're treated as humans. As long as they get their cheap gas and peace at the family dinner table, they'll vote Republican and defend bigots over hurt minorities.",0
No fly zone would be for planes ofc but for rockets and missiles too. Maybe I am wrong to expect a jet to intercept a missile or rocket inbound from russia.,Russian missiles have been hitting the whole of Ukraine. They didn't decide to fire an air defense asset out of boredom. Or are you ok with Ukraine just ignoring civilian deaths if they dont happen near the front lines?,1
"The Taliban isn't doing any of the extraction, that's the point lmao. The actual work will be carried out by the Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Company (CAPEIC). If the Taliban were to try and kick them out, they'd be left with a bunch of highly advanced extraction infrastructure they have no idea how to operate.","Ok, so what is to keep the Taliban from accepting the money, having China build the extraction/refinement facility, then kicking them and keeping the money and infrastructure for themselves?",1
"Why is ""civil war"" now the answer to everything? Between blue and red voters, and states, and now within the GOP.","You should really take a look at how close some of those wins/losses were statewide. Fascism is not hurting them nearly as much as you think, in fact if there wasn't dissent from ""RINO"" within the party at the state level they might have won more. Arizona had a pretty obvious choice to make and it came incredibly close. Nevada still voted in a governor who is an election denier. I can definitely see how they think doubling down will ensure their victory, and TBH I'm not sure it won't.",1
Exactly thats how you end up with cities voting for the same people type of people all the time. They complain about people shooting up and crime and all kinds of other stuff. But they cant connect the dots that all the policies that allow that to happen are a direct result of the people they vote for.,So in your opinion its all the state legislators fault and the governor and city officials have nothing to do with anything thats wrong with Milwaukee. Ive never been there so I have no idea what may be right or wrong there. But thats pretty interesting.,0
"3D printing a handgun is currently a lot more involved than mail ordering a Polymer 80 kit and removing a few bits of plastic. Of course this ruling won’t completely prevent illegal possession of handguns, but it will reduce distribution to people who are prohibited from possessing firearms. If 3D printing becomes cheap and easy enough for anybody to do it, then that’s a different issue to address.","As someone who's taught 3d printing, I promise you it's not that simple. Most people can't print a functional door stop after taking a 6 hour course with me holding their hand the entire way.",1
"Then due to lapse in judgment a potentially dangerous racist terrorist is released and does what racist terrorists do, commit acts of violence. I’m not condoning aggressive protests or counter aggression from police forces. But saying the whole “well if you don’t like it then leave thing” is kinda gross imo..","Again I really don’t want to condone violence whatsoever from any side in this issue. But there are systemic issues that led to this. A judge released this man (for whatever reason) when he was on trial for committing heinous violence (with a sword essentially for that matter) prior to his trial for that offense. He took that opportunity to hurt people. So don’t just say go home if you don’t like it here. The west is built on the movement AND settlement of various groups of people. They have a right to be angry, and it feels like you think they shouldn’t be angry….",0
"אתה באמת חושב שכל אחד שלא בעד בן גביר הוא אנטישמי? אתה באמת חושב את זה? בגלל אמירות כאלה, האנטישמיים האמיתיים אומרים שאנחנו משתמשים במונח הזה יותר מדי וזה כבר לא שווה כלום. האמירות האלה גם מה שגרמו לרצח רבין (שאתה בטח חושב היה הדבר הנכון לעשות, לא?) ורק מפלג את יהודי ישראל לבין יהודי התפוצה ובין ישראלים ביניהם.",מגן על ישראל ברדיט? לא נראה לפי התגובה שרשמת. נראה כאילו אתה סתם שמח לזרוק אנשים מתחת לאוטובוס שנוח לך.,1
"If the alt crazies refuse to govern, it only takes like 4 or 5 GOP moderates to cross the aisle to remove McCarthy, vote in a moderate Speaker, and end the crisis.","McCarthy has already demonstrated that he cares more about placating the crazies in his party, and the rank-and-file GOP has also shown they are willing to go along.",1
"It's a good aircraft in those roles as far as multirole aircraft go... but there are more suitable aircraft available in greater numbers for the exact capabilities that Ukraine wants. Bit more rugged, bit more payload, bit harder hitting as a result.","So, to claim it's ""at least as useful"" I think does a disservice to the Frogfoot. The A-10 isn't a bad plane (I mean, some disagree) but this isn't the environment in which it is designed to thrive. It works best in tandem with suppressed air defences, i.e. SEAD dealing with SAMs and fighter cover to deal with interceptors and other would be dogfighters.",0
"Not if one asks what they are in open context open question, but if asked in religion related context, I think large part of nordic people will answer they are whatever their country's Lutheran church is called. And we do not even have all that much ""day to day opinion influencing to steer our religion, culture and habits to certai direction"" or ""finding common identity"" drive to it, compared to what I would expect those people to have.","Also at least how it has sometimes in some news has seemed, there is some ammount of occasional ""bundling some people as group to main identity: Muslim, even when not talking religion related things"" going from different directions in different medias. Sometimes on purpose with different motivations, someties accidentally.",0
"When he says something, I assume that the opposite is true, until proven otherwise. He almost always says the opposite of what reality is.","Usually if a source country indicates to a host country that a diplomatic visa recipient is no longer travelling for political purposes, they are expelled (not extradited, expelled).",0
"One possible solution for scientists is to patent their discovery, then charge no money for the use of the invention.","While publishing a discovery does allow anyone else to use that discovery/method without a patent, one can simply add a simple improvement of discovery and file a patent on that improvement. That alone makes it harder for anyone else to find a room to operate on previously published discovery.",0
"This is one of the somewhat silly things about the current moves by the Canadian Government to further ban and restrict now and recently legal firearms - the people doing the majority of the crimes aren't using firearms obtained in this country, so the problem is really a border problem.","Not entirely sure how to respond to the majority of this, to be honest, but the point is that the vast majority of guns involved in crimes in Canada are not being used by Canadians who obtained them legally, and neither are they even weapons stolen from Canadian owners.",0
"IOW, they feel duped they got tricked by the Republicans but have too much pride to admit they've been wrong or that they are voting for reasons they don't want to admit (racism, hate, bigotry, sadism, fascism, authoritarianism, etc).","Various mentalities lead people to wear the brass collar, but whatever the reason, I doubt most understand how such a poor decision as voting Republican impacts their lives.",1
"Not really. Verbal contracts exist. There's also the concept of extending tenant protections to long-term guests so shitty landlords can't loophole it that way. Again, it all comes down to protecting tenants because they hold very little power in the relationship without the state backing them up. We wouldn't need these protections if slumlords didn't slumlord.","That said, when both sides have proof of residence, such claims should be expedited through the courts. It sucks for the innocent homeowners but we should all be blaming slumlords for being the reason why these laws need to be in place at all.",0
"And they'll have the legal mechanism to do it once Moore v. Harper is ruled on, and ISL theory becomes law of the land.","Wisconsin could possibly do it, depending on how broad support ISL gets in the Moore v Harper ruling? Maybe? But it's still kind of iffy and very situational. The states that are most likely to decide to overturn results in favor of a Republican are the ones that are going to go Republican anyway.",1
"They're almost certainly using a derivation of open-source encryption technology just like absolutely everyone else. RSA et. al. is never going to be the weak point. It's not the 1940's anymore, with people competing against each other to encrypt messages securely. It's now down to math, and the most thoroughly vetted methods are the most secure. There would be no need to use other technologies across other parts of the military.","Beyond that, I'd expect anything military to use FHSS. You can modulo unixticks and use that to roll the frequency every couple seconds like an RSA key or TOTP. Use two transceivers and have the last frequency's transceiver ""hunt forward"" at the half-interval point and you never lose signal.",1
"Which Republicans voted for Biden's judicial nominees, and the legislation that was passed during this Congress?","But agree that 2024 will be a chance for Democrats to replace her in the Senate. I don't think she can win as an independent, especially not one who betrayed Democratic voters. The real question, then, is will she be replaced by a Democrat, like Gallego, or will she be a spoiler and get herself replaced by a Republican?",0
"""Essentially no one's tax information is really protected, as long as you cross some interest who happens to be in power at some particular point in time. Then we're all vulnerable."".","Yep. It's not too far removed from the ""it's bad etiquette for employees to discuss pay amongst one another"" level of horseshit.",1
"I 100% agree, and also that makes those 5 days that much funnier lol “I’m going to keep humiliating you on national tv until you agree to let me keep doing it for the next two years”.","I fully support this, C-span was having the time of their life and I was there for it lol I strongly believe this is an effective way to get more voters interested and involved.",0
"By quitting the bad plan with no exit plan, there will be a surge of infections because they cracked down on ANY exposure and don't have better vaccination rates.",The problem isn't the availability of a vaccine or the ability of that vaccine in reducing deaths. The problem is there is a sizable elderly portion of the country that doesn't want to be vaccinated.,1
"No, unfortunately not. An invasion of NK is out of the question because it would immediately trigger war with China. The other issue is the nukes. I often get the impression that a lot of Redditors don't understand what nuclear war anywhere means for them.","Of course but in the realm of geopolitics, SK being a democracy means they have to think about support for any war they get into. That's why the US lost in Vietnam despite never losing a single substantial engagement.",0
I have always been in favor of voluntary euthanasia for chronic medical conditions but that this has gotten any level of support makes me seriously reconsider even supporting that.,"Dementia patients should have access to euthanasia, however I can’t support that if it would eventually lead to killing other people that don’t have to die, which it seems is the case due to the support for euthanasia for depression.",0
"- Commander Richard Smith, who leads the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism command, said: ""I want to be clear that despite making this arrest, and based on what we currently know, this incident still does not appear to be linked to any direct threat to the public."".",Yes. Honestly with modern printing processes we could go back to radium paint. The amount used on a watch or clock is fine to be around.,1
"I did a solo month through Colombia in the summer of ‘19. You would see entire families with everything they owned strapped to their back, and you suddenly realize they carried everything they could through parts of the Amazon and over the Andes to get there.","I didn’t want to speak to it but yes, some Colombians I spoke to were very upset by the flush of solicitors and people sleeping in the street. Colombia has its own struggles with poverty and lack of upward mobility and felt that Venezuelan migrants were seriously disrupting Colombia’s ability to bring up its own people.",0
It’s a classic Trump double whammy of insulting his pudgy and red faced appearance (bonus points for zero self awareness) and racism. This plus the ease with which it rolls off the tongue is why it has genuine sticking power (as opposed to the far less inspired “DeSanctimonious”).,"This isn't to say the hogs are ideologically anti-Italian, they don't really have an ideology and would probably laugh at this just because it's directed towards a perceived enemy.",0
Isn't it more akin to outlawing racism. Of course someone who is BORN into a high caste wouldn't want caste discrimination outlawed but for someone who is BORN untouchable wouldn't want to be treated like trash.,I don't know why you would assume caste discrimination is already illegal. It's not obviously racial or ethnic as those terms are understood in the United States and I don't know what else it could possibly fall under as far as protected classes.,1
"We tend to think of an economic slowdown in terms of shortages of consumer goods, but Russia has vast hinterlands where it takes great effort to keep roads and power lines functional. A huge segment of the workforce is dead, fled, or maimed.","But wait, there's more! TB is a perfect example of how the planet is too small for a place as big as Russia to be a shithole country. No one has good treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and it is on the verge of evolving enough resistance to become a global problem.",0
There’s strong evidence more women will die and equally strong evidence suggesting that the number of legal abortions just gets replaced with illegal ones with only slight decline. Unless there’s some manner of proof that the abortions “saved” matches the surplus women that die (which… that evidence hasn’t to my knowledge been compiled so they aren’t basing decisions on it) that seems a pretty blasé perspective on women deaths.,This bill seems to also target women that would get abortion related procedures on fetuses that die naturally from miscarriages… which incidentally is way more common than most people realize. How do you qualify if a D&C in a hospital bill is removing a live fetus or one that died from a miscarriage? It lists out that the bill doesn’t apply to natural miscarriages but How is it conceivably possible to determine if the miscarriage happened naturally or if the doctor is abetting a woman who forced one earlier in the day? Do women just go back to 1900 level maternal death rates just to be sure? That’s… a really high number of dead women… including ones that wanted to keep their babies.,0
"Support for trans people is higher than ever, but so is opposition and the opposition are the ones making the laws.",Maybe this is a hot take but I think we should probably stop genocidal action before the killings start.,0
2016-2020 he was president and nearly broke our democracy. these last two years he's not and the DOJ and various states are gunning for him. Our democracy still hasn't healed and it definitely isn't going to be repaired until he is held to account.,"Nah, listening to the oral arguments o don't see them going all in on that insane theory. I think they'll just use this to expand the federal judiciary's ability to step in if they don't like what's happening with a federal election.",0
"yeah I'm not even arguing about safety or what, it's just that I paid for my seat and anything crossing into my space is at my discretion. I would probably let you take the armrest if you're big, but I'm not giving you any of my air space or let your leg touch my leg for the duration of the flight.",It’s not discrimination any more than me being 6’6” and flying means I need to make sure I fit in the seat and can get in and out and allow others to get by me.,1
"Uhhh...they use that money to purchase US military equipment. Withholding US aid to Israel would be punching US weapons manufacturers in the nose, not to mention kicking the stock market in the dick.","Haha, the US should stop the aid money to Palestinians as well and if anything pressure them to stop the denialism and accept a two state agreement with security guarantees for Israel. Once that is done, hell yea, Palestinians might have a thriving economy and hopeful future. I could see them being an ally like Jordan even. They just need to get over the whole “kill all the jews” vendetta.",1
"I don't care about the Teletubbies except to mock Christians, but if I heard they were having breakfast I'd still say ""gimme some of them Teletubbies vittles!"".",Yeah. Probably why I never got into Twitter. I just found my feed always a constant mess and it took more time to skip over nonsense and find anything remotely interesting to read. I also didn’t care about what any celebrity had to say. So I guess Twitter was never for me.,1
"That actually goes hand in hand with it. I would love it if people were to be better informed so they don't express incorrect, violent ignorance. Intolerance of a person struggling with themselves is itself, intolerable.","Just because it's a known side effect does not mean everybody experiences it during the process. Which unfortunately, is what a lot of more conservative voices would have others believe. Or other garbage like, 6 year olds are getting their genitalia removed which is not happening.",0
"It's more sustainable for Russia then it is Ukraine, a decent read with a realistic point of view from both sides.","It's a valid strategy to lie about your own casualty numbers though, and Ukraine is most definitely doing it too. And that's ok. It's just hard to know what to believe in terms of casualties and progress.",1
"To be fair, if word gets out that they're child rapists, they might catch a stray friendly bullet to the back of the head. ""Accidents"" are not uncommon in a war zone. Unless they create special child molesters units. In which case... that's even more fucked up.","That’s messed up mate. I smoked a joint with my mates in the park. Two coppers were making their rounds, smelt it, just looked at us and said “Come on. Guys, there are kids around. Put it out or go somewhere else.” Swear to god, my heart was pounding so fast that we legged it to a nearby lake. The copper was pretty calm about the whole thing.",1
He brought a gun to protests. He 100% wanted to hurt people. You don’t Cross state lines with a gun and show up to anti-police protests intending to just watch. I can guarantee that to him “playing vigilante” included killing liberals. That was his goal. And saying he was “attacked” is misleading as even his side of the story leaves it a little muddy as to why he was attacked. If I saw someone step into my school with a gun you’d be damn right I’d attack them. If they shot me would it be categorized as self defense?,"He went across state lines with a gun. He brought that gun to “defend” a complete stranger’s business. That makes no sense and is a garbage defense. He placed himself in a dangerous situation clearly with the hopes that he would get to shoot someone. If he didn’t want that, he wouldn’t have come. It’s literally that simple.",0
"The water rights to the Colorado have been an issue since the settlement of the West began and the way this has been handled is testament to how.much of a disaster it can be when individual states ""work things out"" without a federal apparatus to manage things.","""All [they] need to do is form a water district""=political issue, especially given the article addresses this and the political failure of their attempts to do so.",0
"Knowledge and training is always good, but let's also remember that Finns being very specialized in their/our territorial defense means that not everything generalizes super well.","Finns in general are very active online given the long history of IT/internet in the country, and are also mostly fluent in English and so are capable of chatting on international websites.",0
"Sadly, I think Ukraine is going to need to kill 1000 Russian soldiers daily for a few years in order to win. Young Russians have proven to care very little about their own lives, and the Russian population is large. This is why we must keep sending equipment to Ukraine. I'm very optimistic Ukraine will soon be able to average that number.","And generally speaking, Russian leaders have no idea how to succeed in the 21st century. They mentally live in a world that no longer exists, and their strategies show it.",0
"The oil and gas lobby are now fully behind nuclear as it will take decades to kickstart the industry after Fukushima with everyone realising what a liability the nuke industry had become. Money that could go to renewables is being spent on nuclear projects that wont be producing electricity for a decade or so. Small reactors, the hope of the nuke brigade will soon be seen as the folly that it is, reactors were made big to use economy of scale, small reactors will cost just as much to run as big reactors if not more.","Basically they can't afford to do the cleanup, up to US$660 billion is the latest estimate and they have blown past all the previous estimates so I expect it to reach a trillion. They can't keep up with the storage so time to dump it adding to the leakage that goes directly into the ocean from the groundwater seepage that has been occurring for years.",0
"Wasn't there a leak a little while back about how Russia was trying to decide between war with Japan over the contested island or Ukraine, and they ultimately chose Ukraine. I mean this makes a lot of since.","I’m sure it was meant recently. The Japanese haven’t had a standing army since WW2, initially because of the occupation, but more recently by choice.",1
"Roughly 40% of the homeless youth in the US are some flavor of LGBT. They need our help. Trans folks in unsupportive families and bigoted areas have a sky high rate of suicide attempts - they're not doing it because they're trans, they're doing it because society treats trans folks like shit.","Meanwhile the social norm when a gay kid or adult (much large demographic) comes out they are met with hatred, violence and/or homelessness. Conservative families/environment are often quick to ostracize their own blood at the first hint of gay. This is nothing new.",1
"Earlier, my father insisted that Zeldin was ahead in the polls and would likely win. I insisted that the recent polls I saw put her 7 points ahead. He insisted that I was wrong and they were probably liberal polls.","My guess was that there was one of the Republican polls (like Rasmussen) that always take the results and then add to the Republican total because they assume that the Republicans have to do better. FOX likely reported on that and my father saw it and said that Zeldin was going to win. It could also have been FOX spinning the already spun NYT's ""it's a close race"" though.",0
"The Russian Federation's days are numbered at this point, the question now is just when and how it implodes, and what comes next.","Russia and Putin were really counting on this winter to pressure Europe into caving, and it just hasn't happened. By this time next year there will be no reason to even consider Russia as a primary fuel supplier, but the harm Russia has done to itself and its reputation as a source of energy will be set in stone.",0
"I'm guessing the suicide-rate number is either an aggregate of the whole population, or just for people without gender-affirming care. That number is more important when discussing how to help people not currently receiving said care.","Meet the Press had an episode a while back where they analyzed a poll about general political beliefs. Without mentioning parties, people mostly fell into four categories: strong right/conservative, center-right, center-left, and left/progressive. It turns out that they split pretty evenly with about 17% each (not sure about the other 32%). So in theory, there's a bunch of people who are center-right/left who may be amenable to a party that more directly caters to them, since people at the ends of the spectrum are likely locked into their party already. The trick is figuring out what percentage of each of those groups is actually voting, then finding ways to get the non-voters into polling booths.",0
"Check the median salaries, that's about 1 year's salary. If you can only pay off 2-3K a month, then that's a lifestyle choice. Country clubs aren't cheap.","Healthcare in the US costs a lot. Way more than it should. But that's not solely because of corporate profit. It's the cost structure all the way down. It's the labor. Healthcare workers in the US get paid way more than anywhere else. 9 out of the 10 top paying jobs in the US are healthcare jobs. That 1 that isn't, is the corporate CEO. That CEO job isn't on the top of that top 10 list. It's actually near the bottom.",0
Cause the last time few times the west's has gotten involved in revolutions in the Middle East it hasn't blown up in our faces at all.,Getting rid of dictatorships isn’t easy but the west simply cannot be the cause of more instability in the middle east than it already have been.,1
"Do YOU know anything about current events, or that Finland wasn't actively threatened by Russia, pre-Ukraine invasion? I'll sit and wait, while you supply those sources detailing all the threats Russia imposed upon Finland, c1990-2013.",Finland has been actively arming itself against its Russian neighbor for awhile. And the most you have to present as evidence is the same thing NATO does to Russia.,0
I'm probably moving away from the topic. So let me conclude this pointless conversation by telling you this. Indian companies don't have to move out of Russia. We are better than Ukraine because our people from ages believed in breaking the hierarchy and hegemony rather than creating and being one or even joining one. We will never join one side. NAM is the only solution. West is as naive as it was because COP 26 was such a failure. Let's hope they gain some common sense and sign a deal in COP 27.,"Infosys should not pull out because the company belongs to Narayan Murthy an Indian billionaire. As long as he is the head of the company, neither his daughter nor the west's pissing contests will not have any impact on India's foreign policy nor an ally of India.",0
"I.E. India sees the desperation, sees Russia trying to sell their technology to even NATO members and realize that if they get that tech it can give their defense and eventually aerospace industry a leap start compared to both china and the UK. not to mention the potential of capturing former Russian markets that china can't due to differences between the defense standards of china (designed from the ground up) or the west (due to price and lack of experience with said machinery).","to be fair to India, Russia is very open to outsourcing the manufacturing and even design to India which is the whole relation. Russia still has a level of manufacturing which in some aspects surpasses china (who hasn't been able to get turbine designs and manufacturing off the ground).",0
"Fuck the hate, the conspiracies, the defamation. Biden has a soul. He is a father who loves his children, who pushes for their success and cares for them. Despite hardships he understands what it means to be in it, to struggle, to not know what to do but still know that we have to try something. He knows when to ask for help, and has the decorum and integrity to not try and gloat or shit on his opponents unless they come for him doggedly... or are truly despicable and enemies of American life.",Because he's actually trying to fix problems not stand around with his thumb up his ass pointing fingers and trying to manufacture fake outrage to appear to be doing something ...ahem republicans.,1
"There is certainly a relationship between affluence and fertility rates though I am not sure if job loss in a wealthier country would lead to more children. People might choose the opposite, since kids cost money and earn little or no income. In a poorer rural economy it could be kids become more valuable from an economic perspective.",If the intent of these changes is to ensure that lower income families can raise healthy children then that is great. If the intent is to stimulate birth rates then this needs some rethinking.,0
"Wait wait… so let me get this straight. Because your mates and you were just curious about a spooky house, explored it, got caught, you have a permanent record? You served 7 years… does that mean you went to prison for 7 years? Or is it more like for 7 years, you can’t commit another offence or risk going to prison?","The whole point of you going to prison is to be reformed and to come out a better person. However, this segregation will only lead to more crime because of how you’re treated and given less opportunities due to the system….",0
Xi does not want to trade China's biggest export market for cooperating with what's left of Russia. Even Putin should understand this (but obviously not).,"Man, I’m beginning to think Putin is a fucking idiot. China knows the key to a new Sino dominated century is the West. There’s no getting around that fact. He thinks Xi is going to abandon or jeopardize EU/US trade relations for Russia? Lol. Fucking idiot.",1
"The US, as before, does not recognise the new territories in the Russian Federation, and of course this significantly complicates the search for solid ground for mutual discussion."".","Yeah. I'm certainly no fan of Putin, but if this could save countless lives as well as a future for the Russian people, I would be for it.",1
"The issue is that they likely fully agree with you there, it's just their understanding of vaccines is so misinformed they see ""vaccinated blood"" as not meeting that criteria.","The parents believed the use of vaccinated blood would cause further heart problems for their child, and so they have a plausible best interest argument even if based on false information.",1
"Try digging trenches against the US Air Force and see what happens. I’ll give you a hint; it’s not a “the style of fighting that’s prevailing,” result as you say.","A large scale “near peer” modern war, and the style of fighting that’s prevailing is what we know now as basically an ancient style of fighting. Absolutely absurd.",1
"2. Continue coddling Trump and let the GOP primary play out, which would produce the same outcome as option No. 1.","5. Trump announces run, Desantis agrees to serve as as VP pick 2 years ahead of election. Pair announces first of 1,523 planned rallies for this weekend….",1
Just recently the US had to greenlight Turkeys invasion of Kurdish Syria in 2019 knowing full well what that would mean for Syrian Kurds-- and this was only the eighth great betrayal of the Kurds by America in 100 years.,"And then before that, after WW2-- which was the second of three great opportunities to actually give the Kurds a state-- the US pretended to support Kurdish independence by arming them in Iraq against a ruler America didn't like. But then in 1963, we cut all aid to them to instead back a military coup that featured Saddam Hussein, and once they took power the US gave them napalm specifically to use on the Kurds.",0
"Problem is every time the virus infected another person, there is a possibility the virus mutate to another variant which can goes either way whether becoming more dangerous or milder. So now imagine 1 billion people in China having it. It is a 1 billion permutation there.","When the two numbers are ""1"" and ""millions"", that does not take a genius . . Also does not really contain any information at all to say the number is somewhere in between those extremes.",1
"So, is there any endgame here where Musk can profit financially from Twitter's total demise? He has floated bankruptcy, but I don't see how that helps him. The only thing which makes sense, if he is doing this on purpose, is that he is doing the bidding of his stakeholders in burning Twitter to the ground.","If this is not on purpose then we are witnessing one of the greatest humblings of a vaunted business ego, possibly of all time but most certainly since the beginnings of the Great Depression. Even company crashes like Enron, Worldcom, Arther Andersen, and Lehman Brothers didn't have the kind of cult of personality attached to them that Musk has built for himself.",0
There is nothing in the constitution giving judges the authority to draw district boundaries by appointing special masters.,"The fact remains, there is nothing in the constitution (not sure ab out NC law) given the judicial branch legislative powers (pass a redistricting law).",0
"Maybe they meant it more that if you send people off to legally kill each other, witness their buddies be killed, and go through various other traumas that you can't really be shocked when those conditions turn some of them into monsters.","That doesn't mean it's acceptable and good or something. Just that war is awful and changes people, its not really surprising that those experiences can turn some into monsters with no regard for human life.",0
"And It does not have anything in it that is extremely biased or inaccurate. People seem to be just taking issue with the source being 'Fox News,' and the fact that it is critical of Biden.","I can not remember the last time I read a Fox News article, but I just read it because no where in the comments does any one mention what is actually in the article.",0
"Raid every citizen support center, try the put their people in prison for life and refuse to send them home to China when China inevitably whines about it. Hell, put them in Guantanamo with Al Qaeda just to put an even finer point on it.","You commit a crime in another country, you get punished like anybody else. We don't care how rich you are, or how much influence you have, nobody is beyond the reach of the justice system.",0
"On a side note, I'd like to point out to anyone who doesn't know, that the notion the shooter considered himself non-binary, has absolutely nothing to do with if this can be considered a hate crime.","- Appeals to hypocrisy when the left calls out the shooter for disengenuously using neo-pronouns at the last minute to make a mess of things and get out of being charged for a hate crime, despite mountains of evidence showing the shooter was using he/him pronouns even directly prior to this event.",1
"Similarly, NATO won't make Ukraine a member while it is in active conflict because it will trigger a nuke war that NATO can't win.","I think that if they can’t beat only Ukraine after a year, it’s safe to say they definitely have no hope of starting a war with NATO and winning.",1
"I'm sorry, but 'Notwithstanding Roe v. Wade' ignores the entire recent history of the Supreme Court.",The Supreme Court shouldn’t even be hearing this case. It’s open and shut business discrimination based on inherent characteristics (being gay) and has nothing to do with private speech.,1
"you can't. my mom dealt with SS disability for 5 years before hers was approved, and they came up with 3 jobs she could do, 3 times over, just like this guy, and she had to appeal it 4 times thru her lawyer because those jobs didn't physically exist anymore. She finally asked for a different judge, and the judge finally granted it after the same bullshit. It cost her 5 years, and 12000 in lawyers fees to get her disability benefits. when the lawyer started filing paperwork to get challenge the constitutionality of the list of jobs, she was approved. this took 5 years. 5 years too long. the system was broken by republicans in the 1970's, and was done that way on purpose to make it impossible to get benefits you pay for and earned.","can't have the poor putting in too much money, need to encourage them to have a ""private"" retirement plan. the maximum was implemented in the 1980's when 401ks and other IRAs were becoming a thing, to encourage people to use the private sector, so the private sector could profit. its a scam.",0
This is the answer. Biden was a puppet and trump was really still running the country from his resort where he had access to all kinds of govt confidential info he needed to make decisions for Biden and team.,"No, people told me that he is running the country from mar a lago. He is making critical decisions but letting Biden take credit. Are you saying this is not true.",0
"Basically. It's up to the individual states to enforce whatever actions they think are necessary once they decide that Russia committed war crimes. Mostly it'll probably be more sanctions since no one is planning to go to nuclear war with Russia. Ukraine also wants to set up a tribunal to prosecute the Russians, but again the results of the tribunal don't force anyone to do anything, and are only enforceable by the individual states agreeing to do something.","This motion is presented in the general assembly, which means it can't be vetoed (and all 193 member states have equal voting power). You're thinking about resolutions in the security council which end up having military operations to enforce them (which is why they can be vetoed).",0
"“We will not repeat the mistakes of the past, when in the interests of increasing defense capability where necessary and where it was not really necessary in fact, we destroyed our economy,” he said. “We simply don’t need this.”.","In a largely low-key address devoid of forecasts of imminent success, Putin sought to deflect blame for what he called the “shared tragedy” of the war that he began, repeating claims that the conflict was unavoidable even as Ukraine and its US and European allies had repeatedly made clear before the invasion that there was no threat to Russia’s security.",0
"The purpose of special forces is to do reconnaissance and infiltration behind enemy lines; they're not some elite infantry troops - like you said, regular infantry are actually better than elite units because being infantry is not the purpose of those elite units.","Most people think that Special Forces are some elite infantry that can do anything, but that's not the case at all and not the purpose of special forces.",0
"How unscientific of you. You know that half of all humans are women right? That simplifies this quite a bit. So if a bunch of highly paid male neurosurgeons force otherwise qualified women to work in fast food instead of making up half the surgeon workforce, then clearly that’s a wage gap and sexist as hell, kind of like your comment.","Of course a full time neurosurgeon is going to outearn a part time fast food worker, no matter the gender.",1
The human brain gets the same positive response to saying they will do something as actually doing it.,This is why it is recommended to not talk about any positive life changes you plan to make until you are actually doing them (ex. don't talk about new exercise regime until you've been doing it for a little while.).,0
Literally like basic Christopher Colombia Spanish conquistador level colonialism South Americans were enslaved killed off by carried sickness and displaced skip a few 100 years to modern medicine population regrow the and you have deforestation rising wildlife extinction levels and a near mirror society to everyone else.,"Edit: I’m just a cynic not rare on Reddit the bigger problem is older than a decline in lion population, Fuck all media outlets that drive a narrative that few people make a bigger difference then stopping mega corporations poachers and hunters from hitting the original land of all people this is inconsequential when all life will be dead on earth with no end in site for pollution.",0
"in place i work, if you show up on time of your reservation and for some stupid reason there no table ready for you, you get free glass of prosecco and tiny appetizer, at the bar while waiting. and we are not by any means fancy restaurant.","I'm amazed restaurants still take reservations. As a former service worker I totally agree with charging no shows. It's like the airline, you book a flight and pay, if you don't show it's your loss. This applies to restaurants, they hold your table and tell others to wait, it costs the restaurant money to have empty seats with paying customers waiting at the door.",1
I wonder if this will have any fallout among their viewers. I feel like the people watching this shit are just sort of hopeless and will just ignore this or move on to more extreme sources.,This really isn’t new news when it comes to how Fox operates But it does show how not enough people aren’t paying attention.,1
"Given voter participation rates in under 25s, I don't think this will make any real difference to the outcome of our elections.","I wouldn't expect a 16 year old to have the foggiest understanding about how their vote would affect things. Would their input really be valuable? Do you really want 16 year old kids to have the power to influence important decisions? I dunno, I'm not against the idea neccesserily, but I understand why they currently aren't able to vote, let's put it that way.",1
Israel cut ties and imprisoned their leader in 84 when they began arming. They were not called hamas yet. They had not published their charter.,This is like blaming Britain for US war crimes because they created the 13 colonies. Hamas was not hamas when Israel was involved.,0
"I’m leaning towards number two. I wonder if what’s going on is the government doesn’t actually know what of its (our) property is missing, which is embarrassing. Stands to reason the judge won’t hold somebody in contempt for not turning over something that anyone is sure exists.",I kind of wonder if some judges have cold feet because they don't want to be known as the one who pulled the trigger. We have to remember we live in a world where some rando thinks he can solo run an FBI office so I'm sure lots of people in power kinda worry about someone showing up at their house.,1
If you are waiting until the weekend before elections to establish your online presence you probably shouldn’t be a politician.,So in theory more politicians could be verified because they may relax qualifications to meet demand with a smaller team.,0
"You mean like college students? They're probably one of the main demographics of legitimate sharing, but Netflix only lets that happen if they can go home at least once a month.","But even if you could come up with a reasonable technological definition of a household, I still feel like watching on multiple screens is less likely than you'd think. To me, at least, that always felt like a feature to allow for college students and similar, so you don't have to coordinate watching times at multiple locations. (Think ""Get off the phone, I need to use the internet"") There are still some use cases for multiple screens, like if someone wants to watch on their commute, but they're a lot less common.",0
"No doubt though the Germans are making sure most of ""their funds"" they pay into there don't get into Polish hands. Cause you guys love us so much 😉.",Yeah thanks for that 20 years ago. How long you gonna keep clutching that. As if the Germans got no money out of that deal right?,0
"I never said there weren't religious people, just that the Nordic countries aren't typically religious countries, my country of Sweden is believed to be about 80% atheist.","Not if one asks what they are in open context open question, but if asked in religion related context, I think large part of nordic people will answer they are whatever their country's Lutheran church is called. And we do not even have all that much ""day to day opinion influencing to steer our religion, culture and habits to certai direction"" or ""finding common identity"" drive to it, compared to what I would expect those people to have.",1
"Nobody is invading the US for a long-ass time and I'm not an electric substation so no fascists have tried to shoot me yet so I'm not going to sit over here and say ""I put my 21/hr job on the line so I'm gonna sit in judgement over people who don't want to be shot."" I've had a gun pointed at me once during a mugging and once the adrenaline letdown kicks in its bad.","I've always been politically engaged, always called out violations for worker safety or violations of minority or disability rights at work even if it paints a target on your back.",0
"Sorry, off duty and retired cops should have no greater access to weapons than the rest of us, quite frankly, neither should on duty until they can stop murdering us.",New York allowed retired police officers to keep otherwise banned assault rifles (but only if they got them while active).,1
"The bottom line is that progressive candidates just don't have a good track record of winning highly competitive districts, especially in challenging election cycles. And if progressives want to count on establishment support then the burden is kind of on them to prove they're good enough to win, especially when you're in the process of knocking off establishment incumbents.","I can't imagine why, in a year that was expected to be really bad when Democrats were trying to defend a ton of seats, that they would decide not to fund what they saw as a risky challenger likely to lose.",0
"Of course, anyone using salted warheads would be promptly wiped off the face of earth by everyone else. Normal nukes are bad enough, no one wants someone actually using a potential world-ender to continue existing.","The issue is that either you use strategic nuclear barrages (not just piddly 'tactical' nukes), salted warheads, the other spokes of the NBC triad...",0
I know it sounds silly and Russia probably isn’t that stupid to use a nuclear device in any capacity… but I feel like they’re getting desperate and almost all bets are off at this stage.,"I am no military expert, and I don’t think this will actually happen… but seeing the recent events that are happening is making me slightly worried that Putin is actually considering a nuclear option here.",0
"""Our concern is more about indirect imports of Russian gold, especially those that go through the United Arab Emirates,"" it continued. The gold is melted down and processed there before being sent to various places around the world, including Switzerland, where it has a new origin, it said. According to Swissaid, it is ""impossible to really trace the origin of the gold"".","The NGO Swissaid told the news agency that ""this gold has obviously been stored in vaults in London or in free warehouses for a long time and is therefore not affected by the sanctions"". It is probably gold of Russian origin that was exported before the sanctions or even before the war, the NGO's media office said when asked.",0
"I'm surprised nothing as large as this has happened before. I guess Palestinians killing two civilians, filming their bodies mocking them, then dancing in the street.. crossed a line. Still, cars can be replaced. Let's be thankful that the settlers have not copied the Palestinians and started shooting at Palestinian civilians at bus stops, restaurants or stabbing them to death in their bedrooms.",When Israelis force people into ghettos steal others homes and properties murder children for over 50 years it's okay. It's amazing how big of a pass they seem to get.,1
"Playing their game is even worse, you might as well be asking for a revolution at that point seeing as the federal government will cease to have any power.","Do you really want our entire government to act to stifle progress for the foreseeable future due to political games, instead of just half of it?",1
"There's generally a low end and high end. The judge can sentence outside these, and from what I know, has to put on the record why they are having and upward or downward departure from the guidelines.","She hasn't been sentenced yet. Her bond was revoked as she was found guilty and the judge decided she is a danger in some way, or going to take off, so she is in custody until the sentencing hearing. These go towards time served.",0
"This won't really benefit either party, not really, but it WILL benefit the American people because it will moderate everyone, it will no longer be a binary choice between crazy/unacceptable people and we will get the consensus candidates, who will be someone we are all sort of ok with.","It allows the final result to more accurately represent the will of the people, you can safely vote for an independent if you want, and then your vote will go to who you would prefer from the major parties instead of being wasted.",1
"Goodness, even if it was russian's 1345th ""miscalculation"" in this war, i am in shock they had the audacity to strike a NATO member.","I didn’t think you meant genocide, but the idea that we can just go blow up Russia’s entire military without a nuclear level response is just odd to me.",1
But lumping everything together with a news station that knowingly told lies about a fair election being stolen is straight up dangerous.,"FOX ""News"" finds ways to profit off of the election lies and so will keep repeating them. As long as they can keep making money off of it, they'll keep up their lies even if privately they admit that it's all bull.",1
"Weird, it's almost as if the sole threat to Finland, is the threat a NATO-member offers to Russia. Gosh, that sounds a lot like...geopolitical self-defense from Russia.","The Russian Army has none of those things. It's literally falling apart. So, if a Russian invasion isn't a threat to Finland there's no need for them to join NATO.",0
"Not like Putin was a mastermind hiding his values, he continuously repeated them, and European leaders just ignored him and pretended he had the same values as them. It is willful ignorance on part of European governments, not Putin's non-existent genius that is at fault.","Uh except invading Ukraine WAS a stupid decision, no matter what Putin thought of himself, his values, whatever. The facts were his military was full of corruption and outdated tech technology and he was stupid enough to trust his military leaders, who are a part of that corruption. Your first paragraph was spot on, then you went off the rails lol.",1
Lukashenko would be out of power right now and either dead or imprisoned by his own people if not for Putin's shadow looming over him. If Putin were to die and Russia were to give up their insane plans of recreating the Soviet Union and Tsarist Russia than he would be screwed.,"But my country were under russian rule, when we had puppet presidents before the revolution. And, you know, it was nothing like NK. Actually, i can name a big list of reasons why my life turned from ""existing somehow"" to ""barely able to survive only with help"" since the revolution, when people chased away russian puppet president, and won't be able to name at least a single positive change. Not even one. But you don't really want to hear it, right? Since all you want to believe that in case of surrendering entire population would be sent to mines or executed if they refuse. But in reality life for average citizen aren't changed much, and life for the poor turned into living nightmare under the new regime, because they don't care about disabled and elderly, even a slightest.",1
"Deep down everyone knew that russians were incompetent even before the war, so I don't think anything changed that much...","This war showed how incompetent, ineffective and arrogant Russian forces were when they are put up with a challenge on a sudden notice. Now with Russia gone as one of the three world powers in the world (USA, Russia and China) a spot is left to which plenty of countries are racing for. Sooner or later China would be gone too as their butts are asking to be spanked with Indian batons during the border skirmishes and also to be bonked with Japanese and South Korean Navies. In the near future when two seats would be empty (I am being optimistic), countries would like to fill it. And any two other countries which would fill it would form a new world order. This is my opinion, if you feel something is wrong, please do mention it.",1
"The republican party is realizing that he is as cancerous to their cause as we realize he is to the nation. After the runoff, we have 2 years to the next election (1.5ish until primaries). Before, I wondered why he wasn't charged before these midterms. Now, I think it worked out well. So, while the gears turn towards his indictments, let him damage those who enabled him, until they are begging for the justified indictments to come.","In no way do I think he should not face criminal consequences, in fact I said ""yet"" from the very start.",0
I know some people who are Russia-friendly and the newest KGB idea is served to them by Facebook within a day or two of anything happening that Putin does not like.,"But they are helping Brits do it. It's so easy, all they need to do in encourage conflict wherever it arises. They support both sides of the argument, as long as anger flourishes ... and Brexit was one of the results.",0
"By having it unpaid, they're hoping to push people into not taking the day at all, and only ever using the scheduled ones. They'd rather have the people come into work sick.","They have paid sick leave though, right? They just have to use their other PTO to take it, which is how every other jobs I've had is.",1
"Paul Ryan is not running for anything, so he's in that legion of ""brave"" retired GOP politicians who once kissed Trump's ass but now criticize him. In fact, he's in that elite squadron of high profile GOP politicians who quit elected office rather than deal with Trump and the fucked up GOP antics anymore.",Are we supposed to forget that any evil Trump committed in office was not only allowed by Republicans but celebrated?,1
". Thankfully the younger and educated polish population knows that PiS is bullshit, but still too many people vote for them.","Nope, I have a shitload of respect for Poland and love the country and the people (I mean, thats why I lived there at some point). Same goes for most people in Europe.",0
Why keep a power in NATO that’s working on behalf of Russia to sabotage the protection of countries coming into NATO?,"This shit seems all to convenient for both Russia in sowing discord within NATO countries, and for Turkey's domestic elections.",1
"Putin has the option to cease being an asshat and pull back troops and cease military action in Ukraine, and the Russian people who continue to support the conflict are almost as much to blame, but only as a result to the decades of Russian propaganda that Putin has orchestrated and forced on the Russian people.","Are you dense my guy you are completely ignoring the aired grievances that were said in Minsk 2 in which was followed by an unconfirmed Ukrainian claim of an artillery strike that allowed them to continue the same actions that lead to Crimea and ultimately today. Im not suggesting this isnt Putin war of aggression, but this could have been easily resolved by the international community doing diplomacy to resolve this. They could acknowledged the sentiments of the Russian speakers, allowed them to form their own governments with the stipulation they cannot become a part of Russia as punishment for Ukraine not following Minsk, so that way if they did join Russia it could lead to the same point we are at now but with no legitimacy within Russia for a military action which would have put real pressure on Putin Regime and leave him beyond isolated. Instead the international community decided to ignore everything, allow the US to make a lot of money selling weapons and then use the most base level reason that doesnt even have a standing to the other side due to casus belli’s and then force a horrible ground war with thousands of civilians and combatants who were most likely not there by choice dying. How is this good on any front, how can anyone justify unconditional surrender to a nuclear power, it would just force them to use a nuke. How is it that most of world population wants peace and many countries face starvation as a result of this a good thing. Its easy to say keep up the fight in your heated home with electricty and food while other people who actual fight, are actually effected by this just want normalcy.",1
"Both things are true at the same time. The social factors that drive mass shootings and that drive more “normal” gun crime are entirely different, and require different prescriptions.","Note also that there are different definitions of mass shootings. ProPublica seems to use a very restrictive one, as they only counted 19 mass shootings in 60 years in Texas. What fraction of all homicides over the last 60 years is that?",1
"It's not just a haven for Brazilians. It's also a tax haven for a lot of rich and wealthy politicians and other major figures from across Central and South America. (More recently, it's also became a haven for Russians hiding their ill-gotten assets.).","2. Because of Lava Jato’s corruption that Lula can’t be trialed again. Lula didn’t create any law, and didn’t destroy due process. If impartial judges and prosecutors were doing their work, maybe Lula would have being sentenced. Maybe, but we’ll never know because they unjustifiable tried to convict him before he could be a candidate in 2018. They acted politically and created this mess, not Lula.",1
"So, this really boils down to NATO since they're the ones that have the international clout to make Erdogan stop clowning around.","Swede here: While on one hand it's great if Finland could join, it'll unfortunately mean that Sweden will withdraw from the whole thing once you join since our politicians are all fucking cowards. So it's really in NATO's best interest to ensure that Finland doesn't join first, because once you do, we have absolutely zero reason to care about NATO since we're protected on every side. The reason our PM is saying this is because he's covering his ass for when he'll later explain why we're not joining. (We warned them, etc etc).",0
"Mankind (in general) is responsible for CO2 that amount to circa about 0,000925% of Earth's atmosphere.","But hey ""80% MORE"" sounds scarier than ""only 42% of human CO2 emissions remain in the atmosphere in 1960 - 2016"", right? The rest is being absorbed by natural sinks and there seems to be no radical (none at all...) increase in the AF remaining in the atmosphere so ... no longer so scary. .",0
"The NDP did the best they could trying to fix the shit the conservatives spent nearly half a decade breaking, and when they couldn't get it all fixed in one term, people got mad at them and voted the conservatives back in 4 years later in 2019 and the conservatives have been working diligently on breaking shit again since then.","Even if they commit hard on fixing the shit the Tories broke, people will just get mad that they can't fix everything in one term then vote the Tories back into power.",0
"It's beautiful. They march forward, troops are seen, UKR shoots them, they believe someone's leaking information, and they shoot a bunch of their own smartest people.","Just remember, they are killing innocent civilians and Ukrainian troops almost as fast as they are getting killed themselves.",1
"But to be fair, -62 C isn't insane for Siberia. Their average is already -50 C. This just happens to be the coldest in 20 years, which is a short period in terms of weather.",That’s -80.86 ° F. I live in Montana and so far this winter it’s gotten down to -42°F. I can’t even imagine twice as cold as that and most people can’t even imagine -42°F.,1
"As to Methane, that depends on if the restaurant was lying about composting. The bamboo itself when it breaks down does not release methane. The methane in a trash dump comes from the anaerobic bacteria releasing it as a waste product as they break down the bamboo. Compost heaps use aerobic bacteria, which does not release methane. They will release some CO2. but its no where near the 30:1 ratio that methane is as a GHG vs CO2.","As to billionaires, theres 3100 of them globally vs 8 billion people. None of them are polluting 2.58 million people worth per year no matter how many jet flights they are doing. The studies that make it sound like they are always tend to include the companies they are owners of, which is bullshit cause those companies would be out of business if we stopped buying from them. So yeah you can blame them for having an outsized emissions compared to working joe, but working joe is still vastly the majority.",0
"“The U.S. should be mindful that no matter how desperately it may seek to disarm (North Korea), it can never deprive (North Korea) of its right to self-defense and that the more hell-bent it gets on the anti-(North Korea) acts, it will face a more fatal security crisis,” she said in a statement carried by state media.","“The U.S. should be mindful that no matter how desperately it may seek to disarm (North Korea), it can never deprive (North Korea) of its right to self-defense and that the more hell-bent it gets on the anti-(North Korea) acts, it will face a more fatal security crisis,” she said in a statement carried by state media.",1
"I grew up in Rural America. My Mom's side of the family is Arkansas hollow people. It is going to be extremely difficult if not damn near impossible to pull these people away from the Republican party. Deep rural people have become clanish, hostile to outsiders, hostile to authority, deeply closed minded, and profoundly ignorant of current societal and cultural norms. Conservatism for these people is more of a personality trait than a political ideology. The only way they would ever turn on Republicans is if they started cutting their welfare and social security checks. Which Republicans absolutely want to do. This would be the only way to finally convince them that Republicans were the problem all along.","The single best way that Democrats can fix the huge Republican leanings of red states is to hold town halls, listen to their grievances, and talk about what can be done to address them.",1
Typical republican: IRS cuts mean they’ll ignore me and I can shave a couple thousand off my taxes by being sneaky.,The Republicans have been butchering up the tax code for decades in order to benefit their corporate overlords so they don't have to pay much or any taxes.,1
"ישראלים ״נורמליים״ זה מונח מאוד יחסי, אני גם מניח שאתה מתכוון לאנשים מאוד ספציפיים שצר לי להגיד לך אבל הפ ממש לא נורמליים.",אתה בטח גם מבסוט על עצמך בתור ישראלי ששופט את העם שלו בכזאת חומרה נכון? חושב שאתה איזה מלך הצדק? הדבר היחיד שאתה עושה זה לגרום להם לחשוב שאנחנו חבורה של קופים שלא יכולים לעצור מלתת מכות לשמאלנים וערבים.,0
His whole fit on Twitter yesterday was 100% designed to rile up the MAGA base. Just in time for elections.,The issue is after the election. Who gets verified on twitter as your senator or representative of after Election Day if the candidate who didn’t actually win claims they did?,1
"We have state and national things. state flowers and animals and even the national bird. Yeah it's dumb and just pandering but it isn't like having a national ""thing"" is entirely alien.",Personally I would say that the national gun of America should either be the classic 1911 or the M1 garand. Because of their history. Something a bit more special than the Honda civic of rifles.,0
"Edit: I don't think it's unreasonable to say, ""You are more than welcome to eat here, but you are not welcome to film and hand out political material (MAGA hats) here."".","And? They can’t stop paying customers from walking in and buying burgers. I feel duty-bound to say, I don’t support Trump, but McDonalds would be wayyy out of bounds to refuse service on the basis of political ideology.",1
Regardless he’s not the kind of Republican that stands a chance in hell in todays Republican Party especially outside of a blue state.,"Hogan is what you would hope for in a republican politician he advocates for positions because he believes they are best for the state, not out of hate or shock value. I haven't agreed with everything he's done as our gov, but at least generally, you get the feeling he's earnest about what he's trying to do.",1
"Simultaneously, they're suppressing wages by inviting half a million immigrants a year because 'noone wants to work' because they literally cannot afford to move to the cities to take up jobs. That's 1.3% of Canada's current population a year.","EDIT: For my math, my mortgage is for $150K at the moment, down from $205K at close. It's at 1.64%. The value of the property according to BC Assessment is now around $525,000 and I can't even dispute that because last year a lesser unit sold for more. The current mortgage rate is 6.3%. Of course I have equity now in this place, but if i had been renting since 2016 I never would have been able to make this work buying this place now. I wouldn't even qualify for this mortgage.",0
"I live in Seattle and I've been to Idaho exactly one time, saw a gaggle of people in Confederate flag bathing suits at the water park and I said ""this is not the state for me!"".",Truly. I love that Idaho does not have any trauma one hospitals so anytime something major happens over there they got to ship their nonsense citizens over to WA.,0
"Something (and others like it) like this would force them actually say the truth, or spend a large amount of time correcting it. After X amount of infractions your segment gets taken off the air replaced with nothing, first for a determined amount of time, progressively getting larger for repeat offenders. Hit them where it hurts, time (on air) and $.","Good questions, but also, any segment that is proven false, the network needs to use the same amount of time, correcting the false statement.",0
"Yes, when these sanctions were announced, everyone pretty much expected this outcome. Of course, naysayers were like ""Russia can do it themselves???"" ignoring the fact that even in the Cold War, Russia was relying on stolen western tech to keep their stuff operational.","Russia reaps the years of lies by creating a society built on mistrust of themselves, and it's biting them in the ass.",1
"So far as I understand it, their argument is quite literally that they're not attacking Ukraine. They're defending Russia. Just so happens that Russia is whatever they claim it is, and wherever they think enough Russians exist. So East Ukraine and Crimea (which just totally conveniently sits on huge oil and gas deposits, carry on) isn't actually Ukraine. Its Russia. And the evil Ukrainians were trying to kill them all.","From what I can tell, the Russian argument at the moment is straight up denying they want the ""rest"" of Ukraine. Its all presented them as defending Russian territory and Ukraine aggressing.",0
"We've been relying on self-reporting by the oil and gas industries. All of our projections for what measures we need to take to fight climate change, and how strong our response needs to be, come in no small part from that self reporting.","Experts and analysts have been saying for quite a while, that we're reaching a point of no return, based on those reports.",0
"The tragic part about Climate Change is that those with the most power to change things are the ones least affected by it, making change slow and difficult.",The ramifications of climate change have been widely known for over 50 years and yet relatively little has been done to mitigate it.,1
Well Social Security is projected to run out of enough money to pay full benefits by 2035. So something has to be done. Raise retirement age? raise the maximum income level for Social Security deductions..but not the maximum benefit amount?.,If you read the Republican platform this is basically what they're looking at. They don't want to cut Social Security.,0
"I.e. being into expensive shoes, even if they're ugly or you don't wear them, is really no different than collecting guns, knives, old video game consoles, comic books, etc. It's not inherently less valuable than any other hobby, you're just not the target audience.","I didn't really get it either, until I heard that for people from some social circles/cultures or for people who live in densely populated cities where something like car ownership or home ownership is not realistic or possible, they turn to things like shoes, hats, etc. as ways to express themselves and take pride in something that's valuable to them, and that makes sense to me.",0
"Thank you for acknowledging that India buying Russian oil is simply doing the terrorist state a diplomatic favor, and not some sort of dire need that we've been led to believe.","Duly noted that India's needs include doing, as you said, doing a diplomatic favor to a in Russia buy starting to buy its oil in huge amounts, thus perpetuating the war it wages, destruction, and endless Russian and Ukrainian deaths.",0
"I was trying to point out that now that the dog-whistling is done, there's no real denying what you're voting for if you're voting republican. Trump brought it all painfully out into the open. And because the base responded so well to it, I don't think we're going to go back to dog-whistling. Because there will always be a candidate willing to be more direct. And that person is going to be the one who wins the primary.",I mean I’m not advocating for not voting. I’m saying the past couple elections seem like a clear repudiation of what the Republican Party has come to stand for.,0
"Yep, and that was the case BEFORE all the pilot losses they've taken over the last year of war in Ukraine...",If you think Ukraine and Russia are in some “Battle of Britain” style air to air fight then you need to dig deeper into the situation in Ukraine.,1
"In the air, Russia has air airplanes that do air patrol over their territory armed with long-distance air-to-air missiles that make it very hard for Ukrainian airplanes to operate close to the front. Urkaine does not have missiles with the same range so they need ground-based air defense to keep the Russian airforce away.",It gives them the ability to launch missiles with a huge kinetic advantage at Russian planes in that area of the country you mention.,1
"\- He ordered the Corregedoria-Geral Eleitoral (the Electoral Inspector General's Office, responsible for inspecting the regularity of electoral services throughout the country) to open administrative proceedings to investigate the conduct of Valdemar da Costa Neto (president of Bolsonaro's party) and Carlos Rocha (owner of the institute that did the false accounting).","There is one detail that people are not mentioning: In Alexandre de Moraes' decision, there are technical explanations about how Bolsonaro's party's claim about the voting machine is simply false.",0
"The ""Pakistani Taliban"" (aka TTP) and ""The Taliban"" are two different organisations (it's confusing I know). The Taliban have criticised TTP in the past such as over the infamous 2014 Peshawar school massacre.",TTP even tried to pledge allegiance to Afghanistan earlier this year only for The Taliban to publically reject them.,0
"No. Babiš has framed Pavel as a warmonger (going so far as to send out fake texts from Pavel telling the recipient that they have been mobilized), but it’s all bluster.",The difference is that Pavel expressed regret for being in the communist party and atoned with three decades of distinguished NATO service.,0
"Yes. It also helps children be able to eat daily, and that helps their education levels. Other countries feed their kids freely (and much more nutritionally), and their higher education scores are reflected in that. Republicans most certainly seem to always clamor for better test scores, and yet they don't care about doing anything to help kids improve in school. They actually delight in seeing kids do worse, in reality.",The Republicans want to literally starve their own people and make them more susceptible to illness?,0
Sadly it's not just guns. Other countries have a lot of guns per too and it doesn't correlate there.,"Switzerland, I believe Serbia and Canada also have guns. Not to the level of the US of course, they're far ahead of everyone in that respect. However their gun deaths are through the roof proportionally, which means it's not just a gun issue.",0
"This is how Russia has always been for hundreds of years. The October revolution tried to change this but only managed to put a coat of red paint over it. This is why Russia continues to try and support the world's ""second largest army"" despite having an economy smaller than Italy's, and this is why Russia has been unable to join the ""global community"" despite thirty years of the world bending over backwards to integrate them. To a Russian fear and respect are entwined. You cannot have respect without fear. They never even considered building their economy like Germany did because they don't consider Germany respectable because nobody fears Germany. This war is happening now because, ultimately, nobody fears Russia anymore either, even the ""inferior"" countries that Russia has traditionally bullied.","Russia isn't an honor culture, it's a dishonor culture. Might makes right. If you can lie, cheat, and scam your way to the top, but you can get away with it, then you're looked up to in Russian society. You didn't dishonor yourself by acting unethically, everyone you exploited dishonored themselves by trusting you.",0
"We’re not talking about russia losing in Ukraine, we’re talking about escalating the conflict by annexing a country into NATO. Also, there are a few ways shapes and forms Russia losing in Ukraine could result in nuclear war, they might not be likely, but impossible?","And honestly, it's pretty obvious that if NATO has something pointing towards Russia, it's a good chance that this is nuclear; if NATO goes hand to hand with Russia, is going to be on a nuclear scale.",1
"No, it didn't. Hitler's entire concept of race and blood purity had him convinced that literally all Jewish people on earth needed to die if the Germans were to survive. A single Jewish person left alive would be a failure in Hitler's eyes. Let alone in an area that Hitler considered part of Germany. (There were thousands of Jews still alive in Berlin by the end of WWII as well, tho obviously under the radar).","To label the Holocaust as ""winning against the Jews"" is quite frankly something that I imagine most Jewish people would at the least not agree with, if not be outright offended by.",0
I never said we shouldn’t hold criminals to account. I said that getting dirty is never justified. Laws exist. Holding someone to account for violating any law is not dirty.,Some of these people abused the public trust and broke several laws in the process. That requires that we lock them up (after proper due process of course). This is not corruption. In fact not locking them up would be a better example of corruption.,1
Don't see GOP states like FL allowing gay schools so it would only be possible in liberal states in which case pushing for inclusivity would be a better path.,"They also had help for kids with gender issues, all that is going away in GOP states where white supremacy, ignorance and hate are the guiding principles. FL rules are homosexuality cannot be discussed or even referenced.",0
"This is despite a ban since August 3, 2022, on the direct and indirect import of gold from Russia, after Switzerland joined the European Union embargo on Russian gold exports.","__Swiss imports from Russia rose by almost a fifth of a percent in January compared with the previous month, largely due to purchases of Russian gold transported via the UK.__.",0
"This is an issue of great concern and much importance to me. I have a hard time understanding the vituperative and hateful things I read on political forums. The author writes in the article: “The dream with One Small Step is that we convince the country it’s our patriotic duty to see the humanity in people with whom we disagree, which is a complete moon shot.”.",I am not trying to make excuses for bad actors. I was trying to see if political discussions could be more civilized.,0
"According to the nefarious stereotype, it's not ""gay"" if enjoyment comes purely from abusing a weaker guy who is forced to act as a temporary replacement for ""a girl"", and you feel genuine disgust for him being a man, while sexually dominating him. It's some broken psyche shit.",Yeah it’s awful. So many young men were killed in this meaningless war and even more young men chose to leave the country. The future is really dark.,1
"No it isn't. Piecemeal cancelling and then stopping the process for groundless judicial stays is not ""cancelling it outright."" If Trump's judges are illegitimate so are their rulings.",We can say judges are illegitimate all day long but they are ruling from a platform of legitimacy. And the best way to change that is through congress chambers.,1
"The US Center for Contemporary Equine Studies is suing Amazon for selling products containing a donkey derivative, despite efforts from advocacy groups to halt the practice.","According to the Brooke USA Foundation, a group fighting against Amazon in support of donkey welfare, ejiao acts as &amp;quot;a hard gel that can be dissolved in hot water or alcohol to be used in food or drink, or in beauty products such as face creams.&amp;quot; Some advocacy groups and consumers claim companies are deceptively using the substance, contributing to the slaughter and skinning of millions of donkeys a year.",0
"Yep, if nothing else, this is an incredible deterrence for China and other would be invaders. This investment may literally save America trillions in defense spending in the future. If America has made it clear that they will support a defender in a war, others will think twice before invading.","(I understand the sentiment of some of the commenters and agree that, in principle, war bad. But you have to realize that russia does not seem to stop until forced to do so. And if Ukraine stops fighting, you would be having same discussion about war in Poland or Baltics 10 years from now).",1
"Sure. We sold them weapons prior to the attack this year, including prior to the 2014 invasion of Crimea.","They threatened everyone with nukes if weapons were sent to Ukraine, weapons were sent to Ukraine... and nothing happened.",1
"1.5) to legally deny a pregnant person an abortion is to deny them their bodily autonomy, which is inhumane in and of itself.",inhumane abortion laws are just scratching the surface of republican monstrosity. i urge you to reconsider your stance as a “one issue voter.” disagreeing with the republicans on this one specific issue but not anything else is not going to help anyone.,1
"If the ground does freeze solid, there would still be choke points. And, yeah, Ukrainians will be ready this time instead of playing catch-up. Pretty much all wars are a matter of attrition. The best way to diminish the UA would be to force it to attack prepared, in-depth defenses that take advantage of local geography. I have to wonder how many casualties the UA could take. Any Russian ground offense at this point defies common sense and plays to the Ukrainians, and that's if the Russians still have the logistics to pull it off, which is doubtful. Yet, like goddess knows how many other wars, the loser gets desperate because defending isn't a viable political option, even if it's the proper military strategy. Putin will want to attack Kyi because he's a psycopathic murdering thug, not given to rational thought. Again, if he had a rational military mind, he would't be wasting firepower trying to destroy civilian infrastructure.","I disagree. Putin is that desperate and most definitely that stupid. He wouldn't be in Ukraine at all if he was smart. He'll do it, just watch. He will order an attack on Kyiv through Belarus, which is 100 km away. It will be a gift to Ukraine. A column of 50,000 soldiers requires over 2,000 vehicles just to transport soldiers. They'll have to travel on a single road, M01, that can be blocked with the greatest of ease by blowing bridges and laying mines. If the Ukrainians are smart (and they are), they'll let the Russians advance about 50 km, then destroy the entire column. Block the front, block the rear, and everyone in between either dies or surrenders. The poor fucks who take part will know that they're dead meat. Mass mobilization is meaningless without the ability to train, equip, transport, and supply. It's extra meaningless if the soldiers lack the will to fight.",0
"If we're going to eliminate people's jobs, there has to be a way for the people doing those jobs to be compensated and reap the benefits of technological advancement instead of only the employers.","In the short-term I think if you're an owner, if you see your competitors cutting costs dramatically by laying off workers and replacing them with robots you will do the same. Though I'm sure there will be some companies that are ""proudly non-robot"" in the same way there's a niche for organic food which is getting more popular every year.",1
"Also, Gillibrand didn't have anything to do with the drip, drip, drip of more women coming out about Franken. He probably would have survived that first one.","By who? I'm tired of men giving men non-stop cover for their behavior while treating women who point out their questionable behavior worse. It isn't any woman's fault when men treat women as property so stop it, it's a bad look.",0
Joe Miller interestly is the attorney who is currently representing AK House member David Eastman in a disqualification bid. David Eastman is an Oath Keeper member and has said some very racist and sexist stuff during his time in office. He is kind of known as a pariah. But he keeps getting elected in Sarah Palin's former district of Wasilla. Eastman has a court case going on right now due to this disqualfication provision on the Alaska Constitution that may remove him from office. The main part of the trial is just before Christmas with Miller as attorney. .,For now. I hope it lasts. The talking heads are hard on the attack of rcv here. Dems need to fight to keep it. I won't be surprised to see a repeal initiative on the next ballot .,1
"But I also think that looking at it objectively, that very thought, can be a part of the equation that leads to gun violence.","But when I look at it honestly, as someone who can be as objective as possible looking to find the solution to the problem of the gun violence and deaths...the math adds up that the vast number of guns, and the ease in which they are available, are the significant overwhelming factor.",0
Heh. Had a game like that with my tween nephew last summer. We were playing Mortal Kombat 11 and to give him a chance I was mostly playing characters I don't know very well. Then he started talking shit. I switched over to my main next round and stomped him into the ground over and over.,"Next time one of them did something to me I turned around and started punching him to ground. It was basically that scene from ""A Christmas Story."" It was in front of Principal's office, so he came out. He was getting ready to write me and the other kid up.",1
"The drug war most definitely causes more problems than it fixes, but Fentanyl is a weird one that probably would persist even if drugs were legal. It's not a problem that has any kind of easy solution. The main thing would be to just reduce opiate addiction in general. A shit ton of it starts in hospitals and with doctors, and patients just move on from oxycontin/vicoden/whatever to street drugs once they get dependent and either build a tolerance or lose their prescription. Interestingly, kratom is actually a fantastic way to move from a dangerous opiate addiction to something much safer and easier to handle. Kratom addiction also kind of cures itself after a while, because it weirdly stops working but you don't get severe withdrawal from it after that like you would with proper opiates. You just kind of lose interest because it no longer gets you high.","That doesn't really work with opiates. Once you are so addicted that you're shooting heroin or purposefully taking fentanyl, you generally no longer care how safe it is and only care about access - meaning how much it costs. Fentanyl will always be cheaper than other opiates, so there will always be a market for it.",0
"Yes. I also didn't read that report until the end of the whole saga, and while there was no deliberate mishandling of classified material, classified material was mishandled and put at risk.","I cared an awful lot about this when it was Hillary. I cared much less about it when it was Trump, and even less now. Apparently, the people in charge of maintaining and securing classified documents don't give a shit, why should I?",0
"Real news requires real journalists, who it turns out, require a paycheck. Advertisers have mostly left newspapers in favor of social media, so that paycheck has to come from somewhere.","Subscriptions are great (in my opinion, obviously) but you seem to have a problem with paying for news, so it’s you that’s disallowing that one.",0
"The way I see it is the Olympics have a lot of corruption in the system, but in a lot of cases they are looking to stamp it out. It's not excusable but the organisation is inherently vulnerable to bribes and back slapping, and they've rightly taken the organisation of boxing away from amateur boxing's international body because they were just completely taking the piss with it.","It was one of the most depressing things I have experienced related to getting older, realising that the people in charge of pro sports do not ""love the beautiful game"" or care about participation at all, unlike the grassroots members. They just want money, and they'll literally cover up fucking mass murder and slavery on an industrial scale to get more for themselves.",0
These local places definitely don’t have the cash for something like this. But some oligarchs with a shady criminal record or a president that’s having a humiliating defeat in a war. They definitely have the cash and the reason to clean up before checking out. Or being checked out by someone else.,Ukraine definitely has the cash and the reason to do this. But I get the vibe of someone removing their tracks.,0
I'm beginning to think that political people who don't go through the normal vetting process to handle classified information aren't treating it as carefully as people who might lose their job for mishandling it.,"You're not wrong - they said as much when Trump's mishandling became public, that forgotten documents and such is pretty common in transition periods, and they have standard systems and procedures for rectifying the issue when it does. It's a complete non-issue so long as people report and cooperate when documents are found.",1
They didn't defend Bret Baier or Chris Wallace either. Those two are conservative leaning journalists who did the right thing.,I think if reporters don't act as recklessly as they did in the two cases I mentioned they will be fine.,0
"And ""the west"" (not all of the west - the imperialist part of the west) is invading all countries which pose a perceived financial threat. Or they are propping up dictators which are either deemed friendly or necessary for stability.",It is a balant lie to assume that we are always the good guys. We are not. It is just that Russia is about always the bad guys in teh last few decades.,0
"Nah, I don’t think it’s good to target civilians as revenge for an adversary doing so. From a moral perspective it’s obviously unacceptable. From a purely practical one, using cruelty as a weapon against the cruel tends not to work. You could blow up a school full of Russian children and the leaders of Russia would simply get excited at the opportunity that represented for them.",This is why I said Ukraine should target what Russia values - its power and prestige in the form of weapon systems and warfighting infrastructure it cannot replace.,0
"I mean red and blue have already sliced up and divided controlling America, what about the majority people that don't vote for either party and would like them both to kindly fuck off, the real divorce America wants.","If the ""divorce"" happens, very little would change in blue states while the people in red states would just become (let's be honest it would be literal) slaves to the giant corporations who would own/run everything.",1
"Love, affection, respect,a sense of satisfaction are all intangibles that count, amongst other things.",I agree with them - all relationships should be transactional in some sense but I think their description doesn't do a great job of explaining the intangible parts.,0
"In bible, the rich man was punished because he passed beggar Lazarus every day and did not see him … and I tell you if this country does not see its poor — if it lets them remain in their poverty and misery — it will surely go to hell!"".","Yes. It also helps children be able to eat daily, and that helps their education levels. Other countries feed their kids freely (and much more nutritionally), and their higher education scores are reflected in that. Republicans most certainly seem to always clamor for better test scores, and yet they don't care about doing anything to help kids improve in school. They actually delight in seeing kids do worse, in reality.",1
"I’m a Canadian who lived in Guangzhou. Hong Kong was my escape. It’s too bad what happened to it, it was such an incredible place to visit. While living in China, I made some friends and it surprised me how little they knew as a result of censorship. I had a VPN and suggested my friends do the same, but they refused because they trusted that the government knew what was best for them. I knew what I was getting into when choosing to live in China, but I was blown away by seeing people actively believe exactly what their government wanted them to.","China is a one-citizenship country and when it came time for me to decide, I chose Canadian citizenship without hesitation, as I knew that I would never again go to China and live there.",1
"""The millions of people is alluding to the QAnon conspiracy theory that the vaccines will cause millions"".",The millions of people is alluding to the QAnon conspiracy theory that the vaccines will cause millions upon millions of deaths. Quite a few of your alt of alt right types believe that it is already happening despite evidence that the vaccines are extremely safe. Like you said we’ve seen over 1 million surplus deaths in the US since the start of the pandemic and there’s no other significant contributor to those deaths. There is a sizable subset of Americans who are just waiting and or even hopeful for millions upon millions of vaccinated people to die because they don’t want to be wrong.,1
It doesn't really make sense at that age that they'd connect their gayness with whether they play with barbies or superheros.,"Believing someone who plays with cars/barbies is of the corresponding gender is age old myth that being gay is being ""a weak pussy"".",1
It's more like they have been politely asking for 50 years for climate change to be taken seriously. They are no longer asking.,Because they have gone after the rich and powerful repeatedly and most people treat them the same as they are now.,0
Except that's not what happened. Yes she's an idiot for not checking the law. But the law in Russia specifically states that having less than 6 grams of Cannabis carries a fine or 15 days in prison.,"In 2006 Russian policy reversed again to lower the possession limits for various drugs, with the criminal limit for cannabis going from 20 g to 6 g.[1] Less than 6 grams qualified as an administrative offense punishable by a 5000 ruble fine or 15 days detention.[1].",1
"I agree that this definitely cannot be an instant trigger for Article 5 and a full-on war between NATO and Russia, but we don't need to sweep this attack entirely under the rug for Putin's sake.",Please name and cite an event in which the US managed to hit civilians in a different country than the one they were aiming at with a failed missile strike.,0
"Palestinians need to realize that whatever leadership was/is in place there isn't working for them, instead of holding on to the belief that only Israel is to blame, and to blame in the amount the UN, among others, suggests, at least in subtext, but often blatantly.","And it puts Israel in a light that makes Israel ignore them entirely, and validates Palestinian propaganda that's extremely unhelpful to any sort of lasting solution.",0
Seriously—Republican Santos seems like just the guy to draw a spotlight on corruption and lying in the halls of Congress.,"Why would Santos resign when Santos excellently represents the GOP who to date stands firmly behind the professional fibber who has lied about all aspects of his life. Just some of the few big ones that are completely made up: attended prestigious universities, is Jewish, has grandparents who fled Ukraine, worked at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, and his mother died in 9/11.",1
"Don't fall for this lie. In no way are mega donors going to be searching for a ""new party"". They will just Frankenstein one from parts they think are untarnished using some from bodies they dug up (like adding any successful issue they can gut - see alternative energy) and the conservative soul will inhabit it.",Do not be fooled by the new reborn right wing promising a kinder gentler nation. In fact the branding will be so slick as to be obvious.,0
Both India and Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in 98. Ukraine didn't call for sanctions on Pakistan and supported them.,Ukraine could have stayed neutral then. They picked sides and that was a poor choice. They can remain grateful that at least India is staying neutral instead of picking Russia's side.,0
"While the context is important, it's been a year since the full-scale invasion started. Every day the war takes the lives of innocent people. If the Swiss wanted they would have already changed their laws. For me, it's hard to understand how supplying \defence\ systems would break their neutrality principles.",Just imagine if one day someone will attack Switzerland and everybody around them will stay neutral.,0
It is time to start holding more people accountable for unjustly casting doubt on our election processes.,"If you choose to be dishonest and take a stance that there is no voter fraud, that is your choice. I choose to admit there are some instances of voter fraud, just not enough to sway much more than maybe a small town city council election.",1
I think you underestimate how hard it is to police a distrusting to down right hostile populous. Which is why they have a history of doing what they do in these situations. Again I'm not defending the police I personally have my own reasons for not trusting the police.,"The onus isn't on the people to trust the cops, it's on the cops to act trustworthy. It's not a negotiation. It's not even a dialogue. People trust the cops, or don't, based on how they act.",1
You just said Israel doesn't target civilians by explaining how Israel targets innocent civilians because they are related to someone who committed an act of terror?,"Lol, you literally said that Israel targets innocent civilians who all they do is just be relatives of someone who did terrorist attacks that's the most radical thing I had ever heard.",1
"How many democratic votes did that Senate have? Should the Democrats have extended the ""nuclear option"" to supreme court picks themselves in 2012? The idiocy in this thread is absolutely overwhelming.","When should she have retired? If she had retired during Obama's presidency for example, what would have likely happened? When did Obama have a 60 vote majority? And keep in mind that before Kavanaugh no supreme court justice had been confirmed without 60 votes for at least 40 years. You can look back in hindsight and say the Democrats should have extended the ""nuclear option"" to supreme court picks, but I think they lose pretty much all the moral high ground at that point.",0
So fucking dumb. They trust the medical profession to do open heart surgery but don't trust the medical profession advice about blood.,"A hospital doesn't have the facilities to do this, and using untested blood would be medical malpractice and the doctors are correct to refuse to do so.",1
"It isn't by definition of direct democracy. You want direct democracy, then go to Appenzell Innerrhoden. Switzerland as a whole isn't a pure/direct democracy.b.","Switzerland as a country no, but the Swiss themselves yes. Our economy has been built on the best mercenaries in Europe who participated in almost every war and sometimes fought eachother. They were so good at it that we are still prospering from it.",1
"So why the association of Druids with Stonehenge? Apparently, this dates back to the late 18th early 19th century, when antiquarian interest in Stonehenge really got going in England, at the same time as antiquarian interest in pre-Christian religions, and Druidism in particular. It was simply assumed that the Druids must have built Stonehenge.","Funny thing is the druids didn’t have anything to do with Stonehenge’s original purpose. Druids were Celtic, a people who arrived in Britain around 600BC. Stonehenge was built something like 2000BC.",1
"Even without voting, it could be argued that technically they are represented... as residents of a given area.","There's an argument in the article that the state constitution says only citizens can vote. However reading the constitution, it clearly says that citizens have the right to vote. It doesn't say anything about non citizens.",1
"Edit: even when France surrendered, many of its people kept up the Resistance and Germany was constantly dealing with internal sabotage. Meanwhile the Taliban seem to be largely unopposed by ordinary Afghan citizens. I am left with the conclusion that the average Afghan man at least tacitly supports the Taliban, even in liberal bastions like Kabul.","Afghanistan's social issues are not small, especially in villages, and even in the cities, but there is a massive gulf between the average village and the Taliban, and an ocean between Kabul now, and Kabul under the U.S. supported Afghan Government. The Government that the majority of Afghans supported, even if they thought it was corrupt, represented the Afghans far more than the Taliban.",1
First of all Palestinians are Christian as well and their claim to the land is not based on their religion. They have been all over Palestine-Israel Since forever as the article suggests.,"Are you saying that all of it is now Israel? OK, then Israel is required to give all Palestinians the right to vote, else it is committing the crime of Apartheid.",1
"Because they are caused by Prions there is no medicine or medical treatment. Your body doesn't have a defense system. There is no vaccine, there will never be a vaccine. There is no medical treatment, there won't be either.",A prion is a protein that causes other proteins to misfold and become prions. So prions are always involved.,0
"people who study gender studies go into other fields and use what they learn to affect the work they do. i know a highly successful real estate agent that makes a ton and credits her degree with her success. degrees are NOT the same as licenses - you actually learn knowledge that helps you understand and approach the world better. people doing gender studies degrees become lawyers, doctors, ministers, teachers, counselors... i've interviewed a lot of people who got gender studies degrees for a project i did - the only ones in low-paying jobs are the ones that would be in low-paying jobs regardless of the degree that got.","See this is where you are adding a law degree, teaching degree, psychology degree, etc together with said degree of gender studies. Your real estate agent would have done the same without that degree. Literally wasted a fuck ton of money to get it because it does nothing for real estate. In order to become a councilor, you need more schooling that just a gender study degree. In order to become a doctor, you need way more than a gender studies degree. You literally just stated that people with a hobby of a degree get positions requiring other degrees for their careers. Boy do I feel stupid reading what you just wrote.",1
"Well 1st off, How is it a nanny state if people have already been voting against tobacco (they recently voted for a ban on certain flavored products). The voters dont mind screwing usage of tobacco. Voters have an appetite to go against tobacco usage and legaslators are responding and debating.","News flash: many californians dont want to breathe tobacco, hence they will be sympathetic to those that take an extreme stance to banning tobacco. They also dont want to deal with the costs.",0
How fascist of them It’s crazy they don’t support a party that vilifies them at every possible opportunity.,"Real question: What can folks who reject the fascist direction this country is headed even do when the police are on the fascist’s side? The same goes for the military. If I get harassed by homophobic neighbors in a Republican-led country—which is bound to be rife with anti-LGBT legislation—what the fuck could I even do? I can’t call the police; they’d probably just escalate the harassment. It’s so scary and frustrating. It feels like the safest possible option for many non-MAGA people is to go to a blue state, but I don’t see myself and my husband making that happen before things get to a point where they could be really bad for us down here in fucking Florida.",1
"Furthermore, there were, the last time I checked earlier during the pandemic, hardly any religions (I can't actually remember a single one, but just in case), that reject vaccination, let alone threaten their adherents with eternal hell if they should get vaccinated.","So really, it just comes done to psychopaths being willing to sacrifice their baby's life for no reason.",0
"Didn’t know it’s anthropomorphism to say that keeping intelligent wild animals is usually bad for the animals’ well-being. Is it also humanizing animals to point out that owning something that can kill you and taking risk that kind of risk with it is also shitty for the animal? If it kills you, it’ll almost certainly be destroyed, and it’ll be entirely your fault. But no one should care about that whatsoever, right? Because according to you caring about the well-being of animals is the same as pretending they’re human.",It was always clear to me that she was one of those people who cared more about animals than humans. A good thing for her big cats…not so much for her husband.,1
"And when the GOP Majority Leader won’t let you interview specific witnesses, ask specific questions or go after specific evidence. Mueller could have closed the case in less than a week with the Trump crime family behind bars if he didn’t have obstruction from the GOP every step of the way.",The difference being Mueller didn’t have the power to indict and prosecute anyone without approval from the DOJ. This order gives the special counsel that power.,1
"Unless you're willing to provide evidence that the site is an authoritative source with expertise, I'm not interested in furthering this conversation. Particularly since you're weirdly making it personal.","That site isn't wrong about Judicial Watch, but the site is also not a credible source of actual media bias. I get into arguments on here all the time, but none of the people associated with that website have any actual media/communications expertise and their grading rubrik is subjective and unserious.",0
"The fact is, no country can make decisions in the EU alone. The EU consists of several institutions, all of which are closely linked. New EU legislation emerges after a process involving all of these institutions. And, of course, European citizens ultimately vote both for their own governments and for Members of the European Parliament.","Or do you mean the President of the EU, appointed by the democraticly elected Council members? I mean no one elects their spokesperson.",0
"With that being said, I'm glad Hobbs as Sec of State is suing this county because this sets such an awful precedent. If election deniers somehow are able to run Maricopa, then they could theoretically try to void results where Dems are winning.","I can't speak to other states, but if say in the future a dem wins with Maricopa votes but whoever is in charge decides not to certify, then it could throw the election another way.",1
As someone who drinks a lot of cheap beer and has traveled a lot all over Europe I would say no European country I have been to has had worse bad beers than the US. Your bad beers are in a league of their own and the reputation is well deserved. Even Malta's Cisk is better than the cheap American lagers.,"Sadly, yes, and I have no clue why since there are plenty of cheaper and better plain lagers. But Heineken also has a lot of other beers, some of them actually good.",0
"I'm a Pole and despite what you're saying I still blame Russia for this accident. If Russia hadn't attacked Ukraine, they wouldn't need to use their anti air defenses.","Not an awol defense Rocket, a Russian fired rocket. Now obviously this is just a blatant lie from Ukraine in order to turn more people against Russia.",1
"While Hitler was a brutal dictator, he often did not resort to killing (German citizens). There are only two large instances where he directly ordered the murder of German citizens (Kristallnacht and post-Operation Valkyrie). In other words, no one is gonna die for quitting.","The Germans were more concerned about hiding their genocide, as shown by the mass graves, the disassembling of camps in days, and retreats into Germany with the dubbed ""death marches"".",0
It’s not about that. It’s about not needing to be uncircumcised because our dicks aren’t hanging out anymore. Also most men can’t even wipe their own ass your going to give them something else to keep clean. Finally women prefer uncircumcised and it prevents utis and some stds. But hey there are some people out there who consider it mutalation.. mostly because they themselves are uncircumcised.,I’ve never heard anyone with a circumcision articulate how it has ruined his life. I have heard people articulate how here one therapy has. Kinda hard to compare the two.,1
"What's the definition of ""assault weapons""? The last time there was a federal assault weapons ban it was just a gun cosmetics ban.","Plus, banning ARs is just nonsensical if you are not also banning all mag fed semi automatic rifles. I could go out and by a Mini 14, and have a 30 round detachable magazine for a gun that fires 5.56, which to my knowledge would be totally legal in the case of an assault weapons ban. The same goes for buying a mag fed SKS, or even a .22 with a drum or 30 round mag.",1
"2)If the election result does not turn out as desired, some of the votes may be stolen and destroyed. in this case the election is repeated.","The second situation is something that has already happened for years. I've seen it many times when it was in my town, and even my father went in with my grandmother.",0
"Spain has always had them, we had a fascist dictatorship until the mid 70s and it just finished with Franco dying of old age, the fascists were and are still around.","I was surprised to see how many fascist sympathizing groups are active in Spain and Italy, organized fascist groups. People need to remember Spain was under a dictatorship for many years, they were neutral in WWII, democracy is rather modern and relatively a “new” concept.",1
"I think the special grand jury sees more evidence than the regular grand jury would see. When they finish their job, a regular grand jury can evaluate a limited set of evidence to determine if charges should be filed so the people making that decision are not biased by having seen evidence that should not have been factored into the decision.","Further, voting on an indictment isn't accusing someone of guilt - it's simply saying that probable cause has been established to bring a trial.",1
"This is why there absolutely NEEDS to be an age cap on to who can be President. There's a minimum age. There needs to be a maximum age. Cap it at maybe 70. People don't want a senior citizen running the country. Same goes for Congress. Get the old people out (both Repubs and Dems). This is 2023, things are different now then they were in the 1940s or so. Need more modern and fresh ideas, and more people willing to accept change (gay and interracial marriages, the lgbtq+ community etc), people who want and believe that climate change and global warming are real, that everyone in the US NEEDS socialized medicine like a majority of the planet. Raise the minimum wage across the country that needs it to $15/hour.","Wondering if someone told him about the show ""Under the Dome"" and he thought ""I love it, it's a big beautiful dome. It's so UUGE! We should make that."".",0
"Duly noted that India's needs include doing, as you said, doing a diplomatic favor to a in Russia buy starting to buy its oil in huge amounts, thus perpetuating the war it wages, destruction, and endless Russian and Ukrainian deaths.","India owes nothing to Ukraine, its duty is to its citizens first and foremost, and it's hypocritical when all those countries buy a lot more from Russian than India does.",1
They go on in the article to say the US is making money on higher gas prices and selling more weapons.,I don't get it? The U.S.A. doesn't own it's own gas resources. They are owned by private/public companies. We are paying the higher prices... all of us in the world are paying higher prices.,0
"The GOP doesn't care about trying to win people over, they just want their people in power. That mindset led to the blue wave last year. They feel like they HAVE to appeal to the extremists, and the average Wisconsin voter just does not want that.","This election is an encouraging sign for Wisconsin’s election maps. It also shows that abortion isn’t going anywhere, no matter how much the GOP just want to wish it away.",1
"Honestly the peace promise probably has to include bringing in NATO forces as a deterrent and enforcement mechanism, and then the threat of massive violence if Russia breaks its commitments.","I mean, Russia giving up their nukes would be a huge thing to encourage the rest of the world to trust them going forward, if only because they wouldn't be able to hide behind the nuclear threat in order to invade without direct reprisal.",1
"So to say ""well everyone does it"" is the fucking problem. I hate trump and am excited to see Rupert Murdoch bury him on move television w a golden shovel but he did bring the corruption of the American governments last twenty years into focus. And he's probably about to split the Republican Party or fleece them for a billion dollars to bow out gracefully. Silver linings.",And I don't care about the laptop or him smoking crack but if you made it your life's work you couldn't convince me that hunter Biden wasn't employed at Burisma in a way devoid of corruption.,0
"Billions sounds big, but the oil industry has earned literal trillions from fossil fuel extraction, and set us on a path to spend more trillions to attempt to fix the mess they created.","Seriously, this thread got me fantasizing about the big oil companies being forced to spend billions on renewable energy and renewable materials production.",1
"They see our existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.","I mean what we actually have going on here is that the perversion are these crazed christo-sexuals who think about sex constantly and insist on forcing their sexual thoughts into all interactions with others, including children.",1
">Using Ukraine as a proxy, he said, ""they we are waging war against our their country with the same task: the 'final solution' of the Russian Ukrainian question"".","This is actually a comparison for the Russian war in Ukraine. Democracy in Ukraine is destabilizing to the Russian regime. Ukraine flexing their sovereignty is a threat to there military bases and control of the black sea. Just like the US fights the regimes in Iraq/libya/Nicaragua/serbia/etc to maintain their power and vision, Russia wants to do the same with ukraine/syria/georgia/etc.",1
"That said, Netanyahu was always clear that he is willing to use military force to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon, if diplomacy fails.","Israel will be ready to risk an all out, devastating war to prevent Iranian nukes - if everything else fails.",0
"This move will be the thing that pushes 10,000 more of them, somewhere in the country, to vote Democratic in 2024. This works especially well of YOU remind them of how this shows that we have only one functioning party. It could well be the difference between victory and defeat in the next election.","There are not a lot of persuadable voters in the country, but they decide the balance of power, and they're concerned about the authoritarianism in the Republican ranks. They don't want a party that just endlessly litigates every election they lose.",0
"""...borrow nearly $12 billion from his own citizens..."" haha 🤣 oh man my sides HAHAHAHA borrow hehehahahah BORROW haha heh ahahaa ... surely the article meant ""STEAL"" or misappropriate maybe embezzle 🤣 no wait that's not it pillage or maybe swindle or ransom ... ... wait wait wait - steal implies that there was actually anything there to take so - really - defraud, scam, cheat ... hmm.",Maybe the countries that allowed all the male youth to run away from the draft will cancel their visas and send them back home. I do hope there is some fight left in the citizenry because Putin has to go and I don't see NATO doing anything about it ...,0
This is a part of the reason why Northern Ireland overwhelmingly voted against Brexit. They knew that a hard border on the island of Ireland would lead to sectarian violence & terrorism (again).,There used to be a long civil war in NI between people wanting to be part of Ireland and people wanting to be part of the UK.,1
"The Russian dead reached about 1000 per day recently. That means 4000-5000 per day casualties (or maybe only 3000 if you trust Ukraine about how bad Russian medicine is). This is before Russia begins any big attack which would open them to casualties much much bigger than the Ukrainian ones, so it means that we may reach 10k per day within weeks or months. Even if Russia goes for a maximal 10million mobilization, that puts them at 30% total casualty rate of their young men within a year and within two would basically end the Russian nation.","The Ukrainian calculations of Russian casualty numbers have been accurate and, in fact somewhat understated when compared to leaked Russian numbers.",0
Which is why we just need to lead with white supremacy because that is absolutely being lost to a ton of people when described as “Christian Nationalism”.,"Christian Nationalists, at this point, are white supremacists. Religion is, and always has been, a tool of oppression by way of getting followers to obey at the threat of ""the other"".",1
Why would you use conventional weapons that may not obliterate a launch site and risk more incoming nukes when the enemies willingness to use nukes automatically gives you the green light to use your own?,"In other words, nukes are the weapon with the highest probability to hit and destroy a target launched from hundreds or thousands of miles away, so if you want to prevent more nukes being launched at you, you have to launch nukes to ensure that you hit the enemy launch sites and missile silos.",0
"However, after years of the GOPers constantly dangling culture war carrots but not REALLY delivering, Obama happened (in addition to other major culture war losses for them such as gay marriage and a rise in the acceptance and visibility of trans people, even if meagre compared to what it should be), and a lot of the rubes began to--correctly--surmise that the GOPers weren't all in on the culture war stuff, and just used it as a vehicle to pass tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations (not that this bothers them, the culture war stuff is simply paramount to them).",I define the GOPers as the old school party elites. The wealthy businessmen who are at the heart of the Republican party. They are a bunch of largely amoral capital owners who fund think tanks to create propaganda they can sell to the rubes to get them to vote against their own best interests. They know they are liars.,0
"Obviously this is just some quick maths and oversimplifying the situation but generally speaking, if it's for a country or a private person, investing money and putting the profits to work instead of just spending the money itself is not such a bad idea after all.","Investing a large sum of money and putting the profits to work can go a looong way and personally i have a feeling that Ukraine will still be feeling the effects of the war 10 years down the line (rebuilding stuff, clearing mines, ect.).",0
"Now that they are looking at their next election, it's a good example of voters swaying the previously unswayable.","Yes, there's vote counting and strategic voting, but that's more a thing with the party in power beyond the ""moderate darlings"" that pretend every once in a while.",1
"the cherry on top is that because they're using , even if the dems win theres fear that the midterms will be used as a to incentivize further political violence and extremism.","Separate everyone into groups, crown one group as ""the pure bloods""Assign economic/societal blame on the groups that arent ""pure bloods"", thus 'othering' and demonizing them.",0
"India's conservation efforts have been great since 1973, with an average tiger population growth rate of 6% per annum. Give credit where it's due.","Meh, please be critical of us where we merit it. As long as it's objective criticism, and not just because India's priorities aren't the same as whatever country you're from (whether that be in the west, China, Russia or otherwise), criticism is useful.",1
"Not showing up to a congressional subpoena isn't fascism. If you play by rules your opponent doesn't, you will lose. Especially when reason, hypocrisy and logic aren't things they care about.","The logic isn’t that I think the rules don’t matter. But allowing the Dems to sit for deposition after deposition as they get subpoena after subpoena makes it seem, to the casual observer of politics that there is, at the bare minimum the same stink on both parties and at worst that the Dems are MORE corrupt than the Republicans.",1
"This election - like most elections- will be mostly about turnout. Get your people to turn out, and dissuade the other guys from turning out.","Many people can’t fathom voting for a different party. They’d rather vote for a lump of poo from their own party, because it’s their guy. These people see politics like sports - imagine asking a Georgia fan to root for Alabama. They just wouldn’t do it. Their identity is their team, their tribe… even if they know their tribe sucks. It’s not possible for them to switch to another tribe. They’d rather die.",0
"To start, you don't understand the first part of the report- it's talking about inter-Arab killing among Arab citizens of Israel. Those 110 dead are Palestinians killing other Palestinians. You can blame Israel for poorly enforcing gun control (and control in general) in its Arab-majority cities, but that's about it. This entire part is all about criminal justice, not the national conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and it's suspect that Amnesty chose to include it at all.","Amnesty are in no way, shape or form non-aligned in this conflict. They're explicitly pro-Palestinian.",0
"Focusing on Pelosi when there are worse offenders is a surefire way to make sure nothing gets done and no constructive conversation can be had about “the larger issue”. It signals partisanship, especially when it stems from articles like this that are based on painfully transparent misinformation.","Mostly threads like this. Where someone who is uninformed connects dots incorrectly and writes an article about “odd timing” to generate hate-clicks because they know any article critical of Pelosi, even if it’s not based on facts, will get them views.",0
"Trump won the 2016 election. No one is doubting or disputing that. Trump was ""illegitimate"" insofar as though he did not collude with Russia, it is a demonstrable fact that his numbers were bolstered due in large part to foreign interference. I think it's fair to say that when it came down to it, Russia had a preference between Clinton and Trump, and did everything they could on the social media propaganda front to make that happen. Trump was also illegitimate in the same way that a candidate like Herschel Walker in Georgia is illegitimate — in that they have absolutely no business even getting near government office. They're both idiots who couldn't govern their way out of a paper bag.","Members of his campaign did...but I don't think Trump ever like, verbally expressed to Putin that he wanted him to interfere in the election. Where Trump truly fell on his face was at the summit in Helsinki in 2018 when Trump sided with Putin over our own vast U.S. intelligence agencies when Putin swore up and down that there was absolutely no attempt at interference. That was the day that Trump put on full display for all the world to see that while he may not have been a Russian agent, he was most certainly a Russian asset.",0
Its like saying ‘Civil Rights’ has passed no more discrimination in the country! When in reality we still have heavy discrimination to this day.,"White people always say ""there is no racism. So stop bringing it up"" There IS still racism!. My fucking white family still uses the N word behind closed doors. And they aren't the only white people who do that. I'm not going to sit here and ignore that.",1
"Historians attribute this to the creation of the European Union bringing stability to the contingent that seemed to kick off another global conflict every decade, not to the US.","The US was the biggest guarantor of European security and its likely NATO, not the EU, that most contributed to the long peace that we've had in Europe.",1
It is very highly unlikely that anything will work. Russia had some success in the north during the beginning of the war because of the surprise moment and Ukrainian lack of equipment and manpower. All of this has changed drastically during the war and I do think they will just get a bloody nose.,"Yes, absolutely. We just need to have contingency plans for everything so we don't get surprised by anything with our pants down. Russia using nukes would be national suicide.",0
Telling individuals that they can't wear religious symbols is NOT religious freedom. You just swapped out Christianity for Atheism.,I agree with you to some extent when it comes to the burka - rather than a religious symbol it could be understood as a symbol of oppression of women.,0
"For starters, the USSR was on the defensive and they had no choice but to fight cause the alternative would've been surrending the country to the Germans. Here, Russia is attacking which means the ""soldiers"" could simply stop fighting and go home.","Ever since fall of last year, Putin's message was ""we want to stop the war along currently held borders."" This stance allows him to:",1
"Another representative had to be held back from attacking Gaetz, so that’s probably why he wants more cameras. Either way, I agree that C-SPAN should have cameras in there so citizens can actually see and hear what’s happening.","I can see where you’re coming from, we’re going to get a lot more grandstanding and political stunts for the cameras. I’m not sure how to prevent that, so I agree it’s a valid concern lol speaking personally, I’ve never had more of an actual idea of what congresspeople do than I do now after having watched all of the speaker votes. I felt it was informative getting to see them mingling during breaks, and doubly so being able to join the live Reddit chat where people posted clips, articles, etc. during the proceedings. It may not be as authentic as that was, but I’ve never been more engaged in what’s happening and I’m all for others getting to have a similar experience.",1
"This is what AOC meant when talking about how in other countries she wouldn't be in the 'same party' as many other Democrats. They'd have their smaller 'progressive party' and then they'd form a coalition with the ""Moderate/Center Dem Party' and that would be a power structure.","Except in a coalition government, the bigger party tends to have give real concessions to create that coalition.",1
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"Even before the lend-lease kicks in and Ukraine starts paying us back, I'd say that it's money well spent.","Also, no amount of money we spend is in any way comparable to the price of not doing anything as Russia takes over Ukraine.",1
"Since you do, please tell me, what should Israel do in order to ""Give people more rights"" but still protect it's own citizens against a population who launched tens of thousands of rockets on it, committed endless amounts of terror attacks including suicide bombers, explosive charges, random shootings, knife attacks and more?","The most practical and immediate thing I can think of is that the Palestinians must declare publicly and honestly that they recognize the right for Israel to exist and are letting go of ALL violence, and Israel in return is completely stopping and enforcing a no more expansions or new settlements in the West bank.",0
"That may or may not be true, I still think that if a surrender was offered that gave Ukraine back its territory but allowed Russia to extricate its remaining forces that Ukraine would take it.","Hopefully we can keep our mettle and treat Russia as a pariah state for some time too, which would also slow their accumulation of force.",0
"Not to mention how highly motivated Ukrainians are, and experienced with warfare, and even that isn't mentioning that any resistance would be receiving western support.","Russians remain proud of invading Ukraine and committing horrific war crimes, incapable of learning from their history of brutal violence against neighboring countries.",1
"I think your misconception is because you imagine that the universe has a central point it's expanding away from, sort of like the way a firecracker begins at a point then explodes outward from that central point. But that's NOT how the universe expands.","Anyway, I think time didn't start at the big bang. I think something must have existed before. But what existed before? Well, the simplest thought would be that whatever existed before the big bang must have been capable of producing the conditions for the big bang. Simple enough right? Makes sense?",1
"The former president spoke with Hewitt for over 30 minutes on Thursday, and the conservative host asked him whether he planned to seek revenge against his opponents if reelected. In 2022, Axios reported that Trump planned to overhaul the federal government to more easily oust disloyal career employees, whom he often refers to as the ""deep state."".","Yes. And any article starting with ""Trump says"" needs to be starved of attention. The real story is that a staggering number of people in positions of trust and power have known who and what trump is for years and are ok with letting him attempt to break America.",1
"""I really, honestly wouldn't put it past them to start supporting Russia out of spite and blackmail"".","When Trump blackmailed Zelensky, he was willing to help Russia, by refusing to help Ukraine. We focused on the ask, but there was a threat.",1
"Brazil is extremely corrupt, but our institutions are quite recent and are well prepared in case a new coup attempt comes up, just like it did. Plus we don't have the absurd case of bipartisanship that is destroying the US from the inside.","Also, we don't have the insane US bipartisan system, where there's always a fear of appearing ""partisan"" or something.",1
“legal guidelines support his contention that a president has broad authority to formally declassify most documents that are not statutorily protected.”.,And yet they end on “But the extent of a president’s legal authority to unilaterally declassify materials — without those formalities — has yet to be challenged in court.”.,0
"Yes that's your opinion, but in their opinions, that is the exact opposite result of their goals through gerrymandering and infringing upon voting rights.","Saying this as someone with 2 boomers as parents, the problem only gets solved when Boomers ""expire"" at faster rates & in higher numbers than the time & effort it takes for them to indoctrinate younger people.",0
"This is all tanks and is why even though the US is extremely effective with the Abrams, countries like Saudi Arabia are not, they use them on their own and they get isolated, flanked and take an rpg to the rear turret or engine block. Armored warfare doctrine is equally as important is quality equipment.","More modern tanks can withstand a lot more than the old Leo 2A4 for example, especially concerning side armor and IED protection. But yes, driving into towns, remaining stationary for long without infantry and/or drone protection is just silly for any tank. Surviving is one thing, but once immobilized, it becomes a liability.",1
"Well not a single Leopard-2 operator has asked Germany for a re-export allowance, they all want to keep their tanks but point at Germany that they're not doing enough.","It’s because no other country with Leopards can re-export them without Germany’s permission. So as long as that permission is not forthcoming, people are going to be (correctly) pointing a finger at them.",1
Yes and that’s literally the conversation and why Ronaldo comes up? Messi solidifies himself as the best of the era if not all time is a meaningless statement without the context of who was also in that running.,"I was cheering for your side the whole tournament, I’m not a Messi fan (although he’s the 🐐) but can’t really be too upset by the outcome in the scheme of things. The French still have a historic performance.",0
"Ukraine already negotiated peace and safety by giving up nuclear weapons. Russia is a terrorist state, how can you expect any diplomacy and word-keeping? Any negotiations will be used against Ukraine.",What should Ukraine negotiate? Give up their one citizen to live under Russian occupation after we have seen how Russia treats the people there? In what reality is there a negotiation?,1
"according to AOC he was asking if the dems would vacate the house to lower the threshold and make McCarthy speaker, presumably without his vote.","In order for McCarthy to become Speaker, he needs every R to vote for him except 5, so the caucus of 20 is enough to completely halt the process by simply voting for someone else.",1
How does one go about selling tickets without outrageous hidden fees? I still fail to understand the fees for an online transaction. Just add it to the original ticket price and stop dicking people around.,Ticketmaster makes more money on transfer fees for resellers than they make on the initial sale of the ticket.,1
"China has the ability to make larger chips, like for simple electronics, yes, but with the current CPUs, we talk atom sized transistors with quantum tunneling issues (we got so small with CPUs the electrons just phase trough walls of a few atoms randomly sometimes), which is extremly hard to make.","Turns out, when the americans left, they 'found' (read, faked) almost double the oil reserves over night.",0
"Consrrvative media and figures are sort of hedging their bets a bit, imo. They are allowing shit talk of Trump, allowing some people to say he is a personal non grata, and talking up DeSantis, but mostly remaining silent. They are seeing which way the winds blow by election day, while slowly propping up the candidate which can be controlled and they want to win (desantis).",Not saying trump can't win. Not saying he isn't dangerous. But I think Republicans in power are trying their darndest to keep him from winning the primary.,0
Tesla's in European markets use the standard J1772 plug because that was the standard when Tesla arrived in Europe.,"Why Tesla never switched over to the J1772 plug when it became standard? Not sure, but that's totally on Tesla, and it's annoying as hell.",0
The real danger of reading these article is getting a false sense of progress in Ulkraine. There is no progress until Russia is stopped.,Russia has lost all that it has in less than a year. Every day the west keeps supplying Ukraine they knock out gear that Russia will take far longer to replace. Even if stocks are depleted the west is in a position where this is the best deal they'll ever get for that gear. The west will have their stocks depleted for a year or two. The east will have a military so broken it will be unusable for multiple decades. There is no comparison.,1
"There has to be some military response. Otherwise NATO is sending the message that occasional attacks on NATO countries will be tolerated without any consequences. The response will be well thought out, proportional, and likely telegraphed in advance so that Russia knows it is a proportional response, not a full attack on them.","So the appropriate response is to tell Russia to smarten the fuck up and be more careful, and move more resources into place to make it absolutely clear that if an intentional attack did happen that NATO would be in place to respond appropriately.",1
"So Israel did look into it, and they did accept a certain amount of responsibility. Not sure how this doesn't contradict your claim Israel never investigated, and denied everything. (your accusation of Israel lying may still be accurate, I have no way to determine that. and unless you are privy to all the information from the Israeli side, you probably cannot prove it either. Still I cannot disprove that claim - Although the US does back up the Israeli version).","Didn't Israel, and the US already investigate this, and basically concluded it was an errant IDF bullet?",0
"Obviously a lot of these weapons, vehicles and defense systems won’t outlive the war, but are there agreements between these countries and Ukraine on what happens to this equipment after the war?","Better to have the MIC output going to modernize NATO allies who pass aging equipment for Ukraine's defensive war, than into a dumpster fire of an adventure in central Asia.",1
"Yep. After Obama, millions of Americans needed reassurance that even the stupidest white man in existence could fill the shoes of one of the most qualified black men.","They been lost their minds, but I tell you what, they really wanted to show their colors when they had to face the reality that a black man was the strongest man in the entire world for 8 years, they couldn't handle that.",1
"Reminder to anyone who believes the lab leak and the China is in control theory, before anyone knew what it was China sent samples to other countries to help with identification.",Which is of course exactly what a giant country obsessed with control of information would do had they assumed their lab working on SARS leaked.,0
"Step 12) also due to Step 6, and the fact that despite his charisma, Yeltsin is also an idiot who doesn't know how to run a country (see Step 3), but also inheriting a fucking mess from Steps 4, 5, and 7 attempt to fast track the country into Capitalism.","Step 5) Gorbachov is a policy person, but not a nuts and bolts economist and doesn't know what he's doing or how to properly unfuck the machine. See Step2 and 3. He blunders forwards anyway.",0
That is what the investigation is for to find out whatever hole caused it and improve the process. Misplaced documents like this happen after every admin practically. The proper process here was followed and I am extremely doubtful any crime occurred let alone one Biden is culpable for.,"Going purely on the public information (which is the only thing we really can go off of) though, it looks like Biden's case was accidental. It definitely should be looked into and might result in some staffer being let go, but it doesn't seem intentional like the Trump case was.",1
"“Criminologists and other researchers found that the ban had little to no effect on firearm deaths or the lethality of gun crimes. Studies have found that the overwhelming majority of gun crimes are committed with weapons which are not covered by the AWB, and that assault weapons are less likely to be used in homicides than other weapons. There is tentative evidence that the frequency of mass shootings may have slightly decreased while the ban was in effect, but research is inconclusive, with independent researchers finding conflicting results.”.","Criminologists and other researchers found that the ban had little to no effect on firearm deaths or the lethality of gun crimes. Studies have found that the overwhelming majority of gun crimes are committed with weapons which are not covered by the AWB, and that assault weapons are less likely to be used in homicides than other weapons. There is tentative evidence that the frequency of mass shootings may have slightly decreased while the ban was in effect, but research is inconclusive, with independent researchers finding conflicting results.",0
"While I definitely agree with you, I would like to point out that your arguement is the exact same one religious groups would make in response to some of the other statements in this thread. They would argue that sexuality is a choice (it isn't) and therefore they can refuse service to people that ""choose"" to associate with certain groups.","Their opinion is that sexuality is a choice, while our scientific system (that sounds awkward, wonder if we have a better term for that) recognizes that sexuality is not a choice. The real question is whether our legal system recognizes that sexuality is not a choice.",1
There is still one good thing that might come from this drama. India media loves to claim that Modi is popular worldwide. If this thing makes it so that every where he goes there is a protest waiting kind of like what happened to trust it might start chipping at the idea that Modi is causing world to respect india and that Modi is loved around the globe.,"I used to think that my country was a secular and free one, but Modi had to fuck it all up with his Hindu nationalism bullshit, worked so well my dad tried for weeks to send me into the RSS too. F him.",1
"GA has Brad Raffensburger, while he was part of preventing the trump crime, he instituted the “can’t offer water to voters in line”. Ya know, the ones who have to stand in line for 8+ hours.",They also include questions that are worded with double negatives and extraneous words to confuse whether you are voting for or against something. It’s bizarre and incredibly sad.,0
"If any country shouldn't be slammed for not supporting Ukraine, it is Georgia. They already have two Russian guns aimed at their proverbial head in the form of S. Ossetia and Abkhazia. The latter isn't even that far from Putin's palace in Krasnodar. Supporting Ukraine in their situation would almost be suicide, Russian would consider that to ""be asking for it"" and invade them next after Ukraine!",So what would you like in exchange for the hollow claim to care about Ukraine because it's a victim being attacked by Russia to actually be consistent? Cause we apparently can't just be consistent in our view that nations occupied by Russia should be freed from it.,1
"Sweden has said it takes Turkey's security concerns seriously and is implementing the three-way agreement signed in June last year, but Ankara says it is not doing enough.","Turkey wants Sweden, in particular, to take a clearer stance against what it sees as terrorists, mainly Kurdish militants and a group it blames for a 2016 coup attempt in Turkey.",0
"When a threat is made against a judge, it can be considered obstruction of justice.[3] Threatening federal officials' family members is also a federal crime; in enacting the law, the Committee on the Judiciary stated that ""Clearly it is a proper Federal function to respond to terrorists and other criminals who seek to influence the making of Federal policies and interfere with the administration of justice by attacking close relatives of those entrusted with these tasks.""[4]"".","Oh look, another right-wing emotional nut job making terroristic threats to a Democrat after listening to another right-wing nut job's comments.",0
"On the flip side, Biden has more weaknesses than he did in 2020. He's older, the economy is in rough shape (this might change by 2024 but who knows) and he has many other policy decisions to defend now. Not to mention the chaos of the Ukraine war could go either way when it comes to American sentiment.",No they aren't. The outcomes of the last few elections have been well within 538's predictions which use these polls.,0
"I agree 100%, but there's always an armchair general who pops in to say ""Nukes have an expiration date and require a lot of complicated maintenance. Do you really think their nukes still work when they can't outfit a proper infantry unit?"".","Wow. You are really underestimating the complexity of the problem. Our patriot batteries aren’t even 100% against current missiles. And they are the envy of the world. They are a combination of multiple satellites, ground stations… they are complex and require highly trained personnel. Faster missile less time to react, harder to track, harder to hit. I don’t know how to explain that more simply, and I don’t think it should be that hard of a concept to grasp. No one is claiming these things are unstoppable, just much harder to stop.",1
"Even if you drive and will continue to drive your whole life, it's in your interest for public transportation to be better because it actually does reduce road congestion. You should vote for transit even if you love to drive, because you can spend more time driving and less time in bumper-to-bumper traffic.","Correct, the phenomenon is called induced demand. It will be better for a very short period of time then return to the previous equilibrium point. More people will arrive at the same speed as before, but no one person will arrive more quickly on the same journey after a couple years. When you consider how much these projects cost and what they do to the urban fabric, they just don't make sense.",0
Yeah but the current government also does not let opposition stand much high. The current scenario is they have a golden face (Modi) which they can't let be tarnished even one bit so that they could do all the things they want in its shadow. If this article had any other name from top dogs it wouldn't have mattered. But tarnishing the Modi name is tarnishing their most crucial selling point.,I vote for BJP in elections but this is more and more like our Red Neighbours across Himalayas. This ban on things government don't subscribe to.,0
Even people that hate their current government will rally under them (temporarily) if a third party attacks them in a manner the citizens consider unjustified.,"You aren’t just nuking Khamenei though, those facilities still reside within a country they (ostensibly) consider their own. Having nuclear weapons isn’t an evil act itself, and with Ukraine as an example it’s actually really an unfortunate necessity.",0
"That’s a significant difference, plus you’re going from having to pay state income tax to not having to pay state income taxes.",Keep in mind that Oklahoma still levies a state income tax...however the property tax rate is lower due to other taxation schemes.,1
"""Sure, Trump is a criminal narcicist who may well destroy the GOP, but at least he's not a liberal. Now if you'll excuse me l, I have a laptop to find."".","Yes. There's a reason why Balkanization became a term. People should learn from history. I already experienced this in Bosnia, and now living here in US I'm watching same thing happening but on a bigger scale. People think oh that's never going to happen here - because reasons but we thought that too, especially in such a secular society what was Bosnia at the time. Hate is very powerful motivator. Oh, and Putin (working for Yelchin at that time) was practicing on us. Every single ceasefire in UN was vetoed by Russia, among many other things that they did.",1
"Basically, Russia's stance is ""give us whatever we want, and we will start to negotiate your surrender."".",True. I guess we really can't say if anything was net good or net bad until we are out of it. What sounds bad for Russia now might just be bad for everyone given some time if it means they are finally passing the threshold of not caring about being perceived as aggressive.,1
It absolutely can. Private companies can still file for bankruptcy without him personally doing so. He would end up forfeiting most if not all assets he leveraged to purchase Twitter but they don’t have free reign to go after all of his money and assets.,"But to put it succinctly, he can't loose more than the total value of his stake in the now non-public Twitter corporation unless he decides to pump more money.",1
"Florida is certainly pretty red now unfortunately, but the Democrats also have massive organization issues in the state and a candidate issue in the governor race specifically. Charlie Crist is a Republican turned independent turned Democrat who is constantly seeking power and no one actually likes him. The second they put him on the ballot they probably lost by an additional 10 points.",Crist is a terrible candidate who has lost every statewide race he ran in as a Democrat. He is a former Republican governor the party no longer wants and for some reason the Democrats think anyone else wants him (they don't).,0
You think we would stay out of it if Israel starts dropping bombs? They’d be flying American jets dropping American bombs where American intelligence told them to drop them.,"The bombs would be American, but you'd be surprised how many components of the F-16I, F-15I and F-35I are made in Israel. You'd be further surprised to learn that the IAF doesn't require American intelligence for almost all of its operations even beyond Israeli border conflicts (as evidenced by the so many strikes far away from home turf in the 20th century which were conducted thanks to Israeli intelligence alone).",1
"Most faults have lots of little ones connected to them, and those will sometimes move a bit too in response to the change in stress regime.",Earthquake on a different but related fault can be considered a new earthquake or if smaller than can be called an aftershock.,0
What lives do you think it saves if we end the war now if it rewards Putin for his decision to invade another country?,Do you think that stopping this war wouldn't then mean that Putin wouldn't directly start another to keep that industry going?,0
"The whole country should be the insurance base, and basic coverage for everyone. it's an enormous pool to pull from. The bigger the insurance base, the better it works.","I've hit the ""out of pocket maximum"" in the last 2 months of my 'health care year', then it reset and I hit it again in the next two months. that is $26,000 mother fucking dollars out of my pocket for someone with full coverage insurance in a 4 month period.",0
"Do correct me if I'm wrong, because it seems that you clearly have lived in China at least for a while. I thought vaccination would affect QR codes, because it shows right under the code that if you have been vaccinated or not. And I have yet to meet someone who has not been vaccinated. Hence my conclusion. Unlike the Americans who sometimes have this rebel spirit and choose to not get vaccinated, the Chinese are often very submissive, to be vaccinated or not, that is not a matter of choice. Anyway, if you know any person who's not vaccinated but is free to go to any place, please feel free to share the story with me.","But I live in China and I have seen how many people were lining up for the vaccine and for how long the vaccine campaign went on. Sure, I don't really talk to the elderly, but I don't know anyone who didn't get vaccinated. Based on personal observations, I see no reason to doubt that number.",1
The problem is that it’s not the candidate as much as it is the voters. As long as the United States has a substantial number of voters voting for this kind of crap there will be those looking to please this group of voters.,"There are millions of voters in the anti-Trump coalition who are default GOP and fucking desperate to get back to voting for gunz n’ low taxes. DeSantis and Rupert Murdoch (et al.) understand this, and there will be untold billions pumped into free-to-consume media portraying Ron D as the Sensible and Acceptable Alternative to Trump.",1
"It would really suck if it required all new R&D, although it would be cool to see how fast the militaries new AI whatever the fuck they used to create a supposedly flying NGAD could create a stealth refueler.",I would imagine you could retrofit it to do the job buts it’s the most expensive plane on the planet and kind of a waste of resources as a refueling plane.,0
"Depleting Russia might be part of the reason but a bigger one probably are internal politics of various NATO countries. Militarized Ukraine is no threat to EU, where did you get that idea? After the war or after they kick the Russians out they will need substantial forces and high-tech weapons to prevent any further conflicts and loss of life.",There is a need for both arming Ukraine AND preparing for escalation on home soil. If the initiative is pressed too hard the escalation would likely come sooner than they can prepare for.,1
"Seems like in order to survive, the right wing will have to develop their own AI trained solely on their beliefs, excluding the Enlightenment.","The only way for reactionaries to hold on would be to make their own walled AI gardens trained on more limited data, and the economic disincentives to working with an AI that doesn’t understand basic reality will be huge. Or is this just wishful thinking on my part?",0
"- For Biden and Xi to meet, the two sides worked for months behind doors to secure a 2.5 hr appointment and agenda. They discussed only a few impt. topics.",- Xi thinks that Trudeau probably took advantage of this unscripted meeting to make Trudeau seem more legitimate than he is (when Xi doesn't even want to give Trudeau time of day).,0
"Actually we need a Republican to not win the presidency in 2024, and Biden is the best prospect for beating out the GOP candidate, regardless of your ageism.","If they push Biden for 2024, anybody that half pays attention to politics will vote for the younger candidate (aka DeSantis). DNC needs to put a 50-60yo up.",1
"It's then a question of what's more efficient: heating water in a pot on the stove with natural gas, or using natural gas to generate electricity and distribute it through the grid to your home.","I don't have sources or hard numbers, but stoves and pots are engineered for convenience and durability, whereas power plants are engineered for efficiency. I'd bet the same mass of natural gas can be converted into more electrical energy in a power plant than into heat energy in food in a pot.",0
"Well it depends, doesn't it? If you are just making a fun youtube video where you deepfake Arnold Schwarzenegger into other movies, it should be fine, right. But when you try to frame somebody for something they didn't say or do, then you are probably already breaking a law.",If you do so with intent or recklessness as to it being used to result in arrest or trial of an innocent person?,1
That means everyone has to work for food/money and having a place to live in ALSO costs a lot of money now.,"Of course birth rates go down when having kids creates an existential dilemma, maybe even an existential crisis. Raising kids is work, a lot of stressful work.",0
"The fact they aren't important States is the whole point. It gives every candidate a shot. If the first State was California, or New York, only billionaires could run. The whole point of the first four is low population States, in different parts of the US, spaced a week apart, to give time to narrow and scale campaigns. Although I am glad they ditched Iowa.","You answered your own question. The way the Primary season starts is with four low population States one week apart, with each State in a different part of the Country, and different demographics.",0
"Why isn't that democratic. We get most of the benefit and it's not like they're punishing us. Besides the western countries do this too, Austria blocked Romania and Bulgaria into shengen.","Recently Austria vetoed Romania and Bulgaria ascension to Schengen, in the past a Nordic country was blocking support to South Europe, Germany took decisions by itself that affected the entire union etc.",1
"No. We need to keep N. Korea stable until the rest if the world is ready and able to rehabilitate N. Korea. China won't let the West do that nor will they help the inferior (as they see them) N Koreans. If the DPRK where to collapse tonight, there would be 25 million hungry N Koreans to take care of but no government structure in place. It would be a huge humanitarian crisis. As horrible as DPRK is, it functions enough to mostly keep the people alive. By bailing them out, the people of N Korea live, barely. If we refused to help, N Korea would fall into famine and war. The resulting war of barely fed soldiers killing starving, desperate civilians would force outside intervention bringing devastation to S Korea while the DPKR rallied its people one last time to fight the American evil. Even if it was China that stepped in. Unfortunately, we will have to help.","What do you do about 25 million starving, apparently parasite invested, poorly/un/mis educated that are in an active civil war that may or may not try to include S Korea in the fight? Do you really want to trigger a war that will result in the slaughter of these people? It will be a slaughter. As soon as the US or S Korea step into the DMZ, China comes onto play. Doesn't having the US and China fighting face to face again sound great? It's been a while. It's better to feed the little man and keep his people fed. Unfortunately , it's up to China to decide when the DPRK ends.",0
"as a German, i am in full support. i was raised to be on the lookout for Nazi resurgents, and its clear where it has happened. there is only one way to deal with Nazis, complete destruction.","Poland is NATO, NATO is poland. there is no splitting countries within the alliance. 1 cm of Poland means all of NATO is at war and all of NATO will rain hell on the invader. doesnt matter where from. vatniks will need to walk there from russia proper anyways given russia has nothing else left. they cant take ground in east Ukraine, they cant do shit elsewhere.",0
"And for me it always comes back to money in politics. Capitalists have had the working people of this country by the throat back 150 years, with some brief shift in power in the early 1900s. We need another shift to get money out of politics for good, until then we will be on a cliff looking down at the decent into fascism.","The disinformation machine is hard to overcome. It should be obvious that if you care about humans and their well being, then who I vote for is obvious to me. republicans are fucking me and us over by giving tax cuts to the rich so the country is always broke. and were told this country is just too broke we cant possibly keep feeding the schoolchildren and we cant possibly keep social security and medicare and medicaid. Republicans are proposing to cut social security, some suggesting that they decide if they should renew it every year or every 5 years, which is not how you run a long term social safety program. And if old Republicans relying on social security or just about to need it because they didn't save enough for retirement STILL vote for those guys. I mean, either their just totally ignorant or they think it's a joke and are just really dense as to what those cuts would mean. It would mean a whole bunch of poor and middle class people don't get to retire. They will never have enough money to scrap by without a job, who's ok with that? I'm not.",0
The American administration wouldn’t have done what they did if they didn’t consider potential consequences and the Saudi administration wouldn’t be doing what it is doing for no reason. Based off the Americans recent actions it seems they are more concerned with the pacific and revitalizing it’s homeland. It’s entirely possible the Americans no longer care and the Saudi Arabians are trying to goad the Americans back into caring or they may be courting China as an alternative in the event the Americans actually don’t care anymore. I do doubt China will waste money and military assets abroad defending Saudi Arabia though. Things are definitely changing.,"The USA is making moves to bring manufacturing and certain other industries back home. Some of these moves come to the detriment of Allies and have Europe, Japan and Korea side eyeing us. America is clearly focusing inward, how far it goes, who knows. But the Saudi Arabia’s of the world wouldn’t be making these moves for nothing.",0
"Russia can outlast Ukraine in equipment, but they're not going up against Ukraine for equipment - it's Ukraine and the rest of the world, while Russia is heavily sanctioned.","The longer the war goes on, the worse the equipment situation will become for Russia, and I bet Ukrainians are being trained on more and more western equipment. The US military industrial complex has a license to print money that the rest of the world doesn't hate for once. I wouldn't bet against that.",0
Yes but since Biden didn't take them with intent on the way out and commit other crimes then we can say that we must give Trump additional felony points.,O dang never mind the Vice President team or Biden did take just a few documents and maybe some more but sorry we will never lie again and be transparent.,1
"Not all of CONUS airspace is controlled at the same level at all altitudes. Some areas or zones that are restricted at lower categories (ie control zones around civil airports) may be open at higher altitudes for passenger routes, etc. Some areas that may have higher altitude restrictions may not have those same restrictions lower.","Please show the class where you found ""standard US Policy for spy balloons"". As someone who has worked in air defense for over a decade I've never seen it, and I've helped design and maintain a lot of missile and early warning radars that form the backbone of the system that protects our air space.",0
"It means that Taiwan's planning is likely to be effective if their weapons survive the initial strikes. They have literally thousands of anti-ship missiles already, many with longer range than Ukraine's missiles.",They're more useful to Ukraine because they can push the Russian black sea fleet back where their missiles can't because they don't have the range.,0
"Disney should go to tender to other states to relocate Florida disneyland, maybe not necessarily go through with it, but just put it out there. See how Florida reacts to losing their single largest tourist trap.","Which is what DeSantis and his idiots think. So if they make overtures to even \_imply\_ they are moving, that'll rattle a lot of cages and make a lot of people freak out which may force Desantis' hand to back down.",0
"Lololol westerners view Christianity with a naive quaintness mostly because of how NON-foreign it is, but it's just corrupt and fucked up religious institution lololol.","Westerners view Buddhism with a naïve quaintness mostly because of how foreign it is, but it's just as corrupt and fucked up as any other religious institution.",1
"Then why are Floridians going gaga for DeSantis?? They are getting absolutely hammered by increasingly worse hurricane seasons but they are turning redder than many a hardline red state. They don’t seem to be giving any consideration to climate change. It’s like they think if DeSantis can come up with a witty insult about it, it just doesn’t exist. 🤷🏻‍♀️.","(Watching the evening news last night was painful. People all upset that their ocean front houses were destroyed going “well, there was like 70-100 feet of beach in front of my house, how could I possibly have anticipated a hurricane could do this much damage????” Ummm… because that’s what hurricanes do?? And climate change increases their frequency and severity?? Which is what science has been saying for over 20 years but you built your multi million dollar mansion 70 feet from the ocean anyways and now want federal funds to rebuild.).",0
"...but Russia hasn't even been attacked. They've lost no civilians, no infrastructure and no land. Ukraine has admitted that they have no interest in seizing Russian territory. Nobody is even threatening Russia.","Exactly, Russia won't give up Crimea to be a DMZ. It's of vital importance to their navy having that port at Sebastopol.",1
"More background, minister of interior (of AKP) called Imamoglu a fool and he replied with “the people who canceled the election are real fools”.","AKP claimed he ""cheated"", so they cancelled the election, taking the victory from Imamoglu who later commented ""the people who are cancelling the elections are fools"".",1
"Fuck the religious zealots, they’re inhuman, they need to be destroyed by the free people. I hope and wish the people of Iran will prevail over the crap-on-legs “leaders” that oppress them.","I'm so sorry for the Iranian people but we all see how brave and tough you are fighting for eachother and your rights. You are doing what Russia is too cowardly to do. Really clear to see the differences in cultures and who is willing to fight for their freedoms despite oppression. When your county gets to that point, you either handle it or you don't. Some will die for the freedom of others. OR you just act like sheep and allow the government to continue on doing what it's doing unchallenged.",1
And hopefully there are a handful of republican representatives that aren't full on fascist and will vote with dems on some bills. Hopefully.,"Not even close. Removing the electoral college would take an ammendment to the constitution, which requires much much more than a bare minimum majority in the senate.",0
"Mr. Gaetz went so far on Tuesday night as to write the Architect of the Capitol, demanding to know why Mr. McCarthy had been allowed to move into the speaker’s office.",“How long will he remain there before he is considered a squatter?” Mr. Gaetz wrote. “Please write back promptly as it seems Mr. McCarthy can no longer be considered speaker-designate following today’s balloting.”.,0
"Hmmmm let's see. US likely keeps its global status as Super Power or the biggest world power and most powerful country for decades to come. Most countries around China are in fact US allies or countries that don't really like China. Countries bordering US aren't Chinese allies and as much as others may not acknowledge it, the US controls all of the Americas. US will continue to be the most dominant country the world has ever seen until the US makes itself self-destruct and even then, it will still always be a major global power in the world.","This will pretty much the future of American global economy domination, not by compete to win, but by trying to choke China and hope they lose more than us, so we ""won"". Step by step, we will corner China so they have to make everything by themselves, then we will run out of things for choking.",1
"It's not just him. It was also done in Alabama, Louisiana, Ohio and Georgia. I keep trying to post this other article, it keeps getting flagged. It is behind a paywall. One free article. You might be able to read it.","Partisan gerrymandering—and the importance of today’s Supreme Court in upholding that gerrymandering— Republican lawmakers refused to change maps that state courts had determined were illegal in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio.",0
"The biggest feasibility issue with bioweapons is that once you deploy them, they're completely uncontrollable. It's practically guaranteed that they'll end up infecting a ton of people you don't actually want to kill, like your soon-to-be-former allies or your own population. And if your enemies know what you've done, you've just started an open war of annihilation with them. Some nations will even respond with nuclear weapons, so it's got pretty much all the cons of nukes without the ability to direct all the death and destruction other than in a very vague way at the start.","I still can’t imagine Russia would be stupid enough to launch a nuke, knowing that there will be severe repercussions for that and there will be retaliation. We’ll see how this plays out, but it is a bit unsettling. I also don’t think China wants direct involvement in this mess.",1
Just because he's not wholly onboard with your dear-to-your-heart human rights issue doesn't mean that he's not better than previous popes.,"Ya' know, I really like the message he's trying to deliver, but I feel it would be better if the Catholic church didn't laud their wealth and power around. It kind of demeans the point of what he's trying to put out there.",1
"I mean, fuck, you think legislation just pops into existence whenever Nancy waggles her fingers, and they can get unanimous agreement from the Senate by giving a smile? That's not how this shit works and by this point I'm beginning to think anyone ignoring that is doing so willfully!","Democrats haven't had a proper chance to codify Roe since the 1970s. They had a mere 24 in-session days of Senate supermajority in 2009-2010 during which it was known that at least one Dem senator was vehemently anti-abortion and several weren't convinced on that whole universal healthcare thing. This was also before Republicans proved themselves so unceasingly obstructionist that they had to break the filibuster in order to continue the basic functions of government, so everyone was still pretty confident that they needed to keep it around.",0
"In GA, early voting makes it look pretty clear that young people are not showing up. That could all change tomorrow, of course, but only time will tell.","It still makes no sense to punish young people by voting against their best interest. Furthermore, not only are youth today faced with the reality of having lower standard of living, fewer rights, and potentially permanent loss of political influence, they are also going to be saddled with the care of their elderly parents. Hurting the young is bad for young people, but potentially catastrophic for the old.",0
If Russia begins to take a lot of damage inside their own borders it just gives them a reason to point towards nuclear weapon usage. They can drop a warhead in Ukraine and at the same time point towards the attacks inside Russia and their civilian casualties as an excuse to try to end the war quickly.,"Then the Russians send nuclear warheads at Ukraine to quickly end the war. They know NATO won't retaliate over Ukraine. Currently they don't have any actual excuse to fire nukes, attack deeper into their homeland and that stops being the case.",0
Your comment did not at all address the point I was making that there’s nothing that we can say is objectively “wrong” about this.,"Believe it or not, this is objectively wrong. If someone says 2+2=85, they are objectively wrong. There are a lot of things in this word that are not just a matter of opinion, as much as certain groups of delusional people disagree.",1
"When Putin rose to power, lots of people in the West saw him as a technocrat, the kind of person who could engineer a Japanese-style rise from the ashes of defeat to a peaceful economic superpower. And if he'd bothered to learn the lessons of how Japan did that, he could have engineered that. Instead, he decided that his ideal model for how to govern would be the USSR, and never was smart enough to realize that the USSR failed, and doing the same thing over again was just going to lead to another failure.","I have a coworker who moved here from a country in the Middle East, and he said last week that Russia sounded like his government back in his old country: ""The problems you face aren't because we're incompetent and corrupt and couldn't care less about your suffering, the problems you face are all because of Israel NATO!"".",0
Crime history is a no no. We have this principle that when you have served time for a crime your debt to society is paid. Normal people will never get to see those reccords.,"Extended police report is needed when you apply for certain jobs though, you have to give a report that the police vouche for you. (So sex offenders wont get to work in a school for instance).",0
Also If Ukraine hasn't declared War on Russia for literally invading their country. A rocket flying over another country isn't going to cause war declaration.,No country is going to declare war or call in Article 5 over a stray missile crossing over into their territory.,1
"I suspect his big value is that he gives off the appearance of ""independence"" from Putin, allows the latter to shift responsibility for breaking Russian law to subordinates like Prigozhin, and makes Putin seem ""moderate"" in comparison.","Can't tell if this is shifting the blame to try and protect themselves or if it's a favour for Putin to help build a narrative that supports even more direct control (""I am the mother Russia"", ""Today I will announce the first Putin Empire"", etc).",1
"So you believe that the electorate, including republicans are well informed and have accurate and complete knowledge of all candidates in their races?? Not just the one they are voting for??",You would be suprised. The libertarian Party loves the attention he is getting them now but he got barely any support from the party. In fact the right wing tried to vote None Of The Above to him running. And something not a lot of people know : There was an of the Libertarian Party this year.,1
How does it help? Cause It fucking doesn't. What you're saying is we should worry about the dummies abroad breaking other countries laws that we still uphold over a literal international arms dealer.,"Probably because, bear with me, this is a hot take: We shouldn't have traded one of the most prolific arms dealers for someone who chose to violate another country's laws.",1
"Not to discount anything, but, given how utterly inept the Russian military is, wouldn't it just be them to engage air defense for fireworks while letting their air bases get wrecked?",Let's consider these losses in the light of russia's already degraded military capabilities. 57 pieces of equipment destroyed on 31.12. is relatively a much bigger blow than 57 pieces destroyed in February. One would think that as russia slowly but surely runs out of everything their losses would likewise naturally decrease.,1
"Kind of a mixed bag. Pope Francis supports civil marriage for gay couples, or at least he did in 2010. Being gay is not a sin, but homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered”.","So the Catholic Church currently accepts same-sex civil unions, but does not accept same sex marriages as the Sacrament of Marriage is between a man and a women, as per God’s design.",0
"They also would also vote for Democrats do instead of idiots who blow the entire budget on PR stunts. Like the wall, child care from splitting children from their parents, and unnecessary detainments of people waiting for an immigration hearing.",Deportations decreased significantly during the Trump presidency while illegal immigration increased significantly. He was just so incompetent and ineffectual he made illegal immigration significantly worse.,0
Is she a warmongering insider-trading old bag who should have been put out to pasture 10 years prior? Yes.,"Surely you jest. Have you not seen the pushback by the Republican Party? I will be very surprised if they put him forward. The midterms very much humbled them. I also would not be very surprised if Trump, as a result of not being selected by the Republicans, creates his own little party.",1
"Hey, I'm a graduate of a Christian seminary school and I absolutely agree with you that no religious text from any religion should be used as a basis to create laws in the United States. I also feel strongly that if anybody is going to try to deny rights to anybody else and claim ""The bible says..."" then they also need to be put in their place by showing them that they are absolutely wrong even by the book they claim to follow. Every last bit of leg they can stand on must be eliminated, so that they are simply left with, ""I don't want to allow others to do X because I don't like it."", which is not a solid basis for an argument at all. It sucks that this is something that we have to deal with in a country where supposedly there is a separation of church and state, but here we are. If the United States really were a Christian nation, then there would be a lot more social programs/safety nets that would have most so called Christians crying about the country becoming ""communist"", plus way more compassion towards immigrants, legal or not.","Which is interesting consider that a lot of the people talking about the USA being ""a Christian nation"" don't consider Catholics to be Christians, and generic Christian (which is what you looked up) isn't what they mean when they say ""Christian"". Although if you combined all the smaller evangelical and protestant groups that they do consider part of what they mean, it probably is larger than Catholics.",1
"I'm not defending the way Google handled their layoffs (which was particularly savage and ugly), but the rationale behind the decision is completely sound.","Or shit, if Google is hugely profitable and cutting such great employees, then surely those laid off employees will be able to cut into their market share in some domain and slice off a few hundred million for themselves? Unless, of course, they weren't the ones really producing anything of value, and were instead leeching off of the work of others?",1
"Simple. For the majority of people who watch Fox, Republicans are their government both in practice and in theory. E.g State/Local governments and the fact that a lot of these people truly believe that Trump is still ""their President"".","""state run"" implies government run. When the media you consume is 100% all in on one party of government and that party represents a disturbing amount of states including the ones most affected by its propaganda, ""state run media"" is an applicable label.",0
"I didn’t think you meant genocide, but the idea that we can just go blow up Russia’s entire military without a nuclear level response is just odd to me.","Tbh, i don't know what Russia's intentions are anymore (but its turning into a ""nation self destruction speedrun"" due to their repeated mistakes during 10 months of war :v).",1
"And finally, there are hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Jews living in Russia who would instantly be in peril following an Israeli clash with Russia.","Syria is a client of Iran, who would like to establish a land bridge to Lebanon and supply Hezbollah with strategically significant armaments to create a 2-front war dilemma for Israel while it finalizes its nuclear weapons capability.",0
"""bans teaching anything that assumes “fault, blame, or bias should be assigned to race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, or to members of a race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin because of their race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin.”.","Especially when the law ""bans teaching anything that assumes “fault, blame, or bias should be assigned to race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, or to members of a race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin because of their race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin.”.",1
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"Join your community association and take as much local action as possible. Outspeak the boomer cranks, scare them out of city government community outreach with facts and knowledge about your neighbors who aren't attending.","I regularly mine this data for cogent one-line talking points about where our priorities are, how the police budget compares to the transportation budget, how many people in my neighborhood own a car or rent.",0
"Also the past is important, babi yar was 80 years ago, most survivors are still alive and thier children are all alive , to ignore what Ukraine did to us is stupid, cause they killed 150k Jews in WW2 alone, and almost a million in the 20th century Alone , we said never forget and never forgive, and we stick by our promise to our ancestors.","And saying that the massacres they committed against us are unrealvent is just disrespectful, my family got killed because of the Ukrainians in WW2 and my grandma lost her entire family because of them either way Ukraine is against Israel.",0
"Slightly related: I always thought WWE (or back in my day it was known as WWF) was pretty lame. Then I went to a luchador match in Mexico and my friend explained why he loved it so much. It really is just a long running performance done by dedicated professionals. Still not into WWE, but I kind of get it now.",That goes even further back before they changed to WWE. VKM testified in 1989 that wrestling is a work so he could avoid paying taxes that were levied against athletic competitions in certain states.,1
Lots of women and other minorities take advantage of opportunities to gain wealth and power in a capitalist country which undermines them without becoming part of the machine that tries to oppress women and minorities.,"I think that what people like yourself don’t grasp about being an undermined minority in a capitalist system, like ours, is that such minorities are not responsible, at least not to the same standards as wealthy, white, heterosexual-passing men, for what they have to do to make ends meet, which equates in said system with getting ahead. It’s the luck of the draw for such minorities. So, I think that’s her excuse, which I personally will allow since she has made recent strides in a more ethical direction with her brave testimony. I agree with you, it is a tragic waste of human potential—living within the capitalist death grip, as such.",1
"Sadly, though, Russian doping scandals indicate that the country doesn't (respect the rules and Games participants).","If they didn't ban Russia post all their blatant doping and cheating, I would not expect the IOC to let something as small as starting the biggest war in Europe since WWII to stop them from competing.",1
"But it's wasn't even the ambulance that was stuck, an ambulance was at the place of the crash (cyclist run over by a truck) the car that was blocked by the trafficjam was only there to bring special equipment to free the victim from the truck, as stated above it wouldn't even have helped the victim survive, if it had been there in time.","Not that anyone cares, but the report of the treating emergency doctor was just published I which is stated that the traffic jam due to the demonstration did not effect the rescue of the victim. The fire truck that was stuck in traffic was basically a crane that could have lifted the truck off the biker's leg. However when the doctor, who was not blocked by the traffic jam, arrived at the scene she immediately discarded that option and instead had the truck drive off the leg.",1
"It's pretty hard to believe that people are consciously voting for Johnson and a Democratic governor, AG, and SoS...so, if you ask me, I feel like the majority of people here are just morons voting for the incumbents.",agree with the other comment - all of these limits are just excuses for voters voting shitty people into office.,1
It’s exactly like trump. She has never actually accomplished anything in her life. Her father gave her and her husband a contracting business and she ran a a CrossFit gym into the ground. She’s literally done nothing and has never actually earned money. She’s mistaking getting paid a salary for ‘I get more money from my dad when I whine enough’.,"If she's so miserable (not actually) doing her job she should leave. Also, she can't complain about her salary when her mere presence in Congress is preventing much needed legislation from being passed to help those who are barely scraping by right now.",1
"Voter turnout for young voters has increased by a lot, but the vote share is still lower than it could be if they were voting at the same rate as older voters. But the fact that voting rates are continuing to increase among youth is phenomenal.",Gen Z and Millenials have had increasing turnouts since each generation came of voting age. How many elections do you need this to continue before you stop crowing with the same tired nonsense?,1
"One of the biggest wins in the debates for Pavel was Babis saying he would not support Czech military assistance to fellow NATO allies despite Article 5, instead opting to say he'd try dialogue and negotiations if an ally were to be invaded. Meanwhile Pavel is literally the former Chair of the NATO military committee, the most senior military position in NATO.",He was also the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee until 2018 when he instead went into politics. So him being Pro Nato also isn't exactly a surprise.,1
"Efficacy based on what? The CDC calculation of reduction of illnesses among people vaccinated or preventing hospitalization? Only thing I can find on Sinopharm (the strongest of the Chinese vaccines currently) is efficacy against hospitalization of 79%, and that was with older variants (can't find anything with new variants). J&J a reported to be 93% effective at preventing hospitalization but 78% effective at reducing illness based on the CDC criteria. So are you sure you're comparing the same stats?","Also, you know that all vaccines had to go through clinical trials to determine efficacy right? Because once you have data that a vaccine works, it's not really unproven anymore, is it?",0
"On one hand, some Georgia GOP voters have said they like Walker because they know him from his football days, they think he’d be a fresh face in the Senate. People often like political outsiders who don't have conventional experience. But - there is indication that republicans in Georgia don’t want to see another seat go to dems and that is likely a significant part of his support base too.","Nice question, the quick answer is you go into the interview with your facts ready as much as possible! This has always been an issue for most reporters covering all sorts of topics. The best way I’ve learned to combat it is to re-ask questions, point out the facts and sometimes ask them to share where the info that doesn’t seem quite right is coming from. I think most political reporters (especially those of us on-air) are aware that spin almost always happens, so be ready.",0
This is the no better than the usual response from police of “we investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrong doing.” I actually think the FBI was really smart to not take up the offer to observe the search. A few agents wouldn’t be able to observe everything that was going on and it would have led to more claims from Trump that they planted evidence.,"We are going to hire a firm to search these properties, and then we are going to secretly give them an extra $50k to “not find anything.”.",0
"In short, Putin is trying to make the Holy War happen, and it ain't happening, because the postmodernist apathy of his regime's ideology makes people not care about that, just like they don't care about how much Putin steals.",At the start I thought if Russia would struggle Putin would be replaced but by now it seems as if the whole country really is ok with being completely wrecked just so they don't have to accept a loss.,1
"Divide 100 by 1.2, and you get 83.3, so to charge the laser took 83.3 time more energy than the reaction output, making it 1.2% efficient in total, not 0.02%. Otherwise by your metric, making the laser 1 to 1 would be 2%, and that doesnt add up.",Say they used 1 watt from the laser to make 1.2 watts. Cool. It takes 100 watts to charge the laser.,1
"Iran already supports the ongoing war against Israel by supplying Palestinian terrorists with weapons, but engaging in open war would bring the US into the conflict directly, which Iran doesn’t want.","Israel mostly attack Iranian targets in Syria, which is valid because Israel and Syria and still technically at war, and sometimes conducts small attacks in Iran, mostly assassinations.",1
"This has always been the case with Tesla, it's been a ponzi scheme cloaked in a legitimate buisness for years. Elon and Tesla have been lying about FSD for years, claiming it's 'safe now' and will be 'fully ready' next year, claiming that if you buy a car now it will drive itself around and you'll make your money back, pretending they've reinvented the trucking buisness and making it cheaper than rail. They call it Full Self Driving, even though it can't drive itself in many situations, and even when it can, you need to be behind the wheel because it's fucking dangerous. They've been getting people on this for years, because people buy the car because Elon keeps promising the software will be upgradeable to FSD 'within a year' for the past what, 7 years?",Because the entire buisness is built on lies. There's nothing wrong with having a tech demo and staging parts of it because the software isn't finished yet. There is something wrong with staging a tech demo when the people writing that shit don't actually know how to implement the stuff you're promising.,0
Because an IRS that cannot afford to pursue wealthy people with expensive lawyers will only be able to pursue poor people without.,"The IRS goes after the poor because it doesn't have the resources to go after the rich, who can afford armies of accountants and lawyers.",1
Personally I dont think sanctions are ever likely to end the war. Both Russia and Ukraine see it as an existential crisis and it will proceed to a military decision.,We are better off pushing more military aid to Ukraine or just going in fully on their side and win the war quickly.,0
It’s absolutely in good faith. Our political establishment is killing us and the Democrats being less evil than the Republicans doesn’t give them absolution. I’ll never vote for either major party or participate in their nonsense game of monied interests and pandering. The Democratic Party does not represent the working class and I will not be coerced into voting for my preferred abuser.,"The Democratic party takes hand outs from the wealthy and connected too, and inequality is also an act of violence. But this was just killing as a means to an end. Mafia level shit from the highest office in the land.",1
"Yeah he talks about how they were taught not to think of the enemy combatants as other humans, and that they were killing them to save the lives of their fellow soldiers. I've seen enough interviews with soldiers to know that is how it's done. Everyone is attacking him for saying that he viewed it as ""taking enemy chess pieces off the board"" and how that's really messed up, but he goes on to say that it was the only way that he could do his job as a soldier, because he wouldn't be able to if he really felt like he was killing actual human beings, and I can't say I'd be any different to be honest.","Everyone is talking about this as if he announced it in some kind of press briefing for attention. It's written in his new biography, which is written for people who are interested in his life. The fact that it's all over the news isn't because he requested it but because the press decided to release all of these things knowing that it would stir shit and make money. If you want to complain about it being ""in your face"", it's not Harry, he put it in a book that you don't have to read if you don't want to, it's the press that's throwing it in your face.",0
"Putting it all together, in my 20 years of being voting age, the Democrats have been better with the budget. But that's really not saying much.","But... it is saying much. It's saying a lot. Every time a GOP president has literally driven the economy to tatters, shreds even, it has been a DNC president that claws the way back to a positive standing point for this country. From a negative to a positive every time. Every GOP president has taken it from a good, stable place to the utter fecal-lined-gutters of the middle ages. Without exception. The GOP have padded their own wallets and the wallets of the ultra rich 1% at the expense of every other citizen of this nation every chance they get, and the DNC has clawed back basic living wages, rights, benefits, vacation times, laws against child labor, laws against exploiting and underpaying people, minorities, genders. The DNC has been by a long country mile ""better"" at all forms of economy than the GOP has. Every time. That's not ""both sides,"" and that's not ""better but not saying much"" -- it's night and day.",1
"Politically, overturning Roe and Casey was ""exactly the reason"" she was appointed, or at least an explicit motivation of primary importance.","You no doubt disagree, so why don't you cite either her actual appellate or Court jurisprudence, or even her scholarship on statutory construction or constitutional interpretation, and explain how it is faith-based, as opposed to law-based? Let's dig into this religious legal reasoning of hers.",0
"The fujimori I was talking about is Alberto Fujimori, expresident of Peru from 1990 to 2000, who did a self coup in 1992 doing something similar as to what Castillo tried to do, but better and more organized.","The Peruvian congress is controlled by right wing loyalists of the previous dictator Fujimori, and they have been trying to impeach Castillo since the day he won.",1
Republicans want history to read that the Biden administration was so corrupt everyone was getting impeached again and again....oh and that Trump guy got impeached but it was nothing compared to the Biden administration.,Instead it's going to read Trump got impeached for bribing another nation by trying to withhold weapons from them and then impeached again for trying to overturn his loss by inciting a insurrection against the US. These actions are the cause for a similar event in Brazil and republicans retaliated by acting like little kids and impeaching any person they could.,0
"But I always felt that the ""we're REALLY queer, get used to it"" message, including the inclusion of fetishes/kinks (leather/bondage/S&M/drag) into the public image was actively counterproductive to the acceptance movement (and I think we're seeing that today). Too many people have the impression that being gay involves publicly flaunting fetishes, and that's both incorrect AND destructive to the cause.","But absolutely, systemic and overt racism is real and DOES need to be discussed. It's just... problematic to try to start to shape society around race. The noble argument of ""we need to go FAR beyond 'color-blind' to fix historic injustice"" has justifiably wholesome roots, but I believe it is going to shoot us in the face and make racism way worse, ending up causing more problems than it fixes.",0
Almost all politicians are dirty and if we’re this angry at dumb ass Trump we also have to have the same anger towards Biden. He’s a loser president who used his position to enrich his family and its not even debatable. Time we hold the government accountable. Don’t forget they work for you.,He used his VP position under Obama to introduce his son and brother to Communist China where they made millions of dollars as well as making millions in Ukraine and receiving large sums from wife of mayor of Moscow. Its all public common knowledge now.,0
"Really, no one knows when Russians reach a breaking point of mass noncompliance and armed mutiny by conscripts.","No doubt that Russians are dying en masse, but I'm doubtful about the accuracy of any precise figures supplied by any side, and this goes for any war.",1
This isn’t specific to Vancouver this is every western city with a homeless problem because literally all of them refuse to do those 3 things.,"It's an inappropriate form of housing for the majority of homeless people. Asylum is a solution, but not a one-size-fits-all solution. It can exist alongside housing programs.",1
The DOJ isn’t even including any documents that Trump willingly turned over in their investigation. So now Biden’s own DOJ is scrutinizing him more than Trump.,"And iirc the special counsel for the Biden investigation was appointed by Trump, which in my mind gives Biden even more brownie points, he’s not even being investigated by his own guy.",1
"I know this is against the rhetoric, but as someone who flies frequently (30 times in 2022) southwest is the best domestic carrier imo, they give away a lot of perks that you have to pay at other airlines and it doesn’t feel like a cheap experience. Maybe that’s just because my primary airport is a southwest hub, but that’s just my 2 cents.","An airline ticket is a fee for a service-transport to another place. The passenger arrived at the correct time for the service to be rendered only for the service to be cancelled with little or no warning, and it’s not like the airline even still incurs the cost of fuel and whatnot. How could there be any other outcome than a full and complete refund?",1
"Next time one of them did something to me I turned around and started punching him to ground. It was basically that scene from ""A Christmas Story."" It was in front of Principal's office, so he came out. He was getting ready to write me and the other kid up.","Something similar happened to me as well. Bullies would do all sorts of things to me. I was told to ""use words"" and one teacher even had the nerve to tell me that she'd spoken to one of the bullies and he was ""going to apologize"" to me after school. She literally set me up for a beating, and I still got in trouble for fighting.",0
"Current best estimate says that . That'd be 5.6 million Americans. But if you check the details of that study, you'll see that 5.1% of everyone under 30 identifies as trans. Why the mismatch? Many older trans people ""go stealth,"" and disappear from the queer community, never mentioning their trans identities again. Many, many more don't know they're trans yet, or are repressing it. As a result, the actual proportion of the population that is probably trans is better represented by that cross-section of younger people.",17.5 million Americans. An American political candidate for president just proposed the wholesale extermination of 17.5 million American citizens.,0
"\- Sabotaged by U.S., to prevent Europe from purchasing from Russia through the pipelines again, thereby minimizing potential Russian influence over EU and/or to increase dependence on US supplies of gas (and oil) (or other sources where US might have a hand in play).","Russia wouldn't do it because they're the main suppliers of the oil and their economy would be hurt even more, unless what another user said where Putin sabotaged the pipeline to keep the oiligarchs in line, which I think is plausible.",1
"It comes to the point that politics in how its structured doesn't even benefit the american people, so it's only logical politicians focuses on their own benefit instead. Wanna know why corruption exists? Too easy to erase progress, a lot of would be non crooks don't see the point. Not justified, but I do think it's human nature for a noticeable majority of people when the opportunity arises.","The economy is shit, people on Reddit are just young and don't remember the world before 2008. It comes to a point people form their standards on averages, not what should actually be the case.",0
"When I tried to ask people to find a more meaningful critique (without the potential for friendly fire), I got a bunch of comments basically telling me that most or all “fat people” are responsible for the state they are in. In fact, this may not be the case, and it definitely isn’t for a nontrivial number. In my case, I was misdiagnosed with a psychotic disorder (psychiatrist later withdrew the diagnosis) and was extremely heavily medicated. Unfortunately, those meds made it completely impossible to lose weight—even if I ate just 600 calories and walked a few miles each day.","1000%. I absolutely despise trump, but people had a lot of fun mocking his weight. At the time that was popular, I weighed nearly 190 pounds. Those comments got to me.",0
"And while it might seem to us like Russia would be unwilling to agree to such terms, their negotiating position is being degraded with every passing day. Consider that they have thousands of dead and wounded returning home every week, people who were once allies of Putin criticizing the invasion, and even external allies distancing themselves from Russia.","Russia surrendering occupied territories, restoring pre-2014 borders, and paying reparations to Ukraine for the damage caused would still be a diplomatic solution to the conflict.",0
"Assange is an incredibly shit person it amazes me so many people try to defend him. Nobody ever went after the reporters Snowden used, that is journalism regardless of how I feel about what Snowden did. People are trying to create controversy where there just isn't any with Assange.",Assange is not a journalist. You have no intrinsic right to groom mentally unstable US military personnel and convince them to steal classified data for you. That's what he did and he's going to go to jail for it.,0
"Edit: looking at the video, it looks like it was a pressurized type balloon, rather than a zero pressure aerostat.","If it's a pressurized balloon, then yes. If it's an aerostat/zero pressure type balloon, no. You can poke holes in it, but the gas will escape very, very slowly.",0
I'm short too in fact and probably more people have had their height stunted during development from stress over Rx's of any kind. And what does height matter when your bones are so weak you're in a wheelchair at 30? That's where bone density and growth can be an issue. Is it happening to everybody in the trans-youth category? Obviously not or we would hear an awful lot about it.,"That actually goes hand in hand with it. I would love it if people were to be better informed so they don't express incorrect, violent ignorance. Intolerance of a person struggling with themselves is itself, intolerable.",0
"The Russian government has so far been trying to not upset ethnic Russians in Moscow. They first drafted non-Russians, Russians outside of Moscow, and dissidents first. They've been trying to keep their zombie economy propped up with a veneer of normalcy in Moscow while conducting their ""limited mobilization"" to fight in their ""special military operation."".","Yup. The ruzzians had a lot of potential. Decent sized population, crossroads between Europe and China for rail trade if they had invested, and unfathomable reserves of a host of natural resources. They could have joined the Western World and truly prospered. Instead, they kept up the same shit they always had.",1
"Also, China no longer has an overpopulation problem. At least not with young people. The population is falling and they’re facing an impending demographic crisis. Unless they’re planning to send their elderly to siberia or something….",They’re trading access to the greater European economy for the burnt out husk of the Russian economy and a partner that violates treaties in the same way they do. Are they going to invade Russia when they inevitably blow off the agreement?,0
"Hi, I think that's possible, but very unlikely. I don't think Russia is sophisticated enough to lay such a trap and I don't think Ukraine is daft enough to fall into it. I also don't think Russia will blow the dam, given the impact that would have on their positions south of the river, and the damage it would have to water supplies to Crimea. Thanks for the question. Regards, Dom.","Hi, they're ok, thanks for asking. We rotate them often and ensure they get good rest and whatever support they may want or need. It's taking a toll, of that there's no doubt, but we all believe in what we're doing and that goes a long way to fill up the morale tank! Regards, Dom.",0
"Yeah. I'm not unhappy with the most recent election, at least overall, but to think that things couldn't turn around in a couple years is short sighted. All it would take is for people to become apathetic again, and not turn out to vote.","I think there's more chance for people to become more involved by 2024 because republicans seem to want to double down on their current tactics, but I wouldn't assume that they lose enough voters in the interim to really make them go away.",0
"""Last week, Yoel Roth, who quit Twitter as Head of Trust and Safety, said as Musk perpetuates lack of legitimacy through his impulsive changes and tweet-lenh pronouncements about platform rules, Twitter is now facing a close scrutiny by both Apple and Google app stores"".","So Elon Musk buys twitter and starts advocating for voting for Republicans and certain candidates and we're to expect he will be unbiased in how twitter operates, what algorithms push what articles, etc..?",1
"so will probably be some repercussions at some point, but Iran tends not to like getting its hands dirty, so will probably get some terror group or other to act as a proxy.","Well Iran supply’s the people lobbing rockets at Israel every other day so I guess it’s tit for tat, but my feeling is this may escalate more because of the Iran nuke stuff.",1
"The second one is the fact that Brazil in particular is fairly dependent on certain Russian products, specially fertilizer. Sending anything to Ukraine would do nothing other than increase food prices (if not cause famine for a period of time) for straight up no gain whatsoever, political or otherwise. (comment from another user).","The actual reason is twofold. One is the simple fact that this war ""matters"" a lot less to places like Latin America or Africa than it does for Europe. Just like there are several other active conflicts worldwide right now that ""the west"" doesn't give a shit about.",0
"Reality Winner, Chelsea Manning, Snowden, anyone who fucks with state secrets gets their lives turned upside down real quick. What Trump did was worse than all of them. All the DOJ have done is take back some of what he stole and even gave him his passport back for the inconvenience. It's a disgrace. And I feel sorry for anyone who still believes ""ThEse THIngs TaKe TIme..."".","The thing is, most of us are tired of the ""jUsTiCe tAkEs TiMe"" BS. It's not like they're all that successful at building these cases slowly either in the first place. Most of the time they just take forever and quietly hope the public forgets about it. No charge and they don't have to worry about their winning percentage.",1
"Republicans don't know how any of these decisions work, and the ones who do know are attacking Biden to score political points.","GOP don’t care… they don’t have solutions, they’re not interested in good governance, they whine and criticize and then fuck it all up completely when they’re in charge and lie about it the whole time.",1
"“Come on guys, we have all decided to try to stop murdering every single Jew and are just are settling for 98%!” Hamas, probably, when they updated their charter.","If Israel wanted to wipe out 98% of all Palestinians, why haven't they done so? Palestine doesn't have the capability to stop them.",1
"That said, McCarthy personally and Republicans generally would deserve the agony a Republican majority of fewer than 10 seats in the House of Representatives would produce. A Democratic majority would be far better, but a razor thin Republican majority just might hasten the disintegration of the GOP, collapsing under the inconsistencies between the idiots, the cowards and the insurrectionists.","It's not like Graham harbors any realistic presidential ambition, so what it takes for national electability, including Republicans in states other than South Carolina (and it's not like Graham gives a rat's ass about Tim Scott's relection), is a matter of indifference to him.",0
"I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please if you have any questions or concerns.","There are some other possible issues. Chinese subs were a joke 20 years ago, but apparently they've massively improved. No one really knows how successful a hypersonic carrier buster missile is, but after the Ukrainians sunk the Moskva with a missile every naval planner is cautious. We might be to a point where the carrier is as useless in a peer nation conflict as the battleship was after the introduction of the dive bomber.",1
"And, for the record...yes, I do what I can to get everyone around me to vote. I've donated time, and money to the cause. I imagine is much more than you'll ever do, besides trying to insult people for caring.",Younger voters complain...constantly about the older crowd being in politics....but the old people vote.,0
"1. SCOPE-Money buys time and not just because of expensive lawyers. If you or I get charged with, let’s say bank fraud for cashing bad checks. Lets say it was a lot, like 100k over a year period with 200 checks over 17 different banks. It may take 6 months for the DA to have each and every check counted, were the money went (is the car you bought legal or did a cashed check pay for part of it?), who else benefited? Was your spouse involved? Any employees at the bank? You got caught for 100k but did you do more? Lots of work right? Now put that into billions of dollars with hundreds of thousands of checks spanned over hundreds of banks. That would take years of investigating. Btw, if any part of the years long investigation is done illegally (chain of custody, false confession, new guy goes into an apt. he shouldn’t without a warrant) the investigation is set back a year.","1.LAWYERS WHO PLAY THE GAME-Lawyers have a lot of ways to postpone cases of given the opportunity. Depending on the persons history (convictions), evidence, and charge, cases for a lot of white collar crime can be put off for years until defense council has exhausted every avenue of getting affidavits, discovery, and so on and so forth. It’s pretty normal for a judge to grant a 6-month continuance for almost anything. Starting with the investigations (wire taps, warrants, and motions) to make sure everything is in order or if the judge requires a higher level of proof to protect the case on appeal. Once charges are actually brought it’s the same thing every step until trial (I assume the US Gov will go to trail and not plea).",0
"If I pay my state an extra $5k that I don't owe, I get to deduct that from my income for federal taxes (called the SALT deduction which only exists if you itemize). I then file my state return and get all that money back ""tax free."" Now next year, I have to declare that refund as income because that money wasn't taxed before (the deduction).","If this isn't a refund, but just a payment (like the Alaska Permanent Fund), it is taxed normally. Just because it came from a state doesn't change the fact that it is income. Once again, that income was never previously taxed.",0
"Nope, I have a shitload of respect for Poland and love the country and the people (I mean, thats why I lived there at some point). Same goes for most people in Europe.","That’s hardly unique for Europe though. Still, most of the continent decided to move on from it. Also, the current Polish government keep alienating the first German state in existence to want genuinely good relations with Poland - for nothing but self-serving reasons.",1
"Like /u/Ayylmaothoughyaknow said, There’s no fair play in China so why should you or China get made when roles are reversed?",There is no 'level playing field' when doing business in China. Why in the hell should there be one in the US? Why in the fuck should the US play nice here?,1
But this is a recommendation for updates to domestic systems and not a proposal regarding international justice systems.,"I think it's unworkable but, charitably, the point would be to force companies to do their due diligence in investigating any potential climate impact while still allowing flexibility in how you address it, right?",0
"If the police officer saw a mob of people coming down the hallway chanting hang Mike Pence and decided to shoot themselves instead of being ripped apart by the mob, we'd agree that death was in the line of duty, right?","It’s incredible that for all the leg humping republicans do of law enforcement, they hadn’t done a thing for the families who are stranded following a police officer suicide.p.",1
"In the case of the California gun law, private citizens are empowered to enforce the law by suing and, following the same logic as above, a court cannot enjoin all private citizens from suing.","The court in this CA case correctly determined that it could rule (in an earlier ruling) and enjoin the enforcement (even if that enjoins private citizens not party to the lawsuit) of their version of the law. If the same logic from the TX case was applied, the 2nd amendment argument wouldn't have even come up because as designed the State is not a valid party and these constitutional questions would have to be litigated in every case filed under the law (like is currently happening in TX).",1
"The video is good. But although I can agree with him on the general principle, he deals very dismissively with the point about how the other countries will care for the artefacts. This would vary on case by case basis and I dont think it should be ignored.","This isn't just something you can glance over by pointing out the dumb things the british museum did in the past, realistically the standards between countries vary greatly.",0
I kind of wonder if McCarthy would consider a deal to get a few Dem votes in exchange for Santos getting expelled. That feels like something everyone could rationalize to their respective parties.,"If a deal like this is made, it does happen. If he becomes Speaker he is going to have to cut deals at some point or he will be forever be beholden to fringe groups within his party. This signals to the Dems he can be trusted in situations where he does need some bipartisan support. It signals to Repubs fuck around and find out. I'll find some other way and then punish you for not falling in line.",0
"Note, its not getting. If Greece is ""getting"" F-35s, greece is buying F-35s. F-35s are far more expensive than F-16s.","Yes, Greece is going to purchase F-35s. What's your point? Turkey could have purchased F-35s as well but decided they were too costly and wanted to purchase soviet S400 anti air systems instead which were a lot cheaper and of more importance to Turkey at the time when presented with the ultimatum to choose one or the other. Greece and Turkey will never get along, but they're not going to go to war either. Turkey would like to eventually join the EU (maybe under future leadership and further separation of church and state, this may eventually be possible) and both are current members of NATO so most of their bickering remains rhetoric. I feel like there's a bit of a disconnect with most westerners sentiments towards Turkey and its leadership right now. Erdogen is at real risk of not being reelected. The opposing party wants a more secularized government and they are holding Erdogen responsible for the economy/inflation. There's a lot of domestic issues right now over there and this Sweden/Finland stunt is being used as a bargaining chip by current leadership as a means of trying to stay in power. Watch how quickly things change in May once the elections take place.",1
"There’s also no shortage of claims of Russian artillery barrages being much less frequent and intense than they used to be. If Russian commanders expect 1000 shells in a certain time frame and they’re only capable of firing 200, that’s a pretty critical shortage even if 200 is a lot more than 0.",It's most likely that Russia's vast reserve of ammo is getting down to the point they are either nearing no excess beyond strategic reserve or they are already lowering the limit of their strategic reserve to free up more shells for the front.,1
EU companies still buy Russian gas. But the situation got worse when Russian gas companies in EU were forcefully nationalized as Gazprom in Germany.,And Gazprom has been nationalized because they own large gas reservoirs which are now owned by the state.,1
"This is democracy in practice. If the people do not care, then they are going to get this every time.","Basically, the city council was a bunch of sellouts, the mayor guy was a sellout and they ousted the one person who wasn't a sellout.",0
"I honestly believe that Europe is on its way to become completely energy independent sooner rather than later, having been pushed towards it by Russia. Hopefully we'll see more funding go to fusion research and incentives as well. An energy independent Europe may be a critical blow to fossil fuel companies around the world.","Still, i maintain hope. Fission is good, but safety and the waste product is not something we want to have to deal with in the long term. Geothermic and hydro power are not available everywhere, wind and solar are not very reliable. Fusion is currently the only clean energy which is not dependent on location or weather. Maybe if we figure out how to create better batteries, solar and wind would become a more viable long term full replacement option, but those have their own issues.",0
"Most people think that Special Forces are some elite infantry that can do anything, but that's not the case at all and not the purpose of special forces.",There's nothing necessarily special about us troops as people. Their training is good but at the end of the day they're still humans.,1
"Yes, AR-15s are American. Other countries produce knock-offs, but the OG was made by Colt. That said, it's not an iconic American gun. It's claim to fame is that it looks like an iconic American gun, but an AR-15 is not a M16.",National gun is silly but if you want American gun you should go with something that looks like a cowboy in an old Western had in his holster.,1
"The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.","Hi stressecho. Thank you for participating in /r/Politics. However, has been removed for the following reason(s):",0
"“Breakaway” regions return to Ukraine, though potentially act as some de-militarized zone without any formal EU or NATO bases.","Annexed Ukrainian territories must be returned back to Ukraine including Crimea, Donbas, Luhansk, Donetsk and KRASNODAR, yes Krasnodar region was part of Ukraine before USSR. Look up maps of Ukraine year of 1919.",1
"Russia simply doesn't have the anti air capabilities to deal with whatever NATO could throw on them in only the first few days, let alone the consequences of their borders being all over Europe and what cutting Russia out of many international markets would do to them for real.","It's not even about a superiority of power, it's a single nation against the biggest alliance there is, remnant of the previous largest worldwide alliance there ever was.",0
Amsterdam is welcome to keep their red light district and the associated industries they just need to move it away from the city center and away from residential neighborhoods.,"Moving the red light district isn't going to remove tourists who disrespect the downtown neighborhoods of Amsterdam though. That's just what happens in heavily touristed cities... have you been to Paris, London, NYC, LA? Vegas, which has legal brothels outside the major districts like youre saying, is probably the worst of all when it comes to shitty tourists. They don't just stay at the brothels-- they spend most of their time treating the city as a playground.",1
Oil companies thanked the Biden Administration for granting them the ability to earn record profits. They control a commodity that was suddenly placed in short supply. Reduced supply with no change in demand immediately foretells an increase in price. A high school sophomore in their first economics class knows this.,"You apparently have no knowledge of economic concepts. Without agreeing or disagreeing with your suppositions on Trump and Bush, if they were funneling money OUT of the American economy, this would be deflationary.",0
"Same was with Hitler, allies could take him down, but deemed his being alive better for war effort and making decisive defeat of the Germany closer.","Also you need to take into account that Russia is becoming weaker due to how Putin is conducting the war, which is very beneficial for the NATO.",0
Prop 2: there has always been more mundane balloon releases locally/by nearby countries that often got blown around and didn't get too much attention until chinese balloon comes along.,Prop 1: china released more balloons that managed to get there after the first one got popped while hoping usa will not escalate.,0
"Certainly possible, but I think that’s just him. If you are to build a national politician, you probably don’t start with a gay dude. Obama was super polished, but no fing way curated.","Ha I remember the “butterball hotline” that was actually informative too. People always rave about that show, but I don’t watch much tv, so never got in it. Thanks.",0
"Problem: In neighboring Guyana there was colonialism, too. After that Black and Indians subdued each other. Better? Who apologizes now.","What has happened has happened, you just need to find a way to move on and an apology is a very good first step.",1
"If the election goes Boebert’s way (likely), then he looks like a gracious loser who accepted the defeat.","Because in a democracy, when you lose an election you concede. He's demonstrating, starkly and on a fairly big stage, that one of the two parties believes that the people have a right to determine their leaders.",1
"True. All I'm saying though is that Trump is also responsible for the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, he even admitted that he lied when he told Bob Woodward that he ""deliberately downplayed the threat of COVID-19 because he didn't want to cause a panic."" Yeah it may not have been as many deaths as the previous Republican president but Trump is still responsible for hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths too.","But don't forget that Trump era regulatory roll backs, public health policies in general and then his covid response led to the unnecessary death of hundreds of thousands of people too.",0
Blaming Democrats for things Republicans vote against is just par for the course for your average American conservative.,Are these classic conservatives (that are more closely aligned with today's Democrats) or extremists that dominate the Republican party in the US? Pretty big difference.,1
"Midterms account for some swing in turnout, sure, but you can't account for a 500-vote difference by saying ""Well, it's a midterm"". There's something else going on with that. Nor does it explain Boebert doing worse in every county in her district than every other Republican candidate except Ganahl.","If you'd asked me a week beforehand, I would have guessed that Boebert had about the same chance of being ousted as MTG. There might actually be a chance in 2024, though.",0
"But I also really fucking hate hypocrites and these guys are among the first to go ""tHaTs NoT iN tHe CoNsTiTuTiOn"" when gay people demand that their basic human rights be protected too.","I fucking hate the ""tHaTs NoT iN tHe CoNsTiTuTiOn"" arguments. Just because something isn't spelled out in the constitution, doesn't mean it isn't a protected right.",0
"What we call ""temperature"" is nothing more than the speed of atoms. This sounds like a made up number, because it does not mean that you could even use it to cook an egg. What is does mean is that those atoms will be going very fast for a very short amount of time. In that time, they may achieve fusion.","Fusion refers to two atoms fusing into one. The gotcha here is that every atom’s nucleus is positivity charged, so they want to repel each other. Also, because of inverse square law, the closer you get to nuclei together, the stronger they repel each other. That strenh grows exponentially (squared) the closer they are together. However, if you can overcome that force enough and get their nuclei close enough together, the weak (or strong, I can’t recall) nuclear force takes over and pulls the atoms together, achieving fusion and releasing, and this is the technical term, a fuck-ton of energy.",1
"If someone takes a job out of the US but maintains residency in the US, then, from your explanation we should agree taxes to US are due.","I’m not too concerned how other countries operate as I agree with the US that if I want to maintain my citizenship and it’s benefits, then I should expect to pay some form of taxes.",0
"Going into election night, I expected the worst and hoped for the best and came out very pleasantly-surprised.","Watching The Hill's feed that is mostly focused on the crowd and all I can think of, ""ah, so these are the traitors of Democracy.... The ones who'd be right at home chanting Make Germany Great Again in another era."".",0
Yes but no. They got out more energy than the lasers put in. But the lasers themselves and all the supporting machinery that power them used orders of magnitude more energy than that in order to produce the laser light pulse.,"""While the pellet released more energy than the lasers put in, the calculation does not include the 300 or so megajoules needed to power up the lasers in the first place. The NIF lasers fire about once a day, but a power plant would need to heat targets 10 times per second. Then there is the cost of the targets. The ones used in the US experiment cost tens of thousands of dollars, but for a viable power plant, they would need to cost pence. Another issue is how to get the energy out as heat."".",1
This isn't a game of civ... You can't just start a war against one of the largest countries in the world with enough nukes to blow half the world to hell on the idea that they haven't maintained their nuclear capabilities...,"The reality is that no western country would ever risk a direct military conflict against a country with nuclear weapons capabilities. Furthermore , historically , there is a repeated underestimation of the effects /challenges of an invasion into Russia . The loss of life on natos end would be catastrophic. Redditors have to stop masturbating to the notion that Russia has to be taken down by a unified western presence... It would be utterly catastrophic.",0
"In essence, doing what they can to be the best representation of what they believe Christ is exemplifying and teaching. If you want that to mean gaining and exhibiting some kind of forceful power to put down anything that’s not that, you’re not going to find it in that kind of Christianity. Maybe that invalidates that kind of faith to you, and that would be understandable, but perhaps right wing Christian nationalism is going to be its own undoing eventually anyway.",You don’t have to be an expert in Christianity to know nationalism under a Christian umbrella is not fuckin heresy lol…and when you throw words around like that only idiots will take you serious.,1
This isn’t just FIFA. Qatar is just as open to blame. Just because there wasn’t a documentary about Qatar doesn’t mean they’re blameless here.,Lol if Qatar thought this would bring them tourism or rehab their image for anywhere that isn’t a Muslim majority nation then they’re delusional.,1
"Great. So any ambassadors who get called to Turkey to talk about this, simply start out with “Russia is doing this, you know this, we don’t have anything to talk about.“.","If I were Turkish I'd be embarrassed, but I know enough Turkish people to know most are going to just double down or disregard. Religious ire seems to fill the void Erdogan left in their wallets.",1
"The effects of this release, and whatever they are they aren't zero, conveniently won't get reflected in the statistics this group shares when they say Fission is the safest, purest, most wholesome power source god has given man.","I dont believe nuclear power is anywhere near safe enough yet, and I believe nuke power advocates are way too eager to risk the ruination of entire continents in the name of conserving them...",1
The state will be free to form it’s own legislation and internal structure with no oversight by any entity. Free association means the US would take care of defense and maybe also foreign policy.,"OK, so this is a discussion about Compacts of Free Association with the US. Currently three countries have entered into such compacts: Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia. None of these countries was ""taken from the Spanish during the Spanish American war in the late 19th century... to expand American colonial reach."".",1
Your example would only make sense if the US had entered those countries to fight another foreign invading nation.,Afghanistan would have if they were fighting a foreign nation invading their country. Oh wait that's exactly what they did. The major reason Afghanistan and Iraq were huge failures was because they used their ingenuity and adaptability to fight the foreign invading nation (the US).,0
"Crazy the crimes one person can commit and see no consequences if they’re well connected. What the fuck is he? King of America? Lock this fuck up for fucking fucks sake. Jesus Christ, is our justice system really this transparently a joke? I spent the night in Jail for blowing under the legal limit and driving too slowly, we can’t put this fool in jail for any of the crimes he’s committed?","He has been eligible to be charged with any crime committed in office for almost two years now, so the ""you can't indict a sitting president"" excuse is long gone.",1
"And saying that the massacres they committed against us are unrealvent is just disrespectful, my family got killed because of the Ukrainians in WW2 and my grandma lost her entire family because of them either way Ukraine is against Israel.","Also last century stuff? Ukraine literally never voted for Israel security in the un they even voted to disarm Israel from it's nukes last week, if they want our support they have to support us too.",0
Ya the same people who call a BTR a tank. If you listen to people who know the difference between a AK47 and a T90 the speculation is how many missile do they have left and how many do they feel they need to keep in reserve.,"Older, less-effective stuff they have in storage, import weapons (which seem to be mostly Iranian and maybe North Korean), and whatever they're able to accomplish with air strikes and lesser artillery.",1
"The 12 is such dogshit it’s unlikely to catch on like the earlier models did. Can’t hold a zero, unreliable, you can break the fire selector switch because the stopper doesn’t work. Just a mess of a rifle.",AK pattern rifles yes. AK 47s although haven't been produced for awhile. Original milled rifles from the 50s and 60s can be quite rare depending on where you are in the world.,1
"Judaism doesn't proselytize. It actively tries to dissuade people to convert. A major belief in judaism is free will and also the belief that one doesn't have to be jewish in order to reach ""heaven"", they just need to be a good person. Therefore, there is no need to ""save"" others by trying to make them Catholic or Muslim. This is not the same for those religions though, which can explain some of their various conquests.","But ok, we can use your source. Largest percentage still is directed at Jews. Despite being about 2% of the population. Still supports my argument that Jews aren't safe in the US.",0
"Once Russia descends into inevitable civil war, NATO will move in and remove their nukes like they did to Ukraine.","We’re not talking about russia losing in Ukraine, we’re talking about escalating the conflict by annexing a country into NATO. Also, there are a few ways shapes and forms Russia losing in Ukraine could result in nuclear war, they might not be likely, but impossible?",1
"I mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.","22% of people want another Republican vote in the House, and wouldn't care if it were the reanimated bones of Hitler himself who casts the vote as long as it's Republican.",1
"Well, Republicans have been stifling voting rights since I was old enough to know Republicans exist.",Republicans attacking voting rights is the current battle that we must win. But the sentiment expressed above is the forever war.,1
"You can plot an intercept course, but are you fast enough to catch the missile? Is it easier to hit a target that is going 20MPH or 60MPH? Why would a faster baseball be harder to hit for the batter?","A very fast baseball is harder to hit for a human. A camera, computer and robotic arm can hit every baseball every time no matter how slow or fast.",1
"Correct. The postwar US Strategic Bombing survey concluded German industrial capacity wasn’t hurt by the bombings. While the bombs definitely destroyed facilities, Nazi Germany made sure to distribute the location of wartime production and machine toolings to ensure few disruptions from Allied bombing.","Leaving aside the ""terror"" aspect of bombing civilian targets, at least the carpet bombing of WWII did impact Germany's military industrial capacity, but Ukraine is getting most of its new equipment from outside its borders.",1
"We already have been allowing Erdogan to wage his war against the Kurds for like what, 2 years now? We're still allowing him to murder Kurds. And before that we allowed him to in the Syrian war who then . Let's not pretend that NATO is not implicit in this when we conveniently turn a blind eye on turkish fascism.","I'm not talking about the PKK but the YPG. The assaults on them in Syria, on foreign soil, are definitely part of Erdogan's term. And as far as I know is Turkey the only country that considers YPG a terrorist organisation.",0
"His base are more than happy to either be spoon fed headlines so they don’t have to hear the story, or the information they consume has to be so dramatically compelling that it turns into an episode of the xfiles.",The key word you’re including though is he wasn’t marketed like that to anyone who did any of their own research.,0
"But I'm sure the congressmen in the crosshairs would say ""Separation of powers. Executive branch has no say over internal workings of the legislature. Also, DOJ only enforces criminal laws which this isn't."" dollars to doughnuts they'll say the same thing when someone sues them. ""Separation of powers, judicial branch cant do anything about internal workings of the legislative branch."".","The way the Courts are these days, it would be a shame if someone filed 34 suits in the home states of each of those congressman, and some of them were removed or resigned and control of congress returned to the Democrats.",0
It diverged because I mentioned Romania and Moldova's relationship becoming as strong as the Baltics have.,"Personal, as fi foarte de acord pentru unirea Romaniei cu Moldova dupa scaderea sentimentului pro-rus. stii? Atata tot.",1
Who cares if the gun is legal or not? The question was where he got it. Bought it in the 70s and kept it hidden is a fairly likely answer.,"Read the comment thread prior to this point. One dude asked where the gun came from, another dude answered and a 3rd dude tried to “win” the discussion by bringing up legality like he was slam dunking everyone.",0
If you think Ukraine and Russia are in some “Battle of Britain” style air to air fight then you need to dig deeper into the situation in Ukraine.,Ukraine is in no position to engage in an air defense suppression campaign. Plus that would mean sending NATO airframes inside Russian border. It is not happening.,0
"Can anyone explain that to me, because why would his own team be searching for further evidence of his illegal appropriation of classified docs?",Because if we can't rely on our institutions and checks and balances and believe this is a country of laws and justice for everyone .... ? It's all just a bad joke on all of us peons who weren't born wealthy and privileged. Fuck them.,0
He did call a random guy a pedophile with no proof once upon a time. It's just back then he was busy running companies people believed in that he bought after they already had a successful plan and good people in place. Now he's running Twitter into the ground and people are shocked to find out he kinda sucks at running companies.,"At Twitter, there is no management layer steering the ship, it's just him, and so far he's a disaster. The only way to make his management look competent is to claim he's purposely trying to tank the company. I think the simplest explanation, that he's out of his depth, is the most likely.",1
"He didn’t deserve the radical conservative label back in 2012, just like Obama didn’t deserve the communist label being thrown at him during his election years either. I certainly preferred Obama, but a Romney presidency would’ve been okay, and I’d definitely prefer it to the shit show we’ve witnessed from 2016-present.","(I'll probably hold my nose and vote D, anyway, but the two major parties really need better candidates).",1
"Also it seems to be that while the Russian military is of course engaging the Ukrainians, they seem to be focused on killing civilians more so than military.","I think you’re right. If it’s 1:1 then ukraine has Been suffering he’s only for pushing Russia back, which wouldn’t be sustainable whatsoever.",0
"Cuts don’t just make it cheaper to take money out of the company, it makes it cheaper to hold onto income for future investments if nothing immediate is available. It also increases foreign investment, which increases productivity.","This is a very simplistic view. Cuts change the incentives for certain hiring credits like the WOTC, which impacts hiring decisions. Cuts also raise the rate of return on new investments and raise the cash flow on those investments. They can also boost long term growth through improving productive capacity.",0
He recalled that the enemy had already used more than 210 such missiles in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.,"In the context of this conflict though, it seems pretty explicit that the Russians are going after civilian targets. They're open about going after civilian power and water infrastructure and we have intercepted communications of troops stating they were ordered to aim at civilian buildings. Looking at how entire cities are being leveled it'd take some mental gymnastics to believe there were sticking to military targets.",1
"In the US. Labor productivity has increased 300% between 1950 and 2018. Why should none of that go towards longer retirements? Labor generates 3 times more wealth today than it would have in 1950, yet most of that money is not translating into the hands of the actual laborers. Obviously, France is a different country but they face similar issues even if the numbers end up being different.",Wealthy inequality has only gotten worse across the World. It does not always have to and should not always fall on those doing the actual labor to sacrifice while the rich just continue to make more and more money.,0
"2) weapons are being sent and reported with cash values such that aid packages always show a cash value that could skew perspective of, again, actual debt taken by the US Gov.","What is the basis of the dollar value ascribed to any equipment sent, is it replacement cost, is it original procurement cost, is it a current cost relative to a sensible depreciation schedule.",0
"I don't understand why the government stopped buying. (I'm from Europe btw.) I can imagine you want private healthcare, as that is mostly about your own health. However vaccins are at least as much about not infecting others as it is about not getting sick. Societal benefits of covid vaccins are huge, but who's going to pay 100 dollar to get a vaccin?",Increasing the price from $15-16 to $110-130 per vaccine is not a normal mark up. Raising the price by 800% is pure greed and has nothing to do with supply and demand.,1
"Yeah. It looks like the national Democrats (leadership, I mean…the progressives are out for blood) are going along with it and playing nice for now. No way to predict what Arizona Democrats are going to do.","Democrats do need to be careful though not to overplay their hand in Arizona. Everyone wants a progressive Democrat for this seat. And the Democrats have done reasonably well in Arizona lately. However, Arizona is NOT a far left state. Kari Lake was only 17,000 votes short in the governor race. If Sinema does run as an independent, I don't think anyone knows for sure how that's going to change the electorate. Analysts seem to be all over the map. Some say it will make little difference. Others say it will be a mess. And some say it will hand the seat the GOP. No one knows.",1
"But this is neither of those things. The proposed bill is to tax unrealized gains. Hell, even to tax assets weather they have gains or not.","Not to mention that a wealth tax is dumb as hell. Tax income. Not enough? Tax it some more. Newer, higher brackets. I like the Eisenhower rates, so long as it's adjusted for 70 years of inflation.",0
"Because Iran getting nuclear weapons would just set off a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region. You can bet on both Saudi Arabia and Turkey seeking nuclear weapons, with Israel militarizing even further, and much more offensive military action in Yemen, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, and Iraq.",Will be interesting to see if the US/Israel try to drum up support for any military action (see places like Saudi Arabia for instance).,1
"this is why i've begun to feel that the cops that stand by and watch, who do nothing when this shit is going on, are actually worse than the ones actually doing shit. it's the cops standing by watching that enables these mother fuckers to get away with murder. if the ""good"" cops actually got involved and stopped something i might agree that there is such a thing as a good cops, but until that day they are all the same.","exactly, there are a lot of people out there, like my family, that think when cops lose their shit it's always justified. i was watching the news with my parents a few years ago. they live in texas. a story came on about a couple of customs agents in Laredo that got busted for taking $10K per semi full of drugs they waved through. my step mother started defending the customs agents because ""who could turn down that kind of money"" and on the other hand wants drug dealers summarily executed. as long as those in authority are abusing the correct people there's nothing to excuse, they're just doing their job. /s.",0
"This is why we need a multiparty, ranked choice system. When you have a political duopoly, people just vote AGAINST a candidate instead of FOR a candidate and we call that dEmOcRaCy.","I'm worried that DeSantis will be superficially ""not Trump"" enough to lure swing and ""Independent"" voters back to voting for the side that wants to end democracy.",1
"I'm not arguing for appeasement. The exact opposite of appeasement looks like North Korea, and I'm not arguing for this either. The original comment I'm responding to was.","Do you know where the term banana republic comes from, and the history of these places? This is not the time of place for this discussion, but the reality is every government is responsible for some evil. Some like Russia is very much intentional evil. The evil of other governments may come in the form of unintended consequences most of the time.",0
"To be fair, before he attempts to expand government it's probably good to get rid of the corrupting forces and finish the war for their very survival first.","I mean the corruption is affecting the war, it isn’t as if resources aren’t being co-opted by these corrupt officials that can be used to fuel the war effort.",1
"They want time off, not just sick time, but time like weekends. The shitty rail companies have those workers coming in nonstop. Some people don't even get a day off until weeks later.","I thought the railroad workers wanted guaranteed unpaid leave, I like the idea of 7 to 14 sick days, but they wanted to be able to have weekends and not be called into work for another shift.",0
"Of course malice happens plenty, but so so often people fail to appreciate the complexity of doing just about anything in the modern world, and how many issues stem from that alone.","People usually overlook the fact that decisions are made in large organizations by a lot of people, each of whole see only part of the situation. When you look at the whole thing from the outside, things often look too stupid and obvious to be accidental, but it wasn’t that way to the people making the mistake.",0
Where are those people who thought it would be a good idea to have a deal with Iran? Do you think that none of this would have happened if the US wouldn't have pulled out of that shit? Maybe Iran would be a US ally against Russia and just quit all its bullshit in the middle east?,"Edit: the Ayatollah wasn't your sweetheart. Unrequited love is tough. I get it, but you have to move on.",0
"Because you look to the fringe, literal Nazis and white supremacists in this case, you have no rational outlook. You should feel shame, but I suspect you have no issues because they are your kind of people.","You can have sympathy for them. I certainly do. The story of them being ordered to dig trenches in the Red Forest has stuck with me for the better part of this year. But if they're not killed, and they do not leave, they will kill innocent people, take their homes, and contribute to genocide, whether it was their idea or not.",1
"While I agreed with the overwhelming majority of Biden's message, he stumbled on his words an awful lot, and I thought sure that this was going to do little more than give the GOP an hour's worth of footage to cherry pick so they can show how ""senile"" Biden is.","I don't understand how you can watch Biden get bills passed through an eye of the needle in Congress, and then rag-doll the Republicans the way he did last night, and still scream ""Biden's senile A younger progressive could be even more effective"".",1
"They never had a conscience to begin with. At least in the past, they worked to maintain the pretense of morality. This at least kept their more radical followers from trying to say … overthrow the government, openly attempt to rig elections, or shoot up a gay nightclub.","In the past, overtly fascist candidates like Trump, MTG, etc. wouldn’t have made it through the primaries. Conversely, establishment candidates like Reagan, Bush and Dole would never get elected today.",0
"Surprisingly, less of an issue than you might suspect. If you are willing to accept a longer commute, you can just stay outside of Tokyo and work there using the shinkansen (high speed train). They may not be quite as everywhere as, say, Swiss trains, but they are a fine train system.","Heck, I could see some families to other locations on the network for this if they can find a place in the new city that is closer to a station even if they still work in Tokyo.",0
"The NGO Swissaid told the news agency that ""this gold has obviously been stored in vaults in London or in free warehouses for a long time and is therefore not affected by the sanctions"". It is probably gold of Russian origin that was exported before the sanctions or even before the war, the NGO's media office said when asked.","This is despite a ban since August 3, 2022, on the direct and indirect import of gold from Russia, after Switzerland joined the European Union embargo on Russian gold exports.",0
"Also, I have have never tuned into Fox. The only times I have heard his voice is some clips on the internet or other shows. But I still hear his disgusting voice when reading the quotes in the article. I need a shower now.",Unreal. I didn't think I could despise this guy any more. Of course he also betrays friends in public for his own good.,0
"The Russians are just pissing their money away on missiles, and making it harder and harder to ever rebuild their relationship with Ukraine.","If russia were trying to destroy Ukraine's logistics with these strikes, the targets would be things like factories and transport infrastructure. People can point to the power infrastructure attacks but that's really not the ideal way to go about things- militaries can use portable generators, and if you're taking out military industry it's a lot more cost effective to hit factories rather than power stations that can shift load and be repaired/replaced rather quickly, as evidenced by Ukrainians consistently restoring power within days of attacks. Factories are centralized points that can take months or years to restore to operation, depending on the damage.",1
"P.S. It doesn't have to be defined in the state Constitution, just in the law. For example, the federal Civil Rights Act is where a lot of federal class protections are defined and it's a law, not a Constitutional Amendment.","Like I said, I think the notion that anti-vaxxers deserve special treatment is baloney, but that's the argument.",0
Now we know that it's necessary to do so rather than write rules that they want the legislature to follow.,"The districts as drawn by the commission have a slight republican favor just due to the natural sort of geographic sorting of people, right?",0
Maybe it’s just the quality of your students then because there’s a bunch of responsible students and children that have cell phones in school with no issues.,"I think you’re right that given the choice of paying attention in school or scrolling social media on a phone, most kids would prefer to be on their phone.",1
"The rapid accelerated death of Russia is what we are all watching, if we do see One Million dead, combined with longer the youth that fled Russia stay away, the less likely they are ever to return.","My thought is that the ratio of deaths on the Russian side will continue to escalate this year, as Ukraine rolls out more armor and weaponry + the Russian jam less and less trained and lower moral conscripts into the hellstorm.",1
"Y'all Am I reading this right? My German Schadenfreude is high right now. I know nothing will happen to him...but maybe it'll create some ripple, maybe.","""He also claimed credit for Mr DeSantis’ 2018 election victory over former Tallahassee, Florida mayor Andrew Gilluim and said he “fixed” Mr DeSantis’ 2018 campaign and used the FBI and Department of Justice to swing that election to the Republican.",0
Yeah sure fuck over Florida’s high school students trying to avoid debt and get a college degree without rich parents.,"Parents are gonna love giving their kids a disadvantage heading into college! Oh wait, these idiot Republicans are willing to sacrifice their kid’s future to win the political game and stick it to the other side.",1
"It means that the profile of someone who will retire at 62 and get the full pension is someone who started working at 19yo (or possibly someone who started a little later but got ""bonus time"" from harsh jobs or raisin children or other exceptions).","So, while raising the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 may indeed allow to collect more retirement contributions from worker (as well as decreasing the amount or retirement pension to pay!), this specific aspect of the reform is perceived as disproportionately penalizing poorer, diplome-less workers (who possibly have a lower life expectancy on top of that). And when the government pushing this project claims that it's for protecting our redistributive tax system, it's really starting to sound like BS. Hence the angry population.",0
"Yep. It's not genuinely about her school grades; that's simply an estimate for her decision-making capacity, which is the cover story for the basic forced-birther position. They don't actually care about her academic potential.","Correct. The default / bias position for this asshole is that more children should be born, regardless of the details in any given case. He just needs to occasionally pretend that he'll consider ruling otherwise.",0
"It's the trolley problem, except the two options are a) you go to jail for a few years or b) you participate in a war when people are being raped, tortured, and killed.","Well considering these mobilized are given the choice between prison and likely torture for refusing to serve, or go to war but be told their.",1
I mean. From my point of view they should all legitimately be in jail but if asking them not to become our leaders of the best we got I might as well just leave.,I had a friend from college who took the pill and went there and even though I care about him I still think he should face the consequences.,0
"It's really funny because the site makes it look like there is a detailed platform that users can click, beyond the few sentence blurb. They say, ""Learn More About Our Platform and Where We Stand"" and the link is called ""Learn More."".",Right. The nuclear secrets narrative has died down. Feels like if it he had stolen something that sensitive he'd be in cuffs.,1
I haven't seen any evidence of a lost logging source harming anyone. There are some pictures out there that purport to be from exposure to logging sources but they are from different incidents with pipeline inspection sources and X ray beams. I don't have all the knowledge in the world about this subject but I did research it to train people and I haven't found any evidence of injuries.,FOLLOW THE ADVICE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES AT ALL TIMES. IF YOU SUSPECT THAT YOU HAVE FOUND A RADIOACTIVE SOURCE OR IF YOU HAVE FOUND SOME WEIRD MATERIAL DON'T TOUCH IT AND CONTACT AUTHORITIES.,0
Without accountability there's no repercussions for officers that refuse to adhere to training. And without raising the hiring standards you're just going to end up with more and more Derek Chauvins. Training alone can't fix this.,"Biden & Harris think throwing money at the problem will solve it, but training has its limits. It's not magic. It can't fix a broken system.",0
"The universe of GOP staffers is a notoriously small one, where even the most diametrically opposed Republican politicians often have overlapping orbits between their staffs. But there are two GOP stars with remarkably little overlap: Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.",DeSantis has nowhere to run except to compete on how more unAmerican he can be than Trump. He really can't compete on fame or swagger and cults tend to be extremely resistant to just jumping to a new Messiah.,1
Like I know I sound like an utter caveman here but how do prevented goals matter at all? They had the same effect on the game as someone sitting on the ball for 2-3 minutes.,"In football, there’s about 20-40 seconds of downtime between every single play. Some plays only last a few seconds. In soccer there is rare downtime, and when there is they add it back in at the end of the half.",1
"Imagine actually looking at this guy and using him as an example of a smart/strong/sane person. It's been 6 years and I literally can't understand how this man has any supporters. I feel like I lost all respect for 38% of the country. I used to think ""well they are ignorant, but they aren't necessarily dumb."".","I.e. being into expensive shoes, even if they're ugly or you don't wear them, is really no different than collecting guns, knives, old video game consoles, comic books, etc. It's not inherently less valuable than any other hobby, you're just not the target audience.",1
">But when I talk to my Republican colleagues who are not anywhere near a border — let’s say they’re in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee — they have the same problem. So there are solutions and we’re continuing to work on this. Our country would really benefit from stronger border security and comprehensive immigration reform.","its a pretty shit article, it leaves out a lot of context. especially how he also calls out the repubs for their bullshit rhetoric. they dont actually want to do anything about the border/immigration but constantly use it as a boogeyman to scare their voters.",0
"trump getting Russian money funneled through members of the gop, or more specifically members of the gop “aides” who I sure will with say they had no idea whatsoever this was going on or just call it a witch hunt.","It's weird how so many Republicans are funneling Russian money into their agendas, and how so many Republicans immediately took the side of Russia in the recent Ukraine conflict. And how Tump allowed Russian media and interviewers into a private meeting, Kushner creating a direct communication link to the Kremlin, and how McCain stated blatantly that Rand Paul was a Russian asset?",1
"the person you're answering to meant nobody but islam fundamentalists get this upset, so they're completely right in the sense that this attack (and probably the 2011 one) was caried out by people butthurt by the 2006 publication of the caricatures.","I think the correct response at this point is full-bore, non-stop mockery of Mohammad, the Quran, the whole stupid Shia/Sunni thing, and the precepts of Islam generally.",1
"While I'm a proponent of gun control legislation, state-by-state or city-by-city gun legislation is like a designated pee area in a pool. Gun control is most effective when it is universal.","There are ways to achieve similar results without guns. Like the mothers during BLM protests/rallies, where they'd come and stand a line against police or other instigators.",1
"Stopping this war to appease Putin to not throw as much Russian soldiers into the meatgrinder, and to force the Ukrainian to accept a defeat and loss of parts of their country, will not lead to long term better situation. I think we should continue to support Ukraine till they made sure that Putin will have gained nothing from this.","I'm anti-war, which is why I support giving weapons to Ukraine to defend itself. The Russian invasion was an unprovoked act of aggression and appeasing it will only encourage more Russian aggression.",1
"However on the other hand, this man’s bladder incontinence doesn’t reflect his ability to lead. Judge him on his policies sure, I know nothing about them so I won’t comment on them, but man he’s old, the pipes just stop functioning after a while.",Ahh figured be was just playing it off hoping it wasn’t noticeable. When I was like 3 or 4 I remember accidentally shitting myself in prekindergarten or kindergarten(hard to remember which) but playing it off like that haha.,0
"Direct Democracy would be insane in a country with over 330 million. For a Representative Democracy, the current system works well to prevent tyranny of the majority or the minority.","That is because it is more of a representative democracy than a direct democracy. We have ballot measures for direct democracy although those tend to work poorly because direct democracy works poorly. Understanding policy is a full time job which most people don’t have the time or interest to do. As a result, people here elect a person who they feel can spend the time to understand the policy in their place.",1
"Just make sure to use pillows to support your knees when sleeping on your side and it won't be a problem. a Pillow between the legs, and hugging another one will greatly help prevent shoulder and knee pain.","edit: PS, I discovered i had a lot of knee pain from sleeping on my side. Popping my knees and then making myself fall asleep on stomach or back made my knee pain completely disappear.",1
The green spectrum (532 nm) laser beam from an airborne bathymetric LiDAR system can penetrate up to 300 meters underwater.,There is no laser from space that can deliver enough power that will result in an underwater detection of a submarine.,1
"Jordan doesn't want the palestinians. These are the same palestinians that tried staging a coup in Jordan in the 1970's. Supposedly, when the idea came up before the Oslo agreement, of a confederation of some sort between the west bank and Jordan, Jordan's King Hussein was horrified at the idea, and couldn't understand how anyone would think he would agree to it., and made very clear why he totally rejects that as a solution).",Is this what Israeli residency/citizenship for palestinian looks like? Why would Israel ever consider giving citizenship to people that aspire to kill them?,0
"Kazakhstan might divert some of their own mixed, relabeled crude to Germany and import more crude from Russia to service their existing contracts.","But even if Russia agrees to some kind of swap, the question is: where would Kazakhstan find the extra crude to put into the Russian pipeline system in order to direct more to eastern Germany.",1
I didn’t indicate that this was a democrat problem or a republican problem. Most of our elected officials resemble a corruption-raddled third world kleptocracy. They get into office making $175k a year and get very rich. The only thing it appears they are great at is enriching themselves and putting the country into debt to do it. How is this not a problem for every democrat and republican voter.,Because it’s a one party issue. Democrats have created a budget surplus almost every single different POTUS in the last 40 years.,1
"If you’re saying the decision to admit Finland and Sweden is only a “danger” to Hungary because it will cut into the amount of money Orban will be able to get for himself and his cronies through illicit means, I’ll agree with you. 😉.","OTOH, refusing, not because this could be a legitimate threat to your country, but because you’re gleefully rubbing your hands together in anticipation of how much money/concessions you can extract would be an illegitimate reason.",0
Sinema is polling at 11%. Not a chance in hell she will get any campaign support to run with 11% numbers.,"That is what she is playing for now, because she won't get any campaign support when polling at 11%.",0
"It's not a deterrent. It's a punishment. It's also saving the risk they get out, and saving the cost of feeding them.","It's not a deterrent and its not about savings. He's specifically referring to two men who hacked up and nearly beheaded a man in the street. It's about punishment. I don't agree with the bloke but of those two murderers, one of them will be out of prison before the end of his life.",1
What is different about the vote count during a recount? Are the votes just put into the same tabulation machines and then they go with the second count? Or is a recount done by hand?,Basically I’m just wondering why it’s right to recount a difference of 20 votes but not a difference of one vote.,0
"Moscow-headquartered Yandex, the country’s dominant search engine founded by two Russian entrepreneurs, is hoping to transfer its most promising new technologies overseas and ditch most of its Russian business to avoid the effects of Western sanctions imposed after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia to Ukraine.","The EU sanctioned Yandex founder and then-CEO Arkady Volozh in June, accusing him of “materially or financially” supporting Russia’s invasion. Volozh resigned as CEO the same day. Yandex sold its news division to fellow Russian tech company VK in August.",0
150 years is just a blink of an eye there are people alive today who have grandparents who were enslaved.,To add onto that the Dutch created canals to specifically to displace native Indonesians from clean water and this system is still set in places in the infrastructure to this day.,0
"I dont think the West wants to pull India Away from Russia. First, the West needs a democratic India, an alignment of Values.","Second, a democratic, non-aligned India Could offer a model to Russia. The Russia- China alliance should not Last beyond the personal.",0
"Four days ago , Prime Minister Kishida's son, Shotaro who works as a Prime Ministerial Aide was accused of using a government car to go on a tour of London with .","""Coincidentally"" a couple days later this Arai guy who holds the same job title of Prime Ministerial Aide(総理秘書官) as the PM's son says incredibly controversial stuff and the PM has to punish him for it, which conveniently:",0
"I don’t trust much of what India claims about Pakistan, and, for the same reason, what Pakistan claims about India.","I am an Indian and it feels weird to defend Pakistan. India's position on Russia is hard, but fair. If it stops oil trade with and removes Russian oil entirely from market there would be economic crisis everywhere.",1
"That's why there are a couple videos from drones coming out each day of drone bombs impacting objects. They use the over watch drone for targeting and guidance for the smaller ""suicide"" drones. Even the loitering munitions that have built in cameras for the operators, like the Switchblade and Lancet, use over watch drones with better visual equipment untill they're in the final descent to the target.",A volley of Shahed 136 is launched in a direction and an overhead drone with visuals on targets sends the final radio signal for the targeting.,0
"No, that is not the populism were talking about. The relevant populism is dividing the population into a pure and idealized regular ""people"" vs an evil and scheming ""elite"". Hence right wing populists like the Trump movement hating ""the elite "" who they believe use minorities as a weapon to destroy our culture, and left wing populists who believe everything is the fault of ""the powers that be"" and ""the corporations"". Communism and fascism are both populist.",Democracy at it's core is populism. Majority rules based on what the majority finds popular. Self governance at it's core is populism. Governing yourself is more popular to you than having someone govern you.,1
"Which is a very simplistic few of the whole thing. There are plenty of countries with so many import taxes, VAT, etc, that goods are very clearly overpriced and would not be so pricey without all of that, because of undercutting. The price stabilizes usually at a point that grants profit leading to a 'desirable' level of growth.","With a monopoly, or in sectors where a coordinated effort to stabilize the price at a profitable range is possible, then removing the taxes imo is useless. There is no point in removing taxes on transactions like cars, in my opinion.",0
"The difference is that in Ukraine, the doubt was based solely upon Putin's decision to invade. In this case, it's much more about whether Russia can even get to the border.",That would require Russia to take back Kherson and to take over Odessa for this to be possible. I don't see either happening in early 2023.,1
"100+ M249 squad automatic weapons. M249’s love to eat ammo, which is why they’re sending 17.5 million 5.56 NATO rounds.",50+ M240 machine guns along with 2 million rounds of 7.62 NATO. (NOTE: other NATO members recently donated a couple dozen 240’s and millions of 7.62 rounds).,0
Russia's figures are off by a factor of ten from everyone else. Everyone else is Ukraine's numbers +/-10%.,"Yeah but then he goes on to say that every western intelligence service has their own estimate within 10% of the Ukrainean one. Does he think those services use satellites to count the dead or use Ukrainean front line reports and other indirect sources. Point is that we have no other direct source. Might as well use the Ukrainean numbers as a ballpark. And they wouldn't give accurate numbers on their own losses anyway so, the uncertainty is high there.",1
"How many shootings are full on man in a school or store with a gun murdering indiscriminately? I'm sure that's less that 3% of shootings. Of course people aren't stopping drive bys or stuff like that. You wanna use stats, use them correctly.",Technically it has. Guns have been allowed for 250 years in this country and I'm pretty sure crime has been on a steady decline since the early 90s. Never even got more violent after the AWB ran out of time.,0
"In Māori culture, great value is placed on many historically and culturally significant objects. Māori honour and preserve those artifacts.",What? Westerners are not the only people who preserve culture. The reason that many artifacts are in western museums and collections is because they were stolen from indigenous people.,0
"The Republicans won't do it in a way that will affect current SS beneficiaries, so the oldies can still stick their heads in the sand.","The GOP isn't that dumb, from the previous plans of theirs I've seen, they aren't going to end it for any current recipients. The younger generations would still have to pay into the system so the boomers could continue their benefits, but no one else would be admitted into it going forward.",1
"DeSantis has a short shelf life. He isn't weathering this while Trump wears himself out, he is looking weak by not defending himself. Trump has this luxury as a bully with no dignity to fling shit and not see the downside to himself.",It’s a classic Trump double whammy of insulting his pudgy and red faced appearance (bonus points for zero self awareness) and racism. This plus the ease with which it rolls off the tongue is why it has genuine sticking power (as opposed to the far less inspired “DeSanctimonious”).,1
"I am all up for appeasing Islam by saying all religions are the same but IMHO and with current statistics, Islam has been quite destructive when it comes to killing, raping, enslaving people coz of a holy book. That too in this century.",Merely stating some stories from the history of India doesn't do any justice to your earlier delusional argument of 'hindus commited as many atrocities as muslims' . Nor does it support this baseless claim. All it does is it tells me that you are just looking to win an argument.,0
"The fact that RepubliKKKans have been trying to save these statues is an insult to those who suffered and died while enslaved and to all those since who shed blood, sweat, and tears to promote equality and equal protection under the law.",And yet there are undoubtedly a ton of people upset by this and who think they are personally being attacked because they're not allowed to worship a public statue of a literal traitor and slave owner.,1
Not just that. They are getting the stripped down export versions of Russian shit. So not even as good as the actual Russian shit. And they plan on fighting China with this stuff?,"You keep bringing up non-sequiturs like China, which is not part of the argument. China does bad shit, up to and including genocide. That has very little to do with India buying Russian energy.",1
"And he is kinda correct. But the best part is when the host asks ""so why aren't we hitting it?"" ""Hmm.. because priorities - first energy sector, then control centers"".","TBH two platoons reached Pavlivka and were able to hold there with no Ukrainian soldiers in it (they moved to the secondary defense line to let artillery work) for about 24h, so they could kinda report that they took Pavlivka. Kinda.",0
apparently when he caught a felony gun charge in 2019 the DA let him plead it down to a misdemeanor + probation.,">He was charged with a felony, they reduced the charge as part of a plea deal and it was a misdemeanor for possesing a loaded firearm, part of the deal was he got to keep his firearm.",1
"""While the balloon was still in the air, American U-2 surveillance planes took images of it to determine its capabilities, the department said in a statement, adding that the balloon’s equipment “was clearly for intelligence surveillance and inconsistent with the equipment on board weather balloons.”.","Early in the Biden administration: they undertook an evaluation of all UFO type incidents and this review, coupled with other US espionage activity allowed them to identify the prior incidents and roughly plot the flights other balloons had taken.",1
EDIT: annexation of the West Bank would be catastrophic for both Israelis and Palestinians and should never happen.,If that's true then why are we seeing so many settlements being built on Palestinian land and settlers harassing Palestinians everyday.,1
I am confused by your comment. Do you mean to say that if a legislature legalizes slavery the prosecuters should protect slave owners?,I think one reason that our democracy has been so reselient is that we have democracy allocated at so many levels. The prosecutors are acting within their right here prioritizing the cases their community cares about (which they have the discretion to do according to state law). If a community feels that their prosecutor is doing a bad job keeping their community safe they can elect someone else.,0
"Let's be honest, the main reason Russia leaves them is because it puts a burden on Ukraine and the West. Due to the nobility and empathy, I don't think we would just let anyone die if they could be treated.","If Russia wasn't using these soldiers trying to get Ukraine to spend money/time/energy on POWs, I shudder to think of what they might otherwise be used for.",0
"He's probably too progressive (for Texas) to run for Senate, and he's older, but he seems focused on helping other candidates and at least agitating for better legislation and not higher office.","Don't get me wrong, he sounds like a stand-up guy, but listening to your constituents(all of them, not just the ones who like you) and working to advocate for their interests should be the baseline standard for any elected representative.",1
"I'd assume a majority of the 1M deaths. They didn't trust the vaccines, masks, distancing while crediting Trump for fast tracking the vaccine. It's both his fault and not his fault.","I'd agree with the first comment that I'm sure some of her voters passed from Covid so if that's the case, she might have kept a lead by now?",0
"The US does want Europe to increase their defense capabilities, but it’s not going to lead to the US reducing their budget which is what redditors often imply. The US spends 3.5ish percent of its GDP on defense. It’s a lot, but it’s not exactly extreme when compared to the 2% goal for NATO.","What really isn’t ever talked about is since the US produces nearly all weapons in house, most of that money is filtered back into the country. Most small nations purchasing military equipment can’t say the same, so that money sort of is ‘lost’.",0
"I mean, this doesn’t threaten the foundation of our country or democracy in any direct way, but it’s still pretty sleazy. It also has the net effect of pulling politicians further from the people they ostensibly represent.",People generally have a bad view of politicians who use their time in office to enrich themselves afterwards.,1
The absolute funniest way for this to end is for the gridlock to go on so long that a handful of moderate Republicans decide to vote for Jeffries just to get it over with so they can do literally anything else.,Will the right wing eco-system just attack them as RINOs or whatever slur they think is clever or will the recognize that democrats have only been gaining because they have been giving into the truly insane for the last few elections?,1
"Sure they can capitalise on this new market (which i have no doubt they will). But, once the levy breaks, they will have much more competition. It will become a seller's market since growing Cannabis is plenty easier and safer than setting up an alcohol destillary and hence harder to control.","At the moment there is a medicinal cannabis route in the UK, but for some reason privately (not as part of NHS), costly and downright invasive to attempt getting a license. Furthermore most police officers aren't even aware this license exists in certain parts of the country.",0
"Man, now I want Moroccan food. There was this awesome place near me run by a super cool, super talented Moroccan chef (when I say super cool, he taught Arabic and French at a local school, employed many students, paid well, treated them well, and taught them plenty while working). Sadly he couldn't get enough business to sustain it, but I don't think his end goal was to make a ton of money off it anyway. He considered it a ""project"" iirc. But damn it was good.","Which is 100% a good thing. The US should be helping pick up the tab here, and I am glad that my tax dollars helped pay for that as well.",1
I don't know why you would assume caste discrimination is already illegal. It's not obviously racial or ethnic as those terms are understood in the United States and I don't know what else it could possibly fall under as far as protected classes.,"I wouldn't say that it's exempted, but it's so poorly understood by Americans that it really needs its own definition. Just because _you_ might understand doesn't mean the HR lawyer at Microsoft who is trying to deal with a caste discrimination case understands it or knows of legal precedent.",1
"Face it, with Sam Brinton people high up in the Biden administration allowed a major failure of oversight to someone privy to National Security information. Trying to excuse that is pathetic. Suggesting that the administration is now displaying some sort of nuanced accountability (in the face of a blatant and obvious failure of exactly that accountability in the initial hiring of this individual) is unforgivably stupid.","Man that is some next level spin. BTW MSN seems to disagree. As the position is a role in Civil Service it was hired rather than appointed, regardless this person was undeniably elevated into their position in the DOE under direction of the Biden Administration that is not debatable.",0
When a system begins being used as a weapons system it becomes regulated under ITAR. When spaceX was being used for communications its a-ok as soon as it becomes a guidance system you are breaking the law. If the US enforced this it would make spaceX shutdown worldwide as it would not be viable for export.,SpaceX is upholding US law if the US lowers itself to ignoring law for war than they are not different. If you wish to remain the moral ones order must be maintained.,0
"Aliens could get in touch tomorrow and we must know what to say to them, scientists have warned, as they launched a new research hub to prepare humanity for first contact.","The team warn that although there are measures in place for dealing with threats posed by asteroid impacts, there is no agreed response if a radio signal were picked up from another intelligent lifeform.",0
"However, it's hard for Germany to do that when the US is offering cheap, or even free replacement tanks, which night mean a permanent end for the German tank export industry. Once you have American tanks, it's hard to switch back and once Germany no longer exports tanks, it's hard to start doing that again. The logistics problems of tanks go far beyond the battlefield.","Oh, right if we give them tanks to fight with, then it's no problem. But if we fix them, a definite red line has been crossed How could I have missed this.",1
"Addiction gripped the troops, constant theft of what was there, violence, some units completely unresponsive because of how knocked out they were because they were all high...","Doesn't matter, they're all cannon fodder - just get the next bunch of criminals and recruits / conscripts, pump them full of drugs and send them out to die.",1
"I'm not making fun of our American youngsters - I find this actually so saddening for us. Our culture makes this so much worse than it should, we put up with this bs yet feel powerless. I wish we were more like Italians but alas it takes a generation for any cultural change to even happen.","France: decent hours, 4+ weeks holiday + full August holiday, good community social system. ""Fuck this we demand more rights!"" while casually eating a croissant.",0
"Various western mouthpieces, they haven't said it was Russia, despite having the missile trajectories(according to NATO). And we know it was specifically likely PRODUCED in Russia(which SU-300 is). And Ukraine had SU-300 operating within range of the area that got hit. And we know SU-300 do this kind of thing. It all sort of leads to it being a Ukranian misfire of a SU-300. Or a Ukranian AA hitting a Russian missile and knocking it off course.","If this was just a Russian missile that misfired, NATO likely would have said so by now. They have the trajectory info. If it was that simple, it could likely be figured out in a few minutes.",0
This kind of undermines your whole point that maga voters can spoil elections. Surely there were people who voted Palin and didn't put Begich second due to him not being MAGA enough.,"I think you fundamentally misunderstand how ranked choice works. The final round of voting was just between Peltola and Palin, no other candidates, and Peltola won.",0
And NATO needs to be ready to act in retaliation if nukes are used or Russia does more shit on NATO soil.,"Russia's military and political system can be destroyed without the use of nukes in a ""World Vs Russia"" scenario.",0
"""Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."".",Yup. I don't want the AGs taking politics into this but man it would be terrible if he gets arrested before the court election.,1
"And like I said, no one needed to be bribed to vote for the left. The reasons I gave above is plenty. Plus no one had to vote for the left to receive relief. Its not some leftist ""perk."".","That’s his point. His position is that the Executive didn’t have the authority under the HEROES Act to enact this program, and that the correct branch is the legislative branch. Because the executive took the action that the legislative should have taken, Biden effectively prevented the plaintiffs from being able to comment/question the eligibility requirements. I don’t agree with the ruling at all, but that’s his conclusion.",1
"Let's be clear. Supporting Ukraine, a large country with a large population, and with several shared borders with NATO countries, and with 8 years to ramp up their preparedness after Putin's land grab in 2014, is a far easier prospect than somehow stopping Russia from overwhelming a tiny country like Georgia in the middle of central Asia. (And even that wasn't a full invasion.).","Not to mention this was a major invasion of an entire country, in the direction of Western Europe, who had specifically put up with Putin's shit on the condition he didn't make them feel like they might have to deal with a major invasion by Russia in Europe.",0
"That was one of my favorite conspiracy theories. Apparently, Hillary was smart enough to be able to get 3 million illegal immigrants to vote, but was so stupid that she had them all vote in safe blue California instead of in swing states.","Get three million illegals to vote in safe Blue California > campaign in Michigan , Wisconsin , Pennsylvania.",1
Except the defensive missiles don't really cost Ukraine anything and the West is happy to be able to have the real life proving ground for their defense systems.,"Edit: Because there was some confusion, I was talking about Russia using S-300 missiles to attack ground targets, not using S-300s for AA defense. That is why the cost comparison between S-300 missile and Shahed drone is relevatant.",1
I wonder if it is coincidence that most of accounts glooming and worning about the strenh of russian nuclear arsenal are those one created after February 2022.,"When Russia was using nuclear capable cruise missiles a few weeks back, there were substantial comments that the debris field around the impact contained no radioactive material. Apparently Ukraine (or someone with long range weapon identification capability) realized rather quickly what type they were, and wanted to tell equally quickly if they were a deliberate non-warhead payload, or a real payload that failed to detonate. Crappy world we live in when those questions need to be answered in minutes.",1
"I could see one depending on what Ukraine would accept, as I don’t think the rest of the world (especially Europe) wants this to continue and potentially turn nuclear.","“Breakaway” regions return to Ukraine, though potentially act as some de-militarized zone without any formal EU or NATO bases.",0
"Before allowing Sweden and Finland to join NATO, Turkey is playing their ""swing vote"" position and ostensibly want from Sweden (to give up Kurds that Sweden has been sheltering), however they also have lonerm interests in Russia (as a balance to the West, economic, military etc).",If Turkeys plan is to be in NATO to sabotage any chances of countries that Russia wants from getting in then we just need to kick Turkey out of NATO and proceed with getting Sweden and Finland into NATO.,1
"Hmmmm... Unlikely. We do t have many, they are mostly in the Baltic nations backfilling for Soviet tanks already forwarded to Ukraine. And they don't use NATO standard ammo or barrels.","They will certainly be able to operate closer to Ukraine's air defence without detection, and relay data back to other aircraft, but they can't get as close as F-22/35 etc.",0
"Obviously, Moldova does not intend to do that, and neither does Russia intend to drop claims to Transnistria.","Russia wants all of Moldova under the control of Russia, with Transnistria either as a puppet state enabling that control or eliminated once they've outlived their usefulness.",1
"1. Reducing staffing levels at in-station ticket offices, and ultimately closing them down together in response to increasing use of online and in-app ticket purchasing.","I'm generally pretty pro-workers and pro-union, but I wish they would be more pragmatic here. Innovation, efficiency, and growth are good for all stakeholders in the railway industry. That may mean short-term job cuts, but if it makes railways more attractive and leads to the building of new tracks, opening of new routes, re-development of stations and facilities, upgrades to hardware, etc. this ultimately benefits railway workers as well by creating new jobs. A stagnant railway industry with low margins and outdated operations will be unable to develop and create high-paying jobs. Unions should accept job cuts and focus their negotiations on salaries for those that will keep their jobs, and for fair settlements, including re-training, for those who are made redundant.",0
"The UN expert panel, convened by Guterres after UN climate talks in Glasgow last year, set its sights on drawing a ""red line"" around greenwashing in net zero targets from companies, cities and regions.",A central recommendation from the panel is that net zero plans must be in line with the Paris Agreement's most ambitious aim of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.,0
It is “impossible” in the sense that it wouldn’t protect against the high velocity of Russian missiles or the large number of artillery.,"Only for a short time, until Russia runs so low on rocket ammo that they can’t fire more than they can produce.",1
"That entire massive 'lake' in the center of Ukraine is the reservoir created by this dam. If they blew the dam, the results would be catastrophic.","I saw the video, it looked like they were trying to take out the bridge over the dam without destroying the dam itself. They want to slow the Ukrainian's ability to follow them over the river.",1
"Also, while I do agree that uniforms probably do reduce bullying, let's not mislead other readers about what is the main reason for bullying.","While that night be true, it's been proven that uniforms actually level the playing field between students, prevents bullying and reduces peer pressure. Not to mention is cheaper for families that can't afford new clothes every year.",1
"Not defending the practice of paying slaveowners reparations back in the day, just explaining the reasoning for it back then.","None of this is an excuse for the abhorrent practice of slavery, or makes it any less terrible. One person owned by another was ONE TOO MANY. It was an ugly business that we shouldn't white wash but we also need to stop painting all pre-war southerners as evil and complicit.",0
"The next state to watch, without a doubt, is Wisconsin. On April 4th, there's a State Supreme Court election. The Court is currently 4-3 R, and has upheld their gerrymandered maps. If the Court switches to Dem control, there's a great opportunity to sue for fair maps, win back control, and pass some incredible policy.","Worse than that, in the dem proposed voting rights bill CA & NY would be placed on preclearance while many red states that were on it would be released. This is due to the formula being updated to recent violations.",1
"It's also worth noting that ""russifying"" of Russian commercial aircraft began years ago, in reaction to concern over how sanctions would effect aircraft imports, as well as joint ventures like the Superjet.","Not only are they unable to fly in countries where Russian airlines have been banned, but they're also at increased risk- and a risk that's possibly not worth it- if they fly to any country where it's theoretically possible that the Western owners could have the planes seized and repossessed by legal means.",1
"Beat me to it. A hallmark of fascist thinking is that the state must always be under threat from a foreign force/populace while simultaneously being superior to all foreign forces/populaces. It allows them to stoke paranoia in the public, convincing them to hand over more policing authority to the state, while simultaneously glorifying the nation and, by extent, every decision made by the state. It also excuses or justifies anything done to foreigners as they are inferior and would do worse so you can't be wrong for any kind of pre-emptive barbarism.","To be clear, the above isn't the sole defining trait of fascism, so while the above can apply to the USA to a degree, that doesn't make it fascist (yet. Try to keep Republicans out). Russia meets other criteria too.",0
The war we are seeing in Ukraine is between 2 relatively equal opponents. They’re relatively equal because neither side has definitive air superiority; if that wasn’t the case…this war would probably already be over (over with a lot of partisanship if Russia had won so not really a win).,"The military world Patton lived in was closer to world war 1 than it is to modern conflicts (both in terms of time, strategy, and the scale of forces at play in the war being fought) he cannot/should not be used as first reference point when deciding military strategy in modern conflicts.",0
There is no price cap. India is already getting things at a discounted rate in exchange of not joining other countries that are trying to enforce a price cap.,"India is NOT paying above the ""price cap"". India is paying at a price which is decided between India and Russia (which is already heavily discounted). The deal is that India must not join other nations on enforcing a price cap. Till India keeps their nose out of it India will keep getting oil at discounted rates. If India were to join other countries in enforcing a price cap its relationship with Russia will go sour for almost no benefit.",0
"You're describing the cause, not the thing itself. People dropping someone or something en masse is being cancelled. The boycott or social media campaign that led to it is what caused it. The GOP senator in question is still a member of the GOP because she still has their support. She's still one of them. If she's still considered one of them then she cannot, by definition, be cancelled.",Has she been recalled? Is she out of a job and out of the party? No. She has not been cancelled. Someone made an official statement claiming that they don't agree with her decision. That is quite literally all that happened. Nothing more. Cancelled = you no longer work in this industry.,0
"If anything it's a good sign, because if people were getting poorer the world over fertility would be going up, not down.",A declining birthrate is not necessarily a bad thing. It is usually an indicator that a society is prosperous (such as wealth and educated) and tend to have less children as a result.,1
"Here, let's save taxpayers the money for this sham non-investigation of a made-up Republican fake nonscandal and tell the public what the results of the investigation actually are.",Good to see our tax payer dollars are being put to good use and not on frivolous investigations that will result in anything actionable that benefits the American public. /s.,1
He's basically shooting himself in the foot..or wallet I should say. Twitter has basically become a forcefield deterring any chance of ad revenue. Good job Elon. Confusing hate speech with free speech will eventually cost you a fortune.,"Classical liberals thought that freedom of speech was worth its cost - people abusing speech to denigrate. But there was a check built in - the ""marketplace of ideas."" Rather than maintaining peace through force, liberals thought that morality and rationality would prevent atrocious ideas and speakers from gaining too much sway. Ever the optimists on human nature, liberals thought that most people would recognize dangerous ideas for what they were and not put any stock into them.",1
"Yeah but, if it doesn’t matter why is it on there? I’m not just gonna take your word on it, if it was designed to be filled out it must be filled out. Elections are a serious thing, you shouldn’t just assume they know the numbers and will be 100% honest to them, any law that could further cut back a chance of corruption im all in for.",It wasn't an attempt Republicans have been vastly successful with 'guilty until proven innocent' in the voting booths while constantly getting caught for trying to rig elections themselves. They've already been caught in this election with fraudulent military ballots.,1
"Instead of designing a ballot as a test of strategy where some ways of filling it out leave voters poorly represented, the ballot should ask only for the information that is needed to determine a voter's best strategy, and take that strategy out of individuals' hands. It turns out that means using only the ranking.","Eh. Instant runoff, which is what everyone means by ranked choice, is a start. Better than what most of the country does now. But don't set it up like some kind of ideal. It's another broken system that's a little less broken than what we're doing already.",0
"I think they’re actually just idiots wasting what Putin gave them in exchange for those artillery shells that literally every intelligence agency on Earth saw N.Korea give the Russians (via giant damn trains), but which they both deny ever happened.","Putin has probably been giving him the rockets to distract from Ukraine too, this is why he’s stoking a fire in Serbia-Kosovo too. He thinks he’s smart, but no one gives a toss about N.Korea, the annoying Chihuahua of the world.",0
"What’s so frustrating about this is that it’s school principals being quoted. Teacher here, our lives are FAR worse than that of a principal. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a cake walk to be a principal either. But they make our lives hell. Not only are we so often the first people to get screamed at, we also have to deal with bull shit bureaucracy from principals. It’s fucking awful enough to be a teacher and now I have to do additional lesson plans, curriculum maps, oh, and I have to handle discipline myself because admin won’t do shit.","I teach in a rural, poverty stricken area. So it’s not a culture war around me. The war is over in my area, and public education lost.",0
"Yes, it would be better for the 1% to pay their fair share, but it's not necessary for student loan forgiveness to pay dividends in the economy.","You know the two programs are pretty close on price, granted the edge going to student loan forgiveness over a ten year span. Though farm subsidies doubled under Trump after his stupid trade war.",0
Remember This shooting attack was a direct or indirect result of Israeli army killing 9 Palestinians with months what Israeli government doing is just making terrorists its an endless loop if you really think arresting innocent people would decrease the number of terrorists think again.,You just said Israel doesn't target civilians by explaining how Israel targets innocent civilians because they are related to someone who committed an act of terror?,1
"Also, you know that all vaccines had to go through clinical trials to determine efficacy right? Because once you have data that a vaccine works, it's not really unproven anymore, is it?","I mean, this isn't exactly the formula for krabby patties, mRNA vaccines have been published and used in academia for over a decade. Sure they'd have to fiddle with the formulation to optimize delivery and perhaps infringe a patent or two, but when has China ever cared about such things.",1
At some point it's going to become direct bullying but by that point China will probably be impossible to stop.,"Thanks Richard Nixon If it wasn't for him we probably wouldn't be dealing with this bullshit from China right now. Even dead, that asshole is still fucking up this country. Thanks, dick.",0
"In China’s mind, their system is plenty democratic - anyone can be a politician, and you work your way up the ranks to the top political jobs much the same way you would as a civil servant, or lawyer/judge, or doctor.",More than once I was told both in academic and business settings that an example of Chinese-style Democracy (Democracy with Chinese characteristics) is that in today's China the workers have the right to talk to the Boss (laoban) about work-related problems.,1
"Especially when the law ""bans teaching anything that assumes “fault, blame, or bias should be assigned to race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, or to members of a race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin because of their race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin.”.","Not with South Carolina judges. And not when the law literally bans any acknowledgement of systemic racism. It basically makes it so they can enforce it in a systemically racist way and they can never be called on it, because doing so is itself illegal.",0
"How has russia been irrational? They are doing what they know how to do, and putin is not suicidal, he is willing to slaughter hundreds of thousands of his own people, but he isn't willing to destroy his regime, hence why he is still fighting this war.","Ukraine is hitting military targets on military bases. My point is that russia doesn't have the air defense depth to protect itself from soviet era loitering missiles, they aren't going to be able to stop the NATO/American campaign to destroy their nuclear launch capability if they do decide to nuke someplace.",0
"That comes from our own instinctual morality and cultural norms. It's actually been studied that when people are asked what god thinks, the same parts of the brain activate as when asked the question ""what do you think."" Religious teachings are basically just projections of the teachers' personal morals. So religion is mostly neither good nor bad, people/culture are going to do their thing regardless of whether it's wrapped up in religious ornamentation.","Yeah, I'd cheer that on, unfortunately, the people doing the book burnings are doing it because they think their religion is superior, not because they think that all of them are bad.",1
Yes it is because you didn't make an argument. FEE has also written articles in favor of ending qualified immunity. Would it be relevant that they're funded by the Koch's if you used that as an argument in favor of qualified immunity?,"I 100% agree with what you said. I'm a big progressive, but I really get irked with the progressive support for the federal student loan program. It was a bad program that for-profit colleges lobbied for. People need to treat colleges as a special interest group. I think that getting rid of federal student loans is by far the best solution.",0
"Maybe China can fuck off and leave us alone, then we can talk diplomacy. Yeah, let's go and have some diplomacy when facists have a gun to our heads. Great idea.","Please don't speak for us if you are an ignorant foreigner. The recent elections were for local city and county level politicians whose platforms have nothing to do with international policy. In fact, only 2 seats switched hands and the discontent has to do with the DPP's domestic policies like energy securiry and covid measures, not China. The DPP's agenda against nuclear energy is particularly contentious for one.",0
In the period where the majority of countries in the middle east have warm ties with israel and relations are the best theyve ever been they vote in the most right wing anti arab govt in israeli history… Probably not the best move.,"With the way Israel demography has been developing, Israel's politics is only going to get more right-wing.",1
"Working on a project here in Canada with a Russian national from Washinon state. The guy believed to his core that kids were getting killed by Ukrainian Nazis. This guy lives in the west, but the propaganda goes deep to the bone. Now imagine in Russia where they are only getting one side of the story.","Russian here... For all people, who suffer because of this war - I am sorry that our govrenment and their puppets do.",1
"I highly doubt the FBI has actually looked at the contents. It's an illegally hacked laptop that was passed around political operatives before making a show or turning it over to the feds. The whole thing is inadmissable and if anything in it was real, going after that lead on the basis of it coming from the laptop would probably poison the well of anything that came of that lead.",Nobody has really seen the supposed laptop besides the FBI and the political operatives that tampered with it before turning it over. The whole story is about as ridiculous as any other Republican conspiracy theory.,0
"If NATO is so brain dead, why has Putin been struggling for a year to take Ukraine, when NATO has barely had to lift a finger?",US leaving NATO might be the thing which breaks the camels back and pushes Putin to got to war with Europe. Abandoning your main allies in critical moment of need causing millions to die would forever destroy EU and US relationship.,1
"Sadly there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Even the ""success stories"" of capitalism like Finland and Norway are propped up by exploiting the poorest people in the world.","The problem is from finnish viewpoint they are basically being exploited as slaves, bad working conditions, no workers rights, bad pay etc.",1
"The body of the Constitution itself specifically forbids a religious test to hold public office, not just Federal office but state office as well. Article VI, Clause 3 reads ""The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."".","True. But from all the countries in the region, Qatar has made incredible progress with many things in a short amount of time. I think at this point there's more women in university than men for example. So I have hope.",1
"""Trump refused to call on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stay out of the American politics and instead reasserted his desire to draw Russia and the US closer together as president."".",If you had paid attention to what he'd been saying during the campaign you'd see that was his stance all along. He never had a stint where he was tough on Russia.,0
"I don’t have a solution to any of this. Personally I do believe that America, at least, has no business in this fight. But I can’t ignore the scale of violence there either. I can only hope those with a stake in the matter - or at least have a cultural connection to it - can find a peaceful resolution. I doubt it because the conflict is about more than just resources….",so you really think there would be less conflict without borders? africa wasn’t exactly a peaceful paradise before colonialism lmao. without nation state “borders” people just fight over where their territorial control ends because of limited natural resources. its pretty naive to think otherwise. Im not arguing that Africa was well constructed at all but regressing to no nation states is a terrible idea.,1
"I was talking about his lies about his personal life. I am not a clinician, so I am using pathological liar in the broad not the technocal sense. I also agree he may have suffered because of being hit in the head so many times.","That is why he had so much support from Elise Stefanik, whom WaPo and NYT said knew at least some of the deceit but campaigned for him anyway. At least with Hershel Walker and Donald Trump, voters knew the two were pathological liars. Most politicians embellish, like saying they speak Spanish fluently, but had one year in high school, but the new crop of Republicans no longer stretch the truth, they just make things up whole cloth. Facts just don't matter any more and that is the point. If you can not win in this reality, you gaslight and create a new one.",0
"Lol ... let's not be hypocritical here. We eat millions and millions of chickens, pigs and cows every day, and suddenly a little donkey skin is no-no?","Since donkeys are not endangered (40M+ population in the world), there shouldn't be a problem eating them then, according to your logic. Good that we clear that up.",0
">Ukrainian forces will be trained by both countries on how to use their respective systems, which are capable of carrying troops into battle and also providing fire support.","While the Ukrainians appear to have plenty of tanks already, those vehicles are not really suitable for moving troops around.",1
Your argument is that the Chinese wanted this meeting because this meeting was scheduled. Your argument is that the Chinese wanted this meeting so bad that Xi was going to meet with Blinken outside of diplomatic norm.,"That’s why they both wanted to talk, and this whole incident is just a complete fuck up on the Chinese’s side imo.",1
If the person in question is actually a Zionist they’re not getting attacked because they’re Jewish. They’re just conflating the two things and crying antisemitism. These articles both conflate the two. They say the person being harassed is “someone who supports Israel”. This means they are not just being harassed because they are Jewish.,"There is a lot of far right antisemitism related to Israel. There is also a lot of far left antisemitism related to Israel. But you are right, there is more data here than they are revealing. They identified 1000/4000 respondents as either right wing or left wing without breaking down how each group responded.",1
"And I don't think I misunderstood that quote. You can read the entire exchange from the official whitehouse.gov transcript. I don't understand why both things can't be true. The vaccines are a good thing and people shouldn't be afraid of them, but at the same time many people in positions of power, the President included, made false claims about it to reduce vaccine hesitancy and push people to get it.","Okay, so in off the cuff statements it was said a couple of times, but unless you weren't paying any attention whatsoever to any other media and knew absolutely nothing about any other vaccines, then you would probably be smart enough to realize that there was still a chance you could get COVID even if you were vaccinated.",1
"In the same way, as you acknowledge — Trump made a big deal about people pleading the fifth, so it's fair to roll our eyes at him.","It’s probably good not to characterize pleading the fifth as an indicator of guilt, despite how disgusting Trump is. It’s such a harmful attitude to assume that if someone doesn’t want to testify, they must be guilty or a criminal.",1
"An actual blockade would imply China stopping and potentially seizing neutral shipping, including American shipping. The right of American merchants to go anywhere and sell anything around the world has always been policy and casus belli for the Americans. During WWI, America's eventual declaration of war on Germany was directly caused by German Unrestricted Submarine Warfare which killed Americans and impacted American sale of both war contraband and regular goods across the Atlantic. Moreover, at the beginning of the Cold War, the American-led Berlin Air Lift was a strong response to Soviet attempts at blockading West Berlin, as well as a potent demonstration of Allied logistics capability. So the case of a blockade on Taiwan, the United States would have all the moral and historical justification to call China's bluff by sending supplies to Taiwan, forcing China into an uncomfortable position, where they must take the loss, or fire on American ships and risk bringing America into the war.","China is also not immune from a blockade itself, and any belligerent would likely seize on China's dependency on oil imports from the Gulf and its food imports from everywhere as a way to retaliate in kind. In this, America possesses the ability to shutdown maritime trade in the Straits of Malacca, Hormuz, Suez and Panama, depriving China of its oil and food imports. There is also a risk of escalation as Taiwan, Korea and Japan view sea trade as a matter of existential threat.",0
.. he can keep sending prisoners and men from the South and East but he will run out eventually and have to send from St Petersburg and Moscow.,"This just in, after sending in the army , mentaly Ill, criminals, and a draft no new men that aren't oligarchs to be found....Russians now sending in the.",1
"You write that as if Turkey hasn't supplied Ukraine with drones that were critical for Ukrainian operations, or prevented the Russian fleet from entering the Black Sea in support.",This is also a country that turned down 15B USD to open their southern border for the US to have a second front in the Iraq War.,0
"Plus the US military wanted to recover the balloon in shallow waters where they could get it. A gun would need many shots (1,000+) to bring down a balloon while a missile is an immediate kill so the balloon going down could be in a place you do not want.","Thanks, I am guessing now since the F-22s max ceiling is 50.000 feet (but likely higher probably secret) and the balloon was at 60.000 feet, the pilot would have to be a like a sniper pilot, probably not possible but a missile would guarantee a hit. Plus at that altitude I would not know how it would affect things like bullet drop.",1
"I never said it was perfect. I said it was progressive, but obviously not progressive enough for many thus why the discussion is not whether she is progressive and is instead of how progressive she is.",The discussion is probably not so much whether she is progressive and more so whether she is/was progressive enough.,0
"I understand proportional representation has some fans, but it's very obviously failing to produce a stable government in Israel.","Israel uses an unusual form of government, proportional representation, where a party that gets 5% of the vote gets 5% of the seats.",0
"Well, Russia might have poisoned Belarus’s Minister of Foreign Affairs since he wasn’t 100% Putin’s man at the meeting, so I’m sure all of the other CSTO members will be happy to attend the next meeting.","It's always important to remember who the enemy is. You might need to kill the soldier in front of you in order to survive, but he might not be the ultimately responsible enemy. Putin and the Kremlin oligarchs are the ultimate enemies. A schmuck like this guy was just a pawn. There is absolutely a large scummy part of the Russian army that needs to be punished for their crimes but a new grunt like him hasn't done anything yet. Every story like this will encourage others to surrender, even with the threat of getting shot by your own unit, making it harder for Russia to fight.",0
"Although I am sure the Russians will claim to have destroyed these tanks, probably before they even arrive, like the last few times they claimed to destroy weapons which hadn't arrived in Ukraine yet, but I doubt they will actually destroy many of them.","As for Challengers chances against Russian tank armour, they should be able to handle everything up to the latest Refleks ERA equipped tanks, depending if the Russians ERA is empty or not….",1
"edit: note that I acknowledge in my post that Biden does indeed misspeak. I've received the same response a dozen times. You don't need to tell me Biden misspeaks because, and this is the part I want you to read carefully, I acknowledge that Biden misspeaks.",Love all the people blindly defending his words instead of admitting that every time Biden speaks he “misspeaks” or doesn’t make any sense. He’s fucking old and SHOULD NOT be president. Words matter. You can’t say “we’re gonna free Iran.” You don’t have to defend him just because he’s democrat.,1
"So interesting! They're so brave. That one doctor who said they tell a lot of jokes to get through it, he seems like he'd be a great drinking buddy. That one soldier holding the bullet is one lucky man. Thanks for posting this.","Thanks for sharing this. It's crazy how close they got, and a critically heroic defense by Ukraine's National Guard and others.",1
The growing list of people that have testified in Fulton have made this one of the highest profile state criminal investigations in American history. It includes:,"The DA is supposedly weighing election fraud, conspiracy, oath of office violations, racketeering and other offenses, and indicated a decision on charges could come as early as the end of the year.",0
"So.......Paul Ryan isn't now and has never been someone with their ""finger on the pulse"" of the American People lol.","Paul Ryan also said something along the lines of ""The American people will probably find Entitlement Reform (Read that as Slashing Medicare/Aid and Social Security Benefits) more palatable now"".",0
"People keep saying that but no one thinks that when Ukraine does conceed territory (or not), they can join NATO and it's end game.","The russians feel the same as you, the west is against us so its moral to defend ourselves by invading ukraine before it joins nato.",1
"With China massively investing overthere and US intention to invest the area, Africa looks more and more like the battlefield those two decided for their proxiwar.","China also has been investing heavily in Africa, and providing developmental aid with more favorable terms, lower interest rates, and often fewer restrictions than Western aid. Again, it's not out of benevolence but it does engender good will towards China.",1
Sending clowns seems reasonable when you look at the state of the russian army equipement. They can make the soldiers maybe laugh about their 70's Kalaschnikow which has no bullets and doesn't work.,I'm surprised that they even need to send any clowns when there's an entire Russian army to laugh at.,1
"So, assuming those returns are full of lies, and further, assuming that it would take a considerable amount of time for forensic accountants to untangle the web of lies...would there be value in releasing tax returns that falsely show Trump to be wealthier than he is with no debts of concern?","If Trump’s tax documents don’t contain anything damning, then he has nothing to fear from their being made public, as has been the case for every other modern President.",1
"Because of how he lost. First he inserts himself into a district he hasn't lived in where popular progressive Democrat Mondaire Jones has a seat. Mondaire Jones is then forced to compete in a district he never has lived in or competed in and loses. Then in the primary against another candidate to his left he amplifies the ""crime is out of control"" narratives amplifying messaging that is damaging his party in the state. And then just refuse to campaign on the ground in your district and give up a district Biden won by 10 points to the Republicans.",We can celebrate democrats being successful but Maloney is a culmination of everything wrong with the party. A comfortable wealthy white guy who felt entitled to a safe seat to wield power and influence for his own gain without any consideration of the people he represented. The DCCC deserved so much better.,0
"Obviously, everyone agrees that acknowledging the existence of gay and trans people is appropriate for all ages. The law has nothing to do with sex, you just haven't read the law yet.","Technically speaking, under the letter of the law, Florida's Don't Say Gay law bans gendered restrooms from schools, teachers from wearing wedding rings, etc., but so far, the law has only affected queer people.",0
A good way for Russia to avoid having their soldiers be taken as prisoners of war is to get the fuck out of Ukraine.,The thing is innocent Russian civilians are not being killed by Ukraine as opposed to innocent Ukrainian civilians are non stop being killed by Russia invaders.,1
When PayPal and Youtube shut down accounts they kept the money in those accounts. You can look that up.,"Look around, it’s happening here. We have people who have been held in prison since January 6th without being charged with a crime or allowed legal counsel. We’ve also had people locked out and funds taken from their accounts because they questioned the vaccines or elections. Russia doesn’t have a Constitution or a Bill of Rights like the US, and yet the government here treats some of its citizens like second class citizens.",0
Because it’s not a 401k. It’s a safety net for all Americans. We are not going to let the fools that opt out and then go broke just starve and die. So no everybody pays.,"It doesn't have to be instead, and in most cases it isn't. Pensions are much more like 401Ks than Social Security. You really are ignoring the whole social safety net aspect of the thing here aren't you...",0
"The ""youth vote"" is 18-24 years old. I'm not saying people in their 30s are ""old"", but they're not part of the ""youth vote"" demographic any more.","I mean, notably, that link shows that 18-29 year olds are 9% of the total vote, not 9% turnout for that age group. Given that 18-29 year olds are about 14-15% of Georgia’s total population, it’s not… completely terrible. It’s still only about 20% turnout with early votes, but still 4x what 2018’s early youth vote was, and 2x the total vote youth vote from that year.",1
I’m saying he’s a liar and this isn’t the real reason he’s releasing it exclusively to Tucker Carlson. Do you think Tucker Carlson is NOT going to spoon feed us what they want?,Anything Tucker Carlson says about anything should be taken with a grain of salt. He will pick and choose what and how he says it all. After all it's FOX NEWS.,1
"let's be even handed here, Israel is the UN's first project so everyone who opposes Israel tries to use the UN as if it was the fire of mount doom.","Holding Israel to a different standard is what is the problem here, during 2022 the UN condemned Israel 14 times (iirc) and Russia only 6 times?",1
"while I agree for planes, you can replace a large share of electricity and energy generation with nuclear power or other green options.","I agree, would also like to add that even if you produce electricity/hydrogen from gas, BEVs and hydrogen cars are still way more efficient than gas powered cars.",1
"The difference between what I suggested might happen and that, is we would never have boots on the ground in the scenario with providing weapons to Iran. We would just providing them with the means to oust their current government.","I’m sure a bunch of western intelligence agencies are foaming at the mouth to give these protesters weapons, just as soon as there is a semblance of an organized militia. But I’d say there won’t be any major invasions of the Middle East for at least another decade or so.",0
And none of that matters until the decision is made by them as to whether a former president can be prosecuted. That's the only case they need to intervene in. And they can choose to do it whenever Trump asks. We have to start by stacking the court.,You trust a corrupt power structure to police itself despite its self-interest in perpetuating that corruption.,0
This just unadulterated madness. Especially in the age of cell phones. IThe Iranian regime doesn't give a fuck!,"Fuck Iran and its government, fuck people for trying to marry religion and politics. Its never about which religion is worse, its always about who controls power.",1
"They all think theyre immune. Until theyre not. Then theyll cry and whine and scree like ittle bitty babies, as ALL the people Trump fucked over ALWAYS do when they realize the fascism is being done TO them.",Also its part of fascism that all these people implicitly assume theyll never be the VICTIMS of fascism.,0
"Yes. I’ve had four vaccine doses and caught it from my wife who has had three doses, and she caught it from a coworker who is also vaccinated.","Yeah i have a coworker who is 3x vaccinated and has had it 3x thanks to his kids. I'm 4x vaccinated and have never had it, sibling got it for the first time last week! We spend a lot of time together, had just been out shopping together but I haven't tested positive yet and feel fine. (knock on wood). My turn might be nigh though seems everyone is getting it this round.",1
The sad part… the book probably is equally popular among Putin supporters and opponents… Opponents read it and think - this is exactly what Russia become (the saddest part is opponents thinking that Russia “become” 1984… when in fact it always was)… and supporters read it and been told - this is what “west” is.,while people in west should \also\ use the book to critically evaluate their own governments (the second gulf war was unnecessary... and the first gulf war and Afghan war... there \probably\ were diplomatic avenues that could have obviated the need for force... )... its not surprising that Russians could read 1984 and somehow see it as only applying to countries other than their own.,1
"I always thought that district was for prostitution and the rest of the touristic area was for weed, never really saw people smoking while looking for sex workers there.","Edit: seems it’s in the entire inner city tho. Just means the coffee shops will move to the edge, honestly.",0
I think they could've just made a law requiring all drugs used need to be labeled and it's actually a good bill.,"Correct me if I'm wrong but this seems to do nothing, wouldn't they just put a label on their food to get around this...which also to be honest is good(definitely not their goal but still) since people should know what goes into their food.",0
"I haven’t seen a number from Ukraine. Do you have an official source of one? And we were talking about the count of Ukrainian casualties here, not Russian, so maybe you were mixed up with that?","Allegedly, both sides will use propaganda, we probably won't know true death counts for Ukraine and Russia until long after the war. Fair to say Russia ironically getting their shit pushed in though.",1
There aren’t “enough good people” seeking to become cops because the “good people” simply recognize that law enforcement culture is both dangerous AND toxic as hell.,"Some people DO have good intentions I think, but if they get in and see the system the way it is and then do nothing to try and fix it, it’s hard to call them “good” cops.",1
"I'm just pointing out that anyone who thinks there's any chance of peace with Hamas is delusional, because Hamas themselves explicitly state that their purpose is a neverending fight with Jews.","However much you might disagree with it, most of Israel's bombings are militarily and legally justified, can't say the same about HAMAS indescriminant rocket attacks.",1
"Unsustainable consumption is an issue, because it terminates itself often in ways that are irreversibly destructive (e.g. extinction of species). The other issue is external costs of production, e.g. pollutants which cause climate change, among other issues.",We need to take care of the planet and climate change is real. We don't need to panic and definitely don't give more money and power to billionaire prophets prognosticators.,1
After that any Chinese drones are kind of useless. Taiwan's navy is no threat to China and probably wouldn't likely last far beyond the start of the war so the drones will have little practical purpose beyond that. They're not a war winning weapon.,"It means that Taiwan's planning is likely to be effective if their weapons survive the initial strikes. They have literally thousands of anti-ship missiles already, many with longer range than Ukraine's missiles.",0
I can't even imagine what will happen when the now fully trained and largely battle hardened Ukrainian army with NATO equipment retaliates against conscripts with 1 boot between 4 men in winter.,b) If they do invade again the Russian military leaderships probably thinks they can grind down Ukrainian troops just by sheer mass. Like waves grinding down rocks at the beach. It takes countless attempts but they might think they will win just by having the numbers (potentially recruitable manpower that is).,1
"Oh, and just to solidify the point, Russians complaining about direct involvement from other actors IN A COUNTRY THEY INVADED is a fucking joke, and I wish they would understand why we all laugh at them about that.","EDIT: For you dumbasses messaging me who think I’m seriously insinuating that we would or should invade Russia, the largest country on the planet, that possesses the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, it’s just a joke. Calm down and enjoy the idea of the Ukrainian flag flying over Red Square.",1
"But Brazil is doing what it can, the company abandoned the ship and Brazil’s Navy is keeping it where it is.",People here seem to blaming Brazil for the mess when it’s dealing with a mess created by a foreign company.,0
"I mean, I never said it wasn't better that they are or aren't in NATO, what I'm saying is that Russia in their current status wouldn't be able to stand a chance against the Finns.","If Russia can't succeed in their 3 day ""operation"" on Ukraine, they're definitely not gonna take down a military specifically designed to counter them. (Finland).",0
"EDIT: to clarify, the news here for me is that UK is masking imports with the help of germany, the netherlands and belgium, as stated in the article.","the 'countries through which it was imported' as a 'loophole' for anyone interested are Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium according to the article.",1
"If you are ignoring the state constitutions, then there are no state legislatures. The legislatures only exist as an implementation of the state constitutions.","There's a clause in the Constitution that requires the federal government to ""guarantee"" a ""republican form of government"" in the states. The Federal government actually used this clause to impose martial law in various southern states after the Civil War.",1
If it is that big of a deal then they should just pass it with the 7 sick days. Surely a small hit in profits isn’t worth crippling the nation.,"Ok, take it back 70+ years. What working rights have we gotten? In what ways has the material conditions improved for the working class since FDR? We have no guaranteed health care, sick days, vacation days, maternity leave, minimum wage has been outpaced by the cost of living, housing is out of control, education costs are out of control, what exactly has gotten better for working class citizens? We get cheap iPhones and tvs, gee my cup runneth over. We are the richest nation in the e world and we don’t have basic working rights the rest of the developed world has.",0
"Yes. However, since everything he says is false, his claim that they'll have victory over Ukraine means they won't and Ukraine will prevail as the victor.","I believe that Russia (at this time) doesn't want to conquer all of Ukraine. They just want to fully capture and keep the areas that they illegally annexed. And Putin is content with losing a lot of men to accomplish this. If they can do that, Putin will call it a complete success. ( Of course he would probably come for the rest in a few more years) If Russia can simply hold out and make modest gains like they seem to be doing right now, then eventually Ukraine may be forced to surrender those areas just to stop the loss of life, both civilian and military that they are suffering right now.",1
"If the IRS itself didn’t have any problems with his tax returns, I am not sure why there was such a push to have them publicly released. 🤔 The IRS isn’t known for being particularly lenient in the face of any wrongdoing.",didn't a few of his accountants already plead guilty to submitting fraudulent tax returns or something?,1
I think what they’re talking about here is people who are intending to do coke or mdma and end up having stuff cut with fentanyl and OD as a result.,"I know people are worried their other drugs are laced with fentanyl, they even test the drugs for fentanyl before consuming. I could see someone wanting the vaccine so they don't die from a OD from consuming drugs laced with it without their knowledge.",1
"But yea, we really should use this as an opportunity to buy fresh new, state-of-the-art weapons to bully Russia with.","We all thought the Russian military was super strong before this war; Ukraine was no different, and the Russian generals knew this. Its just that they fatally miscalculated the actual effects of that thought on their enemy. And here we are.",1
"Most states allow child marriage when parents consent, as well as beating your child as long as you argue it's for discipline. This is children as property in action.","Whataboutism would be saying the first thing doesn't matter, when I clearly said to a much lesser extent.",0
"The parties in the congress who impeached Castillo are supporters of the previous dictator Fujimori and his family, and Castillo has been a target for impeachment (which in Peru doesn't require cause) since he won the election.","The fact that we supported Castillo's impeachment do not change the fact that congress is absolutely fucked, which is why I assume changes in approval will be very limited even after the successful impeachment.",1
"It has been long clear that many parts of Greenland are warming, but the latest research, published in Nature on Wednesday, took a deeper look at the central part of Greenland's ice sheet, where the impact of climate change has long been unclear.","To learn more about that impact, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research drilled ice cores to create a ""high-quality reconstruction"" of temperatures in central and north Greenland from 1,000 AD to 2011. With that data, it became clear: Not even some of the coldest, most remote and highly-elevated areas of the world can escape the impacts of global warming.",0
"Donald trump stole classified documents, then lied, refused to give them back, lied again, and got raided by the FBI. Biden turned over documents willingly, found more, turned those over, also willingly, and has been very cooperative with the investigation, and he did all that without doxxing a single federal employee, without a single tweet ranting about how the FBI is a bunch of meanies and should be dismantled.","Listen, if the investigation reveals that Biden personally misplaced the documents out of absent-mindedness or recklessness, I'll concede you a point.",1
"So if putin fires a handful of missiles at the US there will be hundreds of missiles fired in defense, virtually ensuring the inbound missiles are destroyed.","He means that one missile into Russia will supposedly lead to a response of hundreds of warheads. And yes, one missile can carry several nuclear warheads. It’s unclear whether he means a nuclear missile entering Russia or any missile, but I think it’s all bluffing anyway.",1
"Yesterday there was some quote from someone high up in Russia, along the lines of ""Ukraine can stop the suffering if they just surrendered our territory that we occupied"".",A good way for Russia to avoid having their soldiers be taken as prisoners of war is to get the fuck out of Ukraine.,1
"If we’re doing this, I propose adding a “no” before the “meat” name for substitutes. So, plant based “meats” would be NoChicken, NoBeef, NoShrimp, NoBacon etc.","If you buy hamburger, there are no ingredients. If you buy ""vegan hamburger"" there will be ingredients listed. In the US at least they don't sell the products next to each other so I don't see how you would be confused. If you buy a Cadbury cream egg are you worried it might be a real egg? Are people thinking peeps might actually be chickens lol?",1
"The Cherokee nation sits within the state of Oklahoma and, while sovereign in certain affairs, is covered by Oklahoma's house districts. Cherokee citizens are also US citizens with all the rights of US citizenship. This means that Cherokee citizens living in the Cherokee nation have the right to vote for both their congressional house representative and to vote in Oklahoma senate elections. They also may vote for Oklahoma's governor, an Oklahoma state house representative, and an Oklahoma state senator. There are no , outside of a state. This means all American Indians are citizens of US, whichever state they reside in, and their respective tribes. So they do have representation within state and federal government at present. Though there is an argument to be made that the tribal governments themselves need representation.","For real, if they won’t make DC, PR, and other territories states with voting powers than what makes anyone think they will honor giving power to the Native Americans.",1
Didn’t they just arrest the fbi agent/director who cleared the trump campaign of Russian involvement because he has been involved with Russia for years?,I mean one of the findings is that the Trump campaign wanted Clinton's emails so they got a guy to contact Russian hackers to get them! The Trump campaign knew about information hacked by Russians and sent to Wikileaks before that information was posted to Wikileaks.,1
"The election in Arizona was probably the most historically scrutinized election in any state in the history of this country. If there were even the possibility of fraud by democrats, the GOP operatives absolutely would have witnessed it.",Everyone knew she would shout “rigged” with no evidence if she lost even before the election. Sure enough that’s what she did.,1
Earthquake on a different but related fault can be considered a new earthquake or if smaller than can be called an aftershock.,I haven’t kept count on how many ordinary earthquakes vs aftershocks there have been but I’m sure each of these have their own shares. .,1
But it was completely expected. Everybody knows that Donald Trump only cares about making money off of his name and the gold-plated trailer trash brand that he has turned his name into.,"And he wouldn’t be Donald Trump if he wasn’t chasing small money when there’s much easier, huge money to be made.",1
"So voting ""present"" is just a vote to continue the vote-whipping, deal-making, pizza-delivery process.","I think that voting ""present"" allows you to fulfill your obligation to participate in the vote, but doesn't add a vote to the Speaker candidate's tally. Because you were present, the number of votes necessary for a candidate to win the Speakership does not change.",0
"""Effectively, Putin has allowed both foreigners and Russians with residence permits in other countries to be drafted into the army."".","This is very true. The people fleeing are way more than those who died. However it is hard to pinpoint exact numbers because many who fled from Septembers draft have returned (of course many won't return). My point is that while this whole situation will shift somewhat the demographics, it will in no way create the ""dating paradise"" that many Redditors think will happen. If one can't get any women at a society of roughly 50/50, then a society where it's tilted to say 40/60 won't suddenly make them a Don Juan.",1
"One of the risks for Ukraine is a loss of popular support, and it is certainly something that is currently not helping Russia.","Yes, but is also important for Ukraine to keep bringing up, it gives them something to concede to Russia, for example in exchange for captured UA citizens.",1
"I agree, I'm saying we know trump's were criminal, and it's highly unlikely biden's were based on available information and what we know about them as people.","I agree that this isnt something we should just dismiss because it's nowhere near as bad as Trump's case but at the same time, I don't think this sinks Biden politically and certainly not criminally. It's an embarrassment but one they can recover from unless there a massive bombshell still waiting to go off.",1
"April 29, 2020 ""I told Jared that if Trump won a second term, he wouldn't have to worry about running again. And you can really help people. ,'"" a New York business executive who met with Kushner at the White House last fall told Sherman. ""I wanted to tell Jared, 'You don't say that part out loud — even in private.'"".","See, that's the thing. Americans often use that ""aiding an enemy state"" definition, when the general meaning of treason is more ""betray your country or try to overthrow the government."".",1
No they aren't. The outcomes of the last few elections have been well within 538's predictions which use these polls.,"There were a few upsets in the House for races they thought were safe like Washinon's 3rd but that's hardly enough to say ""polls are meaningless."".",0
"I will say it point blank, lighting things on fire and inhaling the smoke and carbonized ash of ANYTHING is bad for you. Some things might be worse to burn and smoke than others but there's the healthy amount of things you should smoke is 0.","I'm not disagreeing with anything you say, but the people I know that use tobacco seems to consume a lot more of it, and generally by smoking or vaping. In my red state, old-fashioned cigarettes are mostly in style here, although I do see more vaping when I go downtown to the city. I know a lot of marijuana users that have switched to edibles, as well. It's an area worth studying in depth, for sure, and I won't disagree that smoking anything is bad for your lungs. But are two joints a day worse for your health than two packs a day as this study seems to imply?",1
"Yep. People need to remember that to impeach and remove someone from office, whether it's the president, a Supreme Court judge, or a member of the president's cabinet, it requires 67 Senators to vote to convict. There is zero chance that 17, and possibly 18 (depending on the GA runoff) Democratic Senators will vote to remove Biden or anyone on his cabinet, mainly because the Republicans don't have any legit reason to impeach them.","For a bill to become a law it must pass a majority in the House, then pass a 60 vote threshold to defeat a filibuster in the Senate, then must be signed into law by the president. Any legislation the GOP passes with their razor thin majority in the House won't even come up for a vote in the Senate and that will be where all their bullshit ""legislation"" dies.",0
"No shit, except the original comment was that again guns were the MAJOR causal factor for suicides in the US. Guns might make it so suicides are more successful in the long run, but I can think of a plethora of greater causal factors for an individuals want to commit suicide than owning a gun.","Again if guns are the causal link in catalyzing people to commit suicides as claimed then the US should be number one in per capita suicides when in reality we dont even hit top 20. Did you even read the study or is this one of those reddit cases of just reading the title and not the paper itself. Idk maybe look up ""successful suicides"" in the context of that paper.",0
"They don't recognize the country is the issue, not even the occupation. Turkey pretends Cyprus doesn't exist, so they can't accept aid from something that doesn't exist.",Turkey literally cut their island in half with a DMZ that stands today and Cyprus was still willing to help... but Turkey isn't ready for that level of human kindness yet.,1
"In a straight conventional war with no nukes, Russia + China loses against a war-ready United States.","Afghanistan was a win, but we weren't gonna stay there forever. Obviously the government we tried setting up did not care at all like Ukraine.",0
"Even if Trump doesn't get the GOP nomination in 2024, and even if he doesn't run as independent, I can't see him staying quiet and letting DeSantis get all the attention. I'm sure he will still be holding rallies where he will spew his vitriol at the GOP. And there are probably a lot of new shows that would have him on to do it, as it would be good for ratings.","Given their performance last night though, and what seems to be the average American tiring of their act, impeachment could backfire. The populace saw through the Clinton impeachment sham in 1998- and Bill's favorability ratings rose.",0
So no until we find something alternative to replace this single use plastic bags or everything with it.,What essentials are you buying that have no alternative to single use plastics packaging? Batteries for your XBox controller? Seriously?,1
"The eu uses trade as a means to avoid war, it has been doing that successfully in Western Europe and slowly bringing in the countries on the east side that are willing. It was naive in hindsight to think russia would put peace and prosperity for it's people ahead of warmongering but that doesn't mean Europe is to blame.","The hope was that making Russia dependent on Europe for money they desperately need, in exchange for oil Europe needs, they wouldn't be stupid enough to attack Europe's new friend Ukraine.",1
"Become a corporate lobbyist after this term ends and becoming an independent will allow her to lobby for ""moderate"" Republicans. Republicans get about 2/3 of big money donations, so that's where the money is for lobbyists.","As I understand it, she was talking money from traditional Republican donors already. I think it why she sank the minimum wage bill.",1
They're basically saying that teachers have to report a kid even if a parent could be hostile and perhaps hurt a kid for coming out as LGBTQIA+ (which most certainly happen).,One democrat points out how outing every LGBT kid to their parents absolutely will lead to some kids being abused. The author of this bill's response?,1
"Yup. I'd definitely be asking myself some questions if I lived in Texas. Thankfully, I do not live in Texas.","The answer is that Texas likes entertainment. They like politicians playing theater at the border, busing migrants to the libs. Ted Cruz has done little in the Senate but acting as an Internet troll. Democrats can’t win with kitchen-table issues.",1
More Russians have left Russia than the number of Ukrainians who have left Ukraine since the invasion.,"Would you also deny Ukrainians who left their country because they didn’t want to fight and die, and tell them to go back and defend their homeland?",1
"Or, and hear me out here, ""keep tradition"" and just nominate hyperliberal judges from the 21 states where there's two democratic senators.","But how do you fix a system with a 100 Republican judges and 20 liberal judges because they packed it last term? You can't take the high road, say ""this is wrong, we can't also do this"" and simply expect the goodwill of the universe to make any meaningful change with only 20 judges in a 120 judge system (hypothetical numbers). You'll never get those other 100 judges to sign off on neutering the group that put them into place.",1
There's literally nothing a landmine can do to protect civilians from missile and bomb attacks. It's absurd on every level to suggest otherwise.,"This is an incredibly stupid take. Ukraine leaving landmines lying around to kill their own civilians is no different than Russia doing it. It takes a real piece of shit to openly defend war crimes just because they're committed by the ""right side."".",0
"The primary existential threat to the Kremlin is a bunch of Russians looking at an increasingly Western-aligned and prosperous Ukraine, decade after decade, and starting to wonder why things are so much better just across the border.","Never mind the cognitive dissonance that Russia is explicitly targeting Ukrainian civilians and that western ""expansionism"" is just their neighbors turning to the West because they don't want to be invaded by Russia.",1
"Looking back over Russia from the last century, I don't think any of the Russian officers have the resources, time, or empathy for their wounded soldiers.","Ukrainian soldiers aren't incapable of being cruel fucks in war, on the less the Russians armies systemic maltreatment of their own soldiers probably favours such an outcome in soldier's. The reason why you are fighting is defently also a big part of it. (Why i think that wounded russian soldiers aren't killed or worse, instead treated) well hopefully.",1
"The principle endorsed by Republicans is ""if it benefits me today, I support it; if it benefits Democrats tomorrow, I'm against it"". That's what they mean when they refer to principled Republicans.","Sure the Republicans support states rights. But this is not an absolute; there are reasonable limits. For example, if the states have a history of abusing this right, Republicans step in to take appropriate steps.",0
"Finally, police found to be unresponsive or refusing to respond to calls will be suspended until a federal review and investigation. No more Uvalde, no more police choosing not to enforce the law as punishment or protest of policies they don’t like. For reasons why this is necessary, again, see Uvalde, and also Seattle PD, for the past few decades. I’m sure there are other examples of cops refusing to do their job to purposely fuck over people because they’re mad about policy changes or being held accountable for their mistakes.","Which in turn is decided by the unions, all the evil shit we see from police, like protecting and reassignment of abusers, is usually done by the police union, it's the quintessential example of how unions can end up going wrong.",1
"First, eight of the twelve rail workers unions’ members voted in favor of accepting the existing deal, with four remaining as hold outs and leading to the current situation. Contracts are negotiated collectively, so all twelve receive the same agreement with the railroads.","Second, the rails were willing to consider including paid sick days, so long as the 24% raises over the next 5 years we’re negotiated downwards in a give-and-take. I am not expressing an opinion, merely putting the context forward. It seems eight of the twelve unions accepted that outcome.",0
"You get labeled with antisemitism when you have double standards on Israel that you don't have on other countries. I assume that you are overall pro-democracy and checks and balances. This is 100% a legitimate issue that Israel needs more flack from foreign countries and companies for. Already two mid sized tech companies are leaving Israel due to the democratic backsliding that is happening. Nobody serious in Israel are claiming ""antisemitism"" over it because it is a pure business tactic. It's best not to be in a non-democratic state. And just as these big tech companies are not in Hungary or Poland, they choose not to be in Israel anymore.","Even most Israelis know this judicial ""reform"" isn't a good path to be on. Israeli politicians from across the spectrum are voicing concerns about the proposed ""reform"". Even right wing politicians like Gideon Saar (a lonime Likud member who split off from Netanyahu due to his corruption), Avigdor Lieberman (right wing secular party with ties to Putin), and Benny Gantz (former IDF Chief of Staff) are all speaking out against the breakdown of Israeli democracy if this passes in its current form.",0
Obligation to serve herself. If democrats actually elected some progressives and not these same old geriatric fucks they might actually win some god damn elections on policy instead of getting votes because “this one’s better than those guys”.,"I wish that I could argue that having an older political voice in office helps to keep the older demographic relevant because they would fight to keep them afloat through Social Security and welfare programs, but these old assholes In office have shown that they couldn't give a single iota of a fuck for their generation, so I say fuck it, and convince the older generation to embrace the new blood that may actually care about them.",1
"Ahmad Alamolhoda, a member of the Assembly of Experts: “The destruction of Israel is the idea of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and is one of the pillars of the Iranian Islamic regime. We cannot claim that we have no intention of going to war with Israel.” (2013).","Nasrallah: “Israel is our enemy. This is an aggressive, illegal, and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land. Its destiny is manifested in our motto: ‘Death to Israel.’” (2005).",0
Updatung US election law is significant. This is to prevent another Jan 6th. This is a huge blow to election deniers and MAGA that were trying to undermine US elections and democracy.,And all of Trump's election denying candidates lost badly in the midterms. It almost feels like our American democracy might survive this far right authoritarian movement.,0
"I believe that is probably the case. It's quite tiring watching them all play the trickle effect with these weapons. I really wish they would just start loading ships and let the Ukrainians get this party started. Start training a few battalions today, and let 'em eat once the shit finally makes it to theater.","Anyway, for the poles' sake( and anyone else that would be involved) , let's hope this never happens. But if it does, I damn sure hope there's as much footage as we're getting from Ukraine.",0
"I’ve heard a few, to include immigration, abortion, excluding transsexual from military service, and distancing us from NATO but I can’t remember anymore right off the top of my head. He had the Make America Great Again slogan which made his followers feel real good, but you’re right it seems the general statement is used more often than not because Trump really didn’t have very many real policies.","No, they don’t get it. The one thing I hear over and over again is how good his policies were for America. What???",0
"The text in the Constitution is vague enough that it requires judicial interpretation/caselaw to reach a conclusion. I’m not sure what the caselaw looks like, but that’s not the same thing as saying that he is definitively federally eligible to run for Senate.","If questioned, he could certainly claim to have moved his primary residence between Georgia and Texas multiple times in both 21 and 22, but we all know that would be at best a legal fiction. And since it would be a fiction, and since he has done a wide variety of things in both states and both years that require legal residency, it would be pretty easy for him to accidentally admit, while making excuses, to primary residency in the wrong state at the wrong time, or for an insufficient number of consecutive days for his actions to all be legal.",0
"Depending on who's timeline you wanna follow, some combination of John XIX, Sylvester III and Clement II can all be considered predecessors to him.","Wasn’t Sylvester III essentially a replacement for Benedict IX, and then Benny just swooped back in and took back the papacy? That whole story is wild. On par with the Borgias, if you ask me.",1
"There is nothing for Brazil in doing it, we would just burn our relations with Russia which supplies Brazil with fertilizers, and Brazil cannot survive without those fertilizers.","The second one is the fact that Brazil in particular is fairly dependent on certain Russian products, specially fertilizer. Sending anything to Ukraine would do nothing other than increase food prices (if not cause famine for a period of time) for straight up no gain whatsoever, political or otherwise. (comment from another user).",1
I read the book about 2 years ago when another communist sympathizer in my life used it as an apology for the Soviet Union. It relies almost entirely on third party information with no independent validation of the sources themselves.,"For one, his work has non-existent peer review in academia. His book is devoid of contemporaneous Russian sources and his information almost exclusively comes from news organizations in the US.",0
Trump couldn't file a 1040EZ at this point in his life. He isn't a clever businessman. I'm glad his taxes are out there as it fulfills a campaign promise but I doubt there's much in there besides the usual exploitation of tax loopholes by the rich courtesy of the people that actually do his taxes.,"I’m not sure of that either, but people generally seemed to think (or maybe that was just the promoted narrative) that there was some tax fraud, which didn’t make sense since the IRS would have been all over his returns like white on rice.",1
"The House Republican majority is so slim they will not be able to get the votes they need to conduct anything like that again. In fact, I am wondering if at this point they want the Jan 6 panel to continue and see Trump indicted, if only to get him off the 2024 table.","I don't care what Pence says about Trump today, now that he has Murdoch's approval to have an opinion. Every one of those creeps coming down on Trump now were solidly loyal right up until the midterms.",0
"It will never happen but reforming the 2 senators per state puts Dems at an epic structural disadvantage. Electoral college, gerrymandering add to it.",Manchin slowed and blocked a lot of legislation. He represents one of the most solidly Republican states and truth is that we are lucky that he caucuses with the Dems. If Manchin had switched to Republican we would be f and Mitch would rule. Even if he is difficult and not on the same page we just need to accept it.,0
"FWIW I don't think anything should happen to President Biden because of this, but to say what has occurred is not illegal is disingenuous.",Second just to play here... Biden's 15 docs isn't Trumps 350 ripe and current national top secrets. Biden followed process immediately upon discovery.,1
"(who presumably should know but also has a political reason to lie) called them a war crime, but lists many Western military manuals considering power stations valid military targets.","Some targets are clearly legitimate, including all military personnel directly engaging in hostilities on behalf of a belligerent party who are not hors de combat or are not members of a neutral country.[2] Some civilian infrastructure, such as rail tracks, roads, ports, airports, and telecommunications used by the military for communications or transporting assets, are all considered to be legitimate military targets.[2].",1
It's my understanding their Covid vaccines are more traditional dead virus style vaccines instead of the efficacy of the mRNA vaccines.,"MRNA vaccines can be tailored, and have been, with each booster to adapt to the latest strain of COVID.",1
They literally can’t by law. The congress is or already has voted to take away their say in the negotiation process. Every media outlet will say congress reached deal to avoid shutdown. Really it should read congress has forced railroad unions to accept a deal they voted against.,The railroad barons have no incentive to negotiate with the unions knowing that Congress will force a settlement. The only way the workers will get paid sick leave is if they walk off the job.,1
I wonder how history would have been changed if the war in Europe continued until the nuclear bombs were ready to use in summer of 1945. If Germany and Japan had both been struck by nuclear weapons I wonder what it would have changed.,"Well, one likely thing is Russia wouldn’t have developed nukes. The Nazis were doing well towards making nukes, and Russian forces captured nuke info from an overthrown German research area.",1
"And he's done a few things that are downright appalling, like appointing an avowed enemy of due process to turn college Title IX procedures back into an Orwellian nightmare, having learned absolutely nothing from his own false accusation.","There's been some bright spots, like how well he's done with helping Ukraine, but it's very underwhelming and it's hard for people to not focus on the blatant betrayals like the BBB and the union busting, and the things he could be doing but won't like directing the AG to deschedule pot or at least move it to C-V.",0
Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.,Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.,0
"Well considering these mobilized are given the choice between prison and likely torture for refusing to serve, or go to war but be told their.","If mobilisation came knocking on my doors, I already did choose to either flee or, worst case, go to prison. I am not a killer to fight in a war of an insane oligarchic thief.",1
That’s because we’re still trying to recover from the war that the Palestinians caused in our country.,"The land is Palestinian.. you can try and force them to move to Jordan, you can try to move their capitol there, but you can't make people forget their history. The Israeli rhetoric online is just getting started, it's important for people to stand up for Palestine, no matter how many toadi bots downvote it.",1
"This could very well be misdirection, but I honestly believe Ukraine is going to retake Mariupol and cut off the land bridge to Crimea for a major blow to the Russians.","My armchair guess is that Ukraine will first attack Melitopol, get “bogged down” by Russian fortifications and reserves, before launching their main attack towards Mariupol. Once the Mariupol attack reaches the sea, the forces could flank Melitopol along the coast, leading to a wholesale liberation of Zaparozhzhia and Kherson, and the most critical step in cutting Crimea off.",1
There is not way the meat will be a viable day to day food option with a higher standard of production.,"If by the meat industry numbers, what you could do is have like 1 Glass of milk and 1 piece of meat a week tops using non-industrial farming.",0
But that would be Putin admitting defeat on the issue so that was never going to happen. If the Germans wanted cheap Russian gas it would have to flow through Nord Stream 2 pipeline B because there were now no other possible option.,Russia had already shut down Nord Stream 1 a month earlier with false claims of technical issues to try to pressure Germany into approving Nord Stream 2. They lost nothing by blowing up a pipeline they had already shut down to try to create leverage.,0
"If Russia invaded an actual Nato member the response would be vastly different. Russia would not have military assets capable of threatening missile strikes against Nato members within hours. After any first strike effect, Russia would only be able to retaliate with nuke subs and similar mobile, hard to track assets.","I accept that it is debatable in the sense that anything could be debated, but hardly in any realistic sense.",0
"So as soon as they for first time announced Russia to be war belligerent, that was it. They are war belligerent, they shall not pass. Except what black sea fleet ships Russia had out in Mediterranean.","They have overseas naval vase in Tarsus, Syria. Probably been chilling out the lot of the time. Not like they have been waiting and waiting to rush in Turkey near immediately declared they would activate Montreux treaty and shut down the Turkish straits to military traffic of the conflict parties Ukraine and Russia, plus well anyone else really sending ships with intend to take part in the conflict.",0
"But her election was totally cool...totally not stolen or fraudulent, but all the other ones that Republicans didn't were were stolen.. Even when a governor's race broke GOP and the Senate vote went Democrat like Nevada, or in her own state why the Governor got way more votes than Herschel Walker...clearly a complex system of switching who they really voted for....you know except in her race..",Pretty sure MTG would have been bounced out of the House and Dems wouldn't be facing an expensive runoff election in December if they could have switched the vote how they wanted it.,0
"Ukraine would never join NATO as long as it have an active conflict on our territory, so a fairy tale about NATO expansion is for dumb people, if we could join, we would do it at any second, but NATO not gonna allow it until the conflict is resolved.","Firstly Saddam literally was a dictator that ordered rape of family members of his critics and mass executed civilians, he killed 30 000 of Iraqis with mustard gas . In 1980, 70,000 Shi\a were arrested, and never heard from them again.",0
I'm not trying to troll or start a fight. I simply don't see a distinction other than that the West supports Kosovo over Serbia and Ukraine over Donbass.,How so? Kosovo was a part of Serbia inhabited by an ethnic minority. Just like Donbass is to Ukraine. The people of Kosovo wanted independence so a larger power began bombing Serbia.,0
"What is a defensive pact worth when you aren't willing to defend yourself? Is an attack on Poland worth less than an attack on the USA, France or Germany would be just because it is in closer proximity to a conflict zone? If you draw a line which you don't enforce there is no line.","So they could be trying to find that line/balance, testing the limits off what they can get away with.",1
"Kemp way outperformed walker. So the question is to those people bother to show up just to vote for him, do new people decide to vote, do the 2% libertarians show up for walker.","It's not really about getting new voters or even swapping voters, turn out will presumably be low and it's a question of how many of your previous voters you can convince to go back out to the polls again. The quality of each campaigns get out the vote efforts is going to be what drives this election more than anything else.",1
"It may be mid but it has its own perks. Gasoline engine means it has long range on top of a 50KG warhead for less than 50,000 USD is something to be concerned about.",The sources are Ukrainian so they would have propaganda. The majority of these drones probably did get shot down but that is kind of the point as to why they are so cheap.,0
Here’s a link explaining that they’re still importing Russian gas and they’re trying to be self sufficient from Russia for the future.,Because they’re heavily dependent on Russian gas and they’re trying to avoid economic problems because of that.,0
"It is not deranged to think every single person in the russian chain of command thought intimidation would be enough to win; when you know (or think) you have arguably one of the best propaganda machines on the planet, you're biased to think everyone thinks about you the way you think they do.","But Ukraine troops did reacted decently at the first Russian incursion that first day of the war early in the morning. They didn't let Russia use that airpoirt near Kyiv to get tanks and supplies near the capital; and Moscow probably didn't expected that, and thus rushed a plan b attack, that failed and led to farmers having tanks.",0
"That’s hardly unique for Europe though. Still, most of the continent decided to move on from it. Also, the current Polish government keep alienating the first German state in existence to want genuinely good relations with Poland - for nothing but self-serving reasons.","Generally yes, but in case of Poland it has nothing to do with geo-politics - the PiS just tries to distract from domestic problems, even though they get a shitload of Money from Germany through the EU already. Their nationalistic voters love when they use Germany as a punching bag. But there is no substance to it and no one in Germany takes it seriously.",1
"- Gaza, a state whose government explicitly calls for ethnic cleansing of their neighbor, murders gay people, and who regularly launches rockets at civilian targets;.","Gaza’s government explicitly calls for ethnic cleansing of Jews from the region, and they kill gay people. Shit’s wild with the double standards on Israel.",0
"Thirdly I know this is pie in the sky stuff, and pro-2A people don’t care about money. They only care about either owning more guns or selling more guns.","Maybe legal gun owners should do something about the problem, since they are the only ones who can do anything about it.",1
"However however however however! There are approximately 6,200 undervotes in this race. An undervote is a vote where the voter simply left this election blank OR marked in a faint or small way their intention (think putting a single dot with your ballpoint pen in a scantron bubble or maybe underlining a candidate’s name as opposed to filling out the circle by their name). IF there is a mark or indication which election reviewers can reasonably ascertain, that undervote then becomes a real vote which is then counted. It is important to note that the vast majority of these votes will not result in a change to vote totals and that they are likely blank. I simply point out that these votes exist in case we see further changes in the coming weeks and people wonder where these new votes are being tabulated from.",I'm trying my hardest to not explode out of my seat lol. Don't get too high on the hopium yet though. That projection is based off an estimate of votes remaining; actual votes left to count were never given by the counties so we really are in limbo.,0
It was Orban who pushed the self destruct button. He was warned another times but another president who doesn’t listen to reason. And doesn’t follow the rules of democracy only his rule.,"Why isn't that democratic. We get most of the benefit and it's not like they're punishing us. Besides the western countries do this too, Austria blocked Romania and Bulgaria into shengen.",1
"There were no ""Happy"" slaves, forcing slaves to be Christian via whip isn't inherently Christian, slave owners were not kind.","""[The negroes'] servile instincts rendered them contented with their lot, and their patient toil blessed the land of their abode with unmeasured riches. Their strong local and personal attachment secured faithful service ... never was there happier dependence of labor and capital on each other."".",0
"Except they are human, they are some of humanity’s worst but describing them as inhuman is just a subconscious means to justify killing them. And even when the death penalty has been extremely hard to grant, there have still been innocent people mistakenly put to death. It’s better to not risk killing even one innocent person.","The only thing that stops me from killing people every day is the risk of getting punished for it. And i'm just talking about, like, when someone neglects to use their blinker when changing lanes in front of me.",1
That statistic you're looking at is all gun deaths. 60 percent of those in the US are suicides. You look at homicides and the US isn't even in the top 10 and homicides are the only statistic worth looking at.,Having a gun actually doubles your risk of being a victim of homicide so your protection argument doesn't hold water. I protect my family by not having a gun in my house.,1
"However, as the poster above noted some leftwing parties refused to merge and some even split, while a lot of traditionally leftwing voters strategically voted for Lapid's center party, causing some parties to not make it past the threshold and all the votes they got to be wasted, giving the pro-Netanyahu bloc a significant advantage.","However some leftwing parties refused to merge and some even split, while a lot of traditionally leftwing voters strategically voted for Lapid's center party, causing some parties to not make it past the threshold and all the votes they got to be wasted, giving the pro-Netanyahu bloc a significant advantage.",0
"It hardly matters, they're de facto NATO at this point. Everyone likes Sweden and Finland is now manufacturing large parts of the F-35 fighter jets. U.S. troops are permanently stationed in both countries.","Hell, Norway changed their criminal prosecution laws so the U.S. would have ""first chance"" at prosecuting offender soldiers (which can't possibly go wrong in anything like, say, rape.) And Norway is already a NATO member.",0
Decades ago is an entire era in political terms. States sometimes move from red to purple in the course of 8 years (see Georgia and Arizona) let alone decades. And California in specific has gone from swing in the 90s to blue in the early 2000s to very blue now.,"2) It's much easier to win as the minority party for a local/state office than a federal office. For the former, the races are less nationalized: you can downplay the national party's platform and play to regional issues. Much harder to do that when it's a Senate race.",0
"(And yes, am almost pathologically chatty and spent yesterday afternoon handing out balloons to a bunch of 4 and 5 year old boys - truly terrifying stuff, sorry).","Was too busy being queen of “balloon punch castle” (new game that just dropped, highly recommend), but I did apologize to the parents for coming to the park with so much energy and so many toys, being a Sunday afternoon aunt fucking rules.",0
"The real problem is the Russians who leave, because 100,000 or even if it ends up being 300,000 be as horrible as it sounds but if millions of young men leave to escape the draft it will be the nail in the coffin.","Their population had an even worse decline than russia and they were also poorer and similar in corruption ranking, i do hope the war purged the corruption and that it will give the Ukrainian people the spirit and motivation to work hard& make children after the war is finished (as Afghanistan&vietnam prove no matter how many how many people die in war if you make enough children your population would still double).",0
They now have first hand experience showing them they were lied to about the state of the war. Russia is fairing badly. Hundreds are dying every day. Ukraine is resisting; they are not being welcomed as saviors.,"Many Ukrainian lives would be saved. Life in Russia would probably still be shit, but fuck 'em. They're the ones who decided not to respect any leader who isn't a shitty, violent autocrat.",1
"In cases of Japan and Germany post WW2, the west could have penalized them into oblivion and destroyed both countries, taking everything they had, but they decided that for various reasons (a major one being the USSR) they preferred to have allies instead of loot, so they invested massively in both countries turning them into what we have today. This was on top of their reasoning for intervention being defensive and an attempt to deal with a hostile power.","In situations like Iraq or Afghanistan, the reasoning was offensive and far more about natural resources and looting than anything else. As a result, after the initial successful military intervention, the west didn't want stability or order or anything of the sort. They didn't want allies in the region. They didn't care about the people. They wanted loot and the way to get it would be unstable countries. That's why those military interventions went to shit. They were meant to.",0
"The main problem facing the US defense budget though is the generational replacements of the key parts of the nuclear triad which will suck $ from everything else & not contribute much to any real regional conflict. For example, replacing the Ohio SSBNs with Columbia's is going to eat most of the US Navy's shipbuilding budget in an era when the PLAN is adding several Tier 1 surface combatants each year (Luyang III & Renhai).","""At the same time, it includes billions of dollars in extra money to build even more new ships and planes than the Pentagon itself asked for, including $2.2 billion alone for an extra Navy-guided missile destroyer, according to the Senate Armed Services Committee."".",1
"If the US cuts imports from China, you'll see millions of Chinese out of work overnight and revolting in the streets in the next week. The US doesn't have to militarily fight China.",US isn't going to defend Taiwan. US is already building multiple semiconductor plants to end their dependence on Taiwan. They'll try to delay the invasion long enough to give the industry time to adjust and move to better tech and who knows maybe they'll blow up the plants in Taiwan to make it even harder for the Chinese to catch up but from what I understand western world has already accepted that Taiwan will be annexed.,1
"I could be wrong, but this is what I remember reading/watching. I personally feel that Putin will probably experience some sort of mental breakdown before there is an actual physical threat from outsiders.","Putin is in the middle of nowhere with everything he can physically need, so his discomfort will take longer to reflect reality.",0
"Right wingers act like conservatives are persecuted and censored. In reality, social media companies ENCOURAGE conservative speech since the extreme nature of much of it leads to higher user engagement, whether it be for or the cries against it.","That's a big reason why right wing social media doesn't end up working. Things like Parler had their issues with child pornography and such with lack of moderation, but many conservatives simply found it less fun when they were spewing shit segregated from the rest of the internet.",0
"For those not familiar with Wagner, think Blackwater but way, way worse and also they’re Nazis. Estonia classifies them as terrorists, and they’re basically Putin’s private army when he wants illegal shit done.","But PMCs are illegal in Russia, so really at the end of the day Putin just does what he wants, I don’t know why they try to disguise what’s going on.",0
So we stand a very real chance of a 269-269 tie if Republicans choose to throw out the results in states where the control the legislature.,"In some chambers, you would need every single Republican--or nearly every Republican--will vote to overturn the electors. However, that's very unlikely. Consider, for example, Arizona, where both chambers have a two member GOP majority. They can't afford a single defection. Meanwhile, fewer than half of the state's House Republicans were willing to cosponsor a bill that would allow a legislative special session to confirm election results--this is a much lower bar than actually rejecting the results and choosing a new custom slate of electors! North Carolina can afford three defections in their Senate but a number of their senators opposed Trump's efforts to overturn 2020. Georgia has a larger GOP majority, but there's a very open and bitter battle between the pro-democracy and pro-denialist factions, but the pro-democracy side largely won in the '22 primaries.",1
"Former president Donald Trump and his allies have attacked early voting, especially vote-by-mail programs, prompting some Republicans to give up a practice that they have embraced in some states for decades. A countervailing force seems to have offset that opposition — more opportunities to vote early.","Americans have cast more ballots ahead of Election Day than they did during early voting before the last midterm election, continuing a trend of increasingly relying on early voting despite vocal objections from some Republicans.",0
"Nah, it's just a manufactured right wing smear and fear campaign and it's been obvious from the start. The only ""people"" who care about this are right wing crazies and their dupes.",That part is right wing propaganda. Wingnut talking heads have said they have the documents to prove shady business dealings but refuse to show it. Meanwhile they're obsessed with dick pics.,1
"Even with this legislation in place, if the Supreme Court overturns Obergefell it sounds like states could still make life hell for LGBT people in a lot of ways. Like, if they got married in a blue state and then moved to a red state that didn't recognize their marriage, they'd probably have to file state taxes individually.","Also, I'm pretty sure like basically all laws regulating adoptions and child custody are state level laws and I think bans on LGBT adoption were only struck down because of Obergefell, so that could be a problem this legislation doesn't address.",0
"4 is the only possibility I can possibly believe, but as I said before, justices do _not_ want to have the appearance that public outrage / pressure can change their legal opinions. If the supreme court changed their ruling after the leak due to public pressure, then it would open the floodgates because they'd be proving that they will bow to public pressure. The only sensible move (and the move they took) was to stick by the draft ruling.","Someone in favour of abortion rights has _no_ interest in leaking the opinion, I guarantee to you that the leak is on the anti-abortion side.",0
"Plus, in most of those videos the managers are busy trying to prevent the disruption occuring in their restaurants. That disruption just usually happens to be a fight in those cases, rather than a would-be politician handing out political material.","Edit 2: Also, political ideology isn't a protected class. McD would be 100% in their rights to refuse service based on that if they wanted to. It would be dumb. But, again, not wanting an unauthorized media circus in your restaurant should be reason enough without bringing ideology into it.",0
"Look at long lines to vote. When it happens in, say, Atlanta, they'll say there's no problem, and it shouldn't be easy to vote, because only motivated people should be able to vote. Then look at Arizona, and suddenly it's such an egregious violation that either the election should be voided and redone, or the loser should just be declared the winner.","The election in Arizona was probably the most historically scrutinized election in any state in the history of this country. If there were even the possibility of fraud by democrats, the GOP operatives absolutely would have witnessed it.",1
That's why murica is the only cheeky bastard who earns profit from this neighbourhood squabble. lmao you don't even try to hide your powerless and pointless anger for Russia.,Pointless anger for Russia? I wonder if you dig deep if you might find a reason the U.S. doesn't care for Russia. You can start with the 100k dead Ukrainians and cities turned to rubble work your way backward.,1
"Also, an all time NZ classic, Robert Muldoon in the 1980s announcing a snap election whilst drunk, which he immediately lost by an absolute landslide.","Preferred PM means nothing though, you don't vote for PM, only party. John Key occasionally polls around 5% in preferred PM even though he hasn't been active in politics for like 6 years.",0
"Elections are only rigged on a very minimal scale, other than that the Turkish elections are pretty legit, the AKP government tries to do stuff to hinder it like the re-do for the Istanbul election but as we saw CHP won with even a bigger vote the 2nd time.","2- They will announce someone else as the candidate, which will divide voters and possibly lose a chunk of them, which will benefit AKP.",1
"I'm a big fan of death with dignity both in principle and in practice, but after hearing about the problems that Canada has had, I'd kind of like to take the time to get the logistics and bureaucratics nailed down first.","Whether you think suicidal depression is a good reason for seeking medically assisted suicide is one question to consider, the other is whether it should take a suicidally depressed person a month to get certification for the procedure.",0
"Check out the OP's account. It's an 8 year account with no posts until yesterday, where it already submitted 12 posts (all news articles, 7 from BusinessInsider). The comments started yesterday too.","No dude, that's BusinessInsider. Somebody is paying them to write articles against Meta, and then they're botting to submit it to reddit (where it influences public opinion).",0
"Though it’s an old jet fighter, but still very powerful. Why not to deliver these Tornados to Ukraine @Bundeskanzler?","At another point he asked for F-16s, F-35s, Eurofighters, Tornados, French Rafales and Swedish Gripen jets.",0
"That's the whole point. They want him gone, but they don't want to do the dirty work themselves otherwise they might offend his cult.","They always wanted him gone, but didn’t want to pay the consequences of doing the right thing. They have always hoped to play the clock just right and let the democrats do all of the dirty work and take all the blame. Republicans are spineless, cynical cowards. But they are patient and clever cowards.",1
"I 100% understand this position, and I go back and forth on whether I support it. I worry about how much damage a ""remainder"" republican party will do on the way out - but I think there's really no other alternative.","And if you listen to the people on the GOP, there are a lot of people that don't like the GOP either because they think the GOP is failing to pass the bills they want (which they aren't because the GOP is incompetent). If there is no conservative party in the US, there is still a conservative movement which is angry and ready to burn things to the ground.",1
"Not helping is that the previous popular president Duterte (who's charisma as an asshole means his supporters ignore all of his faults, something similar to Trump) being a supporter of Marcos himself which gave the family the chance to be taken seriously again.","Even my own father got in on the whole Marcos thing cause he bought into the Duterte cult of personality who supported the asshole, he even warned my mother not to vote for the opposition. Now that the Marcos are in power though, they're in the seat that people shit on since they have to deal with the aftermath of Covid and the inflation issue and their supporters are either on the defensive or just ignore reality and sit on their little bubble ignoring the burning building, bad news though is that Marcos seems to be still focusing on PR instead of any work that can alleviate all these issues, he's also imitating Duterte's foreign policy of ambiguously sucking off both China and the U.S., depending on who's the lesser threat like some crackwhore who's choosing which STD to get.",0
"That way, with time, you simple reach a point when you don't need to blatantly cheat on elections, you will have a lot of people who will only believe you, no matter how crazy you are.","The system makes it difficult to cheat, yes, but it certainly does not prevent it from happening - and evidence of fake ballots and dumped ballots appeared in the last election.",1
"Republicans would've been worse, but in the context of a pro labor president, he sided against them. These are just facts.","I don't think McConnell's corporate overlords would be pleased with destroying the biggest holiday of the year over 7 unpaid sick days. My personal take is that Biden wasn't having his arm twisted by republicans, they agreed.",0
They’re trading access to the greater European economy for the burnt out husk of the Russian economy and a partner that violates treaties in the same way they do. Are they going to invade Russia when they inevitably blow off the agreement?,"Russia, and by Russia I mean Putin, is desperate to keep this War going as long as possible. Its about nothing more than staving off the consequences for as long as he can, hoping for something to save him.",1
3) Ukrainian intelligence stumbled on a CIA operation and he went in person to Kyiv to tell Zelensky to brief him so the op doesn't fuck up.,"1) Putin is dead, the CIA is operating a coup to have him replaced with a moderate, and he went to ask Zelensky to slow done so the Hawks don't get momentum.",0
"If the missile was indeed fired by Russia, it would be a good excuse for NATO to setup a no-fly or missile defense zone within a certain distance of Poland's border.",The most plausible scenario for this would be that it was in fact a stray Ukrainian S-300 and all the evidence available to NATO as well as Russia easily prove that.,1
"Not someone outside of WV, not someone who is going to describe to me the game of politics, not someone who is insisting to me that he votes with Dems and that's all that matters. I just wanna know why WV people like the dude and if they feel confident in re-electing him.","If it gets him re-elected in West Virginia then he can do whatever he wants. He’s still voting for Biden judges and the IRA, which any other senator from WV would never do.",1
Israel wants peace? Lol the Arabs and the Palestinians long ago said that lets make peace. Just give back the occupied West Bank and there will be peace.,Israelis want the kind of peace in which they are allowed to keep all the occupied land. That obviously doesn't work.,0
"If russia were trying to destroy Ukraine's logistics with these strikes, the targets would be things like factories and transport infrastructure. People can point to the power infrastructure attacks but that's really not the ideal way to go about things- militaries can use portable generators, and if you're taking out military industry it's a lot more cost effective to hit factories rather than power stations that can shift load and be repaired/replaced rather quickly, as evidenced by Ukrainians consistently restoring power within days of attacks. Factories are centralized points that can take months or years to restore to operation, depending on the damage.","It could be that Russians are trying to balance this with their own need for population, it could be that most of the refugees entering Russia were from before this strategy was adopted, it could be that the Russians are only taking pro russian refugees. Likely not possible to say with available information.",0
"That's my take on it. We'll find out in about 2 years. If you end up wrong, as I expect, maybe consider that incremental progress through seeming centrists is better than taking wild risks that leave the White House open to crazy morons.","Putting aside the person with the best chance to win, when the GOP is in the grip of deadly morons, is not a worthwhile risk.",0
"""Johnny said he was trans? I thought he was talking about trains, that he was just really into locomotives. I told him to go to the library and check out Terry Pratchett's Raising Steam, and that if he liked it that author had some very good books featuring dwarves if he was thinking about joining the police, and another about a regiment of soldiers if he was thinking of enlisting."".","Yes. I won't be surprised when they propose revoking the matthew Shepard/James Byrd act, because Republicans have made it clear how much they want LGBTQIA+ people in the morgue.",1
"Oh yeah, I'm just wondering how someone can say they're still hoping enough people come around. A clear majority isn't enough because we don't have a democracy, so how many is enough?","Well they voted for them, so if most Americans felt this way they wouldn't be in office. I can't believe MTG and people like her were voted back into office.",1
And the government will have to spend billions cleaning up the mess of nuclear waste again like they have been forced to do in so many cases.,I live 50 miles away from Sellafield and remember the blackout on what was done with the nuclear waste when it was suggested to bury it near Lodon and there was an outcry about how dangerous the waste was.,0
To be fair how can you talk about people having values when the US has been financing the saudi destruction and genocides in Yemen and US does nothing (in fact it continues giving the saudis weapons).,"Dude the US finances the Saudi dictatorship and provides weapons to massacre the yemen, the biden a few months ago was kissing the Saud house to ask them to increase oil production. Now tell me, what morals do the Americans have to point the finger at Brazil when they are so involved with absolutist dictatorships?",1
"He wasn't writing a scientific paper. It's a collection of his opinions on topics that he put a lot of thought into. I don't agree with his way of thinking, but I can still acknowledge that he's got a style of writing that's engaging and quotable; aka ""he's a good writer."".","At least they had a response so that's something. At first (months after they like had it mass infecting people) they called it a ""mysterious disease"" (It's obviously covid, like the rest of the world...just like how the anti-vacc people always say they ""caught a cold"" until they are dying in hospital) but sure, if they mitigated it, great. I know people are going to make jokes they just shot the infected, but they actually did do lock downs, something they have going for them is the people pretty much have to do what the gov says.",1
"No, the problem is mainly religion. Stalin and Pol Pot get trotted out, but I am happy to play a game. You pick someone who was an athiest and committed genocide, and I will pick a religious figure who committed genocide. You will run out before me. Hours before me.","Ok, this might come as a surprise, but our understanding of faith pre and post glacial (up to the early bronze age with Egypt/other near eastern cultures) is based on... modern anthropological studies of what we think were equivalent cultures. We just don't have any evidence pre-Egypt really. The female figurines tell you nothing as it is missing all the other context - you are dealing with 10,000s of years and 1000s of miles of distance. Whenever anyone propounds about early faith pre-Bronze age (meaning neo and earlier lithics), they are... full of shit.",0
That just means rethinking queerness outside of the assumptions of American culture and the capitalist system.Densantis is wrong but it's clear to see why DeSantis doesn't like it as the conservative mindset likes to mistake culture for nature and objective reality.,"However, when DeSantis talks queer theory, he is using it because the word “queer” invokes an emotional reaction with bigots and the intolerant. The theories was also developed in the 70s, so it resonates with baby boomers still looking to crush some hippy heads. When DeSantis says it, it has nothing to do with the actual theory. He is basically taking volumes and decades of research and turning it into a Sunday cartoon except there’s no punchline. It’s just queer bashing.",1
This is incredibly stupid. The Russian government they're protesting against didn't even exist when this piece was made. Nobody was going to use 18th century Russian art to justify Putin's fascism.,"""Kartysh accused Russia of ""using culture to lend weight to its assertions of greatness and power"" following its invasion of Ukraine in February.",0
"And as the article points out, they gave money to both parties, so why do only the Democrats get the headline here?",">Crypto exploded under Trump's regulators. Crypto billionaires were donors to everyone, and the most ardent backers of crypto were Republicans like Patrick McHenry and Pat Toomey. The right went all in on crypto, the Dems only half.",0
"""We need to stop those communist fascists Democrats from [draws a slip of paper] taking away our [draws another] G7!"".",. I also have worked outside in The rural west my entire life and always wear a big straw hat ( and long sleeves etc) .,1
"True. But from all the countries in the region, Qatar has made incredible progress with many things in a short amount of time. I think at this point there's more women in university than men for example. So I have hope.","Coming from a conservative ME family, I totally understand that they're at a different point on the progressive timeline (understand, not agree).",0
"Didn't Israel, and the US already investigate this, and basically concluded it was an errant IDF bullet?","The US investigation says that bullet was likely fired by IDF: ""SEE? This 100% proves it was an Israeli bullet. Thank goodness we finally have an honest investigation!"".",1
"Climate change is real, and it is serious. But it doesn't necessarily result in ""mild winters"" instead of cold ones.","Whilst a shifting polar vortex can cause temporary extreme cold events, the overall trend for Northern European winters is rapid warming.",1
"The United States is not the only country dealing with inflation right now. And many countries, particularly ones in Europe are experiencing higher levels of inflation than the United States. While every economy is unique, they all continue to face similar challenges with labor sourcing and supply chain disruptions as a continued impact of the global pandemic.","As it takes time for more production to come online, in the near term, the tools our government has to dampen inflation is restrictive monetary policy - raising interest rates, raising taxes, and cutting government spending. This decelerates the economy by slowing the growth in the money supply resulting in less upward pressure on prices.",0
"If someone were to buy an inferior product, there should be something compelling about it. For example, Hyundais today are comparably reliable to the Japanese Toyota and Honda at lower price making them a good deal. Why the F would I buy a Hyundai if it were priced the same as Japanese? If Embraer can manage to offer a good deal, I am sure many would happily buy it.","Even if Air India was buying anything like an Embraer jet, if simply makes better economical sense to bulk order (of all jet sizes) from one manufacturer for better prices, maintenance and support advantages.",0
"You are comparing apples and oranges. The 56 GW of installed capacity of coal power comes in addition to the over 200 GW installed capacity they already have, while the 500 GW is included the more than 150 GW they already have. It's also worth mentioning that this is installed capacity, measured in watts, not generated energy, measured in watt-hours. Renewable power plants generally have a much lower capacity factor, which is the ratio of the produced energy to the theoretical maximum energy the plant could produce over time if it was able to run at maximum all the time, than conventional power plants.",How is it possible to believe that non-renewables are being phased out when non-renewables are the largest source of electricity and they are building even more as we speak?!?,0
"The Republicans have more votes in the House so there is no way a Democrat can win the vote for Speaker so nominating a progressive wouldn't do anything. It appears that McCarthy will be nominated by the majority of the Republican party, but if Democrats choose someone a semi-sane Republican who would peal off even a few votes from the Republican party they can deny McCarthy control of the House.","If Republicans really do end up with 219 seats and Democrats could find a rational Republican that their entire caucus could get behind (and poach a few Republican votes) they could install a rational actor as Speaker instead of McCarthy who would be beholden to the crazies in his caucus. There won't be a Democrat Speaker, but we can make sure there's a sane one.",1
"We truly gave them a chance, we appeased maybe a little too much, but we cut the devil before it turned into Hitler 2.0. True, at the cost of Ukrainian blood, but that's also on Europe.","I was told Poland was going to invade Ukraine like it did 100 years ago, and Russia is here to save Ukraine from Poland.",1
"u/OnceAndFutureMayor makes a good point about sea level rise, most people today live near coasts, and coasts were rich sources of food. Sea levels have risen. But pottery is quite portable, and durable. What probably did exist is societies like the Chinook. They lived near rivers with tremendous salmon runs, and they had very developed, densely populated settlements. We have archaeological evidence of hunter- gatherers who converged at Gobekli Tepe every year, where there was abundant wild grain, and animals that came to eat the grain. People seem to have gathered in tremendous numbers, like a Stone Age Burning Man. It was a complex society, but not technological.","An advanced society like that would require a huge number of resources. Obtaining resources from the natural environment, regardless of which ones, leaves evidence. Turning those resources into whatever you need to support a society leaves evidences. And then at the end, everything that was created leaves trash as it breaks and is discarded. And yet, we’ve found none of these traces. That makes it incredibly unlikely that such a society has existed.",1
"I’m not offering alternatives because there aren’t really much alternatives to be offer, there really isn’t any point to having a discussion like this when it won’t change anything, and the conflict will just need to be fought out like it is, just keep the war of attrition going and weaken Russia further until they either give in or push them out of Ukraine inch by inch. When Russia is out of Ukraine, there isn’t anything else that realistically can be dine.","Listen, mate, idk if you’re familiar or not but Germany in WW1 wasn’t too great either. And the treaty of Versailles directly lead to the rise of hitler and WW2 and I’m telling you, such policies will lead to a rise in Russian nationalism.",0
"So Israel can't rely on the PA. What other option do they have to keep their citizens safe? And saying BS like ""ThEy cOuLd Go AwAy"" doesn't help and isn't realistic at all, without the fact that it's not as simple as that to think of Israel as the invaders - it's much more complicated than that, and anyone who tries to paint it as something less than 5 full paragraphs is a complete moron.","The problem with this line of thinking is that according to the Palestinians, the entire land is invaded, therefore the only solution would be for Israel to destruct itself, something which Israel obviously isn't going to do.",1
"Hibakusha is not related to nuclear energy at all, and is strictly restricted to victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both in usage and in meaning. Victims of Fukushima—which are mostly didplaced people and not bodily harm—are higaisha; a general term for a victim that applies to any and all disasters.","Fukushima killed like 600 people and it took ""the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in japan"" plus a tsunami, to cause the reactor to fail. That earthquake alone killed 20.000 people.",1
">Employers were able to defeat unions so effectively because, over the years, labor law had become heavily tilted against workers and toward employers.","You asked why union membership was falling, and I explained it was largely due to anti-union legislation. Therefore the solution is pro-union legislation.",0
"Most of Western Europe is atheist/agnostic but we all celebrate Christmas as a cultural tradition and midwinter festival, more so than to celebrate Jesus.",But we are not celebrating midwinter - we celebrate CHRISTmas because we live in majority CHRISTian countries.,1
"In this context the police is the department, or more specifically those who chose to fight this rather than acquiesce. I tried to make that clear when I said ""this department's mentality."".","Good. Half the battle in a wrongful or improper traffic stop is an evidentiary matter. For the people who cry, don’t argue save it for court. There needs to be evidence to allow a trier of fact to understand the events or else it’s just a civilian’s testimony against law enforcements.",1
"Wanting an explanation doesn't mean I'm going to agree with any explanation given. What if you responded saying: ""The reason Americans are so obsessed with guns is actually because Julie Andrews is secretly the leader of the Illuminati and it heavily influences people at all levels to champion gun rights in order to overthrow the government."".",Yes. They are fascists. After January 6th we'd all be absolute fools to think they are after anything other than an authoritarian form of government. History is repeating itself.,1
"I remember after some other mass shooting a longish time ago (maybe around 2013, I think it was after the Boston Marathon terrorist attack; this will come up a bit later here) a conservative former classmate of mine (we went to the same high school but this was after we graduated) posted a video on FB titled something like ""teenager DESTROYS lawmaker's arguments for gun control."" I watched the video. And the argument was basically ""if we have gun control it will make it harder for me to go hunting with my dad."".","The point is that the arguments are nearly always of that variety. That notion of ""well what about ME?"".",0
"There's a lot of nonsense in the Chinese policy position (it really isn't a plan), but my favourite is China's call to end sanctions against Russia. Can't have those ""unilateral"" (ie. agreed by dozens of countries but not China) interfering with profitable trade with Russia.","Because China is the only country with real leverage over Russia. Chinese industrial power is keeping Russia afloat. Without China, Russia is toast.",1
Russia has no credible nuclear threat against the west or they would have been swinging a bigger nuclear dick.,"Seriously not looking for war, but keeping that genie bottled is probably one of the few things that would be worth it.",0
"I really hope not. COVID absolutely devastated us for 3 years and its not even close to Bird Flu. If this shit mutates and transcends to human mammals, we are fucked. Bird Flu has something of a 50% mortality rate...",I do know we have vaccines and strict pandemic plans but I am traumatised by the global disorganisation regarding these situations.,0
- We'll only de-escalate when Ukraine gets back all its internationally-recognised territories and Russia withdraws all its troops from these territories (internationally-recognised means most countries around the world recognise/don't dispute it).,"- Nobody wants nuclear war. That's why NATO troops won't be deployed in Ukraine, because NATO troops in Ukraine will make NATO a participant of the war (there's currently only 2 participants in the war: Russia and Ukraine. I won't even count Belarus as it hasn't send any troops in, even though Russia uses its territory as a staging ground). Stop pushing the idea that we are speedrunning to nuclear war because everyone is doing all they can to prevent it.",0
"The difference is that a candidate or a political party are more than just 1 law or position. For example, one can support the GQP b/c you think they are pro-life/birth but have to deal with their economic policies. Contrast this with voting for a single ordinance or writing a letter to an elected official to pass a set of anti-abortion laws.","I know that my fellow Mormons belong to the Christofascist, but the problem is our religion does not. Most ""Christians"" don't consider us Christians, even though the actual name of our church has always been The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(emphasis mine, kinda). Oh, and the Book of Mormon even declares that we teach & prophesy of Christ(). So yeah, those of us that are paying attention realize how dangerous these ass holes are & refuse all association with them. It actually pisses me off when I hear a fellow Mormon spout their bull shit.",0
Russia's next strategy: Overwhelm Ukraine by throwing bodies into the grinder until Ukraine simply runs out. So much death and suffering just to appease the delusional whims of a madman who has murdered his way into Russian leadership.,Also keep in mind that a lot of russian invaders who are dying over the last few months are literally prisoners charged for rape and/or murder.,1
Americans need to learn that A) Canada’s healthcare system is very different depending what part of Canada you are in and B) actually the perfect system for the US and what the Dems should be pushing rather than a national program.,"The problem is that when you’re talking about the Canadian system, there is a huge difference between federal and provincially-run healthcare. The whole country is only about as populous as California, and the biggest province (Ontario) is only slightly larger than PA. Because scale is so important in healthcare provision and insurance, and because most of the big provinces are run by conservative governments, the provincial systems have been allowed to get much worse than they would be under federal control. Trudeau is also kind of gutless when it comes to pushing back on mismanagement in the provinces, especially Quebec.",1
"The issue that we’re seeing is an unsustainable attrition rate (on both sides) where defense is possible but offense is not sustainable. Now that Russia has given up on a real offensive push and is simply entrenching and reinforcing, Ukraine needs a hell of a lot more weapons and at a significantly higher pace than what NATO/EU/USA are providing.","While they do need more equipment and will continue to, there actual military capacity is several times that of Ukraine at the start of the war. They’ve managed to not give up the air due to western anti air weapons, they’ve pushed Russia to break out T-62s and some older tanks, Russians are being equipped with Mosin-nagants, Russia is the one truly struggling equipment wise.",1
This seems to be something that people often forget about when thinking they’d try out their cheap red state for awhile and if it sucks they’d move to the country housing the blue states. Odds are you wouldn’t have that choice.,"If it were to happen, you best get out immediately. Odds are there might be a short transition time, but you’d now be living in a foreign country when compared to the blue states. Just like Americans cannot just up and move to Canada, you couldn’t move from the Red States of America to the Blue States of America without meeting their specific immigration criteria.",0
The biggest miscommunication is the West giving mixed signals about how they feel about Russia invading Ukraine pre-war allowing Putin to think he could get away with it.,"Not stating the obvious truth (as you correctly stated above) is basically part of the same strategy as not giving Ukraine weapons to attack Moscow. If Moscow could see the future they’d probably use their nukes now. So the strategy is to keep them focused on Ukraine and keep support at a level at where, if Russia escalates, Russia is seen as dragging other countries into the war, not other countries jumping on Russia. This makes the political messaging and support at home much much easier to manage. And in the mean time, help Ukraine help Russia destroy itself.",1
"I mean, if America wants to send a consistent message, maybe they'd start manufacturing renewable technologies instead of relying on supply from Asian manufacturers?","To clarify your comment, the pledge is that western powers and latin american countries have to switch to renewable sources starting now while India and China dont have to start or reduce emissions until 2030.",1
"If the law causes a chilling effect on abortion seekers, why would an identical gun-targeted law not cause a chilling effect on gun seekers?","There was already a case that was largely blocked because of standing issues, so it's working as intended: reduce abortions with an unenforcible law, but it keeps people scared enough to get the outcome you want.",1
What that means is they have no incentive to lower costs. Look at the covid vaccine which is going to increase in price astronomically now that for-profit insurance is paying instead of the government.,Insurance companies absolutely do not want covid vaccine costs to go up. Most of them fully cover preventative care like vaccinations. The price is going up because the cost/benefit for insurance companies is to still pay for the vaccine. They’d much prefer the vaccine be dirt cheap.,1
"If SpaceX themselves did this, well, did they talk to the Pentagon about it? If this is something they shouldn't have done, the Pentagon will come talking.",This will also accelerate exploration of Starlink alternatives because no user wants to see a critical service be subject to the whims of an asshat plutocrat.,0
"Let me help you as a person who lives in Taiwan. Taiwan manufactures virtually fucking everything. The idea that Taiwan couldn't produce a drone is, to understate it, completely laughable. Like, comes from Taiwanese manufacturers.","China wants Taiwan largely for its industries and infrastructure. It can't simply bomb it to hell as a method of seizing control, they'd be destroying all of what they're trying to take over.",1
I’d rather have them outraged about gas stoves than about other humans just trying to live their lives in the manner of their own choosing.,"If you want to accuse gas stoves of poisoning people while they sleep, you have to implicate induction in burning people's houses down while they sleep.",1
"Both sets of my grandparents retired in their mid 50s and died in their late 70s early 80s, and one is still alive, they had decades after retirement to just live their lives.","My dad was 65 when he died, he had mentioned a few months before he was gearing up to retire in a couple of years (I assume he meant 67). And the only reason I'd ever be able to retire is because he didn't have the opportunity to spend that money on himself.",0
"Usually I would support negotiations to stop any war, but security guarantees aren't going to stop Putin's Russia from trying to ethnically cleanse Ukrainians in Ukraine.","Ideally, if NATO and ukraine are good at negotiating, offering russia security guarantees would be enough for russia to offer the same to ukraine.",1
"These other countries where it's supposedly so effective, don't have the same inequality and ""work culture"" we have in America. They have free healthcare and livable wages. The gun ban is not the reason for less hostility.","For evil people, as a starting point, I want to limit their access to firearms. For people who have shown a tendency to do violent things, that means all firearms.",1
"It still doesn't fix the problem of a law being implemented with no way to not just enforce it but even handle the basic parts of it. You are required to have training to get a permit, but there is no training or even a permit process. The state police are required to have a searchable database of permits for sellers, but that doesn't exist. Realistically, as is, this law is about a year out from being able to be enacted. That doesn't even handle how bad the law is.","It's the same as many laws. The rich and connected have a way out, the broke and busy are left behind in red-tape.",1
"It's literally the same thing here with the Iranian government - ""War against God"" - this is nothing more than them attempting to scare the other protestors into submission.","Just in case you were unsure that Iran is run by a theocratic authoritarian bunch of repressed and angry at the world douchbags, here is confirmation for you. There are a lot of wonderful, beautiful, extremely intelligent, full of life and love people in Iran being violently oppressed, Some of whom had nothing to do with any protests or street actions, yet still are carted off to awful places and beaten and sometimes murdered. My heart is with the people of Iran. I hate their government, and what it does, but the people are not their government.",1
"A vast majority wants to join NATO. However, it's a tricky situation. Paludan, a danish-swedish troll, burnt a Quran, which pissed off a lot of Turks and started burning the Swedish flag in response. Here's the thing. We have freedom of speech, and we can't prosecute someone expressing their beliefs within our borders, no matter how stupid they are.","Turkey is a dictatorship. For crying out loud, there's been moments when Erdogan has reminded the people that he is immortal, a simple trick done by dictators. They have zero sanctions on Russia as well. This is a massive win for oppression of democracy, win for both Turkey and Russia if Sweden can't join.",0
"I wish I was able to boycott this, but I've already been boycotting the Olympics since it became clear Russia would never face real consequences for systemic doping.","Not defending Russia but Norway has a lot of doping scandals aswell, which is sad because i thought our brothers and sisters in the west were better than that. Anyone doping should be banned.",1
"Yes, and Iran knows this, which is why they've structured their nuclear weapons program to make it impossible to wipe it out with a one-off strike like this.","That's a good point, the Saudis couldn't accept nuclear blackmail from Iran so they would get the bomb very quickly as well. Talk about making the middle east even more unstable.",1
"And, depending on the ways it is done, having the government step in and regulate it would just get you:","But you do really paint quite the picture of your view on regulations with your statement on what would happen. You're basically saying regulation = bad, which pretty much explains your stance.",1
"I often wonder, when Republicans are done stripping personhood away from women and racial minorities, who will be in charge at home between Clarence and Ginni Thomas?","""An original reading of the constitution clearly shows us that women aren't supposed to vote. So I'm honored to write on behalf of this 6-3 decision restoring America's greatness and the will of Christ in America."".",0
"Dump their only sort-of-ally and end up facing entire West alone? China is not that dumb. It needs Russia as a buffer against West. If Russia can win in Ukraine, good. If Russia cannot and will become weaker and depend more on China, thats good, too.",I actually think that this benefits China because it means that the West has no internal scruples regarding Russia anymore. Ukraine essentially has ended the Russian threat for the west without a single western (official) casualty.,1
"The main point is that the debate over how to stabilise the world population to sustainable levels often strays wildly away from the statistical evidence and when it does, it inevitably wanders into evil territory.","We likely still face many decades of worsening conditions as the population continues to grow and the old paradigm slowly sputters along toward its end. But beyond that, there is a positive future for humans and the rest of our family on this planet.",1
"Not to mention Ukraine is damn smart for not accepting any ceasefires or ""peace talks"" unless Russia leaves the country. All Russia wants is time to get their troops rearmed before the talks will mysteriously fall apart and a renewed offensive starts.","Very true. The amount of times Russia's narritive has shifted for this war I can easily see them start acting like they're just trying to defend their ""own"" territory from the never ending onslaught of ""NATO backed Nazis."".",0
"I was surprised that in parts of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado there's little prickly pear cactus all over the place. I noticed them in Crestone, which is definitely one of the colder areas in the mountains. I'm not sure if ""cactus"" really says much about a climate.","There are also hardy cactuses. I live in the Upper Midwest in the States and I keep barrels of them outside on the deck year round. Green bees love the flowers and the fruit is really nice, even though there are so many seeds. Like if a strawberry was in the form of a raspberry, if you can imagine that.",1
"This isnt ""gaslighting"". The gaslighting is claiming that between the dates of 03Feb to 13Feb, that this story had gained sufficient traction to fully make the public aware of what was happening.","Deadass this was not reported anywhere close to the level that it demanded. From the dates of 03Feb-13Feb, very few stories were being published outside local media sources with informative updates. 08Feb had a spike of stories as they reported officials were allowing people to return to their homes.",0
I often wonder the ratio of useful idiots to class warriors among those proposing and supporting race-based reparations.,Seems to me like focusing on race-blind antipoverty measures and other reforms is a better way to try and make things better for disadvantaged groups.,1
"Now, i personally don't like Nikki Haley, i think she is just as crazy as trump, but hides it better. I do however think Trump picking either (or both) a female or black VP would be a good idea.","She's running for President with the ultimate goal of her's (and the GOP) to be VP running mate. She'll run, drop out then be courted by the two remaining candidates.",1
"Re-electability is the fall back argument a candidate's opponents will use because they don't have a real argument against them. As far as I'm concerned, there is only one drawback to Biden round 2, and that is his age. Until I see signs that his age is affecting his ability to do the job, that isn't a good enough reason to oppose him seeking a second term.","I voted for Biden the first time to get rid of Trump. I'll vote for him again because he has been an effective president, and his policies shifted leftwards more than even my most optimistic hope for him.",0
"Heard somewhere that some Republican'ts are grumbling about Democrats not helping them out. My thought is, sure...why not go out of the way to help out a louse like Qevin, who before this nonsense, already gave the worst 9.1% of his caucus a promise that they could totally launch sham investigations and hold show trials for any Democrat in government and any one that simply agrees with them? Let 'em humiliate themselves and cry that nobody bailed them out...which will no doubt wind up sounding a lot like, ""Democrats stopped 'the people's' business from being done!"".","What would they say? ""He's kind of old, and very white. Come on and just vote for him so we can move on to the important business of blaming the Libs for all the problems."".",1
McConnell doesn't have to do what he says because he'll get re-elected no matter what. Only reason I can think of that he'd bother condemning this is to try and keep Trump from the nomination since he knows he's poison for the GOP in elections.,"Looking at the people who are most likely to toss their hat in the ring for the GOP in 2024, Trump may actually be the least dangerous. All the other viable contenders embrace some form of Trumpism and are likely to do even more damage. And given the damage Trump himself would do if he got re-elected, that's saying something.",1
"He appointed, at a minimum, 1 pro-DeJoy person. While I understand he was required to appoint a Republican, you can't make a good faith claim there's not a single qualified Republican in the country who would support removing DeJoy.",He didn't need to fire any governor. He just needed to nominate replacements in the normal course of appointments who were willing to fire him. Biden chose instead to nominate people who supported DeJoy.,0
"it's a bit myopic but it's technically correct. the fault really lies with gingrich's abuse of the cameras; but if they weren't there, he wouldn't have been able to ratfuck congress.","Another representative had to be held back from attacking Gaetz, so that’s probably why he wants more cameras. Either way, I agree that C-SPAN should have cameras in there so citizens can actually see and hear what’s happening.",1
"Clearly you dont know shit and talking out of your ass. This is TTP Taliban and they are different from the one in Afghanistan. Regardless, The Taliban in Afghanistan changed their plan, they realized attacking US wont let them win the war, so they accepted a deal with Trump and didnt attack US soldiers. Even when Biden came to power and attacked the Taliban, they remained patient because they know it was only matter of time. Taliban is not ISIS or Al Qaeda, their goal doesn't stretch passed Afghanistan. US doesn't care for Taliban as long as they dont host AL Queda and Taliban is a threat for US for US to start another war. US will take the L and move on from Taliban chapter and Taliban isn't stupid to attack US and bring them back to Afghanistan.","I am damn sure Talibanis aren't going to forget anything,not today not even tomorrow but someday they gonna hit US were they hurt the most and US deserves it.",1
"They are both damning cases, but the main piece of evidence is the Raffensperger call, which is an hour of smoking-gun evidence and a Secretary of State potentially testifying against him - and the GA case also involves the correspondences of John Eastman, who is central to the fake electors scheme and conspiracy charges.","But this one is open and shut, has documented criminal intent, testimony from the governor, Secretary of State, State Congress members, Trump’s own lawyers, and a dozen others - and GA state charges are particularly unfavorable for Trump’s actions.",0
"Many won’t return. Ukrainians never had free movement to live and work in Western European countries. Now they do without having to meet EU and Shengen block standards. There’s no way, even if and when the conflict ends that countries like Germany can force them out.",It wasn’t ‘free movement’. Ukrainians need apply for positions etc just like an American. It didn’t mean they could just decide to move to Berlin next week. Now they can.,0
If Russians use a nuke that’s the end for russia. They will be completely isolated from the world and may have a proportionate response against them. Putin wants to threaten the use of nuclear weapons but even he knows better than to actually use one.,The still unthinkable option is for Russia to use tactical nuclear weapons and think it will break Ukrainian morale and lines for them to just swoop in. Let me say that more clearly: this is extremely unlikely but in a war you should not prepare for what is convenient but what is possible.,1
"This report is from a grand jury on a massive racketeering investigation into Trump and crew for their attempts to influence/overturn the election in Georgia. It includes the ""find me 11,780 votes"" phone call, other similar phone calls, false statements made to the Georgia legislature, intimidation of election workers, and the fake elector scheme.","Even more than perjury, I’m thinking recorded conversations amongst officials and the fake electors and stuff, especially if they cut a deal with any of the fake electors to flip.",1
It's a gimmick not the real size. Anything 5nm and beyond is now just a marketing term for the technology generation like 2.0 and stuff.,They started to stack transistors (3d) and stuff now so they can fit more. It's not like they shrunk it even further yet.,0
"I agree too, Twitter is now, unofficially, a direct means of communications for any organization or individual to inform the world, all news outlets give tweets as much weight as spoken words right now.","We literally saw a single tweet cost a company billions of dollars recently, I don't know how anyone could argue it isn't integrated into our society right now.",1
"Yes, exactly. And they are also in power. People in power seek to further enrich themselves and use money to reinforce their rule. Therefore, the Taliban has a vested interest in letting this deal continue because it would disproportionately benefit them.","No, read the comment again lmao. That's literally what I said in the comment you're replying to. The Taliban are the people in Afghanistan who have the most reason to strictly adhere to this deal because it seeks to greatly enrich them personally.",0
So your point is the people setting up rocket launchers around schools and hospitals are not Palestinians?,You are blaming Israel for Hamas putting rocket launchers next to schools? In what way has Israel forced Hamas to do this?,1
That’s not the point. What do you expect fifa to do other than ban Iranian participation? Nobody is arguing here that it’s right for the Iranian government to treat the people this way. But a sports organization can’t do much about it. Don’t be dense.,No they put the shah in power. Leading to a period of westernization and freedom. Then the ayatollah came back in 1979. And I think it is pretty difficult to argue that the ayatollah has done anything positive for Iran since.,0
"For what is no surprise to us, the party that screams about voter / election fraud is committing it in broad daylight with these horrible, anti-democratic measures.","The Princeton Gerrymandering Project, which uses various metrics to grade the fairness of districts, gave Florida an F.",0
"“Being sufficiently aware that the movement of narcotic drugs is not allowed… no later than February 17, 2022 at an unspecified location under unspecified circumstances from an unidentified person \[Ms Griner\] bought two cartridges for personal use, which contained 0.252 grams and 0.45 grams of hash oil, totaling 0.702 grams,” the prosecutor said during the trial, TASS reported.","Not necessarily a ""large pile of dope"". Not at all. Russia, after all, is a fascist state where legal logic is subordinated to political pressure and corruption. Anything can happen there given particular circumstances.",0
"I'm Canadian too, and this is a crazy complicated conflict with a lot of factors and history. And yeah, some shitty people on both sides that can make everyone else look shitty.","Not to mention that the surrounding Arabs (including some Palestinians) have been trying to destroy Israel since immediately after it came into existence, so I think my timeline holds up.",0
"A blockade, SEAD, and missile campaign for months huh? So what's China going to do after month 3 and their economy has fallen apart because it's completely dependent on trade and the world shuts their doors to them, and much of their manufacturing base relies on TSMC.","China's only effective way to counter would be to try and sink the US Navy, and to destroy the airfields in Japan they would make use of, which would just cause world war 3, so they dont get Taiwan in that scenario because we're all dead.",0
There's a huge difference between releasing CO2 from the currently active carbon cycle and reintroducing CO2 that has been long sequestered.,"It may do, but it's carbon dioxide that was extracted from the atmosphere decades ago whereas the coal's CO2 was extracted millions of years ago. The wood CO2 doesn't contribute to increasing the atmospheric CO2 in even close to the same way as burning millions of tonnes of fossil fuels.",1
"Nah, more like Nicholas taking personal command of the Russian Army thereby pinning all the blame everytime the Army loses.","If Nicholas did not do that, there is a chance the Russian Civil War might have been different or completely avoided since Nicholas being present at the Imperial Court might rein in the shenanigans of Rasputin.",0
"At this point, nothing the Russian Leadership says or does has anything to do with us in this context.","Okay, bohemian Russian-bot, but why not make good on such a deal, when instead, you have alluded to “control” over European energy, and/or open war on the land you intend to claim?",0
"There is no such thing as hypoctisy, because they are above us, so they should be treated with respect.","I have met my fair share of chinese tourists during my travels around Europe, especially the middle-aged rich pro-CCP kind. On one trip I was with a guy from Taiwan who could understand what they were talking about. There was very little admiration towards the countries that hosted them. At almost every building, monument or other places of historic interest they would talk about how primitive and sloppy the handwork was compared to chinese standards, how China build this and this better and so on...",0
"According to Madeleine Albright in her book Fascism: A Warning, you couldn't find any Mussolini supporters after he got strung up at the gas station. Entire towns that had been flying fascist banners, holding parades, and wearing black shirts just the day before had been stripped of anything remotely fascist, and everyone who lived there just shrugged their shoulders when asked about it, as if it had never even happened. From post-war interviews, you'd get the idea that Mussolini never had any support and his rise to power was a complete mystery that nobody noticed until it was too late. ""Mussolini? Never heard of her."".","Yeah. I'm not unhappy with the most recent election, at least overall, but to think that things couldn't turn around in a couple years is short sighted. All it would take is for people to become apathetic again, and not turn out to vote.",1
"That phrasing he used is something folks are doing to focus on for the wrong reason. All conventional firearm training I'm aware of is to treat all firearms as deadly, as loaded unless opened and likely with one of those ""chamber is clear"" flags. To never point at anything you don't intend to kill. That shooting is to be deadly.","If a gun is drawn, then it's become a deadly force scenario. I really don't see the point in shooting to injure, there is already less lethal devices for that purpose. Besides, shooting a torso is easier than an arm or leg. So I don't see the point. You either use less lethal means or shoot to kill, because once guns are drawn there usually is no going back. That's why officers should be trained to properly be able to assess the need for deadly force use.",1
A universal healthcare bill would have a significant economic consequence on the economy. Just as nationalizing the railroad would be or any other nationalization effort.,"We have already nationalized the railroads with Amtrak, it is time to nationalize freight and all tracks so Amtrak can actually be a effective means of travel.",1
"Realistically, road maintenance fees should be decoupled from gasoline but it is a fairly decent way to breakdown the costs fairly for people who drive a lot versus people who drive very little. It does punish people who drive gas guzzling vehicles but I think the people complaining about an electric vehicle road tax can appreciate that anyway.","So, unless TN drivers are well above the average, it seems that they're certain punishing EV drivers with a heavier tax burden. Also, I've seen some indication that the 650 per person is high. If that's the case, then the increase is even less warranted and an even more egregious punishment.",1
"They have supplied Ukraine with satellite imagery and intelligence, several billion euro in financial aid and loans since 2014, hundreds of millions of euro in non-military humanitarian aid, evac and treatment of wounded soldiers since 2014 onward, offered replacements to other countries in exchange for them sending their tanks, etc.","Also, first impressions only matter when people refuse to actually look things up themselves, and trust influence campaigns in social media instead (which is 100% something which has been going on). For anyone curious, Germany has (as of January 16th, 2023) sent;.",0
"The issue is it cell who make sure that pro bjp propaganda keep flooding most places. Also bjp is not forgetting about gen Z. The exam discussion thing where our great leader the only person in the world with degree in entire political science tells kids how to prepare for exams, there are books for kids ""written by"" our great leader and the Mann ki baat program all come together to try to get kids to think that Modi is someone they should look up to.",There is still one good thing that might come from this drama. India media loves to claim that Modi is popular worldwide. If this thing makes it so that every where he goes there is a protest waiting kind of like what happened to trust it might start chipping at the idea that Modi is causing world to respect india and that Modi is loved around the globe.,0
"""Woke"" used to specifically be a term used by the Black community to describe people who were aware of racial injustice and had an understanding of what prejudice meant.","“Woke” was specifically chosen to be used by Black people to indicate that we are aware of the systemic and systematic oppression against us. “Stay woke” is a term we’d often say to each other to continue to encourage being aware of our reality. Then it was stolen and bastardized by conservatives and then again by liberals. But honestly, it’s infuriating that it’s being misused because it had value to the Black community and is now being used to simply define “anything y’all don’t like”. But I’m not surprised at that.",1
. He spews kremlin bullshit about NATO and Ukraine instigating the war and that the poor russians had no choice but to murder and torture civilians by the thousands.,He also tried to white-wash a famous for calling for the destruction of Ukraine and the purging of its citizens.,0
"I'ts important because its not the same ""nuke us, we will nuke you back and we will have a good chance of surviving"" than ""well, everything's fucked up now."" Specially because during the first weeks of the Ukrainian war I read a lot of people talking shit about the nuclear stockpiles of Russia being defective or whatnot, as if this would make a difference.",The fact of the matter is the West is giving material support to Ukraine and Russia has threatened nuclear war over it numerous times. Clearly the West isn't worried about it.,1
America is vastly less concerned about global trade instability in the era of Shale Oil. Only Rwanda and Botswana have economies less dependent on the rest of the world than the USA.,Already happened. America has less forces abroad today than any time since the post Civil War period 150 years ago. The globalist candidate for president lost every election since 1992 and in 2020 there was no globalist candidate for President. The Neocons abandoned the project for some military adventurism and that further decreased the American appetite for engagement overseas.,0
"If Trump didn't leave the agreement then Iran wouldn't be biulding a bomb right now, and they wouldn't have a bomb in 2025.","Iran still wasn't going to get the bomb after 10 years like the other redditor said. Yes, some of the restrictions had time limits, but not the most important restrictions that would actually allow Iran to build a bomb.",0
"Feelings are not mystical. They don't somehow create a justification for bad behavior through their very existence. Sometimes your mind's initial response is the correct one, but oftentimes it has to be moderated or ignored. Doing that, having that amount of self-discipline, is the bare minimum that should be expected from any functioning adult.","Likewise, we should condemn the anti-intellectual mindset, which states something along the lines of, ""I feel this way and feelings are important. It must have some meaning and validity. That means that being racist must have some value and is therefore not wrong."".",0
"I must point you to the last time the Freedom Caucus (HFC) ruined what they had - Speaker Boehner being pushed out through resignation not too long after theb Rep. Mark Meadows of the HFC filed a motion to vacate the chair (which failed in votes). Boehner ran the House with the HFC being a constant thorn in his side from 2011-5. They tanked a lot of potential, transformative deals between Boehner and Obama, from immigration to infrastructure to the holy stone of 'entitlement' reform that the GOP has been salivating over since the creation of Social Security under FDR and Medicare/Medicaid under LBJ.","Do not underestimate the power of the HFC and like-minded individuals to fuck up the House, the Congress, the country and the world, especially when it comes to the debt ceiling this summer. It's going to be a very rough 2 years, regardless of McCarthy keeping his Speakership or not. As long as the GOP, and the moderates therein, insist on negotiating with those hostage takers, and they will every time and have with the changes pushed onto McCarthy to be elected, the dysfunction in the GOP caucus in the House will reverberate. The moderates should've done a deal with moderates in the Dem caucus and created a unified House, but that could never happen in the era of Trump and the TEA Party inheritors.",0
"Justice Beinisch introduced the idea of an unconstitutional constitutional amendment, and gave the court the power to strike down those amendments.","The Court has rewritten laws, struck down laws, and gave themselves the power to strike down constitutional amendments. They are corrupt bureaucrats who rule the country based on their whim.",0
I don’t think he’d run as a third party if he doesn’t get the nomination but he will sure as shit do everything in his power to sabotage anyone who beats him.,"Man, forget Trump running as an independent; if he doesn't get the nomination I fully expect his goons to storm the RNC and name him the nominee anyway.",1
"Influential figures in Afghanistan, seemingly frustrated by Akhundzada's refusal to consider Western demands to restore women's rights in exchange for desperately needed financial support, have issued rare public criticism aimed at the supreme leader.","Behind this powerful entity is a reclusive supreme leader, Mawlavi Hibatullah Akhundzada. Since the group came back to power with the U.S.-led military coalition withdrawal a year and a half ago, he has issued a series of draconian edicts dragging Afghanistan back toward the stone age.",0
"In the south, conservatives assume my whiteness means I'm just as racist, sexist and generally hateful as they are unless I explicitly disavow their beliefs.","I work with many conservatives and you overestimate their ability to distinguish a dismissive ""okay"" from a sincere ""wow, really? Tell me more right now, following me wherever I'm going to continue ranting in assumed agreement."".",0
"As it says in the article, the first step was to require companies to pay taxes where they earned the profits (i.e. no tax havens outside the EU), so this second step now means that that tax will be at least 15% (i.e. no tax havens inside the EU).","Yes they do - Especially in offshore tax havens. It is called Unrelated Busines Taxable Income ""UBTI"", typically structured with pass through entities with loans connecting the entities.",1
"“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation,” - Hawk Newsome before buildings were burned.",So you do indeed believe that everyone that donated to the New York Black Lives Matter chapter should have their paychecks taken from them?,0
"Leave them alone, they're done wishing they were vampires, now they wish they were were werewolves, because a werewolf can kill a vampire (did you know that?).","Yep. People need to remember that to impeach and remove someone from office, whether it's the president, a Supreme Court judge, or a member of the president's cabinet, it requires 67 Senators to vote to convict. There is zero chance that 17, and possibly 18 (depending on the GA runoff) Democratic Senators will vote to remove Biden or anyone on his cabinet, mainly because the Republicans don't have any legit reason to impeach them.",1
"They definitely have no problem lying about scenarios to increase wages through market competition or lower taxes. This strain of thought is the leading ideology of both political parties, as both the Republican and Democrats have no issues embracing neoliberalism at home, even if some of the republicans can't get the Anarcho capitalism they may want.",The Democratic Party is basically the de facto “normal conservative” party at this point and the republicans are just “fascism 2: this time it’s personal the party”.,1
"Parenti is a Marxist for sure, but his writing is not a ""love note"" to communism and rather a critique on how much anti-commie propaganda Americans ate up without realizing it.",The whole book is about Americans being so afraid of communism taking over that they didn't notice anti-communism had already taken over.,0
real estate investing under us tax code has taxable deduction for depreciation of the asset / investment . as does equpiment and oil and gas investments.,"wrong…..proportionally the real estate investing assets and tax depreciation are a much larger , much more significant portion and strategy than FF&E of industrial or retail businesses. And real estate investors use experts to complete cost segregation studies to allocate portions of the buildings to shorter term depreciable assets ( like hvac systems, electrical conduit and wiring). such work maximizes the annual depreciation deductions. ( which are recaptured as ordinary income on a later tax return in a subsequent sale).",0
"And while you need one (or usually: more than one) soldier to get the injured out of the battlefield, which might take minutes or maybe hours, the wounded soldier afterwards needs treatment by professional medics, still needs to be fed, to be housed, etc., Despite being of no use to the military any more.","Ekaterina Shulman recently quoted something like 17k cases of the Russian government paying widows the promised money for their husbands killed in the conflict, and that's naturally only the cases which were so obvious even the government couldn't deny payment, plus this number most likely doesn't include the losses from dnr, lnr, pmc Wagner etc.",0
It doesn't matter if you know it's a lie. It doesn't matter if I know it's a lie. It doesn't matter if every reasonable person knows it's a lie. You are trying to prove that the persona telling the lie did so knowingly.,"Politicians lie. They've been famous for doing that for long before social media was a thing. They've been famous for doing that long before the internet was a thing. They've been famous for doing that long before television was a thing. They've been famous for doing that long before radio was a thing. People expect politicians to lie, but people accept what the news tell them is true.",1
"And based upon Russian ability to wage war in Ukraine...which they had a land border with (easier to invade), shared a language (easier to move within the country), and didn't have defense treaties with the most powerful player in the world....yea.","I don't think so, an attack of Russia on Japan would trigger America defense treaty with Japan...also keep in mind the US Military...well they are already prepared to wage war in Asia cause of both China and N. Korea. We also keep 7th fleet in Japan.",0
"FOX “News” of social media. Musk will actually make bank charging the rubes a monthly sub, cause if FOX or Trump say it will “own the libs” the dumb shits will be fighting to open their wallets.","I think so too. Can you guess how much the Russians and middle eastern countries have paid (or will pay) for the DMs alone? At some point most political figures around the world have used the platform as well as activists in draconian counties, the user data is a goldmine for them.",0
"Overall it probs would have been better, also in this case, if the train was equipped with better braking systems. It wouldn't have prevented the derailing, but it could have limited the impact. And in general it is a great example of why deregulation is only wise from a short term, quick win for shareholder point of view. But never good for the general public, as they will not be the ones to enjoy the lowered costs of operating of the railways.","the easy fix is for train operators to understand that there is value in things like train safety and upgrade their trains without the government forcing them to, but there is no way that sort of thing would ever happen here.",1
"Damn, if those employees are so vital to the economy you'd think the ""pro-union"" Democrats would give them at least one unpaid sick day.","If the democrats had made it clear from the start that they were not going to intervene then I bet you 100% the railroad companies would have folded and gave the workers the paid sick days. Both parties are shit with regards to this particular topic, no defense of either of them.",1
Almost all his lunatic candidates in statewide races lost - someone like DeSantis is a much more dangerous opponent for the Democrats.,"Focus on cementing Democrat gains on states like Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Michigan and try to bring Wisconsin and North Carolina in the Blue side.",0
Well this time they've built nukes and they've build ICBMs and so now they can't sabre rattle anymore... they're actually the very threat that we felt we were stopping by giving them food.,There's one major change that screwed over their strategy.... they actually build nuclear weapons. In the past North Korea would threaten to start up its nuclear weapons program if the US/South Korea didn't capitulate to them and provide them with food. This food is provided via the UN as the vehicle and then every so many years there's population growth and the annual allotment that was agreed upon a few years back doesn't work anymore... so back to nuclear sabre rattling.,0
Not as easy as you think since lots and lots of states have Republicans in power that KNOW that any meaningful ballot question will drive voter turnout and hurt them.,"That's what's so confusing, like if you don't like what your politician is voting for or is not voting for in Republicans case, Why keep voting for them?",1
You'd think that given the Bruen ruling states wouldn't waste time trying to pass what seems like obviously unconstitutional laws that will get struck down but anti abortion people did the same thing so who knows. I think the next year will be a very interesting year for gun regulation one way or another.,"This is a requirement for all gun control legislation. ""Would not have prevented the crime it is being passed _in response to_"" is I believe in the Constitution somewhere.",1
Considering the wealthy in America have put up with being bullied and discriminated and threatened for the past 30 years that sounds fair.,"That's why we don't consult you, we vote in Republicans like Romney and DeSantis that will plunder the program for us. We're tired of paying for the lazy who refuse to save.",0
"Seven years after he was first poised to become Speaker, and four since he became the Republican floor leader, it appears Kevin McCarthy still does not know how to count votes.",The best part about this is the Insurrection Caucus members are totally seeing through this blatant vote-buying from McCarthy with a healthy dose of skepticism.,1
"Let's just agree to disagree then, the internal pressure in Russia is growing and the west have agreed to start providing offensive weapons to Ukraine.",I agree the war will not be over in the next 6 months but in a year or 2 I find it hard to believe that all of these combined pressures will not cause Russia to crack.,0
"What actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.",Its because Brexit or undoing Brexit etc. is political wildfire. Even if they are right whats the solution? pointing out Boris is a moron? or trying to undo it because the British public won't like that either.,1
"And I’ve often wondered if maybe I have long covid, especially because I’ve heard of numerous long covid cases with my exact symptoms: pins and needles/skin crawling sensations, internal tremors / buzzy/ vibration sensations that especially worsen at night.",">The eye-popping range of issues linked to long Covid raises questions about whether all are ascribable to viral infection, particularly since two of the most widely reported symptoms—fatigue and brain fog—are also commonly associated with stress, depression, anxiety, and functional disorders like FND. Since 2019, rates of people reportedly experiencing depression and anxiety have quadrupled, according to some estimates; loneliness and isolation spiked as well. One recent study found all of these things to be highly correlated with long Covid. Cell-level and hormonal findings along the lines of those in the Putrino and Iwasaki study have also been observed in chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression, but often don’t seem to correlate with symptoms, and it’s unclear what any of it means clinically, or whether there’s any causal relationship. Finally, an NIH-sponsored longitudinal study on long Covid—the most thorough and detailed analysis of the condition yet produced—found no tissue damage in long Covid patients, no evidence of viral persistence, and no abnormalities in any organ function relative to controls. “We are finding little to no abnormalities,” lead author Dr. Michael Sneller told NPR before the study’s publication. “Echocardiogram, pulmonary function tests, X-rays, brain MRIs. You name it. Laboratory markers of organ dysfunction. We’re not seeing any of that … and precious little evidence of immune activation.… I’m running out of tests to do, basically.” One association his final paper did find, however, was an association between long Covid and anxiety disorder.",1
"According to Finland’s national broadcaster Yle, the parliament as a whole will begin to debate the bill on Finland’s Nato membership next week, with a vote on the new law expected on February 28th.","“We do not want to and cannot withdraw our application,” Niinistö said at a security conference in Munich, arguing that Finland can not stop the process once it is approved by all Nato members states.",0
"That person is going to have a hard time going forward. More people are choosing less traditional names for their kids nowadays, and many of them will sound ""black or foreign"" because they likely are.","Having gone to school, I think some of these parents are making a bigger deal out of this stuff than the kids who go to these schools are. Kids will use all sorts of things to segregate other students into cliques, but it's because they want to belong to a special group, not because they inherently care about all these race or cultural issues. That may shift in high school, as kids become more individualistic in their beliefs, but they're also highly influenced by their own social groups....but overall, talking to any kid about many of these issues, and they usually just shrug it off because they think it's stupid.",0
"YES. I wish more people understood this. Politics are fucking boring and they are meant to be boring. I don't want to be entertained, I want to be governed. There's no shortage of venues for entertainment these days.","Trump is a showman and was a constant source of dopamine for 4 years. Even people who hate him (me, I'm those people) got some entertainment value out of him. But I don't want to be entertained, I want a functioning government. And I want them to do all the boring shit that government does. And Biden has been doing a bang up job in that regard from where I'm sitting.",0
Ah yes gifted with dreams of working in a field that makes a difference only to have it stomped out of you as you really can only be useful if you are making a product or weapons and government positions being so far from available and usually given to someone with connections more than brains.,Stuck in a sime job helping generate wealth for a company that will burn the world down if it means they can sell a nice product to their own customers no matter how small the pool gets for people that can afford it cause you can always raise the prices...,0
"The conflict I foresee would be China blockading Taiwan, forcing a Berlin airlift type operation for 23 million people, and forcing the US to have to be the aggressor in order to defend the island.","If you're American, imagine the UK trying to pull off a stunt like this. Millions of plainclothed British soldiers sneaking in, trying their best to be American. Wearing cowboy hats and having shitty southern accents, all while occasionally calling dinner tea and driving on the wrong side of the road.",0
If he is charged will you accept that they found enough evidence to make that a reasonable step to take?,I don't know that he will be charged. You don't know that he won't be. I haven't seen the evidence. You haven't seen the evidence. I dislike him for what I have seen he has done. You like him for what you have seen he has done.,0
Also- if Trump wins the nomination again for 2024 Paul Ryan will again prostrate himself and grovel at the feet of Trump again just like every other Republican will again.,"So.......Paul Ryan isn't now and has never been someone with their ""finger on the pulse"" of the American People lol.",0
"But us stupid Brits only watch trash reality and celebrity panel shows, meanwhile we apparently have huge demand for John Oliver which is neither last time I checked.","I'm not showing you anything, if you care that much go ask any British person outside of reddit who John Oliver is and you will quickly have your evidence - or just Google 'is John Oliver popular in England' and save yourself the time.",1
"Chinas main source of CO2 emission comes from burning coal ( which they import mainly from Australia, the biggest coal exporter in the world btw ), the U.S. isn’t importing from Russia either, so I do not understand the point you were making about Gas being exported by Russia and your shout out to Germany in particular.",If you looked at the link I posted you would see that China AND the US produce more CO2 than the next 10 highest CO2 contributors combined…..,0
"As for lack of public awareness opening the door to right-wing conspiracy theories, I don't know, I wish good public awareness stopped them. However, things like the Paul Polosi attack got plenty of public awareness and right-wing conspiracy theories still flourished.","This opened the door for right-wing conspiracy theories to flourish, because of such a tremendous lack of attention.",1
"Okay, so you're saying that the variance of solar/wind is too great to allow nuclear to provide the overwhelming majority of baseline power?","So, what would compliment solar/wind effectively other than coal/oil/gas that we can dial up and down or massive energy storage capacity to even it out? After all, I'm not hearing a problem with nuclear so much as a warning about over-relying on solar/wind.",0
No on second thought we shouldn't make jokes about something so serious. Maybe call them the Morality Police? Yeah that sounds way better!,See everyone? I worked out the kinks in just a few paragraphs I bet these well qualified legislators have everything under control Nothing will go wrong!,0
"As bad as Trump was he wasn't as bad as the previous Republican president, whose lies to congress and the American people caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not over a million people.",Those are all things he campaigned on (or Republicans generally) and a large portion of the population support regulatory roll backs (they'd probably roll everything back if they could). To me that's different than lying to the public to do what you want to do.,0
"Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine — The week before Christmas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived unannounced in the eastern town of Bakhmut, right on the front line of his country's fight against the Russian invasion. He was there to boost morale and hand out medals.","In the eastern city of Kramatorsk, right back in the thick of it, Chernyavsky told CBS News the war along the front line, which stretches for hundreds of miles, ""would be very different"" if it wasn't for the heavy American weapons.",0
That's not Republican spin. They're saying it's a big deal now because the media and Republicans are rabid to find scandals for Biden and they just don't really exist.,The opposite of that is acknowledging that it's probably not that dire and that it has happened multiple times before and neither been a news story or resulted in calamity shows that it's only being made a deal of now because they want to harm Biden.,0
I am not sure how this is not considered serious war crimes at the same level as intentionally attacking civilian centers.,Attacks on nuclear plants or dams (that risk releasing radioactivity/floods) and directly kill countless civilians would be a war crime.,1
"(I understand the sentiment of some of the commenters and agree that, in principle, war bad. But you have to realize that russia does not seem to stop until forced to do so. And if Ukraine stops fighting, you would be having same discussion about war in Poland or Baltics 10 years from now).",I think is under appreciated of how much shit we in Ukraine are dealing with. Russia fails on the battlefield and bombs our peaceful cities in an attempt to leave us in the cold and in the dark.,0
I.e.: The January 6th commission having to wrap things up before the next Congressional session is fallout part 1 of electing her over a Democrat.,It makes sense when you're talking about politics at a federal level because having a political majority of federal level will guarantee that your party will make policy even if your direct representative can't tell the difference between a horse and a fence post.,0
">(ii) could, as determined by a reasonable person, motivate actions by a person predisposed to engaging in a white supremacy inspired hate crime or by a person who is susceptible to being encouraged to engage in actions relating to a white supremacy inspired hate crime; and.","(i) was published on a social media platform or by other means of publication with the likelihood that it would be viewed by persons who are predisposed to engaging in any action in furtherance of a white supremacy inspired hate crime, or who are susceptible to being encouraged to engage in actions in furtherance of a white supremacy inspired hate crime;.",1
"So, looks like the solution is to accept your new normal or accept that “a well regulated militia” isn’t one where 1st graders are shooting people.",So gun laws can't be changed but having more teachers would help the situation since you can't guns out of bad hands anymore.,1
"And all the conspiracy theorists are going to be crowing about it like, ""This one report with low confidence in its own results means everything we've ever said is true!"".","Do you think it's unimportant that organizations that peddle lies and conspiracy theories every day, theories that cause a lot of harm by fomenting hate, are suddenly going to have more traction?",0
"I mean, it’s not really a “rule”. There is an agreement between US and Saudi Arabia for the “petrodollar”, but the reason oil exporters prefer U.S. dollars is simply because it’s the most widely accepted world currency. And that’s because they are incredibly stable and they have the least amount of risk of wild fluctuations.","Obviously these are volatile times as the world fights inflation, but the Euro is down 10% YTD, the GBP is down 10.76% and the Yuan is down 11.3%… and that’s why this is even a headline. Ghana is out of US dollars because everyone is trying to get them because their own currencies are rapidly falling….",0
“My goodness that’s terrible But I have guns and so does everyone else I know and all of our kids are fine so everything is actually fine We’re not doing anything wrong. How could you take guns away when we didn’t do anything wrong??”.,"So? They don't have to vote for her. It's not an excuse nothing is written in law that a Republican can't vote Democrat or vice versa to get a toxic person out. Nothing stops people in her district from backing a moderate Republican. The problem isn't dark money its that most people don't care about local elections until it's too late, I'd bet 50% of her votes were ""she was the republican on the ballot"". People are just lazy.",1
"I’m not sure DeSantis would be worse than Trump. More focused (in implementing his terrible policies), yes. More acceptable to moderates (at least those who don’t know his policies would be more draconian than Trump’s), yes. The biggest thing that made Trump effective, though, was the cult of personality he generated, and the fact that people gave him a pass for being openly terrible, because “that’s just how he is”. I don’t see DeSantis attaining the same cult status easily, and his appeal to moderates is a double edged sword, in that, he couldn’t get away with many of the scandals that Trump could. This goes doubly with conservatives possibly (we’ll see) souring on the strategy of being as openly socially far right after Trump.","Yeah, it is an interesting mix, and following the money is always a good way to go. I would say that in 2016, interestingly, Republican money didn’t sway people away from Trump. I don’t think this cements him as an actual anti establishment politician, as big money largely got what they wanted after his administration got into office, but he definitely wasn’t favored by the establishment at first. In a sense, it was a Frankenstein’s monster situation, in that he catered to the bogey man scenarios that the right wing media conjured up better than any establishment politician was able to. Money certainly seems to be behind DeSantis, but it is unclear to me if they can craft a narrative that is compelling to both Trump’s hardcore base, and the disaffected suburban conservatives who voted for Trump once, but who now have moved to embrace more centrist candidates. If DeSantis is simply Trump policy-wise, but minus the charisma, this would be the worst outcome for him.",0
"It's not a ""monopoly"", it's not like institutions everywhere are clamouring to do science but can't because universities have locked it down; this is the edge of human knowledge, it's the edge of our capacities, we haven't anywhere else to do be doing it science outside of corporate labs.","It's not a monopoly you dolt it's a repository. Look, you can walk on to virtually any campus in the world and just go their libraries. Science is not a for-profit endeavour, though obviously being a capitalist society makes that complicated.",0
I was already measuring the land liberated as Rhode Islands. So far Ukraine has already liberated two Rhode Islands worth of land in the Kharkiv region and at this point I'm pretty sure they've taken back over 10K square kilometers.,"The Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated around 3,000 square kilometres of land in southern Ukraine over the course of the past 24 hours, and have therefore increased the total area of liberated territory tenfold.",1
"Not even, they've been told it's rigged so much but their people they're probably not voting which leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy.","I think the “our voters aren’t voting” line is just ANOTHER way for the Faux News crowd to claim that they SHOULD be winning. It’s easier than addressing the fact that they are out of touch with the voters, that they only win by gerrymandering, that they have only won a single popular presidential election in the past eight. It’s their ‘silent majority’ nonsense all over again.",1
"As of early 1945, most of the highest officials in Japan wanted to continue the war and found surrender less favorable than total destruction.","Hirohito wanted to negotiate more favorable terms than total surrender, but that caused his generals to stage a failed coup in the days after the bombing of Nagasaki.",0
"What if instead of trying to be a career politician she just focused on doing her job of being a good representative she wouldn't have to campaign so much because her ""good work"" would be enough for people to remember and to continue to want her to be their representative. Also feels like these jobs were created in the first place to be temporary positions of public service not lifelong jobs.",Congressional term limits would also help create a government that actually represents the country it is meant to.,0
"Genuine question - what happens if it was a Ukrainian anti air missile or whatever it's called? Are there going to be repercussions for Ukraine? I mean they're (Ukraine) on defense and obviously it wasn't intentional by any means (in the event it was from Ukraine), so it's not like it was technically an 'attack' on NATO?","They are trying to feed the story that it was Ukraine defense missile, if it was true a lot of support for ukraine would drop so it makes sense Russia denies it.",1
"It is entirely possible to condemn Russia without falling into relativism with America: after all, I am writing from Austria and the US is not ""the West"".","3. While the US was bombing Vietnam, the Soviet union was still sending millions of its own people into Gulags.",0
"See, that makes sense too, thanks for a source. Even just knowing a few people who have struggled with housing recently this is so intuitive. With stigma and difficulty I watched multiple people in different states just slip through the cracks because of time. Once that happens they each had negative situations present that cost more kidney to fix than they would have cost to avoid.","Where are these houses though? I mean genuinely asking, I’m not in CA but I do know two homeless people who are and they Al have been qualified for housing since spring, there isn’t availability.",0
"If Putin was the one throwing javelins or running 100m, I'd get it. But it's ordinary people who've trained all their lives for this, they have no say in the war, they don't kill anybody. If they speak up they go to jail and can't compete, if they don't they're disqualified for a xenophobic reason. Reddit is okay with xenophobia if it's against the Russians, but let's not propose banning the US for their crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and countless other countries that went to war in the past decades.","Its not xenophobic to punish russia for their actions anymore than it would be racist to jail a person with coloured skin for murder, and trying to play that as some sort of trump card is disingenuous.",1
"Nato need not retaliate for anything short of a deliberate attack, and even the looniest redditor isn't going to seriously argue that Russia is going to fire a multimillion rouble cruise missle at a polish tractor.","NO, you just essentially gave justification for Ukraine to bomb another country and try to blame it on Russia in hopes it incites war with NATO which would probably expand into a world war most likely the last war to ever be. If Russia does bomb another country purposely fine go to war otherwise avoid if possible. I sympathize with Ukraine but there is a line. They are receiving Billions from us already.",1
Yeah sorry for anyone sitting there hoping this was the start of WW3 but anything short of definitive proof that Russia deliberately targeted a fucking farm in Poland this wasn't ever going to go anywhere. Poland is going to invoke Article 4 (not 5) and probably end up getting a ton of missile defense systems as a result. That's it.,"Maybe to some extent. But after this I would imagine they just get more aggressive with their own defense and start covering anything near their border, including over Ukrainian airspace.",0
The difference is Ukrainian is not run by a terrorist organization that send suicide bombers into Russia routinely and fires rockets at Russia routinely. How can you not see that? It’s actually almost funny how hard you’re stretching to paint Israel at the aggressor but it’s actually just sad.,"Very messed up, it's vile what the far right of Israel and their army do to Palestinian civilians along with the astroturfing of propaganda to bury their suffering or blame them for it.",1
"Uh no they won’t. Have you seen the outrageous levels of hypocrisy the republicans are willing to stoop to? Where’s my explanation for turtle boy blocking Obama’s pick for Scotus and then turning around and doing the same thing? When you have no honor and completely flexible morals there’s no need to explain anything. Neocons don’t vote for explanations, they vote to “own the libs.” Remember when all the super “pro-life” repubs were pushing Herschel for governor just ignored his ex girlfriends coming forward with the receipts for the abortions he paid for? He lost but just barely and that wasn’t a primary. You don’t need explanations when you can say the magic words “fake news!”.","It’s going to be quite the circus. I gotta say, as much of a douchebag president Trump was if he actually has managed to bring the Republican Party to its knees just like Lindsey Graham said he would he may very well turn out to be the most influential PUSA of my lifetime.",0
"The Greens and Left Alliance (so the “liberal feminist lefties”) are the only parties that at least have equality in conscription in the party agenda. Not that they’re actively doing anything about it, but it’s a start I guess. (Unless some parties have added it this year, I don’t remember that happening.).","2. You dont forget 6 months to a year of training completely in one or two years. If this was true, society could not function since people would be really bad at retaining information.",1
"Hmmm… you mean Cheney, an Anti-Trump GOPer, might be trying to avoid investigating things that would make the non-Trump members of her party and their supporters look bad?","However, staffers are right that this approach covers up all kinds of ugly and Cheney is using this to find her next job.",1
This is not complicated war with internal conflicts. This is very clear war where Russia is invading Ukraine and USA is helping Ukraine to defend.,"Is the U.S. motive really to help the Ukrainian people though? I think that may be how we perceive it as citizens, but I don't think that's why we're funding the war.",1
"You're right in if there is corruption, it should be investigated. Nepotism too. That includes the Bidens. But it should be extended to every and any politician.","So at the moment, this seems like just a Benghazi 2.0 (or should that be 10.0 because god knows how many they've done on that).",0
"It's a terrible source, there's no evidence, the source has every reason to lie, and there's no logical reason why Iran would be shipping uranium to the Houthis. The entire article is just the claim, with no detail as to when or why or where or how.","For those that don't want to click on the link, it's an unreliable source claiming that Iran was shipping uranium to Houthi rebels, and al-quedaa now has it.",0
"well, that's the 2nd clause to the no-first-use policy. The first part is that China won't be the first to launch first. So I would assume that if there is even talk of nuking Japan, nuclear war has broken out between the US and China.","China can try taking Taiwan if they would like, but they'd just lose a bunch of boats to missile strikes, there's really no way that escalates into WW3 because China doesn't have enough nukes to win a nuclear war. They have enough nukes to make it too painful for the USA to start a nuclear war, but at the end of a nuclear exchange America would still exist as a country and China wouldn't. So a war over Taiwan would be almost certain to stay conventional. Also, Japan having more missiles makes it less likely that China is willing to invade the island, not more likely.",1
"The ballot harvest thing is really messed up. I had my fire department visit my home and my wife answered. They pressured her to vote on increasing the fire department taxes. Like, sure... they didn't explicitly say they wanted us to vote that way but you know they want us to. And you just feel like you want to make them happy.",This very specific instance was this year during the primaries in Oswego. So I'm not sure if that might have made it different. But the fire department tax increase lost by exactly one vote in the end anyways.,0
"Ukraine has made remarkable good use of their military aid, achieving unexpected success against a fearsome adversary. Prior Ukrainian Administrations were quite corrupt, to the point of becoming Russian puppets. The corruption became so acute that the people rebelled and beginning with Poroshenko in 2014 Ukraine has been a model of clean government.","Ukraine is so clean it's a model government? I seriously doubt that. The current administration there seems to specifically be planning to tackle their massive corruption issues after the war, because otherwise there's zero hope of them joining the EU in the next 10 or so years.",1
"The motor boats were sunk in the island chains at the delta of the Dnieper river, where it flows into the Black Sea. In November, Russian forces retreated to the east bank of the strategic river, which bisects Ukraine and flows through several major cities.","A Russian warship was sunk in the same area on January 10 by Ukrainian artillery. While it was unclear what class the vessel was at the time of the sinking, an infrared photo accompanying the announcement showed what appeared to be a patrol boat on fire.",0
"Because Citizens United allows “public advocacy groups” to make expenditures and not have to include the names of their donors in their filings. As long as these organizations don’t have a “primary purpose” of electoral advocacy, but there’s an invisible wink wink by primary purpose from what I’ve gathered. Also the proposition that money is first amendment protected speech is honestly ridiculous and completely out of line with “originalism” or “textualism”.","No. It removes state court judicial oversight and allows state legislatures to do whatever they want as far as federal elections go only subject to federal law (which could ultimately include deciding an election is fraudulent and sending in fake electors, and that couldn’t even be stopped by federal law in theory if ISL is embraced).",0
"That said, it does NOT guarantee the rights of people in conservative states to get married should Obgerfell get overturned :","The is good enough because if/when the Supreme Court strikes down Obergefell, any same sex marriage can be disregarded by an anti-LGBTQ state. This makes sure any legal marriages are still recognized by every state.",1
So these maps basically made it so as long as they get somewhere between 40-45% of the vote to get a majority in state houses and got some stupid maps for Congress that make no sense.,The idea that 60% of the senate should need to vote yes on pre-votes for actual votes that only need 50%+1 to become law has let the minority stop the majority from fixing the skewed maps.,1
3-5 million people in the US hold security clearances and have some more than cursory knowledge about this topic.,"Nope. They're ""Real Americans"" but unfortunately for them that class does not exist in law. So they've placed themselves outside the typical American citizen because they believes themselves to be superior Americans. In short, they're anti american fascists.",0
"Go look at an updated age pyramid of China, their economy is already going down the toilet. What happens in few decades when their working force is almost half of their retired people?","Retirees do not drive the economy like workers. They also do not pay into the system (anymore). And China doesn't have a social safety net like the US. Retirees in any country are, in a sense, liabilities, not assets.",1
"That will force Russia hands to do an all out mobilization, and potentially NATO soldiers to be mobbed since Ukrainian bodies might run out.","You’re assuming a lot: that Russians will cooperate with a full mobilization. That Ukraine, a country of 43 million people, will somehow “run out of bodies.” That other countries won’t step up their responses long before that occurs. That if that somehow does occur, that NATO would then decide that that’s the time to put boots on the ground.",1
"The reality is that both sides have done awful things and, if given a free hand, will continue to do horrible things. We shouldn't be funding either of them. Violence will cease when both Israelis and Palestinians love their own children more than they hate each other.","The only path to peace between Israel and Palestine is if they both stop trying to kill each other. Supporting Palestine shouldn't mean condoning their worst actions, but all too often it does.",1
"Although the explosions initially raised fear of shortages, the impact on European supply was limited, mostly because the European Union had already started weaning itself off Russian energy.","The energy crisis pushed European countries to build up reserves and find alternative sources of supplies ahead of the winter, as Russia cut off flows and energy prices rose. E.U. countries have also rushed to tighten security around key infrastructure and boost naval operations since the pipeline explosions.",0
"Who do you look up to in comparison? If no one (believing that people suck in general is a fair point of view lol), that's fine. But really curious who you support.","Why does not supporting Israel automatically make you an anti-Semite? And how does supporting Israel automatically make you NOT an anti-Semite? And AIPAC DOES fund politicians. Like all lobbyists, they expect something to come from their money, and their stated purpose is a close American-Israeli relationship. Israel has an unusually strong hold over America compared to any of our other foreign relationships. Even if the whole relationship is above board, shouldn't we be carefully scrutinizing such a critical relationship? Also, Hamas isn't a country. Where and how did she support it?",0
"But like now is it... Real cannibalism, or the fear of it, so a (providing modern economic activity) and gets to tell their friends they totes almost got eaten.","cannibalism as practiced by John 'Liver eating' Johnson, Daniel Rakowitz, Richard Chase has been part of American culture for hundreds of years; true. Does that mean its not a slander to allege all American communities and families engage in it? So is your comment racist, have a second guess.",1
Investigative reporters are not cops without badges. They do not have the same role and cannot operate the same way legally. They work under the same constraints and ethics as any other reporter.,"you know there are people out there who's job title is literally ""Investigative Reporter"". The do in fact investigate things, compile evidence then report on the facts they uncovered. There are many cases where reporters are the ones that uncovered evidence that authorities missed and even cases where official investigations were not even started until after a story was broke by a reporter.",1
"By a long way, In fact, indications are that Ukraine now has more tanks (of Russian type) than they had at the start of the war while Russia has lost about half of its tank force.","Lol, could you imagine if Russia actually ends up losing territory to Ukraine via a surprise war that they started? That would be comical and well deserved.",1
"It isn't as secure as randomly generated passwords, but if one password is grabbed in a breach or one is brute forced, it really doesn't have anything that makes it appear as if it has a specific pattern by itself. And it isn't a match to your others. Of course the phrase can be constructed for you to remember easily and can be more complex, as this was just something off the top of my head to make an example. Once you get used to a well made phrase, you get passwords that are unique, complex, and easy to remember. And the best part, not relying on a password manager to allow a breach to all of your passwords.","“The most common password in the world this year was the infamously bad “password”, and it took hackers under one second to crack it. The same goes for the second and third most common passwords: “123456″ and “123456789”, respectively.”.",1
His ideas are about the level of a 5 year old’s. Which isn’t surprising because he’s basically a 5 year old. But to think a grown man who was literally POTUS imagines a magic dome around the country (?????) would be the best way to stop nuclear weapons is just too much. What a fucking idiot.,"Trump is just the epitome of what an idiot is. If he truly thinks that he wants to put an actual dome over the US, someone needs to tell him that that is just IMPOSSIBLE!",1
"A Chiniese war with Taiwan would probably be catastrophic for the world. Saying Biden or any president should demand Taiwans independence is foolish and doesn't understand the consequences of what would potentially happen. Or saying Biden is weak for taking to China. No, he is trying to prevent the world from economic ruin and from the US getting drawn into a proxy war with China that would make Russia/Ukraine look tiny and insignificant. And may very well pull the US into war itself with China.","If China were stupid enough to engage mainland US on US soil, then lord help them, because they don't stand much or a chance. Whether you're pro, anti or controlled 2A, I'd wager most gun nuts and hoarders would hand a weapon to their non armed next door neighbour to defend against an invasion.",1
This is probably the most unjust action I’ve seen our government do in decades. People need to pay off their debt.,"Lastly, people need to pay off their debt? You never heard or seen how the rich specifically abuse tax loopholes or bankruptcy? Don't make me laugh.",1
"Yep. Conservatives break rules and act violently, then get the slightest and most gentle reprimands and then scream that they are being targeted for ""being conservative."".","It's like with Trump claiming Witch Hunt. He's actually been given every benefit of the doubt possible. His lawyer went to prison for doing stuff he ordered him to do, and ""Unidicted Co-conspirator"" got off Scot free. Mueller laid out a number of probable crimes and he was let off the hook again. A strong majority of the Senate even voted to convict him but due to the rules he was acquitted. He's gotten away with more illegal shit than any other American could possibly expect while staying out of jail. He's ripped off millions of people and paid almost nothing for it. He got fewer votes than Hillary but became president anyway. He inherited half a billion dollars. He's taken over $1B in government subsidies in his life. He takes out loans and doesn't repay them. He doesn't pay the people who work for him despite promising he will. He took massive bribes from the Saudis and others through his business while he was president, and there were no repercussions at all. He tried to overthrow a fair election and so far has not seen any kind of punishment for it. Yet he claims he is the world's biggest victim, that it is actually poor homeless black people who are getting all the special treatment while he is just constantly getting the shit end of the stick.",0
"Imagine that Hitler's own personal secretary, , was never charged with a single crime, despite everyone knowing she was Hitler's personal secretary...","No, but its reasonable to assume that once said person had first-hand knowledge of atrocities that the nazi party was committing and were not publicizing, quitting maybe was not an option. Do you really think the nazis are gonna let someone with this kind of knowledge of sensitive state secrets just waltz away back into civilian life?",1
">Voters overwhelmingly supported women’s reproductive freedom on Tuesday, both electing pro-abortion-rights lawmakers and voting in favor of abortion rights—even in red and purple states—on ballot initiatives. “When voters have a chance to decide on this issue, they choose to protect their rights,” one activist said.","Young adults n America are not voting for wedge issues, they are voting as if their lives depended on it. For all the fear mongering that comes from the right about “deadly caravans”and rainbows in classrooms being the work of the devil the younger progressive voters do not need this faux motivation as boomers do, they have the real threats of climate change and fascism to deal with.",1
"Maybe convert it into a Ukrainian university or museum after it is de-mined, swept for electronic spying/warfare equipment, and assessed for health and safety.","Because you look to the fringe, literal Nazis and white supremacists in this case, you have no rational outlook. You should feel shame, but I suspect you have no issues because they are your kind of people.",0
"They have the misconception that a highly competitive free market is the natural state of things. In reality, monopolies and cartels are the natural state, because without government regulations preventing it, the largest companies will use their power and influence to force smaller competitors out of business.","Actually the real problem, the one under the surface that is unsaid, is that corporations are direct competitors for governments, although they desire the good of no one except their shareholders, which tends to be the very wealthy few. So we sacrifice community, rule of law, meaningfulness, for a system which gives no benefit to any one.",1
"Tbh historically China has been pretty chill and usually on the right side of conflicts, they are communists under dictatorship but they aren't stupid.","They don't need to decline, having Zelenskiy in China doing nothing beside peace talk will boost China's images in international politics. The thing is, China isn't going to betray the essential policies with Russia the way Zelenskiy thinks he could do.",1
as an American that's absolutely astonishing to me. I've worked a lot of shit jobs where people don't even give one day's notice. They just don't show up one day and you get stuck having to do their job and yours at the same time. When I gave 3 weeks notice at my last shit job it was unheard of. I was the first person ever to do that.,"That's not really true. When I worked for a German company, it was very hard for the Germans to get fired, but they were contractually required to give 3 months notice before leaving the company. That's basically unheard of in the US.",1
"If the clubs bandied together, (and as events of the last year or so showed, they'd need the backing of their supporters) they could reorganise the game outside of FIFA (and UEFA for that matter too).","You'd probably see a different type of corruption as the top clubs creamed off the deals for themselves, and ultimately football being what it is, this would work its way down into players wages, but even this tawdry scenario would be better than the FIFA executive Committee coining it for themselves.",0
Hungary is as much afraid of Russia as all the other neighboring countries. They just also really like to piss of the rest of the EU.,"It's more playing no sides than both sides, while still demanding protection from one side against the other.",0
"MARS II/LRU/MLRS-I - French/German/Italian M270A1, just with an Airbus fire control system that removes the ability to fire cluster rockets due to their signing the ban on cluster munitions. Also includes a different automatic fire extinguisher system.","M270A1 - 2005 upgrade with a new fire control system and the ability to fire GPS guided rockets such as the M30, M31, M39A1, M48, M57, and M57E1.",0
"Actually that's an extremely common tactic by many scammers, they make themselves intentionally easy to spot, so they don't waste time scamming someone who may wise up. If anyone falls for them then, they know this person is 100% certified gullible as shit, and can scam to their heart's content.","I’m shocked how people can fall for these scams. What’s more baffling is how much money people are willing to throw at a problem to get rid of it. If someone calls me and asks for hundreds of dollars, I’ll laugh at him even if it’s not a scam. Other than food and essentials, I never buy anything without first doing an in-depth research into the topic.",1
"Stats are stats, and rankings are rankings. It’s easy to gauge the size of the army, but then you also have to factor in a shit load of other stats into the equation to gauge power.","What happened in Desert Storm perfectly supports this. Those ‘poor Iraqis,’ who got the retaliation they deserved, learnt having a large army doesn’t do much without support. As are the Russians now.",0
"India has especially strong ties with Russia, but you see similar views in Africa and the rest of non Japan/South Korean Asia, and polls show that the majority of people in other Asian/African countries still think of Russia positively.","It's more that historically, Russia has protected India from the US and Pakistan. Worldwide they were also active in lots of independence movements, so they have strong relationships with former colonies.",0
Myth: Spies are sent overseas to infiltrate foreign government and organizations. They are brave and loyal patriots willing to die for their country.,"Was she born in Canada or is she from one of the Russified countries? There are so many people who aren't from mainland Russia and have never been to Russia, but they're from one of the neighboring states, speak Russian and consider themselves both ethnically and culturally Russian.",0
"And, Engoron added, Trump will have to pay for the monitor himself. The judge said the monitor would be appointed by the third week of November and ordered both sides to offer suggestions for who should serve in this role.","Trump’s attorneys told Engoron they were happy to sign stipulations about not hiding assets, but they insisted that a financial babysitter wasn’t necessary because, contrary to what James was arguing, there wasn’t serious evidence that fraud ever had occurred, much less that any fraud was ongoing. In his ruling Thursday, Engoron was fairly scathing in his response, saying the monitor was a reasonable idea “given defendant’s demonstrated propensity to engage in persistent fraud.”.",0
"So the Catholic Church currently accepts same-sex civil unions, but does not accept same sex marriages as the Sacrament of Marriage is between a man and a women, as per God’s design.","The Church already allows Anglican priests and bishops to be in same-sex civil unions, and clergy have blessed same-sex marriage already.",1
"Unless isolated (e.g. seperate VLAN), these things can do practically anything in your network and over internet.",2) If the devices exiltrate data they need not do so over the wired network. Wireless transmission to a passerby or a nearby device is possible and could be done in a way that avoids detection.,1
"""There is a real risk of losing the sovereignty of the Amazon not to any other country, but to organized crime,"" he said in an interview.","BRASILIA, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Brazil runs the risk of losing control over its vast Amazon rainforest region to organized crime and traffickers who use the lawless region to smuggle drugs, a Supreme Court judge warned on Wednesday.",0
"Unpopular opinion but the US as a whole really should do more laws like this, land is a massive problem in the US and given the amount of homeless we have and the costs of owning a home, limiting foreign land ownership is a good idea.","I personally don’t think it needs to be as restrictive as a complete ban on all property ownership but some reasonable restrictions to prevent corporate ownership of American land would be wise. Individuals immigrating and owning a residence should be fine, assuming there is a sort of participation in the path to citizenship / permanent resident / etc. or other worthy proofs of legitimacy.",1
"McCarthy is going to kick Dems off standing committees. Pelosi barred GOP from being on a temporary investigative committee. That said, the Chairs of standing committees are usually members of the majority party. The GOP changing the people chairing the committees isn't unusual.",It’s important to note she did not bar GOP congress people from committees because of their politics like McCarthy is proposing.,1
The fact that Ukraine hasn’t been regularly carrying out strikes on Belarus for the whole last year should be proof that Ukrainian command also thinks that passing up targeting Russian assets based in Belarus is worth avoiding pulling them fully into the invasion.,"When they get used to bomb Ukraine and Ukraine retaliates by firing missiles at the airfields used to launch the attack, it draws Belarus into the war, opening another front in the North, something Ukraine does not need.",1
"China's only effective way to counter would be to try and sink the US Navy, and to destroy the airfields in Japan they would make use of, which would just cause world war 3, so they dont get Taiwan in that scenario because we're all dead.","The conflict I foresee would be China blockading Taiwan, forcing a Berlin airlift type operation for 23 million people, and forcing the US to have to be the aggressor in order to defend the island.",1
"With that in mind, if enough of the states who signed onto the Compact were Trump supporting states he could, in theory, win ALL the electoral votes of the states in the Compact (which would make him the winner of the election overall).","TL;DR: The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) says the person with the most votes should get the electoral votes. The issue with that is it's simply a plurality, not a majority. In theory, someone could win with only 15% of the vote (obviously in the extreme case, not necessarily realistic).",0
"That just breaks my heart. This is why parents not only need to be parenting their kids from a no violence/importance f empathy standpoint, but also why we have to stop pussyfooting around the concept of death with kids. No more lying about the dog going to a farm to live. No more ""grandma went to a better place"" with no context on the physical ""dead"" part. Kids can handle learning about death and what it is, and we do them a grave disservice by sheltering them from such an important and unavoidable concept in the world. Every fantasy story and video game shows death as a temporary affliction, and if we let that stand as their only experience of it, why are we so surprised when they act like killing someone is no big deal and they'll just respawn at the hospital and be back next week?","Having a gun with a kid in the house is a huge safety risk. If you can't ensure safe storage, you shouldn't be allowed the gun. We make people pass a test to get their driver's license, and it should be the same for a gun license, and it should include inspection of your gun safe or other locked storage.",0
"In the past 2 months, Fidesz has built a narrative about the EU sanctions against Russia being the cause of the Hungarian economy tanking and the value of the Hungarian Forint taking a nosedive.","This narrative paints Orbán and his party as ""freedom fighters"" trying to keep a deranged Brussels in check, shifting all blame solely on the EU.",0
"Something like that probably is inevitable, but it will emerge from the gaming world not the communication world. There is no need for it in chat or voice applications. It is just a pointless corporate boondoggle.",Because people who run companies tend to be pretty dumb in a lot of regards. They hear Zuckerberg say it’s the future. They think Zuckerberg is a tech genius. They want to get in on the ground floor of the next big thing. They are too dumb to realize literally no one wants it.,1
Ehh when we have thousands locked up at home in our own country for the same shit but yea let’s trade an arms dealer for a domestic abuser that hates America. Very bad trade.,This whole situation is shitty. We need to stop treating this as a win. Brittney Griner fucked up and Biden ate crow to get her out. She deserves to face some kind of punishment for putting us in that position in the first place. This isn’t a left issue or a right issue. This is a national issue. She fucked up.,1
"If a Republican speaker is seated based on a power sharing agreement that prevents the political bullshit that 80% of the GOP sees as their 1 goal, that WILL tear the GOP apart. Can you imagine what it would be like if an R speaker needed to keep the support kf 130+ Dems?","Let them try to hold together any kind of Republican solidarity when half the party is pitching a tantrum over not operating 100% focused on political spite, and the Speaker needs to maintain support from 150+ Dems.",0
"These are the people who did endless Benghazi hearings that produced nothing … because there was nothing aside from a shitty, shitty situation they wanted to use to score political points. When they say the January 6th Committee was a politically-motivated witch hunt, they’re essentially dishonestly calling it what Benghazi committees actually were. This will be more Benghazi.","None of this will matter, and just look at how little weight ""Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi"" carries these days. Their own investigations found GOP led budget cuts responsible.",1
If Ukraine wins... can bet your ass it'll have several NATO or US military bases established and a massive uplift in missile defense systems and long range missiles.,"Let's just agree to disagree then, the internal pressure in Russia is growing and the west have agreed to start providing offensive weapons to Ukraine.",1
Congress can just as easily force the rail carriers to give the workers humane schedules instead of these abusive 24/7/365 schedules.,Everybody is accepting this false narrative that the rail workers sacrificing again is the only choice. It’s a lie.,0
"The Russian Central Bank has done well to combat the impact of sanctions but they can't hold out forever, and its running out of tricks to keep sanctions at bay.","Sanctions aren't working, means send more military and put pressure on other countries trading with Russia.",1
"Jean-Pierre: ""Any object that violates sovereign American airspace, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will have to answer to the Federal government, and that's why Secretary Buttigieg will be working with regulators and other stakeholders to ensure we have total visibility in our skies."".",... This is the thing. This back and forth is awesome. I don't expect anyone in gov to do what I want But this level of communication is what I would love to see. It couldn't be for every issue but I like to push for it a little bit when I can.,1
"How do you figure? It wasn't profitable before he got there, hasn't been for a long time. There was a lot of unnecessary employee bloat. And he said it would be weird for a while because they're doing a little experimenting.",Lmao keep gobbling up bullshit ass news sources. How would the user base grow and they lose more money than before? That makes no sense. And who at Twitter was better at running a company than Elon?,0
"They're separate bills. It's very possible, likely really, that only the bill preventing the strike (and not granting any sick days) will clear the Senate.","It is possible that the Senate votes only to enact the contract, but not include the leave. If the leave is included then that is a win for the workers.",1
"Forget wind and nuclear and other expensive initiatives that fill a small gap in the energy market, solar will mean the end of oil and gas for electricity generation, and only be used for other things and even then those can be developed from plants eventually.","Saying that if one of the supposed breakthrough technologies in thorium reactors works or some of the ideas of small form factor nuclear becomes real maybe we could talk about nuclear again, but right now nuclear as it is is a waste of money and too dirty, money that could be spent installing solar panels.",0
"The donkey hide trade is also a major route by which zoonotic infectious diseases, including Brucellosis and Leptospirosis, can be spread. There are also concerns for its ability to bring in African Horse Sickness and Burkholderia spp. diseases which would be devastating to our domestic equine species and economically damaging.","Donkey products can be used in some cases in the United States; however, because they are not considered food and fiber animals there are fewer regulations documenting medications that have been used in them, including drug residues which can kill humans.",0
"First rule of business is stop letting people do their own tax returns. The IRS knows what you owe. For the normal person we just put a bunch of numbers into a machine and it spits out a return that the IRS is like: “ok that checks out”. Where billionaires can just claim a bunch of stuff, put in $0.00 and dare the IRS. Make them pay their bill first and challenge the IRS if they think it’s wrong ( legal expenses paid to the IRS of they lose).",The only reason to want your taxes to be private is because you want to pretend you are something you are not.,1
"So, in reality, it was conservatives working to prevent the rail workers from getting their benefits, while they sit back and force the rail workers back to the lines.","“Even with the genuine threat of a nationwide rail strike, Republicans and (very likely) many Democrats as well could well have refused to give any ground — thus compelling workers to go on strike. This underscores another important truth in all of this, which is that Biden and the Democrats could simply have refrained from doing anything at all and instead hammered away at the message that the railway companies’ refusal to grant basic dignity to workers was risking a disruptive shutdown only weeks before Christmas.”.",1
"Good point. Also, imo it was something to do in between college classes. Get their photo in the paper. The original attention whoring. Basically, they couldn’t have given fuck all about Vietnam and civil rights, they were and are the bourgeoisie. It was just an excuse to do a shit ton of drugs and piss off their parents. Like every damn generation before them.",What happened to the older Boomers? I thought they were all from the love and peace generation? All the Buffalo Springfield protest songs? The 80s and cocaine really fucked them up.,0
"But looking to the point of the people above, even Russians living in the US seem to have the opinion that Ukrainians should be killed in mass and raped?","Yes and forcibly ""transferring"" the Ukranian workers to Russia is kidnapping and yet another war crime committed by Russia.",1
"You’re right to point out that my argument involves something of a logical leap- Ron DeSantis in his uncut form probably won’t actively appeal to many of these “gettable” voters. My bet is that he will have the canniness (and outside assistance) to tone it down juuuuust enough if/when he’s forced out of the Bubble, while still playing to the fashmob when he goes on Fox etc.","I am pretty convinced of this, but I also allow for the fact that I could be wrong. The least we can do, though, is guard against complacency.",0
"But even then, the Holocaust doesn't have a comparison. For one, it IS the largest genocide in history. The Holodomor comes close if you count that as genocide but still not as many. If you include all the native Poles, Slavs, and other groups, the Holocaust balloons and jumps far beyond even that.","Not civilized. Industrialized. The Nazi state was one giant killing machine, with virtually every branch of the government involved in the killing, their economy directly feeding into the extermination, they extensively planned out how they were going to kill the undesirables, they constructed a massive transportation network all across Europe to carry people to the camps, etc.",0
"Yep - my wife's had three kids. First one was a 38-hour labour. Second was relatively straightforward by comparison. Third was an emergency caesarian - had a complication (placental abruption) not been caught, seemingly by chance, both baby and mother could well be dead.","I'm sure all those who didn't want the girl to abort her pregnancy, which was inflicted on her against her will, will be more than willing to take the child off her and give it the very best upbringing while asking nothing in return...",0
"It’s farther from the median Democrat voter profile. As I already detailed with actual statistics. If you have different statistics to show it is closer, I would love to see it.","That's now how statistics work. A 19% voting group nationally representing a majority in South Carolina represents a lack of representative diversity. To take your example even further, under your rationale, a 99% black state would be ""diverse"". You're just using diversity to mean more of a single group of people. Thus inverting what diversity even means.",0
"Clyburn, the Amy/Pete simultaneous drop out and Trump being a clown with his COVID messaging were the trifecta that got Biden elected. Gotta give them all props.","Ugh, as a black man who isn’t religious, I hate this pandering to the more conservative voters in SC.",0
"Note however that you cannot use a water drone to hit a land vehicle. Wheeled drones have their own set of guidance problems, while not many of the water drones benefits.",A couple of sources have referred to the drones as semi submersible. Probably the most accurate description.,1
"China is different. They aren't trying to sabre-rattle a nuclear war. If anyone tries to cut them off, China is diverse enough that they are self-sufficient.","China is fairly reliant on trade, but that cuts both ways. If the west tried to cut off China to the same extent they cut off Russia, then while China's economy would certainly suffer, the western economies would be hit far worse than they were in the fallout of the Russian sanctions.",1
"This means that a world where everyone is wealthy enough to afford all the healthcare, education, fulfillment, etc. they need and want is one where the couples that do have kids only have one or two, maybe three kids.",Survey after survey reveals that women want to have more kids. The simple fact of the matter is that they feel can't for a number of good reasons. That is not empowerment; that is the opposite. Even recently the US added women to the draft. Of course drafting women in their prime child bearing years is going to have predictable effects.,1
"1) Even though there is no evidence of this, Joe Biden pulled strings to get Hunter that position. This was before the war. This was before we even had significant dealings with Ukraine. And most importantly, this was a private citizen helping his son get a job. I'm not sure how people think Joe Biden would have anything to gain by helping his son get a job at a random electric company in one of the most impoverished countries in Europe.","2) Hunter Biden embellished his political ties in order to score the job. Did Hunter make promises that he may or may not have been able to deliver on? You'd have to ask him. But even if he lied through his teeth about what he could bring to the table, that's a Hunter Biden problem, not a Joe Biden problem. Joe Biden was a private citizen at the time.",0
"Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida accepted a nomination to be the Republican alternative and picked up 20 votes in the fourth round, while Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana voted “present” on the fourth ballot.","After three rounds of voting Tuesday, Kevin McCarthy was still more than a dozen votes short in his quest to become Speaker of the House. After two more ballots on Wednesday, only one person’s mind had changed, a previous McCarthy supporter who switched her vote to “present.”.",0
"""Don't blame Republicans"" - if Republicans hadn't vetoed the earlier bill, Biden wouldn't be faced with his current choices of either hurting railroad workers or hurting millions of people.","So after Republicans voted against or filibustered the bill, the ""casual observer"" should blame... Joe Biden (because of course).",1
And it’s gonna be supported through proper combined arms with all the strykers Bradley’s and all the other light tanks and apcs being sent plus all the non self propelled artillery already there.,Considering how effective the small amounts of himars and self propelled artillery has been it’s gonna be pretty wild to see how all this armor does.,0
"While still not actually conducting true/primary research (which, I guess would be conducting and publishing a meta study).","But I know their “research” isn’t actually real, reliable, unbiased research, so I shouldn’t expect so much.",1
"And iirc the special counsel for the Biden investigation was appointed by Trump, which in my mind gives Biden even more brownie points, he’s not even being investigated by his own guy.","Then I may have been misinformed, I’d been under the impression that the special council for Biden’s investigation was some sort of holdover from the previous administration.",0
"I would argue that more explicit wealth bias exists in the system, but that is hard to prove from implici bias.","Is that due to a bias towards the wealthy, or the fact the wealthy have more resources than the poor to oppose those steps at every turn and cultivate their appearance to the court room? I would guess the latter, more often than not.",1
"Columbia/HCA admitted systematically overcharging the government by claiming marketing costs as reimbursable, by striking illegal deals with home care agencies, and by filing false data about use of hospital space. It also admitted to fraudulently billing Medicare and other health programs by inflating the seriousness of diagnoses and to giving doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA.","And thats one reason why a provocation with China is unavoidable. Americans are too bloodthirsty, and are looking for an enemy to turn their rage against.",0
"It isn’t because she and her fellow Republicans are so much stupid, and they aren’t gullible-they know they are lying. It is be because that are intentionally doing bad things.","(Normally I change the term “anti-Semite” when including this quote from Sartre, but for Ms Space Lasers, it fits, so I’ll leave it.).",0
"Other renewables aren't carbon free either. They also require mining of toxic chemicals, and creating them takes energy as well, which today is supplied by fossil fuels.","And every energy source produces toxic waste. Coal and natural gas release its waste into the atmosphere, and spent batteries, spent solar cells, GaAs integrated circuits, turbine lubricants, and everything else all go to a landfill or into the ocean. Nuclear isn't unique there, only except that radiation is scarier than other forms of poisoning.",1
"I agree completely Weed does not hurt anyone. Alcohol is addictive and you can die from overdose, cirrhosis, cancer, drunk drivers /drunk driving. The biggest problem is there are those, ( a lot of), that have been subjected to the Government propaganda the Air Force put out in the 1950’s that Marijuana will make you go Mad. Lol It’s that, uneducated,Non experienced people that have never smoked weed in their lifetime that are against something they don’t understand or have experienced. And there’s the Religious community! They’re against every Fucking thing. 🤷🏼‍♂️. There’s always going to be opposers, whether they are right or wrong.","While I respect that this is your opinion, I fully disagree. What you are describing is “fascist” by definition. Government picking “winners”. Until herb is treated like tomato’s there will be a thriving black market. And Black market weed is and will always be better, the secret ingredient is CRIME. The only way to move forward is equality and equity through abundance and let the cream rise to the top. The banks do not need to get involved until this is sorted. To be honest decriminalizing and stopping there would be the best thing for the plant and everyone that is truly passionate about cannabis but people are stupid lame and greedy.",1
"Over 4,000 children get lifelong asthma each year, because of methane leaks from not only home gas stoves but also gas fired water heaters and space heating.","The current research shows that gas burners could have an elevated risk of contributing to childhood asthma. Nothing is set in stone yet, but here is the article that most people are pointing to .",1
"It goes Midwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast. They have NV and SC for diversity. They just need to rotate it. Although if Michigan is first, that should suffice, but rotating every election would still probably be better.","TLDR: Michigan will be taking Iowa’s spot as the first Midwest state to hold a presidential primary. It is yet to be seen if it will be the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th primary overall, although it is ensured to be one of the first four.",1
And apparently the Orthodoxy has held this land for 500 years but Palestinians are still claiming it belongs to them? They even protest settlements being built by Israel with land that has been sold to Israel by the Orthodoxy.,"The article in this post (middleeasteye) try to paint a very misleading picture in which Israel just steal land from the Palestinians as they please. This is the new propaganda approach since 2021, and there are a lot of people who believe it - but it's not exactly true.",1
"But it's also possible to have runoffs with plurality winners. They could set the threshold at 40%, so whoever both gets the most votes AND exceeds 40% wins outright, but if the one with the most votes only got, say, 38%, it would go to a runoff election. This system wouldn't require majority support, but it would set a floor for a minimum level of support was needed to win (in my example, 40%).","It was her, but it wasn't just her. Lots of Republican officials and pundits were crying over how a majority of first-choice votes were for one of the Republicans, but the Democrat ended up being elected.",0
"- Prohibits doctors from performing abortions after 15 weeks gestation – when an unborn child can feel pain – except in situations involving rape, incest, or risks to the life and physical health of the mother. (Affects New York, Oregon, California, Minnesota, New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, Vermont, Hawaii - All Blue States).",The pro-choice people have never been about unlimited abortion. They have always been about doctors making the decision with the help of science and not politicians (or religious fundies).,0
"Honestly, everything you wrote is a mess. If universal healthcare is a basic right, then literally the ONLY way to judge how progressive someone is on healthcare is by splitting hairs on how it’s administered.",Americans need to learn that A) Canada’s healthcare system is very different depending what part of Canada you are in and B) actually the perfect system for the US and what the Dems should be pushing rather than a national program.,0
There is nothing to be gained from invading Taiwain. Taiwan can render their own resources useless and China has to cross that pesky water to invade.,Also Taiwan‘s geographic position makes it pretty hard for China to control shipping lanes or enter open ocean if war ever breaks out. China doesn't have the luxuries the US does in terms of geography. Long term if China wants security it needs a China aligned Taiwan or a puppet state.,1
"Shutting down strikes seems to be an unsettling trend right now... Canada, US, UK, possibly Korea... the government should be protecting the workers because there is no one else that will.","If you think having the military step in to minimize the effect of a strike, therefore undercutting the collective bargaining power of the worker has nothing to do with breaking the strikes… I’ve got news for you.",0
"Johnson got elected to a new term after taking over for JFK post-assassination then didn’t run for re-election. Prior to that, Truman had two nearly full terms after FDR died. FDR was in his fourth term when he died.",It was weird phrasing to say no Democrats lost re-election during incumbency since Carter when there were only two opportunities to have done so.,0
"I'm speaking to all the comments that believe there is somehow clear evidence of criminality from her testimony, which there isn't. I think a lot of people are reading the title and running with it, so I'm just providing context. I want him held accountable as much as anyone else.","Knowing Meadows and his ilk - yes it's quite possibly nefarious and/or criminal in nature, and the broader circumstances make it very suspicious. Also, Hutchinson's testimony could be corroborated if investigated further (which it should be).",0
"No not really we are living in Europe. It’s awful, yeah. He got brainwashed by all those Q-Anon, and republicans on Youtube etc. Everything he watches is like all the time some guys yelling and complaining about the west / democratic life.",It would be an annoyance but for the fact we elected a bunch of these distraught and unstable people. They are kooks. But they are kooks in positions of power. And that power is entrenched thanks to gerrymandering.,1
"I believe everything being counted now were from voters who dropped off early/mail ballots on Election Day. Take from that what you will - the fact that this population used mail ballots suggests one thing about the partisan slant, and showing up day-of to drop them off suggests the opposite.","Because these ballots can be dropped off anywhere in the county, there is no way of estimating how the vote will skew.",1
"First, you support a paranoid interventionist government, who was also behind a coup against Iranians democratically elected leader in 1953 that fucked with Iran’s political development. Then, you claim to sympathize with Iranian citizens who became the victims of the US fuck ups!","Instead of trying to make Iran a better place for the people, the leaders are more worried about torturing innocent civilians and sabre rattling with the U.S.",1
You cannot take humans out of systems entirely. Therefore there is no such thing as a perfect system. How do you weed out the ones that are 'too imperfect' to continue? An institution cannot fully and actively control or prohibit actions on the part of individuals. To say the sum of an individual's actions then reflect that institution would mean that every institution is corrupt.,"Unfortunately it's exactly this vagueness that gives rise to the need to remind some that it's not so black and white. If these sources of ingrained institutions, as you call them, remain vague and intangible why should anyone simply accept that a serial killer isn't just insane, but actively encouraged by, for example, institution x or y that does more good than bad in the eyes of most? If we actually care about solving any real issues we're going to have to be more precise, otherwise it's just openly saying 'I'd rather be right than effective.'.",0
"And don't get started on the land and water usage of beef. Just from the soja, that gets added to animal feed, 1 pound of beef takes more than 1 pound of soja to preduce, and that without all the other parts of the feed, the drinking water, land usage, etc.","Interesting, that you mention dairy farmers. Dairy is also one of the most water intensive. Depending on where you look, dairy milk gets often put at more water intensive compared to almond milk.",0
"In the second case (and assuming the new government ignores Article 61.1 of the Russian Constitution or lawyers around it, perhaps using Article 56?) then either the ICC can probably extend its ongoing investigation into the 2014 conflict (see or the UNSC will suddenly discover that the Russian Government is not going to veto a referral. In which case a separate tribunal is not necessary.",A lovely soundbite that doesn’t address the actual problem: How do you get Putin et al into the courtroom? Two possibilities exist: Either an outside force goes and gets them or there is a change of government in Russia and the new regime hands them over.,0
"It is very much strategic and they have only to look at the Ukraine war to see why BRICS might be beneficial to them. China is promising them a financial system free from the interference of politics, where their money is safe and they don't have to worry about a privileged few using their control over the system to force you to do things their way.","India feels they can compete with China, but they can't compete with the US / West should we decide to cut off their access to international money because their population once again voted in a racist populist with authoritarian leanings.",0
"I'm worried that DeSantis will be superficially ""not Trump"" enough to lure swing and ""Independent"" voters back to voting for the side that wants to end democracy.","I just don’t think I would ever advocate Trump winning the nomination over him, even if it’s obvious DeSantis has much better odds of beating the democratic nominee.",1
"The longer the war goes on, the worse the equipment situation will become for Russia, and I bet Ukrainians are being trained on more and more western equipment. The US military industrial complex has a license to print money that the rest of the world doesn't hate for once. I wouldn't bet against that.",It likely won't. What rarely gets widely publicized is Ukraines losses and setbacks. In a war of attrition sadly Russia has the capability to outlast Ukraine in terms of equipment and personnel.,1
"They got the Bosphorus that ain’t happening, and Erdogan aside Turkey’s been fighting alongside the US in our shitty wars in one way or another for over 70 years now.","So, this really boils down to NATO since they're the ones that have the international clout to make Erdogan stop clowning around.",1
"If it's a centralized government- then they need to STFU with all this backwards stuff. No more electoral college, no more abortion bans because a few states wanted it.","The abortion bans are just an extension of the shit policies of these states. If you compare a map of poor healthcare, maternity death, child hunger, poor performing schools, and poverty, you’ll find the map looks similar. These states are designed to keep people down.",1
They never said it was a Missile Defense System more likely its a radar tower Putin probably scared out of his mind that CIA or some other group will come in the night.,I think its more likely Putin is observing the ever increasing sophistication of the weapons Ukraine is being given by its allies and fears its only a matter of time before they will get ahold of something that can hit Moscow.,1
"Keep in mind, this happens all day, every day. There are ALWAYS Russian spy ships off US waters. In fact, there are almost always Russian and Chinese spy ships IN US waters.",Spotting spy ships is something the us military does on the regular. They really don't have very good stealth or field craft.,1
"I love how they have organizations of right-wing extremists, with names, ranks, centralized leadership, etc. Meanwhile, ""Antifa"" is all they've got on the left, and there is no Antifa. It's not an organization, not a coalition of organizations, not a loose affiliation of organizations. It's literally just what happens when fascists pop up. Anti-fascists also pop up.","Holy shit, the brainwashing and fascist hate in the MAGA crowd is nuts. I always knew they were that way inclined from the r/TD days, but seeing it in this report, given this context. Wow.",1
"Unless you use it to store excess energy you can't currently store in any other way, it's very wasteful.","Of course not, but we need some kind of energy storage when we want to archive 100% renewable. Also gas is used in chemical processes as well, not only for electricity production.",1
"That's again comparing a presidential race to a midterm race. The enthusiasm and turnout levels are completely different. Way more people voted in that district in 2020, because of the presidential race also happening, then turned out to vote this time. 30k more people voted for the loser in that district in 2020 than voted for the winner in 2022.",You could also look at how fiach had 30k less votes than the democratic challenger in 2020. Not seeing any conclusions drawn about dissatisfaction there. It's the midterms. It's not enough data to go on for a presidential election year.,0
Yet another gleaming example to throw on the ever-growing pile of evidence that shows how goddamn stupid much of the population is.,God damn the fact that neither mentions why people feel unsafe is maddening. Batshit right-wing (and even centrist) media is why these people are unjustifiably scared in the first place. The answer to the problem is right there for all to see but it’s not even part of the discussion.,0
"Well, even if Poland flips out of the Orban orbit in the next election, I'm curious if more conservative Italy or Sweden (barring any Hungarian NATO vetos, that is) will start protecting Hungary from the EU like Poland was.","That makes sense to me, but I could see the argument that they can both support Ukraine against Russia and support Hungary against the EU.",0
Musk has done so much stupid shit at this point that it’s painfully obvious that he gets nothing but praise that’s bought and paid for.,Note: This is not a comment in support of Musk. Just an observation that he uses his enormous money to destroy things in his way.,1
"“when asked for his response to Republicans pushing the impeachment talk. He previously joked, ""I don't know what the hell they're going to impeach me for.””.",At least with Trumps second impeachment over January 6th there was a chance of an actual impeachment succeeding. At the time there were some republicans who weren’t on the “well he’s leaving office anyways” or “mostly peaceful protestors” bandwagon.,1
"Removal of minority language speakers? Sorry but what are you talking about? Also if by discrimination you mean preferably choosing immigrants who speak French, sure we do that. I don't see what's wrong with it. People around the world don't have a right to live in Québec and we are allowed to choose people according to our interests.",There are even French speaking people in northern Quebec who don’t know that Quebec isn’t a country. I’ve met them. They don’t have passports and couldn’t be bothered with them anyways for there’s no desire for them to leave.,1
When Willis decides to indict she’ll need to seat a regular grand jury. If you see anything that says she’s got a regular grand jury in place it won’t be long after that.,Shouldn't take long to present to a regular grand jury. The evidence has already been procured and the report by the special grand jury will help expedite the process.,1
"Biden's immigration policies have always been a soft continuation of most of Trump's policies, while just not being overtly racist in the rhetoric about it. And yet, the moment he took office, Republicans insisted we had thrown open the borders, and they'll keep insisting that, and would keep insisting that even if Biden literally ordered the borders sealed shut to all visitors.",They spend several long paragraphs on Biden administration promises about what they'll eventually do to clean up a problem they chose to create and they're choosing to maintain every day they refuse to allow people to enter the United States to apply for asylum. We could solve that problem in an instant if Biden decided to drop Trump's policies and went back to how we'd been handling asylum before the orange asshole instead of trying to come up with a friendlier sounding version of the exact same shit.,1
"This motion is presented in the general assembly, which means it can't be vetoed (and all 193 member states have equal voting power). You're thinking about resolutions in the security council which end up having military operations to enforce them (which is why they can be vetoed).","Only a resolution by the Security Council will care any real weight, and such a resolution would be vetoed by Russia. One would hope the inevitable failure of these efforts stimulates efforts to reform the structure of the UN, particularly its empowered decision-making bodies.",1
"""now"". That was 2005. And that his attempt to find a solution that might actually work -- they really want independence but that's not going to happen. So he aims for autonomy. Which is why ""The Dalai Lama also stated in 2008 that he wishes only for Tibetan autonomy, and not separation from China, under certain conditions, like freedom of speech and expression, genuine self-rule, and control over ethnic makeup and migration in all areas claimed as historical Tibet"".",I’d love if Tibetans had more autonomy and the CCP respected human rights for ALL citizens but that just wont happen in any world or any near alternate realities.,1
"Wasn’t their excuse ‘an armed conflict broke out with a terrorist group, and Palestinians civilians were killed in the crossfire’? Your comment completely left out the fact that there was an armed clash between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian combatants.",As far as Palestinian is concerned Israel is occupying on their land and Israel of course claim otherwise.,1
"Brazil was inserted into the new world order with the BRICs, but he has his place in the old one. Not saying it's righteous, but it's how the country aligns its Foreign Affairs - by not telling others how to do things but understanding and trying to counsel within its interests like any other country as well as the US and Europe which are the current holders of the status quo and have all the interest in Ukraine.","I guess it's too much of a hassle for the ""world's fifth most populous country"" to actually act in their best interest and strenhen relationships, stabilize the world and save on trade agreements later rather than make pennies and lose credibility with multiple countries. I mean fuck half the world's population. Am i right?",1
"From what I've seen, gun control advocates want nothing less than a full ban. Anything less than that is bemoaned. I only see one side refusing to compromise in the long-term, as more and more strict anti-gun laws keep being added.","Just to clarify a few things, I don’t support gun rights and my preferred option is what goes on in every other country in the world. Heavy regulation and a good reason required to own a gun with specific requirements to be met for every class of firearm.",1
And talking about the war and the borders might also brings up memories of the slaughter of Poles by extreme Ukrainian nationalists during the war.,"A lot of border issues can be quite complicated and sore points due to history. A lot of European countries decided that it's basically best to leave things alone instead of trying to argue about land based on history. After WW2 large parts of western Poland with an ethnic Ukrainian majority was given to Ukraine then all Poles were forcibly deported to the rest of Poland(And Ukrainians who lived in parts of Poland that was still Poland were deported to Soviet Ukraine and Poland was given territories in the west controlled by Germany pre war and the Germans there were also moved). Of course this was done by the Soviet government were decisions where made in Moscow. Also much of Ukraine has a long history under Polish rule, a lot of that history is seen in a negative light despite the love for modern Poland.",0
"And fuck anyone else who wants to split the states like that, not only did we settle this damn argument in 1865, most red states have big blue populations and a lot of blue states have big red ones.","As someone who lives in a state that would be purple or blue without the damn gerrymandering, sincerely...",0
"He added that Serbia cannot but react to this, because the appearance of such information harms the country's reputation, and the participation of Serbian citizens in armed conflicts abroad implies criminal liability.","Secondly, by saying things like ""Ofcourse Serbia will help Russia"", one is artificially pushing them towards Russia by creating sentiment among the pro-EU people that Serbia is ""bad"".",1
"what do you mean where did I say it wasn't the right case to help Ukraine, I am saying the US is motivated to see Russia army weakened and is one of the core reasons why they are supporting Ukraine.","Literally, the reason the US is arming Ukraine is that it is an amazing deal for America they get to say they are defending democracy and simultaneously military crippling a rival without having to fight them for a few billion dollars, Geopolitically speaking, it is a wet dream for the US.",0
"Don't forget the illegally conscripted Ukrainians in occupied Russia being forced to fight and die against their countrymen (mostly die because Russia uses them as cannon fodder), cause what Russian dictator doesn't love a good old war crime!","BTW, the war against Ukraine was always justified with Ukraine ""historically"" belonging to Russia, so it's not like the ideology is completely ahistorical in the sense that it doesn't reference former glory. Even the Soviet Union is still somewhat of an implicit rallying point, though rather in the subtext, it's no coincidence, that Russians brought a whole bunch of red flags to Ukraine.",1
"Nope full liability. If you dint know what your doing with a weapon system you don’t touch it until you have a trainer with you, as a police chef especially he should know these basic weapons safety rules.","And while YOU know how to handle weapons, if you are going to assume that civilians also know it, I sure hope you are on a 24/7 supervision.",1
"They keep you and me both poor by buying government - they have gotten laws passed that make it next to impossible for you to get off the floor - they have been chopping away at public education so you can only get better if you can afford to pay for private school (no, oh here won’t help that one bit, the good private schools will still be too expensive, the ones vouchers would pay for will be barely regulated and worse), they have been chopping away at labor laws to give the companies more and more control over you, they’ve been changing tax codes so that the middle class’ effective tax rate is many times higher than their own so that if you start climbing the ladder you get pulled down (I make good money, my effective tax rate was at least five times what Mitt Romney’s was on his “income,” but the really rich have lots of ways of hiding income or getting money in other ways like insanely low interest loans from their own companies that get paid off with new loans from their own companies) . . .","I could go on but I have a feeling if you already believe that the rich “pay taxes” this information may not benefit you. Just know that the rich have been getting a whole lot richer while the rest of us get poorer, and it’s not because we’re working less or getting less done, quite the opposite.",0
You have to pay a fine totaling the value of the car driven. There was a case not long ago where a drunk driver crashed a rented tesla and had to pay over 100k.,There used to be a problem when drunk driver would get his license taken away and would just keep on driving their vehicle. That's why we got a law in place to take away the car as well.,1
Reddit hates the Tories and think this is some gotcha lol. Labour would be staying in exactly the same places if they were in power.wjere do they think world leaders stay the local holiday Inn??,"again, and? thats' £3.5K per trip. travel is expensive, particularly for senior government officials on trade missions when compared to a week in Magaluf.",1
"""Qualified majority voting can lead to fairer...results for all of us,"" Baerbock told a conference in Portugal's capital Lisbon. ""We must be capable of acting efficiently and swiftly."".",What are you on about. Every level of the EU decision making process is either directly elected by the people or appointed by the people’s representatives. It’s a representative democracy all the way down in all legislative branches.,1
"It's honestly quite baffling to me how the UK has become known as ""TERF island"" when in reality the data all points to us being very accepting of trans issues. I think there is a lot of misinformation being spread on places like Twitter and reddit by younger people whether intentionally or not.","In this same study, the UK is also the most comfortable when it comes to their child dating a trans person. Yes that's right, more than ANY OTHER European country.",0
"Mother: “It’s the Americans driving this, of course! Look at their laboratories. They are developing biological weapons. Coronavirus literally started there.”.",Mother: “They even found all these papers with signatures from the U.S. all over Ukraine. Biden’s son is the mastermind behind all of this.”.,0
"My argument is that the 2nd Amendment and the accompanying Militia Acts clearly outlines what a militia is and how you can join it (as I posted above) and that if you want a gun, you can join the militia (State Guard).","Personally I think we should go with a literal interpretation of the 2nd amendment, as the Founding Fathers wrote the Militia Acts in the same time period that clarifies what it is exactly they meant:",0
So im not advocating less taxes for the people but more taxes for the big corpos who post reccord profits all the time.,"As it says in the article, the first step was to require companies to pay taxes where they earned the profits (i.e. no tax havens outside the EU), so this second step now means that that tax will be at least 15% (i.e. no tax havens inside the EU).",1
It’s funny how “The jews had evil intentions” is always a legitimate excuse but the Palestinians being hateful and hostile is never an option.,"Poor Palestinians, only wanted to genocide the Jews, failed and kept their war mongering because ignorant like you keep supporting it.",0
"All of this combined shows why Canada doesn't really invest much up there. To build up the Arctic would require tens-to-hundreds of billions of dollars (you'd need train routes through completely untouched lands, you'd need to build proper harbours, etc), somehow borne on the taxes of only 38 million Canadians.","They're the world's factory, and finding ways to streamline the northwest passage and undermine Canadian Arctic sovereignty would be huge for them given climate change expectations over the coming decades.",1
"always shocking to me that people, no matter where they stand politically, will willfully ignore the fact that military units will place rocket launchers IN AND AROUND schools. Surely your hatred for the IDF can't blind you to the fact that what Hamas is doing is morally reprehensible and even doubly shocking given that they're putting their own children at risk.","Don't you see, Hamas is improving the children's souls by making them martyrs while the Israelis are evil for not letting Hamas kill their kids. Israelis should martyr their kids too in order to be as morally righteous as Hamas. /s.",1
"Hi trifecta. Thank you for participating in /r/Politics. However, has been removed for the following reason(s):","The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.",0
Women are not pregnant are being refused medications for illnesses that could cause harm to a fetus simply because they are child bearing age (which spans decades).,And compliance doesn’t protect you from being refused medical care when you have a miscarriage and need a DNC. Or there is a complication in the pregnancy that is potentially life threatening but doctors refuse to do a termination until the woman is at death’s door because the fetus still has a heartbeat.,0
". He's also infamous for standing up to Trump when he was calling around, begging for votes. Plus, he's breaking ranks with his entire party to join Democrats in opposing runoffs. So no, I don't think he wants to change it to where they get to pick if it's close to a tie.","Georgia Democrats heavily favor getting rid of runoffs, partly because it's a holdover from post-segregation attempts at curbing the Black vote, and partly because it makes voting harder, which is to say it's voter suppression. Raffensperger is breaking with the rest of his party to join the left here. He's also as a replacement for runoffs. Finally, he's infamous for being . The idea that this guy has anything to do with Republicans trying to cheat their way to victory is laughable lol.",0
"I don't know who the Republican nominee will be in 2024, but whoever it is, I can almost assure you they will lose the popular vote.","Problem is the way our system works and due to the fact our Presidential election isn’t based on popular vote that can work against us and it has. Especially considering the extreme right now has a stranglehold the Republican Party. Not sure how much the average Republican agrees with the more extreme crap, but it hasn’t stopped them from voting for this sh\\. Hell the Republican may not have a large majority in the House but they were able to win a majority and look what they have done so far.",1
"This. I'm expecting something along the lines of ""the SCONC was within their rights to reject the proposed map, but overstepped their authority in redrawing the map independently of the legislature."" Which is a moot point because the map was temporary anyway.",Even that still isn't a great result. We'd probably end up in 2030 dealing with a bunch of legislatures doing what Ohio did: running out the clock by repeatedly submitting unconstitutionally gerrymandered maps and getting them struck down over and over again until it reaches the point that it's too late for a new map and the election goes ahead with a gerrymandered one.,0
"a)Because , and if you don't want people stuck in the same quagmire, they need valid assistance instead of the veneer.","b)I'm against the means testing as well, but that's not a justification to remove the other programs.",0
"the secret service is largely made up of former law enforcement who generally align to the right. Combine that with the mass deletion of secret service texts in regards to Jan 6, the secret service is not exactly the most reliable people.",Mike Pence didn't even trust them on Jan 6 to essentially kidnap him and prevent him from certifying the election results but you think it's nonsense that people are questioning the secret service after they erased all their texts related to Jan 6 AFTER they were requested to hand over that information? No one who is innocent doing nothing wrong intentionally destroys evidence when being investigated.,0
"He’s clearly not healthy. Mocking his weight won’t convince republicans that he’s unhealthy, and it won’t change the minds of dems who already figured out that he isn’t.","I’ll get downvoted, but he obviously has mental health issues and I don’t like how Republicans and the media are exploiting him.",1
"Alt right founder who left the group has his blog on tg where he just post fk russians and long live ukraine. Pics from battlefield, dead russians pics .","How dedicated were they to fighting russians? Well when the nazis rolled into ukraine, they joined the SS. So they could kill russians mainly, but also, y'know, they did participate in some massacres of poles and jews, because :shurg_emoji:.",1
"Fairly insulting, and doesn't square with the capable defense we've seen from them throughout this whole war.","Using what is happening to the Russians to comment on the state of modern warfare is a poor argument. Since the sinking of the Moskva, it has come out that the ship was barely functional, it's engines were well overdue for replacement and locked to a max of half throttle, only 1 or 2 of the CWIS guns (of 6) were functional, they couldn't use the radar for the SAMs without loosing communications, and the rest of the weapons were non-functional.",1
"Of course, some will say ""Russia doesn't see them as sovereign, despite the official breakup of the USSR"", but as a matter of international law, that's not a valid view.","I got a kick out of that. I have no idea how a country that is invading a sovereign neighbor, who made no aggressive moves toward them, is in any way justified in complaining about the aggression of the defending armed forces.",0
"And just to be clear, I don't think the US is doing enough to help Ukraine. But being blocked from using Twitter is not the same as being silenced.","Thats because it is the only social network where Russian officials accounts have not been banned. There are a lot of pro-war channels there with literally nazi posts, and they dont get moderated by Telegram at all. Telegram is no better than Musk twitter.",1
Rheinmetall is building a new factory in Germany and has also bought a big munitions production factory in Spain.,When this offensive is repulsed Ukraine has the perfect opportunity for a large scale counter-attack because Russia will be spent for a while afterwards.,0
"It's complicated. NATO bombed the shit out of Serbia with methods most people in NATO countries would call barbaric in any other circumstances, and before that the countries that you mentioned were nothing but happy to endorse the dissolution of Yugoslavia without any consideration of the consequences, because commies bad and freedom good.","Media in Europe and America, particularly because of the Kosovo conflict, has massively oversimplified the Yugoslav wars and the narrative that emerged seems to have put most of the blame on Serbs as a whole, underestimating the guilt of other groups (it is hard for people to understand a conflict where basically everyone is the bad guy, if i may be simplistic) and also not understanding the complex political differences between for example Serbian people, the government in what is now Serbia, and the Serb paramilitary groups who committed the worst atrocities. They are connected, but not the same. Serbs are resentful of this. This makes the internal politics of questions like who to align with very difficult.",0
"My parents, half-brother, his wife, and their kid all were immunized; they were furious when my half-sister, her husband, and their four kids all exposed them to COVID by showing up at a family gathering, refusing to wear masks, and then spreading COVID conspiracies. Exposed my niece, straight out of the NICU, as well as my mom and her immunocompromised friend (chemo) to COVID.","“Exposed my niece, straight out of the NICU, as well as my mom and her immunocompromised friend (chemo) to COVID.”.",1
"Well if NATO were intending a ‘total war’ with Russia, then I would have to say that they are doing a really, really bad job of it !",If Russia attacks NATO the war will end with an American flag flying over the ruins of the Kremlin.,1
But yea. We’re still talking about the climate issue right? I mean we’re certainly talking about the increase in climate damage these tire extinguishers are committing. So yea. We’e talking about the climate issue still.,It's more like they have been politely asking for 50 years for climate change to be taken seriously. They are no longer asking.,1
"He means that one missile into Russia will supposedly lead to a response of hundreds of warheads. And yes, one missile can carry several nuclear warheads. It’s unclear whether he means a nuclear missile entering Russia or any missile, but I think it’s all bluffing anyway.","We've updated because we have no intention of firing a nuke or missile into Russia, but Russia has been threatening it.",1
"I truly hope they don't and I'm not advocating for Russia-China here, but... If I imagine myself in their shoes, this ""red line"" warning feels a bit empty considering the west already crossed it, no? Or am I forgetting an obscure international treaty that would make all this legal and normal?","US and the west did take side to provide arms to Ukraine so, why would China not be allowed to pick a side too?",0
"After all the bad news for Republicans on Election Day, the GOP is just barely on track to meet its baseline goal of the midterms: recapturing control of the House of Representatives.","The exact composition of a GOP majority could take weeks to determine, but it’s clear that whatever margin Republicans have, it won’t be a comfortable one.",0
"The journalist who was arrested was very aware of the risk and consequences, and made the choice anyways. I respect that action, it shows bravery. The authorities detaining a foreign journalist because of an image on a shirt, can’t really find a reason to respect that, seems cowardly. So no, equal respect isn’t likely.","Lol, fuck off with the ‘equally respected’. Your values are shit, and aren’t worth the respect you think they are due. The majority of the criticism is from average westerners who have no say or means as to where FIFA chooses to hold the events, but at least they can express their critical views on reddit without fear of their government’s coming after them.",0
"As with any big change, it would be best done with a soft start, getting the key elements of the scoring system in place, with minor changes to the base rate, and then start cranking up the base rate, giving countries with poor environmental, labor, or human rights time to consider what access to the US market is worth to their economy, and US companies time to shop for new CMs.","You know what I'd like to see? A tariff system tied to a composite score based on environmental protection/decarbonization, human rights, and labor rights.",0
"Damn, maybe the other political party should get guns for self defence, instead of making it illegal for themselves to buy guns while leaving the other side in possession of all the arms they already have?","Absent a model like the latter, while guns are under regulated and buying is practically anonymous in leaky-faucet-like states (states where guns can be easily accessed and transported across statelines with ease, TX, FL, AL), guns are almost certainly ending up in the hands of people who shouldn't have them.",1
"The ""just build more housing"" thing doesn't pass the sniff test. It couldn't hurt, but rent is raising faster than the population. In other words, this is driven by greed, not demand. I am very skeptical that increasing the supply will cause the landlords to take a profit cut and lower rent.","If you think of it only from the ""buy"" perspective, companies buying homes to rent out hurts, but this actually adds rental supply and thus lowers rent prices (relative to what they would have been). However, rent is still increasing, because we have a general shortage of housing.",1
"Until the vote for Speaker has concluded, the House cannot conduct any other business. Based on current reporting, neither candidate has reached majority support due to multiple members of the Republican majority .","Jeffries getting elected House Speaker, Republicans crossing the aisle to vote with Democrats on a moderate Republican, or this fiasco just continuing are all giant political wins for the MINORITY PARTY that should have no authority.",1
The writer of the article contacted musk for comment before any of Musk's political statements here were made.,"Also Musk: A poll on Twitter is a perfect way to understand public sentiment, and whether I should reinstate a threat to American democracy.",1
>It doesn’t mean they’ll make good teachers but they are probably a little more qualified than a homeless person off the street.,"Actually, the only group out of those that working as a teacher, with the pay, disrespect and angry parent bullshit they have to put up with, would be the homeless. Seems a win-win as far as Politics of the Stupid is concerned.",1
What about all the people who already paid off their loans? What if you finished paying your loan this year? President doesn’t have the power of the purse. This is absurd. This issue must be addressed by congress not the executive.,Because this is what is proposed by the administration. The core issue is that people are trapped in debt at a young age and have no means of getting out from it.,1
"It also helps to get people to stop thinking that every weird sensor reading is an alien spaceship, since literally none of them have ever been alien spaceships.","Not really. The Mi-8 is a transport helicopter. Not exactly maneuverable. Using the autocannon is actually probably the better option, since it's more cost effective, and against something that slow, it's actually probably more reliable. A missile could overshoot, but the GAU-8/A is going to put holes through everything in a 40' diameter circle.",0
Yep. This brings to mind the state-by-state effort to recognize marriage equality. Getting legislation passed was very challenging even in blue states like New York and New Jersey. All of the earliest states to recognize marriage equality did so through state supreme court decisions.,"Technically, Kansans voted not to amend their state constitution to overturn a . So Kansas hasn't passed anything after Dobbs.",0
I believe that because it involves a federal agency - FDA - that they need to file in federal court. The plaintiffs basically decided to file in this particular federal court district because of who the federal judge of that district is.,"A federal judge in Texas has a say in federal laws, much like a federal judge in California does. That’s federalism for you — the final say is SCOTUS which is illegitimate anyway.",1
"One stray missile landing a couple of kilometres inside Poland, assuming it was even fired by the Russians, is nowhere near the threat level posed by the Cuban missiles.","Associated Press (western media) reported on Wednesday, sourcing U.S. officials, that initial findings suggest that the missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian missile.",1
"So describing Badenoch views as problematic (trans and environment to start) would understatement. In this case she's actually correct to defend someone's right to say what was said, even though she doesn't agree with it, as her job as Equalities Minister.","Edit: not that it would matter, the equalities act protects the right to hold religious beliefs and not be discriminated against for them. It doesn't make them immune to criticism, it's not blasphemy laws.",1
I think it's because there were more significant things going on in that timeframe - from the use of nuclear weapons to internment camps for Japanese Americans.,"I think the way you're presenting the situation is muddled. Like, no one here is arguing that it's the first time sanctions are being used. And what's interesting here is not that the sanctions are being used at all, but that they target a person, not the country, the money is being spent, not frozen, and the US isn't even at war with Russia (while it was at war with Japan).",0
"Let us have 4 more years of a damn good politician and progress and we’ll talk in 2028 about a younger, Democrat president.",I would like a younger president with more modern views who hasn’t been corrupted by decades in politics.,1
It's because these people let tribalism dominate. I have a Shiite friend from Bangladesh. His whole family in Canada (except him) supports Ayatollah Khamanei and goes to a mosque that secretly preaches anti-semitism. They think criticism against Iran is fake and that Jews are evil.,"I hear my fellow Americans HATING on Muslims. Like guys.... You don't hate the people, you hate the terrorists and the terrorist sponsoring governments. But the media would have you believe everyone in the middle east wants you dead.",1
"1: Note: I'm bringing this up because of how Russia/Putin invading Ukraine is playing out is rapidly altering situations where the USA has forced tension, specifically with Russia and on a non-nuclear country's land.","- It is because of the USA Ukraine agreed to become a non-nuclear state, and Russia/Putin probably wouldn't have invaded a nuclear Ukraine.",0
"These are moving fast, all things considered in our glacial legal system. Trump will 100% get indicted. Unfortunately, that's only the beginning. A trial could extend for years to come, and it's still possible he would never be incarcerated or even convicted. There's a long ways to go in any scenario.",You're not thinking far enough in to the future. Legal precedent needs to be set so that someone who comes long after the stench of 45 has faded from public memory (like the first ) has no potential avenue to try and become a dictator.,1
I’m guessing it was due to generational hatred toward Turkey by past abused culture that motivated the arsonist.,Evils and intergenerational traumas and hatred is the visceral way in which we as a whole sort everything else.,1
"I tried to find some background on her. She went to a small Pennsylvania college and a second (if that) tier law school. She supposedly was born in NYC. Nothing else. From some news reports she was a lawyer for some parking garages (made me think of mafia and the trash collection business) before becoming trump's lawyer. She has been identified as a ""Super Lawyer"" by a publication that's kind of like a paid publication of lawyer advertising.","A year or so ago I looked her up because there were some news reports of statements she made that I thought were pretty dumb, including arguing in court with the judge handling the Carroll case.",0
In 1946 China sent thousand of balloons way up into the sky to be carried to north America in the jet stream. They had timers and sand bags and every few hours would drop a sandbag to maintain altitude then when it was out of sandbags the last thing to drop were bombs. Every single one got blown way off course and ended up in the middle of no where mostly in northern Canada but one landed in the woods in Oregon.,"A Sunday school took a bunch of kids on a field trip to the woods 5 kids found the balloon and called their 26 year old pregnant teacher to come see. It blew up and killed all six of them, the only fatalities from the thousands of balloons they sent over.",0
"Aircraft carriers are extremely fire prone, historically. They're basically a giant fuel and munitions warehouse that floats on water and happens to carry planes.",That aircraft carrier is nothing but a floating dock anyway. Did Xzibit set this up? Yo dog I heard you like floating docks so I put a floating dock on your floating dock.,1
"Some of my PhD research was on the effects of sea level rise on groundwater resources in those nations. They're not just going to lose their land. They're going to lose their water before that. And it's going to be a big fucking problem. The world's wealthy countries need to decide whether it's going to be a ""spend some money now"" type of big fucking problem or a ""sudden massive waves of people who literally don't have anywhere to go"" type of big fucking problem.",This isn't a problem we can engineer our way out of. The only just and practicable solution is to cut emissions before entire nations disappear.,0
"It’s better to let the ignorant public believe that the GOP controls the House, and that way they’ll own all the inaction leading into 2024.",I don't think the Republican-controlled House will be able to leverage its small majority as well as Pelosi did. I don't think Biden or his team feel threatened.,1
"Ever since fall of last year, Putin's message was ""we want to stop the war along currently held borders."" This stance allows him to:","Russia is probing the waters with smaller (although still sizeable) offensives such as under Vuhledar. Based on the disastrous results, they're likely to call off their larger offensives, lest they bog down, get wrecked, and allow a massive Ukrainian counteroffensive (either in April or even earlier.) Russia can't afford another strategic defeat like in Kharkiv last year, not because of a lack of manpower, but because it's already on shaky ground morale wise, and continued defeats could spell doom for Putin's ability to continue rallying his nation to fight.",0
The last time I checked this kind of geoengineering is generally considered a bad idea by most scientists and is usually promoted by business interests.,"No we aren’t. Geo-engineering implies a direct and deliberate attempt to modify the climate. CO2 induced climate change was never deliberately done for the sake of climate change, it was an unintended side-effect of useful technology.",0
"The trick is poison the cancer to death and not poison the person. So they punch the patient as far down as possible before damage, then give them a little break, then back into the ring (ding ding!).",Ok. Hundreds of thousands of Republicans died after they believed in lies. Fair point. On the other side of the conversation it is. “You mean fake died of the fake news fake kung flu??? Ha Those dead people are not dead Do not believe scientists or your eyes or your ears or your brain Trust Donald and Tucker”.,1
"A lot of western corporate money will go to a more stable Ukraine, once it is rebuilt and fortified its borders, rather than risk this craziness that Russia is intent on causing.","The primary existential threat to the Kremlin is a bunch of Russians looking at an increasingly Western-aligned and prosperous Ukraine, decade after decade, and starting to wonder why things are so much better just across the border.",1
"Well, since they still officially do not recognize Israel's right to exist and I would argue that a 1 state solution is just the end of Israel. So let's go with 2SS.","Since you do, please tell me, what should Israel do in order to ""Give people more rights"" but still protect it's own citizens against a population who launched tens of thousands of rockets on it, committed endless amounts of terror attacks including suicide bombers, explosive charges, random shootings, knife attacks and more?",0
"They’re just telling themselves lie after lie after lie as part of the alternate universe they live in, as usual.","They considered that to be their “slam dunk.” It’s hard to overstate how ridiculously stupid that is. They literally believe that a Republican My Pillow guy-endorsed Republican saying he “knows” the election outcome would have been different had the ballots been printed properly constitutes clear and convincing evidence that Lake actually won the election. And that that testimony alone should be sufficient cause for a judge to hand the election to Lake, no further questions necessary.",0
"They’re pushing for a rule that says a handful (5?) can vote for a new speaker at any time. Which would keep the R speaker in the thrall of the most insane, or a rotating chair of failed speakers for the next 2 years.","This is why they passed a pretty big Ukraine aid bill last month. That, and R’s already said they didn’t wanna support it anyway. I doubt we will see more aid to Ukraine coming from congress until 2025.",0
"""Did people vote for us because we are awesome or because Republicans are bent on enlarging the basement they have dug beneath the hole they've scraped in the bottom of the barrel? Likely the former."".","Yeah. Gee. Who was a part of the Obama administration who we know contributed to bag fumbling? Oh yeah! Joe Biden, who once stopped Democrats from strong arming Republicans because of one phone call from Moscow Mitch.",1
"I understand they may have geopolitical reasons to desire that, but it's hardly the ethical position people make it out to be to let another country fight your war for you..",Russia appears to see this as an existential fight and I'm not so sure a collapse of their government would result in a new regime any less extreme than Putin's.,0
"I'd caveat this that, under normal circumstances Russia can't afford to build these. Under exceptional circumstances, they could build plenty. It's safe to say that Russia isn't operating in those exceptional circumstances atm. They are still running what is largely a civilian consumer based economy.","Tanks, or other heavily armored vehicles will always have a role in modern combined arms warfare until the paradigm of modern warfare changes radically from what we have now.",0
"Indeed. It is still an aggression against a NATO member, ""accident"" or deliberate, and it's unacceptable.","Goodness, even if it was russian's 1345th ""miscalculation"" in this war, i am in shock they had the audacity to strike a NATO member.",0
"at which point, if they put the 2k in, even $4000 doesn’t help very much invested into a shitty near-unregulated economy that’s rigging itself into perpetual boom-bust cycles for the benefit of billionaires.","telling companies ""you can help pay off your employees' student debt"" is meaningless, they already had a way of rewarding employees called ""paying more money"" that they avoid like the plague & beg the fed to tank the economy to avoid it.",0
"Stopping the clear lying, greed, hatred, bigotry and intolerance, both in the open and hidden, might be an important first step for Christian leaders and their followers to take if they want to see a change. Those characteristics define Christianity in the United States today. Evangelical leaders grifting on the weak and vulnerable has nothing to do with the indoctrination of the teachings of Christ in my childhood. Hatred of other whether race, creed or sexual orientation is the basis that dominates the current political merging with Christianity. Domination, control of the masses and money-worship are the primary drivers of Christian leadership so these ads are disingenuous in pretending that organized Christianity has anything to do with Jesus’ purported teaching. The numbers are certain to continue to decline with the status quo. People are not blind to the hypocrisy, at least those willing to see through it.","“Instead of rebranding Jesus, these critics say, Christianity should improve its own image by emulating him.”.",0
"All joking aside, I sort of recall Pelosi referencing some rule/law that actually allows Congress to send the Capitol police out and arrest someone in an instance like this and lock them up the Capitol's dungeon-like jail cell, but they never use it.","We live in a country where it is often said that no one is above the law, not even the President, but that's not really true for someone who enjoys the level of blind support that he does under our system of justice.",0
"I don’t drink 28 days out of the month, but the two days I go to the pub for a few hours I do. Would be funny if someone said to me “oh what you can’t go a few hours on a Saturday night without drinking?” like I haven’t just done it for 28 days.",I’m not into either football or drinking enough for it to affect me but it’s not really fair to say “if you can’t go a few hours without drinking”.,1
"Sure. But she will tweet something fascist, a few thousand might see it, then 183 news companies write an article to the effect of ""omg look how crazy she is!"" Then millions see what she said.","If news companies stopped reporting on every fucking thing she said, her rhetoric wouldn't have any impact on anyone.",0
"Atheism isn't a result of ignorance, we just tend to argue with you, which is normal with such contrary viewpoints.",And by let it i mean to approach it with a more philosophical mind because if you refuse to look at everything you perceive with a different pov your not gonna see anything new.,1
"It’s lampooning pharmaceutical companies by comparing them to streaming services. As soon as we left single payer(cable)they all started their own services. Pharmaceutical companies are much more interested in treatment than cure, so they prefer multiple drugs to one. Hence the comparison. I do understand that the comparison is weak, IF a single flu vaccine tat could be used Year in and year out were developed, it would be more cost effective for Pharma.","I doubt it will be a one and done, but it would likely be more accurate than the traditional flu vaccines we are using now.",1
I said it before the Ukraine invasion; the only way to prevent an invasion is to have western troops in the threatened country.,"Yeah, to really invade Moldova from the black sea, the only real option unless they want to go through the air, they'll have to do a big push in southern Ukraine. They'd have to re-conquer Cherson and Mykolaiv, then push on towards Odesa. If they are able to do that, they would be able to take the now cut of part of Ukraine that's ""between"" Moldova and Romania.",1
"Lastly, the Scottish IndyRef shows that it's viable and fairly current for a Government to offer a vote, even if the potential outcome is a part of the UK splitting away. Throw in that the EU referendum shows that UK Governments/Parliaments will follow through with referendum outcomes even where they broadly oppose the outcome, and it gets hard to argue that the UK wouldn't allow something to happen.","So yes, it's almost certainly politically untenable, arguably it's the 'BRINO' option that both the remain and leave sides suggested were unacceptable in the run up to the referendum, leaving the UK subject to EU legislation (which it doesn't want) with a significant hand off of sovereignty, but with no say on top. In short, worse than remaining in the EU, or leaving as the UK has (or by almost any other outcome).",0
"Mail-in has innumerable benefits over in-person voting, and Michigan's courts in particular took very strong steps to protect it against the election deniers' nonsense this time around.","They get a voting guide before that, and another mailer that shows them how many of the previous elections they voted in, all of which help remind and encourage to vote.",1
Correction: 8% of the votes in the previous gubernatorial in at least six of the eight congressional districts.,In the mean time Missouri does not have to continue to imprison individuals for personal use amounts of marijuana is this amendment is passed.,0
edit: actually their source is ‘we straight up lied and didn’t link the thing we’re quoting because it shows we’re lying’.,"Do you even need to ask? Its russia. They think Ukraine might withdraw from Bakhmut after 5 months of stalling them there so theres a coordinated bullshit parade trying to make it out like aid and fighting is pointless. 50 billion wasn’t enough so now its 200 billion. Whatever the narrative requires, expect nothing from Fox and you’ll still be disappointed.",0
"I think that depends on how you qualify 'works' and again, a lot of those places have other factors that aided them in their success that I think the US doesn't have or couldn't have.","These other countries where it's supposedly so effective, don't have the same inequality and ""work culture"" we have in America. They have free healthcare and livable wages. The gun ban is not the reason for less hostility.",1
Theyre not good enough to match up against Russian mainline tanks or to break through enemy lines like the much heavier armored Leopard 2 and Abrams.,"Essentially I think it just allows more potent tanks to be freed up for frontline action and the Leopard Is can be used in deeper defensive positions. What next though, Chieftains, Centurions and M60s?",1
"So, to the extent it's in Finland and Sweden's hands, they want to join together, or ""hand in hand"" as the oh-so-popular catchphrase goes.","In reality, Finland's position is quite consistent: They want to join together with Sweden, as quickly as possible. But if Hungary and Turkey ratify their accession protocol and not Sweden's, Finland will not withdraw it's application and say ""screw NATO, we're not joining after all"".",0
"So while yes more of what india is producing is from Russia, most of that appears to be being used domestically and it is certainly not acting as sanction buster.","India buys crude oil from Russia at a discount, refines it into petroleum, now making it an Indian product and not a Russian product, and then countries like the US and Israel buy it.",1
"It sucks for the Ukrainians but that is how you avoid them just going nuclear. Turn Ukraine into a never ending meat grinder. Russia already has an aging declining population, they can't hold out for years taking casualty numbers like we are seeing.",You keep supplying them as is and make sure they mainly stick to killing Russians inside Ukrainian borders. It will never give Russia an excuse for using nuclear weapons against them since they are the aggressor to begin with. Even China would cut them off if they nuked Ukraine currently.,0
"If the rights in the Constitution weren't enforceable, they would be meaningless. And the only enforcement mechanism that currently exists is that a court can say ""Nope, guys, this violates the Constitution, and that outranks a regular old law, so this is void and the courts won't enforce it. If you want to make that change, you have to pass an amendment."".","Lmao. She's actually only in the widest frame photos and videos. For the most part, you don't see her because she's off screen behind Harris and Dr. Biden with Dianne Feinstein and Sharice Davids.",1
"They all vote differently, but white Latinos tend to be a lot more right wing than othet groups and their countries have the racist history's to show it.",The thing is that there was a similar shift among black voters though not quite as large as among latino voters toward the GOP in 2022 from 2018.,1
And this applies to both Trump and Biden. I find it absolutely absurd that Top Secret / SCI documents-- documents that have been designated as something which would be disastrous for the wrong person to get a hold of-- are sitting around in fucking banker boxes at people's homes and on desks.,The first set of documents was found back before the mid-term elections-- if anything the reveal's timing is convenient for the Dems given the recent focus on the Republican's House shenanigans. By releasing this now the White House gets to field public opinions through polls ahead of the 2024 presidential candidate filing deadline this coming December.,0
"Also you have to remember, generally if soldiers become veterans in Russia there is a fear they might take against those in charge, so the system is set up to try and stop them getting that far.",Russian's tactics throughout history have pretty much always involved some level of out numbering the enemy and out lasting them. No one high up probably wants to try anything much different. It's not the kind of place that rewards new ideas or trying things different.,0
That means you're basically conceding very close elections because you told your supporters to only vote in a one-shot way instead of the easy way and a small percentage aren't going to make it on election day.,"A lot of local elections have very small margins, but because our media is mostly produced on a national scale rather than locally, not a lot gets said about those elections and we forget they even exist or why they matter.",1
Or you know the billionaire owners of the rail companies could give them the cost of living pay raise they are asking for as well as the small amount of PTO they want and hire an few more people. The union really isn’t asking for a lot at all their demands are very reasonable. They will still be making billions and billions a year in profit no problem.,"These slavedrivers made 20 billion in profit last year. If they can’t figure out how to run a railroad without slavery, nationalize the railroads.",1
"This is a requirement for all gun control legislation. ""Would not have prevented the crime it is being passed _in response to_"" is I believe in the Constitution somewhere.","The SC needs to be fining state attorneys general a few million dollars for playing ""I'm not touching you!"" games every time they flout the law like this. I don't know if that's possible but it would be appropriate for citizens in Illinois, California and especially New York to be relieved of some of their tax money over this frivolous nonsense.",0
"Poor Palestinians, only wanted to genocide the Jews, failed and kept their war mongering because ignorant like you keep supporting it.","The Palestinians massacred the Jews, when that wasn't successcul they allied with the Nazis, when the Third Reich fell they declared war to genocide them and fail, among several others..",0
"They have to call them ""objects"" until they can confirm what they are because if they announce they blasted a balloon out of the sky and it turns out to not be a balloon it would be a massive scandal that would make the current administration and the military look bad. The 2nd and 3rd objects have been upgraded to Balloon Status in the last day.","I imagine they are just restructuring their pilot's schedule to -1 target practice sortie, +1 Balloon Hunt.",0
"When the House turns into a joke with a weak speaker that's beholden to a minority within his party, and we see plenty of news headlines about what a mess it is, none of them will note that the Democrats chose this as well.","It would have been massively unpopular, but now I am wishing 5 Dems had gone to McCarthy and said, ""You can have our votes on condition that every committee has an even number of members, and half of them are Democrats."".",1
The military industrial complex is going to make money hand over fist either way. I’d rather it go towards helping Ukraine defend its sovereignty than starting yet another hopeless war in the Middle East.,But the only reason the west decided to aid Ukraine was because they decided to defend their country. Ukraine's announcement of self-defense against Russia led to the west uniting.,1
"And then before that, after WW2-- which was the second of three great opportunities to actually give the Kurds a state-- the US pretended to support Kurdish independence by arming them in Iraq against a ruler America didn't like. But then in 1963, we cut all aid to them to instead back a military coup that featured Saddam Hussein, and once they took power the US gave them napalm specifically to use on the Kurds.","And then before that in the conclusion of the Gulf War, the US stood down to allow the Iraqi military to massacre Kurds across Iraq because Bush Sr supported a strong military junta taking power to keep the nation under control (he just hoped it would be without Saddam).",0
"I am no military expert, and I don’t think this will actually happen… but seeing the recent events that are happening is making me slightly worried that Putin is actually considering a nuclear option here.","I remember a little while back that there was an article talking about how they were training Russian troops to deal with nuclear radioactivity during combat, along with all of the recent articles of Putins nuclear posturing and now we’re getting new articles of massive troop build up for an all in attack on Kyiv.",0
"> ""There's nothing I can do that's going to make a difference,"" Arreola told the Tribune. ""The only thing that is going to change people's minds is when it happens to them."".","Yup. That's the republican ethos: ""I only care if it personally affects me. I got mine, so fuck you."".",1
"Biden didn't appoint any pro-DeJoy people. The BOG is comprised of 11 people, including Postmaster General DeJoy, the Deputy Postmaster General, and 9 presidential appointees, no more than 5 of whom can belong to the same political party. Biden has appointed 5 governors so far, and with the terming out of Moak and Zollars on December 8th, Biden will be able to appoint 2 more Democrats of his choosing to the Board in the new Senate term, at which point his appointees will have a majority vote.","As of earlier this year, Board of Governors members are composed of a majority of Biden nominees who could have voted DeJoy out at any time if they opposed him. That they haven't proves Biden nominated at least one DeJoy supporter to keep him there. Yes Biden was required to appoint a Republican, but it's just not a credible argument not a single qualified Republican in the country was opposed to DeJoy.",1
"I'm in no way trying to start argument that will get us nowhere, im just trying to understand anti-gunners perspective more.","Well you understand that from the perspective of many, supporting an AWB would in fact make you “anti-gun”. The term isn’t exactly a precisely defined one so it comes down to the perspective of the person using it, so surely you can see that while you may not consider yourself anti gun, they might considering you’re advocating gun control policy.",1
"I'm sure all those who didn't want the girl to abort her pregnancy, which was inflicted on her against her will, will be more than willing to take the child off her and give it the very best upbringing while asking nothing in return...","How the actual fuck do you refuse a termination of pregnancy to a disabled child who was raped and is clearly unable to care for herself, and then site the CONSCIENCE clause?",1
Now old people outnumber young people and the system can’t work with more people taking money out than there are people putting money in.,Ps4: everytime legal age go further it’s defacto allowing people who have capital to choose to go out if needed and force those who can’t to continue. And often people who have capital are the one that have activity that they can continue to do being older.,1
"And while these fringe conservatives are free live their lives as they see fit, it stops at themselves. They have no authority to push their ideology on others. That is left to the individual to decide for themselves. Were they originalists as they claim to be they would understand the very limited powers that government has. It is up to the people to remind and insist their employees remain within those limitations.",He is not banning gender affirming care at all. He is restricting it to those who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria which is a rational way of approaching healthcare.,0
"I think it absolutely should. Because guns pose an increased risk to suicide. I don't know if you've ever been suicidal, but it usually looks like not having a lot of will to do anything at all and a feeling that anything is better than living another moment. If you need to swallow a lot of pills and agonizingly poison yourself to death or you need to rig up a way to hang yourself, you are less likely to do it. But if you own a gun, access to death is considerably lowered. The end result is that people that own guns and people that live with people that own guns are significantly more likely to die by suicide than people who do not.","Pointing out that suicide by gun is more lethal than many other forms of attempted suicide is not blaming it on the gun, it's just acknowledging reality. Red flag laws that allow for the removal of a firearm from someone who is suicidal is an example of common sense regulation that has saved lives.",1
"Intentionally taking boxes of classified documents and hiding them all over your house, letting known foreign agents onto your property during that time, then lying about having given them back not once, not twice, not three times, but four times with the help of legal aid(who now must get their own legal assistance), fighting the FBI and the national archives on their retrieval at every step over the course of multiple years, claiming they have been declassified with your mind, sending some to your uncleared staff who backed them up on the cloud and sent them in emails after shell gaming them around different properties - is a little different.","Lied about having them, refused to give them back, keeps trying to hide more that he's taken, tried to use them to extort the government into giving him dirt to use against his political opponents, made a private raid to get the documents a public matter so he could pretend to be oppressed, publicly attacked the FBI to the point of threats and a terrorist incident where the attacker fortunately only killed himself, and has since whined, defamed and distorted the truth about it on social media for the last year.",1
Now they're comparing the track the UFO against that of the current balloons and that's how they realized that they matched.,Because the previous balloons were reported/marked as UFO. They then used intelligence of the one they found and backtracked the previous intelligence to connect the dots for potential previous breaches of airspace.,1
OH and Trump broke other laws including obstruction. He demonstrated intent to take them without national need and he obstructed the DOJ on the return. Trump took an off ramp from the above points. Lock him up.,"I am sure I'll get responses, but it is just looking at how to proceed in a manner which makes it better going forward and not bogs us down in the past.",0
"I'm not empathising with Russia, I would have the same opinion with any other country. If you take drugs to a foreign country, that is on you. There is no love for Russia here lol.","What's legal in your country doesn't matter, because she isn't in your country. If she didn't want to risk this for her future, she shouldn't have taken drugs into a foreign country.",0
Lol if Qatar thought this would bring them tourism or rehab their image for anywhere that isn’t a Muslim majority nation then they’re delusional.,I don’t think Qatar even recognizes Israel as a country… but they’re kind of on the “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” boat with Israel re: Iran.,1
Since he knows who he sold what to he is quite useful in an effort to buy the somewhat more functional weapons back. Since it does not seem like anyone will do legitimate business with Russia he is extremely useful. The people who purchased the weapons can probably get away with selling the weapons back under the excuse that they never knew the weapons were stolen and when the rightful owners offered to BUY them back how could they say no?,(thinks for a moment about the fact that nobody would sell them a new gun to replace the one that was stolen).,0
It really doesn’t take much effort to discern how the GOP literally doesn’t care about the soldiers they often claim to care about and regularly use as political pawns.,Yet another gleaming example to throw on the ever-growing pile of evidence that shows how goddamn stupid much of the population is.,0
"You won’t get a single response - some will tell you that it’s bigotry, while others will tell you that it’s just to make a point in overruling Scotland’s parliament.","However, the stated ‘formal’ reason is because it is deemed to conflict with laws where power is solely reserved for the UK parliament. In other words, implementing the law would affect UK-wide equality law - which is beyond the scope of powers devolved to the Scottish parliament.",0
"Baseline Power: Yep, that what's happening if there is a mix of different forms of energy and no extreme high amount of renewables or nuclear, e.g. germany right now. There is no issue running 3 (or previously 6) nuclear power plants covering 10% when you produce something around 40% by wind and PV.","Okay, so you're saying that the variance of solar/wind is too great to allow nuclear to provide the overwhelming majority of baseline power?",1
To anyone reading this thread: take one look at Israeli settlers and their actions now and you guys will realize this guy and others providing a biased retelling of history in favor of Israel are full of shit.,"Most Israelis hold this opinion, but the current political climate both in Israel and in the PA doesn’t allow it, unfortunately.",1
"Arguably the base bleeds could still be called a ballistic profile if not fin stabilized, but that still only gets you to like three out of the twenty or so manufactured LIN's of US 155mm. I'd have to check what's still in production for the 105mm but it's almost entirely base bleed for the ammo in the unit basic load.","VT fuse has nothing to do with whether the profile is purely ballistic. Pre-sequenced stabilizer alignment and deployment makes the trajectories non-ballistic, usually to ensure the rounds come in at a very high angle.",0
"But in this case, if the lawyers don't behave it'll probably backfire on them. If another search warrant gets issued and the DoJ finds more classified/government docs, the lawyers who swore under penalty of perjury that all materials had been returned will have to explain themselves.",So are they making it so that the lawyers can be charged if a warrant is issued and other things turn up after a DOJ search?,1
"I think you mean Warren,it was Warren who first came out with a policy and bill,and Biden responded to that tweet saying he supports it.Its Warren who made Biden support student debt cancellation,not Sanders.There is proof.",I'm pretty sure Bernie introduced his student policy in 2019 not 2016.The first person to announce student debt policy into her campaign was Liz Warren.,0
"Edit: the Ayatollah wasn't your sweetheart. Unrequited love is tough. I get it, but you have to move on.","I get it. You're probably one of those dipshits that likes to say ""Herp derp, we're a republic, not a democracy!"" while conveniently ignoring that a republic is just any form of government without a hereditary monarchy, and the US is a constitutional federal democratic republic. And it's usually because you're poorly educated, but occasionally just because you're a liar. .",1
"As a Canadian, if you took Alberta provincial politicians and fed them lead for awhile, I think we would be tied. But it would have to be a cereal bowl a day for at least 15 years.","So you got the rednecks and the oil workers along with farming/ranching all kind of depending on each other and all expecting their leaders to ‘whip Ottawa’ in shape. But those voters have zero idea how it works, how little power the provinces have in terms of forcing anyone to bend to a single province, and as a result they elect someone new every time thinking this one will be different. That person ultimately signs a deal with their constituents (devil) and always answers the bell for it. Lunacy.",0
"He did such a piss poor job of actually using his presidential power, I don't think that was really what interested him.","People thinking he'd be a great president because he was a good (but actually terrible) business man was so obnoxious. The country shouldn't be run like someone's business, that's ridiculous. They based their reasoning for liking him as president on pure lies, like this and also that he ""tells it like it is"" which also couldn't have been further from the truth. He tells it like a bigoted moron who has no idea what he's talking about, much like his voters.",1
I think this link will work - google translate has an option to translate entire webpages. Just bear in mind the usual wonkiness that comes with those translations and that some parts will sound strange.,"Sometimes it misidentifies the language, though. The auto-detect feature thought that article was in Finnish at first so it didn't work, but you can change it manually.",0
"After browsing a few paragraphs: counterstrike = ability to destroy an enemy missile in flight, or at its base of deployment.",So even if the counterstrike is after an enemy attack (as the name itself says) it would still be BEFORE an enemy launch.,1
At the start I thought if Russia would struggle Putin would be replaced but by now it seems as if the whole country really is ok with being completely wrecked just so they don't have to accept a loss.,"...unless they make people rise up for a Holy War, which is the futile bet Putin is currently making (based on the rhetoric in Russian media). Yes, it won't work. But Putin is still making this bet because that's the only one he can still make.",1
Having a former American president living under Russian protection in Moscow would be incredible victory for Putin and Russia.,Even as a propaganda tool (for both Russian and American consumption) Trump would be Putin's most powerful weapon by far.,0
"Traditionally the one making a claim, that removing cash bail has no impact on crime, is responsible for proving their assertions.","Traditionally the one making a claim, that removing cash bail has no impact on crime, is responsible for proving their assertions.",0
"The Ukrainians have fought tooth and nail for their homeland and I'm rooting for them. They have displayed tactical cunning and real military discipline taking back land the Russians took, and for all the deserved criticism, Zelenskyy has proven himself a true leader. I grudgingly accept other nations must continue to support Ukraine pushing back the Russian forces. But it really feels like a matter of when, not if, now.","They're untrained, ill-equipped and undirected, so they're destroying everything in sight. And unfortunately that's a worse outcome for the Ukrainians.",0
"Serious question from a non-America… why is it so bad to just build a continuous wall to help enforce the border? Would it not help at all? How much would it really cost? Politically, couldn’t agreeing to build a wall help reach a political consensus that includes an improved immigration policy?","Ironically, that was exactly the year President Bush and Democrats in Congress reached a grand bargain for comprehensive immigration reform, including amnesty, temp worker program, and expanding the border wall.",1
"The virus mutated. The delta version was worth worrying about. The omicron version is like the flu. If you wouldn’t give a fuck about getting the flu, you shouldn’t give a fuck about getting Covid at this point. If it mutates back into a dangerous form then people will react accordingly. Don’t downvote facts unless you want to provide evidence to the contrary. It is common knowledge that the virus mutated to become more contagious and less severe, which was a net positive for humanity. If you still think Covid is the same Covid we were dealing with in April 2020 then you are simply misinformed and susceptible to the fear mongering you see in this very headline.",Covid won the war on covid and because no one has any idea what to do to both stop it while keeping everything exactly the same... Well at that point it just keeps crumbling.,1
Nobody has really seen the supposed laptop besides the FBI and the political operatives that tampered with it before turning it over. The whole story is about as ridiculous as any other Republican conspiracy theory.,"The hoax as you’re describing it is the GOP slant on what the hoax was. The actual evidence folks were following at the time were “we need a back channel to Russia,” “Russia if you’re listening,” “we’d be bankrupt if it wasn’t for the Russians,” handing off polling data, the $ through the NRA (butina), “so to be clear mr trump has no financial relationships with any Russian oligarchs” “that’s what he said, that’s what I, that’s obviously what our position is,” and the million other connections between high ranking trump officials and Russian oligarchs- but the whole thing was kicked off because Russia hacked both the rnc and dnc and leaked dnc emails only- this was bragged about by Papadopoulos over drinks in Australia. All of this was known relatively early.",1
But then we couldn't sell more guns to deal with the guns we sold because of the guns that were previously sold.,In 10 years a lot of weapons will wear out from shooting and parts for non-hunting weapons should be denied.,1
"PAC-2 missile has a public range of 100 miles. MPQ-65 radar has a public 125 mile range, but is more likely to be 150-200 mile radar range given the amount of transceiver modules in it.","Launchers are all going to be in the same general area due to the radar location. Given the area of a circle is πR2, and we know the radius is 100 miles, you're looking at an envelope of around 31,000 miles. Radar can't see behind it or to the extreme sides of it, so lets say 45% of that. That's still 14,000 square miles, or around 6% of Ukraine's 233,000 square mile territory.",0
Because those are in Red States. It’s not about housing these people. It’s about using them as props to score political points with the Republican base.,"Republicans have made their point. Now let's see if Polis, Abbot, DeSantis and all the rest are actually interested in doing something about the issue.",1
"The Belarusian military doesn't support Russia's invasion, if Ukraine attacked Belarus then the (Belarusian) military would probably directly help Russia.","""Valid military target"" doesn't mean shit in this instance. You're talking about attacking non-combatants.",0
"It’s like the NFL celebrating the Super Bowl is the most watched event of the year in the USA. Like, no shit, that’s obvious.","Yup, proves my point. Lower actual numbers, but more interesting: a much lower market share (48% vs 69%). So even though it was played at a much more attractive time for TV (because the total market was much higher than in 2018), it had a significantly lower share of that market.",1
"Becoming dependent on Russia for a lot more than just oil was a way to curb American influence in Europe. The three way talks between Russia, Germany and America was a way for Germany to play as a middle power brokering a balance between the two in Europe.",I thought it wasn’t just Germany but a lot of European leaders and america believed that trade with Russia would influence their countries through soft power believing money talks and thinking this will help them transition to western values same with China ?,1
"And with that license you should have to see a psychologist a couple times a year to make sure a person is mentally stable to own a firearm like a 2-hour test or just a 2-hour talk. And also mandatory firearm safety class before you own one, and also proper maintenance because a broken or not properly maintained firearm is a dangerous firearm too.","- Pistols that have extra grips, threaded barrels, the ability to accept a magazine outside of the pistol grip.",1
"A Bradley carries a M242 25 mm chain gun, which... If I were in a T-62, I would not be confident that my armor was going to protect me. Perhaps a T-72 or T-90 can stand up to it, but from what I hear, Russia's increasingly having to rely on older hardware. If a Bradley can perforate an enemy tank with a fully automatic weapon, the fact that it hasn't got a big cannon like a tank does really isn't that big of a problem.",People who think western tanks are invincible are about to get shocked to see that anti-tank weapons (especially mines) don't care where the tank was made.,1
"Try putting the Christ back in your Christianity, we're tired of selfish greedy bigoted mofos hiding behind a cross while waving a flag and espousing hate.","Stopping the clear lying, greed, hatred, bigotry and intolerance, both in the open and hidden, might be an important first step for Christian leaders and their followers to take if they want to see a change. Those characteristics define Christianity in the United States today. Evangelical leaders grifting on the weak and vulnerable has nothing to do with the indoctrination of the teachings of Christ in my childhood. Hatred of other whether race, creed or sexual orientation is the basis that dominates the current political merging with Christianity. Domination, control of the masses and money-worship are the primary drivers of Christian leadership so these ads are disingenuous in pretending that organized Christianity has anything to do with Jesus’ purported teaching. The numbers are certain to continue to decline with the status quo. People are not blind to the hypocrisy, at least those willing to see through it.",1
Navalny is a russian politician. He can think of Russia first in terms of being a reliable economic partner and not an empire. But he believes in russian superiority. Read up on Boris Nemtsov. He was the guy that people imagine Navalny to be.,"Why should I align or not with Navalny's outlook? He's a typical representation of an Eastern European, but this cultural gap doesn't allow you to make things up to feed your own bias.",1
>This makes for hilarious jokes and Finns are having a good laugh. But also feeling slightly disappointed that this is the level of commitment Russia is showing.,"I wonder if this will be a turning point in the Russian public's perception of Putin. He just looks so fucking weak right now. He's been telling the Russians that they're at war with NATO and has been hitting Kyiv with missiles off and on for months. So now the ""head of NATO"" comes within striking distance and he does nothing? Doesn't even try?",1
He’s not wrong. I’d go further and say France was in denial for a long time after the invasion had begun.,"France nonetheless got the assessment on the invasion wrong though. The French foreign intelligence agency (the DGSE) learned of the invasion being in the works in early 2021 and it was confirmed to France by the US in June 2021 (or August, I don't remember which month the chief of staff of the French military said). However, the French military intelligence agency (the DRM) told the government that the Russian military didn't have the capabilities to successfully pull off such an operation and that it would be too costly for them (which, as we know, turned out to be true), and thus drew the oh so wrong conclusion that Putin would never actually go ahead with the plan, to the point where even when troops were being deployed on Ukraine's borders and all that, it was just regarded as a maneuver to distract the population from the catastrophic handling of COVID and economic woes by trying to look strong, as well as trying to get concessions from the US. The idea was that Putin was more likely to back down than to invade. And they were horribly off the mark on that one. Russia had bought into its own hype and the folks at the Kremlin were clueless about how (relatively) shit their military actually was. France should've just listened to the US but then again, if US intel on Putin's decisions and intentions turned out to be accurate throughout the whole thing, US intel on Russian military strenh was not as good as France's as it quite clearly overrated Russia (most have now forgotten it but US briefings were still predicting Russia blitzing its way through and Kyiv falling in days even hours after the invasion was launched)... The US probably had also discussed how the war would go with its allies, and as US intel totally went against what the DRM said about the Russian military, it may have led Macron to have reservations about US intel on Putin's intentions as well, despite it, as it turned out, being pinpoint accurate.",1
"All accidents so far have been counted and its still one of the safest, maybe not the safest, so I doubt this release will seriously impact those figures. Fission is dangerous when mishandled and anyone who's studied nuclear physics, like I have, knows that, acknowledges that and understands that treating nuclear power with respect and transparency makes it a safe resource to use.","The effects of this release, and whatever they are they aren't zero, conveniently won't get reflected in the statistics this group shares when they say Fission is the safest, purest, most wholesome power source god has given man.",1
The point I was trying to make (perhaps not so well?) was: show me a dozen Democratic members of Congress - the party that I routinely vote for - that will significantly slash the Pentagon's budget.,"Also also anyone who expected Democrats to cut national defense spending kind of doesn't know who we are. We like work projects, domestic job creation, and national security, we're not the ones who dipped into the military budget to fund a boondoggle border wall.",1
And speed running all the fellow nato countries rotating out all their old (often soviet) hardware for new American weapons.,"That’s what I hate about the argument we’re just giving Ukraine a $40 billion+ blank check. We’re not. We’re either buying everything on behalf of Ukraine from American weapons manufacturers (hello American jobs and Lockheed stock prices), or European countries donating old jets and tanks and we buy new American weapons for our existing nato allies. I honestly don’t think Ukraine is getting any actual cash, and if they are, it’s very little. As in just to pay their soldiers and stabilize their central bank. We give pallets of cash to corrupt shitholes were warlords and dictators and no one bats an eye.",0
"Actually my favorite outcome would be Desantis gets the GOP nomination, then Trump runs as an Independent and splits the right’s voter pool, thus causing them to lose as well.",2) it does not get passed and trump losses the Republican primary thus runs independent/destroys the Republican party’s chances of 2024 with a split vote.,1
"überbleibsel von vor den Reformen... ich erinnere mich aich noch an geleakte Berichte der Bundeswehr in denen beschrieben wird, dass genug Luft-Luftraketen für den Kampfeinsatz eines Eurofighters zur Verfügung stehen..","If you read reddit posts over the last months,you would not believe how much mudslinging happend towards germany. Posts titles like this one, were referenced weeks later as proof germany breaks.promises.",0
"Yes. There are some fungus-derived ""leathers"" being created nowadays, but even so, most ""vegan leather"" is just pleather under a new name which means it's going to start shedding microplastics after about five or six years of use. As opposed to real leather, which has a lifespan of decades and is biodegradable.",Not all leather is biodegradable. They have to use a specific tanning chemistry to allow leather to biodegrade.,1
"I would suspect an experienced Ukrainian Mig-29 driver would take around 2-3 weeks. A highly motivated pilot would want to learn faster than someone who was also thinking about his/her weekend plans with his pals or partner, whether or not he needs to buy a new pair or shoes, vs.someone worrying their their parents in Russian occupied northern Crimea or that their younger brother is MIA outside of Donetsk.",Well...that's not entirely accurate. There is a huge difference in training a pilot in peacetime settings to use the F-16 vs training a highly experienced UAF Mig-29 pilot who's been flying every day for 10 months in combat.,0
"For everybody speculating about what may have hit Engels base, or capabilities of the new 1000km Ukrainian drone, keep in mind that the KH-101/KH-102 missiles were powered by single 400 kgf Ukrainian-made, Motor Sich JSC R95-300 turbofan engine.",Cant wait to see the crybabies on Russia TV say its unfair when Ukrainians start to fly the 1000km+ Drones all over Russia to take out energy infrastructure and military equipment.,1
"In the second scene, Steven is sent to intercept a spy who has information about a plot to assassinate the Russian president. Steven tracks the spy to a busy market and engages in a car chase through the narrow streets. After a few close calls, Steven eventually manages to stop the spy's car and capture him.","In the third scene, Steven is tasked with preventing a terrorist attack on a Russian embassy. He infiltrates the terrorist group and discovers their plan to bomb the embassy. In another intense fight scene, Steven takes out the terrorists and disarms the bomb, saving countless lives.",0
National gun is silly but if you want American gun you should go with something that looks like a cowboy in an old Western had in his holster.,"If you really want to stick it to the libs, wouldn't it be smarter to make like a really dumb gun, like a squirt gun, as the national gun of America? That way when they secede from the union, they can have the AR-15 be their national gun and laugh at us libs for only having a squirt gun as national gun.",1
"Agree, but when Democrats are pointing out the hypocrisy of the GOP, they are appealing to the Independent voters that can be reason with, not the GOP.","While I tend to agree that I know very few people who go down the ballot and pick half GOP and half Dems anymore, there's a fair number of moderate-leaning-GOP people who have been paying attention and are now moderate-leaning-DEM (I have family like this). But the moment the GOP rids itself of MAGA they could flip back, so dems need to keep the spotlight on the hypocrisy and bad behavior.",1
"i was dismayed when spurs in 1991iirc , were the first football team to reintroduce baggy knee-lenh unathletic shorts.","limiting as wearing football boots from the 1940s( which were little more than heavy , mining boots).",0
OK let's destroy all the holy churches and mosques so that someone who came 3000 years after the temple was reportedly destroyed can pray. See how ridiculous this is?,"For me anyway, it just looks ridiculous. There are real problems in the world. Actual wars. People hungry, you know? At some point, the world has to stop indulging this stuff. Enough already. My reaction anyway. YMMV.",1
"Right - embarrassed I didn’t add something about the stain that Russians will have to live with forever—launching a war without provocation, and amassing almost as many war crimes as there are dead to haunt their nights.",His quest for personal glory has also cost the innocent lives of far too many Ukrainians in addition to the Russian people their future.,1
"Wagner has all manner of weapons in their disposal short of nuclear - tanks, heavy armor, planes, artillery systems. They recruit from russian prisons above any law or authority. The only person in russia who can allow that is putin.","Simply put, Russia does not care. Any type of collateral damage to human lives or the country's reputation is worth it if they gain an inch. They are literal nazis and named after Hitler's favorite composer Richard Wagner. Putin does not care that he is fighting ""nazis"" with nazis.",1
"Maybe if we had been keeping our promise this whole time, and didn't need to be reminded, India and other developing nations would have been in a better position to sanction Russian energy.","Yeah booo India for calling out other countries failing to fulfill their 10 year old promises, the same countries who got rich burning fossil fuels for decades and want to stop others doing the same.",1
The only way after Ukrainian victory il to educate people and take examples on what was done with Japan and Germany after WW2.,But I believe that let Russian people in misery would probably push them in the arms of another dictator like Germans after WW1.,0
"Also, when many millions of more people in our country support Democrats, yet we have a Supreme Court with an ultra Republican majority... yes, it's an illegitimate kangaroo court.","Except, it is a kangaroo court... made up of Republican ideologues forced on the court with zero Democratic support.",0
"Hate speech and free speech are actually fundamentally compatible, because the former will always try to be used to silence the latter. This is why “true free speech” is a myth - the regulation of hate speech is necessary to prevent the silencing of the vulnerable.","In order for something to actually be done, the definition of what is considered acceptable under free speech to be changed, and that would likely take years, and be met with extreme resistance.",1
"Fairness Doctrine might have been the precursor, but that was temporally too far away for this incarnation to focus further on.","If China proceeds with military aid to Russia, then MNCs and countries still doing business as usual will be co-conspirators in many peoples' eyes and unlike in the 1940s, we can record the who, the when, the how, and understand why in ways that will not allow these people and organizations to just pretend it's business as usual in any sort of aftermath.",0
"We already have reintroduced them. This is about controlling their population not about exterminating them. In fact, wolf's where almost extinct in Sweden untill we did reintroduced them.",Edit: should mention that wolves only returned to Denmark within the last decade. Hunting them is illegal and has led to prison sentencing.,1
">The newspaper cited unnamed sources as saying the request by American officials was not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, but a calculated attempt to ensure Kyiv maintains the support of other nations.","U.S. and Ukrainian officials acknowledged that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's ban on talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin had generated concern in parts of Europe, Africa and Latin America, where the war's effects on costs of food and fuel are felt most sharply, the Post said.",1
"This is pretty much it. If you open trade with Cuba, it's pretty much like giving more money to the regime. As long as Cuban remains under a one party rule, shit is likely gonna stay the same. Let Cubans vote, let independent media exist, and then change will start.","Ok, then let Cuban people vote for any political party they want would be a start. Let Cuban people read news from independent sources. Let Cuban workers start their own businesses. Let Cuban workers sell the product of their work in a free market. Let Cuban people travel to foreign countries.",1
"thats because it is just propaganda. although we both agree on what you said, do you agree with me when i say: ukraine is killing an unprecedented number of both russians and dolphins?",Now it’s clear we agree: Russia is killing an ‘unprecedented amount’ of both Ukrainians and dolphins.,1
The amendment would have required minors to be supervised if they were to carry firearms in public spaces.,"And it's even worse than the headline suggests. They voted down an amendment that would require minors to only carry firearms in public spaces under adult supervision without a permit, safety training, or criminal-background check, a problem created by 2017 legislation that was vetoed by the governor and then forced through by a supermajority in the legislature.",0
"I don’t even know why we train their army , pilots and everything. Oh that’s right oil, if it wasn’t for that the world wouldn’t deal with these damn countries that have killed millions in name religion.","Right but we trade on a global market and that’s why what Russia is doing is screwing us , because European countries decide to trust a country that should have never been trusted , not we all have to pay the price because they liked their cheap energy and makes them look good because they have no greenhouse gasses that their producing but their outsourcing , so now European countries can say “look we lower our co2 output” , just how the world uses China as a factory. Lol sorry went on a rant hahaha. At least we learning.",0
"Things are cool, but they're not an effective enough solution to get you down to the emission standards you need in a big spread out country like America.","That's what a climate leader does, gets other countries to lower their negative environmental impact.",1
"It's the second most populous country in the world, and is about to overtake China and become the most populous country in the world, so being the third largest producer of renewable energy isn't the bragging point you think it is. According to wikipedia India is the fifth largest producer of renewable electricity, after much less populous countries, such as Canada. What is important is the percentage of renewable energy, not the total, and only 21.7% of the electricity produced in India in 2021-2022 came from renewable sources, while 72.7% came from coal. 99% of the electricity produced in my country in 2021 came from renewable sources.",U talk about ur country having 99 percent renewable. Bet it has a per capita ppp dollars of atleay 30k.,1
"The first is they want to deny Biden a ""win"". Student debt relief is an easy issue to court the younger voters, since it's a prominent issue that disproportionately affects them. If the relief gets denied, then they can run ads where that gets listed as a ""broken Biden promise"" despite their obstruction being the cause of it.","It is incredibly transparent why certain people don't want this to go through, and hopefully they don't succeed. This is a good first step to tackling the inherent problems with student loan debt, and fully tackling the issue would be one hell of a reelection promise.",0
"Your all (you and the other fellow Ukrainians who commented here here down-voted me) attitude left me a very bitter taste. That is, after the initial shock passed. Fool me, I thought Ukrainians are... not like this.","Why should Kiev force its language on other parts of the country that don't speak Ukrainian? Ukrainian speakers are the majority in Ukraine but the country is not ""theirs"" to do with it as they please.",1
"The parents believed the use of vaccinated blood would cause further heart problems for their child, and so they have a plausible best interest argument even if based on false information.","The health authorities rejected the request to use volunteered unvaccinated blood on the grounds that it adds extra complication to the process, would not be as strictly quality controlled and there is no evidence to suggest vaccinated blood would have any adverse effect on the child. The court agreed with these reasons and concluded going with the blood service to be in the best interests of the child.",0
"Iran's main foes that have capable militaries (Israel and the US, as opposed to KSA for example) were always able to strike Iran if it escalates to full war, the main thing that they focused on were shadow wars, attacks that stay below the threshold of escalation to war, attacks that allow plausible deniability like ""oh it was just a gas leak explosion, not an attack"", assassinations and sabotage.","The Iranian regime spent many years building terrorist organizaitons and cells throughout the world to frighten its enemies from retaliating on its soil (this is also why they seek nuclear weapons), this caused this false sense of security which you and others may have had but you aren't safe because of its power, you are (or were) safe because Iran's shenanigans weren't significant enough to warrant said countries to smack you directly and risk escalations.",0
Why do you expect only one of the 2 parties to negotiate in good faith? You want Israel to be reasonable but don't expect the Palestinians to be?,Maybe Palestine shouldn't have spent 50 years trying to wipe out Israel. Palestine had their chance for peace. Lost 3 wars of aggression then still want to try wipe them out.,0
"At least, going forward, they'll have to live with the stink on that guy, as they do Matt Gaetz, Gosar, Bohbert, etc., which hurts then in future national elections in close districts.","To some extent the voters DESERVE the politicians they elect, especially when they believe all the crap this guy spewed all over the place. Also have to hand it to the somnolent campaign by this guy's Democratic opponent, who obviously believed s/he had so little chance of winning that there was no way to justify the expense of any opposition research.",1
"It’s all on her . Go to Career, then 2000 presidential election. None of this is a matter of contention. It’s just historical fact. And everybody just kinda forgot and moved on.","The Florida Secretary of State during the Bush-Gore election was at the same time Bush’s campaign manager for Florida. In her capacity as Secretary of State, she purged 173,000 voters from the voter rolls, under the premise that these people were ex felons. It was later determined that this was by and large untrue. Also, most of these faux-felons were, surprise surprise, black… and very likely to vote democrat. Bush won Florida by a little more than 500 votes.",0
"The same US investigation says it wasn't deliberate: ""This investigation was biased BS from the start Totally untrustworthy Except that other part that confirms what I already thought!"".",Yes. Though one could agrue that it might be useful for other Palestinian cases against Israel in the ICC.,1
"A bill can only be brought to the floor of the House for a vote by the controlling party, if Republicans have control of the House they just won't bring Democratic written or sponsored legislation up for a vote, meaning that House Democrats will be able to pass any legislation whatsoever that they can show to their voters.","Republican voters will show up for Republican politicians no matter what, but Democratic voters have a tendency to expect and even demand results, this is okay when Democrats have the ability to produce results, but if Republicans hold control of the House then Democrats can't do that, Republicans won't let them.",0
You have to have already taken the oath of public office to support and defend the constitution and then gone on to break it in order for the 14th amendment to apply.,A big hole in that is it wouldn't apply to someone who wasn't in one of those positions and/or never took an oath to support the Constitution.,1
"Yeah, she might win against another Democrat in a general election, Republicans do stick together. But there is no way in hell she'd win a GOP primary.","She is dead-set against getting re-elected, isn't she? If she flips to R, there is no way she wins. There is no way in hell that Republicans are going to vote for an openly bisexual woman that used to be a filthy Democrat.",0
"Sure. But then you generally just end up helping the worst candidate win, and how does that help anything?","Make a statement with your words and efforts every day, but vote for someone that has a chance of not being the worst piece of shit.",0
"One of the under-acknowledged difference between news on the left and on the right. People on the left laughed at Trump for months for saying we should use UV lights and bleach to kill covid inside of people or covfefe. A liberal says ""Israel shouldn't be genociding civilians"" or ""this thing causes more greenhouse emissions"" and Fox acts like we're declaring war on God and country.",I feel like the general American populace is aware of this. It sucks that the 75% of Americans make up just under 50% of voting power due to our backwards-ass system of giving power to land instead of the people living on it.,0
And the former-Russian nuclear stockpile will start looking like the former-Soviet nuclear stockpile: rather fuzzy and unaccounted for.,"This may be entirely real. But we live in a world of war propaganda, and Russia isn't the only player in the propaganda game. I'll believe it when he keels over.",0
Russia has been somewhat effective in misleading the West into thinking that the conquest is only about Donbas and Crimea. Meanwhile Russian officials all the way up to Putin himself have been hinting or outright stating that the war is about annexing all of Ukraine.,"A lot of people had quibbles with your comment, but none of them pointed out that ""regime change"", by assassination, is exactly what Russia has been trying to do to Ukraine.",1
I can’t say I agree. A LOT of these athletes are supporters of what’s going on with the war and pillaging in Ukraine. Banning Russia from the Olympics makes sense to me.,"I don't think banning Russia from the Olympics is holding them accountable for anything. Putin doesn't care, the people that make the call to go to war don't care. If anything it gives them more power to make propaganda against the west.",1
"Not the person you were replying to, but: because it's beneficial and the states have refused to act. Same reason we need a federal minimum wage, same reason we need federal overtime standards, etc.","That's assuming they need 3 engineers. It's entirely plausible that there's room for $180k in the budget, and they're casting out the net to see whether it's more valuable to bring on a couple of juniors or to just hire a strong senior. It might even be that different teams within the department are at different places, and team X can't afford to babysit juniors, but team Y can, and team Z could use a little more experienced help.",0
"The candidate in question also called Biden senile & incoherent, and called for an investigation into Biden's alleged rape of Tara Reade:","I'd think he has plenty of baggage that precludes him from a role with the Biden admin, aside from his opinion re: the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.",0
"Weird, I'd think the owners are the third party and not the buyer's. When I closed on my house, I thought my title insurance was for protecting me from title fraud as the buyer. It's odd that it's also for protecting me in the future as a fictitious seller, that should be the responsibility of the future buyer.","You misunderstand. The home owner doesn't get paid anything, because they didn't lose anything. They still have their house, so they don't need to get paid the value of the home. It would be the buyer's that would be protected via their title insurance.",0
"The bottom line for me as a journalist has always been that polls can be a tool to keep in the back of your mind, but go talk to voters and listen to what they are telling you.","Yes, but you've told us that what you hear directly from voters is far more informative than ""current polling""!",1
"He wasn’t “questioning” whether it was real or not. He claimed that the families were crisis actors and spurred threats of violence, swatting, and actual attempts on their lives because of his rhetoric. He was sued for damages, and the court found that he knew what he was saying was false.","I hope you realize that ideologically, Putin and his followers are much closer to the GOP. Right wingers love to project fascism onto the left but never care to take a hard look at what GOP candidates are actually saying.",0
"I think it's part of the doomer mindset, they just assume that social structures and politics can never change, because that reflects their own extremely brief and narrow experience. From their point of view every new tool that empowers people is just another boot on their neck, because ""bad people will use it."".","? It's not good code, but it's code. When given enough time - tech will replace a good chunk of programmers, too. Do you primarily use Excel in your job? This same AI can replace you, too.",1
"Even if we were to somehow have our politicians continue the process, the reality is that even if they continue, Erdogan won't stop fucking around and demanding that we extradite people that haven't done fuck all except to piss him off. And while our politicians might do a lot of things in the interest of diplomatic relations, they know fully well that trying to get the innocent people on Erdogan's list extradited would be VERY illegal in terms of justice proceedings. Not to mention political suicide. So, for them, the safest way to get rid of this whole hot potato would be to simply ""wait and see"" and let you guys do all the hard work.","It was controversial as hell when it was decided that we would abandon our old neutrality, for a politician, it might be considered a conservative win if they were to nix the process.",0
"The Russian leadership could have focused on building up their nation, but instead they chose to waste it all on a war of aggression.","Any agreements made then are not worth anything now. In the 90's Russia guaranteed the independence of Ukraine ""forever"", and in return Ukraine gave Russia all their nukes and a lot of aircraft etc. But that didn't stop Russia from meddling in Ukrainian politics, nor invading in 2014 and 2022.",0
"Communism doesn't even exist at large scale. It isn't a form of government, and in fact one of the major tenants of communism is the abolition of government.","The USSR and China simply used communist rhetoric to convince their people to allow a new government to rise to power. China, despite the name of its leading party, is a dictatorship. And both China and the USSR are what would be classified as State Capitalist economies. The workers do not control the means of production in these economies. The state does. It's total governmental control, the literal opposite of communism as written by Marx.",0
"The dam supplies water to Crimea, which they still control, so they wouldn't want to destroy it (yet).","In this case, though, it's likely the damage was incidental, because the Russians need this dam in place to provide the water height necessary to feed the canal that provides fresh water to Crimea. At this stage, I would assume the Russians still have not abandoned hopes of holding Crimea, and thus would not blow this Dam.",1
"Russia is forcing Armenia to provide corridor to Azerbaijan, to join Union State, Security Council chief says.","Region:Armenia, Karabakh, Azerbaijan, RussiThe Armenian authorities have announced for the first time at the highest level that their strategic ally Russia is forcing Armenia to provide a corridor—through its sovereign territory—to Azerbaijan, as well as to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus, reported the RFE/RL Armenian Service.",0
"> Theoden : We shall have peace... We shall have peace, when you answer for the burning of the Westfold, and the children that lie dead there We shall have peace, when the lives of the soldiers whose bodies were hewn even as they died against the gates of the Hornberg, are avenged When you hang from a gibbit for the sport of your own crows...! We shall have peace.","""Yes, we will have peace. We will have peace, when you and all your works have perished -- and the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us. You are a liar, Putin, and a corrupter a men's hearts. You hold out your hand to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of the KGB. Cruel and cold! Even if your war on me was just -- as it was not, for were you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine for your own profit as you desired -- even so, what will you say of your torches in Kyiv and the children that lie dead there?",1
I doubt it will happen but lmfao at even the remote possibility that republicans are so incompetent they won't be able to seat a speaker before the next election.,"Moderate Republican speaker might be a better outcome for the country but its not a good outcome for the Dems, so I think it is unlikely. The small number of 'old school' conservative voters who might swing are motivated to do so because of the whackos that have been let in to the GOP. Putting an effective moderate up front has the potential to draw those back.",1
"If we go back to Bakhamut example, if Ukraine inflicts disproportional casualties in this battle, it is worth holding, but also denying political win for Russia might increase infighting and affect coordination between competing Russian armies.","On the otherside, its advantageous to expose russia's losses whenever and wherever possible, to weaken russia and again, assist Ukraine.",1
"I misread the headline and thought it was talking about a single priest abusing nearly 5000 children over 70 years, or about 1 child per week, and I was absolutely flabbergasted trying to imagine how one pedophile found the time for so much molestation.","Worse, I read about a priest accused of molestation by some 30 or so men, the church paid the families off and moved the priest to a school for deaf kids no lie.",1
"If you lay down defensive mines on your own territory that are marked, it's absolutely fine as a defensive measure if yet again done as responsively as possible.",Easy way to prevent your enemy from using disarming AT mines is to protect those mine with AP mines and other means.,0
"NATO is not sending troops yet to Ukraine, so when Russia overwhelms Ukraine, NATO will have Russia as a neighbor. Neither Russia nor NATO will stand for that.","putin is building up the Black Sea Navy assets for a sea/land and missile assault from the south, through Muldova.",0
We do but we also have tons of entry level jobs that need people to work them. These jobs used to be filled by immigrants but for years we have made it hard for them to come to our country.,"2) When we do set up a base, we leverage the labor of the people who are going to be housed there. Our troops are able bodied adults that have had training in following orders, are literate and have skillsets that are documented and catelogued. As a group, the migrants are nothing like that. So we'd have to truck in (and temporarily house) our own troops just to get the ""migrant base"" constructed.",1
"It would have helped if they vaccinated their population with some actual relevant vaccines during that time they were holding infections back, but they're so distrustful they'd rather use their outdated crappy sinovac vaccines that stopped being effective enough a long time ago.","I'm not going to tempt fate by suggesting that it's a different story now with the virus still in circulation in the rest of the world, and most people having been vaccinated and boosted.",1
"Yes I can list them all to you in Austria we have 3 types of weapon catagorise. Catagory A, B and C.",I find it Stange that this is not something tought here since to become a police officer you have to complete your 1 year of mandetory service in the millitary normaly you can also compleat it as a civil servant doing stuff like being a paramedic or caring for the elderly but to specificly become police you need to have served. Keeping that in mind you would think this makes police even more agresive but aparently it doesn't.,0
"I explicitly stated I'm all for codifying hatespeech laws with good legal basis, but I suppose you glossed over that in order to have your righteous indignation against some hypothetical other that stands against everything you are for. Enjoy your day my dude, and I hope you are never in a position of power.","What I'm describing is the criminalization of legally protected speech that is not considered direct incitement. White supremacists are an easy target because they're despicable, but it's introducing another mechanism to erode free speech in favor of whatever ideology the government advocates at the time.",0
"The bad news is yes, he will probably be the Republican nomination. The good news is there's a difference between any election with him in it and the past election. During the past election, many people went 3rd party because they didn't like Hillary. I'm sorry, but that's the truth. Hillary sunk her own nomination with many people because of what she did to Bernie and how she took Debbie Schultz into her campaign after DWS resigned due to the scandle during that primary l. I am sorry, but Hillary is not liked at all in the republican party and many do not like her on the Democrat side. She should never have run, in my opinion. Now, though, everyone is aware of the nightmare known as trump, and they are most likely going to vote for the democrat candidate.","magas will only vote for trump, non-magas will vote for any republican that they think can win. republicans only care about power so they’ll all fall in line. they know where the base is and it ain’t with Soft Hands Ron.",1
"I live in the Seattle area, where there are a LOT of Teslas. Most people who bought them aren’t going to buy another, they all were just waiting for their Porsche or BMW to be released as an EV, and that’s happening as we speak.","Also many Black Americans communities have a strong sense of culture and tradition going back to African traditions, since many can’t pin down their families exact origins, African American sums their identity up well.",0
"The amount of apps that track you is obsene. I have some apptracking software on my deivcie and in the last 7 days i got somthing like 36,206 tracking attempts from 13 apps. everything from GPS coardinites to screen resuliton. A while ago I also got a tracking attempt to see Headphone status. It is insane so much personal info from so many componies. and such a wide variety of stuff they want to know my exact location and wether i have headphone conected. Privacy is so hard to get in this digital age.","The amount of apps that track you is obsene. I have some apptracking software on my deivcie and in the last 7 days i got somthing like 36,206 tracking attempts from 13 apps. everything from GPS coardinites to screen resuliton. A while ago I also got a tracking attempt to see Headphone status. It is insane so much personal info from so many componies. and such a wide variety of stuff they want to know my exact location and wether i have headphone conected. Privacy is so hard to get in this digital age.",0
Kurds want borders that are split between 4 nation states AND are currently living in a NATO members borders.,"Invite them in, it isn’t quite the Kurdistan they imagined, but it would give them control of the Bosporus and a foothold in Europe. In return Turkey would be returned to pre-Ottoman borders and rightfully forgotten.",1
"Hard to be sympathetic here, I’ve always felt the Republican Party as a necessity to keep hard left democrats in check , but they flirted harder and harder with racism until it backfired and trump took advantage.","I really hope the majority of Americans see right through these feeble attempts from some within the Republican party to distance themselves from Trump. They should never be allowed to forget or move on from the fact that they jumped right onto the Trump train and fired up the engines to full throttle. They were never forced to anchor their entire identity to Trump, but willing chose to. Trump is who they all are and always will be.",1
"I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please if you have any questions or concerns.",This is their only concern. Everything else is just to manipulate voters. Divide people. They don’t want you focusing on class. They want people focusing on race and our differences. Woke people fall right into their trap. Everyone needs to talk class all the time and the real villains will be exposed. We are in an oligarchy with no end in sight.,1
"The fact that she can voice her opinion, and express concern about whatever Twitter did, suggests she is not in fact limited in her freedom of speech.",This is criticism of lack of free speech from the perspective of a bias moron who wants the audience exposure Twitter offers and the right to spew incorrect or knowingly egregious disinformation.,1
"Ryan also made clear he would not endorse Trump, who he earlier this year described as a “proven loser.”.","Okay but a reminder Paul Ryan supports the same policies as Trump and the rest of the republicans. Ending all social services, keeping wages low and people desperate to work, deregulations in the name of profit, voter suppression, gerrymandering , Opposing women's health choices, criminalizing LGBTQ, and establishing a Christiaan nationalist autocracy .",1
"It is kind of incomprehensible to me that you would vote for a party that you disagree with to that extent (because again, those were the issues they kept bringing to the forefront), and then try to blame me for not changing your vote because I ask you what is it exactly that motivates you to vote like that.","It was a genuine question! From an external perspective, these made-up/ginned-up cultural issues (furries, trans people, CRT in schools, etc.) seemed to be the main arguments made by the GOP, other than the ones you already said you weren't on board with.",0
"In NJ, the entire hasidic community forces one another to go out and vote together for GOP candidates because of their shady mob-money ""business"" practices, and their Anti-Intellectualism, anti-science, anti-woman cultural narrative...They vote for Nazis because it is good for their finances and control mechanisms...let that sink in.","It's an excuse to seem as though they're morality has improved but in the end...they're just going to vote for whomever promises that they will be financially taken care of...even after everything they're not...and the end result is they're ""taken care of"" physically.",0
"There should be no way this war ends and Russia isn’t completely isolated from normal world society until change occurs, or the current leadership is prosecuted. Meaning for me anyway, that cannot leave Russian territory without the threat of being arrested in nearly every country.",Unfortunately the Russian people don’t care enough now to remove Putin and his subordinates from power.,0
"As someone who has had little to no self esteem their entire life. When I was younger (teens - twenties) I was a compulsive liar. I felt like something was severely wrong with who I was so I would make up things about myself that I thought would get people to like me, because at my core I felt I was wholly unlikable. I’m in my mid forties now and stopped doing this a long time ago, but I still struggle with self esteem daily. I can not tell you how important it is in your day to day life to at least believe you are not a complete piece of shit. I feel shame to this day about the people I lied to. But also I hated everything about myself.","On the other hand, my father is a psychopath level narcissist. And compulsively lies to manipulate because he feels like the world and everyone owes him something at all times. He causes chaos and damage everywhere he goes.",0
"You're presuming he had a clear-headed reason for doing it, and that may not be the case. He may have just been excited to tell someone. He leaked the Hobby Lobby case to some dinner guests.",Alito . Why would the investigation not talk to the one person we have credible reason to believe has done something like this before? Could it be because Roberts isn't actually a moderate?,0
"We all know the bad guys in this whole situation are the dog owners, followed closely by this weird obsession for and against pitbulls.","There is such a bad stigma around pitbulls that they are often unwanted/discriminated against, a byproduct of this is that they are the most common dog found at shelters. Now that they are the most common and affordable dog, a lot of the adopters aren't going to do any proper training. Some of those untrained dogs will go right back to the shelter willy nilly because there wasn't much of an investment to adopt them to begin with. It's really a vicious cycle.",1
"They could force them to accept terms, just as easily as forcing workers to accept this shit deal. Congress can literally compel either side to accept terms but they, and main stream media, are making it sound like Congress has zero other options.",Anyone who voted in favor of these measures should have to work under the same set of terms and benefits as those they just forced on railroad employees.,0
"Not ""unprepared""... negatively prepared. As in, it seems most people are prepared to actively reject any kind of measures meant to alleviate the spread of whatever the next pandemic is.","I think most people and most governments have learned nothing from this pandemic, the management was a complete disater, not the virus. Lockdowns didn't help anybody, they destroyed the economy, fucked up psychologically millions of people, now we have tons of excess deaths due to people who were at home scared of going out or couldn't get out and their illnesses went unchecked, cdc literally admitted making up the 6 feet thing (which is till in place now in some places ffs), pfeizer literally admitted lying about the vaccines stopping the spread of the virus, which made the jabbed feel safe and the unvaxxed being marginalized, ending up with tons more infected. Politicians showed that they didn't care about the mandates they were pushing themselves, having fucking parties in the middle of a pandemic...",1
"The "" establishment clause"" separates church from state, but not religion from politics or public life. Individual citizens are free to bring their religious convictions into the public arena. But the government is prohibited from favoring one religious view over another or even favoring religion over non-religion.","and paradoxically, in modern Britain the entrenched state religion remains but any politician who tries to use any religion to justify their decision is instantly criticised and seen as weird.",1
"Yes (see Snopes article below), and the patents trademarks were fast tracked the moment Trump took office. And the Trump admin made a sudden 180 on ZTE, after ZTE supposedly violated sanctions. The US had levied a 7 year ban from US suppliers for ZTE. Literally ONE WEEK week after Ivanka's patents trademarks were fast tracked in China, Trump admin directed the Department of Commerce to help get ZTE back in business, lifting the ban. I wonder why? LMFAO.","The voting machines weren't even really the biggest conflict of interest, it was really just the patents trademarks in general, along with the ZTE bullshit I mentioned above. Trump has sold out the United States in 100 different ways, from patent fuckery, money from Trump tower, and of course the stolen classified documents which he undoubtedly sold to foreign interests, along with the mysterious $2 billion that Kushner got from the Saudis. It's all egregiously traitorous.",0
You completely missed the point. It does not matter to them if you show them one mangled fetus that ends up killing the mother because they truly believe they are saving millions of lives with their anti abortion stance.,"1.5) to legally deny a pregnant person an abortion is to deny them their bodily autonomy, which is inhumane in and of itself.",1
"Even independent artists need to understand the difference between needs and wants before arguing for more money. Most of them are paying upwards of $2,000 per month just to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world. These are the people who constantly complain about 'needing' more money when in reality they just need to learn how to spend less. But spending less isn't as sexy as getting more, so very few people actually consider it.",Not really. It's excruciatingly difficult to maintain the facade of intellectual property and gets harder as time goes on.,0
"The same handful of fraudulent “finance advisors” like tax attorneys, accountants, CPAs, etc. seem to figure out these elaborate schemes, and then it gets circulated through friend groups and other social circles.","I’ve overheard quite a few conversations where people shared a tax evasion scheme, most involving somehow manipulating their “small business” for personal gain, where the person doing the talking did not share the source “to protect them” but freely shared the details of the scheme for others to follow.",0
"That's false, there are several factions involved in the Yemen Civil War. There's the Iranian-backed Houthis, the Saudi-backed government of al-Alimi, the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, more independent groups such as the Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance then of course Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and ISIS-""Yemen Province"", the latter two fight against all the rest and they also fight each other.","Houthi Rebels representing Houthis that have been historically been oppressed and are currently being genocided, responsible for overthrowing an unelected government propped up by the Saudis in the Arab Spring.",1
"No, it’s because sexual predators look for ways they can get unsupervised access to children without raising red flags, and the Catholic Church does a lot of charity work involving children.","You could wipe the catholic church off the face of the earth today and in 10 years abuse numbers would be the same as they are today, because these systems exist all over and abusers seek out situations that allow them to abuse kids and get away with it.",1
"Do you think I'm trying to defend the religion as a whole here? I'm not. All I'm saying is that it's to the benefit of the state's Democrats that the politically-relevant white religious sect here votes at a 2-to-1 rate for Republicans (and falling ever-so-slowly), instead of a stagnant 4-to-1 rate like in quite a few other states.","Again, my point is not about the raw ratio - I'm not claiming they've all seen the light, or even a majority (I think they went 2-to-1 Trump last election) - but that when compared to other politically active white religious denominations it's part of the reason why we're actually now competitive statewide here. If you replaced every Mormon in Arizona with an atheist it'd probably vote like Minnesota. If you replaced every Mormon in Arizona with an evangelical protestant, it'd vote closer to someplace like Louisiana.",0
"The ""Proof"" was rail cars going to Russia from North Korea which is something that happens frequently since Russia is one of the only countries that consistently trade with the DPRK.",They're probably getting chinese weapons with North Korea as middlemen so China does not officially support Russia with equipment. Kim is probably only making money by selling them old artillery anmo.,1
"I sort of balk at the ""helpless"" act the rural areas give all the time. Why do Urban Dems have to make your plan for you? Do they even arguably understand the issues well enough?","And failing that, it's hard to judge people for creating tools that help the greatest numbers of people.",0
"For example, imagine that a police officer decided to arrest an individual because they saw that the individual was making fun of them on social media. The individual would have several actions against the police officer, including a § 1983 action. If arresting an individual for making fun of an officer on social media was not before considered a violation of an individual's federal rights, then the officer will be protected under qualified immunity because the act did not violate a ""clearly established"" law.",This is even though the officer was acting outside the scope of their job. Changes to qualified immunity will theoretically help keep the officer accountable when they do things outside the scope of the job.,0
"I don't know, it's likely built into the nose of the aircraft or somewhere around it, it has IR technology regardless. Sidewinder missiles also have their own built in IR technology that the jet can use I believe, though I think the F22 keeps them in a hidden bay for radar stealth reasons.",What balloon? They've specifically said they didn't think it was a balloon and it appeared to have a metal exterior.,0
"yeah. morally its the right thing to do, theyve voted to become a state in all 3 of the last votes on it ive seen. but it takes 3/5ths of senators to pass, or 60. so unless they can get 10 republican senators to back this to prevent a fillabuster it wont happen. and since it would end up adding two new senators to congress, and they'd most likely be democrats, the republicans will never go for this.",i agree in principle but as with everything it is a complicated matter. as far as i know some of these territories have voted to keep the status quo. as opposed to PR that wants to join the union.,0
Fact: Russia was already at the time decreasing their outflows in natural gas - which you say makes no sense because it hurts them.,Let’s assume the typical pro-rus argument of forcing Germany to sever oil ties with Russia and have them import US natural gas.,1
"Back in... I think it was 2011, Adams posted a blog post that was pretty close to this about women, comparing equal pay for women to children wanting candy. He ended up deleting it after critique, but in tone and intent it was pretty close. Real class act, Mr. Adams.","That revealed to me a lot about Adams. Enough to put him into the ""racist asshole"" bucket alongside trump.",1
Our system is already set up to over-criminalize black folks. Our society already treats all sorts of things poor people do as crimes in ways it doesn’t for the wealth. And race in the US is tightly correlated to wealth inequality. And black neighborhoods are already super over policed. And black suspects are already much more likely to be taken to trial than white suspects. And racist cops (aka most cops) are already more likely to stop and frisk black citizens just walking around. And they are more likely to pull over black drivers. Etc etc etc.,And then the cops reinforce that pervasive racist bias by using their social media platforms to highlight black suspected criminals at a disproportionate rate.,0
"Okay, you’re a company and you raise your prices 20%, purely out of greed. Oh shit, prices have gone up because of greed.",It's greed. During the pandemic everyone rose their prices citing 101 reason. Many services went up by 50% and more and don't get me started on groceries.,1
"It was 1st discovered in fruit flies when a particular group of them was developing spikes all over their body. It was being passed on in a way that suggested it was a mutation of a single gene, so that gene was labeled the hedgehog gene.",It was just the 1st gene in the hedgehog family to be named after they ran out of names of species of hedgehogs.,0
"If McEachin were still alive, or had already been replaced, then it would only take five GOP Representatives to vote with the Democrats (whether or not one of those five were the candidate).","If the Speaker requires a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to be elected, they need to maintain the support of the entire coalition in order to remain Speaker. Crossing anyone in the coalition could result in withdrawn support, and a new Speaker election.",0
"Mexico basically created today's 'corn' from what was a field grass. There are over 20,000 distinct Mexican corn varieties. In the US we primarily grow 'Yellow Dent' corn for industrial use which constitutes about 98% of the corn acreage planted.",The result after decades of innovation: America produces too much corn. We put high fructose corn syrup in almost all foods. We decree that gasoline must be 10% ethanol even though it's less efficient than pure gasoline. We give away corn to developing countries as food aid.,1
This is criticism of lack of free speech from the perspective of a bias moron who wants the audience exposure Twitter offers and the right to spew incorrect or knowingly egregious disinformation.,Number of users does not equate to it automatically being subject to free speech or being villainized for someone else's perception of the platform violating what they feel are their free speech rights.,0
"Right but we trade on a global market and that’s why what Russia is doing is screwing us , because European countries decide to trust a country that should have never been trusted , not we all have to pay the price because they liked their cheap energy and makes them look good because they have no greenhouse gasses that their producing but their outsourcing , so now European countries can say “look we lower our co2 output” , just how the world uses China as a factory. Lol sorry went on a rant hahaha. At least we learning.",Saudis doesn’t respect Americans and I can’t wait until oil shit is over with so we can go tell Saudi Arabia to fuck around and find out. We should have went to war with them and blew them up after 9/11.,0
"I don't know if they were really offering such a thing. I remember Arestovich was making claims that they could squish Transdnistria if Moldova asked them, but I don't recall anyone making any such offers in official capacity. In general Ukraine is playing the good guy - i.e. not someone that drags more nations into a war. Offering to start a war in a neighboring country does not fit with that role.","As I understand it - their army is tiny, supposedly even weaker than their splinter ""state"" of Transdnistria. Though that might have changed a little in the last half of a year. The only thing saving them is that Russia has no land access.",0
"""As for standing up for nazi's when under 21, my grandfather lied about his age at 16 and joined the navy. A lot of soldiers in WW2 were under 21. So yeah, some people did stand up to Nazi's before they were 21. "".",. Further it assumes that a 19 year old would comprehend the actual facts and implications BEFORE going to work at a camp. Thats a bit absurd since 19 year olds today have no real clue about how things work in the real world....and would have even less of a clue without any sort of social media feed.,0
"Considering that the top superpower has a knack of being rather dangerous to any peace which doesn't feed her superrich.. yeah, plenty of adversaries will emerge.","And ""the west"" (not all of the west - the imperialist part of the west) is invading all countries which pose a perceived financial threat. Or they are propping up dictators which are either deemed friendly or necessary for stability.",0
"Nike cofounder Phil Knight deliberately sought (and was successful) in splitting the Democrat vote in Oregon, by initially backing and heavily funding Independent Betsy Johnson before suddenly having a “change of heart” and switching teams backing and heavily funding Republican Christine Drazen. It was his plan all along to have the most split Democratic Party, paving the way for the impossible happening in Oregon - a Republican becoming Governor. Phil Knight actually got super close. Regardless of whether the candidate is Democrat or Republican - never should the least liked candidate be winning (what would’ve happened in Republican Christine Drazen won). Oregon and American needs Ranked Choice Voting ASAP.","Oregon and the country need Ranked Choice Voting badly. With RCV elections, results would best represent who and what everyone most agrees with. Gone would be ”spoiler candidates” as no matter what, who wins in Ranked Choice Voting elections is who everyone most agrees is best to represent them. Gone would be election outcomes where the least liked candidate wins (due to split votes). Your vote with RCV elections gets the most mileage- allowing your to constructively vote for everyone you want (ranked).",0
They suspended involvement in November. Terminating their membership now. They're feeling some sense of security from a partner to continue pushing Russia out of their lives.,"If this is so predictable, why do the Russians keep cooperating? Because they have no other choice. The Russians need some sort of victory to salvage the reputation of their leader. They can’t simply go on the defensive themselves, it would look like an admission of defeat.",1
"I'd bet the timing of all this was driven by the Biden admin thinking it's very likely that Trump gets charges over the docs, saying 'we know classified docs in general is a messy, imperfect process so we should get our own ducks in a row.'.","So I'd say, the one real issue is if Biden's camp knew about them and did nothing in like 2021. People crying that Biden and/or the DOJ didn't disclose this just days before the midterms are grasping at straws.",0
"No, slander is a crime; and he’s advocating for free speech. Hitler took over the media first which is exactly what the left is doing; they already have dominance in tech and social media, along with established media. Add to that coordination between government and big tech and the “private business “ argument goes out the window. Rationality is gone. The hypocrisy is embarrassingly blatant. Facts are.",Education is the source of the problem. You fix that and most of the rest takes care of itself. Trying to monitor speech has historically always lead to conflict or tyranny.,0
Addendum to 1: He began making these claims MONTHS before the election. Using rhetoric along the lines of “the only way we lose this election is if the dems cheat” and refusing to say that he would concede if he lost. You could arguably even go back to 2016 when Roger Stone and Trump first came up with “Stop the Steal” slogan while claiming Dems were cheating.,"Trump actually started with his bullshit election fraud crap as soon as he knew he would be running against Joe Biden, who he knew would (and did) beat him ""like a drum."".",1
"Reichskristallnacht (which is already an euphemism) has NOTHING good about it. It's closer to celebrating Pearl Harbor or the Confederate uprising, or maybe celebrating Guantanamo.","Yes, that's exactly right. Reichskristallnacht is basically Night of the Reichs Crystal (or, in a more figurative sense, Expensive Glassware).",0
"Maybe they shouldn’t have played that card because once that’s the established narrative for domestic propaganda, there’s really no reason for NATO countries not to just send a shit ton of weapons.","For me, if NATO just reversed what they said, it just forces Russia to end their narrative, as they would therefore be accusing their own allies of being involved in the war too, which is something they wouldn't want.",1
Edit: I kind of thought you were being a sarcastic doubter but after reading it again I don’t. I think you’re just laughing at them. Sorry.,"Actually they probably will be. 1) fbi and maga don’t get along. Trump called the fbi losers, and maga protested them. One guy even tried to shoot them up. 2) fbi don’t fuck around with blatant acts of stupidity when they’d rather up end democracy more quietly.",0
"If Nicholas did not do that, there is a chance the Russian Civil War might have been different or completely avoided since Nicholas being present at the Imperial Court might rein in the shenanigans of Rasputin.","Nicholas the II worried that revolution might come to Russia and make it incapable of continuing to fight the war. A guy by the name of Lvov came to Nicholas, this was a lesser prince in Russia. Lvov convinced Nicholas the II to abdicate the throne and allow a government lead by him to rule.",1
"The nationalist comments that dislike the West and like Russia are indeed a plurality, if not majority.",They resent and despise us for the actions undertaken by our great grandfathers and beyond (Cold War) and later (War on terror + Pakistan).,0
"They are trying to feed the story that it was Ukraine defense missile, if it was true a lot of support for ukraine would drop so it makes sense Russia denies it.",So far Russia has not used S-300s to attack Northern Ukraine and I don't know if they are even in Belraus operated by Russia. Since it's unlikely Russia would somehow make the same mistake of Kyiv-Lviv in multiple Iskander systems that basically leaves the S-300.,1
"The idea is to transfer some money to a new wallet for every transaction, use that wallet to pay for something, and never use that wallet again. Your money should be in the bank, not on the ledger.","I believe it will continue, and thrive when people forget about it. Remember, it's just a ledger; it has no monetary value.",0
It’s a major fucking deal though. Any normalizing even in the tiniest degree of missiles infringing in foreign airspace will be taken advantage of by Russia.,"Drawing attention to the incident in Poland was just to point out, that by the logic of blindly wanting to go to war over a stray missile, Nato should already been drawn into the war on Russia's side. Not saying that is what NATO should do, but rather how ridiculous an non-nuanced take is.",1
"6,500 migrant workers (slaves, they had their passports stolen) died in Qatar during the 12 years from when they were awarded the World Cup.","Claim: ""The World Cup in Qatar has cost the lives of 6,500 — even as many as 15,000 — migrant workers."".",1
"It has zero to do with voter ID laws. . Yet to meet a single person who doesn't have some form of ID that would work at the voting booth. You also have 2 weeks to vote, including two weekends.",Our polls are open for two weeks and by law must include two weekends. There is zero excuse to not vote.,0
"Russia has been whining about being ""forced"" to invade because of some reason or another, but it is all just lies and propaganda for their facist imperialism.","The Russian leadership could have focused on building up their nation, but instead they chose to waste it all on a war of aggression.",0
My theory is that it’s the same part of the brain that makes trump say nobody’s done anything more for LGBTQ rights than him.,Like if they just openly hated gay people that comment wouldn’t make sense. But they seem to want to be seen as helping gay people as long as they vote Republican and don’t seem too gay?,0
"California's laws didn't stop a California resident from committing a mass shooting using a gun bought in California, and that means more federal laws would change anything?",California's laws won't stop anything with federal support because it doesn't address the fundamental issues of why people are going on shooting sprees.,1
"The SU57 is more or less the same story, but you also have to remember that Russia uses its planes much like flying artillery and have demonstrated less skill with deploying their air force than their tanks which is a statement. They stand to gain little and lose a lot from risking SU57s in Ukraine instead of their older jets.",They are much better than the planes Ukraine is using today and getting a steady supply of planes would allow them to step up their air operations.,1
Ultimately it's Taiwan that will primarily suffer if war breaks out so their majority viewpoint should take precedent over Western interests.,"In addition, the people of Taiwan have heavily embraced a Taiwanese identity and oppose unification. Taiwan has shifted from being authoritarian to embracing political liberalization and democracy, a system that contrasts with the authoritarian system of China. On top of that, Taiwan has greatly embraced liberal values and social reforms. Taiwan has developed stronger relations with the US through military partnership and repeated assurance that the US has Taiwan’s back, especially from high ranking political figures such as Pelosi to President Biden himself. China has destroyed Hong Kong’s liberal values and is looking glaringly at Taiwan - a country that attempts to protect its own sovereignty and democracy.",1
"Paying attention to national popular vote numbers when the campaigns are focused on the electoral college is folly. If the national popular vote mattered, Democrats and Republicans would push for higher turnout in all their safe states instead of focusing on the swing states, and the national popular vote numbers would look entirely different.","But it isn't based on the national popular vote, which is where that 3,000,000 number comes from, it's from a bunch of separate state-level popular votes. We can argue that the electoral college is unfair (no argument here), but our system of government is based on established laws and those say that Trump was the legitimate winner of the 2016 election. Yes it was a disaster and yes we as voters should do better selecting our government officials, but until we live in that world, or voter turnout isn't so dismal, thinking that the national numbers tell us anything meaningful is a mistake. The national numbers are the result of campaigns that don't care about the national numbers.",0
"You claimed everything is “Palestinian land”, and that Israel exists over “Palestinian land”, I refuted your claim.","The land that was assigned to the Palestinians, the same way that land was assigned to the Jews, where Israel now exists.",1
"So Russia increases oil supply to China, India and Turkey by 2.4 million barrels per day. 3 countries who collectively consume 18 million barrels per day and some how Russias economy is going to get anhilated because Europe is buying oil from the former suppliers to Turkey, China and India? Or did Europe suddenly discover and develope a massive oil field? I don't follow your logic. Russia had a budget surplus in October and their trade with 3 emerging mega economies is glowing, their economy is far from being destroyed.","LNG is not oil. It is far more expensive per unit output of energy. They are buying up supply that was already called for further causing the price of Russias number 1 export, natural gas, to rise.",0
"Um ok let’s not whitewash Ukrainian participation in these pogroms. Ukraine was particularly harsh and violent towards Jews, and the percentage of Ukrainians that collaborated with the Nazis and participated in the holocaust is immense.",Solzhenitsyn further alleged that the theory that the Holodomor was a genocide which only victimized the Ukrainian people was created decades later by believers in an anti-Russian form of extreme Ukrainian nationalism. Solzhenitsyn also cautioned that the ultranationalists' claims risked being accepted without question in the West due to widespread ignorance and misunderstanding there of both Russian and Ukrainian history”.,1
"""I met with @JosepBorrellF to coordinate steps to speed up the production and delivery of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. We agreed to launch a new format of regular consultations between the EU and Ukraine’s foreign and defense ministries to streamline our joint work."".",But so be it…. on to the next potential Putin speech where he could declare war Launch nukes General mobilization Absorb Belarus Annex parts of Georgia.,1
It's more likely that Taiwan would give assistance to China without precondition than China to Taiwan.,"It's not just political differences on the Taiwanese side, but also China. The Hu Jintao era is now regarded as the most 'open' China has ever been, and probably the best period of cross-strait relations.",1
"The holier than thou part is essentially making up your own standard for the word blatant. What do you want a signed confession? Her net worth ballooned while a member of congress, they are allowed to insider trade. We are not fuckin idiots.","What a stupid fucking take. The times may be changing, but you don't just throw out past champions like they're trash. Pelosi is a god damned boss, and always has been. Anyone thinking that not being Pelosi is good enough to forge forward with the same power, courage and conviction she had, is going to find out real fucking fast that that's not how it works.",1
"I’m to Bernie’s left on health care (I support socialized healthcare like Britain has, not just insurance.). But I’ve read the polling data. While Medicare for all has strong support among Democrats (around 70%) it’s opposed almost universally by republicans (like 15% support) and about 50/50 by independents. It’s not even close to having the votes.","The public option would get us to 98% coverage vs 99% with M4A. And it has broad voter support, with something lien 90% support from Democrats, 70% from independents and about 50% or republicans.",0
"No amount of realistic tax hikes will allow us to make Social Security solvent indefinitely, so we will have to ""take less money out"".",It’s “sunsetting” because they don’t dare take social security away from retirees or people close to retirement. Their benefits will go on as scheduled. It’s just that they want to go after the benefits that we are paying into in order to receive later on. Those are what’s on the chopping block.,1
"The Japanese actually came closer to building nukes than the Germans did. There's even rumors that they tested a nuke a few days before surrendering in what's now present day North Korea. There's even a Japanese movie about their atomic bomb project called ""Gift of Fire."".",Yeah. Evidently our oceans are boiling. I did not know this until last week. I say we all launch everything we have. Planet of the apes style. The global winter should offset all.,1
I could understand for government employees that work in PR/outreach and legitimately use social media to communicate with constituents and such. People in this thread mentioning other apps may forget that Twitter especially has been historically beneficial for elected officials to have a presence on.,"For all those who think that social media should be banned on government devices, you're forgetting that politicians routinely communicate with the public on social media these days.",1
Both Israel and Palestine recognized each other's right to exist in the Oslo Accords what are you talking about?,Edit - And I do support an independent state for Palestine. I’m just not so sure it would work out real well at this point.,1
Yes. That’s the plan. Allow the wealthy to “cheat” on their taxes while punishing regular people who are already scared of an audit and probably did nothing wrong.,"Their voters hear that he is defunding the IRS, so they think they won't have to pay taxes (for some reason). Whereas what he really is doing is just making it so the wealthy can cheat ok their taxes, so revenue goes down, and tax rates need to go up (for the voters) to cover thoae loses.",1
They are an American company and allowing threats on your platform (corporate company-owned social media is NOT protected by Free Speech laws) to share threats against the president of the USA opens up legal problems. I have been on a forum that had such rules even though the the owner was not at all US-friendly.,"In fact, it is alwas up to the moderation team's call what to do with a given problematic post or not.",0
"I’m young. I consider myself “conservative.” Fuck the GOP, I have never and will never vote for them. They aren’t conservative.","Cut the military budget in half. Make taxation fair - why the fuck am I paying more in taxes as a blue collar worker than billionaires? Healthcare should not be for profit (public health and profit are diametrically opposed and can’t coexist, add in that for profit healthcare costs us all more in total, and for profit healthcare is truly against conservative values), make a true public option. Start there, those are true conservative values.",0
Niece In Dortmund Germany says her city has seen a big influx of Ukrainians in the last 2 weeks. There were some before this but now accelerating.,"Many won’t return. Ukrainians never had free movement to live and work in Western European countries. Now they do without having to meet EU and Shengen block standards. There’s no way, even if and when the conflict ends that countries like Germany can force them out.",0
And can’t forget that the same Russian ideology that called for the invasion of Ukraine and other countries also calls for the break up of China.,"Yeah, I mean Ukraine war notwithstanding I'm still horrified by how many high ranking russians are killed mafia-style by Kremlin (if I put mysefl in the shoes of a russian). That's just madness. It's 21st century and I expect something like this to be a thing of the past, at least in the democratic part of the world.",1
"India buys crude oil from Russia at a discount, refines it into petroleum, now making it an Indian product and not a Russian product, and then countries like the US and Israel buy it.","In March 2022, India reported receiving Russian crude at a 22% (as high as 27% for some companies) discount. In May, that became a 30% discount. In November, that became a 40% discount. This is prior to the price cap being instated which likely gives Asian nations an even greater bargaining leverage.",1
"NATO and co are claming that they are mostly sure it was an ukranian missile, trying to shoot down a russian missile.","What Ukraine wants to gain is weapons and defensive aid that Russia has no answer for. More HIMARs, Patriot defense systems, western tanks or fighters.",1
"The military world Patton lived in was closer to world war 1 than it is to modern conflicts (both in terms of time, strategy, and the scale of forces at play in the war being fought) he cannot/should not be used as first reference point when deciding military strategy in modern conflicts.",Tanks are sitting ducks whether they’re moving or not when air superiority isn’t clearly in your favor. Air superiority dictates the ability to do large scale artillery and when it is completely in one sides favor; allows for the rapid mobilization and pivoting of ground forces.,0
"""Fund the IRS!"" would almost certainly backfire but it would be gratifying to see the biggest tax dodgers handled while the rest of us benefitted more from the leeway they seem to have gotten used to.","Fuck that, maybe the IRS should be forced to work top down and only come after people making less than a million a year AFTER every fucking corperation and billionaire has paid their fair share.",1
Doesn't work if the choice is a country dominating the world one nation at a time with the threat of nuclear war if anyone intervenes.,"1) Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, really anybody - will use this nuclear blackmail strategy to get what they want. We’d be in for a shit future.",1
"HIMARS are surface to surface, so if they can't destroy them with missiles, they have no chance at destroying the patriot which is specifically designed to shoot other missiles down.","It looks like the patriot missile systems radar can be up to 10km away from the firing unit itself, then the actual command unit can be in a 3rd location. I didn't realise it was all split up. Good idea though.",0
"Regardless of that it's a significant discovery, not only is it lithium it's rumoured to be of high grade lithium.",Good example of the fact that lithium is traditionally so plentiful that it isn't even counted as a commodity. The Potash Corporation of Nevada/Utah was originally called the Lithium Corporation but they bailed on lithium because it was worth less than dirt. Potassium is worth slightly more than dirt at the wholesale level.,1
"Conservatives like to think Christie is a tough no nonsense politician, but he's just another bootlickin piece of shit.","After four years of witnessing every way Trump was unfit to be president, Christie helped him with debate prep against Biden.",0
"So, I think werezombies are rare, but possible, just like a Democrat winning an election in Georgia.","Yeah, that’s kind of what I was thinking. Vampires wouldn’t be harmed by zombies, they just wouldn’t wouldn’t have any nutritional benefits for them.",0
edit: A question that's more interesting to me would be why do some gun owners expect anyone that disagrees with them on any given aspect of gun politics to be an 'anti-gunner'?,"Personally I don't see how they wouldn't fit the ""common use"" test from Heller given that AR platform rifles have been the best selling type of rifle for years now.",1
"Are you telling me there were zero deaths in those millions of people caused by car accidents, heart attack, illness, cancer, or any other cause you can think of?","1- This figure includes deaths from all causes, whether they are from construction accidents, heart attacks, car accidents, cancer, and any possible cause you can think of. The real deaths from the world cup construction activities could be one thousand deaths, one hundred deaths, 500, we don’t know. I don’t think we ever will know the real figure. But to say that 100% of all the deaths for those nationalities in a span of 10 years were caused by construction accidents is just ridiculous. There are literally millions of those nationalities living and working in Qatar, but to say all of their deaths in a decade was caused by nothing but the world cup is laughable.",0
"The thing with Ukraine is they have the whole western world suppling them. And if they said they really need more ammo or supplies urgently, they would get it.",Ukraine really needs to do more behind the lines activity and plant explosive devices in the big ammo dumps in Russia. Preferably simultaneously so that Russia can't respond after the first by tightening security on the others.,0
"Supply issues and rising prices are just everyday things now, people probably just assumed it was something related to that and not a massive bird flu pandemic.","As you've said, Covid was a surprise, but Influenza is what we've prepared for and it has high potential to cause massive deaths. The scale and severity of the bird epidemic illustrates that.",1
"Criminologists and other researchers found that the ban had little to no effect on firearm deaths or the lethality of gun crimes. Studies have found that the overwhelming majority of gun crimes are committed with weapons which are not covered by the AWB, and that assault weapons are less likely to be used in homicides than other weapons. There is tentative evidence that the frequency of mass shootings may have slightly decreased while the ban was in effect, but research is inconclusive, with independent researchers finding conflicting results.","But at the same time, you cannot deny the statistics that countries with more gun regulation tend to have much less decreased rates of mass shootings relative to the US. This includes Switzerland. They have tough background checks and even concealed carry permits are scarcely given.",1
"Insulin in my world is only a couple of bucks, and if you wind up spending a bunch on meds overall in a given year, then fuck it - have the rest for free.",And in Norway (at least) anything diabetes related is free of charge. Because healthy diabetics are much cheaper.,1
"Russia could look to take more action in all of these gray areas including cyber attacks, 2024 elections in many countries, acts of terror outside Ukraine etc.","Ooh, these hackers are stepping into the war now, with a cyber-attack against a country specifically due to that country's involvement with defending Ukraine?",1
"While they would only technically be able to export to countries that are under similar pressures, this could really shake up pharmaceutical pricing.","I wonder if this is a ploy to start stealing pharma patents. If imports are prevented, or other issues arise that prevent access, Russia can use this to argue for the TRIPS compulsory license or some other exemption allowing them to manufacture patented medicines themselves without violation of WTO.",0
"Corporations are amoral, profit-seeking mechanisms. No corporation would pull out of Russia as long as its shareholders could see returns for doing business there.","This is why Corporations must be forced to 'do the right thing' by making it a losing proposition for their shareholders to continue doing business in Russia. Therefore, sanctions.",0
"I would not want a bloody revolution. But I know that Russia will soon end. I just don’t want China to have influence after the collapse of Russia. Therefore, we will have to look for partners in Europe or the USA.","Yes, in Russia, many people have a conservative view. But the young ones are less than 30 years old, we are now completely closed in the police regime. even if we clandestinely collect force against Putin, then the system is completely with Putin. These assholes are now trying to impose a relationship with China. And we just need help from Europe.",0
"That's interesting, I didn't expect it would be so high, given some of the signs and barn paintings I've seen from the Interstate. Could this be a case of ""Reddit effect"" where there are actually a lot of rural Democrats, but they're afraid to speak up because they're not in the majority?","The complaint about ""it's over before my state votes"" is a bit bogus as the general election itself is like that for Western US. If someone gets 270 before CA votes for example.",1
"Have had 18 year old kids, they were more mature and more adept at critical thinking and empathy than some of our National representatives like Boebert and Green.",If someone like Taylor-Greene or Boebert is mature enough to be in the US Congress then I'd say an 18 year old is capable of being a member of a state house.,1
"......however, the mechanism which protects patients from the HIV-re-infection does offer some hope as the immunity of the CCR5 gene mutation might be ""spliced"" into the genes of infected people at a cost which could be affordable on a global scale. It might even be enough to come up with a partial immunity-protection for the immune systems of AIDS-patients to reduce their reliance of ""the cocktail"" which suppresses the spread of the virus in infected bodies.","I'm just saying this method is not a path for a general cure, it's less about HIV and more about full bone marrow replacements - which as a side effect, ""reboot"" the immune system including the cells infected by HIV.",1
"Russia betrayed pretty much all of their allies at one point or another, just look at Armenia. Ukraine was the culturally closest country to Russia and russians had no problems starting genocide there. Its very naive of India to think, that just because USSR supported them 50 years ago, Russia of today is exactly the same and just as reliable. If India gets into a war with China, Russia won't move a finger to help them.","Theres 0 chance of India selling these weapons on to russia, that doesent help their strategic goals.",1
It directly states conscription or ‘drafting’ and even contrasts it against a previous statement that outlined the need for conscription was redundant given how many men with previous service history (non-conscripts/veterans) could be utilized instead. They even outline the industrial and residential areas that they’re going to pool conscripts from for mandatory service.,"They are presently civilians (because this hasn’t happened yet), they will be (future tense) killed by a Lockheed Martin product.",0
"Your comment said that they are ""abstaining in really helping Ukrainians"". What you meant to say was ""they are abstaining in certain specific types of aid to avoid creating new geopolitical issues for themselves"". You may not care about Israel's security, but they do and they are doing everything they can to help Ukraine without putting themselves at risk.","If Israel is providing any support- and is willing to keep Russia's 1 ally Iran in check, it would be stupid for them to jeopardize that.",1
The sheriff is the highest law enforcement officer in their respective county because they are elected. There are recent instances of sheriffs arresting and threatening jail for federal agents harassing citizens. The importance of the sheriff is that they are elected and therefore answer only to the public and voters.,"If the sheriff gets to decide on their own what is and isn't constitutional, that sheriff is above the constitution.",1
"We’re in a progressive college town and surrounded by red. Our area has become much more hostile and it’s hard for me to recognize the Wisconsin my husband and I actively chose to move to. We’re thinking about moving because I’m scared for my children here, especially since they don’t fit the typical “mold”. This election is definitely going to help us decide.","One election not going your way is definitely not a reason to give up on America or our system. Our leaders may be going down a dark path, but the people do not have to follow them. Engagement becomes even more important after a lost election.",1
"Frankly, he’s betting he can do whatever he wants for two reasons: Florida was the only sound choice for Disney World when it was created, and it’d be nigh impossible to find a replacement with a suitable climate in the US (also…the price!) Disney World isn’t going anywhere; DeSantis has Disney at gunpoint.","They aren’t going to spend billions to relocate unless they know they won’t have the same problem elsewhere. Thing is, the south is run by Republicans who are apt to try the same stuff as DeSantis. So again, he can do more or less whatever he wants with Disney - they’ll never move until there’s a reliable blue or purple state in the South.",0
"Except that they openly value an unviable fetus or even an ectopic pregnancy over the life and well-being of a living human person, and victim blame at every possible opportunity (even for failed pregnancies that were wanted). We see it time and time again, and it's not just the politicians saying this. They run on exactly this platform, and people agree and VOTE FOR THEM.","I said they may not be the majority, but they're voting in enough numbers to put these people in office. You just used other words to say the same thing.",0
They have even stated what the goal is: to divide the United States and make everyone in the government eat eachother until democracy dies.,"Edit: They see the usa as the figure head of democracy, but really their attacks are much broader, they do the same meddling in any democratic nation that they see as a threat. It's all about dividing and pitting against oneanother. Unity is their greatest enemy and if they can divide and sour relationships its to their benift.",0
"Great, glad he was investigated, and charged after being found guilty. Got any other examples that would lead to an actual revelation here or just the one guy that literally no one is upset about him being sentenced.","Also, im sorry "" Go creep elsewhere.""? Youre on a public reddit thread. If you dont want people replying to you, sit on your hands next time you get the urge to say something.",0
The ones that oppose the war are so small in number that they appear as statistical margin of error.,"The russians WHOLEHEARTEDLY support this war. Around 80% according to the recent polls. All the raping, looting and kidnapping is also widely approved. There are no innocents.",0
"Depends if he uses tactical or strategic nukes, people don't seem to realise that nuking Ukraine does not necessarily mean mutually assured destruction. Everyone also seems to think article 5 would be activated in the event of a nuclear strike on Ukraine because of radiation crossing borders, hate to break it to everyone but they can detonate a nuke over Kiev with minimal fallout.","Even if russia nukes Ukraine with a strategic nuke and fallout crosses into Poland and article 5 is activated, we're not just going to start nuking lmao.",0
"""Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."".","Yep. Children are not people, they are property, lumps of clay to be molded. They must never be allowed to have their own agency or will, any showing of either will result in a punishment that dehumanizes and traumatizes into obedience. They need to be indoctrinated that might makes right, that they will always need to listen to someone stronger, with more authority than they will ever be granted. They even treat their adult children like they are still young enough to be hit. They pressure for your career and childbearing, they withhold based on what decisions you’ve made they don’t like.",1
"Direct conflict isn’t really an option due to MAD, but in countries that are not nuclear powers, all of the major superpowers are involved.","The reason for this is that there has to be a response to any nation using nuclear weapons, or else others will use them in future conflicts. And since any response from NATO attacking Russia could include them launching the nukes, it is possible that the US might try a decapitation strike to prevent that. The threat of mutually assured destruction has prevented nuclear exchange so far, so hopefully the threat is still enough this time. But with Putin facing death if he doesn't use them, he could gamble that NATO won't risk missiles flying.",1
"Yes, it appears that the WV DHHR was very unhappy with this story and basically used what influence/pull they had to have her pulled out of any future coverage of their office. That in and of itself is pretty hinky. Yes, there may have been some other shenanigans going on. But all part time positions being eliminated =/= retribution.","So, it looks like no one is reading the article (shocking right??). It looks like she didn't get fired because they didn't like her story, the way the AP is reporting it ALL part time reporters were let go.",0
"Hungary isn't Turkey, it's not a strategically relevant nation, Orban either has some friends in high places in EU or trusts Putin way too much for him to behave like that.","Fortunately for Europe, and unlike Hungary, Poland didn't forget that Russia can never be trusted, and they didn't spread their cheeks for Rosneft and Gazprom money like Budapest did.",1
What a bunch of morons. My candidate didn’t win so I won’t certify any of the votes in my county and will make the other candidate’s margin of victory even bigger. Taking election denial to a new level.,"This rigged election bit? It's softening up the Right for a pitch for no elections. ""No democracy, no democrats."".",1
"If thats the issue why are puberty blockers included, which are largely reversible and considered a fairly noninvasive intervention. Even then, life saving surgery is done all the time for various reasons in extreme situation when less invasive interventions fail, what makes this different?",Life saving surgery in extreme situations isn't the same as amputating genitals to make a gender dysphoric child feel better about themselves.,1
This is what's broken. This shouldn't be possible. The consequences for ignoring the court's ruling were not severe enough. Every one of those defiant members should have been held in contempt of court and thrown in jail until they followed the order of the court if that's what it took to get fair maps.,"The difference was that in NY, the officials actually obeyed the court's decision. In Ohio, the redistricting committee just ignored the court and did what they wanted to anyway.",0
"“so nothing flew in, just lost ... but there is no time to deal with it, the main thing is to fulfill the plan for mobilization and legitimize the tricks of the departed.”.","- ”But we understand that the Russians will not admit the losses associated with the strikes on the planes. Because this is the undermining of the basis of the Russian nuclear triad. If we can destroy Russian strategic bombers with conventional drones, it means that Russian air defense is not working well and the Russian nuclear triad is vulnerable.”.",0
The reason North Korea is so chummy with modern Russia is because we've sanctioned their trade so hard that their meager economy has essentially become sanction-proof so there's nobody else to trade with them.,"The ""Proof"" was rail cars going to Russia from North Korea which is something that happens frequently since Russia is one of the only countries that consistently trade with the DPRK.",1
"The one consistent thing about Russia is that there's never a semblance to integrity in what they say. Everything is propaganda, from the Russian bots to the official Kremlin announcements. When Russia says the U.S. should watch out or else war might start, what they really mean to say is they hope to hinder support of Ukraine by scaring people into the possibility of a world war 3.","I don't want to go all 'Murican, but after watching Ukraine bring Russia to its knees, I think a ""real war"" with the west would be very very different than what Russia is having now.",1
"And yes, there are areas where mines are effective that way, but the impact wouldn't be that massive. AP mines won't really work on a highway unless you blow it up first, and even on a highway, trucks will be moving in a column, just a bit faster. And speed doesn't matter that much. And again, no one is preventing you from using the same tactic on the enemy territory, when you have to abandon an area or have a chance to scout ahead.","""As such moves are way more effective when layed quickly where enemies don't expect them (for example securing a strategic target that you just took over in a foreign territory)."".",1
"I was in 5th grade when this happened, the two 5th grade teachers at my school had applied to be the teachers on the flight, and had garnered a fair amount of community support in their pursuit. Neither advanced terribly far in the process, but both used the launch as a teaching tool that year. My entire class was watching as it blew up. I can still remember the looks on my teachers faces.","I watched in school like many of you. My science teacher turned the TV off and sent us back to our regular classrooms. Before I left, I confronted her. I said ""It just blew up, didn't it?"" And she lied to me and sent me back to class but her eyes told me the answer. I had thought about nominating my teacher but I didn't and all I could think of was those poor kids in her class.",1
Addendum: MANPADs can’t effectively counter this and if Ukraine runs out of air defense munitions the Russian Air Force will move to medium altitude and render them useless.,If Russia can produce shitty drones and missiles at a higher rate than the west can produce effective air defense missiles than they can exhaust Ukraine’s current supply of missiles. The west has given two NASAMs launchers to Ukraine and four more will arrive by November of next year. I would be shocked if they get more than eight Patriot launchers in total. Ukraine doesn’t really have that much air defense that can counter ballistic missiles.,0
"Lawmaker David Arakhamia, Ukraine's chief negotiator with Russia, said Kyiv is ready to provide Russia with security guarantees after it withdraws troops from Ukraine, pays reparations, brings all war criminals to justice, and surrenders nuclear weapons.","There can be discussion of security guarantees for Russia after they end the war, pay reparations, put war criminals on trial and conduct full nuclear disarmament.",1
"So don't tell me you're protecting yourself and your family, because you're not. You're protecting your money and your stuff. I'd rather not give my money to a criminal, but even moreso I'd rather not die.","Like, is that ever going to actually happen to you? I know home invasions do happen, but if you're really so afraid of them then get better locks, get an alarm system, and get a dog. Go read any article about what former burglars say deters them the most when scoping out a house, and they'll tell you it's a dog.",0
"And Republicans will probably praise him for ""violating the first amendment rights of the correct people on social media for a change"".",They are achieving “conservative free speech” which is free speech only for things they like and not for anything else. Also known as “not free speech”.,1
Show me proof that the more people vote the more democrats win. That’s another myth everyone says is true but can’t point to any evidence. I like how you put legal in parentheses because I can point to half the population that would disagree with that.,True but the only disadvantage is longer lines. That is a disadvantage but it’s not changing elections if they can’t find a single person who was unable to vote.,0
Sorry I feel like I have struck a nerve or something because you seem really upset right now. You are presuming far to much about a country you know nothing about. I never commented on his comedic abilities - I just said nobody in the UK watches him or cares about what he thinks - which is a fact. Its hilarious how you think you know my outlook on life based on a single reddit comment but it's even more hilarious that you think a comment about the queen being dead would bother me. You just proved you don't really know anything about brits with that comment lol.,Most people in the UK haven't a clue who he even is. Like how you probably haven't a clue who Nick Ferrari is.,1
BREAKING: RASKIN: CRIMINAL REFERRALS: You tasked us to form a subcommittee to determine whether criminal referrals should be made.,The referral will have no actual basis for either Garland or Smith because they're already doing the investigation the Committee is asking for.,1
"Having classified documents means that you're the only person that can view them you can't share them with your spouse, kids, acquaintances, coworkers, or lovers. You are responsible for these documents and must guard these secrets. You are the only one that can look at them.....","He doesn't know where the duck these documents are. He needs to hire an outside party to find them. That means that he knows that he had more in his possession, and can not account for them. There is no accountability shield and blaming third parties for not finding purposefully hidden documents.",0
"And then there is the point, that Russia and Belrus still encycle Ukraine - while Ukraine isnt allowed to breach enemy borders, Russia can literally attack from any angle - if they ever get thier ""army"" combat ready.","Ukraine is fighting on thin ice atm. If Russia breaks through the Air Defense and can use bombers in order to attack supply chains, HIMARS and military gathering grounds, then Ukraine will have a hard time pushing or just holding grounds.",0
"No it's not enough reason, it's a legal conflict between Brazil and the buyer. I fully agree that Brazil is in the right on this. Brazil does not have a legal conflict with France. There is a completed sale, payment has been made and goods delivered. France is completely out of the equation. The current situation is that the buyer does not want to take delivery and this is now causing the risk of pollution. Now it's the question what Brazil can do. One option would be to clean up and bill the owner through the courts. Another would be to somehow force the buyer to fulfill its duties as owner of the ship. Neither of these include france. You also would not demand the yard that build the ship to pay for the removal, even though they owned the ship at some point in time.","Let's say I buy a car from you. Later I sell it, but the new owner just leaves it to rott in my driveway. Is it alright with you if I dump it on your driveway?",0
"This phenomenon would apply to all super massive blackholes, and since they are scattered around us in a relatively even distribution, we would see this expansion of spacetime phenomenon all around us, which is why we would see dark energy everywhere.","All supermassive blackholes are causing this effect within their local area, and thus dark energy appears to be uniform, because spacetime is being deformed around all supermassive blackholes that exist.",0
Well even now after further restriction of access to abortion in Poland rape and health risk or life risk of the mother are legitimate causes for fully legal abortion in Poland. Doctor who refused to execute the procedure should be prosecuted for the failure to comply with their professional obligations as a doctor.,"Yes but it is as it was before. I forgot that doctors can refuse and base the refusal on so called ""conscience clause"". However in this case doctor must delegate the patient to another doctor willing to execute the procedure which they did because patient aborted the fetus in another clinic.",0
"Because again, that would harm the US economy and Democrats don’t want to look bad going into 2024. The majority of Americans don’t give a shit about unions really, they only care about living their day to day lives. In this case the majority of railway unions support the new deal, it’s only the minority holding out. The railway companies have agreed to a very noticeable pay increase of like 25%. If the majority of the unions agree, and the railway companies agree, I just don’t think it’s right to try to please everyone in this case.",Why don't they take the position of forcing the railway companies to comply with the demands of the Unions?,1
What a disgrace. American education system has failed us and there are too many idiots who think their opinions and “research” should count for anything at all in the public square.,"Lest we forget, this is what Don did at the beginning of this whole fiasco. This is just from February 2020:",0
"Wondering if someone told him about the show ""Under the Dome"" and he thought ""I love it, it's a big beautiful dome. It's so UUGE! We should make that."".","Yes. Sadly, it's worse with the added context that he said this WHILE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. Imagine hearing this and thinking, ""Yeah, that's the guy I want to elect!"".",1
"Then again, it might be that you've addressed something which actually represents a factual blind spot that irritates party loyalists.","The catch, though, is whether or not you've truly called out bullshit or you're attempting to insert widely debunked talking points gleaned from, say the alt-right conspiracy sphere.",0
"Instead, if the Dem's see this and Hakeem Jeffries whip's so, he could instruct the party to vote collectively for some moderate GOP candidate and they only need to have a small collection of GOP to join them as I understand it.","There’s a decent shot that MAGA republicans dig in too deep, and feel they have to back whoever they decide to back instead of McCarthy, then then GOP comes to the democrats and brokers a deal for someone even more moderate than McCarthy.",1
The important part of the sentence is actually tradition. You can count on two hands the number of smaller countries bigger countries have invaded and ransacked in the last two decades.. this used to be far more common.,"I could, but this is reddit and I ain't writing a thesis. So I'll just note that 65 countries have declared independence from Britain alone. Britain was not alone in running around the globe conquering everything it could, it was just the most successful. China and Russia have so much internal strife because they're both several former countries stitched together by military and economic might, and of course the USSR used to have several more countries under its thumb.",0
This trajectory is not bound to change any time soon since both are natural allies due to their hostility towards the west and not doing anything leaves Israel with a possible nuclear Iran.,This trajectory is not bound to change any time soon since both are natural allies due to their hostility towards the west and not doing anything leaves Israel with a possible nuclear Iran.,1
The two best alternatives are and and have chapters across the nation looking for people who want to help. If anyone is looking for something to get involved in - there you go. :/.,This is not correct. Democrats voted for the authorization resolution to go into Iraq was a way to delay the war. The Bush administration wanted to go in and didn't need permission from Democrats. So the Democrats agreed to a bi-partisans resolution provided the administration gave UN inspectors time to go into Iraq. The hope was Saddam would cooperate and the UN Security council could talk the bush administration off the ledge.,1
There used to be a long civil war in NI between people wanting to be part of Ireland and people wanting to be part of the UK.,The British filled NI with many non Irish over the centuries that it's no longer a majority Irish so I don't see them ever getting back together with ROI.,1
"I believe this should be investigated if for no other reason than clearing up any national security concerns, but let’s not act like Biden’s and Trump’s cases are even close to the same thing.","I think so- they're going to a full transparent investigation and assessment of the danger and culpability, and Biden will probably come out of it just fine.",1
"For some pure PR systems, they don’t have geographic districts at all and allow constituents to contact any representative.","A caution on undoing gerrymandering completely: if you had 100% competitive districts, you could end up in a situation where one party wins every single seat and could potentially do so by razor thin margins in every district giving you a hypothetical where a party wins 50.01% of the vote and has 100% of the seats.",0
"Those balloons fly at 20km. Lowest satellite ever was stabilized at 164km high, but most spy satellites are twice that height. This x16 difference means you can skip on high end camera, and use something much cheaper. And the cost of launch (balloon vs rocket) is night and day as well. Not to mention if you can land it in international water, you can actually salvage it back. This could be cost effective over satellite, or an alternative to satellite.","There is also radio wave that bounce at 100km on the ionosphere. Flying under it might make it easier to pick up certain signal, but who knows what they had on that balloons.",0
"The GOP has convinced the gun nutters so much that nobody will dare to take away their rights as long as they can have their guns, that those nutters have become blind to see that the GOP is doing just that. Like freedom of speech, or the right to organise, or the right of religious freedom, the GOP is all in favor of limiting those rights.",Until people like this and the “freedom of speech” isn’t “free of consequences” - we will never move forward. These words she said are akin to terroristic threats.,1
"The point, which you seem to have missed, is that because there are so many abusive countries in the various UN ""rights"" commissions, they use that majority to bash countries where there are much much less abuses, creating a false picture, which is best to ignore when evaluating reality.","So if we abandon the idea that there are ""right"" and ""wrong"" nations to be members of a commission or members on a council, then we no longer have to try and solve a fake problem that we invented that doesn't exist.",1
The discussion from the previous year led to first cracks in Euro zone and a common currency as ECB has a tough job trying to please countries like Germany and Italy with the same policy.,Then Germany should better dissolve the European Union in the future if it isn't willing to have a common fiscal policy with the rest of the 26 EU member nation-states.,1
"Of course, the more expensive colleges are also (ab)using adjuncts. I’m just saying community colleges are a less-bad option for a student, not a solution.",Lowering tuition costs for future students is like putting a sawstop on after that accident to prevent more from happening.,1
"Legalize weed, forgive student debt, codify roe v wade and gay marriage. That’s all you need to do You have the senate, and you might even have the house.","To do a lot of what you want, we’d need to get rid of the filibuster. We still have 2 senators that oppose that. So at best we’d have 49 votes to get rid of the filibuster which fails.",1
I will never forget Christie on Stephen Colbert's show a few months before the 2020 campaign and Colbert BEGGING him not to coach Trump for the debates.,"It was really a fascinating thing the way Christie slipping and sliding around Colbert's questions, it sort of ended up with him implicitly saying Trump was terrible but letting a Democrat win the election was worse.",0
"People don't typically drink directly from creek water. The amount of processing that water plants use are very likely to clear any of these chemicals. At least, modern or Major population centers water treatment plants...perhaps this small community doesn't have that solid of a water infrastructure.","And assuming that they are being honest about that, it is an important point to make, so the people who have municipal tap water will drink that so bottled water will be available for those on well water who need it.",1
"Beyond that, I'd expect anything military to use FHSS. You can modulo unixticks and use that to roll the frequency every couple seconds like an RSA key or TOTP. Use two transceivers and have the last frequency's transceiver ""hunt forward"" at the half-interval point and you never lose signal.","FHSS dwell periods are configurable(change the modulo) and it depends on the radio, but you're right that SINCGARS hops extremely quickly. Extreme frequency agility costs money, CPU/DSP time, and power consumption though.",0
"2. You dont forget 6 months to a year of training completely in one or two years. If this was true, society could not function since people would be really bad at retaining information.","Also, Russia uses conscription as well. How could Finland we defend against a large Russian conscript army without using conscripts of their own?",0
An Iranian controlled Yemeni state would present significant problems for the KSA's military as if Iran wanted to attack they could much more easily through Yemen.,"If the Houthi’s win, Iran will cream their pants and put the entire region, not localized to Yemen, at much higher instability. Would you rather have Journalist-murdering Saudis or public executions for protestors Iran? Additionally, the Houthi’s are just as fucking guilty as the Saudis for starving the country. They are the entire reason Yemen is in a civil war in the first place.",1
"The move by members of the Democratic National Committee was long expected, but it does not guarantee the calendar will ultimately be enacted as designed. In December, Biden asked DNC leaders to move up South Carolina, which sealed his comeback victory in the 2020 Democratic primary, to the first slot.",It seems to be an issue that states and the DNC are still trying to figure out themselves. Here's what some Iowa legislators had to say about the DNC decision:,0
The west realizes this is going to be long war and is letting Russia bleed itself. The west is invested in keeping Ukraine out of Russian control and will continue with its military support for the foreseeable future.,"Russian had large troop build ups and ammo caches that the Ukrainians couldn't strike within Ukrainian territory, giving Russians the advantage. So the west gave the Ukrainians HIMARS, long range artillery, and they destroyed Russians reserves and ammo depots.",0
"But yea, often times the loud minority among Muslims has this vengeful reaction and it just ruins things even more.",What’s been in large part the problem with many Muslims’ reactions over the last few years is the demeasurate nature of their anger over relatively trivial things.,1
Either they end up being dairy cows themselves or are perhaps selected for the meat industry or are selected to be bulls for breeding future dairy cows.,In such cases milk based products don't seem to be so bad at all. Maybe a better goal than forcing everyone down the vegan path would be to back ethical farming procedures and methods.,0
"""It's not illegal to carry large sums of cash across state lines in the United States, although it is probably inadvisable if you have any strong attachment to that cash."".",It's also beside the point. The car dealer said I couldn't get another thousand off the price last time I needed a car so I walked away until he changed his mind.,1
"I want to visit places like that, but I think I would hate the lifestyle very quickly living in places like Yakutsk, Svalbard or any other extreme remote area. Especially the darkness of winter (I think I would like the cold, however). But yea I love exploring google earth.","Is your obsession that you want to live there, or just that you like exploring them on Google Earth? Because if it's the latter, same. But not cold ones, just any remote, desolate town in America. I can spend hours skimming over the remote areas of Oregon or Arizona, following the highways in and out, imagining life there.",1
"I've been hearing that the GOP fears the young since I started voting almost 20 years ago, just to watch voter turnout in the younger age groups be utter shit. On top of that, I think there is a significantly underestimated shift in youth political opinions towards conservatism, and social conservatism in particular. The liberal youth tend to be much more outspoken, so everybody takes them to be much more representative of that age group, but I think there is a growing number of very conservative kids coming up and getting ready to enter voting age.","Polling doesn't back that up, boomers lean to the right at basically the same percentage as they did when they were the youngest voting block, same with gen X, and millennials actually lean further to the left now than when they were younger lol. The simple explanation for this is that the leftward lean of current generations is more to do with current generations being less white, and less lead poisoned, than the older generations. And minorities tend to lean to the left much more than white voters. So unless the GOP does a major 180 on their racism they won't be gaining much ground with millennials, gen Z, and gen A.",1
In current scenario where there is a real threat of direct confrontation with Russia and everyone in Europe is raising their defense spending i don't think that even Trump would consider leaving NATO.,"Not really, while that was a point brought up, there were also statements implying some smaller nato members were not worth defending, which obviously was worrying for those on the border with Russia.",1
"I agree. Personally, I think Xi’s government is having difficulty dealing with the situation. On one hand, it wants to unite with Russia to challenge the US-led world order (since Xi has been in charge at 2013); but on the other hand, if China publicly stands with Russia, then it has no position arguing Taiwan belongs to China.","By that I mean they cant argue Taiwan belongs to China using the reason of “respect sovereignty, territorial integrity foundation”.",0
"The Kremlin’s right about this, just not in the way they think. Zelensky’s already said the war ends when Ukraine recovers every inch of occupied territory, including Crimea, and Russia is made to pay reparations.","For once, Peskov the Kremlin mouthpiece is right, Zelensky will end the conflict when every last Russian soldier is killed or kicked out of every inch of Ukrainian sovereign territory. The reason the war in Ukraine “could be a lenhy process.” is because Russia will never win, only defeat and utter humiliation await Russia at the war's end.",1
yes man because us using nukes against a ww2 power with zero nukes is the same as us using nukes against a modern power with one of the largest arsenals in the world.,"If it's a single nuclear weapon and not thousands of nukes, I can imagine that it would have the rest of the world launch a conventional invasion of Russia.",1
"Not to mention that France & Germany already vetoed Ukraine joining. If anything, the invasion made France and Germany more sympathetic to Ukraine and more likely to say Yes this time around.","I suspect that Ukraine will help if it comes down to the military option. At the very least, they could provide direct support and air defense.",1
"Stopping coal was planned for 2038?, i think. And has now been reduced to 2030. That ""it isn't enough"" might be true, but it's not like we stopped using coal and a re suddenly starting to again.","The last winter not being that cold isn't the direct result of coalburning. The next winter might be much colder again, and climate change would still be real.",0
"If an IT tech/contractor at a government department doesn't know that P2P is a security threat, we probably have bigger problems than a few cameras...","I presume the mass usage of China made cameras in public offices is down to budget managers/bean counters having the final say when ordering technology rather than security experts. In the long run an own goal for China but $B's made in the short/medium term. I suppose now they shift manufacturing to a third country to avoid the ""Made in China"" stigma...buyer beware.",1
"Just the same, you don't see a public register of who in your community is hoarding assault weapons and ammo, while they're planning an attack.","I’m scared too, of all these people walking around with guns, and Americans in general, but it does not drive me to go out and buy a gun. The right wing have convinced many people they the only way to address their fears are to buy guns, but guns are like security blankets for a lot of gun owners, and that’s even more true when you look at the most recent FBI stats and realize that only 3% of crimes were stopped by a civilian with a gun.",1
"Maybe forbid consecutive terms so that they're relieved of the burden of campaigning while also serving, but you always have experienced reps tagging in. You'd need to tweak pension rules, unemployment benefits, etc, but nothing unmanageable. A House-owned block of flats would also be a sensible thing to make available, so that renting in DC is no longer a job requirement.",As much as I dislike her DC is crazy expensive and you legally must maintain 2 residences while in office. AOC said the same thing and every conservative pundit poured out of the woodwork to dump on her...,1
"And exactly for the reason you give, Ukraine must join both the EU and NATO after this war. Let's see Russia threaten Ukraine when it as well as other countries have their missiles pointed at Moscow.","Russia will be able to send missiles, rockets and artillery shells into Ukraine FOR THE REST OF HUMAN HISTORY.",1
"At least you'll know well before your wheels fall off and have a chance to stop, unless you're a maniac and ignore your car shaking violently lol. With self-driving cars they could randomly kill you at any second.","Yet another reason that self-driving cars are trying to solve entirely the wrong problem. We should be revising our infrastructure so that cars are less necessary, not trying to lower the barrier of entry to driving even more than we already have.",1
"Honestly, I think this could actually be a good idea. I have no doubt that they will fuck something up in the execution/operation of it, but given the constraints on Iran as as well as the drone based future of arial warfare, I think its a solid concept.",Iran has been using drones for quite a while now and considering all these benefits it’s a no brained they’d try and increase that capability.,1
"Considering how large California is, the fact that only 60% of its known guns are coming from in-state purchases I think does somewhat lend to the fact that the gun problem can't be solved completely within California, because a large number of guns are still coming in from out of state. And when you compare it to Texas, where 85% of its known guns are purchased in state, I think it proves that guns are being bought elsewhere and then brought into California.","TX expanded the age for gun purchases down to 18 (from 21) which gives approximately 1 million more Texans the right to purchase firearms, an increase of about 5%.",1
Most exceedingly wealthy people are generally upset by anything that might upset the status quo. Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are both still operating in Russia.,"Short answer is no, his Twitter statements have cost him severely alienating his Tesla customer base and damaging Twitters advertising revanue. Starlink as a global communication service needs to step on as few toes as possible in order to have any chance to be allowed to operate pretty much anywhere.",0
"I’m really on the fence about this. I am pro-giving teens birth control, but it is literally the parents responsibility to care and make decisions for their teenage children until they are 18. I mean, they get in legal trouble if their child isn’t attending school until they’re 18 but in your opinion, it’s out of the question that they continue to make medical decisions on their behalf?","Now, I know what you might be thinking, “don’t the negative effects of a pregnancy and subsequent parenthood outweigh the negative effects of birth control” and I would argue that it depends entirely on the teen. My mother had her first child at 16, and while abortion was never an option (Catholic family) she was given the choice on whether or not to be a parent. She decided to keep him and subsequently had 6 more children, only one with any complications and was an incredible mom and she loves it.",0
"If the Russian incursion into Kyiv had been successful, and they had successfully captured and held the airfield long enough for reinforcements and materials to be air lifted in, the conflict would likely look very different than it does today. That’s the only thing that comes to mind that would have placed the invasion in Russias favor. But, thanks to the heroism and courage of the Ukrainian defenders (and a shitload of western weaponry), Russia is getting mollywhopped.","Yeah, it was a huge blow to ordinary Russians' morale too (to those who weren't in the state of perpetual shock & disbelief already cause we consider Ukranians our brothers and the war was unimaginable).",1
Depends if are counting to absolute zero (ie literally none left) or a relative zero (ie we only have shells we need for adequate strategic reserve). Majority of militaries count to a relative zero because they aren't in an end-of-the-world fight where you aren't concerned about strategic reserve.,"Either is bad news because the war with Ukraine is an artillery war and, if they run out, things are going to get bleaker for the Russian lines.",0
"Well, the police chief likely has not seen the type of launcher (or any launcher) before and has no reason to know how to safely handle one, so it's hardly his fault.","On one hand, yeah maybe not cool to give a loaded grenade launcher... On the other hand, the highest ranked police officer should not need any courses on gun and weapon safety...",1
"There's no problem with the government forcing ""news"" agencies to issue retractions their viewers/readers will actually see. There's no problem with the FCC saying ""you've been misleading your viewers, either maliciously or mistakenly, too frequently, so you're either going to make it right, stop calling yourself ""news"", or well pull your broadcasting license."".","Good point. Take out ""knowingly"" and maybe these dipshits will start doing some fact checking before opening their stupid face holes, to avoid the consequences.",1
"That's exactly why we have LGBTQ rights in the first place. Things like the Compton Cafeteria Riots or Stonewall, that's what advanced our rights. But conditions were horrible and people had to die before any progress was made. And a lot of that progress took decades.","If Half the Country (actually less) is conservative, then they shouldn't get 100% of the say should they? That's not how democracy works. And right now, the Courts are pretty much the prime legislative branch. Given they are legislating from the bench themselves. They even decided racism wasn't a thing anymore so they could ignore the text of the voting rights act. What gave them the authority to disregard a law because they didn't agree with it? Not the constitution. What gave them the authority to say that ""National Security"" trumps your individual rights in the recent boarder guard case? Not the constitution. They write the laws, essentially. They're throwing out rights. They have no oversight, and every ruling they make is conservative. That's not democracy, that's authoritarianism. And their rulings should not be respect for that reason.",0
I mean China doesn't need to attack now. We are basically taking away Taiwan's strategic resource advantage with the CHIPS act. Taiwan will have to always be on the cutting edge of semi-conductors or that strategic resource necessity of the world will start to dwindle. People pay more attention to something that affects themselves than if inaction does not sadly. China in the future could economically starve Taiwan and then with combination of Taiwan friendly policies and tactics like bribery to eventually get the leadership of Taiwan to support reunification. The question is the resolve and willpower or such leaders of Taiwan to not be susceptible.,"it really depends on what China wants to gain from taking over Taiwan. At the very ideological level, a war would be to end the civil war ongoing from 1927. The end goal would be to wipe out the remnants of the RoC government. To that end, they could accomplish this by wiping out the entire population on the island. They don't have to invade until afterwards.",1
Nah this isn’t good news because any democrat should be rooting for Trump over DeSantis because Trump is so much more incompetent and would be much easier to beat.,"Ehhh, I mean he's probably going to be a much better candidate than Trump and Trump barely lost in 2020 despite him mishandling... just about everything?",1
"""His deceit, which is a fundamental component of the crimes of conviction and relevant conduct, extended to tax preparers, bookkeepers, banks, the Treasury Department, the Department of Justice National Security Division, the FBI, the Special Counsel’s Office, the grand jury, his own legal counsel, Members of Congress, and members of the executive branch of the United States government. "".",Yeah. I had spent months getting beat down because I didn't trust Mueller. I was also able to read between the lines Barrs memo and knew what the report said before it came out.,1
"Oh, but they do, and it also depends on the crime. Also, white people do not care if black people kill each other. Weirdly, white people will cite crime stats as if they do not commit any crime.","Unfortunately, black people have carried the stereotype of being more likely to commit a crime for quite some time.",1
"THESE FUCKING ELITE GREEDY PIECES OF SHIT have destroyed and killed thousands of people and it should be illegal, with jail time and fines.","HOWEVER, just like the energy companies, just like wall street, the healthcare industry is ""ToO bIg To JaIl"" so, probably won't happen.",0
"Statistically, increasing firearms availability increases the number of firearms deaths, murders, mass shootings. We know this factually by the decrease in mass shootings during the 10 year assault weapons ban.","Yes. For all the sympathetic souls above who are saying, ""gun control and health care"" are the solutions, yes, both would be nice.",0
"Halloween is canceled apparently….well maybe that’s why it was set for November to go into effect. Dance recitals, cheerleading competitions, school plays….","Gentle reminder that beauty pageants, concerts, prom nights, cheerleading, and dance performances would all fit under this. It's our duty to help enforce the law, so be sure to report these if this bill is passed.",1
"Yeah 43k in Sydney isn't the same as 43k in London, but also no rational person would be making that comparison because 43k in AUD is 24.5k in GBP.","Yeah 43k in Sydney isn't the same as 43k in London, but also no rational person would be making that comparison because 43k in AUD is 24.5k in GBP.",1
"I see, sorry I didn't consider your personal story, also thank you for sharing, and I wish you had better help available. I do think US veterans have it much much better, even if not enough and not as much as you deserve.","Edit: And yes Russians do kill some soldiers when they are exchanged in PoW swap, as famously one was executed with a hammer and posted in the media as an example.",0
Even if India and China vote against Russia it will work against them in the long run since Russian Economy will stand back up again after 10 years.,"Blaming russia won't stop the war, Yes India has condemned Russia in during events like the Bucha Massacre and Modi's message to Putin ""This is not an era of war"".",0
"But the same scientist who published this article also said we’d have an extinction event in the 60s due to global cooling and over population. They aren’t right, their take is actually ridiculous.","""No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it."""".",1
It is hard enough to get people to care about evolutionary biology without having to constantly explain why one of the most important timing proteins is called sonic hedgehog.,"It was 1st discovered in fruit flies when a particular group of them was developing spikes all over their body. It was being passed on in a way that suggested it was a mutation of a single gene, so that gene was labeled the hedgehog gene.",0
"Culture and consumer demand have changed. One onion and 1 onion pre cut up are the same thing, except the pre cut onion comes with an added higher costs and profit margin.","I made record profits, even near doubled my profits. All because people wanted a better product that was already in the store.",0
"“It was determined the suspects’ primary objective was to shoot and kill police officers in what they saw as a stand against government regulations, especially in relation to firearms ownership,”.","Canadas PM is targeting legal gun owners even though it’s shown nearly all gun crime is committed with illegal weapons that have been brought in from out of country, and the only intention here is to justify those actions.",1
"It's the arctic so most likely the buoys were retrieved from the Northwest Passage if they were anywhere near Canada. The status of this area is contested, Canada considers it to be their territorial water, but some countries including China consider it to be international waters.",Some countries consider it a international strait where foreign vessels have the right of transit passage but it would still be Canadian territorial waters.,1
That's just not true at all. NATO is a defensive alliance between NATO countries. How can NATO be useless when its doing exactly what its supposed to do.,"So although I roll my eyes when Russia says ""but NATO!"", I roll my eyes because they have nukes, not because they're making a false assertion about NATO being dangerous to their security.",1
Nothing in Iran will ever go back to how it used to be after this. Even if the protests calm down they'll be back the next year and the year after that and they will only get worse. The majority of the country does in fact hate the regime they're just scared under totalitarianism.,These protestests are a huge turning point for Iran because a revolution has started. It may take years to succeed but it has started.,0
"What's a ""light balloon"", you may wonder? Luckily the ICAO thoughtfully included definitions in the same Annex:","tl;dr- US was well within legal right to down the balloon according the Chicago convention. Even LegalEagle seems to agree, as it wasn't a light balloon and it was operating in another state's controlled airspace without their approval.",0
Okay so I also saw that balloon and initially thought the same thing. But then realized the Chinese would be the dumbest people on the planet if they hooked a transponder up to their spy balloon.,"You're assuming that the balloon wasn't phoning home in real time... And considering it's not likely to be recoverable by the Chinese, how could it not be?",1
I’m not disagreeing with that at all. Just saying we shouldn’t spread verifiably false info. Just discredits the actual criticism (like grifting the SS w/ his hotels).,It only discredits the argument against him when people pull slanted logic that deviates from the argument at-hand.,1
TTP even tried to pledge allegiance to Afghanistan earlier this year only for The Taliban to publically reject them.,"Generally The Taliban was/is willing to accept TTPs aid in Afghanistan, while denouncing TTPs actions and attacks in Pakistan.",0
"I'm sorry you feel terrified and unsafe because you are simply living your life and alt right zealots can't seem to understand that and let you live in peace and safety. That really, really sucks.","This sucks. Drag shows are nothing but love, courage, and self acceptance. And then you have these hateful bigots who, for some reason, can’t stand that.",1
I’m not into either football or drinking enough for it to affect me but it’s not really fair to say “if you can’t go a few hours without drinking”.,"Tbh I'm not against banning alcohol in football grounds if the actual reason was to improve the experience for everyone, but obviously that's not what's going on here.",1
"I agree with this. Any circumstances that would remove someone’s right to vote can be weaponized, even if it’s just while they’re in prison (I know their right to vote is restored upon release).","I understand but if those prisoners can never be rehabiliated why not give them the right to vote back to them. For the inssurectionist they already lost there right to run office as they attempted to overthrow the government, I mean they could also lose there right to vote but the constitution or law does not specify that.",1
"I'd guess the odds are really good that Trump has been lying to the IRS just like he's been lying to banks, creditors, and everyone else.","Trump Org was recently found guilty on numerous counts of criminal tax fraud, so it’s a little hard to buy the feigned ignorance of how Trump’s name could possibly be associated with shady business practices.",1
"Biblically, the Hebrews were invited to Persia as Cyrus and then Xerses as sought to build universities to strenhen the Empire. And as Jewish people normally do, they thrived in their new homes. Some Persians did not like that and wanted to expel the Hebrews. Xerses married Esther, a (secretly) Jewish woman and she used her position to protect the Hebrews people from this edict, saving them from harm. This story is commemorated in the holiday of Purim.","Yes, in fact the Jewish community of ancient Iran has a whole book dedicated to them in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the holiday of Purim. Today there are far less than there were before the creation of Israel and the Islamic Revolution.",1
"So really, because the Constitution doesn't explicitly say that the government(s) can ban abortion, they shouldn't have that ability.","No the words ""abortion"" never appear in the US Constitution, it was for almost half a century considered an unenumerated right- a right not explicitly written. There are plenty more unenumerated rights that are still considered constitutional.",1
"Extreme gerrymandering, voter suppression, and no citizen ballot initiatives (and a state legislature that will never give that power to the public) are making it pretty permanent in NC and a bunch of other states.","North Carolina has a gerrymandering problem which has made its way to the Supreme Court- the SC that has a Federalist Society favoring majority. This could put We the People's democracy on the chopping block, and if the SC rules in favor of ISL doctrine, states will be harder than ever before to 'flip' despite a majority of votes.",1
not if the management and CEO weren't collecting an ungodly amount for maximizing profits by sourcing slave labor.,I wonder what happens when Apple runs out of underdeveloped countries that can manufacture their products at slave wage labor status?,0
That’s assuming of course this entire article isn’t fake news considering there’s 0 details or sources provided about anything in the article.,But this thread and article is just 100% fake news and it’s hilarious seeing people fall for this stuff.,0
I guess I would contend that Israel left the Gaza strip because it was too costly for them to protect the few settlers that were actually there and Sharon could use it as a point of saying how moral he was (omitting how quickly military actions increased once Israeli citizens were out.).,"Yes. Did you think those who think Palestinians have the right to live without rockets exploding over their heads or drones blowing up housing complexes would say ""no""?",0
"Bribery is rampant, India has a lot of potential, but they need to ramp up their entire social system to begin with.","The flight crews response was not appropriate, duct tape the idiot to a seat and he could defecate and piss on himself all alone.",0
They didn't subpoena him earlier because it would have distracted the public with his ridiculous shit show like he did the classified documents. The committee wanted thr publics undivided attention to present facts.,"This is not TV or a movie. ""The wheels of justice grind slowly yet exceedingly fine"" is a saying for a reason. Federal investigations usually take years.",0
"If I didn’t eat all there was at home was tortilla chips and jarred cheese dip, or maybe some Ho-hos because food banks sometimes only have sweets to pass out. I got over that embarrassment real quick.",Free public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.,0
"One of the largest communications platforms ever and the new owner is all about ""Free speech"" is currently trying to suppress free speech of a nation that's being invaded by Ruzzia. He'd go to Hague over treason at this point.","You have no idea what war crimes are or where treason is tried. If intentional, not providing Twitter service in Ukraine is really dumb, but not treason or a crime, let alone a war crime. Good luck naming a single US law he would be breaking by doing it. And even if it was treason (which it’s not) that would be tried in the US, not The Hague.",1
And the funny thing is that most of Russia's allies were trying to use their relationships with Russia to bolster their own positions and further their own interests.,"Putting this through the 'Lavrov to Reality' filter, seems that what he meant to say was: the West will never have to negotiate with Russia, whether Russia wants it or not? Got it.",1
"Trump cares only about Trump, his ego will not allow him to go quietly and they know pardoning him will not stop him from continuing his behavior. They let him off on Jan 6, and he has not stopped his behavior. They can no longer let him get in their way. Trump continues to do these things because there were no consequences and he's counting on them to back down. Meanwhile the GOP is wasting millions on him. They cannot continue to bankroll him and it's unlikely that those who calculate their control over the map will continue to allow Trump to get in their way.","I disagree, the longer term outcomes is that their base isn't large enough for them to win elections, they need independents. Pardoning Trump will not prevent him from continuing to be a thorn in the GOP's side. If he's in jail and no longer able to have access to his ""base"", he can't send them emails, he can't stir them up and they will move on past him to someone else. If he's still a thorn in their side, he will continue to back candidates that are unelectable in general elections. He will continue to cause problems to the GOP itself. They will pretend to help him but Kemp can claim that he can't pardon Trump without looking partisan. If Trump no longer has access to his megaphone he can't pressure anyone and the party can move on past him. As to New York, it's his organization and his money that is in trouble there. He has not been ""trapped"" as of yet but it remains to be seen if they will find further evidence of his involvement. It's possible he can be brought up on charges but it's also possible they will not be able to go directly after him. They might only be able to hit the organization. I'm not certain if he's running an LLC or something else and that distinction could prevent them from directly coming after him.",0
My school loans are paid off but I’m all about student loan forgiveness. It’s not right to send young people into adulthood in crippling debt simply for getting educated.,Forgiveness isn’t even the right word it’s passing the buck onto responsible Americans who choose to not go to college or paid their debt.,1
"Why do the Russians need so many foreign fighters? With a population of over 145M citizens, you’d think they could resource their own soldiers. Or, do they simply want others to die so Russians don’t have to?","Putin made sure, that Russians will die out in a few decades. Low birthrate, too many old people, most young men are dead or drunk. Russia has no future.",1
"Giving the name of the facility doesn't help anyone at all since I'm assuming she was one of several people giving out vaccines there. That means that almost all of those 8000 either remained unvaccinated unless they decided to go back just in case, and thousands more people had to question whether or not they actually got the vaccine the first time and many probably went back and got one too many doses. Also she most likely killed at least one of those 8000 people, probably more even outside that group since it says that it was mainly hospital staff that she was vaccinating which means the virus got to spread around more easily among the sick and elderly. Ridiculous that you can cause such a clusterfuck and face such little punishment. They should investigate every single person she ""vaccinated"" and charge her for every single covid death of any of them.","So, there is a good chance that some of these people died or suffered lonerm/permanent injury from covid infection due to not being vaccinated. This should be jail time.",1
"""Sex addiction can manifest in a variety of ways, one of which is an addiction to pornography,"" says Dr. Carla Manly, a clinical psychologist and sex expert. ""In essence, a pornography addiction is just one disorder under the main category of sexual addictions."".","This is wrong. Porn addiction is a thing recognized by the physiological community. It's a beha ioral addiction, yes, because you get addicted to the neutransmitter rush of an orgasm which is the same thing that causes drug addiction.",0
"Explain the part where it's acceptable for Israel to have taken their land and formed as a state in the first place, without resorting to biblical nonsense, and perhaps you'll sway me.",To anyone reading this thread: take one look at Israeli settlers and their actions now and you guys will realize this guy and others providing a biased retelling of history in favor of Israel are full of shit.,1
"We don't, because it's an absurd premise that any of those manufacturers would somehow get a vaccine through testing without it being tested. That's the basis of the argument that there's not enough oversight. We have a stringent process for this already. We haven't been operating in the dark; that's yet another conspiracy theory that rings true until you give it the slightest scrutiny.","Think about life before three years ago. Almost everyone ""believed in"" vaccines. They've saved millions of lives and prevented perhaps billions of cases of illness. They've rid the world of some diseases. Only the people desperately clinging to vaccines as the culprit for autism were anti-vax back then. But conservative media had done such a good job feeding gullible people's conspiratorial thinking about the government trying to trick them somehow (remember that Bill Gates was tracking us through this specific vaccine for some reason?) that it caught on that if you really didn't like the ouchy that you get from a needle, you could pretend to be super smart and have it all figured out instead of looking like a coward who didn't mind being a carrier for the disease that might kill your neighbors like it did my grandfather.",0
All I said was that Western media makes India’s problems look worse than they actually are. Literally every image of India on Reddit shows polluted rivers or slums even though 90% of the country doesn’t look like that. Same concept applies to the treatment of minorities. India is a multicultural nation with over a billion people so of course there’s gonna be friction. But you only hear about the bad stuff on here.,"Those problems do exist in America, although to a lesser extent than other countries. I don’t know of any country that has zero crime rate and zero homeless people.",0
"While I 100% agree that the Russians responsible for these acts are criminals and should she punished appropriately, having the US government call them out is the teapot calling the kettle black.",You're right though the media is telling you to hate Russia without thinking of its similarities to the US or the horrible list of human rights abuses the US has committed even in the past decade alone. Hold the rest of the world to a higher standard than you do your own government. Get upset at the very thing your leaders do in private and admit to years after it happens with no consequence.,1
"I think you made a part of my case. The media sells death which sells advertising. How do we effect global change as proposed by wealthy people, without condemning Billions of people to poverty?","My point is, it is a much more complex and nuanced discussion than just ""people are bad and caused it"". Scientists in the 1970s decided we were going into an ice age and humans were responsible. So which group is correct?",0
"He was a toxic mess after 2018, after being attacked relentlessly for years by the press, enabled by the right wing of his own party who, let’s remember, actively wanted the Labour Party to lose in 2017.",It would be a massive problem for Labour because the would be picked apart by the press as basically still being run by Corbyn in all but name and the swing voters they need to win over (that Corbyn couldn't) would be probably be deterred.,1
"The russians feel the same as you, the west is against us so its moral to defend ourselves by invading ukraine before it joins nato.","There were plenty of reasons to invade ukraine, for example its against the international law you defend to enter an alliance that would destabilize a region, like ukraine entering nato. Ukraine has bombed civilians for 8 years and keeps doing it, so since that is inmoral should we neither support ukrain or russia?",0
"IDK, if there’s one thing that the US seems to excel at, is fighting a near peer in both kinetic warfare and traditional intelligence gathering.",What if the DoD and US intel communities actually know what they are doing when they recommended not shooting it down?,1
M270A2 - 2019 upgrade with a new fire control system that allows it to use a new lighter weight battlefield ballistic missile called the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM).,It brought back 13 of them in 2014 with a M270A1 modernization effort that notably removed the ability to operate cluster rockets from it.,0
"Under independent state legislature theory, Presidential Electors can be decided however the state legislature chooses.","This has been my thought on Moore v. Harper for several months. The conservative court might be able to steal a few Presidential elections this way, but they're also guaranteeing themselves a role as the House Minority for years to come.",0
"The reason for the ""treading thin ice around Russia"" is they have nuclear weapons and western countries know that. If they didn't NATO would most likely already be in Ukraine.","Wouldn't you want to be proud of being first to stand up to Russia with a big fuck you and supporting Ukraine? I know it's logistically more difficult than that, but stop pussy footing around Russia - they're already exposed for what they are. Decide now, or later isn't going to change what Russia may or may not do.",1
"Are you calling for Canada to build its own tanks? And being able to build your own tanks means not just building your own tanks, but continuing to build new tanks for generations or else you lose the capability. This is why Canada buys jets, but it builds non-tank armored vehicles itself.","What does Canada need tanks for anyway? I mean, outside of NATO assistance it's extremely unlikely that Canada is ever attacked in a land war - to the south there is only the USA and on the Eastern front there's Alaska (again USA) to protect against possibly dumb AF Russians.",1
Because they have gone after the rich and powerful repeatedly and most people treat them the same as they are now.,Your outrage would be the same regardless of target. At least this way it gets people like you and me talking.,0
"Democrats apathy toward the Midwest and especially the south doesn’t help much either. Bill Clinton was responsible for NAFTA, and that was responsible for manufacturing jobs leaving the country en masse. He also allowed the repeal of glass steagall and that turned banks into casinos that would ultimately cause the 2008 crisis. GWB accelerated it by never making a good decision his whole presidency, but the DNC actually made that monster. Then In 2016, Donald Trump paid attention to the people whose jobs were destroyed, pretended to be on their side, and made false promises of bringing back jobs. Hilary Clinton largely ignored the rust belt.",They should have opposed religious nationalism and racial nationalism so GOP wouldn’t have any leg to stand on for bad faith complaints about whites and Christians being persecuted. They already have the world’s most reality-denying victim complex so a little strategy and politicking should be used to corner them.,0
In a world where half the electorate already doesnt know what “facts” are…RCV just exponentially complicates.,"So you believe that the electorate, including republicans are well informed and have accurate and complete knowledge of all candidates in their races?? Not just the one they are voting for??",0
They spend several long paragraphs on Biden administration promises about what they'll eventually do to clean up a problem they chose to create and they're choosing to maintain every day they refuse to allow people to enter the United States to apply for asylum. We could solve that problem in an instant if Biden decided to drop Trump's policies and went back to how we'd been handling asylum before the orange asshole instead of trying to come up with a friendlier sounding version of the exact same shit.,"CBP under Biden is saying, ""If you want to enter you must separate from your children,"" so, yeah, we're separating families. The Trump administration didn't separate families who never applied for asylum and weren't able to enter the US either, so the only difference here is that this administrations family separating policy appears to have been an accident whereas Trump did it as an intentional cruelty. But I don't think intentions matter much to families stuck in tents in the desert.",0
"I wish that I could argue that having an older political voice in office helps to keep the older demographic relevant because they would fight to keep them afloat through Social Security and welfare programs, but these old assholes In office have shown that they couldn't give a single iota of a fuck for their generation, so I say fuck it, and convince the older generation to embrace the new blood that may actually care about them.","Feinstein is a barely cognitive dinosaur, and those are the facts. This is not a bi partisan issue, it is a term limitations issue that needed to happen decades ago.",0
"I've never thought the ""lab leak hypothesis"" was total nonsense. The people who are saying it was on purpose, especially those who say it was to make Donald Trump look bad are obviously just making shit up. But an accidental leak from a lab with China covering it up....we still need more evidence but it doesn't seem like something that should be dismissed as a conspiracy theory.","Reminder to anyone who believes the lab leak and the China is in control theory, before anyone knew what it was China sent samples to other countries to help with identification.",1
Well congrats for Dems figuring out how to make sure nobody remotely progressive gets anywhere in a presidential primary.,"Clyburn, the Amy/Pete simultaneous drop out and Trump being a clown with his COVID messaging were the trifecta that got Biden elected. Gotta give them all props.",0
Both California's Roberti-Roos assault weapons ban and New York's SAFE act assault weapons bans have exemption for current and former law enforcement officers:,Both California's Roberti-Roos assault weapons ban and New York's SAFE act assault weapons bans have exemption for current and former law enforcement officers:,0
"If he starts his own party and takes his huge block of cultish followers with him, there's no way they'd continue to help him.","If this criticism continues, he’ll be driven to “prove them all wrong” by starting his own party to show them he’s still dominant. At this point I think the main reason he hasn’t already started his own party is because he doesn’t want to pay for it. But if the pressure on his narcissist ego gets bad enough, I can see him doing it. And he’ll take down those he has dirt on in the process to punish the GOP for disloyalty.",1
Wish the teams around the world would of protested and not participated in this event this year but at least some take a little action.,Would be awesome if the final game teams right as kickoff was suppose to happen just walk off the field and refuse to play.,1
"Alfalfa as a plant doesn't require much water to survive. But it's a perennial so once it's established most of your investment has been made. Your fixed costs are the same whether you're doing 1 cut or 10, so as you maximize cuts you maximize profit. Which means it's worth irrigating.","One of the reasons it's such a popular crop here in CO is that it grows well in a wide range of soils, especially the difficult clays where I am. Many farmers here don't have much water in storage (reservoirs) and are limited to irrigating during spring and early summer snowmelt. So they irrigate when their ditch is in priority, grow as much as they can, and then by late summer they're out of water but the alfalfa survives and even thrives in the summer heat. It's far less fertilizer-intensive than most crops; as a legume, it actually fixes nitrogen from the air. It's a high-protein forage for animals. It has a pretty purple flower and the pollinators go absolutely nuts for it. When grown in a field with grass hay, a 25% mix of alfalfa can actually increase productivity of the field by 300%. This is not only because it fixes nitrogen that the grass needs, but because alfalfa grows back so quickly after cutting that it shades the soil, resulting in less evaporation from the top couple inches of soil, allowing more available moisture for the grass. You are now subscribed to alfalfa facts. Edit: or as sarcosmonaut brilliantly coined them, ""alfalfacts"" lol.",0
"""Our concern is more about indirect imports of Russian gold, especially those that go through the United Arab Emirates,"".","""Our concern is more about indirect imports of Russian gold, especially those that go through the United Arab Emirates,"" it continued. The gold is melted down and processed there before being sent to various places around the world, including Switzerland, where it has a new origin, it said. According to Swissaid, it is ""impossible to really trace the origin of the gold"".",1
"But when I look at it honestly, as someone who can be as objective as possible looking to find the solution to the problem of the gun violence and deaths...the math adds up that the vast number of guns, and the ease in which they are available, are the significant overwhelming factor.","It wouldn't solve the problem violence, but we'd probably have a lot lot less firearm deaths if we had much stricter gun control.",0
Anyone trying to bash on the Democrats for this is ignoring decades of anti-union action by the GOP.,"while the republicans are the enemy of the workers , the democrats are definitely their fake friends that backstab them when possible. this is what neoliberals do. wallstreet wouldnt let anyone become president that hasnt proven his loyalty to the 0,1 percent.",1
"Now, if it's a necessary part of the deal (eg, some moderate GOP Reps don't want to vote for the same Speaker as, say, AOC), that's a different story. If that's the case, then, by all means, do what needs to be done. But barring something like that, I think it's a stronger move to have a unified Democratic Party in a coalition with however many reasonable Republicans can be corralled. The larger the majority electing the Speaker, the better. You get unity among Democrats, bipartisanship, ""Republicans in disarray,"" and can say both the progressives and GOP moderates put country above party. And it makes it unique in the GOP that they're uncompromising and would rather lose power and be in the minority than give an inch, which, hopefully, will give their voters pause and encourage them to nominate more moderate candidates next cycle.","Instead, if the Dem's see this and Hakeem Jeffries whip's so, he could instruct the party to vote collectively for some moderate GOP candidate and they only need to have a small collection of GOP to join them as I understand it.",1
I'd much rather governments lend the money to Ukraine to rebuild in stead of some crusty old billionaire taking all the spoils once again.,"Yes, I'd rather Ukraine get money from governments than private equity. That is my main point. Ukraine will never get money for free, but getting money from a sovereign country with its own currency (ex. US) has a higher chance for better terms and the possibility of debt forgiveness/cancellation in the future. It also (in theory) means you can avoid some of the issues I mentioned with private bailouts: a foreign government can't necessarily impose terms forcing you to privatize public goods, nor can it create local monopolies for itself.",1
I’m guessing a lot of the perjury charges are going to go to the people on the witness stand for Trump who keep insisting that the election was stolen in order to aid and abet the 2020 coup attempt.,"The fact that the grand jury so unequivocally asserts there was no election fraud is a pretty strong signal that they have likely recommended indictment of Trump. It means they have established, through a thorough review of the evidence, that everything he and his cronies did in Georgia was based on a lie.",1
"Pretending that the GOP ""isn't aware"" of itself is unsupported by their own history. Trump was just the latest and loudest in a 70-year string of lying, conspiring GOP leaders.","These aren't either/or ""grievances"" and it isn't helpful to rank one conservative injustice above another. My black, LGBTQ friends are attacked for being both and wouldn't agree that one kind of oppression is ""truer"" than another.",0
"In a weird round-a-bout way, this bill might help poly marriages get recognized too. This bill essentially says ""A legal marriage in one of the 50 states, must be recognized in all 50 states."".","California has a somewhat similar law, that says ""a legal marriage from another country will be recognized as legal marriage in California"" The California law has been used to get California to legally recognize the marriages between a polygamist man and his wives as valid under the law.",0
"In January 2021, when Biden took office, there was some conspiracy theory going around Chinese social media after a state news article was quoted as saying that the US naval officials (specifically the Navy) were meeting with PLA officials to discuss the return of POWs and KIAs in the present tense. And people were speculating, hang on.. the PLAN captured some US servicemembers?","An interesting question, if a US sub was detected within undisputed Chinese waters, would the PLA be legally permitted to fire upon it? Or have an unscheduled anti-submarine drill.",0
It would be a lot better if those African nations were the ones exploiting their own resources and making a profit.,"No bodies here even mention that it's up to African nations to choose what's best for themselves. Most Western audience here cries colonialism yet treats African nations like children with no agency of their own, just because they chose China. It's this exact Western colonial mentality that cause African countries to favor China.",1
"Adding a judge every four years would require judges to serve an average of 36 years to have 9 on the court on average. (That's equal to the tenure of the longest serving judge to date.) There are also reasons to think that the court should be bigger than it is now and ""every two years"" works out to a number of judges in the low to mid teens with recent service times.","3. When there was lots of talk about ""court reform"" in the media recently, one of the concerns was that there would be a tit-for-tat with each side adding two (or more) seats whenever they took power.",0
"It would take an enormous amount of resources, manpower and commitment to sustain an attack on Australia long enough to degrade its defences, secure a staging ground out of their reach and then mount a successful invasion.","In the event of a ground invasion of Australia, himars would wreck any landing expeditionary forces bases and landing areas while being practically invulnerable until the attacker gets uncontested air superiority. It’s the same reason Taiwan wants it.",1
Even if you go back to the very beginning when Russian equipment was at its best and Ukraine didn’t have the defense forces they do now; there were columns of burning vehicles.,The war we are seeing in Ukraine is between 2 relatively equal opponents. They’re relatively equal because neither side has definitive air superiority; if that wasn’t the case…this war would probably already be over (over with a lot of partisanship if Russia had won so not really a win).,0
"This what we should be doing with our spare time in between voting seasons. We should also, in turn, stay loud with those we voted for as advocates for marginalized communities as they are already burnt out on working to survive every day.","I think my advocacy work with marginalized communities is standing by those I vote for on the left. If I can help individuals recognize the importance of voting and do so compassionately and with empathy while also encouraging the good guys to do better, how is that de facto standing by the fascists?",0
Dude flying is more fuel efficient than driving. Someone flying in an economy class seat is getting a fuel efficiency of around 100 mpg for their trip.,"The 737 can seat at least 60 more (50% more), has 1/3 more thrust, and travel 5400km. That is hardly ""roughly comparable"". In car terms, it is like Elantra (Embraer) vs Camry (737). One is from a newer, less established company offering much less whereas the other is much more widely known and trusted which offers a lot more.",1
"Josep Borrell Fontelles, the E.U.’s top diplomat, called China providing arms to Russia “a red line in our relationship.”Credit...Anna Szilagyi/EPA, via Shutterstock.","Portending a Global Rift: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said that China is strongly considering giving military aid to Russia, a move that would transform the war into a struggle involving three superpowers.",0
"While we'll have to respectively disagree on some points, the idea of applying the law is the key. Their interpretation of how the Constitution/law works is what separates us. They are applying the law but to their understanding. Notwithstanding Roe v Wade, both have and show their creditations.","I'm sorry, but 'Notwithstanding Roe v. Wade' ignores the entire recent history of the Supreme Court.",1
"Sure, tie it to inflation when it goes up. But what happens after a year with negative inflation? The minimum wage should decrease, but no law will be structured like that--they'd probably just leave the same minimum wage in place, and that could be really bad.","But if ""minimum wage"" is just an arbitrary number meant to keep a chunk of the population at a suppressed standard of living, then I guess we can just keep on doing what we're doing.",1
Trade volume between the West and China will continue to grow over the next decade. Your hope of trade being cut is wishful thinking and frankly speaking against the economic interests of the West.,The part about the West cutting China out of high tech chip production is correct. You don't have to convince me of that.,0
Han Chinese is the largest ethnic group but there are smaller ethnic groups as well. I appreciate your attempt to continue the conversation even if you can't quite get the facts correct.,"However, look how the redditor worded his response. Instead of just saying Mitch McConnell is in an interracial marriage or saying Mitch McConnell is married to someone of Han Chinese ethnic descent, the redditor consciously chose the inflammatory ""Chinese woman"" trope with all the historical and contemporary baggage associated with United States and China relations -- the user even refused to type her name.",0
"Worse than that, in the dem proposed voting rights bill CA & NY would be placed on preclearance while many red states that were on it would be released. This is due to the formula being updated to recent violations.",We've seen federal rulings in states like NC where republicans were found to have targeted black voters with surgical precision to suppress their votes.,0
"I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, let alone a stand-up guy like Zelensky. Please leave Russia to whatever ignorant idiot that wants to lead that god-forsaken hellhole.","I would argue it's not about the land per se, or any particular thing that the Russians might try to take or destroy. It's about the message. It's about saying ""you are not allowed to take and destroy with impunity."".",0
"They rigged those too. For example, for decades there's been a consistently blue seat in a very rural area, so they split the blue voters in half into two other districts to get rid of them.",The problem with it in blue states is that the courts tend to be less friendly to gerrymandering and more willing to strike down the most extreme electoral maps.,1
100 or so km zone along the NATO border with Ukraine hardly invades Russian airspace. It should be enough buffer to intercept anything possibly hitting NATO territory (and cover Lviv and other border regions by a happy accident).,"After this incident, they can claim a buffer zone inside Ukraine around the borders with Poland and other NATO countries where anything dangerous gets shot down.",0
Are we expecting Russia to start WW3 just because the West deliveries long range weapons that can strike military targets in Russia?,Does anyone seriously think Russia will start attacking NATO countries just because Ukraine used long range weapons against Russian targets?,0
"I listened to an article about this that brought up some interesting correlations between the height of the returning soldiers, "" more tall soldiers survived than short ones."" And that tall men have a statistically higher percentage of male children versus shorter males.",I've heard a little about it and it seems like a lot of small factors adding up like taller men have an edge in physical combat and are slightly more likely to survive and taller men have more boys.,1
"Well said, it was a rough campaign to legitimize northern control while hurting the southern economy. Like I feel bad but I also kinda don’t as a means to an ends. Tough spot to find yourself in.","No I get that but they still rebelled against the Union so I have little sympathy for them especially with the south’s willingness to build monuments to those who rebelled against the Union. Their monuments belong in a museum but other than that I don’t support their exoneration on state sponsored land. You lost, get over it and accept your spot in American history. We all have a lot to learn from history, especially the wrong sides of it so we can move forward.",0
Already happened. America has less forces abroad today than any time since the post Civil War period 150 years ago. The globalist candidate for president lost every election since 1992 and in 2020 there was no globalist candidate for President. The Neocons abandoned the project for some military adventurism and that further decreased the American appetite for engagement overseas.,"US hegemony isn’t going away, it is just becoming more regional as America continues to withdraw from the role of world police and enforcer of world trade.",0
"Again, I don’t know and wasn’t attempting to address the current law in West Virginia but the trend is not only to loosen restrictions on concealed carry but even reduce the age requirements to allow those under 18 to carry unsupervised.","I’m not familiar with the West Virginia law but in general, no. My first firearm was given to me well before 18. I think there are restrictions on buying it before 18 but lots of ways around it.",0
I'm saying yes the 2 people that say there not democratic or Republicans should not be able just say when it time to vote on something that there going be Democrat then when it's come to us senate that affects the entire US. Now when it comes to there state and there voting on laws for there state only then yes they can vote for there state in any way they choose. America as whole does not want some random unknown party making choice that affect us all. Think about if this unknown party voted republican with out actually being republican would you not it sketchy that this so called unknown party is running on believes that are not there just to pretend to be something there not. The senate and house and president already corrupt but that's a corrupt we know is corrupt on both sides at least we know it. We have no clue what this unknown party members are really about what there believe are. I used to be Democrat and switched to republican because the democrats where no longer running on there original standpoint and beliefs. Basically choose side and that what you are or don't be able vote on something if your going vote with democrats on all there bills then your a Democrat not an unknown party.,Unfortunately it does not have be 51 as of now the senate is 50 blue and 48 red only because there 2 people that are not democratic or republican and they have already said there going vote blue and in my opinion if you not democratic or republican you should not have say when it comes to tie breakers.,0
"The cliques were TERRIBLE. I was 12, too. And we had just moved to that area the year before. Everyone felt so fake. I just couldn’t figure out how to get an in. I did not make friends, and I started coming up with every excuse in the book to not go to church after the experience.","By the time I was in college, most of my friends were at least agnostic. I was beginning to question many things.",1
"4) ""Open the legislative process"" - a rule to require that all legislation considered on the House floor is allowed amendments, or allow amendments supported by at least 10 percent of the GOP Conference.","This article did not mention the proposals for term limits, anti-lobbying measures, and banning stock trading by members of congress in office policies that the far-right wants voted on because they know the GOP establishment won’t let those rule changes be proposed because Democrats would vote for them.",1
Crazy (but also not that surprising) to see conservative women use such rabidly misogynistic language to attack a (presumably) gay man.,"It's almost like she's mad that her party sees her as the weaker sex and is lashing out, using language that denigrates him in almost exactly the same ways conservatives and misogynists denigrate women.",0
"Finally, signing such a pact would allow Belarus to allow Russia to launch attacks from Belarus, without allowing Ukraine to strike back.","But if Belarus invades Ukraine, and they are the aggressors, suddenly everything in Belarus is a legitimate target. All the Russian troops that are stationed there, all the Belarussian troops, all of the government buildings, internal police, etc. All of it becomes a legitimate target of war.",1
"Putting this through the 'Lavrov to Reality' filter, seems that what he meant to say was: the West will never have to negotiate with Russia, whether Russia wants it or not? Got it.","Which is what gets me. If the Russian government weren’t such dicks about everything they probably would be a world power. Powerful as fuck too! They have the resources providing them with so much potential. Metals, REM’s, oil, people (well used too), beautiful vistas, continent spanning territory, and infrastructure. They’re just dicks to everyone and the rest of the world called them on their bullshit.",1
181 MRAPs is pretty huge. The 190 heavy machine guns with thermal will help a lot with the mass troops rushing forward attacks that Russia has been doing.,"If Russia is gearing up for another offensive with 100k+ soldiers, they must be storing huge amounts of food/MREs in warehouses somewhere near the border. Russia may not consider these warehouses as high value targets for the Ukrainians and aren't protecting them with any air defense. I wonder if Ukraine could destroy these with drones.",1
"I’m talking about Hamas and Jihad of course, they are the ones in charge in Gaza. They don’t give a shit about their kids. Heck, they would prefer kids to get injured and die for their shallow, stupid and cheap propaganda.","The IDF are doing the maximum they can to prevent hurting innocent people, but that’s exactly why it’s almost impossible when Hamas and Jihad use their own innocent people in such way.",0
"I put neutral in qoutes because last plank said basically: ""there are a lot of good faith views on abortion so the government should stay out of it."".","I get ya. I feel better about most libertarians because I can mostly talk policy (unless they are the extreme anarchist flavor of libertarianism). Most debates boil down my argument to “Government cannot solve all our problems, and nor should it, but there are many problems that only government can solve”. What problems that can be better solved by government is the subject of debate. Examples are regulating economies, providing education, military, etc.",1
"She (and the idiots around her) should not have even been inside the fucking building, let alone that inner hallway. For a bit of perspective, next time your State legislature is in session, see how far you get breaking windows on the building and roaming the hallways vandalizing.","> I've always held that capitol police should've shot anyone who crossed through a broken window or door into the Capitol Building while congress was in session and the VP was in the building. The common response to this line of thought on reddit is usually something along the lines of, ""the crowd would have become enraged and swarmed them"" but I disagree. Hell, we have video proof that as soon as Babbit was shot that crowd dissipated and no one else tried to climb through the window. I absolutely believe a few dozen bodies (and I don't think it would've taken that many) would have backed that crowd off immediately. I also believe that as soon as capitol police started firing it would've prompted faster response times from other law enforcement groups.",1
They don’t want to be Israel most Palestinians hate Jews and by extension Israeli citizens. Jordan did occupy the territory at one point and that would’ve worked out if the other nearby Arab nations didn’t get all pissy about it. Why did they get pissy you ask? Because they like the current situation it allows them to get rid of undesirables and allows terrorist organizations that are funded by these nations to attack Israel without them having to actually go to war. On the matter of war every single country that borders Israel would attack them the second they think they could win and they have launched coordinated unprompted wars on Israel in the past. Yeah ultimately the people living Palestine get fucked but there isn’t really anything Israeli realistically could do to help stop that.,"That’s the point people willfully ignore: Palestine is basically a dumping ground for refugees and undesirables from surrounding Muslim countries, used as a buffer to and proxy battleground for Israel. Palestinians are pawns in a F’d game of Stratego between a bunch of countries that hate each other but know better than to get into an outright open shooting war directly.",1
Russia and China are new to the game with regards to Imperialism in Africa. European nations are a full very much making bank on their exploits.,Eh... Look up the African Frank. France has had economic sovereignty over most of western Africa for over half a century post-decolonisation.,0
"Ugh, as a black man who isn’t religious, I hate this pandering to the more conservative voters in SC.","And Trump, in contrast, never met a camera or microphone he wouldn’t go off the cuff to if he could. Plus, his base being so against masks and vaccines meant that he needed to talk out of both sides of his mouth to feed his desire to be liked by all crowds.",0
"Landmines always kill more civilians than military targets. Ukraine knows this. What they're doing here is no different than dropping a bomb on an occupied apartment building, except that the deaths will occur over an extended period of time. There is absolutely no justification for this.",There's literally nothing a landmine can do to protect civilians from missile and bomb attacks. It's absurd on every level to suggest otherwise.,0
"I don’t think Feinstein believes she is done. She’s delusional and suffers from dementia at the very least, and obviously has a huge ego.","I don’t really care about chairing a caucus that doesn’t do much, but the Steering committee is an important qualification for leadership.",0
"Taiwan is protecting its self by continuing to dominate the industry. America would definitely show up, and even if they didn’t other western and Asian nations are not gonna be chill with their major supplier being wiped out.",Taiwan and the company wouldn’t have signed off on this unless they had another card up their sleeve. People are also assuming the United States will be able to produce the quantities that Taiwan can and that is 100% wrong. It’ll take a long time before they are as efficient. Taiwan will continue to be relevant for a long time to not just westerners but asia as well.,0
"The way the Courts are these days, it would be a shame if someone filed 34 suits in the home states of each of those congressman, and some of them were removed or resigned and control of congress returned to the Democrats.",The US constitution states that it takes a two-thirds majority from both chambers of Congress to disable (stop) such criminal indictments from being applied to these members of Congress.,1
"Apologies for being pedantic here, I agree with this statement of yours, which is why I am refering to the definition determined by the United Nations and not a colloquial understanding of the word. Taking away children of a group in order to prevent them from being raised into their initial culture is an act of genocide. Killing members of a specific group is of course also an act of genocide.","Exactly! This is no place for Euphemisms, Russia is straight up commiting genocide. it's also what Ottomans/Turks did when they enslaved Greece. Kidnapped children and brainwashed them to be Genitsaroi, soldiers made to hunt down and fight their own kind.",0
"The core problem at issue here is whether algorithmic recommendations constitute editorial control of said content. The result would either mean that websites can exercise 0 control of their content, or they must maintain complete control of all content.","But best of all, when websites crack down on hateful content, or close because they can't moderate to the legal requirements, who will republican voters blame? The government^tm and liberals obviously. Government regulations obviously killed your favorite website, and the only ones left are liberal tech companies that are deleting your constitutional speech Vote for republicans to pack the courts to fix the problem /s.",0
"This straight up sounds like she is cutting out material that is damaging to GOP causes. Others in the article argue otherwise, but then why the hell did her own spokesman make this terrible response?","This quote from Cheney's spokesperson leads me to believe that this isn't an instance of them trying to streamline the report or whatever else, but is instead Cheney attempting to not make certain groups look bad.",0
"Even with a 99.99% effective vaccine being given to 99.99% of that country, we're still talking about another catastrophic outbreak that will result in tens of millions of deaths.","China has 1.4 billion people in it. Even at a mortality rate of 0.01%, that'd still lead to 14 million dead. 14, being a double digit number starting with a ""1,"" is in the ""10's"" group.",0
"From what I've read, while the sanctions do damage Russia's economy and do cause a certain level of unrest in the citizens, the real damage behind the sanctions is that Russia is unable to get equipment for modern weapons. Which makes sense considering that they now have to resort to buying stuff from Iran and North Korea.","I've seen other countries, mainly middle eastern ones, that have kind of killed off all of the other ways a country can normally make money, by being focused solely on nature resources, but I had no clue Russia was in this boat too. It gives a whole lot of insight into why Russia is doing this, they likely know in 10 or 20 years, a lot of those natural resources will become a lot less valuable.",0
The american industrial military complex may be interested in selling weaponry but they didnt put Putin s army in Ukraine. Ukraine is also a sovereign country and free to ally themselves with whoever they please. If Mexico or Canada made an alliance with China we wouldnt start an invasion on them.,"Yes, America WOULD go into Mexico and overthrow the sitting Mexican Government before it could make that deal with China. I mean, how could you possibly deny that?",1
"So disgraced-former-President Trump would need to show that he declared these documents as personal documents when they were created, and that they were treated as personal documents, and were filed separately. Given how incompetent and disorganised his administration was, this might be hard to do. Instead his lawyers simply assert that he designated them as personal documents, and argue that him having them shipped to Mar-a-Lago proves it (i.e. their argument is that it would have been illegal for him to take Presidential Records to Mar-a-Lago, so they cannot be Presidential Records and must be personal records, so by sending them there he was designating them as personal records).","Of course, that is nonsense as it would be too late for him to have designated them as personal records when he sent them to Mar-a-Lago; they have to be designated as personal records upon creation...",0
"I don't get Manchin criticism, he's from one the most conservative states in the whole country and people are think.","As a West Virginian, I can confidently say there's not a Republican in the state savvy enough to run against him. There are some moderates left here who vote for him every time. The Republicans always nominate the quackiest jackasses and lose big time. The Democrats may not like him, but they know they'll permanently lose the seat if they successfully primary him.",1
"Considering how many ""religious"" politicians promote policies that directly contradict their professed faiths, i hardly consider that to be the real issue.","No, it was pointing out that someone can be both political and religious, and that being religious shouldn't conflict with their ability to be recognized politically. Biden is a politician but also religious. He's allowed to attend church. He's allowed to give a sermon in a church. To say otherwise is to insist that all politicians be atheists, which is itself a religious requirement in that it requires someone to not be religious.",1
"Again, I have to disagree. Yes tickets are more expensive, but having been to many many concerts over the years I don't see much of a difference in show enthusiasm. Just depends on the fan base.","And I agree to an extent, especially with point A, sports tickets have become unreachable for many people. However I don't know if go as far as to say people are ""torching their financial position"" for concert tickets.",0
"Plus kosher laws are stricter than halal. They share the restrictions on pork and shellfish, but kosher has additional rules such as the milchig/fleischig thing.",Halal meat is not kosher (e.g. it's not slaughtered and salted the way kosher meat is). And once utensils are used for non-kosher food they cannot be used with kosher food (with exceptions).,1
"I know the relations between our countries have not been the best lately, but let's put the whole NATO-thing aside for a moment. If we can help with the rescue work and relief after these frightening earthquakes I am confident we are eager to do so.","Yeah, that sounds infuriating. And so scary. In a disaster like this you expect the response to be swift and decisive. I wish the best to the whole region and all the rescue workers in their work with limited resources.",0
"Prevent them from what, and how to prevent them? China has not demonstrated a desire to impose on the US, challenge yeah, but not force any kind of regime change on them, let alone anywhere near the capability to do so if they wanted. The US is trying to justify imposing themselves over China, and you are buying into the propaganda parroting that it is up to the West to prevent them.","China is so blatantly using them as a proxy for fighting the ""west"", while selling them overpriced goods. And their other option is to back down against the sworn enemy they thought their cyber warfare and Conservative party infiltration would bring low.",1
"They seem to think that if left politics are pro drag queens reading to kids that the left must be pro any person in drag doing any thing, because visually they look the same.",The reason to care about the Drag is he actively aligns him self with a party that attacks drag shows and trans people regularly. It's hypocrisy not the actual drag that is upsetting.,1
"You can't conclusively determine that on an individual account level, after all there are probably a few actual Nazis/alt-righters there who don't co-ordinate outside the site. We can see which Reddit posts get linked to on far-right social media though. It's also highly suspicious when certain types of posts will have large numbers of fresh accounts posting far-right propaganda.","On /r/worldnews we mostly have pro-Russian / pro-Erdogan / pro-CCP astroturfers. A few years back Iran had surprising influence as well. They don't have the numbers to significantly influence votes of the top posts, but scroll a bit down and you'll often see them having great impact. This is especially true for issues fewer people care about, where they don't get much pushback from real users and can easily form the narrative, just look at pretty much any post that deals with China as an example.",0
"A story I may not have exactly right but they were showing him NASA and after that they took him to a Randall's grocery store in Clear Lake. The Russians thought it was a set because they couldn't understand the abundance. But Gorbachev says ""we have lost the Cold War."".","Yes. It's about wrongheaded ideas about escalation. It doesn't even make any sense, its not like Bradleys can shoot missiles all the way to Moscow. If Western leaders are serious about Ukraine taking back all of its occupied territory from Russia, then Ukraine needs a huge increase in armored and mechanized forces.",1
"If these Christians exist, all they do is act as a beard to give these hateful radicals a better name.",I recall GW Bush calling terrorist people who have “hijacked Islam.” I feel that we are in a place where white extremism has done the same with Christianity.,1
"Instead they're sanctimonious assholes doing stupid stunts that drive people away from climate activism, ensuring the fossil fuel stranglehold holds for a little longer.","If the actions of some random climate activists change your mind about climate change, your ideological integrity is about as rigid as a wet napkin.",1
How many different components of an industry do we have to regulate before it's just more efficient to remove the profit motive?,This is an inherent consequence of profit seeking and not something that can be simply regulated away. The provision of critical infrastructure cannot sustainably co-exist with a profit motive.,1
"Guess what? If the GOP tries to gridlock the country so they can look at Hunter Biden's laptop, pass anti-abortion legislation, save Trump or do a hundred other stupid things...","I mean, fuck, you think legislation just pops into existence whenever Nancy waggles her fingers, and they can get unanimous agreement from the Senate by giving a smile? That's not how this shit works and by this point I'm beginning to think anyone ignoring that is doing so willfully!",1
"It is not odd how no one has came forth with a lawsuit against Clinton like there was against Trump? I mean, we hear about lawsuits being field all the time that are damaging to someone’s reputation only for the suit to be dropped later without much fanfare. No one can come forward to even present the look of a civil suit against Clinton?","Right... but no creditable accusations have come forth in regards to Clinton. People who keep bring up Clinton and Epstein are trying to find some type of fire but the people with a vested interest in finding that fire have not brought froth any fire whatsoever, which is my point.",0
"There’s a deep psychological discussion to be had here but I think at the root of it, constant social media feedback messes with our brains’ reward centers and some people crave it more than other. It’s just another form of the patient constantly pushing the morphine button.",I don’t understand how taking a phone out during class could be tolerated at any level. This would be like kids taking a Gameboy out back when I was in primary school; it would have been unthinkable. I get that teachers cannot physically take the phones but there is no way it should be allowed (policies like ISS unless it was a validated emergency or something).,0
If it happened it would be more about paying Israel back for supporting Ukraine if Israel went that route. The whole eye for an eye thing.,Ukraine is doing well because they are mostly using western gear and getting constantly resupplied by NATO countries as needed. Russia on the other hand is having shortages of everything because their defense manufacturing was producing gear at peacetime pre-war levels up until around August this year. Also due to corruption where piles of gear that was being reported in inventory was missing or never existed in the first place.,0
"""It was my understanding I had completed my course of study in Political Science and International Relations,"" Ogles said in a statement. ""Last week, I requested an official copy of my transcript and learned that I was actually awarded a broader degree in Liberal Studies with minors in Political Science and English."".","In addition to mischaracterizing his major in college, Ogles has recently repeatedly referenced his time combating human trafficking and fighting international sex crimes, claims that are dubious."".",0
"I wonder how they will be paying for this doubling of the Russian soldiers, and what armaments they plan to produce along side them when they can't even keep up with losses in Ukraine.","This isn’t ww2, throwing numbers at the issue won’t work when Ukraine is being supplied high end modern military equipment, the cannon fodder from Russia are being killed miles away from the frontline because of Ukrainian drones and artillery….",1
If there is a problem with it make it illegal. Elon is just a scapegoat at the moment. Heaps more similar business relationships with China.,"Same with China, he want access to the Chinese market and the manufacturing infrastructure. He is flirting with undermining US support for Taiwan with recent tweets.",1
"Edit: IMO, it’s always been sophomoric proposal by engineers who are ignorant of environmental science and think they know more than they really do. This isn’t a serious alternative to carbon reduction because the effects of CO2 emissions isn’t limited to heating, it’s also about ocean acidification, which this does nothing to help with.",Not unless it’s a research site where they deliberately emit CO2 to study the effects on the environment.,0
This is why I hope there is some to complement/protect any Patriot missile system that is deployed in Ukraine.,"iranian drones, especially when you consider the cost of that system. Using a multi-million dollar missile to deal with a drone that costs a few hundred/thousands would be wasteful, to say the least.",0
"I agree 1,000%. The organization I worked for actually did that. You have to help people in the ways that they want to be helped, unless the help that they want is going against someone else's rights.","Some of the solutions are pretty accessible but not popular for cultural or social reasons. Creating opportunities for women isn't impossible, we've done it throughout history and are still doing it today.",0
If other people are offended by our open existence in society in full view of everyone just like straight people are then that is really more their problem than it is ours.,Can we stop perpetuating the idea that only closeted people are homophobic? It shifts the blame for the violence towards the LGBT community onto LGBT people themselves.,1
"Unless there is a radical change in both policies and messaging, I think the GOP runs a real risk of becoming the permanent minority party in the US.",While the GOP is still in an incredibly strong political position and may yet achieve their goal of destroying American democracy...,1
If we need to understand the history and motivations of the countries in Africa apoplexy call evil it’s only fair to do the same thing for the people making the accusations.,"No, but people just always say African countries are evil and its kinda thrown with no legit reasons. My family of old south africans all say the exact same shit all the time about how the ANC is evil, etc etc and I promise you, they are incredibly racist.",1
"Capitalism is looking to destroy and reduce the lives of Africans, and everyone here is focused on religion?",What does that have to do with the growing threat of exploitation of Africa? Foreign companies and nations are in bidding wars to control the region right now.,0
"I mean, the difference there is also the Jews come from the area and are also indigenous to the land as well as the Palestinians...","According to people like you, Jews aren’t “Levantine enough” to have a state in the Levant.. but we are “Levantine enough” to be slaughtered for it by Europeans for centuries.",1
"He's not a sympathetic person for sure, but I think you picked out the wrong things about him. Having multiple partners is not Hershel Walker's biggest problem, and being a kid from such a relationship isn't either. Someone who is famous because of their rich and famous parent isn't really new either (see the Bush, Kennedy, and Trump families).","There is a lot to criticize about Christian's views, and maybe about how to political systems work to raise up people like him, but you missed the mark.",0
"Well if the DOJ and FBI weren’t going to pursue warrants for all his properties before, they sure as hell ought to now.",This is the no better than the usual response from police of “we investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrong doing.” I actually think the FBI was really smart to not take up the offer to observe the search. A few agents wouldn’t be able to observe everything that was going on and it would have led to more claims from Trump that they planted evidence.,0
"Biden’s team let him down and Biden really missed the mark here, as soon as Trump got popped he should’ve done a clean sweep of all his homes and all his documents.",Biden likely did not intend to keep the documents and they got lost in what’s probably quite a LOT of paperwork that even a VP has to deal with. Once they were found his team contact the archives and informed the DOJ and is now asking the DOJ to sweep his residences for more.,1
"States can also legalize or criminalize things. So, if you want weed legalized in your area, you need to look at your state government. Local elections generally mean more than federal when it comes to your everyday life.",Full decriminalization of it at the federal level requires congress. The steps Biden took were literally the first steps towards it and the first steps towards government funded research into it which is only a good thing.,0
"Musk let half the staff go when he took over. Since then, about half of the employees left have quit. Do you honestly think that 75% of the employees were not needed and the 25% left are going to be able to deal with any issues that pop up? Not to mention the people who cut paychecks are among the ones who quit Thursday, so we'll see how many of those 25% are willing to keep working when they aren't getting paid anymore.","I used to work in a factory and a new boss came in and told the maintenance guys to stop shutting down one of the chains for maintenance every weekend because it was eating into production time. They told him that was a bad idea but he didn't listen. Then, like you, he claimed that everything was OK because for 2 months everything was fine and that proved the weekly maintenance wasn't needed. But then it broke down and because of no maintenance they had to replace several key components that had failed and instead of the 16 hours of down time that would have happened over those two months the line was down for a week and they had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on replacement parts.",0
"So I'd say, the one real issue is if Biden's camp knew about them and did nothing in like 2021. People crying that Biden and/or the DOJ didn't disclose this just days before the midterms are grasping at straws.","Was thinking earlier today how funny it would be if Obama issued a statement saying ""I declassified the Biden docs with my mind in 2016."".",0
"More specifically whether they can be limited by the courts and the (state) executive. Legislatures already have the Constitutional power to determine the ""times, places, and manner"" of holding elections. The question to the Court is ""Whether a State’s judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing ""Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives"" prescribed by the Legislature and replace them with regulations of the state courts' own devising"". Basically, can a state court overrule an election-related law and impose their own set of rules?",Updatung US election law is significant. This is to prevent another Jan 6th. This is a huge blow to election deniers and MAGA that were trying to undermine US elections and democracy.,1
"It’s so stupid though, because people have apparently just brain wiped all the times Ukraine tried to negotiate at the beginning of the war only to have Russia immediately go back on negotiated agreements.","Basically this is just the US asking Ukraine to make a diplomatic gesture that Ukraine is trying every avenue for peace, the US knows these talks will not accomplish anything, but it makes for a good optics and makes it harder for people to stop supporting Ukraine since it's doing EVERYTHING it can, even if peace talks would be pointless.",1
"Alternatively, those in the GOP majority who follow the party were probably very dismayed with Trump by what happened in the election. He's an easy target for them to attach blame to, rather than admitting that their messaging is also part of the problem.",I'm not sure that the poor GOP showing in the midterms would turn many of Trump's true believers away from their Dear Leader. They are part of a cult and will believe whatever reality he presents.,0
"Russia is probing the waters with smaller (although still sizeable) offensives such as under Vuhledar. Based on the disastrous results, they're likely to call off their larger offensives, lest they bog down, get wrecked, and allow a massive Ukrainian counteroffensive (either in April or even earlier.) Russia can't afford another strategic defeat like in Kharkiv last year, not because of a lack of manpower, but because it's already on shaky ground morale wise, and continued defeats could spell doom for Putin's ability to continue rallying his nation to fight.","Hence, I don't believe the upcoming Russian winter offensive is truly aiming to capture Kyiv or Kharkiv, or otherwise defeat Ukraine as a whole. It's neither physically not politically realistic. Instead, Putin's goal is to tie up Ukrainian troops and spoil their own counteroffensive, hoping to buy enough time for the West to get tired of supporting Ukraine.",0
"The russians WHOLEHEARTEDLY support this war. Around 80% according to the recent polls. All the raping, looting and kidnapping is also widely approved. There are no innocents.","That statement is completely ignorant of the actual real situation. Yeah, there are people that are against it, even if they do not speak about it, but have you been to their telegram channels? Have you been to the social platforms? Regular citizens, their wives call out for rapes, beheadings, castration of Ukrainian soldiers and civilian population. Cheer at dead Ukrainians. Celebrate another Ukrainian civilian target being destroyed. It's fucking VILE in there.",0
"Ukraine executed the false flag attack on Poland so poorly that there was no chance to blame Russia without losing all credibility. Now they are calling it ""stray missiles"" and ""accident"" adding that none of this would have happened if Russia didn't invade Ukraine... Idiots.","And none of this would’ve happened if the Russians weren’t attacking. Criminals are held liable for injuries and deaths that occur during the commission of a felony, even if they didn’t directly inflict said harm themselves. The Russians are the criminals here, if they want this to be avoided they can walk their happy asses out of Ukraine. It’s super easy, the border is literally right there.",1
"A Communist party in power, guided by and implementing Communist theory, is left-wing - even if it hasn't achieved whatever you think ""REAL Communism"" is.","To say ""it can't be Communist if there's a state or authority"" is nonsense and shows you don't know much about Communist theory.",0
Don’t US warships have those automated mini guns that blow anything that gets close out of the sky? Do the Russian ships not have the equivalent or are drones too small to trigger those turrets?,"I suppose the advantage over a missile is loiter capability. Although, why not just have a drone that carries a missile?",1
What type of protest is most convenient for you? A convenient protest CERTAINLY has no impact either.,"Do i think that non violent protests are an effective way to enact political change? Yes. No one was hurt, 2 frame's were lightly damaged, and the news travelled round the world.",1
Is it just me or are all these old conservative voters gonna be dead in the next 20 years? I feel like they can’t be replaced fast enough to be equal to their hold now. And that’s a good thing if true.,"True. But the democratic people aren’t the ones who moved lol. Trust me I’m with you when you say the democratic turnout wasn’t the best…but the last number shuffled around was about 300,000 new republicans signed up in the state…mixed in with good ol’ fashioned gerrymandering…it’s a lot less blue.",1
"I mean, gas should only be used in borderline life-or-death emergency situations IMO. You used gas in the correct and environmentally proper manner (you're only using it when it's absolutely necessary).","One day (assuming World War 3 doesn't kill everyone before then), we'll have some super cool high tech solar powered stove that uses plasma or some shit to generate heat.",0
Our Grandparents today experienced the systemic racism of Jim Crow. So yes it’s important for people to understand the full context.,150 years is just a blink of an eye there are people alive today who have grandparents who were enslaved.,0
"There's a very good reason why diplomacy calls it ""Putin's war"", and its because Russia will outlast that little manic.",The rest were the usual suspects of Russia alarmists who for decades spend their time crying wolf about anything Russia does or doesn't do. They just happened to be right in a big way for a change.,1
"It's important to remember, ANY legislation that can't somehow get folded into a major spending bill needs 60% to pass, so until Democrats can pick up more seats, get some measure of Republican buy in, or they can convince the small handful of Democratic holdouts to kill the filibuster, nothings going to happen.","But again, even if in theory there were 50 senators on board for this from the democrats (which there probably AREN'T to your point) it would need to overcome the general filibuster.",1
"I've seen several videos like this, shot from Ukrainian body-cams, where the Russians pretend to surrender, then one pops up with a gun or grenade.","We've seen a Russian in the brush of the woods fake a surrender awhile ago near his 2-3 other comrades by pulling out a grenade, he was quickly shot by the Ukrainians and his grenade blew up on his body. The Ukrainian soldiers filming then said ""Hey don't shoot these other guys"" and then the video ends. These soldiers made the choice to kill the unarmed men out of either fear or anger because of the injury rambovich caused. I don't believe Perfidy applies to group based on the actions of one soldier, especially those who didnt take part. Whatever happened it was fucked up and horrible.",1
"If no polls are accurately sampling Democrat’s turn out or youth vote, the information is already being depressed. Add the constant flood of right leaning polls entering the media and the averages start to skew conservative.","Look at the type of poll Republicans are flooding the media with right aligned polls all showing Republicans up while non-partisans like Marist, NYT and Monmouth are showing democrats up. So places like RCP and 538 are showing skewed results because of this flooding. The polls don’t seem to match reality when it’s coming to early voting numbers and it’s being theorized that young voters and new voters in 2018-present aren’t being accurately represented because they don’t count as “likely voters” because LV is usually adjusted for voting in at least the past 3 elections. You also have these partisan polls under counting the youth. The IA poll that came out right after the PA senate debate showed Oz up by 3 but their weighted sample of young voters which their range they used was 18-39 was only 14% even though normal participation on average is 20-28%. That’s not even counting that they used a massive age range and under weighted while had a majority of their respondents be white people between 40-64.",1
And the worst the society is the worst the violence is. You want to get into it? Where are they beheading and beating people in the street? It sure aint denmark.,Banning guns is a bandaid solution. We need to address the state of the people. A happy and functioning society doesn't have shootings every other day.,0
"Billions of dollars of loans being forgiven creates a plethora of economic problems. If the loans are forgiven, then the problems arise. This is an injury for people all around. Especially states, whose economies get hit. I get the standing argument I just feel as though this case is slightly different due to the potential repercussions.","I understand the issue, but I don’t think standing is as relevant as you make it out to seem. The injury is clear as billions will be forgiven “if and when we prevail in court” (according to the department of education). This seems enough to meet the injury requirement of standing to me. Reasonable minds could differ but I think it would be a worse precedent personally to not accept this case, giving future presidents the potential power to do this (when it likely isn’t constitutional).",0
"Haiti has been out of control for quite awhile now ""decades,"" but recently it's worse than just uncontrollable pure madness and chaos.","Currently, Haiti is anarchy. The country isn't run by anybody, but the groups with the strongest power are violent gangs. The country is suffering from cholera outbreaks. There is rampant poverty and loss of life.",1
"Either families accept their children will be disadvantaged, or they move to another state. They have no power to change it until the next gubernatorial election in 2026. I think this is similar to all the other terrible legislation/actions red states have been doing: anti-abortion, anti-LGBT, anti-education, etc. It may not be the sole reason, or even the primary reason, but I'm sure they aren't unaware of the demographic benefits, and doing it right after states are reapportioned after the census means they get the benefit of the larger population for census, reapportionment, and Electoral College purposes, but also the benefit of a smaller, more concentrated Republican population for all the interim elections.","ETA: It might also help drive students out of public schools and into private schools, which is a backdoor way to defund public schools, helping with the GOP's long-term goal of destroying public education. Then, children of the rich will still get educated, but children of the poor and middle class won't be able to afford it and will either be stuck with progressively worse public schools, or, eventually, no schools at all, once the GOP drives out enough students they can declare public schools a failure and say they're just ending public schools altogether.",0
"Also, it is controlling the narrative against Russia. Russia has been telling Ukrainians that their armed forces are surrounded in Bakhmut and that soldiers are surrendering. It’s not true—but, Russians are trying to break the feeling the Ukraine will inevitably win this war.","I'm sure to the Russians it's great propaganda because they see Ukraine as a NATO puppet. Meanwhile in Ukraine they say ""We will suffer all the real hardship and loss of life in this war as long as NATO keeps helping us to reclaim our freedom."".",1
"Ye might even think it's a compliment since he believes that Hitler invented the microphone and the highway. (Needless to say, neither were invented by Hitler.).","The call it what it is. A recent and possibly future Republican President hangs out with Nazis, and is only upset when they think they're better than him.",1
Not on crack.. sugarcane will grow in the US but there’s no labor force in the US that would work it. Other options are Cuba which is communist and used to be the main producer of sugar for the US pre Fidel Castro. Other option is Puerto Rico and we alll know that’s not going to happen….,The problem is you’re delusional… if America could grow enough sugar beets to be independent of importing sugar like it’s wanted to be since Fidel Castro…. Why wouldn’t it do it….?,0
"Utah mails a ballot to every registered voter. They have since like 2010 or 2012. Republicans don't mind mail in ballots, they only mind Democrats being able to outvote Republicans.","In any state where the cities outvote the rural areas, but barely, they want to end mail in voting. In states like Utah where even the cities can't (or won't) outvote the rural areas, they don't care.",0
"Oh no doubt. Agains, I was just looking for information if the judge played a role knowing the warrant shouldn't had been issued, or if she saw the evidence presented as truth by the officers and from that probable cause was there, and would any other judge had also signed the warrant based on the facts presented.","Because if he went by what the cops said, what happened to Breona is horrible. But that would be more on the cops than the judge. If I'm missing any parts that would make the judge just as guilty, then can someone chime in? Not really defending the judge as much as wanting a fuller picture of what the judge may had done that was wrong.",0
"Giving the Ukrainians a random selection of tanks would make logistics way harder, plus probably concerns with sending their latest stuff to Ukraine for security reasons.","Because the US and most NATO countries don’t have 30+ year old Soviet tanks laying around, and training the Ukrainians on the Abrams tanks would be too expensive/take too long.",1
"And that's assuming 100% of them and the independents that aligned with them would have supported it -- if only 1 dissented, then it doesn't matter that the other 59 did support it. So not really fair to say the parties are the same when the vast majority of Democrats generally support the good thing, and the majority of Republicans support the bad thing. It's just hard to pass stuff because of the filibuster. All Republicans need to do is block stuff.","If my comment was confusing, maybe read up on the filibuster and then look at the historical numbers of Democrats vs Republicans in the Senate.",0
"Honestly, if they want to raise the voting age, let them have at it, it could set a precedent for us limiting the voting age. Anybody over the age of 75 is disqualified from voting because they are too old. Now that could actually help us create a progressive government.","Democracy works when parties/candidates adjust THEIR policies in order to earn votes. The GOP doesn’t believe they need to earn votes and win over voters. They believe the power should simply be given to them, and they just need to use their power to prevent the people who would vote for their opponents from voting. That’s not democracy; it’s something else pretending to be democracy.",1
"...unless you have a compromised immune system. Measles vaccine is a live vaccine so some of us can't take it, which leaves us completely vulnerable to measles and the assholes who don't vaccinate their kids.","Unfortunately when people refuse to vaccinate, they look mostly at the death rate/virulence of the virus and not long term side effects.",1
"Some of the solutions are pretty accessible but not popular for cultural or social reasons. Creating opportunities for women isn't impossible, we've done it throughout history and are still doing it today.",I'd argue that a lot of effort internationally went into allowing a generation of women in Afghanistan a chance at education and rights.,1
"Native American Cree here from Manitoba originally. This shit is a hot mess. Long story short. Brits signed treaties with Indigenous people due to a lack of resources to fight the ""Indian Wars"" against them. Indigenous people signed up due to starvation.",You're probably of European ancestry. My people trace our beginnings here. So you have magical powers called white privilege.,0
Musk is trying to force Apple to remove the mobile Twitter app from the app store in order to give Republicans an excuse to attack “woke corporations” that are “censoring” free speech.,"Honestly, as much as I dislike Musk now due to his right wing nonsense, I do think that the monopoly power that Apple has over its app store is problematic.",1
"Here's an idea: don't bail them out. Intervening in the marketplace ruins the concept of capitalism. Especially if the intervention is to keep a business afloat (airline industry) or to protect them from foreign competition (baby formula). Protect the organization of labor, yes, and protect worker rights, safety, etc., but leave it at that.","Back on the original subject, we shouldn't bail out any business. If a certain industry proves to not be profitable enough for the private sector to manage and it is deemed essential, then and only then should we attempt to nationalize it.",0
"No it hasn't. The US has never hit the debt ceiling. Under Obama they came really close, and even just that caused the credit agencies to lower the US's credit rating.","We came close to it this last time and got our credit rating downgraded. But this time around, I think the people involved might just be crazy enough to add a 5th to the list.",1
"The newsmedia needs to get WAY better at headlines. Too often they are deceptive/inaccurate. The vast majority of people (unfortunately) do not read past the headline. The headline is without question the most important part of the article. Saying that you ""clarify"" it in the body is meaningless.","Really awful headline that will trick people who don't understand basic US civics (which is a significant number of Americans). This bill will go nowhere. It will not become law unless it also passes the Senate and gets signed by the president, which has zero chance of happening.",0
"Only if the donor was vaccinated very recently, couple weeks tops. In this case, the blood might have some of the immunological response inducers of the vaccine. Otherwise, the blood would only contain antibodies, which could fight the disease if it was present at the body at the time, but do not induce immunological memory and wouldn't serve as a vaccine.","If someone who is unvaccinated get a transfusion of vaccinated blood, would that be similar to the person getting a vaccination?",1
"AFAIK there’s been no specifying that PAC-4 missiles would be used. Given trends with other weapon systems donated, it seems the Army will probably be sending older generation interceptors that might be near retirement date. That would be somewhat more economical.","The broader point about NASAMs being more appropriate is still a valid one though— sidewinders are ridiculously common, and the system has lower training barriers.",0
I suspect (with no evidence whatsoever) that Feinstein would have endorsed a non-Porter in her retirement announcement and Porter needed to beat that to the punch.,I suspect (with no evidence whatsoever) that Feinstein would have endorsed a non-Porter in her retirement announcement and then promptly forgot she retired and announced she was running again.,1
"Then the defence and prosecutor argue for what sentence they think she should have and why. The defence asks for lower, the prosecutor asks for higher, 99.9% of the time, they argue why, the judge rules. This can take 5 minutes, and I sat through a sentencing that took 4 hours (I was a victim) before being adjourned and finishing the sentencing, which took another 2 hours, I wasn't there because of a snowstorm but the victims advocate and probation department (who asked my opinion on their guidelines before the first hearing) kept me notified.","There's generally a low end and high end. The judge can sentence outside these, and from what I know, has to put on the record why they are having and upward or downward departure from the guidelines.",0
"Also, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.","The major parties won't form a coalition together, so the governing party is whichever one can make the best offer to all of the special interest parties. The last few governments have even had a rotating cabinet and even rotating prime ministers in the same coalition.",1
"Anonymous, Ukranian hackerd, Russian IT defectors, Oligarchs clenaning up files, databases etc. When you have so many enemies as Russia and the country is a damn shit show.",Seems more like a way for and outside force to cause chaos inside of russia. These places are easy enough to hack vs national Russia data. It isnt that hard to have a good security at high levels if you cash. Those locals places dont have the cash.,1
So sounds like you have a fake scandal over story wrote that the author wouldn’t put their name to spear headed by a disgraced lawyer with a history of lying and a connection to the Russian oligarchy under multi federal investigations for fraud. On top of all that nothing will ever come from the laptop. No prosecutable crimes were discovered and no DA is ever going to indict on any evidence from that laptop.,The laptop was gave to ghoulini. Who Is currently being sued for billions of dollars in connection to his other lies around the election. On top of the criminal investigation of his involvement with the fake electors fraud and his fraud guaranteed company and his American first campaign finance crimes with lev parnes.,0
"You should see that one video of a Sherpa trying to help David Sharp at 8300m, everyone is slowly crawling up to the mountain in all the videos I see and they just pull him out of the cave like it's nothing. (I'm not 100% if it was david sharp in the video or someone from the 2016 disaster, can't find the video right now, but I remember him being in the pose of the earlier David Sharp sightings by the IMAX team).","There are a few such checkpoints, not just the greenboots guy. Problem with Mt. Everest is, it's so fucking cold up there, you basically just freeze to the environment.",0
2)No one can bring a lawsuit to prove it's illegal because they can't show it's being harmed by the illegal act.,3)These states are using the excuse that their loans are being paid off by this order so they are being harmed by it.,0
"I disagree. The religions themselves are absurd. Just read the stuff in there, it's ridiculous on its face. I've read most of the Christian bible and didn't find anything in there that was particularly intellectual. It's mostly ignorance of science, superstition, mixed with control over the people.","There have certainly been religious people who have made contributions, but I believe that is in spite of religion, not because of it.",0
"It's not going backwards it's unrigging the game and it would have gave Democrats a chance to take control in states like Wisconsin when they receive more votes. It is incredible important to end state and congressional maps that can give results like , , , , and.",So these maps basically made it so as long as they get somewhere between 40-45% of the vote to get a majority in state houses and got some stupid maps for Congress that make no sense.,1
"Orbán said that the West does not understand that in Ukraine, time is on the side of Russia, which is a powerful country and can mobilise a huge army, but Ukraine cannot.",source: telex.hu/belfold/2023/01/27/orban-viktor-karmelita-beszelgetes-eu-ororszag-nato-haboru-joslatok.,0
"There are no underwater drones in this conflict, you just made that up, second I wasn't expecting a boats can't attack tanks reponse, and third I would guess the drone boats can carry magnitudes more explosives equivalent to a U.S. Predator drone which can sink massive ships, would be my guess.","Ok, I apologize for my first statement. But I wouldn't trust anything that starts with ""Russia says"", its usually 180 reverse. And lastly these are the water drones I've only heard about by reading and seeing their POV attack videos First time hearing there are submarine drones in the works.",0
"This is FIFA. They buy/sell/own the World Cup, and therefore your loyalty to it. They \sold\ the WC to Qatar who bought it without even blinking they have so much goddamned oil money. Now it's in their country and they want their fucking Sharia rules on FIFA. FIFA will bend, you know it, because fuck all of you, the money has already changed hands. FIFA doesn't care what you think. Qatar sure as fuck doesn't care what you think, you can fuck right off. They already have your money from oil and will get more tomorrow. You want beer? STAY HOME. Don't come to Qatar for the WC. You'll only fry and regret. Fuck this whole fuckshow.","Fuck you FIFA. You forced Brazil to sell it in stadiums but hey because it's Qatar, fuck your own rules right. Bunch of money hungry fuckwits ruining the world cup.",1
"A smart friend told me that it’s just an illusion that there are two parties. Yes, corporate lobbyists truly influence legislation for both sides, but for the last few years only the Democrats are interested in real governing.","It's corporate greed, and as long as Lobbying is legal it's gonna remain that way because the Senate and the House can be bought with donations.",1
"The Marathas were vassals under the Bijapur sultanate - not the Mughals. When Aurangzeb invaded the Deccan, the Marathas used that opportunity to rebel and break free.",Its not that Aurangzeb never conqured them it was that they were once part of the empire but they rebelled . Thats why he fought a long exhausting war against the Marathas and thats true that war went no where.,1
"So if the right wants to ban abortions because""we value life"", then they should not only pay for all the woman's medical care, but pay at least $57,000 per pregnancy that they are forcing the woman to undergo. (This also doesn't include extra pay for delivery and, having seen my wife deliver two babies, that would be a huge additional cost!).","Uh uh. No. We are NOT going to let this pass. If it does, I can't see the SC government making it much longer before it's overrun by half of its population and chaos starts.",1
"And spare me the ""a flat tax doesn't tax everyone fairly"". Yes, it does. 10% is 10%. How much you pay is relative to how much you make. $3000 from a $30,000 salary is a lot less than $10,000 from a $100,000 salary. If they lower the tax rate to 10%, everyone will take home more money so they'll have more to spend on food, clothing, etc if they are low income earners.","We need either a consumption tax or a flat tax (somewhere around 10%), that everyone pays, no ifs ands or buts, except those under an established poverty line.",0
"Otherwise it would be a first strike or preemptive strike, which by definition is different to a counterstrike, and what Japan wants is counterstrike capability.","So, Japan is debating obtaining missiles to shorten the time-of-flight to a ballistic missile base in an enemy country (North Korea), which is significant because Japan was preciously self-defense only.",1
"It would be the state legislature, not the judiciary. It would put all power surrounding elections into the hands of the state legislature and, in some cases, SCOTUS.","Why have a judicial system if legislatures can decide? Somehow, it seems autocratic but who am I to object? Also, by avoiding a ruling on red state gerrymandering, the Supreme Court handed control of the House to republicans.",1
"I’m a woman & every time I hear that music blasting from some kids car it’s lyrics about selling drugs, killing women, forcing women into prostitution; beating women up who won’t give him her money - how come a drag Queen performing ‘Gloria’ is offensive but this music talking about killing some 18 yr old girl forced into prostitution isn’t?","The right needs to be forced into confronting people they’re too scared to confront. If they’re going to insist on continuing this nonsense, then I’ll insist they go all the way & include everyone.",0
"I just want to clarify that anybody labeling proxy, compares it to the fear of “communism” spreading or other small-ish consequences in this the past.","Second, no one said anything about proxy wars being bad (or at least worse than the alternative). It was an observation that we're already regressing back to the cold war era a bit just by nature of the groups taking sides with funding the Ukraine/Russia war.",1
"This has NOTHING to do with Russia-Ukraine. You guys are so consumed by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, you even look at unrelated news from that lens.","Ukraine and Russia are supposed to iron out their differences diplomatically, are they? Like India did with Pakistan and China, right?",1
"Not really, they’re letting her keep two subcommittee chairmanships right now, if she caucused with Republicans, she’d lose those plum assignments instantly.","This was the only move she had and it was basically a desperation move. Her only hope is convincing Democrats not to run someone in 2024, and I highly doubt that happens.",0
When NATO changes the charter it was founded in. Under article 10 it limits to only nations with land in Europe joining after its founding (Canada and Us are exception).,"The actual important part is that the treaty says new members have to be European, meaning not even countries like Mexico could join even if they wanted. Canada and the US ""gets around this"" by being founding members.",1
"I can’t help but feel that if I were a homeless alcoholic forced to fight my own people, the moment I had the chance I’d kill the highest ranking “friendly” pos I could get in my sights.",Or b) wait for the right moment to cause as much destruction to my oppressor with the weapons they gave me as possible (and probably die from the fallout).,0
"Saw an M1A1 there once (was LRS with 3rd ID at the time, would have been around 1988) that had the entire crew standing in the mud just staring at it (I think they were 3rd AD, but it's been a while). We approached them and asked if they needed a hand. They had thrown a track, to the inside...well, shit. So we said we'd help them break track and get it fixed when the driver just laughed and told us we should look at the other side. Yup, thrown track...to the inside.","Roughly half of the current population of Crimea today are Russian citizens who we given incentives to move there since 2014. Over a million people. How do you handle that? Forced deportations? Let them stay and give them voting rights? If you let them stay, how do you protect them from retaliation from Ukrainians living there? Do you even try? How do you handle security? Deal with insurgency? And how do you do any of this and maintain the moral/legal high ground?",0
"Because name 1 time where russia didn't break an agreement. This is clearly an attempt to return to ""business as usual"" where the only losing party will be Ukraine. It's not russia that needs security guarantees but Ukraine. And what negotiations are we even talking about when the fuckers broke each and every agreement they had with Ukraine or others since the 90s. How stupid do you have to be to think that it's a long-term solution that will protect the victim - Ukraine - and not just a way to get back on good terms with the aggressor. And so far I have not seen Macron or anyone else clearly and openly state, not to mention have it in writing, that if russia is to ever break an agreement again they would rain missiles on every military person or equipment they have anywhere outside russia's official borders. Anything other than that is just an attempt to stab Ukraine in the back for their own wimpy benefits.","So what you're suggesting is, we shouldn't even try and make russia accept any conditions that are favorable to the west and ukraine?",1
"But even if Russia agrees to some kind of swap, the question is: where would Kazakhstan find the extra crude to put into the Russian pipeline system in order to direct more to eastern Germany.","Another highly convoluted idea might be for Russia to supply crude into Kazakhstan’s oil refining system, freeing Kazakhstan to put its own barrels into Druzhba. Kazakhstan could then sell KEBCO — the rebranded Urals — to Germany. The Pavlodar refinery in eastern Kazakhstan previously processed Russian crude and could presumably do so again, as long as there is sufficient capacity in the pipeline through eastern Kazakhstan to supply the plant and continue to meet Russia’s exports to China along that same route.",0
"The only feasible outcome I can see from that sub is them ditching Fox but moving towards NewsMax or whatever the far, far right media is now.","Fox has always has their bug in the lower corner say “Fox News.” This implies that all of these “entertainment/ opinion shows are actually journalism driven. Only after lawsuits does Fox management claim “these shows are not news, and should never be used to form an opinion.”.",1
You thought you had a steady job - and if you're doing amazon you might not have many options - and then you get dumped because amazon just doesn't need you anymore.,"Where I am at average salary is 18.75 an hour for amazon warehouse. Assuming 40 hours a week, the positon would cost 39000 per 52 weeks. Times 10,000 that's 390 million.",0
"I wish we lived in that inclusive, civilized society, but we dont. And we never will. And it wouldnt matter, because its not just about society. Its also about having authority and agency as citizens as a collective in making sure the entity which we give so much power follows the will of the people and acts in our best interests.","Additionally, citizens as a collective own semi autos in order for us to have any sort of leverage in getting the state to conform to the will of the people. Rather some than none. Just ask the Jews in Nazi Germany, or Ukrainians today.",0
Anyway I was clear with you that this militias isn't anything better than Wagner they even could be more dangerous after the war end also i was clear about the fact that's there is no pro-democracy in libya.,Any way I don't want to enter I unless argument I was just try to explain that's what happened In libya isn't a war between good and evil that's is really Ridiculous.,0
"Yes, there are weekends where I have to be the bad guy and say we're working until it's done...but I've been on the other side too.",We've managed to make plenty of profit. The amount of ridiculous excess greed in the US has gotten bad. I refuse to allow the people that work for me to feel like they've been taken advantage of.,0
"Personally, I feel this should be a prime example of why we should have representatives picked on a ratio basis of state votes as opposed to candidates running for individual districts, as most states have such lenient residency requirements for qualifying to run in a district as to make it laughable that a candidate needs to ""know"" their district. See Marjorie Taylor Greene or even Dr. Oz (yeah, I know, he didn't run in districted election, but he qualified to run without even actually having lived in the state for any appreciable amount of time, which was a factor in him losing) or any other carpetbagger that has won an election, quite honestly. Would I rather advocate for representatives to have at least a decent amount of experience within their own district? Absolutely. Am I being pragmatic about the way candidates move to qualify for a district they believe they can win as opposed to winning the district they're in and the way districts are redrawn every ten years, negating most or all of the ""hometown"" essence behind being a representative? I believe so. I used to live in a district that had a 200 by 20 mile with rural bubbles on the sides, splitting three heavily blue cities into multiple other districts that all went red because of how they were split up and countered by the rural vote. That's how you get cities that vote for blue presidents and blue senators and blue governors (and other blue statewide seats and mayor's/city leadership) but have solid red representatives in the US House and State legislatures. We had a cardboard cutout of our rep at town halls because he refused to show up to meet constituents unless it was a Republican donor event. There's a lot of that going on outside of major cities now, and even in some of the bigger cities. Just look at Nashville after this election. Gerrymandering split apart a very blue city with a large population to the point that there are no Democrats representing it, and only 1 Democrat was elected to the house from Tennessee, even though the numbers should have had 2 Democrats, at minimum. The Wisconsin elections are just as skewed, with districts radiating from Milwaukee and Madison in a way as to concentrate blue votes inside the cities and then negate them on the edges with sprawling districts that only make sense if you are admitting you can't win an election with maps that are remotely fair.","Or if you want direct comparisons, the 2016 presidential election is as far as you should have to look, as it is a two tiered election that ignores the popular vote in essence and rewards land and borders instead of the will of the electorate in general.",0
"While official Saudi government money did not fund Al Qaeda, much of the funding for that organization did come from the Saudi Kingdom and an overwhelming majority of the hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi subjects/citizens. To say that Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with it was wrong too. Osama bin Laden himself was from Saudi Arabia and his personal fortune came from Saudi oil too.",The Saudi royal family has their fingers in everything in Saudi Arabia. It's how the place works. There is a 0.001% chance that they have zero ownership and zero role in hiring Ronaldo. It's part of their broader strategy of .,1
Once they all realize that their badge doesn't shield them from consequences we'll see a drastic change in how police act in this country.,The core problem is the police need to make changes AND acknowledge that they need to earn our trust back because their bullshit isn't isolated incidents it's everywhere.,1
If Republicans get passed this speaker vote then they can finally get started on their agenda of doing nothing except endless hearings on Hunter Biden's dick pics.,"It may be the end of the Speaker vote but it is the beginning of Republican investigations, going on Fox News to rail against the federal government, and a disastrous outcome for the next debt ceiling vote. Surely, we will have McCarthy to thank for a default because he handed the keys to the House to these MAGA Republicans.",1
"This is one of the downsides of democracy, sometimes the one you want the most for office won't win the election and sometimes the most unacceptable garbage will win. Good thing you can try again four years later.","Btw I put bad guys in quotation marks because it depends on which side you are. I'm Brazilian and even though I believe Bolsonaro is a piece of shit, for his supporters he was their savior.",0
"Ah, another generation of black Americans stuck in poverty and/or routinely brutalized and managed by an always-growing carceral state supported by both parties, but at least a few more of them have $50k in debt for a mostly useless degree (or none at all), which is unforgivable and can't be discharged in bankruptcy (specifically because of the current president).","Simply throwing somebody into college without the requisite skills or knowledge means you're just saddling them with debt and an unfinished degree after they fail, especially if they're still in poverty, or you're lowering standards and giving A's just because they're black. In which case, everyone knows and the university becomes a joke and the degree is useless.",0
"This is East Jerusalem which isn't considered settlements; it's been Israeli land for decades where all non-Israeli residents were offered Israeli citizenship, and those who refused became residents. Only decades later did the Palestinian Authority appear and has since tried to claim East Jerusalem as theirs.",And apparently the Orthodoxy has held this land for 500 years but Palestinians are still claiming it belongs to them? They even protest settlements being built by Israel with land that has been sold to Israel by the Orthodoxy.,1
"Russia wasn't America's problem to solve, only Russians can do that, but we needn't have callously made it worse.","I'm afraid there won't be any reparations from Russia, their buddies from western Europe won't allow it. Ukraine will be left in ruins for decades, which will be considered as a win for Russia. Sure their economy got a big hit from sanctions, but as long as their neighbour suffered even more, it was worth it. That's just russian mentality.",1
"Wouldn't be suprised if some Ukrainian field commander did it on purpose seeing if they could get a reaction against russia, a few have already blamed Russians when they actually bombed or shelled a target...","Nato need not retaliate for anything short of a deliberate attack, and even the looniest redditor isn't going to seriously argue that Russia is going to fire a multimillion rouble cruise missle at a polish tractor.",1
"I doubt they'd go to jail/prison but there are two provisions in AZ election law that state it's a crime if an ""election official"" willfully refuses to do their job.",">For misconduct on the part of election boards or any members thereof in any of the counties of the state, or on the part of any officer making or participating in a canvass for a state election.",0
1 company even sends a huge generator so they can light the christmas tree in Kyiv so they don't have to use local electricity.,"Aleksandr Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed president of the Republic of Belarus, has said that the idea that the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) might dissolve if Russia loses the war in Ukraine is growing increasingly popular.",0
"I think arresting criminals is good, that seems to be a generally popular opinion with Americans. If you disagree with this premise you need to find a more convincing argument than this one.",There is some proof that effective policing reduces crime but your right that funding doesn’t necessarily mean less crime but there are lots of weird variables that do into that stuff.,0
"Isn't former Rep. Devin Nunes some big shot over at Truth Social? If so wonder if he'd try to angle for a role in Elon's world so he could find out about who was behind the Twitter accounts he couldn't get shut down, or if he' take the money and buy a Tesla or something...","And the end of the day, based on the amount of comments I’ve read, and people I know personally who own Teslas and will never buy another, is what will cost Elon the most. $44 billion is a drop in the bucket compared to turning 50% of your fan base against you and vow to never purchase a product from you again. I planned to buy a Tesla myself and now I’ll never buy one.",1
"Off top of my head, the $1 billion package included 10 120 mm, 82mm, and 60mm mortar systems plus ammo, the patriot battery, more Excalibur 155mm howitzer rounds and HIMAR rockets, more MRAPs (mine resistant trucks) and HMMWVs, more HARM anti radar missiles, and JDAM guided missiles. Then the $800 million that's actually part of the US military budget is to purchase Soviet caliber artillery munitions (122mm artillery/rocket, 152mm artillery, and 125mm tank rounds). Then there is a whole assortment of small arms and munitions.","100+ M249 squad automatic weapons. M249’s love to eat ammo, which is why they’re sending 17.5 million 5.56 NATO rounds.",1
"""Plant milk"" has actually been a term for a really long time (since at least 1755), usually describing the fluid inside plants or liquid resulting from grinding seeds or nuts. ""Milk"" does not mean animal milk exclusively.","Milk comes from animals. Vegan milk comes from grains/seeds. And they produce it by pressing the grain/seeds. Therefore, it's juice, not milk.",1
"Listen, I think Palestinians matter just as much as Israelis, but the fundamental problem is that Palestinians push the blame, and people like you push the blame on Israel, when in reality it's organizations like Hamas who cause terror and refuse to accept peace deals. Once the Palestinians finally accept that they're at fault, they should destroy or stop supporting Hamas and finally be able to live in peace.",That’s because we’re still trying to recover from the war that the Palestinians caused in our country.,1
"But seriously, ""indoctrination"" is just the newest buzz word to a 50 year old war about education that really started with desegregation and evolution.","""Indoctrination"" is a buzzword created by the right wing (their accusations are always admissions) to attack education and institute their ideology. Institutionalizing ideology is by indoctrination.",1
"Those conditions are likely to be at their worst “with extremely muddy conditions, over mid-to-late March,” according to the latest intelligence assessment.","So on the anniversary of the start of the invasion, in which its forces became bogged down in mud, Russia will start another offensive in which it will be bogged down in mud.",0
"I have a few concerns about Iran becoming nuclear-capable, but the risk to Saudi is not one of them. Not even close.","hardly. Forgot about Turkey? Syria? Pakistan/Afghanistan? (and historically, Turkey was the capital of the old Ottoman empire, and wouldn't mind re-constituting that).",1
"Problem with that idea is that Class A is worldwide, so you'd still need to cross through it even if the airspace above it is uncontrolled. That being said the FAA only controls the airspace that belongs to the US.","If you're in controlled airspace, absolutely. The one flying at 40,000' especially, as that's where jetliners fly and is squarely within Class A. (So was the Chinese balloon but just barely...Class A ends at 60,000').",0
"Yea this is not a good thing, Canada seems to be having some serious housing and healthcare issues. This is only going to make things worse for the country. The only ones who will profit from this are businesses trying to keep wages lower and housing prices high.","From my understanding, it's more of a bed issue in most of Canada where there is not enough room to treat people with the current amount of facilities available. Sure, staffing is good, but more would need to be created and that takes time, especially for a modern hospital. Not to mention paying for all of that and putting the burden of that tax on the current residents. And let's be honest if they are going to due a building boom in any area the houses will not be affordable and average home prices will increase even more.",0
"What do you mean by ""back to where it started"" if you mean all of the annexed territory by Russia, minus Crimea, yes. But what do you expect out of this war truthfully? A demilitarized Crimea isn't as big of a loss as the whole south of the country or even just donbas.","People need to look at the historical context for treaties. There was no realistic outcome of this war where Ukraine, or the west, gets to decide what happens to Moscow, that fate is already sealed anyway, and maybe you are underestimating what this war will do to the country internally, in 20 years from now I bet the map of Eastern Europe and Central Asia is going to look massively different as a result of what's happening today. What Ukraine gets here is pretty massively favored to them being able to survive a dying regional power on their doorstep.",0
"In case any fucking idiots are reading this and thinking about angrily downvoting - he's talking about using the military to replace emergency services while they strike, not strike-busting at the end of a gun.",If you read the article then you’d know that he means he’s using the military to replace ambulance drivers while they’re on strike to keep the infrastructure running. It has absolutely nothing to do with breaking up the strikes.,1
"The new documentary on Jerry Falwell, Jr. is very revealing. You had the leader of the most conservative religious university in the country ask Trump for help to bury a story that was a major scandal. You can’t make this up. His wife seduced a 20 year old pool boy, brought him back to their place, and asked if it was okay for her husband to watch. In walks Jerry Falwell, Jr.","Evangelicals don’t get a pass on this. They don’t get to say Trump is behaving badly now, so we are not supporting him. They never should have supported him to begin with. You know it, we know it, we all know it.",0
"Ukraine can decide how and when this war ends, but other countries have more power with regards to Russia's future. What Russia's future looks like needs to be discussed now, but this isn't the time for absolutes. This may not be realistic at all, but there's at least a tiny chance Russians could overthrow Putin and try to look towards the West. How this war ultimately ends is still unknown.","The reality is that for people who suffer from either, it can look very much the same. There are no moral equivalencies, but the dead will remain dead no matter how or why it happened.",0
We shouldn’t underestimate how much corruption is part of the very culture of government in Ukraine as it is in Russia.,"So long as we have leverage in the form of military aid to Ukraine, we need to use that leverage maximally to rid the country of corruption, whether Zelenskyy likes it or not.",0
"Isolation works, and Russia needs to be isolated and turned into multiple countries and factions, all with ruined economies and completely unable to equip or maintain an army significant enough to be a threat for the next half a century or so. A few decades or internal instability and poverty will give them a taste of their own medicine and teach them why bombing people's infrastructure just cause they decided to align with the west and propping up dictators in civil war torn 3rd world countries is unacceptable.","B. Germany was NOT isolated after WWI! Stop saying isolation didn't work for Germany after wwi, if you keep saying that you're stupid. Germany was actually receiving major loans from American banks before and only stopped because of the great depression.",0
"Because of russian agression and all the lie, which comes from russia, now is the time to forbid everything russian and have only one Canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine.","Following your logic, anyone can make church and lead illegal actions against the state, and state can do nothing with, because they're hiding under the religion.",0
"Bullshit. Student loans are federally guaranteed. If a student defaults, the government is on the hook to repay the lender. Banks don’t need to collateralize student loans. Prior to 2005 student debt was dischargeable in bankruptcy, yet somehow, banks were still comfortable issuing loans to students without collateral.",That way the borrower never gets into a situation where their balance 10 years after graduating is literally more than the loan they initially took out.,1
If you can’t see why people arresting other people committing crimes is good than you are really out of step with the average American.,"Arresting people who commit crimes is good, if they arrest the right person and innocent lives aren't sitting in jail from days to years. And if it's where they enforce arresting people evenly and arrest as many white people, as they do black people, instead of letting them go for the exact same charges. But to arrest a criminal they need to not murder their suspect, who may or may not be guilty of what the cops suspect they are guilty of.",1
"In reality? The recycling company. There's tons of ""recycling"" that the companies collect and decide that it isn't economically viable to process so they ship it all right to the landfill anyway.","""They're biodegradable!"" Because they listened to the arguments we've let tobacco companies use that try and say that, ignoring that it takes 10+ years and still releases all the horrific chemicals from the cigarettes into the environment.",0
"Again, that's a valid discussion to have, but I was responding to the idea that people ignore suicides. Suicides have no place in a conversation about people using semi-automatic rifles to kill a bunch of people. Some gun control proponents, probably including the person I originally responded to given their glib comment, believe that gun owners ignore suicides because they get called out for including suicides in conversations where they do not belong.","It's not that gun advocates don't care about suicides, it's that things like assault weapon bans, registries, magazine capacity bans, concealed carry restrictions and universal background checks won't do anything to reduce suicides, so the only point in including suicides when talking about those proposals is to use them to drive up the numbers and promote an emotional response rather than a logical one.",0
"Thanks for that. Very interesting history. I visited Estonia back in '97 or so. Flew to Finland and then took a Soviet-era turbo prop from Finland to Tallinn. I was impressed by how far they had come. They were modernizing very quickly. I was told, Finland helped Estonia a lot at the time because of a shared heritage, similar languages, etc.","Estonians also looked towards Finland as the country to emulate. Northern Estonia was able to see Finnish TV, so Finnish way of life and western TV shows like Dallas were a small ray of hope and idealism to strive towards back when communism seemed to be ever-lasting. Finnish TV and visits to Finland were also how Estonians knew that actually, Soviet Union was in decline because the TV showed how life was and people then saw the same in their society and in Finnish stores (unlike what was shown on Soviet TV and news and what they saw in real life).",1
"Knowing Meadows and his ilk - yes it's quite possibly nefarious and/or criminal in nature, and the broader circumstances make it very suspicious. Also, Hutchinson's testimony could be corroborated if investigated further (which it should be).","In a later deposition, Hutchinson told the committee she continued to be riddled with guilt after not being entirely truthful to the committee in her first deposition.",1
"Irrelevant, where is the final warhead? Where is the rocket? I asked for sources on ukraine having the capability to deploy nuclear arsenal, funny how you based your fantasies on this instance, hell, why don't all countries have nukes if it's this easy?","It’s not a what if scenario when the surrounding countries proved a willingness to do it several times until nukes were built. Israel is still at war with Syria, has terrorists in Palestine funded by Pakistan and Iran lobbing rockets over the border daily, and has Iran openly stating their goal to be to obliterate Israel while trying to get nukes.",1
"Well the two capitals are about 1,700 miles distant. They might have to go around Iran or what ever country KSA has a problem with. Pakistan would need several transports. Have the crew rested and briefed, with the planes working. Remove the bombs from the arsenal and into the transports. Probably at night, to reduce the likliehood of being caught on spy satellites. Probably with a fighter escort........Moving nukes isn't quite as easy as moving luggage.","Does Israel officially have nukes? Did South Africa ever officially have nukes, whilst they still had them?",0
I work with children and families. Last night I was in a session with a parent and I mentioned that her son could use some additional practice on rhyming words... which is a very basic skill preschool-aged kids sometimes struggle with. She immediately went on a tirade about our response to COVID and how it has impacted our kids developmentally.,"Don't get me wrong... of COURSE the pandemic has made an impact on kids in a myriad of ways. It impacted all of us. But I was caught off guard at how quickly we went from ""Here are some ideas for your son"" to ""The Dems destroyed our country with COVID!"".",0
"According to the article, he was sentenced to death for the 1990 stabbing of a woman during a carjacking while he was on the run after escaping from prison where he was serving a life sentence for a 1979 killing of a sheriff’s deputy.","""Donald David Dillbeck (May 24, 1963 – February 23, 2023) was an American convicted murderer executed by the state of Florida for stabbing a woman \[to death\] in a Tallahassee mall parking lot in 1990 after escaping from prison, where he was serving a life sentence for killing a sheriff's deputy in 1979."".",1
The discussion is probably not so much whether she is progressive and more so whether she is/was progressive enough.,It was not progressive. Progressive would be getting healthcare to all citizen without giving massive give away to insurance companies that continue to deny claims and gouge on pricing.,1
"Also no one is saying what Biden did was ""correct"". I think everyone thinks what Biden, and also Pence did(lost or misappropriated classified materials) is wrong.","In most cases - such as with Biden and Pence - improperly stored classified documents is evidence of a systems flaw, and/or a degree of carelessness. This is an explanation, not an excuse, and these situations should still spur apologies and ownership from the guilty party, as well as discussions as to how to tighten safeguards to minimize further incidents in the future.",1
"No, but the more ""real"" answer is that Ukraine will somehow ""pay"" for it in other ways, such as offering contracts to European companies to do certain things in Ukraine etc. There's many nuances on why anyone is helping but reality is that nothing is ever free, it's a bleak view but that's the truth. Shell was already awarded contracts for gas or whatever resources they were supposed to process but had to pull out of Ukraine due to Crimea, so more of that will definitively happen in the future and once the war is over I can see Ukraine become very westernized due to huge European influence within the country after the war.","They are making so much from the gas price increases and the need for Europe to replace Russian gas, the Norwegian government has said that they want as much of that profit to go back to ukraine as possible as to not be considered war profiteering.",1
Miners and gays united over their shared loathing of Thatcher. Maybe Scottish trans supporters and nationalists can unite over their shared loathing of English interference.,I'm pretty sure even the most severely transphobic Scottish folks will support this bill even harder because they hate the English dare telling them what to do.,1
That’s where I see the two stories lining up - when western countries say that China’s plan isn’t acceptable - China says it’s the reason they need to support Russia.,"I wonder whether this is an attempt to play off the west as hostile towards Russia, and a reason for China to get involved.",0
"Given that Russia might be running out of tanks to generously abandon in Ukraine, since they've been reaching into museums to refurbish T62s, I think I can comfortably say ""bout time!"".","The SU57 is more or less the same story, but you also have to remember that Russia uses its planes much like flying artillery and have demonstrated less skill with deploying their air force than their tanks which is a statement. They stand to gain little and lose a lot from risking SU57s in Ukraine instead of their older jets.",0
"You know people love to moralize about how the US or the West should stand up to the Saudis, it’s almost always comically misguided, betraying a total lack of understanding of just how pivotal KSA is in the current world order. Certainly Saudi Arabia has a lot of power and influence.","And seriously, the Muslim world already despises the US, that isn’t a threat, you already took out their skyscrapers.",0
This is the mindset that has led traditionally purple Florida to become a Republican stronghold- while one of the strongest arms of the GOP is in Florida arguably the weakest democrat one is there to contend against them. Florida has a LOT of electorals you don’t just give up on that.,"You can’t gerrymander the governors race he trounced the democrats in. If democrats don’t wake up and realize strategy changes are needed, Florida will be solidly deep red for a generation.",1
"I don't want to go all 'Murican, but after watching Ukraine bring Russia to its knees, I think a ""real war"" with the west would be very very different than what Russia is having now.","From what I've read, there's a real fear in Washinon that if we do get dragged into a conventional war and slaughter Russia too quickly, the war will go nuclear very quickly as a result.",1
"I'm not so sure that it is BS. There have been a few stories in the news here in Norway about tax rules requiring the shops to pay tax for items they donate. The VAT here in Norway is 25%, so it could be costly to give away stuff. Here is one such article:","Yes, but if they wanted to check if old used up shoes were tossed, they should have planted tracking devices in old used up shoes, not in lightly worn shoes.",0
"I mean, of they believe that balloons are straight with to engage or notice, or considered benign enough to ignore, they could deliver something like an EMP if it's in their interests to do so, such as if they decided to move against Taiwan.","So they weren’t lying when they said their balloon illegally flying over US airspace was because it blew off course, it was supposed to be illegally flying over Taiwan’s airspace instead….",1
"Discoveries of lithium deposits in third world counties are not as exciting as they seem at first glance. Countries and landowners take a cut, you need skilled mining labor, funding for the project, permits, water rights, cheap electricity and accessible infrastructure like roads and shipping access. Having a deposits and being able to mine and refine it at a competitive price is another thing.",Nearly every analyst calculates a lithium shortage for the next 5-10 years. The average mine takes 10 years to get to production and can cost $500-$900 million in funding to get started.,0
Hm. Seems like sedition to me. How the fuck did we get to the point where sitting members of Congress said they would have succeeded in overthrowing an election — violently.,I’m so fucking sick of these traitorous mother fuckers getting away with attempting to overthrow our government and then walking in and casting their vote as a member of the US House of Representatives. That is so insanely fucked up!,1
What is true is that the House (unless it chooses to change its parliamentary rules) is entirely dependent upon having a speaker be recognized to function in any capacity. The rules they normally adopt have almost all functional power being dispensed by the Speaker. The Speaker makes appointments to committees. The Speaker determines what motions reach the floor. The Speaker determines what they vote on. The Speaker runs the show.,The new house is seated and actively debating who to pick as it's speaker. Most of this article is just wrong and reasons from unconstitutional laws or assumptions about how the house will conduct itself.,0
No. I do not think that obesity is necessarily the result of an underlying condition. Many obese people could address their weight through a permanent change in diet and regular exercise.,"long term weight loss just isn't really a thing, obesity is basically permanent without medical help. you can look up studies on it, no matter how much weight a person loses, it's almost guaranteed that they will regain it.",1
"I mean, in the event of a war, isn't North Korea using a significant amount of its artillery fire to pound a civilian centre a good outcome for the South Korean military? Like all the enemy artillery are shooting at a target that isn't posing them any harm, and largely wouldn't hurt the South Korean armed forces, and are letting counter artillery radars locate exactly where they all are.","Imagine if Hitler began the battle of Britain, not by focusing on the airfields, air production, convoys, and radar stations, but on bombing London. It's going to suck a lot in London, but to the RAF it's a pretty good scenario. Like a boxer giving his opponent some free shots to the side just so he could turn to his opponent's kids and should some obscenities at them from the edge of the ring.",0
"It's quite the scary thought that the ""strongest"" country on this planet is working on the basis of credibility alone at this point (USD's no longer tied to gold as we all know), with excessive spending in their military forces to back them up in order to basically be a barbarian to others who may threaten their position as 1.","Well, borrowing a metric fuckton of money and spending it on the military instead of the citizens fits into that ideology you mentioned as well, but I don't think it's going too well for the people there either, is it?",0
The democrats held both houses of congress for 2 years and had every chance to pass the John Lewis Act and fix gerrymandering.,"And frankly, too many Democrats are afraid of what Republicans would do if they regain power to aver swing killing the filibuster. Two years ago I would have disagreed, but looking at how quickly the MAGA brain worms have infected the rest of them since 2020 I'm afraid too.",1
"As opposed to getting Biden and Congress to force the unions to accept the shitty proposal they already rejected, which by no means disincentivizes ""good faith negotiation"" right bud? These railroad bosses are disgusting.","They're separate bills. It's very possible, likely really, that only the bill preventing the strike (and not granting any sick days) will clear the Senate.",0
"Having small meaningless go-it-alone items like that are just vanity project and lack the economies of scale needed for complex modern military equipment. You need the scale that China, the US, or the whole of Europe signed up before even starting a program. Going it alone and then trying to sell a system like a jet, is just pure program management incompetence in the name of vanity; ie perfectly French.","The ""independence"" needed is for France to spend 2% of its GDP on readiness in an efficient manner of its own choosing. Not for its makes 100% of its own shit.",0
The case questioned both a violation of state law AND a 1st amendment violation. The state law claim was pretty much immediately dismissed because of the 11th amendment. Even DeSantis acknowledge that the 1st amendment claim was justifiable.,And technically no. Federal courts have appellate jurisdiction and can rule on appeals cases that involve state law (as long as the question is whether the state law violates federal law).,0
"Anyway, what I meant was that conservatives seem to have a thing where the signifiers of politics are the politics. If you wear a certain hat, dress a certain way, then you're probably on that ""team."".","Yeah this is the funniest response I see online - ""aren't you guys supposed to be into this?"" as if they've caught the left being hypocrites, because they don't understand that signifiers and signified are separate things.",0
"Simply put, the government in Israel is not nearly as strong and stable, and doesn’t have enough support to truly descend into totalitarianism.",So the Israeli government has the possibility to reduce extremism in both sides. Only they choose not to do that.,1
"I think most of EU is. General population doesn't want Murica and Russia playing war games on our backyard, but EU is weak and they are explointing this.",Most people see what Russia is like to its own citizens and I’m pretty sure most Europeans don’t want to end up as a puppet state for them.,1
"That too is always the case in politics, but I suspect Germany doesn't want Ukraine to win because that would make going back to old normal order much harder in the future.","I'm not specialist in the matter, but as far as I understand, Germany has to give permission to other countries so they can supply Ukraine with leopards.",0
What if the DoD and US intel communities actually know what they are doing when they recommended not shooting it down?,"If I was the head of US information warfare, I'd make sure all the public statements conclude with ""while alarming, this is not unusual activity. The US has conducted many such flights over China in the past month."".",1
"But best of all, when websites crack down on hateful content, or close because they can't moderate to the legal requirements, who will republican voters blame? The government^tm and liberals obviously. Government regulations obviously killed your favorite website, and the only ones left are liberal tech companies that are deleting your constitutional speech Vote for republicans to pack the courts to fix the problem /s.",Republicans are on the attack not because of the RE but the FE- the TX and FL social media laws are aimed at eliminating editorial discretion and forcing big tech’s REs to normalize right-wing content that’s widely agreed to be extreme now without the intervention of an FE.,1
The problem is trump though. That 20% have shown that they will show up to vote against trump. Also the kids that will be able to vote by 24 are anti trump voters too for the most part.,"Democrats are younger, and more become voters every year, while Republicans are older, and less of them vote every year.",1
✹ Assassin's Creed✹ Borderlands✹ Divinity: Original Sin 2✹ Dragon Age✹ Life Is Strange✹ The Last of Us✹ Fallout✹ Apex Legends✹ RimWorld✹ Overwatch✹ Le crime du parking✹ The Sims 3.,✹ Assassin's Creed✹ Borderlands✹ Divinity: Original Sin 2✹ Dragon Age✹ Life Is Strange✹ The Last of Us✹ Fallout✹ Apex Legends✹ RimWorld✹ Overwatch✹ Le crime du parking✹ The Sims 3.,1
Why isn't anyone upset about every GOP house rep voting against the 2020 bill enshrining paid leave for all full time workers? How about the Senate GOP filibustering the same bill? Democratic reps and senators overwhelmingly supported those.,"That failed bill, and many before it, lets essential industries like rail and trucking continue to avoid paying for reasonable sick leave.",0
"Mind you, those concessions don’t mean pushing the Democrats’ agenda but rather means nixing bullshit investigations/impeachments and acting in good faith to work with the Senate leadership on a compromise agenda while keeping the MTGs of the world marginalized.",Exactly this. All the people suggesting chaos for chaos’s sake sound like the flip side of the MAGA coin. The job is to govern. If a reasonable partner approaches the Dems in good faith and presents a way to do thatC they should take it.,0
17.5 million Americans. An American political candidate for president just proposed the wholesale extermination of 17.5 million American citizens.,"Imagine the government exterminating 3.5 million people. That death toll would be 4 times larger than the amount of Tutsi killed in the Rwandan Genocide. That doesn't even include doctors, family members, allies, cisgender drag queens and other groups. Without even touching the non-drag LGB population, this genocidal worst case scenario could kill or displace close to five million people. That number is slightly below the total population of New Zealand. Trans people might be a small percentage of the American population but with how big our population is, that still means millions are in the crosshairs.",1
"If a russian building hoarding ammunition stands in the way of our new missiles, we could ignore it's deep in russian territory and housing conscripts again.",I bet you this is because we made conditions for new missles- we told Ukraine you get the missles only if you dont to use them against targets inside Russia.,1
This is to create a patsy third-party to blame when it’s revealed Trump is still retaining top secret documents that he stole.,The lawyers might be doing the same trick here with hiring yet another party and that would insulate Trump who could have deniability (1st party -.,1
"They're saying the combat software on Ukraine's HIMARS does not allow for firing ATACMS, even if Ukraine had gotten ahold of them from someone.",That is correct because Russian forces now have access to nato weapons systems from the battlefield and could give them on reverse engineering it or finding measures to counter them… but we should still support Ukraine to defend themselves!,1
"""Can't take"" means have no arguments against. Or I'm expected to believe, you are reading posts backwards.","Throwing out Putin is not going to happen and you know it. So their exit is no exit at all. The world was very helpful for last ten years, buying oil and gas and selling riot police equipment.",0
"So first you called me a liar. And then when I present you with footnotes backing up my statements you switch to, ""the truth doesn't matter LOL""?!",At no point did you address the statements I made or the supporting documentation I presented. You simply called me a liar and declared that you were right.,0
"Seriously, the only people who think Russia is still an alpha dog are the Congressional Republicans that Russia still sponsors.",This is funny considering that Moldova has always been submissive to Russia and they were almost certainly on the menu anyways had Russia not gotten bogged down in Ukraine. They were going to annex Moldova no matter what they did.,1
"As a matter of fact, it was Russia starting the conflict in 2014 by violating the sovereignty of Ukraine and forcefully invading Crimea.","Russia is in the UN you absolute dingus, and Ukraine was voluntarily trying to join NATO before they got fucking invaded by Russia but go off about how this is America’s fault.",1
"If anyone is interested, people have surely given estimates for Einstein’s IQ, and 160 is laughably low. But that’s if you’re into the IQ thing anyway. I don’t care for it, but it’s an interesting discussion hence Einstein and Hawking as a comparison here.",The two points between his 162 and the 160 that Einstein and hawking are “thought to have scored” surely make all the difference. This young man has already developed SUPER special relativity and disproven the theory of Hawking radiation using only his microwave oven and a styrofoam cup!,1
"Fucking Christ, it's like people only think about this war in the long term effects on Ukraine and not the long-term effects on Russia.","If they keep fighting like this, there's only two ways this war can end: Russia gives up and goes home or they kill every last person in Ukraine. Putin doesn't have the humility for the former or the manpower for the latter.",0
It's a recipe for eventual defeat if Russia doesn't experience a dramatic change in policy or leadership.,"Honestly I wish we could get a more reasonable interpretation of this mainstream. When your enemy is attacking your infrastructure, hampering your means to produce and repair the defensive systems you need on top of all the damage it's doing to your civilian population, being restricted from striking back in kind borders on the absurd.",0
"It's not a difficult decision for us, but we have to recognize that non political, undecided, or ignorant voters might be inclined to think it's the same thing or that Bidens case is even worse for whatever stupid reason. This is going to hurt Bidens reelection chances if only because the GOP is better at weaponizing things like this and their voters and many undecideds will eat it up.","If that were true then Dems would have done a lot worse at midterms and independents would believe the big lie-- but that's not the case, so you need to accept that some GOP narratives go further than others.",0
"And they are funding all of this grotesque wastefulness with our tax dollars, because Republican voters are terrible, spiteful people who want the nation to suffer.","Just to play devil's advocate here, it's not such a bad thing to be having these right wing GOPers wasting their time chasing after bullshit instead of spending it drafting legislation that would further erode the rights and safety of regular Americans.",1
Allowing states that will never swing for Democrats in a general election to have an outsized influence over the candidate that Democrats select for that election is political malpractice.,Reality is that SC is not breaking for Dems in the general whereas there are a number of states that have an even broader demographic cross section and that are actually competitive.,0
Exactly! Sure some people might be able to get illegal firearms but it’s way riskier to try that and the government and law enforcement can just crack down harder on that.,"Yeah - I'm sure there's some gun smuggling going on, but these guys sound like crackpots rather than organised crime so I doubt they'd have access. Overall probably more profitable to focus on smuggling drugs rather than guns anyway if you're that way inclined.",1
"Anyone who's still afraid of the term socialist really needs to crack open a book and do just a tiny bit of research, because if they did, they'd realize they were most likely more socialist then they realized. Also cracks me up the right is STILL using socialism as a boogy man word, assuming it'll actually work on the younger generations.","""Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps the people"" is such an easy-to-understand phrase (that's arguably accurate even today).",1
"Specifically, company leadership should be able to more easily be held personally liable, both civilly and criminally, for their profit- maximizing decisions that result in disasters like this.","If the consequences for creating an ecological disaster were prison, instead of a 3% loss in this quarter's profits, corporate executives would not damn the consequences.",1
"Not if, when, and anything they do has to go through the Senate and Biden, this is gonna be tense, and these neo-far right folks are about to get a lesson in why not to screw around with debt ceiling.","Biden just needs to come out and say he's directing whatever legal entity is responsible to look into simply ignoring the debt ceiling. Don't let the GOP play this stupid game. Spin it as actually trying to govern, and still pay for things that affect people, while the GOP are willing to cut payments to programs ""you"" use.",1
Then i would not really care because Russia has for decades been telling them how they should run their country and it would likely mean Russia would have to forsake their war against Ukraine in order to defend their own country.,In reality i am somewhat split over it because i also do not want to trigger nukes but seeing as Russia has been saber rattling nukes for a solid year i am kind of worn down on that crap.,0
"Conversely, if I unquestionably know less, does that mean my opinion should be considered the incorrect opinion? I would say no. The flaws in my argument should be pointed out before my opinion is taken as wrong. The same should apply to Gallego.","So, Gallego claims to be offended. Why? What is offensive? I did look, but didn't see a reason. Conservative claim to be offended without reason too...",0
"Or is your point that you ONLY want them to digitize the workflow for investigating tax evasion, and you don't think the technology should be used for other crimes such as murder/robbery/etc.?",You call it incompetence but it's just reality. A human detective cannot reasonably analyze videos from all over the city and read license plates and figure out that a car was spotted near five crime scenes. It would take them forever and we can't have a detective working on 1 case watching videos for weeks.,0
"They're pretty openly against appointing more justices, despite the fact that it is necessary to save democracy and beyond that it would greatly improve the efficiency of the Court...","I can't imagine why we, the people of the United States, would feel that a Supreme Court that was disproportionately appointed by presidents that lost the popular vote, is illegitimate.",1
"My theory is there was an aircraft down or vessel in trouble the Russians were trying to get to, and to avoid an accident the Coast Guard was letting them.","I know you're joking, but I was genuinely asking someone else in Hawai'i which island this supposed Russian boat was puttering in the vicinity of. Not out of concern but curiosity and potential source of laughter at the thought of one of the many cruise ships that putter about between the islands being in sight of the ""Russian"" boat with a bunch of very confused tourists.",1
The different fuel is an issue but presumably the USA has worked out how to get jet fuel etc. - and lots of it - to a battlefield or else the tank is a white elephant.,The turbine in an Abrams tank is less complex than the diesel in a Leopard tank. The rest of the vehicles are essentially the same complexity. So the Abrams tank should break down less.,0
"Other 1st world countries (AND DEVELOPING NATIONS) give women a portion of, if not all of their salary to stay home with their child. No questions asked. A lot of them are for a lot longer than 12 weeks. And your job is still protected.","Yea, your company might give you something. When I had my daughter, I had to use the short term disability benefits. They paid 60% of my salary for 6 weeks. I had to use PTO or sick time to make up for the rest of my paycheck. Then, for the next 6 weeks, I had to use just pto/vacation. I'm extremely lucky that there were a ton of PTO changes going on at my company and I barely had enough to cover that time (I had like 6 hours left when I went back. Had to hope my kid wouldn't get sick while in daycare for a bit because I had no PTO.).",0
"I hate how obvious this is but most people don’t want to admit it, also the reason why you see Christian nationalism blamed more than white supremacy when we all know what’s more common amongst right wing extremists. Also you don’t have to be religious to be homophobic.",So why are there a ton of articles out exclusively highlighting religion as their motivation by the major news outlets but minimal focusing on pure white supremacy? All I ever see at most is “White Christian Nationalism.” That is purposefully disingenuous. Something stinks.,0
The press is fucked there are no headlines about the wait times being beyond acceptable or the fact that hospitals are struggling to have even one doctor in a&E.,"What the article said was ""Covid and hospital and ambulance delays all blamed"", blamed, there is no evidence that this is true and the newspaper you are quoting is the ""WalesOnline"".",1
"It is likely that animal agriculture enabled the 1957 Asian Flu, 1968 Hong Kong Flu, bird flu, and the 2009 swine flu. Of these, bird flu is the cause for most concern. In past outbreaks, the case-fatality (CF) rate in humans was 60 percent, although one study suggests that if it became a larger pandemic, it would have a median CF rate of approximately 23.5 percent. It is thought that the 1918 Spanish Flu may have infected one-third of the global population and had a CF rate of 2.5 percent. If bird flu were to mutate in such a way that it was anywhere near as contagious as Spanish Flu, with a CF rate almost 10 times higher than Spanish Flu, the results would be apocalyptic. As two authors wrote in a WHO publication:","Perhaps the biggest risk of disease concerning livestock and poultry is influenza A - the only influenza virus known to cause pandemics. It is hypothesized that every influenza virus that causes pandemics in humans is derived from avian influenza in aquatic birds. Normally this wouldn't be an issue for us. The infected wild birds usually don't get sick, and the virus doesn't easily spread amongst humans.) But industrialized animal agriculture has changed that. One scientific review writes:",0
"Overall I just think it would be grossly unfair to apply the same penalty to Russians and Belarussians, I think Belarussians should be made compete as neutrals but Russia should be banned completely. And of course it should be made sure that Russians don't switch countries lol.",From my experience Belarusians however are not in support of their government actions. I live close by in Poland - I've met many Belarusians with families back at home and none of them had nice words for their regime. They all said the votes are fake. Do you remember the protests in Belarus before the war? A fuckton of people are angry with their government and they show it. Unfortunately they have just been unsuccessful so far. The migrant crisis was created to distance Belarus from Poland and other surroubding countries and it has been successful.,0
"So push Russia for retreat, freeing Crimea and Donbass, and paying reparations to Ukraine? Or does he expect that Ukraine has to be the only one to give in?","Ukraine is in a conundrum. Even if they push to Russia's border, they can't go any farther, because much of the western assistance is predicated on that. Russia would be humiliated, but that's about it as far is direct actions Ukraine can take. The war is going to end via peace talks one way or another. Putin isn't going to be overthrown by the Ukrainian army.",1
"""I read an article saying that growing almonds was bad for the environment, and yet I continued to use almond milk in my coffee."" - Chidi, The Good Place.","""Almond milk. I drank so much of it despite the negative environmental impact."" - Chidi, The Good Place.",0
They used taxpayer money to finance the development of this vaccine and now they want to overcharge for it?,"Maybe it's the American way of thinking that if it's paid by the government nobody wants to get it, but if it's an expensive premium treatment everybody wants it... 🤔.",1
"For people thinking, ""Fuck this, I'll just move abroad,"" it's not as easy as it sounds. Most countries where you'd actually want to live make it pretty hard to get legal residency there, let alone citizenship.",So the people most likely to be unsatisfied in the US are the people least likely to be able to find a country willing to allow them to move there.,1
Genocide is . Ethnic cleansing is . The term ethnic cleansing began as a euphemism and has spread in usage because it describes a wide range of malicious behavior without actually accusing someone of a specific crime.,"However(and I know this is uncomfortable), ethnic cleansing was not always considered genocidal or even called that. It used to be a method of relocating ethnicities to be with others in an effort to ""help"" them ""self determine"". Usually it was the former colonial master countries that did this when overseeing decolonization. And despite how scummy that is by our standards now, it wasn't an outright malicious attempt to destroy or remove, but an ignorant solution to create a form of harmony(I know, I know. Reaaally dumb).",1
"It's very important to remember when judging whether Zelensky is acting in good faith here, that during his election campaign and his pre-war presidency, he was clearly seeking a degree of dialogue and reconciliation with Russia. I absolutely do believe him when he says this is about broken trust. Until Russia show clearly they are backing down, ie by leaving Ukraine, there is basically no reason for him or his government to believe any past good will is restored.","Now, the Ukranians are fighting to the end, because they know that they have no other option and if they show weakness, then their country is occupied and their people and culture is destroyed. That is some pretty strong motivation.",1
"If you look at how the regime kids live in the west you can see exactly how much their father’s rule has to with religion. Absolutely zero. Their rule and laws are only about control, power and money.",That's not how dictatorships work. Theocracy is nothing new. there has been countless studies about how they fall and they always will.,1
If they’re hiring three different positions with three different skill or experience requirements and three different salary ranges then they should just fucking put up three different job postings.,"For example, you've got a company hiring software developers with multiple positions open across multiple teams, and they're open to applicants of multiple skill levels. A senior developer might command the $180k, a mid-level might warrant $120k, and a junior might be worth $70k or $80k.",1
"Atheism being immoral is a claim unsubstantiated by religious people since the invention of religion, which is often used to discriminate against atheists for no actual good reason.","Except nothing about atheism claims sexual orientation is morally wrong for no reason, which Abrahamic religious people do.",0
"So if judges read this as literally as a computer would instead of realizing that the wording was messed up, every prescribed real property or immovable that subsection (c) was meant to bring into scope of the residential property definition is excluded, because a prescribed real property or immovable is of course not ""other than a prescribed real property or immovable"".","I think better wording would have been to strike "", other than a prescribed real property or immovable, that is situated in Canada and"" from the beginning of the definition, and to add ""situated in Canada"" in subsections (a) and (b) after the first occurrence of ""building"" in each of the two subsections. Or, possibly, to keep the ""situated in Canada"" restriction in the beginning of the definition since it wouldn't make sense to purport to regulate any foreign property in this law.",0
That's bold of Murdoch to come out and name names like that. Who do you think he had in mind? Wonder if there will be any repercussions for them or is this a case of money and power talking?,"That's a pretty bold statement. I'm sure they have their evidence, but it's gonna take more than that to convince me. If they can't prove it, then this whole thing will just be another fake news story.",0
"Chechnya, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, etc... the Baltics would be the hardest, because they actually joined NATO.","It's been obvious for decades that this was Putin's take on the matter, and he viewed it as only a matter of time before all those countries were fully returned to/puppeted within Russia's sphere of influence.",0
"With that in mind I chose to look at how the two societies treat their women, their LGBT and how one treats the other in their homeland. In absolutely every category Israel comes out ahead and yet supposed ""leftists"" support the bastards... simply because Republicans like Israel.",Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic in the same way that GOP support of Israel (as a local projection of power) in no way means the GOP doesn’t feast on Jewish conspiracy theories.,1
"Not saying GMO crops do all these things too, but focusing only on yields, and using the broadest of definition of GMO, seems disingenuous and an incomplete picture.","This makes me think of the huge misinformation when it comes to GMOs in this thread, or more so the world, and how 99% of people compare genetically modified = genetically engineered. This corn is absolutely engineered by the chemical industry of Monsanto aka Dow. The amount of pesticides is also on the rise if you look at usage reports state by state - the increase of chemicals has been seen as ""pests"" are finding new ways to adapt. Not to mention all the lawsuits against Glyphosate currently happening which point directly to causation for non-hodgekins lymphoma and other leukemia's.",1
"Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked information about U.S. surveillance programs, swore an oath of allegiance to Russia and has collected his Russian passport, his lawyer told state media on Friday.","It’s unclear whether Snowden swore the oath of allegiance at the same time as he was granted a passport, but the two are common procedures when foreigners become Russian citizens. The text includes swearing “to protect the freedom and independence of the Russian Federation, to be loyal to Russia, to respect its culture, history and traditions,” and to promise to “perform the duties of a citizen of the Russian Federation for the good of the state and society.”.",1
All I see every few years is how awful fifa is but then everyone stops caring because they want to watch the matches. If people truly wanted fifa to go away they wouldn't spend tens of thousands to go to these games and they wouldn't tune in by the billions to watch.,Well unless governments actually arrest or block these monsters what else do we have. It seems like ignoring or worse actively supporting modern day slavery is what most are doing.,0
AKs don't have cheek risers or adjustable stocks so that's irrelevant. AK iron sights also cannot be configured for that.,"The AK platform has adjustable sights for range. If you don’t know the rifle, those sights are worthless.",1
"Cept felons - and medical mj patients. Funny how that's not a slight against the 2a, but making guns like ARs even slightly tougher to get by implementing something like a waiting period is.","At the same time, a process not too dissimilar to a drivers license for operating firearms is reasonable to most people. There are some purists and absolutists who see that as an infringement on rights, and that will always be debated, but if it were any other deadly substance, or machinery, there would be standardized tests of competence, there would be some form of safety regulation.",1
"Odds get better if trump can’t win the primary and tries for a 3rd party run, then splits the vote between the open fascists and “nice” fascists.","If trump is even allowed to run for a second campaign than it immediately becomes a referendum on wether America wants a fascist state or not. No question about it that point, that’s what we’d be voting for…and when you make it that basic I’m just not sure how much faith I have that we do the right thing. I’d say the 2024 election (if it involves trump) would be akin to the 1860 and 64’ elections. Those were referendums on slavery and the continuation of the civil war and essentially one issue focused. I’d rather avoid the whole dinner than have to sit at this table.",1
"Now compare the number of killed Palestinians and killed Israelis. And do the same for displaced people. And how many Palestinians break the Oslo accords by illegally living in Israeli territory, and how many Israeli's live illegally in Palestinian land?",The current occupation is a result of palestinans refusal to recognize israels right to exist and refusal to negotiate in good faith.,1
"So called ""student debt"" schemes are just another racketeering method from the wealthy boomers and oligarchs dragging away all wealth from the younger working class.","Pretty sure average US people in their 40 don't have a million dollars for a 2 bedroom home either. Esp not on a red state min wage. The housing market is now as batshit insane as education or healthcare in america. It's tearing at society, at that point.",0
Encryption with a private key while allowing decryption with a public key verifies identity of the source.,Public key cryptography is only really a good idea when you have a certain degree of trust in whoever physically holds the private key.,1
"It’s also irrelevant - it’s not like he dies in the next x months and the Russian state suddenly reversed course and becomes a positive, democratic force in the world.","Weirdly, I'm not sure the breakup of the Russian Federation, while possibly inevitable, would be on net good for geopolitics, especially if it happened fast. My fingers-crossed dream is that if Putin were to die, that whole era of Russian politics would die with him, and the political successors in Russia would be willing to cooperate with the West even on just one thing: containment of China. If, on the other hand, Russia breaks up (nuclear weapons concerns aside), I give it a minimum 50% chance that Siberia will be called ""China"" (or at least be a Chinese puppet state) 10 years from then.",1
"Wow. You are really underestimating the complexity of the problem. Our patriot batteries aren’t even 100% against current missiles. And they are the envy of the world. They are a combination of multiple satellites, ground stations… they are complex and require highly trained personnel. Faster missile less time to react, harder to track, harder to hit. I don’t know how to explain that more simply, and I don’t think it should be that hard of a concept to grasp. No one is claiming these things are unstoppable, just much harder to stop.","You can plot an intercept course, but are you fast enough to catch the missile? Is it easier to hit a target that is going 20MPH or 60MPH? Why would a faster baseball be harder to hit for the batter?",0
This is inaccurate. It’s neither the official stance of Finland and directly contradicts what the Finnish PM said just earlier today in a press release. It also doesnt reflect the direction of the public conversation on the topic in Finland that has been ongoing over the last few weeks. (Link to news article about Finnish PM’s comments on the subject:,"Meanwhile, Finlands’ NATO ascencion is unlikely to happen before this summers' NATO summit, after Turkey’s has held elections.",0
"Well hang on, back in the 1900s Britain had the world's biggest economy, we stopped the slave trade and lost economic value. We dismantled our empire and lost economic value, but the people wanted these things to occur to progress our society and way of life. Brexit is the same, yes we'll lose some value from the EU for a bit but we'll be fine in the end.","It became too costly to keep them, and the majority of the British population believe the same thing about the EU it's too costly to our society and our pockets to continue to be a member.",0
"If a country has a much larger army with a nuclear arsenal, you pretty much have no choice but to negotiate with them. Unless you suggest they do what Afghanistan did to the US and prolong the war for 20 years hoping that your enemy will eventually become occupied with something else and leave. In Ukraine's case, the problem with doing the latter (aside from the population living through 2 decades of warfare) is NATO literally cannot fund the war and backstop Ukraine's economy for the next 20 years. The only option is for them to negotiate some kind of peace deal with Russia (whether that means give Crimea up in exchange for Donetsk / Luhansk, I don't know).","Entering into peace talks sooner than later could lower the chances of NATO getting involved, lessen the amount of casualties Ukraine needs to endure, and minimize the territory Russia has yet to gain.",0
There's a direct connection between the property that taken and the people that it was returned to. Are the people who receive reparations going to have to prove a direct connection to someone that was a slave?,There's no case for black reparations and anyone who thinks there is probably just lying to themselves.,1
"Well if you recall I believe two years ago in the US when multiple Catholic priests were arrested, many had a claimed that their sexual abuse was “an encounter with God”.","Years ago I remember learning that catholic clergy as a group were slightly less likely to engage in abuse than the general population. In other words, grab ten priests and ten people you know and the odds of a predator amongst the folks you know would be slightly higher.",1
"If it’s something that can actually aid, arm and fund Ukraine, sure. But a boycott of the Olympics when the Russian national athletes already aren’t allowed to compete under a flag, anthem or representing Russia, isn’t going to accomplish anything.","Sadly, though, Russian doping scandals indicate that the country doesn't (respect the rules and Games participants).",1
"Except the AMX-10RC is in this particular case far less protected than the old Soviet tanks that were sent. The AMX-10RC is a recon vehicle that can at best take what, 14.5mm?","Yes, the 10RC is a far lighter vehicle than something like the T-72. However the Ukrainian government is certainly not oblivious to the fact and will use the with that knowledge in mind.",1
"I think they are concerned with a future in which meat substitutes become much more common and increasingly placed nearby real meat. Elderly, people with poor eyesite, impaired cognition could be at a disadvantage I suppose. I'd be ok with a huge label saying ""NOT MEAT"".","If we’re doing this, I propose adding a “no” before the “meat” name for substitutes. So, plant based “meats” would be NoChicken, NoBeef, NoShrimp, NoBacon etc.",1
"The game Raid Shadow Legends is made in Ukraine and they have had zero downtime associated with the war (though some feature delays as their employees relocated). If they can do it, I'm sure the banking sector can do it too.","I assume they mean taking out bank buildings and such. They cant take out the infrastructure no, but I assume they just want to make it a lot harder for Ukrainians to buy food and necessities by destroying cash reserves.",1
"Ukraine's spring counteroffensive will aim to ""drive a wedge into the Russian front in the south between Crimea and mainland Russia,"" said Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukrainian military intelligence, DW reports.",Ukrainian Military Intelligence has stated that the Major Offensive that is being planned for Spring will take place in Southeastern Ukraine and will be intended to drive a wedge between Crimea and Mainland Russia.,1
Continue to cut China out of trade? Boy you are in for a surprise and dose of reality. Trade continues to increase year over year between us and China.,Trade volume between the West and China will continue to grow over the next decade. Your hope of trade being cut is wishful thinking and frankly speaking against the economic interests of the West.,1
Because they can’t let a Democrat have any wins to campaign on. They have to work toward a narrative that Democrats are ineffective and freeloading off government because how else are they going to convince their base that Democrats are ineffective and freeloading off taxpayers?,"And they are funding all of this grotesque wastefulness with our tax dollars, because Republican voters are terrible, spiteful people who want the nation to suffer.",1
Comparing diabetes to a serious neurological mental illness doesn’t make any sense to me. Considering the mental capacity of someone who’s running for political office seems reasonable to me.,"If we can be adults and recognize how different mental health conditions can and cannot influence somebody's ability to fulfill their role as a public servant and representative, it's a fine conversation. We should be able to scrutinize not just how we feel about candidates, but their actual capabilities to govern and the stances they hold given different policies.",1
"I’m gay Gen Z and despite holding many conservative views, I will always vote democrat for the foreseeable future. I will always vote to protect my own rights as a queer man, even if I’m not a big fan of the other democrat policies.","I volunteer to get out the vote for Democrats. If you give a shit, make sure everyone one of your likeminded friends votes. Every election. The small stuff (school boards) is incredibly important. Those elections get 10% turnout. The midterms get 40-60%. Presidential maybe 60-70%. I guarantee you know people who don’t vote and getting them to vote would make a huge difference.",1
Nah canada is a leading country when it comes time to dealing with chinas shit. They are a trading partner but we have laws in place that stop other countries to do to us what china is doing to europe and the US. CHINA cant hold canada by the balls and they hate it.,"In my experience most chinese canadians don't want anytning to do wjth the CPC. A large number of them back politicians and parties that are against the CPC, are highly religious(which is against communism in general), an increasing number of them are pro marijuana, and regularly prostest anything involving the CPC. For a lot of chinese canadians and chinese people living in Canada, life in Canada has become about enjoying freedoms they don't have in their native country and moving their assets to a place the COC can't possibly touch, which is a big part of the housing issue.",1
"But if we're going to be honest, if Ukraine was told ""our continued support of you is contingent these ATACMS don't get used on Russian territory proper"", they would quite likely follow that directive.",interesting if you think in an all out war between russia and ukraine it isn't a possibility ukraine run out of soldiers first.,1
"In this case, though, it's likely the damage was incidental, because the Russians need this dam in place to provide the water height necessary to feed the canal that provides fresh water to Crimea. At this stage, I would assume the Russians still have not abandoned hopes of holding Crimea, and thus would not blow this Dam.","That entire massive 'lake' in the center of Ukraine is the reservoir created by this dam. If they blew the dam, the results would be catastrophic.",0
This is his autobiography. The military was a huge part of his life. Actually fighting and being in the thick of it and not letting his status keep from doing so was really important to him. Not surprising he would write about what he did. (I am surprised tho that the military dude was claiming they tell them to see Taliban insurgents as humans with families and stuff. I guess things have changed!).,"P.S. As I was typing, I realized that my tv was playing the second episode of Gwynne Dyer’s documentary series on war, titled “Anybody’s Son Will Do.” It’s literally about this exact subject, how basic training turns young men into people who follow orders instinctively and are willing to kill, with some even being eager to kill the enemy.",1
"If the Republican Party did not have voter suppression, gerrymandering, and various other means of electoral chicanery, they would never win another election of consequence in America.",The state districts matter a lot and Republicans use gerrymandering to make it hard for Democratic candidates to win even when they are the majority.,1
"Progressives are realizing this as they wake up to the reality at hand and shift further left. Pink Pistols, John Brown Gun Club, and SRA membership is exploding. It's mostly the old neolib holdouts that are delusional enough to think there's any hope of reasonable middle ground compromise with the far right that are still holding on to the old Democrat gun control platform.","Tbf, a lot of Democratic lawmakers could do a lot more than they're doing to resist the GOP and just keep trying to take the easy way out by pushing dumb platitudes about bipartisanship while doing things that their donors/GOP donors (lots of the same people) like. The way to fix that isn't by punishing the Democratic party/punishing America by allowing Republicans to get elected, though it's turning out to vote in primaries and making sure all your friends and neighbors know who the good and bad Democratic lawmakers are.",1
"But they wouldn't be out of bounds to refuse service to a private citizen with a film crew who did not get permission to film on their property, would they?","Plus, in most of those videos the managers are busy trying to prevent the disruption occuring in their restaurants. That disruption just usually happens to be a fight in those cases, rather than a would-be politician handing out political material.",0
"I don't think EVs make sense for pickup trucks right now, even though Tesla had a demo of their semi.","Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but Tesla is not important in the evolution of EVs. At least not anymore - they used to be, but the market has caught up to them and overtaken them, which is why the Tesla stuck is down to 50% what it was at the start of the year. And it is still overvalued. Now they just make sub-par hugely overpriced cars in a market where many other manufacturers make way better EVs for cheaper. The only aspect where Tesla is in front is charging network, but even that is changing. Most major markets for Tesla either already regulate that their chargers need to be able to be used by all EVs not just Teslas, or such regulation is coming.",1
"The more I think about it, the less convinced I am that she actually runs in 2024. She seems to absolutely hate the job itself, outside of the attention she gets. She doesn't meet with constituents and she underwater across the board among all Arizona voters. In addition to the signature hurdle, who's going to want to work for her to even gather those signatures? The Democratic party won't. The GOP could maybe, but it'd be just as much of a risk for them as if they nominate another Blake Masters, Sinema could end up pulling some R-leaning voters that'd otherwise go for them.","I mean there's definitely a chance, more-so than were this just a D vs. R race, but the one poll I saw on the matter (in fall 2021, when Dems were slumping in polls in general) had it as a 38R-36D race, with Sinema taking some portion of that remainder. A GOP lead, but not insurmountable by any means.",1
"If it’s not this, it’s something else. They’re obviously not going to stop. If by now you’re not anticipating “more radical political action”, I’ve got news for you. Let them have at it. It’s not like the US hasn’t been through worse.","Well, clearly it will be pointless for voters in Republican-leaning Cochise County to show up at the polls in 2024, seeing as they stand to be disenfranchised by their political party of choice.",0
"So titles like ""most transmissible yet"" are a bit inaccurate, because it implies that the new variant is more transmissible than the previous, while in reality a large part of the competitive edge is due to evading preexisting immunity. If all the ""most transmissible yet"" claims were due to each variant actually being more transmissible, then the current version would be the most contagious virus we've ever known by some margin. And while covid-19 is very contagious, it's not that.","The data seems mixed on immune system effects, but I can’t help but think it’s the effect of Covid. It’s the only factor that’s really changed. And now we’re just supposed to live like this? It’s really fucking depressing.",1
"“In the senate, Democrats’ priority will be to confirm federal judges and executive branch appointees nominated by the president.”.","To add to this - they have a very impactful duty they can do independently (confirming/blocking judicial nominations), whereas the House needs the Senate to pass legislation.",1
"And even though armenia is reliant on the CSTO do to Turkish-Azerbaijani aggression - is Russia doing anything for them? Azerbaijan with the support of turkey literally controls actual Armenian territory, with Russia just giving thoughts and prayers. Armenias own CSTO ally Kazakhstan supports Azerbaijan in its war against it.",The CSTO is such a useless alliance. Even Kazakhstan gave up on it when it started sharing CSTO intelligence with turkey and turkey planning to establish drone manufacturing facilities in Kazakhstan. It even supported Azerbaijan in its war with Armenia and is looking to escape Russias influence over its energy sector by talking with Azerbaijan over building a pipeline.,0
"Keep in mind Russia is essentially a mafia state. The more violent, vicious and terrifying someone is the more likely they'll get power. Then they stay in power by having everyone else either so terrified of them they won't cross them or the problem individuals get brutally murdered.","No, I'm saying the USD is not backed by anything. Its backed on the promise the government will payout on the value of the bill, in other words its value and global exchange rate is based on faith.",0
"Antisemites can't resist bringing up iSrAeL in threads about American Jews, despite American Jews having no say in Israeli politics. They do it because they can't stand Jews being viewed as victims and want to shift the narrative to Jews as aggressors and therefore deserving of hate.","They can be, but usually when I see someone winning whining about being called anti-semitic for ""criticizing Israel"" it's because they have in fact been being grossly anti-semitic. The ""you can't critize Israel without being called anti-semitic!"" line is the typical defense of left wing Anti-semites.",0
"..and I've no doubt the Russians will be super eager to secure their first 'kill' of a Challenger, Leopard or any other NATO tank, if for no other reason than the propaganda value.",If you are a Russian AFV commander you might have been told that the Ukrainians are running out of armor; but then being told you might face modern MBTs that will probably see you first and kill you before you see it?,1
"interestingly enough 3 years later, France and the French Africans are still yet to even begin talks to implement this, almost as if France doesn’t want to.","When the Mali junta, while being a weaker state than say Ivory coast or Senegal, asked France to leave, the french forces left without delay nor any discussion.",1
"This is how much the premium business plans cost for everyone, not just Ukraine. They are not paying $2500 a month for the $100 family Starlink service.",>A British official said after discussions between the ministries “it was agreed there were higher priority military capabilities.”.,0
"However, it is very likely that taking over Moldova in early 2023 was a part of Russia's ""grand-plan,"" so Moldova's intel chief is not entirely incorrect. But we all know by now that this ""plan"" was flushed down the toilet the moment Ukraine repelled the initial offensive.","If they had concentrated their entire offensive on the push to Kyiv, it may have worked out. Instead their forces- and their flawed logistics- were stretched along several huge axis of attacks Instead of just focused on one.",1
"You can disagree with your union and still be part of the union. I would say lots of people regularly don't agree with everything their union does, just like most people don't agree with everything their government does.",Or if you aren’t in agreement with the union you can still work. It affects me. Don’t agree with the choices. But I do me. If they desire more funding then they can listen to those of us that aren’t funding. Meet our requests and there ya go. A union within a union. Unionception.,1
"No, and fuck em, from a white, male, middled-aged leftist, who votes as far left as the ballot allows.",You can't think of any white women in the GOP who have doubted the 2020 election results parroted what the men in their lives say?,1
I'll note those were pretty much completely unguided besides some sort of pressure sensor that controlled ballast to maintain a certain altitude. It was basically pray the wind blows the right way.,"A modern weaponized balloon wouldn't be that bad for a long ranged attack. If the US is letting it fly over our airspace, the only thing that would be different is having some sort of payload attached.",0
"And from what I've been gathering, those 500/day basically come from men ""rushing"" ukraine positions... not from defensive positions taking massive losses..","In the last 10 months, they haven't been able to bring that number up, and that is with massive losses on offensive attacks by Russians not by Ukraine offside attacks (as far as we know).",0
Those who voted for Biden and will vote for him in 2024 need to understand they are historically making it easier for Republicans to win congressional seats in the following elections. That's the cost of holding the presidency.,And I already said why holding the Presidency is still important. The GOP would be unable to pass any of their agenda. That alone makes it worth it.,1
"""Germany is producing critical parts of the tanks and Brazil has signed a treaty to not export them without germany's acceptance which is absolutely in line with all treaties of that kind."".","Hm. While you are certainly right that many people here (and in general) tend to grossly oversimplify political calculations that they don't even grasp (and this is very much so not limited to westerners), it would be foolish to assume that the people in the federal chancellery, the ministries and the Bundestag are doing the same. In case you still do, let me assure you that we know what we're doing. Most of the time, at least. There is a significant apparatus in place to deliver well rounded background information, and they are good chaps that haven't disappointed me for what its worth.",1
And there is literally absolutely nothing preventing them from simply updating that data with any of the data from any of the studies done over the years or them from doing that study given they had no restrictions for the last 5 years.,Sorry but that is shit science and we deserve better than that and those actions are not the fault or responsibility of the evil and apparently omnipresent and omnipotent NRA.,0
Sarcasm my friend. People who don't acknowledge climate change are certainly refusing to see what's happening around them.,"The problem is that you don't only need to convince people of the reality of climate change. You have to persuade them then to act against their own immediate interest and change the way they live. You have to convince the majority of humans to willingly decrease their quality of life, and not for a short period, but forever.",1
That seems more important than whether a blazer made of knit fabric is considered a “blazer” or a “cardigan”.,"The big issue was whether a ponte knit blazer was acceptable. That required the addition of “cardigan” into the wording, because Ms. Kelley refused to accept ponte knit as a suit fabric. Even though it is.",0
"Make no mistake: If Biden answers one subpoena from this stupid GOP House Party, they will just keep doing it.",And setting the precedent that Biden will ascede to even ridiculous requests like this will just let them continue to do it to him and future presidents.,1
"Ukraine needs jets that can operate on very rough ground, can be maintained without massive facilities, and are built with the expectation that they will have to operate low and relatively slow.","It's a good aircraft in those roles as far as multirole aircraft go... but there are more suitable aircraft available in greater numbers for the exact capabilities that Ukraine wants. Bit more rugged, bit more payload, bit harder hitting as a result.",1
"That being said, Canada's got a pretty big non-military presence in the Arctic. The Canadian Coast Guard has bases and several icebreakers operating up there most of the year.","I think the Canadian military settled on the simpler, saner solution: whenever someone ends up in Canadian territory, scramble jets to deal with it.",0
"FL and TX are not low tax states. Their property tax is out of control. TX income tax is only low if you're actually really wealthy. Insurance on your home in FL is by far the most expensive in the country. Utility costs in TX are some of, if not the highest in the land. You are not saving money by living in either of those states. In fact, you're probably paying more to live in either than whatever ""high tax"" state you're fleeing.","That’s a significant difference, plus you’re going from having to pay state income tax to not having to pay state income taxes.",1
Gotta wonder how much MAGA donations to Trump sucked that money out of what midterm Republican candidates could have received if Trump weren't trying to wring as much $$$ out of the MAGA flocks for as long as he can.,"Granted, the typical Republican may be a few 6-packs short of a case, but even they tend to learn from electoral mistakes.",0
"I’m not even saying get rid of all fossil fuels immediately, its fucking common sense at this point. We are live watching our country get left behind. I am just so sick of the democrats having terrible messaging and not getting behind winning ideas.","Honestly, the real solution (yet one that both parties lack the will and gall to go through with) is a large scale investment in green tech, rebuilding our electric grids to support a sustainable future, partially funded by tax increases on fossil fuels, as well as a removal of their subsidies (and harsh fines for the market gouging they have been doing). I would have no problem with investments in oil to help with the transition, but the green focus isn’t there on the level it needs to be so this kind of news is disappointing.",0
"I wouldn't say that it's exempted, but it's so poorly understood by Americans that it really needs its own definition. Just because _you_ might understand doesn't mean the HR lawyer at Microsoft who is trying to deal with a caste discrimination case understands it or knows of legal precedent.","While I understand the sentiment and wish it could be the case, unfortunately it has been proven time and time again that people are unable to _agree not to be assholes_.",0
This isn’t federal court…it’s a county in Georgia and their local prosecutor who convened a grand jury. They’d be the same one issuing any perjury charge.,"No, it more likely means that Willis is not planning to pursue indictments for these perjury allegations. The reason she argued against releasing the report is because having it made public before she indicts people could screw up her cases in annoying and technical ways (prejudice juries, open avenues for appeal, etc.) However, the grand jury voted to make the report public, so the judge wanted to publicize as much of it as possible as soon as possible, to honor the letter of the law that says that the grand jury has the power to publicize their report. So the compromise is to release the parts of the report that don't directly discuss the charges Willis is going to bring. Which in turn means that anything that is discussed in the portions that are about to be released is likely to be stuff that no one's planning to use in an indictment.",1
"North Korea itself is a joke, while China and Russia are seen as (or at least were) superpowers who are unlikely to be phased by international pressure. It’s also not really a secret that they are oppressive dictatorships nor do they make a serious attempt at hiding it, while Israel continues to be viewed in a more positive light and markets itself as “the only democracy in the Middle East”.","A lot of people in Israel (if not most) that support the military presense in the WB do so solely because of security reasons - it has very strategic positions that the Jordanians used to attack Israel from, and later were used as bases for terror operations inside Israel.",1
"I'm thinking you are a bit generous that they won't fall in line. Hierarchy is what conservatives believe in stronger than any religion. If powerful conservative figureheads tell them to vote a certain way, they most likely will, as that is a person higher on the hierarchy giving them orders.","Consrrvative media and figures are sort of hedging their bets a bit, imo. They are allowing shit talk of Trump, allowing some people to say he is a personal non grata, and talking up DeSantis, but mostly remaining silent. They are seeing which way the winds blow by election day, while slowly propping up the candidate which can be controlled and they want to win (desantis).",0
Empress Catherine II “the Great” annexed much of what is now the Ukraine through wars with the Ottoman Empire and the partition of Poland and brutally suppressed the largest peasant rebellion in Russian history.,"She was the sponsor of the enlightenment philosophers and at the same time it was her who stripped all remaining rights of peasants, destroyed autonomy rule of the Ukrainian hetmanate and then put the yoke of the harshest serfdom on Ukrainian peasants. The greatest Ukrainian writer and artist Taras Shevchenko was born and raised as a serf and then bought by a noble who paid for his tuition at art academy in St. Petersburg, basically a slave who got lucky in life. His grandfather was a Cossack who was made into a serf under Catherine the second(I’m not gonna call her “the great”). There should be no monument to that hypocritical bitch in Ukraine.",1
"Contextually, in Chinese and in Japanese, 戦 would be understood, on its own, to mean war. If someone came up to me and asked in English, what does 戦 mean, the closest concept in English is war.","It is cherry-picking to say 戦 means battle: this is not how the language works. 戦/戰 is a contextual word: it attaches the context of war into whatever this word is attached to. 内戦, C. Neizhan/J. Naisen), meaning civil war, is the word nei/nai meaning inside, attached to 戦, which gives the whole ""word"" the context of war.",0
"I seem to remember that the Russian tests of hypersonic missiles have not been very successful. But for argument sake, let’s suppose they are very effective and Russia can put such weapons in range of DC.",And speed running all the fellow nato countries rotating out all their old (often soviet) hardware for new American weapons.,1
Bribery and corruptions exists in a lot of places but in Qatar its slavery and abuse of women and minorities in a huge scale. If a woman is raped she is jailed.,"That is very purpose of the channel, have you heard a lot of criticism of Qatar by any other country?",0
The strategies towards application of this amount of information are indeed different. That doesn't mean the US has no comparable systems to what the Chinese government has over their citizens.,"Ya know, I agree that China isn't really a nation now that you say it. It's more an overarching oligarchic force holding together a bunch of others. A prison of nations, if you will.",1
"Yes, housing or rent prices are obviously the issue. Problem is the solution is complex, costly, and involves all levels of government, none of which are coordinated on this. Plus the profit seeking from big businesses and their control over housing gets in the way of any effort to help poorer people.","There's also the dilemma of making a place both desirable to live in but also affordable at the same time. Often the more desirable you make it the less affordable it becomes. Either way we'd need some pretty widespread zoning reform, affordable housing investments, and stopping big businesses from owning homes.",0
"Wikileaks released the hacked DNC emails within a hour of the Access Hollywood tape being aired on TV. There was nothing in the emails but some chicken recipes and normal DNC business but the entire U.S. media turned on a dime from ""grab 'em by the pussy"" to ""hacked DNC emails."".",P.S. - I'm not defending Trump. I'm just saying that buying Greenland seems to have the same kind of upside as the or the .,1
"In fact, I fear that this law may make companies more reticent to hiring women, because why have a worker that may be entitled to sick leave each month when you can hire someone that isn't.","You also seem to be ignoring that women who are incapacitated by their menstrual cycle already miss work, they just tend to take sick days to do it.",1
"Now even though i'm vaccined (as i should, it's the right thing to do) i can't travel to a lot of countries.","Except taking Western vaccines that were far more effective than the Chinese ones. You know, probably the best thing they could do. They're doing everything they can to enforce basically unenforceable policies. That doesn't mean it's effective...",1
"to be fair to India, Russia is very open to outsourcing the manufacturing and even design to India which is the whole relation. Russia still has a level of manufacturing which in some aspects surpasses china (who hasn't been able to get turbine designs and manufacturing off the ground).","Not all of these companies/countries are manufacturing engines for fighters at this moment, but all have the design and manufacturing ability to do so if needed.",1
"It would theoritically put Starobilsk, which is a major supply hub for Russian forces in the Donbas, within Himars range if Ukrainians were bold enough to put those things in the frontline - they have done during the kharkiv offensive.","I'm sure retaking Kreminna would create a bunch of strategic opportunities for Ukraine, but the logistical issue of that highway being unusable as a supply route is already playing out, and the Russians have already adapted their logistics to deal with it. Anyway this discussion is rather pointless to be honest, as the liberation of Kreminna is unlikely to happen anytime soon.",0
"Regardless, as opposed to China, Russia did weaponize our dependency in order to try and manipulate our politics which made them the bigger threat. I as a european, want absolutely nothing from them anymore, regardless of the price. The fact that they invested huge amounts of money to buy off some of our politicians, have an imperial agenda and have no issues with genociding people as close to them culturally as possible, makes them a way bigger threat than China could ever be right now.","I think what I and many don't understand is how Russians accept the political apathy and how they accept their situation. Yes, we saw a lot of them leave, we saw the protests, we saw that two battalions of russians are now fighting in Ukraine with the UA military. But considering the country's size and population, the resistance is still underwhelming.",0
"Now all that being said, when I opened the article there was a video about an alligator playing and my immediate thought was ""For fuck's sake Florida. That is not a dog."".","Except it's not at all like you said. You thought I thought it was by Republicans and switched based off of finding out it was democrats that proposed it. However i switched not because democrats proposed it, but because the bill was actually decent. It just so happens that it was a dem who put it forth.",1
"Erdogan is a Machiavellian in the morally neutral kind of way. I think he sees himself as a moral leader in an immoral world, who must play world powers against each-other or else they will play him. And there's a certain truth to that.","Pretty much. Does this make Ergodan ""less of a bad person""? Fuck no. Does the fact that he's a jackass mean that this must not be a genuine opinion that he has? Fuck no. Who cares whether it's an actual belief or something he's saying for political clout? It changes nothing about Turkey itself either way.",1
"It's not a fair play. Not only is Germany refusing to send THEIR tanks, but they are prohibiting other countries (Poland) from sending Polish tanks.","Germany is reluctant to be tough on Russia because of the horrors they inflicted on the USSR, and don't want German tanks to be used there.",1
"If it is bad when China does military exercises close to other countries waters, then it is bad when we do it. That's called basic consistency.","Not even like this is the only time they have violated another countries sovereignty, as the do it all the time, and in very serious ways (air strikes, drone strikes, assassinations, invasions etc.) Can you imagine the reaction among the media and politicians if China was doing these things to the extent that the US is?",0
You said liberals literally begged him? Where and how did this begging come about other than saying how trump has mismanaged it and is xenophobic?,Your source doesn’t prove a single thing other than trying to clarify a tweet he posted on Trumps ban. Maybe maybe it indicates that he was sort of open to it (feels like a far stretch). But in no way we’re they begging him.,0
"Possibly, though it is unclear if the courts will uphold insurance requirements. The argument would be that we don't typically require insurance for the exercise of a constitutional right. And under the new Second Amendment test established by the Supreme Court in last June's Bruen case, which requires gun laws today to be consistent with the gun laws of the 1700s-1800s, when we didn't have gun insurance requirements, makes it harder to defend such a law.","Bruen states that laws must have history and context pertaining to the second amendment to be lawful, meaning only laws for restriction of the 2A are under this scrutiny. - Bruen is not a law, it does not mean that if something doesn't have history or context of being allowed by the 2A, that it is immediately considered illegal, etc. Let's not forget the 2A only speaks about restrictions on the government from passing laws, not restricting citizen's use of arms.",1
"Why should I align or not with Navalny's outlook? He's a typical representation of an Eastern European, but this cultural gap doesn't allow you to make things up to feed your own bias.","He is a russian ultra nationalist who sees russians as better than Ukrainians, and I don't think that should be glossed over.",1
"That very much is a negative comment about Brazil, and it’s not something Brazil should be proud of.","Brazil has its own problems, sure. Does Brazil think it’s going to solve all of its problems on its own, with no outside help?",0
Maybe they would have enough money if they didnt waste it on nuclear weapons that will never be used.,What does a nuclear weapon have to do with disastrous economic decisions? If anything it’s an expensive saber that you rattle too much. We need a better economic policy than war.,1
The FBI did not want a case on the books where entrapment could apply to informants. The agency crossed the line in being too aggressive in proving a case where agents and informants were advocating for the commission of a crime in order to make a case. And potentially crossing a line into criminal behavior outside of the limits of undercover LE work.,What entrapment isn’t: A cop or agent undercover allowing crimes to be planned or suggesting crimes be committed. Like a vice cop offering to sell sex or a DEA agent coordinating a drug deal. That’s not entrapment.,1
What we'd like to see is them actually try. If Garland throws the book at him and tRump walks I'll be disappointed but no worse off than what usually happens with the rich and powerful when they run the clock out and are never punished. At least he'd have been actually charged. It would at least give the impression that they give a fuck.,"But COME THE FUCK ON. This dude should have been in jail actual decades ago, well before he even ran for office. It’s time to stop pussy footing around.",1
Really must say the Ukrainians are showing the world a brilliant display of modern defensive warfare.,So it makes one wonder if these small target attacks by Ukraine are a classic case of “Rope a Dope” to wear down Russia’s offensive capabilities.,0
"This isn't me defending the royals, it's the best of a bad democracy, I'm just making a point that minuscule or not, the Royals shouldn't ""appear"" to do more for the public than our own government.","Personally (while my own republican sensibilities might make me biased) I struggle to envision a situation where the monarchy is able to be dissolved but still somehow able to keep all the perks of the position. As you correctly state, the crown estate does not belong to Charles (contrary to the claims of more than one Reddit monarchist), so I don't see that there's much more cause for them to keep that than to keep, say, exemption from taxes or whatever. No crown, no crown estate.",1
"By the way, during the Russian occupation of baltics, for many years our own native languages were suppressed and removed from school curriculum.","Removing Russian as a foreign language from schools does not get rid of the native Russian speakers (not that anyone would wish to) - they will know the language either way, so the minority is still there.",1
"It's not just about the tanks. It's about the IFV's, AFV's, fire support vehicles, missile defense and artillery too.","This is really important, because those vehicles have been designed to work together in a combined arms force. They all use the same ammunition, the same command and control practices, and all that other stuff. Countries haven't been sending stuff willy nilly. It's been sent because the West has been trying to build one of these ABCT's.",0
"Trump is antisemtic and has implied Jews aren't Americans and claimed to a group of American Jews that ""Israel is your country"".",EDIT: The reason antisemites bring up Israel in every thread about American Jews is because they can't stand the narrative that some Jews are victims.,1
"That's a weird interpretation, a counterstrike is by definition a response to an enemy strike, and in the context of defense, it would be a response to eliminate the enemy's capacity of launching an strike.","After browsing a few paragraphs: counterstrike = ability to destroy an enemy missile in flight, or at its base of deployment.",1
"But even though this is still “wrong,” I don’t think you’ll find many on the left who defend Biden tooth and nail the way the right circled the wagons and defended Trump despite a multitude of transgressions.","I think Biden is doing great so far in his presidency, and I believe this was an honest mistake in his case, but if Trump going to jail means Biden needs to go too, so be it. Sorry, Joe. Should have been more careful.",1
"Not to mention, when people say that America is sending Ukraine 10 billion dollars' worth of equipment, in most cases (i.e. not Himars or Patriot) what they mean is America is sending equipment that cost 10 billion dollars back in the early 90s and was just gradually going obsolete in some supply base anyway.","A bunch of countries that were maintaining Soviet-era equipment that was simply too expensive to replace in peace time offloaded all that stuff and got a great deal on modern American kit. Poland and Czechia and Romania all got great deals on far better gear, AND it's for a good cause!",1
"To start, I think education should be free, this is not a defense of the system. But you might not realize, when we're talking about endowments, the donor can be veeeery specific regarding what the money is intended for and the university has to respect that. That leads to some areas being very well funded, other departments and initiatives have to fight to survive. And anyways, at the institutions you're talking about, generally people who would be getting a loan to go to, say, a state school or mid-tier university would get a free ride, would they not? People generally only pay tuition at Ivy League schools when they can afford it, from what I understand.","Of course, the more expensive colleges are also (ab)using adjuncts. I’m just saying community colleges are a less-bad option for a student, not a solution.",1
"Our Democracy and Freedoms were established to combat the principles and powers of the political, religious, and greedy who seek to live at the expense of the weak, poor, and desperate members of the United States of America 🇺🇸.","We the People Party will be established to combat the principles and powers of steal, kill and destroy the fabric of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.",0
"Also, western would not be willing to support Ukraine with intelligence, arms and funds that much if Ukrainians would not be seen as nation that is ready to use it.","On the one side, Ukraine chose to ally itself with the West, and it's not like it was unknown that Russia wouldn't like this nor was this done unilaterally by Ukraine.",1
"Khrushchev and Gorbachev strike me as two men who deeply cared for the health of the entirety of Eastern Europe. I'm sure terrible things happened under their watch, but they were moral men. Both Ukranian.","I could be wrong, but out of everything the majority us as Westerners respected and feared out of the Eastern Bloc was largely Ukranian. I don't want to put them as a whole on a pedestal... Pre-2014 ukraine definitely had some bad actors, a ton of corruption and a largely anti-LGBTQ sentiment. Since the birthing of what everyone considers the ""Modern Ukraine"" post 2014 and during these dire times, These People have stepped up dramatically.",0
"Turkey has one of the largest and most experienced militaries in Europe, along with a booming domestic military arms sector. They’re also geopolitical rivals with Russia and in the best position to block their expanse via the Black Sea. They are invaluable to have on our side. Yes Erdogen sucks ass, but Turkey provides more to the strenh of NATO then most of the states in it.",Denying Sweden entry into NATO is good news for Russia and Erdogan can use it to look strong in his own country.,1
I ask this: What should Biden say to the people that paid off their loans and now will be footing the bill for others?,"What about the $800 billion in PPP loans that went to business owners, many of whom didn't need it or committed fraud to get it?",1
"I get the sentiment, but there is a whole lot more to it than just sending a wire transfer and the moment something like that happens both Alpha and Gamma Hackers lose credibility with the companies and agencies that one must work with to pay a ransom possibly even to the point of a US company being denied permission to pay either in the future.","Believe it or not, professional hackers can have pretty good customer service. If they establish a reputation of taking the money but releasing the data or failing to provide a decryption key - its less likely the next victim will pay up.",0
"One crowd has a history of persecution from institutions, and thus dont trust institutions in general.","A belief may be irrational, but if it exists at scale in the larger population, what really matters is what can be done about it and what should be done. In this case, not blaming Black people (because of their history with institutions) for being afraid of institutions is the right course of action.",0
"Also the Republican absudity that when we win, the election was fair but when we lose, the election was rigged. You wouldn't accept that logic from a 4 year old.",Roe is the big one. You can't turn over half the population into second class citizens and not expect serious opposition. I think future history classes will teach that overturning Roe was one of the greatest political miscalculations of all time.,0
"Does Iran’s opponents not already have those capabilities, so technically they would be playing “catch-up” in terms of their own development? Also is the ”nuclear warheads” not just a WMD-esq fearmongering which proliferates in Europe, The US, and Israel? I remember reading about how much material would be required but if you have a link to where Iran is in their nuclear warhead capability I’d appreciate the link.","Thank you, I think most of what I understand about the Iranian inability to produce a functioning nuclear warhead is covered in the report. They don’t have the design, material capability, nor the amount of material required at the required enrichment level at present. The report also states that there has been no move to accelerate weaponising the Uranium since 2003. I think a lot of the Anti-Iran rhetoric is based purely on hatred and little on fact. If a country doesn’t have the capability to design a nuclear warhead, and there’s no proof that they have the enriched material to create the reaction, let alone the materials required to assemble a missile, then it’s all just flights of fancy….",0
"Now, enough countries have voiced objections for Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in 2024 Olympic.",Yeah but I think that there are few countries especially from eastern Europe which are very serious with this idea so if Russian and Belarusian would still participate they would indeed boycott Olimpics. That would make olimpic committee looks like clowns and I really doubt that they would withstand this criticism from western media. It will be probably the same like it was with Mundial. In case of Poland I'm assure that public would be 100% for boycott. Especially that one of the most important moments in our sport history is when Kozakiewicz showed bras d'honneur to audience during Moscow Olimpics.,1
Is that true? Apple truly is just a dictatorship of a company. They have a complete corner on so much of the population of developed countries. In regard to what they can do on the internet/through apps. And how anything people buy through their devices gets heavily taxed by the government Apple.,"Why should I as a PC user pay more because Apple, who creates devices I don't use, says so? How is that good for the consumer?",1
"In any case, the killings of political opponents were not in the millions or tens of millions—which is not to say that the actual number.","Nah. If we are going to engage in conversations about the past, we might as well be honest about what was actually going on. Stalin is not above criticism whatsoever, but to spew anti-communist rhetoric with seemingly little to no basis in historical fact only serves the interest of the global capitalist elite.",0
Just because women and minorities in the US and other parts of the world are still having to fight for equal rights and treatment doesn't mean we can't support those in Iran and their fight as well.,"My other complaint is: people from ""free countries"" oppressing the women and immigrants in their own countries while being upset about Iran oppressing people.",1
What most people don’t understand is Fox is giving their audience what they want. If they didn’t do that this audience would move on to some other place. As it is Trump’s base has already done that as they consider Fox to be to liberal for their taste.,"When it comes to the base they no longer watch anything on Fox News except from Tucker. They are huge when it comes to conservatives but the base considers them too liberal. You have to understand the base is hard core Trump followers and Fox not only had to many liberal commentators like Chris Wallace but they made the unforgivable mistake of being the first to call Arizona for Biden. They do still watch Tucker but this revelation if they believe will change that. They often tend to disregard things they don’t want to hear. Hell, Fox News has been trying to replace Trump with DeSantis since about last June or July yet another reason Fox is not something Trumps base watches. You just don’t try to replace their hero and remain their choice of where they get what they want to hear to reinforce their beliefs.",0
"Likely human error as, from reports that I've read, it's a small number of rocuments like less than 30 from many different larger files. Trump had numerous files and hundreds of thousands of documents.","Big difference here is that Biden was likely entirely unaware, as was the National Archives, that any documents were missing. Both Trump and the NA knew Trump was in possession of documents.",0
They had like 20 years to get rid of putin. They deserve every second of this absolute shitstorm that they are about to get.,More people live in Moscow and St. Petersburg combined than in the next like 15-20 most populous russian cities combined.,0
"When I was debating the war in Ukraine, someone said to me that it’s NATO’s fault because it would be akin to Mexico joining an alliance with Russia and stationing troops there (since it’s so close to the USA).","But the West has to be aware of Russia's history and concerns, and that NATO is a military alliance that has be creeping closer and closer to it door with no ""Cuban missile crisis game of chicken"" that has happened until now. And it's all fun and games poking a bear when it's asleep. It's complicated, my heart is with the Ukrainians, but consessions have to be made on both sides, and both sides have to want peace. The consessions have to start from Russia as well, the aggressor.",1
"This has to be code for ""Some awful shitty corporation is paying us to not do this for some dumbass reason."".",That's all it is. Giving up a little sunlight while we shower & shave in order to play outside together later. It's literally nothing more than that.,1
"It looks like the patriot missile systems radar can be up to 10km away from the firing unit itself, then the actual command unit can be in a 3rd location. I didn't realise it was all split up. Good idea though.","If they could work it out, I'm sure they could swarm it somehow right? It must have something to combat that?",0
"We learned in Russia that losing trade is not enough to stop authoritarian countries invading, but it does make it harder for other countries to respond. China is no different.","China is different. They aren't trying to sabre-rattle a nuclear war. If anyone tries to cut them off, China is diverse enough that they are self-sufficient.",1
"Well. yes but not quite, as FIFA itself has no political interest other than to make money to its corrupt board members etc. Platini would not vote for Quatar if there was not something in it for him.","On other totally not related news his son, Laurent, in 2012 joined the Qatar sportswear company Burrda, owned by Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), as the chief executive, which Platini has always denied had anything to do with his vote, or represented a conflict of interest.",0
"Yeah, the whole ""Special forces = Elite forces"" causes people to forget the ""special purpose"" part and think of them as super soldiers that can do anything infantry can but just better.","The purpose of special forces is to do reconnaissance and infiltration behind enemy lines; they're not some elite infantry troops - like you said, regular infantry are actually better than elite units because being infantry is not the purpose of those elite units.",1
"edit: PS, I discovered i had a lot of knee pain from sleeping on my side. Popping my knees and then making myself fall asleep on stomach or back made my knee pain completely disappear.","That helps for sure but it's still difficult to find a perfect alignment when sleeping on your side, your knees are resting (and rebuilding bone) slightly to the left or slightly to the right.",0
"Ionization smoke-detectors and photoelectric (not ""infrared"") smoke-detectors each work better with different types of smoke.","Ionization smoke detectors still use radioactive materials, and detect the ionized gases emitted from fires/hot objects.",1
"It’s preposterous that FIFA would cowtow to this. If Qatar didn’t want beer, or women, or gay people in their football stadiums they shouldn’t have killed all those slaves to build them. Host your own medieval sporting event if you want to be barbaric thugs. How about a good public execution?",EDIT: alrite guys stop messaging me. As you can see a lot of other people have clarified what I meant about buying alcohol in UK football stadiums. You don’t need to add the same comment to the pile.,0
"We had a similar demonstration in the last few years: a small piece of forest (Hambach), which had been steadily felled over two decades (I grew up there, so Pepperidge Farm remembers when it was still a real forest) was to be felled so the mine could expand to its planned limits. These guys showed up and suddenly everyone pretended that those few hundred meters of forest was mightily important and had to be protected - when in the preceding decades no one gave a shit and the little rest of a forest was barely enough to be considered a system.","And, btw, it's not ""Germany"" and they are not planning anything. That plan has been planned long ago, right now things are being set in motion by RWE, the company responsible. Maybe, just maybe, if the 1980s hadn't seen demonstrations against nuclear power on a mass scale, we wouldn't need those coal power stations to manage base supply, but now we are fucked without them.",0
MAGA meltdown time. I remember seeing on Facebook all these red wave memes and Republicans being so smug and confident of landslide victories that will help launch Trump's campaign and comeback for 2024.,The fact they will not hold positions of power in swing states for the next presidential election is a massive victory.,0
Rural republicans yes but suburban republicans/swing voters won’t be too keen on Desantis’ policies that torpedo their kids’ chances at getting in to a competitive college.,"However, academic standards and competition won’t fall immediately so the large contingent of country club Republicans who expect their kids to follow in their footsteps and attend UF/FSU/UM are going to be PISSED if Bayleigh or Caydyn are suddenly disadvantaged in admissions.",1
"They might be miserable now, but they had two decades when the Western powers were actively attempting nation building, and a huge percentage of them actively supported or provided cover to the Taliban insurgency.","Answer : The People ""Rolled Over"" Because the Afghan people have been in a constant state of Corrupt Governments, War, Extremist Militants, Poverty, Aerial Bombings and War for over 40 years now.",1
"Russia is so fucking shit, they using entire stock of soviet weapons that was supposed to help them capture whole Europe, and they cannot take Bakhmut for over 5 fucking months!","If the next big russian offensive hasn't even started yet, it is going to be a goddamn Verdun for them.",1
"I shudder to think how Russia CURRENTLY IS doing in Ukraine, given that even their initial soldiers were so crappy. (not exactly shuddering, and I oppose the war in Ukraine).",You might be right and I also don’t think Russia’s concept is good or fitting specifically the Ukraine war. I was just commenting on the difference on concepts.,1
"He used to always share his views and have random tweet-discussions with folks but recently, his statements have been much more blunt and direct, and in my opinion dangerous.","Dude is aligned with far right extremists all over twitter, only engaging to their requests from him. Banning accounts that expose nazi lovers, banning accounts that help protect lbq groups from maga/proud boy protests, etc. Today he responded like usual to Ian Cheong who posted a fake article about Antifa planning to burn down Tesla factories. Now that he listens to them they are sharing lists to spam 5000 prominent liberal accounts to get banned, and their new thing is “Antifa” are pedophiles.",1
Resistors in Russia (despite how noble their cause) have no chance at successfully toppling the Russian government and the oligarchy.,Oh yeah my comment implies there are resistors injustice meant they're not getting any outside help l. No one plans on invading Russia and finishing the job so there's no chance those resistors will successfully overthrow the Russian government.,0
For argument's sake let's give her the benefit of the doubt and say it was a joke. She joked that she would have made sure the rioters were armed so that they could successfully murder members of congress. Do you think Republicans would excuse a Democrat for joking about murdering Republicans?,Why is it that these republicans are always joking when they make these remarks but when a democrat says something (equivalent in outrage (fake outrage that is)) how dare them?,1
So in your opinion its all the state legislators fault and the governor and city officials have nothing to do with anything thats wrong with Milwaukee. Ive never been there so I have no idea what may be right or wrong there. But thats pretty interesting.,Actually yes I have.🙂 I live in California though so its all blue 💙 and the cities still suck. They have all those problems I mentioned before and there is no republican legislators to blame.,0
"I think you mean the whole middle east. The whole point of making things war crimes is to keep everyone at the same level of morality, if your enemy isn't abiding by them, you can defend yourself without doing some things that don't look bad without the proper context. For example, you can rightfully claim the Israel shoots rockets into civilian areas in Gaza, but because Hamas isn't following international law, there are legitimate military targets in the civilian areas which brings Israel to strike there to begin with.","But the reality is that it's been decades now where Palestinians (At least a huge % of them) hold incredible grudge against Israel, still refuse to even acknowledge it's right to exist and are under some delusion that they can still kick us out of here.",1
There is no democracy in libya thats a fact but under the current situation with militias controlling the capital I don't think having elected government that's could bring stability to libya won't be an easy task at all in the other hand the Sharing of power between between Bashagha and hafter is the best opportunity libya had to achieve that.,So I really don't know how militias is any good for democratic process they are literally the main obstacle to Libya stability and Peaceful transfer of power.,0
"There was a substantial drop-off of births in China in the past few decades. The number of young people in their teens and twenties is much fewer in 2022 than 1989. This means the (economic) cost to China is much higher now than it was 33 years ago should it use tanks and fully automatic machine guns to mass-murder tens of thousands of (predominantly young) people. Are they willing to permanently collapse their economy and potentially their society just to hold onto power that will be irrelevant? But on the other hand, if they do what the people tell them to do, that emboldens the people to do more, which would eventually result in the collapse of the Party. They are literally between a rock and a hard place. As you say, time will tell.","Here is the thing, in basic economics, as the quantity of something decreases, the more valuable that thing becomes.",0
"Whether or not you think it's okay to shoot someone in that situation, we shouldn't forget that Rittenhouse deliberately put himself in that situation. He decided to arm himself and go into the middle of those protests to ""protect businesses"". He went in willing and ready to kill people for the sake of someone else's property and he followed through on that.","In their mind, being the person who commits these mass killing is the reward. All the motivation and discussion from the right is about culture wars. So when right-wing terrorists commit these acts they think they're saving the world from sin and evil.",1
"Voters in California, Michigan and Vermont ratified proposed constitutional amendments to protect reproductive choice, which is different from ""passing a bill."" (Voters in Montana, Kansas and Kentucky defeated proposed anti-choice constitutional amendments.).",Yep. This brings to mind the state-by-state effort to recognize marriage equality. Getting legislation passed was very challenging even in blue states like New York and New Jersey. All of the earliest states to recognize marriage equality did so through state supreme court decisions.,0
"> I've always held that capitol police should've shot anyone who crossed through a broken window or door into the Capitol Building while congress was in session and the VP was in the building. The common response to this line of thought on reddit is usually something along the lines of, ""the crowd would have become enraged and swarmed them"" but I disagree. Hell, we have video proof that as soon as Babbit was shot that crowd dissipated and no one else tried to climb through the window. I absolutely believe a few dozen bodies (and I don't think it would've taken that many) would have backed that crowd off immediately. I also believe that as soon as capitol police started firing it would've prompted faster response times from other law enforcement groups.",I think that if the police outside had just started firing into the crowd that could've gone poorly. (I also strongly disagree that would have been an appropriate response from the police.) That said I think that if they had shot every. single. person. that tried to climb past a broken door or window it would've backed off the crowd pretty quickly. (Also as soon as capital police had started shooting I am almost certain one or more other law enforcement groups would've shown up ASAP to support them) Even if the crowd had become enraged and surged only so many protestors could've entered the building at a time and those dead bodies would block those entry points slowing the crowd down further.,0
"Orban didnt need to rig the election itself. He won fair and square, but due to gerrymandering he got supermajority.","Because Poland is on the verge of being sanctioned as well. They need each other to protect each other. And aside for their russian stance opposing, polish government loves the hungarian government and are trying to replicate whatever Orban has been doing for 12 years.",0
"Honesty 4 houses isn't even that bad. If you did well and wound up with 4 houses, even if 3 were rentals or airbnbs that doesn't seem bad to me. Thats a nice little family business. It's these mega corps that own 1000s of houses where they over bid on houses and choke out people who just want to buy one house and they take over neighborhoods.",There needs to be regulation on how many single family homes one entity can own. The problem is all the home rental companies just scoop up and out bid regular people when they're trying to buy a house.,0
"- Democrats got a total congressional vote in the high 40% range in Florida, and won 6 out of 28 seats.","For example, suppose in Texas the GOP candidate gets 48% of the popular vote, the Dem gets 46%, and 3rd party candidates get the remaining 6%. The result is that the GOP candidate wins 100% of the Texas EC votes, the same as if the GOP candidate got 100% of the popular vote.",1
Theoretically but considering a recent trend of running as one type of person and suddenly being another person once elected there needs to be more rules in place to discourage that.,"If your state votes you into office under one party, switching parties should trigger a special election to give voters a chance to decide whether you represent them or not.",1
"Yes, the Chinese pay for Canadian weapon research in bad, Canadian can get the money and the weapon. Since the Chinese only use the weapon on their own citizens.","Please refresh on your WW2 history, West gave up Czechoslovakia long before Poland. Soviets fought Finland even earlier, and the Poles right after WW1.",0
The Russians and the North Koreans just like to scare people with their nuclear weapons. Putin is doing it to basically say hey stop giving Ukraine weapons and let me destroy my neighbour and Rocket man is just doing it purely for attention going “hey everyone I’ve got missiles and nukes to Please be afraid of me”.,"I think they’re actually just idiots wasting what Putin gave them in exchange for those artillery shells that literally every intelligence agency on Earth saw N.Korea give the Russians (via giant damn trains), but which they both deny ever happened.",1
"(Edit: McConnell launched his schemes long before Obama got into office, according to intrviews and reports).","As a younger Republican, I was pleased that Gore ended up losing. Now, as a much more mature and knowledgable adult, I am sorry. And even more sorry that HC lost, although if Trump hadn't been president, I doubt I would feel that strongly about it.",0
"One anecdote about Jack Warner from the documentary I'll mention is that when they went to arrest Jack's two sons (they were laundering money for their dad) at their apartment, Jack was present.","Just watched the new Netflix documentary about FIFA and this dude was quite a huge part of the corruption and how FIFA leadership ended up getting busted by the US. I always knew FIFA was bad, but I had no idea how insane some of the bribes they received were and the shit they pulled.",0
"You should, particularly since a healthy population is a matter of national security too. The COVID pandemic floored us and left us vulnerable.","If the railroad companies are incapable of managing themselves, they must be nationalized, if not as a matter of doing the right thing, then as a matter of national security.",0
People that have been saying aliens are real for years/decades think eveything proves aliens are real...,"I want it to be aliens but I want hard evidence. I want facts more than I want one specific answer or another. Like Mulder I want to believe but I don't want to be duped into mistaking foreign tech, previously classified tech, or old tech that no civilians got a good look at for extraterrestrials.",1
"Lee fought a war against his own country over the right to own slaves, and I didn't want anyone to claim he was just fighting because he was protecting Virginia or other nonsense that has been trotted out about him since he was _also_ a slave owner.",Maybe we should remove the 1st and third president from the dollar bill they both were slave owners and are probably the most popular ones not defending them but saying they were slave owners aren’t a valid excuse seceding and betraying your country yeah for sure.,1
Depends. It would likely mean that China would do to those smaller countries what Russia has been trying to do to the former USSR countries - take stewardship and eventually obliterate their cultures and replace with the occupier's.,"I could see alot of eastern Russia falling under China's influence, and western Russia bending to the EU to some degree. Maybe Belarus will expand some.",1
"The US is clearly running out of old equipment to send to Ukraine, they're now sending BFVs and M1 Abrams. I would also take that as a sign that things aren't going well for Ukraine right now, running out of able body soldiers.","I mean, there currently aren’t many Western tanks on the ground in Ukraine at all, so that bet seems extremely safe. However, I would be very interested in seeing the exact percentages, because my understanding is that the vast majority of Russian tanks in Ukraine are variants of the T-72, with no indication of that really changing.",1
"""Exxon’s science was highly adept and the “projections were also consistent with, and at least as skillful as, those of independent academic and government models”"". they use past tense, implying that the models used to be at least as skillful as others. had they used present tense, the implication would have been that they still are. the study itself, which is linked in the article, specifies ""the same as that of independent academic and government projections published between 1970 and 2007."".","A implies that they no longer are as skillful, B implies they are still top notch today. and yes, in your initial comment you referred to studies from today, not from beteen \50 to 16 years ago.",0
Also goes without saying that Indias social and political relationship with its Transgender/“Third Gender” community is pretty distinct from much of the region.,Actually India's transgender/third gender relations are pretty bog standard if not worse for south east asia. Although significantly better than the islamic world which use to have a similar relationship but mostly destroyed it.,1
However Republicans consistently hold majorities-even supermajorities (2/3) of the seats. The reason is that Texas has some of the worst Gerrymandering in the country and is barely a democracy at this point.,"The Texas Democratic Party has nobody to blame but themselves for losing elections. And it's not even that Republicans are all that popular. NOBODY in Texas actually likes Abbott, Cruz or Paxton. Not many people actually liked Perry either. It's that the Texas Democratic Party is so poorly run, that a lot of Texans don't even know who the Democratic candidate is, let alone want to vote for them. If they can't beat fucking Abbott, Cruz Paxton, or Perry, then they're absolutely incompetent.",1
"There are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.).","2. Czechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.",1
"The vast vast majority of these women were captured and forcibly ""married"" to BH insurgents, who regularly beat and raped them. They are now doubly traumatised for the crime of being women in the middle of a brutal fundamentalist conflict.","The most horrifying part is that no matter what side or what reasoning, the girls and women involved are just used as tools in these ongoing battles. Their autonomy and consent is never part of the equation. At the end of the day, the abortions at the hands of the military was more about the destruction of insurgents than it was about doing ""right"" by these girls and women. In every single case, they threatened more violence unto the women they were ""protecting"" from their kidnappers who brought the same violence into these girls and women's lives. They threatened them if they did not comply with the military's procedures. It's so damn disturbing what these girls and women went through by Boko Haram and the nightmare didn't end just because their own military held them.",1
"Yes. But the law must authorise the detention in accordance with the ECHR. If there is nothing that continues to authorise the detention, then they must be released.","I am not defending any country which wishes to sabotage another. But we must also not go down to their level. If there is a gap in the law, we should address it. I hope the national police can figure out what happened.",0
Don't know about the Republicans party platform now but many right wing parties in Europe have been receiving lots of suport just for blaming about everything on the Ukraine war and its suport. So as long as the war and the suport go on the right wingers will keep on abusing that situation to their advantage.,"Looking at Europe, now that Corona is getting less relevant, blaming everything on the Ukraine war has been about the only party platform of some right wing parties. And worst thing is, that in some cases they were quite successful with it. So yeah, I do see the situation in Ukraine very much influencing the political scene.",0
"He isn't. The guy possibly on Russian payroll is Frick who proposed the idea to Paludan. There is still no reaosn to think Paludan is on Russian payroll, he is a useful idiot. If you had read the (admittedly shitty) article you would have known.","ehm yeah sure this news article here seem pretty questionable. they have been burning the koran for a freaking long time now, way before the ukraine war.",1
"They can’t even swear in the rest of the House, the Speaker does that. Until there’s a Speaker, there’s no house. This is the only vote they can take.",Only one minor correction: they need a majority of the votes by name. Voting “present” lowers that threshold because they haven’t voted for an actual person.,1
"Given how long the fighting there has gone on it’s a higher number but not insane. I mean they do Zerg rushes literally every day. If they loose 500 men a day, that only requires 100 days, or a little over 3 months, to hit 50k.","The attrition for Russia here is insane, it will weaken them on other fronts, which are also easier for UKR to attack, and with modern tanks arriving by March seem like nice targets.",0
Yeah thanks for that 20 years ago. How long you gonna keep clutching that. As if the Germans got no money out of that deal right?,"Don't feel so bad, most of that money gets back into German hands through all those lovely rebates. If it didn't make pay for Germans to be in the EU they wouldn't be there.",0
Rosa Ortega cast several regular ballots after incorrectly (fraudulently) certifying that she was eligible to do so.,"I personally don't believe that either of these cases warrant prison time, but there's a pretty significant difference in the two. Provisional ballots literally exist for these edge cases where validity or whatever is in question. You take the provisional ballot and, if after extra scrutiny it checks out, it's added to the tally.",0
Well... what is that? That's expansionary pressure. It's often the goal of tax cuts. That's more or less tied to inflation.,"Sure, tie it to inflation when it goes up. But what happens after a year with negative inflation? The minimum wage should decrease, but no law will be structured like that--they'd probably just leave the same minimum wage in place, and that could be really bad.",1
"Sadly, it's more than just grapes. Plants of all kinds are out there just willy nilly having sexual relations out in the open. Sometimes they make bugs join in with no consent. Some are even having sex with themselves! I just pulled this off Scientific American:","""Fruit development normally begins when one or more egg cells in the ovular compartment of the flower are fertilized by sperm nuclei from pollen."".",0
"Israel had observer status in the ""Organization for African Unity"" from the 1960s until it became the ""African Union"". In 2002, under the Libyan presidency, the Libyan ruler at the time, candidate Gaddafi, decided not to grant Israel observer status. Since then, several attempts have been made on Israel's part to return to the organization, and in 2021, after a great effort during the tenure of Yair Lapid as Foreign Minister, Israel was once again granted the status of an observer state in the organization, which is the largest and most important in Africa and includes all 55 countries on the continent.","“Until the AU takes a decision on whether to grant Israel observer status, you cannot have the country sitting and observing,” Clayson Monyela, head of public diplomacy in South Africa’s department of international relations, told Reuters.",1
"Nah, because despite the propaganda ultimately Israel is just defending itself against Palestinian aggression. The occupation and war could end tomorrow if the Palestinians just embrace they're never going to wipe out Israel and kill all the Jews.",Weird since Palestine is the one that said they won’t accept peace without the eradication of Israel and their leaders calling for the deaths of Jews worldwide.,1
"We attacked Ukraine and took their land, so clearly Poland wants to do it so we're here now to protect Ukraine from Polish aggression - GOP/Putin.",And talking about the war and the borders might also brings up memories of the slaughter of Poles by extreme Ukrainian nationalists during the war.,1
trump did not create a new political philosophy. He read about Hitler and the Nazis and liked it. The GOP was embracing fascism long before trump became the party leader.,"How was Donald trump a fascist. You guys love using that buzzword even tho you are the literal fascist, trying to silence people you don’t agree with; the cancel culture as a whole is fascist.",1
"Recently Austria vetoed Romania and Bulgaria ascension to Schengen, in the past a Nordic country was blocking support to South Europe, Germany took decisions by itself that affected the entire union etc.","Poland and Hungary didn't start behaving like this just like that and pretty soon they might be joined by other countries, destroying the European dream we have.",0
"3) The war is not very popular in Russia, propaganda notwithstanding. Volunteers dried up, the exodus of young educated men happened, one round of mobilization happened, another is incoming. It is HARD to estimate the effect of morale, but the last thing Ukraine wants to do is hand Putin an energizant for the 60% or so ""meh, whatever"" russians. Complacency, petty corruption, malicious or weaponized incompetence and negligence has a pervasive and important effect to a war effort.","2) The West wrote a book on conducting war, and they expect it to be followed, else the populations would chafe at the support the west gives Ukraine. Hopefully Ukraine understands that democratic leaders are bound by what their constituents want. Not only weapons, but economic pressure and diplomatic pressure on Russia is what Ukraine gets if it acts according to the ""rules"".",0
"you know it does not take a whole study to figure out just in general helping clear student loans can help the poorer borrowers, not even including inflation and gas prices.","The amount of annual student loan repayments are such a drop in the bucket of total consumer spending, it's not going to be noticeable to the economy.",1
"Now we're supposed to get the Church's Youth thing and we're seing a huge spending on public funds against the public's will on a fucking altar for these MFs Not even the Catholic are supporting over 161 M € in public funding towards the church... Total separation of church and state, you know? Needing new social housing, new hospitals, more funding towards schools and so much more but who geht's the money? A fucking altar what will then rot and someone will have definetely fill their pockets ans keep on molesting ans sexually assaulting children!","No, it’s because sexual predators look for ways they can get unsupervised access to children without raising red flags, and the Catholic Church does a lot of charity work involving children.",1
"At this point, I really don't care if it survives or not. If it does, great. If not, go back and retool it. Get rid of the $10/20k forgiveness and focus on interest. Take the interest down to zero if you're making faithful payments or have some other kind of plan. Give people who volunteer a tax credit they can put toward the balance of their loans.","I think most people with student loans would agree they don't mind paying them back in full, so long as their payments actually went to the loan principle. And I think most people across the breadth of the political spectrum would be fine with lowering the interest rates on student loans. And that would prevent future generations from being screwed over as well.",0
"Yup, I’m all about saying that he won’t because he’s a coward. Only winners run on a third party. If he doesn’t it shows that he needs the Republicans party.","So even if Republicans aren't working against him, they clearly aren't eager to support him anymore.",1
"Likewise, questioning every Jewish person you encounter for their stance on Israel is not a way to help Palestinians and is in fact antisemitic.","Again, antisemitism has always meant hatred of Jews specifically, regardless of the fact that ""semitic peoples"" includes more than Jews.",1
And the churches that don't do those things are growing. Far right politics is not biblical. Abortion and same sex marriage aren't biblical. Giving me a bible church. Not a politics church.,If you don't believe me just go to Holland. All the affirming churches are dying a slow and inglorious death. Go to the states - all the mainline denominations that have liberalized are shrinking at a spectacular rate.,0
And in response we should then give money to the Taliban so that they can definitely NOT use it to help the afghan people and probably end up using it to make more problems for its own people and the people in the surrounding countries….i.e. pakistan?,"Leaving suddenly and bailing out on the allies was wrong, but I don’t know how you can sit there and say that the USA wasn’t trying to do the right thing by establishing a democratic government in afghanistan… they were actively trying to stop the Taliban from being in control because of how they treat their people. It’s not the USAs fault that the government/army that they have been training to defend themselves for 20 years just gave up and let the Taliban take control in a matter of days.",0
"That has always been the case, but the courts have historically held that in order to guarantee freedom of religion, then religion cannot be visibly presented by the government or else risk being an official endorsement.","Nowadays, the court holds that visible endorsement by the government is permissible so long as all religions can be endorsed equally. The issue though is that with Christianity being the vastly predominant religion, that is the only religion that is often presented.",0
"He is creating a third party with agendas separate from the other two parties and he’s pushing rank choice voting, which eliminates the stranglehold of a two party system.",Not necessarily. Those safety nets are dependent on that person not working. If they get a job they no longer qualify. A UBI would encourage at least part time work to offset any discrepancy between what they are currently getting (which is not more than $1k for most adults receiving assistance) and increase their mental health as they are actively returning to the workforce.,0
"It isn't per se to be a winning message, but it allow them to 'both sides' it, because they basically accuse Biden of everything that could also be charged against Trump in the near future. And secondly, once they wrap up their 'investigation', they can refer charges to the DOJ (who will probs ignore it). And then they will claim it proofs the political prosecution about any charges against Trump.","You're right in if there is corruption, it should be investigated. Nepotism too. That includes the Bidens. But it should be extended to every and any politician.",0
"Basically the war right now can't be measured easily. And anyone playing up current ""movements"" in the line is full of shit.","No one on reddit has a clue about how the war is going, because the front isn't moving and neither side is going to broadcast their casualty numbers. Hell I don't even think the Russian command knows their real casualty numbers. Wagner isn't gonna be handing those stats over. However, because ""lots of people died for no real gain"" is a boring headline, news media really loves to play up tiny movements of the line as if it meant something.",0
"I was saying i hoped the war purged the corruption in the Ukrainian ranks , it was in favour of Ukraine ...","So yeah, Putin's actions are viewed as justified and most people feel like they would rather die than let Ukraine win. Welcome to WW3, which is found digitally online, just like everyone predicted.",1
"Depends on the candidates. She’d likely take anywhere from 5-10% of the vote. If Gallego runs, maybe closer to 5 or below, if a less popular D runs, maybe closer to 10 or above.","If Blake Masters, or somebody similar runs, he stands a great chance. He wins the 7th district with 75% of the vote already, which is downtown Phoenix, a population center. He’d likely win Maricopa, which is a good start. Depends on who the GOP would run against him though.",0
"Which is to say if the unanimous political will is there, changing the charter is no problem at all, and if it isn't, it's not the charter change that prevents an accession.","Like any international treaty, the NATO Treaty can be changed by unanimous agreement of the parties. Accepting a new European member already requires the same unanimous agreement. And in practically all countries, the internal mechanism (parliamentary vote, etc.) is identical for a treaty change decision and a ""invite new NATO member"" decision.",0
A lot of people said NHS funding but lets be honest what they really meant is they hate certain types of people.,You are completely correct but that doesn't mean politicians will want to raise the matter. Punishing and/or criticizing these thieves isn't politically advantageous.,0
"I think you’re right. If it’s 1:1 then ukraine has Been suffering he’s only for pushing Russia back, which wouldn’t be sustainable whatsoever.","Under that kind of interpretation, it’s better to let Russia attack Ukraine and tell Ukraine that they won’t get a missile system if they can’t restrain themselves from shooting into Russia.",1
Not counting any days off I take for PTO and Mandatory Saturdays in my manufacturing environment I’m lucky to have 3 days off a month.,"If the job was THAT horrible people wouldn’t sign up to do it, but alas “working” only half the year is pretty appealing until you see the paycheck?",0
"The people protesting the northern Ireland protocols are Unionists. Meaning they support Northern Ireland remaining part of the UK, and oppose (historically violently) the idea of Irish reunification even at the end of a referendum.","Note that NI as a whole voted against Brexit, but these radical Unionists were for - because they expected it to hurt Ireland more than them.",1
And the FBI still have the original laptops and aren’t releasing any information. Let the republicans hang themselves with faked conspiracy nonsense then come out with facts (if that even matters).,"For folks who believe the conspiracy theories, they’ll be more radicalized against democrats. They’ll believe our justice system is broken, and sure enough, who do you think wants to overhaul our justice system?",1
"If an offensive player is closer to the goal than any of the defensive players (besides the goalie), they are in an ""offsides"" position and they aren't allowed to receive a pass.",In case you don't know what off-side means in soccer: it's when a player makes a forward pass while there are less than 2 players (including keeper) of the opposing team between their goal time and the player being passed to or another player that influences the game through positioning.,1
"when enough people get together for a plane trip and 15,000 jetfuel is purchased, the same transaction also creates 60,000 gasoline, as well as 30,000 diesel... the combined demand for all of these products sets a price for each of them. demand for jetfuel creates ""magnitudes"" of other things, planes and cars are not in competition.","Because someone said passenger flights burn “a magnitude more” fuel than driving, let’s do the math. Average Boeing 787 Dreamliner holds 300 Passengers. Fuel Load for a maximum trip (6,300 miles) is 33,000 gallons. Let’s consider a trip across the USA, California to New York (2,915 miles). The distance in question is 46% of the maximum range of the plane, so it would be loaded with only 50% of its fuel capacity (16,500 Gallons). Let’s assume it all gets burned (it doesn’t, but whatever). Now let’s take those same 300 folks and put them in 200 cars (1/3 of the total are driving together). Let’s assume they are driving average cars, pickups and SUVs instead of electric, hybrid, etc cars, so we are getting an average of about 20 MPG (probably less, but again, whatever). The distance of 2,915 miles at 20 MPG would result in a fuel burn of 146 Gallons of fuel per car. 146 Gallons x 200 Cars = 29,200 Gallons of fuel… nearly TWICE what that single passenger plane would consume, despite all the “whatever” guesses in the favor of the cars. 🤔 A “magnitude more” fuel would mean the plane would be burning 1,000% more than the cars. Clearly, with this, the commenter can be seen to be wrong.",1
"It's also worth noting that it wasn't that easy for the UK to join in the first place, the UK wanted to join in 1963 and 1967 and both times the application was vetoed by the French PM at the time. And when it comes to new members, every single existing member has to agree before a new country is allowed to join. Any single member state can veto the UK rejoining.",Rejoining on the other hand will be a sore subject which politicians will want to avoid for the foreseeable future. It's a huge can of worms and talking too much about it can swing voters either way. 10 years down the line it will be the sort of issue that could result in a party winning with a large margin but also losing with a large margin.,0
"I think what’s missing is that the Germans actually set up a repair camp in Slovakia for their gear in ukraine. For United States to give the Abrams they’d basically have to do the same, but inside ukraine near the front. This is why everyone hopes ukraine will get leopards. Which they should, with Bradley’s. Abrams would be nice, but not practical…it’s like giving them a bunch of aircraft carriers….by the time they figure out how to use them effectively, the wars over.","In a post (or pre) war scenario yes, send them Abrams if that’s what they want. In a wartime scenario, every expert, at least that I’ve seen, would recommend to consolidate and not convolute supply lines and logistics as much CJ as possible.",1
"Even if somehow there were, the fact that the government might not have tried to exercise the power for fifty years is irrelevant, because that restraint was dictated by SCOTUS!","You think there's adverse possession for rights, or to retract powers from the government? Yeah... no.",0
"What has been the purpose of the police, historically? Enforcing slavery and strike-breaking. The entire institution is predicated on oppression. There's a reason people say ""Cops and Klan go hand in hand."".","Thats the thing, though. As adults we deal with this type of conundrum all the time. We constantly have to recognize and restrain our emotional responses.",1
Why should a deal be halted if the acquisition neither creates a monopoly or is likely to be used in the furtherance of monopolistic practices?,"The question is, is 13% of the video game market a monopoly? I don't think it is, though it is certainly a large share. Does Microsoft engage in monopolistic practices as a video game publisher who also manufactures a console? Not as badly as Sony does, not as badly as Nintendo does, its two closest competitors, neither of which are Chinese companies or tied to authoritarian governments.",0
"As to billionaires, theres 3100 of them globally vs 8 billion people. None of them are polluting 2.58 million people worth per year no matter how many jet flights they are doing. The studies that make it sound like they are always tend to include the companies they are owners of, which is bullshit cause those companies would be out of business if we stopped buying from them. So yeah you can blame them for having an outsized emissions compared to working joe, but working joe is still vastly the majority.","Food? Vegetarian diets are time and time again proven to be cheaper and healthier. Problem is you dont think that cause youll buy the shitty five pound tube of beef at walmart, but when you think vegetarian, suddenly you shop at whole foods.",0
"You know, I probably could have phrased it better. These assholes knew what they were doing, and almost everyone involved knew it was pollution to some degree. Though I guess they absolutely did pretend it was anything but.","Not really. Developed nations needs to be replacing their aging population. Otherwise it could lead to a debt cycle meltdown as emerging economies which are reliant on e porting goods for rich countries struggle as those rich countries growth slows due to declining populations. Japan is an exception right now and can somehow sustain its debt but the US would be concerning as land, and housing make up a lot of wealth and are relatively plentiful.",1
"Anyways, now the Repubs have a twice impeached President, and a President that’s been forced to resign, they still need to get back at the Dems. They will try everything and anything to impeach Biden or the next Dem President. The Hunter Biden “story” is just a cover to get Biden impeached.","Every time I hear a Hunter Biden story, number go up. This week is heard “Hunter made literally hundred of millions in illegal money, with 10% for the big guy!”.",1
"Fed workers (at least at the normal level) can accept, cumulative, $50 worth of gifts in a year… it’s those in the upper echelon (appointed judges, congressional reps, etc.) who can make their living off of bribes….",That sounds like a good idea except they would just go even harder on the bribery if that happened. Like it would make it official. What we need is to require extremely invasive audits of their finances and massive penalties for any lies or omissions. And it all needs to be public - we need to know who is buying off our representatives.,1
"Good. Do this more often. Leave 'em standing there like they have each other's dick in their hands. Spineless cowards. Like the lady said, they'd be on a plane to mar a lago to kiss trump's ring hand. Good for them.",Good. McConnell and McCarthy were complicit. If either one had a spine January 6th would have NEVER happened.,1
Trying to find an excuse to ease the extremely unpopular and strict Covid measures in China without admitting the CCP was ever in the wrong. As in “well these measures were necessary for the original Covid but it’s mutated so now these measures aren’t needed for this new one”.,"On top of this, they've (the Chinese state media) recently changed their whole covid angle and now say that long covid isn't scientifically substantiated and that covid isn't that bad in general. Which goes against their whole stance over the past 3 years, but it is a good distraction instead of people realising that zero covered was an illogical, political power play. (Specifically xi jinping's zero covid-19 idea failed).",1
"Well, I figure that Florida is just going to eventually be covered completely by water, and Dusney will be a moot point then. LOL.","I always giggle at this take. Clearly you’ve never been to Disney World. The Avatar Flight of Passage is a $500 million building that cannot simply be picked up and moved somewhere else, and that’s just one ride. What about the surrounding infrastructure of roads and hotels, will those all be moved as well? How about the theming, underground tunnels, and monorail system?",1
"Tax avoidance schemes are the fault of both Congress and the wealthy that benefit. You're welcome to imagine it's just a'ok, nobody is obligated to though. I can't square someone paying what amounts to virtually nothing in tax by percentage of income while everyday folks pay 20-30% routinely. I blame both Congress (who are impotent about making substantial tax law about this sort of thing, or have been) and the wealthy (who exploit the system and work to keep it going).",I fail to see how elected officials neglecting to close a loophole and making it even easier for the wealthiest among us to exploit it is not a problem.,1
"Its like getting raped, being traumatized, writing a book about it, and then deciding you want to become the rapist. Makes no sense.","Yeah. Historians have reviewed the pre-war societies and concluded they were basically haemorrhaging money and manpower hand over fist. Many of their governments were full of infighting, competing and redundant organisations in an attempt to seize more power.",1
"If the sitting president is strong, a primary challenger isn't going to gain any traction. If Biden's prospects are so shaky that a primary challenge could be a problem, he should be thinking seriously of stepping down.","Open races are unavoidable, and we'll either have one in 2024, if Biden steps aside, as you'd prefer; or in 2028, if he serves a second term. It's all downside to force it earlier, because all it does is put the Democratic and Republican nominees on equal footing, rather than letting Democrats press their advantage. Like I said, it's unavoidable at a certain point, but that doesn't mean we have to like it, or make it happen more often. The only ones who benefit from handicapping the Democratic nominee are Republicans.",1
It wants to rebuild the Russian empire and Ukraine is one of many countries in its path of military annihilation towards that. The only way towards peace is physically stopping Russia.,"More importantly, you can't act like the invasion is the only obstacle to a lasting peace in Ukraine. How about the majority ethnic Russian Crimea on one hand, and Ukraine aiming to be an ethnostate, suppressing other languages and cultures? What if many Crimeans don't want to be part of Ukraine?",1
"If those dipshits hadn't sabotaged renewables, there wouldn't be that much of a ""demand"" for coal today. Demand of today for coal was ""created"" in the 2010s.","Now I am against energy production using coal. It's messing up our air, environment and has caused my generation to grow up with a multitude of respiratory problems. It should be stopped immediately and replaced by other sources. But I can't help feeling that these demonstrators are not targeting the right people/situations or that they just want to do ""something"", as they are nowhere to be seen when all these developments are put into motion but show up when it's already been decided and execution time is right around the corner.",1
"I’m not doubting the veracity of any data here. I’m saying the formula of “net new jobs for a given state” / “net new jobs of the country” is a bad and misleading way to portray this. So I’m literally doing as you suggested, calling out bad statistics when I see them.","As aside, this statistic is meaningless and cringey from a math perspective. Imagine California added 20k jobs but the country as whole lost 200k. Well then California created 20/-200 = -10% of jobs?",0
"Miss South Carolina: ""I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and a the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa or should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we can be able to build up our future. "".",True... IF you live in a Western country. It's crazy how you're replying to someone talking about Western bias and you're literally just repeating the same biases back like it's an argument.,1
"On the other hand, my father is a psychopath level narcissist. And compulsively lies to manipulate because he feels like the world and everyone owes him something at all times. He causes chaos and damage everywhere he goes.",I don’t know Santos. But I can tell you that fundamentally feeling like something is wrong with you as a person can really fuck with your head and send you spiraling down and acting in ways that you would never normally consider.,0
"While other states like Michigan and Minnesota and Pennsylvania were sending Democrats to the US Senate and flipping state houses in favor of the Democrats, North Carolina got redder.","Extreme gerrymandering, voter suppression, and no citizen ballot initiatives (and a state legislature that will never give that power to the public) are making it pretty permanent in NC and a bunch of other states.",1
Trump did worse than nothing: he personally sabotaged efforts to promote public safety and got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed by COVID because they bought into all of the hoax/anti-mask (and anti other safety measures) political bullshit.,Thats a funny way to say the Trump administration mismanaged and lied about the pandemic that led to hundreds of thousands who died needlessy because of lies Trump spread and the GOP that fell in line.,1
Tax the rich with a progressive tax and fund universal free lunch at school so that there is no means testing or admin costs to sort out which kids are “needy.”.,"I was asking the above poster what his point was re: groceries being cheaper a few years ago. How does that change the fact that kids were going hungry then and are more likely to go hungry now, as you pointed out.",0
"I dunno man - the Four Seasons Landscaping press conference has always been my favorite moment in the Trump Cinematic Universe, but I gotta say the writers are really hitting their stride again this season. This shit is positively gut-busting.","Literally had to pause the video to laugh out loud for a few minutes when he said ""...like dinner with me - I dunno if that's an amazing prize but it's what we've have."".",0
One guess who said this in 1928 (clue - the first treaty his party signed was with the Catholic church called the Reichskonkordat):,"No, the problem is mainly religion. Stalin and Pol Pot get trotted out, but I am happy to play a game. You pick someone who was an athiest and committed genocide, and I will pick a religious figure who committed genocide. You will run out before me. Hours before me.",0
"Yes, Reagan had the amnesty bill. He was also a hardcore racist and tried to let the gay problem solve itself by ignoring a lethal epidemic. And that’s before you get into his economic plans or foreign policy.","You’re right that social media has magnified it, and we have seen a generation or two of Newt’s coalition of crazies wick up, but I see those more as small details rather than the greater thrust. They’re the same party. Even have a lot of the same people involved. Republicans talk so much about how bad political dynasties are, but that’s exactly what their little federalist society is.",0
"- ""Defense contractor"" says they cannot deliver EVs. Biden says, ""Buy some from real car companies."" DeJoy says, ""Pay the 'defense contractor' more money for fewer vehicles: Expedited delivery payments."".",Good. Large fleet vehicles that drive known distances and have lots of stop and go driving is an ideal use for electric vehicles. Curious how much gas that will save per year.,1
"Yeah, American paid sick leave is 1 to 2 weeks usually, and for me at least, is also my vacation time. It's all indistinguishable under the umbrella term ""paid time off"". Probably why so many people come to work sick - don't want to screw up the family vacation time.","They want time off, not just sick time, but time like weekends. The shitty rail companies have those workers coming in nonstop. Some people don't even get a day off until weeks later.",1
"His best chance at winning the nomination is probably him pressuring state parties to cancel the primaries and hand it to him. Many state level party apparatus is are dominated by the trimpiest of trimpy. So could very well get some - he doesn't need all of them, just enough to block competition from wining.","This is kind of what the GQP is trying to do in the SCOTUSb right now. End run around democracy. But hey, it's not like they care for it.",0
"In Ukraine the Russian military is ""just"" abducting thousands of Ukrainian children and taking them to Russia ""for safety"". Meets the UN definition of genocide, but isn't as serious as killing people on a large scale.","This current era where countries don't actually want to commit mass genocide and colonize a country is an abnormality in human history. Take the USSR and America. If their invasions of Afghanistan had occured in the 1800s they simply would have killed most of the fighting age boys in the local area where the insurgent attacks took place, made sure the populous knew that any attacks on them was gonna result in their sons, fathers and husbands being killed in the immediate area rather they were guilty or not. The population falls in line fairly quick. Then they would have moved in a lot of their own foreign nationals to shape the country similar to their own values. Now countries really don't do that thankfully but that will change back to the norm in the coming decades as climate change and resource scarcity puts pressure on larger countries. Invasion and conquest to take plunder will be back on the menu.",1
"At the same time, mad cow was absolutely rampant in the Uk for a decade, when the British government was telling everyone that humans could not get mad cow, and not that many people died from it all things considered. About 178 it seems. Your chances of getting mad cow from infected beef are still quite slim, as long as you don't eat an infected brain. There will be a few American deaths from mad cow since the disease left the UK but the number won’t go higher than 1 to 5.","But yeah, I know what you mean, there can be decades between the introduction of prions and the start of the disease.",0
"I do understand that, seeing the perceived vs actual capabilities of Russia does get a bit smile on most people's faces but that sort of attitude can easily lead to complacency and complacency is dangerous. Best we all stay aware of the horrors in Ukraine and Russia's willingness to use force to pursue their geopolitical goals.",I was joking about the fact that Russia makes threats 24/7 and that they never live up to said threats. I guess joking about it was a mistake on my part.,1
"Attention seeking people like Musk and Trump have been promoting themselves on Twitter for years, nothing really changes with Musk owning it.","Musk wants to make money from twitter. Trump is an outage our voice that drives participation in twitter. As long as people continue to glorify trump… both through admiration and hate…. Twitter will let trump, and people like trump, rule the platform.",1
"""Oh, X is going on in Florida, let's campaign against DeSantis! Wait what, X^2 is going on in China? Better edit our films to eliminate any criticism of X."".","Da fuq? Adam Smith was a moral philosopher that was analyzing the economic polices of his times. He had no idea about any ""capitalism"", much less hated it. His main idea was that as a general rule, regulation of economy is immoral, as it tends to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer.",1
The only way judges will truly be safe is if there's actual accountability within the system... Otherwise eventually accountability will be attempted outside of the system.,"If separate but equal had worked (Which it's obvious there was no way it would), then I would have upheld Plessy V. Ferguson for lack of 14th amendment issues.",0
"The long haul stuff is a bigger challenge, but one that can be solved in a variety of ways. The best one, in my opinion, is fast chargers along major road ways. These trucks will need a few hundred kWh of batteries - even at 350kW that is an hour charge, and I think getting that down to 30 minutes is necessary. And the chargers need to be built with bathrooms and food courts nearby.","Another option is what Tesla is aiming for - 500 miles range and 1000kWh of batteries. Not a new type of battery, just lots of batteries. This will work, it's just very expensive. The battery pack alone will be $150k.",0
(I have to point this out because of how fucking stupid it is these jackasses only work every other year.).,"Yeah. Bill shit. No more money to these states who didn’t use COVID money, education money or any federal money for its intended purpose. We need more accountability.",1
"C S Lewis thought that the people in hell weren't locked there. He thought they locked themselves in. He wrote a book called the Great Divorce which is about a bus of people from hell that went to visit heaven and were offered the option to stay. They all chose not to, because of the way they became in life. One guy didn't want charity and wanted some way to earn his stay, and out of principle wouldn't stay for free, for example.","Like if you cheat on your wife, that's a sin. If you lust after another person's wife, that's also a sin. Both of those things warp your relationships and make you a little bit less of a good person. They're habit forming.",0
"They were well known and influencing, but look at the 2012 Primary. Santorum, Gingrich and Ron Paul. Main stream republicans hasn't quite gotten to where they are now in the 2012 cycle.","The Tea Party Republicans were the ones who started the radical republican trope, and they were getting elected to their first terms in 2010/2012, and didn't start trying for president until the 2016 cycle.",0
"Yep, I just posted basically the same thing you said. These ""toads"" have watched many other politicians (like Trump) lie and get away with it for so long, that this is just normal now and they know there isn't much anyone can do about once they get elected.","Boy, he really is downplaying this shady shit. He needs to resign immediately. Too many Republicans like this guy have learned by watching Trump and other politicians that they can lie, cheat, and steal, and no one will do much about it.",0
"Not recent on what? Those scams are still running and no one even bother to stop it there. You guys are the one trying to distant yourself from US, and that explains well why your Russia buddy is supporting you.","Russia betrayed pretty much all of their allies at one point or another, just look at Armenia. Ukraine was the culturally closest country to Russia and russians had no problems starting genocide there. Its very naive of India to think, that just because USSR supported them 50 years ago, Russia of today is exactly the same and just as reliable. If India gets into a war with China, Russia won't move a finger to help them.",1
Just because your favorite progressive candidate doesn’t get the nod from the DNC doesn’t mean the rest of the country has to suffer.,"Don't forget the Democrats being entirely unwilling to put forward a candidate that gets voters interested. If they bothered to give someone besides old establishment types a chance, they might have more draw from the voters.",1
"You don't get to have 2 hats, if Biden resigns the VP becomes president, but then someone else needs to become VP (which would probably be speaker of the house), and someone else needs to be speaker of the house.","Resigning isn't an option once he's in, since succession could mess with either the senate, or the house majorities.",0
That would be so much more powerful if he hadn’t been a part of the biggest Russian apologist regime in American history .. he is part of the reason Putin had the nerve to do this..,"Or like, the time Trump cow-towed to Putin’s (He had a very powerful denial!) over US intelligence community?",1
"If all the dewad since the start of this stupid atrocious war were there, the graves would fill up (assuming a conservative 60000 dead --- not just specific Wagner loosses, though) then you'd need over 2400 of such cemetary plots. Take the \full\ image, make it about 5 times wider and 5 times talller (i.e. 25 times that image), and that would be much closer that the minimum ""real"" size of Russian dead troops.","No need, it likely looks close to , once the war is over and the Russians keep burying them instead of cremating. Though likely not as nice as the one in the video but the size matches.",1
"Impressively, Democrats were able to play a key role in selecting the Ohio House Speaker despite holding only 32 seats to the GOP's 68 seats in the State House.","> ""We have a 67-seat Republican majority in which the Democrats have now picked the speaker. It's absurd,” Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Ashville, said.",0
This right-wing populist initiative comes from big business bosses from Switzerland who still own companies in Russia and Belarus.,"Since WW2, Switzerland has taken a clear position: on the Cold War, apartheid, the Balkan conflict, taking in refugees, sanctions, etc.",0
"I suspect the Russians left booby traps all over the city, but they won't use haphazard bombing or artillery for fear of wrecking the waterworks or the pipes.",Is anyone else worried that Russia's left either a dirty bomb (which they'll blame on Ukraine) or an actual nuke to blow away a big chunk of Ukraine's army?,1
That's literally saying that their speech shouldn't be protected... unless.... they do the disclaimer thing.,No one is saying it’s not protected speech. They’re saying Fox News should have to disclaim they aren’t reporting facts before it gets to court.,1
"Plus, Kazakhstan has no reason to try to invade Russia; they don’t want Russian territory, much less at the cost of hundreds of thousands of their civilians’ lives and millions displaced.",Then i would not really care because Russia has for decades been telling them how they should run their country and it would likely mean Russia would have to forsake their war against Ukraine in order to defend their own country.,1
"Even if ukraine gave up those territories russia would not stop, their goal is to keep nato out of ukraine, just because they got a few cities they still want no nato at the borders.","The vote in Crimea was a farce, same with Donetsk and Luhansk republics, Russia came in and occupied those areas. Conceding them now would indicate Russia can take what it wants by force and Russia is saying here Mariupol and Kherson are theirs as well and so they won't negotiate on them, so why would Ukraine give up its sovereign territory? Russia would come back in the future and try again.",1
"Very good point. Russia's posturing, complaints, and actions seem to be done with the distorted view that they will prevent a scenario that is guaranteed if Russia uses nukes.","Direct conflict isn’t really an option due to MAD, but in countries that are not nuclear powers, all of the major superpowers are involved.",1
"So, yeah, Israel is increasingly flexible in Ukraine's favor and is pushing the boundary on approved aid further and further up as time goes by.","Israel is helping them alot btw (one example: the idf built and been operating an hospital in Ukraine, maybe more than one there), not supplying weapons though. And about asking Israel for Iron dome while they don't have enough of it for themselves this ridiculous.",1
"""While the penis has been widely studied, the vulva — which includes the clitoris, labia majora, and labia minora — is poorly understood. Medical science hasn’t historically paid much attention to the sexual function of people with vulvas, which has led to a significant knowledge gap in the field of sexual health."".",Yes. A few Trans men donated their clits after getting bottom surgery thay they could use for research. Not all of the clit I'd visible from the outside.,1
"The exact composition of a GOP majority could take weeks to determine, but it’s clear that whatever margin Republicans have, it won’t be a comfortable one.","If house margins get razor thin (<10 is likely at this point), then bickering within the GOP house members can actually be worse for them than losing the house.",1
"More importantly, so did China. China was aware of its own surveillance network when the US started loudly announcing to the world that they were aware of, and investigating, the presence of UAPs in American airspace. They have no reason to assume they were going to get away with it for much longer and they have no excuse being so flat footed the moment when (not if) the US reveals they know about the balloons and what they do.","Apparently, they've been doing it for years and might have gotten away with it for much longer if the most famous of the balloons hadn't flown low enough to be spotted by, well, everybody.",1
"Interestingly, Stonehenge has nothing to do with the original Druids. Stonehenge predates them, by quite a bit. Moreover, from what we know of actual ancient Druidic ceremonies, they were generally conducted in woodlands, not in stone ceremonial spaces.","So why the association of Druids with Stonehenge? Apparently, this dates back to the late 18th early 19th century, when antiquarian interest in Stonehenge really got going in England, at the same time as antiquarian interest in pre-Christian religions, and Druidism in particular. It was simply assumed that the Druids must have built Stonehenge.",0
But really we need federal help to overturn the gerrymandering because the state is not as conservative as the legislature makes it seem.,"But since the civil war, we really said ""hey you fuckwad backwater states can't be trusted"" and pulled towards a more centralized system where federal law reigns more powerful.",1
"It looks like Frisch is up by 4900, with a batch of about 8000 R and 3000 D votes remaining in Mesa, which is typically heavy R. The other remaining votes don't seem to favor any candidate.","Based on that data and the current margins in each of those counties - I am calculating out of a total 36,450 approx votes to count that Frisch wins 19,246 of them to Boebert's 17,204.",1
"I'm not so young (37) but I am just starting my first real career after making poverty wages throughout my thirties. I'm making 60K and I have two retirement accounts, one is a 401K and the other is a Roth IRA. Each one gets a 3% contribution from my wages so something like $62.50 out of each check goes into each account. My employer does not match any of these contributions. I will probably have nowhere near enough to retire on.",I’m not going to retire. Who the fuck am I kidding? The world’s gonna catch on fire by the time I hit 90 or whatever the Republicans have made the retirement age in 50 years.,1
"They get together and say everybody for candidate a stand over here. Candidate b, over there. Candidate c, there. D, there. E, over there.","Yes, there is. South Carolina is not a huge state- it has 3 medium-sized at best cities (Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville/Anderson/Spartanburg- the 85 corridor). Aside from a handful of counties in Charlotte's, it is not inside any major, expensive media market. It is completely viable for a small candidate to compete there with a motivated ground game- it just hasn't been done in the past because Iowa and New Hampshire traditionally draw all the attention before their primaries and South Carolina happened pretty quickly afterward.",1
"Even men who want to punish and control women, and/or who are worried about ""replacement theory,"" should be concerned by those scenarios.","It is about punishing women for having sex (outside of marriage/procreation), and not even all women, just throwing up enough barriers and controls over those most vulnerable.",1
"Maybe its because the progressive (Fetterman) denied being a progressive,and distanced himself from progressive policies.","I also don't know how you came to the conclusion I was shitting on progressives and young people.Fetterman ran a moderate campaign and denied being a progressives,those are facts.",0
"If a for profit service or product displeases you, walk away from it and tell everyone you know that it sucks. That's the solution here.",Exactly. It's just another way for right wing wannabe authoritarians to pretend they're being oppressed.,0
"From my understanding opiates are only dangerous because you could accidentally take a lethal dose. Like if you come back to your use after a break and your tolerance have gone down, or you don't know the strenh of what you are taking. Opiates are very addictive and hard to quit and will produce a physical reaction from the withdrawal. But it's not impossible to get through.","When it comes to the toll on your body then I believe stimulants like amphetamines (meth especially) are much worse. A long term amphetamine addiction is going to wreck your body. Withdrawal on amphetamines isn't as hard as opiates physically but it can be tough mentally, potentially causing a lot of anxiety. They are also likely starved and have a deficiency in various things.",0
I'm living in Florida hell. I have 3 years before my daughter starts school. I'll be gone in 6 months. Florida is going to start suffering from brain drain over the next few years.,It's funny the right claims to be against cancel culture yet when their orange god was president he tried to cancel anything he didn't like. People should always talk with their wallets it's the only way anyone listens.,0
"Even so, an H5N1 strain only 10% as virulent as some current strains would probably still devastate the first population it hits. Lockdown and prevention would become a lot more black and white.","Among strains that have passed between birds and mammals, there are subtypes and these vary by location, time, etc. We can say that our current vaccine stockpiles (and new prototypes) could be effective against a future human pandemic version, but there's no guarantee. We could hit the jackpot and have it highly effective, we could find it mildly to reasonably effective like our yearly flu jabs, or we could find it utterly ineffective.",0
"Your veins are coursing with plastic, weather patterns are shifting into unpredictability that threatens the food supply, and giant methane craters are exploding in the tundra, but have you TRIED just BEING OPTIMISTIC? .","Yeah. It's hard to overstate how good the US and Russia have been dismantling their arsenals from Cold War peaks. Both have drawn down over 90% of their nuclear weapons, and the largest bottleneck in removing more is that dismantling the things is slow and expensive.",1
I'm all for legalizing recreational marijuana and it's legal in my state but I imagine having city laws that run in direct opposition to state law could create some major challenges.,"Texas will unfortunately be one of the last states to legalize or make any meaningful progress on cannabis due to their part time legislature, recently enacted voter restriction laws that are clearly targeted at populations that tend to vote democrat, and their lack of a state-wide voter initiative/referendum process. The latter point is really the key to meaningful progress on this issue in majority Republican states.",1
"Well yes, if your business is creating depreciable assets then you’ll have a lot more depreciation. But my point is that most companies will have some form of depreciation, which is tax deductible.",a property can cash flow positive yet because of appropriate and tax code deduction for depreciation . geez.,1
"There were several threats to individual countries for their contributions to Ukraine like the UK, Poland...nothing happened.","U.S. and European countries were unwilling to provide advanced weaponry to Ukraine if they were just going to fall into Russia's hands in a matter of days. However once it became clear that Ukraine was willing to fight, that the Zelenskiy government remained intact, and that Russia could not achieve its objectives militarily, it was game on for Europe and American military assistance.",1
"Ukraine is only important to people because Russia is viewed as an enemy of the West, so the media tells us to care.",The reason Ukraine is on the front page is because Russia is/was a Global superpower. If India was at war with Pakistan today it would be front page news. Because you both have nukes...,1
Looks like the distance is about 80 miles. About the same as in the San Francisco Bay Area from Fremont to Antioch by BART. My point: 80 miles sound like a job for light rail.,"Legitimately curios: how much business travel is there between Chicago and Minneapolis/St Paul? That said, Chicago to Milwaukee to Madison to Minneapolis at 160mph on average would make one helluva lot more sense than California's HSR project. IF RIDERSHIP WERE SUFFICIENT. If it really took only 3 hours by rail from Chicago to Minneapolis or the reverse, compared to a 1 hour 20 minute flight with further travel from airport to downtown (not trivial from O'Hare to anywhere else in the metro area between 7:00 AM and 10:00 AM, even if taking the Blue Line), would such rail service be preferable?",0
"Yes, seriously. I’m talking about investigators in a legal sense. Maybe you don’t realize this, but investigative reporters and police/FBI investigators are extremely different from each other in both a professional and legal sense.",Investigative reporters are not cops without badges. They do not have the same role and cannot operate the same way legally. They work under the same constraints and ethics as any other reporter.,0
"Nazi, warmonger, not going to meet, but, oh yeah, of course not going to kill him, just kill thousands of other Ukrainians.","He would never kill Zelensky, those Russian born assassins sent to do so had nothing to do with him /s.",1
"I'd think he has plenty of baggage that precludes him from a role with the Biden admin, aside from his opinion re: the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.",Perhaps this helps you understand why Jews (both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine) tend to be somewhat alarmed and offended by any insinuation that organizations rooted in the Jewish community manipulate politicians.,0
"I don't think I can agree that ISIS are ever going to be justified in randomly killing people by blowing themselves up , even if those people are ""foreign invaders"".","When you start applying the term “terrorist” to people that are attacking legitimate military targets of a foreign invader…that’s where you lose me. Especially because we have killed a horrific amount of innocent civilians. If a country invaded America and accidentally blew up my wife and kids, I couldn’t give a fuck less if they didn’t mean to. I’d be on borrowed time, and taking as many of the invaders with me as possible. It wouldn’t matter if they were directly responsible for the death of my family, if they were a member of the military that did it…fuck em.",1
It also had more strategic value in the summer because the Ukrainian's didn't have fallback position's. If the russians broke through the Ukranians would have been in trouble.They've now built up defensive lines should Bakhmut fall for that value is gone.,"Abandoning Bakhamut would not stop that depletion, this is logic akin to if Ukraine was not fighting battles the soldiers would not be dying.",1
"It might be true actually. I mean, it's very plausible he did help teach the Trump's stuff. Look at junior, dumb as a bunch of rocks. So, 50/50 chance he's telling the truth.","Thanks for the very thorough explanation. So if I read all this correctly, it's not so much they take on a new identity, but dissociate from their regular personality and take on different traits.",0
"The thing about Islam is it's meant to control your thoughts, Like some 1984 shit. I still catch myself judging people or I'll think something bad is happening to me because of Allah's wrath. I've since become an agnostic though so I don't really think about God much. It's just hard getting the propaganda out of your head and forming your own thoughts, opinions, and beliefs.",Plenty of people run around with internalized beliefs they got from others (trully independent thinkers are as rare as it gets) whilst not trying to force those views on others.,1
Or maybe the vast majority of Ukraine citizens don’t want to negotiate and want to take back their land and get security guarantees from Europe and the US so they don’t need to do this again in 5-10 years.,"I could see one depending on what Ukraine would accept, as I don’t think the rest of the world (especially Europe) wants this to continue and potentially turn nuclear.",1
"I didn't say I didn't know how the second amendment could be changed. It's just ironic that children are way way statistically safer at their schools growing up in a ""Pariah State"". Purely an observation.","Let's not forget that we even have countries in Nato, who are actually in dispute over a similar situation to Ukraine/Russia who are treaty obligated to protect each other, but hate each other.",0
"With the current protests being violently suppressed, this is the best time possible for regime change likely in a long while. Beginning to think that an intervention to replace Iran's government using its assistance of the invasion of Ukraine as a casus belli might be seriously on the table for NATO.","Especially now with extra-national elements popping up in this prolonged Russian attack, I simply don’t understand the argument for limiting Ukraine from firing as far as they can into Russia as I understand is the agreement.",1
"No doubt that NATO is viewed unfavorably as Finland and Sweden have been hosting Kurdish refugees and political parties in exile, all of which Turkey designates as terrorists. And two things Turks stand united for. And that's against Kurds and Armenians.",Turkey's doing this for Turkey. Or rather Erdogan is doing it for Erdogan. Sweden has people he wants extradited and this is just about the only kind of leverage Turkey has.,1
I did an overseas tech support call once for my company's software product. He was a French professor.,"Wow, what a pompous ass. Condescending, insulting, made every generalization about Americans he could think of including how US companies always build software that doesn't work because it's built for the cheapest cost possible. (I replied with, sir I'm from Canada and that's Canadian software you're using.).",0
"It was her, but it wasn't just her. Lots of Republican officials and pundits were crying over how a majority of first-choice votes were for one of the Republicans, but the Democrat ended up being elected.","A ranked choice system would be best, but my guess is that Republicans will ram through a change to just require a plurality, and then advance a bunch of fake ""liberal"" third party candidates to split the vote on the left.",1
It's also way for middle class suburban parents to choose better or alternative schools that fit their child's needs who aren't rich or don't want to live in squalor to have their children be properly educated.,I think what people miss is that parents are going to send their kids where they think they will be safe and get a good education and restricting their choices to underperforming public schools or expensive private ones is unfair and counterproductive.,1
Of course it is laughably unconstitutional. Everyone knew that the moment it was proposed (the AG of CA is not even defending it in this case). It is also as laughably unconstitutional as the Texas abortion law with the same private cause of action mechanism.,The courts did not let the Texas abortion law stand because abortion was not a right; they let it stand because they determined that courts cannot enjoin all private citizens from suing.,1
"Trump Org was recently found guilty on numerous counts of criminal tax fraud, so it’s a little hard to buy the feigned ignorance of how Trump’s name could possibly be associated with shady business practices.","So, assuming those returns are full of lies, and further, assuming that it would take a considerable amount of time for forensic accountants to untangle the web of lies...would there be value in releasing tax returns that falsely show Trump to be wealthier than he is with no debts of concern?",1
"I think it’s true from peace measurements this past 50 years have been the most peaceful in human history, on average. I say the most peaceful because of course there are still plenty of genocides, civil wars, etc. it isn’t perfect and I hope the next 50 years is even more peaceful. But we no longer have major, powerful countries sending millions of people off to their deaths against each other (up until Russias invasion of Ukraine) which was common throughout almost all of human history.",Also the Ukraine war showed countries they need to not be dependent on powerful authoritarian countries for trade.,1
"I'm sorry, do you forget the multiple nations that also border them that wants to wipe out Israel? The only thing stopping them is Israel's military and if they didn't have that you cannot pretend that Palestine wouldn't ally with them to wipe Israel off the map.","But my comment didn’t imply Palestinians shouldn’t have guns. I said “armed Palestinians” and I also said “armed Israeli soldiers”. The Palestinians weren’t part of an army, so I didn’t use the word “soldiers”.",1
"I often see this thrown around and I think the most accurate comparison is that the Dems would essentially include most of the CDU and SPD ideologically, while the Republicans would have the right of the CDU, right of the FDP, and the AfD. Most of the CDU would be equivalent to Clinton Democrats or maybe New England Republicans.",The CDU is sort of like Mitt Romney or probably more accurate Eisenhower kinds of Republicans. The SPD is sort of like Bill Clinton. That is center left and center right. It is true the AFD is the hardest right party in Germany but the analogy to the totality of Republicans is unfair even if there are a lot of assholes.,1
"I really don't want to have to make small talk to the person spending 1 minute per item stacking shit carefully into bags despite me saying ""just throw it all in one, I'm not going far"". I don't like it.","I don't like this. The problem of stores not treating or paying employees well isn't caused by self-checkouts or automation. Removing automation and self-checkouts won't make stores treat employees better or pay them more. Automation and other innovations that create a need for less labor should help everybody, but in practice those things often benefit the corporations to the detriment of workers. That's the fault of the system, and it's the very foundations of that economic system that need to change.",1
"Yes, Ukrainian is the official State language, but that doesn't mean Russian is being banned. Eastern Ukraine is mostly Russian-schools, Russian-language signage and Russian-language daily life.","But let's assume the 98%+ of Irish that speak English all democratically decide to change that somehow. Why would the modern UK invade a sovereign country with an EU Military Defense Pact, simply because they speak a different language?",0
"If someone who is unvaccinated get a transfusion of vaccinated blood, would that be similar to the person getting a vaccination?","While I wish the parents would just take whatever blood they can get, would it not make more sense to just try to get unvaccinated blood in this scenario?",1
"Ukraines fight is also helping to protect the west from Russian aggression, and the other countries realise this. That’s part of the reason why Ukraine is receiving support.",Pretty ballsy to say that when it's the West that's funding Ukraine. There would be no peace talks to have if Ukraine didn't have western military equipment support and Russia steamrolled through.,1
"The Indian relationship with Russia is likely on borrowed time at this point anyway, despite a long history of Russian weapons exports to India, and Russian support for India in general. As Russia becomes weaker and more isolated as a result of the war in Ukraine, Russia is also becoming increasingly reliant on China to the point where it may basically become a Chinese satellite state. Russia-Chinese ties are a big red flag for India, who sees China as their primary geopolitical rival. India could not accept being reliant on a Chinese ally for weapons that they may need to use against China.","The diminishing reputation of Russia's weapons due to their poor showing on the battlefield, and Russia's reduced ability to provide continuing support for their weapons only compounds the problem.",0
Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: minting a trillion-dollar platinum coin to stave off a calamitous debt default is not an idea that should be taken seriously.,A trillion dollar coin isn't a serious idea for anybody but somehow putting the U.S. government into default somehow just makes fucking sense to the Republicans. ffs.,1
"They would get shredded by a tank round, but the optics, AT missiles, and stabilization allow them to avoid being in the enemy tank's range. They were very effective against Iraqi T72s.",Actually M2 Bradleys using TOW missiles destroyed more Iraqi T-72 tanks in the Gulf War than the Abrams MBTs did.,1
I'd like everyone to take note of MTG's reply - it is as if she is responding to something else that a far less intelligent and far less competent person in Dre's position might have said. She is responding to an ethno-caricature she made up in her head for Dre.,"""While I appreciate the creative chord progression, I would never play your words of violence against women and police officers, and your glorification of the thug life and drugs."".",0
"Putin views the west as cowardly and craven, judging by how they’ve been falling over themselves to appease russia for the last thirty years. He thinks that by being more aggressive, he can scare Europe into submission, and that they’ll do absolutely anything to avoid nuclear confrontation.",He would be making a bet that NATO’s response would’ve limited out of fear that he’s crazy enough to launch nukes at NATO countries.,1
Free public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.,In 5th grade I had an especially challenging home life and frequently went to school with no lunch. There was a free brown bag lunch they brought for the kids who had signed up and I think my teacher realized I wasn’t bringing food so maybe asked that I be given one too. That was a lifesaver for me because I wasn’t going to complain even though being hungry all day was the worst.,1
"Why should Sweden rebuild parts of Turkey because they want to join NATO? For humanitarian reasons , sure, for joining NATO, no that’s still blackmail from Erdogan.","I'm sure there is considerable pressure being put on Turkey in the background, from the USA and other NATO gov'ts.",1
"Yep. And until we grind everything to a halt, we’re gonna end up regressing 100 years or so as far as workers rights.","If it’s half assed for sure. But if everyone just stops. I’m talking about every Starbucks employee, McDonalds, front line Apple workers, airline workers, railroad workers, office employees-literally everyone in the 99%. i think that would cause real damage to the rich.",0
"I’m sorry ye, Hitler was a charismatic racist asshole like your buddy trump, but an invented he was not.","I don’t like him, I’m sure you don’t like him, but the fact that he managed to appeal to millions of people means yeah, someone finds that turd charismatic. So yes.",0
"It's not just about taking Ukrainian territory. It was betting that Ukraine would be a fait accompli that would discredit the whole system of international politics. Proof that Russia was still an empire and great power that deserved a sphere of influence where it controlled puppet states in which no foreign power could legitimately meddle, like during the cold war or the age of empires of the nineteenth century.","It was supposed to be an end of an era and the beginning of a new one where Russia and China could take their ""rightful"" place as leading nations in the face of a diminished and humiliated US. Appeasement would have proved him right. The US would have been diminished. Reliance on NATO and to a lesser extent the EU would have been proven to be a bad idea. It wouldn't have done everything Putin had hoped, but it would have been a masterstroke to put Russia back at the center of an Imperial system that they could exploit for money and manpower.",0
The variance of acronyms is so interesting. You referenced the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and I found:,The article mentioned that the Taliban took credit for it. So basically we have a religion killing people in the same religion for being the wrong flavor of the religion.,1
"i mean, they could theoretically still win elections, they would just have to like, do some work and develop some sound policy that works for voters to want to vote for them cuz that whiny scared of brown/non-binary people shit is kinda tired.","it seems more of a problem in southern states where state legislatures are mostly repubican, and actively trying to make it harder to vote in urban centers.",0
"And it's even worse than the headline suggests. They voted down an amendment that would require minors to only carry firearms in public spaces under adult supervision without a permit, safety training, or criminal-background check, a problem created by 2017 legislation that was vetoed by the governor and then forced through by a supermajority in the legislature.","In a turn of events that absolutely defies logic, the Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to reject an amendment that would have banned minors from being allowed to openly carry guns on public land without adult supervision. Which, thanks to a 2017 law, they are currently free to do. (That law, which was vetoed by then governor Jay Nixon and overridden by the Missouri House, also allows Missouri residents to carry a concealed weapon without a permit, safety training, or criminal-background check. As S. Charles Wall, spokesman for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “under current state law, there is no minimum age to lawfully possess a firearm.”) To be clear: The proposal rejected this week was not seeking to ban minors from openly carrying weapons on public land, period, but simply from doing so without an adult supervising them. But apparently even that was too much for the state’s conservatives, who quite literally believe it’s fine for actual kids to walk down the street carrying guns. The proposal was defeated by 104-39, with just a single Republican voting in favor of the ban.",1
"Should read 'can't yet confirm'. Investigations need to happen before the Pentagon can go on the record as saying 'these Polish civilians were definitely killed by these russian missiles', given the absolutely massive consequences that could follow.","I agree that this definitely cannot be an instant trigger for Article 5 and a full-on war between NATO and Russia, but we don't need to sweep this attack entirely under the rug for Putin's sake.",0
"As a person with brains, you should ask yourself why a documentary regarding the Indian PM was not made available by BBC in India and what was the objective of it.","And also keep in mind that UK's current PM (Rishi Sunak) does not agree with the documentary regarding Modi, according to reporting from BBC itself (.",0
"It sounds like you think Christian beliefs should be kept out of politics, but you also believe Christianity is not under attack.",You said “kind of makes me thing the whole right wing narrative about Christianity being under attack in this country look like a load of crap.”.,0
"But yes, Haiti has been in turmoil since it declared independence, which was an act that flagrantly disobeyed the European slave trade based world order and left them with a debt that's been called the greatest exploitative heist in world history. This debt was not paid off until 1952 and in a lot of ways the nation is still paying for it.",Which countries? I'm really intrigued on this-- offer a country that has gone through worse than Haiti but made far more progress and I'll be happy to compare for you since you seem to be really bad at understanding history.,0
"Yeah, it's definitely worth noting that it was the tax cuts these dipshits so eagerly passed in 2017 that ballooned the deficit that they're now so concerned about. Of course, this is literally always what Republicans fucking do. The ""Two Santas"" theory in play, as usual: run up the deficit when the Republicans are in power (by giving gigantic handouts to the wealthy and starting pointless fucking wars), then blame the Democrats for not doing enough to combat the deficit and try to sell the idea that we're ""broke"" and ""forced"" to gut Social Security and Medicare... only to then turn around and run by blaming the Democrats for gutting Social Security and Medicare.","The GOP is many things (manipulative, abusive, cultish, entitled, whiny, self-serving, deceptive, deceitful, craven, stupid, nihilistic, cynical, ignorant, backwards, treasonous, violent...) but it is absolutely NOT a political party: it's mostly just a haven for thieves and fools.",0
"Never mind the cognitive dissonance that Russia is explicitly targeting Ukrainian civilians and that western ""expansionism"" is just their neighbors turning to the West because they don't want to be invaded by Russia.","Either Russia planned to provoke the West so hard they actually attacked Russia, Russia actually wanted to invade some part of NATO, or Russia simply _did not care hardly at all about proximity to NATO_. Russia did not want NATO advancing east because their plan was always to reclaim as much of the Russian Empire, or of the USSR, as possible. NATO membership is only a threat to Russian imperialism.",1
"The proposals are progressive. Its being framed as centrist to appeal to those it needs to appeal to. Some people saw the headline, made their opinion, and that's that.","But you are telling everyone that your opinion of what the title and article is about, is the truth.",1
"History matters. The history of what Europeans did to India, it still matters to India, and it influences how India behaves and reacts to Europeans today.","It just boggles my mind that white people think that the history (of what they have done to India, Africa and other people) does not factor into the current international politics. White people do not even preface their demands with the historical context of they did in India or Africa, or even try to offer an apology/excuse/explanation/recognition for the history before making all kinds of demands from the people they have victimized. They just get right into making more new demands, as if other people have completely forgotten (and forgiven) what they did.",0
"This conversation is so incredibly generic I'm shocked you'd even try to estimate a time frame. I'm well aware how many guns exist. I'm also aware what a ""first step"" means.","It's a first step, yes. It's not a complete solution on its own. You seemed to be implying otherwise.",1
"Shit, we can take it even further back. Unions were busted by the government for fun all the way back in the 1870s and early to mid 1900s. Strikes have been put down through violence when all else failed.",Protesting doesn't work in the US. It never has. It never will. And I don't know what else we can do.,0
"If Pence and Biden had some classified documents laying around that were able to be boxed up when they left vice-presidency, I am guessing it was mostly crap like this. I think what the takeaway from the BIden\\Pence stuff is that classification and everything around it needs a reworking. This stuff, someone is supposed to bring it to you then take it back. If it really is important secret stuff, the taking it back part needs to be looked at for what 's going on. If it isn't important things, I think we need some rules around how mundane stuff like schedules and talking points can be declassified more easily or automatically.","LoL. I remember with Hilary Clinton, one that Republicans were going so hysterical about. She had a meeting planned with some foreign diplomat. So she had a list of things to go over, which got marked classified as they didn't want others to know what would be discussed until it was time to discuss them. When the time came, she had her person send her the talking points, at which moment, there was no longer a reason for them to be classified, because she was already at the point where she was talking about what was on her list. But years later, they were still marked classified and people were in their faux outrage mode over it.",0
I'm constantly getting fed stupid Joe Rogan clips on YouTube and I keep blocking or saying I'm not interested.,My favorite thing is YouTube repeatedly ignoring my “don’t show me any more from this channel” with the Joe Rogan Experience. I literally can’t escape them on YouTube.,1
"The US has actually done a better job at separating their economy from China surprisingly and the credit does unfortunately need to go somewhat to the Trump Admin for that. The US's largest problem would be rare earth metal production for military supplies, which China dominates.",China is on the other hand very dependant on US agriculture to feed it's population and without it much of China would likely starve and could rebel if a war were to drag on for too long.,0
"It matters, because when everyone calls to ban Russia from everything, and everyone is silent when USA and its allies do the same things, it looks very hypocritical.","Russia has nukes, we can not attack them and an offensive war against Russia is an impossibility, morally and practically.We are sanctioning them as a result of that, cutting off all ties that can be cut off.",1
"Anything shy of that is not only going to be ignored, it may be actively celebrated, whether privately or openly.","Case in point: Madison Cawthorn. He's literally the only person the GOP has pushed out, and it's only because he said shit that was supposed to be kept on the DL that made his colleagues look bad. That's the only no-no.",0
"This is where everyone stumbles on the Latino vote, it's very dependent on who you're talking about.","Right, yeah if anything it helps to think of Latinos as the ultimate swing voters. They mostly align with democrats on values but they are hyper-sensitive to the economy since they mostly are trying to live the American dream and build a life for themselves. If the economy is good, then democrats will do well with Latinos.",1
"> Clearly a drinking game...with three glasses. Have you ever played Quarters? It's like that, except two guys stick their penises into one woman.","It's complete insanity that this buffoon was elected to the Supreme Court. The US SC is nothing but a joke now, except it can ruin countless lives with their partisan hyper-conservative bullshit.",0
"If anything, it's quite astonishing that in this heavy political climate, the people of Iran can clearly distinguish between the Israeli government and Jewish people (ethic and/or religious). This does reflect on the people/culture of Iran, however neutrally.","There used to be many thriving religious minorities in ancient Iranian empires because they were some of the most tolerant at the time. The founder of the first Iranian Empire, Cyrus the Great, is even in Judaism's texts for how he offered to take in the persecuted Jews of Babylon, even paying them to rebuild their temple.",1
"-Wagenknecht has called for the dissolution of NATO and for a new security agreement that links Germany and Russia. Throughout her career, Wagenknecht has argued in favor of a closer relationship with Russia; in 1992, she penned an essay praising Stalinist Russia.",">Throughout her career, Wagenknecht has argued in favor of a closer relationship with Russia; in 1992, she penned an essay praising Stalinist Russia, a view she said in 2017 she no longer espoused. In the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Wagenknecht was a prominent defender of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin, arguing on February 20, 2022 that while the United States was trying to ""conjure up"" an invasion of Ukraine, “Russia has in fact no interest to march into Ukraine.” After Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Wagenknecht admitted that her judgment had been wrong.",1
"Just realised you were saying Russia is supplying China with this stuff and not vice versa as I'd originally mistakenly read. That being said, your post doesn't make much sense in context as we're wondering what China is supplying Russia.",If Russia's really lucky maybe China is supplying military advisers who can tell Putin just how badly Russia fucked up without getting pushed out a window.,1
"Invading another foreign country violates international law, and it could have severe repercussions (see what happened to Russia). If China loses money by lending to Ghana, that is the risk that all creditors take.",You do realise that Ghana turned to China to borrow money is because no one is willing to borrow Ghana based on how bad their credit score is.,1
"Slavery is legal in America as long as there is due process, according to the 14th amendment. That's why the 13th and 14th were put in at the same time. The 13th abolished chattel slavery and the 14th provided a mechanism to put black people back into bondage, just with more steps.","I remember reading a story about proposed legalization of pot in Louisiana and the reporter interviewed a prison warden who said something to the effect of ""I'm against legalization because drug offenders are the best workers. Violent criminals are hard to control but drug offenders will do a good job and not give me any trouble"".",0
This one statue is a big part of Ukrainian history? That's news to me. Did Americans suddenly forget about the Civil War when the Confederate statues were taken down?,"That's literally what some people were arguing about those Confederate statues, that it was erasing history. Taking this statue down is to deglorify Russian imperialism and not praise an authoritarian ruler, there, happy with using your reasoning for this situation? You are trying to tie this into other issues that are not what this article is about.",0
"You only care about aerodynamics if you want the missiles to maneuver after the terminal stage - a feat only very, very few top end missiles can claim to do.",But yeah ballistic missiles have been hypersonic and much longer range for most ppls entire lives and much faster than the short range hypersonic cruise missiles in the news lately.,1
Nitrates are very important in cured meats as it allows them to be made and processed without shit that will kill you.,">This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine—an excellent measure of prior consumption—the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous.",0
I believe that the ban in MA has increased the amount that those products are being smuggled into the state. That will probably happen in CA too. But there is already a black market for highly-taxed items everywhere that the taxes are lower nearby. That is what created that black market. The smugglers are just now taking advantage of the new flavoring ban to feed what will be a dwindling customer base. This will shake out over time as new smokers get hooked on non-flavored tobacco.,"Again menthol has been in cigarettes since nearly the beginning. Where is this new found concern coming from that mint is what is increasing kids to smoke? When I started smoking at 16 I hated menthol, same with all my friends.",1
"Except that didn't happen. They didn't pay the higher cost for renewables, compromise after compromise, gas got expanded for so long it's now even too late for renewables.",Renewables won’t be enough for current demands for years to come (if ever at this consumption rate).,1
"I’m out in San Tan, and have been trying to tamper people’s expectations about Az turning blue. It’s a looooong way from that. This state is still very red, but people on both sides are exhausted with rehashing 2020.",The state’s still red af. That’s why AZ is decidedly purple and not blue. There is the AG race yet to be called that would be a huge help. The dem was up last I saw.,1
"While the Ukrainian diaspora may be the largest in Canada globally, in Canada itself Ukrainians are the 10th largest ethnic group. A quick search on Wikipedia shows:","""The country's ten largest self-reported specific ethnic or cultural origins in 2021 were Canadian[b] (accounting for 15.6 percent of the population), followed by English (14.7 percent), Irish (12.1 percent), Scottish (12.1 percent), French (11.0 percent), German (8.1 percent), Chinese (4.7 percent), Italian (4.3 percent), Indian (3.7 percent), and Ukrainian (3.5 percent)."".",0
"Gaza’s Palestinians are oppressed by Hamas, and thousands of them go to Israel for work, with the Israeli approval, even if it costs a little in security for Israel.","And they chose Hamas to be their autonomy, so Israel kinda controls what goes in, because otherwise Israel would have to deal with much more advanced missiles.",0
Russia wants to continue selling gas to Europe so they don’t touch it (which is why I don’t think they blew up the NS2 Pipeline). Europe wants to keep buying gas so they don’t touch it. Ukraine don’t wanna piss off Europe so they don’t touch it.,"You are correct, india also doesn't want to buy from russia. We hate to be in this position, we would very much prefer middle eastern oil. But the prices have been pumped up so much that we can't afford oil from elsewhere. What would you have us do stop buying any oil, i can't afford prices going up anymore. The narrative is that india is prospering on the oil is so wrong we are just surviving and if this war continues any longer, i don't think india could even afford oil at these prices.",1
"If you'd asked me a week beforehand, I would have guessed that Boebert had about the same chance of being ousted as MTG. There might actually be a chance in 2024, though.",I wouldn't say it'd be exactly like this in 2024. But there's a chance for a pickup here if actual resources are devoted to the race.,0
"Really the "" i fell down the stairs "" is a common excuse for many things. For this well I wish he died from it as the world would be better off. Still 5 stars isn't far and he has the normal human thing of it hurts to sit while my body is recovering from hitting it against hard surface with my full body weight.",He has cancer it reads to which well the majority of humans I know who are over 80 also have or have had cancer so it isn't surprising that he does. Putin is human and thus can die just wish he would get along with it already.,0
"It may be the end of the Speaker vote but it is the beginning of Republican investigations, going on Fox News to rail against the federal government, and a disastrous outcome for the next debt ceiling vote. Surely, we will have McCarthy to thank for a default because he handed the keys to the House to these MAGA Republicans.","Once a Speaker is chosen, McCarthy will have given so much power away to these MAGA Republicans, they will be running the show.",0
Plastic bags generate 39% less greenhouse gas emissions than uncomposted paper bags and 68% less greenhouse gas emissions than composted paper bags.,"Plastic grocery bags consume 71% less energy during production than paper bags. Significantly, even though traditional disposable plastic bags are produced from fossil fuels, the total non-renewable energy consumed during their lifecycle is up to 36% less than the non-renewable energy consumed during the lifecycle of paper bags and up to 64% less than that consumed by biodegradable plastic bags.",0
"They do it with written agreements. And hint as to why your point does not matter here: ONE OF THE SIGNEES ON THE AGREEMENT IS THE MUSEUM, AND MUSEUMS DO NIT DIE LIKE PEOPLE DO, THEY ARE CONTINUOUS ENTITIES. There is a world of difference between limitations agreed to in a written contract between a family and a museum, and a verbal agreement between two private people.","If it turns out my great great grandfather had loaned your great great grandfather a car, under the condition that if the car ever left your family then you would owe my family a new car, and your dad decided to sell it, how would you feel about me coming after you for the money? After all, that was the verbal agreement a hundred years ago? Or would you say ""sorry no, that is ridiculous, I did not make the agreement""?",0
"I had never heard this before either, so I looked it up. This story is from the . It’s not considered biblically canon and has many themes and stories that conflict with the Jesus of the canonical Bible.","Except there are plenty of parts of the Bible that explicitly say not to discriminate, especially the New Testament. The whole parable of The Good Samaritan isn't notable because someone stopped to help, but because Samaritans were looked down on as a group and ostracized, and yet they still helped because it was the right thing to do.",1
"It would have had to come from a private seller. Because of the time and expense, it's not something you just pick up, and temples have very specific rules for when, why, and to whom a Torah can be sold. You couldn't even get one that was irreparably damaged, as those get buried.","I would add that the person who was planning the demonstration is yet another idiot who doesn't understand that Judaism and Israel are two different things. A protest against Israel would call for the burning of an Israeli flag, not a Jewish Torah.",0
"They ain’t sorting it out themselves, evidently, and it’s spilling over into Mexico, U.S.A. and Canada.","With as much respect to the people there as possible, there isn’t much choice to be made here for the other countries at this point, this is becoming an issue and these “activists” can’t stop the gangs or support a government that no longer exists at the moment.",0
"So, from Putin's perspective, Russia had no NATO countries at their doorstep, and had secured a deal to keep it that way. Now, he had Ukraine openly speaking about joining NATO and several US lawmakers publicly saying that the US would join them in an offensive against his country. Thus, I believe, Putin took the opportunity to make the first move before he had his own Cuban missile crisis.","Ask yourself what would happen to Cuba if Russia were to install ""missile defense systems"" on the island.",1
"Lukashenko isn't entirely stupid, he knows that the second the Belarusian conscripts cross the border in to Ukraine he is getting removed from power.",I don't think it makes 'perfect' sense for Belarus - but it makes perfect sense for Russia to strongarm Belarus to go along with a false flag operation.,1
Santos is a flaming gay man in the Republican Party. I might have an idea where his self-loathing stems from.,"As someone who has had little to no self esteem their entire life. When I was younger (teens - twenties) I was a compulsive liar. I felt like something was severely wrong with who I was so I would make up things about myself that I thought would get people to like me, because at my core I felt I was wholly unlikable. I’m in my mid forties now and stopped doing this a long time ago, but I still struggle with self esteem daily. I can not tell you how important it is in your day to day life to at least believe you are not a complete piece of shit. I feel shame to this day about the people I lied to. But also I hated everything about myself.",1
"Second, Desantis sees what the rest of the non cult GOP sees: Trump is a millstone weighing down Republican chances at regaining the power they had after '16. He drives more Democratics and Trump-tired independents to the polls. Desantis' chances at the oval diminish if he's on a Trump ticket.",I believe Trump has some dirt on DeSantis. I would love to have that thrown around. But what would really do the world favours would be if Trump were to some how manage to derail Fox News and its viewership.,1
BUT interesting that Trump is so far ahead of DeSantis with GOP'ers as previous polls showed the opposite. Rally round the crook syndrome maybe?,"GOP pollsters are notoriously unprofessional and, as a result, inaccurate, as we saw in 2022. So figuring out who this pollster is and how far off they were in 2022 is first order of business.",0
Poland was originally going to send Russian jets in exchange for new US-made ones. That is the best plan if jets are going to be sent.,And who's going to fly the jets? Doesn't training to become a fighter pilot take years? In all honesty the west should've started arming and training Ukrainians when Putin invaded Crimea. Now the west is playing catch up and it could be to late for Ukraine. Russia has a population of 140 million while Ukraine has a population of 40 million. The west is dragging it's feet with supplying Ukraine with all the weapons and training it needs to win. If the west acted swiftly in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea then things might have been different. I hope Ukraine wins but we all know Russia will just keep throwing their citizens into the meat grinder that is Ukraine and Ukraine is running low on ammo.,1
"And I agree to an extent, especially with point A, sports tickets have become unreachable for many people. However I don't know if go as far as to say people are ""torching their financial position"" for concert tickets.",Just auction off the tickets and let people decide how much they’re willing to spend on some concert or whatever.,1
Sorry I actually have a degree in Economics and do analysis for a living. Let's just focus on facts not opinions and not making arbitrary adjustments to how debt is calculated.,1) The MI analysis focuses on debt attributable to that President's policies. Obama isn't held responsible for debt that result from Bush's decisions; nor Trump for Obama's.,1
"Initial findings suggest that the missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian missile, Associated Press reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. officials.",But I would be ok if Poland made an overtly aggressive stance on their border and started shooting down missiles over western Ukranian airspace.,1
"The justification I’m seeing from Trump supporters is that he “meant” to say that the fraud is what is terminating the constitution, not that he wants to.",He is literally saying that this “fraud” doesn’t immediately terminate the clauses of the constitution but rather that it justifies doing so.,1
"Some parties have a one-member-one-vote system, they may also allow votes from certain affiliates like trade union members. The UK labour party does this. Each party has its own policies for how the leader is selected.","The party itself votes for the leader. The party is made up of the general public who pay a fee to be a part of that party as well as the MPs. Leadership contests are usually chosen by the entire party. Suank, the current Prime Minister/Leader was chosen only by the MPs of the party as they needed a leader ASAP after Liz Truss's epic failure.",1
"Yes, it certainly isn't shocking at all anymore that Republicans are willing to sell out their country for Russian cash.","Wow, not even remotely shocked... its been factually obvious that Russia has been fucking with Republicans for atleast the last 5 years. Russia has literally said that's what they are doing over and over including very recently.",1
"She's been critical of Israel & AIPAC, was in favor of boycotting products from the colonized areas and a Muslim. Therefor she's a great target for them to pretend antisemitism is a leftist thing.","The worst thing she did is word some of her criticism a bit unfortunate or clunky. But for Republicans criticism of Israel is antisemitic, while maligning Jews in your own country isn't.",0
"""But voters should be able to tell!"" No. Most people aren't paying attention. Or they really see ""both sides"" doing it. And once Republicans cement a media narrative, Republican lies look like the truth, especially since Democrats splinter and scatter under anything more than a stiff breeze.","The Democratic side has no equivalent to this, not on real issues, and certainly not on invented issues, so people either fall into the conservative narrative (see the ) or just generally stop paying attention.",0
"According to the Brooke USA Foundation, a group fighting against Amazon in support of donkey welfare, ejiao acts as &amp;quot;a hard gel that can be dissolved in hot water or alcohol to be used in food or drink, or in beauty products such as face creams.&amp;quot; Some advocacy groups and consumers claim companies are deceptively using the substance, contributing to the slaughter and skinning of millions of donkeys a year.","And I quote, ""According to The Pegasus Foundation, an organization advocating to ban donkey hide products, an estimated 8 to 10 million donkeys are killed and skinned each year to meet demand for ejiao."".",1
Hmm what a coincidence that the Air Force of neighboring Chad is staffed with Ukrainian mercenaries for most of its jet pilots. I wonder if they might have a bone to pick with Wagner for some reason lol.,"If I remember correctly Chad purchased the jets, or at least the SU25s from Ukraine and I would imagine that package also included pilots and maintenance since I doubt that’s an area the Chadian military has a lot of specialists in.",0
"Ah yes, thats why we did this to all the Nazi’s in Germany right? Right? We executed hundreds of thousands of Nazi supporters right?","While Hitler was a brutal dictator, he often did not resort to killing (German citizens). There are only two large instances where he directly ordered the murder of German citizens (Kristallnacht and post-Operation Valkyrie). In other words, no one is gonna die for quitting.",1
I’m not sure what that has to do with my comment? The removal of disability is referencing the ability for congress to reinstate eligibility for office for an individual for whom the 14th amendment has already barred.,"The right to remove disabilities imposed by this Section was exercised by Congress at different times on behalf of enumerated individuals.1 In 1872, the disabilities were removed, by a blanket act, from all persons except Senators and Representatives of the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States.2 Twenty-six years later, Congress enacted that the disability imposed by section 3 . . . incurred heretofore, is hereby removed.",1
"""state run"" implies government run. When the media you consume is 100% all in on one party of government and that party represents a disturbing amount of states including the ones most affected by its propaganda, ""state run media"" is an applicable label.","But that's not what ""state run"" means, it just so happens that the corporations own our media and also our government (and in the case of FOX, it's owned by someone who was originally Australian.).",1
"Also, are we just not going to acknowledge that handguns are used in the majority of gun homicides in the US, but we don’t see anyone trying to ban those.","To be clear, I’m all for gun safety laws (and am pro second amendment) but “assault weapon” bans are an ineffective way of doing it and is purely used as a political tool and is just a feel good half measure.",1
Maybe Western governments see Russia as not being a threat anymore in the future and want to lay the groundwork for good relations with India now for a future Cold War with China.,"I mean, I get why India has been so neutral; their military worked closely with Russia's, the west has previously favored Pakistan, and India can use ties with Russia for leverage to keep relative peace with China. All of this excludes the obvious reasons India doesn't get along with former European colonizers. Its a shame they didn't make a stand from a point of fundamentally opposing all imperialism, but I can see their reasoning.",1
Given The direction of travel with sleekform fitting athletic wear during the 20th century. I actually expected football players to adopt spandex or Lycra like athletes in the late 80s had started to wear.,"I and most others honestly thought it was just a ridiculous unathletic fad, as youth clothing got baggy during that era.",0
India didn’t just keep the status quo; it took advantage of low Russian oil prices and increased imports thereby funding Russia’s war in Ukraine.,It's a backhanded comment to point out how India isn't doing shit and funding Russia's side of the war through increased oil purchases...,1
"Also, really what would it last three weeks before the companies gave up had the democrats not decided to crush the guys wanting sick pay stop being so dramatic.","They were supposed to put sick leave in the first bill, send it to the Republicans and say: ""pass the compromise, or tank the economy""...",1
Dogs are really wonderful. I've been sometimes falling into feelings of sadness over the loss of a younger friend who commited suicide and when I do one will shove a toy to play fetch with at me and the other come for snuggles. I just realized the pattern recently but they've been doing it for a while now I realize. It snaps me out of it and I feel better.,I met a guy who had some bad PTSD from his time in Iraq and his wife.He'd barely been able to leave the house before he got his therapy dog. And she made a world of difference to him. They were all able to go out with their child and do happy family things again. When he'd start to get anxious the dog would lean into him or push her head at him for pets. It just changes something in your brain and your thoughts and dogs notice how you are feeling before people ever could. I think they probably smell it. Either that or they are just magical creatures that can read our thoughts before we even can? Take your pick. ; ) But it's really great for those kids. They really deserve and need all the love and support they can get.,0
"""Talk into this black box? Why? What devilry is this? Where did all these miniature suns come from? What are those metal beasts rushimg down the road? By the name of my father where am I??!"".",This. Evangelicals rarely do anything quietly. My interpretation is this is as close as you’ll ever get to an admission they were wrong about Trump (though they did get RvW so maybe not that wrong in their own opinions).,1
There's a single road that runs about 60 miles from the Finland border for hundreds of miles of nothingness.,I bet Putin is loving that they'll now have hundreds of miles of NATO border that follows the ONLY ROAD to their entire fleet.,0
"Dec 20, 2022: Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee votes to release Trump’s taxes to the public.",This will make public a report on Trump’s tax information AND his actual tax returns (!) per lawmaker on W&M. The latter will take longer due to needed redactions.,1
"""She had once tried using Harpster’s methods against Russ Faria, a man wrongfully convicted of killing his wife."" How do they know this man was wrongfully convicted? Just because he was re-tried and was found not guilty?? That says absolutely nothing about his true innocence or guilt. Being found guilty or not guilty in a court has more to do with convincing a jury than it does about actually being guilty or legitimately innocent of something.","They call him wrongfully convicted because he was convicted wrongly, not because they know for sure he’s innocent. You claim that wrongfully convicted = innocent in “common parlance,” but that interpretation seems specific to your parlance.",1
"But I am not buying the ""necessity"" argument, given that I heard none of that before the war. India was getting by before the war without Russian oil, and I've yet to see a reason why it can't after Russia decided to use terror attacks on a massive scale in its invasion.","Thank you for acknowledging that India buying Russian oil is simply doing the terrorist state a diplomatic favor, and not some sort of dire need that we've been led to believe.",0
"Bro as Israeli this isn't a step thwords fasicm, the public broadcastinng network sucks ass , the private ones are way better ( and they also oppose the government more than the public channel) the public channel network is getting to much funds and doesn't make enough profit or entertaining stuff to see.","Now regardless of that, basically all of Israel's news channels (except one) are against the government policies, the difference is that most of them are private-owned and the latter is funded with tax money, which in my opinion shouldn't be a thing because government owned channels can lead to bad stuff.",1
"Your last sentence isn't true anymore. Siince 2015 alot changed when Obama made pressure. US citizens for example don't have access to bank secrecy anymore. Same for EU countries, banks opened up alot since then. And in the subject of this war there is way more Oligarch money stacked in London than in Switzerland, it has been the go to business place for them.",They just enjoy making money off the money they are holding…classic Switzerland. Money over human lives was their motto and continues to be their motto.,1
"Secure air bases are a much bigger deal for F16s than Ukraine's current fighters. The latter were made to take off an land from roads and small airfields in the event that NATO attacks rendered Soviet airbases unusable. And that is how Ukraine was able to keep their jets in the fight, at least in the early days of the war.",Issue with anything flying above 50ft in Ukraine is that SAMs are too good. Patriots aren't going to protect F-16s from enemy SAMs.,1
"When there’s increasing political and economic divide between young men and young women in America, they’re very possibly going to find even less in common with each other and have even less sex/committed relationships, which eventually does present serious issues for the global position of the United States and its ability to address problems at home.","There’s still a lot of issues in society that make me and other younger men cautious about the future of America, many of which I think are more tangential to politics, and I hope that we see some better resolution and unity on those and the issues above in the future, rather than increasing division!",0
So you're in favor that a citizen living away from the country of their citizenship shouldn't be allowed to vote in that country's national election?,"If they're under a work visa for a couple of years they only should be able to vote in their home country since that's where they will be returning to, they shouldn't be able to vote in the country they work temporarily in.",1
"Honestly folks, this used to be a party of ideas. But def no longer. Every time you'd think, ""they can't get lower than this,"" they (the GOP) go ahead and prove me wrong. I don't think we ever end up with a one party system, but can't quite see how the future plays out; Dems and Independents?",Is he really the future of the Republican Party though? I haven’t seen many in the Republican Party claiming that.,1
Thinking that the problem is capitalism when human beings will take advantage of any system for profit.,"Capitalism has always been controlling goods and exchanging them for profit. Since the first trade inevitably meant a monkey trading something for something it ascribed a greater value to, it profited and thus, capitalism was born. It's been around since before we descended from the trees.",1
Yet… in my lifetime I fully expect to hear from the younger generations that slavery and racism are just propaganda and myths and that it never actually happened.,"Institutional, legalized racism was a horrific part of American life when boomers were born, and we should talk about it much more.",1
"The next time you see a politician talking shit or engaging in what you believe is self destructive rhetoric that will kill their career—they are aiming for a gig like this (and/or a book tour, also lucrative and no work involved). It pays so much better than their regular job, and there will almost ALWAYS be a gig like this waiting for anyone with national attention. Liz Cheney tanking her career? No fucking way, a book is DEFINITELY going to come soon, she's also due since she had books in 2011 and 2015. And it will sell like hotcakes in airports to bored liberals looking for catharsis. MTG talking the worst possible shit? Conservative media is saving a seat for her. Kyrsten Sinema fucking over the people who elected? Doesn't care, better paying gigs are coming now that she is a nationally known figure.","2. To go national means high chances of gigs like this, which pay a lot better than whatever you government position pays (and there is a lot less work involved!).",0
"This is why CO2 from burned coal can never be put back in the earth and why trees don’t actually sequester carbon anymore (only temporarily), it’s impossible. The trees that don’t burn will now just be broken down by fungi.","Not really. It’s a matter of energy in vs. energy out. You would have to burn the trees to make the coal without giving off any carbon, transport it without releasing any carbon, strip mine down about a thousand feet without releasing any carbon, and then bury it, again without releasing carbon.",0
"They used to own almost all of China. Now they are so small and underdeveloped, why wouldn’t they solve a dispute? They probably cannot even defend themself if China would want harm, probably depending also on imports from China. It was a sarcastic joke about countries can claim territory they once owned but lost/gained through revolution, war, treaties whatever. If Communist China can claim a land they never conquered with their civil war, why can’t Mongolia claim land they once had but lost later?","There are vastly more descendents of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty in PRC China than outer Mongolia. most of these people don't even live in inner Mongolia, a lot more in Beijing or Shanghai etc. Outer Mongolia itself as a separate entity is an artifact of the Soviet Union vying for global communist domination and they managed to carve out a piece of the Qing empire that the Manchu and subsequent Republic of China no longer were able to maintain.",1
"Holy shit, it only took Trump massively flopping for r/conservative to actually be introspective for once, they have finally realized that their party doesn't appeal to anyone and only tries to make it harder to vote.","But now that they’ve seen all the maga candidates lose, the media outlets that control the opinions of the gop voters are going to feed those people anti trump sentiment for months and months, and so you’ll see a huge shift in opinion. They have to, they wasted so much money on those candidates and they lost, so they need to shift their zombies opinions to a more viable candidate.",1
"It's so crazy to me that Republicans are complaining about ""Candidate Quality"" as a euphemism for absolutely terrible candidates. There seems like there's only two situations and both of them are their own fault.",1. This is who the party voters want and the primaries bring the strongest candidates to the front. If they're terrible it's more a problem with the party than the candidates. Stop electing terrible candidates.,0
"Portending a Global Rift: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said that China is strongly considering giving military aid to Russia, a move that would transform the war into a struggle involving three superpowers.",If China does begin selling weapons and supplies to Russia it will probably trigger US led financial sanctions against them.,1
"It would certainly lend credence to the Brexit mantra of independence. With the current setup, if a country enforces something from the EU, it's effectively because they chose to by way of voting or joining the EU after it was made EU law.","It also means that the members of EU retain their independency as countries - they do stuff together, not submit one to another.",1
"Wait WHAT woah ok that came out of left field. No that's not - that's not even remotely the same I - ok, I see theres actually 0 interest in what I am actually saying and these comments are being emotionally driven now. I'm peacing out lol I wasn't even fucking agreeing with op at all but I guess I get to be the scapegoat for just pointing out that they did in fact acknowledge it wasn't fair.quick edit actually, just to clarify dude i literally keep saying over and over i agree with you that one can work on their thoughts idk why you keep going.",Edit: apparently reddit doesn't know the difference between intrusive thoughts and active belief systems smh. I get to be the scapegoat for people that got mad at op . hi downvoters.,0
Minors are prohibited from doing a whole multitude of things in our society. How is this any different considering the permanent nature of these treatments?,"To be clear, I'm 100% for adults accessing any care they need and they should have access to it. Simply looking to be informed on what protections are there for children.",0
"In fact, it would likely prevent people from dressing in certain period appropriate outfits just because said outfits are seen by today's society as ""belonging to the opposite gender."" At one point in history, tights and high heels were seen as garments for men. If a man walked out in those today, they'd be said to be wearing ""women's clothing."" So if I, a man, were to wear that to a gathering of people dressed in period costumes and a few of us danced to music (period appropriate, of course), would that count as a drag show? It looks like it would even though it's obviously not.",Remember that the right pushed for 50 years to repeal Roe before they succeeded. They're willing to make incremental steps over the next 50 years if it means that they can dial LGBTQ rights back 100 years.,0
Or denying it because accepting that a missile crossed their air space and landed on their territory means they might need to call article 5 thus bringing a direct confrontation Nato-russia.,as you bemoaning the fact missiles not landing in foreign territory so that NATO could declare war. Hence my aggressive tone. given this response It seems this was wrong and that you were just correcting a typo.,1
"There's means, motive and opportunity all laid out for Russia, but you're ignoring all of that and saying the US snuck in under all those warships and did it. Lolol.",This article is published by the daily mail and written by an extremist conspiracy theorist who is consistently incorrect and has become increasingly more erratic as time goes on.,0
"Looking at Europe, now that Corona is getting less relevant, blaming everything on the Ukraine war has been about the only party platform of some right wing parties. And worst thing is, that in some cases they were quite successful with it. So yeah, I do see the situation in Ukraine very much influencing the political scene.","Public sentiment is already shifting in Russia, Putin will back down without conquering Ukraine. You are delusional.",1
Hitler made terrible decisions before and all through the war because of his addiction to speed. I’m not sure he was ever not on speed when he was in public. When Orson Welles appeared on Dick Cavett show in the 70s he told a story about meeting Hitler and what an unremarkable person he was to the extent he barely remembered him. Hitlers entire personality changed at some point and was probably due to his massive and long term drug use.,"Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Norman Ohler is a really great book on Hitler & Nazi Germany's rampant methamphetamine use. It's fascinating. The sections about Hitler's personal doctor and his spiked pig's blood transfusions are insane.",1
"Russia is a terrorist state because they are targeting civilians in the war russia started, and Minsk was a result of russia starting wars in Eastern Ukraine.","Minsk 1 and 2 was an attempt to get the Ukrainian government and army to stop shelling it's own civilians in Donbas, and as you correctly pointed out killing civilians is terrorism. Russia maybe a terrorist state, but not for the reasons you give.",1
"I don't think the Zerg rush tactic will work this time around for Russia, and in truth, that is their only strategy in war.","There is no scenario here where a nuclear strike would make any sense. You can argue that they could throw one at Ukraine to force capitulation, but a nuclear strike would not be just a Ukraine issue, it could easily irradiate and affect a swath of Europe and require a NATO response.",0
Do you think that stopping this war wouldn't then mean that Putin wouldn't directly start another to keep that industry going?,"Question, what if the decision to start this war, Putin decision to start this war was likewise influence by Russia's arms industry?",0
What happened after WW1 pushed rhe Germans in the arms of Hitler because they had no hope and nothing to lose anymore.,"Unfortunately future is dark when present is ruled be fools like in Korea, Afghanistan, Syria, Israël,... and even in US during Trump.",0
"""Ohio's governor, Mike DeWine, also says he requested disaster assistance from FEMA, which he says was denied. But the White House says that's because this is not like a hurricane, tornado or another natural disaster where there's widespread property damage."".",". . .The US is FAR from perfect. Blaming them for the current situation in Syria is just absurd. They prevented ISIS from keeping territory even longer than they did, but also armed some of the revolutionaries. But the Gulf states and Turkey armed just as many militants while not directly combating ISIS.",1
"Yes. I won't be surprised when they propose revoking the matthew Shepard/James Byrd act, because Republicans have made it clear how much they want LGBTQIA+ people in the morgue.","But that’s what republicans want; they think being gay/trans is something that you can physically beat out of a child. All it does is make the child ghost them when they’re older and supporting themselves, just like I did.",1
"They've had enough time to correct my tax stuff after it turns out my employer didn't do withholdings for a year and didn't tell me, but I'm just a tiny nobody and it probably took them 5 seconds to come squeeze me for my unemployment funding back.","I dunno, but it seems like they should do the big guys first? Maybe we should spend a little of that defense budget on more IRS guys to do those folks? Maybe??",0
"Sure. What I understand you're saying is that as long as it's art from ""not Russia"", it needs to be protected from destruction. Or perhaps you are saying that putler sees foreign art as more valuable, since you want to be disparaging to Russian art by the virtue of it being Russian. Or perhaps when you are saying ""not Russia"" you are referring to stolen Ukrainian art, that might be in the palace.","If Putin's mansion blew up and that somehow saved Ukrainian lives I would value that over the Russian artworks. If I created art and 100 years from now my country invaded another for illegitimate reasons I would be happy if its destruction was in the pursuit of justice, I would rather my work burnt to a cinder than be in such a persons hands as Putin's.",1
"Yup. Dark Brandon can go shake Abbots hands on TV and proclaim that effective immediately, the fed will bring the hammer down on anyone in TX facilitating or supporting illegal immigration. Then with extreme prejudice they should go after every single employer Of illegal immigrants. Maximum fines, jail where it fits. And every time there is a big sting that cripples a business or industry, the feds ahold applaud abbot on his stalwart stand against illegal immigration. When construction companies and hospitality and landscaping and any others that are habitual abusers of illegal labor are shutting down in lieu of paying actual wages to Texans, they can turn against Abbot, especially with a dem candidate announcing reforms to help bring more labor force into the state.","I imagine the foreign power thing will be arms purchases for his border security force from Russia. They need a buyer, and these days the Repubicans can’t scramble fast enough to declare their loyalty to Putin.",0
If Iran helps Russia get a win do you honestly think this wont have any effects on the current situation in Syria?,If Russia is broken in Ukraine they could lose their ability to prop up the anti Israel regime in Syria nor could they increase cooperation with Iran.,0
So somehow you're now following right-wingers or is it that right-winger posts are being presented in your feed without having been retweeted by someone you follow?,"I'm hoping he sells Twitter before Summer comes. Twitter is a fantastic platform for communities. I'd hate to see it get shut down. A lot of acquaintances, friendships, careers, and even marriages happened because of Twitter. A lot of BS has happened via Twitter as well.",0
"“Leftist” in Latin America is not the same as “Democrat” in the US btw. Likewise, “rightist” does not mean “Republican”. You cant compare both because they live under two different political structures.","In countries with multiple parties there can be things such as being economically liberal while being socially conservative and so forth. Likewise, we have had parties that are economically conservative while very socially liberal.",0
Have Manchin and Sinema both said they won't vote for it? Can legislation be passed in the House before a possible Republican majority takeover? Is Congress just trying to keep this issue alive to drive people to the polls in future elections?,Put it to a vote Especially while people are paying attention. I think we are moving beyond debating our loved ones on the interwebs and actually paying attention to what is going on and its encouraging people to vote. We need to keep this momentum up and really put the GOP on the defensive. We want to know who to vote out next. We no longer want to be stripped of our rights.,1
"it looks like the city is aiding disenfranchised people in need, its better then them being reduced to homelessness and relying on emergency services.","If they're disproportionately homeless than a program set to help homeless people would disproportionately help them, thus what's the need for a program that specifically targets them?",1
"The best defence is offence - so I'm pretty sure Israel would prefer just bombing the shit out of all their known bases, as simultaneously as possible, to prevent any missile from launching into Israel.",The name of the game when it comes to Israeli (and American) missile defenses is to just have many different systems with different targets they are focused on.,1
"Trump would never have been able to get as far as he did without their help. And they for sure have some tangible role in the conspiracy. They will work hard as hell to cover themselves and bury this, especially with control of the House and all its resources. Then their base will lose their shit if that power goes away at all or worse, if their heroes get removed and/or banned from power. They've put an unruly amount of identity stock in the worst congressmen because those are the ones ""fighting back"" for them, and for that godawful reason, their own identities and souls will get crushed when their heroes' do, which makes them every bit as dangerous as those they revere and prop up.","The current body of democrats in government don’t have the stomach for real justice without fear of political retribution, which is so cowardly and telling of their true values and character.",1
"To avoid having to remove him from office Republicans didn't allow evidence and refused some witnesses at his 2nd impeachment. If they had they would have had no choice but to remove him, they couldn't deny the evidence. They also worked with him on his defense, that's the jury colluding with the defendant. That's why I was dead set against the 2nd impeachment, I knew it would go nowhere and waste time and money. I knew he'd become even more brazen having gotten off twice, I didn't quite see the insurrection coming though, but I knew he'd think he's untouchable. The point of impeachment is political, it's like a mark on your soul, it doesn't work on someone without a soul or shame. It has the exact opposite effect on Trump.","The Draft Dodger in Chief believed that we can't punish them for doing their job otherwise nobody will want to be one. That idea was put in his head, he's never had a thought that wasn't about himself in his life.",0
"The werewolf trait would still apply - every full moon the zombie would transform. However, they would be a shambling corpse the rest of the time, still trying to do zombie things. When transformed, they would spread zombism but not werewolf.. since the victim would necrotize from zombism and that flesh wouldn't be able to spread the werewolf blood.","Serious question: could a werewolf eat zombies and be fine? Or would we get werezombies? I’m pretty sure vampires wouldn’t be able to feed on a zombie, but I’m not sure about werewolves.",1
"Private insurance and Government insurance don't have to be the only options. Just as the federal government helps fund community clinics, the federal government could encourage the creation of non-profit insurance organizations and offer federal funding to them to courage more public opinions and more choices. Just as Democrats support having Medicare negotiate down prescription prices, having more public competition aimed at valuing people over profit could have a big impact on reducing cost of health.","Simple question for anyone who opposes a single payer healthcare system: which do you think is a nobler motivation, public health or profit? Capitalism tells us that seeking profit inspires growth and innovation. In this case, the growth and innovation came from Mayo, a university, and it was denied by a profit driven insurance company. If healthcare is paid by the state, the motivation is public health because not caring for people’s health ends up costing the state as they age.",1
"She is just one of many to blame, but to say someone who blatantly inside trades on the stock market is worthy of praise is insane. She basically has done the bare minimum imo. The fact we have to hold off a red wave is proof enough. If democrats passed legislation that had actual impacts in people's lives, they would get elected.. but they are always scared of being labelled a socialist. Always scared.","Studies show the middle actually has the least amount of empathy as compared to those who are considered staunchly left or, amazingly, right wing.",0
"But, the goal was to have the Twitter files articles provide quotes for right-wing media to amplify to a base that would never read the evidence or possibly even the original article.","I guess from what I’ve seen, this is nothing and I feel like we’re following Republicans down this rabbit hole that in the end will show that Twitter moderated content and may or may not have considered, among other factors, whether the government thought the content was factual or not.",1
Higher profile doesn't include those things if they didn't gain much attention. But why is that in an age where almost anything can go viral? Were they noticed or not? What was the response? And did it have a net positive or net negative effect on support for ecological goals?,Doing something that makes their movement look stupid and turns it into a punchline is worse than doing nothing.,0
"Eh, when you say shine light, it seems like we deny/keep these things a secret, when all three are major political issues, with work being done to tackle the same.","Which isn't unmerited - it's similar to how some people have been critical about the rise of nationalism in the US, Brazil, Poland, Turkey and Hungary (amongst others).",0
"P.S. As I was typing, I realized that my tv was playing the second episode of Gwynne Dyer’s documentary series on war, titled “Anybody’s Son Will Do.” It’s literally about this exact subject, how basic training turns young men into people who follow orders instinctively and are willing to kill, with some even being eager to kill the enemy.",“The other problem I found with his comments was that he characterized the British Army basically as having trained him and other soldiers to see his enemy as less than human.”.,0
"I don’t think any Republicans that have a chance of winning the primary will actually announce a run unless It either seriously looks like Trump is going to wind up in prison, or he just gets disqualified under the 14th.","I don’t think indictment will stop Trump from running, but it’ll kill his chances at the general election and someone will be forced to step in anyway to try to defuse what looks like an unwinnable situation.",0
"Splitting the vote was precisely what I was thinking he might do, but by running third party if he doesn't have the backing of the establishment. That alone would be the end of republicans' chances in '24. There are a number of other ways he can sabotage republicans though. For example, if he loses a republican primary, he could spread conspiracy theories and lies about the primary being rigged, which would further divide the republican base and discourage turnout.","Also, the republican party is still all-in on Trump and Trumpism. Just look at what's going on with the House right now. McCarthy sold his soul to MAGA to become the speaker, empowering the right-wing extremists in his party.",0
"You might want to read up on the Guptas, Mauryans etc and the various Southern empires. For over 2000 years there were indigenous empires, some of where were more powerful than the Mughals.","The Marathas were vassals under the Bijapur sultanate - not the Mughals. When Aurangzeb invaded the Deccan, the Marathas used that opportunity to rebel and break free.",0
"Or we could just treat single family housing as what it is, housing, and not as an investment asset class.","The only way to address the housing crisis is to build more housing and address the rent-seeking. More supply comes from destroying the artificial controls of the market, specifically the restrictive zoning policies. Eliminate it, or at the very least make it less restrictive. To address rent-seeking, replace property tax with land value tax. Most economists agree that LVT is the most efficient tax (due to lack of deadweight loss), will help remedy the housing crisis by encouraging more development, and will likely decrease the wealth disparity seen in the US.",1
"What a chump and a chronic liar. In addition to Chinese balloons flying over the USA during Trump's reckless and destructive SINGLE term as a failed president, Trump and his lackeys also handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban by locking the Afghanistan government out of the withdrawal negotiations and releasing Taliban terrorists who had been imprisoned. Then he withdrew all but 2,500 US troops out and basically handed over the keys to the car in the ditch to Biden.","Only far-right religious zealots believe that. Unfortunately,some things are beyond our control, and in order to reverse the withdraw, the US would've had to send tends of thousands of troops in because the Taliban was already signalling that they were tired of waiting an were about to mount an offensive.",0
"You do realize that the US did not exist yet when the backstory for this particular villain happened, right?","Yes, the US did not exist in this villain's backstory, but he was written as a villain by Americans. I'm not claiming that he wasn't a bad dude in the movie, but that by writing him as a villain the filmmakers demonized Mesoamerican people and reinforced and profited from the prejudices of American audiences.",1
I just don’t see how any of this actual helps them. Florida is a red enough state that they’re going to blindly follow whatever this wannabe does. But elections are still won and lost on moderate middle class voters with two kids and two dogs and they’re not going to be won over by banning their kids from getting a head start on college.,"It's crazy to me how on the other end of the country and political spectrum, we have school districts getting rid of AP classes in the name of equity:",1
Also a lot of the blocking troops are said to be Kadyrovites - Chechens - who probably don't mind as much shooting Russian deserters as some kid from Moscow might.,Specifically: it seems like Ukraine has the ability to continue defending their territory against a Russian people who probably don't really want to be fighting this war for Putin. But that doesn't mean they have the ability to march on Moscow and take down Russia. Russians would probably be a lot more willing to defend their own country against a theoretical offensive Ukraine.,1
"An extreme nationalist, Mangushev said Russia was not at war with people, but with an idea of Ukraine as an ""anti-Russian state"", and it did not matter how many Ukrainians died.","Another extreme Russian nationalist, Pavel Gubarev, said everyone knew who was behind the shooting and observed that Prigozhin had for the moment gone quiet.",0
"But if we use the real numbers of a 70% effective vaccine, across a 50% vaccinated population, with an average mortality rate between 2 and 3%, then our estimate for potential dead goes higher.","Even with a 99.99% effective vaccine being given to 99.99% of that country, we're still talking about another catastrophic outbreak that will result in tens of millions of deaths.",0
"The dude thinks the invasion was bad, so to remedy that make it so Russians have to ‘starve to death or fight to death to change the government’. Not a reasonable position to hold, nor will it help anyone. You think Russians see people say this and think ‘we’re in the wrong, let’s end it’, or do you think it validates the them vs the west narrative?","Well, there's the , , , , ... but of course none of this was even relatively unknown for anyone following the news, you just consider the russians innocent because you sympathise with them.",1
Here's a sub full of pro Ukranians that often post eastern European news from Balkan nations directly effected or in direct support of Ukraine in this conflict along with nightly announcements from Ukraines DOD and President.,"But the coverage of the Ukranian war (to me) has felt extremely similar to coverage of US Military actions. Generally pushing a narrative that The [US/Ukraine] Military never loses, it's all wins all the time, we're the best, nobody ever dies except the bad guys, nobody ever commits any war crimes, and they're all chivalrous Knights in shining armor fighting ""For Truth and Justice"".",1
"You condemn the West to have profited from imperial wars in the past, but say that India should not be condemned for profiting (if it really is, that is) from an imperial war today.","You criticise Western nations for having engaged in imperial wars in the past, but refuse to hold Russia accountable for its engaging in an imperial war today.",0
"There are millions of voters in the anti-Trump coalition who are default GOP and fucking desperate to get back to voting for gunz n’ low taxes. DeSantis and Rupert Murdoch (et al.) understand this, and there will be untold billions pumped into free-to-consume media portraying Ron D as the Sensible and Acceptable Alternative to Trump.",Which is why we are going to get billions pumped into free-to-consume media portraying him as the Sensible Alternative.,0
A Belarusian attack on Lithuania would mean that Putin would either have to give up on Belarus and pull troops out or risk entering direct conflict between Russian and NATO forces.,The point is that Putin can say anything and his people will listen to it and applaud and the rest of the world will listen too and dissect.,0
"They don't need to decline, having Zelenskiy in China doing nothing beside peace talk will boost China's images in international politics. The thing is, China isn't going to betray the essential policies with Russia the way Zelenskiy thinks he could do.","There's a lot of nonsense in the Chinese policy position (it really isn't a plan), but my favourite is China's call to end sanctions against Russia. Can't have those ""unilateral"" (ie. agreed by dozens of countries but not China) interfering with profitable trade with Russia.",1
"It’s completely obvious to anyone with half a brain that the leadership of most muslim countries ignore religion when convenient to them. One must live in a fantasy world to think that Turkey would have otherwise approved Sweden joining NATO, but unfortunately a Russian paid agent messed everything up.","When Sweden requested to join NATO, Erdogan used this as leverage to get Sweden to officially designate certain Kurdish groups as terrorists, and to extradite 33 people to Turkey. Sweden conceded, until their supreme court stepped in recently to stop the extradition of a journalist who was likely to be persecuted (he was critical of Erdogan's government).",1
"That’s the thing. The MAGA people don’t like leftists, but we basically did what we were supposed to do by voting for Democrats.","What happens next is that the right wing machine will try to convince Trump supporters to switch over to DeSantis. Some of them will switch, but some of them won’t. The primary will be brutal, and the Trump and DeSantis camps will get mad at each other. This will create animosity that will make it harder for supporters to switch camps later.",0
"""States parties must provide safe, legal and effective access to abortion where the life and health of the pregnant woman or girl is at risk, and where carrying a pregnancy to term would cause the pregnant woman or girl substantial pain or suffering, most notably where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or is not viable."".","Ty. Wasn’t it fine before? I mean, why is it better at 16 weeks rather than 10? Anyone would be able to tell they’re pregnant after 2 months, am I missing something?",1
But the goal of the EU is to stick together and stop fighting each other. And you can’t really do that if you’re pissing off your sister countries. They all collectively contribute a bit to the European economy as a whole.,"""They all collectively contribute a bit to the European economy as a whole."" Not really. Bigger countries put in a lot of money and smaller, less well off countries get financial benefit. This is one of the main reasons for Brexit. The UK thought that the trade benefits did not stack up against the 'fees' for want of a better term.",1
This also goes for societies were extreme prison sentences for minor offenses means that you are more likely to go down shooting cops and the public if it is the only chance you have to not be a prisoner forever.,"If you're speaking broadly of capital punishment around the world, you're sort of right but most of the stuff ""attached to don't die"" involves not committing capital crimes. In other words, it deters murder etc.",1
"The actual work to be done is building up the public's power and understanding to force change, irrespective of what the ruling capitalists/kleptocrats or politicians want.",But the system itself never changes unless and until a critical mass of people gain enough power and understanding to force the system to change.,0
I have my fingers crossed for beer and the beach for him in 2024. And I hope the war is over before that.,"We're talking about the future after the war. If Russia killed a retired Zelenskyy during peace time, that would be an act of war. And if Ukraine joined NATO before that happened, Russia would be risking annihilation.",1
"Wait, how could the attorney attempt to lessen the hate crime by giving the client a non-binary identity? Like is that actually a thing?! Being Non-binary isn’t mental illness so why would that lessen the charge?","Being non-binary means nothing to the case though? Like it doesn’t make it that they didn’t KILL PEOPLE? Like it’s not the best defense even, and there’s no reason to appeal cause now all the court needs to do is use they pronouns and also correct anyone who doesn’t so like, that’s it? It’s not a Fucking defense for murder.",1
"Ukraine is getting just enough to slowly push back against the Russians while we in the west can deliver weapons that would win the war in a month today. It's sickening but that's politics, trying to boil Russia like the proverbial frog.","Depleting Russia might be part of the reason but a bigger one probably are internal politics of various NATO countries. Militarized Ukraine is no threat to EU, where did you get that idea? After the war or after they kick the Russians out they will need substantial forces and high-tech weapons to prevent any further conflicts and loss of life.",0
"Ukrainian torture of russian victims _does_ happen, but it's neither systematic nor state-sanctioned and thus much, much more rare. Meaning the perpetrators are acting on their own and will very likely be put in front of a court later on if found out.","Stop both siding this, there's a world of difference between the two. And, again, nuance is important. I highly recommend having a look at the articles about this topic and not just the headlines, they are awfully reductive and often misleading.",0
Yeah Russia’s economy would be fucked for a generation but he might hold onto power until his death.,I think he may be preparing his military and population to nuke Ukraine either after the next real attack on Russian soil or a false flag attack.,0
"But F-16 will improve Ukrainian airforce alot, and their airforce still fly missions to this day, this is crazy to me.",Also they can be used to shoot down drones or cruise missiles and launch stand off attacks within Ukrainian airspace.,0
"Again, if you insist on forcing people to invest their money in their own retirement, you could at least agree that government could let you invest (your own money) in an IRA, real estate, or some other legitimate investment. As shown in my op, this would generate an average of something like 23x the amount generated now for retirement. Tax all IRA capital gains at an extra 2% and now you have a system in which the people who did save their 12.4% retire as multi-millionaires and the ones who chose not to still get to retire on the current amount of benefits. All this while not increasing the amount paid in to the system through SS. It's not a fixed pie- in our current system, you pay in $225,000 to get out $175,000. In this system, you would get out $4,000,000. This is money that was created by letting people invest in products and services. As it is now, all this potential created money is wasted on a program that you yourself don't believe you can retire on.","If you can’t clear 2-3% net of fees having money invested for 30+ years, you’re doing something very wrong with such a long time horizon to work with. And that 2-3% studies have shown being the rate of return on your money in S.S. is generous… it’s much more likely to be lower for anyone 45 of under.",1
Basic allergy meds are over the counter. Thousands of common and safe drugs are available over the counter. The oddball drugs and less safe ones should require a prescription and visit with a medical professional. In some cases telehealth might be proficient.,"I guess the benefit of telehealth is that you can use them too? I’ve heard that Ritalin has a generic version for example. Elvanse/Vyvanse is more expensive and less stimulating, so maybe it’s not as popular yet.",1
"I 110% agree with you, but there is a difference between official textbooks with the facts transformed to fit what the “cultural system” expects from their general population and what truly happened.","Unfortunately yes, basically take the approach being done by Putin at schools, where they are teaching them history and values according to their ideology.",0
"So, your two points are really irrelevant, because the status quo was always an independent Taiwan unwilling to be ruled by the PRC. This election cycle didn't prove otherwise, and DPP is not altering the status quo.",Ironically it's a view among some dpp supporters that those that won't vote dpp shouldn't be allowed to vote less the outcome threatens democracy. There's a strong undertone of if people aren't grateful for them standing up to the Pooh bear they don't deserve living in Taiwan.,1
"For example, the US should encourage China to station nukes in North Korea in exchange for no NK nuclear program. Same with South Korea. They get to have US nukes but controlled by QUAD.",The only way to disarm a specific country is to have nukes be controlled by multinational military alliances like NATO. Let Iran have nukes in their country but their control is maintained by a separate military command structure made up of them and their allies. That would mean that any use of nuclear weapons offensively would condemn all countries in the alliance and therefore would put pressure on the countries to not use nukes or to escalate conflicts they shouldn’t be involved in.,0
"Like a person who was shot and bleeding out slowly getting stabbed in an artery and bleeding out faster. They were going to bleed out regardless, but the stabbing is the cause of death.","Essentially, if someone commits a tort, like assault (say, aggressively yelling at someone and putting them in fear of their safety), and the person being assaulted has a fragile constitution (say, a nervous disorder resulting in a weak heart) and that tort causes the victim harm due to their fragile/special condition (say, a heart attack), the assaulting party would be liable for damages stemming from their tort which resulting said condition.",0
I think you have your cause and effect reversed. It was the countries in Europe that colonized and exploited Africa. Russian and Chinese involvement in Africa (and the Global South in general) was a response to Western exploitation and colonization.,Russia and China are new to the game with regards to Imperialism in Africa. European nations are a full very much making bank on their exploits.,1
"The only peaceful solution is for Russia to withdraw entirely from Ukraine, including Crimea. Putin can do that, unilaterally, anytime he wants and Ukraine will stop fighting.","The quicker Ukraine kicks Russia's ass out of all of Ukraine, including Crimea, the sooner this war can come to an end. To do that, Ukraine requires overwhelming force.",0
They've also ramped up disinformation. 2022 was the worst year in modern Swedish history in terms of misinformation being circulated that originated from russia and the ilk.,It's mental that the far right in Sweden regurgitating Russian propaganda is blaming the fact that they do so on the American left.,1
"Think of it like a manufacturing accident. ""Crushed"" implies immediate, grievous injury most likely resulting in death. ""Caught and ground down"" implies a low, possibly non-lethal outcome. If Russia was being crushed, this war would be over. But Russia is instead throwing their military at entrenched and highly experience Ukrainian forces, grinding down their military capabilities.","So, instead of helping Ukraine win, and stopping Russia alltogether, and making sure that there will never be a ""future"" fight with Russia, US is holding back, while readying to ""fight"" with Russia.",1
"I think people are a little too excited about this. Biden is deeply unpopular, Dems have a lot of seats up in 2024, etc. Luckily they held the Senate this year, but things are looking real ugly next election.","The guy attacked the Capitol because he lost an election. The guy wilfully killed Americans with a purposefully apathetic Covid response because it was calculated to improve his election chances. The guy extorted an ally for personal gain who just so happens to now be embroiled in an existential battle for the food, energy, and safety security of western Europe and the whole planet, to a lesser degree.",1
"I remember someone saying that true revolutions in science can only happen every 30 or 40 years, which is the time for every figure of authority gatekeeping a given area to either die or retire and open space for new blood.","And frankly that hardly matters, eventually correct theories will either float to the top or a new theory will become popular and 'correct' and then decades later science historians will find old papers with the same type of thoughts. Sure it sucks if you are trying to chase fame and fortune in the here and now, but in the end the important names doing the discoveries will be remembered and the ones trying to hold science back for their pet theories will be discredited.",1
Bulgarian living in California here. We’ve been in the Bay Area since 2002. Both of my parents are exactly as you described.,"My father always talks about how democracy ruined the country, how it was better before, etc. Yet here they are reaping the benefits of democracy.",0
"Minnesota was indeed the first state to pass a bill through the state legislature to protect reproductive choice after Dobbs. (, in the next few months.).","Yeah. I live in KS. Unfortunately, all we did was vote ""no"" to prevent the possibility of an easy abortion ban. Technically nothing has changed here. Certainly women's health has not gained any protection.",1
"while reading posts about the last two earthquakes, i learned that there is one main earthquake, which is the strongest, and all lower before are preshocks, and thos9e after are aftershocks. they are counting quakes over a timespan of two years within that calculation.",">About one in every 20 large-magnitude earthquakes will have a similar-sized aftershock near it within the first week. That was the case in Turkey, with the M7.8 mainshock being followed by a M7.5 aftershock about 60 miles away just nine hours later. Aftershocks don’t always occur on the same fault as the mainshock, they only need to be close to its epicenter and occur after to be considered an aftershock. It’s worth noting that the M7.5 aftershock did not lower the chance that another large earthquake could still occur. Although the likelihood of future large aftershocks decreases over time, there always remains a small chance one will happen even months later.",1
"Yeah, and that's fine, but perhaps keep your opinion that nobody asked for to yourself when we're in a thread about Russian soldiers kidnapping Ukrainian children from hospitals and commiting genocide.",And it's not just children but they deport anyone they can deep into Russia as far from Ukraine as they can with the aim to replace the people that left Russia and the Russian soldiers who died in the war.,1
"In an ironic way. Does no one see the racist symbolism with Walker being propped up as a (black) puppet for the Republican Party? Which party is virulently racist, again? I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest of Walker is considered their (black) “boy” behind doors and behind his back. They don’t want their “boy” to be a well-spoken Harvard scholar like Obama.","There aren’t two sides when one side is morally decrepit and seeks to deprive the other side of their human dignity. In this case, it’s one side of the argument and a pile of shit that needs to be shoveled away.",0
"Even if these nations are all gone, I'm sure other adversaries will emerge. I can't imagine a world where the top superpower doesn't have any enemies.","Considering that the top superpower has a knack of being rather dangerous to any peace which doesn't feed her superrich.. yeah, plenty of adversaries will emerge.",1
"I agree, Russia drafting some random non-Russian citizen sounds absurd, and would be highly illegal. It would be closer to abduction at that point. Probably not happening.","2. Let's say the absurd happened, and you were taken to Russian boot camp. What would you do about it? What authority would you seek remedy from, and what would you expect them to do?",0
"I struggle, knowing just HOW MANY Germans fell for the Nazi ideology and participated in the holocaust, to be so bold as to say I would have done any differently if I was under that regime.",It’s good to remember there were people (even in small groups) in Germany who were very vocal about dangers of the Nazis and crimes they were committing. They were also killed. People were warned or told and often attacked those trying to stop the Nazis. You kinda don’t know what side people take until it happens and how they react to opposing voices or violence taking place against minorities and opposition groups.,1
There is no difference between a 1% receiver vs an 80% receiver. They are defined exactly the same way - both partial receivers. The amount of cuts doesn't matter.,"> At the same time, nothing in the proposed rule restricted persons who are not otherwise prohibited from possessing firearms from making their own firearms without markings solely for personal use, nor did the proposed rule require individuals to mark PMFs when they occasionally acquire them for a personal collection, or sell or transfer them from a personal collection to unlicensed in-State residents in accordance with Federal, State, and local law. Further, the NPRM would not require FFLs to accept any PMFs, or to mark PMFs themselves, or to provide services to place identification marks on PMFs. Licensees would be able to arrange for individuals who wish to transfer PMFs to licensees to have them marked by another licensee before accepting them, provided they are properly marked in accordance with the proposed rule.",0
It's now one of THEM nonbinary people... toting semiautomatic guns despite having previous arrests and sketchy histories.,Weaponized? How about a maniac who had no business carrying a semiautomatic rifle using it to senselessly murder 5 people.,0
"The Constitution defines the membership and gives the House the power to make its own rules. The question is whether members-elect who have not yet been sworn in can change those rules, and why they would even if they can.","The only thing you one can possibly quibble about is the administration of the oath. They haven't done that because under a tradition encoded into law (2 USC 25) the newly elected speaker administers the oath. However the constitution is really vague on the oath and its text has changed many times prior to the enacting of 2 USC 25. Futhermore prior to 1929, Representatives took their oaths back home before coming to Washinon.",1
"Second, the rails were willing to consider including paid sick days, so long as the 24% raises over the next 5 years we’re negotiated downwards in a give-and-take. I am not expressing an opinion, merely putting the context forward. It seems eight of the twelve unions accepted that outcome.","12 out of 12 Union leaders agreed to this deal, recommended it to their Union members, and 8 voted it down.",1
"Abduct Ukrainian children while sending drug addict prisoners, poor and ethnic region population to death in Ukraine.",Russians did what Ukranians should of done and evacuated orphans from the war zones and not use children as human shields. As for the claim by the Ukrainian doctor it's pretty typical for Ukrainian propaganda.,1
If the US was largely devastated by a nuclear war the USD will drop to almost nothing overnight because its becomes functionally impossible for the US government to honor its debts or export anything.,"If someone were crazy enough in Russia and felt that was a better alternative for themselves and didn't care about anyone else, who knows.",0
"I'm sorry, but if you really think the Democrats are pro labor you have no idea. Republicans are definitely anti-labor, the Democrats are also anti-labor. They're just a lot better at hiding it.",I shame Republicans everyday for being anti-labor. I'm gonna shame democrats for being anti-labor too when this was a stupid move.,0
"In any army, a ton of manpower is spent on non-combat roles: truck drivers, military police, construction, guarding supply lines, and also patrolling and protecting the country’s borders. With a peacetime army, I’d be wasting trained soldiers escorting supply convoys, protecting rear areas, and just loading and unloading shit on and off trains and trucks. If I had a ton of new conscripts, I’d put my conscripts in these roles and move the trained soldiers to the front lines. I’d also use conscripts to guard non-conflict borders and move the combat troops from there to the front lines.","It's not as simple as shifting the best soldiers to the frontline and replacing them with untrained conscripts. The conscripts might decide it's better to fight for their own freedom instead of some vague objective in Ukraine, particularly if all the ""real"" troops are busy at the frontline.",1
"Maybe police agencies should be not federalized but under one agency. No more sherriffs no more local police. Just state police. 50 states, 50 police agencies. Keep it simple.","Actual combat soldiers have much more discipline and a very narrow set of ROE. We are not allowed to go around and detain civilians and beat them up if the answers they gave us weren’t satisfactory. You would WANT a former combat soldier to be a police officer, but there’s always one or two assholes.",0
"Like country A could have 5% of the population rate their happiness as 1/10 and kill themselves while like 90% of the population rate their happiness 8-10/10. That country is going to be higher on the list compared to country B where 90% of people rate their happiness as 3-4/10, (where people still don't kill themselves as much). Or is it? I'm not going to calculate that, but you get the point.","the article does mention the US: ""This year, six countries outside of Europe – Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, South Korea and the United States"".",0
"Ah, this shit again. I'm a 53 year old Swiss man and I have never seen or heard of people eating cats or dogs, beyond tales of poor mountain farmers resorting to eating things like pets, shoe leather and so on when trapped in the high alps or facing starvation from crop failures. Think Donner party type scenarios.","I guess Newsweek reporters will believe the stories of fringe animal rights groups told to a BBC reporter, without any independent verification of that information. In this case a German woman who sees Swiss pet eaters hiding everywhere, but only can produce whispers and anonymous personal communications as evidence. I recall Newsweek was once a reputable publication.",0
"Also, what you’re saying will require the utter defeat of Russia and basically the capture of Moscow, which is not very likely to happen in todays world given the fact Russia has nuclear weapons. No one will agree to invade Russia knowing they have the bomb.",I also wouldn’t accuse “Russians” as in the people of Russia of being terrorists. That title I feel should be placed on Putin and the oligarchs for starting this war and many others.,1
It’s not discrimination any more than me being 6’6” and flying means I need to make sure I fit in the seat and can get in and out and allow others to get by me.,"If I cannot climb over someone who is too obese to move to use the bathroom or they are in a seat that makes it unable for them or me to adequately move during a long flight, then yes, it’s a health and safety issue.",0
"Like if a Ukraine missile fired at a Russian missile detonates near the Russian missile, what's the probability that the Russian missile is damaged in a manner that does not destroy it, but damages it in a way that it no longer is capable of hitting its target because the flight/guidance controls are in fault and not functioning properly.",I'm not saying this is what happened. But it's certainly possible. At least I think it's equally as possible as a Ukrainian S300 being errant in an odd direction to the general trajectory of these missiles being fired.,0
"And sure, someone might be trotting out , but before you do just remember: The grand total of transwomen in that study is 46. Not 222 - that's just the number of people who asked to transition. 46 transwomen were the only participants they had enough data on to use for the study.",Comparing 46 transwomen against a database of 567k ciswomen's performances is... inevitably going to create numbers that don't align. That's just how numbers work.,0
I am convinced that change is going to have to happen at a genetic level before people will ever be able to sort themselves out on any sort of large scale.,"""We could be sending people on rockets to other planets, but instead we overwhelmingly choose to send rockets into people on this planet."".",0
Russia literally cannot afford to have any other nation get involved in this conflict. It is a guaranteed defeat if that happens. They have no choice but to remain the only aggressor nation.,"Suddenly, Russia is facing coordinated and massive airstrikes, multiple fronts to defend, and their paltry excuses for 'allies' will not be nearly enough to compensate (especially because it's damn clear that China, despite me listing them in the group above, will NOT get involved).",0
"In that case, Bolsonaro's party would still have to refile their complain with the alleged evidence of fraud, because on its current form it has to be thrown out because it seeks only to challenge the second round of the election.",An update to this: Brazil's supreme electoral court replied that the complaint needs to be edited or it will be discarded without the merit being examined since it's not legally possible to challenge only the second round of the election without voiding it entirely.,0
"The Republican party is basically bought by Putin and we all know that once they take the House and/or Senate the funding for Ukraine, and the weapons will stop and instead they will try to impeach Biden for it.","The Kremlin literally spent hundreds of Millions of US dollars funneled through the NRA directly to sitting GOP senators and house members. They literally flipped 180-degrees overnight after getting the Millions of dollars, in some cases on camera days later saying the exact opposite thing they had adamantly maintained prior to getting a talk with their benefactors. Then as soon as they heard what was required for their new funding, they start word-for-word repeating Russian propoganda talking points, quoting RT, and voting for everything Putin wants and against anything that would limit his reach in the world.",1
"Which is when you have to question the intent. If it's actually meant to intimidate Israelis it's failing miserably, they are seen as a laughing stock.","Like a decade ago Hezbollah made a video threatening Israel of ""פיעוגי ההתבאדות"" which should have been ""suicide bombers"" but due to multiple spelling errors and bad grammar turned out more like ""bewarb of succulant bonders"" (I'm trying to translate the spelling errors in the spirit of the original).",0
You don’t have to be an expert in Christianity to know nationalism under a Christian umbrella is not fuckin heresy lol…and when you throw words around like that only idiots will take you serious.,Apparently these Crazies and Fundamentalists are not different enough for Real Christians^^TM to bother taking a stand against folks doing Evil in your name.,1
At my old house I started flying a rainbow American flag on my flagpole. I was sick of seeing all the neighbors and family flying thin blue line flags or American flags corrupted with slogans or Trumps face. I even had my brother say something to me about the flag and my only response was it is better than his tastless American Flag with “Fuck Biden” printed on it.,Read about the flag code in the U.S. So many people are so stupid and oblivious to this. It's a joke how the American flag is used these days.,0
Yeah this tells me you don't understand geopolitics if most countries don't care about india why is there a g20 in India why are redditors then complaining about india russia.,"Do you think Ukraine gives a flying fuck about all the warring issues in the subcontinent between Pakistan, India or China etc? Why would India have to give a shit about what's going on in Europe. As soon as the conflict started, Indian students in Ukraine were being attacked and abused whilst trying to get to safety. And yet apparently India needs to take Ukraine's position on this situation instead of her historical ally. For some reason.",1
"So your source is...a guy. That is stupid enough to get caught, and worse to only come back with cash.","Yes, cut off the drug money, most of the money goes the cartel. If violence erupts from that, then it's the Mexican goverment's responsibility to deal with that. And, violence already happens on a daily basis in Mexico from narco infighting anyway.",1
Specifically: it seems like Ukraine has the ability to continue defending their territory against a Russian people who probably don't really want to be fighting this war for Putin. But that doesn't mean they have the ability to march on Moscow and take down Russia. Russians would probably be a lot more willing to defend their own country against a theoretical offensive Ukraine.,"Looking at how the war is going, and the way the geography affects strategy, they will probably retake Crimea before they retake all of the seized eastern oblasts.",1
"You know, seeing how Russia is once again terrorizes Ukraine with missiles, and bombing our cities, i feel that i need to reporst this once again because they launched another missile attack on our cities.","Again, not inciting violence in the middle of a genocidal attack by Russia, just want Ukraine to be able to defend itself.",1
"""It also doesn't account for the house being sold under market value ... if fraudsters are looking to make a quick buck,"" said Derrick. ""You get what it's sold for, not what it's worth."".",Now I'm so confused by the story and the law. Why would a home owner need title insurance for an existing home. Normally its a one time title insurance cost at house closing.,0
Perhaps the East and the West just settle on figuratively splitting Russia right down the middle once the dust settles.,"Not sure if the West will be taking parts of Russia. Probably will be a civil war over control of he Kremlin. While that happens, China will ‘protect’ and claim a very large portion that has closer cultural heritage to Mongolia than Moscow. Will come with natural gas resources, farmland and cooler climate as global temperatures rise.",1
"I guess my thing is, the descendants of slaves are still dealing with the effects centuries later. If I knew my family had owned slaves, I can't afford to give actual money, but I would like to say I'm sorry.","If the slavery was far in the past and wasn't directly used to catapult the family into wealth, then no.",1
"unified currency in a territory that is far from an ideal currency zone can lead to enormous adjustment challenges that, among other things, typically aggravate income inequality.","Again, not an expert but sounds like they’re introducing more complexity into the system and I’m not convinced that just those two countries have enough demand to justify all the work required to maintain a currency effectively.",1
"Now he’s left with massive costs, a lot of dead mercenaries, no real successes to show and he has just recently publicly criticized Russian army.","Now instead of running a shock troop of assholes he now has nothing tangible left that is of any worth to Putin, and he will likely watch Wagner get butchered as the army tries to capitalize on the failures.",1
"Simple question for anyone who opposes a single payer healthcare system: which do you think is a nobler motivation, public health or profit? Capitalism tells us that seeking profit inspires growth and innovation. In this case, the growth and innovation came from Mayo, a university, and it was denied by a profit driven insurance company. If healthcare is paid by the state, the motivation is public health because not caring for people’s health ends up costing the state as they age.","Unless you abolish Medicare, the government already plays a huge role in the healthcare of those who use most of it anyway. If everyone was on public insurance it would be even harder for Republicans along with corporate Democrats to weaken it. As it stands now they have been doing that to Medicare for decades, further privatizing it. Eventually you'll get your wish and no one will have publicly administered insurance. But that's not going to be an improvement. It will just mean worse prices for Americans.",1
Maybe because underpayment and companies abusing their rights as employers have forced employees who need to work to live (a lot paycheck to paycheck) to fight back?,">Employers were able to defeat unions so effectively because, over the years, labor law had become heavily tilted against workers and toward employers.",1
"Same party that rallies around ""law and order, family and 'Christian' values, 'pro-life,' and 'government is the problem'."".",Yup. And at the time (2010-2017) Dr. Christine Grady (Dr. Fauci’s wife) was Commissioner on the President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. And Dr. Fauci was well into his research on the subject.,1
"I think it extends to a lot of high level politicians. As overblown as the Clinton Email scandal was, there was an element of truth to the claim that it was mishandled classified information that should have been more properly handled. Obviously this should never be equated to the willful hiding and possible sale of classified information, but eventually if high level politicians keep mishandling info, something important will leak.","Maybe, but the entire history of conviction for mishandling sensitive information is basically only people who found out they had sensitive info when/where they shouldn’t have and trying to cover it up. That’s not excusing Biden having these documents, but it is a very real distinction between the two situations.",1
"Again, Islam, just like any religion, has some pretty unsavoury passages, and the way of life it teaches is obviously incompatible with modern world.","Not to insult you, but your radical outlook mirrors the worst implementations of religion, a blind conviction and hate.",0
"If the democrats wanted their votes, they’d start fighting for them instead of pretending they are the problem.","That’s the problem the democrats want to ignore that though. They keep saying the younger generation is “sulking and moping” but that’s because we’ve realized that the democrats are a guaranteed death sentence for us just as much as the republicans, only difference is the republicans want to do it a whole lot faster. Democrats are lock step with capitalism just like the republicans, and just because they don’t plan to use it to destroy democracy, they are going to let to erode democracy until it’s gone.",0
"I'm starting to think that Trump actually kept a promise for once in his life - by draining the swamp. He fucked up the GOP so badly they may never recover, and he exposed all the shitheads who existed so we all know how shitty they are. He made it okay to be a hateful prick in public, and now we know who all the hateful pricks are.","Even if you hate everything he’s done, he did it. He said what he was gonna do in office and he’s done it all while winning a proxy war without US troops being in danger. I have no idea why republicans they call him ‘sleepy’.",1
"That’s kinda been their MO when it comes to war fighting. They throw a huge percentage of their male population at the war, lose a major portion of that percentage, and then are more or less screwed for 40-50 years as their workforce has to be birthed and live long enough to become “usable”.",Except 100s of thousands of men of reproductive age dead and million emigrating is going to accelerate that. The crises was 25 years off. It’s going to be sooner because of this war.,1
"Your last sentence and first leave out some important context and may give the wrong impression imo, even though what you're saying is all correct. The reason the Soviet Invasion was the last straw was because a negotiated surrender to the West backed by the Soviets was Japan's last hope to avoid unconditional surrender. It wasn't that they were afraid of the Soviets or that this was what tipped the scales on the battlefield, it was as much a diplomatic blow as anything else.",But in reality the Russians weren't in a strong position to invade Japan after getting the Germans out of Russia. And the impact of those bombs was truly enormous psychologically.,1
4. Peacekeepers along the northern border to completely neutralise the threat to Kyiv and allow Ukrainian forces there to reposition.,3. No-fly zone over some or all of Ukraine - would be completely understandable now that we know missiles could hit Poland.,0
"You could ask any LGBT person, from any Latin American country, where homosexual marriage is entirely legal, how accepted they feel by their society.","Furthermore, pools conducted in the most progressive cities of said countries show that, even if the majority of people are OK with same-sex marriage, they're still against same-sex couples adopting or even raising children.",0
"California's handgun roster also has law enforcement exemptions, and cops have been caught using that exemption to funnel weapons into criminal hands for personal gain:","California's handgun roster also has law enforcement exemptions, and cops have been caught using that exemption to funnel weapons into criminal hands for personal gain:",0
"Physicists have since the 1950s sought to harness the fusion reaction that powers the sun, but no group had been able to produce more energy from the reaction than it consumes – a milestone known as net energy gain or target gain.",Converting heat from fusion to electricity (which is not done at the moment) would have an efficiency of maybe 30% or so.,1
"Person 2: No ACA must stay, it’s the ONLY way, and besides Bernie isn’t even a democrat, why should we listen to him???","What, what? She's never run against Bill Clinton since she was married to him, and she against Obama unless you count votes for contests that neither candidate was allowed to campaign in because of DNC rules. Obama's name wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan in 2008. Regardless, she never went up against any of the three in a general election.",1
They all skipping that part and only reading the Abortion at 33wks and looking at it from the perspective of US and EU law.,"""Justice Singh further noted that in Indian law, it is ultimately a mother's choice whether or not she wants to continue with her pregnancy."".",0
"I agree, though I don't agree on their agenda, the demonstration was perfectly legal and burning any other flag than the Finnish one is not against the law so I don't really see a problem here.",Which is kind of sad really. So much wasted potential. I think it has to be changed at some point in the future. The burden on that flag has really become too great.,0
"I wonder whether this is an attempt to play off the west as hostile towards Russia, and a reason for China to get involved.",Maybe it’s a coincidence that the stories of China potentially supplying military aid to Russia and this story are circulating at the same time.,0
"NY Courts: ""Michael Cohen worked at the direction of an unindicted co-conspirator who coincidentally just happened to become the 45th president of the United States. He will continue to go officially unnamed, and we are not pursuing criminal charges at this time."".",Right. All along. You're not letting the process work as it is supposed to. You're trying to call the game over while it is still just getting going.,1
"When it comes to Haiti, it's not that the world hasn't tried, it's just that it's such a messed up Gordian Knot of interconnected problems that even the best development planners in the world working together with enormous budgets haven't been able to figure it out.","It's a deadly cycle. Aid erodes sovereignty, which erodes legitimacy, which creates instability, which makes aid even more necessary, and more of a treasure to fight for control over. So far, every plan to try to break that cycle has failed. Maybe the next one won't, but it won't be for lack of trying.",0
No one is aiding Russians attempting to oppose the war at home. They're on their own against a much more powerful and well equipped force in the Russian military/oligarchy and Russian government.,Resistors in Russia (despite how noble their cause) have no chance at successfully toppling the Russian government and the oligarchy.,0
"On one hand, yeah maybe not cool to give a loaded grenade launcher... On the other hand, the highest ranked police officer should not need any courses on gun and weapon safety...","And no, while most police officers will have handgun training (unless they work in the office, or places like UK), majority will not have anything beyond that, because they do not need it or want it. The situations where officers with such training are deployed are certainly not for everyone.",1
"Yeah, then Ukraine blew up a bunch of warehouses, and Russia shot a truly insane amount of artillery trying to force a win through Sievierodonetsk.","There’s also no shortage of claims of Russian artillery barrages being much less frequent and intense than they used to be. If Russian commanders expect 1000 shells in a certain time frame and they’re only capable of firing 200, that’s a pretty critical shortage even if 200 is a lot more than 0.",1
"They won't move somewhere where they can't be open year round because of snow or ice, so that eliminates quite a few more states that have a ton of land available.","Well, I figure that Florida is just going to eventually be covered completely by water, and Dusney will be a moot point then. LOL.",0
Also what good is rearming Ukraine if we are just going to demand they surrender again next time Russia decides their border should be a few hundred miles west?,"In that case, ukraine could offer the following things in exchange for a peace deal with Russia (note, it is of course ukraines decision what to offer, could and should are not the same word):",1
A dead language is just one that no longer has a community speaking it natively. Under that linguistic definition Sanskrit and Latin are both dead languages despite having works written in them and people able to speak them.,"There are different definition of the term ""dead language"". However notice that a language in the definition you describe is not dead. A language that is still used for communication doesn't have to be dead if it has no native speakers.",1
A single 15A 120V circuit is enough to fill any PHEV battery in 10hr (overnight) charge. Even an old non-upgraded 100A service can handle that. No one I know with a PHEV needed to do electrical upgrades.,There's a lot of time for infrastructure upgrades between now and 2040 or whenever they switch to EVs.,1
"The cartels also have lots of experience in their operations, and have diversified the methods they use to get illegal pharmaceuticals to the drug-hungry US.","There is probably a reason, maybe even along the lines as to why the US is not capable to control a bunch of lowlife junkies within their more-than-decently developed borders keeping the demand for drugs going strong.",1
You could make the argument that Congress was just helping Trump fulfill one of his campaign promises.,"Vulnerable to what, exactly? Look at my taxes. I'm fucking broke but I file them every year in accordance with the law because that's what good citizens do. In this instance, the ""vulnerable"" are rich assholes who don't think answering to and being accountable to the public are part of public service. Every judge, every congressperson, every President who can't accept public scrutiny of their business practices should be impeached. Full stop.",0
"It's easy to have the ""highest turnout in 30 years"" for an age group when that youth age group always has abysmal numbers. They're still the lowest turnout group and the lowest voter share this election, proving once again the vast majority of young people don't vote.","Voter turnout for young voters has increased by a lot, but the vote share is still lower than it could be if they were voting at the same rate as older voters. But the fact that voting rates are continuing to increase among youth is phenomenal.",1
"The Chief Justice could also charge a committee of federal Appellate Court judges to enforce ethics for the Supreme Court. He could give them both the power to publish a code of Supreme Court ethics, to judge the compliance of the Justices, and to impose fines for offenses. The Catholic Church does something like this with bishops, cardinals, and the Pope. In most cases power flows from the Pope, to the Cardinals, and them down to the Bishops, but in a few cases the power to rule the Cardinals is in the hands of the Bishops, I think.","This principle does not work all that well within the Catholic Church, but it could be made to work. If it is organized by the Chief Justice, the Chief Justice could change it if his own ethics was called into question. A constitutional amendment would be a better way to handle this.",0
"To the extent that the policies were ""successful"" in empowering the Libyans themselves, this is good. To the extent that it did not miraculously bring about some kind of Utopia perhaps not so good. Then again, expecting a 40 year autocratic regime that attacked their neighbors, sponsored terrorism and repressed their own people to transition non-violently is and was probably not going to happen. They are no longer under a country wide sanction by the US so that is the point - US foreign policy adjusts to the situation.","Cuban people starving is the result of Cuban domestic policy choices. Their government takes full credit when things go well and takes the blame when it doesn't. I get the sentiment that the US should ""help"" but I don't get the sentiment that it is primarily the US's obligation to do so. (not withstanding the fact that the US appears to be intent in providing humanitarian aid to Cuba after the recent hurricane AND has done so in the past).",0
"There are some truely upstanding cops out there, but even the most pure of heart has to choose some level of complicity, or rejection and abuse from their peers.",There is only so much a good cop can do on their own if they're going to continue to be disadvantaged/ostracized for reporting misconduct.,1
"That said, poverty is the biggest killer in Indonesia. Fix that, and solutions to secondary problems will evolve, just like the electrostatic precipitators that had to be installed to reduce fly ash pollution at that plant in Alberta….","Having been in Beijing in heating season, I understand. Everything smelled like coal, and the haze was just disgusting. I grew up next to 2 GW of coal fired electricity generation in Alberta, and NEVER smelled anything like this.",0
"Always surprises me how the people who back cops don't understand that they're not supposed to use their guns unless their life is in danger. Instead of pull gun, shoot, ask questions later.","But if you are in a situation where you must use your firearm, you’re shooting to kill. You’re not trying to like “wing” somebody or shoot them in the leg or whatever. Once the decision has been made to use a firearm you’re choosing death as an option.",1
"Turkey at the time was a lot weaker than Russia, its dictator comes to US his foreign thugs best the crap out of several US citizens in US soil. On video.",So I can see why someone would chose this particular case as the weakest time of the US. Yours was to and you are probably right.,0
"The thing is - before the mobilization occurred a lot of Russians thought of war as a place where they'll go, fight a little bit and get awards.","This isn't any major rebellion, but at the very least it shows that Russians are getting aware of what is really happening.",0
Because the entire buisness is built on lies. There's nothing wrong with having a tech demo and staging parts of it because the software isn't finished yet. There is something wrong with staging a tech demo when the people writing that shit don't actually know how to implement the stuff you're promising.,"Software companies usually stage demos, they get the funding/grant/investors they need and then proceed to pocket half of it while delivering a broken product anyway.",1
In Orban's case though it is to get all the votes that he can from them and by sheer accident any vote against him will be lost along the way to Hungary:,"What you say is true, but ignores the reality that Orbán's party effectively rules the country and what he wills, happens. If he decides on a law, it will get instituted within a day thanks to the emergency powers from COVID extended into emergency war powers. If he tells those in EU parliament to veto, his party's representatives are in a majority.",1
I live in front of a major power station and witnessed more than 10 rocket strikes on that power station and a herd of Iranian drones. Luckily for the power station Russian cruise missiles and ballistic missiles are shit. They hit in radius of 1.5 km. Because of these terrorist strikes innocent people die. And no I'm not talking about intercepted missiles. Russian missiles are really this terrible.,"On the other hand, the Russian Navy has always been several steps below awful. That's neither new nor surprising. ""Russian Navy continues to be terrible"" is a nonevent as far as naval analysts are concerned, because it is exactly in keeping with all of their past performance for decades.",1
I would like a younger president with more modern views who hasn’t been corrupted by decades in politics.,I get sick of their “it’s so-so’s turn now” that they seem to play. But the democrats have had 4 years and the best they can do is biden.,0
"I never said it was easy, only that it was possible for minors to get gender-affirming surgery. The surgery I was thinking of was removing breast tissue.","Aside from removing breast tissue, what other surgeries are done before 19? Also, it’s not “easy” to get these surgeries done. You need to guve letters from several doctors that can attest you’re trans and you’ve been living as your desired gender for a year.",1
"Something tells me Americans feel like the United States owes something to Cuba (spoiler alert: they do not). Cuban dictators and the people that have stayed and followed them made their own bed. The US is not going to be gracious partners with Cuba until they fix their own problems, and install a real democracy.","Cuba doesn't need a ""real democracy"" it needs re-integration into the world much like China and Russia got.",1
"All of this is speculation of course, but I think being Ukrainian and reading/listening to what Putin and Russian nationalists have publicly said, both now and throughout history, gives some insight. This struggle for independence and preservation of Ukrainian identity/culture has been going on for centuries now.","Kyiv is this ideological gem to him, the heart of the historical nation that East Slavs all associate as their ancestral nation and where Eastern Orthodox is born. It is ""reuniting"" a kingdom, with Belarus being the third component (part of why Lukashenka plays this balancing act to both enrich himself and ensure that Putin doesn't have enough power and influence to annex the nation). If he is concerned about his mortality and the legacy he will leave in history, being the one to ""reunite"" Ukraine with Russia would - from a Russian nationalistic perspective - put him up their with the greats.",0
And then Russia (USSR successor's) invade Ukraine with savage methods and rhetoric or racial superiority (calling Ukrainians pigs)....,"You’re mistaken it’s because of Ukraine wanting to join NATO that started military training episodes, that then had to rid the nazis, to be able to find labs where the US was creating chemical weapons.",1
"I imagine the Iraq Iran war, and the invasion of Kuwait, would have turned out much differently if Iraq had become a nuclear power.","It is funny how most of the world was pro-Iraq (including both the US and the USSR) in this war, with Israel being among the few who did something beneficial to Iran instead.",1
That's as much decorum that I can muster up. Voting for this person is one of the most idiotic things imaginable and is an affront to every decent person in the US.,"I have had fantasies of a ""Thanos snap"" to make some corrections, but the problem is the people who elected her would likely pick another person as bad as she is.",1
"He's led some of the worst political losses in American political history for a party. I'm not sure that GOP can recover at this point with or without him to be honest, he has completely hollowed out or was left of that organization.","I would be amazed if they ever won a popular election again on the up and up, without some significant sea change happening.",0
"If you ignore Trump for a second, this is blatent corruption by Barr and Durham whom are both government officials.","But the media, including left wing media, allowed him to go redemption tour to re write his history making appearances on every media outlet after he resigned.",0
"...as he acts in such an unstable manner-not the invasion either, I'm talking about his fucked up rants and actually being the only idiot on earth besides Kim who directly threatens nukes.","Seeing a paper written from his doctor would be the ""hard evidence"" but at this point it wouldn't even add to what we know in the public.",0
"Congratulations to the people of South Dakota, who overcame the cruel indifference of Republican troglodytes like just re-elected Governor Kristi Noem, who showed more interest in adding Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore than helping South Dakotans access affordable health care.",Hopefully there is a smooth path to immediate enrollment; you’ll likely recall the unconscionable refusal of Missouri Republicans several years ago to appropriate the necessary funds to cover Medicaid expansion costs after voter approval of Medicaid expansion.,0
This is one thing I hate about the post WWII world. Bullshit names for shit thats obviously the same thing.,"Just fucking idiots lol. Like, it's all just stupid frat clowns bro jokes. Yet they think they're smart and funny. That's the really astonishing part about all of this.",1
But these wind turbines here are pretty old and bad. Mining the coal is the problem but tbh Germany needs the fossil energy to offset the missing gas..,"And yes Germany needs all sources right now, due to current situation I'm even temporarily pro-coal. And it makes me sad .",1
"Really? You think the global response against the Iraq invasion and the response against the Ukraine invasion are the same? Where were/are the American sanctions, embargoes, wealth seizures? How come the world didn’t isolate the US?",Lmao imagine the US on some moral high horse over one of the most peaceful countries in history. Even Russia can’t compete with all the terrible things the US has done in the world.,0
One of the Tweets showed it was in the Dnipro delta. I have no idea why it would go into such an exposed position. There isn't much room to maneuver in a river...,"Going to be interesting to see if/what offensive UA does in March. Theoretically they could even have those 50 Bradleys by then, but I don't know if they would be trained up on them in time. Any new mobilization RU does in a few weeks will be similarly poorly trained and equipped conscripts, so I can't see them amounting to much. And then UA can do another breakout and demoralize them taking a lot of territory in the Melitopol/Kherson salient.",0
"It wouldn't solve the problem violence, but we'd probably have a lot lot less firearm deaths if we had much stricter gun control.","Logistically as well, going up to gun owners and trying to take away their guns is just... Well it wouldn't work out for anyone. Cats out of the bag, physically you can't take the guns away there'd be too much bloodshed. Instead implementing training courses, stiffer background checks, and even a pysch eval would go much further.",1
"As an example, CNN was running the headline that ""Tensions Rising"" with China over the shooting down of the balloon. CNN reporters were confronting Chinese officials, who themselves said that the US Government was ""overhyping"" the story. CNN then has the ranking Democrat member of the Intelligence Committee on, who was saying shooting it down was a ""huge intelligence win"". You will notice that Republicans and Democrats don't really differ in their assessment that this was some kind of serious threat by China. They only differ in they assessment of how the White House reacted to it. This was a 10 minute prime time segment on CNN dedicated to the story - it wasn't just Republicans going crazy over this story.","The point is, this wasn't a story manufactured by Republicans. They overhyped it no doubt. But both Democrats and Republicans were acting as this balloon was a grave infringement by China - they only differed in assessing the White House response to this ""threat"". This was made into a big story by mainstream media, not just ""right leaning media"".",0
"Biden has been a good president, and while I would like a younger one I’m not going to trade that for his incumbency advantage. If he’s good to run again I’ll support him.","It’s not so much about differences in policy as it is keeping the power of the incumbent, because it is real. He’s already shown his ability to listen to progressives and act on issues like student loan forgiveness (take it up with the Roberts court), federal marijuana policy, and reshaping the judiciary with a diverse bench. But it’s also important to remember that Biden’s electability came from his appeal with independents. Left wing allies in Congress are important, but the ideal presidential candidate is someone who can answer the calls of progressives while still winning over moderates and independent voters in a general election like Biden did.",0
"Russia was never held accountable for their alliance with Hitler or their atrocious crimes on the way to and in Germany, because they helped defeat the Nazis.","When Germany under Hitler went un punished for the siezing aka liberation of other country's. It just continued, until the point something had to be done. So again today, instead of doing something real, rich elites all over the world who hold powerful decisions to make a change, hold hands and make show. They do not have empathy for the death of women and children. They do not have empathy for death of innocent people. If they had empathy, they'd stand together and stop the Hitler like leaders and killers of the world with a large and quick calculated decapitation. It's just a show folks. Putin is a murderer, ehat would they do to you if you murdered thst many people?",1
"The same NYPost, that continues to falsely claim ""The NY Times admitted the laptop is real"", after the NY Times reported that certain emails on the laptop appeared to be legitimate, and not the laptop as a whole?","The lie was in claiming that, because the emails were genuine, that all of the contents on the laptop must also be genuine. Including the ""salacious pictures package"" that was added to the laptop remotely, while Rudy Giuliani possessed it.",0
But Haavisto said he still hoped Finland and Sweden would become NATO members in the next few months.,"But Haavisto said security assurances from the United States, Britain and other NATO members meant that Finland could be patient.",0
"Right it works a little differently, but if he'd have stayed in Germany there is definitely an amount of time after which he could become a German citizen. Either way it's got nothing to do with Ted Cruz being born in Canada and the Obama birther thing being bullshit on every single level.",He also ran for president even though he was born in Canada to a non American father.. and a big chunk of the republican party forgot the whole birther thing completely. Republican and hypocrite are the same thing.,0
"Trump says Constitution should be tossed aside so he can win. MAGA says ""you have to take him in context."".",Biden says that part of the Republican base are dangerous extremists. MAGA distorts his context to make it seem like he called ALL Republicans dangerous extremists.,0
(I wholeheartedly appreciate that these guys tried it and hope it gives them some added sense of empathy towards period pain.).,And I bet the majority of it will come from people who have yet to try the cramp simulator for 10 minutes and then mention that they can't dance or go to work anymore.,0
"The real answer: you'll still have to pay the tax, because contrary to popular misconception, social security is not a savings account you put money into during your working life and withdraw when you retire. The money you pay in gets redistributed to the current recipients, with the expectation that in the future, the next generation will pay for your benefits, etc. The Republicans aren't trying to end it immediately, they want to cut it for future recipients, so current recipients (aka, boomers, aka, their voting base) won't lose their benefits. It's a classic ladder pull.","Right, on an individual level, it can be better to keep it for yourself rather than pay into a system that won't necessarily benefit you if you're already independently wealthy.",0
The original ruling was flawed and was destined to be overturned. Even RBG acknowledged it was a weak ruling with very little to stand on. Plus why would one of the conservative judges leak one of their own opinions? That accusation makes no sense in itself.,"You're presuming he had a clear-headed reason for doing it, and that may not be the case. He may have just been excited to tell someone. He leaked the Hobby Lobby case to some dinner guests.",1
Yeah Biden can once again step up and take the heat as Republicans endlessly attack him and a younger Dem works to get the 2024 nomination and Biden just retires.,House Republicans will throw everything they can at Biden and nothing at the insurrectionists within their ranks.,1
"If the debt ceiling is unconstitutional, there's no need to mint the coin. They just point to the previously authorized spending bills and continue on as normal.","The bond holders are the lender in this analogy. If they believe the US won't repay them, they won't buy the bonds or will demand much higher interest rates. Just like the credit card company would increase your interest rate or not raise the credit limit.",0
it’s always so honest and devoid of right wing talking point arguments that ignore the actual prevalence of racism and the fact that the right is so tied to white supremacy that it will absolutely turn on latino and hispanic voters the second it becomes expedient!,if they weren’t fascist thugs bent on domination (dominion they call it) i would be more chill about their bullshit mythology.,0
"\- compare Israel to Nazi Germany (if you feel strongly enough that Israel is authoritarian, there is a wide range of other, better comparisons to choose from, that do not weaponize Jewish history).",Yeah I’m with this - Israeli fascist government doesn’t erase actual anti-semitism and the resurgence of far right nazi-like ideologies - even if the names change.,1
"Well I’ll pretty much just echo what Taney said. The constitution seems to have recognized a class of American (Slaves) outside of citizens were guaranteed rights. These people and their descendants would not be citizens and thus would not have standing to sue. Though I think he may have overreached when he extended this to all African Americans as at the founding several states had African American freemen, who were eligible to vote and hold office, so the case probably shouldn’t have effected them and their descendants.","Breaking state's rights was the requirement for a national majority to break open the petty tyrannies that the racists built - so the conservative faction has spent the intervening time installing their own judiciary to favor state's rights - and they have been rewarded for it with Shelby v Holder, which allowed the recent wave of voting restrictions targeting Democrats.",1
"First of all, people were talking about spy satellites from the first balloon reported in the news. And second, this IS different because satellites aren't in our air space. These are. And last, why did you write out the word satellite then put the icon? Did you think we wouldn't recognize the word?","I mean, of they believe that balloons are straight with to engage or notice, or considered benign enough to ignore, they could deliver something like an EMP if it's in their interests to do so, such as if they decided to move against Taiwan.",0
"And the only people that can remove him are his Republican colleagues. And they have a narrow enough margin that, so long as he does what he’s told like he just did re: committees, there is also nothing he can do that would make putting up with him worse than putting his seat back up for a special election that would probably go to a Democrat.",It almost feels like he made a bet with somebody that he can get himself elected & then kicked out of Congress within six months and now he's getting desperate he's going to lose.,1
"Imagine being upset that several countries get to discuss what's fair for the group and coming to agreement in a democratic order, instead of a single country bullying weaker countries into submission.",You mean a collection of countries from around the world who have worked together diplomatically to establish a set order of rules that each have agreed to follow in order to prevent conflicts and increase mutual prosperity?,1
"The decision rhetoric is very frustrating, especially from allies. Like, I get you want to humor the point, but you gotta press them on every time they try and imply that this is a choice. It's just the ""gay lifestyle"" bullshit all over again and we're failing to meet it. You keep someone honest on making the claim that these kids are choosing to be trans, and they either have to reveal themselves to be a total head empty bigot, or their arguments break down.","I wanna make clear I'm not arguing for anything transphobic, just that the comparison's not entirely ridiculous. If we're talking about grooming, IMO it's a fair retort that no minor finds religion without being groomed into it. Tactically, it's a good ""glass houses"" argument that third parties can understand.",1
"Just because you know the position of a whole range of defensive guns doesn't mean you can just take them out, even if you didn't mind declaring war on turkey and NATO while losing a war against another small independent nation.","The point i guess is that Turkey wasn't afraid of Russia, they knew Russia was operating there, they shot down the russian fighter not because they didn't know it was russian, they shot it down because they don't give a fuck if is russian or syrian or whatever.",1
Like Your House Bill 5471 where people over 18 but under 21 would need parental permission to own a firearm. ...These are legal adults. It also bans AR-15s by name which is a semi-automatic firearm in common use. It has already been established that such a firearm would not be subject to a ban. The legislation due to how it defines a 'shroud' would ban all semiautomatic rifles.,"I'll also note most of these ""Assault Weapon Bans"" tend to target certain grips, stocks, barrels, etc. which have little to do with lethality of a firearm.",1
How is it possible to believe that non-renewables are being phased out when non-renewables are the largest source of electricity and they are building even more as we speak?!?,"It's the second most populous country in the world, and is about to overtake China and become the most populous country in the world, so being the third largest producer of renewable energy isn't the bragging point you think it is. According to wikipedia India is the fifth largest producer of renewable electricity, after much less populous countries, such as Canada. What is important is the percentage of renewable energy, not the total, and only 21.7% of the electricity produced in India in 2021-2022 came from renewable sources, while 72.7% came from coal. 99% of the electricity produced in my country in 2021 came from renewable sources.",0
"i’ll continue paying attention to fox news because i want to stay informed about what’s up on the wrong side of the fence. gop took the house so they’re going to be cock clocking shit all day long. all that’s on their mind is making the current administration look bad, they don’t give a fuck about ukraine or what the voters want.","You have to be so naive to actually believe the US has the Ukrainians in their best interests... Plus, it's not like any of this has happened before in history....",1
"So to try and imply that Hakeem Jeffries is some kind of extremist election denier (like Trump, like Marjorie Greene, like Kari Lake, and others have proven themselves to be) is simply not accurate.","It's not a fair comparison for a few reasons: Jeffries wasn't denying Trump won the electoral college; and ""election denier"" is a term that has taken on a very specific meaning post 2020, and that meaning is at odds with Jeffries' comments.",1
Russia has been pulling back from the world and focusing its attention on Ukraine. A few months after the war clearly wasn't going well they pulled their entire presence from Syria. They don't have anything spare to handle other nation's conflicts anymore.,"Not quite. It was done to give Russia geopolitical allies on its borders and maintain existing trade relationships. But the relationship has always been Russia sending in troops to help its allies, and never its allies sending in troops to help them. If there was no war in Ukraine there would also be no conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Russia would have sent troops to Armenia to push the Azerbaijanis back.",0
I would rather scoup out my eyes with a rusty spoon than vote for any of the nationalist-tinted parties.,"Labour constantly saying stupid, populist and very destabilizing things. Some of my favourites include ""let's nationalise everything"" and ""Let's abolish the house of lords"".",0
NATO doesn't want to start direct war with Russia. What happened in Poland is example of that. A rocket striking Poland was chalked as Ukrainian AA defense after they thought for a day what to say.,Russia was still behind the S-300 missile that hit Poland. It was fired at Russian missiles that were targeting civilian infrastructure in a country that they are actively invading and committing genocide in. If Russia doesn’t try to kill Ukrainian civilians then that missile never lands in Poland.,1
"Biden could walk on water and those people still wouldn’t vote for him. He won without them in 2020 and will do so again. The power of incumbency in American politics is huge. Add to that Biden’s increasing popularity within his own base of traditional centrist dems, with progressives due to recent policy wins / good faith attempts , and moderates due to the economy and a little bit of “dank Brandon” popularity with younger voters.","He might talk nicer than most Republicans, but their whole party has been run by greedy sadistic bigoted shitheads who don't believe in democracy for a few generations, so Bush's willingness to get on board with someone like DeSantis shouldn't surprise us. There are no good Republicans, there are just some who know not to say quiet parts out loud.",1
China will attack when China is ready to attack. That's years in the future by even the most terrifying professional estimates.,"Geopolitics moves really slowly most of the time. These people have waited most of a century, they are not in a rush. Don't get too caught up in all the young people being excited about something actually geopolitically exciting happening for the first time in their lives (Russo-Ukrainian War) and expecting that to be a new normal or something.",0
"So after Republicans voted against or filibustered the bill, the ""casual observer"" should blame... Joe Biden (because of course).","What this picture critically omits, however, is that it was Biden’s White House that originally set last week’s events in motion.”.",1
"Good Lord, this is one of the worst fucking abuses of an ally. Apologies Americans, but Trump really fucked us over here.","Nah, there's no need to apologize to Americans all the time. They don't have the excuse of living under an authoritarian regime like Russia or China. The fuckers willingly elected a moron that used Canada like a whore.",1
"I thought the special grand jury did strictly an investigation, and the regular grand jury took those results and could decide and refer charges, not a lawyer, though, just an observer.","I think the special grand jury sees more evidence than the regular grand jury would see. When they finish their job, a regular grand jury can evaluate a limited set of evidence to determine if charges should be filed so the people making that decision are not biased by having seen evidence that should not have been factored into the decision.",1
"Musk wants to make money from twitter. Trump is an outage our voice that drives participation in twitter. As long as people continue to glorify trump… both through admiration and hate…. Twitter will let trump, and people like trump, rule the platform.","The cold shoulder Donald Trump gave Elon Musk regarding his Twitter account was epic, though. Yet Elon Musk decided to ignore restoring Alex Jones. I'm not really considering whether he's trying to appeal to a new fan base anymore, it just seems more and more obvious that he's just wants to use Twitter as an extension of his ego and a way to get authority. He's like the ultimate form of a power mod.",1
"I used to use the same password for everything and then my shit kept getting hacked into, so now I use a different password for everything which means I’m constantly forgetting what my passwords are which means I have to constantly reset them 😫.","It isn't as secure as randomly generated passwords, but if one password is grabbed in a breach or one is brute forced, it really doesn't have anything that makes it appear as if it has a specific pattern by itself. And it isn't a match to your others. Of course the phrase can be constructed for you to remember easily and can be more complex, as this was just something off the top of my head to make an example. Once you get used to a well made phrase, you get passwords that are unique, complex, and easy to remember. And the best part, not relying on a password manager to allow a breach to all of your passwords.",1
"Says the . The only reason Russia didn’t have a African colony wasn’t because of any anti-imperialism morals, but because the French kicked them out when they tried to get one.","OK, so… Before this occurred, he was receiving threats to assassinate his son in Africa if the Russians didn’t leave Africa to leave it wide open for the French. He thought the anonymous parcel was his son’s head. I’m sure he wasn’t being rational by the time that parcel arrived. But, needless to say, as he opened the box, it exploded and he’s fighting for his life in the hospital. He may still die. Jeez… I would not want to be on the bad side right now.",1
"For 1 I don't see how that would become a major issue. You'd have to have people going door to door forcing people to vote in front of them, what if they already voted? Oops you can see that I did vote but not who for, same as absentee ballots today.","You're entire argument is ""someone, somewhere may try something bad so we shouldn't ever try."" You know people can steal paper ballot boxes? We probably shouldn't vote at all then.",0
"If the pay is shit, the only people doing the job are people who aren't good enough at other things.","Competitive pay means competitive applicants. If you want good teachers, you gotta make it an attractive job.",0
"All of that doesn’t preclude the fact that Trump and Kushner were also compromised by Saudi, the UAE, and Israel.","The fact is there was plenty of evidence that Israel, Saudi Arabia and UAE were backing Trump and were likely involved in election interference to help him win in 2016. Not only did Mueller go out of his way to avoid that rabbit hole, so did the Democrats. Everything was focused on Russia. There was so much emphasis and attention placed on the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russian government proxies, where all they talked about was adoptions, which was code for lifting sanctions. What few in the media focused on was a far more important Trump Tower meeting 3 months before the US election where emissaries of Israel, Saudi Arabia and UAE literally offered to help Trump win. It was reported on in the NYTimes but the story got zero traction. Everyone in the media was obsessed by Russia.",1
I don't see why people are so worried over this. It's essentially the same strategy used in SVD before pulling back: You hold ground and bleed them as much as possible before falling back. Then counter-punch them elsewhere grabbing large amounts of territory in return.,One of the Tweets showed it was in the Dnipro delta. I have no idea why it would go into such an exposed position. There isn't much room to maneuver in a river...,0
"I know that, you know that, the world knows that. But the prosecutors have the burden of proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Trump knew that at the time of the phone call. Everyone on the planet knows that Trump is a gullible moron who will believe any bullshit that boosts his ego or serves his purposes, so proving he didn't believe he won will be an uphill battle.","Unfortunately there's also a preponderance of evidence that Trump believes stupid shit in spite of expert advice. If I were Trump's defense attorneys, my closing argument would be ""Fauci. Nuking a hurricane. Putin. Bleach injection. Windmills kill birds."".",0
"I didn't even know that. I was surprised when I read _Miller_ closely, the opinion was that weapons which could reasonably have been used by a militia in battle are protected by the 2A, but not other weapons.",The militia is every able-bodied male who may be called up to defend his state or his nation. Your quotation literally says that. It is right ^^^ there. The militia is you.,0
"Right now, Transnistria's best path to its goal is not working with Russia but working with Moldova.","Obviously, Moldova does not intend to do that, and neither does Russia intend to drop claims to Transnistria.",1
"It was an intelligence gaffe by an incompetent administration. When you're a Republican, you're putting other Republicans in your administration who almost are always morons. Just listen to clips of conservative Supreme Court justices during arguments. How did they even graduate law school, let alone become judges?",I don't know how they graduate law school - probably simply by knowing the law and passing the exams. And those have nothing to do with actual politics and party leanings. Just learning facts.,1
"Also like 90% of the attacks in the last 30 days have been with Iranian ""drones."" Which are new to the conflict.",Ya the same people who call a BTR a tank. If you listen to people who know the difference between a AK47 and a T90 the speculation is how many missile do they have left and how many do they feel they need to keep in reserve.,0
It’s kind of surreal seeing almost the same tanks matching up in a war 35 years later. I’m sure Russia watched the gulf war footage and know these tanks are really bad news for them lol.,I’m going to take a guess and say Russia will announce in the next few days that they destroyed twice as many tanks as have been said are being sent even before they arrive.,1
"Furthermore, this was a mid-term election with a bad democratic candidate for governor (a former republican), and a hurricane in the heaviest democratic counties.","Florida is certainly pretty red now unfortunately, but the Democrats also have massive organization issues in the state and a candidate issue in the governor race specifically. Charlie Crist is a Republican turned independent turned Democrat who is constantly seeking power and no one actually likes him. The second they put him on the ballot they probably lost by an additional 10 points.",1
"Also America is basically leading the entire military over there, and when the country setting up how the military works is literally an ocean away and has near zero risk of being hit by aircraft the military in Europe is not going to be super heavily funding air defense.","If European countries got into the game better and started putting real funding into their own local militaries they would see the vulnerable population centers all around them, see that the United States isn't super invested in defending them, and they would have had worthwhile air defense.",0
We knew what it would become. We didn't know how capitalism would so quickly turn it into a handful of sites.,", in the earliest days of the web, talking about how it's already inevitable, and how the internet had been used for commercial purposes from very early days.",0
Correct. They absolutely will not turn on him. It's Reagan's 11th Commandment (as in he literally said this and called it that): Republicans never criticize other Republicans.,"Ever since Reagan's days Republicans do not criticize other Republicans except when actively campaigning agains them (primaries and such). Once that's over with, no Republican can ever do any wrong in the eyes of other Republicans.",1
"The only solution is to build more housing. We need to remove the barriers that landowners have setup to block new housing. Whether it's public housing from the government, or new private housing from developers, doesn't really matter. In either case, more housing will solve the problem.","There's not really a housing shortage. That's the wolf in sheep's clothing to keep everyone at bay. The real issue is that the way housing is currently set up is based on an era that has since come and gone. People are having way less children, people are commuting to work farther and farther, family sizes are much smaller and the whole dynamic has changed. We also have an aging demographic that are living in multiple homes that are way too big and priced out of the reach of a young family sometimes to the tune of 100 times the original price and not updated since the day it was purchased. Added to that is investment arm. Land values are rising, while the structures that are on them, not so much. However, this is housing and it is being torn down and rebuilt at the cost of gentrification and the added bonus of not actually adding any new housing stock and being substantially more expensive than whatever it replaced. Dense multifamily and commercial mixed zoning is great for the city tax coffers and the developer and the stock holders, but not so much for the people it intends to benefit. Locals are generally priced out of these projects. The boogey man has and will be the ""lack of housing"" and ""city zoning codes"" but that often doesn't actually correlate with the affordability of the region. Some places are more restrictive than others and have seen the value drop and the availability increase while others with laxer codes have had an opposite effect occur. I don't have any clear answers because the reason for this crisis is mired in half truths and the ruling class has no desire to lay bare the true causes. The inflated values that these homes are selling for is described as a ""windfall"" but let's call it what it is, the older generation robbing the younger generation of wealth and it is all sanctioned by the ""free market"" or whatever the fuck that means.",1
"And oh yeah, Americans are stupid, and the presidential election outcome is reliant on a hand out to slave owners.","Electoral college, the slave state device for keeping minority in power, can be gotten rid of with 2/3 vote.",1
That claim that Biden took them home as a senator is disingenuous as hell. All the article says is some documents date from his time as senator; nothing about the date they were removed from wherever they're supposed to be.,"(1964), 15-25, and 'La demographie des familles imperiales et s6natoriales au IVe siecle apres J.c.'.",0
Is it just me or did Musk turn more radical or aggressive since approximately the twitter acquisition?,"He used to always share his views and have random tweet-discussions with folks but recently, his statements have been much more blunt and direct, and in my opinion dangerous.",0
- Why the latest supplies of western Infantry Fighting Vehicles and tanks may not help as much as many think.,Tanks are normally not used in defense. They're part of a mechanized offensive force (just like IFVs and APCs more or less). This is the new step we're currently seeing.,1
"There are some finer points to it, sure. And I agree theres a limit to how high you can raise taxes, someone else mentioned the Laffer Curve. But I’d argue you need a much much higher tax rate before you start to see negative consequences, def significantly higher from where US current corporate rates are at 21%.","“Don’t let anyone convince you lower corporate tax rates benefit anyone but shareholders”, lower tax rates in previous years have resulted in higher tax revenue. That’s why I mentioned the Laffer Curve.",1
>InformNapalm is one of the best OSINT/investigative groups in region and for years has contributed to important work including the MH17 investigation and hundreds of other russian crimes.,"Edit: Just wanted to add one of Ryder's comments, related to the so-called ""cease-fire"": ""Russia is good at exporting violence; they are not good at exporting truth."".",0
"I live near big rspids Michigan where ferris state university csmpus is and a spectrum health facility that does exactly what you just mentioned, they use students to fill in at no cost to them and spectrum health is on a mission to buy up every medical facility in the state and it's straight up disgusting.","People should not be with out sick pay , employers need to realize a majority of illnesses start in a work place , it's not like they get a lot time off to go get sick.",0
"Yet voters are so convinced they are harmless, they vote GOP without any concern that the government they take for granted will persist. Yet we are so dangerously close to Fascism under GOP rule, where the 'action' they'll need to perform for their base is harming marginalized groups.","This is the thing most people don't understand, the GOP has painted itself in a corner by the Dems going to far to the right to meet them, that their only political message is, as you say.",0
“If the government does not make the voting age 16 now then they are consciously breaching our human rights.”.,“Today New Zealand’s highest court has confirmed that stopping young people from voting is a breach of our human rights. Preventing me and other 16 and 17 year-olds from voting is an unjustified breach of our right to be free from age discrimination. The government and Parliament cannot ignore such a clear legal and moral message. They must let us vote.”.,0
"Are you actually this stupid when Zelensky claimed it had been Russia or do you think Ukraine doesn't know where it's ""defense system"" is firing missiles to?","Some might say that if Russia hadn't been launching missiles into Ukraine, then Ukraine wouldn't have had to launch interceptors.... Making the outcome very much something to do with Russia.",1
"Read a poem about sunsets at a local coffee shop open mic? Well now that's a ""sexually oriented business"".","The definition of ""drag"" in that bill is so broad it includes trans people, and makes ""performance"" include basically just existing with people around.",0
"I'm sure. If it would have been possible, Ukraine would have cut of and destroyed /captured the Russian units on the right bank of the river. But the Russians managed an orderly retreat and didn't gave them an opportunity for it.","Just dumping thousands of vehicles across the border wouldn't work. Setting up the logistics and supply chains, training of crews and maintenance personnel etcetera takes time. While this work is in progress, only limited numbers of vehicles can be deployed.",0
"in 2012, Representative Omar tweeted, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” The word hypnotized has been used many times referring to Jewish people controlling the world.","in 2012, Representative Omar tweeted, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” The word hypnotized has been used many times referring to Jewish people controlling the world.",0
"Ubiquiti is definitely one of my top alternatives, I'm just concerned because it seems like a lot of buy-in. I think if I want the ""full"" experience I'd need to run the whole stack (say, the entire unifi stack, which I would probably need rack mounting space for).","Notably, as shown in both the article and list, brands like Hikvision are only advised against for ""public safety"" and ""critical infrastructure"", which makes me think it's less ""there's a backdoor"" and more like someone could take advantage of inner knowledge of the devices and cause other problems, or something. Good to know.",0
"Also, despite the hippies, today's youth are documented to be far more progressive than any previous generation. And if you click the link in my previous comment, you'll see that unlike Boomers, millennials are not getting more conservative over time.","I realize. Because they grew up in a time when college could be paid for with a fart and a candy bar, good paying jobs were much easier to get, and the general cost of living and something like a home was affordable. When entering the the workforce they didn't face the worst recession since the Great Depression. Throughout their careers-- they didn't experience the slowest economic growth of any generation in history. They never had a looming climate crisis posing a massive threat to their and their kids' future. No wonder Boomers don't care for radical change!",0
"If we could do that without hiring a bunch of abusive psychos to watch the crazy people, it would be the most effective way to get the mentally ill homeless people off the streets. Add a separate section to the facility specifically for drug addiction treatment as well.","They need to individually put strict rules onto only the specific individual people who cause problems. They need to stop trying to preemptively stop the problem, because they're fucking terrible at doing it.",0
"Jets is going to be really difficult because of high training requirements to be useful in the way Ukraine wants. Russia has the fighters but still can't use them because their pilots simply aren't well trained enough to pull off SEAD/DEAD, so if they use them they just get obliterated by Ukrainian AA.","Ukraine won't be able to take control of it's skies either if it can't run SEAD/DEAD missions and the training requirement is extremely steep. Like, we need to get them training now so maybe they can do this next year, and that's assuming they learn as quickly on the jets as they did on the HIMARs.",0
"Terrible wording - the actual word should be ""cured"", as in corrected because they were not machine readable (or were missing dates or signatures) but turned out to be valid ballots.","Curing only applies to mail-in ballots; presumably, problems with ballots cast in person on Election Day are fixed then.",1
Every single reddit take on US-china relations is entirely divorced from any historical context and its incredibly embarrassing.,Your take of the US-china relations is entirely divorced from any historical context and its incredibly embarrassing.,1
"I have a young child who brings home all manner of colds and viruses. Last winter, I would get mildly sick when he did, but it wasn’t a big deal. We got Covid for the first time over the summer. Since then, he’s sick every few weeks, and I have been absolutely walloped. I had a double ear infection for the first time since I myself was a toddler. I also spent all of Christmas break sidelined with a terrible cough.",Anecdotally I spent my entire Christmas/new years time off sick from a cold. That wasn’t fun at all.,1
"Look around, it’s happening here. We have people who have been held in prison since January 6th without being charged with a crime or allowed legal counsel. We’ve also had people locked out and funds taken from their accounts because they questioned the vaccines or elections. Russia doesn’t have a Constitution or a Bill of Rights like the US, and yet the government here treats some of its citizens like second class citizens.","For some reason this article doesn’t mention that this new law only applies to those who acquired russian citizenship, not to those who got it from birth. This is against the russian constitution which putin has never read anyway, but it will only affect a few people here and there with two or more citizenships who oppose putin from abroad. It’s definitely not gonna make people stateless, let alone save anyone from being drafted.",1
"The Dems aren't great, but the gop doesn't govern, they just blame and deflect and try to stir up little bullshit ""wars on....(Christmas, stoves, etc).","I'm talking about anyone who falsified their resume. I know of bidens gaffe, but trump repeatedly claimed to be an expert in everything, but his only expertise was fraud. At least Biden is an expert in government, he has the years in it - for better or worse.",0
"They don't really even do in-flight refueling. Think about how fundamental that is to the US / NATO air doctrine. Russian planes take off, do their mission, and land a couple hours later. That is all they can do.",Well. Ukraine tried to negotiate like all the idiot Putin appeasers demanded. Didn't work out. Guess it's back to kicking Russia's ass out of the country the old fashion way again.,1
"Justice Minister Marco Buschmann tweeted that a major anti-terror operation was taking place and a suspected ""armed attack on constitutional bodies was planned"".","Justice Minister Marco Buschmann tweeted that a suspected ""armed attack on constitutional bodies was planned"". Ms Faeser said later that the investigation would peer into the ""abyss of a terrorist threat from the Reichsbürger scene"".",1
So statistically it's been proven that 3.4 people out of every 17 are wrongfully sentenced to death?,"On what basis is the death penalty ""flagrantly unjust""? It is absolutely utilized in our criminal justice system. For instance, literally thousands of murder cases have been closed as plea deals for took the death penalty off the table for murders. Should we deprive aggrieved families of closure the death penalty can bring in both the death of the murderer or his further confessions to solve unsolved crimes? All so we can preserve the lives of those very murderers? Why is this even an issue when we have so many more systemic problems than extending the lives of criminals who whose crimes were deemed so heinous as to warrant death?",1
"I guess I just don't see this intra-party fighting as some sort of death knell for them because it actually seems pretty common. These people hate each other, we just can't forget that they hate us way, way more, and they'll happily unite if they think it means they can put a boot on our necks.","I guess this just reminds me so much of 2015/2016 that it makes me nervous. Republicans were absolutely eviscerating each other for months (including Trump) until there was only one nominee left. Then they declared him their messiah, kissed his feet, and pulled out a win that shocked all the people that had been eating their popcorn and watching the melee (including me).",0
"Now, certainly nothing stops SCOTUS from overreaching and ruling on that too, but given they rejected a similar case I'd say it's unlikely they intend to do so.","Rather, I'm just pointing out that if/when some of the right-wing SCOTUS justices rule against this request, they're not doing so out of pure legal thinking - there is a very significant pro-Republican reason for them to do so.",0
Is that modern firearm were not envisioned by the framers of the constitution therefore they shouldn't be covered under the 2nd Amendment?,Not really- The Continental Congress 14 years before the 2nd Amendment was ratified had viewed a demonstration of a firearm that was capable of firing 16 shots in 20 seconds.,0
Didn't the clown prince of Belarus accidentally leak this in the first few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine? Like he showed a map on TV that pointed to where they'd invade Moldova once they were done in Ukraine.,I said it before the Ukraine invasion; the only way to prevent an invasion is to have western troops in the threatened country.,1
But 50 planes of 400 people/plane from other countries with 5% infection rate making up 1000 infected travelers is ok?,Why are other countries bending backwards to accommodate passengers from any country that has given up control of the virus?,1
"-Wagenknecht opposed sanctions against Russia over the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and, in a speech in September 2022, accused the German government of ""launching an unprecedented economic war against our most important energy supplier"".","As for Wagenknecht, the impression I get from reading her wiki page it looks like her stances attract better reactions from far right politicians and parties than from her own party.",0
"You just explained radicalization, and objectively speaking they would hate ISIS. A member of ISIS is not a Muslim, but a fanatic. They would hate the organization, not the religion, what if they were followers of islam themselves?","Does it make it right? To a certain extent, if it leads to actual victimization(harm, apartheid) that's different.",0
"Certainly, you would want a Rain TV article where they write out a confession of their bias and the desire to distance russians from the war and hence the consequences.","Not going to lie, even before reading the text of the doc, I presumed, the Latvia govrmnt did an inquiry into the channel and found that Rain's activity helps Russian war effort more than it hurts.",1
previously did a factcheck on Putin's illnesses SVR Telegram reported on and found out that there is no evidence of their claims of being run by former Russian inteligance officers.,"While there are likely insiders who may be speaking to trusted sources (ie not this news outlet), it’s more likely that this is a story generated by people looking to make Putin look weak and raise further doubts about his health. It’s the same tactic as the other humiliating stories that have been put out about various leaders, like U.S. President Joe Biden supposedly losing his bowels at the Vatican (for context: Biden angers many staunch Catholics by taking communion when he’s pro-choice, so the choice of the Vatican as the site of him supposedly soiling himself isn’t surprising). Then there are all the stories of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un’s dietary excess, and rumors every few years that he’s on life support or even dead from gluttony-induced health issues.",1
Finland wanna be in the same military alliance with Turkey while having arm embargoes against it. Is that really weird that Turkey asks Finland to lift these embargoes?,"I don't agree with Turkey's demands that have nothing to do with Sweden and Finland, but this one is reasonable. You want to be in the same military alliance as them, so it makes sense not having an arms embargo on them.",1
"Trump could run as an Independent in only a few states, denying anyone from getting 270 electoral votes, sending the election to the House, where, I don’t know who they would choose. DeSantis?","Exactly. He could win enough electoral votes to prevent DeSantis from reaching 270. Let’s say Biden was close but also under 270. The.man the election would be thrown to the House, where knowing the idiots in charge, would pick Trump.",0
"Some discussions are just for understanding. If you feel like someone has a motive, it's for exactly the reasons you outlined above, you aren't trying to understand you're trying to debate, correct, convince, etc. and if that's how you treat differing views, than naturally I'm going to question how many fruitful discussion you actually have.",Maybe the actual nature of the ideologies behind the politics can differ so much that there is no reasonable compromise.,1
"Some ectopic pregnancies miscarry on their own in a process called “expectant management.” This is what a lot of doctors are having to do in states with restrictive abortion laws- wait and hope the patient miscarries on her own. Sometimes when an embryo implants in a fallopian tube, the removal of the tube is required in the removal of an ectopic pregnancy, which isn’t a “provision” that is necessary in an induced abortion. And sometimes, treatment of an ectopic pregnancy is nearly identical to the patient to an electively induced abortion.",“[T]he indication and treatment for ectopic pregnancies is distinct from the indication and provision of induced abortion”.,1
"Rabbis are not priests. Judaism hasn't had priests for nearly 2000 years. Rabbi means teacher and they are advisors to observant Jews on how to follow the Law of Moses. So, a rabbi advising the Jews in his community that ""doing this thing that is normally forbidden on Shabbos is both allowed and a Good Thing"" is his job, even if it would be obvious to observant Jews.",Edit: I want to add that my initial comment was to say that I don’t believe any sane Jew would refrain some saving lives in a disaster scenario because of Saturday and that this Rabbi is simply posing.,1
"The Soviets started WW2 with Germany, the only reason the west did not fight them was the poles did not call the allies into the war vs Stalin.","After the war we gave up Poland to the Soviets and let them take half of Europe. To me this was a mistake, to reward one of the aggressors who started ww2. But the west were exhausted and wanted peace.",0
"Tesla is a very small player in the overall car market and with Ford, GM, VW and the Korean companies jumping into the EV market with both feet…Tesla is in trouble.","Tesla will lose to the large automakers because the large auto companies have the distribution, support and decades of knowing how to run a car company. Tesla will be lost in the dustbin.",1
"Yup. That’s one reason why most great conquerors maintained their empires only as long as they were alive. Genghis Kahn’s was falling apart by the second or third successor after his death. Alexander’s fell apart about fifteen minutes after he died. And honestly, even if they do plan for their death, once they die everyone who was obedient out of fear now has no reason to be afraid.","For those not familiar with Wagner, think Blackwater but way, way worse and also they’re Nazis. Estonia classifies them as terrorists, and they’re basically Putin’s private army when he wants illegal shit done.",0
"Well they were on the verge of launching nukes into Ukraine when cooler heads prevailed and they can either start nuking Ukraine or attempt to attack the US, NATO, or other allies escalating a war that our president has no hesitations about supporting.","Russia has been hesitant to send aircraft deep into Ukraine (where these batteries would be deployed), leaving them using stand-off weapons to attack them, the very weapons that Patriot is built to take out.",1
"All this Nationalism and desire for Eurasian supremacy just looks to be an inferiority complex and brain disorder gone wild. Lavrov is looking like he is losing it too, something that is cyclical with him. Are any of the Generals willing to stand up to the crazy leaders? Any oligarchs? Any strong men?",Putin has spent a great deal of his gold stockpile trying to reclaim Ukraine and now is going into debt on account of Ukraine. His troops are poorly equipped as it is; how are Russians going to retake surrounding lands in other areas?,0
The religious freedom elements give me moments for pause. But it is something. I just want my marriage to stay legal man.,"This always had to do with legal marriages. As in yoh are entitled to the same legal rights by signing the agreement that binds you to another in tax law benefits, and benefits entitled to closest kin when decisions of life and death and wealth are in question. That's it. That's all this ever was. How any individual or group feels about all the extra superfluous stuff is up to them.",1
"Everyone wants to act all shocked that Biden would want to be bipartisan or work with Republicans. Regardless of McConnell's crimes and faults, he still holds office and power. To ignore that or work against it would be counterproductive from the President's perspective. Add to that McConnell was one of the Republicans that did vote for the infrastructure bill. Meet on the things you agree on makes meeting on the things you don't easier.","The number of people that think of politics like a football game is troubling. It can be a cooperative endeavor, not zero-sum.",0
This can not be overstated. Judges are supposed to be impartial. I understand that true impartiality doesn’t exist but certain SCOTUS judges could at least cut down on the blatant political bias.,"I mean we should also understand the posturing of the conservative judges, and how each can ""dissent"" on any given ruling to try and maintain some veneer of ""reasonability"" or ""impartiality"", while they as a whole know they will still get done whatever they want.",1
There's no moral difference. The differences you brought up are geopolitical and if you're gonna take geopolitics into account then you can and should understand why it's a bad idea for Brazil to have their incoming president start shit talking Russia before they even take office.,"Nobody likes what's happening, but his promise in the elections was to reestablish our foreign relations and telling Russia to go fuck themselves wouldn't help that much, especially now that Bolsonaro shut down our fertilizer factories (made by Lula and Dilma over 10 years ago) and we became heavily reliant of Russia once again.",1
"Actually, looking at the list of accusations, all backed up by evidence against both persons, I wound have to say that Trump takes the prize for breadth of lies.","There is plenty of evidence that shows that Republican voters are more than willing to elect liars/frauds, even with damning evidence of it being the case. They vote Party purity over values, all the damn time.",1
"And, personally, China is one of those countries I would never even set foot in, not even as a tourist.","I’m a Canadian who lived in Guangzhou. Hong Kong was my escape. It’s too bad what happened to it, it was such an incredible place to visit. While living in China, I made some friends and it surprised me how little they knew as a result of censorship. I had a VPN and suggested my friends do the same, but they refused because they trusted that the government knew what was best for them. I knew what I was getting into when choosing to live in China, but I was blown away by seeing people actively believe exactly what their government wanted them to.",1
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"Senate is more important due to getting presidential confirmations through. House is important because that's where the budget originates. A GOP House will be incredibly annoying with conspiracy theory investigations and impeachments, but ultimately won't do much of anything other than a lot of yelling and screaming.","With the House, the Republicans will gain subpoena/investigative powers, so expect impeachment, endless hearings and special investigations (like Jan 6), and can also prevent any legislation from being passed. They could maybe cause a government shut down but I could be mistaken.",1
Incredibly fucked up. If you're interested in learning more there's a really good documentary called 13th. It was on Netflix but I dont know if it still is. Its obviously sad but I'd highly recommend it.,Long term solitary is no different than torture based on its effects (many even consider it torture including the UN) and pretty much everyone is going to start working after a bit of that.,0
A ban would still be a 14th Amendment violation. And RFMA would still prevent the Iowa state government from prosecuting couples who married out of state. Both of those laws would seem to completely invalidate any sort of ban on same sex marriage.,They also want to pass a bill to prohibit the recognition of the respect of marriage act in the state.,1
"Hopefully it's overturned on appeal, his ruling is nonsense, Congress authorized the program through the heroes act, it would be different if they used a loophole, by having the Treasury cancel the debt.","And since the payment pause is universal it's harder to justify politically, plenty of 6 figure folks benefit from the pause.",0
"Not only is Elon Musk destroying Twitter, he's setting fire to Tesla. Conservative Republicans don't believe in climate change and won't buy EVs. Musk has pissed everyone else off. His car company is ramping up production but will find it increasingly difficult to make sales. He's toast.","Tesla was shitting all over legacy auto in the production game BEFORE he shat all over the market. Tesla's production is miles ahead of Ford, GM & VW. Huge fully robotic plants compared to Ford/GM assembly lines straight from the 1970s. Tesla has single plants that can do 500,000 of the same model each year. Legacy auto is a long way behind. However Musk destroying demand for Tesla cars will give legacy auto the time to catch up.",0
I assume a small number of nato units would join ukraine war as independents or mercenaries which means not everyone on tank team is new to German tank tech.,"Without the USA sending Abrams European countries need to be willing to send significant parts of their tank force to supply Ukraine with the amount of tanks they need. Likely up to an level that at least some of their own tank units have to be disbanded since they will lack the tanks to remain operational. If not even the UK, a nuclear armed island country (so ground forces are secondary for their own defense) with one of the strongest militaries in NATO is willing to do so how can one expect that from mainland European nations some of them bordering Russia?",1
I was reading the missile in question was a s300 missile that could of been shot at a Russian missile but missed and landed in Poland. This is very strange statement as this hasn't happened before with the numerous missile attacks from Russia and none have landed before but the same goes with Ukraine air defence system.,"Considering this was an ""accident,"" I suppose an appropriate response might be a no-fly zone that shoots down any Russian missile or aircraft that comes too close to NATO borders...which conveniently covers a wide swath of Ukraine.",1
"No, the pushback primarily came from Republicans and from pro-life activists, who were quick to point out (accurately) that their platforms have long made clear that a person seeking an abortion should not be charged with a crime: only the doctor should.","So if the right wants to ban abortions because""we value life"", then they should not only pay for all the woman's medical care, but pay at least $57,000 per pregnancy that they are forcing the woman to undergo. (This also doesn't include extra pay for delivery and, having seen my wife deliver two babies, that would be a huge additional cost!).",1
McCarthy faced a challenge from far-right former House Freedom Caucus chair Andy Biggs as well as Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries.,"Seven years after he was first poised to become Speaker, and four since he became the Republican floor leader, it appears Kevin McCarthy still does not know how to count votes.",0
I think the other issue is that people are looking at an indictment as some kind of finish line. As we saw under Trump the President of the United States can exert their power to remove prosecutors or not pursue further charges.,And none of that matters until the decision is made by them as to whether a former president can be prosecuted. That's the only case they need to intervene in. And they can choose to do it whenever Trump asks. We have to start by stacking the court.,1
"Iran is funding multiple terrorist orgs by Israel's borders, but they themsevles don't want an open war with Israel because it would escelate into a larger conflict very quickly.","Nobody else will get involved because (1) western countries tacitly support Israel here because they are neutralizing an enemy’s weapon supply, and (2) Iran’s allies won’t risk a broader conflict over something minor like this. Most of the Middle East won’t get involved because they hate Israel and Iran, but view Iran as the greater threat.",1
Look at a map of Moldova and tell me how Russia is going to get there. How Russia would get any supplies or ammo there.,"Exactly. I don't understand how people don't get this. Russia can't get to Moldova. They can't send supplies. I mean, at least the 7000 Moldovan troops can be resupplied with ammo. Russian forces there are effectively already encircled. Russia can't even fly fighter jets over Ukraine, let alone cargo planes.",0
"Under normal circumstances when gas is still coming in it is enough for forever, because Germany would use the gas that is still coming in.",It means every gas storage tank in Germany is full to the brim. How long that is going to last depends a lot on the weather but from what I've read a full supply is good for about 3-4 months of normal consumption. I would imagine Germany would try and ration that if they though the winter is going to be especially cold.,1
It's the latter. We never had a president who just straight up ignored those rules until Trump. At the very least Presidents besides Trump didn't want to appear to be using the office to enrich themselves financially.,"There are a ton of those garbage conservative ""news"" sites that are allowed here regardless of the amount of straight up lies that they print. Fox ""News"" is a good example. Their trash, lie filled articles are allowed here. If right wing articles are quickly downvoted into oblivion that doesn't mean that they aren't allowed here, it's just that most of the people who frequent this subreddit don't like lies and right wing propaganda, and make their feelings known by downvoting them until they disappear.",0
You’re right. It was a historic event that will be talked about in history books (if we make it that far.).,"But see that’s the thing. That was literally the focus of the Jan 6 hearings: To show you it was never about that one speech. The deniers and those just simply not paying enough attention are and always will be too focused on the speech itself, which was merely the final moments of a months long effort.",1
"He should know that he has judicial fairness, and has every right that a prisoner does. And he should also know that he and his requests and attempts for attention will never be seen by anyone. That all he is doing is yelling into a completely empty void and will never get public attention ever again.","And they can be kept internal. Everything about this cunt should just be hidden, ignored and in no way talked about regardless. Give him his due process, sure. But there's no need for the rest of society to need to know anything more about him other just knowing he's spending the rest of his life in prison.",0
"But the West has to be aware of Russia's history and concerns, and that NATO is a military alliance that has be creeping closer and closer to it door with no ""Cuban missile crisis game of chicken"" that has happened until now. And it's all fun and games poking a bear when it's asleep. It's complicated, my heart is with the Ukrainians, but consessions have to be made on both sides, and both sides have to want peace. The consessions have to start from Russia as well, the aggressor.","Let's not talk about any of the politics of the cold war or post cold war. Let's just look at this horrible invasion, call Putin an evil terrorist, and keep encouraging these young Ukrainians to keep fighting with our weapons til Russia taps out.",0
At this juncture the repub establishment has to decide if they will cut out the crazies and make a deal with dems or piss of their moderates and business donors by allowing the crazies to run wild. It's a wonderful lose lose for them and an ever present reminder you reap what you sow.,You can't appease crazy so I would hope they'd take the opportunity when they're here at their weakest to strike but we'll see.,0
"In reality, Scientology will slowly brainwash its adherents - and here's the scary part - then teach them to do it to themselves. It's scary shit. It's done so very slowly while giving the member a HUGE sense of belonging which is hard to push away when you're vulnerable. That's what really happens.","Because it's not presented as such. You don't go to your first OT class and read a story about space aliens. Their whole concept is about cleansing yourself from negative energy, thereby allowing to do anything you put your mind to. When you put it that way, doesn't it sound a LOT like 99% of self-help stuff? That kind of description even overlaps with things like meditation and the likes.",0
"lol She isn't a fucking linguist she should keep her mouth shut. Linguists consider a language endangered once it reaches less than 20,000 speakers, and only if few of the next generation are learning to speak it. They eventually get to Critically Endangered (less than 5,000 speakers) then Moribound (only those who learn the language as non-natives are fluent, with no native speakers alive) then Extinct or Dead (no one learns the language to fluency, no one uses it for any daily reason, and there are no native speakers left alive). Afrikaans has 8.4 million speakers. 8.4 Million speakers is far from ""dying"", and if I'm not mistaken, much better than a lot of languages.","In a country with such a diverse population, I'm sure it is very common for people to speak two or more languages.",1
"For House Republicans, the sweetness of returning to the majority after four years may outweigh the sour feelings from a poorer-than-expected performance. But that may not be enough to make Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ascension to the speakership a reality.",That is what I imagine for McCarthy. I can easily see him fighting them as they turn their bombast up to 11 and try to grind everything to a halt.,1
"TLDR: Canadians broadly agree with the concept of healing these old wounds and support the indigenous, but vary widely on what that means practically (is it just politics language-magic? or a real money-down commitment?). The momentum is going in the right direction, but the movement is facing growing challenges + an exhausted, increasingly-stressed electorate that may be due for some austerity measures. No consensus on action, but the work seems lightyears ahead of where things are in the U.S.A re: native peoples - and that's the foundation imo for much bigger future work to come. Would welcome an indigenous perspective to learn from here, and again I speak only from my experience.","Treaties among Indigenous people are a spiritual and evolving concept. In other words ""Honor the spirit of the treat."".",1
I had a professor in college who came from Estonia. He said in WWII when the Nazis took over Estonia the people were actually happy to be freed from Soviet oppression and when the Soviets returned to push the Nazis back many took up arms against them on the side of the Nazis because they'd rather die fighting the Soviets than living under their rule again.,"And after a few years of Soviet occupation (1939-1941), the Russian regime managed to basically make Estonians hate Russians far more than the enemy they had despised for literal centuries.",1
Kari Lake literally only has newscaster/anchor on her list that's IT. Further it was pretty clear she flipped sides to try and find a pension post her anchoring days. Now she's unemployed! .,"Yep. I could never agree with a conservative, but I can respect the principled ones who are willing to compromise. Despite being solidly on the left side of the political spectrum for life, I firmly believe we need other points of view, and corrupt/maga conservatives are denying actual conservative viewpoints to our entire country.",1
"They have social media and individuals have pages so idk how it’s truly changing smth. they removed&changed a lot of stuff cause westerners don’t comprehend that same symbols can have different meaning, Ukraine already had lists of banned symbols and they weren’t used anything illegal already. even the alt right guy who founded azov has his blog where he posts dead russians. (He left a fee years ago batalion to focus on politics without success).","Alt right founder who left the group has his blog on tg where he just post fk russians and long live ukraine. Pics from battlefield, dead russians pics .",0
"Finally, tighten up existing gun laws, stop the idiotic ""constitutional carry"" and add severe fines, including imprisonment for gun dealers who ""wink and nod"" about cash purchases and require ""gun shows"" to follow all requirements for gun dealer licenses.","Finally, finally, hold permanent gun buybacks in every locality, funded by the federal government, if necessary and find better ways to remove guns from abusers and people with private armories.",0
Is there evidence of this actually occurring widespread across the country in this linked fashion? Or is it just a conflation of disparate stories to create a narrative that doesn't accurately describe most of America?,"Oh I totally agree with you here, we clearly know there is hypocrisy in claiming to be tough on crime while wanting their guy to get off from stuff like Jan 6th and the classified docs. But polling and election results do show that Americans generally agree with having police, funding them, and having their communities policed.",0
Corruption in the uk is substantially less of a problem than Ukraine... ukraine is the most corrupted country in Europe after russia and Belarus if i am not mistaken.,Ukraine and Russia where in a battle for the title of most corrupt country in Europe before the war. Three years ago he probably had gotten away with it.,1
"Why do businesses get let off the hook when they dominate the options, but individuals are expected to shoulder the blame when they just react to what actually available?",You think these extremes are bad now? Wait until we blow right past 1.5 C under the excuse of “have to use this shit to keep people warm/cold Not our fault”.,0
"Name a western country that outlaws being gay, that beats, rapes, and executes gay people. Your whataboutisim game is weak.","Now, let me try to really clarify what I'm saying. Let's say, hypothetically, the WC was being held in Qatar, and Qatar's only stance on lgbtq matters was they didn't recognize same sex marriages. And let's assume the western world condemned them for it, called it outrageous behavior. Ran all of the stories we are currently seeing about it. Then today, news comes out that Japan has taken the same legal stance on not recognizing same sex marriages, but the western world withholds it's opinion on the matter.",0
It's not nessesary to inject further negativity or involve yourself in any way if you don't like it. It's only a problem for you because you've taken it upon yourself to make it your problem.,"When we start being complacent, keeping silent about obvious wrong doings, not making these stupid ""jokes,"" it allows idiots like Kanye and Musk to spread their ridiculous opinions with an even louder contrasting voice, leading to things like promoting fucking Nazis and people being ok with government sponsored murder.",0
"I don't think your drug point is actually correct though, I've heard places with legal weed the legal stuff is generally cheapee than the illegal stuff. Certainly with cigarettes and booze the illegal snuggled shit is cheaper.","With something like cigarettes or legalized weed, where a steep government sin tax is in effect, the black market can be cheaper than the legal distributors. However, the black market is still more expensive than if the government backed off and allowed cigarettes or marijuana to be sold at production cost. Even if a black market springs up to circumvent a government restraint on trade, the illegal price will still be higher than the original market equilibrium price was.",1
"But then they put a little twist in there by suggesting that instead of doing anything to russia, they should just stop sending weapons to Ukraine.",If they want peace you need to send more arms to Ukraine to push Russia back. Anything else Russia will surely strike again. Their nose has been bloodied too much and humiliated to let things just stand.,1
"The Weimar Republic had only existed for a little more than a decade and was the only attempt at a non-authoritarian government in its history. It failed. There was no democratic tradition, no long standing foundations of free people. It had also been defeated in a World War and it was a national shame. The Nazis flourished in such an environment.","The United States, despite its flaws, is not in those circumstances. There is no doubt to someone with a passing knowledge of the Nazi rise that what we are seeing here mirrors the fascism of that time. But the country, culture, society, and political order are different. And the internet, which helped flame this fascism also has spread its antidote, far and wide, and generations who will not permit its neck being stepped on.",0
Edit 3: Did the democrats have to pass a bill in the house forcing rail workers to into a contract the workers voted down?,"Correct, why would the democrats pass a bill forcing the workers to accept a contract they rejected?",1
Education is the source of the problem. You fix that and most of the rest takes care of itself. Trying to monitor speech has historically always lead to conflict or tyranny.,"We have certain laws that protect speech and businesses and there is an enormous amount of hypocrisy when it comes to how they’re interpreted. But it’s more complicated than that because businesses like twitter and Facebook have incredible influence and appear to be working with government to predominately silence conservative voices. Now with musk, we may be getting the same thing in the other direction; too early to tell.",0
"We should expect that Democrats will get upset they can't blatantly spread lies on Twitter anymore, but them throwing tantrums is a small price to pay as we can't let them be the ""arbiters of truth"" any longer.","Just lets hope the truth is not manipulated like the last time, you know like they did last time where they banned a truthful news story because it hurt one candidate.",1
"Experts and analysts have been saying for quite a while, that we're reaching a point of no return, based on those reports.","Well, now we find those reports are false. Meaning the time frame for ""we're fucked as a species"" is nowhere near as wide as we thought. Which probably indicates that we've already passed that threshold, we just haven't figured it out, yet.",0
It's not a mystery why they have been trying to push Ukraine to 'let them win' through negotiations recently.,"Russia's condition for talks in the first place presumes the Ukraine to admit some sort of defeat, as things are far from static, no?",1
"It works fairly well in France. While some words slip through, the Académie Française has been the official gatekeepers of the French language in France for over 300 years.","Not only do members not live at the Institut, it houses the oldest public library in France, has an impressive art collection its amassed over the years, and is impeccably maintained. You can visit it yourself, if you'd like.",0
"However, as seen in Iran and Ukraine, there is something to be said about shining an international spotlight on human rights issues - it gives legitimacy and validity to any dissenters, and helps them gain support more quickly, including within their own country. Of course, and unfortunately, the reality is that Qatar doesn't seem to have much in the way of internal dissent.","Sure, but that doesn't mean people shoudn't avoid supporting Qatar. Whataboutism doesn't help your argument. People can care about the abuses by Qatar and by other places too. I do agree with you that people are likely to completely forget about it once the world cup is over, but if anything that just means making an impact now is even more important.",1
"Probably not, but then again, Russia is THE biggest country in the world, with incredibly low population density. There's hundreds and hundreds of miles of tracks that don't really go through any settlements. And as paranoid Putin is, he'll surely prefer those.","Well, knowing Putin... His armored train is probably one of the best built things in Russia. It could probably withstand everything below a Tomahawk missile. So it makes sense for him because, unless Russia goes to war with the West or his military starts a coup, he'll be completely safe in his train. Revolting citizens won't really be able to do much except derail the thing. But if he's protected by a few inches of steel... He just has to wait for the military to come save his ass while watching his citizens take pot shots at him from the bullet proof windows.",1
"North Korean personnel were assisting a WMD program in Syria, and the use of North Korean labor in Russia and China is extremely well documented.","And if North Korea sends troops to Ukraine, South Korea must seriously consider doing so as well, or at least a very large number of non--combatant Abrams and F-16 maintenance technicians, fully equipped. Just as Israel and Saudi Arabia Iraq, and Turkey must more than respond to what Iran has done in Ukraine. The Pacific Rim nations must respond to what China and India (after their abstention votes in the UN) are or are not, doing in Ukraine. As the worlds most populous neighbors, they both have the most to gain from the ""support the non-aggressor"" precedents increasingly being reinforced in Ukraine.",1
"The lakebed is lined with all sorts of industrial leftovers from decades of dumping. Without the lake, the wind is going to blow dust storms of arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury (etc), into the city.",I can’t believe how far I had to scroll to get to the health impacts of this lakebed dust blowing through the state’s largest population center. People will die from this.,1
"[Sex addiction is a highly debated topic. It isn't classified by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), but was recently added to the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD). For those who struggle with compulsive sexual behavior, pornography consumption may also be a problematic behavior.","Compulsive sexual behavior disorder is defined in the ICD as: ""a persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges resulting in repetitive sexual behavior."" Because of this uncontrollable erratic and intense behavior, it's common that those dealing with compulsive sexual behavior disorder have underlying mental health issues including bipolar disorder, depression, or obsessive compulsive disorder.",0
"The Camp David Accords during the Carter administration achieved a peace with Egypt, but left the Palestinians still in limbo.","As for the Camp David Accords, peace with Egypt was inevitable. Egypt wrecked Israel in the 1973 Yom Kipper War, and as much as Israel likes to claim they were winning at the end, they were burning themselves thin. Their southern forces were practically wiped out, where as the Egyptians still had plenty of forces, albeit separated and fighting independently from one another, still making plenty of headway by the time a truce was called.",1
"Switzerland, I believe Serbia and Canada also have guns. Not to the level of the US of course, they're far ahead of everyone in that respect. However their gun deaths are through the roof proportionally, which means it's not just a gun issue.","I'll also add just so we're all on the same page, I'm not saying everyone should be armed with a gun. Some people don't like guns, or feel pepper spray, taser, etc is enough for them. I don't carry a firearm in public. But I do have legal means to defend myself when I leave the house.",1
On Wednesday the Supreme Court hosted nearly three hours of oral arguments in a case many experts say could do more damage to democracy than anything since Donald Trump’s attempted coup.,"Moore v Harper revolves around an idea cooked up on the fringes of conservative legal thought that could turn federal elections into statewide power-grabs, and possibly do more to weaken the power of voters’ ballots than gerrymandering ever could.",0
"It’s a stretch to call a nonaggression agreement “aligned”, and to say Russia benefitted more than anyone is to be completely blind to the existence of the USA.",You’re as uneducated on the subject as it comes if you think Stalin saw Hitler’s beliefs as “similar” to his own in any capacity.,0
Or maybe Georgia got confirmation of support and have wanted to declare their land again now that Ukraine looks like they could pull through.,"If any country shouldn't be slammed for not supporting Ukraine, it is Georgia. They already have two Russian guns aimed at their proverbial head in the form of S. Ossetia and Abkhazia. The latter isn't even that far from Putin's palace in Krasnodar. Supporting Ukraine in their situation would almost be suicide, Russian would consider that to ""be asking for it"" and invade them next after Ukraine!",1
"Exit polls give one indication of the ages represented, and I believe there is public information about who voted, though of course not how they vote. And yes, I'm talking about the under 25 group. Here's a PBS article about the trend which cites their sources:","The reason I believe the elections are so often very close is because the youth on both sides would largely prefer not to bother, and can only be goaded into action when it's close. I hope that I'm wrong and that the youth will learn that they really can make a difference, and are creating voting habits that will persist, but I don't expect that.",0
"Hi c_hitchens84. Thank you for participating in /r/Politics. However, has been removed for the following reason(s):","The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.",0
The United States in the 60's had over 30k nuclear bombs or warheads and by 1986 the Soviets had 45k nuclear bombs and warheads. Many of these were tactical nukes meant to be used by fighter jets or short range missiles on the frontline of battles.,"It became a game where because the U.S. had so many nukes the Soviets needed more to take them out, which meant the U.S. needed more to target the additional Soviet nukes etc etc.",1
Makes sense to me. Although I would think under certain conditions first time prescriptions can be done safely over telehealth.,Basic allergy meds are over the counter. Thousands of common and safe drugs are available over the counter. The oddball drugs and less safe ones should require a prescription and visit with a medical professional. In some cases telehealth might be proficient.,0
"Yep. We had to stop producing 30K dozen a year of chicken eggs when the cost of both feed and labor increased beyond what we were willing to charge for eggs. Legally, minimum wage for egg washers ratchets up each year so we had to choose between better pay and feeding birds. I’m looking for food costs to double to permit a meaningful wage increase for ag workers in the future but then, of course, a living wage won’t be a living wage anymore.","There’s a lot of people who want to be paid more than the value of their contributions to a business or product. While the need for a solution is in no way diminished, many of the aspects of “I should be paid a liveable wage for whatever it is that I do” can be distilled right down to that.",0
"Was God wrong when he made these people this way? Is their very existence sinful? Typically, hardliners and far right will get extremely angry when you point this out because its impossible to square these facts with their narrow worldview. They get even madder when you ponder which bathroom these people should use. ""well, if they look like a guy they should use the mens bathroom"" - then you point out by their logic that trans people should use the ""wrong"" bathroom and they meltdown.","The most hilarious thing to me is that many of these ""testosterone insensitive males"" are indistinguishable from XX females, and many of them never find out. The consequence is that thousands of bigots have been in a gay marriage their entire lives and are banging men regularly with no clue.",0
"Aum Shinrikyo, Pana-Wave Laboratory, Happy Science, ESP Kagaku Kenkyuujo, World Mate, Räelism, Scientology, Jehova's Witnesses, Ho No Hana Sanpogyo, Sukyo Mahikari, Shinji Shumeikai, Mahikari, Unification Church, Zenrinkyo, Makuya, Kurozumikyou, etc to just mention a very small fraction of them.","And that it's inspired by the Japanese 2ch to begin with, which hosts the dregs of society and just like 4chan has a looooong list of rapists, pedophiles, murderers, etc among its frequent users.",0
"I want to see Putin and his cronies gone, but I’d rather that comes now than continue to see both countries destroyed (Russia has good people and it has a lot of potential if it weren’t for this disaster of a regime).","I mean, there's many reasons this war shouldn't have happened, and even if you're a completely brainless and dickless pro-Russian stooge, one good reason for them is Russia is exceedingly bad at it.",1
"Just a point of semantics. The US does not accept the One China policy in a sense of agreeing with it, . AKA ""Yes we know you think that"".","It's fine to browse headlines without reading articles. It's toxic to comment without reading an article, especially because headlines are often written by editors for marketing purposes and may not even accurately reflect the message of the article or the intent of the author.",0
"Better, just all quit. If they’re that badly understaffed to not manage sick leave, unpaid sick leave mind you, not even a majority just walking away will grind them to a halt.","Sick leave is “hey I know I should be on my way in to work, but I seem to be shitting blood, out my eyes. I can’t be in today.”.",0
"I just feel they are trying to bring attention to climate, but are making people talk more about the negativity of their actions than the actual message they are trying to spread.","Activists are either trying to game the system to get their message out there, annoying people in the process, or being misrepresented by someone who wants to slander their image/undermine their message. It's probably a little of both, given how widespread it has become.",1
"You could tell me that you knew with 99% certainty that Biden would drop dead after inauguration, and I would still vote for him over any Republican candidate and the vast majority of Democratic ones.","If you think Joe Biden - without union support - is going to outperform Any Generic Democrat, then we're just going to have to disagree until one of us is proven right.",1
"He was protecting himself, not the country when he did not go along with it. His cooperation now is the same thing. Self-preservation.","The fuck he did. He knew it crossed the line into criminality, that is why he did not go along. Treason can be punished by the death penalty. Had he gone along with this, he would have been arrested the same day. There would be no denying it was a banana republic style coup had he gone with it.",0
"You also have to be careful not to overstate the role of automation here. Historically and even today, manufacturing jobs are being outsourced faster than they are being automated, and automated industries have so far not led to reduced labor hours in that sector, just increased output.","While your argument does make sense, I'm not sure labor hours would be reduced, instead of gutting few laborers jobs outright, and then relying on the smaller size workforce to make up for it with increased productivity due to automation.",1
"You were wrong. You were certain Bernie would force both bills passing. I said that wasn't going to happen and that the 1st bill would pass, the 2nd bill would get a vote, and it would fail.","He used his leverage for a vote which was a mistake because the vote wasn’t gonna pass. He should have used his leverage to delay the process and give the workers a chance to strike. But really the anger needs to be directed towards the entire party. If the democrats voted no the workers would be striking. The reason they won’t be is because the democrats are either cowards worried about political fallout, corrupt and bought by large interests, or stupidly think that anybody will care about this issue next election cycle. But this will make the problems in our railroad system so much worse.",1
Wow what a false equivalency. One was a mostly peaceful protest where police got crazy and attacked journalists in response to another police killing of an unarmed black man.,The other was an insurrection because the former president wanted to overturn an election and baited and encouraged his base to storm the capitol to stop the proceedings that day.,0
I wonder how they will get passed the states that are trying to make it illegal to cross state lines to get an abortion.,"How do you square this argument with the Texas abortion bounty system? It seems clear that the GOP is willing to pursue avenues that can be turned against them (as Newsom is attempting with the CA version of this law re: guns). That, to me, indicates some level of confidence that the court system will work to enforce the results they want and hinder the ones they do not.",1
"There's also the possibility that China changes its course. This is Xi's course, but Xi won't be there in 10 years.","And your last question: war. China is prepping for war with the US. They're militarizing faster than any nation in history, they're building weapons systems with the sole purpose of hitting US ships, carriers, and planes, and they believe we are on a collision course for war.",0
"Well, the cocaine was adrift, I don't think they assumed it was destined for New Zealand. I think they were explicity pointing out that it was way too much cocaine to be headed to Australia or New Zealand.","""At a media conference this afternoon, Coster added: ""We believe there was enough cocaine to service the Australian market for about one year, and was enough cocaine to service the New Zealand market for 30 years."""".",1
"No one is going to care, though. As long as it is 'icky' trans people, it's okay in the minds of most.",Makes me think this would apply to intersex people a well. So that means they would be going after people who were literally born with both sets of genitals.,1
"Not defending the dirtbag, but the difference is the law and your ability to use it in your advantage.",Instead of fixing the carry forward loophole they changed if from 20 years to indefinite. So idiots like Trump can reach back to when he owned casinos and claim millions in extra losses.,0
"Case in point, ask anyone who knows how to drive if they’ve ever read the driver’s manual to their car cover to cover. You would be amazed how many people would turn out to have skimmed it at most and couldn’t accurately tell you how many pages their car’s manual has to the nearest 100 pages.","(I joke with that last bit, but I genuinely have had to assemble an IKEA wardrobe on my own. 0/10, do not recommend unless you have a spare football field.).",0
I wish Ukraine a boring future and nothing worse than a moderate corruption scandal on the news ASAP.,"I think you're discounting just how much corruption existed in Ukraine prewar, not that it's all gone now. Since the outbreak of the war a lot of Russia's political pawns are gone, it'll be significantly easier for Zelensky to pull through with his promises in the new political climate.",1
The notion that Raffensperger is opposing runoffs to try to consolidate Republican power is laughable.,". He's also infamous for standing up to Trump when he was calling around, begging for votes. Plus, he's breaking ranks with his entire party to join Democrats in opposing runoffs. So no, I don't think he wants to change it to where they get to pick if it's close to a tie.",0
"- On June 7, 2022, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced Russia's intent to cancel a 1998 agreement with Japan allowing Japanese fishermen to operate near the southern Kuril Islands, claiming that Japan is not meeting the financial obligations outlined in the agreement.","- On September 5, 2022, a document was published signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin about Russia's unilateral withdrawal from a visa agreement which allowed former Japanese residents to visit the disputed islands without visas.",0
"And, no I don't think American missiles flying into Russia decreases the chances of direct confrontation and that much should be obvious to anyone.","So no I don't think there should be a no-fly zone, American boots on the ground, or American-made missiles whizzing over Kovrov.",0
"Sadly this is true, the medical system in Canada is slow and unwieldy and incentivises good doctors to seek employment elsewhere, where they can make better salaries.","People like you see these numbers and think these doctors are so wealthy, but in reality, with the cost of living in many major hubs in the country, we don't pay physicians enough in Canada to retain them.",1
The line is razor thin when in urban combat. So thin you should always assume any trap you left for a soldier will harm a civilian.,"Planting bombs to kill civilians is what you'd expect them to do, given their stated goal. In general, this is why appeasement won't work, and why Russia must be demilitarized for a lasting peace.",1
"Whether it’s the Chinese, or American tech companies, they’re all harvesting your data and spying on you.","It is effectively spyware, stealing far more data and with far more malicious intent the average corporate data collection.",1
The 118th United States Congress is poised to elect a new Speaker of the House when it convenes for its first session today.,"Until the vote for Speaker has concluded, the House cannot conduct any other business. Based on current reporting, neither candidate has reached majority support due to multiple members of the Republican majority .",0
The fact that pandemic just caused the of loss of lives and it was the duty of the concerned government to aware and take care of the people!,"If you want my opinion on this whole thing, of course he has a significant responsibility in the death toll. But to be honest, I'm not sure that things would have been very different with someone else in power. And I'm not sure things will be very different if an opposition party comes to power in May. In any case, Istanbul is fucked. There will be hundreds of thousands of casualties when the big one strikes the city. In this disastrous economy, there's not enough time and money to destroy, rebuild, strenhen, renovate, etc. And for that too he is partly responsible...",1
Yea. Delivering helmets while the rest of the world delivered AT4 and ammunition. I’m sure Germany isn’t just sitting on their hands like they have been for the entire conflict.,"Germany has actually done a lot, but I understand your sentiment. Germany is holding up deliveries of Leopard 2 tanks and they've been unable to explain why.",1
"Not mine but this is a pretty fucked up list•	⁠(TRUMP) Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky & Former Campbell County Judge, Served as a judge, school board member and city solicitor, forced 19 victims to perform sex acts, including seven who were minors under 16. Pled guilty on February 11, 2018 and was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison. •	⁠(TRUMP) Republican George Nader, Trump Foreign Policy Adviser, sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of child pornography and transporting a minor into the United States for sex. •	⁠(TRUMP) Republican Ralph Shortey, a former Oklahoma state senator & Trump’s Oklahoma campaign chair, was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. Pled guilty to a federal charge of child sex trafficking after hiring a 17-year-old boy for sex. Sentenced to 15 years in prison, in addition to ten years of supervised release and ordered to pay $125,000 in restitution. •	⁠Republican Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Illinois Congressman and one of the highest-ranking U.S. politicians to ever go to prison, molested at least four boys as young as 14 years of age when he coached wrestling at an Illinois High School. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison, two years' supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. A civil case was due back in court for a status hearing on Jan. 8, 2021 at the courthouse to further address the jury trial. •	⁠Republican Minnesota State Representative Jim Knoblach Drops Out Of Race After Daughter Says He Molested Her For More Than Ten Years 22 Sep 2018 •	⁠Republican Jayson Boebert, husband of Q-ANON Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado, was arrested in Jan. 2004 after allegedly exposing his penis to two women at a bowling alley, according to an arrest affidavit. Lauren Boebert (then a minor at 17 and known as Lauren Opal Roberts) was also there. He pleaded guilty to public indecency and lewd exposure involving minors. •	⁠Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. •	⁠Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped. •	⁠Republican Joseph Dendy, Cobb County GA Republican Party Chairman & Sunday School Teacher,was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted on four counts of child molestation, four counts of first-degree cruelty to children, three counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes, and one count each of aggravated sexual battery and aggravated child molestation. •	⁠Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida. •	⁠Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison. •	⁠Republican Kentucky state Representative & pastor Dan Johnson, committed suicide after an exposé revealed his serial lies, suspected arson, criminal church, racism, accused rape of a teen and more. •	⁠Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. •	⁠Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation. •	⁠Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. •	⁠Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls. •	⁠Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter. •	⁠Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl •	⁠Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media. •	⁠Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded ""a return to traditional values"", was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him. •	⁠Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison. •	⁠Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl. •	⁠Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.",Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.,1
"I definitely agree with you about the burka, but the wearer will turn around and say she is a feminist and wears it by choice because she feels liberated (face-palm, head-shake).","These things constitute wearing a visible religious symbol and thereby put into question the neutrality of the state. Quebecers, especially women, fought to no longer live in a theocracy in the quiet revolution. Those who wish to proselytize, or who feel their religious belief system should permeate other aspects of civil life such as education or dispute settlement, should consider immigrating elsewhere.",0
"Again, I’m not arguing that anyone broke the law or even evaded it by being religious. I never once argued for removing the right of the religious to believe or preach their views.","The point I’ve been making, to say it louder for those in the back, is that religion is a disease. It’s lies, slander, and bigotry wrapped up in the guise of humanitarianism, and if people truly kept it to themselves as the first amendment guarantees their right to do, I wouldn’t have a problem. The religious freaks refuse to adhere to the barrier between church and state and continue their attempts to force all free Americans to comply with their imaginary beliefs. And the religious tolerant seem to think they have a point worth listening to and refuse to reinforce the wall that was supposed to exist between religion and politics.",0
A guy who has been known to be burning Korans for like ten years now has been linked to Russia? So in what ways was he aiding Russia for the other 10 years he was burning the Koran?,What you need to understand is that Turkey is not blocking you over the koran burning. That part is just posturing. There are elections soon and to ignore it would lead to poor outcome. No the opposition in Turkey is not necessarily the better alternative. They were giving Erdogan rough time for not pressuring Sweden even more.,1
"I was at the Manhattan DA’s Office from 2012 to 2017, working for a special narcotics unit doing trials and wiretap investigations. Then I put on my journalist cap and went to Washinon to cover the Supreme Court and other legal issues for Bloomberg Law. I recently joined MSNBC, where I author the new , a digital extension of Nicolle Wallace’s “,” which airs weekdays from 4-6 p.m. ET. I’m excited to bring my legal knowledge and experience to the blog — and this year promises to be a wild ride in the legal world. (I also have a book coming out in April, called “,” a true crime War on Drugs saga . . . .) On the blog, I’ve been covering everything from the  to  to . . . ? Yes, really. But today, let’s talk about  – where prosecutors in the Department of Justice, , and  are eyeing the former president and current 2024 candidate.","In New York, we also have recent reporting that the Manhattan DA’s office has a grand jury looking into Trump now. So, again, like Georgia, that doesn’t guarantee that Trump will be charged there, either, but it helps to explain why he hasn’t been charged there yet if he will be.",0
I am not American I am as fit as a fiddle and worked my life in construction. I want all countries to bring back manufacturing to their individual countries. Supply chains are broken and basically China now is holding world to ransom.,It’s not cheap also like it was in the first place to manufacture in China wages for the Chinese people have been rising very fast. I don’t begrudge the people of China a better standard of living. But it’s time people manufactured in their own countries.,0
"""Moderate"" (read conservative) Democrats are, at best out of touch and at worst actively against what the voting public wants and cares about. Actively ignoring this and saying that unity can only be done behind moderate leadership will only exacerbate the system that spawned Trump.","How has that been working for you? Honestly. Uniting behind the conservative wing of the Democratic party has been a failing move. Pushing Hilary as a candidate three times? Biden barely winning... losing the Supreme Court, electing people like Manchin and Sinema? Kind of feels like uniting behind the moderates isn't doing any good - it's a slow death.",0
"Biden still isn't my pick to run in 2024, I'd rather have a senator, but they all need to stay where they are.","Biden isn’t going to resign unless he’s elected and an unexpected health issue comes up. But even if he did resign it wouldn’t impact the house or senate majority since the new president gets to appoint a VP. If the Senate is held by the GOP and they refuse to confirm a VP then the office sits vacant and the speaker of the House is next in line should something happen to Harris, but they are still in the House until that happens.",1
"If they follow the Hastert Rule (only bringing to the floor bills that have majority support within the majority party), they're not going to be able to legislate at all. It'll just be circus faux investigations and nothing else.","It's interesting to think about how this type of dynamic (freedom caucus vs the world) is going to be in play on every major vote that the House Speaker, when there is one, brings to the floor.",0
"There hasn’t been nearly enough attention on how this is affecting women’s health who didn’t even want an abortion. Not only do they want to prevent women from having abortions, they’re happy to risk the lives of those who don’t.","When abortion care is criminalized women suffer, and die needlessly. It’s not about what arbitrary week somebody wants to choose, it’s about being able to make decisions when there’s an emergency.",1
This will also accelerate exploration of Starlink alternatives because no user wants to see a critical service be subject to the whims of an asshat plutocrat.,"Yeah, I imagine using Starlink for military purposes opens a whole can of compliance/regulatory worms that SpaceX does not want to deal with. It may make it less useful for civilian applications.",1
They have a proud history of rushing technology for the propaganda points. Not properly testing the technology. And it spectacularly failing. (But scapegoating the failures 'cos propaganda).,"Russia always spread propaganda about their greatness and often overstretched themselves to failure. It's like there are cycles in Russia about bullshitting other countries into thinking they are all powerful until they believe it themselves and they try to invade a neighbor and then get their asses handed to them and they have to start over again. Also, those events usually coincide with revolution/regime change. Had Tsar Alexander and the war with Japan and the Soviets and their war in Afghanistan.",1
"I don't mean to refute this because I'm honestly not very knowledgeable about Russian life, but I have to believe that many people living in Russia are oppressed or brainwashed by the ideology put forth by the government. I can't really blame the people for not knowing any better.","Perhaps the athletes should leave Russia and move to a better country? It's not a ploy to punish them, but an action to punish the government. There were a lot of great Germans who fled Germany during the Nazi regime. Perhaps it's time Russians flee their oppressors as well.",0
"""I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”.","The GOP has become the most revolting collection of bigots, authoritarians, scammers, money launderers, duplicitous fanatics, perverts, opportunists, and half-wits gathered at the White House--with the possible exception of when Donald Trump tweeted from the shitter during 'executive time'."".",0
Their efforts would have been to win in Georgia though. Everything hinged on that. It was an insanely clever way to gain Senate control from the Democrats and make it a 49-51.,"Warnock won and its no secret in Washinon that she was planning on switching to Independent. So, in efforts to keep her committee assignments, she had to keep her promise to be independent, but not caucas with the GOP.",0
Yep. The laws around language are pretty typical for most countries. They set a standard for which the government is to operate. The official language of the US is English. There are regional exceptions for Spanish and other languages though. The laws Ukraine passed in 2022 after the Russian invasion are clearly geared at limiting Russians and sending a message to Russia.,">Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 19 June the Ukrainian parliament passed two laws which placed restrictions on Russian books and music. The new laws ban Russian citizens from printing books unless they take Ukrainian citizenship, prohibit the import of books printed in Russia, Belarus and the occupied Ukrainian territories, and prohibit the reproduction in the media and public transport of music performed or created by post-1991 Russian citizens, unless the musicians are included in a ""white list"" of artists who have publicly condemned Russian aggression against Ukraine.[14][15][16].",1
"But that's besides the point. The topic at hand is an authoritarian regime manipulating the populace of other nations to erode support for their democracy, push policies that negatively impact the other nation (Brexit), and sow unrest and dissent.","It would be rightfully considered unacceptable if leavers lost and tried to undermine democracy by stating that, due to low turn out, the referendum does not actually represent the interests of the majority of British people and should be ignored.",1
If this works out it will help a LOT of people in poverty in Venezuela by helping them have more money for food imports.,"Yeah, the people here thinking this money will go toward solving the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela are delusional. This money is going straight into the pockets of corrupt politicians and oligarchs. The Venezuelan government has repeatedly proven that they don't give a fuck about the suffering of the Venezuelan people.",1
i would say india would be fucking stupid to accept the russians help with tank building thanks to the ukrainian war.,"as for the ukraine situation, well of course doctrine will play a major part, theyre on equal footing.",0
"Interesting, and I assume some high level military official is about to have a conversation with SpaxeX about this.","If the Pentagon told them to do this, that's pretty much out of their hands and if you have a problem with it, go talk to the Pentagon.",1
"Russia is going to collectively punish Ukrainian civilians whether or not Ukraine bombs Russia's airfields, so why the hell not?",...and shortly after Russian forces unleashed a massive missile barrage in Ukraine that struck homes and buildings and killed civilians.,0
Protests TEND to lead to repression for the most part. Very few protests actually succeed. But they CAN lead to war for power in the right circumstances.,"Generally those circumstances are that some level of the elite sees the opportunity to get more power for themselves . That can be business elites, or government, or military. But generally the people alone aren't going to overturn an entrenched dictator.",0
"Be careful you'll anger the Pete for America crowd that insists he can do no wrong. The guy could have taken a job anywhere with his resume and chose the company that puts profits over people in every situation. His meager actions on cracking down on airlines and now throwing the rail workers under the bus. Sure he'll be going on Fox or something soon to get his ""slams"" so people can forget how undeserving he was of his DOT appointment. His supporters will still argue he's a progressive though.","He's not a pro-labor president then. Fucking simple as that. Man, I was proud of my vote for Biden a month ago. Now I'm not so sure. Good job Biden. You're alienating a large majority of the people who voted for you for political and economical optics.",1
"And I'll also add as an American , a real one, I'm just as critical of my government as I would be of any hypocritical country. They have done some bad shit and continue to do it all the while people bicker about the opposite parties. We need to be critical of our governments to keep them as honest and accountable as possible.","I cant stand the current level of communication access that allows anyone to just throw something out there that has little to no facts to back it up. When I was in college in journalism class my professor warned us this would happen. Catered one view news intake, baseless information with no multiple sources to back claims, and anyone can just post misinformation to confuse those that dont do critical thinking methodologies.",0
It would give state legislaturea the ability to district lines but more importantly it would give states the final say in presidential electors for the electoral college.,"It means whichever party controls a given state's legislature will effectively have control over how that state votes for president, should the legislature decide to go there.",1
"Also read the fucking article, they evem talk about a dozen projects that got the green light despite those new rules.","And if they greenlit projects... then they have lied about the requirement I pointed out. I'm sure their paper SAYS it will not encourage more drivers, but taking 50 drivers off the road to run one bus instead (never gonna happen) just made space for 40+ more drivers and the roads nicer to drive for all drivers.",1
What people aren't considering is that a large percentage of those libertarian and moderate Republicans have already been voting Democratic in the last 3 election cycles. Biden for example won 10% of self-identified Republicans in Arizona which was essential for his victory in the state. It's those voters the Democrats may be losing to Sinema.,"Well Sinema has played her hand, and frankly the 2024 Senate race is looking tough for Dems anyhow. If she can generate enough support to win on her own fine, Dems can continue to caucus with her where possible.",1
"I feel like so much of it is what you're used to. If you go to Santa Monica you see women walking down the street in string bikinis and nobody bats an eye, but if you try that in Minnesota there would be traffic accidents. So the answer is more topless women, not less.","Because it increases freedom by providing women a right to choose to be topless or not. Nobody is forcing women to go topless, but those who choose to have the freedom to decide for themselves.",1
"The is the situation in the current day GOP, one half is bought by US defense industry, the others by Russian oligarchs (who are also the Russian 'defense' industry).",Now the Ukrainian army is collapsing and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives fighting an army 3x their size… all so the US could extract tax payer money and give it to western oligarchs.,1
"Realistically, lobbyists often write the documents, work together to collate them and then inform the congress person how they want them to vote on it. Then an army of staffers read the documents and summarize what’s in it for their congress person, if they care at all. Some Representatives and Senators still have their teams add content of their own design and try to work with each other to get it supported by enough people to be included in the final bill. But as I said, these days, corporations do a lot of the heavy lifting and those in congress mostly just rubber stamp what their big donors tell them to rubber stamp.",Source: Anecdotal but I have many old acquaintances who either work on the hill or have worked on the hill and that’s how they described the situation. The ones most frustrated were the ones who said their boss didn’t give a shit or were more worried about fundraising than whatever work should be going on. It really shattered their perceptions of how government worked….,0
"oof, when i took my sinovac last year everybody was saying how all vaccines save lives, and made fun of who wanted to ""choose"" their one.","Now even though i'm vaccined (as i should, it's the right thing to do) i can't travel to a lot of countries.",0
"Definition: Generally, a deliberate killing that occurs without planning and does not fall under any of the categories of first degree murder.",Definition: A homicide that is both planned and deliberate. An example of this is a contract killing.,0
"Well, maybe so, but I don’t think NATO is gonna put up with this level of violence against civilians endlessly. The tanks are coming. The Bradleys are coming. All kinds of other stuff is coming. I would imagine that more patriots will come now.","Because here’s the deal. Based on the readiness they have displayed so far in this war, and the stories we were hearing in the 1990’s about their nukes being unsecured and not well tended, and the actual nukes we have found laying on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, I’m guessing that most of what nukes they have would explode inside Russia.",0
"Actually for legal purposes I think this puts Fox ""News"" in a worse position. If Hannity said he firmly believed the election was stolen then hosting all the election denying nut bags could be legally justified. But saying he never believed it was stolen for a second, means he was hosting nut bags he knew were spreading false information. That ""knowingly"" part is key in a defamation lawsuit.","At the very least, should be a slam dunk defamation case since they're now saying they never believed it. ""Okay, so let's play back some of the 100's of hours of you stating otherwise, while as you've started under oath was knowingly false."".",1
The only way to keep these units attacking is by shooting them if they don't. And now that they've run out of convicts- is Putin willing to start shooting Mobiks?,"They(Putin and Co.) probably just wanted to quickly get rid of the people who have a very legitimate reason to turn around and shoot at the very government that put them in jail in the first place. To them, those penal soldiers are the last people they want to train ""properly"", for fear of them using that training against the Russian government, instead of the enemy(in this case: Ukraine).",1
"I'm really sorry for Moldova, they are in a very particular situation... Russia's at their doorstep, not in EU, not in NATO, not a big army, not rich country, can't have foreign military on their soil by constitution, basically a perfect prey.","in the hypothetical scenario where NATO, at the request of Moldova, mobilizes to protect Moldova's territory. Would russia respond to it as tho it is an act of war and also mobilize ?",1
"And frankly that hardly matters, eventually correct theories will either float to the top or a new theory will become popular and 'correct' and then decades later science historians will find old papers with the same type of thoughts. Sure it sucks if you are trying to chase fame and fortune in the here and now, but in the end the important names doing the discoveries will be remembered and the ones trying to hold science back for their pet theories will be discredited.","Any scientist should do it with an honor, for the interest of the humanity and good for everyone else, without representing the selfish self-interests. The feeling of pride should be greater admitting that you were wrong rather than trying to dodge the information and spread the disinformation by postponing the progress and innovation. Educated minds should simply not have a problem accepting the facts, and continuing to move on in this direction rather than living in a world of delusion. Not taking it personally is what separates a person with education from a regular one... a professional form an amateur... informed mind from the anti-vaxxers or similar.",1
"Wasn't that a rape charge? Not even commenting on the merits on the espionage question, but the above quote is dancing very hard around a rather important part of Assange's legal history.","Contrarily to what many here seem to believe, Assange is not pursued because of the late leaks influencing the 2016 election but:",1
"Of all of the terrible things he does and believes, I think wanting Jews to be able to visit holy sites in their own country freely isn't one of them.","Well maybe if palestinians didn't hate on him for abiding his religion, which he has every right to do - his provocation wouldn't work?",1
"Basically, the first ""Prescribe real property"" refers to prescribed exclusion in the Regulation (See section 3(1) under sub-title ""Residential property - exclusion"" in the Regulation), while the same term in paragraph (c) is defined by section 3(2) of the regulation (Which applies the Prohibition to vacant land zoned residential or mixed use in the property census areas).","So if judges read this as literally as a computer would instead of realizing that the wording was messed up, every prescribed real property or immovable that subsection (c) was meant to bring into scope of the residential property definition is excluded, because a prescribed real property or immovable is of course not ""other than a prescribed real property or immovable"".",1
Ukraine back in 2014 was not the same it is now. Nobody would have given them anywhere close to the weapons they were given now.,The M1 has an older gun that the modern Leopards. The M1 is still using the licensed gun which is the 120mm L44. The modern Leopard 2 starting with the A6 variant use the 120mm L55.,0
Plus there are around 5 countries at the tournament which have anti homosexuality laws. Waiting for people to protest against them. Especially if any of them turn into the plucky underdog team of the tournament story.,"So if people want to protest about Qatar hosting, shouldn’t you also complain about the other teams and current Rights issue? Or just ignore otherwise well have less teams at the tournaments .",0
"We can blame politicians and billionaires and whatever else makes you numb and apathetic, but it matters not because we are all responsible and we will all suffer the same fate which is extinction and it may come a lot sooner than you think.","I'm also worried people will misinterpret what you said as ""Politicians and corporations need to fix the problems they created"" with out understanding politicians will never do that unless we incentivize or outright force them to.",1
"But you know who will? Those 20,000 or so immigrants that are flooding El Paso, TX right now trying to get in. We literally have a solution to a huge problem in America sitting on our doorstep, begging us to come in.","We need labor. People who will work for peanuts, to help us keep our way of life. American's do not want to work for peanuts anymore.",0
"While I can't speak much to Sikhism or Zoroastrianism or certain sects of Buddhism, the three biggest world religions all have a history written in blood and suffering. It's time for them all to modernize or get out of the way.","It's also not the first time! The church has been hiding and aiding the pedophilia for ages and everytime they're exposed it's ""oH i'M sOrrY"". No, they're not. They're only sorry they got caught. The Catholic church is basically a mafia scheme at this point.",1
"Also, she's dealt with a lot of events during her leadership, which is actually one of the same reasons our last leader stepped down before the election 6 years ago lol so who knows she may be feeling too much stress or something from all the hate she is getting.","Whilst I don't completely blame her for the cost of living crisis as that probably would have happened anywhere, under her leadership NZ has seen a housing crisis so large its worse than like every other OECD country in this century. Once again, like I said its little things as well, crime, healthcare, etc.",0
"Half of them are probably getting their information through right-wing media, which probably only shows the clips of republicans shrieking about having their Twitter accounts banned….",The republicans literally don’t even know the law and they’re pressuring witnesses to unethically share information. Multiple Republican members also threatened the witnesses with arrest and indictment even though it was clear no crimes were committed.,0
"And it's rather weird, actually. Like, back when the US invaded Iraq, was it OK for Russia to seize, for example, the local division of McDonalds, and spend the profits to arm Hussein?",I think it's because there were more significant things going on in that timeframe - from the use of nuclear weapons to internment camps for Japanese Americans.,0
i'm not gullible enough to pretend the democrats would even slow down fascism (which they can't) if they wanted to (which they don't).,"If you think that the Democratic party hasn't been moving left, you haven't been paying attention. The amount of legislation passed for one is staggering for a president in this age, the most effective Congress since the 1960's, in arguably the most polarized political climate we've ever seen.",1
"Following this logic to its conclusion, this bill might be used require states to recognize any legal marriage from anywhere in the world, and some countries legally allow poly marriages.","(b) No Federal recognition of polygamous marriages.—Nothing in this Act, or any amendment made by this Act, shall be construed to require or authorize Federal recognition of marriages between more than 2 individuals.",0
"But using any nukes at all in this fashion would have to result in russia getting cut off, and all nations in this know it including china. Otherwise it sends a message that nukes are OK to use as long as there's no fallout in neighboring nations and I don't think any nation, US and china included, want that memo.",The supposedly second most powerful army in the world is begging for weapons from pariah states like Iran and North Korea .,1
"It’s a very strange line of thought to think a 16 year is any less competent at making a decision on who they’d like to vote for, especially when compared to the average voter.","The young people that voted this month don't have that apathy, and I'm not sure that the Republican propaganda engine that's so effective on old people can even reach, let alone sway, these young voters.",1
"That's wild. I don't remember if our satcom guys were the main comms link or not, but they were the only ones who stayed busy all year. Between the wind, the sun, and some kind of orbit issue, they burned through a set or two of actuators over the year.","From my own experience, the exact same strain of cannabis can alleviate enough anxiety to let me feel sleepy and fall asleep at night, then relieve enough anxiety the next morning to let me enjoy my morning routine, which has an energizing effect.",0
"Problem is, those long range weapons could backfire. While totally understandable, firing back into russian borders is a dangerous Game and straight up opposing NATOs strategy. As it could end up helping Putin to get support among the russian civillians for mobilisation, which he so far does not have. And Russia full on mobilising is no joke. Even with the lack of proper equipment.","No, the US and rest of NATO also share that oppinion and dont want you to strike inside Russia. They are worried Putin might Bomb his own people in a false flag Attack and blame it on Ukraine, to get more support. And NATOs tactic is the opposite, get the russian People to turn on Putin and take him out. Bombing Russia, even just military targets, will most likely Not help.",0
Yep. Thats what pisses me off to no end. Time and time again its been proven Barr has used his biases to influence the DOJ in an unethical way.,I mean he wasn’t wrong because his cronies successfully brushed the investigation under the rug. So who here is stupid? Trump who continues to test the limits of his corruption or us (America) for not holding him accountable? Im honestly not sure anymore.,0
"The only thing preventing Christians to being like extremists muslins is opportunity, if granted, it would be The same.","Ironically, this kind of shit is going to just galvanize the protestors as well as push a lot of them away from religion.",1
"And we ask our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to allow the Russian Army to conduct a large-scale mobilization that will meet the situation that has developed on our borders. In Russia, there are tens of millions of men of military age who we have to rely on and to engage the enemy. But what can our men do, sitting at home, without capable command, supplies and uniforms? Mobilization is what will give them a chance to survive.","We ask our President, our Supreme Commander-in-Chief to prohibit the exit of men of military age out from Russia. And we have every moral right to do so: our husbands died defending these men too, but who will protect us if they run away?",0
"That this came from the US, the implication that the right wing part of the ""cultural war"" is a reaction to the left, and that things can only get worse.","This is what happens when we import American political issues, we get the same propaganda regurgitated, both the left and right are doing it. Its just gonna get worse my friend.",1
"__Swiss imports from Russia rose by almost a fifth of a percent in January compared with the previous month, largely due to purchases of Russian gold transported via the UK.__.","""The gold imports fulfil the requirements in force at the time of import,"" the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (FOCBS) said on Tuesday. The decisive factor, it told the AWP news agency, was that the gold in question was not exported from Russia after August 4, 2022. ""Moreover, the gold was imported into Switzerland from the United Kingdom and not directly from Russia."".",0
So much this. As soon as they found classified documents in his desk Trump should have been in solitary awaiting trial and all his properties should have been searched.,The search team was hired so Trumps lawyers could tell a judge a search had been done and there were no more classified documents at any Trump properties.,1
What do you do when the countries you are sourcing immigrants from start having a declining birth rate? It's not a long term solution.,"This has been an issue for a very long time. Japan has a culture that celebrates and expects long working hours, and effectively making your career your life. People are pushed to find high paying jobs, work long hours, and go out drinking with their coworkers after every shift. Assuming they don't work extra hours and crash at a hotel. Japan is in a situation of either make your life yoir career, or have children and not have your life be your career. The issue there is that you get heavily judged as a ""burden on society"" in the case of the later.",1
"The USSR went the opposite way and focused on disrupting enemy air superiority rather than gaining it, which is why Ukraine inherited large stockpiles of various SAM systems.",Ukraine needs more air and missile defense systems so that fewer Russian missiles get through and then Ukraine needs more heavy weapons (plus training) to drive Russia out of their land as well as more sanctions to disrupt the Russian war machine and make it harder to fund the war.,1
Nature (and politics) abhors a vacuum. Something will replace it. But the Democrats need replacement too--with people who really work to better the nation and its citizens rather than giving lip service and pocketing corporate dollars.,That’s what corporate democrats keep threatening to keep progressives holding the line and supporting them without getting anything in return. Maybe the corporate democrats need to bend some more or even look in the mirror so they can see they are supporting a conservative agenda which is anti-workers rights and anti-workers wages. Maybe the democrats need to lose too if they don’t bend to the progressives.,1
"I watched the clip that someone posted above and her comments about some people thinking rape is sexy were cut off by the commercial break so she didn't get a chance to explain herself. I don't want to put words into her mouth, so hopefully clarifies at some point, but this is my take on what she was saying...",I think she was saying that Trump thought it was sexy. It seems like the kind of display of power that might turn him on. I can see her wanting to not associate with rape if she thinks that would be a sexy thought in Trumps mind.,0
"Funny how such news always show drag queens (not necessarily trans) or footage from pride events, and not trans people how they look in their everyday lives. God beware, people could think trans people were people just like them.","Trans rights are human rights. We aren't hurting anyone. Unless you are a medical professional, you don't need to know the highly advanced science behind why we exist and why the medical community treats us.",1
"Much of the fire losses in the US are due to irresponsible management and a lack of natural fire cycles, I assume Canada has similar issues. Still doesn't negate the damage we're doing by cutting old-growth forests.","Replenishing doesn't bring forests back. It merely brings back some trees. There is no biodiversity, and it takes decades, sometimes even centuries, for forests to gain back their native fauna and flora.",1
"Putin gets angry, grabs the chair handles and starts to shake even more and says ""You seem to be overly interested about the fate of Ukraine... Don't you understand what happens to people who are too nosy here in Russia? Do you want to fall from a fifth floor window? Do you want to be poisoned with a nerve agent like Alexei Navalny? Or shot dead in front of the Kremlin like Boris Nemtsov???","What? Are we talking about the same guy? He ALWAYS has some more bullshit to say. Whether its empty threats or fabricated excuses, like late night adds, “But wait, there’s more!”.",1
"If you read the whole report even with their made up methodology written by a guy with a degree politics not economics, Trump's entire deficit NOT offset by future earnings and savings was pandemic related.",Sorry I actually have a degree in Economics and do analysis for a living. Let's just focus on facts not opinions and not making arbitrary adjustments to how debt is calculated.,0
We're not pushing oil production from the US to Venezuela. Venezuela produces a different type of oil than we produce in the US. We can't easily use US oil in place of the heavier types of oil we get from foreign sources.,"The US oil companies have cut back on domestic production of their own volition because a lot of them got burned by oil price crashes during the past decade. They're scared of investing too much and losing a bunch of money again, so they're being cautious about ramping up production. Meanwhile, they're raking in profits to make themselves attractive to investors again after a decade of poor returns.",0
"“Tax expenditures” are subsidies delivered through the tax code as deductions, exclusions, and other tax preferences. In fiscal year 2019, tax expenditures reduced federal income tax revenue by roughly $1.3 trillion.","They aren't honest that's why they are losing power in DC, if you look at the numbers 90% of the deficit in 2024 in tax evasion and the top 1% of income earners also get back an additional $313 billion per year in deductions and credits.",0
"Even if India had stopped buying Russian oil, the whole world would still feel the consequences since Europe imports exponentially more Russian oil than India as of today.","Because all of these countries have been decreasing their imports of Russian oil and gas since the war started, whereas India has greatly increased its imports of oil from Russia.",1
"Over at r/conservative they're blaming everyone and everything but themselves, pretending like they weren't practically blindly supportive of the GOP, of Trump, of every poor candidate, of regressive policy (or lack thereof), of obstruction, of a lot of the far right nonsense that's all of a sudden being condemned by voters. I mean, they voted for these Republicans and only began changing their tune once they realized that the election wasn't going swimmingly for the party.","Also the Republican absudity that when we win, the election was fair but when we lose, the election was rigged. You wouldn't accept that logic from a 4 year old.",1
"Switzerland’s neutrality made sense as a self defence mechanism in the early-mid 20th century but now that it’s nestled safely in the middle of the EU it’s not only selfish, it’s immoral.","Reminder that Swiss martial neutrality was because Swiss mercenaries were effective enough that they were being bought up by both sides in wars, so the neutrality was put in place to protect them from killing themselves.",1
"But porn wasn't the deciding factor in blu ray v. hd dvd. And like I said, there's enough non porn streaming content now that porn doesn't have the same influence it used to.",Trying to ban all porn with no exceptions is almost as bad of a optics move as trying to ban all drinks that aren't just bottled water.,1
"(And trust me, I really, really want Texas to go blue: PA born, but a sibling and their family transplanted there for work years ago, and aren’t GOP).",I understand the sentiment but there's a huge population of Texas that is blue/minority/etc that wouldn't support secession and would horribly suffer if it were to happen.,1
"Secondly, do you know how many Ukrainians have been killed by Russian rockets and soldiers? Turkey’s response has been to increase trade with Russia and extort countries trying to join NATO for political gain. Turkey has no problem watching other people get bombed and in fact tries to use that as leverage to bully Sweden and Finland - the contempt held for turkey in the west is a grave it has dug itself.","Let’s be clear: PKK attacked a security checkpoint, and your country is bombing civilians in response. Just because you had an earthquake doesn’t mean Turkey is unaccountable for its actions. And when your own government is declining aid from other countries, I don’t wanna hear that the problem is so serious you’re immune to any criticism for bombing civilians.",0
"The problem is that looking at that agreement through a Russian lens it is useless because Russia never intends to actually comply. If Russia says 'we won't attack' they are already planning to attack, so when someone tells Russian 'we won't attack' then Russia assumes they are lying and are going to attack.","Even so, a guarantee saying that Russia won't attack won't mean much unless a violation draws in multiple countries to defend against a Russian invasion. Better to simply assume that Russia will attack and spend 5-10 years rapidly building defenses like Finland.",1
"Svatove covers one of the few rail lines going from the Moscow direction directly towards Luhansk/Donetsk. The next best line goes throug Starobilsk further to the east, which would in itself be a detour and would prolong the transit times of goods.","Russia also has another railroad to the east of Svatove at Starobilsk, which is currently the only railway running north --> south from Russia into Ukraine.",1
"And it seems like many people want him to ""promote peace"" by arming Ukraine. No, that's not how you promote peace.","So what you're saying makes sense only if you make any trade with Russia as intentional support for everything Russia is doing but don't apply this to the US for some reason. This angle surely didn't arise during America's wars. And it's largely the American empire that's behind the sanctions on the Russian economy in the first place. So they don't amount to ""neutrality"".",0
"Did the judge rubber stamp the warrant or did he have valid probable cause to sign it, based on what the cops said to him?","Yes, it is, and I saw nothing in the article talking about what the judge did wrong. Just that she lost the election and people were angry at what happened and the officers were charged. Still didn't answer my question on what role the judge played besides signing the warrant. If the cops lied, which we found out they did, did the judge know they were lying?",0
"If the last two elections showed us anything, If they keep showing up it will get better every time. Even more important. With these races so close, every vote counts.",2016 was the first election where I was old enough to vote. It’s weird that democracy itself being at stake in every election almost seems normal to me.,1
"Kadyrov has been ""loyal"" to Russia but I have no doubt that it is almost entirely self preservation, and he'd turn on them in a second if it could somehow work for him.","I guess the question is, as Russia loses power, could Kadyrov decide at some point that he's better off turning on Russia and trying to spin that into support from Ukraine and/or it's allies. Seems like a huge long shot, both that he would turn and that he would be trusted at this point by anyone if he did. But if he were to present the right opportunity to NATO I suppose it's not entirely out of the question.",0
"If someone were crazy enough in Russia and felt that was a better alternative for themselves and didn't care about anyone else, who knows.","Imagine if the US did, in fact, say they will carry out this attack if Russia doesn't remove Putin from office in the interest of global stability. Russia would be like, ""Damn, maybe we should have him removed."".",1
"But as we all know, since the PRC was founded in 1949, not a single day has elapsed where the PRC has controlled Taiwan.","China considers Taiwan a part of China, not that the government of Taiwan doesn't exist. Taiwan has been making independent international decisions for a long time now and this is no different than any of those.",1
"It's not nonsense, and even if they can rebuild the nukes, they're very cash strapped to the point they sold many airplanes, tanks, and ships for scraps. Including the hull of a Kuznetsov-class carrier to china for only $20m.","Irrelevant, where is the final warhead? Where is the rocket? I asked for sources on ukraine having the capability to deploy nuclear arsenal, funny how you based your fantasies on this instance, hell, why don't all countries have nukes if it's this easy?",0
"Yep, that's the status quo, and yet still NK pushes it at times. It's been a while since NK did something dastardly, but the threat exists.","It’s also really weird when they make threats like this, the world knows that within two minutes of them crossing that line, they become North Krater. Their “threats” are entirely dependent on mainly the US being mentally stable and not doing anything to the unstable manchild having a tantrum, them getting lots of foreign aid (mostly food), then rinse and repeat when that food runs low. It’s a bizarre dinner bell to fire a missile into the ocean. But that’s how they do, I guess.",1
"It's the reason Trump got elected in the first place, people being mad at the shadowy entity they imagine is the government and, in their minds, sticking it to the evil government by voting in an outsider. They don't actually understand the consequences of anything enough to care about it.","Those voters don't understand the government at all and don't try to, nearly all of their knowledge is based on the fact that a lot of politicians lie and therefore they believe all government is bad.",0
"The thing is that the only reason that there was massive growth in population, was because there was a massive drop in mortality from a variety of causes like hunger and disease, mostly decimated (temporarily) by economic growth and technological progress.","There are no good answers here. It's a bit like the Live Aid thing for Ethiopia. We had Live Aid in 1980 for 35 million Ethiopians at risk of starvation, and another one in the 2000s for 80 million Ethiopians at risk of starvation, and today there are 140 million. What is more moral? To help them survive and avoid starvation but have more people die later due to unsustainable population growth, or to just let them starve right now where they are now? There is no right answer imo.",0
"If you don’t know the history of Ukraine or even the history of Europe, that is your problem my friend, if you think that Ukraine is a random country in geopolitics.","If that “random” country surrendered all of the power of that “random” country could be used against West. You just don’t really understand the threat that the West is facing today. Just because it is not you who is fighting at war now, and you have no idea what that means.",0
"It is thanks to our soldiers who are fighting near Svatove, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Vuhledar, Orikhiv that there was no place for a ""special military operation"" in his annual address.","""I met with @JosepBorrellF to coordinate steps to speed up the production and delivery of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. We agreed to launch a new format of regular consultations between the EU and Ukraine’s foreign and defense ministries to streamline our joint work."".",0
"You understand the title correctly, it could be improved with ""provide a Western armoured vehicle"" capable of destroying Russian tanks. ""Western-designed"" would be even better.","Edit: I actually went to the effort of downloading a PDF of the actual treaty, and I was wrong: the AMX-10RC is not a battle tank. Listed in Section 1, Clause 2.C of the Protocol On Existing Types Of Conventional Armaments And Equipment of the (page 25), the AMX-10RC is described as a Heavy Armament Combat Vehicle, not a Battle Tank.",0
"Life has been preying on other life for almost as long as it has existed. Humans and our close relatives are all omnivorous and some cultures subsist entirely on meat by eating the entire animal. Meat is hugely nutrient-dense, which makes it incredibly valuable for people without easy access to food, and for the rest of us a few servings of meat a week do a lot to boost our nutrient intake.",There is not way the meat will be a viable day to day food option with a higher standard of production.,1
"While November’s midterms were far from a complete success — Republicans took control of the U.S. House — Democrats won most of the country’s marquee swing-state Senate and gubernatorial contests, with presidential buzz developing around some of the victors even before their races were called.","Dems have been winning statewide elections there pretty consistently over the past several years, and with different types of candidates top. Biden, Warnock, Ossef,...No reason to believe there aren't other liberals in the state that can't win.",1
"If the rationale is ""minority state"", deep-red South Carolina still loses in every racial demographic to purple Georgia or blue Maryland, and all the other states are blown away by deep-blue Hawaii.","If you're only trying to pick a state with a high percentage of black people, Maryland and Delaware have a higher black demographic, and are states that Democrats actually compete in. Georgia has a higher black demographic than S. Carolina and is more competitive for Democrats than S. Carolina is.",1
This whole article is full of bullshit. They are doing street value math the same way they do in America where they price it the most expensive smallest quantity sold then multiply it by what they seized. There's no total listed but it doesn't look like half a billion 100 keys maybe. Then they say it's enough coke to service the market for 30 years clearly lying about the market size. No one is shipping cocaine to get an roi in 30 years like it's some kind of cocaine mortgage lmao.,"Well, the cocaine was adrift, I don't think they assumed it was destined for New Zealand. I think they were explicity pointing out that it was way too much cocaine to be headed to Australia or New Zealand.",1
"It fucking blows my mind that no country is immune to that bannon/trump/facebook/idiot style of shitty .jpg's and ""every fallacy in the book""-'arguments'.","I have a 1year old doggo and talk with a lot of people when walking it. Lo and behold I actually found a climate-deniar who instantly started spewing shit I recognized both from 4chan-meme's and other shit. What used to be literal jokes about how mentally handicapped some of the deniers were, only to actually be weaponized and adopted by the idiots who couldn't tell satire from truth.",0
Same page for helping Ukraine? Lol what are you smoking? A majority of House Republicans are ready to stop sending aid to Ukraine. Hell some are even for Putin.,"I’m an American and I think it’s stupid and crazy to spend money on military rather than free healthcare, free education and social programs that can help people.",0
"You could wipe the catholic church off the face of the earth today and in 10 years abuse numbers would be the same as they are today, because these systems exist all over and abusers seek out situations that allow them to abuse kids and get away with it.","Obviously the Catholic Church has a bunch of fucked up problems and I'm not a catholic, but focusing on specific organizations doesn't help prevent future abuse as much as we'd like to think when this is a society-wide problem.",0
"Blood donations aren't like in the movies; you can't just hook a tube up to someone and stick the other end into someone else. You need a blood bank to process and standardise the blood, which would need to be done even in this case. What if 2 of the 20 volunteers have gotten their blood type wrong? That would kill the child. What if one of them has meningitis and doesn't know? Or HIV? Or one of many other blood borne illnesses? Not only that, but what happens if they only get 3L of usable blood from the volunteers and then end up needing more than that?","this is stupid, obviously, but can they do some thing where the parents donate some of their blood and they use that? I assume the baby won't need that much blood right?",1
I doubt anyone would join them in a war on Iran other than the US and I'm even more doubtful that the US would have boots on the ground.,If the US joins the war they could do SEAD/DEAD if they had to and then they would have no problem flying mid altitude in Iran.,1
Wealthy inequality has only gotten worse across the World. It does not always have to and should not always fall on those doing the actual labor to sacrifice while the rich just continue to make more and more money.,They've been very generous giving the better part of the value of their labor to blood sucking parasites who do nothing of value for anyone (the wealthy class.) It's time they pay it back.,1
"Also one shouldn’t forget that the language of the Ukrainians is Ukrainian, not Russian. They are in essence removing the books of their colonisers from public eye and replacing them with their own.","For everyone insisting this is totally wrong, you are not really understanding what is happening. They are not expunging these books from history as was the goal of real book burning, they are removing them from the limited shelf space in their public libraries. These books can still be accessed, they just don’t want them displayed in public.",0
"Understanding the values of dictators is valuable to not repeat the mistakes of European countries who thought they could stop Russian aggression by economic incentives, wilfully blind to the fact that the Russian government didn't care about anything like that.","Putin and Russian officialls shouted aboit their ideology for years, yet European nations and the EU pretended they could get use an economic argument to stop Russian aggression, ignoring the Russian government cares more about conquest and power than prosperity.",0
"Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is illegal and therefore Russia is responsible for everything that happens from both sides, with only one exception :","Morally, the existence of the conflict is Russias fault, 100%, and as such any victims of the war, accidental or not, can be laid at their feet.",1
Same my good chum. If they can make a reliable cost effective portable solar generator I can set in a camp and get charging stations in more remote areas I’d be game to switch one of my household rigs to EV. Until then Im stuck with gas and diesel.,Diesels are dumb as fuck by comparison. Maintain cylinder pressure and fuel deliverand you’re basically set.,1
"The collection of guns laws meant to keep unqualified people from getting weapons, such as the ones listed here in Oregon. For instance, why is it bad to wait to get a gun past 3 days? There have been various mass shootings with guns that were given to people whos background checks were late, so they were given guns by default.","Gun controllers know guns have the right to murder people, even though it is illegal for people to murder other people. That's why they think guns need to be banned.",1
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The Pakistani people are victims of military policy and foreign intervention more than anything. And it's no surprise the biggest party in the country and most vocal group of resistance against the military comes from the Pakistani province that directly borders Afghanistan.,"What happens now is the military still controls most things, and people in positions of power are either too afraid or threatened or blackmailed into doing their bidding. The democratic government comes into power but have less authority because of those decades of control.",0
"It'd cost more to retrofit it as a cargo plane than it would to buy a new cargo plane. Nobody's flying passenger 747s anymore - they're all being phased out, sans a few notable exceptions like Air Force One. It's a shame, but that's the reality of where these planes are with the economics of flying them.","Now billionaires are being embarrassed by their emissions while the globe is burning down, so... gotta shuffle off the gas guzzling airplane and pretend they don't have twin-engine narrow bodies they fly around as private jets.",0
"Indeed, but if I recall they have some level of armistice deal, which I am not sure if Israel break or not when doing bombing campaign in Syria. But armistice does allow people visiting from Syria. I personally saw one in Ben Gurion airport. Came out of a plane and was stickied by military guys with red stickers which said that he has 48 hours to visit relatives and after that he must be out of the country. Unlike Pakistanis who might lose citizenship if they arrive to Israel.","That was the basis of the first peace deal between Jordan and Israel. Jordan was the first Arab country to make a peace with Israel. Egypt later followed, but there has been no peace deal with Syria since the independence of Israel.",0
"The filibuster-proof majority Obama had during that time contained pro-life Dems from the South, so there wasn't a chance of easily passing a bill protecting RvW through.","Yeah not sure where they are getting that reading. They basically just said there's no right to abortion in the Constitution. And since there's no federal law governing it, it's now up to the states to decide that.",0
"When it comes to Vaccines, I don't think you can even sue the Government, but this is just a red herring that the anti-vaxxers like to throw out.","We don't, because it's an absurd premise that any of those manufacturers would somehow get a vaccine through testing without it being tested. That's the basis of the argument that there's not enough oversight. We have a stringent process for this already. We haven't been operating in the dark; that's yet another conspiracy theory that rings true until you give it the slightest scrutiny.",1
"Nah, at this point far too many of them are convinced that the only reason NATO isn't invading mainland Russia is because it's too busy fighting Russia in Ukraine, and that the moment they pull out you'll have Poland invading Kaliningrad, Finland attacking St. Petersburg and Turkey teaming up with Georgia to attack across the caucasus mountains.","The thing in favor of all of these events is the growing tension in Iran, the newly redefined national identity of Ukraine (notice how we have all committed now to calling it Ukraine not “the” Ukraine), and the overall commitment of Eastern Europe to hand Russia a pretty big fucking L after centuries of being a fucking problem for everyone there.",1
"It's really shitty that Ukraine has to suffer but with or without the US help, russia attacked. US couldn't have change anything and if the US/Nato step in at all then expect nuclear war so NATO hands are tied in how they can help. Sending equipment without losing troops is the best route for all these other countries not Ukraine, but there's nothing else anyone can do so this is the best anyone can do.","Oh certainly, it will be a painful one for the Russians, but the Ukrainians are gonna need ever munition they can get to sustain that defense. If US cuts military supply to Ukraine in February, that won't help their cause.",1
"The ""independence"" needed is for France to spend 2% of its GDP on readiness in an efficient manner of its own choosing. Not for its makes 100% of its own shit.",What the allies need is actually a smaller variety (this is part is debatable) of coordinated equipment (this is not debatable) that ALL participants actively buy and maintain in a more evenly burdensome nature (this part is not debatable).,0
It matters who covers it because by forcing companies to cover detransitions as well they’re trying to make it so that companies won’t cover transitions in the first place.,You also seem to ignore the fact that detransitioning is already always covered by insurance when they cover transitioning this is just to make them pay even if they aren’t insured by them which jacks up insurance rates making employers less likely to cover transition in the first place.,1
"This woman probably thinks she's like Karla Homolka (dating a rapist, but is content and calm over the idea that her rapist-husband would never hurt her), or believes that he'd somehow never develop the desire to continue/escalate the urge to rape after the war with Ukraine. Either way, her words sound truly stupid, selfish and and ego-centric.",As someone whose grandfather was a criminal war veteran (long story. He had beaten and raped a waitress and was given the 'prison or go to vietnam' option when he got put on trial). I can't even imagine laughing while knowing that he's going to rape and abuse women and (possibly) children over there.,0
He'd have to convince the Republicans and their friends in the Military Industrial Complex to lose out on all those NATO military sales. Not going to happen.,"I think Putin was waiting to see if Trump won reelection and, when that failed, whether Trump would bring the entire U.S. government down with his ""Big Lie"" campaign. Plus, he probably had to wait for spring to launch his invasion. (I hear Ukraine is a tad chilly during the winter.).",0
The Republican party was still behind trump until he became unelectable (aka seeing all his candidates flop in the midterms).,"You can come out and denounce trump, but that'll likely do little more than cause a political base to be lost, and be cast out of the Republican Party. The people who would've listened to Pence denouncing Trump were likely already against Trump. Taking this guy down requires more than just condemnation, because he will reflect it right back and put you in danger.",1
"America is tired of Trump, and if Republicans run him again in 2024, his loss will be even greater and even more humiliating. Unfortunately, the GOP has no choice but to let him continue to hold the party by the balls, because if they attempt to kick him out, he takes his loyal MAGA voters with him and the Republicans can't afford to lose any votes.","I agree that the election systems are broken at the state level in some red states where gerrymandering is horrific, but in 2020 the presidential election and blue state congressional elections were pretty uneventful, and the Dems performed great.",0
"If the incarceration lasts longer than their time in office it would de facto take it away, but by incarcerating them you aren’t literally removing them from it but are instead letting the VP take over until they are able to take over again once out of prison.","There’s no way a small handful of documents found in secured locations where Biden conducted legitimate business as VP, and then proper return procedure followed and initiated by Biden himself, would ever rise to gross negligence or malicious intent.",0
"To this specific instance. It’s just the same shit they believe of themselves applied to their cult of personality. The guy is an embodiment of all the things they believe God wants for the world, so he’s free to take some liberty in messaging how awesome he is. In fact, this might be a true statement as far as they’re concerned. God set the world in motion, and afterwards he created his special boy Ron to come and fix it in the only era that matters, the one in which I’m alive.","It’s not a principled adherence to the tenets of the faith, it’s a fake point system through which they can believe themselves to be better than other people because they believe a little more devoutly than the next person.",0
These races are too close. I’m so happy it’s going the way it is but it’s not good enough. There’s still not enough people that get out and vote.,And there was no magical ballot stuffing. Trump simply overperformed the polling because the polling was not capturing the whole picture.,1
Its important to know that NATO is way more precise how countries have to help in case of aggression.,"But all NATO allies have an integrated command structure to function through, and this includes key support from the USA.",1
"If a war breaks out between the Kurds and Iran, we could see the start of a war between a bunch of countries that would not be in the best interest of anyone.","The Kurdish people want to form a country that would include the Northern quarter of Iran, Iraq and half of Eastern Turkey. For some reason, Iran, Iraq and Turkey are not excited about this prospect.",0
"claims of 100,000+ Ukrainian military casualties is approaching Russian claims, which everyone knows are fucking ridiculous.",US intelligence came out at the beginning of the month and said the both Ukraine and Russia had 100k+ military casualties each. European Commission estimates seems to be in line with that.,1
"I've seen quite a lot of Todd, and If you think hes a republican apologist you must be viewing him through the eyes of a delusional 25 year old still assmad over bernie, hoping to blow the cover off the DNC machine.","Nah he's probably a fed up conservative who's capable of some critical thought and can't excuse or bear the circus anymore. Some of these ex-R anchors are late-comers to the party, but welcomed, at least.",1
How can a party that insists taxation is theft propose a brand new federal tax that would severely impact most households? Do Republicans hate progressive policies so much they'd rather spend 30% on top of their 0-10% existing sales taxes just to prove they owned the libs?,Explanation: it's a horrible Libertarian idea that cuts taxes on the wealthy & increases them on the poor & middle class. Nothing 'fair' about a fair tax.,1
A lot of the dollar numbers that get thrown around on the news are the cost to acquire the system new. In reality sometimes the real world cost to the nations supplying them is about whatever it costs to ship it. The US advances their weapons development so fast that even some of the more modern and effective systems they're sending aren't too far away from being retired from active service. Meanwhile they're providing outsized value by being used to defend Europe.,"I mean, whose Germany defending Europe from except Russia? Money spent now is the same as money spent later, except right now German lives aren't spent as well.",1
"I'm not saying that US and UK companies aren't the biggest offenders, just that the tax havens they use are located elsewhere.","You are right about Ireland being independent and yes there are other countries that are tax havens, but the US and UK are still the number one and two when it comes to being tax havens. The Tax Justice Network, where the article gets it data from, ranks the US and UK as number one and fourteen on its 2022 Financial Secrecy Index: They have a metric, Global Scale Weight (GSW), which is ""presented as a percentage of all financial services globally provided by all jurisdictions to non-residents"". The GSW for the US and UK are about 26% and 14%, the highest of any of the countries, meaning they are the number one and two countries for hiding money offshore to avoid taxes or other financial obligations.",1
"We have the capacity to ramp up our military exponentially we also have access to the world's most advanced weapons and would be supplied by all of our allies, Russia would be eaten alive if they even tried to attack us even if we only got material support.","If we were facing full scale invasion recruitment is quickly replaced with conscription, we would react just like Ukraine, full mobilisation and the economy would be turned into a war economy with all resources directed to the war.",0
"Switzerland was rich way before banking became a thing there. It had one of the earliest industrialisation in Europe. Banking only represents 9% of the GDP which is on par with other countries like the UK or the US. The real financial havens like Luxembourg strike at 30% but it doesn't bother anybody becasue it already is in the EU and they have control over it, unlike in Switzerland that bothers them.","Your last sentence isn't true anymore. Siince 2015 alot changed when Obama made pressure. US citizens for example don't have access to bank secrecy anymore. Same for EU countries, banks opened up alot since then. And in the subject of this war there is way more Oligarch money stacked in London than in Switzerland, it has been the go to business place for them.",0
"Anyways the reason the 'west' is so united and peaceful is because they have common enemies in Russia/china. There are already tensions in the EU, with the UK leaving. Plenty of people argue that the reason the US invested so much into the war on terror (besides the oil resources in the middle east), was to have another scary enemy to distract people and an excuse to further fund the military industrial complex.","Do you think the US only invests in its military because of China and Russia? It invests in its military because it's projected power allows it favorable influence around the globe. Even if Russia and China were to disappear right after WW2, the US would continue to pour vast amounts of money into its military.",0
Sure I guess you are right. I’m just glad to see these crazy kids start fighting like their lives depended on it because it does. Nobody is listening to them or taking them seriously but I bet they will start to now.,"I think their elders need to clean up the mess they made of this planet. Those children are inheriting a mess and will probably die in climate hell. Maybe when the “grown ups” who pollute the water, air and drive CO2 emissions through the roof clean up the mess they made then the children should be held accountable too.",0
"The GOP is dead, when you elect, ""loons and whack jobs"" into position of authority, they poison minds with idiotic rhetoric, all they want to do is revenge, not governance, this is cesspool politics millions vote for, McCarthy cant let these people win, if he does, he is a fool.","If McCarthy was smart, he'd tell those hardline Republicans that he's got 6 moderate Republicans who'll turncoat and vote for the Democrat and they'll get NONE of their agenda through for the next 2 years.",1
Yes. I also can remember that far back and remember the same thing. This is how dictators happen. Oh man. He seems like he’s being doing a great job but absolute power corrupts absolutely and all that.,I have my fingers crossed for beer and the beach for him in 2024. And I hope the war is over before that.,0
These type of golf outing are not uncommon for him and I do not believe any of them are coincidental.,"I am of the firm opinion that DJT plays golf because it's a very expected activity that raises zero red flags. On the golf courses he owns/controls, law enforcement can't easily sneak close by. Wide open space, no prying eyes or ears close by. No listening devices. It's almost perfect to have sensitive conversations you want remaining secret.",0
The people who lost to POTUS Joe Biden I'm not sure would somehow be a better Presidential candidate than he. US Senator Bernie Sanders lost because the Mainstream Media was so against him and US Senator Elizabeth Warren didn't drop out when the others did. US Senator Sanders would have beaten Donald Trump in 2016 and we would have presently been in the 2nd term of the Sanders Administration.,US Senator Sanders lost the primaries in 2020 because POTUS Barack Obama was still more popular than US Sen. Sanders and got all the 'moderates' to drop out and endorse Joe Biden and US Senator Elizabeth Warren didn't drop out.,0
"But there are better tasting beers out there. But like I said if I see this in my house I'm gonna drink it, just go get a buzz and be happy .","Oh, I always find Heineken beer here at my house. My dad says he doesnt care for taste and he will just drink it to get drunk. So sometimes he will have them laying around and wont drink em ever sometimes so I drink em and now I got used to the beer and whenever I see one I drink one. I'm not from Europe tho I'm from the U.S.",0
"No the argument was they're not truly fascist and I never said everyone's fascist only that you all have some fascist ideas and engage in fascist activity whether you admit it or not it doesn't mean you're a fascist, the CCP is a pretty fascist acting government but they don't categorize themselves this way. There's nuance in politics I am not going to just accept I should demonize an entire percentage of US adults and label them all fascist because some people believe it's true.",Perhaps if you lived in America during the cold war where both communism and fascism were enemy 1 for the GOP you would understand the outrage about Russian/fascism 'meeting of minds' with the GOP in recent years.,1
But you have a definition of Fascism that is really far from what fascism is. In the USA you have had Trump who has been absolutely closer to Mussolini than any previous or Italian prime minister since 1946.,"It is not a normal thing to say in 2023, if someone says ""mussolini came to power legally"" his opinion should not even be questioned in areas concerning history.",0
"So, a non-nuclear Iran can respond to an Israeli strike by bombarding Israel with ballistic missiles, while a nuclear Iran can't (or can't without potentially triggering a nuclear response.).","This is as far as Iran will probably go and this is why Israel probably won't ever bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. They'll just continue to fight the conflict in Syria. That's it. And that's why Israel need to keep Russia placated, because Russia is allowing them to bomb Iranian assets in Syria. Without Russian assistance Israel is flying into contested airspace and if they strike a Russia SAM site, then they're inviting a response by Russia.",0
"Just pointing it out. They were not witches, they were women (and sometimes men) that pissed off the wrong people or had something someone else wanted at a crazy time in history and they were tortured and killed for it. There’s no one to apologize to because they died.","Why does the State have to apologize? That's dumb. The State didn't exist then and even if it had, it was the localities that did these things - they should be the ones to apologize. And this, ""It’s for the perpetrators and witch trial victim’s families here and now who want to make peace with this in some way..."" - if these people are kept up at night because their ancestor was murdered 370+ years ago they need help. And I do have a relative from the early 1600s who was burned as a witch in Germany.",1
"It's banning any semi-automatic rifle or shotgun, capable of using a detachable magazine of 5+ rounds, plus a list of explicitly named firearms, available at:","In canada we have had magazine limit laws since the 90s, with a few loophole exceptions centerfire semi automatic rifles and shotguns are limited to 5 rounds and pistols are limited to 10.",1
"There's no corruption about this. Lula has a pretty excellent record on protecting the rainforest, this deal was negotiated with Norway by him, and it was suspended by Bolsonaro who decided to tear up the rainforest for profit.",Brazil saw massive progress in conserving the rainforest under Lula before Germany and Norway got involved (and probably is the reason they got involved in the first place).,1
"German reports say the group of far-right and ex-military figures planned to storm the parliament building, the Reichstag, and seize power.","Justice Minister Marco Buschmann tweeted that a major anti-terror operation was taking place and a suspected ""armed attack on constitutional bodies was planned"".",0
Russia's allies aren't looking very powerful right now. China has been suffering from Covid related economic decline and a real estate market collapse. China is also preoccupied with Taiwan. Iran is dealing with economic problems and massive protests. Other Russian allies are struggling as well. Russia's prospects for forming an alliance that could challenge Western nations was better before they invaded Ukraine. This is another Russian fantasy of restoring their position as a world power.,And the funny thing is that most of Russia's allies were trying to use their relationships with Russia to bolster their own positions and further their own interests.,1
"It might be worse if they tried to have an ad for humanists or atheist causes. I am pretty sure someone tried to do a much more low-key ad (just one ad that night versus a whole campaign) years ago and it got blocked for being too ""offensive"" or ""controversial"".",Wasn’t long ago that a good way to get the admins to act on hateful communities was to get advertisers’ attention — what’s to be done when the hate is coming from the advertiser?,1
"There's a boatload of projection flowing in this thread. Imagine where we might be if Democrats didn't spend decades fighting against civil rights. And we are only a decade past a very racists Democrat Rep and Senator that spent 60 years in office after becoming involved in politics by founding a chapter of the KKK. There's always so many privileged white people crying racism by the GOP, while minorities are steadily leaving the party. So again. As Democrats love to say, if a party is constantly yelling about something in politics, it's always projection because that's how they really feel. Very very true in this instance.","This is so true. Walker may be among the dumbest, but Roy “Banned-From-Malls-For-Creeping-On-Teenaged-Girls” Moore was a terrible candidate and had no fame… just allegiance to Trump.",1
"What he is saying is definitly plausible. Though as I said, they spend a few days with you explaining what you can expect and a way to tap out if you feel like things go too far.","Having said all this. Maybe there was some assholes running this course that ignored all the rules and just wanted to see some guy jerk it onto a book. I dont know, I wasn't there .",0
"World News is much larger, and therefore is targeted by bot farms more for misinformation campaigns.","News is smaller, but there was a large push by the alt right during the Trump era to try and take it over. There are still remnants of that in the comment section with people with ultra right-wing views cropping up more often then usually expected.",0
"Plenty of people embrace economic thought from people like von mises, Hayek, rothbard, and Friedman. That's because economics is as much political ideology as social science. Bourgeois economics attempts to create a society where the capitalist class can own profitable capital and distribute goods through a marketplace. These people demand less government action so there will be more opportunities for direct involvement by capitalist ventures, and more freedom of action for those ventures.","They definitely have no problem lying about scenarios to increase wages through market competition or lower taxes. This strain of thought is the leading ideology of both political parties, as both the Republican and Democrats have no issues embracing neoliberalism at home, even if some of the republicans can't get the Anarcho capitalism they may want.",0
"Imagine if some random agency like the ATF went rogue and started murdering people and terrorizing the public. The Department of Justice would immediately cut off the agency’s funding to stop the carnage. And no one would bat an eye. But ‘defund the police’ makes people lose their minds, because they’ve been so conditioned to accept this shit as normal.","These are police officers that like to think they’re hardcore but in reality? They’re too chickenshit to sign up for the military. But they sure do like to pretend they are. This is why we have a 2A problem in the United States, also why people feel like they need to carry concealed.",1
"He didn't get out of his charges because of political connections or his money, he got out because the entire case depended on the testimony of a person who turned out to be unreliable and a criminal himself.","Joel Greenberg is the person in question, who was just recently sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for criminal stalking, identity theft, wire fraud, and conspiracy to bribe a public official, as well as one charge of sex trafficking.",0
"He's gonna go nuclear. He's 80, wears diapers, has an adderall addiction, is functionally illiterate, and is gonna pitch the mother of all hissy fits when he isn't picked to run for president.",I don’t think he’d run as a third party if he doesn’t get the nomination but he will sure as shit do everything in his power to sabotage anyone who beats him.,1
The free market is amazing until it’s working against you. Musk is about to find out the same way Parler did that even with free speech you still need to moderate the platform itself.,"“Musk frames the dispute with Apple as an issue over free speech and content moderation, and Republican politicians agree.”.",1
"It won't be an easy decision for them going forward if forgiveness gets blocked, but I'd think at least one extension will happen.","So presumably as long as they want, as long as a President keeps it in effect. But this could be more problematic as time goes on, economically and in regards to the pandemic justification.",0
"The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'.",Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article.,0
"So like, my birth mom was Jewish, and my paternal grandmother was a survivor of Buchenwald. I still don't claim I'm Jewish. Why?","Because I was raised Catholic. My grandmother was raised Lutheran, she was imprisoned because of Jewish ancestry, not because she was a practicing Jew. My biological mom was a practicing Jew, but the last time I celebrated a Jewish holiday was when I was a toddler. I don't even know how to spell the special food we ate (some apple thing for Passover?).",0
"-The flu is far less contagious than COVID and is typically symptomatic when contagious. COVID is almost as contagious as measles or chickenpox, two of the most contagious viruses for humans. COVID also can present as an asymptomatic infection while being contagious, thereby not alerting others of the danger.","However, comparing influenza to COVID is a false equivalency in terms of the pathogen. They are two different viruses with different contagion rates, medical complications, and mortality rates.",0
"And then electronic intelligence side of this, say there is a history of real weather balloons going astray and crossing over to America. Let’s go ahead and release a false weather balloon with all of their monitoring equipment and see if the US reacts in anyway. How long will it take them to either intercept or come out to the public that this device has monitoring equipment.",Fucking pros at the claw game right there! The amount of engineering that went into that project was astounding. The fact that they recovered anything is amazing.,0
"Climate change is going to mean needing larger ditches to control flooding. It's going to mean desalination plants to produce clean drinkable water. It's going to mean subsidizing the lifestyles of the poorest people so they don't fall too deep into poverty, extreme poverty or death. And as time progresses there's more money that'll need to be dedicated to that.",That requires money. Unimaginable amount of capital investment. But all the money is with EU and US because they already burnt cheap coal and got rich and destroyed the atmosphere.,1
Only idiots need a reminder not to travel to Russia when practically the entire news cycle has been dominated by Russia’s invasion. And up until a few months ago it was all about Brittany Griner.,"Even if you don’t watch the news you would have to be intentionally ignoring every source of media to not be aware of what has been going on for over a year. And that’s unfortunate if people have family in Russia, but if you choose to go back there, you can’t say there haven’t been countless warnings for American citizens who travel to Russia.",0
"Also explains why a lot of truck drivers are nuts. They used to exist solely on AM and CB Radios. This was one of the early echo chambers. The truckers would listen to AM radio a lot due to its huge range (less constantly switching/finding stations or listening to static). They would all talk to each other on CBs, reinforcing each other's BS (""did you hear what St Rush said yesterday???""). My dad was a trucker in the 80s-90s. He was huge into Rush. He died in 09 in an accident. I am often grateful I didn't have to watch his fall from ""Rush is cool"" to ""MAGA-lardo."".",Yep. Plus they have been buying up every radio station available and now have FM conspiracy radio and there are more than a dozen Rush wannabes nationally and countless locally.,1
"However, modern radar based weapons can also be guided in TWS (track while scan). In this mode, the search radar is still scanning the sky for other targets, so the targeted aircraft won't see a change in behaviour and doesn't know it's been locked. The aircraft's RWR will know that there's a radar searching in the area which it will relay to the pilot, but the pilot will have to make a judgement call as to whether they're under attack or not. They'll only get a warning when the inbound missile goes 'pitbull' - which means it's turned on its own radar for terminal guidance. That only happens when the missile is close to its target, so the defending pilot won't get much warning.","There is, but it doesn’t automatically mean the other side is about to fling a missile at you or fill the air around you with steel. It just means they have that option if they decide to.",1
"But plastic has properties that few other materials have - the ability to hermetically seal and not to taint the food (pizza sticks to cardboard, etc.). That's why ready meals have far more plastic than takeaways - they can actually be air-tight, which you can only really achieve otherwise with glass or maybe with some specialist expensive films that are new on the market still.","Don't know where you've been ordering from, but almost all my takeaway come in cardboard boxes and paper wrappings.",0
"Israel wasn't a UN project, they wanted it to be but the Arabs rejected the UN proposal and tried to genocide the Jews.","let's be even handed here, Israel is the UN's first project so everyone who opposes Israel tries to use the UN as if it was the fire of mount doom.",1
"Andrzej Duda, President of Poland, has said that he understands the position of his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said that Ukraine was not responsible for the missile that landed in the village of Przewodów, Poland, killing two people on Tuesday, 15 November.","Previously: On 16 November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he was convinced that the missile that landed in Poland on Tuesday, 15 November, was not Ukrainian.",0
"The Biden administration has always been run 'by the book' (sometimes annoyingly so), so it's highly unlikely that this was in any way intentional. It's not even clear if it was Joe Biden himself that stored the documents.","Simply put, Biden is showing that he can be trusted to do the right thing and Trump proved he cannot be.",1
Also a lot of people aren't aware that Fosun invested 135 million dollars into Biontech one day before pfizer and ran clinical trials on their vaccine in China back in March 2020.,>Fosun Pharma will pay BioNTech up to USD 135M (EUR 120M) in upfront and potential future investment and milestone payments; the two companies will share future gross profits from the sale of the vaccine in China.,0
Good thing all the hungry people in Minnesota are school aged. Cuz this really does nothing to address hunger of anyone who doesn’t go to school. Better to give rich kids free lunch than to actually help a 50 year old person get some food because “kids” is great for politics.,"They already had it so that poor kids got free meals, but this makes it so that everybody does. So a family of millionaires get taxpayer funded school lunches. A single 25 year old mechanic has to fund a millionaire's kid's free lunch. Add to that the (let's be honest, likely) corruption of the food contracts, issues of food waste, etc, and it's at least something you shouldn't casually be like ""see, no biggie"" when we have no idea what the future ramifications will be. The thing just passed.",1
"We all know that, but his “my pronouns are prosecute/Fauci” is some next level fucking laziness. At this rate he’ll be tweeting “build the wall”, “lock her up” and “NFL players can’t kneel” in no time. The dude can’t even evolve the troll.","I could be wrong, but I believe he has a trans daughter. Can you even fathom the emotional and intellectual bankruptcy this idiot has that he can drop such hateful shit. And we’re past the point of joking. He knows this translates to violence, unless he’s impossibly thick. Maybe he is. Maybe he’s that stupid.",0
Will there ever be a resolution to determine the fate of Nagorno-Karabakh / Artsakh? I can't imagine that the Armenian and Azerbaijani people want to be in this situation forever.,"The real blocking point is that Azerbaijan has ambitions on Armenia and, as I said, Turkey will always back Azerbaijan. So long as that remains unresolved Turkey will always obstruct any Armenia-NATO rapproachment. Their leadership might not be happy with what Aliyev is doing, but they've spent so long propagandizing for Azerbaijan domestically they couldn't change courses if they wanted to (even though providing diplomatic cover within NATO for Azerbaijan is costing them heavily).",1
Noticed that too. I saw this clip earlier on the news. It was the restlessness/fidgeting + anxious foot tapping that made me think his body was telling an entirely different story.,"Then I saw that he was getting fidgety, and his foot was tapping quite a bit. Then I started to give that original “huh” a little more thought….",0
The neonazis cannot be booted. American police grew out of slave catching patrols. The institution is intentionally rotten. There is nothing they solve that couldn't be better solved with fewer murderous side effects through another method.,"Even with training and accountability, the cops would be accountable to other rich and powerful people, not the communities who they are decimating.",0
"""Look Frida, this is an opportunity that I've just got to take. Well they were hardly going to give me the job when everything was going well, were they?"".","Yes. They want both. People who don't care believe the state tv line. The rest understand the threat. It's like how dictators don't lie to convince you, they lie to insult you.",1
"But 1. the LNG will come online in the coming weeks 2. Germany also still gets Gas from the other countries in all that time ... so no storages most likely ""could not get empty before spring"".","Under normal circumstances when gas is still coming in it is enough for forever, because Germany would use the gas that is still coming in.",1
"Buybacks do nothing to improve or expand a company's underlying business, but they have the effect of driving up share prices and improving various profitability metrics by reducing the amount of shares in the company. Investors tend to welcome them for those benefits, but in recent years the sheer volume of stock buybacks has started to raise concerns.","Stock buy backs buy the stock back from willing sellers (who have capital gains taxes to pay), everyone else just sees their portfolio increase.",1
"For all that conservatives whine about Democrat's spending a hundred bucks of their own money on hair cuts, they entirely ignore the batshit insane lenhs and cost that trump goes to.","Someone spent 2 years investigating trumps hair, and it's fascinating and a wild story that involves trump buying out a hair clinic that provides $60,000 a treatment hybrid hairplug-weave, shuttering them to the public, relocating them to the office below his penthouse in Trump Tower, and building a secret back staircase between his home and the clinic so no one would ever see him going there.",0
"> On Wednesday, four senators — Sherrod Brown and J.D. Vance of Ohio, and Bob Casey and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania — wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency requesting more information about the agency’s plans and ability to respond to the derailment, as well as any information about long-term effects on the environment and how the rail company would be held accountable.","Columbiana County , and East Palestine did vote overwhelmingly for DeWine (see , search ""E Palestine"").",0
"She started out in the IT department. When the bank had been a very small community bank, they had outside IT consulting, and as they grew, they literally purchased the consulting firm wholesale as their in-house IT department.","Later she took a promotion and shifted into the mortgage department doing work on appraisals. Her department was in a position that sometimes they had to tell loan officers ""no, this loan won't work because the appraisal isn't good."".",0
"Rather than blindly assigning blame or upvoting comments that align with our biases, we should approach complex issues with an open mind and a willingness to listen to all perspectives. Only by working together and engaging in productive dialogue can we hope to solve the pressing issues facing our society and our planet.","The safety rollbacks cited by the White House in response to the East Palestine spill are certainly cause for concern. It is important for government officials to prioritize the safety of their constituents, and taking steps to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future should be a top priority. Hopefully, the situation can be addressed in a bipartisan manner to ensure that the necessary safety measures are put in place to protect the public and prevent further environmental damage.",0
"At first he was incredulous about all the cars and people in good clothing, but he assumed they were simply stuffing the town with people with cars to make it look good.","After realizing how plentiful things really were in the US, and how well the average American lived at the time, it killed his spirit for the USSR, and ultimately led to his spiraling out the party 2 years later. It was said that he told his fellow travelers ""If the people in the Soviet Union saw this store, there would be a revolution."".",0
"If Russia will stop the war, it will only because Ukraine will break their face, not because they are desperate to trade with the West again. Until Russia fully changes its leadership and its mentality, Russia will just use all the new money from the trade to do a new invasion.","No one here is saying that Ukraine march into Moscow to do so, they’re saying that Russia itself needs to seriously take overhaul its entire system to be non-hostile to Europe before it could trade with them again. Without any reforms to the Putin-style system, not only Russia would rearm for war, it would signal to other potential aggressors that democracies don’t have the backbone to seriously punish aggressors for their actions and the latter would encouraged to commit similar acts in the future.",1
"As a Hispanic that was raised in TX, moving to NM felt safer and welcoming to me. I can't think of any good research based reason for the differences in nearby states but just an anecdote on my end. Most of my friends who live here left TX as well due to those feelings. I am curious how it all started though.","I grew up in El Paso, so it's majority Hispanic, so, unfortunately, it was my own who displayed traditional values (machismo) and plenty of conservative types. My family is pretty conservative themselves and all former military, catholic background as well, so they have this ""fuck you, I got mine"" attitude towards immigrants, etc. Racism runs rampant within Hispanic communities, it's beyond gross and uncomfortable.",0
"We're seeing a lot of discussion about whether the Dems should either stop voting or vote for McCarthy to end this shitshow, as though they have some sort of responsibility to the Republicans to vote their way.","You'd never hear that even mentioned if the situation were reversed, you'd actually hear the media say that the Democrats need to ""suck it up"" and vote for a Republican as a compromise.",0
"It's not. They regularly do cruise missle tests, and a nuke is just a cruise missile with a different payload.",There is a real question of nuclear parity - as weapons grade nuclear material degrades substantially every decade decreasing its individual effectiveness. But they have a lot of nukes to spare to do tighter groupings.,0
"Granted, Chinese Twitter has always been more on the NSFW side. If you were to click on the profile of any political poster, whether for or against the CCP, there's a moderate chance that you'll see some rather unique interests on the profile. But I'm pretty sure that usually it isn't this bad and spammy, especially on the city hashtags. I'm guessing they're using nsfw spam because it's plausibly deniable in the context of Chinese Twitter.",Their target audience is most likely other Chinese citizens who are looking for uncensored information on Twitter. At least according to the top article.,1
"I think you're both on point here. In your case, the people were already on the cruise and showed strong moral fiber by thinking about the victims before their own enjoyment. In the comment you're replying to, it's the situations where the first takeaway is a ""cheap vacation"" and those harmed by the tragedy are a complete afterthought.","It is really lovely to hear that the passengers were so concerned though. The cruise was already charted, yet they still showed enough resistance about docking there that the captain had to make it clear this would benefit the Haitians for people to get on (off?) board.",0
"If so, you should understand why someone who has already paid off their loans would like to be included in this forgiveness (issued a tax credit at least).","Yes, it would be better for the 1% to pay their fair share, but it's not necessary for student loan forgiveness to pay dividends in the economy.",1
"She must have worn something revealing!"" Like damn it's a child and they're trying to victim blame a raped 10 yr old. WTF???.",How so? Federal budgets are only funded in 1 year increments by law and funding has very strict limitations on when the money can be used and for what purpose. This allows Congress to control the purse strings every year. It’s statutory.,1
I'm Korean and the vast majority of us are happy and thankful for the US because they saved us from the horrible fate that innocent North Koreans face daily. Hopefully if the US can one day topple North Korea we can reunite and give North Koreans a better future.,"The USA could destroy North Korea but it doesn't mean it'll be a happy ending. North Korea will destroy Seoul in the process, it can lead to escalation with China, and even 1 nuke hitting us can affect us economically or escalate everything to something worse. Nothing is in a vacuum when it comes to war.",1
"They also completely lost a number of industries. They've made up the difference since the price of oil has risen, but lots of manufacturing has left Russia and won't return. Almost every car factory in the country has closed or is operating at like 10% capacity since they can't import parts and foreign companies have left. New car sales in Russia have dropped something crazy like 80% since the war started. Once oil inevitably goes down in price there will be massive holes in the economy compared to before.","Yeah, it is a price to pay for job security. It's just a different way of doing things. They also have far more paid time off, but their pay is lower for similar white collar jobs. In the US, we get paid more, can quit whenever we want, but can also get fired whenever the company wants, and get less paid time off.",0
"IP protection should not be awarded for public research grants, but if someone privately funded a new innovation, they deserve to make money off of it.","Most of the major technological breakthroughs of the past half century were from public funding. This includes most medical research (yet pharma companies keep the profits), GPS, the internet, telecommunications, space travel (SpaceX didn’t invent anything), etc. hell, the Covid vaccine was developed with mostly public and donated money. It’s a life saving treatment, it shouldn’t have been patented but the plans should have been given for free to all countries who could produce it. The IP can be copied for free anyways, why withhold free medical info from countries just because they’re poor?",1
"The cost of grid storage fell by 90% in ten years. It’s getting exponentially cheaper over time, already, today.","They’ll probably end up in some niche use cases where some combination of factors make renewables unworkable in an area, but not as the main source of electricity.",0
But the UK also has a much bigger military budget so this is indeed an impressive contribution from Morocco.,"Morocco will also presumably receive an incentive, and I wouldn't be surprised if they get rewarded with more modern USA equipment.",1
"I'm the only liberal in my immediate family; only one branch of them went full anti-COVID, which really showed me how extreme they are.","My parents, half-brother, his wife, and their kid all were immunized; they were furious when my half-sister, her husband, and their four kids all exposed them to COVID by showing up at a family gathering, refusing to wear masks, and then spreading COVID conspiracies. Exposed my niece, straight out of the NICU, as well as my mom and her immunocompromised friend (chemo) to COVID.",0
"He never said he would not take a salary, just that he would donate it all to various charities. So the question is did he donate it all like he said?",Any proof that he did donate his money? Cause he's had charities before and all of that money went into his own pocket. But now it's different? He promised to use campaign donations to help fellow Republicans in their races. He never did. But this is different though...,1
Anything Tucker Carlson says about anything should be taken with a grain of salt. He will pick and choose what and how he says it all. After all it's FOX NEWS.,"This is Fox News propaganda. Thier hosts constantly & every single night launch attacks on what they call ""the mainstream media,"" when in reality FNC is the most ""mainstream"" of them all - boasting average primetime viewer counts that are TRIPLE that of MSNBC & CNN.",1
"That depends on the person, one man could become more forgiving with it while another might decide they need to fight satans homosexual minions.",Edit: im aware of the negative aspects of religious people iam not claiming that religious people are somehow more morally righteous than atheists. Or inherently better in any way. Only claim im making is that atheism is a result of ignorance and those who are atheists should continue to look for more understanding and knowledge.,0
They also include questions that are worded with double negatives and extraneous words to confuse whether you are voting for or against something. It’s bizarre and incredibly sad.,"Which is just insane to me. In my Canadian city of 80,000 ppl I’ve never waited longer than 10 mins to vote (often much less) in the 25 years I’ve been voting.",1
"Not that I really believe France did this, but that’s just not the right word. Whataboutism would be something like “France tried to kill this guy, so it’s hypocritical to criticize Russia for assassinating people.”.","In and of itself I wouldn't find the French attempting to assassinate a Russian militia member to be that hard to believe, but this.",1
India would make a huge strategic mistake boycotting Russian ressources but y'all are too focus insulting everyone that doesn't align 100% with your side to see the whole picture.,"That's my side as well but it's utopic nonetheless, and sometimes the outcome is profitable, even if that means a dictator or a shitty regime makes money from it.",0
"More the reverse, Patriot was designed to target aircraft and had at the time been able to engage ballistic missiles in theory. It was after the first Gulf War and with subsequent upgrades that Patriots' primary role went to ballistic missile defense.","Patriot gets you protection against enemy fighters and bombers, and enemy ballistic missiles. The first two don't operate in Ukrainian airspace, and the latter exists in short supply in Russian stockpiles.",1
That's basically saying that you should only find out if a president is a tax cheat AFTER it's too late to do anything about it.,I don't understand how you could think that presidents should have to release their tax records but candidates should not.,0
You could invent any ridiculous argument to make any side of any conversation look batshit crazy. The point is 18 is too young. Extrapolate whatever information you want but that's the base argument. The age of voting isn't an argument for the age of sex because it's supposed to be a logical choice. If you can't choose to put harmful drugs in your system until 21 how can you choose to put a potentially harmful partner in your system at 18? I'm not saying 21 is the right age either but 18 certainly isn't.,"No, your argument in that comment was not that 18 is too young. Your argument was that any age can be too young and that it should be judged differently for each individual. According to that argument, someone arbitrarily judged to be old enough at 28 could be charged with statutory rape for having consensual sex with someone arbitrarily judged to be too young at age 28.",1
"It will never happen. Speaker controls committee leads and what legislation makes it to the floor. There is no way a majority essentially gives up their majority for that on purpose. Now, if the 20 or so obstinate Republicans vote ""present"" for one round instead, that would really fuck them up to the point McCarthy might try to stop the count immediately.",Mr. McCarthy could win the speakership with fewer than 218 votes by persuading lawmakers who do not want to support him to instead vote “present” or to not vote at all.,1
"So at this point WWIII would be what? NATO vs Russia, Belarus, Iran, NK, who else? Will China or India get involved or just try to profit as much as possible. Or would China use the distraction to open up a whole different theater? I don't know enough for anything but wild speculation but I'm just curious what the prevailing geopolitical analysis' are if something wider kicks off from Ukraine, armchair or actually qualified opinions are fine- just kind of want a picture.","That's a good breakdown. So maybe three distinct theaters- Pacific, Russian\European, and Middle Eastern.",0
That's kinda my point for housing and if you look at the rest of the world yes Canadian health care is better but every system has its limits and the strain will start to be seen as these numbers increase.,"Yea this is not a good thing, Canada seems to be having some serious housing and healthcare issues. This is only going to make things worse for the country. The only ones who will profit from this are businesses trying to keep wages lower and housing prices high.",0
"""I was at that undisclosed location with a bunch of Republicans who were – one in particular who was gleeful at what was transpiring outside. It took me a minute to understand why she was having such a good time. But I saw it. I saw it with her staff who caught up with her. They were excited about what was going on."" -.","Ty so much. I was raised in the deep south, so I did everything to ""pray the gay away"". I became very feminine to ""pass"" in society, because my family spoke openly about their hatred for gays. I lost all of them when they found out.",1
He has an insane talent for cutting through GOP talking points and bullshit and making them look like the charlatans they are on tv.,know Pete is unpopular on this sub but he is the most effective communicator in the Democratic party.,0
"The difference is that most people(hopefully) can at least tell that they are low effort arguments even if they agree with the sentiment, and if you CAN counter them they fall apart pretty fast.","The reason I brought up the ones I did is they are more labor intensive to argue against, and are often used in conspiracy groups, which the article is referencing.",0
"At this point I don't give two shits what the Russian people want. I only care about what guarantees the safety of eastern europe and the world. If that means regime change, fine, if that means dismantling the Russian state and removing their nukes, that's cool too.","But if people in Russia mostly want to end up like North Korea, cut off from the world and laughed at, ok. Whatever.",1
The only difference is US did not annex Iraq but it did occupy it for several years and screwed up so bad that after they were gone Iraq became a failed state that quickly fell in a the hands of Iranian influence and or terrorist organisations.,"Ukraine was also stashing weapons, ammunition and armed vehicles in the salt mines as well.. so obviously it does have strategic value and logistical value.",0
"I realize. Because they grew up in a time when college could be paid for with a fart and a candy bar, good paying jobs were much easier to get, and the general cost of living and something like a home was affordable. When entering the the workforce they didn't face the worst recession since the Great Depression. Throughout their careers-- they didn't experience the slowest economic growth of any generation in history. They never had a looming climate crisis posing a massive threat to their and their kids' future. No wonder Boomers don't care for radical change!",Not until the Boomers die off enough to become electorally irrelevant. Once that happens the Republican party as currently construed will be truly dead and politics will become much more progressive based on Millennials and Gen Z.,1
I don't think I agree with that based on the fact that the independent vote swings wildly from one election to another. Here's an article on the subject with some research:,"The more Shecky Greene becomes the face of the Republican party to the wider American electorate, the better it is for non-Republicans.",0
"In similar fashion, the Vice President of the United States (first in line to be head of state…and government…in the event of the President’s death) also has diplomatic immunity. They are neither the head of state nor the head of government, but they still have diplomatic immunity.",Head of State immunity applies in both criminal and civil cases. Biden didn't make it up and didn't pass the laws or create the judicial precedent that creates that immunity.,1
Because it’s much easier to get away with price increases when there is general inflation across the economy.,Inflation would be even higher if it was worked out on per 100g of a product vs what it was pre shrinkflation of product sizes.,1
"If an officer is drawing a gun, then it's deadly force. I would expect that prior to drawing a weapon, de escalation was at least attempted, but the scenario dictates.",Anyone who requires the use of lethal force should be fired on until they are no longer an active threat.,1
"I think balloons are technically inflated, so if it's like a zeppelin style thing it's not technically a balloon?","The whole ""interfering with sensors"" bit makes me think it's a balloon with a powerful radar reflector or jammers built into it. Basically, in the event of war you'd theoretically float those over enemy airspace and passively fuck up their air defense and communication. No idea why they'd be releasing those now, though.",1
Not require a state to issue a marriage certificate to a same sex couple if the SCOTUS overturns its own ruling != permit the state to ban same sex marriage.,"It’s a state’s rights bill that means his constituents never have to even see a gay wedding cake, if Obergefell is rolled back.",1
"AKP claimed he ""cheated"", so they cancelled the election, taking the victory from Imamoglu who later commented ""the people who are cancelling the elections are fools"".","Elections are only rigged on a very minimal scale, other than that the Turkish elections are pretty legit, the AKP government tries to do stuff to hinder it like the re-do for the Istanbul election but as we saw CHP won with even a bigger vote the 2nd time.",1
Make sure that they can recruit people by getting them outraged about the cancel culture whenever someone tells them to stop with hate speech.,"Right. One day we'll ban people from spewing hatred and use symbols of genocidal regimes from the past, and the next day people will not be allowed to...? What do you think is going to happen? It's been over 50 years since nazi salutes are banned in Germany... spoiler alert, it's still not an authoritarian hell hole.",0
Some guy saved the lives of some kids from the war machine he's part of only for them to be kidnapped by said war machine. This is not a feel good story.,"But that's just a truism relevant to many wars. However, if and when a ""good"" deed is carried out by the invading army and is celebrated by agents of the war machine, it's just perverted propaganda.",0
I reckon that there are other factors that are limiting the delivery speed and number of weapons and vehicles to Ukraine than just politics.,"I'm sure. If it would have been possible, Ukraine would have cut of and destroyed /captured the Russian units on the right bank of the river. But the Russians managed an orderly retreat and didn't gave them an opportunity for it.",0
"If they acted so recklessly their missiles killed the citizens of another country, they chose to take that risk. Oops it was an accident doesn't really cover it, especially since Russia isn't exactly on the phone with Poland apologizing for killing their citizens and explaining how it was an accident.","There has to be some military response. Otherwise NATO is sending the message that occasional attacks on NATO countries will be tolerated without any consequences. The response will be well thought out, proportional, and likely telegraphed in advance so that Russia knows it is a proportional response, not a full attack on them.",0
"republicans could decide they don't support buying politicians any time they want, it's not like they're legally obligated to support corruption or anything. they're choosing to be corrupt and they could choose not to be if they felt like it.","maybe instead of shitting on dems for not being completely perfect, you should find some way to convince republicans to stop being totally corrupt?",0
"About a dozen POWs(technically just unarmed men) were executed because a single rambovich came out shooting and injured a Ukrainian soldier. Rambovich deserved to die, not the dozen or so men who were unarmed, had hands on their backs or heads and surrendered on their stomachs. Can't believe there are people here and on twitter who are excusing their possible reprisal execution because the last guy wanted to be rambo. Maybe they were caught in the crossfire but from the footage from the drone they clearly made sure to shoot every single guy in the head where they laid.",Then in the next video it’s an overhead view from a drone. On the ground you will see all the dead Russians.,1
"Becket was a bureaucrat who tried to play the game and overplayed his hand. He was advocating more power for the Church, and by extension himself, in secular affairs. The political power he sought was personal, not democratic which sounds a lot like Putin.",There is no obvious successor to Putin because he would never allow that threat to exist. He jails or kills his rivals.,1
"Both the American and Russian religious right allocate to Satanism the things they dislike, and often they dislike the same things, but Russians word it differently because they have to. The US has great social and political freedom, so Satanism is an excess of freedom. Even expanding civil rights is seen as some slippery slope to anarchy. Russia has few social and political freedoms, so Satanism is an attack on Russian freedoms. It's stupid, but that's how it works. Satanism is an attack on convention, whatever your conventions happen to be.","In the US you have two ""Satanic"" organizations - The Satanic Temple and the Church of Satan (i.e. LaVeyan Satanists).",1
Is this because trump is likely the nominee and Biden has a chance to beat trump again and not other democrat candidates? Did Biden say just couple weeks ago that he would not run again?,"I think that's why he's being pushed to run again. Old and senile or not, he's probably still got a better chance of beating Trump again (assuming that's who the Republicans run) than anyone else the Democrats have. I'm not thrilled with it. I'd like to see someone younger and more progressive, but I don't know if politically that would be the best strategy for a win.",1
Hazardous yes but not hazardous enough to apply the brake rule. The whole system is broken is my point. You can’t blame Trump because he’s just one part of the whole regulatory clusterbacle.,"You certainly can blame any and all parts of the ""regulatory clusterbacle"", especially polticians like him. Yeah he isn't solely to blame, obviously, but as a prominent mouthpiece for the ideology that is responsible I'd say it's fair to cast such aspersions.",1
"Interesting thought, since Social Security is funded by the payer/payee trust fund and taxes, the “fair tax” would prevent funds from going into SS thus killing it, right?","No amount of realistic tax hikes will allow us to make Social Security solvent indefinitely, so we will have to ""take less money out"".",1
Walker was such a preposterously bad candidate that I can only think he did as well as he had was due to TOTALLY RIGGED FRAUD.,"It's so crazy to me that Republicans are complaining about ""Candidate Quality"" as a euphemism for absolutely terrible candidates. There seems like there's only two situations and both of them are their own fault.",1
"Boehner was threatened with this by a sizeable amount of Tea Party reps who were willing to sabotage legislation over it, and resigned rather than be forced to accept it. Ryan refused to consider the Speaker job if this kind of thing was on the table.","Some Republicans want to lower that threshold to 1, which means just one Republican could instigate a vote on whether to vacate the Speakership at any time.",0
"There are compelling legal arguments that have been made that judges appointed to the Supreme Court can be rotated back to the circuit courts, and don't have to sit on the high court forever.","Can't force them to resign as federal judges without a constitutional amendments, BUT I have heard various experts float the idea of simply rotating them back down to a lower court.",1
"I think it's a trait about Democrats at this point that about 80% of what they accomplish is boring keep the country running stuff, and most of their meaningful outcomes can't be fully recognized for years to come.","It comes to the point that politics in how its structured doesn't even benefit the american people, so it's only logical politicians focuses on their own benefit instead. Wanna know why corruption exists? Too easy to erase progress, a lot of would be non crooks don't see the point. Not justified, but I do think it's human nature for a noticeable majority of people when the opportunity arises.",1
The problem is that this will be used on the right to compare Trump and Biden despite them being unquestionably different levels of crimes.,It's too bad the details and true comparison of how Biden handled this versus how Trump handled his case will be lost to the fanfare of the title of this story.,1
My dad always goes off on rants about Biden Vs Trump. I tried to tell him that there were these suspected balloons when Trump was in office too. The conversation went like this...,"ME: "" I think Trump did absolutely nothing, turned the other cheek on purpose because he has real estate in China, and other business dealings. Trump probably tried to make $$ in China, and didn't want to strain relations, because all Trump cares about is what HE gets out of it."".",0
"This is entirely false. The world has been capable of shooting down ICBMs for years. It just can't be done reliably and en masse. The threat of nukes isn't the single ICBM, it's that's there will be hundreds launched at once and only a few need to make it through to cause incredible damage.","We'd survive nuclear war in any case. MAD doctrine is not exactly the current state of things, and arguably never was. For years it's been more of a fear mongering tactic or a factoid pushed by ignorance.",0
"You mean the bogus offers where Israel still retains control over land that is Palestinian land? You mean the bogus offers where Palestine is just a country in name only, with Israel controlling it's land, sea and air borders? Or how Israel would have literal veto power over any Palestine legislature?","Even if you're right about why Palestinians rejected the two state solution in 1947, why have they rejected it all 8 times it's been offered to them since then?",1
"If you choose to be dishonest and take a stance that there is no voter fraud, that is your choice. I choose to admit there are some instances of voter fraud, just not enough to sway much more than maybe a small town city council election.",Uh huh.... and voter fraud occurs so infrequently and so insignificantly that when there is a problem it becomes national news like what some GOP operatives did in North Carolina.,1
"I’m not a fan of Ronaldo and don’t care, I’m just answering the question. You can’t talk about the Red Sox World Series drought without talking about the Yankees, these things go hand in hand.",Yes and that’s literally the conversation and why Ronaldo comes up? Messi solidifies himself as the best of the era if not all time is a meaningless statement without the context of who was also in that running.,0
It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if he wasn’t paying attention in briefings and didn’t know they were there. But he also lies so frequently that it could go either way.,"What a chump and a chronic liar. In addition to Chinese balloons flying over the USA during Trump's reckless and destructive SINGLE term as a failed president, Trump and his lackeys also handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban by locking the Afghanistan government out of the withdrawal negotiations and releasing Taliban terrorists who had been imprisoned. Then he withdrew all but 2,500 US troops out and basically handed over the keys to the car in the ditch to Biden.",1
Not always. But he does point out the evident a lot. Sometimes he takes things a little far. More often than not things playnout exactly as he predicts. Leftists call that conspiracy.,You got to admit. Biden giving intel to china about russia who then called russia and told them everything. Pretty dam funny. I didnt even think he was that dumb.,0
"2) The far more likely, it's to ask if Cuba can supply them with any equipment, including military and medical. Cuba will probably say they're in no position to, and that Russia can't offer them anything substantial in return.",If Cuba is supply military equipment to Russia then it means their military is in a much more dire spot than we realized.,1
"China wants Taiwan largely for its industries and infrastructure. It can't simply bomb it to hell as a method of seizing control, they'd be destroying all of what they're trying to take over.","China's invasion force would have to come by water and make landfall in only a few viable locations from what I've heard. Making it much easier for Taiwan to defend, and much harder for China to attack even with proper air and naval support.",0
"DeSantis gets to say he won against woke Disney, and Disney gets to use its already present lobbying influence to pick board members for the state appointed oversight committee.",My claim is that Disney is still probably going to pick or have massive influence in board members because of their lobbying power.,0
"Since the topic of Iran's nuclear weapon predates Windows XP, the Saudi prime minister thought it is safe to use it.","I have a few concerns about Iran becoming nuclear-capable, but the risk to Saudi is not one of them. Not even close.",1
I guess I think reducing overdoses is a successful effect of a policy change and something worth fighting for.,"I see a couple problems with only affordable testing. Tho, again, it is better than what we have now. .",0
The Ukrainian military is warning that Putin is planning to mobilize up to half a million new troops.,"Russia plans to mobilize 500,000 soldiers in days. If they don't deliver victory, then 'Putin will collapse,' says Ukrainian spy chief.",0
I get that they're pissed. It still doesn't justify attacking police. As for the release of the perpetrator for the earlier attack - it unfortunately happens in many countries where sentencing is relatively lax. France isn't only country where violent offenders (even repeat offenders) have gotten what seem like light sentences.,"As tragic as this is, legal system doesn't get all terrorists even if they're right in front of them.",0
"Lmfao. Imagine saying this during a background check for a new job. ""Oh, I just assumed I graduated with the relevant degree for the position I was applying for."".","But that's not what is happening. He didn't acknowledge that he lied, he acknowledged that he misrepresented his major. Did he lie? Almost certainly. But even if they did want to make the headline about lying, they'd likely have to make it super convoluted like ""Rep. Ogles Acknowledges Misrepresenting His Major But Critics Allege That He Intentionally Lied."" There's no way to prove that he remembered what his major was at that time.",1
"Boebert actually has the better argument here. McCarthy doesn't have the votes he needs. Hannity keeps telling her to withdraw because she doesn't have the votes, but that fundamentally doesn't make sense when their vote is against Kevin rather than pro-anyone else. There's nothing for them to withdraw and they don't need 218 votes.","Sure, but that's just traditionally. That doesn't mean they have to. Pelosi didn't get all the votes in her caucus either, but she had the power and leadership ability to create reasonable deals and get people to vote present instead of for someone else. McCarthy is in this position because he's a bad leader to his caucus. His caucus may be actually unmanageable, but that's what people voted for and that's what McCarthy enabled.",0
"What will happen is what happened to Angus King, they will become Independents. It is not like there aren't conservative to right leaning groups throught New England. Vermont has its survivalist community, Maine's second district, New Hampshire - well its New Hampshire. Here in MA, the areas around Springfield are red-ish, but they are diluted by Springfield and the college towns just to the North, which are both solid blue. And it is not strictly urban/rural. The Berkshires is very rural, but vote deep blue.","A true conservative Republican governor would not stand a chance here. Our legislatures have veto proof Democrat majorities. We have 40 senators - 37 are Democrats, 160 in the General Court (our lower chamber), 139 are Democrats. Baker has worked well with them, though of course they don't agree on everything.",0
"It's amazing to me how the teenagers are the ones acting more mature than adults lately, especially with right-wing parents. While I hate to pit generation against generation, Gen-Z is really among the most empathetic group I've ever seen, and I'm really proud of them. I hope they don't change that, because the adults currently need to learn from their example.","Christian nationalism is a drug worse than heroin. Apparently, being friends with LGBTQIA+ people brings about the destruction of the United States? How? What are LGBTQIA+ people doing? What, we are melting the ice caps in Antarctica or something?!",0
"They're not even attacking military targets, they just want to cause suffering to the people of Ukraine.",To add a bit of accuracy to your statement they launched more missiles than ever before at Ukraine and obviously at civilian targets. The missile landing in Poland distracted from that.,0
"I’m curious where you get your information and would like to add the point that “youth” implies young voters. Not sure how young you are personally thinking but I imagine anyone under age 25. To be fair, they haven’t had an opportunity to vote when it wasn’t a big deal or “close”.","If the last two elections showed us anything, If they keep showing up it will get better every time. Even more important. With these races so close, every vote counts.",1
There are many humans off the top of my head that I would gladly sacrifice over the life of any Chimp….,"It’s immaterial to you if the facts prove me right because you’re simply unwilling to accept them, regardless.",0
"Look, I despise Buttigieg BECAUSE OF HIS NEOLIBERAL POLITICS but this kind of an attack is just right wing whataboutism. It's typical Republican disinformation, taking something entirely out of context. It will also backfire with reasonable people - who don't tend to be Republicans, anyway - because they'll see right through it.","Nah, you don't always need to talk about Republicans when criticizing the Democrats. Still, I expected you... I've had enough liberals jump down my throat for supporting Bernie in '16 and '20. The Neoliberals are a corrupt disgrace through dark money, at best a couple steps up from the Republicans. I'm a Leftist. What are you?",1
"I do hope it happens but again, anticipating how putin and lukashenko’s propaganda are going to present this to the global community, I really doubt that Ukrainians who are going to be re-building their country at that point and aiming to get in EU and NATO will allow this to happen. They’ll probably find vaarious way to stop this unit’s members from even approaching the north borders let alone fighting anywhere except Ukraine.","The Belarusians who are fighting for Ukraine, and the ones organizing against Luka and Putin in their country, are doing what they've been preparing for all their lives.",1
"Not returning to China when urged? We'll throw your parents into prison for speaking out against the government. Don't care about your parents? That's fine, neither do we. We'll keep your parents in prison and wrangle up your cousins, uncles, and aunts and do the same. Don't care about them, either? Then we'll start hunting down your old friends and colleagues from before you left and add them into the mix. Seems like a lot of people that you've known while growing up have suddenly started talking bad about the Chinese government. How much are you willing to bear the responsibility for? How much will others suffer until you cave to the demands? How many of your loved ones will be in a cold and moldy prison cell begging for you to come home and cursing your name every day that you've abandoned them?","""Have you heard from your family recently? I hear that the Chinese government is cracking down on social activists. Say, didn't your mom make a post criticizing the government not too long ago? Seemed pretty critical to me, anyway. You should probably go back home to China and make sure that she's doing well. It's good to take care of your mother, after all."".",0
"But if your back yard is, you know, a back fucking yard, it is not hard to verify the absence of fucking swans.",How would you go about proving there are no black swans in your back yard? All the strategies I can think of involve proving a series of positives and then showing that they are logically incompatible with the negative.,1
"Congress was not needed for an investigation, Trump's DOJ investigated and found nothing. Do you really think a congressional committee will discover anything new at this point? The GOP is merely playing to the base.","Some large percentage of the country is somewhat displeased about the Republican overreach on abortion, and a larger percentage is concerned about issues such as inflation, jobs, and healthcare. One party seems serious about governing, and another one seems to want to sooth Trump's narcissistic injury from having been impeached twice by impeaching Biden three times, or more.",0
"Well yeah, cause if X happened and Y did Z, and said ""we did Z because of X"" then I consider Z a reaction to X, you for some reason have a problem with that.","It was a reaction to the proposal to worsen the conditions of ""security prisoners"" by Ben Gvir, so my bet it was more a reaction than a planned start of war.",0
"French people are very particular about their baguettes. Each french person eats approximately between 1/4 to 1 full baguette per day; bread is eaten alongside dishes at lunch and dinner, and as ""tartines"" for breakfast. And the french like their bread fresh, so many of them buy new bread every single day (either they buy a full baguette or half a baguette, or ""demi-baguette"").","Interesting for a food item that's barely a hundred years old... And like the croissant, Viennese in origin.",1
Yeah but how early is that? What kind of warning? And how do you know your animal is not just freaking out about something else? I’ve never lived in an earthquake zone so I legitimately don’t know.,"I live in a place that gets earthquakes from time to time, but they're always hours away from us and any tremors we get are not able to be felt.",1
"""Wolf warrior diplomacy."" The term was coined from the Chinese action film Wolf Warrior 2. This approach is in contrast to the prior Chinese diplomatic practices of Deng Xiaoping, which had emphasized the use of cooperative rhetoric and the avoidance of controversy.","You're right! Wolf warrior diplomacy is also extremely off putting to foreign governments, and people. It definitely doesn't promote unity between countries. Idk if you've seen any of these ""wolf warrior"" tweets, but they are basically weaponized, aggressive narcissists.",0
"Honestly, I want the Congress men and women involved in the conspiracy to get pinched more than Trump himself. Trump's indictment would be inevitable, but the enablers and people who will work incessantly to undo or block accountability will still be in powerful positions in government, even if he is. They will work tirelessly to protect themselves, Trump and the whole situation, since they know he will throw them all under the bus if he gets nabbed before them.","Trump would never have been able to get as far as he did without their help. And they for sure have some tangible role in the conspiracy. They will work hard as hell to cover themselves and bury this, especially with control of the House and all its resources. Then their base will lose their shit if that power goes away at all or worse, if their heroes get removed and/or banned from power. They've put an unruly amount of identity stock in the worst congressmen because those are the ones ""fighting back"" for them, and for that godawful reason, their own identities and souls will get crushed when their heroes' do, which makes them every bit as dangerous as those they revere and prop up.",0
"No, when Republicans are in power only, it's only because Democrats fail to stop them. So that means that Republicans being in power is Democrats fault, and therefore everything Republicans do is the fault of Democrats.","Democrats are responsible for the policies they pass when they have the power to, and for not consequences of not passing policies they could have when they had the power to.",1
>Peters obtained clitoral nerve tissue from seven adult transmasculine volunteers who underwent gender-affirming genital surgery.,"“Peters collected samples from one side of dorsal nerve tissue, a small amount of which is typically trimmed during gender-affirming phalloplasty procedures.”.",1
Well McConnell remembers the cold War and sees that Putin does too and wants a return to that kind of wife ranging Russian-centered power. He sees that NATO exists because Russia is still belligerent and is a threat on many different fronts.,"Ipso facto Russia's interests are more aligned with MAGA enemies than with the USA's...but Putin is white, right wing, hates the gays, and is loved by Trump, so...",0
"Yeah - I'm sure there's some gun smuggling going on, but these guys sound like crackpots rather than organised crime so I doubt they'd have access. Overall probably more profitable to focus on smuggling drugs rather than guns anyway if you're that way inclined.","Details haven't been released yet, but - contrary to what a lot of Americans seem to think - guns are not completely unavailable here. You just need to have a (lawful) reason to have one and get a license. Given where this happened (middle-of-nowhere), guns floating around is not all that surprising - but they're probably not the sorts of guns Americans go around doing their massacres with, as those are restricted.",0
"Hitler based lots of Germany’s race laws on southern segregation laws, but he also thought America was a bit too racist with the “one drop” rule, so their definition of Judaism was less extreme than the American “one drop” rule for what constitutes a non-white.","What part of Hitler's core belief that blue-eyed blond Christian men are superior to everyone else and you will be rounded up, jailed, exterminated for any deviance such as being non-christian, homosexual, of a differing race etc. can even remotely be attributed to Biden?",1
"“The measure would also prevent students from getting credit for lobbying for legislation, and prevent schools from using private dollars for both social studies courses and teacher training.”.","That's why they don't want students to get credit for lobbying for legislation. Take away their foundation of education, remove their ability to change the system and trap them here. The more people learn about them, the more people see that they support nobody but the rich businessmen like themselves.",1
"Oh fuck off, Russia had no problem killing Ukrainian civilians so spare us the crocodile tears, besides who cares if they unite? Do you think Russians uniting is going to magically rebuild their arsenal? Good joke, Russia is no match for western weapons, deal with it.","Ukraine committing war crimes is a good way for Ukraine to find itself with no more western weapons deliveries. Those have been an absolute game changer for Ukraine, and Ukraine must do whatever it takes to keep them flowing.",1
"Edit: I guess the idea is that this is self-dealing. A way to get ""campaign"" donations into his pocket. That's not really money laundering. And it doesn't appear to even be illegal since he isn't a candidate, although I'm not sure I follow why the law is like that.","Seems like it just a straight forward way to make money: write a book for a particular group of people (right-wing wackos in this case), and boost visibility by doing shady stuff like buying your own books. Profit.",0
"Tesla was shitting all over legacy auto in the production game BEFORE he shat all over the market. Tesla's production is miles ahead of Ford, GM & VW. Huge fully robotic plants compared to Ford/GM assembly lines straight from the 1970s. Tesla has single plants that can do 500,000 of the same model each year. Legacy auto is a long way behind. However Musk destroying demand for Tesla cars will give legacy auto the time to catch up.","Musk was going for the by trying to introduce a high end electric car to the marketplace in quantity. It's a major topic of debate if the first mover advantage is actually a thing, and different people have different opinions. In most cases it's actually irrelevant, as most first movers are happy to sell the perception of advantage to a larger company, but Musk, as a giant money turducken, is in a unique situation.",1
This bots were already used on Reddit as common accounts and people interacted with them unknowing they were speaking to an neural AI bot.,"If anyone could be a bot, if companies sells ""advanced chat autocorrects"" packages to increase chances to seduce online, etc... then we'll end up with bots talking to bots and real people will just completly drop those platforms.",1
"This article completely ignores that Anderson Lee Aldrich, who recently murdered 5 at Club Q in Colorado, had a grandfather who as an elected Republican California state representative, actively encouraged violent insurrection:","""This is Lexinon and Concord. First shots fired against tyranny,"" is what he had to say just three days after the January 6 insurrection. It really isn't any stretch to think that impressionable young minds are being influenced by this kind of poison.",0
"I mean.... Yeah.... They probably want to do a lot of crazy shit. It doesn't mean they will actually do it lol. As I said, they're not that crazy. At the end of the day they want to maintain the status quo. Even they know It would mean the end of their regime if they went too far... They're already balancing on the edge of the knife as is.","Iran is crazy, but not that fucking crazy. That would be an absolute death sentence to their country, even they know that.",0
"Here's a fun fact the law doesn't address, which is kind of a tell: 30% of first language French-speaking young people in Quebec do not graduate high school.","The reality is you won't go anywhere if you only speak french in Alberta for example, Canada is not really bilingual outside of Québec and New Brunswick.",1
"Yes. Have you ever been involved (or known someone who has been involved) in one of these missions? Sure, some may be scummy, but the vast majority involve real help like building school buildings/homes/wells, providing medical care/etc. They proselytize as well, but to say they're not helping the indigenous people is disingenuous.","If we're talking about colonialism, the inquisition, or jihad that's an entirely different matter. That's far different than ""hey have you heard about this God fellow?"".",0
tl;dr If Nicholas the II was more of an autocrat his family would still be in power. The story of Nicholas the II doesn't remind us to be better people... but worse.,"I agree, I don't think Nicholas the II could have stayed in power. But peaceful transition of power just didn't serve him well. He was just significantly better off fleeing the county and just letting Russia collapse.",0
Goldwater is what conservatives used to be. His institute up until Trump decided what was and wasn't conservative.,"Ducey backed Taylor Robinson who would've completely clobbered Hobbs. So did Jan Brewer, KTAR, and basically everyone but the insane arm of the GOP in AZ.",0
"“You might lose your U.S. citizenship in specific cases, including if you: Run for public office in a foreign country (under certain conditions) Enter military service in a foreign country (under certain conditions) Apply for citizenship in a foreign country with the intention of giving up U.S. citizenship.”.","A person who is a national of the United States whether by birth or naturalization, shall lose his nationality by voluntarily performing any of the following acts with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality.",1
What’s funny is that the national guard made us feel a lot safer in some places in 2020. Their presence made the cops way less aggressive because they knew they were being watched.,I saw national guard subtly step between protestors and cops in a few times in 2020. And there were videos of some of them dancing and talking with protestors. I definitely felt safer with national guard around because they seemed to keep the cops more in line.,0
"No, Georgia and Moldova are next steps. We all know what the capabilities of russian military are, they'd stand no chance against Baltic militaries which are backed by NATO.","Russia is also quite proficient at sabotage, and if this was their work, it is not the first time they did it on NATO countries. They do this constantly.",1
"Gas has only become marginally more efficient, and the risk of getting cut off from Russia was never tackled. As it turns out, after 30 years of billions a year in subsidies, gas ""just isn't there yet and it just doesn't work yet to supply the country the power it needs"". Imagine what they could have done with fossil fuels if they've gotten that money in stead.","The tech is there and it was there 30 years ago, just less efficient. It's very sad that Germany is both a leader in renewables and not even at 50%.",0
"the Laffer curve exists in the sense that it is ""a concept"" in economics; it's still taught in 101/102 as a way of thinking about the relationship between taxes and government revenue.",I'm sure the Laffer curve will prove as useful for measuring negative knowledge as it was for predicting increased revenue based on tax cuts. Possibly even more so.,1
"Tbf, historically speaking, Czechoslovakia were in the same situation during the advent of World War II when Allies(UK and France) dictated the peace terms about the issue of Sudetenland with Germany without Czechoslovakia's intervention or consultation on the peace terms.","So them stating this didn't came out of the blue, it's just something to remind the West/Allied Nations.",0
State and local tax refunds are taxable because the tax paid was deductable from federal income in the year it was paid.,"If I pay my state an extra $5k that I don't owe, I get to deduct that from my income for federal taxes (called the SALT deduction which only exists if you itemize). I then file my state return and get all that money back ""tax free."" Now next year, I have to declare that refund as income because that money wasn't taxed before (the deduction).",0
"Great news hopefully these gun control laws get scrapped since it's just taking guns away from law abiding citizens, more guns than people in U.S too easy for criminals to get one.","Anyways, that was a lot but my point is that I hear this a lot, “a hill to die on”, why are gun laws the thing that goes too far?? and I guess since I’m vocally pro bill of rights all the time, im always puzzled by this. I’m as angry about Republican attempts to suppress minority votes via mail in ballot laws as I am with democratic attempts to prevent gun ownership. Maybe it’s a good idea for people to reflect on how to be more pro-everyone. Support your neighbor and your fellow countryman’s rights and not get so focused on why he needs them. I assure you, he knows what rights he needs.",1
"I'm sick of people EXPECTING close to 100% of us to support democrats, and then blaming us if democrats lose, because 10% of us voted republican a few times.",Republicans had worse results than expected but in overall mid term votes they beat Dems by 3 million — they just weren’t in places that affected the results.,1
"Not sure if the West will be taking parts of Russia. Probably will be a civil war over control of he Kremlin. While that happens, China will ‘protect’ and claim a very large portion that has closer cultural heritage to Mongolia than Moscow. Will come with natural gas resources, farmland and cooler climate as global temperatures rise.",Joke will be on Russia when this is over. There is speculation China will attempt to annex a large segment of Russia if Putin’s war fails. And we all know he can’t win.,0
That’s what corporate democrats keep threatening to keep progressives holding the line and supporting them without getting anything in return. Maybe the corporate democrats need to bend some more or even look in the mirror so they can see they are supporting a conservative agenda which is anti-workers rights and anti-workers wages. Maybe the democrats need to lose too if they don’t bend to the progressives.,"We need a progressive workers party. The progressives should break off and form an independent party but still support the democrats if the republicans reconstitute themselves. Personally I believe the corporate democrats are good enough to incorporate the existing GOP ideas of tax cuts for the rich, globalization and quiet as it’s kept mass immigration to keep down wages. Progressives are the only way to give a voice to middle America and blue collar voters without the racism. Look at what Bernie Sanders did in 2015/2016.",0
For now. I hope it lasts. The talking heads are hard on the attack of rcv here. Dems need to fight to keep it. I won't be surprised to see a repeal initiative on the next ballot .,"The AK Republican party is completely run by Trump loyalists. It needs to be flushed down the toilet and rebuilt with people who represent the conservative views of alaskans. Instead of shoving nationalist, culture war bullshitters down the voters throats how about listening to them and representing them? I know plenty of conservative folks here that don't want to vote for these shit candidates but aren't left with much choice. Murkowski is your standard Republican of yesteryear.",0
"Answer appears to be, ""Quite a lot."" He has signed sweetheart contracts with incompetent suppliers who will then sue if they are not paid to not deliver non-functioning equipment.","40% is the number he claims, but the company he has selected has no experience making EVs or mass-producing vehicles, apparently. It looks like a recipe for delays and cost overruns, and for the delivered vehicles to not work as advertised.",0
"There’s fascinating analysis of the Russian involvement in Brexit, it was primarily fed by platforming pro-brexit politicians and pumping out thousands of fear mongering articles to weaponise exisiting British ‘patriotism’ and convince the public they’d be better off alone.","Russian agents aren’t working to build support for Russia, they’re working to internally destabilise countries by amplifying internal issues and using it to distract said countries from the rest of the world.",0
We all know NATO and US is trying to prevent the war from escalating into other parts of Europe even though this is total bs from our govts calling it a Ukrainian stray missile going into poland...,"NATO and co are claming that they are mostly sure it was an ukranian missile, trying to shoot down a russian missile.",1
Russia didn't attack Poland here. This is most certainly an accident. Some Belarusian soldiers near the border testing their own equipment that probably fucked up or misfired. If Russia was attacking Poland they aren't going to hit a farm in bumble fuck no where.,The response from NATO is simple: Move more air defense and air awareness capabilities the borders around Belarus and Ukraine and continue sending money to help end this war sooner so accidents stop happening. Nations that aren't on the brink of going to war themselves tend not to fire off missiles in such provocative locations.,0
"He should do it ex cathedra, if he gave a shit. Catholic doctrine says that he's infallible when doing so, and literally channeling truth through God.",It is historical fact that the Catholic Church did not stand against the Nazis in a meaningful way. I mean something like 30-40% of Nazis WERE Catholics.,0
"According to the State Border Guard Service, Russians settled in one of the houses of a captured settlement. Border guards were participating in the containment of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, as part of the Defense Forces. They reconnoitered the enemy position, correcting the fire from the air, using a drone.","""Our mortar gunners recently received a new drone from Chernivtsy volunteers. To thank the caring citizens, the soldiers signed artillery mines and accurately sent signed ammunition down towards the heads of the invaders. As a result, the border guards destroyed the command and observation post of the Russian occupation troops with fire from 120-mm mortars."".",0
"Basically, it comes down to the Israel-Palestine issue, and all the problems therein. Some Zionists readily move to equate criticizing Israel as being antisemitic, but that's a false equivalency.","Trump is antisemtic and has implied Jews aren't Americans and claimed to a group of American Jews that ""Israel is your country"".",1
"That’s the problem the democrats want to ignore that though. They keep saying the younger generation is “sulking and moping” but that’s because we’ve realized that the democrats are a guaranteed death sentence for us just as much as the republicans, only difference is the republicans want to do it a whole lot faster. Democrats are lock step with capitalism just like the republicans, and just because they don’t plan to use it to destroy democracy, they are going to let to erode democracy until it’s gone.","They can blame the voters all they want, but the fact will always remain that the democrats have allowed the republicans to walk all over them time and again since at least nixon. The only time they change their tune is when they start losing elections and are forced to adopt policy changes.",0
"Fuck that, maybe the IRS should be forced to work top down and only come after people making less than a million a year AFTER every fucking corperation and billionaire has paid their fair share.","Already seeing Trump supporters saying his lenhs to not pay taxes are just ""smart"" and ""good business"" but then will bemoan ""ThE eLiTeS"" when celebrities and other rich do the same.",1
They are trying to devalue the Swiss Franc because everyone is buying it as it has one of the lowest inflation rates for a stable currency.,"The Swiss franc is an international reserve currency along with USD, Euro, Yen and GBP. It turbulent times it is seen as a safe currency and so as money flows out of other reserve currencies and into Swiss francs, it’s relative value has gone up, irrespective of their economy. That makes imports super cheap and their exports super expensive, which is very bad for their balance of trade and their economy overall.",1
"Good luck, Sean. Maybe next time, less ""pundit character"" and more ""credibility as personal character"". There's only so much mileage in cribbing from wrestling and soap operas, after all.","I tried to tell him when he left it was a mistake... but as usual, no one ever does the long-term cost benefit analysis.",0
"That depends entirely upon the school. Around here, the public schools don't while the private schools do. And usually the punishment for violating the dress code here isn't getting arrested.","The federal government didn't go around killing protesters and/or sentencing them to death like what Iran is doing. The George Floyd protests also prompted social reform on various government levels (as an example, the federal government passed an anti-lynching bill). And no, Derek Chauvin is serving time in prison for what he did to George Floyd. Contrast that with Iran again, where Mahsa Amini's killers are unaccounted for and the regime has no intention of altering the rules in response to social unrest.",0
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"Eg, i am in a third world country, yet my company gives 6 months of paternity as well as maternity for employees.","Having said that, countries which implement longer maternity leaves also eventually move to extend paternity leave as well.",0
In the mean time Missouri does not have to continue to imprison individuals for personal use amounts of marijuana is this amendment is passed.,"That’s a valid opinion, particularly if you only look at the objectives of legal recreational marijuana and pardons for people charged with less than 3lbs. Both of which are admirable goals. But in exchange, we’re having to commit to allegiance to a very small number of industry insiders instead of allowing a free market to prosper, one that allows people of color and mixed social-economic backgrounds to participate. This amendment comes at the exclusion of these entrepreneurs. Which should merit consideration by voters.",1
"So like trying to take over countries via politics and attacking women's rights is reasonable? I'm not comparing extremists here, just pointing out that neither religion sits down and takes insults. They're both after the same thing, and it is not global harmony.","Like who is the catholic church you are referring to, and what's the equivalent for Muslims? Because I'm pretty sure Iran isn't like the head of all Muslims.",0
"Exactly. This is why Trump wants election day to be one day, paper ballots only, no early voting. Lots of red states already have restrictive voting hours that make it difficult for people with jobs to get to the polls on election day.","Exactly! And this has been a mainstay of the Republican voter base for decades. EVERYONE wants to vote in a Presidential election. Midterms, though, used to see WAY fewer people march off to the polls on election day. Older folks and retirees are have the time and leisure to pay attention to politics.",0
"I remember shopping for a dress for my first high school dance. It should’ve been a really fun day spent with my mom and older sister. Instead I ended up bawling in the dressing room because none of the dresses would fit my chest correctly. I always wore a sweater or jacket or something over every shirt I wore, no matter the weather, so I could cover up my body.",I was born a woman and I identify as a woman. I 100% consider that surgery to be have been “gender affirming” because I was flat as a table and always self-conscious about it. I felt more like myself and the gender I identify as after that surgery. I consider all breast augmentation to be gender affirming - why else would we want our breasts enlarged?,0
Many counties tax lottery winnings. The fact that this guy is from Gaza and not Israel is as irrelevant as if he was from Spain and won the lottery in Israel.,A Gazan won an Israeli lottery Surely this is a testament of how progressive and liberal Israel is How fortunate are the Gazans that Israel let's some of them in to work slavery jobs with slavery wages.,1
"trans children, even if they also have precocious puberty, would not be allowed to have hormone blockers.",And puberty blockers should be included because puberty needs to happen while a person is growing for proper development of the body and its systems.,1
"It can. Israel claims it has been tested against guided missiles as well. However, this would not be the preferred Israeli system anyway. David’s Sling has much more range, carries more speed, and has a more modern targeting system and would be used.","Not necessarily. Ballistic can fly within the atmosphere, but at longer distances they probably won’t because it’s not practical. Arrow 3 would intercept like above Iraq, whereas Arrow 2 would intercept at much closer distances to Israel.",0
"I did 4 tens for about 10 years, and recently went back to 5x8s. The weekends are short, but that extra 2 hours after work makes a huge difference in my time off during the weekdays and honestly I'm back to preferring 5x8s.","Beyond how the heck do these companies still manage to compete with such poor labor utilization, how are people not bored out of their minds just sitting there all the time?",0
There should be a negotiation on the federal budget. The house is directly responsible for creating the spending bill. It's one of their primary jobs.,"I think the ""no negotiations"" was around deciding not to pay outstanding debts. There's no reason for Biden to negotiate on that because the House already passed the bills authorizing the spending.",0
"If you look at the Republican behavior of the last thirty years or so, vengeance is a significant motivator for a lot of their actions. ""We got a Mueller Report, so we're retaliating with a Durham Report (that catches Trump in a financial crime)."" ""We got Nixon, so we're going to impeach Clinton."" So on and so forth.",Also. I lost all respect for her after her Ukraine comments. She can't walk that back no matter how hard she tries. All of the talk of being opposed to colonialism and imperialism went out the window.,1
"There were a few upsets in the House for races they thought were safe like Washinon's 3rd but that's hardly enough to say ""polls are meaningless."".",This is it. Trump being on the ticket is going to do more for Biden than anything else. And I'm here for it. Could even help democrats retain the Senate.,1
"Meanwhile the truth is that ALL presidents sell off some of the reserves. Gas has a limited shelf life, and they need to rotate stock, so they sell some off and then replenish it.","IIRC, Trump said this part out loud in an interview. ""Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. If they lose, I should not be blamed at all."".",0
"What are these assholes planning now? I wish that they would go away, but I am not dumb enough to believe that. I hope all my Jewish brethren can stay safe.","I hope Jews are getting armed for self defense. The cops can't be everywhere all the time, and they often take a while to get to your location if you call them, so it's better to be prepared in case you get attacked.",1
"Granted, but this is for the president. I get that no man is above the law, but maybe some cases should get expedited review to clear them out of the system.","But now that these rulings are finally being finalized, they become the precedent for if the situation happens again in the future. If a future president refuses to hand over their tax info to Congress, courts can point to the rulings from Trump’s case and decide the cases a lot faster.",1
"Funny how when China does hostile and aggressive actions, western media presents it as bad, but when it is us doing the hostile and aggressive actions, they present as normal, and as if we haven't even done anything wrong.","Okay, so say it was accidental. What about all the times the USA has for certain intentionally violated other countries sovereignty? E.g. the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, or the illegal drone warfare program. Like I say, can you imagine the reaction if it was China doing these things?",0
"Well, why wouldn't the Russians intensify their attacks as a result? I would have thought that the cycle of retaliation would continue for a long time. Why would you think the Russians would rethink their approach?",Russia is full of doublethink. The country of survivors. Everything past pure survival is a luxury. Think of it what you will.,1
"But that still gives them a much larger window to operate safely, and with AESA radar lob long range AA missiles at Ukrainian jets.","Secure air bases are a much bigger deal for F16s than Ukraine's current fighters. The latter were made to take off an land from roads and small airfields in the event that NATO attacks rendered Soviet airbases unusable. And that is how Ukraine was able to keep their jets in the fight, at least in the early days of the war.",1
I think the line is if something is true or not. It's fine to blast someone for truths but this headline and article doesn't seem very legit. SVR General like a propaganda channel.,previously did a factcheck on Putin's illnesses SVR Telegram reported on and found out that there is no evidence of their claims of being run by former Russian inteligance officers.,0
Democrats are creating issues for themselves that will present themselves across multiple election cycles... ensuring that fringe groups get more spotlight and spreading their narrative.,Problem I have with these narratives is that there is very little evidence the money that the Democratic Party spent had any impact on elections. Money makes no difference in general elections and only a theoretical difference in primaries. There isn’t much evidence to show how large of an impact if any this spending has.,1
"How's this for a fair tax? Taxes are fair when the people who benefit the most from society's infrastructure (ie, what the taxes pay for) pay the most in taxes.","And that right there is why ""fair tax"" is a lie the same way stairs are ""fair"" to both people in wheelchairs and people who can walk.",1
"My 13.5 year old puppers just gave into her battle with cancer in December. Spend all the time with her you can. My best photos and memories were in our last two years. I knew she was slowing down so I’d spend an extra 15 mins on the patio with her, or let her get that extra sniff in of that bush; give her extra snacks or pull her a little closer at night. We don’t deserve their complete love. Read the poem “The Power of the dog” by Kipling. If it brings you to a tear, you’re probably doing the right things.","I think you're both on point here. In your case, the people were already on the cruise and showed strong moral fiber by thinking about the victims before their own enjoyment. In the comment you're replying to, it's the situations where the first takeaway is a ""cheap vacation"" and those harmed by the tragedy are a complete afterthought.",1
"Mr. BoneSaw here is not the head of state of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, That belongs to his father King Salman. He is the Crown Prince, and the Head of Government as the prime minister.","The PM is head of government, not head of state. However, both the head of state and head of government have diplomatic immunity. Below are some other examples of heads of states and government, everyone listed below has diplomatic immunity while in foreign nations.",1
"I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please if you have any questions or concerns.",There are so many issues with this. Are they seriously going to set the stage for how miscarriages should be handled? This could seriously set the stage for regulations on how periods are handled- it's legit a lot of the same tissues involved. This can throw women back into the dark ages and is dangerous regulation.,1
"""Even though there's clear evidence of malfeasance by the Maricopa County bord of electors, it's the GOP who's really committing voter fraud here"".",It’s wise to not make a big deal out of one off instances of voter fraud that are caught and prosecuted because the system is working as intended.,1
"I would say jail, I would like to believe where he goes the people who helped him would go as well leaving the GOP to reinvent themselves and gain some sanity.",If they are like a lot on that conservative sub you are probably right. I have noticed that there is at least some anti trump chat that is being allowed to stick around.,0
"Anyway I kept getting sick during Covid times (terrible cold like symptoms), always testing negative, and then in August of last year I started having very severe unexplainable symptoms that I’ve had for months now.","And I’ve often wondered if maybe I have long covid, especially because I’ve heard of numerous long covid cases with my exact symptoms: pins and needles/skin crawling sensations, internal tremors / buzzy/ vibration sensations that especially worsen at night.",0
"AFAIK, a bunch of things that are funded from Germany's defense budget are funded from other sources in France. In total they spent more on their military. I agree they make better use of their money, but an aircraft carrier tends to be costly no matter what. And both navy and air force are like 30% larger than Germany's. Add to that constant foreign engagements in Western Africa.","Seriously though, Germans are indebted to the US for protecting us from the Commies for 40 years, for making reunification possible against French and British resistance and for letting us even be a country again after WW2. Also Biden said at a recent G7 summit ""he couldn't think of a closer friend and ally of the United States than Germany"" - which didn't go so well with the British but put a rare smile on many faces in Berlin.",0
"That makes sense to me, but I could see the argument that they can both support Ukraine against Russia and support Hungary against the EU.",Italy's current government might be quite conservative but they have also been very clear in their support of Ukraine against Russia aggression. That's why I don't see them wanting to get any closer to Orbán.,1
"Although I didn't vote for her, you have to point out that that party was the one that transformed an autocratic party into a democratic one and that helped the formation of the current republic that has always condemned dictatorial regimes. Biden's party is that of the KKK but no one says it's in their DNA.","Because fascism is a dictatorial regime in which a person came to power illegally, obtained full powers and has a monopoly on the press and the media. There is therefore only one party and it is illegal to have political opposition and a thought that is opposed to those of the dictator. There is the exaltation of war, violence and race. Although it is a far-right government, if you call it a fascist government you should open some history books.",0
"3. Special Master Judge Dearie - A Reagan appointed judge from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He also served as a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) from 2012 to 2019. Judge Dearie is known as a very fair judge and is historically respected by both Republicans and Democrats. Trump's team and the DoJ provided Judge Cannon with a shortlist of judges to be the Special Master, however they only agreed on Judge Dearie.^ Judge Dearie has questioned the authority of District Court Judge Cannon and is demanding to see evidence of Trump's outlandish allegations such as the FBI planting evidence.^.","I recommend reading the judicial decision handed down by the Appeals Court, pay particular attention to pages 20 and 21. The 11^th Circuit said that District Judge Cannon was completely wrong and that no one, including a former President, is above the law.^.",0
"Their A- rating comes from having pretty good precision, even if they have a strong bias. Being exactly X points to the right on every poll can still be useful as long as you adjust for that bias, which 538 does.",And 538 also made it clear that a lot of possible outcomes around the balance if power were all within one normal polling error.,1
The most likely situation is probably going to be something like Avian Influenza that finds a way to mutate in such a way to transmit between people. Scientists have been warning governments/the public that it wouldn't be some huge evolution of the virus for that to happen either.,A harmless virus could spread to everyone in the world but it can't gain traits all at once like in pandemic. If an individual of this species gains lethal traits it will have to spread to everyone all over again since the other varients will all still be harmless.,1
"I wish people would learn to distinguish the language of various entities and institutions, and also that context matters.","Everything starts with an investigation. You're becoming outraged at something perfectly normal and good. You can't just yada yada yada over everything and go straight to a guilty verdict, or even charges.",0
"Another part is that many assets get trashed and disposed of and are never properly documented. We had them. They sat on a shelf for 25 years. Then they were tossed, and private Pyle didn't file the proper paperwork because he was going to be transfered next week, and fuck it. That's why.","The last part is the worst part. People in the military move around constantly. Right around the time someone is figuring out how to do their job, and deciphering the shit that the previous person left them, it's time to move to the next assignment. They in turn, leave a pile of shit for the next person. And on and on. Civilian side isn't much better. You're split between people that move around a lot, and people that never budge. Most of the time is spent taking training that has nothing to do with your job, and trying to figure out how to use the 6 software programs needed just to enter in your vacation time.",0
"Instead of the fear of overpopulation, we should focus on the overconsumption of the planet’s resources by the wealthiest among us.","If it's about overpopulation and not consumption, then by virtue of that it's still about consumption rather than the population. Like I said, wer currently can't sustain our current 8b. It doesn't matter where the population overall eventually levels because currently we consume too much to get there anyway.",1
"For better or worse, modern day communist china is a multiethnic state where the majority of their ethnicities have been fully self-assimilated into the majoritarian han culture (like the Qing Manchu ruling class). Primary exceptions being tibetans and Uighurs who are being forcefully assimilate with both carrots (affirmative action) and inhumane sticks (concentration camps). This happened pre communist revolution actually and many of the Taiwanese republic of china share the same history (a lot of the landholding elites in pre-communist China were descendents of manchu nobles who fled to Taiwan because communist murdered lots of rich people). Theres actually a prominent American general of this background John Fughs.","Some parts of the Yuan remnants after the rise of the Han-led Ming dynasty did flee to outer Mongolia, but most people just stayed put cuz they had houses and farms and shit.",0
"It's in the same category as automation in that it streamlines the business to require less labor. A whole lot of customers are just fine with self checkout, and many actually prefer it. From that point of view, it's hardly a burden.","Stores should always have assisted/traditional cashier checkout available, and I'd be okay with laws requiring that they do. Not just because people like you don't want to check themselves out, but because people with disabilities and people with different needs are much better served by them. Elsewhere in this thread, I'm arguing in favor of the usefulness of self-checkout lines. The flip side to this, though, is that I'd be completely against a store having that as the only option.",0
"They threatened everyone with nukes if weapons were sent to Ukraine, weapons were sent to Ukraine... and nothing happened.","They threatened nukes if Ukraine fired upon ""Russian territory"", Ukraine sunk their ""flagship"" of the Black Sea, fired missiles into Crimea, into Belgorod...nothing happened.",0
"""Young people are the last people you want to make important choices about the future. They are not objective about it; they will be the ones living there."".","I hear what you are saying. “You keep trying to tackle the problem from the perspective of discouraging voters! Why not, instead, modify any of your stances in a way that might encourage more people to vote for you?” I will tell you why not: because I do not want to.",1
"Quit your bullshit, man, you and I both know that isn't what I said. Bad faith accusations of antisemitism in response to drawing conclusions from the policies in place in Israel tell a lot about how you clearly know you're lying.","I think rational humans will question why there are so many comments about Israel who outright lie or grossly exaggerate about what’s actually going on in the country. I only see claims of genocide, apartheid, and assassinations on Reddit for example.",1
"What follows is even worse. The banks fail and their husks get cannibalized by the likes of Crypto Dude bros convinced you don't need stability in the financial sector, what you really need isn't to be able to swipe a card and have it work anywhere, but you need the blockchain. They don't want to run the financial sector, they want to disrupt it.",They don't want debt relief spread out amongst the masses because they want that money concentrated to themselves.,1
"If we do nothing, Haiti will slowly devolve into an anarchy state akin to Somalia. With mass poverty and no functioning government. The people of Haiti will suffer.",Poor Haiti. The typical third world country. Corruption rooted within since they got freed from France almost 500 years ago. You would expect this to be a prosperous country.,1
"I'm going to go with a blanket ""Yes it is"" because the people who own that media and who make sure that those ""news"" sources constantly repeat disproven politically based points are the same people who are providing the money that is corrupting the whole process.","Arizona Governor claims voter fraud and rigged elections... Mainstream media goes out of their way to NOT point out that there are no verifiable fraudulent ballots to back up that claim. But if you do a search ""Heritage Foundation voter fraud"" you will find article after article 'proving' that the fraud exists. And no counter-claim articles at least from that search disputing them until the second or third page, as of this morning. And I'm not going to discredit USA Today as a source, but it was the first one I found that questioned the Heritage Foundations Claims but its not a news name that carries a lot of clout.",0
"Call me a topic changer and downvote me all you want, but it's really easy to be on the right side of social justice issues and incredibly difficult for this administration to be on labor's side on financial issues.","But after watching the story unfold over the last 3 months, I'm simply done shielding or holding back my criticism on Biden's repeatedly siding with corporate interest over labor because its beyond unacceptable. He was wrong to step in break up the strike in December last year. They weren't striking with the purpose of crashing the economy and potentially ruining Biden's re-election chances, them striking was the canary in the coalmine that something is very wrong in the rail industry. He is still wrong to .",0
"Non-enacting states would award their electors however they want. Continuing with district or statewide winner-take-all, or enacting some other law.","Because of district and state-by-state winner-take-all laws, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution. . .",0
Trans movement is a gift to the current social and political order. It’s important that it be furthered and funded.,"The more social division you bring, the faster society will collapse. Please keep pushing your agenda, it is most welcome, most beneficial.",0
"- 83,500 tanks lost: 5,200 heavy tanks, 44,900 medium tanks, 33,400 light tanks (including 11,900 Lend-Lease tanks and self-propelled guns lost[17]).","While it is still hard to say how many tanks Russia had pre war, it is certain they have lost a shitload of them.",1
"First off, these numbers are for ""Gun Related Deaths"" from a graph listing many other Countries. I have seen similar graphs before. Second, I gave my source. What is your? Fox?","As my last reply stated, the numbers were for All Gun Related Deaths. And, Suicide is made so much easier when a tug on a trigger does it. If it were not simple, many might not happen. And, pray tell, why gang deaths should not be counted? And, you have derided MSNBC, but, failed to mention your News Source.",0
"Republicans in Congress could retaliate by releasing President Biden’s tax returns. Oh wait, he already released them like every president of either party besides Donald Trump for the last 40 plus years.",So Republicans voted along party lines against releasing something that Trumpclaimed he wanted to release 6 years ago. And now Republicans are screaming about how unfair it was to release them.,1
I boycotted and haven't watched a single game this year and people kept telling me it didn't matter and there's nothing we can do as they watched matches on 3 screens and subscribed to streaming services and logged onto streams.,"And there it is. If this year had the lowest viewership for the last 4 or 5 world cups then maybe at the very least fifa would pote tially change a bit. Instead people throw their hands up and say ""I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas"". It's lazy and it's bullshit.",0
"In line with this discussion I am curious as to why the coverage of Wagner group activities in Africa never gets an appropriate amount of media coverage, it's all over the news when it's in Ukraine and even Syria gets mentioned, but the activity in Africa is at a whole other level and has been increasing for about 8 years now.",There is a long list of injustice enacted all over Africa but if it's ever going to end it would be logical to start with highlighting the most egregious actions by outside actors.,0
And you will never hear the end of it if you try take away our freedom of speech right to fly a swastika'.,You think trying to stifle freedom of expression is american? You're wrong. You think banning books and flags is okay? You're both wrong and unamerican. You think LGBT people abuse kids more than religion does? You're dead wrong. You think sexual education hurts kids?,1
"This phenomenon would apply to all super massive blackholes, and since they are scattered around us in a relatively even distribution, we would see this expansion of spacetime phenomenon all around us, which is why we would see dark energy everywhere.","This phenomenon would apply to all super massive blackholes, and since they are scattered around us in a relatively even distribution, we would see this expansion of spacetime phenomenon all around us, which is why we would see dark energy everywhere.",0
Not all whales are going extinct. There’s over 1.5 million whales in the oceans. I can’t read the article because I live in Europe but I imagine endangered species are still being treated as endangered.,"What’s worse, killing a human with no legs who can’t run away or a human with no arms but legs so they could run away?",0
"I will say that paying via SNAP is much, MUCH easier now that the program uses an actual card as opposed to literal paper coupons. It's possible that the cashiers weren't ""glaring"" at you because they were judging you for what you bought - but because ringing someone out using those dumb paper food stamps was annoying and a pain.","So taking away cheaper items and forcing people on SNAP to purchase more expensive items, under the guise of “it’s healthier” is just another way to hurt poor people unless they now plan on upping the $$ amount for recipients of SNAP, which I’m guessing they’re not.",1
"Also, how young are you that you think people ages 65-70 are just sitting around all day waiting to vote? And they're all watching Fox? I'll let Bernie know. 😂.",">Voter turnout was highest among those ages 65 to 74 at 76.0%, while the percentage was lowest among those ages 18 to 24 at 51.4%. Overall, voter turnout increased as age increased.",0
"She should be Vice President right now but the democrats were afraid she would be vulnerable to birthed attacks, instead we’re stuck with useless Kamala Harris.",And that’s the problem. The midterms have democrats feeling big for their britches thinking people will vote for Kamala no matter what but the reality is she will get creamed by Trump or Desantis. She is a zero charisma candidate like Gore Kerry and Clinton and we know what happened to them.,0
"It was the US that said the missile did not come from Russian territory. The US has been very aware that the annexed territory is Ukraine, not Russia. The Russians are simply denying any involvement, they did not say the missiles did not come from Russian territory. There is no inconsistency about what is or is not Russian territory here.",Then we have these comments with mind stretch looking for ways in which it could still have been launched by russian.,1
Here's a different example: I do not have a million dollars in $1 bills in my wallet right now. Would you also argue that that is impossible to prove? Might the bills be hiding from you as you look?,"At some point it is. I don't think Trump qualifies, but at some point being unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy certainly counts as insane. It's a reasonable concern for a prosecutor. Fortunately Trump's ego would never let him plead insanity regardless.",0
"Putin is getting exactly what he wanted, just less. He wants to slowly build up reasons to close off the country and turn it into Iran, while menacing and bribing the rest of the world into expanding Russia's sphere of influence. He is copying the US, but in a KGB way. And.. it works.",He is good at psychopathy so he can say what people want to hear and really good at lying and manipulating people and has mild Asperger's.. and he got taught by the KGB and then surrounded by the KGB who made doing this into a teaching science. KGB wants to dismantle American domestic democracy by doing what I said above to discredit it.,0
He was also the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee until 2018 when he instead went into politics. So him being Pro Nato also isn't exactly a surprise.,"The fact that the president elect is pro-west, pro-EU, pro-NATO is notable and should not be taken for granted.",1
ya its been fascinating (from a poli sci major) and terrifying (from an american citizen standpoint) to watch the maga power struggle. McConnell was pretty good about not allowing the crazies into the senate or at least whipping them into line.,"It's funny that McConnell is seen as some political genius. Yes, he was incredibly successful in ratfucking the judicial branch, but that was sheer luck. You don't call someone a genius investor because they went all in on their hand and it happened to be that they won the bet. You call them a reckless gambler.",1
you have to trust your enemy is that crazy. Odds are they're not. That's what the soviet missile commanders decided when they didn't hit the button when their EW satellites picked up a weird glint off the atmosphere and had a false positive massive nuclear first strike coming out of america.,"We're really not, though. You would need every person in the launch chain to be suicidally crazy. It's not just like the president of the US or putin can just unilaterally declare they want to do a first strike, they'd have to get everyone in the chain to go along with that. Soviet missile base commanders have refused the order in the past on more than one occasion.",0
"Where’d I say that? A heartbeat is irrelevant. You can make heart cells beat in a Petri dish. exist. That’s why these “beating heart” bills are ridiculous, among other reasons.","Every pro life person then likes to pull the “bodily autonomy?! What about the BABY’S bodily autonomy??” card which is where you were going next, I’d guess. For the sake of argument, let’s assume an embryo has bodily autonomy; even if it does, that doesn’t supersede the pregnant person’s. A person bleeding out because there isn’t enough type AB in the blood bank has bodily autonomy, but that doesn’t mean we can hold down someone with type AB and forcibly take their blood. The primary intent of removal of the “baby” is to end the pregnancy; the death of the “baby” is a side effect because .",0
Wasn’t there some hope of being able to use like a scramjet type engine to pressurize hydrogen in flight some day?,"Hydrogen without carbon is not able to be held safely or densely enough for aircraft that I can conceive of. Love the tech, but the tech is also there to make synthetic hydrocarbons with captured carbon. Humans have been doing it since WW2 I believe.",1
"Lol, fuck off with the ‘equally respected’. Your values are shit, and aren’t worth the respect you think they are due. The majority of the criticism is from average westerners who have no say or means as to where FIFA chooses to hold the events, but at least they can express their critical views on reddit without fear of their government’s coming after them.","The people who are criticizing Qatar and the rest of the ME culture on reddit are most likely no where near the World Cup or will ever visit the region in their lifetimes, so the risk to do do so is low. It’s nice to be able to express oneself in cultures that allow it with low risk.",0
"There was an interview with Trump recently, where he admitted that he wanted all of the credit and none of the blame. Flat out admitted it. This goes to show we're we've been misguided about Trump.","Furthermore, it's likely Pence has played some part in Trump's recent fall. With the many investigations occurring, it seems likely Pence has played a significant part. So there could've easily been external factors, where if Pence came out publicly, the investigation could be harmed. Trump's politics rely on mind games/manipulation after all, and combating this requires tact.",0
"Unfortunately, probably not. The Dobbs decision pretty much unconstitutionalized the right to an abortion. 2A is still very much black and white constitutional.","No. Cops should absolutely not only have guns. If you are a black person in america or a trans person in america, you absolutely be armed- because there are people in law enforcement that are part of extremists groups that will do harm to black people and trans people.",0
"Realistically, you can't have freedom of religion without having freedom from it. They go hand in hand. But these people don't want freedom of religion. It's like freedom of speech to them. They just want total and unchecked power to do what they want to you.",He's a dominionist and always has been. It's safe to assume pretty much every republican voting Christian feels this way. Right wing theocracies are a pretty common thing in human history.,0
"It's like if every action Biden took was reported as ""Biden does X without consulting president Trump first."".","That's what is supposed to happen. Conceding is a tradition that I would argue is good anywhere with elections, but it is not at all necessary.",1
"I mean, I'm not a legal expert, but given that ISL would put the rule making power nearly entirely in hands of the state legislatures alone, then it will definitely guarantee that the right wingers will stretch it to change as much as they can get away with.","But how that happens would come down to the state legislatures under ISL, and republicans have total control (both state house and state senate) in 30 out of 50 state legislatures.",0
"Russia wants all of Moldova under the control of Russia, with Transnistria either as a puppet state enabling that control or eliminated once they've outlived their usefulness.","The only easy way out is for Moldova to renounce territorial claims to Transnistria, recognize it as russian/nistrean/independent or in any case, not-moldovan territory and be done with it.",1
"This has been the Republican strategy (Fresh Air interview about article) . That is, to use wedge issues to encourage 'the base' to show up and vote, instead of fighting to attract the vote of the middle-ground ""undecideds."".",…and they biffed it. To pull the country that far along in fascism groundwork only to lose the narrative.,1
"1. He made a strategic mistake by not lowering the minimum percentage for parties to enter parliament, which made Meretz (left wing party) and Balad (Arabic Democratic Party) not enter the parliament.","However, as the poster above noted some leftwing parties refused to merge and some even split, while a lot of traditionally leftwing voters strategically voted for Lapid's center party, causing some parties to not make it past the threshold and all the votes they got to be wasted, giving the pro-Netanyahu bloc a significant advantage.",1
"Is it a NATO or specific spec round, for instance we are asking Ukraines eastern European friends to donate their stockpiles because its not NATO spec weapons.",Interesting that the aging global arsenals are being sent to Ukraine. Basically we are sending all our old weapons to them and now we make new ones. There has to be some significance here. Maybe someone more intelligent has some insight.,1
"people gotta learn to separate their opinion and desires from the reality of things, and also be able to recognize when they simply dont know what exactly is going on.","redditors really struggle with parsing information in general, no matter the topic, because whenever its information they'd rather not be true they will be extremely critical of it and make every assumption possible that the information is bad in one way or another, but when it is information that aligns with their opinion they will assume it is so true that it is probably even better than what the information said.",0
"Relatives. A lot of Ukrainians have relatives in Russia, seeing that we used to be one country at some point, and after the division the border control and immigration policy were very lax until about 2012-14. Think like Canada-US interconnectedness, it's about the same - used to be.","We largely define ourselves by our nationality (with the exclusion of ethnic minorities like Crimean Tatars, Cossacks of Don or of Zaporozhye etc) and not our ethnicity. Given the shared history of our two countries, it's nearly impossible to even determine it. The poster above was most likely referring to the Russian-speaking people from the eastern parts of Ukraine (they were evacuated the most) who nevertheless define themselves as Ukrainians, so calling them ""ethnically Russian"" would be incorrect and even kinda crass tbh. It is also the basis of Putin's propaganda and the backlash of a Ukrainian one: Russian-speaking Ukrainians from the East (especially Donbass territory) are often marginalised and called ""rusnya"" (racist slur for Russians) by their Ukrainian-speaking compatriots, so it's just hurtful all around.",0
So what’s the magical number of kids raped and molested and abused before we get to burn down churches and force religious leaders to come clean ?,"Well if you recall I believe two years ago in the US when multiple Catholic priests were arrested, many had a claimed that their sexual abuse was “an encounter with God”.",1
Yawn. Homophobia is such a crazy thing even in a form like yours. Why should anyone care how a gay character is shown anymore then they care how straight character is shown? Answer: homophobia. Why do queer people have to be portrayed or put into a storyline under such scrutiny that no other group of characters have to?,"Thing is, nobody talks about ""heterosexuality"" being shoved in our faces when there's a hetero/cis character doing hetero/cis things that don't advance the plot. It might be pointed out as extraneous but it's never labeled as some kind of agenda being forced upon the viewer the way it is with an LGBTQ character.",1
Now the Ukrainian army is collapsing and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives fighting an army 3x their size… all so the US could extract tax payer money and give it to western oligarchs.,It’s time to end the war and let Ukraine strike a peace agreement before the whole country gets steamrolled or we get goose stepped into world war three.,0
An exhaustive investigation overseen by the Ukraine and its allies over the kidnapped children so that they may be returned to surviving family members. Funded by Russia of course.,"""Oh, ye Gods Russia is overrun with Mongoloids But what if I were to kidnap Ukrainian children of Slavic descent and pass them off as Russian citizens? Delightfully devilish, Putin."".",0
"it probably won't help. For the right price, they could pay for a negative test result. And even if the destination airport require a test on arrival, they potentially infected people on the flight over, who won't test positive until a few days later.","Test everyone as they disembark, one person comes off the plane and tests positive, everyone on the plane wins a few weeks of quarantine. We can also literally do covid tests as people board the plane rather than rely on falsifiable documents, and sure, they're not 100% but better than ""bro, trust me bro"".",1
"South Carolina represents the American south, which has the largest concentration of black voters. Remember, if not for Jim clyburn, the most powerful democrat in South Carolina, endorsing Biden, Biden would’ve lost that state and would’ve most likely dropped off out of the race. Instead, thanks to clyburn a endorsement, Biden won South Carolina and went on to sweep the south.","He chose South Carolina because it was a turning point for him in the 2020 primaries. If Jim clyburn, the most powerful democrat in South Carolina, didn’t endorse him, he probably would’ve lost South Carolina and his presidential aspirations would’ve likely been over.",0
What’s happening in Ethiopia? The best most of us can do is some “well this is probably because colonial practices somehow” but otherwise it’s lost in the sordid generational conflict that has defined many places in Africa. The coups and clashes so numerous that Westerns have lost the thread entirely.,"Truly insane conflict. We in the west just don’t quite understand the equities, people, and complicated histories that led to this conflict. It’s horrific.",0
"Like I said, I think the notion that anti-vaxxers deserve special treatment is baloney, but that's the argument.","I don't agree with the anti-vaxxers in FL, but to play Devil's Advocate the legal argument would be that this is similar to requiring businesses to make reasonable accommodations and not to refuse service to people with medical issues. The FL Dept of Health would be arguing that whether or not someone is vaccinated is a private medical issue that should have no bearing on their ability to access FL businesses. Basically the state does have some authority to regulate if businesses can turn away certain classes of people if they can argue that those classes deserve government protection.",0
"Putin is whispering into Trumps ear how to dismantle US democracy: get rid of presidential terms, cancel elections, do fake electors, seize the voting machines, establish marshal law, lock up the other candidate, and now.. undo the constitution. This is EXACTLY what Putin did actually.","Putin is getting exactly what he wanted, just less. He wants to slowly build up reasons to close off the country and turn it into Iran, while menacing and bribing the rest of the world into expanding Russia's sphere of influence. He is copying the US, but in a KGB way. And.. it works.",0
"""nearly 2,000 commenters, in what appeared to be a coordinated campaign, submitted the exact same comment opposing Biden's student-debt relief plans."".","""nearly 2,000 commenters, in what appeared to be a coordinated campaign, submitted the exact same comment opposing Biden's student-debt relief plans."".",0
The argument was over the definition of a blazer made of ponte knit fabric. Ms. Kelley wanted it defined as a “cardigan” and not allowed under the existing dress code. Ponte knit is very commonly used for women’s suiting. Eventually they got her to add “cardigan” to the dress code so they could continue wearing their knit blazers.,That seems more important than whether a blazer made of knit fabric is considered a “blazer” or a “cardigan”.,0
"Keep in mind there are many other analogous vectors that liberals can attack the Texas precedent on (e.g., suing churches for harmful religious practices, suing corporations for political speech, etc.). It is going to be a lot of work to generate legal arguments to carve all of those out while keeping the Texas law in place, and then they have to supervise implementation of all those carve outs by the (increasingly liberal) Circuit Courts. I'm guessing that the 6 demons would prefer to utilize their limited docket space on other right-wing priorities that have higher impact.",That stuff does matter - even obvious partisan hack Aileen Cannon tried to defend her ridiculous orders in Mar-a-Lago with some legal argument.,0
"I mean we should also understand the posturing of the conservative judges, and how each can ""dissent"" on any given ruling to try and maintain some veneer of ""reasonability"" or ""impartiality"", while they as a whole know they will still get done whatever they want.","As for judicial term limits, in the theoretical system you've created, why would you refuse a knowledgeable and healthy judge from a return to the bench if the incoming congress believes they're still capable and would serve the country well for another 18? Nearly all of the same justifications for the removal of term limits on elected officials carries over 1:1 with justices.",1
"It doesn’t keep prison populations small. There are currently about 2,400 prisoners on death row, out of 1.8 million prisoners overall. That’s a drop in the ocean. To keep prison populations small, stop jailing people for trivial offences like marijuana smoking. Free people who are in for such offences. Of course, a system that did that wouldn’t have the death penalty anyway.","Also, there is nothing just about the death penalty. I believe a fair society has a right to punish, it doesn’t have the right to kill (barring war). There are too many variables involved in the death penalty. And having it on the books is too risky. You say it should be used on serial killers, one day, someone may say it should be used on abortion doctors or political protesters.",0
"Didn't argue otherwise, I'm very well aware of why they're shamelessly pandering to English nationalist, Leave-voting Brexiteers. Doesn't change the fact they're still pandering to them and pushing a pro-Brexit position, whether or not they believe in it.","The soft Brexiteer (and there are plenty of them) won't admit to being 'stupid', but they will admit that they were lied to and deceived, and once they make that jump they'll take their revenge.",1
"If ANY country (Belarus, North Korea, Hungary, China, Iran) etc sends troops in as support for Russia, that opens the door wide for other countries to do the same on Ukraine's side.","Well, that's the thing. Thus far, the only 'official' countries involved in the war are Ukraine and Russia.",0
"It’s always funny being a socialist and seeing generic liberals get labeled as socialists and having to explain to people, “no no, I’m WAY more radical that.”.","Anyone who's still afraid of the term socialist really needs to crack open a book and do just a tiny bit of research, because if they did, they'd realize they were most likely more socialist then they realized. Also cracks me up the right is STILL using socialism as a boogy man word, assuming it'll actually work on the younger generations.",1
"If you're referring to the statements about this being due to Trump's cancelling an Obama era regulation, that regulation applied to Class 3 flammable liquids, this train was carrying class 2. Buttegeig misled the public with his statement.","The regulation he rolled back applied to class 3 flammable liquids, this train was carrying class 2. The regulation would have made no difference for this train had Trump kept it.",0
"Yes but death penalty doesn’t ultimately solve the problem of people using drugs. The demand will be always there and even if you kill the leader, someone will keep taking their place. The past how many years of war on drugs should be sufficient enough to prove that.","for years and years the war on drugs has proven ineffective and a waste of time. The only thing we havent tried is to legalize the drugs in the US and let the government tax it. Thats side income to improve communitys, and it will take dealers off the streets. Yes there will still be deaths in the US, but that is legit the only way you take away the cartels finances.",1
"When the Army first adopted the M2010 the contract cost 28mil for 3,600 rifles; or 7,777 dollars per rifle.","I can get one of these rifles - imported by a reseller - for $15k CAD. They're probably getting it for closer to 10. Call it 20k after scope (assuming a high end milspec model, like the Schmidt & Bender PMII high power), and another $2k for miscellaneous parts (scope mount, magazines, brake and bipod). At current exchange rate that's about 15k euro per unit.",1
They just voted it down and now it’s going to pass the original deal and force workers to take it even after they voted it down. Anybody claiming the democrats as a whole really wanted this to pass is delusional. Maybe certain members like Bernie did but it doesn’t matter. This is what complete corporate dominance looks like.,They literally can’t by law. The congress is or already has voted to take away their say in the negotiation process. Every media outlet will say congress reached deal to avoid shutdown. Really it should read congress has forced railroad unions to accept a deal they voted against.,0
> India is world's 3rd largest consumer of electricity and world's 3rd largest renewable energy producer with 40% of energy capacity installed in the year 2022 (160 GW of 400 GW) coming from renewable sources.[1][2] Ernst & Young's (EY) 2021 Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI) ranked India 3rd behind USA and China.,India is the 3rd largest renewable energy producer. Also check how many nuclear reactors are being built. Some nations just talk. India is walking the talk.,0
"It's a small part of a worrying trend of phones, IP Cameras and even toys, manufactured by Chinese companies, that are sending and receiving data from servers in China.","The NSA is up to similar right now, they will intercept computer equipment destined for somone or a country of interest add modified firmware to hard drives, base band radios, parts that end-users don't have easy access to, and therefore cannot easily detect modification, that facilitates covert spying.",0
"Republicans are responsible for the policies they pass when they have the power to, and for not consequences of not passing policies they could have when they had the power to.","You seem to want to point out some hypocrisy on my part, but you're the only one here who wants a double-standard where Republicans are responsible for both their own actions and for their opponents' failure to use their power when they have it.",0
The Supreme Court will overturn this along with all the future weird gun control legislation Illinois passes that violates the constitution...,Local police and sheriffs generally swear an oath to the constitution. The legislation violates the constitution.,0
"5. University professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes.",1. Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of states.,0
"yeah Democrats in office really have a hard time understanding that most people have the memories of goldfish. You have to stay on message and repeat it, over and over again to really drill it home. and I get what you're saying about the courts, Joe Biden would have never made this move if it wasn't backed up by the law and economists and probably at least a dozen more advisors. I guarantee it probably is legally sound, but then we have the courts who are more interested in hurting him politically. something for Democrats to run on, you're right.","People will remember, but the democrats also have to do their part in the fight. If this somehow does get blocked by the crooked supreme court, the democrats are obliged to continue the pause or use plan B. In the worst case scenario, make it a '24 campaign issue. Make court reform a '24 campaign issue too because a decision against this will mean the courts are 100% political and the implications of that extend far beyond debt forgiveness.",1
"J6's anniversary is definitely going to play into this. If the GOP aren't able to work through this tonight or tomorrow, it's going to drip into the talking points for both GOP factions and it will heighten those divisions.","I hope they show these past couple of days on repeat the next time midterms elections come around, remind everyone that republicans can't get their shit together.",1
It could have instead galvanized the west and Poland into supplying Ukraine with even more advanced weapons and defense systems to further weaken Russia... which is in NATO's and Poland's interest... in which case why lie about it not being Russian?,Which would let NATO get partially involved and help Ukraine defend it's western side. Ukraine could then concentrate their anti-air systems more to the east to try to stop the infrastructure bombings.,1
"She know she can't win a Democrat primary, Democrats are winning state wide elections (albeit very very close). The better bet is going Republican, getting that backing of the party and the kudos of delivering the Senate, and get the voters who walked away from the crazy.","Well, she did say she would not caucus with the Republicans, so it seems unlikely she wouldn’t with the Dems because then she would lose her committee seats and power. Even without her, because King and Sanders both caucus with the Dems, it would still be 50-49.",1
"The fact that it took one week to decide the house is a testimony to how unsteady the Republicanc's majority will be. This is a situation where every vote will matter. If Republicans want to pass anything, they can't afford to have more than four or five representatives step out of line.",You know the republicans are just going to make fools of themselves and we already didn't have the votes to pass major legislation in the senate anyway.,1
"I agree freshman congressman have little power or influence, but I wouldn't be surprised if this idiot is around for the next two years. McCarthy is probably excited about the distraction Santos provides.",Correct. Special election and I don't think they are willing to risk it. I also think they like it when someone is saying outlandish shit so they can quietly dismantle democracy and enrich themselves while the public focuses on a meaningless scandal.,0
"All religions are just collections of tales open to Interpretation. We are only one popular movement away from a liberal Islamic revolution.there have been times in history when Islamic countries have been the relatively liberal and open-minded ones, in more recent history they failed to keep up in development.",Liberal Christians have multiple countries to choose (eg the Scandinavian nations). Liberal Buddhists and Chinese folk religion believers have Taiwan. Liberal Jews have large communities in the US and can live in liberal Israeli cities like Tel Aviv with relatively little influence of orthodox Jews in their daily life. Where would a liberal muslim go if he wants to live freely among fellow muslims?,0
She didn’t actually used to make shit… her dad gave her and her husband his business and then she ‘founded’ a crossfit gym with her trainer which she had to step down from after a few years of unprofitability. She has never actually earned a salary in her life.,It’s exactly like trump. She has never actually accomplished anything in her life. Her father gave her and her husband a contracting business and she ran a a CrossFit gym into the ground. She’s literally done nothing and has never actually earned money. She’s mistaking getting paid a salary for ‘I get more money from my dad when I whine enough’.,0
They're not going to kill themselves and destroy Russia; they'll bide their time and try to take Ukraine again in the future.,"If Russia actually thinks it is going to lose the war in Ukraine, this is the reality for the Russian elite. They will be ostracized from just about anywhere in the world where you can eat in a Michelin star restaurant, park a yacht, and stay in the presidential suite of a Four Seasons. They and their nation will be humiliated and isolated from the developed world’s economic system, which they have used to facilitate their theft of state resources and escape Russia to enjoy the freedom and democracy of Europe and North America. Their future will be one of poverty and isolation. They will not tolerate that.",1
"They Secret Service has actually been investigating cases of fraud since the PPP loans were dispersed. Apparently they have returned about $4.6 billion in fraudulently obtained loans to their respective state's unemployment funds so far from about 70,000 fraudulent loans, but the amount of PPP loan abuse was so widespread its an ongoing process.","If they didn't use the loan money as quasi-unemployment payment for their employees then these people committed fraud. It doesn't make the program bad, makes the people that took advantage bad.",1
"The Belarusians who are fighting for Ukraine, and the ones organizing against Luka and Putin in their country, are doing what they've been preparing for all their lives.","Ukraine and Poland have trained several hundred Belarusians to fight Russia in Ukraine. The Belarusians in question have volunteered to fight for Ukraine. Since Lukashenko is a Russian puppet, I'd expect that opponents of him will pretty much all be opponents of Russia too. Of note, Belarusians have also been conducting sabotage in their own country to stop the Russian military from using the infrastructure.",1
"I was under the assumption that any smaller earthquakes, even if large/seismically powerful, fall under the banner of an aftershock provided it's within.","There will probably be earthquakes in the next 1,000-2,000 years that we just had no idea could happen because of how quiet everything was and no recorded human history of earthquakes in the area.",0
"Hopefully they start to gerrymander the state so they can consolidate power like the GOP has done in Texas, NC, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Florida etc etc etc No more playing nice.","I can tell you, living in a state with a supermajority of Democrats in the state legislature, that you might need to badger them to get that progress. Keep those phones ringing.",1
"There ARE no russian innocents in this war. They want this war, they like to kill and they want to destroy the entire culture of a european country only because it resisted the invasion.",The ones that oppose the war are so small in number that they appear as statistical margin of error.,0
"That’s kind of a fools errand though. Because something is authorized doesn’t mean it should be or is prudent, check out Yucca Mountain. Fully authorized the cost was around $93 billion for a project that won’t likely ever be used and the government is paying $20 million per day in fines to utility companies for not honoring the off take agreements. That’s my point while what you say is accurate it’s still foolish and nonsensical.","I get that but that still doesn’t address my point. They authorize a bunch of junk, doesn’t mean it does anything productive. Anything that we don’t have money coming in from tax receipts needs to be borrowed. My point is the fiscal mismanagement of our government. I tossed out one example that will clearly get to $100 billion. How many other examples are there like this? What percentage of a dollar spent by the federal government actually does something productive for the citizens and what percentage is pure waste. There seems no accountability for where the money is allocated to and the utility of it. I’m curious how much waste there is. The military industrial complex is clearly a money generating machine for so many but that’s just one component, but a big one. Medicare, while very important isn’t financially well run and we certainly can’t have Medicare for all under our current broken healthcare system. That would only exacerbate a problem. The underlying healthcare system need to be fixed, screw the insurance companies, get the prices to something fair then work on a healthcare fix. I guess my pint is that I think the entire thing is broken. The politicians are all in on the joke, they don’t work together, they don’t do anything productive. They waste money and time bickering and keeping score of gotcha’s with each other. I think the only chance we have is get money out of politics, term limits (money and power corrupt and it’s clear self governance isn’t feasible for these folks) and have systems in place to fire them immediately for corruption, fraud, lying and misleading, like any other job in the US. The Rest of the World wonders how the US has suddenly become a corruption-raddled third world kleptocracy. While there has always been corruption it’s out of hand and not even remotely being disguised anymore.",0
"Maybe they are trying to use them all up before the US delivers the Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, which would render most of Russias missles useless.",If I wasn’t such a pessimist I would be amazed but a part of me also thinks Russia is testing anti missile defenses and we are just giving them easy access to test our defenses for weaknesses.,1
"r/politics is currently accepting new moderator applications. If you want to help make this community a better place, consider !","That’s what communities are for. You’re suppose to take care of each other and as a whole. I’m also not an extremist. I don’t know where I fit on the political spectrum but I think that yes we should have order and law. And basic community necessities but I don’t think government should control what’s taught in schools, what plants you can and can’t grow, what you can and can’t say or do, where you live or how, And what you can or can’t have. And I don’t think they should be able to access our cameras or our info whenever the fuck they want. Im just done with corruption period. Small corruption can be dealt with. When the the ones that control everything are corrupt that’s a problem. And it’s a problem. The people should have more control. And I also think capitalism plays a big part in forced control but that’s a different story.(just look up why monopoly was invented) As long as you’re not physically negatively effecting others you should be left alone.",1
"Anywhere in north America, where majority of the primarily English speaking population of the world live, you would be mocked for saying ""drink driving"".",I get the sentiment that even one alcoholic drink can reduce driving capacity but it's a bit confusing what they are referring to because for English speakers drink is both a verb and noun. It also doesn't need to mean alcoholic.,1
"A lot of teachers who last in the profession have other income, such as a high earning spouse or old money. The math doesn’t work for someone on a teachers salary with college debt in any desirable place to live.","I almost did after subbing for two years, and my teacher mother warned me not to do it. She started right before the health benefits and retirement were made worse for future teachers, and we lived in a fairly low cost area, so it worked for her. A teacher today would have it much harder.",0
"If Half the Country (actually less) is conservative, then they shouldn't get 100% of the say should they? That's not how democracy works. And right now, the Courts are pretty much the prime legislative branch. Given they are legislating from the bench themselves. They even decided racism wasn't a thing anymore so they could ignore the text of the voting rights act. What gave them the authority to disregard a law because they didn't agree with it? Not the constitution. What gave them the authority to say that ""National Security"" trumps your individual rights in the recent boarder guard case? Not the constitution. They write the laws, essentially. They're throwing out rights. They have no oversight, and every ruling they make is conservative. That's not democracy, that's authoritarianism. And their rulings should not be respect for that reason.","That's what the court is supposed to be. The judicial branch is check and balance on the other two branches. If a law violates the Constitution, it's thrown out. It doesn't matter what the ""democracy"" wants. Laws passed by the legislative branch has to be within the boundaries set by the Constitution. We are Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.",1
"Because I don’t have that problem. If anything, I move through life oblivious to what other people think of me. Try using food stamps or an EBT card for a while. You will not have to mind read what people who should be minding their own business think of you. Now that I’m going down memory lane, I recall a big percentage of the grocery store checkers made actual comments, along with the faces. But at least the others were about having and using food stamps, not buying meat.","If she was still ringing out your items, how did she know you were paying with food stamps? At least where I work, we ring stuff out, and then ask for the method of payment when we're done. And memory is a tricky thing - even events that we swear happened didn't happen exactly as we thought they did.",1
We should put pregnant women in prison. Anything less than that is giving them time and opportunity to get an abortion. Everybody knows all pregnant women want to do is to get an abortion and need to be physically restrained to keep from doing it.,"How is it pro-life to not protect pregnant women's ability to access water, seats, etc. during the workday? Not having those things threatens your ability to carry a baby to term.",1
"They stoke fear about exaggerated dangers, get elected, stop stoking, and the public is left with the feeling that Repubs have ""done something"".","You would think that since every election the GOP stokes fear with doomsday style ads on the threat du jour, voters would catch on that maybe it's all bs.",1
"Campaigning in a single state is much more affordable, and offers the low budget candidate a chance to make a good showing, build support and leverage that into a national campaign.","I'm in favor of serious campaign finance reform including public financing of campaigns, but very wary of having a single primary day across the nation.",0
Pointless anger for Russia? I wonder if you dig deep if you might find a reason the U.S. doesn't care for Russia. You can start with the 100k dead Ukrainians and cities turned to rubble work your way backward.,"Digging deep? We've spent about 50 billion dollars. The U.S. government takes in more that 3.5 trillion dollars a year in taxes. You're going to be outspent by the U.S. and out soldiered by Ukraine. Your forces will never be safe occupying a country against their will. We have eyes everywhere, ears everywhere. Your entire economy that is supporting this war is the size of one of our 50 states. We have no need of your gas or your oil unlike some European countries, we have plenty of each, and a 200 year supply of coal if we need that. We could spend 50 billion a year for the next 50 years arming Ukraine, Putin will be long dead by then.",0
"A week ago. Yet they only yesterday USA highest general said Ukraine should not stop until Russia is gone, and USA will make sure Ukraine can keep advances in the winter time.","All a ""short truce"" would do is give Russia time to regroup and rebuild its forces, and Ukraine currently has the momentum in their favor and truly has Russia on the defensive. That's what Russia is trying to do with this, and Ukraine isn't taking that bait.",1
It looks like Putin has decided trump is no longer such a useful asset. He's now pushing DeSantis on the Republicans.,"Desantis is coming with the full weight of the right wing media behind him. I want to watch Trump just as any more sentient being. But I really want him to do that thing where he makes up a stupid nickname for a person and then somehow everyone is talking about the nickname and agreeing that it is a lethal zinger that has destroyed the recipient’s electability. I dont really understand how it works. But I really need him to do it to Desantis, I feel like Anthony Michael Hall in the strangely good DeadZone Series from the early 2000s. Desantis is a more competent Trump.",1
"It's certainly not a minority, there's an awful lot of Serbs that don't like ""the west"" and NATO because we stopped their little excursion in to Kosova which Russia supports.","Actually, this appears to be a vocal minority within Serbia (I dont live there so I dont know for sure) but it appears that as a whole, Serbia is having enough of Russia and pushing for more European integration over Russian.",1
Now we get to watch as Republicans slowly finger their buttholes and then lose even worse in the election because they continue to alienate the educated members of society and the moderates who aren't psychopath religious nuts.,"In that case I definitely agree. Relevant players need to stop blocking things for no reason other than political leanings. This could have all been avoided by the people not blocking it. Student loans would have been forgiven, Biden would have gained additional support, and the people who voted for him on that promise would have had the promise fulfilled.",0
"I understand the anti-war belief, but you can’t be anti-war when a war like this is going to set the tone for whether other nations will engage in territorial aggression.","If only they could understand the horrors that will happen to Ukrainians if the aid dries up, and the Russians rebound.",0
"Random story, my family used to have some (junk) land in the southern part of my state. I’d go down there on occasion to help clear brush or whatever and see the old landmarks from where I grew up [slowly being torn down and going out of business.].",Yeah. But should posting a racist meme be illegal? How racist should this meme be before the person should face jail time? What about everyone posting racist memes in r/terribleFacebookmemes ? Should they be jailed? Should Reddit shutdown because that sub exists? Should the CEO of Reddit be in jail because that sub exists?,1
"But Haavisto said security assurances from the United States, Britain and other NATO members meant that Finland could be patient.","We have underlined to all our future NATO partners, including Hungary and Turkey, that Finnish and Swedish security go together,"" he said.",0
"That would include Republicans, then, since they were in support of the 13th Amendment that specifically and in no uncertain language allows for involuntary servitude.","I'm pretty sure Republicans advocated and were in favor of slavery pretty often in the recent years, during efforts to remove slavery from state constitutions (like in Colorado, Utah and Nebraska) or the punishment clause of the 13th amendment.",1
I loved Budapest and it is on the top of my list of places to return to. We actually know a few people who started to live there after college and one of the people is still there. Highly recommend.,"We were just in the touristy areas, went to szimpla kert a couple times and just wondered. It was 3 days worth, but the limited people I met were nice. The friend I have, who has lived there for 4 years and is from the US, also said people there were nice. So I guess it depends who you ask.",0
"Tbh I think the whole join together or not thing was mostly to ensure Finland anyway, you are bordering the bitch so it’s more important for you .","Finland joining is about as good as them joining with Sweden, as it provides the protection to Sweden and the rest of Europe, can easily blockade St.Petersburg and it makes it so that the Baltic is now a Lake NATO.",1
"Seems likely they can/will come up with a counter-drone that shoots down other drones. Now, if they decide to make it look like a warbird of yesteryear… I vote for a P-38 Lightning. Classic!","Awesome! I’m a truck driver. I bet that Ukrainian truck drivers are seriously busting their asses right now. Truck drivers get taken for granted a lot, so I just wanted to look out for them a little.",1
"When Trump sued a biographer for defamation, he knew but didn't care that the publisher paid the legal fees. Even after Trump lost the dispute, he would gloat that he had cost Timothy O'Brien a fortune.","These sanctions aren't even the relatively common ""Rule 11"" sanctions. These were ordered under the inherent authority of the court; the judge explains at lenh that the ordinary rules are insufficient to deter this kind of blatant misuse of the judicial system and builds on top of them.",0
"DeSantis seems to be poised for a purely two-sided, party-line driven fight which is a bold choice given that Republicans haven't won the popular vote for President since 2004.","Maybe more than any recent candidate I've seen, it looks like DeSantis doesn't give one iota of a fuck what anyone who isn't a Republican thinks.",0
The unveiling of what might well be a global program of Chinese surveillance balloons is a highly newsworthy development that would always push other stories off the front page.,"Covering it up is giving it 1-2 articles that don't get put on any front pages while propping up a more bombastic headline, which in recent days has been alleged spy balloons.",1
"The YPG actually shared values with the rest of europe and fought against ISIS, while turks helped isis.","It is in NATO's interest to work closely with both the Turks and the Kurds. Therefore it is in NATO's interest to permanent pursue peace talks between the Turks and the Kurds. In my mind, that leads to the creation of a Kurdish state, likely carved out of Syria.",1
"For this cycle, nearly 20 million votes have been cast in 19 states that have voter registration by party identification, providing insight into who is voting early. In those states, 43 percent of the early votes so far have come from voters registered as Democrats, 34 percent from Republicans and 23 percent from those who are unaffiliated or belong to a third party.","Although it is mostly older voters, he points out how the majority of these 75+ are actually democrats!",1
"Ukraine is beating Russia soundly, and they don't have 200 F-16s at their disposal and a 110 mile strait of ocean at the Ukraine/Russia border the way Taiwan does.","Ukraine has rolled back every one of Russias advances and they're getting more money, training, and experience while Russia is losing all of its actual trained army.",1
"He won’t. He’s threatening it now, but he KNOWS he will lose if he tries and his ego couldn’t take another loss. He’s hoping by threatening to run as a third party donors will flock to him and he’ll get the attention he needs to actually win the primary. Unless he actually gets on the trail though, he’s never gonna win. He announced a month and a half… who is his campaign manager? Despite announcing his candidacy, he’s not running as a Republican. He won’t run as a third party.","If he runs third party and loses, people will call him a twice loser. If he loses and talks shit about the winner of the primary who loses the general he will forever get to claim that he would have hypothetically won, and for the next 4 years there would be nonstop opinion pieces about how trump would have won and that the GOP screwed him. He would much rather hypothetically win the general election then lose as a third party candidate.",0
"Game franchises like age of empires and sim city made money without loot boxes and folks still play . Unreal tournament GOTY, DOOM .. etc . No loot boxes .","it had nothing to do with ethics, the states just like to steal peoples money without ever giving you a service in return because they are absolutely shit at budgeting. So they tax something to make up for the shortfalls of mismanagement. They contributed nothing to indie developers who struggle to make games. They contributed nothing to help online market places like steam.",0
Those are textbook values that align with the definition of conservative values. But they’re the pposite of GOP values. The GOP is not conservative and does not represent the textbook definition of conservative values whatsoever.,"Those are all traditionally conservative values and align with the definition of “conservative.” The GOP is not conservative, and the Democratic Party is actually right of center as far as global politics are concerned.",0
Plenty of people run around with internalized beliefs they got from others (trully independent thinkers are as rare as it gets) whilst not trying to force those views on others.,"Saying that it's ""internalized misogyny"" only provides an explanation for their beliefs but doesn't explain them wanting to forcefully impose said beliefs on others.",0
"It's generally not as bad as the American police violence issues, though there's good arguments that it's only that way because of other outside factors (far fewer firearms about, for example).","There's relatively few (non-zero though) issues with killings or brutality, and honestly, if you live in just a run of the mill middle class suburb, it is entirely possible all your interactions with police are positive or neutral. Officer is probably just a normal guy.",1
"Someone should tell the DOJ they should be warning the police agencies to pucker up, cos they coming after ya.",Maybe the DOJ should change something about how people become cops so stupid fucking shit like this stops happening.,1
"The reason this is so exciting is because it’s the first step to an actual manned mission. Artemis I is a test flight, Artemis II is a manned mission around the Moon, and Artemis III is a manned landing.","The Artemis program is the moon landing missions. Gateway and SLS predate it and Gateway isn't even on the critical path for the currently planned missions. If Starship fails, at least Artemis III and IV fail, if not the whole program.",1
"Yeah, imagine being angry at corporate shitheads blowing up the world and profiting off of sanctions, coups, drone strikes, police brutality and austerity policies.","...as opposed to a ""reputable"" news agency whose ""opinion panels"" are populated with CIA agents and State Department flunkies, and whose advertising revenue is funded by the people who manufacture the Javelins, tanks, drones and missiles that are being used to blow up huts and weddings.",0
"Facts. We also have intact top of the line tanks, IFVs, helicopters, AA, radars, and jets from Russia.","I seem to remember that the Russian tests of hypersonic missiles have not been very successful. But for argument sake, let’s suppose they are very effective and Russia can put such weapons in range of DC.",1
"You can fault conservatives for a whole lot, but the companies making lots of money with as little regulation as possible is a liberal idea. It's called neo-liberal for a reason.","I never said it's the liberal agenda in a sense that the Democrats are fighting to keep the current neo-liberal system in place. The Democrats aren't even fully liberal across the spectrum. I'm arguing from a philosophical perspective, not an American centric political one.",0
"I don’t think holding their feet to the fire will work - they don’t care. (It’s also about controlling sexuality, in spite of abortion being health care).","So antivaxxers leapt onto the argument of ""I can't take this shot because it violates my religious beliefs against abortions."".",1
"And you don't need GM with all its standardized parts that fit multiple vehicles, because new companies like Tesla pop up and fill the void with unique proprietary vehicles that cannot be repaired, but must be replaced. They aren't made to have maintenance. Sure they're a bit cheaper, and they run on electricity, and they're almost as safe as GM vehicles were, but when they break, they just get tossed into a grinder and sent to a storage facility until the company gets enough money to figure a way to filter out the toxic bits.","What follows is even worse. The banks fail and their husks get cannibalized by the likes of Crypto Dude bros convinced you don't need stability in the financial sector, what you really need isn't to be able to swipe a card and have it work anywhere, but you need the blockchain. They don't want to run the financial sector, they want to disrupt it.",0
"I didn't invalidate his experience as an Iraqi, I can see a lot of Iraqi feeling hate toward the west and falling for the usual conservative conspiracies that ""Jews are behind it all"".",Not everyone there is anti semetic but the vast majority are galvanized against Israel bc Palestinians are seen as Arabs and Israelis are “killing our brothers” .,1
"Let the ABA disbar them. Nothing in the Constitution says they need an active license to practice law, and even if there's an argument it did....take a guess who is seeing that case?","Yeah, he could be stripped of his ability to practice law in every jurisdiction he has a license to practice in and it still wouldn't matter. He would still be a Supreme Court Justice.",1
"I don't agree with a lot of what the Israeli government does, but in terms of keeping your entire country from being destroyed overnight, it's better to be proactive and stop a bomb being built in a lab than it is to enter an all out war or have to suffer an atomic bomb.","On the flip side, if Israel did nothing and got nuked I would definitely blame Israel, they had the intelligence, the resources and the justification.",0
"Just because we're wrong about supporting Saudi Arabia doesn't mean that preventing China from getting this technology isn't the right move. You know what the Chinese government would use the chips for, right? Military technology. I really hope we can both agree that the Chinese military having access to our chips is not a good thing in any way, shape, or form. If you don't agree, then I'm glad that you aren't the one dictating our foreign policy towards China.","But hopefully it won't ever get to that point, and we can live to see Chinese democracy blossom in our lifetimes.",1
ITT: people so desperate to own the Republicans that they're willing to write off the blue cities of Texas most impacted by this who keep trying desperately to change things and who keep getting assfucked by GOP policies like limiting early voting and mandating only one ballot drop box per county.,"As a blue dot living in Alabama, I feel very sorry for the good people of Texas who want something better than a Republican shit show for their government.",1
"Edit: since i got a few replies how Elon didn’t cause it, i wanna specify a little bit. The problem with bot farms and disinformation is obviously much older than when Elon took over twitter. However he gave it a boost and made derailing valid criticism (in this instance of ccp) much easier.","This is what absolute “free speech” acording to authoritarians or would be authoritarians like Trump leads to. Dismantling all regulations to allow social media being overloaded by so much bullshit, that it effectively censors all rational discussions. In the end it only helps fascist regimes like China or Russia what Musk has done to twitter.",0
>A British official said after discussions between the ministries “it was agreed there were higher priority military capabilities.”.,"A British official said after discussions between the ministries “it was agreed there were higher priority military capabilities.” Among many other channels of support, the UK has been flying thousands of Ukrainian troops to Britain for training before they head back to the frontlines.",1
"Yes, North Market. Alum Creek and Hoover are also built over lots of small towns where all they did was remove the headstones.","The school was Upper Arlinon and I thought I read that during the latest remodel, they found more graves.",0
"Ones wants to ban topless people, the other wants to ban alcohol at concerts, the next wants to ban some books, some music or some movies, so will want to ban dark humour, another will want to ban flying some flags... We end up with a society of bans instead of a society of freedoms.","Trying to accommodate everyone by curtailing freedom always results in no freedom for anyone, because everyone has a different idea of what should be acceptable and what should be banned.",0
I also thought Navalny's position has always been that Russia should take Ukraine by force - seems that has conviently changed if it makes him more popular in the west (I doubt he has lost his hatred for Ukrainians).,"Regarding Ukrainians, you could at most blame him for the ""Pan-Slavism"" which was common in people before the war, the idea that Slavic countries should have closer diplomatic relationships. There are plenty of videos online where he answers his position regarding Ukraine - he stated multiple times that Russia is interested in a strong, peaceful, and independent Ukraine.",1
All the things that every human has ever done regardless of morality is the natural state of humanity.,The speed of change is just a matter of perspective. In 100 years the social consciousness and behavior of humans has changes dramatically in many ways.,0
>	The missile buy would boost Japan’s long-range strike capability and mark a stunning break with a long tradition of eschewing offensive weapons. And it would enhance Japan’s conventional deterrent as China undertakes a sweeping military modernization and North Korea barrels ahead with its nuclear program.,"sounds like China needs to increase their nuclear arsenal to counter this threat, and update their nuclear policy. Possibly getting rid of the no first use policy.",1
What in the fuck are you talking about it’s not at all like that if anything it is very touristy with a couple of choirs/sermons on some days the whole place has electricity I’m tired of you westerners larping about being in Ukraine.,I’m half Ukrainian and I was last in Kyev in 2018 before that 2014 before that 2010 before that 2008 before that I lived in Черновцах as an infant. Your description makes it appear as if you’re going into some dark cave where the only light source is candles and everything is very mystic and surreal whereas I found it to be way more mainstream and touristy. Basically you’re over-exaggerating.,0
That sounds like a good idea except they would just go even harder on the bribery if that happened. Like it would make it official. What we need is to require extremely invasive audits of their finances and massive penalties for any lies or omissions. And it all needs to be public - we need to know who is buying off our representatives.,All gifts to the POTUS are supposed to go to a museum. The president is not allowed to take gifts. Trump pretended to follow that but just kept them instead.,0
"He might talk nicer than most Republicans, but their whole party has been run by greedy sadistic bigoted shitheads who don't believe in democracy for a few generations, so Bush's willingness to get on board with someone like DeSantis shouldn't surprise us. There are no good Republicans, there are just some who know not to say quiet parts out loud.","Also, Trump's base wasn't enough to win an election in 2020 and there's no reason to believe it's grown since then, and DeSantis doesn't have the record to campaign as anything but Trump with a college degree.",0
"The internet initially started as military project called ARPANET, basically a way for military to talk to eachother. That then grew and morphed into what we know today.",We knew what it would become. We didn't know how capitalism would so quickly turn it into a handful of sites.,1
"I'm sure plenty of individual Russians don't support the war. However, enough of them do that comments like ""Russian people =\= Russian government"" is misleading and letting them off the hook.","Just like I can’t lump all people who say they dislike all Russians equivalent with people that move goal posts in two comments, and vise versa.",1
Jeez. The Third Amendment has a better chance of protecting abortion rights than the 13th. Don't quarter fetuses in a womb without the owner's permission!,"The argument is actually way more tenuous than that. Apparently, it's that because slaves were forced to reproduce to put more people into slavery, that the 13th Amendment grants Black women full constitutional authority to control their own reproduction. And because Black women have that right, the 14th amendment grants that right to everyone.",0
"Uh, the Taliban are not Wahhabist, they subscribe to a completely different branch of radical Islam, although in practice it's not that different.","But now Wahhabism has taken a center stage in Islam, with different sects claiming Wahhabism and discrediting other Muslims. The Taliban thinks they represent Wahhabism, while Saudi’s think they represent it. Then lots of infighting between. Is that right?",1
"One election not going your way is definitely not a reason to give up on America or our system. Our leaders may be going down a dark path, but the people do not have to follow them. Engagement becomes even more important after a lost election.","But even if they win the election, voting is the minimum of your civic and political activities. There is always resistance, through protests, strikes, and countless other forms. If you look at every right we have, down to stuff like basic labor laws, it was paid for by brave souls willing to face danger and death.",1
"This statement is intended for the Iranian regime, not the rest of us, and Iran would be wise to heed the implications.","If the conversation was ""hey Iran be more cautious of what your arms sales get used for"" then sure that's a conversation to have. But this ain't it. This just adding to the list of reasons the US ""can't deal"" with Iran because clearly they are the baddest of the bad that ever badded no takesy-backsys.",1
"From business perspective, this is a great ""win"" for America, relatively speaking. Sure, Intel and AMD may lose some market shares, but in general America ""won"" by making China endures and Taiwan/Dutch lose a lot.","When we run out of things economically to choke them, that is when bad things start to fly. We will then ""corner"" them into a war so hopefully we come out on top, the best scenario could be a proxy war and I wonder who is the best proxy near China, hmmmm.",0
The corruption goes right from the very top down to the bottom. There's a really good Perun video on YouTube covering it here:,"Army leadership takes money meant for producing advanced equipment and awards contracts to cheap alternatives while keeping the change, commanders request delivery for the cheap equipment that never gets produced in return for kickbacks, supply officers sell off whatever new kit does get delivered and dig out old junk from storage, armourers strip that junk of anything they can sell, and the common soldiers end up with bullet proof vests made of cardboard.",0
"Remember, the most serious criticism of Trump came from a voter when she revealed: ""he's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."".",This is it. The carrot is limiting the rights of groups they don't like and hurting those groups. The carrot is for all the bigots that support the Republican party to encourage that support.,1
"If it's about overpopulation and not consumption, then by virtue of that it's still about consumption rather than the population. Like I said, wer currently can't sustain our current 8b. It doesn't matter where the population overall eventually levels because currently we consume too much to get there anyway.","Overpopulation by specific countries in the traditional sense is a myth. In developed countries, populations are often stable or even dropping. Just like our population boomed during the industrial revolution, the same thing is happening to the population of many less developed countries going through their own industrial revolutions today. The global population is predicted to eventually level out. It's much more about overconsumption than it is overpopulation.",0
"If there is conflict with China, Russia will be on the other side and this is the fundamental problem for India, not relations with the US.","Be careful, for sure ... but India's real concern at this moment is Russia, not the US. Russia has ""unlimited alliance"" with China and China is an adversary. India is dependent on Russia and Russia is dependent on China. China is allying with Pakistan.",0
Not likely as the right currently see corruption as simply the price to pay for minority rule. They value power more than the rule of law.,I hope it’s legit. I rarely support what billionaires do but this doesn’t sound like a terrible idea for Chicago. Chicagoan’s are more informed on the matter I would imagine. Revitalizing distressed areas doesn’t sound terrible.,0
"Sustained combat requires hundreds of tons of weapons being constantly supplied to your troops. Every shell fired from an artillery piece needs to be driven from a warehouse in Russia, all the way to the artillery piece. If you can't get those shells to your artillery, they can't fire.","Now they can sit on the other side of the river and shell the Ukrainian positions for months, with minimal troops left to repel a Ukrainian invasion across the Dnieper. So long as Russia maintains a heavy artillery presence, they can continue inflicting casualties On the Ukrainians.",0
"In a post (or pre) war scenario yes, send them Abrams if that’s what they want. In a wartime scenario, every expert, at least that I’ve seen, would recommend to consolidate and not convolute supply lines and logistics as much CJ as possible.","This is not some secret, the M1 Abrams is an excellent tank but it was designed by the country with far and away the best logistics in the entirety of military history, it’s a tank the US can maintain, many countries would not be able to maintain it, Ukraine (with all the other shit they have to maintain) most likely would not be able to.",0
Destroy that cooperation (by supplying Ukraine weapons to kill Russians) then Russo-Israeli war in Syria may erupt.,"The russians siding with Iran on this would mean either mean direct fighting between Israel and russia, or Israel being forced to attack shipments in Lebanon itself (which means war with Hezbollah).",1
How to say you don’t understand Dutch constitutional law without saying you don’t understand Dutch constitutional law.,This passed the house and senate in two rounds of voting and in case of the house even hit the mandatory threshold of 2/3rd of parliament. This type of stuff isn’t just “symbolic” these things have ramifications. Just because •you• can’t phantom them doesn’t mean they don’t exist.,0
Step 11) Because Yeltsin is an idiot alcholic who really only cares at this point about sticking it to Gorbachov be sure to give away an Russian speaking areas in Ukraine as you secretely negotiate support for your government with several break away republics and define their borders.,"Step 12) also due to Step 6, and the fact that despite his charisma, Yeltsin is also an idiot who doesn't know how to run a country (see Step 3), but also inheriting a fucking mess from Steps 4, 5, and 7 attempt to fast track the country into Capitalism.",0
"I'm out here in rural Eastern Oregon thinking, ""I really hope this isn't another Democrat-led initiative that's focused on metro areas, or limited to women and minorities..."".","Our state's Democrat office offers zero support for rural candidates because they see us as a lost cause, and it's true for just about every state that's purple or has a strong blue metro with strong red rural areas that aren't red enough to make the state be considered purple. Jamie McLeod-Skinner has been within 5-10% in every election she's run in for the last 10 years, but received very little support from Dems in the state and nationally because Jamie ousted their darling douchebag Kurt Schrader.",0
"Emphasis mine. This is disgusting.It is inhumanely negligent at best, as well as being state sanctioned child trafficking.","I got to read the entire article and it is basically human trafficking. When unaccompanied migrant children get handed over to ‘sponsors’, they are being handed over to the people who will immediately traffick them.",1
We need to slash and burn all state parties of these types of corrupt people. We will become just like the Republicans if we don’t.,"Just because Democrats are better than Republicans doesn't mean they are immune from criticism. No idea the next time they will control both the entire legislature and the executive, so failing to pass good laws is a serious failure on their end. I'm complaining that the Democrats who win elections are not progressive enough. They don't enact the laws which the general public wants. Not saying both sides are equal...",1
Religion is an aspect of culture. Indigenous ceremonies are religious ceremonies and to say otherwise is extremely disrespectful and belittles their deep spiritual significance.,"My general position is that religion should be kept out of schools. If instead of a smudging ceremony, it was a catholic priest baptizing kids at school, then I'd be just as outraged as most of you all would certainly be.",0
"Do you have a source for these statistics? I'm not saying you're wrong, I've just never seen anything that supports that claim. I imagine it would heavily depend on distance to the intruder, what weapons the intruder has, and how proficient you are with your weapon.","It's is unrealistic to think that robberies can not end in the murder of the victim. You're right most home break-ins happen between 10am and 3pm. Just so happens a lot of people are home at that time. Even more so now that work from home is more widespread. Stay at home parents are at home during those times with their children as well. It is a very real possibility an armed person comes forcibly into your home with the intention of doing you harm. Less than 1% of gun homicides involve innocent bystanders, so you're argument of accidentally shooting family members is invalid.",0
"These could be secretly designed for espionage from the outset, with spying code hidden in firmware, but I think it's more likely that they could be hacked by a Chinese government agency if needed, with cooperation with the companies themselves or quietly with help from an individual within a company.","""The discovery of devices is believed by intelligence sources to be indicative of China’s broad approach to eavesdropping on the West rather than a specific targeting of ministers’ vehicles."".",1
"Something his lawyer said just now: ""I cannot tell you how unfair it is while they search, subpoena, and we don't put out any discovery ourselves."".","That’s not how it was said. They announced they will not pay them if he announced period. According to the RNC, they would not pay the legal fees anyone who announced a run.",1
"Meanwhile, this sub is cheering for the guy who fatally stabbed the mother of two young children during a prison escape, where he was already serving life for killing someone else.","Death row guy stabbed a woman to death after escaping prison, and he was in prison for murdering a sheriff’s deputy.",1
"And then before that in the conclusion of the Gulf War, the US stood down to allow the Iraqi military to massacre Kurds across Iraq because Bush Sr supported a strong military junta taking power to keep the nation under control (he just hoped it would be without Saddam).","Before that in the 2000s the US used Kurdish freedom as a reason to invade Iraq, but then never mentioned independence again and then allowed Turkey to assist Iin the invasion by heavily bombing Kurdish Iraq.",0
"When asbestos is inhaled, it causes chronic and long term inflammation and scar tissue formulation within the delicate lung parenchyma.",Asbestosis occurs as a result of scar tissue formation due to inflammation. However it is not metastatic and is a type of interstitial pulmonary fibrosis.,0
"I don't think military action is by any means imminent or inevitable, but I do think your analysis is flawed.","This is really only part of the story. Western experts generally agree that Xi Jinping is something of a true believer; when he talks about the Century of Humiliation and China's need to right the historic indignities it has suffered, it's not just nationalistic rhetoric to shore up domestic support. It's his deeply felt personal sentiment. If you look at Taiwan through a Western geopolitical lens you're missing a whole lot. From a purely pragmatic standpoint, it may seem obvious that taking Taiwan by force would be more trouble than it would be worth for China. But that may not matter. It was obvious to everyone that a war with Ukraine would be a disaster for Russia, but that didn't stop Putin.",0
"The media banding together to push for a reveal irks me. They do such a poor job at everything except trying to generate ratings that I hate that they get to call their activities as supporting ""public interest."".","That is true, look it up. Trump made fools of all you Georgia voters. Yes there is still plenty that has to come out, and more indictments will be coming down.",1
"Stefanik has a documented history of basically being a moderate Republican. At some point, she read the tea leaves and decided to remake herself as a foaming at the mouth Trump sycophant.","Biden is a socialist, only when you're perspective has gone so far skewed to the right that virtually anyone that doesn't endorse your dear leader while advocating for the total dismantling of government institutions must be a socialist.",0
"That includes civilians too, so I wouldn't say that's an entirely accurate number. The ""zerg rush"" is often disputed as a theory because of the sheer size of the Eastern front of WWII: it's hard to imagine just how fucking huge the Kursk bulge was, or the size of the initial Barbarossa front. The Italian and French fronts that the Americans fought in were much smaller in comparison, though nonetheless as deadly.",Ironically enough if France didn't surrender so fast the drugs would have bitten Germany in the ass. Almost IMMEDEATLY after France's surrender the amphetamines were phased out... because the troops came down from their high and the following low was LOW.,1
Though there aren't a lot of journalists so percentages have got to be high. I bet there are more miners or construction workers or oil rig crews than journos.,"I do mean proper journalists, not talking heads and all that. The ones who do the work that is then ripped off by 5k clickbait sites and badly misquoted. News hosts can be journalists and often are former ones but often not.",0
"I'm not against supporting the war in Ukraine, but it's getting harder and harder to see our extremely wealthy leader gives hundreds of £millions to a foreign country when average people in the UK are freezing and starving.",The majority of people in our country are not aware of the reasons ukraine fighting off the russians is so important and understandably would be annoyed at the prospect of giving away money in large sums to other countries instead of funding out nurses .,1
"No we aren’t. Geo-engineering implies a direct and deliberate attempt to modify the climate. CO2 induced climate change was never deliberately done for the sake of climate change, it was an unintended side-effect of useful technology.",It has been private enterprises that released chemicals into the atmosphere and changed the climate accidentally for over a century. Kinda refreshing for a private enterprise to be doing on purpose for a change.,1
"Associated Press (western media) reported on Wednesday, sourcing U.S. officials, that initial findings suggest that the missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian missile.","The Polish Foreign Ministry confirmed a Russian-made (important wording) rocket FELL on their territory. A S-300 was found at the scene, a missile that both Ukraine and Russia use, a missile made in the USSR when Ukraine was an independent Soviet Republic.",0
It isn’t UBI though because we payed into the program specifically for retirement or if we got disabled. I’m not sure how Medicare is funded but for ssi people paid into it expecting to be able to retire and had money taken from their paycheck for it.,Well Social Security is projected to run out of enough money to pay full benefits by 2035. So something has to be done. Raise retirement age? raise the maximum income level for Social Security deductions..but not the maximum benefit amount?.,1
"What Russia has are just slightly modified old ballistic missiles from the cold war, which go very high up, where there is very little atmosphere to slow you down, then come back down very fast on a ballistic trajectory with very little ability to maneuver except to make small guidance corrections. Ballistic missiles like this fly at high altitudes so they can be seen basically the entire process, and are therefore more vulnerable to interception.",Simply achieving a hypersonic speed does not make a hypersonic missile in modern context. We have had missiles capable of hypersonic speed since the 50's. The Russians call this a hypersonic but it's not the same thing.,1
"As someone who has experience with both rural water and Superfund clean up sites, your concept of water purification is of systems that do not exist in the real world.",They are making a point that the municipal tap water is safe (and any independent environmental group can easily sample and have it tested to verify).,1
Oh yeah. The founders were a bunch of bickering slave owning aristocrats from 200 years ago. But they are seen as demigods from some idealized time. It’s a huge problem in America because we can’t move past them as a result.,"There’s also what happened in the decades following the official end of slavery after the civil war. Things like black codes, pig laws, debt peonage, redlining, and of course Jim Crow and segregation.",0
"They don’t need Democrat votes in those situations. Democrats can’t assure that Democratic senators don’t vote for Republican judges anyways, and even if they did, they don’t care about getting 51 votes when they only need 50.","You're forgetting a bunch of Trump's Federalist Society judges got votes from Democrats, not to mention Amy fucking Comey Barret.",1
"My general thinking on this is that if red states want to vote themselves into a situation where they're dying frequently due to sickness, violence, and poverty......well they made their bed, and we should just let them lie in it.","They're angry because their life sucks and the assholes that they have been brainwashed into thinking are the only ones who will solve their problems (the GOP) are trying to help them, so they keep voting for them.",1
"That’s obviously what I was talking about, a hunting rifle. You think I was shooting a sniper rifle? I said a buddy of mine has one of their rifles in .300 win mag.",These new rifles are REPLACING old rifles. They still have the same number of snipers and designated marksmen. The only thing changing are the rifles. It's really no big deal. And $11M is nothing. A single old F-14 Tomcat by itself costs $38 M. $11M is the cost of 3 or 4 Bradley infantry vehicles or 55 Javelin missiles.,1
"Republicans don’t want to win elections any longer… they only want to seize power now… they’ve given up, know they’re unpopular with voters and don’t give a 💩.",Republicans seem pretty confident they're long past needing to actually convince anyone to vote for them. Abandoning debates like this is a pretty clear admission they no longer consider undecideds to either a) exist or b) be useful enough to bother appealing to.,1
"They're foreign intelligence agents committing numerous felonies under domestic an international law pretty much everywhere on the planet. China is so damn high it's ethnocentric racism it literally thinks it's above the law of every country on planet Earth, it's time to, remind them that they're not.","Maybe the idea that you can be ethnic Chinese but nationally American might sway a couple people, or some funny headlines from ccp presses like “America is destroy the Chinese people in her own borders”.",1
"My dad was a BLET rail engineer, and while he was paid well, I mainly remember how often he'd get called in, and how long he'd have to be at work for. And he retired before they started with their points system bullshit.","We're already seeing a massive exodus from railways. Low staffing issues are part of the issue that the unions are raising. And it isn't surprising, either.",0
"Even the youngest voters for Obama in 2008 are 32 now. Not really the ""youth vote"" demographic. The jaded Obama voter isn't the youth vote anymore, they're middle-aged.","The ""youth vote"" is 18-24 years old. I'm not saying people in their 30s are ""old"", but they're not part of the ""youth vote"" demographic any more.",0
"The last known construction at Stonehenge has been dated to 1600BC, and the large famous stones are dated to 2500BC. The celts didn’t migrate to England until around 800BC at the earliest. It’s a stretch to say they contributed to Stonehenge’s construction and goes against evidence.",What I find fascinating about this is that there is absolutely no cultural memory left from the people who built Stonehenge. Not a shred.,1
"NO, America is the only country that has ever had racism or sexism or homophobia. America is the WORST.","But I always felt that the ""we're REALLY queer, get used to it"" message, including the inclusion of fetishes/kinks (leather/bondage/S&M/drag) into the public image was actively counterproductive to the acceptance movement (and I think we're seeing that today). Too many people have the impression that being gay involves publicly flaunting fetishes, and that's both incorrect AND destructive to the cause.",0
"Do it. Do it and point out all the times Republicans did it, and the legal, reasonable reasons they were subpoenaed, and then call out the nonsense reasons they want Biden subpoenaed.","For all the comments saying Biden's ignoring these subpoenas would ""normalize"" ignoring House subpoenas, you've got it backwards.",1
fundamentalist theocrats of any race or national origin are not ever going to vote anything but conservatives.,I would Imagine that they are not any more or less susceptible to right wing propaganda/ conspiracy theories than whites.,1
"As for Wagenknecht, the impression I get from reading her wiki page it looks like her stances attract better reactions from far right politicians and parties than from her own party.","Wagenknecht used to be a big fish in her party but she has fallen out of grace since she turned towards the far right, including being pro-Putin, antivax, doing all sorts of right wing culture war stuff, in large parts against her own party.",1
"Get ten people even more centrists and the ""middle"" scared of Republicans and encourage each of them to terrify ten more and on and on.","So the far right wing of the party winning control, will likely result in just more people following suit.",1
"Except that the time between WW2 and the creation of the EU was 40 years which is longer than the gap between WW1 and WW2, so what do you attribute that safety to?","Because having the most peaceful decades in the human history was so bad and having the biggest war in Europe since WWII now is so good, amirite? Who needs that status quo, lol.",1
"In fact, they should be happy; women are entitled to the same benefits if they serve, and service is optional. It's the best of both worlds.","Are the same benefits given to women who voluntarily serve? If so, there should be no reason to abolish said benefits and no reason for the feminists to be upset...",0
"On the other hand, given the Chinese Governments history of utilising students and/or Chinese orientated campuses as a way to influence and/or spy in the foreign nations. Including the spread of the illegal-police in foreign nations ensuring compliance of Chinese citizens with their law. The policy that forces students to be abroad without the possibility of online classes, can be seen as one which aims to strenhen and solidify this influence.",One can take it as a sensible and fair step by the Chinese Government given that the online teaching isn't ideal. I can say that as someone who had done their degree thought COVID pandemic too.,0
I mean there are many within those agencies that are leaking (the entire apparatus of the invasion itself was practically given to the Five Eyes it seems) and we are at a phase now that Russian internal opposition to further blunders (from within its own security services) is likely at critical mass.,"Could legit ask this about any Russian dissident with a lot more ""clout"" than Sushko (who I don't even think is a dissident).",0
"""Roberto Clemente is scary. He along with Stargell with the Pirates were the first all minority infield to win a World Series. That is something so scary!"".","Truth be told, if I had to make a choice between Desantis and the actual devil, I'd take the devil. Desantis is looking to set up extermination camps for LGBTQIA+ people with his perfidious, serpentine friend Christopher Rufo. I'd much rather deal with the Devil than Desantis.",0
"Yeah, Russia could promise they wouldn't invade a now weaker Ukraine again (which, as part of any deal, wouldn't be allowed to join NATO) and take those regions, but given that they made a similar promise less than 30 years ago that they've already broken, why would anyone believe them?",I wonder if they understand what's going to happen if they get completely pushed out of Ukrainian and everyone works out their is no longer an army to protect Russia...,1
Also I would imagine a lot of countries are probably rethinking whether Russia is a reliable country to buy arms from. Russia already took some of the tanks that were supposed to be sold to India and used them in Ukraine instead and with the sanctions being imposed it raises questions about Russia’s manufacturing ability.,I doubt that any will actually be sent if they send any and when Ukrainian forces destroy them it would literally tank the commercial value of it for export never mind the first one they capture would likely mean the West will see how advanced the Armata is and not just the numbers the Russians put out.,1
I get the sentiment that even one alcoholic drink can reduce driving capacity but it's a bit confusing what they are referring to because for English speakers drink is both a verb and noun. It also doesn't need to mean alcoholic.,"Like somebody else put it, you don’t need to be drunk to be over the limit. In Australia your BAC can be 0.1 - 0.4. So 4 standard drinks do nothing to me, for example, but 0.5 is where it becomes illegal to drive regardless of whether you’re drunk or not.",1
He didn't need to fire any governor. He just needed to nominate replacements in the normal course of appointments who were willing to fire him. Biden chose instead to nominate people who supported DeJoy.,"Biden could have appointed nominees committed to removing him. Biden appointees now hold a majority of the Board of Governors, and could thus vote to remove DeJoy at any time.",0
I wonder if it goes all the way back to his childhood and teen years in apartheid-era South Africa. You wonder if his dad supported the racist policies of that time. Surely a lot of the white people he grew up around probably did and he might have absorbed those attitudes to an extent -- almost by 'osmosis'.,"If Covid had had the very high mortality rates of something like the bubonic/pneumonic plague that wiped out about a third of the population of Europe in the 1300s and readily killed young adults and children like the Spanish flu, I suspect that even some of these right-wing 'Q' kooks would have absolutely embraced lockdowns, masks and vaccines. A lot of people shrugged the pandemic off because the vast majority of deaths were among 'old people who were about ready to die anyways'.",0
"I mean the GOP underperformed because, even with some electable candidates (Laxalt, Fung), they really didn’t do enough to move away from Jan 6, election deniers, and anti-abortion views, which ruined them in suburbs.","Trump is right, abortion rights is an issue that affected GOP performance, but he also has a lot of blame for this occurring on top of his general poor performance in picking candidates and irresponsible and criminal behavior.",1
Not to mention a significant part of Soviet logistics were handled by America so you would be going to war with the person who kept your own war machine running.,"Boots, trucks, troop transports, a ton of essentials that allowed the Soviets to focus on weapon production as they'd lost some of their industry from the initial push. Would the Soviets have been able to fight without American supplies? Possibly but they would've lost a lot more territory and been a lot less effective when it came time to take it back. Or they might have cracked but the issue at that point becomes the Germans own logistics problems which makes the Soviets eventually victory still very possible though by no means guaranteed.",0
Definition: A homicide that is both planned and deliberate. An example of this is a contract killing.,"Because not all crimes are murder. Not too fussed about shop lifters or vandalism, in a lot of places that's part of growing up and I wouldn't want people's lives ruined over that by being tried as an adult. Add any other petty kind of crime that those rules exist to protect children from their mistakes that I missed.If they fucking killed someone they MUST be made an example of. It sets a disturbing precedent if they don't face the most serious punishment.",1
"But even if you could come up with a reasonable technological definition of a household, I still feel like watching on multiple screens is less likely than you'd think. To me, at least, that always felt like a feature to allow for college students and similar, so you don't have to coordinate watching times at multiple locations. (Think ""Get off the phone, I need to use the internet"") There are still some use cases for multiple screens, like if someone wants to watch on their commute, but they're a lot less common.","Honestly, though. If they just made it something like one location per screen, I feel like there'd be a lot less of a pushback. Because currently, they're making weird assumptions like 4 people all watching it at the same time in the same house.",0
I vote for BJP in elections but this is more and more like our Red Neighbours across Himalayas. This ban on things government don't subscribe to.,"Articles or videos sensistive to the government are not banned. A lot of Indian media itself has articles or videos dedicated to political commentary in which they rightly criticize Modi for many of his faults, which are often the first thing you will see.",1
"A country can consider whatever they want as an act of war. The problem is the response. Even tho you know it's a bluff, what if russia uses their nuclear card?",Russia knows the consequences to the nuclear card very well and they won't use it only if mainland Russia is threatened. NATO would mobilize instantly and you wouldn't see or hear much from Russia's military in or out of Russia. They'd be fucked beyond comprehension.,1
"Is that the correct summary? Well everyone makes mistakes in these difficult circumstances, not sure resignation is particularly constructive during war times unless he's particularly incompetent?","Thank you, I am reading the sky news account of this...they say, that he had claimed the missile that blew up the building had been shot down by air defences. Russian propaganda used this as a way to blame the destruction on Ukrainian air defenses.",0
"It's a first step, yes. It's not a complete solution on its own. You seemed to be implying otherwise.","And I'm clarifying for those who aren't aware, that this is not going to be a quick resolution. It would take decades, not years, without other solutions layered on top.",0
Geopolitics can explain why the supplier (in this case Russia) isn't awfully reliable but that won't change the fact that their actions (using their energy exports as a weapon) have resulted in greatly reduced demand. This greatly reduced demand is what's letting China and India buy Russian energy at greatly reduced prices.. something they weren't able to do when Europe was still buying Russian oil and gas.,"Basic market economics is supply and demand, when you prove to be an unreliable supplier demand will naturally go way down. Too little demand means greatly reduced prices.",0
"Right... but no creditable accusations have come forth in regards to Clinton. People who keep bring up Clinton and Epstein are trying to find some type of fire but the people with a vested interest in finding that fire have not brought froth any fire whatsoever, which is my point.","With the huge rage boner that the Republicans have on Clinton, you’d figure they’re find something on him in regards to Epstein right? Are you telling me that in all of the years that the Republicans and enemies of the Clintons have been trying to take down the Clintons, that not one accusation has came out aside from that picture of Clinton getting a shoulder rub in, I believe, an airport?",0
"Progressives are consistently running terrible campaigns that don't sway anyone who wasn't already part of their base, and/or splitting votes from each other by crowding the field because they're all too self-righteous to drop out to consolidate support.",Much like how progressives are more passionate about preventing insufficiently left wing Democrats from getting elected than they are about preventing far right Republicans from getting elected.,1
Look at what attacks on the Ukrainian power grid do for the resolve of their citizens. The reverse is also possible.,It's also very unclear where any countries red lines are on cyber attacks that cause physical damage. If Russia shut down the US power grid would this be considered an act of war? What if the US did the same to Russia?,0
"I feel like the cases of abortion being criminalized have been as a result of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision (which was not achieved by a majority vote of the citizens of any state), and subsequent state legislatures passing bills to restrict the ability of doctors to perform abortions (which to my knowledge have not been as the result of achieving a majority vote of the citizens of any state where it has occurred, only the votes of several dozen mostly white male legislators).","Post-Dobbs abortion restrictions are tyranny, by virtue of them being demonstrably unpopular (as most americans support the right to access), and still being enforced despite the demonstrable will of the majority. That be some tyranny.",0
Mental breakdown on Putin's part is probably what will happen unlike Hitler who put bullet in his temple.,I doubt Putin is spending much time above ground these days. Bombing the Kremlin would wreck an architectural icon and serve to galvanize the Russian people. I don't think it would further disrupt Russia's war effort in any way.,1
It means every gas storage tank in Germany is full to the brim. How long that is going to last depends a lot on the weather but from what I've read a full supply is good for about 3-4 months of normal consumption. I would imagine Germany would try and ration that if they though the winter is going to be especially cold.,"If I buy gas at 10 dollars and price it at 12 so I can make a profit I'm not selling it for less than 10 unless I have to. Who do you think can wait longer, the guy with the gas in his storage tank or the power plant, factory, or home owner who's choices are: buy the 12 dollar gas or the lights go out/widgets don't get made/heat turns off.",0
Mr. McCarthy could win the speakership with fewer than 218 votes by persuading lawmakers who do not want to support him to instead vote “present” or to not vote at all.,"Mr. McCarthy needs 218 votes if every member of Congress casts a ballot, so he only can afford to lose four Republican votes. In the seventh through eleventh rounds of voting, held on Thursday, 20 Republicans voted for other candidates, and one voted “present.” Mr. McCarthy lost an additional Republican vote in the ninth through eleventh round when Representative Ken Buck of Colorado did not vote at all. All 212 Democrats voted for Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader.",0
"""The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people"".",And the 14th also implicitly grants people unenumerated rights but explicitly prohibiting laws that reduce the rights of the people (without due process).,1
Radicalizing Republicans and encouraging them to stop nominating moderates because they'll lose by primaries could be disastrous in the long run. Plus those in states and cities that this fails in like NC are stuck with extreme candidates representing them.,Strategically I get it. But its going to create some long term issues and some people being sacrificed in the strategy that would be better off with at least a moderate republican instsd of the crazies.,0
"In short, they lack the capacity to do so... RIGHT NOW. It is absolutely in their national inventory of ""Stuff we want to do"" it is just not something they can do RIGHT NOW.","Don't get me wrong, in the next 10 to 20 years, the US is going to have to make a hard choice about Taiwan, but we aren't there... yet.",0
"Cause in Australia that's still an apartment. I've lived in a 6 million dollar apartment on harbour with a rooftop, gym, and full time concierge but it's still called an apartment. I bought a very nice but small apartment in a low density block that has no amentities and that is still called an apartment.",In Europe dense neighborhoods are allowed which makes renting a much more affordable and preferable option.,1
Translation: ruzzia is planning to blow up buildings in a false flag operation and blame it on Ukraine to justify the new ruzzian offensive Ukraine has been talking about.,"“Buildings about to be bombed are not a Ukrainian false flag operation, but rather an attack by Russia.”.",1
Act 3: Usea finally enters the war and they bring Ghost over from not-Poland to be their experienced spearhead. You finally get to use gigachad American fighters like the F-22. Theres a mission where you blow up this big important bridge.,"Act 2: Not-Poland drafts Ghost into their air force right as they enter the war. Ghost then flies a bunch of European fighters like the Mirage and Eurofighters. Meanwhile not-Poland tries to get Usea (not-America) to enter the war, but they're hesitant. During this phase you sink their flagship, not-the-Moskva. Also a mission supporting MLRS.",0
"In the eastern city of Kramatorsk, right back in the thick of it, Chernyavsky told CBS News the war along the front line, which stretches for hundreds of miles, ""would be very different"" if it wasn't for the heavy American weapons.","Instead of humbly accepting the Ukrainian military's Cross of Merit, Chernyavsky handed it right back to the president.",0
"Losing the House sucks for reconciliation/budget bills, but at least they will now have a more „visible“ reason than the filibuster for not being able to pass stuff like voting rights legislation.","Democrats need to start making Republicans use the filibuster and stop just not voting on because it would get filibustered. That feels like the only way to make sure the general public knows what the Democrats are trying to pass and exactly why it's failing. I feel like it's the only way to get that into the headlines seen by people who don't pay close attention to politics. ""Ted Cruz is reading lice shampoo bottles to stop free lunch for kids"" is so much more grabby than ""Democrats passed a bill & want to give free lunch but if they try to pass it in the senate blah blah blah"". Even if it's pointless it feels like the only way to publicize what Democrats are actually trying to do. So so so many people are like ""the Democrats aren't even trying"" while having no idea how many things Republicans block with the mere threat of a filibuster.",1
Why not set minimum wage to 0 because people with hedgedonds worth millions they got from their parents don't really need any income?,If companies would care about having jobs that aren't actually based on giving way too much work out to the employees because having flexible hours means they can force their employees to work unpaid overtime and that are paid well employees would flock there.,0
"No, it's not a truism that elections have particular risks that make use of computers particularly risky.","No, you are voting with a computer, in the sense that it's a device running software, and that's the problem. The ""security steps"" are security theater that doesn't actually address the risks that an election process has to address in order to be secure.",0
"We must call up anyone we can think of that isn’t an active midterm voter and rationalize with them. Maybe they don’t care for any candidates now but unless they vote tomorrow, they won’t get another chance.","Votes aren't counted until after the polls close tomorrow (in most states). If a state does allow votes to be counted before polling closes, results won't be published until that happens.",1
The message is perfect: the GQP serve the tax cheats and they're trying to protect their rich donors while real working Americans have to pay taxes to make up for the rich tax cheats.,If for no other reason that the very next thing they do after attempting to defund the IRS is making it easier for the rich to cheat on taxes.,1
"And Majority of Egyptian are educated in the sense that they graduated from college, I have Syrian, Palestinian Saudis within my family members and friends and majority of them wouldn't say anything about Jews but Zionism and Israel as state.","I cannot speak in behalf of all Arabs about how they currently feel about Jews of course but as you mentioned, we expect people that are educated to lean toward secularism than conservatism and the issue here is not Arabs, Muslim, Berbers whatever but ERA of colonialism and divide and conquer that's done by the west in the middle east, leading to the improper placement of an illegitimate governments all across the ME (including Israel) I don't even have issues with Israel (this is where a lot of my Arab friend would disagree with me) but I have an issue with it being a Jewish STATE and what it is doing to Palestinians.",0
"You're getting downvotes, but as someone who supports the decision to let those 16 year olds vote, I think you're right to an extent.","When 16 year olds can go vote we might finally see changes to the education system for example. In Germany the education system is basically untouched since decades, why would they change it? It doesn’t yield votes, it’s not getting done.",1
"Yeah. I enjoy some of those movies, and a few games made in that style, but realistically, ask most people who dress up like that to do any of that kind of actual work, and they wouldn't last long.","Seems more like they want people and the country to behave like it was portrayed in the movies in the 20's to 60's(or thereabouts). An ideal that never actually existed, but at a time when people were generally more civil towards one another. They want that good old fashion feel good leave it to beaver bullshit, without all that pesky civility.",0
It means the meeting is in person and likely has a far higher attendance from wealthy / powerful people. Both are certainly very important things. In person increases the likelihood of success and similarly a higher attendance by such people means the outcome has more of an impact.,Now counterbalance it with the cost of private jet use and the track record of the WEF in recent years. Which is pretty much non existent to even hindering in regards to climate change.,0
"When you consider that the Soviet military was vastly bigger in terms of raw numbers than the Russian military was at the start of 2022, then the losses Russia has sustained are even more painful.","No wonder Russia will lose the wars they started cause they are no longer fighting lousy terrorists in their country, but a professional army full of foreign PMC.",1
"If Covid had had the very high mortality rates of something like the bubonic/pneumonic plague that wiped out about a third of the population of Europe in the 1300s and readily killed young adults and children like the Spanish flu, I suspect that even some of these right-wing 'Q' kooks would have absolutely embraced lockdowns, masks and vaccines. A lot of people shrugged the pandemic off because the vast majority of deaths were among 'old people who were about ready to die anyways'.","All throughout the pandemic, they wouldn't shut up about how covid deaths were being exaggerated and that there were no actual excess deaths and so on.",1
"This is important, with the collapse of the USSR being a good example. Everyone hoping for Russian revolution/collapse doesn’t understand the absolute chaos caused by the dissolving of a nuclear state. Putin needs to go, and Russian needs to GTFO of Ukraine, but it’s probably best for global security that Russia retains a “functional” government and military.","Somehow the current status is the preferred option for NATO: let the Ukrainians do the fighting, but overload them with weapons so that they can win and remove Russia as a threat.",1
"So, unfortunately I think Russian patriotism and propaganda will be stronger than any audible dissention, left in the country.","Maybe if these (ethnic Russian) new conscripts, from bigger cities are forced into bad situations, sentiments in Russia can change politically around Putin.",0
"The internet in it's current form has existed since the 60s, the world wide web didn't exist until the 90s.","If you wanna move your goalposts to ""dialing a BBS in the 80s wasn't the internet"" you can go ahead and move those goalposts. That's a different argument.",0
"As for what you said in a comment lower down, models for sauropods are based on known articulations and soft tissues. I suppose this is one of the weaknesses of paleontology; with soft tissues almost never preserved, we have to make educated guesses by observing currently living organisms with similar skeletal structures and trying to use that to figure out how dinosaur soft tissues may have worked nearly 100 million years ago. However, we could be entirely wrong - it wouldn’t be the first instance of a massive misconception about a dinosaur’s fossil (like how Edward Cope reconstructed a plesiosaur fossil, but put the head on the end of the tail). All that we can do is try to make the best educated guesses and inferences based on extremely limited specimens and trying to draw comparisons to current life.","At any rate, I have to imagine that Titanosaurs would be able to lie down somehow. A creature that can’t stand up after falling to the ground (eg, being knocked over in combat) would be no a death sentence for it. While it may not have been able to squat down its rear end, I have to imagine that it would have been capable of lowering its body down. Like, modern cows can’t bend their knees enough to walk downstairs, and often sleep while standing up by locking their knees, but they are capable of lying down and standing up.",0
"(Similar to - the Ukrainians basically degenerated the Donbas to a stalemate before this war, and didn't contest Crimea, since they didn't want to provoke the Russians into backing the separatists with even more firepower. Now, all bets are off - Ukraine won't stop until it recaptures all its territory.).",This is not for them. There's a lot of Russian YouTubers and Telegrams who discuss the reality of what's happening on the front that's aimed at the Russian speaking population and it's negative towards RF.,1
"I think it's very much up in the air at this point, and Trump's influence as a third party candidate seems to be way over-estimated, especially after the 2022 midterm results.","That will not be true in 2024, especially with hundreds of thousands of avoidable covid deaths to his credit, an insurrection, and so on.",0
"There is so much overt antisemitism all around the world that Trump and whatever is going on with American right wing conspiracists is nothing new or shocking to him. The American evangelicals still want to protect Israel and they view the Jewish government as an ally in the modern Crusades, even though they are fundamentally antisemitic, so Bibi will nurture that relationship as long as he can.",The only reason fundamentalist evangelical Christian’s say they care about Israel is because they believe that Israel has to exist for Jesus to return.,1
His quest for personal glory has also cost the innocent lives of far too many Ukrainians in addition to the Russian people their future.,"The goal would be to throw Ukraine and its military into undirected chaos, and it would be horrific and deeply traumatic to the Ukrainian people.",1
"Their politicians may not have resembled populists in the past, but that almost certainly changed when Trump got the nomination. I am not sure saying whatever weird thing will get you votes can really be classified as true populism, though.","Now that they are looking at their next election, it's a good example of voters swaying the previously unswayable.",1
"In and of itself I wouldn't find the French attempting to assassinate a Russian militia member to be that hard to believe, but this.","Of course the french didn’t want to kill anyone, they wanted the boat to not disturb their nuclear tests, they did not want the publicity of doing domestic terrorism in an allied country.",1
"Mr Peskiv said, ""...or it was an unconscious lie and he did not in fact understand what Putin was talking to him about"".","Yep, and? That doesn't negate what I said, just adds that they are claiming both that it's a lie and might not be a lie.",0
"I'm not a cop, but I imagine it's not easy to sort out victims/heros/criminal when you first come upon a scene of bloody chaos. A rifle here, a handgun there, two bloodied men, overexcited witnesses with conflicting accounts...","Officers rushing into the chaotic scene had spotted a blood-spattered man with a handgun, not knowing if he was a threat.",1
"I haven't interacted with any of them, as I live in Romania. But having minorities rights in all European countries seems to be what we should all aim for. I think there is a lot of misinformation in Ukraine - like refugees being astonished that in Romania there are Ukrainian schools.","Your all (you and the other fellow Ukrainians who commented here here down-voted me) attitude left me a very bitter taste. That is, after the initial shock passed. Fool me, I thought Ukrainians are... not like this.",0
"The only easy way out is for Moldova to renounce territorial claims to Transnistria, recognize it as russian/nistrean/independent or in any case, not-moldovan territory and be done with it.","In fact, giving up the Russians to Moldova/Ukraine in exchange for recognised independence (which is to nobody's detriment really) or at least some kind of official devolution of power could well be a very enticing offer.",1
"It's a classic trauma response. We all know about ""fight or flight"", but there's also the ""freeze"" and ""fawn"" responses. The ""fawn"" response is a common one with abuse victims, especially child abuse - they just do whatever they can to placate the abuser. They say whatever they can to make it stop. They try to be as pliable and submissive as possible to not be a target of the abuser's rage.","Abusive partners do everything they can to make sure that's not even an option. Control their finances, manipulate them into being alienated from friends and family. All sorts of fucked up shit.",1
"NATO has only to decide that it wants to stop Russian access to the Baltic Sea to make it happen. Just as with seizure of frozen Russian assets, the legal work follows the decision to seize the assets, it does not frame or limit the decision.","The West has $600B in frozen assets owned by sanctioned Russians that it can seize, sell off and pay Ukraine.",0
"And assuming... Rain as well, holy hell those monsoons could be epic -assuming the planet would have Earth-like but extreme-scale temperatures and at least half the liquid water on the surface as there are on Earth... Though it could make a really cool setting for a SciFi-novel or a movie.","Damn, I forgot the exact term... Anyway, shouldn't there be fairly habitable zone in-between the day- and night-sides? Sort of twilight zone where temperatures and light would have aspects from both sides, blending into something that's less extreme?",0
You’re forgetting that Russia has and is preforming genocide on the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian culture. Ukrainians want a lot of there forced ties to Russia to be erased. The big reason why there is a lot of Russian speaking Ukrainians is because speaking Ukrainian was illegal and would get you killed.,"There are plenty of those born in Ukraine who called themselves Russian, and you cannot really dig them up and ask them if they are Ukrainian or not.",1
"This just really does not occur. No one would make accusations of antisemitism if criticizing Israel was just dispassionate criticisms of Israeli government policy. Instead, every single post about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is filled with people calling for Israel's dissolution, comparing it to Nazi Germany, whining that ""Jews didn't learn their lesson from the Holocaust"", and calling Israelis ""white European colonizers"". That shit is straight up antisemitic.","That's antisemitism, full stop; it is not, in any way, a criticism of any policy of the State of Israel.",1
"Arizona Governor claims voter fraud and rigged elections... Mainstream media goes out of their way to NOT point out that there are no verifiable fraudulent ballots to back up that claim. But if you do a search ""Heritage Foundation voter fraud"" you will find article after article 'proving' that the fraud exists. And no counter-claim articles at least from that search disputing them until the second or third page, as of this morning. And I'm not going to discredit USA Today as a source, but it was the first one I found that questioned the Heritage Foundations Claims but its not a news name that carries a lot of clout.","Fox news still says that Covid is fake, and the vaccine is not just worthless, but actually harmful. If you really want I can find lots of articles for that.",0
"So we helped them bomb the Houthis to dislodge a government that is friendly to Iran, because we aren't fond of the Iranian regime either.","Not for their egos, but because pro Iran Houthi militias overthrew the government and waged a brutal civil war against the former government. Since the Saudis hate the Iranian government and were allies of the previous Yemeni government, they intervened.....and got their butts kicked for the same reasons Russia did.",0
Exactly they will continue to elect the most hardline conservatives they can while asking why the democrats can put up moderates despite the current president being the most vanilla moderate democrat available.,The kind of Republicans competing with the likes of Trump and DeSantis and the positions they would need to take on to emerge victorious in a nationwide primary would make them wholly unpalatable to any kind of center-left voter.,1
"Ukraine and Poland have trained several hundred Belarusians to fight Russia in Ukraine. The Belarusians in question have volunteered to fight for Ukraine. Since Lukashenko is a Russian puppet, I'd expect that opponents of him will pretty much all be opponents of Russia too. Of note, Belarusians have also been conducting sabotage in their own country to stop the Russian military from using the infrastructure.",If Belarusians are not Russians countless many will pour into geurilla warfare and partisan activity. Not that they can defeat Russia but i feel you are over selling Russia's ability to open a new partisan front.,1
> More than half the respondents to the American organisation’s survey did not know six million Jews were murdered and 29% believe the death toll was below two million.,There’s a big difference between publicly stating “the Holocaust was exaggerated” and answering in a survey “I think the Holocaust deaths must have been lower”.,0
2. The party leadership is throwing all their funding behind their handpicked candidates and pushing them to victory and they're terrible.,"you can just look at the result kemp got, and its very obvious the GOP's insistence on running abysmal candidates lost them the race.",1
"White people always say ""there is no racism. So stop bringing it up"" There IS still racism!. My fucking white family still uses the N word behind closed doors. And they aren't the only white people who do that. I'm not going to sit here and ignore that.","I'm sorry they are scared of the truth, but it's reality. We will never ever be a better country if we continue trying towhitewashh everything about us. Being in fucking denial is no excuse.",0
Then here is the Debate between McSally and Sinema where Sinema is called out on her politics changing and she even says she will vote against her party if it conflicts with the interests of Arizonans.,> But her move now poses a key decision for Democrats as to whether they will still nominate a candidate for Arizona's upcoming Senate contest in 2024.,1
"To be fair, the Optics of Biden going to Ukraine before visiting Ohio are really bad. Biden had a lot of time to make a quick trip to Ohio and show his concern. When Trump travels to Ohio on Wednesda, he's going to really gain a lot of publicity and negative publicity for Biden.",Biden could easily stay out of the working area and meet with some of the families. Whether the governor invites him or not is immaterial .,0
"I only think a moderate Democrat would have done as well, as these midterms showed voters are tired of gridlock and extremes (I mean, the House was won through R victories in places like NY and CA). Are we going to pretend like Biden didn’t fight for major bipartisan deals and win? Dude ran a masterclass on pushing through legislation, and I don’t think a less-experienced or more progressive Democrat would have been as successful and able to prove to the voters that they can get things done in this politically-divisive climate.","Do you think the democrats would have been even close if the primaries hadn’t produced such an historical class of clowns for the republicans, because of trumps influence? Not to mention if roe hadn’t been overturned, or that there was a bunch of people who were openly and preemptively claiming the election was stolen if they didn’t win?",1
"There are different definition of the term ""dead language"". However notice that a language in the definition you describe is not dead. A language that is still used for communication doesn't have to be dead if it has no native speakers.","Also having degree in linguistics doesn’t mean you know every inch of the world. I am pretty sure being Indian I know more about India If not all than you, unless you are an Indian too. So keep your ego aside and try to respect what others are telling you. Hope they taught you to that in your linguistic degree. Unless there is spacial class on “don’t listen to anyone because I am a westerner and I know everything - 101”, then its different story.",1
"An endorsement by a candidate who's dropping out of the race doesn't guarantee any substantial number of their voters will be swayed. That might have worked 50 years ago, but much less so today. Especially when it's a little known and inexperienced politician endorsing is a former VP. Pete Buttigieg was no Teddy Kennedy and Biden was already the most known and most experienced candidate in the field. This wasn't a situation where Buttigieg had any real leverage.",I don't think it was actually that obvious buttigieg would lose. If Biden didn't catch he'd probably have the centrist lane. It was a longshot bid but not doomed to fail.,1
"There is a high risk of aftershocks in the areas after an earthquake. Normally, the plates move about two centimeters per year. But that's an average. It is actually a kind of elastic in which the energy is stored until the pressure becomes too great. Then the plates can suddenly move meters.","The plates can collide with each other, slide under each other, rub against each other or drift apart. This is often associated with earthquakes. The strongest earthquakes occur at the edges of those plates.",0
The Trump nuts that don’t have this stance are too far gone. Lost causes. But anyone with a shred of common sense would agree if crimes were committed lock his ass up. Nobody is or should be above laws.,Very aware yes. I know people who voted for Trump (the first time he ran) who also think he should be locked up for any wrong doing. Reddit isn’t the real world. Anyone in reality with any shred of common sense would agree Trump should go to prison if he broke the law. Biden should too for that matter.,0
There are so many issues with this. Are they seriously going to set the stage for how miscarriages should be handled? This could seriously set the stage for regulations on how periods are handled- it's legit a lot of the same tissues involved. This can throw women back into the dark ages and is dangerous regulation.,Bathroom waste is medical waste in general. Bathroom waste regularly includes reproductive tissues.Trying to distinguish a difference is insane.,0
"""Iranian Sunni cleric"" in Iran means the guy has negative influence because pretty everything he says will be seen with suspicion from the start by pretty much everyone in the country except sunnis which is like 10% of the population (almost everyone else is Shia).","In case you don't know, the whole region is locked into a political power struggle between rival powers roughly on sectarian lines, and Iran is the spearhead of the Shia bloc, so anyhting sunni is immediately suppressed into submission and irrelevance, or used against the very cause they try to advance.",0
"Sure. Parents wouldn't like it, so let the parents deal with it. ""Your kid can't get AP credit and reduce the cost of college because a politician thinks he gets to dictate curriculum on a topic he doesn't understand for the entire country. Sorry, take it up with him."".",This is just mealy-mouthing. The appropriate response to political grandstanding by intrusive government goons is to withdraw all AP offerings until such time as an agreement is reached.,0
By threatening and attacking countries that have literally no interest in russia he is making them hostile towards russia.,"But I think that has more to do with a successful Ukraine being a threat to Russia, specifically the “Russian world” that perpetuates their system of dictatorship. That’s the real reason for this war, anyway. Putin doesn’t think Ukraine should exist and them actually being successful is like a slap in the face to everything Putin stands for.",1
"I honestly think there is a decent chance now that she is more of a liability for Republicans than Dems, or draws voters evenly from both camps making her a nonentity.","The most realistic scenario is that Sinema and the Democrat split the non Republican vote, and a Republican will win with about 45-50% of the vote.",1
"Turkey probably would like to lose Northern Cyprus in a way that doesn't make them lose face, but reunification isn't popular in Cyprus because Northern Cyprus is a mess and full of transplants, and it would harm the southern portion economically to try to fix it.","It's an extreme example, but there aren't many examples of land borders being shared in these kinds of disputes. There likely are a few in the former soviet areas of Eurasia, but I'm not educated enough to speak on it.",0
"Russian here... For all people, who suffer because of this war - I am sorry that our govrenment and their puppets do.","Please, just know, there are Russians that know the truth and are sorry for everything, but can't do anything, because we are hostages of that horrible regime.",0
"The quicker Ukraine kicks Russia's ass out of all of Ukraine, including Crimea, the sooner this war can come to an end. To do that, Ukraine requires overwhelming force.","No military, not even a drunken one like Russia will ""announce"" offensives or counter-offensives. As with the invasion, the offensive was identified through intelligence and observed behaviors.",0
"People genuinely believe that everyone in a red state is some upstanding, hard-working farmer. Most of the agricultural sector is made up of agribusiness and factory farms and most of the employees are migrant workers getting paid next to nothing. A lot of small towns in ""Real America"" are stagnant towns, rife with drug abuse, and have suffered from several generations of brain drain. The only areas that are growing in those red states are more liberal, urban areas.","So the blues will keep all the economic, industrial, academic, and trade centers of the former states... the reds will get the farmland, and other sparsely populated areas.",1
"Huh. It's almost like we need something in our constitution that makes it so we can't discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.","Marriage isn’t anywhere in the federal constitution, except in that by its absence the legality and regulation of marriage(s) can be inferred to be a power devolved to the states via the 10th Amendment.",1
"I've vacationed in OR when I used to live in Seattle. I've been down to Portland a couple of times, but the city is just a bit too hectic for my taste. I'd love to move to OR at some point and live on the water in some small, unsuspecting town. Low traffic and picturesque sunsets are what I'd want.","Oh so I'm a misogynist because I don't appreciate some random tool barging in and spouting some of the most annoying rhetoric on this website? Are you that insecure that you immediately result to calling someone a misogynist whenever your fragile, shitty talking points aren't appreciated? Oh I apologize, I guess I'm ""mansplaining"" to you right now. I can't wait to be brought up in some 12,000 word manifesto posted to r/TwoXChromosomes about how men on this website are so horrible and never treat women with the respect they deserve.",0
"I can imagine russian POWs getting a serious beating if they were captured in an area that it was known the russians had been brutalising the populations or if a AFU soldier had lost his friends to them, and I can imagine 'officers' getting waterboarded during interrogations. I can imagine many other things - but they're done for 'tactical' reasons, no matter how horrible they are - not for amusement or to terrorise the population. But the Ukrainians know that the continued support of the West relies on then appearing to lay be the rules and if a few graphic instances of torture hit the media support would evaporate. And if/when they win there's going to be lots of investigations and their getting into the EU etc will ride to those. The very fact that the russians won't allow anyone at all to see their POW camps is telling.","While I don't doubt for a minute there has been cases of torture of russian POWS, it's not the systemic torture and rape of civilians of all ages and genders.",0
"I isolated 2019 for the simple reason that it was the first year that the TCJA [1] really took effect. Said Act was passed in 2017 to take effect FY 2018. Considering the usual lag, it is reasonable to expect 2019 to see the first major effects of it. Had TFG [2] not cocked up [3] the response to the Chinese novel coronavirus, it is doubtful that 2020 would have been any better. Therefore, based on simple elimination, 2019 is unfortunately the only year we have to judge the TCJA.","Don't believe it? Consider this. 45 was the most deregging admin of the 21st century, and 2019 saw the greatest real income increase of the bottom quintile of households in the 21st c. Coincidence? I think not.",0
"In theory, no. In actuality i think the political system in the US is too corrupted and rigid for a 3rd party, because said 3rd party would essentially act as a vote splitting party to either ensure a perennial democratic or republican leadership.","The Rs need to be rebuilt from the ground up, if they want to distance themselves from the far right. However the people in charge are at least friendly towards the far eight. Furthermore, they need the right wing votes because they wont get any support from the left. So its almost a catch-22 where they cant fully distance themselves from the far right without destroying their electoral chances.",0
"Even if the weather were to shift in such a manner to maximize water where it needs to be to support the existing systems it will take decades to restore groundwater and replenish the whole region and its needs. Assuming those resevoirs have a nice season every single year and rise a few % it will take 20 to 60 years or more of net gains to restore things, as well as drastically cutting use of that resource.","We get a new round of cuts thanks to outdated water policies negotiated at a time when very few people lived in the Southwest, and some states didn't even exist yet. Ya know back when the worlds population was 1/4 what it is today.",0
"I don't agree with rolling back regulations willy-nilly, but technically speaking, it's on neither. I'd say most of the blame goes with the train companies for opposing reasonable legislation.",If either administration had the regulation in place they would have been sued by the rail companies.,1
"No, as is and as much as we want Ukraine to kick the Russians the fuck out, a EU membership really isn't and was never in the picture, war or no war...","It's just not going to happen unless and until Ukraine is able to fulfill the EU criteria for joining, which clearly they aren't all that interested in these days given the latest changes.",0
"Well, yeah. They’re the most common extremists here. Kinda goes without saying, I’d think. We don’t have a lot of other types of extremists, like ISIS or militant leftist groups.","To be completely honest, I’m surprised at how many mass murders aren’t tied to extremism at all. The majority of mass shootings aren’t politically motivated or demographically targeted at all, just straight up killing for killing’s sake. For every Pulse Nightclub we have four Gilroy Garlic Festivals.",1
I don’t understand it because if n Korea falls and China assumes it’s territory it’s still effectively the same situation right?,"Why does China care about the west, South Korea or the USA, sharing a border with China anyways? What does that potentially enable us to do that China is afraid of?",0
"Best solution would be to allow short, tighter shorts as an option for male and female players if they want to wear them instead of the baggy shorts.","i was dismayed when spurs in 1991iirc , were the first football team to reintroduce baggy knee-lenh unathletic shorts.",1
"Since reproductive freedom was protected by voters in MT, KS, and KY, Republican senators from those states should vote in favor of federal legislation, but I know they won't. They're so out of touch with their own constituencies.",Have Manchin and Sinema both said they won't vote for it? Can legislation be passed in the House before a possible Republican majority takeover? Is Congress just trying to keep this issue alive to drive people to the polls in future elections?,0
"She's running for President with the ultimate goal of her's (and the GOP) to be VP running mate. She'll run, drop out then be courted by the two remaining candidates.","She would do better among independents than Trump, Biden or DeSantis. Add in the factor of her being the first female POTUS and a minority and middle of the road liberals who’ve proclaimed for years how important that is would have a harder time justifying voting for a geriatric white instead of her.",1
"Democrats keep hoping that if they're the adults in the room, eventually the GOP acting like insane children will hurt them. It often seems the opposite is true.","The lack of a red wave doesn't mean it's working. I'm getting real tired of Dems just passively hoping the GOP destroys itself, and looking at marginal gains as evidence of this master plan working.",0
Jacobin seems to have forgotten that FDR had a Democratic supermajority in both chambers. Almost 3/4ths of the entire Congress was Dem.,"No, we just need swing voters to elect a few more normie Dems. If the Dems held the house and won in Wisconsin for Senate, they'd suddenly be able to just bypass Manchin and Sinema. Then the new Manchin would be Jon Tester, someone who would still gleefully torpedo the progressive platform if it was pushed onto him, but who would nonetheless allow for a lot more normie liberal policy to pass vs Manchin and Sinema (Tester was open to bypassing the filibuster for voting rights and abortion rights as well as for a BBB that was at least $3t, for example). That's how you get progress, not by expecting someone to magically force senators to do stuff they don't want to do, but instead by just getting somewhat better folks elected who will allow for more change.",1
"They got rid of almost their entire moderation team, and Elon has a non-existent moral compass, so where Jack would step and and demand certain incendiary figures got banned (sometimes rules be damned), Musk is just unbanning everyone and letting the crazies run the nut house.",He did call a random guy a pedophile with no proof once upon a time. It's just back then he was busy running companies people believed in that he bought after they already had a successful plan and good people in place. Now he's running Twitter into the ground and people are shocked to find out he kinda sucks at running companies.,0
It’s crazy that people care more about their perceived political adversaries being right about something than the cause of a global pandemic that killed millions.,This is 100% in the DOE’s wheelhouse they are saying based on their intel it probably came from a lab. They can’t 100% prove it because that would require CCP participation. Thus the confidence in any conclusion will be low because it’s essentially based on circumstancial evidence and the fact that the OG strain had a spike protein shape similar to other virus that are manipulated for gain of function research.,0
"Basically, the city council was a bunch of sellouts, the mayor guy was a sellout and they ousted the one person who wasn't a sellout.",Not to say what’s happening here was ok. Just that the mayor being not elected by the full city population is fairly common.,1
"Medvedev said he wanted to speak out about his experiences in the war so ""the perpetrators are punished"" for their crimes in Ukraine.","Andrei Medvedev, who fled by crossing the Russian-Norwegian border on Jan. 13, says he witnessed the killing and mistreatment of Russian prisoners taken to Ukraine to fight for Wagner.",0
"Why are none of them covering the fact that these documents were found and turned over immediately, without anyone asking anyone to do anything.","That is not comparable to Trump having hundreds more documents, and REFUSING to had them over after being asked many many times.",0
Say they used 1 watt from the laser to make 1.2 watts. Cool. It takes 100 watts to charge the laser.,"The ""energy in the lasers"" is not the energy used to create the laser pulses. In the case of the NIF only about 1% of the energy used to create the pulse actually makes it to the target.",0
"Well this will be an unpopular comment, but by in large, he's equally bad but just in different ways. Bolsanaro did some good, but a lot of bad, and Lula really is the same...only the topic changes.","And no, I'm not a Bolsanista nor am I far right. I'm a foreigner living here long enough to have seen both sides rule... They're ""same same, but different"".",0
"This cunt knows that he will never be released. So, things like this keep him in the public eye. The media shouldn't have picked this up. Sure, lodge your complaints and let them be considered in the courts and judicial system. But, no one in public should ever hear about this cunt or his wants ever again. He should be jailed, alone, forever and completely forgotten about.","He should know that he has judicial fairness, and has every right that a prisoner does. And he should also know that he and his requests and attempts for attention will never be seen by anyone. That all he is doing is yelling into a completely empty void and will never get public attention ever again.",0
It's also very unclear where any countries red lines are on cyber attacks that cause physical damage. If Russia shut down the US power grid would this be considered an act of war? What if the US did the same to Russia?,"The US has some very good intelligence sources on Russia. It's safe to assume shutting off the power to Moscow would also hurt the ability of the US to collect intelligence. This could be very vital intelligence in terms of something like Russia's willingness to use nukes. On the subject of nukes we don't know what cyber or other electronic warfare capabilities exist to prevent them from being launched in the first place, or reaching their intended target after launching.",0
"When they get used to bomb Ukraine and Ukraine retaliates by firing missiles at the airfields used to launch the attack, it draws Belarus into the war, opening another front in the North, something Ukraine does not need.","belarus hasnt gotten involved with their army yep, given that they need that to pacify their own country, sending it to ukraine would be bad for them. Ukraine attacking them now wouldnt make much sense as you said.",1
"Shit, there is no way to do INDUSTRIAL FARMING and sustain the levels of meat consumption without government subsidies (i.e. giving money to the meat industry).","30-50% less meat seems like a small price to pay to me, even as someone who eats meat. We’re not asking to cut out all meat just some. Not bad. I can do that.",1
"Don't let any bullshitters tell you ""these things take time"" or ""you have to build a perfect case"" or ""you can't arrest him yet because he has the right to a speedy trial"". The law is fast and effective...when it wants to be.",What you're saying is that he is being treated differently for political reasons. I'm saying the same thing.,0
"And London is likely to largely return labour mps, while the northern brexit voters will likely still vote tory.",Why do people in England keep voting conservative again? At this point I just want to hurry independence along because I don’t want rights being eroded by conservative governments.,1
"No one here is saying that Ukraine march into Moscow to do so, they’re saying that Russia itself needs to seriously take overhaul its entire system to be non-hostile to Europe before it could trade with them again. Without any reforms to the Putin-style system, not only Russia would rearm for war, it would signal to other potential aggressors that democracies don’t have the backbone to seriously punish aggressors for their actions and the latter would encouraged to commit similar acts in the future.","Isolation works, and Russia needs to be isolated and turned into multiple countries and factions, all with ruined economies and completely unable to equip or maintain an army significant enough to be a threat for the next half a century or so. A few decades or internal instability and poverty will give them a taste of their own medicine and teach them why bombing people's infrastructure just cause they decided to align with the west and propping up dictators in civil war torn 3rd world countries is unacceptable.",1
"SOF calls in strike package, confirms they will paint the target, GLSDB is fired, GBU-39B locks onto SOF's laser, boom. Literally no different than the average strike package called in by a NATO JTAC today.","Even with GBU-39Bs, Ukrainian forces could simply use laser designators to paint for the weapon, literally exactly like how RAF Eurofighters tend to conduct strike packages in groups of 2, with one lasing for the other. Hell, makes more sense than having the weapon self laze, as the GBU-39 has no target selection capabilities of its own...",0
"Cuba has stockpiles of soviet shit out of the 50s and 60s that he's probably hoping to get, so he can send more Russians into Ukraine with junk equipment, where they will die.",The weird thing though is that most Cubas military is horribly outdated stuff from the 1960’s and 70’s that Russia itself should have thousands of units in storage of. It doesn’t make sense to ship this stuff across the world when Russia should be able to pull stuff out of storage nearby and fix it up.,1
"Huh. Mom got appendicitis and went septic. Hospitalized for a week. I should ask how much of that was her own stubbornness, vs. the hospital not taking her seriously in time. .","Shit like this is what scares me. Whether I notice signs of an impending heart attack is my lookout, but whether I'll be taken seriously if I go to the ER with it...",0
"Which part of your comment or the one you’re responding to is factually wrong, though? High employment and raises will lead to more inflation. This is basically the Fed’s dual mandate.","Okay, you’re a company and you raise your prices 20%, purely out of greed. Oh shit, prices have gone up because of greed.",0
Obviously our presidents and vice presidents are not handling top secret documents carefully enough. Both of the situations with Trump and Biden exposed TS documents to risks that should not be acceptable.,Some sort of investigation needs to take place and something needs to be done to tighten up control of documents.,0
Well I wish there was a better metric for progressives in the house that doesn't include 50% of dems... but unfortunately the CPC is the furthest left caucus and they let basically anyone who wants to join in.,"Ultimately, the guy who very publicly attacked a bunch of the CPC members when they beat incumbents to win is not a progressive by any metric.",0
"Why should they? It's their platform. It's their money that makes the websites and platform work. They are held responsible for what is on it, even if nobody made such a decision within the company. So why shouldn't they decide how the rules are applied?","But also ""no"" as in ""you can't violate law"". Offending a foreign head of state, e.g., is a crime in large parts of the world. Wishing him death is just a plain no.",1
"No, it was pointing out that someone can be both political and religious, and that being religious shouldn't conflict with their ability to be recognized politically. Biden is a politician but also religious. He's allowed to attend church. He's allowed to give a sermon in a church. To say otherwise is to insist that all politicians be atheists, which is itself a religious requirement in that it requires someone to not be religious.",Of course in reality if such a rule got passed they would try and argue that Christian religious expressions are just normal and not religious and only try to stop non Christian’s from expressing their beliefs.,1
"Even better, the committee should remind House Republicans that how they choose to respond to the subpoenas sets precedent for how others will respond to theirs.","Do subpoenas have an expiry date? Because there's hilarious hypocrisy and hijinks that Democrats and Cheney could get up to with this. A very simple ""I will honor your subpoena when you honor mine."".",0
"Lukashenko is barely holding on to power and needed Russia to bail him out after the last election. The only thing keeping him in power is this army, and Russia's, which indirectly mean that he's beholden to them because there's nowhere else to turn to except for Russia. Compare that to Putin who has many PMC groups and militarized police forces that can be used to ensure that no one military faction can get strong enough to threaten him.","Russia has a sizeable presence in Belarus right now, probably for this exact reason and also to train Russian conscripts. Any protest at this point would get put down hard by Russia and they would probably end up conscripting the protestors.",0
This seems bad and honestly I suspect that there are some serious ulterior motives at play. This would let the state underfund say big cities schools and would probably let them get around certain antidiscrimination directives say over racial minorities or trans kids or what have you.,"They're probably trying to a) deny minorities the public school money needed for them to get a proper education in a public school (this would disproportionately affect Tennessee's minorities), and b) force people to switch to private schools, probably with the intent to get people to stick with private schools if they're forced to send their kids there for long enough.",1
"Similar stories can be found in clothing, food and electronics industries. Cheap stuff nowadays is based on forced labor.",Free labor can never compete in a market with enslaved labor. Every American worker should be pushing for legal recognition of undocumented workers because it would improve working conditions for ALL of us.,1
Surpass Messi soon… need to move from PSG though. He already has everything he could’ve won in France and a World Cup and can probably get another World Cup he’s young i think the only thing he is missing is a UCL title. As for World Cup records he is 5 goals from tying Miraslov Klose record in all WC. Mbappe has so much time and already done so much.,Mbappe and Haaland are next two greats in the making. With both Messi and Ronaldo at the final stages of their career they will carry the game forward.,1
"Egypt too has the Pyramids, so makes sense for Arab nations to have the means to accommodate foreigners.","You are actually correct, Egypt was the first Arab country to make peace. I wrote my comment from memory, sometimes my recall ability is not the best.",1
I don’t accept the idea that there’s no way the U.S. military couldn’t intercept it and bring it down without it risking hitting people below. It’s a slow moving weather balloon. If we can pit people on the moon I’m sure there’s a way to engineer this problem.,It’s very likely not. Most likely this was just taunting America and the fact they let it hang around for a few days projects weakness that we know a nation like China would not reciprocate if the same thing happened on their soil.,0
Him being authoritarian have nothing to do with women's rights or other stuff like that but Turkey bad narrative on every topic makes uneducated people in west think this is a hot take.,Turkey is one of the first countries to give women right to vote. There is nothing surprising about what Erdogan said but a lot of people here is surprised.,0
"1) they somehow have 8 kids but yet some religious parties still don't make it over 7 mandates? Just look at UTJ in Israel over the years. Their community AVERAGES 7 or 8 kids per couple and yet they have never made it over 7 mandates. It is a big question in Israeli politics to answer why, but one theory is that many vote for non-religious parties or don't vote at all (a lot of them don't recognize the Israeli government on principle, so won't vote, it's a question how many).",I was just pointing out that Israel's parliamentary system has its own flaws as well that can lead to disproportionate representation when compared to strict majority popular vote.,1
"During the first few months there were so many headlines “Russian economy will collapse any moment now!” At least there’s more variation and realism these days, not only “sanctions totally work” propaganda.","The Russian Central Bank has done well to combat the impact of sanctions but they can't hold out forever, and its running out of tricks to keep sanctions at bay.",1
"Nuclear weapons have been far more powerful than Hiroshima for decades, and Russia is neither prepping nor priming one. The video in question shows a missile being loaded into a silo (which is where most ICBMs are stored), and includes some specifications about it.","In fact, at the very end of the article, the author states that ""as an ICBM, the Yars is not a tactical nuclear weapon, and analysts doubt that resorting to unconventional warfare would deliver Russia any military advantage...however, Russian media have been pushing claims about its atomic capabilities."".",0
"There is one detail that people are not mentioning: In Alexandre de Moraes' decision, there are technical explanations about how Bolsonaro's party's claim about the voting machine is simply false.","In the same ruling, Justice Alexandre de Moraes, also ordered an investigation of the involvement of two leaders of Bolsonaro's party in ""undermining Brazilian democracy"".",1
The amendments the Republicans offered - which they claimed were good-faith compromises - really weren't much in the way of compromise at all. The included a 6-week abortion ban (really only 4 weeks after conception) and a 6-week ban with exceptions for rape and incest.,To be fair they had a couple of reasonable amendments in there that got rejected like the ban on selling fetus body parts or adding restrictions on abortions after 39 weeks.,1
Their first Kyiv rush failed when Ukraine effectively had a barely functioning militia and soviet equipment for the most part.,I can't even imagine what will happen when the now fully trained and largely battle hardened Ukrainian army with NATO equipment retaliates against conscripts with 1 boot between 4 men in winter.,0
"No, the results are pretty imaginable: a much better interception rate for Russian missiles, meaning fewer blown up schools, hospitals, and power stations.","On one hand these are old technology & will have no impact on Russian air capabilities, on the other hand giving Ukraine these defensive weapons will have ""unimaginable results."" If they won't be effective why would Russia escalate a war with the United States. I'm betting the systems are old tech & more than capable of shooting down what Russia sends Ukraine's way.",1
"Well extraordinary rendition and torture would be considered terrorism, which would make our countries (USA and UK) terrorist states too. So by that precedent, anyone can blockade any US or UK cargo ship and this judge would rule that it’s ok?","Edit: instead of downvoting, would anyone care to explain what I’ve got wrong here? Isn’t the legal system based on precedent?",0
"The Republican Party has traditionally ran on a fiscally conservative platform for the last 50 years, but if you look at the modern day Republican Party, it’s all lip service. They talk a big game, but when it comes to act, they never get it done.","It means balancing the budget, not spending more then you earn, reducing debt, things like that. If “fiscally conservative” was a person, they’d be a person that saves their money until they have enough to pay cash for a car, rather than a person that takes out a loan to buy a car.",0
The problem is you’re delusional… if America could grow enough sugar beets to be independent of importing sugar like it’s wanted to be since Fidel Castro…. Why wouldn’t it do it….?,"All that production doesn’t come close to the amount imported into the US or even at close to the cost of importing it. Furthermore, the droughts that Louisiana faces and storms disrupt the level of production. The US can produce it but between labor and the right conditions they won’t be able to. They’ve tried….",0
"Again, instead of comparing the M1 to the T-72, compare it to the Leopard 2, which has the same gun. Exact same gun. In fact the gun was developed for the Leopard 2, and later adapted to the M1.","The Leopard 2 has the same gun. They invented that gun. If the Leopard 2 is less hampered by logistics and can also kill T-72s, and it was designed with them in mind, perhaps its a better tank.",0
"We need more Dems elected so we can begin to get rid of tRump judges - not all he appointed, just all who support him and his politics, 3 of whom are on SCOTUS as we speak.","Or, and hear me out here, ""keep tradition"" and just nominate hyperliberal judges from the 21 states where there's two democratic senators.",1
"With the state of the playing field as it is right now, now is the time for you to get involved in getting progressives in. If that’s what you want. Otherwise what are you even looking to do with what is available? Strongarm centrists who were voted in by centrists to be far left now?","The right managed to peel off a lot of the potential 'left wing' vote with their shenanigans, populism and culture wars. I say that because a lot of would-be left wing people are kinda idiots. If you listen to people like Matt Gaetz talk out of context, you would almost assume he's left with the shit he says in terms of policy, just broad appeal the government is going to help the working people, etc. It's the entertainment and outrage culture that they promote that gets a lot of the people that would be mad at the government for shit the government really is doing.",1
And then the cops reinforce that pervasive racist bias by using their social media platforms to highlight black suspected criminals at a disproportionate rate.,So you combine all those factors with the historical issue of US culture stigmatizing black folks as inherently criminal or dangerous.,0
"China can try taking Taiwan if they would like, but they'd just lose a bunch of boats to missile strikes, there's really no way that escalates into WW3 because China doesn't have enough nukes to win a nuclear war. They have enough nukes to make it too painful for the USA to start a nuclear war, but at the end of a nuclear exchange America would still exist as a country and China wouldn't. So a war over Taiwan would be almost certain to stay conventional. Also, Japan having more missiles makes it less likely that China is willing to invade the island, not more likely.","Once japan gets these missiles, china wouldnt stand a chance if japan decides it wants china. China would be forced into a defensive war and would slowly lose all of their territory.",1
"Studying the errors and criticizing your country for its faults, errors and even rights is exactly what made western education strong. Liberalism is the very fundamental of the democratic ideal - free thought and free opinion even at the expense and perhaps particularly at the expense of nationalist and authoritarians that starts crying “woke education”, “marxist” or “globalist” at things they don’t like. If you would have studied history you would know it’s the exact same things the nazis was saying about education in Germany. And no one gives a f about your skin color - if you think that white supremacy and it’s ideals and thinking only can apply to white people it is painfully clear that people in US needs more education and not less.",And even she could tell Ron DeSantis was a racist weirdo and a scumbag for trying to whitewash history and hated the attempts to gloss over how this country fucked over Black people.,1
"the whole world? really? like i mean how about countless f’d up countries in Africa where unheard of atrocities are a part of daily life, should we also ask them to march? I’m asking because no one gave them a f till now and it might just be a bit weird to ask of them something like this. Besides there are many places on earth like africa that we have to consider the same question for them as well.","I'm sure many countries will do that and that's good, not sure about the whole world tho.. definitely not the middle east, Africa, most of Latin America or Asia.",1
"Seems so. He has nothing to offer except grievance and whining. That’s all he did in office. I’ve never seen such a lazy, slob claim to be so wonderful. He accomplished nothing productive in office. Republicans in Congress were responsible for the GQP Tax Scam, not trump. He was good at cozying up to Putin and other authoritarian leaders but that was it.","I know. I was just highlighting the time trump had the bully pulpit from the beginning of his campaign through his time in office. After his coup failed it seemed less visible. He will continue to piss, moan and lie until the day he dies. He loathes being a loser which he has been his entire life.",0
"Pretty sure husband and I had it just before christmas, and it was absolutely horrible. We are both vaccinated with all available boosters and I have a flu shot.","But, I’m vaccinated and booster in November. It was about 4 total days of feeling like crap with the feelings of a terrible head cold.",1
Ya know what these kids need? A fucking hug and told that everything will be alright. That it's okay to feel that way and if they're so strong it's unbearable that there are ways to help.,"It's a beyond incredibly dangerous slippery slope for a kid to start down on, especially with out any actual support.",0
"Difference here is that Qatar has deep pockets and fifa is more than willing to whore out the sport, its fans and what minimal amount of integrity fifa had left for that money.","My take is that FIFA has been telling everyone for years “don’t worry, Qatar will be great hosts,” and at this point FIFA is too embarrassed to sanction Qatar and thereby admit they were even a little bit wrong.",1
"The US government doesn't care about us at all. They don't care about our voice, our actions, or what we actually want. All they care about is power and wealth.",Oh it will certainly be a benefit to the mega wealthy. One of the exemptions to the 30% tax is business to business sales. Zero chance that gets abused.,1
Aren't there any weapons being smuggled from Iraq's Kurds to the Kurdish people of Iran in the regions where there are a lot of them?,I hope for the best for the people of Iran! I know some people from the Iranian diaspora in my country and they are very worried and extremely angry to say the least.,0
"Iran is not gonna invade Israel ever, the Israeli fear is that they can no longer win wars by dropping nuclear devices on their neighbours without getting one back in return.","I'm waiting to be pointed to anywhere that Iran says they are getting nukes to attack Israel, even if that was true, they wouldn't be saying that would they.",0
"Second, power plants can be massive, and Russia has more than one missile… fairly obviously. Let’s not be optimistic, this is going to be a dark winter for many, many Ukrainians.","For context/source, I’m an electrical engineer, and my close friend works directly in substation design and construction. First, just restarting portion of a power grid while the entire thing is damaged is difficult, and even more difficult while random section could get blown up at any time. Load balancing (power production vs consumption) is going to be insane (and possibly destructively difficult) even if some infrastructure is in tact.",0
"Plastic grocery bags consume 71% less energy during production than paper bags. Significantly, even though traditional disposable plastic bags are produced from fossil fuels, the total non-renewable energy consumed during their lifecycle is up to 36% less than the non-renewable energy consumed during the lifecycle of paper bags and up to 64% less than that consumed by biodegradable plastic bags.","After four or more uses, reusable plastic bags are superior to all types of disposable bags — paper, polyethylene, and compostable plastic, across all significant environmental indicators.",0
"You can see it as an ingredient most of the time. Sometimes it's called ""celery nitrite"" which is tricky because celery sounds healthy.",If you aren't getting meat from the butcher section of the supermarket then it probably has nitrates in it.,0
"I think it was the day after inauguration: Trump, Kislyak, and Lavrov together in the Oval Office with an official TASS photographer, not a single American present. If TASS hadn't released the photo, we'd never know it happened.","Wikileaks released the hacked DNC emails within a hour of the Access Hollywood tape being aired on TV. There was nothing in the emails but some chicken recipes and normal DNC business but the entire U.S. media turned on a dime from ""grab 'em by the pussy"" to ""hacked DNC emails."".",0
"Two events this week highlight this new bench: The reelection of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) in a runoff on Tuesday night put the spotlight on one of the party’s highest-profile Black leaders. And the Democratic Governors’ Association’s conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, featured a host of would-be presidential contenders.","While November’s midterms were far from a complete success — Republicans took control of the U.S. House — Democrats won most of the country’s marquee swing-state Senate and gubernatorial contests, with presidential buzz developing around some of the victors even before their races were called.",0
"No one, either here or in the House, should expect the Republicans to hold up any deal that could be reached on a compromise candidate.","And of course, no Republicans will cross the aisle because they'd be out on their ass in the next primary.",0
"Not just Wahabhism but born again evangelism was spread first in Latin America to fight liberation theology amongst Catholics but both Wahabhism and born again evangelism have turned nihilist and want to see America dead, blow back is a bitch.","I knew about the liberation theology priests persecuted in South America, but I never associated that with evangelianism's rise to counter left-christianity. Makes sense, but I'm not sure how deliberate that could have been.",1
"""Um. Why exactly are they doing this, Chief? It literally goes against several basic principles of strategy."".",Yep. Turkey has the ability to stop Russian oil-tankers from getting out of the Black Sea with the mere wave of a hand. They control the Montreux Convention and they decide who is or isn’t violating it.,1
"What I'm trying to express is that the laws of the nation have been very intentionally constructed by the rich and powerful in order to allow this trash to happen in a totally legitimate manner. The institution, the laws, are rotten.","If we were to operate with the word ""legitimacy"" as though no law maker or enforcer were legitimate unless those they governed over gave consent, my local police, my city council and mayor, my state legislature, all the way up to Joe Biden himself are illegitimate because l do not consent to their governance over me. I actively do not want them to legislate or enforce what rights I do and do not have.",0
"Russian dictators are very good at killing their own people, and their people are very experienced at watching it happen to them.",I can see Putin taking to live TV right now telling his people Ukraine is killing all their children for defending Russia.,1
"The impeachment process used to work. In the last 225 years, 15 federal judges have been impeached. According to Google:","The Chief Justice could also charge a committee of federal Appellate Court judges to enforce ethics for the Supreme Court. He could give them both the power to publish a code of Supreme Court ethics, to judge the compliance of the Justices, and to impose fines for offenses. The Catholic Church does something like this with bishops, cardinals, and the Pope. In most cases power flows from the Pope, to the Cardinals, and them down to the Bishops, but in a few cases the power to rule the Cardinals is in the hands of the Bishops, I think.",0
"Curing only applies to mail-in ballots; presumably, problems with ballots cast in person on Election Day are fixed then.","To be fair, they did mention right after that, the majority of mail in ballots tend to be democratic voters and those are the ballots that require “curing”.",1
ITAR is not military secrets. That would classified information. ITAR controls anything that can be weaponized.,When a system begins being used as a weapons system it becomes regulated under ITAR. When spaceX was being used for communications its a-ok as soon as it becomes a guidance system you are breaking the law. If the US enforced this it would make spaceX shutdown worldwide as it would not be viable for export.,1
"The thing about projection though is that the idea provides a tool for understanding people's psyche, and an important part is that it is an unconscious impulse. The way I understand it, it can either be expressed as a defense mechanism defending one's own deep-down known faults, projecting the same motivations on others — ""yes I do this, sure, but look, everybody does"" — or maybe it's just because they think that way and so just assume everybody does: when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.","I don’t think they understand how petty it makes them look, though, and childish. I don’t think they would like to know that, so they choose not to, lie more and pretend. As though that makes any difference to how we feel. I think it’s petty and shows how weak they really are, that all they can do is lie ineffectually and blame others for their failings. As though we can’t see them for ourselves. Rotten wood, weak at the core.",0
"Putin is simply running Russia and her potential into the ground, which is very important and beneficial for NATO. Longer he is in the position, weaker Russia becomes.","Same was with Hitler, allies could take him down, but deemed his being alive better for war effort and making decisive defeat of the Germany closer.",0
"There's one great one where a Ukrainian drone operator counts like 15 Russians entering a small farmhouse, waits until they're all in, then calls in a precision artillery strike that levels the house.",Russians also should have learned not to quarter 600 men within artillery range of the line of contact in a civilian building that's extremely vulnerable to artillery fire... But here we are. I wouldn't give the Russians any benefit of the doubt at this point.,1
"Global capitalism from the West and China will still exploit the hell out of Africa regardless, but it will likely be less agregious.","“China has helped Africa to get out of the blackmail of some western countries, which wanted to treat African countries as if they were slaves countries”.",1
"Half the reason they invaded Ukraine when they did was because it no longer had a pro-Russian leader, and looked all set to push flat-out for NATO accession, after which they wouldn't be able to so much as spit on Ukrainian soil without risking WW3. It was a terrible strategic decision, but from their perspective, the alternative of an EU-aligned, NATO-joining Ukraine was even worse.","Chechnya, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, etc... the Baltics would be the hardest, because they actually joined NATO.",0
"Yeah, that sounds infuriating. And so scary. In a disaster like this you expect the response to be swift and decisive. I wish the best to the whole region and all the rescue workers in their work with limited resources.",I hope the international aid is swift as well and it gladdens me to see many countries answer quickly. Even countries with frosty relations to Türkiye. It's a reminder that our differences do not outweigh our will to help fellow people in need.,0
Theres a reason the smart people in charge wont provide Ukraine with planes and missiles that can reach into Russia and why we havent put our troops on the ground or enforced a no fly zone. We know they're a danger and are trying not to provoke them into attacking NATO.,"They can also harm us in other ways too, if they did blow up nordstream they could easily do the same to Norways pipeline and screw over Europe. They also have bio and chem weapons like Anthrax, Smallpox and Novichok (they didnt mind using this on NATO soil).",0
At least with Trumps second impeachment over January 6th there was a chance of an actual impeachment succeeding. At the time there were some republicans who weren’t on the “well he’s leaving office anyways” or “mostly peaceful protestors” bandwagon.,"If Biden is impeached for what ever they decide to come up with, there is literally a zero percent chance he’d be removed.",0
"US and European countries export their waste to developing countries because it's cheaper than recycling themselves. China banned plastic imports a few years ago while India hasn't, single use plastic is banned everywhere in India.","Also this ignores china's and India's internal consumption of their own plastic products. Look at the huge towering cities in china they gloat about, look at the all the big expensive light shows shown every night . All that requires power for their vanity , and that power comes from coal.",1
You can be an opportunist while telling the truth lol. Bipartisanship is a lost art (primarily because of the Republicans). There is no lie about that.,I mean she’s right. Both parties only care about themselves. Of course this sub will demonize her because it hurts them and the right will praise her because it helps them and that just proves her point even further.,0
"There's also the fact that Russia is actively mishandling this whole thing by not properly mobilising from the start, but just not having Javelins/Nlaws early in the war could have been eough to seal Ukraines fate.",Yeah that is true but the weapons that are being sent to Ukraine are pretty much the hand me downs maybe besides a couple but the majority of the the weapons is shit the US and nato doesn't even really use. This shows how far behind the supposedly 2nd best military in the world is. And If I was the second best military power in the world I wouldn't necessarily brag about beating down a country like Ukraine if they had no help. It isn't like they are some huge military power on their own. And they gave up their nuke or nukes to Russia in return the promise of never interfering with them. So we see how Russia keeps its word. But i believe the US is bound to help as well after they gave up their WMD.,1
"1. Greatly increased quantity of aid to Ukraine (so much more artillery, clothing, NATO-standard small arms).",There will be a proportionate reaction. This was a predictable scenario and responses have certainly been prepared in advance. A few possibilities:,0
"Check out /r/PoliticalCompassMemes, they are a trans hating sub and would love to see Texas round up its trans population.","The Texas government has a basic idea of who is trans simply because many trans people change their gender on their drivers licenses etc. That on its own is not a problem. The fact that the AG is requesting that information, and especially that they’re trying to hide that they’re requesting it, is downright terrifying.",1
Read about what? I am sure there are ways you can check by whom russian tankers are being insured at the moment. And which countries accept those insurance certificates.,Insurance is required yes. For any cargo ship. But I fail to see the point of why would Russian ships be even attempting to insure their cargo in a western company.,0
"There is, but it doesn’t automatically mean the other side is about to fling a missile at you or fill the air around you with steel. It just means they have that option if they decide to.","Also IIRC the radar signals from missiles are distinctly different from stationary systems. Because they’re accelerating hard the signals are blueshifted, so you can tell if you’re being hunted by a freshly launched missile that’s locked onto you.",0
These stories are happening constantly. They need to be highlighted and heavily discussed on the news every single day until every anti choice law is repealed.,"So many women and little girls are being forced to experience devastating psychological trauma, having their physical health harmed, their futures irreparably shattered, and their actual lives put at risk bc Republicans decided to enact a nonsensical and medieval mentality about controlling women in the 21st century.",0
he's willing to work with DEMS to elect a moderate Speaker if 218 Republicans can't agree on a candidate.,"People may wonder why any Dem would vote for any Republican, but the fact is that they won the House and deserve first crack at the Speakership. If we can get a moderate in there over a whack job, then at least the normal legislation like debt ceilings will get passed and performative impeachments won’t.",1
"I'm really willing to bet that every POTUS and VPOTUS has or had classified documents found, and everyone but Trump simply handed them back and apologized for the error. It's only even come to our attention because of Trump's willful mishandling and unwillingness to cooperate.","In reality, neither should be posted, because both Biden and Pence are doing the right thing and working to get the documents back in the right place.",0
"This is a temporary thing. I state this having watched the USA regularly institute punitive duties on Canadian softwood lumber, and regularly having those protectionist duties struck down as illegal and unfair. Indonesia’s is another case of “better to apologize than to ask for permission”.",History indicates that countries must protect their domestic industries to develop world class competitors. Good on Indonesia.,0
"Estonians also looked towards Finland as the country to emulate. Northern Estonia was able to see Finnish TV, so Finnish way of life and western TV shows like Dallas were a small ray of hope and idealism to strive towards back when communism seemed to be ever-lasting. Finnish TV and visits to Finland were also how Estonians knew that actually, Soviet Union was in decline because the TV showed how life was and people then saw the same in their society and in Finnish stores (unlike what was shown on Soviet TV and news and what they saw in real life).","Of course, there are some issues too - people from Sweden and Finland regularly look down on us too due to our history and due to the fact that unfortunately, there WERE many thieves and prostitutes who went to these countries so the stereotypes of “eastern European country that isn’t worth their spit” are slow to disappear (some Finnish and Swedish companies, for example, come here and do things they’d never be allowed to do back in Finland-Sweden purely because they think it’s okay to not treat their employees here to the same degree of respect as back at home), but these things are slowly disappearing and hopefully more and more people actually associate positive things with our countries rather than negative things.",0
One of the conditions for joining NATO is that the country must have resolved any conflicts with its neighbors or other countries in accordance with international law.,The actual condition is that the country must demonstrate the intent to resolve any such conflicts in accordance with international law. Ukraine has met this condition.,1
"Evil will eat millions of russians firstly, as usual, but then may cause another problems to the Humanity again.","But if global community will leave more than hundred millions of russian people alone in this lands of chaos, pain and misery, The Evil can come back once.",0
"According to Grigori F. Krivosheev: ""All losses of arms and equipment are counted as irrecoverable losses, i.e. beyond economic repair or no longer serviceable""[16].","- 37,600 Armoured car and half-track (including 5,000 Lend-Lease armoured personnel carriers lost[17])"".",0
"I know. I'm just clarifying a misconception that people have about Hispanic people. Some people think they're all mestizos which is not true. There are white people in those countries who even the nazis would consider Aryan, like white people of German descent who are all over Latin America. Latin America had the same waves of immigration from Europe as the US had.","The nazis also had slaves. They enslaved the Jews and other ""undesirables"" who were strong enough to work. Those who were not considered ""useful"" were murdered.",0
"""In an ever-changing and complex world, security concerns are paramount. Enhanced security requires education, training and specialized skills. Constellis provides end-to-end risk management and comprehensive security solutions to safeguard people and infrastructure globally. Our team of strategic problem solvers has a steadfast moral compass and unwavering dedication to creating a safer world. Constellis is committed to the success of our customers and partners."".","Yup. That’s one reason why most great conquerors maintained their empires only as long as they were alive. Genghis Kahn’s was falling apart by the second or third successor after his death. Alexander’s fell apart about fifteen minutes after he died. And honestly, even if they do plan for their death, once they die everyone who was obedient out of fear now has no reason to be afraid.",1
If you want to dominate the world and believe everybody not under your heel is a threat to your country you aren't acting in self defense and we shouldn't muddy that by going with the russian narrative.,You realize the US has been trying to create an anti missile shield around Russia trying to prevent mutual assured destruction?,1
Mistakes happen: the SOS office in Colorado ( Janet Griswold a Dem) mailed 30k voter registration cards to non citizens last year.,Mailing a voter registration card to non citizens (in a state that votes entirely by mail) is a mistake. Sending out ballots that have already been marked by someone already is something entirely different.,1
How is a comment regarding the degree of evolution or lack thereof irrelevant to a comment regarding something or someone's evolution?,"Again, I think the other commenter completley missed the point of my comment and the meaning of the terms 'evolution' and 'evolved.' Looking at either means looking at a time in the past (e.g. 1980, 1990, 2000 or another year) and comparing attitudes at that time to now. Looking at evolution/evolved is not about analyzing current events separate and apart from some prior point of reference.",1
"Can't believe how stupid we are to not be busting our asses getting them citizenship, turning them into taxpaying low labor workers (and a few high wage ones in there I'm sure too).","But you know who will? Those 20,000 or so immigrants that are flooding El Paso, TX right now trying to get in. We literally have a solution to a huge problem in America sitting on our doorstep, begging us to come in.",0
"Mines are probably the most effective defensive weapon a country can have, and I'm saying it again, but it's absolutely insane that they were given up on as a DEFENSIVE weapon.","If you lay down defensive mines on your own territory that are marked, it's absolutely fine as a defensive measure if yet again done as responsively as possible.",0
"Republicans love spouting free market principles... no regulations because the people are smart. This is what a lack of regulation nets you. Bodies. Still obtusely pretending this isn't conservative rhetoric 101 or that you are tired of politics, doesn't make you moderate... It makes you stupid.","This is a very ignorant comment. Regulations and safety measures arise when a country becomes more wealthy. If your industry is young and still developing, it's pointless to set high safety regulations because no one can follow it and there are no government resources to enforce it.",1
"Also public opinion in Germany is shifting a little again, Ukraine always calling for Germany to do something but never calling for the US to do something seems odd.","That too is always the case in politics, but I suspect Germany doesn't want Ukraine to win because that would make going back to old normal order much harder in the future.",1
"the article's headline seems like obvious clickbait that makes it sound as if snowden just randomly pledged allegiance to russia just because he loves russia and putin so very very much, when really it seems like he just did it as part of the normal process of obtaining russian citizenship out of pure self preservation.","yes, and seemingly obviously done to prevent any possibility of extradition to the US, which is just a no brainer move to make - if i had to choose between jail in the US for the rest of my life or swearing allegiance to russia, id swear allegiance to russia in a heartbeat.",0
"Also, my question for the third time: name the morally-defensible oil exporting countries from which India could buy other than Russia.","Lastly, for this question you seem to hang your hat on - maybe for India, there is no country that is more morally-defensible than Russia. So do what you feel is the right thing to do. /shrug There is no country that is completely blameless on all accounts with a perfect track record and a history without blemish.",1
At least a third of every state (and sometimes up to a half) is unhappy with their political landscape at the moment. Only 3 states have a governor with more than two thirds of the population's support. That has always struck me as shitty.,Yea that’s gotta hurt. Warnock should be a dream candidate who checks every box. And your goofball neighbors voting for a brain damaged horn dog. Maybe Warnock should have ran as a republican without changing a thing about his platform. Wouldn’t that be an interesting experiment to see who actually looks past the D in front of his name. Anyway May god bless you in Georgia with a victory for that good man.,1
"Don't get me wrong... of COURSE the pandemic has made an impact on kids in a myriad of ways. It impacted all of us. But I was caught off guard at how quickly we went from ""Here are some ideas for your son"" to ""The Dems destroyed our country with COVID!"".",Idk. I guess its working for DeSantis in Florida. I just don't really understand who this was supposed to convince that's not already living in their media bubble.,1
"But it's also important to realize that upwards of 10,000 migrant workers died building these stadiums that will probably never be used again.","At what point do we look at this and say ""This is just a sport, why are people's lives being ruined just for the world to watch a fucking sport?"".",0
"I’m Canadian, our government didn’t bother to tell us there was a Chinese spy balloon in our airspace we are only finding out retroactively that it passed through Canadian airspace.","The Canadian government didn't publicly acknowledge it but since the news of the balloon over Montana came out, people have gone back though publicly available flight tracking data and it seem Canada deployed CF-18s to intercept the balloon when it was in their air space.",1
"Even if the debt ceiling is first introduced and passed in the House first it can still get filibustered in the Senate, there’s no exemption to that. McConnell’s point was more so that any deal him and Democrats in the Senate strike will go nowhere in the House, that’s why he wants the House to start it because whatever the House passes has a better chance in passing in the Senate than vice versa.","It'll go to the last second and, when McCarthy isn't allowing a passed Senate bill (that would end the crisis) to even hit the floor for a vote - when he knows the Dems would have some very moderate conservatives looking to avoid default and vote for it... Those same GOP members will call for the vote to remove him. He shouldn't have accepted the rule change that lets them a single person call for it if he didn't want to be removed like that.",1
"To China, whatever problems SA and Iran have is between them and China is not going to actively support/manipulate one against another. However, China does want them to resolve their problems peacefully, focus more energy on the development of their country and increase international trades; which will benefits China.","China has friendly relationship with Saudi Arabia (and Iran) for many decades now. And given the current geopolitical conditions: Russian-Ukraine war, Sanctions/Price-Cap on Russian oil , therefore China needs a more stable/back-up energy source. SA almost always a top 1 or 2 energy source for China, therefore China needs to maintain a good relationship with SA.",0
"South Korea scrambled about 80 fighter jets after detecting a large number of North Korean warplanes during a four-hour period Friday, the country’s military said, in a further escalation of regional tensions.","In a statement, the South Korean military said it spotted about 180 North Korean military aircraft between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. local time, a day after Pyongyang is believed to have conducted the failed test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).",0
"We have produced elements beyond 100 protons and observed that they stopped being stable long ago, hence these are not naturally occurring. We also know that it becomes increasingly difficult to make the higher numbered elements, and the artificially created elements expire within fractions of a second. This means eventually we will be unable to make any further elements. The physics of what makes up an atom will no longer be possible; We'll have exhausted the possibilities for new atoms. People have made calculations around this limit as well.","uses would be pretty limited, right? maybe you could put it in a diamond anvil cell and get neat readings with it, but i can't think of anything other than testing for properties that it could be used for.",1
"I wish you, your family, your friends, your people, and your country all the best in this coming year - may it be the year this conflict ends with Ukraine reclaiming its peace, its people, and its territory!","P.S. I remember earlier on people were talking about making your comments into a book, which I think is a great idea Though perhaps a website could also work. There's also the question of whether your replies to peoples' comments should be included, and how to refer to those people replying to you, whether it'd require permission from them or something. I remember some of your replies were very helpful in expanding on the details of your situation. Then there’s the question of whether or not to include the karma of the comments too… anyway, those are some interesting technical details that will have to be considered at a later date – but hopefully that date comes soon.",0
"Everything China does is mostly for domestic audiences, but this vitriol has consequences globally. It's absolutely mind blowing people in the CCP are reviewing these options and are going ""yep, that's the way to go. This is ok."" I'd be nervous lying on a resume. China is casually making stuff up that implies another country has been spying on them with similar things they're accused of first.","Also, where does that even put China on the competence scale? Now coming out the US is spying on you with balloons, and you didn't notice? Or you knew and you just let them spy?",0
"Add in the colossal waste in lives and equipment, and it is simply unsustainable for Russia. They're breaking on the rock of Ukraine.","Tbf, it would be about full speed for the average snail, 24 hours a day - but I think if you're getting into the weeds of ""exactly how fast a snail goes, compared to our pathetic military"", the problem is still clear...",0
"I guarantee that I care more about hard working Americans who vote GOP, than some of the representatives that they hire. I want hard working Americans, no matter how they vote, to get affordable food, shelter, health, and education. Why? Because it makes us all better.","If the US were to make a statement that, ""If you work hard. We will make sure that food, shelter, health and education are affordable, if not free."" And actually make that happen we would have less crimes, and be better as a country. However, the next question is how do we pay for that? The answer is tell the wealthy that some of their tax breaks / tax loopholes will be going away. Of course they don't want that. They want more profit for themselves. So they pay. They pay politicians, radio hosts, tv personalities to say the same bullshit. ""If we just give the wealthy even more tax breaks we will be better as a country!"" But you need a distraction or an enemy to prevent asking questions like, ""Is the result of higher grocery prices because of a supply chain issue, or is it for-profit corporations wanting to make more profit?"".",0
"An induction cooktop is great and close to on-par with a gas burner, but the price of an induction range is about twice as much as a gas or electric range. If the choices in my price range are between gas or a conventional electric range, I'd choose the gas range any day.","Better than regular electric, I'd call gas vs induction a mixed tie. The remaining problem with induction is you get uniformity issues unless you have a very good version of it. But with how quickly that has improved, that's much less of a problem now than it was 5-7 years ago. I think long term, that's where we end up, and that will likely be sooner now due to these findings. There's still a few things that just require gas like cooking in a big wok though.",1
The threat of getting primaried is an axe at the neck of all Republicans reducing their ability to act out of consience always looking to the party dads for direction.,"The core Republican leadership could have (and I imagine wish they did) jettison those whining assholes so many times over the years. Hell, several of them are implicated in the January 6th insurrection attempt so it's not like Republican leadership would have to look far for a valid reason when, in reality, it's because they have no real policy doctrine except grifting wherever/whenever possible and do not have the best interest of the GOP at heart. But here we are, years later, watching McCarthy do the song and dance to keep them happy. It's both hilarious and depressing in how pathetic they all are.",1
Interestingly it takes less fuel to land on Mars than it takes to land on the moon. That's because we can use the martian atmosphere to slow down. On the moon we have to use fuel.,And with so much more mass to play with the payloads could have been designed and manufactured for much less money.,0
"While true that governors are executives of their states, executive privilege was created when federal courts ruled that such a privilege was implied for presidents by the federal constitution.",That’s not even the same constitution that creates governors or that separates governors’ powers from those of the state legislatures and state judiciaries. States have their own constitutions for that.,0
"Working class has been getting exploited for a few generations now, coincidentally at the same time union membership has been declining. Huh.",Agreed. Cooperation is a key tool in competition with others and life..all life is in competition. That’s been a key scientific model for well over a century. It’d be pretty big news of TToE was proven wrong.,1
"Just remember, they are killing innocent civilians and Ukrainian troops almost as fast as they are getting killed themselves.","I want to see Putin and his cronies gone, but I’d rather that comes now than continue to see both countries destroyed (Russia has good people and it has a lot of potential if it weren’t for this disaster of a regime).",0
"That Germany isn’t taking the issue seriously for one, the other problem with your comment is that you do not differentiate between Germany exporting tanks to Ukraine and then issuing re-export licenses.",Because Germany stated from the beginning they would not set precedents but would happily match the guidelines set by the NATO coalition.,0
"Meanwhile the rest of Russia can get on with living and trying to not be shit. Maybe setup some hidden cameras in the bunker too, the world would pay good money to watch that version of the Putin Show, especially if you slowly jump the shark with it all just to see if he ever notices.","Use some footage of scale models getting blown up, and tell Putin he has to stay in the bunker because shit's crazy up top, but going really well and everyone thinks he's the best.",0
"Hey now, to be fair he's always said that he was just escorting his family there and always intended to return immediately. It was just a normal family vacation at a Mexican resort for his wife, his kids, and another man. Totally normal...","There's a very active movement on the right and especially on reddit to try and frame the invasion as something that Russia had no choice but to undertake. Shit, I got some propagandist in another thread calling me a chickenhawk for saying that right wing activity in Ukraine does not justify the invasion.",0
"Even if Sweden is blocked by Turkey, NATO would never allow Russia to control Gotland, it would be a huge threat to all the NATO counties that border the baltic.","Even with Finland in NATO without Sweden, Sweden would still be a target, even if its more of a challenge for the enemy to invade Sweden since Finland would be NATO territory. Sweden could still be attacked with missiles from Kaliningrad or from submarines and ships in the Baltic Sea, even if its unlikely.",1
Because republicans once again voted against the working class. Despite saying they care constantly. Democrats fucked up too. But the narrative is putting all the blame on them when the republicans could have voted for the sick days.,"Sure. That’s a different issue. Republicans could have gotten the sick leave passed. They came out in numbers against it. Both sides fucked up, but the republicans are the reason the sick days didn’t pass. Period.",0
"Let's not talk about any of the politics of the cold war or post cold war. Let's just look at this horrible invasion, call Putin an evil terrorist, and keep encouraging these young Ukrainians to keep fighting with our weapons til Russia taps out.",Any Russian that is in Ukraine to fight for the Russians is an enemy combatant and deserves to die. Russians that fled to avoid conscription or any Russian that surrenders to Ukraine at first chance should be reprieved. Ukraine has setup multiple ways for Russian soldiers to surrender.,1
Opposition and Pakistan try to corner modi and blame him for incident. But the riots were controlled within 2 days.,"While i condemn the loss of human life, it would not be right to blame modi for it as he did as much as he could(he had only been in position of power for less than 2 years and being from a very humble background he didn't have much experience of handling such situations but still riots were controlled within 2-3 days and all guilty were punished).",0
What are you talking about when you say that black people stood in line to send a black democratic senator back for a full six-year term because of...white supremacy?,Fixating on racism isn't bad because it makes people feel uncomfortable; it's bad because it blames all sorts of problems that have nothing to do with racism on racism.,0
"It is fundamentally impossible to check what code a computer is actually running, so you can't know whether any code that you are provided is actually what's running on a given voting computer, so it's irrelevant whether access to some code was provided.","They weren't, because they can't, that's an inherent problem with all computer-based voting systems.",0
"Electric power stations are generally recognized to be of sufficient importance to a State’s capacity to meet its wartime needs of communication, transport, and industry so as usually to qualify as military objectives during armed conflicts.  (Emphasis added.).","There is . Even if it was Ukraine, I don't see the issue. They're at war. It's a fair target and any strike on military targets in Russia shouldn't be controversial.",1
Democrats don't reorganize the governments of blue states to ensure that Republicans never win again no matter how many votes they get.,One thing to know about Georgia is the republicans don’t advertise to vote - they KNOW when & where to vote.,1
People act like they are doing Biden a favor by voting for him but in reality you need him far more than he needs you.,"Reality check - it's not Biden's job to run the Democratic Party - it's not a dictatorship and in any case the guy is busy presidenting. It doesn't matter whether or not someone else could, in theory do the job, it matters that in reality, no one else is likely to defeat the Republican candidate while Biden will more than likely win if he runs.",1
Correct it is unimportant. They have no impact on anything. The lab leak isn’t a conspiracy theory anyway. I’m sorry the truth made you lose points in your red team vs blue team political football match you base your entire personality on. I guess you should have been a little more open minded and used some critical thinking before labeling everything a “conspiracy theory”.,"It was never conspiracy theorist who suggested it. I was always a VERY plausible theory put fourth by credible people from day 1. But many dogmatic leftists associated it with Trump, so it was immediately mischaracterized as a conspiracy theory.",1
"It's worth noting railway union workers already get paid sick leave. The problem though is they have to apply for that sick leave after the fact, it's not automatic as it often is in most other companies.",Individual members are irrelevant in contract negotiations because those contracts aren't negotiated between individual members but individual unions. I couldn't find a source on this but going from memory the total number of people for the contract vs. against was about split 50/50 (if there's a legitimate source that says otherwise happy to be corrected).,0
"Many progressives, led ny Bernie Sanders, have been advocating and pushing for everyone to receive 'free' health care. It would save the government, corporations, the economy as you point out. And individuals would save thousands every year by eliminating the insurance industry which serves only as a middle-man to scoff up billions and billions...bleeding people to death.","So we should continue the ""Healthcare for profit"" system just because people in the past didn't have free healthcare and had to orient their lives around the inhumane for profit system?",1
"And let's not forget, this isn't the first time Russia has pulled this sort of stunt, just look at Moldova and Georgia as an example, they aren't going to stop. What do you think happens to Belarus if they suddenly also decide to move towards warmer relations with the West? And other countries like China is keeping a close watch on the conflict as well, as they too also have dreams of imperialist expansions to neighbouring territories, and in fact have done so in recent memory, just look at Tibet. And we know they're really eyeing up Taiwan right now.","I'll be completely honest here, I don't care if it's considered uncalled for. Because to me, it really seems like that person doesn't think ahead on this issue, how wide ranging it truly is, what it'd mean if the West capitulated to Russia on this issue.",0
"If someone did something bad enough to justify stripping them of their 2A rights and their property, then charge them with a crime, arrest them, have a trial in a court of law before a jury of their peers, convict them, and then you can do that.","No, if they actually committed said crimes, then the solution here is to charge them for it, have a trial, convict them, and then they can be barred from purchasing a gun.",0
Edit - btw I’m advocating for nationalized payors (insurance) but not providers (hospitals and others who deliver care).,What we have right now is objectively the most expensive and least effective health care system in any western democracy.,1
"it has the same problems of getting slowed down by traffic but it's even slower because of the stops, so it's not an appealing option. for example imagine that street with a single traffic lane, rail line down the middle and hard protected bike lanes on either side. When traffic gets worse they can add more rail car traffic or people can choose to ride their bike. Traffic still slows down but the flow of people overall is much more resilient.","Rail stops also encourage development around the stops. It's an infill strategy. choosing where a rail like goes in is in effect choosing where development happens, so you can drive density to specific neighbors. Auto infrastructure just spreads people out further, and creates dead unpleasant parts of the city where you have big feeder streets.",0
Especially since market forces seem to indicate that Solar and wind are better options as indicated by renewables drawing the majority of private investment in the Energy sector.,"Solar is the way to go, solar panels and batteries for every house and business will make the uk independent for energy and possibly generate enough to export. That with wind and other power generating initiatives are the only way forward. Nuclear is a dirty and expensive way to generate electricity though it is a stable supplier when up and running.",1
"5. Racism, apathy, and other forms of bias that stifle scrutiny and prejudice many lawsuits and other attempts to counter or remediate police misconduct.","3. Highly overpowered & funded police unions that stifle, and “paper” to death, many efforts to seek accountability.",0
"Yeah, I'd cheer that on, unfortunately, the people doing the book burnings are doing it because they think their religion is superior, not because they think that all of them are bad.","The fucks that are burning books are doing them so they can provoke Muslims (well, the stupid fucks on the Muslim side) into a reaction so they can rile people up against them.",0
"As if to say the US has no programs like the Chinese government has in terms of collating data on every citizen for the purposes of... Whatever purpose. I mean, is it paranoid to think we have such programs, or is it naïve to assume we don't? Basically anything else we have the capability of doing, we have the ability to do, above and beyond what other countries are capable of.","I don't understand. Are you saying that a country that has military footholds around the globe with the ability to project power towards the majority of countries on earth, owns nearly all of the largest data centers on earth, and has the most data infrastructure pipelines connecting them with the rest of the world, can't compete with China on surveillance because local governments can't or won't be bothered to fix potholes?",0
"Also it is hard to draw this line, since USA, France and some other Western countries invaded and bombed regimes they disliked, and nobody banned them from anything. And if Russia had as much global influence as USA has, nobody would dare to ban it. Because might is the only international law that matters.","It matters, because when everyone calls to ban Russia from everything, and everyone is silent when USA and its allies do the same things, it looks very hypocritical.",0
"If the United States prioritizes Ukraine, the American economy will remain in less than perfect shape for a while, but at least the people of Ukraine, and by extension, Eastern European countries that Putin might invade if Ukraine falls, can resist the iron fist of Putin.","If the United States prioritizes its economy, sure, that can improve, but at the cost of the independence of a country with tens and tens of millions of people, and if Ukraine falls to Russia, Russia will enforce its laws, including the ability to illegalize political rivals and a ban on any positive depiction of homosexuality, upon Ukrainians. Basically, if Ukraine falls, Putin will presumably be ruler until he dies and Ukrainian homosexuals won't be legally allowed to express their homosexuality. Moreover, if the Russian military can conquer Ukraine easily enough, Putin will potentially decide he wants even more countries to be under Russian control, and the cycle of Russian invasions will repeat itself.",0
"I oppose DeSantis's moves against Disney for free speech reasons. In fact even as a gay man, if Disney was promoting a roght wing agenda and DeSantis was a left winger doing the same thing I'd oppose it.","I am a gay man. I am right leaning but libertarian. I agree with gay marriage and weed legalization but I disagree with Democrats on some issues. I guess I am politically homeless. I did vote for Biden in 2020 not because I liked him but because I think that Trump has little respect for the Constitution or rule of law, ( confirmed by his recent comments) and his irresponsible handling of COVID-19 and his irresponsible rhetoric and behavior on the issue.",0
"The Constitution gives Congress the ability to do so. SCOTUS has also upheld and acknowledged this power in saying ""Thus, it is well settled that the Elections Clause grants Congress ‘the power to override state regulations’ by establishing uniform rules for federal elections, binding on the States"".","There's also the entire National Voter Registration Act of 1993 which, among other things, requires states to use specific forms to register people for elections (which SCOTUS even upheld later that year). And it also allows people to submit their voter registration by mail.",0
"Good points. Given how poorly the US scores on all of those metrics, I’d be interested to see what happens when a country intentionally encourages its own economy to import all of its goods.","US companies already pay import tariffs on components and finished goods imported, so it would be nothing new, other than in scale and structure. So, it would influence the ""build here"" versus ""contract manufacture"" decision, as well as add a level of consideration to where and how that contract manufacturing gets done.",1
Deterring a Russian attack is whole different ballgame than using troop buildups to force Russia to make concessions.,NATO has certainly has the military ability to enact a blockade in the Baltic Sea even without the two new members.,0
"Boy I dunno, Russia absolutely gets off on murdering people around the world, but would they really want a diplomatic row with India, who has remained sort of neutral despite intense pressure from the west? I'm torn between, yes, Putin's government does insanely stupid shit relentlessly... and thinking, Putin desperately needs India and neutral countries to trade with, he's not stupid enough to piss off India.","edit: but then again every single international murder he's committed has had blowback and damage to Russia's interests many times the perceived worth of the murder/sending a message. Putin has been an insanely stupid human for decades, none of this, the war in Ukraine, further murders, etc, should surprise any of us, Putin outed himself as a drooling fool long ago.",0
"Guard regiment bearskins are byproducts of legal culls of black bears, in areas where they're overpopulated. No one goes ""oh Privates Smith, Jones, Ahmed, and Fulante need hats, go kill a few bears."".","Yes. There are some fungus-derived ""leathers"" being created nowadays, but even so, most ""vegan leather"" is just pleather under a new name which means it's going to start shedding microplastics after about five or six years of use. As opposed to real leather, which has a lifespan of decades and is biodegradable.",1
Hell I transitioned 20 years ago. And for a long time it really seemed like things were slowly getting better. But holy fuck it's worse now than when I was a teenager.,"They leave the law worded vaguely enough that they can pretend it's impartial, then use it to criminalize queer people's lives.",0
"Justice Luis Roberto Barroso proposed that environmental experts, investors and local authorities come together to brainstorm on how to foster sustainable development that would preserve the Amazon rainforest, the world's largest, and help the livelihood of the 25 million people who live there.","Barroso, who attended COP27 United Nations climate talks in Egypt in November, proposed that Brazil gather ""the best minds in the world"" to discuss how to develop a ""bioeconomy"" for the Amazon to stop the degradation of the region.",0
Which is of course vague enough and make believe enough that Russia can say those conditions have/haven't be met whenever they want.,"They ought to try and take the few conditions Ukraine is willing to accept before they end up with no conditions left. The unrealistic idea in their heads that Russia will ever retain direct control over any portion of Ukraine proper, by force, needs to die.",1
"“Faced with these facts, it’s quite easy to see how a casual observer might conclude that the only obstacle to paid sick time for more than one hundred thousand railworkers is the obstinacy of congressional Republicans.","While I agree that the decision ultimately harmed the rail workers, it was the conservative that perpetuated the actual harm.",1
"Bruh... the article clearly mentions the ""LRU"" (Lance Roquette Unitaire), which isn't the base model M270. One does not need to speak French to guess that ""roquette unitaire"" means ""unitary rocket"" (so no cluster munitions). The LRU is the French name for the European version of the M270A1... which is basically the same thing as the German MARS II and Italian MLRS-I (the upgrade program was a cooperation involving the 3 countries).","MARS II/LRU/MLRS-I - French/German/Italian M270A1, just with an Airbus fire control system that removes the ability to fire cluster rockets due to their signing the ban on cluster munitions. Also includes a different automatic fire extinguisher system.",1
"But it does guarantee freedom OF religion, which implies no person can be compelled to behave along the lines of someone else’s religion.","Realistically, you can't have freedom of religion without having freedom from it. They go hand in hand. But these people don't want freedom of religion. It's like freedom of speech to them. They just want total and unchecked power to do what they want to you.",1
Valid. I wonder if there is a middleground of obfuscation of certain details that would allow for some accountability efforts.,Would making them all public and paying out % bounties for catching tax cheats kill freedom somehow? If it is a % bounty the eyes would all be on keeping the top earners honest.,0
60 aircraft. 40 is just the fighters. So yeah 20 more aircraft particularly things like AWACs and other EW jets are certainly going to turn the tide in an actual conflict between France and China.,The fact that France has fielded a nuclear powered catapult aircraft carrier for 20 years while China still does not have one operational means France is further ahead in aircraft capabilities vs China.,1
"but hey, you want to feel superior so you'll go ahead and spread the anti-voter-participation reich wing disinformation so you can claim to be above it all.","keep enabling the neofascists with your trolling bro, i'm sure that will help you enjoy watching them kill women and minorities.",0
"This has been an issue for a very long time. Japan has a culture that celebrates and expects long working hours, and effectively making your career your life. People are pushed to find high paying jobs, work long hours, and go out drinking with their coworkers after every shift. Assuming they don't work extra hours and crash at a hotel. Japan is in a situation of either make your life yoir career, or have children and not have your life be your career. The issue there is that you get heavily judged as a ""burden on society"" in the case of the later.",You are literally demonized for deciding you don't want your life to be about your career. This is unsustainable if you want a healthy population size.,0
"It says: ""What countries have pledged to Ukraine...Total military, financial and humanitarian aid promised by governments to Ukraine, Jan. 24, 2022 through Nov. 20, excluding loans."".",Ah yes. The 50 billion wasn’t enough to make people mad so now its 200 billion. Source: who cares. Cherry on top: ‘we must suspend all foreign aid for the war and everyone can hug it out’.,1
"2. Greatly increased quality of aid to Ukraine (modern tech, even more HIMARs, possibly 4th generation planes and ATACMs).","1. Greatly increased quantity of aid to Ukraine (so much more artillery, clothing, NATO-standard small arms).",0
"Their entire war strategy revolves around throwing everything at Seoul and causing as much damage as possible, with no plan after that 30 minute window it seems.","The war ends in 30 minutes. NK shoots all it's conventional weapons at Seoul, and SK responds and it's over. The thing is, those artillery pieces are within range of Seoul, and it doesn't take artillery long to fly through the air and hit, giving citizens very little time to seek shelter.",0
"But the reason all those things are there, is because Twitter is not meant to be a means of communications, but rather a tool to gather information on the consumers' habits and that is their true service.","I agree too, Twitter is now, unofficially, a direct means of communications for any organization or individual to inform the world, all news outlets give tweets as much weight as spoken words right now.",0
"Having a legal third gender won't erase bigotry, but an unacceptable social climate leads to leaving nonbinary people out.","NO, America is the only country that has ever had racism or sexism or homophobia. America is the WORST.",1
Well. Ukraine tried to negotiate like all the idiot Putin appeasers demanded. Didn't work out. Guess it's back to kicking Russia's ass out of the country the old fashion way again.,"russia pushed back out of whole Kharkiv oblast - ""yeah but let's be real that's all Ukraine could do"".",1
"Does anyone else remember the whole Maria Butina thing, where she got charged with espionage in a honeypot scheme that was ultimately aimed at funneling Russian money into Republican campaigns via the NRA?","I remember the Russian Spy, but the part about funneling Russian money into Republican campaigns via the NRA isn't accurate. Although that hasn't stopped people from repeating it over and over again:",1
"The important thing is why people giggle. Well, I don't know, but I perceive this is because society in many countries has gotten to the point where people accept LGBT folks(there is a lot of room to improve, mind you). So when they giggle, people are really thinking "" wow, that dude is a liar"" rather than, ""that dude is gay, screw him"".","If this was meant earnestly, no, you're just passing the buck for bigoted straight people onto ""closeted gays"". Quit doing this fucking shit, it's disgusting.",1
"Meaning Russia might actually end up losing money on the oil, simply because they cannot risk capping oil wells, as they may be unsalvagable.","The oil sanctions were so far into the future (which maybe was needed to prep and wanting it to be a threat with a timeline)... January is the first month Russia is really losing money, on the country level, running a big deficit that comes out of reserves...",1
"They were probably more concerned about Russia escalating the conflict and involving nukes, but seeing as Putin has constantly threatened nukes and nothings happened I guess they might re-evaluate their precaution.",If Russia begins to take a lot of damage inside their own borders it just gives them a reason to point towards nuclear weapon usage. They can drop a warhead in Ukraine and at the same time point towards the attacks inside Russia and their civilian casualties as an excuse to try to end the war quickly.,1
"It was brought up by you after you called for nuance shortly before. There is no room for nuance in perfection. Which, again, you injected into this conversation by assuming someone pushing back against your claims of evolution was pointing out a lack of perfection.",How is a comment regarding the degree of evolution or lack thereof irrelevant to a comment regarding something or someone's evolution?,0
"He's such a narcissist he cannot really comprehend consent as he would have to acknowledge someone else. I actually think this is him coming to terms with being a rapist for a brief moment. His head will spin it as ""she didn't want you it, I had the power, women want powerful men, she wanted it, it's not rape"".","So bad phrasing on her part that he is trying to use to suggest ""I didn't rape her; she's too ugly for me; but if I did; she loved it bigly."".",1
"Every single one of these ""But why are they voting against their own self-interests?"" articles misses this crucial point.","Hell, back in the 1960s the NRA supported gun control legislation because the Black Panthers were arming themselves in response to state reprisals. Guess who signed their favored bills into law? Ronald Reagan, California governor at the time.",0
"And when Mexican farmers can not make a subsistence living growing a little bit of corn due to greedy agribusiness, what do they do? They immigrate north.","Mexico basically created today's 'corn' from what was a field grass. There are over 20,000 distinct Mexican corn varieties. In the US we primarily grow 'Yellow Dent' corn for industrial use which constitutes about 98% of the corn acreage planted.",0
"That’s why you see Kelly winning by 5%, Fetterman winning by 5%, Shapiro by 15%, Whitmer by 11%, Warnock by 3%, Evers by 3%, Polis by 19%. Dems did insanely well in key swing states because moderate voters were afraid of the GOP.","But in a state like Wisconsin where the GOP gerrymandered themselves to a supermajority, the governorship is the only thing stopping it from being a one-party dictatorship.",0
"Why aren't you investigating George H W Bush, who has been dead for several years, and his bowling alley Chinese restaurant!?","Uh it was though? They were found on Nov 2, handed over to NARA on Nov 3 by the letter of the law (who is the appropriate body to handle them, not the DoJ), NARA informed the DoJ on Nov 4 as they're supposed to. They didn't choose to tell the press until later, but there's literally no evidence Biden's lawyer went through them, and they informed the appropriate body as soon as they possibly could. Nothing ridiculous about it.",1
"The article claims that North Carolina has a bigger gun problem than Illinois and uses the metric of ""age-adjusted gun death rate"". Of course the average reader is going to use that to say that there are more murders by firearm in North Carolina than Illinois, when in fact that is not the case when you look at the total number of firearm homicides in each state and compare that to their populations. North Carolina has a lot more suicides by gun than Illinois does, but doesn't have more homicides.",Chicago isn't even in the top 20 cities for violence. Per capita gun violence is much higher in red states than blue cities (which are mostly higher population than entire red states).,1
I do think there’s geopolitical reason as to why you’d not want Russia completely neutered. I’m not well versed enough on Macron to judge just how fascist he is haha.,"Macron is a nationalist. There was a story where, during a parade Macron was participating in, he snatched a minors phone and broke it because said minor wasn't respecting him.",1
"No amount of anything the right tries to use to make Biden look bad, will ever be enough to overcome everything Trump has done. That stain will never come out and the GOP looks so weak and pathetic every time they try and shame Biden for anything.",Almost all politicians are dirty and if we’re this angry at dumb ass Trump we also have to have the same anger towards Biden. He’s a loser president who used his position to enrich his family and its not even debatable. Time we hold the government accountable. Don’t forget they work for you.,1
"Putin also said NATO expansion of Ukraine is a red line, sth the VAST majority of Russians agree with. That's why he attacked and that's why he has so much support. Zelensky refused to give up the NATO integration (instead he added it to the Ukranian constitution) and this is the result of that. Don't make a mistake. Zelensky is not going to make it out alive of this, but he won't get killed by Russians.","No, it wasn't. They didn'T even start annexing anything at the beginning. Only when Boris Johnson made Ukraine stop negotiations Russia did start annexing territory. Same thing with the power grid which they didn't bother attacking for the longest time, until Ukraine attacked the bridge in Crimea.",0
"It’s the same as if a man or woman were born without an arm, they would still be genetically man or woman despite the failure of a limb to develop.","What about people born appearing 100% female, complete with the bits, but are genetically males? Who can they have sex with without sinning? According to the bible, are they men or women? Are Christian hardliners going to be happy with 100% female looking (from birth) males marrying women? Something tells me they won't.",1
"Brazil has its fair share of problems but when the opposing political party commits a crime, the one currently in power doesn’t sit around waiting to spring on them.","Brazil is extremely corrupt, but our institutions are quite recent and are well prepared in case a new coup attempt comes up, just like it did. Plus we don't have the absurd case of bipartisanship that is destroying the US from the inside.",1
"This just shows there should be oversight when an elected official of any kind leaves office. Really not hard. The honor system obviously doesn’t work. However, Biden having docs doesn’t concern me nearly as much as the boxes Trump had.","Biden’s team let him down and Biden really missed the mark here, as soon as Trump got popped he should’ve done a clean sweep of all his homes and all his documents.",1
"Ask people to give you more rights and it seems reasonable enough. Ask people to dismantle the power structure that keeps them in power and they will view it as an attack on everything they care about. They will fight with everything they have, because that's what they see you as trying to take from them so they've got nothing to lose.","""They will fight with everything they have, because that's what they see you as trying to take from them so they've got nothing to lose."".",1
"They made that ruling as wide as possible, and rewarded decades of fishing expeditions and judge/case shopping by Republicans.","But you're obviously fishing for crap, knowing full well how inconsistent the conservative justices have been, and not just with inconsistent rulings, but also with making the rulings as wide-reaching as possible, to say nothing of the obvious bias shown toward one party when it comes to putting holds on certain policy changes that they wouldn't do in the inverse only a few years ago.",0
"Ultimately the Russian domestic market is dominated by regional carriers though, and while those fleets are still majority western aircraft, Sukhoi has a huge presence there, other Russian companies are starting to make an entrance to that market as well.","That's true, and I'm not saying they won't need them to some extent. But without daily flights to the major US cities and EU capitals, they can squeek by with a smaller fleet, gradually cannibalising some of their stock.",0
"Not that I'm complaining of course, I'm just explaining that it sucked at its job so hard because they seemingly willingly put it into a role it's shit at. Which would almost beggar belief, but then you remember it's the Russian Navy we're talking about here, so.","Really, no one knows when Russians reach a breaking point of mass noncompliance and armed mutiny by conscripts.",1
It does cost Turkey quite a lot of money to “support” Occupied Cyprus… and I have a feeling that Turkey will have issues with spending money on anything other than rebuilding main land.,"IMO this is delusional, it's not like Turkeys government is going to pull out whatever stationed troops they have in Cyprus, or stop spending ""time and money"" there. There is no ""positive"" side effect to the earthquake except that it has brought the people of Greece and Turkey closer despite the differences the governments have with each other. Ultimately nothing has really changed on the Cyprus situation, Cyprus/Greece and Turkey still have to come to an agreement/understanding and until then the status quo will probably continue.",1
We had no good reason to invade Afghanistan russias got no good reason to invade Ukraine. Moral reasons are not good justification to go to war because if you looked around you'd find we would have to go to war with a lot of people.,"There is no lend lease, we are giving them out tax dollars cause fuck Russia.which is a confusing message because the US government recognizes why citizens would need to be armed in the Ukraine, while restricting weapons at home.",0
80% of trade in the US is within North America. It is by far the most insulated system in the world. We are not reliant on other countries.,"What other countries? All the other countries are in trade agreements...where is the U.S. going to pick up this 540 billion dollars of goods, what you are really saying is import from other countries who would be importing those same goods from China. So all you are doing is adding a middleman and increasing costs for the U.S.",1
"Intent is certainly a mitigating factor but that still doesn't stop the ""other side"" from attacking what can be alleged to be a lie.","But are the little lies like Elizabeth Warren's about having native American ancestors reach that level? Probably not though her detractors would not agree. Clearly there is some level of acceptable or tolerable lying if the liar is on ""our team."".",0
"It's Texas. Neither liberals or progressives are going to flip it anytime soon. I know reddit hates ""moderates"" but they are the only ones with a chance in solidly red states. You really think Texas is going to flip for a AOC like candidate?",Yeah Demings had won it by far larger margins in the last two elections. It's silly to say progressives are the answer to flipping seats given that they never win purple districts and only win in dark blue districts.,0
I'm just concerned that her switching to independent is going to split the vote enough to make a Democratic win into a GOP win. She'd have lost a Dem primary. Now she gets to skip that step and remain in the general election.,There's no way she primaries with the Democrats. She'd lose and she knows it. That's what this whole thing is about. My guess is that it's one of two things.,0
"Secondly, there could be people in Russia with some connection to our respective countries that would benefit from our embassies continuing to operate within Russia, which they almost surely would not if we close down their embassies in our countries.","I doubt they have any noticeable effect on the populations of Western countries. If someone in a Western country is inclined to sympathise with Russia, they will find information to support that view everywhere on the internet, from sources that are much better at marketing Russian propaganda than various Russian embassies.",0
"“We can absolutely guarantee that we won’t obliterate the Russian military, the economy and decapitate their nations leadership if they retreat back to their own boarders”.","There can be guarantees given to Russia, and the first guarantee is ""NATO will not attack Russia first, unprovoked, and as long as Russia does not make military or agressive moves towards any of NATO's allies."" The conditions for that guarantee is:",1
It’s important to note she did not bar GOP congress people from committees because of their politics like McCarthy is proposing.,She barred some from the Jan 6 committee - specific ones that were being investigated for their involvements in Jan 6.,0
"People with 5 million are mostly people that are about to retire. If they have a multi-million dollar a year salary then yeah, of course, but screwing over people with decades of savings isn’t right either.","Some, even ultra wealthy, are like “let’s do it Make me pay my fair share I’ll still have more money than anyone can spend in one lifetime.”.",1
"It should have been written into the charter that a Security Council vote could be overridden with a plurality of the General Assembly. Sadly, it wasn't, so we have to work within the setup we currently have. None of the countries with veto power will give them up willingly.","The veto powers belong to the US, France, UK, China and Russia. The first three all have the exact same geopolitical position and will essentially allow the US to do whatever it wants in terms of military endeavors and invasions. The US is not getting 'kicked out' of the UNSC regardless of what happens with Russia. However, the value of the council will disappear overnight as it will become just another forum for the West to impose their geopolitical will, why would any upcoming powerful country want to be involved when Western interests are the only interest that matter?",1
"As I understand it, she was talking money from traditional Republican donors already. I think it why she sank the minimum wage bill.","She wants to keep the senate gig and doing that as a Democrat guarantees a primary challenge she might not win. As an independent she acts to split the vote and hand the seat to a Republican. She’s betting the Democrats will make the calculation that it’s cheaper to keep her…and as much as I hate to say it, she’s probably right.",0
but that would be nuts. They could go into Ukraine to fight Russia and would Russia be able to strike back into Poland?,"And I would like to be that one Ukrainian who says that I wish that one day Russia will support us just as much as Poland does despite our previous conflicts. Fuck Putin, and the Russian government, and my cousin who is a Russian citizen who supports war, but there are still good people there.",1
"The peace process existed before and the last time Cyprus rejected the referendum, the Turkish Cypriot side actually passed it.",They certainly will make a deal… which could be finally letting Turkey to join EU… small price to pay for huge political pain in the backside (which is Occupied Cyprus).,1
"Democrats haven't had a proper chance to codify Roe since the 1970s. They had a mere 24 in-session days of Senate supermajority in 2009-2010 during which it was known that at least one Dem senator was vehemently anti-abortion and several weren't convinced on that whole universal healthcare thing. This was also before Republicans proved themselves so unceasingly obstructionist that they had to break the filibuster in order to continue the basic functions of government, so everyone was still pretty confident that they needed to keep it around.",Their current 50 majority is so razor thin you might cut yourself looking at it and has an open obstructionist in Sinema whose positions are further right wing than many Republicans and an old school blue dog in Manchin who represents extremely red territory and acts like it.,0
"And even then, while there are some permanent effects, discontinuing hormone therapy tends to lead to a slow disappearance of the developed secondary sex characteristics. For example, a transman who has been on testosterone will have experienced facial hair growth, clitoral growth, muscular growth, voice deepening, and fat deposit redistribution (among many other changes). The first two of those are permanent; the latter three tend to wear off.","If you mean ""continue their normal puberty,"" they're taken off the puberty blockers and the body does the rest.",0
Because scalpers would still swoop in and buy them all up in order to extort as much money as they can from fans.,I’m suggesting a way to make it so normal people can go see a show and don’t have to compete against a computer.,0
Right and they might be able to get away with a modest amount of money if they go one way or the other. I don't think it will be the the billions they are hoping for though. It's going to shatter the current economy not prop it up.,Also gives the personal incentive to not believe its going to replace you. Why would you contribute then? This tech is still in its infancy as far as propagating through all channels to where people can learn how to utilize it properly even. ChatGPT is a language learning model.,0
"It's ludicrous to tell people they need to pay into a system for decades with the promise that when they hit a certain age they get to retire and they'll be taken care of and then turn around a few years before they try and collect and go ""sorry, we mismanaged it. You need to work a few more years before now "".",It's even more insane to also put the burden on new workers to have to continue paying into a system the same as everyone previous but be told you won't get as much and it'll be later in life because the very people enjoying those benefits now didn't budget right.,0
"Russia also has another railroad to the east of Svatove at Starobilsk, which is currently the only railway running north --> south from Russia into Ukraine.",Basically enables Ukraine to maneuver around Lsychansk and Sverodonetsk and cuts Russian supplies by rail and road. Svatove has lots of communication routes to the rest of luhansk oblast.,1
"And Corporations (aka their managers and shareholders) will FIGHT sanctions, laws, taxes designed to obstruct their making profit-driven decisions that are evil. So that means we-the-people must insist our elected representatives fight back and make them happen.","Corporations are amoral, profit-seeking mechanisms. No corporation would pull out of Russia as long as its shareholders could see returns for doing business there.",0
I love that the debate in Canada is always about doing more. Even the political opposition criticizes that Canada should do more. Nobody worth mentioning saying less.,"I'm not talking about Doug and his henchmen, although I must add that they're awful autocrat wannabes with many similar behaviours to those invading Ukraine. Like the right to protest their work conditions that was revoked by ""decree."" My comment was on the topic of the news article by OP. The debate in Canada with respect to Canada's actions in support of Ukraine are about doing more.",0
"This is a great example for why Republicans live in their own world. The article you can find from the front page is calling this political theater. So even looking for the info, you are service partisan crap defending Trump.",Just a friendly reminder to all the lowlifes defending Trump that he named his attempt to steal the election after __Mein Kampf__.,1
"Theres 0 chance of India selling these weapons on to russia, that doesent help their strategic goals.",Considering India's weapon exports are increasing and is about to make some Nato weapons as well. Brahmos missiles were sold to a few countries so I guess decent.,1
"The main advantage of the Abram's turbine engine is that it can go about 2-3x as long between major overhauls compared to a diesel tank engine with similar HP. But when the time for that overhaul comes, the turbine engine's overhaul will be more expensive.","Most people consider spending synonymous with budget, and the discretionary budget is only a fraction of the federal budget.",0
"So do you support sending longer range weapons to Ukraine now so they can take back territory, end the war sooner, and have a stronger position at the negotiating table?",If russia's peace conditions are that they get to steal territory with the use of force do you really think they will stop invading neighbors?,1
"Having said all this, the vaccine situation among the elderly is extremely poor, and this sudden reopening has obviously been the opposite of how a reopening should be done. Most under-60s will be vaccinated but will most likely be more symptomatic than people elsewhere who had the modern vaccines.","The rest of my family, who are all current on vaccinations, didn't even present symptoms or test positive at all. I didn't even social distance from them when I was infected.",1
"Those 5 conservatives wrote a few words and, in consequence, handed Democrats campaign lightening in a bottle that defied historical precedent and will continue to do so, election after election, until abortion rights are cemented into law through legislative decree.",I would like to thank these emissaries of Gilead for energizing the wrath of a nation. See you in two years. Keep being you.,0
"India will expand but with domestic consumption as prime focus. We are improving. For ex, we are almost an export hub for automobile manufacturing now. India has been able to develop grades reqd for automotive industry. It's an entire eco system that needs to grow and evolve. But China is so far ahead, it's futile to even think of competing at this point.","With Russia being in Chinas influence they wont help against China. There is no way France can provide enough arms to India for a fight against China. Only remaining entity thats can really help India is USA here. And thats what my comment alluded to. With Russia in Chinas influence, can India afford to lose west as a partner.",1
"If by the meat industry numbers, what you could do is have like 1 Glass of milk and 1 piece of meat a week tops using non-industrial farming.","Shit, there is no way to do INDUSTRIAL FARMING and sustain the levels of meat consumption without government subsidies (i.e. giving money to the meat industry).",0
"I guess those kid's parents shouldn't have had them. Welp, time for the kids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.",We were children. It shocks me how heartless some of the commenters here are. I doubt they have had to beg their friends parents for food before.,1
"This is something I’ll never understand, covid & vaccines aside; how a parent could refuse help for their child.","They raise a good point, the parents are doing this because they believe (wrongly) that a vaccine will harm their child.",1
"With respect to computer vision, some aircraft are equipped with synthetic vision systems that use IR and visual cameras to “see” in the dark and through clouds and fog. These are primarily pilot aids, though some systems have started to integrate the data they generate with the autopilot for precision landings.","There is a parallel between autopilot development in airplanes and similar systems in land vehicles, and that’s in terms of how much assistance they provide to and how extensively they can be trusted by the pilot/driver. It took decades for aircraft autopilots to be reliable and accurate enough to be certified to land airplanes in poor visibility. The human-machine interface needed to accurately engage operating modes and convey system status to operators has evolved significantly in airplanes, and the odds of failure that would cause loss of life are somewhere around 10^-6.",0
"In the same way, I can recognize your rationalizing of Trump's lies from the other people who believe his stolen election conspiracies, just coping with losing.",But separate your PTSD from the whole election stolen shit from the last election and remember that Republicans subtle ways to fugde there elections in there favor has been kinda common knowledge for decades now way before any of that.,1
"Then they would use it as ""proof"" that all the child pornography they claimed and even photoshopped him into was real.","I've seen nothing but nudity and drugs on that laptop except some obviously Russian photoshopped images with wild claims. What specifically are you referring to? If it's anything interesting related to Burisma it would've been out years ago. All that is a big nothing burger. Also, the laptop has been tampered with and traded hands so many times now between right-wing people so you could claim that anything originated there... which I'm sure they will.",1
"Oh wow, dude so you're just listing out things that the Government is spending on and then saying that it's increasing the debt?","The problem is, Congress spends more than it takes in, so the debt is ever increasing, and there is a separate law saying the national debt shall not exceed x dollars.",1
"They all have the same skin color, how can they be racist? From what I read in his report it was just rich people oppressing poor people, racism is something else, I'm a black man I know what I'm talking about.","During my many business trips to gulf countries, I’ve observed this overt racism and slave-like treatment of migrants. Staying in the 33rd floor of Dubai’s luxury hotel, I once saw a south Asian worker outside my hotel window cleaning the glass exterior. He was doing this amidst the oppressive heat (110 F) that day and dangerous desert winds at that height. He was in a harness but still the rivers of sweat and contortions on his face told me he was in duress. I signed to him (as we were separated by thick glass wall) if he’d like some cold water that I could crack open one of the windows to give him. He did the namaste sign and shook his head no, and continued working and moved up to the next floor. I felt guilty of staying in a cool luxurious suite when a person like myself was toiling outside. There are many examples I observed of how people of color were treated, and a story of a migrant bus driver who couldn’t visit family even during crisis as his passport was locked up brought a tear to my eye.",1
"The real improvement here is a safety improvement, in reducing the toxic gases within our homes. Nobody wants asthma.",The most painless way to do it is to start by banning gas ovens. No one has a problem with electric ovens; they work just fine and arguably better than gas. Start there. Once your oven is electric you've got the hookup for an electric cooktop in the future...,0
"We simply failed to abolish slavery. For example, most chocolate (and by most I mean all the chocolate that is not coming from a fair trade circuit with a x2 price premium) is a product of slave labor. Occasionally child slave labors.","Similar stories can be found in clothing, food and electronics industries. Cheap stuff nowadays is based on forced labor.",0
"Nah, lithium is not a desirable chemistry for stationary energy storage. Sodium and flow batteries can be made at even lower prices and don't require any scarce resources but they're not necessarily ideal for transportation. For storing solar energy in fixed locations, though, they make great sense and can certainly beat lithium on price once they are manufactured at a large scale.","At this moment in time, in this snapshot of the transition to renewables that is 2023, lithium based batteries are certainly your best bet. LiFePO4 is a much better choice than lead-acid for the time being and they will be cheaper in the near future. I'm sure that's true. But it's also true that even lower cost alternatives that don't use lithium at all will also be available in the next few years and this is what I was emphasizing.",0
"California tried to change their income tax system once. If all you've got in regular income from your job, then the tax people already know how much you make and how much you owe. So they put together a pilot program where they just mailed you a postcard that said ""Here's how much you made and how much you owe. If it's all correct, just send this postcard back, and if something is wrong file your taxes normally."".",Duh. Stupid Republicans have been voting for people who significantly lower taxes (remember the GOP Tax Scam disguised as tax ‘reform’) for the wealthy and corporations for four decades.,1
"In Canada they have auto-expiring periods of emergency periods, that then need to be extended. They also tend to have parliamentary commissions after the fact that investigate the use of power and what exactly was done and the impacts.",It's a little different though because the democratic process isn't so slow. Often times parties have a majority and can really pass any bill they want.,0
"And after a few years of Soviet occupation (1939-1941), the Russian regime managed to basically make Estonians hate Russians far more than the enemy they had despised for literal centuries.","So for most of Estonian history, the most hated nationality tended to be Germans (at least the local Baltic Germans).",0
"China's vaccination rate is way to low to achieve any kind of herd immunity and if it's a new variant, what protection they do have is pretty much limited to preventing death, not the disease.",Well as far as the rest of the world goes they basically have zero immunity so it's unlikely whatever mutation comes out of china will evade western vaccines.,1
Keep in mind I'm specifically explaining things from the Israeli perspective (which would've been Zionist groups and eventually early Jewish militias before 1948).,1) I very specifically stated that I'm giving a quick overview of Israeli history from the Israeli perspective.,0
"taking children from their homes is part of genocide, this is genocide that is what they are doing to the Tibetans right now they're committing genocide..","A lot of people think genocide requires mass murder, which is why I use the Lamkin quote. Genocide is the death of a culture of people, either through mass murder or serious injury, infantacide or sterilisation, removal of children or through deliberate hardship or difficult living conditions.",1
"You're right! Wolf warrior diplomacy is also extremely off putting to foreign governments, and people. It definitely doesn't promote unity between countries. Idk if you've seen any of these ""wolf warrior"" tweets, but they are basically weaponized, aggressive narcissists.","Wolf warrior diplomacy is confrontational and combative, with its proponents loudly denouncing any perceived criticism of the Chinese government, its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and associated policies on social media and in interviews, as well as using physical violence against protestors and dissidents.",0
"Moore v Harper revolves around an idea cooked up on the fringes of conservative legal thought that could turn federal elections into statewide power-grabs, and possibly do more to weaken the power of voters’ ballots than gerrymandering ever could.","They are not in a strong enough position in state legislatures to do any of the things the blackpilled doomers are claiming they’d do, and the Republicans are already losing control of legislative chambers even when ostensibly holding majorities of seats. That has happened in Alaska now and is beginning to unfold in Kansas. This process, once started, will not reverse itself and has a good chance of happening in the US House in January.",1
"I just think that Russians call anyone Nazis (namely fascists) they don’t like. Especially, those who said something bad about Russia. Ultimately, they justify to themselves why they are hating and killing people.","There were up to a million of Russians fighting alongside with Nazi Germans. I am not sure if Nazis really tried to exterminate Russians. They were ruthless towards communists and were truly exterminating Jews, Roma people, gay people.",0
Your argument amounts to a claim that there's no Republican in the entire country who's qualified and would support removing DeJoy. That's just not a credible argument.,"He appointed, at a minimum, 1 pro-DeJoy person. While I understand he was required to appoint a Republican, you can't make a good faith claim there's not a single qualified Republican in the country who would support removing DeJoy.",0
"I mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.","If anything it's a great play to advertise Biden's security record. Spy balloon shows up, we track it, down it when safe to do so.",0
"I dont think Elon Musk is worth more than Twitter, but I don't think the world will be less without either of them either.","Not only is Elon Musk destroying Twitter, he's setting fire to Tesla. Conservative Republicans don't believe in climate change and won't buy EVs. Musk has pissed everyone else off. His car company is ramping up production but will find it increasingly difficult to make sales. He's toast.",1
"I mean, if there was a ban on sales of new specific types of guns that number would solve itself. As guns break down, wind up in forgotten garages, etc if they aren't being replenished by new sales the overall number will drop. And as that number drops, the price of the banned guns on the black market skyrockets.",Are... are you serious? You're claiming guns never break? Never get broken? Don't rust? Firing pins don't get stuck?,0
50+ M240 machine guns along with 2 million rounds of 7.62 NATO. (NOTE: other NATO members recently donated a couple dozen 240’s and millions of 7.62 rounds).,"2,700+ AR platform rifles along with twelve and a half million 5.56 NATO rounds (plus an additional 5 million rounds to be delivered by February 2023).",0
"Unlikely to occur, thankfully, as the National Guard is less likely to brutalize protestors than the police these days...","Ironically, calling in the Guard probably DECREASED the risk of violence, due to how utterly borked police departments are these days, especially in Georgia..",0
"My understanding of the weapons system was incorrect, the munitions are very much guided post launch.","We no longer manufacture unguided munitions for the HIMARS. No HIMARS munition flies a purely ballistic flight profile. Hell, most tube artillery doesn't do that these days.",1
"If people could keep their faith to themselves, there would be no issue with me. But they can’t, it’s impossible for them.",Faith is a belief in which there is no verifiable evidence whatsoever. That’s why it’s called faith. So there is no arguing with that sort of mindset. They don’t have evidence and they still believe in something. There is no critical thinking.,0
...and shortly after Russian forces unleashed a massive missile barrage in Ukraine that struck homes and buildings and killed civilians.,"Russia would have fired missiles regardless, so Kyiv may as well attack Russian air bases. They should attack more Russian air bases, and power infrastructure.",1
"I think not consuming liquids from plastic or eating anything that has been heated in plastic is a solid thing you can do to support your overall hormonal health. These effects add up especially considering other pollutions in the air and drinking water, diet related issues, and physical activity level issues, and hormonal health is important for your mental and physical health.","I’m personally not sure why it causes issues in terms of health impacts but if I had to make a guess, the presence of a reactive group could mean that when it’s ingested the reactive part can bond or place itself physically in your body and because it cannot break down it may continue to disrupt important body functions.",1
"You hear it all the time in the states ""we can't do anything about Climate Change, even if we tried China and Russia would continue emitting."".",My point was simply blaming Russia for climate change because they are a net exporter of fossil fuels kinda diverts attention from the countries that are dependent on Russian fossil fuels like Germany. If Russia stopped exporting fuel to Germany (which it largely has) Germany would continue to be a large greenhouse producer and source its fuel from other places like the Middle East or the United States.,0
"Third, reducing the funding that the health insurance companies have to lobby against universal healthcare could help in the long run, not that the cat isn't completely out of the bag in terms of the American public being robbed, enslaved, gaslit, and socially murdered without recourse by our abusive, financially diversified ruling kleptocrat class.","What the majority of commenters don't realize is the definition of ""universal healthcare"" in this context is the government ensuring everyone has health insurance to get care. And the rest of the data behind the headline shows most Americans still prefer the private system we have over a public one. Meaning the universal healthcare supported by the survey is the current public+private hybrid system we have now.",1
"If you bothered to look at my post history you’d see most of my posts are overwhelmingly pro Ukraine and anti Russia, so I’m not saying this at all from a pro Russian stance. I fucking hate Putin. But does that mean every single Russian is committing genocide? There is not one Russian who, in the constraints of what they’re allowed to do by their psychopath government, actually tries to help these kids? Sorry, I have too much faith in humanity to believe that every single Russian is evil, just because that’s the popular way to think in the Reddit hive mind. Life is not always black or white.","If any of you all read my post history you’d see how pro Ukraine I am, but go ahead keep downvoting me for daring to humanize Russians that never asked for their psychopath dictator to invade a neighboring country. Real life isn’t black and white.",0
"I am unaware of any issues presented in the dossier that have been proven untrue. I understand that many details are unconfirmed and that there have been massive character assassination campaigns against people who worked on or gave intel for the dossier, but not proven falsities.","If anyone can prove that the dossier at large, or even specific details included in it, are false, please present your evidence.",0
"Entering into peace talks sooner than later could lower the chances of NATO getting involved, lessen the amount of casualties Ukraine needs to endure, and minimize the territory Russia has yet to gain.","So do you support sending longer range weapons to Ukraine now so they can take back territory, end the war sooner, and have a stronger position at the negotiating table?",1
"I think that if an 18 year old wants to serve on a state legislature, more power to ‘em. I can joke about the giant man baby who was in the White House from 2016 to 2020, and say there is no way we could have anyone more immature than this almost-80 year old.","Some 18 year olds are sheltered, naive, and immature. Others have held down jobs and done volunteer work and have an idea of how the world works. I am sure it is Type 2 who would succeed on a political job; Type 1 would think it was too hard, thus selecting for Type 2. If anything, I argue we get more mature, well-rounded 18 and 19 year olds by giving them problems to solve and people of different ages to get along with. That’s how you create worldly and unspoiled and mature for their age young adults.",0
"Also, French is an official language on the federal level, but most provinces only have English as an official language, just like Québec only has French. And don't worry, the federal govt. functions 95% in English and the francophones who work there constantly have to switch to English in their daily lives, unlike their anglophone colleagues.","Tell me, what privilege do we have in Canada exactly? The privilege of knowing our culture can disappear, that part of our population is colonized and having to learn another language to function in our own home? Give me a break.",0
"Before anyone call me a right-wing nut, I could not be happier from seeing Bolsonaro leaving the country as the loser he is. His whole family can go fuck themselves for all I care, as these fuckers have also publicly supported nazis and Brazilian criminals from the Ditadura era.","All in all, neither side has saints. Supporting dictators and crimimals is always bad, whether it is from the right or left side.",0
"Trump was not the first to raise it, and he had next to zero influence as no one took him seriously. He was barely seen as a caretaker President for the US.","Other countries they supply would also be shaken and likely start looking for alternatives ""just in case"", which would lead to all sorts of shenanigans.",0
"I think you’re misunderstanding what is being referred to by the term. “Zero-COVID” is what China’s policy for handling the spread of COVID has been dubbed. It is a thing that exists. Whether or not it is _effective_ in achieving its aspirational aims is another story. But by insisting there is “no such thing”, you reveal your misunderstanding of what is being discussed.","I can see you’re ducking and diving the “zero-COVID” thing, but I’ll assume you’ve realised you were in error. Also, in a more recent study, Sinovac has been shown to be no less effective than mRNA vaccines, at preventing serious illness and death (Source: ).",0
"The world is burning more coal, especially third world countries where their population continues to grow. Until you can find something as cheap and efficient, coal is the primary choice.","Article claims world has cut coal use in half during the last decade. If we're now burning 40% more than we did last year, we're still in a better place than we were 10 years ago. Not the progress we want to see but shite happens.",1
"There is plenty of violence - but there are very special places that ask you for firearms. Total holes in the wall that you should not be in, and fancy places trying to make sure some rich dumb ass doesn’t drink and shoot a client.",Somehow you all think that a county being raped for 50 plus years of resources just magically comes right over night.,0
"A US/West supporter speaking about human rights, murder, torture and rape. Need I remind you that humanity owes its gratitude to the west for inflicting it with the cancer that is the middle east's crisis? Not to mention the countless people turning towards insurgency due to the west's undemocratic moves in the middle east. Radical islamic terrorism? Ever heard about it? West is definitely one of the major if not the biggest factor that contributed to it.",I'm probably moving away from the topic. So let me conclude this pointless conversation by telling you this. Indian companies don't have to move out of Russia. We are better than Ukraine because our people from ages believed in breaking the hierarchy and hegemony rather than creating and being one or even joining one. We will never join one side. NAM is the only solution. West is as naive as it was because COP 26 was such a failure. Let's hope they gain some common sense and sign a deal in COP 27.,0
"Okay, bohemian Russian-bot, but why not make good on such a deal, when instead, you have alluded to “control” over European energy, and/or open war on the land you intend to claim?",Well maybe they could get out of Ukraine and return to the pre-2014 borders and stop invading their neighbors and start acting like a normal responsible country instead of an aggressive wannabe empire.,1
"But if you are in a situation where you must use your firearm, you’re shooting to kill. You’re not trying to like “wing” somebody or shoot them in the leg or whatever. Once the decision has been made to use a firearm you’re choosing death as an option.","Because shooting for any other reason is still likely to result in death, and sometimes not the death of your intended target. If you're shooting then it should be to kill flat out. That's not the problem.",1
"Discretionary Budget is what gets voted on and includes military, education, transportation, science, CDC, NASA, etc.","Besides the WTF Germany, allow Ukraine to get all the tanks it needs logic, an interesting comment on the US Abrams tank. The same criticism when it was built being hugely expensive, hard to maintain and a logistics nightmare without providing a real edge over . Abrams costs close to TWICE that of the Leopard and costs three times to maintain and fuel. Shows problem with US spending 70% of its budget on military but getting a very poor cost effectiveness and a dangerous logistical weakness.",0
"Can capitalism be bad? Yes, absolutely with no constraints. But government assistance can be just as selfish in nature. Why are you acting like there were zero strings attached to the Marshall plan? The US government totally passed this plan without thinking about how it would effectively create a new market for mature American companies. They totally also didn’t want to maintain presence in Europe to slow down the Soviet’s either. Even today, the American government sees a chance to knock down Russia another notch and they don’t have to lose any American life’s to do it. America isn’t there because they care about Ukraine. It’s pure geopolitics. Nothing is selfless in business or government.","That’s how the real world works. If post invasion they intend to rebuild, black rock is one of the few players who can pump Ukraine with billions of dollars worth of capital.",0
"Every act of protest if it is to have any teeth is an implicit threat. It says if things don't change according to the protestors' definition of better, then the next time things are going to be much less pleasant. But blocking the road changes the target of that threat. Instead of telling politicians and executives who have disproportionate power to individually influence climate policy to do better or else, it's telling average people living in cities designed around cars that that they personally need to end climate change tomorrow, or else the protestors will make their lives untenable. Need to take an ambulance to the hospital for a health emergency? You can die instead. Need to get to work on time so you can pay rent and not end up homeless? You can end up homeless instead. The protestors don't care about you. You personally fix climate change now or suffer the consequences of their protests.","A better way of bringing attention to the climate crisis. Even those positioned in fields that can make a difference in research/development for renewable energy need the public and governments to be interested in adopting clean energy so their work can be funded. There’s plenty of people that don’t have what it takes to be in those fields, so “marketing” is one way for them to make a difference even without hard skills.",1
There are plenty of reasons to oppose a massive border wall even if you are in favor of stricter border and immigration enforcement.,"Serious question from a non-America… why is it so bad to just build a continuous wall to help enforce the border? Would it not help at all? How much would it really cost? Politically, couldn’t agreeing to build a wall help reach a political consensus that includes an improved immigration policy?",1
"Right now, DirectTV pays $0 to Newsmax, but DirectTV also does not require any advertising time and lets Newsmax offer its streaming services as well.","Although the specific amounts are not public, Newsmax wants DirectTV to PAY newsmax, for the privledge of carrying the channel.",0
I'm sure they'll have an interesting justification for letting the rich cheat on their taxes...and during tax season as everyone else pays up.,"Hopefully the McCarthyites and the GOP media (Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC) will be running this on the FRONT PAGE on all the websites and news shows.",0
I mean if he is actually indicted and convicted. There was the República rep from California Duncan Hunter was pushed to resign although Trump did pardon him.,1. Claimed income from from a family corporation on his financial disclosure but didn’t claim any clients. It’s not clear any of that is true.,0
"Then file my state return, and claim a 5k refund. If I did that, the IRS would tax my 5k refund, so you can't avoid federal income taxes.","I think the IRS will side with the states and call it a refund, so people who itemized their deductions will need to pay taxes on it.",1
"No, people told me that he is running the country from mar a lago. He is making critical decisions but letting Biden take credit. Are you saying this is not true.","Seems so. He has nothing to offer except grievance and whining. That’s all he did in office. I’ve never seen such a lazy, slob claim to be so wonderful. He accomplished nothing productive in office. Republicans in Congress were responsible for the GQP Tax Scam, not trump. He was good at cozying up to Putin and other authoritarian leaders but that was it.",1
"Of course there is going to be a major war. Too many despots ruling powerful countries, the democratic countries are either too weak or too corrupt to do anything, and our planets is significantly overpopulated and running out of critical resources. Add to that everything that comes with climate change, and you have a recipe for a world war.","I doubt a major war will suddenly kick off, but likely a series of regional conflicts will coalesce into a singular war will happen within the next decade.",0
"Not 100% sure if the reports of people wanting to leave and not being allowed to are verified, but that’s become a common theme in his rallies: people get bored and want to leave. And who could blame them? He’s been giving essentially the exact same speech since early 2015 for God’s sake — it’s old and it’s boring even for many Republicans. Stranger things have happened, and I never say never, but I gotta agree with you about Independents: I cannot see those voters watching another 2 years of the Trump show and opting for it en masse, particularly if the midterms are any indication.","My point: I think Trump has proven that he cannot win another election because he has solidified his voter base (the crazies) and the barrier to entry to become a new trump-advocate is a line few voters would cross. No regular Joe’s (independents, centralists) realistically want insanity in geopolitics, stock markets, oppression over individual rights, or more blatant corporate greed. Trump offers people nothing. He has no plans to progress the US forward. He offers no assurance around improving healthcare, his Covid response did more harm than good, and he led an insurrection against our capitol just to name a few!",1
"It will be ages before the Taliban faces any serious opposition in their country, but these internal conflicts might plant the seeds for an eventual democracy movement (like in Cuba or Iran) sometime in the future.","There has been speculation for many years about internal rifts within Afghanistan's Taliban, but the Islamic extremist group that retook power over the country in 2021 has largely managed to act as a cohesive military and political entity. Its commanders and politicians take their orders from a powerful leadership council based not in the capital of Kabul, but in the Taliban's traditional homeland of Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan.",1
"Remaking coal and burying it is hard, energy intensive and mostly impractical. You need a bunch of carbon capture technology to filter the CO2 out of the air, and it has to run on something that doesn't make more CO2.","Because if you burn a bunch of fuel, creating CO2, then remake the fuel and put it back where you found it, you didn't increase the amount of carbon in the air.",0
"Yeah, but the fact that the White House had to make this statement is because republicans are dishonestly asking for something they know does not exist.",Did the presence of The Secret service stop Donald Trump from repeatedly falsely claiming not to have documents?,0
Just vote was our best bet. People squandered it long enough that Id say next years elections is probably most definitely the last chance we get to stop this shitshow.,"The same thing will happen with this crew; the more extreme and annoying they become,the more national elections the GOP will lose. The current House leadership will be mocked by the GOP senate as an embarrassment, and they’ll ignore everything thing they try and pass unless it’s bipartisan and reasonable.",1
"The west's interest is helping Ukraine and fucking Russia in the ass, so papering over this is well worth it. We can have strings attached when they'll need our money to rebuild their economy after war.","It's the same as Saudi Arabia, a huge US ally. They're assholes who live in medieval times... But give the US a huge foothold right in the gulf. Honestly SA is a lot more realpolitik than Ukraine, for that matter.",0
"Except a sizable chunk of those Mormons are the same kinds that voted for Evan McMullin over Mike Lee up in Utah, and have helped drive our suburban shift here. Mesa Mayor John Giles (R) - a clean-cut BYU grad - endorsed Hobbs and Kelly this cycle. Jeff Flake and Rusty Bowers - while not left-leaning in the national scope of things - are a lot closer to sanity than non-Mormon firebrands like Kelli Ward and Paul Gosar. Joel John and Tyler Pace - both LDS - were 2 of the last 3 GOP state legislators I'd have been comfortable calling ""moderate"" in the Murkowski/Romney sense.","Only in today's political landscape, where the Overton Window has moved so far right, would Romney and Murkowski be considered moderate. Rusty can't decide if he'd vote for Drumpf again. Ellsworth park's demographics is changing because the Mormons are moving out of it. The Mesa Temple was the 7th one built. Today there are 265. They've relocated to Gilbert and Queen Creek. You cannot deny that Mormons are overwhelmingly still borderline hard right/fringe extremists with beliefs well inline with extremism. White Supremacy? Abortion? LGBTQ rights? Equal rights? Remember, it hasn't even been a year since BYU was embroiled in the racial slur scandal during the game with Duke.",1
"So much for gun safety! Rules for thee, not for me. I see a lot of people crying for gun safety, but then ignoring the elephant in the room: law enforcement arming officers that shouldn't have guns.","Always surprises me how the people who back cops don't understand that they're not supposed to use their guns unless their life is in danger. Instead of pull gun, shoot, ask questions later.",1
"The fact that both sides are locking horns about an empty town in the middle of nowhere is puzzling to me too, but the above is the only logical explanation I found.","One of the opinions (among many) out there is that, on the Russian side, this is just Wagner trying to prove to Putin they are the elite crack team, and can push Ukrainians back here and there if needed. I.e. Wagner is trying to win a battle through brute force, just for internal Russian politic purposes. From there they might secure more funding, influence or who knows what. It is understood that Wagner has both very top quality mercenaries, together with low quality conscripts and even prisoners released out of jail. They have enough bodies to throw at it for now.",0
"Judging the past by today's ac and heat, grocery stores and internet luxuries standards is the biggest problem people try to judge by.",No country had ever created what the framers put together. A free society that offered social and economic mobility.,0
"That's exactly what I was referring to here. Rather than holding the party accountable for recruiting, vetting, promoting, and building up their slate of candidates, you'd much rather blame unorganized masses of voters for voting a certain way.","The only people I've encout weed who feel like this are the same people who didn't vote last election, so they can say whatever they want, they don't vote regardless of how fire the situation is.",1
"But nothing is stopping Poland from going further on their own, they're just deflecting blame. Germany got oil from the same pipeline Poland gets this 10% from and reduced it to 0% at the start of the year, which Poland originally also said they'd do.","There is a partial embargo. No imports via sea transport, which is the bulk of imports. However there's an exception made for imports via pipeline, which was the only way to get Hungary to agree.",0
"Affordable housing programs aren’t “missing the point.” They’re simply insufficiently funded. You might as well point out that western medicine is “flawed” when the problem is that there’s no hospitals in an area. The solution is to simply build a damn hospital, just like the solution to housing affordability isn’t to raise wages, it’s to simply build more affordable housing.","They don't really want affordable housing, they just pay the concept the necessary lip service because they know current society views affordable housing as morally good. But in practice they still look down on ""those dirty poors"" and don't want them ""lesser folk"" to be visible and threaten their property values.",1
"Yeah, it is an interesting mix, and following the money is always a good way to go. I would say that in 2016, interestingly, Republican money didn’t sway people away from Trump. I don’t think this cements him as an actual anti establishment politician, as big money largely got what they wanted after his administration got into office, but he definitely wasn’t favored by the establishment at first. In a sense, it was a Frankenstein’s monster situation, in that he catered to the bogey man scenarios that the right wing media conjured up better than any establishment politician was able to. Money certainly seems to be behind DeSantis, but it is unclear to me if they can craft a narrative that is compelling to both Trump’s hardcore base, and the disaffected suburban conservatives who voted for Trump once, but who now have moved to embrace more centrist candidates. If DeSantis is simply Trump policy-wise, but minus the charisma, this would be the worst outcome for him.",There’s really two separate questions at play in your comment: would desantis be worse than trump if elected?,1
Reddit has a comment section where people can at least call out bullshit (except for flair-restricted rightwing subs).,"There's plenty of content on Reddit that is dishonest and meant to shape public opinion, but it's FAR more regulated than the size of the purse you can give zuck.",0
"Your democrats aren't really left wing by any standards, while they are far better than the alternative I don't understand why you have so little power over who actually becomes president and what policies get prioritized.","We stop letting people repeat the ""both sides are the same"" horseshit, the ""democrats don't do anything when they have power"" bullshit, and all the other disinformation meant to suppress left wing voter participation.",1
"I’m personally not sure why it causes issues in terms of health impacts but if I had to make a guess, the presence of a reactive group could mean that when it’s ingested the reactive part can bond or place itself physically in your body and because it cannot break down it may continue to disrupt important body functions.",The question is what form is the chemical in when it’s for example shedded from a non stick pan? It is different from when it is initially manufactured.,0
"We can't get those people back and the side effect of this awful war is that even in losing, Russia is doing deep rooted and long-term damage to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. Damage that will take generations to undo.","People also forget that while the Ukrainian army has been trained well by the UK/US for many years and in possession of some NATO equipment, the bulk of the equipment they are using is the same level as the Russians, except there is a lot less of it.",0
You don't know if vaccines work against any new variant even if that variant is from a country populated with white people.,"Strains are spreading in the west yes, but there are new strains in China that are spreading and we don't know if our vaccines will work with those strains. We know the Chinese vaccines have a low efficacy rate and we know they are not mRNA vaccines which allow for easier adaptation to new strains. Making travelers with a Chinese passport take Covid tests at any and all airports is not racist or even unfair - a reminder that China has been relatively hard to travel to for the last 2 years because they were locked down to foreign travel as well. This is simply good policy from a public health measure, and you not wanting to see that for what it is and instead attribute it to a nascent American hatred for China is laughable. the World Health Organization estimated close to 800 million new cases in China in the next few months, with another estimate 4 million deaths and countless new strains coming out during that period. This is about protection populations, not punishing China.",1
Underwater drones need to be spotted by sonar or similar and these method don't provide a firing solution so your defense options are more limited.,"There are no underwater drones in this conflict, you just made that up, second I wasn't expecting a boats can't attack tanks reponse, and third I would guess the drone boats can carry magnitudes more explosives equivalent to a U.S. Predator drone which can sink massive ships, would be my guess.",1
Valid take. Let me rephrase. Those things you mentioned aren’t as flagrant and widely acceptable as they are today by any stretch.,"You can’t fire hose people, hang them from trees, and outwardly discriminate against people with redlining anymore.",0
"Yeah, I imagine using Starlink for military purposes opens a whole can of compliance/regulatory worms that SpaceX does not want to deal with. It may make it less useful for civilian applications.","Civilian sats are already dual-use items. Something isn't magically ""civilian only"" just because the vendor says it is. It matters what it can be used for, not what it's intended use is. Ukraine demonstrated Starlink has military uses (likely not surprising anyone), so if it wasn't dual use before (it likely was) or will be soon.",1
Edit: I'll also add in this comment that the US and Saudi Arabia had been funding bin Ladens recruiting campaign in Arabia for the entire 80's while the mujahideen was fighting the soviets which would also explain the large number of Saudi Arabian nationals in bin Ladens militia.,"According to real life, Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda hate the guts of the Saudi government, one of the main goals of Al-Qaeda was to remove the Saudi monarchy because it allowed US troops and American military base in Saudi Arabia. Something very Haram in Osama's mind.",1
"118.035 Hours polls to be open -- Employees to be allowed time off to vote, to applyfor or execute absentee ballot, and to serve or train to be election officer.","(1) The polls shall be opened on the day of a primary, special election, or regularelection at 6 a.m., prevailing time, and shall remain open until each voter who iswaiting in line at the polls at 6 p.m., prevailing time, has voted. At 6 p.m.,prevailing time, if voters are waiting at the polls to vote, the precinct election sheriffshall announce that a voter wishing to vote must immediately get in line. When allvoters waiting at the polls at that time are in line, the precinct election sheriff shallthen determine which voter is the last in line, and that voter shall be the last voterpermitted to vote. The precinct election sheriff shall wait in line with the last voterwho shall be permitted to vote until that voter has voted and shall inform a voterwho subsequently arrives at the polls that no one shall be permitted to vote after thelast voter in line at 6 p.m., prevailing time. After the last voter waiting in line at 6p.m., prevailing time, has voted, the polls shall then be closed.",0
"To be honest I think the Ukrainians already had the training. I doubt that USA wasn’t thinking sending Abrams many months before, they just didn’t want to announce not To escalate. I would go further and even bet that USA is already training Ukrainians to fly the f-16 for 2/3 months already (if not longer).","There was an article in Aug 2022 about the training for F-15's and F-16's they were starting to get, so by now I'm pretty sure there are very capable Ukranians pilots ready to get their planes, I'm sure in the next few months we will be hearing about some planes being sent there.",1
And such geopolitical minutiae is worth thrusting the Iranian Defense Industry into such prominence and wealth unopposed?,Every sensible reason would point towards Israel embracing using their formidable Military Industrial Complex for such valiant a cause as this geopolitical David vs. Goliath.,0
"Hydrogen fuel cell powering an electric motor is quite efficient, certainly more so than the current powerplants for aircraft.",I do wonder if advancements in hydrogen use combined with advances in pulsejet engines might lead to something viable.,1
"I don't know how it works with superstar acts like Taylor Swift, but new/emerging bands don't really have a say in what ticketing platform venues or labels use. Don't punish the artists who are already barely making ends meet by refusing to see them over something they can't control.","My last band dropped $15k total on our last EP and we were still very much a local project. We went with a trusted, local producer/recording engineer, but even they were still very cheap compared to the big name studios. Any nationally/internationally touring act is spending \much\ more than that on every release cycle. It's just not feasible.",0
"Based on the Ukraine war rhethoric, if I was South Korea, I would base my deterrence calculus not on, ""will China nuke us if we violate their no-first-use policy?"", but instead, on ""will China nuke us if have the option of nuking them right back?"".","Right. And this is what happens when one side has its own nukes, and the other side relies on a nuclear umbrella from an ally, because that ally might not be willing to risk their own nuclear destruction.",0
Stop moving goal posts. If the vaccines do not prevent sickness then they are not vaccines and are treatments.,"Why so many people saying the Chinese vaccine don’t work? There is data out there verified by not China that it is in fact very effective. Just because you get fever doesn’t mean anything, as long as a ICU visit is prevented it has done it’s job. As for the unvaccinated that’s on them for not doing it and listening to people like this who says vaccines are not that effective.",1
The United States had made great strides in reducing our impact. We are 300+ million in population. The real question is how we reduce the impact in other regions without condemning large groups of people to continued poverty.,"I think you made a part of my case. The media sells death which sells advertising. How do we effect global change as proposed by wealthy people, without condemning Billions of people to poverty?",0
"When I was hired in a new job last year, I had to take a drug test for the first time in like 20 years. No problem, but took me aback in my position. Marijuana was excluded from the test.",There is obviously a need in healthcare to test for opioids etc so I get it. It was nice to see that exception already built for that in WA.,0
We functionally have the same exact system in the US. Most of us fear the cost of healthcare so we don't go to the doctor/hospital until it becomes life threatening.,"When you’re rich and the cost of health care won’t affect you, and the introduction of for profit health care will likely make you richer… well… easy choice.",1
"It's not that the crowd was smaller; it's that the ideology was always fundamentally self-focused. The protest songs people point to were written by members of the Silent Generation, not Boomers. The Vietnam war and draft was ongoing for years (Vietnam started in 1955, and ramped up in 1964), but didn't prompt outrage until it was Baby Boomers getting drafted. If you want a look into the era without rose-colored glasses, read by Joan Didion. In retrospect, it's not at all shocking that Madison Avenue had a pathetically easy time turning the privileged among that generation to reject any communitarian values in favor of ""this is what I need, and my personal growth is the most important value."".","Good point. Also, imo it was something to do in between college classes. Get their photo in the paper. The original attention whoring. Basically, they couldn’t have given fuck all about Vietnam and civil rights, they were and are the bourgeoisie. It was just an excuse to do a shit ton of drugs and piss off their parents. Like every damn generation before them.",1
"Well Sinema has played her hand, and frankly the 2024 Senate race is looking tough for Dems anyhow. If she can generate enough support to win on her own fine, Dems can continue to caucus with her where possible.","But it's now on Dems to hammer the everloving shit out of her in 2024, otherwise it sends a message that Independents can simply use the party as a Trojan horse for office and bail once they get that sweet corporate $$.",0
The US has already given what few operational Russian weapon systems it had to Ukraine. Why is the US doing this trade? Because Ukraine predominately uses Russian weapons and it makes sense from a training and logistics stand point to continue to supply them when able.,"1) Because Russian made weapons are easier for Ukraine to operate and maintain since these are the same weapons they use, are trained on and have the supply and logistics capability already in place for.",1
Oh agreed. Guessing they paid them off to avoid permit and ID questions. Which investigation would have led to whatever they were actually doing down there. And poor greedy cops never made the connection of suspicious behavior because diving is diving to them and Anything goes as far as they're concerned.,"It's also possible the cops were just ignorant of diving/amber hunting which isn't quite the same as dumb/thoughtless. I know nothing about those things. If I found some homies stranded in the middle of a lake at night the conversation would probably be ""Are you ok? Good what were you guys doing? Oh amber hunting. That sounds cool, how does it work? That's awesome, did you have any luck finding some? Oh, that sucks. At least you're ok though. Wait, why at night? Oh, I guess I didn't consider that time of day doesn't matter down there."".",1
They are recognized obviously. In fact tomorrow there is going to be a massive crowd for a memorial of a young man who was killed.,"I dont think u realize how significant this movement is and how big of a role women played to keep it alive. If they hadn't come to the streets and burnt their scarves and cut their hairs in the first few days , the movement would be dead.",0
We also have to think about the potential Biden could pass away in office (he is in his 80s so this isn't alarmist shit-talk) and no fucking way is President Harris going to be able to get elected in her own right.,"An a liberal Democrat understanding that Biden had a 50-50 Senate tie (with Harris breaking), Manchin and Sinema sandbagging him, and only a few seat lead in the house he got...",1
"For me it comes down to, do you want to understand an African country and understand their motivations and history and why they act the way they do? No? You just want to call them evil, then thats racism.","An african country decides to not follow US/europe hegemony and do drills with a country that is investing a lot into them without crazy conditions, and a country that supported them during apartheid while the US supported the white govt: they are the axis of evil.",0
"> ""There is no rosy picture regarding Avdiivka, Donetsk, Bakhmut; but there is nothing critically dire either. Despite the frost, the Armed Forces of Ukraine keeps Bakhmut in two sets of thermal clothing. We are engaged with the enemy infantry, which pointlessly marches forward and dies. Our anti-aircraft guns have worked relentlessly and repelled their efforts to accumulate manpower near Bakhmut. So, 150-200 less occupiers in the Bakhmut direction."".",Heh. Ukraine ran RUs nuclear bombers out of their bases with weapons made from monkey shit and sticks relative to modern hardware.,1
This would have been pretty shortly after 9/11. The American public would have held flag waving parades for Bush no matter who he bombed as long as he was bombing SOMEONE.,"With India taking equipment from Russia the US wants to prop up Pakistan to maintain parity, this is something the US has been doing with Pakistan for decades, which is why they had their fleet of F16s in the first place. Neither of those countries give a shit about what the US and Russia are doing anywhere else, but the US (and most of the world) wants them to remain at a stalemate to the extent possible because and India/Pakistan/China conflict is bad news for everyone.",0
"Who the fuck wants to put up with that shit? All the money in the world can't buy you more time to be with your friends and family. And considering the difficulty that railway employees have in simply scheduling a fucking doctor's appointment, that money can't even buy you good health!","My dad was a BLET rail engineer, and while he was paid well, I mainly remember how often he'd get called in, and how long he'd have to be at work for. And he retired before they started with their points system bullshit.",0
"I voted for Biden the first time to get rid of Trump. I'll vote for him again because he has been an effective president, and his policies shifted leftwards more than even my most optimistic hope for him.","In any case, I'd be happy to vote for any other younger Democratic candidate who will get more votes.",1
"Why are there so many strong earthquakes happening at once? I understand there were a ton of aftershocks, but, if my understanding is correct, this isn't an aftershock?","It will take time for the reports to come out - But as far as I understand, this is both an aftershock and it's own earthquake event.",1
Isn't the US fundamentally changing the Status quo by sending the speaker of the house and others and using language that implies that Taiwan is it's own entity and that the US is taking sides?,"You realize, don't you, that it's the official position of China, Taiwan, and the US that there is only one China, and Taiwan and what we call China are all the same nation, right?",0
"A riot on the other hand is obviously done by bad people, so you don't have to engage with the actual argument of their protest.",Just because you’re protesting doesn’t mean that you can just start being a douchebag and that the law doesn’t apply to you.,1
And you're fooling yourself if you don't think NATO is providing Ukraine with a ton of logistics and information to help them.,"If you are Ukrainian I hope the war ends soon for you, but worrying about the consequences of a direct war between America and Russia isn't out of pocket.",1
"""But the real story here is not Trump's panic about his fading relevance and his legal exposure,"" the Boston College professor argued. ""It's that Trump remains the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican Party in 2024. The leader of the Republican Party has just called for the overthrow of our fundamental law and the installation of a dictator."".","I don't blame you for not looking. Others have - I took a quick look - Sunday, this news was not in the top 20 items sorted by best, hot, or new. I couldn't get beyond 20 items before reality started twisting.",0
"The idea, which has been around during the last decade of GOP brinksmanship over the debt limit, entails having the Treasury hand the Federal Reserve a single $1 trillion platinum coin. The Fed would then credit the Treasury with $1 trillion, allowing it to pay off debts and stave off an unprecedented default that experts say would rattle financial markets and harm the economy.",Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: minting a trillion-dollar platinum coin to stave off a calamitous debt default is not an idea that should be taken seriously.,0
"GENEVA, Switzerland — Switzerland said Thursday that it has to date frozen a total of 7.5 billion Swiss francs ($7.9 billion) in Russian assets, in connection with the sanctions imposed over Moscow’s war in Ukraine.","Switzerland, a favored destination for wealthy Russians and their assets, has also seen 15 Russian properties seized, it said.",0
1- Biden lawyers didnt have classified clearance of any kind and its better to let the DOJ handle it than risking messing with evidence.,"He did have “improper” possession of sensitive classified documents , he also has done the proper thing and let the justice department do their job.",1
"As a late forties immigrant from a former fascist country I try to vote social democrat and against the budding fascism, I just need more people to vote with me. I only vote democrat because there are very few socialist to vote for.","And, for the record...yes, I do what I can to get everyone around me to vote. I've donated time, and money to the cause. I imagine is much more than you'll ever do, besides trying to insult people for caring.",1
It doesn’t make any sense unless we conclude that Russians are themselves profoundly traumatized and that their ranks are consequently filled with sadists. I am beginning to think that the experiences of the past 100 years have left a savage and cruel mark upon the soul of those people.,"Water boarding was bad, making dudes get into a pile whilst naked was bad. But shocking a dude’s genitals for no reason? Arbitrarily murdering, raping and abusing human beings? That is some next level evil.",0
"(Mind you, improved gun regulation is not a complete solution either. But it’s an important first step, and one that’s long overdue to be taken.).",True. Most American now see that the policies were just an excuse to project American power abroad as well as suppress certain groups at home. But that is just because the internet has given people unfiltered access to information for the first time.,1
"As for storage, there is no need for any big breakthrough, they all already happened. Now it is just incremental improvements. One of the big thing that is needed to store isn't actually electricity, but heat. And nothing is cheaper than storing heat in thermal storage.","Of course you can also just use thermal storage for industrial, just reducing the heat requirements for industrial use would taper off demand quite a lot. Enough for solar and wind to fill it, even more so since wind generates more power usually towards winter.",0
16yr olds being able to legally change their gender in just a couple of months without any medical diagnosis is already a slippery slope.,"So really, the situation ends up being that a person could have been in hormone replacement surgery for over a year, been living as a legal adult for over a year as the new gender, but still can't apply for a certificate that's tied to being 18.",1
House Republicans will throw everything they can at Biden and nothing at the insurrectionists within their ranks.,That's an excellent point. Reminds me of 2012. The Republicans took the House in 2010 midterms and had the wind in their sails. They genuinely believed they would coast to victory in 2012 but then reality hit them hard.,0
"One thought I keep coming back to is how, in the weeks leading up to Election Day we were seeing so many polls favoring the Republicans winning, which was clearly part of their strategy. I wonder if that perhaps ended up backfiring on them.",Perhaps relying on a bunch of questionable polls to project a resounding victory was not a great move on their part.,0
"Exactly, I am a shook, that so few Russian, caught on. Like, they must know at some level, that all the things they accuse Ukrainians and West of, are happening in Russia.","Pretty weird to state that when Putin's own words during the televised part when he declared war on Ukraine was saying he is going to solve ""The Ukrainian Question"".",1
"To terminate a tribe, Congress just passes a law stating the tribe no longer exists. The law will dissolve any tribal government functions, disestablish any reservation, and apportion/sell off the land.",This harkens back to the disastrous of the 1940's-1960's where Congress abolished & privatized reservation trust land and dissolved American Indian tribal governments. My tribe was terminated in 1954-1974. Valuable prime real estate was then sold off against our will by a non-Native run corporation. This news is deeply disturbing to me.,1
"They must be using the GVA definition to arrive at those numbers, and typically claim there are hundreds of mass shootings a year, because no other rational source uses that defintion. Not Motherjones and not the government.","The thing is, I don’t know how one would want a government to do that. Would there be some bureau which sets rules such as: “Any news which doesn’t seem like our definition of news must display a banner reading ‘This information may not be news’”?",1
There's some strategic value. But nothing that significant really. Ukraine defends it because it's their territory and they've been making the Russians bleed for it.,"Symbolic for Russia because it’s in the eastern region they poured a ton to defend just to show on TV. Now to be fair Ukraine is trying to cut some supply roads off in the east as UAF tries to reclaim pre 2014 Ukrainian territory, that is going to be tough as Putin puts all his eggs in that basket. But as stated earlier, UAF will encircle and take back, if true. However, Russian sources are so unreliable because they fucking lie so bad. I am leaning towards it’s still not a) conceded by UAF…. for now and B) Reports are stating battles are very fierce. If they broke thru, Pro Putin propagandists would be on it like flies on hot summer shit. UAF stating fierce fighting is still raging.",1
"I’m a doctor. Currently got $340,000 in student loan debt (which is down almost $100,000 in the last 2 years). I don’t qualify for forgiveness. I support it, but also know it’s not a good answer to the problem of runaway cost of education and predatory loan rates (by our own government). I fortunately earn a great wage so I’ll do just fine without the one time forgiveness of $10,000. That being said, I think the lack of interest during COVID has done more for me and others than a one time payment can ever do. If they want to solve this issue they need to invest in citizens’ educations, not profit off of them.","Education is a public good if it, in some manner, contributes to the Gross Domestic Product. There is very little a guy with a PhD in Etruscan Nose Flutes is ever going to contribute.",1
"While ultimately Russia's fault, Ukraine's immediate assertion that Russia fired the missile and the Baltic states calling for immediate NATO action is dangerous and irresponsible.","Wouldn't be suprised if some Ukrainian field commander did it on purpose seeing if they could get a reaction against russia, a few have already blamed Russians when they actually bombed or shelled a target...",1
We've got to assume that Russia can't throw 'everything it's got' at Ukraine because it's still worried about NATO happening on another front.,"It would reveal NATO's hand, but then again, the whole point is threatening so that Belarus won't join the war or be a launchpad for another front.",1
🤣 WTF is this bullshit?? Secular courts in 1542??? Where was this? Next to the microbiology and quantum research lab???,"Right? The US could have Kham’s head in an hour but that’d just kick off another massive war. The man has half the country that adore him on religion alone. The US also doesn’t do things like that altruistically. If it not going to net a large profit or damaging a real enemy of the US, it won’t ever happen. Ukraine gets equipment because it harms Russia every day this war goes in. If it was some random country in the area, there would be absolutely no aid.",1
The US affirmed yesterday that we do not place limit on Ukraine attacking Russian soil. The West only puts limits on Ukraine using anything we have given them to attack Russian soil. They can do as they please with their own weapons.,"The West refuses to participate in Ukraine’s target list inside Russia or Ukraine. The West believes that even discouraging Ukraine from attacking inside Russia would constitute our being part of the war because, by participating in selecting targets, we would be involved in waging it. We want no part of this war beyond giving Ukraine arms, training, equipment, and humanitarian aid. No one is willing to risk cross that line.",0
Conservative here and don’t agree one bit. For one how can you legislate something like CRT that has no clear definition within even “experts”s and two of people want to study gender that’s on them. The tax payer just shouldn’t have to be left with the bill of people entering a very low paying and low number field post graduation…. Because we don’t need 2 million gender studies students when there is probably .1% of the jobs available for it lol….,"People should do what they want, as long as it doesn’t impede on anyone else’s rights and safety. Period.",0
"Balloons, first of all, are fuckin' cool. The Hindenburg incident occured because they were brilliant strategic weapons.","And vice versa. China has always tried to be the ""strong, cold, mature man who runs the company at 22 and gets all the ladies"". Hell, it's even a trope in their tv dramas. What they're very bad at is being human in front of the camera as a result. This is likely not a lie regarding US balloons, and from a geopolitical perspective it makes sense to remind the US that ""hey, this isn't as stupidly bad as you make it out to be because your balloons are STILL floating around on our front lawn!"".",0
If territorial integrity of a country matters then Kosovo should have remained part of Serbia. If it doesn't then the people of Donbass have just as much right as the Kosovans to self determination.,I'm not trying to troll or start a fight. I simply don't see a distinction other than that the West supports Kosovo over Serbia and Ukraine over Donbass.,0
"I never got that, but I have met many southerners who are still rock, flag, and eagle. Still have talked to others who have the other opinion and blame the democrats (ironically since Dems where the popular ones there until like the 50s).","Well said, it was a rough campaign to legitimize northern control while hurting the southern economy. Like I feel bad but I also kinda don’t as a means to an ends. Tough spot to find yourself in.",0
"you made the most intelligent comment in this entire thread so succinctly! i'm gay and i live and work in Yemen. my national colleagues talk añl the time about how the Saudis are pushing extreme versions of Islam incessantly across Yemen (and much of the Middle East and North Africa) and they lament how just a few decades ago women dressed colorfully and could walk around in long skirts. The average Yemeni is not hyper-religious and the current civil war really has nothing to do with religion, and is more of a power/land grab by the Houthis, Saudis, UAE, Qatar and Iran to control major shipping routes and some oil deposits. I'm not super out at work, but some of my colleagues certainly know, and i work with one gay national guy who the women will take their hijabs off around when they are in private (technically a big no-no, but shows they accept him for what he is and dont see him as a threat). Of course there is a ton of sexism and homophobia, but I don't think Yemen would be anywhere like it is now without Saudi Arabia's relentless influence.","The fact that the marriage was allowed already says something about yemeni society, but you hear some people say ""we dont like that"" so you generalize the whole yemeni nation as one? That's disgusting.",1
"I'm in favor of fair competition, if the channel is good enough it can run on its own without taking hundreds of millions of taxpayer money. Historically this was the first (and for a long time the only) news channel Israel had, before other commercial channels started to air as well. In today's Israel this is something that is not needed and it's a huge waste of money (its budget is unnecessarily huge), I'm in favor of cutting it's funding and let it compete with the other private channels. If it's a good channel it would still be successful on its own.",So if they were in favor of the current government's policies it would have made it okay? Last time I checked journalists were suppose to be objective.,0
Fwiw usually authors don't write their own headlines. And I perfectly capable of forming my own opinion without needing the author to hold my hand.,"The proposals are progressive. Its being framed as centrist to appeal to those it needs to appeal to. Some people saw the headline, made their opinion, and that's that.",0
Some Germans economists expressed their warnings that if ECB continues that path they will convince their nation to get back to DM.,The discussion from the previous year led to first cracks in Euro zone and a common currency as ECB has a tough job trying to please countries like Germany and Italy with the same policy.,0
"People like Erdogan/Orbán still has to make it look like the elections are legit. They are, but they are absolutly unfair. These regimes do cheat but in more insidious ways, mostly by trying to brainwash most of their population with rampant propaganda, fearmongering and by cutting them off from proper education, especially language knowledge so they would be only able to consume the news that their regime feeding to them.","That way, with time, you simple reach a point when you don't need to blatantly cheat on elections, you will have a lot of people who will only believe you, no matter how crazy you are.",0
"Luckily, the majority of people don't like that kind of fuckery, and are now voting against it. He exposed the political rot of the GOP and Conservatives, and we might now be seeing the first formations of the disgusting fungus that's rotting out the core of the country.","I'm starting to think that Trump actually kept a promise for once in his life - by draining the swamp. He fucked up the GOP so badly they may never recover, and he exposed all the shitheads who existed so we all know how shitty they are. He made it okay to be a hateful prick in public, and now we know who all the hateful pricks are.",0
"Moldova should be proactive in denying Russian access, but there's no real threat unless Russia can make gains into central and western Ukraine, which is (partially) why Ukraine retaking Kherson was vital.","At the time, Ukraine had been positioning some military units along the boarder with Moldova to defend against any possible act of Russian aggression. Russia had for a number of weeks been denying any military ambitions relating to Moldova.",1
"Guy was just looking for an excuse to reinstate Trump, so he ""conducted a poll"", exactly how many Russians responded yes to that poll?","I don't know what's worse, this or the fact that Elon Musk thinks Twitter polls are representative of reality.",0
"It comes down to this. If John borrows money from you with the agreement to pay you back, Tom can’t come in and say “umm, John don’t you worry about paying that back. Well will force everyone in town to cover it for ya.” I’m not here to argue the merits or it, fact is if you borrow money, you have to pay it back.","Oh you mean the ones who don’t work and live on government handouts. Yes, let’s keep those people down indefinitely by giving them bits and pieces. Meanwhile the vast majority of Americans are becoming lower class financially due to the constant taking of their efforts. We all know where you stand. Truth hurts.",0
"Either they have to allow other storefronts on their phones imo, or they shouldn’t charge apps for access.","Monopoly over access. They have complete control over what apps can get downloaded onto iPhones, and the ability to decide how much app makers have to pay to get that access. They can abuse their market position to extort app developers on the App Store.",0
If you dont do the bare minimum (which i thought we did in Minsk 2) of guaranteeing the rights of Russian Speakers in Ukraine than Russia AND NATO dont have a reason to keep Militarizing Ukraine to use it as a proxy war between Russia and the US.,"The terms that Ukraine will require, meanwhile-- freedom to join NATO and the EU, war reparations, the return of all abducted Ukrainian citizens and the return of all Ukrainian territory seized in this war (including Crimea)-- are going to be unacceptable to Putin and the pro-war establishment in Russia.",1
"Days into controlling the U.S. House, Republicans quickly tackled the creation of one of their top agenda items: a special congressional panel focused on alleged “weaponization of the federal government.”.","Based on what top Republicans have said, the committee is poised to hit a GOP sweet spot of tackling broader issues of importance to the party base while allowing themselves many chances to attack President Joe Biden and his administration.",0
"I haven’t, but I feel kinda guilty when I see a flag hanging out of a car and get mad thinking it’s a Fuck Trudeau flag only to see it’s a Ukraine flag or a sports flag.","I'm genuinely angry that they co-oped the flag in their bullshit, because now whenever I see someone with a flag on their car, that's the association I make first.",1
"Why would Democrats focus on topics that could help literally millions of people across the country, when instead they can use all their political will to helping dozens, literally dozens of people??","Well no duh. But laws already exist. They could at least try to enforce those. There's even a big one that says ""No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States"".",1
"All in all, 民主 has always meant ""democracy"" in the western sense, and that ""rule for the people"" narrative has been pushed by the communist party to gaslight its population. Same for the ""meritocracy"" or ""full process democracy"" (which is a term used by chinese propaganda): in reality, leaders and officials are chosen through nepotism, and even the lowest echelon officials the people can vote for are chosen by the party.","In China’s mind, their system is plenty democratic - anyone can be a politician, and you work your way up the ranks to the top political jobs much the same way you would as a civil servant, or lawyer/judge, or doctor.",1
"It hasn't been talked about much, but corruption cost Ukraine control of the city of Kherson. The governor stonewalled the deployment of defensive plans, and the city fell with almost no resistance to Russia as a result. Russia funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into bribing Ukrainian officials; too bad for them that most of the bribes were either ineffective,or siphoned off by Russian corruption. They fully expected no resistance based on the level of bribing and corruption going on among Ukrainian government officials. Hell, even one of the lead negotiators from Ukraine at the start of the war was bought and paid for by Russia, and was feeding them information while ""negotiating"" a ceasefire. Ukraine has done an incredible job rooting out corruption in the last year, but they still have a long way to go.",Corruption in the uk is substantially less of a problem than Ukraine... ukraine is the most corrupted country in Europe after russia and Belarus if i am not mistaken.,1
"Yes, but the key sticking points is that the student must pledge support to The Party. And that their guarantor is forbidden from leaving China until they finish their education and return home.","The article clearly says the sponsor of the student, like family, become unable to leave China while they are abroad and become liable for their misbehaviour or disloyalty. This is classic dictatorship stuff, US certaintly does not do this. Not sure why you are defending China.",1
"Indeed, I would say that he's an exceedingly bland neocon. The Tucker Carlson you see on FOX today is a character being played so that the real Tucker doesn't have to sit on the sidelines scamming money from neolibs at the Lincoln Project with all of the other exceedingly bland neocons.","Another shocking example of how Tucker is employed by Fox as an entertainer, not a journalist, and certainty not someone truthfully reporting the news. Let’s not that Tucker and his wife were close friends of Hunter Biden until his father ran for and became president.",1
"I was a combat engineer then quartermaster officer, I've seen it from the enlisted and fighting side as well as the commissioned and supply side... Texas ain't got the money to be ""victorious"" in the things they say they want to be here.","They have to do some show, and it's really expensive, so the paperwork and the man hours even if your not running the machines is a financial disaster.",0
4000 people were surveyed and there seems to only be political data on 1000. They should be able to tell you how these respondents responded though.,"Yes but the antisemitism ""about Israel"" in the survey is for the most part not actually about Israel. For example saying American Jews are more loyal to Israel than America is antisemitism. Saying that Israel is not criticized in the media because of the Jews that control the media is antisemitic. Saying Israel treats Palestinians the same way the Nazis treated the Jews is antisemitism.",0
"Jeffries won a plurality of votes on the first ballot, as all 212 House Democrats in attendance voted for him, while 203 Republicans voted for McCarthy. The other 19 GOP votes were split between McCarthy, Biggs, and other Republicans.",McCarthy faced a challenge from far-right former House Freedom Caucus chair Andy Biggs as well as Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries.,0
"> The Dems made an offer. They’ll back McCarthy if he puts in rules that he must pass a budget (can’t shut down the government) and must increase the debt limit (can’t default on debt). So, you have to actually do your job. They offered this yesterday.",I doubt this is anything more than talk. But it makes the Democrats look reasonable while pressuring the GOP .,0
"The GOP is starting to lose their foothold in the state as a whole. They keep backing these ultra right-wing candidates here and they keep getting beat at the polls. Kelly is another great example. He is full on MAGA, but he is a weak candidate who has already lost a SC bid once before.","The GOP doesn't care about trying to win people over, they just want their people in power. That mindset led to the blue wave last year. They feel like they HAVE to appeal to the extremists, and the average Wisconsin voter just does not want that.",0
"You then say that the FBI ""planted"" the documents into those folders, but how does that explain the National Archives many months before stating that they didn't have them, and that they never received them?","If any of what you say is true, then why didn't your lawyers offer up this simple explanation when the National Archives first wrote asking for the documents that they said that you didn't have (after all, you would have been alarmed to learn that the National Archives was saying that they didn't have the documents to the folders that you now say that you kept, while your lawyers were writing that you didn't have anything that belonged to the National Archives, correct)?",0
"And don't take this as some endorsement of communism from me. I am not, nor have I ever been inclined to believe that a communist society can function at any meaningful scale.","A Communist party in power, guided by and implementing Communist theory, is left-wing - even if it hasn't achieved whatever you think ""REAL Communism"" is.",1
"That'll surely help. I mean, if the penalties for murder/attempted murder aren't enough, the lesser penalties for possession of an illegal gun are certain to stop them.","Make sure the proposed gun control laws would not have prevented the crime they are ""in response to."" This is an obligatory characteristic of all gun control legislation.",1
In the early days of the wind energy development ie 2010ish in southern Australia (specifically the western districts) some farmers would get turbines and others wouldn’t as the monetary incentive isn’t small this virtually destroyed some communities.,Some small towns in Australia created “wind turbine collectives” where the funds paid to landowners who allow wind turbines to be installed on their property are pooled and distributed to the community.,0
"I think rational humans will question why there are so many comments about Israel who outright lie or grossly exaggerate about what’s actually going on in the country. I only see claims of genocide, apartheid, and assassinations on Reddit for example.",Israel gets disproportionately criticized on Reddit which is why a lot people try to counter that by comparing it to other countries. There are many countries that do far worse things but you rarely see them discussed on Reddit at the same level as Israel. Why is that?,0
"How? I never heard about it. You get paycheck which is lowered by national tax, health tax etc indicated by laws in that country. You go to shop u pay pax on products. How would your home country know how much u earn? Will I learn something today?","Ironically I was born in 80's on the east side of iron curtain and was fed so much US 'propaganda' that I grew up on Disney and his values. Propaganda in paraphrases coz I dont really think showing equality and other, globally accepted as fair, values, to a child is propaganda. And now as an adult, I judge USA, by what uncle Sam hinted brother. I really dont like it. I can do jack shit but I imagine there are few other level headed ppl that wont let it go to total shit. I read short article from other fellow and yes, u can/there r side step regulations.",0
"Reminds me of a great episode of The West Wing where a children's right to vote group had an in depth discussion/argument with Toby Zeigler. He was basically convinced, and he suggested they start at the local level and work at lowering it in increments. It has a lot of merit when you're talking about things like high school students being allowed to vote in school board elections.","You're getting downvotes, but as someone who supports the decision to let those 16 year olds vote, I think you're right to an extent.",1
"Optimally if the shoes are still good to use, just keep them and save yourself some money. But that's not how this all works.","Used clothing has become an odd form of ""dumping"" that happens to crush any ability for a domestic industry. Since people are getting cloths for next to free, there's no way for a domestic industry to form. Because of this, a lot of countries (including Indonesia) have banned the import of used clothing.",0
"He doesn't have any real power, as he can't even do anything against the (pro-Putin) Saint Petersburg mayor that's criticizing him for using an illegal mercenary army, is constantly being searched by Russia's security apparatus, and doesn't even get a meeting from Putin. Plain and simply, there's no evidence on the ground that Prigozhin is building up influence among Russian siloviki, military and policymakers.","I suspect his big value is that he gives off the appearance of ""independence"" from Putin, allows the latter to shift responsibility for breaking Russian law to subordinates like Prigozhin, and makes Putin seem ""moderate"" in comparison.",0
"Idiot opened up talking trash about unions. Like dude, if you franchisees had a union? You'd be sitting pretty right now, and the top rungs of your corporate ladder would only have 6 homes instead of 10.",I gave some poor fuck a wake up call recently. He was in my bar sulking about not being able to find any employees for $16.50. And that he couldn't pay more.,0
"Russia wouldn't do it because they're the main suppliers of the oil and their economy would be hurt even more, unless what another user said where Putin sabotaged the pipeline to keep the oiligarchs in line, which I think is plausible.","Considering that Ukraine has been getting fucked by Russia in some shape or form, even back when planning for such a sabotage would have started, I'd say it would benefit Ukraine by any scale, but whether the pipeline destruction would hurt Russia depends on what lens you look at it with. Personally I don't think Ukraine are responsible, it'd put them below my top 5 candidates, but it's not 0% chance.",1
"I am an Indian and it feels weird to defend Pakistan. India's position on Russia is hard, but fair. If it stops oil trade with and removes Russian oil entirely from market there would be economic crisis everywhere.","Sensationalized headlines aside, not all countries have the luxury to ditch cheap Russian oil. India is doing what it needs to do in order to keep its economy doing well.",1
Its only happening because everyone needs more money so mr. fuck up (President Biden) please release more money so we could seem like we gotten anything for another 2months 🥱.,Then do me a favor leave the 🇺🇸 if you’re here. don’t try to push into what’s not good Take your communist/socialist wants and just move to NK… Cops and all those first aid responders including teachers because that’s what they are have always deserved higher pay since 90s. Just like you disarming our military go fly a kite over there in NK and see how well you do with it.. I won’t stand for cops not getting better pay and equipment.,0
"From my own experience, the exact same strain of cannabis can alleviate enough anxiety to let me feel sleepy and fall asleep at night, then relieve enough anxiety the next morning to let me enjoy my morning routine, which has an energizing effect.",Cannabis makes users fall asleep faster in the same way that alcohol makes one fall asleep faster -- it chemically alleviates anxieties but that disrupts the sleep cycle during the most restorative and important part of sleep - the REM cycle.,1
Just suffered two weeks of flu and i have not had flu before corvid more than once in 10 or so years so yes maybe my system is fucked up a bit but it is most definitely way better than what it was and is getting better all the time.,The press is fucked there are no headlines about the wait times being beyond acceptable or the fact that hospitals are struggling to have even one doctor in a&E.,0
"The sheriff needs to be a law enforcement position that is hired by the county council, reports to the county council, and can be fired by the county council.",The sheriff is the highest law enforcement officer in their respective county because they are elected. There are recent instances of sheriffs arresting and threatening jail for federal agents harassing citizens. The importance of the sheriff is that they are elected and therefore answer only to the public and voters.,1
"No. Even as an Indian who supports the oil deal this is a scenario that won't happen. The West has agreed to let India buy oil, But that doesn't mean they will accept India to mediate any discussions of peace. Mediating discussions of peace by India would mean silent aknowledgement that India buying Russian oil meant it was being a neutral party, Which the West would never agree to thus The West would prevent Ukraine from allowing India to host any peace talks.","The only way for this war to end is for Ukraine to realise that Russia is trying to help them, and to peacefully surrender and stop their actions which are escalating world tensions.",1
"A known liar who trades in stolen election conspiracies for the sole purpose of protecting his own ego. This is just a different form, where his ego is threatened by losing to another Republican, so he has to claim credit for that Republican's career. And people who believe it believe it for the same reason Trump supporters believe his other stolen election conspiracy theories: they don't want to believe their guy lost.","In the same way, I can recognize your rationalizing of Trump's lies from the other people who believe his stolen election conspiracies, just coping with losing.",0
"So by setting a precedent of shooting the Chinese balloon, they'd probably open their own spy balloons over China and Russia to be shot down as well.","LOL… ok. Alright, ok. Let’s say it’s a surveillance balloon… if the west has them already deployed, why shouldn’t the east? If we’re all watching each other, then nobody can do anything that the other doesn’t know about, and the need for secrecy is moot and we can become cooperative instead of adversarial. I don’t get the whole “they’re bad, we’re good even if we’re all doing the same shit” philosophy. It’s antiquated. People are fucking stupid. Russia and China and the US especially.",1
"Sending Typhoons is a ridiculous idea: we don't have spare jets, Ukrainian pilots don't know how to fly them, there are no trained maintenance crews etc. Apart from these issues it's a great idea.","Details like pilots, ammo, maintenance are boring ""details for the backroom boffins"". One reason Brexit remains a mess: he couldn't get his head round all the complexities. Not a trait you want in a PM 🤦‍♂️.",0
"Constructing any amount of organized structure around anything can lead to exploitation and corruption as power becomes centralized, this is not specific to Religion.","The concepts I enjoy focusing on tend to deal with meta-physical spaces. In focusing on these concepts it becomes necessary to not only question my external world, but my internal world. This ties in a lot with context of existence, personal identity, perception of reality, among other things. Much of these concepts have no scientific methodology for specific measurement so it's not as though it can ever be ""proven"", these are all concepts that rely of faith. I don't think anyone should be discouraged from exploring their self or their faith. Religion can be a useful vehicle for that exploration. Problems arise when people try to influence that journey of personal exploration. Those people can use religion to have that negative influence, but it is not religion which is negative, it is people's desire for control.",0
The potential upside to Boebert and Marj staying in the House is it reminds voters that MAGA is still very much a part of the GOP.,On the district level MAGA still has appeal in certain areas but nationally it’s disastrous for the Republican Party.,0
I’m suggesting a way to make it so normal people can go see a show and don’t have to compete against a computer.,"If the problem is people buying up tickets with bots so normal people can’t attend, then jacking up the price and reselling them on ticketmasters resale platform, then it seems entirely reasonable to point at resales and stop it.",0
>But mistakes are one thing; knowingly telling lies is another. What Fox’s pious proclamation of press freedom misses is that lies of the sort the network appears to have told its viewers don’t enjoy or deserve constitutional protection.,"I’d also like a carve-out somewhere in this case to discuss whether FOX News can rightfully enjoy the ""press"" part in the 1A freedom of the press privileges.",1
"You are right about Ireland being independent and yes there are other countries that are tax havens, but the US and UK are still the number one and two when it comes to being tax havens. The Tax Justice Network, where the article gets it data from, ranks the US and UK as number one and fourteen on its 2022 Financial Secrecy Index: They have a metric, Global Scale Weight (GSW), which is ""presented as a percentage of all financial services globally provided by all jurisdictions to non-residents"". The GSW for the US and UK are about 26% and 14%, the highest of any of the countries, meaning they are the number one and two countries for hiding money offshore to avoid taxes or other financial obligations.","> Britain facilitates abuse and evasion through a network made up of British overseas territories and the City of London, the report said.",0
"And again, how can the portion of a nations wealth that has been denied to black folks be greater than the sum of all portions of wealth?","And I know that this is just supposedly for discrimination faced in San Francisco, by why is what black San Franciscans faced not worth the same as black people everywhere?",0
"2 Million Palestinians, out of only 9M total population mind you, are living as Israeli citizens, complete with an ID, full rights, have a few parties in the government (Last elections even made it into the coalition).",Yes it does. Israel is the stronger side and can make the other side a literal parking lot by the weekend.,0
"Am I the only one imagining thag, after the first pilot shot that balloon, all the other pilots wanted to shoot one too.",Godspeed if they ever have to use their guns against an actual target if a near stationary balloon is too hard for them to line up.,1
republicans need to realize that the “ultra-rich” are the people in the top 0.01%. People with 5 million won’t even be noticeably impacted. it’s the people with 20+ million we’re talking about.,"People with 5 million are mostly people that are about to retire. If they have a multi-million dollar a year salary then yeah, of course, but screwing over people with decades of savings isn’t right either.",0
If companies would care about having jobs that aren't actually based on giving way too much work out to the employees because having flexible hours means they can force their employees to work unpaid overtime and that are paid well employees would flock there.,I pay people way below market for a 40 hour week with flexible time and then give them so much work they are forced to do unpaid overtime every week while being treated like shit and nobody wants to work here.,0
"Analyzing the situation in retrospect, because in real time I didn’t fully understand, it is clear Ukraine knew Russia would attack at least 7-10 days prior to the attack. And they were fully prepared. When Ukraine made those preparations, Russia should have aborted.","They just think that the Ukrainian flat refusal to listen to Russia looks bad. Myself, I think they could have in an answering service for Putin to call. Don't need to overdo it.",1
"It’s unclear whether Snowden swore the oath of allegiance at the same time as he was granted a passport, but the two are common procedures when foreigners become Russian citizens. The text includes swearing “to protect the freedom and independence of the Russian Federation, to be loyal to Russia, to respect its culture, history and traditions,” and to promise to “perform the duties of a citizen of the Russian Federation for the good of the state and society.”.","the article's headline seems like obvious clickbait that makes it sound as if snowden just randomly pledged allegiance to russia just because he loves russia and putin so very very much, when really it seems like he just did it as part of the normal process of obtaining russian citizenship out of pure self preservation.",1
"And a lot of it has been based upon policies that are more left than I saw when Obama was president, and this is coming from a Blue Dog Democrat (Biden) at that.",">(Some would also argue that if Clinton had campaigned more in the so-called ""blue wall"" states, she also could have picked up more votes.).",1
"Oh I totally agree with you here, we clearly know there is hypocrisy in claiming to be tough on crime while wanting their guy to get off from stuff like Jan 6th and the classified docs. But polling and election results do show that Americans generally agree with having police, funding them, and having their communities policed.","I think arresting criminals is good, that seems to be a generally popular opinion with Americans. If you disagree with this premise you need to find a more convincing argument than this one.",1
"I mean perhaps you are right, I haven't seen that 57% number anywhere. Was there polling on it? That's wildly incongruous with the talk of my conservative leaning area, online, and radio call-ins.","This is some straight Republican messaging bullshit. Let's be clear, Republicans and Manchin voted against the paid sick days. Blaming it on Democrats is just straight fucking lying.",1
"China isn't going to invade anybody, it's going to do exactly what it did the first time around. They won't take over NK because, A: it would be too late once the nukes started flying and B) that would defeat the purpose of having a buffer state.","So NK is going to invest heavily in developing nuclear weapons or maybe work on getting a spy satellite in orbit? Maybe they could kidnap some Japanese nationals? Or, possibly to match Japan's belligerence, test out missiles and hold war games nearby to Japan.",0
So do you just steal all land from every single old money family in the country? What's really to stop them from taking yours next so all land is owned by the government and everybody pays rent to them?,"Because the government giving itself the power to arbitrarily decide ""All your land are belong to us and we're not paying you at all"" is pretty scary.",1
Edit: got this wrong. Was proposed by dem and actually not a bad law. Bans declawing aang other inhumane practices.,"No, I originally thought it was another authoritarian bill put forth by the Florida Republicans. Then read the bill and found it it was actually a pretty humane bill that includes banning a lot of horrible practices like declawing cats, and found out that it was not put forth by Republicans but democrats.",0
That’s been a thing for a while. One of them assaulted my mom in the early 2000s because they didn’t feel she gave them enough money. The Italian police were very nice though.,That’s how Italy works. We went to a bad part of town for a soccer game. The kids would walk around and ask for money to “guard our car” and guess what.,1
Looking at explicit votes for Palin (vs. Peltola/Blank) from Begich supporters it changed from 50.28% of voters in the special election to 66.8% in the general.,"In the second tabulation round, the total republican votes were higher than 50%, but only 67% of Begich voters listed Palin as their second choice.",1
It’s more about giving the poor scientists recognition for their research. Just pretend that we care so they feel like their work is worth it. Maybe one day they’ll use their skill to do something to help mankind instead of just researching temperatures and comparing them. But if they get discouraged from doing science because we all don’t care about their “alarms” they’ll never do something useful. So just pretend to care. We don’t have to make any changes; it’s too late. Just pretend to care. For the scientists.,"When are scientists not raising an alarm?? Not that this isn’t an issue, but my entire life I’ve been reading headlines like this and it doesn’t seem to have changed anything.",1
"National Guard, on the other hand? I was in Army ROTC and trying to JOIN them (original plan was to be in the Guard after grad school and work as an ENT, to get clinical hours for Medical School applications...) so maybe I'm biased. But would feel MUCH safer around a National Guard unit than a bunch of riot police as a protestor...",What’s funny is that the national guard made us feel a lot safer in some places in 2020. Their presence made the cops way less aggressive because they knew they were being watched.,1
"All supermassive blackholes are causing this effect within their local area, and thus dark energy appears to be uniform, because spacetime is being deformed around all supermassive blackholes that exist.","Edit: For example, how do we know supermassives and similarly large black holes aren't absorbing Dark Stars, other tiny black holes, etc? At the relative distances we wouldn't be able to be sure, etc.",1
"I agree with you in principle, but American politics is fought along these grounds. And as long as Putin is in power, in danger of causing serious issues for the government.","If enough ordinary people stop obeying, Putin has no power. Power is just a function of how many people follow. The richest most powerful person in the world, if left alone in the middle of the woods with all their money, is still just an ape in fancy clothes with a bunch of paper.",1
"He was a relatively minor KGB bureaucrat who managed to get into a position (Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg IIRC) where his corruption made himself and others (who are now the Russian ruling elite) very rich. He has never commanded in combat. (He may have once ""commanded"" an artillery battalion as a reservist officer:",He was a very effective war general? Something like that in Russia. Thats how he got to power. The rest of the world adjusted to this plan and its not as effective.,1
"Heating air will increase the amount of moisture it could hold, but won't add any new moisture. What follows is that air humidity falls, and you need a humidifier in winter.","Also living in low air humidity isn't good for you either. Your skin is dry, your lips get cracked, breathing through your nose becomes uncomfortable, etc.",0
Another balloon was ID’d during the Biden administration but I don’t know where that fits in the timeline— whether that balloon was identified after the fact (along with the Trump balloons) or if that was the catalyst that led to the UFO review or what.,Sometime during Trump administration: Balloons were flown into US territory but US either didn’t notice them or they were briefly spotted and categorized as “UFO”.,0
"When you click on it, it's about they select their leadership, how they call a republican convention, and how they conduct voting.","It's really funny because the site makes it look like there is a detailed platform that users can click, beyond the few sentence blurb. They say, ""Learn More About Our Platform and Where We Stand"" and the link is called ""Learn More."".",0
"To me, that is still a mass shooting. In most of the rest of the world, 3 people getting shot in any circumstances would be a mass shooting. The only reason Americans think otherwise is because they have been so desensitized to gun violence that ""only"" 3 people being shot seems insignificant to them.","It's sad that there is so much gun violence in the US that ""only"" 3 people getting shot doesn't qualify as a mass shooting.",0
Farm subsidies have been weaponized against actual farmers and used to help massive corporations make silly profits.,"So rather than farmers stripping the land bare to make a few extra bucks, we subsidize them - paying them as if they grew crops, but without the ecological damage. It's not the best solution, but it the one that works with this type of people in this type of system.",1
"You're right. When did anyone say we'd do it before that? If china or any country ever actually follows up on these hollow threats to attack US assets or allies, that would be an act of war, therefore triggering our response.","Does China seriously think threatening the US really matters, when it comes to their freedoms? Are you going to take away our RMT's for our video games or keep people from staring at their screens while they drive? Then we may counter with something worth noting. You already took away the worlds recycle bin. Signed: Wall-E.",1
Public international law is the same for the UK and Ukraine. Relevant criminal law differs of course and British lawyers obviously cannot educate Ukrainians on how to apply Ukrainian laws to things that are happening in Ukraine.,"No. The International Criminal Court was set up to try war criminals that states have failed to try. It's subsidiary to domestic judiciaries. If Ukraine (or Russia, for that matter) prosecutes and tries them, there's no reason for the ICC to do anything.",0
"The whole business relied on being able to sell tanks aboard in order to make some for Russia itself. Now the whole tanks made in Russia thing is no longer a thing anyone wants and they are left with a tank that is really good on paper, but doesn't really exist in real life.","The R&D is very expensive for a advanced tank, looks like not even russia can afford and the original plan of export didnt work, so now they collab with India?",1
"But that was their same excuse for killing that journalist, then we found out the only people that fired were IDF...","Wasn’t their excuse ‘an armed conflict broke out with a terrorist group, and Palestinians civilians were killed in the crossfire’? Your comment completely left out the fact that there was an armed clash between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian combatants.",1
"This is how the SC tends to work, again disagreement with this doesn’t mean this isn’t how the rules are applied currently.","The actions and decisions of states after the overturning of Roe V Wade is what affected people’s personal freedoms. This is a battle that can either be fought at state level by voting in people who more accurately represent the views of the population, or at federal level by attempting to implement a new amendment specifically protecting abortion-although that is significantly harder to do.",0
"Hopefully, the sanctions put on Russia will scare the CCP from invading Taiwan, especially since China is much more vulnerable to sanctions than Russia is.","By the way, all these Chinese activities while Russia is also starting a new offensive in Ukraine, clearly shows that China doesn't want the war to end and we should give up the illusion that China could help to make a deal with Russia for peace.",1
"Or, maybe, they were saving up to get out of the country, waited to see if it got worse, and when it turned out the war would last much longer, they ran.","However, it's pretty clear, IMO, that a country having weapons doesn't automatically lead to a country invading its neighbors. After all, most countries have fairly extensive arsenals but don't invade their neighbors with them.",0
Not supporting FIFA and World Cup this year. Watching a game isn’t more important than the actual human rights violations that are going to happen during this event.,Wish the teams around the world would of protested and not participated in this event this year but at least some take a little action.,0
"NO ONE thinks soy milk is milk, it is precisely the reason they are buying it. And most brands are enriched to equal the macro profile of dairy milk. Others not so much, but soy generally is. It is generally label readers that buy these products. And milk is a processed food anyway, and enriched also.","""Milk"" is a generic category. It can refer to color, texture and function. It is used as a noun, and a verb, in ways that does not involve the lactation of animals. This is how we use language in myriad ways. It's not a special exception for terms that only benefit big corporations.",1
Republicans are playing chicken with our economy and it’s a dangerous game. Remember that Steve Bannon was very clear in 2017 when he said their goal is deconstruction of the administrative state. These Republicans want to destroy the federal government and any safety nets it provides to the American people. Make no mistake. This is the GOP’s goal.,"Stuff like this is where you see the GOP's real priorities. Their plan is to abolish income tax and the IRS and replace it with a consumption tax. The outcome of that would be effectively a massive increase in tax on the poorest people who spend their entire income every month, and a massive break for the wealthy who actually spend a very small percentage of what they make. So a multi-millionaire would probably end up not paying a great deal more in taxes than someone working at McDonald's. They would of course still pay more, but the actual percentage of their income going towards that would be laughably trivial, and they wouldn't have to worry about capital gains, estate tax, or any other taxes.",1
"Apparently, they've been doing it for years and might have gotten away with it for much longer if the most famous of the balloons hadn't flown low enough to be spotted by, well, everybody.","2) There's a lot less ""middle of nowhere"" in Montana than you think. Montana is criss-crossed with highways:",0
"We should all general strike in solidarity, using our sick days or whatever if we have to. It's time this shit stops.","Better, just all quit. If they’re that badly understaffed to not manage sick leave, unpaid sick leave mind you, not even a majority just walking away will grind them to a halt.",1
"Odd how I grew up with a gas stove in the house along with a gas furnace and hot water heater. All of them had pilot lights because this was long ago. No one in my family has any asthma or other respiratory problems. Today, I have the modern equivalent of the gas furnace and stove. I also spent money on digital detectors of carbon monoxide and even gas leak detection. All are at zero. And it is typical of democrats to invoke the unfair to the 'black and Latino' community or children when there is absolutely no basis on those claims as gas stoves are used by every race. Like, they make it seem like minorities flock to gas appliances but no other race does.","I had electric heat and stove in this house for a few years and the bill for electric was high and I have a good size solar array that could not keep up with the baseboard heat. Also, cooking with electric sucks on the stove top. I cannot just drop the heat by turning a knob. It takes time for the burner to cool to its new setting so some things may burn or boil over, unless I move the pan over and expose a hot burner. Gas does not have that problem. The electric oven was OK though.",0
"I don't understand China's strategy here, they're buddying up with a country that could have no functioning military, no functioning economy, and a fuck ton of nukes - antagonizing western powers in the process.","China can either have Russia as a friendly/economically dependent neighbor that they can get cheap natural resources from and continue to be a thorn in the West's side (which Russia will be even with a diminished military), or they can have Russia as an unfriendly and destabilized neighbor with nukes.",1
Are we speaking about a small corridor along the border or is this seriously defending most of westen Ukraine (including cities like Kyiv) against russian missile strikes?,"I'm guessing more an air defence zone being implemented along NATO country borders in Ukraine, and probably within a limited area within Ukraine itself. I don't think anyone will want to escalate this by directly attacking back, but NATO can't afford to have it happen again and is well positioned to start shooting down anything that looks threatening near their borders. Luckily with the lack of Russian air superiority in Ukraine there's a fairly limited risk of further accidental escalation.",1
"There's also the entire National Voter Registration Act of 1993 which, among other things, requires states to use specific forms to register people for elections (which SCOTUS even upheld later that year). And it also allows people to submit their voter registration by mail.","Florida has early voting and workers can even use mail in ballots to vote if they want. As before, there's no right being lost.",1
"There's a difference between begrudgingly accepting an authoritarian ruler and a hostile takeover by a foreign country. One is a shit but at least somewhat stable government, another is a complete denial of your national identity and what little autonomy you had left. I know a few Belarusians (who still live there) and at least from their perspective, a Russian annexation would lead to complete revolution. They've also said that if belarus enters the war in Ukraine, it'll probably also lead to a revolution.","That would depend on if the Belarus military could be convinced to join in. It would be vastly unpopular, but so was mobilization in Russia. If the military went along with the idea, that’s another 400k troops if you count active and reserves.",1
"As to whether or not the Russians know whether a given F-16 has all the capabilities of the US market aircraft: believe me, they know. But it doesn’t matter, because it’s not the “fully loaded” capabilities that the Russians are worried about, just the basic air superiority and ground attack capabilities that these aircraft afford.","Regardless, I think this position has more to do with the difficulty of long-term logistics support than aircraft capability. While it is possible (and not uncommon) for F-16 units to deploy far from their home bases, long-term support is expensive and complex, and requires a ton of training for maintenance and support engineers.",0
"We ask our President, our Supreme Commander-in-Chief to prohibit the exit of men of military age out from Russia. And we have every moral right to do so: our husbands died defending these men too, but who will protect us if they run away?","...our husbands died protecting these men, but who will protect us if they (conscripted, fleeing Russians) run away?"".",1
Basically a territory can't just declare itself a state. Congress needs to approve the entry of any new state. So any referendum undertaken by Puerto Rico without a vote in Congress legitimizing it is non-binding. Similarly Congress can't force statehood on a territory they can authorize a binding referendum but can't make Puerto Rico hold one against their will.,"Since Congress decides statehood, technically they could do whatever they want to decide statehood, even without the approval of the territory or by using a discriminatory referendum.",1
"Why depend on State to issue ID for a Federal election? Fed election law should mandate accepting an array of alternative ID for Federal office election, including a RealID issued by Federal Govt, pictures taken etc at any Post Office (as well as whatever the State wants to accept for its own concurrent elections).","But those would be issues resolved with money or with changes to the process of using the Federal ID, not constitutional issues about whether the Fed govt can demand acceptance of a particular ID...",0
"Honestly? Assume that NYT, like most major institutions, has at least one or two people in it that are active supporters of what Russia is doing. This was likely not a case of incompetence, but intentional malice.","It's not really about ""letting it happen."" That's the whole point of clandestine operations; it's to act in ways that people specifically don't know about. Russia's broad, all-encompassing disinformation campaign in the West that's been going on since '97 couldn't have happened without active participation from at least some people within almost every single western media and news outlet. Realistically, most leadership in these organizations wouldn't have known about the problem until it was too late for them to do anything about it anyway -- at which point they'd either quit, get ousted, or stay quiet and collect a paycheck for staying quiet.",0
"Still angry do to the behavior of Trumps party I called for yard signs in 2020 and was told to come pick them up. I can promise if I had called the GOP it would have been, how many and how big?","This Republican was so pissed trump won in 2016 I volunteered in 2018 for the democrats, I was motivated, angry and wanted Republicans punished at the ballot box.",0
"You would be making some sense if NATO was utilizing artillery doctrine like Russia or Ukraine. But unlike them NATO have capable air force and guided munition stocks to utilize different doctrine, and if lets say USA would see need in more dumb ammunition production, they would increase it in no time because those cost peanuts in comparison to guided munition.",So how did you come to conclusion they are running out of three primary factors to deter China. Because if you haven't study geography. Before China would be able to do anything on ground in Taiwan they have to get naval and air superiority and cross Taiwan Strait.,0
"My point is just that if anything is shot down it is probably terrestrial, and that this is a logical conclusion you have to come to if you do or don't believe aliens have visited us (unless you think they deliberately allowed a craft to be shot down).",I believe he meant that the aliens were unaware of the concept of someone shooting it down (due to not having wars and conflicts for millions of years) so it was unshielded and as such an easy target.,1
"Unlike decryption keys, every single unit can have its own unique signing key, generated on-chip in the factory, in turn signed by the manufacturer. It would be a direct parallel with how HTTPS works, each website generating its own private/public key pair and getting the public half signed by a certificate authority. Only the site ever knows its own private key, while you have proof that the CA thought the corresponding public key was valid.",Encryption with a private key while allowing decryption with a public key verifies identity of the source.,1
"Republicans are anti-democratic. That goes for the party leadership, it’s politicians, and (increasingly) its voter base. This is a fork in the road for the county. Do we stomp down anti-democratic (I’d argue, fascist) policies championed by Republicans and their base? Or do we let it continue to fester and erode the foundations of the country?","They elected him under false pretenses. And while I absolutely think the Republican base in the district are fucking morons, that does not mean his blatant lies can, or should, be ignored.",0
"Thank you /u/Jacabon for creating and releasing the globally and universally agreed upon basic human rights, anyways, sorry for extending the argument more than it should've, I'll go have a good day, hope you do too.","This is the point of discussion really, anyways, I retire myself from this discussion please feel free to monologue on this echo chamber of a website, bye bye.",0
"It’s not like Republicans have been a party of solid values who fumbled their messaging. They spent tons of money, all the media and candidates were in lockstep on all the same talking points… but what they are selling is dogshit and voters saw through it.","I had no reason to be excited by Biden when he became the nominee in 2020, but he’s been a better president than anyone going at least back to Clinton, and it’s only been 2 years. Assuming things stay the same, I’m not going to torpedo a successful president, but right wing shills will be all over the internet convincing the left we should do that.",0
"Also this does NOT mean it was acceptable for Russia to invade them, or that other nations should not assist Ukraine.","The west's interest is helping Ukraine and fucking Russia in the ass, so papering over this is well worth it. We can have strings attached when they'll need our money to rebuild their economy after war.",1
I’ve never seen this usage before in my nearly 50 years. Personally it looks weird and I’m with your parent poster. Yes I can figure it out. That doesn’t make it “everyone knows”.,"I haven’t seen a number from Ukraine. Do you have an official source of one? And we were talking about the count of Ukrainian casualties here, not Russian, so maybe you were mixed up with that?",0
"Red flag laws are utterly disgusting and contemptable. A total nullification of the presumption of innocence, the right to arms, the right to property, the right to a trial before jury of your peers, and the right to face your accuser, all in one tyrannical package.","So really we are talking about removing the rights of people who have committed no crime, who have not been arrested nor charged, for not even the suspicion of a crime, but the suspicion of maybe a potential future crime with zero evidence beyond hearsay, hearsay that the accused has no right to defend themselves against.",0
In my case there’s different possibilities but I do find it odd my symptoms are shared by many long covid sufferers.,"Anyway I kept getting sick during Covid times (terrible cold like symptoms), always testing negative, and then in August of last year I started having very severe unexplainable symptoms that I’ve had for months now.",0
"Older yes, but go around the world, to like truly anywhere with at least a few years of school, or a tv, and ask people if they've heard of the Egyptian Pyramids... and then ask about New Grange.",Edit: after reading up on it more I'd much rather visit newgrange than the pyramids in person. Egypt seems like a hot mess for even experienced travellers.,0
"That assumes that all Democrats are willing to go along with this. If you lose the left wing of the party, you're going to need more Republican votes to make this happen.","We don’t need them to back a democrat, we need them to be petty and decide they’ll take their ball and go home and/or get back at their enemy by voting present.",1
"The nuclear issue is frankly quite separate, and the mention of it is precisely why the less involved we are the better for the Iranian. Starlink satellites are not covert and don't move the needle much in terms of western interference. Propaganda news much less so. Ah well, agree to disagree.","I just don't agree. As I said, neither helping Iranian dissidents get uncensored Internet nor providing Farsi-language news with an American slant can be termed ""keeping your hands clean,"" yet both are valuable and frankly relatively innocuous services. Same with ""keeping your hands clean"" while Iran gets nukes. The US should absolutely try to do what it can short of bombing Natanz to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, even though unfortunately that seems an inevitability now. Even believing as I do that Iran primarily wants the bomb to defend itself and prevent other countries interfering in its military operations, not trying to stop another notoriously unstable country in a volatile region with a history of genocidal rhetoric towards Israel and an extremely hawkish and regionally powerful military from getting a nuke, knowing it going nuclear will set off a nuclear arms race with Saudi Arabia, would be extremely misguided.",1
"Modern day Germany is different than its predecessor, and they’ve made it clear internationally and themselves.","Because its true? Japan was incredibly brutal, to the point where some Nazi's said that they went to far, look up any Japanese warcrime and you would be shocked and appauled.",0
"BRASILIA, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Brazil runs the risk of losing control over its vast Amazon rainforest region to organized crime and traffickers who use the lawless region to smuggle drugs, a Supreme Court judge warned on Wednesday.","Justice Luis Roberto Barroso proposed that environmental experts, investors and local authorities come together to brainstorm on how to foster sustainable development that would preserve the Amazon rainforest, the world's largest, and help the livelihood of the 25 million people who live there.",0
"They found about a dozen documents with Biden that were located in an office and a garage with nothing to indicate the information was used maliciously, plus Biden’s team immediately returned the docs and are aiding the investigation and special counsel.","I believe this should be investigated if for no other reason than clearing up any national security concerns, but let’s not act like Biden’s and Trump’s cases are even close to the same thing.",0
"Taiwan needs to do a lot better than that. They should think about how to be more like ukraine, or other US allies around the world able to defend themselves for a credible period of time mainly on their own.","That way, even relief is delayed by unforseen future circumstances, Taiwan is not overrun. That way, China does not plan to create such circumstances imagining that if it sets it up just right it can win a short war.",0
"I think it is because it's a diverse collection of mammals infected from this particular strain. It hasn't been confirmed, but it's looking likely that it is the case. Sea lion, seals, bears, mink, foxes, dogs, cats, and more. That is a divergence from previous outbreaks of H5N1.",53% with the current H5N1. But they’ve been mutating it since as early as 2012.. Pretty sure the one that’s unleashed on the human population will have a higher case fatality rate.,1
"Do you think the US only invests in its military because of China and Russia? It invests in its military because it's projected power allows it favorable influence around the globe. Even if Russia and China were to disappear right after WW2, the US would continue to pour vast amounts of money into its military.",Not to mention a significant part of Soviet logistics were handled by America so you would be going to war with the person who kept your own war machine running.,1
"I'm talking idiomatically not literally. He's not saying Putin is ""nothing"" as if he's a loser like most people in the thread are implying. He's suggesting that Putin isn't the decision maker in Russia.",To me its more likely that either Zelensky is genuinely pointing out Putins absence or he wants to provoke Putin for whatever reason.,1
"And yet what has Google really managed to do in the past decade, other than create a graveyard of pet projects that no one wanted to bother maintaining? Sure, there have been a few things here and there, but it's largely been a playground for people to go and make $500k/year fucking around on passion projects that largely duplicated other stuff and didn't integrate with anything else. Or if it did integrate with other stuff, it required an entire team to keep working.","Google isn't a charity. It's a tech company that has gotten extraordinarily bloated over the years. It gained 12,000 employees last fall alone, for almost 200,000 employees in total.",0
"Or, to put it another way: who was responsible for all the death and destruction of WW2? Weapon manufacturers? Or the countries that invaded other countries, then had to be beat back at gunpoint?","Or, maybe, they were saving up to get out of the country, waited to see if it got worse, and when it turned out the war would last much longer, they ran.",0
"However, based on what we've been told, there were three separate batches so far. People contorting themselves to say otherwise or lying about the document counts is looking kind of weird and partisan, as even if you were right it wouldn't change much.",1. Old office at his Biden-Penn think tank where they were found when the office was being repurposed for someone else to use.,0
"They don't care about anything but political power and since it is clear they can't count on riding Trump's coattails anymore, they are ready to kick him to the curb.","Oh now that the midterms are basically over, Republicans didn't win,and now they suddenly care about trump being shitty lmao.",1
"Remember when General Khalifa Haftar, with the support of Wagner group, Egypt, UAE and even France, tried to over throw the elected UN recognised government of Libya and started another civil war? Whatever happened there?","“Despite widespread reports of the fighters’ extremist links, the report says the U.S. military found no evidence to suggest the mercenaries were affiliated with the Islamic State extremist group or al-Qaida. It says they were “very likely” motivated by generous financial packages rather than ideology or politics.”.",0
"In about 5 years the Colorado may be dry south of Hoover dam, unless upstream parts release more water. It also may not generate power in a few years as the water will be too low, just like Powell almost did and is likely to experience.","Even if the weather were to shift in such a manner to maximize water where it needs to be to support the existing systems it will take decades to restore groundwater and replenish the whole region and its needs. Assuming those resevoirs have a nice season every single year and rise a few % it will take 20 to 60 years or more of net gains to restore things, as well as drastically cutting use of that resource.",0
"And their apologists. Someone had the audacity to suggest the west just didn't understand, and that crippling Ukraine's power and infrastructure was Putin's goal from the very beginning of the invasion, i.e. basically, it's all going according to his plan.","Like yeah, destroy Russia's influence and fear factor on the world stage, kill (edit: and wound) over 100,000 Russian soldiers/conscripts, destroy or lose much of their modern military equipment, get neutral nations to apply to NATO and double the Russian border with NATO members, get the EU and UK to drastically reduce reliance on Russian energy and accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels in general, get sanctioned all to hell by the world so they can't even get replacement ball bearings to run their trains...",0
"We probably couldn't even pay our retirees if we cut the budget by 90%, but definitely agree that we could make huge cuts and really make a difference in this country. I'd rather the process was slow and deliberate, but the chances of the Defense budget getting cut in the first place is 0 unless we vote in people wanting to do it.",I agree that we'd make easy work of Russia after seeing their ineptitude on display since invading Ukraine.,0
There will be a proportionate reaction. This was a predictable scenario and responses have certainly been prepared in advance. A few possibilities:,4. Peacekeepers along the northern border to completely neutralise the threat to Kyiv and allow Ukrainian forces there to reposition.,0
"EDIT\ there are far too many comments to respond to so I will post my one thought about it here. They don't need to nominate an active house member. They can nominate Liz Cheney, they can nominate Bill Gates, they could nominate anyone that they can get 6 republicans to agree on. There may be a few dems that would never nominate a republican but I think there is someone out there that the democrats can partner with 6+ GOP members on to get put in. It would show good faith from dems to vote with some GOP members and it would totally stop the waste of a legislative session by ending the upcoming wasteful ""investigations"" into the FBI, DOJ, Hunter Biden, Jan 6th committee and any other crazy stupid thing the modern GOP want to go after.","The GOP is dead, when you elect, ""loons and whack jobs"" into position of authority, they poison minds with idiotic rhetoric, all they want to do is revenge, not governance, this is cesspool politics millions vote for, McCarthy cant let these people win, if he does, he is a fool.",1
"Well, for one, it's only 30 tanks lol. It's not the two armored divisions Zelensky wanted. And my personal feeling (only an opinion), is that we realize Ukraine may not pull out this spring offensive, and nobody wants to be to blame when the curtain drops.","By the way, in response to your bit that you don't think that Ukraine will survive the upcoming spring offensive by the Russians, rather than agreeing or disagreeing I'd like to point out that a loss in Ukraine could throw America's, and much of Europe's, political situation into chaos.",1
"He's got a real Fetterman vibe -- he was just a small business owner until Trump was elected, and he saw that twerp divide up his social circle, demonize good people, and generally fracture things and felt he couldn't stand helpless and wanted to do something.","He does the same for several other groups, as he feels he needs all that experience to really represent a diverse district.",0
"Edit: Now, I'm not saying they should treat firearms like the U.S. does, but I am implying that they should probably let the heirloom weapons confiscation slide a bit.",In all reality 99% of these heirlooms probably don’t even have ammo to go with. Anyone that wants to use one for harm will have to source illegally obtained ammunition and anyone that has illegally obtained ammunition probably already has a smuggled or homemade gun to go with it.,1
"Not quite but very close. Technically they are now what is called client state but they are (or were) bordering on being a puppet state. If Russia was as strong as they pretend to be then Belarus would be more like what the Warsaw Pack states were back during the height of the cold war; little more than a puppet that does what the Kremlin commands. Right now Putin's regime isn't actually powerful enough to force Belarus to join the war in Ukraine but everyone is still pretending that is real. We know this for the simple fact that Belarus has stayed out of the war despite Putin wanting them in it for more than a year. That is, if Belarus were actually a puppet state then they would have marched off to war by now but they haven't so what does that tell you?",It would take balls of steel for Lukashenko to give firearms to 1 million unarmed Belorussians… I’m not so sure Ukraine is the place they would storm….,1
"It's is unrealistic to think that robberies can not end in the murder of the victim. You're right most home break-ins happen between 10am and 3pm. Just so happens a lot of people are home at that time. Even more so now that work from home is more widespread. Stay at home parents are at home during those times with their children as well. It is a very real possibility an armed person comes forcibly into your home with the intention of doing you harm. Less than 1% of gun homicides involve innocent bystanders, so you're argument of accidentally shooting family members is invalid.",What happens when you exclude the 1% of the population who are accountable for 80% of gun crimes is that clearer and more relevant statistics emerge. Why include people who are constantly in and out of the criminal justice system. To include them is cherry-picking for an agenda.,1
"We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: ""November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety frostings on the ground."".","For a moment Walter was Paula Dean. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, ""Roger that Marzipan, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one."".",0
"Unless you abolish Medicare, the government already plays a huge role in the healthcare of those who use most of it anyway. If everyone was on public insurance it would be even harder for Republicans along with corporate Democrats to weaken it. As it stands now they have been doing that to Medicare for decades, further privatizing it. Eventually you'll get your wish and no one will have publicly administered insurance. But that's not going to be an improvement. It will just mean worse prices for Americans.",Until people understand the role of corporate media in normalizing the brutality of our existence we are left with nothing to do but stack bodies to the sky waiting in the name of profits to multi national corporations.,0
Now this doesn't address that Biden is obviously responding completely different than Trump and cooperating but it does undermine the idea that what Trump did is unusual.,"While the response from the individual parties is vastly different it does undermine certain positions that Trump having documents at Mar-a-Lago was unusual in the first place. Biden now likely had Top Secret documents at the highest level in 2+ offices in boxes as was apparently completely unaware, but there was a big narrative that having these documents in personal residences was unusual when it was clearly not.",0
In any form of democracy all knowledge is shared and we work together to find a solution to a common issue.,"Here is the medical science behind sinovac (Sinovac Biotech) or CoronaVac. A vaccine developed by a Chinese company, that is only about 50% effective against symptomatic COVID-19.",0
I think if Germany gave the tanks they'd be helping defend against the imperialism their country once inflicted on Europe.,What Germany has that the US doesn't is several hundred main battle tanks on the ground in Europe. Our Abrams tanks would have to be shipped half way around the world.,1
"So Europe can keep buying gas from Russia but India can’t buy oil from Russia even though India doesn’t have any skin in the conflict? That’s some serious double standards. If Europe can’t bring itself to halting imports of Russian energy, what makes anybody think India should?","Ok, and India is a developing country that desperately needs to develop its’ economy in order to provide citizens basic necessities which are taken for granted in Europe such as toilets, electricity, and nutritious food, so the cost of them giving up an economic opportunity is much greater than for the extremely rich EU (in comparison). I’m sure there’s many more arguments to justify or criticize the EU’s disapproval of India purchasing Russian oil while it continues to buy Russian gas. No two countries (or intergovernmental organizations) will ever be in perfectly comparable circumstances but in the grand scheme of things this just screams “rules for thee and not for me”.",0
"The US will do whatever makes russia or China weaker, that’s the thing about rivals they don’t want the others to get ahead. It’s obvious that China if they do would try to get a fair deal in Russian eyes which if the US is brokering would do the same for Ukraine.","From a geopolitical standpoint, the US cannot allow China to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia.",1
"At this rate, even if the Russians aren't making much with the cap, it will at least give Russia significant leverage over Indian politics and economics.","So while yes more of what india is producing is from Russia, most of that appears to be being used domestically and it is certainly not acting as sanction buster.",1
"A big loophole which Congress keeps open is your ability to carry losses from year to year. So the rich collect losses and then report them to off set their taxes. Congress needs to close this loophole, but the Dems often blame the rich rather than blaming he tax code.","Tax avoidance schemes are the fault of both Congress and the wealthy that benefit. You're welcome to imagine it's just a'ok, nobody is obligated to though. I can't square someone paying what amounts to virtually nothing in tax by percentage of income while everyday folks pay 20-30% routinely. I blame both Congress (who are impotent about making substantial tax law about this sort of thing, or have been) and the wealthy (who exploit the system and work to keep it going).",1
I'm all for the use of hate speech laws that optimize societal well being while not being repressive - but it's dangerous to make open ended and legally tricky laws that can result in two different outcomes for the same action based on how other people react.,"I assumed you were correcting something I said regarding german hate speech laws when you quoted that specific section of it to respond, rather than just to boil down the rational concern about the need for clearly defined legal definitions of crimes into a strawman about how hatespeech is bad.",0
"But Amnesty reported what they saw, it's not propaganda since Amnesty reports also Russian crimes, hiding possible violations of international laws, even tho how necessary they would be, would be more propaganda.","As in: why would you use an organization that has spreading propaganda as one of its purposes as an information source, rather than Amnesty International?",1
"He's almost certainly lying because he believes that using the FBI to install governors in red states would increase his support. Unfortunately for desantis, his idiotic strongman act threatening to arrest any federal election monitors in Florida combined with trumps dumbass claim makes the state's elections sound pretty bad. Doesn't help much that Florida has a history of shady election bullshit that never really gets looked into.",I mean even though it was obvious bullshit we did investigate the claims of voter fraud and election stolen last election too.,1
"The right would have a field day with this but this actually sounds like something shitty he would do, the government will never be allowed to do it so I’m guessing some private citizens might figure shit out and dig it up if it isn’t under guard, if it is there are absolutely documents there.","They were also not found by any government agency such as the FBI, they were found by a team trump has hired and paid, there was absolutely more documents there, the two they gave up probably aren’t very incriminating while the others are and were most likely destroyed in the search.",0
"Arizona. But yes, it does. Because the founding principles are still true. It's a value system. It is and always was based on the individual rights of man. That's why it was so ground breaking. It's not about a party or parties. Those are fads and should not be the prime mover in ANYONE'S life. It's all very simple. Except, of course, humans are able to complicate baking a cake. Let alone governing issues. Take for example religion. The word GOD does not appear in The Constitution, at all. But there are millions of people who claim it's there in some mystical non written magical way. Those people are liars.",You can be an opportunist while telling the truth lol. Bipartisanship is a lost art (primarily because of the Republicans). There is no lie about that.,1
"""The American nationals arrested were named as Alexey Brayman—a lawful permanent U.S. resident who lives in New Hampshire—and Vadim Yermolenko, a U.S. citizen living in New Jersey."".",True. It depends though if they were naturalized (is that the right word?) themselves or 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants. You do need a certain personal history in order to pass the cultural vibecheck of the country you're applying for citizenship for... or you can fake it.,1
How evil the CCP is makes The USA look like a naughty child that won't play fair by comparison. That being said.....,I'm not a physics professor but my understanding is that It's possible to orbit and be in airspace but being so low makes the orbit unstable.,0
"Their reasoning was that to qualify for ballots, state law said that an initiative had to present an equal number of petition signatures from each of the state’s five congressional districts (a requirement meant to ensure that Jackson couldn’t get do a ballot initiative on its own.).","2. Jackson has been systematically neglected by the state government for generations, and have consistently shown they do not have Jackson's best interests at heart.",1
"Was she born in Canada or is she from one of the Russified countries? There are so many people who aren't from mainland Russia and have never been to Russia, but they're from one of the neighboring states, speak Russian and consider themselves both ethnically and culturally Russian.","That's likely due to Russia encouraging emigration so they can claim a sizeable Russian population in a foreign country's region so they can prevent them from joining the UN or NATO, as well as gives flimsy legitimacy to invade their neighbours under the pretense of ""It's basically Russian!"".",1
"People on Twitter are still saying they don't care. It's clear that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. This is unfortunately where we are today. If the information doesn't match your current beliefs, then it must be incorrect.","Edit: if there's any misunderstanding here, I'm saying people, not myself, are saying on twitter there were clear election fraud. This isn't something I believe as there are no evidence to support that claim.",0
"Yep. I could never agree with a conservative, but I can respect the principled ones who are willing to compromise. Despite being solidly on the left side of the political spectrum for life, I firmly believe we need other points of view, and corrupt/maga conservatives are denying actual conservative viewpoints to our entire country.","I lived in AZ for years and I still have friends and family there. Goldwater's influence is still strong there, and he fucking hated these sleazy, maga-style types (yeah it wasn't called maga back then but these people have been around forever). I was not surprised that Arizona went blue in this era- they're not less conservative than other flyover states, but they're differently conservative. Much more integrity than the conservatives I've lived with and worked with in the south.",0
"That’s not to say that these workers don’t deserve sick time or that there’s no argument to support the labor unions here, of course. I just think it’s worthwhile to not reduce such a nuanced and complex issue into overly simplified buckets of good and evil.","Eh. This is not an issue that’s as black and white as it’s being presented to be. There’s an obvious “rail bosses vs. rank-and-file” angle here, to be sure, but there’s also a lot more to it than that.",0
And both Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh have said that any Republican Senator who chose to vote yes on this bill should be kicked out of the party. That there should be some sort of a litmus test for the GOP. Good luck trying to win elections with 30% support of such a position on an issue as gay marriage.,"30% and shrinking, every year there's going to be fewer and fewer hardliners against gay marriage. They'll never entirely go away, we still got people weird about interracial marriage, but the trend is towards acceptance.",1
"The Russians can all wave the white flag, and have the drones inspect them close up to drop all their weapons. Then they can follow the drones for a proper “rendezvous” so to speak….","Soldiers cannot be lowering their weapons in the middle of the battle to “guess and choose” which enemy has surrendered and which ones are still fighting. If bullets are flying, it is still and combat zone. No POWS will be taken despite them trying to.",0
It's mental that the far right in Sweden regurgitating Russian propaganda is blaming the fact that they do so on the American left.,"That this came from the US, the implication that the right wing part of the ""cultural war"" is a reaction to the left, and that things can only get worse.",0
"If you voted remain, the obvious first step after the referendum is looking into gaining permanent residence in the EU, because you'd likely be hyper aware of that particular downside to Brexit. And you'd continue to pay attention to politics to find out when you'd have to apply, because you couldn't really apply for permanent residency as a UK citizen when the UK was still an EU member.",I think it works for EU offshore oilrig workers as well. There are some oddities with offshore oilrigs as the workers lives on the rigs while they are working.,0
"Now China is probably going to simply play cheap tricks in an attempt to fool the world; for example, renaming the virus like the article mentioned.","The entire theatre revolving China and COVID should put an end to the myth of the Chinese system being efficient and consistent. China went from locking millions down on a whim and exaggerating the virus to hasty reopening and trivializing the virus in a few weeks. China is far from done with the virus, permanent lockdowns obviously won't work, but hasty reopening with no effective vaccine and no fundamental improvements to the medical system is going to lead to an astronomical increase in cases and an increase in fatality and serious illness. COVID has a relatively low death and severe illness rate, but with China's population size and population density in big cities, the numbers won't be pretty.",0
Former President Donald Trump already faced down one hard-driving special counsel investigation without catching a criminal charge.,But his best moves from that tumultuous episode in U.S. history won’t work against new Special Counsel Jack Smith.,0
"A true conservative Republican governor would not stand a chance here. Our legislatures have veto proof Democrat majorities. We have 40 senators - 37 are Democrats, 160 in the General Court (our lower chamber), 139 are Democrats. Baker has worked well with them, though of course they don't agree on everything.","MA is not alone, VT has a Republican governor who like Baker is a moderator - socially liberal, fiscally conservative. In fact moderate Republican governors once was the norm throughout New England.",0
"That's true, and I'm not saying they won't need them to some extent. But without daily flights to the major US cities and EU capitals, they can squeek by with a smaller fleet, gradually cannibalising some of their stock.","It's also worth noting that ""russifying"" of Russian commercial aircraft began years ago, in reaction to concern over how sanctions would effect aircraft imports, as well as joint ventures like the Superjet.",0
"Tell that to any abuse victim who cried and demanded to be removed from abusive households from young childhood, who were dismissed and ignored, sometimes with dumbass excuses like yours.","Parents go No-Contact with abusive family members, abusive family members outrage at the loss of control/scapegoat. So they first rage, then try to hoover back with lovebombs, then when all that fails, they try to sue for their 'right to see their grandchildren'.",1
"Yes she should serve her jail term, which she did, many times over! Russia however just arbitrarily changed the punishment and people like you seem to ignore that part.",Except that's not what happened. Yes she's an idiot for not checking the law. But the law in Russia specifically states that having less than 6 grams of Cannabis carries a fine or 15 days in prison.,0
"It means the Saudi prime minister has just learned the phrase ""all bets are off"" and was trying to use it.","Since the topic of Iran's nuclear weapon predates Windows XP, the Saudi prime minister thought it is safe to use it.",0
"The difference is that this is an official statement from the US gov't, which means they already have solid evidence and probably the entire supply chain mapped from the factory floor through shipping to detonation inside Ukraine.","This statement is intended for the Iranian regime, not the rest of us, and Iran would be wise to heed the implications.",0
"But it’s still stupid to pay the same amount I pay for Spotify and STILL have ads. Imagine listening to an album and every like 10 songs it’s just “thanks for paying the bills, we think you’ll love Febreeze!”.","For instance, the best way to use twitter (imo) is to follow funny accounts you like and enjoy engaging with. Then use pinned lists for other things. So I have pinned lists for news, politics, instead eating stuff etc. that way the algorithm is keeping me amused but I have the option of diving into another group if I want. So much humour you find elsewhere on stems from twitter (and now TikTok).",0
"All of them mentioned how Russians simply used their conscripts as decoy - they would send them first to have them instantly killed by Ukrainians, which would allow them to discover the positions of these Ukrainians and direct attilery strikes at them. This is why Ukrainians and foreign volunteers had to learn guerrilla-like fighting in the first months of the war - you kill the Russian soldiers and run away asap before the missile comes. The conscripts are just free meat for the commanders to use.",I remember reading interviews with Polish volunteers that fought for Ukraine in the first months of the war.,0
"You are correct in principle. However, there are many unanswered questions about his taxes because they haven't not been audited in detail. Obama and Biden have been audited (and released their returns) but for some reason the IRS didn't have the staff to even start on DJT until 2019 (coincidentally the same day the House committee asked about it) and even then didn't assign enough staff to check any of the 500 entities (mostly companies) that flow into his personal income taxes. So that right there is cause for concern: either the IRS was improperly giving one president a pass, or else they are chronically understaffed and can't really check to see if complicated tax returns are honest (maybe both could be true).","It's possible everything is 100% honest and above board. But it's also quite possible that the tax returns follow the letter of the law in how the paperwork is put together and how deductions are claimed, but those numbers don't accurately reflect reality. Given the high profile of this particular taxpayer, his claims of complete honesty and perfection, balanced by his public track record of arguing, litigating, and delaying to avoid actually being held to account on his claim of honesty and perfection, one would think the IRS would at least check that there is even any paperwork at all to support the claimed losses, deductions and donations, but right now it's not even clear they've gotten that far for any tax year within the current release. Which suggests again, either a politically-manipulated, or chronically weakened tax office (or both).",0
"Meh, it’ll be fine. Comparing it to Brexit is laughably hyperbolic… all of the squeaky wheels on Reddit complaining about implementation and sale stoppages will disappear by March, guaranteed.","I accept everything you’re saying; at the end of the day, I’m content to deal with these short-term headaches in exchange for the most sweeping and strict gun control law in the country. I agree with the points you’re saying, but the reaction I’m struck with is an overwhelming meh.",0
"""Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was nominated the Nobel Peace Prize by Turkish parliamentary speaker Mustafa Şentopfor for his supposed efforts in resolving the Ukrainian crisis."".",I.e. All Erdogan needed to get his nomination was to have on of his cronies in his government nominate him.,1
"I was just pointing out that if someone is wearing a suicide vest and blows it up, they probably weren’t an innocent civilian.","This sounds more like a partially successful suicide bombing than a successful assasination, this guy can't have been that important if they had him in a suicide vest.",1
The mere act of Russia negotiating with Ukraine is an acknowledgement that Ukraine is a sovereign country.,"No: what should Ukraine offer to Russia in negotiations? In other words, ""In exchange for you pulling out all your forces and stopping your attacks against us, we will give you X"". What should ""X"" be, in your view?",1
"Republicans have made their point. Now let's see if Polis, Abbot, DeSantis and all the rest are actually interested in doing something about the issue.","they aren't illegal, they have been screened and released to await their asylum hearings. These migrants we're talking about crossed legally, followed the process and have broken no laws. Calling them illegals makes you look like an ignorant, racist moron.",0
"Yeah, kicking out Orban’s Hungary would be a very clear message that NATO won’t tolerate fascist belligerents within its ranks, and Erdogan might be a little triggered by that notion.","As a Hungarian I call for the immediate review of Hungary in Nato - I would add Eurozone but countries do have a right to refuse policies and its a more convoluted agreement, but Nato should tell them what the stick looks like.",1
"Landlords, specifically the type that owns single family housing and rents it out, are literally using other people's income to pay the mortgages on those houses while making the renters pay more than the mortgage costs. They provide nothing, if they stopped being a landlord those houses would still exist on the market.","He literally celebrated the deaths of these people as content for his show. In other words, he used their deaths for profit, to further his career. Should we not live by the golden rule? Treat others as you wish to be treated? Where was Limbaugh's compassion? Where was Sen. Samuel Thompson's compassion all these years?!? And now the final straw for him was his ""friends"" thinking his age might compromise his ability to be an elected representative? THAT'S why I should have some compassion for him?",0
The GOP also forgot to wait until there were fewer women alive who remembered what it was like before Roe; who had friends or family get seriously ill or die due to botched abortions or miscarriages.,"> ""It was the 'abortion issue,' poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters. Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, & just plain disappeared, not to be seen again."".",1
11% of Begich's (R) voters decided they'd rather have Peltola (D) as their second choice rather than a Trump-backed Republican.,Thankfully many who voted for the 2nd republican listed Peltola second instead of a Republican 1-2 vote.,1
"The plan was quite simple. It was to trigger a contingent election in congress, where each state gets one vote. They simply wanted to prevent the certification from happening, hoping Pence would simply halt it would have been the easy way, otherwise they moved forward with the bloody way.","Trump wins that ""election"" in congress. Then it would obviously go to court where (I'm sure this is where Ginni Thomas comes in it was probably pre-arranged) SCOTUS puts a bow of legitimacy on the contingent election and says yes this is all well and good. From there we never again have an election for President.",0
"Friend A: Oh that's interesting, so your father tell you that: ""Hey champ, grab this bill of 10$ and go buy a condom for me so tonight I can fuck your mother"".","Friend B: Yeah, and your that bastard thief whose father doesn't trust him to give him money to buy condoms...",0
"What do you do about 25 million starving, apparently parasite invested, poorly/un/mis educated that are in an active civil war that may or may not try to include S Korea in the fight? Do you really want to trigger a war that will result in the slaughter of these people? It will be a slaughter. As soon as the US or S Korea step into the DMZ, China comes onto play. Doesn't having the US and China fighting face to face again sound great? It's been a while. It's better to feed the little man and keep his people fed. Unfortunately , it's up to China to decide when the DPRK ends.","The ""US vs China battle"" happens when the regime is toppled. US and China will both want to install a puppet they can control but it's unlikely they'll go to a conventional war against each other just for that.",1